Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Role of supplementing herbal liver tonic products in weaned piglets upto grower stage.

Objective: Studying the growth promoting and performance enhancing activity of Yakrifit bolus and Yakrifit liquid in piglets. Methodology: 18 experimental piglets were randomly divided into 3 groups (n=6). Group T1 served as no treatment control group fed with basal ration only, group T2 piglets were supplemented with Yakrifit bolus (M/S Ayurvet Limited, India) (½ bolus /piglet/day for 0-7 days in first month & repeated for a week in second month) along with basal ration and group T3 piglets were supplemented with Yakrifit liquid (M/S Ayurvet Limited, India) (10ml/piglet/day for 0-7 days in first & repeated for a week in second month) along with basal ration. Results: A significant improvement was recorded in terms of growth, performance, haemato biochemical parameters and Cost benefit ratio in liver tonic supplemented groups as compared to control group. Conclusions: Supplementation of herbal liver tonic products exert an anabolic effect on piglets body, optimized the growth indices during post weaned to grower stage.
One Dimensional Axial Modelling of a Dielectric Barrier Discharge used for Gas Pollutants Removal

Considering previous simulation models for dielectric barrier discharges (DBD) [1], [2], [3], [4] and the knowledge on their boundary conditions [5] we present a one-dimensional axial model for a double dielectric barrier discharge with flowing Helium under atmospheric pressure. The model here proposed involves the basic equations for ions and electrons and the new boundary conditions reported in [5] to couple volume densities with electrons and ions considered as surface charges in the wall of the cylindrical configuration reactor. This model is a useful tool for DBD sources design.
Akinmoladun et al. (2007) reported the presence of alkaloids, tannins, saponins, steroids, flavonoids and cardiac glycosides as phytochemicals present in the methanolic and aqueous stem bark extracts of Alstonia boonei,

presence of alkaloids, tannins, saponins, steroids, flavonoids and cardiac glycosides as phytochemicals present in the methanolic and aqueous stem bark extracts of Alstonia boonei, mineral elements such as iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium, a very high amount of phosphorus and the antioxidant, vitamin C were also reported present. The presence of two compounds, confirmed to be triterpenes were reported by Obiagwu et al. (2014) in a study carried out on the medicinal properties of the methanolic root-bark extract of Alstonia boone
INFLUENCE OF STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT IN CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION ON PUPILS' PERFORMANCE IN KENYA CERTIFICATE OF PRIMARY EDUCATION IN KATHIANI SUB- COUNTY, KENYA

This study sought to determine the extent to which involvement of head teachers, teachers, parents and school management committees influence pupil’s performance in Kenya Certificate of Primary Education in Kathiani Sub-County, Machakos County, Kenya. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The study targeted 71 head teachers, 117 teachers and 196 pupils in Kathiani Sub-County, Machakos County; it had sample size of 30 head teachers, 110 teachers and 190 pupils. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics namely Frequencies, percentages and presented by use of tables. The study found that Pupil’s involvement in curriculum implementation produced strong positive correlations between high levels of pupil’s involvement to school educational programs and activities and improved grades points. In Iveti zone teachers were involved in organizing academic clinics, Teachers were involved in determining examination frequency, Teachers were involved when allocating discussion groups and SMC were involved in material resource allocation. Most of the parents were not involved towards curriculum implementation at all especially in provision of teaching and learning facilities in the school these implies that their contributions were not considered in shaping the education of their children especially in Iveti where grades were lowest as compared to other zones in the study.SMC were not involved in discussing pupil’s academic improvement strategies at all and where involvement was reported it was minimal and therefore performance followed suit. Study concluded that Pupil’s involvement in curriculum implementation produced strong positive correlations between high levels of pupil’s involvement to school educational programs and activities and improved grades points. Teachers were involved in determining examination frequency and allocating discussion groups while SMC were involved in material resource allocation. Study recommended that. Educational Policy makers should sensitize the parents and pupils on the importance of being involved in curriculum implementation, all school stakeholders to practice team work towards curriculum implementation and pupils should be exposed on bench marking activities. Ministry of education should allocate adequate funds to head teachers and school management to facilitate provision of adequate teaching and learning materials in schools. Schools head and management boards should involve pupils in scheduling learning sessions and also in organizing revision schedules.
Social Farming: An Inclusive Environment Conducive to Participant Personal Growth

Social farming can ameliorate the everyday life of people engaged in farming activities, including perceived changes in mood or behavior. It can also be therapeutic, as it can address a range of public health and service provision issues. This paper presents the findings of an Italian project that explored the impact of social farming on the well-being of the participants and their ability to perform certain tasks linked to agricultural activities. In addition, this paper tries to evaluate how the organization of the network system around the participants helps them to improve their relational capabilities. Participant observations were made in class rooms and farms where the participants carried out their agricultural activities. Such observations focused on the way in which participants and other subjects (i.e., tutors and training staff) inside the network system interacted. A number of in-depth interviews were carried out with tutors and trainers in order to understand if the participants would play a relevant role in social farming activities and what that role would be.
Are the specific sensory properties of pasture cheeses linked to milk fat composition and bacterial dynamics?

