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Influence of foliar spray with seaweed extract on growth, yield and its quality, profile of protein pattern and anatomical structure of chickpea plant (Cicer arietinum L.)

This work was carried out during the two successive winter seasons of 2013/ 2014 and 2014/ 2015 at Met Rabia village, (Private Farm) Bilbas, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt, to study the effect of foliar spray with seaweed extract on growth, yield, quality, profile of protein pattern as well as anatomical structure of stem and leaf of chickpea cv. Giza 195. Seaweed extract was sprayed at concentrations of 0, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75 and 1.00 ml / L. The obtained results indicated that foliar application with seaweed at 0.25 ml / L showed no effect on some studied characters of vegetative growth and yield components as well as on seed quality and profile of protein pattern of chickpea cv. Giza 195. Whereas, foliar application with the other sprayed concentrations especially 0.75 and 1.00 ml seaweed extract / L induced significant promoting effects on vegetative growth and yield characters as well as induced favorable changes in seed quality and profile of protein pattern of chickpea cv. Giza 195. The maximum significant promotion was obtained when plants of chickpea cv. Giza 195 were sprayed twice with 1.00 ml seaweed extract / L. This treatment elicited beneficial changes in both vegetative and reproductive characters, which resulted in higher yield of seeds per plant. Also, significant increases in mineral content of chickpea seeds were found by using 1 ml seaweed extract /L. Foliar application with 1 ml seaweed extract /L. induced favorable changes in anatomical structure of stem and leaves of chickpea cv. Giza 195. Such treatment induced prominent increase in stem diameter due mainly to the marked increase in thickness of cortex, phloem and xylem tissues. Moreover, xylem vessels had wider cavities which amounted to more total active conducting area to cope with vigorous growth resulting from treatment with 1 ml seaweed extract /L. Likewise such treatment increased thickness of both midvein and lamina of leaflet blades of chickpea cv. Giza 195. The thicker lamina induced by seaweed extract was mainly due to increase induced in thickness of both palisade and spongy tissues. In addition the vascular bundle of midvein was increased in size as a result of spraying seaweed extract.
Lipid and coagulation profiles in children with arterial ischemic stroke depending on the presence of focal cerebral arteriopathy

Arteriopathy is one of the most important state predisposing to the development of arterial ischemic stroke (AIS) in children. Focal cerebral arteriopathy (FCA) refers to cases with arterial stenosis with no apparent cause. The aim of the present study was to assess levels of lipids and fibrinogen, activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), protein C (PC) as well as antithrombin (AT) in AIS children with and without FCA. We retrospectively analysed 67 cases with AIS hospitalized in the Department of Paediatric Neurology at the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland) during 2002-2013. The age of the patients at the time of AIS was up to 18 years. The presence of FCA was confirmed by a radiologist. Data were analysed using STATISTICA 12.0 software. Stroke subtypes significantly differentiated study subgroups. Age, sex or heart disease were not Beata Sarecka-Hujar1, Ilona Kopyta2, Magdalena Machnikowska-Sokołowska3, Katarzyna Gruszczyńska3, Dorota Raczkiewicz4 1 Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, School of Pharmacy with the Division of Laboratory Medicine in Sosnowiec, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Sosnowiec, Poland 2 Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, School of Medicine in Katowice, Department of Pediatric Neurology, Katowice, Poland 3 Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, School of Medicine in Katowice, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Katowice, Poland 4 Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland European Journal of Medical Technologies 2018; 1(18): 41-50 Copyright © 2018 by ISASDMT All rights reserved www. medical-technologies.eu Published online 09.05. 2018 EJMT 1(18) 2018 • European Journal of Medical Technologies 42 Copyright © 2018 by ISASDMT related to FCA. Number of AIS symptoms did not differ between both subgroups however the presence of two or more neurological consequences of AIS were significantly more common in children with FCA (34% vs 4% in children without FCA, p=0.035). Post-stroke seizures and aphasia were observed only in AIS children with FCA. No relation in the mean levels of lipids, fibrinogen, APTT, PC and AT between the AIS children with and without FCA. Decreased level of PC was observed in 3 children without FCA (12.5%). Positive correlations between fibrinogen concentration and the levels of triglycerides (TG; r=0.256, p=0.039) as well as between fibrinogen and TG/HDL ratio (r=0.285, p=0.021) were found only in children with AIS and FCA, not in children with AIS but without FCA. In conclusion, FCA is associated with stroke subtypes and the presence of poststroke consequences however lipid and coagulation profiles did not differentiate children with AIS and FCA from children with AIS but without FCA.
Psychological Needs Predict Fanship and Fandom in Anime Fans

