Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Haskap Preharvest Fruit Drop and Stop-drop Treatment Testing

Haskap (Lonicera caerulea), also known as honeyberry, is a relatively new fruit crop in North America. To date, most academic activity and research in North America involving haskap has focused on cultivar development and health benefits, with relatively few field experiments providing information to guide field planning and harvest management for the recently released cultivars. In 2020, we documented preharvest fruit drop (PHFD) rates for 15 haskap cultivars planted in a randomized block design at our research center in western Montana with the aim of preliminarily determining whether certain cultivars may be prone to this phenomenon. Additionally, we evaluated two plant growth regulators (PGRs) to reduce PHFD in two cultivars previously observed to have high rates of PHFD. Results suggest cultivar-specific variations in PHFD near berry maturation. Because haskap harvest indices are not well-defined and may be cultivar-specific, we share our 1-year study results as preliminary information and as a call for further research. Cultivars Aurora, Boreal Blizzard, Borealis, Indigo Gem, Kapu, and Tana all had PHFD rates less than 12% of yield, where yield is the weight of berries lost to PHFD plus marketable yield and marketable yield is fruit remaining on the shrub at harvest. Cultivars Chito, Kawai, and Taka had the highest rates of PHFD, although marketable yields were still relatively high, especially for Kawai. We note that ease of fruit detachment is an important consideration in mechanical harvest, and this characteristic could be advantageous if managed appropriately. The PGRs evaluated (1-napthaleneacetic acid and aminoethoxyvinylglycine) did not influence PHFD rates; however, our study was limited by the sample size and by the lack of information regarding haskap abscission physiology. In summary, the haskap cultivars evaluated exhibited variable PHFD rates in the year of the study, and further research is needed to understand haskap fruit maturation, harvest indices, and abscission.
Grid Forming Control for Power Systems with up to 100% Inverter Based Generation

The development of renewable energy sources supplying electrical power systems in a large scale could cause important stability issues at the system level. A possible solution would be the introduction of grid forming controllers or the power electronic converters interfacing these sources. One of the suggested grid-forming technologies is the Virtual Synchronous Machine (VSM), which emulates the transient electromechanical characteristics of traditional synchronous machines. In this paper, the controller of a proposed grid forming converter will be presented. In a small power system load and fault disturbances, balanced and unbalanced, will be applied, presenting the behaviour of the proposed grid forming converter. Electromagnetic transient (EMT) software is used to study the converter output waveforms, as RMS models partially hide the response of the power converters during abnormal operation.
Batch Transfer Printing of Small-Size Silicon Nano-Films with Flat Stamp

Silicon nano-film is essential for the rapidly developing fields of nanoscience and flexible electronics, due to its compatibility with the CMOS process. Viscoelastic PDMS material can adhere to Si, SiO2, and other materials via intermolecular force and play a key role in flexible electronic devices. Researchers have studied many methods of transfer printing silicon nano-films based on PDMS stamps with pyramid microstructures. However, only large-scale transfer printing processes of silicon nano-films with line widths above 20 μm have been reported, mainly because the distribution of pyramid microstructures proposes a request on the size of silicon nano-films. In this paper, The PDMS base to the curing agent ratio affects the adhesion to silicon and enables the transfer, without the need for secondary alignment photolithography, and a flat stamp has been used during the transfer printing, with no requirement for the attaching pressure and detaching speed. Transfer printing of 20 μm wide structures has been realized, while the success rate is 99.3%. The progress is promising in the development of miniature flexible sensors, especially flexible hydrophone.
Diabetic Retinopathy and Skin Tissue Advanced Glycation End Products Are Biomarkers of Vascular Events in Type 2 Diabetic Patients

