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Determinants Of Motivation For Mentoring Among Adults Volunteering To Mentor Youth, Miriam Miranda-Díaz, Hyuny Clark-Shim, Thomas E. Keller, Renee Spencer Jan 2020

Determinants Of Motivation For Mentoring Among Adults Volunteering To Mentor Youth, Miriam Miranda-Díaz, Hyuny Clark-Shim, Thomas E. Keller, Renee Spencer

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

Most youth mentoring programs rely on volunteers to serve as mentors to youth. This study investigates factors associated with motivations for volunteering in this capacity, specifically altruistic and self-oriented reasons for becoming a mentor. Because adults who volunteer as mentors and youth mentees typically come from different socio-cultural backgrounds, the study examines demographic characteristics associated with these different motivations. In addition, the study addresses the empathy-altruism hypothesis suggesting that individuals with higher levels of empathy exhibit greater altruistic tendencies. For this analysis, the focus is on ethnocultural empathy and its association with volunteer motivations. The sample consisted of 1,000 volunteers …

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Improving Students’ Learning And Performance Using Mock Tests In Engineering Classes, Mohammad R. Hossan, Nazmul Islam Jan 2020

Improving Students’ Learning And Performance Using Mock Tests In Engineering Classes, Mohammad R. Hossan, Nazmul Islam

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Class performance and classroom environment have a direct impact on students’ learning and long-term retention of key engineering concepts. In addition, class performance is critical for preserving students’ interest and continuous engagement. However, engineering classes are widely rated as boring and monotonous by students due to one-way lectures and lack of application of active learning techniques. In this study, we employed mock tests as an active learning technique to empower students on their own learning through identification of conceptual weakness, reinforcement of understanding and hence, to improve their overall learning and class performance in two different engineering classes at two …

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Information Literacy Instructions In University Libraries Of Lahore, Pakistan: Practices And Methods, Muhammad Rafiq, Sumaira Ali, Muhammad Tufail Khan Jan 2020

Information Literacy Instructions In University Libraries Of Lahore, Pakistan: Practices And Methods, Muhammad Rafiq, Sumaira Ali, Muhammad Tufail Khan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information literacy (IL) is an essential skill and play a vital role in active participation in the modern society. It is an information and a variety of skills that enable people to know when information is needed and to have the talent to accurately identify, analyse and utilize the information needed. It is knowledge and expertise of individuals to recognize when information is needed and to have the capacity to locate, assess, interpret and use effectively the needed information. This study intended to investigate the IL practices and methods used by professional librarians in university libraries of Lahore, Pakistan. A …

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Artificial Intelligence In Plasma Electrolytic Micro-Oxidation For Surface Hardening - Insights From Scholarly Citation Networks And Patents., Priya Jadhav, Dr.Arun Bongale, Dr.Satish Kumar, Dr.Amit Kumar Tiwari Jan 2020

Artificial Intelligence In Plasma Electrolytic Micro-Oxidation For Surface Hardening - Insights From Scholarly Citation Networks And Patents., Priya Jadhav, Dr.Arun Bongale, Dr.Satish Kumar, Dr.Amit Kumar Tiwari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Objective - The purpose of this article is to analyze the top work areas and patent domains in the field of surface hardening by micro-arc oxidation. Also, it is directed on the opportunities of data analysis by different machine learning tools. Material and methods - The www.lens.org database is used to collect articles from Elsevier, Trans tech publications, Springer New York, MDPI, etc. to review the relevant articles as well as patents related to the topic. The result - A total of 1057 articles were published in 60 different journals and 756 patents in the area of research under various …

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Editor’S Note, Janie Harden Fritz Jan 2020

Editor’S Note, Janie Harden Fritz

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This is the Editor’s Note to Volume 39, Issue 1 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.

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Just Showing Up Can Make A Difference: A History Of The Association For Communication Administration, Christopher Lynch Jan 2020

Just Showing Up Can Make A Difference: A History Of The Association For Communication Administration, Christopher Lynch

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

The Association for Communication Administration (ACA), founded in Chicago in 1972, claimed a membership of one hundred and two departments. It was an independent organization but shared resources with what is now the National Communication Association. Initial membership included theatre and broadcast programs under the umbrella of communication. These programs would create their own independent associations. ACA’s mission was to promote the role of communication administrators, chairpersons to university presidents, in academia. It has weathered the ebbs and flows of any organization as it moves towards its fiftieth anniversary. A newsletter to the membership led to the creation of JACA …

