Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Modeling of Some Dairy Performance Indices on Milk Somatic Cell Count in Holstein Dairy Cows

This study was conducted to evaluate the direct and the indirect standardized effects of some dairy performance parameters (days dry, lactation length, parity, total milk yield and 305-day milk yield) on the milk Somatic Cell Count (SCC) of Holstein cows throughout modeling of these variables with the path analysis technique. During studying 617 Holstein cows were enrolled in the experiment with the average Days in Milk (DIM) of 15±7.14 and still in the trial till the end of their lactation length. Milk samples were taken from each cow every three months; then, the fresh milk samples subjected to somatic cell counting via automatic cell counter. Other data of days dry, lactation length, parity, total and actual 305-day milk yields obtained from the dairy farm recording system (Dairycomp). After collection of all data, the data entered to AMOS software program version 24 to build a path model among days dry, lactation length, parity as independent variables and total, 305-day milk yields as intermediate transitional variables and milk SCC as a dependent variable. The study revealed that the SCC was directly affected by lactation length, total and 305-day milk yields, while it indirectly affected with total milk yield. Moreover, the overall standardized effect of the total milk yield on the milk SCC was week as a result of the negative direct effect -0.173 neutralized with another positive indirect one 0.229.
An In Vitro Approach to Assess Nutrient Utilization of Brewers Dried Grains and Effects of Supplemental β-Glucanase on Swine Feed Ingredients

Two experiments were conducted to determine In Vitro Dry Matter Disappearance (IVDMD) of Brewers Dried Grains (BDG) and corn Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) and to investigate effects of supplemental β-glucanase on the IVDMD in barley, BDG and corn DDGS for pigs. In experiment 1, the IVDMD in corn DDGS and two BDG sources produced from Cameroon and Republic of Korea were determined. A three-step IVDMD procedure was employed to simulate digestion of nutrients in the test ingredients by pigs. The digestion 3 steps were for the stomach, the small intestine and the large intestine of pigs. All digestion procedures were conducted in triplicate. The IVDMD in corn DDGS and two BDG sources from Cameroon and Korea was 62.2, 49.2 and 41.0% (±0.6; p<0.001), respectively. The IVDMD in corn DDGS was greater (p<0.05) than that in BDG sources. The BDG from Cameroon had greater (p<0.05) IVDMD than the BDG from Korea. In experiment 2, barley, BDG from Korea and corn DDGS samples were supplemented with 1% β-glucanase (100,000 unit/kg diet) or 1% corn starch. The same IVDMD procedure was used as in experiment 1. While supplemental β-glucanase tended to increase (84.2±0.6 vs. 82.3±0.6; p = 0.071) IVDMD in barley, the supplemental enzyme did not affect IVDMD in BDG and corn DDGS. In conclusion, in vitro utilization of nutrients in BDG was less efficient than that in corn DDGS and supplemental β-glucanase improves the utilization of nutrients in barley.
Methodology driven differences in physiological parameters influence characteristics of cortical spreading depression in wild-type and familial hemiplegic migraine type 1 mice

