Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Occupational Stress among Critical Care Nurses : A Comparative Study of Public and Private Sector Short Communication

The role that nurses have in the provision of first‐line care services is significant and their job is naturally stressful. [1] The occupational stress experienced by nurses has been shown to have negative consequence for patient outcomes[2] and is associated with low levels of productivity and job performance. [3] A recent study has shown that 71% of Iranian Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses experienced high levels of stress. [4] Our earlier study conducted in hospitals in Tabriz also showed high levels of occupational stress among critical care nurses. [5]
Decision-making, Risk, and Gist Machine Translation in the Work of Patent Professionals

This is the first study on how patent professionals use gist machine translation (MT) in their work. Inductive, qualitative research methods were adopted to explore the role of gist MT specifically in decision-making. Results show that certain decisions by patent professionals rely on gist MT, that the decision to involve human translation is often based on a risk assessment, and that certain factors in the patent environment give affordances for the use of gist MT. The study contributes to the body of knowledge on patent MT users and on gist MT users in general.
Impact of textile and dye effluent irrigation on germination and its growth in cereals

The textile industry occupies a unique place in the industrial map of India and is centered mainly on large cities such as Mumbai, Surat, Ahmedabad, Coimbatore and Kanpur. The effluent discharged from textile and dye industries, breweries, fertilizers, antibiotic factories and slaughter houses were hazardous to the flora and fauna of inland streams or other natural water resources. The discharge of effluent into the river increased the BOD and COD of the river water.The high BOD and COD would deplete dissolved oxygen of the river water creating thereby an anaerobic condition in the riverbed, which in turn would affect the aquatic life. The presence of hydrogen sulphide, ammonia and chloride in the textile and dye factory effluent was highly toxic to fish in water bodies (Ranganathan and Kurian Joseph, 1997). In this study, the effluent from textile and dye factory was studied for its effect on germination and vigour index of the seedlings of cereals, millets, oil seeds and vegetable crops.The diluted textile and dye effluent with water in 1:3 ratio (T 2 ) did not have any adverse effect on the growth and vigour index of field crops. This finding is in line with the observations recorded. The highest numerical value for germination was recorded in T 1 (river water control) and the lowest value was recorded in T 5 (undiluted effluent) followed by T 2 and T 3 , which were on par with each other. The growth parameters like germination per cent, root length, shoot length, dry matter production and vigour index showed a better performance as the concentration of the effluent decreased.
Ethical Leadership, Affective Commitment, Work Engagement, and Creativity: Testing a Multiple Mediation Approach

This study aimed to explore the relationships among ethical leadership (EL), affective commitment (AC), work engagement (WE), and employees’ creativity (EC). In total, 233 Chinese public sector employees completed the survey in three phases. We used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the data. The paper found positive relationships between EL and WE and with EL and EC. The results further revealed that AC partially mediates the EL-WE relationship, while both AC and WE fully mediate the relationship between EL and EC. Testing these relationships via a multiple-mediated approach significantly contributed to the existing research on leadership.
Food habits of three species of mudskippers in the Musi River Estuary, South Sumatra, Indonesia

Abstract. Ridho MR, Patriono E, Sholikah M. 2019. Food habits of three species of mudskippers in the Musi River Estuary, South Sumatra, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 20: 2368-2374. This study provided understanding of morphometric variation and diet composition of three species of mudskippers, i.e. Boleophthalmus boddarti, Periophthalmodon schlosseri, and Periophthalmus chrysospilos. The data obtained can be used for fish cultivation in the future. The relation of weight and length of species B. boddarti, P. schlosseri and P. chrysospilos had a correlation of 72.2%, 98.2%, and 94.5%, respectively with the value of b = 1.474, 3.189, and 2.271, respectively. This suggests that the growth patterns of B. boddarti and P. chrysospilos are allometrically negative, while P. schlosseri is allometrically positive. B. boddarti is classified as a herbivore, the main food of phytoplankton from Bacillariophyceae class with percentage 100%; 80% of Chlorophyceae; 95.6% of Cyanophyceae; 13.33% of Desmidiaceae; 13.33% of Euglenophyceae and 37.78% of Xanthophyceae. P. schlosseri is classified as carnivores, the main food is Uca sp. with IRI of 17.131. 45% and complimentary food of Lycosa sp. with IRI of 80.79%. P. chrysospilos is also classified as carnivores with the main food is fish eggs with IRI of 8057.07% and complementary foods of Uca sp. with IRI of 1935.3%.
The Moodo dataset: Integrating user context with emotional and color perception of music for affective music information retrieval

