Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Complex Relationship Between Mangrove Ecosystem Variables and Fish Assemblages at Maumere Bay, Indonesia

The aim of this study was to examine the abundance and composition of fish assemblages in the mangrove ecosystems of Maumere Bay, Indonesia. The study was conducted from September 2017 − April 2018. Sampling was conducted at 7 stations, with three substations as sampling replicates. Mangrove condition variables were mangrove area and belt width, mangrove percentage cover, mangrove density and dominance. Fish community variables were the abundance of each fish species and taxonomic fish diversity. Mangrove condition variables were collected and analysed using spatial analysis and quadrat transect methods. Data on fish assemblages caught by three-layer trammel nets were analysed using PRIMER, to obtain similarity percentages, ANOSIM and nMDS plots. To determine the correlation between mangrove and fish variables, data was analysed by multivariate regression using XLSTAT software. Results showed that overall 38 species of fish were recorded, belonging to 36 genera and 30 families. Darat Pantai station had the highest area (134.35 Ha), mangrove density (3,220 trees/Ha), and dominance (35.46 m2/ha), while Talibura station had the highest percentage mangrove cover (80.63%) and the highest mangrove belt width was found at Kampung Garam II/Wuring station (427.6 m). The analysis of similarities (ANOSIM) at significance level 0.1% showed significant between-site differences in both mangrove assemblage structure and fish assemblages. The highest similarity percentage for mangroves was at Talibura station (98.53%), and for fish assemblages at Kampung Garam II/Wuring station (46.91%). Multivariate regression analysis showed that two mangrove ecosystem variables, belt width and density, were positively correlated with fish assemblage abundance and diversity, the strongest correlation (R2 = 0.279) being with mangrove belt width.
Reduced mortality among Department of Veterans Affairs patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder lost to follow-up and engaged in active outreach to return for care.

OBJECTIVES We determined whether contacting Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorders (serious mental illness [SMI]) who had dropped out of care for prolonged periods resulted in reengagement with VA services and decreased mortality. METHODS We developed a list of patients with SMI who were last treated in fiscal years 2005 to 2006, and were lost to follow-up care for at least 1 year. VA medical centers used our list to contact patients and schedule appointments. Additional VA administrative data on patient utilization and mortality through May 2009 were analyzed. RESULTS About 72% (2375 of 3306) of the patients who VA staff attempted to contact returned for VA care. The mortality rate of returning patients was significantly lower than that for patients not returning (0.5% vs 3.9%; adjusted odds ratio = 5.8; P < .001), after demographic and clinical factors were controlled. CONCLUSIONS The mortality rate for returning patients with SMI was almost 6 times less than for those who did not return for medical care. Proactive outreach might result in patients returning to care and should be implemented to reengage this vulnerable group.
The Role of Administrators in Enabling Youth–Adult Partnerships in Schools

School leaders play a crucial role in enabling and sustaining student voice initiatives. This article identifies three specific ways in which administrators can spark and encourage a focus on increasing student voice in school decision making and in classroom practice, including (a) fostering youth–adult partnerships within the context of a schoolwide learning community, (b) buffering from administrative bureaucracy within schools, and (c) building bridges beyond school walls with intermediary organizations.
Cost-effectiveness of Telaprevir Combination Therapy for Chronic Hepatitis C

Objective To explore the expected long-term health and economic outcomes of telaprevir (TVR) plus peginterferon alfa-2a and ribavirin (PR), a regimen that demonstrated substantially increased sustained virologic response (SVR) compared with PR alone in adults with chronic genotype 1 hepatitis C virus (HCV) and compensated liver disease in the Phase III studies ADVANCE (treatment-naïve patients) and REALIZE (relapsers, partial responders, and null responders to previous PR treatment). Study Design A decision-analytic model was developed to assess the cost-effectiveness of TVR+PR vs. PR in the United States (US). Methods Patients first moved through the 72-week decision-tree treatment phase of the model and then entered the cyclic Markov post-treatment phase. Clinical data (patient characteristics, SVR rates, and adverse event rates and durations) were obtained from ADVANCE and REALIZE. Health-state transition probabilities, drug and other costs (in 2012/2013 US dollars), and utility values were obtained from the trials, published studies, and publicly available sources. Outcomes were discounted at 3% per year. Results Regardless of treatment history, patients receiving TVR+PR were projected to experience fewer liver-disease complications, more life-years, and more quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) than patients receiving PR. In prior relapsers, TVR+PR was dominant, with lower total medical costs and more QALYs. For the other patient subgroups, incremental costs per QALY gained were between $16,778 (treatment-naïve patients) and $34,279 (prior null responders). Extensive sensitivity analyses confirmed robust model results. Conclusions At standard willingness-to-pay thresholds, TVR+PR represents a cost-effective treatment option compared with PR alone for patients with chronic genotype 1 HCV and compensated liver disease in the US. Future analyses are needed to compare TVR+PR with all existing HCV treatment options.
User acceptance of a G2B system: a case of electronic procurement system in Malaysia

