Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
EVALUATION OF PHYLLOPLANE , CAULOPLANE AND RHIZOSPHERE BACTERIA FOR MULTIPLE ANTAGONISM AGAINST FIVE MAJOR PATHOGENS OF RUBBER (HEVEA BRASILIENSIS)

Bacteria associated with phylloplane, cauloplane and rhizosphere of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis, clones RRII 105and PB 260) from six rubber growing regions in south-western India were isolated during monsoon, post-monsoon and summer seasons. These isolates were evaluated for antagonism against five major pathogens of rubber viz. Corynespora cassiicola , Colletotrichum acutatum, Phytophthora meadii, Corticium salmonicolor and Phellinus noxius . Out of the 118 isolates screened, 11 showed antagonism against all the five and 18 against a minimum of four of the pathogens tested. Among these, three phylloplane isolates (B24, B54 and B61) showed high inhibition of at least three pathogens. The mechanism of antagonism included production of volatile compounds, HCN and siderophores. In vivo evaluation of the three selected isolates for protection against leaf diseases caused by C. cassiicola and C. acutatum on young rubber plants (clone RRII 105) grown in polybags confirmed their efficacy. Prior inoculation of the antagonistic bacterial isolates was more effective in reducing disease intensity.
Time Varying Stock Market Integration and Diversification Opportunities within Emerging and Frontier Markets

This study examines the time-varying feature of Emerging and Frontier stock markets to identify diversification opportunities. For this purpose, we sample 29 emerging and frontier countries ranging from 2000-2018 from America, Europe, Asia, Middle East, and Africa with each region consisting of a panel with one home country and other as remaining countries portfolio. Our results highlight few diversification opportunities in the post-crisis period for international investors in emerging and frontier stock markets as compared to the pre-crisis period. In the post-crisis period; Peru, Philippine, Jordan offer diversification opportunities for long run whereas Brazil, Mexico, Peru in emerging America, Philippine from Emerging Asia, Kazakhstan in frontier Europe, Kenya, Morocco in frontier Africa and Bahrain, Jordan from frontier Middle East offer short-run diversification opportunities for international investors.
DETECTING BOTNET ATTACK IN INTERNET OF THINGS (IoTs) ENVIRONMENT BY USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUE: A REVIEW

Botnet attack are not a new threat in Internet of Things (IoTs) environment. In this globalization world of power information technology where there are less human energy used in daily life, the IoTs has shown it reliability in modern technology world phenomena. As the technology is evolving time to time, the human becomes more interested in exploiting the technology for goods and bad purposes. Example of bad purposed is botnet attack in IoTs environment. The botnet attack nowadays are not only infect the devices massively but also spreading the malicious activities such as Spam, DDoS and more. Hence, in this research, the review of botnet attack in IoTs environment will discuss as well as the method and techniques that used to encounter the attacks too. By spills the beans, the trends of current botnet attacks in IoTs environment will be discuss and follows by reviews of reliable methods for future botnet detection framework.
The challenge of controlling microgrids in the presence of rare events with deep reinforcement learning

