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Horse purslane (Trianthema portulacastrum) control in pigeonpea with PRE and POST herbicides

Abstract Pigeonpea has great potential as a profitable summer legume rotational crop in cereal farming systems of subtropical Australia. Pigeonpea requires season-long weed control, but options for controlling broadleaf weeds in pigeonpea with POST herbicides are limited. The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of different herbicides (PRE: pendimethalin; POST: acifluorfen, bentazon, and imazapic) applied singly or in sequence for horse purslane control in pigeonpea and their impact on pigeonpea yield. Field experiments were conducted in 2017 and 2018 at Gatton, Australia. Pendimethalin applied PRE at 1.14 kg ai ha–1 reduced horse purslane biomass by 87% and 92% and produced 32% and 105% higher grain yield compared with the nontreated control in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Imazapic applied POST at 0.10 kg ai ha–1 reduced horse purslane biomass by 79% and 82% and increased grain yield by 60% and 88% compared with the nontreated control in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Acifluorfen applied POST (0.34 and 0.42 kg ai ha–1) caused 16% to 48% injury to pigeonpea at 45 d after treatment. Control of horse purslane ranged from 87% to 92% (biomass reduction) with pendimethalin applied PRE at 1.14 kg ai ha–1 and was comparable with pendimethalin applied PRE at 0.91 kg ai ha–1 in the sequential application, and imazapic at 0.08 kg ai ha–1 or bentazon at 0.96 kg ai ha–1. The study findings suggest if farmers miss the PRE application of pendimethalin or are unable to achieve season-long weed control, POST application of imazapic is an alternate. This research provided herbicide options for control of horse purslane in pigeonpea that could be used in rotations for reducing the selection pressure of weeds. Nomenclature: Acifluorfen; bentazon; imazapic; pendimethalin; horse purslane, Trianthema portulacastrum L. ; pigeonpea, Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp
Comparison of resting-state functional and effective connectivity between default mode network and memory encoding related areas

1Department of Information Processing, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan 2Center for Psychedelic Research, Department of Medicine, Centre for Complexity Science and Department of Mathematics, Data Science Institute, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom 3Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO) Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8, Honcho, Kawaguchi-shi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan More Information
BİR ÖRGÜTSEL KÜLTÜR OLARAK PAZARLAMANIN KURAMSAL ÇERÇEVESİ

As in the past, market orientation is an important concept especially for firm practices as an organizational culture. However, there is no generally accepted definition for the concept of market orientation in the relevant literature. Therefore, the aim of this study is to clarify the concept of marketing as an organizational culture within the theoretical framework. For this aime, primary and main sources in the relevant literature are particularly reference sources. According to the literature review, the philosophical foundations of market orientation, which are the basis of marketing thinking, date back to the early 1950s. Organizations became popular as a form of market due to competitive pressures in the late 1960s. It is interesting to note, however, that the first studies on marketing as an organizational culture were written in the 1980s. Related findings are shown in the conclusion of the study as of historical periods from past to present.
Ball Comparison between Three Sixth Order Methods for Banach Space Valued Operators

Three methods of sixth order convergence are tackled for approximating the solution of an equation defined on the finitely dimensional Euclidean space. This convergence requires the existence of derivatives of, at least, order seven. However, only derivatives of order one are involved in such methods. Moreover, we have no estimates on the error distances, conclusions about the uniqueness of the solution in any domain, and the convergence domain is not sufficiently large. Hence, these methods have limited usage. This paper introduces a new technique on a general Banach space setting based only the first derivative and Lipschitz type conditions that allow the study of the convergence. In addition, we find usable error distances as well as uniqueness of the solution. A comparison between the convergence balls of three methods, not possible to drive with the previous approaches, is also given. The technique is possible to use with methods available in literature improving, consequently, their applicability. Several numerical examples compare these methods and illustrate the convergence criteria.
A Super Twisting Fractional Order Terminal Sliding Mode Control for DFIG-Based Wind Energy Conversion System

