Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of supplementary nutrition on the reproduction and mating behaviour of Habrobracon hebetor (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

To improve the mass production of the parasitoid Habrobracon hebetor (Say) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) the effects of supplementary nutrition on its reproduction and mating behaviour were investigated using Plodia interpunctella Hübner (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) larva as a host. The survival of mated male wasps was markedly prolonged after feeding with fi ve different types of nutrients and that of unmated males was markedly prolonged except when provided with yeast solution. Providing female wasps with supplementary nutrition did not affect their longevity. When H. hebetor reproduced sexually and was supplied with an abundance of hosts, females produced 101.0 and 96.7 female offspring, respectively, when fed 20% sucrose or 20% honey solutions, however, when provided with only ten hosts the provision of supplementary nutrition did not affect the number of female offspring they produced. The 20% maltose, 20% sucrose and 20% honey solutions signifi cantly promoted the courtship behaviour of male wasps, and the 20% yeast and 20% honey solutions increased the mating success of males paired with virgin females. * Corresponding author; e-mail: huangyz@ahau.edu. cn ** The fi rst two authors contributed equally to the present study. INTRODUCTION Controlling pests using their natural enemies is one of the most important measures proposed for the development of sustainable agriculture (Ahmad & Jam, 2015). The control of pests by natural enemies is in accord with the natural order and processes, includes the protection and utilization of indigenous natural enemies in nature and the release of artifi cially produced natural enemies (Yang et al., 2006). For improving pest control using natural enemies the most immediate and effective means is to simultaneously release artifi cially produced natural enemies into nature (Michaud, 2018). However, because of the technology needed, unstable effect and high cost it is not a popular method of pest control (Zhang & Chen, 2014). Therefore, approaches for effectively enhancing the effi ciency of artifi cial breeding and use of natural enemies have been developed by scientists to overcome the obstacles to the use of natural enemy control. As an ectoparasitoid of the larvae of many kinds of Lepidoptera, H. hebetor exerts good control on these insect pests in the fi eld (Benson, 1974; Nay & Perring, 2005). There is information on the population growth and host location by H. hebetor (Nikam & Pawar, 1993; Mironidis & Savopoulou-Soultani, 2009; Adarkwah et al., 2010; Mbata Eur. J. Entomol. 117: 393–399, 2020 doi: 10.14411/eje.2020. 043
A Variable-Gain Low-Noise Transimpedance Amplifier for Miniature Ultrasound Probes

This article presents a low-noise transimpedance amplifier (TIA) designed for miniature ultrasound probes. It provides continuously variable gain to compensate for the time-dependent attenuation of the received echo signal. This time-gain compensation (TGC) compresses the echo-signal dynamic range (DR) while avoiding imaging artifacts associated with discrete gain steps. Embedding the TGC function in the TIA reduces the output DR, saving power compared to prior solutions that apply TGC after the low-noise amplifier. The TIA employs a capacitive ladder feedback network and a current-steering circuit to obtain a linear-in-dB gain range of 37 dB. A variable-gain loop amplifier based on current-reuse stages maintains constant bandwidth in a power-efficient manner. The TIA has been integrated in a 64-channel ultrasound transceiver application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) in a 180-nm BCDMOS process and occupies a die area of 0.12 mm2. It achieves a gain error below ±1 dB and a 1.7 pA/ $\surd $ Hz noise floor and consumes 5.2 mW from a ±0.9 V supply. B-mode images of a tissue-mimicking phantom are presented that show the benefits of the TGC scheme.
Effect of Intraligamentary Anaesthesia in Reducing Pain During Primary Molars Extractions Under General Anesthesia: A randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT Dentist anesthetists are always recommending the use of local anesthesia (LA) during tooth extractions to block any noxious stimulus and maintain the child vital signs with minimal interference. Objective: To evaluate the effect of intraligamentry anaesthesia (ILA) in reducing child pain and maintaining the vital signs during mandibular primary molars extraction under general anaesthesia (GA). Study design: A split-mouth controlled randomized clinical study was performed on 20 healthy children age ranging from 4-5 years indicated for complete oral rehabilitation under GA, with at least two bilateral mandibular primary molars indicated for extractions. A total of 40 primary molars were extracted, teeth were randomly assigned into two groups: Group A (extraction with ILA) and Group B (extraction without LA). Heart rate (HR) and mean arterial blood pressure (MABP) were used as parameters of pain, they were recorded before extraction (baseline data), and during the extraction procedure. The need of anesthetist intervention during extractions was also recorded. Results: There was no statistically significant difference between the baseline vital parameters (HR, MABP) and during extraction using ILA (p= 0.195, p=0.133 respectively). There was a statistically significant increase in the vital parameters (HR, MABP) during extractions without LA compared to both the baseline and during extraction using ILA (p= 0.000*). The need of anaesthetist intervention was statistically greater when extracting without LA than during extraction with ILA (p=0.00026).
Osteoporosis Knowledge, Beliefs and Self-efficacy Among Female University Students: A Descriptive Study

