Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of different methionine to lysine ratios in starter feed on growth, blood, digestive traits, and carcass traits in goat kids

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of the methionine-to-lysine ratio (MLR) in a low-protein (17%) starter on the growth, blood, digestive traits, and carcass traits of goat kids. Forty-five goat kids were assigned to one of three different starter groups (MLR): A (0.29), B (0.31), or C (0.33). During the six-week trial, growth and blood parameters were evaluated every 2 weeks, and digestive traits were evaluated from 0 to 14 days during the treatment. At the end of the treatment period, five goat kids from each group were slaughtered to measure their carcass traits. Results showed no significant growth differences among the groups. Blood parameters were in a normal range and without significant differences. There were no significant differences in digestive traits among the three groups. For carcass traits, group C had significantly higher carcass and heart weights (P < 0.05). In conclusion, adjusting the MLR from 0.29–0.33 in 17% crude protein starter had no negative effect on goat kids. This approach may not only decrease feed costs and reduce nitrogen emission to achieve environmental benefits, but also increase feeding efficiency.
Genome‐wide SNP genotyping reveals hidden population structure of an acroporid species at a subtropical coral island: Implications for coral restoration

Funding information Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant/Award Numbers: KAKENHI 17K15179, KAKENHI 19K15902; Okinawa Prefecture Coral Reef Preservation and Rehabilitation Regional Model Project Abstract 1. It is essential to consider genetic composition for both conventional coral restoration management and for initiating new interventions to counter the significant global decline in living corals. Population genetic structure at a fine spatial scale should be carefully evaluated before implementing strategies to achieve self-sustaining ecosystems via coral restoration. 2. This study investigated the population genetic structure of two acroporid species at Kume Island, Okinawa, Japan. There were 140 colonies of Acropora digitifera collected from seven study sites, and 81 colonies of Acropora tenuis from six sites. In total, 384 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci for A. digitifera and 470 SNPs for A. tenuis were obtained using a comparatively economical technique, Multiplexed ISSR Genotyping by sequencing. 3. Observed heterozygosity was significantly lower than expected heterozygosity at all SNP sites in both acroporid species, suggesting deficient genetic diversity possibly caused by past massive coral bleaching. Even though both species are broadcast spawners, the population structure was different in the two species. No detectable structure was evident in A. digitifera, but two distinct clades were found in A. tenuis. The genetic homogeneity of A. digitifera at Kume Island suggests that this species could be used as a focal species for active restoration in terms of genetic differentiation at this island. By contrast, A. tenuis unexpectedly included two distinct clades with little or no admixture within a small study area, possibly representing two reproductively isolated cryptic species. Thus, when using A. tenuis, it would be prudent to avoid disturbing the genetic composition of wild populations until this question is answered.
Importance of Including the Role of Clinical Medical Librarian in Library and Information Science Curriculum Development: A Review

Today Clinical Medical Librarianship fulfill many critical roles in the hospital setting by providing the correct information at the right time in a variety of ways to enhance the effectiveness in productivity of hospitals and medical staff. The other roles that have to play are optimize patient care, improve patient outcomes, and increase patient & family satisfaction about the services provided by the hospital. As Clinical Medical Librarians (CMLs) and their services provide an excellent return on investment for the hospital and help keeping its competitive edge, hospital staff should have access to the services of a professional librarian. The aim of this study is to use the findings from the literature to highlight the necessity of the Library and Information Science (LIS) curriculum to contain the role of the CML as well as the specialization course content of Clinical Medical Librarianship covering content distribution, learning protocol, and practical planning. Thus, the results of this study can be used as the basis for future developments in the Library and Information Science curriculum to provide a more appropriate and detailed curriculum that covers the required pedagogy on Clinical Librarianship. Relevant research articles published in 2000-2020 August were selected through a literature search. The 575 of those selected articles were further scrutinized for relevance and uniqueness. Then the three hundred twelve articles were selected for this study considering the relevance to emerging roles, professional settings, and contexts of CMLs. The importance of generating CMLs with the requisite skills, knowledge, and certifications is revealed by this study. As a result, it is suggested that a syllabus outlining the role of CML be added into the existing LIS curriculum in Sri Lanka. Further study recommended that the role of CML has evolved to meet the demands of healthcare now by taking their skills and expertise to the point of need and the role of CML appears to be an important member of the medical team, according to this study.
Social media in use

