Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Canulación de cerdos posdestete para pruebas de digestibilidad ileal: desarrollo de una metodología

Reis de Souza TC, Mar BB, Mariscal LG. Tec Pecu Mex 2000,38(2)143-150. The new standards in swine nutrition use the "ideal protein concept", because they demand a better knowledge of raw materials used in feed formulation, and the rations should provide an amino acid profile at ileal level. To obtain this goal, the amino acid ileal digestibility value must be known. The majority of the research has been performed in growing pigs, nevertheless, it is accepted that the piglet has an immature digestive tract so their digestive capacity is lower than in the growing pigs. In this technical note, we describe a technique to implant a simple "T" cannula at ileal level in growing pigs and in weaning piglets of 21 days of age. This technique permited to measure ileal digestibility in piglets of 28 and 35 days of age (first and second postweaning week) and growing pigs with 40 kg of live weight.
Research on the Utilization and Evaluation of Library Resource Discovery Systems in China

According to the investigation of library resources discovery system construction in 20 universities in China, the aggregation discovery service provided by the multi-source aggregation function, the discovery function is based on aggregation and the comprehensive revealing function. This article evaluates user usage and acceptance based on refinements of the functions mentioned above. The investigation shows that compared with the diversity of function, users are more concerned about the practicability, the intuition and the academy. Thus, systems should choose the best sources and pay attention to the metadata normalization, and enhance the correlation to standard datasets.
Effects of surface electrical stimulation during sitting on pelvic floor muscle function and sexual function in women with stress urinary incontinence

Objective Dysfunction of the pelvic floor muscles (PFM) is associated with sexual dysfunction in women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI). The EasyK7 device was developed to stimulate the PFM by surface electrical stimulation during sitting (SESdS). We investigated the effects of SESdS on PFM function and sexual function in women with SUI. Methods Women with SUI were randomized into the SESdS and control groups. PFM function and sexual function were assessed using a perineometer and the pelvic organ prolapse–urinary incontinence sexual function questionnaire (PISQ), respectively. After 8 weeks, the groups were compared using either analysis of covariance with the baseline values as covariates or the paired Student's t-test. Results The final analysis included 16 subjects from each group. There were significant differences between the SESdS and control groups after the intervention, as well as within the SESdS group between the pre- and post-intervention measurements. The P-values for the differences in PFM measurements between the groups, and between the pre- and post- intervention measurements within the SESdS group, were 0.001 and 0.004 for power, 0.015 and 0.011 for strength, and 0.012 and 0.034 for endurance, respectively. In addition, in the PISQ, there were significant differences between the groups and between the pre- and post-intervention measurements within the SESdS group in the partner-related domain (between groups: P=0.003; within SESdS group: P=0.024) and total score (between groups: P<0.001; within SESdS group: P=0.001). Conclusion SESdS can improve PFM function and sexual function in women with SUI. Trial Registration Clinical Research Information Service Identifier: KCT0003357
Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for two dioecious Ficus species

Microsatellite markers for Ficus montana and Ficus septica were developed using genomic libraries enriched for di-, tri- and tetranucleotide repeats. The subsets of five and three best scorable primer pairs were characterized on 24 F. montana and 36 F. septica individuals, respectively. For F. montana, loci showed five to 14 alleles per locus and expected heterozygosities ranged between 0.23 and 0.87. For F. septica, loci showed three to five alleles per locus and expected heterozygosities ranged between 0.36 and 0.49. Four primer pairs (two from each subset) cross-amplified in the other species, indicating transportability of the markers within the genus Ficus. [KEYWORDS: dispersal ; Ficus montana ; Ficus septica ; mutualism ; pollinating fig wasps ; simple sequence repeat (SSR)]
Hematological, Biochemical and Immunological Studies on Brucellosis in Cows and Ewes in Dakahlia and Damietta Governorates, Egypt

Brucellosis is an important disease of public health significance that leads to severe losses. The current study was carried out to identify the recovered Brucella species , and its prevalence in cows and ewes in Dakahlia and Damietta Governorates during May 2018 to March 2019, with the hemato-biochemical analyses in the positive cases. In the current study, B. melitensis biovar 3 was identified with a total prevalence of 8.75% and 6.98% in cows and ewes, respectively. Hematological results denoted a normocytic normochromic anemia in infected cows and ewes at the 2nd and 4th weeks after abortion group (GP) 2 and GP.3, respectively, with leucocytosis especially in GP.3. Significant hypoproteinemia and hypoalbuminemia were detected in infected cows at the 2nd week after abortion, with non-significant changes at 4th week after abortion. While Brucellosis-infected ewes showed a significant (P < 0.05) hypoproteinemia and hypoalbuminemia at both 2nd and 4th weeks post abortion. The serum AST, ALT, ALP and LDH activities and levels of IL-6 and TNF-α were markedly elevated (P < 0.05) in both infected cow and ewes with markedly lowered serum urea level. Whereas serum glucose level was significantly decreased (P < 0.05) in infected cows (GPs 2 and 3), as well as, infected ewes of GP. 2, with non-significant changes in infected ewes of GP3. The serum creatinine level showed non-significant changes in all infected cows and ewes. Serum immunoglobulin M was significantly increased in both infected cows and ewes of GPs 2 and 3, while immunoglobulin G was significantly elevated in both infected cow and ewes of GP3. Moreover, phagocytic percent and index showed a significant decrease in both infected cows and ewes (GPs2 and 3). Thus, evaluations of hematological, biochemical and immunological parameters together with specific diagnostic tests are necessary to obtain more reliable results for the diagnosis of Brucellosis in cows and ewes.
Drying and Wetting Trends and Vegetation Covariations in the Drylands of China

