Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Common fish diseases and parasites affecting wild and farmed Tilapia and catfish in Central and Western Uganda

Intensification of aquaculture production in Uganda is likely to result into disease out-breaks leading to economic losses to commercial fish farms and associated natural aquatic ecosystems. This survey assessed health profiles of selected commercial fish farms and adjacent natural aquatic ecosystemsto identify fish diseases and parasites affecting Nile tilapia ( Oreochroms niloticus ) and African catfish ( Clarias gariepinus ) in aquaculture systems in Uganda. Fish farms encounter disease out-breaks that cause low survival rates (0 - 30%), especially catfish hatcheries. Health management issues are not well understood by fish farmers, with some unable to detect diseased fish. Current control strategies to control aquatic pathogens include use of chemotherapeutants and antibiotics. Bacterial pathogens isolated included Flavobacterium columnare, Aeromonas sp. , Edwardsiella sp. , Psuedomonus sp. , Steptococcus sp. , Staphylococcus sp. , Proteus sp. , and Vibrio sp. A high occurrence of Flavobacterium columnare exists in both asymptomatic and symptomatic fish was observed. Parasites included protozoans ( Ichthyopthirius multiphilis , Trichodina sp. and Icthyobodo sp.) and trematodes ( Cleidodiscus sp. and Gyrodactylus sp.). Diagnosis and control of diseases and parasites in aquaculture production systems requires adoption of a regional comprehensive biosecurity strategy: the East African (EAC) region unto which this study directly contributes. Key words: African catfish, fish disease, Nile tilapia, parasite
PREDICTING THE EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN WELFARE PAYMENTS ON THE PROBABILITIES OF RECEIVING ALTERNATE SOURCES OF INCOME: THE CASE OF HOMELESS PERSONS IN LOS ANGELES

This article investigates the role that changes in welfare payments are likely to have on the earnings behavior of homeless persons. Using a cross-sectional random sample of 1,489 homeless persons in Los Angeles, the author analyzes the marginal effect of reducing public transfers on (a) the probability of earning and (b) the level of income from various traditional and nontraditional sources. This procedure allows the author to control for a number of important factors (including background, human capital, and social network variables) that may also influence the probability of earning income. Findings suggest that reducing government benefit income by $100 increases the probability of receiving income from traditional and nontraditional sources by 1.37% and 2.18% respectively. Among the latter are selling items on the streets and "other" (nonspecified) sources. It is concluded that welfare reform measures may in fact create additional societal costs as former welfare recipients turn to alternative forms of income. Copyright 2001 Western Economic Association International.
Classification of Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis by Metabolomic Profile Differentiation Using Ultra- Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry

1Center for University-wide Research Facilities, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54907, Republic of Korea 2Bioconvergence Research Institute, HuGeX Co. Ltd., 20, Songdogukje-daero 286beon-gil, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, 22013, Republic of Korea 3Anti-aging Research Institute, BIO-FD&C Co., Ltd, Smartvalley, Songdomirae-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, 13435, Republic of Korea 4Production Management Team, Mokpo Marine Food-Industry Research Center, Mokpo, 58621, Republic of Korea 5Nonghyup Food Research Institute, 114-8 Centraltwon-ro, Suwon, 16506, Republic of Korea
The Mind and Heart of the Social Child: Developing the Empathy and Theory of Mind Scale

Empathy and theory of mind (ToM) are distinctive psychological constructs in predicting children’s social functioning. This study provided evidence of the independent nature of these constructs and developed a parent questionnaire for measuring individual differences in children’s empathy and ToM. In Study 1, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis based on responses of 116 parents of Hong Kong children established a three-factor structure of the Empathy and Theory of Mind Scale (EToMS), that is, Empathy, Nice ToM, and Nasty ToM. An additional 189 parents of Study 2 confirmed this three-factor model. A subsample of 93 children ( , SD = .84, 47 boys) from Study 2 took part in child measures of helping and lying behaviors as well as false belief understanding. The results supported the reliability and validity of the EToMS, making it a useful assessment of children’s social predispositions.
Verb production and word order in Russian agrammatic speakers

