Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Facilitating Change for Climate-Smart Agriculture through Science-Policy Engagement

Climate change impacts on agriculture have become evident, and threaten the achievement of global food security. On the other hand, the agricultural sector itself is a cause of climate change, and if actions are not taken, the sector might impede the achievement of global climate goals. Science-policy engagement efforts are crucial to ensure that scientific findings from agricultural research for development inform actions of governments, private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international development partners, accelerating progress toward global goals. However, knowledge gaps on what works limit progress. In this paper, we analyzed 34 case studies of science-policy engagement efforts, drawn from six years of agricultural research for development efforts around climate-smart agriculture by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Based on lessons derived from these case studies, we critically assessed and refined the program theory of the CCAFS program, leading to a revised and improved program theory for science-policy engagement for agriculture research for development under climate change. This program theory offers a pragmatic pathway to enhance credibility, salience and legitimacy of research, which relies on engagement (participatory and demand-driven research processes), evidence (building scientific credibility while adopting an opportunistic and flexible approach) and outreach (effective communication and capacity building).
Networks and export performance of agri-food firms: New evidence linking micro and macro determinants

Th e paper complements a new line of research that includes the fi rm heterogeneity in trade models. Th e central idea of this research is that only the largest and most effi cient fi rms are capable of exporting. However, the empirical evidence has confi rmed that a large number of SMEs is also involved in internationalisation. Given this context, the aim of the paper is to analyse the infl uence of collaborative networks between fi rms and institutions as an alternative mechanism to the small size of the majority of the fi rms in the agri-food industry. To this end, there was used a longitudinal panel between 1994 and 2012 comprising a sample of 342 Spanish fi rms involved in the business sectors of the food, meat, drink and tobacco industries, and a dynamic Heckman-Probit model was implemented. Th e fi rst stage studies the positive infl uence of collaborative networks in fi rms’ decision to export and the second stage analyses the eff ect of cooperation mechanisms on export intensity. Th e results show a positive eff ect of business cooperation networks in both stages suggesting that SMEs can overcome the barrier of their small size in their internationalisation process through other mechanisms, such as collaborative networks.
A Model Predicting Short Term Severity of IgA Vasculitis in Adults

Background: Predictors of short term severity of adult immunoglobulin A vasculitis (IgAV) are unknown. We aimed to determine clinical features predicting the severity of acute adult IgAV and thus to aid the management of adult IgAV in daily practice. Methods: Medical records of adult, histologically proven IgAV cases, diagnosed between 01.01. 2010 and 30.06. 2016 at our secondary/tertiary rheumatology centre were reviewed. The disease activity was assessed using Birmingham vasculitis activity score-3. Renal disease was defined severe when nephrotic syndrome or nephritic syndrome with acute renal failure developed. Gastrointestinal (GI) disease was severe in case of bloody diarrhoea, ileus or bowel perforation. Results: During the 78-month observation period, we identified 184 new IgAV cases (57.1% male; 43.5% ever smokers). Skin, GI, renal and joint involvement were present in 184 (generalized purpura above the waist in 47.8%), 63 (severe in 16), 88 (severe in 23), and 81 patients, respectively. Four patients died during acute disease due to vasculitis. Patients with generalized skin lesions had more commonly GI tract, severe GI tract, and kidney involvement. Current smoking was strongly associated with severity of kidney disease. In logistic regression and classification tree model the history of new onset abdominal pain or the presence of generalized purpura in ever smoker emerged as the best predictors of severe GI or renal disease. Conclusions: Based on clinical characteristics only, the presence of abdominal pain, purpura above the waist and smoking history, seem to be good predictors of short term severity of adult IgAV.
Energy and Environmental Efficiency of China’s Transportation Sector: A Multidirectional Analysis Approach

