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Quantifying the largest aggregation of giant trevally Caranx ignobilis (Carangidae) on record: implications for management

The giant trevally Caranx ignobilis (Forsskål) is an important apex predatory fish typically associated with coral reef communities. It is prized in recreational and commercial fisheries, yet little is known about its aggregation dynamics and susceptibility to fishing pressure. This study reports on a previously undocumented aggregation of mature giant trevally observed over a period of eight years (2010–2017) at Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve in southern Mozambique. The aggregation is one of the few recorded for this carangid in the western Indian Ocean and represents the first subtropical aggregation of giant trevally. The aggregation is also the largest recorded for this species, with up to 2 413 individuals representing an estimated biomass of approximately 30 tonnes. The size and predictability of this annual aggregation make it vulnerable to overexploitation and point towards the need for an appropriate conservation management strategy.
Assessment of serum lactate levels, blood glucose values and blood gas values in sheep, newborn lambs and placenta

ABSTRACT: Newborn animals, in the fetal-to-neonatal transition, usually face several challenges in their first 24 hours, including issues with acid-base balance, glycemic levels and oxygenation. Difficulties to overcome such issues have caused several deaths among newborns. Therefore, studies have been carried out in order to evaluate them. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the correlation between the serum lactate level in the mother, in the placenta and in the newborn. Moreover, the study measured the lactate level, blood glucose level and blood gas level in the first 24 hours. Tests were carried out right after birth, and at 4, 8, 12 and 24 hours after. Lactate levels were quite similar to the placental levels (p=0.991) which, in turn, were significantly different from the mother’s (p=0.011). Results showed that, shortly after birth, the production of lactate in the placenta is part of the issue. Along the first 24 hours, the study observed a reduction of the levels of lactate in newborns; the levels were closer to the normal index levels for the species. Regarding the blood gas test results, we observed mild metabolic acidosis at birth; acid-base balance was completely stable at the end of the period.
TORC2 dependent phosphorylation modulates calcium regulation of fission yeast myosin

All cells have the ability to respond to changes in their environment. Signalling networks modulate cytoskeleton and membrane organisation to impact cell cycle progression, polarised cell growth and multicellular development according to the environmental setting. Using diverse in vitro, in vivo and single molecule techniques we have explored the role of myosin-1 signalling in regulating endocytosis during both mitotic and meiotic cell cycles. We have established that a conserved serine within the neck region of the sole fission yeast myosin-1 is phosphorylated in a TORC2 dependent manner to modulate myosin function. Myo1 neck phosphorylation brings about a change in the conformation of the neck region and modifies its interaction with calmodulins, Myo1 dynamics at endocytic foci, and promotes calcium dependent switching between different calmodulin light chains. These data provide insight into a novel mechanism by which myosin neck phosphorylation modulates acto-myosin dynamics to control polarised cell growth in response to mitotic and meiotic cell-cycle progression and the cellular environment.
Land suitability evaluation for crops in Eturunagaram division of Warangal District, Telangana State

Six typical Pedon from central and eastern part of Warangal district, Eturunagaram division in Telangana State were evaluated for their suitability to major crops viz, rice, cotton, maize, redgram and chilli. In the study area, 6 pedons samples were collected and characterized. Crop suitability classification was carried our adopting FAO guidelines. The suitability classes ranged from highly suitable to permanently not suitable to these crops. Pedon 1 was not suitable for rice, moderately suitable for maize and chilliess and highly suitable for redgram. Pedon 2 was highly suitable for maize chillieds and redgram slightly suitable for rice cultivation and moderately suitable for cotton cropping. Pedon 3 moderately suitable for cultivationof the irrigated-dry crops maize, cotton, chilli and redgram and highly suitable for rice cultivation due to drainage related constraints. Very severe soil limitations in pedon 4 made it unsuitable to cultivation of arable crops except redgram, for wchih it was slightly suitable. Maize, chilli and redgram cultivation was highly suitable for pedon 5 soils. Pedon 6 was moderaly sutiable for cultivation of the irrigated dry crops and highly cuitable for cultivation of rice crop. Soil constraint analysis was done and remedial measures were also suggested.
FACTORS INFLUENCING COMPLIANCE WITH IMMUNIZATION REGIMEN AMONG MOTHERS IN BASRAH, IRAQ

