Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
EVALUATION OF SOME BOTANICAL EXTRACTS AGAINST TWO-SPOTTED SPIDER MITE (TETRANYCHIDAE: TETRANYCHUS URTICAE KOCH) UNDER LABORATORY CONDITION

Two-spotted spider mite (tssm) (Tetranchus urticae koch), is the most devastating polyphagous sap-sucking pests of many vegetables, fruits, cereal crops, and ornamental plants. tssm is the major pest of potato in Eastern Hararghe, Ethiopia. The present study was conducted to evaluate the potential of Azadirachta indica seed and leaf oil, Tagetes minuta leaf oil and their leaf aqueous extracts against tssm in the plant protection laboratory of Haramaya University. Amitraz 20 EC was used as a standard check in the experiment. The experiment was arranged in a completely randomized design (crd) in four replications. Treatments were applied on adults of tssm both by spray and dipping methods, while only dipping method was used on the eggs of tssm. The number of tssm dead adults was recorded for three days (72 hrs) at 24 hrs intervals, while egg mortality was recorded 12 days after treatment application. The mortality percentage was corrected using Abbot’s formula before data analyses. Significant differences (P<0.05) were observed among the treatments both in adult and egg mortality of tssm. The highest mortality was obtained with Amitraz 20 ec (95.5-100%), followed by A. indica seed (90.125-94.95%) and T. minuta leaf oil (78.5-84.5%) in spray and dip bioassay 72 hrs after treatment application. The least effective treatments were A. indica leaf aqueous leaf extracts (AqE) (56.125%) and A. indica leaf oil (55.45%) in spay and dip bioassay 72 hrs after treatments application. The highest mortality of tssm eggs was obtained from the application of Amitraz 20 EC and A. indica (92.28%), followed by T. minuta leaf oil (83.74%). The lowest mortality (21.34%) and highest hatching (78.66%) of tssm eggs were recorded from the application of leaf aqueous extracts. The study also revealed that mortality of tssm was clearly time-dependent i.e. mortality increased proportionally with increase in time after treatment application. The study revealed the promising efficacy of A. indica seed oil and T. minuta leaf oil that were comparable to Amitraz 20 EC in the management of tssm under laboratory condition.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Optical transitions at the substitutional nitrogen centre in diamond

Optical transitions at the single substitutional nitrogen centre (P1) in synthetic diamond are discussed. It is shown that the 4.6 eV absorption band is not due to P1, but due to some other centre, tentatively suggested as a nitrogen-boron complex. The 4.5 eV photocurrent threshold is assigned to the transition from the valence band to the ground state of the P1 centre.
Assessment tool for potentially inappropriate medication use in the elderly: a scoping review protocol

Potentially Inappropriate Medication for the elderly (PIM) are drugs in which the safety risks may exceed the benefits, especially when there are safer alternatives. The use of PIM is associated with increased hospitalizations and it is estimated that one every five prescriptions presents at least one PIM. In this context, there are several assessment tools for identification of PIM. The first assessment tool developed was Beers criteria and since its publication, new tools have been developed. The objective of this scoping review is to explore studies presenting assessment tools of PIM to map characteristics, justifications, and therapeutic equivalents. This review will consider studies that developed or validated an assessment tool of PIM. Electronic searches will be performed in PubMed and Scopus with no time limit. Two researchers, independently, will select registries and extract data of studies and tool characteristics, PIM and potentially inappropriate interaction, condition, justification, and therapeutic equivalents. The findings will be presented in narrative form including tables and figures to aid in data presentation, where appropriate.
Quantifying the Confidence in fMRI-Based Language Lateralisation Through Laterality Index Deconstruction

