Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Putting insects on the map: near‐global variation in sphingid moth richness along spatial and environmental gradients

Despite their vast diversity and vital ecological role, insects are notoriously underrepresented in biogeography and conservation, and key broad-scale ecological hypotheses about them remain untested – largely due to generally incomplete and very coarse spatial distribution knowledge. Integrating records from publications, field work and natural history collections, we used a mixture of species distribution models and expert estimates to provide geographic distributions and emergent richness patterns for all ca 1000 sphingid moth species found outside the Americas in high spatial detail. Total sphingid moth richness, the first for a higher insect group to be documented at this scale, shows distinct maxima in the wet tropics of Africa and the Oriental with notable decay toward Australasia. Using multivariate models controlling for spatial autocorrelation, we found that primary productivity is the dominant environmental variable associated with moth richness, while temperature, contrary to our predictions, is an unexpectedly weak predictor. This is in stark contrast to the importance we identify for temperature as a niche variable of individual species. Despite divergent life histories, both main sub-groups of moths exhibit these relationships. Tribal-level deconstruction of richness and climatic niche patterns indicate idiosyncratic effects of biogeographic history for some of the less species-rich tribes, which in some cases exhibit distinct richness peaks away from the tropics. The study confirms, for a diverse insect group, overall richness associations of remarkable similarity to those documented for vertebrates and highlights the significant within-taxon structure that underpins emergent macroecological patterns. Results do not, however, meet predictions from vertebrate-derived hypotheses on how thermoregulation affects the strength of temperature–richness effects. Our study thus broadens the taxonomic focus in this data-deficient discourse. Our procedures of processing incomplete, scattered distribution data are a template for application to other taxa and regions.
Antioxidant enzymes metabolism and cellular differentiation during the developmental stages of somatic embryogenesis in Torilis japonica (Houtt.) DC.

In the present study, an efficient protocol for high frequency somatic embryogenesis from stem explants of Torilis japonica was established. Explants were cultured in Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium containing 0-2.0 mg·L 2,4dichlorophenoxy acetic acid (2,4-D) with or without the combination of indole-3-butyric acid (IBA). The embryogenic callus induction and somatic embryogenesis frequency were measured at four week intervals. The highest embryogenic callus induction (100±0.0%) was achieved in 2.0 mg·L 2,4D and 1.0 mg·L IBA. Maximum somatic embryo induction (100±0.0%) was noted on the MS medium augmented with 2.0 mg·L 2, 4D, 1.0 mg·L IBA, and 1.0 mg·L gibberellic acid (GA3) with an average of 75.8±3.7 somatic embryos per explant. Scanning electron microscopic investigation and histological analysis demonstrated the systemic development of somatic embryos. Comparatively, the embryogenic callus induction and plantlet conversion stages possessed more total protein and hydrogen peroxide content than other stages. As a consequence, the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), guaiacol peroxidase (GPX), ascorbate peroxidase (APX), and catalase (CAT) were also increased during the induction of somatic embryos and bipolar shoot-root axis differentiation stages. Clonal fidelity assessment by random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprinting and inter simple sequence specific repeats (ISSR) markers displayed the monomorphic banding pattern across the micropropagated plantlets. Thus, the RAPD and ISSR markers validated the genetic homogeneity or the true-to-type nature of the in vitro plants.
Effect of rejuvenation on biochemical properties of fruit and fruit pulp during different storage period in Guava (Psidium guajava) CV Allahabad safeda