The increased penetration of renewable energies and the need to decarbonise the grid come with a lot of challenges. Microgrids, power grids that can operate independently from the main system, are seen as a promising solution. They range from a small building to a neighbourhood or a village. As they co ‐ locate generation, storage and consumption, microgrids are often built with renewable energies. At the same time, because they can be disconnected from the main grid, they can be more resilient and less dependent on central generation. Due to their diversity and distributed nature, advanced metering and control will be necessary to maximise their potential. This paper presents a reinforcement learning algorithm to tackle the energy management of an off ‐ grid microgrid, represented as a Markov Decision Process. The main objective function of the proposed algorithm is to minimise the global operating cost. By nature, rare events occur in physical systems. One of the main contribution of this paper is to demonstrate how to train agents in the presence of rare events. Merging the combined experience replay method with novel methods called ‘Memory Counter’ unstucks the agent during its learning phase. Compared to baselines, an extended version of double deep Q ‐ network with a priority list of actions into the decision making strategy process lowers significantly the operating cost. Experiments are conducted using 2 years of
Cognitive Disorders in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Introduction: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, inflammatory, (auto) immune disease of the central nervous system (CNS). Cognitive disorders are found in over 50% of patients. Aim: The aim of the study was to determine the distribution of cognitive disorders in people with MS. Methods: The prospective study included 135 respondents with MS and 50 healthy respondents. The respondents were divided into three groups: the first group consisted of 85 respondents where the disease lasted longer than one year, the second group consisted of 50 respondents with newly diagnosed MS, the third group consisted of 50 healthy respondents. Clinical assessment instruments were: Extended Disability Score in Multiple Sclerosis Patients, Mini Mental Status, Battery of Tests to Assess Cognitive Functions: Wechsler Intelligence Scale, Revised Beta Test, Raven Colored Progressive Matrices, Wechsler Memory Scale, Rey Audio Verbal Learning Test -Osterriecht’s complex character test, verbal fluency test. Results: Cognitive disorders were present in 40-60% of respondents with MS. Visuospatial, visuoconstructive and visuoperceptive functions are worse in the first group. Mnestic functions (learning process, short-term and long-term memory, recollection, verbal-logical memory) were most affected in both groups of respondents, ranging from 30-60%. Poorer cognitive domains are in the first groups of respondents. Immediate working process memory (current learning), memory, attention, short-term and logical memory is worse in the examinees of the first group. At the beginning of the disease, 16% had verbal fluency difficulties, and as the disease progresses, the difficulties become more pronounced. Conclusion: Cognitive disorders are heterogeneous, they can be noticed in the early stages of the disease. They refer to impairments of working memory, executive functions and attention, while global intellectual efficiency is later reduced.
Periodic Heat Transfer at Small Pressure Fluctuations

The effect of cyclic gas pressure variations on the periodic heat transfer at a flat wall is theoretically analyzed and the differential equation describing the process and its solution for relatively. Small pressure fluctuations developed, thus explaining the periodic heat cycle between gas and wall surface. The processes for pure harmonic pressure and temperature oscillations, respectively, in the gas space are described by means of a constant heat transfer coefficient and the equally constant phase angle between the appearance of the maximum values of the pressure and heat flow most conveniently expressed mathematically in the form of a complex heat transfer coefficient. Any cyclic pressure oscillations, can be reduced by Fourier analysis to harmonic oscillations, which result in specific, mutual relationships of heat-transfer coefficients and phase angles for the different harmonics.
Combination Hydralazine and Isosorbide Dinitrate in Dialysis-Dependent ESRD (HIDE): A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Pilot Trial.

