Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An investigation on the replacement of antibiotics by medicinal plants to control the infection of Escherichia Coli (E. coli) in broiler chickens

This study was done to determine the effects of garlic, mint and onion in feeding of the broiler chickens as a growth natural factor (GNF) instead of antibiotics. First, the antibacterial effects and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 0.5, 1, 2.5, 5, 10 and 20% concentrations of aqueous extracts of garlic (Allium sativum), mint (Mentha spp.) and onion (Allium cepa) on E. coli were determined in in vitro conditions. Results show that the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of garlic extract was 0.5%. Distilled water, phenol phenicol and Floxacin were used as solvent and control. In the next step, the effects of adding garlic to the diet of broiler chickens were analyzed at farm. 300 day-old broilers (Arbor Acres Plus) were divided into groups of 60 birds each and randomly assigned to the five treatment diets. Each treatment has three replicates. These chickens were kept up to the age of 56 days (8 weeks), all under study and fed with the standard ration. According to the corrections, adding 8% garlic to the diet was equal to the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) in the lab. As a result, we used garlic itself instead of its aqueous extract in the diet. The different experimental groups did not receive any antibiotic and growth additives. The different experimental groups were as follows. The 1 group which was considered as the control group received feed without garlic. The 2 group, one day in week, during breeding period received feed containing 8% garlic. The 3 group, 2 days in week, during breeding period received feed containing 8% garlic. The 4 group, one day in week and in the 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 weeks, received feed containing 8% garlic. The 5 group, 2 days in week and in the 1, 4, 6, 7, and 8 weeks, received feed containing 8% garlic. During the conduct of the study, the performance of broiler chickens was recorded and then analyzed statistically. In the end, the results show that adding 8% of garlic to the feed of broiler chickens, in the probability level of 5% statistically did not have a significant effect on feed intake, body weight gain, feed conversion ratio, the mean of chicken’s weight, mortality percentage, dressing percentage, offal percentage, abdominal fat weight, weight of liver, spleen, pancreas, cecum, leg and breast and cecum and intestine size and taste (p>0.05), although, there was a little difference in the case of feed intake, weight gain, mortality percentage, intestine size and taste among different experimental groups. As a result, groups that consumed garlic showed a better performance.
Price Book Value & Tobin's Q: Which One is Better For Measure Corporate Governance?

This article aims to prove which proxy (Price Book Value-PBV- or Tobins Q) are better to measure firm value. Measurement of Corporate Governance (CG) is performed on the sub-sectors of agriculture and mining companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. This research tested the 41 companies in the sector of Agriculture and Mining sub-sector with purposive sampling technique (the analysis period 2010-2014) using OLS. The results showed no influence on the CG PBV although controlled by the firm's financial variable characteristic. Meanwhile, the Audit Committee has a positive influence on Tobins Q and firm’s size has the opposite effect on the Tobins Q. In general, this research recommends the use of Tobins Q as a proxy measurement of firm value.
Three-dimensional transition in the wake of a transversely oscillating cylinder

