Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
NUTRITION MANAGEMENT IN CITRUS: EFFECT OF MULTINUTRIENTS FOLIAR FEEDING ON THE YIELD OF KINNOW AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS

Maintaining health of citrus plants by nutrition management demands to deal citrus as a tree plant that has growth in shifts. There is a need to chalk out nutrition programme by keeping in mind growth as well as phonological cycles of the plant because every shift of growth in association with phonological and growth cycles needs special attention to decide fertilization programme. There is a need to develop well established production technology to increase the production of this crop substantially by using non-conventional approaches alone or in combination with conventional approaches. The use of multi-nutrient plant growth regulator formulation amended with appetizer is a new and innovative approach to develop a cost effective foliar spray “Micro Power” for improving citrus yield. Results from two demonstration trials revealed that NPK fertilizers (calculated on the basis of age and foliage on fruit trees rather than on the basis of area) application on drip line in combination with foliar spray was helpful to improve production of quality citrus (kinnow) fruits up to 63%. Moreover, this strategic management of nutrition was also helpful to identify appropriate time and growth stage for the application of fertilizer mix.
Temperature Dependence and Temperature-Aware Sensing in Ferroelectric FET

The temperature dependence of Ferroelectric FET (FeFET) at the 14nm technology node has been studied thoroughly through well-calibrated TCAD modeling for 3D FinFET devices. We demonstrate, for the first time, that: 1) the degradation of FeFET (i.e., reduction in sensing current during reading) with temperature increase comes mostly from the ferroelectric degradation (i.e., reductions in the coercive field and polarization), while marginally from the degradation in the underlying FinFET (i.e. changes in electrostatics and carrier transport properties); 2) the drain current reduction caused by the ferroelectric degradation can be partially compensated with the current boost induced by the degradation in electrostatics and carrier transport properties. Therefore, the read voltage of FeFET based nonvolatile memory (NVM) can be carefully selected to mitigate deleterious effects of temperature variation during runtime.
Development of transgenic plants in jatropha with drought tolerance

The seed oil of jatropha (Jatropha curcas L.) is a source of biodiesel fuel. Although jatropha can grow in semi-arid lands unsuitable for the food production, its oil productivity in such conditions is unsatisfactory at present. Therefore, it is desirable to improve the oil productivity of jatropha even in semi-arid lands by enhancing its drought tolerance. Genetic engineering is promising to dramatically improve plant traits. Although we previously reported a transformation method, which involves wounding of tissue explants in order to increase the chance of Agrobacterium infection, for jatropha, it remains a challenge to enhance the shoot regeneration and root induction processes. Here, we report the generation of three kinds of transgenic jatropha plants in an attempt to improve their drought tolerance. The first one overexpresses the PPAT gene, which encodes an enzyme that catalyzes the CoA biosynthetic pathway; the second overexpresses the NF-YB gene, which encodes a subunit of the NF-Y transcription factor; and the last overexpresses the GSMT and DMT genes, which encode enzymes that catalyze production of glycine betaine. We also report a modified protocol that improves the efficiency of shoot regeneration and root induction in transgenic jatropha plantlets.
THE WOOD ANATOMY OF GARDENIEAE, IXOREAE AND MUSSAENDEAE (RUBIACEAE)

The tribe Gardenieae in the restricted delimitation proposed by Bremekamp and Verdcourt is wood anatomically homogeneous. The genera of the Ixoreae studied by me also agree with each other in wood structure. Within the tribe Mussaendeae in the delimitation accepted by Schumann the wood anatomy shows much variation. The tribe becomes more homogeneous, if some of the genera included in this tribe by Schumann are removed. The systematic position of some genera, which in the literature are said to be related to Gardenieae, Ixoreae or Mussaendeae, is discussed in the light of similarities and differences in the wood anatomy.
Reliability on EUV Interconnect Technology for 7nm and beyond

