Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of CropSyst Model to Simulate the Effect of Irrigation and Nitrogen Levels on Clusterbean

An experiment entitled “Evaluation of the CropSyst model to simulate the effect of irrigation and nitrogen levels on clusterbean” was carried out at village Bajju, Bikaner, Rajasthan during kharif season of 2016. The treatment comprising 3 levels of irrigation (100, 200 and 300 mm) and 4 levels of nitrogen (0, 20, 40 and 60 kg N/ha) comprising a total of 12 treatment combinations in split plot design with four replications. The simulation of CropSyst model was utilized to quantify and verify the interactive effect of different irrigation and nitrogen treatments on the productivity of clusterbean using measurements from field experiment. The soil of site are loamy sand having 86.3, 7.8 and 5.9 % of sand, silt and clay, respectively in 0-15 cm soil depth with pH 8.1 and low soil organic matter content (0.13%). The prediction of the model for seed yield and biomass was acceptable with 17.1 and 22.1 % of RMSE which may be considered good prediction by the model. However, the simulated N-uptake was over predicted by model and did not agreed with field measurements with 39.8% RMSE. The soil moisture content at different stages of growth was well simulated by CropSyst. The RMSE of moisture content ranged from 0.0123 to 0.0278 in clusterbean. Original Research Article Mandeewal et al.; IJPSS, 32(15): 24-31, 2020; Article no.IJPSS. 63219 25
Influence of kinesiophobia with pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain at late pregnancy on postpartum depressive symptoms.

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether kinesiophobia with pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain at late pregnancy influenced depressive symptoms at 1 month after delivery. METHOD Final participants were 43 pregnant women who experienced pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain at late pregnancy and completed self-reported questionnaires at late pregnancy and 1 month after delivery. The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia was used to evaluate kinesiophobia, and depressive symptoms were assessed using the Self-Rating Depression Scale. We divided participants into two groups (depression and no-depression) using the score of the Self-Rating Depression Scale at 1 month after delivery. Univariate analysis and multiple logistic regression analysis identified kinesiophobia at late pregnancy as an independent predictor of depression at 1 month after delivery. RESULTS In univariate analysis, kinesiophobia at late pregnancy was significantly higher in the depression group than in the no-depression group (P= .033). In multiple logistic regression analysis, kinesiophobia at late pregnancy were significantly associated with depression at 1 month after delivery even after adjusting for confounding factors (Odds Ratio, 1.25; 95% Confidence Interval, 1.03-1.52). CONCLUSION Results found that kinesiophobia at late pregnancy negatively influenced depressive symptoms at 1 month after delivery, suggesting that approaches to treat kinesiophobia at late pregnancymight reduce the risk of onset of postpartum depressive symptoms.
Improving protein alignment algorithms using amino-acid hydrophobicities - Applications of TMATCH, A new algorithms

Motivation Sequence database search and matching algorithms are an important tool when trying to understand the structure (and so the function) of proteins. Proteins with similar structure and function often have very similar primary structure. There are however many cases where proteins with similar structure have very different primary structures. Substitution matrices (PAM, BLOSUM, Gonnett) can be used to identify proteins of similar structure, but they fail when the sequence similarity falls below about 25%. Results We have described a new algorithm for examining the the primary structure of proteins against a database of known proteins with a new hydrophobicity index. In this paper, we examine the ability of TMATCH to identify proteins of similar structure using sequence matching with the hydrophobicity index. We compare results from TMATCH with those obtained using FASTA and PSI-BLAST. We show that by using similarity patterns spread across the entire length of two proteins we get a more robust indicator of remote relatedness than relying upon high similarity scoring pair regions. Availability The program TMATCH is available on request Contact chitturk@uah.edu
Leaders being challenged to care and confront suffering

