Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Root-Secreted Malic Acid Recruits Beneficial Soil Bacteria1[C][W][OA]

Beneficial soil bacteria confer immunity against a wide range of foliar diseases by activating plant defenses, thereby reducing a plant's susceptibility to pathogen attack. Although bacterial signals have been identified that activate these plant defenses, plant metabolites that elicit rhizobacterial responses have not been demonstrated. Here, we provide biochemical evidence that the tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediate l-malic acid (MA) secreted from roots of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) selectively signals and recruits the beneficial rhizobacterium Bacillus subtilis FB17 in a dose-dependent manner. Root secretions of l-MA are induced by the foliar pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato (Pst DC3000) and elevated levels of l-MA promote binding and biofilm formation of FB17 on Arabidopsis roots. The demonstration that roots selectively secrete l-MA and effectively signal beneficial rhizobacteria establishes a regulatory role of root metabolites in recruitment of beneficial microbes, as well as underscores the breadth and sophistication of plant-microbial interactions.
International Journal of Management Sciences and Business Research, Feb-2015 ISSN (2226-8235) Vol-4, Issue 2

The work aims to investigate the issue of creating value, a fundamental objective for the survival of the company, accompanied by the ability of the same to attract financial resources, so as to define a capital structure that reflects the business strategy which does not compromise its competitive ability. The research question is whether there is a link between value creation and firms financial structure. In order to solve the question the methodology adopted is of desk type, or analysis of the scientific-literary reference. As finding of the research, note that the optimal financial structure is oriented to the search for balance between the different forms of financing that at different times of firm life are available. The study conducted shows, finally, the limit of lack in a quali-quantitative approach as a case study aimed to verify the theoretical framework. Therefore, this integration between theoretical and practical approach will be the subject of future research.
Generation of transgenic quails by in vivo transfection of primordial germ cells

During development, dynamic changes in tissue shapes known as morphogenesis result from the exquisite orchestration of signalling pathways, cell–cell interactions, cell divisions, and coordinated movements. How cells within embryos adopt a vast array of cell fates and tissue shapes in such an ever-changing environment has fascinated scientists for generations, yet the ability to observe and characterize those rapid changes has proven technically challenging in higher vertebrates. The japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) is an attractive model where basic rules driving morphogenesis in amniotes can be deciphered using genetic approaches. Similar to the more popular chicken model, the quail embryo is easily accessible to a wide range of manipulations and live imaging. A decisive asset of quail over chicken is a much shorter life cycle, which makes its use as genetic model for basic research extremely appealing. To date, all existing transgenic quail lines were generated using replication-deficient lentiviruses, but diverse limitations of this approach have hindered the widespread expansion of such technology. Here, we successfully used a plasmid-based in vivo transfection of quail primordial germ cells (PGCs) to generate a number of transgenic quail lines over a short period of time. The plasmid-based approach is simple, efficient and it allows using the infinite variety of genome engineering approaches developed in other models, such as strategies to facilitate transgenic bird selection, shown here. This major technological development completes the vast panel of techniques applicable to the avian model, making it one of the most versatile experimental systems available.
A Survey on Image Inpainting Techniques

: A coarse adjustment of the data picture is first in painted by a non-parametric patch assessing. Diverged from existing procedures, a couple updates have been done. The in painted of a coarse variation of the information picture licenses to diminish the computational diserse quality, to be less sensitive to clatter and to work with the overwhelming presentations of picture structures. From the low-determination in painted picture, a singular picture super-determination is joined with recover the unobtrusive components of missing districts. Exploratory results on typical pictures and synthesis mix show the feasibility of the proposed technique.
Evaluation of myocardial triglyceride accumulation assessed on 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy in apparently healthy Japanese subjects.

OBJECTIVE Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) enables the clinician to noninvasively assess the amount of ectopic fat in the liver, skeletal muscle and myocardium. Recent studies have reported that the myocardial triglyceride (TG) content is associated with aging, metabolic disorders and cardiac dysfunction. However, the clinical usefulness of myocardial TG measurements in Japanese subjects has not been fully investigated. METHODS The myocardial TG content was evaluated using (1)H-MRS in 37 apparently healthy Japanese subjects, and the left ventricular function was measured on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Blood pressure, body composition and biochemical markers were measured in a fasting state, and cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX) was performed to evaluate exercise capacity. RESULTS The mean myocardial TG content was 0.85±0.40%. The myocardial TG content was significantly associated with the percent body fat (r=0.39), serum triglyceride level (r=0.40), estimated glomerular filtration rate (r=-0.37), anaerobic threshold (r=-0.36), maximal load of CPX (r=0.39), left ventricular end-diastolic volume (r=-0.41) and left ventricular end-systolic volume (LVESV) (r=-0.51) (all: p<0.05). In a multivariate analysis, the LVESV was found to be an independent factor of the myocardial TG content. CONCLUSION (1)H-MRS may be useful for assessing the associations between the myocardial TG content and various clinical parameters, including those reflecting obesity, metabolic disorders, cardiac morphology and exercise capacity, noninvasively, even in Japanese subjects.
Review on Intelligent Street Lightening System