With the rapid economic development, the transportation sector becomes one of the high-energy-consumption and high-CO2-emissions sectors in China. In order to ensure efficient use of energy and to reduce CO2 pollution, it is important to gain the best performance standards in China’s transportation sector. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been accepted as a popular tool of efficiency measurement. However, previous studies based on DEA are mainly restricted to the radial expansions of outputs or radial contractions of inputs. In this paper, we present a nonradial DEA model with multidirectional efficiency analysis (MEA) involving undesirable outputs for the measurement of regional energy and environmental efficiency of China’s transportation sector during the period 2006–2010. We not only evaluate the energy and environmental efficiency level and trend of China’s transportation sector but also investigate the efficiency patterns of 30 regions and three major areas of China. Additionally, we identify the energy saving potential and CO2 emissions reduction potential for each province and area in China in this study.
Basidiomycetes at the timberline in Lapland. 4. Postia lateritia n. sp. and its rust-coloured relatives

The taxonomy of the ? ostia fragilis group (polypores, Basidiomycetes) is revised and three species are recognized in North Europe: P.fragilis (Fr.) Jiil. , P. leucomallella (Murr.) Jiil. and P. lateritia Renvall n. sp. The species are described and illustrated, and the Finnish distributions are mapped. The first two species are widespread in Europe and in North America. P. lateritia is a saprotrophic polypore here reported from Finland, Sweden and Canada. It is associated with a brown rot and has been found almost exclusively on decorticated windfalls of Pinus sylvestris L. in old forests of coniferous trees. A neotype is selected for Polyporus fragilis Fr. and the status of the genus ? ostia Fr. is reviewed and it is considered to be validly published; the genus Oligo porus Bref. is accepted in a restricted sense to comprise species which have short and often cyanophilous spores and which tend to produce chlamydospores. The new combination ? ostia septentrionalis (Vampola) Renvall is proposed and the identity of Leptoporus lowei Pihit (Oligoporus lowei (Pilat) Gilb. & Ryv. ) is discussed.
Improved Client Outcome Services Project: An Intervention with Non-Benefiting Clients of Problem Gambling Treatment

A recent review of psychological and pharmacological treatments for pathological gambling revealed a paucity of evidence for their effectiveness (Oakley-Browne, Adams, & Mobber-ley, 2000). Data from a national client database in New Zealand suggest that up to a quar-ter of clients (depending on the measure used) have not benefited from treatment (Paton-Simpson, Gruys, & Hannifin, 2003). Clearly, there is a need for a treatment program to address the particular requirements of this group. This paper documents the development and piloting of a multimodal program for clients who have not previously benefited from program-gambling treatments. The program employed a composite approach of education and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. To the authors’ knowledge, there is no published evaluative research on the use of this approach with problem gamblers. The intervention was trialled in three treatment centres within New Zealand. Results indicate that the inter-vention positively affected several measures of gambling behaviour and self-reported well-being.
Relative Mirror Symmetry and Ramifications of a Formula for Gromov-Witten Invariants

For a toric Del Pezzo surface S, a new instance of mirror symmetry, said relative, is introduced and developed. On the A-model, this relative mirror symmetry conjecture concerns genus 0 relative Gromov-Witten of maximal tangency of S. These correspond, on the B-model, to relative periods of the mirror to S. Furthermore, for S not necessarily toric, two conjectures for BPS state counts are related. It is proven that the integrality of BPS state counts of the total space of the canonical bundle on S implies the integrality for the relative BPS state counts of S. Finally, a prediction of homological mirror symmetry for the open complement is explored. The B-model prediction is calculated in all cases and matches the known A-model computation for the projective plane.
Multiple parameter optimization for the maximization of hydrogen production by Enterobacter cloacae DM11

