Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Traditional herbal remedies among the tribes of Bijagarh of West Nimar district, Madhya Pradesh

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in ethnomedicine, mainly due to the renewed interest in traditional herbal medicines. Ancient literature of world on medicines suggests that the primitive people of antiquity and those of earlier centuries have been using several kinds of food and medicinal plants for healthcare. Of 119 plants based drugs, today about 74% are from traditional medicine. It has been strongly recommended that all these plants, used by the folk-healers and ethnic societies of world should be scientifically investigated. Since last four decades considerable progress has been made in the field of ethnomedicine. A review of literature on ethnomedicine indicates that various workers have contributed from different parts of India including Madhya Pradesh, mainly limited to few districts of Balaghat, Jabalpur, Mandla and Sidhi. An ethnobotanical survey of Sirwel hills of Madhya Pradesh has been done in recent past. The present study deals with certain less known medicinal plants used by the tribal people of Bijagarh, located at 27°48' N and 75°33' E of Greenwich. Biogeographically, it is a part of Central India and situated about 120 Km away from Khandwa Central railway station towards South (Fig. 1).
Estrogen‐Containing Oral Contraceptives Are Associated With Polycystic Liver Disease Severity in Premenopausal Patients

The association between estrogen‐containing oral contraceptives and history of pregnancies with disease severity in women with polycystic liver disease (PLD) is unclear. We performed a cross‐sectional cohort study to assess this association by selecting female patients with PLD of which imaging was available prior to any liver volume‐reducing therapy. Patients received a questionnaire to collect detailed information on estrogen use and pregnancies. Preplanned subgroup analyses were performed on premenopausal and postmenopausal patients. The questionnaire was returned by 287 of 360 selected patients (80%). There was no significant association between estrogen‐containing oral contraceptives and height‐adjusted total liver volume (hTLV) in the total group (P = 0.06) and postmenopausal subgroup (P = 0.7). By contrast, each year of exposure corresponds with a 1.45% higher hTLV (P = 0.02) in the premenopausal subgroup, equivalent to a 15.5% higher hTLV for every 10 years of use. Pregnancy duration was not associated with hTLV. In conclusion, patients with PLD should avoid exogenous estrogens.
Top of the crystalline basement in the Levant

A structural map of depth to the top of the crystalline basement has been constructed for the Middle East continental and marine terrains by reviewing available relevant information on the Levant (deep boreholes, seismic profiles, and magnetic and gravity data (and adopting the regional compilation of Cornell University for the adjacent areas. This new compilation enabled significant upgrading of the Cornell University database for the Levant with emphasis on Israel. The present top of the crystalline basement map gives a good large‐ and medium‐scale overview on the basement relief of a complex area that includes (1) the African and Arabian continental platforms; (2) the Mesozoic Levant passive continental margins; (3) the Mesozoic Syrian arc and the Palmyrides fold belt and rifts; (4) the Cenozoic Cyprus collision zone; (5) the Alpine orogenic belt of Turkey; (6) the Red Sea oceanic spreading center and the Suez rift; and (7) the Dead Sea Transform.
Thermal Radiation, Joule Heating, and Viscous Dissipation Effects on MHD Forced Convection Flow with Uniform Surface Temperature

In this paper, we studied the effects of thermal radiation, Joule heating and viscous dissipation on forced convection flow in a magnetohydrodynamics (namely MHD) pump in rectangular channel with uniform surface temperature. Numerical results were obtained by solving the nonlinear governing momentum and energy equations with steady state fully developed assumptions by finite difference method. The Lorentz force in momentum and Joule heating, and viscous dissipation in energy equation with the Rossel and approximation are assumed to increase the knowledge of the details of the temperature and flow field in order to design a MHD pump. The purpose of this study is the parametric study of a Newtonian fluid in a MHD pump. The values of maximum velocity, fully developed Nusselt number for different values of magnetic density flux, Brinkman number, viscous heating and radiation number are obtained. However, the maximum temperature stays almost constant with magnetic field, as current increases, the velocity and the temperature increase too. Besides, the increase of thermal radiation number causes the increase in effective thermal conductivity and decrease in thermal boundary layer and the Nusselt number at wall.
Fingerprint Recognition using Gabor wavelet in MapReduce and Spark

Fingerprint recognition is one of the most popular biometric recognition methods nowadays. It is applicable in many areas including time recorder systems, criminal tracking, authentication and system security. However, one of the challenges to current traditional methods is the dependence on the minutiae extraction and recognition time. Hence, the limitations of these methods are that they do not effect to recognition in a large data environment. In addition, the processing of input image is very important for improving the accuracy of the recognition process. MapReduce technique is used in exploring and analyzing of large data that can not be processed on classical techniques due to some constraints on computer resources such as processing capability, memory, etc. We performed parallel processing in feature extraction and recognition with the MapReduce model in a Spark environment. we have also compared the accuracy and the runtime of our method before and after using MapReduce in the Spark. The experimental results show that the proposed method has achieved the automatic and effective fingerprint recognition.
The relationship between person-organization fit, organizational identification and work outcomes

