Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of dietary administration of multi-enzyme on productive performance of laying hens fed different levels of safflower meal.

The present study aimed to investigate the effects of dietary supplementation of multi-enzyme on productive performance of laying hens fed different levels of safflower meal. A total of 250 Leghorn laying hens (Hy-Line W-36) 47 weeks-old were randomly assigned into 10 experimental treatments with 5 replicates of 5 birds each. Experimental treatments consisted of five safflower meal levels (0.0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5 and 10.0 g/100g of diet) with and without multienzyme (Bergazym P®,0.0 and 0.1 g/100g of diet) as a 5 × 2 factorial arrangement that fed during a 10 weeks feeding trial. During the experimental period, eggs were collected and weighed daily, and feed consumption was weekly recorded. Then, the productive performance indices including feed consumption, egg production percentage, egg weight, egg mass and feed conversion ratio (FCR) were reported as 14 d intervals and during entire trial period. Feeding laying hens 2.5% and 5% safflower meal showed tendency to increased egg mass in the entire experimental period. This improvement was largely due to the marginal increase in egg production percentage. The best FCR was found in birds fed on diets contained in 0.0% to 5.0 % safflower meal. Feed conversion ratio increased significantly after feeding at least 7.5 % safflower meal. Increase in FCR was due to the trend in decreased egg production and contemporaneous increase in feed consumption. On the other hand, using multi-enzyme did not improve FCR. Adding multi-enzyme increased the egg production percentage and egg mass. Therefore, our results indicated that safflower meal can be included in diets of laying hens up to 5% with no adverse effect on performance. Also, administration of cocktail commercial enzyme to the diets of laying hens would have beneficial effects on productive performance, especially in terms of egg production.
Bovine Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis) in Wildlife in Spain

ABSTRACT Mycobacterium bovis infection in wildlife and feral species is a potential source of infection for livestock and a threat to protected and endangered species. The aim of this study was to identify Spanish wild animal species infected with M. bovis through bacteriological culture and spacer oligonucleotide typing (spoligotyping) of isolates for epidemiological purposes. This study included samples from red deer (Cervus elaphus), fallow deer (Dama dama), wild boar (Sus scrofa), Iberian lynx (Lynx pardina), hare (Lepus europaeus), and cattle (Bos taurus). They were collected in several geographical areas that were selected for their unique ecological value and/or known relationships between wildlife and livestock. In the areas included in this survey, M. bovis strains with the same spoligotyping pattern were found infecting several wild species and livestock, which indicates an epidemiological link. A locally predominant spoligotype was found in these areas. Better understanding of the transmission and distribution of disease in these populations will permit more precise targeting of control measures.
In situ calcium carbonate dissolution in the Pacific Ocean

Over the past several years researchers have been working to synthesize the WOCE/JGOFS global CO2 survey data to better understand carbon cycling processes in the oceans. The Pacific Ocean data set has over 35,000 sample locations with at least two carbon parameters, oxygen, nutrients, CFC tracers, and hydrographic parameters. In this paper we estimate the in situ CaCO3 dissolution rates in the Pacific Ocean water column. Calcium carbonate dissolution rates ranging from 0.01–1.1 μmol kg−1 yr−1 are observed in intermediate and deepwater beginning near the aragonite saturation horizon. In the North Pacific Intermediate Water between 400 and 800 m, CaCO3 dissolution rates are more than 7 times faster than observed in middle and deep water depths (average = 0.051 μmol kg−1 yr−1). The total amount of CaCO3 that is dissolved within the Pacific is determined by integrating excess alkalinity throughout the water column. The total inventory of CaCO3 added by particle dissolution in the Pacific Ocean, north of 40°S, is 157 Pg C. This amounts to an average dissolution rate of approximately 0.31 Pg C yr−1. This estimate is approximately 74% of the export production of CaCO3 estimated for the Pacific Ocean. These estimates should be considered to be upper limits for in situ carbonate dissolution in the Pacific Ocean, since a portion of the alkalinity increase results from inputs from sediments.
Systemic moxifloxacin vs amoxicillin/metronidazole adjunct to non-surgical treatment in generalized aggressive periodontitis

