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Effects of management practices , animal transport and barn climate on animal health and antimicrobial use in Swiss veal calf operations

To assess the effects of transport, management factors and barn climate on calf health, 43 Swiss veal farms (11 large farms fattening ≥100 calves and 32 small farms fattening>20 but< 100 calves per year) were monitored in a prospective cohort study over a period of one year. Detailed questionnaires on farm structure, management, housing system and animal health were filled out with the farmers during bimonthly visits, and barn temperature, humidity, ammonia and CO2 concentrations were measured. Temperature and humidity were also measured continuously over 72 h once each in winter and summer. In addition, calf purchase and transport from birth farm to fattening unit were documented by the farmers, and the study team accompanied one transport per farm whenever possible. Antimicrobial treatment incidence was calculated from the used daily dose (TIUDD). Risk factors for mortality, average daily weight gain (ADG) and antimicrobial use, as well as factors related to transport and barn climate measures were evaluated with mixed regression models. The overall mortality rate was 5.1% (6.2% in large herds and 3.1% in small ones). Identified risk factors for mortality> 3% included a lower number of calves fattened per year and a good hygiene of the feeder. This surprising result was likely due to the fact that the threshold of 3% mortality was rather exceeded in smaller farms. Furthemore, higher temperature variation (range between maximal and minimal temperature over 3 measurement days) in the calf pen was associated with mortality> 3% in the univariable analysis. The overall mean ADG was 1.40 ± 0.16 kg. Calf purchase was significantly associated with decreased ADG. The median overall TIUDD was eight daily doses per calf and year (2.1 in small farms and 26 in large farms, respectively); the main indication for treatment was respiratory disease (81.1%). Risk factors for increased TI were no quarantine upon arrival, access to an outside pen, higher numbers of calves per drinking nipple, mechanical ventilation, vaccination against bovine respiratory disease, and a maximum ammonia value> 10 ppm in the calf pen. In addition, a higher number of birth farms and calf purchase from markets were associated with increased TI in the univariable analysis. The identified risk factors associated with increased TI and mortality and with decreased ADG should be addressed in priority in veal calf operations to improve calf health and reduce antimicrobial use.
Imprecise Synthesis

Around a third of significant faults in embedded systems are caused by defective requirements specifications. Indstrial case studies using existing techniques to construct analytical requirements models have been frustrated because of imprecise compositional semantics in the industrial specifications. The paper describes a method for synthesising analytical models from imprecise MSC requirements specifications that ensures the models reflect the intended compositions, and not those that result from the imprecision within the requirements.
individuals prefer dissimilar mates Effects of stress on human mating preferences : stressed

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DESIGN OF AN ARDUINO-BASED PLATFORM INTERFACED BY BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY WITH MYO ARMBAND FOR CONTROLLING AN UNDER-ACTUATED TRANSRADIAL PROSTHESIS

ABSTRACT In this paper a brief overview on the latest advancements in upper-limb prosthetic technology is presented these mainly derive from the advantages offered by increasingly smart and high performance electronic devices and modules, which now a days are commercially available at low cost then the electronics of Adams hand, a transradial myo electric prosthesis for upper limb. Amputees, is describes. The devices is equipped with sensor and actuators that simplify at aid the movement; in particular, the mechanisms in which placed can actuated 15 degree of freedom with just one motor (instead of the five or six motors conventionally used in other commercial available prosthesis devices). Two servo motors are actuated the wrist movement. The myo electric signal use to control the prosthesis are detected through the myo armband, which integrates eight electromyography (EMG)electrodes and an inertial measurement unit (IMU) based on invensense MPU-9150 IC; all these data sent by myo armband through BLE protocol to the realized control electronics which actuates the used motors.
ESTRADIOL ACTIVATION OF PI 3K / AKT PATHWAY TRIGGERS ERalpha / FKHR EXPORT IN MAMMARY CANCER CELLS

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Signaling-dependent nuclear export of estradiol receptor controls cell cycle progression in breast cancer cells Gabriella Castoria, Antimo Migliaccio, Ferdinando Auricchio
Efficient Lineage Management on Stream Processing Engines

In this paper, we present a method to provide persistence to provenance on stream processing environment. In order to meet the requirement of applications, we provide persistence to provinces of the output of SPE. We implemented our proposal and evaluated it on experiments. The result of experiments showed that the provenance transferring cost is dependent to the location of operator tree. In case selectivity is 0 (empty result), the transferring should be conducted at the root of the operator tree. In case selectivity is 1 (full result) and operator tree includes multi-way cartesian products, then the transferring should be conducted at the leaves of the operator tree.
K-ANONYMITY AS A PRIVACY MEASURE

