Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Selection procedure towards genetic improvement of animals: A overview

The present study reviewed the development of different selection method ranging from traditional phenotypic procedure to recent advanced genomic selection technique for improvement of animals from February, 2017 to November, 2017. The different optimal selection procedure focused to combine genetic gain and conserved genetic diversity to reform the selection and breeding procedure for the genetic improvement. Different theorems like natural selection, response to selection based on fitness, multilevel selection, selection method, neutral theory of selection and genomic selection were discussed to explain how the animal has adopted them to evolve better genetic merit. These theorems established to evidence higher accuracy in selection process thereby increasing the chances of success of the breeding programs. However, in future the models for estimation of breeding values and genetic values will be based entirely on DNA markers obtained from genotyping the animal or inferred from other animals.
Evaluation of Human Resources in the Hospitals Affiliated to Babol University of Medical Sciences and Social Security of Qaemshahr City based on the Standards of the Iranian Ministry of Health

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Human resources is one of the most important factors in the process of production, as well as the greatest asset of every healthcare institution. Resolution of hospital issues regarding the provision and management of human resources has been a major concern in the field of health care. This study aimed to evaluate human resources in the hospitals affiliated to Babol University of Medical Sciences and Social Security of Qaemshahr city in Iran based on the standards of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted using an analytical-descriptive approach in 2015 in the hospitals affiliated to Babol University of Medical Sciences and Social Security of Qaemshahr city, Iran. Sample size consisted of all the hospital personnel, with the exception of physicians and maintenance staff. Data were collected using checklists via interviews with head nurses and supervisors. Data analysis was performed in SPSS V.19. FINDINGS: In total, 3,130 personnel employed at seven hospitals were enrolled in this study. Lowest mean age of human resources was reported in Ayatollah Rohani Hospital (33.74±5.907 years). In addition, the highest number of health care providers in proportion to the total of human resources was reported in Ayatollah Rohani Hospital of Babol and Valiasr Hospital affiliated to the Social Security of Qaemshahr city (65.7% and 64.7%, respectively). Between the studied hospitals, no significant difference was observed regarding the mean of human resources (p=0.921). However, a significant difference was observed in the distribution of nursing human resources compared to the standards of the Ministry of Health (p<0.001). So that the manpower shortage in medical sections and paraclinic centers in most centers was observed. CONCLUSION: According to the results of this study, the selected hospitals had surplus of human resources in financial and administrative departments, while shortage of human resources was observed in medical and paraclinical units. Therefore, it is recommended that planning and organization of human resources be performed based on the standards of the Ministry of Health for the recruitment, development and transfer of healthcare personnel.
Thermal Modelling of Permanent Magnent Machines Using double layer winding - Strategies for cooling of PM motors in ship propulsion pods

The trend to carry out thermal analysis of Electric Motor is increasing day by day so as to improve the performance of the machines. This paper deals with the thermal analysis of Electric Motors and their cooling solutions, focusing on Ship Propulsion Pods. Using Finite element analysis (FEM), temperature distribution in two coils in a slot, with different turn profiles are considered in this study. The effect of temperature with the use of different conductor’s shapes in slot of the machine, temperature distribution in stator and rotor of electrical machines, effect of heat transfer coefficient and thermal resistance are taken for the study. Cooling of electrical machines and a focus on pod cooling has been done. This thesis is done in cooperation with NTNU and Rolls Royce. Keywords— Thermal Model, Double Layer Windings, Two and Four turn profiles, Heat transfer coefficient, thermal resistance.
Accept a Helping Hoof? Openness to Equine-Assisted Mental Health as an Emerging Alternative Therapy: A Descriptive Study among College Students

Equine-assisted mental health (EAMH) therapies utilize horses in therapy for a variety of emotional and psychological issues. One of the limitations of EAMH is the lack of interest among participants, but no literature is available to explore this. The purpose of this study was to measure awareness of and openness to EAMH interventions in college students in order to identify characteristics that correlate with openness to EAMH. Sixty-nine participants completed the Openness to Equine-Assisted …
Body Mass Index (BMI) Effect on Galvanic Coupling Intra-Body Communication

Intra-body communication (IBC) is a wireless communication system where human body is used as a signal transmission medium. Main advantage of IBC compared to other wireless communication is capable of low power consumption. There are two coupling methods in IBC, which are capacitive and galvanic coupling. The characteristic of human body play an important role in IBC because the transmitted signal is propagates through the body tissue. Therefore, this paper investigates the effect of different dielectric properties of body tissues to the quality of IBC signal transmission by focusing at body fat. Galvanic coupling method was used. 12 subjects were volunteered in this study and the value of subject’s body fat was differentiates by body mass index (BMI). The frequency was focused on 21 MHz, 50 MHz and 80 MHz. The signal quality at 21 MHz and 80 MHz shows the degradation as the increasing of body fat. The signal attenuation is increasing as body fat increased because in human body, the bone and fat has higher resistance than nerves and muscle. However, at frequency 50 MHz, the increasing of human BMI does not increase the attenuation where the attenuations are at peak value.
Northern Cordilleran terranes and their interactions through time

