Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Synthesis And Characterization Of Molecularly Imprinted Cross-Linked Poly (4-Vinylpyridine) For The Recognition And Concentrationdetermination Of Bilirubin In Solution

Molecular imprinting is a procedure for the preparation of artificial receptors for specific binding with target molecule. In this work molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) film for the recognition of bilirubin was synthesized and studied using the Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM). The MIP was coated on the QCM crystals and analyzed using QCM. 4-vinylpyridine was used as functional monomer, divinylbenzene as cross-linking agent and benzophenone as initiator. As a control, another polymer was prepared in the same way as the MIP but without the template monomer. The control polymer or the non-MIP exhibited very little affinity for the target molecule compared to the MIP. A calibration curve for bilirubin concentration was obtained from the frequency shifts given by different concentrations of bilirubin solution using the QCM. The effects of pH and ionic strength on recognition were also discussed. To ensure that the MIP synthesized was selective, biliverdin recognition was studied and compared to that of bilirubin. The MIP showed a higher affinity for bilirubin than biliverdin.
Factors influencing migration of Metapenaeus dobsoni (Miers, 1878) in the Negombo Lagoon

The factors influencing migration of M. dobsoni in the Negombo lagoon, Sri Lanka are presented. Juveniles of M. dobsoni occur in the Negombo lagoon and on maturing they return to the sea off Negombo for reproduction. The cohort analysis indicated two pulses of immigration to the nursery areas in February and June. The estimated growth rates for juveniles were relatively high compared to that of adults. Three groups of shrimps were identified in the lagoon : small quick movers, larger long stay ones and an intermediate group. Emigration is not restricted to maturing juveniles but occurs across all the ages. There were few identifiable emigration pulses from lagoon towards the off shore areas. It appears that the resultant osmotic stress due to low saline waters in the lagoon during the periods with high precipitation levels may be the strongest influence triggering the onset of emigration of shrimps.
Cellular properties and multilineage potential of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells for cartilage regeneration

Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) have high self-renewal and trilineage differentiation capacity which makes them a potential source for the regeneration of cartilage tissue. Hence, the present study was aimed to evaluate human BMSCs on their cellular and biological properties such as morphology, viability, proliferation and population doubling time (PDT), colony-forming-unit assay, senescence activity, cytogenetic stability, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity, surface marker expression, and multilineage potential towards osteocytes, adipocytes and chondrocytes. Established BMSCs (n=3) exhibited spindle-shaped morphology during primary culture and early passages but acquired characteristic fibroblast-like features later. Viability was >95% at all passages; however, BMSC1 showed decreased viability during later passages (P3P5). PDT values were slightly higher in BMSC2 and BMSC3 when compared to BMSC1. BMSCs showed colony formation ability and positive staining pattern for ALP activity. Further, BMSCs had a positive expression for CD29, CD90 and CD73 and negative expression for CD34 and CD45. All BMSCs were successfully differentiated towards osteocytes, adipocytes and chondrocytes upon specific induction. BMSCs were shown to be proliferative with expression of MSC-specific phenotypic markers and ability for multilineage differentiation potential. These BMSCs could possibly be used in prospective therapeutic applications in cartilage regeneration.
Sensory coding of complex visual motion in the locust (Locusta migratoria)

ii Acknowledgements . iv Table of contents . v List of figures . ix List of abbreviations . xi Chapter 1 General Introduction and literature review . 1 1.1 Neuroethology . 1 1.2 Principles of sensory coding . 1 1.2. 1 Sensory environments. 1 1.2. 2 Sensory Coding. 2 1.2. 3 Neuronal ensembles . 4 1.3 Insect vision. 6 1.4 Locusta migratoria . 9 1.4. 1 Locust biology . 9 1.4. 2 Locusta as a model system . 10 1.4. 3 Anatomy and physiology . 11 1.4. 3.1 Nervous system . 12
Honeybee Responses to Sugar Solutions of Different Compositions

SummaryHoneybee foragers were caught as they returned to their hive. Each was mounted by the dorsum on a wire, and after 45 minutes was offered two sugar solutions alternately. Bees that made a choice (e.g. imbibing one solution after rejecting the other) most often preferred sucrose to either glucose or fructose. A mixture of equal parts of sucrose, glucose and fructose was, like other mixtures tested, less attractive than sucrose or a mixture in which sucrose was dominant.
A Framework to Systematically Analyse the Trustworthiness of Nodes for Securing IoV Interactions

