Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of feedlot bunk management and bulk density of steam-flaked corn on growth performance, carcass characteristics, and liver score of finishing beef steers fed high-concentrate diets without by-products or tylosin phosphate

Objective: Our objective was to evaluate effects of bunk management strategy and bulk density of steam-flaked corn (SFC) on growth performance, carcass characteristics, and incidence and severity of liver abscesses in finishing beef steers fed diets without tylosin phosphate. Materials and Methods: Beef steers (n = 192; initial BW = 332 ± 8.1 kg) were used in a randomized complete block design comprised of 12 BW blocks and 12 pen replications per treatment. A 2 × 2 factorial arrangement of treatments was used: (1) slick-bunk management + 335 g/L SFC-based diets (SFC); (2) modified ad libitum bunk management + 335 g/L SFC; (3) slick-bunk management + 425 g/L SFC; (4) modified ad libitum bunk management + 425 g/L SFC. Results and Discussion: Bunk management strategy did not affect growth performance, carcass characteristics, or liver abscess score ( P ≥ 0.10). The ADG of steers fed 425 g/L SFC was greater ( P = 0.05) from d 35 to 105 than those fed 335 g/L SFC; however, overall ADG was not different ( P = 0.36). The DMI of steers fed 425 g/L SFC was greater at each interim period ( P ≤ 0.05) and overall ( P ≤ 0.01) than those fed 335 g/L SFC. Gain-to-feed (G:F) of steers fed 425 g/L SFC tended ( P = 0.10) to be lesser from d 0 to 35 but was not different overall ( P = 0.12). Steers fed 425 g/L SFC tended to have greater backfat and calculated empty body fat percentage ( P ≤ 0.07) than those fed 335 g/L SFC and greater calculated YG ( P = 0.05). Steers fed 425 g/L SFC had 43.5% fewer ( P = 0.04) liver abscesses than those fed 335 g/L SFC, but liver abscess severity did not differ ( P ≥ 0.12). Implications and Applications: Bunk management did not affect growth performance, carcass characteristics, or development of liver abscesses. Steers fed 425 g/L SFC-based diets had greater DMI and 43.5% fewer liver abscesses than those fed 335 g/L SFC-based diets with similar overall G:F, but carcasses were fatter. Greater bulk density of SFC may be a useful management strategy and a viable antimicrobial alternative to decrease liver abscesses.
Inertia and Damping of Heaving Compound Cylinders

for The 25th International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies, Harbin, China, May 9-13, 2010. Inertia and Damping of Heaving Compound Cylinders Fun Pang Chau∗ and Ronald W. Yeung† Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1740, USA E-mail: fpchau@appliedweather.com & rwyeung@berkeley.edu We wish to convey our very best wishes to Professor Eatock Taylor on the occasion of his retirement. He has made impressive contributions in a broad range of subjects represented by this conference.
Donor bone marrow–derived macrophage engraftment into the central nervous system of patients following allogeneic transplantion

Key Points • Bone marrow–derived donor cells were identified in the brain of HSCT patients using a novel IBA1 IHC and XY FISH co-stain assay. • Donor cells in the brain express IBA1 and represent 8% or up to 25% of microglia, respectively, after myeloablative or double HSCT.
On the Possible Infrasound Generation by Sprites

Energetic electrons accelerated by electric fields in thunderstorms are assumed to be responsible for generation of luminous phenomena at altitudes above 30 km, so called sprites. If the generation of light in these phenomena is associated with local heating, it may also be expected that low frequency acoustic waves will be generated. Due to the cylindrical structure of the source the most of the acoustic energy will be radiated close to the horizontal plane along the entire height of the source. The infrasound form these phenomena is therefore unlikely to be detected immediately beneath the source. The search for infrasonic signals from the high altitude luminous phenomena was carried out during the recent years using data from the infrasonic networks operated by the Swedish Institute of Space Physics. During the night of May 26–27 1995, when a severe thunderstorm area passed over the Golf of Bothnia, it was possible to identify signals, most probably generated by sprites. The infrasonic observations made during that night are described in the present report. Similar, chirp-like signals were observed during some other occasions at Swedish stations during the recent years.
The efficacy of neutron activation analysis for homogeneity testing of CRMs candidates of soil matrices

