Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Growth Performance , Haematological , Carcass and Organ Characteristics of Broiler Birds Fed Aerial Yam ( Dioscorea bulbifera ) Tuber Meal

A-48 day feeding trial was conducted to determine the effects of dietary levels of aerial yam tuber meal (AYTM) on growth performance, haematological, carcass and organ characteristics of broiler birds. Five experimental diets were formulated to include aerial yam tuber meal at 0%, 4%, 8%, 12% and 16% at the starter stage and 0%, 8%, 16%, 24% and 32% at the finisher phase for T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5 respectively. One hundred and twenty (120) day old Anak broiler chicks were used and randomly divided into five groups with each group randomly allotted to the five treatment diets in a Completely Randomized Experimental Design (CRD). Each group was further subdivided into three (3) replicates of eight birds each. The experimental starter and finisher diets were fed ad libitum. Data were collected for growth performance, haematological parameters, carcass and organ characteristics. Total body weight gain and average daily feed intake were significantly (P<0.05) better in the control diets. The haematological indices differed (P<0.05) significantly in packed cell volume (PCV) and white blood cell (WBC) counts. PCV and WBC were also higher and better for the animals fed the control diets relative to the other treatments. The carcass and organ characteristics showed no significance (P>0.05) difference among the treatment groups. Aerial yam tuber meal showed a good promise when included in the diets of broiler starter and finisher up to 32% without a harmful effect on growth performance, haematological and carcass and organ characteristics of broilers. It can be therefore recommended as a cheaper alternative to maize in broiler feeding.
Deep Learning for Plasma Tomography

Tomography is a frequently used diagnostic in fusion experiments, namely to determine the shape and position of the plasma. However, plasma tomography algorithms work with only a few projections, which limits their accuracy and increases their computational complexity. Neural networks have been pointed out as a suitable alternative to carry out plasma tomography, since a trained neural network is potentially faster than traditional algorithms and capable of achieving similar accuracy. This thesis proposes to carry out tomographic reconstructions by using a deep neural network, with a topology that is the inverse of the convolutional networks that have been the subject of much research in the past few years. Applying this approach on data from a tomography diagnostic at JET, we show that the network is able to reproduce the reconstructions with high accuracy, as measured by several different metrics.
Nicotine Addiction and Schizophrenia : A Clinical Approach

Why is it important to treat nicotine addiction in schizophrenia? The prevalence of smoking in schizophrenia, as in other mental disorders, is higher than in the general population. Smoking is also associated with higher rates of medical morbidity, including cardiovascular and lung diseases, and with higher mortality in schizophrenic patients. Schizophrenia is characterized by a constellation of clinical and cognitive deficits, and these patients may remediate such deficits by cigarette smoking. Genetic and environmental factors may also play a role in the high comorbid rates of smoking in schizophrenia. Preclinical and human laboratory studies have elucidated factors which may determine this comorbidity in schizophrenia, and recent treatments for both nicotine dependence (eg, nicotine replacement, bupropion) and schizophrenia (atypical antipsychotic drugs) may be useful for smoking reduction and cessation in this population. We review the biology of nicotine addiction in schizophrenia, and findings from the laboratory and clinic which suggest that: (1) there may be biological factors which explain the high rates of comorbid nicotine addiction in schizophrenic patients; and (2) based on an understanding of this neurobiology, effective treatment for nicotine addiction in these patients is possible. A clinical approach, including pharmacologic and behavioral treatments, is discussed.
VARIABILITY IN PEEL COMPOSITION AND QUALITY EVALUATION OF PEEL OILS OF CITRUS VARIETIES

