Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Molecular Identification of Sarcocystis Species Infection in Sheep in Karbala Governorate – Iraq

Sarcocystis spp. are causative agents of ovine muscular stiffness, myopathies and/or inflammations of the mucosa of the intestine, , diaphragm Heart and skeletal muscles , which are generate important economic loss when causing clinical and subclinical cases, ovine Sarcocystis spp. are a protozoan parasite of worldwide distribution transmitted by canids, most commonly associated with subclinical infection in sheep, our study were described in unorganized five different localities in Karbala governorate for sheep Sarcocystis spp. investigation and classified in to two ages groups, less than 18 months-old and over 18 months-old, Macroscopic and microscopic and certain biochemical tests were used for parasite observation, Molecular assay PCR assay was used to confirm this protozoan, Currently, PCR assay based on certain regions of the cytochrome oxidase 1 sequences is considered and used widely as an inexpensive, rapid and precise molecular approach to identify the Sarcocystis spp.
The Effects of Domestic Abuse Experience and Stress on Depression of Adolescents: The Moderated Mediation Effect of Teacher Relations

Background/Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the moderated mediation effect of teacher relations on the mediating effect of stress on the relationship between domestic abuse experience and depression in adolescents.Method/Statistical Analysis: To this end, approximately 860 middle and high school students from D city in Korea participated in the study survey. Collected data were analyzed using mean comparison analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and moderated mediation effect analysis.Findings: First, as a result of the difference test of depression according to general characteristics, there were significant differences according to gender, school grade, income level, and parent-teacher relationship. Second, as a result of the correlation analysis, there was a positive correlation between domestic abuse experience, stress, and depression, However, the teacher relationship negatively correlated with other variables. Third, stress was found to mediate between domestic abuse experience and depression. Fourth, teacher relationship was found to control between stress and depression. Fifth, teacher relations showed moderated mediation effects, on mediating effects of stress in the relationship between domestic abuse experience and depression.Improvements/Applications: Based on these findings, we discuss approaches to alleviating stress and reducing depression caused by domestic abuse experience
A practical guide to quantifying the effect of genes underlying adaptation in a mixed genomics and evolutionary ecology approach

Abstract In adaptation studies, approaches in genomics investigate the genetic, cellular and biochemical mechanisms involved in adaptation using model organisms. In study systems such as Arabidopsis, the demand is high to test for the effect of genes which polymorphism is known on the ability of plants to cope with adverse environmental conditions. In evolutionary ecology, understanding how selection and environmental heterogeneity shape the diversity of organisms is crucial. In that regard, tools to decipher how the architecture of standing genetic variation affects the evolutionary potential of plants to adapt are required. Quantitative genetics provide a range of statistical methods that could be used to study those questions but are generally neglected as a consequence of their scary name, as for example for the pedigree based random regression method used in our approach. Here, we provide a practical guide for researchers from multiple domains who would like to use such methods. We begin by providing an overview of some of the challenges in plant sciences, such as understanding the role of regulatory genes in adaptation that could gain from using such approach. We then illustrate the “how to” of the method by applying it to an imaginary example. We also provide a complete tutorial in the supplementary online material under the form of a protocol and data that can be used to train researchers and students by replicating entirely our approach. We conclude by highlighting the advantages and limits of such approach.
Animal movement in heterogeneous landscapes : an experiment with Eleodes beetles in shortgrass prairie

The role of small-scale vegetation heterogeneity in determining the movement characteristics of darkling beetles was studied in a semi-arid grassland. We tracked the movements of 75 individuals of three Eleodes spp. in small plots representing different vegetation cover types and grazing intensities. Beetle movements were strongly influenced by vegetation structure, with net displacements highest in bare ground and grass cover types and lowest in cactus and shrub. The three beetle species responded differently to grazing intensity
An Ultrasound Assisted Transesterification to Optimize Biodiesel Production from Rice Bran Oil

The ultrasound method is used to improve mass transfer between incompressible reactants which increases their chemical reaction and reduces reaction time as well as energy consumption. In this research, transesterification process variables of rice bran oil were optimized using response surface methodology (RSM). Three process parameters were investigated, namely methanol to oil molar ratio, catalyst concentration, and time. The optimum conditions of the transesterification process based on RSM were: (1) methanol to oil molar ratio: 1:6; (2) catalyst concentration: 0.5% wt. ; and (3) time: 48 min, with methyl ester yield of 94.12 %. The optimum rice bran methyl ester yield predicted by RSM was validated by replicating three independent parameters with showed average rice bran methyl ester yield of 93.98%. The properties of the rice bran biodiesel properties were measured and the values met the requirements of the ASTM D6751 and EN 14214 standards.
Evaluation of bankruptcy prevention tools : evidences from COSME programme