ABSTRACT Certified reference materials (CRMs) are the cornerstone of the quality of analytical measurements. Homogeneity is a critical process in CRMs development. This study reports the use of instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) for the assessment of between-bottle homogeneity of four CRMs candidates of soil matrices, namely, soil from an agricultural area, soil from an industrial area, urban street dust, and surface marine sediment. The study also reports informative findings on the precision of INAA, besides uncertainty and detection limits (DLs). Eleven elements including nine toxic heavy metals (Cr, Fe, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, and Cd) and two reference elements (Al and Si) were examined. Reference elements are used for the assessment of source contribution, i.e. crustal and anthropogenic, of elements. The uncertainty values of Al, Cr, Fe, Mn, Co, and As were < 5%, suggesting excellent accuracy of the INAA procedure, while the uncertainty ranges of Si and Zn contents were 10–40% and 1–16%, suggesting less accuracy than other examined elements. The uncertainty of Cd and Ni contents was not reported as they were below the DLs. Co recorded the lowest DL (0.15–0.27 µg/g) followed by As (0.27–0.56 µg/g), Mn (0.68–1.26 µg/g), and Cr (0.88–1.67 µg/g). The homogeneity was assessed based on the relative standard deviation (RSD) of seven bottles out of seventy bottles produced for a feasibility study purpose. For the CRM candidate of soil from an agricultural area, five elements (Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, and Zn), out of eight elements, recorded RSD less than 5%, indicating good homogeneity. For the CRM candidate of soil from an industrial area, seven elements recorded RSD% less than 2%, indicating excellent homogeneity. For the dust CRM candidate, six elements recorded RSD < 2%, indicating excellent homogeneity as well. Good homogeneity of the sediment CRM candidate was also obtained since six elements recorded RSD < 5%.
Varactor-loaded transmission-line phase shifter at C-band using lumped elements

The design of varactor-loaded transmission-line phase shifters using lumped elements is discussed in this paper. A monolithic-microwave integrated-circuit (MMIC) phase shifter is fabricated to verify the proposed topology. Only one control voltage is required for phase control. Within a continuously adjustable phase-control range of 360/spl deg/ and a frequency range from 5 to 6 GHz, a low transmission loss of 4 dB/spl plusmn/1.7 dB is measured. The phase shifter is realized with a commercial 0.6-/spl mu/m GaAs MESFET process and requires a chip area of only 0.8 mm/sup 2/. To the knowledge of the authors, the best results reported to date are reached for a continuously adjustable passive phase shifter with comparable circuit size. The presented circuit is well suited to wireless adaptive antenna transceivers, operating in accordance with the 802.11a, high-performance radio local-area-network and high-speed wireless-access-network type-a standard.
Integrating social science research into wildland fire management

Purpose – Social science research is used to support the formulation of natural resource management decisions with accurate and timely information. Due to risk and potential impacts, this is important in wildland fire management. The purpose of this paper is to identify the respondent perceptions of a natural disturbance agent's impact on fire management in Colorado and Wyoming. Design/methodology/approach – The research methodology included a self-administered questionnaire completed by a random sample of respondents in three study locations adjacent to national forests. A quantitative analysis was conducted to identify attitudes about fuels management (prescribed fire) and beliefs about fire and fire management. Findings – Respondents viewed prescribed fire favorably and they understand the natural role of fire on the landscape. While results suggest respondents support management of forest conditions to decrease the effects of a wildfire, they do not feel that individuals have a right to expect their h.
A novel Bayesian state-space model for estimating mosquito populations

Aedes aegypti (L.) is an invasive mosquito responsible for vectoring diseases such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya. To reduce public health risks posed by this mosquito, large scale biological control strategies are currently an active area of research. One example is in the summer of 2017/18, when the modern biological control strategy, Incompatible Insect Technique (IIT) was applied in Far North Queensland. These biological control programs require accurate knowledge of the underlying population for successful deployment and eradication of the mosquito. We present a novel method for estimating current and historical Aedes aegypti populations using Bayesian state-space modelling. Our data are sourced from the IIT experiment in North Queensland. This approach provides new insight into population trajectories and spatial heterogeneity that was used to make inference about residential landscapes. Additionally, our findings have documented the effectiveness of the IIT control program and estimated a range of underlying biological processes for the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
Perceptions of Academic Departmental Climate by Men and Women and the Effects of Such Perceptions on Research Productivity

ABSTRACT We demonstrate how men and women political scientists in PhD-granting departments perceive the professional climates there. We find remarkable differences in how men and women perceive the “cultural” climates of their departments, such as the degree to which it is sexist, but not in how they perceive strictly collegial aspects of climate. We also demonstrate that these patterns characterize the perceptions of men and women at both junior and senior ranks. Contrary to some past research, we also find that climate perceptions do not have a general effect on faculty research productivity. Further, perceptions of high departmental sexism by women scholars does not degrade their research productivity.
Network Formation Games

In many economic networks, the network is not exogenous but instead agents decide what links they want to build. A central question is predicting the networks that agents will form. This chapter presents myopic and farsighted concepts for modeling network formation when the formation of a link requires the consent of both agents. The chapter illustrates the bites that these solution concepts have on economic applications and investigates whether the networks formed by farsighted agents are efficient and different from those formed by myopic agents. Three models of network formation are analyzed: networks of R&D collaborations, networks of free trade agreements, and criminal networks. It is shown that, depending on the application, myopia and farsightedness may lead to divergent predictions, and farsightedness can help to support the emergence of efficient networks.
The Implementation of a Health and Safety Management System and its Interaction with Organisational/Safety Culture: An Industrial Case Study