Variation in chemical composition of peels and quality of peel essential oils of Kinnow (Citrus reticulata), Fewtrell’s Early (Citrus reticulata), Malta (Citrus sinensis), Mousami (Citrus sinensis), Grapefruit (Citrus paradise) and Eureka lemon (Citrus limon) were studied at Institute of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Sargodha, Sargodha Pakistan during 2015-16. The results revealed that the highest fat contents (1.68%), protein (6.24%) and fibre (6.11%) were found in grapefruit peel, ash (4.39%) in Kinnow peel, moisture (75.39%) in Eureka lemon peel and nitrogen free extract (11.68%) in Mousami peel. After extracting the oils from each peel through cold expressing method, yield was estimated. The highest yield (1.21%) was estimated in Malta peel, followed by peels of Eureka lemon (1.12%), Mosuami (0.98%), Grapefruit (0.73%), Kinnow (0.32%) and Fewtrell,s Early (0.22%) with regards to chemical composition of peel oils the data displayed the highest aldehyde contents (42.733%) in Kinnow peel oil followed by grapefruit (40.473%), Fewtrell,s Early (30.020%), Mousami (26.760%) and Eureka lemon (11.803%). Similarly, acid number of Kinnow, Fewtrell,s Early, Malta, Mousami, Grapefruit and eureka lemon oils was estimated at 2.213, 1.337, 1.253, 1.323, 1.863 and 1.390, respectively. Malta peel oil showed the lowest ester number (11.747), and the highest (27.120). in grape fruit peel oil. The results conclude that the highest yield was estimated in Malta peel oil, aldehyde contents and acid number in Kinnow peel oil and ester number in Grapefruit peel oil.
The effect of the selected remediation medium on the cadmium bioavailability in the selected ecosystem in the Southwestern locality of Slovakia

Abstract Soil is a sensitive ecological factor. Biodegradable materials from the environment can also be used to deal with serious ecological problems. Soil affecting by remediation medium - garden compost - was analysed for toxic cadmium (Cd) in terms of environmental protection. The objective of this research was to analyse soil and compost at foothill locality of the Tribeč Mountains (Southwestern Slovakia) in the years 2015−2017 to determine Cd contents in soil and compost, pH and to assess Cd bioavailability. The analyses were carried out using the Atomic Absorption Spectrometry with seven-step Selective Sequential Extraction methods. The results obtained were evaluated statistically using the SAS 9.4 software method by Spearman’s correlation coefficient. The results showed that Cd contents in soil had reached 2.96 mg kg−1 and soil with compost (the ratio 1:1) 2.71 mg kg−1 dry matter. Cd contents in the soil exceeded maximum allowed limit of 196%. And deceased by 25% after adding compost. The pH in soil with compost varied from 6.78 to 7.98. The pH prevented the mobility of Cd about 8.3% in average. Statistical dependence was high, which was demonstrated for relationship between Cd in soil, pH and compost. Available Cd forms in soil were 53.3% and soil with compost were 45% in average. The garden compost as a remediation medium reduced Cd bioavailability.
Understanding the Incentive Mechanism of Penalty for Information Security Policy Compliance Behavior

A significant number of information security incidents have been attributed to the internal employees’ failure to comply with the information security policy (ISP) in the organizational setting. There exists a principal-agent problem with moral hazard between the employer and the employee individual for the practical compliance effort of the employee is not observable without high costs. In this study, an ISP compliance game has been proposed to analyze the incentive mechanism of penalty on the compliance behavior of employee individual. It is shown that in a no-penalty contract, the employee will decline to comply with the ISP if the expected payoff obtained from her noncompliance is larger than that from the outside options; and in a penalty contract, an appropriate penalty will motivate her to exert the compliance effort level expected by her employer. A numerical example has been presented to show the validity of this game analysis.
Does disclosure of school quality information increase disparity in academic achievement? The effect through the housing market

This study investigates the effect of disclosure of information regarding school quality on the stratification of elementary schools and the widening disparity in the academic ability of students between schools. Using the event in which school-level test scores were first disclosed in October 2014 in Matsue City in Japan, I estimated the change of the effect of test scores on housing rents and population in a school district before and after disclosure. I found that school-level test scores had a significantly positive effect on housing rents of apartments intended for a family after the scores were disclosed. I also found that disclosure significantly increased the population of elementary school-aged individuals within the attendance district of school with high test scores. Additionally, I found that the relative standard deviation of test scores after disclosure became larger than that measured before disclosure. These results suggest that disparity in the academic ability of students between schools may expand through increased housing rents after disclosure of school-level test results.
Lateral spacing affect on yield and quality attributes of drip-irrigated sweet corn.

