Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Plant Spacing and Organic Nutrient Management on Growth and Yield Attributes of Green Gram (Vigna radiata L.)

The field experiment was conducted during Zaid season of 2021 at the CRF, Department of Agronomy, SHUATS, Prayagraj (U.P.). The soil of the experiment plot was sandy loam in texture, nearly neutral in soil reaction (pH 7.2), low in organic carbon (0.72%), available N (278.48 kg/ha), available P (27.80 kg/ha) and available K (233.24 kg/ha). The treatments included three spacing’s (20 cm × 10 cm, 30 cm × 10 cm and 40 cm × 10 cm), as well as three organic nutrient managements (4 t/ha Vermicompost + 10% Vermiwash + 10% Jeevamruth at 20 DAS, 5 t/ha Vermicompost + 12% Vermiwash + 5 kg/ha FYM + 12% Jeevamruth at 40 DAS and 6 t/ha Vermicompost + 14% Vermiwash + 6 kg/ha FYM), respectively. The experiment was laid out in a randomized block design with nine treatments combinations and the treatment combinations were replicated thrice. The results obtained showed that growth parameters such as plant height (63.41 cm), number of branches (6.60/plant) and plant dry weight (13.38 g/plant) were significantly higher with the application of 30 cm × 10 cm spacing along with + 5 t/ha VC + 12% VW + 5 kg/ha FYM + 12% J at 40 DAS. While yield parameters such as pods (25.52/plant) were the highest in 40 cm × 10 cm + 5 t/ha VC + 12% VW + 5 kg/ha FYM + 12% J at 40 DAS. Whereas, seed yield (1,869.82 kg/ha), haulm yield (3,888.33 kg/ha), harvest index (33.84%), gross returns (INR 2, 28,266.33/ha), net returns (INR 1, 64,206.33/ha) and benefit: cost ratio (2.89) were recorded maximum in the treatment combination of 20 cm × 10 cm + 5 t/ha VC + 12% VW + 5 kg/ha FYM + 12% J at 40 DAS.
A Theoretical Framework for Random Access: Stability Regions and Transmission Control

As one of the two fundamental types of multiple access, random access has been widely adopted in various communication networks, and expected to play an increasingly central role owing to the rising popularity of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications. Despite decades of successful applications, the theory of random access has long been underdeveloped, with key fundamental issues unresolved. Among them, stability of random-access networks is the most long-standing one that has received continuous attention for almost half a century. The challenge lies in establishing an analytical framework where the coupled service processes of nodes’ queues can be characterized. In this paper, by extending our previously proposed analytical framework from the symmetric scenario to the general one, we tackle three open questions: 1) How to characterize the coupled service rates of nodes? 2) How to determine the stability region of input rates, only within which the network can be stabilized? 3) For given input rates within the stability region, how to tune the transmission probabilities of nodes to stabilize the network? We demonstrate that the key to characterizing the coupled service rates lies in properly establishing and solving the fixed-point equations of steady-state probabilities of successful transmission of Head-of-Line (HOL) packets of nodes. For the stability region of input rates, which closely depends on the definition of stability, two types of stability, i.e., queue-stability and throughput-stability, are considered, and both stability regions are shown to be determined by the sufficient and necessary condition of the existence of positive real roots of the fixed-point equations. To characterize the operating regions of transmission probabilities, constraints need to be further developed to ensure that the network operates at the specific steady-state point. The analysis shows that to stabilize the network, the transmission probabilities of nodes can be tuned only based on their long-term traffic input rates. Although the main results are illustrated based on Aloha with Constant Backoff, discussions on how to incorporate a general backoff function and other features of random access are also presented.
Symptomatic Pneumomediastinum Following Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Case Report and a Literature Review

