Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Adenoviral Gizzard Erosions in Commercial Layer Chickens

Received: Revised: Accepted: Published online: February 16, 2018 July 12, 2018 July 14, 2018 September 04, 2018 This case report describes a series of gizzard erosion outbreaks in two farms of commercial layers flocks at the age of 19, 25, 30 and 73 weeks observed in the period between 2012 and 2015. The clinical signs, course of disease and mortality in all cases were similar. The post-mortem examinations revealed dark-brownish contents in crops, esophagus, proventriculus, gizzards, and duodenums, as well as haemorrhagic changes in provetriculus and ablations of the overlaying keratinoid layers in the gizzards. Histopathology showed the presence of intranuclear inclusion bodies in gizzard epithelial cells and molecular findings confirmed the presence of fowl adenoviruses A. It seems that the virus persisted on the farm during this fouryear period and temperature fluctuations were to be the probable factors predisposing the clinical course of disease. ©2018 PVJ. All rights reserved
Molecular pathogenesis of bacteria-induced periodontitis

Periodontitis, one of the most common inflammatory diseases, is induced by bacteria such as Porphyromonas gingivalis, Tannerella forsythia, and Treponema denticola. Of these, P. gingivalis is a keystone pathogen of periodontitis and has a characteristic ability to invade various host cells, including nonphagocytic epithelial cells and fibroblasts. This invasion facilitates the adaptation and survival of P. gingivalis in the gingival environment. The pathogenesis of periodontitis arises essentially from a complex interplay between bacterial and host factors, leading to a range of presentations that depend on the balance of this interaction. However, the exact roles or the pathogenesis of specific microorganisms are not currently understood in terms of periodontitis. Therefore, the aim of this review was to summarize the findings from current literature regarding the role of microorganisms like P. gingivalis in periodontitis. Our hope is that this will direct future research toward a better understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of periodontitis and to further define the concepts of endodontic treatment.
Running head : TEACHING ENGLISH CONSONANT CLUSTERS 1 Teaching English Consonant Clusters for Korean EFL Learners

English has a relatively wide configuration of consonant clusters (CC) whereas Korean does not allow either initial or final consonant clusters. Also, English has its own syllable structure and syllable constraints which are drastically different from those of Korean. As a result, English CCs often present a severe challenge for Korean EFL learners. With an effort to have general understanding about English CCs and teach them effectively to Korean EFL learners, this paper discusses English syllable structure, English CCs and structural constraints, consonant simplification strategies of native speakers, Korean syllable structure, Korean phonological processes of CCs, error analysis of Korean EFL learners‟ CC Pronunciation, and implications for teaching CCs to Korean EFL learners.
The Influence of Parental Autonomous Motivation on Adolescent HPV Vaccine Initiation and Completion

Objective: Motivation is theorized to be a key determinant of behavior but has not been applied to human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. Autonomous motivation is hypothesized to be the most "self-determined" type of motivation and may contribute to parents' decisions to initiate and complete the HPV vaccine series. I examined patterns of association between motivation types and HPV vaccination as well as the pathways linking autonomous motivation with intentions to vaccinate. Methods: As part of a larger project, parents ( N =177) of unvaccinated adolescents completed a survey including a measure of parental motivation for adolescent vaccination. After 12 months, I reviewed electronic medical records to obtain HPV vaccination coverage data. I used logistic regression models to determine which motivation types—autonomous, introjected, or external— were associated with one- and three-dose coverage. I examined ordinal regression models to assess the overall effect of motivation on HPV vaccine coverage. Additionally, I tested competing models of the direct effect of autonomous motivation and the indirect effect through other psychosocial variables to determine which pathway(s) best explain the relationship between autonomous motivation and intentions to vaccinate. Results: Results indicate autonomous motivation is a significant predictor of 1-dose coverage ( OR = 2.47; 95%CI: [1.202, 5.079], p = .01) and of 3-dose coverage ( OR = 2.68; 95%CI: [1. 00, 7.18], p = .05). Ordinal regression models confirmed greater autonomous motivation is associated with increased likelihood of pursuing HPV vaccine coverage ( OR = 2.452, 95% CI = 1.257 - 4.786, p = .009). There were no significant effects of introjected or external motivation showed any significant effect on vaccination behavior. Consequently, these findings support the utility of providing autonomy-supportive interventions. Results also suggest that considering autonomous motivation in the context of attitudes toward vaccination and intentions to vaccinate may be beneficial to facilitating understanding of the mechanisms by which it impacts behavior. Autonomous motivation was found to have both a significant indirect effect via attitudes and a direct effect on intentions to vaccinate. This suggests that autonomous motivation leads to the development of more positive attitudes and influences behavior through the internalization of beliefs as posited by the Self-Determination Theory. These findings provide a foundation upon which future research can expand through the development of autonomy supportive interventions to increase HPV vaccination.
X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPIC ( XPS ) INVESTIGATION OF INTERFACE DIFFUSION OF ZnO / Cu / ZnO MULTILAYER

