Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Control of Bacterial Wilt Disease of Tomato Through Integrated Crop Management Strategies

Tomato cultivation is severely affected by bacterial wilt disease caused by the soilborne pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum (previously known as Pseudomonas solanacearum Smith). Effects of rotation of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) with other crops on soil populations of R. solanacearum and on bacterial wilt disease incidence of tomato were evaluated in the field. Monocropped Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), Mucuna puriens L. , Crotalaria juncea L. , and intercrops of Cassava/Crotalaria, Cassava/Mucuna, and a natural grass mix (control) were rotated with the tomato cvs. Mira, Ronita, Roma VFN, and Ibadan Local. Monocropped Mucuna significantly reduced soil population of R. solanacearum by the end of the rotation period, whereas the natural grass rotation had the highest population of the pathogen. Other crops with the exception of monocropped cassava also reduced the pathogen soil population. The incidence of wilt was delayed in cvs. Mira, Roma VFN, and Ronita compared to ‘Ibadan Local’, but all were 80% or more infected after 8 weeks.
A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial Evaluating Changes in Peripheral Neuropathy and Quality of Life by Using Low-Frequency Electrostimulation on Breast Cancer Patients Treated With Chemotherapy

Background: This study examined the effect of a portable low-frequency electrostimulation (ES) device on patients diagnosed with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) immediately after chemotherapy for breast cancer. Methods: A single-center, randomized, placebo-controlled trial was conducted. A total of 72 patients newly diagnosed with CIPN were enrolled and randomly placed into the ES (n = 36) or the sham ES group (SES; n = 36). Duloxetine or pregabalin was prescribed to all participants from the initial assessment. The devices for 14 days, at least twice a day, for at least 120 minutes. The primary outcomes were the overall intensities of the CIPN symptoms as assessed using Numerical Rating Scale (NRS). Secondary outcomes included Total Neuropathy Score (TNS), European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life (EORTC-QLQ), Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy 20 (CIPN20), Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast (FACT-B), and Instrument on Pattern Identification and Evaluation for CIPN (IPIE-CIPN). Results: No differences in NRS scores were found between the patients in the ES and the SES group (P = 0.267). Patients in both groups showed significantly reduced CIPN intensities (ES P < .001; SES P < .001). No significant differences between the groups were found in TNS, EORTC-QLQ, CIPN20, and FACT-B. The general symptoms of CIPN diagnosed as cold arthralgia showed significance only in the ES group (P = .006). Conclusion: Compared with a placebo, the effectiveness of the low-frequency ES device with pharmacological intervention was not significantly different, but a therapeutic effect was possible.
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The abilities on the journey in a bag contain force, travel and gravitational. A ball with a high speed of turn has an alternate elevator and drag according to the turn rate and number of Reynolds. Furthermore, the drag power of balls is mainly distinctive as their magnitude, depth and amount imply. All the less, the golf reproductions do not reflect these differences. "This paper offers the approach to altering a track-story distance of the Golf Ball, which will be imitated by its drag depending on changes to the Reynolds Number. Similarly, because in the real world the separation from the ball from the flight can change depending on temperature, adhesiveness and height, these changes are to be observed in appropriate games. The 3 dimensional (3-D) flight of a golfing ball at taking into consideration the Magnus effect is studied inside the paper. For this purpose it is composed a gadget of six nonlinear differential equations. To decide the 3-d orientation of the ball the rotations round all three axes are given by way of the so-called Cardin angles instead of classical Euler ones. The high nonlinear system differential equations are solved numerically with the aid of a special application created in the MATLAB Simulink surroundings. It is founded the legal guidelines of motion, velocities and accelerations on all six coordinates, as well as the projections of trajectory at the 3 coordinate planes.
Oxyresveratrol Possesses DNA Damaging Activity

Artocarpus lakoocha Wall. ex Roxb. (family: Moraceae) has been used as a traditional Thai medicine for the treatment of various parasitic diseases. This species has been reported to be the source of phytochemicals, which show potent biological activities. The objective of this study was to investigate the phytochemical profile of the extracts of the heartwood of A. lakoocha and their pro-oxidant activity in vitro. The heartwood was ground, extracted, and then chromatographic and spectroscopic analyses were carried out; oxyresveratrol was identified as the major component in the extracts. The pro-oxidant activity was investigated using DNA-nick, reactive oxygen species and reducing assays. The results showed that oxyresveratrol induced DNA damage dose-dependently in the presence of copper (II) ions. It was also found to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) in a dose-dependent manner and reduce copper (II) to copper (I). It is concluded that oxyresveratrol is the most abundant stilbenoid in A. lakoocha heartwood. The compound exhibited pro-oxidant activity in the presence of copper (II) ions, which may be associated with its ability to act as an anticancer compound.
The immature stages of three carrion breeding blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in south eastern Nigeria