Isolated pneumomediastinum is a rare complication after laparoscopic procedures. Herein, we present a case of a 38-year-old woman who presented two days after laparoscopic cholecystectomy with pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea and was found to have isolated pneumomediastinum. The patient was admitted for monitoring, oxygen therapy, and antibiotic prophylaxis and she was discharged on the fourth postoperative day when her symptoms resolved both subjectively and radiologically. Only two other cases of symptomatic isolated pneumomediastinum after laparoscopic cholecystectomy were reported in the literature and all of them were female patients, diagnosed radiologically, and treated conservatively. Therefore, isolated pneumomediastinum should be included in the differential diagnosis of dyspnea and chest pain after laparoscopic surgeries in order to have an early diagnosis, start early treatment, and prevent unnecessary investigations or advancement of the disease.
Simulation, Modeling, and Characterization of the Wakes of Fixed and Moving Cylinders

The first goal of this work was to develop models based on nonlinear ordinarydifferential equations or nonlinear algebraic equations, which produce the lift and drag coefficients on a cylinder or a cylinder-like structure. We introduced an improved wake oscillator for the lift, which combines the van der Pol and Duffing equations. We proposed a two-term quadratic model that relates the drag and lift coefficients, which reproduces the phase relationship between the drag and lift and its variation with the Reynolds number. We found that a mixed-type (external and parametric) forcing is needed to represent the effects of the cylinder motion. The second goal of this work was to develop a deeper understanding of the shedding and fluid forces on a cylinder and how they depend on its oscillatory motion within and outside the synchronization (or lock-in) band of frequencies. We performed extensive CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulations and solved the unsteady Reynoldsaveraged Navier-Stokes equations that govern the flow fields around fixed and moving (in either the cross-flow or in-line direction) cylinders. We identified various wake modes that can exist, depending on the cylinder motion (direction, amplitude, and frequency) by using modern methods of nonlinear dynamics. The possible responses can be period-one, periodic with large period, quasiperiodic, or chaotic. Moreover, we found that the routeto-chaos is torus breakdown. We investigated how four frequency sweeps of the crossflow motion affect the response curves and the hysteresis phenomenon. We studied in detail the effect of the in-line motion on the wake and related this effect to the reduction in the lift and mean drag due to a synchronization type that is very different from the one due to cross-flow motion. Dedication I dedicate my Dissertation to my siblings: Belal “male” Eman “female” Mohamed (Hamaada) “male” Tarek “male” Yasmine “female”
Small‐volume hyperbolic manifolds constructed from Coxeter groups

Using the symmetric group Sn+1$S_{n+1}$ and related hyperbolic Coxeter groups [3,3,…,3,6]$[3,3,\ldots ,3,6]$ , we construct cusped hyperbolic n$n$ ‐manifolds of small volume having small rank fundamental group, for n⩽5$n\leqslant 5$ . In particular, we find a cusped orientable arithmetic hyperbolic 5‐manifold M∗5$M_*^5$ of volume 13ζ(3)/2$13\zeta (3)/2$ with rank(π1(M∗5))=3$\hbox{rank}(\pi _1(M_*^5))=3$ , starting from the ideal hyperbolic birectified 5‐simplex described in a recent paper by the second author.
Designing criterion measures for physically demanding jobs

ABSTRACT The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 39.1% of the civilian workforce in the United States performs physically demanding jobs that require lifting, carrying, pushing/pulling, kneeling, stooping, crawling, and climbing activities in varied environmental conditions. United States military occupations are similar to those in the civilian sector involving equipment installation, emergency rescues, and maintenance, along with combat arms occupations. This article provides an overview of the types of criterion measures used to assess the physical domain and approaches for designing and evaluating the criteria. It also includes a method for generating criterion measures that are applicable across multiple jobs.
Waste Material via Geopolymerization for Heavy-Duty Application: A Review

