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INTERPRETATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT COLORS WAVELENGTH LIGHT APPLICATION AND SOUND FREQUENCY IN JAPANESE QUAILS BY SPECTRAL ANALYSIS

In this study, taking into account the responses of living things to the wavelength of light; Among the poultry species, which are more sensitive to green and red light wavelengths than humans, Japanese quails were used as model animals. In the study, the effects of red and green light wavelengths on gender and the responses of model animals of the same sex were examined. In the study, in the light application, the sound signals were taken in a specially isolated insulated environment. The recordings were analysed in frequency and time period using spectral analysis methods in the Matlab program. The maximum, minimum, average value, variance, dynamic range (Hz), peak frequency and autocorrelation time (S) values of the signal were found. These values, multiple comparison tests of male, female and male-female groups were performed in the study. While there were significant differences between the groups in the study; the red light application was estimated to be close to each other between the minimum and maximum values in the 1st and 7th weeks, variance, peak frequency and autocorrelation time (S) values. The reason for this is that poultry is more sensitive to green and red light wavelengths. It is an indication of the adapted adaptation for red light application (~ 625-740 nm, ~ 480-405 THz). In addition, in the control and green light applied groups, the data give statistically significant results; it is an indication that the wavelength of light has an effect on the frequency of sound. According to the results of the multiple comparison tests, a statistically significant difference was found between the groups (P = 0.05). Since there is no study on this subject, it is aimed to be a source of literature for other studies and to be the subject of scientific studies.
Smoking Impairs Women’s Verbal Learning and Memory Performance More than Men’s: An International Web-Cohort Study of 70,000 Participants

Background: include structural and functional blood vessel injuries linked to poor neurocognitive outcomes. Smoking might indirectly increase the likelihood of cognitive impairment by exacerbating the risks associated with underlying vascular disease. Sex disparities in VCID have been reported, however, few studies have assessed the sex-specific impact of smoking on cognitive function and with contradictory results. This is an important topic since smoking and cardiovascular disease negatively impact health and possibly women have the greater lifetime risk of stroke and dementia than men. In this study, we sought to investigate the effect-modification of sex on the relationship between smoking, cardiovascular disease and verbal learning and memory function. Methods: Using MindCrowd, a web-based cohort of over 70,000 people aged 18 - 85, we investigated whether sex modifies the impact of smoking and cardiovascular disease on verbal memory performance on a paired-associate learning task using both multiple regression and propensity matching approaches. Artificial error introduction and permutation testing underscored the stability of our results. To demonstrate the necessity of large sample sizes to detect an interaction of sex and smoking, we performed down sampling analyses. Findings: We found significant interactions in that smoking impacts verbal learning performance more in women and cardiovascular disease more in men across a wide age range. Interpretation: These results suggest that smoking and cardiovascular disease impact verbal learning and memory throughout adulthood. Smoking particularly affects learning and memory in women and cardiovascular disease has a larger effect in men. Although the reasons for these sex-modification effects are not entirely understood, our findings highlight the importance of considering biological sex in VCID.
Efficient PM Power Loss Mapping for Brushless AC PM Machines With Surface-Mounted PM Rotor Construction. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 62(12), 7391-7401. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2015.2455062

This paper describes a computationally efficient approach for mapping the rotor power loss in permanent magnet (PM) machines. The PM loss mapping methodology discussed here utilises a small number of time-step finite element analyses (FEA) to determine the parameters of a functional representation of the loss variation with speed (frequency) and stator current, and is intended for a rapid evaluation of machine performance over entire torque-speed envelope. The research focus is placed on field-oriented controlled brushless AC PM machines with surface-mounted PM rotor construction, although the method could be adapted for other rotor formats. The loss mapping procedure accounts for the axial-segmentation of PM array through the use of an equivalent electrical resistivity of the segmented PM array, obtained from 3D FEA. The PM loss can be accurately mapped across the full operational envelope, including the field weakened mode, through a single three-dimensional (3D) and four two-dimensional (2D) time-step FEAs. The proposed methodology is validated on an 18 slots, 16 poles surfacemounted brushless AC PM machine design. The loss mapping procedure results agree closely with the computationally demanding alternative of direct 3D FE prediction of the PM power loss undertaken at each of the machine’s operating points.
Google Classroom: Understanding EFL Students’ Attitudes towards Its Use as an Online Learning Platform

