Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Correlation between morphological characters of pomegranate (Punica granatum) traits and their implications for breeding

Pomegranate is one of the most important horticultural crops in Iran. Selection of suitable genotypes, resistant to unfavorable environmental and soil conditions and diseases, are important for increasing yield efficiency and the acreage of this important crop. The aim of this research was to evaluate among commercial pomegranate genotypes of Iran and also to determine any correlation that exist between morphological characteristics. A total of 8 pomegranate types were used during the research. Twenty six morphological characteristics were evaluated based on the pomegranate descriptor. Results from simple correlation analyses showed significant positive and negative correlations in certain important characteristics. Titratable acidity and vitamin C were in significant correlation with chlorophyll index and leaf weight. Factor analysis was used to determine the effective characteristics and the number of main factors. For each factor loading a value of more than 0.65 was judged as being significant. Effective characteristics were categorized into five main factors that contributed to 94.86% of the overall variance. Fruit characteristics were defined mainly by the first factor contributing to 34.94% of the total variance. According to this study, leaf weight and chlorophyll index can be use as an index for separation sour from sweet cultivars in juvenile phase.
An Empirical Investigation of Self-Selection Bias and Factors Influencing Review Helpfulness

This paper build on 1 489194 product reviews from 30 product categories retrieved from Amazon.com. Product categories are classified by use of natural language analysis tools with computing of subjectivity scores reflecting a search/experience product dimension. Results show a distinct effect of self-selection where the average review score gradually decreases. For most products, no undershooting period was observed, even though a limited number of products groups had this development pattern. Review length, verified purchase and use of real names contributed to increasing helpfulness ratings. The results further suggest search products to be more influenced by review length than experience products.
What Is Not A Real Option: Considering Boundaries for the Application of Real Options to Business Strategy

We argue that the greater the extent to which choice sets evolve as a consequence of firms' exploration activities, the less structured the firms' abandonment decisions become and, in turn, the less distinguishable a real option is from more generic notions of path dependence—a sequential stream of investment in and of itself does not constitute a real option. While organizational adaptations can extend the applicability of real options, they impose tradeoffs that may lead to the underutilization of discoveries made in the course of exploration.
PERTUMBUHAN KHAMIR PADA TAPIOKA IRADIASI

Tapioka dapat digunakan sebagai medium pertumbuhan isolat khamir karena mengandung karbohidrat tinggi. Sterilisasi dengan iradiasi sinar gamma menghasilkan senyawa senyawa yang lebih sederhana dan bersifat toksik. Tujuan dari percobaan ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh dosis iradiasi terhadap sifat fisik dan kimia serta pertumbuhan isolat khamir R1 dan R2 serta isolat mutan R110 dan R210. Dosis yang digunakan adalah 10, 20, dan 30 kGy. Hasil percobaan menunjukkan bahwa terjadi perubahan warna yang semakin gelap dan granula pati semakin kecil sebanding dengan meningkatnya dosis, sedangkan secara kimia terjadi penurunan pH dan kelarutan serta peningkatan kadar glukosa. Tapioka iradiasi tidak mempengaruhi pertumbuhan khamir dengan tidak terbentuknya zona hambat, sedangkan pertumbuhan isolat khamir dalam medium cair tapioka 1 % menunjukkan hasil yang berfluktuasi dan umumnya memiliki dua pola pertumbuhan
Monitoring a single ion's motion by second-order photon correlations

For a single trapped ion, second-order time correlations of fluorescence photons are measured in a self-homodyne configuration by beating the fluorescence with itself. At the nanosecond timescale, the correlations are governed by electronic excitation and decay of the ion and anti-bunching in the resonance fluorescence is observed and quantitatively reproduced. On the other hand, at the microsecond timescale the motion of the ion determines the correlations: secular motional modes, their amplitude and relative coherence are measured. Besides precisely monitoring the trap frequencies, our observations also quantify the temporal stability of the trapping potential.
Anti-Bio Gram of the Most Common Dietary Additives (Spices) Against Common Problematic Organisms

