Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Gordura protegida na dieta de vacas de alta produção a campo, em alfafa verde ou pré-secada, na fase inicial da lactação: parâmetros plasmáticos

This trial was run at Estacion Experiment Agropecuaria of INTA (EEA-INTA, Rafaela), Argentina. Thirty-two high producing Hostein-Argentina dairy cows were used in early lactation, aiming to evaluate blood parameters at two levels of protected fat (0 and 400 g/cow/day) and two types of alfalfa (fresh or haylage). All cows were submitted to a pre-trial period of fifteen day in two groups: with and without fat supplementation. The animals, post-partum, were allocated to paddocks with green or pre-dried alfalfa, comprising, then, four experimental treatments. A completely randomized design with a 2x2 factorial, using days post-partum and lactation order as covariates, was used. The statistical analysis was performed by using the analysis of variance and F-test. There were no differences among experimental treatments.
PERFORMANCE, CARCASS YIELD AND LITTER QUALITY OF BROILER CHICKENS FED DIETS CONTAINING ARBOCEL FINE BY OKEHIE, UKACHUKWU NATHAN

Arbocel fine is an insoluble fibre concentrate used outside Nigeria as fibre source in poultry diets. It is high in fibre content and unlike traditional fibre sources, it is free from contaminants and do not consume space in feed formulations. The effect of Arbocel® fine on performance, carcass yield, organ weights, mortality and litter quality of broilers at market age were determined. Arbocel fine was added to formulated broiler starter and finisher diets at 0.0, 0.6 and 0.8% and fed to 144 day old Marshal Broiler chicks. The chicks were divided into 3 treatment groups of forty eight birds each and assigned to the three treatment diets in a complete randomized design (CRD) experiment replicated 4 times. Each replicate contains twelve birds. Starter and finisher rations were fed to the broilers during 0 – 28 and 29 – 56 days of age, respectively. Results indicated that body weight gain and feed conversion ratio at 28 and 56 day of age were comparable (P>0.05) among the three diet groups. Feed intake was higher in bird groups fed diets containing Arbocel fine, but the values were not significantly (P>0.05) different from the control. Inclusion of Arbocel fine in broiler diets caused significant (P<0.05) increase in the cost of feed consumed and feed cost/kg body weight gain as well as reductions in both faecal and litter moisture contents. Ready-to-cook carcass yield slightly increased in the Arbocel based diet groups but the values were not significantly (P>0.05) different from the control. Mortality was significantly (P<0.05) reduced in the Arbocel based diet groups, while organ weights were unaffected by the treatments. The use of 0.6 and 0.8% Arbocel fine in broiler diets decreased faecal and litter moisture content and increased ready-to-cook carcass yield of broilers, although cost/kg body weight gain were much higher than those on the control.
The impact of herd health on the efficiency of dairy farms

Maximization of profit is one of the main interests of any farmer. Profit depends on managerial decisions and many economic factors, but also on the health of the herd. Thus, it is important to study how different factors related to herd health impact farms’ economic performance. The objective of this paper is to determine how herd health influences farm technical efficiency by comparing Estonian farm data from two periods, the years 2012 and 2017. Typically, the major herd health issues are related to udder problems, followed by reproduction issues and limb disorders. We used the FADN (Farm Accounting Data Network) database and data from Estonian Livestock Performance Recording Ltd. The two-stage mathematical approach was chosen as the research method. In the first stage the DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) was used to estimate farms’ technical efficiency. The output-oriented VRS (Variable Returns to Scale) approach was applied to the data of 64 farms. In the second stage, we used the FRM (Fractional Regression Model) to define which the technical efficiency drivers were among herd health and economic factors. The study revealed that major changes have occurred between the two periods analysed. The main herd health factors influencing farms’ technical efficiency are the somatic cell count (SCC) and age at first calving.
Data Concretization States as Metadata of Parameterized Regional Futures in a WebSDSS Development Context

