Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Ecomorphological patterns of the fishes inhabiting the tide pools of the Amazonian Coastal Zone, Brazil

Identificamos padroes ecomorfologicos que refletem a ecologia de especies encontradas em pocas de mare na Zona Costeira Amazonica (ZCA). Individuos de 19 especies foram coletados no estado do Para durante duas expedicoes em 2011. Foram estabelecidas dominância, grau de residencia, guildas troficas e tomadas medidas morfometricas de ate 10 individuos de cada especie. Calculou-se 23 atributos ecomorfologicos relacionados a locomocao, posicao e forrageio, utilizados para o calculo da distância ecomorfologica. Foram utilizadas Analises de Componentes Principais (PCA) para avaliar que atributos ecomorfologicos explicaram a variacao entre as especies. O teste de Mantel foi utilizado para testar a correlacao da distância taxonomica com a morfologia das especies e um teste de Mantel parcial para avaliar a correlacao das guildas troficas com os padroes ecomorfologicos, controlando-se o efeito da distância taxonomica entre as especies. Nas analises formaram-se dois eixos principais para variacao em relacao aos padroes de locomocao, correlacionados a largura do pedunculo caudal e formato da nadadeira anal, ocorrendo influencia da distância taxonomica entre as especies nos padroes ecomorfologicos. Especies dominantes e residentes apresentaram menor capacidade de natacao continua. Quanto a posicao na coluna d'agua, formaram-se dois eixos principais da variacao, correlacionados a posicao do olho, area da nadadeira pelvica e formato do corpo, ocorrendo influencia da distância taxonomica entre as especies nas dissimilaridades morfologicas. A PCA agrupou especies de habito pelagico com especies de habito bentonico. Em relacao ao forrageio, formaram-se dois eixos principais da variacao, correlacionados ao tamanho da boca, tamanho do olho e comprimento do trato digestorio. Especies de diferentes guildas permaneceram agrupadas, sugerindo fraca relacao da morfologia com o forrageio e nao houve influencia da distância taxonomica nas dissimilaridades nas guildas troficas. Especies residentes e dominantes em pocas de mare na ZCA apresentam habito sedentario, ocorrendo pouca influencia da distância taxonomica nos padroes ecomorfologicos que se referem a posicao na coluna d'agua e locomocao, demonstrando que especies distantes filogeneticamente podem apresentar padroes ecomorfologicos similares, e a morfologia demonstrou-se como fraca preditora das taticas de forrageio.
Transport of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and ozone by turbulence and local circulations

Nocturnal land breezes and daytime lake breezes are studied using data collected by the Canadian Twin Otter aircraft and a deck boat which traversed Candle Lake during the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS). The nocturnal vertical transport of CO2, water vapor, and ozone over the lake consists of two parts: (1) mesoscale rising motion associated with land breeze convergence and (2) significant turbulence and vertical mixing driven by buoyancy in the lower part of the internal boundary layer and shear generation in the top part of the internal boundary layer. For comparison, the role of the lake in the daytime is examined in terms of formation of a stable internal boundary layer due to advection of warm air from land with small CO2 concentration over the cooler lake surface. Analysis of the aircraft and boat data indicates that the nocturnal land breeze plays an important role in the regional CO2 budget in the lake region. In the present study, CO2 is advected horizontally by a nocturnal land breeze circulation and vented vertically over Candle Lake (“chimney effect”). Such near-surface horizontal transport implies that part of the respirated CO2 never reaches the tower observational level, particularly under light wind conditions. This study speculates that preferred locations of vertical venting of CO2 may also occur due to convergence of nocturnal drainage circulations or flow meandering, although probably weaker than that associated with the land breeze. These circulations partly explain recent findings that tower-measured nocturnal turbulent fluxes of CO2 above the canopy and the subcanopy storage of CO2 frequently sum to less than the total respiration of CO2, leading to “missing CO2. ” Unfortunately, the present study does not allow evaluation of all of the terms in the carbon dioxide budget.
YIELDING OF SPRING TRITICALE GROWN UNDER ORGANIC AN D INTEGRATED SYSTEMS OF FARMING AND ECONOMIC INDICATORS OF ITS P RODUCTION Summary

A one factor field experiment was performed at the Experimental Station in Czyrna near Krynica, in a p eriod from 2010 to 2013. The objective of the experimental research wa s to determine the yielding of spring triticale gro wn under the organic and integrated systems of farming and the economic efficiency of its production. Based on the experime ntal results, it was found that the grain yield of spring triticale grow n under the organic system of farming decreased by 6% on average compared to the integrated system. The direct costs in he integrated system were 36% higher than in the organic system. The value of materials and means of agricultural produc tion used in the integrated system was almost three tim s as high as that in the organic one. Under the organic system of far ming, the direct surplus and the direct profitabili ty ndicator were higher compared to the integrated system.
Backwardation in Energy Future Markets: Metallgesellschaft Revisited

