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Consumption Pattern and Indigenous Knowledge of Moringa Oleifera among Dwellers of Rural Enclaves around Ibadan Metropolis, Oyo State, Nigeria

Moringa oleifera is a perennial plant which has high economic and medicinal values in many countries of the world. This study was carried out to investigate the indigenous knowledge and consumption pattern of Moringa oleifera among dwellers in rural enclaves around Ibadan metropolis. The study covered 5 rural settlements around Ibadan metropolis which are Gbopa, Olodo, Onipe, Ibuso gboro and Abapanu. 20 households were selected from each settlement to arrive at a total number of 100 questionnaires out of which 90 were retrieved. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis. It was discovered that Moringa oleifera has 2 local names in the area which are ‘’gbogbonise’’ and ‘’ewe igbale’’ but majority of the respondents knows the plant as Moringa. It was also found out from findings that most of the respondents use the plants because of the medicinal value attached to it. Education and household size positively and significantly influence Moringa consumption at 0.05 level of significance. The study therefore recommends that household members should try and get adequate training necessary for effective consumption of the plant.
A dual band LTE PIFA antenna for M2M applications

A dual Planar Inverted‐F‐Antenna for M2M application is proposed. The antenna covers the lower long term evolution (LTE) band (690–960 MHz) and partially, the upper LTE band (1670–2067 MHz). The antenna is low cost with omnidirectional radiation characteristics. The measured total efficiency and gain are better than 58% and 0.8 dBi across the operational frequency range. A parametric study of key geometrical parameters is made. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 57:1655–1658, 2015
In Vitro Rumen Fermentation and Anti Mastitis Bacterial Activity of Diet Containing Betel Leaf Meal (Piper betle L.)

The aims of this experiment was to study the inhibition effect of betel leaf meal (BLM) addition into concentrate diet on mastitis causing bacteria and on rumen fermentation condition. The study consisted of five dietary treatments of BLM level in concentrate feed, i.e., 0%, 2%, 4%, 6%, and 8% and four replicates of each treatment. The treatment diets together with napier grass in ratio of 40 : 60 were fermented using rumen liquor. All treatments were examined their antibacterial activity before and after fermentation. After four hours fermentation, supernatant of each samples were analyzed for VFA, NH 3, number of bacteria and protozoa. Dry matter (DM) and organic matter (OM) digestibility were analyzed after 48 h fermentation. The results showed that before fermentation, 8% BLM addition caused the bigest (P<0.05) inhibition diameter of Staphylococcus spp. growth compared to other lower levels. However after fermentation there were no significant differences among the addition levels of BLM. Two per cent of BLM addition produced higher VFA (P<0.05) than the other addition levels. Ammoniaconcentration, dry matter (DM) and organic matter (OM) digestibility were not different among the treatments. Addition of BLM significantly (P<0.01) decreased protozoa number, but did not affect bacterial count. It is concluded that the addition of 2% BLM in concentrate feed can be used effectively to inhibit the growth of mastitis causing bacteria ( Staphylococcus spp.) and does not disturb rumen fermentation condition.
Integration, Regional Specialization and Growth Differentials in EU Acceding Countries: Evidence from Hungary

This paper investigates the impact of market integration on regional production structures and regional growth differentials in Hungary over the period 1994-2000. Our analysis indicates a relocation of manufacturing towards border regions, in particular towards regions bordering the European Union. On average, regional manufacturing specialization increased. We find a positive relationship between knowledge spillovers proxyed with a measure of foreign direct investment intensity and regional growth as well as between regional manufacturing specialization and regional growth. The change in regional specialization is also positively related to regional growth. Our empirical results show that on average, other things equal, high growth rates are associated with high initial levels of GDP per capita. This finding shows up even when controlling for regional economic structures, change in manufacturing specialization, the degree of openness and geographical proximity to western markets. Our research suggests that in the first stage of market integration divergence forces tend to prevail leading to relative winners and losers across space. Key words: Economic integration, Location of economic activity, Regional growth JEL Classification: F15, R11, R12
Sustainable breeding programmes for tropical farming systems

This module discusses important factors to consider when designing sustainable genetic improvement programmes, especially under tropical conditions. Previous attempts to launch breeding programmes in developing countries have too often failed for a number of reasons, although there are success stories to learn from as well. Long-term and simple strategies are necessary as is the need to efficiently exploit the potential of indigenous breeds. Increased productivity per animal or area of land used also need to be considered. However, that must be achieved while also considering the variable socio-economic and cultural values of livestock in different societies or regions. Within the module there are links [blue] to web resources and [burgundy] to case studies and other related components of this resource that help illustrate the issues presented.
A Survey on Journey of Topic Modeling Techniques from SVD to Deep Learning

