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Savouring as a moderator of the combat exposure–mental health symptoms relationship

Engaging in firefights or witnessing death and other types of combat experiences are occupational hazards associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression in military personnel returning from combat deployments. The present study examined savouring beliefs as a moderator of the relationship between combat exposure and mental health symptoms among U.S. Army soldiers deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Soldiers (N = 885) completed measures of combat exposure, savouring beliefs, PTSD, and depression. Savouring was negatively related to symptoms of PTSD and depression and moderated the relationship between combat exposure and PTSD and depression among military personnel. These findings demonstrate that savouring positive life experiences may be beneficial to overall positive mental health and potentially buffer negative mental health symptoms related to traumatic experiences. Discussion focuses on the possibility of training individuals exposed to trauma in savouring techniques.
First-principles study of the interaction and charge transfer between graphene and metals

Measuring the transport of electrons through a graphene sheet necessarily involves contacting it with metal electrodes. We study the adsorption of graphene on metal substrates using first-principles calculations at the level of density-functional theory. The bonding of graphene to Al, Ag, Cu, Au, and Pt (111) surfaces is so weak that its unique “ultrarelativistic” electronic structure is preserved. The interaction does, however, lead to a charge transfer that shifts the Fermi level by up to 0.5 eV with respect to the conical points. The crossover from p-type to n-type doping occurs for a metal with a work function ~5.4 eV, a value much larger than the work function of free-standing graphene, 4.5 eV. We develop a simple analytical model that describes the Fermi-level shift in graphene in terms of the metal substrate work function. Graphene interacts with and binds more strongly to Co, Ni, Pd, and Ti. This chemisorption involves hybridization between graphene pz states and metal d states that opens a band gap in graphene, and reduces its work function considerably. The supported graphene is effectively n-type doped because in a current-in-plane device geometry the work-function lowering will lead to electrons being transferred to the unsupported part of the graphene sheet.
A wavelet multilevel method for ill-posed problems stabilized by Tikhonov regularization

An additive Schwarz iteration is described for the fast resolution of linear ill-posed problems which are stabilized by Tikhonov regularization. The algorithm and its analysis are presented in a general framework which applies to integral equations of the first kind discretized either by spline functions or Daubechies wavelets. Numerical experiments are reported on to illustrate the theoretical results and to compare both discretization schemes.
Enhancing LoRaWAN Security through a Lightweight and Authenticated Key Management Approach

Luckily, new communication technologies and protocols are nowadays designed considering security issues. A clear example of this can be found in the Internet of Things (IoT) field, a quite recent area where communication technologies such as ZigBee or IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN) already include security features to guarantee authentication, confidentiality and integrity. More recent technologies are Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LP-WAN), which also consider security, but present initial approaches that can be further improved. An example of this can be found in Long Range (LoRa) and its layer-two supporter LoRa Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN), which include a security scheme based on pre-shared cryptographic material lacking flexibility when a key update is necessary. Because of this, in this work, we evaluate the security vulnerabilities of LoRaWAN in the area of key management and propose different alternative schemes. Concretely, the application of an approach based on the recently specified Ephemeral Diffie–Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC) is found as a convenient solution, given its flexibility in the update of session keys, its low computational cost and the limited message exchanges needed. A comparative conceptual analysis considering the overhead of different security schemes for LoRaWAN is carried out in order to evaluate their benefits in the challenging area of LP-WAN.
A Novel Fault-Tolerant Last-Level Cache to Improve Reliability at Near-Threshold Voltage

Near-threshold voltage computing (NTC) improves power and energy efficiency of cache by scaling transistor voltage. However, in large SRAM structures, such as last-level cache (LLC), a great number of bit-cell errors will occur when supply voltage scales to near-threshold voltage. In this paper, we propose a novel fault-tolerant LLC design (NFTLLC) to deal with a high failure rate which is higher than 1% at near-threshold voltage. NFTLLC corrects the single-error and compresses multi-error in Cache entry to improves the reliability of last-level cache. To validate the efficiency of NFTLLC, we implement NFTLLC and prior works in gem5, and simulate with SPEC CPU2006. The experiment shows that compared with Concertina when bit-cell failure rate is 1.1%, the performance of NFTLLC with 4-byte subblock size improves by 6.8% and the Cache capacity increases by 20.8%. Besides, miss rate decreases more than 53%, and overhead increases by 16.8% in minimum.
Please Scroll down for Article Philosophical Psychology If You like It, Does It Matter If It's Real? If You like It, Does It Matter If It's Real?

