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Effects of the season on physiological and endocrine traits and on HSP70 in Saanen goats under Mediterranean climate conditions

Animal species reared in different production systems are exposed to many environmental stress factors such as temperature, humidity and radiations. The changes in environmental stress factors are recognized as potential hazards to the growth and production of all domestic livestock species (7). Among the stressors, heat stress has been of major concern in reducing an animal’s productivity in tropical, sub-tropical and arid areas (32). The degree to which an animal can resist 1) The authors would like to thank to Scientific Research Projects Unit of Adnan Menderes University and we would also like to thank the Adnan Menderes University, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine-Department of Biochemistry. Effects of the season on physiological and endocrine traits and on HSP70 in Saanen goats under Mediterranean climate conditions1)
Anxiety-linked attentional bias: backward glances and future glimpses

ABSTRACT This brief reflection considers some of the important developments in anxiety-linked attentional bias research that have marked the three decades since the launch of Cognition and Emotion, and also identifies several challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. I suggest that the steady increase in our capacity to distinguish differing facets of attentional bias and alternative dimensions of anxiety vulnerability, together with the advent of attentional bias modification techniques that can illuminate causality, has enriched theoretical understanding and created the exciting potential for clinical translation. In order to fully capitalise on this potential, I propose that researchers should address the challenge of enhancing the psychometric properties of our assessment measures, and developing training procedures that not only modify attentional bias more effectively, but that motivate sustained patient engagement. I end with some personal advice to young investigators developing their research careers within this stimulating and rewarding field of scientific inquiry.
Use of Recycled Tire in Concrete for Partial Aggregate Replacement

doi: 10.18178/ijscer.5. 4.273-276 Abstract—The paper investigates possible use of recycled tire in concrete for partial fine aggregate replacement to provide possible solution for tire waste management as well as aggregate resource conservation. Commercially produced tire crumbs of size ranging between 0.80 to 4.0 mm were used for partial replacement of fine aggregates in concrete. Three fractions of 20%, 40% and 60% replacement were considered in addition to a control mix. A lean mix proportion of 1:2:4 with water-cement ratio of 0.50 was used in this study. In the fresh state, workability improved with increase in replacement percentage of tire crumbs. In hardened concrete, the compressive strength, tensile strength and flexural strength decreased with increase in fraction of tire crumbs. The apparent density was only slight changed while voids and water absorption decreased because of increase in workability. The relative values of strength exhibit a linear relationship with replacement ratio.
The influence of psychological factors for leader’s efficiency in global IT companies

Changing business environments require a different leadership. Global information technology (IT) leaders must demonstrate in-depth competencies in technology and business as well as softer interpersonal skills. Studies provide disputed evidence regarding the psychological factors that contribute to a leader’s efficiency. This study analyses what the most important competencies for effective IT leadership in local and global IT organisations are. An integrative literature review was used to examine and summarise previous research in global IT literature. The competencies’ framework, containing three levels (core traits, personal character, and ability) and four dimensions (intercultural, interpersonal, global, and global organisational) (Kim & McLean, 2015), was chosen to examine psychological factors that contribute to IT leadership effectiveness. The results show that features related to adaptation of the cultural environment are significant for a global leader. Personality traits (extraversion, awareness, and openness to experience), characteristics (self-esteem, self-efficiency, global mindset, and motivation), and abilities (communication skills, leadership style, and experience), within the organisational context are related to higher leadership efficiency. Local and global leaders differ in the significance of social intelligence (IQ, EQ, and CQ). Sufficient educational interventions can improve an individual’s effectiveness regarding global leadership challenges. This study discovers guidelines for development and education of IT leaders which include strengthening personality traits related to performance, utilising communication gaps, leveraging cultural differences, promoting trust and motivation, fostering leadership roles and attitudes,composing teams based on teamwork and task work, and modelling and practising other critical competencies for global leadership through crosstraining.
Writing or Translating Otherness

The paper intends to investigate a new voice in the Italian literary panorama, a voice which makes visible how the notions of nationality, literary canon and mother tongue should be revisioned and rethought.In this age of intensified migration in Europe (and in Italy) transnational women writers are an enriching and challenging factor in many European literatures for the many issues discussed in their novels, among which identity, nationality, ethnicity, gender and language. The essay is divided into two main parts: 1) a theoretical approach aimed at a) outlining the recent debate on World Literature and Transnational literatures, b) rethinking the fruitful discussion within Translation Studies in the last decades, and 2) a textual analysis of a novel, Con il Vento Nei Capelli, written by a Palestinian woman, Salwa Salem.
DeeReCT-PolyA: a robust and generic deep learning method for PAS identification

