bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Workplace noise exposure and serum testosterone in men enrolled in the 1999-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Authors: Dzhambov Angel M. 
Published: October 2016

Abstract
There is compelling evidence from animal experiments that noise exposure suppresses testosterone in males by affecting the hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis. Virtually nothing is known about its effect in humans. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the association between occupational noise exposure and serum testosterone in a representative sample of the general population. The sample has been taken from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data for the period between 1999 and 2004 and is limited to employed men aged 16-85+ years at the time. The associations between noise exposure (either established according to the Occupational Information Network - O*NET categories or self-reported) and total and free testosterone (TT and FT, respectively) were analysed using linear regression models with increasing adjustments. In the fully adjusted model (n=414), the third quartile of the O*NET noise exposure was associated with lower TT and FT, which reached statistically significant decrease of -58.32 ng dL-1 (95 % CI: -111.22, -5.42) and -1.58 ng dL-1 (95 % CI: -2.98, -0.18), respectively. In stratified analyses, younger, lower income, normal weight, better hearing, and workers not using hearing protection at work experienced significantly more severe adverse effects than the rest. The odds for hypogonadism (TT<300 ng dL-1) did not significantly rise with one interquartile range increment in O*NET noise exposure (OR=1.24, 95 % CI: 0.64, 2.39). Self-reported loud noise exposure did not significantly decrease TT when all men were considered (n=214) and only in the men ≥37 years did it decrease TT significantly by -87.55 ng dL-1 (95 % CI: -158.35, -16.74). In conclusion, noise exposure was associated with lower TT and FT only in some population subgroups and these associations were non-linear.
Using a Software Tool in Forecasting: a Case Study
of Sales Forecasting Taking into Account Data
Uncertainty
Authors: Fabianová Jana , Kačmáry Peter , Molnár Vieroslav , Michalik Peter 
Published: October 2016

Abstract
Forecasting is one of the logistics activities and
a sales forecast is the starting point for the elaboration
of business plans. Forecast accuracy affects the business
outcomes and ultimately may significantly affect the economic
stability of the company. The accuracy of the prediction
depends on the suitability of the use of forecasting
methods, experience, quality of input data, time period
and other factors. The input data are usually not deterministic
but they are often of random nature. They are
affected by uncertainties of the market environment, and
many other factors. Taking into account the input data uncertainty,
the forecast error can by reduced. This article
deals with the use of the software tool for incorporating
data uncertainty into forecasting. Proposals are presented
of a forecasting approach and simulation of the impact of
uncertain input parameters to the target forecasted value
by this case study model. The statistical analysis and risk
analysis of the forecast results is carried out including sensitivity
analysis and variables impact analysis.
Effects of a Single Intramuscular Injection of Vitamin K on the Hematology, Serum Biochemistry and Coagulation Parameters in Healthy Adult Dairy Cows
Authors: Ismail Zuhair Bani , Alekish Myassar O. , Awawdeh Mofleh S. , Olymat Issa 
Published: October 2016

Abstract
Vitamin K1 is commonly administered to dairy cattle suffering from uncontrollable hemorrhage and to cattle with known deficiency of vitamin K dependent coagulation factors. However, a review of recent literature concludes the absence of available information regarding the safety and effects of this drug in dairy cattle. Therefore, this study was carried out to evaluate the safety and effects of a single intramuscular injection of vitamin K1 (2.5 mg/kg) on various clinical, hematological, serum biochemical and coagulation parameters in adult Holstein dairy cows. Six adult Holstein dairy cows were injected a single intramuscular dose of vitamin K1. Cows were then clinically monitored for 24 hours after drug administration for any abnormal behavioral activities. The heart rate, respiration rate, rectal temperature, and rumen motility were also reported before and at each follow-up check point after administration of the drug. Whole blood samples were collected before and again at 15, 30, 60, and 120 minutes and at 24 hours after drug administration. Hematology and serum biochemistry parameters were evaluated to detect any systemic effects. Selected coagulation parameters including the activated partial thromboplastine time (APTT), prothrombin time (PT), thrombin time (TT), D-dimers, platelets count, and fibrinogen concentrations were determined to evaluate the effect of the drug on coagulation mechanisms. There were no abnormal clinical, pathological, or behavioral activities associated with the drug administration in all cows. In the coagulation profile, there was a significant increase in platelets counts starting from 15 minutes after administration and throughout the observation period. Other coagulation parameters were not significantly changed.
The Situational Structure of Primate Beliefs
Authors: Cheng Tony 
Published: October 2016

