Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Planting Density and Nutrient Management Practices on the Performance of Maize Hybrids in Kharif Season

Maize (Zea mays L.) is the most promising grain crop becoming popular in India after rice and wheat having wide ecological adaptability and is grown in almost all parts of India. It has the highest yield potential and used as human food, animal feed and as a source of large number of industrial by-products. Hence, it is called as "Queen of cereals". In India, about 59% of the total production is used as feed, while the remaining is used as industrial raw material (17%), food (10%), exports (10%), and other purposes (4%). The demand and production of maize is increasing more rapidly as compared to other major commodities. It is estimated that the demand for maize will continue to increase in coming days [1]. Thus, in the next 10 years there is a necessity and opportunity for doubling India’s maize production from the current level of approximately 26 million MT. The yield potential of maize depends on its genetic makeup as well as the environment in which it is grown. Nevertheless, the genetic potential can be exploited to the maximum by providing favourable growth environments as the yield is the result of the interaction of genotype, management and environmental factors. Management practices viz., tillage, planting density, irrigation, nutrient management and pest and disease management strive to maximize economic yield but responses to these practices vary across environments. Among these practices, planting density and nutrient management plays a vital role in increasing the yield of maize. Planting density decides the yield of a crop and should be maintained to avert yield loss as it is one of the major causes which directly affect the yield. Maize being an exhaustive crop requires a large quantity of nutrients during different growth periods. Balanced and optimum use of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers plays a pivotal role in increasing the yield of maize [2] and their contribution is 40 45 per cent. [3]. Keeping in view the above facts, the present experimentation was conducted to study the genotype x planting density x nutrient interactions for achieving higher yield in hybrid maize.
Indices of Free Testosterone And Hyperandrogenemia in Relation To Hirsutism in Middle Aged Egyptian females

Hirsutism is an androgen excess related disorder that commonly affects women causing a variety of negative metabolic disturbances. Early and accurate diagnoses of androgen over- production or hypersensitivity to normal circulating androgen have an important implication for treatment and follow up of patients. The aim of this work is to study the validity of hyperandrogonemic index (HAI) and index of free testosterone (IFT) in, diagnosis of hirsute Egyptian women, and its correlation to hair score as a clinical marker for hirsutism. Twenty-four hirsute women aged 19-32 y's, median (24.25 ± 4.3) were studied. Ten age matched nonhirsute females, were studied as controls. Patients and control were subjected to the following, full history and clinical examination. Biochemical and hormonal parameters were measured, fasting blood sugar (FBLS), 2 hours post prandial blood sugar (2h pp BL. S), serum total testosterone (TT), free testosterone (FT), dihydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), Dihydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEAS) androstenedion (ADION), prolactin (PL) and sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG). Index of free testosterone (IFT) and index of hyperandrogenemia (IHA) were calculated. Results showed significant higher BMI (P< 0.009), 2hrs PPBLS. (P< 0.001), TT (P< 0.005), FT (P< 0.000), SHBG (P< 0.02) and (ADION) (P< 0.000) in hirsute females compared to controls. Hair score was positively correlated with IFT only while it was not correlated with all of the measured hormones. FT was positively correlated with BMI (P< 0.004), FBLS (P< 0.001) and 2hrs PPBL.S (P< 0.000). While TT was positively correlated with BMI (P< 0.001). Androstenedion was positively correlated with systolic BL.P (P< 0.000), diastolic BL.P (P< 0.02), FBL.S (P< 0.001) and 2hrs PPBL.S (P< 0.000). IFT was positively correlated with hair score (P< 0.05), BMI (P< 0.01), systolic BL.P (P< 0.004), FBL.S (P< 0.001) and 2hrs PPBL.S (P< 0.01). SHBG was negatively correlated with systolic BL.P (P< 0.04), FBL.S (P< 0.05) and 2hrs PPBL.S (P< 0.03).
Social constructions of the male contraception pill: When are we going to break the vicious circle?

Social constructions of men towards the availability of a male hormonal contraceptive, the ‘male pill’, were explored. A qualitative approach applying semi-structured interviews and scenarios with 22 men (mean age 35 years) from the North East of England revealed two core constructs and six sub-constructs using a Thematic-Construct Analysis in line with the method of Toerien and Wilkinson and Clarke and Kitzinger. Verbal accounts were inductively used to balance the deductively created two core constructs ‘Constructing the male pill norm: dominant system of sensemaking’ and ‘Living by the male pill norm’ to represent a normative framework within a changing ideology of shared responsibility in contraceptive choice. Constructing the male pill norm was divided into two sub-constructs: ‘Male pill: we are going to join the women and become responsible – too! ’ and ‘Male pill: you look so girly – what are they going to think of me? ’ The ‘Living by the male pill norm’ was further divided into four sub-constructs ‘Male pill – thank you for giving me promises not to have to become a dad as yet! ’; ‘Male pill: thank you for the idea of fun – sorry about my morals! ’; ‘Male pill: in stable relations – yes, I would have you now – sorry, I am too late! ’ and ‘Male pill, we love you – but we are too anxious – we are not ready as yet! ’ From this male discourse, it is clear that discussions over the male pill follow the line of a vicious circle. In order to establish long-term side effects, Phase IV studies are necessary, and these cannot commence without the male hormonal contraception being a marketable product. So, unless this circle gets broken by some brave men, the male pill will remain a virtual rotating idea for a long time.
Packaging design: creating competitive advantage with product packaging

