Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
LEAD TOXICITY AND ITS AMELIORATION EFFECT BY FOLIAR APPLICATION OF HORMONE AND MICRONUTRIENTS IN VIGNA

Lead (Pb) is one of the toxic heavy metals discharged into the water system through the release of effluents from electroplating, metal finishing, batteries and paint industries (Zamzow et al., 1990). It is also one of the potentially toxic heavy metal pollutants of the environment with no known biological function and its concentrations are rapidly increased in agricultural soil (McGrath et al., 1995). From soil to plants, transfer of this heavy metal is dependent on the following three factor: quantity factor (the total amount of potentially available elements), intensity factor (the activity as well as the ionic ratios of elements in the soil solution) and reaction kinetics (the rate of element transfer from solid to liquid phases and to plant roots) [Mathe-Gaspar et al., 2005]. Lead’s toxicity in plants cause a decrease in the percentage germination, seedling growth, and fresh and dry weight (Richa Marwari et al., 2009) and also cause induced membrane changes such as qualitative and quantitative changes in membrane lipids, changes in structural and functional status of membrane depolarization of membrane, changes in membrane fluidity, inhibition of chloroplast electron transport, cause membrane lipid peroxidation and membrane leakiness, changes in enzyme activity of membrane bound enzymes, changes in membrane transport functions etc. Elevated Pb in soils may adversely affect on soil productivity and even a very low concentration can inhibit some vital plant process such as photosynthesis, mitosis and water absorption showing toxic symptoms of dark leaves, wilting of older leaves, stunted foliage and brown short roots (Patra et al., 2004). It was found that the effect of foliar treatment by Pb has been found more toxic to plant growth than the root treatment with Pb (Salim et al., 1992). The main objective of this investigation on green gram is to assess the toxicity effect of Pb and its amelioration effect by foliar application of hormone and micronutrients. Measurement of toxicity and its ameliorating treatments were analyzed by some biochemical parameters.
Manipulation of polyunsaturated, branchedchain and trans-fatty acid production in Shewanella putrefaciens strain ACAM 342

Shewanella putrefaciens strain ACAM 342 produced a range of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) including 18:2ω6, 18:3ω3, 18:3ω6, 18:4ω3 and 20:5ω3 (EPA). Under culture in Zobell's broth at 15 °C exponential-phase cultures produced 3.2 + 0.3% EPA, or 1.2 + 0.2 mg (g bacterial dry wt)-1. Alteration of growth phase, addition of biotin to the medium or a 10-fold decrease in nutrient levels had no significant effect (P>0.05) on levels of EPA. Growth in 7.0% NaCl medium markedly decreased the overall degree of fatty acid unsaturation (P<0.01), while growth on acetate as the sole carbon source increased the level of 18:2.6 from 0.4 + 0.1% to 7.1 % of total fatty acids through inhibition of branched-chain fatty acid synthesis. Addition of desaturase cofactors to the growth medium increased the proportion of EPA from 3.2 + 0.3% to 4.6%, but decreased the quantitative yield from 1.2. 0.2 to 0.9 mg (g bacterial dry wt)-1. This bacterium represents a model organism to study bacterial PUFA production. The trans-monounsaturated fatty acid 16:1ω7t was also produced under all culture conditions, together with four other trans-isomers, namely 14:1ω5t, 15:1ω6t, 17:1ωt and 18:1ω7t. Although the relative levels of trans-acids also changed under various culture conditions, there was no evidence that they were produced as a starvation or stress response.
Road railway station stampede incident in 2017 that killed 22 people and injured 39 people due to the dumbbell effect of a narrow pathways for the heavy crowd to cross the bridge that connect the two railway stations (Parel

