Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Relationships between Root Size and Postharvest Respiration Rate

Sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris L.) root size has been implicated as a factor influencing storage respiration rate, yet the relationship between root size and respiration is unclear. Sugarbeet root size is dependent on cultural, environmental, and genetic factors and can vary significantly within and between fields. To evaluate the effect of root size on respiration rate and explore the morphological mechanisms that regulate respiration in sugarbeet roots, the relationships of respiration rate and total root respiration with root mass, surface area, and the ratio of surface area to mass (specific surface area) were determined using three field-grown varieties. Respiration rates for the sugarbeet varieties KW 2249, VDH 46177, and Beta 4818 were associated with root mass (R 2 = 0.55, 0.40, and 0.47), surface area (R 2 = 0.38, 0.29, and 0.39), and specific surface area (R 2 = 0.57, 0.34, and 0.36) by sigmoidal relationships. For each variety, there was a critical root size above which size had little impact on respiration rate. Below this critical size, root respiration rate increased substantially as root mass or surface area decreased. This critical beet size was 0.68, 0.50, and 0.86 kg for KW 2249, VDH 46177, and Beta 4818, respectively. Total respiration, i.e. respiration per root, for KW 2249, VDH 46177, and Beta 4818 was directly associated with root mass (R 2 = 0.71, 0.52, and 0.21) and surface area (R 2 = 0.72, 0.46, and 0.11) and
An update on the distribution of mosquitoes of the Tribe Aedini in India (Diptera: Culicidae)

Abstract Distribution of species and subspecies of the six genera of Aedini viz., Aedes (11 subgenera: 57 spp.), Armigeres ( 2 subgenera: 16 spp.), Heizmannia ( 2 subgenera: 14 spp.), Ochlerotatus (5 subgenera: 49 spp.), Udqya (2 spp.) and Verrallina (3 subgenera: 20 spp.) in India is illustrated and mapped as per their latest records and systematic position.
An Asymmetric Dual-band HTS Band-pass Filter for American Mobile Phone System

The American Mobile Phone System (AMPS) has a very complex frequency allocation which is divided between two operators A and B. Therefore, high performance multiple-band system components are desired in both the downlink and uplink. High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) filter and amplifier can be used in the reverse link reception where high sensitivity is desired and the power is within the range that HTS can handle. In this paper, we introduce a nine-pole bandpass filter to be used in operator B for reverse link reception. The filter is an example of dual-band filter with asymmetric response.
www.digitalsystemdesign.in A Novel FPGA Implementation of K-means Algorithm∗

K-means algorithm is a well known algorithm in the field of machine learning or big data analysis. This algorithm takes huge data set and segregate the similar data samples into K groups or clusters. In many application, real time implementation of K-means algorithm is very important. Thus Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices are suitable for implementing K-means clustering algorithm. In this work, a novel architecture of the K-means algorithm is proposed. A basic prototype of K-means algorithm is implemented on NEXYS DDR2 (xc7a100t) FPGA device. A detail analysis of the proposed design is also presented in this work.
Contributing to the Actualization of Performing Arts to Improve Education National Character

Globalization, as a new world order characterized by its swift and unpredictable changes, has caused societies to lose their confidence related to their identity as a nation. Education, on one hand, becomes one of the national elements which existence can be easily detached. On the other hand, Indonesian traditional culture along with its expressions provide everlasting sources that can be utilized to improve national character education. Nevertheless, being considered to be able to maintain cultural diversity, arts could serve as an appropriate instrument in a learning process within its educational context. When being employed as an approach to improve the quality of education in Indonesia, arts can be realized to exist within a societal situation. The performing arts’approach to education creates, firstly, a paradigm shift from teaching to learning by giving the student an active role to develop their potentials and creativity. Secondly, a paradigm shift enables from viewing the student as an an object to viewing the student as a subject for education national development. Accordingly, education is to respect high-culture traditional values that serve as a reflection of human’s selfimprovement. As student appreciate their local culture roots, they are able to be steadfast in encountering globalization. They also improve their self-confidence when using up those traditional values in order to collaborate them with other cultural values during their creation process. Therefore, they are able to create new works without losing their state of the
The impact of supply, demand and grain quality on the UK bread and feed wheat price differential in the UK