Participants had a relatively low level of knowledge regarding osteoporosis (M=8.1/20, 40.5%). In general, they had fairly positive beliefs towered osteoporosis with a percentage of 70% (M=3.5/5, SD=0.3) and moderate self-efficacy in practicing osteoporosis recommended practices. No significant differences were observed in participants’ knowledge, beliefs, and self-efficacy of osteoporosis based on their demographic variables except their college specialty.
Prediction of Compressive Strength of High Strength Concrete Using Multiple Linear Regression Equation (MLRE) and Numerical model

Considerable increase in use of statics and its methods in representing the complex relationship between factors that contributes in the strength of concrete is noted these days. There is a gap in literature about the statistical and numerical studies of high strength concrete. An effort is made in this research to give an equation that can predict the values of compressive strength of High strength concrete. Moreover, the experimental results and the predicted values of SPSS are validated by using ABAQUS, a finite element modeling tool. The objective of this study is to provide 3D Finite Element model (using ABAQUS) and to use simple data to develop linear regression model (using IBM SPSS) for prediction of Compressive strength of High strength Concrete. HSC was developed by the use of locally available materials such as quartz powder, silica fume, steel fibers and quartz aggregates. The study also investigates the performance of concrete mixtures in terms of Compressive strength at age of 7 and 28 days. The effect of using quartz aggregates in place of quartz powder reduced the compressive strength. Steam curing resulted in reducing the strength when cured above 100 0C due to cross over effect. A data base of 56 concrete cubes (subjected to different proportions of constituents used in HSC) is used as reference to develop equation. The resulting equation was used to find the Compressive strength of HSC and is compared with that of experimental and numerical values obtained. The results showed high correlation coefficient r, 97 % and the coefficient of determination r2, 94 % between the actual and predicted values.
AGE AND SARS-COV2 INFECTION

Th e beginning of 2020 was marked by the emergence of the 2019 COVID-19 pandemic (Corona Virus Disease from 2019) caused by the new corona virus, SARS-CoV-2 (also known as new CoV, 2019-nCoV or COVI-19), a name derived from the syndrome name, i.e. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which fi rst appeared in China at the end of 2019 (1) and then spread rapidly around the world. So far, the animal from which the SARS-CoV-2 was transmitted to humans is not known yet with certainty. In addition to the previously known MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV, which can cause severe clinical presentation (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), four other human coronaviruses (229E, NL63, OC43 and HKU1) have been shown to cause infection only in the upper respiratory tract and cause relatively minor symptoms. SARS-CoV-2 has the ability to infect and actively reproduce in the upper respiratory tract.
Co-circulating mumps lineages at multiple geographic scales

