Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Toxicological Effects Of Aqueous Extract Of Anogeissus Leiocarpus Leaf, Carica Papaya Leaf, And Mangifera Indica Stem Bark (A Herbal Product Used Against Typhoid Fever) On Albino Rats.

The effects of various concentrations of aqueous extract of Anogeissus leoicarpus (marke) leaf, Carica papaya (pawpaw) leaf and Mangifera indica (mango) stem barks on some biochemical parameters, haematological parameters and histopathology were investigated in albino rats. The LD 50 could not be calculated as no death was recorded even at a high dose of 5000 mg/kg. Phytochemical analysis of the plants' materials showed the presence of resins, alkaloids, saponins, tannins, glycosides and flavonoids in marke. No glycosides in mango and no tannins in pawpaw. The biochemical and haematological values revealed no statistical significant difference (p < 0.05) between the control groups and the groups fed with the crude plants' extracts. The results, therefore, strongly suggest that these aqueous plants' extracts are safe for oral consumption as they appear not to be hepatotoxic in rats, rather the animals increased in weight and had improved haematological values. The findings are of nutritional, clinical and veterinary relevance considering the diverse applications of these plants in most populations. (V.N Chidozie and G.I Adoga. Toxicological Effects Of Aqueous Extract Of Anogeissus Leiocarpus Leaf, Carica Papaya Leaf, And Mangifera Indica Stem Bark (A Herbal Product Used Against Typhoid Fever) On Albino Rats. Cancer Biology 2014;4(4):26-34). (ISSN: 2150-1041). http://www.cancerbio. net . 4
Simulation of key performance characteristics under uncertainty

Abstract The engineering designer frequently has to deal with multiple uncertainties, especially at the early design stages or when working on products for which the body of knowledge is incomplete. Wash performance of dishwashers is one such case. This paper demonstrates the application of the design for system integrity (DSI) methodology to create a model to help to predict wash performance. This is a complex problem because of the diverse uncertainties: stochastic, epistemic, and abstraction. The DSI model embodied the belief that two principal mechanisms contribute to wash performance: the effectiveness of soil removal, and the effectiveness of the rinse process (i.e. lack of re-deposition of soil). The model was calibrated against wash data from a known machine and then predicted the wash performance of a different brand of machine with qualitative differences in geometry. The results show that it is possible to develop models for highly uncertain systems, and this has important implications for early engineering design among other domains. Being able to simulate performance under considerable uncertainty, even if imperfectly, is potentially an important tool for the early design stages as it could indicate, firstly, promising design avenues and, secondly, the risk in the design and the degree to which design issues have been resolved.
Introgression, tagging and expression of a leaf senescence gene in Festulolium

summary A mutation of a gene (discovered in Festuca pratensis Huds. and designated sidy) confers indefinite greenness on senescing leaves. Via intergeneric hybrids with Lolium multiflorum L. and Lolium perenne L. , the mutant gene (sidy) has been introgressed into a range of Lolium backgrounds. Using genomic in situ hybridization we have identified segments carrying sidy in recombinant chromosomes of Lolium–Festuca introgression lines. We also used L. perenne lines segregating 1:1 for the staygreen character to tag the gene with molecular markers. In two mapping populations a total of 84 genotypes were screened with isoenzymes, RAPD primers, RFLP probes and AFLP primer pairs. Over 180 polymorphic loci were identified, representing 10 linkage groups spanning 600 cM. Two AFLP markers are linked to sid at 4.6 and 14.9 cM, close enough to be usable for marker-assisted selection. Introgression of sidy into Lolium temulentum L. resulted in the production of near-isogenic inbreeding lines suitable for comparative studies of gene expression. Using a variation of the method of representational difference analysis a very small number of cDNAs have been identified as promising candidates for sid, or genes directly regulated by sid.
Effect of Calcium Compounds Obtained from Fish Processing By-Product on Calcium Metabolism in Rats

Fish frame is a main solid by-product of the frozen fish processing. It is normally used for fish meal production because low value. Proximate analysis of the bigeye snapper frame revealed content of 54.95% protein and 31.41% ash (dry basis). The frame was attached with muscle tissue for 41.5% of total weight. It was removed by boiling the frame in lactic acid solution (5% w/w) at 85 C for 15 min. The muscle free-bone was burned with the heating rate of 10 C/min and sintered at 1300 C for 0, 1, 2 or 3 hours. This heating processing reduced about 30% of the frame weigth. Evaluation of morphologic of calcium compound by using X-ray diffractometer (XRD) revealed the existence of calcium hydroxyapatite and whitlockite phase. The sintering at 1300 C did not cause significant effect on the XRD patterns. Calcium compound derived from sintering the frame at 1300C for 1 hour was supplement to 4 groups of male Wistar rats receive 0, 11, 22, or 44 mg Ca/day for 7 weeks. Supplementation of calcium increased mean body weight of rats whereas a 9% loss of mean body weight of control group was observed. Absorption and retention rate of the supplemented calcium were increased significantly (p<0.05) with increasing of the calcium intake. Femur weight of rats was increased by increasing amount of calcium supplement with respect to that of the control rats. Abnormal trabecular conformation was noticed in the control rats whereas thicken and narrowed inter-trabecular spaces were observed in the calcium supplement groups. The results thus revealed that Wistar rat could be use the sintered calcium compound for bone normal development.
On beampattern design for beamspace music