The difference between the bread wheat and feed wheat prices in the UK (the premium) is an important influence on behaviour throughout the entire grain chain. The aim of the present study was to quantify the influence of grain quality and other factors on interannual variation in the premium calculated as a proportion of the feed price. A hypothetical model of the UK wheat economy was devised, appropriate annual national data from 1982 to 2000 were collected for each component and multiple regression was used to develop a statistical model for the premium. The statistical model included livestock numbers (calculated as pig equivalents), Hagberg falling number and wheat stocks, which together explained 0·80 of the interannual variation in the premium. A high premium was associated with high livestock numbers, low Hagberg falling number and low wheat stocks. These variables were included in the hypothetical model because: livestock numbers represent demand for feed wheat; Hagberg falling number is a quality criterion for purchase of bread wheat with a low value indicating poor quality and thus a smaller supply of bread wheat; wheat stocks are one of the sources of supply of wheat. It was concluded that of the 16 supply, demand or price variables in the hypothetical model the main variables associated with the premium from 1982 to 2000 were demand for feed wheat, quality of the wheat harvest and carry-over of wheat from the previous harvest.
BIOCHEMICAL EFFECT OF PALM OIL FRACTIONS ON RATS

This study aimed to discuss the effect of six different sources of fats (100% corn, 100% butter and100% margarine) and three blends from margarine and butter with different percentages) on plasma lipid profile, lipid risk ratios and rats body weight when add in rat diet through a six weeks experimental period. The free fatty acid (FFA)%, peroxide value (PV) and the fatty acid composition of the six types of fats were determined, 36 male Wistar strain rats were categorized to six groups, 6 rats of each. The food intake and body weight of rats were recorded once a week. At the end of the experiment, total food intake, body weight gain and food efficiency ratio were calculated. Total cholesterol (TC), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and triglyceride (TG) were determined in plasma, it found that diet with the 100% margarine showed the highest FFA% and PV. Rat group fed on the 100% margarine diet showed the highest levels of TC, TG, LDL-C and the risk ratio (TC/HDL-C). The least HDL-C and risk ratio LDL-C/HDL-C values were also noticed in 100% margarine fed group, our article concluded that as the margarine percentage in diet increase this was accompanied by elevation in plasma lipid profile and body weight that is well known to have series of deleterious effects on body heath.
The Axel Marsupial Rover for Challenging Terrain Sampling

Challenging terrains on planetary surfaces appear to offer some of the most interesting scientific sites to explore and mine for resources. For example, some scientists believe that there is hidden water inside some of the Moon’s permanently shadowed craters. On Mars, the discovery of possible spurts of water flow were observed on the inside walls of two craters. Exploring and sampling such locations using robotics vehicles is very challenging. In this paper, we will examine the capabilities of the Axel platform for that purpose. Axel is a minimalist rover that is tethered to its host and is capable of in-situ measurements and sampling on such terrains. We will present some analysis and preliminary results of the Axel rover operating in the JPL Mars Yard on terrains with
An Application of Semantic Relation Extraction Models

Natural language processing (NLP) is growing to be one of the largest subfields of computer science, with application to many other fields such as linguistics or information extraction. This large growth has resulted in higher availability and a variety of resources that contributors can work with. Semantic relation datasets as a result have seen an increase in number and many today, including high profile companies at the head of NLP, are creating state-of-the-art machine learning models. These models are capable of identifying these relations from sentences by training on this selection of datasets. The number of models applied outside of their datasets, however, is still relatively low. With such a high amount of data being produced daily in our technological world, semantic relation models could potentially be used to help increase the speed at which specific information can be identified and extracted from their collections of data. This project will look at the accuracy of trained semantic models outside of their training datasets to assess the applicability of them as a tool for a general information search.
Karim Sherwan Hamagarib The Role of the Mother-Tongue Based Programs in Promoting Education and Integration of Immigrant-Background Children within the Turku Municipality Master’s Thesis in Education FACULTY OF EDUCATION Master’s Degree Programme in Education and Globalisation 2018 University of Oul