Rejuvenation of guava is one of the most important practices that influence the vigor, productivity and quality of the fruits (Gadgill and Gadgill, 1933). Guava is considered as one of the exquisite, nutritionally valuable and remunerative fruit crop. Guava bears on current season’s growth and flowers appear in the axil of new leaves. Therefore, An experiment was laid out to study the biochemical response of rejuvenated old guava orchard cv Allahabad Safeda at the demonstration farm of Jawahar Lal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Seoni during 2009-10. Sixteen year old guava plants were pruned drastically leaving only four scaffold branches per tree at monthly interval from April 2009 to June 2009. In rejuvenated guava, the highest value of TSS 12.34 °Brix was observed when 100% yellow fruit was taken, whereas the lowest (10.89 °Brix) was observed in 100% green fruits. In unrejuvenated guava, the lowest TSS (10.71 °Brix) was observed when the fruits were harvested at 100% green and 11.67 °Brix when 100% yellow fruits were taken. Higher ascorbic acid content in fruits (141.82 and 163.11mg/ 100g, respectively in un-rejuvenated and rejuvenated plant) was recorded in 100% yellow fruits. Significantly higher percentage of free soluble sugar (11.30) was estimated in fruits obtained from rejuvenated trees as compared with control (10.65%). Analysis of the pulp showed that there was a slight increase in the pulp recovery extraction in rejuvenated guava fruit (12.07%) and did not show remarkable difference in total soluble soilds, moisture%, acid, ascorbic acid and pectin contents of pulp. Pruning proved to be successful in rejuvenating an old guava orchard of cv. Allahabad Safeda.
Comparison of Machine Learning Models: Gesture Recognition Using a Multimodal Wrist Orthosis for Tetraplegics

Charlie Martin is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. Over the summer of 2019, he participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at Purdue University, where he received a Top Research Talk Award for his presentation related to gesture recognition in wrist orthotics. Martin’s research interests include neurological treatments and the implementation of assistive devices.
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PERFORMANCE OF THE TCP VARIANTS FOR CONGESTION CONTROL IN MOBILE-AD-HOC NETWORKS.

: A comparative study has been carried out to find the performance of each of TCP New-Reno, TCP Fack, TCP Sack and TCP Vegas for congestion control in Mobile-Ad-Hoc Networks(MANET). For this, two Ad-hoc routing protocol, such as AODV, DSR and one table driven protocol, DSDV have been implemented. For this various node densities and the above three different protocols, simulation data and thus graphs have been obtained for each of TCP Variants for congestion control mechanisms. The simulation study has been done by using widely recognized network simulator NS-2, version 2.29. 3 for Manet. The performance studies have been done by analyzing these data for each of them and comparison has been made and results have been discussed.
Systemic Regulation of Cellular Stress Responses to Proteotoxicity by Neuroendocrine Signaling

The proper regulation and function of cellular stress resistance pathways are essential to the maintenance of the proteome. Impairment of these pathways leads to the accumulation of aggregates and misfolded proteins, resulting in age-associated neurodegenerative diseases. Subsequent age-onset proteotoxic damage often is accompanied by widespread changes in peripheral metabolism. Endocrine-based communication of cellular stress may play a causative role in the extensive metabolic changes seen in neurodegenerative disease. Using C. elegans models of proteotoxic stress, the impact of neuronal specific toxicity on peripheral cellular stress responses was assessed. Proposed is a neuroendocrine system of regulation on the distal response of the mitochondrial unfolded protein response (UPRmt). Genetic loss in UPRmt function blocks the response in distal mitochondria, and both neurosecretion and the nutrient- responsive neurotransmitter serotonin are required for the signal's propagation. This model of systemic stress regulation is used to evaluate the impact of other metabolic pathways in proteotoxicity and to identify novel signaling components that may play a role in the widespread pathology associated with neurodegenerative disease
Les ptéraspidiformes (vertebrata, heterostraci) de la formation de Wood Bay (Dévonien inférieur, Spitsberg) : position phylogénétique, implications biostratigraphiques et paléobiogéographiques

Les Pteraspidiformes de la Formation de Wood Bay revelent une forte diversite. Doryaspis comprend 6 especes; Gigantaspis 4 especes; Xylaspis et le genre Woodfjordaspis nov. Gen. Sont monospecifiques. De ce travail sont tires des assemblages (Pteraspidiformes), dont le contenu permet des comparaisons avec l'echelle biostratigraphique (divisions fauniques). Une caracterisation de l'echelle lithostratigraphique est comparee a la precedente: le Membre de L'Austfjord est equivalent aux divisions de Sigurdfjellet-Kapp Kjeldsen; Le Membre du Dicksonfjord est equivalent a la division de Keltiefjellet. Les comparaisons avec l'Arctique russe permettent de correler les Formations de Spokojnaya (Severnaya Zemlya), des Monts Veselye (Novaya Zemlya) et les divisions de Sigurdfjellet-Kapp Kjeldsen. Ce travail permet la creation de la sous-Province paleobiologique a Gigantaspis. L'analyse cladistique amene a revoir la classification, car la monophylie des "Protopteraspididae" n'est plus averee. Par contre, celle des Protaspididae et Pteraspididae est confirmee. Les Gigantaspididae nov. Fam. Sont groupe-frere des Protaspididae.
The relative salt tolerance of 'Rangpur' seedlings and 'Arbequina' olive cuttings.

