Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
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The PDBTM database (available at http://pdbtm .enzim.hu), the first comprehensive and up-to-date transmembrane protein selection of the Protein Data Bank, was launched in 2004. The database was created and has been continuously updated by the TMDET algorithm that is able to distinguish between transmembrane and non-transmembrane proteins using their 3D atomic coordinates only. The TMDET algorithm can locate the spatial positions of transmembrane proteins in lipid bilayer as well. During the last 8 years not only the size of the PDBTM database has been steadily growing from 400 to 1700 entries but also new structural elements have been identified, in addition to the well-known a-helical bundle and b-barrel structures. Numerous ‘exotic’ transmembrane protein structures have been solved since the first release, which has made it necessary to define these new structural elements, such as membrane loops or interfacial helices in the database. This article reports the new features of the PDBTM database that have been added since its first release, and our current efforts to keep the database up-to-date and easy to use so that it may continue to serve as a fundamental resource for the scientific
Assessing the extent and determinants of adoption of improved cassava varieties in south-western Nigeria

This paper investigates the determinants of adoption of improved cassava varieties in southwestern Nigeria. The data come from a farm household survey of 841 households selected using a three-stage stratified random sampling procedure. The data collection was conducted in 2011 by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria. Empirical estimates of a Double-Hurdle model revealed that adoption increases with the age of the household head and is influenced by the gender of the household head, hired labour, cultivated land, and access to credit. The results further showed that the intensity of adoption is influenced by hired labour and farm size; access to information about the improved cassava varieties is determined by the age, gender, and level of education of the household head, and by off-farm income.
Retrieval-Enhanced Adversarial Training for Neural Response Generation

Dialogue systems are usually built on either generation-based or retrieval-based approaches, yet they do not benefit from the advantages of different models. In this paper, we propose a Retrieval-Enhanced Adversarial Training (REAT) method for neural response generation. Distinct from existing approaches, the REAT method leverages an encoder-decoder framework in terms of an adversarial training paradigm, while taking advantage of N-best response candidates from a retrieval-based system to construct the discriminator. An empirical study on a large scale public available benchmark dataset shows that the REAT method significantly outperforms the vanilla Seq2Seq model as well as the conventional adversarial training approach.
Create a fine blend: An examination of institutional transition to blended learning

Higher education institutions across the globe are increasing the extent to which they teach in a blended mode. However, in the rush to transition to blended teaching, institutions often fail to systematically review their transition process. Via a case study of one institution’s transition to blended teaching, this paper aims to assist other institutions make similar transitions. Numerous recommendations for how institutions can advance their transition to blended learning are deduced. The investigation triangulates three data sets collected from: (1) methodical observation of the learning management system (LMS); (2) interviews with unit coordinators; and (3) a large-scale student survey. It was found that although both students and academics were receptive to blended learning, neither had a clear understanding of what it was. There is wide variability in the structure and quality of blended units and LMS sites. Lifting the standard of poorer quality blended units requires considerable investment to provide academics with time and resources. Students were on average satisfied with the online aspect of blended learning; they were particularly satisfied with procedural efficiencies, but less so with socially interactive aspects of learning. Overall, blended learning appears to enhance engagement, providing more avenues for students to engage with learning materials.
Testing for Linkages in Sectoral Development: An SVAR-Approach to South Africa

South Africa has a peculiar industrial structure given its factor endowments: production is capital intensive in sectors and concentrated in capital intensive sectors despite an abundance of unskilled labour. Part of the reason for this phenomenon lies in the development process of South African industry: it grew around the mining sector and its core sectors remain close to the minerals endowment up until today. A possible explanation for this path dependent development is the existence of forward and backward linkages between sectors that drive industrial development. We use an SVAR approach with realistic identification assumptions from input-output relations—following a paper by Abeysinghe and Forbes (2005)—to estimate the eect of linkages between sectors on sectoral growth performance.
Understanding the Healing Nurture in Foster Parents' Psychological Availability: An Annotated Bibliography

From the very earliest outcome research on children in foster care (Theis, 1924; Trotzkey, 1930), to more recent studies evaluating how clients of the system fare, researchers agree that the way in which caregivers approach the task of parenting matters a great deal. It is common knowledge that all children need to feel accepted, cared about, and understood, and they need to know that their goals matter to those caring for them. In this annotated bibliography I describe the theory and research underlying a construct I refer to as parent availability: a compendium of parent behaviors, beliefs, motivations, and a relational stance that may help traumatized children in foster care recover from serious emotional and behavioral disorders. Parent availability is examined via a brief exploration of the main theories believed to be an integral part of the construct. First, a brief description of why parent availability is so important for foster and adoptive children.
Phomopsis vexans (Sacc. & Syd.) Harter: Current Research andFuture Perspectives (1914-2015)