This study evaluates the extent to which the introduction of the OMO (Education given in students’ native languages) and MAI (Immigrant native language education) programs into the comprehensive schools in Turku has contributed to the academic development and integration of young immigrants. OMO and MAI are two language programs that promote the teaching of mother tongue to children of immigrant backgrounds. The programs also aim to teach regular comprehensive school subjects in the mother tongues of immigrants in order to promote understanding of the subject contents. The study employed phenomenography as a method. Six facilitators of the OMO and MAI programs were randomly selected and interviewed using the unstructured interview approach. Data obtained through the interviews were coded and analyzed using the qualitative content analysis. The outcome of this research indicates that the OMO and MAI programs have helped to promote the smooth integration of young immigrants into their new cultural and linguistic environment. The programs have energized the zeal in young immigrants to appreciate their cultural identity, thus helping them to respect the culture of the larger Finnish society in Turku. The research also indicates that the educational development of children of immigrant descent in Turku has improved through their participation in these language programs. Although these mother tongue-based programs play vital roles in helping young immigrants to integrate, the implementation of the programs has been fraught with challenges that need immediate attention. This study identifies those challenges and suggests that when they are dealt with, the programs may more effectively enhance the integration of immigrants in general, and especially their inclusion in the comprehensive schools in Turku.
Learning to Detect Ground Control Points for Improving the Accuracy of Stereo Matching

While machine learning has been instrumental to the ongoing progress in most areas of computer vision, it has not been applied to the problem of stereo matching with similar frequency or success. We present a supervised learning approach for predicting the correctness of stereo matches based on a random forest and a set of features that capture various forms of information about each pixel. We show highly competitive results in predicting the correctness of matches and in confidence estimation, which allows us to rank pixels according to the reliability of their assigned disparities. Moreover, we show how these confidence values can be used to improve the accuracy of disparity maps by integrating them with an MRF-based stereo algorithm. This is an important distinction from current literature that has mainly focused on sparsification by removing potentially erroneous disparities to generate quasi-dense disparity maps.
Temporal Logic Monitoring Rewards via Transducers

In Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), rewards are assigned according to a function of the last state and action. This is often limiting, when the considered domain is not naturally Markovian, but becomes so after careful engineering of extended state space. The extended states record information from the past that is sufficient to assign rewards by looking just at the last state and action. Non-Markovian Reward Decision Processes (NRMDPs) extend MDPs by allowing for non-Markovian rewards, which depend on the history of states and actions. Non-Markovian rewards can be specified in temporal logics on finite traces such as LTLf/LDLf, with the great advantage of a higher abstraction and succinctness; they can then be automatically compiled into an MDP with an extended state space. We contribute to the techniques to handle temporal rewards and to the solutions to engineer them. We first present an approach to compiling temporal rewards which merges the formula automata into a single transducer, sometimes saving up to an exponential number of states. We then define monitoring rewards, which add a further level of abstraction to temporal rewards by adopting the four-valued conditions of runtime monitoring; we argue that our compilation technique allows for an efficient handling of monitoring rewards. Finally, we discuss application to reinforcement learning.
Influence of reaction medium composition on enzymatic synthesis of galactooligosaccharides and lactulose from lactose concentrates prepared from whey permeate