Background: In the current scenario, the greater antibiotic toxicity, increasing drug cost, and continually rising multi drug resistance are the main compelling factors for the researchers to focus on natural bioactive sources for safe and natural therapeutic agents as an alternative to allopathic antibiotic. Objectives: The main objective of the study is to investigate antimicrobial potential of most commonly used kitchen spices in an attempt to explore the natural bioactive sources for natural therapeutic agents as an alternative to synthetic antibiotics, against which there is a continuous rise in multi-drug resistant pathogens. Study design: Experimental/in vitro study conducted (from Sep, 2015 to Feb, 2016) in different departments (of School of Pharmacy, Pathology and Bio-chemistry of UM & DC), The Universityof Faisalabad. Methodology: Antibiotics assay is performed by using the disc diffusion methods. Clove and Cinnamon extracts are prepared and from these sensitivity discs are prepared. Standard size inoculum is also prepared. Then by using standard disc diffusion method the zones of inhibitions produced by Clove and Cinnamon extracts are measured and recorded, and is compared with positive and negative controls. Results: Spice extracts of Clove and Cinnamon tested against test organisms revealed antimicrobial potency with diameter of zone of inhibition (13.33±0.33mm to 20.50±0.72mm) and (12.17±0.31mm to 15.67±0.49mm) respectively while positive control manifested zone of inhibition (19.33±0.21mm to 29.50±0.22mm). Ethanol extracts prepared by soxhlet apparatus showed better results compared with extracts prepared by simple maceration process. Furthermore, overall ethanol extracts showed better results compared with the aqueous extracts. Statistical analysis: Data was analyzed by two-way analysis of variance (SPSS). Conclusion: This study reported the presence of natural bioactive compound(s) in Clove and Cinnamon with highly significant broad spectrum antibacterial potential, even against multi drug resistant pathogens.
Nutritional Status of Baiga – A Primitive Tribe of Madhya Pradesh

Abstract Baiga tribe of Baigachak area is declared as one of the primitive tribe of Madhya Pradesh, based on their pre-agricultural technology, low literacy and stagnant population. The present study was carried out to study the nutritional status of this tribe. A cross sectional study was carried out in the Baigachak area in 2002-2003 to study the nutrition profile of the Baiga Tribe. Eight villages were purposely selected from three blocks of Baigachak area. From eight villages 400 households were randomly selected for the study, and one thousand five hundred forty five individuals from four hundred households were covered for anthropometric measurements, and 80 households were covered for diet survey by 24hr recall method. The extent of malnutrition for preschool children was assessed by SD classification and the nutritional status of adults was assessed by BMI classification. About 61% of the pre-school children were under weight (<Median -2SD) out of them 24.3% children were severely under weight. Stunting and wasting were seen in 44.3% and 37% children respectively. Prevalence of chronic energy deficiency (BMI<18.5) was about 76% among adult population. Consumption of cereals was higher than recommended level (460gm), while the consumption of other foodstuff was lower than the RDA. The intake of all nutrients except calcium was significantly lower than recommended level. The present study revealed that malnutrition is widely prevalent among the Baiga tribe which is mainly due to inadequate dietary intake.
Assessment of micronutrient status during pregnancy attending at Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Background: This impression of multiple micronutrients during pregnancy emphasizes to relatively neglected issues. Objectives was to evaluate the status and benefits of multiple micronutrient during pregnancy.Methods: Total 180 healthy pregnant women were included, first trimester 60 cases, second trimester 60 cases and third trimester 60 cases in the age group of 18-40 years. Haemoglobin was estimated by cyanmethemoglobin method, estimation of iron was done by ferrozine method, for zinc colorimetric method, estimation of calcium OCPC method and estimation of urinary iodine was done by ammonium persulfate oxidation method.Results: Haemoglobin are found to be in the Ist trimester 11.3g/dl, in the IInd trimester of haemoglobin 10.5g/dl, and in the IIIrd trimester it was 11g/dl and Serum iron was 71.9ug/dl in Ist trimester, 74.8 ug/dl during IInd trimester, 80.9ug/dl in IIIrd trimester. The mean serum calcium during Ist trimester was found to be 8.0 ug/dl, in the IInd trimester 7.2 ug/dl and in the IIIrd trimester 8.1ug/dl. Serum zinc in the Ist trimester 72.6 ug/dl, in the IInd trimester 70.1ug/dl, in the IIIrd trimester 66.7 ug/dl respectively. Iodine level during Ist, IInd, IIIrd trimester was found to be 122.5ug/dl, 149.1ug/d, 158.7ug/dl respectively.Conclusions: Finding of our study shows that Poor nutrition during pregnancy has been associated with adverse maternal and child outcomes such as increased risks of infertility, abortion, fetal intrauterine growth restriction and prenatal mortality.
Interactive comment on “The 2007 North Atlantic spring bloom in operational analysis from the TOPAZ system” by A. Samuelsen et al