This technical note is intended for data processors and controllers who undertake anonymisation processes on datasets. In a reality in which independent data sources are interconnected and, by design, they may share common attributes, the possibility exists of creating an electronic trail of the individuals, even when the data which explicitly identify them have been removed, and connections may be established between those sources of information, thereby posing a risk to the privacy of those persons whose data are processed.
Comparison of dopamine D2 receptor (homology model and X-ray structure) and virtual screening protocol validation for the antagonism mechanism

The present research work aims to compare the homology model and recent X-ray crystal structure of dopamine D2 receptor (PDB Code: 6CM4) as well as to validate the virtual screening protocol for antagonist compounds. The comparison involved the sequence similarity and the capability of both proteins to produce similar risperidone binding pose with co-crystal structure based on ChemPLP score and Tanimoto Coefficient score generated by PLANTS and Pyplif. Homology model failed to give the correct binding pose as the root mean square deviation fell to >2Å even with similar sequence and folding. Therefore, 6CM4 should be used for virtual screening instead of the homology model. The virtual screening protocol validation of 6CM4 was performed by PLANTS followed by Pyplif filtering. The protocol was able to give EF1% value of 6.238, which was better than the EF1% value of protein dopamine D3 receptor that shared >80% similarity with dopamine D2 receptor. Similarity between the docking pose and the actual pose is considered important to obtain better predictivity.
Can Developing Countries Both Decentralize and Depoliticize Urban Water Services ? Evaluating the Legacy of the 1990 s Reform Wave VERONICA HERRERAa

— Over the past three decades, decentralization and reforms designed to insulate service providers from interference by elected officials (“insulating reforms”), such as corporatization and privatization, swept through the urban water and sanitation sector in developing countries. We argue that their rationales were contradictory; decentralization was intended to increase citizen participation and influence, whereas corporatization and privatization were intended to depoliticize management. We document the widespread promotion and adoption of these reforms, and conclude that decentralization made it difficult to insulate service provision in practice. We argue that studying how institutional reforms interact with one another can help explain reform consequences. 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
O C ] 6 S ep 2 01 9 Quadratic Performance Analysis of Secondary Frequency Controllers

This paper investigates the input-output performance of secondary frequency controllers through the controltheoretic notion of H2 norms. We consider a quadratic objective accounting for the cost of reserve procurement and provide exact analytical formulae for the performance of continuoustime aggregated averaging controllers. Then, we contrast it with distributed averaging controllers– seeking optimality conditions such as identical marginal costs– and primal-dual controllers which have gained attention as systematic techniques to design distributed algorithms solving convex optimization problems. Our conclusion is that while the performance of aggregated averaging controllers, such as gather & broadcast, is independent of the system size and driven predominantly by the control gain, the plain vanilla closed-loop primal-dual controllers scale poorly with size and do not offer any improvement over feedforward primal-dual controllers. Finally, distributed averagingbased controllers scale sub-linearly with size and are independent of system size in the high-gain limit.
Post intervention assessment of long lasting insecticde nets (LLINs) distributed in Kano metropolis, Kano state, Nigeria

Kano state hasdistributed about 4,137,464 Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Net (LLINs) in2009 being one of the main malaria vector control strategy developed by theNigeria Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) which is in line with Roll BackMalaria. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of LLINsin use and to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practice of some net usersin Kano metropolis. The effectiveness of LLINs distributed in the year 2009 inKano metropolis in Kano State, Northern Nigeria was evaluated using a clustersample technique A Cone bioassay with laboratory reared Anopheles wereperformed. Knockdown after 60 minutes and mortality after 24 hours following 3minutes exposure were evaluated. A total of 210 households were administeredwith two hundred and five (205) respondents 97.6% indicated the knowledge aboutLLINs while five (5) respondents were not aware. Similarly, one hundred andninety- eight respondents (94.3%) strongly believed that the washing of LLINsdoes not reduce the preventive role of LLINs. Very high and consistentknockdown and mortality in all replicates was found. The outcome on the use ofLLINs reflects the effective use of LLINs among the respondents with twohundred and eight respondents (99%). Respondent still holds some reservation onthe use of LLINs, one hundred and five respondents (54.8%) believes it causesheat. It has been observed that the respondents reply does not rely mostly onLLINs despite by their believe in the efficacy of it rather, 41.4% of thepeople that participated in the research still resort to the use of spray and26.2% uses smoke to prevent mosquito bite. It can be concluded from the findings that respondents were fully awareof long lasting insecticide net and they agree that it is effective against thevector causing malaria parasite and other insects though some of them havereservation on the use of smoke and indoor residual spray to prevent mosquitoesbite. Considering that the nets are expected to be effective for three years ormore years, it is reasonable to conclude that the nets were effective inpreventing mosquito bites based on the knock-down and exposure mortalityresults.
Screening NO x Storage Performance — Demonstrating a High Throughput Approach for Evaluating Emission Control Catalysts under Transient Conditions

