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Kompatibilitas Persilangan Interspesifik Pada Spesies Cabai, Iklillah Maulidiyah Warda, Budi Waluyo

Jurnal Kultivasi

Peningkatan produksi cabai (Capsicum sp.) dapat dilakukan dengan melakukan diversifikasi jenis baru dari hasil persilangan antar spesies. Tujuan penelitian ialah untuk mempelajari kompatibilitas pada penyerbukan sendiri dan penyerbukan silang buatan interspesies. Penelitian dilaksanakan pada Januari 2020 – Juni 2020. Bahan yang digunakan ialah 4 spesies cabai. Persilangan disusun berdasarkan rancangan perkawinan dialil lengkap. Terdapat 16 kombinasi persilangan. Perbedaan karakter kuantitatif penyerbukan sendiri dan silang diuji menggunakan uji t 5%. Penyerbukan sendiri pada setiap spesies memiliki kompatibilitas penuh dengan persentase pembentukan buah yaitu 100%. Persilangan antara C. annuum Cann(B)-CYM2-151-3 x C. baccatum Cbac-09(S), C. frutescens Cfru-03(4) x C. annuum Cann(B)-CYM2-151-3 dan …

Training Future Agriculture Professionals In Landowner–Tenant Conservation Decision-Making, Andrea Basche, Angela Carter

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

The landowner–tenant relationship is important to the implementation of conservation on agricultural lands. Women own or co-own a significant portion of U.S. farmland yet are underrepresented in conservation research. The next generation of agriculture professionals can benefit from first-hand experience in assisting women landowners and their tenants in navigating the complexities of conservation decision-making. This article analyzes undergraduate student perceptions of landowner–tenant relationships in conservation management through their engagement in case studies with women landowner–tenant pairs in the Western Corn Belt. Student groups were asked to complete a management improvement plan that both incorporated the agronomic and conservation goals discussed …

Protein Kinase D1 Regulates Metabolic Switch In Pancreatic Cancer Via Modulation Of Mtorc1, Sonam Kumari, Sheema Khan, Radhiki Sekhri, Hassan Mandil, Stephen Behrman, Murali M. Yallapu, Subhash C. Chauhan, Meena Jaggi

School of Medicine Publications

BACKGROUND: Protein kinase D1 (PKD1) is a serine–threonine kinase that regulates various functions within the cell. Herein, we report the significance of PKD1 expression in glucose metabolism resulting in pancreatic cancer (PanCa) progression and chemo-resistance.

METHODS: PKD1 expression in PanCa was investigated by using immunohistochemistry. Functional and metabolic assays were utilised to analyse the effect of PKD1 expression/knockdown on associated cellular/molecular changes.

RESULTS: PKD1 expression was detected in human pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia lesions (MCS=12.9; P < 0.0001) and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma samples (MCS=15, P < 0.0001) as compared with faint or no expression in normal pancreatic tissues (MCS= 1.54; P < 0.0001). Our results determine that PKD1 enhances glucose metabolism in PanCa cells, by triggering enhanced tumorigenesis and chemo-resistance. We demonstrate that mTORC1 activation by PKD1 regulates metabolic alterations in PanCa cells. siRNA knockdown of Raptor or treatment with rapamycin inhibited PKD1-accelerated lactate production as well as glucose consumption in cells, which confirms the association of mTORC1 with PKD1-induced metabolic alterations.

CONCLUSION: This study suggests a novel role of PKD1 as a key modulator of the glucose metabolism in PanCa cells accelerating tumorigenesis …

Distributed De Novo Assembler For Large-Scale Long-Read Datasets, Sayan Goswami, Kisung Lee, Seung Jong Park

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Third-generation DNA sequencing technologies such as single-molecule real-time sequencing (SMRT) and nanopore sequencing have the potential to fill the gaps in the existing genome databases since the raw sequences produced by these machines are much longer than those of previous generations and therefore result in more contiguous assemblies. However, these long reads have a high error rate, which makes the assembly process computationally challenging. Moreover, since existing long-read assemblers are designed to run on a single machine, they either take days to complete or run out of memory on even moderate-sized datasets. In this paper, we present a distributed long-read …

Secure Sharing Of Spatio-Temporal Data Through Name-Based Access Control, Laqin Fan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Named Data Networking (NDN) is proposed as a future Internet architecture, which provides name-based data publishing and fetching primitive. Compared to TCP/IP, the benefits of NDN are as follows. NDN removes the need to manage IP address; NDN provides semantically meaningful and structured names; NDN has a stateful and name-based forwarding plane; NDN supports data-centric security and in-network caching. Name-based Access Control is an access control solution proposed over NDN, which is a content-based access control by encrypting data at the time of production directly without relying on a third-party service(i.e., Cloud storage), utilizes NDN’s hierarchical naming convention to express …