—The development of a web-based spatial decision support system (WebSDSS) aims at the transfer of knowledge that arises from the operationalization of a scenario approach that focuses on so-called ’parameterized regional futures’ (PRFs). Because the operationalization of the PRF approach is an ongoing process, a gap exists between data required and currently available. To overcome this gap and to allow speciﬁc software testing, test data sets can substitute expected PRF data. Based on the nature of spatial and non-spatial data and its role in different WebSDSS development phases, this article proposes an approach to distinguish concretization states as metadata of original PRF data and test data counterparts. This contribution accordingly addresses topics like modeling or managing spatial data, geo-spatial domain applications, and digital cartography.
Auto-regressive Graph Generation Modeling with Improved Evaluation Methods

Graphs are frequently used to organize and represent information in various real-world domains such as social sciences, medicine, and language. Unfortunately, generating realistic graphs and evaluating them quantitatively is often notoriously difﬁcult due to the complex structural dependencies inherent to graphs. In this paper, we make two central contributions: ﬁrst, we propose a novel classiﬁer-based evaluation method to measure graph generation quality and diversity. Secondly, we demonstrate empirically that our attention-based Transformer models achieve competitive performance in terms of generation quality compared to state of the art recurrent models.
The Effect of Cost Accounting System Inventory on Increasing the Profitability of Products

The majority of manufacturing decisions is based on information gathered through industrial accounting system. In other words, the main objective of the establishment of industrial or cost accounting systems administrators is to provide information for decision making. An efficient and effective system of industrial accounting alone cannot increase the efficiency and productivity. The information obtained should also be used efficiently in the decision-making process. Parties having sufficient control, provide a model for inventory, payroll systems and technology to increase the efficiency of internal control. Accountants in these units try to provide such a system utilizing the best and most useful information available to managers. The study entitled “The Effect of Cost Accounting System Inventory on Increasing of Products” investigated that the use of appropriate storage systems inventory can increase the efficiency and profitability of the plant. 
Development of Bilingual Ambiguity Resolution

Bilingualism is a striking feature of all expanding cultures. In such bilingual environment, ambiguity in language is crucial and inevitable part that must be resolved to understand the given sentence. This study is aimed at understanding the development of ambiguity resolution in sentence level in Bilingual children. Knowing the developmental paradigm helps a clinician to understand normative and target their intervention strategies age appropriately. The present study investigated 120 typically developing bilingual subjects in the age range of 4 to 15.11 years (Native language being Tamil and second language being English). They were classified into 6 groups. Sixteen sentences in Tamil incorporating various types of ambiguity such as phonological, lexical and structural ambiguity served as the experimental stimuli. The responses obtained were analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. Results showed that phonological and lexical ambiguity starts developing at the age of 4. Phonological ambiguity is mastered around 15.11 years whereas; lexical ambiguity is continuing to develop even after 16 years. Structural ambiguity was observed to develop around 8 to 9.11 years and the performance was observed to reach maximum at around 15.11 years. The order of acquisition of Tamil speaking bilingual typically developing children is similar to that of western population.
A Chip Integrity Monitor for Evaluating Moisture/Ion Ingress in mm-Sized Single-Chip Implants

For mm-sized implants incorporating silicon integrated circuits, ensuring lifetime operation of the chip within the corrosive environment of the body still remains a critical challenge. For the chip's packaging, various polymeric and thin ceramic coatings have been reported, demonstrating high biocompatibility and barrier properties. Yet, for the evaluation of the packaging and lifetime prediction, the conventional helium leak test method can no longer be applied due to the mm-size of such implants. Alternatively, accelerated soak studies are typically used instead. For such studies, early detection of moisture/ion ingress using an in-situ platform may result in a better prediction of lifetime functionality. In this work, we have developed such a platform on a CMOS chip. Ingress of moisture/ions would result in changes in the resistance of the interlayer dielectrics (ILD) used within the chip and can be tracked using the proposed system, which consists of a sensing array and an on-chip measurement engine. The measurement system uses a novel charge/discharge based time-mode resistance sensor that can be implemented using simple yet highly robust circuitry. The sensor array is implemented together with the measurement engine in a standard 0.18 $\mu$m 6-metal CMOS process. The platform was validated through a series of dry and wet measurements. The system can measure the ILD resistance with values of up to 0.504 peta-ohms, with controllable measurement steps that can be as low as 0.8 M$\Omega$. The system works with a supply voltage of 1.8 V, and consumes 4.78 mA. Wet measurements in saline demonstrated the sensitivity of the platform in detecting moisture/ion ingress. Such a platform could be used both in accelerated soak studies and during the implant's life–time for monitoring the integrity of the chip's packaging.
Scientific Futures and Their Performative Effects on Scientific Citizenship

