Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Prediction of breeding values for novel traits benefited from increased number of cow genotypes.

This study investigated the effect of including cow genotypes on the predictions of breeding values for novel traits with comparisons to traits having more historical data and either low or moderate heritability. Three novel claw health traits were included in the analyses (laminitisrelated claw disorders, infectious claw disorders and corkscrew claw) along with three traits with historical data (kg protein yield, interval from calving to first insemination and number of inseminations). Accuracy of breeding values were obtained from a 10-fold cross validation with 500 sires assigned to 10 validation sets by clustering half-sibs. The results indicated that including cow genotypes had a positive effect on the accuracy of the breeding values for claw disorders, compared to using only sire genotypes. In addition, this gave a better prediction as it reduced the bias. Compared to a previous study which had fewer cow genotypes included in the analyses, our results indicated that increasing the number of cow genotypes in the analyses improved the predictions of breeding values. The results from this study showed that novel traits could obtain accuracies of breeding values in the same range as traits with more historical data.
Culturally Diverse Parents' Perspectives on Self-Determination

Current research examining self-determination in cultural contexts has yielded mixed findings. This qualitative interview study collected rich information from parents of four major cultures about their under- standing of self-determination and their daily engagement in self-determination related activities with their children with disabilities. Various culturally-related patterns were found indicating differences between parents of mainstream culture and other cultures. Differences existed in the following areas: understanding the concept of self-determination; talking to the child about strengths and weaknesses; promoting self-efficacy; and teaching independent living, goal setting, problem solving, and decision making skills. Implications and recommenda- tions for future research are provided.
Development Of A Cloud Computing Application For Water Resources Modelling And Optimization Based On Open Source Software

The cloud computing application for water resources modeling and optimization based on open source software is a continuation of a previous research presented in [1]. This article presents further research that is focused on distributing the web application on two separate virtual machines (VM) and upgrading it to a cloud computing application. The cloud application was deployed and tested in a distributed computer environment running on two virtual machines (VM-1 and VM-2). The application is upgraded with an additional web service for user management, while still having the previous three services for: (1) support for water resources modelling (2) spatial data infrastructure (SDI) and (3) water resources optimization, as reported in [1] from the previous research. The web services for support of water resources modelling and user management are deployed on VM-1 while the SDI and water resources optimization web services are deployed on VM-2. The web services communicate with web feature service transactional (WFS-T), which is an XML asynchronous messaging protocol. This research demonstrates the capability to scale and distribute the cloud application between several VMs. The article discusses the main cloud application capabilities and its future upgrades.
Development of a preserved product from underutilized passion fruit and evaluation of consumer acceptance

In the present study, passion fruit jam; a new value added product was developed from underexploited passion fruit. The product was developed using different ratios of passion fruit skin pulp and passion fruit juice, sugar, and sodium bicarbonate. The developed jam was stored in glass and polypropylene (PP) jars for six months. The stored product was analyzed at various storage intervals for pH, TSS and sensory properties for determination of shelf life. From the sensory analysis, both glass products were found acceptable with high sensory scores to the trained panelists after six months where as mold growth was observed in PP packed samples after 5 months. Passion fruit jam developed with ratio of passion fruit juice to skin pulp of 1:1 was found more acceptable based on higher sensory scores of overall acceptability.
Application of powder formulation of Metarhizium anisopliae to control Oryctes rhinoceros in rotting oil palm residues under leguminous cover crops.

The powder formulation of Metarhizium anisopliae was applied by spraying method onto the rotting heaps of oil palm residues under the leguminous cover crops. The M. anisopliae infected all stages of Oryctes rhinoceros. At eight months after treatment (MAT), the application of product at rates of T1, 0.2 g (2.2 x 10 7 spores) and T2, 0.4 g (4.4 x 10 7 spores) m -2 heap was significantly reduced (P 0.05) with the control at all times of data recording. Although infection can occur on larvae and adults, but the percentage was low, ranging from 0% - 0.6% at five MAT and 1.7% and 2.5% at eight MAT.
Economic relations of Ethiopia and India: Trade and agricultural investments after 1991