In epilepsy patients, language lateralisation is an important part of the presurgical diagnostic process. Using task-based fMRI, language lateralisation can be determined by visual inspection of activity patterns or by quantifying the difference in left- and right-hemisphere activity using variations of a basic formula [(L-R)/(L+R)]. However, the values of this laterality index (LI) depend on the choice of activity thresholds and regions of interest. The diagnostic utility of the LI also depends on how its continuous values are translated into categorical decisions about a patient’s language lateralisation. Here, we analysed fMRI data from 712 epilepsy patients who performed a verbal fluency task. Each fMRI data set was evaluated by a trained human rater as depicting left-sided, right-sided, or bilateral lateralisation or as being inconclusive. We used data-driven methods to define the activity thresholds and regions of interest used for LI computation and to define a classification scheme that allowed us to translate the LI values into categorical decisions. By deconstructing the LI into measures of laterality (L-R) and strength (L+R), we also modelled the relationship between activation strength and conclusiveness of a data set. In a held-out data set, predictions reached 91% correct when using only conclusive data and 82% when inconclusive data were included. Although only trained on human evaluations of fMRIs, the approach generalised to the prediction of language Wada test results, allowing for significant above-chance accuracies. Compared against different existing methods of LI-computation, our approach improved the identification of inconclusive cases and increased the accuracy with which decisions for the remaining data could be made. We discuss how this approach can support clinicians in assessing fMRI data on a single-case level, deciding whether lateralisation can be determined with sufficient certainty or whether additional information is needed.
The first viral disease reported in lobsters

In 1999, while sampling juvenile Caribbean spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) populations in the Florida Keys, we discovered lethargic, moribund animals whose hemolymph appeared chalky, rather than its normal transparent color. Hemolymph smears were negative for Gram-negative bacteria, but histopathology of lobster tissues showed viral inclusions in the nuclei of infected hemocytes. In heavily infected individuals, virtually all of the host’s hyalinocytes and semigranulocytes were destroyed. Subsequent transmission electron microscopy (TEM) confirmed the disease to be an enveloped, icosahedral, Herpes-like DNA virus (HLV-PA) with a nucleocapsid approximately 187 nm in size (Fig. 1).
Advances in cognitive-behavioral therapy for substance use disorders and addictive behaviors.

It has been more than two decades since the publication of our text Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse (Beck, Wright, Newman, & Liese, 1993). Certainly our most exciting advance over these years is reflected in the title of this chapter; we have shifted our focus from exclusively “substance abuse” to the broad spectrum of “addictive behaviors. ” When our text was published, one year prior to publication of the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994), the word “addiction” was still considered a lay term. Back then, “behavioral addictions” were nowhere to be found in the DSM. At that time, which was considered the height of the cocaine epidemic, we focused exclusively on chemical addictions. However, over the years we have learned that addictions extend well beyond consumption of chemical substances to include an array of behaviors (e.g., gambling and Internet gaming). Now it is widely accepted that individuals who struggle with chemical and behavioral addictions have common cognitive features (e.g., Fortune & Goodie, 2012; Goodie & Fortune, 2013;
Graph Formalisms for Meaning Representations

In this tutorial we will focus on Hyperedge Replacement Languages (HRL; Drewes et al. 1997), a context-free graph rewriting system. HRL are one of the most popular graph formalisms to be studied in NLP (Chiang et al., 2013; Peng et al., 2015; Bauer and Rambow, 2016). We will discuss HRL by formally defining them, studying several examples, discussing their properties, and providing exercises for the tutorial. While HRL have been used in NLP in the past, there is some speculation that they are more expressive than is necessary for graphs representing natural language (Drewes, 2017). Part of our own research has been exploring what restrictions of HRL could yield languages that are more useful for NLP and also those that have desirable properties for NLP models, such as being closed under intersection. With that in mind, we also plan to discuss Regular Graph Languages (RGL; Courcelle 1991), a subfamily of HRL which are closed under intersection. The definition of RGL is relatively simple after being introduced to HRL. We do not plan on discussing any proofs of why RGL are also a subfamily of MSOL, as described in Gilroy et al. (2017b). We will briefly mention the other formalisms shown in Figure 1 such as MSOL and DAGAL but this will focus on their properties rather than any formal definitions.
Anatomische Landmarken in der Urogynäkologie

