Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Varietal Replacement Demonstration on the Yield and Economics of Turmeric (Curcuma longa) cv. Rajendra Sonia in Bhagalpur District of Bihar, India Transferosomal Hydrogel for Cosmetic Application

ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 2 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com Turmeric(Curcuma longa) is one of the important spice crops grown for fresh and processing purpose all over the India due to its wider adaptability under various agroclimatic conditions, which plays a major role in supplementing the income of small and marginal farmer of the Bhagalpur district of Bihar state. The present study was carried out atGoradih&Pirpainti block of Bhagalpur district during kharif 2017-18 and 2018-19. Varietal replacement through Farmer FIRST Project were conducted on turmeric by the active participation of the farmers with the objective of improved technologies of turmeric production potential. The improved technologies consist improved variety (Rajendra Sonia), balanced fertilizers (Soil test based) application and integrated pest and disease management, etc. The development of the agriculture is primarily depends on the application of the scientific technologies by making the best use of available resources. One of the major constraints of traditional turmeric farming is low productivity because of non-adoption of advanced technologies like improved varieties. To increase the production, productivity and quality of agricultural produce, varietal replacement are being conducted at various farmer’s field. All the recommended practices were provided to the selected farmers. The data related to the cost of cultivation, production, productivity, gross return and net return were collected as per schedule and analysed. Result of the present study revealed the higher average yield in the varietal replacement demonstration was recorded (254.61 q/ha) as compared to farmers practice (125.20 q/ha) traditional adopted by the farmers. The percentage increase in the yield over farmer’s 103.35 was recorded. The technology gap and extension gap were computed 145.39and 129.40q/ha respectively, along with 36.34 percent of technology index. The varietal replacement demonstration field gave higher average net return Rs. 653001.00 and B:C ratio is 1: 2.74. The result of the study indicated the gap existed in the potential yield and demonstration yield is due to soil fertility and weather conditions. Present result clearly show that the yield and economics of turmeric can be boost up by adopting recommended technologies. K e y w o r d s spice crops agro-climatic soil fertility weather conditions Accepted: 08 January 2020 Available Online: 10 February 2020 Article Info Int.J.Curr.Microbiol. App.Sci (2020) 9(2): 1842-1848
Towards human activity recognition for ubiquitous health care using data from awaist-mounted smartphone

Understanding human activities is a newly emerging paradigm that is greatly involved in developing ubiquitous health care u-Health systems. The aim of these systems is to seamlessly gather knowledge about the patient? s health and, after collecting knowledge, make suggestions to the patient according to his/her health profile. For this purpose, one of the most important ubiquitous communication trends is the smartphone, which has drawn the attention of both professionals and caregivers for monitoring the aging population, childcare, fall detection, and cognitive impairment. Recognizing human actions in a ubiquitous environment is very challenging and researchers have extensively investigated different methods to recognize human activities in the past decade. However, this field of research still needs further exploration in order to improve the accuracy and reduce the computational cost of these health care systems. Therefore, for expediting the existing system, this research work investigated a novel approach based on feature selection and classification. In the proposed work, sparse Bayesian multinomial logistic regression SBMLR is used for feature subset selection and a multiclass support vector machine SVM is adapted for the classification of six human daily activities laying down, walking up stairs, walking down stairs, sitting, standing, and walking . For identifying the best features among the features returned by the SBMLR, a tuned threshold value is used for the selection of the features. Further, other classification algorithms including K-nearest neighbor, decision tree, and naive Bayes and different feature selection methods such as principal component analysis and random subset feature selection are also used for evaluation and comparison. The dataset used for testing is obtained from the UCI Machine Learning Repository. It is collected by using a smartphone embedded with an accelerometer and gyroscope. The experimental results show that the highest accuracy of 99.40% can be achieved by using the proposed method. Moreover, the paired sample two-tailed t-test over the significance level of 0.05 reveals that the performance difference between the proposed technique and a competing technique is statistically significant.
Bio-PCR based diagnosis of Xanthomonas campestris pathovars in black rot infected leaves of crucifers.