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Mentoring Faculty And Bolstering Students’ Emotional And Cognitive Interest: The Impact Of Perceived Homophily In The College Classroom, Robert J. Sidelinger, Leeanne M. Bell Mcmanus Jan 2020

Mentoring Faculty And Bolstering Students’ Emotional And Cognitive Interest: The Impact Of Perceived Homophily In The College Classroom, Robert J. Sidelinger, Leeanne M. Bell Mcmanus

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

For this study, expectancy violations theory was used to explore the associations among instructors’ inappropriate conversations, perceived homophily (similarity), and college students’ emotional and cognitive interest. Results found that students’ perceptions of instructor perceived homophily moderated the relationships between students’ reports of instructors’ enactment of inappropriate conversations and students’ emotional and cognitive interest. These results offer further understanding of the ways in which inappropriate conversations and perceived homophily affect perceptual outcomes in the college classroom, which can inform college faculty, administrators, and mentors. Limitations and future research directions are discussed.

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Editor’S Note, Janie Harden Fritz Jan 2020

Editor’S Note, Janie Harden Fritz

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This is the Editor’s Note to Volume 39, Issue 2 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.

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Listening Leadership: An Academic Perspective, Annie Rappeport, Andrew Wolvin Jan 2020

Listening Leadership: An Academic Perspective, Annie Rappeport, Andrew Wolvin

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

Much of the literature on leadership continues to focus on the leader who has the ability to shape a vision and articulate that vision, a vision that resonates with the mission, values, personnel and technology that make up the organization. To shape and articulate a resonant vision, the effective leader must be willing and able to listen. Only through listening to the stakeholders can a leader know how that vision should best be framed and implemented. One significant way that leadership listening can be implemented is through listening sessions. This study provides a detailed example of the effective use of …

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Speech Communication At Iowa State University: A Departmental History And Aftermath, Luke Lefebvre Jan 2020

Speech Communication At Iowa State University: A Departmental History And Aftermath, Luke Lefebvre

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

In 1903 at Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, a Public Speaking department emerged. This transition occurred over a decade prior to public speaking teachers seceding from English. Members of the department played foundational roles in establishing the national association and moving the discipline toward research-driven initiatives in order to secure legitimacy across academic landscapes. Surviving two World Wars, the Great Depression and title merger with English, the department again emerged as an independent academic unit prior to the 1970s. The department included faculty from areas of speech, drama, telecommunicative arts, and speech disorders, which progressed until its …

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Selective Subtraction For Handheld Cameras, Adeel A. Bhutta, Imran Nazir Junejo, Hassan Foroosh Jan 2020

Selective Subtraction For Handheld Cameras, Adeel A. Bhutta, Imran Nazir Junejo, Hassan Foroosh

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© 2013 IEEE. Background subtraction techniques model the background of the scene using the stationarity property and classify the scene into two classes namely foreground and background. In doing so, most moving objects become foreground indiscriminately, except in dynamic scenes (such as those with some waving tree leaves, water ripples, or a water fountain), which are typically 'learned' as part of the background using a large training set of video data. We introduce a novel concept of background as the objects other than the foreground, which may include moving objects in the scene that cannot be learned from a training …

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Intelligent Traffic Engineering In Software-Defined Vehicular Networking Based On Multi-Path Routing, Ahed Abugabah, Ahmad Ali Alzubi, Osama Alfarraj, Mohammed Al-Maitah, Waleed S. Alnumay Jan 2020

Intelligent Traffic Engineering In Software-Defined Vehicular Networking Based On Multi-Path Routing, Ahed Abugabah, Ahmad Ali Alzubi, Osama Alfarraj, Mohammed Al-Maitah, Waleed S. Alnumay

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© 2013 IEEE. This paper addresses traffic engineering (TE) issues in software-defined vehicular networking (SDVN). A brief analysis of the features of SDVN, which improves the efficiency of TE in SDVN, is presented. The feasibility of using multi-path routing with TE is substantiated. A procedure and an example of the formation of multiple routes based on a modified wave routing algorithm are given. Considering the features of the SDVN technology, a modified TE method is proposed, which reduces both the time complexity of forming multiple paths and the path reconfiguration time. The dynamic path reconfiguration algorithm is presented.