At hte the high throughput (HT) approach is applied in the field of environmental catalysis on a routine basis. Research programs for automotive applications require validated screening protocols for conditions relevant to engine exhaust as well as experimental measures to ensure quality control using statistical design of experiment. To illustrate the HT approach for a test protocol with dynamic feed switches in a 48-fold reactor, 15 model catalysts for lean NOx traps (LNT) were prepared and screened fresh and after 800 ◦C hydrothermal aging. In the fresh state, highest NOx efficiency was found at 350–450 ◦C. A ranking of BaO > SrO > CaO was found as the most active NOx storage components when used as dopants on alumina. 800 ◦C aging results in a severe performance loss. Using XRD and BET analysis, Pt sintering is identified as most likely cause. These findings agree well with results from conventional tests reported in the literature.
HINDERING INNOVATIONS IN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES

Several research studies concur with the claim that the government, through its measures and active instruments, should influence the business environment, the innovation activity of enterprises and thus their competitiveness. It is the creation of motivating conditions and the elimination of some barriers that are the main area of government involvement in the innovative performance and competitiveness of the economy. The article analyzes the achievement of the goals set in the particular innovation policies of the Slovak Republic from 2008 to the present. The paper also identifies barriers which have been affecting innovation activities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Slovakia for the last six years. Secondary data from the research of the Slovak Innovation and Energy Agency are supported by data from empirical research performed in 2014 and repeated in 2017 in Slovakia. The authors use methods of analysis, comparison, deduction, as well as mathematical methods for processing the data collected. The representativeness of the samples was examined using Fisher’s exact test. The research questions were answered by the non-parametric Friedman’s test of variance analysis by ranks along with McNemar’s test of marginal homogeneity among the barriers. The results confirmed that there was a significant difference among the innovation barriers to SMEs as well as in the importance of barriers to the particular size classes of respondents. Similarly, there was a shift in the rank of the most important barriers over the period of 2012 – 2017.
Adenovirus-mediated HSV-TK Gene Therapy Using hTERT Promoter in CNE Cells in vitro

Human telomerase reverse transcriptase(hTERT) activity was detected in human nasopharyngeal carci- noma cell(CNE) but not in human normal lung fibroblas t(CCD-11Lu). Recombinant adenoviruses Ad-CMV-TK-enh and Ad-hTERT-TK-enh were constructed and infected into normal fibroblasts and nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells. Ad-CMV-TK-enh with 100 µmol/L of ganciclovir(GCV) caused 87% of CCD-11Lu cells death and 91% of CNE cells death, Ad-hTERT-TK-enh with 100 µmol/L of GCV caused 24% of CCD-11Lu cells death and 79% of CNE cells death. These results indicate that the Ad-hTERT-TK-enh with GCV may be a useful method in suppressing tumor growth in targeted nasopharyngeal carcinoma gene therapy. Keywords hTERT; HSV-TK; Adenovirus; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma Article ID 1005-9040(2009)-01-060-04
AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND UNITED KINGDOM PROPERTY MARKETS

The paper seeks to identify the key differences between the South African and United Kingdom property markets, with specific focus on the office, retail and industrial sectors. Emphasis is placed on the observation that market structures respond to specific and changing characteristics of markets, which in turn affects the structure of commercial investment funding. The chosen methodology is that of secondary data analysis. The main data sources are from reputable market reports and the Investment Property Databank (IPD/MSCI). The analysis of the data speaks to the structure of the economy, the different property sectors, owner composition, the key financial players in the market, and the current market status. It was found that the structure of the South African and United Kingdom property markets are significantly different. The difference is evident in density, decentralisation, performance and owner composition. Overall the South African property market yielded higher returns in conjunction with a lower level of volatility when compared to the United Kingdom property market.
Attentive to Individual: A Multimodal Emotion Recognition Network with Personalized Attention Profile

