Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Thermal tolerance, performance, and physiology of egg-type pullets when subjected to different levels of heat stress during the brooding and growing phases sequentially

The thermal environment may affect the performance and physiology of poultry, especially when subjected to high temperatures. One mean of reducing deleterious thermal effects during production is to acclimatize birds during their initial weeks. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the impact of heat stress during the pullet growing phase and to determine whether exposing chicks to one of three different temperatures during the brooding phase served to acclimate pullets to subsequent heat stress. Additionally, verifies the effects of different air temperature levels, during the growing phase, on performance seeking to identify the ideal environmental temperature for pullets during this life stage. A total of 648 chicks (Lohmann LSL Lite), with 1 day of age and uniform weights, from the same hatchery, were used in two different phases, namely Phase I initial (day 1 to 6 weeks of age – brooding phase) and Phase II (weeks 7 through 17 – growing phase). During the Phase I chicks were randomly divided in 3 groups of 216 chicks, and each group was subjected to one of three different environmental temperatures: thermal comfort, hot or cold. From the 7 th week through the 17 th week of age, each group of 54 pullets from each Phase I environment w as subjected to one of four daytime thermal treatments: Thermal Comfort (20/20 oC), Mild Heat Stress (25/20 °C); Moderate Heat Stress (30/20 °C); Severe Heat Stress (35/20 °C), with the purpose of evaluating the influence of the different thermal environments to which the birds were subject ed during Phase I, on the development and performance on Phase II. During Phase II for all treatments the night temperature was 20/20 °C. Performance measures, including body
Food Democracy for All? Developing a Food Hub in the Context of Socio-Economic Deprivation

This article proposes a localised and differentiated understanding of food democracy, or rather a plurality of localised food democracies. Based on the experiences of developing a local food hub in an area of socio-economic deprivation in the UK using a participatory action research (PAR) approach, it presents local responses to three key challenges derived from the literature. It argues that for civic food networks (CFNs) to contribute to a transition towards a food democracy, they need to address challenges of: 1) balancing ethical aspirations for environmental sustainability, social justice, as well as community and individual health; 2) developing the skills required for participation in CFNs; and 3) achieving wider impact on food system transformation beyond niche solutions. The responses, or tactics, presented in this article include flexible ethical standards responding to community needs, accessible participation focusing on relationships rather than skills, and a focus on local impact while striving to collaborate and network with other organisations. It thus frames food democracy as a plurality of approaches to build and replicate CFNs. The article positions PAR with its democratic and localised approach to address real-world problems as uniquely suited to navigate the challenges of CFNs. It also discusses the role of researchers in initiating, facilitating, and shaping such processes of food system democratisation as engaged actors.
A homozygous activating ATAD1 mutation impairs postsynaptic AMPA receptor trafficking 2 and causes a lethal encephalopathy with congenital stiffness

55 Members of the AAA+ superfamily of ATPases are involved in the unfolding of proteins and 56 disassembly of protein complexes and aggregates. ATAD1 encoding the ATPase family, AAA+ 57 domain containing 1-protein Thorase plays an important role in the function and integrity of 58 mitochondria and peroxisomes. Postsynaptically, Thorase controls the internalization of 59 excitatory, glutamatergic AMPA receptors (AMPAR) by disassembling complexes between the 60 AMPAR-binding protein, GRIP1, and the AMPAR subunit GluA2. Using whole-exome 61 sequencing, we identified a homozygous frameshift mutation in the last exon of ATAD1 62 [c. 1070_1071delAT; p.(His357Argfs*15)] in three siblings who presented with a severe, lethal 63 encephalopathy associated with stiffness and arthrogryposis. Biochemical and cellular 64 analyses show that the C-terminal end of Thorase mutant gained a novel function which 65 strongly impacts its oligomeric state, reduces stability or expression of a set of Golgi, 66 peroxisomal and mitochondrial proteins and affects disassembly of GluA2AMPAR and Thorase 67 oligomer complexes. Atad1 -/- neurons expressing Thorase mutant His357Argfs*15 display reduced 68 amount of GluA2 at the cell surface suggesting that the Thorase mutant may inhibit the 69 recycling back and/or reinsertion of AMPARs to the plasma membrane. Taken together, our 70 molecular and functional analyses identify an activating ATAD1 mutation as a new cause of 71 severe encephalopathy and congenital stiffness.
Experimental and Modelling Analysis of Liquid-Liquid Formation in Alcohol-mixed Gasoline Fuel