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The European Union And The United Arab Emirates As Civilian And Soft Powers Engaged In Sustainable Development Goals, Adam Krzymowski Jan 2020

The European Union And The United Arab Emirates As Civilian And Soft Powers Engaged In Sustainable Development Goals, Adam Krzymowski

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© Foundation of International Studies, 2020 and CSR, 2020. The article analyses the European Union (EU) – as European international organisation and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – the only federal state in the Arab World as civilian and soft powers, strongly active to reach the UN 2030 Agenda. The ambitious projects, as well as actions, strategies, and visions of this international entity for reaching Sustainable Development Goals, should be analysed due to its impact on the international environment and emerging new international relations architecture. The author carried out research using primarily descriptive and analytical methods. To this end, rich …

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The Use Of English And Linguistic Hybridity Among Emirati Millennials, Sarah Hopkyns, Wafa Zoghbor, Peter John Hassall Jan 2020

The Use Of English And Linguistic Hybridity Among Emirati Millennials, Sarah Hopkyns, Wafa Zoghbor, Peter John Hassall

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© 2020 The Authors. World Englishes published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd For Emirati millennials, multilingualism is both typical and expected. Although Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the official language of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Emiratis mainly use Khaleeji (Gulf Arabic) dialects at home. English is the lingua franca and common medium of instruction with approximately 100 other languages also being spoken in the nation. While top-down language policies overtly favor English and MSA, which appear on signage, in educational contexts, and online as two ‘pure’ languages placed side-by-side, language ‘on the ground’ is considerably more complex than …

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Tweets Classification And Sentiment Analysis For Personalized Tweets Recommendation, Asad Masood Khattak, Rabia Batool, Fahad Ahmed Satti, Jamil Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, Adil Mehmood Khan, Bashir Hayat Jan 2020

Tweets Classification And Sentiment Analysis For Personalized Tweets Recommendation, Asad Masood Khattak, Rabia Batool, Fahad Ahmed Satti, Jamil Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, Adil Mehmood Khan, Bashir Hayat

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© 2020 Asad Masood Khattak et al. Mining social network data and developing user profile from unstructured and informal data are a challenging task. The proposed research builds user profile using Twitter data which is later helpful to provide the user with personalized recommendations. Publicly available tweets are fetched and classified and sentiments expressed in tweets are extracted and normalized. This research uses domain-specific seed list to classify tweets. Semantic and syntactic analysis on tweets is performed to minimize information loss during the process of tweets classification. After precise classification and sentiment analysis, the system builds user interest-based profile by …

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Uvis: A Formula-Based End-User Tool For Data Visualization, Mohammad Amin Amin Kuhail, Soren Lauesen Jan 2020

Uvis: A Formula-Based End-User Tool For Data Visualization, Mohammad Amin Amin Kuhail, Soren Lauesen

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© 2013 IEEE. Existing approaches to data visualization are one of these two: accessible to end-user developers but limited in customizability, or inaccessible and expressive. For instance, commercial charting tools are easy to use, but support only predefined visualizations, while programmatic visualization tools support custom visualizations, but require advanced programming skills. We show that it is possible to combine the learnability of charting tools and the expressiveness of visualization tools. Uvis is an interactive visualization and user interface design tool that targets end-user developers with skills comparable to spreadsheet formulas. With Uvis, designers drag and drop visual objects, set visual …

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Destination Brand Positioning Theme Development Based On Consumers’ Personal Values, Filareti Kotsi, Steven Pike Jan 2020

Destination Brand Positioning Theme Development Based On Consumers’ Personal Values, Filareti Kotsi, Steven Pike

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© The Author(s) 2020. This research note reports an investigation into the personal values that are salient to consumers when considering stopover destinations during long-haul travel. The findings, from personal interviews using the Repertory Test and laddering analysis, present destination marketers with potential brand positioning themes based on personal values. One of the greatest challenges facing destination marketers is developing a succinct brand positioning theme representative of a multiattributed entity that effectively differentiates from competing places offering similar attributes and benefits. It is argued that the development of a brand identity based on personal values, which subsume a myriad of …

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Bodacious-Instance Coverage Mechanism For Wireless Sensor Network, Shahzad Ashraf, Omar Alfandi, Arshad Ahmad, Asad Masood Khattak, Bashir Hayat, Kyong Hoon Kim, Ayaz Ullah Jan 2020

Bodacious-Instance Coverage Mechanism For Wireless Sensor Network, Shahzad Ashraf, Omar Alfandi, Arshad Ahmad, Asad Masood Khattak, Bashir Hayat, Kyong Hoon Kim, Ayaz Ullah