The paper presents the results of investigations into the technological possibilities of controlling the transgalactosylation process of lactose in permeate after whey ultrafiltration in order to improve the efficiency of galactooligosaccharides or lactulose synthesis. The synthesis efficiency was influenced by the selection of a β-galactosidase preparation, substrate concentration and, in the synthesis of lactulose, also by the ratio of lactose and fructose added to the reaction mixture. The obtained synthesis efficiency of GOS and, most of all, of lactulose (65 g L−1), may be found satisfactory. The study also resulted in a proposed GOS or lactulose concentrates (concentrated or dried) production technology using permeate after ultrafiltration of milk or whey as lactose sources.
Critical Success Factors in Implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: A Case of Golrang Company in Iran

: Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems coordinate the activities, decisions, and knowledge of organizations. Despite the extensive implementation of ERP systems, the research in this area is, like other fields of information technology (IT), relatively recent. The purpose of this research was to identify critical success factors in implementation of ERP systems in an Iranian company (Golrang) using Esteves and Pastor’s model. This model is based on four factors: organizational-strategic, organizational-tactical, technological-strategic, and technological-tactical. By examining the literature, several indices were identified for each of these factors.These factors were presented to a group of experts in a questionnaire so as to determine the importance of each factor. The sample consisted of 75 industrial experts in Golrang Company of whom 62 completed the questionnaire. The results showed that the EPR critical success factors do not equally affect successful implementation of EPR systems.
Technically Challenging Human Factors Issues for a Policy Argumentation Approach

This work addresses the user requirements of an authoring environment interface for creation and appraisal of policy domains and models. This paper focuses on the technical considerations and challenges for the design phase requirements and modeling solutions during the first iterations for the user-driven development lifecycle. It presents the results of the focus group sessions as well as the main interaction tasks tested with the prototype version of the user interface. The technically challenging issues regarding the modeling of the interaction with complex visual structures such as tree-based hierarchies, mindmaps and graph representations are presented
Effect of freeze-drying and spray-drying on total phenolics content and antioxidant activity from aqueous extract of Justicia secunda leaves

K E Y W O R D S Effect of freeze-drying and spray-drying on total phenolics content and antioxidant activity from aqueous extract of Justicia secunda leaves EMMANUEL N’DRI KOFFI1* , AMIAN BRISE BENJAMIN KASSI2, FELIX ANOH ADJE3, YVES FRANÇOIS LOZANO4 AND YVES-ALAIN BEKRO5 1Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Département des Sciences et Technologie, 08 BP 10 Abidjan 08, Côte d’Ivoire 2Laboratoire de chimie organique et de substances naturelles (LCOSN), Université de Félix HOUPHOUËT-BOIGNY, 22 BP 582 Abidjan 22, Côte d'Ivoire 3INPHB, Laboratoire des Procédés Industriels, de Synthèse, de l’Environnement et des Energies Nouvelles BP 1093 Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire 4CIRAD, UMR-110 INTREPID (INTensification Raisonnée et Ecologique pour une Pisculture Durable), TA B 110-16, 73 rue J. F. Breton, 34098 Montpellier cedex 5, France 5Université Nangui Abrogoua, Laboratoire de Chimie Bio Organique et de Substances Naturelles (LCBOSN), 02 BP 801 Abidjan 02, Cote d’Ivoire 02 Received: 17 July 2019 Revised: 05 March 2020 Accepted: 18 April 2020 ePublished: 26 June 2020 Corresponding author: Emmanuel N’dri Koffi Tel:+22507077180; Fax: +22522444232 E-mail address: emmanuelkoffi@ymail.com Antioxidant capacity Freeze-drying Justicia secunda Vahl Reverse osmosis concentration Spray-drying Total phenolics content This study aims to evaluate the effect of freeze-drying and spray-drying on total phenolics contents and antioxidant capacity from aqueous extract of Justicia secunda leaves. Total phenolic compounds extraction procedure consists of using an extraction-concentration procedure performed at three-step process, including ultrasound-assisted water extraction followed by cross-flow microfiltration of the crude extract and its concentration by reverse osmosis. After final step of extraction procedure, a concentrated extract, namely RO extract was obtained. In order to convert RO extract to powder form, two drying methods are used; freeze-drying and spray-drying. The powder obtained by freeze drying, namely P1, presented the higher content of polyphenols (9542 ± 38 μmol.g-1 GAE) and antioxidant capacity (4256 ± 15 μmol.g-1 TE) than that obtained by spray drying and namely P2. The freeze-drying technology could be a good outcome to preserve polyphenols structure and consequently their antioxidant capacity in aqueous extract of J. secunda leaves. Moreover, seven minor phenolic compounds of RO extract were characterized by HPLC coupled to UV/Vis diode array detection and mass spectrometry with electrospray ionization (LC/DAD/ESI-MS). There were kaempferol-3-O-coumaroyl glucoside (10), justiflorinol (14), luteolin-7-O-rutinoside (18), apigenin 6-C-glucoside-7-O-rhamnosyl-hexoside (19), quercetin-7-O-glucoside-3-O-rutinoside (20), apigenin-7-O-neohesperidoside (23), and naringenin-7-O-rutinoside (25) among the characterized compounds.
Molecular diversity of the copepod, Nannocalanus minor : Genetic evidence of species and population structure in the North Atlantic Ocean