We apply propensity-score matching (PSM) in order to qualify the efficiency of SME bankruptcy's preventive rescue plan in a European perspective. PSM has a number of comparative advantages in such analysis, including the need to allow for heterogeneous impacts, while optimally weighting observed characteristics when forming a comparison group. The results show that firms asking for a rescue plan register 5.2% higher chance to survive compared to similar (on some pre-settled characteristics) firms that do not. Deepening our analysis to the specific case of COSME Programme's leading countries, our results show that these countries outperforms Europe, with a SMEs getting 7.7% more chance to remain active.
Caloric Densities of Three Predatory Fishes and Their Prey in Lake Oahe, South Dakota

ABSTRACT We determined mean seasonal caloric density of walleye Stizostedion vitreum, chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss and ten species of prey fish from Lake Oahe, South Dakota. Age 3 and older walleye, chinook salmon, and rainbow trout showed distinct seasonal patterns in mean caloric density during May through September, 1994. Energy content of these fish was lowest during spring and highest during fall. No seasonal pattern in mean caloric density of ages 1 and 2 walleye, chinook salmon, and rainbow trout was observed, but caloric content differed among months. Seasonal differences in caloric density were also observed for rainbow smelt Osmerus mordax, yellow perch Perca flavescens, spottail shiners Notropis hudsonius, and lake herring Coregonus artedi. This study demonstrated that age and season contribute to the variability in the energy content of fish from Lake Oahe. Life history stage and season should be considered in energetics studies of fishes.
Assessing soil erodibility and mobilization of phosphorus from Swedish clay soils – Comparison of two simple soil dispersion methods

Abstract Erodibility of Swedish clay soils estimated according to the existing methods is usually low, but high levels of suspended solids and attached unreactive phosphorus have been recorded in drainage water from fields and catchments dominated by clay soils. Inherent susceptibility to soil erosion is usually assessed through aggregate stability studies or dispersion tests. The latter are simple to perform and produce good results when compared against runoff lysimeter experiments. The environmental soil test to determine the potential for sediment and phosphorus transfer in runoff from agricultural land (DESPRAL) and soil suspension turbidity (SST) dispersion tests, which differ in soil–liquid ratio and shaking and settling times, were compared here for their ability to indicate the erodibility of 10 Swedish clay soils. The tests proved to be significantly correlated (r=0.78), but DESPRAL showed higher repeatability (r i =0.995) than SST (r i =0.824). Variation in soil dispersion was explained by clay, sand and organic matter content in DESPRAL and by clay and sand content in SST. An additional study on the effect of soil storage duration on dispersion (DESPRAL test) in 15 soil samples showed that storage had no effect on some soils, but significantly decreased dispersion in others after only 8 weeks. Therefore, soil dispersion tests should be performed as soon as possible after sample drying. The DESPRAL and SST tests proved to be a good option for estimating the erodibility factor K in the Revised Universal Soil Loss equation under Swedish conditions and were able to differentiate the susceptibility to sediment losses for different clay soils. They provided an indirect measure of the amounts of sediment and P mobilized, but further work is needed to calibrate them against measured values at field and catchment scale.
Effect of Organisational Commitment in Psychological Contract Breach-Organisational Citizenship Behaviour Bond among Medical Doctors

Medical doctors are responsible for leading the care of patients. They are perhaps the most valuable assets of healthcare organisations. Yet, indications signal that medical doctors operating in the Upper East and West Regions of Ghana are bedevilled with severe breaches in their psychological contract, which could probably result in low commitment to their organisation and subsequently, stifle their tendency to be good organisational citizens. The study therefore investigated the interceding effect of organisational commitment in the nexus between psychological contract breach and organisational citizenship behaviour among medical doctors in the Upper East and Upper West Regions of Ghana. 214 medical doctors participated in the study. A validated, semi-structured and self-administered questionnaire was employed. The data collected was subjected to Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy and Bartlett test of sphericity, as well as reliability and validity tests. Mediating effect was conducted. Control variables were sex, age, employment type and tenure. Significant level was set at 5%. Partial-least squares structural equation modelling was used to analyse the data, with the help of Smart PLS 3.0M. 3 software. Consistent with expectations, organisational commitment partially mediated the association between psychological contract breach and organisational citizenship behaviour among medical doctors working in these two regions. The study therefore settled that organisational commitment lessened the effect of a psychological contract breach on the medical doctors’ tendency to be bad organisational citizens. The study therefore recommends managers of Ghana Health Service to consider improving the level of organisational commitment among the medical doctors.
The evolution of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) programmes: a call for mixed evaluation methodologies

