Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Estrous and pregnancy rate responses of postpartum Bali cattle to concentrate supplementation with different protein levels of rice-straw as basal ration

The aim of the research is to determine the effect of concentrate with different protein level rice straw as basal ration on the percentage of pregnancy rate of Bali cattle maintained on traditional farming system. The research was divided into two experiments. First experiment: a number of 46 cows divided into 4 treatment groups. Each group respectively protein level 0%, 10%, 12%, and 14%. Experiment 2: a number of 324 Bali cows postpartum got concentrate supplementation with different protein levels were divided into three groups, each got a protein level of 10%; 12%, and 14%. The rice straw diet given ad-libitum and concentrate as much as 1 kg per head per day for two months. Livestock that appears estrous after feeding directly mated naturally and partially performed artificial insemination. Pregnancy examinations carried rectal palpation and partly validated with ultrasound. The results showed that estrous respon in the first experiment not significantly affected by supplementation of concentrate with protein level for 10–14%. In contrast, estrous intensity was obviously visible in group treatment with 14% protein level. The supplementation of protein level in concentrate increased natural estrous 66.05% and natural mating generated 91.65% of pregnancy rate. However, 43.95% cows were artificially inseminated generating 81.63% of pregnancy rate. It’s sonclude that supplementation of concentrate for feed Bali cows with rice straw as basal in the dry season caused increasing the percentage of postpartum estrous and highest of pregnancy rate.
Smart on the Inside: Functionally Rich Differences in Connectivity Within the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Are Present in Early Infancy

Outwardly, babies are not smart humans demonstrate little in the way of goal-directed behaviour or intelligence during early infancy. But, this does not imply that they do not have covert executive functioning. To investigate this, rather than measuring behaviour, we used neuroimaging to examine the maturity of the network responsible for executive function and in particular its key hub, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). The DLPFC was recently divided in adults into 26 subregions. We find that in adults these sub-regions have distinctive signatures of connectivity with the rest of the brain, reflecting their functional specializations in cognitive tasks. In infants, we found that these distinctive signatures of connectivity were already present by a few months of age. This suggests that infants may be more capable of executive functions than previously thought.
Redlistr: tools for the IUCN Red Lists of ecosystems and threatened species in R

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of ecosystems and Red List of threatened species are global standards for assessing risks of ecosystem collapse and species extinction. However, misconceptions of the Red List assessment process, along with its technically demanding nature, can result in the misapplication of their criteria, leading to inconsistent and potentially unreliable assessments. To address this problem, we developed redlistr, an R package aiding in the production of consistent species and ecosystem Red List assessments. Redlistr's features include methods to calculate 1) area from spatial data, 2) range size metrics, 3) rates of change of distributions or populations, and 4) distribution or population at another time from these rates. A key feature of the package is the systematic approach used to eliminate geometric uncertainty when estimating area of occupancy. Here, we develop two case studies to demonstrate the functionalities of redlistr with typical workflows for both species and ecosystems. Redlistr was developed to be accessible to users with a broad range of experience in programming for spatial and temporal data analysis, and sufficiently flexible to allow users to parameterise functions and select equations to fit their purposes. The package specifically aims to assist researchers and conservation practitioners to conduct robust and transparent risk assessments of ecosystems and species under the IUCN Red List criteria but is also useful for other studies requiring analyses of range size, area change and calculations of rates of change.
The Diversity Found Among Carbapenem-Resistant Bacteria

The Diversity Found Among Carbapenem-Resistant Bacteria Galen Edward Card Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, BYU Master of Science This work will look at two factors that add to the diversity of carbapenem resistant bacteria. First, it focuses on the diversity of carbapenemase resistance plasmids. 446 plasmids were characterized by size, gene content and replicon groups. We identified that on average, over 30% of the encoded proteins on each plasmid have an unknown function. Plasmid sizes ranged from 1.6kb to 500kb, with an average of around 100kb and median of 80kb. Additionally, six replicon groups account for 80% of all the carbapenemase resistance plasmids. We also highlight the lack of data available for carbapenemase carrying plasmids from bacterial genera other than Escherichia and Klebsiella, and plasmids that carry the New Delhi metallo-βlactamase or the Verona-integron encoded metallo-β-lactamase. Second, we characterized the β-lactamase diversity of a single carbapenemase resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. This isolate encodes six distinct β-lactamases, all of which are functional, and three of which are redundant. Additionally, we determined that the CTX-M-15 cephalosporinase imparts a greater fitness when grown in aztreonam (a monobactam) than ceftazidime (a cephalosporin). Finally, we show that individually, these β-lactamases do not account for the elevated levels of resistance seen in the parent strain, indicating that the passive resistance mechanisms (i.e. efflux pumps, altered membrane porins) may play a larger role than originally thought.
Development of constructionist robotics to facilitate learning in C programming course

