Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Relative abundance of flying fish gillnet fisheries in Maitum, Sarangani province

Flying fish (family Exocoetidae, or locally called as “bangsi”) are the most dominant catches of gillnets in the predominantly small-scale fisheries of the municipality of Maitum, Sarangani, Philippines. In this study, an assessment of flying fish was conducted from January 2013 to December 2015 based on fish catch surveys in the fish landing sites. On average, flying fish contributed about 84% of the annual catch production but showed a declining trend over the three year period. The estimated total flying fish production was 655.27 MT in 2013 but declined to 349.56 MT in 2014 and 300.04 MT in 2015. Surface gillnet was the gear used exclusively in catching flying fish. Genera of the flying fish were identified, namely, Cheilopogon (63.2%), Cypselurus (7.6%), Hirundichthys (6.5%), Parexocoetus (3.8%) and Exocoetus (1.5%). About 1.2% of the flying fish caught were unidentifiable to the genus level. Flying fishes were caught throughout the year, with monthly variations but the seasonality was not clearly observed during the three-year study period.
Phosphorylation of Mcm2 modulates Mcm2–7 activity and affects the cell’s response to DNA damage

The S-phase kinase, DDK controls DNA replication through phosphorylation of the replicative helicase, Mcm2–7. We show that phosphorylation of Mcm2 at S164 and S170 is not essential for viability. However, the relevance of Mcm2 phosphorylation is demonstrated by the sensitivity of a strain containing alanine at these positions (mcm2AA) to methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) and caffeine. Consistent with a role for Mcm2 phosphorylation in response to DNA damage, the mcm2AA strain accumulates more RPA foci than wild type. An allele with the phosphomimetic mutations S164E and S170E (mcm2EE) suppresses the MMS and caffeine sensitivity caused by deficiencies in DDK function. In vitro, phosphorylation of Mcm2 or Mcm2EE reduces the helicase activity of Mcm2–7 while increasing DNA binding. The reduced helicase activity likely results from the increased DNA binding since relaxing DNA binding with salt restores helicase activity. The finding that the ATP site mutant mcm2K549R has higher DNA binding and less ATPase than mcm2EE, but like mcm2AA results in drug sensitivity, supports a model whereby a specific range of Mcm2–7 activity is required in response to MMS and caffeine. We propose that phosphorylation of Mcm2 fine-tunes the activity of Mcm2–7, which in turn modulates DNA replication in response to DNA damage.
In press at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Total length: 5 pages, double-spaced. IN DEFENSE OF DILIGENCE: A REJOINDER TO PELHAM AND CARVALLO

In Simonsohn (2011) I report the results from 14 studies that suggest all existing evidence of implicit egotism in marriage, job and location decisions is spurious. Lack of diligence by Pelham and colleagues explains in great part why the confounds behind their findings were not addressed in time. They almost never included controls, were dismissive of blatant alternative explanations, and on occasion misreported factual information that made confounds appear less important. Their rebuttal is similarly lacking in diligence. The specific empirical concerns it raises are contradicted by evidence, logic, or both. It reports misleading examples and inaccurate facts (some regarding the authors’ own data). In this rejoinder I address all specific issues they raise about the empirics of my paper. I then provide perhaps the most striking example of lack of diligence in their earlier work. I close on a constructive note, providing two concrete suggestions on how to analyze data in future implicit egotism studies.
Distributed representations of structure: A theory of analogical access and mapping.

