Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The effect of gibberellins on sprouting of cuttings and quality of bush tea (Athrixia phylicoides DC)

A study was conducted to determine the effect of gibberellins on sprouting of cuttings and subsequent quality of bush tea (Athrixia phylicoides DC). The study was conducted under a 40% shade net with light/shading as a gradient. Treatments consisted of gibberellins (Progibb 40%) applied at various rates as follows: 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4%, arranged in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) and effected on 18 February, 2008. Treatments were applied until run-off and the experiment was harvested for analysis three months after transplanting. Total polyphenols were determined using Folin Ciocalteau method, total tannins were determined using the Vanillin HCL method and total antioxidants were determined using the trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC) assay. The results of this study showed favourable response of bush tea growth to increased rates of gibberellin application. For growth parameters such as plant height, number of branches, leaf area and fresh biomass, best results were recorded at 3 and 4% gibberellin application rates. Chemical attributes in the form of total polyphenols, and total antioxidants tended to decline with increasing gibberellin application rate. However, tannin content peaked at 2% gibberellin application rate. Overall, gibberellin application improved bush tea growth and chemical attributes.
Speckle evolution with multiple steps of least-squares phase removal

We study numerically the evolution of speckle fields due to the annihilation of optical vortices after the least-squares phase has been removed. A process with multiple steps of least-squares phase removal is carried out to minimize both vortex density and scintillation index. Statistical results show that almost all the optical vortices can be removed from a speckle field, which finally decays into a quasiplane wave after such an iterative process.
Interaction Among Universities, Government and Spin-off Companies in a Brazilian Context to Generate Sports Innovation

The aim of this paper is to describe a study into Brazilian academic spin offs that are developing innovative products and services for the sports market, based on the triple helix model. The results show the characteristics of the products and services of the spin offs in the sporting field that were studied, their innovation sources and the financial resources they have received, as well as the university and government role in stimulating these innovations.
A Statistical Model Of Transcription Factor Binding Site Gain And Loss

Gene regulation is a critical determinant of an organism’s phenotype. Furthermore, there is mounting evidence that gene regulation, or rather gradual changes in gene regulation as a result regulatory sequence turnover, has played an important role in evolution and speciation. Given the remarkable phenotypic diversity among mammals, it is surprising to learn that all share roughly the same set of around 20,000 genes, most of which are highly conserved. Indeed, the degree of divergence at the gene level fails to explain the diversity observed among mammals, suggesting that it is not differences in genes that explain the balance of the phenotypic changes, but when and where genes are used in different species. The spatiotemporal expression patterns of genes are intricately controlled through the process of transcriptional regulation, a multifactorial process involving interactions between a host of regulatory sequences, DNA-binding proteins and cofactors, signaling pathways and epigenetic factors. Transcription factor binding sites (TFBS’s) are an important class of regulatory sequences involved in the gene regulatory process and it is known that TFBS’s are frequently gained and lost in mammalian genomes. This is consistent with an important role of TFBS’s in gene regulatory evolution. However, little is known about the TFBS turnover process and its relationship to gene regulatory evolution and, by extension, phenotypic change and the adaptive evolutionary process. In order to gain insight into the process of TFBS turnover, it is necessary to reliably identify TFBS’s that have been gained or lost in a lineage-specific manner through the process of regulatory evolution. Here I present a phylogenetic hidden-Markov model (phylo-HMM) that describes the process of lineage-specific TFBS gain and loss and test its performance on simulated and biological datasets using two methods: a Viterbi algorithm implementation and a Gibbs sampler. In both contexts, the model performs well on simulated data but does not appear robust to violations of the model assumptions that are present in biological datasets. With further refinement, the model and methods may yield better performance on real data. However, key limitations include large memory and computational requirements and a need to simplify the model and restrict the dataset size to ensure tractability. These shortcomings increase the user inputs required to apply the methods and complicate data interpretation and generalization, thus limiting the utility of the methods.
The utility of alternative body composition measures to assess body fatness and cardiometabolic risk in female college students

This study sought to determine which anthropometric measure (body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist circumference-to-height ratio (WHtR), or a body shape index (ABSI)) best predicts fatness and cardiometabolic risk (CMR) and how using different fatness measures affect the association between physical activity (PA) and CMR score. Anthropometric measures, dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) (GE iLunar) measures, PA via accelerometers (NL-1000), and CMR profile from 334 college females were analyzed. WHtR best predicted central (r=.84) and total body fat (r=.80). Body fat measures were weakly to moderately correlated with CMR profile (r of 0 to .59). PA’s association with overall CMR ranged from standardized beta coefficient of -0.44 to -0.79. WHtR, WC, and BMI could serve as surrogate measures for body fatness in college females. No single fat measure best predicted all CMR factors. However, the choice of adiposity measure affects the strength of association
Initiating HPV Co-testing for Women Aged 30-65 in an Ob/Gyn Practice Setting

