Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Biochemical Reference Intervals for Backyard Hens

Abstract: Keeping backyard poultry has become increasingly popular in urban and suburban households. With this rise in popularity comes an increased need for veterinarians who are willing to serve this demographic and a need for lab reference intervals that capture the range of clinically healthy backyard hens. We developed blood chemistry reference intervals for birds in backyard chicken flocks. Between June and August 2016, 133 adult, actively laying hens from 34 different flocks in Western Washington were sampled via medial metatarsal venipuncture. Whole heparinized blood was analyzed using a VetScan VS2 with Avian/Reptilian Profile Plus reagent rotors. Packed cell volume was determined via centrifugation of microhematocrit tubes. Reference intervals were calculated by Reference Value Advisor V2.1 software using the nonparametric method. Seven currently published reference intervals for the Gallus gallus domesticus could not be validated for use in backyard hens, according to the guidelines established by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute. Of flock owners who participated in the study, 47% reported they would consider paying for a blood test if a veterinarian thought it would be beneficial.
PENGARUH KOMPETENSI TUTOR, HARGA DAN PRESTASI BELAJAR SISWA TERHADAP LOYALITAS PELANGGAN LEMBAGA BIMBINGAN BELAJAR DENGAN KEPUASAN SEBAGAI VARIABEL INTERVENING

Education is an important factor in the development and progress of a nation. The development of the current education sector is marked by the many businesses that are engaged in the field of educational support services (Private Tutoring Institutions). This study aims to find out how the influence of tutor competency, course price level and learning achievement on customer loyalty through satisfaction in the Private Tutoring Institution “Master Privat”. The object of the study was the students and parents of Master Private’ students as many as 100 respondents. The method of collecting data is by distributing questionnaires. Then the data is analyzed using Path Analysis techniques with software Lisrel version 8.80 and SPSS version 22. The results showed that tutors' competency, price and learning achievement, each had a partial and significant direct effect on satisfaction. Tutor competency, price and learning achievement have a simultaneous effect on satisfaction. And the final result is the competence of the tutor, price and learning achievement influence on customer loyalty through satisfaction as an intervening variable
Heterosis and growth in a developing maize plant

Heterosis has been extensively studied for nearly a century, yet genetic and biological mechanisms underlying the phenomenon remain elusive. This study extends our understanding of heterosis in maize (Zea mays L) by examining heterosis in the language of growth and development–growth rate, duration of the linear phase, and final trait value. By utilizing a set of phenologically uniform genetic materials the confounding effect of differences in development were eliminated. Using two parental inbred lines and the F1 hybrid, heterosis was examined using logistic growth curves for a series of vegetative and reproductive traits across stages of development (V-stages). Vegetative and reproductive traits examined in this study displayed the classic sigmoidal growth curve. More im- portantly these curves were occurring at the same developmental time points in the F1 and parental inbred lines. In short, heterosis confers an advantage to the F1 that occurs early in development in terms of growth rate and while the growth rate of the F1 and parental lines eventually coalesce, that initial advantage due to heterosis is maintained throughout the lifecycle of the plant resulting in a larger final trait value
Synthesis, Structure, Adsorption Space and Magnetic Properties of Ni-Oxalate Metal Organic Frameworks

ix Resumen xi Chapter One. Introduction 1 Chapter Two. Experimental Data 2.1 Materials and Synthetic Procedure 6 2.2. Characterization Methods 12 Chapter Three. Results and Discussion 3.1 Synthesis 17 3.2. Structural analysis of the Ni-Ox-PMM 3.2.1. DRIFTS and RS study 22 3.2.2. TGA test 27 3.2. 3. XRD structural analysis 29 3.2. 4. Proposed layer structure 32 3.3. Adsorption study 3.3.1. Ni-Ox-MOF adsorption space morphology characterization 35 3.3.2. Isosteric heat of carbon dioxide adsorption on Ni-Ox-MOF 36 3.3.3. DRIFTS study of the surface chemistry of the Ni-Ox-MOF applying carbon dioxide as test molecule 38 3.4. Magnetic study 39 Chapter Four. Conclusion 44 Literature Cited 46 Appendix One. Instrumentation 58
Inter- and Intracultivar Variation of Heirloom and Open-pollinated Watermelon Cultivars

Watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai] cultivars exhibit diverse phenotypic traits, yet are derived from a narrow genetic base. Heirloom cultivars, and to a lesser extent modern open-pollinated (OP) cultivars, are perceived to contain vital genetic variation that is critical for biodiversity conservation and crop improvement. The objective of this study was to characterize the diversity of six heirloom and open-pollinated watermelon cultivars that are popular among U.S. organic, direct-market, and home gardeners. An additional evaluation was conducted to determine whether significant phenotypic and genotypic variation existed among seed lots sourced from different commercial seed vendors. Important horticultural traits such as days to germination, days to first flower, yield, and fruit quality were measured over two field seasons. Genetic diversity was estimated using 32 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. Significant differences in horticultural traits among seed lots in both years were observed only in days to germination and first male flower, which may be a consequence of vendor differences in seed storage and quality control. Heirloom ‘Moon and Stars’ and modern OP ‘Sugar Baby’ were the most genetically distinct from the other cultivars and heirloom ‘Georgia Rattlesnake’ was determined to be highly related to the modern OP ‘Charleston Gray’. The two heirloom cultivars were observed to have lower average gene diversity than the modern cultivars. Heirloom ‘Moon and Stars’ contained significant genetic variation among seed lots, yet heirloom ‘Georgia Rattlesnake’ contained none. These findings suggest that genetic variation can be more accurately attributed to pedigree and foundation seed maintenance practices than to the “heirloom” designation per se. The variation reported in this study can be used to inform conservation and breeding efforts.
Variability of Tap Water Residual Chlorine and Microbial Counts at Spatially Resolved Points of Use

Abstract Balancing the risk between microbial and disinfection by-product exposures in potable water through optimization of disinfectant (chlorine) dosing often proves a difficult task in aging urban drinking-water distribution systems (UDWDS). We hypothesized that geocoded pipe characteristics could improve our understanding of chlorine consumption in a city of a geographic region (Eastern Mediterranean) that has been poorly studied. The main objectives of this study were to (1) determine the UDWDS characteristics (household distance from chlorination tank and pipe leaks) that could explain the spatial variability of residual free chlorine, and (2) investigate the association between water microbial counts and residual chlorine in two areas with contrasting pipe network characteristics (low-risk and high-risk; LRA and HRA). We collected water samples from 150 households in two areas of Nicosia, Cyprus, during winter (air temperatures 0–15°C). Household addresses were linked with geocoded pipe network da.
Surveillance of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Fifth Military Sector Health Center, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon: Observational Study

Background Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading causes of death worldwide. They were responsible for 40 million of the 57 million deaths recorded worldwide in 2016. In Cameroon, epidemiological studies have been devoted to NCDs and their risk factors. However, none provides specific information on their extent or the distribution of their risk factors within the Cameroonian defense forces. Objective The objective of our study was to assess the cardiovascular risk of a Cameroonian military population compared with that of its neighboring civilian population. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study that involved subjects aged 18 to 58 years, recruited from October 2017 to November 2018 at the Fifth Military Sector Health Center in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon. Data collection and assessment were done according to the World Health Organization (WHO)’s STEPS manual for surveillance of risk factors for chronic NCDs and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. Five cardiovascular risk factors were assessed: smoking, harmful alcohol consumption, obesity/overweight, hypertension, and diabetes. The risk was considered high in subjects with 3 or more of the factors. Univariate analysis and multivariate logistic regression were carried out according to their indications. Results Our study sample of 566 participants included 295 soldiers and 271 civilians of the same age group (median age 32 years versus 33 years, respectively; P=.57). The military sample consisted of 31 officers and 264 noncommissioned officers (NCOs). Soldiers were more exposed to behavioral risk factors than civilians, with a prevalence of smoking of 13.9% versus 4.4% (P<.001) and excessive alcohol consumption of 61.7% versus 14.8% (P<.001). They also presented with a higher cardiovascular risk than civilians (odds ratio 2.7, 95% CI 1.50-4.81; P<.001), and among the military participants, the cardiovascular risk was higher for officers than for NCOs (51.6% versus 14.0%, respectively; P<.001). Conclusions Cameroonian soldiers are particularly exposed to cardiovascular behavioral risk factors and consequently are at higher risk of NCDs. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04315441; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04315441
If you build it, will they come? Use of restored dunes by beach mice

Restoration of coastal habitat fragmented, degraded, or destroyed by development and climate‐related processes such as sea level rise and storm surge usually involves planting native plants to restore habitat structure, but whether and how restored areas benefit taxa other than plants is rarely reported. Installing restoration plantings is one method used to build habitat such as beach dunes where dunes have been lost, potentially creating habitat for dune‐dependent species. We compared use of natural vegetated dunes, open sand gaps, and restoration plantings (habitat treatment) by Perdido Key beach mice (Peromyscus polionotus trissyllepsis) over 3 years using tracking tubes to assess the value of restoration plantings for beach mice. Tubes were monitored in two seasons (early and mid‐summer), and under new and full moon conditions. Mice used restoration plantings less than natural vegetated dunes but more than open sand gaps, which suggests restoration plantings may facilitate movement of mice across fragmented areas. Both season and moon phase influenced the effect of habitat treatment, interactions which may be attributable to perceived risk associated with movement under a combination of different conditions of ambient light, vegetation cover, and habitat novelty. Our results show restoration plantings provide habitat for movement and foraging, and may ameliorate some consequences of sea level rise and storms for beach mice and potentially other dune‐dependent species into the future.
The influence of operational sex ratio on the mating behaviour of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus L.) during an experimental rut: the effect of male age

