Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Bioefficacy of Rhizobacterial Isolates against Root Infecting Fungal Pathogens of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)

Chickpea is considered to be food for the poor in Pakistan. Its yield is much lower than expected due to infestation of a number of fungal pathogens. The present study was designed to determine the effect of rhizobacterial isolates against fungal pathogens infecting chickpea roots. RH-31, RH-32 and RH-33 were isolated from groundnut rhizosphere. Antifungal activities of these isolates were tested by seed treatment and soil application methods against three root fungal pathogens. Data on disease incidence, bio-control efficiency and root biomass was recorded. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that sequences of RH-31, RH-32 and RH-33 showed >99% identity with Paenibacillus illinoisensis, Bacillus subtilis, and Pseudomonas psychrotolerans respectively. RH-33 was effective against Fusarium oxysporum and Macrophomina phaseolina with highest levels of inhibition, whereas RH-32 inhibited Fusarium solani. However, RH-31 showed best activity against F. oxysporum. Disease incidence and bio-control efficiency revealed that all isolates reduced disease severity and increased overall plant biomass as compared to control treatment. Present findings show potential of bacterial isolates from rhizosphere of Pakistan. Application of selected rhizobacteria through seed treatment method might be a promising strategy to lower damage caused by root pathogens in chickpea. This could be efficient, economical, environment friendly and might serve as a biocontrol agent.
Reputation and Career Concerns

This paper studies Holmstrom's [1999] seminal model of career concerns, but considers that a small change in the beliefs about the agent's future productivity may imply a large change in his compensation---because, for example, the agent may be fired or promoted. This allows us to study how the agent's effort decision depends on his current reputation---with reputation we refer to the beliefs about the agent's future productivity. We shall show that the market's and the agent's problems can be written recursively. We find that the relationship between the agent's decisions and his current reputation is typically nonmonotonic: equilibrium effort is hump-shaped over reputation. Furthermore, equilibrium effort may be higher if there is less dispersion in the distribution of abilities; it may be higher later in the agent's career; and it may be higher than the efficient effort level
Establishment of the Real Estate Bubble Warning Indicator System and Early Warning

In recent years, the demands for buying a house are suppressed by the rising and high housing price in the property market. The industry and educational circles have the question that whether the housing price is reasonable or not. Researchers should urgently investigate the existence of the property market bubble? If there is, researchers should know whether the bubble will be an economic threat. Perfect bubble warning mechanism could prevent the huge real estate bubble and a tremendous impact on our economic security. Based on this, this paper arranges, analyzes and summarizes the evaluation of the real estate bubble index; then studies the property market in Ningbo City, makes the measurement and analysis of single indicator, and builds a comprehensive system of early warning indicators by principal component analysis. At last, the paper gets the development status of property market according to the comprehensive early warning indicator.
A Survey of Rigid 3D Pointcloud Registration Algorithms

Geometric alignment of 3D pointclouds, obtained using a depth sensor such as a time-of-flight camera, is a challenging task with important applications in robotics and computer vision. Due to the recent advent of cheap depth sensing devices, many different 3D registration algorithms have been proposed in literature, focussing on different domains such as localization and mapping or image registration. In this survey paper, we review the state-of-the-art registration algorithms and discuss their common mathematical foundation. Starting from simple deterministic methods, such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), more recently introduced approaches such as Iterative Closest Point (ICP) and its variants, are analyzed and compared. The main contribution of this paper therefore consists of an overview of registration algorithms that are of interest in the field of computer vision and robotics, for example Simultaneous Localization and Mapping.
BONES RECONSTRUCTION FROM TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES USING NUMERICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS

Tissue Engineering is a highly multidisciplinary science in full expansion, which results from the combination of cell culture and the construction of scaffolds. Basically, it starts from the computer modeling of the defect or missing volume in order to obtain a personalized replacement of the defective or absent biological tissue. The obtained “mold”, coated and/or filled with different biomaterials arranged in special microarchitectures, becomes in a scaffold which is contacted with biological material to start the tissue regenerating process. The main object of this work is to establish a protocol for the numerical and computational modeling of bones and their defects from processing images obtained by computed tomography. The obtained models can be materialized using 3D printers. In addition, they may be used in the simulation of the bones mechanical response by using the Finite Element Method. Mecánica Computacional Vol XXXIII, págs. 2717-2727 (artículo completo) Graciela Bertolino, Mariano Cantero, Mario Storti y Federico Teruel (Eds.) San Carlos de Bariloche, 23-26 Setiembre 2014 Copyright © 2014 Asociación Argentina de Mecánica Computacional http://www.amcaonline. org.ar
Title Radiotherapy followed by adjuvant temozolomide with or without neoadjuvant ACNU-CDDP chemotherapy in newly diagnosed glioblastomas : a prospective randomized controlled multicenter phase III trial

A prospective randomized controlled multicenter phase III trial was conducted to evaluate the effects of neoadjuvant chemotherapy with nimustine (ACNU)cisplatin (CDDP) when used in conjunction with radiotherapy plus adjuvant temozolomide in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma. The study population was randomly assigned into one treatment and one control group. Both groups received radiotherapy followed by six cycles of adjuvant oral temozolomide (150–200 mg/m) for 5 days every 28 days after surgery. Prior to radiotherapy, the treatment group also received two cycles, 6 weeks apart, of neoadjuvant chemotherapy with ACNU (40 mg/ m/day) and CDDP (40 mg/m/day) infused continuously for 72 h. The primary end-point was median survival time. The study has closed after interim analysis with a total of 82 patients (48.8% of target number) due to unacceptable On behalf of The Seoul Clinical Neuro-Oncology Group/Korean Radiation Oncology Group. I. H. Kim Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, 28 Yeongeon-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Korea C. -K. Park J. E. Kim S. H. Paek D. G. Kim H. -W. Jung (&) Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Hospital, 28 Yeongeon-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Korea e-mail: hwnjung@snu.ac. kr D. S. Heo S. -H. Lee T. M. Kim D. -W. Kim Department of Internal Medicine, Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, 28 Yeongeon-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Korea C. -Y. Kim J. H. Han Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 166 Gumi-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Seoul 463-707, Korea C. H. Rhee Department of Neurosurgery, Korea Cancer Center Hospital, 215-4 Gong-neung dong, Nowon-ku, Seoul 139-706, Korea D. -H. Nam Department of Neurosurgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 50 Irwon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Korea S. H. Lee Neuro-Oncology Clinic, National Cancer Center, Jungbalsan-ro 111, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Seoul 410-769, Korea I. A. Kim Department of Radiation Oncology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 166 Gumi-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Seoul 463-707, Korea Y. J. Kim J. H. Kim Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 166 Gumi-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Seoul 463-707, Korea B. -J. Park Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yeongeon-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Korea 123 J Neurooncol (2011) 103:595–602 DOI 10.1007/s11060-010-0427-y
The Regional Distribution and Correlation between Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrograms and Dominant Frequency during Atrial Fibrillation

Background: Complex fractionated atrial electrograms (CFAEs) and dominant frequency (DF) mapping have been proposed to be promising targets for atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation. However, the relationship between CFAEs and DF is unknown. This study investigated the regional distribution, electrogram morphology, and spectral characteristics of complex fractionated atrial electrograms (CFAEs). Methods: Sixteen patients with paroxysmal AF (age=45±10, male=12) and 18 with persistent AF (age=51±13, male=16) undergoing AF ablation were included in the study. Frequency domain analysis was performed on the intracardiac electrograms (6.82 seconds, I KHz/channel) recorded from each of pulmonary veins (PVs), left atrium (LA), right atrium, and coronary sinus during AF. The largest peak frequency was identified as the DF.Results: Intracardiac atrial bipolar electrograms during AF were classified into 3 types; CFAE-Ⅰ defined as rapid discrete electrograms: CFAE-Ⅱ defined as continuous fractionated electrograms; and other electrograms were defined as non-CFAE. CFAE-Ⅰ were found mostly in PV, while CFAE-Ⅱwere observed more frequently in LA in both persistent and paroxysmal AF. CFAE-Ⅰ were associated with high DF, whereas non-CFAE were associated with the low DF. CFAE-Ⅰ consistently related with high DF in all areas of interest in both AF groups. However, CFAE-Ⅱ was related with high DF only in PV and LA in persistent AF.Conclusion: The disparities found between persistent and paroxysmal AF in morphology, distribution, and DF value may reflect the different roles of CFAEs in AF maintenance observed between both groups.
MASTER Prompt and Follow-Up GRB Observations