In this research, we present the robust reliability performance of BEOL by utilizing EUV single patterning and further feasibility of EUV process for future nodes. As compared to ArF, EUV BEOL shows superior reliability performances such as significantly improved TDDB, breakdown voltage (Vbd), robust resistance shift with SM and TC tests and reliable package level characteristics. Long-term TDDB analysis follows an even more aggressive power law model rather than the root E model under low bias. Newly developed via array (quasi-power rail) EM structure has a great feasibility to enhance EM performance for future nodes.
Heart Rate Variability Analysis in Healthy Subjects Under Different Colored Lighting Conditions

The exposure to colored light with different wavelengths has proved to affect the physiological functions of the human body. To test such influence, this work was focused on heart rate variability (HRV) analysis associated with different colored light exposure of healthy volunteers. A Photoplethysmography (PPG) wireless sensor network node was employed to acquire information about the cardiac activity, as it proves to be a more convenient and less intrusive method as electrocardiography (ECG). A small group of healthy volunteers were exposed to 10 minutes of blue and red light, preceded and followed by 5 minutes of dark lighting conditions. HRV was acquired during the last 5 minutes of each colored illumination period. The HRV analysis was based on time-domain variables, frequency-domain variables and fractal (nonlinear) analysis. The experimental results from this study show that PPG can be considered as a reliable method to study HRV. The exposure to different colored light conducted to HRV variations that characterize the autonomous nervous system balance. Experimental results obtained for volunteers exposed to different illumination conditions are also included in the paper.
Relación entre Cultura del Honor e identidad de género: el papel del sexo, edad y nivel de estudios en la predisposición a la violencia

Resumen El concepto Cultura del Honor está alcanzando un gran auge en la actualidad como variable que puede explicar o incidir en la violencia contra las mujeres. Una cultura del honor justificaría y emplearía la violencia como forma de defender su honor y dominar la relación. Este hecho ocurre incluso en nuestro entorno más cercano, por lo que es necesario que se lleven a cabo investigaciones científicas en este sentido. En nuestro estudio participan 406 personas (203 parejas) que completan un cuestionario en el que se miden cultura del honor, identidad de género y variables sociodemográficas. Encontramos una relación muy importante entre variables sociodemográficas (edad, sexo y nivel de estudios) y la percepción que se tiene de la cultura del honor. Además, encontramos que la identidad de género masculina o agente se relaciona significativamente con una mayor importancia otorgada al honor.
High-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels

High-conductance, calcium-activated potassium (Maxi-K) channels represent a group of proteins with diverse physiologic functions. Although the role of Maxi-K channels in the CNS is complex and still an area of active academic research, there appears to be better agreement concerning the contribution of these channels to the regulation of smooth muscle tone and, thus the expectations remain high for Maxi-K channel openers having use in the treatment of hypertension, overactive bladder, asthma or erectile dysfunction. Despite this consensus view, at the present time, there is only one compound that targets Maxi-K channels in clinical development for overactive bladder conditions. In the present review, the latest developments in the identification of potent and selective Maxi-K channel openers and their utility in the treatment of smooth muscle disorders will be discussed.
Non-Intrusive Methodologies for Characterization of Bias Temperature Instability in SiC Power MOSFETs

The gate oxide reliability of SiC power MOSFETs remains a challenge, despite the improvements of the new generation power devices. The threshold voltage drift caused by Bias Temperature Instability (BTI) has been subject of different studies and methods have been proposed to evaluate the real magnitude of the threshold voltage shift. These methodologies usually focus on the characterization of the threshold voltage shift, rather than its implications to the operation or how the threshold voltage shift can be detected during the application. This paper presents two non-intrusive methodologies which can assess and determine the impact of BTI-induced. The proposed methodologies are able to capture the peak shift and subsequent recovery after stress removal
STUDIES ON ACTIVITY LEVELS OF ASPARTATE AMINO TRANSFERASE (ASAT) AND ALANINE AMINO TRANSFERASE (ALAT) IN THE TISSUES OF Cyprinus carpio (LINN.) EXPOSED TO CYPERMETHRIN (25% EC)

