Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of Diets with Increasing Levels of Dried Tomato Pomace on the Performances and Apparent Digestibility of Growing Rabbits

: The aim of this study was to determine the effects of three levels (0, 3 and 6%) of tomato 14 ( Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) pomace (TP), included in isonitrogenous and isocaloric diets, on 15 the performances and in vivo apparent digestibility of growing rabbits. The growing trial, which 16 lasted 50 days, was carried out on 144 crossbred (Hycole x Grimaud) rabbits randomly divided into 17 three groups. Each rabbit was kept in an individual cage. The mean mortality was about 8%, and 18 there was no difference between the groups during the trial. The weight gain, feed consumption and 19 feed efficiency values did not differ significantly for the different dietary treatments, while the final 20 weight was higher in the rabbits fed the diet with 3% TP than in the control group. Ten animal per 21 groups (five males and five females) were also submitted to a digestibility trial. The faeces were 22 collected at the beginning of the second week of the growing trial with the animal at 46 days of age. 23 No obvious health problems were encountered during the digestibility experiment. The measured 24 parameters were: digestibility of dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), crude protein (CP), ether extract (EE) and gross energy (GE). The rabbits fed diet with 0 and 3% TP showed higher apparent 1 digestibility coefficients than the rabbits fed a diet with 6% TP, with the exception of EE 2 digestibility, which resulted higher in the rabbits fed the 3% TP diet. Overall, dried tomato pomace 3 may be used satisfactorily as a nutrient supplement for rabbits at levels of up to 6% in diets. 4
Development in the practical knowledge of language teachers: a comparative study of three teachers designing and using communicative tasks on an in-service BA TESOL programme in the Middle East

Current thinking in language teacher education emphasises the importance of the development of teachers’ practical knowledge. However, while several studies have focused on describing practical knowledge in different contexts, there has been less research conducted into the manner in which practical knowledge develops in the context of in-service teacher education and into the factors that influence such development. These issues are addressed in this paper, which explores how three teachers of English on an in-service BA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages programme in the Middle East grew in practical knowledge, specifically with regard to the design and use of communicative tasks. Using qualitative data, the article charts their development over 3 years, examining changes in their ideas and practices. Implications for in-service language teacher education are discussed.
The Effect of Bank Concentration on Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern European Transition Countries

Using data from 2000 to 2007, we investigate the e§ect of bank concentration on the entrepreneurial initiative in the Central and Eastern European transition countries for eight industrial sectors. We set up a simple structural model by which we test the relationship between banking market structure and Orm cre- ation. First, we estimate the model on the whole sample, to test the general e§ect; then, we restrict the analysis to the high-technology-intensive sectors to verify the speciOc impact of banking market structure on industries which are, usually, more in need of external Onance. Our results provide evidence of a non monotonic relationship: bank concentration promotes entrepreneurship; however, an excessive level of concentration becomes harmful. Moreover, the positive effect of concentration decreases for high-technology-intensive sectors. Entrepreneur- ship is also favoured by well-developed Onancial markets, perceived quality of the institutional environment, policies to prevent corruption and e§ective property rights protection.
ORGANISATIONAL POLITICS AND THEIR EFFECT ON WORKPLACE LEARNING

The paper discusses the findings of the author‘s doctoral thesis of which results have identified a number of effects of political behaviour that hinder or support workplace learning. The work adds to knowledge since, whilst a small amount of literature exists regarding the relationship between organisational politics and learning, there is very little knowledge concerning the effect of micro-politics on workplace learning. The case study took place at the University of Malta and evidence was gained from 35 participants who were undergoing some type of workplace learning, through participant observations and semi-structured interviews. The study employed a qualitative research design and research data was extracted from the fieldwork notes and interview transcriptions of the participants who related the effect of political behaviour they were having (if any) on their learning. A methodology based on an inductivist approach was used to explore the participants’ experiences, thoughts and opinions, since the study involved social processes and behaviours. Collected data which was transcribed and converted to text was analysed by using the NVIVO Qualitative Data Analysis software. The research clearly shows that interpersonal political behaviour may have an intense effect on the employees’ learning, particularly informal learning. The effects can be inhibitive and distressing for some, and supportive and profitable for others, which effects were completely uknown before this research took place. In a minority of cases, workplace politics seemed to have had no effect on individual learning, as some respondents consciously chose to distance and isolate themselves from such behaviours.
Clinical and Demographical Findings of Otitis Externa in Adult Patients Who Referred to Roohani Hospital, Babol, Iran

Infectious Diseases & Tropical Medicine Research Center, Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, Faculty of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran Faculty of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran Dept. of ENT, Roohani Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
Colloid Stability and the Influence of Dissolved Gas