Sweet corn is commonly consumed as vegetable. It is quite delicious and nutritious, therefore it is important food supply in human nutrition. Sweet corn is rich of sugar and thus different from the other maize cultivars. According to FAO 2012 statistics, USA is the leading sweet corn producer of the world (about 22% of total maize cultivated lands and 42% of world total production). USA is respectively followed by Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, South Africa, Peru and Thailand (Arslan and Williams, 2015).
Delayed weaning of Holstein bull calves fed an elevated plane of nutrition impacts feed intake , growth and potential markers of gastrointestinal development

Feeding calves an elevated plane of nutrition pre-weaning improves growth. However, some controversy remains about the optimal time of weaning required to minimize the decline in growth commonly associated to milk withdrawal. This experiment aimed to determine the influence of weaning age on performance of calves fed milk replacer on an elevated plane of nutrition (8 L d−1, 150 g L−1, 1.2 kg calf−1 d−1) and to further understand the impacts of weaning age on gastrointestinal development. To meet these objectives, 108 Holstein bull calves (18.7 ± 2.69 d old) were blocked by BW and randomly assigned to one of three treatments: step-down weaning at 8, 10 or 12 weeks of age. Daily milk replacer supply and refusals, and weekly starter and hay intakes were recorded throughout the 10 week experiment. Average daily gain (kg d−1) and BW (kg) were measured weekly. Digestive tract development was assessed by sampling blood and fecal matter at 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13 weeks of age. Blood was analysed for HBA as a marker of rumen development (ruminal ketogenesis) and fecal starch content was used to evaluate its total tract digestibility. Intakes of starter were higher in calves weaned at 8 weeks of age, from week 7 onwards, translating into differences in total starter consumption across the 10 week trial (P < 0.01). Weekly differences occurred in ADG (P < 0.05) during the weeks of weaning, resulting in differences in final BW and total weight gain between calves weaned at 8 and 12 weeks of age. No differences were observed in fecal starch content (P > 0.05), yet, HBA presented smaller spikes at weaning with increasing weaning age (P < 0.01), indicating that older animals may experience a less abrupt activation of rumen function. Overall, the results suggest that delaying weaning of calves fed an elevated plane of nutrition may be beneficial to sustain growth performance and avoid stress during weaning. © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Development of High-Pressure Multigrain X-Ray Diffraction for Exploring the Earths Interior

The lower mantle makes up more than a half of our planet’s volume. Petrological experiments on realistic bulk compositions under high pressure-temperature (P-T) conditions are essential for understanding the enigmatic seismic features observed in the deep lower mantle. Such high P-T experiments are commonly conducted in a laser-heated diamond anvil cell, producing a multiphase assemblage consisting of 100 nm to submicron crystallite grains. The structures of these lower mantle phases often cannot be preserved upon pressure quenching; thus, in situ characterization is needed. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern of such a multiphase assemblage usually displays a mixture of diffraction spots and rings as a result of the coarse grain size in the assemblage relative to the small X-ray beam size (3–5 μm) available at the synchrotron facilities. Severe peak overlapping from multiple phases renders the powder XRD method inadequate for indexing new phases and minor phases. Consequently, structure determination of new phases in a high P-T multiphase assemblage has been extremely difficult using conventional XRD techniques. Our recent development of multigrain XRD in high-pressure research has enabled the indexation of hundreds of individual crystallite grains simultaneously through the determination of crystallographic orientations for these individual grains. Once indexation is achieved, each grain can be treated as a single crystal. The combined crystallographic information from individual grains can be used to determine the crystal structures of new phases and minor phases simultaneously in a multiphase system. With this new development, we have opened up a new area of crystallography under the high P-T conditions of the deep lower mantle. This paper explains key challenges in studying multiphase systems and demonstrates the unique capabilities of high-pressure multigrain XRD through successful examples of its applications.
AN ENSEMBLE SYSTEM FOR DOMESTIC ACTIVITY RECOGNITION Technical Report