Changes in physiology and anesthesia modulate susceptibility to cortical spreading depression (CSD), the neurobiological correlate of migraine aura. Here we investigated to what extent CSD susceptibility parameters (frequency and threshold) depend on whether physiological parameters (pO 2 , pCO 2, pH and blood pressure) were: i) not monitored at all, ii) only monitored (i.e., measured in blood from a femoral artery catheter; physiological monitoring), or iii) monitored and controlled (i.e., adjusted during the experiment by subtle changes in mechanical ventilation using tracheotomy; physiological control). In addition, we investigated to what extent the anesthesia gas mixture affects these CSD parameters. We studied effects of the methodologies in both wild-type (WT) mice and familial hemiplegic migraine type 1 (FHM1) transgenic mice that express the human pathogenic R192Q missense mutation in voltage-gated Ca V 2.1 Ca channels (R192Q mice). A previous study revealed an enhanced CSD frequency in the visual cortex of mutant mice, an effect that was most pronounced in females, when experiments were performed with isoflurane-N 2 O/O 2 anesthesia and physiological control. In the present study, however, using isoflurane-air anesthesia without physiological monitoring and without physiological control, we observed that visual cortex CSD frequency was equally enhanced in mutant mice of both genders. In contrast, a gender difference was observed for CSD threshold which was decreased in R192Q mice compared to WT to a larger extent in males than in females. The absence of a gender effect on CSD frequency in mutant mice was not related to the use of air instead of N 2 O/O 2, but to the presence of mechanical ventilation and possible subtle changes in pH, pCO 2 or blood pressure when physiological parameters were not controlled. Genotypic effects of enhanced CSD susceptibility in R192Q compared to WT mice were identified irrespective of the tested methodologies. Comparison of CSD susceptibility in visual cortex vs motor cortex revealed a regional difference in CSD susceptibility that was influenced by gender in the absence of physiological control. Physiological control can either unmask or mask a gender effect on specific CSD parameters. This sensitivity of CSD susceptibility to methodology has important implications when comparing data from different studies. Moreover, it suggests that there is a drawback of controlling physiological status of an animal as one may miss specific characteristics of CSD susceptibility when these depend on differences in physiological parameters between R192Q mutant and WT mice.
The Impact of Leadership on Employee Motivation in Malaysian Telecommunication Sector

The purpose of this paper is to review the recent literature on the significant of the leadership on the employees‟ motivation. We reviewed the most relevant and related papers in these last decates. Literature of the leadership has shown a significant positive impact on the employee‟s motivation, there is also compelling evidence that indicate a negative link between the two variables. As the father of the transformational and transactional leadership, Burns (1978) has defined the transformational leadership as achieving a common aim base on the leader directing and employees‟ motivation. Hence, leader guiding the employees in a good direction and motivating them it is very crucial for the organization‟s performance. Human resource is one of the prime capitals in any organization, which is not only to improve the outcome but also to compete with others. Hence, to improve the motivation of the employees is very important both for competing and boosting up the organization‟s performance. In recent years, both academicians and practitioners have highly recognized the significance of effective employee and good leadership in the firm‟s performance. [1] The function of the leader has been extremely crucial since in the prehistoric time, like the era of Sun Tzu in China, during the Islamic revolution around 1436 years ago in Arabic peninsula, the time of Mahatma Gandhi in India, Nelson Mandela and Thomas Sankara in Africa up to present. Our main aim is to explore the latest review about leadership style and employees‟ motivation.
Fibromyalgia Syndrome Review

The last six months of medical literature about the fibromyalgia syndrome [FMS] have produced 128 articles referenced in the National Library of Medicine web site. A very interesting epidemiological study, performed on a Canadian Amish population, caught the attention of the FMS community, in part, because it was accompanied by two very biased editorials. There are several excellent neurophysiological studies relating to abnormal sensory processing in FMS and new approaches to management of insomnia and pain.
Efficient GMM Estimation of High Order Spatial Autoregressive Models

In this paper, we extend the GMM framework based on linear and quadratic moment conditions for the estimation of the first-order SAR model introduced by Lee (2001; 2006) to estimate the SAR model with high order spatial lags. We study the identification of the high order SAR models in the presence of exogenous regressors (a.k.a. high order MRSAR models), and asymptotic properties of the proposed GMM estimator. Furthermore, we show the existence of the distributionally free best GMM estimator within the class of optimal GMM estimators based on linear and quadratic moment conditions of the disturbances. The best GMM estimator has the merit of computational simplicity and asymptotic efficiency.
Coupling NMR to SANS: Addressing at once structure and dynamics in soft matter

