Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SOIL QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF MILAK TAHSIL, DISTRICT RAMPUR (UTTAR PRADESH) UNDER RICE -MENTHA+WHEAT FARMING SYSTEM

Macro and micro nutrients are important soil elements that control its fertility. Soil fertility is one of the important factors controlling yields of the crops. Soil characterization in relation to evaluation of fertility status of soi l of an area or region is an important aspect in context of sustainable agriculture production. Because of imbalanced and inadequate fertilizer use coupled with low efficiency of other inputs, the response efficiency of chemical fertilizer nutrients has declined tremendously under intensive agriculture in recent year. In the present investigation, an attempt has been made to examine the chemical properties of soil in rice – menthe+wheat farming system.The study area covers Milak Tehsil of Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh. Soil samples of 0-15 cm depth were collected from 326 sites covering 21 gram panchayats. Collected soil samples were air dried in shade, crushed gently with a wooden roller and pass through 2.0 mm sieve to obtain a uniform representative sample. The processed soil samples were analyzed by standard methods.The pH varied from 5.2 to 9.2, organic carbon content varied from 3.9 to 6.9 g Kg soil. The available N content was varied from 156.96 to 259.32 kg ha with an average value of 224.32 kg ha The available phosphorous content varied from 21.79 to 56.53 P2 O5 kg ha -1 with a mean value of 37.18 P2O5 kg ha . Status of available potassium in the ranged from 158.20 to 283.25 K2O Kg ha -1 with an average value of 211.92 K2O kg ha . Cu in the surface soil was found to sufficient and varied from 0.258 to 1.708 mg kg the iron content varied from 3.214 to 16.852, Mn from 1.701 to 8.351 mg kg. The available Zn in surface (0-15 cm) in soil ranged from 0.425 to 1.708 mg kg soil in rice-mentha+wheat. Nutrient status regarding to the available macro and micro nutrient in surface soil indicate that soils are low in available N and medium in available P and K and in general marginal in available Cu,Fe, Mn and Zn. Normal to slightly alkaline in reaction, low to medium in organic carbon content.
Comments on : “ What Is Developmental Dyslexia ?

We are writing in response to the review article: Stein. J. (2018). What is Developmental Dyslexia? Brain Sciences, 8, 26, doi:10.3390/brainsci8020026. We consider that the section entitled, “Eye Movement Control”, presents a misleading characterisation of current empirical and theoretical understanding. We outline five specific points relating to Stein’s views on eye movement control and developmental dyslexia with which we disagree and conclude that disruption to oculomotor behaviour occurs as a consequence of processing difficulty that individuals with dyslexia experience as they engage in reading.
omparative ecology of vascular plant , bryophyte and testate amoeba ommunities in four Sphagnum peatlands along an altitudinal radient in Switzerland

Monitoring tools are needed to assess changes in peatland biotic communities and ecosystem functions in response to on-going climate and other environmental changes. Although the responses of soil organisms and plants to ecological gradients and perturbations do not always correlate, peatland monitoring is mainly based on vegetation surveys. Testate amoebae, a group of protists, are important contributors to carbon and nitrogen cycling in organic soils and are useful bioindicators in peatland ecology and paleoecology. There is however little comparative data on the value of testate amoebae, vascular plants and bryophytes as bioindicators of micro-environmental gradients in peatlands. We compared the relationships of testate amoebae, bryophytes, and vascular plants with soil temperature, water table depth, micro-habitats and the carbon and nitrogen content of Sphagnum mosses in four peatlands along a 1300 m altitudinal gradient in Switzerland. We used the full diversity of vascular plants and bryophyte but only a selection of ten easily identifiable testate amoeba morpho-taxa (i.e. species or species-complexes). Indirect and direct gradient ordinations, multiple factor analysis (MFA) and transfer function models for inferring water table depth showed that a selection of ten testate amoeba taxa are more powerful (% variance explained in RDA) and accurate (discrimination among habitats) indicators of local conditions (micro-habitat type, water table depth and Sphagnum C/N ratio) than the vegetation (vascular plants and bryophytes either individually or combined and considering the full diversity). Our study showed that a limited list of ten easily identifiable testate amoeba taxa have higher bioindication value than the full bryophytes and vascular plants. Furthermore, testate amoebae can be analyzed on samples collected at any season (accessibility allowing and if precise sampling sites are well marked) – a clear advantage for biomonitoring and can be used to infer past changes from the peat record at the same taxonomic resolution. This simple approach could therefore be very useful for biomonitoring of peatlands.
Protective Effects of Propolis and Probiotic Lactobacillus acidophilus against Carbon Tetrachloride-Induced Hepatotoxicity in Rats