Phomopsis vexans is an important fungal plant pathogen associated with brinjal. Since its discovery from 1893, it has undergone several taxonomic changes to its current nomenclature P. vexans in 1914. Several mycologists have contributed immensely to the understanding of the diversity, biology and pathological aspects of P. vexans and to the extent to which it causes damage to the brinjal crop production. At present, P. vexans is widely distributed in all major brinjal growing regions of the world. It causes damping-off of seedlings in nursery, leaf blight; fruit rot and stem blight at various stages of plant growth and development. It produces two types of conidia such as alpha and beta; alpha conidia are hyaline, biguttulate, oval and infective and beta conidia are the diagnostic feature of the genus Phomopsis. The fungal pathogen is known to survive in soil, seed and disseminated through rain splash. Though various chemical and biological management methods have been adapted to reduce the disease incidence, P. vexans is still a major challenge for the plant pathologists around the globe. Search for various sources of resistance against P. vexans is an on-going program in many research institutes met with little success. The present management system focuses on the application of bio-control agents to check the disease development and to confer resistance against P. vexans.
Seasonal evolutions of N2O, O3, and CO2: Three‐dimensional simulations of stratospheric correlations

Fluctuations in the concentrations of stratospheric trace gases are often correlated over a large range of space and time scales, an observation frequently used to infer the existence of various chemical processes. Three-dimensional models provide a tool to examine the causes and variations of trace gas relationships, because they can realistically simulate the interplay between stratospheric photochemistry and meteorology. Thus such models can aid the interpretation of observed trace gas relationships. We use the general circulation model of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies to simulate the evolution and distribution of N2O, CO2, and O3 over a year. In the modeled lower stratosphere the constituents N2O and CO2 have well-correlated spatial variations, but the slope of the regression line depends on both the season and the direction of sampling. This departure from a universal form is due both to the annual cycle in tropospheric CO2 and to transport of air from the upper stratosphere photochemically depleted in N2O. Due to the short photochemical lifetime of tropical O3, its relationship with N2O is still more varied. In particular, the slope of the O3−N2O regression line changes significantly from middle to high latitudes, behavior relevant to the use of N2O for estimating the rate of polar winter O3 depletion. In general, a tight correlation between two trace gases such as N2O and O3 is often observed, but this datum cannot be used to infer a similar universal relationship because a different direction of sampling may change the slope and the scatter about it.
Evaluation of bacteria for biological control of early blightdisease of tomato

Twenty three bacterial isolate out of 190, exhibiting inhibitory affects against Alternaria solani in preliminary tests, were screened for their activity towards A. solani Ell. and G. Martin) Sor. by a dualculture in vitro assay on nutrient agar (NA) medium and in vivo (whole plant) test. In vitro studies indicated that all the 23 bacterial isolates inhibited the mycelial growth of A. solani by forming inhibition zone ranging from 9.35 to 31.3 mm. The most effective isolate was Serratia plymuthica (IK139) (31.3 mm) based on the in vitro test results. Twenty three bacterial isolates were subjected to a whole plant test to investigate their ability to protect the tomato plant against early blight disease. In whole plant tests, 0.5 x 10 8 cfu/ml bacterial suspension was sprayed and one day later, A. solani spores suspension were applied on tomato seedlings and plants were incubated in moist chamber at 20°C with 95% relative humidity (RH) and 12 h photoperiods for 21 days. Based on the whole plant tests, Paenibacillus macerans-GC subgroup A (1.82), Serratia plymuthica (1.78), Bacillus coagulans (1.75), Serratia marcescens-GC subgroup A (1.50), Bacillus pumilis –GC subgroup B (1.50) and Pantoea agglomerans (1.32) bacterial isolates reduced the disease severity of early blight significantly when compared with control. These results suggest that the bacterial isolates studied have a good potential to be used as biocontrol agents of A. solani in tomato.
Rv3802c in Tuberculosis Therapeutics

The recent upsurge of life-threatening multidrug- and extreme drug- resistant tuberculosis along with HIV co-infection urge the need of new drug targets and drugs to cripple the survival and infection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The current scenario of tuberculosis might be dealt by targeting pathogen’s enzymes that participate in both cell wall and lipid metabolism.
XSL: The X-Shooter Spectral Library

