Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
INFLUENCE OF CONCRETE FLOW ON FIBRE DISTRIBUTION , ORIENTATION AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FIBRE REINFORCED CONCRETE

The paper describes results and experience from two experimental series where the influence of concrete flow on fibre distribution, fibre orientation and mechanical properties was studied. In both series, full scale elements and small scale standard beams (EN 14651) were used, and both synthetic and steel fibres were used. While the concrete in the first test series had 455 mm spread in the slump flow test, the corresponding value varied in the range 560-720 mm for the second series. In general there was no major influence of the flow length on the fibre orientation which seemed to stabilize close to the filling point of the casting. However, the residual tensile strength was in general larger for the full scale beams than for the small standard beams, an effect which partly is due to a larger fibre content and/or more favourable fibre orientation in the lower parts of the large beams. This effect was largest for the beams in the second series where the flow led to increased segregation of the steel fibres.
Contribution of mesophilic starter and adjunct lactobacilli to proteolysis and sensory properties of semi hard cheese

Cheese products enriched with probiotic bacteria are one of optimized functional foods. The objective of the present study was to influence of modified mesophilic starter and probiotic Lactobacillus, as adjunct culture, on product quality, in particular the proteolytic pattern of the cheeses. The composition and the pH value were almost identical between cheese. The rate of proteolysis of cheese with probiotic bacteria was slightly higher than that in control cheese, probably as a consequence of their different proteolytic activity. Levels of water soluble nitrogen (WSN/TN), non protein nitrogen (NPN/TN) and levels of phosphotungstic acid soluble nitrogen (PTA/TN) increased significantly with ripening period. Organoleptic evaluation showed that probiotic cheese had higher sensory evaluation than control cheese, without probiotic strain. The population of Lactobacillus survived to numbers > 10 7 cfu/g, which is necessary for positive effects on health. These results showed that the contribution of mesophilic starter and probiotic strain as adjunct culture can be successfully used in production of semi hard cheese. (New York Science Journal 2010;3(10):67- 73). (ISSN: 1554-0200).
Correlation Between the Phenol Content and Antioxidant Efficacy of Myrtus Communis (L.) Leaf Extracts

In the present work, we have evaluated the antiradical efficacy of ethanol, methanol and n-hexane extracts from leaves of Myrtus communis L. to find potential sources of natural antioxidants. Total phenolic content was assessed using the Folin-Ciocalteau assay and Total Flavonoid Content was assessed using Aluminum Chloride (AlCl3) colorimetric method with quercetin as standard flavonoid. On the other hand, antioxidant activities of these extracts were determined spectrophotometrically at ambient temperature and 517nm using 2,2-Diphenyl-1-Picrylhydrazyl (DPPH), and evaluated following the kinetics of the DPPH reduction. The Total Phenol Content of extracts ranged between 122.72 ± 1.16 to 137.46 ± 0.35 mg GAE/g extract, while the flavonoid content ranged between 18.41 ± 0.43 and 31.24 ± 1.23mg QE/g extract. In addition, the n-hexane extract showed more activity than ethanol and methanol extracts. The antiradical capacity (IC50) parameter and its TIC50 time equivalent have an influence on the antiradical capacity of extracts. The antiradical efficiency is considered to be a stronger parameter to select antioxidants compared to IC50. The present study revealed that M. communis represents an important source of natural antioxidants to ensure food safety.
Is the spiral morphology of the Elias 2-27 circumstellar disc due to gravitational instability?