351 Published By: Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication Retrieval Number: H10600688S19/19©BEIESP Abstract: The optimal exit selection by the pedestrians is important especially for the evacuation process during panic situation to reduce casualties. Nowadays, the efficiency of the evacuation process had become one of the issues during emergency incidents due to the difficulties faced by the pedestrians to access the exit points and the formation of clogging region near to the exit points and narrow pathways. Hence, the simulation of the pedestrian evacuation had been introduced as the potential solution exploration by imitating the emergency situations for predicting the survival rate and the casualties of the pedestrians involved. The pedestrian movement in the simulation will construct the movement patterns that are able to assist the development of the emergency route plan for guiding the pedestrians to find the nearest exit to escape. However, the route plan designed based on the ordinary pedestrian movement simulation will highlight the nearest exit instead of the optimal safest exit for the pedestrian to evacuate safely. Hence, to design a low-risk exit selection, this research had made a survey on three existing algorithms to optimize the exit selection process; multi-agent based algorithm, least effort algorithm and game theory algorithm. The experiments were conducted with three different structural layouts (number of doors) with variety number of dataset (number of pedestrians). The result of this research had shown that the game theory algorithm was able to assist the pedestrian movement towards the optimal nearest and safest exit for evacuation process and capable to enhance the simulation for designing a feasible emergency route plan to reduce casualties.
DC Motor Speed Control using PID Controller in Lab View

-Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) control is the most common control algorithm used in industry and has been universally accepted in industrial control. One of the applications used here is to control the speed of the DC motor. Controlling the speed of a DC motors is very important as any small change can lead to instability of the closed loop system. The aim of this paper is to show how DC motor can be controlled by using a PID controller in LabVIEW. DC Motor will be interfaced with LabVIEW using an ATmega 8A Microcontroller. The speed of the DC motor will be set by creating a Graphic User Interface (GUI) for PID Controller in LabVIEW. LabVIEW will send serial command to the DC motor using the PWM pins on the Microcontroller board. DC motor will move with the speed set by the user in LabVIEW. The speed of the dc motor will be sensed by using the IR sensor. From the sensor, the output is sent back to the PID Controller in LabVIEW via ATmega Microcontroller. PID Controller compares the actual speed of the DC motor with the set speed. If its speed is not same, PID Controller will try to minimize the error and bring the motor to the set point value [1].
Motivating Experts to Contribute to Digital Public Goods: A Personalized Field Experiment on Wikipedia

We use a large-scale personalized field experiment on Wikipedia to examine the effect of motivation on domain experts' contributions to digital public goods. In our baseline condition, 45% of the experts express willingness to contribute. Furthermore, experts are 13% more interested in contributing when we mention the private benefit of contribution, such as the likely citation of their work. In the contribution stage, using a machine learning model, we find that greater matching accuracy between a recommended Wikipedia article and an expert's expertise, together with an expert's reputation and the mentioning of public acknowledgement, are the most important predictors of both contribution length and quality. Our results show the potential of scalable personalized interventions using recommender systems to study drivers of prosocial behavior.
Acoustical Direction Finding using a Bayesian Regularized Multilayer Perceptron Artificial Neural Networks on a Tri-Axial Velocity Sensor

two-dimensional direction-of-arrival estimation scheme based on Bayesian-regularized (BR) Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) artificial neural network (ANN) is developed around a unit acoustic vector sensor (AVS). The AVS basically consists of three collocated and orthogonally oriented velocity sensors, hence, senses acoustic waves in the three Cartesian directions while offering portability in size and simplicity in its array manifold. It is shown that the Bayesian regularized Multilayered Perceptron neural network performs well in terms of estimation’s root-mean-square error even when tested with data of different signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) after training. This is useful as it accounts for unexpected changes of received data SNR during field operation. The proposed system is ideal for applications in mobile systems such as robots for search-and-rescue operations or soldiers in the battle field to estimate the source of a sniper fire.
Changes in CXCR4 localisation, aggregation and mobility in living 3T3 mouse fibroblast cells upon stimulation: a single molecule study

