Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Impact of the Print Media on Building a Destination Brand Equity in Zimbabwe

This study was based on understanding the supremacy of print media in relation to other new types of media in improving performance of the Zimbabwe tourism destination brand. This helped in establishing a print and other media framework for destination branding. The main types of print media that were investigated were newspapers, travel journals, magazines, flyers and directories. These were assessed in comparison to the available contemporary media which are social media, broadcast media, direct media, electronic media and outdoor media. A measurement of the Zimbabwe tourism brand performance was done focusing on the brand equity variables namely, brand awareness, brand image, perceived brand quality, brand loyalty and brand association. The study applied a quantitative to qualitative sequential mixed methods. A survey questionnaire and in-depth interview guide were used as instruments for data collection. The total sample size for the research was n=421. The findings of the study revealed that newspapers and travel journals are the two main types of print media that have an effect on the Zimbabwe tourism destination brand equity variables. It revealed that newspapers influence brand awareness and perceived brand quality. Travel journals were found to have an influence on brand association. For the other types of media, the study concluded that broadcast media, social media and direct media also have an effect on the destination brand equity variables. Broadcast media was found to have an influence on brand awareness with social media influencing brand loyalty and direct media influencing brand image. The study therefore recommended that there is need for destination marketers to jointly use print and new media in marketing the Zimbabwe tourism destination brand. Also it recommended for political stability as it has been discovered as the main cause for negative media publicity.
EFFICACY ASSESSMENT OF BIOPESTICIDES AGAINST RICE LEAF FOLDER , CNAPHALOCROCIS MEDINALIS ( GUENEE ) ( LEPIDOPTERA : PYRALIDAE ) USING DNA QUANTIFICATION METHOD

The study was carried out to check the efficacy of different bio pesticides at equal concentration against Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Guenee) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). In this study DNA quantification was used as pesticide screening and evaluating tool for plant genome health. Different botanicals crude extracts i.e. Azadirachta indica, Melia azedarach, Eucalyptus globulus and one microbial insecticide Bt was used in this experiment for control of rice leaf folder under Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with 3 replications. The neem crude extract and microbial insecticides (Bt) gave excellent results with lowest post treated increase in leaf infestation (2.76, 3.07, 6.60% and 4.48, 6.06, 9.33 % after 3, 9 and 16 days of application, respectively) caused by Cnaphalocrocis medinalis. On the other hand, Melia azedarach and Eucalyptus also controlled the Cnaphalocrocis medinals but with least efficacy. Maximum leaf folder infestation was observed in control plots. Different bio pesticides were used instead of chemical pesticides that harmful to the plant (cause genotoxicity) and checked it may bond or not with plant genome. Rice samples treated with different bio pesticides along with control were collected and extracted the DNA by using CTAB method. All the samples were run on gel electrophoresis for further confirmation and quantification DNA using spectrophotometer. The bio pesticide treated rice samples showed DNA quantification value i.e. 34.45 μg/mL, 33.65 μg/mL, 31.05 μg/mL, 34.55 μg/mL, 33.88 for control, Bt, Eucalyptus, Darek and Neem, respectively. The main objective of the study was to check the genotoxicity effect of bio pesticide treated rice and concluded that no harmful effect of bio pesticides on rice plant structure and cause no genotoxicity of plant genome.
A Close Look at Bivariate Gaussian Spatial Distributions

The assumption of bivariate normal distribution is critical in many geostatistical applications such as simulation of a spatial variable. Direct and cross indicator variograms arise in many geostatistical applications such as indicator cokriging, truncated Gaussian simulation, sequential Indicator simulation and checking for bivariate Gaussianity. This paper addresses theoretical properties and derivation of direct and cross indicator variogram for a Gaussian random function.
ANALYSIS OF MICROFLORA PRESENT ON HISTORICAL TEXTILES WITH THE USE OF MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES

One of the most important point for the restoration and protection of cultural heritage objects is the early identification of material deterioration caused by microbial colonization. Biodegradation has to be understood as a result of the activity of an entire microbial community, rather than that of individual members of such community. Fungi are among the most degradative organisms inducing biodeterioration processes of ancient and modern materials. Electrophoresis in denaturing gradient gel (DGGE) is the technique most often used to study the structure of the microbial communities colonizing artworks like painted art objects, mural paintings, historical window glass, historical limestone buildings and the like. The present article describes the usage of this method to analyze the diversity of fungal taxons on the sixteenth century textile material. Additionally the procedure of main taxon identification by sequencing was described.
Justice, Anger and Wrath: Tracing the Im/Moral Dimensions of Payback

Martha Nussbaum’s Anger and Forgiveness makes explicit claims about the moral valence and irrationality of the desire for payback. This article explores the roots of that desire through an analysis of research on inequity aversion in primates, and the sociocultural developmental context for expressions of anger. It explores the content of different expressions of anger and their relationship to rationality by engaging in the work of Thomas Aquinas. I argue that the desire for payback has biosocial roots in cooperation, and that these habits are prerequisites for the development of human moral sensibilities. However, the explicit desire for payback, like anger in general, is morally ambiguous. Anger may be laudable insofar as it is tied to constructive efforts, but the desire to see another person suffer is in itself morally repugnant. Christian religious interpretations of payback further complicate the narrative, since unappealing instances of this desire are thought by some Christians to be nonetheless justified under the banner of God’s wrath.
High-level expression of an endoxylanase gene from Bacillus sp . in Bacillus subtilis DB 104 for the production of xylobiose from xylan

To produce xylobiose from xylan, high-level expression of an endoxylanase gene from Bacillus sp. was carried out in Bacillus subtilis DB104. A 1.62-kb SmaI DNA fragment, coding for an endoxylanase of Bacillus sp. , was ligated into the Escherichia coli/ B. subtilis shuttle vector pJH27D88, producing pJHKJ4, which was subsequently transformed into B. subtilis DB104. A maximum endoxylanase activity of 105 U/ml was obtained from the supernatant of B. subtilis DB104 harboring pJHKJ4. The endoxylanase was puri®ed to homogeneity by ion-exchange chromatography and the production pro®le of xylooligosaccharides from xylan by the endoxylanase was examined by HPLC with a carbohydrate analysis column. Xylobiose was the major product from xylan at 40 °C and its proportion in the xylan hydrolyzates increased with the reaction time; at 12 h, over 60% of the reaction products was xylobiose. These results suggest that xylobiose, which has a stimulatory eect on the selective growth of the intestinal bacterium Bi®dobacterium, can be mass-produced effectively by the endoxylanase of Bacillus sp. cloned in
On the two dimensional electron liquid in the presence of spin-orbit coupling

A spin-orbit coupling of the Rashba type has profound effects on the spin degrees of freedom of a two dimensional electron liquid. In this system a prominent role is played by the local electron spin quantization axis in momentum space. We find that a useful device for the classification of the corresponding many-electron determinantal states is provided by the concept of generalized chirality. This allows us to systematically study the Hartree-Fock scenario for homogeneous, isotropic states. The ensuing relative phase diagram contains both chiral unpolarized and chiral spin polarized states which are characterized by peculiar distributions of the local electron spin quantization axis in momentum space.
Spatial cognitive implications of teleporting through virtual environments.

Teleporting is a popular interface to allow virtual reality users to explore environments that are larger than the available walking space. When teleporting, the user positions a marker in the virtual environment and is instantly transported without any self-motion cues. Five experiments were designed to evaluate the spatial cognitive consequences of teleporting and to identify environmental cues that could mitigate those costs. Participants performed a triangle completion task by traversing 2 outbound path legs before pointing to the unmarked path origin. Locomotion was accomplished via walking or 2 common implementations of the teleporting interface distinguished by the concordance between movement of the body and movement through the virtual environment. In the partially concordant teleporting interface, participants teleported to translate (change position) but turned the body to rotate. In the discordant teleporting interface, participants teleported to translate and rotate. Across all 5 experiments, discordant teleporting produced larger errors than partially concordant teleporting which produced larger errors than walking, reflecting the importance of translational and rotational self-motion cues. Furthermore, geometric boundaries (room walls or a fence) were necessary to mitigate the spatial cognitive costs associated with teleporting, and landmarks were helpful only in the context of a geometric boundary. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
Identification of a B 2-bradykinin receptor linked to phospholipase C and inhibition of dopamine stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation in the human astrocytoma cell line D 384

