Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of maize / legume intercropping on crop productiviy and soil compaction

This research was conducted in western of Turkey to determine the effects of maize/legume intercropping on productivity and soil compaction. The experiment comprised 7 treatments: sole planting of maize (Zea mays L.), cowpea (Vigna sinensis L.) and soybean (Glycine max L.), and 2 different planting patterns (1and 2-row proportion) with 4 maize-legumes intercropping series. Intercropping significantly affected plant height, 1000 grain weight, the height of first ear and grain yield of maize. The results revealed that sole maize and maize+soybean double row strips gave maize grain yield as 11680.2 kg ha and 8990.5 kg ha, respectively. Land equivalent ratio (LER) was greater than 1, indicating that this cropping system was profitable in terms of land utilization. Maximum LER (1.743) was recorded in maize+soybean double row strips. Intercropped legumes were significantly increased soil compaction because of the machine traffic in alternate rows. Based on better interception of sunlight energy, crop growth and grain yield collected during the two growing seasons, 1M:2S (1.74) and 1M:2C (1.69) intercropping systems should be suggested. Mısır/baklagil birlikte ekiminin verimlilik ve toprak sıkışıklığı üzerine etkisi
What instruments should we use to assess paediatric decision-making interventions? A narrative review

There is an increasing number of shared decision-making (SDM) interventions in paediatrics. However, there is little consensus as to the best instruments to assess the feasibility and impact of these interventions. This narrative review aims to answer: (1) what feasibility, knowledge and decision-making instruments have been used to assess paediatric SDM interventions and (2) what are the psychometric properties of used decision-making instruments, guided by the ‘consensus-based standards for the selection of health measurement instrument’ criteria. We conducted a review of the peer-reviewed literature. We identified 23 studies that evaluated a paediatric intervention to facilitate SDM for a specific health decision. Eighteen studies assessed intervention feasibility, with a wide variability in assessment between studies. Twelve studies assessed objective knowledge, and four studies assessed subjective knowledge with all but one study aggregating correct responses. We identified nine decision-making instruments that had been assessed psychometrically, although few had been thoroughly evaluated. The Decisional Conflict Scale was the most commonly-used instrument and the only instrument evaluated in paediatrics. Our study revealed a lack of consistency in the instruments used to evaluate decision-making interventions in paediatrics, making it difficult to compare interventions. We provide several recommendations for researchers to improve the assessment of SDM interventions in paediatrics.
Intrapatient Variability of Tacrolimus Exposure in Solid Organ Transplantation: A Novel Marker for Clinical Outcome

The calcineurin‐inhibitor tacrolimus (Tac) provides an acceptable balance between prevention of allograft rejection and drug‐related adverse effects, making it the standard of care in all types of solid organ transplantation for the last 2 decades. Recent data have demonstrated that high intrapatient variability (IPV) in Tac predose trough concentrations has deleterious effects on allograft survival. The underlying mechanisms by which a high Tac IPV shortens allograft survival are acute and chronic rejection, donor‐specific anti‐HLA antibodies, and progressive fibrotic damage to the graft. Modifiable causes of high Tac IPV include medication nonadherence (MNA), drug interactions, nutritional interferences, and concurrent diseases. Recognizing high Tac IPV as an important prognostic risk factor after solid organ transplantation requires understanding of the definitions, the use of correct diagnostic metrics, and methodology. Therapeutic interventions aimed at reducing Tac IPV are targeted on improving MNA, avoiding or adjusting drug interactions, drug dosing assists, and educational support of recipients.
In vivo evidence for a regulatory role of phosphorylation of Arabidopsis Rubisco activase at the Thr78 site