Introduction: Immunization is a proven tool for controlling and eliminating the life-threatening infectious diseases among children. In most developed countries, immunization programs have had dramatic success in reducing morbidity and mortality rate significantly. Although the children received immunization free of charge, the immunization status in developing countries did not achieve the immunization targets of the WHO. The factors and barriers that influence the immunization program include child demographic factors, family factors and other factors. Purpose: It was to evaluate immunization completeness among children younger than 2 years, demographic characteristics and familial data associated with immunization rates and the reasons of immunization incompleteness as reported by the mothers attending PHC centers in Basrah. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in four PHC centers in Basrah during a period of February to April 2019; two hundred twenty five mothers with children aged below 2 years were interviewed. Results: About one third of children were incompletely immunized. The study found significant association of immunization completeness with child’s age (P < 0.05). Other demographic factors (child’s gender, birth weight, mother’s education, occupation and family income) were insignificantly associated with immunization completeness (P > 0.05). The most reported reasons for incomplete immunization were: remoteness of PHC centers and transportation problems, fear, negligence and forgetfulness, vaccine unavailability and child’s illness. Conclusion: Incomplete immunization was observed in (29.8%) of the children, which represent an alarming percentage.
Seed Rain and Disturbance Impact Recruitment of Invasive Plants in Upland Forest

Abstract A critical question in invasion biology involves the relative importance of propagule rain and community invasibility. For plant invasions, invasibility is often related to disturbance, but few studies of forest invaders have simultaneously investigated both canopy and ground-level disturbance. We investigated the relative importance of seed rain, canopy disturbance, and soil disturbance in a mature forest in Maryland on the recruitment of four invasive species: wine raspberry (Rubus phoenicolasius Maxim.), Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii DC), multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora Thunb.), and Japanese stiltgrass [Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus]. Using complete censuses of a 9-ha plot at two points in time (2011-12 and 2014), we mapped new recruits, and related their locations to canopy and soil disturbance, as well as to a seed rain index based on locations of reproducing plants and seed-dispersal kernels. We found that propagule rain, as measured by the seed rain index, was a significant predictor of recruitment for B. thunbergii, R. phoenicolasius, and M. vimineum. For R. multiflora, seed sources were not located, precluding assessment of propagule rain, but recruitment was linked to canopy disturbance, as was recruitment of M. vimineum. However, because reproduction of R. phoenicolasius and, in some years, of B. thunbergii is higher in treefall gaps, these gaps experience higher propagule rain, with the result that recruitment is indirectly associated with these gaps. Ground-layer disturbance was an important predictor of recruitment only for B. thunbergii. Our findings reveal that the importance of propagule rain is the most consistent driver of recruitment, but canopy or ground-layer disturbance promotes recruitment of some invasive plant species.
The impact of feeding corn dried distillers grains with solubles on milk yield and composition in lactating Awassi ewes and digestibility and N partitioning in Awassi ewe lambs

Abstract The effect of corn dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) on milk yield, milk composition and body weight (BW) and digestibility were evaluated by using lactating ewe (Exp. 1) and Awassi ewe lambs (Exp. 2). Dietary treatments were (1) no DDGS (CON), (2) 200 gkg−1 DDGS (DDGS200) or (3) 300 gkg−1 DDGS (DDGS300) of dietary dry matter (DM). In Exp. 1, 30 lactating Awassi ewes were randomly assigned to the corresponding diets. Nutrient intakes were determined daily throughout the experiment which lasted for 8 weeks. Body weights of ewes and lambs were measured on days 0, 28 and 56 of the study whilst milk yield and composition were recorded on days 18, 36 and 54. Ewe BW changes were similar amongst treatments. Ewes consuming the DDGS diet showed increased milk production (p<.045) over those provided the CON diet. Cost of diets and milk production reduced (p=.01) in DDGS-containing diets compared with the CON diet. In Exp. 2, 18 Awassi ewe lambs were randomly assigned into the same dietary treatments and fed their diets for 21 days. Digestibility of DM and ADF was lower (p<.017) for the CON diet than for the DDGS diets. Digestibility of CP and NDF increased (p<.036) in the DDGS200 diet than the CON diet. Results indicate DDGS has the potential to be included up to 300 gkg−1 of dietary DM of DDGS in Awassi ewes’ diets with no negative effects on production parameters whilst being cost effective. Highlights Cost of feed and milk production decreased in DDGS diets. Milk production increased in DDGS diets. Milk composition was similar among diets.
Laparoscopic repair for perforated peptic ulcer: our experience, a comparison with the open approach and a review of the literature.