We thank the anonymous referee for their thoughtful review, which greatly improved the clarity of this work. We would like to thank Daniel Price for his publicly available SPH plotting code SPLASH (Price 2007), which we have made use of in this paper. CH warmly thanks Farzana Meru for elucidating discussions during the process of this work. KR gratefully acknowledges support from STFC grant ST/M001229/1. DF gratefully acknowledges support from the ECOGAL project, grant agreement 291227, funded by the European Research Council under ERC-2011-ADG. The research leading to these results also received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement number 313014 (ETAEARTH). This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 681601). This research used the ALICE2 High Performance Computing Facility at the University of Leicester. TJH acknowledges funding from Exeter’s STFC Consolidated Grant (ST/M00127X/1)
Assessment of ultrasonographic and endoscopic changes in dogs with gastrointestinale disorders

The study has been conducted over a period of 4 years, on a total number of 133 dogs, all of those expressing gastrointestinal disorders. Ultrasound and endoscopic examinations were performed in all dogs in order to assess any significant correlations between ultrasonographic and endoscopic findings. The results confirm a significant correlation between the presence of diarrhoea and increased thickness of the large bowel wall, with P<0.5. Another extremely significant correlation we observed is the one between increased thickness of large bowel wall and loss of layering at this level, with P<0.5. Upper GI endoscopy revealed that dilated lacteals in the duodenum are significantly associated with the presence of diarrhoea, P<0.5 and, more importantly, there is a very significant correlation between dilated lacteals and the presence of striations (P<0.5), which confirms previous studies (Sutherland-Smith et al., 2007) that say the striated aspect of the intestinal mucosa is due to dilated lacteals.
RESULT OF COLD TESTS OF THE FERMILAB SSR 1 CAVITIES

Fermilab is currently building the Project X Injector experiment (PXIE). The PXIE linac will accelerate a 1 mA H− beam up to 30 MeV and serve as a testbed for validation of Project X concepts and mitigation of technical risks. A cryomodule of eight superconducting RF Single Spoke Resonators of type 1 (SSR1) cavities operating at 325 MHz is an integral part of PXIE. Ten SSR1 cavities were manufactured in industry and delivered to Fermilab. We discuss tests of nine bare SSR1 cavities at the Fermilab Vertical Test Stand (VTS). Recently, one of the SSR1 cavities was welded inside a helium jacket. Results of the test of this cavity in the Fermilab Spoke Test Cryostat (STC) are shown. We report on the measured performance parameters of SSR1 cavities achieved during the tests.
Litter production in an Atlantic beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) time sequence

Litterfall is the first phase of the biogeochemical cycle and returns nutrients to the soil. This paper demonstrates the quantita- tive distribution of the different components throughout the year in four stands of a beech time sequence. Litterfall increases as the forest evolves and as basal area increases: from 2.1 t/ha/an in the thicket to 4.7 t/ha/an in the mature high forest. Leaves represent 90% of the to- tal litterfall in the young stand and 70% in the oldest stand. The proportion of leaves decreases during forest rotation. Most of the catego- ries are related to the age and basal area, because of the architecture and maturity of the trees. Other factors could explain litterfall dynamics, e.g. human management or animals. Climate is a preponderant factor for the litterfall production and plays a role in the species phenology. The litterfall dynamics during the time sequence, and the observed shifts in phenology give rise to different pedogenetic pro- cesses.
INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT HYSTERETIC BEHAVIOURS ON SEISMIC RESPONSE OF SDOF SYSTEMS

1 DSSAR, Università degli Studi di Chieti ‘G. D'Annunzio', V.le Pindaro n°42, 65127, Pescara, Italy. E.mail: landolfo@un 2 DAPS, Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’, P.le Tecchio n°80, 80125, Napoli, Italy. E.mail: gdellaco@unina. 3 DSSAR, Università degli Studi di Chieti ‘G. D'Annunzio', V.le Pindaro n°42, 65127, Pescara, Italy. INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT HYSTERETIC BEHAVIOURS ON SEISMIC RESPONSE OF SDOF SYSTEMS
Blocking the PD-1/PD-L1 axis in dendritic cell-stimulated Cytokine-Induced Killer Cells with pembrolizumab enhances their therapeutic effects against hepatocellular carcinoma

