Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Plant resistance in chillies Capsicum spp against whitefly, Bemisia tabaci under field and greenhouse condition

Present studies were conducted on chillies Capsicum spp against whitefly in field and greenhouse screening. Forty five chillies accessions were subjected to field screening against whitefly, Bemisia tabaci. Varietal resistance is further evaluated in the greenhouse condition by studying the categories of resistance on whitefly. Accessions selected as ‘‘promising’’ for resistance (low whitefly populations) and susceptible accessions were reevaluated at greenhouse condition. Ten accessions of Capsicum were screened against whitefly, under greenhouse condition for categorization of the mechanism(s) of resistance. Accessions P2, P4, ACC1 and ACC12 were found to be less preferred for adult settlement, whereas accessions P1, P3, P5, ACC10, ACC26 and ACC27 were the most preferred one. In resistant accessions of chillies accumulative reduction in pest population was noticed by reduced rate of reproduction and increased developmental period. The number of eggs laid and the percentage of nymphal and adult emergence were low on resistant accessions viz., ACC12 (4.33 no of eggs /pair/leaf, with 76.92 % hatchability), P2 (5 no of eggs /pair/leaf, with 80% hatchability), P4(5.33 no of eggs /pair/leaf, with 81.25 % hatchability) and ACC1(4.67 no of eggs /pair/leaf, with 85.71 % hatchability). In population build-up study, significantly lower numbers of progeny were observed on accessions ACC12 (0.33 adults/pair/leaf), P2 (0.67 adults/pair/leaf),) and ACC1 (0.67 adults/pair/leaf),). Conversely, the number of progeny produced by F2 was significantly greater on ACC 10 (7.93 adults/pair/leaf)). The accession P2, P4, ACC1 and ACC12 has displayed strong antixenotic and antibiotic effect against whitefly, Bemisia tabaci.
Why I Am Not a Methodological Likelihoodist

Methodological likelihoodism is the view that it is possible to provide an adequate post-data methodology for science on the basis of likelihood functions alone. I argue that this view is false by (1) arguing that an adequate post-data methodology for science would provide a good norm of commitment, (2) arguing that a good norm of commitment based on likelihood functions alone would have a particular form, (3) articulating minimal requirements for a good norm of commitment, and (4) showing that no norm of the specied form satises those requirements. Given the Likelihood Principle, it follows that it is impossible to provide an adequate post-data methodology for science on the basis of the evidential meaning of data alone.
Poster Abstract: Digital Taste & Smell for Remote Multisensory Interactions

This poster presents an approach to enhance remote multisensory interactions through digital taste (gustation) and smell (olfaction) senses on human. This approach mainly facilitates the digital actuation of taste and smell sensations on human. It utilizes electrical, thermal, and magnetic stimulation technologies to stimulate taste and smell sensations digitally. First, we present the initial prototype for digital taste actuation and then discuss the method for digital smell actuation.
L2-L∞ Fuzzy Filtering for Nonlinear Time-delay Jump Systems with Uncertain Parameters

The L2-L∞ fuzzy filtering problem for a class of nonlinear time-delay jump systems with uncertain parameters is considered. By using the constructed Lyapunov-Krasovskii function, a sufficient condition that the solution of the L2-L∞ fuzzy filter existed is given and proved. The results are derived by the form of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) and the design problem of L2-L∞ fuzzy filter is described as an optimization one. The presented fuzzy filter makes the error systems have exponentially stochastically stability and satisfy the given L2-L∞ performance index. Simulation results demonstrate the validity of the proposed approaches.
Controlled water stress to improve functional and nutritional quality in quinoa seed

