Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Ectopic Expression of Hawthorn SND1 Gene in Tobacco

NAC proteins are plant-specific transcription factors (TFs) and have been shown to function in plant development processes and abiotic and/or biotic stress responses. SECONDARY WALL-ASSOCIATED NAC DOMAIN PROTEIN1 (SND1) is one type of NAC TFs, which is a key regulator in the regulation network for secondary wall synthesis. In this study, the SND1 gene, named CpSND1 because it has a conservative N-terminal DNA-binding domain with AtSND1, was isolated from hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida). The full-length CDS of this gene was 1,203 bp, encoding 400 amino acids. The CpSND1 gene was transferred into tobacco (Nicotiana tobacum) by the Agrobacterium-mediated transformation method, and 20 transgenic lines were obtained. Tobacco plants overexpressing CpSND1 had typical phenotypes, including inhibited growth, upward-curling leaves. Our results provided functional information of CpSND1 for future genetic engineering.
Reservoir fluid substitution effects on seismic profile interpretation: A physical modeling experiment

P‐wave seismic surveys are performed on realistic physical models of a reservoir formed of interbedded sand and shale layers and filled with gas, water, and oil. They show characteristic behaviour which can be used to distinguish between fluids, with significant implications for the interpretation of time‐lapse experiments. Discontinuous reflections originate in gas‐filled reservoirs, with widely varying amplitude compared to oil‐ or water‐filled reservoirs. Anomalous changes in seismic amplitude difference attributes for reflections within the reservoir are seen for gas/oil substitution. Oil/water substitution results in only weak variations of reservoir elastic properties, thus amplitude difference attributes may be unsuitable for monitoring changes in oil/water saturation. However, direct differences between the time traces are strong. On time‐lapse sections, strong amplitude difference anomalies do not necessarily correspond to the region where the fluid variations occur; this is significant for monitoring oil field development by water injection.
Genetic parameters of reproductive traits in beef and dairy cattle

Genetic improvement in beef and dairy cattle is an activity that has been explored and analyzed by many farmers and researchers in the livestock area, with aid to improve the parameters of production systems in each generation in order to get averages of superior traits with the advance of genetic improvement programs. However, in order to find a maximum production efficiency, it is necessary to know and improve the genetic components of reproductive traits, since it has direct impact on the efficiency and productivity of the herd. The aim of this review is showing some results of studies regarding to genetic parameters for reproductive traits in beef and dairy cattle.
Non Linear Analysis of MPPT for Power Quality Improvement

In this study the conventional inverter interfacing renewable energy sources with the grid, without any additional hardware cost. Here, the main idea is the maximum utilization of inverter rating which is most of the time underutilized due to intermittent nature of RES. Based on the non-linear characteristics of PV, these thesis designs a VSS controller to realize the maximum power output of PV arrays. The output power from renewable energy sources fluctuates because of weather variations. This study proposes an effective power quality control strategy of renewable energy sources connected to power system using Photovoltaic (PV) array. If the main controller used is a PR controller, any dc offset in a control loop will propagate through the system and the inverter terminal voltage will have a nonzero average value. In this strategy both load and inverter current sensing is required to compensate the load current harmonics. The non-linear load current harmonics may result in voltage harmonics and can create a serious PQ problem in the power system network.
Hybrid Models for Fast Time-Domain Simulation of Stability Failures in Irregular Waves With Volume-Based Calculations for Froude-Krylov and Hydrostatic Forces

Development of the IMO second generation intact stability criteria requires applying a variety of mathematical models of ship motions in waves, from very simple cods for vulnerability criteria (mostly based on ordinary differential equations, or ODEs) to the state-of-the art advanced hydrodynamic codes for direct stability assessment. This paper describes an approach to mathematical modeling that stands between ODE and advanced codes. While retaining nonlinearity and inseparability of hydrostatic and Froude-Krylov forces, the “hybrid” model remains as simple as an ODE in all other aspects. The algorithm is based on 3-DOF (heave, roll, pitch) volume calculations. Calculation speed makes it attractive for validation of prediction methods for probability of stability failures.
Determinants of long-term home nursing care among people over 65 years of age