review article the topography, the interactions and functions of pelvic muscles, ligaments and nerves are demonstrated. The term ligament in the pelvic floor, especially in the levels I and II after DeLancey, is different from the one used in orthopedics. The ligament in the pelvic floor is a condensation of connective tissue and not a classic tendon that anchors a muscle to a bone. Ligaments in the pelvic floor are mixed structures that contain arteries and veins, lymphatic vessels, and nerves. They also contain smooth and striated muscles in order to adapt to different volumes of the bladder, the uterus and rectum. This kind of adaptation and function is focus of recent studies. Also the normal variability of organ movement before it yields to a pathologic state like prolapse, and the change of organ function after surgical mesh insertion are not completely elucidated yet.
Juridical Analysis on Waqf Land Certification based on LawNumber 41 of 2004 on Waqf

: The object in this study is how law provides legal certainty on properties that has been put as waqf such as owned land. Waqf land that hasn’t been certified will surely cause problems in the future, this is because the status of waqf land itself has yet to have legal certainty. Numerous waqf land ended up in the hands of other parties because the uncertainty of the waqf land status itself. In the end, waqf land which is expected to boost the economy of the people cannot be materialized, it’s because there has been lack of awareness from someone who manages waqf to certify the ownership of waqf land itself. The goal of this research is to identify the role of Indonesian Waqf Board on the development of waqf land, to identify the problems that causes plenty of waqf land that are yet to be certified, also to identify the raise in numbers of waqf land being certified. This research is also regarded to be important, keeping in mind that there are still numerous problems that occurs because of legal uncertainty towards waqf land that may cause dispute in the future, between waqf, nazhir , or even between heirs.
Précession de l'aimantation par transfert de spin dans des nanopiliers magnétiques

Cette these est consacree a l'etude experimentale de la dynamique de l'aimantation induite par le couple de transfert de spin dans des nanopiliers magnetiques. La decouverte recente qu'un courant polarise en spin peut exercer, via un transfert de moment angulaire de spin, un couple sur l'aimantation d'un materiau ferromagnetique offre un nouveau moyen pour manipuler une aimantation sans appliquer de champ externe. Ce couple dit de "transfert de spin" peut, pour un courant suffisamment eleve, retourner l'aimantation ou dans d'autre conditions, generer des etats de precessions entretenus de l'aimantation associees a la generation de micro-ondes. Dans cette these, nous avons etudie l'effet de transfert de spin dans des structures magnetiques specifiques de type Co/Cu/Ni80Fe20, dans lesquelles une dependance angulaire du couple non strandard, dite "oscillante", est predite par les modeles diffusifs de transfert de spin. Ce couple "oscillant" modifie profondement la dynamique de l'aimantation induite par le couple de transfert de spin et permet en particulier d'obtenir des etats de precession de l'aimantation sans champ applique, uniquement en injectant un courant continu dans la structure. Les caracterisations en transport statique et les mesures haute-frequence effectuees sur des nanopiliers magnetiques a couple oscillant ont permis de mettre clairement en evidence la presence de modes de precession entretenue de l'aimantation a champ faible et meme a champ nul, en accord avec les predictions des modeles. Elles montrent par ailleurs des caracteristiques dynamiques induites par le courant inedites, qui peuvent s'expliquer par des simulations macrospin de la dynamique de l'aimantation. Ce travail de these apparait comme un test reussi des modeles diffusifs de transfert de spin et ouvre la voie a un nouveau type d'oscillateur a transfert de spin qui ne necessite pas de champ applique.
Alternative livelihood programs in Africa: a substitute or an added portfolio?

