Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
HvGCN2 silencing in barley displays enhanced Blumeria graminis f. sp hordei susceptibility

Paper description: Arabidopsis thaliana GCN2 ( AtGCN2 ) was shown to be involved in disease resistance against biotrophic and necrotrophic pathogens, suggesting a similar role for Hordeum vulgare GCN2 ( HvGCN2 ). This is the first study showing the potential importance of HvGCN2 in powdery mildew disease of barley. Under susceptible condition, powdery mildew development was increased in HvGCN2 silenced plants compared to control plants, supported both by hyphal length and number of germinated spores. However, no difference was observed between HvGCN2 -silenced and control plants under resistant condition. Abstract: Powdery mildew disease, caused by Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei ( Bgh ), which belongs to the order Erysiphales, is a major crop disease. The general control nondepressible-2 ( GCN2 ) gene of barley was previously found to be overexpressed during the powdery mildew resistance response. Recently, Arabidopsis thaliana GCN2 ( AtGCN2 ) was shown to be involved in disease resistance against biotrophic and necrotrophic pathogens. In order to understand the function of Hordeum vulgare GCN2 ( HvGCN2 ) in the barley powdery mildew resistance response, this gene was silenced by barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV), mediated by virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS). This is the first study showing the potential importance of HvGCN2 in powdery mildew disease of barley. Based on our observations, when HvGCN2 was silenced on average by 53.5%, Bgh development was increased by 18.7 to 32.1%, which was determined by primary, secondary and longest hyphae measurements. The number of germinated spores also increased 2.8-fold in HvGCN2 silenced plants compared to control plants (BSMV:00). On the other hand, under the resistant condition, no difference was observed in HvGCN2 -silenced plants compared to non-silenced lines although the gene was found to be overexpressed in incompatible interaction. https://doi.org/10.2298/ABS171017012O Received: October 17, 2017; Revised: February 20, 2018; Accepted: March 20, 2018; Published onlione: March 29, 2018 How to cite this article: Ozturk IK, Ersoy F, Akkaya MS. HvGCN2 silencing in barley displays enhanced Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei susceptibility. Arch Biol Sci. 2018;70(3):…
Employee green performance of job: a systematic attempt towards measurement

Though there is a growing interest among academicians and practitioners in respect of green aspects of Human Resource Management (HRM) there is a gap in the theoretical as well as empirical knowledge about environmental related job performance of an employee in an organization. A systematic review of literature reveals that less attention has been paid in valuing, developing, measuring and making use of employee green performance of job by the organizations even though this phenomenon exists in practice. The objectives of this paper are: to introduce a key concept called „employee green performance of job, to define it nominally, and to identify key dimensions of the concept for the purpose of measuring it in reality based on systematic review of literature. Our attempt resulted in identifying three key dimensions and eleven elements which will be useful for developing an instrument to measure the concept.
Ergonomic Assessment for Manual Materials Handling of Livestock Feed by Elderly Farmers in Korea

Objective: The purpose of the study is to evaluate appropriate weight for aged farmers in manually handling livestock feed in bags using ergonomic methods. Background: In the livestock industry in South Korea, despite the trend of aging of labor manpower, heavy items are still manually handled in many farms. In particular, among stockbreeding works, the handling of feed in bags weighing 25~30kg is reported as a cause of frequent injuries and musculoskeletal system diseases. However, studies on the standard for recommended weight allowed considering the physical characteristics of aged farmers older than 60 years with greatly decreased physical strength and muscle strength are insufficient. Method: To evaluate appropriate weight for handling of heavy livestock feed in bags, physical techniques for measuring recognized levels of physical work loads, the NLE (NIOSH lifting equation) a method that is an observation type technique, and an ergonomic modeling technique to predict compressive force imposed on L5/S1 were used. Subjects who participated in the experiment were organized into two groups of males/females with mean age exceeding 60 years, and lifting tasks were evaluated for nine weight levels. Results: Based on the results of psychophysical measurement, females showed a tendency of more drastic increases compared to males when weight was over 19kg. The results of estimation of regression models for the weight, 18.0 kg (r²=0.97) and 15.3kg (r²=0.97) were evaluated as stable load for males and females, respectively. In addition, both the observation type evaluation and ergonomic model evaluation showed stable loads in a range of 15~18kg. Conclusion: Given the results of the study, the weight of the feed in bags currently distributed to farms can become a cause of not only overexertion but also farm work related disasters such as musculoskeletal disorders and safety accidents. Providing livestock feed in bags weighing not more than 19kg for aged farmers is judged desirable, and managerial improvement for this matter is considered necessary. Application: The results of the present study can be utilized as useful data for institutional improvement of the weight of livestock feed in bags.
Object Removal Using Super-Resolution-Based In-Painting

