Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Relationship of Personality Traits with the Academic Performance of Students: A case study of undergrad students of CBM & IHM.

The study has examined the effect of personality traits on the academic performance of students in introductory management course at the undergrad level of business students. The researcher collected data from 100 students from two well recognized business institutes namely; College of Business Management (CBM) and Institute of Health Management (IHM). It has been found that nearly all five traits of personality were found insignificantly correlated with the students’ performance academically in the course of study. However, with having no significance it can be inferred that the traits are positively correlated with the grades of students (r= .151). Regression analysis has been done to assess the impact of traits with the students’ academic performance.
A Short Review on Infectious Viruses in Cultural Shrimps (Penaeidae Family)

A major constraint limiting the shrimp production is diseases. Shrimp aquaculture is an important industry in many countries especially Southeast Asia and Iran. In cultured pond, the shrimp may be infected with several pathogens such as several viruses. There are at least six lethal viruses affecting penaeid shrimps production in the world especially Southeast Asia and Thailand. However, known viral pathogen in shrimp is about 20. They have been identified from 1970. Incidence of infection in artificial condition is more than nature. The 6 viruses are very important and they cause serious problem for shrimp cultivation and economic losses. They are consisting of HPV, IHHNV, MBV, TSV, WSSV and YHV. Two of them are highly pathogenic and lethal in shrimp such as WSSV and TSV. Shrimp aquaculture is a successful activity. Despite this success, annual production decreased in the latter because of widespread epidemics (epizootics) caused by new viral pathogens. Molecular diagnostic methods such as PCR are tools to detection viral diseases in shrimp in many parts of the world. Pathological methods and electron microscopy are good tools to detection viral disease especially at the first outbreak. Sanitary methods are the best way to control and prevention of viral diseases.
A New ZZ Ceti White Dwarf Pulsator: G30-20

We report the discovery of a new hydrogen atmosphere variable white dwarf (DAV; ZZ Ceti), G30-20, a high-amplitude, long-period pulsator. The Fourier transform of its light curve shows power around 1050-1125 s. We suspect the existence of multiple periodicities in this region, probably corresponding to different radial order (k) modes, but our observations are not long enough to resolve them. This discovery increases the number of known DAVs to 32. Our best fit to its optical spectrum gives Teff = 11,070 ± 180 K and log g = 7.95 ± 0.06. This implies that G30-20 is the coolest known DAV.
Temporal trends in cusk eel sound production at a proposed US wind farm site

Many marine organisms produce sound during key life history events. Identifying and tracking these sounds can reveal spatial and temporal patterns of species occurrence and behaviors. We describe the temporal patterns of striped cusk eel Ophidion marginatum calls across approximately 1 yr in Nantucket Sound, MA, USA, the location of a proposed offshore wind energy installation. Stereotyped calls typical of courtship and spawning were detected from April to October with clear diel, monthly, and seasonal patterns. Acoustic energy increased in the evenings and peaked during crepuscular periods, with the dusk call levels typically higher in energy and more rapid in onset than those from near-dawn periods. Increased call energy and substantial overlap of calls during certain periods suggest that many cusk eels were often calling simultaneously. Call energy (measured in energy flux density) peaked in July and patterns fol- lowed seasonal changes in sunrise and sunset. Sound levels were high (over 150 dB re 1 µPa 2 s) during the summer, indicating that this cusk eel population is a substantial contributor to the local soundscape. The stereotyped cusk eel signals and clear temporal energy patterns potentially pro- vide a bioacoustic signal that can be used to monitor changes to the local environment and its soundscape.
High-resolution glacial and deglacial record of atmospheric methane by continuous-flow and laser spectrometer analysis along the NEEM ice core

Abstract. The Greenland NEEM (North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling) operation in 2010 provided the first opportunity to combine trace-gas measurements by laser spectroscopic instruments and continuous-flow analysis along a freshly drilled ice core in a field-based setting. We present the resulting atmospheric methane (CH4) record covering the time period from 107.7 to 9.5 ka b2k (thousand years before 2000 AD). Companion discrete CH4 measurements are required to transfer the laser spectroscopic data from a relative to an absolute scale. However, even on a relative scale, the high-resolution CH4 data set significantly improves our knowledge of past atmospheric methane concentration changes. New significant sub-millennial-scale features appear during interstadials and stadials, generally associated with similar changes in water isotopic ratios of the ice, a proxy for local temperature. In addition to the midpoint of Dansgaard–Oeschger (D/O) CH4 transitions usually used for cross-dating, sharp definition of the start and end of these events brings precise depth markers (with ±20 cm uncertainty) for further cross-dating with other palaeo- or ice core records, e.g. speleothems. The method also provides an estimate of CH4 rates of change. The onsets of D/O events in the methane signal show a more rapid rate of change than their endings. The rate of CH4 increase associated with the onsets of D/O events progressively declines from 1.7 to 0.6 ppbv yr−1 in the course of marine isotope stage 3. The largest observed rate of increase takes place at the onset of D/O event #21 and reaches 2.5 ppbv yr−1.
Design and Performance Analysis of High Speed Low Power 1 bit Full Adder