A Floquet stability analysis of the transition to three-dimensionality in the wake of a cylinder forced to oscillate transversely to the free stream has been undertaken. The effect of varying the oscillation amplitude is determined for a frequency of oscillation close to the natural shedding frequency. The three-dimensional modes that arise are identified, and the effect of the oscillation amplitude on their structure and growth rate quantified. It is shown that when the two-dimensional wake is in the 2S configuration (which is similar to the Kármán vortex street), the three-dimensional modes that arise are similar in nature and symmetry structure to the modes in the wake of a fixed cylinder. These modes are known as modes A, B and QP and occur in this order with increasing Re. However, increasing the amplitude of oscillation causes the critical Reynolds number for mode A to increase significantly, to the point where mode B becomes critical before mode A. The critical wavelength for mode A is also affected by the oscillation, becoming smaller with increasing amplitude. Elliptic instability theory is shown also to predict this trend, providing further support that mode A primarily arises as a result of an elliptic instability. At higher oscillation amplitudes, the spatio-temporal symmetry of the two-dimensional wake changes and it takes on the P + S configuration, with a pair of vortices on one side of the wake and a single vortex on the other side, for each oscillation cycle. With the onset of this configuration, modes A, B and QP cease to exist. It is shown that two new three-dimensional modes arise from this base flow, which we call modes SL and SS. Both of these modes are subharmonic, repeating over two base-flow periods. Also, either mode can be the first to become critical, depending on the amplitude of oscillation of the cylinder. The emergence of these two new modes, as well as the reversal of the order of inception of the three-dimensional modes A and B, leads to the observation that for an oscillating cylinder wake there are four different modes that can lead the transition to three-dimensionality, depending on the amplitude of oscillation. Therefore this type of flow provides a good example for studying the effect of mode-order inception on the path taken to turbulence in bluff-body wakes. For the range of amplitudes studied, the maximum Re value for which the flow remains two-dimensional is 280.
Geometrical modelling of plain weft knitted fabrics

The accuracy of the prevailing geometrical models of the plain weft knitted fabrics is estimated and a more precise model for the use in computational modelling produced. The new proposed model is based on the assumptions of the ideal elastic yarn and the elastic energy minimization of the yarns composing the relaxed fabrics. Thus, a repeated calculation process is used for the selection of the loop shape corresponding to the minimum loop length. The accuracy of the models is evaluated using the loop length as criterion. Based on the structural data of an extended set of samples, the loop length for every model is calculated. These values are compared to the respective experimentally measured ones. The accuracy of the new proposed model guarantees the success of the mechanical simulation of the knitted fabrics.
Optimization of Content Placement Scheme for Social Media on Distributed Content Clouds

Abstr act. Social networking applications have been more and more popular. The huge demands of bandwidth and storage for social media have brought great challenges to the network engineering. The recently emerged content clouds shed light on this dilemma. Towards the content placement scheme on clouds, partitioning the social contents on cloud servers has draw significant interests from the literatures. The existing studies demonstrate that YouTube videos exhibit strong geographic locality of interest. Yet the previous works on partitioning social contents on cloud servers overlooked the geographic popularity of videos. In this paper, we present a geographic-aware content placement scheme on distributed content clouds which takes the geographic popularity of videos into account . Aiming at reduce the cross-boundary traffic and realize the load-balance on cloud servers as well as preserve social relationship. Simulations with data traces from YouTube demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.
Enhancing Mental Rotation Skills through Google SketchUp

Spatial skills include the creation of objects in the mind and visualization them from different angles. This study examines the impact of Google SketchUp program on the development of mental rotation skills from spatial skills of eleven-year-old students. The study was conducted as a mixed method research. The quantitative research method of the study is descriptive and survey method was used. The qualitative research method used in the study is case study. In the study MGMP, MRST and interview form were used as data collection tools. A total of 170 eleven-year-old students completed MGMP test. Five students from them with low, middle and high spatial skill levels were selected for the qualitative study via purposeful sampling. Before Google SketchUp training, the mental rotation skill levels of five students were determined by applying MRST. Students were then given training on mental rotation with Google SketchUp. Then, their mental rotation levels were evaluated again. The mental rotation levels of the students were assessed according to the SOLO taxonomy. As a result of the study, it was concluded that Google SketchUp is an effective program for the development of students' mental rotation skills.
Analysis of causes that led to subdural bleeding, skull and rib fractures, and death in the case of baby Averial Buie