Aspartate and Alanine transaminases (ASAT&ALAT) are widely distributed in the cells of all animals and serve to link the carbohydrate and protein metabolism by interconverting dynamic substances. Freshwater fish, Cyprinus carpio were exposed to sublethal concentrations (5, 10, 15 and 20% of 96hLC50) of synthetic pyrethroid, cypermethrin (25% EC) for 2, 4, 6 and 8 days and analysed the activity of ASAT and ALAT in gill, muscle and liver. The activities of ASAT and ALAT were increased in all the tissues and dose as well as exposure period depended and statistically significant (*P>0.05) alterations were observed. Enhanced activities of these enzymes during the toxic stress of cypermethrin resulting in incorporation of amino acids into TCA cycle for energy production.
Allozyme Variation in the Salamander Genus Pseudobranchus: Phylogeographic and Taxonomic Significance

Abstract This study uses allele frequency and genotype array data from allozyme electrophoresis to investigate the phylogeographic and taxonomic affinities of groups within the salamander genus Pseudobranchus. Phylogenetic and population genetic analyses of the allozyme data confirm the validity of the two currently recognized species (Pseudobranchus axanthus from peninsular Florida and Pseudobranchus striatus from central and northern Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina). In concert with biogeographic data for other freshwater taxa, these analyses further support the recognition of western, southeastern, and northeastern phylogeographic groups within P. striatus. These species and phylogeographic groups offer new insights into the evolutionary history of this endemic genus in the southeastern United States and the taxonomic status of its nominal subspecies.
Reproductive performance of crossbred goat flock under stallfed condition

A study was conducted on reproduction data spread over 18 years on 1404 Alpine x Beetal; 695 Saanen x Beetal; 241 Alpine x Saanen Beetal and 260 Saanen x Alpine Beetal crossbred goats maintained under stallfed condition at National Dairy Research Institute, Kamal. The traits studied were: number of services per conception, gestation length, litter size at birth, litter born in lifetime, does conceived at 1st, 2nd and more than 2 services, conception rate on the basis of does available and does bred, kidding percent on the basis of does available and does bred and fertility percent. Statistical analysis revealed that genetic group. significantly (p<0.01) influenced number of services per conception, kids born in lifetime, does pregnant at Ist and 2nd service, conception rate on the basis of does available and bred. Parity significantly (P<0.01) affected litter size at birth. The least-squares means for various reproduction and fertility performance traits were: No. of services per conception 1.29±0.03, service period 178.88±9.99, gestation length 151.45±6.63, litter size at birth 1.65±0.02, kids born in life time 3.04±0.13, does pregnant at 1st service 78.52±1.17, 2nd service 16.43±0.01 and more than 2 services 5.05±0.71, does bred 69.68±1.93, kidding percent on the basis of does available 51.98±2.11 and does bred 67.08±1.91 and fertility percent 94.07±1.74. It was concluded that better reproductive management is necessary to obtain higher conception rate under stallfed condition.
The microbiology of pickled cheese during manufacture and maturation

Pickled cheese ripened in about 10 % NaCl is popular in much of the Middle East. In recent years, growing interest has been shown in the bacteriological processes which occur during the manufacturing of such cheese. Naguib (1972) studied the effect of H2O2 treatment of the milk on the microflora of pickled cheese. Mansour & Alais (1973) followed the microbial changes in a laboratory-manufactured pickled cheese, which was ripened in plastic pouches. These investigators found that lactic streptococci and lactobacilli were predominant microflora of the ripening cheese. Abo-Elnaga (1972), however, claimed that in a similar cheese which was manufactured in Egypt, faecal streptococci performed a major role in the ripening process. In Israel, most pickled cheese is manufactured in large modern dairies, which use pasteurized standardized cow's milk. The study reported here describes microbiological changes which occurred during the manufacture and ripening of Israeli pickled cheese.
Sexual Desire, Violent Death, and the True Believer