In-painting is the process of reconstructing lost or deteriorated part of images based on the background information. Image in-painting fills the missing or damaged region in an image, utilizing information of its neighboring region. In-painting algorithm has numerous applications. Such as, it can be used for restoration of old films and object removal in digital photographs. The user select a specific region (target region) to be removed from the image. Super resolution reconstruction algorithm produces high resolution image from sequence of low resolution images. The main aim of super resolution is to improve visual quality of
PREPARATION AND EVALUATION OF GASTRO RETENTIVE FLOATING TABLETS: OF QUETIAPINE FUMARATE

The present study is performed by preparation and evaluation of floating tablets of quetiapine fumigate as model drug for prolongation of gastric residence time. Floating effervescent tablets were formulated by various materials like hydroxypropyl methylcellulose HPMC ( K4M , K100M, KE15, PLAIN ) , Sodium CMC, PVPK 30, crospovidone, Ethylcellulose, MCC, PGMS, polymers with excipients sodium bicarbonate ,citric acid, lactose, magnesium stearate and talc and evaluated for floating properties, hardness, friability, dissolution, tap density and in vitro drug release studies. The gastro-retentive delivery systems of Quetiapine fumarate were successfully developed in the form of hydrodynamically balanced tablets to improve the local action and its bioavailability, which reduces the wastage of drug and ultimately improves the solubility for drugs that are less soluble in high pH environment thereby improving h, the patient compliance.
Solutions for Optimizing the Monte Carlo Option Pricing Method’s Implementation Using the Compute Unified Device Architecture

Finance-related problems require more and more computations; therefore, the problem of finding efficient implementations for option pricing models on modern architectures has become an important challenge. Although there are numerous implementations of the Monte Carlo method on central processing units, many of them face limitations arising from the necessary increased computational power. In this paper, we have implemented the Monte Carlo approach to option pricing using the Compute Unified Device Architecture and its optimization solutions.
Nonuniform Dust, Oppenheimer-Snyder, and a Singular Detour to Nonsingular Physics

Oppenheimer and Snyder treated in "comoving coordinates" a finite-radius ball of self-gravitationally contracting dust whose energy density is initially static; this is incisively dealt with by use of Tolman's rarely-cited closed-form "comoving" metric solutions for all spherically-symmetric nonuniform dust distributions. Unaware of Tolman's general solutions, Oppenheimer and Snyder assumed that the uniform space-filling dust solution applies without modification to the interior of their dust ball, which is validated by Tolman's solutions. We also find that all nonuniform dust solutions which adhere to the Oppenheimer-Snyder initial conditions have a time-cycloid character that strikingly parallels Newtonian particle gravitational infall, and as well renders those solutions periodically singular. The highly intricate, and thus easily misapprehended, singular transformation of the Oppenheimer-Snyder dust-ball solution from "comoving" to "standard" coordinates is re-derived in detail; it reveals the completely nonsingular nature of the dust-ball metric in "standard" coordinates. Thus the periodically-singular quasi-Newtonian character of the "comoving" dust-ball metric is an artifact of the perceptibly unphysical "synthetic" nature of "comoving coordinates", whose definition requires the clocks of an infinite number of observers.
Creating a new program in entrepreneurship education: A case study in colombia

Entrepreneurship has been widely recognized as having greatly influenced the United States. Its influence has especially been documented over the past 20 years. Paralleling our societal interest in entrepreneurship has been increasing interest in entrepreneurship education. While our interest in entrepreneurship education has grown considerably over the past two decades, this field of study continues to have critics both within and outside of schools and colleges of business (Kuratko 2004). In spite of these criticisms, some researchers suggest that the United States is still far ahead of other regions of the world in terms of entrepreneurial education (Solomon et al. 1998). Using entrepreneurship education in the United States as a point of departure, this article uses a case study to analyze the efforts of a private university in Bogota, Colombia, to create a new program in entrepreneurship. The Colombian Legislature passed Law 590 in July 2000 as a means to promote and develop entrepreneurship in the nation. Shortly thereafter a private university in Bogota started a new program in entrepreneurship. At the university's invitation, a small number of faculty from U.S. universities participated in the school's “kick-off” efforts. The paper offers analysis and recommendations based on five criteria: 1) What is taught, 2) Why it is taught, 3) How it is taught, 4) How well it works, and 5) Leadership support. In addition, rather than simply adopting a U.S. or European model of entrepreneurship education, the authors propose that they should develop a center that integrates lessons from other models with elements that are relevant to the local situation.
Just Like the Universe the Emergence of Life had High Enthalpy and Low Entropy Beginnings

