Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of Residue Management and Cropping Systems on Wheat Yield Stability in a Semiarid Mediterranean Clay Soil

Agriculture is the single biggest user of land and water in Morocco; however its performances are still low due to high rainfall variation and rates of soil productivity depletion. Increasing concerns about soil and environment quality degradation have raised the need to review existing tillage management systems and develop new systems for seed-bed preparation. Consequently, No-tillage is found a promising practice of soil management to improve simultaneously soil quality and wheat production in semiarid Morocco. However, residue management under No-tillage was not yet studied in conjunction with wheat rotation. Therefore, a field study was conducted in the semiarid Chaouia Plain of Morocco during the period from 1994 to 2003, in order to evaluate the impacts of different tillage practices (conventional tillage (CT), No-tillage (NT)); No-tillage wheat residue management scenarios (total NTr, partial NTp and No-removal of residues NTm) and crop rotations (continuous wheat (CW), Wheat-Fallow (WF), Wheat-Maize-Fallow (WMF), Wheat-Lentil-Fallow (WLF) and Wheat-Barley-Fallow (WBF)) on wheat production. Over-years, conventional tillage system permitted lower yield of wheat while NT maintenance of crop residue at the surface is needed to increase it. Basically, NTp could be adopted in mixed crop-livestock systems of semiarid areas for the purpose of guarantying grain and feed. Wheat yields were the lowest under continuous wheat for all years. Wheat-fallow rotation is an important option in dry years or areas, while wheat-fallow-lentil or barley rotations are recommended in better environments. Stability analysis indicated that yields in the No-tillage system were less influenced by adverse growing conditions than conventional tillage system, particularly under low rainfall. These results indicate that improved soil quality under No-tillage enhanced wheat yield stability by reducing the impact of adverse growing conditions.
Significance of galactomannan antigen for aspergillosis diagnosis: A review

Invasive aspergillosis is one the major causes of death in hematopoietic and solidtransplantrecipients. One of the most critical problems in medical mycology is theinability to consistently make a convincing and early diagnosis of invasive fungalinfection. Conventional diagnosis methods such as culture-based approaches are limitedby the insufficient accessibility sensitivity and the non-culture-based approaches based onthe detection of specific fungal antigens, fungal metabolites, and fungal DNA are limitedby the slow speed of analysis. Early diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis is the maincomplication in its treatment. Galactomannan is a polysaccharide present in the cell wallof Aspergillus species. This carbohydrate is released into the serum during the invasion ofAspergillus. Recently, a double-sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)was developed for detecting galactomannan antigenemia in the serum. This assay is animportant advancement in the nonculture diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis. The level ofgalactomannan in the serum may be an important indication of therapeutic response. Inthis review, the role of galactomannan in the diagnosis of IA and its significance has beenhighlighted.
Synthesis of Bioethanol from Artocarpus Heterophyllus Peel by Fermentation using Saccharomyces Cerevisiae at Low Cost

The most common way to produce bio-ethanol is fermenting raw materials using suitable microorganism. For this fermentation process to produce ethanol from Artocarpus Heterophyllus which is generally known as jack fruit, Saccharomyces Cerevisiae is used as a microorganism. Saccharomyces is used to produce high yield of ethanol due to its naturally adopting property and its high tolerance rate of ethanol and chemical inhibitor. Ethanol, unlike gasoline, is an oxygenated fuel that contains 35% of oxygen, which reduces particulate and Nitrogen Oxide emission from combustion. Ethanol can be made synthetically from petroleum or by microbial conversion of biomass through fermentation process. The main types of raw materials for ethanol production using biological method are cellulose, carbohydrate and sugar. Ethanol production procedures from biomass which are rich in carbohydrates, consists of feedstock preparation or pretreatment, hydrolysis, fermentation and product separation and purification. In this work, jackfruit peel is taken as a substrate due to its high carbohydrate content. The essential hydrolysis and fermentation step, which provides fermentable sugar and ethanol, can be carried out by using enzyme or microorganism. This is carried out using Saccharomyces Cerevisiae generally known as bakery yeast which has been used traditionally for fermented food and alcoholic drink production. KeywordsEthanol, Artocarpus Heterophyllus, Fermentation, Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Micro Organism
Imagerie acoustique instationnaire par retournement temporel en environnement complexe

