Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of Feeding by Liquorice Root Extract on Some Biological Aspects of Honey Bees(Apis mellifera L.)

The study was aimed to determine the effect of feeding by liquorice root extract at different concentrations on some biological aspects of bees. The results showed that the use of liquorice root extract , especially when using the concentration of 20% in the third mixture which containing 150 ml of last concentration with one litre of water at rate one volume by one volume from the first mixture which containing 750 gm of sugar , 250 ml of honey ,500 gm of soya , one capsule of B-plex , one capsule of tetracycline and one litre of water as observed there was an increase in the acceptance of feeding index with 100,100,100 % during three periods , Significant increasing in the total area of honey was 3626.7 , 7182.5 and 2462.1 square inch , in the total area of brood 4359.0 ، , 12130.4 and 4927.7 square inch , in the total area of pollen collection 1445.4 ، , 10092.0 and 4997.3 square inch during first , second and third periods respectively. Besides , increasing of resistance of bees to European foulbrood disease and varroa mite .
Laichfressen durch Kaulquappen des Springfroschs (Rana dalmatina) und syntopes Vorkommen mit andern Anuren-Arten

Tadpoles of Rana dalmatina prey on eggs and hatchlings of Bombina variegata, Bufo bufo, B. calamita, Hyla arborea, R. dalmatina, R. esculenta and R. temporaria in feeding trials. Tadpoles of R. dalmatina consume higher proportions of the eggs of R. temporaria than eggs of their own species. R. temporaria consumes higher proportions of eggs of R. dalmatina than R. dalmatina does. It is probably due to the tenacious egg capsules and their advanced motor development at the time of hatching that eggs and hatchlings of R. dalmatina are eaten less efficiently than those of the other species. In 53 spawning sites of R. dalmatina in the North of Switzerland seven other species are breeding with the following incidence of syntopic co occurrences: R. temporaria 94.3 %, R. esculenta 79.2 %, H. arborea 60.4 %, B. bufo 35.8 %, B. variegata 1.9 %, Alytes obstetricans 1.9 % and B. calamita 0 %. The ecological relevance of spawn predation shown in experiments depends of the specific breeding phenology and habitat preferences. As far as known R. dalmatina takes no advantage of his priority in the pond because the later breeding species prefer other habitats and niches. Zusammenfassung Kaulquappen von Rana dalmatina fressen in Experimenten die Eier bzw. Schlupflinge von Bombina variegata, Bufo bufo, B. calamita, Hyla arborea, R. dalmatina, R. esculenta und R. temporaria. Kaulquappen von R. dalmatina fressen mehr Eier von R. temporaria als Eier der eigenen Art. R. temporaria hingegen frisst mehr Eier von R. dalmatina als dies R. dalmatina tut. Wahrscheinlich wegen der zahen Eihullen und der Beweglichkeit beim Schlupf werden Eier/Schlupflinge von R. dalmatina weniger effizient gefressen als die der andern Arten. In 53 nordschweizerischen Laichplatzen von R. dalmatina laichen sieben andere Arten in folgenden Haufigkeiten syntop: R. temporaria 94,3 %, R. esculenta 79,2 %, H. arborea 60,4 %, B. bufo 35,8 %, B. variegata 1,9 %, Alytes obstetricans 1,9 % und B. calamita 0 %. Die okologische Relevanz des in Experimenten nachgewiesenen Laichfressens hangt von den spezifischen Laichzeiten und Habitatpraferenzen ab. Soweit bekannt, kann R. dalmatina ihren weitlichen Vorsprung kaum zum Laichraubern nutzen, weil die Spatlaicher andere Gewassertypen, bzw. im gleichen Gewasser andere Mikrohabitate bevorzugen.
Understanding the Drivers of Sustainable Entrepreneurial Practices in Pakistan’s Leather Industry: A Multi-Level Approach

