Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
BEHAVIOUR OF THE SOUR-SWEET CHERRY HYBRID 20-192 AFTER TREATMENT WITH SOIL HERBICIDES UNDER IN VITRO CONDITIONS

RANKOVA, Z. , L. NACHEVA, A. ZHIVONDOV and P. GERCHEVA, 2015. Behaviour of the sour-sweet cherry hybrid 20-192 after treatment with soil herbicides under in vitro conditions. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 21: 1194–1197 The experiment was carried out at the Laboratory of Biotechnology within the Fruit-Growing Institute – Plovdiv with in vitro propagated and rooted plants of the newly bred rootstock for sweet and sour cherry 20-192. The interspecific hybrid No. 20-192 (Prunus cerasus L.× Prunus avium L.) was introduced into culture and propagated in vitro in MS nutrient medium (Murashige and Skoog, 1962) supplemented with BAP и IBA. Root-formation was established after about 20 days. Treatment with herbicides was carried out under in vitro conditions 35 days after culturing in the rooting medium when the rootlets reached a length of about 2 cm. The effect of the soil herbicides napropamid (Devrinol 4F), pendimethalin (Stomp 33 EC) and oxyfluorfen + metolachlor (Metofen), each of them applied at three different doses, was studied with the aim of developing a system of rapid preliminary screening. The results obtained showed that after treatment with the soil herbicides napropamid and pendimethalin under in vitro conditions, visual symptoms of phytotoxicity and growth suppression were not observed in the plants of the vegetative rootstock 20-192. Strong phytotoxicity expressed in necrosis and dying of the plants was observed after treatment with high doses of Metofen. The studied herbicides did not exert a depressing effect on stem growth at the doses used. After treatment with high doses of napropamid, plant growth suppression was established, expressed in a lower mean weight of a plant.
Internet Financial Reporting and Company Characteristics: a Case of Quoted Companies in Nigeria

This study was conducted to analyze the ability of Nigerian listed companies to communicate financial information via the internet. The result shows that 80.8% of listed companies in Nigeria have websites while 19.2% did not have websites or their websites was not accessible. The financial sector has the highest number of companies (55) with official websites while the manufacturing sector has the highest number of companies (14) without official websites. The result of the regression analysis shows that company size (log of total assets) and industrial sector have significant association with internet financial reporting (IFR) index. However, profitability, auditor type and company age were not found to be significant explanatory variables for IFR index. Key words: Internet Financial Reporting, Company Characteristics, Nigerian Listed Companies
An Integrated Framework for the Critical Success Factors and Incubator Performance in Nigeria

The aim of the research was to review the extent to which adaptation moderates the relationships among the various critical success factors (CSFs) and incubator performance within the Nigerian context. The research was conducted in order to conceptualize a unified model for the CSFs and incubator performance. As a conceptual paper, the study delved into an in-depth review of the literature. The outcome of the review showed that the CSFs are the antecedents of incubator performance. The contribution of the study is buttressed by the inclusion of a third variable called moderator (adaptation). The moderator was introduced for the reason of inconsistency between the CSFs and Incubator performance. It was recommended amongst others that the business incubator theory and model from developed countries should not just be applied directly by the developing countries like Nigeria; local context adaptation needs to be integrated to the foreign technology in order to suit the country’s technological needs.
Single-Entity-Single-Relation Question Answering with Minimal Annotation

We present a novel bag-of-words based approach that automatically constructs a semantic parsing based question answering (QA) system tailored to single-entity-single-relation questions. Given a large community QA pair corpus and a knowledge base, our approach uses knowledge base entries to supervise relation extraction from the corpus, reduces noise in the extracted data via unsupervised clustering, and learns to identify each relation’s question patterns. We implement the approach on a large Chinese corpus with little annotation, which we believe is one of the first of its kind. Experiments show that our implementation manages to answer questions in test cases independent of the corpus with relatively high accuracy and to avoid answering questions beyond its scope, achieving a high accuracy on answered questions.
Syntactic Ambiguity of Arabic Prepositional Phrase Attachment in Saudi Newspaper Headlines