In the 25 years since the first application of the terrane concept to the North American Cordillera and the introduction of the term “suspect,” a pattern of interterrane stratigraphic and intrusive linkages and shared isotopic and faunal elements has emerged. Far from being restricted to late, postamalgamation overlaps, these linkages can be as old as the oldest rocks within the terranes. In the Canadian Cordillera, these linkages give a coherent sense to terranes that otherwise might appear to be a collection of isolated and unrelated fragments. Such observed linkages effectively eliminate some of the paleogeographic uncertainties that were previously inferred between adjacent terranes (although not necessarily with respect to the Laurentian continent) and highlight their common history. In light of these relationships, it is now possible to interpret terranes of the Canadian Cordillera in terms of shared geodynamic scenarios, such as repeated arc superposition on older arcs and/or basement and coexisting arc system components. A primary result of this analysis is that the Intermontane terranes represent one interrelated set of arcs, marginal seas, and continental fragments that once formed a Paleozoic to early Mesozoic fringe to North America, the peri-Laurentian realm. By contrast, the Insular terranes, along with the Farewell and Arctic-Alaska terranes, include crustal fragments that originated from separate sites within the Arctic realm in Paleozoic time.
EFFECT OF CERTAIN MEDICINAL PLANT EXTRACTS ON FEEDING BEHAVIOUR OF SPODOPTERA LITURA (FABRICIUS)

Insect pests and diseases are important limiting factors of agricultural production across the globe. Amongst the insect pests, the tobacco caterpillar Spodoptera litura (Fab.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is an important polyphagous pest widely distributed throughout Asia (Hadapad et al., 2001; Sahayraj et al., 2008). It has a wide range of host, feeding on 112 plant species worldwide, of which 40 species are known from India (Singh et al., 1998 and Paulraj, 2001). An estimated annual loss of Rs. 150 crores in groundnut due to pests has been reported. Among the major pests reported on groundnut, S. litura is the major defoliator. (Amin, 1983 and 1988). Recently, there was an outbreak of S. litura on soybean in Kota region of Rajasthan and a loss of Rs 300 crore was estimated. The pest also struck in epidemic form on soybean in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra in August 2008 and caused widespread losses (Dhaliwal and Koul, 2010).
Agronomic and physiological assessment of nitrogen use, uptake and acquisition in sunflower

A field experiment was conducted to study the effects of N fertilization on uptake, accumulation/remobilization, use efficiency and yield of sunflower grown in alluvial plains of northwestern India comprising four hybrids (PSH 996, PAC 3789, PSH 569 and SH 3322) and five N levels (Control, 40, 80, 100 and 120 kg N ha -1 ) in split-plot design with three replications. Increased N fertilizer rates significantly prompted sunflower yield only up to 100 kg N ha -1 . Every additional kilogram of N taken up increased sunflower yield by 26 kg ha -1 . Significant genetic variation for seed yield and NUE traits explicated PSH 569 as the efficient one at sub-optimal N application while PSH 996 outperformed others at N80, N100 and N120. Dry matter accumulation pattern revealed average harvest index of 30% with 29% of the biomass as stalk, 19% as leaf and 22% as thalamus. Temporal changes in N acquisition indicated most of the total N uptake upto 50% flowering while maximum remobilization takes place during reproductive phase. Significant correlation between N uptake and N use efficiency parameters with yield indicate the importance of N nutrition in sunflower; LAI (r=0.841 ** ), N uptake (r=0.956 ** ), NUpE (r= -0.814 ** ), NUtE (r= -0.787 ** ), NUE (r=-0.802 ** ). Variation in NUE was more closely associated with NUpE (r=0.996 ** ) than NUtE (r=0.812 ** ) and linearly decreased with increasing leaf greenness (R 2 =0.70) and total leaf area (R 2 =0.81). This work will complement other studies to establish a baseline for breeding N efficient sunflower genotypes be grown under semi-arid tropical conditions in India and similar environments.
Avian song complexity is associated with high field metabolic rate