The operational sex ratio (OSR), the ratio of sexually active males to sexually receptive females, is one of the main measures used to predict the intensity and direction of mating competition, influencing the opportunity for sexual selection. Here we conducted the first experimental study to investigate how OSR and male age impacts the intensity of mating competition and the male activity budget in a large mammalian species, reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), under semi-natural conditions. We manipulated OSR on two levels in two enclosures, a female biased treatment (3♂:6♀ = OSR 0.5) and a sex balanced treatment (3♂:3♀ = OSR 1), over two years with males from two age groups (1.5 or 2.5-years-old), and with females of various ages. We found some support for prevailing OSR theory, notably with female intrasexual competition occurring at lower frequencies in OSR = 1. An emerging trend was noted for male intrasexual competition, with higher frequencies of occurrence in OSR = 1 for our 2.5-year-old males. Courtship behaviour was also found to occur at higher frequencies of occurrence among the 2.5-year-old males, however, there was no effect of OSR. Regarding the male activity budget, we found that 1.5-year-old males followed a more income breeding strategy, with no difference in foraging behaviour between OSR treatments. In contrast, our 2.5-year-old males had a significantly lower frequency of foraging behaviour in OSR = 1, presumably resulting from a higher occurrence of intrasexual competition. Vigilance behaviour was also found to occur at higher frequencies in OSR=1 for the 2.5-year-old males, likely due to females being more limiting. Our results suggest that age is an important factor with respect to how male reindeer respond to differing OSR values. Future research aiming to expand the generalizability of experimental OSR theory to a wider range of taxa and ecological conditions need to consider other factors that will impact competition for mates, such as prime reproductive age.
Eufemisme Dalam Rubrik Konsultasi Psikologi Psyline.Id

Pengujaran secara langsung dan literal dapat menimbulkan ketersinggungan hati akibat adanya penggunaan isitilah-istilah yang dinggap kasar, sehingga eufemisme digunakan untuk mengganti istilah yang dianggap kasar menjadi istilah yang lebih halus dan dapat diterima dengan baik guna mengurangi dampak negatif yang bisa ditimbulkan. Penelitian ini membahas tentang satuan ekspresi eufemisme yang terdapat dalam rubrik konsultasi psikologi PsyLine.id. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk (1) mendeskripsikan bentuk dari eufemisme yang ada dalam rubrik konsultasi PsyLine.id, (2) menjelaskan jenis-jenis dari eufemisme yang ada dalam rubrik konsultasi PsyLine.id. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif. Objek penelitian ini yaitu semua ujaran atau kalimat yang mengandung makna eufemisme yang terdapat dalam rubrik konsultasi psikologi PsyLine.id. Teknik pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan teknik dasar simak dan teknik lanjutan simak bebas libat cakap (SBLC) dan teknik catat. Hasil dari penelitian ini yaitu (1) bentuk satuan ekspresi eufemisme dalam rubrik konsultasi psikologi PsyLine.id. berupa kata, frasa dan kalimat. Eufemisme yang ditemukan pada tataran kata berupa kata sederhana, kata kompleks, kata majemuk dan kata singkatan, (2) jenis satuan ekspresi eufemisme yang terdapat dalam rubrik konsultasi psikologi PsyLine.id. adalah figurative expressions atau ekspresi figuratif, circumlocutions atau sirkumlokusi, acronyms atau akronim, general-for-specific atau bentuk umum untuk khusus, understatements atau pengecilan permasalahan, learned terms or technical jargons atau pemakaian istilah teknis, dan borrowing atau pemakaian istilah pinjaman dari bahasa lain.
Joint approaches for learning word representations from text corpora and knowledge bases