We describe an integrated theory of analogical access and mapping, instantiated in a computational model called LISA (Learning and Inference with Schemas and Analogies). LISA represents predicates and objects as distributed patterns of activation over units representing semantic primitives. These representations are dynamically bound into propositional structures, thereby achieving the structure-sensitivity of a symbolic system and the flexibility of a connectionist system. LISA also has a number of inherent limitations, including capacity limits and sensitivity to the manner in which a problem is represented. A key theoretical claim is that similar limitations also arise in human reasoning, suggesting that the architecture of LISA can provide computational explanations of properties of the human cognitive architecture. We report LISA's performance in simulating a wide range of empirical phenomena concerning human analogical access and mapping. The model treats both access and mapping as types of guided pattern classification, differing only in that mapping is augmented by a capacity to learn new correspondences. Extensions of the approach to account for analogical inference and schema induction are also discussed.
We are Not Alone: The Impact of Externalities on Public Good Provision

Public good provision is often local and also affects bystanders. Is provision harder if contributions harm bystanders, and is provision easier if outsiders gain a windfall profit? In an experiment we observe that both positive and negative externalities reduce provision levels whenever actors risk falling back behind bystanders. The mere presence of unaffected bystanders already dampens contributions. This behavior seems to result from the interplay of two motives: the desire to realize opportunities for joint gains, and concerns for comparative performance. Individual payoff comparisons to the other actors as well as to individual bystanders drive contributions down.
Borderline Personality Disorder: Neo-Personality Inventory Ratings of Patients and Their Family Members

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is hallmarked by interpersonal problems. Conflicts with family members are no exception. Methods: The NEO-Personality Inventory was administered to 25 pairs of patients and their family members. Both completed the questionnaire twice, responding about their own personality traits and responding about personality traits of the other. Results: Patients and family members agreed on all five of the patient's personality traits. However, patients perceived the family members as being more neurotic, less extraverted and less open than the family members perceived themselves. Conclusions: Discrepant perceptions of personality traits `may' create different relationship expectations and thus contribute to and intensify interpersonal difficulties.
The beetle amnion and serosa functionally interact as apposed epithelia

Unlike passive rupture of the human chorioamnion at birth, the insect extraembryonic (EE) tissues – the amnion and serosa – actively rupture and withdraw in late embryogenesis. Despite its importance for successful development, EE morphogenesis remains poorly understood. Contradicting the hypothesis of a single, fused EE membrane, we show that both tissues persist as discrete epithelia within a bilayer, using new tissue-specific EGFP transgenic lines in the beetle Tribolium castaneum. Quantitative live imaging analyses show that the amnion initiates EE rupture in a specialized anterior-ventral cap, while RNAi manipulation of EE tissue complement and function reveals that the serosa is autonomously contractile. Thus the bilayer efficiently coordinates the amnion as initiator and serosa as driver to achieve withdrawal. The novel bilayer architecture may reflect evolutionary changes in the EE tissues specific to holometabolous insects. More generally, tissue apposition in a bilayer exemplifies a high degree of functional interaction between developing epithelia.
Quantized Multimode Precoding in Spatially Correlated Multiantenna Channels

Multimode precoding, where the number of independent data streams is adapted optimally, can be used to maximize the achievable throughput in multiantenna communication systems. Motivated by standardization efforts embraced by the industry, the focus of this work is on systematic precoder design with realistic assumptions on the spatial correlation, channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter and the receiver, and implementation complexity. For the spatial correlation of the channel matrix, we assume a general channel model, based on physical principles, that has been verified by many recent measurement campaigns. We also assume a coherent, linear minimum mean-square error (MMSE) receiver and knowledge of the spatial statistics at the transmitter along with the presence of an ideal, low-rate feedback link from the receiver to the transmitter. The reverse link is used for codebook-index feedback and the goal of this work is to construct precoder codebooks, adaptable in response to the statistical information, such that the achievable throughput is significantly enhanced over that of a fixed, nonadaptive, independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) codebook design. We illustrate how a codebook of semiunitary precoder matrices localized around some fixed center on the Grassmann manifold can be skewed in response to the spatial correlation via low-complexity maps that can rotate and scale submanifolds on the Grassmann manifold. The skewed codebook in combination with a low-complexity statistical power allocation scheme is then shown to bridge the gap in performance between a perfect CSI benchmark and an i.i. d. codebook design.
Patient Readmission for Ischemic Stroke: Risk Factors and Impact on Mortality