Trust plays essential role in any securing communications between Vehicles in IOV. This motivated us to design a trust model for IoV communication. In this paper, we initially review literature on IoV and Trust and present a hybrid trust model that separates the malicious and trusted nodes to secure the interaction of vehicle in IOV. Node segregation is done using value of statistics (St). If St of each node lies in the range of mean (m) plus/minus 2 standard deviation (SD) of PDR then nodes behaviour is considered as normal otherwise malicious. The simulation is conducted for different threshold values. Result depicts that PDR of trusted node is 0.63 that is much higher than the PDR of malicious node that is 0.15. Similarly, the average no. of hops and trust dynamics of trusted nodes are higher than that of malicious node. So, on the basis of values of PDR, number of available hops and trust dynamics, the malicious nodes can be clearly identified and discarded.
Constructing Transparent QA Chatbot based on the Official Website Documents

Question answering (QA) chatbots, which answer user questions interactively, are useful for people to get the information they need. When an organization such as a local government, a university, or a company introduces a QA chatbot that can answer inquiries about the organization itself or its services/products, it faces the problem of huge costs of creating and updating question-asnwer pairs and designing dialogue rules. One may expect that recently-developed machine learning approaches, such as the end-to-end neural dialogue system and the machine reading comprehension system, will alleviate the situation. However, at this point, there are still problems in applying these methods to actual services. In this paper, we propose a framework to construct a QA chatbot directly from organizations’ official websites. Many organizations have official websites with well-maintained information about their services or products. We automatically convert HTML documents on the website to tree-structured data, which we call dialogue flowcharts. Our QA chatbot answers questions based on this dialogue flowcharts. By making dialogue state transition based on the tree structure, the chatbot realizes multi-turn QA. Since the proposed method operates on only the existing official website as the information source, we can minimize the costs of the introduction and maintenance of QA chatbots. Also, our dialogue flowcharts are in interpretable format, which enables humans to check the information source and detect the cause of errors. Furthermore, we adopt the retrieval method in order to guarantee the correctness of the contents of system outputs. Here we use the efficient retrieval model adopting BERT to capture user intention correctly. In the training stage, we used content-based weak-supervision learning that requires no additionally-constructed training data. The proposed framework realizes a transparent QA chatbot consists of interpretable dialogue flowcharts and a simple retrieval-based architecture, which can be used for actual services that require responsibility for their behaviors. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from permissions@acm.org. AIIS’20, July 30, 2020, Virtual Event, China © 2020 Association for Computing Machinery. ACM ISBN TBA. $TBA https://doi.org/TBA Our experiments show that (1) our method can construct the dialogue flowcharts of good quality from websites in different languages and domains and (2) the constructed chatbot based on the resultant flowcharts replies with the appropriate information.
THE EFFECT OF ORGANIZATIONAL VALUE CONGRUENCE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MINISTRIES AND QUANGOS

In this paper we investigate differences between the organizational values of ministries and semi-autonomous executive agencies (quangos) that operate at arms’ length. Quangos are expected to operate more business-like, hence they can be expected to value profitability and other NPM-related values higher than ministries. Value incongruence between quangos and ministries is hypothesized to decrease their level of trust. These hypotheses are tested, using combined data from two Dutch surveys (n=324). The results confirm the expectations, although different types of quangos have different degrees of value (in)congruence, which may lead to variations in the quality of the relationship with their parent ministry.
The Political Economy of Compliance in WTO Disputes

This paper analyzes the World Trade Organization‟s (WTO) success at bringing about compliance with the international rules of trade through its Dispute Settlement Understanding. Focusing on what happens after a WTO dispute has been arbitrated, we try to explain whether, when, and why respondents modify their trade practices once dispute panel or Appellate Body reports find in favor of complainants. We advance the argument that delays in policy change toward WTO-consistent trade practices depends on the relative political weight of domestic special interests benefiting from the trade policy status quo. Delays in the implementation of WTO-recommended policies are a consequence of opportunistic governments trying to maximize their political support function by providing influential economic sectors with continued non-compliance. Using binary response and duration models, we analyze decisions to comply in due time and the time-to-compliance with almost 100 adopted dispute panel and Appellate Body reports adopted between 1995 and 2008 and requiring respondents to modify their trade practices. The results provide strong empirical support for our theoretical argument.
The Real Options to Shutdown, Startup, and Abandon: Empiric al Evidence

The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the real o ptions to shutdown, startup, and abandon. The exercise is made possible by a dataset with d etaile information for 1,121 individual plants for the period 2001–2009, a total of 8,189 plant-year observations. To the best of our knowledge, the data are unique in scope and level of det ail. We find strong evidence of real options effects for shutdown and abandonment decision s. We find that uncertainty about the outcome of ongoing deregulation in retail electricity m arkets significantly decreases the likelihood of shutting down operating plants. JEL CLASSIFICATION CODES:
LamPORE: rapid, accurate and highly scalable molecular screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection, based on nanopore sequencing

