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Serum Vitamin A (Retinol) Reduction in Broiler Chicks on Feed Amended with Fusarium Proliferatum Culture Material or Fumonisin B1 and Moniliformin

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Different cooperative learning grouping and problem-based instruction in promoting students ’ learning performance

The aim of this study was to explore different cooperative learning grouping and problem-based instruction in the business administration department of a technology institute or university for enhancing students’ learning performance, with the use of a marketing planning course as an example. Results of the study found that gender had an obvious effect on students’ cooperative learning attitude. In addition, after being taught by cooperative learning and problem-based instruction, homogeneous groups showed obvious improvement in teamwork competence and learning achievement; after being taught by cooperative learning and problem-based instruction, the performance of heterogeneous groups was improved in terms of cooperative learning attitude, problem-solving attitude, teamwork competence and learning achievement.
Free and Cued Recall

This study investigated the effects of organization at input and cued retrieval on the freeand cued-recall memory performance of children (all male and between the ages of 8 and 12) with and without attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Children with ADHD (N=20) recalled significantly fewer words/pictures than children without ADHD (N=25) under free and cued recall, and under conditions of low and high organization at input. The two groups did not differ on a measure of clustering. Equivalent clustering scores for the two groups indicate that both groups of children used category membership at encoding and retrieval. Children without ADHD, however, were thought to be engaging in more active retrieval strategies than ADHD children. (Contains 24 references.) (PB) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. A************'**************************************************** UAL ISSRIATININT OF ISLICATSON Mee o Educehone Rematch end ittemeesatent EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INfORMATSON CENTER (ERIO ego document hes been reproduced es mewed ttom the Dotson or openiveion oronshne it 0 Minot changes have been TWO to intensue rDrOduct quality Points of vow Or OPmen stated an that door mint do not mummy monment *Noel OERI ooemon or tooCy Free and Cued Recall Memory Performance in Children With Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder Lisa D. Hager University of Denver Running Head: FREE AND CUED RECALL Address reprint requests to the author at the Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208. This research was conducted at the University of Alabama while the author was supported by an NICHD Training Grant
Symptom severity and its clinical correlates in kleptomania.

BACKGROUND Kleptomania (compulsive stealing) remains poorly understood, with limited data regarding its underlying pathophysiology and appropriate treatment choices. METHODS Participants (N = 112) age 18 to 65 with a primary, current diagnosis of kleptomania were assessed for the severity of their stealing behavior and urges to steal, as well as related mental health symptoms. To identify clinical and demographic measures associated with variation in disease severity, we utilized the statistical technique of partial least squares. RESULTS Greater kleptomania symptom severity was associated with having more frequent urges to steal, feeling excited by stealing, having a current eating disorder, and having a current diagnosis of obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD). Worse symptom severity was associated with a shorter transition time (between first stealing and diagnosis of kleptomania), as well as with a higher chance of stealing from relatives and seeking treatment at some point. CONCLUSIONS Feeling a sense of reward from stealing and co-occurrence of certain disorders associated with compulsivity (eg, OCD, anorexia nervosa) were strongly associated with worse illness severity in kleptomania. Treatment approaches should incorporate these disorders as possible treatment targets. These data also may support conceptualizing kleptomania as an obsessive-compulsive-related disorder rather than being allied to substance use or impulsive disorders.
Robust Watermarking of Grayscale Images using Feature Extraction and DWT

Abstract— The rapid advancement and extensive growth in communication technology is creating a critical need to develop novel methods and techniques to protect copyright, ownership, authentication and content integrity of digital media. An efficient solution to this kind of problem is digital watermarking of multimedia. A watermark refers to a visible or invisible digital data to be embedded in a cover data so as to provide copyright protection at time when need arises. Numerous watermarking and steganographic methods have been presented in the literature and several watermarking software packages have been developed in past decades. Still robustness and security of watermark against a variety of attacks is one of the most important issues to be solved. In this paper, grayscale 8 bit images are considered for watermark embedding. However, techniques are proposed so that the method is directly applicable for watermarking of color images. Discrete wavelet transform is used to provide robustness and Noise Value Function (NVF) and Arnold Scrambling is used to provide security. Watermark generation is done using LL band of NVF function of original image. The watermark is then subjected to Arnold Transform to introduce randomness, thus enhancing security and improving PSNR. Embedding is done in low frequency LL band of original image. Inverse Discrete wavelet Transform is then computed to obtain the watermarked image. The results are evaluated by applying number of attacks on the watermarked image.
Farmers Choices of Precursor Crop for Wheat Production in Arsi Zone of Ethiopia

