Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SUCCESSFUL STORAGE OF PRETREATED, READY-TO-SOW SEEDS OF LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA

GOSLING, P. G. , SAMUEL, Y. K. & JONES, S. K. 2002. Successful storage of pretreated, ready-to-sow seeds of Leucaena leucocephala. Untreated seeds of Leucaena leucocephala exhibited 26% germination capacity and 90% viability. Germination capacity was stimulated to an average of 74% by chipping and suitable durations of boiling (100 °C) or hot (90, 80, 70 °C) water. Untreated and pretreated seeds were then stored at 8% moisture content (fresh weight basis) and 4 °C for 4,8,16, 32 and 64 weeks. Neither group (untreated or pretreated) showed any loss of viability or decrease in germination capacity over these storage periods and there was no change in germination speed (measured as "mean germination time", mgt) amongst untreated or chipped seeds. However, for all boiling/hot water pretreatments, not only were the beneficial effects of dormancy breakage retained throughout storage, but germination speed improved with increasing storage interval. The rate of improvement to mgt was described by a quadratic function. Boiling/hot water pretreated seeds of L. leucocephala not only resisted deterioration over 64 weeks storage, but their subsequent performance appeared to improve.
PPA_A_218068 1527..1543

Department of Pharmacy Practice, Kuwait University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Hawalli, Kuwait Background: Pharmacy practice has been expanded to include responsibility for the outcomes of medication therapy. However, in developing countries the pharmacist’s role is still limited to dispensing medications. The aim of this study is to explore the perspectives of patients and physicians on the pharmacist’s role in improving medication adherence in type 2 diabetes. Methods: Data were collected via semi-structured interviews with patients and physicians. The interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. Results: A total of 40 patients and 21 physicians were interviewed. The interviews revealed different pharmacy-related issues that negatively affected patients’ adherence, such as a lack of pharmacist counselling and inappropriate scheduling of refills. Various recommendations to improve adherence were emphasised such as dedicating some pharmacists to counselling patients and providing pharmacists with the appropriate training. Conclusion: From the perspectives of patients and physicians, the pharmacist’s role in the management of type 2 diabetes is still limited to dispensing medications. In order to improve medication adherence and consequently patient outcomes, policy-makers need to be aware of the importance of supporting pharmacists and providing them with the appropriate training.
Investigating In vitro micro propagation of (Saponaria officiale L) by nodal culture with sucrose supplement

Received: 8 February, 2016 Accepted: 19 April, 2016 Published: 15 May, 2016 Medicinal soap, scientifically known as (saponaria officinalis L), is a perennial plant belonging to the family of carnation and a valuable medicinal and industrial plant. The origin of this plant is the Mediterranean region. The medicinal properties of plant soap include blood filtering, elimination of rheumatism, gout, urinary tract and skin diseases, cure cancer, eczema and tuberculosis. The purpose of this study was to investigate medicinal soap plant micro-propagation using explantinternodes in a medium containing 50 grams of sucrosein the presence of hormone levels of BA (0 – 0.05 – 0.20.5) and naphthalene acetic acid (0 – 0.05 – 0.20.5). Different factors appraisedincluded fresh weight, root and stem length, leaf area, length and width of callus, number of stems and roots, embryogenetic plants, aerial root, root hair, green leaves, red leaves, lost leaves, number of nodesand stem produced from each node and color of callus. The mean comparison showed that the freehormone medium conducive to the increment of root length, the medium containing 0.5 mg/l BA and 0.5 mg/lnaphthalene acetic acid (NAA) increased the number of red leaves, length of plant, as well as the number of stems growing from each node,the medium without BA, containing 0.5 mg/l NAA increased the number of green leaves, the number of nodes, length and widthof leaves, medium containing 0.5 mg/l BA and NAA 0.05 mg per liter gave rise to dead leaves, medium containing 0.5 milligrams per liter BA and without naphthalene acetic acid affected the number of roots, plant fresh weight and length of callus, the medium0.05mg/l BA and 0.05mg/l naphthalene acetic acid increased the length of leaves and the number of embryo genetic plants. The medium containing Mg / liter BA with 0.2 mg/l naphthalene acetic acid had an increasing effect on hair roots and the medium containing 0.05 mg/l BA and 0.5 mg per liter NAA were effective in increasing the width of the callus. © 2016 PSCI Publisher All rights reserved.
Main Research Topics in Knowledge Management: A Content Analysis of ECKM Publications