Xanthomonas campestris pv campestris caused black rot disease of crucifers occurs worldwide and causes substantial losses under favorable conditions. A bio-PCR based method has been standardized for the rapid and reliable diagnosis of the black rot disease in crucifers. Primers were used specifically to amplify a 619bp fragment of the hrp F gene from X. campestris . To test specificity of primers, DNA of X. campestris pv. campestris , and other species of Xanthomonas such as X. oryzae pv. oryzae , X. citri pv. citri, X. axonopodis pv. punicae, Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora, Pseudomonas fluorescens and P. syringae pv. phaseolicola were also used as template for amplification at 619 bp. For diagnosis, samples of suspected black rot infected leaves of mustard, sarson sag, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli and radish were collected and isolated bacteria on nutrient agar medium. The colonies of bacteria grown on the medium were used as template for PCR and the same colonies were inoculated to their respective hosts for pathogenicity test. Amplification at 619 bp was visible in all isolates of X. campestris pv. campestris and no amplification was noted with other species of Xanthomonas, Erwinia and Pseudomonas . The colonies amplified at 619 bp were able to produce the symptoms on their respective hosts. There was no amplification in radish sample. It shows that the bio- PCR is confirmatory to the pathogen X. campestris pv. campestris, which rapidly diagnose the disease within 3 - 4 days with great accuracy .
Assessment of food safety knowledge of the Lebanese consumers - by Serine Samir Jaroudi

Thesis (M.S.)--American University of Beirut, Dept. of Nutrition and Food Science, 2009. ;"Advisor : Dr. Imad Toufeili, Chairman-Professor, Dept. of Nutrition and Food Sciences. --Member of Committee : Dr. Zeina Kassaify, Assistant Professor, Dept. of of N
The Effectiveness of Creative-Inquiry-Based Student Worksheet in Improving Physics Self-Efficacy and Problem Solving of Senior High School Students

The objective of this research is to describe the use of creative-inquiry-based student worksheets in improving physics self-efficacy and problem solving of senior high school students. This was quasi-experiment research with pretest and posttest control group design. Samples were taken using the purposive sampling technique. They were the twelfth-grade students of Public Senior High School 7 in Bandar Lampung and Public Senior High School 1 in North Sungkai. Samples were divided into two groups; the experimental group taught by using a creative-inquiry-based student worksheet and control group taught by using student worksheet sold freely in the market. Instruments used were self-efficacy sheets and problems to test physics problem-solving ability. The data were analyzed by using descriptive analysis with percentage technique, N-gain, and independent t-test. The result showed that a creative-inquiry-based student worksheet is effective to be used to improve self-efficacy and ability of physics problem-solving. Good self-efficacy will have implications for the level of physics problem-solving ability in solving physics problems.
Mathematical Transfinites and Modernism: Literary Infinities: Number and Narrative in Modern Fiction

Abstract:Baylee Brits's Literary Infinities is original, insightful, and intelligent, but falls victim to its ambitions, introducing a vast matrix of concepts, many of which overlap to the point of indistinguishability. Her primary argument is that the work of Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett, and J.M. Coetzee all demonstrates a kind of allegory corresponding to Georg Cantor's concept of transfinites, or "actual infinities. " The argument is successful with respect to Borges, but only convincingly demonstrates a general concern with mathematics in the other two writers, not specific "transfinite allegories. " Though it does not fulfill its introductory promise, Literary Infinities is full of sharp readings, both of fiction and criticism. Moreover, it strikes an excellent interdisciplinary balance, drawing upon complex mathematics concretely to introduce exciting new interpretations of twentieth-century classics.
Developmental changes in carbohydrate metabolism during early tuberisation of potato

