Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cardiac Functional Capacity and QT Prolongation in Patients with CAD in Relation with Exercise-induced BNP Changes

The aim of this study was to determine whether responses of plasma BNP during exercise as cardiac functional capacity test are altered in 57 patients with CAD: 36 patients after 2-3 years post MI and 21 patients – 3–4 years after CABG and mitral valve reconstruction surgery, what relation is between BNP exercise changes and QT prolongation, could the dynamics of BNP during exercise test be used in the evaluation of the heart failure. The BNP analysis was performed with Triage (Biosite Diagnostics). The bicycle exercise test has been performed according the protocol and was analyzed by means of ECG system “Kaunas-Krūvis”. QT interval duration was determined from standard 12-lead ECG and corrected by using the Bazett formula. Prolonged QTc was defined as a QTc interval>440ms. Augmented BNP concentration after exercise test was associated with severity of disease, expressed by LV echocardiographic parameters, particularly LV dilatation. Myocardial repolarisation parameters, determined from rest ECG and during the exercise test were significantly associated with BNP concentration at rest and augmentation after exercise test. There was inverse association between cardiac functional capacity and increment of BNP after exercise test. Ill. 7 ,bibl. 20 (in English; summaries in English, Russian and Lithuanian).
Effect of biopathogens (Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner and Beauveria bassiana Vuillemin) on different stages of egg plant spotted beetle, Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata (Fab.) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

The effect of biopathogens, viz., Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki (B.t.) 0.25% suspension, and the white muscardine fungus, Beauveria bassiana Vuillemin >(2 x 108 conidia/cm2) was studied on different stages of spotted beetle, Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata (Fab.) infesting egg plant, Solanum melongena Linn. B.t. used as a leaf dip casued a maximum mortality of 68.9% in the first instar grubs and a minimum of 13% in the prepupal stage of egg plant spotted beetle. The adults were less susceptible to B.t. The per cent egg hatchability was respectively 12.2, 11.7, 17.9, 12.9 and 18.7 when freshly laid, 1, 2, 3 and 4-day old eggs were treated with 0.25% B.t Direct spraying of the white muscardine fungus killed 58.1% first instar grubs and 35.2% pre-pupal stage grubs. The adults were not susceptible to this fungus, the maximum mortality being 10.3% in the case of newly emerged adults. This fungus caused 54.6% hatchability of one-day old eggs of the spotted beetle.
Developing a Radiating L-shaped Search Algorithm for NASA Swarm Robots

This paper focuses on designing a search algorithm that the DustySWARM team used in the 2019 NASA Swarmathon competition. The developed search algorithm will be implemented and tested on multiple rovers, a.k. a. Swarmies or Swarm Robots. Swarmies are compact rovers, designed by NASA to mimic Ants behavior and perform an autonomous search for simulated Mars resources. This effort aimed to assist NASA’s mission to explore the space and discover new resources on the Moon and Mars. NASA’s going-on project has the goal to send robots that explore and collect resources for analysis before sending Astronauts, as the swarm option is safer and more affordable. All rovers must utilize the exact algorithm and collaborate and cooperate to find all available resources in their search path and retrieve them to the space station location. Additionally, swarmies will autonomously search while avoiding obstacles and mapping the surrounding environment for future missions. This algorithm allows a swarm of six robots to search an unknown area for simulated resources called AprilTags (cubes with QR codes). The code was developed using C/C++, GitHub, and Robotics Operation Systems (ROS) and tested by utilizing the Gazebo Simulation environment and by running physical trials on the swarmies. The team analyzed a few algorithms from previous years and other researchers then developed the Radiating L-Shape Search (RLS) Algorithm. This paper will summarize the algorithm design, code development, and trial results that were provided to the NASA Space Exploration Engineering team.
A Forum for Natural, Cultural and Social Studies

