Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PRESERVATION OF GINGER (Zingiber officainale Roscoe) THROUGH TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE

Tissue culture is a practice that is used to propogate plants from cells or tissue under sterile conditions. Ginger is a herb with white /yellow flowers, dark green leaves and a thick root. It is a medicinal plant used in ayurvedic medicine. Many products are manufactured from ginger i.e. dehydrated ginger, spices, ginger oil and oil resins etc. An attempt has been made to preserve different endangered varieties of ginger through tissue culture technique. Samples of endangered varieties were collected and different media of varying composition were used to preserve and culture them. The study suggests that Benzyl Amino Purine (BAP) containing medium is good for preserving different ginger varieties. The cultured varieties were able to micropropagate and showed very good bud initiation and shoot/root proliferation. These plants show 90 % survival and regeneration. This technique is helpful for the preservation of ginger and could be a step towards preserving endangered plant species.
Embedded System Development for MultipleFault Diagnosis of Induction Motor

With the proliferation of advanced technologies in signal processing, spectrum estimation of AC machines has lead to the accurate and precise identification of different faults. The popular machine in most of the industrial applications is a squirrel cage induction motor and failures of such significant motors may have severe consequences such as product quality, ageing, safety, and costs. Most of the condition monitoring techniques in induction motors generally involve with single and specific fault identification. This paper proposes a novel investigation technique for optimized identification of two or more combined faults of an induction motor. The contribution of this paper is a methodology that suits for hardware development, which integrates induction motor data with cRIO system to identify the faults such as broken rotor bars, vibration effects (eccentricities), leakage flux condition and stator current status. To ensure the performance response of proposed methodology, tests are conducted on a 2 kW induction motor in a laboratory, which show highly satisfactory results that prove its suitability for on-line detection of single and multiple combined faults in a flexible way through its hardware implementation in a field programmable gate array (FPGA) environment.
Near-infrared chemical imaging for quantitative analysis of chlorpheniramine maleate and distribution homogeneity assessment in pharmaceutical formulations

Near infrared chemical imaging (NIR-CI) combines conventional near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy with chemical imaging, thus provides spectral and spatial information simultaneously. It could be utilized to visualize the spatial distribution of the ingredients in a sample. The data acquired using NIR-CI instrument are hyperspectral data cube (hypercube) containing thousands of spectra. Chemometric methodologies are necessary to transform spectral information into chemical information. Partial least squares (PLS) method was performed to extract chemical information of chlorpheniramine maleate in pharmaceutical formulations. A series of samples which consisted of different CPM concentrations (w/w) were compressed and hypercube data were measured. The spectra extracted from the hypercube were used to establish the PLS model of CPM. The results of the model were Rval2 0.981, RMSEC 0.384%, RMSECV 0.483%, RMSEP 0.631%, indicating that this model was reliable.
Is IRAS 01072+4954 a True-Seyfert 2? - Hints from near-infrared integral field spectroscopy

In contrast to the predictions of the unified model, some X-ray unobscured Seyfert 2 galaxies have been discovered in the last decade. One of them, the starburst/Seyfert composite galaxy IRAS 01072+4954 (z = 0.0236), has a typical Type-1 X-ray emission, while its optical spectrum resembles an Hii galaxy and lacks the expected broad lines. We performed near-infrared integral-field observations of this object with the aim to determine the nature of its nuclear emission and to find indications for the existence or absence of a broad-line region. Several reasons have been proposed to explain this peculiar emission. We studied the validity of these hypotheses, including the possibility for this galaxy to be a True-Seyfert 2. We found little obscuration toward the nucleus AV = 2. 5m ag, and �
Relative magnitudes of sources of uncertainty in assessing climate change impacts on water supply security for the southern Adelaide water supply system

The sources of uncertainty in projecting the impacts of climate change on runoff are increasingly well recognized; however, translating these uncertainties to urban water security has received less attention in the literature. Furthermore, runoff cannot be used as a surrogate for water supply security when studying the impacts of climate change due to the nonlinear transformations in modeling water supply and the effects of additional uncertainties, such as demand. Consequently, this study presents a scenario‐based sensitivity analysis to qualitatively rank the relative contributions of major sources of uncertainty in projecting the impacts of climate change on water supply security through time. This can then be used by water authorities to guide water planning and management decisions. The southern system of Adelaide, South Australia, is used to illustrate the methodology for which water supply system reliability is examined across six greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions scenarios, seven general circulation models, six demand projections, and 1000 stochastic rainfall time series. Results indicate the order of the relative contributions of uncertainty changes through time; however, demand is always the greatest source of uncertainty and GHG emissions scenarios the least. In general, reliability decreases over the planning horizon, illustrating the need for additional water sources or demand mitigation, while increasing uncertainty with time suggests flexible management is required to ensure future supply security with minimum regret.
Deconstructing a colonial legacy: An analysis of Indian secondary education policy

