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Resource Use in Deep Litter Poultry System: Implications for Urban Food Security
Authors: Nsikak-Abasi A. Etim , NseAbasi N. Etim , Mohammed Jamal 
Published: October 2020

As urbanization increases, the locus of poverty is slowly shifting from rural to urban areas in what is known as urbanization of poverty. Thus, understanding how urban food system operate and finding ways to ensure that they remain sustainable is a mounting preoccupation. But urban livestock production has the potential to provide a significant contribution to the urban food security now and in the future and can lift the urban poor out of poverty. Information on resource use in deep litter poultry system is largely limited. Stochastic production frontier functions was used for data from deep litter poultry farmers to examine their efficiency technically, output orientation and level of farm. Farmers’ consideration was through the multistage sampling procedure. Maximum likelihood based on estimation of parameters helped in the determination of efficiency. The study revealed that, land, water,medication, capital and labour. The result 0.76 mean efficiency suggests output from deep litter poultry production could be increased with available technology. Policies aimed at encouraging farmers to access productive resources would be sensible decision.
Citation: Etim, N. A., Etim, N. N. and Mohammed, J. Resource Use in Deep Litter Poultry System: Implications for Urban Food Security, 2020; 5(3): 38-44.
Received: April 4, 2020Accepted: September 30, 2020
Análise da modelagem 2D de dados gravimétricos da Província Alcalina de Goiás utilizando os interpoladores de mínima curvatura e IDW
Authors: Santos Raphael Di Carlo Silva dos 
Published: October 2020

<p>Obter a delineação de corpos alcalinos é de extrema importância para o mapeamento geológico, pois auxilia futuros estudos de prospecção. Apresentamos neste trabalho uma interpretação da anomalia gravimétrica Registro do Araguaia, pertencente à Província Alcalina de Goiás, que é caracterizada por uma série de pequenas intrusões magmáticas alcalinas de características ultramáficas a félsicas. A gravimetria é um método geofísico que consegue delinear esses corpos devido aos altos contrastes de densidade entre as intrusões e as rochas encaixantes. Apliquei a modelagem direta em um perfil de cada mapa gravimétrico interpolado, um através da mínima curvatura e outro através do inverso da distância ponderada (IDW, da sigla em inglês). A interpretação gravimétrica do perfil interpolado pela mínima curvatura mostra dois corpos sendo um aflorante, enquanto que o perfil interpolado pelo IDW mostra um corpo com profundidade em relação à superfície de 16 m. O resultado referente ao IDW é o mais adequado, pois possui o menor erro médio quadrático do resíduo.</p>
Thermal characterization of castor oil as additive in lubricant oil using photothermal techniques
Authors: Lara-Hernandez G. , Benavides-Parra J.C. , Cruz-Orea Alfredo , Contreras-Gallegos E. , Hernández-Aguilar C. , Flores Cuautle Agustin Jose de Jesus 
Published: October 2020

Over the last years extensively research has been carried out on full or partial substitution of supplies resources coming from renewable resources on traditionally non-renewable, in the case of the automobile sector there are progresses in bio-combustibles (biofuel) and synthetic oils coming from vegetable sources. There are strong efforts to find oil additives which can improve oils features in automobile industry, by adding vegetables oils to commercial lubricant oils, is expected to improve oil thermal stability. In the present research, different ratios of castor oil (ricinus comunis)-motor oil blends were obtained and their thermal properties were characterized by using the so-called Back and Front Photopyroelectric (BPPE/FPPE) techniques. Several oil-additives concentrations were measured and thermal diffusivities and effusivities as well as densities are reported, getting full thermal characterization for every concentration.
An experimental facility to study film growth on liquid phase, condensation and melting in downward-facing substrates
Authors: Sandoval-Ríos C. , Nieto-Pérez M. , Huerta Jorge A. , Pineda-Piñón J. , Rodríguez-Vázquez E. 
Published: October 2020