The salinity tolerance of citrus rootstocks varies but grafted citrus trees are generally considered to be more sensitive to salinity stress than olive trees that are usually grown from cuttings. We compared the salt tolerance of 6-month-old seedlings of the relatively salt tolerant citrus rootstock Rangpur (Citrus limonia Osbeck) with similar sized rooted cuttings of olive (Olea europaea L. cv. Arbequina). Well-fertilized plants were grown in native Candler sand in a greenhouse and watered with either no salt (0 mM NaCl) or 50 mM NaCl for citrus, or with 0 or 100 mM NaCl for olive. Salinity increased Cl- and Na+ concentration in leaves and roots of both species and reduced total plant growth, leaf photosynthetic rate and stomatal conductance. High concentrations of Cl- and Na+ caused a decrease in leaf chlorophyll a in citrus but not in olive even at the higher salinity level. Decreased growth and gas exchange were apparently due to toxic effects of Cl- and/or Na+ and not due to osmotic stress since both species were able to osmotically adjust to salinity and maintained higher leaf turgor than the non-salinized control plants. The lower osmotic potential values in salinized olive (100 mM NaCl) than in citrus (50 mM NaCl) implied that osmoregulation was more efficient in olive than in citrus.
Aplicação de máquinas de aprendizado extremo ao problema de aprendizado ativo

O Aprendizado Ativo tem o objetivo de escolher apenas os padroes mais informativos para rotulacao e aprendizado. No Aprendizado Ativo uma estrategia e utilizada para analisar um padrao nao rotulado e decidir se ele deve ou nao ter o seu rotulo solicitado a um especialista. Em geral essa rotulacao tem um custo elevado, o que motiva o estudo de tecnicas que minimizem o numero de rotulos necessarios para o aprendizado. As abordagens tradicionais de Aprendizado Ativo geralmente fazem algumas consideracoes irreais em relacao aos dados, como exigir separabilidade linear ou que a distribuicao dos dados seja uniforme. Alem disso, os modelos tradicionais necessitam de um processo de ajuste fino de parâmetros, o que exige que rotulos sejam reservados para esse fim, aumentando os custos do processo. Nesta tese sao apresentadas duas estrategias de Aprendizado Ativo que nao fazem nenhuma consideracao quanto aos dados e que nao necessitam de ajuste fino de parâmetros. Os algoritmos propostos sao baseados em Maquinas de Aprendizado Extremo (Extreme Learning Machines - ELM ) e em um Perceptron com pesos normalizados treinado com aprendizado Hebbiano. As estrategias de Aprendizado Ativo decidem se um padrao deve ser rotulado utilizando um simples teste de convergencia. Esse teste e obtido atraves de uma adaptacao do Teorema de Convergencia do Perceptron. Os modelos propostos permitem o aprendizado incremental e online, sao praticos e rapidos, e sao capazes de obter uma boa solucao em termos de complexidade neural e de capacidade de generalizacao. Os resultados dos experimentos mostram que os modelos desenvolvidos tem performance similar as ELMs regularizadas e as SVMs com kernel ELM. Entretanto, os modelos propostos utilizam uma quantidade de rotulos muito menor, sem a necessidade de processos de otimizacao computacionalmente caros e sem a necessidade de ajuste fino de parâmetros.
Breaking the violence: Attaining peaceful relations in games of conflict