The Indian secondary education system has, since independence in 1947, strived to transform in terms of policy but failed to transcend in practice the challenges presented by the colonial legacy it inherited. This study draws on Hodgson and Spours (2006) analytical policy framework to critically examine three key Indian secondary education policy initiatives: the Mudaliar Commission Report (1952-1953); the Kothari Commission Report (1964 -1966); and the Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012-2017). The objectives of this study are to develop an insight into how three policy constructions of knowledge and intervention endeavor to: 1) impact access, governance, pedagogical approaches, curriculum reform and; 2) deepen an understanding of how this interplays with the challenges of inclusivity, equality, quality, equity, achievement and progression in Indian secondary education provision.
Newton-Product Integration for a Stefan Problem with Kinetics

Stefan problem with kinetics is reduced to a system of nonlinear Volterra integral equations of second kind and Newton's method is applied to linearize it. Product integration solution of the linear form is found and sufficient conditions for convergence of the numerical method are given. An example is provided to illustrated the applicability of the method.
To Explore the Effect of Predictive Nursing in the Prevention of Postoperative Depression in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease

Objective: To analyze the effect of predictive nursing intervention on anxiety and depression in patients with coronary heart disease after interventional therapy and to summarize nursing experience. Methods: From May 2015 to November 2016, 106 patients with coronary heart disease were treated with interventional therapy. According to the nursing methods, 53 cases were selected and the control group was treated with traditional routine nursing. Routine nursing + predictive nursing intervention, SAS and SDS assessment scale were used to evaluate the anxiety and depression status of the two groups. The improvement of psychological problems after nursing was analyzed and the incidence of complications was compared. Results: After intervention, the scores of SAS and SDS were decreased, but the observation group decreased more significantly than the control group, the improvement trend was prominent, the quality of life was significantly improved and the incidence of complications was lower (P <0.05). Conclusion: The use of predictive nursing for patients with coronary heart disease after interventional therapy in patients with psychological disorders can be effective targeted intervention, greatly improve the patient's anxiety, depression and other psychological state, and the psychological state of the current abnormalities were not given preventive intervention. Preventive measures should be taken to prevent postoperative adverse events, improve the prognosis, the effect is indeed worthy of promotion.
Technological competition, economic performance and strategic behaviour of international firms

This paper analyses the relationship between R&D rivalry, spillovers and productivity at the firm level. A particular attention is put on the way technological spillovers are formalised. The analysis is based upon a data set composed of 625 world-wide R&D-intensive manufacturing firms whose information has been collected for the period 1987-1994. Given the panel data structure of the sample, econometric techniques which deal with both firm's unobserved heterogeneity and weak exogeneity of the right hand-side variables are implemented. The R&D reaction patterns for the main R&D-intensive industries show that if firms are to different degrees sensitive to what competitors allocate to their activities, the behaviours are not homogeneous across industries and among countries. The empirical results give clue that spillover effects influence significantly firm's productivity. Nevertheless the effects differ substantially among the pillars of the Triad. The United States are mainly sensitive to their national stock of spillovers while Japan appears to draw from the international stock. On its side, Europe shows some pains to internalise spillovers.
EFFICIENCY OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN MALAYSIA

This study investigates the change in the productivity of banking industry during the period of 2000 to 2004. The data consists of a panel of 11 commercial banks in Malaysia namely Malayan Banking, Bumiputra-Commerce, Public Bank, RHB Bank, Hong Leong Berhad, EON Bank, Affin Bank, Southern Bank Berhad, Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad (BIMB), Ambank and Bank Muamalat. Productivity is measured by the Malmquist index, using a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique. The Malmquist productivity measures are decomposed into two components: efficiency change and technical change index. Efficiency change is again decomposed into pure efficiency and scale efficiency. Overall, the results show that Total Factor Productivity (TFP) has slightly increased for the whole industry in which efficiency change is found to be the most important source of productivity growth to Malaysia's banking industry as compared to technical component that contributes a negative change to the overall TFP growth. In this case, the scale efficiency is found to be a more important source of efficiency change than pure efficiency component. This implies that the size does matter in improving bank efficiency. Negative growth of technical efficiency indicates a great potential for the industry to increase productivity through higher utilization of technology as well as technological knowledge dispersion. Continuous training programs to familiarize and improve technical expertise appear to offer better prospects for Malaysia's banking industry to achieve greater TFP growth.
Strategic CSR, Spillovers, and First-Mover Advantage