Topic modeling techniques have been primarily being used to mine the topics from text corpora. These techniques reveal the hidden thematic structure in a collection of documents and facilitate to build up new ways to browse, search and summarize large archive of texts. A topic is a group of words that frequently occur together. A topic modeling can connect words with similar meanings and make a distinction between uses of words with several meanings. Here we present a survey on journey of topic modeling techniques comprising Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and non-LDA based techniques and the reason for classify the techniques into LDA and non-LDA is that LDA has ruled the topic modeling techniques since its inception. We have used the three hierarchical classification criteria’s for classifying topic models that include LDA and non-LDA based, bag-of-words or sequence-of-words approach and unsupervised or supervised learning for our survey. Purpose of this survey is to explore the topic modeling techniques since Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) topic model to the latest topic models in deep learning. Also, provide the brief summary of current probabilistic topic models as well as a motivation for future research.
Application of multimodal MRI in the brain diagnosis of patients with depression

Objective: This study aims to investigate the application of multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in the brain diagnosis of symptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerotic Stenosis (sICAS) patients with depression; results of which may be an evidence for formulating the early treatment and therapeutic schedule of these patients. Methods: A total of 120 patients who have severe sICAS with depression admitted in our hospital were randomly divided into the control and observation groups, with 60 cases in each group. All patients were subjected to MRI examinations, including routine MRI+MRA, perfusion-weighted imaging, and highresolution MRI, before the treatment. The patients in the control group underwent the routine internal medical treatment. The patients in the observation group were treated with intravascular stent-assisted angioplasty based on routine internal medical treatment. All patients were followed up for 1 year. The incidence of complications, recurrence rate of sICAS with depression, Mean Transit Time (MTT), Cerebral Blood Volume (CBV), time to peak, and Cerebral Blood Flow (CBF) of patients in two groups were compared before the treatment and after the 12 month follow-up. Meanwhile, the correlation between various imaging indexes and therapeutic schedule was analysed. Results: Compared with the test results before treatment, MTT was decreased significantly in two groups, and CBV and CBF were increased significantly, and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.05). Compared with that in the control group, MTT was decreased significantly in the observation group, CBV and CBF were increased significantly, the recurrence rate of sICAS with depression was decreased significantly, and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.05). Conclusion: Endovascular stent implantation reduced the recurrence rate of sICAS with depression. The multimodal magnetic resonance perfusion imaging-associated indexes could be used to evaluate the efficacy of stent implantation in sICAS patients with depression.
EX-OR LINK STATE OPERATION USING IN FISHEYE STATE ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR DESTINATION SEQUENCED IN MANET

In MANETs, opportunistic data forwarding has drawn abundant attention within the analysis community of multi hop wireless networking, with most analysis conducted for stationary wireless networks. One amongst the explanations why opportunistic data forwarding has not been wide used in mobile ad hoc networks. It's the need of high capable fisheye state routing scheme with efficient source routing capability. In this paper, we propose a fisheye state routing (FSR)(7) protocol to get efficient data we include extremely opportunistic routing (EXOR )(1) and link state protocol (LS)(2) which compared with proactive source routing (PSR) protocol. We tests using simulation in ns- 2(Network Simulator-2) under different network parameters. We get good result in a fisheye state routing (FSR) protocol.
Emission from small scale PV-installations on the low voltage grid

The use of solar panels is becoming more popular in Sweden. Parts of Scandinavia have many sun hours and the cold temperatures are advantageous as they lead to higher efficiencies and longer lifetimes of the solar cells. In this paper conducted emission levels associated with the connection of photovoltaic systems will be discussed. Harmonics (up to 2 kHz) and supraharmonics (2 to 150 kHz) will be discussed. Measurements from three phase connected plants (20 kW) and from smaller (up to 2.5 kW) single phase connected plants are shown. The harmonic emission from PV-plants is reasonably low and somewhat constant with regards to the production. Some residue from the switching of the inverter can be found typical at a few kHz.
Rice seed quality development and temperature during late development and maturation