In this article, an attempt is made to analyze syntactic ambiguity in a specific register, i.e. newspaper headlines. As a form of media text, newspaper has a significant role in society as it presents various local, national and international events and information. In order to attract readers' attention, journalists may tend to form headlines to be ambiguous and confusing so that readers become curious to read the whole report. This article addresses the issue of syntactic ambiguity caused by prepositional phrase (PP) attachment in newspaper headlines by analyzing examples of such headlines. After investigating the ambiguity of the headlines, an attention was directed to PP attachment preferences by examining the type of headlines (VP-NP-PP and NP1-NP2-PP structure). The main results were that NP attachment was generally preferred over VP attachment and NP1 attachment was notably favored over NP2 attachment.
In Vitro Biocompatibility of Silicone Oil Siluron Xtra® on Porcine Retina in a Perfusion Culture System

Purpose: To examine the biocompatibility of Siluron Xtra® (Fluoron, Ulm, Germany), a silicone oil used as a vitreous substitute in vitreo-retinal surgery on porcine retinal tissue in vitro. Methods: Retinal tissue of 37 porcine eyes was immediately prepared post mortem and placed into Minucell perfusion systems (Minucell, Bad Abbach, Germany) to be perfused with liquid culture medium over a period of 4-8 days. 23 retinal tissue samples including retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) were covered by silicone oil (group 1) during the perfusion and compared to a control group of 7 samples (group 2) without silicone oil. Group 3 included 7 single RPE tissues without retinal tissue layer in direct contact with silicone oil, thus imitating a retinal tear, during the perfusion. The morphology of the retina and RPE was examined by light microscopy and stained with immunohistochemical markers to determine Muller cell damage in the retina with Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and proliferation in the RPE with Ki67. Results: Ki67 staining showed significantly less proliferation in the tissue covered by silicone oil (group 1) compared to the control samples in group 2 (p=0.001). Direct contact of silicone oil and RPE (group 3) showed no significant increase in proliferation compared to the controls (p=1). GFAP staining also did not show any significant Muller cell damage related to Siluron Xtra® (p=0.9). No structural changes in the retinal tissue were observed related to silicone oil by HE staining. Conclusion: The results of our in vitro examination verified good structural biocompatibility of silicone oil (Siluron Xtra®) on porcine retina and RPE in vitro. Furthermore, silicone oil may exert a protective layer preventing proliferation on retinal tissue. Further examination of other silicone oils and alternative vitreous substitutes, such as gas and water are necessary to determine the protective advantage of Siluron Xtra® on retinal tissue proliferation.
An Overview of Various Techniques to Improve Receive Diversity in MIMO OFDM

MIMO-OFDM system has been currently recognized as one of the most competitive technology for 4G mobile wireless systems. Techniques such as use of multiple antennas can be utilized in order to obtain a multiplexing gain, a diversity gain, or an antenna gain, thus enhancing the throughput (in terms of capacity) or bit rate, the error performance, or the signal-to-noise ratio of wireless systems, respectively. In this paper various receive combing techniques such as MRC, EGC and SC for enhancement of diversity have been discussed. Receive combining techniques with LDPC codes enhance the performance of overall system by providing coding gain. Overview of Alamouti’s STBC along with maximum likelihood (ML) decoding algorithms also discussed. Keywords—Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), low density parity check (LDPC) codes, space time block code (STBC), maximal ration combining (MRC), selection combining (SC), equal gain combining (EGC).
A Novel Dual-Band MIMO Antenna with Lower Correlation Coefficient

