Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of a Nutrition Model in Predicting Performance of Vietnamese Cattle

The objective of this study was to evaluate the predictions of dry matter intake (DM) and average daily gain (ADG) of Vietnamese Yellow (Vang) purebred and crossbred (Vang with Red Sindhi or Brahman) bulls fed under Vietnamese conditions using two levels of solution (1 and 2) of the large ruminant nutrition system (LRNS) model. Animal information and feed chemical characterization were obtained from five studies. The initial mean body weight (BW) of the animals was 186, with standard deviation ±33.2 kg. Animals were fed ad libitum commonly available feedstuffs, including cassava powder, corn grain, Napier grass, rice straw and bran, and minerals and vitamins, for 50 to 80 d. Adequacy of the predictions was assessed with the Model Evaluation System using the root of mean square error of prediction (RMSEP), accuracy (Cb), coefficient of determination (r2), and mean bias (MB). When all treatment means were used, both levels of solution predicted DMI similarly with low precision (r2 of 0.389 and 0.45 for level 1 and 2, respectively) and medium accuracy (Cb of 0.827 and 0.859, respectively). The LRNS clearly over-predicted the intake of one study. When this study was removed from the comparison, the precision and accuracy considerably increased for the level 1 solution. Metabolisable protein was limiting ADG for more than 68% of the treatment averages. Both levels differed regarding precision and accuracy. While level 1 solution had the least MB compared with level 2 (0.058 and 0.159 kg/d, respectively), the precision was greater for level 2 than level 1 (0.89 and 0.70, respectively). The accuracy (Cb) was similar between level 1 and level 2 (p = 0.8997; 0.977 and 0.871, respectively). The RMSEP indicated that both levels were on average under- or over-predicted by about 190 g/d, suggesting that even though the accuracy (Cb) was greater for level 1 compared to level 2, both levels are likely to wrongly predict ADG by the same amount. Our analyses indicated that the level 1 solution can predict DMI reasonably well for this type of animal, but it was not entirely clear if animals consumed at their voluntary intake and/or if the roughness of the diet decreased DMI. A deficit of ruminally-undegradable protein and/or a lack of microbial protein may have limited the performance of these animals. Based on these evaluations, the LRNS level 1 solution may be an alternative to predict animal performance when, under specific circumstances, the fractional degradation rates of the carbohydrate and protein fractions are not known.
From fresh heterologous oocyte donation to autologous oocyte banking

Introduction: Today, oocyte donation has become well established, giving rise to thousands of children born worldwide annually. The introduction of oocyte cryopreservation through vitrification allows the introduction of egg banking, improving the efficiency and comfort of oocyte donation. Moreover, the vitrification technique can now enable autologous donation of oocytes to prevent future infertility. Methods: We evaluated fresh heterologous oocyte donation in terms of obstetrical and perinatal outcome as well as of the reproductive outcome of past donors. We then evaluated the efficiency of a closed vitrification device and its clinical applications within ART. Thirdly, we evaluated the opinion of women with regard to preventive egg freezing and the efficiency of a human oocyte in relation to age. Results: Oocyte donation is associated with an increased risk of first trimester bleeding and pregnancy induced hypertension. Donating oocytes does not seem to increase the likelihood for a later need of fertility treatment. The chance of an oocyte to result in live birth (utilization rate) in women <37 years old remains constant with a mean of 4.47%. A significant proportion of young women would consider safeguarding their reproductive potential through egg freezing or are at least open to the idea. Discussion and Conclusion: The introduction of efficient oocyte cryopreservation has revolutionized oocyte donation through the establishment of eggbank donation. The technique also enables women to perform autologous donation after preventive oocyte storage in order to circumvent their biological clock.
Structure and developmental expression of the ascidian TRP gene: Insights into the evolution of pigment cell–specific gene expression