In this paper, we revisit the debate on the merits of the stack-and-roll hedging strategy employed by Metallgesellschaft's American subsidiary, MGRM. Since the profitability of this hedging strategy depends on whether or not backwardation was the norm in energy futures contracts, we first provide the evidence on backwardation with an updated data set. We then examine the two major risks that such a hedging strategy faces margin call risk due to price declines and contango risk. Based on the data up to 1992, we find that the strategy could be expected to be profitable while the risks were not very high. Based on the updated data (up to 2000), the program's expected profits are smaller but still significant, however, the risks are higher. The probabilities of encountering a similar problem to the one MGRM faced are twice as high with the updated data than with the data up to 1992. In other words, the risk-return pattern of such a strategy is less appealing now than when MGRM implemented its hedging program.
Men’s experiences of state sponsored housing in South Africa: emerging issues and key questions

Abstract In South African cities, millions of men and women living informally are being rehoused through the state-directed provision of formal houses to poor beneficiaries. This intervention is reshaping their lives, and innovatively targets beneficiaries with dependents, where over half are women. Aiming to redress the historical context of gendered inequality in housing ownership and house the very poor, these policy and implementation changes necessarily impact on men in terms of their power, resources and employment but in complex ways including positive and negative. The home remains significant for many men’s desires for authority and identity. Using the lens of masculinity, this paper considers the ways in which men are experiencing this housing intervention, revealing a complex mix of outcomes in terms of their sense of identity, their relationships and their financial pressures and income generation. It draws on empirical work in South Africa to illuminate the importance of focusing on men in relation to housing and offers key questions for future research.
Patterns of loggerhead turtle ontogenetic shifts revealed through isotopic analysis of annual skeletal growth increments

Ontogenetic changes in resource use often delimit transitions between life stages. Ecological and individual factors can cause variation in the timing and consistency of these transitions, ultimately affecting community and population dynamics through changes in growth and survival. Therefore, it is important to document and understand behavioral and life history polymorphisms, and the processes that drive intraspecific variation in them. To evaluate juvenile loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) life history variation and to detect shifts in habitat and diet that occur during an oceanic-to-neritic ontogenetic shift, we sequentially analyzed the stable isotope composition of humerus bone growth increments from turtles that stranded dead on Southeastern U.S. beaches between 1997 and 2013 (n = 84). In one-half of the sampled turtles, growth increment-specific nitrogen stable isotope (δ15N) data showed significant increases in δ15N values over each turtle's life. These data were used to provide a new line .
Entrapment of a large air bubble at aortic root associated with intra-aortic balloon pump insertion

Introduction: Intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) are commonly used devices in patients presenting with cardiogenic shock complicated by acute myocardial infarction. The common complications related with these devices are bleeding and thrombosis. On the other hand, air embolism is a very rare complication, especially related to IABP insertion. There has been lack of data on air embolism related to IABP without balloon rupture. Case Report: A 59-year-old male with acute myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock underwent emergent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) on ECMO support. After PCI, IABP was inserted via left femoral vein. Immediately after IABP insertion, large air bubble with oscillating motion was found in aortic root. The air bubble was so large that could fill-up almost all part of aortic root. The air bubble was trapped in aortic root and did not move to aortic arch or left ventricle. The air bubble was successfully aspirated using coronary catheter. Conclusion: More careful attention should be given during the IABP insertion to prevent air embolism, especially when there is reverse flow in the aorta by ECMO.
A Psychometric Evaluation of Two Teaching Effectiveness Scales

The call for teaching accountability in higher education initiated teaching effectiveness research and its scales development. Attention in many institutions of higher learning has been diverted recently to the improvement of teaching performance as another way besides academic research to promote the higher institutions. The diversity of attention is a response to external calls for accountability in teaching as a result of the under-estimation of the significance of the teaching process compared to research activities. As research on teaching effectiveness has increased, so has the number of different measures of teaching effectiveness. Hence, in this article, the researchers examined the psychometric properties of two teaching effectiveness scales, namely the Marsh Student Evaluation of Educational Quality (1987) and Mahfooz Ansari and Mustafa Achoui Ansari Teaching Feedback Survey (2000) in terms of their factorial and construct validity. A total of 1504 3rd and 4th year and postgraduate students were selected from four renowned Malaysian public Universities, namely USIM, UM, UPM and IIUM. The study found that although the two scales were constructed to assess teaching effectiveness in higher institutions, the Marsh scale was extensively used in the literature and more comprehensive in relation to the numbers of factors. The study found that although there is room for improvement for both scales, the Marsh’s scale is psychometrically more sound, and theoretically more comprehensive than Ansari and Ansari’s scale.
Asymptomatic giardiasis-more prevalent in refugees than in native inhabitants of the city of Nis, Serbia