The purpose of this project was to improve the rate of successful human papilloma virus (HPV) screening in a small Texas based Women's Health clinic through co-testing. The intended goal was to increase the rate of HPV screening from a 73% baseline to 95% over a 10-week period for women aged 30–65 years old. Approximately 79 million American women are currently infected with HPV, and 14 million people contract it every year. Seventy percent of cervical cancers today are caused by HPV, with an estimated 12,820 new case of invasive cervical cancer expected to be diagnosed by the conclusion of 2017. Moreover, in this same year, and estimated 4,210 American women are expected to die from HPV-related complications. Women between the ages of 30 and 65 years are eight times more likely to contract invasive cervical cancers through HPV than those under 30 years. Therefore, this project incorporated multiple interventions, including increased patient screening appointments, the initiation of quality improvement meetings, and the implementation of the HPV co-testing protocol. Upon completion, 107 patients between the ages of 30 and 65 had been successfully co-tested for HPV, with 104 patients having negative screening results, and three patients with positive results. There was a statistically significant improvement in the rate of HPV screening, from 73% to 93%. Therefore, the implementation of co-testing had a positive impact on HPV screening rates.
THE VALUE TRADE-OFF IN HIGHER EDUCATION SERVICE: A QUALITATIVE INTERCULTURAL APPROACH TO STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS

Purpose: Higher Education Institutions have become a highly competitive market, where consumers (i.e. students) are highly involved in their choices, and managers need to focus on competitive edges. This paper aims to understand the factors that influence student choice behaviour and fulfil student expectations of customer value in higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach: with qualitative information (focus groups) collected from international students of several universities in Spain, Britain and China, the paper investigates the formation of customer value, as a trade-off between benefits and costs. This qualitative approach aims first at assessing this particular service through the concept of value through verifying both the positive and negative dimensions of HE, and second, to comment on the intercultural aspects of this dual approach to higher education consumption. Findings: the results show different levels of benefits: the functional value generally comes from infrastructures and good teachers that offer abundant practical experiences. The benefits from quality education also derived from teamwork with the colleagues who possess equal academic strength. Social benefits come from experiences outside the academic environment, working with people from different cultural backgrounds who have different perspectives. Emotional rewards come from University reputation and relationships with instructors. Costs of time and effort are differently seen across programs and vary widely upon nationalities and cultural backgrounds. Practical implications: since the competitive environments are fast becoming more and more complex added to the fact that it changes rapidly and dynamically, to concentrate on a few key elements are most important to the organizations survival. Different values of customers in different countries suggest that the strategy used by the corporation in a certain country, may not be apply to another. Originality/value: given that values are critical factors for developing trust and commitment, research findings have presented to support that national culture affects the different values perceived in the HE experience. In this sense, the research provides a research basis for primary investigation and allocation of higher education resources in the global market.
Performance Analysis of Radial Basis Function Neural Network for Pattern Classification

Feed forward neural networks with Backpropagation learning rule has been used widely for the generalized pattern classification but the ill posing and unknown local error minimum problem limits the performance of Backpropagation learning rule for the problems of large feature vectors. Another type of feed forward neural network architecture i.e. Radial Basis exhibits more efficient and general approximation with respect to Backpropagation network. The purpose of this study is to analyze the performance of Radial Basis function type feed forward neural networks for the pattern classification. Therefore to perform this analysis the task of pattern classification for hand written English vowels using radial basis function neural network is used. This Implementation has been done with the training of five different samples of hand written English vowels. Adjusting the connection strength and network parameters perform the training process in the neural network. By using a simulator program, both the algorithms i.e. BP and RBF are compared with five data sets of handwritten English language vowels. The simulated results indicate the fast & good convergence and high classification rate for the RBF network.
National Identification and Intergroup Attitudes Among Members of the National Majority and Immigrants: Preliminary Evidence for the Mediational Role of Psychological Ownership of a Country

