Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on physiology and fruit quality of Pepino (Solanum muricatum Ait.) in vermicompost amended medium

The association level of pepino ( Solanum muricatum Ait.) with two arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) species ( Glomus etunicatum and G. versiforme) was evaluated for the first time. The first part of experiment showed 30 and 50% root colonization for the two AMF species, respectively, while the second part of study was a pot experiment under greenhouse conditions. The effects of vermicompost and root inoculation with G. etunicatum and G. versiforme on reproductive stage, yield and fruit quality of pepino were investigated. Treatments included two levels of vermicompost (0 and 20% v/v) and inoculation with the two fungi species along with a non inoculated control. Application of vermicompost increased the number of flowers, fruits and fruit weight, but decreased the number of days from plant setting to first flower and fruit set, fruit dry matter percent, fruit titratable acidity and vitamin C content. Inoculation with G. versiforme increased fruit dry matter percent, fruit titratable acidity and fruit vitamin C content compared with the non inoculated control (NIC) plants. Plants inoculated with G. etunicatum showed greater fruit weight and juice pH compared to NIC plants. AMF inoculation in vermicompost amended pots led to 14 and 10 days earlier flowering for G. versiforme and G. etunicatum, respectively compared to those not amended with vermicompost. G. etunicatum in vermicompost supplemented medium hastened fruit set by 5.5 days compared to those without vermicompost application. Fruit quality characteristics were affected differently for the two AMF-inoculated plants in presence of vermicompost.
- 0810 Supporting Remote Manipulation : An Ecological Approach

SUPPORTING REMOTE MANIPULATION: AN ECOLOGICAL APPROACH J. Alan Atherton Department of Computer Science Master of Science User interfaces for remote robotic manipulation widely lack sufficient support for situation awareness and, consequently, can induce high mental workload. With poor situation awareness, operators may fail to notice task-relevant features in the environment often leading the robot to collide with the environment. With high workload, operators may not perform well over long periods of time and may feel stressed. We present an ecological visualization that improves operator situation awareness. Our user study shows that operators using the ecological interface collided with the environment on average half as many times compared with a typical interface, even with a poorly calibrated 3D sensor; however, users performed more quickly with the typical interface. The primary benefit of the user study is identifying several changes to the design of the user interface; preliminary results indicate that these changes improve the usability of the manipulator.
Mineral-PET : Kimberlite sorting by nuclear-medical technology

A revolutionary new technology for diamond bearing rock sorting which has its roots in medical-nuclear physics has been taken through a substantial part of the R&D phase. This has led to the construction of the technology demonstrator. Experiments using the technology demonstrator and experiments at a hospital have established the scientific and technological viability of the project.
The economic and environmental performance of distribution networks: A case study from the petrochemical industry

Designing a company's distribution network is a challenging task that requires the consideration of different aspects. In this respect, especially trade-offs between, for example, operational costs and customer service are the focus of the companies' attention. However, growing concerns of governments and customers about environmental protection have raised awareness towards the environmental impact of operations. Activities associated with the distribution of products, i.e. transportation and warehousing, are not yet subject to strict environmental regulations, but this situation is expected to change soon. Companies must, therefore, start to concentrate not only on economic but also on environmental aspects in the design of their supply chain. Based on a case study from the petrochemical industry, this paper presents a way to combine both, economic as well as environmental criteria, when evaluating (strategic) distribution network design decisions. The results show a trade-off between total (distribution) costs and transport carbon emissions. (author's abstract)
Fishing bait worm supplies in Japan in relation to their physiological traits