In this paper we study the conditions under which socially responsible firms can develop a first-mover advantage. We consider a price-setting duopoly market with vertically and horizontally differentiated products, where firms can engage in socially responsible activities and thereby increase the willingness to pay of consumers of their products. It is shown that a CSR leader, i.e. a firm which commits to a level of socially responsible activities prior to its competitor, achieves higher profits. Hence, a first mover advantage arises. If however, the outcomes of investments in CSR are not perfectly specific to the CSR leader, i.e. they spill over to the CSR follower, then a second mover advantage arises for the CSR follower. We characterize the effects of competition and the level of spillovers on the relative and absolute level of CSR activities and the incentive to engage in CSR and thereby derive testable hypotheses.
Were abrupt Lateglacial and early-Holocene climatic changes in northwest Europe linked to freshwater outbursts to the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans?

During the Lateglacial and early Holocene, abrupt, millennial-scale climatic variations are recorded in a wide range of high-resolution proxy records from marine and terrestrial archives in NW Europe. Our review of the evidence for these rapid climate events do not show an apparent link to possible forcing factors such as long-term, orbitally induced variations in solar radiation, short-term variations in solar activity as inferred from 14C, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, or volcanic sulphate as recorded in the GISP2 ice-core record. There is, however, a remarkable degree of similarity with the number, duration and timing of episodes of increased flux of fresh water to the north Atlantic and Arctic Oceans from the Laurentide ice sheet and from the Baltic ice lake in SW Sweden. These freshwater outburst events occurred when continental runoff from the Laurentide ice sheet was rerouted from the Mississippi River to the Hudson River, St Lawrence River, Hudson Strait and along the Mackenzie River to the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, and when the Baltic ice lake in SW Sweden drained to Skagerrak. Periods of increased freshwater flow to the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans may thus provide a mechanism to explain the abrupt and significant Lateglacial and early Holocene climate events in NW Europe. The idea that freshwater outbursts might drive abrupt climate events is not new, but previous work may have underestimated the extent of support from proxy data and overestimated the influence of the Laurentide ice sheet.
A NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF COALESCENCE BETWEEN CYLINDRICAL HOLES

A sequential digital image technique was employed to detect the onset of coalescence between pairs of holes in tensile specimens. The coalescence event was induced between cylindrical holes that were positioned with various spacing and ligament orientations. Using finite-element analysis as a framework, the coalescence predictions of a classic micromechanical model were compared with the experimental coalescence results. It was found that the predicted strains at coalescence could be significantly improved by accounting for local work-hardening in the ligament region between the two holes. Digital image correlation was used to extract strain values from the digital image record, for both the far-field and the intervoid ligament.
Isolation and characterization of salt stable protease producing archaea from marine solar saltern of Mulund, Mumbai

An efficient halophilic thermostable alkaline protease producing haloarchaea (APP 15JQ307199.1) was isolated from marine solar salterns of Mulund (E) (1910’12’’N, 7257’18’’E) Mumbai. Stability of crude enzyme was determined with different organic solvents. The enzyme stability observed at high temperature, high NaCl concentration and alkaline pH paved a way to use the enzyme in diverse applications.
Numerical Analysis of Drops Coalescence and Breakage Effects on De-Oiling Hydrocyclone Performance

This work investigated the effects of breakage and coalescence on de-oiling hydrocyclone performance utilizing Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). It was found that an increase in the entrance flow rate with low entrance oil concentration not only did not increase the separation performance of the hydrocyclone but it also decreased the separation efficiency. On the contrary, the hydrocyclone performance was enhanced with increasing the inlet velocity. Furthermore, a comparison between the standard design and the conical inlet chamber design was drawn in terms of separation efficiency for low entrance oil concentration; the results depicted that the conical design had higher separation efficiency.
IDENTIFICATION OF CONSTANT PARAMETERS IN PERTURBED SINE-GORDON EQUATIONS

We study the identiflcation problems of constant pa- rameters appearing in the perturbed sine-Gordon equation with the Neumann boundary condition. The existence of optimal parame- ters is proved, and necessary conditions are established for several types of observations by utilizing quadratic optimal control theory due to Lions (13).
A method to consider Non-Discretionary factors in Data Envelopment Analysis

