Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE INFLUENCE OF OREGANO ESSENTIAL OIL AND BEE PRODUCTS ON QUALITATIVE PARAMETERS AND MICROBIOLOGICAL INDICATORS OF TABLE EGGS CONTENT

Phytobiotics are a new group of natural products. They are defined as products derived from plants, which may have a beneficial effect on the gastrointestinal microflora of animals, performance and quality of animal products. In this experiment the effects of supplementation of the diet for laying hens with oregano essential oil, propolis and pollen extract addition on physical and microbiological egg parameters were studied. Hens of laying hybrid Hy-Line Brown (n=40) were randomly divided into 4 groups (n=10) and fed for 23 weeks with diets with oregano essential oil and propolis or pollen supplemented. In the control group hens received feed mixture with no additions. The diets in the first experimental groups was supplemented with 0.5 g/kg oregano essential oil. The feed for second and third experimental JMBFS / Arpášová et al. 2013 : 2 (Special issue 1) 1107-1127 1108 groups of birds consisted of basal diet supplemented with propolis extract and pollen extract of the same dose at 0.5 g/kg. The results suggest that the most of qualitative parameters of egg internal content were not significantly influenced with oregano oil or bee products addition (P>0.05). A statistically significant difference in favor of the experimental groups compared with the control group was observed in two indicators of albumen quality. In the index of albumen and in the Haugh Units was significantly higher difference in favor of the experimental group with addition of oregano essential oil at a dose of 0.5 g/kg and in the group with pollen supplement (P<0.05). The highest total number of bacteria and count of coliforms bacteria was found in the control group. The number of lactobacilli was zero in all groups.
Evaluation of plastic mats as access roads to wind farms A study of how plastic mats deform and distribute stress on different soils

The conventional way of building access roads to wind farms are with gravel roads, which often requires a great amount of material for the embankment. The access roads have special requirements due to heavy transports during the mount and demount of the wind turbine. Modern wind turbines are planned to produce power for approximately 25 years and thus the roads’ great capacity will only be needed for a short period of time. The purpose of the thesis is to examine the conditions required to use temporary plastic mats as access roads to wind farms. The plastic mats are analysed with hand-calculations and a finite element analysis. The hand-calculations are based on a Winkler-model and the general bearing capacity equation that determines the deflection of the mat and the bearing capacity of the soil, respectively. The finite element analysis is performed in the software PLAXIS 2D to investigate the behaviour of the mat for different load and soil cases. The analysis is conducted to study how different parameters affect the results for the deflection and the bearing capacity. The results show that it is important to determine the soil properties before using the plastic mats. The parameters of consideration are the angle of shearing resistance for the non-cohesive soils, the undrained shear strength for clay, the groundwater level and the effective area of the road mat. The results show that one of the most sensitive parameter is the effective area and as long as the whole mat area is active the soil is able to handle the load from the transportation for all cases presented. Therefore it is important that the connection system between the mats is able to distribute the load. The calculations in the thesis are based on one detached mat and the area is therefore limited to 3 times 2.5 meters. If the mats are connected to each other and the connections distribute the load, the effective area would be even greater. Thus it is important to further study the connection system to fully understand the behaviour of the plastic mats when they are connected.
Control Environment of Linear Induction Drive Dynamics Models

Developed dynamic models of linear induction drives allow examining various dynamic characteristics of linear induction drives according to results of simulation. Nevertheless, changes in motor windings connection way or motor parameters require recalculating and renewing set up of model parameters. The integrated control environmental of model is discussed. Developed software allows controlling model and investigating non-symmetrical modes of single phase breaking and breaking by direct current, compare obtained characteristics and examine influence of motor parameters on that. Active program window is presented, where the motor parameters, winding connection way, operation mode and desired simulation results can be set up. Algorithm of simulation program and algorithm for processing of simulation results are presented. Breaking time dependence on the resistance of the secondary element has minimum value. Presented dependence of breaking time against resistance of the secondary element and the breaking voltage allows choosing these parameters for obtaining of desirable braking time. Ill. 6, bibl. 10 (in English, summaries in English, Russian and Lithuanian).
Nonvolatile field-programmable gate array with high-reliability and high intensity using1D2R RRAM array