Introduction: With age comes increasing loss of efficiency, and thereby increasing dependence on others and increasing demand for nursing and care services Aim of the research: To determine the factors of demand for long-term home nursing care among people over 65 years old. Material and methods: The research was conducted on 504 subjects aged between 66 and 94 years. The qualified respondents for the long-term home-based nursing care scored no more than 40 points in Barthel’s Index. The following research tools were used: Barhel’s Index, IADL, GDS, AMTS, and an authorial interview questionnaire. Results: For long-term home-based nursing care 15.67% (n = 79) of subjects were qualified; there were more women (n = 61) than men (n = 18) (p < 0.05). The age of respondents qualified for long-term nursing care was higher than the age of other test subjects (p < 0.001). Among subjects qualified for long-term home-based nursing care there were more people with incomplete primary education (p < 0.01) and a higher number of multi-diseases than with the rest (p < 0.01). Moreover, people qualified for long-term nursing care had worsened agility to perform complex life activities and worsened cognitive and emotional performance (p < 0.001) than people who did not qualify for such services. Conclusions: The need for long-term nursing care was determined by progressing ageing, functional, emotional, and cognitive disorders, more frequent with women, people with low education, and multi-diseases.
VLT-UVES analysis of 5 giants in 47 Tucanae

High resolution spectra of 5 giants, including a horizontal branch star, of the metal-rich globular cluster 47 Tucanae were obtained with the UVES spectrograph at the 8 m VLT UT2-Kueyen telescope. The atmospheric parameters (Teff ,l ogg, (Fe/H), vt) were derived from VIJK photometry and spectroscopic data based on Fe I and Fe II lines. Fe I and Fe II iron abun- dances and respective total errors (Fe I/H) = -0.66 ± 0.12 and (Fe II/H) = -0.69 ± 0.24 are found. Abundances of α (O, Mg, Ca, Si, Ti), odd-Z (Na, Al), s- (Ba, La, Zr), and r-process (Eu) elements were determined by means of spectrum synthesis. The main results are (O/Fe) =+ 0.35 ± 0.11, (Mg/Fe) ≈ (Si/Fe) ≈ (Ti/Fe) =+ 0.23 ± 0.17, (Ca/Fe) = 0.0 ± 0.15, (Ba/Fe) =+ 0.31 ± 0.22 and (Eu/Fe) =+ 0.33 ± 0.10. Overabundances of the α-elements O, Mg, Si and Ti, and of Eu are similar to those seen in halo metal-poor stars, whereas a solar Ca-to-Fe ratio resembles the values found in bulge stars. An overall metallicity Z = 0.006 or (M/H) = -0.45 is thus obtained, as is a mean heliocentric radial velocity v hel = −22.43 ± 1.99 km s −1 .
MARCHA DE ABSORÇÃO DE MICRONUTRIENTES EM PLANTAS DE PIMENTÃO SOB FERTIRRIGAÇÃO EM AMBIENTE PROTEGIDO

