Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Seed yield and yield components of intercropped barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.) and annual medic ( Medicago scutellata L.)

Seed availability of annual medic (Medicago scutellata L.), an annual legume which performs well in various forage cropping systems, is a major challenge for livestock producers in Iran. This study was conducted at the experimental farm of University of Tehran to determine if intercropping annual medic with barley (Hordeum Vulgare L.) can produce supplement medic seeds while barley grain yield as the main crop is not compromised in 2007 growing season. A randomized complete block design with eight cropping ratios comprising of one row of barley: one row of annual medic (1B:1M), 2B:2M, 4B:4M, 6B:6M, 6B:2M, 4B,2M, 2B,4M, and 2B:6M along with sole culture of barley and annual medic was studied. The overall results as indicated by Land Equivalent Ratio (LER) revealed that regardless of ratios, the grain yield of barley when intercropped with medic was lowered. The total seed yield of both crops however, was improved in some of the intercropping ratios when compared to the monoculture of either crop. The land equivalent ratio (LER) of the cropping ratio of 2H:2M was 1.32 which is an indication of 32 percent yield advantage over the sole cropping of the two crops. The results of this study indicated that although intercropping of annual medic with barley, using 6B:2M replacement series yielded 259 kg ha-1 less grain compared to barley sole cropping but it produced a 365 kg ha-1 annual medic seed which has significantly higher market value than barley.
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Image Mosaicing is the process of combining two or more images of the same scene into one image and generate panorama of high resolution image. In this paper, we have described the basic methods used to generate panorama image. Our objective is to provide different methods and algorithms used to generate panoramic image. Mosaicing is one of the techniques of image processing which is useful for tiling digital images. Mosaicing is blending together of several arbitrarily shaped images to form one large radiometrically balanced image so that the boundaries between the original images are not seen. The output of image mosaic will be the union of two input images. In this paper we present a review on different approaches for image mosaicing.
Synthesis of Artificial Magnetic Conductors Using Structure-Based Evolutionary Design

An evolutionary programming approach, the so-called structure based evolutionary design, is applied to the synthesis of planar periodic electronic band gap in order to obtain an artificial magnetic conductor surface. We show that this strategy, in conjunction with a flexible aperture-oriented approach, allows for obtaining new and effective structures. This almost unique ability is exploited to obtain an artificial magnetic conductor periodic surface with a bandwidth larger than the most popular surfaces known so far.
Performance Analysis of Nigerian Brewery Industry

This research attempted to assess the financial performance of the firms in the brewery industry using financial ratios. It adopted a descriptive ex-post facto research design by using brewery firms of the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) from 2011-2015. The result suggests that the brewery industry is profitable and efficient in using its asset to generate profit and return it to its shareholders. Similarly, the industry financial risk is relatively low, and manager in the industry manage their stocks efficiently. This suggests that managers of firms should endeavor to reduce the amount of debt in their capital structure and manage a reasonable amount of debt in its capital structure since a high debt implies a high financial risk.
The compliance of budgeting and forecasting methods with organization design

Simons has developed theories on Levers of Organization Design and Levers of Control. In both theories he analyzes the different factors affecting organization design. He does not give any concrete guidance towards which direction certain internal or external factors would lead in organization design, rather he points out the key factors that managers should pay attention to when confronted with this demanding task. Contingency theory, from its part, has paid attention to the importance of the context in which management control systems are used. The theoretical aim of this study is to find compliance of budgeting and forecasting methods with organization design. Organization design is analyzed by its decision making structures and by the way the selected management control systems are used: as a diagnostic or interactive control system. The analyzed decision making structures are centralized or decentralized decision making structures. The selected management control systems for this study are traditional budgeting and rolling forecasting. This study is made by constructive research approach and its practical contribution lies in the novelty of this study, budgeting and forecasting application. The practical aim is that the developed application would direct the customer organizations of Haahtela HR Ltd to use the management control system which is the most effective in their organizational context as well as to improve the diagnostic and/or interactive use of the selected method thus supporting better decision making. Findings of this study suggest that there can be found certain compliances between decision making structures and management control systems and in the way they are used. Control and coordination seem to be in focus for centralized decision making and to diagnostic control systems. Traditional budgets are still mainly used as diagnostic control systems even though there are some studies on its use as an interactive control system. Decentralized decision making is about empowerment which is based on two way information flow, which is supported by interactive use of management control systems. Rolling forecasting seems to fulfill all the conditions set to interactive control systems. The theoretical contribution of this study is that it adds to Simons’ theories some guidance on which management control system to use and in what way in a certain decision making structure. The developed budgeting and forecasting application passed market testing which is a relevant part of constructive research approach. It seemed to support the centralized decision making structure of a customer organization of Haahtela HR Ltd as well as its diagnostic way to use traditional budgeting. This practical contribution also supports theoretical results of this study.
Barriers To and Facilitators for Screening Women for Intimate Partner Violence in Surgical Fracture Clinics: A Qualitative Descriptive Approach