A female infant from Texas stopped breathing and her mother took her to the hospital. Blood analysis revealed the baby suffered from severe metabolic and respiratory acidosis, hyperglycemia, hyperkalemia, and lymphocytosis. A chest X-ray showed evidence of pneumonitis. Physical examination revealed no evidence of injury caused by trauma. She was treated with epinephrine, sodium bicarbonate, antibiotic, and other medications. She developed bleeding outside the skull and intracranially. No skull or rib fractures were noted on the CT scans and X-rays taken during the fist four days following admission. However, skull and rib fractures were observed on the CT scan and X-rays taken at a later date. Resuscitation efforts failed and the baby died at 11 days following admission. At autopsy, the medical examiner (ME) found healed skull and rib fractures, bleeding of various ages outside the skull and intracranially, and brain edema and necrosis. His microscopic examination of the H & E stained sections of the lung revealed evidence of bronchopneumonia, hyaline membranes in the alveoli, and bleeding. The ME alleged that the baby’s injuries were caused by trauma and her father was accused of killing her. My investigation reveals that the infant suffered from acute bronchopneumonia and respiratory distress syndrome on August 6, 2004, which led to hypoxemia, severe metabolic and respiratory acidosis, hyperkalemia, loss of consciousness, respiratory failure, and cardiac arrest. Her bleeding, brain edema and necrosis, and skull and rib fractures occurred in the hospital. These injures were caused by infection and medications.
S–PASS view of polarized Galactic synchrotron at 2.3 GHz as a contaminant to CMB observations

We have analyzed the southern sky emission in linear polarization at 2.3 GHz as observed by the S -band Polarization All Sky Survey (S-PASS). Our purpose is to study the properties of the diffuse Galactic polarized synchrotron as a contaminant to B-mode observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. We studied the angular distribution of the S-PASS signal at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes by means of the polarization angular power spectra. The power spectra, computed in the multipole interval 20 ≤ ℓ ≤ 1000, show a decay of the spectral amplitude as a function of multipole for ℓ ≲ 200, typical of the diffuse emission. At smaller angular scales, power spectra are dominated by the radio point source radiation. We find that, at low multipoles, spectra can be approximated by a power law CℓEE,BB ∝ ℓα, with α ≃ −3, and characterized by a B-to-E ratio of about 0.5. We measured the polarized synchrotron spectral energy distribution (SED) in harmonic space, by combining S-PASS power spectra with low frequency WMAP and Planck ones, and by fitting their frequency dependence in six multipole bins, in the range 20 ≤ ℓ ≤ 140. Results show that the recovered SED, in the frequency range 2.3–33 GHz, is compatible with a power law with βs = −3.22 ± 0.08, which appears to be constant over the considered multipole range and in the different Galactic cuts. Combining the S-PASS total polarized intensity maps with those coming from WMAP and Planck we derived a map of the synchrotron spectral index βs at angular resolution of 2° on about 30% of the sky. The recovered βs distribution peaks at the value around −3.2. It exibits an angular power spectrum which can be approximated with a power law Cℓ ∝ ℓγ with γ ≃ −2.6. We also measured a significant spatial correlation between synchrotron and thermal dust signals, as traced by the Planck 353 GHz channel. This correlation reaches about 40% on the larger angular scales, decaying considerably at the degree scales. Finally, we used the S-PASS maps to assess the polarized synchrotron contamination to CMB observations of the B-modes at higher frequencies. We divided the sky in small patches (with fsky ≃ 1%) and find that, at 90 GHz, the minimal contamination, in the cleanest regions of the sky, is at the level of an equivalent tensor-to-scalar ratio rsynch ≃ 10−3. Moreover, by combining S-PASS data with Planck 353 GHz observations, we recover a map of the minimum level of total polarized foreground contamination to B-modes, finding that there is no region of the sky, at any frequency, where this contamination lies below equivalent tenor-to-scalar ratio rFG ≃ 10−3. This result confirms the importance of observing both high and low frequency foregrounds in CMB B-mode measurements.
Benefit of Selective Inspiratory Muscles Training on Respiratory Failure Patients