A highly synchronised in vitro tuberisation system, based on single-node cuttings containing an axillary bud, is used to describe activity patterns of enzymes involved in the conversion of sucrose to hexose-phosphates during stolon to tuber transition of potato {Solarium tuberosum L. ). Two different non-tuberising systems were included to distinguish between changes that are tuber-specific or not. At tuberisation the activity of soluble acid invertase decreased (13-fold) and of sucrose synthase increased (12-fold). The activity of both enzymes remained unchanged in the non-tuberising treatments. Based on the opposite patterns and large difference in activity of these two sucrolytic enzymes, we conclude that sucrose synthase constitutes the predominant route of sucrose breakdown after tuber initiation. During the period before tuberisation, the activity of cell wall-bound invertase and of hexokinase showed a highly positive correlation (r = 0.96) in all the three treatments, suggesting coordinated coarse control of both enzyme activities. After the onset of tuberisation cell wallbound invertase activity decreased to a very low level, a change not observed in the nontuberising systems, indicating that cell wall-bound invertase is presumably not involved in the unloading mechanism and/or short-distance transport of sucrose within the perimedulla of growing tubers. The overall activity of fructokinase and of hexokinase both showed a 4-fold increase after tuber initiation, but remained unchanged in the non-tuberising systems. The increase of fructokinase suggests that the phosphorylation of fructose by fructokinase downregulates the cytosolic fructose content in order to maintain a high sucrose synthase catalysed net flux of sucrose to phosphorylated hexoses during rapid tuber-growth. The increase of total glucose phosphorylating potential could be a response to the tuberisation related starch accumulation process. The activity of UDPGlc pyrophosphorylase showed no developmental change. The level of UDPGlc pyrophosphorylase activity is very likely the result of metabolic regulation.
Isolation and Identification of Symbiotic Bacteria from Brasenia schreberi and Analysis of their Polysaccharide Producing Characteristics and Antioxidant Activity

Brasenia schreberi (water shield), a perennial freshwater aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae, is rich in polysaccharides with positive biological activity and potential application value. As an indicator plant of the environment in wetlands, B. schreberi original and wild water environment faced increasing deterioration and has been listed as a critically endangered species in several countries of East Asia. Seeking an alternative method to produce B. schreberi mucilage polysaccharide is of top priority. The morphological structure of the stem and leaf of B. schreberi was studied. Well-developed glandular cells and aerenchyma tissue were observed in the stem and leaves of water shield, which were related to its aquatic habitat and polysaccharide secretion and then three endophytic bacteria were successfully isolated and purified from its stem and leaf and identified as Micromonospora sp. YG-1, Xylariaceae sp. strain UT-X and Psychrobacter pulmonis strain T-15. Symbiotic bacteria from B. schreberi produced polysaccharides with similar spectral peaks and chemical functional groups to those of B. chinensis. Further, analysis of hydroxyl free radicals showed that symbiotic bacteria in water shield had significant antioxidant activity against hydroxyl free radicals. This study provides a theoretical and practical basis for further study using symbiotic bacteria to produce polysaccharides to overcome the environmental limitations of the growth and development of B. schreberi.
Perceived Inequality and Cross-National Homicide Rates

Abstract Economic inequality is a persistent structural covariate of cross-national homicide rates. The most common criminological explanation is that perceived inequality creates frustration among individuals at the lower end of the income distribution, this frustration generates latent anger, and this anger occasionally results in violence. There are reasons to question the validity of this explanation. First, the theoretical reasoning of this population-level phenomenon is reductionist, relying on individual-level explanation. Second, perceived inequality is poorly operationalized by its most common measure, the Gini index, meaning this hypothesis is never actually directly tested. Third, the Gini index is strongly correlated with inequality’s main competing economic explanation, poverty. To address these limitations we used the World Values Survey and the International Social Survey Programme to obtain national-level measures of perceived inequality that are much more consistent with the proposed theoretical construct and weakly correlated with poverty. Controlling for a range of structural covariates we found no consistent evidence of an association between population-level perceived inequality and homicide rates.
The Altemeier Procedure for Strangulated Rectal Prolapse: A Case Report