Film growth, condensation and melting of materials are very important physical processes, involved in the development of semiconductor related industry processes, alkali metals and their oxides, and recently in nuclear fusion projects. The growth of low melting point thin films via liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) has drawn attention especially for the manufacture of semiconductor compounds containing indium, gallium, tin, lithium and their alloys, all characterized by a low melting point. That allows the growth of films in the liquid phase and subsequent control on crystallization morphology by manipulating quenching conditions. LPE yields highly crystalline either thin (a few nm) or thick (100s of µm) films with high purity. If LPE is performed in downward-facing substrates, Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities appear, and this effect of gravity in the film growth has not been studied in depth. This paper presents the design, construction and preliminary testing of an experimental facility to study film growth from the liquid phase, and also condensation and melting processes. This facility consists of a thermal evaporator and a substrate holder where samples are placed facing down. The size of the sample holder and the ability to achieve controlled thermal gradients across it, would allow the study of temperature effect in grown films morphology, and also in condensation and melting phenomena such as dripping onset and critical angle for film/drop displacement. Besides, system allows to study condensation modes and surface roughness on the condensation dynamics of liquid films growing from the vapor phase.
Amorphous Zr(OH)4 to t-ZrO2 transformed isothermally
Authors: Meza Galvez Jonathan , Olea Mejía Oscar , Hernández López Susana , Vigueras Santiago Enrique , Camacho López Marco Antonio 
Published: October 2020

With the aim to study the transformation from the commercially amorphous Zr(OH)4 to the t-ZrO2, phase, the starting material was isothermally treated in a calorimeter at 350, 365, 370, 375 and 380 o C. The TGA coupled to the DSC technique was used to determine with high precision both the temperature and time necessary to achieve the amorphous Zr(OH)4 to t-ZrO2 transformation. The mass loss and heat flow, as a function of time, were monitored to study the dehydroxylation of Zr(OH)4 and the crystallization processes, respectively. Raman spectroscopy was used to obtain evidence of the t-ZrO2 formation. The DSC results show an exothermic peak (typical of amorphous-crystalline transitions) related to the formation of t-ZrO2. Our results indicate that the time necessary to obtain the t-ZrO2 phase shortens when temperature increases.
Reviewer Acknowledgements for Business and Economic Research, Vol. 10, No. 3
Authors: Young Daisy 
Published: October 2020

Business and Economic Research (BER) would like to thank the following reviewers for reviewing manuscripts from June 1, 2020, to September 1, 2020. Their comments and suggestions were of great help to the authors in improving the quality of their papers. Many authors, regardless of whether BER publishes their work, appreciate the helpful feedback provided by the reviewers. Macrothink Publishing appreciates the following reviewers’ rigorous and conscientious efforts for this journal. Each of the reviewers listed below returned at least one review during this period.Almir A. AlihodžićAntonio Ruiz-PorrasAriel Soto CaroAzzam HannoonCezarina Adina TofanCosimo MagazzinoCristina Alina NaftanailaE. A .C. P KarunarathneElena GurguFayez Bassam ShriedehFrantisek SvobodaGerasimos T. Soldatos Gita SugiyartiGrigorios L KyriakopoulosHengky Sumisto HalimHui Shan LeeJosé MartinsNana Osei-BonsuOleksandr V. DluhopolskyiRafael RosilloSamuel Asumadu-SarkodieSasikanta TripathySeyyed Ali Z. N.MoosavianShyamkumar D. KalpandeYu HsingZdenek DytrtZi-Yi Guo
Decentraliseren en experimenteren
Authors: Dekker Rianne , Bokhorst Meike 
Published: October 2020

Decentralization and experimentation
After the European refugee crisis of 2015-2016, many Dutch municipalities took initiative in (re)shaping policies of asylum seeker reception and refugee integration in their own ways. We are witnessing a ‘local turn’ of integration policies with decentralization of responsibilities to the local level of governance. Besides civic integration and socioeconomic integration, social integration of asylum seekers and refugees has been a concern as these groups are often housed in superdiverse and vulnerable neighborhoods. How can municipalities best address the specific problems in their cities? This editorial introduces the four articles that are part of this special issue. We discuss three overarching topics. First, we argue that aside from targeting specific groups and issues, cities should develop mainstreamed policies and provisions to be able to handle future fluctuations and changes in their populations. Second, we observe that in policies aimed at enhancing inter-group contact, earlier immigrant groups are often overlooked. They can play a bridging role in establishing social connections. Third, we highlight the role of urban experiments and living labs in transfer and upscaling of innovative policies.
Van diversiteitsagenda’s tot participatietrajecten
Authors: van Breugel Ilona 
Published: October 2020