Abstract
This paper develops the situational model of primate beliefs from the Prior-Lurz line of thought. There is a strong skepticism concerning primate beliefs in the analytic tradition which holds that beliefs have to be propositional and non-human animals do not have them (e.g., Davidson 1975, 1982). The response offered in this paper is twofold. First, two arguments against the propositional model as applied to other animals are put forward: an a priori argument from referential opacity and an empirical argument from varieties of working memory. Second, the Prior-Lurz situational model based on state of affairs as opposed to propositions is introduced and defended with two significant modifications. With this model of primate beliefs we can make progress in understanding how other primates can have certain mindreading capacity.
Preparation, characterization and rheological behavior of chitosan nanocapsule emulsion encapsulated tuberose fragrance
Authors: Xiao Zuobing , Wang Erqin , Zhu Guangyong , Zhou Rujun , Niu Yunwei 
Published: October 2016

Abstract
In this paper, ionic gelation method was adopted to produce nanocapsules (CNs) encapsulated tuberose fragrance with chitosan (CS) and sodium tripolyphosphate (TPP) as wall materials. The effects of CS/TPP mass ratio, pH value of CS solution, molecular mass of CS and tuberose fragrance (TF) concentration on particle size and particle size distribution (PDI) of chitosan nanocapsules encapsulated tuberose fragrance (CNTs) were investigated systematically. CNTs were characterized by dynamic light scattering (DLS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transforms infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The results showed that CNTs were successfully prepared. The optimum preparation conditions were as follows: CS/TPP mass ratio 5:1, pH of CS solution 4.0, and molecular mass of CS 150 kda. CNTs emulsions were also systematically investigated by steady-state shear and oscillatory shear measurements respectively. The rheological behaviors of CNTs were obtained.
Predicting the Performance of Parsing with Referential Translation Machines
Authors: Biçici Ergun 
Published: October 2016

Abstract Referential translation machine (RTM) is a prediction engine used for predicting the performance of natural language processing tasks including parsing, machine translation, and semantic similarity pioneering language, task, and domain independence. RTM results for predicting the performance of parsing (PPP) in out-of-domain or in-domain settings with different training sets and types of features present results independent of language or parser. RTM PPP models can be used without parsing using only text input and without any parser or language dependent information. Our results detail prediction performance, top selected features, and lower bound on the prediction error of PPP.
Qualitative: Python Tool for MT Quality Estimation Supporting Server Mode and Hybrid MT
Authors: Avramidis Eleftherios 
Published: October 2016

Abstract We are presenting the development contributions of the last two years to our Python opensource Quality Estimation tool, a tool that can function in both experiment-mode and online web-service mode. The latest version provides a new MT interface, which communicates with SMT and rule-based translation engines and supports on-the-fly sentence selection. Additionally, we present an improved Machine Learning interface allowing more efficient communication with several state-of-the-art toolkits. Additions also include a more informative training process, a Python re-implementation of QuEst baseline features, a new LM toolkit integration, an additional PCFG parser and alignments of syntactic nodes.
Otedama: Fast Rule-Based Pre-Ordering for Machine Translation
Authors: Hitschler Julian , Jehl Laura , Karimova Sariya , Ohta Mayumi , Körner Benjamin , Riezler Stefan 
Published: October 2016