PurposeFor the past four decades, there is no evidence of a consensus on the suitable community-based rehabilitation (CBR) evaluation methodologies. To this end, the purpose of this study is to provide a narrative review on CBR evaluations and the potential of photovoice method when used alone and when used in combination with quality of life assessment tools as CBR evaluation methodologies.Design/methodology/approachA narrative review was undertaken, but including some aspects of scoping review methodology.FindingsThirty-three full-text articles were included for review. Three key findings were an overview of the evolution of CBR evaluation; the use of photovoice method in CBR evaluation and the use of photovoice method in combination with quality of life assessment tools in CBR evaluation.Research limitations/implicationsPhotovoice methodology was found to be participatory in nature and as has the potential to elicit the experiences of persons with disabilities. However, photovoice falls short of measuring the quality of life of persons with disabilities, thus will need to be collaborated with another assessment tool. A combination of photovoice and World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL)-BREF and WHOQOL-Dis assessment has a potential to give an adequate representation of the voices of persons with disabilities and their quality of life.Originality/valueThere is need for changes in CBR evaluation methodologies in response to the evolution of disability models from medical model to human rights model. Thus CBR evaluation methodologies should embrace the diversity among persons with disabilities in interpreting life experiences and quality of life.
Cross‐domain speaker recognition using domain adversarial siamese network with a domain discriminator

With the widespread use of automatic speaker recognition in realistic world, it suffers a lot when there is a domain mismatch, including channel, language, distance etc. Recent research studies have introduced the adversarial-learning mechanism into deep neural networks to reduce the distribution mismatch between different domains. However, they only aligned the domain distributions between the background training and evaluation data. Few focused on the diverse distribution underlying the enrol and test data. In this Letter, the authors propose a domain adversarial siamese (DAS) network trying to eliminate the domain influence on speech representation. Specifically, they feed a network with speech pairs from the same speaker. Then a domain discriminator is introduced to capture the domain consistence or difference between pairs. Final embeddings become domain-invariant and more speaker-discriminative. A cross-channel data set is sort out from NIST speaker recognition evaluation and more experiments are conducted on AISHELL-Wake-Up-1 data set. Results show that DAS performs equally effective with typical domain adversarial methods, improving results at least 10 % on energy efficiency rating. Furthermore, it is proved to be more valid for scenarios such as unbalanced data amount and unknown domain, achieving relatively 11 % improvements.
Improvement of Regeneration of Pelargonium radula via Somatic Embryogenesis.

In vitro stem segments of Pelargonium radula cultured for callusing then differentiated into somatic embryos and subsequently regenerated plantlets. Initiation of callus was observed in culture medium containing low concentrations of the plant growth regulators, 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and/or α-naphthalene acetic acid (NAA). At 0.2 mg/L 2,4-D and 0.2 mg/L NAA was showing the highest rate (92%) of callus induction. The callus showed no sign of browning after sub-cultured. Sub-culturing the callus onto medium with 0.2 mg/L 2,4-D showed the highest in proliferation rate resulted 13.45g weight of callus. The presence of agar at 6 g/L and 0.5 mg/L Gibberellic acid (GA3) improved the regeneration of the somatic embryos, which produced maximum number of plantlets (15 plantlets). Agar with concentration of 9 to12 g/L increased the incidence of browning. The former medium was more successful in plantlet regeneration when the selected embryos were subsequently transferred to regeneration medium with 3 g/L agar, 0.5 mg/L GA3 and 0.5 mg/L Benzylaminopurine (BAP).
Exposure to the COVID-19 Stock Market Crash and Its Effect on Household Expectations

Abstract We survey a representative sample of U.S. households to study how exposure to the COVID-19 stock market crash affects expectations and planned behavior. Wealth shocks are associated with upward adjustments of expectations about retirement age, desired working hours, and household debt but have only small effects on expected spending. We provide correlational and experimental evidence that beliefs about the duration of the stock market recovery shape households' expectations about their own wealth and their planned investment decisions and labor market activity. Our findings shed light on the implications of household exposure to stock market crashes for expectation formation.
Day-ahead load forecasting using improved grey Verhulst model