Saito, H. , Kawai, K. , Umino, T. and Imabayashi, H. 2014. Fishing bait worm supplies in Japan in relation to their physiological traits. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 71: 279-287. � � Marketresearchwasconductedfrom�2009�to�2013�toinvestigatethesupplyoflivewormsforfishingbaitinJapan. � Weobtained�25�typesoflivefishingbaitworms,�including�16�speciesofpolychaete,�1�speciesofechiuran,�and�1�species� of sipunculid. These were divided into three groups according to their country of origin: 1) worms supplied from native populations,� fivespecies� (Perinereis wilsoni, Hediste diadroma, Kinbergonuphis enoshimaensis, Pseudopotamilla occelata, and Hydroides ezoensis), 2) worms supplied from both native and non-native populations, three species (Marphysa cf. iwamushi, Halla okudai, and Urechis unicinctus), and 3) worms supplied from non-native populations, 10 species�(Perinereis linea, Alitta virens, Nectoneanthes uchiwa, Namalycastis rhodochorde, Glycera nicobarica, Diopatra sugokai, Marphysa cf. tamurai, Marphysa cf. mossambica, Scoletoma heteropoda, and Sipunculus nudus). Salinities in which no mortality of nereid worms occurred was 5-35 psu in Alitta virens, 5-30 psu in Namalycastis rhodochorde, and 10-35 psu in Perinereis linea. Worms living in temperate areas had a wide temperature tolerance of 5-30 °C in Alitta virens, Perinereis linea, Glycera nicobarica, Marphysa cf. iwamushi, and Scoletoma heteropoda. Tropical species (Namalycastis rhodochorde and Marphysa cf. mossambica) could not survive above 20 °C.
Implications of Real Exchange Rate Misalignment in Developing Countries: Theory, Empirical Evidence and Application to Growth Performance in Zimbabwe

The influence of exchange rate signals in an economy is very powerful and often pervasive. Moreover, sustained real exchange rate overvaluation, will, by distorting resource allocation away from productive activities, eventually lead to drastic adjustments of relative prices and reduction of aggregate economic growth. However, the direct theoretical and empirical link between exchange rate misalignment and macroeconomic indicators still remains to be fully understood. Nonetheless, empirical studies continue to make attempts to understand this relationship by exploring relationships that incorporate different measures of exchange rate misalignment in traditional growth regression models. Thus, based on a behavioural equilibrium exchange rate derived measure exchange rate misalignment, this paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between real gross domestic product growth and real exchange rate misalignment for Zimbabwe. After controlling for other structural and policy variables, the main findings demonstrate that exchange rate misalignment exerts a negative and highly statistically significant impact on growth. Overall, the results lend support to the hypothesis that chronic real exchange rate overvaluation was a key fundamental behind the post-2000 economic growth contraction in Zimbabwe.
Psychosocial Profile of HIV Patients on HAART in Southern India

BACKGROUND: Mortality of HIV/AIDS patients comes down in India after the National Aids Control Organization started providing free Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) since 2004. Madurai ART Center started providing free ART since 2004. Psychosocial profile of this population explored in this study. METHODS: A cross sectional interview conducted during the year 2008 with semi structured questionnaire on HIV positive clients who are on Highly Active Anti-Retro- viral Therapy (HAART) for more than 6 months. Convenience sampling done and totally 433 clients were interviewed with informed consent. RESULTS: Three fourth (73.4%) of the clients know about ART centre through Government Hospitals or Primary Health Centre. Most of the Clients (98.6%) on ART are feels back to normal life or back to near normal life. Pill burden/ Pill fatigue perceived by clients is 4.8%. Discrimination perceived was 8.8% and mostly in their own house or by neighbors, but most of their children (99.2%) were not discriminated as per the clients. Spouse positive rate for the married clients was 61.5% and unmarried in this population was 4.6%. Major or minor psychological problems in this group were 39.7% and attempted suicide was 8.8%. Drug abuse (alcohol and smoking) while started on ART was 40.4% and the current abusers are 7.6%. CONCLUSION: This study supports effectiveness of free ART program and effective case referral from government institutions. High percentage of major or minor psychological problem warrants further exploratory study and may need psychological interventions in this population.
Profiles of Dialogue for Relevance

