Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Virulence of Nano – Particle preparation of Entomopathogenic fungi and Entomopathogenic Bacteria against red palm weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Background: Rhynchophorus ferrugineus is one of the most severe pests on palm species, including date palms In Asia. Purpose: The purpose of the current study is to evaluate the virulence of bio efficacy of nano-particle of entomopathogenic fungi and entomopathogenic bacteria on red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus. Methods: Prepare concentrations of Fungal Spores and Silver Nano Particles were prepared from Metarhizium anisopliae, Beauveria bassiana, Verticillium lecanii and B. thuringiensis, B. subtilis. Results: M. anisopliae was the highest % mortality (90%), (95%) and (77%) against eggs, larvae and adults of R. ferrugineus, respectively when treated with bio synthesized or with fungal spores after seven days from treatment and the lowest % mortality was recorded when treated with V. lecanii. Three concentrations, (10, 10, and 10 CFU/mL), formulated as bacterial suspensions and bio-synthesized silver nanoparticles, (Ag NPs) were evaluated for their ability to inhibit egg hatch. The 10 CFU/mL concentration, both as a bacterial suspension and formulated as Ag NPs, was tested for efficacy against 10 day-old larvae and adults. Egg hatch was significantly inhibited by all concentrations and formulations of B. subtilis and B. thuringiensis, and exhibited lethal concentrations for 50% mortality (LC50) of 3.45 X 10 3 and 6.73 X 10 CFU/mL, respectively. The percent mortality of larvae six days after treatment was 85% and 77% for B. thuringiensis and B. subtilis Ag NPs, respectively. The percent mortality of adults six days after treatment was 75% and 67% for B. thuringiensis and B. subtilis Ag NPs, respectively. Conclusion: The bio control efficiency of Ag NPs synthesized by five isolates of M. anisopliae, B. bassiana, Bio Magic, Bio Power and Bio Catch on R. ferrugineus was proven to be effective through bio assay by spore suspension and bio synthesized silver nanoparticles. M. anisopliae had the highest efficiency on R. ferrugineus and was more effective than B. bassiana, Bio Magic, Bio Power and Bio Catch. B. thuringiensis inhibited the hatching of R. ferrugineus, it is the highly effect than B. subtilis against all stages (eggs, Larvae and Adults) of R. ferrugineus. B. thuringiensis is the highly effect as a bio synthesized Ag NPs against larvae and adults of R. ferrugineus than bacterial suspensions. B. thuringiensis is the highest effect than B. subtilis as well bacterial suspensions or as a bio synthesized Ag NPs.
Owned a House in an Urban Destination or Made Housing Investments in the Hometown? Determinants of Rural Migrants’ Housing Attainments in China

ABSTRACT Purchasing a house in origin cities or towns has become a new trend in housing trajectories for rural migrants in China, whereas previous studies focus mainly on determinants of housing tenure for rural migrants in urban destinations. Using a recent national survey called the National Migrants Population Dynamic Monitoring Survey (NMPDMS), the present study applies a recursive multivariate probit model to explore the determinants of migrants’ housing trajectories in the nexus of quasitransnationalism and integration. The results indicate that ties to urban destinations and ties to the hometown have a significant effect on housing attainments between urban destinations and the hometown. Rural migrants with closer ties to urban destinations and weaker ties to the hometown are more likely to be homeowners in the urban destinations. Conversely, they are more prone to make housing investments in the hometown. Both hometown housing activities of having bought a house in the origin city or town and having rebuilt a house in the origin village have significantly negative effects on homeownership in urban destinations, and the housing activity of having rebuilt a house in the origin village also has a significant negative effect on housing purchase in the origin city or town.
A highly sensitive, stable, scalable pressure sensor based on a facile baking-inspired foaming process for a human–computer interface

Flexible and wearable pressure sensors, which can detect various pressures generated by the human body and convert them into electrical signals, are of great interest because they have a wide variety of applications for an interface between humans and external devices. Elastomeric dielectric materials for commercial piezocapacitive pressure sensors need to be manufactured quickly and easily via cost-effective methods. Herein, we report a piezocapacitive pressure sensor based on a three-dimensional macroporous dielectric layer fabricated by a rapid and facile baking-inspired foaming process. The pressure sensor showed high sensitivities of 0.16 ± 0.03 kPa−1 (at <1 kPa) and 0.14 ± 0.02 kPa−1 (at 1–10 kPa) and a low detection limit of 9.8 Pa. Furthermore, 10 000 repetitive compressing and releasing cycles confirmed its reliability. We established that the pressure sensor could move virtual fingers by detecting finger gripping pressure in real time. The respiration rate was also detected by the pressure sensor. A large-scale pressure sensor array was constructed to demonstrate a scaled-up fabrication process. The array accurately recognized spatially distributed pressures generated by objects.
Short Boredom Proneness Scale: Adaptation and validation of a Chinese version with college students