Background: Propolis (PRS) and probiotic bacteria Lactobacillus are natural products used as dietary supplement for their therapeutic benefits. This study was performed to examine the possible hepatoprotective effect of PRS and probiotics (PRCs) against carbon tetrachloride-induced liver injury. Methods: Experimentally, intoxicated rats received 0.5 ml/kg CCl4 (i.p.) daily for six days, pretreated rats received per os PRS 100 mg/kg or PRCs 109 CFU for six days followed by a single dose of 0.5 ml/kg CCl4. Control groups received either PRS, PRCs or olive oil for six days. Then, serum biochemistry (total protein, cholesterol, triglycerides and albumin) and oxidative stress parameters were measured. Results: We showed that CCl4 treatment was associated with an increase of the serum aspartate amino transferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), cholesterol and triglycerides levels. In parallel, serum total protein, albumin and blood sugar levels were significantly decreased. Regarding the oxidative stress parameters, catalase and glutathione S-transferase (GST) levels were lower, conversely to the lipid peroxidation (MDA). Conclusion: Our results strongly support that administration of PRS and PRCs may significantly protect liver against CCl4-induced toxicity by enhancing antioxidative stress pathway and preventing lipid peroxidation.
EasyChair Preprint No 891 Deep learning to enhance maritime situation awareness

Maritime surveillance sensors like AIS (Automatic Identification System) and Radar provide useful information for decision-making support, which is of paramount importance for effective operations against maritime threats and illegal activities [1]. However, decision-making systems that trust solely on AIS information tend to fail in real situations because such information could be missing, inaccurate or even deceptive [2]. On the other hand, only Radar information is not enough to get a complete description of the maritime situational picture. This paper proposes a deep learning framework for vessel monitoring that examines a particular scenario where a deep learning solution can infer a navigation status based on the vessels trajectories, and thus to detect suspicious vessels activities. For this purpose, a dataset, named DeepMarine, has been specifically created by collecting data of AIS historical recordings. We demonstrate the performance of the developed deep learning framework for the proposed vessels activity classification, which can be ultimately used to report illegal activities.
18 Meetings and Meeting Support in Ambient Intelligence

Looking at smart environments from the point of view of supporting multi-party interaction adds some interesting research issues to the area of ambient intelligence research. Firstly, in order to be able to provide support, the environment is asked to understand the interactions between its inhabitants and between inhabitants and the environment or smart and maybe mobile objects available in the environment. Although we see the development of theories of interaction and behavior, these theories are rather poor from a computational point of view and therefore they hardly contribute to the design of tools and environments that support activities of human inhabitants. Hence, the need for computational theories of behavior and interactions needs to be emphasized.
Diagnostic value of the integral assessment of electroencephalographic pattern in patients in the acute period of spontaneous supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhage

Material and methods. Prospective cohort study of 46 patients in acute period of SSICH was conducted. It included complex clinical (using Glasgow Coma Scale, Full Outline of UnResponsiveness (FOUR) score, National Institute of Health Stroke Scale, Intracerebral hemorrhage score) and neuroimaging estimation of cerebral injury severity in the onset of the disease. Investigation of brain bioelectrical activity was made during first 24–48 hours from the onset with determination of average absolute spectral rhythm power (AASRP), relative spectral rhythm power (RSRP), fronto-occipital rhythm gradient (FORG) in the affected hemisphere (AH) and intact hemisphere (IH), interhemispheric rhythm asymmetry values.
A Surwey of Automated Testing Tools