Abstract This paper describes a case study that focused on a fundamental question – will the intervention of an occupational safety and health management system in an organisation lead to enhanced health and safety performance? The paper discusses the core influences on the management system intervention at the case study site and describes the development and testing of an analytical model founded on previous quality management research. The case study found that implementing a health and safety management system did not lead to an improvement in performance. A model, grounded in previous quality management research, was developed to identify the core and medium-level influencing factors acting on the intervention to produce the, perhaps unexpected, resultant output. The majority of these core and medium-level influencing factors can be labelled under the heading ‘organisational/safety culture’. The case study demonstrates the high degree of mutual interaction and interdependence between organisational/safety culture and a health and safety management system intervention. The research built on and was anchored in previous research at the site.
How Does Pricing Power Affect a Firm's Sourcing Decisions from Unreliable Suppliers?

We study sourcing decisions of price-setting and price-taking firms with two unreliable suppliers, where a price-setting firm sets the retail price after the supply uncertainty is resolved and a price-taking firm takes the retail price as given. We investigate the impacts of market conditions, suppliers' wholesale prices and their reliabilities on the optimal sourcing decisions of price-setting and price-taking firms, and examine how a firm's pricing power affects these impacts. We define a supplier's reliability in terms of the "size" or the"variability" of his random capacity using the concepts of stochastic dominance. We find that the supplier reliability affects the optimal sourcing decisions differently for price-setting and price-taking firms. Specifically, with a price-setting firm, a supplier can win a larger order by increasing his reliability, it is not always so with a price-taking firm.
Clinical significance of clonal hematopoiesis in the setting of autologous stem cell transplantation for lymphoma

Autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) remains a key therapeutic strategy for treating patients with relapsed or refractory non‐Hodgkin and Hodgkin lymphoma. Clonal hematopoiesis (CH) has been proposed as a major contributor not only to the development of therapy‐related myeloid neoplasms but also to inferior overall survival (OS) in patients who had undergone ASCT. Herein, we aimed to investigate the prognostic implications of CH after ASCT in a cohort of 420 lymphoma patients using ultra‐deep, highly sensitive error‐correction sequencing. CH was identified in the stem cell product samples of 181 patients (43.1%) and was most common in those with T‐cell lymphoma (72.2%). The presence of CH was associated with a longer time to neutrophil and platelet recovery. Moreover, patients with evidence of CH had inferior 5‐year OS from the time of first relapse (39.4% vs. 45.8%, p = .043) and from the time of ASCT (51.8% vs. 59.3%, p = .018). The adverse prognostic impact of CH was not due to therapy‐related myeloid neoplasms, the incidence of which was low in our cohort (10‐year cumulative incidence of 3.3% vs. 3.0% in those with and without CH, p = .445). In terms of specific‐gene mutations, adverse OS was mostly associated with PPM1D mutations (hazard ratio (HR) 1.74, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.13–2.67, p = . 011). In summary, we found that CH is associated with an increased risk of non‐lymphoma‐related death after ASCT, which suggests that lymphoma survivors with CH may need intensified surveillance strategies to prevent and treat late complications.
Density-Aware Haze Image Synthesis by Self-Supervised Content-Style Disentanglement

The key procedure of haze image synthesis with adversarial training lies in the disentanglement of the feature involved only in haze synthesis, i.e., the style feature, from the feature representing the invariant semantic content, i.e., the content feature. Previous methods introduced a binary classifier to constrain the domain membership from being distinguished through the learned content feature during the training stage, thereby the style information is separated from the content feature. However, we find that these methods cannot achieve complete content-style disentanglement. The entanglement of the flawed style feature with content information inevitably leads to the inferior rendering of haze images. To address this issue, we propose a self-supervised style regression model with stochastic linear interpolation that can suppress the content information in the style feature. Ablative experiments demonstrate the disentangling completeness and its superiority in density-aware haze image synthesis. Moreover, the synthesized haze data are applied to test the generalization ability of vehicle detectors. Further study on the relation between haze density and detection performance shows that haze has an obvious impact on the generalization ability of vehicle detectors and that the degree of performance degradation is linearly correlated to the haze density, which in turn validates the effectiveness of the proposed method.
English as a Lingua Franca: a Tool for Educating Engineers