The article combines a criticism of public understanding of science (PUS) with the sociology of expectations to examine how particular expectations toward scientific progress have performative effects for the construction of publics as citizens of science. By analyzing a particular controversy about gene therapy in Denmark, the article demonstrates how different sets of expectations can be used to discriminate among three different assemblages: the assemblage of consumption, the assemblage of comportment, and the assemblage of heroic action. Each of these assemblages makes medical science, scientific citizenship, politics, patients, doctors, and expectations toward the future emerge in particular ways. By their radically different expectations toward science and their different constructions of what it means to be a scientific citizen, the assemblages construct the objectives of the governance of science in three very different ways.
Hyperion: A Visual Analytics Tool for an Intrusion Detection and Prevention System

Intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPSs) are at the core of protecting an enterprise’s network. In general, IDPSs use pre-defined rules to detect potential attacks. As the size of an organization grows and new types of intrusions appear, the quantity and complexity of the rules also increase. Moreover, IDPSs generate an overwhelming number of logs that are challenging to handle and analyze. For a more effective and integrative analysis and management of the rules and logs, we propose a novel visual analytics tool, Hyperion. Hyperion interactively visualizes rules to help users understand how the IDPS rules are managed and applied to the enterprise’s network entities. Hyperion also provides effective visualizations to enable users to visually analyze the type, period, traffic, and frequency of attacks in addition to a traditional count-based timeline visualization. Finally, Hyperion enables users to interactively simulate the effect of a change in parameters of a detection rule. These features can help streamline the security control cycle consisting of rule application, information collection, log analysis, and rule revision.
Treatment of seed and ware potato tubers with thiabendazole for control of storage diseases.

SUMMARY In March 1977 and 1978 King Edward seed potatoes from three commercial stocks and one stock derived from stem cuttings (healthier seed) were treated with thiabendazole at 320 g a.i./t and 46% of the material applied was deposited on tubers. Seed was stored on trays to sprout and in April samples were planted in replicated plots on two farms in Lincolnshire. Treatment did not consistently affect numbers of stemslplant or total yields but decreased infection of underground stems by Polyscytalum pustulans and Rhizoctonia solani and of tubers at harvest by P. pustulans, R. solani and Helminthosporium solani. In samples stored for 20 wk at Sutton Bridge Experimental Station seed treatment decreased the incidence of skin spot from 25 to 4%, of black scurf from 36 to 20% but had less effect on silver scurf (untreated 52% tubers, treated 47%) and did not affect the incidence of black dot (Colletotrichum coccodes) on stored tubers. In another series of experiments 1 t samples of seed from six King Edward stocks (1977) and four King Edward and one Maris Piper stocks (1978), collected from different farms in Lincolnshire in March, were treated with thiabendazole at 40 g a.i./t. Tubers retained 48% of the material applied. The treated seed was planted on the respective farms in a single large plot adjacent to untreated seed similarly stored and sprouted. Seed treatment significantly decreased the incidence of skin spot, black scurf, silver scurf and gangrene in tubers stored at Sutton Bridge in 1977–78. After lifting the experiment in 1978 samples from treated and untreated seed were treated with thiabendazole (40 g a.i./t) before storage (ware treatment). Skin spot was decreased more by seed treatment than ware treatment whereas silver scurf was controlled best by ware treatment. Incidence of black dot was not consistently affected by seed or ware treatment.
Malaria Infection Rate of Amazonian Primates Increases with Body Weight and Group Size