Adoption of crop rotation is seen as best agronomic practice for increasing wheat yield in Ethiopia. Most farmers lack improved farming experiences and skills. They focus on production of food crops (mainly cereals) year after year for family needs. Hence practice of crop rotation is one of the options for improving wheat yield. However, there is lack of empirical study on the factors influencing farmers’ choices of precursor crop for rotation for wheat cultivation. To fill this gap, this study identified factors influencing farmers’ choices of precursor crop to wheat planting. Cross-sectional survey data collected from randomly selected 381 farm households and multinomial logit model were used to achieve the objective. The study identified that farming experience and skill of household head, livestock holding sizes, and access to pesticides had positive and significant effects on farmers’ choices of pulse and vegetable crops being precursors to wheat planting. The study also obtained that the mean predicted probabilities were 0.58 and 0.34 for the choices being cereal and pulse crops as precursor crops to wheat planting, respectively. It is suggested that agricultural extension personnel need to focus on the factors that influenced farmers’ choices of precursor crops to break cereal monoculture system and improve wheat yield. Keywords: Wheat in Ethiopia, Precursor crop, Crop rotation, Multinomial logit model
SNA-Based Recommendation in Professional Learning Environments

Recommender systems can provide effective means to support self-organization and networking in professional learning environments. In this paper, we leverage social network analysis (SNA) methods to improve interest-based recommendation in professional learning networks. We discuss two approaches for interest-based recommendation using SNA and compare them with conventional collaborative filtering (CF)-based recommendation methods. The user evaluation results based on the ResQue framework confirm that SNA-based CF recommendation outperform traditional CF methods in terms of coverage and thus can provide an effective solution to the sparsity and cold start problems in recommender systems.
Simulation of the electric field on the surface of the sub-conductor of ±1100kV UHVDC transmission lines

Ultra high-voltage direct current (UHVDC) transmission projects of ±1100kV have been in design and construction in China, recently. The electromagnetic environment with corona discharge phenomenon of UHVDC transmission lines has been of interest for engineers. It is necessary to control the electric field strength of the sub-conductors of the power lines because the field on the lines has significant impacts on radio interference (RI), audible noise (AN) and ionized electric field on the ground. In this paper, the electric field on the sub-conductor surfaces are analyzed by the charge simulation method (CSM). The configuration of ±1100kV UHVDC power lines are suggested in order to limit the electromagnetic environment nearby, which may provide useful reference for the design of ±1100kV UHVDC transmission lines.
Indirect Feedback Compensation Technique for Multi-Stage Operational Amplifiers

Introduction To achieve high gain with continued scaling in CMOS fabrication processes, use of three-stage op-amps has become indispensable. In the progression of CMOS technology development, the supply voltage has been decreasing while the transistor threshold voltages do not effectively scale. Also the inherent gain available from the transistors has been decreasing with downsizing of the transistor gate length. The traditional techniques for achieving high gain by vertically stacking up (i.e. cascoding) the transistors, to achieve high gain are becoming difficult to realize in the modern sub-100nm processes as the threshold voltage doesn’t scale well. Thus the paradigm of vertical cascoding of transistors needs to be replaced by the horizontal cascading in order to design op-amps in low supply voltage processes. This thesis presents novel multi-stage topologies for singly ended as well as fully differential op-amps with the highest performance ever reported. We have also explored and comprehensively developed the indirect feedback compensation theory for the twostage as well as the multi-stage op-amps. The proposed indirect compensated op-amps exhibit significant improvements in speed over the traditional Miller compensated op-amps and result in much smaller layout size and lower power consumption.
R 3 D Align web server for global nucleotide to nucleotide alignments of RNA 3 D structures