Due to the extraordinary properties for heavy-duty applications, there has been a great deal of interest in the utilization of waste material via geopolymerization technology. There are various advantages offered by this geopolymer-based material, such as excellent stability, exceptional impermeability, self-refluxing ability, resistant thermal energy from explosive detonation, and excellent mechanical performance. An overview of the work with the details of key factors affecting the heavy-duty performance of geopolymer-based material such as type of binder, alkali agent dosage, mixing design, and curing condition are reviewed in this paper. Interestingly, the review exhibited that different types of waste material containing a large number of chemical elements had an impact on mechanical performance in military, civil engineering, and road application. Finally, this work suggests some future research directions for the the remarkable of waste material through geopolymerization to be employed in heavy-duty application.
Translation, Validation, and Psychometric Evaluation of the Diabetes Quality-of-Life Brief Clinical Inventory: The Urdu Version

Purpose The study is aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the Urdu version of the Diabetes Quality-of-Life Brief Clinical Inventory. Methods We adopted the forward–backward procedure to translate the Diabetes Quality-of-Life Brief Clinical Inventory (DQoL-BCI) into the Urdu language (lingua franca of Pakistan). The intraclass correlation (ICC) confirmed the consistency of retaining the items, and Cronbach’s alpha established the test–re-test reliability. The confirmatory factor analysis (principal axis factoring extraction and oblique rotation with Kaiser normalization) validated the DQoL-BCI in Urdu. Results A two-time point with an interval of 2 weeks was used, and the Urdu version of DQoL-BCI was piloted accordingly. The 15-item translated version (DQoL-BCI-U) exhibited a satisfactory Cronbach’s value of 0.866 (test) at week 1 and 0.850 at week 3 (re-test). Using the one-way random model with single measurements, the ICC for all 15 items exhibited coefficient values of >0.80. The Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin measure of sampling adequacy and Bartlett's Test of Sphericity revealed relationships of the data and suitability of CFA (0.899, p<0.05). Seven factors explaining the total variance of 69% were extracted. With acceptable communalities, all 15 items of DQoL-BCI-U were retained. Conclusion The study concludes that the translated version of DQoL-BCI-U is a valid instrument in regions, where Urdu is a communal language of communication and can examine quality-of-life issues during the typical patient–provider encounter.
Advanced Immune Cell Profiling by Multiparameter Flow Cytometry in Humanized Patient-Derived Tumor Mice

Simple Summary Immunotherapies have revolutionized the field of oncology and have been approved to treat cancer. Despite progress in immunotherapy, many challenges remain, including the identification (i) of predictive markers for treatment response or (ii) of beneficial T cell subsets involved in tumor elimination. “Humanized” mice are a promising translational model for studying the human immune system in the context of immuno-oncology research. Here, multicolor flow cytometry was applied to characterize immune cell subsets in the spleen of humanized mice transplanted with patient-derived breast cancer tissues. This multicolor immune cell setup will help to identify promising therapeutic approaches or predictive immune cell subsets in the future using humanized tumor mice. Abstract “Humanized” mice have been widely used for the characterization of human cancer progression and as a powerful preclinical model. Standardization of multicolor phenotyping could help to identify immune cell patterns involved in checkpoint-related complications. Therefore, we applied established protocols for immune cell profiling to our humanized Patient-Derived Xenograft (hPDX) model. hPDX are characterized by the co-existence of a human immune system and a patient-derived tumor transplant. These mice possess a human-like immune system after CD34+ stem cell transplantation while the reconstitution level of the immune system was not related to the quantity of transplanted CD34+ cells. Contamination ≤ 1.2% by CD3+ cells in the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplant did not trigger abnormal T cell maturation. Different B and T cell differentiation stages were identified, as well as regulatory T cells (Tregs) and exhausted T cells that expressed TIGIT, PD-1, or KLRG1. Overall, the application of standardized protocols for the characterization of immune cells using flow cytometry will contribute to a better understanding of immune-oncologic processes.
The Cost of Imagined Actions in a Reward-Valuation Task