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Vascular events are the main cause of mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes. However, the risk of vascular events is not homogeneous in subjects with type 2 diabetes and, therefore, an early identification of patients at high risk of developing vascular events remains a challenge to be met. The aim of this study is to evaluate whether the presence of diabetic retinopathy (DR) and accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) in subcutaneous tissue can help to identify those patients at high risk of vascular events.MATERIAL AND METHODS: It was a prospective study comprising 200 subjects with type 2 diabetes with no history of clinical cardiovascular disease and 60 non-diabetic controls, matched by age and sex (PRECISED study: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02248311). The inclusion period began on September 2014 and finished on June 2017. We collected basal features of the subjects, classical cardiovascular risk factors (i.e. age, sex, hypertension, dyslipidemia and coronary artery calcium score [CACs]), presence and degree of DR, and the accumulation of AGEs in subcutaneous tissue using the AGE readerTM device (DiagnOptics Technologies). We followed these subjects until December 2020, collecting any coronary, cerebrovascular or peripheral arterial event.RESULTS: After a follow up of 4.35 ± 1.43 years, a total of 24 vascular events were registered. There was no significant difference regarding age and gender between individuals with type 2 diabetes and the control group. The number of vascular events was higher in type 2 diabetes group than in the control group (12.3% vs. 1.75%). When analysing the risk factors we found that apart from classic risk factors such as age, gender and CACs, subjects with type 2 diabetes and vascular events presented a higher prevalence of DR (47.8% vs. 24.4%; p = 0.018) and AGEs in subcutaneous tissue (63.15% vs 26.71% of values in the higher tertile, p = 0.001). DR and AGEs in subcutaneous tissue remain as independent variables related to the development of vascular events in the Cox proportional hazard multiple regression analysis (HR 2.58, 95%CI 1.14–5.85, p = 0.023, and HR 4.68, 95%CI 1.83–11.96, p = 0.001; respectively). CONCLUSIONS: As we expected, patients with type 2 diabetes have significantly more VE than non-diabetic subjects. Apart from the classic factors such as age, sex and CACs, we observed that the presence of DR and high levels of AGEs in subcutaneous tissue were predictors of vascular events.
Complete genome sequence of a Passion fruit yellow mosaic virus (PFYMV) isolate infecting purple passionfruit (Passiflora edulis f. edulis)

Purple passion fruit (Passiflora edulis f. edulis), also known as gulupa, is a vine plant of the familiy Passifloraceae, which in recent years has gained importance in the world fruit market due to its exotic nature and excellent organoleptic properties. Although the demand for gulupa in Colombia has increased significantly to become one of the most important fruit exports, the cultivated area has been in decline since 2009 due to the impact of plant diseases. Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), soybean mosaic virus (SMV) and cowpea aphid borne mosaic virus (CABMV) are amongst the main viruses found infecting gulupa in Colombia. To further characterize the virome of gulupa, a deep sequencing transcriptome study was performed from a producing region in eastern Antioquia. Based on the results of next-generation sequencing (NGS), we report the genome sequence of a tymovirus infecting this plant. Phylogenetic analysis revealed this virus to be a close relative of Passion fruit yellow mosaic virus (PFYMV), Cassia yellow mosaic-associated virus (CYMaV) and Calopogonium yellow vein virus (CYVV). To date, only a 1115 nt segment comprising the RdRP-CP region of PFYMV has been reported; this sequence shares 84.79% and 95.24% identities at the nucleotide and amino acid levels with the purple passionfruit tymovirus suggesting that the detected virus is a PFYMV isolate (PFYMV_Antioquia). Finally, RT-qPCR and Sanger sequencing using specific primers confirmed the presence of PFYMV in different purple passionfruit crops in Antioquia. This is the first complete genome sequence of a PFYMV isolate reported in the world.
Optimization of the AODV-Based Packet Forwarding Mechanism for BLE Mesh Networks

The standard Bluetooth Low-Energy mesh networks assume the use of flooding for multihop communications. The flooding approach causes network overheads and delays due to continuous message broadcasting in the absence of a routing mechanism. Among the routing protocols, AODV is one of the most popular and robust routing protocol for wireless ad hoc networks. In this paper, we optimized the AODV protocol for Bluetooth Low-Energy communication to make it more efficient in comparison to the mesh protocol. With the proposed protocol (Optimized AODV (O-AODV)), we were able to achieve lower overheads, end-to-end delay, and average per-hop one-way delay in comparison to the BLE mesh (flooding) protocol and AODV protocol for all three scenarios (linear topology with ten nodes, multipath topology with six and ten nodes). In addition, the proposed protocol exhibited practically constant route requests and route reply setup times. Furthermore, the proposed protocol demonstrated a better Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) for O-AODV (84%) in comparison to AODV (71%), but lower than the PDR of the mesh (flooding) protocol with 93%.
Monitoring the Hemato-Biochemical Values in Clinical Cases of Cattle With Respiratory Disorders