The manuscript describe the results of the simulation of the north atlantic phytoplankton dynamics carried out with the NORWECOM biogeochemical model coupled to the TOPAZ modelling system. The simulation set-up makes use of a EnKF data assimilation scheme, assimilating data relative to sea surface elevation, SST and ice distribution. The simulations were carried out in a simili-forecast mode and the major focus of the manuscript is on the simulation of the spring bloom. The results of the simulation with and without data assimilation are described. Although the implementation of the assimilation scheme did not produce a dramatic improvement in the simulation of
Simulation of hydrological processes in the Zhalong wetland within a river basin, Northeast China

Zhalong National Nature Preserve is a large wet- land reserve on the Songnen Plain in Northeast China. Wet- lands in the preserve play a key role in maintaining regional ecosystem function and integrity. Global climate change and intensified anthropogenic activities in the region have raised great concerns over the change of natural flow regime, wet- land degradation and loss. In this study, two key hydrologic components in the preserve, water surface area and water volume, as well as their variations during the period 1985- 2006, were investigated with a spatially-distributed hydro- logic modeling system (SWAT). A wetland module was in- corporated into the SWAT model to represent hydrological linkages between the wetland and adjacent upland areas. The modified modeling system was calibrated with stream- flow measurements from 1987 to 1989 and was validated for the period 2005-2006. The calibration achieved a Nash ef- ficiency coefficient ( Ens) of 0.86, and the validation yielded an Ens of 0.66. In the past 20 yr, water surface area in the Zhalong wetland fluctuated from approximately 200 km 2 to 1145 km 2 with a rapid decreasing trend through the early 2000s. Consequently, water volume decreased largely in the preserve, especially in the dry seasons. The situation changed following the implementation of a river diversion in 2001. Overall, the modeling yielded plausible estimates of hydro- logic changes in this large wetland reserve, building a foun- dation for assessing ecological water requirements and de- veloping strategies and plans for future water resources man- agement within the river basin.
Stock market liquidity and returns on the Warsaw Stock Exchange: An introductory survey

Cel – Na rynkach wysoko rozwinietych zaleznośc miedzy plynnością akcji a wymaganą przez inwestorow stopą zwrotu jest dobrze udokumentowana. Jednakze, dla polskiego rynku kapitalowego wciąz brakuje wyczerpujących badan w tym obszarze. Prowadzone dotychczas analizy dla Gieldy Warszawskiej nie dają jednoznacznych rezultatow (por. Gajdka, Gniadkowska i Schabek 2010, Olbryś 2013). Celem artykulu jest zbadanie zalezności miedzy poziomem plynności a stopami zwrotu z akcji na Gieldzie Papierow Wartościowych w Warszawie w latach 2011-2015. Metodologia badania – Do pomiaru plynności wykorzystany zostal miernik braku plynności Y. Amihuda. W artykule wykorzystano regresje szeregow czasowych miedzy nadwyzkowymi stopami zwrotu a poziomem plynności rzeczywistej i nieoczekiwanej. Ponadto zastosowana zostala metoda regresji przekrojowej i panelowej do zbadania związku miedzy plynnością akcji a stopami zwrotu. Wynik – Przeprowadzone badania wykazaly, ze plynnośc akcji wplywa istotnie na osiągane stopy zwrotu, zarowno w ujeciu czasowym, jak i przekrojowym. Efekt ten utrzymuje sie rowniez po uwzglednieniu zmiennych kontrolnych uwzgledniających rozmiar oraz relacje wartości ksiegowej do wartości rynkowej spolki. Oryginalnośc/Wartośc – Autorowi nie są znane badania, w ktorych zastosowano podobne podejście. Zaprezentowane wyniki uzasadniają podjecie dalsze i bardziej doglebnych badan relacji miedzy poziomem plynności a stopami zwrotu z akcji na Gieldzie Papierow Wartościowych w Warszawie.
Consumers’ Intention to Use Mobile Commerce and the Moderating Roles of Gender and Income