We examined whether the psychological needs fulfilled by group membership predicted fanship (identification with a fan interest) and fandom (identification with other fans) among anime fans. Selfidentified anime fans completed measures of fanship and fandom, as well as measures assessing the psychological needs met by their participation in the anime community. The results showed that there are similarities and differences between male and female anime fans in the needs met by fandom participation. Furthermore, these differences in fulfilled needs predicted differences in fanship and fandom scores. However, overall, there existed few differences between male and female anime fans in motivation to engage with the anime fandom.
The Effect of HL Exposure on Content Acquisition , Metalinguistic Awareness , and L 2 Motivation , Enjoyment , and Interest in the University Foreign Language Classroom

Historical linguistics has been shown to support foreign language learners’ content acquisition in several areas, including vocabulary acquisition, reading comprehension, and metalinguistic awareness (Crosson&McKeowna, 2016; Masrai, 2016; Pacheco & Goodwin, 2013; Padak et al., 2012). It has been shown to increase students’ morphological (Flanigan et al. 2012) and orphological abilities (Artega & Herschensohn, 1995), linguistic analysis skills (Kleparski &Kluda, 2008; Schousboe, 1997), target-language literacy skills (Kleparski &Kluda, 2008), and phonological awareness (Laasko, 2015). It has also been shown to increase FL learners’ interest and enjoyment of the L2 classroom (Thomas Coffman, 2018). Building upon these publications, the current study explores the relationship between exposure to HL enrichment topics in an intermediate-level undergraduate Spanish course and observable changes in learners’ content area acquisition, metalinguistic awareness, and L2 motivation, enjoyment, and interest. The findings suggest that even brief, informal exposure to HL topics related to vocabulary and grammatical concepts covered in the L2 course had a statistically significant effect on L2 and HL content recognition and recall abilities as well as a significant effect on L1 and L2 interest and enjoyment. The investigation did not find a significant relationship between the HL exposure and learner motivation to take a historical or general linguistics course or to take a class in a new foreign language that is historically related to the target L2.
Mitigation of High Temperature Stress on Growth , Yield and Fruit Quality of Tomato Plants by Different Shading Level

The effect of shading on fruit yield and quality of two tomato cultivars was investigated during the late summer season in two field experiments carried out during the two successive seasons of 2011 and 2012 at Berkash (Giza Governorate ). Three shading levels (0, 25% and 50%) and two tomato plants cultivars (GS 12 and Marwa) were studied. The results could be summarized as follows: Shading of tomato plants significantly enhanced the vegetative growth of tomato plants as plant length, number of leaves and shoots per plant as well as plant fresh and dry weight. The best results were obtained by shading net with 50% density followed by 25% density as compared with control. Furthermore, Marwa cv. had a vigorous plant growth compared with GS12 cv. While shading increased the number of fruits per plant and total fruit yield. The maximum fruit yield was obtained by plants grown under 50% shading in both cultivars under study. Tomato plants grown under shading gave the best physical characteristics of tomato fruits (fruit length and diameter) and TSS %. Leaf concentrations of N, K and Ca were significantly increased with the increased shading levels. The highest content of N, K and Ca was observed with shading with black net at 50% density. On the contrary, Plants grown without shading had the highest content of P.
Social order of anonymous digital markets : Towards an economic sociology of cryptomarkets

Sophisticated networked technologies have contributed to the proliferation of digital drug markets. To enable the exchange of illegal goods, platforms on the Internet take advantage of technological innovations that conceal the identity and physical location of their users. This chapter introduces economic sociology as a conceptual framework for better understanding cryptomarkets. It explores how economic actors promote coordination on cryptomarkets when they are uncertain about the value of the drugs being traded (the ‘valuation problem’), their profit opportunities (the ‘competition problem’), and social uncertainties entailed in transactions (‘the cooperation problem’). Based on a digital ethnographic study, the analysis shows with which socio-technical practises social order is established on cryptomarkets. The investigation suggests that (a) informal institutional standardisations help overcome the valuation problem; (b) allowing for national and international competition between vendors and among platforms solves the competition problem; and (c) implementing an institution-based rating system promoting trust between exchange partners not meeting face-to-face reduces the cooperation problem. By applying this conceptual framework of fundamental coordination problems to anonymous marketplaces, this study contributes to a sociological analysis of structural factors underlying the resilience and growth of online drug markets.
Nutritional status and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa , 1950-1980 GPRG-WPS-046