Ndnsd: Service Publishing And Discovery In Ndn, Saurab Dulal

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Service discovery is one of the crucial components of modern applications. With the advent of several new systems such as IoT, edge, cloud, etc the world is connected more than ever and smart devices are creeping towards every nook and corner of our surroundings. Not only the new systems are emerging but also the communication pattern is evolving i.e. from one-to-one (host-host) to many-to-many (distributed application, IoT). The definition of service has also changed over time. Unlike their meaning in the past as programs running on some machines, services today can be sensor devices collecting data, mobile devices offering computing …

Electrosprayed Chitosan-Calcium Phosphate Nanoshells Composite Coatings On Silanated Titanium Plates, Andrew Blass Watson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The aim of this work was to take advantage of the electrospray technology and the osteocompatibility of both chitosan and calcium phosphate (CaP) to fabricate chitosan coatings loaded with CaP nanoshell particles. The key electrospray parameters of capillary diameter, voltage, and pressure were identified and adjusted for creating uniform chitosan-CaP coatings on titanium surfaces. Coatings containing from 0 to 1 wt% CaP particles to chitosan mass were electrosprayed on to silanated titanium to create composite coatings bonded to the metal surface. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) showed that CaP particles were homogenously distributed throughout the …

Brief Of Professor Edward A. Zelinsky As Amicus Curiae In Support Of Plaintiff’S Motion For Leave To File Bill Of Complaint, Edward A. Zelinsky

Amicus Briefs

Professor Edward Zelinsky submitted an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in New Hampshire’s constitutional challenge against Massachusetts’s recently promulgated regulation imposing its income tax on nonresident remote workers, arguing that the Court should grant New Hampshire’s motion for leave because a state cannot source nonresidents’ income earned beyond the state’s borders; taxpayers have “no practical remedy” for relief from unconstitutional taxation under the Tax Injunction Act; and only the Court can make rulings over the boundaries of state authority.

Consistently Biased: Documented Consistency In Self-Reported Holiday Healthfulness Behaviors And Associated Social Desirability Bias, Courtney Bir, Nicole Olynk Widmar

Department of Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

Holiday healthfulness conversations are dominated by overindulgence of consumption and then, largely in reference to resolutions to do better, physical activity, and exercise aspirations. Consistency was found in self-reported agreement with a series of holiday healthfulness statements, across time, holidays (Thanksgiving versus Christmas), and samples of respondents. The largest proportion of respondents displaying social desirability bias (SDB) were found in response to two statements, namely “I will consume more alcohol during the holiday season than at other times of the year” at (63–66%) and “I make it a New Year’s Resolution to lose weight” (60–63%). Cheap talk was tested as …

Feminist Participatory Action Research As A Tool For Climate Justice, Naomi J. Godden, Pam Macnish, Trimita Chakma, Kavita Naidu

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) uses Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) to strengthen grassroots women’s movements to advocate for an alternative development model – the ‘Feminist Fossil Fuel Free Future’ (5Fs) – to ensure new, gender-just, economic, political, and social relationships in a world free from climate injustices. Grassroots women of the global South face the extreme impacts of climate change resulting in reinforced and exacerbated inequalities driven by a patriarchal capitalist economy. APWLD’s Climate Justice-FPAR 2017–2019 (CJ-FPAR) supported young women researchers across Asia to lead grassroots research to expose the disproportionate impacts of climate …

Freedom Of The Light, Kyle R. Padden

Theses

Freedom of the Light is a feature length script that follows the heir to a highly religious kingdom on her journey of self discovery and revelation. Amalye Alsean has spent her entire life in the isolationist kingdom of Caelios, being told that the other inhabitants of the continent are merciless barbaric savages. It is only when she defies her father and experiences the continent herself that she is able to see the lies she has been fed. With her newfound power and knowledge, she must confront her father and enlighten her people. The script explores the relationships between father and …

Dubai Taxi Demand Hotspots Prediction, Samer Kamal Abu Taleb

Theses

Public transportation mode like taxi service consider as an essential service in every city that can serve all gender, age, and level of people, used for to move at any time and everywhere inside or outside the city. with the new entrance of technology for transportation, the taxi industry is undergoing a rapid digital transition like many other fields, that include new inventory like Uber and Careem for taxi sharing used by smartphones. Most of the time, taxi vehicles' distribution is imbalanced due to passengers and taxi drivers' unorganized demand. The plan is always left to the driver to estimate …

Knowledge Mapping Of Alzheimer’S Disease Research: A Scientometric Analysis, Mamatha V, Dr Keshava