The quantitative relationship between the emission rate of host attractants (whether olfactory or visual) and the host-seeking rate of insect vectors of disease will determine the relationship between host group size and the prevalence of vector-borne diseases within each group. A comparative study was carried out to test whether interspecific differences in social behaviour significantly influence the malaria infection rates of different Amazonian primate species. The aetiological agent of monkey malaria in Amazonia is Plasmodium brasilianum Gonder & BerenbergGossler, 1908, and blood smear examinations of 3599 Amazonian primates over three decades have demonstrated an average infection rate with P. brasilianum of 10 4%. P. brasilianum has been detected in only 17/33 species examined, and the infection rate of those 17 species ranged from 2 1 to 5000%. Logistic and standard linear regressions, at three different taxonomic levels, demonstrate that a significant proportion of the interspecific variation in infection rate can be explained by variation in average body weight (W) and average sleeping group size (G). Infection rate could increase with W and G due to enhanced odour production attracting a greater number of anopheline mosquito vectors of monkey malaria per host. Given that parasites reduce host fitness, the results suggest that, contrary to conventional wisdom, mosquito-borne diseases are a significant cost associated with larger group size. Key-words: Body weight, host-seeking behaviour, monkey malaria, mosquito, Plasmodium brasilianum, sleeping group size
Untersuchungen zum Stoffwechsel von Inositolphosphaten in Dictyostelium discoideum

Der eukaryontische Modellorganismus Dictyostelium discoideum besitzt einen komplexen Phosphoinositid- und Inositolphosphatstoffwechsel ahnlich dem von Saugetieren. Myo-Inositol ist die zentrale Vorstufe bei der Biosynthese von Phosphoinositiden und Inositolphosphaten. Die Dephosphorylierung von D-myo-Ins(3)P zu myo-Inositol durch die myo-Inositolmonophosphat Phosphatase speist den zellularen Inositol-Pool. Die myo-Inositolmonophosphat Phosphatase aus D. discoideum wurde bis zur Homogenitat gereinigt und umfassend charakterisiert. Bei den Eigenschaften zeigen sich weitgehende Ubereinstimmungen zwischen der myo-Inositolmonophosphat Phosphatase aus D. discoideum und den verschiedenen myo-Inositolmonophosphat Phosphatasen aus Saugetieren. Eine ungewohnliche Eigenschaft ist die starke Inhibierbarkeit der myo-Inositolmonophosphat Phosphatase aus D. discoideum durch Mn2+. Am Inositolphosphatstoffwechsel mit seinen uber 20 loslichen Inositolphosphaten ist eine Vielzahl von Kinasen und Phosphatasen beteiligt, welche die steady-state-Konzentrationen auch der Inositolphosphate mit Signalfunktion regulieren. Eine InsP5/InsP4-Phosphatase katalysiert den Abbau einer Vielzahl von Inositolpentakisphosphat- und Inositoltetrakisphosphat-Isomeren zu Inositoltrisphosphaten. Eine auffallige Eigenschaft der InsP5/InsP4-Phosphatase ist ihre hohe Regiospezifitat bei einer geringen Stereospezifitat, die zur Synthese eines enantiomerenreinen Amino-myo-Inositolphosphates genutzt wurde. Bei dem sehr instabilen Enzym konnten 3 Aufreinigungsschritte etabliert und so eine 179fache Anreicherung erzielt werden. Desweiteren wurden Versuche zur Anreicherung von Inositoltrisphosphat-Phosphatasen und einer membrangebundenen Phytase unternommen. Bei letzterer lag der Schwerpunkt auf der Entwicklung und Etablierung von affinitatschromatographischen Verfahren. Phytasen sind in der Natur weitverbreitet und katalysieren die Hydrolyse von myo - Inositolhexakisphosphat zu anorganischem Phosphat und niedrigphosphorylierten Inositolphosphaten, in einigen Fallen bis zum freien myo-Inositol. In Kooperation mit organischen Chemikern wurde der Abbau verschiedener Stereoisomere von myo-Inositolhexakisphosphat durch Phytasen aus Hefen untersucht um Hinweise auf Strukturmerkmale zu bekommen, die bei der Substraterkennung eine Rolle spielen. Die dabei gewonnenen Erkenntnisse uber die Regio- und Stereospezifitat wurden zur Entwicklung von enzymunterstutzten Synthesen enantiomerenreiner neo- und L-chiro-Inositolphosphate genutzt.
Improved MVDR Beamforming Using LSTM Speech Models to Clean Spatial Clustering Masks

