Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Resolvable mating-environmental designs for partial triallel cross experiments

Triallel crosses can be readily exploited as breeding tool for developing commercial hybrids with traits of genetical and commercial importance by acquiring information on specific combining ability effects along with general combining ability effects if the experimentation size is reduced to an economical extent. In this paper, methods of constructing designs involving partial triallel crosses in smaller blocks using different types of lattice designs have been introduced. The designs have low degree of fractionation, which suggests their utility when there is a resource crunch. Canonical efficiency factor of these designs relative to an orthogonal design with same number of lines, assuming constant error variance for both situations, is high indicating that adoption of these designs for the trials could bring about improvement as the recommendations from the experiment will be associated with a high precision.
Punica granatum l. Fruit Parts from Algerian Cultivar Bioactive Compounds and In Vitro Biological Activities: A Comparative Study †

Fruits are a source of antioxidant compounds, such as phenolics, vitamins and carotenoids, which contribute to their chemo preventive potential. The mentioned compounds, which scavenge free radicals, may reduce the level of oxidative stress and prevent the oxidation of biomolecules, that would break the reaction chains of pathogenesis in the deterioration of physiological functions, which could occur in the coronary heart diseases and cancer [1]. Apart from their biological properties, natural antioxidants are also of interest in the cosmetic, pharmaceutical and especially in food industries, since they can be also used as natural antioxidants, Nutraceuticals, prebiotics, dyes. [2] The present work evaluated phenolics, and flavonoids contents (quantity) of organic pomegranate juice, peel and seeds cultivated in the Northeastern part of Algeria, in vitro antioxidant activity, using: CUPRAC, GOR, PHENYL, DPPH, ABTS assays and enzymatic activity: α-glycosidase were also investigated and confirms traditional uses of pomegranate parts[3]. Furthermore, a comparative study of all these essays on different pomegranate's parts tests will be given. However, further investigations should assessed safety of by products "seeds, arils and peels" at efficient but non toxic doses, if we want to use it as added value in our daily feeding .
Investigation of HF/H2O2 Concentration Effect on Structural and Antireflection Properties of Porous Silicon Prepared by Metal-Assisted Chemical Etching Process for Photovoltaic Applications

Porous silicon was successfully prepared using metal-assisted chemical etching method. The Effect of HF/H2O2 concentration in etching solution as an affecting parameter on the prepared porosity type and size was investigated. Field emission electron microscopy (FE-SEM) confirmed that all etched samples had porous structure and the sample which was immersed into HF/H2O2 withmolar ratio of 7/3.53 had the smallest porosities. The average roughness of 288 nm and reflectivity as low as 7% could be achieved using this molar ratio. The Raman peak appeared at 520.09 cm-1 confirmed that there weren’t any defect and stress in the porous structure. The prepared porous silicon had potential candidate for replacement with antireflective layer in photovoltaic devices because of their low production cost, high antireflective property, and possibility of integration process relative to other antireflection layers.
Development and validation of a stability-indicating RP-HPLC method for simultaneous determination of dapagliflozin and saxagliptin in fixed-dose combination

A simple and precise stability indicating method for the simultaneous estimation of dapagliflozin and saxagliptin in combined tablet dosage form was developed and validated using RP-HPLC. The chromatographic separation of the drugs was achieved with an Xterra C-18 analytical column (150 mm × 4.6 mm i.d., particle size 3.5 μ) using buffer and acetonitrile (53 : 47 v/v) as the mobile phase. The buffer used in mobile phase contained 20 mM sodium dihydrogen phosphate and its pH was adjusted to 5.5 ± 0.02 with orthophosphoric acid. The instrument was set at a flow rate of 1.2 mL min−1 at ambient temperature and the wavelength of the UV-visible detector was 230 nm. The method showed excellent linearity over a range of 2–14 μg mL−1 for all the drugs. The correlation coefficients for dapagliflozin and saxagliptin were noted to be 0.997 and 0.996, respectively. The mean recovery values were found to be 99.16% and 100.58%. The proposed method could be suitable for quantitative determination of these drugs in pharmaceutical preparations and also for quality control in bulk manufacturing. Stress testing, which covered acid, base, peroxide, photolytic and thermal degradation, was performed on each test to prove the specificity of the method and that the degradation was achieved. No interferences were observed from the stress degradation products. The F-test and t-test at 95% confidence level were applied to the data for statistical analysis.
A Novel Electrode Architecture for Monitoring Rifampicin in Various Pharmaceuticals