To tackle the environmental and sustainability problems, substituting gasoline, partially or solitary with bio-based alcohols becomes global practice. Bioethanol and biomethanol are being blended with gasoline in the ratio between 5-100 % by volume varying on the region. Various studies show positive impact of utilizing the blended fuel environmentally, while the others report the adequate efficiency of the blended fuel compare to the conventional gasoline; however, there were nearly no report on the failure or the shorten lifespan of the engine parts such as a high pressure pump (HPP) or an injector. It has been reported that water residue in the blended-bioethanol and biomethanol could cause the formation of the second liquid phase, leading to the chemical ageing reaction, which resulted in the corrosion of the HPP. To understand and prevent the damage, a quaternary behaviour of the blended gasoline-ethanol-methanol-water at the HPP operating condition is needed. In this work, an experimental study of the quaternary behaviour of the blended fuels has been conducted, the experimental data have been matching with the simulated results for better predictive of the mixture behaviour at different conditions. These results could potentially lead to limit or eliminate the HPP-corrosive problem.
Outbreak of pediatric Scrub Typhus in South India: A preliminary report

Abstract Contrary to the earlier view that Scrub Typhus (ST) is a disease of the Far East, it is now known to be more widely prevalent. In India, ST has now been reported from several areas where it was previously unknown. An outbreak of ST involving 40 children in a small hamlet in Southern India during five cooler months, November, 2011 to March, 2012 is described in this paper. The clinical suspicion was based on fever along with features such as presence of an eschar, hepatomegaly, thrombocytopenia, raised hepatic enzymes, etc. A presumptive diagnosis of ST was made when the rapid immunochromatography test (RICT) for ST IgM/IgG/IgA was positive. All but two samples (95%) were later found positive by conventional ELISA for ST IgM, with many showing agglutinins for Proteus OXK antigen with varying titers. Children responded well to treatment with azithromycin (37) or doxycycline (3) with defervescence within one to three days. Most children were in the age group of 0–5 years (47.5%) and boys (67.5%) outnumbered girls. We recommend that ST has to be considered in the differential diagnosis when investigating outbreaks of unexplained fever in children in India.
Acculturation, and Psychological Health in Korean Immigrants

This study aimed to explore the levels of John Henryism (JH) active coping and its association with acculturation status and psychological health (specifically perceived stress, acculturative stress, anxiety, and depression) in Korean immigrants to the United States. In 102 Korean immigrants, JH active coping was measured by the JH Scale; acculturation by the Bidimensional Acculturation Scale; perceived stress by the Perceived Stress Scale; acculturative stress by the Social, Attitudinal, Familial, and Environmental Scale; anxiety by the State Anxiety Subscale of the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory; and depression by the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. The levels of JH active coping in this sample of Korean immigrants appear to be lower than the levels reported in other racial groups. Independent of demographic factors, JH active coping was a significant predictor of higher acculturation status and better psychological health as indicated by lower levels of perceived stress, acculturative stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms.
Molecular epidemiology of Blastocystis

Blastocystis pathogenicity and classification was newly illuminated with molecular genetic studies and recently the parasite was found in the focus of many researchers. Several molecular methods such as; polymerase chain reaction (PCR), PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism, random amplified polymorphic DNA, real-time polymerase chain reaction and DNA sequencing analyses can be used in genotyping of Blastocystis . Blastocystis parasites may cause diarrhea, abdominal pain, bloating, gas, irritability, anorexia, cramps, vomiting, dehydration, insomnia, nausea, loss of appetite, weight loss, fatigue symptoms and also could be asymptomatic cases. In this review, it was aimed to summarize the associations between Blastocystis subtypes and pathogenicity. Key words: Blastocystis , subtype, pathogenicity
Semantic Order Compatibilities and Their Discovery

Ordered domains such as numbers and dates are common in real-life datasets. The SQL standard includes an ORDER BY clause to sort the results, and there has been research work on formalizing, reasoning about, and automatically discovering order dependencies among columns in a table. However, a crucial assumption made in research and practice is that the order over a column is syntactic: numbers are ordered numerically, strings lexicographically and dates chronologically. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to relax this assumption. We present a generalized definition of order compatibilities that allows semantic orders such as (low, medium, high) or (excellent, very good, good, average, poor). We show that in general, validating whether there exists a semantic order relationship between columns is NP-complete, with some tractable special cases. We give an algorithm to automatically discover semantic order relationships in the data, we provide examples of interesting orders found by our algorithm that were missed by existing algorithms, and we show that the NP-complete validation cases do not occur frequently in practice.
A report to the Department of Health and the NHS Future Forum Integrated care for patients and populations: Improving outcomes by working together

This paper has been written as a contribution to the work of the NHS Future Forum and in support of the government’s espoused aim of placing integrated care at the heart of the programme of NHS reform. Integrated care is essential to meet the needs of the ageing population, transform the way that care is provided for people with long-term conditions and enable people with complex needs to live healthy, fulfilling, independent lives. It can be delivered without further legislative change or structural upheaval. The aims of integrated care are widely supported by NHS staff as well as patient groups, and taking forward the proposals set out in this paper would therefore be welcomed by key stakeholders.
FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH PECULIARITIES AND MODIFICATIONS OF THE WHEELER RETARDATION