The colloidal stability of synthetic silica spheres with clean, methylated, and dehydroxylated surfaces was studied at different concentrations of dissolved gas and KC1 electrolyte at a fixed pH of 4.2. A classic stability ratio/electrolyte concentration analysis shows that hydrophobic, methylated particles undergo faster rates of aggregation with increasing concentrations of dissolved carbon dioxide. Similar data for hydrophilic particles and dehydroxylated particles show no change as a function of dissolved carbon dioxide concentration. Zeta-potential data behave similarly, showing a strong influence of dissolved gas only for methylated particles. The results are interpreted in terms of DLVO theory, with the surface-to-surface interaction dominated by the presence of very small, protruding bubbles.
Timing Effects of Gravitational Waves from Localized Sources

Localized astronomical sources like a double stellar system, rotating neutron star, or a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way emit periodic gravitational waves. For a long time only a far-zone contribution of gravitational fields of the localized sources (plane-wave-front approximation) were a matter of theoretical analysis. We demonstrate how this analysis can be extended to take into account near-zone and intermediate-zone contributions as well. The formalism is used to calculate gravitational-wave corrections to the Shapiro time delay in binary pulsars and low-frequency (LF) pulsar timing noise produced by an ensemble of double stars in our galaxy.
ULTRASONOGRAPHIC DIAGNOSIS OF CIRRHOSIS IN A DOG

A male boxer dog aged about 11 months with a body weight of 20 kg was referred to the Veterinary Hospital, Mannuthy with the history of anorexia, lethargy, melena and abdominal distension since three weeks. Based on the clinical examination, ultrasono graphic findings, serum biochemistry, physical characteristics of the ascitic fluid and liver biopsy, the case was diagnosed as ascitis due to hepatic cirrhosis. The animal was success fully treated with Frusemide, Silymarin and Essential amino acids.
The Duchenne Marker is Not a Universal Signal of Smile Authenticity – But it Can Be Learned!

The Duchenne marker has been proposed as a universal marker of smile authenticity. However, Elfenbein, Beaupre, Levesque, and Hess (2007) found that, whereas Canadians typically show the Duchenne marker when posing happiness, Gabonese do not. We therefore investigated whether the Duchenne marker is perceived as a marker of smile authenticity by Gabonese and by Mainland Chinese living in Quebec, Canada. The results show that Gabonese do not use the Duchenne marker to assess smile authenticity at all. Mainland Chinese immigrants to Quebec showed sensitivity to the Duchenne marker only when judging smiles by French-Canadian encoders, suggesting learning of the use of this cultural dialect through cultural exposure. In sum, the use of Duchenne marker is not universal, but rather limited to certain cultures.
Analysis of relations between hand gestures and dialogue act categories

Hand gestures commonly occur in daily dialogue interactions, and have important functions in communication. In this study, we analyzed a multimodal database of three-party conversations, and investigated the relations between the occurrence of hand gestures and speech, with special focus on dialogue act categories. Analysis results revealed that hand gestures occur with highest frequency in turn-keeping phrases, and seldom occur in backchannel-type utterances. On the other hand, self-touch hand motions (adapters) occur more often in backchannel utterances and in laughter intervals, in comparison to other dialogue act categories.
The Economic Impact of Greening Urban Vacant Land: A Spatial Difference-In-Differences Analysis

Vacant land is a serious problem in many cities, and cities have recently begun to explore greening as a management strategy to reduce the negative influence of vacancy. The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania pioneered the use of a simple greening treatment—removal of debris coupled with planting grass and trees—as a means of improving blighted communities. Though they are becoming more popular, the actual economic impact of these programs is not well understood. This paper details the use of a spatial difference-in-differences approach for measuring the impact of Philadelphia's innovative vacant land greening program on nearby residential property values. This approach compares observed changes in property values surrounding treated vacant lots with observed changes around control lots—lots which might have been treated but were not. While property values throughout the city increased during the study period, properties surrounding greened vacant lots had a greater increase in value than properties surrounding nongreened vacant lots. By developing both global and local versions of the model, we also explore spatial variation in the impacts of the program—offering insight into which kinds of neighborhoods might derive the greatest economic benefit from vacant land greening programs.
Characterization of the atmosphere during SEN2FLEX 2005 field campaign