In soft condensed matter, Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) is a central tool to probe structures with characteristic sizes ranging from 1 to 100 nm. However, when used as a standalone technique, the dynamic properties of the sample are not accessible. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is a versatile technique which can easily probe dynamical information. Here, we report on the coupling of a low-ﬁeld NMR system to a SANS instrument. We show that this original set-up makes it possible to obtain structural information and to simultaneously extract in situ on a same sample, long-range translational diffusion coefﬁcient, T 1 and T 2 nuclear spin relaxation times. Such a feature is of major interest when a sample experiences a transient physical state or evolves rapidly. We illustrate the capabilities of alliancing these experimental methods by following the critical temperature-induced phase separation of a concentrated Poly(Methacrylic Acid) solution at its Lower Critical Solution Temperature. The characteristic size related to the domain growth of the polymer-rich phase of the gel is monitored by the evolution of the SANS spectra, while the dynamics of the sol phase (H 2 O and polymer) is simultaneously characterized by NMR by measuring T 1 , T 2 and the diffusion coefﬁcient. Great care has been taken to design a cell able to optimize the thermalization of the sample and in particular its equilibration time. Details are given on the sample cell speciﬁcally designed and manufactured for these experiments. The acquisition time needed to reach good signal-to-noise ratios, for both NMR and SANS, match: it is of the order of one hour. Altogether, we show that in situ low-ﬁeld NMR/SANS coupling the NMR is meaningful and is a promising experimental approach.
CLONING AND EXPRESSION OF CINNAMATE 4-HYDROXYLASE GENE FROM DRYOPTERIS FRAGRANS (L.) SCHOTT

The enzyme cinnamate 4-hydroxylase (C4H, EC 1.14.13.11), which belongs to the cytochrome P450 family, is involved in the phenylpropanoid pathway. Using RACE, full-length cDNA consisting of 2063 nucleotides encoding C4H (designated DfC4H) was isolated from Dryopteris fragrans (L.) Schott. A number of 1527 of nucleotides composed the complete open reading frame (ORF) of the cDNA (GenBank Accession Number KF830705.2). A protein that consisted of 508 amino acids with a calculated molecular mass of 58.1908 kDa was predicted to be encoded by this ORF. The overexpression of DfC4H was observed to increase significantly p-coumaric acid and anthocyanin levels in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana. Introduction Dryopteris fragrans (L.) Schott, a perennial deciduous herb belonging to the family Dryopteridaceae is known as Xiang-Lin-Mao-Jue in China. This plant species is widespread in North America, Europe and Asia (Ao and Li 1990). Earlier evidence revealed that chemical compounds derived from the herb were of high medicinal importance (Wang et al. 2008, Chang 2009) due to their antioxidative and antibacterial effects. For these reasons, the properties of this D. fragrans have attracted considerable foreign and national research attention. The chemical composition of this medicinal plant is rather complex, including variety chemical substances, such as flavonoids, isophthalics, and terpenes (Widén et al. 2001). Using molecular biological techniques, fragments of both DfC4H and DfPAL gene family (Li et al. 2015), as well as the ORF of DfCHS (Sun et al. 2014) and a novel MADS-box gene, DfMADS1 were cloned (Huang et al. 2014). The enzyme cinnamic acid 4-hydroxylase, which is a representative of the family of cytochrome P450 (CYP73A) enzymes, is involved in the phenylpropanoid pathway (Teutsch et al. 1993, Achnine et al. 2004). C4H exerts multiple important functions; for example, its N-terminal hydrophobic region is involved in anchoring the complex of enzymes of general phenylpropanoid enzymes (C4H, 4-coumarate : coenzyme A ligase, and PAL) to the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum (Winkel-Shirley 1999). Although the C4H gene ortholog was earlier cloned in D. fragrans (Li et al. 2015), the full-length sequence of the cDNA of the C4H gene has not yet been cloned. Therefore, to confirm the function of C4H in D. fragrans, in the present investigation, the full-length cDNA sequence of the C4H gene isolated from D. fragrans were cloned and characterized for the first time. In addition, bioinformatic analysis and transformation of this gene into Arabidopsis thaliana were also conducted. *Author for correspondence: . College of Mathematics and Information Sciences of Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, 530004, China. Laboratory of Plant Research College of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150030, China. College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, 410082, China. Laboratory of Plant Research College of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150030, China.
DRIVERS OF CHANNEL-SHOAL MORPHODYNAMICS AT THE OUTER WESER ESTUARY

