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Review: Environmental impact of livestock farming and Precision Livestock Farming as a mitigation strategy.
Venue: The Science of the total environment
Year: 2019

This paper reviews the environmental impact of current livestock practices and discusses the advantages offered by Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) as a potential strategy to mitigate environmental risks. PLF is defined as: "the application of process engineering principles and techniques to livestock farming to automatically monitor, model and manage animal production" The primary goal of PLF is to make livestock farming more economically, socially and environmentally sustainable and this can be obtained through the observation, interpretation of behaviours and, if possible, individual control of animals. Furthermore, adopting PLF to support management strategies, may lead to the reduction of the environmental impact of farms. Currently, few studies reported PLF efficacy in reducing the environmental impact, however further studies are necessary to better analyze the actual potential of PLF as a mitigation strategy. Literature shows the potentiality of the application of PLF, as the introduction of PLF in farms can lead to a reduction of Greenhouse gases (GHG) and ammonia (NH3) emission in air, nitrates and antibiotics pollution in water bodies, phosphorus, antibiotics and heavy metals in the soil.
BMP 11 and myostatin support undifferentiated growth of human embryonic stem cells in feeder free cultures.
Venue: Cloning and stem cells
Year: 2009

BMP 11/GDF 11 and Myostatin/GDF 8 are both members of the TGF beta superfamily that can activate SMAD2/3 phosphorylation via the type I receptors ALK4, ALK5, or ALK7. We tested the ability of BMP 11 and Myostatin to promote self renewal of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) under feeder free and serum free culture conditions in short term (1 week) and medium term cultures (10 weeks) We show that hESC cultured in serum free medium supplemented with either 20 ng/mL Myostatin or 20 ng/mL BMP 11 maintain the colony and cellular morphology of undifferentiated hESC, maintain POU5f1, NANOG, TRA 1 60, and SSEA4 expression, and display increased SMAD2/3 phosphorylation, similar to hESC cultured in mouse embryonic fibroblast feeder CM or 20 ng/mL Activin A. The type I TGF beta receptor inhibitor SB431542 totally inhibited the maintenance activity of both Myostatin or BMP 11 supplemented medium. Our data show that members of the TGF beta superfamily, other than Activin A and GDF3, are able to maintain hES cells in an undifferentiated state under feeder free conditions.
Power and inaction: why organizations fail to address workplace bullying
Year: 2020

Bullying affects at least one third of the workers through either direct exposure or witnessing, both of which lead to compromised health, and as a result, reduced organizational effectiveness or productivity. However, there is very little evidence that organisations provide effective protection from bullying, and in fact, the converse appears to the case. The purpose of this paper to explore the role of both individual and organisational power in the creation and maintenance of the problem. Such an approach moves away from the specific practice of identifying "bullying" that typically engages targets and perpetrators in a dance that is really just around the edges (Sullivan, 2008) of a larger problem; a culture that permits the abuse of power and ill treatment of workers, in both practices and through organisational politics.,This paper elucidates key problems with organisational response as identified in the literature and critically examines weak organisational response to workplace bullying using the power theory, arguing that while overt approaches to addressing bullying appear to be underpinned by a simplistic, functionalist understanding of power, practices on the ground are better explained by more sophisticated "second dimension" theorists.,There is a need for organisations to move beyond the current individualistic understanding of bullying towards a more nuanced understanding of how anti bullying policies and procedures are themselves an exercise in institutional power protecting and reinforcing dominant power structures.,The literature from which this paper is drawn is limited to studies published in English.,The authors advocate a realistic assessment of the role of both individual and organisational power in the creation and maintenance of workplace bullying, as a way forward to plan appropriate intervention.,Workplace bullying is problematic for organisations at several levels, and therefore for society.,That power is relevant to workplace bullying has been apparent since the work of Brodsky in 1976 and Einarsen's early work, this paper builds on a the more nuanced work of McKay (2014) D'Cruz and Noronha (2009) Liefooghe and MacDavey's (2010) and Hutchinson et al. (2010) exploring the organisational response to the raising of bullying issues by individual employees as an exercise of power.
Simplified Modeling and Characterization of the Internal Impedance of Lithium Ion Batteries for Automotive Applications
Venue: 2019 AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT AUTOMOTIVE)
Year: 2019

This paper presents a fast and simple approach to model and characterize internal impedance of Li ion battery. This is an important aspect because, measuring the impedance in a wide frequency range, it is possible to investigate on the modifications of the internal electrochemical cell process and evaluating its State of Health (SOH) that it is an important parameter for the automotive applications. The first part of the paper explains the concept of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) and how Li ion batteries can be represented through electrochemical or empirical models. EIS test consists of the excitation of the battery, or cell, with a sinusoidal current signal, and then measuring the cell voltage, while the frequency response of the system is computed. Then the paper describes a procedure to test the cell and extract the parameters necessary for the model, in particular, the dependence between the parameters of the model and the State of Charge (SOC) Finally the paper shows how the internal impedance of a Li ion battery is a dynamic parameter that depends on different factors and illustrate how the EIS can be used to obtain an impedance model.
Minimizing the power consumption of a clapper type dc electromagnet in intermittent operation
Year: 2015