Purpose In the daily energy dispatch process in a power system, accurate short-term electricity load forecasting is a very important tool used by spot market players. It is a critical requirement for optimal generator unit commitment, economic dispatch, system security and stability assessment, contingency and ancillary services management, reserve setting, demand side management, system maintenance and financial planning in power systems. The purpose of this study is to present an improved grey Verhulst electricity load forecasting model. Design/methodology/approach To test the effectiveness of the proposed model for short-term load forecast, studies made use of Kenya’s load demand data for the period from January 2014 to June 2019. Findings The convectional grey Verhulst forecasting model yielded a mean absolute percentage error of 7.82 per cent, whereas the improved model yielded much better results with an error of 2.96 per cent. Practical implications In the daily energy dispatch process in a power system, accurate short-term load forecasting is a very important tool used by spot market players. It is a critical ingredient for optimal generator unit commitment, economic dispatch, system security and stability assessment, contingency and ancillary services management, reserve setting, demand side management, system maintenance and financial planning in power systems. The fact that the model uses actual Kenya’s utility data confirms its usefulness in the practical world for both economic planning and policy matters. Social implications In terms of generation and transmission investments, proper load forecasting will enable utilities to make economically viable decisions. It forms a critical cog of the strategic plans for power utilities and other market players to avoid a situation of heavy stranded investment that adversely impact the final electricity prices and the other extreme scenario of expensive power shortages. Originality/value This research combined the use of natural logarithm and the exponential weighted moving average to improve the forecast accuracy of the grey Verhulst forecasting model.
Attachment to Parents as a Predictor of Multidimensional Life Satisfaction Among Adolescents

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of parental attachment in adolescents’ life satisfaction. The study group consisted of 470 high school students (237 females, 233 males) who were attended schools in Denizli-Turkey in 2016-2017 academic year. In this study, Multidimensional Student Life Satisfaction Scale and Attachment to Parents and Friends Inventory were used to gather data. Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated to examine the relationships between variables for the analysis of data. In addition, multiple regression analysis was used to determine the power of the attachment to parent to predict the sub-dimensions of the life satisfaction. The results showed that positive correlations were found between attachment to parents (mother and father) and life satisfaction (family, friends, environment, school and self) in adolescents. In addition, it was found that attachment to the parents was a positive and significant predictor of the life satisfaction (family, friends, environment, school, self) in adolescents. Implications of these results are discussed within the context of literature.
The probability of root disease on the Lolo National Forest, Montana

Root disease killed trees in 33% of 579 stands on the Lolo National Forest, Montana. Of all the commercial forest land, 123 255 ha, or 18.8%, was diseased; 1.2% was in nonstocked patches. The statistical method CART (classification and regression trees) was used to construct a decision tree to place stands into one of four classes, based on the probability that the stands contained trees that were killed by root disease. High probabilities of root disease were found for stands in the western hemlock and grand fir habitat type series (0.59) and in other habitat types on moderate slopes with southerly aspects (0.48). Low probabilities of disease were found on non-hemlock and non grand fir types on northerly aspects (0.15) and southerly aspects that were on either flat or very rugged terrain (0.17). Both Phellinusweirii (Murr.) Gilb. and Armillaria sp. , probably A. ostoyae (Romagna) Herick, were frequently associated with mortality in hemlock, grand fir, and cedar habitat type series. Only A. ostoyae was com.
Cetacean Energetics, an Overview of Intraspecific Size Variation

Standard metabolism is estimated for the fin whale, Ba/aenloptera physalus, from the energy yield of lipid stores consumed while in regions of limited prey availability. The metabolic rate appears better described by a surface rather than a volumetric rule. The larger body size of some Antarctic Balaenoptera compared with those of the Northern Hemi- sphere is attributed to selection for body proportions that reduce the specific metabolic rate and establish an optimal surface area for deposition of a lipid cache. Such proportions allow short-term forays into areas where prey is extremely dense but of restricted seasonal avail- ability, and permit extended use of lipid stores during exclusion to warmer but less productive waters. Thus, adult body size within species is inversely correlated with the length of the feeding season and directly correlated with prey availability during that period. As differences in diversity of prey and/or their year-round availability become less marked between hemispheres, so do the body-size differences of the lesser rorquals. This is also applied to odontocetes. Thermal homeostasis is considered to be equally dependent upon morphology and behavior. Minimal densities of prey necessary for the maintenance of rorquals could be estimated from certain known parameters.
Phosphorus Movement in the Landscape

Phosphorus movement in runoff often promotes algal growth in lakes. Thus, agricultural soils and management practices that enhance the potential for P movement must be identified. The main factors controlling P movement are transport (runoff and erosion potential) and source factors (surface soil P and method, rate, and timing of fertilizer and animal manure applications). Implementation of management that minimizes runoff and erosion will reduce P transport in runoff, although total algal availability can increase. The continued application of P has increased surface soil test P contents in excess of levels sufficient for optimum crop yields. Although increases in soil P have been related to P enrichment of runoff in plot and watershed studies, information for given management systems still is needed to reliably quantify critical soil P levels above which excessive P enrichment of runoff will occur [. ]