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Effect of dietary mugwort ( Artemisia vulgaris L.) and pine needle powder ( Pinus densiflora ) on growth performance, serum cholesterol levels, and meat quality in broilers

The effects of dietary mugwort and pine needle powder supplementation on growth performance, serum cholesterol, and meat quality of broilers were evaluated in a 35 days feed trial. 200 one day old broilers were randomly allocated to five dietary treatments (0, 1 and 2% mugwort or 1 and 2% pine needle powder) with four replicate pens of 10 birds per treatment. During the experimental period, growth performance did not differ among treatments (P > 0.05). The additives with mugwort and pine needle showed lower crude fat content of thigh muscle compared with the control (P < 0.05); however, no significant differences were detected for moisture, crude protein and crude ash content of thigh muscle. Compared with the control, total phenol content and 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging activity were significantly increased (P < 0.05) with the inclusion of mugwort and pine needle powder level in the broilers’ diets, whereas pH values decreased (P < 0.05). Serum cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations were significantly decreased (P < 0.05) by the increased mugwort and pine needle powder level in the diet, except for high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol concentrations. For thigh meat color, inclusion of mugwort and pine needle powder decreased L* and b* values and increased a* values in thigh muscle of broilers compared with the controls (P < 0.05). Overall, the present study indicates the beneficial effect of using 1 or 2% mugwort and pine needle powder in reducing serum cholesterol and improving meat quality.
Global Structural Properties of Random Graphs

We study two global structural properties of a graph $\Gamma$, denoted AS and CFS, which arise in a natural way from geometric group theory. We study these properties in the Erdos--Renyi random graph model G(n,p), proving a sharp threshold for a random graph to have the AS property asymptotically almost surely, and giving fairly tight bounds for the corresponding threshold for CFS. As an application of our results, we show that for any constant p and any $\Gamma\in G(n,p)$, the right-angled Coxeter group $W_\Gamma$ asymptotically almost surely has quadratic divergence and thickness of order 1, generalizing and strengthening a result of Behrstock--Hagen--Sisto.
Validation of LANSS for PUs 1 Title : The Leeds Assessment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Signs Scale ( LANSS ) is not an adequate outcome measure of pressure ulcer-related neuropathic pain Running head : Validation of LANSS for PUs

© 2016, Wiley. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: "Rutherford, C. , Nixon, J.E. , Brown, J.M. , Briggs, M. and Horton, M. (2016), The Leeds Assessment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Signs Scale (LANSS) is not an adequate outcome measure of pressure ulcer-related neuropathic pain. Eur J Pain, 20: 1710–1720. doi:10.1002/ejp.894" which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi. org/10.1002/ejp.894. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for central airway tumors: VATS carinal resection and reconstruction

This review article focuses attention on the feasibility of airway management and technical strategies for complex anastomosis during carinal reconstruction under the video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) approach. Between April 1992 and March 2017, English studies published worldwide were retrieved from a listing of bibliographic references obtained from the National Institutes of Health using the specific keywords “vats”, “thoracoscopic”, “carinal”, and “reconstruction”. Technical issues specific to the VATS approach, including airway management, port strategy, reduction of anastomotic tension, extent of resection, modes of reconstruction, suturing techniques, types of suture thread, and prophylactic wrapping are discussed in this review. VATS carinal resection and reconstruction remain challenging due to the limited modes of carinal reconstruction as well as problems specific to the VATS approach, such as airway management, reduction of anastomotic tension, and suturing techniques. However, VATS carinal surgery with or without anatomic pulmonary resection may be feasible using certain devices, such as high-frequency jet ventilation (HFJV) using a blocker tube, effective traction using endoscopic devices, and continuous suture techniques, and should be performed either by or with skilled and experienced VATS surgeons. In addition, non-intubated anesthesia and a uniportal strategy for VATS carinal surgery may be feasible at centers with a great deal of experience. The current indications for VATS carinal surgery are quite narrow and include the second diameter of the lesion ≤5 cm, minimal invasion to the surrounding organ, and extent of resection ≤4 cm between the lower trachea and contralateral main bronchus.
Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission - XXVII. CoRoT-28b, a planet orbiting an evolved star, and CoRoT-29b, a planet showing an asymmetric transit