Forest management in national parks is frequently based, in whole or in part, on maintaining or restoring natural disturbance processes within an estimate of their natural range of variability. The current Kootenay National Park (KNP) Management Plan target is to maintain and/or restore 50% of the long term, average fire cycle. Typical fire reconstructions are based on dendrochronological, fire history studies that extend back approximately 500 years. Masters’ (1990) KNP fire history study described changing fire frequencies over that period and indicated that the present stand-age structure and fire frequency is best explained by decade to century level climatic influences. Forest fires, forest insects and other forest disturbance processes are directly linked to regional climate. Climatic fluctuations occur at periodicities ranging from decades to centuries and even over millennia (Hallett and Walker 2000; Hallett et al. In prep). To quantify restoration targets, managers need ecological data sets with temporal depth great enough to define long term variability. Paleological research is an important tool for determining the natural variability of ecosystems (Smol 1992) and allows analysis over millennial time scales. By defining the range of natural variability it may be possible to predict the results of climate change, both natural and humancaused, on vegetation and forest disturbance processes. The goal of ongoing paleoecological research in KNP is to reconstruct vegetation, forest disturbance processes and climate with sufficient temporal depth to adequately define the range and character of natural variability. We are using high-resolution, paleoecological data to describe the effects of underlying ecological variation and its association with past and future climate change.
Effects of Fertilization Management under WSPI on Soil Nitrogen Distribution and Nitrogen Absorption in Apple Orchard in Loess Plateau

Water storage pit irrigation (WSPI) has been proven effective in improving the water use efficiency of fruit trees in Loess Plateau, but so far there are still no matching efficient fertilization management methods. A two-year experiment was conducted to explore the management strategy of fertilization under the consideration of apple production and environmental sustainability. N isotope tracer technique was used to study the distribution of labelled nitrogen in soil, leaf, root and fruit. Moreover, the yield in different fertilizer managements were observed to evaluate the apple production. The results showed that increasing the amount of fertilizer could increase the accumulation of fertilizer nitrogen in soil, but also increased the risk of nitrogen leaching. Under the same amount of fertilizer, split fertilization can effectively increase of fertilizer nitrogen in soil by a mean of 4.7 times. Further, N300 application with split fertilization effectively increased apple yield. The yield of N300II treatment was higher than other treatment by maximum 68.5%. In addition, the root system mainly absorbed the fertilizer nitrogen applied in the current year, and the fruit mainly absorbed the fertilizer nitrogen applied in the previous year, but there was no significant difference in the leaves.
The Determinant Of Islamic Banking Products’ Knowledge Among Undergraduate Students (Cob) In Uum, Kedah

This paper aims to examine the relationship of perception, underlying principles, awareness, religiosity and products’ knowledge of UUM’s Muslim undergraduate students. A survey approach has been adopted in this study while the data are collected via structured questionnaires. The questionnaires were completed by 372 students of Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Sintok Kedah. In this study, the researchers developed a new construct in measuring the product knowledge and religiosity. While the construct in measuring perception, awareness and underlying principle are borrowed from the previous study. The data are then quantitatively analyzed using SPSS program. The finding shows that all independent variables are correlated significantly with product knowledge. In addition, further analysis using multiple regression analysis revealed that all independent variables give a significant and positive impact on product knowledge of UUM’s Muslim undergraduate students. The result of study contributed to the knowledge of Islamic banking product knowledge. It is implied that the higher educational institution need to intensify their efforts to further improve the effectiveness of education about product in Islamic banking. The paper reports a new finding on the area of Islamic banking product knowledge. Valid constructs had been developed in this study and a new variable i.e. religiosity was utilized and it was found influence with the Islamic bank product knowledge.
LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURES IN TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS UNDER AN ADVERSE PRESSURE GRADIENT UP TO FLOW SEPARATION

