Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ION-BY-ION COOLING EFFICIENCIES

We present ion-by-ion cooling efficiencies for low-density gas. We use Cloudy (version 10.00) to estimate the cooling efficiencies for each ion of the first 30 elements (H–Zn) individually. We present results for gas temperatures between 104 and 108 K, assuming low densities and optically thin conditions. When nonequilibrium ionization plays a significant role the ionization states deviate from those that obtain in collisional ionization equilibrium (CIE), and the local cooling efficiency at any given temperature depends on specific nonequilibrium ion fractions. The results presented here allow for an efficient estimate of the total cooling efficiency for any ionic composition. We also list the elemental cooling efficiencies assuming CIE conditions. These can be used to construct CIE cooling efficiencies for non-solar abundance ratios or to estimate the cooling due to elements not included in any nonequilibrium computation. All the computational results are listed in convenient online tables.
METODE BAYESIAN DALAM PENAKSIRAN MODEL SPATIAL AUTOREGRESSIVE (SAR) (STUDI KASUS PEMODELAN PENYAKIT TB PARU DI KOTA BANDUNG)

Aplikasi pemodelan spatial ekonometrik dalam berbagai bidang ilmu semakin banyak khususnya dalam ruang lingkup spatial regional dan spatial epidemiologi. Metode ini berkembang karena kemampuan metode ini mengakomodasi adanya ketergantungan spatial dalam data. Analisis ekonometrik biasa tidak mampu memberikan hasil yang baik pada saat data tidak berdistribusi independen. Metode Maksimum likelihood adalah metode yang umumnya digunakan untuk menaksir parameter model spatial econometrics. Namun metode ini tidak cukup baik dalam mengestimasi parameter model pada saat unit spatialnya sangat banyak. Metode alternative Bayesian diperkenalkan untuk mengatasi masalah tersebut. Penelitian ini mengkaji pendekatan metode Bayesian pada model Spatial Autoregresive (SAR). Model SAR merupakan satu dari delapan model spatial ecokometrik yang paling banyak digunakan. Pendekatan Bayesian akan diaplikasikan pada pemodelan kasus TB Paru di Kota Bandung Kata kunci: Bayesian, Model SAR, Maximum Likelihood, Spatial
Structural, mechanical and Raman spectroscopic characterization of the layered uranyl silicate mineral, uranophane-α, by density functional theory methods

ABSTRACT The layered uranyl silicate clay-like mineral, uranophane-α, Ca(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2·5H2O, was studied by first-principles calculations based on the density functional theory method. The structure, observed in nature in a wide variety of compounds having the uranophane sheet anion topology, is confirmed here for the first time by means of rigorous theoretical solid-state calculations. The computed lattice parameters, bond lengths and bond angles were in very good agreement with the experimental ones, and the calculated X-ray powder trace accurately reproduced its experimental counterpart. The mechanical properties of uranophane-α, for which there are no experimental data for terms of comparison, were determined, and the satisfaction of the mechanical stability Born conditions of the structure was demonstrated by calculations of the elasticity tensor. The Raman spectrum was computed by the density functional perturbation theory and compared with the experimental spectrum. The vibrational properties of this mineral were well characterized, showing a good performance in all of the studied spectral range. Theoretical methods allowed assignment of the Raman bands to vibrations localized in different fragments within the crystal unit cell. Finally, the possibility of incorporation of strontium inside the uranophane structure was studied. The computed structure, X-ray powder trace and Raman spectrum of Sr-exchanged uranophane were very close to those of the ordinary Ca-uranophane.
Morphometric changes in lumbar vertebral bodies and intervertebral discs in tandem with diminution in bone mineral density