Immune checkpoint therapies for cancer, like the anti-programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) agent pembrolizumab, have gained considerable attention. However, the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors in the context of adoptive immunotherapy is poorly characterized. We investigated the therapeutic efficacy of dendritic cell-stimulated CIK (DC-CIK) cells pretreated with pembrolizumab against hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in cytotoxicity assay in vitro and in a nude mouse xenograft model. We used time-lapse imaging to investigate tumor killing. We also performed a survival analysis based on lymphocyte subpopulation-specific mRNA signatures using The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) HCC cohort (n=371 patients). The results indicated that PD-1 inhibition increased the anti-tumor effects of DC-CIK cells over those of DC-CIK cells alone, resulting in a survival benefit importantly. Time-lapse imaging revealed that DC-CIK cells appeared to be more effective and aggressive after anti-PD-1 treatment than after culture in control conditions. The PD-1 inhibitor also induced more effective immune cell infiltration of the tumor. Our analysis of the TCGA HCC cohort confirmed that a genetic signature consistent with a high degree of intratumoral CD8+ T cell infiltration is associated with good prognosis. These results suggest that blockade of the PD-1/PD-L1 axis in DC-CIK cells with a PD-1 inhibitor prior to infusion is a promising therapeutic strategy against HCC.
INR 10 / 06 Learning preferences in electronic negotiations

To create an integrative solution in a bargaining problem, negotiators need to have information about the each other’s preferences. Empirical negotiation research therefore requires methods to measure the extent to which information about preferences is available during a negotiation. We propose such a method based on the domain criterion, which was originally developed for sensitivity analysis in decision making. Our method provides indices for the amount of preference information that can be inferred both in negotiations achieving a compromise and in failed negotiations. To test the external validity of our proposed measures, we conduct an empirical study which shows that the proposed measures exhibit the positive relationships to the success of negotiations as well as the efficiencies of outcomes that would be expected according to negotiation theory. http://interneg.org/
Public Policies and Private Decisions: An Analysis of the Effects of Abortion Restrictions on Minors’ Contraceptive Behavior

In this paper, the author adapts a sequential game model from the fertility decision process to estimate the effects of abortion restriction laws on the decision to use contraceptives at first sex. The specific laws incorporated are parental involvement laws, discretely known as parental consent and parental notice laws. Including various controls, the estimated model yields evidence that the presence of an enforced abortion restriction law leads to an overall increase in the likelihood that a woman uses contraceptives at first intercourse. This result implies a longterm decrease in abortions demanded without an offsetting increase in births, due to pregnancy avoidance.
A packhouse survey of insect damage to avocados in the Nelspruit/Hazyview area during 1990.

In a packhouse survey of insect damage to avocado fruits, 16 265 avocado fruits in 36 samples from 32 orchards were examined. Coconut bug [Pseudotheraptus wayi (Brown)],thrips /Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (Bouche)] and Selenothrips rubrocinctus(Giardi), fruitfly/Pterandrus rosa (Karsh)] and stink bugs [including Nezara viridula (L)] were the most significant pests, respectively causing culling of 4,7%, 2,1% 1,9% and 1,8% of the fruits. Total crop loss due to insects is estimated at 10%. Nine insect taxa that cause lesions on the fruits were identified, and this number illustrates a threefold increase in these pests since 1982. The increasing pest complex and altering status of the pests is explained in terms of a recruitment theory, according to which further insect pest problems must be expected in the future.
Pilot Program Diabetes : Health Literacy Education Improves Veteran Outcomes

A ccording to the National Academy o f Medic ine (NAM), health literacy is “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. ” Studies suggest that millions of patients have inadequate health literacy and cannot make fully informed decisions because of this lack of knowledge. A 2007 National Patient Safety Foundation report calculated that inadequate health literacy burdens the U.S. health care system with an additional $106 to $238 billion annually. In 2014, the American Diabetes Association reported that diabetes affects 29.1 million Americans (9.3%) and that by 2050 1 in 3 Americans will have diabetes. People with diabetes have health care costs 2.3 times higher than the cost for nondiabetic patients. The cost of taking care of patients with diabetes annually is about $245 billion. Without interventions that address health literacy and effective self-management to reduce the risks of complications and comorbidity, health care costs related to diabetes will continue to increase.
Impacts of Institutions on the Performances of Enterprises in Vietnam

