Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Classroom teaching versus blended learning: lessons learnt from the comparison

On-line learning drawing upon new technologies is often presented as the future of education. This article compares, from teachers’ point of view, two Master programs delivering the same degree. One is based upon classroom teaching and face to face seminars, the other one relies on blended learning. Lessons learnt from the comparison are threefold. First, teaching simultaneously in both systems enabled cross-fertilization and enrichment of teaching methods. Second, a strong relational network, between teachers and trainees and among trainees, proved to be key success factor in the distance learning system. Third, the high quality of the blended learning program reflected in the excellent rate of success required a great deal of resources and is eventually much more expensive than the classroom training program.
Pre-Investment Factors and Their Roles in Backing the Startups Growth in Malaysia

The objective of this paper is to provide venture capital investors with pre-investment criteria to eliminate possible uncertainties and to assist the venture to grow and exit successfully. In this study, we conducted personal interviews with some venture capital executives and two entrepreneurs in Malaysia. Out of 52 active registered venture capital firms in Malaysia, only eight firm representatives agreed to participate in in-depth interviews with the CEOs. Moreover, some VC participants recommended two entrepreneurs to participate in the study, too. The interviews covered all pre-investment aspects that could assist in a successful investment. Our findings displayed that innovation and investment environment are key pre-investment criteria. Consequently, our results support what previous relevant studies concluded. The significance of these results is providing further support for the decision making process.
General linear model analysis of behavioural responses of Boerand Tswana goats to successive handling

The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the behavioural response of Boer goats and Tswana goats to successive handling. Boer goats and Tswana goats were subjected to aging and tail restrain during handling. Behavioural response was recorded through the vocalisation score (VS), crush score (CS), flight speed (FS), and flight time (FT) scores twice a week for eight weeks. A total of thirty six Boer goats and Tswana goats were used in this experiment. The results indicated that the Tswana goats were the most temperament (p < 0.05) and Boer goats were the calmest. Behavioural scores significantly increased throughout the experiment.
Organised crime and social media; a system for detecting, corroborating and visualising weak signals of organised crime online

This paper describes an approach for detecting the presence or emergence of Organised Crime (OC) signals on Social Media. It shows how words and phrases, used by members of the public in Social Media posts, can be treated as weak signals of OC, enabling information to be classiﬁed according to a taxonomy. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is used to group information sources, according to Crime-type and Location, thus providing a means of corroboration and creating OC Concepts that can be used to alert police analysts to the possible presence of OC. The analyst is able to ‘drill down’ into an OC Concept of interest, discovering additional information that may be pertinent to the crime. The paper describes the implementation of this approach into a fully-functional prototype software system, incorporating a Social Media scanning system and a map-based user interface. The approach and system are illustrated using Human Traﬃcking and Modern Slavery as an example. Real data is used to obtain results that show that weak signals of OC have been detected and corroborated, thus alerting to the possible presence of OC.
Testing of developed Food Based Dietary Guidelines for the elderly in South Africa

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to describe the process of the testing of the Elderly Food Based Dietary Guidelines (EFBDGs). Following a literature review, stakeholder discussions and revision, preliminary English EFBDGs were proposed and circulated to an expert panel for input. The developed EFBDGs are based on the existing FBDGs which were revised in 2012 and adapted for older people following the Food and Agricultural Organisation/World Health Organisation (FAO/WHO) guidelines. Minor corrections were received and incorporated, after which the guidelines were tested for comprehension, appropriateness and applicability in consumer groups. A qualitative design was followed with focus group discussions. Firstly, the English EFBDGs were tested with IsiZulu, Afrikaans, IsiXhosa, English and Sesotho speaking elderly aged 60 years and older in KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Free State provinces, respectively. Thereafter, they were adapted and translated into IsiZulu, Afrikaans, IsiXhosa and Sesotho. Secondly, the adapted and translated EFBDGs were tested in the mentioned ethnic groups. In general, as expected, the results of the tests showed that the English speaking elderly responded better to the English guidelines than the other ethnic groups. The feedback in respect of the tested translated guidelines was more positive indicating a better understanding of the EFBDGs by the various ethnic groups. This is because, not only were the English guidelines translated, but they were also adapted and words were contextualised according to the day-to-day language use of the groups. It was recommended that the guidelines be incorporated into the Integrated Nutrition Programme for the purpose of nutrition education as well as a guide for food service institutions serving the elderly. Also, it was recommended that the development of support material for health professionals and the wider community be undertaken and the material translated into all the official languages. Future strategies should include the implementation, evaluation and impact of the EFBDGs.
A putative NAP homolog specifically expressed during grapevine flower and berry development

