Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
detection of insect pests of grapes, Vitis vinifera, in vineyards of nova Scotia through pheromone trapping

t he fledgling grape and wine industry within nova Scotia represents an area of significant growth. Primarily wine grapes, production has grown from 150 tonnes in 1996 to 706 tonnes in 2005 (Anonymous 2009). currently, the occurrence and distribution of insect fauna within the region which may pose threats to this emergent viticulture industry are relatively not documented. t his study surveyed regional growers regarding the perceived incidence of pest damage and used pheromone traps and sweep nets to study the incidence of major and minor grape pests within vineyards. Grower surveys and direct inspection of grapevines during 2010 yielded few insect concerns for current, direct damage. t rap results indicated the presence of numerous minor threats to grapes, primarily generalist insect pest species which feed on neighbouring crops such as apples. Knowledge of the presence and distribution of such pest species will aid growers in future management decisions.
A Study of JK and T Flip Flops with and without Delay Using QCA

As transistors decrease in size, more and more of them can be accommodated in a single die, thus increasing chip computational capabilities. However, transistors cannot get much smaller than their current size. The use of quantum dots instead of CMOS transistors for implementing digital system at nanolevel is becoming more and more popular because of its faster speed, smaller size and low power consumption. Many interesting QCA-based logic circuits with smaller feature size, higher operating frequency, and lower power consumption than CMOS have been presented, even though the design of logic modules in QCA is not always straightforward. In this paper, the basic sequential logic structures-JK and T flip-flops are discussed based on QCA design, with comparatively less number of cells and area. Such devices are expected to function with ultra low power consumption and very high speed. Along with it, a design for T flip-flop with a delay is compared with a T flip-flop without any delay. The simulation result clearly testifies the validity of T flip-flop with delay. Additional
Do high job demands increase intrinsic motivation or fatigue or both? The role of job control and job social support

In this study, we used Karasek’s demand-control-support model to determine whether either job control or job social support or both can reduce signs of fatigue and simultaneously enhance intrinsic motivation among employees facing high job demands. Survey data on 555 nurses suggest that job control in particular reduces fatigue in highly demanding jobs, whereas high levels of instrumental support produce elevated levels of intrinsic motivation, regardless of the level of job control and job demands. In order to become successful or even more successful, today’s work organizations need to maximize the use of their employees’ actual and potential skills. More than ever before, organizations in both the private and public sector are introducing new forms of work and organizational design and management, such as total quality management, lean production, and empowerment (Parker & Wall, 1998). These initiatives may enhance intrinsic motivation and inspire employees to learn and develop the skills they need to meet increasing job demands, but simultaneously the initiatives may raise levels of job strain and other negative healthrelated outcomes among employees, generating significant costs in terms of sickness, lost time, and low productivity (Parker & Sprigg, 1999; Theorell & Karasek, 1996). Building on the demand-controlsupport model (DCS model) developed by Karasek and his associates (Karasek, 1979; Karasek & Theorell, 1990), the present study examines job conditions that minimize job strain and maximize intrinsic motivation in highly demanding jobs. The interaction between job demands and control has been studied frequently with respect to job strain (e.g., Ganster & Fusilier, 1989; Karasek, 1979; Schaubroeck & Merritt, 1997; Theorell & Karasek, 1996; Wall, Jackson, Mullarkey, & Parker, 1996; Xie, 1996), but has been largely neglected with respect to work motivation. Moreover, the role of job social support in the interaction between demands and control has drawn little empirical attention as far as job strain is concerned, and no empirical or theoretical attention with regard to intrinsic motivation (cf. Parker & Sprigg, 1999; Van der Doef & Maes, 1999). The present study contributes substantially to management theory and empirical knowledge by focusing on intrinsic work motivation and, more specifically, by examining the interaction between job demands, job control, and job social support on fatigue and intrinsic motivation simultaneously.
Psychologie du développement: enfance et adolescence