This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution , reselling , loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and drug doses should be independently verified with primary sources. The publisher shall not be liable for any loss, actions, claims, proceedings, demand or costs or damages whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of the use of this material. Most people's intuitive reaction after considering Nozick's experience machine thought-experiment seems to be just like his: we feel very little inclination to plug in to a virtual reality machine capable of providing us with pleasurable experiences. Many philosophers take this empirical fact as sufficient reason to believe that, more than pleasurable experiences, people care about ''living in contact with reality. '' Such claim, however, assumes that people's reaction to the experience machine thought-experiment is due to the fact that they value reality over virtual experiences—an assumption that has seldom (if ever) been questioned. This paper challenges that very assumption. I report some experimental evidence suggesting that the intuition elicited by the thought-experiment may be explainable by the fact that people are averse to abandon the life they have been experiencing so far, regardless of whether such life is virtual or real. I use then an explanatory model, derived from what behavioral economists and psychologists call the status quo bias, to make sense of these results. Finally, I argue that since this explanation also accounts for people's reaction toward Nozick's thought-experiment, it would be wrong to take such intuition as evidence that people value being in touch with reality.
Wage Penalties for Motherhood and Child-rearing in Post-Soviet Russia

This paper studies the motherhood wage penalty, a wage gap that favors women who are not mothers to working mothers, using a Russian longitudinal data set spanning the years 1994-2012. Whether women experience a wage penalty when their household has children in it, regardless of individual motherhood status, is also studied. Fixed Effects, Heckman Selection, and a quantile analysis approach to the Oaxaca Blinder decomposition are used to study the two groups. The findings support the prevalence of a wage penalty against mothers, but are not as clear regarding a wage penalty faced by women with children in their households. Introduction Wage discrepancies favoring childless women over women with children are globally observed phenomena, met by a growing body of literature measuring the extent and persistence of these wage gaps, and discussing the political, social, and institutional conditions supporting the difference in wages. This paper will focus on the wage gap between women with children and those without children, often called the motherhood wage penalty, as it applies to women of different earning quantiles in the Russian Federation. Classic economic theories behind the motherhood wage penalty postulate that a woman's human capital depreciates when she leaves the formal job sector in favor of child rearing (Mincer 1958). As well as experiencing skill depreciation while out of the workforce, she forgoes work experience and loses tenure. These may be especially influential factors in wage determination in a country like Russia, with generous maternity leave benefits allowing women to stay out of the labor
The Academic Motivation Scale: Dimensionality, Reliability, and Construct Validity Among Vocational Students

Self-determination theory (SDT) distinguishes types of motivation according to types of self-regulation along a continuum of internalisation. Types of motivation vary in quality and outcomes and are frequently used in research as predictors of educational outcomes such as learning, performance, engagement, and persistence. The Academic Motivation Scale (AMS), which is based on the SDT, has not previously been evaluated in Norway. In response, by using correlation and confirmatory factor analysis, we examined the dimensionality, reliability, and construct validity of the AMS among vocational health and social care students. Our hypothesised 7-factor model demonstrated the best fit, while the AMS demonstrated good reliability and construct validity in the sample of students. However, some improvements remain necessary. In predicting the rate of school completion among students on vocational tracks, amotivation and identified regulation appeared to be more powerful as intrinsic motivational variables.
Impact of birth order on procrastination among college students in Eldoret town

The study sought to investigate the impact of birth order on procrastination among college students in Eldoret town. The study sought to achieve the following objectives: (1) to find out the prevalence of procrastination among college students in Eldoret town, (2) to find out the relationship between birth order on procrastination among college students in Eldoret town, (3) to investigate the relationship between age and procrastination among college students in Eldoret town and, (4) to investigate the relationship between gender and procrastination among college students in Eldoret town. The study adopted the ex post facto design. This single survey study purposively recruited 20 firstborns, 20 middle children, and 20 last-borns, from the KIM school of management, Eldoret campus. The sample comprised 30 male and 30 female respondents. Data was collected using a questionnaire. Hypothesis testing was done using the chi-square test. The findings showed that a total of 33 (55%) felt that birth order did affect their motivation for doing things while 27 (45%) felt that it did not affect them. , it is apparent that those who procrastinated were 28 (46.7%) while those who did not procrastinate were 32 (53.3%). Out of the 28 who postponed things that they could do at that moment, 21 said they always did so while 7 postponed sometimes. A total of 35 respondents indicated that they often gave up on a task whenever it got difficult while 25 (41.7%) opined that they never did so. The study concluded that there is a statistically significant relationship between procrastination and the respondents’ birth position. An examination of the cross-tabulation above shows that most of those who procrastinated were last borns and a few middle borns. Hypothesis testing result confirmed that there was a statistically significant association between procrastination and age of the respondents. Of the 28 respondents who procrastinated, 16 (57.1%) were female while 12 (42.9%) were males. Key words: birth order, procrastination
Deaths of desert tortoises following periods of drought and research manipulation