The aim of this research was to determine the specific influence of milk fat composition on the sensory properties of cheeses derived from cows fed either pasture or a maize silage-based diet. Uncooked pressed Cantal cheeses were manufactured from skimmed milk with an identical chemical and microbial composition and two different pasteurized creams obtained from cows fed either pasture or maize silage. Cheeses produced from the pasture-derived cream were creamier, more elastic, more adhesive, and less firm than cheeses made from the maize silage-derived cream. The rind of pasture-derived cream cheeses was thinner and the relative abundance of Staphylococcus, Brachybacterium and Yaniella were higher than on the rind of the cheeses made with the cream derived from maize silage where Lactococcus was relatively abundant. These results confirm the direct role of fat composition, richer in unsaturated FA with low melting point when cows grazed pasture, on the cheese texture and suggest that the milk fat composition could change the microbiota of cheese rind, which in return can explain differences in cheese rind appearance. The flavour and the microbiota of the core of the cheeses made with the different creams were very similar, indicating that the milk fat composition plays a minor role on the flavour development of cheeses. Other diet-dependent aspects of milk biochemical or microbial composition may explain the stronger and more diverse flavour of cheeses that is frequently reported when cows are fed pasture.
Livestock guarding dogs: their current use world wide

Robin Rigg is currently a postgraduate research student on the project Protection of Livestock and the Conservation of Large Carnivores in Slovakia, which he co-authored and launched in 2000. His research is focussed on the use of livestock guarding dogs to reduce predation on sheep and goats and a study of wolf and bear feeding ecology in the Western Carpathi ans. He has been working on a variety of other wolf and forest conservation projects in Slovakia since 1996. Livestock guarding dogs: their current use world wide 2 Acknowledgements Thanks go to Dr. Claudio Sillero of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) at Oxford University for his guidance on the initial outline and sources for this report as well as later comments on a draft; Livestock guarding dogs: their current use world wide 3 Forward The use of livestock guarding dogs in carnivore conservation While most large carnivore species are threatened, there are some carnivore populations which are recovering, notably in North America and Central and Eastern Europe, where large carnivores are returning to areas where they had vanished long ago. Combined with a relaxation of responsible livestock guarding in many areas where carnivores had been eradicated, modern farmers no longer know how to protect their animals against attacks from wolves, coyotes, bears, pumas, lynx and others. Livestock losses often lead to increased antagonism towards wild carnivores and any associated conservation project, with the overall negative impact on conservation activities o ften exceeding the actual financial cost of predation. It is therefore important that this increasing conflict is addressed, not only through education and alleviation schemes but also by taking active steps to reduce livestock losses to predators. There i s much to be learnt from the herding traditions of regions where large carnivores have survived, such as the use of livestock guarding dogs in the Italian highlands and sheep herding techniques in Eastern Europe. A better understanding of the various approaches and techniques tried and tested across a wide range of countries and projects may provide appropriate preventative measures for other areas. This is relevant to the current research WildCRU and the Born Free Foundation are undertaking on Human Wildlife Conflict Resolution and, more specifically, in the field testing of anti-predator strategies in Slovakia.
Relevance of Qualitative Research Approach in Evaluating Mental Health Interventions among Victims of Violence

Victims of violence have been exposed to trauma, which implies violation of their human rights and causes several consequences on their mental health. Studies among victims predominantly show a high level of depression, fear, social isolation, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. These studies have generated intervention strategies that reduce mental health disorders in violence victims.
The Large Consequences of a Small Shock∗