Background Combination therapy with isosorbide dinitrate (ISD) and hydralazine (HY) reduces heart failure mortality. The safety and tolerability in individuals requiring maintenance hemodialysis (HD) is unknown. Methods Single-center, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind pilot trial to explore safety and tolerability of ISD/HY in maintenance HD. Participants were randomized to placebo or combination ISD/HY. Dose was escalated over 3 weeks from ISD 10 mg/HY 10 mg to ISD 40 mg/HY 75 mg three times per day with the maximum tolerated dose maintained for the subsequent 21 weeks. Primary endpoints included adverse events, adverse events precluding further treatment with study medication, serious hypotension (i.e., requiring hospitalization or emergency room visit), and recurrent intra-dialytic hypotension. Efficacy signals included change in mitral annular E' velocity by tissue Doppler echocardiography and change in left ventricular coronary flow reserve on positron emission tomography. Results A total of 17 individuals were randomized to ISD/HY (N=7) or placebo (N=10). All participants assigned to ISD/HY completed dose escalation to 40/75 mg, but dose reductions were required in two participants. No participants discontinued therapy. There were no serious hypotension events. Recurrent intradialytic hypotension was less frequent with ISD/HY (0.47 events/patient-year) than placebo (1.83 events/patient-year, P=0.04). In contrast, nausea (ISD/HY, 1.90 events/patient-year; placebo, 0.50 events/patient-year, P=0.03) was significantly more frequent, and headache and diarrhea were numerically but not significantly more frequent with ISD/HY. Adverse events were more frequent with ISD/HY (11.4 events/patient-year) than placebo (6.31 events/patient-year). We did not detect between-group differences in the change in E' (P=0.34); ISD/HY showed a mean increase of 0.6 cm/s (SD 1.1), and placebo showed a mean decrease of 0.04 cm/s (SD 0.9). Changes in coronary flow reserve were minimal, -0.3 (0.2) with ISD/HY and -0.03 (0.5) in the placebo group, P=0.19. Conclusions ISD/HY appears to be well tolerated in patients being treated with maintenance HD, but headache and gastrointestinal side effects occur more frequently with ISD/HY compared with placebo.
Intravenous colistin use for infections due to multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacilli in critically ill paediatric patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Background Data are limited regarding the clinical effectiveness and safety of intravenous colistin for treatment of infections by multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacilli (MDR-GNB) in the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Methods Systematic review of intravenous colistin use in critically ill paediatric patients with MDR-GNB infection in PubMed, Scopus and Embase (through January 31st, 2018). Results Out of 1,181 citations, 7 studies were included on the use of intravenous colistin for 405 patients in PICU. Majority of patients were diagnosed with lower respiratory tract infections, with Acinetobacter baumannii being the predominant pathogen. Colistin dosages ranged between 2.6-18 mg/kg/day, with none but one case reporting a loading dose. Emergence of colistin-resistance during treatment was reported in two cases. Nephrotoxicity and neurotoxicity were reported in 6.1% and 0.5% respectively, but concomitant medications and severe underlying illness limited our ability to definitively associate use of colistin with nephrotoxicity. Crude mortality was 29.5% (95%CI 21.7-38.1%), whereas infection-related mortality was 16.6% (95%CI 12.2-21.5%). Conclusions While the reported incidence of adverse events related to colistin were low, reported mortality rates for infections by MDR-GNB in PICU were notable. In addition to severity of disease and comorbidities, inadequate daily dosage and the absence of a loading dose may have contributed to mortality. As the use of colistin for treatment of MDR-GNB infections increases, it is imperative to understand whether optimal dosing of colistin in paediatric patients differs across different age groups. As such, future studies to establish the pharmacokinetic properties of colistin in different paediatric settings are warranted.
Target Site–Based Penoxsulam Resistance in Barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli) from China

Abstract Barnyardgrass [Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P. Beauv. ] is acknowledged to be the most troublesome weed in rice fields in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces of China. It cannot be effectively controlled using certain acetolactate synthase (ALS)-inhibiting herbicides, including penoxsulam. Echinochloa crus-galli samples with suspected resistance to penoxsulam were collected to identify the target site–based mechanism underlying this resistance. Populations AXXZ-2 and JNRG-2 showed 33- and 7.3-fold resistance to penoxsulam, respectively, compared with the susceptible JLGY-3 population. Cross-resistance to other ALS inhibitors was reported in AXXZ-2 but not in JNRG-2, and occasionally showed higher sensitivity than JLGY-3. In vitro ALS activity assays revealed that penoxsulam concentrations required to inhibit 50% of ALS activity were 11 and 5.2 times greater in AXXZ-2 and JNRG-2, respectively, than in JLGY-3. DNA and predicted amino acid sequence analyses of ALS revealed Ala-205-Val and Ala-122-Gly substitutions in AXXZ-2 and JNRG-2, respectively. Our results indicate that these substitutions in ALS are at least partially responsible for resistance to penoxsulam.
Energy-Efficient and Delay-Fair Mobile Computation Offloading