A technique for designing a clapper type dc electromagnet with its power consumption being minimized is proposed. The technique is based on the experimentally obtained load characteristics and mathematical models of thermal characteristics of the winding that depend on the maximum temperature in its bulk. The optimality criterion for power consumption is determined, and an algorithm for searching for its best solution by two phase scanning of the factor space is developed. The main dimensions of an optimized electromagnet are calculated as an example for different values of the initial parameters: the working gap, the counteracting force, the ratio of the maximum power supply voltage to the actuation voltage, and the power overload factor. Simple mathematical expressions for the determination of the main dimensions of an electromagnet are provided in order to reduce the time expenditure at the design stage. These expressions were obtained by generalizing the results of computational experiments using the methods of active experiment planning and the similarity theory. An algorithm for calculating these dimensions is outlined. The proposed technique was used successfully in the process of designing a new series of dc contactors for severe operating conditions.
Analyse de modeles geometriques d'assemblages pour les structures et les enrichir avec des informations fonctionnelles. (Processing Geometric Models of Assemblies to Structure and Enrich them with Functional Information)
Year: 2014

La maquette numerique d'un produit occupe une position centrale dans le processus de developpement de produit. Elle est utilisee comme representation de reference des produits, en definissant la forme geometrique de chaque composant, ainsi que les representations simplifiees des liaisons entre composants. Toutefois, les observations montrent que ce modele geometrique n'est qu'une representation simplifiee du produit reel. De plus, et grace a son role cle, la maquette numerique est de plus en plus utilisee pour structurer les informations non geometriques qui sont ensuite utilisees dans diverses etapes du processus de developpement de produits. Une demande importante est d'acceder aux informations fonctionnelles a differents niveaux de la representation geometrique d'un assemblage. Ces informations fonctionnelles s'averent essentielles pour preparer des analyses elements finis. Dans ce travail, nous proposons une methode automatisee afin d'enrichir le modele geometrique extrait d'une maquette numerique avec les informations fonctionnelles necessaires pour la preparation d'un modele de simulation par elements finis. Les pratiques industrielles et les representations geometriques simplifiees sont prises en compte lors de l'interpretation d'un modele purement geometrique qui constitue le point de depart de la methode proposee.
The clinical spectrum of childhood narcolepsy.
Venue: Sleep medicine reviews
Year: 2018

Narcolepsy type 1 is a life long, severe, multifaceted disease often arising in childhood or adolescence. Beyond the classical symptoms (excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, hallucinations, sleep paralysis and nocturnal fragmented sleep) metabolic, endocrinological, psychiatric and psychosocial aspects must be considered. Despite the increased awareness after H1N1 pandemic influenza and vaccination, narcolepsy is still misdiagnosed and unrecognized. The peculiar presentation of symptoms in narcoleptic children could in part explain the misdiagnoses. Excessive daytime sleepiness presenting as chronic drowsiness or irritability could be stigmatized as laziness or misinterpreted as behavior or inattention disorder. The persistent hypotonia and the complex hyperkinetic movements that characterize cataplexy close to the onset, could be misdiagnosed as a movement disorder or as other neurologic conditions. The consequent therapeutic delay could turn into dramatic consequences. The narcolepsy onset, indeed, is associated with abrupt weight gain and sometimes with precocious puberty that require a prompt recognition and treatment to avoid auxological and metabolic complications. Moreover, narcoleptic children could have behavioral and psychiatric disorders ranging from mood to psychotic ones that need ad hoc management. Accordingly, spreading the awareness outside the sleep specialist community is necessary in order to reduce the diagnostic delay and to obtain prompt and multidisciplinary management.
Old/New Effect of Digital Memory Retrieval in Chinese Dyscalculia
Venue: Journal of learning disabilities
Year: 2017

This study reports the neurophysiological and behavioral correlates of digital memory retrieval features in Chinese individuals with and without dyscalculia. A total of 18 children with dyscalculia (ages 11.5 13.5) and 18 controls were tested, and their event related potentials were digitally recorded simultaneously with behavior measurement. Behavioral data showed that the dyscalculia group had lower hit rates and higher false rates than the control group. The electroencephalography results showed that both groups had a significant old/new effect and that this effect was greater in the control group. In the 300 to 400 ms processing stages, both groups showed significant differences in digital memory retrieval in the frontal regions. In the 400 to 500 and 500 to 600 ms epochs, the old/new effect in the control group was significantly greater than it was in the dyscalculia group at the frontal, central, and parietal regions. In the 600 to 700 ms processing stages, both groups showed significant differences in digital memory retrieval in the frontal, central, parietal, and occipital regions. These results suggest that individuals with dyscalculia exhibit impaired digital memory retrieval. Extraction failure may be an important cause of calculation difficulties.
The Impact of Agricultural Exports on Economic Growth in Nigeria
Year: 2016

