Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of thawing temperature and duration on post thaw seminal characteristics in exotic donkeys

Advances in artificial insemination (AI) techniques and semen handling have led to an increased rate of successful pregnancies and increased efficiency in large-scale breeding programs. AI with frozen Jack’s semen is an important aspect in production of superior mules. Various studies in other species indicated that thawing temperature and duration play significant role in post-thaw motility. The following study aims to determine the optimal temperature for thawing extended cryopreserved ejaculated semen and a trial was conducted on different thawing temperatures and time durations to study its effect on post-thaw sperm motility. Five exotic jacks maintained at Equine Production Campus, NRCE, Bikaner were utilized for semen collection and its preservation. Citrate- EDTA and Lactose glucose-EDTA–Egg yolk were used as primary and secondary extenders, respectively for semen cryopreservation. Ejaculated jack semen collected by means of an AV and cryopreserved in 0.5ml straws and thawed at different temperatures. PTM was observed as 43.48, 51.4 and 47.8% for thawing of frozen semen straws at 37 °C for 30 sec, one min and two min, respectively. At 50 °C water bath temperature for 15 sec, 30 sec and one min, post thaw motility was 32.6, 23.2 and 18.6% respectively. Similarly, at 70 °C water bath temperature for 5 sec, 10 sec and 15 sec, the post thaw sperm motility observed was 44.40, 18.75 and 17.4%, respectively. It is concluded that the optimum post thawing temperature for cryopreserved jacks’ semen is 37 °C for one min. However, it can also be thawed satisfactorily at 37 °C for 30 sec or 2 min and at 70 °C for 5 sec only as there was no significant differences (p≤0.05) were observed in liveability and motion characteristics. The present study infers that the thawing temperature and its duration does affect the motility of cryopreserved jack semen.
The EU Puzzling CSR Regime and the Confused Perception by Ambassadors of Luxury Fashion Businesses: A Case Study from Pařížská

Despite a decades-long discussion about corporate social responsibility ("CSR"), there is little known about the evolution and meaning of the EU law on CSR and its perception by various stakeholders. The two objectives of this paper are: (i) assessing the evolution to the current EU law on CSR and (ii) making a case study about the perception of CSR by businesses from the luxury fashion industry supposed to be the leading CSR force, namely their ambassadors - CEOs and employees facing the clientele in Pařižska street in Prague. In order to address these two objectives, holistic and interdisciplinary research of economic, legislative and academic sources as well as a case study, entailing interviews and mystery shopping was performed. The exploration of the yielded data employed Meta-Analysis, content analysis, teleological interpretation, etc. The critical and comparative review of the evolution of the EU law on CSR shows piecemeal trends and a lack of permanent consent. This leads to the fragmentation and ambiguity, which is matched by the findings of the case study. The perception of the EU law on CSR is done differently by various CEOs of luxury fashion businesses, and there is an inconsistency between their attitudes and those of their employees facing the clientele. Such inconsistency undermines the effectiveness and efficiency of the CSR regime and needs to be corrected.Implications for Central European audience: Although the sustainability projected in CSR is critical, the EU law has undergone a complex and fragmented evolution leading to a partially mandatory framework. The understanding and application of such a framework about CSR and its reporting is a challenge. A Central European case study of luxury fashion industry businesses shows piecemeal trends and a lack of consent, and this even among CEOs and frontline employees of the same business. The implication of such an inconsistency is a decrease in the effectiveness and efficiency of the CSR regime, a devaluation of the CSR awareness and the need for corrections.
Teaching and Learning Design Thinking (DT)

As a problem-solving approach, design thinking (DT) emphasizes iterative, user-focused designing. While DT is being readily adopted into education, little is known about how educators integrate DT across curricula. To address this question, we collaborated with a tech-ed industry partner and a focus group of experienced educators to assess curriculum content developed using a DT framework. Results showed that educators expressed positive impressions of the DT framework and lesson plans, but also identified potential challenges to integrating DT into classrooms (e.g., assessing skills and attitudes related to DT). Findings suggest that DT-based learning aligns with a shift from project-based instruction to experiential learning aimed at achieving global competencies. Keywords: design thinking, education, teaching, assessment, creativity, global competencies
In vitro Evaluation of Aqua Extracts of Some Botanicals against Maize Stem Borer, Busseola fusca F. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