The multilayer of ZnO/Cu/ZnO was prepared by Rf sputtering. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis has been performed to study the chemical states of the core level atoms. Inter layer diffusion has an importance in the multilayer structure for different applications such as conductivity so we studied the possibility of diffusion of interlayer of the Cu(I) . Evidence for the presence of Cu(II) oxidation state has been obtained from the shakeup satellite structure of Cu2p core level atoms. The deconvolution of O 1s was found to associate with the C bond. The chemical state of Zn2p was performed to study the bonding of Zn-O core level atoms.
Fungal endlophytes associated with Cordemoya integrifolia *

Fungal endophytes associated with leaves of the endemic plant Cordemoya integrifolia have been studied. The diversity and frequency of endophytic fungi in young and old leaves of Cordemoya integrifiola occurring inside and outside the Maccabhe Conservation Management Area (CMA) were investigated. Endophyte assemblages examined were quite diverse, consisting of 26 fertile fungal taxa and one sterile morphospecies. Pestalotiopsis sp. and Penicillium sp. were the dominant taxa. Differences were observed between the endophytic communities isolated from different tissues and tissues of different ages. Old leaves supported more endophytes than relatively younger ones. Likewise, more endophytic fungi were recorded in the veins and petioles than in the intervein tissues.
Geometric Registration in Outdoor Environments Using Landmark Database Generated from Omnidirectional Videos and GPS Positions

This paper describes a geometric registration method for superimposing CG objects onto a real video acquired in outdoor environments. The method is applicable to various augmented reality systems such as pre-visualization tools which provide a director and other stuffs with information of the positional relation among real and virtual actors in preproduction of filmmaking. We have already developed a registration method using landmark database which stores positions of sparse feature points with their view-dependent image templates. The database is generated in advance by using a structure-from-motion technique which requires measuring some absolute positions of feature points manually in the environment. To skip the measurement process, we newly propose a method to construct a landmark database from omnidirectional videos and GPS positions. This paper also reports some experimental results with the proposed method.
Statistics in language research: Analysis of variance. By TONI RIETVELD and ROE-

proposes that this illocutionary act is the issue of a command to the speaker’s addressee, namely to bring about the state of affairs expressed by the complement clause. A deontic claim does not always merely place an obligation on its subject, contrary to what was originally thought in the syntactic literature. Thus, while Mary must brush her teeth is usually understood as reporting an obligation of Mary’s, it does not need to, as in the case where Mary is a small child, and the sentence is used as an instruction to her babysitter. This fact is captured straightforwardly via this additional command to the addressee. Finally, for abilities, P suggests that actuality entailments may be the result of an additional illocutionary act of assertion, namely the assertion of the complement clause itself. A few questions arise with such a strategy. In particular, for actuality entailments, why should the additional assertion be triggered (or inhibited) by perfective/imperfective aspect? More generally, P proposes that the performative dimension is part of the conventional meaning of each modal. This solution allows all modals to share a similar semantics (in terms of quantification over possible worlds). Unlike in Kratzer’s theory, however, it requires that each modal type have its own lexical entry with its own conventional meaning (e.g. epistemic may, deontic may), leaving open the question of why it is that, in language after language, these various types of modality are often expressed by the same words. While many issues remain open, however, P’s ideas present new and exciting avenues to explore, and will no doubt be refined in later work by him and others.
Modal particles and context updating – the functions of German ja , doch , wohl and etwa 1

The use of modal particles in German has been extensively studied since the late 1960s (e.g. Weydt 1969, 1977; Thurmair 1989; Helbig & Helbig 1993; cf. also the bibliography by Weydt & Ehlers 1987), and a large number of detailed studies dealing with specific particles are available (e.g. Burckhardt 1982; Doherty 1982; Borst 1985; Hentschel 1986; Lindner 1991; Meibauer 1993; Ormelius-Sandblom 1996; Rinas 2006 on ja and doch). It is not the objective of this paper to contribute to the pool of descriptive generalizations concerning these elements. Rather, the aim of the paper is to propose a model of utterance interpretation which allows us to regard the function of modal particles as an integral part of the interpretation process. Utterances are analyzed against the background of their ability to update discourse contexts (e.g. Stalnaker 1978; Heim 1982, 1983, 1992; Groenendijk & Stokhof 1991; Chierchia 1995), and modal particles are shown to interact with the process of context updating in a systematic way. The four particles under discussion are claimed to characterize specific types of update functions. In addition to specifying the role of modal particles in the process of utterance interpretation, the analysis is intended to allow for a systematic classification or parameterization of the particles under discussion, which are claimed to constitute a system of oppositions with pairs of minimally contrasting elements. The paper starts with a brief review of a proposal made by König (1997), who analyzes the function of modal particles in the framework of Relevance Theory, thus arriving at a first subclassification into three types (Section 2). Section 3 provides an outline of a model of utterance interpretation based on Frege’s (1918/9) treatise Der Gedanke. Eine logische Untersuchung (cf. also Lohnstein 2000), and of theories of context updating which are often subsumed under the term ‘dynamic semantics’. In
An Investigation of Mechanical and Sliding Wear Behavior of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite With or Without Addition of Silica ( SiO 2 )