VERTER NAHANGA, BECVAROVA VERA.  The Impact of Agricultural Exports on Economic Growth in Nigeria. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 64(2) 691 700. Agriculture is the backbone of Nigeria's socioeconomic development. This paper investigates the impact of agricultural exports on economic growth in Nigeria using OLS regression, Granger causality, Impulse Response Function and Variance Decomposition approaches. Both the OLS regression and Granger causality results support the hypothesis that agricultural exports led economic growth in Nigeria. The results, however, show an inverse relationship between the agricultural degree of openness and economic growth in the country. Impulse Response Function results fl uctuate and reveal an upward and downward shocks from agricultural export to economic growth in the country. The Variance Decomposition results also show that a shock to agricultural exports can contribute to the fl uctuation in the variance of economic growth in the long run. For Nigeria to experience a favourable trade balance in agricultural trade, domestic processing industries should be encouraged while imports of agricultural commodities that the country could process cheaply should be discouraged. Undoubtedly, this measure could drastically reduce the country's overreliance on food imports and increase the rate of agricultural production for self suffi ciency, exports and its contribution to the economic growth in the country.
Education Job Match, Salary, and Job Satisfaction Across the Public, Non Profit, and For Profit Sectors: Survey of recent college graduates
Year: 2016

Using data from the 2006 Survey of Recent College Graduates, this study examines how education job match and salary may explain recent college graduates' job satisfaction in the public, non profit, and for profit sectors. The results imply that while education job match increases job satisfaction in all three sectors, for profit workers may compensate the loss in job satisfaction due to poor match with increased satisfaction from higher salary. The findings suggest that, in the public and non profit sectors, increased salary cannot make up the loss in job satisfaction from poor education job match as much as it does in the for profit sector.
The Image of Guru Nanak in Dadu Panthi Sources
Year: 2020

This essay examines the issue of Guru Nanak's inclusion in the mid to late seventeenth century devotional text prepared by the Dadu panthi savant, Raghavdas, the Bhakt mal or Garland of Devotees. This text follows by some decades the similarly titled Bhakt mal of Nabha Das. However, while Nabha Das excludes Guru Nanak, Raghavdas' Bhakt mal embraces him and includes a much more diverse seventeenth and pre seventeenth century saintly clientele that was particular to both northern and southern India. The essay is one of the first to examine this text in Sikh studies and tease out the reasons which may have prompted Raghavdas to include Guru Nanak. In the process, it attempts to understand early non Sikh bhakti views of the Sikh Gurus while also providing fresh looks at Sikh numbers in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and at the diverse and multi ideological environment of northern India from the early 1600s onward. It also suggests Raghavadas' familiarity with the poetry of his near contemporary ideologue, the great Sikh scholar Bhai Gurdas Bhalla.
Communication: Mode specific quantum dynamics of the F CHD3 HF CD3 reaction.
Venue: The Journal of chemical physics
Year: 2016

The mode specific reactivity of the F CHD3 HF CD3 reaction is investigated using an eight dimensional quantum dynamical model on a recently developed ab initio based full dimensional potential energy surface. Our results indicate prominent resonance structures at low collision energies and absence of an energy threshold in reaction probabilities. It was also found that excitation of the C D stretching or CD3 umbrella mode has a relatively small impact on reactivity. On the other hand, the excitation of the C H vibration (v1) in CHD3 is shown to significantly increase the reactivity, which, like several recent quasi classical trajectory studies, is at odds with the available experimental data. Possible sources of the disagreement are discussed.
GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS AND PUBLIC HEALTH DEBATE: DESIGNING PROGRAMS TO MITIGATE RISKS
Year: 2009

Human health is determined by both natural and artificial factors, amongst which what people consume is a critical variable. There is no consensus about the likely effects of the Genetically Modified foods/organisms (GMOs) but the fact remains that their effects on health are risky and highly unpredictable especially with the globalization tendency. The purpose of this study is to examine how the GMOs risks to public health can be reduced by policymakers enhancing public confidence in the GM foods. The Precaution Adoption Model (PAPM) has been selected to tackle this health problem. This model has been described and evaluation strategies analyzed on the basis of which success can be determined.  Human health is determined by both natural and artificial factors, amongst which what people consume is a critical variable. The proliferation of genetically modified (GM) food in the marketplace has resulted in heated public debate, scientific discussion and media coverage about their safety. Formerly, the use of selective breeding was commonplace but this was a sluggish and unreliable Public Administration Management Volume 13, Number 3, 191 217
Pros and Cons of GAN Evaluation Measures
Venue: Comput. Vis. Image Underst.
Year: 2019

