Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Dietary Lipid Sources on Growth, Enzyme Activities and Immuno-hematological Parameters in Catla catla Fingerlings

Ninety advanced Catla catla fingerlings (av. wt. 16 g) were randomly distributed in six treatment groups with three replicates each for an experimental period of 60 days to study the effect of dietary lipid source on growth, enzyme activities and immuno-hematological parameters. Six isoprotein (40.0-41.9%) and isocaloric (4,260 kcal kg -1 ) semi-purified diets were prepared with varying levels of soybean oil (SBO) and cod liver oil (CLO) within a total of 8% lipid viz., D1 (Control), D2 (8% SBO), D3 (6% SBO and 2% CLO), D4 (4% SBO and 4% CLO), D5 (2% SBO and 6% CLO) and D6 (8% CLO). Highest SGR was noted in D5 (0.73±0.03) group, which was similar with D3 (0.71±0.02) and D4 (0.69±0.01) groups. Activity of intestinal lipase, hepatic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) and aspartate amino transferase (AST) of the lipid treatment groups were significantly higher (p<0.05) than the control group. The respiratory burst activity of the phagocytes (Nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT)) was highest in D2 (1.95±0.21) followed by D3 (1.19±0.15) group, which were significantly (p<0.05) higher than the other groups. Globulin level was significantly higher in D3 (1.29±0.08) than in the other groups expect D4. Hemoglobin content and total erythrocyte count did not show any significant difference. From this study, it is concluded that a diet containing 6% soybean oil and 2% cod liver oil (D3) yields higher growth and immune response in Catla catla fingerlings and would be cost effective. (Asian-Aust. J. Anim. Sci. 2005. Vol 18, No. 11 : 1609-1616)
A New Dynamism in the Public Domain

Many believe intellectual property has overreached, and that policymakers must respond. In this essay, I argue that the critique may have merit, but private parties are in some cases taking matters into their own hands. Firms and individuals are increasingly injecting information into the public domain with the explicit goal of preempting or undermining the potential property rights of economic adversaries. Biotechnology firms invest millions of dollars in public domain gene sequence databases, to prevent hold-ups by firms with patents on short gene sequences. Major software firms fight entrenched rivals by investing millions of dollars, contributing to open source operating systems. In both cases, property-preempting investments (PPI's) are made to offset the effects of competitors' property rights. Individuals and nonprofits are joining in too, with initiatives such as the Creative Commons project. All of these major private investments in the public domain reveal a self-correcting feature of the intellectual property system that has been overlooked until now, and signal that public lawmaking is not the only arena in which the excesses of intellectual property may be addressed.
The Impact of Autologous Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) in the Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence: Short term Follow-up

Objective : The aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness and tolerability of autologous stem cell injection for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence. Patients and Methods: This was a prospective study which involved 12 women with stress urinary incontinence. One hundred and twenty milliliters of bone marrow were aspirated under aseptic conditions from posterior superior iliac spine. MSCs were separated using plastic adherence and verification of the cell population done by morphology, immunophenotyping and trilineage differentiation potential. Patients received transurethral endoscopic or periurethral ultrasonography-guided injections of autologous bone marrow MSCs. Patients were followed up using voiding diaries, trans-vaginal ultrasonography, urodynamics and quality of life questionnaire over a 3 months period. Results: The objective cure rate in these 12 patients was 85% subjective complete cure rate was 66.67% (8 patients), 2 patients improved partially (16.7%), 2 patients did not improve (16.7%). Overall mean increase in the bulk of sphincter as measured by transvaginal ultrasonography 3 months post stem cell injection was 15.39% which forms about 1/7 of the sphincter tissue bulk. Conclusion: Autologous bone marrow derived MSC injection is a simple, safe and effective procedure for treating stress urinary incontinence. The short term results of the procedure show a success rate similar to that of the standard techniques; without their disadvantages in terms of complications especially voiding dysfunction. Further studies with long-term follow up are needed to assess the integrity of the results.
Hidden Markov Models as a Tool for the Assessment of Dependence of Phenomena of Economic Nature