Spatial clustering techniques can achieve significant multi-channel noise reduction across relatively arbitrary microphone configurations, but have difficulty incorporating a detailed speech/noise model. In contrast, LSTM neural networks have successfully been trained to recognize speech from noise on single-channel inputs, but have difficulty taking full advantage of the information in multi-channel recordings. This paper integrates these two approaches, training LSTM speech models to clean the masks generated by the Model-based EM Source Separation and Localization (MESSL) spatial clustering method. By doing so, it attains both the spatial separation performance and generality of multi-channel spatial clustering and the signal modeling performance of multiple parallel single-channel LSTM speech enhancers. Our experiments show that when our system is applied to the CHiME-3 dataset of noisy tablet recordings, it increases speech quality as measured by the Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) algorithm and reduces the word error rate of the baseline CHiME-3 speech recognizer, as compared to the default BeamformIt beamformer.
Extraction of Displacements between Mesh and Basemesh

This paper is devoted to the extraction of the displacement between two predeﬁned polygonal meshes. Using a combination of GPU tessellation and vector displacement mapping, our approach enables the original high-poly de-tailmesh to be rendered approximately by the displaced low-poly basemesh at various LOD in real-time. During the preprocessing phase, the cross-parameterization between the meshes is obtained and locally optimized to maximize the amount of preserved geometry detail. Therefore, our method can store and reconstruct even more complex non-convex surface protuberances.
Tactile Sensing for Safe Physical Human-Robot Interaction

Human-robot interaction in a shared workspace permits and often even requires physical contact between humans and robots. A key technology for a safe physical human-robot interaction is the monitoring of contact forces by providing the robot with a tactile sensor as an artificial skin. This paper presents a pressure-sensitive skin for the mobile assistant robot LiSA (Life Science Assistant). It can be adapted to complex geometries and it can reliably measure contact on the entire robot body. The sensitive skin is equipped with integrated cushioning elements reducing the risk of dangerous injuries in physical human-robot interaction. Besides its safety function, the sensitive skin offers touch-based robot motion control that simplifies human-robot interaction. In the paper we describe the sensor setup and the hardware implementation on the mobile assistant robot LiSA and explain the strategies for a safe human-robot interaction. Beyond that we describe the algorithms enabling direct touch-based robot control and present some fundamental results from our evaluation experiments. Keywordsartificial skin; human-robot interaction; mobile robot; tactile sensor
STABILITY AND PASSIVITY ANALYSIS OF UNCERTAIN LINEAR DISCRETE-TIME SYSTEMS WITH MIXED INTERVAL TIME-VARYING DELAYS

ABSTRACT: The stability and passivity problems of uncertain linear discrete-time systems with interval discrete and distributed time-varying delays are investigated in this paper. Based on the combination of Lyapunov-Krasovskii stability theory, mixed model transformation, decomposition technique of coefficient matrix, reciprocally convex combination and utilization of zero equation, new delay-range-dependent stability and passivity criteria are obtained in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) for computing the allowable maximum admissible upper bound of the delay-range. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness and usefulness of the proposed method.
Modeling and Simulation of L -branch Selection Combining Diversity Receiver in Nakagami-m Environment using Matlab

– In this paper, motivated by the fact that wireless channels are exposed to fading, L -branch selection combining (SC) diversity receiver operating over Nakagami-m fading environment in the presence of cochannel interference (CCI) is modeled and simulated using program package Matlab. Level crossing rate (LCR), as second order statistic, is chosen to indicate performance measure. Simulation results show great agreement with earlier published numerical results.