In this study, we examined whether psychological ownership of the country one lives in (in this case, Finland) mediates the relationship between national identification and intergroup attitudes among majority and minority group members (N = 647; Finns, n = 334, Russian-speaking immigrants, n = 313). Consistent with our predictions, both majority group members and immigrants whose national identification was strong experienced greater psychological ownership of Finland; as expected, this relationship was more pronounced among majority group members. Higher psychological ownership, in turn, was associated with less positive attitudes towards Russian-speaking immigrants among majority Finns but more positive attitudes towards Finns among immigrants. The findings also showed that among immigrants, the relationship between national identification and psychological ownership is likely to be reciprocal, with national identification similarly mediating the association between psychological ownership and attitudes towards members of the national group. No support for such reciprocity between national identification and psychological ownership was found among members of the majority group.
Finding sequential patterns with TF-IDF metrics in health-care databases

Finding frequent sequential patterns has been dened as nd- ing ordered list of items that occur more times in a database than a user dened threshold. For big and dense databases that contain really long sequences and large itemset such as medical case histories, algorithm pro- posed on this idea of counting the occurrences output enourmous number of highly redundant frequent sequences, and are therefore simply imprac- tical. Therefore, there is a need for algorithm that perform frequent pat- tern search and preltering simultaneously. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that reinterprets the term support on text mining basis. Exper- iments show that our method not only eliminates redundancy among the output sequences, but it scales much better with huge input data sizes. We apply our algorithm for mining medical databases: what diagnoses are likely to lead to a certain future health condition.
In vitro and intracellular antimycobacterial activity of a Bacillus pumilus strain

Despite the declaration of tuberculosis (TB) as a global emergency by the world health organization (WHO) about 20 years ago, the worldwide problem of this disease has worsened due to increased drug resistance of tuberculosis bacilli and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic. Consequently, fight against multidrug and extensively drug-resistant TB is a high priority for public health and research. The present work describes the isolation of a
Induced Charge Fluctuations in Semiconductor Detectors with a Cylindrical Geometry

Now, compound semiconductors are very appealing for hard X-ray room-temperature detectors for medical and astrophysical applications. Despite the attractive properties of compound semiconductors, such as high atomic number, high density, wide band gap, low chemical reactivity and long-term stability, poor hole and electron mobility-lifetime products degrade the energy resolution of these detectors. The main objective of the present study is in development of a mathematical model of the process of the charge induction in a cylindrical geometry with accounting for the charge carrier trapping. The formulae for the moments of the distribution function of the induced charge and the formulae for the mean amplitude and the variance of the signal at the output of the semiconductor detector with a cylindrical geometry were derived. It was shown that the power series expansions of the detector amplitude and the variance in terms of the inverse bias voltage allow determining the Fano factor, electron mobility lifetime product, and the nonuniformity level of the trap density of the semiconductor material.
Effects of Some Plant Essential Oils Against Botrytis cinerea and Tetranychus urticae on Grapevine

The cultivation of grapes in the world in terms of the first-ranked Turkey as well as the appropriate climatic zone, has potential for rich gene and ancient viticulture culture. Grape growers, starting from production until it reaches the consumer is faced with various problems in the process. Plant protection faced in the vineyards of the manufacturers in terms of the most important causes of losses; Downy Mildew (Plasmopara viticola), Powdery Mildew (Uncinula necator), Gray mold (Botrytis cinerea), European Grapevine Moth (Lobesia botrana), Spidermite (Tetranychus spp.), Vine weevil (Otiorhynchus spp., Megamecus spp.). The impact of pests and diseases due to changing climate conditions with increased losses, these factors makes it difficult to control. In order to achieve higher efficiency and quality of synthetic chemicals used in viticulture, many benefits they provide, as well as the nature of the effect is known to be negative. In this sense, the effect of plants compounds on diseases and pests is a prominent work area. In this study, 7 different plant essential oil; grape seed (Vitis vinifera), thyme (Thymus sp.), Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), ozone oil (Olea europaea), mint (Menta piperita oleum), Basil (Ocimum basilicum) and Sage (Salvia spp.), were examined on Botrytis cinerea and Tetranychus urticae which are important in terms of viticulture
Deposited in DRO : 11 August 2017 Version of attached le : Accepted Version Peer-review status of attached

Citation for published item: Bortolini, Eugenio and Pagani, Luca and Crema, Enrico R. and Sarno, Stefania and Barbieri, Chiara and Boattini, Alessio and Sazzini, Marco and da Silva, Sara Gra ca and Martini, Gessica and Metspalu, Mait and Pettener, Davide and Luiselli, Donata and Tehrani, Jamshid J. (2017) 'Inferring patterns of folktale di usion using genomic data. ', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. , 114 (34). pp. 9140-9145.
A Study on Local Variance Threshold Based Boundary Detector with Median Filter