: Traditional control and maintenance of street lamps is not enough more to modernization need. The main focus of proposed system is to optimize management and efficiency of street lighting systems and realize a kind of higher autoimmunization, more credible and efficient long-distance monitoring and control system. It uses a sensor combination to control and guarantee the desired system parameters; the information is transferred point by point using ZigBee transmitters and receivers and is sent to a control terminal used to check the state of the street lamps and to take appropriate measures in case of failure.
Assessing the roles of the sender and experimenter in dream ESP research.

This study explored the role of the sender in a dream ESP task by considering the effects of presence of a sender (sender, no sender) and the receiver’s expectancy that a sender was present. Forty participants each completed a sender and a no sender trial on consecutive nights by keeping a dream diary of all mentation they could recall when they awoke. The order of trials was randomised across participants. On no-sender nights a randomly selected video clip was played repeatedly from 2:00 until 6:30am; on sender nights a sender would also watch the clip between 6:00 and 6:30am and attempt to communicate its content. Both sender and no sender conditions produced above chance hit rates (30% and 35% respectively), but z scores for similarity ratings did not deviate significantly from chance (sender night: t(39) = 0.92, p = . 18; no sender night: t(39) = 1.11, p = . 14, one-tailed). There was no difference in performance in terms of sender conditions (z = -0.22, p = .41, one-tailed) or sender expectancy (z = -0.18, p = .46, one-tailed), failing to support the proposal that senders play an active role in dream ESP success. Possible improvements in the manipulation of participant expectancy are discussed. Correspondence details: Chris A. Roe, Division of Psychology, The University of Northampton, Boughton Green Road, Northampton, NN2 7AL, United Kingdom. Email: Chris.Roe@northampton.ac. uk.
Predictive Algorithm for Critical Event Management in Wireless Sensor Network

: Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is highly demanded in the field of networking. This popularity of WSN is because of its ability to yield the real time sensory data. This sensory data is further processed to generate useful and sensible results required for an application. The natural disaster detection and management is the main focus behind this proposed project. Natural critical event contributes a large penalty in terms of big loss of living and nonliving asset. In this paper, we proposing an algorithm that, (1) detects the critical event under WSN, (2) calculates direction of growth and speed of the critical event, (3) predicts the next affecting area within anticipated time period. (4) Alerts the prevention system around the WSN. Wireless sensor network is generating the real time data such as temperature, pressure, ambient light, humidity etc. We use this data as an input to the system. The power of computation is applied on the sensory data to make the system functioning as per desire. In this paper, we proposed a predictive algorithm for a critical event detection and management. A prevention system is a set of preventing objects. The algorithm predicts critical event probable spread area and accordingly give alert to all preventing objects. These preventing objects are responsible to take a contrary action against calamity. WSN is programmed to give a activation signal to all those prevention systems or objects which are under critical event probabilistic area. In this way, we can manage the critical event and reducing amount of losses considerably.
Synthesis and characterization of highly stable functional silica nanoparticles for LbL assembly

Layer by Layer (LbL) assembly is a superior method to create thin films with aqueous based dispersions which include polyelectrolytes and nanoparticles. LbL presents exceptional advantages like conformal coatings with controlled structure and composition by using electrostatic interactions of oppositely charged materials. Nevertheless, these interactions may cause weaker mechanical properties on the thin films. In order to eliminate the drawback, the covalent bond between oppositely charged materials can establish by crosslinking of functional groups. Silica nanoparticles are mostly used in the LbL process due to enhance adhesion of films by creating roughness on the surface. They are also suitable for surface modification which provides surface charge manipulation, stable dispersibility and good mechanical property. Silane alkoxy groups are one of the best choices for functionalization process. These coupling agents promote mechanical robustness of the surface via the formation of physically and chemically stable covalent bonds. In this study, silica nanoparticle was synthesized by hydrolysis and condensation of tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) in surfactant/cyclohexane/ammonia media by microemulsion method. Monodisperse and having around 50 nm diameter silica nanoparticles were achieved to use in further steps. Amino and poly (ethylene glycol)-terminated alkoxy silanes were performed to ensure positive and negative surface charges on the silica nanoparticles surface by crosslinking. The functionalized silica nanoparticles were utilized in LbL process, right after poly allylamine hydrochloride (PAH) and poly (sodium 4-styrenesulfonate) (SPS) were applied in desired number of layers on the silicon wafer substrates. Dynamic light scattering (DLS) is employed to analyze size and surface charge distribution of bare and functionalized silica nanoparticles. The presence of functional groups was examined by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The thickness, surface topography and roughness of thin films are measured by ellipsometry and atomic force microscopy (AFM). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was performed to analyze nanostructural morphology of silica nanoparticle and thin films. The obtained results indicated that chemically crosslinked silica nanoparticle containing thin films exhibit better mechanical properties that make them useful for desired applications.
Broadband Circularly Polarized Slot Antenna Loaded by a Multiple-Circular-Sector Patch

