Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Phytochemical Analysis, Antifungal, Antimicrobial Activities and Application of Eichhornia crassipes Against Some Plant Pathogens

Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is an oceanic macrophyte and one of the worst sea-going weeds in the world and Egypt. The grouping of substantial metals in water hyacinth was higher in roots than in shoots. Nutrient content e.g. ammonia, nitrate, nitrite and phosphate was higher in the shoots of water hyacinth. Water hyacinth is a wellspring of phytochemicals which have a medicinal function. In this study, the high degree of peroxidation and nonenzymatic antioxidant systems were detected in leaf extracts. The chemical analysis of the leaf extracts was performed using acetone, ethanol, methanol and n-Butyl alcohol. The fractionated extracts showed the presence of some medicine compounds that include phenols, protein, alkaloids, amino acids, carbohydrate, flavonoids, glycosides, tannins, and terpenoids. The fractionated extracts were screened for antimicrobial and antifungal activities. The leaf extracts of E. crassipes exhibited antimicrobial activities against some bacteria: Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus cereus, Lactobacillus casei and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and antifungal activity against six pathogenic fungi i.e. Aspergillus flavus, A. niger, Alternaria alternata, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Candida albicans, and Fusarium solani by using the well diffusion method. Streptomycin and Fluconazole were used as a standard as antimicrobial and antifungal agents, respectively. B. subtilis, F. solani, C. gloeosporioides and A. alternata were the most susceptible to plant extracts. The most effective antifungal and antimicrobial agent against some plant pathogens was the n-Butyl alcohol extract. Also, it reduced the production of mycotoxin e.g. Aflatoxin B1 and Ochratoxin A. The application of the formulation of the plant extract of E. crassipes protected wheat plants against net blotch diseases. The results indicated that the leaf extractsof E. crassipes have potential as biofungicides and can be used in the industry.
Virtual Teams Research

Ten years ago, Martins, Gilson, and Maynard reviewed the emerging virtual team (VT) literature. Given the proliferation of new communication technologies and the increased usage of work teams, it is hardly surprising that the last decade has seen an influx of VT research. In this review, we organize the last 10 years of empirical work around 10 main themes: research design, team inputs, team virtuality, technology, globalization, leadership, mediators and moderators, trust, outcomes, and ways to enhance VT success. These themes emerged inductively because they either represent areas with consistent results, a large proliferation of studies, or a grouping of studies and results that differed from where the literature stood a decade ago. Following the review section, we turn our attention toward 10 opportunities for future research: study setting, generational impacts, methodological considerations, new and emerging technologies, member mobility, subgroups, team adaptation, transition processes and planning, creativity, and team member well-being. Some of these opportunities emerged from our review of the extant VT literature; others are grounded in the broader team literature, are unresolved theoretical issues, or were linked to insights discussed within the VT practitioner literature. Within the domain of VTs, technological innovation continues to advance the way team members interact and enable individuals who previously could not be connected to work together as a team. Accordingly, VTs provide great promise to organizations, and the field continues to be rich with research opportunities for the coming decade(s).
The Antioxidant effects of Wheat Germ Oil Against Potassium bromate Induced Hepatorenal toxicity in Male Rats

The present study was carried out to investigate the effect of oral administration of wheat germ oil at three dosage levels (150, 300 and 450 mg/kg.b.wt.) to male rats intoxicated with potassium bromate (KBrO3) after 4 weeks of treatment on blood urea nitrogen (BUN), uric acid (UA), creatinine (Cr), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and oxidative stress markers such as glutathione (GSH), malondialdehyde (MDA), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) were determined. Histopathological examination of liver was also performed. Forty adult male Wistar rats were divided into five equal groups as follows: group1: negative control group, group 2: positive control group, groups 3, 4 and 5 intoxicated with KBrO3 and orally given wheat germ oil at dosage levels 150, 300 and 450 mg/kg.b. wt. , respectively. The results showed that oral administration of wheat germ oil at three dosage levels (150, 300 and 450 mg/kg.b.wt.) to intoxicated rats with potassium bromate for 4 weeks significantly decreased in serum levels of blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatinine (Cr), and liver enzymes (AST, ALT and ALP) in a dose depended manner when compared to the control positive group. Oxidative stress markers (MDA, GSH, GPx, SOD and CAT) were significantly improved as compared to the control positive group. Histopathological examination of liver sections of rats orally given wheat germ oil showed alleviation of histological degeneration changes caused by KBrO3. The results of this study indicated that oral administration of wheat germ oil induce potent hepatoprotective, nephroprotective and antioxidant effects in rats intoxicated by KBrO3. This study recommends that, intake of wheat germ oil may be beneficial for patients with oxidative stress which is linked as a main cause of many diseases. [Asmahan T. Alahdal and Reham A. Arafat. The Antioxidant effects of Wheat Germ Oil Against Potassium bromate Induced Hepatorenal toxicity in Male Rats. Life Sci J 2017;14(9):71-80]. ISSN: 1097-8135 (Print) / ISSN: 2372-613X (Online). http://www.lifesciencesite. com. 6. doi:10.7537/marslsj140917.06.
Evidências da eficácia da eletroconvulsoterapia na prática psiquiátrica