Background: Verb production has been shown to be impaired in individuals with agrammatic Broca's aphasia. Several theories have linked this deficit to problems with the implementation of grammatical information that the verb contains. In particular, the number and type of arguments associated with a verb were suggested as causes of production difficulties in agrammatic speakers. The influence of these two factors on agrammatic production has been investigated in English and Dutch (Bastiaanse & Van Zonneveld, 2005; Thompson, 2003). Aims: The present study focuses on exploring these factors in a structurally different language. Russian, with its rich morphology and relatively free word order, is of interest because it enables not only testing of earlier advanced hypotheses on agrammatic production, but also specification of them at some essential points. Methods & Procedures: A sentence production priming paradigm was used that was based on the method developed by Thompson, Lange, Schneider, and Shapiro (1997) which allows a particular verb and sentence construction to be elicited. Six conditions included sentences with different numbers of arguments (one or two), different types of thematic role mapping (direct or indirect), and different word order (basic or scrambled). The test contained 60 items, 10 items per condition. In all, 16 individuals with agrammatic aphasia and 16 non‐brain‐damaged individuals participated in the study. Outcomes & Results: Cross‐linguistic significance of the earlier advanced hypotheses was demonstrated: the increased number of verb arguments and syntactic operations concerning constituent movement cause production problems for Russian agrammatic speakers. Moreover, the data show that agrammatic speech difficulties are related to the number of arguments explicitly mentioned in a sentence, to the number of operations applied to the syntactic structure of a produced sentence, and to changing the base‐generated position of a constituent (not to the order of the constituents per se). Conclusions: The study provides further evidence that verb production is selectively impaired in agrammatic aphasia. This deficit is related to the implementation of the grammatical information that a verb contains and the syntactic operations applied to basic structures.
The Effect of Empathy on the Job Stress among Nurses

This study was conducted to identify the effect of nurses' empathy on their job stress. The subjects of this study were 192 nurses working at 5 general hospitals. The empathy and job stress were surveyed by using structured questionnaire from June 1 to August 31, 2014. The nurses' overall job stress was 3.86 out of 5 and among the domains of job stress, stress of relationship with patients and their carer was 4.22, stress of relationship with medical doctors was 4.21, and stress related to nursing tasks was 4.01. Factors influencing job stress were gender, pay satisfaction, perceived amount of workload, and fantasy from empathy. These findings suggest that in order to improve clinical nurses' job stress, there should be organizational efforts to regulate the pay level and workload and to develop programs for lowering perceived job stress among nurses by managing fantasy from empathy.
Martingales and Super-Martingales Relative to a Convex Set of Equivalent Measures

In the paper, the martingales and super-martingales relative to a convex set of equivalent measures are systematically studied. The notion of local regular super-martingale relative to a convex set of equivalent measures is introduced and the necessary and sufficient conditions of the local regularity of it in the discrete case are founded. The description of all local regular super-martingales relative to a convex set of equivalent measures is presented. The notion of the complete set of equivalent measures is introduced. We prove that every bounded in some sense super-martingale relative to the complete set of equivalent measures is local regular. A new definition of the fair price of contingent claim in an incomplete market is given and the formula for the fair price of Standard Option of European type is found. The proved Theorems are the generalization of the famous Doob decomposition for super-martingale onto the case of super-martingales relative to a convex set of equivalent measures.
The Effectiveness of Telerehabilitation as a Supplement to Rehabilitation in Patients After Total Knee or Hip Replacement: Randomized Controlled Trial

Background Telerehabilitation can contribute to the maintenance of successful rehabilitation regardless of location and time. The aim of this study was to investigate a specific three-month interactive telerehabilitation routine regarding its effectiveness in assisting patients with physical functionality and with returning to work compared to typical aftercare. Objective The aim of the study was to investigate a specific three-month interactive telerehabilitation with regard to effectiveness in functioning and return to work compared to usual aftercare. Methods From August 2016 to December 2017, 111 patients (mean 54.9 years old; SD 6.8; 54.3% female) with hip or knee replacement were enrolled in the randomized controlled trial. At discharge from inpatient rehabilitation and after three months, their distance in the 6-minute walk test was assessed as the primary endpoint. Other functional parameters, including health related quality of life, pain, and time to return to work, were secondary endpoints. Results Patients in the intervention group performed telerehabilitation for an average of 55.0 minutes (SD 9.2) per week. Adherence was high, at over 75%, until the 7th week of the three-month intervention phase. Almost all the patients and therapists used the communication options. Both the intervention group (average difference 88.3 m; SD 57.7; P=.95) and the control group (average difference 79.6 m; SD 48.7; P=.95) increased their distance in the 6-minute-walk-test. Improvements in other functional parameters, as well as in quality of life and pain, were achieved in both groups. The higher proportion of working patients in the intervention group (64.6%; P=.01) versus the control group (46.2%) is of note. Conclusions The effect of the investigated telerehabilitation therapy in patients following knee or hip replacement was equivalent to the usual aftercare in terms of functional testing, quality of life, and pain. Since a significantly higher return-to-work rate could be achieved, this therapy might be a promising supplement to established aftercare. Trial Registration German Clinical Trials Register DRKS00010009; https://www.drks. de/drks_web/navigate.do? navigationId=trial.HTML&TRIAL_ID=DRKS00010009
Identity Aging: Eicient Blockchain Consensus