The assessment of dependence between time series is a common dilemma, which is often solved by the use of the Pearson’s correlation coefficient. Unfortunately, sometimes, the results may be highly misleading. In this paper, an alternative measure is presented. It is based on hidden Markov models and Viterbi paths. The proposed method is in no way universal but seems to provide quite an accurate image of the similarities between time series, by disclosing the periods of convergence and divergence. The usefulness of this new measure is verified by specially crafted examples and real‑life macroeconomic data. There are some definite advantages to this method: the weak assumptions of applicability, ease of interpretation of the results, possibility of easy generalization, and high effectiveness in assessing the dependence of different time series of an economic nature. It should not be treated as a substitute for the Pearson’s correlation, but rather as a complementary method of dependence measure.
Influence of sea level rise on the dynamics of salt inflows in the Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a marginal sea, located in a highly industrialized region in Central Northern Europe. Saltwater inflows from the North Sea and associated ventilation of the deep exert crucial control on the entire Baltic Sea ecosystem. This study explores the impact of anticipated sea level changes on the dynamics of those inflows. We use a numerical oceanic general circulation model covering both the Baltic and the North Sea. The model successfully retraces the essential ventilation dynamics throughout the period 1961–2007. A suite of idealized experiments suggests that rising sea level is associated with intensified ventilation as saltwater inflows become stronger, longer, and more frequent. Expressed quantitatively as a salinity increase in the deep central Baltic Sea, we find that a sea level rise of 1 m triggers a saltening of more than 1 PSU. This substantial increase in ventilation is the consequence of the increasing cross section in the Danish Straits amplified by a reduction of vertical mixing
Job Polarization and Unskilled Employment Losses in France

This paper provides an explanation for the decline in unskilled employment in a context of job polarization in France between 1982 and 2008. I argue that job polarization induced significant unskilled employment losses. Unskilled employment losses were enhanced by high and increasing labor taxation until 1993 while this trend has been mitigated by the implementation of labor cost reduction policies since then. The key mechanism is that job polarization displaces unskilled workers from routine jobs toward manual jobs and non-market work. Labor taxation interacts with job polarization by changing the value of unskilled jobs with respect to non-market work.
Identifying Problem Statements in Scientific Text

In this work, we focus on the automatic identification of fine-grained problem-solution structure in scientific argumentation. We operationalise the task of finding problem formulations within scientific text in a supervised setting, using a newly-created hand-curated corpus from the domain of computational linguistics. In terms of linguistic features for their detection, we distinguish features from within the statement, and features representing the surrounding context. Results from a classification task on our corpus show that the task of identifying problem statements is tractable using a mixture of features, whereby features modelling the rhetorical context are particularly successful. Overall, our experiment shows promise for future work in identifying scientific problem-solution structure in a more global way.
Deep Learning Based Visual Tracking: A Review

Visual tracking, a traditional computer vision task, has been a popular research field in recent decades. As a powerful features learning method, deep learning provides a new way for the realization of visual tracking with higher accuracy and performance. Many novel trackers that based on different network models, including auto-encoder (SAE), convolutional neural network (CNN), recurrent neural networks (RNN) deep reinforcement learning (DRL) and the fusion of them were proposed by researchers in the literatures. This paper presents a comprehensive survey on deep learning based visual tracking algorithms
Effects of In or Ga doping on the growth behavior and optical properties of ZnO nanorods fabricated by hydrothermal process

ZnO nanorods doped with In or Ga were synthesized by a facile hydrothermal process on sol–gel deposited ZnO seed layers. The effects of dopants on the morphology, chemical bonding structure, and optical property of the ZnO nanorods were discussed based on the field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE‐SEM), X‐ray diffraction (XRD), X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and photoluminescence (PL) results. XRD and XPS results indicated that In or Ga ions were doped in the ZnO lattice. Undoped and In‐ or Ga‐doped ZnO nanorods had a hexagonal pillar shape and a single crystal wurtzite structure with (001) growth direction. For the doped samples, the average diameter of the nanorods increased, while the number of the nanorods decreased, compared to the undoped sample. In the PL spectra, the near band edge (NBE) emission peaks of both doped samples shifted to a lower wavelength. On the other hand, the intensity of visible emission increased for the In‐doped sample, but decreased for the Ga‐doped sample. We considered that this variation was related to the different concentrations of the oxygen vacancies between the samples, which had bond strengths of Ga–O and In–O different from that of Zn–O.
22 GHz water maser search in 37 nearby galaxies. Four new water megamasers in Seyfert 2 and OH maser/absorber galaxies