Nutrition and health are important dimensions of human well-being. Both aspects are complementary to income and deserve attention in its own right. However, there is an interrelationship between economic development and nutritional status which this study aims to investigate. We use a population’s mean height as an indicator of nutritional intake net of claims due to diseases. Based on more than 200,000 women from 28 sub-Saharan African countries, we find that nutritional status was in a good state in the 1960s. However, stagnating and decreasing mean heights indicate a poor development. In fact, the entire Southwest and Southeast of the African continent went to a nutritional crisis. In a regression analysis, we model the entire span of bodily growth and find a significant and very robust influence of economic growth on final adult height at two distinct periods: during the first years of life and puberty. We also take into account the possible endogeneity of economic development due to increased productivity, but do not find evidence of endogeneity. National food supply in form of high quality proteins and the disease environment are other important determinants of nutritional
Intrinsic Motivation in the Context of Low-Skilled Work : The Influence of Intrinsic Job Quality and Demands-Abilities Fit Human Resource Studies August 21

Intrinsically motivated employees are valuable to organizations, since motivation leads to performance. A multitude of previous studies have indicated that the characteristics of the job (i.e. the intrinsic job quality) are important factors positively influencing this intrinsic motivation. However, whether this is also the case in the context of low-skilled work remained virtually unexamined. Furthermore, whether this positive effect decreases when the abilities of the employee do not fit with the demands of job, has not been examined in past research. Therefore, the present study examines the moderating impact of Demands-Abilities fit on the relationship between intrinsic job quality dimensions (i.e. skill use, autonomy and participative decision making) and intrinsic motivation in the context of low-skilled logistics work. Data was collected using questionnaires, distributed among 144 Dutch respondents. The results of this study indicate that the higher the perceived intrinsic job quality, the more intrinsic motivation employees report. In addition, insignificant results were found regarding the moderating impact of D-A fit. This implies that intrinsic job quality influences intrinsic motivation, regardless of employees’ level of D-A fit. However, due to the relatively little studies examining the moderating effect of D-A fit, future studies should examine its impact on a larger sample size and within other contexts. By this means, future studies can examine to what extent the context of this study influenced current results.
EFFECT OF ALOE VERA AND VITAMIN C ON PRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE AND QUALITIES TRAILS OF EGGS IN JAPANESE LAYING QUAILS

This study was carried out in the Animal farm, department of Animal Resource, College of Agriculture, University of Tikrit during the period from 26 feb.2013 to 26 apr.2013, to investigating effect of Aloe vera leafs gel and Vitamin C which added to drinking water on the productive performance of Japanese female quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) at 25 weeks of age. Water and feed were provided ad libitum during the experimental period. 60 female quails reared in cages and distributed in to four Treatments, each group contained 15 birds each group divided into 3 Replicates, each replicate contained 5 birds. (T1) is control, (T2) contained (100 ml/liter water) Aloe vera, (T3) contained (250mg/liter) Vitamin C and (T4) contained (100 ml/liter water) Aloe vera with (250mg/liter) Vitamin C. The effects of Treatments in mean total periods on feed consumption, feed efficiency, body weight, egg weight, shell egg %, albumen height, albumen index, yolk diameter, shell egg thickness, egg shape index and haugh unit were no significant (P<0.05). The effect of Aloe vera at (100 ml/liter water) were found significant (P<0.05) on total cumulative egg number, Hen Day egg production(H.D) and albumin diameter compared to control. The effect of Vitamin C at (250 mg/liter water) showed significant (P<0.05) on egg mass and yolk % compared to control and also on yolk/ albumin% compared to T4. The effect of (100 ml/liter water) Aloe vera with (250mg) Vitamin C together on albumin % and yolk height showed significant (P<0.05) compared when used Vitamin C at (250 mg/liter water) and yolk height compared to control. Based on the findings of the present study, it was concluded treatment that contained (100 ml/liter water) of Aloe vera with (250mg/liter water) of Vitamin C was effective in improving performance of Japanese laying quail. (
Review of feature selection techniques in bioinformatics

In this paper we want to explain what feature selection is and what it is used for. We discuss methods for getting those features and present them in the context of classification that is using only supervised learning. Our goal is to present applications of these techniques in bioinformatics and match them with the appropriate type of method to use. We will also talk about how to deal with small sample sizes and problems related with it. Finally, we will present some areas in bioinformatics that can be improved using feature selection methods.
Intergenerational Transmission : Country of Origin – Specific Evidence for Natives and Immigrants from Switzerland ( Running title : Intergenerational Transmission – Swiss Natives and Immigrants )

This study compares the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment across immigrant groups using the Swiss Census 2000. Determinants of educational outcome and educational mobility are examined. A child’s educational opportunity depends on its parental background. Not only the effect of parental human capital but also other determinants of child educational attainment vary depending on the child’s nationality. Overall educational upward mobility is more pronounced among second generation immigrants than among natives. Children of Turkish, Portuguese and former Yugoslavian origin appear to be most disadvantaged in the process of human capital formation.
Associations of Parental and Peer Characteristics with Adolescents ’ Social Dominance Orientation

