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Corresponding Author: I. Zulkifli, Institute of Tropical Agriculture
No full textAbstract: A randomized complete design with 6 replicates of 10 birds per treatment (n = 60) was utilized to evaluate the effects of feeding corn dried distillers grains with solubles (CDGS) on growth performance, carcass yield and breast muscle fatty acid composition of chickens. A total of 300 male broilers (Cobb 500) were fed with different levels of CDGS (0% -control, 5, 10, 15 and 20%) in starter (age 0 to 21 day) and grower (age 21 to 42 day) diets, and weight gains and feed intakes were recorded. All diets were formulated isocaloric and isonitrogenous which met or exceeded the NRC requirements. At the end of the experiment (42 day) eight birds from each treatment were slaughtered to measure the dressing percentage, carcass parts yield and fatty acid profile of breast meat (from the left carcass side). Birds fed 5% CDGS had better (p<0.05) feed conversion ratio than those fed 10, 15 or 20%, but were not different (p>0.05) from control. There were no differences (p>0.05) in overall weight gain, feed intake, dressing percentages and carcass parts yields (% of carcass weight) among treatments. There were greater (p<0.05) percentages of linoleic acid (18:2 n-6) and elevated (p<0.05) polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acid ratios in chicken breast meat with increasing dietary CDGS. In conclusion, incorporating 5% of CDGS in the broiler diet did not affect (p>0.05) the growth performance and carcass yield. However, increasing the dietary CDGS increased (p<0.05) the percentage of linoleic acid and polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acid ratio in chicken breast meat
A Note on the Smarandache Near-To-Primorial Function
Get PDFIn a brief paper passed on to the author[I], Michael R. Mudge used the definition of the Primorial function
Nurturing psychological well-being through an online positive psychological intervention: a PERMA model approach
No full textThis study examines the effects of an online positive psychological intervention (OPPI) on psychological well-being, stress, and burnout levels in an international sample, using a randomised controlled trial design while controlling for initial resilience levels. After a six-week intervention based on the PERMA model (Seligman, 2011), participants showed increased psychological well-being and reduced burnout levels compared to the control group. No significant effects were found for stress and the exhaustion dimension of burnout. The interventions impact remained significant three months after completion of the program for two dimensions of burnout (i.e., cognitive and emotional impairment) and several aspects of psychological well-being (i.e., positive emotions, meaning, accomplishment, and happiness). Resilience emerged as a significant covariate for the relationship, meaning, and accomplishment dimensions. These findings inform practical applications of online PERMA-based interventions across workplaces, education, public health, and therapeutic settings, effectively emphasising structured support to enhance adherence, reduce burnout, and improve overall well-being
Against autobiography: Towards a self- fictionalisation
No full textI would like to start this essay with a poem whose author I will not reveal until the end of the piece
Illustration of a co-authorship network.
No full text<p>(a) <i>author-paper</i> network for three papers written by four authors; (b) corresponding co-authorship network; and (c) co-authorship network showing same network attributes for each author. <i>Au</i> stands for <i>Author</i>, <i>P</i> stands for <i>Paper</i> and <i>At</i> stands for network attribute (e.g., <i>degree centrality</i>) of authors. Although in this figure we consider two attributes (i.e., <i>At1</i> and <i>At2</i>) for illustration, we consider network attributes of <i>degree centrality</i>, <i>closeness centrality</i> and <i>betweenness centrality</i> of all authors for research analysis in this study.</p
General Forms of Wave Functions for Dipositronium, Ps2
Get PDFThe consequences of particle interchange symmetry for the structure of wave functions of the states of dipositronium was recently discussed by the author [I]. In the present work, the methodology is simply explained, and the wave functions are explicitly given
Birmingham News sleeve BN0049208
No full textVirginia Hamilton / Award winning author / Virginia Hamilton, award winning author, I would like a shot of her standing at the stacks or with a young patron. / Downtown library / Griffith Still / Tshombe Allen / Linda / Shan - glasses / Qasim / Sheikh / [Work order included
Philosophy of guidebook. Dialogue in totality mode
No full textУ статті розглянуто путівник у широкому міждисциплінарному форматі, що
дало можливість помістити його в нову конфігурацію смислового поля культури і філософії. Як методологічний принцип пропонується підхід, у якому діалог виступає
специфічним інструментом і основною подією комунікації під час подорожі. Обговорюються можливості і обмеження діалогу для реалізації людини шляху.The article considers a guidebook in a broad interdisciplinary format that made
it possible to place it in a new configuration of the semantic field of culture and philosophy.
The concept of the guidebook is used expanded as: 1) a guidebook in the
strict sense, that is a guide for orientation of a traveler (tourist) in an unknown area;
2) travel essays (diaries, “walking”, on-board magazines) as a literary or philosophical
essay written in the course of and under the impression of travel, 3) works built
in the form of an initiation myth; 4) pictorial series or works illustrated with drawings,
paintings, photographs created during travel.
As a methodological principle, an approach is suggested in which the dialogue
serves as a specific instrument and the main event of communication. From the point
of view of the organization of dialogue, the following forms of realization of relations
between its subjects are distinguished: the author I – a potential reader/viewer; the
author I – God; the author I – an interlocutor who meets on the way; the author I –
own or alien culture; internal auto-dialogue; author’s I – nature. Opportunities and
restrictions of dialogue for realization of the human way are discussed. When it turns
out to be involved in the integrity of the world, the dialogue ends, and its possibilities
are exhausted
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