Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Nature of the continuous high-spin (5T2) .dblharw. low-spin (1A1) transition in bis[2-[(4-methyl-2-pyridyl)amino]-4-(2-pyridyl)thiazole]iron(II) diperchlorate dihydrate and bis(tetrafluoroborate) dihydrate: Moessbauer effect and x-ray diffraction study

Determination des temperatures de transition, des decompositions quadripolaires ΔE Q ( 5 T 2 ), ΔE Q ( 1 A 1 ), des deplacements isomeres. Facteurs de Debye-Waller differents pour les deux etats. Transformation continue en accord avec l'hypothese d'une interaction cooperative faible, les deux isomeres de spin coexistant dans le solide (diffraction de rayons X)
Ascites associated with Congestive Heart failure in a police dog (K 9) (Diagnosis and management)

A male, Mullinoise breed K9 dog, 23 kg weight and of 5.7 years old, had been brought to the Consultant Veterinary Teaching Hospital, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Basrah, Iraq, with a patient history of acute illness of 1-4 days’ duration, Dyspnea with open-mouth breathing sometimes, lethargy, reduced food intake, an obvious distended abdomen developed gradually, reduced exercise tolerance, coughing, and occasionally weight loss with fainting only at exercise sometimes. In addition to a history of deworming and vaccination had been applied previously. Clinical examination revealed respiratory distress, severe abdominal distension, lethargy, pale gum and mucous membrane, Harsh lung sound with pulmonary crackles are typically present on the auscultation of the chest, However, a loud murmur is indicated on auscultation of the heart area, Furthermore, slight hepatomegaly, Distended jugular vein and a weak femoral arterial pulse were also detected on clinical palpation of diseased dog. Congestive heart failure was suspect, according to the clinical presentation, Hematological and biochemical results, in addition to Ultrasonography diagnosis.
Impact of Offspring Sex and Dam’s Pre-partum Vaccination on Colostrum Composition and Blood Hormones in Egyptian Buffaloes

An The aim of the present research was to determine the effect of both the gender of the new-born calf and the pre-partum vaccination status of the dam (ScourGuard-4K) on the chemical composition and some biological parameters of the colostrum. Blood serum was collected from four groups of pregnant dams (four animals in each group) during the dry period (vaccinated buffalo dams pregnant with a male fetus, vaccinated buffalo dams pregnant with a female fetus, unvaccinated buffalo dams pregnant with a male fetus, and unvaccinated buffalo dams pregnant with a female fetus), in the pregnancy period, at the giving-birth period and after 24 hours of postpartum. The levels of insulin-like growth factor hormone (IGF-1) and immunoglobuline G (IgG) were calculated in the maternal blood serum at the assigned periods. Colostrum samples were collected at the birth time and 6, 12, 24, 48, and 72 hours after birth for measuring the chemical composition of the colostrum, as well as levels of IgG and IGF-1. Results of the current study showed that colostrum of dams that gave birth to male fetus had a richer content of IgG and IGF-1 levels and a higher percentage of total solids, solids-not-fat, total protein, fat, and lactose. Additionally, vaccination improved the same colostrum components except for IGF-1, which was not positively influenced by the vaccination. Generally, colostrum components were the highest at the birth time, then it decreased gradually up to 72 hours after the birth except that for the percentage of fat and lactose which showed gradual increases up to 72 hours to reach the normal composition of milk.
Opening strategy or opening Pandora’s Box?

L’open strategy est un sujet de recherche récent dans le domaine du management stratégique, qui a pris de l’ampleur auprès des académiciens au cours de la dernière décennie, avec un pic de contributions à sa littérature à partir de 2015 (Sailer et al., 2017). L’open strategy est communément définie par les dimensions d’inclusion, de transparence et de participation. Néanmoins, au travers de la littérature, de nombreux facteurs ajoutent de la complexité au processus et divers dilemmes ont émergés avec l’accroissement du niveau d’ouverture du processus (Hautz et al., 2017). En nous appuyant sur la littérature récente, nous trouvons que l’ouverture est influencée par des facteur multiples et des dynamiques qui évoluent au travers des divers contextes et pratiques d’une organisation. Ainsi, notre principale réflexion et question de recherche est de savoir s'il existe d'autres facteurs influençant le niveau d’ouverture et les dynamiques d’un processus d’open strategy. Grâce à notre méta-synthèse qualitative, nous analysons les contributions de 25 papiers de recherche basés sur des études de cas. Notre principale contribution est de soutenir qu'un processus d’open strategy peut être composé de différents niveaux d'ouverture à travers les différentes étapes du processus. Notre recherche contribue donc à la fois à la littérature d’open strategy et à celle de la stratégie comme pratique en apportant une nouvelle perspective et en se concentrant sur les individus dans leurs rôles et l'influence qu'ils exercent. Nous concluons en émettant l’hypothèse que les organisations pourraient bien finir par ouvrir la boîte de Pandore dans la quête d’ouvrir leur stratégie.
Classical Propositional Proof Theory Proving in Coq

This paper details the process of proving the admissibility of the structural rules in Gentzen Sequent Calculus with the aim of proving cut elimination in sequent calculus, loosely following the proofs set out in Basic Proof Theory by A. S. Troelstra and H. Schwichtenberg. While a proof for cut elimination wasn’t successfully found, the work done in the project provides a basis for future work in this area.
Are Busy Boards Effective Monitors?