The main objective of this article is to critically examine the Post-1991 bilateral trade relations between the two countries and Indian agricultural investments in Ethiopia. To achieve the objective of this article, the study used qualitative research methodology. Data were collected from both primary and secondary sources. Available literature was also reviewed. For the collection of primary data, in-depth interviews were conducted with officials from Ethiopian Investment Commission, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Trade, and Agricultural Investment and Land Administration Agency. The findings from data analysis show that the economic relationships between the two countries are in favor of India in trade and agricultural investments. The study showed that Ethiopia has chronically run a negative balance in its trade with India. Ethiopia’s trade deficit can largely be explained by the unequal terms of trade between agricultural commodities (the country’s major exports) and capital goods (the country’s major imports). With regard to agricultural investment, Indian agricultural investments have both positive and negative impacts on local peoples where they are operating. Indian Agricultural investments in Ethiopia created permanent and temporary job opportunities for Ethiopians; it has also increased government revenues and brought foreign currency and technology transfer. On the other hand, Indian investments in agriculture have caused the displacement of smallholder farmers and the degradation of natural resources. In response to trade imbalance, Ethiopia needs to focus on diversifying the composition of its exports and improving the business climate through infrastructural development, building strong institutions and reducing bureaucratic problems. Indian agricultural investments in Ethiopia also need encouragement, support and critical follow-up so that the expected benefit would be insured. Key words: Globalization, economic cooperation, south-south cooperation, Foreign Direct Investment, trade.
How Productive is Optimism? A Simple Keynes-type "Big Push" Model

The paper examines the impacts of ambiguity and ambiguity attitudes on macro-economic "Big Push" model. By formally modelling ambiguity, optimism and pessimism in economic industrialization, we show the results with Keynesian flavour: sufficient optimism can create the "Big Push" to help the economy achieve Pareto-optimal equilibrium and sufficient pessimism cause economies to become "stuck" in an inefficient state.
PROGNOSTIC FACTORS IN EPITHELIAL OVARIAN CARCINOMA: A REFERENCE INSTITUTION EXPERIENCE

SUMMARY Aim: To evaluate epidemiologic and prognostic factors of the patients with epithelial ovarian cancer retrospectively and to investigate the factors that effect overall survival. Material and methods: Between January 1990 and December 2004, 149 patients with malign epithelial ovarian tumor were included to this study. Age, parity, primary complaint and postoperative histopathology, surgical stage and maximal diameter of residual tumor of the patients were obtained and factors that effect overall survival were evaluated. Results: Mean age of the patients was 52.8 ± 13 years. Most of the patients were multipar (85.9%) and most fruquent (n: 88) (59.1%) complaint was abdominal swelling. Postoperative surgical stages were stage I in 24 (16.1%), stage II in11 (7.4%), stage III in 87 (58.4%) and stage IV in 27 (18.1%) patients. Maximal diameter of residual tumor was 0.05). The mean overall survival of the patients with maximal residual tumor size ≤1 cm, >1cm and no residual tumor were obtained to be 54.8 months, 22.7 months and 43.5 months respectively (p<0.001). According to the surgical stages I,II,III and IV mean survival was 78.5 months, 60.1 months, 33.9 months and 16.1 months respectively and significantly different (p<0.001). Conclusion: The data of the study revealed that surgical stage and postoperative maximum residual tumor diameter had significantly effect on overall survival where it was not effected by the age of the patients in epitelial ovarian cancers. So, early diagnosis and optimal cytoreduction should be attemped to improve the prognosis of the patients.
Biosorption of Few Heavy Metal Ions Using Agricultural Wastes

Since a few years a lot of interest has been shown in monitoring environmental pollution caused by heavy metals. Many methods such as precipitation, electroplating, evaporation, ion exchange etc. have been employed in the treatment of waste water, but have not proven to be much advantageous due to greater sludge production, higher reagent requirement etc. Biosorption which can be defined as the selective sequestering of metal soluble species, resulting in the immobilization of the metals is a striking technology for retaining heavy metals from dilute solutions with high efficiency. Several prior studies and research in environmental biotechnology have shown that many biosorbents occurring in the environment have the capacity to remove heavy metals from solutions. This paper presents the potential and result of studies carried out on economically cheaper natural materials like agricultural wastes such as peanut shells and banana peels as biological adsorbent for the removal of toxic heavy metal ions from waste water. The different metal ions studied were lead, copper, zinc and cadmium. The biosorption of the above metals was studied by various techniques such as Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry, X-ray Difftaction and Scanning Electron Microscopy. Using peanut shells, adsorption of metal ions shown was in the order of lead > zinc > copper > cadmium, whereas using banana peels adsorption was in the order of cadmium > copper > lead > zinc. X-ray Difftaction results showed the presence of zinc, copper, mercury whereas the images obtained from Scanning Electron Microscope showed metal adsorption on the surface clearly at a magnification power of 500 µm and 200 µm.
Equilibrium thermal response timescale of global oceans

The equilibrium response timescale of global oceans is estimated in a fully coupled climate model. In general, the equilibrium timescale increases with depth, except in the polar region. The timescale is approximately 200 years for the ocean for depths above 1 km, and it increases to 1500 years at a depth of 3 km. A layer with a rapid timescale change, referred to as a temporacline, is located at a depth of 1.5–2 km, which is analogous to the permanent thermocline in the ocean. The equilibrium timescale varies with the sign of the change in radiative forcing. The ocean response to surface cooling could be twice as fast as the surface warming because of enhanced vertical mixing, convection and overturning circulation. However, this phenomenon only occurs below the Atlantic temporacline. For the Atlantic upper ocean, the timescale is longer in the cooling case because of the readjustment of the upper ocean to the enhanced Atlantic overturning circulation. In the Pacific, the timescale change in the warming and cooling cases is not as significant as in the Atlantic because of the lack of deep convection.
Power Management in Sensing Subsystem of Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

