Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Camel Milk’s Supplementation on Serum Glucose Levels, Lipid Profile and Body Weight of Alloxan-Induced Diabetic Rats

Cases of diabetes are on the rise in almost every population and epidemiological studies suggest that without proper prevention and control measures, prevalence of the disease will continue to increase globally. The aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of camel milk supplementation on serum glucose, lipid profile and body weight of alloxan-induced diabetic rats. Rats were rendered diabetic by intravenous injection of alloxan (80mg/kg body weight). Diabetic rats showed significantly higer blood glucose levels (9.68±1.36 mmol/L). Treatment with camel milk significantly decreases blood glucose levels (5.33±0.46) p
Qualitative characteristics, microbial populations and nutritive values of orange pulp ensiled with nitrogen supplementation.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the qualitative characteristics, microbial profile and nutritive value of high-moisture orange pulp co-ensiled with poultry by-product meal (PBM) or urea as additional nitrogen (N) source. The optimum dry matter (DM) content of each experimental silage was achieved by adding the appropriate proportion of wheat straw. A control silage was also prepared with orange pulp and wheat straw, but without any supplemental nitrogen. Each experimental silage was ensiled in three replicates of 12 kg mini-silos and left intact for 90 days. The evaluated traits were: silage pH, microbial population, lactate, acetate, butyrate, crude protein (CP), true protein and NH 3 -N contents. In addition to these, in situ dry matter and CP degradability as well as ruminal and post-ruminal CP disappearance rates were also measured. Both N-supplemented silages showed higher pH values and CP contents compared to the control silage (P<0.05). With regard to NH 3 -N, the lowest values were detected in silage supplemented with PBM (P<0.05). The highest acetate production and total bacteria (TB) count (P<0.05) and the lowest lactic acid bacteria count (P<0.05) were observed in silage supplemented with urea. Control silage and urea supplemented silage had the highest and lowest lactate contents, respectively. Addition of PBM and urea did not alter degradation rates (c) of DM and CP, however, the latter caused a significantly increased (P<0.05) potentially degradable CP fraction (b). The highest (P<0.05) post-ruminal CP disappearance rate, gas production rate and ME value were observed in silage supplemented with PBM (P<0.05). In conclusion, both nitrogen sources used in this study enhanced nutritive value of orange pulp silage. Ensiling may be applied as a practical approach for long-term preservation of fresh orange pulp.
Optical observations of NEA 162173 (1999 JU3) during the 2011-2012 apparition

Context. Near-Earth asteroid 162173 (1999 JU3) is a potential target of two asteroid sample return missions, not only because of its accessibility but also because of the first C-type asteroid for exploration missions. The lightcurve-related physical properties of this object were investigated during the 2011–2012 apparition. Aims. We aim to confirm the physical parameters useful for JAXA’s Hayabusa 2 mission, such as rotational period, absolute magnitude, and phase function. Our data complement previous studies that did not cover low phase angles. Methods. With optical imagers and 1−2 m class telescopes, we acquired the photometric data at different phase angles. We independently derived the rotational lightcurve and the phase curve of the asteroid. Results. We have analyzed the lightcurve of 162173 (1999 JU3), and derived a synodic rotational period of 7.625 ± 0.003 h, the axis ratio a/b = 1.12. The absolute magnitude HR = 18.69 ± 0.07 mag and the phase slope of G = −0.09 ± 0.03 were also obtained based on the observations made during the 2011 − 2012 apparition. These physical properties are in good agreement with the previous results obtained during the 2007−2008 apparition.
CONTAINER CHALLENGE – PROTOTYPING DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATION

This paper describes the process and results of “Container Challenge”, a remote collaboration exercise that was designed to help global, multi-disciplinary teams to prototype their online collaboration tools while they were still co-located during a course kick-off at CERN. The exercise was organized in the first week of advanced product design course called Challenge Based Innovation, where the multidisciplinary students from countries around Europe met each other for two weeks to start a five-month long collaboration. The teams worked on a short design challenge in “containers” that simulated the coming division they would encounter after travelling back to their home universities. The purpose of the exercise was to help the teams to use prototyping and iterative design methods, not only on products and services, but also while designing their own working process. The previous experiences from similar courses has shown to authors, that a dedicated exercise would be needed to guide the teams to actually test and improve their collaboration plans during their first two weeks together. While there was no statistically significant comparison, the implemented Container Challenge -exercise seemed to have positive effects in developing collaboration plan; the challenge brought out several issues related to distributed work, including the need for virtual empathy and occurrence of increased complication when reflecting on the design activities. It also managed to serve as a shared learning experience that could be used to improve the future collaboration of the teams.
Asymptotic behaviour of a rigid body with a cavity filled by a viscous liquid