The purpose of this research is to analyse the relationship of person-organization fit in hotels through organizational identification, job performance, production deviance behavior, and the intention to remain. To achieve this, first the literature was consulted to provide a conceptual model. Through conducting a face-to-face interview, a total of 582 questionnaires were collected from employees who were full-time employees of the five-star hotels operating within the Mugla region of Turkey. The data obtained from the survey was analysed via the statistics program; within this explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed within the framework of Structural Equation Modelling. The study concluded and identified, that external factors, namely "person-organization fit", have an effect on internal factors such as "organizational identification", "job performance", "production deviance" and the "intention to remain". The empirical results indicate that person-organization fit has a significant and positive influence on organizational identification, job performance and intention to remain, while has a significant and negative influence on production deviance behavior. The results also indicate that the organizational identification has an important effect on job performance, intention to remain and production deviance behavior.
Americas Conference on Information Systems ( AMCIS ) December 2002 THE COMBINED IMPACT OF PLACE POSTPONEMENT AND INFORMATION SHARING STRATEGIES ON REDUCING INFORMATION DISTORTION

Postponement strategy is one of the effective strategies to increase the supply chains responsiveness to product variations while information sharing strategy is a type of inter-organizations coordination that the participants share useful information among them to improve the chain-wide performance. One recent finding on postponement is that it can improve the demand information quality: the quality of demand forecast is improved as the forecasting point moves closer to the production period and more information is gathered during the delayed period. Meanwhile, sharing demand information in supply chain has been shown to improve the accuracy of estimating demand parameters. Since these two types of strategies affect demand parameters in different ways, it is valuable to analyze the combined impact of these two strategies, called information shared postponement strategy, on improving the supply chain performance. This paper studies the combined impact of place postponement and various information sharing strategies on reducing information distortion and provides an illustration of how these two strategies affect the demand parameters simultaneously. The result shows that place postponement, combined with demand information sharing strategy, may perform better on reducing information distortion than that of place postponement alone, whether it is better than informationsharing alone conditionally depends on lead-times before/after postponing among the participants in the chain.
Quantitative predictions of the μ(I) rheology in 2D and 3D granular column collapse: scaling laws and quasi-static vs. inertial regimes

We introduce an accurate numerical method for the computation of 2D and 3D granular collapse under gravity flows using the μ(I) rheology. We show that this rheology can capture the two experimentally observed types of spreading and the corresponding scaling laws, and we provide an accurate sensitivity analysis to rheological constants. Finally, we underline the role of time-dependency on the spreading dynamics.
Ants and plant size shape the structure of the arthropod community of Hirtella myrmecophila, an Amazonian ant‐plant

Abstract. 1. To investigate the influence of plant size and the presence of resident ants on the arthropod community associated with the ant‐plant Hirtella myrmecophila, ants (Allomerus octoarticulatus) were experimentally removed from plants of various sizes, with a second group of similar‐sized plants remaining as controls. The abundance and diversity of arthropods on these plants were determined at 45‐day intervals for 7 months. Collected arthropods were assigned into one of three predetermined groups: herbivores, spiders (mostly web‐building spiders), or ‘tourists’ (mostly non‐resident ants, hemipterans, dipterans, or scarabeid beetles).
Cross Cultural Difference Between Online Shoppers in London and Bangkok.

This study evaluates the attitudes of online shoppers living in London and Bangkok and the key variables influencing their behaviour. The extended TAM framework (Monsuwe et al, 2004) was used in this cross cultural setting. It was found that the extended TAM concept is very useful in measuring the behavioural intentions that are central to a consumer’s decision to shop online and supports other studies that have used the framework for measuring intentions to shop online. The findings suggest that the respondents generally show positive attitudes towards shopping online. Those who have already done so and are aware of some of the negative features are not put off. The implication for online retailers is that they should focus on making the experience more accommodating and more user-friendly, as the positive features of online shopping (‘convenience’, ‘usefulness’, ’ease of use’, and ‘efficiency’) appear to be more important than the negative features (‘lack of security’, ‘privacy of information’ and ‘online fraud’).
In vitro propagation of Drosera intermedia as influenced by cytokinins, pH, sucrose, and nutrient concentration.

