Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Teleost microbiomes: the state of the art in their characterization, manipulation and importance in aquaculture and fisheries

Indigenous microbiota play a critical role in the lives of their vertebrate hosts. In human and mouse models it is increasingly clear that innate and adaptive immunity develop in close concert with the commensal microbiome. Furthermore, several aspects of digestion and nutrient metabolism are governed by intestinal microbiota. Research on teleosts has responded relatively slowly to the introduction of massively parallel sequencing procedures in microbiomics. Nonetheless, progress has been made in biotic and gnotobiotic zebrafish models, defining a core microbiome and describing its role in development. However, microbiome research in other teleost species, especially those important from an aquaculture perspective, has been relatively slow. In this review, we examine progress in teleost microbiome research to date. We discuss teleost microbiomes in health and disease, microbiome ontogeny, prospects for successful microbiome manipulation (especially in an aquaculture setting) and attempt to identify important future research themes. We predict an explosion in research in this sector in line with the increasing global demand for fish protein, and the need to find sustainable approaches to improve aquaculture yield. The reduced cost and increasing ease of next generation sequencing technologies provides the technological backing, and the next 10 years will be an exciting time for teleost microbiome research.
A New Path Planning Method Based on Firefly Algorithm

Firefly algorithm is a new nature-inspired algorithm and has been used gradually in solving optimization problems. a path planning method based on firefly algorithm was proposed. After the detailed analysis of the basic algorithm, random parameter and absorption parameter were designed to be adaptive, and this can improve the solution quality and convergence speed of the firefly algorithm. According to the characteristics of path planning, the coding of firefly algorithm, the design of evaluation function and path planning method were completed. Simulation tests verified the effectiveness of the improved algorithm and the feasibility of path planning method based on firefly algorithm.
Valproate in the Treatment of Partial Epilepsies

Summary: Review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) shows that valproate (VPA) is effective against partial seizures with or without becoming secondarily generalized. A number of RCTs show little difference in the efficacy of VPA and carbamazepine in this patient group, particularly where patients are randomized at the time of diagnosis. The length of time that it has taken to arrive at these conclusions emphasizes the importance of large active‐controlled RCTs at an early stage in drug development in informing clinical practice.
Enhancement of Palmarumycin C12 and C13 Production by the Endophytic Fungus Berkleasmium sp. Dzf12 in an Aqueous-Organic Solvent System

The endophytic fungus Berkleasmium sp. Dzf12, isolated from Dioscorea zingiberensis, was found to produce palmarumycins C12 and C13 which possess a great variety of biological activities. Seven biocompatible water-immiscible organic solvents including n-dodecane, n-hexadecane, 1-hexadecene, liquid paraffin, dibutyl phthalate, butyl oleate and oleic acid were evaluated to improve palmarumycins C12 and C13 production in suspension culture of Berkleasmium sp. Dzf12. Among the chosen solvents both butyl oleate and liquid paraffin were the most effective to improve palmarumycins C12 and C13 production. The addition of dibutyl phthalate, butyl oleate and oleic acid to the cultures of Berkleasmium sp. Dzf12 significantly enhanced palmarumycin C12 production by adsorbing palmarumycin C12 into the organic phase. When butyl oleate was fed at 5% (v/v) in medium at the beginning of fermentation (day 0), the highest palmarumycin C12 yield (191.6 mg/L) was achieved, about a 34.87-fold increase in comparison with the control (5.3 mg/L). n-Dodecane, 1-hexadecene and liquid paraffin had a great influence on the production of palmarumycin C13. When liquid paraffin was added at 10% (v/v) in medium on day 3 of fermentation, the palmarumycin C13 yield reached a maximum value (134.1 mg/L), which was 4.35-fold that of the control (30.8 mg/L). Application of the aqueous-organic solvent system should be a simple and efficient process strategy for enhancing palmarumycin C12 and C13 production in liquid cultures of the endophytic fungus Berkleasmium sp. Dzf12.
Age-condensed and age-gapped families : Coresidency with elderly parents and relatives in a mature Women's cohort, 1967-1995

ABSTRACT Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey, Mature Women's Cohort, this study found that not only is a sizable minority of mature women likely to reside with their aging parents and relatives in any given survey year, but that this trend increases over time. Unexpectedly, black women were found to be more likely than white women to reside in age-gapped families, signifying that they were more likely than white women to delay childbirth. Black women also were found to have greater frequencies and prevalence of residing in intergenerational families than white women. This pattern indicated, by extension, that intergenerational responsibilities might be a greater factor contributing to delayed childbirth for black women than was the case for white women. As expected, few aging parents or relatives were found in age-condensed families. The presence of grandchildren, rather than a respondent's own children, apparently accounted for this finding. This pattern suggested that, for maturing women wh.
Silica grain catalysis of methanol formation