The closure of educational institutions across Thailand, as well as the maintenance of social distancing as a preventive and precautionary step against COVID-19, has thrown a wrench in the traditional method of teaching, which has given way to online learning. As a result, most online learning is managed through a learning management system, the most popular of which is Google Classroom. The purpose of this study was to find out how students felt about using levels as a virtual learning tool. One hundred and eleven second-year Thai EFL students from 7 majors who are taking English for Work participated in this study. They were mostly female (79.28%) and between 19 and 23 years old. They had attended online learning on Google Classroom. To obtain participants’ feedback, a Google Form questionnaire and a semi-structured interview were used. Means and Standard deviation were used as descriptive statistics. According to the results of the study, students indicated positive attitudes towards using Google Classroom in the aspect of ease of use (Mean = 4.41), usefulness (Mean = 4.12), and intention to use (Mean = 4.02). The results showed Google Classroom was well perceived by students. They perceived Google Classroom to be useful in submitting assignments and reminding class announcements. The results help teachers to consider arranging activities such as live online tutoring and discussion using Google Classroom to enhance students’ learning engagement or using blended learning (integrating online learning mode with face-to-face classroom).
Investigation of Relationship between Self-Compassion, Extrinsic Motivation, Intrinsic Motivation and Performance: A Research in the Textile Sector

The concept of self-compassion is seen as a part of positive psychology and has recently become a current topic in the organizational behavior literature. Self-compassion is an individual's positive, loving and accepting attitude towards oneself. Self-compassion levels of employees in organizations can positively affect their intrinsic motivation and performance regarding their work. It is also predicted that it regulates the relationship between self-compassion, extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation. The aim of this study is to examine the relationships and interactions between self-compassion, extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, and performance variables. The interactions between the variables are handled within the scope of the moderating and mediating model. Quantitative research method was used in the research. Data were obtained using the questionnaire technique. Due to accessibility, time and cost constraints, the participants were reached with the convenience sampling method. The sample of the research consists of the employees in the textile businesses in Kahramanmaraş and data were collected from 393 participants. SPSS 25.0 and Process Macro programs were used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the research, it was seen that there were positive relations between the variables. With the analysis made to test the established models, it was determined that self-compassion had a moderator role between extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation. With this, it was found that intrinsic motivation had a partial mediating role in the effect of self-compassion on performance. The findings were discussed in the context of the literature and suggestions were made for future studies.
Greco-Scythian Art and the Birth of Eurasia: From Classical Antiquity to Russian Modernity

Book synopsis: Since their discovery in nineteenth-century Russia, Greco-Scythian artefacts have been interpreted as masterpieces by Greek craftsmen working according to the tastes of the Scythian nomads and creating realistic depictions of their barbarian patrons. Drawing on a broad array of evidence from archaeology, art history and epigraphy to contextualize Greco-Scythian metalwork in ancient society, this volume confronts the deep confusion between ancient representation and historical reality in contemporary engagements with classical culture. It argues that the strikingly life-like figure scenes of Greco-Scythian art were integral to the strategies of a cosmopolitan elite who legitimated its economic dominance by asserting an intermediary cultural position between the steppe inland and the urban centres on the shores of the Black Sea. Investigating the reception of this 'Eurasian' self-image in tsarist Russia, Meyer unravels the complex relationship between ancient ideology and modern imperial visions, and its legacy in current conceptions of cultural interaction and identity. With a synthesis of material evidence never yet attempted, this volume breaks significant new ground in explaining the archaeology of Scythia and its ties to inner Asia and classical Greece, the intersection between modern museum display and visual knowledge, and the intellectual history of classics in Russia and the West.
Performance Implications of Async Memcpy and UVM: A Tale of Two Data Transfer Modes

Heterogeneous systems with CPU-GPUs have become dominant parallel architectures in recent years. To optimize memory management and data transfer between CPUs and GPUs, unified virtual memory and asynchronous memory copy were introduced in recent Nvidia GPUs. With such architectural support, the entire processing flow can now be pipelined into multiple stages, thereby efficiently overlapping data transfer with computation.In this paper, we provide a thorough performance analysis of GPU asynchronous memory copy (Async Memcpy) and unified virtual memory (UVM) on workloads covering multiple domains. We especially study the joint effect of these two architectural features, exploring which applications benefit from one or both of these features. On a suite of 14 real-world applications, we observe an average 21% performance gain when using unified virtual memory only, and 23% gain when using both of them. In irregular programs like kmeans and lud, asynchronous memory copy provides around 20% benefits over unified virtual memory. Furthermore, we dive deep into the GPU kernel using performance counters to reveal the root causes contributing to the performance variances. We make sensitivity studies on how the number of blocks and threads, and L1-cache/shared memory partition affect the performance. We discuss future research directions to further improve the data transfer pipeline.
Effectiveness of a Novel Endophyte Bacillus velezensis Strain B1 in the Biocontrol of Pear Postharvest Ring Rot