In this Paper, design of high speed, low power 1-bit full adder using both logic gates and complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) logic is implemented. The main purpose behind designing this full adder is to reduce power and delay of standard implementation by replacing OR gate with XOR gate for output carry generation. The design proposed was first implemented using CEDAR logic tool and then with cadence virtuoso tool in 180nm technology. The simulation was carried out at 1.8V supply with length and width of each transistor taken as 0.18 μm and 2 μm. Performance parameters such as power, speed and design of existing full adder is compared with the proposed design. In comparison with the standard implementation of full adder, the present implementation was found to offer significant improvement in terms of power and speed.
Stochastic Domain Decomposition via Moment Minimization

Propagating uncertainty accurately across different domains in multiscale physical systems with vastly different correlation lengths is of fundamental importance in stochastic simulations. We propose a new method to address this issue, namely, the stochastic domain decomposition via moment minimization (SDD-MM). Specifically, we develop a new moment minimizing interface condition to match the stochastic solutions at the interface of the nonoverlapping domains. Unlike other stochastic domain decomposition methods, the proposed method serves as a general framework that works with heterogeneous local stochastic solvers and does not rely on accessing global random trajectories, which are typically not available in realistic multiscale simulations. We analyze the computational complexity of the method and we quantify the contributing errors. The convergence property of SDD-MM is tested in several examples that include the stochastic reaction equation, Fisher's equation, as well as a two-dimensional Allen--Cahn.
First Report of Simplicillium cylindrosporum Isolated from Soil in Korea

The fungal strain KNU16-006 was isolated from field soil in Daegu, Korea. The isolate was identified as Simplicillium cylindrosporum on the basis of its morphological characterization and phylogenetic analysis using internal transcribed spacer regions of rDNA. This species has not been previously reported in Korea.
An Overview of Cold Hardiness in Woody Plants: Seeing the Forest Through the Trees

D. Siminovitch and his graduate student, Keith Pomeroy also were among the fi rst to document that the protoplasm underwent distinct biochemical changes during cold acclimation that presumably played a direct role in conferring stress tolerance (Pomeroy and Siminovitch, 1971). Research by the Russian scientist I. Tumanov (as reviewed in Sakai and Larcher, 1987) also recognized the importance of biochemical changes during cold acclimation. Truly, the research conducted by these pioneers in the fi rst half of the century formed the conceptual basis of much of what was to follow. Regarding cold hardiness research, it is also important to recognize the important contribution that was made by the Plant Cold Hardiness Laboratory at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, beginning in the 1960s, under the leadership of Conrad J. Weiser. Research (as reviewed in this article) conducted by scientists and graduate students at this laboratory dominated the literature for over 25 years (1960–85). A greater understanding of deep supercooling, the biophysics of water at low temperatures, dormancy, the role of sugars in cold hardiness, and more, all grew from the activities of this laboratory. People such as Paul Li, Leslie Fuchigami, Harvey Quamme, Lawrence Gusta, Milon George, Michael Burke, Jiwan Palta, John Carter, Cecil Stushnoff, Margaret Smithburg, Tim Hall, Stan Howell, Phil Graham, Robert McLeester, Bob van Huystee, and others were associated with the Plant Cold Hardiness Laboratory and would go on to staff many of the horticulture departments in the U.S. and Canada. The seminal paper by Weiser (1970) often is cited for its recognition that changes in proteins during cold acclimation also implied changes in gene expression. “Bud” Weiser later went on to chair the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University. In the latter part of the 20th century, characterizing the genetic regulation of cold hardiness has dominated the literature (Thomashow, 1999; Xin and Browse, 2000). Strategies allowing plants to survive freezing temperatures have been organized into two categories (Levitt 1980): 1) freezing tolerance and 2) freezing avoidance. Mechanisms representing both categories are common in woody plants (Burke and Stushnoff 1979). In comparison to herbaceous plants, woody species are extremely freezing tolerant. Many species native to boreal forests tolerate –40 °C and some can even tolerate –196 °C in midwinter. In contrast, very few herbaceous plants tolerate temperatures less than –25 °C or prolonged exposure to –15 °C for a period of several weeks, whereas certain woody species can tolerate –40 °C for months. In addition to a historical review, the present contribution will cover the main factors involved in woody plant cold hardiness, although reference will also be made to herbaceous plants where applicable. This is especially true for recent advances in the molecular biology of cold acclimation where research with Arabidopsis and other herbaceous crop species has dominated the literature.
Carboxyl cellulose nanocrystal extracted from hybrid poplar residue