The study deals with the optimization of multiple operational parameters to maximize H 2 production using Enterobacter cloacae DM11 grown on MYG (malt extract-yeast extract-glucose) medium in a batch system. A three-factor Box-Behnken factorial design followed by regression analysis and study of contour plots was employed for experimental design and analysis of results. Independent variables (process parameters) were: Inoculum age (5, 10 and 15 h); Initial glucose concentration in growth medium (0.8, 1.0 and 1.2 % w/v); and Initial pH of the growth medium (4, 6 and 8). Dependent variable was amount of H 2 (in millimoles) produced in 10 h. Optimum values for inoculum age, initial glucose concentration and initial pH were found to be 12.96 h, 1.06 % (w/v) and 6.06, respectively.
Preparation of microgel composite hydrogels by polymer post-crosslinking method

A novel post-crosslinking method by heating the composite polymer with dispersed reactive microgels was used to prepare microgel composite (MC) hydrogels. This MC hydrogels were crosslinked by reactive microgels instead of tra- ditional crosslinkers. The reactive microgels contained hydroxymethyl groups, which acted as post-crosslinkers. They were prepared by inverse emulsion polymerization. The formed MC hydrogels at appropriate conditions had high equilibrium swelling ratio and excellent mechanical properties. The heating conditions and the polymer water content influenced the hydrogel properties. For MC hydrogels prepared by direct heating the as-prepared composite polymers with 75% water content, their properties were influenced by heating conditions. When the heating conditions were 90°C for 4 h, the MC hydrogel had a tensile strength of 32 kPa and a high elongation of 960%. In addition, for MC hydrogels prepared by heating the partly evaporated composite polymers, their properties can be adjusted by the polymer water content. Appropriate reduction of the polymer water content was beneficial to improve the mechanical strength of the MC hydrogels. The appro- priate polymer water content was important to prepare MC hydrogels with excellent mechanical properties. When the com- posite polymer with 50% water content was heated at 90°C for 3 h, the MC hydrogel had high tensile strength of 130 kPa and high tensile elongation of 503%.
Phase sensitive distributed vibration sensing based on ultraweak fiber Bragg grating array using double-pulse

A distributed vibration sensing technique using double-optical-pulse based on phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (φ-OTDR) and an ultraweak fiber Bragg grating (UWFBG) array is proposed for the first time. The single-mode sensing fiber is integrated with the UWFBG array that has uniform spatial interval and ultraweak reflectivity. The relatively high reflectivity of the UWFBG, compared with the Rayleigh scattering, gains a high signal-to-noise ratio for the signal, which can make the system achieve the maximum detectable frequency limited by the round-trip time of the probe pulse in fiber. A corresponding experimental φ-OTDR system with a 4.5 km sensing fiber integrated with the UWFBG array was setup for the evaluation of the system performance. Distributed vibration sensing is successfully realized with spatial resolution of 50 m. The sensing range of the vibration frequency can cover from 3 Hz to 9 kHz.
Testing the Week Form Efficiency of Pakistani Stock Market (2000-2010)

This empirical paper tests out the weak form efficiency of Pakistani stock market by examining the weekly KSE ? 100 index over the period 2000 ? 2010 . Return series has a leptokurtic and negatively skewed distribution, which is away from normal distribution as reflected by significant Jarque-Bera statistic. Estimated results of ADF (1979), PP (1988) and KPSS (1992) tests, Ljung-Box Q-Statistic of autocorrelations and runs test of randomness reject the Random Walk Hypothesis (RWH) for the returns series. Moreover the results of variance ratio test (Lo and MacKinlay (1988)) also reject the RWH and prove the robustness of other estimated results. The rejection of RWH reveals that the Pakistani stock prices are not Weak Form Efficient.
Pathogenicity and antibiotic susceptibility of two bacterial pathogens associated with the clam Tapes decussatus in some Egyptian fisheries