MARCHA DE ABSORCAO DE MICRONUTRIENTES EM PLANTAS DE PIMENTAO SOB FERTIRRIGACAO EM AMBIENTE PROTEGIDO Francisco Fernando Noronha MarcussiDepartamento de Engenharia Rural, Faculdade de Ciencias Agronomicas,Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, SP. CP 237, CEP 18603-970. E-mail: fmarcussi@hotmail.comRoberto Lyra Villas BoasDepartamento de Recursos Naturais e Ciencia do Solo, Faculdade de Ciencias Agronomicas, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, SP CP 237, CEP 18603-970. E-mail:rlvboas@fca.unesp. br 1 RESUMO Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo determinar a marcha de absorcao de micronutrientes da planta de pimentao (hibrido Elisa), sob fertirrigacao, atraves de oito epocas de coleta de planta. Ao final do experimento foi determinada a quantidade de micronutrientes absorvida pela planta, bem como a necessidade micro nutricional da planta em cada etapa de crescimento. O experimento foi desenvolvido em area do Departamento de Recursos Naturais - Ciencia do Solo da Faculdade de Ciencias Agronomicas, campus de Botucatu. Os tratamentos constaram de oito epocas de coleta de planta (0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, e 140 dias apos o transplante das mudas) e quatro repeticoes, sendo cada repeticao formada por quatro plantas. A fertirrigacao foi via gotejamento. Os resultados de extracao de micronutrientes demonstraram que o maior desenvolvimento da planta, consequentemente, sua maior necessidade nutricional de B, Cu, Fe, Mn e Zn, se concentra no periodo entre 120 e 140 dias apos o transplante de mudas, onde verificou-se que a planta dobrou a extracao total dos micronutrientes analisados em comparacao ao periodo anterior. UNITERMOS: fertirrigacao, pimentao, Capsicum annuum L. , irrigacao por gotejamento e acumulo de micronutrientes MARCUSSI, F.F. N. ; VILLAS BOAS, R.L. ABSORPTION COURSE OF MICRONUTRIENTS IN BELL PEPPER PLANT UNDER FERTIGATION IN PROTECTED ENVIRONMENT 2 ABSTRACT This research aimed to determine the absorption course of micronutrients in bell pepper plants (Elisa hybrid) under fertigation using eight time periods of plant collection. At the end of the experiment the amount of absorbed and accumulated micronutrients by plants has been determined as well as the plant nutritional needs in each growth stage. The experiment was carried out at the Natural Resource Department – Soil Science at the Agricultural Science College, Botucatu campus, Sao Paulo state, Brazil. The treatments were eight time periods of plant collection (0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, and 140 days after seedling transplant) and four repetitions, each one comprising four plants. The fertigation was performed through drip irrigation. The largest plant development and consequently the highest B, Cu, Fe, Mn and Zn nutritional needs occurred from 120 to 140 days after seedling transplant where the plant doubled the whole analyzed micronutrient extraction compared to the earlier period. KEYWORDS: fertigation, bell pepper, Capsicum annuum L. , drip irrigation and micronutrient absorption.
An Application of Discounted Residual Income for Capital Assets Pricing by Method Curve Fitting with Sinusoidal Functions

The basic model for valuation of firm is the Dividend Discount Model (DDM). When investors buy stocks, they expect to receive two types of cash flow: dividend in the period during which the stock is owned, and the expected sales price at the end of the period. In the extreme example, the investor keeps the stock until the company is liquidated; in such a case, the liquidating dividend becomes the sales price. The residual income valuation model is an alternative model to the divided discounted model or valuation based on multiples in determining a value of a company. It decomposes the company value of a company into two imaginative parts: (1) the real assets of the company. It is assumed that these assets are leased to the company at a certain rate of return. (2) The present value of the future “Residual Incomes”. Residual income refers to the income part which is achieved above the expected return on the real assets (the previously mentioned first part). Thus we examined the effects of Discounted Residual Income (DRI) on stock price of companies listed in Tehran Security Exchange (TSE) by method curve fitting with sinusoidal functions. Our sample includes 1920 firm- year of companies listed in TSE during the period 2005-2010.The results show that there is a significant relationship between discounted residual income and firm’s value. Also the result shows that if we use method curve fitting with sinusoidal functions for fitting model, we can regress the best model and the explanatory power of model will increase.
The mobilisation of identities : A study on the relationship between elite rhetoric and public opinion on national identity in developed democracies

Over the last decade, the topic of national-identity has gained considerable importance after various heads of states have made it an important political issue in the context of ongoing globalisation and European integration processes. There is also a large, mainly historical literature that has emphasised the role of the political elite in the formation of national-identities. While this argument is widely discussed in both public and academic debates, there is, surprisingly, hardly any empirical research on this issue. We do not know whether elite positions resonate with how the masses think about these issues. We therefore set out to test this relationship by combining the 2003 wave of the International Social Survey Programme and content analysis of elite mobilisation rhetoric from the Comparative Manifesto Project. Results indicate that an overlap exists between politicians' articulation of exclusive notions about the contours of national-identity and heightened expressions of civic and ethnic national-identity within public opinion. By contrast, elite mobilisation along more inclusive lines appears ineffective. From this, it appears that exclusionary arguments play a more important role, at least in terms of attitudes about national-identity, than inclusionary ones.
Improper colouring of graphs with no odd clique minor