Life was forced into being to resolve the disequilibrium between atmospheric carbon dioxide and the reduced (electron-rich) solid surface of our planet. Metabolic pathways that hydrogenate carbon dioxide and the phylogenies of selected metalloenzymes that are involved in the synthesis of acetate or methane from CO 2 and H 2 are considered with respect to the initial conditions at ~ 4.3Ga along with the availability of the requisite mineral clusters then in an effort to understand the mechanisms by which life first emerged. A congruence exists between the structures of minerals likely to have been available to the roots of life’s evolutionary tree and the metalloenzymes with the longest
Operational research of adsorption chiller aggregate utilizing heat from district heating to produce chilled water for air conditioning

Heat distribution networks are complexed structures being a combination of pipes of various diameters, which carry the heat, by a thermodynamic factor, from the source producing the network heat to its terminal receivers. The heat is used to technological, warming and municipal purposes. The basic problem of heat distribution networks in summer season is the decrease in the demand for heat, which is mostly used for preparing domestic warm water. A discussion on the possibility of increasing heat distribution networks load by utilization the heat to produce chilled water by using absorptive as well as adsorptive aggregates has taken place for a couple of years. In Scandinavian counties the interest is particularly visible, mainly because of higher temperatures of the heating factor [17]. The data shown in publications [7, 13] are a proof of an increasing tendency of network coolants supplies. In the majority of Polish cities, too low temperature of distribution network water, which in summer season varies from 66 to 70°C in the source, and in fact is 8°C lower reaching the receiver, restricts the usage of adsorptive air conditioning systems working in decentralized units. The minimum temperature of a factor which supplies absorptive, bromine-lithium refrigerators is about 72°C, whereas the effective work is possible at temperatures 85-90°C [20]. Increasing the temperature of a heating factor to parameters 90/55°C, typical for Scandinavian countries, would lead to increasing the heat loss during the transfer [21, 22]. The problem of low temperature of water supplying sorptive cooling aggregates in summer season do not apply to silica gel adsorptive appliances, whose performance is possible for a heating factor at temperatures just above 55°C. Designing and development of adsorptive cooling systems, based on the usage of silica gel and sulfur dioxide began in the 20th of the previous century [14]. A modification of the construction and applying various pairs of adsorbent-adsorbate have been done in order Emil STAńczyk Bolesław kArwAT ryszard MAchnik Jerzy niEdźwiEdzki
Computer-aided control of high-quality cast iron

The study discusses the possibility of control of the high-quality grey cast iron and ductile iron using the author’s genuine computer programs. The programs have been developed with the help of algorithms based on statistical relationships that are said to exist between the characteristic parameters of DTA curves and properties, like Rp0,2, Rm, A5 and HB. It has been proved that the spheroidisation and inoculation treatment of cast iron changes in an important way the characteristic parameters of DTA curves, thus enabling a control of these operations as regards their correctness and effectiveness, along with the related changes in microstructure and mechanical properties of cast iron. Moreover, some examples of statistical relationships existing between the typical properties of ductile iron and its control process were given for cases of the melts consistent and inconsistent with the adopted technology. A test stand for control of the high-quality cast iron and respective melts has been schematically depicted.
Real-time flow forecasting.

The Chapter discusses the modelling of rainfall-flow (rainfall-runoff) and flow routing processes in river systems within the context of real-time flood forecasting. It is argued that deterministic, reductionist (or ‘bottom-up’) models are inappropriate for real-time forecasting because of the inherent uncertainty that characterizes river catchment dynamics and the problems of model over-parametrization. The advantages of alternative, efficiently parameterized Data-Based Mechanistic (DBM) models, identified and estimated using statistical methods, are discussed. It is shown that such models are in an ideal form for incorporation in a real-time, adaptive data assimilation and forecasting system based on recursive state space estimation (an adaptive version of the stochastic Kalman Filter algorithm). An illustrative example, based on the analysis of daily data from the ephemeral Canning River in SW Australia, demonstrates the utility of this methodology and illustrates the advantages of incorporating real-time state and parameter adaption.
Performance Study of Satellite Image Processing on Graphics Processors Unit Using CUDA

High resolution satellite images are now widely used for a variety of mapping applications including photogrammetry, GIS data acquisition and visualization. As the spectral and spatial data size of satellite images increases, a greater processing power is needed to process the images. The solution of these problems is parallel systems. Parallel processing techniques have been developed for improving the performance of image processing along with the development of the computational power. However, conventional CPU-based parallel computing is often not good enough for the demand for computational speed to process the images. The GPU is a good candidate to achieve this goal. Recently GPUs are used in the field of highly complex processing including many loop operations such as mathematical transforms, ray tracing. In this study we proposed a technique for parallel processing of high resolution satellite images using GPU. We implemented a spectral radiometric processing algorithm on Landsat-7 ETM+ imagery using CUDA, a parallel computing architecture developed by NVIDIA for GPU. Also performance of the algorithm on GPU and CPU is compared.
arthworm richness in land-use systems in Santa Catarina , Brazil