We presented the results of last years GRB observations obtained on the MASTER robotic telescope, which is the only telescope of its kind in Russia. These results include 5 prompt observations of GRB in 2008 and 2009, follow-up observations of 15 other GRBs in 2008-2009, the first observations in different polarization angles of optical emission from the gamma-ray bursts GRB091020, and observations in different polarization angles for GRB091127 and GRB090820.
On the characteristics of ASCAT wind direction ambiguities

Abstract. The inversion of the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) backscatter measurement triplets generally leads to two wind ambiguities with similar wind speed values and opposite wind directions. However, for up-, down- and crosswind (with respect to the mid-beam azimuth direction) cases, the inversion often leads to three or four wind solutions. In most of such cases, the inversion residuals or maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) of the third and fourth solutions (i.e. high-rank solutions) are substantially higher than those of the first two (low-rank) ambiguities. This indicates a low probability for the high-rank solutions and thus essentially dual ambiguity. This paper investigates the characteristics of ASCAT high-rank wind solutions under different conditions with the objective of developing a method for rejecting the spurious high-rank solutions. The implementation of this rejection procedure improves the effectiveness of the ASCAT wind quality control (QC) and ambiguity removal procedures.
KARST TERRAINES IN IRAN - EXAMPLES FROM LORESTAN

Kraski svet predstavlja 13 % ozemlja Irana. Karbonatne kamnine so eocenske, oligo-miocenske, miocenske, jurske in kredne starosti. Vecina jih je razvitih v bazenih Mazindarana in Zagrosa. Zaradi prevladujocih tektonskih aktivnosti so kamnine zagroske cone bolj zakrasele. 56 % vseh izvirov je prav v tej coni. Lorestansko in zagrosko cono sestavljajo vzporedne antiklinale v katerih so, zaradi tektonskih premikov, kamnine nagubane in razpokane. Nagubanost in prepokanost je osnova vodonosnikov. V Karbonatnih kamninah Lorestana so razvite vse kraske oblike, kot skraplje, vrtace in jame. Njabolje razvite kraske oblike je videti v skupini Bangeston. Vecina izvirov je vzdolž tektonskih linij ali na križiscu teh linij. Kemicne analize kažejo, da so vode bikarbonatnega tipa. Prestolnica Lorestana, Khorramabad, se oskrbuje z vodo iz kraskih izvirov. Prispevek podrobneje obravnava krasko hidrologijo dveh pomembnejsih regij v Lorestanu. In Iran karst terrain covers about 13% of the total area. The carbonate rocks belong to the Eocene, Oligocene- Miocene, Miocene, Jurassic and Cretaceous. Most of the carbonate rocks are developed in the basins of Mazindaran and Zagros. The carbonate rocks in the Zone of Zagros, due to the prevailing tectonic activities, have undergone more processes of karstification. About 56 % of all the springs originated from this zone. In Lorestan the Zagros zone consists of a series of parallel anticlines in which, due to the tectonic movements, the rocks have undergone folding and fracturing. The folding and fracturing have created rich ground water reservoirs. The carbonate rocks of Lorestan show all types of karst features such as karren, dolines and caves. The most developed karstic features are seen in the Bangeston group. Most of the springs are discharged either along the lineaments or at the intersection of the lineaments. The chemical analyses of the samples show that they are of bicarbonate type. The drinking water of the city of Khorramabad (capital of Lorestan) is supplied from the karstic springs. In this paper, the karst hydrology of two important regions of Lorestan are considered.
Patterns for Component Design Based on Application Task Characteristics