Busy outside directors are associated with weak corporate governance in a large sample of U.S. industrial firms. When a majority of outside directors serve on three or more boards, firms exhibit lower market-to-book ratios as well as significantly weaker operating profitability. A majority of busy outside directors on the board leads to a lower sensitivity of CEO turnover to firm performance. Boards that comprise a majority of independent but busy directors display CEO turnover-performance sensitivities that are indistinguishable from those associated with insidedominated boards. Event study results show that investors applaud departures of busy outside directors, especially when the departure results in a majority of the remaining outside directors being not busy. When directors become busy as a result of acquiring an additional board seat, firms where they serve as directors experience negative abnormal returns. We also find that busy outside directors are more likely to depart boards following poor firm performance. * The paper benefited from comments from seminar participants at Drexel, INSEAD, Seton Hall, North Carolina State, University of North Carolina, and Universidade Catolica de Portugal. The authors thank Bill Greene, Robert Stambaugh, David Yermack, and an anonymous referee for helpful suggestions.
Understanding Post Contractual Turbulence in Public Private Partnerships: Themes and Issues

Although complex realities of governing Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) at the post contractual phase are emerging as major foundations of discord that threatens PPPs sustainability in developing countries (DCs), the nascent nature of the model’s application in most DCs has meant that the specific issues of concern remain obscure and scattered. Using the concept of governance as an orienting lens, an intensive analysis of one of the pioneer PPP projects in the electricity sector in Sub-Saharan Africa is undertaken to explore the main issues. The evidence is drawn from transcripts of interviews with policy, regulative, and operative actors directly involved with and/or familiar with the project. These are supplemented by a review of exclusively accessed and publicly available documents. The findings underscore the primacy of eight governance issues that are organised in three thematic areas including; the roles and responsibilities of actors, regulatory and contractual control, and emergent and complex external stakeholder behaviour. The findings essentially suggest that at the post contractual phase, (a) PPP will be challenged by context specific realities related to how the sector is organized, the prevailing sources of authority, and end user behaviour, (b) PPP agreements are incapable of precisely providing for all emergent realities thus require adaptation and/or complementation, and (c) demonstrate that responses need to be deliberately concerted as well as inclusive of context-relevant actors to guard against a) severely undermining provisions of the existing contract, b) partner (and other external stakeholder) opportunism, and c) counterproductive distortion of balance of power.
Fact and figures related to COVID-19

With each passing day, more cases of Coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) are being detected and unfortunately the fear of novel corona virus 2019 (2019-nCoV) becoming a pandemic disease has come true. Constant efforts at individual, national, and international level are being made in order to understand the genomics, hosts, modes of transmission and epidemiological link of nCoV-2019. As of now, whole genome sequence of the newly discovered coronavirus has already been decoded. Genomic characterization nCoV-2019 have shown close homology with batderived severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-like coronaviruses, bat-SL-CoVZC45 and bat-SL-CoVZXC21. Structural analysis of the receptor binding site has confirmed that 2019nCoV binds with the same ACE 2 receptor protein as human SARS virus. Compared to the previous coronavirus outbreaks, the overall mortality rate is relatively low for COVID-2019 (2-3%). Suspected cases must be quarantined till their test comes positive or they clear infection. At present, treatment of COVID-2019 is mostly based on the knowledge gained from the SARS and MERS outbreaks. Remdesivir, originally develop as a treatment for Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus infections, is being studied for its effectiveness against 2019-nCoV infection. Many other antiviral agents and vaccines are being tested but most of them are in phase I or II and hence unlikely to be of any benefit immediately with regards to current outbreak. Hence, the standard infection control techniques and preventive steps for healthy individuals and supportive care for the confirmed cases is the best available strategy to deal with current viral outbreak.
Problems in Web-based Learning: A Case Study from Developing World