Understanding the Drivers of Sustainable Entrepreneurial Practices in Pakistan’s Leather Industry: A Multi-Level Approach Journal Item How to cite: Wahga, Aqueel; Blundel, Richard and Schaefer, Anja (2018). Understanding the Drivers of Sustainable Entrepreneurial Practices in Pakistan’s Leather Industry: A Multi-Level Approach. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, 24(2) pp. 382–407.
Source Code Revelation Vulnerabilities

Many security related articles and papers are concerned with protecting networks and servers from outside intrusion, and rightly so. This is understandable since many security professionals do not hail from a programming background. However, application security cannot be ignored in today's complex and competitive environment. The most commonly discussed aspect of application security concerns protecting an application from deliberate misuse such as buffer overruns and other such vulnerabilities. These can often be dis.
A Novel Adaptive Bandwidth Reservation Scheme for Multimedia Traffic in IP Networks

: This paper presents a distributed and scalable bandwidth reservation scheme to provide end-to-end QoS guarantees in IP networks. The basic idea of the scheme is that the joint problems of adaptive bandwidth reservation and link rearrangement(Rerouting) for multimedia traffic under the event of congestion/failure of link is taken into account by sending probing packets along selected paths to keep load balance within the core network. Not only does each router passively monitor the arriving traffic and mark the probing packets with its network status, but also makes proactive rearrangement for incoming traffic prior to QoS failure if necessary.
Genetic Variability and Association Studies among Yield Attributes in Pigeonpea [Cajanus Cajan (L.) Millsp.] Accessions of Bastar

45 pigeonpea germplasm accessions received from ICRISAT were studied for genetic variability and correlation among yield and its ttributes under rainfed condition. Analysis of variancerevealing the existence of considerable variability in the material studied.GCV for number of pod clusters per plant recorded high which shows considerable scope for yield improvement in the present pigeonpea gene pool. Direct selection for number of pods per plant, number of pod clusters per plant and pod length may be advantageous for selecting the high yielding genotypes in pigeonpea from the available germplasm accessions. Overall observations on variability, correlation coefficient, path coefficients and cluster analysis for seed yield and its attributes in pigeonpea germplasm accessions indicated presence of ample variability for most of the traits
Analysis of wave time series in the Estonian coastal sea in 2003–2014

Statistics of hindcast wave series were studied at eight differently exposed fetch-limited Estonian coastal sea locations (Harilaid, Kihnu, Kõiguste, Matsi, Neugrund, Sundgrund, Suurupi and Letipea). Based on episodic wave measurements obtained with the bottom mounted Recording Doppler Current Profiler in 2006–2014, a model for significant wave height was calibrated separately for those locations; using wind forcing data from Estonian coastal meteorological stations, a set of hourly hindcasts were obtained over the period from September 2003 to December 2014. Fourier analysis of monthly time series with regard to both average wave conditions and high wave events showed a distinct seasonality with specific amplitudes and the phases that differed by about a month between the locations. In addition, spectra of hourly time series indicated diurnal variations (24 and 12 h harmonics) and a consistent background noise following – 5/3 power law between the periods of 2 h and 4 days. Deseasonalized monthly data were used to analyse trends and extreme deviations (wavestorms). The possible trends, being obviously parts of longer variations, were not statistically significant over the studied 11 years. The lists of the most outstanding storms were different depending on the site.
Ecology and conservation of insectivorous bats in rural landscapes