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the factors that influence the intention to use and actual usage of a G2B system such as electronic procurement system (EPS) by various ministries in the Government of Malaysia.Design/methodology/approach – The research uses an extension of DeLone and McLean's model of IS success by including trust, facilitating conditions, and web design quality. The model is tested using an empirical approach. A questionnaire was designed and responses from 358 users from various ministries were collected and analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). Findings – The findings of the study indicate that: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, assurance of service by service providers, responsiveness of service providers, facilitating conditions, web design (service quality) are strongly linked to intention to use EPS; and intention to use is strongly linked to actual usage behavior.Practical implications – Typically, governments of developing countries spend.
Who Owns the Theory of Change?

Policy evaluations in the UK have increasingly espoused a ‘Theories of Change’ (ToC) approach, drawing on North American experiences. Features of ToC include the expectation that all affected stakeholders will be involved in developing, agreeing, monitoring and evaluating a relevant theory for the proposed intervention, and the assumption that widespread stakeholder involvement will extend ownership of the intervention to achieve ‘total ownership’ and also improve attribution. Drawing on the experiences of three English evaluations (Health Action Zones, New Deal for Communities and Local Strategic Partnerships), this article examines the possibilities and limitations associated with the achievement of ‘total ownership’. Analysis reveals some important differences between the English and North American contexts and leads to the development of alternative models of ownership including ‘elite’,‘evaluator’,‘principal’ or ‘community’ ownership. The article concludes that if these models are more realistic than ‘total ownership’ in the English policy environment then this has implications for the appropriate application of ToC.
Dropout from Higher Education: A Theoretical Synthesis of Recent Research

Despite the very extensive literature on dropout from higher education, much remains unknown about the nature of the dropout process. In large measure, the failure of past research to delineate more clearly the multiple characteristics of dropout can be traced to two major shortcomings; namely, inadequate attention given to questions of definition and to the development of theoretical models that seek to explain, not simply to describe, the processes that bring individuals to leave institutions of higher education.
Preoperative gait mechanics predict clinical response to total hip arthroplasty

Some patients do not have an adequate clinical response to total hip arthroplasty (THA) for reasons that are not fully understood. Identifying modifiable factors that are associated with nonresponse could lead to new ways to identify and treat potential nonresponders. This study investigated whether any preoperative gait characteristics were associated with THA clinical response, and whether or not there were corresponding postoperative gait differences in THA nonresponders compared to responders. A secondary analysis was conducted of 124 subjects (age 61 ± 10 years; 64 female/60 male), evaluated before and 1 year after primary unilateral THA, using quantitative gait analysis and Harris Hip Scores (HHS). Responders and nonresponders were identified using the OMERACT‐OARSI responder criteria, modified for use with the HHS. Pre‐ and postoperative dynamic sagittal plane range of motion (ROM) and 3D peak external moments were compared, for responders and nonresponders, using t‐tests and logistic regression. 11.3% of subjects were nonresponders. Before surgery, the ROM was 26% higher for nonresponders than responders, but the peak external rotation moment was 30% lower (p = 0.003–0.043). Preoperative gait and HHS predicted response with a sensitivity of 71.4% and a specificity of 99.1%. There were persistent postoperative deficits in the peak external rotation moment in nonresponders compared to responders (p = 0.028). This study showed that gait analysis, where available, can augment clinical scores in predicting THA response. Moreover, it suggests that further analysis of the subtle role of transverse plane hip mechanics could lead to interventions to promote better THA response. © 2016 Orthopaedic Research Society. Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Orthop Res 35:366–376, 2017.
CES-531: Collaborative Brain-Computer Interfaces for Target Detection and Localisation in Rapid Serial Visual Presentation

The rapid serial visual presentation protocol can be used to show images sequentially on the same spatial location at high presentation rates. We used this technique to present aerial images to participants looking for predefined targets (airplanes) at rates ranging from 5 to 12 Hz. We used linear support vector machines for the single-trial classification of event-related potentials from both individual users and pairs of users (in which case we averaged either their individual classifiers' analogue outputs before thresholding or their electroencephalographic signals associated to the same stimuli) with and without the selection of compatible pairs. We considered two tasks - the detection of targets and the identification of the visual hemifield in which targets appeared. While single users did well in both tasks, we found that pairs of participants with similar individual performance provided significant improvements. In particular, in the target-detection task we obtained median improvements in the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of up to 8.3% w.r. t. single-user BCIs, while in the hemifield classification task we ob- tained AUCs up to 7.7% higher than for single users. Furthermore, we found that this second system allows not just to say if a target is in on the left or the right of an image, but to also recover the target's approximate horizontal position.
Why It Matters