This study investigates the role of the membrane protein CXCR4 in the process of chemotaxis, directed cell movement caused by an external chemical gradient, necessary for angiogenesis. Chemotaxis is not only important for blood vessel growth but also for cancer metastasis. The final results of chemotaxis are well characterised but the important question of how cells come to define a front and a back has not been answered. Investigating changes in localisation, aggregation and mobility of CXCR4 in 3T3 mouse fibroblast cells upon stimulating with its chemokine SDF-1α will give use better insight in the early stages of chemotaxis. A previous study on dictyostelium discoideum showed that the first step towards a polarised cell phenotype might be the polarised diffusion behaviour of the membrane proteins, CAR1. Thus polarised diffusion behaviour could be a key process in chemotaxis. Single molecule fluorescence microscopy is employed to study the changes of CXCR4 localisation, aggregation and mobility caused by stimulation. By measuring the amount of CXCR4 as a function of time CXCR4 internalisation is quantified. Intensity information from single molecule microscopy is used for detecting dimers . Particle Image Correlation Spectroscopy (PICS) analysis is applied to measure the mobility of CXCR4 receptors. Stimulation causes a decrease in the number of measured proteins due to internalisation, almost no change upon dimer formation and an increase in the mobility of CXCR4 proteins.
Review on Nutrition Based Healthy Elderly

People whose age are over 60 are defined as elderly population. The elderly population is increasing at a constant rate and women comprise the majority. The sex ratio of male to female is 0.74. It is predicted that, in the year 2037, the over60 population will be 20% (1 in 5 people) and by 2050 it will be 29% (nearly 1/3rd of the population). Regular health screening programs are lacking in the elderly population in community settings, although different types of healthcare programs are available all over the world. Public health professionals such as public health midwives focus on particularly maternal and child care in the community than the elderly population. The most common health issues of the elderly include falls, malnutrition, neurodegenerative conditions, cognitive impairment, osteoporosis and noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs) is rising due to ageing.
Relative efficiency of different pit-trap systems for sampling reptiles in spinifex grasslands

Capture rates of reptiles in four pit-trap systems were compared in arid spinifex grasslands of the Northern Territory. Analysis showed that drift fences significantly increased capture rates, and that pit-traps of larger diameter captured more animals. Pit-traps with an additional drift fence at right angles to the main fence running along the line of traps tended to capture more animals than those with the single main fence. The results suggest that an optimal system for this habitat may be large pit-traps and drift fences arranged in the form of a cross.
A Framework for a Real-Time Cloud-Based Weather Forecasting System for Mauritius

ith the advent of global warming and other climatic imbalances, several countries are experiencing drastic weather conditions such as flash-floods which lead to major collateral damage and life loss. Predicting such weather conditions with conventional forecasting systems is not possible because these systems provide predictions for large regions over hours. However, there are several weather forecasting systems based on localised sensors connected to cloud computing facilities that can provide real-time forecasts for small regions. These forecasting systems make use of techniques such as neural networks, Fuzzy logic, time series and regression analysis. Recently, Mauritius has also faced major problems due to drastic flash floods which could not be predicted with the conventional weather forecasting system in place in the country. The main aim of this research is to first give an overview of the climatic profile in Mauritius, the existing weather forecasting systems as well as the recent issues that Mauritius has faced due to dramatic climatic conditions that could not be predicted on time. A detailed analysis of the techniques used in real-time cloud based weather forecasting systems will then be made and eventually a framework for a real-time cloud based weather forecasting system that could be set up in Mauritius will be proposed.
Isozyme variation in heterothallic species and related asexual isolates of Pythium