Classical approaches to algorithm development in the computer science literature provide a reference model for component decomposition and composition strategies in business application development efforts. A model based on a divide and conquer approach, the greedy method and backtracking is explained. Particular patterns are mapped to application subtask and input/output characteristics. The model gives rise to a methodology for component development that is intended to promote opportunities for taking advantage of parallel computing ideals.
The Role of Serotonin in Aggression and Impulsiveness

Serotonin is a neuromodulator that has a critical role on the regulation of essential events in neuronal and glial development, such as cell proliferation, differentiation, migration, apoptosis, and synaptogenesis, and acts as a developmental signal. It has been known that a serotonergic system is associated with many psychiatric disorders. The seroto‐ nergic system also predominates on the etiopathogenesis of two important endopheno‐ types: impulsivity and aggression. Impulsiveness is defined as personality trait and an implusive temperament is associated with clinical conditions such as pathological gam‐ bling, eating disorders, and borderline personality disorder as well as being a risk factor for self‐harm, suicide, and emotional liability. Aggression is not a personality trait like impulsivity, but it is the behavior of harm or injury to others. Besides being a natural human behavior toward survival, aggression can be harmful to the individual and the community when it is constant and excessive. In this chapter, we aimed to review the role of the serotonergic system on impulsivity and aggression, which are two important endophenotypes that identified in many psychiatric disorders.
Mapping public support for further European unification: a multilevel analysis

Using individual-level data from the European Social Survey, a multilevel analysis involving 21 countries was conducted to identify contextual preference formation. We show that individual predictors such as education work differently in different institutional contexts. Contrary to previous finding in the literature we find that the higher the percentage of tertiary education, the smaller the education gap in public support for the EU.
Analysis of tunable flat dispersion of germanium doped fiber with liquid cladding

We demonstrate numerically the tunable dispersion‐flattened fibers can be achieved by immersing the Ge‐doped fiber core in different liquid claddings.The dispersion slope can be flattened over 1100–1700 nm, which is suitable for tunable supercontinuum generation with pumping wavelength in fiber communication or other wavelength regions. Finally, we demonstrate the feasibility to fabricate the proposed structure with chemical etching method. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 52: 1357–1359, 2010; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.25209
notch 1 serves as a prognostic factor and regulates metastasis via regulating egFr expression in hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

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Superoxide Dismutase of Micrococcus sp. S2 and Its Involve in Paraquat Detoxification

As an active ingredient of herbicide, paraquat will induce formation of superoxide radicals. The previous research succeeded in isolating paraquat degrading bacteria from peat soil, Micrococcus sp. S2, that tolerant to high concentration of paraquat. An anti-oxidative enzyme, namely superoxide dismutase (SOD, EC.1.15.1.1), was believed to be responsible for the paraquat tolerance. This research was conducted to study the characteristic of the SOD synthesize by Micrococcus sp. S2 and its ability on neutralize superoxide which arise from paraquat reoxidation. To observe the effect of paraquat on Micrococcus sp. S2, the bacteria was grown in 10% Luria Bertani broth medium amended with several concentrations of paraquat, from 0 (control) up to 100 mg/ml. Within incubation time of 72 hours, bacterial growth, activity of superoxide dismutase and paraquat residue were analyzed. The isozymes of superoxide dismutase were distinguished using two kinds of specific inhibitor, namely HO and KCN. 2 2 The results showed that paraquat significantly inhibit the growth of Micrococcus sp. S2. The higher paraquat cocentration in the medium caused the higher growth inhibition. However, the bacteria is still survive in the medium containing toxic herbicide, and this ability was suggested related to superoxide dismutase activity in removing the superoxide radicals. Analysis using gel electrophoresis indicated that at least three types of SOD isozyme were synthesized by Micrococcus sp. S2; they were Ferri-SOD (Fe-SOD), Mangani-SOD (Mn-SOD), and the last one was suspected to be the Cupro Zinc-SOD (CuZn-SOD). The Mangani-SOD was suspected to play an important roles on detoxifying superoxide which arise from paraquat oxidation. Keywords : Micrococcus sp.S2, paraquat, superoxide dismutase, isozymes
Purification and Characterization of Acyl-CoA Synthetase in Escherichia Coli: Relation to Fatty Acid Uptake and Metabolic States of the Cells

The Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli can live on long chain fatty acids as its sole carbon source. However, the rate of fatty acid uptake was reduced after starvation (Mangroo, 1992). In this study, it was found that this starvation effect of reducing oleate uptake rate could only be observed in the initial minute post starvation. The starvation effect was not due to the depletion of its substrates ATP or reduced coenzyme A. Neither was the effect caused by a lowered acyl-GoA synthetase level. This reduction in oleate uptake rate can be reversed by incubation in oleate. It has been reported that lactate activated oleate uptake in Escherichia coli (Mangroo and Gerber, 1993). In the present study, it was discovered that when [9, 1 0-H]oleate was used as the radioactive tracer in uptake assay, the majority of the radioactivity effluxed from the cells. It was found that lactate did not have an effect on the overall oleate uptake. Its apparent activation on oleate uptake was due to the reduction in the efflux rate of radioactive probes, instead of increasing the uptake rate of oleate. Acyl-GoA synthetase in Escherichia coli has always been described as a protein of around 45 kDa (Kameda and Nunn, 1981; Kameda eta/., 1986). However, the fadD gene that encodes the Escherichia coli acyl-GoA synthetase predicts a 62 kDa protein (Black eta/., 1992; Fulda eta/., 1994). This new form of acyl-GoA synthetase has been partially purified. This form, which has a size
EXAMINATION OF HUMAN CAPITAL INFLUENCE ON IRAN SHORT AND LONG TERM ECONOMIC GROWTH

En el presente estudio se ha intentado examinar la relacion entre el capital humano y el crecimiento economico en Iran de 1991 a 2012 mediante el Modelo de Correccion de Errores y segun el Metodo Auto Regresivo con Modelo de Retorno Distribuido Auto Regresivo (ARDL) a corto y largo plazo. Los resultados indican que la eficacia del capital humano en el crecimiento economico es positiva a corto plazo, lo que muestra la relacion directa entre estas dos variables. Cuanto mas capital humano, el crecimiento economico tambien aumentara. Sin embargo, a largo plazo, solo la influencia del capital humano sobre el crecimiento economico ha tenido un efecto significativo, y el capital fisico y la fuerza de trabajo activa no tuvieron efectos significativos, lo que representa un indicio del efecto de desbordamiento de estas variables en periodos de largo plazo.
Adoption and implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) in Nigeria: Enduring challenges and implications

Although the adoption and implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards, IFRS, are receiving the serious attention of the Nigerian Government, efforts towards full transition from her local version of Generally Accepted Accounting Principle, GAAP, to IFRS are considered to be fraught with several challenges that appear to threaten the success of such efforts. This paper relies on extensive literature in identifying and discussing key IFRS enduring challenges and their implications on the success of Nigerian full transition to IFRS. The identified and discussed subsisting challenges include: the non-inclusion of IFRS in the curricula of Nigerian educational institutions, inadequate IFRS capacities by Nigerian auditors and accountants in and the non- amendment of Nigeria’s corporate financial reporting statutes to accommodate IFRS requirements. This paper recommends an extension of the transition period to allow for the fixing of the identified challenges if Nigeria is to be successfully IFRS compliant.