The present work involves the fabrication of glassy carbon electrode (GCE) with iron oxide nanoparticles (Fe3O4NPs) and multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) composite. Further it was immobilized with Coenzyme q (Co en-q/ Fe3O4NPs/MWCNTs/GCE) to enhance the electrochemical performance of the modified electrode for the determination of rifampicin (RIF). The designed sensor was successfully characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), thermo gravimetry (TGA) and x-ray diffraction (XRD) studies. The electrochemical oxidation of RIF has been studied by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and differential pulse voltammetric techniques (DPV). The enzyme immobilized sensor surface area was calculated and found to be 10.03 mm 2 . This larger surface area was responsible for the oxidation of more number of RIF molecules on the surface of sensor. The RIF shows two anodic peaks at + 0.10 V and + 0.72 V in phosphate buffer solution (PBS) pH 7.5. The cyclic voltammetric measurements reveals that the developed sensor exhibited an enhanced electrochemical platform with an approximately eight-fold increment in the anodic peak currents. Under the optimized conditions, a good linear relationship was observed between peak currents and RIF concentration. The studied linearity range (2 – 20 μM) showed a limit of detection (LOD) of 0.032 μM, 0.413 μM and limit of quantification (LOQ) of 1.069 μM, 1.258 μM for anodic peaks I and peaks II respectively. The proposed sensor showed longstanding stability and high reproducibility. The method was successfully applied for the determination of RIF in pharmaceutical tablets without any sample pre-treatment.
K-Nearset Neighbor (K-NN) dan Support Vector Machine (SVM) untuk Klasifikasi Indeks Pembangunan Manusia Provinsi Jawa Tengah

_________________________________________________________________________________________ Human development index (HDI) is one of the measuring instruments of achieving the quality of life of one region and even the state. There are 3 basic components of IPM that is the dimensions of health, knowledge, and decent living. HDI according to BPS is divided into 4 categories: low HDI (HDI <60), moderate (60≤IPM <70), high (70≤IPM <80), and very high (≥80). One of the classification methods contained in data mining and is often used and produces a fairly good accuracy is the kNearset Neighbor (k-NN) and Suppport Vector Machine (SVM) methods. The purpose of this study was to compare the accuracy of casclification between the two methods. Obtained by result of classification of IPM by using k-NN method with value k equal to 5 obtained classification akutasi equal to 91.64%. IPM classification using SVM method with parameter gamma 1 and C = 1, 10, and 100 yield accuracy of 95.36%. The appropriate method for clarifying or grouping HDI is the SVM method with classification accuracy of 95.36%, with Hours Expectancy (HLS) variable being the biggest factor influencing HDI. © 2017 Universitas Negeri Semarang  Alamat korespondensi: E-mail: fatkhurokhmanfauzi@gmail.com ISSN 0215-9945 F Fauzi / Jurnal MIPA 40 (2) (2017): 118-124
Solution-processable flexible thermoelectric composite films based on conductive polymer/SnSe0.8S0.2 nanosheets/carbon nanotubes for wearable electronic applications

Flexible thermoelectric composite films consisting of conductive polyaniline (PANI)-coated SnSe0.8S0. 2 nanosheets (NSs) and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) are fabricated via a solution processing procedure. The SnSe0.8S0. 2 NSs are chemically exfoliated from a bulk ingot, and camphorsulfonic acid-doped PANI (CSA-PANI) is coated on the surface of the SnSe0.8S0. 2 NSs. The thermoelectric properties of the composite film can be further enhanced by introducing a small amount of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into the composite. The maximum thermoelectric power factor of the CSA-PANI-coated SnSe0.8S0. 2 NS/PVDF/CNT composite film is 297 μW m−1 K−2 at 400 K, which is significantly higher than that of the CSA-PANI-coated SnSe0.8S0. 2 NS/PVDF composite film without CNTs. The incorporation of SnSe0.8S0. 2 NSs and conductive PANI mixed with CNTs is a promising strategy to realize high-performance flexible thermoelectric applications.
Gram-scale synthesis of single-crystalline graphene quantum dots derived from lignin biomass