Introduction: In flowering plants, fruit morphogenesis is a distinct and unique process following fertilization. Most fleshy fruits as grapevine develop from ovary tissues (EAMES and MACDANIELS 1947) and exhibit convergent characteristics such as pericarp cell proliferation and enlargement. The early molecular events that control the dynamics of fruit morphogenesis remain obscure. From preliminary analysis of the fleshless berry mutant (Vitis vinifera L. cv. Ugni Blanc) which is unable to specify ovary cell fate later in fleshy pericarp development, we have identified a gene homolog of PISTILLATA up-regulated in the mutant ovary. In Arabidopsis, NAP (AJ222713) appeared as an immediate target of the floral homeotic genes PISTILLATA/APETALA3 (SLABLOWSKI and MEYEROWITZ 1998). NAP genes belong to the NAC domain gene family encoding transcriptional regulators required for meristem establishment and other plant developmental processes. The original genes NO APICAL MERISTEM (NAM) from petunia, ATAF1, 2 and CUPSHAPED COTYLEDON (CUC2) from Arabidopsis defined the highly conserved NAC protein domain (AIDA et al. 1997). We report, here, quantitative expression patterns of the closest NAP grapevine homolog (TC38700 from the TIGR database), VvNAP, during grapevine development of the flb mutant and the wild type genotypes. Material and Methods: The flb mutation was identified in 1996 in a vineyard located at Prades-le-Lez (France) on a Vitis vinifera cv. Ugni-Blanc anticlinal chimeric plant bearing some shoots with berries dramatically reduced in size. For flb mutant and wild-type Ugni Blanc, samples corresponded to inflorescences from stage 17 (mature inflorescence with all flowers formed and separated) and 19 (first flower caps loosening) of the E-L system (COOMBE 1995) and berries from 0 to 20 d after anthesis collected in the greenhouse (ENSA.M-INRA, Montpellier). For V. vinifera cv. Cabernet-Sauvignon, samples corresponded to vegetative organs (young roots, shoot tips including 2 to 3 expanded leaves and young leaves), inflorescences from stages 7 (immature inflorescence emerging from buds) and 17, flowers at flowering time (50 % caps off) and seedless berries (2-16 weeks post flowering), harvested in the field (Clare Valley, Australia). Total RNA was extracted using RNeasy Plant Mini kit (Qiagen) for Ugni Blanc and according to REZAIAN and KRAKE (1987) with slight modifications as described in BOSS et al. (2001) for Cabernet-Sauvignon.
A SKULL OF ANCYLOTHERIUM (CHALICOTHERIIDAE, MAMMALIA) FROM THE LATE MIOCENE OF THERMOPIGI (SERRES, N. GREECE) AND THE RELATIONSHIPS OF THE GENUS

Abstract The locality of Thermopigi in northern Greece has yielded a well-preserved skull of Ancylotherium pentelicum, among a rich collection of late Miocene mammals. It is the most complete Ancylotherium skull ever reported, and lack of crushing makes it especially valuable. Its most remarkable feature is the inflation of the frontal bone, which is strongly reminiscent of the dome of the North American Tylocephalonyx Coombs, 1979, although the degree of inflation is weaker than in that genus. An analysis of some characters found in the Miocene Schizotheriinae leads to the conclusion that Ancylotherium is more likely to be closely related to other Eurasian and African members of this subfamily than to Tylocephalonyx, and that the domes evolved in parallel.
L1 and L2 pre-university writing experience: what effects on novice Japanese EFL writers?