Abstract This paper presents a new multimodal dataset Moodo that can aid the development of affective music information retrieval systems. Moodo’s main novelties are a multimodal approach that links emotional and color perception to music and the inclusion of user context. Analysis of the dataset reveals notable differences in emotion-color associations and their valence-arousal ratings in non-music and music context. We also show differences in ratings of perceived and induced emotions, especially for those with perceived negative connotation, as well as the influence of genre and user context on perception of emotions. By applying an intermediate data fusion model, we demonstrate the importance of user profiles for predictive modeling in affective music information retrieval scenarios.
A review of medicinal plants with nephroprotective effects

In this study, online databases including Web Science, PubMed, Scopus and Science Direct, were searched to investigate an alternative nephroprotective remedy against gentamicin, paracetamol, profenofos, D galactosamine (D-GalN), chronic-stress, sepsis and cytotoxic drugs induced kidney injury as well as streptozotocin induced diabetic nephropathy, in addition to chemically induced nephrolithiasis. The review showed that many medicinal plants can attenuate the biochemical, functional and structural renal toxicities of a wide range of drugs and toxins representing effective nephroprotective alternatives.
Forest fire histories and tree age structures in Värriö and Maltio Strict Nature Reserves, northern Finland

Wildfires virtually disappeared from the Fennoscandian forests in the 20th century, but have left persistent legacies in forest structure. Here, I reconstructed past fires in three northern boreal landscapes (each 2 km ¥ 2 km) from fire scars, and described the fire regime for the past 300 years. The average fire cycles (1700–1999) were 72 and 156 years in Pinus sylvestris-dominated landscapes, and 579 years in a Picea abies-dominated landscape. At the site level, the number of fires was clearly related to soil hydraulic properties. Age structures from 1800 live and dead trees showed strong cohorts associated with large fires in two of the landscapes. Although tree growth and regeneration in sub-arctic regions are considered highly climate-sensitive, fires have been a major driver of forest dynamics in these areas. Continued absence of fires will lead to considerable changes in the forest structure and species composition in the future.
Trends in Alzheimer's Disease Research Based upon Machine Learning Analysis of PubMed Abstracts

About 29.8 million people worldwide had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in 2015, and the number is projected to triple by 2050. In 2018, AD was the fifth leading cause of death in Americans with 65 years of age or older, but the progress of AD drug research is very limited. It is helpful to identify the key factors and research trends of AD for guiding further more effective studies. We proposed a framework named as LDAP, which combined the latent Dirichlet allocation model and affinity propagation algorithm to extract research topics from 95,876 AD-related papers published from 2007 to 2016. Trends and hotspots analyses were performed on LDAP results. We found that the focus points of AD research for the past 10 years include 15 diseases, 15 amino acids, peptides, and proteins, 9 enzymes and coenzymes, 7 hormones, 7 carbohydrates, 5 lipids, 2 organophosphonates, 18 chemicals, 11 compounds, 13 symptoms, and 20 phenomena. Our LDAP framework allowed us to trace the evolution of research trends and the most popular areas of interest (hotspots) on disease, protein, symptom, and phenomena. Meanwhile, 556 AD related-genes were identified, which are enriched in 12 KEGG pathways including the AD pathway and nitrogen metabolism pathway. Our results are freely available at https://www.keaml. cn/Alzheimer.
Genetic relationships between commercial cultivars and Brazilian accessions of Salvia officinalis L. based on RAPD markers