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper explores the growth pattern of Alzheimer’s disease literature, published during 2014-2018. The data has been retrieved from the Web of Science database by using the keyword ‘Alzheimer’s Disease’. The downloaded articles were classified chronologically and transferred to a spreadsheet for the analysis as per the objectives of the study. The study results revealed that a total of 38936 publications were found out of which maximum publications (8355) were found in the year 2018 and the minimum 7192 publications were found in the year 2014. Mean relative growth rate of Alzheimer’s disease literature has shown exponential trend. Data set …

Maturity And Well-Being: Consistent Associations Across Samples And Measures, Stephen Reysen, Courtney N. Plante, Truong Quang Lam, Shanmukh V. Kamble, Iva Katzarska-Miller, Natalia Assis, Grace Packard, Eduardo Gregolin Moretti

Journal of Wellness

Introduction: Researchers have noted an association between maturity and well-being. However, this body of research uses different measures and conceptualizations of maturity (e.g., ego development, psychosocial maturity) and often only a few indicators of well-being. In the present research, we examined associations between a single self-rated measure of maturity and a variety of different indicators of well-being. Furthermore, we examined this association across a variety of samples. We hypothesized that maturity will show a positive relationship with measures related to well-being.

Methods: Samples of college students (Studies 1, 3, 4), Star Wars fans (Study 2), and individuals in the U.S., …

Instrumental Quality Attributes Of Alaska Pollock Derived Surimi Gels With Sweet Potato Starch, Kiyonna Williams, Zandra Mikell, Samuel Chetachukwu Adegoke, Reza Tahergorabi

RURALS: Review of Undergraduate Research in Agricultural and Life Sciences

Starch plays an important role in the formation of the network structure of surimi-starch gels. Alaska Pollock surimi gels were prepared with final moisture of 78%. Sweet potato starch (SPS) and silicon dioxide – inert filler, were added in inverse concentrations to develop treatments of 0% (control), 2%, 4%, 6%, and 8% SPS. Textural properties such as hardness, resilience, cohesiveness, gumminess, and chewiness were positively impacted by SPS. As the concentration of the SPS increased, a non-systematic trend was observed in the Kramer shear force of surimi gels. Total cooking loss and water holding capacity were significantly improved (P < 0.05). Surimi gels showed slight but significant reductions (P < 0.05) in whiteness with SPS addition due to significant decreases (P < 0.05) in L* and an increase in a* values. The Ash content of surimi gels increased with the addition of SPS. These results suggest that SPS can be incorporated into surimi products without compromising quality, which may be useful to manufacturers for marketing surimi products with added health benefits.

Session 2c Agrivoltaics: Exploring The Opportunities & Barriers To Combined Solar And Agriculture Systems, Alex S. Pascaris

The Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education

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Agrivoltaics, the strategic co-development of land for both solar energy production and agriculture, can meet growing demands for energy and food simultaneously while reducing fossil fuel consumption. This project explores the socio-political barriers to agrivoltaic development while also considering the potential environmental impacts of such systems using Life Cycle Assessment.

Session 2c Shade Grown Coffee In Costa Rica, Jenna Lentz

The Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education

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This presentation will focus on the role of Agriculture in Costa Rica, specifically the coffee industry. Traditional methods of growing coffee used shade, but as the popularity of coffee grew so did the need to increase production. This led to industrialized, sun-grown plantations that are harming the earth and contributing to climate change.

Session 2b Smart Cities Council: Creating An Impact Through Sdg 11, Keeley Bombard, Abigail Kahn, Ashley Pung, Matthew Folan, Rebecca Hyatt, Xingpei Zhang

The Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education

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This presentation was created as a group project for my Biology of Global Change course at Boston University, where we were tasked with finding an organization that exemplified the SDG that we were assigned to. My group focused on the Smart Cities Council, a non-governmental organization that coincides with SDG 11, sustainable cities and communities.

Session 1e Future Pathways For Action For Climate Empowerment (Ace), Alessandro Caprini, Aneeqah Tariq, Cecilia Consalvo, Max Van Deursen, Sofie De Wit

The Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education

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Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) refers to Article 6 of the UNFCCC and Article 12 of the Paris Agreement. It calls for public participation, awareness, and education. Through a discursive institutionalist lens, we provide an explanation for the lack of implementation. Our work links to ACE negotiations at COP26.

Session 1d Green Imperialism In French Polynesia, Sara Mills

The Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education

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French Polynesia is currently still partially under French control. As French Polynesia is a SIDS, they are facing extreme weather events and sea level rise. French resource extraction and a nuclear test site have degraded their environment. I will examine the environmental justice components of this situation in relation to eco-governance and development projects.

Session 1b Internet Expansion Plan Proposal In Developing Countries: Peru As A Case Study, Garion Johnson, Gonzalo Jose Manuel, Neira Chacate, Paul Lavasseur, Andrew Goodolf, Ally Murphy Pauletto

The Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education

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The presentation will explore how cell phone carriers have helped countries work toward SDG 9, Target 9.c. It will be a critical perspective and will include economic, social, and political implications in the countries researched.