Decentralized currencies and similar blockchain applications require consensus. Bitcoin achieves eventual consensus in a fullydecentralized seing, but provides very low throughput and high latency with excessive energy consumption. In this paper, we propose identity aging as a novel and more ecient consensus approach. Our main idea is to establish reliable, long-term identities and choose the oldest identity as the miner on each round. Based on this approach, we design two blockchain systems. Our rst system, Scifer, leverages Intel’s SGX aestation for identity bootstrapping in a partially-decentralized seing, where blockchain is permissionless, but we trust Intel for aestation. Our second system, Difer, creates new identities through a novel mining mechanism and provides consensus in a fully-decentralized seing, similar to Bitcoin. One of the main benets of identity aging is that it does not require constant computation. Our analysis and experiments show that identity aging provides signicant performance improvements over Bitcoin with strong security guarantees.
The Effect of Company Fundamental Factor to the Firm Leverage

This paper intended to study the influenced factors of company due to the firm leverage. Purposive sampling method was used to collect data in the period of 2005-2009. There were 44 firms that fulfill the criteria. Data of this research were analyzed by using path analysis method. Results showed that profitability, firm size, asset tangibility, inflation rate had positive influence to the firm leverage. For the other variables with exception the Gross Domestic Brute (GDP) Growth had negative influence to the firm leverage. The results can give the contribution of developing capital structure theory in agency problem and these can use as fundamental base in making decision by manager to act the disciplinary for optimizing the prosperity of stock share owner and holder.
Review of visualisation methods for therepresentation of benefit-risk assessment ofmedication: stage 2 of 2

1 School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom 2 European Medicines Agency, London, United Kingdom 3 Danish Medicines Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark 4 Novo Nordisk A/S, Søborg, Denmark 5 AstraZeneca AB, Macclesfield, United Kingdom 6 GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development LTD, Middlesex, United Kingdom 7 Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy 8 Genentech, South San Francisco, USA 9 Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany 10 Merck KGaA, Geneva, Switzerland Review of visualisation methods for the representation of benefit-risk assessment of medication: Stage 1 of 2
Modification of everyday activities and its association with self-awareness in cognitively diverse older adults

Cognitive impairment (CI) in older adults is frequently accompanied by difficulty performing complex everyday activities (e.g., managing finances). However, it is unclear if and how older adults with CI modify their activities (i.e., Do individuals continue, monitor, seek help with, change their approach to, or stop different activities? ). In the current study, we examined if older adults with CI are concerned about their ability to carry out complex activities, if and how they modify activities based on their concern, and the factors associated with activity modification. We hypothesized that older adults with CI will more frequently be concerned about, and modify, everyday activities than cognitively healthy (HE) older adults, and that higher awareness of memory loss in the CI group would relate to more frequent modification. The sample included 81 older adults (51 HEs; mean age 70.02 (7.34) and 30 CI; mean age 75.97 (8.12)). Compared to HEs, the CI group reported having more concern about, F(3,77) = 5.50, p = 0.02, and modifying a greater number of activities, F(3,77) = 5.02, p = 0.03. Medication management (30%) and completing taxes (33.3%) were among the most frequently modified activities for the CI and HE groups, respectively. In the CI group, higher memory awareness was associated with more concern (r = .53, p = .005) and activity modification (r = 0.55, p = .003). Findings provide novel information about how cognitively diverse older adults navigate complex activities in daily life. We propose a preliminary theoretical model by which self-awareness may influence navigation of everyday activities in the context of CI.
Whom will you choose? - Collaborator Selection and Selector’s Self-Prediction

Our experiment investigates managers’ self-predictions of their subsequent performance and, based upon, their choice of a collaborator. Our results show that managers’ self-predictions are not biased anymore after they are informed about the performance of a reference group. In spite of this, most managers do not rationally choose a collaborator given their beliefs. In a second treatment, superiors (who are assumed to be at a higher hierarchy level than the managers) obtain various information, e.g. about managers’ self-predictions, and have to predict the managers’ performances. Our data show that superiors adapt their predictions into the direction of the managers’ self- predictions, although not completely. Particularly, superiors think that their managers’ self-predictions are biased if they are lower than the average performance of the reference group. Based upon their predictions, superiors have to select a collaborator for their managers. We find that superiors’ collaborator choices do not significantly differ from the managers’ choices. This proves due to excellent information processing by both, managers and superiors, which on the whole leads to very similar predictions of managers’ subsequent performance.
Transmission of Impact Through the Electronic Body Protector in Taekwondo