Question: Is the production of bird song costly? Analyses of oxygen consumption during singing provided conflicting results. Data studied: Data on 28 passerine species with quantitative information on song complexity and field metabolic rate, which reflects energy requirements of wild birds. The phylogenetic relationship data came from molecular sources. Search method: Generalized least squares models to control for phylogenetic associations. First, we adjusted field metabolic rate to body size, and calculated the phylogenetic correlation between relative field metabolic rate and measures of song complexity. Second, we compared song complexity of birds inhabiting arid and mesic environments. Conclusion: A measure of short-term song complexity, relative syllable repertoire size, is positively and significantly related to relative field metabolic rate. Species from arid habitats have less complex songs than species from mesic habitats.
Paper No P39: Optimizing the Deposition Rate of Vacuum‐Grown n‐Octylphosphonic acid Monolayer for Low‐Voltage Thin‐Film Transistors

A self‐assembled monolayer of n‐octylphosphonic acid (C8PA) is prepared from vapor phase in vacuum. C8PA thickness corresponding to several monolayers is deposited on aluminum oxide (AlOx) and subsequently heated to leave a monolayer of chemisorbed molecules. The effect of C8PA deposition rate on a 15‐nm‐thick, bilayer AlOx/C8PA dielectric and low‐voltage p‐channel organic thin‐film transistors (OTFTs) is studied. The increase in the deposition rate from 0.1 to 7.0 Å/s leads to increase in the field‐effect mobility from 0.039 to 0.061 cm2/Vs, while the threshold voltage remains around −1.55 V. At the same time, the off‐current is reduced from 2.3 × 10−12 to 1.3 × 10−12A, the subthreshold slope is lowered from 100 to 89 mV/decade and the on/off current ratio is increased from ∼105 to ∼106. The leakage current density of AlOx is reduced from 1 × 10−7 to 4 × 10−8 A/cm2 at 3 V when C8PA monolayer is added on top of it. In addition, pentacene grain size on AlOx/C8PA is larger than that on AlOx. The overall performance of AlOx/C8PA OTFTs is superior to that of AlOx OTFTs.
Methodological aspects concerning the reuse of ontologies: a study based on genomic annotations in the domain of

In the last years ontology development has grown considerably, suggesting the maturing of the efforts towards the development of standard vocabularies, specially in Biomedicine, which can be considered as a complex inter and multidisciplinary domain. However, despite the existence of many methodological approaches and best practices to guide the structuring of the ontology hierarchy and its relations, not much is explained about the methods and techniques used to analyze the domain in order to obtain a list of its relevant concepts and to establish its scope, specially if ontology reuse is desired. In this sense, our goal is to present the contributions of Information Science and Computer Science that can be applied to ontology reuse, as a methodological step towards knowledge acquisition. On doing so, we hope to contribute to the enhancement of ontology aligning and mapping mechanisms in the domain of Trypanosomatids
The relationship between competition and R&D : Theoretical Approaches and Quantitative Results

This study is an attempt to examine and model the relationship between (the presence and intensity of ) competition and corporate level R&D expenditures. Hungarian firm-level and industry-level data populate the empirical models. A brief summary of the history of research on the much-debated competition-innovation relationship is also offered. Results from the earliest studies seem to suggest that stronger competition generally results in lower levels of innovation, while the empirical results that were born in the 1990s showed some evidence for the opposite relationship. The seminal model of Aghion et al. [2005] indicated an inverted-U shaped relationship between the intensity of competition and the level of innovation. A discussion of the difficulties of measuring the pertinent variables and the relationship among them is followed by an elaborate investigation of the shape of the relationship. Based on our extensive empirical results, we conclude that the inverted-U shaped relationship can indeed be established in Hungary at the industry-level as well as at the firm-level. We also demonstrate that only certain types of indicators of the presence and intensity of competition seem to have had a detectable relationship with the innovative investments of firms.
Beef Labeling After BSE: Do Consumers Care about BSE Testing and GMO Labeling? Evidence from Canada and the US

Following the May 2003 Canadian BSE case, food safety issues have become even more prominent to policymakers and consumers. In both Canada and the US, governments and industry have responded with a variety of quality assurance, traceability and labeling schemes. However, there is little information available on the extent to which consumer perceptions differ regionally across North America towards labeling schemes. This paper attempts to fill this gap, by providing results on a variety of beef labeling strategies from choice experiments that were conducted in Alberta (Canada) and Montana (US). The analysis focuses on consumers' perceptions towards negative voluntary labeling with regard to BSE testing, genetically modified organisms (GMO) and the use of growth hormones in beef production. We find that four years after the first BSE case emerged in North America, consumers are willing to pay most to avoid risks associated with BSE. Montana and Alberta consumers are found not to be significantly heterogeneous in their preferences.
Superconductivity, critical current density, and flux pinning in MgB2−x(SiC)x/2 superconductor after SiC nanoparticle doping