Le but de cet ouvrage est de permettre au lecteur novice de comprendre : – quelle est la demarche (epistemologique) de la psychologie du developpement, – quels sont ses principaux champs d'investigation, – pour chacun d'eux, quelles sont les connaissances fondamentales, indispensables pour qui souhaite avoir une vue d'ensemble coherente ou envisage d'aller plus loin. Classiquement, les trois parties de l'ouvrage, traitees par un specialiste du champ, correspondent a trois periodes de la vie : – la prime enfance, de 0 a 3 ans, c'est-a-dire «du bebe au bambin», – l'enfance « d'âge scolaire », de 3 a 11 ans («scolaire» incluant ici l'ecole maternelle), – l'adolescence, de l'entree au college jusqu'a l'autonomie financiere et au depart du domicile des parents. L'assimilation des notions essentielles est facilitee par de nombreux exemples et cas cliniques, et la mise en pratique, au travers d'exercices, de difficulte graduee, mobilisant l'ensemble des connaissances.
Navigating uneven terrain : the roles of political skill and LMX differentiation in prediction of work relationship quality and work outcomes.

Drawing from social/political influence, leader–member exchange (LMX), and social comparison theories, the present two-study investigation examines three levels of LMX differentiation (i.e., individual-level, meso-level, and group-level LMX differentiation) and further tests a model of the joint effects of political skill and LMX differentiation on LMX, relative LMX, and employee work outcomes. In Study 1, we used data from 231 employees and found support for the interactive effect of political skill and individual perceptions of LMX differentiation on LMX quality. We also found partial support for the moderating role of individual-level LMX differentiation on the indirect effects of political skill on self-rated task performance and job satisfaction via LMX. In Study 2, we used data from 185 supervisor–subordinate dyads and examined both meso-level and group-level LMX differentiation via a multilevel moderated mediation model. Results supported the moderating role of group-level LMX differentiation and group mean LMX on the indirect effects of political skill on supervisor-rated task performance and contextual performance/citizenship behavior as well as job satisfaction via relative LMX. Overall, the results suggest that politically skilled employees reap the benefits of LMX differentiation, as they enjoy higher absolute LMX and relative (i.e., to their peers) LMX quality.
Improvising Data Locality and Availability in Hbase Ecosystem

In this paper, we try to represent the importance of data locality with the HBase architecture. HBase has a dynamic master slave architecture but the emphasis on data locality, i.e. getting the logic or processing near to the data is the major phenomenon followed for better and efficient performance. Data Locality is valid as every region server has the information of every data blocks located in respective regions but what if the region server crashes or the region server is restarted or the regions are randomly re-distributed with all the region servers due to load balancing, then data locality is completely lost during that time. Performance is majorly affected if there is misconfiguration of data locality in the cluster. The HMaster uses [4] . META table to get information about the region server that has its specified regions containing rows. Keeping an eye on this disadvantages and challenges, we propose to improvise data locality by allocating maximum regions to that region server which had the maximum data blocks of that region in it. An algorithm is proposed based on HRegion locality index for deciding the criteria of allocating the regions to region servers for maintaining data locality.
Visual Field in Beckett's Late Plays

Samuel Beckett, we know, is an author deeply interested in the visual arts. A frequenter of museums, "more at home in the company of painters than that of writers," he has revealed this passion through a wealth of textual allusions. 1 But Beckett's temperament is more profoundly visual than the study of influence might suggest, his investigation of the visual image more original and direct. To appreciate this directness, we look to the plays, for the theater's dual status as literary and visual medium allows Beckett to counterpoint his exploration of language with a parallel study of vision, as it is actualized within the theatrical mise-en-scene. Few dramatists have assumed such control over the theatrical image, the arrangement of its elements and the articulation of its form. The minimalist stage specifications of Waiting for Godot ("A country road. A tree." [p. 6a]) 2 relinquish much to the discretion of director and designer, but with Endgame Beckett appropriated a supervision of stage image that he has retained throughout his dramatic career and exercised with a painter's sensitivity to visual composition. 3 Framed in tableau, the opening set of this play represents a performance field conceived with pictorial precision: its contours boldly rectangular, with walls, door, symmetrical windows, and reversed picture; its frontal plane laterally weighted by the trash bins and the stationary figure of Clov, both flanking the centric chair covered with an old sheet. Coherent in its spatial conception, the set of Endgame opposes two visual principles: on one hand, a geometric strictness of line and plane, arranged with an almost chessboard regularity of grid; and, on the other hand, the entropie scatteredness of object (toque, rug, toy dog, gaff), the muting grey light, and the bent shapelessness of human
Impact of Poor Requirement Engineering in Software Outsourcing: A Study on Software Developers' Experience