Almost all paper engineers use English as normal part of their work. Based on the replies to a questionnaire distributed by the Finnish Paper Engineers' Association (FPEA), most of the respondents use English daily, predominantly with non-native speakers of English - English as a lingua franca (E LF). Nevertheless, when the possibility of using English as the lecturing language in the Forest Products Technology Department at Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) was discussed with the students, many of them were against such a change. This was especially the case among the Finnish students. Despite this negative reaction, all master's level courses at TKK Forest Products Department are now lectured in English. The second part of this study has gathered student feed back on the lectures given in English, as well as evalua ted lecturers' English through reviewing their lectures . The material indicates a solid use of English as a Ling ua Franca, which prepares the students for the kind of future suggested in the FPEA questionnaire in the f irst part of this study. The results of both studies sho w that the use of ELF in both working world and at the university reaches its communicative goals.
Modeling Sorghum yield in response to inorganic fertilizer application in semi-arid

In semi-ardecades this has resulted in depletion of soil nutrients. The conventional system of restoring moderate soil fertility on bush farms by extensive fallow periods is no longer effective. Hence, the cultivation of cereals like Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is restricted to the compound farms where manure is applied. The demand for Sorghum by far outweighs its production. Thus, there is a need to explore the use of mineral fertilizer in both the compound and bush farms, and also to assess the seasonal fluctuation of grain yield in view of an adaptive risk management, using a crop simulation model – DSSAT. It uses weather, soil, and crop management data as input parameters. The model was calibrated with data collected under optimum growth conditions and evaluated with independent data collected on different rates of mineral N fertilizer application. DSSAT predicted grain yield creditably with a modified un-bias absolute percentage error of 28. A value to cost ratio analysis indicated mineral fertilizer use was profitable in both management systems with the application of 40 and 80 kg N ha
Case‐based allocation of onsite supervisory manpower for construction projects

In the highly competitive worldwide construction industry, a slight inaccuracy of estimation can easily cause the loss of a project. Erroneous experience‐based cost estimates or allocations of onsite supervisory manpower often offset the profit gained from the project and may even jeopardize the management processes. To counter these types of problems, we develop a model using mathematical analysis and case‐based reasoning to automate the allocation of onsite supervisory manpower and its costs. The method is founded upon laborious data collection processes and analysis by matching statistical assumptions, and is applicable to construction projects for residential buildings, industrial office buildings, commercial buildings and industrial construction. In the modelling the costs and allocation of onsite supervisory manpower are quantified for both owners and contractors before initiating or bidding on the projects. The findings confirm that the degree of variation of the model predictions has an accuracy rate at 88.47%. Single‐site construction projects with the following characteristics: a non‐crashing schedule, a floor area of less than 35 000 m2, a height of less than 50m, can be accurately predicted and the assignment of supervisory manpower feasibly automated.
The effects of wheelset driving system suspension parameters on the re-adhesion performance of locomotives

In this study, in order to examine the effects of a wheelset driving system suspension parameters on the re-adhesion performance of locomotives, the stick–slip vibration was analysed according to theoretical and simulation analysis. The decrease of the slip rate vibration amplitude improved the stability of the stick–slip vibration and the re-adhesion performance of locomotives. Increasing the longitudinal guide stiffness of the wheelset and the motor suspension stiffness were proposed as effective measures to improve the re-adhesion performance of locomotives. These results showed that the dynamic slip rate was inversely proportional to the series result of the square root of the longitudinal guide and motor suspension stiffness. The larger the motor suspension stiffness was, the smaller the required longitudinal guidance stiffness was at the same re-adhesion time once the wheel slip occurred, and vice versa. The simulation results proved that the re-adhesion time of the locomotive was approximately proportional to amplitude of the dynamic slip rate. When the stick–slip vibration occurred, the rotary and the longitudinal vibrations of the wheelset were coupled, which was confirmed by train's field tests.
Potassium Fertigation to Enhance the Performance of Hypoxis hemerocallidea

Potassium (K) is an essential nutrient in plant metabolism, ionic balance, and stress resistance. In this study, the effects of K on agronomic attributes and on mineral and primary metabolite content in African potato were determined. K was administered hydroponically at four concentrations (4.00, 6.00, 8.00, and 10.00 meq·L−1) using Steiner’s universal nutrient solution. Chlorophyll content (CHL), leaf area (LA), fresh corm mass (FCM), number of roots (NR), root fresh weight (RFM), and root dry mass (RDM) were measured 18, 32, and 40 weeks after transplanting. Mineral analysis data were collected at 18 weeks, and primary metabolite data were collected at 32 weeks. Significant effects of K were observed after 18 weeks, and all test concentrations had a positive effect on yield. Calcium and boron significantly accumulated in the corm at 4.00 meq·L−1 K. Alanine and malic acid were the only metabolites affected by K concentrations. More minerals accumulated in the corm at 4.00 meq·L−1 K, whereas at 10.00 meq·L−1 K, more minerals clustered in the leaf. K applied at 4.00 meq·L−1 is recommended when growing African potato using a nutrient solution to improve corm mineral and metabolite accumulation.