We are building a new spectral library with the X-Shooter instrument on ESO's VLT: XSL, the X-Shooter Spectral Library. We present our progress in building XSL, which covers the wavelength range from the near-UV to the near-IR with a resolution of R∼10 000. At the time of writing we have collected spectra for nearly 240 stars. An important feature of XSL is that we have already collected spectra of more than 100 Asymptotic Giant Branch stars in the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds.
Secure Authentication Scheme for Social Networking

: A social networking service is an online platform that is used by people to build social networks or social relations with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. It plays a major role in our society. Privacy concerns with social networking services is a subset of data privacy, involving the right of mandating personal privacy concerning storing, re-purposing, provision to third parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself via the Internet. Maintaining privacy has a major problem, our proposed system provides additional security to the social network which is achieved by using Adaptive Privacy Policy Prediction (A3P). This system provides the privacy setting for the user. The features are selecting friend from friend list, follower request, news feed filtering, block the person and send the notification to the user when the violation is found. Our solution relies on an image classifies which may be related with similar policies, and on a policy prediction algorithm to automatically generate a policy for all the image, also according to users’ social features.
Identifying the Best-Cost Countries for sourcing SKF's direct materials

Purpose - The purpose of this thesis is to identify best-cost countries for SKF to source Rings, an important group of direct materials used in bearing. This exploration would give the major distinction between two sourcing approaches, best-cost country sourcing and low-cost country sourcing. While low-cost country sourcing focuses on low purchasing price, low labor cost and low material cost, best-cost country sourcing builds the foundation on total cost of ownership and country risk analysis. Methodology - In order to identify best-cost countries, the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods are used. Data was collected from literature, interviews with SKF’s global category managers, SKF internal data as well as external sources of information. Potential countries were recommended by SKF’s global category managers during the interviews. Statistical data of different parameters were collected for these countries. To make the data comparable, all data was converted into one standard scale. This was made by using mean standard deviation and scoring scheme risk analysis. After that a development funnel method was applied to analyze and conclude the best-cost countries. Finding - In this project, the requirements for a country to be chosen as a best-cost country for SKF to source Rings are: (1) country should have low total cost of ownership; (2) the risks connected to sourcing from a country should be low and if they exist, they should be manageable; (3) country should have available materials including steel bars, steel tubes, as well as available forging operation and casting operation to produce Rings, and (4) SKF’s local and regional sourcing strategy should be met. To meet these conditions, the list of different parameters which impact on the selection and evaluation of best-cost countries are provided. Contribution - This thesis contributes to the academic knowledge by providing a framework, a list of requirements and parameters which are important for the selection and evaluation of best-cost country. From the business perspective, this thesis’ finding at country level enables the company to go further into supplier level, to search for and work with potential suppliers in determined best-cost countries. Besides that, methodologies, insights and sources of information provide the baseline and reference from which, the company may expand the project to identify best-cost countries for other categories. Moreover, the know-how given how to select and analyze best-cost country would be helpful within different companies and industries.
Local adaptation and transplant dominance in genets of the marine clonal plant Zostera marina

Worldwide decline of seagrass beds has increased the need for information on potential source populations for recolonization and conservation purposes. The aim of the present study was to test for local adaptation in Zostera marina, the dominant seagrass species of the northern hemi- sphere. To this end, we performed a reciprocal transplant experiment at the level of the genetic indi- vidual (= clone or genet) in 2 Baltic Sea populations for which the clonal structure had been mapped in detail. The treatment effects were tested on aboveground and belowground dry weight of physio- logically independent rhizome fragments of replicated genets at the end of the season. We found that genets from both populations produced more biomass in their home population (local adaptation). Genets from 1 population produced more biomass overall (overall dominance) and the range of cross- site performance indicated a high degree of variability among genets within the 2 populations. Our results provide a first test for local adaptation in established seagrass genets and demonstrate home site advantage of clones that are part of a highly connected system of Z. marina populations along the Baltic Coast.
WHEN THE FEELING OF BEING HUMBLE IS NOT HUMBLE : EXPLORING ( IM ) MODESTY EFFECTS ON LEADERS

The paper shows how leaders’ humility predicts leaders’ balanced processing (a dimension of the authentic leadership construct) and followers’ trust in leaders. Humility was measured through self-reports (n = 53) and informants-reports (n = 53 supervisors; n = 389 peers; n = 162 subordinates). Subordinates described leaders’ balanced processing and trust in leaders. The main findings are: (a) humility as reported by peers and by subordinates are valid predictors of balanced processing, and/or trust; (b) immodest leaders (those who overestimate their humility) adopt less balanced processing and are less trustful. While the “modesty effect” (i.e., the actual humility being inversely related to selfenhancement of humility) is not pervasive in the sample, being an immodest versus a modest leader has consequences for how the leader behaves and relates with followers.
Allocating Resources in Higher Education: Evidence from Private Jordanian Universities

