Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
enetic analysis for semen traits in a crossing program of Saudi Aradi ith Damascus goats

A crossbreeding program between Aradi Saudi breed (A) of goats with Syrian Damascus breed (D) was practiced for six years in two experiments (dairy experiment in Jouf and meat experiment in Qassim) applying bio-techniques of estrous synchronization and artificial insemination. The breeding plan permitted to produce four genetic groups of AA, DD, 1⁄2D1⁄2A and 3⁄4D1⁄4A in each experiment separately. A total number of 1800 ejaculates collected from 298 bucks were evaluated for volume of ejaculate (EV), pH, sperm concentration (SC), total motile sperm (TMS), total sperm output (TSO), percentages of motile (MS), live (LS), abnormal (AS) and dead sperms (DS). Animal models were used to estimate the heritabilities and permanent environmental effects, while a generalized least square procedure was used to estimate individual additive genetic effects, individual heterosis, maternal heterosis and individual recombination effects. Heritabilities for most semen characteristics were low or somewhat moderate and ranging from 0.08 to 0.23, while the permanent environmental effects were slightly higher than the respective heritabilities since the estimates ranged from 0.10 to 0.29. Estimates of individual additive effects for SC, TMS and TSO were in favour of Damascus bucks relative to Aradi bucks by 0.2, 0.43 and 0.44 × 109 per ml in the dairy experiment and by 0.08, 0.13 and 0.11 × 109 per ml in the meat experiment, respectively. Significant individual heterotic improvements (with a range of 4.9–26.5%) were recorded in the dairy and meat experiments for EV (0.075 ml vs. 0.085 ml), SC (0.25 × 109 per ml vs. 0.11 × 109 per ml), TMS (0.275 × 109 per ml vs. 0.125 × 109 per ml), and TSO (0.33 × 109 per ml vs. 0.155 × 109 per ml), associated with significant reduction in percentage of DS (5.5% vs. 1.55%). Crossbred dams showed significant maternal heterotic improvements in semen of their crossbred bucks in both dairy and meat experiments for EV (0.058 ml vs. 0.055 ml; P < 0.05), SC (0.15 × 109 per ml vs. 0.09 × 109 per ml; P < 0.05), TMS (0.225 × 109 per ml vs. 0.085 × 109 per ml; P < 0.05), and TSO (0.58 × 109 per ml vs. 0.115 × 109 per ml; P < 0.01), associated with favourable significant increases in MS (3.3% vs. 4.05%; P < 0.05) and LS (3.7% vs. 2.25%; P < 0.05) along with a reduction in percentage of DS (4.3% vs. 2.25%; P < 0.05); the estimates ranging from 3.3 to 34.1%. The estimates of individual recombination losses for most semen parameters were favourable and non-significant. Please cite this article in press as: Mohammed, K.M. , et al., Genet Aradi with Damascus goats. Small Ruminant Res. (2012), http:// ∗ Corresponding author. Tel. : +2
PERFORMANCE OF MIMO-SDM IN INDOOR LINE-OF-SIGHT ENVIRONMENTS BASED ON 5 . 2 GHz MEASUREMENTS

Space division multiplexing (SDM) in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system (MIMO-SDM), which will provide very high channel capacity in future wireless communications [1], has been studied extensively, and many MIMO measurement campaigns have been conducted [2]–[6]. It is needed to separate and detect the transmitted streams by processing at a receiver end in SDM. It has been reported that the performance of MIMO-SDM is excellent when the channels between transmit and receive antennas are independently and identically distributed (i.i.d.). It is considered that such i.i. d. channels exist in a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environment with many scatterers. However, actual propagation can have line-of-sight (LOS) environments. A direct wave increases received power, whereas channels may be correlated. In this paper, we present the performance of MIMO-SDM in indoor LOS environments with many scatterers from results of a 5.2GHz measurement campaign.
Factors Affecting Turnover Intention Among Academician in the Malaysian Higher Educational Institution

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), organizational commitment (OC) and organizational justice (OJ) on academicians’ turnover intention. The data was gathered through survey (questionnaire) method from 175 respondents in one of the Malaysian Higher Educational Institution. Hypotheses for direct effect were tested using regression analysis. OC was the only factor that negatively associated with academicians' turnover intention.
A COMPACT BANDSTOP FILTER BASED ON TWO MEANDERED PARALLEL-COUPLED LINES