Giardiasis is a parasitic infection of the digestive tract, most commonly occurring in closed communities such as schools, kindergartens, prisons, and campuses. The civil war in the former Yugoslav republics and in Kosovo caused a large number of refugees to take shelter in the territory of Serbia. Such large numbers of refugees could be accommodated only in the collective centers. Our aim was to examine the differences in the prevalence of asymptomatic giardiasis among 122 refugees from the former Yugoslav republics who lived in the collective centers in Nis, Serbia, and 241 native Nis inhabitants. Conventional microscopic examination (CME) of three stool samples with or without concentration technique and the enzyme immunoassay (EIA) methods were used. The CME method of three stool samples is considered the gold standard in our statistical survey. Asymptomatic giardiasis is found in 7 refugees (5.7%) using the EIA method, while using the CME (3 samples) Giardia duodenalis (G. duodenalis) was detected in 6 persons (4.9%). Using the EIA method and the CME (3 samples) G. duodenalis was detected in only 1 person in the population group of native inhabitants (0.4%). Asymptomatic giardiasis was more prevalent in the population group of refugees accommodated in collective centers than in native inhabitants in the Nis municipality, Serbia.
Aegean wall painting : a tribute to Mark Cameron

Oxbow says: the stunning painted frescoes of the Bronze Age Aegean with their vibrant colours, beautiful women, daring men, wild animals and exotic plants, take us to a world that is remote from us, and yet seemingly accessible through its visual arts. This collection of essays, which is dedicated to the memory of Mark Cameron and his contribution to the study of Minoan painting, presents new ideas, interpretations and discoveries of Bronze Age Aegean painting. Whilst the introduction by Lyvia Morgan reviews the major discoveries in this field of study and discusses how they have altered and shaped the subject, the essays comprise a pastiche of chronological and technical studies, discussions of iconography and architectural context, as well as descriptions of paintings from palaces, villas and town houses across the Aegean world. The contributors explore issues of gender, prestige, power and divinity in the art, analyse pigments, plasters and methods of production, examine the subjects depicted, ideology, the preceptions of the artists, and the relationship between image and reality. The impressive line-up of scholars contributing to this volume makes this an authoritative publication on the subject.
On the physics‐based processes behind production‐induced seismicity in natural gas fields

Induced seismicity due to natural gas production is observed at different sites worldwide. Common understanding states that the pressure drop caused by gas production leads to compaction, which affects the stress field in the reservoir and the surrounding rock formations and hence reactivates preexisting faults and induces earthquakes. In this study, we show that the multiphase fluid flow involved in natural gas extraction activities should be included. We use a fully coupled fluid flow and geomechanics simulator, which accounts for stress‐dependent permeability and linear poroelasticity, to better determine the conditions leading to fault reactivation. In our model setup, gas is produced from a porous reservoir, divided into two compartments that are offset by a normal fault. Results show that fluid flow plays a major role in pore pressure and stress evolution within the fault. Fault strength is significantly reduced due to fluid flow into the fault zone from the neighboring reservoir compartment and other formations. We also analyze scenarios for minimizing seismicity after a period of production, such as (i) well shut‐in and (ii) gas reinjection. In the case of well shut‐in, a highly stressed fault zone can still be reactivated several decades after production has ceased, although on average the shut‐in results in a reduction in seismicity. In the case of gas reinjection, fault reactivation can be avoided if gas is injected directly into the compartment under depletion. However, gas reinjection into a neighboring compartment does not stop the fault from being reactivated.
Monotonicity of the zeros of the third derivative of Bessel functions

It is shown that j"k is an increasing function of z/, 1 < v < oo, for each fixed k = 1,2,. , and also that this holds in 0 < v < oo when j"^ > y/S. Here j"'k is the k-th. positive zero of J'J'fa), the third derivative of the Bessel function of first kind and order v. These results follow from a representation derived for djJk/du, u > 0. In addition, a number of inequalities for j"^ are established, especially for k = 1.
Study of the Effect of Various Domestic Violence Against Women and Related Factors in Women who Referred to the Forensic Medical Center in Urmia city-Iran 2012-2013

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Use of social web technologies by international and domestic undergraduate students: implications for internationalising learning and teaching in Australian universities