The doubly fed induction generator (DFIG)-based wind energy conversion systems (WECSs) are prone to certain uncertainties, nonlinearities, and external disturbances. The maximum power transfer from WECS to the utility grid system requires a high-performance control system in the presence of such nonlinearities and disturbances. This paper presents a nonlinear robust chattering free super twisting fractional order terminal sliding mode control (ST-FOTSMC) strategy for both the grid side and rotor side converters of 2 MW DFIG-WECS. The Lyapunov stability theory was used to ensure the stability of the proposed closed-loop control system. The performance of the proposed control paradigm is validated using extensive numerical simulations carried out in MATLAB/Simulink environment. A detailed comparative analysis of the proposed strategy is presented with the benchmark sliding mode control (SMC) and fractional order terminal sliding mode control (FOTSMC) strategies. The proposed control scheme was found to exhibit superior performance to both the stated strategies under normal mode of operation as well as under lumped parametric uncertainties.
Who says what?: exploring the impacts of content type and blog type on brand credibility, brand similarity and eWOM intention

The purpose of this research is to conduct an exploratory study to discover if presenting consumers with a certain content type (i.e. product-focused content with informational appeal, institution-focused content with emotional appeal, experience-focused content with emotional appeal,) and blog type (i.e. a corporate, sponsored or a personal blog) persuade consumers to form perceptions of credibility and similarity toward the fashion brand, which leads them to further engage with the brand through Electronic Word of Mouth (eWOM). ,This study employs a 3(content type: product-focused, institution-focused, experience-focused) x 3(blog type: corporate, sponsored and personal) between-subjects design. Mock fashion blogs and content were developed in order to provide a realistic blogging experience for the participants. With 511 usable data collected, ANOVA was employed to test the relationships. ,Findings reveal that content type, specifically product-focused content and experiential content, is an important consideration for illustrating similarities between the brand and consumers compared to institutional content. Product-focused content is found to be effective in encouraging consumer eWOM for the brand as well. Further, the interaction effect of blog type and content type was significant in establishing brand credibility. However, blog type did not influence any of the dependent variable. ,This study brings meaningful suggestions to fashion brands on effective blog campaign, which eventually provide insights on how brands can influence female consumers to shape positive evaluation toward the brand.
Symbiotic N2 fixation in a high Alpine grassland: effects of four growing seasons of elevated CO2

1. Increasing carbon dioxide concentration (E: 680 μl CO2 litre–1vs ambient, A: 355 μl CO2 litre–1) around late-successional Alpine sedge communities of the Swiss Central Alps (2450 m) for four growing seasons (1992–1995) had no detectable effect on symbiotic N2 fixation in Trifolium alpinum—the sole N2-fixing plant species in these communities (74 ± 30 mg N m–2 year–1, A and E plots pooled). 2. This result is based on data collected in the fourth growing season showing that elevated CO2 had no effect on Trifolium above-ground biomass (4·4 ± 1·7 g m–2, A and E plots pooled, n = 24) or N content per unit land area (124 ± 51 mg N m–2, A and E pooled), or on the percentage of N Trifolium derived from the atmosphere through symbiotic N2 fixation (%Ndfa: 61·0 ± 4·1 across A and E plots) estimated using the 15N dilution method. 3. Thus, it appears that N inputs to this ecosystem via symbiotic N2 fixation will not be dramatically affected in the foreseeable future even as atmospheric CO2 continues to rise.
A Visitor Assistance System Based on LoRa for Nature Forest Parks

Ecotourism activities are attracting more people each day, including national forest parks. Unfortunately, the number of incidents involving visitors to natural parks grows at the same pace. Among the most prevalent risks inside forests are getting lost and the occurrence of natural disasters. In this work, we propose a system for monitoring and assisting visitors of forest parks, based on a low power wide range wireless network, LoRa. The proposed visitor assisting system is composed of mobile terminals that communicate between them and with fixed infrastructure, using a protocol designed for exchanging visitor locations data. The infrastructure consists of wireless gateways distributed on the trails, the totems. User terminals, the mobile nodes, work collaboratively through a Delay and Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN), to cope with the possibility that the gateway infrastructure does not cover the whole trail. In addition to improvements and gains for minimizing risks, the proposal also brings contributions to the preservation of the environment, raising awareness of the influence of human presence in the natural environment and to the development of environmental education actions.
Epileptic Seizure Detection Based on Complexity Feature of EEG