Abstract Motivation Polyadenylation is a critical step for gene expression regulation during the maturation of mRNA. An accurate and robust method for poly(A) signals (PASs) identification is not only desired for the purpose of better transcripts’ end annotation, but can also help us gain a deeper insight of the underlying regulatory mechanism. Although many methods have been proposed for PAS recognition, most of them are PAS motif- and human-specific, which leads to high risks of overfitting, low generalization power, and inability to reveal the connections between the underlying mechanisms of different mammals. Results In this work, we propose a robust, PAS motif agnostic, and highly interpretable and transferrable deep learning model for accurate PAS recognition, which requires no prior knowledge or human-designed features. We show that our single model trained over all human PAS motifs not only outperforms the state-of-the-art methods trained on specific motifs, but can also be generalized well to two mouse datasets. Moreover, we further increase the prediction accuracy by transferring the deep learning model trained on the data of one species to the data of a different species. Several novel underlying poly(A) patterns are revealed through the visualization of important oligomers and positions in our trained models. Finally, we interpret the deep learning models by converting the convolutional filters into sequence logos and quantitatively compare the sequence logos between human and mouse datasets. Availability and implementation https://github.com/likesum/DeeReCT-PolyA Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Transboundary pollution and the selective enforcement of environmental policy

The paper investigates the potential for selective enforcement of a federal emissions standard in the context of a transboundary pollution problem. The theoretical results show that selective enforcement arises in the equilibrium of a game between state agencies responsible for the enforcement of the federal standard. In particular, facilities close to state borders are shown greater leniency in response to non-compliance. This leads to an outcome where near-border facilities have a higher incidence of non-compliance. The paper, then, tests for this selective enforcement effect using data on compliance rates under the US Clean Air Act. The results indicate the presence of a significant border effect: ceteris paribus , non-compliance rates are higher for facilities located closer to state borders. These results suggest that states are indeed more lenient towards facilities whose emissions are likely to flow into neighboring states.
The Sherwood simulation suite: overview and data comparisons with the Lyman α forest at redshifts 2 ≤ z ≤ 5

We introduce a new set of large-scale, high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations of the intergalactic medium: the Sherwood simulation suite. These are performed in volumes of 103–1603h−3 comoving Mpc3, span almost four orders of magnitude in mass resolution with up to 17.2 billion particles, and employ a variety of physics variations including warm dark matter and galactic outflows. We undertake a detailed comparison of the simulations to high-resolution, high signal-to-noise observations of the Ly α forest over the redshift range 2 ≤ z ≤ 5. The simulations are in very good agreement with the observational data, lending further support to the paradigm that the Ly α forest is a natural consequence of the web-like distribution of matter arising in Λcold dark matter cosmological models. Only a small number of minor discrepancies remain with respect to the observational data. Saturated Ly α absorption lines with column densities NHI>1014.5cm−2 at 2 4. Finally, the temperature of intergalactic gas in the simulations may be slightly too low at z = 2.7 and a flatter temperature–density relation is required at z = 2.4, consistent with the expected effects of non-equilibrium ionization during He ii reionization.
Telecommunications Performance, Reforms, and Governance

The authors assess the effects of private capital and independent regulatory agencies on telecommunications performance by using cross-country panel data from 1990 to 2003. In general, they find that having independent regulatory agencies positively affects affordability and labor productivity, but negatively affects quality. Having private capital positively affects access, quality, and labor productivity, but negatively affects affordability. However, reform policies affect industrial and developing countries differently in some cases. The authors also find that governance plays an important role as it affects performance and interacts with reform policies.
Exclusive trigger selections and sensitivity to the Bs-Bs mixing phase at LHCb