From diversity agendas to participation-trajectories: A comparison of local refugee policies in sixteen Dutch cities
This article describes the main trends in refugee policies in sixteen Dutch cities, offering an overview of the local approaches to the reception, housing and integration of refugees that the cities rapidly had to develop in response to the increased refugee inflow in 2015. In contrast to other studies that often focus on capital and gateway cities, this article illustrates the variety of local approaches to migration diversity and refugee integration. By illustrating the different positions municipalities take, the article shows the local power to innovate. In this article clusters of cities with comparable approaches to refugee policies are identified to aid cooperation and knowledge exchange between cities, in which the big cities are not necessarily always the relevant partners.
Niet toegeven maar teruggeven bij protest
Authors: Dekker Rianne , Geuijen Karin , Oliver Caroline 
Published: October 2020

Giving back rather than giving in. A new policy to improve attitudes towards an asylum seeker centre in Utrecht
The refugee crisis of 2015-2016 prompted European governments to quickly institute new asylum seeker centres. Often however, plans for opening new reception centres are met with protest in surrounding localities. Gaining public support for new ASCs has become a pressing governance issue facing local governments. This research looks at whether a policy strategy of ‘giving back’ to the neighbourhood rather than ‘giving in’ to the demands of protesters can minimise local opposition and alleviate negative attitudes . A door-to-door survey of N = 511 neighbourhood residents is combined with semi-structured interview data of N = 31 neighbourhood residents. We find that attitudes were already neutral to fairly positive shortly after the centre opened and fears of nuisance and crime did not materialise. Those who became involved in the ASCs’ courses and activities are a small and selective group who were already fairly accepting of the centre. Contact between asylum seekers and neighbours developing within and beyond the ASC was valued but did not develop into stronger ties due to frequent moves of asylum seekers and early closure of the ASC.
Spreidingsbeleid voor huisvesting van statushouders
Authors: van der Linden Meta 
Published: October 2020

The role of the neighborhood for the early integration of refugees in Rotterdam
The Netherlands has been struggling with the question of how to facilitate the integration of refugees who crossed into Europe during the 2015/2016 ‘refugee crisis’. Dutch municipalities aim for the dispersion of refugees over various neighborhoods under the assumption that the ethnic composition of the neighborhood is conducive to integration. In the current study, I test this assumption using a new and representative survey (N = 768 predominantly Syrian refugees living in 45 neighborhoods, response rate 85%) linked to neighborhood data situated in the most ethnically diverse city in the Netherlands; Rotterdam. Multilevel analyses revealed that, generally, a larger share of people without a migration background in the neighborhood was related to more frequent contact with neighbors without a migration background. A larger share of people with a Moroccan background was related to more frequent contact with people with a Moroccan background, but predominantly for Syrian refugees. The neighborhood was not related to contact with people from the same background of with people with a Turkish background. Hence, meeting opportunities in the neighborhood only appear to facilitate social integration if they coincide with refugees’ social preferences.
Verantwoorden met gevoel
Authors: Schillemans Thomas , Aleksovska Marija 
Published: October 2020

Accounting with emotions
This paper analyzes the impact of linguistic characteristics of accountability reports on public sector organizations. It does so by analysing hundreds of accountability reports by four public sector bodies using the linguistic tool LIWC. The research question is: what linguistic characteristics of accountability reports are related to a bigger impact on the evaluated organization? The impact of three strategic choices is assessed. First of all, the impact of strategic positioning. Authors of texts can maintain a position of power in the choice of language (high clout) and speak top down to the recipient or they can take a more egalitarian, face to face, position. Secondly, authors can choose to use many complex linguistic phrasings, with causal reasoning for instance, or they can opt for simpler texts. Finally, the text can be littered with emotional, positive and negative, wordings or can be set in a neutral tone. Our analyses suggest that more emotional accountability reports are consistently related to a better reception and seem to have more impact. This has important consequences both theoretically and practically, which are discussed in the paper.
Proeftuinen zonder wij
Authors: Bannink Duco 
Published: October 2020