I.Introduction 1.Background 2.The Study II.Method 1.Participants 2.Data Collection (1) Essays (2) Interviews 3.Data Analysis (1) Discourse Type and Essay Structure (2) Discourse Markers (3) Development of Content III.Results 1.Discourse Type 2.Essay Structure (1) Structure of Argumentation Essays (2) Structure of Exposition Essays (3) Structure of Mixed Essays 3.Use of Discourse Markers 4.Development of Content 5.Group Characteristics (1) Group 1 (2) Group 2 (3) Group 3 (4) Group 4 (5) Summary of Group Features IV.Discussion This study investigated the possible effects of L1 or L2 writing experience, or combined L1 and L2 experience, on the English writing of first year university students in a Japanese educational context. In particular, the influence of special preparatory L1 and L2 training in writing short essays for university entrance exams was examined through text analysis, supplemented by in-depth interviews. The participants, all novice L2 writers with intermediate level English proficiency, comprised four groups: (1) those having received intensive essay writing training in both L1 and L2 (N = 9), (2) those with only L1 training (N = 7), (3) those with only L2 training (N = 7), and (4) those with no such special training (N = 5). The results indicate that the intensive L1 training developed meta-cognitive awareness of rhetorical organization, the L2 training facilitated the placement of a position statement toward the beginning of an essay, and each of them taught the need for elaboration of support. Whereas a lack of any intensive training led to self-reflective writing, a combination of the two types of training tended to engender greater audience awareness, more control over organization, and richly elaborated support, suggesting that the combined training promoted the ability to apply the meta-cognitive knowledge the students had acquired.
R&D Spillovers, Trade Integration and Expansion of Trade Flows in East -West Asia and Pacific

Globalization is a complementary pattern beyond borders that brings about international investment, foreign trade, expansion of information and technology, convergence of production and consumption and integration of financial markets. Economic integration is an aspect of globalization which causes a decrease in prejudicial preventions among countries. In addition, it leads to the simplification of more extensive consumption markets, proficiency in production, use of capital and financial sources, use of technology spillovers, access to foreign investment and international cooperation. In this paper we focus on spillovers, arising from R&D development, trade relations and technology transfer. This study investigates the relationship between R&D spillovers, trade integration and their cross effects on expansion of trade flows in East - West Asia and Pacific. Accordingly, we use an augmented gravity trade model and estimate it the panel data approach to analyze the impacts of R&D spillovers and other determinants on bilateral trade relations among the selected Asia-Pacific countries over the period of 1995-2008. The results indicate that R&D spillovers and integration accelerate the trade flows.
Next-Science: A Novel Antimicrobial Agent that Inhibits Biofilm Development by Escherichia coli Clinical Isolates on Urinary Tract Catheters

Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) constitute about 40% of health-care associated infections in the United States. It is estimated that about 15% to 25% of hospitalized patients receive a urethral catheter at some point during hospitalization predisposing them to the development of CAUTI. Pathogenic bacteria colonize the surface of the catheter and develop highly resistant structures termed biofilms which protect them from the effects of diverse antibiotics. Escherichia coli are among the main causative agents of CAUTI. Due to the emergence of antibiotic resistant strains, it is critical to develop new novel antimicrobial agents. We recently showed that a novel anti-biofilm agent, Next Science, inhibited biofilm development by wound pathogens. In this study, we tried to determine if treating urinary tract catheters (UTC) with NS prevents the development if E. coli biofilms. Three types of UTCs were cut into small pieces that were treated with NS. Biofilm development by an E. coli laboratory strain and several E. coli clinical isolates on treated and untreated pieces was accomplished using the microtiter plate assay. Biofilms developed on inner and outer surfaces of the catheters were quantified by determining the number of microorganisms (colony forming units) on each piece and visualized using confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM). In comparison with untreated catheters, all three types of NS-treated catheters prevented biofilm development by tested E. coli strains. In addition, CLSM demonstrated the presence of E. coli biofilms on the inner and outer surfaces of the untreated but not treated catheters. Our results suggest that NS is a novel antimicrobial treatment to prevent biofilm development by pathogenic E. coli strains on UTCs.
Protection Assessment of Design Classifiers under Assault