Renewable, cheap and green biomass resources could meet the urgent need for producing graphene quantum dots (GQDs) on a large scale if high quality can be obtained. Here we report the gram-scale synthesis of single-crystalline GQDs derived from lignin biomass via a two-step method. The synthetic processes involve the oxidized cleavage step followed by the aromatic refusion step of alkali lignin molecules. Notably, this approach successively converts the biomass commonly considered as waste into a high-valued nanoscale product. The as-prepared single-crystalline GQDs, presenting a hexagonal honeycomb graphene network, are 1–3 atomic layers thick. Due to the bright fluorescence, up-conversion properties, long-term photostability, water solubility and biocompatibility, these high quality GQDs have potential to be excellent nanoprobes for multicolour bioimaging. The utilization of renewable biomass resources paves the way for green, low-cost and large-scale production of high quality GQDs and allows for the development of sustainable applications.
Mastitis subclínicas en un rodeo de ovejas lecheras pampinta en la provincia de La Pampa

Some aspects of the Pampinta sheep, a synthetic breed developed in the EEA of Anguil, constituted by East Friesian (East Friesian) and Corriedale, have been studied. Considered as triple purpose (meat, milk and wool), but phenotypically selected towards the East Friesian breed, being one of the main breeds that is used in milking in Argentina. The objective of this work is to describe the subclinical mastitis (MSC) that occur in the flock of the Tambo Model of the Experimental of Anguil, with data collected in the dairy controls between 2009 and 2014. An animal model was a used with random effects and fixed effects such as age at childbirth; year of lactation; type of breeding and parturition and milk production class. The SAS statistical program was used for the production data and a Threshold Model (TM, Legarra et al., 2008) for mastitis. The graphics were made through the Infostat R package (R Core Team, 2013). Milk production was not related to the incidence of mastitis. The somatic cell count (SCC) varies throughout lactation, having high values at the beginning, then decreases and remains. The age, the presence of MSC and the level of milk production are factors that influence the SCC. The environment where animals are found can have stressors that can interfere with the immune system. More studies are needed and in order establishments in order to generalize results, which must be taken into account that there is a demand in the selection processes.
Decoloniality and Inter-religious Transformation among Christians and Muslims in Northern Nigeria: A Practical Theological Approach

Christians and Muslims in Northern Nigeria experience dysfunctional relationship responsible for the recurrent inter-religious crises that creates a deep-rooted trauma with the adherents co-existing with anger, fear and suspicion. As a result of the volatile relationship, the two religious groups live with encapsulated mind-set that spurs the practices of exclusion, discrimination and marginalization. In addressing the volatile relationship, the study was guided by a practical theological methodology through the hermeneutical process of EDNA model proposed by Noel Woodbridge. The ‘Exploratory’ task reflected the era of the British colonial administration in Northern Nigeria in relation to religious policy. The ‘Descriptive’ task describes the continuity of the colonially established inter-religious discriminations among Christians and Muslims today. The ‘Normative’ considered the inter-religious consciousness with the examples of Jesus Christ and Prophet Mohammed. Having identified the challenge of Christian/Muslim co-existence in Northern Nigeria, the ‘Action’ task contributed through decoloniality and inter-religious transformation. Key words: Northern Nigeria, Christians and Muslims, decoloniality, transformation.
Review: Isolation and Detection of Tumor-Derived Extracellular Vesicles