Le processus d’imagerie par retournement temporel est une technique largement utilisee pour realiser de la localisation et caracterisation de source acoustique. Dans ce papier, differentes ameliorations sont proposees afin que l’efficacite et la precision de cette technique d’imagerie instationnaire soient independantes des conditions de mesure. Les differentes ameliorations proposees ont ete developpees en tirant avantage de l’utilisation d’une antenne de mesure hemispherique double-couche, permettant l’enregistrement simultanee du champ de pression et de sa derivee normale. Le processus d’imagerie par retournement temporel a ete optimise dans le but de reconstruire un champ de pression avec une grande precision temps-espace et une qualite de haute resolution. Une etude experimentale menee en chambre reverberante et bruite (faible rapport signal-a-bruit) met en evidence la capacite de la methode proposee pour retropropager, avec une grande precision temps-espace, un champ de pression rayonne par une source acoustique instationnaire presente dans un volume delimite par une surface de mesure.
The use of microsatellite markers in the annual and perennial Cicer species growing in Turkey

Several types of molecular markers have been used in plant breeding and genetic diversity for a wide range of applications. Generally, single-locus co-dominant markers are preferred, because they make it possible to tag and map the same loci in many different populations and even species. Probably the best markers in this respect are microsatellites. The analysis based on microsatellites in our study has revealed the usefulness of these markers in the identification of polymorphism in chickpea genome, which was earlier thought to be less polymorphic. Such markers will be highly efficient in identifying specific markers linked to the trait of interest. The plant material used in this study included 43 wild and 2 cultivated Cicer accessions representing annual and perennial Cicer with distribution in Turkey. Ten STMS primers were selected from Cicer species depending on their ability to amplify genomic DNA in all species. Separation of the PCR products on agarose gels revealed single bands of the expected size with 10 of the primer pairs. DNA from C. arietinum, C. reticulatum, C. echinospermum, C. pinnatifidum, C. bijugum ,a ndC. anatolicum amplified with the primers GA2, GA24, TA13, GAA47, TA46, TA130, TA72, TA146, TS54, TS72 respectively, were sequenced and compared with the chickpea sequence. The DNA of one accession for each species has been amplified with 45 chickpea-derived STMS primer pairs. Amplification resulted either in the presence or absence of products. For other STMS loci, only three STMS/species combinations were successful which could be used as specific markers (GAA47, TS54 and TA72). We examined whether and to which extent STMS primers designed for the cultigen could also be applied to genome analysis of wild Cicer species
COMBINED EFFECTS OF DROUGHT AND PHOSPHOROUS DEFICIENCY ON PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL INDICES OF SOYBEAN PLANTS

An outdoor pot experiment was carried out to determine the combined effect of water stress and phosphorous (P) deficiency in soil on physiological and biochemical indices of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr. ). The soil used was collected at a depth of 10 -30 cm of a long-term field experiment with a suboptimal P supply (Pdl 30 mg/kg soil). It was classified as loamy sand. Water treatments included two levels of water supply - 70% (control) and 30 % (drought) of soil water holding capacity and were applied during eight weeks. The results revealed that water deficit induced inhibition of growth processes, accompanied by a significant reduction of the plant height and shoot biomass, as well as P, K, Ca, Mg, and N uptake by plants. We also found a decrease in the activities of nitrate reductase, glutamine synthetase, and glycolate oxidase in leaves of the stressed plants. On the other hand, proline was accumulated in the leaves under water and P deficiency. Similarly, the activities of acid phosphate (AcP), alkaline phosphatise (AlP), and phosphodiesterase (PDE) in leaves were higher under P and water stress conditions. The average values of AcP for both water treatments were about 4 times higher than those of AlP and PDE. These data highlighted the important role of enzymes for plants under stress conditions.
The menace of momentum: Dynamic forces on flexible organisms

It has been proposed that the mechanical flexibility of many wave‐swept organisms reduces the hydrodynamic forces imposed on these plants and animals. For example, reorientation of the organism can render it more streamlined, and by “going with the flow” a flexible organism can reduce the relative velocity between itself and the surrounding water, thereby reducing drag and lift. Motion of the body allows the organism to gain momentum, however, and this momentum can apply an inertial force when the organism's motion is slowed by the deformation of the body's supporting structures. Through a series of mathematical models we show that the inertial forces imposed on flexible plants and animals can be large enough to increase the overall force on the organism, more than offsetting the advantages of moving with the flow. A dimensionless index, the jerk number, is proposed as a tool for predicting when inertial forces will be important, and the utility of this index is explored through an examination of the forces applied to kelps and mussels. The tendency for inertial loading to peak at certain frequencies raises the possibility that the structure of organisms can be tuned (either by evolution or physiological response) to avoid potentially damaging loads.
Modeling of the solubility of Naproxen and Trimethoprim in different solvents at different temperature