Context. We present the discovery of two transiting extrasolar planets by the satellite CoRoT. Aims: We aim at a characterization of the planetary bulk parameters, which allow us to further investigate the formation and evolution of the planetary systems and the main properties of the host stars. Methods: We used the transit light curve to characterize the planetary parameters relative to the stellar parameters. The analysis of HARPS spectra established the planetary nature of the detections, providing their masses. Further photometric and spectroscopic ground-based observations provided stellar parameters (log g, Teff, v sin i) to characterize the host stars. Our model takes the geometry of the transit to constrain the stellar density into account, which when linked to stellar evolutionary models, determines the bulk parameters of the star. Because of the asymmetric shape of the light curve of one of the planets, we had to include the possibility in our model that the stellar surface was not strictly spherical. Results: We present the planetary parameters of CoRoT-28b, a Jupiter-sized planet (mass 0.484 ± 0.087 MJup; radius 0.955 ± 0.066 RJup) orbiting an evolved star with an orbital period of 5.208 51 ± 0.000 38 days, and CoRoT-29b, another Jupiter-sized planet (mass 0.85 ± 0.20 MJup; radius 0.90 ± 0.16 RJup) orbiting an oblate star with an orbital period of 2.850 570 ± 0.000 006 days. The reason behind the asymmetry of the transit shape is not understood at this point. Conclusions: These two new planetary systems have very interesting properties and deserve further study, particularly in the case of the star CoRoT-29. The CoRoT space mission, launched on December 27th 2006, was developed and is operated by CNES, with the contribution of Austria, Belgium, Brazil, ESA (RSSD and Science Programme), Germany, and Spain. Based on observations obtained with the Nordic Optical Telescope, operated on the island of La Palma jointly by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, in time allocated by OPTICON and the Spanish Time Allocation Committee (CAT). The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement number RG226604 (OPTICON). This work makes use of observations from the LCOGT network.Appendices are available in electronic form at http://www.aanda. org
In Search of Pollution Havens? Dirty Industry in the World Economy, 1960 to 1995

The past three decades have witnessed rapid economic development, particularly in countries that have pursued relatively open economic policies. Rising environmental awareness in the 1960s also led to a rapid tightening of pollution regulation in the industrial economies. According to the "pollution havens" hypothesis, the result should have been more rapid growth of dirty industries in unregulated economies that were open to international trade. Using data for the period 1960 to 1995, the authors find that the displacement of pollution to developing countries has not been a major phenomenon for several reasons. Tendencies toward formation of pollution havens have been self-limiting because economic growth has generated countervailing effects through increases in regulation, technical expertise, and investment in cleaner production. In practice, the authors argue that pollution havens have apparently been as transient as low-wage havens.
Nucleic acids and growth of Calanus finmarchicus in the laboratory under different food and temperature conditions

We examined the effects of food concentration and temperature on nucleic acids and protein content of Calanus finmarchicus in order to evaluate the use of RNA as a growth rate index for this species. We measured RNA, DNA, and protein content of copepods reared from egg to adult stage in 5 combinations of food and temperature conditions (25 to 500 µg C l -1 , 4 to 12°C). At 8°C, DNA, RNA and protein content and RNA:DNA differed among food treatments during Stages N6 through to adult female. Protein:DNA ratios and RNA:protein ratios were significantly different among food levels for only 3 of the 8 stages examined. At excess food, DNA, RNA, and protein content and RNA:DNA ratios were inversely related to temperature for most stages from C1 onward, but the effect of temperature was relatively small over the range of temperatures investigated. The RNA:DNA and protein:DNA ratios increased with developmental stage whereas the RNA:protein ratio and growth rates (measured in terms of protein, nitrogen, DNA, and carbon content) declined with increasing stage. Although the relationship of RNA:DNA to growth rates was stage-specific, the two were related when standardized for temperature and developmental stage. RNA:protein ratios were directly related to growth rates regardless of stage, and the slope of the relationship increased with increasing temperature in a nonlinear fashion. Our results emphasize the importance of temperature and developmental stage for the relationship of growth rates to RNA concentration and RNA:DNA ratios. We propose 2 ways to estimate in situ growth rates of C. finmarchicus from RNA:DNA or RNA:protein ratios and environmental temperature.
Eocladoxylon (Protopteridium) minutum (Halle) Koidzumi from the Middle Devonian of Yunnan, China: An Early Rhacophyton‐Like Plant?