Learning to program at a stationary computer for any programming course can be boring and demotivated especially when dealing with complex syntax details. A more hands-on approach utilizing robotic module will lead to a better task-oriented interaction between students and their real-life surroundings hoping to increase student engagement with programming. Thus, this paper proposed a constructionist robotic module to facilitate learning in C programming curriculum utilizing a microcontroller board known as FRDM-KL05Z. The module consists of several input and output components that can be utilized to establish human-machine interaction depending on the instruction code written by the students. A pilot survey was also carried out to assess overall impression of the student towards the proposed approach in teaching and learning activities. Results indicated that students were satisfied with the approach as it help to improve their understanding in C Programming.
Pengaruh Kepuasan Kerja terhadap Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) Alumni Diklat Kepemimpinan Tingkat IV di Provinsi Banten

Abstract: Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) is a variable that can be influenced by job satisfaction. This study aims to determine the effect of job satisfaction variables on Organizational Citizenship Behavior OCB alumni level IV leadership training in Banten Province. This research uses a quantitative approach through survey methods. Data analysis technique used is simple linear regression. The population in this study were 40 respondents and the sample used was 40 respondents. Determination of the sample using total sampling techniques or samples taken from the entire study population. The results of the analysis and interpretation of research data show that the value of the regulatory coefficient of influence on job satisfaction on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) alumni of leadership training level IV is 0.740 thus it can be concluded that job satisfaction has a direct positive effect on Organizational Citizenship Behavior alumni training, meaning that improvement of satisfaction in IV level leadership training is 0.740. work has an impact on improving Organizational Citizenship Behavior for training alumni, So Organizational Citizenship Behavior for training alumni can be achieved through job satisfaction.Keywords: Job satisfaction, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Leadership Training Alumni Level IV
Value Added Tax Gap and Capital Expenditure over Economic Services in Nigeria

infrastructure such as road, power, communication, housing and transportation. capital expenditure on social and community services relates to cost of providing a good health system, education and urbanization or rural areas and capital cost on transfers are incurred to Abstract: The inability of governments to provide basic amenities has continued to attract academic research. Extent literature has established availability of infrastructure and social amenities as indicators of development, however, developing countries like Nigeria have consistently failed to achieve the desired level of infrastructural development. Value Added Tax is an indirect tax that is charged on goods and service and studies have shown that revenue generate for VAT can be used to finance infrastructural development, however there remain an insufficient information on the tax gap on VAT in Nigeria. This has thus necessitated this research. This study examined the effect of value added tax gap on capital expenditure over economic services in Nigeria. The study adopted ex post facto research design. The population of the study was Value Added Tax in Nigeria for the period of 25 years (1994 – 2018). Data were sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Statistical Bulletin and the Federal Inland Revenue Service Reports (FIRS). Data used were validated by the regulatory agencies and certified as reliable by the office of the Auditor -General of the Federation in line with government regulation. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics employing the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach. The study found that there are significant positive impact of tax gap of Value Added Tax (LVATG) on It was revealed that LVATG have positive significant relation with capital expenditure on economic services(β 1 = 0.273, t(25)= 4.580, ρ<0.05). The study concluded that Value added tax gap can lead to a decrease in on capital expenditure over economic services in Nigeria. The study recommends that government should put in place policies that support economic activities that can lead to increase in value added tax collected, and VAT revenue should be used to finance infrastructural development like paved road and urban housing.
Municipalities e-Participation initiatives through Facebook: citizens perspective

This study provides a general overview of citizens' perceptions toward e-Participation initiatives through Facebook that are sponsored by municipalities. Through a survey of 400 Facebook users in Jordan, the results provided evidence that Jordanian citizens uphold a positive attitude to participate in municipalities e-Participation initiatives through Facebook, but they show a modest intention inclined to sufficiently participate in those initiatives. Additionally, while Jordanian citizens evidenced a high self ability to participate, they questioned the underlying municipalities' commitment to seriously consider their inputs into future decisions as well as municipalities' capability to effectively manage those initiatives. The study findings support major concerns raised by recent related studies that the mere offer of social media interaction initiatives by municipalities does not certainly lead to attaining and earning citizens' participation. The study recommends municipalities to place high consideration on creating partnership relationships with citizens through two-way communication and devote more efforts to enhance citizens' trust that real changes will be reached if they participate. As municipalities have a great challenge to encourage citizens to participate, the study recommends that distributing relevant information, discussing vital subjects to citizens' interests, carefully listening to citizens' voices and then seriously consider their opinions in municipalities' future decisions are all practicable and feasible steps to encourage citizens to participate.
Alliesthesia. Up-date of the Word and Concept

