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Effects of fruit juice blending ratios on kinnow juice preservation at ambient storage condition

Different fruit juice blends were prepared as (kinnow juice: Aonla juice: Ginger juice in 100: 0: 0, 95: 5: 0, 92: 5: 3 ratio and kinnow juice: Pomegranate juice: Ginger juice in 90: 10: 0, 87: 10: 3 ration) for improving flavour, palatability, nutritive and medicinal value. The juice blends were preserved by pasteurization (75°C for 15 min) and by addition potassium meta-bi-sulphite (750 ppm). These blends were stored in 200 ml colourless glass bottles at room temperature (28 ± 4°C) for six months and tested at two months interval for physico-chemical, sensory evaluation and microbial population. It was observed that the kinnow juice blend with pomegranate and ginger juice in ratio of 87:10:3 was most effective juice blend for minimum changes in TSS (12.00 to 14.13 °Brix), acidity (0.720 to 0.510%), ascorbic acid (18.38 to 12.90 mg/100 ml juice), and limonin (0.103 to 0.250). Sensory evaluation score was also higher in the same treatment due to better consistency and flavour up to end of storage. The juice blend ratio of kinnow juice:Aonla juice: Ginger juice (92:5:3) was best in view of non-enzymatic browning (0.081 to 0.104) and minimum population of bacteria (4.0 × 103), mould (1.5 ×103) and yeast (2.1 × 103) at end of storage (six months). It contained fair amount of vitamin ‘C’ (38.95 mg/100 ml juice) at six month of storage. It was also observed that the addition of ginger juice in blends improves the quality and reduces microbial growth. Further, the juice was found acceptable after six months of storage at room temperature. Key words: Nutritive value, juice blends, physico-chemical, microbial population, organoleptic taste.
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We demonstrate how a combination of microsecond pulsed-LED transient photocurrent measurements and film morphology characterization can be used to identify a charge-carrier blocking layer within polymer:fullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cells. To do this, we use solution-processed molybdenum oxide (s-MoOx) interlayers to control the morphology of the bulk-heterojunction. By selecting either a lowor high-temperature annealing (70°C or 150°C) for the s-MoOx layer, we are able to fabricate a well-performing device with an ideally interconnected, high-efficiency morphology, or a device in which the PCBM phase segregates near the hole extracting contact preventing efficient extraction. With these two contrasting model systems, we then probe the photocurrent dynamics as a function of excitation voltage and
Can offline metacognition enhance mathematical problem solving

The effectiveness of a short metacognitive intervention combined with algorithmic cognitive instruction was assessed in an elementary school setting. Two hundred thirty-seven 3rd-grade children were randomly assigned to a 5-session metacognitive strategy instruction, an algorithmic direct cognitive instruction, a motivational program, a quantitative-relational condition, or a spelling condition. Children in the metacognitive program achieved significant gains in trained metacognitive skills compared with the 4 other conditions. Moreover, the children in the metacognitive program performed better on trained cognitive skills than children in the algorithmic condition, with a follow-up effect on domain-specific mathematics problem-solving knowledge. Despite the consistency of findings, no generalization effects were found on transfer of cognitive learning. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
ASYMMETRIC ADAPTABILITY : DYNAMIC TEAM STRUCTURES AS ONE-WAY STREETS

This study tested whether teams working on a command and control simulation adapted to structural change in the manner implied by contingency theories. Teams shifting from a functional to a divisional structure showed better performance than teams making a divisional-to-functional shift. Team levels of coordination mediated this difference, and team levels of cognitive ability moderated it. We argue that the static logic behind many contingency theories should be complemented with a dynamic logic challenging the assumption of symmetrical adaptation.
Block Trades and the Benefits of Control in Slovenia

Ownership and control have been concentrating in most transition countries. The consolidation of control introduces changes in the power distribution within privatized firms and, most importantly, redirects the corporate governance problem to a conflict between large and small shareholders. In this study, we evaluate the ownership changes in Slovenian privatized firms through an analysis of stock price reactions to the entrance of a new blockholder (the shared benefits of control) and through an estimation of the premiums paid for large blocks (the private benefits of control). We provide evidence of and discuss the reasons for the failures of the privatization investment funds in implementing control over firm managers and in promoting the restructuring of firms in the first post-privatization years.
NeuroImage: Clinical Role of cerebral glutamate in post-stroke epileptogenesis