Three calliphorid flies, Chrysomya chloropyga (Wiedemann), C. albiceps (Wiedemann), and Hemipyrellia fernandica (Macquart) which breed in animal carcasses in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, were reared in the laboratory on beef. Each fly was reared through three generations. Their developmental rates were recorded as well as the morphological descriptions of each immature stage. C. chloropyga and H. fernandica had been studied before, while C. albiceps was studied for the first time in this area. Mean developmental periods of C. chloropyga, H. fernandica, and C. albiceps from eggs to adults were 8.1 ± 0.8 day, 15.1 ± 0.9 day, and 9.0 ± 0.3 day, respectively at 26° C – 29°C. Keys to eggs and larval instars are provided. Key words: Calliphorids, eggs, larvae, pupae
Performance of local reference curve on the diagnosis of large for gestational age fetuses in diabetic pregnant women

Abstract Objective To evaluate the performance of a local fetal weight curve based on the prediction for large gestational age (LGA) newborns in diabetic pregnant women and to compare it to reference curves established for other populations. Method A reference model for estimated fetal weight was created from a local sample of 2211 singleton low-risk pregnancies. The estimated fetal weight from 194 women with gestational diabetes mellitus was then plotted on this curve, and the results were compared to those obtained by Intergrowth 21st and Hadlock curves. Results The sensitivity of the proposed model to predict LGA fetuses was 55.6%, the specificity was 82.1%, and the accuracy was 74.7%. The sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy for the Intergrowth 21st curve were 46.3%, 87.9%, and 76.3%, respectively, and no statistically significant difference was observed compared to the proposed model. Conversely, significant differences were observed for the Hadlock curve, which presented a lower sensitivity (24.1%), higher specificity (97.1%), and similar accuracy (76.8%). Conclusion The sensitivity of the proposed model was higher compared to the Hadlock curve for the screening of LGA newborns in diabetic pregnant women. However, no significant differences were observed in comparison to the Intergrowth 21st curve.
Mitochondrial ATP formation

This minimap is perhaps the second most vital of them all (the first, of course, being photosynthesis), but its fairly obvious title has been the subject of much thought. The object has been to interrelate three pathways in which energy generated by respiration is coupled to the synthesis of ATP from ADP and phosphate. The formation of ATP is the end point, the consummation, of catabolism and is the major purpose of what in our metabolic pathways chart we designate and identify as the backbone of metabolism. This starts with glycolysis, which takes place in the cytoplasm, and leads on to pyruvate dehydrogenase, the citric acid cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation, all of which take place in the mitochondria. Oxidative phosphorylation, however, is no longer an appropriate description of the two interrelated but separated sequences that lead to ATP formation. The phosphorylation is not itself oxidative but depends on the product of the preceding oxidative sequence i.e. translocated protons. The (oxidative) electromotive proton translocation provides the proton motive force that then drives ATP synthesis. Mitochondrial ATP formation seemed to be a more accurate description for the whole process than ATP synthesis, because there are 14 prior reactions in the synthesis of ADP. Three pathways are shown in this minimap (Fig. 1), the citric acid cycle, including pyruvate oxidation, aerobic oxidation of NADH and succinate, and ATP synthesis. Some relevant, and hopefully controversial, points about each are now considered.
Characteristics of the Status Identity and Consumption of the Middle Class

The article examines the dynamic of the middle class based on materials of nationwide surveys conducted by the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences. It finds that Russian society has become a society of a mass lower-middle class. It offers an assessment of the possibilities and necessary conditions for the expansion of the middle class in Russia. It finds that the numerical dominance of positions that are peripheral to it in the composition of the middle class is conditioned by the model of the Russian economy, in which the percentage of positions of professionals, managers, and entrepreneurs is relatively low. It demonstrates that the Russian middle class is characterized by specific stratal identities, making it possible to speak of the beginnings of the formation of a class consciousness in it. It cites characteristics of the lifestyle and consumption of the middle class. It finds that while retaining a significant separateness from other Russians in the period from 2003, members of the middle class were characterized by a worse dynamic of indicators in Russia. The nucleus of the middle class were in the least well-off position.
Contactless Heart Rate Measurements using RGB-camera and Radar

: The detection of vital parameters with traditional approaches, as the electrocardiograph, requires to appro-priately place electrodes in direct contact with patients’ skin, often causing irritation. On the other hand, contactless measurement of physiological parameters provides an unobtrusive and comfortable instrument for subjects’ conditions monitoring, with application to home monitoring of aging people and in particular to those suffering of heart disease. In this paper two contactless techniques are proposed, based on radar technology and on video processing from an RGB camera. In order to validate their precision, the proposed methods are compared with three wearable low cost devices, taken as a reference for the outcomes. The developed approaches prove to achieve excellent performances, with an estimated mean relative error of 0.55% with respect to a commercial cardiac strap device.
Measurement of Risk and Return Spillovers Effects among Sensex and Equity Based Mutual Funds in India