We translated the Short Boredom Proneness Scale (SBPS) into Chinese and tested its psychometric properties with 694 Chinese college students. Of the participants, 103 completed the reverse-worded Boredom Proneness Scale-Short Form, and 591 completed the Chinese version of the SBPS, the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale, the Self-Rating Depression Scale, the short version of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale, and the Life Satisfaction Scale. We recalled 117 participants 4 weeks later and they completed the SBPS again. Factor analysis supported the 1-factor model of the SBPS, as well as the reverse-worded Boredom Proneness Scale-Short Form. Excellent internal consistency of the SBPS was obtained. Additionally, the results for the SBPS were significantly correlated with the state boredom, depression, loneliness, and life satisfaction of the participants. The results supported the cross-cultural consistency of the 1-factor model of boredom proneness, and showed that the Chinese version of the SBPS has excellent validity and reliability.
Intracavitary lesion caused by bladder wall stone and mimicking bladder tumor

We present a 28 year-old patient with insidental intramural stone covered by bladder mass. The pathology was rarely seen cystitis glandularis with intestinal metaplasia. During cystoscopy, stone was not seen, we resected the mass than stone was appeared in buried into the wall and removed from the bladder wall. The stone was fragmented with holmium laser. The pathology of the mass was cystitis glandularis with intestinal metaplasia whish is rarely seen and may be malign by the time. We followed up the patient with cystoscopy every 3 months and no recurrens was detected.
Effect of the shear field on the conductive percolated network formation in a nanoparticle filled polymer nanocomposites

ABSTRACT It is very important to improve the electrical conductivity of polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) which can widen their application. In this work, a coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation is adopted to investigate the effect of the nanoparticle (NP) functionalization on the formation of the conductive network under the quiescent state or under the shear field, which is denoted by the conductive probability. First, the dispersion state of NPs is characterized which varies from the contact aggregation, the relatively uniform dispersion to the local bridging structure via one polymer layer with the increase of the functionalization degree . Corresponding to it, the percolation threshold of PNCs exhibits a continuous decrease with the increase of under the quiescent state which reflects the high conductive probability. However, the percolation threshold shows a weak increase under the shear field. Thus, the decides whether the conductive probability increases or decreases under the shear field. The smallest change in the percolation threshold appears at the moderate which reflects the highest conductive stability. Especially, even though the dispersion state of NPs is different for , the percolation threshold is similar under the shear field. The connection mode among NPs is considered to determine the formation of the conductive network. In summary, this work can help to understand how the NP functionalization affects the electrical conductivity of PNCs.
A World of Mistrust: Fake News, Mistrust Mind-Sets, and Product Evaluations

The current research examines how the influence of fake news on product evaluations is moderated by consumers’ political ideologies. Several experiments show that exposure to fake news undermines the evaluations that liberals (but not conservatives) form in response to offerings they subsequently encounter in contexts completely unrelated to the fake news. Mediational evidence is also provided, indicating that exposure to fake news makes liberal consumers mistrust the news source; this mistrust impairs the level of trust they place in firms offering a product/service, which in turn reduces their evaluations of that offering. Collectively, these findings document the ability of fake news to instigate a generalized mistrust in sources (i.e., a “mistrust mind-set”) among liberal consumers that influences their subsequent evaluations of products and services in the marketplace.
Automated Workflow For Peptide-level Quantitation From DIA/ SWATH-MS Data

Data Independent Acquisition (DIA) is a powerful method to acquire spectra from all ionized precursors of a sample. Considering the complexity of the highly multiplexed spectral data, sophisticated workflows have been developed to obtain peptides quantification. Here we describe an open-source and easy-to-use workflow to obtain a quantitative matrix from multiple DIA runs. This workflow requires as prior information an “assay library”, which contains the MS coordinates of peptides. It consists of OpenSWATH, pyProphet and DIAlignR software. For the ease of installation and to isolate operating system related dependency, docker-based containerization is utilized in this workflow.
Cultivating student agency through teachers’ professional learning