Ammonium persulfate (APS) oxidation was employed to isolate carboxyl cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) from hybrid poplar residue. Structure changes resulting from APS oxidation were investigated by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The further oxidation of the ensuring CNCs with sodium periodate manifested selective oxidation of hydroxyl groups at the C6 position of cellulose into carboxyl groups during APS oxidation. The introduction of active carboxyl groups resulted in lower thermal stability. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and width distribution showed that the produced CNCs ranged from 10 nm to 24 nm. Carboxyl CNCs with a yield of 63.2% were isolated via APS oxidation, and they were suitable for large-scale CNCs production.
The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Abstract We estimate the impact of Kenya's postelection crisis on individual risk preferences. The crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, creating plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to civil conflict prior to the survey. Our results indicate that the postelection crisis sharply increased individual risk aversion. Immediately after the crisis, the fraction of subjects displaying extreme risk aversion increased by more than 80%. Findings remain robust when we use an IV estimation strategy that exploits random assignment of respondents to waves of surveying. The crisis also affected trust, social capital, and beliefs about the economy.
Potential Health Benefits of Potato Starch

Starch is considered a major source of available energy in the human diet. In potato, starch content varies from 70 to 90% on a dry matter basis depending on the botanical variety. The traditional view of starch digestion is that to a large extent starch is rapidly digested. However, a variable fraction of ingested starch can escape digestion in the foregut, and ferment later in the hindgut (RS, resistant starch). Raw potato starch is largely considered as a high RS ingredient. However, potato is mostly consumed processed, which gelatinizes starch at different extents, and this will have an effect on the composition and nutritional values (glycemic index and RS content). In general, processed potato has high levels of digestible starch, although the values may decrease with an increased time of storage after cooking. RS is becoming more desirable in the human diet because of its relevance to health, on the prevention and control of some digestive and metabolic disorders. RS intake, in substitution to digestible starch, seems to decrease postprandial glycemic and insulinemic responses, improve whole body insulin sensitivity, increase satiety, lower plasma cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations, and reduce fat storage. RS has also been associated with protective effects on chronic colonic diseases, including reduction of colon cancer risk and in the treatment of bowel inflammatory conditions. In summary, this review presents the current understanding of potato starch and potential health benefits which are likely to be associated with intake of resistant potato starch. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dual Connectivity for LTE-NR Cellular Networks

—The Dual Connectivity (DC) technology has gained a lot of momentum in the LTE Release 12 as a means to enhance the per-user throughput and provide mobility robustness. Some studies in the literature have discussed a coupling between the LTE and the air interface of the upcoming Fifth Generation (5G) in a DC scenario. That integration may provide some beneﬁts to meet the high throughput demands, reliability and availability requirements of the 5G networks. This paper presents a brief overview of the DC technology considering the inter-generations coupling and discusses some challenges involving Radio Resource Management (RRM) in such scenario.
Factors influencing moringa cultivation in Tamil Nadu – an economic analysis

Moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam.) belongs to the family ‘Moringaceae’ is a fast growing multipurpose medicinal tree extensively grown in tropics and subtropics of India and Africa. It is also widely distributed in Egypt, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Burma, Pakistan, Singapore, West Indies, Cuba, Jamaica and Nigeria. In eastern and southern regions of India, Moringa is widely used as vegetable and grown commercially for its edible pods and leaves. Moringa oleifera is an important food commodity which has had enormous attention as the ‘Natural Nutrition of the Tropics’. Almost all the parts of this plant: root, bark, gum, leaf, fruit (pods), flowers, seed and seed oil have been used for various ailments in the indigenous medicine of South Asia. Its popularity is increasing steadily because of its nutritional, medicinal value and for its sweetness in curry and slurry preparation along with red gram dhal. From that one could understand the importance of Moringa.2–4
Relevance of Willpower Dynamics, Self-Control, and Ego Depletion to Flawed Student Decision Making

Students make decisions with far-reaching consequences. This manuscript applies recent advances in understanding decision processes to illuminate several sources of bias and error in student decisions. Decision making uses an energy resource (willpower) also involved in selfcontrol, and so when people experience depleted resources, their decisions may be less effective than usual. We review factors that contribute to depleted willpower (e.g., decision fatigue, poor diet, lack of sleep), as well as well as results of decision making in depleted state (decision avoidance and postponement, irrational bias, passive endorsement of status quo and default options, lack of integrative compromise, heeding of irrelevant criteria).
Development of an Ultrahigh Speed Robot FALCON Using Parallel Wire Drive Systems