The problem of beamforming and related beamspace high resolution direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is studied in this paper. All beamspace processing methods are based on the beam outputs and the beampattern design plays an important role in providing high quality beam output data for further processing. Three typical situations which are frequently encountered in practical sonar system working environment and the most widely studied MUSIC algorithm are considered herein. First, when isotropic noise is the dominant noise at sensors, conventional beamforming techniques provide the optimum performance in the sense that DOA estimate is the ML estimate. Good DOA estimates are obtainable by applying MUSIC to the beam outputs directly. Then, uncorrelated interferes with much higher strength than the wanted signals are assumed to be present in the sidelobe region, and low sidelobe Dolph-Chebyshev and adaptive MVDR beampatterns are designed to guarantee the performance of MUSIC. And finally, the robustness of conventional techniques is combined with the adaptivity of MVDR beamforming to deal with the situation when the interfere in the sidelobe region is strongly correlated with one of the wanted sources. Performance in all three situations is studied with numerical examples.
DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT SELECTION OF LARGEMOUTH BASS IN A FLORIDA LIMEROCK PIT

of Thesis presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT SELECTION OF LARGEMOUTH BASS IN A FLORIDA LIMEROCK PIT By Troy M. Thompson, Jr. Chairperson: Dr. Charles E. Cichra Major Department: Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Radio telemetry was used to determine the distribution and habitat selection of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) in a north-central Florida lake from 18 April 2002 to 1 May 2003 so that management recommendations that would increase angler catch rates could be made. The study site (Kirkpatrick Lake, Alachua County, Florida) is a steep-sided, 7-ha flooded limerock quarry, and is composed of six conjoined subbasins. Twelve largemouth bass were internally implanted with radio transmitters (of no more than 18% of the total length of the fish) and tracked. Over the course of the study, the number of fish tracked was reduced to five as transmitters failed or ceased movement. Pelagic areas were selected over littoral areas during the summer and fall/winter periods (p = 0.022). Only one fish utilized littoral areas more than pelagic areas during this period. In the spring (February through April), habitat use switched; littoral areas seemed to be selected over pelagic areas for four of five fish based on the preference values. However, no significance was found because of the low number of replicates
TalkBank and CLARIN

TalkBank promotes the use of corpora, web-based access, multimedia linkage, and human language technology (HLT) for the study of spoken language interactions in a variety of discourse types across many languages, involving children, second language learners, bilinguals, people with language disorders, and classroom learners. Integration of these materials within CLARIN provides open access to access a large amount of research data, as well as a test bed for the development of new computational methods.
Genome-wide association study and functional analysis of infectious and horn type hoof lesions in Canadian Holstein cattle

The objectives of this study were to perform a genome-wide association study and a functional analysis to unravel genomic regions associated with hoof lesions and potential key regulator genes affecting the resistance to infectious and horn lesions in Canadian Holstein cattle. A total of 249,709 observations from 105,450 animals were recorded by 51 hoof trimmers during the trimming activity in 1,080 Canadian herds from 2009 to 2016. For horn lesions, a total of 51 20-adjacent-SNP moving windows explained more than 0.30% of the genetic variance and these most important peaks were observed on chromosomes BTA1, BTA5, BTA6, BTA9, BTA15, BTA16, BTA20, BTA21, BTA25, and BTA28. For infectious lesions, the six most important windows (>0.30%) were observed on chromosomes BTA2, BTA3, BTA10, and BTA14. The highest peaks were observed in BTA10 (0.47%) and BTA5 (1.23%) for infectious and horn lesions, respectively.
AN APPRAISAL OF THE IMPACT OF CREDIT POLICY ON INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT IN NIGERIA

This paper accuses the impact of credit policy on industrial output in Nigeria for the period between 1980-2012 Ordinary least squared method was used to estimate the parameters. The study revealed that deposit money bank, credit has a positive and significant relationship with industrial performance in Nigeria. It was also found that interest rate has a positive and insignificant relationship with Industrial output performance. The paper recommended that there is need for proper financial market development, and financial market deregulation. That would enable the sector to function properly and rising up to the challenge of building a strong, virile and competitive sector that would be able to meet the demand and supply of credit facility.
Authoritarian and Democratic Technics