Significance Rubisco activase (Rca) regulates the activation state of Rubisco, the carboxylating enzyme of photosynthesis. Regulation of Rca by redox status of cysteine residues in species such as Arabidopsis is well recognized, but the role of recently identified phosphorylation of Rca at threonine-78 was uncertain. We now show a regulatory role of Arabidopsis Rca phosphorylation. Surprisingly, we also observed that the conservative substitution of serine for threonine-78 results in impaired functionality of Rca in vivo that is associated with retention of phosphorylation well into the light period and with reduced plant growth. This likely reflects in part the specificity of the requisite protein kinase(s) for serine versus threonine and may explain the absence of serine at this position in terrestrial plants. Arabidopsis Rubisco activase (Rca) is phosphorylated at threonine-78 (Thr78) in low light and in the dark, suggesting a potential regulatory role in photosynthesis, but this has not been directly tested. To do so, we transformed an rca-knockdown mutant largely lacking redox regulation with wild-type Rca-β or Rca-β with Thr78-to-Ala (T78A) or Thr78-to-Ser (T78S) site–directed mutations. Interestingly, the T78S mutant was hyperphosphorylated at the Ser78 site relative to Thr78 of the Rca-β wild-type control, as evidenced by immunoblotting with custom antibodies and quantitative mass spectrometry. Moreover, plants expressing the T78S mutation had reduced photosynthesis and quantum efficiency of photosystem II (ϕPSII) and reduced growth relative to control plants expressing wild-type Rca-β under all conditions tested. Gene expression was also altered in a manner consistent with reduced growth. In contrast, plants expressing Rca-β with the phospho-null T78A mutation had faster photosynthetic induction kinetics and increased ϕPSII relative to Rca-β controls. While expression of the wild-type Rca-β or the T78A mutant fully rescued the slow-growth phenotype of the rca-knockdown mutant grown in a square-wave light regime, the T78A mutants grew faster than the Rca-β control plants at low light (30 µmol photons m−2 s−1) and in a fluctuating low-light/high-light environment. Collectively, these results suggest that phosphorylation of Thr78 (or Ser78 in the T78S mutant) plays a negative regulatory role in vivo and provides an explanation for the absence of Ser at position 78 in terrestrial plant species.
Three-step coreference-based summarizer for Polish news texts

Abstract This article addresses the problem of automatic summarization of press articles in Polish. The main novelty of this research lays in the proposal of a three-step summarization algorithm which benefits from using coreference information. In related work section, all coreference-based approaches to summarization are presented. Then we describe in detail all publicly available summarization tools developed for Polish language. We state the problem of single-document press article summarization for Polish, describing the training and evaluation dataset: the POLISH SUMMARIES CORPUS. Next, a new coreference-based extractive summarization system NICOLAS is introduced. Its algorithm utilises advanced third-party preprocessing tools to extract the coreference information from the text to be summarized. This information is transformed into a complex set of features related to coreference concepts (mentions and coreference clusters) that are used for training the summarization system (on the basis of a manually prepared gold summaries corpus). The proposed solution is compared to the best publicly available summarization systems for Polish language and two state-of-the-art tools, developed for English language, but adapted to Polish for this article. NICOLAS summarization system obtains best scores, for selected metrics outperforming other systems in a statistically significant way. The evaluation also contains calculation of interesting upper-bounds: human performance and theoretical upper-bound.
Exposing agents as web services: a case study using JADE and SPADE

Agents are autonomous software components that can be combined into multiagent systems (MAS). They possess capabilities related to distributed systems. For this reason, agents have been studied along with web services and Web technologies in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). With the advent of new Web-related paradigms, the need of reviewing existing work in this area arises. In this paper we briefly review some of the existing work relating agents and web services. For this purpose, we perform a comparison between two existing multiagent platforms (JADE and SPADE) considering their ability to support agents as web services. This comparison is done using an existing implementation of a simple MAS in JADE and its re-implementation in SPADE.
ON THE DYNAMICS OF BIOMASS AND BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY SPECIES OCTOLASION LACTEUM “ ( OLIGOCHAETA – LUMBRICIDAE ) ”