Growing evidence suggests that humans and other animals assign value to a stimulus based not only on its inherent rewarding properties, but also on the costs of the action required to obtain it, such as the cost of time. Here, we examined whether such cost also occurs for mentally simulated actions. Healthy volunteers indicated their subjective value for snack foods while the time to imagine performing the action to obtain the different stimuli was manipulated. In each trial, the picture of one food item and a home position connected through a path were displayed on a computer screen. The path could be either large or thin. Participants first rated the stimulus, and then imagined moving the mouse cursor along the path from the starting position to the food location. They reported the onset and offset of the imagined movements with a button press. Two main results emerged. First, imagery times were significantly longer for the thin than the large path. Second, participants liked significantly less the snack foods associated with the thin path (i.e., with longer imagery time), possibly because the passage of time strictly associated with action imagery discounts the value of the reward. Importantly, such effects were absent in a control group of participants who performed an identical valuation task, except that no action imagery was required. Our findings hint at the idea that imagined actions, like real actions, carry a cost that affects deeply how people assign value to the stimuli in their environment.
Disentangling Country and Firm Level Effects on Firm Equity Ownership and Firm Financial Performance: An Exploratory Empirical Analysis

This study attempts to disentangle firm and country level effects on firm performance and firm ownership using hierarchical linear modeling. I argue that distinguishing country and firm level effects is complex in that firm level characteristics and strategic decision making are not independent of the national context but are embedded in both the national context and firm level stakeholder pressures. The results suggest greater country level effects for ownership than for performance. This pattern of results is consistent with stronger national level influences on ownership structure than on performance outcomes. This finding may reflect trends toward homogeneity due to the globalization of financial markets. Although I found little evidence that the identity of the largest equity owner influenced performance outcomes, several ownership classes were significant for the equation predicting the size of the largest shareholding.
Dermatological emergencies: a Moroccan retrospective case series over a period of two years

Introduction a dermatological emergency is defined as an acute dermatosis evolving since less than 5 days and being life or functional threatening. The main objective of this study was to describe the epidemiological and clinical profile of patients seen for a dermatological emergency. Methods this is a retrospective case series, carried out over a period of two years [May 2018 - May 2020], including all the patients seen in the Dermatology Department for a true dermatological emergency. The descriptive analysis was carried out using Excel software. Results a total of 843 patients were collected. The mean age was 46.95 years, with a standard deviation of 15.69 and a slight male predominance (n=448). There were 709 adults and 134 children. The majority of patients came from central emergencies (n=451). The pathologies seen were in order of frequency: Infectious dermatoses (n=469) dominated by erysipelas in adults (n=302) and viral dermatoses in children (n=47); drug-induced skin reactions (n=160); inflammatory dermatoses (n=113) including erythroderma (n=36), urticaria (n=32), vasculitis (n=25), and erythema multiform (n=20); autoimmune bullous dermatoses (n=74); and physical skin diseases (n=27). Other specialists´ advice was needed for 231 patients. Biological involvement and imaging were required in respectively 536 and 421 cases. Only 235 required hospital admission, while the others needed an ambulatory care. Conclusion the pathologies seen in the dermatological emergency unit were dominated by infectious dermatoses, suggesting elaborating a medical program to improve the non-dermatologist physicians' knowledge about them.
Integrations of microfinance and business development services : Empirical evidence on microfinance institutions and clients

Dit proefschrift onderzoekt de relevantie van een integratie van bedrijfstrainingen met microfinancieringsdiensten op de prestaties van microfinancieringsinstituties (MFIs) en hun clienten. Het belangrijkste deel van dit proefschrift heeft betrekking op een gerandomiseerd experiment dat is uitgevoerd met TYM, een van de grootse MFIs in Vietnam. We hebben door middel van een loterij vrouwen die lid zijn van TYM ingedeeld in drie groepen: 1) vrouwen die nog geen bedrijfstraining krijgen; 2) vrouwen die een bedrijfstraining krijgen en 3) vrouwen die een bedrijfstraining krijgen en ook hun partners mee mogen nemen naar de trainingen. De bedrijfstraining bestond uit 7 trainingen gebaseerd op trainingsmateriaal dat is ontwikkeld door de Internationale Arbeidsorganisatie (ILO). Het experiment laat zien dat een bedrijfstraining leidt tot een significante verbetering in de bedrijfskennis en de bedrijfsvoering van vrouwen die van TYM geld lenen. Bovendien blijkt dat de bedrijfstraining een positief effect heeft op de bedrijfsprestaties van door vrouwen geleide bedrijven. Het experiment levert echter geen bewijs voor een positief effect op de bedrijfsprestaties van vrouwen indien ook hun partners de trainingen bijwonen.
Better to Divorce than Be Widowed: The Role of Mortality and Environmental Heterogeneity in the Evolution of Divorce