In this paper, a compact wideband high-rejection microstrip bandstop filter using two meandered parallel-coupled lines of different electrical lengths and characteristic impedances in shunt is presented. The transmission and reflection zeros of the filter can be controlled through analytical equations and rulers given. Using this signal interferences technology, this filter obtains a low insertion loss and sharp rejection. Bandwidth and rejection level of the filters of this bandstop filter can be designed by choosing different evenand oddmode characteristic impedances values of the coupled lines. According to the transmission zeros number, two types of filters are shown in the paper. To validated this topology, a wideband bandstop filter with a 3 dB cutoff frequency bandwidth of 92% centered at 2.6GHz with sharp rejection characteristics is built to verify the theoretical prediction. The measured frequency response of the filter agrees excellently with the predicted result.
Assessment of spectral and angular characteristics of sub-GLE events using the global neutron monitor network

New recently installed high-altitude polar neutron monitors (NMs) have made the worldwide NM network more sensitive to strong solar energetic particle (SEP) events, registered at ground level, namely ground-level enhancement (GLE) events. The DOMC/B and South Pole NMs in addition to marginal cut-off rigidity also possess lower atmospheric cut-off compared to the sea level. As a result, the two high-altitude polar NM stations are able to detect lower energy SEP events, which most likely would not be registered by the other (near sea level) NMs. Here, we consider several candidates for such type of events called sub-GLEs. Using the worldwide NM database (NMDB) records and an optimization procedure combined with simulation of the global NM network response, we assess the spectral and angular characteristics of sub-GLE particles. With the estimated spectral characteristics as an input, we evaluate the effective dose rate in polar and sub-polar regions at typical commercial flight altitude. Hence, we demonstrate that the global NM network is a useful tool to estimate important space weather effects, e.g., the aircrew exposure due to cosmic rays of galactic and/or solar origins.
Managing Change: Creating a Learning Organization Focused on Quality

This article describes a case study summarizing the application of the learning organization concept, and the implementation of a learning organization change process focused on improving quality in a high-technology medical instruments company. The change process was designed to facilitate the transformation of the company from a production mentality, where the priority was getting manufactured products out-the-door, to an organization that began to systematically embrace quality as a pervasive process to manage. The change process focused on creating a learning organization, and targeted the existing mental models for understanding organizational events and taking action related to managing quality among all executives, managers and key staff. However, rather than communicate the change process to company personnel as focused on becoming a learning organization, the change process was described more pragmatically – as focused on continual improvement in quality. Literature and perspectives from conceptual views of the learning organization, and key implications from models of change are discussed. A major intention of this article is to provide academic researchers and practicing managers with an understanding of how the learning organization concept was successfully implemented in a medical instruments company. In this regard, one important role for academic researchers is to publish articles describing organizational concepts so that executives and managers understand their real world applications, their bottom-line benefits, and key factors related to their successful implementation.
Chapter 6 Authoring support for controlled language and machine translation : A report from practice

Automatic authoring support for controlled language on the one hand andmachine translation on the other have previously been seen as two distinct tools in the text processing process. This paper describes methods for the close integration of both, resulting in better written documents as well as machine translation output of higher quality. The methods were implemented in an existing tool for automatic authoring support.
A new evidence-based model for weight management in primary care : the Counterweight Programme The Counterweight Project Team *

Methods The Counterweight Programme is based on the theoretical model of Evidence-Based Quality Assessment aimed at improving the management of obese adults (18–75 years) in primary care. The model consists of four phases: (1) practice audit and needs assessment, (2) practice support and training, (3) practice nurse-led patient intervention, and (4) evaluation. Patient intervention consisted of screening and treatment pathways incorporating evidence-based approaches, including patient-centred goal setting, prescribed eating plans, a group programme, physical activity and behavioural approaches, anti-obesity medication and weight maintenance strategies. Weight Management Advisers who are specialist obesity dietitians facilitated programme implementation. Eighty practices were recruited of which 18 practices were randomized to act as controls and receive deferred intervention 2 years after the initial audit.
Between market and bureaucracy: public healthcare reforms in China and nurses' terms and conditions

The public healthcare system of China has witnessed a series of reform since the 1980s, with considerable impact on the working conditions and well-being of its nursing workforce. This study examines the employment terms and conditions of clinical nurses in the public hospitals in China, using qualitative data from three case study hospitals. We explore issues relating to their employment contract, grading and work organization, remuneration and representation through an institutional perspective to highlight the role of various actors, existing or emerging, who co-shape the employment environment within the healthcare system. We also deploy hierarchy theory to identify sources of power, or the lack of it, of these institutional actors (e.g. the State, the hospital employer, the trade union, the clients and the nursing workforce) within the administrative and operational structure of hospitals to understand the relative positions of the nurses and their experience of work and employment outcomes.
A Profile Refinement Method for Nuclear and Magnetic Structures

A structure refinement method is described which does not use integrated neutron powder intensities, single or overlapping, but employs directly the profile intensities obtained from step-scanning measurements of the powder diagram. Nuclear as well as magnetic structures can be refined, the latter only when their magnetic unit cell is equal to, or a multiple of, the nuclear cell. The least-squares refinement procedure allows, with a simple code, the introduction of linear or quadratic constraints between the parameters.
The Implementation of Lesson Study Programme for Developing Professionalism in Teaching Profession