The investigation of large-scale coherent structures in turbulent boundary layers has become an established field of research in the last decades. Most studies considered the canonical zero pressure gradient (ZPG) boundary layer flow case. Within this study, a turbulent boundary layer under the impact of a strong adverse pressure gradient up to separation is investigated experimentally up to Reτ = 12000. The analysis of the acquired PIV velocity fields shows a persistence of large-scale coherent structures from the preceding zero pressure gradient section through the adverse pressure gradient region until the flow separation takes place. Furthermore, the interaction between the coherent turbulent structures and the flow separation is characterised. Using conditional comparison of mean flow parameters, it is shown that high-momentum structures are able to shift the point of separation downstream while the opposite is true for low-momentum large-scale structures. This interaction has a significant impact on the dynamics of the separation line. It is also demonstrated that the separated region does not have a major influence on the mean boundary layer thickness but the mean flow velocity and spatial scales of coherent structures are visibly influenced.
Effect of feeding mineral supplement on the reproductive performance of anoestrous cows

Post partum anoestrous cows (50; 4–6 years aged) were selected in new alluvial zone of West Bengal (Ghatal Block) to study the effect of feeding different mineral supplements on health and reproductive performance. The animals randomly divided into five groups in a completely randomized design were offered diet either without mineral supplementation (c), with mineral supplement (M), with mineral supplement and Phytase @ 2.5% of the mineral supplement (MP), with mineral supplement, Phytase @ 2.5% of the mineral supplement and vitamin AD @ 49500 and 4500 IU/animal/d respectively (MPV) or with mineral and vitamin AD @ 49500 and 4500 IU/animal/d respectively (MV). The mineral supplement contained 18.5% Ca, 16.3% P, 1.29% Zn, 0.33% Cu and 1.13% Mn. Concentration of plasma aspartate amino transferase (AST), alkaline phosphatase (AKP), total protein and albumin was increased (P<0.01) when mineral supplement was used in diet. Addition of vitamin AD and or phytase with mineral supplement showed improvement of plasma proteins concentration than using mineral supplement only. Concentration of plasma cholesterol was higher in MV which is comparable to MPV and MP, but differed (P<0.01) from Cand M. Plasma Ca and P was higher (P<0.01) in MPV and MP compared to other. Concentration of plasma trace minerals was increased (P<0.04) when different forms of mineral supplement were fed compared to control. Plasma Cu and Zn were higher (P<0.01) in MP and MPV cows whereas Fe and Mn of M MP MPV and MV were comparable. Feeding of mineral supplement improved % of estrous and conception rate which was again improved when phytase and or vitamin AD was added with it The results indicated the usefulness of feeding phytase and/or vitamin AD with mineral supplement to improve health status plasma trace minerals % estrous and conception rate in post partum milch anoestrous cows.
Spherical Motion Dynamics: Learning Dynamics of Neural Network with Normalization, Weight Decay, and SGD

In this work, we comprehensively reveal the learning dynamics of neural network with normalization, weight decay (WD), and SGD (with momentum), named as Spherical Motion Dynamics (SMD). Most related works study SMD by focusing on "effective learning rate" in "equilibrium" condition, where weight norm remains unchanged. However, their discussions on why equilibrium condition can be reached in SMD is either absent or less convincing. Our work investigates SMD by directly exploring the cause of equilibrium condition. Specifically, 1) we introduce the assumptions that can lead to equilibrium condition in SMD, and prove that weight norm can converge at linear rate with given assumptions; 2) we propose "angular update" as a substitute for effective learning rate to measure the evolving of neural network in SMD, and prove angular update can also converge to its theoretical value at linear rate; 3) we verify our assumptions and theoretical results on various computer vision tasks including ImageNet and MSCOCO with standard settings. Experiment results show our theoretical findings agree well with empirical observations.
Urinary Incontinence in the Elderly: An Overlooked and Under-Treated Problem