We have examined the activation of a phospholipase C signal transduction pathway by a Bzbradykinin receptor in the human astrocytoma cell line D384 and how this influences Dl-dopamine receptor stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation. Addition of bradykinin to D384 cells resulted in a concentrationdependent (10-i1-10-6 M) increase in the accumulation of [3H]inositol phosphates and a similar concentration-dependent transient increase in specific [3H]/~phorbol12,13-dibutyrate binding which is indicative of translocation of protein kinase C from the cytosol to the membrane. Changes in intracellular Ca 2 + of single cells, measured using the fluorescent indicator dye fura-2, indicated that bradykinin produced a rapid, but transient, increase in intracellular calcium. The Ca 2 + response was largely independent of extracellular Ca 2 + supporting the idea that receptor activation leads to mobilization of Ca 2+ from intracellular stores. However, extracellular Ca 2 + was required for a response to a rechallenge with bradykinin. The bradykinin B2-receptor agonist kallidin increased cytosolic Ca 2+ in a similar manner to bradykinin. The Ca 2 + response to bradykinin could be partially reduced in the presence of the Bz-receptor antagonist [D-Arg°-Hyp,D-PheT,/%(2-Thienyl)-AlaS,8]bradykinin, whereas the B 1-receptor agonists (Des-Arg9]bradykinin and [Des-Argl°]-kallidin were ineffective. Bradykinin was also found to attenuate dopamine stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation in D384 cells, at similar concentrations previously observed to stimulate the phospholipase C signal transduction pathway, in the presence of the phosphodiesterase inhibitor, rolipram. In contrast, no attenuation was observed in the presence of the phosphodiesterase inhibitor l-isobutyl 3-methylxanthine, although the level of dopamine stimulated cyclic AMP observed was lower than in the presence of rolipram. Furthermore, the effect of bradykinin could be mimicked by a calcium ionophore, but not a phorbol ester. These data suggest that D384 cells express a Bz
Observation of X-Ray Mirage Fringes from a Bent Crystal

Tomoe FUKAMACHI,* Sukswat JONGSUKSWAT, Kenji HIRANO, Yoshinobu KANEMATSU, 1 Dongying JU, 1 Riichirou NEGISHI, Keiichi HIRANO, and Takaaki KAWAMURA Saitama Institute of Technology, 1690 Fusaiji, Fukaya, Saitama 369-0293, Japan Institute of Material Structure Science, KEK-PF, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Oho, Tukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan University of Yamanashi, Kofu, Yamanashi 400-8510, Japan
Optimal Relay Location and Oppοrtunistic User-Scheduling for Stratospheric Communications

This paper investigates the outage performance of a Decode-and-Forward (DF) Multi-User (MU) stratospheric relay communication system operating over GeneralizedGamma (GG) fading channels. This system consists of multiple users-sources, multiple users-destinations and a High-Altitude Platform (HAP) acting as a relay station in the stratosphere. Geometry-based optimal relay location with fixed power allocation is proposed, in order to minimize the outage probability. Exact and approximated expressions for the Endto-End (E2E) outage probability are derived and opportunistic scheduling is applied, where the Source-Destination (SD) pair with the highest instantaneous E2E Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) is scheduled for communication. The results highlight the gains offered by the opportunistic SD scheduling and the optimization of the relay location on the overall performance. Keywords-Generalized Gamma (GG) fading; High-Altitude Platforms (HAPs); Multi-User (MU); oppurtunistic scheduling; outage probability; relay location.
A model for environmentally-friendly food tourism in Ban