The aim of this study was to identify teachers view in relation with the implementation of Lesson Study, a program of professional development for teachers. An action research was conducted by using a questionnaire to gauge teachers’ acceptance of Lesson Study. The sample consisted of 40 teachers from High Schools (SMA) in Indonesia were recruited for this study. The implementation of Lesson Study involves four stages: planning, micro teaching, discussion and reflection. For the pilot study, Cronbach's Alpha reliability for the items ranges from 0.82 to 0.93. The results showed that Chemistry and English teachers’ acceptance of Lesson Study program is high compared with the teachers of other subjects which is moderate. For the aspects of differences in the acceptance of Lesson Study program based on different fields, there was no significant difference between the teachers of Science and Social Science. The overall results showed that acceptance and understanding about Lesson Study program was still at a moderate level. The study also found that professional development program through Lesson Study program enables subject teachers to be monitored each other through the concept of collaborative work in improving pedagogical skills. The results showed that the expansion of the teaching process through Lesson Study program can be used as a program for teachers’ professional development. There are significant differences among the perspectives of teachers teaching different subjects about Lesson Study. However, all teachers showed good perception in relation to the implementation of Lesson Study. It is proposed that Lesson Study is used as an alternative approach to solve the problems that the teachers are facing in the implementation of teaching and learning.
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hyper Textual Web Page Ranking

The World Wide Web is the collection of large amount of data or information sources in the form of the web pages as websites and due to dynamic nature of the web plenty of webpages are deleted and added newly. When finding the web for exacting topics, users typically obtain unrelated and unnecessary information due to a waste in user time and accessing time of the search engine. So it is required to pact this problem, user’s benefits and needs from their performance have become more and more significant. Page Ranking is an important component for information retrieval system. It is also used to measure the importance and behavior of webpages. Numbers of page ranking algorithms Page Rank (PR), Weighted Page Rank (WPR) are generally used in web structure mining. This paper proposed a new page rank algorithm which use inlink, outlink, number of the times user visits the link of webpages and mean value of the page rank. The relevancy of webpages returned is more and reducing number of iterations to reach convergence point. Keyword: Page Rank, Web Mining, Weighted Page Rank, Visit count, Page ranking algorithm, inlinks, outlinks, weighted page rank, Normalization
Towards a Taxonomy of Textual Entailments ∗

This paper reports on work in progress which aims at the creation of a comprehensive taxonomy of textual entailment rules and – as a proof of concept – its application to an RTE corpus. In particular, a new formalism for encoding entailment rules is proposed, with some emphasis on encoding the properties of such rules and their converses in different polarity contexts.
Income Segregation from Local Income Taxation When Households Differ in Both Preferences and Incomes

This paper presents a model of an urban area with local income taxes used to finance a local public good. Households differ in both incomes and their taste for housing. The existence of a segregated equilibrium is shown in a calibrated two-community model assuming single-peaked distributions for both income and housing taste. The equilibrium features income segregation of the population across the communities. The segregation is, however, imperfect: some rich households can also be found in poor communities and vice-versa. The calibrated model is able to explain the substantial differences in local income tax levels and average incomes across communities as observed in e.g. Switzerland. The numerical investigation reveals that the ordering of community characteristics critically depends on the substitutability between the public and the private good. The numerical investigation also suggests that taste heterogeneity reduces the distributional effects of local tax differences. The numerical investigation furthermore suggests that the rich community is able to set lower taxes when it is small.
Iran Diabetes Research Roadmap (IDRR) Study; Analysis of Diabetes Comorbidity Studies in Iran: A Review Article

Background: Most adult patients with diabetes have at least one comorbid chronic condition and approximately 40% have three or more. The purpose of this study was to investigate detailed characteristics of studies examining comorbidities of diabetes in Iran and to identify knowledge gaps in this field. Methods: All documents published by Iranian authors in national and international journals until 2015 were evaluated. A wide search was performed in PubMed, Web of Science, SCOPUS as well as SID, IranMedex and Magiran databases using proper keywords. The obtained documents were categorized into eleven subgroups of complications, comorbidities, management, psychiatry, nutrition, prevention, physical activity, genetics, basic sciences, education and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Documents were categorized based on WHO and Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) classification, the study methodology and topic. Results: Overall, 311 documents were obtained. The trend of publications was ascending since 2000. About 70% of studies were about epidemiology and causes of comorbid disease and more than 90% of studies were clinical research. The design of the most studies was cross-sectional followed by case-control and randomized clinical trial. The most common subject of documents was related to endocrine (28.61%) followed by gastrointestinal (18.32%) and cardiovascular disease (14.14%). Conclusion: Epidemiological studies are the most common type of studies about diabetes comorbidity in Iran and cross-sectional design is the most frequent methodology used while there are few cohorts. There is no study about physiopathology and shared etiology and pathogenesis of these comorbidities and diabetes.
Dentition and Carcass Evaluation in Goats