Alternative livelihoods are often promoted by conservation organizations or governments to reduce rural people’s reliance on, or use of natural resources, or to compensate them for loss of access. The effectiveness of such interventions has, however, been limited over the years. It is no news that the greatest challenges facing humankind are the alleviation of poverty and the conservation of biological diversity. Yet, rather than being perceived as separate issues, these two challenges are often closely linked. In order to find solutions to these challenges, both non-Governmental and Governmental Organizations have been put in place of diverse alternative projects. Unfortunately, such endeavours have met with little or no successful outcome. This, therefore, leads to the question of whether an alternative livelihood program is really a substitute or an added portfolio to the existing activities of rural people. This paper critically examines alternative livelihood projects on the basis that these are either the former or the latter. The data were obtained through the use of various search engines and also from a direct observation. The study discovered that, while different alternative livelihood projects have been employed with various objectives across Africa, most of the reviewed projects have had little or no success owing to the management issues within the NGOs or GOs, and, most especially, due to the actual condition of local people. Thus, ‘alternative livelihoods’ tend to be an added portfolio of other activities rather than a substitute for current reality.
Etude des relations structure-fonction du transporteur mitochondrial d'ADP/ATP et de ses interactions avec d'autres protéines membranaires mitochondriales.

La mitochondrie, organite present chez toutes les cellules eucaryotes aerobies, est delimitee par deux membranes qui compartimentent des fonctions physiologiques essentielles. La membrane interne est une barriere que les metabolites ne peuvent franchir que grâce a des proteines specifiques, dont le transporteur mitochondrial d’ADP/ATP. Un premier volet de cette these s’attache a la purification du transporteur bovin en complexe avec l’acide bongkrekique. Il s’inscrit dans le cadre des approches precedemment engagees au laboratoire, qui visent a resoudre la structure tridimensionnelle du transporteur bloque dans differentes conformations impliquees lors de l’echange des nucleotides. Les resultats obtenus indiquent que ce complexe se dissocie lors de sa purification : il nous faut donc envisager d’autres strategies pour le stabiliser avant d’en tenter la cristallisation. Les deux autres volets concernent deux proteines mitochondriales susceptibles d’interactions fonctionnelles avec le transporteur de la levure Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Ainsi, une proteine membranaire nommee yOm14, situee dans la membrane externe des mitochondries, a ete caracterisee et son interaction physique avec le transporteur clairement demontree. La seconde proteine est la porine de levure yVDAC1, qu’une abondante litterature decrit comme etant un partenaire du transporteur. Elle a ete purifiee en mettant en œuvre des methodologies complementaires, detaillees dans ce memoire. Des essais de cristallisation vont desormais pouvoir etre entrepris dans le but de resoudre sa structure tridimensionnelle et de pouvoir rechercher ainsi les bases moleculaires de son interaction avec le transporteur d’ADP/ATP.
Platelet Profile Distribution in Critically Ill Children

: Thrombocytopenia occurring in a critically ill patient is the result of hemodilution, increased platelet consumption, an immune mechanism (increased platelet destruction), and increased platelet sequestration. Previous studies showed that platelet indices might be a more useful prognostic indicator, but a study on critically ill children is still limited. We report the platelet profile of critically ill children admitted in the pediatric intensive care unit. This report is part of an ongoing study of the prognostic marker in critically ill children that consist of septic and non-septic patients. All patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit Haji Adam Malik Hospital and Universitas Sumatera Utara Hospital were recruited. We examined the platelet profile (platelet count, Plateletcrit/PCT, Mean Platelet Volume /MPV and Platelet Distribution Width/PDW) on the first day of admission. Of 53 samples, 29 were boys with an average age of 7.62 (+6.43) years old. Severe malnutrition was found in 12 cases (22.6%). We found platelet count median value was 316000 (23000-828000). Median value of PCT, MPV, and PDW were 0.32 (0.08-1.40), 9.4 (7.9-13.5), 9.7 (7.0-17.5), respectively. As the conclusion of this ongoing study, it is shown that there were changes of platelet profile in critically ill children. Further studies studying its usefulness as a prognostic indicator are still needed.
Analysis of Investment Level and Marina Certification in the Process of Raising Safety Standards on the West Pomeranian Sailing Route