Abstract As a strengthening of Hadwiger’s conjecture, Gerards and Seymour conjectured that every graph with no odd Kt minor is (t − 1)-colourable. We prove two weaker variants of this conjecture. Firstly, we show that for each t ⩾ 2, every graph with no odd Kt minor has a partition of its vertex set into 6t − 9 sets V1, …, V6t−9 such that each Vi induces a subgraph of bounded maximum degree. Secondly, we prove that for each t ⩾ 2, every graph with no odd Kt minor has a partition of its vertex set into 10t −13 sets V1,…, V10t−13 such that each Vi induces a subgraph with components of bounded size. The second theorem improves a result of Kawarabayashi (2008), which states that the vertex set can be partitioned into 496t such sets.
Poverty, pro-poor growth and mobility

This paper proposes a framework for incorporating longitudinal distributional changes into poverty decomposition. It is shown that changes in the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon index over time can be decomposed into two components—one component reflects the progressivity of income growth among the original poor, the other measures the extent of downward mobility experienced by the incumbent poor. The decomposition is applied to appraising poverty trends in China between 1988 and 1996. The results indicate that the proposed decomposition can complement the widely-used growthdistribution decomposition in providing insights into poverty dynamics.
Simulated flow around long rectangular plates under cross flow perturbations

Numerical simulations of flow past long rectangular plates of various aspect ratios are performed. Comparisons are made with previous experimental and computational results. Simulations without external forcing show the stepwise increase in Strouhal number based on chord length characteristic of the Impinging Shear Layer Instability; in the present case, the shear layer develops into shed vortices upstream of the impingement for longer plates. Simulations with a small amplitude crossflow oscillatory forcing also exhibit a similar receptivity at these Strouhal numbers. This is demonstrated by Strouhal number stepping corresponding to local maxima of base suction as the plate aspect ratio is varied. Flow visualisations and animations indicate that the stepping corresponds to a similar integer mode of shedding as observed in the unperturbed case and reveals the phase relationship between leading- and trailing-edge shedding.
Interface Design Guidelines of Nutritional Information Application for the Elderly

The aim of this study is to evaluate the interface design of nutrition information application for elderly people. Obtaining the proper nutritional information is an important aspect for elderly healthcare. Most information on healthcare can be found from the Internet. However, many elderly people face problems when using the Internet due to their inability to adapt to common platforms of interface design. Due to deterioration in physiological functions, elderly users have different requirements from adult users. A high fidelity prototype on nutrition was developed, taking into consideration the evaluation results from the initial need assessment focus group study. A questionnaire survey was conducted involving 30 respondents aged between 60 and 79 years old. The result reveals that most of the respondents gave a positive feedback to the three main features of interface design, which are simplicity (96%), directness (90%) and consistency (100%). Based on this outcome, it can be concluded that the interface design is well accepted by the elderly respondents.
Pre-emptive Analgesic Effects of intravenous Paracetamol in Laparoscopic Surgeries

Background: The concept of multimodal analgesia in preventing or treating acute pain is very popular. This ensures optimal dosaging of individual agents and minimizes side effects of individual analgesics. The present study highlights the analgesic activity of intravenous Paracetamol as preemptive analgesic in patients who underwent laparoscopic surgeries. Materials and Methods: The study involved total 70 patients divided as follows: Group A- Paracetamol (1g/i.v), Group-B 100 ml of normal saline. Paracetamol and saline were administered to their respective groups 30 minutes before induction of anaesthesia. All the patients’ demographic data, post operative pain assessment (VAS) was recorded and compared. The data was analysed by using SPSS (20.0) version. Results: Paracetamol administered group showed reduced post operative pain and reduced use of other analgesics in patients underwent laparoscopic surgeries compared to normal saline group. Conclusion: Intra venous administration of paracetmol showed significant reduction in post operative pain in patients underwent laparoscopic surgeries.
Effect of Wind Energy Participation in AGC of Interconnected MultisourcePower Systems