Abstract We present Otedama, a fast, open-source tool for rule-based syntactic pre-ordering, a well established technique in statistical machine translation. Otedama implements both a learner for pre-ordering rules, as well as a component for applying these rules to parsed sentences. Our system is compatible with several external parsers and capable of accommodating many source and all target languages in any machine translation paradigm which uses parallel training data. We demonstrate improvements on a patent translation task over a state-of-the-art English-Japanese hierarchical phrase-based machine translation system. We compare Otedama with an existing syntax-based pre-ordering system, showing comparable translation performance at a runtime speedup of a factor of 4.5-10.
FaDA: Fast Document Aligner using Word Embedding
Authors: Lohar Pintu , Ganguly Debasis , Afli Haithem , Way Andy , Jones Gareth J.F. 
Published: October 2016

Abstract FaDA is a free/open-source tool for aligning multilingual documents. It employs a novel crosslingual information retrieval (CLIR)-based document-alignment algorithm involving the distances between embedded word vectors in combination with the word overlap between the source-language and the target-language documents. In this approach, we initially construct a pseudo-query from a source-language document. We then represent the target-language documents and the pseudo-query as word vectors to find the average similarity measure between them. This word vector-based similarity measure is then combined with the term overlap-based similarity. Our initial experiments show that s standard Statistical Machine Translation (SMT)- based approach is outperformed by our CLIR-based approach in finding the correct alignment pairs. In addition to this, subsequent experiments with the word vector-based method show further improvements in the performance of the system.
Evaluation of thrombin generation in classical Philadelphianegative myeloproliferative neoplasms / Evaluarea generării trombinei în neoplasmele mieloproliferative Philadelphia- negative
Authors: Olteanu Ariela Ligia , Mihăilă Romeo-Gabriel , Mihalache Manuela 
Published: October 2016

Abstract
Introduction: Patients with Philadelphia-negative chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms (Ph-MPN), polycytemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythaemia (ET) and primary myelofibrosis (PMF), are prone to develop thrombotic events. We aimed to investigate the coagulation status in their plasma using thrombin generation assay (TGA), a functional global assay, on Ceveron® Alpha.
Materials and methods: The samples were collected from 89 consecutive Ph-negative MPN patients and from 78 controls into K2EDTA and CTAD tubes for blood cell counts, TGA and coagulation screening tests. Thrombin generation was analysed in platelet-poor plasma using Technothrombin® TGA assay kit.
Results: We found a significantly increased peak thrombin generation (p=0.049) and velocity index (VI) (p=0.012) in patients in comparison with controls, especially in ET patients, and a significantly higher values for peak thrombin (p=0.043) and VI (p=0.042) in patients receiving anagrelide in comparison with those treated with hydroxyurea. We also noticed an inverse correlation between the length of cytoreductive therapy and TGA parameters, (peak thrombin R=-0.25, p=0.018, AUC R=-0.257, p=0.015, and VI R=-0.21, p=0.048).
Conclusion: Our results suggest that Ph-MPN patients, and especially those with ET, are predisposed to thrombotic events due to their higher peak thrombin and VI values and their risk may decreases as treatment is longer. Patients treated with hydroxyurea generate less thrombin and could be less prone to develop thrombotic events in comparison with those treated with anagrelide.
Severe pneumococcal pneumonia following Measles- Mumps- Rubella vaccination / Pneumonie pneumococică severă dezvoltată ca urmare a vaccinării Rujeolă-Oreion-Rubeolă
Authors: Gál Orsolya , Pletz Mathias W. , Ianoși Edith Simona 
Published: October 2016