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Copyright © 2020 Shahzad Ashraf et al. Due to unavoidable environmental factors, wireless sensor networks are facing numerous tribulations regarding network coverage. These arose due to the uncouth deployment of the sensor nodes in the wireless coverage area that ultimately degrades the performance and confines the coverage range. In order to enhance the network coverage range, an instance (node) redeployment-based Bodacious-instance Coverage Mechanism (BiCM) is proposed. The proposed mechanism creates new instance positions in the coverage area. It operates in two stages; in the first stage, it locates the intended instance position through the Dissimilitude Enhancement Scheme (DES) and moves …

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Functional And Whole Regression-Based Genome-Wide Association Analyses For Weightmeasurements Of Chicken Eggs, Burak Karacaören Jan 2020

Functional And Whole Regression-Based Genome-Wide Association Analyses For Weightmeasurements Of Chicken Eggs, Burak Karacaören

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

In genomic studies, complex traits can be modelled using repeated measures, thereby gaining a better understanding of the underlying biology. An increased number of measurements per individual might reduce measurement noise, thus increasing the likelihood of detecting true genomic signals. Here we aimed to predict genomic signals over a logistic curve referring to multiple underlying genetic architectures, for both simulated and longitudinal egg weight datasets. The chicken data were obtained from 92 sires and 801 dams of an 11th generation pure line, resulting in data from 1078 hens. We analysed longitudinal measurements of egg weights with 294,705 single nucleotide polymorphisms …

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Seasonal Variations In Histomorphology And Histochemistry Of The Prostate Gland Ofbuffalo Bulls, Samikshya Sarangi, Anuradha Gupta, Neelam Bansal, Varinder Uppal Jan 2020

Seasonal Variations In Histomorphology And Histochemistry Of The Prostate Gland Ofbuffalo Bulls, Samikshya Sarangi, Anuradha Gupta, Neelam Bansal, Varinder Uppal

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The prostate glands of buffalo bulls were collected from an abattoir immediately after slaughter and were fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin for paraffin block preparation by an acetone-benzene schedule. Paraffin sections of 3-5 μm were obtained on glass slides with a rotary microtome and were stained with various histomorphological and histochemical stains. The distributions of glandular acini and ducts were variable throughout the length of the pelvic urethra. The disseminate part of the prostate gland was derived from the epithelium of the pelvic urethra and was a compound tubulo-alveolar type of gland. The glandular acini comprised three types of …

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The Determination Of Antimicrobial And Antibiofilm Activities Of Foodborne Lactic Acid Bacteria Against Enterobacter Cloacae Isolates, Beytullah Kenar, Mi̇ne Eri̇k, Sevi̇m Feyza Erdoğmuş, Safi̇ye Eli̇f Korcan, Zahi̇de Köse, Gül Durmaz Jan 2020

The Determination Of Antimicrobial And Antibiofilm Activities Of Foodborne Lactic Acid Bacteria Against Enterobacter Cloacae Isolates, Beytullah Kenar, Mi̇ne Eri̇k, Sevi̇m Feyza Erdoğmuş, Safi̇ye Eli̇f Korcan, Zahi̇de Köse, Gül Durmaz

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The aim of this study was to investigate the antimicrobial and antibiofilm activities of 10 different lactic acid bacteria (LAB) strains isolated from local food sources of animal origin against 4 Enterobacter cloacae isolates obtained from clinical cases and determine their adhesion potentials to intestinal epithelial cells. In this study, all Enterobacter cloacae isolates (P3, P4, P5, P7) identified with the BD Phoenix automation system were detected to form biofilm with both Congo red agar and Microtiter plate methods. Amoxicillinclavulanate, cefuroxime, and ampicillin resistance was determined in all isolates. It was determined that LAB strains producing exopolysaccharide (EPS) were able …

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Genotyping Results Of Salmonella Infantis As A Food Poisoning Agent In Turkey Between2013 And 2017, Si̇bel Kizil Jan 2020

Genotyping Results Of Salmonella Infantis As A Food Poisoning Agent In Turkey Between2013 And 2017, Si̇bel Kizil

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The aim of this study is to define the genotyping relationship between 31 Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Infantis (S. Infantis) strains, which were the most isolated and identified causes of food poisoning between 2013 and 2017 in Turkey. These isolated strains were studied with the DiversiLab System (repetitive sequence-based PCR; rep-PCR; bioMerieux, France) and traditional serotyping for the identification of S. Infantis was also carried out. Totally, 31 S. Infantis isolates were genotyped. DNA was extracted from each isolate using the Microbial DNA Isolation Kit as well as rep-PCR. The dendrogram shows the diversity of the observed samples contained …