Evans and Stanovich (2013, this issue) propose that Type 1 processes should be defined in terms of autonomy, such that they are initiated and run to completion in the presence of relevant triggering conditions. In this commentary, I argue that their autonomous execution has implications for the nature of the representation that is formed and for the shape and outcome of subsequent Type 2 processes. In addition, I argue that Type 2 processes may also be triggered automatically, but that, unlike Type 1 processes, their completion requires working memory resources, and that the outcome of those processes is more flexible than that of Type 1 processes.
Job resources and flow at work: Modelling the relationship via latent growth curve and mixture model methodology

The aim of the present three-wave follow-up study ( n ¼ 335) among employees of an employment agency was to investigate the association between job resources and work-related flow utilizing both variable- and person-oriented approaches. In addition, emotional exhaustion was studied as am oderator of the job resources–flow relationship ,a nd as ap redictor of the development of job resources and flow . T he variable-oriented approach, based on latent growth curve analyses, revealed that the levels of job resources and flow at work ,a sw el la sc hanges in these variables, wer e positively associated with each other . T he person-oriented inspection with the growth mixture modelling identified four trajectories based on the mean levels of job resources and flow and on the changes of these mean levels ove rt ime: (a) moderate work-related resources ( n ¼ 166), (b) declining work-related resources ( n ¼ 87), (c) high workrelate dr esources ( n ¼ 46), and (d) low work-related resources ( n ¼ 36). Exhaustion was found to be an important predictor of job resources and flow ,b ut it did not moderate their mutual association. Specifically ,al ow level of exhaustion was found to predict high levels of job resources and flow . O verall, these results suggest the importance of ap erson-oriented vie wo fm otivational processes at work. In addition, in order to fully understand positive motivational processes it seems important to investigate the role of negative well-being states as well.
Short communication. In vitro oocyte maturation and fertilization rates in the Spanish Lidia bovine breed

The Lidia bovine breed is the most successful cattle breed on the Iberian Peninsula, also considered a hallmark of Spanish tradition and image around the world. The aims of the study were to characterize the oocyte recovery rates and to evaluate the effect of two standard in vitro maturation protocols on oocyte maturation (cumulus expansion and nuclear maturation) and fertilization rates after in vitro fertilization in this breed. For this purpose, 261 ovaries from Lidia cows were processed obtaining 1,125 viable cumulus oocyte complexes (COCs). The oocyte recovery rate obtained (4.31 viable COCs per ovary) was lower than those described previously in other studied breeds. Maturation rates were evaluated in two different oocyte maturation media with (M1) and without (M2) hormonal supplementation. The percentage of COCs with expanded cumulus cells was significantly lower in M1 (74.35%) compared with M2 (82.25%). Metaphase II (MII) rates (67.75% in M1 and 73.18% in M2) were similar to previous studies in different cattle populations. M2 significantly improved the percentage of COCs with their cumulus cells expanded (p < 0.01) and nuclear maturation rates (p < 0.05), but it did not affect the fertilization percentages obtained in this experiment. In conclusion, our study suggests that oocytes of the Lidia cattle breed can be obtained, matured and fertilized following standard protocols previously used in other cattle breeds.
Global organizational communities of practice: The effects of nationality diversity, psychological safety, and media richness on community performance

Organizational communities of practice (OCoPs) are used increasingly to capitalize on valuable distributed knowledge and to fully engage the innovation potential of employees. OCoPs have become increasingly global in their reach, relying of necessity on virtual forms of interaction to engage the participation and expertise of a global workforce. An unanswered question is whether the performance of such global OCoPs may be predicted to benefit or suffer owing to their nationality diversity. Using data from over 200 members of 30 global OCoPs in a Fortune 100 US-based multinational mining and minerals processing firm, we found that nationality diversity was curvilinearly (U-shaped) related to community performance. We also found that the curvilinear relationship was moderated by psychological safety and the extent of rich communication media use. Specifically, the arc relating nationality diversity and performance became more positive at the higher end, and less negative at the lower end, to the extent that communities reported higher psychological safety and richer communication media use.
Transnational Networks and Global Environmental Governance: The Cities for Climate Protection Program