[1] The European Space Agency carried out the Sentinel-2 and Fluorescence Experiment (SEN2FLEX) campaign in Barrax (Spain) during the summer of 2005, with the main objective of observe solar induced fluorescence signal using the AirFLEX airborne instrument over different vegetation targets in order to verify signal suitability for observations from space as proposed in the FLEX mission. A highly precise atmospheric correction is mandatory for adequate measurements of the AirFLEX instrument; thus a complete characterization of the atmosphere was programmed in SEN2FLEX in order to document the presence of atmospheric aerosols above the experimental area, as their effects represent the major source of uncertainty in atmospheric correction algorithms. In this work, an analysis of the atmospheric data is presented focusing on its eventual application to atmospheric correction of satellite imagery. Validation of Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI) aerosol optical depth and columnar water vapor content retrievals has been included as an example of application to remote sensing products. A relevant feature was the arrival of a Saharan dust intrusion from 13 to 15 July, yielding the increase of aerosol optical depth at 550 nm from 0.1 to 0.5 because of changes in the vertical distribution of aerosols, with a transport layer located between 1.5 and 4 km. An accurate knowledge of these aerosol features will be relevant in future implementation of atmospheric correction code of the airborne and satellite hyperspectral imagery.
Lupins in European Cropping Systems

88 F.L. Stoddard and C.A. Watson) Abstract The lupins are an interesting group of legume crop species that produce large seeds containing up to 40% protein. The genus Lupinus is part of the tribe Genisteae. More than 170 species have been described from the New World and only 12 species from Europe, North and East Africa. Wild lupins are bitter and toxic because they produce quinolizidine alkaloids as a means of chemical defence. During domestication, lupins with low alkaloid contents were selected, leading to ‘sweet’ lupins with alkaloid contents below 0.02% in the protein-rich seeds, which can be used both for human and animal consumption. The domesticated lupins include Lupinus angustifolius, Lupinus albus, Lupinus luteus and Lupinus mutabilis. Blue or narrow-leafed lupin (L. angustifolius) is the most widely cultivated of them, with a worldwide production of more than 1.3 million t. Several challenges remain for lupin breeding, including the improvement of quantitative and qualitative traits, adaptation to alkaline soil and resistance to fungal pathogens.
A Robust Mutual Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Authentication is an important service in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for an unattended environment. Recently, Das proposed a hash‐based authentication protocol for WSNs, which provides more security against the masquerade, stolen‐verifier, replay, and guessing attacks and avoids the threat which comes with having many logged‐in users with the same login‐id. In this paper, we point out one security weakness of Das' protocol in mutual authentication for WSN's preservation between users, gateway‐node, and sensor nodes. To remedy the problem, this paper provides a secrecy improvement over Das' protocol to ensure that a legal user can exercise a WSN in an insecure environment. Furthermore, by presenting the comparisons of security, computation and communication costs, and performances with the related protocols, the proposed protocol is shown to be suitable for higher security WSNs.
The Case for (cid:98) -Adrenergic Blockade as Prophylaxis Against Perioperative Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality

erioperative morbidity and mortality are frequently cardiac in origin. Many studies have prospectively attempted to define risk factors for cardiac ischemic events. Although we can now identify high-risk patients, optimal cardioprotective manage-ment strategies remain unclear. Treatment with (cid:98) -adrenergic antagonists decreases myocardial oxygen consumption and is generally well tolerated. This article reviews the physiologic and clinical basis for using these agents as prophylaxis against cardiovascular events in high-risk surgical patients.
Capital Flows, Trade and the Role of the Financial System

In this study, we examine the crucial role played by financial development in the relationship between trade and capital flows. We examine this relationship for 130 countries from 1980 to 2005 for different types of capital flows. We show that the relationship depends on the type of capital flows and the level of financial development. We observe a positive interaction between trade liberalisation and financial development for portfolio flows. In the case of FDI (Foreign Direct Investment), we observe an insignificant relationship. The FDI flows bypass the financial system as it flows into such countries because of other factors as side the level of the financial development.
Predicting the viscosity of alkanes using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics: Evaluation of intermolecular potential models

Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) viscosity simulations of branched and linear alkanes at liquid densities were performed using both united-atom (UA) and all-atom (AA) intermolecular potential models in order to study the relative efficacy of the models in predicting fluid viscosity. Both models were used in conjunction with fixed bond lengths and bond angles, but different torsional potentials were investigated. The commonly used Ryckaert–Bellemans intermolecular potential model, which accurately predicts viscosities for short straight-chain alkanes, produced values for branched and long-chain alkanes that were significantly below experimental values. Likewise, a more complex UA model that uses transferrable site potentials and is commonly used to simulate thermodynamic properties also under predicted viscosities for branched and long-chain molecules. The UA models were also found to be density dependent, substantially under predicting viscosity at high liquid densities for all model fluids tested.
Characterization of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci Isolated from Hospitalized Patients in Narayana Medical College and Hospital Nellore, A.P. South India

