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Using of Different Kinds of Aromatic Oils with Feeding on Some Productive Traits in Awassi Lambs

This study was conducted in the animal farm of the College of Veterinary Medicine/Tikrit University for the period from 01/10/2019 to 31/12/2019 to investigate the effect of using different kinds of aromatic oils on some productive traits in Awassi lambs. Twenty Awassi lambs aged between 5-6 month and divided according to weight into four group and hens in an individual cages, the study lasted for 90 day. concentrate diet provided to the lambs at 3% of their body weight. the treatment were as follows : T1 was a control group without drenching, T2 drenched with sage oil, T3 drenched with clove oil and T4 drenched with laurel oil. drenching process was done manually by using water-soluble capsules each one contain 500 mg of oil, each lambs was given one capsule/day. which is pushed by using a plastic tube in to the beginning of esophagus. to study the effect of these oils on weight characteristics, body dimensions and wool characteristics. The results showed that there was no significant effect of the treatments on body weight characteristics. As for the measurements of the body dimensions after a month of the experiment, laurel oil, clove oil and sage oil had a significant effect on the chest circumference, the width of the body at the front, the width of the body at the back and BCS, and also the parameters had a significant effect on the measurements of body dimensions At the end of the experiment, the characteristics of the height of the body at the front, the height of the body at the back, the circumference of the chest, and the length of the body. As for the characteristics of the wool, the oils used led to a decrease in the percentage of clean wool and an increase in the length of the fiber compared to the control.
In-hospital and long-term results of surgery for acute type A aortic dissection: 243 consecutive patients.

BACKGROUND Our surgical strategies for acute type A aortic dissection (AAAD) are prompt establishment of cardiopulmonary bypass and primary entry resection. We investigated our experience with surgery for AAAD. METHODS Between January 1997 and December 2006, 243 consecutive patients with AAAD underwent emergency surgery. Clinical and diagnostic data of these patients were analyzed retrospectively. RESULTS Surgical procedures included ascending aorta or hemiarch replacement (n = 212) and total or partial arch replacement (n = 31), and those for proximal reconstruction included modified Bentall procedure (n = 8), and aortic valve replacement (n = 3). Hospital mortality was 6.9%, and entry resection was performed in 74% of patients. Actuarial survival rate at 5 and 10 years was 86% ± 14% and 77% ± 23%, respectively. A total of 13 patients required re-operation: 5, an aortic root; 3, an aortic arch; and 5, a descending aorta. Actuarial freedom from re-operation at 5 and 10 years was 95% ± 5%, and 81% ± 18%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Our surgical strategy for AAAD seems to be pertinent with acceptable short- and long-term results. Since we lost 8 patients due to rupture of false lumen postoperatively, careful follow-up for a residual false lumen may improve the patients' prognosis.
THE TANCO PEGMATITE AT BERNIC LAKE, MANITOBA. XIV. INTERNAL TOURMALINE