Morphodynamics of channel-shoal and intertidal flat systems, as the Outer Weser estuary in the southern German Wadden Sea, are driven by the hydrodynamic forcing of tides, wind and waves. The latter can be differentiated into locally generated wind waves and offshore sea state. Wave forcing of intertidal environments has often been neglected in related morphodynamic modelling studies due to its complexity and the associated computational effort of two-way coupling between waves and currents. In this study, we reflect on the relative importance of each hydrodynamic driver estimated and quantified based on their individual morphological feedback highlighted for suband intertidal environments. We further evaluate channel-shoal morphodynamics in response to fair-weather conditions in comparison to an extreme
Priming and Blood Sugar Level Effect on Learner Cognition in EFL Class

Effective education may indeed be more closely related to a learner’s mental and physical state before they enter our classroom, than in it. How students are “primed” (thought processes influenced by an effect prior to an event) which influences their mood and overall cognition. As well as effects on the thought process because of a person’s normal or low blood glucose level, has been shown to have a strong affect on the subconscious. In this paper, research presented will outline how even cognitive processes which we believe to think carefully about, seem controlled by influence on the subconscious. Although this issue seems relevant to teaching in general, it may be especially relevant when teaching young, Japanese female students. This is because, in light of recent trends in Japan, many young women claim to regularly skip meals and almost 30% are considered underweight. As studies will show, this condition which affects glucose levels, may have quite a significant effect on cognition and class success. This paper will discuss the latest research on the topics of priming and blood sugar levels affecting cognition, in order to explore how these two influences may affect university classes for Japanese female students in Japan. Related news stories, data and empirical research studies in the EFL university classroom are also presented. This paper concludes with a call for further research in the field of priming and glucose levels on cognition for Japanese female students. There is a great deal that can be learned from these studies to help educators prepare and motivate students to do their bestnow and in the future.
Asymmetric Trade Integration and Growth

We consider a many country endogenous growth model with complementary capital goods and analyze the impact of asymmetric trade integration on the world long run steady state. The model generates endogenous long run income clubs, i.e., country groups in which levels of endogenous variables (e.g., technology and output) di¤er even as the rate of long run growth is common. Results include the demonstration that customs unions reduce the long run rate of growth.
Is there inequity amongst patients with acute coronary syndrome who are proficient and not proficient in English language in terms of their in-hospital care: Analysis of the SNAPSHOT ACS Study

Background: The provision of equitable acute coronary syndrome (ACS) care in Australia and New Zealand (NZ) requires an understanding of the sources of variation in the provision of this care. Objective: To compare the variation in care and outcomes between acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) and English proficiency (EP) admitted to Australian and New Zealand (NZ) hospitals. Methods: Data were collected from 4387 suspected/confirmed ACS patients from 286 hospitals between 14-27 May 2012 who were followed for 18 months. We compared hospital care and outcomes according to the proficiency of English using logistic regressions. Results: The 294 LEP patients were older (70.9 years vs. 66.3, p<0.001), had higher prevalence of hypertension (71.1% vs. 62.8%, p=0.004), diabetes (40.5% vs. 24.3%, p<0.001) and renal impairment (16.3% vs. 11.1%, p=0.007) compared to the 4093 EP patients. Once in hospital, there was no difference in receipt of percutaneous coronary intervention (57.0% vs. 55.4%, p=0.78) or coronary artery bypass graft surgery (10.5% vs. 11.5%, p=0.98). Following adjustment for the past medical history, there were no significant differences (p>0.05) between the two groups in the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events and/or all-cause death, during the index admission and from index admission to 18 months. Conclusions: These results suggest that LEP patients admitted to Australian or NZ hospitals with suspected ACS may not suffer inequity in in-hospital care and outcomes.
Sti Knowledge and Attitude among Adolescents; A Community Based Study in Ikot Omin of Cross River State, Southern Nigeria