LamPORE is a rapid way of testing/screening large numbers of samples for the presence or absence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. It combines barcoded multi-target amplification, 15-minute barcoded library preparation and real-time nanopore sequencing. Starting with extracted RNA, results can be obtained from 12 samples in approximately an hour and from 96 samples in under 2 hours. High scalability is achieved by combinatorial barcoding. Performance characteristics are currently being established and regulatory clearance to market is underway.
JCER Working Paper 2019-2-2 Basri&Hill

In the current global environment of authoritarian populism, the retreat from economic liberalism and the appeal of anti-globalization movements, this paper investigates the effects on and responses of five middle-income Southeast Asian economies, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. While their political histories and institutional capabilities vary greatly, these economies have a history of at least moderately fast economic growth for extended periods, and of increasing regional and global economic integration. We argue that most of the factors behind the discontent with globalization in the rich economies are not present to the same degree in these countries, and that there has therefore been no major retreat from the economic policy settings that have underpinned their past economic success. However, there are no grounds for complacency. Economic growth is slowing in some of the countries, economic insecurity remains widespread, and the development of durable independent institutions has lagged economic growth. JEL codes: F02, F60, H12, Z18
OP-IJEJ170099 2009..2016

Background: The rising prevalence of atopic diseases implies a strong influence of environmental determinants. Epidemiological studies have identified several early life exposures that appear to influence the risk of developing atopic sensitization, but the combined influence of these exposures is unknown. We sought to estimate the proportion of atopy that could be attributed to common childhood exposures associated with atopic sensitization in adolescence and young adulthood. Methods: Atopic sensitization was measured by skin-prick tests for common aeroallergens in a population-based New Zealand birth cohort at ages 13 and 32 years. The independent effects of previously identified risk and protective factors for atopic sensitization were assessed using multiple logistic regression. Population attributable fractions were calculated for atopic sensitization in childhood and adulthood. Results: Tobacco smoke exposure, dog and cat ownership, nail-biting and thumb-sucking, attending pre-school day care, and household crowding were associated with a lower risk of atopic sensitization whereas breastfeeding was associated with a higher risk. Population attributable fractions for combined effects of these environmental factors suggest that they may account for 58% of atopic sensitization at age 13 and 49% at age 32 years. Conclusions: A substantial proportion of atopic sensitization appears to be attributable to common childhood environmental and lifestyle factors, and the influence of these exposures persists into adulthood. The absolute risks attributable to these exposures will be different in other cohorts and we cannot assume that these associations are necessarily causal. Nevertheless, the findings suggest that identifiable childhood environmental factors contribute substantially to atopic sensitization. VC The Author 2017; all rights reserved. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association 2009 International Journal of Epidemiology, 2017, 2009–2016 doi: 10.1093/ije/dyx098 Advance Access Publication Date: 17 July 2017
Evaluation of selected agricultural wastes as viable sources of vitamin supplements in poultry feeds

The vitamin content of selected agricultural wastes was evaluated as supplements in poultry feeds. The agricultural wastes considered in this study include: cassava bagasse, beans coat, pineapple peel, avocado pear seed, watermelon peel, fluted pumpkin stalk, potato peel, Mix. A mixture of all wastes (ratio, 1:1:1), Mix. B mixture of bean jackets, avocado pear seed and potato peel (ratio, 1:1:1). The vitamins considered were Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Vitamin B12, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, Pantothenic acid, Niacin, Biotin, and Pyridoxine. Cassava bagasse gave the highest amount of vitamin A (0.36±0.06 mg/L), whereas this vitamin was totally absent in fluted pumpkin stalk. This waste also gave the highest amount of vitamin E (0.99±0.21 mg/L). The highest amount of vitamin D (10.35±0.21 mg/L) was obtained from watermelon peel, while the highest amount of vitamin B12 (0.08±0.04 mg/L) was gleaned from a mixture of all the wastes (Mix. A). The wastes were quite low in vitamin K herein, Mix. B (bean jackets, avocado pear seed, and potato peel) gave the highest amount (2.36±0.16 mg/L). Finally, pineapple peel gave the highest amount of pantothenic acid (8.55±0.35 mg/L), niacin (5.95±0.53 mg/L), biotin (0.08±0.03 mg/L), as well as pyridoxine (2.45±0.55 mg/L). These results were compared with the standards required for the feed formulation for different categories of poultry birds. Our findings revealed that these agro-wastes contain vitamin levels that did not differ significantly from the standards required for feed formulation for different categories of poultry birds. Hence, they can serve as good supplements for vitamins in poultry feeds. Harnessing the vitamin contents of these wastes as supplements in poultry feed will increase animal production and ensure food security in terms of protein supply.
Apparel Regional Value Chains and COVID-19: Insights from Eswatini

