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Microbial Populations of Fresh and Cold Stored Donkey Milk by High-Throughput Sequencing Provide Indication for A Correct Management of This High-Value Product

Donkey milk is receiving increasing interest due to its attractive nutrient and functional properties (but also cosmetic), which make it a suitable food for sensitive consumers, such as infants with allergies, the immunocompromised, and elderly people. Our study aims to provide further information on the microbial variability of donkey milk under cold storage conditions. Therefore, we analysed by high-throughput sequencing the bacterial communities in unpasteurized donkey milk just milked, and after three days of conservation at 4 °C, respectively. Results showed that fresh donkey milk was characterized by a high incidence of spoilage Gram-negative bacteria mainly belonging to Pseudomonas spp. A composition lower than 5% of lactic acid bacteria was found in fresh milk samples, with Lactococcus spp. being the most abundant. The occurrence of microbial species belonging to risk group 2 was found in fresh milk. After three days of cold storage, the bacterial biodiversity of donkey milk was strongly reduced, since about 93% of the bacterial communities were identified as different species of psychrotrophic Pseudomonas. In conclusion, we report a preliminary description of the microbial diversity of donkey milk by using a metagenomic approach and encouraging a correct exploitation of this high-value niche product.
An Assessment Tool for Impacts of Construction Performance Indicators on the Targeted Sustainability of a Company

A construction company is a dynamic system capable of transforming and passing from one quality state to another while retaining its system quality due to its properties including: - Effectiveness – ability to produce a result and to create products required by consumers; - Flexibility – ability of the production system to adapt to ever-changing external environment; - Durability – ability of the production system to produce results over a long period; - Manageability – acceptability of temporary changes in functional processes in the desired direction influenced by control action; - Reliability manifested in sustainable functioning that is ensured by the management system, cooperation with other production systems, and internal reserves. In this connection, the authors of this article have set an objective of selecting a descriptive and effective instrument of estimating losses of statistical control and, accordingly, the targeted sustainability of a construction company at the current stage of economic development in this country. They also expand on the notion of functional sustainability of construction companies as a dynamic production system. This article is focused on development of recommendations with a view of achieving the targeted functional sustainability level of construction companies in present-day conditions and disturbances. Therefore, sustainability is examined in this article as a multidimensional emergent property of a construction company viewed as a dynamic cybernetic system designed to manufacture construction products and to maintain its systemic quality in interaction with production processes.
Sucrose and substrates on the acclimatization of micropropagated Luehea divaricata plants

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of sucrose and substrates on the acclimatization of micropropagated Luehea divaricata plants. First, the effect of sucrose on in vitro growth and development of nodal segments in Woody Plant Medium reduced to its half concentration was tested. After that, these shoots were then acclimatized and the combined effect of sucrose, as previously described, plus the commercial substrates vermiculite, MecPlant® or H-decker® were tested. In the in vitro culture, root and leaf formation were superior (44%, 8.44 leaves) with 20 g L-1 sucrose, and then the presence of sucrose continued to be more efficient in the acclimatization with the MecPlant® or H-decker® commercial substrates. Sucrose at 20 g L-1 is more efficient for in vitro leaf and root formation, and the MecPlant® or H-decker® substrates may be used in acclimatization.
Institutional environment, technical executive power and agricultural enterprise innovation performance

Abstract The interaction between the organization and the institutional environment leads to organizational change or innovation. As the basic industry of China’s national economy, agricultural enterprises are transmitted from the institutional environment to the internals of the enterprise and are transformed into innovative behaviors, which ultimately form performance. Based on the research paradigm of “institution-behavior-performance”, it is of great significance to promote the association between formal and informal institutions, technical executive power and agricultural enterprise innovation performance. This article studied a sample of 164 listed agricultural enterprises from 2009 to 2017 and adopted the negative binomial regression to determine the relationship between institutional environment and innovation performance of these enterprises. The results of the studies show that the more perfect the formal system, the better the innovation performance of agricultural enterprises, while the informal system inhibits the innovation performance of enterprises. The technical executives play a positive intermediary role between formal institutions and innovation performance. However, it does not have a significant intermediary effect between informal institutions and innovation performance.
The Postreform Stage: Understanding Backlash against Sexual Policies in Latin America

In Latin America, it is difficult to win approval for policies that allow induced abortion and same-sex marriage. Social movements face more obstacles in promoting these policies than in promoting other gender and LGBTQ policies because abortion and same-sex marriage are particularly contentious issues. These policies involve doctrinal or countercultural topics, and supporters of these legislative changes must confront groups that mobilize to block these reform efforts (Blofield 2006; Corrales 2015; Díez 2015; Friedman 2019; Grzymała-Busse 2015; Htun 2003). Yet in the period following democratic transitions, some Latin American countries successfully liberalized their legislation concerning abortion and marriage equality.
Characterization of Different Subsets of Atrial Fibrillation in General Practice in France