The present study was conducted to determine the comparative efficacy and bioactivity of aqueous extracts of four botanicals (leaf, root bark, flower) under in vitro condition. Cypermethrin 1% G was used as standard check and untreated control against maize stem borer in maize (Zea mays L.), during 2012 at Ambo Plant Protection Research Center, Ethiopia. The treatments were aqueous leaf extract of Nicotiana spp. L. and Cymbopogon citratus, root bark aqueous extract of Securidaca longepedunculata F. , and flower extract of Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium at 5% concentration. The cumulative data revealed that the standard check-Cypermethrin 1% G at rate of 0.3 kg/ hectare recorded significantly higher mean percent mortality of maize stem borer, Busseola fusca, over all the other treatments. Among the botanical extracts, C. cinerariaefolium and C. citrates 5% concentration was recorded higher efficacy mean mortality (75 and 58.33), respectively, against B. fusca within three days, and found to be at par with some of the other botanical extracts. The Nicotiana spp. leaf extracts and S. longepedunculata root bark extract showed significantly lower efficacy mean mortality.
IMPACT OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT

Application technologies are considered genetic engineering in agriculture with the introduction of genetically modified (GM) plants are constantly creating new opportunities to increase crop production and to solve problems in agriculture, such as diseases, pests, weeds, abiotic stresses, and nutritional limitations. These are formed, and the plants having new properties that enable their use in pharmaceutical manufacturing. As the GM plant introductions to various locations characterized by a variety of ecosystems, types of agriculture, biodiversity and agriculturally practice, it is necessary to the scientific understanding of the effects of growing GM plants on the environment, which will provide security and environmental sustainability. The most important research she focused on the invasiveness of the GM plant, vertical and horizontal gene transfer, the impact on biological diversity and on other products. These tests are very complex multi, inter and transdisciplinary. This article discusses some of the most important problems related to the application of the technology of genetic engineering in agriculture and the introduction of GM plants into the environment, such as plant protection, ecological effects of horizontal gene transfer, biodiversity, stress, the effects of land, etc. There is a clear need to further investigate the size and scope of the risk spreading of transgenic plants. In assessing the interrelation of GM plants and existing varieties, more detailed knowledge of the development of GM plants will provide a clearer, more reliable and precise directed activity in plant sciences.
Propagação vegetativa de Hyptis leucocephala Mart. ex Benth. e Hyptis platanifolia Mart. ex Benth. (Lamiaceae)

RESUMO: O genero Hyptis (Lamiaceae) apresenta metabolismo especial de notavel variabilidade, possuindo predominância de oleos essenciais, que tem muito valor junto a diversas comunidades que utilizam essas plantas pelas propriedades terapeuticas. Diversos estudos com esse genero tem demonstrado que os oleos essenciais apresentam propriedades antimicrobiana, antifungica, citotoxica, antiinflamatoria, anti-HIV e inseticida, entretanto, poucos sao os estudos voltados para a exploracao sustentavel dessas especies. O objetivo desse trabalho foi avaliar o efeito de diferentes tipos de estaca e diferentes concentracoes de acido indolbutirico (AIB) sobre a taxa de sobrevivencia, crescimento e enraizamento de estacas de Hyptis leucocephala Mart. ex Benth. e Hyptis platanifolia Mart. ex Benth. , especies endemicas do semi-arido nordestino cujo valor medicinal tem sido amplamente comprovado. O experimento teve duracao de quatro meses. Foram utilizadas estacas apicais, medio-apicais, medio-basais e basais tratadas com solucoes de 0, 1000, 2000 e 4000 mg L -1 de acido indolbutirico (AIB), durante 5 minutos. A utilizacao de estacas apicais, medio/apicais e medio/basais induzidas com 2000 e 4000 mg L -1 de AIB possibilitaram melhores resultados para propagacao vegetativa de Hyptis leucocephala. Para Hyptis platanifolia os melhores resultados foram obtidos com a utilizacao de estacas medio/ basais e basais tratadas com AIB na concentracao de 2000 e 4000 mg L -1 . Palavras-chave: Estaquia, producao de mudas, plantas aromaticas, oleos essenciais
The min-max in LC Versus the max-log MAP in LC Method for Soft-Decision Decoding of MTR Codes