Introduction: To determine the knowledge and attitude of adolescents regarding sexually transmitted infections in IkotOmin community of Cross River State, Nigeria Methods: The study was a descriptive cross-sectional study where 115 adolescents were selected from IkotOmin community using a multistage sampling technique. Results: Although 110(96%) of the respondents were aware of STI, however the knowledge of different types of STI among study participants was poor ranging from 26.7% for HIV/AIDS to 4.1% for chlamydia. Knowledge of STI preventive practices among study participants was also poor as only 49.0% could correctly identify at least one STI preventive practice and more than 50% of the respondents have misconception regarding STI preventive practices. Overall 4 out of every 5 respondent had inadequate knowledge on STI. Attitude was equally poor as only 24.4% of the respondent felt that condom use protects against STI, and 21.8% felt condoms should be worn during sexual intercourse. At bivariate level, birth position of the respondents, educational level of mother, religion and good perception to condom use was statistically associated with knowledge of STI prevention (p<0.05). Conclusion: Adolescents in IkotOmin community have inadequate knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases. STI studies should be introduced into the school curriculum and media publicity/enlightenment campaigns intensified.
Relationship between environmental awareness and environmental knowledge using “ AKASA ” model among architecture students

The purpose of the study is to investigate correlation between environmental awareness and environmental knowledge using “AKASA” model which is the awareness, knowledge, attitude, skills and action for 2 year and 3 year of architecture undergraduate students from selected private university. The study intends to investigate the relationship of environmental literacy components specifically environmental awareness and environmental knowledge variables. The sample study comprises of 234 students from 5 selected private universities with questionnaires were used as instrument of survey. The parametric study was conducted with descriptive analysis and the results shows that the relationship between environmental awareness and environmental knowledge is positive and strongly related among year 2, year 3 and year 2 and year 3
Portfolio Demand and Housing Consumption Risk Hedging : Evidence from Geographic Variations in Housing Supply Elasticity

Using recent waves of PSID in the U.S., we show that households in metropolitan areas with less elastic housing supply invest a relatively larger fraction of their financial wealth in risky assets (stocks). We explain this stylized fact using a household portfolio choice model with both housing and nonhousing consumption, where the optimal holding of the risky assets is additionally motivated by households’ hedging incentives against unfavorable housing price risk. We show that such motive is dependent on location and household lifecycle: it is stronger in places with less elastic housing supply and for young households on the rising path of lifecycle housing consumption profile. Our findings indicate that, besides adjusting homeownership choices, households also rely on financial asset as a means of hedging against housing consumption risk.
Characteristics of Firms Subject to Fraud Litigation

Fraud is a fundamental issue that has been problematic for decades in the U.S. business sphere. The academic literature addresses fraud in terms of deviance, but fails to raise the question of whether corporate governance is tied to fraud in any way. In this paper, I attempt to disentangle the question, does corporate governance help firms subject to fraud litigation? Using the Governance Index and a unique set of class action law suit data, I use survival analysis to determine the correlation between fraud and corporate governance. Results indicate that bad governance is associated with cases of fraud. These findings have far reaching implications on both the establishment of governance standards as well as the study of fraudulent business activities. JEL Classification: M14, M19, M21, M38,
University of Groningen Efficacy of Epratuzumab, an Anti-CD22 Monoclonal IgG Antibody, in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients With Associated Sjogren's Syndrome Post Hoc Analyses From the EMBODY Trials

Citation for published version (APA): Gottenberg, J-E. , Doerner, T. , Bootsma, H. , Devauchelle-Pensec, V. , Bowman, S. J., Mariette, X. , . Gordon, C. (2018). Efficacy of Epratuzumab, an Anti-CD22 Monoclonal IgG Antibody, in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients With Associated Sjogren's Syndrome Post Hoc Analyses From the EMBODY Trials. Arthritis & Rheumatology, 70(5), 763-773. https://doi.org/10.1002/art.40425