Chenopodium quinoa W. is a pseudocereal with bioactive compounds like polyphenols, carotenoids, dietary fibers and oleic acid, which have acquired importance because of their human health benefits. The present study aimed to determine the effect of controlled water restriction on the potential yield, chemical composition (protein, fat content and crude fiber) and antioxidant capacity in seeds of three genotypes of quinoa. The study was conducted in the south-central zone of Chile under field and controlled conditions in a greenhouse. Main plot treatment was available water level and subplots included three quinoa genotypes. Results indicated an increase of the antioxidant capacity, with an average of 88% in seeds of the three genotypes and 70% in seeds of plants exposed to 95 to 20 % available water. Seed yield potential was reduced, but the extent of reduction varied depending on the genotype. It was possible to produce seeds of higher nutritional value when controlled water stress was applied from 40 to 20% available water, without a considerably reduction on seed yield.
Dynamically Scalable, Fault-Tolerant Coordination on a Shared Logging Service

Coordination services provide the means for distributed applications to share resources. Many coordination services provide a hierarchical namespace with strongly consistent semantics that applications utilize to build basic primitives such as locks and queues. In this paper, we explore a fresh approach which uses a shared log as a flexible, raw substrate for implementing coordination primitives. We show that we can reduce an existing coordination service, ZooKeeper, to use a shared log, and show that a shared log offers benefits such as high performance and dynamic reconfigurability. Our design comprises several desirable properties that were recently introduced as enhancements to ZooKeeper, such as reconfiguration and client scale-out.
Review of the legal ownership status of national lands in Cameroon: A more nuanced view

This paper revisits the legal status of land tenure in Cameroon in response to many publications which claim that 97% of land belongs to the State. In fact, the current Cameroonian land-tenure system is based on the distinction between public/State lands; private lands and national lands. Therefore, the review of the legislation in force and the theory of constitutional law show that a more nuanced interpretation of the legal status of land and forests in Cameroon leads to the conclusion that the State does not have sole and absolute ownership over land and forests, as many studies claim. From this viewpoint, distinction should be made between State ownership of public land and State administration of national lands which really belong to the Cameroonian Nation or People. However, the current legal (vague) status granting sole and absolute powers to the State as custodian of national lands no longer meets local communities’ and indigenous people's claims on land inherent in the global REDD+ impetus and land grabbing. Hence, there is need to initiate policy and legal reforms so as to provide for land belonging to local communities and indigenous communities, distinct from the national lands domain.
The Kinetic Effects, Caused by Thickness Fluctuations of Quantum Semiconductor Wire

The electrical conductivity, thermopower and thermal conductivity of semiconductor quantum wire conditioned by a random field of Gaussian fluctuations of wire thickness are theoretically determined. We present the results for cases nondegenerate and generate statistics of carriers. The considered mechanism of relaxation of the carriers is essential for sufficiently thin and clean wire from the А3В5 and А4В6 type of semiconductors at low temperatures. The quantum size effects that are typical of quasi-one-dimensional systems were revealed.
DEVELOPING CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT RESEARCH: A BALANCE OF PERSPECTIVES

Research development for construction management has recently received considerable attention by academia and major industry sponsors. A major motivation for these efforts include ensuring that research does not just achieve any outcomes, but also produces relevant outputs that can benefit all the interested parties associated with the research community. In particular, concerns expressed about the traditional quantitative orientation of construction management research has provoked a debate on the methodological issues within the field. As a result, the discipline is gradually witnessing a polarisation of research orientation into rational and interpretive schools of thought. This paper is an attempt to reconcile this current division in research orientation. It utilises an anecdotal approach to argue that the entrenched positions on research perspectives is not adequate for enhancing the development of the field of construction management. It presents an option where both perspectives complement each other to produce a more balanced outcome for academic research. It concludes by posing the question, Is it time to define the boundaries of construction management so that its research development can be appropriately addressed?
CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR ‘FRONT IS GOOD; BACK IS BAD’ IN INDONESIAN Nurhayati Faculty of Humanities, Diponegoro University Abstrak Makalah ini membahas konsep metaforis ‘depan baik; belakang buruk’ yang digunakan oleh masyarakat Indonesia untuk membingkai pengalamannya. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menje