Brain disorder characterized by seizure is a common disease among people in the world. Characterization of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals in terms of complexity can be used to identify neurological disorders. In this study, a non-linear epileptic seizure detection method based on multiscale entropy (MSE) has been employed to characterize the complexity of EEG signals. For this reason, the MSE method has been applied on Bonn dataset containing seizure and non-seizure EEG data and the corresponding results in terms of complexity have been obtained. Using statistical tests and support vector machine (SVM), the classification ability of the MSE method has been verified on Bonn dataset. Our results show that the MSE method is a viable approach to identifying epileptic seizure demonstrating a classification accuracy of 91.7%.
Association of Herd Means and Variances is a Function of Edit for Minimum Lactation Length

Abstract Association between herd sample means and herd sample standard deviations for milk yields can be induced by the management practices of culling and selection. This association can be enhanced further by data preparation such as editing short lactations or lactations with low yields. The nature and strength of association in dairy data might be an artifact of editing, selection, and culling rather than evidence that herd yield has a multiplicative effect. This feature of the edited data set must be considered in evaluating analyses, particularly when herd statistics are used to "standardize" production environments.
Caracterização físico-química do mel de abelhas proveniente da florada do cajueiro

The present study was aimed at the identification and characterization of the bee honey (Apis mellifera) derived from cashew flowers (Anacardium occidentale L.). The study was carried out through the analysis of 24 samples of honey collected from apiaries distributed in a cashew plantation of about 1000 hectares, located in the area around the town of Cascavel, in the state of Ceara, Brazil. The samples were submitted to melissopalinological and physicochemical analysis (humidity, total acidity, ashes, total sugars, Lund, pH, electrical conductivity, HMF, water activity, and density). On the basis of the melissopalinological analysis, the honey was considered unifloral, with its origin traced to the cashew flowering. The variation intervals of the physicochemical parameters under analysis were: 16.5-19.2% (humidity), 22-40meq kg-1 (total acidity), 0.18-0.30% (ashes), 80.8-83.5% (total sugars), 1.0-2.0mL (Lund), 3.48-3.83 (pH), 179-198µS cm-1 (electrical conductivity), 9.6-30.91mg kg-1 (HMF), 0.62-0.76 (water activity), and 1.337-1.437g mL-1 (density). The analyses show that the honey originating from the cashew flowering presents unique physicochemical characteristics which are within the standards established by the current legislation.
Physiological ecology of toxic aquatic cyanobacteria

Abstract ‘Toxicity’, a problematic ecophysiological trait of certain cyanobacteria. is largely an anthropomorphic term determined by negative impacts of various secondary metabolites (e.g. alkaloids, peptides. organo-phosphate esters) on mammalian health. Most target organisms are neither natural enemies nor consumers of cyanobacteria. This dichotomy has hindered our understanding of the ecophysiological rationales for toxin production. The physical and chemical factors forcing cyanobacterial bloom initiation and persistence appear to act as controls for metabolite production in a complex and variable manner. Toxin production may simply be a mechanism for shunting excess metabolites during periods of environmental stress and may be metabolically linked to the production of other secondary metabolites, including those causing taste and odour problems. Toxins also may help establish mutually beneficial microbial consortia, by chemotactically attracting and supporting micro-organisms involved in nutrient cyc.
Epidemiological surveillance of endogenous and exogenous nosocomial infections