Mobile commerce is increasingly becoming a key aspect of human activities with the advancement of mobile technology and services. This chapter examines key factors that influence m-commerce adoption and the moderating roles of gender and income. The conceptual framework is underpinned on an extended technology acceptance model. The data was collected using a questionnaire given to participants selected from Malaysia. The analysis was based on 260 valid responses. Findings reveal that five hypotheses developed for this chapter were supported for female participants, except perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use was unsupported for male participants. Perceived usefulness and social influence were the most important factors for participants earning low and high income, respectively. Surprisingly, high-income earners indicated that cost is an important factor. The contributions to research and practice, including suggestions for future studies, are discussed.
Swine waste as a source of natural products: A carotenoid antioxidant

Development of Environmentally Superior Technologies swine waste management has focused on extraction of products with relatively low unit values. Analyses of the bacterial composition of swine waste lagoon samples confirmed the presence of several purple non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB) species known to produce a variety of carotenoids. We examined a carotenoid naturally abundant in North Carolina swine waste lagoons dominated by PNSB. Analytical methods including high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), mass spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) confirmed the identity of the dominant carotenoid as spirilloxanthin, C42H60O2, with 13 conjugated double bonds. This structure confers antioxidant properties as good as those of carotenoids currently marketed as antioxidants. Visual estimates of the “redness” of swine waste lagoon liquids were highly correlated with carotenoid content. Spirilloxanthin concentrations in a lagoon with a strong PNSB bloom were approximately 0.5 grams·m-3. These results support further investigations into the potential for extracting commercially valuable natural products from swine waste lagoons.
HUMAN-ROBOT SYNERGY FOR COOPERATIVE ROBOTS

This paper presents two human-robot cooperative application scenarios of the project MeRoSy (Human-Robot Synergy) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The first scenario relates to the human-robot cooperation in an industrial application, while the second one refers to the robotic workplace assistance for people with disabilities. The presented scenarios reflect different aspects of human-robot interaction, among others different novel possibilities for human-robot interaction depending on different physical abilities of human co-worker. Beside the consideration of the human-robot cooperative technologies in two MeRoSy scenarios, this paper considers also the identification and classification of the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) in the context of human-robot cooperation.
Shallow intraplate earthquakes in Western Australia observed by Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar

[1] We investigate two intraplate earthquakes in a stable continental region of southwest Western Australia. Both small-magnitude events occur in the top ∼1 km of crust and their epicenters are located with an accuracy of ∼100 m (1σ) using satellite Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR). For the Mw 4.7 Katanning earthquake (10 October 2007) the average slip magnitude is 42 cm, over a rupture area of ∼1 km2. This implies a high static stress drop of 14–27 MPa, even for this very shallow earthquake, which may have important implications for regional seismic hazard assessment. The earthquake rupture extends from a depth of around 640 m to the surface, making it a rarely observed intraplate, surface-rupturing event. Using InSAR observations, we estimate the coseismic slip distribution of the shallow earthquake, such estimates being rarely available for small magnitude events. For the Mw 4.4 composite Kalannie earthquake sequence (21–22 September 2005), we use a long-term time series analysis technique to improve the measurement of the co-seismic signal, which is a maximum of 27 mm in the line-of-sight direction. Double difference seismic analysis shows some relocated cluster seismicity which corresponds in timing, location, and source parameters to the InSAR-observed deformation. This earthquake is the smallest magnitude seismic event to have been investigated using InSAR and demonstrates the capability of the technique to provide important constraints on small-magnitude coseismic events. The shallow depth of both these events adds weight to the suggestion that earthquakes associated with tectonic processes in this area of Western Australia often initiate in the upper 1 km of crust.
Implementation of the occupational health and safety management system (OSHMS) in Colombian companies