The LHCb experiment is one of the main experiments that will be hosted at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, in the area of Geneva, and is scheduled to start after the Summer 2007. The LHCb detector is a single-arm forward spectrometer dedicated to precise measurements of CP violation and rare decays in the b sector. The primary goal is to test the Standard Model description of flavor physics, and possibly to look for New Physics beyond it. The event rate resulting from the LHC proton collisions will be tremendous, and the production of b hadrons will be copious, thus providing the required statistics for the study of flavor physics. However, not all the events are relevant to LHCb physics program, and a dedicated trigger is required. In particular, the High-Level Trigger will take the final decision whether to accept or discard an event before sending it to permanent storage, in a limited period of time. We present in this dissertation the implementation and design of the High-Level Trigger exclusive selections, and assess their performance in selecting the b and c decays of interest, based on a full Monte Carlo simulation. The physics program of LHCb is vast, with the study of a large collection of b decays offering the possibility to investigate CP violation, and any deviation from the Standard Model. In this quest, the neutral Bs–Bs system plays a predominant role. The Bs–Bs mixing phase, denoted by φs, has not yet been measured, and represents a crucial probe of New Physics. This electroweak phase may be tested through theoretically clean b → ccs quark-level transitions to CP eigenstates, by performing a time-dependent measurement of mixing-induced CP violation. Among the Bs decays to pure CP eigenstates mediated by the b → ccs transitions, the channel Bs → ηcφ yields one of the best sensitivities to φs. We present the reconstruction and selection of Bs → ηcφ events using a full Monte Carlo simulation, and we determine the characteristics relevant to a CP violation measurement with this channel. The sensitivity of LHCb to the Bs–Bs mixing parameters is studied, using a fast parameterized Monte Carlo simulation. This simulation uses the outputs of the realistic full simulation to determine the statistical precision to the mixing observables. We consider the Bs → J/ψφ decay to an admixture of CP eigenstates requiring an angular analysis to disentangle the different CP components, as well as the Bs → ηcφ, Bs → DsDs, and Bs → J/ψη decays to pure CP eigenstates. Each of these signal samples are simultaneously fitted with a flavor-specific control sample, Bs → Dsπ, allowing the extraction of the Bs–Bs mixing frequency ΔMs. We demonstrate that the sensitivity to φs is dominated by Bs → J/ψφ events, with the statistical precision required to uncover New Physics effects. In comparison, the decays to pure CP eigenstates have an order of magnitude smaller event yields, but their contribution to the determination of φs, although small compared to Bs → J/ψφ, is non negligible.
Anticorrosive Effect of Electrochemical Manganese Dioxide By-Products in Reinforced Concrete

The present study investigates the effect of Electrochemical Manganese Dioxide (EMD) by-product as a replacement of cement, on durability of concrete and the corrosion protection of reinforcement steel. Reinforced cement mortars were partially immersed in 3.5% w. w NaCl solution and they were exposed to atmospheric conditions for a period of 24 months. Additions of 5% and 10% EMD byproduct were tested. The following techniques were used: half-cell potential measurements (HCP), linear polarization Resistance (LPR), mass loss of reinforcement steel, determination of carbonation depth of mortars, testing of compressive strength, total and open porosity measurements. Based on the up-to-now results of this study, the specimens with addition 10% appear smaller corrosion currents and mass loss of steel than reference specimens. Also, the compressive strength with 10% additive is appeared to be slightly higher from the reference specimens.
Cloud based testing of business applications and web services

This paper deals with testing of applications based on the principles of cloud computing. It is aimed to describe options of testing business software in clouds (cloud testing). It identifies the needs for cloud testing tools including multi-layer testing; service level agreement (SLA) based testing, large scale simulation, and on-demand test environment. In a cloud-based model, ICT services are distributed and accessed over networks such as intranet or internet, which offer large data centers deliver on demand, resources as a service, eliminating the need for investments in specific hardware, software, or on data center infrastructure. Businesses can apply those new technologies in the contest of intellectual capital management to lower the cost and increase competitiveness and also earnings. Based on comparison of the testing tools and techniques, the paper further investigates future trend of cloud based testing tools research and development. It is also important to say that this comparison and classification of testing tools describes a new area and it has not yet been done.
Genotype-Specific Enrichment of 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-Carboxylic Acid Deaminase-Positive Bacteria in Winter Wheat Rhizospheres

Open Access article. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 81:796–805 doi:10.2136/sssaj2016.12. 0437 Received 29 Dec. 2016. Accepted 28 Feb. 2017. *Corresponding author (mary.stromberger@colostate.edu) © Soil Science Society of America. This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Genotype-Specific Enrichment of 1-Aminocyclopropane1-Carboxylic Acid Deaminase-Positive Bacteria in Winter Wheat Rhizospheres Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Enhancing Medical image transmission in IOT Through compression

— The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of physical devices, vehicles, buildings and various other items- embedded with electronics, sensors, actuators etc. that enable these things to collect and exchange data. If one thing can prevent the IoT from transforming the way we live and work, it will be a breakdown in Security. Traditional security mechanisms like Configuring Firewall, Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems are deployed at the Internet edge. These mechanisms are used to protect the network from external attacks. Such mechanisms are no longer enough to secure the next generation internet. The borderless architecture of the IoT raises additional concerns over the network access control and software verification. In order to maintain the integrity of the data sent and the confidentiality of the data collected, security must be built into the design of the devices and systems to create trust in both the hardware and the integrity of the data. Considering the rapid growth of the IoT, the project proposes an improvised framework for the future development of security and privacy standards in the Internet of Things.
Emotional stability and its relationship with the psychic damage among spanish victims of gender violence Actual