Background The objective of this randomized clinical study was to evaluate the effect of systemic administration of moxifloxacin compared to amoxicillin and metronidazole, combined with non-surgical treatment in patients with generalized aggressive periodontitis (GAgP) in a 6-month follow-up. Material and Methods A total of 39 systemically healthy patients with GAgP were evaluated in this randomized clinical trial. Periodontal parameters were recorded at the baseline during the 1st, 3rd and 6th month. Patients received either 400 mg of moxifloxacin per os once daily or 500 mg of metronidazole and 500 mg amoxicillin per os three times daily for 7 days consecutively. Results No significant differences between groups were found in any parameters at the baseline. Both groups led to a statistically significant decrease in all clinical periodontal parameters compared to the baseline (PI, p<0.001 and GI, PD, BOP, CAL, p<0.01). There were no differences between the 1st and 3rd months or the 3rd and 6th months for clinical parameters in the groups. Also, no intergroup difference was observed in any parameters at any time, except the gingival index at 6th months. Conclusions Systemic administration of moxifloxacin as an adjunct to non-surgical treatment significantly improves clinical outcomes and provides comparable clinical improvement with less adverse events to that of combination of amoxicillin and metronidazole in the treatment of GAgP. Key words: Aggressive periodontitis, amoxicillin, metronidazole, moxifloxacin, nonsurgical periodontal debridement.
AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT OF SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS' FLUENCY

This paper describes an experiment aimed at determining whether speech. automatic assessment of second language learners’ fluency in This experiment produced interesting results in two respects, spontaneous speech is feasible a nd whether it differs from a. fluency assessment by expert raters and b . the relationship a utomatic fluency assessment in read speech. Spontaneous speech between expert f luency ratings and automatically obtained objective of 60 learners of Dutch was scored for fluency by five raters and f luency measures. With regard to a. , the results showed that expert was analyzed b y means of a c ontinuous s peech recognizer to r atings of fluency in read speech are reliable (Cronbachs’ varies ca lculate seven quantitative m easures of speech quality known to be between .90 and .96). With respect t o b . , very high correlations related to p erceived fluency. The results s how that automatic were found b etween the expert fluency ratings and the automatic assessm ent of second language learners’ fluency in spontaneous m easures of fluency: five automatic measures showed correlations s peech is feasible, although not all variables suitable for measuring with the fluency scores whose magnitude varied between . 77 and fluency in read speech are as effective in spontaneous speech. In . 91. The highest correlations were found f or rate of speech (between particular, m easures that express the rate a t which sounds are .86 and .91). Further analyses revealed that t wo factors are produced w ithout t aking pauses into account appear to b e important f or perceived fluency in read speech: the rate at which unsuitable f or measuring fluency in spontaneous speech. s peakers articulate the sounds and the number of pauses they make. Furthermore, the correlations between machine scores and human Rate of speech appears to be such a good predictor of perceived r atings are lower for spontaneous speech. Possible explanations are f luency because it incorporates these two aspects. discussed. Since automatic assessment of fluency in read speech turned
Text Classification for Intelligent Agent Portfolio Management

In the application domain of stock portfolio management, software agents that evaluate the risks associated with the individual companies of a portfolio should be able to read electronic news articles that are written to give investors an indication of the nancial outlook of a company. There is a positive correlation between news reports on a company's nancial outlook and the company's attractiveness as an investment. However, because of the volume of such reports, it is impossible for nancial analysts or investors to track and read each one. Therefore, it would be very helpful to have a system that automatically categorizes news reports that re ect positively or negatively on a company's nancial outlook. To accomplish this task, we treat the unsupervised reading and understanding of news articles as an automatic text classi cation problem. In this paper, we propose a text classi cation method that we call, \domain experts" and \self-con dent" sampling technique, and compare it with naive Bayes with expectation maximization (EM). We evaluate these learning techniques in terms of how well they improve with unlabeled data after being initially trained on a small number of human-labeled articles and how well they classify the latest nancial news articles. The signi cance of this work lies in the new classi cation method that we propose and in the sampling technique we used for improving classi cation accuracy.
Large-scale production and study of a synthetic G protein-coupled receptor: Human olfactory receptor 17-4

Although understanding of the olfactory system has progressed at the level of downstream receptor signaling and the wiring of olfactory neurons, the system remains poorly understood at the molecular level of the receptors and their interaction with and recognition of odorant ligands. The structure and functional mechanisms of these receptors still remain a tantalizing enigma, because numerous previous attempts at the large-scale production of functional olfactory receptors (ORs) have not been successful to date. To investigate the elusive biochemistry and molecular mechanisms of olfaction, we have developed a mammalian expression system for the large-scale production and purification of a functional OR protein in milligram quantities. Here, we report the study of human OR17-4 (hOR17-4) purified from a HEK293S tetracycline-inducible system. Scale-up of production yield was achieved through suspension culture in a bioreactor, which enabled the preparation of >10 mg of monomeric hOR17-4 receptor after immunoaffinity and size exclusion chromatography, with expression yields reaching 3 mg/L of culture medium. Several key post-translational modifications were identified using MS, and CD spectroscopy showed the receptor to be ≈50% α-helix, similar to other recently determined G protein-coupled receptor structures. Detergent-solubilized hOR17-4 specifically bound its known activating odorants lilial and floralozone in vitro, as measured by surface plasmon resonance. The hOR17-4 also recognized specific odorants in heterologous cells as determined by calcium ion mobilization. Our system is feasible for the production of large quantities of OR necessary for structural and functional analyses and research into OR biosensor devices.
OTSX: An extended transaction service in support of FT-CORBA standard