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study how packaging and packaging design can contribute to competitive advantage for marketing a consumer product.Design/methodology/approach – Different influences from actors in the packaging design process are discussed in a conceptual model. A single case study based on five “corporate stories” about packaging development resulting in a new package are presented and analysed.Findings – The present study demonstrates influences on the design process of a package from external and internal factors. The outcome of the design process is, to a great extent, dependent on the interaction between the main actors in this process. The study argues for the importance of the interaction with customers for planning and conducting the design. The result of such a process is a package that can trigger customers make a purchase and/or re‐inforce the brand name for a re‐purchase of the product.Practical implications – The main implications for management are that packaging is .
Experience, Comfort, and Privacy Concerns: Antecedents of Online Spending

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine antecedents of consumer online spending.Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 766 college students in the USA completed surveys using intercept interviews on a college campus. The research examines the consumer's level of technological savvy, experience with online shopping, level of confidence that online activities are not monitored, worry about other parties obtaining credit card information, comfort providing personal information online, and concern for online privacy when predicting the amount a consumer will spend online.Findings – The findings reveal that consumer experience with online shopping and level of comfort with providing personal information online were significant predictors of the amount spent online. Surprisingly, privacy concerns were not a significant factor in online spending.Practical implications – The results provide useful information to online marketers and privacy advocates by revealing factors that influence the amount spe.
EFFECT OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ON COST OF EQUITY BEFORE AND AFTER INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARD IMPLEMENTATION

The ability to compete between companies at the time of intercompany production efficiency is no longer a differentiator, the determinant of competitiveness includes the aspect of funding to be one of the determinants of competitiveness. One of the company's competitiveness capabilities is determined by the capital cost or the discount rate used in evaluating a project. The higher the cost of capital will be the lower the competitiveness of the company. There are many factors that determine the cost of a company's capital, but this research focuses only on the aspects of Corporate Governance (CG). Investors will assume that the risk in companies that have good CG quality will be smaller than companies that do not have good CG quality. On the other hand, IFRS implementation has a variety of purposes including improving the implementation of CG in a company, so it is theoretically suspected that IFRS implementation will increase CG's influence on CoE. The approach used is to study the capability of the linear regression model formed and to conduct a comparative analysis among regression models established by data from manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange during 2007-2011 as data prior to IFRS implementation and 2012-2015 for data after IFRS implementation. Based on the results of data processing obtained evidence that Corporate Governance negatively affect the Cost of Equity (CoE). This contradicts the theory because the better the CG value of a firm the CoE will be to decrease. When compared to the period before and after IFRS implementation, there is no evidence of a relationship between CG and CoE.
Effects of Elastic Resistance Band Exercise on Postural Balance, Estrogen, Bone Metabolism Index, and Muscle Strength of Perimenopausal Period Women

were more likely to have limitations than men. After adjusting for ALM in all models, no associations were observed between NWO and any type of limitation. Although older adults with NWO have greater cardiometabolic dysregulation, including dyslipidemia, inflammation, and metabolic syndrome, than those without, these results suggest no association with functional impairments. ALM attenuates the magnitude of results, indicating the importance of the interaction between muscle and adipose tissue. These results have considerable implications. First, individuals with a normal BMI but a high percentage of body fat may succumb to death first and not experience a longer period of disability than their counterparts with a lower percentage of body fat may face. Their cardiometabolic dysfunction may promote earlier death, as shown in an earlier analysis. Second, the importance of ALM in older adults cannot be overstated. Sarcopenia is a natural phenomenon of aging that is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. As body composition changes with age, clinicians need to be aware of this process. Although muscle mass has been shown to be related to impairments, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study lacked data on muscle strength, which may be more of an indicator of long-term health. Third, the differences observed according to sex within the NWO category are important. Women were at greater risk of impairments than men, consistent with the fact that they live longer than men. This study has the limitations of any cross-sectional study, including inability to prove causation. This may explain the discordant results observed in a cohort of subjects with and at risk of osteoarthritis, in whom NWO was associated with greater risk of functional decline. The questionnaires used in the interview consisted of incomplete ADL assessment and were based on self-reported data, not allowing for full ascertainment of IADLs or ADLs. Last, all questions on physical limitations were aggregated, which could have introduced bias to the results. Future cross-sectional and longitudinal studies should use standardized functional assessments to determine whether individuals with NWO are at greater risk of functional impairment over time.
Constitutive Cholesterol-dependent Endocytosis of Melanocortin-4 Receptor (MC4R) Is Essential to Maintain Receptor Responsiveness to α-Melanocyte-stimulating Hormone (α-MSH)*