Current leadership research proposes that supervisor behavior has a greater effect on employee mental well-being than many other factors (Kelloway et al. 2012, 1; Gilbreath & Benson 2004). Even though there is an increasing recognition of the very nature of humanity and our need to interrelate (Rynes et al. 2012, 507), caring as an organizational leadership perspective has not yet flourished. Kahn (1993, 555) proposes that unless the superiors establish caring connections across the organization, subordinates may withdraw emotionally from one another, creating relationships in which they are regularly disengaged, alienated, and emotionally absent rather that present.
Analysis of Shoreline Changes Before and After the Tsunami at Tanjung Lesung Beach, Banten Province of Indonesia

This study aims to determine the change in the shoreline in Tanjung Lesung Beach, Banten Province of Indonesia. The population in this study was a pixel. This research uses the descriptive quantitative method with a survey approached. Technological advances in remote sensing and GIS can be used to analyze shoreline changes, such as the following research using Landsat 8 satellite image data to measure how much change occurred after the tsunami on Tanjung Lesung Beach, Banten. Data used derived from 2018 to 2019 (from USGS Landsat 8 OLI) to derived the coastline from satellite, land and sea data must be separated using a combination of 6.5,4 bands. Shoreline data digitized and measured using DSAS (digital shoreline analysis system). The extensions of the Arc GIS application will estimate the rate of change in shoreline with two statistical techniques such as End Point Rate (EPR) and Net Shoreline Movement (NSM). Therefore, this study can be used by the government and society for determining development planning, hazard zoning, accretion-abrasion studies and assess the concept of disaster hazards model such as tsunami.
NMPC Strategy for Mobile Robot Navigation in an Unknown Environment

: This work presents a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control strategy for mobile robot navigation in unknown environments. The control system aims to reach a goal safely, as fast as possible, minimizing the control eﬀort, and the distance between the current trajectory and the goal. A LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensor is used to obtain obstacles information as these are approached by the robot. The LIDAR output is then processed to obtain inequality constraints describing a collision-free area. This area is partitioned in convex subregions in order to be used within the proposed NMPC approach to perform path tracking, ensuring obstacle avoidance. Numerical results are provided to corroborate the performance of the system. Resumo
Patients' Perception Towards Tamil Nadu State Hospitals, India.

Now-a-days, hospitals are realising the importance of quality of services delivery to patients in maintaining strategic position in market as service seekers evaluates the hospital on different determinants while choosing one. Paper attempts to determine perception and expectations through SERVQUAL. Analysis revealed there exists significant gap between perception and expectations forcing hospitals to make improvements across all dimensions of service quality for survival.
Defining novel mediators and mechanisms of neural microvasculature permeability

The microvasculature of the nervous system is exceptionally specialised and its restrictive nature implied by its moniker, blood-brain barrier (BBB), with blood-retinal barrier (BRB) relating to the retinal vasculature. The importance of these barriers is evident during disease states where their functionality is compromised, as in diabetic retinopathy (DR). Due to the complexity of circulating and local mediators with signalling potential at these barriers, and the lack of adequate treatment for some disorders with microvasculature disturbances, there is scope for enriching the knowledge base in this area. With DR as a starting point, it was hypothesised that there were factors other than vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) involved in disease progression. It was shown that a bioactive lipid, lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC), enhanced junctional permeability at both the BBB and BRB, doing so via VEGF receptor 2 (VEGFR2) activation thus implicating a transactivation mechanism. It followed that such a mechanism might be involved in the actions of other vascular mediators, bradykinin (BK), lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), thrombin (THR) and TNF-α, and the data shown suggests that this may be the case for more than one of the mediators tested. The former set of data also indicated the presence of transcellular transport across the BBB, the existence of which is highly contested within the literature, and a subsequent aim, investigating the extent of transcytosis for a range of pertinent mediators, was addressed, and for which novel multicellular BBB models were developed and characterised. Finally, in connection with the vesicular process observed for mediators tested, VE-Cadherin (VEC) internalisation, hypothetically to vesicular structures, was tested following ICAM-1 adhesion, as it is key to leukocyte migration via VEC modulation. This cumulative work demonstrates novel roles for LPC-induced permeability, VEGFR2 transactivation by vasoactive stimuli, transcytosis and VEC internalisation at the BBB.
Effects of Brown Rice on Obesity: GENKI Study I (Cross Sectional Epidemiological Study)