We exploit a small, transitory and sector-specific shock in Thailand and find that it has large, heterogeneous and long-lasting effects by inducing permanent sectoral reallocation. Such temporary and negative demand shock pushes out permanently the worst sorted and less wealthy, turning into a “gift” to the stayers, who gain larger income and market power after the shock. By looking at the education outcomes, however, we find that the shock is a “gift” to the education of the young in the leavers’ family. We also provide evidence of causal spillover effects to the rest of the economy. Combining the EU ban on black tiger shrimp with detailed household data from the Townsend Thai Project, we investigate the resource reallocation within and across sectors, changes in sectoral productivity and welfare within Thailand. In future work, we will use these findings to inform a novel dynamic model of sectoral reallocation. ∗We would like to thank Corina Boar, Jonathan Dingel, Matt Grant, Walker Hanlon, Nicola Limodio, Nancy Qian, Meredith Startz, Robert Townsend, and John Vogl for their feedback and other seminar participants at SEA, NYU Trade Jamboree, Cornell/Penn State Macro Conference, Princeton and SED Mexico City. We would like to thank also Robert Townsend for sharing the confidential data on the Townsend Thai Monthly Project. †c.banternghansa@gmail.com ‡giannone@gmail.com.
Skill-biased technological change and wage inequality in a developing country

Developing countries adopt technologies by purchasing licences from technology leaders. If skilled and unskilled labour are perfect substitutes, we show tehnological change is skill-biased in the South simply because it is in the North, resulting in permanently rising wage inequality in the South. We model expanded educational access as producing relatively educated new cohorts of labour market entrants. This makes the market for skill-biased technologies more attractive, which generates accelerated wage inequality, but this is ultimately a levels e¤ect. Allowing for skilled and unskilled labour to be imperfect substitutes suggests the elasticity of substitution ( ) would have to be far higher for a rise in skill supply to raise wage inequality than for Northern skill-biased technological change to do so. Estimates of suggest expanded educational access is unlikely to increase wage inequality and it is more likely that global technology patterns will do so. The predictions of the model are consistent with wage and technology patterns in developing countries.
Resumption as a sluicing source in Saudi Arabic: Evidence from sluicing with prepositional phrases

This paper reports the results of three acceptability judgment experiments on Saudi Arabic elliptical questions (sluicing) with prepositional phrases. We show that in standard cases of merger type sluicing and contrastive sluicing there is no penalty for leaving out the preposition. Under an analysis of sluicing with syntactic identity between antecedent and ellipsis site, such examples require preposition stranding in the ellipsis site. We call this pattern OPUS, which the reader is invited to interpret as an abbreviation, depending on their theoretical predilections, as Ostensible P-stranding Under Sluicing or as Omission of Preposition Under Sluicing. Our findings show that Saudi Arabic violates Merchant’s (2001) second form identity generalization. Further experiments reveal that the status of the examples depends on the status of the most acceptable synonymous source within the ellipsis site; in particular, when neither a cleft structure nor a resumptive structure are grammatically available in the ellipsis site, the acceptability of OPUS decays. We interpret this as evidence that there is syntactic structure at the ellipsis site and that the wh-remnant in these elliptical questions can – and sometimes must – relate to a resumptive pronoun in the ellipsis site.
Exploiting the complementary character of CryoSat-2 and Soil Moisture and Ocean Salin-

18 Exploiting the complementary character of CryoSat-2 and Soil Moisture and Ocean Salin19 ity (SMOS) satellite sea ice thickness products, daily Arctic sea ice thickness estimates 20 from October 2010 to December 2016 are generated by an Arctic regional ice-ocean model 21 with satellite thickness assimilated. The assimilation is performed by a Local Error Sub22 space Transform Kalman filter (LESTKF) coded in the Parallel Data Assimilation Frame23 work (PDAF). The new estimates can be generally thought of as combined model and 24 satellite thickness (CMST). It combines the skill of satellite thickness assimilation in the 25 freezing season and with the skill of model dynamics in the melting season, thus further 26 fills the gaps in thickness data during the melting season when neither CryoSat-2 nor 27 SMOS sea ice thickness is available. Comparisons with in-situ observations from the Beau28 fort Gyre Exploration Project (BGEP), Ice Mass Balance (IMB) Buoys and the NASA 29 Operation IceBridge demonstrate that CMST reproduces most of the observed tempo30 ral and spatial variations. Results also show that CMST is comparable to the Pan-Arctic 31 Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) product, and appears to cor32 rect some thickness biases where PIOMAS overestimates in thin ice areas and underes33 timates in thick ice areas. Due to imperfect parameterizations in the sea ice model and 34 satellite thickness retrievals, CMST does not reproduce the heavily deformed and ridged 35 sea ice along the northern coast of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) and Green36 land. With the new Arctic sea ice thickness estimates sea ice volume changes in recent 37 years can be further assessed. 38
On Heilbronn triangle-type problems in higher dimensions