Nosocomial infections are important public health problems in developing countries as well as in developed countries. Nosocomial or hospital acquired infections are usually defined as infections that are identified at least 48-72 hours following admission to. hospital and health care facility (Ziebuhr et al., 2006). The most frequent types of nosocomial infections are bloodstream infection (BSI) urinary t1 act infection (UTI) pneumonia and surgical wound infection Celik et al., 2005). Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) are a group of microorganisms that known as normal biota of human skin and mucous membranes. CNS are consisting of 39 Species and 16 Species of them are known to cause infection in human.
Lattice dynamics of beryllium oxide: Inelastic x-ray scattering and ab initio calculations

The phonon-dispersion relations of the lightest wurtzite structure compound BeO have been determined from inelastic x-ray scattering (IXS) measurements and analyzed by ab initio calculations. Experimental data and calculations show good agreement and reconcile the existing controversies. The phonon linewidth of the longitudinal-optical phonon along $\ensuremath{\Gamma}\text{\ensuremath{-}}A$ reveals a marked $q$ dependence, which can be correlated with the two-phonon density of states, thus pointing toward a strong anharmonic behavior.
The Announcement Effect of Cash Dividend Changes on Share Prices: An Empirical Analysis of China

An event study using a sample of cash dividend changes from all listed A-share firms in China during the period from 2000 to 2004 was conducted to investigate the announcement effect of cash dividend changes and examine whether the dividend-signaling hypothesis holds in China's stock markets. The results indicate that the announcement of cash dividend changes has a positive influence on share prices, but only partly support the dividend-signaling hypothesis. The study also found that there is no great dissimilarity between the announcement effects of cash dividend changes for different stock markets in China. However, the announcement effect of cash dividend changes for different sample periods exhibits distinct differences that may have a close connection with the promulgation and execution of two administrative rules. Cross-sectional analysis shows that both cash dividend yield and the ratio of nonfloating shares have explanatory power on the announcement effect of cash dividend changes.
Observations on the opisthobranch mollusc Acteon tornatilis (L.).

Summary Acteon tornatilis is an opisthobranch mollusc which burrows in sand, using foot, labial and cephalic tentacles in the process. The last also help to exclude sand from the mantle cavity, which is extended into a caecum coiling alongside the visceral hump, presumably used for respiration but also for excretion. The main pallial water current is an exhalant one on the right. The mantle skirt carries, on the left, numerous repugnatorial glands with toxic secretions. Labial glands lie at the mouth and the buccal cavity contains jaws and a reduced buccal mass and radula. Into it open salivary glands the structure of which is like that of the pyramidellids. The oesophagus shows traces neither of glands nor of torsion whereas the stomach, though simplified, has resemblances to that of a prosobranch. The reproductive system is shown to be different from previous descriptions. Male and female ducts are separate from the lower end of the little hermaphrodite duct. The former passes to a prostate from which a vas deferens leads to a large uninvaginable penis; the latter has associated albumen and mucous glands and there is a receptaculum seminis to the duct of which a ventral channel leads from the female aperture in the mantle cavity.Discussion of these aspects of the animal's structure confirms its position as the most primitive of the opisthobranchs.
Toxicity Tests with Mammalian Cell Cultures

Cell culture can be used to screen for toxicity both by estimation of the basal functions of the cell (i.e. those processes common to all types of cells) or by tests on specialized cell functions (Ekwall, 1983b). General toxicity tests, aimed mainly at detection of the biological activity of test substances, can be carried out on many cell types (e.g. fibroblasts, HeLa and hepatoma cells). A number of parameters including vital staining, cytosolic enzyme release, cell growth and cloning efficiency are used as end-points to measure toxicity. Organ-specific toxic effects are tested using specialized cells by measuring alterations in membrane and metabolism integrity and/or in specific cell functions (e.g. glycogen metabolism in primary hepatocyte cultures, beating rate in mixed myocardial cells or myocytes, and phagocytosis in macrophages). Major problems in the interpretation of results obtained in vitro to identify cellspecific effects are as follows:
Spectral statistics of random geometric graphs

We use random matrix theory to study the spectrum of random geometric graphs, a fundamental model of spatial networks. Considering ensembles of random geometric graphs we look at short-range correlations in the level spacings of the spectrum via the nearest-neighbour and next-nearest-neighbour spacing distribution and long-range correlations via the spectral rigidity statistic. These correlations in the level spacings give information about localisation of eigenvectors, level of community structure and the level of randomness within the networks. We find a parameter-dependent transition between Poisson and Gaussian orthogonal ensemble statistics. That is the spectral statistics of spatial random geometric graphs fits the universality of random matrix theory found in other models such as Erdős-Rényi, Barabási-Albert and Watts-Strogatz random graphs.