New specimens of Eocladoxylon (Protopteridium) minutum (Halle) Koidzumi collected from the Middle Devonian Xichong Formation, Yunnan province, China, demonstrate three orders of branching. Sterile branching systems have a pinnate two‐dimensional branching pattern with alternate insertion of lower orders. Up to several times deeply dissected, overall wedge‐shaped, flattened appendages are inserted alternately on the third order of branching. Second and third orders of branching have an opposite pair of similar appendages inserted at the base, perpendicular to the plane of the remaining branching system. Fertile appendages, consisting of a dichotomous axial system and terminal pairs of sporangia attached closely in groups of eight, replace the sterile appendages in fertile branches. Anatomy of a probable second‐order axis demonstrates a bipolar clepsydroid vascular system. The sterile branching system and anatomy bear some similarity to the Late Devonian fernlike plant Rhacophyton. Eocladoxylon is neither a cladoxylopsid nor a progymnosperm, as was previously believed. The potential for an ancestor/descendant relationship between Iridopteridales and Rhacophyton via Eocladoxylon is briefly discussed in the context of the geographical isolation of the Middle Devonian flora of South China.
Student Preconceptions and Learning Economic Reasoning

Economic views held by the general public tend to differ significantly from those of economic experts. To what extent would these differences fade away if people were exposed to economic instruction? In this paper we identify first-year college students’ initial preconceptions about economic issues, explore some cognitive biases behind them, verify their persistence, and test whether beliefs are correlated to course performance. We conduct a survey at the beginning and the end of the semester on a sample of students taking an economic principles course. We find evidence of preconception persistence, inconsistencies and self-serving bias. Most students do not incorporate the newly learned tools into their thinking process, even if they perform well. Many economics senior students have some beliefs that are contradicted in a principles course. Instruction in economics could be more efficient if it explicitly addressed students’ preconceptions and biases, a path already taken in other disciplines.
Bioaccumulation of Toxic Metals by Hyparrhenia Grass Species : A Case Study of New Union Gold Mine Tailings and Makhado Town , Limpopo , South Africa

The study was on the bioaccumulation of Mn, As and Cd metals by Hyparrhenia grass species from selected sites: New Union Gold Mine tailings and along Makhado Town tarmac road. The mean levels of toxic metals in mine tailings were: Mn (341.27 mg/kg); As (53.75 mg/kg) and Cd (0.77 mg/kg) and from tarmac road soils were: Mn (162.32 mg/kg); As (50.52 mg/kg) and Cd (8.22 mg/kg). The level of toxic metals in different sections of Hyparrhenia grass growing on mine tailings soil. The Mn results: roots (301.91 mg/kg); stem (25.17 mg/kg); leaves (73.20 mg/kg) and flowers (38.75 mg/kg); As: roots (20.55 mg/kg); stem (4.83 mg/kg); leaves (3.62 mg/kg); flowers (10.72 mg/kg) and Cd: roots (0.83 mg/kg); stem (0.31 mg/kg); leaves (0.58 mg/kg); flowers (0.27 mg/kg). The grass growing close to tarmac road were: Mn roots (25.04 mg/kg); stem (231.28 mg/kg); leaves (224.84 mg/kg) and flowers (52.56 mg/kg); As: roots (8.49 mg/kg); stem (4.60 mg/kg); leaves (4.73 mg/kg) and flowers (5.42 mg/kg) and Cd: roots (0.18 mg/kg); stem (0.35 mg/kg); leaves (1.07 mg/kg) and flowers (7.72 mg/kg). The bioaccumulation coefficient of Hyparrhenia grass at tarmac road and mine tailings for As, Mn and Cd was variable and but is a hyperaccumulator for Mn. There were high levels of toxic metal levels (mean) in the soil and grass samples and followed this order: Mn > As > Cd. The presence of these toxic metals in the flowers is a major cause for concern since it implies that there is a danger to other organisms such as bees and small birds that visit for pollen and seed. Hyparrhenia grass is an indigenous grass species that is suitable for accumulation of toxic metals and soil stabilization and can grow in adverse pH conditions of 3.46 (mine tailings) and 5.16 (tarmac road).
THE SUSTAINABILITY OF "SUSTAINABILITY" — A STUDY INTO THE CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE NOTION OF "SUSTAINABILITY"