1NITRA Technical Campus, Ghaziabad, India 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Al-Flash School of Engineering and Technology, Faridabad, India 3Asst. District Panchayat Raj Officer (Tech.), Govt. of Uttar Pradesh, India 4Sunderdeep Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad, India 5Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India aramesh.yadaw@gmail.com, bsachin_techno@yahoo.co.in, cer.ashu1985@gmail.com
Rational Inattention , Inflation Perceptions and the Media : Lessons from the Euro Cash Changeover ∗

According to the concept of rational inattention people do not absorb and process all available information. Given that most people obtain their information about the economy from the media, press coverage of the economy may exert influence on peoples’ attitudes. This paper tests for this influence by examining consumers’ inflation perceptions in the aftermath of the euro cash changeover, which serves as a natural experiment. Using a new data set that quantifies the intensity and tone of media reports, we document that media reporting has had a statistically significant and economically meaningful impact on inflation perceptions and contributed to their sharp rise in the aftermath of the euro cash changeover and to the divergence between inflation perceptions and actual inflation rates. JEL classification: E52; D83
Advanced Authentication System using Graphical Password

— In this project, the proposed system is an Advanced Authentication System for providing more security to highly confidential data. The aim of this system is to provide the user with the more secure authentication based on condition. Here, Advanced Authentication System is adaptive and can be properly used for data security purpose. We are using graphical password for normal authentication but in threat we are using gesture detection
AdLit Children and Advertising Literacy View project Interpersonal Consequences of Self-Superiority Beliefs View project

Materialism has a generally held connotation that is associated with character deficiencies, self-centeredness, and unhappiness, and most extant research views materialism as having a negative influence on well-being. In this article, we review and synthesise research that supports both positive and negative outcomes of behaviours associated with materialism. We conceptualise materialism in terms of the motives underlying materialistic behaviour, and situate our review and synthesis of materialism research within this context. In doing so, we document the utility of a motives-based view of materialism and propose research agendas that arise from this motives-
Trade analysis in a vertically fragmented production structure : empirical challenges and evidence Marília Bassetti

The vertically fragmentation of production has changed our ability to analyze countries’ patterns of specialization, revealing the need for using metrics that incorporate the emergence of global and regional value chains. This paper aims to explore some of the value-added trade measures to provide details about countries specialization patterns in vertically integrated production networks. In particular, this paper aims to show that trade analyses grounded on traditional statistics based on gross export flows can be misleading in a vertical specialization scenario. Based on TiVA (OECD-WTO), this statistical problem is, firstly, presented by the difference between gross exports and domestic value added for selected countries over 1995-2011. Secondly, we calculated bilateral trade (im)balances in value-added terms, showing that bilateral trade deficits or surpluses may not be exactly what it seems. Lastly, we used the revealed comparative advantage (RCA) index based on value-added trade proposed by Koopman et al. (2014) to illustrate a more accurate picture of a country ́s specialization patterns and its export performance. In addition, we have shown that countries are not doomed to gain international competitiveness from higher foreign value-added, but this may be restricted to a select group of countries. Overall, this paper has argued that traditional indicators exclusively based on gross trade are becoming less and less informative and appropriate to support political discussions.
触力覚情報伝送のための遠隔硬さ計測 中妻 啓*、藤原 正浩*、篠田 裕之* Remote Compliance Measurement for Haptic Information Transmission

This paper proposes a method of remote compliance pattern measurement for one-to-many haptic communication. One typical application is a haptic TV broadcasting system. When many users share one object remotely through broadcasting and/or internet, we cannot employ a conventional master-slave haptic transmission system. We propose a new approach for a remote, non contact, and real time surface compliance distribution measurement for these applications. Our method utilizes an ultrasound phased array. Ultrasound convergent beam pushes a surface of an object and displacement of the surface is obtained. In this paper, we describe our proposed method and report some fundamental experiments and their results.
Size effect on toughness property of strain hardening cementitous composite