| Respiratory disorders have an economic effect on the dairy industry. The purpose of this study was to di-agnose cattle with respiratory problems, as well as to assess the nature of the lesions. A variety of practical approaches are used to examine respiratory disorders in cattle. The present study involved 55 cows of which 10 cows were clinically healthy and served as the control group. Cows were brought to the clinic for a number of complaints, including in-appetence, cough, dyspnea and nasal discharges. The total leucocytic counts, aspartate aminotransferase activities, and carbon dioxide tension were significantly higher in all diseased cows. The ultrasonographical examination of the lungs demonstrated several comet-tail artifacts in cows affected with pulmonary emphysema. Various degrees of pulmonary consolidation in bronchopneumonic cows were observed. Furthermore, cows with pleurisy showed anechoic pleural effusion with fibrin deposits and an irregular pleural surface. It is concluded that, hematological and biochemical findings are the key indicators of bovine health, and they are more expressive when correlated with the history, clinical symptoms, and ultrasonographic examination of cows with respiratory diseases.
Dr. Excellent: The Systemic and Personal Conditions for Being an Academic Star in Communication Studies

Pursuing excellence is a legitimate ambition of many scholars worldwide. However, between wishful thinking and real facts lies a great leap that can only be bridged using a myriad of resources. We label these the excellence repertoire. Based on 25 interviews with successful communication scholars, we show the key role of accumulating social, economic, and institutional capital in shaping the excellence repertoire. The study argues that the fetishization of productivity might jeopardize the traditional ethos of science, in a context where research excellence may be disconnected from the quality of education.
A comprehensive framework and tool for supporting progressive learning of software development in an academic learning environment

The use of technology‐enabled environments to facilitate online education has increasingly gained importance to promote learning. Tools like learning management systems, virtual laboratory platforms, online monitoring, and mentoring tools, all form a concrete technology bed for augmenting online education. However, successful use of these segregated tools is possible only through the implementation of a structured process or framework of usage of these tools for learning. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive framework for supporting progressive learning of software development by students. This framework provides guidelines for structuring individual and collaborative programming activities of students at various levels and is realized through the implementation of a tool named eGuru. This tool is used for managing, monitoring, mentoring, and facilitating collaborative programming activities of students and also provides a detailed user interface for facilitating the academic activities of teachers and lab instructors. Peers, alumni, and industry experts also play important roles in providing online mentoring using this tool. The execution structure proposed in the framework is effective not only for promoting online programming education but also creates a virtual environment analogous to the collaborative development environment existing in the software industry, and thus helps in preparing students for the future.
A Novel Three-Phase Power Flow Algorithm for the Evaluation of the Impact of Renewable Energy Sources and D-STATCOM Devices on Unbalanced Radial Distribution Networks

The impacts of the fast growth of renewable energy sources (RESs) and distribution static synchronous compensators (D-STATCOMs) on unbalanced radial distribution networks (URDNs) are analyzed with three-phase power flow algorithms (PFAs). As the URDNs are unbalanced, they can experience voltage unbalance (VU). This paper proposes a novel three-phase PFA for URDNs with multiple RES and D-STATCOM device integrations. The bus number matrix (BNM) and branch number matrix (BRNM) developed in this paper make the implementation of the proposed PFA simple. These matrices are developed to store the bus numbers and branch numbers of newly created sections of the URDN. Both PQ and PV modeling of RES and PV modeling of D-STATCOM devices are effectively integrated into the proposed three-phase PFA. The accuracy of the proposed PFA has been tested on the IEEE-13 bus URDN and the results are found to be accurate with the IEEE results. Several study examples have been conducted on the IEEE-13 bus and the IEEE-34 bus URDNs with multiple integrations of three-phase RESs and three-phase D-STATCOMs. Test results indicate that these integrations improve the voltage profile, reduce the power loss and reduce the severity of the VU.
The quality and antioxidant elucidation of germinated flaxseed treated with acidic electrolyzed water