The Heilbronn triangle problem is a classical geometrical problem that asks for a placement of n points in the unit-square [0, 1]2, that maximizes the smallest area of a triangle formed by those points. This problem has natural generalizations to higher dimensions. For integers k, d ≥ 2 and a set P of n points in [0, 1]d, let s = min{(k− 1), d} and V (d) k (P) be the minimum s-dimensional volume of the convex hull of k points in P. Here, instead of considering the supremum of V (d) k (P), we consider its average value, ∆̃ k (n), when the n points in P are chosen independently and uniformly at random in [0, 1]d. We prove that ∆̃ k (n) = Θ ( n −k 1+|d−k+1| ) , for every fixed k, d ≥ 2.
Treatment of distal humerus extra-articular fractures using a single 3.5mm precontoured locking compression plate

Introduction Extra-articular distal humerus fractures are relatively uncommon injuries and occur at the junction between the humeral shaft and the intercondylar region [1]. The aim of surgical management is to restore alignment and achieve stable fixation to allow early range of movement and prevent elbow stiffness, which is a common problem with distal humerus fractures [2]. The current role of conservative management functional bracing is limited to elderly patients unfit for surgery. Surgical options include, 4.5 mm dynamic compression plate and 3.5 mm distal humerus locking compression plates (LCP) in orthogonal or parallel patterns. The addition of the distal humerus extraarticular plate has added the advantage of using a single posterolateral compression plate for fixation of extraarticular fractures with a decreased need for extensive soft tissue dissection and periosteal stripping with decreased surgical time and potentially faster rehabilitation due to minimal soft tissue injury. The extra-articular distal humerus plate is an anatomically precontoured plate with a tapered end design to minimize soft tissue irritation and increased hole density distally so as to provide 5 screws in the distal fragment. The plate is placed centrally over the shaft with the distal portion over the lateral column. Studies have shown that the posterolateral plate is biomechanically superior to the 3.5 mm LCP in case of distal humeral diaphyseal osteotomies [3]. We studied the clinical and functional outcomes using a single extra-articular distal humerus plate in the management of extra-articular fractures of the distal humerus.
Development and Standardization

The Bay Area Functional Performance Evaluation (BaFPE) was developed in 1977-1978 to meet the needfor a reliable and valid instrument for assess· ing the general functional performance ofpatients treated in psychiatric occupational therapy. It consists of two subtests, the Task-Oriented Assessment and the Social Interaction Scale. These subtests evaluate two aspects ofgeneral functional performance-task-oriented and social behavior-that are important in assessing clients with emotional, cognitive, or behavioral deficits. This article traces the instrument's standardization over a 10-year period of development and includes a discussion of its theoretical premises, its content, and the revisions to date. Research on the reliability and validity of the BaFPE is summarized.
Analysis of the linear sampling method for imaging penetrable obstacles in the time domain

We consider the problem of locating and reconstructing the geometry of a penetrable obstacle from time domain measurements of causal waves. More precisely, we assume that we are given the scattered field due to point sources placed on a surface enclosing the obstacle, and that the scattered field is measured on the same surface. From these multi-static scattering data we wish to determine the position and shape of the target. To deal with this inverse problem, we propose and analyze the Time Domain Linear Sampling Method (TDLSM) by means of localizing the interior transmission eigenvalues in the FourierLaplace domain. We also prove new time domain estimates for the forward problem and the interior transmission problem, as well as analyze several time domain operators arising in the inversion scheme.
Effect of Telephone Counseling on Continuity and Duration of Breastfeeding among Primiparus Women

Background & Aim: Breast milk provides many healthy nutrients to infants. Support provided by health care provider has positive effects on duration of breastfeeding. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of telephone counseling on continuity and duration of breastfeeding among primiparus women. Methods & Materials: This clinical trial was conducted on 140 primiparus women referred to the selected health centers of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2010. The participants were randlomly allocated into two equal groups (each: 70 indviduals). The participants in the intervention group received telephone counseling by one of the researchers. The control group received routine care. Data were collected using a questionnaire including demographic characteristics and a breastfeeding check list. Exclusive breastfeeding rates were recorded one and three months after childbirth in both groups. Also, the continuity and duration of exclusive breastfeeding were recored three months after childbirth in both groups. Data were analyzed using the Chi-square test, Fisher's exact test, standard logistic regression and linear regression in the SPSS-16 and the Win Pepi. Results: The average duration of exclusive breastfeeding in the intervention group (8.05±3.99) was significantly more than the control group (6.23±4.03) (P=0.008). In the third month of delivery, continuity of exclusive breastfeeding in the intervention group was more than the control group (P=0.03). Results also showed that telephone counseling was effective in the duration of exclusive breastfeeding (P=0.02). Conclusion: Telephone counseling was effective in continuity and duration of exclusive breastfeeding. Using this inexpensive and easy method can help to increase exclusive breastfeeding, especially in primiparus women.