The new challenge for organisations is to deal with the complex issue of sustainability. However, the confusion surrounding "sustainability" hinders its implementation. This article formulates a framework consisting of three aspects to analyse the conceptual developments that underlie "sustainability": the artefact ("what"), goal orientation ("relative versus absolute") and (behavioural) interaction ("static versus dynamic"). The study of conceptual foundations underpins the framework. Contributions in both the theoretical (definitions) and the practical (indicators) spheres are analysed. The discussion about sustainability takes place in firms. Therefore, organisational developments are used as a reference timeline. Based on observations and analyses, this article suggests a new course for the sustainability discussion and its implications for the organisational context: a knowledge approach focussing on transparency and dialogue. This also implies that the emphasis in the sustainability discussion is changing from a merely environmental to an organisational and societal perspective.
Understanding the Sources of Power Consumption in Mobile SoCs

In this paper we propose a fine-grain blind leakage and dynamic power identification technique, and we use it to analyze the dynamic and leakage power of mobile SoCs at the core level. We also introduce a new experimental methodology to apply blind power identification for heterogeneous SoCs, including a novel initialization for the algorithm that enhances its power estimation accuracy. We shed light on power usage using real life applications, showing how power is divided among the big, the LITTLE cores and the GPU. Our results show that for some applications, the GPU can have the highest power consumption, and that the LITTLE cluster can have large values of leakage power. We also elucidate the trade-offs between power consumption and performance of the big cluster versus the little cluster of the SoC at different frequencies. We also show how the power is affected by CPU and skin thermal throttling.
Recognizing prosody from the lips

The aim of this chapter is to examine the possibility of extracting prosodic information from lip features. We used two measurement techniques enabling automatic lip feature extraction to evaluate the "lip pattern" of prosodic focus in French. Two corpora with Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) sentences were designed. Four focus conditions (S, V, O or neutral) were elicited in a natural dialogue situation. In a first set of experiments, we recorded two speakers of French with front and profile video cameras. The speakers wore blue make-up and facial markers. In a second set we recorded five speakers with a 3D optical tracker. An analysis of the lip features showed that visible articulatory lip correlates of focus exist for all speakers. Two types of patterns were observed: absolute and differential. A potential outcome of this study is to provide criteria for automatic visual detection of prosodic focus from lip data.
The Distribution of Fitness Effects of Spontaneous Mutations in Vibrio fischeri

Mutations are the ultimate source of the biological diversity on which natural selection acts, but the vast majority of these mutations are harmful. As such, mutations lead to disease states like cancer, extinction of small populations, and can drive pathogen evolution. Unfortunately, because mutations are rare and past studies have been subject to detection biases, very little is known about the distribution of fitness effects from naturally occurring mutations. In this study, we used mutation accumulation and full genome sequencing to capture naturally occurring mutations before they were exposed to the sieve of natural selection in Vibrio fischeri. We then measured the effects of these mutations on the fitness of the individuals harboring these mutations. We hypothesized that most mutations would be deleterious, and that deletions and insertions would be more detrimental to fitness than base substitutions, particularly in coding regions. Additionally, we expected to show that mutations on primary chromosomes, which are more highly expressed and evolutionarily conserved, would have more harmful effects than mutations on accessory secondary chromosomes. Using a subset of eleven mutation accumulation isolates, each harboring between two and nine mutations, we show that the majority of mutations have minor deleterious effects, with a subset of those errors resulting in more drastic fitness declines. However, extending this study to more genotypes will be required to examine the relationship between particular mutation types and fitness. Ultimately, an enhanced understanding of the relationship between genotype and fitness will broaden our understanding of the distribution of mutational effects and elucidate the susceptibility of different genome regions to deleterious variation.
Evaluation of Acaricidal Effect of Ethnoveteinary Medicinal Plant by invivo and in vitro against Sarcoptes scabiei var. caprae of Infected Goats in North Shoa, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