Urinary incontinence is common problem in the elderly that often goes unreported and therefore undertreated. Its importance lies in the fact that its presence in older individuals often represents a decline in the overall physical, mental and psychological health of the affected individual. Moreover it has significant social implications. A simple but comprehensive approach is required to address this growing problem that starts from a query of its presence along with degree, severity of symptoms and presence of contributing and aggravating factors. Basic examination and investigations often identify the most common causative factors. Management is largely a combination of non-pharmacological and drug therapy for which monitoring of side effects and drug interactions is advisable. Urinary incontinence rate are expected to rise with the growing number of elderly individuals and requires a change in how this often ignored symptom is approached by the medical community.
Supplementation with Calliandra calothyrsus improves nitrogen retention in cattle fed low-protein diets

Ruminant productivity in the tropical Africa has remained low despite decades of research on animal nutrition and introduction of new breeds of animals mainly because of low-quality feeds available, especially during the dry season that is inefficiently utilised. This results in prolonged time for animals to mature and increased nutrient excretion to the environment. We conducted a study using yearling steers (n = 12, liveweight (LW) = 161.8 ± 10.89 kg) in a 3 × 3 Latin square to evaluate the effect of protein supplementation and supplementation frequency on intake, digestibility, nitrogen (N) retention and microbial N supply in cattle consuming low-protein diets. The steers were maintained on ad libitum wheat straw (DM = 877 ± 5 g/kg, crude protein (CP) = 20.0 ± 1.1 g/kg), with supplemental protein supplied as air-dried Calliandra calothyrsus leaves (DM = 897 ± 3 g/kg, CP = 257.5 ± 4.1 g/kg on a DM basis). Samples of basal diet, supplement, refusals, faecal matter and urine were collected and analysed per treatment. Supplementation increased intakes by the steers (P 0.404). Steers lost bodyweight (P < 0.05) on all treatments, but less so when supplemented. Nitrogen losses was reduced (P < 0.001) with supplementation (–33.3% vs 15.7%, s.e.m. 0.06). The increased N balance in animals receiving supplemented diets indicated that N retention actually improves with increased protein supplementation in animals fed low-protein diets, implying that improving protein supply to animals fed submaintenance diets will not only ameliorate production losses, but will actually decrease non-enteric greenhouse gas production and environmental N losses per animal product unit obtained.
The Factors Impact On Prospective Client To Make A Decision Using The Accountant Service Office (“KJA”) In Indonesia

The accountant profession's existence in Indonesia is beneficial for completing development in all fields. There are no activities that do not require reliable and accurate administrative management. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of financial statement utilization, client behavior, other accountant professions, and moderation of other accountant professions on client behavior and decisions to use KJA services. The study uses a questionnaire medium of KJA that has been sampled and has provided an answer to perception. Quantitative data analysis using SEM PLS with SmartPLS 3.2. 8 software. The study results show that financial report utilization, client behavior, other accountant professions, and the moderating effect of other accountant professions have a negative and significant effect on the decision to use the KJA services. There are also shows that the higher these factors, the lower the decision to use KJA services.
A supermatrix approach provides a comprehensive genus‐level phylogeny for Gentianales

Gentianales consist of Apocynaceae, Gelsemiaceae, Gentianaceae, Loganiaceae, and Rubiaceae, of which the majority are woody plants in tropical and subtropical areas. Despite extensive efforts in reconstructing the phylogeny of Gentianales based on molecular data, some interfamily and intrafamily relationships remain uncertain. We reconstructed the genus‐level phylogeny of Gentianales based on the supermatrix of eight plastid markers (rbcL, matK, atpB, ndhF, rpl16, rps16, the trnL‐trnF region, and atpB‐rbcL spacer) and one mitochondrial gene (matR) using maximum likelihood. The major clades and their relationships retrieved in the present study concur with those of previous studies. All of the five families of Gentianales are monophyletic with strong support. We resolved Rubiaceae as sister to the remaining families in Gentianales and showed support for the sister relationship between Loganiaceae and Apocynaceae. Our results provide new insights into relationships among intrafamilial clades. For example, within Rubiaceae we found that Craterispermeae were sister to Morindeae + (Palicoureeae + Psychotrieae) and that Theligoneae were sister to Putorieae. Within Gentianaceae, our phylogeny revealed that Gentianeae were sister to Helieae and Potalieae, and subtribe Lisianthiinae were sister to Potaliinae and Faroinae. Within Loganiaceae, we found Neuburgia as sister to Spigelieae. Within Apocynaceae, our results supported Amsonieae as sister to Melodineae, and Hunterieae as sister to a clade comprising Plumerieae + (Carisseae + APSA). We also confirmed the monophyly of Perplocoideae and the relationships among Baisseeae + (Secamonoideae + Asclepiadoideae).
Does Academics’ Workload Affect Research Performance?