This research studies how universities allocate resources to academic subjects by focusing on the methods usedin these universities. This research aims to explore the methods used to allocate resources; it focuses on thefeatures of the budget and the MoHE format used in these universities. The study employs the questionnaire togather information. Questionnaires were distributed to 131 academic and administrative managers, of whom 77,in five private universities, replied fully. The results assert that planning and resource allocation tends to beincremental rather than dynamic. Moreover, there is a need for more flexibility in the budget centers with anawareness of activities and costs. University objectives and goals are defined only in very broad and ambiguousterms. So far, information sharing and department participation within the universities’ budgets is limited andnot always adequate for efficiency. The budget committee does not include academics in most of theseuniversities, even though it negotiates budgets for academic issues.More accountability of academic departments should be formalized by the monitoring of financial performanceagainst the budget. A move is recommended towards a structured approach to university budgets based ondepartmental responsibility, with clear accountability for the usage of resource allocation, even at the lowestlevels of the hierarchy.
Influence of soluble factors secreted by different types of fibroblasts on differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into retinal pigment epithelial cells.

Background and aims: Due to their unique properties of self-renewal and pluripotency, human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) have the potential to solve the problem of scarcity of tissue donors. Novel cell replacement therapies could be developed for the retinal diseases, which are linked to degeneration of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). Before clinical applications can be developed, an efficient way of differentiating RPE cells from hESCs needs to be optimized. Identifying growth factors that enhance differentiation along the appropriate pathway is an important, yet timeconsuming step in the process of optimization. The aim of this study was to compare the influence of soluble factors secreted by different types of fibroblasts on RPE differentiation. Mouse embryonic fibroblasts (mEFs), human dermal fibroblasts (hDFs) and human foreskin fibroblasts (hFFs) were chosen for this study. Materials and methods: Undifferentiated hESCs were maintained using cell culture media conditioned by the different types of fibroblasts, as well as the unconditioned differentiation medium. The experiment consisted of two phases – the initial differentiation phase, carried out in suspension culture, after which pigmented cells were selected and used to create adherent cultures for the maturation phase. During the initial differentiation phase, extent of differentiation was evaluated visually by following pigmentation patterns, as well as by comparing expression levels of a series of key genes. After the maturation phase, mature monolayers of hESC-derived RPE cells were characterized with respect to expression of key genes and localization of RPE-specific proteins. Finally, an in vitro phagocytosis assay was carried out to assess the functionality of mature RPE cells. In addition, secretion of four growth factors (activin A, bFGF, TGFand PEDF) by each fibroblast type was analyzed. Results and conclusions: Based on the data collected in this study, it is impossible to say whether one of the culture conditions was superior to others, because functional RPE cells with correct localization of key proteins were obtained in each of them. However, the unconditioned differentiation medium was clearly inferior to the media conditioned by fibroblasts. Analysis of growth factor secretion showed that hDFs and mEFs secrete far more activin A than hFFs, while secretion of TGFwas highest in hFFs. Overall, these and other soluble factors secreted by fibroblasts influence RPE differentiation in a complex manner, and more research would be needed to fully understand it.
NEW APPROACH FOR PLAGIARISM DETECTION

The paper proposes a new approach for intrinsic plagiarism detec- tion, based on a new unique method, which enables identifying style changes in a text using novel chronology-based similarity measures. A model for find- ing significant deviations in the style across a given document is constructed aiming to indicate text parts which are suspected to be written by co-authors, or to be devoted to a different thematic, or to be a plagiarism. We consider each segment as "result of the text evolution" provided by its predecessors in the text. Resting upon this evolution standpoint, the metric evaluating dis- similarity between two given segments is introduced, and a text is clustered using this measure aiming to turn out disparity of the text. We also propose a new clustering procedure involving an embedding of data in an Euclidean space with subsequent clustering using the K-means approach. The obtained results demonstrate high ability of the method.
Customer Orientation of Service Employees—Toward a Conceptual Framework of a Key Relationship Marketing Construct

Abstract Although customer orientation is a core element of the marketing concept and is especially crucial to the concept of relationship marketing, no widely accepted conceptualization of the construct exists. In the context of service organizations, the fulfillment of customer needs and wishes by customer-contact employeescan be seen as crucial for gaining a high degree of customer orientation. This paper develops a conceptualization of service employee customer orientation which is presented as a three-dimensional construct, the interrelated dimensions being the employee's motivation to serve customers, his or her customer-oriented skills, and his or her self-perceived decision-making authority. Implications are drawn out for relationship marketing of services organizations and relationship marketing theory.