Background: MC4R is essential for energy homeostasis and cycles continuously. Results: MC4R internalization is blocked by clathrin and cholesterol depletion, reducing receptor response to α-MSH, which is partially recovered by mutations at Thr-312/Ser-329. Conclusion: Constitutive internalization of MC4R is cholesterol-dependent and required for receptor function. Significance: These findings provide a potentially novel mechanism by which hypothalamic cell cholesterol content can affect appetite control. Melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) is a G-protein-coupled receptor expressed in the hypothalamus where it controls feeding behavior. MC4R cycles constitutively and is internalized at the same rate in the presence or absence of stimulation by the agonist, melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH). This is different from other G-protein-coupled receptors, such as β2-adrenergic receptor (β2AR), which internalizes more rapidly in response to agonist stimulation. Here, it is found that in immortalized neuronal Neuro2A cells expressing exogenous receptors, constitutive endocytosis of MC4R and agonist-dependent internalization of β2AR were equally sensitive to clathrin depletion. Inhibition of MC4R endocytosis by clathrin depletion decreased the number of receptors at the cell surface that were responsive to the agonist, α-MSH, by 75%. Mild membrane cholesterol depletion also inhibited constitutive endocytosis of MC4R by ∼5-fold, while not affecting recycling of MC4R or agonist-dependent internalization of β2AR. Reduced cholesterol did not change the MC4R dose-response curve to α-MSH, but it decreased the amount of cAMP generated per receptor number indicating that a population of MC4R at the cell surface becomes nonfunctional. The loss of MC4R function increased over time (25–50%) and was partially reversed by mutations at putative phosphorylation sites (T312A and S329A). This was reproduced in hypothalamic GT1-7 cells expressing endogenous MC4R. The data indicate that constitutive endocytosis of MC4R is clathrin- and cholesterol-dependent. MC4R endocytosis is required to maintain MC4R responsiveness to α-MSH by constantly eliminating from the plasma membrane a pool of receptors modified at Thr-312 and Ser-329 that have to be cycled to the endosomal compartment to regain function.
Écoumène : introduction à l'étude des milieux humains

Plus qu'un discours cette cosmologie nous invite, dans un premier temps, a prendre conscience du manque de concret entre geographie et philosophie et surtout, nous montre ensuite une voie pour le combler. La premiere phrase de l'introduction, outre le titre, confirme l'abyme qu'il y a entre ces deux disciplines : « Il manque a l'ontologie une geographie, et a la geographie une ontologie. », elle decoule tres rapidement sur une affirmation montrant la prise en compte de cette fâcheuse absence : « Or l'etre humain est un etre geographique. » Voila comment, par cette simple phrase, la geographie vient embrasser la philosophie (ce qu'elle aurait sans doute du toujours faire) ; ces quelques mots sont en fait le pourquoi, la source du livre, sa raison d'etre, qui seront largement developpes tout au long de l'ouvrage.
Personal and organizational determinants of well-being at work: the case of Swedish physicians.

PURPOSE The traditional perspective in the occupational and organizational psychology literature aimed at understanding well-being, has focused almost exclusively on the "disease" pole. Recently, however, new concepts focusing on health are emerging in the so-called "positive psychology" literature. The purpose of this paper is to test multiple possible linkages (or profiles) between certain personal, organizational, and cultural variables that affect both burnout and vigor. Burnout (disease) and vigor (health) are assumed to represent two extreme poles of the well-being phenomenon. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH An innovative statistical treatment borrowed from data mining methodology was used to explore the conceptual model that was utilized. A self-administered questionnaire from a sample of 1,022 physicians working in Swedish public hospitals was used. Standardized job/work demands with multiple items were employed in conjunction with the Uppsala Burnout scale, which was dichotomized into high (burnout) and low (vigor) score. A combination of ANOVAs and "classification and regression tree analyses" was utilized to test the relationships and identify profiles. FINDINGS Results show an architecture that predicts 59 percent of the explained variance and also reveals four "tree branches" with distinct profiles. Two configurations indicate the determinants of high-burnout risk, while two others indicate the configurations for enhanced health or vigor. ORIGINALITY/VALUE In addition to their innovative-added value, the results can also be most instrumental for individual doctors and hospitals in gaining a better understanding of the aetiology of burnout/vigor and in designing effective preventative measures for reducing risk factors for burnout, and enhancing well-being (vigor).
A successful search for hidden Barbarians in the Watsonia asteroid family