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In Vivo Biocompatibility And Fracture Healing Of Hydroxyapatite-Hexagonal Boron Nitridechitosan-Collagen Biocomposite Coating In Rats, Mehmet Zeki̇ Yilmaz Deveci̇, Ramazan Gönenci̇, İbrahi̇m Canpolat, Özgür Kanat Jan 2020

In Vivo Biocompatibility And Fracture Healing Of Hydroxyapatite-Hexagonal Boron Nitridechitosan-Collagen Biocomposite Coating In Rats, Mehmet Zeki̇ Yilmaz Deveci̇, Ramazan Gönenci̇, İbrahi̇m Canpolat, Özgür Kanat

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The biocompatibility of orthopaedic implants and their effects on fracture healing have key roles for success. In this study, it was aimed to investigate the effects of a novel biocomposite consisting of hydroxyapatite (HA), hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), chitosan (Cs), and type 1 collagen (Ct1) on biocompatibility and fracture healing in rats. A total of 60 adult male Wistar rats weighing 300?500 g were used in the study. The rats were randomly divided into 2 groups named A (uncoated/control) and B (biocomposite coated). Biocomposite (HA/h-BN/Cs/Ct1) coated and uncoated stainless-steel implants were used as intramedullary pins. Groups A and B were …

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The Impacts Of Laurel (Laurus Nobilis) And Basil (Ocimum Basilicum) Essential Oils Onoxidative Stability And Freshness Of Sous-Vide Sea Bass Fillets, Burcu Öztürk Keri̇moğlu, Hülya Serpi̇l Kavuşan, Fatma Meltem Serdaroğlu Jan 2020

The Impacts Of Laurel (Laurus Nobilis) And Basil (Ocimum Basilicum) Essential Oils Onoxidative Stability And Freshness Of Sous-Vide Sea Bass Fillets, Burcu Öztürk Keri̇moğlu, Hülya Serpi̇l Kavuşan, Fatma Meltem Serdaroğlu

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The purpose of this study was to highlight the effects of natural plant essential oils (EOs) on sous-vide sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) fillets. Three different treatments were prepared by addition of: 1) no essential oil (C), 2) laurel (Laurus nobilis) EO (L), and 3) basil (Ocimum basilicum) EO (B). In general, incorporation of the EOs did not cause significant changes in the proximate composition (P > 0.05). The addition of L caused a darker and more greenish-yellow colour, while addition of B did not have a considerable alteration in colour parameters. All the evaluated sensory parameters were within the acceptable ranges. …

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Impact Of The Individual Characteristics Of French Trotters On Their Racing Performance, Wanda Gorniak, Ewa Walkowicz, Maria Soroko, Mariusz Korczynski Jan 2020

Impact Of The Individual Characteristics Of French Trotters On Their Racing Performance, Wanda Gorniak, Ewa Walkowicz, Maria Soroko, Mariusz Korczynski

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of selected biometric characteristics on French trotters? racing performance. Moreover, the work attempts a prediction of racing performance indexes based on the horse?s individual characteristics, as well as the evaluation of the usefulness of an alternative method of a horse?s intravital measurements that limits the stress of the animal. A population of 64 horses of French trotter breed appearing in the Polish Stud Book of Trotters, which had participated in races in 2015, were subject to the investigation. The research material was represented by the indexes of racing performance combined …

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Identification Of Microbiological, Physical, And Chemical Quality Of Milk From Milkcollection Centers In Kastamonu Province, Di̇lek Özdemi̇r, Deren Tahmas Kahyaoğlu Jan 2020

Identification Of Microbiological, Physical, And Chemical Quality Of Milk From Milkcollection Centers In Kastamonu Province, Di̇lek Özdemi̇r, Deren Tahmas Kahyaoğlu

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The aim of this study is to perform microbiological, physical, and chemical analyses of the samples from producers who continuously bring milk to 30 actively operating milk collection centers throughout the spring, summer, autumn, and winter seasons in Kastamonu Province and determine whether the identified values are within legal limits. For microbiological properties of milk included in the research, total aerobic mesophilic bacteria (TAMB) and coliform group bacteria counts were identified. For the determination of physical and chemical properties, dry matter, fat, nonfat dry matter, lactose, protein, ash, pH, titratable acidity, refractive index, and specific gravity values were identified and …