The huge area overhead of the interconnect is one of the serious issues in static random access memory (SRAM)-based field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), resulting in high power consumption and slow operating speed. Another major issue is the volatile feature of the SRAM, which results in high standby leakage current and long power-ON time. Resistive random access memory (RRAM) which has a high resistance ratio and zero standby power holds great potential in the FPGA application. The conventional RRAM-based nonvolatile FPGAs (NVFPGAs) can use one-transistor 2-RRAM (1T2R) storage element to replace the SRAM or the one RRAM (1R) cell to swap both the nMOS switch and SRAM. However, those NVFPGA schemes may suffer from the problems of low reliability, high configuration power, and high active leakage power. In this paper, we recommend a novel element [one-diode two RRAM (1D2R) cells] to swap the nMOS switch and 6 Transistors (6T) SRAM. In the meantime, the novel block structures of the logic block, connection block, switch block, and the FPGA architecture based on the 1D2R element are recommended. Compared with the conventional 1T2R-based NVFPGA, our novel structure could improve the operational speed by 53% with a 40.5% lower operating power. Compared with the conventional 1R-based NVFPGA, the recommended scheme could greatly reduce the write error rate by eight orders with greater than 20 times minimum write power.
Assessment of the Air Quality of Isfahan City, Iran, Using Selected Air Quality Parameters

Background: Today, air pollution is one of the major problems in large cities including Isfahan. Methods: The objective of this study was to investigate the variations of ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO), nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulphur dioxide (SO2), and particulate matter (PM10) concentrations in different months at three stations and also to explore the correlations between pollutants. Monthly averages of air pollutant concentrations recorded in three pollution monitoring stations (Bozorgmehr, Azadi, and Laleh) were obtained in 2008 and 2009. Results: There were significant monthly variations in the concentrations of air quality parameters. Results showed that there was a correlation between ozone and particle matter (p<0.05), and between nitric oxide and nitrogen oxides (p<0.01). The statistical analysis indicated that there were significant differences in the O3, NO, NOx and PM10 concentrations. Conclusion: The air quality monitoring data collected in city center of Isfahan showed seasonal variations for O3, CO, NO, NO2, NOx, SO2, and PM10.
Acculturation as the key to the ultimate attainment? The case of Polish-English bilinguals in the UK

This chapter focuses on the variables predicting L2 attainment in 149 migrants (L1 Polish and L2 English) who relocated to the UK in early adulthood. They are highly educated sequential bilinguals who have been resident in the UK for an average of eight years following migration. Independent variables analysed in this chapter are divided into three categories: 1) post-migration sociolinguistic aspects, namely, acculturation level and frequency of L2 use following migration; 2) possible temporal predictors of the L2 attainment, namely, age of onset, age at migration and length of domicile in the host country; and 3) socio-biographical variables, namely, context of L2 acquisition, education level, age, gender and motivation behind migration. The results showed that acculturation level is strongly linked to L2 attainment.
THE ROLE OF NEURAL CIRCUITRY IN ASSESSING THE VALUE OF SOCIAL INFORMATION

Decisions motivated by primary rewards such as food, and abstract rewards such as money, follow several general principles. Such rewards are discounted as time passes. Not surprisingly, discounting decreases as the size of the offer increases and is greatest during initial stages of delay until reward consumption. Although behavioral and neurobiological evidence suggests that people find looking at other people rewarding, it remains unknown whether these same neuroeconomic principles underlie visual orienting decisions in social contexts. To address this question, we assessed the reward value of looking at photographs of unfamiliar members of the opposite sex. We found that viewing images of people followed the principles of other primary and abstract rewards. Specifically, the opportunity to view pictures of the opposite sex was discounted temporally in an intertemporal choice task. In addition, the reward value for male participants varied with the physical attractiveness of the females in the image set. However, this effect was not seen with female participants. These results demonstrate that social attention follows a general set of neuroeconomic principles, thus implicating shared neural mechanisms in both social and nonsocial decision-making.
Three-Dimensional Fatigue Simulation of RC Slabs under Traveling Wheel-Type Loads

A direct path-integral scheme with fatigue constitutive models for concrete tension, compression and rough crack shear is used to predict the life-cycle of RC slabs. The three-dimensional fatigue analysis successfully predicts the characteristic mode of failure under moving loads as well as in the case of fixed-point pulsation in shear. Importantly, drastically shortened fatigue life under traveling wheel-type loads is mechanically demonstrated by implementing a constitutive model of cracked concrete using a direct path-integral method of fatigue damage simulation. A sensitivity study is carried out to clarify the influence of shear transfer decay and compression fatigue on RC slab performance. The effect of boundary conditions on fatigue life is also investigated.
Mackie vs Plantinga on the warrant of theistic belief without arguments

My aim in this paper is to critically assess two opposing theses about the epistemology of religious belief. The first one, developed by John Mackie, claims that belief in God can be justified or warranted only if there is a good argument for the existence of God. The second thesis, elaborated by Alvin Plantinga, holds that even if there is no such argument, belief in God can be justified or warranted. I contend that the first thesis is plausibly false, because belief in God is not just like a scientific hypothesis, and the second thesis is likely true if epistemic externalism is the correct view. However, even if the second thesis is true, I argue that to work on good arguments for God’s existence is unavoidable in order to cope with a new version of the Great Pumpkin objection, as well as to achieve other relevant purposes such as to convince rational observers outside the theistic community that belief in God is likely justified or warranted.
Sliding Window for Radial Basis Function Neural Network Face Detection