As one of the most important sensing modalities, the acoustics is becoming more and more popular in achieving our smart environment nowadays. In this challenge, we try to tackle the task of monitoring domestic activities based on multi-channel accoustics. Several acoustic features including the Mel-Spectrograms, MFCC and VGGish features are extracted from the raw audio and fused to train different deep neural networks. An ensemble system is then established with the trained models. The experimental results on the development dataset demonstrate that the proposed system has shown superior performance in recognizing domestic activities.
PRESSURE AND PRESSURE DERIVATIVE ANALYSIS FOR FRACTAL HOMOGENEOUS RESERVOIRS WITH POWER-LAW FLUIDS

There are some approximations when we can say that a reservoir is homogeneous, even though this is not completely true, when the reservoir has some specific properties, from the well testing point of view, it can be considered as homogeneous. Other assumptions that are made when analyzing a reservoir is that the fluids inside the reservoir behave as Newtonian fluids, which we know is not truly an approximation since the reservoir is under conditions of temperature and pressure that do not allow the fluids to behave as a Newtonian fluid. Chang and Yorstos (1990) characterized a fracture network in a reservoir using fractal geometry which seems to reproduce better either fluid behavior inside the porous media or the network of natural fractures. The purpose of this paper is to apply the concept of fractal geometry to a homogeneous reservoir, and beyond that to take into account the fluid behavior on the pressure and pressure derivate log-log plot. The objective is to provide an analytical methodology for characterizing such systems. Since the reservoirs we are going to work with are homogenous, the supposition of a fractal reservoir is a good approximation, and so there were expressions developed for the calculation of the fractal parameters Df and , that were developed under the analysis of synthetic pressure transient tests. After the equations were proposed, they were tested with synthetic examples, and the results met the requirements satisfactorily.
Removal of urea from industrial wastewater using electrochemical decomposition

In this study, experiments were carried out using a bench-scale electrochemical cell incorporating flow-by porous graphite electrodes for decomposition of urea. The effect of anodic current density, influent feed flow rate, sodium chloride concentration, and urea concentration, on basic process indices, the removal rate of urea, current efficiency, and energy consumptions, were investigated.The experimental results showed that, the removal rates of urea increased with increasing the current density; at the same time, the energy power consumption increased, and the current efficiency decreased. At initial urea concentration of 2500 ppm, maximum current efficiency is 82, maximum removal rate is 0.78 g/h, and minimum energy consumption is 11 kWh/kg. [Mahmoud H. Mahmoud; Omar E. Abdel-Salam; Nabil M. Abdel-Monem; Ahmed F. Nassar and Mohamed A. El-Halwany. Removal of urea from industrial wastewater using electrochemical decomposition. Life Sci J 2013;10(3):2048-2055] (ISSN: 1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com. 302
EFFECT OF HEAT-FLUX BOUNDARY ON BUOYANCY-DRIVEN FLOW IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SQUARE-ENCLOSURE UTILIZING CuH

A numerical investigation of buoyancy-driven flow in a two-dimensional square enclosure filled with Cu-H2O nanofluid has been studied. On one wall heat flux boundary and on the other three walls convective boundary conditions have been conducted. Different pertinent parameters of the present study are Grashof number (5×10 5 ) and solid nanoparticle concentration φ (varying up to 8%) and inclination angles λ. Prandtl number for water has been kept to a constant value of (Pr =6.49). Results shows that fluid flow is very sensitive to the inclination angles values, mild conduction has been observed when heat flux is at the top wall, while an extra rolls at the bottom corner of the enclosure has been found for 37 ° inclination angle. Addition of nano-particle in the base-fluid is not showing any changes in the flow patterns and temperature and velocity profiles. Nusselt number is also found to be decreasing with particle concentration values.
Prevalence of Candida albicans and Trichomonas vaginalis Infections in Women