The semi-arid and arid drylands of China, which are located in the inland region of Eurasia, have experienced rapid climate change. Some regions in particular, have shown upward trends in the observational records of precipitation. However, there is more to drying and wetting than just changes in precipitation which still have large uncertainties. Coherent results, however, can be obtained, at the regional scale, with the use of multiple indices as shown in the recent literature. We divided the drylands of China into three sub-regions, i.e., a semi-arid (SA), an eastern-arid (EA) and a western-arid (WA) region. Precipitation from the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and Climatic Research Unit (CRU), statistical and physical drought indices, including the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), self-calibrating PDSI (sc_PDSI), Root zone soil moisture (Root_sm) and Surface soil moisture (Surf_sm) from Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model (GLEAM), and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) were used to identify temporal and spatial patterns in drying and wetting. Data were selected from 1982–2012, in line with the availability of the remotely sensed vegetation data. Results show that the drylands of China exhibits a pattern of wetting in the west and drying in the east. The semi-arid region in the east is becoming drier and the drought area is increasing, with the values of CMA_P, CRU_P, PDSI, sc_PDSI, SPEI-01,SPEI-06, SPEI-12, Root_sm, Surf_sm at −1.064 mm yr−1, −0.834 mm yr−1, −0.050 yr−1 (p < 0.1), −0.174 yr−1 (p < 0.1), −0.014 yr−1, −0.06, −0.021 (p < 0.1), −0.257×10−3 m3 m−3 yr−1, −0.024×10−3 m3 m−3 yr−1, respectively. The arid region generally exhibits a wetting trend, while the area in drought declines only in the western arid region, but not in the eastern arid part. In the semi-arid region, growing season (May to September) NDVI is significantly correlated (p < 0.1) with eight out of nine indicators. We show in this study that the semi-arid region needs more study to protect the vegetation ecosystem and the water resources.
Hybrid organisations as trading zones: responses to institutional complexity in the shaping of strategic partnerships

Abstract Hybrid organisations have been touted as solutions to a range of societal problems. In a construction context, strategic partnerships, as a particular type of hybrid organisation, have given promises of increased productivity and innovation through business models combining logics and governance structures from both the public and private sectors. Little is however known about how strategic partnerships are established and develop throughout their lifespan by combining different logics in response to institutional complexity. Drawing on a study of a public client’s efforts to create cost efficient services, we analyse the formation of two strategic partnerships as emerging hybrid organisations in the intersection between a market logic, a project logic, a community logic, and an administrative logic. It is shown how different logics are mobilised in the dynamic shaping of the partnerships in response to moments of institutional complexity. On this background, we discuss how the contours of two different forms of hybrid organisation emerged, even though the partnerships initially operated and responded similarly to the institutional demands. On this basis, it is concluded that strategic partnerships can be seen as “trading zones” that follow different trajectories in coping with institutional demands, and hence the development of hybrid organisational forms.
Drafting Copyright Exceptions

How should copyright exceptions be drafted? This is a question of ongoing concern in scholarly and law reform debates. In Drafting Copyright Exceptions, Emily Hudson assesses drafting options using insights from the standards and rules literature, and case studies from cultural institutions in Australia, Canada, the UK and the US. Drawing on thousands of hours of fieldwork conducted over fourteen years, the book describes how staff engage with and interpret the law. Whilst some practices are guided strongly by copyright doctrine, others are influenced by the factors such as ethical views, risk assessment, and prosaic matters related to collection management. This work should be read by anyone interested in a detailed account of interpretative practices related to the drafting of copyright exceptions, but it also speaks to broader debates about the relationship between the 'law in books' and the 'law in action'.
Pathology of Acute Necrotizing Mastitis Caused by Staphylococcus aureus in a Dairy Cow