We consider the system of equations modeling the free motion of a rigid body with a cavity filled by a viscous (Navier-Stokes) liquid. We give a rigorous proof of Zhukovskiy's Theorem, which states that in the limit of time going to infinity, the relative fluid velocity tends to zero and the rigid velocity of the full structure tends to a steady rotation around one of the principle axes of inertia. The existence of global weak solutions for this system was established previously. In particular, we prove that every weak solution of this type is subject to Zhukovskiy's Theorem. Independently of the geometry and of parameters, this shows that the presence of fluid prevents precession of the body in the limit. In general, we cannot predict which axis will be attained, but we show stability of the largest axis and provide criteria on the initial data which are decisive in special cases.
Fostering Love of Art Heritage through 3E Gallery (Expose, Explore & Excite) in Civic and Citizenship Education

The education development and changes that have taken place either within the country or globally has made Civic and Citizenship Education (CCE) in the school system becomes important. However, often times this subject has been taken lightly by students as well as teachers and deemed as not important because this is a non-examination subject. This situation results in knowledge, skills and civic values not being able to be assimilated by students. Due to this factor, a study was conducted to review the effectiveness of the 3E Gallery (expose, explore, excite) in order to foster a sense of love for the diversity of cultural heritage through CCE. The study involves 24 students from Form 2 Aspiration (K8), a rural school in Pahang, Malaysia. The initial review and analysis was conducted through interviews, observations and analysis of students’ achievement of school-based Assessment. It was found that they were not interested in this subject because they were not clear of the needs to learn the subject. To change the paradigm, an effort through the learning approach 3E Gallery was carried out. This method is designed to build an active learning method that helps students understand their roles and responsibilities as responsible members in various social groups. With this method, students was introduced the skills of translating information and have the opportunity to experience the exploration into each gallery which was built by them. The finding shows that this activity produced a sense of excitement for the students to express love for the national arts heritage. The achievement in this subject has also increased after this learning approach was being applied. This reflects that the action taken in the action research study is timely and effective. Keywords: Civic and citizenship education, multicultural education, intercultural communicative competence
An Energy-Saving Concept of the Smart Building Power Grid with Separated Lines for Standby Devices

Standby power takes 5-10 % of the residential electricity around the world. Some countries lose more than 14 % of the total electricity used in the residential sector. Hence, a new energysaving concept that could help to decrease the power losses is discussed in this paper. Firstly, the two power lines of infrastructure for continuously connected equipment and for standby devices is proposed for new smart buildings. Secondly, the segmented infrastructure with unified hardware units is proposed for existing smart buildings (the new one can apply this principle as well). The contactors (i.e. unified hardware units) consist of the NodeMcu Lua ESP8266 WiFi IoT development board, ACS712T ELC-30A current sensor, and the Songle relay. The automatic mode is based on three steps: measurement of the current using ACS712T ELC-30A sensor in all segments except the root; switching off the relays with the current less than or equal to any number in the historical data; switching off the root contactor if all the descendent relays (i.e. contactors) are switched off. Second step represents the linear classification with sliding window in machine learning. The software consists of two parts, low-level Arduino sketches and high-level C# Windows form app. They are connected by MQTT broker Mosquitto. The proposed concept was successfully tested using a prototype with three segments, one of which includes smart lighting. The payback period is of approximately one month and a half for the whole-building switch concept.
PETROGENESIS OF MANTLE PERIDOTITES FROM THE IZU-BONIN-MARIANA (IBM) FOREARC

Serpentinised spinel harzburgites to orthopyroxene-rich spinel dunites recovered during the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 195 on top of the South Chamorro Seamount (southern sector of the Mariana forearc, West Pacific Ocean), along with additional spinel harzburgites from Conical and Torishima Seamounts (northern Mariana and Izu-Bonin forearc, respectively), previously collected during the ODP Leg 125, have been investigated to shed light on the nature and evolution of forearc mantle in the intra-oceanic supra-subduction environment. All the samples show a marked heterogeneity in terms of petrographic, mineralogical and geochemical features that suggests a complex, multistage evolution involving, at variable extent, partial melting, reactive porous flow melt migration and subsolidus metamorphic re-equilibration under decreasing T and open system conditions. Geochemical evidence of the interaction between peridotites and various melts/fluids is the ubiquitous enrichment in highly incompatible elements, such as Large Ion Lithophile Elements (LILE). As for the high-T evolution of these peridotites, a three-stages-model is proposed, involving: 1) a former depletion event, during which the IBM forearc peridotites experienced 20-25% polybaric fractional melting during adiabatic upwelling; 2) a second depletion event characterised by a marked impoverishment in modal orthopyroxene, related to the upraise migration of ultra-depleted melts; 3) a late interaction between a relatively small volume of residual melts and the refractory mantle sequence. Oxidation state of the mantle minerals meanly decreases from north (Torishima Seamount) to south (South Chamorro), according to significant different contributions coming from the subducted Pacific Plate. In particular, the absence of a marked oxidation in South Chamorro peridotites suggests that the percolating melts during Stage 2 had not significant slab-derived component. This observation lead us to conclude that a thermal anomaly in the western Pacific mantle rather than the injection of hydrous components must be the “engine” determining the extreme depletion of the oceanic forearc peridotites and the arc formation. In this frame, it is proposed that IBM peridotites during Stage 1 underwent decompression partial melting and contributed to arc volcanism as actual mantle source. Successively, they were emplaced at relatively shallow levels (Stage 2), constituting the top of a strongly refractory mantle column and being percolated by melts produced by plumbing sources of the arc volcanism.
Health Promotion Behavior Among Hypertensive and Normotensive Armenian Americans