This paper uses argument diagrams, argumentation schemes, and some tools from formal argumentation systems developed in artificial intelligence to build a graph-theoretic model of relevance shown to be applicable (with some extensions) as a practical method for helping a third party judge issues of relevance or irrelevance of an argument in real examples. Examples used to illustrate how the method works are drawn from disputes about relevance in natural language discourse, including a criminal trial and a parliamentary debate.
Prevalence of Prediabetes and its Risk Factors among the Employees of Ambo University, Oromia Region, Ethiopia

1 Unit of Biochemistry, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ambo University, Ambo Town, Ethiopia. 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Ambo University Referral Hospital, Ambo Town, Ethiopia. 3 Department of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ambo University, Ambo Town, Ethiopia. 4 Department of Surgery, Ambo University Referral Hospital, Ambo Town, Ethiopia. 5 Department of Surgery, Aka-Kotebe General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Análisis del fenómeno del crowdfunding: El caso de la plataforma verkami

espanolEl articulo analiza el fenomeno del crowdfundinga partir de un caso ilustrativo como es el de la empresa Verkami. Este estudio pretende contribuir a traves de un caso de exito que permita sugerir: que procedimientos, tipos de comunicacion o estrategias constituyen la base de su exito, y poder generalizar algunos de los resultados del estudio. Se revisa la literatura sobre crowdfunding y se presenta el caso de estudio, su descripcion, caracteristicas y claves de su exito. Para finalizar se presentan una serie de resultados y las conclusiones que se derivan de ellos. EnglishThe paper analyzes the phenomenon of the Crowdfunding based on the Verkami case. This study aims to contribute to the understanding of the crowdfunding through a success example that allows suggest: what procedures, types of communications or strategies constitute the basis of its success, and be able to generalize some of the results of the study. We have reviewed the literature about Crowdfunding and we have presented the case study, its description, features and key to its success. Finally we have presented a number of findings and conclusions derived from them
Deacidification of high acidic rubber seed oil by reesterification with glycerol

Some studies have shown that rubber seed oil (RSO) from the seed of rubber tree (hevea brasiliensis) has potential technical applications. However, the high free fatty acid (FFA) associated with the oil may be a limiting factor in its applications. In this study, crude rubber seed oil (RSO) containing 37.69% FFA was deacidified using 4.3-5.6% of glycerol. The reactions were carried out at a pressure of 20mmHg in the presence of zinc dust and zinc chloride catalysts added separately at high temperature (150 ‐ 250 0 C). The progress of the reaction was monitored by determining the FFA at various time intervals. The FFA content in the RSO was reduced to 1.5% in six hours when 4.3% glycerol was used with zinc dust at a temperature of 200 0 C while the triglycerides content of the oil increased from 40.32% in the crude oil to 80.62% in the deacidified RSO. The study showed that this process is effective in the deacidification of RSO without loss of neutral glycerides as in alkali neutralization.
Generated questions learning model (GQLM): Beyond learning styles

Abstract The concept of learning styles in education is highly questionable when used to categorize students in particular ways and attempt to match them to corresponding forms of instruction. This paper argues that the various learning modalities called Learning Styles are only cognitive tools that all learners have access to and must use to process experiences and understand the world around. We further argue for a more basic theoretical model of learning prompted by teachers whose role is to understand the fundamental use of question asking and critical thinking skills in learning, and thus, engage the learners’ curiosity into essential cognitive behaviors with which all forms of learning become possible and learners become well rounded.
A NewMAC Protocol with Pseudo-TDMA Behavior for Supporting Quality of Service in 802 . 11 Wireless LANs

A new medium access control (MAC) protocol is proposed for quality-of-service (QoS) support in wireless local area networks (WLAN). The protocol is an alternative to the recent enhancement 802.11e. A new priority policy provides the system with better performance by simulating time division multiple access (TDMA) functionality. Collisions are reduced and starvation of lowpriority classes is prevented by a distributed admission control algorithm. The model performance is found analytically extending previous work on this matter. The results show that a better organization of resources is achieved through this scheme. Throughput analysis is verified with OPNET simulations.
A SDN Network Based on VLANs for Data Centers

