Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ANTIMICROBIAL EVALUATION AND PROXIMATE PROFILE OF NEPETA LEAVIGATA, NEPETA KURRAMENSIS AND RHYNCHOSIA RENIFORMIS

The antimicrobial screening of the crude extracts and solvent soluble fractions of Nepeta leavigata, Nepeta kurramensis (Lamiaceae) and Rhynchosia reniformis (Papilionaceae) were investigated along with the proximate profile of the plants for the purpose of standardization and quality control of bioactive components in such heterogonous botanicals and aid to drug discovery work with botanicals. The antibacterial results of Nepeta leavigata showed that the n-butanol fraction displayed significant activity (85% inhibition) against Escherichia coli and Proteus morganii (83% inhibition), while in Nepeta kurramensis chloroform fraction exhibited promising activity (89% inhibition) against Streptococcus cricetus, and Micrococcus flavas (84% inhibition). In Rhynchosia reniformis, only crude extract exhibited 100% inhibition against Streptococcus cricitus while ethyl acetate fraction showed (99% inhibition) against Micrococcus flavas, Streptococcus cricitus (95% inhibition), and Proteus morganii (90% inhibition). In antifungal activities; chloroform and ethyl acetate fractions of Nepeta leavigata as well as chloroform fraction of Nepeta kurramensis were promising; while in Rhynchosia reniformis chloroform, n-hexane and methanolic extracts were significant inhibitors as compared to rest of fractions. In this study the proximate composition of these medicinal plants was also assessed and the analysis was carried according to AOAC methods. All the selected species were found to be a good source of ash, proteins and fats which can contribute greatly towards nutritional requirements and adequate protection against microorganism and other diseases.
ASSERTIVNESS IN THE PERSONAL PROFILE OF ADOLESCENTS

This paper deals with traced different author’s positions on the nature, content and structure of the Assertiveness. There is analyzed the place of the assertiveness in the personality profile of the adolescents by examining the correlation with the personality components. The position supported here is that assertiveness should not be attributed to a personality substructure. As a complex construct consisting of multiple components, assertiveness is related to different spheres of the personality. In this sense, it cannot be defined as part of a specific personality subset but as a self-contained element conjugating with a variety of personality components. The substantiation of this hypothesis is based on an exploration of the relation (co-relational dependence) between assertiveness and the qualities of the personality as defined by N. Reinwaldt.
Synthesis of zinc ferrite nanopowders in an RF thermal plasma

Nanosized zinc ferrite spinel powders of various compositions were produced in an RF thermal plasma from oxide mixtures and from co-precipitated hydroxides. The products were characterised for bulk chemical (ICP-AES), and phase composition (XRD). In spite of the short residence time of the reagents in the plasma reactor considerable extent of spinel formation was achieved. Magnetization and Curie point measurements indicated that the spinel phases exhibited ferrimagnetic behaviour. Ferrites synthetized in the RF plasma reactor were compared to that produced by the conventional ceramic route.
Human activities as a contributory factor in the creation of larval habitats for anopheles gambiae in Kisian, Western Kenya

Larvae of Anopheles gambiae inhabit small water bodies that are often numerous, scattered, sunlit, turbid, temporary, and generally close to human habitations. The productivity of these habitats for adults is poorly known, moreover, little is known about human contribution to habitat existence. This study aimed at determining the impact of human activities on An. gambiae s.l productivity in the study area. The potential larval habitats within the study area were surveyed and mapped. A subset of them (34) was selected for daily, longitudinal sampling using maximum density area sampling and census methods, during a period of 25-days in the short rainy season. The results of this study show that larval habitats of An. gambiae s.l. can be located and mapped relative to land use, and their origin relative to anthropogenic activity determined. There were variations in overall mosquito production; with burrow pits being the most productive (X=219.03, p<O.OOOl) while hoof prints, although commonly occupied by larvae (X=21.91, p<O.OOOl), did not produce any single pupa during the entire study. Human activities contribute significantly in the creation of An. gambiae s.l larval habitats (X=36.37, p<O.OOOl), because the community has uses for the habitats and are valued. The results suggest that ovipositing females do not discriminate well among productive or stable habitats, and that larval mortality mediates pupal production. A clear understanding of the human activities in malaria endemic areas is essential in formulating larval control interventions that are acceptable to the community and sustainable.
A Provocative Perspective on Population Aging and Old-Age Financial Protection