In this paper, a microstrip-fed broadband circularly polarized (CP) slot antenna is presented. CP operation can be attained simply by embedding an S-shaped strip. By loading with a multiple-circular-sector patch, which consists of 12 circular-sector patches with identical central angles of 30° and different radii, the 3 dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidth is significantly broadened. To validate the performance of the proposed antenna, an antenna prototype is fabricated and tested. The fabricated antenna is 54 mm × 54 mm × 0.8 mm in size. The measured −10 dB reflection and 3 dB AR bandwidths are 81.06% (1.68–3.97 GHz) and 70.55% (1.89–3.95 GHz), respectively. Within the 3 dB AR bandwidth, the measured peak gain is 3.81 dBic. Reasonable agreement is also obtained between the measured and simulated results.
Sorvettula Adopting agile software development in a small company – a case study

Small software companies often face challenges in resource allocation and prioritization. Especially companies operating without external funding must ensure adequate cash flow while constantly improving current products and bringing new ones to market. This situation reflects to developers’ daily work as constant interruptions and changes in plans. Agile software development methods, which were created to help solving these and other challenges, have received wide popularity amongst software companies even though the empirical evidence concerning agile methods is somewhat inadequate and conflicting. Inadequate development portfolio management has also been reported to cause these problems. This thesis studies if typical small software company problems in resourcing and development portfolio managemen can be alleviated by adopting agile software development. The research data was collected by conducting a combined survey and interview in a Finnish sofware company with 8 employees. The study was repeated twice: first before adopting an agile process and second after using Scrum for three months. Sekä kyselyn että haastattelun perusteella havaittiin selkeää positiivista kehitystä yrityksen ohjelmistotuotannossa ketterän ohjelmistotuotannon käyttöönoton myötä. Tulos oli saman tyyppinen sekä kehittäjien että heidän esimiehiensä osalta. Suurin vaikutus ketterän menetelmän käyttöönotolla oli päivittäisen työn hallintaan. Tekemissalkun hallintaan menetelmä antoi valmiuksia, muttei suoria ratkaisuja. Both the survey and the interview indicated a clear positive trend in the case company’s software development after adopting the agile process. The result was similar both for developers and managers. The agile process had the largest impact in managing the day-today work. The agile process was found to give tools for development portfolio management but to lack direct solutions.
The single tree-based stand simulator SILVA : construction , application and evaluation

Single tree forest growth simulators have proven to be very flexible tools for predicting forest growth. They are commonly applied in the United States but they are rarely used in European forest management yet. One of the few exceptions is the simulator SILVA, which is presented in this paper. The underlying equations of this simulator are developed from a set of more than 155,000 tree observations, including the species Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst. ), Silver fir (Abies alba Mill.), Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), Common beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and Sessile oak (Quercus petraea (Mattuschka) Liebl. ). These basic model equations are presented together with respective parameter values, derived from the aforesaid data set. The benefits of SILVA for forest practice, research, and education are demonstrated with three exemplary applications. Evaluation in terms of biological plausibility, validation, and practical use of the implemented software is presented, which shows that: (1) biological principles could be represented without explicitly being implemented, and (2) the simulation results are very close to independent observations as far as the range of parameterized site conditions is not exceeded. Furthermore, possible implications of changing conditions or an application of the model across a wider geographical range are discussed with special reference to the ongoing process of parameterization. # 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
Australian household net worth

Treasury has decided to cease compiling its own measure of private sector wealth in favour of a series based on Australian Bureau of Statistics household net worth. Most elements of the ABS household net worth measure are now available with quarterly frequency. Treasury will apply a quarterly approximation to the remaining components and backcast data to make it suitable for use in the Treasury Macroeconomic Model (TRYM). The article concludes with a brief analysis of the new wealth figures. Australian household net worth increased by 11.6 per cent in the year to June 2007 - slightly faster than its long run average growth rate of 10.5 per cent.
Diversity in the Sales Force: Problems and Challenges