Abstract The endogenous fortification of antioxidant lipid concomitants in flaxseed was imperative to improve the oxidative stability of α‐linolenic acid (ALA) in flaxseed and flaxseed oil upon processing, storage and gastrointestinal digestion. The comparative effects of acidic electrolyzed water (ACEW) and tap water (TW) on the triglyceride configuration, typical lipid concomitants, and antioxidant properties of flaxseed were conducted during 0–5 days of germination. The results showed that ACEW enhanced the germination rate of flaxseed by 18.25% and simultaneously suppressed the dynamic depletion of ALA by 5.32% when compared with TW (p < .05). The total phenolic acids, lignans, and flavonoids were effectively accumulated in flaxseed following ACEW‐mediated germination with the further increase by 4.82%, 15.48%, and 8.22% in comparison with those induced by TW (p < .05). The total contents of cyclolinopeptides in flaxseed progressively dropped following either ACEW or TW treatment, a slighter decrease by 5.59% for flaxseed treated by ACEW than that by TW. Notably, the maximum accumulation of tocopherols and phytosterols had been early obtained for flaxseed treated with ACEW for 2–3 days due to the de novo synthesis or intermolecular conformational transition (p < .05). Most importantly, ACEW‐mediated germination led to higher increment of the thermal oxidative stability and antioxidant properties of flaxseed and flaxseed oil in comparison to TW. In brief, the initial oxidation temperature increased by 7.09% and 3.06% (p < .05), and the antioxidant activities as evaluated by DPPH, ABTS, and FRAP values raised by 3.86%–28.07% and 4.21%–9.18% (p < .05), respectively. These findings clarify that the germination especailly mediated by ACEW could be an effective method to further optimize the nutritional and functional properties of flaxseed through reconstructing the endogenous antioxidant system.
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING OF Citrus sinensis(ORANGE) PEELS

To analyse qualitative and quantitative phytochemical and evaluate in vitro antioxidant properties of various alcoholic and aqueous extracts of Orange peel. Preliminary phytochemical analysis for alkaloids, cardiac glycosides, flavonoids, glycosides, phenols, resins, saponins, steroids, tannins, terpenoids and triterpenoids and quantitative phytochemical analysis for alkaloids, total phenolics, total flavonoids, tannins and saponins were made by following standard procedures. The quantitative phytochemical analysis of this species exhibited the presence of alkaloids, total phenolics, total flavonoids, tannins and saponins in considerable quantity.
Assessing Quality of a Business and Information Technology Alignment Large Enrollment Course

The alignment of Business and Information Technology (BITa) has permeated almost all companies today, mainly due to the benefits that are perceived in their effectiveness and efficiency of their processes, both internal and external. Therefore, higher education must ensure the best settings for equipping IT-related professionals with appropriate BITa knowledge and skills. Consequently, practices related to course quality assessment emerge as critical and helpful since they are capable of generating information to improve teaching and learning processes. This study aims to describe and discuss quality assessment paths for three essential aspects in a large enrollment BITa course: examinations’ design, workload
A Comprehensive Review on Seismocardiogram: Current Advancements on Acquisition, Annotation, and Applications

In recent years, cardiovascular diseases are on the rise, and they entail enormous health burdens on global economies. Cardiac vibrations yield a wide and rich spectrum of essential information regarding the functioning of the heart, and thus it is necessary to take advantage of this data to better monitor cardiac health by way of prevention in early stages. Specifically, seismocardiography (SCG) is a noninvasive technique that can record cardiac vibrations by using new cutting-edge devices as accelerometers. Therefore, providing new and reliable data regarding advancements in the field of SCG, i.e., new devices and tools, is necessary to outperform the current understanding of the State-of-the-Art (SoTA). This paper reviews the SoTA on SCG and concentrates on three critical aspects of the SCG approach, i.e., on the acquisition, annotation, and its current applications. Moreover, this comprehensive overview also presents a detailed summary of recent advancements in SCG, such as the adoption of new techniques based on the artificial intelligence field, e.g., machine learning, deep learning, artificial neural networks, and fuzzy logic. Finally, a discussion on the open issues and future investigations regarding the topic is included.
Review of Transit Data Sources: Potentials, Challenges and Complementarity