Method: A cross sectional study was performed through an individual questionnaire administered to 1100 participants. Their staple food preferences included: polished white rice in 330, partially milled rice in 117, germinated rice in 12, brown rice in 406, Jurokkoku rice in 10, and 205 mixed brown rice and others. Baseline and outcome variables were principally chosen to address the following categories: BMI, dietary habits, lifestyle, and living conditions.
Improvement of the NIRS-930 Cyclotron for Targeted Radionuclide Therapy

In recent years, the production of radionuclides for Targeted Radionuclide Therapy (TRT) with the NIRS-930 cyclotron has been one of the most important activities in National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST, NIRS). In the production of At, for example, a target material with low melting point is irradiated with a high intensity helium ion beam. A vertical beam line has the advantage in irradiation with low-melting-point target. Therefore, a vertical beam line has been modified for the production of radionuclides. This line was used for neutron source with beryllium target. The beam intensity and beam energy are important parameters for the effective production of radionuclides for TRT. In order to increase beam intensity, the acceleration phase and injection energy have been optimized by measuring beam phase. The beam energy has been measured by TOF and adjusted by tuning the acceleration frequency. Those studies and improvement are reported.
Take me on a ride: The role of environmentalist identity for carpooling

Abstract Sharing does not need to involve corporate providers but can also happen on a peer‐to‐peer (P2P) basis. P2P sharing platforms who match private providers and users are thus dealing with two different customer segments. An example of this is carpooling, the sharing of a car journey. Recent years have seen considerable research on why people use sharing services. In contrast, there is little knowledge of why people may offer a good for sharing purposes. Drawing on identity theory, this paper suggests that users and providers of carpooling need to be addressed differently. A pilot study and two studies, including both actual car owners and nonowners confirm that the extent to which one identifies as an environmentalist predicts car owners' willingness to offer carpooling, but does not affect nonowners' willingness to use carpooling services. These findings remain robust when controlling for various potential confounds. Furthermore, Study 2 suggests that an environmentalist identity plays an important role for car owners' actual decision to offer a ride via an online platform. These results suggest that marketers of P2P platforms need to pursue different strategies when addressing potential users and providers on the same platform.
Factor analysis in determining the quality of coal

The separation of coal material of three types of coals originating from three various Polish hard coal mines (types 31, 34.2 and 35, according to Polish nomenclature, which were steam coal, semi-coking coal and coking coal) into particle size fractions and then into particle density fractions was done and then the following parameters were measured for each particle size-density fraction: combustion heat, ash contents, sulfur contents, volatile parts contents, analytic moisture. In this way a 7-dimensional vector of data was created. Using methods of factor analysis the important features of coal were selected, which decide about their membership to individual types. To evaluate the appropriateness of the applied method the Bartlett’s sphericity test as well coefficient of Kaiser-Mayer-Olkin (KMO) were used. To select important factors the Kaiser criterion and Cattell’s scree test were used. The obtained results were compared with the results obtained in previous works by means of observation tunnels method. The results showed which particular features are crucial to define the type of coal what is also important to select appropriate method of its enrichment.
THE POTENTIAL OF DIETHYLHEXYL-PHTHALATE AND GENISTEIN TO INDUCE TESTICULAR CHANGES IN RAT'S OFFSPRING.