Background—The clinical presentation and causes of atrial fibrillation (AF) in the 1990s may differ from AF seen 2 to 3 decades ago. It was the objective of this prospective study to characterize various clinical presentations and underlying conditions of patients with AF observed in general practice in France. Methods and Results—The study population comprised 756 patients (19 to 95 years of age) with electrocardiographically documented AF subdivided into paroxysmal ( 1 month) and recent onset AF(persistent >7 days and<1 month). Symptoms were present in 670 patients (88.6%). The relative prevalences of paroxysmal, chronic, and recent onset AF were 22.1%, 51.4%, and 26.4%, respectively. Cardiac disorders, present in 534 patients (70.6%), included hypertension (39.4%), coronary artery disease (16.6%), and myocardial diseases (15.3%) as the most common. Rheumatic valvular disease represented a common cause in women (25.0%) but not in men (8.0%). The paroxysmal group differed .
Business intelligence and organizational performance: The role of alignment with business process management

PurposeOrganizations introduce business intelligence (BI) to increase their performance, but often, this initiative is not aligned with the business process management (BPM) initiative, which also aims to improve organizational performance. Although some findings from the literature indicate that BI implementation has a positive impact on organizational performance, the impact seems to be indirect. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to enhance the understanding of how BI maturity is translated into organizational performance. Alignment of BI and BPM initiatives seems one possible way for creating business value with BI, particularly because BI enables process performance measurement and management, which allows the BI initiative to become more business focused.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire was prepared and used to collect data in Croatian and Slovenian organizations with more than 50 employees. A BI–BPM alignment measurement instrument was developed for the purpose of this study using the recommended process of scale development and validation. A total of 185 responses were analyzed by the structural equation modeling technique.FindingsOur results provide evidence that the effect of BI on organizational performance is fully mediated by alignment of BI and BPM initiatives, and therefore, BI business value can be generated through the use of common terminology and methodologies, as well as a strong communication between BI and BPM experts, managers and teams in order to coordinate the two initiatives.Originality/valueThis study has responded to the call for better understanding of how the impact of BI on organization performance is realized. It confirmed that BI and BPM initiatives should be aligned in order to give BI a business value.
Grouping Individual Investment Preferences in Retirement Savings: A Cluster Analysis of a USS Members Risk Attitude Survey

Cluster analysis is used to identify homogeneous groups of members of USS in terms of risk attitudes. There are two distinct clusters of members in their 40s and 50s. One had previously ‘engaged’ with USS by making additional voluntary contributions. It typically had higher pay, longer tenure, less interest in ethical investing, lower risk capacity, a higher percentage of males, and a higher percentage of academics than members of the ‘disengaged’ cluster. Conditioning only on the attitude to risk responses, there are 18 clusters, with similar but not identical membership, depending on which clustering method is used. The differences in risk aversion across the 18 clusters could be explained largely by differences in the percentage of females and the percentage of couples. Risk aversion increases as the percentage of females in the cluster increases, while it reduces as the percentage of couples increases because of greater risk sharing within the household. Characteristics that other studies have found important determinants of risk attitudes, such as age, income and (pension) wealth, do not turn out to be as significant for USS members. Further, despite being on average more highly educated than the general population, USS members are marginally more risk averse than the general population, controlling for salary, although the difference is not significant.
Conflicts in co-design: engaging with tangible artefacts in multi-stakeholder collaboration

ABSTRACT This article explores how engagement with tangible design artefacts can invite, and sustain focus on, the different professional perspectives that emerge in multi-stakeholder workshops. Multiple interests and intentions can pose challenges, especially in the initial phases of collaborative work. Existing design research emphasises the use of tangible artefacts as mediators for collaboration, but limited attention has been given to how they could be used to expose tensions and opposing perspectives as a way to enable movement beyond stuck conversation among stakeholders. We examine the design and use of two tangible artefacts for multi-stakeholder collaborative inquiry, demonstrating how interaction with them can encourage open and active confrontation of underlying and contradictory stakeholder interests and intentions. Since unspoken conflicts can undermine the early stages of collaborative inquiry, we propose that the use of tangible artefacts to explore taken-for-granted assumptions is crucial if stakeholders are to negotiate perspectives and co-create new meaning.
CMix-NN: Mixed Low-Precision CNN Library for Memory-Constrained Edge Devices