The present study analyzes Octolasion (Oligochaeta Lumbricidae) and Octolasion lacteum species in terms of biomass dynamics and biological productivity at different soil levels (from 10cm to 40cm) in three hilly forest areas of Cândeşti Piedmont, Arges County, in the period MarchOctober 2008. This species belongs to the group of endogeic species with an important role in mixing organic-mineral soils and is considered eudominant with the most important role in the functioning of forest ecosystems. The results showed that the monthly biomass of the soil levels in the three areas ranged from 0.57 3.221 mg.d. s/m2 in the deciduous forest, 0.22 0.492 mg.d. s/m2 in the spruce forest and 0.67 2,389 mg.d. s/m2 in the grassland. The deciduous (20.155 mg.su./m 2 ) and the grassland forests (22.643 mg.su./m 2 ) had the highest biological productivity.
ATRX loss induces telomere dysfunction and necessitates induction of alternative lengthening of telomeres during human cell immortalization

Loss of the histone H3.3‐specific chaperone component ATRX or its partner DAXX frequently occurs in human cancers that employ alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) for chromosomal end protection, yet the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Here, we report that ATRX/DAXX does not serve as an immediate repressive switch for ALT. Instead, ATRX or DAXX depletion gradually induces telomere DNA replication dysfunction that activates not only homology‐directed DNA repair responses but also cell cycle checkpoint control. Mechanistically, we demonstrate that this process is contingent on ATRX/DAXX histone chaperone function, independently of telomere length. Combined ATAC‐seq and telomere chromatin immunoprecipitation studies reveal that ATRX loss provokes progressive telomere decondensation that culminates in the inception of persistent telomere replication dysfunction. We further show that endogenous telomerase activity cannot overcome telomere dysfunction induced by ATRX loss, leaving telomere repair‐based ALT as the only viable mechanism for telomere maintenance during immortalization. Together, these findings implicate ALT activation as an adaptive response to ATRX/DAXX loss‐induced telomere replication dysfunction.
Defensive Driving Behavior Cognitive Model Based on Agent Theory

Based on the Agent theory, the Defensive Driving Behavior Cognitive Model (referred to as DDBCM) is established, DDBCM has integrated the perception, movement, behavior, cognition and other components, and can generate lifelike personification behavior. In order to realize the complicated behavior control of DDBCM, according to the simplified inclusive type structure, the hierarchical behavior control model of DDBCM is constructed; In the cognitive planning, the task knowledge representation model of the virtual decisionmaking training and the path planning method that can satisfy the DDBCM is studied, so as to realize its overall path planning. Finally, on the PC machine the behavior simulation system of DDBCM is realized, which can satisfy the need of the behavior control and decision analysis of DDBCM.
A NOVEL ADAPTIVE FINITE VOLUME METHOD FOR ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive finite volume method (AFVM) for elliptic equations. As a standard adaptive method, a loop of our method involves four steps: Solve → Estimate → Mark → Refine. The novelty of our method is that we do not have the traditional “completion” procedure in the Refine step. To guarantee the conformity, a triangular element with a hanging node is treated as a quadrilateral element, and the corresponding function space consists of the bilinear functions. The optimal computational complexity of our AFVM is validated by numerical examples.
Dynamics of a 2 D droplet in a Hele-Shaw cell