Rectal prolapse is the complete protrusion of the rectum through the anal canal. It is most common in elderly people, but can rarely occur at any age, the strangulated rectal prolapse is a rare complication. We report the case of a 78-year old men who underwent emergency surgery for strangulated rectal prolapse. Emergency perineal rectosigmoidectomy (Altemeier repair) was performed with simple outcome. This case highlights the importance of Altemeier’s procedure in the face of a strangulated rectal prolapse in an emergency situation.
PLATFORM DIGITAL SIARAN SUARA BERBASIS ON DEMAND

Perkembangan teknologi dan internet mengakibatkan semakin mudahnya masyarakat untuk mengakses media yang sesuai dengan kebutuhan dan kemauan mereka. Hal ini juga memengaruhi dalam memproduksi konten siaran suara, salah satu bentuk siaran suara adalah podcast. Saat ini podcast mengalami perkembangan pesat. Di Indonesia sendiri, podcast banyak diproduksi oleh para kreator secara individu bahkan media massa di Indonesia juga turut membuat podcast. Karakteristik yang dimiliki podcast sama seperti yang dimiliki oleh radio, bedanya adalah podcast berbasis on demand atau sesuai dengan kebutuhan pendengarnya. Sehingga tidak heran kalau banyak kategori-kategori podcast yang disesuaikan dengan kebutuhan pendengarnya. Podcast yang bisa didengar menggunakan layanan streaming juga mengakibatkan munculnya beberapa aplikasi streaming seperti PodMe dan Noice selain Spotify yang memang sudah menjadi aplikasi streaming auditori populer. Ke depan tidak menutup kemungkinan podcast akan semakin berkembang pesat di Indonesia dan dapat melengkapi siaran radio sekaligus menjadi alternatif dari konten yang berbentuk video. Konten podcast juga bisa dipastikan akan berkembang dengan adanya kreativitas dari para kreator podcast yang disesuaikan dengan karakteristik podcast yaitu berbasis on demand atau sesuai dengan kebutuhan atau kemauan pendengar
MODELS OF PRIMARY CARE ORGANIZATION AND THE USE OF EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS

Overcrowding in hospitals’ emergency department (ED) has often been attributed to lack of appropriate response in other parts of the health system, namely primary healthcare (PHC) institutions, but there is no definitive evidence supporting this assertion. We use patient-level data of 117,391 ED visits from two non-urban hospitals in Portugal to assess the effect that the model of PHC organization may have on ED utilization. PHC organization for the patients in our sample differed in two dimensions: patients may be enrolled in three different types of functional units - Personalized Healthcare Unit, Family Health Unit (FHU) Type A and B; and patients may have (or not) a specific family physician assigned. We estimate three different models using three dependent variables that describe the use of EDs: inappropriate use, rate of utilization and severity of patients. We conclude that the model of primary care organization exerts a significant influence on the use of EDs. FHUs have a significant positive effect on reducing the rate of utilization and inappropriate attendance of EDs. FHUs also have patients with lower severity conditions. We also conclude that patients with an assigned family physician make more appropriate use of the ED.
Inventory and identification of ectoparasites lice on sheep in the Magetan regency, East-Java

Sheep are farm animals that have long been cultivated and become abundant food resources for humans. Sheep are particularly susceptible to ectoparasite attacks. One of ectoparasites that could infect sheep is lice, it can reduce the production of meat and decrease quality of leather and fleece. Therefore this research aims to inventory, identify, and study the existence of lice in sheep. Lice samples were collected in four districts in Magetan i.e Karas, Parang, Panekan, and Plaosan. Preparations of lice were done by whole-mount with Hoyer’s solution. Results showed that species of lice infesting sheep in four districts in Magetan was Damalinia ovis. The prevalence value of D. ovis infested sheep was 100%, it means that all examined sheeps were infested by D. ovis. The largest prevalence value was found on the sheep body (77.86%). The number of individual D. ovis found was not affected by the altitude, air temperature, and humidity.
A Sea Surface Height Perspective on El Niño Diversity, Ocean Energetics, and Energy Damping Rates

