Cloud-SEnergy: A bin-packing based multi-cloud service broker for energy efficient composition and execution of data-intensive applications

© 2018 Elsevier Inc. The over-reliance of today's world on information and communication technologies (ICT) has led to an exponential increase in data production, network traffic, and energy consumption. To mitigate the ecological impact of this increase on the environment, a major challenge that this paper tackles is how to best select the most energy efficient services from cross-continental competing cloud-based datacenters. This selection is addressed by our Cloud-SEnergy, a system that uses a bin-packing technique to generate the most efficient service composition plans. Experiments were conducted to compare Cloud-SEnergy's efficiency with 5 established techniques in multi-cloud environments (All clouds, Base cloud, Smart cloud, COM2, and DC-Cloud). The results gained from the experiments demonstrate a superior performance of Cloud-SEnergy which ranged from an average energy consumption reduction of 4.3% when compared to Based Cloud technique, to an average reduction of 43.3% when compared to All Clouds technique. Furthermore, the percentage reduction in the number of examined services achieved by Cloud-SEnergy ranged from 50% when compared to Smart Cloud and average of 82.4% when compared to Base Cloud. In term of run-time, Cloud-SEnergy resulted in average reduction which ranged from 8.5% when compared to DC-Cloud, to 28.2% run-time reduction when compared to All Clouds

Efeito de antibiótico e probióticos sobre o desempenho e rendimento de carcaça de frangos de corte Effect of antibiotic and probiotic on the performance and carcass yield of broilers

Foram utilizados 3.000 pintos de corte em delineamento inteiramente ao acaso com cinco repetições de 150 aves por unidade experimental para avaliar o efeito de promotores de crescimento sobre o consumo de ração, ganho de peso e conversão alimentar de frangos de corte. As dietas experimentais foram: 1- dieta inicial (20,2% de proteína bruta e 2931kcal de energia metabolizável) de 1 a 20 dias de idade (DI) e dieta final (18,5% de proteína bruta e 2993kcal de energia metabolizável) de 21 a 40 dias de idade (DF); 2- DI mais 0,02% do probiótico Calsporin 10 para a fase inicial e DF mais 0,02% do probiótico Calsporin 10 para a fase final; 3- DI mais 2,0% de probiótico Estibion aves na fase inicial e DF mais 0,63% do probiótico Estibion aves para a fase final; 4- DI mais 0,013% do antibiótico bacitracina de zinco para a fase inicial e DF mais 0,013% do antibiótico bacitracina de zinco para a fase final. Na fase inicial os frangos alimentados com dietas contendo probióticos consumiram menos ração e tiveram melhor conversão alimentar. Os promotores de crescimento não tiveram efeito sobre as variáveis estudadas na fase final e no período total de criação. Observou-se maior peso de coxa para machos alimentados com dietas contendo o poliprobiótico.<br>A completely randomized design with five replicates and 150 chicks per experimental unity were used to evaluate the effect of growth promoters on feed intake, weight gain and feed:weight gain ratio of broilers. The experimental diets were: 1- initial diet (20.2% of crude protein and 2931kcal of metabolizable energy) from 1 to 20 days of age (ID) and final diet (18.5% of crude protein and 2993kcal of metabolizable energy) from 21 to 40 days of age (FD); 2- ID plus 0.02% of Calsporin10 probiotic and FD plus 0.02% of Calsporin10 probiotic; 3- ID plus 2.0% of probiotic Estibion and FD plus 0.63% of probiotic Estibion; 4- ID plus 0.013% of Zinc bacitracin and FD plus 0.013% of Zinc bacitracin. During the initial period broilers fed on probiotic diets showed lower feed intake and better feed:weight gain ratio. However growth promoters have no effect on the studied traits in the final and total periods. Higher thigh yields were observed for male fed on poliprobiotic diets