The work presented in this thesis is directed at investigating the possibility of combining text corpora and Knowledge Bases (KBs) for learning word representations. More speciﬁcally, the aim was to propose joint approaches that leverage the two types of resources for the purpose of enhancing the word meaning representations. The main research question to be answered was “Is it possible to enhance the word representations by jointly incorporating text corpora and KBs into the word representations learning process? If so, what are the aspects of word meaning that can be enhanced by combining those two types of resources? ”. The primary contribution of the thesis is three main joint approaches for learning word representations: (i) Joint Representation Learning for Additional Evidence (JointReps), (ii) Joint Hierarchical Word Representation (HWR) and (iii) Sense-Aware Word Representations (SAWR). The JointReps was founded to improve the overall semantic representation of words. To this end, it sought additional evidence from a KB to the co-occurrence statistics in the corpus. In particular, JointReps enforced two words that are in a particular semantic relationship in the KB to have similar word representations. The HWR approach was then proposed to learn word representations in a speciﬁc order to encode the hierarchical information in a KB in the learnt representations. The HWR considered not only the hypernym relations that exist between words in a KB, but also contextual information in a text corpus. Speciﬁcally, given a training corpus and a KB, HWR learnt word representations that simultaneously encoded the hierarchical structure in the KB as well as the co-occurrence statistics between pairs of words in the corpus. A particularly novel aspect of the HWR approach was that it exploits the full hierarchical path of words existing in the KB. The SAWR approach was then introduced to consider not only word representations but also the diﬀerent senses (diﬀerent meanings) associated with each word. The SAWR required the learnt representations to predict the word and the senses accurately. It learnt the sense-aware word representations jointly using both unlabelled and sense-labelled text corpora. The approaches were comprehensively analysed and evaluated in various standard and newly-proposed tasks using a wide range of benchmark datasets. The evaluation was conducted to compare the quality of the learnt word representations by the proposed approaches with word representations learnt by sole-resource baselines and previously proposed joint approaches in the literature. All the proposed joint approaches have proven to be eﬀective for enhancing the learnt word representations. More speciﬁcally, the proposed joint approaches were found to report signiﬁcant improvements over the approaches that use only one type of resources and the previously proposed joint approaches.
The use of species-specific primer targeting on D-loop mitochondrial for identification of wild boar meat in meatball formulation -

Objective: The study was intended to design the new specific primer targeting on mitochondrial D-Loop gene (D-Loop 443 primer) combined with a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the analysis of wild boar meat (WBM) in food products of meatball. Materials and methods: The primer was designed and subjected to primer-basic local alignment search tool using National Center for Biotechnology Information software. Validation of real-time PCR using designed primer was performed by evaluation of several performance characteristics which included specificity, sensitivity, repeatability, linearity, and efficiency. Results: The results showed that the D-loop primer could be attached at 60.7°C and no amplification was detected against other species confirming the specificity of the primers. The limits of detection were found to be 4.68 ng and 2.34 ng using DNA extracted from WBM and that extracted from wild boar in meatball product. The D-Loop 443 primer was successfully used for the analysis of commercial meatball samples. Conclusion: The developed method can be proposed as a standard method for the identification of WBM in meatball to support halal products authentication.
Space-time characteristics of areal reduction factors and precipitation mechanisms

We link areal reduction factors (ARFs, the ratio of annual maxima catchment precipitation and point precipitation) to the dominating precipitation mechanisms in Austria (84,000km2), using a new efficient method of estimating ARFs based on block kriging. A better understanding of the precipitation mechanisms help assess the plausibility of the ARFs estimated, but ARFs likewise contribute to a better understanding of the precipitation mechanisms as they are a fingerprint of the spatial statistical behavior of extreme precipitation. Our main focus is on two sub-regions in the West and East of Austria, dominated by stratiform and convective precipitation, respectively. ARFs are estimated using rain gauge data with hourly resolution across five durations. ARFs decay faster with increasing area in regions of pronounced convective activity than in regions dominated by stratiform processes. Low ARF values are linked to increased lightening activity (as a proxy for convective activity), but low ARFs can likewise occur in areas of reduced lightning activity as, in summer, convective precipitation can occur everywhere in the country. ARFs tend to decrease with increasing return period, possibly because the contribution of convective precipitation is higher. Our analysis is a key component towards a better understanding of the hydrometeorology in the region, as the process links of the ARFs relate to the space-time scaling of floods.
The Effects of Terrorism Risk on Household Savings

In view of the increasing intensity of terrorism worldwide, behavioral changes of households become visible. People tend to overvalue terror-related risks such that the subjective probability of terrorism events. Using microeconomic panel data of the elderly population from 13 European countries, this study analyzes the impact of terrorism risk on household savings patterns. Terrorism increases household savings to a significant and economically meaningful degree. Two terror variables – the number of attacks and the number of fatalities – analyze this effect in detail. While the impact of the number of attacks is negative, savings increase with the number of fatalities. We give a potential explanation for this difference. While the results for European countries are consistent, Israel is markedly different from the rest of the sample – an effect likely due to the different political situations in both regions. The reported findings have implications for both fiscal and monetary policy.
Résilience et vieillissement cognitif : une approche de modération en neuro-imagerie structurelle et fonctionnelle

V TABLE DES MATIÈRES . IX LISTE DES TABLEAUX . XIII LISTE DES FIGURES . XV LISTE DES SIGLES . XVII REMERCIEMENTS . XXI CHAPITRE I : CONTEXTE THÉORIQUE . 1 1.