Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Synthesis and Drug Delivery Property of Calcium Phosphate Cement with Special Crystal Morphology

In this work, the drug-release behavior was achieved by controlling the hydration crystal morphology formed during the setting reaction of cement. Two kinds of calcium phosphate cement (CPC) matrix with different and typical crystal morphology were prepared, and the cumulative percentage of gentamicin sulfate (GS) released from the hydrated bone cements was characterized in vitro. The relation between the cumulative percentage and the releasing time showed that both systems exhibited a reasonable low initial GS burst (about 20% and 30% for CPC-1 and CPC-2 in about 4 days, respectively) and sustained release behavior with different drug-release rates. CPC-1 and CPC-2 showed a different drug-releasing ratio after 30 days: 40% and 80%, respectively.
Agro-industrial byproducts in rabbit food: Case of the complex of detoxified apricot kernel cake and dehydrated tomato pulp

Background and Aim: The use of agro-industrial byproducts as an unconventional source of raw materials for monogastric feed is one possible solution. This study aimed to determine the effects of incorporating detoxified apricot kernel meal (DAKM) as a substitute for soybean meal and dehydrated tomato pulp (DTP) as a substitute for alfalfa hay on the local rabbit fattening. Materials and Methods: A total of 120 white strain rabbits, weaned at 33 days, were randomly assigned to four groups of 30. The rabbits in each group were ringed, placed in cages at 6 rabbits/cage, and fed according to DAKM and DTP incorporation rates (0%, 30%, 40%, and 60%). Results: The weights at 77 days were improved (p<0.05) with unchanged mean daily intakes. The vast majority of slaughter parameters and carcass characteristics improved. The chemical composition of the meat constituents improved significantly, with a 60% increase in the protein content of the batch (26.55% vs. 28.53%), 38% reduction in the total feed cost, and 40 DA saved for each kilogram of feed consumed per rabbit. The relative economic efficiency improved in proportion to the substitution rates of soybean meal by DAKM and alfalfa hay by DTP. Conclusion: Substituting DAKM and DTP, as byproducts of agro-industrial processing, for up to 60% induced satisfactory results in rabbit fattening. Therefore, it would be more insightful to increase the incorporation rates to determine the optimal threshold.
Icy Dwarf Planets and TNOs

The geophysical and dynamical criteria introduced in the “Deﬁnition of a Planet in the Solar System” adopted by the International Astronomical Union are reviewed. The classiﬁcation scheme approved by the IAU reﬂects dynamical and geophysical diﬀerences among planets, “dwarf planets” and “small Solar System bodies”. We present, in the form of a decision tree, the set of questions to be considered in order to classify an object as an icy “dwarf planet” (a plutoid). We ﬁnd that there are 15 very probable plutoids; plus possibly 9 more, which require a reliable estimate of their sizes. Finally, the most relevant physical and dynamical characteristics of the set of icy “dwarf planets” have been reviewed; e.g. the albedo, the lightcurve amplitude, the location in the diﬀerent dynamical populations, the size distributions, and the discovery rate.
Quantum Test for Higher Order Gowers Norms

In this work, a quantum self-test which certifies that measurements of a quantum device have a large Gowers norm of order k is presented and analysed. The test protocol is described as a two-player quantum game, in which players provide answers based on measurements on subsystems of a maximally entangled bipartite state. The protocol makes use of 2 + 1 subtests. It is shown that strategies that succeed in the test with success rate 1− must have a Gowers norm larger than 1−O( ). This test generalises measurement tests that certify measurements based on the second order Gowers norm.
Nitrification activity in tropical rain forest soils of the Coastal Lowlands and Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia

Intact soil cores from a montane tropical rain forest site in the Atherton Tablelands (Kauri Creek) and from a lowland tropical rain forest site in the Coastal Lowlands (Bellenden Ker), Queensland, Australia were investigated during different hygric seasons for the magnitude of gross nitrification rates using the Barometric Process Separation technique (BaPS). Pronounced seasonal variations of gross nitrification rates were found at both sites with highest values during the transition period between dry and wet season (montane site: 24.0 mg N (kg SDW)—1 d—1; lowland site: 13.1 mg N (kg SDW)—1 d—1) and significantly lower rates of gross nitrification during the dry and wet season. Rates of gross nitrification were always higher at the montane site than at the lowland site, but the opposite was found for N2O emissions. The results indicated that the high losses of N2O at the lowland tropical rain forest site may be contributed largely by high denitrification activity due to its wetter and warmer climate as compared to the dryer and colder climate at the montane tropical rain forest site. This conclusion was supported by analysis of cell numbers of microbes involved in N-cycling. Higher numbers of denitrifiers were present at the lowland site, whereas higher numbers of nitrifiers were found at the montane site. Nitrifikationsaktivitat in tropischen Regenwaldboden im kustennahen Tiefland und in den Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Autralien Mit Hilfe der Methode zur Barometrischen Prozess Separation (BaPS) wurden Brutto-Nitrifikationsraten intakter Bodenkerne von einem Bergregenwald-Standort auf den Atherton Tablelands (Kauri Creek) und einem Tieflandregenwald (Bellenden Ker) in den Coastal Lowlands, Queensland, Australien, wahrend unterschiedlicher Jahreszeiten bestimmt. An beiden Standorten konnte ein ausgepragter saisonaler Verlauf der Brutto-Nitrifikationsraten festgestellt werden, mit maximalen Werten wahrend des Ubergangs von Trocken- zur Regenzeit (Bergregenwald: 24,0 mg N (kg SDW)—1 d—1; Tieflandregenwald: 13,1 mg N (kg SDW)—1 d—1) und signifikant niedrigeren Werten in der Trocken- und Regenzeit. Wahrend die Brutto-Nitrifikationsraten am Bergregenwald-Standort zu allen Jahreszeiten hoher als am Tieflandregenwald-Standort waren, ergab sich fur die Hohe der N2O-Emissionen ein umgekehrter Trend. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass in Folge des deutlich feuchteren und warmeren Klimas am Tieflandregenwaldstandort die im Vergleich zum trockeneren und kuhleren Bergregenwald-Standort wesentlich hoheren N2O-Verluste auf eine hohere Aktivitat der Denitrifikation zuruckzufuhren sind. Analysen zur Abundanz von am Stickstoffkreislauf beteiligten Mikroorganismen unterstutzen diese Feststellung. Ein Vergleich beider Standorte zeigte hohere Zellzahlen der Denitrifizierer am Tieflandregenwald-Standort, wahrend am Bergregenwald-Standort die Population der nitrifizierenden Mikroorganismen groser war.
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Evaluation of dietary supplementation of fenugreek seed (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) as a growth promoter in broiler diet and its impacts on growth performance, carcass quality and cost effectiveness

This study was carried out to evaluate the efficacy of Fenugreek seeds (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) on overall performance of broiler. A total of 96-day old Cobb-500 chicks were randomly divided into four dietary treatment groups namely 0, 1, 2 and 3 having three replications in each treatment group. Brooded chicks were randomly separated into replications wise separate pen to rear up to 4 weeks. Each treatment group contains 24 birds (8 birds in each replication). Experimental birds in 1, 2 and 3 were provided fenugreek seeds meal with 0.5%, 1% and 1.5% of feed while 0 was provided with standard feed and considered as control group. The results of this study were indicated that final live weight gain and feed efficiency of birds was significantly (P<0.05) higher in 3 compared to 2, 1 and 0 respectively. The result also indicated that feed efficiency was increased at dose rate of 1.5% fenugreek seeds meal in 3 compared to 2 1 and control 0 group respectively. In case of meat yield parameters there was significant (P<0.05) difference among treatment groups except liver weight. The carcass weight was significantly (P<0.05) higher in 3 group compared to the control group. The lowest feed cost was found in 0 and highest profit in 3 group. Based on the current study, it is concluded that fenugreek seed meal at a dose of 1.5% can be used as growth promoter for the production of broiler chicken.
A Reanalysis of "The Town with No Poverty: The Health Effects of a Canadian Guaranteed Annual Income Field Experiment"