A eletroconvulsoterapia (ECT) consiste em tratamento biologico ainda nao amplamente utilizado na pratica psiquiatrica, devido aos inumeros fatores que contribuem para uma resistencia acerca do metodo. Objetivando sustentar, com embasamento cientifico, o emprego da ECT, agregamos evidencias de sua eficacia, indicacoes, contra-indicacoes e efeitos adversos, advindas dos principais ensaios clinicos randomizados e meta-analises disponiveis na literatura medica atual sobre o tema (PubMed/MEDLINE, Cochrane).
Effects of Exogenous and Endogenous Attention on Metacontrast Masking

To efficiently use its finite resources, the visual system selects for further processing only a subset of the rich sensory information. Visual masking and spatial attention control the information transfer from visual sensory-memory to visual short-term memory. There is still a debate whether these two processes operate independently or interact, with empirical evidence supporting both arguments. However, recent studies pointed out that earlier studies showing significant interactions between common-onset masking and attention suffered from ceiling and/or floor effects. Our review of previous studies reporting metacontrast-attention interactions revealed similar artifacts. Therefore, we investigated metacontrast-attention interactions by using an experimental paradigm, in which ceiling/floor effects were avoided. We also examined whether metacontrast masking is differently influenced by endogenous and exogenous attention. We analyzed mean absolute-magnitude of response-errors and their statistical distribution. When targets are masked, our results support the hypothesis that manipulations of the levels of metacontrast and of endogenous/exogenous attention have largely independent effects. Moreover, statistical modeling of the distribution of response-errors suggests weak interactions modulating the probability of “guessing” behavior for some observers in both types of attention. Nevertheless, our data suggest that any joint effect of attention and metacontrast can be adequately explained by their independent and additive contributions.
Tax Competition in Europe - Europe in Competition with Other World Regions?

Corporate tax levels have fallen substantially in Europe during the last decades. A broad literature has identified tax competition as one reason for this decline in corporate tax levels. However, none of these studies explicitly asks the question whether tax competition within regions is different from tax competition across regions, e.g. due to global regionalism of foreign direct investments. This is a crucial question to answer in order to discuss the desirability of tax harmonization in a distinct region, for example, within the European Union. Therefore, the study aims to give hints on the question whether the decline in corporate tax levels in Europe is mainly driven by tax competition between EU member states or by pressure from other world regions. The results of this study, which makes use of tax reaction functions, indicate that there is evidence for tax competition within Europe, whereas there is no robust evidence that European countries compete with countries from other world regions.
incorporating biomarkers into clinical trials in cardiovascular medicine

: Developing novel therapies and establishing clinical benefits over conventional therapies has become a highly competitive and a costly endeavor. In this regard, biomarkers have become increasingly important in accurately assessing both efficacy and safety of these novel therapies. While the use of biomarkers has proved vital in cardiovascular research and disease management, current established biomarkers are inadequate in capturing and accounting for the entire cardiovascular disease process and responses to therapeutic interventions. Substantial effort has been made in exploring and clinically evaluating novel biomarkers. The present review aims to shed light on some of the novel cardiovascular biomarkers being investigated, including high sensitivity C-reactive protein, proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9, P-selectin, secretory phospholipase A 2 , lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A 2 , and growth differentiation factor 15, and illustrate their relevance to clinical research.
Knockdown of lncRNA TP 73 ‐ AS 1 inhibits gastric cancer cell proliferation and invasion via the WNT / β ‐ catenin signaling pathway

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) function as tumor suppressors or oncogenes in tumor development and progression. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the clinical significance and functional role of lncRNA TP73-AS1 in gastric cancer (GC). Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis demonstrated that TP73‐AS1 was significantly upregulated in GC tissues compared with adjacent normal tissues. The higher expression of TP73-AS1 was closely associated with lymph node metastasis and tumor-node-metastasis stage in patients with GC. Those patients with GC showing a higher expression of TP73-AS1 were predicted to have shorter disease-free survival and overall survival rates. The knockdown of TP73-AS1 was shown to markedly inhibit cell proliferation, cell colony formation and cell invasion. In addition, the downregulation of TP73-AS1 suppressed the expression of transcription factor 4 and β-catenin, which suggested that a decrease in TP73-AS1 suppressed the WNT/β-catenin signaling pathway in GC. Therefore, these results indicated that TP73-AS1 may be a target for GC treatment.
New Hybrid SVMS-BCOA Architecture for Iraqi Vehicles License Plate Recognition