Background: Morphometry of vertebral body (VB) and intervertebral disc space (IVD) is a reflection of the osseous strength, which primarily depends on the bone mineral density (BMD) and a host of other factors. As an individual ages, the internal hormonal milieu and the BMD undergoes a change. This is a ubiquitous phenomenon that impacts the quality of life and increases morbidity and mortality. The pathophysiologic process that causes changes in the BMD tends to alter the morphology of VB and the adjacent IVD as well. Aim: To correlate the morphological changes in the lumbar VBs and IVDs using MRI with changes in BMD in the Indian population. Materials and Methods: A total of 100 ambulatory adults in the age group 40–70 years were included in the study. The lumbar BMD was measured using a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). Morphometry of the VBs and IVDs was performed using 1.5-T MRI, T2-weighted sagittal images and their heights (at various levels) and volumes were measured. Continuous variables were examined by analysis of covariance after correction for height and age. Results: There was no age difference among the subjects of normal BMD, osteopenia, and osteoporosis. Lower BMD was associated with a decrease in anterior, middle, and posterior heights (Ha, Hm, and Hp, respectively) and antero-posterior dimension (AP) of the vertebral body, leading to an increased biconcavity index. With regard to IVD, decrease in BMD was associated with a decline in Ha and Hp and AP dimension and increase in middle height, leading to an increased biconvexity index in both genders. Lower BMD was further associated with an overall decrease in both VB and IVD volume. Conclusion: The change in BMD in subjects with osteopenia and osteoporosis affects the morphology of spinal vertebra and adjacent IVDs and is associated with a decrease in VB and IVD volumes. MRI morphometry correlates well with the BMD measurements.
Induction of larval settlement in the serpulid polychaete Hydroides elegans (Haswell): Role of bacterial extracellular polymers

Larval settlement in the marine polychaete Hydroides elegans is effectively mediated upon contact with the surface of marine bacterial films. Using the bacterium Roseobacter litoralis as a model strain, the effect of bacterial extracellular polymers (exopolymers) on larval settlement of H. elegans was investigated. Bioassays with exopolymer fractions dissociated from bacterial films evoked the initial stages of the larval settlement process, i.e. larvae slowed down, secreted a mucous thread and crawled over the surface. This response is typical of larvae that encounter an attractive bacterial film. In contrast, bioassays with exopolymers in association with UV‐irradiated, metabolically inactive bacterial films evoked complete settlement. However, the percentage of responding larvae was negatively correlated with the magnitude of UV‐dosage. Since UV energy crosslinks both intra‐ and extracellular proteinaceous components, it could not be distinguished whether the decrease in larval settlement was due to a modification of proteinaceous components of exopolymers or due the elimination of cellular activity. Nevertheless, the results ascribe bacterial exopolymers the role of an indicator of substratum suitability and provide evidence that the polysaccharide moiety of exopolymers does not complement this effect.
Empirical evaluation of a prior for Bayesian phylogenetic inference

The Bayesian method of phylogenetic inference often produces high posterior probabilities (PPs) for trees or clades, even when the trees are clearly incorrect. The problem appears to be mainly due to large sizes of molecular datasets and to the large-sample properties of Bayesian model selection and its sensitivity to the prior when several of the models under comparison are nearly equally correct (or nearly equally wrong) and are of the same dimension. A previous suggestion to alleviate the problem is to let the internal branch lengths in the tree become increasingly small in the prior with the increase in the data size so that the bifurcating trees are increasingly star-like. In particular, if the internal branch lengths are assigned the exponential prior, the prior mean μ0 should approach zero faster than but more slowly than 1/n, where n is the sequence length. This paper examines the usefulness of this data size-dependent prior using a dataset of the mitochondrial protein-coding genes from the baleen whales, with the prior mean fixed at μ0=0.1n−2/3. In this dataset, phylogeny reconstruction is sensitive to the assumed evolutionary model, species sampling and the type of data (DNA or protein sequences), but Bayesian inference using the default prior attaches high PPs for conflicting phylogenetic relationships. The data size-dependent prior alleviates the problem to some extent, giving weaker support for unstable relationships. This prior may be useful in reducing apparent conflicts in the results of Bayesian analysis or in making the method less sensitive to model violations.
Photodynamic therapy associated with full-mouth ultrasonic debridement in the treatment of severe chronic periodontitis: a randomized-controlled clinical trial