Backgrounds: The incidence of perforated peptic ulcers has decreased during the last decades but the optimal treatment for these patients remains controversial. At the same time, a laparoscopic approach to this condition has been adopted by an increased number of surgeons. Therefore, this study wants to evaluate the postoperative results of the laparoscopic treatment of perforated peptic ulcer performed in one Italian center with extensive experience in laparoscopic surgery. Methods: This retrospective study includes 94 patients who were operated for perforated peptic ulcer peritonitis at “St. Orsola Hospital - Emergency Surgery Unit - University of Bologna” from May 2014 to December 2019. The patients’ charts were reviewed for demographics, surgical procedure, complications, and short-term outcomes. Results: The diagnosis was made clinically and confirmed by the presence of gas under diaphragm on abdominal X-ray. All patients underwent primary suture repair with or without omentopexy. Boey score 0 or 1 was found in 66 (70%) patients, Boey 2 or 3 in 28 (30%) patients. The operative time was between 35 and 255 minutes, with a mean of 93 minutes. The overall median hospital stay was 9.5 (1-60) days. Post-operative complications occurred in 19 (20%) patients and 18 (19%) patients died. Conclusions: Perforated peptic ulcer is a severe condition that requires early hospital admission and immediate surgery. Laparoscopy in experienced centers and for selected patients is safe, associated with optimal outcomes and should be the preferred approach.
Implementation of Curriculum Kuttab Al-Fatih on Children at an Early Age

This research aimed to describe the implementation of the curriculum "Faith before Qur'an and Manners before Knowledge" on Children at an early age and to find out whether “learning through play” is implemented in Kuttab Al-Fatih. This research is field research with a qualitative approach. The data was collected through observation, interviews, and documentations, then analyzed and presented through descriptive techniques. The result shows that Kuttab integrates the internal curriculum with thematic learning of K13 of Early Childhood Education. The curriculum of Kuttab is supported by parents' participation. In the implementation of curriculum, faith and manners are firstly built when children enroll in kuttab and continuously strengthened during the learning process. Faith is built through stories and based on the method of delivering verses in the Qur'an. "Manners before Knowledge" is implemented through manners of education management, educating teachers as role models of manners, and preparation of student's manners before learning. The concept of "learning through play" is not implemented in Kuttab because learning has its manners.
Influence of Seed Biopriming with Microbial Inoculants on Seed Quality Parameters in Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merril]

The present investigation was carried out in the Department of Seed Science and Technology, College of Forestry, Ranichauri, Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand during 2015. A laboratory experiment was conducted to find out the influence of bio-priming on seed germination and seedling vigour. Seed germination was reported maximum for Psf-173 (93.66%) while minimum was reported for control (65.66%). Seed vigour parameter viz. root length (11.01 cm), shoot length (7.96 cm), seedling length (18.98 cm), fresh weight (8.00 g) and dry weight (1.31 g), vigour index I (1666.80) and vigour index II (115.56) was found higher for PSB treatment. Shilajeet variety had recorded significant higher values for most of the germination and vigour parameters. Shilajeet bio-primed with PSB attained higher values for majority of the quality parameters. Under laboratory condition results suggested that seed germination and seed vigour were greatly affected by different bio-agents. Among all the bio-agents, PSB showed positive influence on most of the quality parameter. However, other bio-agents had also showed significant effect over control.
Massive Scale Streaming Graphs: Evolving Network Analysis and Mining

Social Network Analysis has become a core aspect of analyzing networks today. As statistics blended with computer science gave rise to data mining in machine learning, so is the social network analysis, which finds its roots from sociology and graphs in mathematics. In the past decades, researchers in sociology and social sciences used the data from surveys and employed graph theoretical concepts to study the patterns in the underlying networks. Nowadays, with the growth of technology following Moore’s Law, we have an incredible amount of information generating per day. Most of which is a result of an interplay between individuals, entities, sensors, genes, neurons, documents, etc., or their combinations. With the emerging line of networks such as IoT, Web 2.0, Industry 4.0, smart cities and so on, the data growth is expected to be more aggressive. Analyzing and mining such rapidly generating evolving forms of networks is a real challenge. There are quite a number of research works concentrating on analytics for static and aggregated networks. Nevertheless, as the data is growing faster than computational power, those methods suffer from a number of shortcomings including constraints of space, computation and stale results. While focusing on the above challenges, this dissertation encapsulates contributions in three major perspectives: Analysis, Sampling, and Mining of streaming networks. Stream processing is an exemplary way of treating continuously emerging temporal data. Therefore, in this dissertation, we propose algorithms that comply with single-pass and limited memory for processing. Additionally, to deal with the situations where data generation speed is higher than the processing speed, we present dynamic sampling on evolving networks. Dynamic sampling in streaming scenarios is capable of efficiently managing in-memory data for high-speed networks; This makes it a powerful means to serve many problems such as performing analytics, maintaining sufficient statistics, quantifying changes, real-time learning or running queries and applications on evolving data. However, the samples need to be representative of the structural and topological properties, changing behaviors, distributions, and patterns in the networks. Here, we present some fast and effective memoryless sampling techniques biased to recency and the strength of changing relationships in an evolving network. They are also empirically proved to be closely preserving some important properties and distributions in various evolving networks. We also exploit them with the application perspective. Additionally, in this work, we introduce, analyze and recognize the significance of recurring links and develop a fast and scalable predictive model for recurring links in temporal network streams. Another contemporary application of network analytics is
Supplemental Irrigation through Drip in Kharif Maize + Redgram Intercropping System