The R3D Align web server provides online access to ‘RNA 3D Align’ (R3D Align), a method for producing accurate nucleotide-level structural alignments of RNA 3D structures. The web server provides a streamlined and intuitive interface, input data validation and output that is more extensive and easier to read and interpret than related servers. The R3D Align web server offers a unique Gallery of Featured Alignments, providing immediate access to pre-computed alignments of large RNA 3D structures, including all ribosomal RNAs, as well as guidance on effective use of the server and interpretation of the output. By accessing the nonredundant lists of RNA 3D structures provided by the Bowling Green State University RNA group, R3D Align connects users to structure files in the same equivalence class and the best-modeled representative structure from each group. The R3D Align web server is freely accessible at http://rna.
Evodiamine attenuates pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy

Evodiamine, a traditional Chinese herb Evodia rutaecarpa, has been shown its anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties. However, the role of evodiamine in cardiac hypertrophy and its possible molecular mechanisms remain unclear. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of evodiamine on cardiac hypertrophy and explore the possible mechanisms. Aortic banding (AB) on mice was performed to induce the models of cardiac hypertrophy. Evodiamine was administered to mice for 7 weeks begining at one week after AB or sham surgery. Cardiac function was evaluate by Echocardiography and hemodynamics; The makers of cardiac hypertrophy were measured with real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and Western blot, and cardiomyocyte apoptosis were investigated by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end-labeling (TUNEL). We found that evodiamine could attenuate pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy and cardiac fibrosis through inhibiting phosphorylated extracellular regulated protein kinases 1/2 (Erk1/2) and Akt protein expressions. Furthmore, evodiamine reduced the positive percentage of cardiomyocyte apoptosis in response to AB surgery. Therefore, evodiamine was a potential drug to inhibit cardiac hypertrophy via Erk1/2 and Akt signal pathways.
NON-FINAL VERSION BARE PPS AND THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE 1

Bare PPs, specifically sin-(bare)PPs (sin-PPs for short) – i.e. PPs headed by sin ‘without’ where the nominal complement is bare: una habitación sin luz ‘a room without light’; un cinturón sin hebilla ‘a belt without clasp’ – show interesting gradability properties. Sin-PPs allow degree modification if the N complement is a mass noun (una habitación muy sin luz ‘a room very without light’; *un cinturón muy sin hebilla ‘a belt very without clasp’). We claim that sin-PPs share syntactic and semantic properties with constructions involving light verbs that select for bare nouns. We argue that (a) a property-denoting bare NP pseudo-incorporates into a null verb have that is part of the syntactic-semantic structure of sin, and (b) sin-PPs can be coerced into gradable properties as long as the bare noun is cumulative and homogeneous. Our proposal explains the differences between sin-(bare)PPs and PPs headed by sin where the preposition selects for a QP/DP, since in the latter there is neither coercion nor pseudoincorporation of a bare noun.
Putting the Pension Back in 401(K) Plans: Optimal Versus Default Longevity Income Annuities

Most defined contribution pension plans pay benefits as lump sums, yet the US Treasury has recently encouraged firms to protect retirees from outliving their assets by converting a portion of their plan balances into longevity income annuities (LIA). These are deferred annuities which initiate payouts not later than age 85 and continue for life, and they provide an effective way to hedge systematic (individual) longevity risk for a relatively low price. Using a life cycle portfolio framework, we measure the welfare improvements from including LIAs in the menu of plan payout choices, accounting for mortality heterogeneity by education and sex. We find that introducing a longevity income annuity to the plan menu is attractive for most DC plan participants who optimally commit 8-15% of their plan balances at age 65 to a LIA that starts paying out at age 85. Optimal annuitization boosts welfare by 5-20% of average retirement plan accruals at age 66 (assuming average mortality rates), compared to not having access to the LIA. We also compare the optimal LIA allocation versus two default options that plan sponsors could implement. We conclude that an approach where a fixed fraction over a dollar threshold is invested in LIAs will be preferred by most to the status quo, while enhancing welfare for the majority of workers.
A mixed‐effects model approach for estimating the distribution of usual intake of nutrients: The NCI method