The abundant calanoid copepod, Nannocalanus minor, is widespread from the Florida Straits (FS), throughout the Gulf Stream and the Sargasso Sea, to the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. Does the species represent a single, randomly-mating population across this extensive region, or does it comprise a number of genetically distinct populations or taxonomically distinct forms? What are patterns and pathways of dispersal of the copepod across the North Atlantic? These questions were addressed using population genetic analysis of DNA sequence variation of a 440 base-pair region of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene. This analysis separated N. minor into two genetically distinct types (distinguished by 10% sequence difference) that may represent the previously described N. m. forma major and N.m. forma minor. The two genetic types differed in size range and in geographic distribution: Type I individuals were larger and were most abundant in the western regions of the Gulf Stream; Type II individuals were smaller and became more abundant toward the eastern regions of the Gulf Stream. Significant differences in the size-frequency distributions of N. minor from different regions of the North Atlantic may result from mixtures of the two genetic types and environmental differences in food availability. Within N. minor Type I, mtDNA sequence variation defined 68 haplotypes among 155 individuals. The haplotype frequency distribution was skewed: there were 40 individuals of one haplotype, 31 individuals of a second, and 60 unique individuals. Haplotype diversity, h, was very similar across the sampled range: h = 0.886 in samples from the FS and 0.874 for samples from the Gulf Stream Meander Region (GSMR). Nucleotide diversity, p i , was significantly greater in the FS (p i = 0.00490) than in the GSMR (0.00414), largely due to a number of genetically divergent individuals. Haplotype abundances did not differ significantly either within the regions (among FS samples, P = 0.756; among GSMR samples, P = 0.336) or between the regions (P = 0.636). Molecular genetic analysis can reveal cryptic species among marine taxa, and is particularly useful for taxa characterized by morphological similarity.
Is the pleasure of driving a constraint for leaving the car?

Society exhibits an increasing dependence on private car use for commuting: city paralysis, pollution and resources waste are main effects of this conduct. Although technological innovations, it is necessary to reduce the volume of individual motorized means in order to improve environmental quality and to decrease congestion. In this study, we examine through a stated preference (SP) experiment to what extent new generations are willing to accept new possibilities for mobility and spatial development. The second important goal is to understand how sociocultural indicators can affect the choices. In fact, several studies showed that in addition to instrumental factors, also symbolic (as status and prestige) and affective (as love driving and freedom) motives influence car use. Through a hybrid discrete choice experiment, we explain how a latent construct, named pleasure of driving, can influence the choice. Data are collected by means of a paper and pencil survey among young people that work or study in Lugano.