Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Does institutional quality contribute to increasing labour productivity in sub-Saharan Africa? An empirical analysis.

The objective of this work is to study the effect of institutional quality on labour productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. To do this, we considered a panel of 31 countries over the period from 1996 to 2016. Thus, we constructed an empirical model based on the stochastic frontier production function developed by Battese and Coelli (1995), to which we applied panel estimation techniques (static and dynamic), particularly with GMM system and Within estimators. Our results show that institutional quality indicators have a positive and significant influence on labour productivity. Political stability, government effectiveness and the rule of law are the indicators that contribute most to increasing labour productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. A series of robustness tests were performed to confirm our results. Thus, we suggest that African governments take a closer look at policies that promote good governance in their labour productivity growth strategies to improve the competitiveness of their economies.
Nursing in a New Era: The Profession and Education of Nurses in South Africa

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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF LONREN-1 GENOTYPES IN RESPONSE TO NEMATICIDES

The reniform nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis) is one of the most damaging pests to cotton grown in the southeastern region of the United States. Currently, there are no reniform resistant cultivars on the market. Germplasm lines LONREN-1 and LONREN-2 have recently been released for cotton breeders to use in breeding efforts with desirable cultivars to establish resistance. Previous screenings for reniform resistance in breeding lines have demonstrated that some lines are indeed highly resistant. However, when high numbers of reniform nematodes are present, severe stunting in the seedling stage is common within these resistant development lines. The LONREN-1 germplasm, three resistant lines from the LONREN-1xFM966 cross, one susceptible line from the LONREN-1xFM966 cross, and the susceptible cultivar DP393 were treated with nematicides and their performances evaluated in micro-plot and field trial experiments. Plant heights were recorded at 30, 45, and 60 days after planting (DAP). Reniform populations were recorded at 30 and 60 (DAP), and again at harvest. In micro-plot and field trial experiments, an increase in plant height was evident at 30 and 45 DAP in resistant lines that had been treated with nematicides. Reniform populations were significantly lower in several resistant lines that were treated with nematicides.
Tumor circulome in the liquid biopsies for cancer diagnosis and prognosis

Liquid biopsy is a convenient, fast, non-invasive and reproducible sampling method that can dynamically reflect the changes in tumor gene expression profile, and provide a robust basis for individualized therapy and early diagnosis of cancer. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are the currently approved diagnostic biomarkers for screening cancer patients. In addition, tumor-derived extracellular vesicles (tdEVs), circulating tumor-derived proteins, circulating tumor RNA (ctRNA) and tumor-bearing platelets (TEPs) are other components of liquid biopsies with diagnostic potential. In this review, we have discussed the clinical applications of these biomarkers, and the factors that limit their implementation in routine clinical practice. In addition, the most recent developments in the isolation and analysis of circulating tumor biomarkers have been summarized, and the potential of non-blood liquid biopsies in tumor diagnostics has also been discussed.
GENETIC POTENTIAL OF VARIOUS CHROMOSOMES IN EGYPTIAN

Currently, livestock systems have both positive and negative impacts on the natural resource base, common health, social justice and economic development (World Bank, 2009). Animal agriculture has been a significant element in the integrated farming systems in the crop-livestock farming systems in developing countries. It serves in an essential diversified role in providing animal protein source, manure, fibre for clothes and draft power as well as financial instruments and enriching livelihood (Swanepoel et al., 2010). Buffaloes have a prime importance within the farmer societies and therefore in the economies of many developing countries worldwide (Hussain et al., 2017). A majority of buffalo population all-over the world raised is under low input and low output system and they can adapt to harsh environmental conditions and live on poor quality forage (Zaidi and Anwar, 2018). The number of buffaloes all-over the world has expanded quickly over the past few decades. The world buffalo population is estimated to be approximately 195 million, spreading in some 42 countries; of which 97% of them are found in Asia, while approximately 3% are found in the rest of the world (FAO, 2011). The countries with the majority population of dairy buffaloes are India, Pakistan, China, Egypt and Nepal. In Pakistan, Egypt and Nepal, there are more dairy buffaloes than dairy cows (Borghese, 2005). Moioli (2005) classified buffalo production system in Egypt based on the number of animals per farmer; the majority of buffalo farmers in Egypt maintain these animals under small holder production system (holding one to five animals). In recent decades, commercial buffalo farms have significantly grown in Egypt. Buffalo numbers have increased to be about 3.98 million heads in 2011 (Satoh and Aboulroos, 2017) and are expected to rise and reach 7.4 million head in 2050(Fahim et al., 2014). In Egypt, buffalo is ranked as the second main source of milk and meat. They contributed to about two million and half tons of milk in 2011 (Satoh and Aboulroos, 2017) and about 33.2 percentage of local meat production in 2005 (El-Nahrawy, 2011). Consumers in Egypt prefer products that are derived from buffalo milk rather than those derived from cow's milk, the price of buffalo milk is twice that of cows' milk. This may be due to their excess fat content, colour, and flavour. In recent times, breeding programmers – especially in Bulgaria, China, Egypt, India and Pakistan – have attempted to improve the milk yield of buffalo. Genetic characterization and diversity studies on Egyptian buffalo populations are essential to facilitate the breeding program’s makeup. Techniques based on molecular genetics such as microsatellite markers offer opportunities to study diversity. Microsatellites are helpful markers because of the low assay cost, distribution throughout genetic materials, highly polymorphic, co-dominant inheritance, and easy to analyse (Cañon et al., 2006).
Automatic clustering of news reports