This research paper aimed to study the context and tourism resources in the community of Ban Koh Klang, Krabi and also to study a model for environmentally-friendly food tourism in Ban Koh Klang; and in addition it studied tourist satisfaction and its impact on environmentally-friendly food tourism in the same area. The investigation combined both qualitative and quantitative research methods. A study of 400 tourists in Ban Koh Klang found that the overall tourist satisfaction in Ban Koh Klang was at a high level (? ̅? = 3.63). The highest level of satisfaction among tourists was with the abundance of resources in the area (? ̅? = 4.56). The satisfaction with environmentally-friendly management practices was found to be at a high level (? ̅? = 4.03). Results also show that community members believe three local ingredients to be particularly suitable for the promotion of environmentally-friendly food tourism. These are sangyod red rice, pagoda snails and grouper. The research team tested the satisfaction levels of 20 tourists regarding these environmentally-friendly food tourism options in Ban Koh Klang. Results showed that the highest level of satisfaction was with the tourism activities (? ̅? = 4.15, SD = 0.377) and the lowest level of satisfaction was with the black crab learning center provision (? ̅? = 3.70, SD = 0.718). In order to increase the confidence levels of tourists, the research team analysed the three products in a laboratory to ensure they complied with food safety standards. No alpha-toxins were detected in sangyod red rice. Traces of three heavy metals were detected in pagoda snails cadmium (0.011 ml/kg), lead (<0.060 ml/kg) and mercury (0.019 ml/kg). However, the small levels of these metals are not harmful to humans. There was no trace of cadmium or lead in the grouper fish, although there were small traces of mercury (0.130 ml/kg). Again, this level is not considered to be harmful to humans.
Regret Minimization , and Equilibria

Many situations involve repeatedly making decisions in an uncertain environment: for instance, deciding what route to drive to work each day, or repeated play of a game against an opponent with an unknown strategy. In this chapter we describe learning algorithms with strong guarantees for settings of this type, along with connections to game-theoretic equilibria when all players in a system are simultaneously adapting in such a manner. We begin by presenting algorithms for repeated play of a matrix game with the guarantee that against any opponent, they will perform nearly as well as the best fixed action in hindsight (also called the problem of combining expert advice or minimizing external regret). In a zero-sum game, such algorithms are guaranteed to approach or exceed the minimax value of the game, and even provide a simple proof of the minimax theorem. We then turn to algorithms that minimize an even stronger form of regret, known as internal or swap regret. We present a general reduction showing how to convert any algorithm for minimizing external regret to one that minimizes this stronger form of regret as well. Internal regret is important because when all players in a game minimize this stronger type of regret, the empirical distribution of play is known to converge to correlated equilibrium. The third part of this chapter explains a different reduction: how to convert from the full information setting in which the action chosen by the opponent is revealed after each time step, to the partial information (bandit) setting, where at each time step only the payoff of the selected action is observed (such as in routing), and still maintain a small external regret. Finally, we end by discussing routing games in the Wardrop model, where one can show that if all participants minimize their own external regret, then overall traffic is guaranteed to converge to an approximate Nash Equilibrium. This further motivates price-of-anarchy results.
Greenhouse gas emissions from dairy production – assessment and effects of important drivers