A wireless sensor network consists of sensor nodes deployed over a geographical area for monitoring physical phenomena like temperature, humidity, vibrations, seismic events, and so on. Typically, a sensor node is a tiny device that includes three basic components: a sensing subsystem for data acquisition from the physical surrounding environment, a processing subsystem for local data processing and storage, and a wireless communication subsystem for data transmission. In addition, a power source supplies the energy needed by the device to perform the programmed task. This power source often consists of a battery with a limited energy budget. In addition, it is usually impossible or inconvenient to recharge the battery, because nodes are deployed in a hostile or unpractical environment. On the other hand, the sensor network should have a lifetime long enough to fulfill the application requirements. Accordingly, energy conservation in nodes and maximization of network lifetime are commonly recognized as a key challenge in the design and implementation of WSNs. Experimental measurements have shown that generally data transmission is very expensive in terms of energy consumption, while data processing consumes significantly less (Raghunathan et al., 2002). The energy cost of transmitting a single bit of information is approximately the same as that needed for processing a thousand operations in a typical sensor node (Pottie & Kaiser, 2000). The energy consumption of the sensing subsystem depends on the specific sensor type. In some cases of scalar sensors, it is negligible with respect to the energy consumed by the processing and, above all, the communication subsystems. In other cases, the energy expenditure for data sensing may be comparable to, or even greater (in the case of multimedia sensing) than the energy needed for data transmission. In general, energy-saving techniques focus on two subsystems: the communication subsystem (i.e., energy management is taken into account in the operations of each single node, as well as in the design of networking protocols), and the sensing subsystem (i.e., techniques are used to reduce the amount or frequency of energy-expensive samples).
UTILIZATION FROM FRUITS AND LEAVES OF NAPEK (ZIZYPHUS SPINA-CHRISTI L.) AS A SOURCE OF BIOACTIVECOMPONENTS

polyphenolic compounds in the (fruits and leaves) juice were 510.00 and 722.00ppm. Aliquots of the concentrated sidr juice (fruits and leaves), represent 200, 400, 800 and 1600ppm and butylated hydroxyl toluene (BHT, 200ppm) were investigated by Rancimat method at 100oC and 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical scavenging method. These compounds were administrated to rats daily for 6 weeks by stomach tube. The liver (Aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase and alkaline phosphatase activities) and kidney (bilirubin, uric acid and creatinine) function tests and serum contents (total lipids, total cholesterol and low and high-density lipoproteins) were measured to assess the safety limits of the phenolic compounds in the sidr juice (fruits and leaves). The data of the aforementioned measurements indicates that the administration of sidr juice (fruits and leaves) did not cause any changes in liver and kidney functions. On the contrary, BHT at 200ppm induced significant increases in the enzyme activities and the serum levels of total lipids, uric acid and creatinine.
The effectiveness of socialization models of social life skill modules for kindergarten teachers

The social life skill has not been considered important in education that makes many people from children to youngsters nowadays have more conflicts due to some very simple reasons. This study was the third phase of a three-year-research. This third year study was aimed at socializing the social life skill modules and testing three kinds of socialization models to find out which one was the most effective: the centralistic model, the chaining model, or the professional organization model. This study used the quantitative research approach with a quasi experiment as the research method. The participants were 109 kindergarten teachers in Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY). The instruments were a questionnaire and a test, and the techniques of data analysis were quantitative description and analysis of variance. The analysis results showed: (1) The social life skill modules had been socialized among kindergarten teachers in DIY; all preschool teachers had got the modules through the three kinds of socialization models. (2) There were no differences of effectiveness among the three socialization models.
Quality of life: differences related to gender, age, socio-economic status and health status, in Portuguese teens.