This paper presents the results of an experimental investigation to determine the size effect on flexural toughness of high performance short fiber reinforced cementitious composite incorporating a low fiber volume fraction of 2% and showing excellent tensile strain hardening capacity in excess of 3%. Evaluation of toughness was made using a pair of new proposed parameters, i.e., flexural strength and energy dissipation per unit volume of plastic hinge region, termed as σ and Tv, respectively. Five groups of strain hardening cementitious composite specimens with constant length of 400mm and width of 100mm but varying thickness of 15mm, 30mm, 50mm, 70mm and 100mm were investigated. Four-point bending tests were carried out under displacement control at the rate of 0.15mm/min. Referring to ASTM C 1609 toughness testing procedure, 100mm thickness specimens were identified as the control and four pairs of additional toughness parameters(σv, 1.0, Tv, 1.0; σv, 1.5, Tv, 1.5; σv, 2.5, Tv, 2.5; σ v, 3.0, Tv, 3.0) were recommended with the consideration of remarkable deflection hardening behavior of such materials prior to the reach of peak load. For other series of specimens’ thickness, the deflection governing points at which toughness properties were calculated were determined by multiplying the deflection values of 100mm thickness specimens by a transforming factor defined as a function of specimens’ thickness. It was found that two toughness parameters at all seven governing points have nothing to do with specimens’ thickness, being no size effect. Further theoretical dimension analysis proves such experimental observations.
Ambitious goals and ambiguous issues : Integrating water and energy concerns in the Norwegian hydropower sector

The EU Water Framework Directive represents a common framework for water policy designed to improve and integrate the way water bodies are managed throughout Europe. This complex and innovative directive engages multiple actors and sectors, involves changes in the institutional, organizational and spatial set-up of water resource management, and calls for the integration of the different interests and policy goals. Based on secondary data analysis and qualitative semi-structured interviews, the article investigates how the new EU water policy affects the management of water recourses in relation to Heavily Modified Water Bodies and hydropower in Norway. The illustration of the Norwegian case helps gaining more insight into the implementation process in a country that, besides not being a EU member, relies mainly on hydropower for its electricity generation, hence needing even more effective energy-water policy integration. Conclusions reveal that, while the complexity of the organizational structure has increased in response to the WFD, the path towards major coherence and integration with the hydropower sector has seemingly not been supported by changes in the legislative framework. Despite the space created by the WFD for institutional reforms, the Norwegian case shows that domestic water quality ambitions and the WFD implementation process are profoundly influenced by broad political and economic conditions. Indeed, the importance of the hydropower sector makes of the implementation of the WFD a highly politicized issue and the country seems locked in a pre-existing path determined by a historical distribution of responsibilities in the water policy field and the established political-institutional structure.
The point of irony

Grice’s theory of implicatures brought to the front the pragmatic study of non-literal uses of language, and, among those, the case of ironical utterances. Grice’s approach to irony was sketchy and programmatic, so it was subject to various developments and corrections to overcome its drawbacks and limitations. We think that there is one undesirable consequence that has been insufficiently remarked: Grice’s treatment makes ironic utterances uninformative and practically nonsensical, and this is inherited by some other approaches, in particular, the ones based on speech-act theory. We will also outline a solution to that problem, in our view, very Gricean in spirit.
STUDIES REGARDING HAEMATOLOGICAL INDICATORS OF LAYING HENS AND WELFARE ASSURED CONDITION

Investigations were carried out on ISA Brown laying hens, exploited in according with the specifications from rearing guide, in two rearing systems agreed by EU (in batteries and in loft). Blood samples were gathered in weeks 25, 35, 45 and 55 of birds life and served for determination of metabolic and enzymatic indicators. At hens which are the end of laying period were founded superior levels for proteins (higher with 21.2-25.7%), triglycerides (with 4.7-5.4%) and cholesterol (with 39.543.0%), in comparison with the birds which were at the beginning of laying. Also minerals had a similar dynamics, being determined in superior rates at the end of laying period, when were higher with 32.4-35.0% for calcium and with 29.6-31.2% for phosphorous that at beginning of laying period. Sanguine enzymes were correlated with birds’ laying rhythm, being higher at the end of laying with 8.3-8.5% for alanine aminotransferase and respectively, with 22.8-23.2% for aspartate aminotransferase, than at beginning of laying. The conclusion of the study was that biochemical indicators were correlated with laying intensity and with birds’ freedom of movement; their level in blood increasing gradually, at the same time with birds’ aging and decreasing of laid on eggs number, because were necessary smaller quantities of nutritive substances for eggs’ forming.