Exosomes play a significant role in cancer progression and are potentially useful biomarkers for noninvasive diagnostics and therapeutic treatments. Although exosomes are difficult to study because of their small, inconsistent sizes and challenging purification processes, new micro- and nanotechnologies have been recently developed that seek to overcome these limitations. In this review, we examine and compare isolation and detection techniques for various types of extracellular vesicles (EVs) including exosomes, which have sizes 200 nm. Various microfluidic devices that offer better EV purity, higher recovery rates, lower costs, decreased isolation times, and low sample volumes compared to conventional techniques are described with an emphasis on the importance of micro- and nanobased technologies to isolate and detect EVs for the point-of-care acquisition and diagnosis of cancer.
Research on Fast Identification and Location of Contour Features of Electric Vehicle Charging Port in Complex Scenes

The maturity of automatic driving and parking technologies is gradually driving electric vehicle charging toward automation. The primary condition of automatic charging that has a high significance is the identification of electric vehicle charging ports. This research proposes an automatic system for the identification and positioning of charging ports of electric vehicles. The system is mainly divided into rough and precise positioning. The former is based on the Hough circle and the Hough line, and locates the position information of the charging port. The latter uses the Canny operator to obtain the contour information of the original and gradient images respectively. All the contours of the two images are fitted into ellipses by the quadratic curve standardization (QCS) method, and irrelevant ellipses are screened out. Finally, the perspective-n-point (PNP) algorithm is used to locate the pose information of the charging port. The aubo-i10 6-DOF articulated robot is used to test the recognition and insertion accuracies in different environments. The results show that the average recognition rate of rough positioning is 97.9%, the average displacement error of precise positioning in X, Y and Z directions are 0.60, 0.83 and 1.23 mm, respectively, and the average angle errors in RX, RY and RZ directions are 1.19, 0.97 and 0.50 degrees, respectively. The average success rate is 94.8%. These results demonstrate that the proposed system meets the basic plug-in requirements of electric vehicle charging ports.
Synthesis of polyurethanes with pendant azide groups attached on the soft segments and the surface modification with mPEG by click chemistry for antifouling applications

Polyurethane with pendant azide groups on the soft segment (PU-GAP) was prepared in this study to further increase the content of reactive azide groups and improve their surfaces enrichment for further functionalization. Polymer diols with pendant azide groups (GAP) were prepared by transforming the pendant chlorine groups at polyepichlorohydrin (PECH) into azide groups with sodium azide. The prepared PECH, GAP and PU-GAP was characterized by GPC, 1H NMR and FTIR. Propargylic mPEG (mPEG-alkyne) was used as model surface modification reagents which was grafted on the prepared azido containing polyurethane films via click chemistry. The surface morphology, chemical composition and wettabilities were studied by SEM, XPS and water contact angle (WCA) analysis, respectively. SEM results demonstrated different surface topologies between mPEG modified PU surface and original PU surface. XPS and WCA analysis proved the successful grafting of mPEG on the pendant azide groups of PUs. The mPEG modified PU surfaces demonstrated good antifouling activities against model bacteria and mPEG with larger molecular weights modified surfaces showed better resistance efficiency to attachment of bacteria. Therefore, the surface reactive polyurethane we prepared can be a universal platform for further functionalization according actual applications.
A comparison of the chemical composition of the seeds of linseed and pea cultivars grown in pure stands or mixtures

ABSTRACT A three-year field experiment was conducted to compare the chemical composition of the seeds of two linseed-pea mixtures, that is the cv. ‘Flanders’ with the cv. ‘Ramrod’ and cv. ‘Barbara’ with cv. ‘Phönix’. The results indicate that the chemical composition of the seeds of the linseed cultivars was not significantly affected by the sowing method, indicating that the species traits of linseed are constant. The mixed sowing increased the content of threonine and proline in the protein of the Flanders cultivar seeds and slightly increased the protein content of the seeds of both linseed cultivars in the mixtures with pea.
It Runs in the Family: Unsupervised Algorithm for Alternative Name Suggestion Using Digitized Family Trees