Background and Objective: Fungi, parasites, bacteria and viruses are the causative agents of human genitourinary tract infections. One such infection, Vulvovaginal cadidiasis, affects millions of individuals worldwide. Candida albicans (C. albicans) is responsible for 85%-95% of vaginal yeast infections. Trichomoniasis is the most widespread protozol venereal disease after bacterial infections. The rate of Trichomonas vaginalis (T. vaginalis) contamination varies in different areas of the world. This study has been designed to determine the prevalence rates of C. albicans and T. vaginalis infections in woman who were referred to medical centers. Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive study designed to determine the prevalence rates of C. albicans and T. vaginalis infections in women. Five-hundred vaginal discharge specimens were stained using Loffler (L) and diluted carbol–fuchsin (DC-F) stains, and cultures were done on Sabouraud dextrose agar and Dorset medium. The data were analyzed using chi-squared tests and Student’s t-tests. Results: One-hundred and fifty participants (30%) were infected with the Candida species. C. albicans caused the infection in 67 of these participants (13.4%), with the remaining 83 participants (16.6%) infected with some other Candida species. T. vaginalis was detected in 7 out of 500 women (1.4%). Conclusion: Candidiasis and trichomoniasis are the two most common infections of the urogenital system in humans. In the present study, the incidence of candidiasis (30%) was higher than previous studies had documented, and the incidence of trichomoniasis (1.4%0 was less than that reported in previous studies. [Mehraban Falahati, Lame Akhlaghi, Maryam Abianeh, Mehrdad Assadi, Sanam Nami, Rohollah Fateh. Prevalence of Candida albicans and Trichomonas vaginalis Infections in Women. Life Sci J 2013;10(5s):479-484] (ISSN:1097 8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com. 83
Green Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles Using Argemone mexicana L . Leaf Extract and its Characterization

International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research Available online at www.globalresearchonline. net © Copyright protected. Unauthorised republication, reproduction, distribution, dissemination and copying of this document in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. 42 Selvaraj Varun, Sudha Sellappa*, Mohammed RafiqKhan, Sreeja Vijayakumar Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Karpagam University, Eachanari post, Coimbatore 641 021, Tamil Nadu, India. *Corresponding author’s E-mail: sudhasellappa@gmail.com
The more we know , the less we agree : Higher-order expectations , public announcements and rational inattention

I highlight two novel properties of certain Gaussian information structures. First, I show that announcements can lead to contrarian higher-order expectations. That is, the more optimistic an agent regarding the fundamental value, the more pessimistic regarding the expectations of others. Second, announcements can polarize higher-order expectations. That is, the announcement can increase the dispersion of expectations regarding the expectations of others. An information structure with both properties is the equilibrium outcome in a Grossman-Stiglitz type asset pricing model, where agents are subject to rational inattention. These properties can explain why public announcements induce hectic and informative trading in nancial markets.
Running head : MORPHOLOGY , PRACTICE AND COARTICULATION 0 How is anticipatory coarticulation of suffixes affected by practice ? – DRAFT –

More and more studies indicate differences in fine phonetic detail related to the morphological function of words and segments. In the present study, we investigated to what extent these differences arise due to anticipatory coarticulation and practice with individual word forms. We hypothesized to find stronger anticipatory coarticulation of inflectional exponents during the articulation of the stem vowel in American English verbs such as "cleaned", "cleans", "cleaning" in contrast to the bare stem "clean", the better practiced these words are. However, we observed exactly the oposite effect with better practiced words showing stronger hyper-articulated and less co-articulated vowels. We link these results to findings that morphological function is reflected in fine phonetic detail, challenging traditional models of speech production, which assume a separation of lexical information and the phonetic detail.