Population aging is typically associated with economic challenges for productivity and financial threats for the old-age financial protection system of a country. This paper takes an optimistic position and outlines key ingredients to make it a successful experience. Yet to turn this challenge into an opportunity requires a significant change in a society's mindset and policies, such as recognizing that population aging and increased life expectancy are quite likely the biggest challenge to mankind in recorded history. This calls for a review and revision of societal institutions, from the likely oldest one – marriage – to one of the youngest – retirement income schemes. Mere tinkering at the margin of existing retirement income programs will be neither sufficient nor helpful. To develop the arguments, the paper reviews and proposes changes to the measurement of population aging – globally and for East Asian countries; outlines critical policy paths to address population aging successfully; analyzes the implications of population aging for the selection of an old-age financial protection system; and offers guidance to this end.
Native and exotic fishes in a Patagonian reservoir with rainbow trout cage culture: spatial and trophic resource use

Although the interactions of exotic salmonids with native Patagonian fishes are well known, little is known about the ecology and impact of farmed fish escapees. Salmonid production in Argentina is largely concentrated in the Alicura reservoir in north Patagonia, where fish community studies have been scarce. Here, we assess and compare the spatial distribution, body size–condition and diet of the different fish species in this reservoir. Strong vertical segregation was observed between exotic rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss (both escapees and wild), dominating the littoral zone, and native Percichthys trucha which dominate the medium and deep strata. Low piscivory–benthivory and high zooplanktivory were observed for rainbow trout, both traits being uncommon at a regional scale. Escaped farmed rainbow trout (ERT) diet included abundant indigestible items along with wild prey. Higher body condition of P. trucha close to farms, as well as the regionally unprecedented high incidence of Daphnia sp. in the guts of all the species suggest that farm nutrient discharges have had significant impacts. Finally, the high body condition of ERT, together with their wild food diet and the long dispersal distance observed, demonstrate post-escape success, drawing our attention to potential upstream dispersion affecting the biodiversity and fisheries of Patagonian rivers and lakes.
A candidate protostellar object in the L 1457/MBM 12 cloud

Aims. The association of young TTauri stars, MBM 12A, indicates that L 1457 was forming stars not too long ago. With our study we want to find out whether there are still signs of ongoing star formation in that cloud. Methods. Using the Max-Planck-Millimeter-Bolometer MAMBO at the IRAM 30 m telescope, we obtained a map of about 8' x 8' centered on L 1457 in the dust continuum emission at 230 GHz. Towards the most intense regions in our bolometer map, we obtained spectra at high angular resolution in the CS (2 → 1) and the N 2 H + (1 → 0) lines using the IRAM 30 m telescope. Results. We find that the cold dust in L 1457 is concentrated in several small cores with high H 2 column densities and solar masses. The density profiles of the cores are inconsistent with a sphere with constant density. These cores are closer to virial equilibrium than is the cloud as a whole. Data from the VLA and Spitzer archives reveal two point sources in the direction of one dust core. One of the sources is probably a distant quasar, whereas the other source is projected right on a local maximum of our dust map and shows characteristics of a protostellar object.
Reversing the Co-design Process: Co-design Tools for Post-occupancy Evaluation