The tyrosinase family in vertebrates consists of three related melanogenic enzymes: tyrosinase, tyrosinase‐related protein‐1 (TRP‐1), and TRP‐2. These proteins control melanin production in pigment cells and play a crucial role in determining vertebrate coloration. We have isolated a gene from the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi which encodes a tyrosinase‐related protein (HrTRP) with 45–49% identity with vertebrate TRP‐1 and TRP‐2. The expression of the HrTRP gene in pigment lineage a8.25 cells starts at the early‐mid gastrula stage, which coincides with the stage when these cells are determined as pigment precursor cells; therefore, it provides the earliest pigment lineage‐specific marker, which enables us to trace the complete cell lineage leading to two pigment cells in the larval brain. In addition, the expression pattern of the HrTRP gene appears to share similar characteristics with the mouse TRP‐2 gene although structurally the HrTRP gene is more closely related to mammalian TRP‐1 genes. Based on these observations and on results from molecular phylogenetic and hybridization analyses, we suggest that triplication of the tyrosinase family occurred during the early radiation of chordates. Initially, duplication of an ancestral tyrosinase gene produced a single TRP gene before the urochordate and cephalochordate‐vertebrate divergence, and a subsequent duplication of the ancestral TRP gene in the vertebrate lineage gave rise to two TRP genes before the emergence of teleost fishes. Evolution of the melanin synthetic pathway and possible phylogenetic relationships among chordate pigment cells that accommodate the metabolic process are discussed. Dev Dyn 1999;215:225–237. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Validation of the Australian Football League Player Ratings

This study investigated the validity of the official Australian Football League Player Ratings system. It also aimed to determine the extent to which the distribution of points across the 13 rating subcategories could explain Australian Football League match outcome. Ratings were obtained for each player from Australian Football League matches played during the 2013–2016 seasons, along with the corresponding match outcome (Win/Loss and score margin). The values for each of the 13 subcategories that comprise the ratings were also obtained for the 2016 season. Total team rating scores were derived as an objective team outcome for each match. Percentage agreement and Pearson correlational analyses revealed that winning teams displayed a higher total team rating in 94.2% of matches and an association of r = 0.96 (95% confidence interval = 0.95–0.96) between match score margin and total team rating differential, respectively. A Partial Decision Tree (PART) analysis resulted in seven rules capable of determining the extent to which relative contributions of rating subcategories explain Win/Loss at an accuracy of 79.3%. These models support the validity of the Australian Football League Player Ratings system and its use as a pertinent system for objective player analyses in the Australian Football League.
Wearable Sensors for Remote Health Monitoring

Life expectancy in most countries has been increasing continually over the several few decades thanks to significant improvements in medicine, public health, as well as personal and environmental hygiene. However, increased life expectancy combined with falling birth rates are expected to engender a large aging demographic in the near future that would impose significant burdens on the socio-economic structure of these countries. Therefore, it is essential to develop cost-effective, easy-to-use systems for the sake of elderly healthcare and well-being. Remote health monitoring, based on non-invasive and wearable sensors, actuators and modern communication and information technologies offers an efficient and cost-effective solution that allows the elderly to continue to live in their comfortable home environment instead of expensive healthcare facilities. These systems will also allow healthcare personnel to monitor important physiological signs of their patients in real time, assess health conditions and provide feedback from distant facilities. In this paper, we have presented and compared several low-cost and non-invasive health and activity monitoring systems that were reported in recent years. A survey on textile-based sensors that can potentially be used in wearable systems is also presented. Finally, compatibility of several communication technologies as well as future perspectives and research challenges in remote monitoring systems will be discussed.
Review & Booknote: The Unobtrusive Researcher: A Guide to Methods

Ke&~,AIan, TheUnobtrus1vcResearcber:A Guideto Methods,Allen &0 lJfIwlra, Sydney, 19.93. ISBN1863735135.117pp. 119.95. This Australian book by a staffmember of the sodology department of La Trobe University updates the 1966 classic work by Eugene Webb, Donald Campbell, Richard Schwartz and lee Sechrest, UrwbtnlstveMeasures: NonReactive Research in tbe Social SCiences, and the 1981 second edition, Non-Reactive Research in the Social Sciences. According to Kellehear, Unobtrusive Measures did not indude recent developments in computer technology, grounded theory and poststructuralist modifications to content analysis, nor the revival of interest in the camera and video. The renewal of intereSt in cultural studies and its semiotic methods for analysing music, art and film were also either not considered or considered too briefly by webb and his colleagues, even in the early 19805. Kellehear remedies these deficiendes in his book. He is critical of the lack of attention these authors paid to research ethics and he remedies this situation by outlining areas of possible ethical concem at the end of each chapter. The book will be a valuable resource to researchers, including thesis students, since it introduces them to a range of sources and methods of social research that go beyond the questionnaire Or in-depth interviews.
Strategi Pemberdayaan Kelembagaan Petani