This study was aimed to optimize in vitro propagation of Drosera intermedia for commercial and conservation purposes. The effect of concentration of MS nutrients (⅛ MS, ¼ MS, ½ MS and, MS), various pH (3.7-7.7), sucrose concentration (10-40 g l -1 ) and cytokinins (0.1-3 mg l -1 ), namely BA (N6-benzyladenine), kinetin and zeatin were evaluated. After 60 days of shoot cultivation, growth and developmental characteristics (plant height, number of shoots per explant, diameter of rosette, number of roots per explant, length of roots) were recorded. No significant differences were found for various levels of pH and sucrose. On the contrary, plant height was negatively influenced by an increase of nutrients in the medium. The plants on 1/8 MS medium were significantly taller, and displayed higher proliferation capacity compared with those cultivated on full-strength MS medium. Shoot multiplication and growth was suppressed by supplementation of BA and kinetin, regardless of concentration used. Zeatin at the lowest concentration (0.1 mg l -1 ) provided the best results for shoot proliferation of all 26 treatments and can be recommended for micropropagation of D. intermedia.
Observations of the 5‐day planetary wave in PMC measurements from the Student Nitric Oxide Explorer Satellite

The Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE) satellite has been observing Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMCs) since 1998 and has successfully measured seven PMC seasons. In the summer seasons, the Ultraviolet Spectrometer (UVS) limb measurements include detections of PMCs between 80 – 90 km. SNOE observations of PMCs have a significant advantage over other PMC measurements in that it can observe them globally each day. Because SNOE orbits the earth 15 times a day, daily global images of PMC brightness may be produced. Variations in the PMC brightness with a 5‐day period are observed from the measurements. The 5‐day wave is observed in both the northern and southern hemisphere polar summers at high latitudes. This is the first direct global scale wave analysis performed on PMC measurements and indicates the effects of dynamics on PMC formation.
Learning Local History in Pekalongan to Increase Solidarity of Vocational High School Students

Local history has role in building of student’s solidarity. The solidarity focuses on the relationship among people in group and becomes the basic of life bounding with moral values and belief. Patriotic values in local history will be eternal if are applied in daily life so that can give the respond and answer the changing life. In this case the learning of local history has a strategic role to increase the social solidarity of vocational students. The method used in this research is qualitative descriptive. Based on the result of the research, student solidarity can be improved through the inculcation of local history learning values that is the Kebon Rojo incident on 3 October 1945 in Pekalongan. It can describe about the struggle of Pekalongan people in defending the independency of Indonesia by taking over the power and weapon from Japan. The patriotic values can be applied in daily life through education so that education can be seen as the effort to strengthen the nationality, religiousness, and solidarity.
Early- to late-summer population growth and prey consumption by age-0 pollock (Theragra chalcogramma), in two years of contrasting pollock abundance near the Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea

Acoustic survey data were used to estimate the abundance and distribution of age-0 walleye pollock and zooplankton near the Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea, nursery area at two time periods in two consecutive years: the beginning of August, and mid-September, of 1996 and 1997. The 1996 pollock year class ultimately produced a large adult cohort in the eastern Bering Sea, while the 1997 year class produced a belowaverage adult cohort. Acoustic densities of age-0 pollock were significantly lower in August ‐ and declined more strongly from August to September ‐ in 1997 than in 1996, indicating that the trend to adult cohort strength was already set by August. Diet composition analyses revealed that age-0 pollock ate a much higher proportion of euphausiids in 1997 than in 1996, despite lower acoustic abundance of euphausiids in 1997. We infer that in 1996, age-0 pollock experienced greater feeding success by August, with high concentrations of copepods available for smaller fish to consume, and high concentrations of euphausiids available for larger individuals. In 1997, age-0 pollock had lower body condition in August and may have been limited by the availability of small (<2 mm) copepods. Bioenergetic modeling of prey consumption did not indicate a likelihood that age-0 pollock would begin to deplete euphausiids until late August in 1996, and not at all between August and mid-September in 1997.
A Performance Analysis of TMN Systems Using Models of Networks of Queues, Jackson's Theorem, and Simulation

We analyze the performance of a telecommunications management network (TMN) system using models of networks of queues, Jackson's theorem, and simulation. TMN systems for managing public asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks generally have a four‐level hierarchical structure consisting of a network management system, a few element management systems (EMSs), and several pairs of agents and ATM switches. We construct a Jackson's queuing network and present formulae to calculate its performance measures: distributions of queue lengths and waiting times, mean message response time, and maximum throughput. We perform a numerical analysis and a simulation analysis and compare the results.
Eradication of two incursions of the Red Imported Fire Ant in Queensland, Australia