Stroke is one of the most important causes of acquired epilepsy in the adult population. While factors such as cortical involvement and haemorrhage have been associated with increased seizure risk, the mechanisms un-derlying the development of epilepsy after stroke remain unclear. One hypothesised mechanism is an excitotoxic e ﬀ ect of abnormal glutamate release following a stroke. Cerebral extracellular glutamate levels are known to rise in the setting of acute stroke, and numerous studies have implicated glutamate in the pathogenesis of seizures and epilepsy, both through direct measurement of glutamate from the epileptic brain and by analysis of receptors and transporters central to glutamate homeostasis. While experimental evidence suggests the cellular injury induced by glutamate exposure may lead to development of an epileptic phenotype, there is little direct data linking the rise in glutamate during stroke with the later development of epilepsy. Clinical research in this ﬁ eld has been hampered by the lack of non-invasive methods to measure cerebral glutamate. However, with the increasing availability of 7T MRI technology, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy is able to better resolve glutamate from other chemical species at this ﬁ eld strength, and Glutamate Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer ( GluCEST ) imaging has been applied to localise epileptic foci in non-lesional focal epilepsy. This review outlines the evidence implicating a pivotal role for cerebral glutamate in the development of post- stroke epilepsy, and exploring the role of MRI in studying glutamate as a biomarker and therefore its suitability as a molecular target for anti-epileptogenic therapies. We hypothesise that the rise in glutamate levels in the setting of acute stroke is a clinically relevant biomarker for the development of post-stroke epilepsy.
Severity of Work Disability and Work

This paper analyzes the effect of severity of disability on labour force participation by using a self-reported work limitation scale. A dynamic labour force participation model is used to capture the feedback effect of past participation on current participation. The results suggest that net of persistence and unobserved heterogeneity, differences in severity levels explain a significant portion of the variance in the participation rates among disabled individuals. Moreover, the disability is shown to have longer lasting adverse effects on female participation and work limited women will be more likely to benefit from the work requirements imposed on Disability Support Pension recipients.
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We discuss a general model for the marketing of seasonal products, namely products for which the time intervals devoted to production and sales are distinct. The ﬁrm can advertise the product, thus aﬀecting the sales in two diﬀerent ways, namely directly (customers eﬀect) and indirectly (retailers eﬀect). A two-dimensional goodwill variable represents the (retailers, customers)-advertising capital stock. The dynamics of the system in the sales interval only is analysed, in order to determine the levels of goodwill and inventory at the beginning of such time interval and the subsequent advertising policy, so as to maximize the discounted net proﬁt.
Limited replicability of drug-induced amnesia after contextual fear memory retrieval in rats

With the ultimate goal of investigating boundary conditions for post-reactivation amnesia, we set out to replicate studies in which systemic, post-reactivation administration of midazolam, propranolol, or cycloheximide resulted in amnesia for contextual fear memories. Our experiments involved conceptual as well as exact replications of previously published studies. In most of our experiments, we adopted a procedure that conformed to the standard 3-day protocol typically used in the literature, with contextual fear conditioning on day 1, unreinforced re-exposure to the conditioning context followed by systemic injection of the amnestic drug on day 2, and a memory retention test on day 3. Given the plethora of successful studies with large effects sizes and the absence of any failed replications in the literature, we were surprised to find that we were generally unable to replicate those findings. Our results suggest that post-reactivation amnesia by systemic drug administration in rats is more difficult to obtain than what would be expected based on published empirical reports. At present, it remains unclear which conditions determine the success of this procedure.
USING THE CAPM MODEL TO ESTIMATE THE PROFITABILITY OF A FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT PORTFOLIO

The main objective of equity investors is the capitalized value of future benefits. In thisregard, most of the time, these investors prefer to build portfolios of financial instruments. Thisrequires the creation and permanent adaptation to the demands of the modern economy of modelsdesigned to ensure a much easier management of these portfolios of financial instruments. CAPMmodel provides a relatively accurate prediction of the relationship that exists between a financialrisk and the expected return (yield). The usefulness of the model lies in the fact that, on the onehand it offers the possibility of comparison of different variants of placement in the financialmarkets and, on the other hand, justifies the estimate on the scientific basis of the expected futurevalue of profits generated by a financial instrument. The core of the CAPM model is represented bythe beta coefficient which measures the sensitivity of the financial instrument in relation to thesystematic risk.
Effects of Stress on Auditors' Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction, and Job Performance

This study was designed to measure the effects of job stress on organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and job performance. A total of 170 questionnaires were distributed among auditors in the audit institutions in Tehran and Mashhad. To test the hypotheses, path analysis and structural equation and regression were employed. The results showed that the job stress had a negative effect on organizational commitment and job satisfaction and there was not a negative correlation between job stress and job performance. Job stress via organizational commitment and job satisfaction affected job performance negatively. Also, job stress had a negative impact on job satisfaction via organizational commitment.
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We propose a new, extended artificial potential field method, which uses dynamic internal agent states. The internal states are modeled as a dynamical system of coupled first order differential equations that manipulate the potential field in which the agent is situated. The internal state dynamics are forced by the interaction of the agent with the external environment. Local equilibria in the potential field are then manipulated by the internal states and transformed from stable equilibria to unstable equilibria, allowing escape from local minima in the potential field. This new methodology successfully solves reactive path planning problems, such as a complex maze with multiple local minima, which cannot be solved using conventional static potential fields.
Inflation Targeting in Latin America: Empirical Analysis Using GARCH Models