We extend the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game with a post-contest phase which varies in the type of actions players can engage in once the winner of the contest is determined. Moreover, players have the option to avoid conflict altogether and build a peaceful relationship. We show experimentally that the possibility of conditional retaliation by the defeated player is crucial for efficiency improving adaptive behavior of contestants. Our main finding is that conflict levels are considerably reduced mostly because some groups manage to attain peace, often after substantial initial conflict. For the engineering of peace it turns out to be important that players first engage in costly signaling by making themselves vulnerable and by forgoing the possibility to take resources (money) away from their opponent. The behavioral environments of the extended conflict games examined in this paper vary in the opportunities offered in this respect. This version: February 2011 JEL Codes: C92, D72, D74
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORK MOTIVATION WITH CAREER DECISIONS IN STUDENTS

This study aimed to find the correlational between work motivation and decision career. This was a correlation study. The population of this study were all students, amounting to 176 students. A sample of 121 students was determined by proportional stratified random sampling technique. The data were collected by using work motivation and decision career scale. To analyze the data, this study used product moment correlational. The result of this study showed that there was a positive and significant correlational between work motivation and decision career by the coefficient of correlation (r) 0,431, and p=0,000 (p<0, 05). In other words, higher work motivation leads to higher decision career and vice versa. The result of this study can provide information to educators, especially guidance and counseling services to develop students’ work motivation and decision career.
Integrating Ambidexterity into the Modern Manufacturing Era of Industry 4.0

Ambidexterity has caught attention since the first time it was introduced by March. It is believed to be the answer to competitive advantages under uncertainties. Manufacturing companies are among those who try to implement ambidexterity but with no satisfactory result. Confusion and debates on Ambidexterity are real. Previous studies have been numerous, but each of them is focused on one context only, leaving the others behind. The digitalization in Industry 4.0 has made it even worse, the companies know that they need to integrate ambidextrous capabilities but so far, the research have provided no complete step-by-step integration process. This paper aims to answer this problem by conducting systematic literature research and qualitative approach. The writer introduces an ambidexterity integration concept with 9 key steps in order to integrate ambidextrous capabilities within the small, medium and big companies with clear deadlines and goals to gain competitive advantages. We must also pay attention to the transition process in integrating ambidexterity in the manufacturing industry which may be different from other industries.
Public-key Authenticate Encryption with Keyword Search Revised: \\ Probabilistic TrapGen algorithm

Public key encryption with keyword search (PEKS) is ﬁrst introduced by Boneh et al. enabling a cloud server to search on encrypted data without leaking any information of the keyword. In almost all PEKS schemes, the privacy of trapdoor is vulnerable to inside keyword guessing attacks (KGA), i.e., the server can generate the ciphertext by its own and then run the test algorithm to guess the keyword contained in the trapdoor. To sole this problem, Huang et al. proposed the public-key authenticated encryption with keyword search (PAEKS) achieving trapdoor privacy (TP) security, in which data sender not only encrypts the keyword but also authenticates it by using his/her secret key. Qin et al. introduced the notion of multi-ciphertext indistinguishability (MCI) security to capture outside chosen multi-ciphertext attacks, in which the adversary needs to distinguish two tuples of ciphertexts corresponding with two sets of keywords. They analysed that Huang’s work cannot achieve MCI security, so they proposed an improved scheme to match both the MCI security and trapdoor privacy (TP) security. In addition, they also deﬁned the notion of multi-trapdoor privacy (MTP) security, which requires to distinguish two tuples of trapdoors corresponding with two sets of keywords.
Harvesting the guano of insectivorous bats: is it sustainable?

The number of bats roosting in the caves was estimated monthly by emergence counts carried out during one year of this study. First the number of bats roosting in the outer chamber of the cave was estimated by dividing the walls into 10 segments and counting the bats roosting on these segments, in tens, using a hand tally counter. Then at dusk, bats emerging from the cave entrance in one-minute periods every five minutes were counted, in estimated groups of 50, using a hand tally counter, and the number of bats emerging in five-minute periods throughout the emergence was estimated by multiplication. Results: Two bat species inhabited the cave. An estimated 5,000 Taphozous theobaldi roosted in the outer chamber. Tadarida plicata roosted in the inner chamber. The total number of bats emerging from the cave at dusk was estimated to be 200,000, so 195,000 of these were T. plicata. The average weight of guano removed from the southern cave of the Sudaung complex from 2003–2005 is shown in Table 1, and amounted to 36 tons per annum. The cave was 9m high and the majority of the roosting bats were not disturbed by guano collection although a few individuals flew around inside the cave. Collectors removed all available guano except for a damp layer on the cave floor. The higher rate of guano removal during July and August coincided with the rainy season when insects were more abundant.
Place Image of Residents: Role of Perception of Tourism Impacts