This paper investigates the impacts of institutions on the performances of enterprises in Vietnam. The results obtained from the quantitative research method show that the criteria on institutions do not affect the performances of enterprises in Vietnam; while some criteria have positive impacts, others negatively affect them. Moreover, the improvement in the quality of economic institutions will lead to the differences in performance among different types of enterprises. More specifically, improving economic institutional quality will result in higher increases in the revenues and added values of state-owned enterprises than those of FDI enterprises. Similarly, the improvement also leads to the higher increase in private enterprises' revenues but lower increases in their added values and added value ratios compared to those of FDI enterprises. However, there is no difference in the impact of institutional quality improvement on the before-tax earnings of different types of enterprises. Based on the research's result, the paper proposes some suggestions to improve the quality of economic institutions, and thus improve enterprises' performances and success, on all three aspects including "rules", "players" and "implementation procedures".
First occurence of Cherry virus a (cva) in the Czech Republic

A preliminary survey on Cherry virus A (CVA) has been performed in the Czech Republic in 2008-2009, including a germplasm collection, various growing areas and nurseries. 200 sweet and sour cherry leaf samples ( Prunus avium, P. cerasus ) were collected and tested by optimized RT-PCR using a new set of primers CVAZR2/CVAZF2. The 405 bp CVA-specific amplicon was obtained from two sweet cherry trees, namely cv. H 15/31 from Holovousy germplasm collection (originally from Romania) and the seedling P. avium from the nursery SEMPRA Turnov. To confirm RTPCR results, CVA amplification products were directly sequenced. To our knowledge, this is the first report of CVA in the Czech Republic. Keywords : CVA, sweet and sour cherries, RT-PCR
Assessing substitution saturation with DAMBE THEORY

The accuracy of phylogenetic reconstruction depends mainly on (1) the sequence quality, (2) the correct identification of homologous sites by sequence alignment, (3) regularity of the substitution processes, e.g. stationarity along different lineages, absence of heterotachy and little variation in the substitution rate over sites, (4) consistency, efficiency and little bias in the estimation method, e.g. not plagued by the long-branch attraction problem, and (5) sequence divergence, i.e. neither too conserved as to contain few substitutions nor too diverged as to experience substantial substitution saturation. This chapter deals with assessing substitution saturation with software DAMBE, which is a Windows program featuring a variety of analytical methods for molecular sequence analysis (Xia, 2001; Xia & Xie, 2001). Substitution saturation decreases phylogenetic information contained in sequences, and has plagued the phylogenetic analysis involving deep branches, such as major arthropod groups (Lopez et al., 1999; Philippe & Forterre, 1999; Xia et al., 2003). In the extreme case when sequences have experienced full substitution saturation, the similarity between the sequences will depend entirely on the similarity in nucleotide frequencies (Lockhart et al., 1992; Steel et al., 1993; Xia, 2001, pp. 49–58; Xia et al., 2003), which often does not reflect phylogenetic relationships.
Potential Pseudomonas Isolated from Soybean Rhizosphere as Biocontrol against Soilborne Phytopathogenic Fungi

Plants are liable to be attacked by soilborne fungal pathogens which are responsible to reduce plant growth and losses in yield. In Indonesia, indigenous soybeans’ rhizobacteria such as antifungal producing Pseudomonas sp. have not many been reported yet. Therefore, the potential of the Pseudomonas sp. as biocontrol agent should be deeply explored. The aim of this study was to screen the indigenous soybeans’ rhizobacteria Pseudomonas sp. that possessing biocontrol characters against soilborne mainly i.e. Sclerotium rolfsii, Fusarium oxysporum, and Rhizoctonia solani, in vitro and in planta. Eleven isolates identified Pseudomonas sp. CRB numbered by CRB-3, CRB-16, CRB-17, CRB-31, CRB-44, CRB-75, CRB-80, CRB-86, CRB-102, CRB-109, and CRB-112 were affirmed to be candidates of biocontrol agents toward the soilborne fungal pathogens. Pseudomonas sp. CRB inhibited growth of the pathogenic fungi approximately 11.1-60.0% in vitro. Among of them, 7 isolates were also produced siderophore, 2 isolates produced chitinase, and 4 isolates produced hydrogen cyanide. Seed coating with the Pseudomonas sp. CRB accomplished disease suppression in planta about 14.3-100% in sterile soil condition and 5.2-52.6% in non sterile soil condition. Consistency in high performance more than 30% of disease suppression in non sterile soil condition suggested that 5 isolates i.e. CRB-16, CRB-44, CRB-86, CRB-102, and CRB-109 isolates have great promising to be developed as biocontrol agents of soilborne pathogenic fungi.
Customer Service Chat Systems with General Service and Patience Times