Hypertension presents a significant health risk to both developed and developing countries, affecting approximately 78 million Americans of various ethnic backgrounds. Though a great deal of research about hypertension and minority groups has been published, no studies were located about hypertension in the Armenian American population, despite evidence of health disparities in this population. The purpose of the present study was to examine the differences in health promotion behavior between hypertensive and normotensive Armenian Americans. A quantitative approach was used to examine the relationship between hypertensive status and health promotion behavior. With a sample size of n = 204, this study found that while there was no significant difference in overall Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile scores, the normotensive group scored higher on physical activity and stress management. These differences remained significant even when controlling for body mass index. Additionally, the study found high smoking rates and elevated body mass index across both samples. These results suggest that interventions that target stress management and physical activity and use the cultural strengths of interpersonal relationships and spiritual growth may be the most effective. This information may be used as a foundation in future interventional studies and may create significant social change by decreasing hypertension among the Armenian American population and increasing awareness of risk factors and prevention.
The Impact of Technology Characteristics on Infusion of Software Development Tools

Innovation diffusion research is a widely accepted theoretical basis for studying IT implementation but has many limitations. In view of these limitations some researchers have proposed that infusion of IT innovations in organizations should be studied. This paper empirically studies the impact of technology characteristics on infusion of systems development tools in organizations. The results indicate that while subsystem compatibility and scope of development tools strongly influenced infusion, methodology compatibility had no impact on infusion
The use of fluctuating asymmetry and phenotypic variability as indicators of developmental instability: a test of a new method employing clonal organisms and high temperature stress

Developmental instability, as estimated by two measures - fluctuating asymmetry and phenotypic variability - was examined using sternopleural bristle number and two wing traits in a clonal strain of Drosophila mercatorum. Eggs were exposed to short-term (30 min) heat stress in water baths at different temperatures (35-40°C in 0.5°C steps) or to a control temperature regime at 25°C. Fluctuating asymmetry and phenotypic variability in sternopleural bristle number were not affected to a significant extent by heat stress, whereas the fluctuating asymmetry and phenotypic variability of both wing measures were significantly higher in adults developed from heat-stressed eggs than in adults developed from eggs kept at 25°C. For both wing measures, there was a tendency for the highest fluctuating asymmetry and phenotypic variability to be observed at temperatures of 37-39°C, suggesting that individuals who experienced the greatest developmental instability at very high temperatures (39.5-40°C) did not survive the heat stress. For the two wing measures, the fluctuating asymmetry and phenotypic variability were significantly correlated, but this was not the case for sternopleural bristle number. Based on a new method, we quantified the effect that environmental variability had on fluctuating asymmetry and phenotypic variability, but found no correlation with the temperatures at which the eggs were stressed. This shows the unpredictability or the impossibility of controlling environmental variability, even in laboratory experiments. We suggest that the method introduced here may in part explain why non-reproducible results have been obtained in developmental instability studies.
Research: Discrete Choice Analysis in Hospitality Management Research

This article focuses on discrete choice analysis (DCA), which offers an effective approach for incorporating customer preferences into operating decisions in hospitality businesses. First the theoretical background of DCA is presented, including a discussion of how DCA compares to conjoint analysis. The authors then present a guide to designing and conducting a DCA study. Conducting a discrete choice study involves identifying the attributes relevant to customers'choices and the appropriate levels of these attributes, designing an experiment, collecting data and estimating parameters using a multinomial logit model. Finally, the strategic implications of DCA in hospitality management research are discussed.
A Comparison of Calculated and Subjective Thermal Comfort Sensation in Home and Office Environment