The current dictionary definition for alliesthesia is the hedonic modification of a sensation. The stimuli used to establish this initial definition was skin temperature and sweet tastes. However, accrued experimental evidence shows that changes in hedonicity place also in sensations, and then in other cognitive processes, mental experiences, and in all decision making. These accumulated data render obsolete the previous definition. We propose the following new one: Alliesthesia refers to a modified outcome of the hedonic dimension of any mental process, from sensation to mental performance, and decision making leading to physiological comfort and happiness. Positive alliesthesia is the rise in pleasure or joy or a decrease in displeasure or pain, while negative alliesthesia is the opposite.
Legal informatics from the aspect of interoperability: a review of systems, tools and ontologies

In the reality of globalization, the legislation of every country needs to be followed in order to achieve a well-organized globalization process because the rule of Law is a cornerstone, a fundamental foundation of every democratic state and it should be observed and respected by all in the society. The economic and industrial globalization has increased international competition and given rise to the need for an increasingly integrated and evolving legal system but the fundamental debates over globalization of the 1990s more or less petered out, without leading to a clear consensus. So, society is still overwhelmed with an over-load of legal information while in the era of Digital Transformation, technologies such as Big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, 3D promise to have a profoundly disruptive effect on the industry, business models, governance models and on the way we interact with each other in society. However, there is not a legal information system capable of supporting the legislation of all countries in order to facilitate the above operation but there are many initiatives in order to develop legal ontologies. These legal ontologies in combination with the disruptive technologies can be help the problem of fragmented legal information across-border in order to create the Big Linked Open Legal Data.
Detection and Molecular Characterization of Parvovirus Serotypes in Egypt

Parvovirus infection is one of the most common enteric diseases affecting dogs in Egypt. A total number of 49 dogs younger than six month old, suffering from severe watery to bloody diarrhea, vomiting and lethargy were examined to confirm the infection with parvovirus through detection of the viral antigen serologically by FASTest® PARVO Card Test and genetically by using specific primers for both conventional and nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Serological assay confirmed the infection in 81.63% (40/49) of the examined animals, while the molecular techniques confirmed the infection in 81.63% (40/49) by the conventional PCR and in 97.96% (48/49) by the nested PCR. Sequencing revealed that CPV2a and CPV2b serotypes are circulating in the Egyptian field. The obtained sequences were submitted to the GenBank under the following accession MG764314, MG764315, MG930487 and MG930488. Serotype CPV2b showed some mutation in different sites.
PROSPECTIVA ESTRATÉGICA DE MICHEL GODET: UM MAPEAMENTO SISTEMÁTICO DO MÉTODO DOS CENÁRIOS NA BASE SCOPUS

Today we live in a globalized and dynamic era, where prospective methodologies provide support to guide the future, presenting achievable and desired possibilities. However, prospective methods offer tools that give strategic decision-making flexibility from the opportunity of action. Among the two main currents, the French current stands out, due to a greater appreciation of the human aspect, having as one of the main exponents Michel Godet, who proposes the scenario method. This is based on the identification and projection of key influential variables in a given context, as well as the relationship between the actors, until the actual projection of scenarios for the prospective exercise. This method can be divided into two major blocks composed by the construction of the analytical and historical basis and the effective elaboration of the scenarios. Godet's method has five tools MICMAC, MACTOR, SMIC, MORPHOL and MULTIPOL can be applied completely or compartmentalized in any sectors and themes. The aim of this work is to deepen the knowledge about the applications of the Scenario Method in the fields of engineering in the scientific field to investigate and understand the different branches and contexts that applied the respective tools used in the method. Thus, the general objective is the elaboration of systematic mapping, covering the entire period of publications and citations in the Scopus database. The methodology applied was the systematic mapping, based on the systematic review, supported by bibliometric indexes and graphs in order to deepen the qualitative and quantitative peculiarities. Systematic mapping conducts a broader study of the systematic review, identifying what evidence is available and the gaps to direct the next focus. This mapping shows a visual summary of the results obtained that, besides offering repeatability to the process, reduces any biases that may appear in the research. Systematic mapping was performed using the Scopus database, accessed until May 24, 2019, using the conditions of article title, abstract and keywords, with document type article, obtaining 70 records, in which Only 24 articles were selected according to the scope of the research. Among these qualified articles, 4 are theoretical and 20 are practical and the most used tool was the MICMAC that makes the structural analysis of variables. The purpose of this article is to present information about the scenario method and the application of its tools. The results obtained through the search term suggest that the articles do not use all the tools, which is justified by the adaptability to their application in certain cases, in order to obtain a more consistent and broad coverage. The proposed objective was met by presenting a study compiling which years, authors, institutions, countries, areas and keywords most related to the scenario method. It is expected with the accomplishment of this scientific article the stimulus in the use of the method by other researchers, from a greater clarification of the possibilities of application.
Neogene Exhumation History along TRANSALP: Insights from Low Temperature Thermochronology and Thermo-Kinematic Models