"DEMOCRACY" IS A term now confused and sophisticated by indiscriminate use, and often treated with patronizing contempt. Can we agree, no matter how far we might diverge at a later point, that the spinal principle of democracy is to place what is common to all men above that which any organization, institution, or group may claim for itself? This is not to deny the claims of superior natural endowment, specialized knowledge, technical skill, or institutional organization: all these may, by democratic permission, play a useful role in the human economy. But democracy consists in giving final authority to the whole, rather than the part; and only living human beings, as such, are an authentic expression of the whole, whether acting alone or with the help of others. Around this central principle clusters a group of related ideas and practices with a long foreground in history, though they are not always present, or present in equal amounts, in all societies. Among these items are communal self-government, free communication as between equals, unimpeded access to the common store of knowledge, protection against arbitrary external controls, and a sense of individual moral responsibility for behavior that affects the whole community. All living organisms are in some degree autonomous, in that they follow a lifepattern of their own; but in man this autonomy is an essential condition for his further development. We surrender some of our autonomy when ill or crippled: but to surrender it every day on every occasion would be to turn life itself into a chronic illness. The best
Performance Analysis of Modular MultilevelConverter (MMC) with Continuous andDiscontinuous Pulse Width Modulation(PWM)

Modular structured multilevel inverter is very attractive in high voltage and high power applications. This inverter has a few advantages. First, by using a multilevel structure, the stress on each switching device can be reduced MMC can handle higher voltage without using an expensive and bulky step-up transformer in various application. This paper offers a performance comparison of various multicarrier continuous and discontinuous pulse width modulations (PWM) Techniques for the control of the modular multilevel converter (MMC). Selection of the carrier frequency and the multi-carrier PWM method is an important design question for the MMC topology. The paper makes an effort to apply some continuous and discontinuous modulating of MMC this comprehensive simulation has been done in MATLAB.
Temperature-dependent tunneling electroresistance in Pt/BaTiO3/SrRuO3 ferroelectric tunnel junctions

Tunneling electroresistance of Pt/BaTiO3/SrRuO3 ferroelectric tunnel junctions is investigated as a function of temperature. Two distinct resistance states that are dependent on polarization direction in the BaTiO3 barrier layer and bipolar resistance switching are observed at various temperatures from 10 to 290 K. The ON/OFF current ratio of Pt/BaTiO3/SrRuO3 tunnel junctions increases monotonically with decreasing temperature above 50 K and saturates below 50 K. The enhanced tunneling electroresistance at low temperatures can be ascribed to the suppression of thermally assisted indirect tunneling, which is less sensitive to the polarization reversal of BaTiO3 compared to the direct tunneling.
The Effect of Value Added Intellectual Coefficient on Firms' performance: Evidence from Jordanian Industrial Sector

This study aimed to investigate the effect of intellectual capital measured by value added intellectual coefficient (VAIC) and its components on the firms' performance, based on a sample of 20 Jordanian industrial company contribution during the period 2009-2014. The study used two measures of performance; namely, return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE), while independent variables included VAIC and its components; human capital efficiency (HCE), structural capital efficiency (SCE) capital employed efficiency (CEE), in addition to the firm size and leverage ratio. The results showed that there is a positive and significant effect of VAIC, HCE and CEE on ROA and ROE, while SCE have no effect on the performance of Jordanian industrial companies. The study recommended the need to address the intellectual capital intensively to be one of the most important considerations in the company. Key words : intellectual capital, value added intellectual, return on assets, return on equity, , structural capital efficiency,
Storage temperature affects fruit quality attributes of Ber ( Ziziphus mauritiana Lamk.) in Zimbabwe

Fruit utilization is affected by quality attributes and shelf life. The quality of Jujube or Ber (Ziziphus mauritiana Lamk.) fruits after harvest depends on storage conditions used. In this study, different storage temperatures and durations were evaluated to determine the appropriate storage conditions of fresh fruits of Z. mauritiana. Three storage temperature levels, low (5oC), intermediate (15oC) and ambient (22oC) were evaluated at 3, 6, 9 and 12 weeks storage durations. Fruits stored at low temperature lost only 48% of their weight during the entire 12 week storage period while the fruits stored in the ambient and intermediate temperature ranges lost 70 and 75% of weight, respectively. At three weeks of storage, more than 40% of fruits had shrivelled under the ambient and intermediate storage temperatures compared to only 3% under the low storage temperature. It is concluded that cold storage condition can prolong the shelf life of Z. mauritiana fruits.
ON THE LABOUR MARKET BWP – 2015 / 3 Evaluating the impact of a well-targeted wage subsidy using administrative data