Despite widespread vaccination, eleven thousand mumps cases were reported in the United States (US) in 2016–17, including hundreds in Massachusetts, primarily in college settings. We generated 203 whole genome mumps virus (MuV) sequences from Massachusetts and 15 other states to understand the dynamics of mumps spread locally and nationally, as well as to search for variants potentially related to vaccination. We observed multiple MuV lineages circulating within Massachusetts during 2016–17, evidence for multiple introductions of the virus to the state, and extensive geographic movement of MuV within the US on short time scales. We found no evidence that variants arising during this outbreak contributed to vaccine escape. Combining epidemiological and genomic data, we observed multiple co-circulating clades within individual universities as well as spillover into the local community. Detailed data from one well-sampled university allowed us to estimate an effective reproductive number within that university significantly greater than one. We also used publicly available small hydrophobic (SH) gene sequences to estimate migration between world regions and to place this outbreak in a global context, but demonstrate that these short sequences, historically used for MuV genotyping, are inadequate for tracing detailed transmission. Our findings suggest continuous, often undetected, circulation of mumps both locally and nationally, and highlight the value of combining genomic and epidemiological data to track viral disease transmission at high resolution.
DeepFake Video Production and SIFT-based Analysis

— Nowadays advantages in face-based modification using DeepFake algorithms made it possible to replace a face of one person with a face of another person. Thus, it is possible to make not only copy-move modifications, but to implement artificial intelligence and deep learning for replacing face movements from one person to another. Still images can be converted into video sequences. Consequently, the contemporaries, historical figures or even animated characters can be lively presented. Deepfakes are becoming more and more successful and it is difficult to detect them in some cases. In this paper we explain the video sequences we produced (e.g. using X2Face method, and First Order Motion Model for Image Animation) and perform deepfake video analysis using SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) based approach. The experiments show the simplicity in video forgery production, as well as the possible role of SIFT keypoints detection in differentiation between the deeply forged and original video content.
RESUMPTION IN ENGLISH: AN INVESTIGATION OF USAGE AND ACCEPTABILITY*

Resumption in English has typically been characterised as a ‘rescuing’ device, used in spoken language as a way of ameliorating otherwise illicit sentences. However, experimental evidence presents a paradox: though resumption is frequently attested in spoken English, it does not appear to improve acceptability in all the environments in which it is used. This paper investigates this paradox in further detail by comparing data from a corpus and an acceptability judgement task. The primary objective is to investigate whether resumption is judged more acceptable in those environments in which it is most frequent, as a means of better understanding the status and purpose of this peculiar phenomenon.
Development & characterization and in vivo assessment of insulin loaded thermo sensitive in situ nano gel for nasal delivery

The mucoadhesive gel formulations are helpful to prolong the residence time at the nasal absorption site and thereby facilitate the uptake of drug. The objective of the present study was to develop a thermo sensitive in Situ nanogel system based on chitosan and tripolyphosphate for nasal delivery of insulin. Nanogel containing insulin was prepared through an ionic gelation method. The concentration of the components was optimized during formulation development and then characterized in terms of Drug content, mucoadhesive strength, pH, Spreadability, and stability study and drug release behavior. The drug release results were fitted on five mathematical models to choose the model best describing the phenomenon. The in vitro release of insulin from gel network was observed spectrophotometrically which was good enough to maintain blood glucose level for 14 hour. Then the nano-formulation and insulin Sc injection as control were administered in the nasal cavity for rats and after 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 hrs their blood glucose levels, serum insulin level analyzed for antidiabetic activity. The observed in vitro and in vivo results indicate that the proposed thermo sensitive in Situ gelling system has substantial potential as nasal delivery system for insulin.
Effect of various crop production systems on population of rhizosphere microorganisms in field bean crop

An experiment was conducted during 2018-19, in field bean crop (Dolichos lablab.) at research experimental plot, RIOF and NSP field, UAS, Bengaluru. Where we have imposed various farming production systems to study the status of rhizosphere microbial population at various growth stages of the crop. The beneficial microbial consortia includes biofetilizers, and Beejamritha was provided externally through the seed treatment application and jeevamritha was provided throughout the crop growth period at 15 days interval. Among the results obtained, the Zero Budget Natural Farming treatment was recorded highest population of bacteria (55X10), N fixers (3.4X10) and P solubilizers (34.8X10). With respect to the population of actinomycetes and fungi it was observed that the highest count was in the treatment of Organic Farming Practice (32.2X10) and UAS, (B) Package of Practice (23X10) respectively. But in the overall scenario ZBNF has shown the highest count of microbial population in the rhizosphere soil, compare to rest of the farming production systems.
MeV emission from pulsar wind nebulae