Droplet microfluidics is a growing field of research. However, the dynamics of these objects remain misunderstood. Indeed, a question as fundamental as predicting the droplet velocity while pushed by an external fluid at a given velocity (Fig.1) is still not answered [1] [2]. Understanding the dynamics of a droplet requires characterizing the viscous dissipation mechanisms (friction) within the droplet and in the lubrication film. As this dissipation is related to the geometry and to the physicochemical properties of the interface separating the inner phase of the droplet from the outer phase, predicting a droplet velocity requires determining both the lubrication film topography and the boundary condition at the interface. This work presents a characterization of the dynamics of 2D droplets in a Hele-Shaw cell (Fig. 1), by taking advantage of the double measurement of the lubrication film profile by interference microscopy [3] and of the droplet velocity. We consider fluorinated oil droplets in an aqueous solution containing C10TAB above the CMC (990 mM) and NaCl at 1 M to screen the electrostatic interactions (Fig. 2). Interestingly, in the central axis of droplet migration, the lubrication film is recovered at the front considering a stress-free boundary condition, while the rear meniscus requires a rigid boundary condition. This is the signature that the surfactant surface concentration is not homogeneous along the interface and accumulates at the rear. The measured profile allows extracting the boundary condition at the interface (interfacial velocity and corresponding surface tension gradient). Furthermore, in a transverse direction, the profile displays a vault shape that can be modeled considering a Bretherton [4] like model, involving the normal velocity to the contour of the droplet. In a second part, it is possible to calculate the dissipation in each part of the lubrication film thanks to the profiles that have been previously described. We present a model that allows to reproduce the droplet velocity without any fitting parameter, by considering the different boundary conditions from the front meniscus to the rear one. We show that the model is very sensitive to the local boundary condition at the interface. This result clearly shows that predicting droplet velocity calls for the knowledge of the local boundary condition at the interface that is likely to be altered by the presence of surfactants.
How MPs ties to Interest Groups Influence Legislative Co-sponsorship

This article investigates whether linkages between members of parliament (MPs) and interest groups influence MPs' agenda-setting behavior. Empirically, it focuses on MP-group ties and MPs' co-sponsoring of legislative proposals in the Swiss parliament. The analysis is based on statistical models for network data (ERGM), and controls for traditional explanatory variables of co-sponsorship behavior, such as MPs' party membership, legislative committee assignments, electoral districts, seniority in Parliament, and gender. On top of this, MP-group ties matter. On the one hand, MPs with ties to similar interest groups tend to mutually cosponsor their proposals. On the other hand, MPs with ties to groups active in a specific policy domain are more likely to co-sponsor proposals in that domain. These findings have implications for the study of groups' lobbying, legislative behavior and representative democracy.
BENEFITS OF IMPLEMENTATION AND CERTIFICATION OF MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY ENTERPRISES

System compliant with ISO 9001:2008 is considered to be most common standardized management system in organizations. This article presents internal and external benefits of implementation and certification of the system. The most important benefits of functioning of the management system include opportunities to improve the company’s external brand as well as to adjust to customers' expectations. Some trends have been identified in certification of management systems in the Polish food industry enterprises. One of them is a tendency to resign from the quality management system certification in accordance with the ISO 9001 standard for voluntary certification of the HACCP system, or other voluntary standards to ensure health safety.
Unclassified ENV / JM / MONO ( 2015 ) 17 / PART 6 / ANN 1

We describe a comprehensive optimisation study culminating in a standardised and validated approach for the preparation of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticle dispersions in relevant biological media. This study utilises a TiO2 reference nanomaterial based on a commercially available powder that has been widely examined in both acute and chronic toxicity studies. The dispersion approach as presented here satisfies four key harmonisation requirements not previously addressed: (1) method transferability, based in part on the use of a sonication energy calibration method that allows for power measurement and reporting in a device-independent manner; (2) optimisation of sonication parameters and thorough method validation in terms of particle size distribution, pH, isoelectric point, concentration range and batch variability; (3) minimisation of sonolysis side effects by elimination of organics during sonication and (4) characterisation of nanoparticle agglomeration under various dispersion conditions by use of laser diffraction spectrometry, an in situ size characterisation technique that provides advantages over other techniques more commonly employed within the context of nanotoxicology (e.g. dynamic light scattering). The described procedure yields monomodal, nanoscale, protein-stabilised nanoparticle dispersions in biological media that remain stable for at least 48 h (acute testing timeframe) under typical incubation conditions.
Line Drawing Guided Progressive Inpainting of Mural Damages