Acute necrotizing mastitis in a cow was investigated pathologically. The udder was firmly enlarged to twice the size of a basketball. Histologically, the epithelium of the interlobular duct of the mammary glands was displaced by necrotic debris and bacterial clumps (Grampositive cocci). The intralobular ducts were also necrotic. The alveoli showed scattered necrotic foci varying in size and containing bacterial clumps. The vascular walls of the interlobular stroma exhibited fibrinous necrosis with fibrinous thrombi. The liver showed centrolobular fatty and droplet degeneration of the hepatocytes. Extramedullary hematopoiesis was observed in the liver, spleen, adrenal glands, lungs and kidneys. The bacteria observed in the lesions of the mammary glands were stained positively with immunoperoxidase using an antibody against Staphylococcus aureus. Ultrastructurally, the bacteria were round or oval in shape and had thick cellular walls. Capsule-like fibrous material was present around the surface of the bacteria. Bacteriologically, Staph. aureus was isolated in pure culture from the mammary gland. These findings suggest that Staph. aureus caused the acute necrotizing mastitis. The pathogenesis of the disease was examined. Discipline: Animal health Additional key words: bovine mastitis
Assessment of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) germplasm under water stress condition.

The responses of 80 Gossypium hirsutum L. accessions to normal and limited water supply were examined under glasshouse conditions. The assessments was made on the basis of shoot and root length of 45 days old seedlings at 3 true leaf stage. A sample of 34 elite accessions was initially examined on the basis of absolute shoot and root length. Under water stress, some accessions showed better shoot length, while others produced good root length. However few accessions were found more or less consistent in their response to water stress. The Genotypes DPL-26, 149F, B-557, BOU-1724 and BH-124 were identified as tolerant. FH-1000, CIM-446, NF 801-2, H 499-3 and MNH-129 were susceptible to water stress. The existence of variability in the cotton germplasm suggest that genetic improvement may be made in this species through selection and breeding, provided that the variability is effected by significant genetic components. © 2010 Friends Science Publishers
An Introduction to Continuous-Time Stochastic Processes: Theory, Models, and Applications to Finance, Biology, and Medicine

This textbook, now in its third edition, offers a rigorous and self-contained introduction to the theory of continuous-time stochastic processes, stochastic integrals, and stochastic differential equations. Expertly balancing theory and applications, the work features concrete examples of modeling real-world problems from biology, medicine, industrial applications, finance, and insurance using stochastic methods. No previous knowledge of stochastic processes is required. Key topics include: * Markov processes * Stochastic differential equations * Arbitrage-free markets and financial derivatives * Insurance risk * Population dynamics, andepidemics * Agent-based models New to the Third Edition: * Infinitely divisible distributions * Random measures * Levy processes * Fractional Brownian motion * Ergodic theory * Karhunen-Loeve expansion *Additional applications * Additional exercises *Smoluchowski approximation of Langevin systems An Introduction to Continuous-Time Stochastic Processes, Third Edition will be of interest to a broad audience of students, pure and applied mathematicians, and researchers and practitioners in mathematical finance, biomathematics, biotechnology, and engineering. Suitable as a textbook for graduate or undergraduate courses, as well as European Masters courses (according to the two-year-long second cycle of the Bologna Scheme ), the work may also be used for self-study or as a reference. Prerequisites include knowledge of calculus and some analysis; exposure to probability would be helpful but not required since the necessary fundamentals of measure and integration are provided. From reviews of previous editions: "The book is . an account of fundamental concepts as they appear in relevant modern applications and literature. The book addresses three main groups: first, mathematicians working in a different field; second, other scientists and professionals from a business or academic background; third, graduate or advanced undergraduate students of a quantitative subject related to stochastic theory and/or applications. " Zentralblatt MATH
CorGAN: Correlation-Capturing Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks for Generating Synthetic Healthcare Records

Deep learning models have demonstrated high-quality performance in areas such as image classification and speech processing. However, creating a deep learning model using electronic health record (EHR) data, requires addressing particular privacy challenges that are unique to researchers in this domain. This matter focuses attention on generating realistic synthetic data while ensuring privacy. In this paper, we propose a novel framework called correlation-capturing Generative Adversarial Network (CorGAN), to generate synthetic healthcare records. In CorGAN we utilize Convolutional Neural Networks to capture the correlations between adjacent medical features in the data representation space by combining Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks and Convolutional Autoencoders. To demonstrate the model fidelity, we show that CorGAN generates synthetic data with performance similar to that of real data in various Machine Learning settings such as classification and prediction. We also give a privacy assessment and report on statistical analysis regarding realistic characteristics of the synthetic data. The software of this work is open-source and is available at: this https URL
A Data Desensitization Algorithm for Privacy Protection Electric Power Industry