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), the structures formed by the interaction between the neutron star’s environment and its rotation-powered outflow (or “pulsar wind”), comprise a significant fraction of the identified γ-ray population in the Milky Way. As a result, these sources must produce extremely energetic leptons, but how they do so is poorly understood. As described in this article, measuring the MeV properties of PWN is critical for understanding how PWN are able to accelerate e± to PeV energies (and beyond).
Negative inversion without negation : On fuck-inversion in British English

I describe and analyze a novel English phenomenon that I call fuckinversion, which conveys emphatic negation despite lacking overt negative morphology: Am I fuck wearing one of those! (= “I’m denitely not wearing one of those”). I argue that this phenomenon, which is only aested in varieties spoken in the British Isles, gets its negative semantics from a silent negative operator in the le periphery of the clause. is operator takes widest scope: for example, it scopes over the subject position, exceptionally licensing NPIs there. I claim that this operator is the silent analogue of the initial negative XP involved in canonical negative inversion (e.g. No way will I be wearing one of those! ). us, fuckinversion sheds light on the broader typology of inversion phenomena expressing emphatic polarity, and the status of verb second syntax more generally.
p-adic Weil II ( after Kedlaya )

1 Aim Let q = pr for a fixed prime p. Let k be a perfect field of characteristic p containing Fq, let o be a finite totally ramified extension of the ring of Witt vectors W (k), let m be the maximal ideal of O and let K denote the fraction field of o. One assumes that o admits an automorphism σK lifting the q-power Frobenius map. We fix once and for all an embedding ι : K ↪→ C. By a variety we understand a separated scheme of finite type over Fq. Berthelot defines a p-adic cohomology theory, rigid cohomology (and a version with compact support), which seems reasonable (as we shall see) for any variety, and which generalizes crystalline cohomology in the smooth proper case and Monsky-Washnitzer cohomology in the smooth affine case. The role of coefficients is played by so-called overconvergent F -isocrystals, which are sheaves on certain analytic spaces. Here F corresponds to a Frobenius, so that there exists a theory of weights, with respect to the embedding ι. The aim of the seminar is to understand the proof of the following p-adic analogue of Weil II over a point:
The effect of chitosan and fluoride varnish on Streptococcus mutans count in saliva

Background and Objective: Dental caries is considered as the major oral health problem caused by oral bacteria. The aim of the present study was to compare the effect of chitosan and fluoride varnishes on Streptococcus mutans count in saliva. Materials and ANALYSIS 24(104), July August, 2020 Medical Science ISSN 2321–7359 EISSN 2321–7367
Composition of Volatile Oil of Iris pallida Lam. from Ukraine

Objectives: To qualitatively and quantitatively study the composition of essential oil from the dried rhizomes and leaves of Iris pallida Lam. from Ukraine for the first time. Materials and Methods: Essential oils obtained by steam distillation were investigated using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. Results: The essential oils were obtained from the leaves and rhizomes by yielding 0.03% and 0.20%, respectively. The analysis of the oil resulted in the identification of 26 components in the leaves and 18 components in the rhizomes. The dominant terpenes in the essential oil of the leaves of I. pallida were squalene (6%), hexahydrofarnesylacetone (8%) and neophytadiene (up to 6%). Among them, myristic acid (56%), capric acid (14.50%), lauric acid (15.42%), α-irone (2.85%) were found as the dominant compounds of the essential oil of the rhizomes of I. pallida. α-irone and γ-irone contents are accepted as the most significant criteria of the commercial quality of Iris essential oil. The compounds β-damascenone and squalene were identified for the first time in plants of the genus Iris. Conclusion: I. pallida of Ukraine can be recommended as an additional source of raw materials for essential oil from the rhizomes and as a source of bioactive substances.
ISSUES FOR MEASURING ENERGY EFFICIENT OF CLOUD COMPUTING DATA CENTER