Session 1e Institutionalization Of Climate Finance In The Green Climate Fund, Leo Banks

The Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education

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I will investigate the institutionalization of climate finance as represented by the Green Climate Fund. I will discuss not only the practices of the GCF as the institutionalization of climate finance but also the challenges and opportunities that these practices create and how they contribute to worldwide notions of climate governance

Automatic Delivery Of Machine Learning Models To User Device To Enable App Features, Keun Soo Yim, Neha Pattan

Defensive Publications Series

Many mobile apps, e.g., virtual assistants, navigation apps, video apps, etc., use various machine learning (ML) models. Different features of the app may have respective associated ML models which may often not be available locally on a user device and need explicit user action to download from a server. This disclosure describes techniques for automatic synchronization of machine learning models to a user device. With user permission, ML model(s) of an app that are not available locally or for which a new version is available are automatically downloaded when certain conditions such as are met. The conditions can include network …

Use Of Augmented Reality To Enable Comparisons Between Physical And Virtual Objects, Alexander James Faaborg, Brett Barros

Defensive Publications Series

Augmented reality (AR) shopping is typically thought of as the filling up of an empty space with virtual objects to assess the fit of that object to that space. This formulation ignores the portion of shopping that involves the replacement of an item. While a user can take a photo of an item, without an AR model of the item, the user cannot determine the fit or suitability of the item to their spaces. Current AR tools cannot identify and describe the key differences between what a user has and what the user wants to purchase. This disclosure describes techniques …

Wake From Camera Shutter When Notebook Is In Tablet Mode, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

For some detachable notebook which supports notebook mode and tablet mode, sometimes power button is

designed in notebook C-cover (Keyboard side), to prevent user miss touch keyboard or any buttons/click pads

when user is using tablet mode, the C-cover functions is disabled or hided in tablet mode depends on system

design. When user enters sleep in tablet mode by OS timer setting or low battery, user cannot use click pad or

keyboard to wake up system and requires to transfer the notebook to notebook mode to wake up system which is very inconvenience.

Sure Usb-C Power Source Detection, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

The host uses USB-C power source from USB-C port on notebook or AIO now. The

USB-C power source detection fail happens sometimes. The power status is incorrect

and keep DC when the failure happens. The USB-C power source detection fail may

cause by communication problem between PD, EC, chipset and OS. The

communication problems are maybe related about the hardware, firmware, driver and

OS. It is a complex process for USB-C power source detection. We provide a Sure

USB-C Power Source Detection (SUPSD). When the USB-C power source plug-in,

SUPSD can detect the power status from OS. It can recover …

Procedurally Generating Artificial Photos Of Text Documents In Various Backgrounds, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

Text document photos remain a highly important resource in the development or training of

document segmentation and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applications. This is due to the

quality assessment of algorithms for these tasks is performed using unknown images, which

guarantees their robustness, and that Machine Learning techniques need large datasets with a great

number of samples with high inter and intraclass diversity. This work presents a method to

procedurally generate simulations of photos of text documents with different backgrounds. Using

Digital Image Processing techniques, this process eliminates the need of creating a real dataset by

hand and increases the …

Spare Parts Surgery For Oncologic Reconstruction To Preserve Local Advancement Flap For Decubitus Ulcer Reconstruction: A Case Report, Emily Zurbuchen, Nathan Foje, Sean Figy

Graduate Medical Education Research Journal

A 58-year-old male presented to our institution with synchronous large left thigh sarcoma and sacral decubitus ulcer requiring oncologic resection and reconstruction. Due to extensive tumor involvement, use of local flap for reconstruction was not feasible. Therefore, a spare parts free fillet flap from the disarticulated lower leg was utilized for reconstruction following oncologic resection. The benefits of this spare parts approach include no donor site morbidity, sufficient tissue padding for later use of prosthesis, and preservation of other flaps for future reconstruction of his sacral decubitus ulcer.

Multi-Digit Auto-Amputation In Setting Of Mixed Connective Tissue Disease, Kishan P. Patel, Jennifer L. Medlin, Michelene Hearth-Holmes

Graduate Medical Education Research Journal

Raynaud’s disease is a cutaneous manifestation often present in various connective tissue and vascular diseases. Depending on the age of onset and acuity of symptoms, the phenomenon can provide clinicians with some insight as to the severity of underlying disease, including the distinction between primary and secondary Raynaud’s. However, this diagnostic approach seems to have its limitations regarding efficacy and timing of treatment. Traditionally, treatment of Raynaud’s has focused on reestablishing blood perfusion to affected tissue, which has previously been achieved with vasodilatory medications and site-specific surgical intervention. In lieu of the severe sequelae of Raynaud’s in the setting of …