This study was conducted to determine parasiticidal efficacy of seven ethnomedicinal plants against Sarcoptes scabiei var. caprae of goats using in vivo and in vitro techniques. In vitro techniques for evaluation of efficacy of medicinal plants essential oils and fixed oils of seven medicinal plant extracts diluted at different concentrations (essential oils from 2.5% to 0.15625% and fixed oils from 160 mg/ml to 5 mg/ml) were added to petridishes containing adult stage of Sarcoptes scabiei var. caprae. After 3 h of contact, all concentrations of essential oil of Eucalyptus globulus and Cymbopogon citractus showed a good in vitro acaricidal efficacy as compared with the non-treated controls (p 0.05) difference was never observed in mite count, Mean Recovery Response (MRR) and degree of Skin Lesion Quality (SLQ) between goats treated with plant extracts and those treated with diazinone and ivermectin. Therefore, Eucalyptus globulus and Cymbopogon citractus extracts should be licensed for the treatment of Sarcoptes scabiei var. caprae.
Alternative Approaches to the Analysis of Multidimensional Contingency Tables

INTRODUCTION Using data drawn from the population concerned via certain form of random sampling, the statistical inference makes propositions about this population, about its underlying probability model. Categorical variables have a measurement scale consisting of a small set of discrete categories. The discrete probability distributions (particularly binomial, multinomial and Poisson ones) have then the key importance for statistical inference in categorical data analysis. Given a sufficiently large sample size, the discrete distributions of test statistics converge to normal distribution or chi-square one. It is known, that the sample size must be large enough to use the continuous approximations. When the assumptions of the asymptotic method cannot be met and the validity of the corresponding large sample theory is doubtful, the results can be unreliable. Sometimes the data file can be small, sparse, unbalanced. However, recent work has shown that these approximations may not be optimal even in cases of a relatively large sample size. In all such cases procedures based on exact distribution of the test statistics should be applied. The distribution of discrete test statistics under the independence hypothesis can be obtained by calculating all its possible values under rearrangements of data. The statistical methodology underlying these Alternative Approaches to the Analysis of Multidimensional Contingency Tables
Multivariate methods distinguishing mangrove community structure of Coringa in the Godavari Delta, East coast of India

Multivariate analysis (PRIMER) based on mangrove tree density and basal area measurements in Coringa, a Bay-Mangrove ecosystem in the Indian sub-continent, revealed 6 different floristic groups. While Group-1 and Group 2 characterized by a combination of Sonneratia apetala and S. caseolari-Avicennia alba, reflected conditions typical of low-lying swamps, Group-3, consisting of Xylocarpus mekongensis, Rhizophora mucronata, R. apiculata and Bruguiera gymnorrhiza, was found close to the sea where high saline conditions prevailed. Group-4 species, Avicennia marina, A. officinalis and Excoecaria agallocha, represented widespread distribution and were found almost everywhere within Coringa. Group-5 consisted of Lumnitzera racemosa, Ceriops decandra and Aegiceras corniculatum which occurred at sites not very far from the influence of Gautami-Godavari estuary, suggestive of their preference to low salinity regimes. Finally, Group-6 typically represented by Bruguiera cylindrica was seen interiorally at sites under the direct influence of Bay waters. Delineation of sample sites and species records based on extensive field data will be invaluable for appropriate management (e.g. plantation) and conservation measures for Coringa.