Mural image inpainting refers to repairing the damage or missing areas in a mural image to restore the visual appearance. Most existing image-inpainting methods tend to take a target image as the only input and directly repair the damage to generate a visually plausible result. These methods obtain high performance in restoration or completion of some specific objects, e.g., human face, fabric texture, and printed texts, etc., however, are not suitable for repairing murals with varied subjects, especially for murals with large damaged areas. Moreover, due to the discrete colors in paints, mural inpainting may suffer from apparent color bias as compared to natural image inpainting. To this end, in this paper, we propose a line drawing guided progressive mural inpainting method. It divides the inpainting process into two steps: structure reconstruction and color correction, executed by a structure reconstruction network (SRN) and a color correction network (CCN), respectively. In the structure reconstruction, line drawings are used by SRN as a guarantee for large-scale content authenticity and structural stability. In the color correction, CCN operates a local color adjustment for missing pixels which reduces the negative effects of color bias and edge jumping. The proposed approach is evaluated against the current state-of-the-art image inpainting methods. Qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method in mural image inpainting. The codes and data are available at {https://github.com/qinnzou/mural-image-inpainting}.
A comprehensive review of plus-minus ratings for evaluating individual players in team sports

Abstract The increasing availability of data from sports events has led to many new directions of research, and sports analytics can play a role in making better decisions both within a club and at the level of an individual player. The ability to objectively evaluate individual players in team sports is one aspect that may enable better decision making, but such evaluations are not straightforward to obtain. One class of ratings for individual players in team sports, known as plus-minus ratings, attempt to distribute credit for the performance of a team onto the players of that team. Such ratings have a long history, going back at least to the 1950s, but in recent years research on advanced versions of plus-minus ratings has increased noticeably. This paper presents a comprehensive review of contributions to plus-minus ratings in later years, pointing out some key developments and showing the richness of the mathematical models developed. One conclusion is that the literature on plus-minus ratings is quite fragmented, but that awareness of past contributions to the field should allow researchers to focus on some of the many open research questions related to the evaluation of individual players in team sports.
1 MTP Project 3 Output 1 Target 2 Assessment of dormancy and sprouting behavior of elite and advanced clones

In potato breeding and selection, storability or keeping quality of potatoes should be regarded as equally important as yield, disease resistance, and quality. It is one of the considerations that need to be evaluated before releasing any variety so that farmers are able to store their produce for a desired period of time at their farm under traditional storing conditions or in refrigerated storage infrastructure, depending whether the end-use is for fresh consumption, processing, or planting as seed. For estimating keeping quality of a particular potato clone, its dormancy period, sprouting behavior, and weight loss are major criteria that should be documented before any promising clone is released.
Oscillatory Activities in A Neuronal Network Model

We analyzed the oscillatory activities in a neuronal network model as the basis of synchrony of the activities in the brain. The model consists of two groups of neurons that are interconnected. One group is composed of an excitatory and an inhibitory neuron which are expressed by Hodgkin-Huxley equations. The network shows different phase-locked oscillations depending on the structure and intensity of interconnection between groups or coupling of neurons in the group, or the value of transmission delay. The oscillations include various periodic solutions in which the two groups oscillate not only in in-phase or anti-phase but also in continuously changing phase difference with the parameters of coupling and transmission delay.
ZAGREB INDICES AND MULTIPLICATIVE ZAGREB INDICES OF DOUBLE GRAPHS OF SUBDIVISION GRAPHS

Let G be a simple graph. The subdivision graph and the double graph are the graphs obtained from a given graph G which have several properties related to the properties of G. In this paper, the first and second Zagreb and multiplicative Zagreb indices of double graphs, subdivision graphs, double graphs of the subdivision graphs and subdivision graphs of the double graphs of G are obtained. In particular, these numbers are calculated for the frequently used null, path, cycle, star, complete, complete bipartite or tadpole graph.