The technique for efficiency measurement known as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been extended to allow on-discretionary inputs that affect production. Several methods exist for measuring efficiency to control these factors in production. This paper review these approaches, providing a discussion of strengths and weaknesses and highlighting potential limitations. In addition, a new approach is developed that overcomes existing weaknesses and it is based on relative importance. To facilitate comparison, a numerical example is used. The results show that the new approach improve existing models and performs relatively well.
A comparison of the fatty acid composition of the phospholipid and neutral lipid of Unio elongatulus (Bourguignat, 1860) (Bivalvia: Unionidae) mussels from 4 different localities in southeastern Anatolia, Turkey

The quantitative and qualitative fatty acid compositions of phospholipid and neutral lipid were investigated and compared for specimens of the freshwater mussel Unio elongatulus. Samples were collected from 4 different localities in Turkey: Cagcag Brook in Nusaybin (Mardin), Fabrika Brook in Cinar (Diyarbakir), the Tigris River under the Sadi Bridge (Diyarbakir), and Kirkcesme Spring in Sultankoy (Mardin). Phospholipids and neutral lipids of the mussels' whole tissues were fractionated by thin layer chromatography (TLC) and fatty acid analyses were done by gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Both in the phospholipid and neutral lipid fractions, C16:0 (17.20%-22.17%), C16:1w7 (9.21%-15.31%), C18:1w 9 (12.21%-23.12%), C18:2w 6 (12.12%-16.10%), and C20:4w 6 (5.86%-13.10%) acids were found to predominate. The percentage of C20:4w 6 acid, a precursor of eicosanoids, was shown to be high in the phospholipid fractions. In the neutral lipids, total monounsaturated fatty acids (SMUFA) levels were determined to be higher than total saturated fatty acids (SSFA) and total polyunsaturated fatty acids (SPUFA) levels. In the phospholipid total, however, SPUFA levels were noted to be higher than SMUFA and SSFA levels. As is characteristic of freshwater mussels, Sw 6/Sw 3 ratios were found to be high in all lipid fractions.
The ergonomics interventions evaluation. A study based on usability

ISO 9241-11 and ISO 13407 are recognized as important standards related to usability. ISO 9241-11 suggests that usability measures should cover: effectiveness (the ability of users to complete tasks using the system, and the quality of the output of those tasks), efficiency (the level of resource consumed in performing tasks) and users’ satisfaction (subjective perception when using the product, process or system). Based on these basic knowledge on usability concept the article aims to describe a proposed methodology for the global assessments of the ergonomics interventions in the case of industrial system. The research scenario consists in a survey based on a developed questionnaire that evaluate the ergonomics interventions, in terms of usability. In addition, the results of an experimental research demonstrate the testing and validation of the proposed approach. The method could be seen as an ergonomics continuous improvement one.
Validation of the Brief Questionnaire to Assess Habitual Beverage Intake (BEVQ-15) For Spanish Population

Background and objective: Translate, cultural adaptation and validation of the questionnaire “Beverage Intake Questionnaire-15” (BEVQ-15) (validated in Virginia by Valisa E Hedrick) for use in the Spanish population. Design a tool that allows comparisons of changes in fluid intake. Subjects and Methods: Translation and cultural adaptation was performed later recruit a sample of 512 people (average age of 48.25 years), which was presented two self-administrable questionnaires: the BEVQ-15 and food consumption. The latter used as Gold Standard. Results: The reliability analysis showed good agreement between the first and second observation BEVQ-15 (IIC = 0’962), with Kappa range of 0’823 to 0’929 values. Conclusion: The questionnaire translated and adapted version BEVQ-15 is a reliable, consistent and valid for assessing fluid intake in the Spanish population instrument.
Comparing galaxy formation in semi-analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations

It is now possible for hydrodynamical simulations to reproduce a representative galaxy population. Accordingly, it is timely to assess critically some of the assumptions of traditional semi-analytic galaxy formation models. We use the EAGLE simulations to assess assumptions built into the GALFORM semi-analytic model, focusing on those relating to baryon cycling, angular momentum and feedback. We show that the assumption in GALFORM that newly formed stars have the same specific angular momentum as the total disc leads to a significant overestimate of the total stellar specific angular momentum of disc galaxies. In EAGLE, stars form preferentially out of low-specific angular momentum gas in the interstellar medium due to the assumed gas density threshold for stars to form, leading to more realistic galaxy sizes. We find that stellar mass assembly is similar between GALFORM and EAGLE but that the evolution of gas properties is different, with various indications that the rate of baryon cycling in EAGLE is slower than is assumed in GALFORM. Finally, by matching individual galaxies between EAGLE and GALFORM, we find that an artificial dependence of active galactic nucleus feedback and gas infall rates on halo mass-doubling events in GALFORM drives most of the scatter in stellar mass between individual objects. Put together our results suggest that the GALFORM semi-analytic model can be significantly improved in light of recent advances.