The study concerns the prediction of the solubility of pharmaceutical compounds such as Trimethoprim and Naproxen in various solvents like Methanol, Ethanol, 1-Propanol, 2-Propanol, 1-Butanol and 2-Butanol for the first solute and Chloroform, Octanol and Cyclohexane, for the second one. The solubility prediction was performed using thermodynamic models like the UNIFAC, which is a group contribution method, and the semi-predictive model like NRTL. The required interaction parameters for the NRTL are not available and are calculated by optimizing an objective function involving experimental data reported in the literature for the considered systems. Also the obtained results by means of the UNIFAC model for Naproxen showed deviations from the experimental data and therefore new molecular decompositions to generate new groups are proposed and the corresponding interaction parameters are calculated. The influence of the molecular structure on the behavior of the mixture is also discussed. On the other hand a new group representing the Aromatic Nitrogen (AN) present in Trimethoprim is introduced and new interaction parameters concerning these groups are calculated. Finally it may be concluded that the NRTL model led to the best results for the solubility prediction for pharmaceutical compounds.
A Generic Modelling of Fire Impact in a Tree-Grass Savanna Model

We propose and study a model for tree-grass interactions in the context of savannas which are subjected to fire pressure. Several theoretical models in the literature which have highlighted the impact of fire on tree-grass interactions did not explicitly deal with the indirect feedback of dry grass biomass onto tree dynamics through fire intensity and frequency. The novelty in our work is to consider a fairly generic modeling of fire impact on woody biomass by means of a family of increasing and bounded functions of grass biomass. The characteristic feature of this family of functions is that, it could include several forms: linear as well as non-linear ones (sigmoidal or not). Since the nonlinear shape brings more diverse results than the previous attempts using a linear function, it could be used to show that several vegetation equilibria exist with some of them showing tree-grass coexistence features.We show that the number of equilibria with both grass and trees depends on the choice of the fire impact function. We also established thresholds defining the stability domains of the equilibria and highlighted some bifurcation parameters to provide numerical simulations complying with the theoretical properties of the model.
Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis by using Dimensionality Reduction Based on Knn Classifier

Data mining is fast developing technology in extensive sort of applications. One of the essential data mining areas is medical data mining. Healthcare industry is a kind of industry, where huge amount of information’s and are more sensitive. That information is required to be handle very carefully without any mischievousness. There is a wealth of data presented in healthcare but there is no effective analysis tool to discover hidden relationships in data. There are numerous data mining methods that have been utilized as a part of healthcare industry but now the investigation has to be going on the performance of several classification techniques. In this paper, they proposed the Novel dimensionality reduction based KNN Classification Algorithm for analyzing and classifying the Alzheimer disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment are present in the datasets. National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Centre (NACC) having the Researcher’s Data Dictionary - Uniform Data Set (RDD-UDS) is gives dataset for the researchers to analyzing clinical and statistic information’s. From this research work, that gives more accuracy percentage, sensitivity percentage and specificity percentage to provide a better result.
Preprint 1 A New Reduced-Rank Linear Discriminant Analysis Method and Its Applications Yue

We consider multi-class classification problems for high-dimensional data. Following the idea of reduced-rank linear discriminant analysis (LDA), we introduce a new dimension reduction tool with a flavor of supervised principal component analysis (PCA). The proposed method is computationally efficient and can incorporate the correlation structure among the features. Besides the theoretical insights, we show that our method is a competitive classification tool by simulated and real data examples.
Reinforcing sustainable practices by sharing cases of appropriation

Background Sustainability has become a hot issue in recent HCI(Human-Computer Interaction) and interaction design, which has made numerous efforts to enlighten people about environmental issues with the objective of eventually promoting sustainable actions. However, these efforts could have the effect of inducing people to save energy and minimizing waste but revealed the limitations of negotiating people’s practices for sustainable purposes. In order to overcome this weakness, it is relevant to investigate practices while respecting them rather than negotiating or intervening. How, then, should HCI and interaction design approach everyday practices for sustainable purposes? Methods People appropriate artifacts every day. Therefore, this study first investigates appropriation in terms of everyday practice. We first conducted situated interviews with six residents in dormitories and found that appropriation is a sustainable action which reuses and reinvents uses for possessions. In order to support its sustainability, we designed a socio-technical platform, Wikiuse, as the first prototype of a socio-technical platform that allows people to share their cases of appropriation and to see other people’s cases. Wikiuse was developed as a mobile application that runs on iOS4. Users can install it on their iPhone or iPod Touch and can easily connect to its Linux server by running the application. In order to explore the practical value of using the platform to share cases of everyday appropriation, we recruited sixteen graduate students? seven males and nine females? who live in a dormitory; these students were very similar to the interviewees recruited for the dormitory interviews. Results In a field study of sixteen participants, it was found that Wikiuse helped people in two ways: it made them aware of the value of their applications and provided shared cases that helped them to discover more about their own cases. Additionally, the sharing of cases of appropriation led to the adoption of other people’s ways of appropriation, domestication, and sharing, which created a cycle of social appropriation. Participants adopted some of cases because they provided solutions to their problems, gave value to their possessions, and created new and interesting ways to use objects. In addition, satisfaction from helping others motivated participants’ sharing as well as supporting the process of psychological bond formation through sharing cases is an emotional value of the cases shared on Wikiuse. Conclusion In sum, Wikiuse enables people to adopt others’ sustainable actions, domesticate them, and share modified cases of appropriation. In other words, this study revealed that the practice of appropriation can be reinforced and its meaning can be coconstructed through online sharing. Finally, this paper suggests that a new direction for sustainable HCI is to consolidate people’s sustainable practices rather than negotiating their practices with the intention of sustainability.
Energy and Area Efficient Signal Processing Circuits Using Planar Embedded DRAM