Of the five known incursions of the highly invasive Red Imported Fire Ant in Australia, two are regarded to have been eradicated. As treatment efforts continue, and the programme evolves and new tools become available, eradication is still considered to be feasible for the remaining Red Imported Fire Ant populations with long-term commitment and support.
THE INFLUENCE OF METALS ON THE ANTIOXIDANT ENZYME , SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE , PRESENT IN THE CYANOBACTERIUM

Cyanobacteria have a highly evolved antioxidant system that catalyzes the harmful oxy radicals produced during photosynthesis. The differential response of superoxide dismutase (SOD), nitrogenase, growth and physiological processes in the presence of four different metals ions at varying concentrations were investigated in the heterocystous cyanobacterium, Anabaena variabilis Kütz. Growth and enzyme activities were influenced by the metal ions. SOD activity was optimum at 100 mcM concentration of FeSO4 but nitrogenase activity decreased in the presence of the metal ions. SOD activities increased with increasing concentrations of MnSO4 while nitrogenase activities decreased when compared with control. In the presence of CuSO4, all the enzyme activities were increased compared with control and optimal enzyme activity was observed at 300 mcM concentration. In the presence of ZnSO4, nitrogenase and glutamine synthetase activities reduced with increasing concentrations of the metal salt while SOD activity increased in direct proportion with metal concentration. The differential expression of FeSOD and MnSOD in the cells of A. variabilis were also investigated by electrophoresis and are presented in this paper.
Geographic Distribution of Common and Dwarf Bunt Resistance in Landraces of Triticum aestivum subsp. aestivum

Landrace accessions of wheat (Triticum aestivum L. subsp. aestivum) from the USDA-ARS National Small Grains Collection (NSGC) have been tested systematically for the past 25 yr for disease resistance. We analyzed the resistance of 10 759 common wheat ac- cessions to common bunt (CB) caused by Tilletia tritici (Bjerk.) Wint. and T. laevis Kuhn, and 8167 to dwarf bunt (DB) caused by T. controversa Kuhn with respect to geographic origin, relationship to color of awn, glume, and kernel of accessions, and phenotypic var- iation within areas of high frequency of resistance. A clear center of concentration was evident for CB resistance extending from Serbia andMontenegrothroughMacedonia,Turkey,andIranwiththehighest frequency of resistance occurring in Kosovo province in Serbia and Montenegro (36%) and Bakhtaran province in Iran (40.8%). Com- pared to CB resistance (5.5% of total tested), DB resistance was more rare (1.3% of total tested). DB resistance was concentrated in acces- sions from Iran, Turkey, and Serbia and Montenegro with the highest frequency (58%) occurring in Hakkari province in southeastern Turkey. CB resistance was positively associated with lightly pigmented kernels and negatively associated with lightly pigmented awns and glumes. Analysis of accessions from areas with unusually high fre- quency of resistance suggested that DB resistant accessions from Hakkari are genetically diverse, whereas CB resistant accessions from Bakhtaran may be much less so.
PREPARATION AND EVALUATION OF MICROEMULSION CONTAINING ANTIHYPERTENSIVE DRUG

Objective: The aim of the present study was to design novel drug delivery system containing ramipril microemulsion. Ramipril is an antihypertensive drug having very low aqueous solubility and bioavailability. Ramipril microemulsion could be used as a possible alternative to the traditional oral formulation to improve dissolution rate and hence its bioavailability with avoidance of the first-pass metabolism.Methods: The microemulsion existence region was determined by constructing pseudoternary phase diagram and prepared by using four components orange oil, tween 80 as a surfactant, propylene glycol as co-surfactant and distilled water as the aqueous phase. The water titration method was employed for its determination. All formulated microemulsion were subjected for visual inspection, centrifugation and stability test. The all stable formulations were selected for further study.The optimized microemulsion formulation B-9 was subjected for various evaluation parameters such as, visual inspection, stability studies, pH, viscosity measurements, electrical conductivity, content uniformity and dye solubility test.Results: Results revealed that construction of phase diagram and use of phase titration method was a suitable technique for the preparation of microemulsion as most of the formulations were transparent. It was found that the best microemulsion result was found for ratio 2:1. The results of stress tests conclude that the optimized formulation was both physically and chemically stable for 8 mo. Also, The Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) radiation measurement and Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of optimized formulation indicate the compatibility of ramipril with orange oil, surfactant-tween 80 and cosurfactant-propylene glycol. From electrical conductivity 0.283 σ and staining test the prepared optimized formulation B-9 was found to be o/w type of microemulsion. The optimized B-9 formulation showed good viscosity 13.52±0.01cps and pH 3.21±0.02 with highest drug content uniformity was found to be 84.98±0.02 %. Conclusion: In the present study a satisfactory attempt was made to formulate a novel o/w microemulsion of ramipril which improves the gastrointestinal absorption by raising its water solubility and hence oral bioavailability is also enhanced.