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is having major implications for apparel global value chains (GVCs). State-driven measures to enforce social distancing have led to the downsizing and even closure of supplying firms, especially in developing countries where government support for manufacturers is limited (Teodoro and Rodriguez, 2020). This dynamic has been worsened by the actions of international brands and retailers which, in a number of cases, have delayed or cancelled orders, and have refused to pay for ongoing production and shipments (Anner, 2020).
A Review of Higher Education Service quality in Pursuit of Future Research Agenda

The impact of an Education sector on society's growth and development is far greater than any service sector along with its economic implication for the country. As a surge in private players in the domain of education services, various challenges have emerged. These Challenges are broadly related to services provided by higher education systems including quality of education, faculty, infrastructure, placements, and others. Government and regulatory bodies are regularly monitoring the education sector to identify loopholes and suggest measures to further improve service quality in the education sector. However, the level of education services still not matching standard levels. The objective of the paper is to review empirical studies of service quality in the education sector and suggest future research agenda to plug the existing research gap in the evaluation of the quality of higher education services so that corrective action can be taken by various stakeholders. The paper significantly contributes to understanding future research agenda by an extensive review of papers related education service quality domain.
Testing the Profitability of Technical Trading Rules across Market Cycles: Evidence from India

This study examines the economic feasibility of technical analysis, such as relative strength index, moving average convergence and divergence in Indian context. Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex Index historical data were collected from BSE data base for the period from February, 2000 to May, 2018. The selected data were further categorised into Bull and Bear markets to test the technical tools performance across market cycle. The results exhibited that relative strength index trading rule failed to deliver the positive return even before deducting transaction cost. However, moving average convergence and divergence trading rules’ sell signal outperformed the unconditional mean return and buy signal mean return, during the Bear market period before deducting transaction cost. However, in accordance with the Sharpe ratio, returns generated were not at the level of risk associated in technical trading rules. The findings question the possibility for traders to consistently earn abnormal return with technical analysis.
Identifikasi Beauveria Sp. Asal Situ Gede Dengan Analisis Sekuen Internal Transcribed Spacer Dan Virulensinya Terhadap Nilaparvata Lugens Stal.

CYNTIA NIRMALASARI. Identification of Beauveria sp. From Situ Gede Origin with Internal Transcribed Spacer Sequence Analysis and Their Virulence Against Nilaparvata lugens Stal. Under Supervision SURYANI dan YADI SURYADI Beauveria sp. known as the causal agent of muscardine disease is one of the enthomopatogenic fungal that can be used as biocontrol agent against various insect pest. The objective of this research is to identify Beauveria sp. isolates from Situ Gede origin using internal transcribed spacer sequence analysis and to study their pathogenicity against Nilaparvata lugens Stal to obtain high virulent isolates. The primer ITS 1 and 4 has successfully amplify internal transcribed spacer region (600 bp) of thirteen Beauveria sp. fungal isolates. Based on homology analysis showed that Stgd 5(14)1 isolate was closely related with Beauveria bassiana no 1572, while Stgd 7(14)2 isolate was closely related with Beauveria bassiana Bb 9005. Phylogenetic tree analysis showing their close relationship. The result of pathogenicity test showed that Stgd 8(4)2 and Stgd 7(14)2 isolate were virulent against N. lugens (S.) causing mortality 100%. The fast median lethal time (LT50) were shown by B. bassiana Bb 9005 and Stgd 5(14)2 isolates.
TWENTY-SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPOSITE MATERIALS (ICCM22) NUMERICAL MODELLING OF UNSTABLE MODE I TRANSVERSE INTRALAMINAR CRACK PROPAGATION USING THE SIZE EFFECT LAW

This paper presents a micromechanical Finite Element (FE) model to study mode I transverse intralaminar damage propagation in unidirectional (UD) composite materials. A computational framework consisting of Single Edge Notch Tension (SENT) virtual specimens, composed of Unit Cells (UCs) embedded in homogenised regions, is proposed. Random fibre distributions and appropriate constitutive models are used to model the different dissipative phenomena that occur at crack initiation and propagation. The corresponding crack-resistance curve (R-curve) is obtained by fitting the size effect law (SEL) to the peak loads obtained from geometrically scaled SENT FE models.