We study customer service chat (CSC) systems with generally distributed service and patience times by developing measure-valued processes to model and analyze the system dynamics. We first prove that these processes are tight in the many-server asymptotic regime and then show that their limits satisfy a set of fluid model equations. We then establish the invariant states of these limits and use these invariant states to obtain (non-asymptotic) approximations for various performance metrics of CSC systems in the steady state. We also demonstrate the accuracy of these approximations using extensive numerical experiments. These approximations allow us to establish the impact of service and patience time distributions on the system performance and to devise effective dynamic routing policies.
The Effect of Cooperative Learning on Math Anxiety, Help Seeking Behavior

The present study aims to investigate the effect of cooperative learning on math anxiety, help seeking behavior and academic achievement of the students. Quasi-experimental design has been proceeded in accordance with pre-test post-test control group design. The population of this study was all the female students at Roodsar; the studied sample included 40 female students at first grade of secondary school located in Roodsar. The materials used for measuring the variables were Shokrani’s math anxiety questionnaire (2002) and help seeking behavior questionnaire based on Pantrich & Royan theories (1977) which were later put in to written form by Ghadampour(1998) . To accomplish the thesis at pre-test level, after answering each questionnaire, math anxiety in 40 students were homogeneously selected on the basis of the highest gained scores from two different classrooms to put into two groups of experimental and control. A couple of mathematic lessons were taught to control group traditionally while the experimental group received the treatment, learning cooperatively. After undergoing the due sessions of the experiment, all participants in both groups of experimental and control, answered the questionnaires of math anxiety and help seeking behavior one more time. Moncova was run to analyze the data and the outcome indicated not only a higher education improvement in the EG in comparison with the CG, but also the fact that cooperative learning method reduces math anxiety significantly and improves the avoidance and denial of help seeking among learners as well as increasing the application of help seeking strategies and academic achievement.
HEAT AND MOISTURE PRODUCTION OF HY-LINE BROWN HENS IN AVIARY HOUSES IN THE MIDWESTERN U.S.

Abstract. In considering hen housing systems, up-to-date heat and moisture production data are essential to producing properly designed and managed ventilation and supplemental heating systems. The aviary system is one housing type under consideration by egg producers. The aviary system has a much lower bird stocking density and thus more freedom of movement for the birds compared to conventional cage housing. This study was conducted to obtain baseline heat and moisture production values for Hy-Line Brown hens in such houses in the Midwestern U.S. House-level thermal environment, gaseous concentrations, and bird production performance of two commercially operated 50,000-hen aviary houses were continually monitored over a 19-month period. The two houses used similar management practices and Hy-Line Brown hens with a 20-week difference in age. Data were collected for a complete flock (17 to 83 weeks, no molt) in each house. Total heat production (THP) of the hens, house-level latent heat production (LHP) or moisture production (MP), house-level sensible heat production (SHP), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were determined from the monitored variables using indirect calorimetry and mass/energy balance, respectively. Variations in THP, LHP/MP, SHP, and RQ within the day were delineated. Results of the study showed mean (±SE) THP, house-level LHP, house-level SHP, and RQ values of 5.94(±0.09) W kg -1 , 1.83(±0.03) W kg -1 , 4.11(±0.08) W kg -1 , and 0.94(±0.01), respectively, for the aviary housing system. The new data will improve the design and operation of building ventilation, supplemental heating, and ultimately production efficiency of aviary housing systems. The THP and RQ data will also be useful to indirect determination of building ventilation rate using the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) balance method.