Studies with adults of social dominance orientation (SDO), a preference for inequality among social groups, have found correlations with various prejudices and support for discriminatory practices. This study explores the construct among adolescents at an age when they are beginning to recognize the social groups in their environment, particularly adolescent crowds. The relationship of SDO and perceptions of parents’ responsiveness and demandingness were also investigated. Subjects were in grades 9-12 (N=516, 53% female, 96% White). Mother’s and father’s responsiveness significantly predicted adolescent’s SDO scores, with greater perceived responsiveness associated with lower SDO. To analyze the multiple crowd memberships of the 76% belonging to more than one crowd, two-step cluster analysis was used to identify patterns, resulting in 8 clusters of distinct, heterogeneous composition. SDO differed significantly among males in different clusters, but not females. The importance of membership was positively associated with SDO among high-status crowds and negatively associated with SDO among the academic and normal crowds. The findings have implications for prejudices that may be developing in adolescence and indicate a need for further research into the social context of SDO and its development.
Implications of Load Rating Bridges in Virginia with Limited Design or As-Built Details

The Commonwealth of Virginia has nearly 21,000 bridges and culverts in its highway structures inventory. The owner of this vast infrastructure network, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), must ensure the operational safety of these structures. At the same time, Virginia has placed a priority on increasing commerce and thus, VDOT bridge engineers are encouraged to safely increase the allowable loads for restricted structures on primary traffic routes whenever feasible. However, certain structures in this inventory do not contain sufficient details to rationally characterize the safe operating loads for the structure. The characterization process, known as load rating, defines the types and loads of vehicles that can safely traverse a given structure. Without sufficient details for the structures, owners are forced to make informed decisions or “engineering judgments” about the safe load carrying capacity of these structures. This paper introduces a method for evaluating the safe load carrying capacity of bridges that have unknown or insufficient details needed to calculate such a load rating. The proposed method extracts the relationships between various characteristics of a bridge and load ratings derived from the entire population of bridges in the VDOT database for which plans are available. These relationships are then used for predicting the load ratings for bridges without plans. A number of regression models are used and their performance is evaluated with various measures. Finally, the application of the resulting models on bridges without plans shows that current judgment-based ratings can be non-conservative for a considerable number of bridges thus highlighting the practical merit of the proposed method.
Detecting UDP attacks in high speed networks using packet symmetry with only flow data

Attacks on the Internet are becoming a bigger problem since more users, companies and even complete societies rely on the correct functioning of the Internet. Some examples of these attacks are Denial of Service attacks or Port Scans. Most network operators deploy Network Intrusion Detection Systems to identify attacks and protect their selves against those attacks. Existing packet based inspection monitoring systems do not scale well with Gbps speed network technology. To overcome this problem, it is possible to use aggregated traffic information, like flow data as it is done in this thesis. A tool, based on packet symmetry, was developed to detect attacks in UDP traffic. This tool was validated against a reference set. With the correct functioning tool, we were able to find three DoS attacks and numerous scans and other background noise in the data sets. In this thesis, we show that, even for large Gbps networks, the symmetry in UDP packets using flow data is a good metric to detect attacks using UDP. Especially flooding attacks are easily detected. The analysis of two real high-speed networks with Gbps links, the University of Twente and SURFnet, supports this statement.
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FEEDING BEHAVIOUR CHARACTERISTICS AND FEED INTAKE IN DAIRY COWS DURING EARLY LACTATION

The transition period and early lactation is critical important to the health and productivity of dairy cows. In this period more than 80% of the total health disorders occur. In the most cases this disorders are metabolic related and caused by a negative energy balance. To get information about arising problems in an early stage, sensor based animal monitoring systems are used. These systems analyse among others characteristics of animal behaviour. Therefore it is necessary to analyse the relations between behaviour patterns and physiological parameters. In this context our research was directed on the relationships between feeding behaviour and feed intake. Data (feed intake and time spent on feeder) from 70 lactating dairy cows were collected from the 2 nd to the 15 th week of lactation. The monitoring was conducted by using an electronic feeding system, which was equipped with an electronic identification of each individual cow. The visits at feeder were clustered in meals based on a “meal criterion”. The effects of parity, stage of lactation and milk yield level on feeding behaviour and feed intake were investigated. A second study determined the effects of metabolic related production diseases on feeding behaviour and feed intake. The high correlation between feeding behaviour characteristics such as meal duration suggests that measuring the time spend eating could be used to estimate the feed intake. Moreover the monitoring of feeding behaviour might be helpful to detect the cows` risk for metabolic – related production diseases at an early stage.