The purpose of this research was to detect the effect of training of inspiratory muscle on respiratory failure patients. Method: Thirty patients with respiratory failure were selected from Cairo university hospital (critical care department). These patients were divided equally into two groups, study Group A and control Group B. Each patient of Group A received inspiratory muscles training using threshold inspiratory muscle trainer (IMT), while patients of Group B received only chest physiotherapy. Oxygen level and respiratory muscles strength for each group were measured. Result revealed significant improvement in both groups, improvement was higher in Group A more than Group B regarding oxygen level and respiratory muscles strength. Conclusion: Training of respiratory muscles using threshold inspiratory muscle trainer could be a useful in improving oxygen level and respiratory muscles power in patients with respiratory failure, this study revealed that, respiratory muscles training could be a helpful tool to improve oxygen level and inspiratory muscle strength for respiratory failure patients.
Peak flow trends highlight emerging urban flooding hotspots in Texas

In the aftermath of flooding disasters, a temptation is to pursue recovery while also dismissing the event as unlikely to recur. Is it possible that underlying streamflow trends, which often avoid detection, help explain individual flooding episodes and should influence future expectations? How do impoundments (dams) affect these trends? Our study provides a comparative analysis to answer these key questions that help determine whether flood planning will be successful. Examining the 25 largest Texas metropolitan areas, we assessed peak flow trends for stream gages having at least 25 years of data. Of 181 total gages, 34 (18.8%) exhibited significant upward trends. Over 85% of those with upward trends are located in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (17.6%) and Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land (67.6%) areas. Approximately 62% of gages with upward trends are in Harris County. Among 84 sites impacted by impoundment, 11 (13.1%) still exhibited upward trends. These findings show that increasing peak flows underlie recent flooding in some areas, spotlighting streams in greatest need of examination. Increasing peak flows in some locations even after impoundment suggest dams might not be a complete solution. Finally, maintaining a robust monitoring network is critical to flood planning, and analysis is hampered when data are lacking. Citation: Berg MD. 2018. Peak flow trends highlight emerging urban flooding hotspots in Texas. Texas Water Journal. 9(1):18-29. Available from: https://doi.org/10.21423/twj.v9i1. 7068.
A loss framework for calibrated anomaly detection

Given samples from a probability distribution, anomaly detection is the problem of determining if a given point lies in a low-density region. This paper concerns calibrated anomaly detection, which is the practically relevant extension where we additionally wish to produce a confidence score for a point being anomalous. Building on a classification framework for anomaly detection, we show how minimisation of a suitably modified proper loss produces density estimates only for anomalous instances. We then show how to incorporate quantile control by relating our objective to a generalised version of the pinball loss. Finally, we show how to efficiently optimise the objective with kernelised scorer, by leveraging a recent result from the point process literature. The resulting objective captures a close relative of the one-class SVM as a special case.
Impact of Biodiesel Blend Mandate ( 810 ) on the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry ( Kesan Mandat Biodiesel Adunan ( 810 ) ke atas Industri Minyak Kelapa Sawit Malaysia )

Over the last ten years biofuels production has increased dramatically. One of the main factors is the rise in world oil prices, coupledwith heightened interest in tlle abatetnent ofgreenhouse gas emissions and concerns about energt security. The increment in production has been driven by governmental interventions. In the US, the worldb largestfuel ethanol producer, strongfinancial incentives are guaranteedfor biofuel manufacturers. While, in the European (Jnion, the worldb largest biodiesel producer, biofuel consumption is mostly driven by blending mandates in both France and Germany. In the case of Malaysia, biodiesel started to be exported since 2006. The policy mandate of B5 blend of palm oil based biodiesel into diesel in all government vehicles was implemented in February 2009. h is expected that the blend of 85 will be increased to B l0 in future. This paper seeles to examine the impact of B l0 on the Malaysian palm oil market. A structural econometric model consisting of eight structural equations and four identities was proposed in this study. The model has been estimated by two stdge least squares method using annual data for the period 1976201 l. The specification ofthe structural model is based on a series ofassumptions about general economic conditions, agricultural policies and technological change. The study indicates that counterfactual simulation ofan increasefrom 85 to B l0 predicts a positive increase (23.31 per cent) in palm oil domestic consumption, 109.3 per cent decrease in stock, 0.07 per cent increase in domestic price of palm oil and a marginal (0.05 percent) increase in production. An increase in domestic demand would make Malaysia more competitive regionally and globally with benefits accruing to all Malaysians.
CORROSION RESISTANCE OF HIGH PRESSURE TORSION OBTAINED COMMERCIALLY PURE TITANIUM IN ACIDIC SOLUTION