License Plate Recognition system is one kind of a traffic monitoring systems and image-processing technology used to identify vehicles by their Iraqi license plates. This technology is used for many applications such as finding stolen cars, parking decks, border control, and solution to the problem of monitoring the tremendous number of vehicles for law enforcement, various security and traffic applications. A little work has been done for Iraqi license plate recognition systems. Our study proposes new architecture in License Plate Character Recognition (LPCR) based on Support Vector Machines (SVMs) with Bee Colony Optimization Algorithm (BCOA). This Algorithm is used to dynamically select the best training data set for SVMs throughout training. The experimental results show that SVMs reduce the size of training dataset and training time, with the parameters optimization by BCOA. Our proposed Architecture has a satisfactory performance in terms of being more accurate and strong.
CEP Discussion Paper No 1254 January 2014 Missing Gains from Trade ?

The theoretical result that there are welfare gains from trade is a central tenet of international economics. In a class of trade models that satisfy a "gravity equation," the welfare gains from trade can be computed using only the open economy domestic trade share and the elasticity of trade with respect to variable trade costs. The measured welfare gains from trade from this quantitative approach are typically relatively modest. In this paper, we suggest a channel for welfare gains that this quantitative approach typically abstracts from: trade-induced changes in domestic productivity. Using a model of sequential production, in which trade induces a reorganization of production that raises domestic productivity, we show that the welfare gains from trade can become arbitrarily large.
Network Security: Distributed Agents Approach

The purpose of this paper is to present the design of a Hybrid network security system based on distributed multi-agent approach. This system combines NIDPS, HIDPS, KIDPS and firewall using a semantic distribution through detection method and different security levels. The aim is to minimize the analyzis loading so that we can achieve the following goals: to improve the response time, to decrease the number of false positives and false negatives, to ensure interoperability between detection system and prevention system, to reduce blocking harmless traffic and to clean traces of detection and prevention.
Nonverbal expressions of positive emotions

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Using a Multidimensional Transient State Vector Machine

Rosoka uses a novel approach to extracting information from text, which is not based on the classic mathematical model of a sender and receiver of information but instead of upon a mathematical model of a “third party listener” trying to interpret the information sent between the sender and receiver. This mathematical model predicts the presence of additional information that exists between the sender and receiver which is shared, i.e., “shared context”. This shared context model for interpreting possible meaning results in the same mathematical structure as seen in quantum mathematics in that possible messages are distinct from the message meaning. The shared context consists of a number of factors including lexical understanding, linguistic rules, and information or experience that is shared between the sender and receiver, either through world knowledge, personal experiences or prior agreements.
Innovation: Challenges & Perspectives

The 21st century territorial competition has become a contest between economic realities able to compete locally and globally. The proposal for innovative products and services seems to be the right way for companies who want to enter in this context as protagonists. This paper analyzes the data about a region of southern Italy, Apulia, trying to figure out what could be the importance of technological innovation on the performance of individual companies; the causes of the lack of innovation in Puglia and possible strategies to exit by this stage of impasse will be investigated.
Positive social identity and identity conflict

This paper focuses on women leaders’ self-views as women and leaders and explores consequences of positive social identity (i.e., positive evaluation of the social category in question) for women in leadership positions. We hypothesized that holding positive gender and leader identities reduced perceived conflict between women’s gender and leader identities and thereby resulted in favorable psychological and motivational consequences. Studies 1 and 2 revealed that positive gender identity indeed reduced women leaders’ identity conflict. In Study 3, we found that by lessening identity conflict, positive gender identity reduced stress, increased life satisfaction, and caused women to construe leading more as an attractive goal than a duty. In contrast, positive leader identity directly affected women’s motivation to lead, but did not reduce their identity conflict. Overall, these results emphasize the protective role of women’s positive gender identity for their advancement in organizations and leader identity development.
Development Process of Sepsis Diagnosis

Sepsis is a heterogeneous clinical condition that is most common in intensive care units, which is the cause of morbidity, mortality and increased cost. Diagnosis at the earliest stage in the clinical diversity that can progress from simple infection to sepsis and septic shock is the primary clinical goal. Clinical studies and consensus reports have been published and published over the years so that early diagnosis and resuscitation can be started quickly. In fact, it is easy to use in clinical practice and clinical criteria can be set to facilitate the work of the physician without complicated laboratory procedures. Thus, the treatment stage can be overcome to prevent this severe infectious process leading to organ dysfunction and increased mortality. In this review, consensus definitions used in the definition of sepsis, the latest consensus recommendation, and current developments in sepsis are summarized.
Automated attendance management system using face recognition