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Characterization of Titanium Oxide Nanoparticles Obtained by Hydrolysis Reaction of Ethylene Glycol Solution of Alkoxide

Transparent and stable sols of titanium oxide nanoparticles were obtained by heating a mixture of ethylene glycol solution of titanium tetraisopropoxide (TIP) and a NH3 aqueous solution at 368 K for 24 h. The concentration of NH3 aqueous solution affected the structure of the obtained titanium oxide nanoparticles. For NH3 aqueous solution concentrations higher than 0.2 mol/L, a mixture of anatase TiO2 nanoparticles and layered titanic acid nanoparticles was obtained. The obtained sol was very stable without formation of aggregated precipitates and gels. Coordination of ethylene glycol to Ti4
Effect of organic sources of minerals on fat-corrected milk yield of dairy cows in confinement

This study evaluated the effects of organic and inorganic sources of minerals in diets for mid-lactation dairy cows on milk yield and composition, intake and total apparent digestibility of dry matter and nutrients, blood parameters, microbial protein synthesis, and energy and protein balances. Twenty Holstein cows averaging 146.83±67.34 days in milk and weighing 625.30±80.37 kg were used. The experimental design was a crossover. Diets were composed of corn silage (50%), ground grain corn, and soybean meal, differing with regard to the sources of trace minerals, plus an organic and inorganic mix. The organic mineral source increased milk fat and fat-corrected milk yield without changing milk yield, intake, or total apparent digestibility. Blood parameters, microbial protein synthesis, and energy and protein balances were not affected by the sources of minerals. Organic sources of minerals improve milk fat yield without affecting other parameters.
Title Tensor vs Matrix Methods : Robust Tensor Decomposition under Block Sparse Perturbations Permalink

Robust tensor CP decomposition involves decomposing a tensor into low rank and sparse components. We propose a novel non-convex iterative algorithm with guaranteed recovery. It alternates between lowrank CP decomposition through gradient ascent (a variant of the tensor power method), and hard thresholding of the residual. We prove convergence to the globally optimal solution under natural incoherence conditions on the low rank component, and bounded level of sparse perturbations. We compare our method with natural baselines, viz., which apply robust matrix PCA either to the flattened tensor, or to the matrix slices of the tensor. Our method can provably handle a far greater level of perturbation when the sparse tensor is block-structured. This naturally occurs in many applications such as the activity detection task in videos. Our experiments validate these findings. Thus, we establish that tensor methods can tolerate a higher level of gross corruptions compared to matrix methods.
Mapping and Generating Classifiers using an Open Chinese Ontology

In languages such as Chinese, classifiers (CLs) play a central role in the quantification of noun-phrases. This can be a problem when generating text from input that does not specify the classifier, as in machine translation (MT) from English to Chinese. Many solutions to this problem rely on dictionaries of noun-CL pairs. However, there is no open large-scale machine-tractable dictionary of noun-CL associations. Many published resources exist, but they tend to focus on how a CL is used (e.g. what kinds of nouns can be used with it, or what features seem to be selected by each CL). In fact, since nouns are open class words, producing an exhaustive definite list of noun-CL associations is not possible, since it would quickly get out of date. Our work tries to address this problem by providing an algorithm for automatic building of a frequency based dictionary of noun-CL pairs, mapped to concepts in the Chinese Open Wordnet (Wang and Bond, 2013), an open machine-tractable dictionary for Chinese. All results will released under an open license.
LCMR 1 interacts with DEK to suppress apoptosis in lung cancer cells