Abstract The potential longevity of japonica rice (Oryza sativa L. subsp. japonica) seed is particularly sensitive to high temperature – and thus climate change – during development and maturation. Cultivar Taipei 309 was grown at 28/20°C (12 h/12 h) and then from 19 DAA (days after 50% anthesis), when seeds were just over half filled, at 28/20°C, 30/22°C, 32/24°C or 34/26°C (12 h/12 h). Whereas ability to germinate ex planta had been achieved in almost all seeds by 24 DAA, only half the population were desiccation tolerant. Desiccation tolerance continued to increase over the subsequent 28 d, similarly at all four temperatures. Subsequent longevity, assessed by p50 (period in days to reduce viability to 50% in hermetic storage at 40°C with c. 15% moisture content), increased progressively at 28/20°C until 38 DAA, and remained constant until the final harvest (52 DAA). The three warmer temperature regimes provided similar longevity to 28/20°C at any one harvest, except at 38 DAA where the warmest (34/26°C) was poorer. That temperature regime also provided greater seed-to-seed variability within each survival curve. The results confirm that appreciable improvement in seed quality occurs during seed development and also subsequent maturation in japonica rice, but that increase in temperature from 28/20°C to 34/26°C during late seed filling onwards has comparatively little effect thereon. Comparison with previous investigations suggests that seed quality development may be less sensitive to high temperatures during late development and maturation than during the early seed development that precedes it.
Molecular Identification and Characterization of Phosphate Solubilizing Pseudomonas sp. Isolated from Rhizosphere of Mash Bean ( Vigna Mungo L.) for Growth Promotion in Wheat

Bio-inoculants have potential role in plant growth promotion. The present study evaluated the potential of Pseudomonas strains as bio-inoculants in wheat on the basis of plant growth promotion and physiological characterization. The 16S rRNA gene sequencing and phylogenetic analysis revealed that four isolated strains belonged to genus Pseudomonas . These strains were positive for phosphorus solubilization and indole acetic acid production, whereas only two strains were positive candidate for their nitrogen fixing ability as determined by presence or absence of nifH gene through amplification from polymerase chain reaction. The pot experiment showed that the integrated use of Pseudomonas strains as co-inoculant and 50% applied mineral fertilizers enhanced the maximum wheat growth and development from 58 to 140% for different shoot and root growth parameters. The strain NCCP-45 and NCCP-237 were closely related to Pseudomonas beteli and Pseudomonas lini, respectively. These isolated strains can be used to increase crop productivity by using as a bio-fertilizer inoculum.
Calderón weights as muckenhoupt weights

The Calder on operator S is the sum of the the Hardy averaging operator and its adjoint. The weights w for which S is bounded on L p (w) are the Calder on weights of the class Cp. We give a new characterization of the weights in Cp by a single condition which allows us to see thatCp is the class of Muckenhoupt weights associated to a maximal operator dened through a basis in (0;1). The same condition characterizes the weighted weak- type inequalities for 1 < p < 1, but that the weights for the strong type and the weak type dier for p = 1. We also prove that the weights in Cp do not behave like the usual Ap weights with respect to some properties and, in particular, we answer an open question on extrapolation for Muckenhoupt bases without the openness property.
Tunneling or Value Addition? Evidence from Mergers by Korean Business Groups

Business groups in emerging markets have the potential to create either value or agency problems. Using Korean mergers, we investigate the nature of business groups in emerging markets and examine whether Korean business groups (chaebols) add value to their member firms or provide the controlling shareholders with an opportunity for wealth transfer (tunneling). We show that chaebol-affiliated firms that performed well prior to the merger realize significantly negative announcement returns. We also find that chaebol bidders who acquired poorly performing targets within the same group and/or had concentrated equity ownership by owner-managers experience significantly negative abnormal returns. These types of mergers, however, have a significantly positive effect on the market value of the portfolio of other firms in the group. Our results support the tunneling view that firms belonging to business groups pay less attention to the maximization of individual firm value and make takeover decisions that are beneficial to only controlling shareholders.
Intermittency in the Transition to Turbulence for a Shear-Thinning Fluid in Hagen-Poiseuille Flow

Since Reynolds original experiments in 1883, very few studies have been carried out on the transition to turbulence for shear thinning fluid in Hagen-Poiseuille. Compared to the Newtonian fluids, the results showed two interesting phenomenon: a delay in transition to turbulence and the appearance of an asymmetry in the mean axial velocity profiles. In this study, we measured experimentally the fraction factor and axial velocity profiles using Laser Doppler Velocimetry system (LDV) at different Reynolds numbers. It is shown an axisymmetric in the mean axial velocity profiles for laminar and turbulent regimes and an increasing asymmetry profile with increasing Rew for transition regime. Two different stages are clearly identified during transition to turbulence. The first stage which we called it pre-transition, took place only in the non Newtonian fluids while the second stage correspond to the appearance of turbulent puffs. Another objective of this study is the statistical analysis of the axial velocity fluctuation. In the transition regime, power spectra identified the existence of a weak turbulence. It is generated by the shear-thinning character of the fluid, which follows a power law with an exponent close to -3 (f -3).
A Hybrid Framework for Article Recommendation using Citation Network and Author based Search Pattern