Brazil is a megadiverse country from which around 10% of all species are known. However, many areas in Brazil have not been adequately studied, particularly for soil animals. This includes the state of Santa Catarina, where only 18 of the approximately 300 known Brazilian earthworm species occur, and where very little is known of the impacts of land use management on earthworm populations (density and diversity). Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate earthworm species richness in five different land-use systems (LUS) with increasing anthropogenic impact: native forest (NF), eucalyptus plantation (EP), pasture (PA), integrated crop-livestock (ICL) and no-tillage cropping (NT), in six counties, three each from the Western and Plateau regions of the state. Nine monoliths of 25 cm × 25 cm × 20 cm depth were sampled at each site and worms hand sorted. Qualitative samples were also taken by digging at least 20 holes per site to improve the likelihood of collecting rare species. Samples were taken in the Winter and Summer months of 2011–2012 (July–August 2011, December 2011–January 2012). Contrary to expectations, species richness was higher in LUS with higher (ICL and NT = 15 and 17 spp.) vs. lower anthropogenic impacts (EP, PA, NF = 9–10 spp.), mainly due to the presence of exotic species in the cropping systems. Native species predominated in PA and NF, although natives were also found in highly disturbed ecosystems (NT, ICL) and in the West region all worms collected in NT were native. In total 24 species were identified in all LUS, with 19 native species, including several that were new to science. Several species were collected exclusively in each region, and overall qualitative samples yielded 24 species while quantitative samples only 16. Therefore, qualitative sampling appears to be more effective in determining earthworm species richness at regional levels, although quantitative samples are a useful addition when LUS are compared within a region, and if abundance and diversity index calculations are needed. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
An Analysis of Beck Depression Inventory 2ndEdition (BDI-II)

Current literatures revealed a wide-ranging evidence of the measurement of depression in both research and practice areas are necessary in understanding its extensive impact on individual’s health and quality of life. Depression has significant consequences in daily life and constitutes a major threat to chronic diseases [1]. The progressive decrements in function associated with many chronic medical illnesses may cause depression, and it is also associated with additive functional impairment [2]. As of other physical illnesses depression symptoms are highly prevalent in end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients yet it is still under-recognized and misdiagnosed [3,4]. It is often associated with adverse outcomes including mortality and non-adherence to medical treatment [3,5]. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a 21-item, self-report rating inventory that measures characteristic attitudes and symptoms of depression [6]. Beck Depression Inventory 2nd edition (BDI–II) is one of the most commonly used instruments in research and practice to measure the presence and severity of depression experienced during the past 2 weeks [7,8]. It is still a 21 item self-report inventory that reflect cognitive, affective and somatic components of depression, utilized in adolescents and adults [8-11]. Even though the original BDI relied upon the theoretical assumption that negativistic distorted cognitions would be the core characteristic of depression, the BDI-II does not reflect any particular theory of depression [12]. However, the BDI-II has been recently upgraded from BDI and the BDI-1A to make its symptom content more consistent with the diagnostic criteria used for major depressive disorders [13,14]. In the revision, the wording of all but three items has been changed from that of the BDI-IA for clarity [15]. The BDI-II contains four new symptoms, `agitation’, `worthlessness’, `concentration difficulty’ and `loss of energy’. The ‘weight losses, `body image change’, `work difficulty’ and `somatic preoccupation’ symptoms from the BDI-IA were dropped [8,12,13]. Additionally, the 1-week time frame for rating each item was changed to 2 weeks and the response options for 14 old items were also revised [16]. Moreover, the items on appetite and sleep change were amended to evaluate the increase and decrease of these depression-related behaviors [12].
A General Result on the Mean Integrated Squared Error of the Hard Thresholding Wavelet Estimator under -Mixing Dependence

We consider the estimation of an unknown function <path id="x1D453" d="M619 670q0 -13 -9 -26t-18 -19q-13 -10 -25 2q-36 38 -66 38q-31 0 -54.5 -50t-45.5 -185h120l-20 -31l-107 -12q-23 -138 -57 -293q-27 -122 -55 -184.5t-75 -109.5q-60 -61 -114 -61q-25 0 -47.5 15t-22.5 31q0 17 31 44q11 8 20 -1q10 -11 31 -19t35 -8q26 0 47 19 q34 34 71 253l54 315h-90l-3 12l31 30h70q28 138 90 204q35 37 75 57.5t70 20.5q26 0 45 -14t19 -28z" /> for weakly dependent data ( -mixing) in a general setting. Our contribution is theoretical: we prove that a hard thresholding wavelet estimator attains a sharp rate of convergence under the mean integrated squared error (MISE) over Besov balls without imposing too restrictive assumptions on the model. Applications are given for two types of inverse problems: the deconvolution density estimation and the density estimation in a GARCH-type model, both improve existing results in this dependent context. Another application concerns the regression model with random design.