: The study concerned with the identified the problems and challenged Web Based Learning faced by master and graduation level students of Virtual University in Pakistan. The main purpose of this study was to know the problems faced by male and female students from different background and difficulties of web browsing among the web based learners of different semesters. The participants of the study were One hungered (100) students enrolled in graduation and master level in Virtual University Lahore, Pakistan. A Questionnaire consist of thirty eight (38) items was developed and validated through experts to collect the data and the reliability of the questionnaire was calculated by Cronbach Alpha i.e. 0.946 a high internal consistency of the items. The findings of the study shows that there is no significant difference of facing problems in web based learning between Male and Female. There is no significant difference of facing problems in web based learning between graduation and master students. The significant difference exists between Internet Explorer and Netscape, Internet Explorer and Opera. The mean differences between Internet Explorer and Opera are 20.431(*) and 24.859(*) respectively which are significant at p<0.05. The other three browsers do not differ from each other significantly. The mean differences of quality = 3.7887 and design = 3.7683 is bigger than mean of access = 3.5089.
Comparative effects of synthetic lysine and methionine supplements on performance and carcass characteristics of finisher broilers fed corn-soybean based diets

The aim of this research was to investigate the effects of lysine and methionine supplements in corn-soybean meal diets for finisher broilers, by comparing their combined and sole effects on performance and carcass characteristics of the birds. Parameters measured were performance (body weight, weight gain, feed intake, feed conversion ratio and mortality), dressed weight, dressing percentage, carcass cuts and internal organs. The experimental diets were: T1 (control) = lysine + Methionine, T2 (sole lysine) and T3 (sole methionine) supplements. Final body weight, weight gain, carcass and carcass cuts were significantly higher in the control (lysine + methionine) than in the sole supplemented diets, while sole supplementation with methionine (T3) produced significant higher values than sole lysine (T2) in the above mentioned parameters The liver was significantly enlarged in the birds that received the sole supplemented diets. Due to the enlarged liver of the birds fed the sole supplemented diets, it was concluded that supplementation with both lysine and methionine is indispensable in cornsoybean meal based diets for finisher broilers.
RESPONSE OF LISIANTHUS TO IRRIGATION WITH SALINE WATER: ION RELATIONS

Eustoma grandiflorum (Raf.) Shinn. (lisianthus) is a moderately salt tolerant species that can be produced commercially under irrigation with saline wastewaters prevalent in two salt-affected areas of California. The objective of the present studies was to determine the effect of irrigation with saline waters of two different compositions on the ion accumulation and ion relations of lisianthus ‘Pure White’ and ‘Echo Blue’. The ionic composition of irrigation waters simulated the compositions typical of i) seawater dilutions (SWD) and ii) concentrations of Colorado River water (CCRW). Electrical conductivities (EC) of SWD and CCRW were between 2 and 12 dS · m−1. Plants irrigated with CCRW were higher in Ca2+ compared to plants irrigated with SWD water. Calcium was also higher in ‘Pure White’ than in ‘Echo Blue’. Increasing EC of irrigation water caused a significant decrease in shoot and leaf Ca2+ concentration in ‘Echo Blue’, but had no effect on Ca2+ content of ‘Pure White’ shoots and leaves. Magnesium concentration in ‘Echo Blue’ was higher than in ‘Pure White’. Electrical conductivity did not significantly affect Mg2+ concentration of either cultivar, despite the increasingly higher external concentration. Potassium concentration of young and mature leaves of ‘Echo Blue’ increased as EC increased from 2 to 8 dS · m−1, then decreased significantly once EC exceeded 8 dS · m−1. Potassium concentration of ‘Pure White’ leaves decreased over the range of salinity treatments tested, suggesting that the reduced potassium ion (K+) activity at EC levels of 8 dS · m−1, or less, that resulted in lower leaf−K+ in ‘Pure White’ did not cause a decrease in K+ uptake in ‘Echo Blue’. Increases in external Na+ caused a significant increase in Na+ in ‘Pure White’ leaves and these plants exhibited the best growth even when levels of Na+ were high enough to be considered detrimental for growth.
Performance Enhancement of Calcium Oxide Sorbents for Cyclic CO2 Capture—A Review

While calcium oxide has been identified to be the best candidate for capturing CO2 at high temperature, it suffers a well-known problem of loss-in-capacity; that is, its capacity for carbon capture decays dramatically during cyclic carbonation/calcination processes. Recently, extensive research work has been conducted on the enhancement of the cyclic performance of calcium oxide through either improving the performance of natural minerals, such as water/steam hydration and pretreatment or modification of calcium oxide sorbents by some techniques such as doping and synthesis. This work summarizes the state-of-the-art research in the literature aiming to identify potential solutions to the loss-in-capacity problem. It is found that hydration during or after calcination is effective in recovering the capacity of natural minerals and mixing can produce highly effective synthetic sorbents. Periodic hydration of synthetic sorbents could be a good strategy to overcome the technical issues associated with loss-in.
A NEW METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF THE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM CHARACTERISTIC POINTS NUEVO MÉTODO DE DETECCIÓN AUTOMÁTICO DE LOS PUNTOS CARACTERÍSTICOS DE UN ELECTROCARDIOGRAMA