The FT-CORBA standard that has been adopted by OMG in recent years introduces mechanisms in support of increasing the availability of systems. This standard provides an infrastructure to detect faults and replicate distributed objects. In this paper we are going to share our experiences on implementing an extended transaction service (OTSX) which provides a set of specific features in support of FT-CORBA standard. These extensions allow distributed applications developed on top of FT-CORBA to run atomic operations on multiple object groups and ignore any faults that may occur in any object. The role of some affecting parameters like object size and failure rate is also studied and reported in this paper.
Arabic/farsi handwritten digit recognition using histogram of oriented gradient and chain code histogram

The aim of this paper is to propose a novel technique for Arabic/Farsi handwritten digit recognition. We constructed an invariant and efficient feature set by combination of four directional Chain Code Histogram (CCH) and Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG). To achieve higher recognition rate, we extracted local features at two levels with grids 2×2, 1×1 and it causes a partial overlapping of zones. Our proposed feature set has 164 dimensions. For classification phase, Support Vector Machine (SVM) with radial basis function kernel was used. The system was evaluated on HODA handwritten digit dataset which consist of 60000 and 20000 training and test samples, respectively. The experimental results represent 99.31% classification rate. Further, 59fold cross validation was applied on whole 80000 samples and 99.58% accuracy was obtained.
The role of the gender diversity of audit committees in modelling the quality of management earnings forecasts of initial public offers in Malaysia

Purpose Presently, one of the major governance issues faced by management and shareholders of organizations is the gender composition of the boards of directors and audit committees. This study aims to examine the impact of gender diversity in audit committees on the accuracy of management earnings forecasts disclosure in initial public offering (IPO) prospectuses. Design/methodology/approach The study sample comprises 190 Malaysian companies issuing IPOs that transformed into public companies during the period 2002-2012. Earnings forecasts accuracy (quality) is proxied by absolute forecast error and the study model is developed based on the frameworks of the signalling theory, the agency theory and the resource-dependence theory. Findings The study proposes that female directors introduce a set of specific features in the boardroom that serve to improve investor protection and efficient monitoring of management. However, findings reveal an insignificantly positive relationship between gender diversity in audit committees and absolute forecast error, which shows that more female directors in audit committees could translate into more errors and less accuracy in earnings forecasts. Practical implications Considering the recent regulatory developments that encourage the number of women on the board of directors, the findings obtained have significant implications for policymakers. The study findings can also be invaluable to investors, investment analysts, market players and researchers. Originality/value The composition of the board of directors and audit committees in terms of gender plays a significant role in the promotion of effective corporate governance practices. This study is one of the pioneering studies that examines the advantages of gender diversity in the board of directors. It is also the first study to extend IPO literature by investigating the role of gender diversity in audit committees in the enhancement of accurate management earnings forecasts included in the IPO prospectuses.
Network Support for Logic Programming

The unprecedented development of communication networks in the last years opened the way for the development of distributed applications in many fields of science and technology. Logic Programming is just one of them, and we will show how this field can benefit from this development. The benefits range from the use of the classical Telnet/SSH protocol, to the support for socket-based applications and protocols, the implementation of complex distributed computational models, the development of Webbased applications and even client-server graphical interfaces.
Activation and quenching of the phototransduction cascade in retinal cones as inferred from electrophysiology and mathematical modeling