Visual tools such as probes and design games are used during co-design events to facilitate a common design dialogue. They evoke new ideas and invite users, designers and other stakeholders to explore and rehearse future opportunities. This "toolkit" and working practices is continuously evolving, but the focus is almost always on upcoming design. Based on an experiment this article investigates how co-design tools can be used as a part of a post-occupancy evaluation (POE). As an initial analytical framework, performance studies are used to distinguish and discuss a traditional co-design process as a proto-performance and a POE as a reverse proto-performance. When you do a POE, you evaluate the performance of an already completed building in relation to the daily users. Unlike a traditional co-design process the POE looks back on the process in order to adjust or redesign the building. The article argues that co-design tools can be an instrument to make architects and other stakeholders reflect on the project once again in order to see it from a different perspective.
Risks and Security Requirements for Cloud Environments

The cloud computing is a powerful technology in IT environment to provide cost effective, easy to manage, elastic, provide on-demand scalable services over the Internet and is wish list of many organizations that they are still concerned about the security risks implied by moving their infrastructure into cloud computing, and by integrating their resources within the cloud computing environment. To take advantage of all the benefits of cloud computing, it is necessary to have security and privacy requirements for the implementation and use of the cloud. A company planning to implement a public cloud solution should be aware of the risks associated with cloud computing. This is due to the rapidly evolving threats to cloud security that are emerging at an increasing rate in recent years, also to multi-tenant and open nature of the public cloud. A risk analysis must be done initially with a cloud provider in order to identify the existing vulnerabilities and to implement the measures to counter those threats. This paper explores the key issues surrounding cloud security, and passes on valuable guidance about not only information security and broadly risk. Also, it will help providers to make informed security decisions about their diverse cloud set-ups and better understand how to reap all the benefits of cloud without compromising their organizations' security. As well, it discusses the security requirements, and various risks related to the public cloud.
Bacterial growth response to copepod grazing in aquatic ecosystems

The growth rate response of bacterial communities to the potential increase of dissolved organic matter (DOM) produced by the copepod Acartia tonsa was assessed in experiments conducted in three stations representing three contrasting aquatic environments (coastal embayment, shelf and ocean). Bacterial assemblages were inoculated in filtered seawater where A. tonsa had previously grazed. Utilization of DOM over time was evaluated after the addition of bacterial inoculums as the biomass changes in both ‘control’ and ‘copepod’ treatments. In the embayment and ocean a high bacterial growth was observed in the treatments with seawater where copepod were feeding. Additional field measurements of bacterial, primary production and zooplankton biomass support the idea that bacterial communities living in oceanic environments can be efficient to utilize the newly available substrate. Copepods play a key role not only as conveyors of carbon up through the classical food-web, but also generated significant amounts of bacterial substrate in the microbial loop food-web.
CERN-PH-TH-2015-231 δN formalism from superpotential and holography

We consider the superpotential formalism to describe the evolution of D scalar fields during inflation, generalizing it to include the case with non-canonical kinetic terms. We provide a characterization of the attractor behaviour of the background evolution in terms of first and second slow-roll parameters (which need not be small). We find that the superpotential is useful in justifying the separate universe approximation from the gradient expansion, and also in computing the spectra of primordial perturbations around attractor solutions in the δN formalism. As an application, we consider a class of models where the background trajectories for the inflaton fields are derived from a product separable superpotential. In the perspective of the holographic inflation scenario, such models are dual to a deformed CFT boundary theory, with D mutually uncorrelated deformation operators. We compute the bulk power spectra of primordial adiabatic and entropy cosmological perturbations, and show that the results agree with the ones obtained by using conformal perturbation theory in the dual picture.
ANTIHYPERGLYCAEMIC ACTIVITY OF PETROLEUM ETHER EXTRACT OF FICUS RACEMOSA FRUITS IN ALLOXAN INDUCED DIABETIC MICE.