We investigated the effect of SiC nanoparticle doping on the crystal lattice structure, critical temperature Tc, critical current density Jc, and flux pinning in MgB2 superconductor. A series of MgB2−x(SiC)x/2 samples with x=0–1.0 were fabricated using an in situ reaction process. The contraction of the lattice and depression of Tc with increasing SiC doping level remained rather small most likely due to the counterbalancing effect of Si and C co-doping. The high level Si and C co-doping allowed the creation of intragrain defects and highly dispersed nanoinclusions within the grains which can act as effective pinning centers for vortices, improving Jc behavior as a function of the applied magnetic field. The enhanced pinning is mainly attributable to the substitution-induced defects and local structure fluctuations within grains. A pinning mechanism is proposed to account for different contributions of different defects in MgB2−x(SiC)x/2 superconductors.
Performance analysis of limited bandwidth active suspension with preview based on a discrete time model

A car suspension system is the mechanism that physically separates the car body from the wheels of the car. Active suspensions differ from the conventional passive suspensions in their ability to inject energy into the system, which can improve the trade-off between the ride comfort and road handling. A discrete optimal control algorithm is proposed in this paper for a limited bandwidth active suspension, in which both look-ahead and wheelbase preview information are utilized. The preview optimal algorithm is implemented in Matlab/Simulink software environment based on a half-vehicle model. The effect of preview time on system performance is investigated. In order to reduce the energy consumption, the effect of various bandwidth of actuator is particularly examined. Simulation results show that the preview time can influence overall system performance remarkably, and 0.2 s look-ahead preview time is preferable. Theoretical deviation of the optimal control gain is given to explain the fact that only look-ahead preview benefits the front wheel's motion while wheelbase preview benefits the rear wheel's motion much more. The pitch motion performance deterioration compared with passive case brought by preview can be eliminated to some extent. With preview information, suspension working space requirement can be restrained to a prominent low degree. 6 Hz system is the most suitable one to achieve the trade-off between performance potential and energy consumption in the range 3-15 Hz for limited bandwidth active suspension.
Collective Phenomena in Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

Collective phenomena due to persistent currents in carbon multiwall nanotubes are studied. The formula for persistent currents minimising free energy and conditions for the stability of persistent currents in multiwall nanotubes in magnetic fleld are derived. Numerical calculations performed show the possibility of obtaining spontaneous currents in two optimal conflgurations: undoped armchair-only multiwall nanotubes up to 0.01 K, and zig-zag{chiralichiral{zig-zag multiwall nanotubes doped to {3.033 eV up to about 1 K. The latter conflguration may exhibit also the diamagnetic expulsion of magnetic fleld, which according to our calculations can reach 20% of the external ∞ux. PACS numbers: 73.22. {f, 73.23. Ra
Fraud detection and link analysis in Genertel’s customer network

This thesis describes the development of a fraud detection scheme for car insurance customers, based only on information that is available at the moment of underwriting. It explains how we manipulated raw anonymised data and turned it into a graph, and how we used this graph to assign a fraudulence score to each node. Finally, it evaluates the performance of this score in identifying unknown fraudsters. The results obtained in the thesis have been obtained by means of several ad hoc optimised and parallel algorithms, which have been tested and run on multiple HPC platforms.
Service-Logic Innovations: How to Innovate Customers, Not Products

Despite the increasing presence of a variety of measures of patient health care experiences in research and policy, there remains a lack of consensus regarding measurement. The objectives of this paper were to: (1) explore and describe what is known about measures and measurement of patient experience and (2) describe evaluation approaches/methods used to assess patient experience.
Comparison of Stability of Classical Taxonomy Bagging Metod with Bagging Based on Co-Occurence Data

Abstract. Ensemble approach has been successfully applied in the context of supervised learning to increase the accuracy and stability of classification. Recently, analogous techniques for cluster analysis have been suggested in order to increase classification accuracy, robustness and stability of the clustering solutions. Research has proved that, by combining a collection of different clusterings, an improved solution can be obtained. The stability of a clustering algorithm with respect to small perturbations of data (e.g., data subsampling or small variations in the feature values) or the parameters of the algorithm (e.g., random initialization) is a desirable quality of the algorithm. On the other hand, ensembles benefit from diverse clusterers. Although built upon unstable components, the ensemble is expected to be more accurate and robust than the individual clustering method. Here, we look at the stability of the ensemble methods based on bagging idea and co-occurrence matrix. This paper carries out an experimental study to compare stability of bagging method used to the classical data set with bagging based on co-occurrence matrix.