Abstract:Dans « The Town with No Poverty: The Health Effects of a Canadian Guaranteed Annual Income Field Experiment » (publié dans Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques en 2011), la professeure Evelyn Forget analyse les effets sur la santé communautaire et l'éducation de l'expérience MINCOME, réalisée au Manitoba dans les années 1970, qui portait sur le revenu annuel minimum garanti. Réévaluant les données sur les visites à l'hôpital utilisées dans Forget (2011), je soutiens que les données relatives de la communauté traitée de Dauphin présentent, avant l'intervention, des tendances négatives statistiquement significatives par rapport aux communautés de contrôle. La tendance préexistante, combinée à des périodes de préanalyse et de traitement courtes, remet sérieusement en question l'utilité de ces données qui, dans la mesure où elles sont réellement utilisables, montreraient plutôt les effets positifs de l'expérience MINCOME sur les visites à l'hôpital dans un contexte normalisé. J'en conclus que les données de la MINCOME ne soutiennent pas l'affirmation qu'un revenu annuel minimum garanti réduit le cout des soins de santé. Abstract:In "The Town with No Poverty: The Health Effects of a Canadian Guaranteed Annual Income Field Experiment" (published in Canadian Public Policy in 2011), Professor Evelyn Forget examines community-level health and education impacts of the 1970s Manitoba Guaranteed Annual Income experiment (MINCOME). I reassess the hospital use data from Forget (2011), arguing that it contains statistically significant negative pre-trends in the relative hospital usage in the treated community of Dauphin compared to comparison communities. The pre-trend combined with short prior and treatment periods raises serious issues about the usefulness of the data, which, if anything shows positive effects of MINCOME on hospital usage in standard specifications. I conclude that MINCOME data do not support claims that a guaranteed annual income reduces healthcare costs.
Speaker Choice in Children’s Spontaneous Relative Clauses

One of the subtler features of a language is the occurrence of syntactic alternations. Syntactic alternations, such as the passive (Carl punched the man ∼ The man was punched by Carl) or dative (Carl gave the man a black eye ∼ Carl gave a black eye to the man), are situations where there are two or more constructions with basically the same meaning. The constructions, or alternants, have significant structural commonality and truth-conditional equivalence, and in a variety of situations, both will be acceptable. The choice in a syntactic alternation is driven by a series of gradient factors that affect the probability that a speaker will choose one alternant over the other. (Weiner & Labov, 1983; Bresnan, Cueni, Nikitina, & Baayen, 2007) These gradient factors are often subtle, so the acquisition of an alternation requires a child to pick up on many little cues in the input. How do children do it? In the present study, I look at the acquisition of a common alternation: the choice of relative pronoun in a relative clause. Relative clauses are one of the earlier complex structures that children acquire, and so they present a useful testing area for the acquisition of a syntactic alternation at an early age. We consider three main questions in this study:
N2+/N2 ratio and temperature measurements based on the first negative N2+ and second positive N2 overlapped molecular emission spectra

The and molecular emission spectra are frequently observed simultaneously in plasmas containing nitrogen. Relative band intensities of these systems are very sensitive to a variation of the ratio and temperature. The spectrum, emitted between 3800 and 4000 A, has been used to measure rotational and vibrational temperatures, and to estimate the ratio when the electron temperature is known, in different plasma sources (Glidarc, ac discharge between tips). The proposed method is based on a point-to-point comparison of an experimentally measured spectrum with the computer-simulated one.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOLECULAR SIMULATION An efﬁciently extendable and ﬁne-grain parallelised molecular dynamics simulation program: Mid