Makalah ini membahas konsep metaforis ‘depan baik; belakang buruk’ yang digunakan oleh masyarakat Indonesia untuk membingkai pengalamannya. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menjelaskan bahwa sejumlah ungkapan metaforis dalam bahasa Indonesia dapat menunjukkan cara pandang masyarakat Indonesia dengan bingkai metaforis tersebut. Data penelitian ini berupa sejumlah ungkapan yang mengandungi metafora ‘depan baik; belakang buruk’ yang diperoleh dari internet maupun surat kabar. Hasil temuan menunjukkan bahwa masyarakat Indonesia melihat ‘ yang baik di depan; yang buruk di belakang’ di berbagai aspek kehidupan, seperti kedudukan, keadaan masyarakat, kondisi mental, dan kejujuran.
Affecting factors on user satisfaction of public drinking water fountain usage (Case: courtyard of the holy shrine of Imam REZA)

The Holy Shrine of Imam Reza AS is one of the most important places in Iran in terms of religious and public beliefs. Huge volumes of pilgrims travel to the mentioned place, so the appropriated environmental and furniture design to increase the visitors' satisfaction is inevitable. In this regards, the main objective of this study is to identify an appropriated design for public water taps through the assessment of affecting factors in terms of the pilgrims’ satisfaction. Methods: In this survey, 400 volunteer pilgrims participated in our 5-scale Likert questionnaire. The gathered data were analysed by SPSSWin21 and Spearman test. Results: This study shows that there is a significant association between user satisfaction and public water taps' function (p = 0.00), however the participants were more satisfied with the technical aspects than the aesthetic ones. The users were not satisfied with the placing of water taps, pressure of water’s valve and local illumination in night time. Conclusion: This study confirms the importance of design considerations, construction and materials, location of public water fountains in the assessed courtyard of the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza AS to satisfy the pilgrims. Considering with Islamic architectural elements, appropriated form and style, color and material, perfect harmony affect on users. The modification of water fountain place in terms of dimension and local illumination are also important.
Antioxidant and dual dose-dependent antigenotoxic and genotoxic properties of an ethanol extract of propolis

Propolis is a resinous product made by honeybees from plant-derived materials, with high content of polyphenols associated to several beneficial bioactivities with potential use as a natural food additive for preservation and as a functional food ingredient. A Portuguese propolis ethanol extract (C.EE) protected Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells from loss of viability upon exposure to H2O2, both in co- and in pre-incubation experiments. Results obtained with the comet assay suggest that lower concentrations are antigenotoxic while at higher concentrations a genotoxic effect prevails, which correlates with the cytotoxicity of high concentrations of C.EE. Flow cytometry analysis with dichlorofluorescein indicates that C.EE induced intracellular antioxidant activity in vivo. Overall the results suggest that C.EE is antigenotoxic but is also toxic at higher concentrations. This dual effect could be explained by the presence of compounds known to interfere with DNA synthesis and/or cell proliferation, such as caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE) and chrysin, together with antioxidants, like kaempferol, pinobanksin and pinocembrin.
Maternal and Paternal Mental-state Talk and Executive Function in Preschool Children

This research was supported by Grant COMPETE: FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-015504 from Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia, and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through the European program COMPETE (Operational Programme for Competitiveness Factors) under the National Strategic Reference Framework (QREN) attributed to the research project titled ‘Children’s socio-emotional-cognitive school readiness: A longitudinal approach to its developmental course during preschool years’ (PTDC/PSI-EDD/114527/2009; also grant SFRH/BPD/100994/2014 assigned to the first author). The authors are very grateful to the students who helped with data collection. Special thanks go to the children and families who participated in the study.
Seasonal dynamics of viruses in an alpine lake: importance of filamentous forms