ABSTRACT Thoughtfully planned professional development (PD) that fosters teacher agency has the potential to impact student agency in the literacy classroom. Drawing on a body of research with 82 teachers across multiple schools and clinical settings, this article first presents findings from a variety of PD contexts that are synthesized to highlight four guiding principles for designing professional learning that encourages both teacher and student agency. Then, the article illustrates one vignette of agentive literacy teaching, which was subsequently facilitative of students’ agentic engagement with vocabulary learning. Throughout, the case is made that intentional and embedded opportunities for co-construction of knowledge and reciprocity between PD providers and teachers, teachers and leadership, and teachers and students are important ingredients for an agentic learning experience. Finally, conclusions are drawn emphasizing that teacher and student agency are forces of empowerment, critical to student and teacher well-being.
Romantic Relationship Churn in Early Adolescence Predicts Hostility, Abuse, and Avoidance in Relationships Into Early Adulthood

This study examined early adolescent romantic “churning,” defined here as having a large number of boyfriends/girlfriends by age 13, as a problematic marker likely to predict hostility, abuse, and avoidance during conflict in later relationships. A sample of 184 adolescents was followed through age 24 to assess predictions of hostility, abuse, and avoidance during conflict from early romantic churning. Controlling for gender and family income, romantic churning at age 13 predicted relative decreases in peer preference and relative increases in conflict and betrayal in close friendships from ages 13 to 16, as well as higher observable hostility and self- and partner-reported abuse in romantic relationships by age 18 and greater avoidance during conflict with romantic partners by age 24. Findings remained after accounting for attachment security, social competence, and friendship quality in early adolescence, suggesting that early romantic churning may uniquely predict a problematic developmental pathway.
Essays on Former Transition Economies and International Spillovers

This empirical study considers the pass-through of key nominal exchange rates and commodity prices to consumer prices in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), taking into account the effect of idiosyncratic and common factors influencing prices. In order to do that, given the relatively short window of available quarterly observations (1999–2014), we choose heterogeneous panel frameworks and control for cross-sectional dependence. The exchange rate pass-through is found to be relatively high and rapid for CIS countries in the case of the nominal effective exchange rate, but not significant for the bilateral rate with the US dollar. We also show that global factors in combination with financial gaps and commodity prices are important. In the case of large rate swings, the exchange rate pass-through of the bilateral rate with the US dollar becomes significant and similar to that of the nominal effective exchange rate.
The influence of ideology on black African students' perceptions of the University of KwaZulu-Natal's bilingual policy

The authors’ chosen theoretical framework posits that how black students perceive bilingual instruction in higher education is largely influenced by the various ideological perspectives they have been socialised into in different contexts where African languages are used, and continue to be diminished, for different objectives. Through individual interviews, the study explored which ideological frameworks participants drew on when discussing their general perspectives on, as well as perceived benefits and challenges of, bilingual instruction at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. They were also asked what their recommendations for the policy’s implementation process were. The students who had experienced bilingual instruction explained how they started better understanding the content of their studies as well as the meaning of previously difficult English concepts. Students who had not experienced bilingual instruction mainly discussed how they thought the use of isiZulu could facilitate better understanding primarily for students who struggle to understand English. However, they warned that an extended use of isiZulu would hinder upward socioeconomic mobility for graduates who struggle to communicate in English. In light of the study’s findings and the conflicting ideologies shared in South Africa, the authors recommend that when planning their respective implementation processes for bi/multilingual instruction for higher education, national and institutional policymakers should consider students’ various ways of perceiving languages’ differential levels of use and esteem and how this could influence their conceptions of academic objectives.
Genomic Profiling of Prostate Cancers from African

African American (AA) men have a higher incidence and significantly higher mortality rates from prostate cancer than white men, but the biological basis for these differences are poorly understood. Few studies have been carried out to determine whether there are areas of allelic loss or gain in prostate cancers from AA men that are overrepresented in or specific to this group. To better understand the molecular mechanisms of prostate cancer in AA men, we have analyzed 20 prostate cancers from AA men with high-density single-nucleotide polymorphism arrays to detect genomic copy number alterations. We identified 17 regions showing significant loss and 4 regions with significant gains. Most of these regions had been linked to prostate cancer by previous studies of copy number alterations of predominantly white patients. We identified a novel region of loss at 4p16.3, which has been shown to be lost in breast, colon, and bladder cancers. Comparison of our primary tumors with tumors from white patients from a previously published cohort with similar pathological characteristics showed higher frequency of loss of at numerous loci including 6q13-22, 8p21, 13q13-14, and 16q11-24 and gains of 7p21 and 8q24, all of which had higher frequencies in metastatic lesions in this previously published cohort. Thus, the clinically localized cancers from AA men more closely resembled metastatic cancers from white men. This difference may in part explain the more aggressive clinical behavior of prostate cancer in AA men.
Retroreflective Transceiver Array Using a Novel Calibration Method Based on Optimum Phase Searching