The KIDSCREEN is a European cross-cultural and standardized instrument that assesses ten dimensions regarding quality of life in children, adolescents and their parents. The objective of this study is to use the KIDSCREEN-52 in order to assess interpersonal differences during pre-adolescence and adolescence in Portugal. The present study focuses only in the children’ and adolescents’ versions of KIDSCREEN-52. A sample of 3195 children and adolescents from 5th grade (48,8%) and 7th grade (51,2%), mean age 11,8; SD 1,46; 49,2% boys, were inquired. Using ANOVAs, the differences according to gender, age, socio-economic status, migrant status and health conditions were identified. KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire is a sensitive instrument to estimate the perception of quality of life in children and adolescents. The differences according to gender, age, socio-economic status, migrant status and health conditions, agree with the literature. The relevance of these findings will be discussed within Portuguese reality. O KIDSCREEN e um instrumento europeu cross-cultural e padronizadoque avalia dez dimensoes de qualidade de vida em criancas, adolescentes e seus pais.O objectivo deste estudo e a utilizacao do KIDSCREEN-52, a fim de avaliar as diferencasinterpessoais na adolescencia e pre adolescencia em Portugal. O presente estudo centra-se apenas nas versoes para criancas e adolescentes do KIDSCREEN-52. Foram questionados 3.195 criancas e adolescentes do 5o ano de escolaridade (48,8%) e 7o ano de escolaridade (51,2%), com idade media de 11,8, DP 1,46;rapazes 49,2%. Com a utilizacao de ANOVAs foram identificadas diferencas de acordo comgenero, idade, estatuto socio-economico, estatuto migrante e condicao de saude. KIDSCREEN questionario-52 e um instrumento sensivel para estimar a percepcaoda qualidade de vida em criancas e adolescentes. As diferencas de genero, idade, estatutosocio-economico, estatuto migrante e condicao de saude encontram-se de acordo coma literatura. A relevância destes resultados sao discutidos dentro da realidade Portuguesa Palavras-chave / Keywords Avaliacao, Qualidade de vida relacionada com a saude, Criancas e adolescentes. Assessment, Health-Related Quality of Life, Children and adolescents.
What Makes Better Boards? A Closer Look at Diversity and Ownership

This study investigates the joint effect of corporate ownership and board of directors' diversity configurations on the success of strategic merger and acquisition (M&A) decisions. Board diversity is defined as the extent to which its demographic diversity as measured by the culture, nationality, gender and experience of its directors complements its statutory diversity. A theoretical framework linking ownership, board diversity and M&A strategic decision making is proposed and tested. Based on a sample of 289 M&A decisions undertaken by Canadian firms over the period 2000–2007, demographic diversity is found to have a clear and non‐linear effect on M&A performance while statutory diversity is of limited influence. Ownership is found to influence the effect of diversity, making the relation finer and more precise. This has practical implications. First, statutory diversity is not sufficient for well‐performing boards. Also, ownership is an important factor. The most advocated board diversity aimed at insuring the board's independence is not valid across all ownership configurations. From a public policy perspective, results provide support for the principles‐based approach in governance. Governance regimes should encourage the search for a balance between board diversity and the need for cohesion that best serves the firm's purpose and obligations.
Ceramic Electrodes for SOFC's

The current trend in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) development is for a lowering of the operation temperature from ∼ 1000°C to temperatures as low as 600°C. This lowering of temperature is beneficial in a number of ways. It relaxes the stringent materials requirements for cell components, particularly, the interconnect, and for the balance of plant. One adverse consequence of the lower temperatures is a slowing. Of the electrode kinetics, particularly, at the cathode (air electrode). It is thus necessary to have a thorough understanding of the processes occuring at the cathode to aid material selection and optimisation for low operating temperatures. The majority of the cathode materials use at present, are based on mixed conducting, acceptor (A) doped, rare-earth (Ln) transition metal (T) perovskite oxides with the general formula. Ln 1x A x TO 3 ±δ . Examples of these materials include La 1-x Sr x MnO 3±δ La 1-x Sr x CoO 3+δ etc. The performance of these electrodes can be linked to their microsturcture, and to the kinetics of oxygen exchange and diffusion. In order to model the behaviour of such materials as cathodes. We have undertaken a systematic study of the kinetics of the oxygen exchange process using the isotope exchange depth profiling method (IEDP) employing Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS). Oxygen self diffusion and surface exchange data are presented for a number of perovskite cathode compositions, in particular the effect of increasing the acceptor dopant level are explored together with the effect of changing the rare earth and transition metal cations.
Linking the hetero-chemistry of nanoporous carbonaceous materials to their performance.

We show here that a physical activation process that is diffusioncontrolled yields an activated carbon whose chemistry – both elemental and functional – varies radially through the particles. For the ~100 m particles considered here, diffusion-controlled activation in CO2 at 800 oC saw a halving in the oxygen concentration from the particle periphery to its centre. It was also observed that this activation process leads to an increase in keto and quinone groups from the particle periphery towards the centre and the inverse for other carbonyls as well as ether and hydroxyl groups, suggesting the two are formed under CO2-poor and -rich environments, respectively. In contrast to these observations, use of physical activation processes where diffusion-control is absent are shown to yield carbons whose chemistry is radially invariant. This suggests that a non-diffusion limited activation processes should be used if the performance of a carbon is dependent on having a specific optimal pore surface chemical composition. * m.biggs@lboro.ac. uk