The software Requirement Engineering (RE) is one of the most important and fundamental activities in the software life cycle. With the introduction of different software process paradigms, the Requirement Engineering appeared in different facets, yet remaining its significance without a doubt. The software development outsourcing is considered as a win-win situation for both developed and developing countries. High numbers of low paid, yet talented workforce in developing countries could be employed for software outsourcing projects with the demanding power of the outsourcer to decide the projects, their scope and priorities with the intention of profit maximization. This study was conducted to analyze the impact of poor Requirement Engineering in outsourced software projects from the developers’ context (sample size n = 57). It was identified that the present outsourcing scenario has created to have frequent requirement changes, shrunk design and stretched development phases, and frequent deliverables, which have to be accommodated by the software developer with extra effort and commitment beyond the project norms. The results reveal important issues and open policy level discussions while questioning our insights on the outsourcing benefits as a whole.
Hybridized Verbs in Urhobo - English Code-Mixing

One of the outcomes of language contact is the emergence of intermediate forms which cannot be attributed to any of the two languages in contact at the surface structure level. This is analogous to the biological process of hybridization. The focus of this study is an analysis of hybridized verbs that emerge from Urhobo-English code-mixing. Hybrid verbs are intermediate forms that cannot be fully identified with either Urhobo or English. The two types of verbs discussed in this study are: first, the insertion of ‘bare’ verbs from English to Urhobo grammatical structure. These uninflected verbs correspond to that of native Urhobo verbs since Urhobo is the matrix language and English is the embedded language based on Myers-Scotton’s (2002) matrix language frame. Second is the adjoinment of Urhobo helping verbs, as well as Urhobo negative particle, to English main verb in the code-mixed structure. The essay concludes that the bilingual verbs in this study constitute part of the structural basis of Urhobo-English code-mixing. Keywords: hybridized verbs, code-mixing, code-switching, Urhobo/English, Grammatical aspects of code switching and multilingualism.
Synthesis, Characterization and in vitro Anticancer Properties of 1-{5- Aryl- 2-(5-(4-Fluoro-Phenyl)-Thiophen-2-yl)-(1,3,4)Oxadiazol-3-yl}-Ethanone

A series of novel 1-{5-aryl-2-[5-(4-fluoro-phenyl)-thiophen-2-yl] [1, 3, 4] oxadiazol-3-yl}ethanone derivatives 7a-f was synthesized by convergent synthetic method by using various carbohydrazides and 4-fluorophenyl thiophene-2-carboxaldehyde. The carboxaldehyde was reacted with various hydrazides in presence of catalytic amount of acetic acid and obtained Schiff base derivatives. The Schiff base derivatives were cyclized and acetylated in presence of acetic anhydride and obtained novel ethanone derivatives. The synthesized ethanone derivatives were purified by column-chromatography using silica gel (100-200 mesh). The synthesized compounds were evaluated for their anticancer properties using MTT assay. The 1, 3, 4oxadiazole compounds have been synthesized from the corresponding Schiff base compounds 6a-f using acetic anhydride as promoter. The synthesized compounds were characterized on the basis of IR, 1 H-NMR, 13 C NMR and LCMS analyses. The in vitro cytotoxic evaluation of the synthesized heterocycles was carried out against HepG2, HeLa, MCF7 and Caco-2 cell lines. The standard used for the evaluation was 5-fluoro uracil. Most of the compounds in this series showed less cytotoxicity against all the cell lines used. One compound in this series(7d), i.e. 1-{5[2-(4-fluorophenyl)pyridin-3-yl]-2-[5-(4-fluorophenyl)-thiophen-2-yl] [1, 3, 4] oxadiazol-3-yl}ethanone was found to be active against breast cancer cell line (MCF7) which is comparable to the standard 5-fluorouracil and compounds 7b and 7e were moderately active against HepG2 cell line.
The first two hotspots of subterranean biodiversity in South America