A mutual fund is a unique and significant investment avenue provided by different financial institutions. Mutual funds mobilize money from numerous investors and invest in various financial securities in the stock market. It is a professionally managed investment avenue, which is related to market risk. It has seen an incredible development in the mutual fund sector in India during the last few decades. This paper has examined the performance of the selected equity-based mutual funds schemes by analysing their risk and returns in India. This paper also examined the risk and returns spillovers effects among Sensex and equity-based mutual funds in India. A total of eighteen schemes offered by six companies operating in India have been examined over the span of six years from 1st January 2013 to 31st December 2018. The study is related to secondary data and for analysing the data daily Net Asset Values (NAVs) of selected schemes have been collected from different websites. For analysing and measurement of risk and return spillovers effects among Sensex and equity based mutual funds in Indian mutual funds, different methods like descriptive statistics and correlation have applied. For testing the hypothesis, t-test has been applied and found that there is no significant difference between daily returns of Sensex and other sample mutual fund schemes indices daily returns at a 5% degree of significance.
Bacterial larvicides for vector control: mode of action of toxins and implications for resistance

Vector control can be an effective strategy to interrupt disease transmission and biolarvicides based on the entomopathogenic bacteria Bacillus sphaericus, and Bacillus thuringiensis serovar israelensis (Bti) have been successfully used to control species of public health relevance from the genera Aedes, Culex, Anopheles and Simulium. The most important feature of these agents is their ability to produce insecticidal proteins with selective action on the larval midgut. These protoxins are produced as crystals that, once ingested by larvae, are processed into active toxins, interact with receptors in the midgut epithelium and trigger cytopathological effects leading to larval death. B. sphaericus and Bti toxins share the initial steps of the mode of action; however, they interact with different midgut molecules. B. sphaericus presents a single larvicidal factor, the binary (Bin) toxin, whose action relies on the binding to one class of midgut receptors, while Bti crystals contain four protoxins (Cry4Aa, Cry4Ba, Cry11Aa and Cyt1Aa), which display interactions with multiple midgut receptors. The mode of action of B. sphaericus displays a greater potential for resistance selection, compared to Bti, and, to date, there is no record of insect resistance to the latter, contrarily to B. sphaericus. The set of mosquitocidal toxins and their interaction with midgut target sites are described in this review, as well as the implications for the potential to select resistance amongst exposed populations. These biolarvicides have specific mode of action that rely on unique interactions and make them the most selective agents to control Diptera insects actually available.
Improved Diagnostic Performance of New-generation 320-slice Computed Tomography with Forward-projected Model-based Iterative Reconstruction SoluTion for the Assessment of Late Enhancement in Left Ventricular Myocardium

Objective Forward-projected Model-based Iterative Reconstruction SoluTion (FIRST) is a novel reconstruction method. We investigated the improvement in the diagnostic performance for the detection of abnormal late enhancement (LE) in left ventricular myocardium (LVM) using a new-generation 320-slice computed tomography (CT) device with FIRST. Methods This is a retrospective study that included 100 adult patients who underwent cardiac CT including a late phase scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) within 3 months. The first 50 consecutive patients (first-generation group) underwent first-generation 320-slice CT without FIRST, and the next 50 consecutive patients (second-generation group) underwent second-generation 320-slice CT with FIRST. We compared the diagnostic performance of the first- and second-generation 320-slice CT with FIRST with MRI as a reference standard to detect LE in LVM. Results In the patient-based analysis, the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and overall accuracy of detection of LE on CT were 79%, 90%, 92%, 76%, and 84%, respectively, in the first-generation group and 97%, 84%, 91%, 94%, and 92%, respectively, in the second-generation group. The sensitivity was significantly higher in the second-generation group than in the first-generation group (p=0.049). In the segment-based analysis, the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and overall accuracy of detection of LE on CT were 69%, 96%, 83%, 92%, and 90%, respectively, in the first-generation group and 87%, 94%, 84%, 95%, and 92%, respectively, in the second-generation group. The sensitivity and negative predictive value were significantly higher in the second-generation group than in the first-generation group (p<0.001 and p=0.016). The contrast-noise ratio was significantly higher in the second-generation group than in the first-generation group (5.6±1.7 vs. 2.8±1.1, p<0.001), and the radiation dose for the assessment of LE on CT was significantly higher in the first-generation group than in the second-generation group (4.7±2.7 mSv vs. 2.3±0.1 mSv, p<0.001). Conclusion The diagnostic performance for the detection of LE in LVM significantly improved with the use of second-generation 320-slice CT and FIRST.
Aging aVects both perceptual and lexical/semantic components of word stem priming: An event-related fMRI study