Information technologies have caused radical changes in many areas, they have also changed marketing activities. Today, marketing activities are carried out in digital environments, facilitating the work of companies and helping consumers around the world. Consumers get the right information and data about products and services much easier and faster, as well as access different forms of entertainment. Therefore, it can be said that the place of traditional marketing today has been replaced by digital marketing. This paper tries to shed some light on how consumers of Western Balkans and specifically in Kosovo, use social media and how those shape their attitudes, based on the uses and gratifications approach. This is the first paper from this region, which analyzes social media, based on the previously mentioned approach. Since research in the region was prohibitive for us, we selected a sample of 200 consumers from Kosovo, active on social media. The findings of this paper serve managers in better attracting online customers through social media.
Monitoring Of Body`s Functional Systems In Students As Health Promotion Technique

In addition to theoretical and practical training, educational processes in a university for the humanities and education must include health promotion programs aimed at encouraging students improve their healthy lifestyle habits within the professional training. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the overall level of health of senior students based on the theory of functional systems with the use of psychophysiological and psychological monitoring. Integrated characteristics of the central nervous system were analysed using rapid computer-aided techniques and the Optical Bio Mouse computer appliance by Neurolab, Moscow. Reflex testing was conducted in the form of chronoreflexometric tests and hand-eye reaction time measurement. The functional state of the CNS was evaluated based on the criteria proposed by Loskutova, such as the functional level of the system, the nervous reaction stability and the level of functional capacities. The extent to which senior students value their health was studied using the Health Behaviour Index technique by Deryabo and Yasvin, and rapid evaluation of the level of health was performed based on V. Belov`s criteria. Statistical analysis of the study findings was conducted with the application of Student's t-test. The results revealed a shortage of functional reserves of their central nervous system and the body resulting from emotional stress and study-related overworking that prevents them from improving their health. Implementing health promotion with the focus on functional systems will improve the adaptive behaviour and result in greater adaptability of the body and the nervous system to the workload.
Transfer Learning Approaches for Wind Turbine Fault Detection using Deep Learning

Wind park operators start to recognize the cost-effectiveness of intelligent maintenance solutions for wind turbines based on the readily available 10-minute SCADA data. In particular, recent advances have shown that deep learning algorithms can enhance the performance and robustness of fault detection algorithms which are fed with such SCADA data. In order to deploy deep learning fault detection algorithms, a large amount of historical data is needed. In case the data is not available for a certain turbine, training the algorithms becomes challenging. The common approaches in this case are referred to as transfer learning or domain adaptation methods, which attempt to allow the transfer of knowledge between different machines. In this paper we explore the main challenges of domain adaptation for fault detection based on wind turbine SCADA data. We focus on practical use cases, stemming from the commercial need to deploy fault detection algorithms for newly installed turbines, or turbines with little historical data under diverse operating conditions. We analyze different reasons for domain shifts between turbines, which require the development of new domain adaptation approaches beyond the ones familiar for other PHM applications, and present results for several of these challenging cases.
A digitalização dos meios de pagamento: o pix e as central bank digital currencies em perspectiva comparada

Objetivo: Este artigo busca situar o Pix, o sistema digital de pagamentos instantâneos instituído pelo Banco Central do Brasil em novembro de 2020, no contexto global do avanço da digitalização dos meios de pagamento nos últimos anos. Esse fenômeno se manifesta na rápida disseminação das plataformas privadas para pagamentos online, no surgimento de milhares de criptomoedas descentralizadas como o bitcoin e na recente proposta de instituição das chamadas Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), ou moedas digitais dos bancos centrais. Nesse sentido, pretende-se contrastar o Pix com essas moedas visando identificar suas semelhanças e diferenças. Método: Este artigo realiza uma análise bibliográfica introdutória sobre o tema da digitalização dos meios de pagamento e, em seguida, desenvolve uma análise comparativa entre os regulamentos do Pix e algumas propostas de CBDCs. Resultado: A comparação desenvolvida revela que, apesar de algumas semelhanças, o Pix apresenta diferenças cruciais e determinantes em relação às CBDCs. Assim, ele não pode ser considerado uma delas, muito embora a sua origem governamental implica em que também não seja uma mera plataforma de pagamentos online. Conclusões: O Pix é um meio digital distinto e “híbrido” de pagamento que combina as características funcionais das plataformas de pagamentos online com as propriedades jurídico-políticas de uma CBDC. Em todo caso, a sua criação expressa o intuito do Banco Central do Brasil em assegurar o seu controle político sobre o processo de digitalização dos meios de pagamento no Brasil. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Pix. Central Bank Digital Currencies. Banco Central do Brasil. Meios de pagamento. Digitalização.
Relationship of Attitudes of University Students in Bandung City About Gender Role and Life Value