New methods based on the wavelet transform and on neural networks are proposed to detect the maximum, onset and offset of the ECG characteristic waves. First, modulus maximum of the wavelet transform are used to extract main information of the ECG. Neural Networks are employed to discern important modulus maximum and with them, the maximum point of a wave is detected. Then, a forward and backward search is made to detect the onset and offset of ECG waves. The detection degree of the maximum of the waves was proved using the QT Database and compared with another method. As a result, these methods can work with several morphologies of highly noisy ECGs.
University of Birmingham A critical cross-cultural study of sensorimotor and groove responses to syncopation among Ghanaian and American university students and staff

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Effect of Dao Jiang Ping (DJP) Model Based Module on Learning Result Students

Learning outcomes are an evaluation mechanism in the curriculum to achieve graduates competency standards. Student learning outcomes include cognitive, affective, and psychomotor aspects. The purpose of this research is to know the effect of DJP Model based module to student learning result of class XI. The research used experimental method with pretest-posttest control group design. The research population is all of the SMA Negeri 1 Geger with a total number of 192 students scattered into six classes. The sample which is taken by using simple random sampling technique resulted in two classes, namely XI class (experimental class using DJP Model module) which consist of 34 students and control class using teaching material in school which consist of 34 students. Data collection techniques are done through test (measuring cognitive learning outcomes) and non-tests (measuring affective and psychomotor learning outcomes). The research instruments used in this research were multiple choice questions, observation sheets, and documentation. The data were analyzed using SPSS 18 t-test with significance level of 0.05. The result of the analysis showed the experimental cognitive learning result of experimental class is higher (75,29 with 76,47% completeness) than control class (59,12 with 8,82% completeness) with significance level 0,000. The affective learning outcomes of experimental class were higher (89.78) than the control class (23.43) with significance level of 0.000. The experimental psychomotor learning outcomes of experimental class were higher (90.72) than control class (9,84) with a significance level of 0.000. Based on the results of the research can be concluded that the DJP Model-based Module gives positive effect on student learning outcomes of XI graders.
Trading Favors? UN Security Council Membership and Regional Favoritism in Aid Receiving Countries∗

We test the hypothesis that aid recipient governments are given greater discretion in distributing aid geographically for personal benefits during periods when they are non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). More specifically, we analyze whether World Bank projects are targeted to regions in which the head of state was born or regions with a large fraction of co-ethnics of the leader. We find that all regions on average receive more aid projects during UNSC years, confirming previous results. We find less evidence for beneficial treatment of leaders’ birth regions, in particular when focusing on variation within regions over time. We find no evidence of preferential treatment of co-ethnic regions in this respect, if anything the opposite, in particular in democracies and countries outside of Africa. Most importantly, we find no consistent differential impact of birth region or co-ethnicity during the years of UNSC membership, with the possible exception of co-ethnicity in non-African countries. World Bank aid thus seems to be affected by UNSC membership primarily in terms of number of projects rather than in terms of discretion over the regional allocation. ∗Preliminary draft prepared for the PEIO 2020 conference. The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors, and all errors and omissions are the authors’ own. †Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and Stockholm School of Economics, Sveavägen 65, SE-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden. ‡maria.perrotta@hhs.se §Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government, Georgetown University, 3700 O St., NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA. ¶The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA. ‖raj.desai@georgetown.edu ∗∗anders.olofsgard@hhs.se
Association of Oral Behaviors with Anxiety, Depression, and Jaw Function in Patients with Temporomandibular Disorders in China: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background The aim of this study was to investigate the association of oral behaviors (OBs) with anxiety, depression, and jaw function in patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) in China. Material/Methods A total of 537 patients diagnosed with TMD were included in this study (average age, 31.5512.08 years; 86 men [16.0%] and 451 women [84.0%]). There were 31 cases of masticatory muscle pain, 459 cases of disc displacement, and 13 cases of arthralgia/arthrosis, and 34 cases were uncategorized. Patients were assessed using the Oral Behaviors Checklist (OBC), Jaw Functional Limitation Scale (JFLS), Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) scale, and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9). The relationships between OBC scores and mouth opening, pain scores, JFLS, PHQ-9, and GAD-7 were evaluated with Spearmans correlation analysis. The median TMD symptom duration was 3 (0.5154) months; men and women did not differ significantly in symptom duration or in the number of episodes of depression and anxiety. Results The following OBs were common in patients with TMDs: putting pressure on the jaw (52.9%), chewing food on 1 side (47.5%), and holding teeth together during activities other than eating (33.3%). The OBC scores were significantly correlated with the JFLS, PHQ-9, and GAD-7 scores (P<0.01). Conclusions Patients with TMDs exhibit specific OBs, which are associated with depression, anxiety, and jaw function. It is necessary to further investigate the interaction of OBs with depression and anxiety in the development of TMDs.