The specific catalytic effect of a silica grain on the formation of methanol via the sequential addition of H atoms to CO adsorbed on the surface is investigated. A negatively charged defect on a siliceous edingtonite surface is found to reduce the gas phase barriers for the H + COads and H + H2C=O-ads reactions by 770 and 399 K, respectively, when compared to the same reactions in the gas phase. The catalytic effect of negatively charged surface sites could also be applicable to the hydrogenation of other adsorbed unsaturated species. However, the activation energies on the surface defect are still too large (1150 and 2230 K) for CH3OH to form efficiently at 10-20 K in the interstellar medium via a classical mechanism. It is therefore suggested that quantum mechanical tunnelling through the activation barrier is required for these hydrogen addition reactions to proceed at such temperatures. The calculations show that because the adsorption energies of CO and H2C=O on the negatively charged defect are substantial, CH3OH may form efficiently during the warm-up period in star-forming regions.
Effect of Preemptive Multimodal Analgesia for Arthroscopic Knee Ligament Repair

tified by external palpation: the posterior superior iliac spine and the sacral hiatus. Anatomic references. The sciatic nerve leaves the pelvis through the greater sciatic foramen, at the level of the lower border of the piriformis muscle, and then crosses the ischial spine (“Labat’s Landmark”). The piriformis muscle is posterior to the nerve at the parasacral level1 and continues its course, perpendicular to the border of the sacral. This close anatomic relation to the piriformis muscle and the sciatic nerve was used as a reference in the new surface markings for our posterior sciatic nerve block. Technique of sciatic nerve block. The patients are positioned as for classic posterior sciatic nerve block: on their side with the leg to be blocked uppermost and flexed at the hip (“Sim’s position”). A line is drawn from the posterior superior iliac spine (PSIS) to the sacral hiatus (SH). From the midpoint of that line, a second line of equal length, perpendicular to the first and directed laterally, is then drawn. The end of that line is the point of puncture (Fig 1). After the routine antiseptic skin preparation, a 21-gauge, 100-mm insulated stimulating needle is inserted slowly in a sagittal plane (Stimuplex; B. Braun, Melsungen, Germany) connected to a peripheral nerve stimulator, while a motor response is sought. After verifying a blood negative aspiration, an injection of 0.3 mL/kg mepivacaine 1.5% without epinephrine solution is injected. This block has been used on 40 adult patients (American Society of Anesthesiologists [ASA] physical status I-III) undergoing lower extremity surgery.2 Successful block of the nerve was achieved after 1 (90%) or 2 (10%) attempts. The block failed in 1 patient. Complications were transitory in 1 patient with mild paresthesia in the tibial nerve distribution. No vascular punctures occurred in 40 patients. The sciatic nerve approach we describe shows an anatomic landmark of block of sciatic nerve at the gluteal zone. This landmark is based on the nerve course at the inferior border of the piriformis muscle in the parasacral region (Fig 1).
Radiologic mimics of cirrhosis.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this article is to provide a practical review of the conditions other than cirrhosis that can result in diffuse surface nodularity of the liver or portal hypertension. CONCLUSION Conditions that can mimic cirrhosis on imaging include pseudocirrhosis of treated breast cancer metastases to the liver, fulminant hepatic failure, miliary metastases, sarcoidosis, schistosomiasis, congenital hepatic fibrosis, idiopathic portal hypertension, early primary biliary cirrhosis, chronic Budd-Chiari syndrome, chronic portal vein thrombosis, and nodular regenerative hyperplasia.
Atmospheric Circulation Trends, 1950–2000: The Relative Roles of Sea Surface Temperature Forcing and Direct Atmospheric Radiative Forcing

Abstract The relative roles of direct atmospheric radiative forcing (due to observed changes in well-mixed greenhouse gases, tropospheric and stratospheric ozone, sulfate and volcanic aerosols, and solar output) and observed sea surface temperature (SST) forcing of global December–February atmospheric circulation trends during the second half of the twentieth century are investigated by means of experiments with an atmospheric general circulation model, Community Atmospheric Model, version 3 (CAM3). The model experiments are conducted by specifying the observed time-varying SSTs and atmospheric radiative quantities individually and in combination. This approach allows the authors to isolate the direct impact of each type of forcing agent as well as to evaluate their combined effect and the degree to which their impacts are additive. CAM3 realistically simulates the global patterns of sea level pressure and 500-hPa geopotential height trends when both forcings are specified. SST forcing and direct atmosphe.
Obesity and risk of bladder cancer: a meta-analysis of cohort studies.