Genetic relationships between commercial cultivars and Brazilian accessions of Salvia officinalis L. based on RAPD markers.Common sage (Salvia officinalis L.) was introduced in Brazil by European immigrants in the last centuries and has been maintained by seeds or steam cutting. Today, the introduction of commercial cultivars from Europe and North America has increased due to the condimentary, medicinal and aromatic importance of this plant. In the last decades, molecular markers have been successfully used to assess genetic relationships and genotype identification with great impact on plant breeding programs, germplasm management, and biodiversity preservation. In this context, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the genetic relationship between Brazilian accessions and commercial cultivars of S. officinalis L.Ten accessions obtained from traditional agriculturists of the Northeast region of Rio Grande do Sul, five commercial cultivars, and a representative of S. sclarea L. were evaluated by the electrophoretic comparison of the random amplified fragments generated by polymerase chain reaction using decameric primers (RAPD analysis). A total of eighteen random primers used generated 195 bands of which 59,3% were polymorphic within S. officinalis. Genetic similarity was estimated and cluster analysis was performed. Three distinct groups were identified. Group I was formed by three accessions and a Brazilian cultivar. Group II was subdivided in three subgroups, one formed by the four European commercial cultivars and an accession from Fagundes Varela, and the other two by three Brazilian accessions each. As expected, the representative of S. sclarea formed Group III. These data are indicatives that some common sage plants introduced in South Brazil by European immigrants represent a genetic pool different from that of commercial cultivars. The low variability observed within commercial cultivars can be considered as an indicative that a restrict genetic pool is used in breeding programs, and that Brazilian accessions can be a source of genetic variability.
Existence Theory for Steady Flows of Fluids with Pressure and Shear Rate Dependent viscosity , for low values of the power-law index

We deal with a system of partial di erential equations describing a steady ow of a homogeneous incompressible non-Newtonian uid with pressure and shear rate dependent viscosity subject to the homogeneous Dirichlet (no-slip) boundary condition. We establish a global existence of a weak solution for a certain class of such uids, in which the dependence of the viscosity on the shear rate is polynomiallike, characterized by the power-law index. A decomposition of the pressure and Lipschitz approximations of Sobolev functions are considered in order to obtain almost everywhere convergence of the pressure and the symmetric part of the velocity gradient and thus obtain new existence results for low value of the power-law index.
ssociations and the role of affiliative , agonistic , and socio-sexual ehaviors among common bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops truncatus ) riana

Little is known about the specific behavioral exchanges that occur on a day-to-day basis between dyads of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). This study assesses the proportion of time dyads spend in proximity (within ∼2 m) and the proportion of time spent in affiliative, agonistic, or socio-sexual contexts within and between age/sex dolphin pairings to better understand their social relationships. Observations of bottlenose dolphins housed at the Roatan Institute of Marine Sciences provided 10.5 h of underwater footage from which to examine association coefficients and inter-individual interactions. These data suggest similar patterns to previous studies on bottlenose dolphins: mother-calf dyads shared
On Generalized Weak Operator Quasi Equilibrium Problems

In this work, we introduced and study a class of generalized weak operator quasi equilibrium problems in Hausdorff topological vector spaces. We derive some existence results for the solution of generalized weak operator quasi equilibrium problem by using 1-person game theorems. The results of this paper generalize and unify the corresponding results of several authors which can be considered as an extension of previously known results.
Hypersphere clustering to characterize healthcare providers using prescriptions and procedures from Medicare claims data

We consider the task of producing a useful clustering of healthcare providers from their clinical action signature- their drug, procedure, and billing codes. Because high-dimensional sparse count vectors are challenging to cluster, we develop a novel autoencoder framework to address this task. Our solution creates a low-dimensional embedded representation of the high-dimensional space that preserves angular relationships and assigns examples to clusters while optimizing the quality of this clustering. Our method is able to ﬁnd a better clustering than under a two-step alternative, e.g., projected K means/medoids, where a representation is learned and then clustering is applied to the representation. We demonstrate our method's characteristics through quantitative and qualitative analysis of real and simulated data, including in several real-world healthcare case studies. Finally, we develop a tool to enhance exploratory analysis of providers based on their clinical behaviors.
Do Vacant Property Registrations Ameliorate Foreclosure Externalities ?