<p>Many convergent orogens such as the eastern European Alps display an asymmetric doubly-vergent wedge geometry. Loci of deepest exhumation are located above the overriding retro-wedge, whereas increased fault activity occurs in the pro-wedge on the subducting plate. The main drainage divide separates steeper from more gently sloping topography on the two wedges of different critical taper. We performed apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He analyses densely spaced along the TRANSALP geophysical transect in combination with thermo-kinematic models based on cross-section balancing. Our new low temperature thermochronology data and thermo-kinematic model results underline (i) deepest levels of exhumation across the Tauern Window until the Pliocene and (ii) higher Late Neogene exhumation rates south of the Periadriatic Fault relative to the north, while seismic activity is focussed across the Southern Alps. Our proposed mantle-to-surface link positions the retro-wedge north of the Periadriatic Fault subsequent to subduction polarity reversal during continental collision. Present-day drainage divide migration trends and imaged locations of mantle-lithospheric slabs beneath TRANSALP suggest ongoing, slow slab reversal since Adriatic indentation in the Eastern Alps. &#160;</p>
Detection of blaKPC1 gene in Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from Iraqi patients

Some bacterial species are highly effective in destroying the carbapenem group through their production of Carbapenemases, which are associated with increased bacterial infections through their development of antibiotic resistance mechanisms. To achieve this goal, we collected 180 samples from different sources included (92 blood, 33 smears of wounds, 13 smears of burns and 42 sputum). The samples were taken from patients attended Ibn-Baladi Hospital as well as Yarmouk Teaching Hospital and some external laboratories Baghdad Governorate. Samples were diagnosed based on cultured characteristics on the MacConkey agar media as well as the EMB medium, microscopic examination by observing the diplococci-negative bacteria and biochemical tests. Then used the VITEK2 System to increase accuracy in the diagnostic process before DNA extraction. DNA was isolated from 84 samples, the purity and concentration of samples extracted was measured with Nanodrop. Using the PCR technique, the bla KPC1 gene was detected of the size of 61 base pairs using specialized gene primers. Keyword : K. pneumoniae, Carbapenemases, Nanodrop, VITEK2, PCR, bla KPC1 . https://doi.org/10.24897/acn.64. 68.207
Thermal-death kinetics of the bark beetle (Dendroctonus armandi; Coleoptera: Scolytidae)

ABSTRACT Data on thermal-death kinetics of bark beetles are essential to develop phytosanitary heat treatments for pine wood and pine wood packaging materials. Using a heating block system, effects of different heating rates between 44 and 50°C at 2°C intervals on destruction of Dendroctonus armandi adult insect were examined. Heat resistance of the insects was found to increase at low heating rates (0.1 or 0.5°C/min). Therefore, the thermal-death kinetics of the beetles were determined at a high heating rate of 5.0°C/min which simulated the rapid dielectric heating of wood products. Results showed that the thermal death curve of D. armandi followed a zero-order reaction kinetic model, indicating the heat destruction rate of the beetle at different treatment temperatures to be independent of their population size. The required thermal holding times to result in destruction of the entire population were 40, 8, 4, and 2 min at 44°C, 46°C, 48°C, and 50°C, respectively. The evaluated thermal-death kinetic data are useful in developing effective beetle elimination quarantine protocols for the wood. A 50°C −2 min heat treatment with a heating rate of ∼5°C/min can be effectively used for disinfesting bark wood materials.