– The approaches for soft-decision decoding of maxi-mum-transition-run (MTR) codes have been extensively re-searched lately. Two different methods, named as min-max in LC and max-log MAP in LC have emerged as a fairly suitable for MTR code utilization in magnetic recording systems. Both methods were designed to enable the propagation of the soft-values through the logic circuits of the MTR decoder, allowing the concatenation of MTR code with some powerful error-correcting codes, such as the low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. In this paper, the min-max in LC versus the max-log MAP in LC approach is considered in the framework of simple and the straightforward LDPC-MTR concatenation over E 2 PR4 magnetic recording channel. Both methods show nearly the same coding gain of 2 dB at BER = 10 -5 .
Racial Disparities in Motor Vehicle Searches Cannot Be Justified by Efficiency

During traffic stops, police search black and Hispanic motorists more often than white motorists, yet those searches are equally or less likely to yield contraband. We ask whether equalizing search rates by motorist race would reduce contraband yield. We use unique administrative data from Texas to isolate variation in search behavior across highway patrol troopers and find that, across troopers, search rates are unrelated to the proportion of searches that yield contraband. Our results imply that, in partial equilibrium, troopers can equalize search rates across racial groups, maintain the status quo search rate, and increase contraband yield.
Deconstructing applied linguistics conference paper titles: A syntactic analysis

Following Swales’ (1990) influential study on research article (RA) introductions, some attention has increasingly been paid to other rhetorical units of both expert and learners’ writing, including titles. A key and effective discursive means through which titles are constructed and presented is the syntactic configuration. The present study, thus, investigates the syntactic structures employed by authors of conference paper titles (CPTs) in Applied Linguistics. A qualitative content analysis was employed to study a corpus of 592 CPTs from a popular conference for researchers, scholars, and practitioners of Applied Linguistics worldwide, supported by some descriptive statistics. The analysis of data study identified three main title styles: Single Unit Title, Compound Unit Title, and Complex Unit Title. The analysis showed that, out of these three title styles, Compound Unit Titles were preferred by researchers. Further, the colon was the dominantly used punctuation mark in separating the components of Compound Unit titles. The final point was that authors preferred prepositional phrases in the post modification of the noun phrase structure of CPTs. The findings of this study have implications for the scholarship on titlelogy, academic writing pedagogy as well as further research.
DETECTION OF MILK FAT ADULTERATION USING DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES

Nowadays, milk adulteration and, in particular, milk fat adulteration represents a big problem. Because of its high price, ghee and butter has always been the object of adulteration by adding less expensive vegetable oils or animal fat. The determination of fatty acids by gas chromatography (GC) followed by calculation of suitable ratios is commonly used to detect extraneous vegetable oils or animal fats, but with the introduction of some lipids sources in cow's and buffalo's diets, the detection of extraneous fat become difficult. The dielectric properties (Breakdown voltage (KV) test) of oils are electrochemical and thermo-physical property widely used to determine the shelf life of mineral oils used in transformers. This property was determined in some vegetable oils, some animal fats, milk fats and margarine oil to see whether there is a big variation between them easy to be used to distinguish between these oils and fats or not. Also, this property was determined in mixture of milk fat with different edible oils and animal fat in different ratios. The obtained results indicated that it could be possible to depend on the dielectric breakdown voltage as a rapid and easy method to detect milk fat adulteration with other vegetable oils and animal fats.
Unsupervised Parsing with S-DIORA: Single Tree Encoding for Deep Inside-Outside Recursive Autoencoders