Objective To study the effect of diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) alone or in combination with genistein (GEN) on the reproductive system of offspring rats, focus on the induction of reproductive outcomes. Method 180 Wistar rats were divided in 6 groups (30 animals per group): DEHP 250 mg/kg/day group, DEHP 1000 mg/kg/day group, DEHP 2500 mg/kg/day group treated with DEHP 2500 mg/kg/day, DEHP (2500 mg/kg) + GEN (50 mg/kg) group, DEHP (2500 mg/kg) + GEN (500 mg/kg) group and control group treated with the same quantity of corn oil. The differences in sperm quality and reproductive organs were observed. Results After DEHP administration we observed an increase in rat's abestrus, metaestrus and all estrus cycle (P < 0.05), a decrease in rat testicle's organ coefficient and relative energy of testis Sertoli cells and an increase in the early, late and total apoptotic rate of testicular Sertoli cells in a dose dependent manner (P < 0.05). When combine DEHP with GEN the sperm density, sperm quality, the cell activity rate and testis tissue's changes will decrease compared with the group that receive only DEHP in a dose dependent manner. Conclusion DEHP exposure induces cryptorchidism in offspring rats and this is aggravated by adding GEN.
Simple spectral transformations capture the contribution of peripheral processing to cortical responses to natural sounds

Processing in the sensory periphery involves various mechanisms that enable the detection and discrimination of sensory information. Despite their biological complexity, could these processing steps sub-serve a relatively simple transformation of sensory inputs, which are then transmitted to the CNS? Here we explored both biologically-detailed and very simple models of the auditory periphery to find the appropriate input to a phenomenological model of auditory cortical responses to natural sounds. We examined a range of cochlear models, from those involving detailed biophysical characteristics of the cochlea and auditory nerve to very pared-down spectrogram-like approximations of the information processing in these structures. We tested the capacity of these models to predict the time-course of single-unit neural responses recorded in the ferret primary auditory cortex, when combined with a linear non-linear encoding model. We show that a simple model based on a log-spaced, log-scaled power spectrogram with Hill-function compression performs as well as biophysically-detailed models of the cochlea and the auditory nerve. These findings emphasize the value of using appropriate simple models of the periphery when building encoding models of sensory processing in the brain, and imply that the complex properties of the auditory periphery may together result in a simpler than expected functional transformation of the inputs.
Hierarchical fragmentation in high redshift galaxies revealed by hydrodynamical simulations

High-redshift star-forming galaxies have very different morphologies compared to nearby ones. Indeed, they are often dominated by bright star-forming structures of masses up to 108–9 M⊙ dubbed ‘giant clumps’. However, recent observations questioned this result by showing only low-mass structures or no structure at all. We use Adaptative Mesh Refinement hydrodynamical simulations of galaxies with parsec-scale resolution to study the formation of structures inside clumpy high-redshift galaxies. We show that in very gas-rich galaxies star formation occurs in small gas clusters with masses below 107–8 M⊙ that are themselves located inside giant complexes with masses up to 108 and sometimes 109 M⊙. Those massive structures are similar in mass and size to the giant clumps observed in imaging surveys, in particular with the Hubble Space Telescope. Using mock observations of simulated galaxies, we show that at very high resolution with instruments like the Atacama Large Millimeter Array or through gravitational lensing, only low-mass structures are likely to be detected, and their gathering into giant complexes might be missed. This leads to the non-detection of the giant clumps and therefore introduces a bias in the detection of these structures. We show that the simulated giant clumps can be gravitationally bound even when undetected in mocks representative for ALMA observations and HST observations of lensed galaxies. We then compare the top-down fragmentation of an initially warm disc and the bottom-up fragmentation of an initially cold disc to show that the process of formation of the clumps does not impact their physical properties.
CHEMICAL AND SENSORY PROPERTIES OF ANALOGUE RICE PRODUCED FROM MAIZE GRITS AND HIGH QUALITY CASSAVA FLOUR BLENDS

In order to reduce the large quantity of rice imported into Nigeria on a yearly basis, there is the need to get an alternative food that resembles rice to meet domestic requirement and food diversification. This work was therefore designed to determine the chemical, functional and sensory properties of analogue rice (AR C ) produced from five blends of maize grits and high quality cassava flour (HQCF) using standard methods. The sensory qualities and consumer acceptability of the AR C were compared with imported rice. Significant differences (p<0.05) existed between the chemical and functional properties of the AR C and reference samples, though most of the values are within the acceptable levels for rice grain and cassava products . The moisture (3.68% to 5.34%); ash (0.50 to 0.68%); fibre (1.57 to 2.47%) and oil absorption capacity ( 1.75 to 2.00%) values were reducing, while the carbohydrate; (85.18 to 86.12 %); cyanogenic potentials (8.22 to 9.35mgHCN/kg); water (2.50 to 3.10%) and swelling absorption (9.85 to 12.04%) capacities were increasing as the level of HQCF increases. The sensory and consumer acceptability results showed that the AR C from 75% maize grits and 25% HQCF blend was the most preferred.
Adaptive Graph Convolution Using Heat Kernel for Attributed Graph Clustering