Aims. We report four new 22 GHz H2O water masers found in a Green Bank Telescope search toward 37 nearby objects. Our goal was to find new maser galaxies, active galactic nucleus (AGN) disk masers, and objects where hydroxyl and water maser species coexist. Methods. We observed 37 sources within 250 Mpc that were selected by high X-ray luminosity (LX > 10 40 W) and high absorbing column density (NH & 10 22 cm 2 ). Sources included dual or triple AGN and interacting systems. We also searched objects detected in hydroxyl (OH). A catalog of 4038 known H2O (non)detections was assembled to avoid unnecessary reobservations. The final selection consisted of 16 new sources, 13 nondetections to follow up with a factor 10 higher sensitivity, 10 OH masers and 1 deep OH absorber, of which 37 were observed. Results. Water megamasers were detected towards the Sy 2 galaxy 2MFGC 13581, towards the 6 GHz OH absorber NGC 4261 and towards the two 1.6 GHz OH maser sources IRAS 17526+3253 and IRAS 20550+1656. We set upper limits on 33 nondetections. The detection rate was 25% in OH galaxies and 11% overall. The mean sensitivity was 4 mJy over 24.4 kHz (0.31 km s 1 ) or between 0:1L and 1:0L rms for the distances covered by the source sample. Combined with other searches, a total of 95 objects have now been searched for both OH and H2O masers. Conclusions. The maser features in 2MFGC 13581 are typical of a sub-parsec accretion disk, whereas NGC 4261 likely has jet masers in a masing torus. The NGC 4261 galaxy (3C 270; dusty torus, twin jet) and its masers appear similar to NGC 1052, where continuum seed emission by a twin jet supports masers in the torus. Imaging with very long baseline interferometry is required to determine the masing regions in NGC 4261 and 2MFGC 13581. IRAS 17526+3253 has narrow 350L systemic masers, and the tentative 5 detection in IRAS 20550+1656 (II Zw 96) strongly resembles massive star formation kilomasers in NGC 2146. The latter two detections increase to eight the number of known “dual-species” objects containing both OH and H2O masers. Further, we found the overall dual-species detection rate (8 in 95) to be of the order of the joint probability of both species independently occurring in the same object (1% lower bound). However, this needs to be verified by a more detailed analysis that accounts for the individual selection criteria of the 95 searched objects. Lastly, we see a lack of H2O kilomasers in OH megamaser objects, which was previously noted. This may be due to sensitivity bias rather than for astrophysical reasons.
A Study of Knowledge and Practical Skill Performance in University Students: A Comparison of Technology Enriched versus Traditional Classroom Instruction

Context: Technology is increasingly utilized in the delivery of athletic training education. Hand-held technology affords continued education outside the classroom. Purpose: To determine the effect of mobile technology on the acquisition of knowledge and practical skills in a university upper extremity evaluation course. Design and Setting: A cohort retrospective archival assessment in a university office environment of grades and performance on written and practical examinations in an upper extremity evaluation course. Participants: Sixty-four college age participants (male n=35, 54.69%, female n=29, 45.31%) previously enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate athletic training program who completed the upper extremity evaluation course between Spring 2009 and Spring 2012. Main Outcome Measures: Dependent variables included final written examination score, final oral practical examination score, and final grade. The independent variable was the technology-enriched instruction provided using the Flashcards Deluxe application available on Android, Apple iPod Touch, iPhone, or iPad devices. This application allows participants to study electronic flashcards with text, pictures, and sound on a mobile device. The control group did not receive the technology-enriched instruction. Results: A one-way between subjects ANOVA was conducted to compare the effect of technology on final written examination, final oral practical examination, and overall grade. There was a significant effect on the final written examination [F (1,63)= 11.621, p = . 001,η²=. 158]; however, oral practical examination [F(1,63)=0.348, p=. 557,η²=. 006] and overall grade [F(1,63)=0.695, p=. 408,η²=. 011] were not significant. Conclusion: Participants with technology-enriched instruction performed significantly better on their final written examination. Based on the findings, technology-enriched instruction improves a student’s knowledge comprehension of orthopedic principles of evaluation. Student performance was improved on written examinations following the use of electronic flashcards. Based on the findings in this study, technology-enriched instruction improves a student’s comprehension of upper extremity evaluation knowledge. It is reasonable to believe the use of flashcards would assist in student comprehension in other learning areas as well.
Remarks over the error-based learning process in financial markets with application on FTSE 100 market

A critical issue in financial markets' research field is the debate between the academic orthodox approach of the Efficient Markets' Hypothesis and the critics rising from the behavioral finance paradigm and practice. The importance of this debate consists in the implications of the adopted point of view on the assessment of the financial markets' predictability degree. [4], [5] proposed a unified approach labeled as Adaptive Markets Hypothesis. If in such framework the markets are considered to display, at least in a certain sense, a significant degree of predictability, then, one of the major difficulties in supplying empirical evidences is the requirement of knowing ex ante the "exact" forecast model used by the economic subjects. The purpose of this study is providing a solution to this problem inspired by the transduction's (supervised learning) algorithms. Our main output consists in the thesis that the forecasting errors matter for price formation in financial markets.
Physiological Response to Salt (NaCl) Stress in Selected Cultivated Tetraploid Cottons