Low-precision integer arithmetic is a necessary ingredient for enabling Deep Learning inference on tiny and resource-constrained IoT edge devices. This brief presents CMix-NN, a flexible open-sourceCMix-NN is available at https://github.com/EEESlab/CMix-NN. mixed low-precision (independent tensors quantization of weight and activations at 8, 4, 2 bits) inference library for low bitwidth Quantized Networks. CMix-NN efficiently supports both Per-Layer and Per-Channel quantization strategies of weights and activations. Thanks to CMix-NN, we deploy on an STM32H7 microcontroller a set of Mobilenet family networks with the largest input resolutions ( $224\times 224$ ) and higher accuracies (up to 68% Top1) when compressed with a mixed low precision technique, achieving up to +8% accuracy improvement concerning any other published solution for MCU devices.
Children who are overweight or obese: Attitudes and beliefs of nursing students in Taiwan

Background: Overweight/obesity has increased worldwide in recent decades. The prevalence of children who are overweight/obese has also increased in Taiwan. Nursing professionals’ attitudes and beliefs may affect the quality of care for children who are overweight and obese.Purpose: To explore the attitudes and beliefs of nursing students about children who are overweight/obese in Taiwan.Methods: A self-administered translated questionnaire was completed by two groups (2-year program and 4-year program) of undergraduate nursing students in Taiwan. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and t-test.Results: Data from this study indicated that two groups (2-year program and 4-year program) of undergraduate nursing students hold positive attitudes towards overweight/obese children. The 2-year program nursing students held more neutral attitudes about overweight/obese children. Neither group had strong beliefs related to children’s eating habits.Conclusions: Education is one way to improve attitudes and beliefs towards childhood overweight/obesity. The data from this study provides information for the development of curricula for nursing students.
Yearly changes in dispersal and life‐history traits of Monochamus alternatus Hope with reference to its outbreak

The Japanese pine sawyer, Monochamus alternatus Hope, is the primary vector of the pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Steiner et Buhrer) Nickle, the causative agent of pine wilt disease in East Asia. The range of B. xylophilus expands through the dispersal capability of its vectors and transport of host trees infested with the pathogenic nematode and its vector. Outbreaks of M. alternatus populations occur together with the epidemics of pine wilt disease, because the insect reproduces on host trees recently killed by the disease. We measured some dispersal and life‐history traits of adults for four years to determine the change in flight capability and life history of a field population of beetles in relation to an outbreak. The population monitored exhibited an outbreak and subsequent collapse. The greatest mean body mass, largest area of hind wings, smallest wing load, and shortest preoviposition period were observed in the year of outbreak. By contrast, there was no difference in the ovariole number between pre‐outbreak (latent) and outbreak years. The greatest mean hind wing area and smallest wing load suggest likely result in greater flight performance. As other studies showed, adult body mass is related positively to the flight performance and oviposition rate. Moreover, a shortened preoviposition period leads to a high reproduction rate. Thus, adults in outbreak populations are “superdispersers” because they are likely to have enhanced flight capability and reproduction power. This suggests that M. alternatus populations at the onset of a population outbreak enhance the expansion rate of B. xylophilus range more than those during the latent and pre‐outbreak periods.
Consumers’ Perceptions and Attitudes toward Products Preventing Microfiber Pollution in Aquatic Environments as a Result of the Domestic Washing of Synthetic Clothes

Microfibers released by synthetic clothes have a significant negative effect on the environment. Several solutions have been proposed and evaluated for their effectiveness, but studies have failed to address the human-centered aspects of these products. In this research, the possibilities and needs from a consumer perspective for a new filtering system for domestic washing machines were examined. First, a quantitative (questionnaire) and a qualitative (interviews and observations) exploration were done to understand the desired requirements from a user perspective. Next, the acceptance of various existing solutions for microfiber catching was investigated. To verify these requirements, a new concept was designed and evaluated with a questionnaire. The results were analyzed using descriptive statistics. It can be concluded that the problem of microfibers is not well known, and the impact of people’s washing behavior is underestimated. Since microfibers are almost invisible, the effectiveness needed to be proven. Effectiveness is seen as the most important characteristic of a product that captures microfibers, followed by durability. Both factors ensure long-term usage. However, changing washing habits is not evident, and usage should be straightforward and user-friendly to save time, especially considering the new cleaning actions, which should be clear and unambiguous.
Pain management II: local and regional anaesthetic techniques