This study has been conducted in order to elicit the impact forces transmitted trough Electronic Body Protectors utilized in Taekwondo. By applying a specially designed impact measurement setting, kicks as in real Taekwondo fight were mimicked on mannequins vested or non-vested with Electronic Body Protectors. For different cadet levels, kicks which may bring points were applied. A total of 54 kicks were conducted determining the impact forces absorbed under the Electronic Body Protectors and also on front of the sternum. For measurement of transmitted impact forces, a specially designed sensor system (F-Socket system) was placed between the mannequin and the inner surface of Electronic Body Protectors. The results show that points could be obtained at each cadet level even with low impact forces. The impact of kick transmitted onto the chest increases (24.67%68.09%) as the cadet level increases. It was also observed that at higher cadet levels transmitted forces were higher depending on the impact level. Thus, it was concluded that the thickness of Electronic Body Protectors must be modified according to the weight divisions utilized in Taekwondo. As it seems to be possible to score points even with low impact forces during Taekwondo competitions, there is no need to use kicks with high impact forces leading to a higher risk of injuries unless athletes seek to disturb the balance of their opponents.
S100 Calcium Binding Protein A11 (S100A11) Promotes The Proliferation, Migration And Invasion Of Cervical Cancer Cells, And Activates Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling

Purpose This study is aimed to investigate the specific regulatory role of S100 calcium binding protein A11 (S100A11) on cervical cancer (CC), and reveal the potential mechanisms relating to Wnt/β-catenin signaling. Patients and methods The expression of S100A11 in cervical squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC), adjacent non-cancerous, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), and normal cervical tissues was detected by quantitative real-time PCR and/or immunohistochemistry. After transfection of pENTER-S100A11 or sh-S100A11-1/sh-S100A11-2, the viability, cell cycle, migration and invasion of C33A or SiHa cells were detected. The tumor volume and tumor weight were measured after injection of transfected C33A cells into mice. The expression of E-caherin (CDH2), N-caherin (CDH1), β-catenin (CTNNB1), and c-Myc (MYC) in C33A and SiHa cells was detected by Western blot. Results The expression of S100A11 was significantly higher in CSCC tissues than in adjacent non-cancerous, CIN, and normal cervical tissues (P < 0.05). S100A11 expression was positively correlated with the FIGO stage and lymph node metastasis of CSCC patients (P < 0.05). The transfection of pENTER-S100A11 into C33A cells significantly increased the cell viability, the percentage of cells in G2/M phase, the numbers of migratory and invasive cells, as well as the tumor volume and weight in mice (P < 0.05). Overexpression of S100A11 also significantly downregulated E-caherin, and upregulated N-caherin, β-catenin, and c-Myc in C33A cells (P < 0.05). The transfection of sh-S100A11-1/sh-S100A11-2 exhibited the opposite results to that of pENTER-S100A11 on SiHa cells. Conclusion Overexpression of S100A11 promotes the proliferation, migration, invasion, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition of CC cells, and activates Wnt/β-catenin signaling.
Title Urine , peritoneal fluid and omental fat proteomes of reproductive age women : Endometriosis-related changes and associations with endocrine disrupting chemicals

Endometriosis, ectopic growth of the uterine lining (endometrium), which affects 6–11% of reproductive age women, is associated with pelvic pain and infertility. We investigated the peritoneal fluid (PF), urine and omental fat (OF) proteomes of women with endometriosis vs. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Corresponding author at: Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Tel. : +1 415 476 5297; fax: +1 415 476 5623. sfisher@cgl.ucsf. edu (S.J. Fisher). Transparency document The http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.jprot. 2014.09. 015Transparencydocument associated with this article can be found, in the online version. Supplementary data to this article can be found online at http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.jprot. 2014.09. 015. HHS Public Access Author manuscript J Proteomics. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 June 15. Published in final edited form as: J Proteomics. 2015 January 15; 113: 194–205. doi:10.1016/j.jprot. 2014.09. 015. A uhor M anscript
The monogenean community on the gills of Oreochromis niloticus from Melen fish station in Yaounde, Cameroon

Article Type: Full Length Research Article The distribution of monogenean gill parasites of 191 specimens of Oreochromis niloticus caught at Melen fish station in Yaounde, Cameroon; between February and July 2012 was investigated. Standard methods of parasitological examination were used for identification of monogenean species. Four parasite species were found, of which, three (Cichlidogyrus thurstonae, C. halli and C. tilapiae) were classified as core species and one (Scutogyrus longicornis) was classified as secondary. All parasites found aggregated within the host population, although one individual fish was without any parasite. Generally, the mean intensities of the different parasite species were very low, except for C. thurstonae, with low mean intensity. From the results obtained, it was observed that parasitism increased with increase in host size but appeared to be sex dependent for S. longicornis only; which was significantly more concentrated in males than in females. The distribution of the parasites in the right side was similar to that of the left side and the colonization of the four pairs of gill arches was done in an anterio-posterior direction. ©2014 BluePen Journals Ltd. All rights reserved