The term hotspots of subterranean biodiversity has been used to define subterranean habitats with an arbitrary cutoff of twenty or more obligate stygobitic and troglobitic species. Until present, no hotspots of subterranean biodiversity had been identified in South America. Thus, the objective of this work is to present the first two hotspots of subterranean biodiversity in that continent. The two hotspots of subterranean biodiversity are the Toca do Gonçalo cave (22 spp.) and Areias cave systems (28 spp.). The cave species, some of them considered relict species, belong to the Platyhelminthes (1 sp.), Nemertea (1 sp.), Gastropoda (2 spp.), Amphipoda (2) Isopoda (7), Decapoda (1), Collembola (5), Coleoptera (5), Ensifera (1), Sternorrhyncha (1), Zygentoma (1), Diplopoda (6) Chilopoda (5) Araneae (2), Opiliones (1) Palpigradi (2), Pseudoscorpiones (4), and Osteicthyes (2). Although both caves, together, have 50 troglobitic species, only 38% of these species are formally described. Both caves have perennial water bodies, but terrestrial obligate cave invertebrates are dominant in number of species in both systems (around 77%). While the Areias system is partially contained in a conservation unit, Toca do Gonçalo cave is currently unprotected, although it certainly deserves protection.
DEVELOPMENT OF PAKISTAN’S TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING (TVET): AN ANALYSIS OF SKILLING PAKISTAN REFORMS

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) play an important role for socio-economic development of a country. An overview of documented literature reiterated that the TVET sector in Pakistan needs substantial reforms to meet the challenges of global skilled labour market. This paper focuses the development of TVET in Pakistan with particular emphasize on the “Skilling Pakistan” reforms outlined in National Skill Strategy (NSS) (2009-2013) and the progress of TVET reform support programme (2011-2016). The current progress showed satisfactory performance to achieve the 20 proposed reforms under 4 major components. Under the Skilling Pakistan reforms some tangible efforts for making a world class TVET system have been executed and also plan to achieve the desired objectives. Moreover, proper mechanisms for the implementation of proposed reforms were also framed with monitoring and performance evaluation to access the progress using overall success indicators. However, some others steps are suggested to be taken up by the Government to ensure the implementation of the current reforms with quality, equality, equity and equal access to build a lifelong learning society.
Formulation of Novel Glycerin Nanoparticles for Enhancement theSolubility of Loratadine; Application to Transdermal Hydrogel DeliverySystem

Owing to its slightly aqueous solubility, loratadine (LOR) is used in high doses in different marketed formulations to achieve its desirable bioavailability. The aim of this work is to formulate novel LOR-glycerin nanoparticles (LOR-GNPs) to increase LOR bioavailability. LOR-GNPs were prepared by a precipitation method and then evaluated for such size and morphology using dynamic scattering spectroscopy (DLS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), as well as the percentage entrapment efficiency (EE%) of free LOR from GNPs formulations was performed using titration method. Furthermore, the GNPs were formulated in hydrogel. The hydrogel viscosity, spreadability, homogeneity and abdominal rat skin permeation were studied and optimized DLS indicated a successful coating of LOR with glycerin surface that recorded an average size of 334 ± 30 nm with uniform particle size, while SEM showed LOR-NPs in different shapes. The EE% free LOR was found to be satisfactory with a mean content of 98.1 ± 0.3 and a relative standard deviation below 2.0% indicates the reproducibility of the LOR release. LOR-GNPs were formulated as a hydrogel to check their suitability for a dosage form usage. The hydrogel showed accepted viscosity, spreadability, and homogeneity. The results proved that the GNPs penetrated abdominal rat skin. The obtained results showed that LOR-GNPs are considered a new addition for improvement of LOR solubility when applied as a hydrogel. The developed method could be used for different insoluble candidates.
EVALUATION OF AQUIFER CONTAMINATION USING 2 D GEOELECTRIC IMAGING AT IKEJA