Place image Tourism impacts Perception Alanya Abstract The aim of this study is to determine the role of tourism impacts in the perception of the place image of local people in Alanya, a mature destination. There are many studies on the place image in the relevant literature. In these studies, residents’ place image perceptions were neglected. Unlike previous studies, this study deals with the effects of tourism and place image in terms of local people. In the present study, residents’ place image perceptions measured through validated previous developed scale. Convenience sampling method was used and 319 data collected from self-developed questionaires used for the analysis. Research model was tested via Partial Least Squared-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) technique. Findings indicated that local people perception of tourism economic positively impact atmosphere and socio-economic environment/infrastucture dimensions of cognitive image. Local people perception of environmental impacts negatively affects natural environment. Moreover, perception of social and cultural impacts of tourism negatively affect cultural environment and infrastructure/socioeconomic environment dimensions of cognitive image. Lastly, local people perception of social and cultural impacts negatively affects the affective image.
Regeneration from Storage Root Disk Culture of Purple Sweet Potato

Sweet potato has low regeneration capacity, which is a serious obstacle for the fruitful production of transgenic plants. Simple and rapid regeneration method from storage root explants of purple sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) was investigated. The embryogenic callus was observed from 4 cultivars and its highest rate was induced at 1 μM 2,4-D after 5 weeks of culture. Result revealed that a low concentration of 2,4-D and low light intensity was important factors for embryogenic callus formation. After subculture on medium with 5 μM ABA for 4 days, subsequently, occurred the regeneration of shoots within 4 weeks when these embryogenic callus was transferred onto the MS hormone free medium. Regenerated shoots were developed into platelets, and grown normal plants in the greenhouse. We developed a simple and quickly protocol to regenerate plantlets in storage root explants of purple sweet potato. This regeneration system will facilitate tissue culture and gene transfer research of purple sweet potato.
Experimental Research Contractile Responses to Reactive Oxygen Species in the Canine Basilar Artery in Vitro: Selective Inhibitory Eect of MCI-186, a new Hydroxyl Radical Scavenger

Summary Background. Cerebral vasospasm is one of the important pathological phenomena which influence morbidity and mortality following subarachnoid haemorrhage. Reactive oxygen species (ROSs) generated by the autoxidationof oxyhemoglobinto methemoglobinmay be one of the essential factors in the pathogenesis of cerebral vaso
Competitive ability of five common weed species in competition with soybean

ABSTRACT The competitive ability of five prominent weeds species that have the potential to interact in soybean cropping systems of Argentina (Amaranthus quitensis, Chenopodium album, Digitaria sanguinalis, Setaria verticillata and Tagetes minuta) was evaluated in two greenhouse experiments (Exp. 1 and Exp. 2). Crop and weeds were grown in all pairwise mixtures using an additive competition design. Competitive ability was evaluated through competitive indices based on species total biomass. Both experiments showed asymmetric competitive interactions between species, resulting in a competitive network predominantly transitive involving up to four from six species in Exp. 1: Glycine. max > C. album > D. sanguinalis > (A. quitensis, S. verticillata and T. minuta) and up to three from six species in two pathways in Exp. 2: G. max > D. sanguinalis > (C. album, S. verticillata and T. minuta); and G. max > A. quitensis > (C. album, S. verticillata and T. minuta). The hierarchical relationship between species found in this study has implications on weed population dynamics in the context of community assembly framework. We discuss engineered management practices that consider the use of the crop and weed competitive ability to modulate the community structure and the rationalization in the use of herbicides directed to avoid environmental damage.