Background: Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a method of microbial reduction which can benefit periodontal treatment in areas of difficult access, such as deep pockets and furcations. The aim of this randomized controlled clinical trial was to evaluate the effects of PDT as an adjunct to full-mouth ultrasonic debridement in the treatment of severe chronic periodontitis. Material and Methods: Twenty-two patients with at least one pocket with a probing depth (PD) of ≥7 mm and one pocket with a PD of ≥5 mm and bleeding on probing (BOP) on each side of the mouth were included, characterizing a split mouth design. The control group underwent full-mouth ultrasonic debridement and the test group received the same treatment associated with PDT. The PDT was performed on only one side of the mouth and the initial step consisted of subgingival irrigation with 0.005% methylene blue dye. Two minutes after applying the photosensitizer, the low power laser - AsGaAl (Photon Lase III - PL7336, DMC, São Carlos -São Paulo, Brazil) was applied (660 nm, 100 mW, 9 J, 90 seconds per site, 320 J/cm2, diameter tip 600 µm). The following clinical parameters were evaluated: plaque index, gingival index, BOP, gingival recession (GR), PD, and clinical attachment level (CAL). All parameters were collected before, 1, 3 and 6 months after treatment. Results: An improvement in BOP, PD and CAL was observed after treatment, in both groups, but without any difference between them. After 6 months, the PD decreased from 5.11±0.56 mm to 2.83±0.47 mm in the test group (p<0.05) and from 5.15±0.46 mm to 2.83±0.40 mm in the control group (p<0.05). The CAL changed, after 6 months, from 5.49±0.76 mm to 3.41±0.84 mm in the test group (p<0.05) and from 5.53±0.54 to 3.39±0.51 mm in the control group (p<0.05). Conclusion: Both approaches resulted in significant clinical improvements in the treatment of severe chronic periodontits, however, the PDT did not provide any additional benefit to those obtained with full-mouth ultrasonic debridement used alone.
The Role of Environmental Factors in Modulating Immune Responses in Early Life

The concept of immunological memory stipulates that past exposures shape present immune function. These exposures include not only specific antigens impacting adaptive immune memory but also conserved pathogen or danger associated molecular patterns that mold innate immune responses for prolonged periods of time. It should thus not come as a surprise that there is a vast range of external or environmental factors that impact immunity. The importance of environmental factors modulating immunity is most readily recognized in early life, a period of rapidly changing environments. We here summarize available data on the role of environment shaping immune development and from it derive an overarching hypothesis relating the underlying molecular mechanisms and evolutionary principles involved.
Currency Hedging by Multinationals Under Financial Crisis

Hedging is no longer an option for multinational corporations, especially during global financial crisis. This was clearly manifested in companies’ comprehensive income statement as in WalMart’s case that “During fiscal 2009, foreign currency exchange rate had a $2.3 billion unfavorable impact on the international segment’s net sales” and the company just lost $680 million in the second quarter of 2013 due to no currency hedging. Motivated by the information, this paper examines the effects of currency hedging by multinational corporations in the sectors of oil & gas, information technology, and consumer goods and services over the past five years from 2008 to 2012. By manually collecting the currency hedging data and other variables from each of the thirty multinationals’ comprehensive income statements and consolidated balance sheets, we tested the hedging impact on firm value for the full, “during,” and “after” crisis periods. Employing Tobin’s Q model as in Allayannis and Weston (2001), the results indicate that liquidity is positive and significant to the firm value for all periods, while growth options negatively impact the valuation for the full and ‘after’ samples. Furthermore, hedging does not appear to be significant in any sample period as found in Jin and Jorion (2006) oil and gas companies. However, the sub-sample of ‘during’ crisis period demonstrates an interesting finding that the negative driving force of growth options on firm value becomes insignificant, which is intuitively making sense as growth options would put financial constraints on the firm particularly during financial crisis. This is a new finding that contributes to the current literature. JEL classification: G15, G32
Late Eocene – Early Miocene facies and stratigraphic development, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand: the transition to plate boundary tectonics during regional transgression