The zoned petalite-subtype Tanco granitic pegmatite, located about 180 km east-northeast of Winnipeg, near the Manitoba–Ontario border, intrudes amphibolite. Tourmaline is not abundant, but is widespread in most of the pegmatite zones. Tourmaline is black, brown or rarely green in the border zone (10), wall zone (20), aplitic albite zone (30) and central intermediate zone (60); it is pink and rarely green in the petalite-bearing lower and upper intermediate zones (40) and (50). On the basis of paragenesis and compositional zoning within individual tourmaline crystals, tourmaline at Tanco is characterized by the following sequence of crystallization: foitite – schorl → (± schorl – foitite) → Al-rich schorl (±Mg) → schorl (±Mg) → schorl – elbaite (±Mg) → “fluor-elbaite” – schorl (±Mg) → Fe-rich “fluor-elbaite” → Mn-bearing “fluor-elbaite” → rossmanite – elbaite → elbaite –rossmanite → (± Ca-bearing “fluor-elbaite”, Ca-bearing “fluor-elbaite” – rossmanite). The dominant substitution at the X site is Na ⇌ □, and there is a positive correlation between proportions of Na and F. The dominant substitution at the Y site is 3Fe 2+ 1.5Al + 1.5Li, which is controlled by fractionation of the pegmatite-forming melt. Magnesium and Ti incorporated from the host amphibolite into the pegmatite-forming melt generated endomorphic Mg-bearing schorl to Al-rich Mg-bearing schorl to Mg-bearing schorl – elbaite to Mg-bearing elbaite – schorl in zones (10), (20) and (30). Sodium, Mn and F all increase from foitite –schorl to “fluor-elbaite” – schorl and Fe-rich “fluor-elbaite” in zones (10), (20), (30) and (60). In late-stage tourmaline, Ca and F increase from rossmanite–elbaite to Ca-bearing “fluor-elbaite” – rossmanite to Ca-bearing “fluor-elbaite”in zones (40) and (50). Late Ca-enrichment is due to sequestering of Ca in the melt as fluoride complexes. This is the first occurrence of foitite, rossmanite and late-stage Ca-enrichment in tourmaline reported a petalite-subtype pegmatite.
Solving crystal structures of metal and chemical hydrides

Abstract The methods of structural characterization of metal and chemical hydrides are reviewed. The existing difficulties and problems are outlined and possible solutions presented. It is shown that powder diffraction, and especially the Direct Space Method, is essential component of hydride research. Crystal structures containing as many as 55 independent atoms (including hydrogen) have been fully characterized using powder diffraction. This is of great importance, because rapid collection of powder data thanks to modern synchrotron and neutron time-of-flight sources opens the possibility for fast in-situ studies, mapping of phase transitions induced by the temperature, pressure, hydrogen content, and chemical reactions. The progress in structural characterization of hydrides goes hand in hand with the progress in the powder diffraction methodology.
Entrepreneurial Start-up and Growth: A Classification of Problems

The purpose of this study was to develop a classification scheme for the types of problems encountered by emerging organizations using an open-ended approach to generating the Initial response data. The CEOs of 121 Inc. 500 firms were asked to state the most significant problem during their firms’ first year and during a later growth stage. The open-ended responses were systematically sorted Into classes of problems, and the resulting classification schemes appeared to be more comprehensive and exhaustive than some previously developed schemes that relied on closed-ended response categories to develop their problem classes. Once developed, the classification schemes were used to examine the relative frequencies of types of problems at both the start-up and later growth stage. The findings indicated mixed support for previous research linking types of dominant problems to different stages of organizational development.
PIEZOCONE PENETRATION TESTING DEVICE Submitted

“This report was funded in part through grant[s] from the Federal Highway Administration [and Federal Transit Administration], U.S. Department of Transportation. The views and opinions of the authors [or agency] expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the U.S. Department of Transportation. ” Nebraska Transportation Center 262 Prem S. Paul Research Center at Whittier School 2200 Vine Street Lincoln, NE 68583-0851 (402) 472-0141 Binyam M. Bekele Graduate Research Assistant
Maelstream: Self-Organizing Media Streaming for Many-to-Many Interaction

A number of emerging multimedia applications, such as webinars, require users to interact by exchanging media streams. In such application there are multiple interacting participants which both produce and consume media content and a set of participants which are only consumers. Keeping the end-to-end latency as low as possible while not violating bandwidth constraints is one of the most important requirements for this type of application. While there exists solutions to this problem for applications such as multi-party video conferencing, they rely on dedicated infrastructures which may be expensive and not available to all users. On the other hand, decentralized P2P solutions have been focusing on single source media streaming, which does not consider multiple interactive participants. In this paper, we propose Maelstream, a self-organizing media streaming solution that supports multiple interacting participants as well as a large number of consumers. Maelstream uses gossip protocols to generate multiple latency-aware streaming trees on top of a P2P overlay. We have evaluated our solution with simulations implemented using Peersim and ns-3 simulators, and compared Maelstream with Chunkyspread, an unstructured protocol capable of fine-tuning latency. We show that Maelstream can achieve low end-to-end latency and scales well with the number of streams.
The informal road to markets: Neoliberal reforms, private entrepreneurship and the informal economy in Turkey