This paper presents the investigations on the effect of wind energy system’s participation on dynamic stability margins available on AGC of interconnected power system. A two area power system model interconnected via EHVAC tie-line is considered for the study. Each of the areas is consisting of hybrid sources of power generation like; hydro, thermal, gas and wind power plants. Various participation factors for electrical energy received from wind power plants, along with the energy from thermal, gas and hydro plants, are considered for the investigations. Moreover, any reduction of generation from thermal power plant is supposed to be supplied by wind power plant for fuel saving and to reduce emissions to environment. The optimal AGC regulators are designed using full state vector feedback control theory. Following the achievement of optimal gains of AGC regulators, the system closed-loop system eigenvalues are obtained for various case studies. The investigations of the closed loop eigenvalues carried out reveal that all the closed-loop eigenvalues are lying in the negative half of s-plan for all case studies and thus ensure the closed-loop system stability. Also, closed-loop eigenvalues are found to be sensitive to reduction in thermal generation and subsequent increase in electrical energy from wind power plants. It is also observed that the computed complex eigenvalues have shown a considerable decrease in the magnitude of its imaginary part when reduction of thermal generation is met by wind power generation. The reduced magnitudes of imaginary parts of closed-loop eigenvalues result in cost effective controller realization and improvement in system stability. On the other hand, the replacing the deficit caused in the supply with wind energy has no undesirable emissions to environment.
Empirical Analyses of Plant‐Climate Relationships for the Western United States

The Random Forests multiple-regression tree was used to model climate profiles of 25 biotic communities of the western United States and nine of their constituent species. Analyses of the communities were based on a gridded sample of ca. 140,000 points, while those for the species used presence‐absence data from ca. 120,000 locations. Independent variables included 35 simple expressions of temperature and precipitation and their interactions. Classification errors for community models averaged 19%, but the errors were reduced by half when adjusted for misalignment between geographic data sets. Errors of omission for species‐specific models approached 0, while errors of commission were less than 9%. Mapped climate profiles of the species were in solid agreement with range maps. Climate variables of most importance for segregating the communities were those that generally differentiate maritime, continental, and monsoonal climates, while those of importance for predicting the occurrence of species varied among species but consistently implicated the periodicity of precipitation and temperature‐precipitation interactions. Projections showed that unmitigated global warming should increase the abundance primarily of the montane forest and grassland community profiles at the expense largely of those of the subalpine, alpine, and tundra communities but also that of the arid woodlands. However, the climate of 47% of the future landscape may be extramural to contemporary community profiles. Effects projected on the spatial distribution of species‐specific profiles were varied, but shifts in space and altitude would be extensive. Species‐specific projections were not necessarily consistent with those of their communities.
Changes in P 200 Latency and Amplitude of Jittered Orientation Visual Integration Task in Healthy Participants : a Multi-Block Design EEG Study

Visual integration, the ability to fuse environmental information such as light, color, shades, and motion to form a representation of a whole cohesive higher-order visual image, is impaired in persons with schizophrenia. Little is known how the P200 component, an event-related potential (ERP) in the parieto-occipital region, is affected in persons with schizophrenia while they perform visual integration tasks, when compared to healthy persons. This study administered Gabor contours that varied in high and low degrees of orientational jitter through the Jitter Orientation Visual Integration (JOVI) task to investigate visual integration by analyzing latency and amplitude of the P200 component. Data was acquired via EEG from seventeen healthy participants. The purpose of this study was to assess difficulty of jitter on the latency and amplitude of P200, and the electrophysiological effect from practice when comparing the last block data with the first block data. The mean amplitude of the hard difficulty jitters (11, 13, and 15 degrees) was found to be significantly larger than that of the easy difficulty jitters (0, 7, and 9 degrees). A trend in the latency of P200 between hard difficulty and easy difficulty was found. No interaction between blocks and latency and amplitude was found. Data from this study will be further used and analyzed when EEG data is acquired from patients with schizophrenia in the upcoming years.