The paper measures the impact of a wage subsidy for long term unemployed workers, using a large administrative dataset from Hungary. While such subsidies are often promoted as an efficient way to speed up the recovery of the economy or to increase demand for low skilled workers, existing evidence on their employment effects is somewhat inconclusive, especially in the case of transition economies. We examine employment outcomes in various model specifications. Results show a significant impact for men aged over 50, which is driven by the subgroup of those with lower secondary education. The subsidy for jobseekers with at least secondary education and aged over 50 is cost effective for men. We also present some evidence that this is not merely caused by substitution across various sub-groups of jobseekers.
An assessment of business intelligence in public hospitals

In this paper, DeLone and McLean's information systems success model is empirically tested on 12 public hospitals in Denmark. The study aims to investigate the factors that contribute to business intelligence (BI) success. 1,352 BI endusers answered the questionnaire. A partial least square structural equation model was used to empirically test the model. We find that system quality is positively and significantly associated with use and user satisfaction, and that information quality is positively and significantly associated with user satisfaction. User satisfaction is positively and significantly related to individual impact. The other paths in the model are insignificant. Our findings also provide empirical support for the role of user satisfaction as a mechanism that mediates the relationship between information quality or system quality and individual impact. User satisfaction is not only a critical construct in the information systems success model but it also serves as a mediator. Generally, the model finds empirical support, as it has a good fit and predictive value.
Group Decision Making with Uncertain Outcomes : Unpacking Child-Parent Choices of High School Tracks ∗

Predicting group decisions with uncertain outcomes involves the empirically difficult task of disentangling individual decision makers’ beliefs and preferences over outcomes’ states from the group’s decision rule. This paper addresses the problem within the context of a consequential family decision concerning the high school track of adolescent children in presence of curricular stratification. The paper combines novel data on children’s and parents’ probabilistic beliefs, their stated choice preferences, and families’ decision rules with standard data on actual choices to estimate a simple model of curriculum choice featuring both uncertainty and heterogeneous cooperative-type decisions. The model’s estimates are used to quantify the impact on curriculum enrollment of policies affecting family members’ expectations via “awareness” campaigns, publication of education statistics, and changes in curricular specialization and standards. The latter exercise reveals that identity of policy recipients–whether children, parents, or both–matters for enrollment response, and underlines the importance of incorporating information on decision makers’ beliefs and decision rules when evaluating policies. [JEL codes: C25, C35, C50, C71, C81, C83, D19, D81, D84, I29, J24. ] [
Dual-Band Omnidirectional Circularly Polarized Patch Antenna with Etched Slots and Shorting Vias

A dual-band omnidirectional circularly polarized (CP) patch antenna with conical radiation patterns is presented in this paper. The antenna consists of a patch with inclined slots, a ground plane with L-shaped slots and a coaxial probe. In addition, by loading shorting vias between the patch and the ground plane, the vertical polarizations of the proposed antenna at TM01 and TM02 modes can be obtained. Two sets of slots etched on the ground and the patch contribute to the horizontal polarizations for the two modes, respectively. Omnidirectional CP fields can be achieved at both resonant modes when the two orthogonal polarizations are equal in amplitude and different in phase by 90◦. To verify the design, a prototype operating at 2.4 GHz WLAN and 3.5 GHz WiMAX bands has been fabricated and measured. The measured average axial ratios (ARs) at two resonant modes in the azimuth plane are 1.1 and 1.5 dB, respectively. Experimental results show good agreement with the simulated data.
Concurrency testing using symbolic path finder

Concurrent programs have specific features such as italic communication, synchronization and nondeterministic behavior that make the testing activity complex. The objective is to find various types of concurrent defects. In this paper, we have used a model checking tool called Symbolic Path Finder (SPF) which is the upgradation of Java Path Finder (JPF) for concurrent testing. SPF is used for generating the test cases to check concurrent defects such as deadlock, race condition etc. SPF generates symbolic execution tree of the given code which is used as an input for test case generation. The execution is done for finding the test cases in concurrent program where number of threads is operating together with the concurrent defects. The test cases show the type of concurrent defects in the respective line number of the source code.
Geographic Information Retrieval using Query Aware Document Ranking Method Case Study for Surakarta

This paper discusses the development of a Geographic Information Retrieval for Surakarta City in Indonesia. Surakarta City was chosen as the location of the place in the system because Surakarta got an award for the best tourist spot in Indonesia. In this case, Geographic Information Retrieval is a system that can handle geographic data by analyzing existing text data and generate output that can be used as decision-making on problems related to geographical. The method used in processing the information is Query Aware Document Ranking. The purpose of using this method is to provide relevant results such as output answer, answer’s images and coordinates of the answer.