This paper tests the effectiveness of Vacant Property Registration Ordinances (VPROs) in reducing negative externalities from foreclosures. VPROs were widely adopted by local governments across the U.S. during the foreclosure crisis, and facilitated the monitoring and enforcement of existing property maintenance laws. We implement a border discontinuity design combined with a difference-in-differences specification to overcome policy endogeneity concerns, and find that the enactment of VPROs in Florida nearly halved the negative externality from foreclosure. This finding is robust to a rich set of time-bylocation fixed effects, limiting the sample to properties within 0.1 miles of a VPRO/non-VPRO border and to a number of other sample restrictions and falsification exercises. The results suggest that an important driver of the negative price effect of nearby foreclosures is a physical, or investment externality. †University of Wisconsin-Stout; ‡Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
The Many Faces of Corruption : Tracking Vulnerabilities at the Sector Level

Corruption and Democracy in Latin America. Edited by Charles H. Blake and Stephen D. Morris. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. Pp. 264. $25.95 paper. The Many Faces of Corruption: Tracking Vulnerabilities at the Sector Level. Edited by J. Edgardo Campos and Sanjay Pradhan. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2007. Pp. xxxi + 447. $40.00 paper. Corruption and Development Aid: Confronting the Challenges. By Georg Cremer. Translated by Elisabeth Schuth. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008. Pp. xiv + 169. $19.95 paper. Corrupt Circles: A History of Unbound Graft in Peru. By Alfonso W. Quiroz. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. xxii + 514. $30.00 paper. Political Corruption in Mexico: The Impact of Democratization. By Stephen D. Morris. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009. Pp. xii + 307. $65.00 cloth.
Symbiotic vs . asymbiotic seed germination in epiphytic orchids

We compared seedling growth of the epiphytic orchid, Tolumnia variegata, in agar media with and without inoculated mycorrhizal fungi. Symbiotic germination produced more developed embryos than asymbiotic germination. Differences were highly significant, although some isolates of Rhizoctonia-like fungi were parasitic on seeds. Control seeds in a cellulose medium without Rhizoctonia-like fungi did not germinate. Seeds of Epidendrum ramosum, Lepanthes rupestris and Psychilis monensis showed no significant differences between asymbiotic and symbiotic germination using mycorrhizal fungi isolated from T. variegata roots, suggesting high mycorrhizal specificity. Our data suggest that the relationship between epiphytic orchids and the mycorrhizal fungi is more specific than previously thought. The use of the right fungal strain may enhance germination performance. Orchid growers may achieve better results in the propagation of some epiphytic orchids using symbiotic germination.
Optimization of level of feeding herbal preparation in reducing faecal bacterial load in layer chicken

The present study was undertaken to optimize the level of feeding of the herbal preparation (Ocimum sanctum, Zingiber officinale, Allium sativum, Trigonella foenum graceum and Curcuma longa) in different doses @ 0.1percent, 0.25 percent and 0.5 percent in layer feed to reduce the faecal total bacterial count, faecal coliform count and screening for the presence of E. coli. The study was conducted in eleven weeks old Lohman breed growers at 11 weeks of age with 20 birds per group. Control group was fed only with the regular feed without any herbal preparation and the treatment groups I, II and III were fed with the herbal preparation in different levels as mentioned above in the regular feed. The experimental trial was conducted for twenty one days and the data were collected from a sample of six birds from each group. There was a significant reduction (p<0.01) in faecal total bacterial count and faecal coliform count in all the groups with the highest reduction nearing to one log in the group III when compared to the control. There was presence of E. coli in the contol and absence in the treatment groups. Thus, 0.5 percent level of the herbal preparation in the feed can be claimed as the optimum level of feeding in the layer chickens to combat enteric infections. However, further study is required to make concrete recommendation for commercial layer chicken productivity.
Chapter 12 Phase-Shifted Fields : Some Experimental Evidence