Viruses are an important component of the planktonic food web in freshwater and marine systems, but most studies have been done in the ocean and in lowland lakes. In this work, the seasonal dynamics and structure of the virioplankton as well as their impact on bacteria during a day/night cycle were studied in an alpine lake located 2417 m above sea level. The abundance of virus-like particles (VLP) was determined at 5 discrete depths (0.5 to 8 m) by direct counts with a TEM in samples collected from May to November 1998 at weekly to bi-weekly intervals. Viruses reached the highest abundances under ice (4.6 × 106 VLP ml–1) with a second maximum in autumn. After ice-break, the VLP abundance decreased to undetectable values ( 10 μm) and their respective abundances were positively correlated (rs = 0.728, p < 0.01). The absence of these conspicuous forms in other aquatic ecosystems suggests that FVLP are well adapted to the harsh environmental conditions or are specific to bacterial hosts found in alpine lakes. Finally, between 5 and 28% of the newly produced bacteria were killed by non-filamentous viruses, which therefore are a modest cause of bacterial mortality in this lake.
Brain competition policy as a new paradigm of regional policy: A European perspective

The emerging knowledge economy has led to an increase of demand and locational competition for highly-skilled labour. Brain competition policy (BCP) is the reaction from national and regional policymakers. In short, BCP refers to the attraction, education and circulation of talent in and between regional and national economies. This new focus on human capital instead of physical capital indicates a paradigmatic shift in innovation policy and regional policy. While most of the contributions to this new policy approach come from the US, it can be demonstrated that different institutions in Europe prevent the simple copying of those strategies. The article contributes to the ongoing paradigmatic shift by conceptualizing a coherent framework for BCP from a European perspective. Copyright (c) 2010 the author(s). Journal compilation (c) 2010 RSAI.
Downlink physical layer security transmission confronted with synergistic eavesdroping

The most of existing physical layer security research focus on the situation where decentralized nodes transmit signals to the Base Station(BS). But considering a scenario where nonorthogonal transmission is allowed, when the BS transmits signals to decentralized nodes, the multi-downlinks will interfere each other, decreasing the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratios (SINRs) at receivers. Focusing on the above problem, this paper optimizes the downlink beamforming and power allocation jointly to meet the SINRs requirement. On this basis, when confronted with synergistic eavesdroping where a malicious jammer helps the eavesdropper to eavesdrop, the BS transmits the artificial noise(AN) to improve the secrecy rate. Then zero-sum game model is proposed to obtain the strategies and corresponding expectation value of the secrecy rate when system reaches the mixed strategy equilibrium. By simulation, this method will obtain a good secrecy rate.
Nonparametric detector performance for active sonar in ocean reverberation background with multiple false targets jamming

Passive sonar, which used to be the most effective device for submarine detection, cannot satisfy the requirement of anti-submarine operation after the appearance of quiet submarine decades ago, and active sonar is playing a more important role. Active sonar often works in reverberation limited condition in shallow water area because of the strong backscattering of the sea bottom. Unlike the volume reverberation often encountered by sonar working in deep ocean, bottom reverberation is usually not Rayleigh distributed. Experiment results show that the sea bottom reverberation is more likely to be k-distributed, thus the nonparametric detector, such as generalize sign detector, is more suitable for active sonar working in shallow water area. Multiple false targets can decrease the detection possibility of parametric and nonparametric CF AR detector, and usually used as an important method to counter active sonar. F rom Monte Carlo simulation, it is shown that only several false targets are needed to make the active sonar detection performance decline severely when it is using nonparametric detector in ocean reverberation background.
Research on animal-borne parasites and pathogens helps prevent human disease

A large body of basic and applied research conducted at the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center (HREC) has focused on micro- or macroparasites that infest humans, domestic animals and wildlife, including viruses, bacteria, protozoans, helminths and blood-sucking arthropods. Approximately 17 microorganisms detected at the HREC are transmitted by ticks, and of these, at least five cause zoonotic diseases — animal-borne diseases that can be transmitted to people. Scientists working at the HREC identified the basic transmission cycle of the Lyme disease spirochete in the far-western United States. This information now is being used to develop and implement risk-assessment and preventive strategies.
The reading of handwriting: an evaluation of Chinese written by CFL learners