This thesis presents new findings on greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) of dairy production, on mitigation effects of a substitution of specific feedstuffs and on GHGE from land use and land use change (LULUC). An extension of system boundaries for calculation of GHGE, especially including emissions related to LULUC, resulted in advantages for dairy production systems (PS), which hardly utilise the LULUC-burdened soybean meal. Within different production methods, PS with a higher milk output generally showed better results for GHGE per kg of milk produced as compared to PS with a lower milk output. Nevertheless, the latter showed clearly better results for GHGE per ha of land used. The regional location of the farm with its impact on forage quality or milk yields was identified as another very important driver for emission loads per kg of raw milk. These results emphasize the importance of a complete life-cycle assessment in the evaluation of impacts that dairy PS have on the climate. Furthermore, the consequences were estimated of a substitution of protein feedstuffs which are specifically loaded with high GHGE from land use change (LUC). Highest GHGE were found for extracted soybean meal, mainly due to LUCrelated emissions. Medium GHGE were found for distillers’ dried grains with solubles, for cake and extracted meal from rapeseed and for lucerne cobs. Cake and extracted meal from sunflower seed as well as faba beans were connected to the lowest GHGE. Substituting soybean meal by nutritionally equivalent mixtures of alternative protein feedstuffs, resulted in an average reduction of GHGE of 42 %. Balanced mixtures of alternative protein feedstuffs may offer specific benefits, as they allow for a combination of desirable nutritional value and reduced GHGE. With a focus on emissions from LULUC, this work suggests that GHGE which are included in assessments should be restricted to physically occurring fluxes of greenhouse gases and should exclude hypothetical sources. The results show that almost a quarter (23 %) of the increase in CO2 concentration which occurred during the last 250 years originates from LULUC with a rather drastic impact of LUC occurring during the last few decades. Thus, CO2 emitted from both soil and vegetation due to LULUC shall be considered within accounting periods of ten or
Secure communication with Chaos

One of the most exciting recent developments in nonlinear dynamics is the realization that chaos can be useful. One application involves “secure Communication”. The phenomena of chaos synchronization and secure communication have been investigated both numerically and experimentally. A piecewise linear system with switching nonlinearity has been taken as chaos generator. KeywordsChaos, Communication, Buck converter.
SELECTION OF POTENTIAL Bacillus STARTERS FOR COCOA BEANS FERMENTATION IMPROVEMENT

Bacillus sp. strains isolated from six main Ivorian cocoa producer regions were investigated based on their biochemical properties in order to select the best one as potential starter. Three mains technological and useful properties for good cocoa beans fermentation were monitored for 970 isolated Bacillus sp. strains. Thus, 44.54% pectinolytic Bacillus sp. strains revealed by clear halo diameter in plate assay were confirmed by enzymes production (pectinase and polygalacturonase) in liquid medium. Moreover, 51.10% of these strains displayed both the ability to acidify the medium and to degrade the citrate. Among these pectinolytic enzymes producing strains previously selected, ten were able to maintain this activity in conditions of varying pH and temperature as same as fermentation heap with an activity ranged within 0.20±0.020. 51±0. 05μmol/min/mg of proteins for polygalacturonase (PG) and 0.22±0.040. 76±0. 06μmol/min/mg of proteins for pectinase. Four of them (T9G4, T11I10, T3D23 and T4A44) selected as the best based on pectinase production level were identified as Bacillus thuringiensis. These strains were able to continuously produce both pectinolytic enzymes in different conditions of organic components: acids (acetic and lactic) influence with 0.2% as limit of tolerance, citric acid influence (up to 1% of tolerance) and ethanol influence higher than 8%. The technological properties of the four best strains highlighted in this study may make them suitable candidates as starter for cocoa fermentation control.
Thermodynamic signature of a ag eti-field-driven ph se transition wit in the uperconducting state of an underdoped cuprate SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

The YBCO samples included multiple crystals, all with nearly identical doping (See Supplementary Fig. S1) and total mass 6.0 mg. Initially, these detwinned crystals had δ=0.51 (YBCO6.51, Tc=57 K, p=0.097) [1], and we measured C up to 15 T. The samples were then re-annealed and detwinned at δ=0.47 (YBCO6.47, Tc=49 K, p=0.84) [1], and measured again; the process was then repeated to reach δ=0.43 (YBCO6.43, Tc=41 K, p=0.76) [1] before the final measurements. The Tc’s were established via MPMS as the midpoint of the magnetization transition with applied field (H< 2 Oe) parallel to c-axis (see Supplementary Figure S1). The H=0 specific heats of each of three YBCO6.47 samples were measured individually and were identical. Measurements of YBCO6.47 in finite field were carried out on both a two sample and a three sample aggregation, 3.9 mg and 5.96 mg respectively; these two sets of measurements agree closely at all temperatures. All specific heat data was acquired by a high-speed modified relaxation time method (see Supplementary Information).