The deep inside-outside recursive autoencoder (DIORA; Drozdov et al. 2019) is a self-supervised neural model that learns to induce syntactic tree structures for input sentences *without access to labeled training data*. In this paper, we discover that while DIORA exhaustively encodes all possible binary trees of a sentence with a soft dynamic program, its vector averaging approach is locally greedy and cannot recover from errors when computing the highest scoring parse tree in bottom-up chart parsing. To fix this issue, we introduce S-DIORA, an improved variant of DIORA that encodes a single tree rather than a softly-weighted mixture of trees by employing a hard argmax operation and a beam at each cell in the chart. Our experiments show that through *fine-tuning* a pre-trained DIORA with our new algorithm, we improve the state of the art in *unsupervised* constituency parsing on the English WSJ Penn Treebank by 2.2-6% F1, depending on the data used for fine-tuning.
Role of bone marrow infiltration in management of delayed union of long bones fracture

Background: Usually delayed union of fracture long bones are managed by putting a bone graft at fracture site , but bone grafting have donor site complication like scar, infection ,hernia ,gait disturbance , cosmetic problem, as well as recipient site complication like soft tissue trauma , de-vascularisation of fracture fragment. Bone marrow infiltration is a minimally invasive method done percutaneously. It is easy, safe procedure with no associated complications that may occur in bone grafting. Methods: This prospective study was conducted in the Department of orthopedics, Government Medical College, Kota from June 2011 to November 2013 to evaluate the efficacy of percutaneous bone marrow infiltration in cases of delayed union of long bones. 27 patients included in study with 28 bones, as one patient has given bone marrow injection in two bones (tibia & femur), so the cases included in study counted as 28 cases. The mean age of this study was 38.28 years, ranging from 18 years to 75 years. All cases were follow up after 4 to 6 weeks and thereafter one month interval. Final follow up was taken when fracture site shows clinical and radiological sign of union. Results: Out of 23 united cases 19 had excellent results and 04 cases had good results. The five cases which fail to unite were taken as poor results. Conclusions: Bone marrow infiltration is a minimally invasive, safe bone graft substitute for delayed union of long bones and have less complications.
Adherence to Antihypertensive Medications: Rate and Predictors

Background: Hypertension is a prevalent health problem with serious complications. Adherence to antihypertensive medications (AHMs) is a key in control of hypertension and prevention of complications. Objectives: This study aimed to estimate the rate of adherence to AHMs, and to predict factors that are likely affect adherence to these medications. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from July to December 2018 including 473 hypertensive patients attending the outpatient clinics of two primary health care centers in Gharbia and Menoufia governorates, Egypt. The Hill-Bone questionnaire was used to assess adherence level. Factors related to adherence were evaluated through questionnaire items. Results: The rate of good adherence was only 40.2%. Significant predictors of good adherence were older age (p 10 years (p < 0.001; OR=0.34, 95% CI= (0.184-0.628), using one medication (p < 0.002; OR=1.553, 95% CI= (1.783-12.522), and once per day dosing (p < 0.001; OR=3.364, 95% CI= (11.637-71.781). Self-payers (p < 0.001; OR=-3.141, 95% CI= (0.02-0.096), and patients reporting poor physician relationship (p < 0.001; OR=-1.731, 95% CI= (0.540-0.578) were predictors of poor adherence. Conclusion: A low rate of adherence to AHMs was recognized. The study highlights the importance to simplify the dosing and frequency of medications, to improve the patient-physician relationship, and the need for policies to extend the umbrella of health insurance in Egypt to overcome the economic barrier of adherence.
Genetic Variability of Maize (Zea mays L.) Genotypes on Some Yield and Yield Components at Haramaya, Eastern Ethiopia