Droughts, or years in which precipitation falls below the long-term mean, are a frequent occurrence in the American Southwest. During or following droughts between 1990 and 1995, 11 (6 moribund, 5 dead) desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) were salvaged due to dehydration and starvation from three field sites in the MojaveDesert. Thetortoises included 5juveniles, 1immature, and 5 adult males. Ten weighed 19.5 to 39.7% less than control animals, drought survivors of equivalent carapacelengths from the same ornearbystudy sites. In the weeks and months preceding salvage or death, the salvaged tortoises behaved abnormally for the season and weather conditions, e.g., not entering burrows for hibernation in fall, remaining above ground overnight exposed to freezing temperatures. In addition, rain sufficient to produce free-standing water fell in the vicinity of 9 tortoises, but only 4 showed evidence of drinking. Hematologic abnormalities included low packed cell volumes and heterophil counts. Abnormalities in the plasma biochemical analytes included hypocalcemia, hyperbilirubinemia, marked azotemia, and elevated sodium and chloride levels. Necropsy findings included atrophy or disappearance ofthe thymus, lack ofsubcutaneousfat adjacent to the proximal ends of the humeri, lack of coelomic fat, empty stomachs and upper intestines, and urolithiasis. Gross and histologic examination oftissues indicated osteopenia, skeletal muscle and liver atrophy, and mild to severe hemosiderosis of the liver. Other factors possibly exacerbating the debilitating effects of dehydration and starvation in 10 of 11 tortoises included young or old age, handling, research manipulation, and crowding in experimental desert enclosures. During droughts, scientists conducting research and procedures on wild desert tortoises can use abnormalities in behavior and laboratory data as early warningsigns ofstress and take appropriate actions to reduce impacts by modifying protocols, or delaying or terminating the procedures.
D-GENIES: dot plot large genomes in an interactive, efficient and simple way

Dot plots are widely used to quickly compare sequence sets. They provide a synthetic similarity overview, highlighting repetitions, breaks and inversions. Different tools have been developed to easily generated genomic alignment dot plots, but they are often limited in the input sequence size. D-GENIES is a standalone and web application performing large genome alignments using minimap2 software package and generating interactive dot plots. It enables users to sort query sequences along the reference, zoom in the plot and download several image, alignment or sequence files. D-GENIES is an easy-to-install, open-source software package (GPL) developed in Python and JavaScript. The source code is available at https://github.com/genotoul-bioinfo/dgenies and it can be tested at http://dgenies.toulouse. inra.fr/.
Financial Development, Growth and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Ghana

In this paper, we re-assess the finance-growth-poverty linkage in Ghana during the period 1960–2015. We account for structural changes and omitted variable bias, using a modified multivariate distributed lag framework. We find financial development to cause economic growth, which in turn causes poverty reduction in Ghana. This has useful policy implications.
Hf isotope evidence for a hidden mantle reservoir

High-precision Hf isotopic analyses and U-Pb ages of carbonatites and kimberlites from Greenland and eastern North America, including Earth9s oldest known carbonatite (3 Ga), indicate derivation from an enriched mantle source. This previously unidentified mantle reservoir—marked by an unradiogenic Hf isotopic composition and preserved in the deep mantle for at least 3 b.y. —may account for the mass imbalance in Earth9s Hf-Nd budget. The Hf isotopic data presented here support a common mantle source region and genetic link between carbonatite and some oceanic- island basalt volcanoes.
Private Remittances Received and Household Consumption in Ghana (1980-2016): An ARDL Analysis with Structural Breaks

This study examined the short and long-run effects of private remittances on household consumption in Ghana from 1980 to 2016, controlling for structural breaks. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) technique was used to investigate the relationship. Results showed that remittances positively impacted household consumption in Ghana in both the short and long-run howbeit, statistically insignificant. Hence, it was recommended, among other things that the government of Ghana collaborates with financial institutions to make remittance less expensive to encourage more remitting from the diaspora.
Effectiveness of Various Irrigation Protocols in Removing Calcium Hydroxide from Root Canals