This study was conducted to investigate the accuracy of the PMV model in residential buildings in UK and to find out whether a true “context effect” exists in explaining discrepancies between predicted and observed thermal sensation of occupants. Sixteen participants were subjected to a thermal comfort study at both their homes and office. Each subject voted on their thermal sensation while air and mean radiant temperature, air velocity and relative humidity were recorded. The comparison of reported thermal sensation and those predicted using ISO 7730 showed that in general PMV under predicts the thermal sensation of occupants in both environments. The neutral temperatures found in homes and offices were respectively 3oC and 2.5oC lower than those predicted using ISO 7730. Together with 0.2oC difference found between reported neutral temperatures at homes and offices, this suggests that there is a true context effect affecting occupants’ thermal sensation in different environments.
Limited effect of anthropogenic nitrogen oxides on Secondary Organic Aerosol formation

Abstract. Globally, secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is mostly formed from emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by vegetation, but it can be modified by human activities as demonstrated in recent research. Specifically, nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2) have been shown to play a critical role in the chemical formation of low volatility compounds. We have updated the SOA scheme in the global NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) Community Atmospheric Model version 4 with chemistry (CAM4-chem) by implementing a 4-product volatility basis set (VBS) scheme, including NOx-dependent SOA yields and aging parameterizations. Small differences are found for the no-aging VBS and 2-product schemes; large increases in SOA production and the SOA-to-OA ratio are found for the aging scheme. The predicted organic aerosol amounts capture both the magnitude and distribution of US surface annual mean measurements from the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) network by 50 %, and the simulated vertical profiles are within a factor of 2 compared to aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) measurements from 13 aircraft-based field campaigns across different regions and seasons. We then perform sensitivity experiments to examine how the SOA loading responds to a 50 % reduction in anthropogenic nitric oxide (NO) emissions in different regions. We find limited SOA reductions of 0.9–5.6, 6.4–12.0 and 0.9–2.8 % for global, southeast US and Amazon NOx perturbations, respectively. The fact that SOA formation is almost unaffected by changes in NOx can be largely attributed to a limited shift in chemical regime, to buffering in chemical pathways (low- and high-NOx pathways, O3 versus NO3-initiated oxidation) and to offsetting tendencies in the biogenic versus anthropogenic SOA responses.
The human factor in SCM: Introducing a meta-theory of behavioral supply chain management

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to advance supply chain management by describing the current state of behavioral supply chain management (BSCM) research and paving the way for future contributions by developing a meta-theory for this important field. Design/methodology/approach The results are generated by applying the systematic literature review methodology and an iterative theory-building approach involving a panel of academics. Findings This review provides a comprehensive overview of the BSCM research landscape. Additionally, a meta-theory of BSCM is presented that encompasses all central elements of the research field and introduces the concept of emergence to the field of BSCM. Furthermore, five promising future research opportunities are formulated. Research limitations/implications The critical discussions and the formulated research opportunities will help scholars in positioning their research to enhance its contribution. Practical implications Results from this research indicate that supply chain decisions benefit from explicit consideration for cognitive and social phenomena. Originality/value This review is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the field of BSCM research and facilitates BSCM in advancing further.
The impact of concept mapping and visualization on the learning of secondary school chemistry students

The aim of this study was to examine whether the construction of integrated knowledge structures by students can be stimulated by concept mapping and by better visualization of concepts and their interrelationships. The investigation was carried out in regular teaching settings: chemistry courses in secondary schools in Flanders, in the domain of electrochemistry. A significant positive effect of extra attention to visualization on the learning achievement of students was found. However, significant effects of concept mapping as an instruction method could not be detected under the given research conditions.
Theoretical discussion on the mechanism of binding CO2 by DBU and alcohol

Quantum chemical studies on the reaction of binding CO2 by amidine base diazabicyclo [5.4. 0]-undec-7-ene (DBU) and alcohol were carried out at the B3LYP/6-31g(d) level in order to find the reaction mechanism. The structures of reactants and product were optimised, and thermodynamic analyses were also carried out using the single point energy calculation and frequency analyses. It is noted that the reaction of binding CO2 by DBU and propanol is thermodynamically feasible and qualitatively in accordance with the experimental observations. The results of thermodynamic and kinetic analyses demonstrate that the possible reaction mechanisms can be a two-step bimolecular reaction and a one-step trimolecular reaction. In the two-step bimolecular mechanism, the first step is the formation of intermediate by DBU and CO2, and the second step is the nucleophilic attack of propanol on the intermediate. In the one-step trimolecular mechanism, O and H atoms of hydroxyl in propanol form an O–C bond with CO2 and an H–N bond with DBU, respectively. The one-step trimolecular reaction seems a more reasonable mechanism because of the consideration of kinetic parameters.