OBJECTIVE Previous epidemiologic studies demonstrated that obesity might associated with the risk of bladder cancer. However, many of the actual association findings remained conflicting. To better clarify and provide a comprehensive summary of the correlation between obesity and bladder cancer risk, we conducted a meta-analysis to summarize results of studies on the issue. Stratified analyses were also performed on potential variables and characteristics. METHODS Studies were identified by searching in PubMed and Wanfang databases, covering all the papers published from their inception to March 10, 2013. Summary relative risks (SRRs) with their corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated by either random-effect or fixed-effect models. RESULTS A total of 11 cohort studies were included in our meta-analysis, which showed that obesity was associated with an increased risk for bladder cancer in all subjects (RR=1.10, 95% CI=1.06-1.16; p=0.215 for heterogeneity; I2=24.0%). Among the 9 studies that controlled for cigarette smoking, the pooled RR was 1.09 (95% CI 1.01-1.17; p=0.131 for heterogeneity; I2=35.9%). No significant publication bias was detected (p = 0.244 for Egger's regression asymmetry test). CONCLUSIONS Our results support the conclusion that obesity is associated with the increased risk of bladder cancer. Further research is needed to generate a better understanding of the correlation and to provide more convincing evidence for clinical intervention in the prevention of bladder cancer.
Efficacité du financement des micro et petites entreprises dans la lutte contre la pauvreté au Cameroun

Reunion: Colloque international : la vulnerabilite des TPE et des PME dans un environnement mondialise; 11es journees scientifiques du Reseau entrepreneuriat INRPME-AUF-AIREPME, 27-29 mai 2009, Trois-Rivieres, QC, CA
The Impact of Individual's Identities on the Infusion of Information Systems within Organisations

Organisations continue to invest substantially in enterprise systems with the planned expectations that employees will utilise these technologies to enhance organisational competitive advantages in a progressive global marketplace. However, researchers have found that the functional potential of many of these systems are underutilised and rarely infused into individuals’ work practices. Much of the literature on IS infusion has been done at the organisational level, with little attention paid on user characteristics and their intrinsic motivations. As such this paper proposes to examine the influence of individuals’ IT identity and IS infusion role identity on IS infusion. Identity theories are adopted to conceptualise a research model and investigate the relationships between these factors. A surveybased study is proposed to empirically validate the research model, using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) techniques. In addition, we plan to conduct in-depth interviews with selected users to support results from PLS-SEM. The potential contribution of this study is to advance our understanding from a theoretical and practical perspective of why IS are infused by individuals in organisations.
Exploring the concept of alexithymia in the lives of people with learning disabilities

Alexithymia is a construct that has attracted considerable research for people without learning disabilities. People with alexithymia have difficulties recognizing and describing emotions and have an externally oriented cognitive style. Alexithymia has been closely associated with a variety of mental health and somatic problems. However, the construct of alexithymia has not been considered in respect to people with learning disabilities. This article identifies parallels between the concept of alexithymia and the emotion recognition difficulties and external cognitive styles that have been identified in people with learning disabilities. The article further identifies that many developmental factors considered important in the aetiology of alexithymia are significantly present in the lives of people with learning disabilities and that the association between alexithymia and mental health identified in other populations may also be important for people with learning disabilities. We conclude that there is a strong argument that alexithymia should be a focus of further research for people with learning disabilities.
A Path Analysis of Causes and Consequences of Salespeople's Perceptions of Role Clarity

Path analysis is used to examine the relationships among the salesperson's perceptions of performance feedback, participation, role clarity, and job satisfaction. The results of the study indicate that performance feedback and participation in decision making are both positively related to role clarity. In addition, performance feedback is related primarily to lower order need fulfillment whereas participation and role clarity are related primarily to higher order need fulfillment.
The Psychological Structure of Fascism

Having affirmed that the infrastructure of a society ultimately determines or conditions the superstructure, Marxism did not undertake any general elucidation of the modalities peculiar to the formation of religious and political society. While Marxism did acknowledge possible responses by the superstructure it has not gone from mere assertion to scientific analysis. This essay attempts a rigorous (if not comprehensive) representation of the social superstructure and its relations to the economic infrastructure in the light of fascism. The fact that this is but a fragment of a relatively substantial whole explains a great number of lacunae, notably the absence of any methodological considerations;' it was even necessary to forego justifying the novelty of my point of view, and to limit myself to the presentation of my basic position. However, the simple presentation of the structure of fascism had to be preceded by a description of the social structure as a whole. It goes without saying that a study of the superstructure presupposes the development of a Marxist analysis of the infrastructure.
Dynamics of perceived social network support for same‐sex versus mixed‐sex relationships