Maize and red gram is grown as inter crops during Kharif under rain fed condition in sandy loam soils of Telangana and A.P. Maize because of its short duration, fast growing nature, proliferates well and utilizes more efficiently the available growth resources in the initial growth period. On the other hand, the long duration red gram is cultivated in wide row spacing and its slow growth in the initial period which facilitates growing of these two crops as intercrops which is a common practice in rain fed areas. For effective utilization of available growth resources and realize the income at least one International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 5 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
CONTRIBUTION OF NITROGEN AND PHOSPHATE FERTILIZER IN THE INITIAL GROWTH OF Toona ciliata and Eucalyptus grandis

The growth of forest species is affected by nutritional restrictions. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the contribution of nitrogen and phosphate fertilization to the initial growth of forest species implanted in field. For this purpose, two experiments were carried out for 11 months, using a randomized complete block design with four replications, in a 2 x 4 factorial arrangement: two forest species (Toona ciliata and Eucalyptus grandis), four nitrogen doses in Experiment I (0, 25, 50 and 75 kg ha-1 of N) and four phosphorus doses in experiment II (0, 50, 100 and 150 kg ha-1 of P2O5). The evaluated parameters were: plant height, diameter at breast height and leaf concentration of nutrients. The data were submitted to analysis of variance. Adjusted regression models were based on the applied amounts of nutrients. The contribution of nitrogen fertilization to growth in height and diameter was equal in forest species, indicating the dose of 47 kg ha -1 of nitrogen with higher growth in the average of the two parameters evaluated. Phosphate fertilization showed no response in the growth of forest species due to the adequate phosphorus content of the soil in which the experiment was conducted. The leaf concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus were not altered by the respective nutrient doses applied in the forest species. However, higher nutrient concentrations were observed in T. ciliata, indicating higher nutritional requirement compared to E. grandis
Evaluating Corporate Credit Risks in Emerging Markets

Abstract Corporate leverage among emerging market firms went up considerably after the 2007–09 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). We investigate how the increased emerging market corporate leverage in the post-GFC period (2010–15) impacted the underlying credit risk, compared to the pre-GFC (2002–2006) and GFC (2007–09) periods. Using firm-level credit risk, financial, and balance sheet data for 350 firms in 23 emerging markets, we find that leverage growth leads to a significant increase in corporate credit default swap (CDS) spreads only in the post-GFC period, and the incremental effect is mainly evident among risky firms (firms with high leverage and idiosyncratic volatility). In contrast, emerging market CDS spreads during the GFC period are mainly driven by global market risk factors. The post-GFC corporate debt vulnerability is mitigated for high growth prospect firms and firms domiciled in countries with high net capital inflows and superior governance. While corporate leverage growth impacts aggregate corporate credit risk, there is no evidence that it increases sovereign credit risk. Our paper contributes to the recent literature on potential sources of default risk in emerging markets.
Classroom Participation in EFL Speaking Classes: Students’ Perceptions

make oral presentations, discussion, and role play are examples of such practice. In particular, highly involved students are likely to spend more time, energy, and efforts on completing their studies, participate actively in activities, and interact with others to achieve their desired goals (Astin, 1984, 1999). On the other hand, poorly involved students tend to neglect their studies, fail to focus on given assignments or interact with other peers or their teacher. Krause and Coates (2008)further advocate Astin’s (1984)theory of involvement as they stress that student involvement is targeted at the quality of effort and energy that influences student learning at a desirable level. It is therefore student involvement in the learning process that characterizes behavioral aspect that promotes academic performance (Carini, Kuh, & Klein, 2006), critical thinking (Garside, 1996; Gellin, 2003), learning outcomes (Pike, Kuh, & Gonyea, 2003),and personal growth(Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005). Taken altogether, the theory of student involvement confirms the trajectories of the interactive process of student learning, personal development, and the contextwhere they endeavor to attain their academic goals over time. Abstract: Although classroom participation has gained its increasing interest in influencing how students speak English as a foreign or second language, there still remains little research exploring this potential instructional practice in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. This paper therefore considers students’ perceptions about participation in speaking classes. Data collected in this descriptive study include questionnaire and interview. One hundred and four students participated in this study. The findings of this study reveal that students perceived oral participation at a high level. The paper concludes by presenting pedagogical implications and directions for further research.