During the last years, a number of countries have adopted formal inflation targeting (IT) monetary policy frameworks in a context of global inflation moderation. This paper studies inflation dynamics in eight Latin American countries, some of which have adopted formal targets. We analyze possible benefits associated with IT in terms of lower inflation, inflation volatility and volatility persistence. To describe inflation dynamics and evaluate its impact, we use an unobserved components model, where each component can follow a GARCH type process. In general, the main findings of the empirical exercise show that the adoption of IT has been useful to reduce the inflation level and volatility in these countries.
Do Wages Rise with Job Seniority?

The extent to which wages rise with the accumulation of seniority(tenure) in a firm after one controls for total labor market experience is a fundamental question about the structure of earnings. A variety of studies have found a large, positive partial effect of tenure on wages. This paper re-examines the evidence using a simple instrumental variables scheme to deal with well known estimation biases which arise from the fact that tenure is likely to be related to unobserved individual and job characteristics affecting the wage. We use the variation of tenure over a given job match as the principal instrumental variable for tenure. The variation intenure over the job, in contrast to variation in tenure across individuals and jobs, is uncorrelated by construction with the fixed individual specific and job match specific components of the error term of the wage equation. Our main findingis that the partial effect of tenure on wages is small, and that general labor market experience and job shopping in the labor market account for most wage growth over a career. The strong cross section relationship between tenure and wages is due primarily to heterogeneity bias.
Influence of water deficit on photosynthetic activity, dry matter partitioning and grain yield of different durum and bread wheat genotypes

We aimed to study the influence of soil water deficit on gas exchange parameters, dry matter partitioning in leaves, stem and spike and grain yield of durum (Triticum durum Desf.) and bread (Triticum aestivum L.) wheat genotypes in the 2013–2014 and 2014–2015 growing seasons. Water stress caused reduction of stomatal conductance, photosynthesis rate, transpiration rate, an increase of intercellular CO2 concentration. Photosynthesis rate positively correlated with growth rate of genotypes. Drought stress caused adaptive changes in dry matter partitioning between leaves, stem and spike of wheat genotypes. Stem dry mass increased until kernel ripening. Drought stress accelerated dry mass reduction in leaves and stem. High growth rate of spike dry mass was revealed in genotypes with late heading time. Spike dry mass positively correlated with photosynthesis rate and grain yield. Generally, bread wheat is more productive and tolerant to drought stress than durum wheat.
Developing a talent management model using government evidence from a large-sized city, Iran

Abstract The objective of the present research study is to construct a Talent Management model for the public sector from exclusive and inclusive approaches. The authors used a questionnaire survey to collect data from 357 employees at 32 governmental organizations, and then applied structural equation modeling for further analyses. The results revealed that Talent Management model is a multifaceted construct consisting of two main parts (i.e. Talent Management Mindset and Talent Management Strategy) that affect the talent management practices in the public sector. Specially, the practices linked to Talent Management Mindset were found to be the most influential. Although studies concerning talent management are frequently founded on an exclusive approach, this study considered all employees in the organizations. The Talent Management model proposed in this study can provide vision as well as direction for the definition or practices of talent management in the public arena.
GENESIS OF HIGH-SULFIDATION VINCIENNITE-BEARING Cu–As–Sn (<Au) ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE RADKA EPITHERMAL COPPER DEPOSIT, BULGARIA: EVIDENCE FROM MINERALOGY AND INFRARED MICROTHERMOMETRY OF ENARGITE