: With the rapid growth in the information technology and the growing amount of the scholarly data, the recommendation techniques are becoming more popular. The main aim of the recommender system is to automatically suggest the users with the items of the potential interest. In the recent years they are being employed in the digital libraries for the researcher to get the required article. But this search tool gives the list of the relevant articles based in the keyword based queries. If any researchers have the same set of keywords then the obtained result would also be same. It is not feasible to describe the searchers need depending on the several limited keywords. In the proposed system, a novel recommendation method is being introduced in which it incorporates common author relations between the articles to help generate better recommendations for relevant target researcher. In this system the citation network is being constructed in order to give the relevant output to the researcher. Also the hybrid framework is being considered for the implementation. In order to determine the relevant researchers with author-based search patterns, the ratio of pairwise articles with common author relations and the ratio of the most frequently appeared author.
Temporal variability of mineral dust concentrations over West Africa: analyses of a pluriannual monitoring from the AMMA Sahelian Dust Transect

Abstract. The Sahelian belt is known to be a region where atmospheric levels of suspended mineral dust are among the highest observed on Earth. In the framework of the AMMA (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis) International Program, a transect of 3 ground based stations, the "Sahelian Dust Transect" (SDT), has been deployed in order to obtain quantitative information on the mineral dust content and its variability over the Sahel. The three stations, namely Banizoumbou (Niger), Cinzana (Mali) and M'Bour (Senegal) are aligned around 14° N along the east-westward main pathway of the Saharan and Sahelian dust towards the Atlantic Ocean. We discuss data collected between January 2006 and December 2008 to investigate the main characteristics of the mineral dust concentration over West Africa and their connection with the dominant meteorological situations. The succession of the dry season during which the Sahel is under the influence of the dry Harmattan wind and the wet season induced by the entrance of the monsoon flow is clearly identified from the basic meteorological parameters (air temperature and moisture, wind direction). Atmospheric dust concentrations at the three stations exhibit a similar seasonal cycle, with a monthly maximum during the dry season and a minimum occurring during the rainy season, indicating that the general pattern of dust concentration is similar at regional scale. This seasonal cycle of the dust concentrations is not phased with the seasonal cycle of surface wind velocity locally measured, suggesting that it is mainly controlled by Saharan dust transport. Local dust emissions induced by strong surface winds are responsible for the occurrence of extremely high daily concentrations observed at the beginning of the rainy season. A decrease in the dust concentration is observed when moving from Niger to Senegal.
Performance of Membrane-Assisted Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System Fuelled by Bioethanol

The membrane separation units for bioethanol purification including pervaporation and vapor permeation are integrated with the bioethanol-fuelled solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system. The preliminary calculations indicate that Hydrophilic type is a suitable membrane for vapor permeation to be installed after a hydrophobic pervaporation. Based on energy self-sufficient condition and data of available pervaporation membranes, the simulation results show that the use of vapor permeation unit after the pervaporation can significantly improve the overall electrical efficiency from 10.96% for the system with pervaporation alone to 26.56%. Regarding the effect of ethanol recovery, the ethanol recovery at 75% can offer the optimal overall efficiency from the proposed purification system compared to the ethanol recovery at 31.16% for the case with the single pervaporation.
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN ROLLING HORIZON FOR TAC/SCM

In the Trading Agent Competition/Supply Chain Management (TAC/SCM), each competitor is an autonomous software agent controlling a factory that assemblies personal computers. Agent attributions include production scheduling, component acquisition and product selling. In each round, each agent must finish its play in up to 15 seconds. The agent having the largest total profit is declared the winner. In this paper, we define an optimization problem based on a rolling horizon strategy for the TAC/SCM. To solve the proposed problem, we develop a Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) model and a heuristic that uses the MIP’s linear relaxation. Our experiments show that the heuristic, when integrated to CPLEX, allows for obtaining good feasible solutions in time and that the performance of the proposed agent is acceptable.
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This paper proposes a novel geometric analysis-based trajectory planning approach for underactuated capsule systems with viscoelastic property. The idea is to reduce complexity and to characterize coupling by imposing a harmonic drive and then to compute the dynamics projection onto a hypermanifold, such that the issue of trajectory planning is converted into geometric analysis and trajectory optimization. The objective is to obtain optimal locomotion performance in terms of tracking error, average capsule speed and energy efficacy. Firstly, an analytical two-stage velocity trajectory is given based on control indexes and dynamic constraints. A locomotion-performance index is then proposed and evaluated to identify the optimal viscoelastic parameters. The trajectory is optimally parameterized through rigorous analysis. A nonlinear tracking controller is designed using collocated partial feedback linearization. For the sake of efficiency in progression and energy, the proposed method provides a novel approach in characterizing and planning motion trajectory for underactuated capsule systems such that the optimal locomotion can be achieved. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method.