This paper studies the feasibility and potential of using planar embedded DRAM (eDRAM), which is completely compatible with CMOS logic process, to improve circuit implementation efficiency of signal processing algorithms. In spite of its apparent cell area efficiency advantage over SRAM, planar eDRAM is not being widely used in practice mainly due to its very short retention time. In this work, we contend that short retention time may not necessarily be a fundamental issue for implementing signal processing algorithms because they typically handle streaming data, exhibit regular and predictable data access pattern, and have large algorithm/architecture design space. This paper elaborates on the rationale and application using planar eDRAM in signal processing circuit implementations. For the purpose of demonstration, we use low-density parity-check (LDPC) code decoding as the test vehicle. Beyond straightforward SRAM replacement, we propose an interleaved read/write pagemode DRAM operation to reduce planar eDRAM energy consumption by leveraging LDPC code decoding data access pattern. We carried out detailed planar eDRAM SPICE simulations at 45nm node to obtain its characteristics, based on which we quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of using planar eDRAM in this case study.
Object Relations and Relationships with Parents as Predictors of Motivation to Recover from Eating Disorders

The lack of motivation to recover from eating disorders (ED) poses a big problem in light of literature showing the critical role motivation plays in the outcome of ED treatment. Literature exploring the factors contributing to motivation to recover is scarce. The current study aims at exploring the associations between aspects of object relations and quality of relationships with parents to the motivation for recovery in light of research suggesting an influence of these variables in the development of ED. 79 females, visitors of either “pro-anorexia” websites (in which ED are glorified as an alternative life style rather than being acknowledged as mental disorders) or “prorecovery” websites, completed a set of questionnaires online including Eat-26, Anorexia Nervosa Stages of Change Questionnaire, Quality of Relationship Inventory regarding parents and blatt’s Object Relations Inventory. Results show that while the score on EAT-26 was related to both mother and father variables, only the quality of relationship with the father is a significant variable in predicting motivation to recover from ED. Implications for treatment and further research are discussed.
The Energetic Effect of a Flexible Spine in Quadrupedal Robots

In nature, quadrupeds make significant use of their flexible spine to achieve energetically economical locomotion. We hypothesize that a flexible spine will also be energetically beneficial for robotic quadrupeds. To test this hypothesis, we compare the energetically optimal motion of a model of a rigid spine quadruped to a model with an articulated spine. We look at a variety of common quadrupedal gaits and find that the articulated model experiences significant energy savings over the rigid model at high speeds. The energetic savings are particularly pronounced for galloping.
Properties of the quasi 16 day wave derived from EOS MLS observations

[1] This paper describes the use of EOS Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) data to observe the field of traveling planetary waves with quasi 16 day periods. This study utilizes MLS v2.2 temperature and geopotential data between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2008 in the range 316 hPa to 0.001 hPa (approximately 8 to 97 km) to examine these waves. Analysis demonstrates that the quasi 16 day wavefield is made up of a number of components with westward and eastward propagating s = 1 and s = 2 waves generally dominant. In the Northern Hemisphere the westward and eastward propagating s = 1 waves have similar magnitudes and are larger than the other modes, while in the Southern Hemisphere, the eastward propagating s = 1 and s = 2 waves are larger than the westward propagating wave modes. All of the modes examined display strong seasonal patterns in the temperature amplitude, significant variability in the wave activity from year to year, and the presence of strong pulse-like patterns in the activity. All of the modes also display large median temperature amplitudes poleward of 40 degrees in both hemispheres. Our analysis also demonstrates that the variability in winter from year to year is larger in the Northern Hemisphere than the Southern Hemisphere. Detailed study also suggests that the exclusion of waves from regions of negative refractive index squared likely forms much of the seasonal pattern observed. Thus, regions of strong westward wind speeds effectively exclude vertically propagating waves as expected from theory. The reflection and absorption of waves associated with critical lines is also likely to explain the frequent occurrence of standing wave patterns in the EOS MLS temperature observations. This study highlights the potential of MLS observations for observing waves from the upper troposphere to the lower mesosphere.