Throughout the world, the increasing use of land for agriculture has been associated with extensive loss and fragmentation of natural habitats and, frequently, the degradation of remaining habitats. The effects of such habitat changes have been well studied for some faunal groups, but little is known of their consequences for bats. The aim of this study was to investigate the ecology and conservation of an assemblage of insectivorous bats in a rural landscape, with particular focus on their foraging and roosting requirements. This increased knowledge will, hopefully, assist the formulation of policy and management decisions to ensure the long-term survival of bats in these altered environments. The distribution and abundance of insectivorous bats in the Northern Plains of Victoria was investigated to determine the impacts of land-use change and to identify factors influencing the distribution of bats in rural landscapes. Thirteen species of insectivorous bats were recorded across the region by sampling at 184 sites. Two species were rare, but the remaining 11 species were widespread and occurred in all types of remnant wooded vegetation, ranging from large blocks (≥200 ha) to small isolated remnants (≤5 ha) and scattered trees in cleared farm paddocks. There was no significant difference between remnant types in the relative abundance of bat species, in species richness, or in the composition of bat assemblages at study sites. In a subsequent study, no difference in the activity levels of bats was found between remnants with different tree densities, ranging from densely-vegetated blocks to single paddock trees. However, sites in open paddocks devoid of trees differed significantly from all types of wooded remnants and had significantly lower levels of bat activity and a different species composition. In highly cleared and modified landscapes, all native vegetation has value to bats, even the smallest remnant, roadside and single paddock tree. Roost sites are a key habitat requirement for bats and may be a limiting resource in highly modified environments. Two species, the lesser long-eared bat Nyctophilus geoffroyi and Gould's wattled bat Chalinolobus gouldii, were investigated as a basis for understanding the capacity of bats to survive in agricultural landscapes. These species have different wing morphologies, which may be influential in how they use the landscape, and anecdotal evidence suggested differences in their roosting ecology. Roosting ecology was examined using radio-tracking to locate 376 roosts in two study areas with contrasting tree cover in northern Victoria. Both species were highly selective in the location of their roosts in the landscape, in roost-site selection and in roosting behaviour, and responded differently to differing levels of availability of roosts. The Barmah-Picola study area incorporated remnant vegetation in farmland and an adjacent extensive floodplain forest (Barmah forest). Male N. geojfroyi roosted predominantly within 3 km of their foraging areas in remnants in farmland. …
Visual Text Localization and Extraction for Devanagari Script

: Text information in natural scene images is important for various kinds of applications. In this paper a novel method proposed to detect Devanagari text from visual components. Detecting text information from images plays an important role in a variety of applications such as image retrieval with text information, intelligent driving assistance, reading application for visually impaired people and visual component analysis, etc. Consequently, the research of text detection in scene images has received much attention from the computer vision community. Although numerous algorithms have been proposed earlier for scene text detection and it is still challenging research area. The most challenging problems occur due to difficulties like cluttered background, occlusion, blur and variations of font type, size, color, etc. We are proposing a robust system for Devanagari script detection from visual component.
A Review on Prediction of Heart Diseases by Comparing Risk Factors in Data Mining

— Heart diseases are the number one cause of death. To protect the life of a patient from heart diseases there have to be quick and efficient detection technique to be followed. In heart disease prediction system, the input attributes play a major role for efficient prediction. Generally, many attributes were involved in predicting the heart disease. The objective of this paper is to study the risk factors in heart disease.
Angiographic patency of streptokinase in STEMI patients: smokers vs. non-smokers

Background: Acute coronary syndrome is one of the leading causes of death. Smoking is known to be associated with many influencing factors for accelerating Myocardial Infarction (MI). In a country like India, Streptokinase (SK) is used as a leading therapeutic option for the treatment of ST elevation myocardial Infarction (STEMI). SK combines with plasminogen; this SK-plasminogen complex is responsible for fibrinolysis. The aim of this study was to determine angiographic patency after SK infusion in STEMI patients and comparison between smokers and non-smokers.Methods: In this observational, prospective and single-centre study conducted between September 2011 and April 2012, a total of 398 patients who were diagnosed with STEMI were included. Patients were divided in two groups i.e. smokers and non-smokers. The patients were treated with thrombolytic (streptokinase) therapy and evaluated for TIMI 3 flow by performing angiography within 72hours of thrombolysis with SK.Results: Of total 398 patients, 348 (87.4%) were male. The ratio of non-smokers and smokers was 1:2. Smokers were younger than the non-smokers (48.8±10.2 vs. 54.57±9.51). Post thrombolytic therapy, patients were evaluated for TIMI flow grades. Total of 202 patients achieved TIMI 3 flow, of which 157 were smokers and 45 were non-smokers.Conclusions: Smokers have relatively hypercoagulable state than non-smokers. Better outcome in smokers group may be because of younger age and lesser comorbidities. Smokers should be motivated and guided properly to quit smoking.
DES-ROD: Exploring Literature to Develop New Links between RNA Oxidation and Human Diseases