Patient readmission for ischemic stroke significantly strains the healthcare and medical insurance systems. Current understanding of the risk factors associated with these readmissions, as well as their subsequent impact on mortality within China, remains insufficient. This is particularly evident in the context of comprehensive, contemporary population studies. This 4-year retrospective cohort study included 125 397 hospital admissions for ischemic stroke from 838 hospitals located in 22 regions (13 urban and 9 rural) of a major city in western China, between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2018. The Chi-square tests were used in univariate analysis. Accounting for intra-subject correlations of patients’ readmissions, accelerated failure time (AFT) shared frailty models were used to examine readmission events and pure AFT models for mortality. Risk factors for patient readmission after ischemic stroke include frequent admission history, male gender, employee’s insurance, advanced age, residence in urban areas, index hospitalization in low-level hospitals, extended length of stay (LOS) during index hospitalization, specific comorbidities and subtypes of ischemic stroke. Furthermore, our findings indicated that an additional admission for ischemic stroke increased patient mortality by 16.4% (P < .001). Stroke readmission contributed to an increased risk of hospital mortality. Policymakers can establish more effective and targeted policies to reduce readmissions for stroke by controlling these risk factors.
A Healthcare Support System for Assisted Living Facilities: An IoT Solution

In the field of Ambient Assisted Living a limited amount of research aims at supporting caregivers that work with people with disabilities in assisted living facilities (ALFs). In fact, research activities on healthcare support systems in AAL mainly focus on improving the quality of life for people in their own homes or supporting nurses and doctors in hospitals. This paper explores and applies the Internet of Things paradigm in the ALFs context. In particular, we present the design, the implementation, and the experimental evaluation of a system capable of supporting the daily activities of healthcare assistants that operate in ALFs for people with physical or cognitive disabilities. The solution combines wearable and mobile technologies to improve assistance requests and anomaly detection. With this healthcare support system, caregivers can be automatically alerted of potentially hazardous situations that happen to the inhabitants while these are out of sight. Furthermore, inhabitants can require assistance instantly and from any point of the facility. We evaluated the system in two ways. We performed a functional test with two professional caregivers, and we deployed the system in an ALF in Italy for 36 hours, collecting the opinions of the involved caregivers and inhabitants.
Feature selection in proteomic pattern data with support vector machines

This work introduces novel methods for feature selection (FS) based on support vector machines (SVM). The methods combine feature subsets produced by a variant of SVM-RFE, a popular feature ranking/selection algorithm based on SVM. Two combination strategies are proposed: union of features occurring frequently, and ensemble of classifiers built on single feature subsets. The resulting methods are applied to pattern proteomic data for tumor diagnostics. Results of experiments on three proteomic pattern datasets indicate that combining feature subsets affects positively the prediction accuracy of both SVM and SVM-RFE. A discussion about the biological interpretation of selected features is provided.
The "Map in the Head" Metaphor

The "Map in the Head" metaphor states that knowledge of large-scale space is isomorphic to the information stored in a graphical map: That is, corresponding operations are used to store and retrieve information. The purpose of this essay is to look carefully at the "Map in the Head" metaphor to see the limits of its applicability. There are two types of experimental results that are difficult to accommodate within this metaphor. First, instead of being integrated into a single map, spatial knowledge can fall into disconnected components, with little or no relation between the components. Second, knowledge of routes (and other spatial facts) may be represented asymmetrically, so that a route can be followed in one direction but not in the other. The first set of results leads us to replace the simple "Map in the Head" with a more complex and sophisticated metaphor including separate metrical and topological components. The second set of results suggests that even the more sophisticated "Map in the Head" is built from computational structures that occasionally reveal their nonmaplike properties. A computational model is presented for assimilating observations gathered during travel, first into a description of the particular route, then into representations for the topological and metrical features of the environment.
Aligners, lovers and deceptors : aspirations and strategies of young urban hustlers in the Gambia