The Radka deposit is one of the largest Cu–Au epithermal deposits related to Late Cretaceous volcanic arc-type magmatic activity in the Panagyurishte ore region, central part of the Srednogorie zone, Bulgaria. The mineralogical and geochemical features of a vinciennite-bearing Cu–As–Sn (± Au) assemblage at Radka show very similar characteristics to those in other vinciennite-bearing high-sulfidation epithermal deposits worldwide. The assemblage consists of enargite, Cu-excess tennantite, chalcopyrite, gold, vinciennite, colusite, and minor covellite, within a gangue of barite, illite, and quartz. A detailed electronmicroprobe study of vinciennite and associated minerals reveals the heterovalency of Cu and Fe. New data on the composition of vinciennite sheds light on aspects of its crystal chemistry, such as incorporation of Cu 2+ and Fe 3+ and Sn 4+ Ge 4+ substitution, and leads us to propose a new empirical formula: Cu + 8Cu 2+ 2Fe 3+ 3(Fe,Cu) 2+ (Sn,Ge) 4+ (As,Sb) 5+ S16 2– . Infrared microthermometry of enargite-hosted fluid inclusions provides constraints on the conditions of deposition of this unusual assemblage in the context of the evolution of the magma-related ore-forming system at Radka. The assemblage was formed by oxidized and slightly acid fluids, with a dominantly magmatic signature, high fugacity of sulfur and intermediate salinity (about 10 wt.% eq. NaCl) at a temperature of about 275°C. In view of the geology of the Radka deposit, its mineralogical and geochemical peculiarities, ore textures, type of hydrothermal alteration and the character of the fluids, we interpret the deposit as a deep part of a high-sulfidation epithermal mineralization, possibly genetically related to a porphyry copper system.
Gender differences in adolescents’ academic motivation and classroom behaviour

The present study investigated gender differences in adolescents’ academic motivation and classroom behaviour and gender differences in the extent to which motivation was associated with, and predicted, classroom behaviour. Seven hundred and fifty students (384 boys and 366 girls) aged 11–16 (M age = 14.0, 1.59 SD) completed a questionnaire examining academic motivation and teachers completed assessments of their classroom behaviour. Girls generally reported higher levels of academic motivation, whilst teacher reports of behaviour were poorer for boys. Interestingly, boys’ reported levels of academic motivation were significantly more closely associated with teacher reports of their classroom behaviour. Furthermore, cognitive aspects of boys’ motivation were better predictors of their classroom behaviour than behavioural aspects. On the other hand, behavioural aspects of girls’ motivation were better predictors of their behaviour. Implications for understanding the relationship between motivation and behaviour among adolescent boys and girls are discussed, in addition to interventions aimed at improving adolescents’ classroom behaviour.
Natural history of the tropical gecko Phyllopezus pollicaris (Squamata, Phyllodactylidae) from a sandstone outcrop in Central Brazil.

Natural history aspects of the Neotropical gecko Phyllopezus pollicaris were studied at Estacao Ecologica Serra Geral do Tocantins, in the Cerrado region of Central Brazil. Despite initial prospection at different types of habitats, all individuals were collected at sandstone outcrops within savannahs. Most individuals were observed at night, but several specimens were found active during daytime. Body temperatures were significantly higher in day-active individuals. We did not detect sexual dimorphism in size, shape, weight, or body condition. All adult males were reproductively mature, in contrast to just two adult females (11%), one of which contained two oviductal eggs. Dietary data indicates that P. pollicaris feeds upon a variety of arthropods. Dietary overlap between sexes and age classes was moderate to high. The rate of caudal autotomy varied between age classes but not between sexes. Our data, the first for a population of P. pollicaris from a savannah habitat, are in overall agreement with observations made in populations from Caatinga and Dry Forest, except for microhabitat use and reproductive cycle.
Marbling of meat I. Chemical and physico-technological parameters of cows' meat.

The aim of the research work was to compare the quality of slaughtered cows of two age categories, depending on the degree of marbling of meat. Marbling degree in meat of slaughter cows was compared in two age categories: Category 1 – cows up to 4 years old; Category 2 – cows over 4 years old. Samples from musculus longissimus dorsi on the level of 9 th – 11 th ribs were evaluated. We used 10 points scale to estimate the marbling degree (degree 1 – very abundant marbling, degree 10 – practically devoid of marbling). Besides the marbling degree we evaluated the quantitative parameters of meat (fat, water, proteins, pH, colour L, water holding capacity and grilling losses) as well as some parameters of slaughter value (age at slaughter, carcass weight, class of conformation). We found no significant difference between both categories on the basis of marbling degree in meat. We noticed highly significant differences in the parameter age at slaughter in all marbling degrees of meat. Significant differences were found only in marbling degree 6 with the parameters carcass weight and meatiness.
Chronic Ethanol Exposure Decreases Synaptic Transmission at the Crayfish Neuromuscular Junction and Creates Tolerance to Acute Ethanol Exposure

Previous research has shown that ethanol acts as a depressant at chemical synapses, decreasing the amplitude of excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs). We investigated the effects of 0.5% ethanol on the crayfish neuromuscular junction (NMJ) under two conditions: acute and chronic. Two groups of crayfish, one chronically exposed to ethanol and the other previously unexposed, were tested under normal and acute ethanol conditions. Standard intracellular recording was used to measure EPSP amplitudes. Our findings demonstrate that both acute and chronic ethanol exposure decrease EPSP amplitudes and that crayfish neuromuscular junctions develop an ethanol tolerance, a decrease in drug responsiveness with repeated chronic exposure.