This research examines the perceptions and values of the life of students studying in tertiary institutions regarding gender roles. For this purpose, 324 students were randomly selected and their Attitudes towards Gender Roles and Life Values were measured along with several socio-demographic questions. 35.2% of the students who participated in this study were male, and 64.8% were female students. Judging from the average scale according to gender, it can be seen that the average female student is higher than male students. When youth views on gender roles were examined, it was found that there was a statistically significant difference (p <0.05) between the genders across most of the propositions. In addition, it is observed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the dimensions of student life values and egalitarian gender roles, which are sub-dimensions of gender perceptions and the role of gender in marriage. The results of this study are important to reveal adolescent views on gender.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis Outbreak in a High School, China

This study reports an outbreak of Tuberculosis (TB) in a high school in Hunan province, China during January 2017-April 2018. Contact investigation and TB screening were conducted through symptom screening, tuberculin skin testing, chest radiography and smear examination. Identification of positive isolates and drug susceptibility phenotype were assessed by standard method. Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units-Variable Number Tandem Repeats (MIRU-VNTR) and Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) were performed to investigate the relationships among the positive isolates. A total of 90 students and one teacher were diagnosed active pulmonary TB among 2908 students and 188 staff, with an attack rate of 2.94%. Thirteen positive isolates were identified as drug susceptible Beijing family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Results of MIRU-VNTR typing and WGS revealed two clones of Mycobacterium tuberculosis circulating during outbreak. One hundred and twenty-nine Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) discriminated the isolates in two clusters; the maximum number of SNPs between any pair of isolates in each cluster was five or fewer. Our findings highlight the importance of early identification and isolation of the TB cases to prevent spread of TB. WGS provides better resolution than MIRU-VNTR to identify recent transmission in TB outbreak.
Spin-polarized type-II nodal loop and nodal surface states in hexagonal compounds 
XTiO2
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X
 = Li, Na, K, Rb)

Topological semimetals and metals have been extensively studied in nonmagnetic materials, while those in magnetic materials are still quite rare. Here, based on first-principles calculations, we reveal that a family of hexagonal compounds $X{\mathrm{TiO}}_{2}$ ($X$ = Li, Na, K, Rb) with ferromagnetic ground states host excellent topological electronic structures. In their low-energy band structures, they show two Weyl nodal loops and two Weyl nodal surfaces, where each nodal loop and nodal surface is contributed by the electron states in the same spin channel, namely, spin-polarized nodal loops and nodal surfaces. In particular, the nodal loops in these materials show type-II band dispersions and are robust against spin-orbit coupling because of the protection of the mirror symmetry. These nodal loops are featured with spin-polarized drumhead surface states. We build an effective Hamiltonian, which can well describe the type-II nodal loops in the system. Besides the type-II nodal loops, these materials also possess two spin-polarized nodal surfaces, protected by specific nonsymmorphic symmetry. The findings in this paper can serve as good material platforms to study the fundamental physics of type-II nodal loop and nodal surface fermions in a time-reversal-breaking system.
Ontogenesis Model of the L2 Lexical Representation

Abstract We introduce the blueprint of the Ontogenesis Model of the L2 Lexical Representation (OM) that focuses on the development of lexical representations. The OM has three dimensions: linguistic domains (phonological, orthographic, and semantic), mappings between domains, and networks of lexical representations. The model assumes that fuzziness is a pervasive property of the L2 lexicon: most L2 lexical representations are low resolution and the ontogenetic curve of their development does not reach the optimum (i.e., the ultimate stage of their attainment with optimal encoding) in one or more dimensions. We review the findings on lexical processing and vocabulary training to show that the OM has a potential to provide an interpretation for the results that have been treated separately and to move us forward in building a comprehensive model of L2 lexical acquisition and processing.
STRATEGI KREATIF ORANG TUA SINGLE PARENT DALAM MEMBANGUN SIKAP EMPATI ANAK SELAMA MASA PANDEMI COVID-19

This study aims to determine how the creative strategies of parents who are single parent status in building empathy attitude of children during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research uses a qualitative research method of phenomenology type. The results showed that the form of a single parent's creative strategy in building a child's empathy attitude during the pandemic began with training to care for plants, animals, and helping parents at home. Whereas practicing tolerance can begin by teaching children to appreciate differences, then to practice tolerance, done by respecting the efforts and abilities of their children. Respect his child when learning to fasting even though it is not full day. This situation will make the children do things with a sense of security and comfort without having to consider the demands from parents.
Knowledge visualisation for construction procurement decision-making: a process innovation