Meandros Med Dent J 2018;19:49-56 ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3824-2569 Ad­dress­for­Cor­ res­pon­den­ce/Ya­zış­ma­Ad­re­si: Hakan Göktürk MD, Abant İzzet Baysal University Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Endodontics, Bolu, Turkey Phone : +90 505 645 31 77 E-mail : gokturk82@hotmail.com Received/Geliş­Ta­rihi : 06.05. 2017 Accepted/Ka­bul­Ta­ri­ hi : 30.07. 2017 Anah­tar­Ke­li­me­ler Kalsiyum hidroksit, diş pulpa boşluğu, endodonti, lazer, ultrasonik
Automated Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy using Deep Learning

Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of blindness among working-age adults. Early detection of this condition is critical for good prognosis. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on color fundus images for the recognition task of diabetic retinopathy staging. Our network models achieved test metric performance comparable to baseline literature results, with validation sensitivity of 95%. We additionally explored multinomial classification models, and demonstrate that errors primarily occur in the misclassification of mild disease as normal due to the CNNs inability to detect subtle disease features. We discovered that preprocessing with contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization and ensuring dataset fidelity by expert verification of class labels improves recognition of subtle features. Transfer learning on pretrained GoogLeNet and AlexNet models from ImageNet improved peak test set accuracies to 74.5%, 68.8%, and 57.2% on 2-ary, 3-ary, and 4-ary classification models, respectively.
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Previous studies investigating the effects of high intensity interval training (HIIT) and moderate intensity continuous training (MICT) showed controversial results. The aim of the pres-ent study was to systematically review the literature on the effects of HIIT and MICT on affective and enjoyment responses. The PRISMA Statement and the Cochrane recommendation were used to perform this systematic review and the database search was performed using PubMed, Scopus, ISI Web of Knowledge, PsycINFO, and SPORTDiscus. Eight studies investigating the acute affective and enjoyment responses on HIIT and MICT were included in the present systematic review. The standardized mean difference (SMD) was calculated for Feeling Scale (FS), Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale (PACES) and Exercise Enjoyment Scale (EES). The MICT was used as the reference condition. The over-all results showed similar beneficial effects of HIIT on PACES and EES responses compared to MICT with SMDs classified as small (PACES–SMD = 0.49, I 2 = 69.3%, p = 0.001; EES–SMD = 0.48, I 2 = 24.1%, p = 0.245) while for FS, the overall result showed a trivial effect (FS–SMD = 0.19, I 2 = 78.9%, p < 0.001). Most of the comparisons performed presented
Edinburgh Research Explorer Genome-wide association and genomic prediction of resistance to viral nervous necrosis in European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) using RAD sequencing

Background: European sea bass ( Dicentrarchus labrax ) is one of the most important species for European aquacul‑ ture. Viral nervous necrosis (VNN), commonly caused by the redspotted grouper nervous necrosis virus (RGNNV), can result in high levels of morbidity and mortality, mainly during the larval and juvenile stages of cultured sea bass. In the absence of efficient therapeutic treatments, selective breeding for host resistance offers a promising strategy to control this disease. Our study aimed at investigating genetic resistance to VNN and genomic‑based approaches to improve disease resistance by selective breeding. A population of 1538 sea bass juveniles from a factorial cross between 48 sires and 17 dams was challenged with RGNNV with mortalities and survivors being recorded and sam‑ pled for genotyping by the RAD sequencing approach. Results: We used genome‑wide genotype data from 9195 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for downstream analysis. Estimates of heritability of survival on the underlying scale for the pedigree and genomic relationship matrices were 0.27 (HPD interval 95%: 0.14‑0.40) and 0.43 (0.29–0.57), respectively. Classical genome‑wide association analysis detected genome‑wide significant quantitative trait loci (QTL) for resistance to VNN on chromosomes (unas‑ signed scaffolds in the case of ‘chromosome’ 25) 3, 20 and 25 ( P < 1e06). Weighted genomic best linear unbiased predictor provided additional support for the QTL on
Rootstocks effect on flavonoid content and antioxidant properties of Maltese ( Citrus sinensis L . ) ethanolic extracts

The antioxidative potential of flavonoids was one of the earliest functions proposed for these compounds. The grafting of the rootstock with the orange tree is an agronomical technique used to improve production and quality of the fruit. Ethanolic extracts of peel citrus fruit grafted on 8 rootstocks growing in Tunisia were investigated for their total flavonoids content and their antioxidant activity by radical DPPH method. IC50 (values denote the concentration of sample, which is required to scavenge50% of radical DPPH free radicals) for antioxidant activity ranged from 585.4-1095.1 μg/mL. Total flavonoids content (based on colorimetric AlCl3 method) varied from 11.4444. 34 mg Quercetin equivalent/g of dry extract. There were a correlation between the total flavonoids contents and antioxidant activity of peel extracts (r= -0.8654).