Attributed graphs contain a lot of node features and structural relationships, and how to utilize their inherent information sufficiently to improve graph clustering performance has attracted much attention. Although existing advanced methods exploit graph convolution to capture the global structure of an attributed graph and achieve obvious improvements for clustering results, they cannot determine the optimal neighborhood that reflects the relevant information of connected nodes in a graph. To address this limitation, we propose a novel adaptive graph convolution using a heat kernel model for attributed graph clustering (AGCHK), which exploits the similarity among nodes under heat diffusion to flexibly restrict the neighborhood of the center node and enforce the graph smoothness. Additionally, we take the Davies–Bouldin index (DBI) instead of the intra-cluster distance individually as the selection criterion to adaptively determine the order of graph convolution. The clustering results of AGCHK on three benchmark datasets—Cora, Citeseer, and Pubmed—are all more than 1% higher than the current advanced model AGC, and 12% on the Wiki dataset especially, which obtains a state-of-the-art result in the task of attributed graph clustering.
Gambaran Kepuasan Pasien Terhadap Fasilitas dan Pelayanan Keperawatan di Ruang Rawat Inap RSUD Andi Djemma Masamba Kabupaten Luwu Utara

Kepuasan pasien adalah indikator pertama dari rumah sakit dan ukuran mutu pelayanan. Kepuasan pasien yang rendah berdampak terhadap jumlah kunjungan di rumah sakit, sedangkan fasilitas dan pelayanan keperawatan yang diberikan oleh pihak rumah sakit terhadap pasien juga akan berdampak terhadap kepuasan pasien, dimana kebutuhan pasien dari waktu ke waktu akan meningkat, begitu pula tuntutannya akan fasilitas dan pelayanan keperawatan yang diberikan. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui gambaran kepuasan pasien terhadap fasilitas dan pelayanan keperawatan di ruang rawat inap di RSUD Andi Djemma Masamba. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan sejak tanggal 08 Juni – 23 Juni 2013 dengan jumlah sampel sebanyak 40 responden. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah penelitian deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa sebanyak 34 responden (85,0%) menyatakan puas dengan fasilitas yang diberikan dan 6 responden (15,0%) menyatakan tidak puas terhadap fasilitas. Sedangkan untuk pelayanan keperawatan, 30 responden (75,0%) menyatakan puas dan 10 responden (25,0%) menyatakan tidak puas. Dari penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa kepuasan pasien rawat inap berdasarkan fasilitas dan pelayanan keperawatan yang diberikan, lebih banyak yang menyatakan puas daripada yang tidak puas. Saran bagi rumah sakit yaitu hasil penelitian ini dapat digunakan sebagai masukan dan informasi bagi pengelola rumah sakit untuk meningkatkan fasilitas dan pelayanan keperawatannya.
Novel biomarkers for the monitoring of chronic heart failure

s 2016 Novel biomarkers in assessing outcome in patients with severe aortic stenosis and heart failure Cai A, Dworakowski R, Sunderland N, Piper SE, Jegard N, Gibbs T, Redding S, Wendler O, Byrne J, MacCarthy P, McDonagh TA Poster Presentation. British Cardiovascular Society Conference, Manchester 2015 Acute heart failure: where did we go wrong? Shoaib A, Piper S, John J, Oliver R, Wong K, Rigby A, Hardman S, Clark AL, McDonagh T, Cleland JG Poster Presentation. British Cardiovascular Society Conference, Manchester