Abstract The relationship among sexual desire, violent death, and fundamentalist belief leading to acts of terrorism is explored through the psychoanalytic lens of structural and object relations theory. Using contemporary and historical cases of jihadist, ethnic nationalist, and single-issue terrorist violence, the author posits that both the fear of and desire for sexual pleasure, and its condemnation and often punishment within the strictures of fundamentalist belief systems, are often intrapsychically managed through pre-Oedipal defenses, compensatory fantasies of death of the self and object, and the promise of unlimited sexual gratification through violent obliteration. The actual targeted violence, directed toward perceived unbelievers, also advances the fantasy of ambient purification (morally cleansing the environment), and the fantasy of ushering in a destined utopia, usually vaguely defined.
Historical specimens reveal past relationships and current conservation status of populations in a declining species: the regal fritillary butterfly

Abstract. 1. The regal fritillary butterfly, Speyeria idalia Drury 1773, was once widespread across eastern North America, but has declined significantly and rapidly over the past half‐century. Although more stable in the western portion of its range, only two populations survive east of the Great Lakes, one in eastern Pennsylvania and the other in Virginia.
Affect Regulation and Loss of Initiative in a Case of Orbitofrontal Injury

Personality change after injury to the orbitofrontal cortex has frequently been described in the literature. However, there are only a few specific and reliable methods available for the assessment of personality change after brain injury. Here we present a patient, LP, whose personality has changed due to a ruptured aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery that resulted in bilateral ventromesial prefrontal lesions. Although his performance on extensive conventional neuropsychological tests was within normal range, he exhibited severe behavioral problems characterized by lack of initiative, inappropriate social timing, and blunt affect. The patient’s behavioral problems were measured with extensive assessment of personality characteristics and traits using methods from psychodynamic and psychometric traditions. Although no general signs of psychopathology were found, there were some indications that he was suffering from personal problems that fluctuated, as cognitive functions sometimes do after frontallobe injury. Intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy allows us to hypothesize about some of the dynamics behind his acquired “loss of initiative,” although the very nature of his problems appears to be an obstacle to this kind of psychotherapy. This case study, like similar ones presented in the literature, reminds us to be cautious of accepting negative findings concerning standardized test performance as evidence of the absence of real-life problems after frontal-lobe injury.
Apoptotic and necrotic stages of Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) cell death activity: bleaching of soft and scleractinian corals

Abstract Mechanisms which regulate abundances of Symbiodinium populations during bleaching are not yet fully understood. Currently proposed mechanisms include cell exocytosis, host-cell detachment, apoptosis and necrosis. Here we have analysed zooxanthellae of soft and scleractinian corals under thermal stress using light, fluorescence and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and confirmed that different stages of apoptotic and necrotic cell death of Symbiodinium occur. The diagnostic characteristic of apoptosis within Symbiodinium cells included nuclear and organelle condensation, membrane blebbing, the formation of apoptotic bodies and mitochondrial swelling. Necrotic cells swell, cytoplasmic organelles fuse and burst, followed by Symbiodinium cell membrane disintegration and release of cytosolic contents. In addition, TEM showed that apoptotic and necrotic processes are initiated in situ. Symbiont cells in the process of dying in situ therefore reduce the likelihood of recolonization upon expulsion from the host.
Fronthaul-Constrained Cell-Free Massive MIMO With Low Resolution ADCs