This paper demonstrates a novel dual-band operated MIMO antenna which consisted of planar monopole (main antenna) and 3D slot element (auxiliary antenna). The main antenna is printed on a 1.6 mm thick FR4 board, while the auxiliary antenna is fabricated with gold-coated copper. A lumped impedance network is applied to enhance matching effect at port1. From simulations by commercial software, it can be found that the proposed antenna is able to cover GSM800, GSM900 (lower band), and LTE/ WiMAX/WLAN (higher band) quite well. Good agreements between simulations and measurements are obtained. Corresponding measured results, antenna efficiency, peak gain, and radiation patterns, are presented at the same time. By equipping a passive decoupling element, the coupling power on the ground is radiated into free space, and great enhancement of isolation between antenna elements, especially for lower band, is achieved.
Emotion vs. deliberation in helping: a two-step model of donating decisions

Emotions are influential in determining individuals to donate to charitable causes. However, emotions could interfere with the later decision to whom to allocate the donation resources by making people more likely to donate to a few individual victims instead of many statistical ones. Nevertheless, rationality could direct the allocation decision on the right way (i.e., by donating to statistical victims instead of determined victims). This paper investigated the role of emotional vs. deliberative information processing mode in decision-making in helping situations. In two studies, it was examined whether information processing mode (either emotional or rational) influenced participants' donation decisions. Information processing was manipulated by using both a mindset and conceptual prime (Study 1) or only a mindset prime (Study 2). The results yielded, similarly to Dickert, Sagara, and Slovic (2011), that an emotional processing mode increased people's tendency to donate to charity and also the amount donated (Study 1; Step 1). Furthermore, a rational processing mode determined people to choose the most normatively correct (i.e., from an utilitarian point of view) alternative, that is, to allocate the donation to a greater number of statistical victims instead of a lesser number of determined victims (Study 2; Step 2). The potential beneficial and disruptive implications for both emotions and rationality are discussed in line of a more complete two-step model of donating decisions, where Step 1 refers to the decision to donate or not donate and how much and Step 2 involves the decision to whom to allocate the donations.
A Link of Intellectual Capital Performance with Corporate Performance: Comparative Study from Banking Sector in Pakistan

The aim of this study is to investigate the Intellectual Capital (IC) performance and its impact on financial performance of banking sector in Pakistan for the period of 2010. Intellectual Capital performance is measured by a well renowned approach Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAIC™) and its impact on financial returns of banks is analyzed through predictive analysis. VAIC™ has three major components Human Capital Efficiency (HCE), Structural Capital Efficiency (SCE) and Capital Employed Efficiency (CEE). The empirical results reveal that Human Capital Efficiency (HCE) has substantive positive relationship with financial performance (ROE and ROA) at (P <0.05), Structural Capital Efficiency (SCE) with financial performance (ROE and ROA) at (P<0.05) and Capital Employed Efficiency (CEE) with financial performance (ROE) at (P<0.01). This study also suggests that Value added (VA) efficiency has significant and positive relation with (ROE and EPS) at (P<0.01) and (P<0.05) respectively where as VAIC™ also has a positive and significant relationship with (ROE) at (P<0.01). Keyword: Intellectual Capital (IC), Human Capital Efficiency (HCE), Structural Capital Efficiency (SCE), Capital Employed Efficiency (CEE), VAIC™, ROE, ROA, EPS, Banks, Pakistan.
Size distributions and chemical characterization of water-soluble organic aerosols over the western North Pacific in summer

[1] Size-segregated aerosol samples were collected over the western North Pacific in summer 2008 to investigate marine biological contribution to organic aerosols. The samples were analyzed for organic carbon (OC), water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC), and water-soluble organic compounds including diacids (C2–C9), ω-oxocarboxylic acids, and α-dicarbonyls as well as methanesulfonic acid (MSA). The average concentrations of OC and oxalic acid (C2) were approximately two to three times larger in marine biologically more influenced aerosols, defined by the concentrations of MSA and azelaic acid (C9), than in less influenced aerosols. WSOC, which showed a statistically significant correlation with MSA, accounted for 15–21% of total mass of the components determined in the submicrometer range of biologically more influenced aerosols. These values are comparable to those of water-insoluble organic carbon (WIOC) (∼14–23%), suggesting that organic aerosols in this region are enriched in secondary organic aerosols (SOA) linked to oceanic biological activity. In these aerosols, substantial fractions of C2–C4 diacids were found in the submicrometer size range. Positive correlations of oxalic acid with C3–C5 diacids and glyoxylic acid suggest that secondary production of oxalic acid occurs possibly in the aqueous aerosol phase via the oxidation of longer-chain diacids and glyoxylic acid in the oceanic region with higher biological productivity. We found similar concentration levels and size distributions of methylglyoxal between the two types of aerosols, suggesting that formation of oxalic acid via the oxidation of methylglyoxal from marine isoprene is insignificant in the study region.
Risk management reconceived: reconciling economic rationality with behavioural tendencies