Individuals in mixed-sex (n = 248) and same-sex (n = 159) romantic relationships completed several online questions for each member of their social network, including the member's perceived support for their romantic relationship. Those in same-sex relationships perceived less support for their relationship, but only from family members, not from friends. Levels of relationship support were lower among subjectively more distant network members than among closer network members. As hypothesized, associations between perceived support for the relationship and relationship, mental, and physical well-being were weaker for those in same-sex compared to mixed-sex relationships. Principles of social network management and attributional ambiguity were used to explain the findings.
Beliefs and Voting Decisions: A Test of the Pivotal Voter Model

We report results from a laboratory experiment testing the basic hypothesis embedded in various rational voter models that there is a direct correlation between the strength of an individual's belief that his or her vote will be pivotal and the likelihood that individual incurs the cost to vote. This belief is typically unobservable. In one of our experimental treatments we elicit these subjective beliefs using a proper scoring rule that induces truthful revelation of beliefs. This allows us to directly test the pivotal voter model. We find that a higher subjective probability of being pivotal increases the likelihood that an individual votes, but the probability thresholds used by subjects are not as crisp as the theory would predict. There is some evidence that individuals learn over time to adjust their beliefs to be more consistent with the historical frequency of pivotality. However, many subjects keep substantially overestimating their probability of being pivotal.
An assessment of university instructors and their pre -service teachers' knowledge of basic language constructs before and after university instructor professional development

An Assessment of University Instructors and Their Pre-Service Teachers’ Knowledge of Basic Language Constructs Before and After University Instructor Professional Development. (May 2008) Emily Suzanne Binks, B.S., Texas A&M University; M.Ed., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. R. Malatesha Joshi Reading is a basic skill for survival and those who have reading difficulties in early grades continue to struggle in school and later in life. Previous studies have shown that instructional procedures that incorporate basic language constructs with literacy instruction are helpful in improving reading skills. It has also been shown that many teachers and reading professionals are not familiar with such concepts. The purpose of this research is to explore reasons for classroom teachers’ poor preparation to teach literacy skills and how this situation might be improved. First, a basic language constructs survey assessing self-perception, knowledge, and ability (46 items, Cronbach’s a = .903) and based on recommendations by the National Reading Panel and reading research was administered to university instructors of EC-4 reading education (n=114). Forty-eight of these university instructors completed the survey after at least two years of participation in a professional development program (Higher Education Collaborative, HEC) geared towards the incorporation of scientifically-based reading research (SBRR) and research-based reading instruction (RBRI) into teacher
Efficient Pairing-Free Privacy-Preserving Auditing Scheme for Cloud Storage in Distributed Sensor Networks

With the rapid growth of the distributed sensor networks, the distributed sensor network data security problems begin to attract the attention of people. The previous research of distributed sensor network security has focused on secure information in communication; however the research of secure data storage has been overlooked. As we know, cloud data storage and retrieval have become popular for efficient data management in distributed sensor networks; thus they can enjoy the on-demand high-quality cloud storage service. Meanwhile, it also introduces new security challenges. To tackle with these security challenges, many classic auditing schemes of cloud storage have been proposed. However, these schemes all need very expensive pairing computation, which is not suitable for sensor networks. In this paper, we propose an efficient pairing-free auditing scheme for data storage of distributed sensor networks. We exploit homomorphic message authentication codes (MACs) to reduce the space used to store the verification information. We also employ the random masking technique to make sure the TPA cannot recover the primitive data blocks of the sensor networks data manager. Experimental results show that our auditing scheme is more light-weight than previous auditing schemes and more practical in applied distributed sensor networks environments.
Crosslinguistic Generalization of Semantic Treatment in Aphasia: Evidence from the Indian Context

The last two decades witnessed several novel treatment approaches to aphasia therapy. Semantic feature-based therapy is one of such treatment approaches that gained considerable research attention (Boyle & Coelho, 1995). More importantly, this treatment approach has been found effective in bilingual persons with aphasia. For instance, Edmonds and Kiran (2006) administered semantic feature based therapy in Spanish-English bilingual persons with aphasia and reported of crosslinguistic generalization of treatment effect to untreated language. This promising research, however, needs to be replicated and extended to novel language pairs. Research on crosslinguistic generalization of treatment effects is of paramount importance to multilingual countries like India. For instance, with several hundreds of languages and dialects spoken across India and with the pervasive use of English as second language, speech language pathologists (SLPs) in the country are often baffled on the selection of language for treatment in bilingual persons with aphasia. Empirical evidence from Indian languages would add confidence to the SLPs while selecting language for treatment in person with aphasia. In this context, the current study aimed to replicate and extend the earlier findings on crosslinguistic generalization of treatment effects in bilingual persons with aphasia to the Indian context.