Public transport has become one of the major transport options, especially when it comes to reducing motorized individual transport and achieving sustainability while reducing emissions, noise and so on. The use of public transport data has evolved and rapidly improved over the past decades. Indeed, the availability of data from different sources, coupled with advances in analytical and predictive approaches, has contributed to increased attention being paid to the exploitation of available data to improve public transport service. In this paper, we review the current state of the art of public transport data sources. More precisely, we summarize and analyze the potential and challenges of the main data sources. In addition, we show the complementary aspects of these data sources and how to merge them to broaden their contributions and face their challenges. This is complemented by an information management framework to enhance the use of data sources. Specifically, we seek to bridge the gap between traditional data sources and recent ones, present a unified overview of them and show how they can all leverage recent advances in data-driven methods and how they can help achieve a balance between transit service and passenger behavior.
Transcriptome Analysis of Cambium Tissue of Paulownia Collected during Winter and Spring

Paulownia (Paulownia elongata) is a fast-growing, multipurpose deciduous hardwood species that grows in a wide range of temperatures from –30 °C to 45 °C. Seasonal cues influence the secondary growth of tree stems, including cambial activity, wood chemistry, and transition to latewood formation. In this study, a de novo transcriptome approach was conducted to identify the transcripts expressed in vascular cambial tissue from senescent winter and actively growing spring seasons. An Illumina paired-end sequenced cambial transcriptome generated 297,049,842 clean reads, which finally yielded 61,639 annotated unigenes. Based on non-redundant protein database analyses, Paulownia cambial unigenes shared the highest homology (64.8%) with Erythranthe guttata. KEGG annotation of 35,471 unigenes identified pathways enriched in metabolic activities. Transcriptome-wide DEG analysis showed that 2688 and 7411 genes were upregulated and downregulated, respectively, in spring tissues compared to winter. Interestingly, several transcripts encoding heat shock proteins were upregulated in the spring season. RT-qPCR expression results of fifteen wood-forming candidate genes involved in hemicellulose, cellulose, lignin, auxin, and cytokinin pathways showed that the hemicellulose genes (CSLC4, FUT1, AXY4, GATL1, and IRX19) were significantly upregulated in spring season tissues when compared to winter tissues. In contrast, lignin pathway genes CCR1 and CAD1 were upregulated in winter cambium. Finally, a transcriptome-wide marker analysis identified 11,338 Simple Sequence Repeat (SSRs). The AG/CT dinucleotide repeat predominately represented all SSRs. Altogether, the cambial transcriptomic analysis reported here highlights the molecular events of wood formation during winter and spring. The identification of candidate genes involved in the cambial growth provides a roadmap of wood formation in Paulownia and other trees for the seasonal growth variation.
Simultaneous Observation of Whistler Waves and Electron Cyclotron Harmonic Waves in the Separatrix Region of Magnetopause Reconnection

A variety of plasma waves have been observed in the separatrix region during magnetic reconnection, and their roles on reconnection and exciting mechanisms are still controversial. In this paper, we report the whistler wave with a very narrow frequency band just above half of the electron cyclotron frequency in the separatrix region. This whistler wave is accompanied with the electron cyclotron harmonic (ECH) waves. The ECH waves have frequencies between the first and fifth harmonic of electron cyclotron frequency fce . The wave normal angle of the whistler waves is ∼20°–∼40°, meaning the quasi‐parallel propagation, while the ECH waves propagate perpendicular to the background magnetic field with θ∼87°±2° . In the separatrix region, the electrons have a loss‐cone distribution while these two kinds of waves are observed. Based on the linear theory, such an electron distribution is unstable for both whistler waves and ECH waves. It indicates that these two kinds of waves are generated by the electron loss‐cone instability.