iii Acknowledgements.iv Glossary.vi List of Abbreviations.viii List of Illustrations.x Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Background: ‘There is no way but hustling’. 10 1.2 The Focus of the Study.16 1.3 Theoretical Contribution.29 1.4 Anthropological Approaches to Hustling Strategies and Aspirations of young People.31 1.4. 1 Conceptualising ‘Youth’. 33 1.4. 2 Hustling Strategies. 37 1.4. 3 Aspirations and Aspirations Formation.44 1.5 Thesis Structure.48 Chapter 2: The ‘Hustler’ –Cum –Ethnographer 2.
Modélisation 3D de l'interface socle varisque-couverture alpine dans le Massif du Pelvoux (Hautes Alpes, France)- Tectonique des socles et bassins à la limite secondaire-tertiaire.

Le massif du Pelvoux (MCE, Alpes occidentales) fait partie de la paleo-marge passive tethysienne. C'est un site privilegie d'etude de structures superposees. On y trouve trace d'evenements extensifs tethysiens, puis compressifs alpins. Les massifs de Morges, des Pourroys et du Vallon sont des pincees de couverture mesozoique dans le socle cristallin. Ils permettent une etude des relations entre le socle et sa couverture. Cet interface est un marqueur de la deformation finie a l'echelle orogenique. Geometrie et cinematique montrent l'existence de deux phases de deformation dans l'histoire alpine. Un calage dans le temps est propose par comparaison avec les regions environnantes: la phase DI serait du Cretace superieur - Eocene inferieur (pyreneo-provencale). La D2 est au plus vieux oligocene superieur. Elle s'integre au modele geodynamique par rotation-expulsion si l'on abaisse la pointe de l'indenteur d'environ 10 km vers le Sud. Le socle accommode le raccourcissement DI vers le SW par des plis kilometriques, alors que la couverture developpe des plis PI de toute echelle. Ce decouplage mecanique est en partie controle par la distribution des fluides. ils sont diffus dans la couverture, mais chenalises dans le socle dans les grands accidents mylonitiques. La deformation est alors concentree le long de ces zones de faiblesse. Cette tectonique est contemporaine de conditions de temperature de 300 a 400°C et de profondeur de 5 a 12 km. Le raccourcissement Dl structure le massif. Cette hypothese sur la geometrie 3D du massif de Morges a ete illustree par un modele surfacique construit avec le modeleur STRIM. Il a ete ensuite exploite pour un depliage. Une autre methode de reconstruction des surfaces a fourni des resultats corroborant ceux obtenus avec STRIM. Un apport de cette etude est de montrer dans le Sud-Pelvoux une absence de cisaillement plat au profit d'accidents verticaux. Cette geometrie s'integre a celle deduite du profIl sismique ECORS pour la zone externe des Alpes.
Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analysis of Oenococcus oeni Adaptation to Wine Stress Conditions

Oenococcus oeni, the main lactic acid bacteria responsible for malolactic fermentation in wine, has to adapt to stressful conditions, such as low pH and high ethanol content. In this study, the changes in the transcriptome and the proteome of O. oeni PSU-1 during the adaptation period before MLF start have been studied. DNA microarrays were used for the transcriptomic analysis and two complementary proteomic techniques, 2-D DIGE and iTRAQ labeling were used to analyze the proteomic response. One of the most influenced functions in PSU-1 due to inoculation into wine-like medium (WLM) was translation, showing the over-expression of certain ribosomal genes and the corresponding proteins. Amino acid metabolism and transport was also altered and several peptidases were up regulated both at gene and protein level. Certain proteins involved in glutamine and glutamate metabolism showed an increased abundance revealing the key role of nitrogen uptake under stressful conditions. A strong transcriptional inhibition of carbohydrate metabolism related genes was observed. On the other hand, the transcriptional up-regulation of malate transport and citrate consumption was indicative of the use of L-malate and citrate associated to stress response and as an alternative energy source to sugar metabolism. Regarding the stress mechanisms, our results support the relevance of the thioredoxin and glutathione systems in the adaptation of O. oeni to wine related stress. Genes and proteins related to cell wall showed also significant changes indicating the relevance of the cell envelop as protective barrier to environmental stress. The differences found between transcriptomic and proteomic data suggested the relevance of post-transcriptional mechanisms and the complexity of the stress response in O. oeni adaptation. Further research should deepen into the metabolisms mostly altered due to wine conditions to elucidate the role of each mechanism in the O. oeni ability to develop MLF.
Characterization of Carbonic Anhydrase 9 in the Alimentary Canal of Aedes aegypti and Its Relationship to Homologous Mosquito Carbonic Anhydrases