: Academics are facing increasing demand not only to teach, to do research, to provide community services but also to perform administrative tasks. Such demands lead to unresolved dilemma of paradoxical nature of workload versus research performance. Thus, this paper focuses on determining the effects of academic worklo ads on academics’ research and publication performance. Using secondary data from several institutional data sources, this study found that academics with higher workload, do more research and publish more. Moreover, there are no significant differences in research and publication performance between gender and across different knowledge disciplines (engineering, science and technology and social science). This study indirectly validates the linkage between workload and research performance. More importantly, it contributes to performance management in terms of how and what components of academic workload should be weighted for performance appraisal and career advancement.
Approximate dynamics leading to more optimal control: Efficient exact derivatives

Accurate derivatives are important for efficiently locally traversing and converging in quantum optimization landscapes. By deriving analytically exact control derivatives (gradient and Hessian), it is shown here that the feasibility of meeting this central accuracy requirement critically depends on the choice of propagation scheme and problem representation. Even when exact propagation is sufficiently cheap it is, perhaps surprisingly, much more efficient to optimize the (appropriately) approximate propagators: in a certain sense, approximations in the dynamics are traded off for significant complexity reductions in the exact derivative calculations. Importantly, past the initial analytical considerations, only standard numerical techniques are explicitly required with straightforward application to realistic systems. These results are numerically verified for two concrete problems of increasing Hilbert space dimensionality. The best schemes obtain unit fidelity to machine precision, whereas the results for other schemes are separated consistently by orders of magnitude in computation time and in worst case 10 orders of magnitude in achievable fidelity. Since these gaps continually increase with system size and complexity, this methodology unlocks efficient optimization of many-body dynamics operating in the unprecedented high-fidelity regime which will be published separately.
Efficacy of natural antioxidants on the quality of raw chicken meat biscuit during refrigerated storage

The study determines the antioxidant effects of 0.2% clove powder, 0.2% caraway powder, 0.2% nutmeg powder and 0.3% cinnamon powder in raw chicken meat biscuits stored at refrigerated temperature (4±1°C). DPPH percent inhibition was found to be decreased as the time period progressed. Also the DPPH percent inhibition of control batch was lower (P 0.05) in clove powder RCMB at the end of the storage period. Metmyoglobin percent was greater (P 0.05) as the storage period advances. On the basis of various physico-chemical properties studied, 0.2% clove powder RCMB was found superior than other spices under study making it the most effective and safest natural antioxidant to be used in meat food products.
Sectoral Output Effects of Monetary Policy: Do Sticky Prices Matter?

This paper studies the role of sticky prices for the monetary transmission mechanism, using disaggregated industry-level data from 205 US industries. There is substantial heterogeneity in the output responses of industries to monetary policy surprises. I show that an industry's response to monetary policy surprises is systematically related to an industry's degree of price stickiness as measured by the average frequency of price adjustment. The size of the differential reaction is economically large and statistically significant. The results suggest that sticky prices play an important role in the transmission of monetary policy, consistent with New Keynesian macroeconomic models. This result is robust to the inclusion of further industry-level control variables.