In cell-free massive MIMO networks, a large number of distributed access points (APs) provide service to a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs) over the same time/frequency resources. The key idea is to use a central processing unit (CPU) to manage such a densely populated network of APs. This centralization helps reducing operational costs and eases implementation of joint power control and coherent signal processing through a proper orchestration of the functional split between the CPU and the APs. Cell-free massive MIMO networks, however, are often subject to stringent capacity requirements on the fronthaul links connecting the APs to the CPU and thus, low-resolution ADCs must be used to quantize the signals shared among CPU and APs. In this paper, analytical closed-form expressions for the achievable user rates on both the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) of a fronthaul-capacity constrained cell-free massive MIMO network using low-resolution ADCs are obtained. These expressions, jointly with the use of theoretical models characterizing the fronthaul capacity consumption of different CPU-AP functional splits, allow posing max-min fairness power control optimization problems that can be solved using standard convex optimization algorithms. Numerical results show that, under fronthaul capacity constraints, CPU-AP functional splits where the precoding/decoding schemes are implemented at the APs are clearly outperformed by those functional splits in which, thanks to sharing CSI among APs and CPU, the precoding/decoding functions are implemented at the CPU. In contrast, if the limiting factor is the resolution of the ADCs used to quantize the samples to be transmitted on the fronthaul links, the preferred CPU-AP functional splits are those in which the baseband processing is performed at the APs. Moreover, they also reveal that in such functional splits there is always an optimal range of values of the UL fronthaul capacity fraction allocated to share the CSI.
Tracking and the interpretation of spoor: a scientifically sound method in ecology

Methods of studying wildlife are often restricted by habitat. Tracking, the reconstruction of activity from the spoor of animals, is an age-old technique that is still frequently used by modern-day hunter/gatherer communities. Although previously used in behavioural studies, tracking has not been tested for its scientific merit. In this paper, we provide data towards such a description by first testing the reliability of tracking, and second attempting to measure the techniques of tracking. In a test for accuracy, the Ju/'Hoan San team was correct in most (98% of 569) spoor reconstructions. Most significant of these were the correct identification of individually known animals and the reconstruction of complex behaviour from spoor. Measurements of the spoor of different species and age/sex groups in some species showed significant differences. Variation in different soil conditions, however, affected spoor measurements so that subtle differences between individually known animals could not be measured. Measurements of the spacing distances and placement of feet during different gaits gave statistical and schematic values to indicate some of the techniques used by trackers during the reconstruction of behaviour. Indigenous peoples, such as the Ju/'Hoan, have an in-depth knowledge of nature. Collaboration between western science and traditional knowledge could greatly benefit studies in behaviour and wildlife.
Advances in Single-Photon Lidar for Autonomous Vehicles: Working Principles, Challenges, and Recent Advances

The safety and success of autonomous vehicles (AVs) depend on their ability to accurately map and respond to their surroundings in real time. One of the most promising recent technologies for depth mapping is single-photon lidar (SPL), which measures the time of flight of individual photons. The long-range capabilities (kilometers), excellent depth resolution (centimeters), and use of low-power (eye-safe) laser sources renders this modality a strong candidate for use in AVs. While presenting unique opportunities, the remarkable sensitivity of single-photon detectors introduces several signal processing challenges. The discrete nature of photon counting and the particular design of the detection devices means the acquired signals cannot be treated as arising in a linear system with additive Gaussian noise. Moreover, the number of useful photon detections may be small despite a large data volume, thus requiring careful modeling and algorithmic design for real-time performance. This article discusses the main working principles of SPL and summarizes recent advances in signal processing techniques for this modality, highlighting promising applications in AVs as well as a number of challenges for vehicular lidar that cannot be solved by better hardware alone.
Taguchi Method for Investigation of Ultrasonication-Assisted Dissolution of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) Rod Enclosed Within Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Bulk

A fully transparent and three-dimensional vascular model can be created by using consumer 3D printer to fabricate polymeric molds, casting with Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) from printed molds, and dissolution of molds with solvents. Unfortunately, the narrowness of channels makes removal of molds enclosed within the PDMS bulk very challenging. Ultrasonication has been used to accelerate the dissolution of polymeric molds through the effects of cavitation phenomenon, Taguchi method was used to study the most and least influential factor to the overall dissolution process. Experiment results show that: (1) ultrasonication can penetrate the PDMS bulk and improve the dissolution process of ABS rod enclosed in a PDMS bulk; (2) the volume of the PDMS device (E) has the largest influence while the ultrasonication time (B) has the least influence; (3) with those optimized parameters, a 3D and transparent vascular model with two curly channels was successfully demonstrated.