Knowledge Management (KM) has already reached the level of a scientific discipline and attracts increasing interest in research and practice. As a consequence, the number of KM publications is growing exponentially. The wide spectrum of publications comprises a variety of topics ranging from terminological, conceptual, and technological approaches to managerial implementation approaches. Several attempts have been made to achieve a common ground of the KM discipline. The aim of this study is a CA-based review of a total of 755 publications published in the proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM) since 2006 and obtained from the Scopus Database. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first documented attempt to analyse ECKM contributions using content analysis (CA). We combine the advantages of manually and automated CA in order to detect research areas and activities within ECKM community. Using the statistical software R, we applied a manually developed KM dictionary on title, abstract and keywords of the publications to identify key research topics examined over the past years. The results are compared with existing studies. The analysis confirms some results of preceding KM studies and reveals a strong interest of the community in research topics like knowledge processes, innovation, learning and technology. Furthermore, there is an observable tendency to use established research methods for analysis purposes. Since the development of a common ground of the KM discipline is still a challenging task, the findings help to discover emerging research topics in KM research but also mostly preferred research methods. Both thematic shifts in the past and prospective future research priorities are pointed out. The results of this study contribute to the role of KM in building resilience and can be seen as an attempt to reflect the identity and the research interests of the KM discipline.
SAKARYA İKTİSAT DERGİSİ/THE SAKARYA JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS

Intrapersonal conflict rarely occurs in organisations thus most researchers have ignored it and turned their attention to other types of conflicts like interpersonal and inter organisational. An intrapersonal conflict is a conflict which is perceived to be taking place within an individual. It is also referred to as intrapsychic or intra individual conflict by some authors. This paper sought to determine if the causes of intrapersonal conflict can affect an employee’s performance. The question under investigation was does lack of harmony between personal and organisational goals spur an intrapersonal conflict that can later on impact on one’s performance? Data collection was collected from two organisations in Mombasa Kenya namely Elsek and Elsek group of Companies and Raq’s Car Was Company. Open ended and closed type of questionnaires were administered to 64 randomly selected respondents. The data collected was later on analyzed using SPSS and tables were drawn. The results revealed that lack of P-O value congruency had a mediating effect on employees’ attitudes and organisations citizenship behaviour but didn’t affect one’s performance.
Memory-Based High-Level Synthesis Optimizations Security Exploration on the Power Side-Channel

High-level synthesis (HLS) allows hardware designers to think algorithmically and not worry about low-level, cycle-by-cycle details. This provides the ability to quickly explore the architectural design space and tradeoffs between resource utilization and performance. Unfortunately, security evaluation is not a standard part of the HLS design flow. In this article, we aim to understand the effects of memory-based HLS optimizations on power side-channel leakage. We use Xilinx Vivado HLS to develop different cryptographic cores, implement them on a Spartan-6 FPGA, and collect power traces. We evaluate the designs with respect to resource utilization, performance, and information leakage through power consumption. We have two important observations and contributions. First, the choice of resource optimization directive results in different levels of side-channel vulnerabilities. Second, the partitioning optimization directive can greatly compromise the hardware cryptographic system through power side-channel leakage due to the deployment of memory control logic. We describe an evaluation procedure for power side-channel leakage and use it to make best-effort recommendations about how to design more secure architectures in the cryptographic domain.
Vector distribution and transmission risk of the Zika virus in South and Central America

Background Zika is of great medical relevance due to its rapid geographical spread in 2015 and 2016 in South America and its serious implications, for example, certain birth defects. Recent epidemics urgently require a better understanding of geographic patterns of the Zika virus transmission risk. This study aims to map the Zika virus transmission risk in South and Central America. We applied the maximum entropy approach, which is common for species distribution modelling, but is now also widely in use for estimating the geographical distribution of infectious diseases. Methods As predictor variables we used a set of variables considered to be potential drivers of both direct and indirect effects on the emergence of Zika. Specifically, we considered (a) the modelled habitat suitability for the two main vector species Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus as a proxy of vector species distributions; (b) temperature, as it has a great influence on virus transmission; (c) commonly called evidence consensus maps (ECM) of human Zika virus infections on a regional scale as a proxy for virus distribution; (d) ECM of human dengue virus infections and, (e) as possibly relevant socio-economic factors, population density and the gross domestic product. Results The highest values for the Zika transmission risk were modelled for the eastern coast of Brazil as well as in Central America, moderate values for the Amazon basin and low values for southern parts of South America. The following countries were modelled to be particularly affected: Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. While modelled vector habitat suitability as predictor variable showed the highest contribution to the transmission risk model, temperature of the warmest quarter contributed only comparatively little. Areas with optimal temperature conditions for virus transmission overlapped only little with areas of suitable habitat conditions for the two main vector species. Instead, areas with the highest transmission risk were characterised as areas with temperatures below the optimum of the virus, but high habitat suitability modelled for the two main vector species. Conclusion Modelling approaches can help estimating the spatial and temporal dynamics of a disease. We focused on the key drivers relevant in the Zika transmission cycle (vector, pathogen, and hosts) and integrated each single component into the model. Despite the uncertainties generally associated with modelling, the approach applied in this study can be used as a tool and assist decision making and managing the spread of Zika.
University of Groningen Evidence for involvement of a transformer paralog in sex determination of the wasp