Abstract Eight latest Eocene to earliest Miocene stratigraphic surfaces have been identified in petroleum well data from the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. These surfaces define seven regional sedimentary packages, of variable thickness and lithofacies, forming a mixed siliciclastic–carbonate system. The evolving tectonic setting, particularly the initial development of the Australian–Pacific convergent margin, controlled geographic, stratigraphic and facies variability. This tectonic signal overprinted a regional transgressive trend that culminated in latest Oligocene times. The earliest influence of active compressional tectonics is reflected in the preservation of latest Eocene – Early Oligocene deepwater sediments in the northern Taranaki Basin. Thickness patterns for all mid Oligocene units onwards show a shift in sedimentation to the eastern Taranaki Basin, controlled by reverse movement on the Taranaki Fault System. This resulted in the deposition of a thick sedimentary wedge, initially of coarse clastic sediments, later carbonate dominated, in the foredeep close to the fault. In contrast, Oligocene active normal faulting in a small sub-basin in the south may represent the most northerly evidence for rifting in southern Zealandia, related to Emerald Basin formation. The Early Miocene period saw a return to clastic-dominated deposition, the onset of regional regression and the southward propagation of compressional tectonics.
Factors Affecting Quality and Health Promoting Compounds during Growth and Postharvest Life of Sweet Cherry (Prunus avium L.)

Sweet cherries are attractive fruits due to their taste, color, nutritional value, and beneficial health effects. Sweet cherry is a highly perishable fruit and all quality attributes and the level of health promoting compounds are affected by growth conditions, picking, packing, transport, and storage. During production, the correct combination of scion × rootstock will produce fruits with higher firmness, weight, sugars, vitamins, and phenolic compounds that boost the fruit antioxidant activity. Orchard management, such as applying drip irrigation and summer pruning, will increase fruit sugar levels and total phenolic content, while application of growth regulators can result in improved storability, increased red coloring, increased fruit size, and reduced cracking. Salicylic acid, oxalic acid, acetylsalicylic acid, and methyl salicylate are promising growth regulators as they also increase total phenolics, anthocyanins, and induce higher activity of antioxidant enzymes. These growth regulators are now also applied as fruit coatings that improve shelf-life with higher antioxidant enzyme activities and total phenolics. Optimizing storage and transport conditions, such as hydro cooling with added CaCl2, chain temperature and relative humidity control, are crucial for slowing down decay of quality attributes and increasing the antioxidant capacity. Application of controlled atmosphere during storage is successful in delaying quality attributes, but lowers ascorbic acid levels. The combination of low temperature storage in combination with modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) is successful in reducing the incidence of fruit decay, while preserving taste attributes and stem color with a higher antioxidant capacity. A new trend in MAP is the use of biodegradable films such as micro-perforated polylactic acid film that combine significant retention of quality attributes, high consumer acceptability, and a reduced environmental footprint. Another trend is to replace MAP with fruit edible coatings. Edible coatings, such as various lipid composite coatings, have advantages in retaining quality attributes and increasing the antioxidant activity (chitosan) and are regarded as approved food additives, although studies regarding consumer acceptance are needed. The recent publication of the sweet cherry genome will likely increase the identification of more candidate genes involved in growing and maintaining health related compounds and quality attributes.
Evolution and Conservation of Plant NLR Functions

In plants and animals, nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeats (NLR)-containing proteins play pivotal roles in innate immunity. Despite their similar biological functions and protein architecture, comparative genome-wide analyses of NLRs and genes encoding NLR-like proteins suggest that plant and animal NLRs have independently arisen in evolution. Furthermore, the demonstration of interfamily transfer of plant NLR functions from their original species to phylogenetically distant species implies evolutionary conservation of the underlying immune principle across plant taxonomy. In this review we discuss plant NLR evolution and summarize recent insights into plant NLR-signaling mechanisms, which might constitute evolutionarily conserved NLR-mediated immune mechanisms.
Anterior and posterior subareas of the dorsolateral frontal cortex in socially relevant decisions based on masked affect expressions