Searching for a person’s name is a common online activity. However, Web search engines provide few accurate results to queries containing names. In contrast to a general word that has only one correct spelling, there are several possible legitimate spellings when a name provided as a query. Today, most techniques used to suggest diminutives and alternative spellings in online search are based on pattern matching and phonetic encoding; however, they often perform poorly. As a result, there is a need for an effective tool for improved alternative name suggestion for a name provided as a query. In this paper, we propose a revolutionary approach for tackling the problem of alternative name suggestion. Our novel algorithm, GRAFT, utilizes historical data collected from genealogy websites, along with network algorithms. GRAFT is a general algorithm that suggests alternatives for input names using a graph based on names derived from digitized ancestral family trees. Alternative names are extracted from this graph, which is constructed using generic ordering functions that outperform other algorithms that suggest diminutives and alternative spellings based on a single dimension, a factor that limits their performance. We evaluated GRAFT’s performance on three ground truth datasets of forenames and surnames, including a large-scale online genealogy dataset with over 16 million profiles and more than 700,000 unique forenames and 500,000 surnames. We compared GRAFT’s performance at suggesting alternative names to the performance of 10 other algorithms, including phonetic encoding, string similarity, machine learning, and deep learning algorithms. The results show GRAFT’s superiority with regard to both forenames and surnames and demonstrate its use as a tool to improve alternative name suggestion.
Using IRB Protocols to Teach Ethical Principles for Research and Everyday Life

Undergraduate research as a high-impact practice demonstrates many positive benefits for students, but little research has delved into the impact of ethical training for research, in particular submitting Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocols to determine if the study meets ethical standards for the treatment of human subjects. This study explored if students in two experimental and one nonexperimental research methods class benefited from increased knowledge of research ethics and how to apply them in daily-life situations if they participated in various aspects of IRB protocol procedures either as part of a class-based research project or by completing an IRB protocol activity for developing a hypothetical program to help families. Some students in all three classes had previously engaged in a 4-hr online extended training [the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Program] in research ethics focused on the Belmont Report principles of beneficence, respect, and justice, but not in IRB protocols. Students were given a pre- and posttest to assess knowledge in both research and daily-life settings for applying the Belmont Report research ethics principles. Results indicate students gained greater knowledge of research ethics when they completed IRB protocol training during a class-based undergraduate research or program-design project, even if they had already completed some extended case-based training in the CITI Program. Results are discussed in terms of the value of using modified IRB protocol approaches as a high-impact practice to teach ethics in research and daily life to students.
Differential regulation of calmodulin, phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, and salicylic acid in response to Botrytis cinerea infection in tomato with different Ca2+ concentrations

ABSTRACT To investigate the responses to Botrytis cinerea (B. cinerea) infection and the effects of exogenous Ca2+ on calmodulin (CaM), phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL), and salicylic acid (SA) biosynthesis and concentrations, we investigated the role of exogenous calcium in defense and resistance to the necrotrophic fungus B. cinerea in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.). Specifically, 7.5 mM Ca2+ was the best treatment for plant resistance, resulting in stable and permanent resistance to the pathogen. This treatment improved plant resistance and the results also confirmed that the concentrations of CaM and SA are negatively correlated with the resistance response.
Design and Implementation of a Laboratory Sucker Rod Pumping Unit Using Industry 4.0 Concepts

The Industry 4.0 is here, and advanced technologies are widely available for domains such oil and gas which are traditionally slow in adopting extreme new technologies. This paper presents the design architecture and implementation of effective data acquisition (DAQ) and monitoring system applied to an experimental sucker rod pumping unit for both event occurrence and educational purpose using latest technological advancements and industry 4.0 principles. The designed framework allows control and monitoring of analog and digital sensors configured in a decentralized generation structure. This system controls the values of the sampling frequency, range of channels, the number of points to acquire and then retrieves the data acquired from the operation of a sucker rod pump setup. National Instruments LabVIEW was used for the solution architecture presented in this study data collection and diagnostic analysis. Some of the operational physical parameters analysed and monitored include pressure, fluid production rate, valve leakage, pump efficiency, vibrations and energy consumption. The proposed architecture can be built easily with very low energy consumption, high reliability, ample flexibility for quicker data retrieval and prospective future modifications.