To win the war against lung cancer, the molecular mechanisms underlying its oncogenesis and metastasis must be identified in order to develop novel diagnosis and treatment strategies. We previously identified a novel gene, namely lung cancer metastasis related protein 1 (LCMR1; GenBank accession no. AY148462), which was demonstrated to be overexpressed in non‐small‐cell lung cancer. LCMR1 expression was significantly associated with clinical stage. To further understand the mechanism of LCMR1 in lung cancer, the present study screened a cDNA library from the lung cancer cell line 95D for proteins interacting with LCMR1 by yeast two‐hybrid assay, and the protein DEK was identified. Co‐immunoprecipitation and glutathione S‐transferase pull‐down assays were performed to confirm the interaction between LCMR1 and DEK in vivo and in vitro. The results demonstrated that the interaction was mediated primarily by the N‐terminal region of DEK, suggesting that LCMR1 may be involved in the regulation of cell apoptosis. Using RNA interference, DEK and LCMR1 were demonstrated to cooperate in the inhibition of apoptosis in lung cancer cells, and this effect was associated with the induced myeloid leukemia protein cell differentiation protein 1 pathway. The present findings suggest that LCMR1 might serve as a potential molecular target for lung cancer therapy.
Rods falling near a vertical wall

As an inclined rod sediments in an unbounded viscous fluid it will drift horizontally but will not rotate. When it approaches a vertical wall, the rod rotates and so turns away from the wall. Illustrative experiments and a slender-body theory of this phenomenon are presented. In an incidental study the friction coefficients for an isolated rod are found by numerical solution of the slender-body integral equation. These friction coefficients are compared with the asymptotic results of Batchelor (1970) and the numerical results of Youngren ' Acrivos (1975), who did not make a slender-body approximation.
How random are intraday stock prices? Evidence from deep learning

Standard methods and theories in finance are ill equipped to capture complex data interactions presented in financial prediction problems. Deep learning approaches however offer more useful insights into these complex big data interactions. In this paper, using deeplayered feedforward neural networks, which applies econometrically constructed gradients, we learn and exploit time-shifted correlations among S&P 500 stocks to predict intraday and daily stock price movements for target stocks with only other stocks' lagged prices as inputs. Our findings show that time-shifted correlations can be exploited to predict stock prices; our model is also consistent in volatile markets.
IN ECONOMETRICS AND APPLIED STATISTICS Department of Econometrics No . 97-January 1998 Is the Australian Wool Futures Market Efficient ?

It has been suggested by Giles and Goss (1980) that if a futures market provides a forward pricing function, then it is an efficient market. This paper proposes a simple test for whether the Australian wool futures market is efficient. The test is based on applying cointegration techniques to test the Law of One Price over a three, six, nine and twelve month spread of futures prices. We found that the futures market is efficient for up to a six months spread, but no further into the future. As futures market prices can be used to predict spot prices up to six months in advance, wool growers can use the futures price to assess when they market their clips, but not for longer-term production planning decisions.
The Determinants of Sovereign Bond Yields in the EMU: New Empirical Evidence

This paper investigates the determinants of sovereign bond yields in the case of ten Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) countries (five core economies and five peripheral countries) for the period of 2001-2015. To this end, we carry out a two-step methodology based on (i) a principal component analysis of the countries’ yields, which is aimed at splitting our sample into sub-periods, and (ii) a random forest model to investigate the determinants of bond yields in any identified sub-period enhanced with a variable selection process with simulated annealing. Our analysis indicates that macroeconomic fundamentals (especially the unemployment rate, the inflation rate and the government debt to the GDP change rate) are the main variables responsible for the sovereign bond yields in all the countries analyzed, both core and peripheral. In contrast, the bond yields do not seem to be intensively influenced by global indicators over the whole sampling period.
Merced Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Title The Inverse List Length Effect : Implications for Exemplar Models of Recognition Memory