Despite widespread interest in the evolution and implications of monogamy across taxa, less attention—especially theoretical—has been paid toward understanding the evolution of divorce (ending a socially monogamous pairing to find a new partner). Here, we develop a model of the evolution of divorce by females in a heterogeneous environment, where females assess territory quality as a result of their breeding success. Divorce results in females leaving poor territories disproportionally more often than good territories, while death of a partner occurs independent of territory quality, giving an advantage to divorce. Increasing environmental heterogeneity, a decreasing benefit of pair experience, and moderate survival rates favor the evolution of higher divorce rates, even in the absence of variance in individual quality and knowledge of available territories. Imperfect information about territory quality constrains the evolution of divorce, typically favoring divorce strategies that remain faithful to one’s partner whenever successful reproduction occurs. Our model shows how feedbacks between divorce, widowhood, and the availability of territories are intricately linked in determining the evolutionary advantage of divorce. We detail testable predictions about populations that should be expected to divorce at high rates.
Design of Blast Resistant Buildings in Petrochemical Facilities

This report provides general guidelines in the structural design of blast resistant petrochemical facilities. Informational coverage is provided for OSHA requirements, design objectives, siting considerations, and load determination with references mentioned for more detailed information. More detailed coverage is provided for types of construction, dynamic material strengths, allowable response criteria, analysis methods, and design procedures. Typical details and ancillary considerations, such as doors and windows, are also included. A how to discussion on the upgrade of existing buildings is provided for older facilities which may not meet current needs. Three example calculations are included to illustrate design procedures.
Indirect Comparisons via Sorafenib for the Comparative Effectiveness of Two PD-1/PD-L1 Inhibitors to Treat Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients without Prior Systemic Therapies

Introduction Advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) represents a major public health threat. Several emerging combination therapies have shown promising results for the first-line treatment of advanced HCC. The present study compared the efficacy of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab (AB) with lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab (LP), which were two of the leading combination therapies. Methods The outcomes of the present analysis were overall survival (OS) time and progression-free survival (PFS) time. Two matching-adjusted indirect comparisons (MAICs) were first conducted using the individual-level patient data (IPD) of the sorafenib arm from a previous clinical trial and the aggregate data (AgD) of the AB and LP arms from the corresponding published trials. From the MAICs, the hazard ratios (HRs) of AB and LP vs sorafenib were estimated by conducting weighted Cox regressions. The HRs from the two MAICs were then pooled to conduct a second-order indirect comparison of AB vs LP. Results In the MAIC analyses, AB had better efficacy on both OS (HR: 0.58, 95% CI: 0.42–0.79) and PFS (HR: 0.59, 95% CI: 0.47–0.76) than sorafenib, whereas LP had significantly better efficacy on PFS (HR: 0.62, 95% CI: 0.41–0.94) but not OS (HR: 0.83, 95% CI: 0.52–1.32). In the second-order comparison, AB was insignificantly more efficacious on OS (HR: 0.71, 95% CI: 0.42–1.23) than and similarly efficacious on PFS (HR: 0.95, 95% CI: 0.60–1.51) as the LP regimen. Conclusion LP regimen may be a potential first-line immunotherapy option for advanced HCC given its comparative effectiveness in relation to AB.