Transformer (tra) is the central gear in many insect sex determination pathways and transduces a wide range of primary signals. Mediated by transformer-2 (tra2) it directs sexual development into the female or male mode. Duplications of tra have been detected in numerous Hymenoptera, but a function in sex determination has been confirmed only in Apis mellifera. We identified a tra2 orthologue (Lc-tra2), a tra orthologue (Lc-tra) and a tra paralogue (Lc-traB) in the genome of Leptopilina clavipes (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). We compared the sequence and structural conservation of these genes between sexual (arrhenotokous) and asexual all-female producing (thelytokous) individuals. Lc-tra is sexspecifically spliced in adults consistent with its orthologous function. The male-specific regions of Lc-tra are conserved in both reproductive modes. The paralogue Lc-traB lacks the genomic region coding for male-specific exons and can only be translated into a full-length TRA-like peptide sequence. Furthermore, unlike LC-TRA, the LC-TRAB interstrain sequence variation is not differentiated into a sexual and an asexual haplotype. The LC-TRAB protein interacts with LC-TRA as well as LC-TRA2. This suggests that Lc-traB functions as a conserved element in sex determination of sexual and asexual individuals.
MIMO-OFDM in a Cooperative Frequency Selective Fading Channel: An Analysis

Diversity is an integral technique in the advancement of wireless communications. Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology continues to occupy a pivotal position in the fourth-generation (4G) standards and beyond. With the advent of full-dimension (FD) MIMO and massive MIMO, new paradigms are being targeted in the disruptive technology. Third-generation partnership project (3GPP) has also emphasized the advanced MIMO technology for achieving its vision of International Mobile Telephony (IMT) 2020. However, implementing multiple antennas can be cumbersome due to limiting factors such as size, cost, and hardware limitations. In such a scenario, where implementing many antennas is not feasible, the benefits of diversity can be reaped by employing cooperative communication. Single antenna mobiles can share their mobile stations giving rise to a virtual MIMO system. In this paper, the authors have analyzed the performance of cooperative mobile stations in a frequency selective channel. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), known for its robustness against multipath fading, is the modulation technique employed to circumvent the hazardous effects of intersymbol interference (ISI). MIMO is the key technology for achieving capacity advantage and improving link reliability. The blend of these two cutting edge technologies in a cooperative relay system presents encouraging results and inferences. Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC) is employed at the relay and the receiver to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Decode and forward (DF) protocol is used at the relay node owing to its regenerative nature and adaptability. The closed-form expressions for bit error rate (BER) and outage probability (Pout) are derived and compared with the experimental results. The effect of power decay factor is analyzed and simulation is done for 2 × 2, 2 × 3, and 2 × 4 transmit and receive antennas. The number of antennas at the relay is kept as 2. The analytical results agree with the simulation results.
Calidad seminal y hormonas en pacientes con diabetes mellitus tipo 2

Introduction: The role of the series of metabolic derangements associated to diabetes mellitus type 2 on the function of the hypothalamicpituitary-testicular axis and on semen quality is still controversial due in part to the lack of information about the selection criteria of subjects included in previously published studies. This is important due to the high prevalence of occult pathology of the seminal tract. Objective: To determine if diabetes mellitus type 2 is related to hormonal or seminal disorders. Patients and methods: In this retrospective study serum concentration of the hormones that regulate the hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis and semen quality were analyzed comparatively in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 and normoglycemic subjects. In both groups occult seminal disorders and conditions associated to the hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis dysfunction were discarded. Results: Serum concentration of FSH was higher in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 than in controls (6.06 ± 2.28 vs 4.74 ± 1.92, p = 0.04). Serum concentration of prolactin was lower in diabetics than in controls (6.71 ± 1.28 vs 8 ± 1.97, p = 0.002). The only seminal abnormality found in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 was a lower progressive mobility (46.52 ± 17.77 vs 58.88 ± 16.81, p = 0.003). Conclusion: This suggests that the patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 have subclinical tubular dysfunction manifested by a low sperm progressive mobility and that this might be associated to subfertility.
On Using Real-World Problems for Benchmarking Multiobjective Optimization Algorithms