: The Technology, Cloud computing provides a platform for the sharing of resources such as hardware, software, infrastructure, application and other information. Cloud Computing brings a revolution in Information Technology industry by offering on-demand of resources. Clouds are basically virtualized datacenters and applications offered as services. Datacenter (Server infrastructure) hosts hundreds or thousands of servers which comprised of software and hardware to respond the client request. A huge amount of energy requires to perform the operation. A data center with 500*100 servers consumes around 9 Megawatt to perform operation. Energy consumption is a key concern in data center. Energy consumption by Google is 2,675,898 MWh in 2011. United States datacenters use more than 90 billion Kilowatt-hours of electricity a year requiring roughly 34 giant(500-megawatt) coal-powered plants. Global data Centers used roughly 416 terawatts (4.16 x 1014 watts) in 2017 nearly 40% more than the entire United Kingdom. Cloud Computing is facing lot of challenges like Security of Data, Server Consolidation, Consumption of energy etc. The research work focuses on the study of task scheduling management in a cloud environment. Different issues for measuring Energy efficient of cloud computing are:-1) Server consolidation: Energy optimization is an important issue to reduce this, a idea is to redeem the idle power going waste by underutilized servers. 2) Security of data. It hampers the expansion of the cloud. 3) Energy consumption: It has been found that a server even runs a very small workload, then also it consume over 50% of the peak power. 4) VM Migration: virtual machines have to be migrated between physical machines loaded in any datacenter in order to achieve better provisioning of resources.
Treatment of Wastewater from Pulp and Paper Mill using Coagulation and Flocculation

In this work, an effluent sample from a local medium-scale paper mill has been treated using alum as a coagulant and chitosan (natural polymer) as a flocculant. Initially, the dose of alum has been optimized by adjusting the zeta potential to near zero for best coagulation results. The dose of 0.04 g/L was able to merely coagulate and unable to cause sweep flocculation of impurities. Then, at the optimised dose of 0.04 g/L various concentrations of chitosan in the range of 0.1-0.5 g/L were investigated for obtaining maximum flocculation of the suspended impurities. The physico-chemical parameters like pH, total suspended solids (TSS), chemical oxygen demand (COD), absorbance, and zeta potential were studied for comprehending the flocculation behavior. The observed results exhibited that the maximum flocculation was achieved at the chitosan concentration of 0.3 g/L. At the flocculant concentration of 0.3 g/L, 81% TSS removal and maximum 78% COD were reduced. Moreover, zeta potential value of the collected supernatant was close to zero (–1.49 mV) which showed larger floc formation and easy settleability of the impurities. In all, it can be said that the utilization of chitosan along with alum may be a better option for the treatment of pulp and paper wastewater as well as other similar types of wastewater.
Sap-Flow Sensors for Small-Diameter Nursery Seedlings

Sensors can be used to improve irrigation management decisions in nurseries. Optimizing irrigation efficiency aims to apply sufficient water for growth while reducing excessive leaching to reduce costs and environmental pollution. Pairing soil moisture sensors with plant sensors enables irrigation managers to quantify the volume of water to be applied that will directly affect crop productivity. Sap-flow sensors are considered a potential tool for irrigation management because they provide a real-time method to measure how plants respond to aboveand belowground environments. This report provides detailed methods to build an external sap-flow sensor that can be used on small-diameter nursery seedlings and discusses how sap-flow sensors can be utilized with nursery seedlings to provide information about plant physiology, improve irrigation scheduling, and monitor outplanting success. This article will be useful to researchers and growers who previously associated sap-flow sensors only with large diameter trees by describing the opportunities for applying sap-flow methodology to small-diameter nursery plants. This paper was presented at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association and the Intermountain Container Seedling Growers Association (Coeur d’Alene, ID, October 25-26, 2018).