A. H. Criss and R. M. Shiffrin (2004) argued against the composite context noise explanation of recognition memory introduced by Dennis and Humphreys (2001) by showing that with novel face stimuli, related distractors that are drawn from study categories show elevated false alarm rates. Dennis and Humphreys (2001) proposed two mechanisms by which related false alarm rates might arise. The first mechanism posited that such items might be produced as implicit associative responses. Such a mechanism is unlikely to apply to face stimuli. The second mechanism posited a category wide criterion shift, which Criss and Shiffrin (2004) argued was implausible because it requires criterion to be adjusted on an item by item basis during test. Rather they contended that direct interference between study items was more likely to account for the data and fit the Retrieving Effectively from Memory model (REM, Shiffrin & Steyvers, 1997) to their data. We suggest that the mechanism by which false alarms are generated for word and novel face stimuli may differ. Instead of focusing on related distractors, we focus on unrelated distractors. Using words, we show that if list length is manipulated by keeping the number of categories constant but increasing the number of exemplars in each category, then the unrelated false alarm rate decreases thus inducing an inverse list length effect in which performance on short lists is worse than on long lists. Simulations demonstrate that exemplar models such as REM are not capable of accounting for the results without modification. Rather a composite representation of the studied categories that subjects can use to reject unrelated lures must be formed.
Motivations, emotions, and feelings of self gifting entrepreneurs: A cross-cultural study

Purpose- This study explores the self-gifting customer behavior of entrepreneurs across two cultures, Eastern and Western of districts of Iran, and identifies the motivations and feelings associated with the self-gifting practice. Design/methodology/approach- The research includes a literature review of feelings and motiva-tions in the buying context, culture and the importance of cross-cultural studies in the consumer be-havior context, and the concept of self-gifting and its evolution. An empirical research undertaken to explore the feelings and motivations for self-gifting among consumers from six different providences divided in an equal numerical manner to represent the two different cultures. The findings of this qualitative research are analyzed by categorizing the responses into five dimensions or themes which have been identified as most relevant. This was followed by a cross-cultural comparison for each of the previously identified themes. Findings- With the exception of two interviewees who by the nature of their job pay attention to ad-vertisements the rest of the respondents ignored any commercial in this respect. Taking into consider-ation the findings that motives and feelings vary across cultures it can be suggested that ads that try to encourage a self-gifting behavior in Eastern provinces should not follow solely the Western approach. In contrast with the Western individual prioritization, Eastern people are group-oriented thus a self-gift is meant to be shared. Research limitations/implications- In order to avoid any cultural mistake and a low target rate of response self-gifting message customization is advisable. For instance, in West durable and expensive products can be advertised as self-gifts while in the East consumable products and products suitable for sharing can benefit from self-gift-oriented messages. In contrast, experiential self-gifts such as trips can be marketed in a similar way in both East and West. Due to the lack of financial support and time constraints the interviews were not preceded by a complete series of pilot studies. In addition to this, the qualitative analysis as such is vulnerable from the point of view of generalisability, validity and reliability. The interpretivist research philosophy adopted that focuses on the uniqueness of the individuals can also be considered a barrier towards absolute generalisability. Thus, no universal ap-plication of the studies‟ results has been assumed. However, the study gives some useful insights into the nature of self-gifting behavior across the division East-West and as such provides material for future research on the topic. Research paper Reference to this paper should be made as follows: JamehBozorgi, M. J., Hashemi Dashtaki, S.H. (2014). “Motivations, emotions, and feelings of self gifting entrepreneurs: A cross-cultural study”, Journal of Entrepreneurship, Business and Economics, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 98–120.
Measuring Alumna Career Advancement: An Approach Based on Educational Expectations.

Alverno College (Wisconsin), a women's liberal arts college, has developed an Alumni Career Level Classification (AACLC) scheme to measure alumna career advancement and demonstrate institutional accountability. This validation study was part of a larger longitudinal study of two entire cohorts of students entering the college in 1976 and 1977, of whom most were predominantly first generation college students from working class backgrounds who worked before, during, and after college. Validation of the AACLC scheme focused on positions reported 5 years after graduation by 243 working female graduates. The study created three types of variables to validate the AACLC: (1) two criterion measures, a position autonomy scale and a cooperative organizational thinking and actior ability factor; (2) four secondary validation variables (e.g., annual salary and current level of education); and (3) two variables validating the scheme's consistency, continuity in career area and causal modeling. Analysis found that the AACLC effectively measured career advancement and was anchored in meaningful definitions of career advancement for college graduates. The AACLC was found to be internally consistent in ranking position titles of alumna's colleagues in the organization. The AACLC demonstrated greater sensitivity to post-college career advancement than the socio-economic index in the fields of nursing, business and management, and education. (Contains 48 references.) (JB) ********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ***********************************************************************