In the southwestern and western Cotton Belt of the U.S. soil salinity can reduce cotton productivity and quality. This study was conducted to determine the physiological responses of six genotypes including five Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) cultivars and one Pima cotton line (G. barbadense L.) to NaCl under greenhouse conditions. Seeds were germinated and grown for 14 days prior to salt treatment (daily 100 ml of 200 mM NaCl) for 21 days. Compared with the control (daily 100 ml tap water), the NaCl treatment significantly reduced plant height, leaf area, fresh weight, and dry weight. The NaCl stress also significantly increased leaf chlorophyll content, but did not affect leaf fluorescence. Of the six genotypes, Pima 57-4 and SG 747 had the most growth reduction, and were most sensitive to NaCl; DP 33B, JinR 422 and Acala Phy 72 had the least growth reduction and were most NaCl tolerant. Although all the six genotypes under the salt treatment had significantly higher Na and Cl accumulation in leaves, SG 747 and Pima 57-4 accumulated more Na and Cl than DP 33B. Increases in leaf N, Zn, and Mn concentrations were also observed in the NaCl-treated plants. While leaf P, Ca, and S concentrations remained unchanged overall in the genotypes tested, leaf K, Mg, Fe, and Cu concentrations significantly decreased during salt stress. Reduction in plant height is a simple, easy, sensitive, non-destructive measurement to evaluate salt tolerance in cotton.
Root production is determined by radiation flux in a temperate grassland community

Accurate knowledge of the response of root turnover to a changing climate is needed to predict growth and produce carbon cycle models. A soil warming system and shading were used to vary soil temperature and received radiation independently in a temperate grassland dominated by Holcus lanatus L. Minirhizotrons allowed root growth and turnover to be examined non‐destructively. In two short‐term (8 week) experiments, root responses to temperature were seasonally distinct. Root number increased when heating was applied during spring, but root death increased during autumnal heating. An experiment lasting 12 months demonstrated that any positive response to temperature was short‐lived and that over a full growing season, soil warming led to a reduction in root number and mass due to increased root death during autumn and winter. Root respiration was also insensitive to soil temperature over much of the year. In contrast, root growth was strongly affected by incident radiation. Root biomass, length, birth rate, number and turnover were all reduced by shading. Photosynthesis in H. lanatus exhibited some acclimation to shading, but assimilation rates at growth irradiance were still lower in shaded plants. The negative effects of shading and soil warming on roots were additive. Comparison of root data with environmental measurements demonstrated a number of positive relationships with photosynthetically active radiation, but not with soil temperature. This was true both across the entire data set and within a shade treatment. These results demonstrate that root growth is unlikely to be directly affected by increased soil temperatures as a result of global warming, at least in temperate areas, and that predictions of net primary productivity should not be based on a positive root growth response to temperature.
Investor returns and re-intermediation: A case of PPDai.com

Online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending is a nascent but burgeoning marketplace that is expected to transform the landscape of the finance industry. Although, this topic is crucial, studies on the performance of individual investors in the P2P lending marketplace are few. The majority of P2P lending platforms add more intermediation or platform-based investment to improve product offerings and market efficiency. However, research on the performance of those different types of “re-intermediation” is limited. A unique and complete dataset from PPDai.com indicates that almost 95% of individual investors on the online peer-to-peer lending market generally do not obtain returns commensurate to the amount of systematic risks they assume. The performance of the different types of “re-intermediation”, such as portfolio tools and financial products, is not statistically distinguishable from that of the market. Nevertheless, the returns of these “re-intermediation” are less volatile, which shows most individuals can benefit from these types of “re-intermediation”. Key words: Peer-to-peer lending, performance, individual investor, re-intermediation.
DELAY-DEPENDENT ROBUST ASYMPTOTICALLY STABLE FOR LINEAR TIME VARIANT SYSTEMS

In this paper, the problem of delay dependent robust asymptotically stable for uncertain linear time-variant system with multiple delays is investigated. A new delay-dependent stability sufficient condition is given by using the Lyapunov method, linear matrix inequality (LMI), parameterized first-order model transformation technique and transformation of the interval uncertainty in to the norm bounded uncertainty. A numerical example is presented to illustrate our present stability criterion allows an upper bound which is bigger on the size of the delay in comparison with those in the literature.
Analyzing the Interrelationships between Factors Influencing Entrepreneurship Process Based on Grey DEMATEL (Case Study: Iran’s Food Industries)

In today’s societies, entrepreneurship has undeniable effects on economic, social, and technological development of countries. In this regard, the Iranian food industry, which includes many specific features, including the vast domestic and regional consumption market, was considered by the researchers in this study. The purpose of this research is to investigate and identify variables and to explain the effective factors on the individual entrepreneurship process in Iran’s food industry. In the first phase of the study, the survey team carried out semi-structured interviews with 13 experts in the domain of food industries. In the second phase of the study, a questionnaire based on the Grey DEMATEL method is available to experts for determining priorities and interrelationships between the factors. Based on the research data, paired comparison analysis questionnaire has been used. The findings of the research show that among the six categories – individual, personality, occupation, food industry environment, institutional, and environmental factors – the environmental ones were the most influential factors. Also, the individual ones were the most influenced factors and at the same time the most important factor among the ones influencing the process of entrepreneurship in Iran’s food industries.