Much research into the use of online information and communication technologies for the internationalisation of learning and teaching has focused on established web technologies. This paper considers the possible internationalisation implications of existing uses of social software, also known as Web 2.0 technologies, which are now widely available inside and outside of formal education settings. The paper reports on two studies: the first, conducted at a large Australian university, investigated differences between international and domestic undergraduate students’ (n = 1973) use of web‐based technologies and tools; the second investigation reports on interviews with eight Australian and eight Singaporean university students about their use and perceptions of blogs and blogging. The findings from two studies provide new evidence of both cultural similarities and cultural differences in aspects of young university students’ use of social software for communication and content creation. Discussion and conclusions draw out factors to be considered in planning to implement new uses of social software among culturally and linguistically diverse students of the Net Generation, in Australia and more generally.
ROLE OF ANTICONVULSANT THERAPEUTIC DRUG MONITORING IN IMPROVING CLINICAL OUTCOMES: AN EXAMPLE OF 12 ADULT EPILEPSY PATIENTS

1 , Jasmina Milovanovic 2 , Snežana V Jankovic 2 , Natalija Todorovic 3 , Nemanja Rancic 4 , Nikola Jestrovic 5 , 6 , Slobodan Jankovic 2 , Mihajlo Jakovljevic 2 1 Centar za radiolosku dijagnostiku , Klinicki centar Kragujevac, Srbija 2 Odsek za farmakologiju I toksikologiju, Fakultet medicinskih nauka, Kragujevac, Srbija 3 Klinika za neurologiju, Klinicki centar Kragujevac, Srbija 4 Fakultet medicinskih nauka, Univerzitet u Kreagujevcu, Srbija 5 Merck Sharp & Dohme Idea Inc., AG Beograd, Srbija 6 Farmaceutski fakultet, Univerzitet u Ljubljani, Slovenija Epilepsy, one of the most common neurological dis- eases, demands persistent and long-term therapy. In spite of the available therapeutic interventions for seizure dis- orders, the incidence of epilepsy and mortality associated with "status epilepticus" remain significant (1). The goal of seizure management is satisfying seizure control with minimal side effects (2). Quality of life (QoL) studies have suggested that patients who suffer even a single seizure per year exhibit significantly reduced QoL (3). Among the wide range of medications offered in the market, valproic acid is still considered by many to be "a gold standard" to treat many convulsive disorders, including absence , gen- eralised tonic-clonic seizures, myoclonic juvenile seizures, and photosensitive seizures . It also exhibits an acceptable toxicity profile compared with other anticonvulsants (4). The Serbian health care system is still not capable of sys- temic therapeutic drug monitoring in clinical practice. The underlying reasons are typical for an upper-middle income transitional market and are attributed to both financial con- straints and the lack of skilled, highly educated human re- source availability in the field. These reasons influenced the authors to report pilot trial results to provide a small move forward on the issue among local clinicians (5). The core aim of the trial presented was an exploration of the dose-response relationship in a small group of twelve adults suffering from epilepsy. The authors studied fre- quencies of drug adverse effects associated with long-term monotherapy and evaluated the appropriateness and clini- cal value of regular therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of valproic acid. The presence of a correlation between drug plasma concentration as an independent variable and fre- quency of seizures, frequency of adverse events and over- all life quality as dependent variables was also tested. The reported results are an unpublished fragment originating from a large-scale collaborative project on pharmacoki- netic modelling in juvenile epilepsy treatment (3-6).
Signaling Mechanisms that Balance Anti-viral, Auto-reactive, and Antitumor Potential of Low Affinity T Cells

T cells protect us from a large number of infectious diseases. Several lines of evidence indicate that T cells can also eliminate malignant cells and alter the progression of tumors. These two types of immune responses were traditionally viewed to involve different types or qualities of T cells. Pathogen-specific immune responses were thought to be predominantly mediated by T cells bearing high affinity T cell receptors (TCRs) specific for microbial-derived antigens. In contrast, anti-tumor immunity or autoimmune diseases normally involve TCRs with intermediate-to-low affinity to self-antigens, and lower affinity T cells are believed to have severely reduced effector T cell potential. However, recent findings illustrate that the repertoire of pathogen-specific T cells is more diverse than previously considered and that significant numbers of differentiated and fully functional lower affinity effector T cells arise during infections. In this review, we will summarize our current understanding of the importance and the effector capacity of low affinity T cells during infection, autoimmunity and anti-tumor responses. We will discuss how T cell function is influenced by TCR affinity and TCR signal strength, and we will focus on how the expression of inhibitory and activating receptors impact the function of T cells with different antigen affinity. Manipulating T cell activity through engaging or blocking these pathways bears an enormous potential to alter the clinical outcome of malignant diseases, chronic infections, and autoimmune disorders.