Pear ring rot caused by Botryosphaeria dothidea severely affects the quality and storage life of pear fruit. Plant endophytes are potential new sources of biocontrol agents due to their abilities to produce novel bioactive products. In this work, we focused on an endophytic strain B1, which was isolated from roots of Dendrobium huoshanense. Notably, strain B1 exhibited strongly inhibitory effects against the growth of Botryosphaeria dothidea with an inhibition rate of 73.2% after 1 week of co-cultivation. Furthermore, it displayed a broad-spectrum inhibitory activity. Strain B1 also effectively delayed the onset of ring rot caused by B. dothidea in pear fruit and reduced the lesion diameter by 73.4%. Strain B1 was identified as Bacillus velezensis based on core-genome phylogeny. Genome mining with antiSMASH revealed 13 potential gene clusters involved in antimicrobial metabolites. Three main groups of lipopeptides (surfactin, iturin and fengycin) were identified with MALDI-TOF-MS, and the lipopeptides in the inhibition zone were greatly upregulated by B. dothidea; especially, fengycin isoforms were detected with higher abundance. These results proved that lipopeptides produced by strain B1 had significant antagonistic effect on B. dothidea. In conclusion, our results suggest that strain B1 has potential applications in the biocontrol of B. dothidea in postharvest fruit.
The effect of increased NaCl intake on rat brain endogenous µ-opioid receptor signaling

Numerous studies demonstrate the significant role of central β -endorphin and its receptor, the μ opioid receptor (MOR), in sodium intake regulation. The present study aimed to investigate the possible relationship between chronic high-NaCl intake and brain endogenous MOR functioning. We examined whether short-term (4 days) obligatory salt intake (2% NaCl solution) in rats may induce changes in MOR mRNA expression, G-protein activity and MOR binding capacity in brain regions involved in salt intake regulation. Plasma osmolality and electrolyte concentrations after sodium overload and the initial and final body weight of the animals were also examined. After 4 days of obligatory hypertonic sodium chloride intake, there was clearly no difference in MOR mRNA expression and G-protein activity in the median preoptic nucleus (MnPO). In the brainstem, MOR binding capacity also remained unaltered, but the maximal efficacy of MOR G-protein significantly increased. Finally, no significant alterations were observed in plasma osmolality and electrolyte concentrations. Interestingly, animals which received sodium gained significantly less weight than control animals. In conclusion, we found no significant alterations in the MnPO and brainstem in the number of available cell surface MORs or de novo syntheses of MOR after hypertonic sodium intake. may participate in the maintenance of normal blood pressure levels and/or in enhancing sodium taste aversion and sodium overload-induced anorexia. experiments such these the by which endogenous MOR is to modulate sodium appetite and blood pressure regulation. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of increased salt intake (2% NaCl solution) in rats during a short period of time (4 days) on MOR mRNA expression along the MnPO and the NTS. We also explored brainstem and MnPO MOR G-protein activity (efficacy and potency) and brainstem MOR binding capacity, to see whether sodium overload induced any changes in the signaling and binding properties of the MOR in these brain regions. Finally, we also examined the changes in plasma concentrations of Na + , K + , and Cl - and body weight of the animals after the sodium overload.
Remittances: implications for development 1

Remittances are the most measurable outcome of international migration. South and South-West Asia is one of the world’s largest subregions in terms of population and from a global perspective, it ranks number one among subregions in terms of remittance receipts and dependence on remittances. Of the total remittances transferred to the Asia-Pacific region in 2010, some 40 per cent were sent to destinations in the subregion. Remittances have notably taken a greater role in the development agenda during the past decade in line with a large increase in receipts. The Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development, held in 2002, recognized remittances as a tool for Financing for Development in the Monterrey Consensus, while the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development stated that remittances have become “significant private financial resources for households in countries of origin of migration”.
Sound Propagation in a Uniform Superfluid Two-Dimensional Bose Gas

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Sound Propagation in a Uniform Superfluid Two-Dimensional Bose Gas J. Ville, R. Saint-Jalm, É. Le Cerf, M. Aidelsburger, S. Nascimbène, J. Dalibard, J. Beugnon
Developing English Vocabulary Application to Enhance Speaking Skills for Students of Hospitality Program

This is a report on a Research and Development project with the purpose of developing supplementary materials for building students’ vocabulary in speaking in the hotel context for the tenth-grade students of the Hospitality Program at SMKN 3 Malang. The procedures were carried out in seven steps: (1) identifying the classroom problems, (2) reviewing recent theories of educational product development, (3) developing the educational products, (4) reviewing the product, (5) validating the products to experts and revised according to get quality assurance, (6) small scale try-out and revised based on the result of the try-out, and (7) publishing the ﬁnal product. The students learn the vocabulary through three activities, namely watching the learning video (listening and repeating the dialog and knowing the vocabulary), doing the exercises, and reading the summary. The product provides six videos based on the basic competence of Introducing OneselfandOthers,CongratulatingandComplimentingOthers,ExpressingInten-tions,DescribingTourismandHistoricalPlaces,andGivingAnnouncement.The contextwasadjustedtohospitalitycontext.Thevalidityresultofthisproductis 95%,whichmeansapplicableandsuitable.
CD9 protects the sperm from cytotoxic factors in the epididymis as extracellular components