Genetic improvement in components of economic importance along with maintaining a sufficient amount of variability is always the desired objective in the any maize (Zea mays L.) breeding program which will be handled under the conditions of Haramaya, Eastern Ethiopia. Therefore, an experiment was conducted using (27) and (3) check/control varieties to determine the genetic variability of maize genotypes at Haramaya, eastern Ethiopia. The study results revealed that significantly the tallest plant heights for (PH) were recorded from (3) (170 cm) and (18) (167.5 cm) genotypes whereas the shortest PH were recorded from (13) (117.5 cm) and (23) genotypes (120 cm). Good plant aspects (PA) were obtained from genotype 12, 22 and 26 (PA-1.5) and poor PA were attained from genotype 1 (PA-2.5). Besides, genetic and phenotypic variances were estimated for seven components. The highest genotypic coefficients variation (GCV) and phenotypic coefficients of variation (PCV) were calculated from grain yield (GY – 23.39%). Comparatively the higher GY were attained from the genotypes of 3, 9 and 12. It can be concluded that almost all components of the PCV are greater than the GCV. Superior selected genotypes are recommended to the researchers /breeders to develop disease resistant and high yielder varieties to increase maize production by farmers under Haramaya and other similar agroecologies.
DMS in OCD 1 Number of words: 1497 Number of tables: None Number of references: 28 Delusional misidentification syndromes in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Delusional misidentification syndromes (DMS) have been rarely reported in patients with conditions other than schizophrenia-related disorders, diffuse brain disease (dementia) and focal neurological illness. In this report, we describe DMS (i.e. Capgras and Fregoli syndromes) in two patients with severe and treatment resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), one with paranoid personality disorder (PPD) and the other with a pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) not otherwise specified. While our findings highlight an interesting phenomenon (the occurrence of DMS in OCD), it is presently unclear whether this association is rare or relatively common but underreported. Misidentification syndromes might be the ultimate result of a combination of obsessive fears and preexisting cognitive bias/deficits, such as mistrustfulness (in PPD) or poor theory of mind (in PDD).
Lectura de oraciones en español: similitudes y diferencias entre los niños con dislexia y niños con sordera

Resumen: Este estudio compara las estrategias para leer oraciones utilizadas por un grupo de escolares con dislexia (n = 107) y un grupo con sordera e implante coclear (n = 61) de lengua castellana. Los resultados indican que solo los participantes con sordera adoptan la estrategia de palabras clave (EPC), que consiste en identificar algunas de las palabras de la oración con contenido semántico propio, e ignorar las palabras funcionales. Se observa además que el uso de la EPC está asociado con un déficit sintáctico. Por otra parte, cuando los dos grupos se emparejan en el nivel lector con niños con desarrollo típico en lectura (Grupo Control, n = 785), las diferencias entre los Grupos Disléxico y Control desaparecieron. Sin embargo, los niños con sordera mantenían su tendencia a usar la EPC y seguían presentando dificultades para procesar las palabras funcionales. Estos resultados excluyen la hipótesis de que la EPC sea un procedimiento utilizado de forma general para compensar los déficits de lectura, pareciendo depender, más específicamente, de dificultades en la capacidad sintáctica. Palabras clave: dislexia; sordera; implante coclear; lectura; estrategia de palabras clave. Title: Reading sentences in Spanish: some similarities and differences between children with dyslexia and those with deafness. Abstract: The present study compares the strategies to read sentences used by Spanish-speaking children with dyslexia (n = 107) and cochlearimplanted children with deafness (n = 61). The results show that children with deafness, but not with dyslexia, adopt the key-word-strategy (KWS), which consists of identifying some content words of the sentence while ignoring the function words. Furthermore, it appeared that the KWS was associated with poor syntactic ability. Moreover, when Dyslexic and Deaf Groups were carefully matched at reading level with normally developing children (Control Group, n = 785) all of the differences between dyslexics and normally developing children disappeared. Children with hearing loss however were still slow at dealing with function words and consequently maintained their tendency to use the KWS. These results exclude the hypothesis that the KWS is a broadly used procedure to compensate for reading deficits but seems, rather, to depend on poor syntactic ability.
The Transition to Flexible Specialisation in the U.S. Film Industry: External Economies, the Division of Labour, and the Crossing of Industrial Divides

There is increasing evidence that mass-production methods are losing their dominance in the advanced industrial economies and that various forms of flexible production organization are on the rise. The transition from mass-production organization to flexible specialization is analyzed in detail through a case study of the film industry, where it is shown that a system of production once based on product standardization, high levels of vertical integration, and stable oligopolistic market structures has, after a period of vertical disintegration, given way to a production system based on a deep division of labor between firms and high levels of flexibility in both product design and output levels. The transition may be the result of increasing external economies of scale stemming from the development of the industry's social division of labor. Copyright 1989 by Oxford University Press.