In the mosquito midgut, luminal pH regulation and cellular ion transport processes are important for the digestion of food and maintenance of cellular homeostasis. pH regulation in the mosquito gut is affected by the vectorial movement of the principal ions including bicarbonate/carbonate and protons. As in all metazoans, mosquitoes employ the product of aerobic metabolism carbon dioxide in its bicarbonate/carbonate form as one of the major buffers of cellular and extracellular pH. The conversion of metabolic carbon dioxide to bicarbonate/carbonate is accomplished by a family of enzymes encoded by the carbonic anhydrase gene family. This study characterizes Aedes aegypti carbonic anhydrases using bioinformatic, molecular, and immunohistochemical methods. Our analyses show that there are fourteen Aedes aegypti carbonic anhydrase genes, two of which are expressed as splice variants. The carbonic anhydrases were classified as either integral membrane, peripheral membrane, mitochondrial, secreted, or soluble cytoplasmic proteins. Using polymerase chain reaction and Western blotting, one of the carbonic anhydrases, Aedes aegypti carbonic anhydrase 9, was analyzed and found in each life stage, male/female pupae, male/female adults, and in the female posterior midgut. Next, carbonic anhydrase 9 was analyzed in larvae and adults using confocal microscopy and was detected in the midgut regions. According to our analyses, carbonic anhydrase 9 is a soluble cytoplasmic enzyme found in the alimentary canal of larvae and adults and is expressed throughout the life cycle of the mosquito. Based on previous physiological analyses of adults and larvae, it appears AeCA9 is one of the major carbonic anhydrases involved in producing bicarbonate/carbonate which is involved in pH regulation and ion transport processes in the alimentary canal. Detailed understanding of the molecular bases of ion homeostasis in mosquitoes will provide targets for novel mosquito control strategies into the new millennium.
Coding Conspecific Identity and Motion in the Electric Sense

Interactions among animals can result in complex sensory signals containing a variety of socially relevant information, including the number, identity, and relative motion of conspecifics. How the spatiotemporal properties of such evolving naturalistic signals are encoded is a key question in sensory neuroscience. Here, we present results from experiments and modeling that address this issue in the context of the electric sense, which combines the spatial aspects of vision and touch, with the temporal aspects of audition. Wave-type electric fish, such as the brown ghost knifefish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus, used in this study, are uniquely identified by the frequency of their electric organ discharge (EOD). Multiple beat frequencies arise from the superposition of the EODs of each fish. We record the natural electrical signals near the skin of a “receiving” fish that are produced by stationary and freely swimming conspecifics. Using spectral analysis, we find that the primary beats, and the secondary beats between them (“beats of beats”), can be greatly influenced by fish swimming; the resulting motion produces low-frequency envelopes that broaden all the beat peaks and reshape the “noise floor”. We assess the consequences of this motion on sensory coding using a model electroreceptor. We show that the primary and secondary beats are encoded in the afferent spike train, but that motion acts to degrade this encoding. We also simulate the response of a realistic population of receptors, and find that it can encode the motion envelope well, primarily due to the receptors with lower firing rates. We discuss the implications of our results for the identification of conspecifics through specific beat frequencies and its possible hindrance by active swimming.