Normal cellular physiology and biochemical processes require undamaged RNA molecules. However, RNAs are frequently subjected to oxidative damage. Overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) leads to RNA oxidation and disturbs redox (oxidation-reduction reaction) homeostasis. When oxidation damage affects RNA carrying protein-coding information, this may result in the synthesis of aberrant proteins as well as a lower efficiency of translation. Both of these, as well as imbalanced redox homeostasis, may lead to numerous human diseases. The number of studies on the effects of RNA oxidative damage in mammals is increasing by year due to the understanding that this oxidation fundamentally leads to numerous human diseases. To enable researchers in this field to explore information relevant to RNA oxidation and effects on human diseases, we developed DES-ROD, an online knowledgebase that contains processed information from 298,603 relevant documents that consist of PubMed abstracts and PubMed Central full-text articles. The system utilizes concepts/terms from 38 curated thematic dictionaries mapped to the analyzed documents. Researchers can explore enriched concepts, as well as enriched pairs of putatively associated concepts. In this way, one can explore mutual relationships between any combinations of two concepts from used dictionaries. Dictionaries cover a wide range of biomedical topics, such as human genes and proteins, pathways, Gene Ontology categories, mutations, noncoding RNAs, enzymes, toxins, metabolites, and diseases. This makes insights into different facets of the effects of RNA oxidation and the control of this process possible. The usefulness of the DES-ROD system is demonstrated by case studies on some known information, as well as potentially novel information involving RNA oxidation and diseases. DES-ROD is the first knowledgebase based on text and data mining that focused on the exploration of RNA oxidation and human diseases.
Proteostasis Failure in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Focus on Oxidative Stress

Protein homeostasis or proteostasis is an essential balance of cellular protein levels mediated through an extensive network of biochemical pathways that regulate different steps of the protein quality control, from the synthesis to the degradation. All proteins in a cell continuously turn over, contributing to development, differentiation, and aging. Due to the multiple interactions and connections of proteostasis pathways, exposure to stress conditions may cause various types of protein damage, altering cellular homeostasis and disrupting the entire network with additional cellular stress. Furthermore, protein misfolding and/or alterations during protein synthesis results in inactive or toxic proteins, which may overload the degradation mechanisms. The maintenance of a balanced proteome, preventing the formation of impaired proteins, is accomplished by two major catabolic routes: the ubiquitin proteasomal system (UPS) and the autophagy-lysosomal system. The proteostasis network is particularly important in nondividing, long-lived cells, such as neurons, as its failure is implicated with the development of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. These neurological disorders share common risk factors such as aging, oxidative stress, environmental stress, and protein dysfunction, all of which alter cellular proteostasis, suggesting that general mechanisms controlling proteostasis may underlay the etiology of these diseases. In this review, we describe the major pathways of cellular proteostasis and discuss how their disruption contributes to the onset and progression of neurodegenerative diseases, focusing on the role of oxidative stress.
Defining the Efficacy and Safety of Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitors with Tamsulosin for the Treatment of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Secondary to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia with or without Erectile Dysfunction: A Network Meta-Analysis

Purpose The purpose of this study was to compare the relative safety and efficacy of different types of phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE5-Is) with tamsulosin for the treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) secondary to benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) (BPH-LUTS) with or without erectile dysfunction (ED). Methods We use the Stata version 13.0 to conduct the network meta-analysis (NMA) with a random effects model of the Bayesian framework. The International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS), Maximum Urinary Flow Fate (Qmax), International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF), and their credible intervals (CI) were used to compare the efficacy and safety of every medical intervention, including sildenafil plus tamsulosin, tadalafil plus tamsulosin, and vardenafil plus tamsulosin. Results Seven RCTs including 531 participants with seven interventions were analyzed. The results of NMA SUCRA showed that compared with different doses or types of PDE5-Is combined with tamsulosin (0.4 mg qd), the sildenafil (25 mg qd) combined with tamsulosin (0.4 mg qd) group had the greatest probabilities of being the best in the achievement of improving IIEF. The sildenafil (25 mg 4 days per week) combined with tamsulosin (0.4 mg qd) group had the greatest probabilities of being the best in the achievement of improving Qmax, whereas sildenafil (25 mg qd) combined with tamsulosin (0.4 mg qd) ranked the best for the safety outcomes. Conclusions This meta-analysis indicates that sildenafil combined with tamsulosin is the best effective and tolerated treatment option for BPH-LUTS with or without ED. Further RCTs are strongly required to provide more direct evidence.
Sesamin Promotes Neurite Outgrowth under Insufficient Nerve Growth Factor Condition in PC12 Cells through ERK1/2 Pathway and SIRT1 Modulation