Matebele goats were slaughtered at different state of permanent incisors eruption 1st pair (I1 )(237records), 2nd pair (I2 )(312 records), 3rd pair (I3 )(237records), 4th pair (I4)(232 ), Broken Mouth (BM)(214) and Smooth Mouth (SM)(218) over a period of 15 years (1989- 2004) and analysed for carcass performance. Performance parameters and weight of organs as a percentage of empty body weight (EBW) containing the effects of number of permanent incisors at I1, I2, I3, I4,, BM and SM were analysed using the General Linear Models. Live weight averaged 21.57 kg ± 0.02, 27.01± 0.02 kg, 28.40± 0.02 kg, 28.88± 0.02 kg, 36.92± 0.02 kg and 37.33± 0.02 kg for goats slaughtered at I1, I2, I3, I4,,, BM and SM, respectively. There was a significant (p
Predicting Heavy Precipitation and Lightning for a Mesoscale Convective System Case Over Southern Brazil

On December 10 through 11 2012, a strong convection activity over southern Brazil grew into a huge Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) accompanied by heavy precipitation, hailstorm, damaging winds and dangerous lightning. The Civil Defense Authority reported that over 700,000 people experienced power outages due to either strong winds or lightning strikes or even suffered from flash floods caused by high rain volumes. The Brazilian Lightning Location System (BrasilDAT) detected more than 90,000 cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning strikes during the MCS activity, and approximately 4,000 CG strokes presented large peak currents over 75 kA. The main objectives of this work were to achieve the most suitable configuration of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, and to apply the Potential Lightning Region (PLR) tool, in order to forecast reliably this type of severe weather event with enough time in advance to adopt strategies that might minimize injuries and hazardous situations in the future. Firstly, the CG and IC lightning stroke rates, the peak currents distribution, and the IC/CG ratio were evaluated. Observed precipitation from a homogeneous network of surface meteorological stations was used as proxy data. Lightning and precipitation were compared during the MCS development in order to seek for correlations. As well known, current operational models cannot predict convective subgrid scale processes explicitly, due to their microscopic and discontinuous nature, and must do so via parameterization. In this case, a cumulus scheme should try to transport heat vertically, redistribute moisture, and reduce thermodynamic instability. Four cumulus parameterization schemes (CPS) in the WRFv3.3. 1 model were investigated to proper simulate this MCS over southern Brazil. WRF grid points near meteorological stations with high accumulated precipitation values were chosen in order to assess the behavior of the simulated data against the observations. The Potential Lightning Region (PLR) is a tool that indicates the spatial distribution of lightning occurrence probabilities in a given area. PLR was developed from a combination of WRF output variables, and operationally tested over southeastern Brazil. The WRF convective parameterization selected from the previous analysis was used to generate new PLR maps over southern Brazil for the MCS. This case study served as a laboratory to expand PLR capabilities in the prediction of severe weather events. Keywords— lightning; precipitation; Mesoscale Convective System; WRF model; PLR; cumulus parameterizations
A Training System for Speech Disordered Children Based on the Intel RealSense Technology

A training system for speech disordered children is presented in this research. The core technology includes face tracking and speech recognition, which are supplied by Intel RealSense SDK and its relative hardware, such as 3D camera F200. The system consists of the pronouncing learning module and the speech disorder training module. The former can help children patient with almost no speech ability learn the pronouncing motion and method in Mandarin initials and finals with real-time 3D image playback. The training module which is based on the cartoon games can intervene patients’ abnormal voice onset, speech volume, speech tone and vowel confusion. With the help of the speech recognition function from Intel RealSense, it can make an immersed environment which is benefit for training. Keywords-speech rehabilitation; Intel realsense; humanmachine interaction; speech recognition
A case study on its performance compared to the current inventory control system at Syncron

Even though coordinated inventory control is becoming more well-known, it is relative unused by companies, despite obvious advantages. This article is based on the results of a master thesis written in 2010 at Lund University, in cooperation with the company Syncron. It illustrates the result of using coordinated inventory control compared to a currently used non-coordinated inventory control. In the study, a coordinated model to calculate reorder points has been used to show the effects it would have on a distribution system compared to the current uncoordinated setup for one of Syncron’s customers. The impact from the different reorder points on the system was compared by simulations in the simulation software Extend. The results of the project show that by using a coordinated control of the inventory system, the total inventory in the system is reduced significantly, with about 35%, while the service level most of the times are improved or at least maintained. Most of the inventory within the inventory system has shifted from the central warehouse out to the retailers.