This paper present a Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN) face detection using sliding windows. The system will detect faces in a large image where sliding window will run inside the image and identified whether there is a face inside the current window. Face detection is the first step in face recognition system. The purpose is to localize and extract the face region from the background that will be fed into the face recognition system for identification. General preprocessing approach was used for normalizing the image and a Radial Basis Function (RBF) Neural Network was used to distinguish between face and non-face images. RBFNN offer several advantages compared to other neural network architecture such as they can be trained using fast two stages training algorithm and the network possesses the property of best approximation. The output of the network can be optimized by setting suitable values of the center and spread of the RBF. In this paper, a uniform fixed spread value will be used. The performance of the system will be based on the rate of detection and also false negative rate.
" Monitoring and Evaluation of Stocked Water Bodies for Fish Production and their Ecological Status; the Case of Gomit and Selameko Reservoirs"

Gomit and Selameko reservoirs are the two small manmade reservoirs within the Lake Tana water shade, in the Blue Nile basin. These reservoirs were primarily constructed to store water and used for irrigation in the dry season so as to overcome drought and to satisfy the food demand of the continual rising human population in the vicinity and in the region at large. Gomit reservoir is getting its water from three small rivers namely, Gomit, Washrko and Gebrael Rivers and it was impounded in an area of 21.52ha during its first full filled time. Similarly, Selameko reservoir is confined on an area of 11.6ha and it is impounded mainly on Selameko River but also a small seasonal stream ‘Teskaru Minch’ contributed to reservoir water. Gomit and selameko reservoirs are mainly getting water during main rain season from 23.43 and 8.79 km2 of catchment areas and are intended to cultivate crops on 90ha (Co-SAERAR,1992) [1] and 63ha Jemal A [2] of land, respectively. The reservoirs water is greatly reduced during the dry season as a result of water withdrawal and municipal usage, evaporation and sedimentation. In addition to their roles in provision of water for agriculture, these reservoirs were intended to play an important role in fish production and contribute to the livelihoods of the communities along their vicinity. In this aim during 2009 and 2014 about 964, and 500 Oreochromis niloticus species and 50 Clarias garipinus species, respectively, were introduced to Selameko from the Bahir Dar Fishery and Other Aquatic Life research center. While, 33 thousand of O. niloticus fish, which brought from Lake Hayk, South Wollo, was introduced to Gomit reservoir during 2010, by fishery experts from the regional Bureau of agriculture. Despite introduction of fish species, no one studied for the current status of these reservoirs, regarding to the water quality and fish and fishery potential.
Available phosphorus levels in diets for pigs with high genetic potential for lean meat deposition kept in thermoneutral environment from 15 to 30 kg

It was used 72 pigs, 36 castrated males and 36 females, with initial weight of 14.97 ± 0.36 kg to evaluate levels of dietary available phosphorus (aP). The animals were distributed in a completely randomized block design, with six levels of aP (0.107; 0.214; 0.321; 0.428; 0.535 and 0.642%), six replicates and two animals (one castrated male and one female) per experimental unit. Air temperature and relative humidity in the room were kept at 24.5 ± 1.2°C and 76.3 ± 8.5%, respectively. The levels of aP influenced both daily feed intake and daily weight gain, which increased in a quadratic way up to the estimated levels of 0.420% and 0.443%, respectively and feed conversion, which improved in a quadratic manner up to the estimated level of 0.461%. It was observed the effects of levels of aP on quantity of phosphorus and ash in the bone, which increased in a quadratic manner up to the estimated levels of 0.525% and 0.520%, respectively. Levels of Ap affected daily protein deposition in the carcass, which increased in a quadratic way up to the estimated level of 0.394%. There was no effect of levels of aP on daily fat carcass deposition. Levels of aP that provided the best results for daily weight gain, feed conversion and bone mineralization in swines with high genetic potential for lean meat kept in thermoneutral environment, from 15 to 30 kg are 0.443, 0.461 and 0.525%, respectively, corresponding to estimated daily intakes of 5.25, 5.45 and 6.14 g of aP.
A Study of the Relationships between Family Functioning and Psychological Hardiness among Parents with Exceptional Children and Normal Children