The aim of this article was a detailed analysis of the level of investment and certification of marinas in the process of raising safety standards on the West Pomeranian Sailing Route. The first chapter describes the sailing market in Poland and West Pomerania together with the justification of needs, which was the foundation for creating a program for the development of port infrastructure and marinas in the West Pomeranian region in the Oder, Szczecin Lagoon on the Baltic Sea coast areas. The list of investment amounts allowed to determine average indicators of investment effectiveness in berths. The next chapter describes the original certification system “Bursztynowe Kotwice” [Amber Anchors] implemented by the Union of Ports and Yachts, focusing on safety-related criteria and then analyzes the 13 marinas certification on the West Pomeranian Sailing Route in the context of the achieved certification level and comparison of the number of tourists visiting this marina in the years 2015–2016. It was found that marinas that underwent certification recorded an increase in the number of yacht visitors. The incurred investments allowed to meet the minimum standards for the quality of services and safety in marinas.
OMI tropospheric NO2 profiles from cloud slicing: Constraints on surface emissions, convective transport and lightning NOx (discussion paper)

We derive a global climatology of tropospheric NO2 profiles from OMI cloudy observations for the year 2006 using the cloud slicing method on six pressure levels centered about 280, 380, 500, 620, 720 and 820 hPa. A comparison between OMI and the TM4 model tropospheric NO2 profiles reveals striking overall similarities, which confer great confidence to the cloud-slicing approach, along with localized discrepancies that seem to probe into particular model processes. Anomalies detected at the lowest levels can be traced to deficiencies in the model surface emission inventory, at mid tropospheric levels to convective transport and horizontal advective diffusion, and at the upper tropospheric levels to model lightning NOx production and the placement of deeply transported NO2 plumes such as from the Asian summer monsoon. The vertical information contained in the OMI cloud-sliced NO2 profiles provides a global observational constraint that can be used to evaluate chemistry transport models (CTMs) and guide the development of key parameterization schemes.
Comparison Malondialdehyde (MDA) Level between Obesity Non Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity with Metabolic Syndrome Patients

The main factor of metabolic syndrome in the development country is obesity. In normal weight the defences of antioxidant and counterparts are higher than obese patients it is correspond in reverse with central adiposity. The increasement of reactive oxygen or nitrogen species levels is one of the markers of obesity. In Human and mice there is correlation between systemic oxidative stress with fat accumulation. A biomarker that is commonly used to assess the oxidative stress is Malondialdehyde (MDA). This study purposed to analyze the comparison of MDA level between obesity non metabolic and obesity with metabolic syndrome patients in Murni Hospital, Sumatera. Obesity patients with over 40 years old of age were participated in this research. They are examined by the weight, height, waist size and blood pressure. The clinical laboratory tests of fasting blood sugar and lipid profile was measured in Thamrin clinical laboratory, then we divided in to two groups which are obesity non metabolic syndrome and obesity with metabolic syndrome, after that we measured the MDA level. The data were analyzed using T-test and found that there was statistically significant difference between MDA level in obesity non metabolic syndrome and obesity with metabolic syndrome (p<0.005).
The Law and Impact of Political Corruption on Community Trust In Political Parties In Indonesia

AbstractThis study aims at examining the law and impact of corrupt politician behavior on public trust in political parties and the efforts of reforms by the parties. Using the survey method, this study has come to the following conclusions. (1) the corruption committed by politicians mostly occurs due to the work pattern and the Indonesian political system which develops towards political apathy, in which regeneration does not optimally take place, while the drive to maintain power and dominate the political parties in the state system is increasing; (2) the corruption does not only influence the public trust in political parties, but also the perspective and paradigm of society towards the political system and government in Indonesia. (3) The impact of this political apathy, which we might be able to see from how the radicalism and extremism easily exist and develop in Indonesia. An encouragement to even create a new system is present from this political apathy. If this is not immediately corrected, a change in the system in Indonesia can probably occur.Keywords: Law, Corruption, politicians, Political Parties, Community Trust.