Plant extracts with antioxidant activities have effect on male mule ducks performance, and livestock animals have a strong metabolism activity, due to their high production requirements. It can lead to oxidative stres...Plant extracts with antioxidant activities have effect on male mule ducks performance, and livestock animals have a strong metabolism activity, due to their high production requirements. It can lead to oxidative stress disorders; deteriorate growth performance and even their health. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of a mixture of active ingredients of plant extracts, known for their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, on performances of mule ducks, in rearing and force-feeding period. Then 3,200 day-old mule ducks （MMGxPKL） were separated in 2 groups （negative control and treatment = EL） ×4 replicates per group for the rearing period. Each group received the same feeding program. EL group was supplemented, until the force-feeding period, with a mixture of actives from plants incorporated at 0.5% in the complete feed. At 84 days, the live weight and the feed consumption were measured for each treatment. Blood samples were also taken to measure the activity of two antioxidant enzymes： SOD （superoxide dismutase） and GPx （glutathione peroxidase）. For force-feeding, the ducks were separated among 3 farmers during 12 days. At slaughter, individual measures of breast and liver were conducted. At 84 days, mean live weight for EL group was improved by 3.7% （p 〈 0.001）. Feed conversion ratio was also improved （4.50 versus 4.62）. At slaughter, breast weight was higher for EL group （p 〈 0.01）. A high variability in the results of the activities of antioxidant enzymes was obtained. A decrease in SOD activity in erythrocytes was observed for the EL group （p 〈 0.05）. The results showed that the actives assessed in this study, distributed to ducks during the rearing period, had a beneficial effect on growth performance over that period. The mechanisms of endogenous antioxidant system and inflammatory responses remain to be elucidated.展开更多
Minjian has become an important concept in recent scholarly research. It is widely used by scholars to indicate specific social and cultural spaces existing beyond the control of state power, therefore, minjian social...Minjian has become an important concept in recent scholarly research. It is widely used by scholars to indicate specific social and cultural spaces existing beyond the control of state power, therefore, minjian social-cultural spaces are more often than not marginal and peripheral. In the field of performing arts, minjian theatre refers to performances produced by private theatre companies as opposed to state-run groups. These private companies or grass-root groups, without the interference of the government, produce artistic expressions that reflect current social reality to a certain extent. For a long time, the study of minjian theatre has been framed as forms of resistance against the ideology propagated by state-run theatres. Based on this paradigm, this paper, through the case analysis of Shanghai minjian theatre companies, attempts to illuminate the production mechanism and developmental process of minjian theatres. In so dong, this paper will explore the aesthetic and social-political values of minjian theatres.展开更多
Taxonomy is generated to effectively organize and access large volume of data. A taxonomy is a way of representing concepts that exist in data. It needs to continuously evolve to reflect changes in data. Existing auto...Taxonomy is generated to effectively organize and access large volume of data. A taxonomy is a way of representing concepts that exist in data. It needs to continuously evolve to reflect changes in data. Existing automatic taxonomy generation techniques do not handle the evolution of data; therefore, the generated taxonomies do not truly represent the data. The evolution of data can be handled by either regenerating taxonomy from scratch, or allowing taxonomy to incrementally evolve whenever changes occur in the data. The former approach is not economical in terms of time and resources. A taxonomy incremental evolution（TIE） algorithm, as proposed, is a novel attempt to handle the data that evolve in time. It serves as a layer over an existing clustering-based taxonomy generation technique and allows an existing taxonomy to incrementally evolve. The algorithm was evaluated in research articles selected from the computing domain. It was found that the taxonomy using the algorithm that evolved with data needed considerably shorter time, and had better quality per unit time as compared to the taxonomy regenerated from scratch.展开更多
文摘Plant extracts with antioxidant activities have effect on male mule ducks performance, and livestock animals have a strong metabolism activity, due to their high production requirements. It can lead to oxidative stress disorders; deteriorate growth performance and even their health. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of a mixture of active ingredients of plant extracts, known for their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, on performances of mule ducks, in rearing and force-feeding period. Then 3,200 day-old mule ducks （MMGxPKL） were separated in 2 groups （negative control and treatment = EL） ×4 replicates per group for the rearing period. Each group received the same feeding program. EL group was supplemented, until the force-feeding period, with a mixture of actives from plants incorporated at 0.5% in the complete feed. At 84 days, the live weight and the feed consumption were measured for each treatment. Blood samples were also taken to measure the activity of two antioxidant enzymes： SOD （superoxide dismutase） and GPx （glutathione peroxidase）. For force-feeding, the ducks were separated among 3 farmers during 12 days. At slaughter, individual measures of breast and liver were conducted. At 84 days, mean live weight for EL group was improved by 3.7% （p 〈 0.001）. Feed conversion ratio was also improved （4.50 versus 4.62）. At slaughter, breast weight was higher for EL group （p 〈 0.01）. A high variability in the results of the activities of antioxidant enzymes was obtained. A decrease in SOD activity in erythrocytes was observed for the EL group （p 〈 0.05）. The results showed that the actives assessed in this study, distributed to ducks during the rearing period, had a beneficial effect on growth performance over that period. The mechanisms of endogenous antioxidant system and inflammatory responses remain to be elucidated.
文摘Minjian has become an important concept in recent scholarly research. It is widely used by scholars to indicate specific social and cultural spaces existing beyond the control of state power, therefore, minjian social-cultural spaces are more often than not marginal and peripheral. In the field of performing arts, minjian theatre refers to performances produced by private theatre companies as opposed to state-run groups. These private companies or grass-root groups, without the interference of the government, produce artistic expressions that reflect current social reality to a certain extent. For a long time, the study of minjian theatre has been framed as forms of resistance against the ideology propagated by state-run theatres. Based on this paradigm, this paper, through the case analysis of Shanghai minjian theatre companies, attempts to illuminate the production mechanism and developmental process of minjian theatres. In so dong, this paper will explore the aesthetic and social-political values of minjian theatres.
文摘Taxonomy is generated to effectively organize and access large volume of data. A taxonomy is a way of representing concepts that exist in data. It needs to continuously evolve to reflect changes in data. Existing automatic taxonomy generation techniques do not handle the evolution of data; therefore, the generated taxonomies do not truly represent the data. The evolution of data can be handled by either regenerating taxonomy from scratch, or allowing taxonomy to incrementally evolve whenever changes occur in the data. The former approach is not economical in terms of time and resources. A taxonomy incremental evolution（TIE） algorithm, as proposed, is a novel attempt to handle the data that evolve in time. It serves as a layer over an existing clustering-based taxonomy generation technique and allows an existing taxonomy to incrementally evolve. The algorithm was evaluated in research articles selected from the computing domain. It was found that the taxonomy using the algorithm that evolved with data needed considerably shorter time, and had better quality per unit time as compared to the taxonomy regenerated from scratch.