Risk management practices as described in many leading texts feel counterintuitive to many practitioners and are frequently ignored, despite their being evidently logical and potentially valuable. Such practices are often conceived as a remedial post-planning, audit activity. This paper proposes an approach for dealing with project uncertainty and risk, grounded in economics and taking into account behavioural biases and heuristics. The proposed approach is argued to be an enhancement to conventional risk management practices and one that can serve organisations better while also aligning to experienced practitioners’ intuitive approaches. In particular, we argue: that the focus should be on adding economic value rather than reducing risk per se; that opportunity gain/loss is a superior metric for gauging potential impacts of risky events; and that creation of real options should be emphasised as part of the repertoire of generic response actions to risk. The approach also supports the integration and handling of uncertainty and risk as part of holistic project planning and control.
A Comparative Study on the Biofilm Formation of Enterobacter Agglomerans and Serretia Rubideae in Different Environmental Parameter under Single Culture Condition

The biofilm formation by two opportunistic pathogens Enterobacter agglomerans and Serretia rubideae on different environmental parameter under single culture condition was compared. Biofilm clone formation unit (CFU) counting revealed that the number of Enterobacter was larger than Serretia after 24-h incubation. Consistent with this result, measurement of crystal violet staining of bacteria attached on the test tubes showed that the absorbance at 600 nm enhanced 2 times in Enterobacter than Serretia under optimum growth condition. Experiments with different environmental conditions such as incubation period, temperature, pH, NaCl concentration (aw) and medium ingredient contents for both organisms were carried out in Luria Bertani (LB) broth. The results indicated that Enterobacter grew well at 37? C after 24 h but Serretia grew well at 27? C after 48-h and 0.5% NaCl concentration was found optimum for both. On the other hand, 0.5% medium content and pH 5 was found optimum for Enterobacter whereas 2% medium content and pH 7 for Serretia.
Shared Memory in Design Complexity

This paper discusses the idea of how collaborative learning might help designers with the rapid learning required in the increasingly complex environments they work in. It has been proposed that innovation that drive technological advancement happens through evolutionary variation of the existing knowledge. The relevance of such an approach is that rapid learning is essential for a designer in a technological environment that is increasingly complex. The goal of the systemic design approach that addresses rapid learning is to facilitate mapping of a problem context that can include findings outside the designer’s field of competence. A rapid learning process emphasizes self-directed learning. There is a need for more knowledge on how designers could learn from their collaborators to gain project relevant tacit knowledge. The method chosen to address this was case study of a student project. The case study showed how a group of students was collaborating with an external partner, a bank savings foundation, learning rapidly through mind mapping system program. The conclusion of the study was that memes in a creative design process are connected to learning outcomes related to communication and empathy. The identified cognitive qualities of empathy relevant for the design process were multi-functionality, symbolism and brand recognition. The emotional qualities of empathy that were identified were corporate values that might contribute to corporate social responsibility and social interaction. The compassionate qualities of empathy were mutual benefit and positive consequences in society.
Effect of feeding hens trout by-product meal or tuna fish oil on production parameters and yolk fatty acid profile