It is of interest to estimate the distribution of usual nutrient intake for a population from repeat 24‐h dietary recall assessments. A mixed effects model and quantile estimation procedure, developed at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), may be used for this purpose. The model incorporates a Box–Cox parameter and covariates to estimate usual daily intake of nutrients; model parameters are estimated via quasi‐Newton optimization of a likelihood approximated by the adaptive Gaussian quadrature. The parameter estimates are used in a Monte Carlo approach to generate empirical quantiles; standard errors are estimated by bootstrap. The NCI method is illustrated and compared with current estimation methods, including the individual mean and the semi‐parametric method developed at the Iowa State University (ISU), using data from a random sample and computer simulations. Both the NCI and ISU methods for nutrients are superior to the distribution of individual means. For simple (no covariate) models, quantile estimates are similar between the NCI and ISU methods. The bootstrap approach used by the NCI method to estimate standard errors of quantiles appears preferable to Taylor linearization. One major advantage of the NCI method is its ability to provide estimates for subpopulations through the incorporation of covariates into the model. The NCI method may be used for estimating the distribution of usual nutrient intake for populations and subpopulations as part of a unified framework of estimation of usual intake of dietary constituents. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Primary groin irradiation vs primary groin surgery for early vulvar cancer.

BACKGROUND Despite changes in technique, morbidity after surgical treatment for vulvar cancer is considerable and mainly related to the groin dissection. Primary radiotherapy to the groin is expected to result in lower morbidity. However, studies on the efficacy of primary radiotherapy for the groins in terms of groin recurrences and survival show conflicting results. OBJECTIVES To determine whether the effectiveness and safety of primary radiotherapy to the inguino-femoral lymph nodes is comparable with surgery SEARCH STRATEGY The literature search was carried out using the criteria set by the Cochrane Gynaecological Cancer Group. A MEDLINE and EMBASE search using the Mesh Heading 'vulvar neoplasms' and textword 'vulva' was performed. Publications on the effectiveness of primary radiotherapy treatment of early squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva were selected. SELECTION CRITERIA TYPE OF STUDY Randomized clinical trials, case-control and observational studies of primary radiotherapy of the groin Type of participants: Patients with early squamous cell cancer of the vulva Type of interventions: inguino-femoral lymph node dissection and primary radiotherapy of the inguino-femoral lymph nodes. Type of outcome measurements: incidence of groin recurrences, survival and morbidity DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS Two reviewers independently assessed study quality and extracted results MAIN RESULTS Out of nine reviewed papers only three met the selection criteria. From these studies, (one randomised controlled trial ¿RCT¿ one case-control and one observational study) it became clear from the RCT that the incidence of groin recurrences after primary radiotherapy is higher compared with surgery. survival was also worse in the radiotherapy group. The other two studies showed a higher than expected number of groin recurrences after primary radiotherapy. Morbidity after primary radiotherapy was lower compared with surgery. The conclusion of the RCT was criticized on the grounds of the depth of the radiotherapy administered. The depth of 3 cm used in the RCT, is too shallow to administer an optimal dose to the deeper groin nodes. REVIEWER'S CONCLUSIONS As shown in an RCT, primary radiotherapy to the groin results in less morbidity but also in a higher number of groin recurrences compared with surgery. Although the technique of radiotherapy in the RCT was criticized, other uncontrolled data do not give evidence for a similar or better groin control for radiotherapy when compared to surgery. This means that surgery is still to be considered the cornerstone of therapy for the groin nodes in women with vulvar cancer. Individual patients not fit enough to withstand surgery can be treated with primary radiotherapy.
CANopen implementation in the Zagreb tramcar

The paper deals with the several topics related to the development and production of the ultra low-floor tramcar, type TMK2200, for the city of Zagreb. During the development many electronic control units have been specified, designed and integrated into the vehicle. The communication between these control units is mostly based on CANopen. The reasons for selecting CANbus and CANopen application layer are discussed. Furthermore, several proprietary hardware and software solutions have been developed for this project. These solutions, among other, include redundant main vehicle control unit. The concept of this unit is presented, along with some details that increase vehicle reliability and availability. Finally, some experience facts and possible future improvements are also pointed out.
Who Buffers Income Losses after Job Displacement? The Role of Alternative Income Sources, the Family, and the State

Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) this paper analyses to what extent alternative income sources, reactions within the household context, and redistribution by the state attenuate earnings losses after job displacement. Applying propensity score matching and fixed effects estimations, we find high individual earnings losses after job displacement and only limited convergence. Income from self-employment slightly reduces the earnings gap and severance payments buffer losses in the short run. On the household level, we find substantial and rather persistent losses in per capita labour income. We do not find that increased labour supply by other household members contributes to the compensation of the income losses. Most importantly, our results show that redistribution within the tax and transfer system substantially mitigates income losses of displaced workers both in the short and the long run whereas other channels contribute only little.