A new implementation of molecular dynamics simulation is presented. We employed policy-based design to achieve static polymorphism within our simulation programs. This technique provides ﬂexibility and extensibility without additional if-statement branching in the simulation program development. It is shown that policy-based implementation prevents computational performance degradation. We used a ﬁne-grained domain decomposition scheme to parallelise the simulation program. The smaller size decomposition reduces the total amount of inter-processing-core communication and affords good scalability for parallel calculation of short-range forces. The calculation of long-range interactions limits the total scalability. For enhanced performance at high levels of parallelism, the calculation methods for long-range interactions should be improved.
The Two-Level Semi-Synchronous Parallelization Method for the Caustic and Indirect Luminance Calculation in Realistic Rendering

The paper considers an original approach to the semi-synchronous calculation of the luminance of caustic and indirect illumination for the group of methods based on the bidirectional stochastic ray tracing with backward pho-ton maps. The designed parallelization method uses the two-level threads hierarchy. The low level of this thread hierarchy is synchronous calculations of the part of the whole image defined by a randomly generated pixel mask which is applied to the whole image. The top level is semi-synchronous parallelization level that consists groups of the low level threads which of them calculate own part of the whole image in a way similar to asynchronous calculations. As the top level is semi-synchronous it means that when calculating the luminance of the caustic and indirect illumination, the threads of the low level have access to the data accumulated in the backward photon maps of the other parallel threads of the semi-synchronous level. A special algorithm for organizing an access to data of the upper-level threads avoids de-lays associated with data synchronization. The comparison of the developed solution with purely synchronous and asynchronous parallelization methods is presented.
UDC: 616.33+612.018.2+612.881 AGE-DEPENDENT CHANGES IN GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY

The mechanisms of the motor function are studied for more than 100 years, howe­ ver, they have not been established completely. Understanding those mechanisms is of great importance since the disturbances of gastrointestinal motility underlay in patho­ geneses of many diseases, such as colitis, constipations, irritable bowel syndrome and others. This review is devoted to analysis of literature data of the age­related changes in the motility function of digestive tract. We have searched articles on a particular issue and have analyzed them in accordance with the parts of the digestive tract. Main atten­ tion has been paid to age­dependent functional and regulatory changes in the digestive tract. The mechanisms underlying in pathogenesis of age­related diseases of motor function of the digestive tract have not been deeply studied. Without the establishment of these mechanisms, it is impossible to create new drugs for prophylaxis and treatment of age­related disturbances in motor function of the gastrointestinal (GI) motility.
Photoinduced molecular desorption from graphene films

Photoinduced molecular desorption from solid surfaces will modify the electrical transporting properties of matter and result in significant change in resistance. The UV induced resistive response of graphene films prepared by chemical vapor deposition was investigated. The resistance of graphene increased exponentially upon UV irradiation and decreased also in an exponential form when the UV light was turned off. Both processes exhibited large time constants of hundreds of seconds. UV-induced molecular desorption mechanisms for graphene, carbon nanotubes, and reduced graphene oxides were compared and discussed.
Development of a Codebook of Online Anti-Vaccination Rhetoric to Manage COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation

Vaccine hesitancy (delay in obtaining a vaccine, despite availability) represents a significant hurdle to managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy is in part related to the prevalence of anti-vaccine misinformation and disinformation, which are spread through social media and user-generated content platforms. This study uses qualitative coding methodology to identify salient narratives and rhetorical styles common to anti-vaccine and COVID-denialist media. It organizes these narratives and rhetorics according to theme, imagined antagonist, and frequency. Most frequent were narratives centered on 'corrupt elites' and rhetorics appealing to the vulnerability of children. The identification of these narratives and rhetorics may assist in developing effective public health messaging campaigns, since narrative and emotion have demonstrated persuasive effectiveness in other public health communication settings.
A realistic way to investigate the design, and mechanical properties of flow diverter stents