What has been given consideration in the paper, are peculiarities of fatigue crack growth, ones referred to curves of a crack length vs. the number of cycles or the rate of propagation vs. the range of stress intensity factor, i.e. the curves typical of tests with overloads applied in cycles – for the PA7 aluminium alloy and 18G2A steel. Difficulties with the model-based description (based on the Wheeler retardation model) of fatigue crack growth have been shown as due to the peculiarities discussed.
Growth performance of juveniles Oreochromis niloticus (Nile Tilapia) reared in concrete tanks with two different diets

This research was carried out to study growth performance and survival rates of Juveniles Oreochromis niloticus L fed with two different diets: aqualis feed (AF) a commercial feed and University Fish feed (UFF) formulated using locally available ingredients. The study was carried out at Umaru Musa Yar’adua University Katsina State Nigeria between June September, 2017. Three hundred (300) fishes having an average weight of (2.502.75g) were randomly distributed into twelve (12) concrete ponds measuring (0.98m x 1.07m x 0.70 m) in quadruplicates. The fish were fed two (2) times based on 10% of their cumulative body weights for a period of fifteen (15) weeks. Water parameters of the experimental ponds were monitored and measured regularly using standard methods. Results indicated significant differences in growth performance between the fish fed with two different diets and the control. The highest growth performance in terms of final body weight, weight gain, specific growth rate were observed in the fish fed with aqualis (173.00±21 g, 170.40±19.8, 3.99±0.38% day-1), followed by the UFF (98.12±5.8 g, 96.62±4.1 g, 3.49±0.95% day-1), while the control had the lowest (75.65±6.8 g, 72.95±5.85 g, 3.17±0.42% day-1). Logarithmic ‘b’ values ranged between (0.89±0.30 1.43±0.59) and indicated negative allometric growth pattern in all the fishes. Condition factor ranged from 2.42 to 3.48. Temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen and transparency of the ponds were within the recommended levels for the survival of O. niloticus. Further research is recommended using local ingredients to complement the expensive fish feeds available in our markets.
Cross-Lingual Passage Re-Ranking With Alignment Augmented Multilingual BERT

The task of Cross-lingual Passage Re-ranking (XPR) aims to rank a list of candidate passages in multiple languages given a query, which is generally challenged by two main issues: (1) the query and passages to be ranked are often in different languages, which requires strong cross-lingual alignment, and (2) the lack of annotated data for model training and evaluation. In this article, we propose a two-stage approach to address these issues. At the first stage, we introduce the task of Cross-lingual Paraphrase Identification (XPI) as an extra pre-training to augment the alignment by leveraging a large unsupervised parallel corpus. This task aims to identify whether two sentences, which may be from different languages, have the same meaning. At the second stage, we introduce and compare three effective strategies for cross-lingual training. To verify the effectiveness of our method, we construct an XPR dataset by assembling and modifying two monolingual datasets. Experimental results show that our augmented pre-training contributes significantly to the XPR task. Besides, we directly transfer the trained model to test on out-domain data which are constructed by modifying three multi-lingual Question Answering (QA) datasets. The results demonstrate the cross-domain robustness of the proposed approach.
Coccolithophore productivity at the western Iberian Margin during the Middle Pleistocene (310–455 ka) – evidence from coccolith Sr∕Ca data

Abstract. Coccolithophores contribute significantly to marine primary productivity and play a unique role in ocean biogeochemistry by using carbon for photosynthesis (soft-tissue pump) and for calcification (carbonate counter pump). Despite the importance of including coccolithophores in Earth system models to allow better predictions of the climate system's responses to planetary change, the reconstruction of coccolithophore productivity mostly relied on proxies dependent on accumulation and sedimentation rates and preservation conditions. In this study we used an independent proxy, based on the coccolith fraction (CF) Sr∕Ca ratio, to reconstruct coccolithophore productivity. We studied the marine sediment core MD03-2699 from the western Iberian margin (IbM), concentrating on glacial–interglacial cycles of Marine Isotopic Stage (MIS) 12 to MIS 9. We found that IbM coccolithophore productivity was controlled by changes in the oceanographic conditions, such as in sea surface temperature (SST) and nutrient availability, and by competition with other phytoplankton groups. Long-term coccolithophore productivity was primarily affected by variations in the dominant surface water mass. Polar and subpolar surface waters during glacial substages were associated with decreased coccolithophore productivity, with the strongest productivity minima concomitant with Heinrich-type events (HtEs). Subtropical, nutrient-poorer waters, increased terrigenous input, and moderate to strong upwelling during the deglaciation and early MIS11 are hypothesized to have attributed a competitive advantage to diatoms to the detriment of coccolithophores, resulting in intermediate coccolithophore productivity levels. During the progression towards full glacial conditions an increasing presence of nutrient-richer waters, related to the growing influence of transitional surface waters and/or intensified upwelling, probably stimulated coccolithophore productivity to maxima following the rapid depletion of silica by diatoms. We present conceptual models of the carbon and carbonate cycle components for the IbM in different time slices that might serve as a basis for further investigation and modelling experiments.
With Odontoid Peg Fracture: A Case Report Neglected Jefferson Fracture-Dislocation of Atlas Associated Occipitocervical Fusion and Posterior Fossa Decompression in