Barbarians, so named after the prototype of this class (234) Barbara, are a rare class of asteroids exhibiting anomalous polarimetric properties. Their very distinctive feature is that they show negative polarization at relatively large phase angles, where all 'normal' asteroids show positive polarization. The origin of the Barbarian phenomenon is unclear, but it seems to be correlated with the presence of anomalous abundances of spinel, a mineral usually associated with the so-called calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions (CAIs) on meteorites. Since CAIs are samples of the oldest solid matter identified in our Solar system, Barbarians are very interesting targets for investigations. Inspired by the fact that some of the few known Barbarians are members of, or very close to, the dynamical family of Watsonia, we have checked whether this family is a major repository of Barbarians, in order to obtain some hints about their possible collisional origin. We have measured the linear polarization of a sample of nine asteroids which are members of the Watsonia family within the phase-angle range 17 degrees-2 degrees. We found that seven of them exhibit the peculiar Barbarian polarization signature, and we conclude that the Watsonia family is a repository of Barbarian asteroids. The new Barbarians identified in our analysis will be important to confirm the possible link between the Barbarian phenomenon and the presence of spinel on the surface.
sRAMP: secure reconfigurable architecture and mobility platform

Many wireless systems have been proposed and deployed for decades. However, most of them are incompatible. It is expected that various wireless systems will still coexist in the near future. How to integrate them, thus, is an important issue. The integration should be done in both radio access network (RAN) and core network. A mobile user could overcome the incompatibility of different RANs by using multiple radio interfaces or software defined radio (SDR). However, it still requires a common core network to achieve universal roaming. If it is not possible to deploy a common core network, different core networks should be compatible. Unfortunately, standard organizations have been defining their own core networks. The roaming among heterogeneous networks, thus, has become a challenge. Earlier, we have proposed Reconfigurable Architecture and Mobility Platform (RAMP) to address this issue. However, RAMP mainly considers mobility management. In this paper, we present secure RAMP (sRAMP) which extends RAMP to support reconfigurability in security. This paper presents the design and implementation of sRAMP. To demonstrate the feasibility of sRAMP, a testbed has been constructed. This paper also presents the experimental results conducted by using the testbed. Furthermore, a brief comparison between the proposed sRAMP and other related studies is also presented. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Penerapan model regresi data panel pada analisis harga saham perusahaan batubara

Perusahaan subsektor pertambangan batubara merupakan salah satu subsektor yang potensial mengingat Indonesia merupakan pengahasil dan pengekspor utama batubara didunia. Namun selama periode penelitian, harga saham batubara cenderung mengalami penurunan. Penurunan harga saham batubara berdampak pada penurunan jumlah modal yang didapat perusahaan batubara. Sedangkan bagi investor yang belum berinvestasi, harga saham yang menurun memberikan kesempatan untuk membeli saham dengan harga murah sehingga memperoleh keuntungan ( capital gain ) yang lebih besar sedangkan bagi investor yang sudah berinvestasi, penurunan harga saham batubara berdampak pada penurunan nilai saham yang dimiliki dan apabila dijual maka investor tersebut akan mengalami kerugian ( capital loss ). Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menganalisis pengaruh menganalisis pengaruh kinerja keuangan dan faktor eksternal terhadap harga saham batubara yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia periode 2011-2015. Hasil analisis regresi panel dengan model fixed effect dengan metode FGLS seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) menunjukan bahwa terdapat lima variabel yang signifikan berpengaruh terhadap harga saham perusahaan batubara. Variabel EPS, ROE, dan HBA signifikan berpengaruh positif terhadap harga saham perusahaan batubara, sedangkan DER dan BI rate memberikan pengaruh signifikan negatif terhadap harga saham perusahaan batubara.
Where Do You Stand? Discussions That Promote Democratic Citizenship and Engage Multiple Intelligences

Teachers often desire meaningful classroom discussions, but frequently shy away from introducing controversial topics. An instructional activity “Where Do You Stand? ” was developed and used regularly with the goal of engaging students in discussion around politicized and divisive issues. Over 3 years of use in a secondary social studies classroom, benefits of fostering democratic citizenship and engaging a range of multiple intelligences were observed. Beyond social studies, there are viable adaptations for use across content areas, in multiple forms, and recommendations to maximize the observed benefits. “Where Do You Stand? ” offers teachers an opportunity to invite learners into critically important conversations.