This review presents a knowledge assessment concerning diversity on the sales force. After briefly discussing the present state of diversification of mainstream sales jobs, it identifies four social determinants that may underlie problems non-traditional salespeople encounter (stereotypes, devaluation, tokenism, communication style compatibility, and perceptions of selling careers). It describes some road blocks that such salespeople face (involving such things as getting hired, corporate networking, customer resistance, upward mobility, and supervisory support), and then discusses the challenges confronted by management that are generated by these social determinants and road blocks. Finally, it details needed research in the area.
Biosynthetic infochemical communication

There is an ever-increasing demand for data to be embedded in our environment at ever-decreasing temporal and spatial scales. Whilst current communication and storage technologies generally exploit the electromagnetic properties of media, chemistry offers us a new alternative for nanoscale signaling using molecules as messengers with high information content. Biological systems effectively overcome the challenges of chemical communication using highly specific biosynthetic pathways for signal generation together with specialized protein receptors and nervous systems. Here we consider a new approach for information transmission based upon nature’s quintessential example of infochemical communication, the moth pheromone system. To approach the sensitivity, specificity and versatility of infochemical communication seen in nature, we describe an array of biologically-inspired technologies for the production, transmission, detection, and processing of molecular signals. We show how it is possible to implement each step of the moth pheromone pathway for biosynthesis, transmission, receptor protein binding/transduction, and antennal lobe processing of monomolecular and multimolecular signals. For each implemented step, we discuss the value, current limitations, and challenges for the future development and integration of infochemical communication technologies. Together, these building blocks provide a starting point for future technologies that can utilize programmable emission and detection of multimolecular information for a new and robust means of communicating chemical information.
Le potentiel de compétition apparente entre l’orignal (Alces alces) et le caribou forestier (Rangifer tarandus caribou) varie le long d’un gradient latitudinal

12 Introduction . 14 Methodology . 16 Results . 21 Discussion . 28 Acknowledgements . 31 References . 31 CONCLUSION GÉNÉRALE . 35 Perspectives . 40 BIBLIOGRAPHIE GÉNÉRALE . 41
Fitting a Smile Exhibiting Sticky Moneyness: by Calibrating Both Bond and Stock Dynamics

The paper examines a market for a stock, discount bonds of all maturities, and European calls of all strikes and all maturities on the stock. The implied volatility of a call in this market is a function, of our choice, of time to maturity and monyness that does not change over time. Our paper determines a dynamics for the prices of the stock and the bonds so that the implied volatility will be as above. The difference between our work and the literature on fitting the volatility smile, started by Derman and Kani (1994) and Dupire (1994), is that we are fitting the desirable smile at all future times, while they fit it only at the initial time. The source of our superior fitting ability is that we view the bonds and the stock (and not only the stock) as the underlying that we are allowed to determine its dynamics in order to obtain the fit, while they allow only to determine the dynamics of the stock.
Mass models of NGC 6624 without an intermediate-mass black hole

An intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) was recently reported to reside in the centre of the Galactic globular cluster (GC) NGC 6624, based on timing observations of a millisecond pulsar (MSP) located near the cluster centre in projection. We present dynamical models with multiple mass components of NGC 6624 – without an IMBH – which successfully describe the surface brightness profile and proper motion kinematics from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the stellar mass function at different distances from the cluster centre. The maximum line-of-sight acceleration at the position of the MSP accommodates the inferred acceleration of the MSP, as derived from its first period derivative. With discrete realisations of the models we show that the higher-order period derivatives – which were previously used to derive the IMBH mass – are due to passing stars and stellar remnants, as previously shown analytically in literature. We conclude that there is no need for an IMBH to explain the timing observations of this MSP.
Nonlinear Robust Optimization

Robust optimization (RO) has attracted much attention from the optimization community over the past decade. RO is dedicated to solving optimization problems subject to uncertainty: design constraints must be satisfied for all the values of the uncertain parameters within a given uncertainty set. Uncertainty sets may be modeled as deterministic sets (boxes, polyhedra, ellipsoids), in which case the RO problem may be reformulated via worst-case analysis, or as families of distributions. The challenge of RO is to reformulate or approximate robust constraints so that the uncertain optimization problem is transformed into a tractable deterministic optimization problem. Most reformulation methods assume linearity of the robust constraints or uncertainty sets of favorable shape, which represents only a fraction of real-world applications. This survey addresses nonlinear RO and includes problem formulations and applications, solution approaches, and available software with code samples.