The promotion of neurogenesis can be a promising strategy to improve and restore neuronal function in neurodegenerative diseases. Nerve growth factor (NGF) plays a key role in neurite outgrowth and synaptic formation during brain repair stage. Nowadays, there are several studies on the developing methods to enhance the endogenous NGF activity for treatment and restore the neuronal function. In this study, the potentiating effect of sesamin, a major lignan in sesame seeds (Sesamum indicum) and oil, on NGF-induced neurogenesis and its involved mechanisms were firstly reported. Sesamin effectively enhanced the PC12 neuron-like cell differentiation and neurite length under insufficient conditions of NGF. The neuronal markers including synaptophysin and growth-associated protein-43 along with the synaptic connections were significantly increased in combination treatment between sesamin and NGF. Moreover, sesamin also increased the level of phospho-ERK1/2 and SIRT1 protein, an important regulatory protein of the neurogenesis process. The neurogenesis was blocked by the specific SIRT1 inhibitor, JGB1741, suggesting that the neuritogenic effect of sesamin was associated with SIRT1 protein modulation. Taken together, the potentiating effect of sesamin on NGF-induced neurogenesis in this finding could be used for alternative treatment in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease.
High Costs and Small Benefits: A Field Study of How Users Experience Operating System Upgrades

Users must manage frequent software and operating system upgrades across multiple computing devices. While current research focuses primarily on the security aspect, we investigate the user's perspective of upgrading software. Our first study (n=65) found that users delay major upgrades by an average of 80 days. We then ran a field study (n=14), beginning with in-depth observations during an operating system upgrade, followed by a four-week diary study. Very few participants prepared for upgrades (e.g., backing up files), and over half had negative reactions to the upgrade process and other changes (e.g., bugs, lost settings, unwanted features). During the upgrade process, waiting times were too long, feedback was confusing or misleading, and few had clear mental models of what was happening. Users almost never mentioned security as a concern or reason for upgrading. By contrast, interviews (n=3) with technical staff responsible for one organization's upgrades focused only on security and licensing, not user interface changes. We conclude with recommendations to improve the user's upgrade experience.
Older Adults Designing Avatars for Socializing

In this research I investigate the design and use of virtual avatars (full body representations of the user) among older adults over 65 years old. This research seeks to understand the avatar's designs made by older adults in relation to the ageing body; and how the use of these self-representations impact older adults' experience when socializing online. This thesis firstly uses an exploratory approach to understand the current use of online self-representations among older adults, then design workshops to comprehend older adults' visual choices in relation to the design of humanoid avatars and finally a long-term user study where participants use and reiterate avatar designs through multiple virtual reality social sessions. This research will contribute to the understanding of how older adults use self-representations to connect with others in online environments while providing insights of how to expand character creation interfaces to cater visual preferences of those in older age.
Self-Reported Activities of Android Developers

To gain a deeper empirical understanding of how developers work on Android apps, we investigate self-reported activities of Android developers and to what extent these activities can be classified with machine learning techniques. To this aim, we firstly create a taxonomy of self-reported activities coming from the manual analysis of 5,000 commit messages from 8,280 Android apps. Then, we study the frequency of each category of self-reported activities identified in the taxonomy, and investigate the feasibility of an automated classification approach. Our findings can inform be used by both practitioners and researchers to take informed decisions or support other software engineering activities.