Objective: The objective behind this study was investigating the relationships between family functioning and psychological hardiness in parents of exceptional children versus parents of normal children. Methodology: The study was causal-comparative. Population included all parents of normal and exceptional students in Bojnurd City studying in ordinary and exceptional schools in the academic year 2010-2011. Participants were 190 parents: 50 parents with exceptional children and 140 with normal children. Multistage cluster sampling was used too select the sample. Family functioning questionnaire and psychological hardiness questionnaire were used for data collection. Data were analyzed using Kolmogrov-Smirnov test, independent t-test, Mann-Whitney U test, and Spearman correlation. Findings: Findings suggested there was significant statistical relationship between family functioning and psychological hardiness in parents of exceptional and normal children (p < 0.0001), and family functioning was significantly higher in parents of exceptional children compared to parents of normal children (p < 0.0001). In addition, psychological hardiness was significantly higher in normal children parents compared to exceptional children parents (p < 0.001).
Relationships between breast muscle thickness measured by ultrasonography and meatiness and fatness in broiler chickens

The objective of this study was to determine relationships between breast muscle thickness measured by ultrasonography and meatiness and fatness characteristics in broiler chickens. The experiment was conducted on 80 Ross 308 chickens aged 42 days. Breast muscle thickness was determined before and after slaughter, using an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus (Draminski Animal Scanner with an abdominal, sector mechanical probe). The chickens were weighed and carcasses were subjected to detailed dissection. In males breast muscle thickness measured before slaughter was found to be statistically correlated with the weight of a carcass, meat and breast muscles as well as with the percentage content of breast muscles in the carcass. The same measurement taken after slaughter showed a high correlation with all analyzed traits except for the percentage content of fat with skin in the carcass. The coefficients of correlation between the analyzed traits, characterizing meatiness in females, were in most cases slightly higher than in males.
Sensitivity of pelagic calcification to ocean acidification

Abstract. Ocean acidification might reduce the ability of calcifying plankton to produce and maintain their shells of calcite, or of aragonite, the more soluble form of CaCO3. In addition to possibly large biological impacts, reduced CaCO3 production corresponds to a negative feedback on atmospheric CO2. In order to explore the sensitivity of the ocean carbon cycle to increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2, we use the new biogeochemical Bern3D/PISCES model. The model reproduces the large scale distributions of biogeochemical tracers. With a range of sensitivity studies, we explore the effect of (i) using different parameterizations of CaCO3 production fitted to available laboratory and field experiments, of (ii) letting calcite and aragonite be produced by auto- and heterotrophic plankton groups, and of (iii) using carbon emissions from the range of the most recent IPCC Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP). Under a high-emission scenario, the CaCO3 production of all the model versions decreases from ~1 Pg C yr−1 to between 0.36 and 0.82 Pg C yr−1 by the year 2100. The changes in CaCO3 production and dissolution resulting from ocean acidification provide only a small feedback on atmospheric CO2 of −1 to −11 ppm by the year 2100, despite the wide range of parameterizations, model versions and scenarios included in our study. A potential upper limit of the CO2-calcification/dissolution feedback of −30 ppm by the year 2100 is computed by setting calcification to zero after 2000 in a high 21st century emission scenario. The similarity of feedback estimates yielded by the model version with calcite produced by nanophytoplankton and the one with calcite, respectively aragonite produced by mesozooplankton suggests that expending biogeochemical models to calcifying zooplankton might not be needed to simulate biogeochemical impacts on the marine carbonate cycle. The changes in saturation state confirm previous studies indicating that future anthropogenic CO2 emissions may lead to irreversible changes in ΩA for several centuries. Furthermore, due to the long-term changes in the deep ocean, the ratio of open water CaCO3 dissolution to production stabilizes by the year 2500 at a value that is 30–50% higher than at pre-industrial times when carbon emissions are set to zero after 2100.
Growth Promotion of Pepper Plants by Pantoea ananatis B1-9 and its Efficient Endophytic Colonization Capacity in Plant Tissues

The bacteria B1-9 that was isolated from the rhizosphere of the green onion could promote growth of pepper, cucumber, tomato, and melon plants. In particular, pepper yield after B1-9 treatment on the seedling was increased about 3 times higher than that of control plants in a field experiment. Partial 16S rDNA sequences revealed that B1-9 belongs to the genus Pantoea ananatis. Pathogenecity tests showed non-pathogenic on kimchi cabbage, carrot, and onion. The functional characterization study demonstrated B1-9`s ability to function in phosphate solubilization, sulfur oxidation, nitrogen fixation, and indole-3-acetic acid production. To trace colonization patterns of B1-9 in pepper plant tissues, we used fluorescent dye, which stains the DNAs of bacteria and plant cells. A large number of B1-9 cells were found on the surfaces of roots and stems as well as in guard cells. Furthermore, several colonized B1-9 cells resided in inner cortical plant cells. Treatment of rhizosphere regions with strain B1-9 can result in efficient colonization of plants and promote plant growth from the seedling to mature plant stage. In summary, strain B1-9 can be successfully applied in the pepper plantation because of its high colonization capacity in plant tissues, as well as properties that promote efficient plant growth.