The provision of local anaesthetic blocks prior to surgery, postoperatively or for critically ill or injured patients is a powerful tool for improving the quality of pain control. When performed correctly, there are observable benefits, such as anaesthetic-sparing properties and improved patient comfort. This chapter looks at the history of pain management, pharmacology and pharmacokinetics and local anaesthetic techniques.
A Corrugated SIW Based Slot Antenna for Terahertz Application

This paper proposes a Corrugated Substrate Integrated Waveguide (CSIW) based slot antenna for THz application. A CPW to CSIW transition is realized and the antenna operates around 0.9 THz. The antenna uses Cyclo Olefin Copolymer (COC) as a dielectric material which exhibit a loss tangent of 0.0007 at THz frequencies. The proposed slot antenna has realized gain of 5.9 dB when using Gold. The radiation, as well as total efficiency of the antenna, is around 50% using Gold which increases to 85% with a gain of 7.6 dB by replacing it with Graphene.
An Efficient and Credible Multi-Source Trust Fusion Mechanism Based on Time Decay for Edge Computing

With the development of 5G, user terminal computing moves up and cloud computing sinks, thus forming a computing fusion at the edge. Edge computing with high-efficiency, real-time, and fast features will become part of 5G construction. Utilizing distributed computing and storage resources at the edge of the network to perform distributed data processing tasks can alleviate the load on the cloud computing center, which is also the development trend of edge computing. When a malicious node exists, the error information feedback by the node will affect the result of local perception decision. To solve the problem of malicious behavior of the node, a node trust evaluation mechanism of interactive behavior is introduced. The trust mechanism for edge computing network environments is introduced as a novel security solution. First, the key thought of the trust mechanism proposed in this paper is to establish a trust relationship between edge nodes in open edge computing environment. Then, a multi-source trust fusion algorithm based on time decay aggregates direct interaction trust and different third-party recommendation trust to calculate the global trust of the evaluated nodes. Finally, simulation experiments show that the algorithm has a certain degree of improvement in computational efficiency and interaction success rate over other existing models, which reduces the situation of malicious node deception.
Price Incentive-Based Charging Navigation Strategy for Electric Vehicles

With rapid development of the electric vehicle (EV) industry, charging infrastructures are built fast. However, the unreasonable deployments with increasing EVs contribute to a long queuing time for charging demand of EVs, especially in the peak hours. How to navigate a specific EV to economically satisfy its charging demand, while relieve the traffic burden, is an urgent problem. To address that, a price incentive-based charging navigation strategy for EVs is proposed. Unlike previous charging navigation studies that mainly focus on the EVs-transportation-power systems modeling, it considers the spatial-temporal influence of EVs’ charging decision, especially the simultaneous charging requests. Specifically, the charging navigation framework with the collaborative working mode of EV-charging station-information exchange center-intelligent transportation system is established first. Following this, spatiotemporal distribution of the charging demand is obtained through the origin–destination analysis. After this, an event-driven dynamic queue model is constructed. It contributes to the modeling of the charging strategy, together with the proposed reservation opportunity cost mechanism. Finally, the simulation results indicate that the presented charging navigation strategy can not only reduce the EV's charging cost but also improve the utilization rate of charging facilities, which verify its effectiveness.
Leaving an Expert and Returning a Novice: Exploring the Transition of Clinical Nurse Experts to Novice Nurse Educators

The ability of nursing programs to educate future registered professional nurses is being hindered by a shortage of nurse educators. With this shortage, healthcare systems that employ and rely on registered nurses will encounter a decreased number of new nurses entering the profession. As a result, the shortage in both areas will affect the safety of patients in need of nursing care. Understanding the lived experiences of novice nurse educators can provide evidence of the challenges and positive factors that are encountered during the transition process. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of clinical nurse experts who transitioned to novice nurse educators employed at associate degree nursing programs in New York State. A convenience and snowball sampling of five novice nurse educators was used. Findings from the study were consistent with the research presented in the literature review indicating that novice nurse educators face challenges that affect the transition experienced. Additionally, the study supported the research that positive factors can create an environment conducive to easing the transition. Recommendations include the development of formalized competency-based orientation and mentorship programs that create a supportive environment. Similarly, the novice nurse educators should advocate for their needs and have a clear understanding of what responsibilities are expected of them in their new role. Facilitating a successful transition and addressing the needs of the novice nurse educators is essential if more registered nurses are to be trained to meet the anticipated demand. Document Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Education (EdD) Department Executive Leadership First Supervisor Kim VanDerLinden Second Supervisor Julie White Subject Categories Education This dissertation is available at Fisher Digital Publications: https://fisherpub.sjfc. edu/education_etd/352 Leaving an Expert and Returning a Novice: Exploring the Transition of Clinical Nurse Experts to Novice Nurse Educators