In this event-related fMRI study, brain activity patterns were compared in extensive groups of young (N D 25) and older (N D 38) adults, while they were performing a word stem completion priming task. Based on behavioral Wndings, we tested the hypothesis that aging aVects only the lexical/semantic, but not the perceptual component of word stem priming. To this end, we distinguished between priming-related activity reductions in posterior regions involved in visual processing, and regions associated with lexical/ semantic retrieval processes, i.e., left lateral temporal and left prefrontal regions. Both groups revealed signiWcant priming-related response time reductions. However, in accordance with earlier Wndings, a larger priming eVect was found in the group of young participants. In line with previous imaging studies, the groups showed common priming-related activity reductions in the anterior cingulate, and the left inferior prefrontal cortex extending into the anterior portion of the left superior temporal gyrus, and at lower thresholds also in the right occipital lobe. However, when directly comparing the groups, greater priming-related reductions were found for the young group in the left anterior superior temporal gyrus and the right posterior occipital lobe. These Wndings suggest that, converse to current psychological views, aging aVects both perceptual and lexical/semantic components of repetition priming.  2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Expression of growth-blocking peptide in Mamestra brassicae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) cell lines

Growth blocking peptide (GBP) is one of the growth regulators in lepidopteran insects. Using RT-PCR, we detected GBP expression in two insect cell lines from Mamestra brassicae, SES-MaBr-4 from the fat body and SES-MaBr-93 from hemocytes. The sizes of the RT-PCR products agreed with the sizes calculated from the GBP cDNA sequence. These findings suggest that GBP is a candidate for an essential growth factor in these insect cell lines.
Determination of Low Level Trans Unsaturation in Fats by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) was an excellent tool for rapid determination of trans unsaturation in edible fats. Methyl esters wcre determined as a neat solution, thereby avoiding cumber-some weighing operations and handling of CS 2 . The method was calibrated by gravimetrically prepared mixtures of methyl elaidat in methyl esters of a trans fatty acid (TFA) free soy oil. In contrast to TFA concentrations >10%, which could be determined easily by the classic baseline technique, low TFA values were only quantifiable (with high accuracy) after a computer-assisted spectral subtraction procedure
Reproduction in the Indian gerbil, Tatera indica indica (Hardwicke)

Quatre cents individus de T. indica, pieces de juin 1973 ä septembre 1974 dans le district de Layalpour (Pendjab, Pakistan) ont fourni des donnoes sur la reproduction de cette espece en zone irriguoe. Les males ont ete trouv^s sexuellement actifs tous les mois sauf decembre, alors que les femelles ne mettent bas que de mars ä septembre, avec deux maximums de frequence en mars-mai et aoüt-septembrc, ces deux pics de mises-bas correspondant evidemment aux deux poriodes de croissance vegotale. L'autopsie de 36 femelles a donne un nombre moyen de 6,33 ±0,3 embryons ; sur 50 femelles, le nombre moyen de cicatrices placentaires relevoes est de 6,38+0,3. La periode de reproduction prolongoe de ce Gerbillide", ainsi que le nombre elevo de petits par porte"e, est probablement le reflet des conditions alimentaires d'abondance apportees par I'irrigation dans le milieu.
Location Extraction from Twitter Messages using Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Model

Texts are a common form to encode location information which can be used crucially in disaster scenarios. While Named Entity Recognition (NER) has been applied to location extraction from formal texts, its performance on informal and colloquial texts such as social media messages is unsatisfactory. The geo-entities in social media are often neglected or categorized into unknown or ‘other’ entity types such as person or organisation. In this paper we proposed a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Neural Netwok to identify location information especially aiming to recognize rarely known local places in social media messages. The contribution of both syntactic and semantic features to the classification results was explored as well. The proposed method was validated on a Twitter dataset collected from typhoon-affected areas, showing promising performance in detecting location information.
Arabidopsis late‐flowering fve mutants are affected in both vegetative and reproductive development

Summary The development of wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heyhn and two late-flowering fve mutants has been analysed under different environmental conditions. In wild-type plants, short-day photoperiods delay the floral transition as a consequence of lengthening all the developmental phases of the plant. Moreover, short days also alter the inflorescence structure by reducing the internode elongation and delaying the establishment of the floral developmental programme in the lateral meristems of the inflorescence and co-florescences. Mutations at the FVE locus cause a delay in flowering time, and a change in the inflorescence structure, similar to the effect of short photoperiods on wild-type plants. However, the effect of the fve mutations is additive to the effect of short days, and all the aspects of the Fve phenotype are corrected by vernalization. These results seem to indicate that FVE is not simply involved in timing the transition from vegetative to reproductive growth, but that it could play a role during all stages of plant development.