PurposeIn the construction sector, the knowledge-based process outgrows its emphasis on technological aspects. Yet, there is a lack of applied studies showing how a procurement system (PS) could be selected in the digital age. In particular, there is a radical need to establish an innovative process to visualise novel PS decision. Therefore, this paper aims to present a knowledge visualised framework for aiding construction PS decision-making.Design/methodology/approachThis paper describes the construction of process innovation. The framework (process) is supported by four influential decision supporting methods (mean utility values, analytic hierarchy process, fuzzy set theory and Delphi method) and computer programming (Matlab). FindingsThere are four stages of this framework: (1) uniform rating for decision alternatives; (2) group decision for determining the decision attribute; (3) determining the final choice; (4) reporting the cognitive computing process. Supported by individual and groups decision dynamics, this framework emphasises how the dashboard aided innovative approach enables the induction of understanding, cognitive computing for decision-making and how the information would precisely be represented, which are vital requirements of modern construction.Originality/valueThe contribution of this paper presents two leverage points that support the modern PS decision. Firstly, this paper provides a holistic view of the decision supporting methods on the basis of how a suitable PS would be systematically sought. Based on the existing studies, this paper upgrades into a visualised knowledge decision supporting process. It helps the participants understand and improve their cognitive learning. Secondly, this framework allows the participants to have a view of the individual and group decisions. It sheds light on the development of the collaborative decision-making process.
Origami hand for soft robotics driven by thermally controlled polymeric fiber actuators

Active fibers can serve as artificial muscles in robotics or components of smart textiles. Here, we present an origami hand robot, where single fibers control the reversible movement of the fingers. A recovery/contracting force of 0.2 N with a work capacity of 0.175 kJ kg−1 was observed in crosslinked poly[ethylene-co-(vinyl acetate)] (cPEVA) fibers, which could enable the bending movement of the fingers by contraction upon heating. The reversible opening of the fingers was attributed to a combination of elastic recovery force of the origami structure and crystallization-induced elongation of the fibers upon cooling.
The right substituent, at the right place : predicting the modulation of UV-visible absorption and emission of mono-substituted pyrido[2,3,4-kl]acridines by electron density variations analysis

DFT and TD-DFT calculations were performed to rationalize the relationship between UV-Visible absorption and emission spectraand the nature and position of a substituent on the heteroaromatic pyrido[2,3,4-kl]acridine skeleton. Studying the variation of electron density and partial charges between the ground state and the first excited state, we describe here a quantitative method to predict the modulation of UV-Visible spectroscopic properties depending on the nature and the position of a substituent.
Robust Pricing of Energy and Ancillary Services in Combined Electricity and Natural Gas Markets

Rapid growth of gas-fired generators strengthens the interdependency of electricity and natural gas markets. To meet the uncertainty challenge, a robust day-ahead market clearing framework for the integrated electricity and natural gas system (IEGS) is presented. First, a robust security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) model is built considering the joint dispatch of ancillary services. Regulation-up/down reserve is scheduled to balance electrical load/wind power uncertainties, spinning reserve is to manage N-1 generator outage, and natural gas reserve is to withstand gas load uncertainty and provide fuel for gas-fired electrical reserve. The SCUC model is a two-stage mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problem so that a sequential linear approximation-based Column & Constraint Generation (SLA-based C&CG) algorithm is proposed. Then, according to SCUC solutions, an economic dispatch model is derived to obtain market clearing and pricing results. Based on locational marginal pricing, novel definitions of electrical energy, natural gas and multiple ancillary service prices are proposed, which can reflect network limits and uncertainty effects. Numerical cases on two test IEGSs and a provincial-level IEGS demonstrate the high accuracy of proposed SLA-based C&CG algorithm and the impact of uncertainties on market clearing.
Estimation of Macrodispersivity in Bounded Formations by Circulant Embedding and Analysis of Variance

We present a new method to estimate the displacement covariance and macrodispersivity for solute transport in bounded formations. Here we use circulant embedding, which is based on fast Fourier transform and is much more efficient than eigen‐decomposition, for the factorization of random spatial fields. We compute the displacement covariances by the analysis of variance approach, and introduce an interpolation process to significantly reduce the number of forward simulations. Once the effect of each eigenvector on the displacement covariance is obtained, it is unnecessary to rerun the simulator for different spatial covariance functions or anisotropy ratios, which saves a large amount of computational effort. The proposed method is validated in various tests in two‐dimensional and three‐dimensional examples and accurately matches the results from the Monte Carlo simulation. It is found that the longitudinal dispersivity is less sensitive to the impervious boundaries, while the transverse and vertical dispersivities are greatly affected. The method is applied to the Borden site and provides a better explanation of the observed data after considering the effect of vertical boundaries. These results show that our method could serve as a promising tool for studying and predicting the characteristics of solute transport in heterogeneous media.