Pilots Integrated Care: an actor-centred analysis of a network-level problem
This article is a review of two policy documents on integrated care in the Netherlands. I argue that not a shared definition of ‘integrated care,’ but instead the own factual understandings of care and normative preferences, values or interests concerning care motivates the action of actors that need to produce integrated care. Not the network-level problem, but instead actor-level motivations explain to what extent integrated care is effectuated. The policy documents, but also important segments of the literature on policy integration seem to underestimate this problem.
Agitporn Colômbia:
Authors: Almeida Lígia Marina de 
Published: October 2020

AGITPORN COLÔMBIA: "Do pornô ao bioterrorismo" (2018) é um zine-roteiro, um “programa performativo”, para performances diárias criado no e para o contexto colombiano, no entanto também pode ser traduzido para diversos outros contextos latinoamericanos. É um dos frutos da pesquisa de doutoramento ABC da luta dos povos originários do Brasil: performances, pedagogias, propagandas e (imagens) políticas pela descolonização social que desenvolvo no PPGT-UDESC sob orientação da Profa. Dra. Fátima Costa de Lima e da residência artística Abejas TAPIOCA que realizei, junto ao coletivo Corporación TAPIOCA e contemplado pelo IBERESCENA, entre julho e setembro de 2018 em parceira com comunidades indígenas "desplazadas" de seus territórios originários pela guerrilha e/ou narcotráfico. Esta publicação é uma tradução do espanhol com uma pequena introdução e uma troca de mensagens eletrônicas feitas para a revista DAPesquisa.
Je suis souverainiste, moi non plus
Authors: Villeneuve-Siconnelly Katryne 
Published: October 2020

Afin de participer, d’aspirer à gouverner et de ne pas s’aliéner de potentiels électeur·trice·s, des partis autrefois marginaux peuvent s’institutionnaliser et modifier leur agenda et leurs stratégies. Au lendemain des cinquante ans du Parti québécois, quel bilan peut-on dresser de cette organisation ? Cet article explore dans une perspective comparative les raisons derrière le processus d’institutionnalisation, en étudiant également les cas du Scottish National Party en Écosse et du Sinn Féin en Irlande du Nord. Les données utilisées sont théoriques et empiriques, relevant de l’analyse de leurs plateformes électorales. Cela permet d’évaluer également leur caractère antisystémique, tout en considérant leur contexte sociopolitique respectif.
A robust semi-supervised NMF model for single cell RNA-seq data
Authors: Wu Peng , An Mo , Zou Hai-Ren , Zhong Cai-Ying , Wang Wei , Wu Chang-Peng 
Published: October 2020

BackgroundSingle-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology is a powerful tool to study organism from a single cell perspective and explore the heterogeneity between cells. Clustering is a fundamental step in scRNA-seq data analysis and it is the key to understand cell function and constitutes the basis of other advanced analysis. Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) has been widely used in clustering analysis of transcriptome data and achieved good performance. However, the existing NMF model is unsupervised and ignores known gene functions in the process of clustering. Knowledges of cell markers genes (genes that only express in specific cells) in human and model organisms have been accumulated a lot, such as the Molecular Signatures Database (MSigDB), which can be used as prior information in the clustering analysis of scRNA-seq data. Because the same kind of cells is likely to have similar biological functions and specific gene expression patterns, the marker genes of cells can be utilized as prior knowledge in the clustering analysis.MethodsWe propose a robust and semi-supervised NMF (rssNMF) model, which introduces a new variable to absorb noises of data and incorporates marker genes as prior information into a graph regularization term. We use rssNMF to solve the clustering problem of scRNA-seq data.ResultsTwelve scRNA-seq datasets with true labels are used to test the model performance and the results illustrate that our model outperforms original NMF and other common methods such as KMeans and Hierarchical Clustering. Biological significance analysis shows that rssNMF can identify key subclasses and latent biological processes. To our knowledge, this study is the first method that incorporates prior knowledge into the clustering analysis of scRNA-seq data.
Coagulantes Naturais Utilizados no Tratamento de Efluentes em Indústrias Têxteis
Authors: Silva Jéssica Gabryelle Dos Santos , Mendes Junior Renato Souza , Lobato Ana Katerine De Carvalho Lima 
Published: October 2020