Summary Objective : a study was conducted to evaluate two sources of omega-3 (n-3) fatty acid enrichment, namely a trout by-product meal (TBPM) and tuna fish oil (TFO), as potential sources for egg yolk n-3 enrichment. Methods : seventy-27 week old commercial layers were assigned to each of seven dietary treatments, as follows. Group 1: control; group 2: 5% TBPM; group 3: 10% TBPM; group 4: 15% TBPM; group 5: 20% TBPM; group 6: 2% TFO; and group 7: 3% TFO. The experimental diets were fed for 28 days. Results : no effect on production parameters was caused by the experimental diets. All diets containing TBPM or TFO significantly (p Conclusions : the results showed that both TBPM and TFO are good sources of n-3 fatty acid enrichment in eggs. Further studies are required in order to determine the effects of TBPM and TFO inclusion on the organoleptic quality of eggs. Key words: hens, n-3 fatty acids, omega-3 eggs, trout by-product meal , tuna fish oil. Resumen Objetivo : se realizo un estudio para evaluar dos potenciales fuentes de enriquecimiento de acidos grasos omega-3 (n-3) en yema de huevo: ensilaje de visceras de trucha (TBPM) y aceite de atun (TFO). Metodos : un total de 70 gallinas de postura de 27 semanas se asignaron a siete tratamientos dietarios, asi: grupo 1: control; grupo 2: 5% TBPM; grupo 3: 10% TBPM; grupo 4: 15% TBPM; grupo 5: 20% TBPM; grupo 6: 2% TFO y grupo 7: 3% TFO. Las dietas experimentales se suministraron durante 28 dias. Resultados : no se encontraron efectos sobre los parametros productivos a causa de las dietas experimentales, pero todas las dietas suplementadas con TBPM o TFO causaron un aumento significativo (p Conclusiones : los resultados del presente estudio demuestran que tanto el TBPM como el TFO constituyen fuentes apropiadas de enriquecimiento de huevos con acidos grasos n-3. Se requieren mas estudios para determinar los efectos de estas materias primas en la calidad organoleptica del huevo. Palabras clave : aceite de atun, acidos grasos n-3, ensilaje de visceras de trucha, gallinas de postura. Resumo Objetivo : foi realizado um estudo para avaliar duas fontes potenciais de enriquecimento de omega-3 (n-3) na gema de ovo: silagem de visceras de truta (TBPM) e oleo de atum (TFO). Metodos : um total de 70 galinhas poedeiras de 27 semanas, foram atribuidas a sete tratamentos dieteticos: grupo 1: controle, grupo 2: 5%TBPM, grupo 3: 10% TBPM, grupo 4: 15% TBPM, grupo 5: 20% TBPM, grupo 6: 2% TFO e grupo 7: TFO 3%. As dietas experimentais foram subministradas durante 28 dias. Resultados : nao foram encontradas diferencias nos parâmetros de producao por causa das dietas experimentais, mas todas as dietas suplementadas com TFO ou TBPM causaram um aumento significativo (p Conclusoes : os resultados deste estudo demonstram que o TFO e o TBPM sao fontes apropriadas de enriquecimento de ovos com n-3 acidos graxos. Mais estudos sao necessarios para determinar os efeitos dessas materias primas na qualidade organoleptica do ovo. Palavras chave : acidos graxos, avicultura, oleo de atum.
Demand for Reinsurance: Evidence from Australian Insurers

Reinsurance is widely recognised as important in insurer risk and capital management. This paper examines the factors that determine insurer demand for reinsurance using Australian data. The Australian situation is interesting because of the tax imputation system and the prudential regulations that were in force during the period of the study. As far as the authors are aware, this is the first paper to empirically analyse the demand for reinsurance in Australia. A panel-data set (1996-2001) is used, which provides 543 observations. The authors provide a careful approach to econometric diagnostic testing and the choice of the most appropriate panel-data model and the authors show how failure to do so may generate misleading results. Based on a robust estimation procedure, the authors find strong evidence of a positive relation between variables related to company size and the demand for reinsurance in Australia. The impact of leverage, taxes, and return on investments are not statistically significant.