Software applications are widely used in almost every field now-a-days. A full functional application is developed after passing through different phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), till the end user starts using it. Testing the application is one of the major tasks of Software Development Life Cycle known as SDLC. This activity is done for the effective performance, tracking out causes of inefficiencies and verifying whether a module or application fulfills the requirements. The purpose is to avoid defects, abnormal behavior, minimize risks of failure and ensure that the system is defect free. Testing can be done in both manually and automatically. Manual ways are not trust worthy because humans make mistakes and machines don’t if it’s programmed correctly. In this paper we have performed critical analysis on the automated testing tools available for . NET (which is a software development platform by Microsoft) determines their effects on effort, quality, productivity and cost of the product [9] .
Adaptive Call-Site Sensitive Control Flow Integrity

Low-level languages like C/C++ are widely used in various applications for their performance and flexibility. Unfortunately, these languages are prone to memory corruption vulnerabilities, leading to control-flow hijacking attacks. Control flow integrity (CFI) is a general principle to enforce run-time control flow of a program to a pre-computed control-flow graph (CFG). While the traditional context-insensitive CFI falls short in protecting critical control transfers, recent context-sensitive CFI research shows promising improvements but has various limitations. We present Control Flow Integrity with Look Back (CFI-LB), a call-site sensitive CFI in which a conventional source-target control transfer is strengthened by a look back into its call-sites (return addresses). CFI-LB features the adaptive call-site sensitivity in which each indirect call has its own level of sensitivity and the multi-scope CFG to improve the security even if a precise context-sensitive static CFG is not available, especially for large programs such as GCC and NGINX. One of the CFGs is constructed by our localized concolic execution, which significantly extends the dynamic CFG with very low false positives. In addition, CFI-LB is the first CFI system explicitly designed to protect its reference monitors from race conditions. We have built a prototype of CFI-LB. The evaluation with SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks and NGINX indicates that CFI-LB has a low-performance overhead (less than 5% on average for the full protection) while increasing the security.
Yangians and Gelfand-Zetlin Bases

We establish a connection between the modern theory of Yangians and the classical construction of the Gelfand-Zetlin bases for the Lie algebra gln. Our approach allows us to produce the g-analogues of the Gelfand-Zetlin formulae in a straightforward way. Let F be an irreducible finite-dimensional module over the complex Lie algebra Q\n. There is a canonical basis in the space of K associated with the chain of subalgebras g^ c gI2 c ••• c gl n. It is called the Gelfand-Zetlin basis, and the action of gl n on its vectors was explicitly described in [GZ] for the first time. Since then several authors provided alternative proofs of the original Gelfand-Zetlin formulae; see [Z2] and references therein. Denote by Z(gln) the centre of the universal enveloping algebra U(gln). The subalgebra in U(gln) generated by ZfglJ, Z(gI2),. ,Z(gIn ) is evidently commutative. The Gelfand-Zetlin basis in K consists of the eigenvectors of this subalgebra, and the corresponding eigenvalues are pairwise distinct. These properties suggest that for the given module K an explicit description of Z(gI 1), Z(gI2),. ,Z(gIw) should
ROCZNIKI PSYCHOLOGICZNE/ ANNALS OF PSYCHOLOGY

The processes of visual attention and stimulus detection are a key stage of perception. In the presented studies we tested the role of the genesis (automatic vs. reflective) and source (internal vs. external stimuli) of emotions in the detection of new stimuli (close to or distant from the fixation point). We expected (1) a narrowing of the field of attention in the case of automatic emotion elicitation or internal sources of emotion; (2) an extension of attention field in the case of reflective processes or external sources of emotion. In Study 1 (N = 90) we used explicit presentation of sentences eliciting emotions. In Study 2 (N = 60) we used degraded presentation (32 ms + masking) of words charged with affect. The hypotheses were partly confirmed by the data collected. We found that in the case of eliciting emotions with automatic origin or internal source detection times were significantly shorter for stimuli occurring close to the fixation point. In the case of reflective emotion eliciting condition and external emotion source, no significant differences were observed in reaction times between stimuli close to and distant from the fixation point.
Review on Recent Applications and Future Innovations on Photovoltaics