<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;">Coagulantes inorgânicos e sintéticos são os mais utilizados no tratamento de efluentes em indústrias têxteis, no entanto, seu uso já vem sendo questionado pelo fato de isso elevar o custo do processo, além dessa prática despejar metais pesados residuais no efluente, prejudicando a saúde humana e animal. Como solução, uma alternativa sustentável é o uso de coagulantes naturais no processo. Para tanto, este estudo produziu uma prospecção tecnológica de coagulantes naturais no tratamento de efluentes em indústrias têxteis, mapeando os resultados relacionados ao seu uso. Uma busca avançada foi realizada utilizando as palavras-chave <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">treatment, effluent, coagulant</em>, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">natural </em>e<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> textile</em>. A pesquisa resultou apenas em uma patente publicada em 2017 e em dez artigos publicados no intervalo de 2014 a 2019. Com base na avaliação do material publicado, pode-se concluir que as sementes de <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moringa oleífera</em> são as mais utilizadas para o tratamento, atuando sozinhas como agentes de coagulação com elevada eficiência, principalmente na remoção da cor e da turbidez.</p><p></p>
Lenin na filosofia de Evald Ilienkov
Authors: Carrión Víctor Antonio 
Published: October 2020

<p style="margin-bottom: 0.4cm; line-height: 150%;" lang="pt-PT" align="justify"><span style="font-family: garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nas ultimas duas décadas o estudo da obra do filosofo Evald Ilienkov, tem tido acolhida no mundo acadêmico, no entanto esse interesse subestima ou ignora a influencia das ideas de Vladimir Ilich (Lenin) sob o Ilienkov, no desenvolvimento do ambiente intelectual após o fim da Guerra Fria. Neste artigo é examinada a influencia leninista que penetra todas as posições filosóficas de Evald Ilienkov como exponente da dialética materialista.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.4cm; line-height: 150%;" lang="en-US" align="justify"> </p>
AÇÃO DIRETA DE INCONSTITUCIONALIDADE 5.996 AMAZONAS
Authors: FEDERAL SUPREMO TRIBUNAL 
Published: October 2020

<p>CONSTITUCIONAL. FEDERALISMO E RESPEITO ÀS REGRAS DE DISTRIBUIÇÃO DE COMPETÊNCIA. LEI ESTADUAL 289/2015 DO ESTADO DO AMAZONAS. PROIBIÇÃO DO USO DE ANIMAIS PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO, EXPERIMENTOS E TESTES DE PRODUTOS COSMÉTICOS, DE HIGIENE PESSOAL, PERFUMES E SEUS COMPONENTES. COMPETÊNCIA LEGISLATIVA CONCORRENTE DO ESTADO EM MATÉRIA DE PROTEÇÃO AMBIENTAL (ART. 24, VI, CF). NORMA ESTADUAL AMBIENTAL MAIS PROTETIVA, SE COMPARADA COM A LEGISLAÇÃO FEDERAL SOBRE A MATÉRIA. INCONSTITUCIONALIDADE FORMAL. NÃO OCORRÊNCIA. PRECEDENTES. IMPROCEDÊNCIA DA AÇÃO.</p>
Downregulation of adipose triglyceride lipase by EB viral‐encoded LMP2A links lipid accumulation to increased migration in nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Authors: Zheng Shixing , Matskova Liudmila , Zhou Xiaoying , Xiao Xue , Huang Guangwu , Zhang Zhe , Ernberg Ingemar 
Published: October 2020

Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)‐associated nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is one of the most common human cancers in South‐East Asia exhibiting typical features of lipid accumulation. EBV‐encoded latent membrane protein 2A (LMP2A) is expressed in most NPCs enhancing migration and invasion. We recently showed an increased accumulation of lipid droplets in NPC, compared with normal nasopharyngeal epithelium. It is important to uncover the mechanism behind this lipid metabolic shift to better understand the pathogenesis of NPC and provide potential therapeutic targets. We show that LMP2A increased lipid accumulation in NPC cells. LMP2A could block lipid degradation by downregulating the lipolytic gene adipose triglycerol lipase (ATGL). This is in contrast to lipid accumulation due to enhanced lipid biosynthesis seen in many cancers. Suppression of ATGL resulted in enhanced migration in vitro, and ATGL was found downregulated in NPC biopsies. The reduced expression level of ATGL correlated with poor overall survival in NPC patients. Our findings reveal a new role of LMP2A in lipid metabolism, correlating with NPC patient survival depending on ATGL downregulation.