Purpose - – The informal economy has expanded across developing countries during the last decades. Focussing on the Turkish case, the purpose of this paper is to examine the role of neoliberal reforms in this development. The author argues that neoliberal reforms produced a double-edged transformation in the regulatory environment of Turkey. On the one hand, the legal rules that constrain the operation of market forces decreased giving way to more entrepreneurial activity; while on the other hand, the state's effectiveness in “policing” the market declined. As the regulatory barriers to private entrepreneurship decreased, the regulatory barriers to informality also decreased. Private sector growth and informalization emerged as the concomitant outcomes of neoliberal reforms. Design/methodology/approach - – This paper examines how the state's changing regulatory relationship to the private sector under neoliberal reforms fostered informal economic activities through a close study of the Turkish case. Findings - – At the end of the 1980s, the Peruvian economist Hernando De Soto popularized the view that informalization resulted from government regulations imposing rigid constraints and costs on economic actors, and so would be restrained by decreasing or eliminating them. The economic developments of the past few decades challenge this view, however. The size of the informal economy has expanded in developing nations at a period when government regulations have been declining. How can we explain the increasing volume of informal economic activity in developing nations over the past few decades? And more, how can we explain that this has happened during a period when the private sector has grown, and regulatory rigidities have declined? This paper argues that the state's changing regulatory relationship to the private sector under neoliberal reforms was an important factor in the expansion of informal economic activities. Originality/value - – The implications of neoliberal reforms for economic processes have been widely studied in the social scientific literature. Only a handful of studies have explored their implications for the informal economy, however. These studies singled out factors such as the decline in public employment, weakening of labor unions, or capital's enhanced ability to exploit labor in contributing to informalization of developing country economies in the neoliberal era. By discussing how the changing regulatory contours of the state-economy relationship played a role in the growth of informally operating private enterprises, this paper adds to the existing knowledge of this relationship.
A Geometry-Based Stochastic Channel Model for the Millimeter-Wave Band in a 3GPP High-Speed Train Scenario

This paper presents a geometry-based stochastic channel model (GSCM) for a 3GPP millimeter-wave (mmWave) high-speed train (HST) scenario. An important demand of the mmWave HST channel model is the spatial consistency during movement. In order to meet this requirement, the environment pattern containing the most effective geometry information is proposed, which is useful for generating an integral and accurate channel geometry. Since the measurement of a mmWave channel is deficient for high mobility, the proposed channel model is developed using a ray-tracing (RT) simulator that is validated with the channel measurements performed in the HST scenario at 93.2 GHz. The paper gives a full parameterization for the proposed model and its implementation for channel simulation. The verification is made through a comparison of the proposed model and the measurement-validated RT simulations in terms of the power delay profile, the Ricean $K$-factor, and the second-order statistics for the delay and angle domains. Finally, for the design of mmWave HST communication systems, the time-varying channel characteristics are evaluated in the delay and Doppler domains.
Are Fix-Inducing Changes a Moving Target? A Longitudinal Case Study of Just-In-Time Defect Prediction

Just-In-Time (JIT) models identify fix-inducing code changes. JIT models are trained using techniques that assume that past fix-inducing changes are similar to future ones. However, this assumption may not hold, e.g., as system complexity tends to accrue, expertise may become more important as systems age. In this paper, we study JIT models as systems evolve. Through a longitudinal case study of 37,524 changes from the rapidly evolving Qt and OpenStack systems, we find that fluctuations in the properties of fix-inducing changes can impact the performance and interpretation of JIT models. More specifically: (a) the discriminatory power (AUC) and calibration (Brier) scores of JIT models drop considerably one year after being trained; (b) the role that code change properties (e.g., Size, Experience) play within JIT models fluctuates over time; and (c) those fluctuations yield over- and underestimates of the future impact of code change properties on the likelihood of inducing fixes. To avoid erroneous or misleading predictions, JIT models should be retrained using recently recorded data (within three months). Moreover, quality improvement plans should be informed by JIT models that are trained using six months (or more) of historical data, since they are more resilient to period-specific fluctuations in the importance of code change properties.
Demos-Ethos: A Framework to Study the Basque and Icelandic Cases through Critical Social Innovation and Applied Ethics