— The main goal and objective of this automated attendance system of face detection and recognition is to present face recognition in real time environment for educational institutes or an organization to see and mark the attendance of their students and employees on a daily basis to keep track of their presence. The system will mark and record the attendance in any environment. This system is purely automated and user can capture video and accordingly attendance will be marked, improving the accuracy to great extent and finally the attendance report will be generated.
Perioperative Outcomes of Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery ( RIRS ) Treatment of Renal Calculi in Siriraj Hospital

J Med Assoc Thai Vol. 100 Suppl. 2 2017 Correspondence to: Chotikawanich E, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10700, Thailand. Phone. :+66-2-4198010, Fax:+66-2-4112011 E-mail: ekkarin.cho@mahidol.ac. th J Med Assoc Thai 2017; 100 (Suppl. 2): S144-S149 Full text. e-Journal: http://www.jmatonline. com Perioperative Outcomes of Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery (RIRS) Treatment of Renal Calculi in Siriraj Hospital
Do ‐ not ‐ track as a driver for transparency of social networking advertisement practices?

A number of different approaches have been utilized to monetize social network data and human capital. Least controversial are fan pages on social networking sites created by companies. Those efforts stimulate brand awareness, loyalty and foster a direct communication channel between a company and its potential customers. In a study of online retailers, about one ‐ third self ‐ reported that they maintained a Facebook page, 27% had a MySpace site and 26% created a presence on YouTube (Internet Retailer & Vovici, 2008). However, the utilization of social network data for targeted advertisements is considered highly contentious. In a recent survey study, 66% of the surveyed adult Americans and 55% of the 18 ‐ 24 year ‐ old young adults prefer marketers to abstain from such efforts (Turow et al. , 2009). But behavioral and targeted advertisement is effective. 63% of the senior marketing executives report that it yields the greatest return on investment. At the same time, at least some companies are scaling back investments into related technologies as a result of consumers’ privacy concerns (Ponemon Institute, 2010).
Volitional lifestyle and nocturnal sleep in the healthy elderly

The role of lifestyle in nocturnal sleep was examined in the healthy elderly. The Philadelphia Geriatric Center morale scale and the self-confidence scale were used to select high- and low-volitional elderly individuals (n=10 each, mean age=73.2 years). Their activity levels were monitored by a wrist actigraph for 10 consecutive days. On the fourth and eighth nights, polysomnograms were recorded at their homes using an ambulatory monitoring system. Although the daytime activity level did not differ between the groups, high-volitional individuals had better nocturnal sleep than low-volitional individuals: nocturnal awakening was shorter, slow wave sleep was longer, EEG delta power in the first sleep cycle was higher, and the feeling after rising was better. Daily logs revealed that high-volitional individuals spent more time in mental activities during the daytime than low-volitional individuals. These results suggest that a high-volitional lifestyle may contribute to maintaining good nocturnal sleep in the elderly. CURRENT CLAIM: Elderly people with a volitional lifestyle have a subjectively and objectively good nocturnal sleep.
Fe b 20 04 Landau theory of glassy dynamics

Satya N. Majumdar, 2 Dibyendu Das, Jané Kondev, and Bulbul Chakraborty Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Modeles Statistiques, Universite Paris-Sud, Bat 100, 91405, Orsay-Cedex, France Laboratoire de Physique Theorique (UMR C5152 du CNRS), Universite Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
A Computer Method for Giving Adequate Feedback to Students Current Mood

—Research community is increasingly acknowledging that emotions play a crucial role in human learning procedures. These observations have led Artificial Intelligence in Education during the last decade to integrate emotional factors into computerized learning systems. If the system can reason about the emotional state of a user from the input that the system receives, appropriate content could be displayed in a way adapted for the emotion or the mood of the user. The aim of this paper is to provide a model for applying individualized feedback to a platform of multiple-choice questions in order to help students improve their knowledge and acquire a positive attitude towards learning. For this purpose, we propose a model so as to provide a measurement for the evaluation of student’s mood with respect to each question the student is about to answer, and determine the agent’s feedback to the student.
Apollonian ring packings Dedicated to Ron Graham

Apollonian packings are a well-known object in mathematics formed by starting with a set of three mutually tangent circles and then repeatedly filling in the “holes” with maximally sized circles. There have been several generalizations of these packings over the years, and we introduce a new family of such packings based off of a simple “ring” structure of circles and give the tools to construct and mathematically explore these packings.