Summary Ficus racemosa Linn. (family: Moraceae) commonly known as ‘cluster fig’ widely used in Indian folk medicine for the treatment of diabetes mellitus. In the present study, petroleum ether extract of Ficus racemosa (called as FRPE) was administered three doses (i.e.100, 200 and 400 mg/kg, p.o) to alloxan (70 mg/kg, i. v.) induced diabetic mice and serum glucose levels and body weights were measured. Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) was carried out after administration of FRPE in nondiabetic and diabetic mice previously loaded with (2.5 g/kg, p.o.) glucose. In acute oral toxicity (AOT 425) study, administration of FRPE no mortality upto 5000 mg/kg was observed. The onset of reduction of serum glucose was observed at 2 h (99.09 mg/dl), peak at 6 h (202.35 mg/dl) but antihyperglycaemic effect waned at 24 h. In subacute study, maximum reduction in serum glucose was observed: (257.82 mg/dl) at the dose of 200 mg/kg on 35 th day. FRPE prevented further loss of body weight. The FRPE (200 mg/kg) showed increased glucose threshold in nondiabetic as well as diabetic mice. These results suggest that FRPE (200 mg/kg) showed antihyperglycaemic activity in alloxan induced diabetic mice.
Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart

This book recovers and explores an important tradition of nineteenth-century women's poetry from Felicia Hemans to Charlotte Mew. Angela Leighton not only discusses the work of neglected poets such as Augusta Webster and ""Michael Field,"" but also charts the development of women's poetry from sentimentalism of Hemans and L.E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon) to the various strategies of self-displacement employed by the best of the Victorians, especially Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti. Combining biographical material with theoretical readings of the poems, Angela Leighton offers a reinterpretation not only of some original and intriguing literature, but also of the very canon of Victorian poetry. Impressive in scope and highly original in its aims, this study will serve as the main critical work in this area for many years to come.
Pólya Class Theory for Hermite–Biehler Functions of Finite Order

A partition of the class of all Hermite–Biehler entire functions of finite order into subclasses Pκ is introduced. A given function E(z) belongs to Pκ if and only if −z−1log E(z)∈Nκ, where the class Nκ is a well studied family of meromorphic functions on the upper half plane, which originates from operator theoretic problems. It is also proved that the subclasses Pκ are stable under bounded type perturbation.
Analytical Modelling and Verification of Bus-Clamping Modulation Technique for Switched-Capacitor Converter

Space vector modulation techniques have advantages of high output voltages and reduced harmonic content as they utilize the dc bus effectively. Bus-clamped pulse width modulation classified in space vector techniques has the ability to reduce the switching losses of the converter and has reduced harmonic distortion. This paper provides mathematical analysis for 60-degree bus-clamping strategy to obtain the complete closed-form solution for finding the harmonic coefficients using double Fourier integral expression. The effectiveness of the bus-clamped approach on switched capacitor based multilevel inverter has been shown with comparison to Sinusoidal PWM. The DSP controller TMS320F240 has been chosen for the real-time implementation of 60-degree bus-clamping modulation technique. Simulation and experimental results of the prototype are presented for RL load at different modulation indices showing the superiority of the configuration to cascaded multilevel inverter.
On Comparison of Some Ridge Parameters in Ridge Regression

In this article, a new approach to obtain the ridge parameter introduces for the multiple linear regression model suffers from the problem of multicollinearity. Furthermore, we compare the proposed ridge parameter with the other well-known ridge-parameters through ridge estimators evaluated elsewhere in terms of mean squares error (MSE) criterion. Finally, a numerical example and simulation study has been conducted to illustrate the optimality of the proposed ridge parameter. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.4038/sljastats.v15i1. 6792
Anchor Areas to Improve Conservation and Increase Connectivity within the Brazilian "Mesopotamia of Biodiversity"

We propose a new methodology based on graph theory for selecting high priority “anchor areas” to which conservation and restoration activities could be “attached”, in order to maximize the impact of the available resources on biodiversity conservation and on increasing the landscape functional connectivity. Anchor areas are defined as habitat fragments which are among the largest present in the landscape and the most important for maintaining the landscape functional connectivity, as quantified by the Integral Index of Connectivity (IIC). Recommended actions include increasing the protection of the anchor areas and restoring smaller fragments in their neighborhood whose size and placement make them convenient “stepping stones” in the establishment of ecological corridors between the anchor areas and other areas with a potentially high biological importance. We illustrate our approach with an analysis of the sizes and functional connections between remaining forest fragments in the “Mesopotamia of Biodiversity”, a portion of Brazilian Atlantic Forest with an especially rich biodiversity situated between the rivers Jequitinhonha and Doce.
Effects of Soil/Solution Ratios and Cation Types on Adsorption and Desorption of Tetracycline in Soils