Design arrangement frameworks area unit usually utilized as an area of antagonistic applications, as biometric confirmation, system interruption location, and spam separating, within which info are often deliberately controlled by individuals to undermine their operation. As this ill-disposed scenario isn't thought of by ancient configuration techniques, style grouping frameworks could show vulnerabilities, whose abuse may seriously influence their execution, and thence confine their handy utility. Many works have attended the problem of outlining vigorous classifiers against these dangers, albeit basically concentrating on explicit applications and kinds of assaults. During this paper, we have a tendency to address one in every of the first open issues: assessing at define stage the safety of example classifiers, specifically, the execution debasement beneath potential assaults they will create amid operation. We have a tendency to propose a system for Experimental assessment of classifier security that formalizes and sums up the principle thoughts projected within the writing. System Security carries with it the procurements and techniques received by a system chairman to forestall and screen unapproved access. Email is that the principle correspondence interface currently every day everyone uses/have mail get to all or any authorities’ organization sent on by a mail correspondence. During this mail correspondence we are going to have a spam sends. Spam Emails/numerous E-sends contains URL's to a sites or Webpages prompts infection or hacking. Thus we have a tendency to as of currently have a system for characteristic the spam sends but it will not acknowledge the total spam sends. Spamming is that the utilization of Electronic messages to send/get spontaneous mass messages significantly promoting erratically. Wherever as during this strategy we have a tendency to area unit planning to distinguish the total spam via email examining before it browse by the purchasers, impeding the area freelance of the purchasers E-mail ID, essential word primarily based obstructing by checking the themes, dominant the excellence within the middle of open and personal space before obstruction, watchword security by bio-metric, identity verification, pattern identification (face filtering) associated acknowledgment is an one in every of a form technique to acknowledge all and sundry. We have a tendency to utilize savage power string match calculation. It demonstrates the somebody footage of face filtering acknowledgment framework may be perceived proficiently utilizing bury reliance of pixels rising from facial codes of images.
Absorptive Capability and Knowledge Tacitness in the Transfer of Knowledge in the Agrifood Cluster of the Southeast of Spain

The OECD (1997) conceives a national innovation system (NIS) as “technology and information among people, enterprises and institutions are key to the innovative process” (p. 7). Innovation is conceived as the result of complex set of relationships among actors in the system, which includes companies, universities and research centres. In actual knowledge-based economies, industry-links are essential for economic development and progress (Ahrweiler et al., 2011). They are essential for building up networks of relationships that are necessary for any firm to innovate (Freeman 1987, 1992). In particular, many influential studies have identified the links between firm innovation and competitive advantage at the national level (Porter, 1990). Lundvall (1992) describes characteristics of NIS, emphasizing the importance or learning and how small countries, with limited public budgets and few large corporations, have selected areas of innovation strength and are able to absorb knowledge and innovations from elsewhere (Cooke et al., 1997). Thus, the vision of a NSI is just beyond the technological advances, “but is more broadly on the factors influencing national technological capabilities” (Nelson & Rosenberg, 1993: 4).
Climate change impact on maize yield in the region of Novi Sad (Vojvodina).