Journal of Environmental Hydrology Volume 19 Paper 19 September 2011 1 Geophysical investigation has been conducted using the Electrical Resistivity Lund Imaging System (2D) in the Ikeja area of Lagos, Nigeria with the aim of investigating the aerial and vertical extent of contamination of the shallow water bearing aquifer by effluent discharged from industries in the area. Survey profiles were conducted in order to map the contaminated zones. The survey was performed with a multi channel (64) ABEM SAS 4000 Terrameter. The resistivity inversion data and borehole lithologic logs were used to infer the lithology of the near surface layers in the study area as topsoil, clay, clayey sand and sand. The inversion results from the 2D Resistivity data revealed areas of low resistivity values (<5 Ωm) indicative of possible contamination of the first aquifer and possibly the second aquifer horizons. EVALUATION OF AQUIFER CONTAMINATION USING 2D GEOELECTRIC IMAGING AT IKEJA, LAGOS, NIGERIA
The Future Astronomical Software Environment progress .

The OPTICON working group 3.6 in collaboration with international partners and in coordination with the Virtual Observatory, has already identified the high level requirements and the main architectural concepts for a future software environment for astronomical data reduction and analysis (Future Astronomical Software Environment). A special attention has been payed to: a) scalability, to allow the reduction of huge data volumes exploiting the hardware and software parallel architecture, b) interoperability, in order to guarantee the interaction between software coming from different sources and make easy the access to the Virtual Observatory, c) and modularity, to separate the adopted software technology from the specific computational algorithm and allow an independent evolution of the two areas. The proposed concepts have been widely discussed and shared by the astronomical community; however a lot of work still remains to do, mainly: a) the definition of open standards, b) the verification of such standards thanks to at least one reference implementation and practical user cases, c) and the whole must be supported at least by the major international organizations that develop data reduction and analysis software. All this work has led up to the definition of a new proposal for FP7 within OPTICON (where ESO, INAF, LAM-OAMP and NRAO/NVO are actively involved) which we present describing the project in detail and adding a description of the European FASE prototype, developed by INAF-IASF Milano in collaboration with LAM-OAMP (Marseille).
Shape of dark matter haloes in the Illustris simulation: effects of baryons

We study the effect of baryonic processes on the shapes of dark matter (DM) haloes from Illustris, a suite of hydrodynamical (Illustris) and DM-only (Illustris-Dark) cosmological simulations performed with the moving-mesh code {\sc arepo}. DM halo shapes are determined using an iterative method based on the inertia tensor for a wide range of $z=0$ masses ($M_{200} = 1 \times 10^{11} - 3 \times 10^{14} M_\odot$). Convergence tests shows that the local DM shape profiles are converged only for $r > 9\epsilon$, $\epsilon$ being the Plummer-equivalent softening length, larger than expected. Haloes from non-radiative simulations (i.e. neglecting radiative processes, star formation, and feedback) exhibit no alteration in shapes from their DM-only counterparts: thus moving-mesh hydrodynamics alone is insufficient to cause differences in DM shapes. With the full galaxy-physics implementation, condensation of baryons results in significantly rounder and more oblate haloes, with the median minor-to-major axis ratio $\left \approx 0.7$, almost invariant throughout the halo and across halo masses. This somewhat improves the agreement between simulation predictions and observational estimates of the Milky Way halo shape. Consistently, the velocity anisotropy of DM is also reduced in Illustris, across halo masses and radii. Within the inner halo ($r=0.15 R_{200}$), both $s$ and $q$ (intermediate-to-major axis ratio) exhibit non-monotonicity with galaxy mass, peaking at $m_* \approx 10^{10.5-11} M_\odot$, which we find is due to the strong dependence of inner halo shape with galaxy formation efficiency. Baryons in Illustris affect the correlation of halo shape with halo properties, leading to a positive correlation of sphericity of MW-mass haloes with halo formation time and concentration, the latter being mildly more pronounced than in Illustris-Dark.