We present a comparison between some experimental results on the interaction and synchronization of mechanical and electric fields; such a synchronization may appear with the phase delay by p/2, as shown in recent theoretical results. The solutions related to such a phase-shifted synchronization between some fields follow from the Asymmetric Continuum Theory. This theory concerns not only the mechanical fields, strains and rotations, but also other physical fields entering into interaction with stresses.
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Cycle relations on Jacobian varieties . With an appendix by Don Zagier

By using the Grothendieck–Riemann–Roch theorem we derive cycle relations modulo algebraic equivalence in the Jacobian of a curve. The relations generalize the relations found by Colombo and van Geemen and are analogous to but simpler than the relations recently found by Herbaut. In an appendix by Zagier, it is shown that these sets of relations are equivalent.
Screening Analysis for the Environmental Risk Evaluation System

The endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW) annually return to the inland marine waters of Washington (US) and British Columbia (CAN) to forage for their preferred prey of Chinook salmon. SRKW behavior has been parsed into four categories: foraging, socializing, resting, and traveling. Characteristics that include dive depth, dive frequency, directional or nondirectional movement, and swimming define each behavior. SRKW are known to make dives deeper than 50m while foraging, although they spend the majority of their time in the upper 30m of the water column. Due to this diving behavior, the SRKW may be at risk for interactions with the planned installation of tidal turbines in Admiralty Inlet, WA. The tidal turbines will sit on the seafloor, at approximately 60m deep, and use the energy in the movement of water from tidal changes to generate electricity. These devices do not cause the degree of environmental impact of conventional hydropower, and still hold the other benefits of reliable, clean energy generation. SRKW are listed under the Endangered Species Act and their safety post-installation of the tidal turbines must be assessed. Since there is little information that can be used to predict the risk of SRKW interaction due to difficulties associated with data collection, a conceptual behavioral model was developed to describe SRKW diving behavior and to quantify the frequency of dives in Admiralty Inlet to 50m. While there was insufficient data to parameterize the necessary variables quantitatively, the conceptual model has specified areas for future research so that a mathematical behavioral model can be created in the future. Introduction Emerging as an alternative energy source, marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) devices use the energy in waves and tides to generate electricity. The Snohomish Public Utilities District No. 1 (SnoPUD) wishes to install two OpenHydro tidal energy conversion turbines at a depth of approximately 60m in Admiralty Inlet at the mouth of Puget Sound as part of their energy source diversification [1]. Admiralty Inlet experiences mixed semidiurnal tides—where water flows in and out of the Sound as the tide shifts between two daily highs and low tides that can be used to generate electricity with bi-directional turbines [2]. Even though the turbine installation is likely to not cause significant environmental changes, like those associated with hydroelectric dams, there is concern that the turbines’ presence might affect marine populations including the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) (Wood, Tollit et al. 2009). Admiralty Inlet provides the only access to Puget Sound for the SRKW and potential risks to the transiting SRKW from the installation of tidal turbines must be evaluated.
Coordination and Organization Design: Theory and Micro-Evidence

We explore the relationship between the volatility of a firm’s local environment and its organizational structure. Using micro-level data on managers working for a large retailer, we empirically test and provide support for our theory that a more volatile local environment results in more decentralization only when the need for coordination among subunits is low. In contrast, more local volatility is associated with more centralization when coordination needs are high. Our evidence supports the argument that centralized organizations are better at adapting to local shocks when coordination is important. (JEL D22, L23, L81, M11, M54)