The demands for the scalable and efficient network at data centers are becoming more and more intense recently. However, there are three problems needed to be solved, i.e., the ever-increasing number of actual or virtual machines demands, effectively managing these different machines and maintaining the effectiveness. This paper proposes a new software defined network (SDN) based on VLANs and its significant characteristic is to build a scalable layer 2/3 network for data centers based on the physical OpenFlow switches. Our framework has high performances because: 1) The operation of encapsulating and unpacking packets is not necessary; 2) Routing paths can be pre-
Consequences of Unwanted Childbearing: A Study of Child Outcomes in Bangladesh

The prevention of unwanted births (defined as births not wanted at the time of conception) has long been a fundamental justification for investment of public and private resources in family planning services. Unwanted childbearing is assumed to have detrimental consequences - for the child and for its family and larger community - that are distinctive substantial and potentially long-term. There is however surprisingly little empirical research that offers a solid scientific basis for this assumption especially in low-income non-Western societies. We analyze longitudinal data from rural Bangladesh collected in the period 1982-2002 that are unusually well-suited to address the issue of the consequences of unwanted childbearing: the sample of children is moderately large child wantedness is measured prospectively and on a sex-specific basis and the follow-up is relatively longterm extending through childhood into adolescence for some of the sample. Two child outcomes are examined: mortality before age 5; and educational attainment. We employ two analytical strategies to remove confounding effects of unmeasured factors: models with fixed effects for sibset; and a "natural experiment" provided by the random assignment of child sex. Estimation employing both of these strategies yields significant effects of child wantedness. Large effects on infant mortality (both neonatal and post-neonatal) emerge under the fixed effects approach with odds ratios on the order of 2.0. Corresponding effects on mortality are not evident in the natural experiment analysis however. The estimated effects on schooling are more consistent across the two approaches: unwanted children attain on average 7%-9% fewer years of schooling than wanted children. (authors)
Tax compliance: an administrative burden for small business enterprises (SME’S)

As is the case in many economies, tax laws are sometimes very complicated and difficult for SME’s to understand and to implement. Tax laws change every year, impacting on the business, its operations and its profitability. It is also a fact that the more a government overspends, misappropriate funds and overall lack fiscal control, the more they will try and recover these “losses” from the taxpayers including SME’s. The main purpose of the study is to investigate whether small business enterprises are burdened by the administrative processes required in South Africa to comply to with the tax regulations of the country. The South African government has strict policies and procedures in place that all businesses should adhere to. However, the key challenge that many SME’s still face is that of red tape and burdensome regulatory processes and procedures. In an attempt to establish the main objective of the study, a quantitative approach research approach was employed and a significant amount of small businesses were surveyed. From the findings it is clear that the respondents of the survey agree that the tax services registration documentation and process should be made easier. The submission of the registration documents, once understood and completed, is not a big problem for the respondents. The cost of registration does not seem to be a major burden to the SME’s.
Do Stock Splits Affect Ownership Concentration of Firms Listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange

Corporations split their shares in order to make them more affordable to the retail investors. Theoretically, increased buying of the stock post split by retail investors should be experienced. Existing literature on effect of stock splits are from studies conducted in developed markets, much of it focusing on market efficiency. The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of stock splits on ownership structure of listed firms in Kenya. Using a data collection sheet, secondary data was collected from the published financial statements of listed firms, which had conducted stock splits between 2004 and 2010. A Herfindahl- Hirschman Index was used to measure ownership concentration among the top ten shareholders before and after the split. The overall change in ownership structure was analyzed using the Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test at 95% confidence level. The results show that although the ownership structure for the companies in the study significantly changed, the change was generally not in favor of retail investors. Contrary to expectations, the holding by institutional investors significantly increased in most cases, implying that stock splits do not cause enough interest in the shares amongst retail investors to tilt the proportions owned in their favor. To the contrary, stock split encourages retail investors to off load their shares in a bid to lock in profits occasioned by the appreciation in the value of the shares after the split. An important recommendation for market regulators and corporate managers is that a stock split may not be a useful tool for dispersing firm ownership but rather only for improving stock liquidity. Investors looking to buy stocks that have announced a stock split should carefully analyze their information content, because during stock market bubble a split may not convey accurate future prospects for the company. Given the increased demand for stocks when a split is announced, it is an ample opportunity to lock in profits for investors looking to sell their shares. Key w ords : Controlling Shareholding; Ownership Concentration; Ownership Structure; Stock Splits; Nairobi Securities Exchange
SPIRAL ARMS IN GRAVITATIONALLY UNSTABLE PROTOPLANETARY DISKS AS IMAGED IN SCATTERED LIGHT