A collection of 63 heterothallic and asexual (sexually sterile) isolates were compared by isozyme analysis, vegetative characters, and their ability to produce oospores in paired cultures. The collection included isolates identified as Pythium heterothallicum, Pythium intermedium, Pythium macrosporum, Pythium splendens, Pythium sylvaticum, and Pythium tracheiphilum, and several unidentified isolates. Isolates were separated into 41 multilocus genotypes as defined by 11 isozyme loci. The data were analyzed with previously published data for Pythium ultimum, and dendrograms were obtained from unweighted pair-group method, arithmetic average cluster analysis. Forty-six genotypes (including nine of P. ultimum) grouped into seven clusters and three solitary genotypes. Six clusters contained known isolates of the aforementioned species and the seventh contained P. ultimum. Isolates within both the P. heterothallicum and P. sylvaticum clusters produced oospores when grown in paired cultures. Two of three isolate.
Chromosome Differentiation in Drosera, Subgenus Rorella, Section Rossolis

The Drosera chromosomes studied were not localized-centromeric but diffused-centromeric. Among the Drosera taxa studied, only D. filiformis (2n=20) had 20 weak CMA-negative orDAPI-positive large bands more than 2.97 μm2 area each at the same site of 20 chromosomes. Thus, its hybrid with D. intermedia (=Drosera × hybrida, 2n=20) had ten CMA weakly-negative orDAPI-positive bands more than 3.00 μm2 each in the same site of ten chromosomes which could be of the gamete of D. filiformis. Drosera petiolaris (2n=14) displayed the meiotic chromosome configuration of six circular bivalents with four distinct chromatids held each other with end-to-end association and two univalents at metaphase I, while D. rotundifolia (2n=20) displayed ten ring-shaped bivalents, that were quite similar to the bivalents of the localized-centromeric chromosomes. These differences in CMA-positive and DAPI-negative bands, IBAS-area, and meiotic chromosome behavior might be correlated with chromosome differentiation and speciation in the species of Drosera of the Northern and the Southern Hemispheres.
COMPARATIVE AND ANALYSIS STUDY OF BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the field of biometrics as a powerful identification technology. Various biometric technologies are based on behavioral and physiological analysis; therefore they must be reliable, robust, simple and cheap. In this paper, we have investigated an analytical comparison of different biometric systems namely: fingerprint, iris, face, voice, keystroke dynamics, signature, retina, etc. and we have classified these methods based on several criteria such as: universality, uniqueness, permanency, intrusiveness, effort, cost, and reliability, as well as the most used biometric systems requested in the market and those that are of greater interest in the current research work, and for each criteria we gave synthetic discussions. Furthermore, we provided a brief overview of biometric methods, then we have described the modes used in a biometric system such as enrollment, verification and identification and we have presented the possible applications of biometrics.
Periodicity in Mate Attraction and Flight Activity of Three Species of Caddisflies (Trichoptera)

Diel periodicities of mate attraction and flight activity were examined for three caddisfly species (Insecta:Trichoptera) that use female sex pheromones to attract conspecific males: Dicosmoecus gilvipes (Hagen) (Limnephilidae), Gumaga nigricula (McL.) (Sericostomatidae), and Gumaga griseola (McL.). Live females of D. gilvipes attracted males during the night, with 58% of the males being captured in the first hour after sunset. Live females of G. griseola attracted 97% of the males during the hour before sunrise whereas live females of G. nigricula attracted 85% of the males 2-4 h after sunrise. For all three species, the periodicity of male response to female pheromone was the same as the periodicity of male response to live females. In laboratory chambers, male and female D. gilvipes flew during the mate attraction period but generally not at other times. Male flight for G. nigricula and G. griseola was generally most intense during periods of mate attraction, and was reduced during non-attraction periods. In contrast, females of both Gumaga species were relatively sedentary during periods of mate attraction. The presence of circadian rhythms that govern the periodicity of flight was demonstrated for all taxa and sexes except females of D. gilvipes. Light intensity and air temperature influenced the amount of flight activity but not flight periodicity. The temporally brief and coordinated activities of these short-lived adults may serve to conserve metabolic resources, contribute to their reproductive success, and maintain reproductive isolation.
promote social competence of creative young children through fostering emotional intelligence. Therefore it is necessary to develop and implement educational programs for enhancing emotional intelligence of creative young children. Keywords: Young children, Creativity, Social competence, Emotional i