Background: Only a few cases of traumatic atlantoaxial fracture-dislocation have been reported, and neglected cases are seldom found because of the fatal nature of this condition. Methods: We reported a neglected case of Jefferson fracture-dislocation associated with type II displaced odontoid peg fracture which was nonambulatory and myelopathic. A surgical plan involving posterior fossa decompression and laminectomy of the posterior arch of atlas following posterior spinal instrumentation was then conducted. Results: Patient experienced marked neurologic recovery and was able to stand and walk with assistance during the early postoperative period. Conclusions: This procedure may be an effective alternative treatment in neglected cases.
Path Coefficient Analysis of Some Prominent Agronomic Traits in Castor (Ricinus communis L.) Germplasm

Background and Objective: Castor (Ricinus communis L.) is a diploid plant with chromosome number of 2n=20 which belongs to family of Euphorbiaceous and genus Ricinus. Correlation alone is not efficient for variability studies. So, it should be in conjugation with Path co- efficient analysis to know the direct and indirect effects. This study was conducted to assess the role of evaluating path coefficient analysis in castor. Materials and Methods: A Field experiment was carried out to determine direct and indirect effects of yield and its components in castor accessions at Melkassa, central rift valley of Ethiopia under irrigation in 2014. The experiment was conducted using a randomized complete block design with 3 replications and a total of 48 castor accessions were evaluated. Results: Number of capsules per plant, number of primary branches per plant, length of inter node and hundred seed weight had exerted positive direct effect for both at phenotypic and genotypic path analysis.Phenotypic and genotypic path analysis showed that the number of capsules per plant, number of secondary branches per plant, length of inter node, days to 50% second flowering and seed yield exhibited positive direct effect on oil content. Conclusion: Thus, traits like number of capsules per plant, number of secondary branches per plant, length of inter nod and days to 50% second flowering should be given emphasis in improving seed yield.
Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Metallic Powder Melting during Additive Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a prevailing topic. Among all the processes during AM, the initiation and evolution of melt pool is of vital importance. Lots of studies are devoted to the fundamental mechanism of melt pool, but most of them only focus on the macroscopic level. However, when it comes to the mesoscopic level, it can be founded that the melt pool is the result of melting and fusion of powders. To better understand the melt pool, it is necessary to understand the melting and fusion characteristics of powders. This paper aims to provide a new kind of mesoscopic perspective to the melt pool through the investigation on single powder melting. Enthalpy based Lattice Boltzmann method, combined with Neumann boundary, is adopted to model the powder melting under fixed and moving laser beam. Results indicate that for the fixed laser beam, the melting front presents a symmetric convex. The increase of the laser power input can increase the energy absorbed by the powder, speed up the melting process and enhance the flow inside the powder. For the moving laser beam, the melting front loses its symmetry. The increase of the scanning speed can decrease the energy absorbed by the powder, the melting volume fraction and the inside flow. The fast moving speed could easily result in partially melted powder. All these results could help us better understand the powder melting under different laser inputs, and thus arranging the laser power reasonably to make the best use of it according to various occasions.
Financing decision and firm performance: Evidence from an emerging country

Article history: Received: September 4 2019 Received in revised format: September 4 2019 Accepted: October 12, 2019 Available online: October 12, 2019 This paper gives first empirical evidence from Vietnam, an emerging country, on the impact of financing decision on firm performance in Vietnam. The study uses data of 102 non-financial firms listed on Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) in the 2008-2018 period. Generalized method of moment (GMM) is employed to overcome drawbacks of the model to assure stable and efficient findings. In this study, return on assets (ROA) is utilized to measure firm performance. Further, financing decision is measured by three indicators: total debt to total assets (TDTA), long-term debt to total assets (LTDTA), and short-term debt to total assets (STDTA). Besides, firm size (SIZE), economic growth (GDP) and inflation rate (INF) are also used as control variables. The paper reveals that firm performance is significantly correlated with financing decision. The findings confirm that the increase in debt use decreases firm performance. Therefore, it is recommended that firms should be chary of using debt to finance business operation as it can lead to bad effects on their performance. The results also report the positive effects of inflation rate on financial development. Accordingly, some strong implications are suggested in order that the authorities and management can develop suitable policies to improve firm performance and aim to a sustainable and steady development. © 2020 by the authors; licensee Growing Science, Canada