A growing number of human-centered applications beneﬁt from continuous advancements in the emotion recognition technology. Many emotion recognition algorithms have been designed to model multimodal behavior cues to achieve high performances. However, most of them do not consider the modulating factors of an individual’s personal attributes in his/her expressive behaviors. In this work, we propose a Personalized Attributes-Aware Attention Network (PAaAN) with a novel personalized attention mechanism to perform emotion recognition using speech and language cues. The attention proﬁle is learned from embeddings of an individual’s proﬁle, acoustic, and lexical behavior data. The proﬁle embedding is derived using linguistics inquiry word count computed between the target speaker and a large set of movie scripts. Our method achieves the state-of-the-art 70.3% unweighted accuracy in a four class emotion recognition task on the IEMOCAP. Further analysis reveals that affect-related semantic categories are emphasized differently for each speaker in the corpus showing the effectiveness of our attention mechanism for personalization.
Present and Future Implications of Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Disease Emergence in Turkey

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) is an emerging tick-borne zoonosis and a public health concern in Turkey since its first confirmation in 2002. The virus displays great genetic diversity and tends to expand its release to new areas. The presence of the biological tick vectors harbouring the virus and a suitable habitat are the predisposing factors for disease emergence in Turkey and elsewhere. As Turkey is one of the most endemic countries for CCHF disease, deliberate studies should be conducted to monitor all aspects of virus circulation and diversity in all endemic and non-endemic areas of the country. This will help to gain valuable information to predict the fate of the disease, and to develop effective vaccines and treatment facilities. Owing to the zoonotic nature of the virus, it offers a good prospect for collaboration of human and veterinary medicine with the view to fight the disease based on the one health initiative. This review was focussed on CCHFV diversity, perspectives of disease occurrence in Turkey, and the present and future implications of the disease.
Efficiency Aspects of NSW Local Governments’ Domestic Waste Management Service by

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to measure the technical and scale efficiency of the domestic waste management function in 103 New South Wales’ local governments. After allowance is made for nondiscretionary environmental factors which may affect the provision of these local public services, such as congestion and the inability to operate machinery in densely-populated urban areas, comparison of efficiency across geographic/demographic criteria is made. The results suggests that, on average, waste management inputs could be reduced to just over 65 percent of the current level based upon observable best-practice whilst productivity losses due to scale effects account for slightly over 15 percent of total inputs. The results also indicate that inefficiency in urban developed councils is largely the result of congestion and other collection difficulties encountered in densely-populated areas, whilst inefficiency in regional and rural councils stems from an inability to attain an optimal scale of operations.
No-Reference Video Quality Assessment Using Spatial , Temporal , Transform , and Spatiotemporal Features

In this study, a no-reference (NR) video quality assessment approach using spatial, temporal, transform, and spatiotemporal features is proposed. First, three different resolutions of each video sequence by down-sampling are generated and then spatial, temporal, transform, and spatiotemporal features are extracted. Spatial, temporal, and transform feature maps are converted into feature vectors using histogram statistics, whereas principal component analysis (PCA) is employed to perform dimension reduction on spatiotemporal feature vectors. After normalization and concatenation, support vector regression (SVR) is employed to perform machine learning and video quality assessment score estimation. Based on the experimental results obtained in this study, in terms of PLCC and SROCC, the performance of the proposed approach is better than those of eight comparison approaches.
Reliability Analysis of Pier Scour at Gravel-Bed Rivers Using FORM

A correct and reliable assessment of scour depth at bridge pier is of prime importance in safe and economical design of bridge pier foundation. An attempt was made to develop a reliability-based scour depth prediction model at bridge pier in gravel bed-rivers. A developed deterministic scour predictions model by Melville and Sutherland (1988) and an object oriented constrained optimization using spread sheet algorithm for FORM have been used for the reliability analysis in present study. To achieve a desired safety level in the design of pier foundation, reliability based safety factor is proposed. It was found that the reliability index increases rapidly with the increase in safety factor whereas, an increase in safety factor results in decrease in failure probability at faster rate. Keywords—Reliability, First order reliability method, Bridge Pier, Gravel bed-rivers.
Analysis and Design of a New Single Switch Non-Isolated Buck-Boost dc-dc Converter

In this paper, a new transformerless buck-boost converter based on ZETA converter is introduced. The proposed converter has the ZETA converter advantages such as, buck-boost capability and input to output DC insulation. The suggested converter voltage gain is higher than the classic ZETA converter. In the presented converter, only one main switch is utilized. The proposed converter offers low voltage stress of the switch; therefore, the low on-state resistance of the main switch can be selected to decrease losses of the switch. The presented converter topology is simple; hence, the control of the converter is simple. The mathematical analyses of the proposed converter are given. The experimental results confirm the correctness of the analysis.