Ocean energetics is a useful framework for understanding El Niño–Southern Oscillation; however, its key element, available potential energy (APE), requires accurate ocean subsurface data that are hard to measure. Here, we describe a sea surface height‐based index, SSHI, that accurately captures APE variations and can be easily computed from satellite observations. Using SSHI, we obtain an observation‐based estimate of the APE damping timescale of approximately 1.7 years, slightly longer than previous ocean reanalysis‐based estimates. Furthermore, SSHI serves as an indicator for El Niño “flavors” while recording the relative strength of the thermocline feedback. SSHI captures a decadal shift in El Niño–Southern Oscillation properties in early 2000s, with a more tilted mean thermocline and weaker thermocline slope variations indicative of the “Central Pacific” El Niño type dominating the past two decades, whereas SSH averaged over the tropical Pacific (a proxy for upper‐ocean heat content) shows a significant rising trend over this time.
The Cost-Implications of Reaching Universal Coverage of Maternity Health Services in Siaya County, Western Kenya

In Kenya, no studies have attempted to model alternative scenarios of the cost-implications of reaching universal coverage (i.e. 95% population coverage) of the existing maternity health services network at the ward administrative level. A cross-sectional study design used publicly available geospatial data in combination with routine data from the web-based district health information software (DHIS2) platform. AccessMod (version 5) was used for scaling up analysis. ArcGIS (version 10.5) sufficed for the preparation of geospatial input and the mapping of AccessMod results, respectively. The geographic coverage of three alternative scenarios to scale up the existing maternity health services network was tested and compared to the status quo. The findings in Siaya County confirm that even if the existing maternity health services network had unlimited capacity, almost 30% of pregnant women would still not be covered. Moreover, targeting the upgrade of hospital facility types currently working beyond their capacity would offer the best value for every additional resource allocated as compared to targeting either health centers or dispensaries, otherwise reaching universal coverage will require the construction of 32 second-tier facilities in Siaya County, as it is the most equitable approach in terms of physical accessibility to maternity health services. Future research should also consider the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) to model the effect of scaling up the geographic coverage of maternal health interventions on maternal mortality in Siaya County.
The impact of (un)conventional expansionary monetary policy on income inequality – lessons from Japan

ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the impact of conventional and unconventional monetary policy on income inequality in Japan, using hitherto unexplored data from the Japan Household Panel Survey. Empirical evidence shows that expansionary monetary policy in Japan has contributed to diminishing the gender pay gap through an increase in working time of women relative to men, but also to increasing the education pay gap. These effects may have materialized via the aggregate demand channel and the labour productivity channel. In contrast, expansionary monetary policy has had no significant impact on the development of the age pay gap.
Battery Charging System Using Sun Tracker with Dual-Axis Based on the Internet of things.

: Sun Tracker System is a device which developed to utilized the sunlight energy maximally by following the movement of sunlight. This sun tracker system is designed because the application of solar cells is still mostly placed statically so that the absorption of sunlight obtained is not optimal. In this system, we use four mini solar system cells that can accept 6 voltages. Solar cells obtain voltage values using a voltage sensor, this voltage sensor is only able to read a maximum voltage of 25 Voltage. The sun tracker system aims to make it easier to determine the voltage position based on the voltage value received by voltage sensor based on the Arduino Uno microcontroller. The result of this system is to be able to find the maximum voltage that will be displayed on a website using the ESP8266 module to determine the amount of voltage received by the solar cell and to know the location of the angular position when receiving voltage.