Aim: Nosocomial infections (NIs) represent a major public health problem in developed, and even more in developing countries. Based on the origin of the pathogen, NIs are divided into endogenous caused by microorganisms of the patient’s microflora, and exogenous caused by pathogens from the patient’s environment or by the same microorganism isolated elsewhere from patient’s body. The main aim of this research was to determine the frequency, etiology and types of NIs at the Clinic for Surgery of the University Clinical Center Tuzla. Material and Methods: 5.039 patients were prospectively followed for the development of endogenous and exogenous NIs (January-December 2015). The definition of NI was performed using standardized the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) criteria. Results: Based on continuous epidemiological surveillance, the incidence of NI was 3.51%; with a total of 177 registered infections, 24 endogenous and 153 exogenous. The most common NIs were urinary tract infections (UTIs) (14.29% endogenous and 85.71% exogenous) and surgical site infections (SSIs) (16.67% endogenous and 83.33% exogenous), p<0.001. Gram-negative bacteria were predominant (76.84%) over Gram-positive bacteria (23.16%). Gram-positive bacteria mainly caused bacteremia, while Gram-negative bacteria were most commonly isolated from UTIs and SSIs. The most common Gram-negative bacteria were Klebsiella pneumoniae (24.86%) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (22.6%), and among Gram-positive, Staphylococcus aureus (10.73%) and coagulase-negative staphylococci (7.91%). Conclusion: Epidemiological surveillance is considered a key link in the program for the prevention and control of NIs. The most important, and the ultimate goal and purpose of conducting epidemiological surveillance are to reduce and eliminate the risk factors, which can lead to a reduction in NI incidence rate. Determining the endemic rates of NIs provides an objective understanding of the overall NI status in an institution as well as existing risk factors for the occurrence of these infections.
Automated Volumetric Quantification of Cardiac Chambers and Cross Sectional Measurement of Great Arteries in Cardiac CT

Knowledge of whole heart anatomy is a prerequisite for many clinical applications. For obtaining precise measurements of clinical metrics for the substructures of the heart, their accurate modeling in a 3D setup is requisite. In this paper, we adopt a clear-cut segmentation architecture with adequately proven results for the automatic segmentation and assessment of the heart and its substructures from contrast-enhanced cardiac CT (computed tomography) scans. A two-step framework consisting of a U-net and an end-to-end trained Spatial-Configuration net is considered for the preliminary segmentation task. This network annotates seven different mediastinal structures: the left ventricle, right ventricle, left atrium, right atrium, ascending aorta, pulmonary artery, and myocardium. By achieving the average Dice score of 86.73% concerning manual annotations made by a trained expert, we focus on medical assessment by developing a tool to measure the essential cardiac functionalities: RA to LA ratio, RV to LV ratio, and the radii of Cardiac Vessels. MRAE for RV:LV and RA:LA calculations over the test set are 10.10% and 10.40%, respectively. For radial measurements of the aorta and pulmonary artery, the obtained MRAE are 5.77% and 12.39%, respectively.
Utility of reticulocyte hemoglobin in diagnosing latent iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia

Iron deficiency is one of the most common nutritional deficiencies and leading cause of anemia especially in growing children. As per WHO report on global prevalence of anemia, 273.2 million (42.6%) people were anemic. In India, 59% of children aged 6-59 months were anemic, 42% (38 to 46%) of which is attributed to iron deficiency, the single most common nutrient deficiency. Iron deficiency exists in a state of continuum ranging from Latent Iron Deficiency (LID) to Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA). A child maybe in a state of LID utilizing iron stores for a prolonged period maintaining Hemoglobin levels within normal limits hence maybe clinically unrecognized. Both LID and IDA occurring in the first two years of life have been associated with poor cognitive and psychomotor development. Long-term follow-up of infants with moderate iron deficiency by ABSTRACT
Negligible voltage hysteresis with strong anionic redox in conventional battery electrode

<div>Lattice oxygen redox reactions (ORR) offers opportunities for developing highcapacity batteries, however, suffers the notoriously high voltage hysteresis and low initial coulombic efficiency, which hinder its practical applications. Particularly, ORR was widely considered inherent to these kinetic issues. In this paper, unambiguous evidence of strong and reversible ORR is found in Na<sub>2/3</sub>Ni<sub>1/3</sub>Mn<sub>2/3</sub>O<sub>2</sub>, which displays negligible voltage hysteresis (0.1 V) and high initial coulombic efficiency with a highly stable electrochemical profile. Our independent and quantitative analysis of all the Ni, Mn and O states consistently interpret the redox mechanism of Na<sub>2/3</sub>Ni<sub>1/3</sub>Mn<sub>2/3</sub>O<sub>2</sub>, which reveals, for the first time, a conventional 3d transition-metal ORR system with facile kinetics and highly stable electrochemical profile that previously found only in cationic redox systems. </div>
POLLINATION AND POLLEN ENERGETICS IN MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEMS

Most plants in Mediterranean ecosystems are insect pollinated, with pollen being the main reward to pollinators. The great majority of pollinators (70%) are bees and flies. We measured the energy content of pollen from 40 plant species in these ecosystems that represent abiotic and biotic pollination modes as well as the number of species of their pollinators. Pollen energy content correlates with pollinator diversity. Pollen of wind-pollinated plants contained less energy than that of insect-pollinated plants; there was no difference between insect-pollinated dicots and insect-pollinated monocots. The median date of flowering (from 1 January) estimated for each of the plant species did not vary significantly either with the number of pollinator species or with the energy content of pollen. The reasons for the differing values of pollen energy content are discussed; in particular, its relation to the type of pollen reserves, length of the flower style, and pollination enhancement. MEDITERRANEAN ecosystems occupy approximately 40% of the surface of Greece (Margaris, 1981). The basic types are the maquis (evergreen sclerophyll shrubs), phrygana (seasonally dimorphic shrubs), and the Mediterranean conifer woodlands. Although woody plants characterize these ecosystems, particularly in phrygana the dominant life-form (e45%) is that of therophytes (Margaris, 1980). The majority of phryganic plant species are insect pollinated (Margaris, 1984). In maquis, many of the woody plants are primarily anemophilous, temporarily visited by insects like honeybees (Apis mellifera L., Hymenoptera: Apidae). In the Mediterranean woodlands, purely anemophilous plants are encountered (e.g., Pinus halepensis, Cupressus sempervirens). This work was conducted in a typical phryganic ecosystem and is part of a larger study of the pollination food-web in Mediterranean ecosystems. Emphasis is given to energy allocation to pollen, since in such ecosystems pollen is the main reward to pollinators (Herrera, 1985). Most publications considering pollination from the energetic point of view deal with the
Burning for biodiversity: highly resilient ant communities respond only to strongly contrasting fire regimes in Australia's seasonal tropics

According to the pyrodiversity paradigm, a wide range of fire regimes is required to maintain biodiversity in fire-prone landscapes. However, the requisite level of pyrodiversity has seldom been tested and may actually be very low. Here, we examine the sensitivity of tropical savanna ants to variation in fire regimes using results from a long-term fire experiment near Darwin, Australia. Six experimental fire regimes, with varying fire frequency and seasonality, have been applied to 18 one-ha plots in three replicated blocks since 2004, with ants sampled prior to experimental burning and then annually after up to 2009. Our primary focus is on the extent to which different patterns of ant richness and composition are associated with each of the six treatment regimes, or whether there is such high overlap that differences only become apparent when experimental treatments are grouped to provide strongly contrasting fire regimes. When treating each of the six fire treatments separately, we were unable to detect a significant influence of fire on any ant community response variable. We were only able to detect significant ant responses when we grouped the experimental treatments into two contrasting fire frequency classes, low (burnt at most once over the 5 years) vs. high (burnt every 1 or 2 years). Even then, these responses were only evident after 3 years of fire treatment. Our findings demonstrate that ant communities have very high resilience in relation to fire, with differences evident only between strongly contrasting regimes. Such resilience appears to be characteristic of savanna ants throughout the world. Synthesis and applications. A large range of finely tuned fire regimes is unlikely to promote regional ant diversity. Rather, only very limited pyrodiversity (a combination of frequently and infrequently burnt areas) would appear to be sufficient for maintaining diversity at a landscape scale. It is important that fire management for biodiversity conservation focuses on the demonstrated requirements of target species, rather than be based on an assumption that ‘pyrodiversity begets biodiversity’.