This paper describes two experiments that first explore the potential role of Chinese character writing in character visual recognition, and then examine different evaluative responses towards the quality of pinyin and character handwriting. Taken together, the results suggest that drawing Chinese characters privileges them in memory in a way that facilitates their subsequent visual recognition. This is true even when the congruency of the recognition response and other potential confounds are controlled for. In terms of the writing quality, the reader’s empathy effect can be found for handwritten characters but not pinyin, since the handwritten characters tended to be rated more highly than pinyin. The experience of an evaluator also has an impact on the evaluation of writing quality. The pedagogical implications for Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) are highlighted at the end of the paper, in particular those relating to curriculum design and teacher training.
Investigation of significantly high barrier height in Cu/GaN Schottky diode

Current-voltage (I-V) measurements combined with analytical calculations have been used to explain mechanisms for forward-bias current flow in Copper (Cu) Schottky diodes fabricated on Gallium Nitride (GaN) epitaxial films. An ideality factor of 1.7 was found at room temperature (RT), which indicated deviation from thermionic emission (TE) mechanism for current flow in the Schottky diode. Instead the current transport was better explained using the thermionic field-emission (TFE) mechanism. A high barrier height of 1.19 eV was obtained at room temperature. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) was used to investigate the plausible reason for observing Schottky barrier height (SBH) that is significantly higher than as predicted by the Schottky-Mott model for Cu/GaN diodes. XPS measurements revealed the presence of an ultrathin cuprous oxide (Cu2O) layer at the interface between Cu and GaN. With Cu2O acting as a degenerate p-type semiconductor with high work function of 5.36 eV, a high barrier height of 1.
Statistical analyses of satellite cloud object data from ceres. Part III: Comparison with cloud-resolving model simulations of tropical convective clouds

Abstract The present study evaluates the ability of a cloud-resolving model (CRM) to simulate the physical properties of tropical deep convective cloud objects identified from a Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) data product. The emphasis of this study is the comparisons among the small-, medium-, and large-size categories of cloud objects observed during March 1998 and between the large-size categories of cloud objects observed during March 1998 (strong El Nino) and March 2000 (weak La Nina). Results from the CRM simulations are analyzed in a way that is consistent with the CERES retrieval algorithm and they are averaged to match the scale of the CERES satellite footprints. Cloud physical properties are analyzed in terms of their summary histograms for each category. It is found that there is a general agreement in the overall shapes of all cloud physical properties between the simulated and observed distributions. Each cloud physical property produced by the CRM also exhibits differen.
Improving pKa calculations of membrane inserting amino acids using replica exchange CpHMD simulations

pH is one of the most important solution parameters. It plays a major role in most biochemical processes by, among other, inducing protein conformational changes and influencing protein-lipid interactions. These systems have been modeled using constant-pH molecular dynamics (CpHMD) methods since they are able to correctly capture the conformational/protonation coupling. In a previous CpHMD study, we have shown that, upon membrane insertion, the titrable amino acids are prone to adopt a neutral state. In that work, CpHMD experienced difficulties sampling ionized conformations in inserted regions, since in the time scale of our simulations most residues retained their neutral state upon insertion/desolvation.Enhanced sampling techniques are a widely used solution to deal with kinetic traps in molecular dynamics simulations. Since our sampling problems are related with protonation, we have implemented a pH-based replica exchange (pHRE). In this method, each simulation replica is assigned a unique pH value and attempts to exchange the simulated pH value of simulations pairs are periodically performed. The acceptance criterion is influenced by the exchanging simulations pH values and protonation states of the titrable sites.In this work, a more accurate description of the membrane influence on the pKa profiles of titrable amino acids is provided by using the pHRE methodology, a newly developed method to calculate insertion, and more rigorous criteria to define the acceptable protonation sampling. Since in pHRE, due to replica mixing, all pH values sample similar insertion regions, a larger amount of inserted conformations in the ionized state are obtained. Our efficient pHRE results outperformed previous CpHMD ones, granting more sampling in less simulation time. In the future, pHRE will replace CpHMD as our go-to method to study pH-dependent phenomena.