In view of the data security problems faced by big data technology in the development of electric power industry, this paper proposes a power big data desensitization algorithm applied to privacy protection, that is, a binary K-clustering algorithm (BKC-LDA) based on K-anonymity and L diversity. First, in order to reduce the computational complexity, a classification attribute is determined to classify the data table initially, and the equivalent class number K and the sensitive attribute value category L are limited according to the number of the original ancestor in the source data table. Then, considering the influence of the change of the internal range of the attribute value on the clustering, the equation for calculating the distance between the original ancestors with weight is established, using the idea of greedy and binary K clustering to classify the data table initially sets are clustered and generalized. In addition, this big data desensitization method determines the security level policies of different permissions by adjusting the size of K and L. Our algorithm can adapt to the desensitization of power big data with different attributes in different scenarios. It can not only fully mine the value of data, but also effectively protect the privacy of users.
Analysis of sex determination in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus L.): a molecular genetics approach

M. TARIQ EZAZ INSTITUTE OF AQUACULTURE PHD THESIS ii ABSTRACT Seven families of XX and YY homozygous Oreochromis niloticus were produced by mitotic gynogenesis from XY neofemales and their genetic status was verified by multilocus DNA fingerprinting and progeny testing. Two of these gynogenetic families and their corresponding diploid controls were used with 64 AFLP primer combinations in different levels of screening (XX/YY grand pool; XX/YY family pool; XX/YY gynogenetics and XX/XY control individuals) to search for sex-linked or sex-specific markers. Grand pool screening did not reveal any sexlinked markers. Subsequent family pool and individual level screening identified four sex-linked AFLP markers from two primer combinations, three Y-linked (OniY425, OniY382, OniY227) and one X-linked (OniX420). Two of these (OniX420, OniY425) were shown to be allelic. Single locus PCR markers were developed for all of those markers. Linkage analysis of these markers and the sex locus within the source families revealed tight linkage, with estimated map distances of 13cM, 17cM and 20cM for OniY382, OniY227 and OniX420/OniY425 respectively. However, these sex-linked AFLP markers failed to consistently identify sex in unrelated individuals. To develop an effective system for parentage analysis in normal and gynogenetic progeny, AFLPs and multiplexed polymorphic microsatellite loci were investigated. Both were found to be effective, but microsatellites were more appropriate since they are codominant and some loci showed high gene-centromere recombination rates, suitable for discriminating meiotic from mitotic gynogenetics, while AFLPs are dominant markers. Spontaneous diploidization of the maternal chromosome set (SDM) was observed in
Native Language Identification of Fluent and Advanced Non-Native Writers

Native Language Identification (NLI) aims at identifying the native languages of authors by analyzing their text samples written in a non-native language. Most existing studies investigate this task for educational applications such as second language acquisition and require the learner corpora. This article performs NLI in a challenging context of the user-generated-content (UGC) where authors are fluent and advanced non-native speakers of a second language. Existing NLI studies with UGC (i) rely on the content-specific/social-network features and may not be generalizable to other domains and datasets, (ii) are unable to capture the variations of the language-usage-patterns within a text sample, and (iii) are not associated with any outlier handling mechanism. Moreover, since there is a sizable number of people who have acquired non-English second languages due to the economic and immigration policies, there is a need to gauge the applicability of NLI with UGC to other languages. Unlike existing solutions, we define a topic-independent feature space, which makes our solution generalizable to other domains and datasets. Based on our feature space, we present a solution that mitigates the effect of outliers in the data and helps capture the variations of the language-usage-patterns within a text sample. Specifically, we represent each text sample as a point set and identify the top-k stylistically similar text samples (SSTs) from the corpus. We then apply the probabilistic k nearest neighbors’ classifier on the identified top-k SSTs to predict the native languages of the authors. To conduct experiments, we create three new corpora where each corpus is written in a different language, namely, English, French, and German. Our experimental studies show that our solution outperforms competitive methods and reports more than 80% accuracy across languages.
Apple shape changing possible with cytokinin and gibberellin sprays

Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows: Advertising has encouraged the consumer to buy elongated apples, although the shape of the apple has no bearing on its ultimate quality. The effectiveness of the advertising campaign has resulted in a premium price for elongated fruit. Several investigators in the past 50 years have attempted to explain why apples from some areas are more elongated than apples from other areas. Most investigators now believe that elongated fruit are produced in areas where temperatures are cool for about
Analytical and numerical solutions for the variant Boussinseq equations

The principal objective of this paper is to employ the -expansion and the adaptive moving mesh methods to express the exact travelling wave solutions and the numerical solutions, respectively, for the variant Boussinseq equations. Hyperbolic tangent and cotangent functions are utilized to build the exact solutions. The used numerical method uses the finite differences to discretize the proposed equations. The obtained numerical results are compared with other results obtained using the uniform mesh method. The achieved results show that both solutions match with each other. We also illustrate some 2D and 3D figures to confirm the validity of the numerical approach applied here.