Although the motivation to study multiobjective optimization algorithms comes from practice, there are only a few challenging real-world problems freely available to the research community. Because of this, algorithm benchmarking is performed primarily on artificial test problems. The most popular artificial test problems have characteristics that are not well-represented in real-world problems. This and the predominant inadequate performance assessment methodology widen the gap between theory and practice in the field of multiobjective optimization. The paper suggests to instead compare the algorithms with the anytime performance benchmarking approach of COCO (the Comparing Continuous Optimizers platform) on more realistic artificial problem suites as well as suites with diverse real-world problems. By listing the benefits of sharing the real-world problems with the community, the paper hopes to encourage domain experts to embrace this practice.
AUTOMATIC PROGRAMME SYNTHESIS

This article is dealing with the challen g of automating the software development process from user requirements to programme code. The first part of the process – building a model fr om requests tends to be quite a difficult for the computer to handle it. Th e reason for this is that the requests are most often given in a natural language , which is full of ambiguities. Considering fact that the models are m ostly formal, automating the second part – translation of models into code results to be feasible with computers.
COLD AIR DRY MACHINING Part 2: SEM AND METALLOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE CHIP

ABSRACT Dry machining and near-dry machining were developed as an alternative to flood and internal highpressure coolant supply to reduce metal working fluids consuption. In dry machining, compressed air introduces into the cutting zone, while near-dry machining supplies very small quantities of lubricant into the cutting zone. Both these techniques have been introduced with the aim to reduce the use traditional coolant and lubricant. One of the many dry machining techniques is the usage of cooled compressed air. SEM and metallographic analysis of the chip during dry machining are presented in this paper. Machining tests were performed by turning of three grade of workpiece materijal: alloyed steel, aluminium bronze, and pure aluminium. Three ways of dry machining are performed: machining without the use of coolant and lubricant, cold air dry machining and with a cooling of workpiece before machining. Analysis of produced chips shows some advantages of dry machining, mainly in the process of chips segmentation, even in cases of machininig very ductile material.
AndroShield: Automated Android Applications Vulnerability Detection, a Hybrid Static and Dynamic Analysis Approach

The security of mobile applications has become a major research field which is associated with a lot of challenges. The high rate of developing mobile applications has resulted in less secure applications. This is due to what is called the “rush to release” as defined by Ponemon Institute. Security testing—which is considered one of the main phases of the development life cycle—is either not performed or given minimal time; hence, there is a need for security testing automation. One of the techniques used is Automated Vulnerability Detection. Vulnerability detection is one of the security tests that aims at pinpointing potential security leaks. Fixing those leaks results in protecting smart-phones and tablet mobile device users against attacks. This paper focuses on building a hybrid approach of static and dynamic analysis for detecting the vulnerabilities of Android applications. This approach is capsuled in a usable platform (web application) to make it easy to use for both public users and professional developers. Static analysis, on one hand, performs code analysis. It does not require running the application to detect vulnerabilities. Dynamic analysis, on the other hand, detects the vulnerabilities that are dependent on the run-time behaviour of the application and cannot be detected using static analysis. The model is evaluated against different applications with different security vulnerabilities. Compared with other detection platforms, our model detects information leaks as well as insecure network requests alongside other commonly detected flaws that harm users’ privacy. The code is available through a GitHub repository for public contribution.
Understanding the Role of Extended Validation Certificates in Internet Abuse

Extended Validation (EV) Certificates play an instrumental role in web security. EV certificates assure the visitors of a website that they are indeed visiting the safe website they intend to, and not an imposter set up by cybercriminals. Previous work [1] has shown that domains who invest in EV certificates are prudent with cyber security practices, and these domains were not found to be associated with phishing sites. Additional previous work [2] on the association between EV certificates and abused domains, motivated us to perform a large-scale in-depth study to investigate and understand any such associations. We cross-correlated abused domains found in our corpus of malware network traffic, blacklists, and underground marketplace communications with domains that have EV certificates. We found that the probability that a domain with an EV certificate is abused or associated with cybercrime is negligible. We found overwhelming evidence that EV certificates are highly indicative of a legitimate domain registered by a legitimate business. This reinforces the notion that browsers should generally err on the side of trusting a website which has invested in an EV certificate, and this trust is the primary benefit that EV certificates provide to their owners. Our future work focuses on designing new security indicators for the browser that better communicates a website’s trustworthiness [3].