In many kinds of industries, high speed robots are urgently required. In this paper, we propose an ultrahigh speed robot with 6 D. O. F. based on parallel wire mechanism. Because of low stiffness of wires, vibration problems arise in actuation. To overcome vibration probloms, internal forces among wires are effectively utilized. For this purpose, we analize the elasticity of wires and define two kinds of internal force stiffness. Basing on those results, we develop an ultrahigh speed robot FALCON-7 (FAst Load CONveyance Robot using seven wires) with six degrees of freedom. It is experimentally confirmed that the proposed robot attains to maximum speed 13[m/s] and the peak acceleration exceeds 40[G], even if considerably small D. C. motors (60[W]) are used.
Towards Advanced Debugging Support for Actor Languages Studying Concurrency Bugs in Actor-based Programs

With the ubiquity of multicore hardware, concurrent and parallel programming has become a fundamental part of software development. If writing concurrent programs is hard, debugging them is even harder. The actor model is attractive for developing concurrent applications because actors are isolated concurrent entities that communicates through asynchronous message sending and do not share state, thus they avoid common concurrency bugs such as race conditions. However, they are not immune to bugs. This paper presents initial work on a taxonomy of concurrent bugs for actor-based applications. Based on this study, we propose debugging tooling to assist the development process of actor-based applications.
Phase mixing versus nonlinear advection in drift-kinetic plasma turbulence

A scaling theory of long-wavelength electrostatic turbulence in a magnetised, weakly collisional plasma (e.g. drift-wave turbulence driven by ion temperature gradients) is proposed, with account taken both of the nonlinear advection of the perturbed particle distribution by fluctuating $\boldsymbol{E}\times \boldsymbol{B}$ flows and of its phase mixing, which is caused by the streaming of the particles along the mean magnetic field and, in a linear problem, would lead to Landau damping. It is found that it is possible to construct a consistent theory in which very little free energy leaks into high velocity moments of the distribution function, rendering the turbulent cascade in the energetically relevant part of the wavenumber space essentially fluid-like. The velocity-space spectra of free energy expressed in terms of Hermite-moment orders are steep power laws and so the free-energy content of the phase space does not diverge at infinitesimal collisionality (while it does for a linear problem); collisional heating due to long-wavelength perturbations vanishes in this limit (also in contrast with the linear problem, in which it occurs at the finite rate equal to the Landau damping rate). The ability of the free energy to stay in the low velocity moments of the distribution function is facilitated by the ‘anti-phase-mixing’ effect, whose presence in the nonlinear system is due to the stochastic version of the plasma echo (the advecting velocity couples the phase-mixing and anti-phase-mixing perturbations). The partitioning of the wavenumber space between the (energetically dominant) region where this is the case and the region where linear phase mixing wins its competition with nonlinear advection is governed by the ‘critical balance’ between linear and nonlinear time scales (which for high Hermite moments splits into two thresholds, one demarcating the wavenumber region where phase mixing predominates, the other where plasma echo does).
How to overcome ATP-binding cassette drug efflux transporter-mediated drug resistance?

P-glycoprotein (ABCB1), multidrug resistance protein-1 (ABCC1) and breast cancer resistance protein (ABCG2) belong to the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) superfamily of proteins that play an important physiological role in protection of the body from toxic xenobiotics and endogenous metabolites. Beyond this, these transporters determine the toxicity profile of many drugs, and confer multidrug resistance (MDR) in cancer cells associated with a poor treatment outcome of cancer patients. It has long been hypothesized that inhibition of ABC drug efflux transporters will increase drug accumulation and thereby overcome MDR, but until now no approved inhibitor of these transporters is available in the clinic. In this review we present molecular strategies to overcome this type of drug resistance and discuss for each of these strategies their promising value or indicate underlying reasons for their limited success.
The Control of Biological Invasions in the World's Oceans

Abstract: The introduction of alien, or nonindigenous, animals and plants has been identified by scientists and policy makers as a major threat to biodiversity in marine ecosystems. Although government agencies have struggled to control alien species on land and freshwater for decades with mixed success, the control of alien marine species is in its infancy. Prevention of introduction and establishment must be the first priority, but many populations of alien marine species are already well established worldwide. National and international policies leave loopholes for additional invasions to occur and provide only general guidance on how to control alien species once they are established. To address this issue, a multinational group of 25 scientists and attorneys convened in 1998 to examine options for controlling established populations of alien marine species. The discussions resulted in a framework for control of alien marine species to provide decision‐making guidance to policymakers, managers, scientists, and other stakeholders. The framework consists of seven basic steps: (1) establish the nature and magnitude of the problem, (2) set objectives, (3) consider the full range of alternatives, (4) determine risk, (5) reduce risk, (6) assess benefits versus risks, and ( 7) monitor the situation. This framework can provide guidance for control efforts under the existing patchwork of national laws and can help provide a foundation for international cooperation.