This paper presents a framework informed by two disciplines, Social Innovation and Applied Ethics, to be used in an on-going analysis of territorial democratic systems. The time frame chosen for the case studies is the period before and after the 2008 global crisis. In Iceland the crisis had an economic and political aspect affecting the self-understanding of the territory as a whole. In the Basque Country it also deals with the current peace process to settle down political violence and its causes. In both cases there are deep underlying value issues, but this paper introduces the results obtained in Iceland. While its democratic system has proven to be able to contest the causes of the crisis, there is no definitive evidence that the re-examination process that was opened on 6th October 2008 is resolved yet.
Unsupervised Learning of Style-sensitive Word Vectors

This paper presents the first study aimed at capturing stylistic similarity between words in an unsupervised manner. We propose extending the continuous bag of words (CBOW) embedding model (Mikolov et al., 2013b) to learn style-sensitive word vectors using a wider context window under the assumption that the style of all the words in an utterance is consistent. In addition, we introduce a novel task to predict lexical stylistic similarity and to create a benchmark dataset for this task. Our experiment with this dataset supports our assumption and demonstrates that the proposed extensions contribute to the acquisition of style-sensitive word embeddings.
Ethnicity and Political Parties in Africa: The Case of Ethnic-Based Parties in Ethiopia

The aim of this paper is to examine how ethnicity affects political parties in Africa in general and in Ethiopia in particular. The paper attempts to investigate ethnic-based parties in Ethiopia in three successive administrations: the Imperial government (1930-1974), the Socialist Military government (Derg) (1974-1991), and the EPRDF-led Federal government (1991-present). In this paper, case studies of ethnic-based parties in the three successive Ethiopian regimes are included. Most of the earlier political and semi-political Ethiopian organizations were ethnic-based organizations secretly formed abroad by the support of the neighboring countries such as Somalia, Sudan, and some Arab countries. Ethiopia officially followed ethnic party system since 1991.
Digital technology in classroom: Changing the face of education infographic

Through this paper of mine I would like to elaborate the usage of Digital Technology in classrooms. In many countries teachers as well as students are allowed to use the newly introduced devices like iPad, Tabs, Minis and etc with WiFi connectivity at the school levels. In India still we are struggling with the old anomalies of not even using the electronic devices which are generally used in terms of technology advancement. The usage of such devices at the school level can help and provide the knowledge to students to compete in the technology world. These devices are capable enough to become the guide and the mentor to make students techno savvy which will play a vital role in making the education system fully ICT based at school levels.
Accuracy of modification of diet for renal disease and Cockcroft-Gault equations as compared to the radioisotope double sample method: A study in patients with acute renal failure

Introduction: We intended to assess the accuracy of re-expressed Modification of Diet for Renal Disease (MDRD) and Cockcroft-Gault (CG) equations to estimate glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in chronic kidney disease in two different etiologies of acute renal failure (ARF): acute tubular necrosis (ATN) and acute glomerulonephritis (AGN). Methods: Patients admitted for ARF or the patients complicated with ARF during the course of their hospitalization were enrolled to the study (n=21; 14 females and 7 males; 11 ATN and 12 AGN). When the plasma creatinine reached a steady state (DPSM) using 99mTc-DTPA. GFR was also estimated by MDRD (GFRMDRD) and CG (GFRCG) equations. Results: The patients aged 44.8±19.5 years and weighted 67.8±10.7kg. GFRDPSM (32.9±14.7 ml/min) was statistically different from the GFRMDRD (11.6±8.2 ml/min; pCG was lower than GFRDPSM in patients with either ATN (16.5±12.5ml/min and pDPSM and GFRMDRD (r=0.34; p=0.13) but GFRDPSM and GFRCG values were correlated (r=0.48; p=0.03). Out of subjects with GFRDPSM >30, 92.3% had GFRMDRDCG Conclusion: Our results indicate that MDRD and CG equations were substantially inaccurate in patients with ARF. More precise methods of GFR evaluation is recommended in these patients.
The influence of propolis as supplement diet on broiler meat growth performance, carcass body weight, chemical composition and lipid oxidation stability.