111 Published By: Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication Retrieval Number: C10320183C19\19©BEIESP  Abstract: Background/Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of young children's creativity on social competence through the mediating role of emotional intelligence. Methods/Statistical analysis: To do this study, Torrance’s creativity figure test, emotional intelligence checklist, and social competence scale were conducted on 76 children aged 4 years old in B city of Korea. For data analysis, correlation and regression analysis was conducted with creativity as an independent variable, emotional intelligence as a mediator variable, and social competence as a dependent variable. Mediation was tested through a three-step regression according to Baron & Kenny’s mediation analysis strategy. Findings: The result of this study indicates that there are correlated among the creativity, emotional intelligence and social competence. Creativity mediated by emotional intelligence, positively influenced social competence. Emotional intelligence plays a mediate role when creativity affects social activity, social participation/autonomy, and leadership of social competence. On the other hand, creativity did not affect social stability, cooperativeness, and conformity to social norms. Improvements/Applications: These results showed that we can promote social competence of creative young children through fostering emotional intelligence. Therefore it is necessary to develop and implement educational programs for enhancing emotional intelligence of creative young children.
Getting the User’s Attention: The Effectiveness of Two Mediums of Online Advertising

While the Internet has become an increasingly popular medium for advertising, few studies have been performed to gauge Internet advertising’s effectiveness in terms of increasing user attention to the advertisement and promoting memory for the content of the ads. The present study compared two types of banner advertisements in terms of capturing user attention, increasing recognition memory for the content of the advertisements, and in promoting positive attitudes toward the advertisements. Participants engaged in a search task on a simulated web page. An eye tracker was used to collect data on how effective the advertisements were in capturing user attention as indicated by the number of fixations participants’ made on the body of the ads. A recognition task provided a measure of implicit memory for the content of the ads. Finally, an attitude survey assessed how participants felt about the advertisements’ presence during the experiment. The results of the study indicate that neither type of banner can be preferred over the other in terms of increasing user attention to the ad, promoting recognition memory, and increasing positive attitudes toward the ad.
FOOD AND FEEDING HABITS OF TOR TOR (HAMILTON, 1822) AND SCHIZOTHOROX RICHARDSONII (GRAY, 1832) INHIBITING BHAGIRATHI RIVER, TEHRI GARHWAL, INDIA

Scientific knowledge about food and feeding habits of fish species is an important condition factor for increasing fish production. Food and feeding habits of the fish vary from with the time of day, with the season of the year, with the environmental condition and with different food matter present in the water body. In the present study, an attempt has been made to investigate the food and feeding habits of the Tor tor and Schizothorox richardsonii from Bhagirathi river, Tehri Garhwal. On the basis of qualitative and quantitative analysis of gut contents, mahseer is omnivorous in nature and generally changes its food habit from carnivorous to omnivorous with growing size adult depends more on plant matter while Schizothorox richardsonii has been categorized as herbivorous. Schizothorox richardsonii inhabiting Bhagirathi River (a cold water hillstream river) is a periphytonic feeder, feeding on Bacillariophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Cyanophyceae, detritus, and sand in this very preferential order. Enterosomatic index (ESI) of selected fish species indicates low feeding during spawning, while during preand post-spawning periods feeding increases. The mean value of Gastrosomatic index (GaSI) and active feeding in Schizothorax richardsonii were found to be maximum 4.03 in January 2017 and minimum 1.24 in November 2016 respectively. Mahseer feeds voraciously from November to June (Gastrosomatic 4.23) and feeding decreases from July to October (Gastrosomatic 1.78). Highest Gastrosomatic Index and active feeding occurred during winter (January) prior to the breeding season started and a lowest Gastrosomatic Index value, as well as poorer active feeding, occurred during the breeding season.