English Decision making process among farmers is a community-based action which is viewed as an entry point of technology dissemination. Institutional empowerment has strong ties with farmer’s techno-social condition. Success in an empowerment program is a result of interaction among empowerment elements and the applied empowerment strategy. Empowerment effort and strategy is an overlapping pendulum of evolution-revolution paradigms in a proportion relevant to the farmer’s institutional condition and needs. Indonesian Proses pengambilan keputusan dalam masyarakat petani merupakan suatu tindakan berbasis kondisi komunitas (community-based action) yang dapat dimanfaatkan sebagai salah satu celah masuk (entry-point) upaya diseminasi teknologi. Dengan demikian setiap upaya pemberdayaan kelembagaan petani memiliki keterkaitan kuat dengan kondisi tekno-sosial komunitas petani. Keberhasilan suatu program pemberdayaan merupakan resultan interaksi elemen-elemen pemberdayaan dengan strategi pemberdayaan yang diterapkan. Upaya dan strategi pemberdayaan merupakan suatu pendulum antara paradigma evolusi dan paradigma revolusi yang saling mengisi (overlap) dalam proporsi yang sesuai dengan kondisi dan kebutuhan kelembagaan petani.
Gay male pornography: a study of users’ perspectives

ABSTRACT Gay male pornography (GMP) occupies contentious discursive ground and is subject to polarising moral, theoretical and political discourses. However, few empirical studies employ these discourses as a point of departure. Using social representations and attitudes as theoretical tools, our study documents GMP users’ positionalities towards GMP on both a personal and a more social level. Data were collected via an online survey of 974 GMP users in Québec, Canada. An iterative exploratory factor analysis yielded five social representation scales (perceived racial and gender stereotypes, negative perception of bareback pornography, validation and educational utility, negative perception of gay pornography and perceived role of gay pornography in norm formation) and five attitude scales (perceived pressure to conform, preference for bareback pornography, acquired sexual knowledge, racialised sexual desire and problematic use). A hierarchical cluster analysis of the scales identified four main respondent profiles: pro-bareback standpoint (28%), gay affirmative standpoint (40%), harms-based standpoint (21%) and detached harms-based standpoint (10%). Our findings demonstrate that GMP is a complex topic and that conceiving its use solely from a gay affirmative or harms-based dichotomy may not do justice to users’ experiences, since various levels of agreement are present in users’ perspectives when confronted with contrasting and often contradictory arguments.
S mooth bromegrass pasture beef growing systems : Fertilization strategies and economic analysis 1

In recent years, prices for N fertilizer have increased dramatically, reducing net returns of fertilized pasture systems. A 5-yr study from 2005 to 2009 was conducted to evaluate management strategies and relative differences in profitability for 3 methods of backgrounding calves on smooth bromegrass pastures. Forty-five steers were used each year for a total of 225 animals in a randomized complete block design. Treatments included pastures fertilized in the spring with 90 kg N/ha (FERT), nonfertilized pastures with calves supplemented daily with dried distillers grains plus solubles (DDGS) at 0.6% of BW (SUPP), and control (CONT) pastures that had no fertilizer or supplementation applied. Pastures were rotationally stocked and put-and-take cattle were used to maintain similar grazing pressure on all treatments. Forage production was greatest for the FERT paddocks, intermediate for SUPP paddocks, and least for CONT paddocks (P < 0.01). Stocking rates were greater for SUPP pastures compared with nonfertilized pastures because of increased forage production and replacement of approximately 0.79 kg of forage for each 1 kg of supplement fed. At the conclusion of grazing, SUPP steers were 40 kg heavier than either the FERT or CONT steers, which resulted in increased gross revenue of $44.14/steer for the SUPP treatment (P < 0.01). Net returns were greatest for SUPP at $17.55/steer (P < 0.01), whereas both the CONT and FERT treatments had negative net returns of −$6.20 and −$8.71/steer, respectively. In the future, the relationship between prices for land, N fertilizer, and DDGS will affect the net returns of all 3 treatments.
An approach to stationary state estimation with missing data

This paper deals with state estimation in networked scenarios. We focus on a situation where the output of an LTI system is measured over an erasure channel and design a class of switched state estimators. In the considered class, the estimators use the channel output and instantaneous information on the channel state, to construct both a state estimate and, when data dropouts occur, an estimate of the missing data. Our focus is on stationary performance and present explicit expressions for the optimal designs that minimize the stationary state estimation error variance. A toy-example is provided to illustrate our results.
MCMC Louvain for Online Community Detection

We introduce a novel algorithm of community detection that maintains dynamically a community structure of a large network that evolves with time. The algorithm maximizes the modularity index thanks to the construction of a randomized hierarchical clustering based on a Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) method. Interestingly, it could be seen as a dynamization of Louvain algorithm (see Blondel et Al, 2008) where the aggregation step is replaced by the hierarchical instrumental probability.
Regulatory Multidimensionality of Gas Vesicle Biogenesis in Halobacterium salinarum NRC-1