HASCIK PETER, ELIMAM IBRAHIM OMER, KROCKO MIROSLAV, BOBKO MAREK, KACANIOVA MIROSLAVA, GARLIK JOZEF, SIMKO MILAN, SALEH AHMED ALI. 2015. The Infl uence of Propolis as Supplement Diet on Broiler Meat Growth Performance, Carcass Body Weight, Chemical Composition and Lipid Oxidation Stability. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 63(2): 411–418. The present experiment was aimed to study the eff ect of the propolis extract as supplement diet on the broiler chickens growth performance, breast and thigh weights, meat chemical composition and lipid oxidation stability. A total of 120 chicks in one day old, which were divided into 4 groups (n = 30) for 42 days.To the experimental groups were added propolis extract in doses of 200 mg.kg−1 (II), 300 mg.kg−1 (III) and 400mg.kg−1 (IV). At the end of the experiment the results were shown that the body weight gain a er 21 and 42 days has been increased and there were found signifi cant diff erences (P ≤ 0.05) between control and experimental groups also the feed intake has been increased and there were (P ≤ 0.05). The FCR was higher in the control group. The carcass body weight breast and thigh weights were increased and there were no signifi cant diff erences while, the abdominal fat and liver weights were decreased. No signifi cant diff erence was occurred on chemical composition of breast and thigh muscles, whereasthe muscle moisture tends to increase and fat content and energy value were decreased. Interestingly, thelipid oxidation stability measured as TBARS during the freezing storage for 6 months has been decreasedmalondialdehyde (MDA) in the experimental groups and there were found signifi cant (P ≤ 0.05) in the breast musclesbetween control group and experimental groups. From the present study were concluded a er administration the propolis extract that broilergrowth performance has been increased and the lipid oxidation (MDA) during the freezing storage (−18 °C) have been decreased.
Helicobacter pylori Biofilm Formation Is Differentially Affected by Common Culture Conditions, and Proteins Play a Central Role in the Biofilm Matrix

ABSTRACT The concept of Helicobacter pylori biofilm formation is relatively new. To help provide a foundation for future biofilm studies, we characterized the biofilm formation ability of a common H. pylori lab strain, G27. The goal of this study was to evaluate biofilm formation by G27 in response to common culture conditions and to explore the biofilm matrix. Our results indicate that while various types of growth media did not dramatically affect biofilm formation, surface selection had a significant effect on the final biofilm mass. Furthermore, enzymatic assays and confocal microscopy revealed that proteins appear to be the primary structural component of the H. pylori extracellular matrix; extracellular DNA (eDNA) and polysaccharides were also present but appear to play a secondary role. Finally, we found that two well-characterized antibiofilm cationic peptides differentially affected early and late-stage biofilms. Together these results provide interesting avenues for future investigations that will seek to understand H. pylori biofilm formation. IMPORTANCE The study of H. pylori biofilm formation is still in its infancy. As such, there is great variability in how biofilm assays are performed across labs. While several groups have begun to investigate factors that influence H. pylori biofilm formation, it is not yet understood how H. pylori biofilm formation may vary based on commonly used conditions. These inconsistencies lead to difficulties in interpretation and comparison between studies. Here, we set out to characterize biofilm formation by a commonly available lab strain, G27. Our findings provide novel insight into optimal biofilm conditions, the biofilm matrix, and possible mechanisms to block or disrupt biofilm formation.