Socially-relevant decisions are based on clearly recognizable but also not consciously accessible affective stimuli. We studied the role of the dorsolateral frontal cortex (DLFC) in decision-making on masked affect expressions using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Our paradigm permitted us to capture brain activity during a pre-decision phase when the subjects viewed emotional expressions below the threshold of subjective awareness, and during the decision phase, which was based on verbal descriptions as the choice criterion. Using meta-analytic connectivity modeling, we found that the preparatory phase of the decision was associated with activity in a right-posterior portion of the DLFC featuring co-activations in the left-inferior frontal cortex. During the subsequent decision a right-anterior and more dorsal portion of the DLFC became activated, exhibiting a different co-activation pattern. These results provide evidence for partially independent sub-regions within the DLFC, supporting the notion of dual associative processes in intuitive judgments.
Subcutaneous Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy and Immediate Breast Reconstruction

Background: Without a doubt, nipple-sparing mastectomy affords a better cosmetic result than modified radical mastectomy. However, the surgical safety, radicality, complications, indications, and psychological benefits associated with this method are controversially discussed. Patients and Methods: We carried out a retrospective analysis of 35 patients (study group) who underwent nipple-sparing mastectomy between 2000 and 2008. Indications, incision selection, postoperative complications, recurrence, morbidity rate, and psychological status were recorded and assessed. Results: The survival outcome (5.7 vs. 6%; p = 0.35) and complication rate (5.7 vs. 19%; p = 0.062) of patients who underwent subcutaneous nipple-sparing mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction with prosthesis were similar to those of patients who underwent modified radical mastectomy. Most patients in the study group were completely satisfied with the aesthetic results (immediately, p < 0.001; < 1 year, p < 0.001; > 1 year, p < 0.001), and no serious psychological disorders or stress were detected relative to patients with traditional mastectomy. Conclusion: Subcutaneous nipple-sparing mastectomy was beneficial and safe in this cohort of breast cancer patients. The approach is suitable for patients with isolated lesions located ≥ 2 cm from the nipple, as well as for patients with multiple lesions who are anxious about a good cosmetic appearance.
Sustainability of composting as an alternative waste management option for developing countries: A case study of the City of Tshwane

Excessive MSW production is a growing management problem for cities in developing countries, such as South Africa. This study addresses these challenges with particular focus on the City of Tshwane. A major problem in Tshwane is that all the MSW generated in the city, including garden waste, is currently being landfilled. A waste stream analysis of Tshwane reveals the largest fraction of MSW is organic and biodegradable, and therefore suitable for compost production. The study proposes that Tshwane will have to address composting the biodegradable fraction of the MSW stream. This study attempts to understand the economics of composting practices in Tshwane, whether composting in Tshwane is financially viable. A comparative study, applying the dome aeration technology on a conventional static windrow, was conducted with the objective of investigating and proposing alternative improved composting technologies for green waste. Although the study focused on Tshwane, it can be argued that the findings could be implemented in any other South African municipality, and even implemented in other emerging countries.
Critical Issues in Response-To-Intervention, Comprehensive Evaluation, and Specific Learning Disabilities Identification and Intervention: An Expert White Paper Consensus

Developed in concert with the Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA), this White Paper regarding specific learning disabilities identification and intervention represents the expert consensus of 58 accomplished scholars in education, psychology, medicine, and the law. Survey responses and empirical evidence suggest that five conclusions are warranted: 1) The SLD definition should be maintained and the statutory requirements in SLD identification procedures should be strengthened; 2) neither ability-achievement discrepancy analysis nor failure to respond to intervention alone is sufficient for SLD identification; 3) a “third method” approach that identifies a pattern of psychological processing strengths and weaknesses, and achievement deficits consistent with this pattern of processing weaknesses, makes the most empirical and clinical sense; 4) an empirically-validated RTI model could be used to prevent learning problems, but comprehensive evaluations should occur for SLD identification purposes, and children with SLD need individualized interventions based on specific learning needs, not merely more intense interventions; and 5) assessment of cognitive and neuropsychological processes should be used for both SLD identification and intervention purposes.