Abstract
Hereby, we report a case of severe multi-lobular pneumococcal pneumonia with gangrene requiring pneumonectomy and accompanying septic shock that developed 1 day after a live-attenuated measles-mumps-rubella vaccination in a 58-year old kindergarten teacher.
Malondialdehyde levels can be measured in serum and saliva by using a fast HPLC method with visible detection / Determinarea printr-o metodă HPLC-VIS rapidă a concentraţiilor serice şi salivare ale malondialdehidei
Authors: Fogarasi Erzsébet , Croitoru Mircea Dumitru , Fülöp Ibolya , Nemes-Nagy Enikő , Tripon Robert Gabriel , Simon-Szabo Zsuzsanna , Muntean Daniela-Lucia 
Published: October 2016

AbstractOxidative stress appears when the amount of free radicals that are formed in a living organism exceed its spin-trapping ability. One of the most dangerous free radicals that are formed in the human body is the hydroxyl radical. It can alter several biomolecules, including the unsaturated fatty acids; this process is known as lipid peroxidation and can lead to cell necrosis and generation of several harmful byproducts including malondialdehyde, which serves also as a biomarker of oxidative stress. A new HPLC method with visible detection was developed for the detection of malondialdehyde in human serum and saliva samples. The method was verified in terms of specificity, linearity, limits of detection (0.35 ng/ml), limit of quantification (1.19 ng/ml), recovery (90.13±10.25 – 107.29±14.33) and precision (3.84±1.49% – 6.66±1.76%). An analysis time of only 1 minute was obtained and no interferences from the matrices were observed. Statistical analysis (Pearson correlation test) showed a moderate correlation (R = 0.5061, p = 0.0099) between serum and saliva concentrations (N = 25). The possibility of measuring salivary concentrations of malondialdehyde extents the applications of oxidative stress/lipid peroxidation estimations to categories of population unreachable before (pregnant women, small children, etc); repeated sample studies are also easier to make.
Quality of pork at feeding PVMD «Enervik» with karnitin
Authors: Bilavtseva V. V. 
Published: October 2016

It is shown that feeding young pigs raised for their meat, BVMD «Enervic» Carney Tina in doses of 50 and 100 g/t of feed, promotes weight gain carcass weight up to 14 kg, the yield of muscle tissue in 2.14 – 2.46% while reducing the percentage of fat and bone tissue, and increased subcutaneous thickness of fat on the lower back, sacrum and decrease at the neck and withers. BVMD «Enervic» Carney Tina in the diet of young pigs improves podotremata ability muscle, its part of the nitrogen and caloric content, with nevrona reduce tenderness and marbling, which are correlated with the decrease in the yield of fat parts of the carcass. These results were obtained in the result of carrying out of scientific and economic experience into three groups–analogues of young pigs of large white breed at 11 goals each. Initial live weight was 8.5 kg at weaning from sows at 28–days age. The calves were reared to achieve the failed condition – live weight 100 – 117 kg, and was followed by monitoring slaughter and the appropriate calculations of slaughter products and physically–chemical parameters of muscle tissue. The youngsters were grown, taking account of the phases of feeding in accordance with the characteristics of individual growth and development in the first year of life. In this regard, the animals of the second group phase 20 – 35 kg, 35 – 65 kg 65 – 110 kg received BVMD «Enervic» – starter, with a dose of Carney fence 50g/t of concentrate, and the third in the same plan – 100 g/t. First, the control group consumed BVMD without carnitine. Background feeding pigs provided the average daily gains for 127 days of the main period of experience 761 and 722 g in the experimental groups, versus 676 g in control.
Fatlening and meat qualities of swine during feding up with probiotic additives «PROPYGplv» as a part of the ration
Authors: Pivtorak J. I. , Bogdan I. M. , Vinnichenko G. P. 
Published: October 2016