The retrodirective or retroreflective method has been used as a radio-frequency beamforming method for massive antenna array, for wireless communication systems, radars, and microwave power transfer (MPT) systems. In particular, the retroreflective method is suitable for optimum beamforming for both near- and far-field zones. Each transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) circuit in the Tx array has its own phase offset, which should be calibrated for optimum retroreflective operation. This article presents a simple and effective phase offset calibration method for the retroreflective beamforming arrays using a one-by-one basis optimum phase searching method with a receiver at a reference point. To verify the proposed calibration method for a massive retroreflective beamforming array, a 5.2 GHz short- and mid-range (<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\leq$</tex-math></inline-formula>4 m) MPT system, including a Tx array based on 8 × 8 antennas and an Rx using six antennas (five rectennas for power reception, and 1 additional for pilot transmission) for charging mobile handsets was designed and implemented. Optimal retroreflective beamforming from the Tx array, which was calibrated using the proposed method, was experimentally verified for elevation angles of within <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\pm 45^\circ$</tex-math></inline-formula> for both <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$xz$</tex-math></inline-formula>- and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$yz$</tex-math></inline-formula>-planes. The implemented Tx and Rx circuits achieved a received dc power of about 100 mW at a distance of 4 m.
Effect of different packing materials and storage periods on physico-chemical characteristics of citrus fruits

Storage of surplus fruit has become the business activity of great significance and countries with abundant fruit resources and having short harvest reason are emphasizing more for established storage to maintain quality of fruits, increase shelf life for off-season use. A laboratory study was carried out during 2015 to investigate the effect of packing materials (Gunny bags, wooden crates, paper boxes and plastic bags) on the physico-chemical properties of sweet orange and grape fruit at different storage intervals (day-1, 3, 6 and 9) at the Department of Horticulture, Faculty of crop Production, Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam. The results revealed that fruit weight, diameter, pH, TSS, moisture, ash and specific gravity varied significantly (P<0.05) for citrus varieties, packing materials and storage periods. The stored citrus fruits packed in paper box revealed better performance and maintained their physico-chemical characteristics. The stored citrus fruits packed in wooden crates ranked 2 nd for quality attributes for sweet orange and grape fruits. The sweet oranges and grape fruit packed in gunny bags and plastic bags showed quality deterioration in regards to fruit physico-chemical characteristics studied. It was concluded that regardless the citrus varieties, paper box packing proved to be most suitable for citrus fruit storage, which maintained the better fruit quality and lesser fruit weight loss than rest of the packing materials. Sweet orange remained in acceptable quality up to six days of storage under room temperature while grape fruits remained in acceptable quality up to 9 days after storage later the fruit quality was deteriorated.
Individual preferences towards nuclear energy: the transient residency effect

ABSTRACT Nuclear energy is an energy source that is usually unfavourable among the public due to its inherent risks. However, it presents a number of benefits, including the possibility to reduce emissions and the contribution to tackle climate change. Among the countries adopting nuclear energy, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is unusual in that a large share of its residents consists of expatriates who live only part of their lives in the country with no (or highly unlikely) access to citizenship. This distinctive population structure offers the opportunity to investigate the effect of transient residency on acceptance and preferences towards nuclear energy. We conducted this investigation by designing a stated preferences-based survey, targeting an online nationwide sample. The survey collected information on socio-economic characteristics and attitudes, including views on perceived risks and benefits of nuclear energy, views towards different energy sources and life satisfaction. Results indicate that transient individuals, especially those who are more satisfied with their lives in the UAE, are significantly less likely to oppose the construction of new nuclear plants. These individuals are characterized by a more positive perception of benefits over risks arising from nuclear energy. Policy implications are discussed.
A Robust Approach for Monocular Visual Odometry in Underwater Environments

(DIEC-UNS). Abstract This work presents a visual odometric system for camera tracking in underwater scenarios of the sea ﬂ oor which are strongly perturbed with sunlight caustics and cloudy water. Particularly, we focuse on the performance and robustnes of the system, which structurally associates a de ﬂ ickering ﬁ lter with a visual tracker. Two state-of-the-art trackers are employed for our study, one pixel-oriented and the other feature-based. The contrivances of the trackers were crumbled and their suitability for underwater environments analyzed comparatively. To this end real subaquatic footages in perturbed environments were