The past decade has witnessed a growing interest among scholars of international relations, and global environmental governance in particular, in the role of transnational networks within the international arena. While the existence and potential significance of such networks has been documented, many questions concerning the nature of governance conducted by such networks and their impact remain. We contribute to these debates by examining how such networks are created and maintained and the extent to which they can foster policy learning and change. We focus on the Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) program, a network of some 550 local governments concerned with promoting local initiatives for the mitigation of climate change. It is frequently asserted that the importance of such networks lies in their ability to exchange knowledge and information, and to forge norms about the nature and terms of particular issues. However, we find that those local governments most effectively engaged with the network are mobilized more by the financial and political resources it offers, and the legitimacy conferred to particular norms about climate protection, than by access to information. Moreover, processes of policy learning within the CCP program take place in discursive struggles as different actors seek legitimacy for their interpretations of what local climate protection policies should mean. In conclusion, we reflect upon the implications of these findings for understanding the role of transnational networks in global environmental governance.
A User Commitment Approach to Information Systems Infusion

Many organizations have huge investments on information systems (IS) but are unable to achieve the maximum benefits expected. The IS infusion stage refers to the state of using IS to its full potential. IS infusion is a form of organizational citizenship behavior because full utilization of IS requires extrarole behaviors (i.e., IS use beyond the mandated usage) beyond intra-role behaviors (i.e., mandated IS usage). As commitment is a key driver of organizational citizenship behavior, IS infusion requires the user’s commitment to IS usage. This study investigates the development of user commitment from the socio-technical system design perspective and the effect of user commitment on IS infusion. We identified five constructs from the socio-technical system design (job fit, task competence, technology competence, self-determination with technology, and self-determination with task). A survey of 236 enterprise system users showed that user commitment has a positive effect on IS infusion. User commitment, in turn, is influenced by job fit, technology competence, and self-determination with task. This study contributes to IS infusion research by introducing the development of user commitment from the socio-technical system design perspective. Managers can promote user commitment in order to reach the infusion stage of fully utilizing information systems.
Failure of Automatic Mode Switching: Recognition and Management

Dual chamher pacing is desirable to optimize AV synchrony and to potentially decrease the incidence of supraventricular tachyarrhythimas. Patients with alternating periods of both supraventricular tachyarrhythmias and bradycardia pose a difficult challenge when standard dual chamber pacemakers are implanted. The automatic mode switching algorithm was introduced to prevent tracking of paroxysmal supraventricular tachyarrhythimas and avoid the adverse hemodynamic and symptomatic consequences of a rapid ventricular response. In some cases, failure to mode switch may take place when the atrial signal during tachycardia is of insufficient amplitude to be sensed. Failure to mode switch way also occur when the atrial signal periodically occurs in the atrial blanking period(s). In this article, we describe failure to mode switch in seven patients with paroxysmal supraventricular tachyarrhythmias after a Telectronics Meta DDDR 1254 device was implanted. Each patient had paroxysmal atrial flutter and/or atrial fibrillation and presented with either repetitive episodes of oscillation between atrial tracking and mode switching to a nonatrial tracking pacing mode or complete failure to mode switch. Six of seven patients were taking antiarrhythmic drugs that resulted in slowing of the atrial cycle length. Pacemaker reprogramming was required in each case to restore reliable mode switching during subsequent recurrences of the atrial tachyarrhythmias. We conclude that careful pacemaker programming of patients with paroxysmal atrial flutter and the Telectronics Meta DDDR 1254 is necessary when patients are taking an antiarrhythmic drug that slows atrial cycle length.
Clinical classification of BRCA1 and BRCA2 DNA sequence variants: the value of cytokeratin profiles and evolutionary analysis--a report from the kConFab Investigators.

PURPOSE Rare missense substitutions and in-frame deletions of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes present a challenge for genetic counseling of individuals carrying such unclassified variants. We assessed the value of tumor immunohistochemical markers in conjunction with genetic and evolutionary approaches for investigating the clinical significance of unclassified variants. PATIENTS AND METHODS We studied 10 BRCA1 and 12 BRCA2 variants identified in Australian families with breast cancer. Analyses assumed a prior probability based on revised cross-species sequence alignment methods assessing amino acid evolutionary conservation and position, combined with likelihoods from data on co-occurrence with pathogenic mutations in the same gene, segregation analysis, and immunohistochemistry. We specifically explored the value of estrogen receptor, cytokeratin 5/6, and cytokeratin 14 as tumor markers of BRCA1 mutation status. RESULTS Posterior probabilities classified 72% of variants. BRCA1 variants IVS18+1 G>T (del exon 18) and 5632 T >A (V1838E) were classified as pathogenic, with >99% posterior probability of being deleterious, and tumor histopathology was particularly important for their classification. BRCA2 variant classification was improved over previous studies, largely by incorporating the prior probability of pathogenicity based on amino acid cross-species sequence alignments. CONCLUSION Variant classification was considerably improved by analysis of estrogen receptor, cytokeratin 5/6, and cytokeratin 14 tumor expression, and use of updated methods estimating the clinical relevance of amino acid evolutionary conservation and position. These methodologies may assist genetic counseling of individuals with unclassified sequence variants.