Bivalve aquaculture is generally influenced by bacterial pathogens that cause high mortality-related losses in hatcheries. Six bacterial phenotypes had been previously isolated as the most predominant microorganisms in carpet shell clam (Tapes decussates) samples collected from natural beds in representative Egyptian clam fisheries. The main aims of this study were to investigate the nature of the pathogenic strains that significantly affect clam survival and test their susceptibility to commercially available antibiotics. Based on their 16S rRNA sequences and some biochemical features, two potent clam pathogens were emerged; one of which is gram-positive and the other is gram-negative. The former isolate was identified as Micrococcus luteus and the latter as Vibrio alginolyticus. Experimental challenges with the two bacterial pathogens introduced at different initial cell concentrations (2.5 X 104 7.5 X 104 cfu ml-1) showed markedly diverse clam mortality results. However, the pathogenic interaction of M. luteus with clam survival was generally higher than that of V. alginolyticus. When introduced at a relatively low initial cell density, the infectious records of V. alginolyticus were significantly increased suggesting that the expression of its key virulence factors is mainly triggered as a response to host contact. Antibiotic susceptibility tests suggested chloramphenicol and tetracycline as markedly effective agents that can be used to control the spread of these two bacterial pathogens in aquaculture applications.
The Regional Spillover Effects of the Tohoku Earthquake

In this paper, we trace out how a decline in industrial production in one region can be propagated throughout a country. We use the model to measure how a shock to industrial production in Tohoku—owing to the earthquake and tsunami from 2011—can be propagated throughout Japan. In our econometric model, regions and industries within regions are linked by specific structures, and these structures discipline how the shocks are spatially propagated.
Detecting binary neutron star systems with spin in advanced gravitational-wave detectors

The detection of gravitational waves from binary neutron stars is a major goal of the gravitational-wave observatories Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Previous searches for binary neutron stars with LIGO and Virgo neglected the component stars' angular momentum (spin). We demonstrate that neglecting spin in matched-filter searches causes advanced detectors to lose more than 3% of the possible signal-to-noise ratio for 59% (6%) of sources, assuming that neutron star dimensionless spins, $c\mathbf{J}/GM^2$, are uniformly distributed with magnitudes between 0 and 0.4 (0.05) and that the neutron stars have isotropically distributed spin orientations. We present a new method for constructing template banks for gravitational wave searches for systems with spin. We present a new metric in a parameter space in which the template placement metric is globally flat. This new method can create template banks of signals with non-zero spins that are (anti-)aligned with the orbital angular momentum. We show that this search loses more than 3% of the maximium signal-to-noise for only 9% (0.2%) of BNS sources with dimensionless spins between 0 and 0.4 (0.05) and isotropic spin orientations. Use of this template bank will prevent selection bias in gravitational-wave searches and allow a more accurate exploration of the distribution of spins in binary neutron stars.
Intricacies of Secured Multi-Biometric System

The Multi-biometrics system is designed as a measure for security purposes to recognize individuals using all available features. It is a thrilling research domain carried out to boost the security level of a country or of an organization. The integration of muti-modal biometrics in real time application resolves the limitations of the uni-modal applications. Although, the design and assessment of the multi-biometrics systems raises much issues, this paper tends to unravel the clumsiness and trade-offs in its applications, the benefits of fusion level, integration strategies and check to spoofing. In conclusion, a thorough reviewing of multi-modal secured biometrics techniques and approaches was carried out to ensure data identification integrity. Some points were suggested for consideration as subjects of interest for future research.
Correlation between transport and occurrence of dengue cases in Bahia

Dengue is a public health problem that presents complexity in its dissemination. The physical means of spreading and the dynamics of the spread between the municipalities need to be analyzed to guide effective public policies to combat this problem. This study shows a correlation between the exponent of Criticality present in Self-Organized Criticality (SOC) and the number of buses per week, identifying municipalities that exert important roles in the spread of dengue in Bahia, confirming transport as a physical means for the diffusion of dengue. Keywords-dengue; correlation; transport; self-organized criticality; SOC; randomization; Bahia
Liability Insurance as Tort Regulation: Six Ways that Liability Insurance Shapes Tort Law in Action