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Genotypic Diversity Of Salmonella Ser. Gallinarum Strains Isolated From 2012 To 2016 In Brazil, Diogo Luiz Gadotti, Priscila Belleza Maciel, Raquel Rebelatto, Sabrina Castilho Duarte, Diogenes Dezen Jan 2020

Genotypic Diversity Of Salmonella Ser. Gallinarum Strains Isolated From 2012 To 2016 In Brazil, Diogo Luiz Gadotti, Priscila Belleza Maciel, Raquel Rebelatto, Sabrina Castilho Duarte, Diogenes Dezen

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

Salmonella Gallinarum biovar Gallinarum (SG) is a host-specific avian pathogen causing fowl typhoid (FT), a notifiable disease that causes septicemia in poultry and significant economic losses. In the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, several cases of FT were reported from 2012 to 2016. However, strains of these outbreaks have not yet been characterized, and the genotypic characterization of isolates is essential for epidemiological surveillance and outbreak investigations. The objective of this work was to study the genetic diversity of SG isolated from the FT outbreaks, aiming to identify similarity or dissimilarity among strains isolated from the reported foci. For this …

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Effect Of Sesamin On Protection Of Equine Articular Cartilage Degradation In Vitro, Siriporn Peansukmanee, Siriwan Tangyuenyong, Siriwan Ongchai Jan 2020

Effect Of Sesamin On Protection Of Equine Articular Cartilage Degradation In Vitro, Siriporn Peansukmanee, Siriwan Tangyuenyong, Siriwan Ongchai

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

Black sesame seed is a potential herbal medicine for osteoarthritis treatment as it contains sesamin, which has antiinflammatory properties and has demonstrated chondroprotective effects in many species. Horses are particularly susceptible to osteoarthritis. Inflammatory mediators and matrix metalloproteinase are important factors causing cartilage degradation. This study aimed to investigate the protective potential of sesamin (0.5-2.0 μM) against interleukin (IL)-1ß-induced equine cartilage explant degradation. The cartilage degradation was monitored by measuring the release of cartilage matrix molecules in culture media including sulfatedglycosaminoglycans and hyaluronan by calorimetric assay and ELISA assay, respectively. The remaining contents of collagen and uronic acid (UA) within …

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Cerebral Metastasis Of Transmissible Venereal Tumor After Effective Chemotherapy In A Dog, Gabriela Silva Hidalgo, Silvia Del Carmen Cota Guajardo, Margarita Del Socorro Davila Paredes, Nora Maria Carcamo Arechiga, Martin Lopez Valenzuela Jan 2020

Cerebral Metastasis Of Transmissible Venereal Tumor After Effective Chemotherapy In A Dog, Gabriela Silva Hidalgo, Silvia Del Carmen Cota Guajardo, Margarita Del Socorro Davila Paredes, Nora Maria Carcamo Arechiga, Martin Lopez Valenzuela

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

A male mixed breed street dog (age unknown) presented with an ocular mass and multiple ulcerated subcutaneous nodules on both hind limbs which bled easily when touched. Inspection of the genital organs revealed that no masses were present. The ocular mass and nodules were diagnosed as a transmissible venereal tumor (TVT) by fine-needle aspiration cytology. The total remission of the tumor was achieved after 5 applications of vincristine sulfate. The dog was adopted during the remission period, but 5 months after adoption he developed neurological signs and died. The necropsy revealed a mass located in the trunk of the corpus …

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Dmem And Fbs As Thawing Solutions For Frozen Semen Of Pigs Can Improve Sperm Motility And Sow Reproductive Performance, Peng Zheng, Ziming Wang, Xiaoyu Li, Fushuo Huang, Mingjun Ma, He Huang Jan 2020

Dmem And Fbs As Thawing Solutions For Frozen Semen Of Pigs Can Improve Sperm Motility And Sow Reproductive Performance, Peng Zheng, Ziming Wang, Xiaoyu Li, Fushuo Huang, Mingjun Ma, He Huang

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The purpose of this experiment was to investigate the effects of Beltsville thawing solution (BTS), Androhep, and Dulbecco?s modified Eagle medium + Fatal bovine serum (D-F) as diluents of frozen semen on sperm motility and sow reproductive performance. In experiment 1, boar semen was collected and diluted to 2.0 × 109/60 mL, 1.5 × 109/60 mL, and 1.5 × 109/40 mL with Androhep. The appropriate semen dose was determined by postcervical insemination. In experiment 2, boar semen was fumigated with liquid nitrogen and thawed semen was diluted to 1.5 × 109/40 mL with D-F, Androhep, and BTS, respectively. The effects …

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