PDSSAT 4.0 is a crop model commonly used to quantify the climate change impact on agriculture production. The model objective is to predict the duration of growth, average growth rates and the amount of assimilate partitioned to the economic yield components of the plant. A model structure is comprehensively described in this paper. The input parameters were used from NSSC 640 maize nine year field experiment from Rimski Sancevi in Novi Sad and climate data were given by Republic Hydrometeorology Service of Serbia (RHSS) for current climate, as well as for 2030 and 2050 using three climate models (ECHAM5, HadCM3 and NCAR-PCM) under two scenarios (A1B SRES and A2 SRES). DSSAT 4.0 maize yield simulations were performed for period 1971-2000, as well as for 2030 and 2050. The change in yield for 2030 and 2050 was calculated relative to 1971-2000. The results showed lower yields in 2030 and 2050, especially in rainfed conditions.
Interactive comment on “Chemical characteristics of ice residual nuclei in anvil cirrusclouds: evidence for homogeneous and heterogeneous ice formation” by C. H. Twohy and M. R. Poellot

Overview: I find this to be an excellent, well written manuscript. This paper is extremely well suited for ACP and will make a nice addition to the literature on atmospheric ice nucleation. The reference list is well thought out and thourough. The data collection method is well presented and the results are of importance at a time when aerosol cloud interactions are at the forefront of atmospheric science. I have a few comments relating to stating uncertainty and the data presentation but expect these can be rapidly addressed by the authors.
Efficacy of chlorine sanitizer spray bottles exposed to various temperatures and ambient light

Background: Gastroenteritis is largely under reported across Canada. It is estimated that one reported case represents on average 313 cases. In addition, improper cleaning is one of the top ten reported causes of food borne illness. Sanitization is important to reduce the number of pathogenic microorganisms present on food contact surfaces to a safe level. Correct concentrations of sodium hypochlorite are to be prepared and used within the range of 100ppm – 200ppm on food contact surfaces. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the rate of degradation of sodium hypochlorite in spray bottles to assess if these solutions need to be prepared fresh daily to achieve efficacy. Two variables seen within a food service establishment were chosen to evaluate the rate of degradation, temperature and ambient light. Method: Room temperature (20 ̊C), 35 ̊C and ambient light exposure were tested to evaluate their effect on the degradation of free chlorine in spray bottles over time in days. The experiment was preformed by setting up 3 individual spray bottles at 20 ̊C with no light, 20 ̊C with ambient light and 35 ̊C with no light. The sodium hypochlorite was then sampled and recorded periodically three times a week over a 15-day period to determine the stability of the chorine solutions prepared at around 200ppm. Results: In the order of spray bottles tested, 20 ̊C no light, 20 ̊C ambient light and 35 ̊C no light, a correlation coefficient of -0.3027, -0.8235 and -0.8169 were recorded. In addition, the following test spray bottles held a r-squared value of 0.0916, 0.6781 and 0.6674. A p-value of 0.5094, 0.0249 and 0.0249 were also assessed, with a corresponding power of 8.99%, 73.74% and 71.75%. Conclusions: By calculating the linear regression formula, it was concluded that chlorine solution in spray bottles do not need to be prepared fresh daily. For 200ppm 20 ̊C no light, 200ppm 20 ̊C ambient light and 200ppm 35 ̊C no light, at days 128, 67 and 45, the estimated concentration of sodium hypochlorite will be at the minimum requirement of 100ppm respectively.
An Overview of Autonomous Loading of Bulk Material

Autonomous loading implies a fully automated scenario in which automated excavating machines, such as front-loaders, load themselves from a heap of bulk material and deliver to the dumping site. The process comprises all the functions of loading, navigating, obstacle detection and avoidance and unloading to be automated and controlled by a supervisory computer. Autonomous loading benefits a number of industries such as construction and mining, from economical view point as well as other concerns like operators safety when the workplace is not hazard free. Despite all the benefits and despite considerable amount of research on the subject, there are no commercially available systems that can be purchased and put to work. In addition to a breakdown of all the tasks that need to be automated and the difficulties involved, this paper reviews and reports the various research and/or development activities that have been carried out during the past two decades on the subject.