Mobile edge computing has been regarded as a new paradigm to achieve mobile computation offloading (MCO), which enables resource-limited mobile devices (MDs) to offload part or all of computation-intensive applications to more powerful computing entities. In this work we study MCO for data partitioned oriented applications. This type of services are usually delay-elastic, but shorter processing delay helps improve the user experience. We consider energy consumption of MDs and latency fairness of the applications. The latency fairness is achieved by allowing multiple offloading MDs to share one channel and allocating a fraction of the channel time for each application, and minimizing total energy consumption of the MDs is achieved by jointly optimizing the offloading ratio, channel assignments, and channel time allocations. For a special case that assigns at most one MD to each channel, a closed-form offloading ratio is derived and optimal channel assignment is obtained through transforming the problem into a weighted bipartite matching. The general problem is then solved by embedding the branch-and-bound iterations with successive convex approximation that solves a series of geometric programming problems. To reduce the complexity, a two-layer recursive method is then proposed that finds the channel assignments, offloading ratio and channel time allocation for each MD. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve low energy consumption and high latency fairness; and much lower energy consumption can be achieved with a slight decrease in latency fairness.
Dynamic network partnerships and social contagion drive cooperation

Both reciprocity and positive assortment (like with like) are predicted to promote the evolution of cooperation, yet how partners influence each other’s behavior within dynamic networks is not well understood. One way to test this question is to partition phenotypic variation into differences among individuals in the expression of cooperative behavior (the “direct effect”), and plasticity within individuals in response to the social environment (the “indirect effect”). A positive correlation between these two sources of variation, such that more cooperative individuals elicit others to cooperate, is predicted to facilitate social contagion and selection on cooperative behavior. Testing this hypothesis is challenging, however, because it requires repeated measures of behavior across a dynamic social landscape. Here, we use an automated data-logging system to quantify the behavior of 179 wire-tailed manakins, birds that form cooperative male-male coalitions, and we use multiple-membership models to test the hypothesis that dynamic network partnerships shape within-individual variation in cooperative behavior. Our results show strong positive correlations between a bird’s own sociality and his estimated effect on his partners, consistent with the hypothesis that cooperation begets cooperation. These findings support the hypothesis that social contagion can facilitate selection for cooperative behavior within social networks.
Neuroplasticidade e estilo de vida: qual a relação?

The gradual break with the thought that the brain is a set of isolated multiestructures has made room for the concept that the brain is a dynamic and adaptable organ according to the demand placed upon it. Given this scenario, the concept of Neuroplasticity gain relevance, as its concept, according to CH Phelp (1990), is a major adaptive change in the structure and functions of the nervous system, which “occurs at any stage of ontogeny, as a function of interactions with the internal or external environment or as a result of injuries, injuries or injuries that affect the neural environment”. Objective: To review possible associations between neuroplasticity and lifestyle. Methodology: Search for books and articles, national and international, using the Virtual Health Library VHL MS. The words neuroplasticity, aerobic exercise, yoga, e Life style were used. 12 articles were reviewed, but only 7 were included Results: Yoga, aerobic exercise, and the demonstration of this relationship in Alzheimer's disease were the most significant relationships. Conclusion: There is a relationship, but there is still a small sample of studies on this subject, however, the mechanisms that demonstrate this link are still poorly understood and need clarifying studies.
2013 BIENNIAL REPORT ON THE CALIFORNIA MARINE INVASIVE SPECIES PROGRAM

This report discusses the marine invasive species program in California. For the period January 2004 through June 2006, he California State Lands Commission (SLC) found more than 90% of ships to be in compliance with the ballast water reporting requirement. Of the reporting ships, more than 99% were in compliance with the ballast water management requirements. Of the 4,013 inspections conducted, 2% of the ships were found to be in violation of operational aspects of the law. The SLC intends to develop protocols for the independent review and evaluation of ballast water treatment technologies.
Chicago Young Parents Program Evaluation: Implementation Evaluation & Follow-Up Study.