Introduction: Violence against women is a public health problem and has become one of the main causes of health problems in the victims who suffer. Little is known about the factors of vulnerability to these experiences. Objective: The aim of this study is to analyze the emotional stability/instability as the key factor for coping with a gender violence situation and its effects on the physical and psychic health of the victims. Methods: It ́s a cross-sectional study conducted on a sample of 151 spanish women. The women were evaluated using the Goldberg General Health Questionnaire and Cattells 16PF Inventory. Results: Emotional stability was found to have a significant correlation with the Total Goldberg score and with its four subscales of symptoms, anxiety, withdrawal and depression (p<.001). Conclusion: A high emotional stability can be seen as an indicator of psychological strength and less vulnerability, hence less psychological damage of the victim. Antonio Molina-Rodríguez1,2, Juan de Dios Luna del Castillo3, Sofía Idrissi2, María Castellano Arroyo4 1 Department of Legal Medicine, Toxicology and Physical Antrophology. Granada University, Spain. 2 Center of Phsycology and Legal Medicine. Ronda (Málaga), Spain. 3 Department of Biostatistics and Operations Research. Granada University. Spain 4 Department of Surgery, Medical and Social Sciences. Section of Legal and Forensic Medicine. Alcalá de Henares University, Madrid, Spain. Enviado: 30-03-2016 Revisado: 15-04-2016 Aceptado: 26-04-2016 Palabras clave: Violencia de género. Mujeres maltratadas. Daño psíquico. Estabilidad emocional. Vulnerabilidad psicológica. Violencia familiar.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Recovery Using a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Algorithm without the Aid of Global Positioning System

This paper deals with a new method of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) recovery when a UAV fails to get a global positioning system (GPS) signal at an unprepared site. The proposed method is based on the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm. It is a process by which a vehicle can build a map of an unknown environment and simultaneously use this map to determine its position. Extensive research on SLAM algorithms proves that the error in the map reaches a lower limit, which is a function of the error that existed when the first observation was made. For this reason, the proposed method can help an inertial navigation system to prevent its error of divergence with regard to the vehicle position. In other words, it is possible that a UAV can navigate with reasonable positional accuracy in an unknown environment without the aid of GPS. This is the main idea of the present paper. Especially, this paper focuses on path planning that maximizes the discussed ability of a SLAM algorithm. In this work, a SLAM algorithm based on extended Kalman filter is used. For simplicity’s sake, a blimp-type of UAV model is discussed and three-dimensional pointed-shape landmarks are considered. Finally, the proposed method is evaluated by a number of simulations.
Aerosol hygroscopicity and CCN activity during the AC3Exp campaign: Implications for CCN parameterization

Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric 10! Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China Weather Modification Office of Shanxi Province, Taiyuan, China, 030032 15! Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administr ation , Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing,China,21 0044
Concurrent validity and reliability of proprietary and open-source jump mat systems for the assessment of vertical jumps in sport sciences.

PURPOSE Vertical jump tests are used to assess lower-limb power of athletes in sport sciences. Flight time measurement with jump-mat systems is the most common procedure for this purpose. The aim of this study was to analyze the concurrent validity and reliability of two proprietary systems (Globus and Axon) and an open-source system (Chronojump). METHODS A conditioning electric circuit governed by a controlled wave generator is designed to substitute athletes jumping on a physical mat. In order to look for possible differences associated to timekeeping by each microcontroller device, all three systems are fed by the circuit simultaneously. RESULTS Concurrent validity was high for the three systems. Standarized typical error of estimate (TEE) was trivial, according to MBI interpretation as well as perfect Pearson correlation coefficient. Reliability was assessed based on the coefficient of variation of flight time measure, resulting in 0.17-0.63% (0.05-0.12 cm) for Globus, 0.01% (0.09 cm) for Chronojump and 5.65-9.38% (2.15-3.53 cm) for Axon. These results show that all jump-mat system produced nearly identical measures of flight time so they can be considered valid and reliable for practical purposes. In comparison, Chronojump showed the best performance whereas Axon showed enough variability and disagreement to pose a problem in testing elite athletes. CONCLUSIONS These experiments show that open-source jump mats are as valid and reliable as their proprietary counterparts at a lower cost. Therefore, practitioners can be confident in using Globus or Chronojump systems to test athletes' jump height because of their negligible errors and Axon system to monitor general population.