The automatic clustering of news reports from various web-based news sites into clusters according to the event they cover serves not only to facilitate browsing of news reports by a users but may also serve as an initial stage in other complex systems such as Multi-Document Summarization systems or Document Fusion systems. In contrast to the usual scenarios of document clustering whereby the document collections are static or quasi-static, news sites are continuously updated with reports concerning new events. Here, we present a News Report Clustering system which is able to receive a stream of news reports which it clusters on the ﬂy according to the event they cover. New clusters are automatically created as necessary for news reports which are covering ‘new’, previously unreported events. We compare the results of our system to the results produced by a standard K-Means clustering system, and we show that our system performs signiﬁcantly better than the standard K-Means system even though the K-Means system was supplied with the correct number of clusters that should be produced. In fact, our clustering system obtained an average of 11.95% better recall, 28.68% better precision and 0.89% less fallout than the standard K-Means clustering system.
Study of Medicinal Plants of Lower Dir, Timergara,

This study was conducted in the Lower Dir District, in the Khyber Paktunkhaw in Pakistan, during February 2013 to August 2013. The work was focused on traditional medicinal folk remedies based on the knowledge of the local peoples. During each trip, questionnaires were used to query the local men and women who were familiar with local knowledge of indigenous plants species. Main aims of the study are to conserve the old knowledge about the important medicinal plant. Forty (40) plant species were collected belonging to 30 different families. These plants are used for various purposes including Carminative, Stimulant, Digestive, Anti-diarrheal, Narcotic and Antipyretic etc.
Strengthening and Repair of Reinforced Concrete Beams Using Concrete Jackets

The necessity to rehabilitate a Reinforced Concrete (RC) structure emerges from several reasons such as new safety requirements, change of structure occupancy, incorrect design calculations and/or degradation of materials with time. One of the most commonly used mitigation practices to strengthen and repair RC beams is the application of RC jackets at either one side or three sides of the beams. The use of these jackets to improve the flexural performance of RC beams is investigated in this study. An iterative incremental algorithm that takes into account the influence of slip along the interface between the old and new concrete layers is developed. In addition, the distribution of interfacial strain gradient, slip and shear stresses along the interface are predicted. A very good agreement is shown between the current proposed analytical model and the published experimental data on RC jacketed beams. Based on an extensive parametric study, effective flexural modification factors of these beams are developed and verified.
WIRELESS SECURITY PROTOCOLS (WEP,WPA,WPA2 & WPA3)

: Wireless networks have posed a threat in Data Security that has stuck to the core of data communication between two points. Absence of inflexible security measures has made numerous organizations contribute millions to verify their systems. Development of different security conventions for Wireless LANs has been given in this paper. Also, vulnerabilities of WEP/WPA/WPA2/WPA3 have been discussed and how the wireless networks are attacked using the design flaws present in these Wireless Security Protocols. The use of different tools and programming languages used for testing the strength of the protocols. Tools like nmap, zenmap, aircrack-ng, etc., are used in the Linux environment to practically demonstrate the attacks against these networks using WEP/WPA/WPA2/WPA3 protocols. The solutions for the shortcomings in WEP has been applied in WPA, similarly WPA2 and WPA3.
Optimization Technique for Fingerprint Recognition and Matching

: This work investigates the current techniques for fingerprint recognition. This target can be mainly decomposed into image preprocessing, feature extraction and feature match. For each sub-task, some classical and up-to-date methods in literatures are analyzed. Based on the analysis, an integrated solution for fingerprint recognition is developed for demonstration. A novel fingerprint reconstruction algorithm is proposed to reconstruct the phase image, which is then converted into the grayscale image. The proposed reconstruction algorithm not only gives the whole fingerprint, but the reconstructed fingerprint contains very few spurious minutiae. Specifically, a fingerprint image is represented as a phase image which consists of the continuous phase and the spiral phase which corresponds to minutiae. An algorithm is proposed to reconstruct the continuous phase from minutiae. The optimization at coding level and algorithm level are proposed to improve the performance of the fingerprint recognition system.
Data Management for Multidisciplinary Mechatronic Systems