This research describe the implementation of the General System of Occupational Safety and Health (OSHMS) in Companies Colombia. To implement OSHMS in Colombian companies, it is necessary to make a diagnosis to companies starting with statistical records of absenteeism, followed by accidents and finally, occupational diseases. In the same way, it requires the identification of hazards and assessment of the risks to the implementation of the GTC-45 standard whose base is the Decree 1072 of 2015, subsequently different stages of the PDCA cycle (Plan, Do, Check and Act). It is necessary for companies to take ownership of the guidelines given by the Decree 1072 of 2015, which is critical to implement the OSHMS constituted by the initial assessment, hazard identification, evaluation and assessment of risks, hazards and risk management, policy and objectives, annual work plan and allocation of resources, training program, training, induction and reinduction in OSH, prevention, preparedness and response, reporting and investigating incidents, accidents and occupational diseases. Criteria for recruitment and procurement of services, measurement and evaluation and measu4534 Delvis Muñoz Rojas et al. res of preventive and corrective actions. It is recommended to keep the records and follow-up annually in each stage of the implementation of the OSHMS implemented continuous improvement.
Agronomic aspects of biodiversity targeted management of temperate grasslands in Europe - A review

Maintaining and enhancing the biodiversity of the agriculturally utilised area has a high priority in environmental policy worldwide. Temperate grasslands in Europe make an important contribution to the biodiversity of agricultural landscapes. The species and community diversity of grasslands is a result of a traditional extensive grassland management interacting with a broad range of site conditions. Until the early decades of the last century, grassland sites were hardly ameliorated and the agronomic potential was generally low, depending on the fertility of the soils. Later on the production from grassland was markedly improved by regular fertilisation, by liming and by artificial drainage of wet sites. Correspondingly, the stocking rates and the cutting frequency increased. Thus, biodiversity strongly decreased, and unimproved species-rich swards only persisted on a low percentage of the total grassland area. The preservation of the remaining species-rich grassland is a primary goal of nature conservation. The continuation of traditional ways of grassland management that would best preserve biodiversity is often not compatible with the requirements of intensive livestock production. Therefore, this grassland is at risk of being abandoned from agricultural use. There is a need to identify and develop improved management measures that better integrate biodiversity and agronomy targets of species-rich grassland farming. In addition, compensation payments for farmers are required to support grass production on species-rich swards. Apart from the unimproved species-rich grassland, there is an increasing area of now de-intensified species-poor grassland which can be managed to increase biodiversity. Grazing at a low stocking rate seems to have the potential to facilitate the restoration of diverse swards and to support reasonable individual performances of the grazing animals.
Decision and time from a Humean point of view

Abstract Until recently, little attention has been paid to the consequences of Hume’s theory of action for intertemporal decision. Yet in view of the recurring discussion concerning situations of conflicting choice between a close and a remote objective, which runs from Book 2 of the Treatise, to the second Enquiry, to the Dissertation, intertemporal decision appears, at least in part, to be an outcome of the role of the natural relation of contiguity in the formation of the structure of desires, and thus different from the structure of pleasure. This paper shows, and expresses formally, that Hume’s approach provides alternative conditions which explain time-consistency on the one hand, and dynamic time-inconsistency on the other, when the link between contiguity and the ’violence’ of the passions is taken into account. The possibility of time-inconsistency is acknowledged by Hume as giving rise to general aversion, therefore constitutes a key argument in explaining the origin of government.