Image segmentation and recognition are the primary steps in every industrial automation fields. The use of object boundary detection is becoming prevalent in every automated industry. The object boundary detection enables the system to identify the shape of the object. Human perception system understands the objects based on the outer shape only. Besides many techniques are proposed in segmentation, outline-based methods would be commonly followed and preferred. Object boundary can be known as a collection of pixels in the image perceived by human visual system [13]. The system proposed in [2] explains the boundary detection of pixels using the local brightness, color and texture cues. The author [1] proposed the edge detection based on the local variance of the pixels in the image.
The Clinical Use of SPECT and PET Molecular Imaging in Alzheimer’s Disease

Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are functional nuclear medicine techniques which allow for accurate non-invasive in vivo measurements of a wide range of regional tissue functions in man. Brain functional imaging with SPECT and PET is based on the recording of the distribution of administered radionuclides in three dimensions, thus producing maps of brain biochemical and physiological processes. SPECT and PET techniques are able to image brain perfusion and metabolism, as well as various neurotransmission or other cellular processes using specific radioligands which mark in vivo receptors, transporters or enzymes. Brain SPECT and PET imaging or molecular imaging -, has been applied to the study of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) for over two decades. These functional neuroimaging approaches have the capability of identifying subtle pathophysiologic changes in the brain before structural changes are present (Xu et al., 2000). Therefore they possess greater potential for accurate and early diagnosis, monitoring disease progression, and better treatment followup. Furthermore, the application of SPECT and PET techniques to the study of AD has led to increased understanding of the underlying pathology and the disease processes and improved the differential diagnosis from other neurodegenerative causes of dementia.
Horton and Wohl Revisited: Exploring Viewers' Experience of Parasocial Interaction

Linking back to D. Horton and R. Wohl (1956), the present approach conceptualizes and empirically examines viewers’ parasocial interaction experience with a TV performer. Causes and outcomes of parasocial interaction experience are examined. To this end, a new Experience of Parasocial Interaction (EPSI) scale is introduced. In a 2 (Bodily Addressing) × 2 (Verbal Addressing) between-subjects experiment (N = 198) viewers reported a more intense parasocial experience if they were addressed by a TV performer on a bodily and verbal level. In addition, the more viewers perceived the performer to be attractive and the stronger their perspective-taking ability, the more intense their parasocial experience. Stronger parasocial experience resulted in higher commitment to social norms and a greater enjoyment of the exposure situation.
Firm Performance and Trade with Low-Income Countries: Evidence from China

Do firms in developing countries shift trade towards developed economies as a result of high economic growth? The matched customs-manufacturing firm data used in this study confront this hypothesized link with empirical evidence. Our analysis reveals a rising low-income country trade share around and after China’s accession to the World Trade Organization. Based on this stylized fact, we analyze the link between firm characteristics and trade with low-income countries. We find evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms export to low-income countries, ii) exporting to low-income countries is mostly coupled to exporting to high-income countries, and iii) firms that switch to export to markets with higher potential are younger than firms that switch to export to both high- and low-income markets. Moreover, we find that firms tend to start exporting through specialization on high-income markets before diversifying to both type of markets.
Intuitionistic fuzzy sets - two and three term representations in the context of a Hausdor distance

We consider here the two term and three term representations of Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy sets (A-IFSs, for short) in the context of the Hausdor distance based on the Hamming metric. Especially, we pay attention to the consistency of the metric used and the essence of the Hausdor distances. We also consider the same problem for the interval-valued fuzzy sets. It is shown that the essence of solutions obtained is dierent for the case of the A-IFSs and interval-valued fuzzy sets. In other words, the two term representation of A-IFSs (which makes the A-IFSs to boil down to the interval-valued fuzzy sets) does not work here (on the contrary to three term representation).
The relationship between suicidal phenomena and depression, dysfunctional attitudes, irrational beliefs, and hopelessness

The study of depression and suicidal phenomena among adolescents has lagged behind that of adults. Very few studies have examined attitudes and beliefs of relevance to cognitive therapy among suicidal adolescents. In this study 40 incarcerated juvenile females were administered the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS), the Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT), and the Hopelessness Scale (HS). A stepwise discriminant analysis identified seven variables which significantly differentiated the suicidal from the nonsuicidal group. These variables were number of previous attempts, the HS, DAS, subscales 4, 5, and 8 of the IBT (Frustration reactive, emotional irresponsibility, and dependency, respectively), and the subject's living situation prior to incarceration i.e., with both natural parents, in an institution and so on. A further analysis of IBT subscale scores revealed that subcales 8 (Dependency) and 5 (Emotional irresponsibility) of the IBT contributed most to the discriminant function. Implications for future research are discussed.