It is becoming clear that the regulation of gas vesicle biogenesis in Halobacterium salinarum NRC-1 is multifaceted and appears to integrate environmental and metabolic cues at both the transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels. The mechanistic details underlying this process, however, remain unclear. In this manuscript, we quantify the contribution of light scattering made by both intracellular and released gas vesicles isolated from Halobacterium salinarum NRC-1, demonstrating that each form can lead to distinct features in growth curves determined by optical density measured at 600 nm (OD600). In the course of the study, we also demonstrate the sensitivity of gas vesicle accumulation in Halobacterium salinarum NRC-1 on small differences in growth conditions and reevaluate published works in the context of our results to present a hypothesis regarding the roles of the general transcription factor tbpD and the TCA cycle enzyme aconitase on the regulation of gas vesicle biogenesis.
Cluster analysis and workload classification

Clustering techniques are widely recommended tools for workload classification. The k-means algorithm is widely accepted as the "standard" technique of detecting workload classes automatically from measurement data. This paper examines validity of the obtained workload classes, when the current system and workload is analyzed by a queueing network model and mean value analysis. Our results, based on one week's accounting data of a VAX 8600, indicate that the results of queueing network analysis are not stable when the classes of workload are constructed through the k-means algorithm. Therefore, we cannot recommended that the most widely used clustering technique should be used in any workload characterization study without careful validation.
Evolution of Small-Scale Filaments in an Adaptive Advection Model for Idealized Tracer Transport

The formation of small-scale filaments in a novel two-dimensional adaptive tracer transport model is investigated. The numerical model is based on a semi-Lagrangian advection scheme, and an adaptively and locally refined triangular mesh. The adaptive modeling approach allows very high local resolution, showing fine-grained filamentation under the influence of gradients in the wind field. Wind data for the tracer transport experiment are taken from the high-resolution regional climate model for the Arctic atmosphere, HIRHAM. The influence of horizontal advection model resolution and varying wind data resolution has been investigated.
Maternal Obesity and its Short- and Long-Term Maternal and Infantile Effects

Obesity, in childhood or in adulthood, remains to be a global health problem. The worldwide prevalence of obesity has increased in the last few decades, and consequently, the women of our time suffer more gestational problems than women in the past. The prevalence of obesity is greater in older women than in younger ones and in women with low educational level than in their counterparts with a higher level of education. Maternal obesity during pregnancy may increase congenital malformations and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Maternal obesity is associated with a decreased intention to breastfeed, decreased initiation of breastfeeding, and decreased duration of breastfeeding. We discuss the current epidemiological evidence for the association of maternal obesity with congenital structural neural tube and cardiac defects, fetal macrosomia that predisposes infants to birth injuries and to problems with physiological and metabolic transition, as well as potential for long-term complications secondary to prenatal and neonatal programming effects compounded by a reduction in sustained breastfeeding.
RoCNet: Spatial mobile data offload with user-behavior prediction through delay tolerant networks

We present a robust cellular network (RoCNet) that combines a cellular and an opportunistic networks for spatial uplink mobile data offloading, which focuses on the spatial difference of the traffic load among areas (e.g., business district and residential area in the daytime). RoCNet realizes the spatial data offload by leveraging the store-carry-forward routing mechanism. In the area where traffic load is high, delay-tolerant data originated from a mobile terminal is directly forwarded to a nearby terminal using Bluetooth or wireless LAN instead of being transmitted to a congested cellular base station. When the data is carried by the nearby terminal to other area where the traffic load is low, the data is forwarded to a cellular base station. To enhance the offload effect, it is necessary for data to be forwarded to a terminal that moves to a low traffic load area. In this paper, we use the particle filter to predict user behavior. Before forwarding data between mobile terminals, the terminals exchange prediction results and decide whether or not the data should be forwarded. We conducted a computer simulation whose result shows RoCNet can spatially offload uplink traffic in a traffic concentration area to non-congested areas. As a result, RoCNet can suppress peak traffic by about 20 percent in a traffic-congested base station by distributing traffic to vicinity base stations.
Evolving action selection and selective attention without actions, attention, or selection

A minimal animat architecture, consisting only of a set of autonomous, direct, and continuously active sensorimotor links, is shown to support a full range of `action selection' phenomena. A genetic algorithm is used to engineer the activation functions supported by these links. No `actions' are `selected' in this model, and the use of artificial evolution means that there is no artificial separation of the problems of `link design' from `link fusion'. Implications are drawn for how the concepts of `action selection' and `selective attention' may relate to the idea of coherence between sensorimotor processes.