Original scientific paper The enhancement of commercially pure titanium (cpTi) mechanical properties, which is required for its medical application, can be achieved by grain refinement obtained by severe plastic deformation. In addition to mechanical properties improvement, excellent corrosion resistance of ultrafine-grained (UFG) cpTi in contact with human body fluids is required. Therefore, the aim of this study was to estimate electrochemical behavior of UFG cpTi obtained by high pressure torsion (HPT) under a pressure of 7,8 GPa at room temperature and up to 5 rotations. Electrochemical measurements were performed in artificial saliva at 37°C in order to simulate oral environment, since development of UFG cpTi is primarily aimed for dental implant applications. Electrochemical behavior of UFG cpTi was investigated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and potentiodynamic polarization. The obtained results indicate that HPT process, through significant grain size reduction, increases corrosion resistance of cpTi.
Effect of Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and Outer Membrane Protein (OMP) Vaccines on Protection of Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) against Aeromonas hydrophila

The gram-negative bacterium, Aeromonas hydrophila, causes high mortality and economic losses to the aquaculture industry. We investigated whether lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or outer membrane proteins (OMP) from A. hydrophila can enhance specific and/or non-specific immunity in grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella). Fish were injected intraperitoneally with LPS, OMP, or formalin-killed cells (FKC) from A. hydrophila. The control group was injected with phosphate buffered saline (PBS). All three antigens elicited strong immune responses. Respiratory burst and phagocytic activities in head kidney leukocytes and serum lysozyme activity peaked on day 21 after vaccination. Heavy chain gene transcription of immunoglobulin M and Z in the head kidney in vaccinated fish peaked on day 28. Relative percent survival was 83.3%, 72.2%, and 55.6% in the LPS, OMP, and FKC groups, respectively, but only 10% in control fish. Results suggest that LPS and OMP isolated from A. hydrophila can enhance specific immunity, non-specific immunity, and protection against A. hydrophila in fish. Thus, LPS and OMP could be important antigens for development of vaccines to control diseases caused by A. hydrophila in grass carp and other aquatic animals. The IJA appears exclusively as a peer-reviewed on-line open access journal at http://www.siamb. org.il Sale of IJA papers is strictly forbidden.
Movements and habitat use of satellite-tagged false killer whales around the main Hawaiian Islands

There are 2 recognized stocks of false killer whales Pseudorca crassidens in the US Exclusive Economic Zone surrounding Hawai'i, a small demographically isolated population around the main Hawaiian Islands and a larger offshore ('pelagic') population. Recent evidence suggests the insular population may have declined precipitously over the last 20 yr, and one possible contributing factor is interactions with offshore longline fisheries or other hook and line fisheries. To assess move- ments and habitat use, satellite tags were remotely deployed on individuals in 3 groups from the insu- lar population and one from the offshore population. Although tagged off the leeward side of the island of Hawai'i, individuals from the insular population regularly moved to the windward sides of the islands. Some insular individuals moved extensively and rapidly among islands, while other indi- viduals remained associated with the island of Hawai'i for extended periods before moving among the other islands. Comparisons of distances between tagged individuals indicated that individuals within groups disassociated and re-associated over periods of days, occasionally moving more than 100 km apart before re-associating. The offshore individual, tagged 123.8 km offshore, approached to within 62 km of land, inshore of the longline fishery exclusion boundary. The 3 insular groups moved a maximum of 83, 87 and 96 km offshore, respectively, indicating that the distance from shore cannot be used as a strict boundary between the populations, and that individuals from the insular population may overlap with the longline fishery. When combined with photo-identification the results suggest that boundaries between these 2 stocks should be revised.