ABSTRACT Purpose Braided flow diverters (FD) are highly sophisticated, delicate, and intricate mechanical devices used to treat intracranial aneurysms. Testing such devices in vitro, however, remains an unsolved challenge. Here, we evaluate methods to measure flow, design and mechanical properties in vitro. Methods Flow properties, cell porosity, pore density, and cell area were evaluated under geometrically realistic conditions by placing FDs in patient-derived, 3D-printed models of human vasculature. 4D flow MRI was used to measure fluid dynamics. Laser microscopy was used to measure the design properties of the FDs. New methods were developed to investigate the bending, circumferential, and longitudinal radial force of the FDs continuously over varying diameters. Results The placement and flow properties of the FD in the vasculature models were successfully measured by MRI, although artifacts occurred. Likewise, the porosity, pore density, and cell area were successfully measured inside of the models using a laser microscope. The newly developed mechanical methods allowed to measure the indicated forces – to our knowledge for the first time - continuously. Conclusion Modern and specifically tailored techniques, some of which were presented here for the first time, allow detailed insights into the flow, design, and mechanical properties of braided flow diverter stents
Between vapor and ice: Free water clusters studied by core level spectroscopy

Core level x-ray absorption and photoemission spectra of free water clusters are presented. Core and valence photoemission spectra show a weak but gradual change with cluster size. Comparisons to spectra of the isolated molecule and solid ice indicate that water molecules have a lower average coordination in clusters than in the bulk solid. X-ray absorption spectra reveal spectral characteristics between the free molecule and the bulk. These are compared to similar spectra of the isolated molecule and solid ice, and discussed in connection to calculated structures.
Antimicrobial activity of essential oils from Tunisian aromatic plants

The essential oils from Thymus capitatus (L.) Hoffmgg. et Link, Ocimum basilicum (L.), Myrtus communis (M.) and Laurus nobilis (L.) have been characterized and tested against two bacteria (Lactobacillus plantarum and Escherichia coli) and a fungus (Geotrichum candidum), using a submerged broth culture method. The results obtained showed that T. capitatus and O. basilicum were the greatest inhibitors of all the strains tested, and that Escherichia coli was more inhibited than Lactobacillus plantarum by all the essential oils tested. Copyright ©2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
A neutron spin-echo study of confined water

We have investigated the dynamics of confined water in a fully hydrated Na-vermiculite clay using the neutron spin-echo (NSE) technique. NSE measures the intermediate self-scattering function, i.e., the dynamics directly in the time domain. In the present experiments we performed measurements, in the time range 3–3000 ps and temperature ranging from 254 to 323 K, on the essentially two-dimensional water with a layer thickness corresponding to only two molecular layers. The data can be described by the Kohlrausch–Williams–Watts (KWW) stretched exponential function, probably indicating a broad distribution of relaxation times. The reason for the very stretched behavior of the intermediate self-scattering function IS(Q,t), particularly in the supercooled regime, is most likely that the water molecules have widely different local environments. Some water molecules are strongly interacting with the clay surfaces or the intercalated Na+ ions, whereas the remaining molecules are interacting only with other water.
Ultraviolet radiation from the pulsed corona discharge in water

Quantitative analysis of ultraviolet radiation from the pulsed corona discharge in water with needle-plate electrode geometry (∼1–3 J pulse−1) was performed using the potassium ferrioxalate actinometry. Photon flux J190–280 and radiant energy Q190–280 of the UV light emitted from the discharge at spectral region 190–280 nm was determined in dependence on the applied voltage (17–29 kV, positive polarity) and the solution conductivity (100–500 µS cm−1). The intensity of the UV radiation strongly increased with increasing water conductivity and applied voltage. Depending on the applied voltage the determined photon flux varied by more than two orders of magnitude within the range of solution conductivities 100–500 µS cm−1. It was found that photon flux from the discharge may be directly related to the discharge pulse mean power Pp as J190–280 = 44.33 (quanta pulse−1). A significant role of UV radiation in the production of hydrogen peroxide and bacterial inactivation by the corona discharge in water has been identified. As the solution conductivity increased the yield of H2O2 produced by the discharge decreased due to increasing photolysis of H2O2 accounting for up to 14% of the total decomposition rate of H2O2. As regards bactericidal effects, it was estimated that the UV radiation contributes about 30% to the overall inactivation of Escherichia coli.