Combining 3D smoothed-particle hydrodynamics and Monte Carlo radiative transfer calculations, we examine the morphology of spiral density waves induced by gravitational instability (GI) in protoplanetary disks, as they would appear in direct images at near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths. We find that systems with disk-to-star-mass ratios q = Mdisk/M⋆ that are ∼0.25 or more may produce prominent spiral arms in NIR imaging, remarkably resembling features observed in the MWC 758 and SAO 206462 systems. The contrast of GI-induced arms at NIR wavelengths can reach a factor of ∼3, and their pitch angles are about 10°–15°. The dominant azimuthal wavenumber of GI-induced spiral arms roughly obeys m ∼ 1/q in the range 2 ≲ 1/q ≲ 8. In particular, a massive disk with q ≈ 0.5 can exhibit grand-design m = 2 spirals. GI-induced arms are in approximate corotation with the local disk, and may therefore trap dust particles by pressure drag. Although GI can produce NIR spiral arms with morphologies, contrasts, and pitch angles similar to those reported in recent observations, it also makes other demands that may or may not be satisfied in any given system. A GI origin requires that the spirals be relatively compact, on scales ≲100 AU; that the disk be massive, q ≳ 0.25; and that the accretion rate M ⋆ ˙ ? > be high, on the order of 10−6M⊙ yr−1.
The Association between Blood Stasis Syndrome and Arteriosclerosis in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease

th , 2012; revised: Dec. 15 th , 2012; accepted: Jan. 16 th , 2013 Abstract: Object: To examine the association between the arterial remodeling and the presentation of blood stasis syn- drome (BSS) in the end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients on hemodialysis. Methods: Sixty-nine ESRD patients on hemodialysis were separated into two groups, the BSS group (40 cases) and non-BSS group (29 cases). We recorded the history and risk factors of coronary artery disease, the brachial ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) as the marker of arteriosclerosis, and ankle brachial index (ABI) as the marker of atherosclerosis in ESRD patients on hemodialysis. Results: BSS group in hemodialysis patients is more associated with coronary artery disease (p < 0.0001) and diabetes mellitus (p = 0.018). Patients in BSS group possess higher baPWV (p < 0.0001), systolic blood pressure (p = 0.019) and pulse pressure (p = 0.004) as well as older age (p = 0.004) than patients in non-BSS group. There is no significant dif- ference in the other cardiovascular risk factors between groups. Logistic regression revealed that baPWV was most as- sociated with BSS among the above four significant factors. Conclusion: ESRD patients on hemodialysis with BSS exhibit more severe arteriosclerosis process than patients in non-blood stasis group.
New Aspect to Random Vortex Method Description, Base on Multiple Scale Method

improvement of the random vortex method (RVM), a numerical scheme that combines the representation of the vorticity field by a number of Lagrangian vortex elements of finite cores with a stochastic simulation of diffusion using random walk, is investigated. Multiple scales method Base on Rankin vortex model, used to derive different orders of vorticity transport equation, and physical description of terms presented. This new aspect presents the reason of limitation of vortex method and explains how it is possible to develop this method, base of understanding of physical behavior of flow in various conditions. Base on this view point it is possible to explain why vortex method in some of applications don't have satisfying Results.