The electricity requirements of the world are increasing at an alarming rate and the power demand has been running ahead of supply and as a result of it, the fossil fuels may not be sufficient to keep pace with the ever increasing demand of electrical energy of the world. Also Providing clean, reliable energy is a major goal for policymakers and concerned individuals worldwide. The unfortunate fact is that the cheapest energy sources, with a century of technical and infrastructure development backing them, are polluting fossil fuels. Thus when a technology like solar photovoltaic comes along – converting the sun’s rays to electricity with no moving parts, no emissions, and no fuel costs – the excitement is understandable. Our paper elucidates about Photovoltaic Cell, it's applications, economics, growth and scope of Photovoltaic with a view of its current development and the future innovations in the area of solar energy.
A novel Fe-LaCe tri-metallic composite for the removal of fluoride ions from aqueous media

Fluoride is a ubiquitous anion present in natural waters. Higher amounts of fluorides in drinking water sources have been reported in many Asian and African countries. including Sri Lanka. India. China and Ghana (Ci! e! .md Thyue. 2004). The beneficial and detrimental effects of fluoride on human health are already well known, Even though fluoride is an indispensable micro-nutrient which expended on strengthening of bones and tooth, an exorbitant amount of fluoride is harmful, and could cause fluorosis (dental, skeletal and crippling), osteoporosis, arthritis, brittle bones, cancer, infertility, brain damage, Alzheimer syndrome. and thyroid disorder (Nairn <'I "I., 20: :,'), Even though the World Health Organization marks the general upper limit of fluoride ions in drinking water as 1.5 mgjl, the generally recommended maximum fluoride concentration is 1.0 mg/L for tropical countries, due to higher consumption of water when compared to other countries (Yu cr al. 2015a). Fluoride levels in surface water have been increased during the last few decades in many water resources across the globe. to the point where immediate attention is needed in order to minimize the fluoride contamination and to introduce
The Spike Characteristics of Winter Wheat ( Triticum aestivum L . ) Varieties in Agro – Ecological Conditions of Banja Luka Region

The aim of this study was to analyze the spike length, number of grains per spike and grain weight per spike of winter wheat in agro–ecological conditions of Banja Luka at different sowing densities. Three winter wheat varieties (NS 40S, Prima and Nova Bosanka) were examined at seven sowing densities (384, 424, 451, 504, 544, 588 and 604 seeds/m) in two growing seasons (2013/14 and 2014/15). Experimental design was a completely random system with four replications. In all wheat varieties, sowing was carried out from the 6 to 8 November in 2013/14 and from the 3 to 5 November in 2014/15. Sampling of plants was done in the first decade of July in both experimental years. Factorial ANOVA 2×8×3 and LSD‒test were performed, with year, sowing density and variety as main factors. For different varieties, the average number of grains per spike ranged from 34.53 to 38.19 while the average grain weight per spike (g) ranged from 1.58 to 1.73 g. The spike length ranged from 7.58 to 8.20 cm for varieties with statistically significant interaction effect variety × year at P ≤ 0.01. Spike parameters were generally higher in the second experimental year (2014/15).
INDEPENDENT SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION USING FUZZY HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL

Sign language recognition has spawned more and more interest in humancomputer interaction society. The major challenge that SLR recognition faces now is developing methods that will scale well with increasing vocabulary size with a limited set of training data for the signer independent application. The automatic SLR based on hidden Markov models (HMMs) is very sensitive to gesture’s shape information that makes the accurate parameters of the HMM not capable of characterizing the ambiguous distributions of the observations in gesture’s features. This paper presents an extension of the HMMs using interval type-2 fuzzy sets (IT2FSs) to produce interval type-2 fuzzy HMMs to model uncertainties of hypothesis spaces (unknown varieties of parameters of the decision function). The benefit of this enlargement is that it can control both the randomness and fuzziness of traditional HMM mapping. Membership function (MF) of type-2 FS is three-dimensional that provides additional degrees of freedom to evaluate HMM’s uncertainties. This system aspires to be a solution to the scalability problem, i.e. has real potential for application on a large vocabulary. Furthermore, it does not rely on the use of data gloves or other means as input devices, and operates in isolated signerindependent modes. Experimental results show that the interval type-2 fuzzy HMM has a comparable performance as that of the fuzzy HMM but is more robust to the gesture variation, while it retains almost the same computational complexity as that of the FHMM.
Long term evaluation of biomaterial application in surgical treatment of periodontitis

Regenerative treatment of periodontally damaged teeth is a demanding task. Advantages which comes with use of biomaterials are mainly connected with fact that traditional, surgical treatment protocols often do not lead to bone regeneration. The aim of this research was to evaluate clinical and radiological effectiveness of surgical periodontal treatment (with application of HA-Biocer, Biogramu, Bio-Oss) after eight years prior to surgical protocol. Clinical evaluation consisted of measuring pocket depths with perio probe, than evaluation of API (approximal plaque-index) hygiene index (-). Calculation of modified sulcus bleeding index - SBI (%) by Muhlemann and Son was done. Engelberger, Marthaler and Rateitschak index on xrays was calculated. Routine check up eight years after surgical treatment of periodontitis with use of biomaterials was conducted on 32 patients (20 woman, 12 men). The group of patients was divided into: 28 patients with chronic periodontitis (CP), and 4 patients with general aggressive periodontitis (GAP). Eight years after surgical treatment increase of bleeding areas were observed - in all applied biomaterials. For Bio-Oss average percent of SBI 45.2% (+/-24.3), for Biogran 62% (+/- 36.2) and respectively for HA-Biocer 51% (+/-33.2) API index (%) on teeth proximal surfaces was estimated for Biogran 47%, BioOss - 46.5% and for HABiocer 45.6%. Mean pocket depth (mm) has decreased - in case of all applied biomaterials. Radiological index was also calculated. Decrease of index value was stated. Outcomes of 8 years study indicate, decrease of oral hygiene, increase bleeding, decrease of Engelberger, Marthaler, Rateitchak index. It is necessary to perform routine check up of and control on oral hygiene. It seems to be important to mobilize patients to preserve high oral hygiene.
THE IMPACT OF NORDIC SOCIAL WELFARE IN GLOBAL PEACE

One of the important human needs peace and security. By studying the Nordic social welfare model with the tools of game theory, our goal is to spread peace and security in large areas of the world. In this article, the evolution of the Nordic model has been studied using the prisoner’s dilemma and the stag hunt games. In the end, we show that with this social welfare model, several percent of world peace will be established.
Pay-for-Performance for Top Managers and Innovation Activities in Firms

Based on crowding out theory, we expect that short and long term incentive pay of CEO and top executives have negative effect on innovation activities within firm. Using a sample of 1240 US firms from manufacturing industries, we find that variable payments for top executives and CEOs create disincentives to allocate firms? resources to patent activities respectively radical innovations. However incentive scheme can encourage executives to engage in incremental innovation activities like expenses in research and development.
Image Compression using Principal Component Analysis

The image has touched several areas of our lives, so we need to have well-shaped images with less and less sizes. In this paper, we present an image compression technique based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA). It is based on the reduction of the image vectors of the image using the principal ones with multiple factors. The obtained results using PCA clearly show that this technique gives good results with uncorrelated and redundant data. The compression ratio was entirely affected by the number of bits reserved to represent the real factors associated to PCA vectors.