The adsorption and desorption behavior of tetracycline on an Alfisol and an Ultisol was investigated at varying soil/solution ratios (1:10, 1:50, and 1:100) and different cation types (CaCl 2 , KCl, and NaCl) and H 2 O using a batch equilibration experiment. Kinetic studies revealed that the adsorption of tetracycline on the two soils was rate limited, and the adsorption kinetics could be well described by the Elovich equation and exponent equation. Changes in the soil/solution ratio affected the relative equilibration time in the Ultisol, but there was no effect of the initial tetracycline concentration. The adsorption rate in the soils decreased as the soil/solution ratio increased from 1:50 to 1:10. The adsorption and desorption data on tetracycline in the two soils could be described by the Freundlich isotherm equation, with r values >0.952 under all experimental treatments. The Ultisol always had stronger adsorption (higher distribution coefficient [K d ] value) than the Alfisol under all experimental conditions. The K d values decreased with increasing soil/solution ratios in the two tested soils at 1 or 1.25 mg L ―1 of tetracycline; however, this trend did not occur at 25 mg L ―1 of tetracycline. The adsorption isotherm had an S-type curve that changed into an L-type curve with decreasing soil/solution ratios from 1:10 to 1:100. The presence of cations in the soil solution, especially CaCl 2 , can significantly reduce the adsorption of tetracycline in soils. The presence of cations also significantly reduced the nonlinearity of the adsorption isotherms.
High resolution experimental measurements of Richtmyer-Meshkov turbulence in fluid layers after reshock

True ensemble‐averaged density self‐correlation and Reynolds stress turbulence statistics in a Richtmyer‐Meshkov unstable fluid layer after reshock are measured for the first time using simultaneous Particle‐Image Velocimetry (PIV)‐Planar Laser‐Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) diagnostic. These high‐quality experiments with advanced diagnostics provide important insights into the physics of RM turbulence that cannot be obtained using simple shadowgraphy or Schlieren diagnostics. The double peaked nature of the density self‐correlation and the asymmetric character of the Reynolds stress distributions are discussed. Error estimates and convergence rates for several turbulence quantities are also provided.
Beginning Readers and the Use of Rime Analogies in Word Recognition

Learning how to segment and blends sounds within words is instrumental in the acquisition of literacy. The purpose of this action research was to explore how the use of rime analogies can help beginning readers recognize new words. Researchers have determined that explicit phonics instruction is more beneficial than implicit phonics instruction, and that the use of rime analogies helps student decode unknown words through the recognition of known sound units. An experimental and control group were used in this study to compare the growth of students who were exposed to four rime analogies against students who were exposed to rime analogies implicitly. The experimental group showed the most growth from pre-test to post-test in decoding nonsense words containing rime analogies. Document Type Thesis Degree Name MS in Literacy Education Department Education Subject Categories Education This thesis is available at Fisher Digital Publications: http://fisherpub.sjfc. edu/education_ETD_masters/205 Beginning Readers and the Use of Rime Analogies in Word Recognition
CHARACTERIZATIONS OF THE CLASS OF FREE SELF-DECOMPOSABLE DISTRIBUTIONS AND ITS SUBCLASSES

In this paper, we firstly characterize the class of free self-decomposable distributions as a class of limiting distributions of suitably normalized partial sums of free independent random variables. Secondly, we introduce nested classes between the class of free self-decomposable distributions and that of free stable distributions, characterize them and show that the limit of the nested classes coincides with the closure of the class of free stable distributions. All results here are analogues of the results known in classical probability theory.