Generative models, in particular generative adverserial networks (GANs) have received a lot of attention recently. A number of GAN variants have been proposed and have been utilized in many applications. Despite large strides in terms of theoretical progress, evaluating and comparing GANs remains a daunting task. While several measures have been introduced, as of yet, there is no consensus as to which measure best captures strengths and limitations of models and should be used for fair model comparison. As in other areas of computer vision and machine learning, it is critical to settle on one or few good measures to steer the progress in this field. In this paper, I review and critically discuss more than 19 quantitative and 4 qualitative measures for evaluating generative models with a particular emphasis on GAN derived models.
Americanism and financial accounting theory Part 2: The 'modern business enterprise' America's transition to capitalism, and the genesis of management accounting
Year: 2013

The paper uses accounting evidence to explore when and how capitalism came to America. It continues the search for capitalists in American history begun in 'Americanism and financial accounting theory. Part 1: Was America Born Capitalist? Part 1 concluded that America was not 'born capitalist' in Marx's sense, and that the capitalist mentality had not appeared in farming even by the late 19th century, on southern slave plantations by the Civil War, or in manufacturing enterprises by the 1830s. This paper (Part 2) challenges Alfred Chandler's thesis that the 'modern business enterprise' brought 'a new type of capitalism' from around the mid 19th century. It re examines accounting evidence from the Boston textile mills, the railroads, and the iron and steel industry. It concludes that the Boston Associates who historians often see as 'proto capitalists' the 'managerial capitalists' Chandler sees on the railroads, and the 'entrepreneurial capitalists' he sees in the iron and steel industry and elsewhere, remained semi capitalists because their capitals and workers were not 'free' The paper re examines the 'costing renaissance' the introduction and spread of product costing, standard costing, ROI and flexible budgets, and the evidence in Chandler's and Johnson and Kaplan's studies of the DuPont Powder Company and General Motors. This suggests that capitalism only appeared in America by around 1900, after more than two decades of intense conflict between 'capital and labour' and became established by the 1920s. This is the critical turning point in American business history, not the appearance of 'managerial capitalism' the paper argues. It concludes that America did not catch up with British capitalism until the late 1920s because its ruling elite faced an ideological problem created by its exceptional transition from a society of simple commodity producers and semi capitalists, particularly the threat of popular socialism. The final paper, Part 3: 'Adam Smith, the rise and fall of socialism, and Irving Fisher's theory of accounting' argues that Fisher made a seminal contribution to solving this problem, but his legacy is a pathological theory of financial accounting.
Comparison of Outcomes for Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion With and Without Anterior Plate Fixation: A Systematic Review and Meta Analysis
Venue: Spine
Year: 2018

Systematic review and meta analysis.  To compare postoperative surgical, radiographic, and patient reported outcomes following anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) with and without plate fixation.  ACDF has evolved significantly over the years, including the placement of an anterior plate construct. Although promoting bony osseo integration at the fusion site, there are a number of plate related complications that can arise. The non plating approach is less invasive, however, greater rates of cage subsidence have been associated with this model.  We performed an electronic literature search for human studies that directly compared ACDF with and without anterior plate fixation. Outcomes of interest comprised of postoperative dysphagia, fusion success, and cage subsidence as well as patient reported outcomes, including the Neck Disability Index (NDI) scores and Visual Analog Scale (VAS) for both neck and arm pain.  A total of 15 studies (12 observational and 3 randomized controlled trials) and 893 patients (57% males) were included. Overall, ACDF with plate fixation was associated with significantly higher vertebral fusion rates (odds ratio [OR] 1.98; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.16 3.37) lower subsidence rates (odds ratio [OR] 0.31, 95% CI 0.18 0.52) and more favorable VAS neck pain scores at last follow up (mean difference [MD] 0.59, 95% CI 0.78 to 0.41) Conversely, ACDF procedures without plate fixation had marginally better long term VAS arm pain scores (mean difference [MD] 0.2, 95% CI 0.04 0.36) No difference was found with regards to dysphagia (OR 1.21, 95% CI, 0.57 2.56) and NDI (MD 0.06, 95% C.I 0.54 to 0.42)  Available evidence, although limited, suggests superior surgical outcomes in ACDF procedures with anterior plate fixation (increased fusion, decreased subsidence) and slightly better VAS neck pain scores at last follow up. Future longitudinal, multicenter randomized controlled trials should be completed to validate any associations found in this study.