: This paper contributes to the development of computer-based support for the concept development phase of the design of mechatronic systems. The complexity of the data management aspects of the product models can be significant throughout the design process. Functional modeling concerns functional description of the design intention. Port modeling is an important aspect of the design process, especially for data management. This paper investigates the modeling capabilities of the System Modeling Language SysML for modeling the functional level interfaces of interconnection. It helps as well in the complexity reduction of the design data management.
CANOPY REFLEXTANCE AT MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS AND INDICES FOR EARLY SEASON DETECTION OF COTTON NITROGEN STATUS

The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is utilized by many commercially available crop sensors, but often fails to correlate strongly to early season cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) N status. The objectives of this study were to examine sensitivities of published indices calculated from passive canopy reflectance to changes in cotton biomass and N status, and to identify indices most compatible to current N management practices. Field trials were conducted from 2008-2010 at the Plant Science Research Farm, Mississippi State, MS. Fertilizer N rates of 0, 40, 80, and 120 lb N/acre were applied to establish wide growth differences. Plant height, leaf N, and proximal canopy reflectance were measured at various developmental stages each growing season. Results suggest difficulty in determining cotton N status using NDVI may be due to the index’s stronger sensitivity to plant height than to leaf N or greenness. The index which was most sensitive to leaf N and least sensitive to plant height was the Canopy Chlorophyll Content Index (CCCI). This index was sensitive to N status early in the growing season and held a relatively consistent range of values throughout the application window.
Inter AS Traceback Method for Detecting DDoS Attacks

The amount of damage by illegal access is increasing with the spread of the Internet. Especially the DoS (Denial of Service) and DDoS (Distributed DoS) attacks cause system down and often have serious impacts on the society. Various attacker detection techniques have been proposed until now. We propose inter AS(Autonomous System) traceback method for detecting attackers on large scale network. Performance of this proposed scheme was clarified by some numerical models and experiment. 1. はじめに ネットワークが社会的インフラとして定着した 今日、これを用いたサービスの提供は当然のもの と認識されている。 一方で、それを停止させよう とする妨害も増加の一途を辿っている。 このよう な「攻撃」と呼ばれる妨害行為の代表的なものに DoS(Denial of Service)攻撃や DDoS(Distributed DoS)攻撃がある。 これらの攻撃は一般的に送信元 IP アドレスを偽装したパケットを用いていること が多く、被害者側には真の発信源が特定できない ため対策が困難なものとなっている。 攻撃の発信源を探査する手法として、不正パケ ットの経路を基に探査を行うトレースバック(図 1)がある。 ただし、インターネットは、プロバ イダネット、行政ネットなど固有のポリシーによ って管理され AS(Autonomous System)の集合体で 構成されているため、複数の AS にわたって同じ方 法で探査することは不可能に近い。 そこで、AS 間 のトレースバックとAS内のトレースバックを階層 的に行う必要があると言われている[1]。 我々はすでに AS 内トレースバックに関して、高 速かつ高精度なハイブリッドトレースバック方式 を提案しているが[2]、AS 間のトレースバックにつ いても並行して研究を進めてきた [3]。 我々はま ず、MITの Moriarty が提案しているRID(Real-Time Inter-Network Defense)[4]を参考にして、AS 間で
The Nexus Between Agriculture and Tourism in the Island of Crete, Greece

The relationship between agriculture and tourism in the island of Crete, Greece has been studied. Both agriculture and the tourism industry contribute more than 50% in the Gross Domestic Product of the island. The linkages between agriculture and tourism in many tourism-dominated communities and rural areas worldwide have been reviewed. The current status of agriculture and the tourism industry in Crete has been examined as well as the agro-tourism development in the island during the last few decades which is considered a typical example of agriculture-tourism cooperation. The healthy tasty Cretan diet is based on locally produced food ingredients and it is famous all over the world. Therefore, it could be further promoted by the tourism industry in the island. Increased use of local gastronomy could improve the competitiveness of the Cretan tourism industry which is currently based on mass tourism and the “sea, sun and sand” model. This could be a springboard to the local agricultural production of the island to partly cover the demand for catering in the tourism industry. Various new policies and measures are required for increasing the linkages in these two sectors. The use of locally produced agricultural products would replace foodstuff transported to the island from long distances, reducing the carbon emissions due to their transportation. Strengthening the linkages between agriculture and tourism in Crete would trigger growth in both sectors, offering many economic, social and environmental benefits to the island.
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour presenting with Hemoperitonium: A Case Report

Gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) is the most common mesenchymal tumour of the GI tract, with the majority occurring in the stomach and the small intestine. This is a vascular tumour that primarily presents with GI bleeding (50%), a palpable mass (35%, sometimes with features of intestinal obstruction), pain (20%), and rarely as an incidental finding. Hemoperitoneum as a presentation due to GIST rupture is very rare. We here present a very rare case of spontaneously ruptured GIST of the ileum presenting with peritonitis due to hemoperitoneum.
THE ROLE OF INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASONOGRAPHY IN PATIENTS UNDERWENT PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION

Intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS) has an important role as a complimentary diagnostic tool in percutaneous coronary intervention procedure. IVUS provides valuable information regarding coronary vessel lumen and dimension and also plaque burden and its characteristic. The main use of IVUS in PCI is to guide the choose of interventional strategies to optimize stent deployment. Since drug eluting stent (DES) has promised to decrease the incidence in stent restenosis and stent thrombosis than bare metal stent, but neither the suboptimal results nor the complication after stenting with DES is still high. Thus, optimization of stent deployment under IVUS guidance is important in cases to decrease stent failure after PCI procedure, as well as to decrease complication rate after stenting in order to decrease mortality rate caused by coronary artery disease. We present here the use of IVUS guidance in a 43 and 46 year-old man underwent PCI.
Proper integration of feature subsets boosts GO subcellular localization predictions

Fil: Spetale, Flavio Ezequiel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Conicet - Rosario. Centro Internacional Franco Argentino de Ciencias de la Informacion y de Sistemas. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Centro Internacional Franco Argentino de Ciencias de la Informacion y de Sistemas; Argentina
LEARNING VOCABULARY FROM MOVIES WITH BIMODAL SUBTITLING

Vocabulary is believed to be more important than grammar, that lacking of vocabulary knowledge will hinder the second language learning. Multimedia itself is proven as an effective tool in language learning because of its rich and authentic comprehensible input. According to Gorjian (2014), audiovisual media are closer to real life because the visual clues and context make it possible to ‘view’ the message as much as listen to it. The presence of subtitles also encourages learners to notice new vocabulary for they provide the written version of what the learners hear. This study was designed to investigate the strategies used by EFL learners when they find unfamiliar words in movies. There were three participants in this study. The participants were asked to watch a movie they had not watched before. First, the participants watched the movie individually. Right after that, they re-watched the movie with the researcher. The data was collected using SRP (stimulated-recall protocol) method. The results obtained from the interviews showed that there were two strategies used, which were guessing strategy and dictionary strategy. Combined strategy, which is using guessing and dictionary strategy for the one word, is also used. The findings of this study might be beneficial for those engaged in language program, especially teachers and learners. Teachers can assist the learners better when using multimodal material as the AVA. Learners can also raise their awareness about the effective vocabulary learning strategies and choose which ones are the best for them to use.
Vision Paper: How might we find generalizable ‘rules of life’ that govern how a large number of signals control integrative biological function?

Contributors: Bradley Evans, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO. bevans@danforthcenter.org Eben Gering, Department of Biological Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL. ​ebeng@nova.edu Haiyan Hu, Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL. haihu@cs.ucf. edu Rahul Kulkarni, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA. rahul.kulkarni@umb.edu Arianna Tamvacakis, Integrative Systems Neuroscience, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR. ​tamvacakis@gmail.com Rajanikanth Vadigepalli, Daniel Baugh Institute for Functional Genomics/Computational Biology, Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA. ​rajanikanth.vadigepalli@jefferson.edu
3.01 ASSIMILATION OF DOPPLER RADAR OBSERVATIONS USING WRF/MM5 3D-VAR SYSTEM AND ITS IMPACT ON SHORT-RANGE QPF

Although there have been marked improvements in recent years, quantitative precipitation forecasting (QPF) is still a challenging problem for mesoscale and microscale weather prediction. One of the fundamental underlying reason for this challenge is that precipitation is often concentrated in convective cells, or mesoscale bands or clusters which are difficult to be presented in the model’s initial conditions from the large-scale analysis. An immediate step in addressing this problem is to develop a mesoscale and microscale data assimilation system and utilize observations which match the spatial and temporal scales of thunderstorms and other samll scale weather features. During the past several years, NCAR developed the capabilities to assimilate Doppler radial velocity (Xiao et al. 2005) and reflectivity (Xiao et al. 2004) data using the WRF/MM5 three dimensional variational (3D-Var) data assimilation system (Barker et al. 2004).