Leaving aside difficult to interpret doctrinal developments, such as the abrogation of traditional immunities, liability insurance has at least the following six impacts on tort law in action. First, for claims against all but the wealthiest individuals and organizations, liability insurance is a de facto element of tort liability. Second, liability insurance limits are a de facto cap on tort damages. Third, tort claims are shaped to match the available liability insurance, with the result that liability insurance policy exclusions become de facto limits on tort liability. Fourth, liability insurance makes lawsuits against ordinary individuals and small organizations into repeat player lawsuits on the defense side, making tort law in action less focused on the fault of individual defendants and more focused on managing aggregate costs. Fifth, liability insurance personnel transform complex tort rules into simple rules of thumb, also with the result that tort law in action is less concerned with the fault of individual defendants than tort law on the books. Sixth, negotiations over the boundaries of liability insurance coverage (which appears nowhere in tort law on the books) drive tort law in action.
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INTRODUCTION Sports have been manifested with big importance on the national scene, since the end of the ninetieth century, by the soccer, and during the twentieth century, with other kinds of sport, like basketball, volleyball, futsal and handball (BALBINO, 2005). To Bizzochi (2000), the team training is configured in a pedagogic activity. The coach should have knowledge in several areas to develop the teaching/learning process, and, to do so, should be based on a moral groundwork, with pedagogic responsibility and justice principles. The same author considers that directing a team is not limited to the manner you conduct it in a game, since the team occupies every moment, since the beginning of the season. Bizzochi (2000) comments it is necessary that the coach be aware about how much its behavior affects the players attitudes, having the courage to set new methods that promote a better apprehension and a better moral formation. To Araújo (1997), “being a coach” means having a constant interest for scientific, pedagogic and cultural innovation and the permanent refuse of subservient acts. He also says that “being a coach” requires a general and specific culture, enabling critic interventions, reflecting on the desired development of the national sport. Araújo (1997) comments that the professional sport demands a position from the coaches, not only about the big sense of global responsibilities, but to admit, with no hesitations, that what we represent and produce in the socio sportive aspect, has deep consequences over the general sportive development. Marques (2001) highlights that the coach is, nowadays, more than an athlete companion; although the term coach only started to be seen as career recently, there is an evident evolution of the sport as an “entertainement” to the sport as a “profession”. The high competition coach is different, because it is a difficult activity; a diary pressure exercise; an instable and precarious occupation, and, in Brazil, called generically as a teacher. Thus, the coach action would undergo an appreciation of the abilities development and the relationship with the athletes, stressing not only the victory. To make the relationship with the athletes and their collaborators even closer, some aspects are crucial for the coach to achieve its goals. Becker Jr. (2000) states that the knowledge, the verbal and non verbal communication, the active listening, the communicative ability to the athlete, discipline and leadership style should be characteristics of the coach.
Townhouse residents’ use of interior products in the social zones of their homes as a demonstration of their need for uniqueness

Town houses or cluster homes refer to housing developments where the exterior facade of adjacent units are architecturally identical or very similar. A pertinent disadvantage of this type of tenure is that residents are not allowed to alter the exterior of their homes to reflect personal differences. This study focussed on the probability that residents in these type of townhouses would make intentional effort to demonstrate their uniqueness through counter-conforming choice of interior objects for the social areas of their homes where guests are received and entertained. The study involved 182 respondents who lived in townhouses in a major urban area in South Africa who were recruited through convenient snowball sampling. Findings indicate that townhouse residents' interior product decisions are predominantly of a creative counter conformity nature which is the safer alternative than avoidance of similarity or unpopular choice counter-conformity practices that might evoke criticism from peers or reference groups. Interior product choices are therefore predominantly cautious and aimed to evoke the admiration of others rather than critique. A positive outcome of this study in terms of future research is confirmation of the usefulness of the measuring instrument, which was originally developed for clothing research. Findings are insightful for property developers, interior designers, interior decorators and retailers in terms of consumer facilitation and the appropriate marketing of interior products.