Purpose To experimentally identify and quantify factors responsible for the lower sensitivity of retinal cones compared to rods. Methods Electrical responses of frog rods and fish (Carassius) cones to short flashes of light were recorded using the suction pipette technique. A fast solution changer was used to apply a solution that fixed intracellular Ca2+ concentration at the prestimulus level, thereby disabling Ca2+ feedback, to the outer segment (OS). The results were analyzed with a specially designed mathematical model of phototransduction. The model included all basic processes of activation and quenching of the phototransduction cascade but omitted unnecessary mechanistic details of each step. Results Judging from the response versus intensity curves, Carassius cones were two to three orders of magnitude less sensitive than frog rods. There was a large scatter in sensitivity among individual cones, with red-sensitive cones being on average approximately two times less sensitive than green-sensitive ones. The scatter was mostly due to different signal amplification, since the kinetic parameters of the responses among cones were far less variable than sensitivity. We argue that the generally accepted definition of the biochemical amplification in phototransduction cannot be used for comparing amplification in rods and cones, since it depends on an irrelevant factor, that is, the cell’s volume. We also show that the routinely used simplified parabolic curve fitting to an initial phase of the response leads to a few-fold underestimate of the amplification. We suggest a new definition of the amplification that only includes molecular parameters of the cascade activation, and show how it can be derived from experimental data. We found that the mathematical model with unrestrained parameters can yield an excellent fit to experimental responses. However, the fits with wildly different sets of parameters can be virtually indistinguishable, and therefore cannot provide meaningful data on underlying mechanisms. Based on results of Ca2+-clamp experiments, we developed an approach to strongly constrain the values of many key parameters that set the time course and sensitivity of the photoresponse (such as the dark turnover rate of cGMP, rates of turnoffs of the photoactivated visual pigment and phosphodiesterase, and kinetics of Ca2+ feedback). We show that applying these constraints to our mathematical model enables accurate determination of the biochemical amplification in phototransduction. It appeared that, contrary to many suggestions, maximum biochemical amplification derived for “best” Carassius cones was as high as in frog rods. On the other hand, all turnoff and recovery reactions in cones proceeded approximately 10 times faster than in rods. Conclusions The main cause of the differing sensitivity of rods and cones is cones’ ability to terminate their photoresponse faster.
Comparative Analysis of Network Simulator for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks ( VANET ) Communication

Recently, Vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) can offer various services and benefits to VANET users and thus deserves deployment effort. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are aimed at addressing critical issues like passenger safety and traffic congestion when integrates ICT with transportation infrastructure. This infrastructure is called Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANET), Vehicular communication systems facilitate communication devices for exchange of information among vehicles and between vehicles and roadside equipment. Working in tandem with the fielded Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) infrastructure, VANET will enhance the awareness of traffic by aggregating, propagating and disseminating up-to -the minute information about existing or impending traffic-related events. In support of their mission, Here we consider that every study should chose the appropriate simulator based on its requirements.
The RRMS Protocol : Fair Medium Access in Ad Hoc Networks

MAC level protocols in ad hoc networks must overcome the decentralized nature of the network and provide adequate throughput and fairness. This paper presents a new MAC protocol named Randomly Ranked Mini Slots (RRMS), which provides throughput at near channel capacity and good fairness as defined by a common sense criterion we develop. The protocol achieves this by utilizing random (pseudo noise) sequences, a receiver busy tone, and by sharing a minimal amount of information between two hop neighbouring nodes. The performance of our protocol is compared to the Dual Busy Tone Multiple Access (DBTMA) protocol in terms of throughput and fairness.
Solving a Seal-Bid Reverse Auction by Fuzzy Multiple objective programming

This study solves a sealed-bid and multiple issue reverse auction problem. At the supplier side, the bidding process is formulated as a fuzzy multiple objective programming to assist the supplier determining its optimum offer, while at the buyer side, the selection of the best offer from suppliers is considered as a multiple attribute decision making problem and is solved by the TOPSIS method. The solution to the supplier’s fuzzy multiple objective problem is obtained by a heuristic algorithm that adjusts the production plan to fulfill the buyer’s demand based on the information of current master production schedule and available-topromise inventory.
The P granule component PGL-1 promotes the localization and silencing activity of the PUF protein FBF-2 in germline stem cells

In the C. elegans germline, maintenance of undifferentiated stem cells depends on the PUF family RNA-binding proteins FBF-1 and FBF-2. FBF-1 and FBF-2 are 89% identical and are required redundantly to silence the expression of mRNAs that promote meiosis. Here we show that, despite their extensive sequence similarity, FBF-1 and FBF-2 have different effects on target mRNAs. FBF-1 promotes the degradation and/or transport of meiotic mRNAs out of the stem cell region, whereas FBF-2 prevents translation. FBF-2 activity depends on the P granule component PGL-1. PGL-1 is required to localize FBF-2 to perinuclear P granules and for efficient binding of FBF-2 to its mRNA targets. We conclude that multiple regulatory mechanisms converge on meiotic RNAs to ensure silencing in germline stem cells. Our findings also support the view that P granules facilitate mRNA silencing by providing an environment in which translational repressors can encounter their mRNA targets immediately upon exit from the nucleus.
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