Nowadays main part of pork is produced at the farms of different ownership forms mainly at the feeds of own production. A lot of problems arise and their solving influence quantity, quality and value of production. With the help of scientific investigations it was proved that intensification of swine breeding depends upon fodder basis at any farm. Besides, swine need to be fed with feeds from well balanced rations in accordance with detailed portions. Their usage will increase the productivity of swine up to 10% in comparison with such rations balanced according to limited quantity of indices. That is why while organizing rational nutrition one should remember that gastrointestinal tract in swine doesn’t have enzymec ability to the hydrolysis of cellular tissue and they are rather weak to withstand diseases connected with disturbances in digestion. That is why special attention should be paid to the usage of probiotic fodder additives in the system of prophylactic. It is especially important when different kinds of fads are used which can enrich rations, or positively influence the processes of productions formation. The main task of the investigation was to optimize rationed feeding of feeding up young swine using biologically active additive «PROPIGplv» as a part of a ration. It was stated that feeding up animals with food bioadditive when full rationed mixed fodder at dynamics 2–6 gr head per day served as a background to determine the optimum doze and using of such bioadditive doesn’t influence negatively the functional health condition of animals. Positive results concerning the intensity of animals growth, quality of production were obtained thanks to stimulating effect of bioadditive and it is economically advantageously to use bioadditives at the rations of fattening young swine.
Evaluation of different exterior – constitutional types in breeding of polissya beef breed
Authors: Bojko A. , Shalovylo S. 
Published: October 2016

The article deals with the data on test results of efficient use of four suggested estimation methods by different authors of exterior–constitutional types of bulls on the Polissya meat breed:
– visual assessment of the animal type of structure on a 100–point scale, according to the «Instructions for appraisal of meat breeds cattle»:
– evaluation of the body structure on the model deviations by the formula of M.M. Kolesnyk (1960), A.M. Uhnivenko (2010);
– eirisomia index by the formula of M. Zamyatina (2005);
– mass and metric coefficient by the formula of D. Vinnychuk et al (2005).
Thanks to carried out investigations it have been established, that the most appropriate is the use of mass and metric factor by D. Vinnychuk. However given the fact that the use of other methods, in particular by model variations of M. Kolesnyk, A. Uhnivenko, the correlation connection was high, and the difference is statistically significant, in our opinion can be used in scientific research, both methods of evaluating structure of the animals body structure.
Impact of feeding with protein–vitamin mineral supplement «Minaktyvit» on the structure of gastrointestinal tract of young pigs
Authors: Bondarenko V. V. 
Published: October 2016

The research was conducted on two groups–analogues of young pigs of large white breed with 10 pigs each. Weaned piglets at the age of 28 days were fed with the protein–vitamin mineral supplement «Minaktyvit» – starter in the amount of 25% of grain feed (33 days), while young pigs in growing were given the protein–vitamin mineral supplement «Minaktyvit» – grower in the amount of 15% (50 days) and those in fattening the protein–vitamin mineral supplement «Minaktyvit» – finisher in the amount of 10% (62 days). The control group received protein–vitamin mineral supplement. At the end of growing with the live weight of 100 – 110 kg a control slaughter was carried out and samples of stomach, small and large intestines for laboratory tests were picked out. Studies have shown that feeding of young pigs with the protein–vitamin mineral supplement «Minaktyvit» increases the average daily gains by 95 g or 15.68%, while their level is 701 g in the experimental group of animals and 606 g in the control one. The protein–vitamin mineral supplement «Minaktyvit» incredibly affected the morphological parameters of the stomach in the experimental group of pigs. However, the thickening of the walls by 4.3%, 5% and 10.9% respectively is observed in cardiac, fundic and pyloric areas of the experimental group, compared to the control one. The thickening of the walls in stomach areas under the influence of feed factor is associated with increasing of the mucosa thickness. Mucosa increased by 0.1 mm in the cardiac area, 0.36 mm in fundic and 0.53 mm in the pyloric one. The change in the structure of the investigated jejunum is observed while consuming the protein–vitamin mineral supplement «Minaktyvit» in the diet. The wall thickness increased by 17.57% (P < 0.05), including the thickening of mucosa by 16.7% and that of serous–muscular shell by 18.8%. No significant difference in the structure of the colon in the experimental group of animals was determined.