The mechanism by which seemingly normal sperm cause infertility is still under debate. Although CD9 is expressed in male reproductive tissues, its role in male fertility remains unclear. To address this, we investigated the role of CD9 in analyzing Cd9 -deficient ( Cd9 -KO) male mice. The litter size of Cd9 -KO males was comparable, regardless of mating experience. When Cd9 -KO males experienced their first mating chance, a considerable number of neonates died 48 hours after birth. Electron microscopy reveals the presence of CD9 in the epididymal space. Our results suggest that CD9 contributes to male fertility as an extracellular component.
Characterising intra- and inter-limb gait stability using minimum foot clearance

This research examined aging effects by characterising one parameter of the gait cycle from treadmill walking. The minimum foot clearance (MFC) during the swing phase of gait is an essential event that reveals two things: 1) how the locomotor system achieves control over many degrees of freedom when performing this spatial end point trajectory task while at the same time being challenged by postural stability; 2) the risk associated with tripping over an unseen obstacle due to the performance of this task. Poor gait stability and tripping induced falls are contemporary issues related to elderly populations, where characterising MFC variability from one stride to the next can provide important links between these issues.
Investigating the Role of Gender as Moderator in Relationship Between Financial Behaviour and Financial Risk Attitude Generation Z Students

This study aims to test the role of gender as a variable moderator in the relationship of ﬁnancial behavior and ﬁnancial risk attitude to ﬁnancial satisfaction of generation Z students. The study received a total of 238 respondents conﬁrmed according to research criteria. Research found that ﬁnancial risk attitude and ﬁnancial behavior had a positive effect on ﬁnancial satisfaction. This study found that gender was able to moderate ﬁnancial behavior relationships towards ﬁnancial satisfaction. In contrast, the unique results found that gender did not moderate the ﬁnancial risk attitude relationship to ﬁnancial satisfaction. However, other variables consistently affected the relationships among variable toward ﬁnancial satisfaction. The ﬁndings proved that the Generation Z had different characteristics, habits, and perspectives. On the other hand, the ﬁndings were able to enlarge literature studies related theory of satisfaction, behavior, and gender gaps.
A greenhouse crop production system for tropical lowland conditions

Key words: tropical lowland climate, tropical lowland greenhouse, plastic greenhouse, near infrared radiation (NIR) reflecting plastic, greenhouse climate model, determinate tomato, crop growth, development, truss appearance rate, crop simulation model, INTKAM. The goal of this research was to improve greenhouse crop production under tropical lowland conditions. The dynamics of greenhouse climate were analyzed using a simple greenhouse climate model (GCM), while the growth and development of a determinate tomato crop were quantified using the INTKAM greenhouse crop simulation model. By combining the GCM and INTKAM models, ways to improve tomato production under tropical lowland greenhouse were investigated. Model calculations were calibrated and validated with experiments in six prototype greenhouses with three different near infrared (NIR) transmissivities during three periods with different tropical lowland climate characteristics. The greenhouses having high natural ventilation capacity showed a climate closely coupled to the outdoor climate. Greenhouse air temperature TAir was affected more by variation in ventilation and leaf area index than by the applied NIR transmission. Simulation shows that lowering TAir can be achieved by: (i) reducing near infrared radiation (NIR) transmission especially for bigger greenhouses and humid conditions, (ii) increasing ventilation openings and (iii) transpiration cooling, especially under hot and dry conditions. GCM study indicated that naturally ventilated model greenhouses of up to size of 14400 m2 were capable to create TAir close to or lower than outdoor air temperature Tout when the greenhouse crops had leaf area index of higher than 0.5. Crops with low number of trusses produced substantially lower fruit weight than crops with high number of trusses. Determinate tomato clearly exhibit high fruit abortion, with the number of fruits per truss decreasing as truss number increases. This partly can be explained by low source – sink strength ratio during the productive period. Effort to increase tomato production might require adequate crop management aimed at finding the appropriate source – sink balance. Scenario studies revealed that fruit production by a determinate tomato crop can be increased slightly by using zero NIR transmittance plastic film and by planting three crops per year (which is current practice). However, when the number of fruits can be maintained constant through appropriate crop management measures, the production would increase with increasing fruit load and the lengthening production period through fewer plantings per year.