viii Executive Summary . ix About the Study . 1 Objective . 1 Context . 2 Logic Model and Research Questions. 3 Measures. 5 Outcome Measures . 5 Fidelity . 7 Quality . 7 Program Evolution . 9 CYPP Origins . 9 Initial Design & Program Changes . 9 CYPP Participants . 11 Participant population . 11 Recruitment . 11 Program Structure and Duration of Engagement . 11 Demographics . 12 Participant Race/Ethnicity . 14 Program Components . 16 Job Placement . 16 Component Description . 16 Fidelity and Quality. 16 Participant Experience . 17 Home Visits . 19 Component Description . 19
Development of Moving Equipment for Fishermen’s Catches using the Portable Conveyor System

Indonesia is an archipelago that has a wealth of marine fish resources, and the country with the second-longest coastline in the world. The improvement witnessed in the economy of Indonesia in recent years, is as a result of the growth experienced in various sectors, among which is the fisheries and marine. To overcome this problem, a portable conveyor system of moving equipment for fishermen’s catches was designed. It can be placed at the dock or port where the fishermen are anchored and unloading the fishermen’s catches from the sea. It designed to have the ability to move up and down in the moving frame, making this conveyor system can be used both in high tides and low tides of seawater level conditions. The advantage of this portable conveyor system is could be done continuously with a little human power. Other than that, from the results of the calculations, known that with increasing motor rotation, the required traveling time will only become shorter. The resulting conveyor capacity shows an increase. Also, it can use drive motors that are available on the market with a power capacity of 0.37 kW. Therefore, the process of this portable conveyor system can be more efficient.
Effect of insect growth regulators combined with nucleopolyhedrovirus on certain biological and histological aspects of Spodopera littoralis

Five insect growth regulators (IGR's) were tested for increasing the susceptibility of the cotton leaf worm, Spodoptera littoralis (Boisd.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) to its homologous nucleopolyhedrovirus (SpliMNPV). S. littoralis MNPV was tested alone or in combination with IGR's at LC10 level against the 2 instar larvae of the pest. An increased viral infection rate was detected in the mixture treatment in the case of using Chlorfluazuron, Flufenoxuron, Triflumuron, Hexaflumuron or Teflubenzuron at 10%. The LC50 value of the virus alone treatment 1x10 PIB's was reduced to 4.3x10, 9.9x10, 4.9x10, 3.1x10 and 1.69x10 PIB's, with the tested five IGR's, respectively. It was observed that Flufenoxuron and Triflumuron mixtures slightly prolongated larval duration compared either untreated control or IGR's alone treatments. The highest rate of decrease in the pupation percentage (47%) was recorded in case of Triflumuron mixed with SpliMNPV followed by Flufenoxuron and Chlrofluazuron mixes. On the other hand there is no significance difference in pupal weight for all treatments. Changes Adult longevity was increased for all treatments compared to untreated control. Addition Flufenxuron (LC10) to SpliMNPV (LC50) showed histopathological effects to mid gut e.g. loss of the compact appearance of the muscularis layer, vaculation and exfoliation of the columnar cells.
Evaluation of dietary approaches to improve growth performance of health-challenged pigs

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) compromises pig performance. However, increasing standardized ileal digestible Lys per Mcal metabolizable energy (SID Lys:ME) above requirement has been shown to mitigate reduced performance seen during a PRRSV challenge. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of increasing the dietary SID Lys:ME from 100% National Research Council (NRC) requirement to 120% of the requirement in vaccinated (vac+; modified live vaccine [MLV] Ingelvac PRRS) and nonvaccinated (vac-; no PRRS vaccine) grower pigs subjected to a PRRSV challenge. In addition, the dietary formulation approach to achieve the 120% ratio by increasing Lys relative to energy