Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Relationship between Vitamin D and Quality of Life in Patients with Fibromyalgia Syndrome

Fibromyalgia, is a widespread chronic pain syndrome accompanied by tiredness, depression and sleep disorders. The etiology and pathogenesis have not yet been fully clarified. As the pain is accompanied by tiredness, sleep disorders and psychiatric symptoms, daily activities and quality of life can be affected. Muscle weakness due to reduced vitamin D synthesis causes an increase in pain in the musculoskeletal system, in impaired balance and in the number of falls. Quality of life is negatively affected by these problems. Previous studies have shown that a reduction in vitamin D levels is common in fibromyalgia syndrome. The aim of this review was to provide an overall view of the relationship between vitamin D and quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome.
Robust decentralized stabilization of uncertain large-scale discrete-time systems

This article describes the synthesis of robust decentralized controllers for large-scale discrete-time systems with uncertainties. Based on the Lyapunov method, a su cient condition for robust stability is derived in terms of a linear matrix inequality (LMI). The solutions of the LMI can be easily obtained using e cient convex optimization techniques. A numerical example is given to illustrate the proposed method.
怀 e Roots of Helping, Heroic Rescue and Resistance to and the Prevention of Mass Violence: Active Bystandership in Extreme Times and in Building Peaceful Societies

This chapter explores the personal characteristics of individuals, their immediate circumstances, the larger social situation, and how they join in shaping caring and helpful behavior. The active bystandership this chapter is concerned with includes saving the lives of endangered people as well as actions to inhibit the evolution of extreme violence against groups of people, such as genocide, mass killing, or terrorism. The chapter then considers ways to promote active bystandership to prevent violence between groups and develop peaceful societies. It describes work in Rwanda to help people gain an “experiential understanding” of the origins of group violence and avenues to prevention. It considers ways of humanizing the “other,” healing from victimization, and the development of altruism born of suffering, generating moderate in place of extreme respect for authority, and developing constructive ideologies—visions of a future that can embrace all groups. The chapter then discusses the socialization of “inclusive caring” and moral courage. It considers positive values, and the notion of a “healing society,” as part of the exploration of the evolution of harmony and peace.
Weather-dependent fluctuations in the abundance of the oak processionary moth, Thaumetopoea processionea (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae)

Population fluctuations of the well-known oak defoliator, the oak processionary moth (Thaumetopoea processionea L.), were studied using light trap data and basic meteorological parameters (monthly average temperatures, and precipitation) at three locations in Western Hungary over a period of 15 years (1988-2012). The fluctuations in the numbers caught by the three traps were strongly synchronized. One possible explanation for this synchrony may be similar weather at the three trapping locations. Cyclic Reverse Moving Interval Techniques (CReMIT) were used to define the period of time in a year that most strongly influences the catches. For this period, we defined a species specific aridity index for Thaumetopoea processionea (THAU-index). This index explains 54.8-68.9% of the variation in the yearly catches, which indicates that aridity, particularly in the May-July period was the major determinant of population fluctuations. Our results predict an increasing future risk of Oak Processionary Moth (OPM) outbreaks and further spread if the frequency of severe spring/summer droughts increases with global warming.
New predatory cockroaches (Insecta: Blattaria: Manipulatoridae fam.n.) from the Upper Cretaceous Myanmar amber

Abstract We describe a new extinct lineage Manipulatoridae (new family) of cockroaches from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) amber of Myanmar. Manipulator modificaputis gen. et sp. n. is a morphologically unique extinct cockroach that represents the first (of a total of 29 known worldwide) cockroach family reported exclusively from the Myanmar amber. This family represents an early side branch of the stem group of Mantodea (most probably a sister group of Eadiidae within Blattaria/Corydioidea) because it has some synapomorphies with the Mantodea (including the stem group and Eadiidae). This family also retains symplesiomorphies that exclude a position in the crown group, and furthermore has unique autapomorphies that exclude a position as a direct ancestor of Mantodea. The unique adaptations such as strongly elongated extremities and freely movable head on a long neck suggest that these animals were pursuit predators. Five additional specimens (including two immatures) reported from the Myanmar amber suggest that this group was relatively rare but belonged to the indigenous and autochthonous inhabitants of the ancient amber forest of the Myanmar region.
THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THROWING VELOCITY AND MOTOR ABILITY PARAMETERS OF THE HIGH-PERFORMANCE HANDBALL PLAYERS

Throwing is one of the basic skills in handball. Two main factors are of importance with regard to the efficiency of shots: accuracy and throwing velocity. The determinants of the ball velocity can be divided into three groups concerning: technique of motion, somatic features and motor ability. Although the technique of motion and the fitness level can be improved by the training process, morphological factors are, in the main part, genetically determined. Since changes in the throwing technique among highperformance players are very small, it was assumed as constant during training process. The aim of the research was to find out the relationships between the linear speed of the ball's flight during different kind of throwing in handball and basic motor ability parameters of players in order to improve the efficiency of training. Twelve highperformance handballers (Polish National Term) took part in the experiment. The average (+SD) values of the body mass, height and age amounted to 89.0+7.8 kg. 1.88 +0.05 m and 23.3 +2.5 years, respectively. The linear ball velocity was measured using a special photocell system during throwing on the spot, with cross-over step and with a jump upwards. Throwing velocity values were related to a maximal muscle strength indicator Mm was evaluated on the basis of the sum of muscle torques developed isometrically by ten main muscle groups: flexors and extensors of elbow, shoulder, knee and hip joints and flexors and extensors of trunk. A special torquemeter device (local make) was employed. The maximal and average mechanical power of the lower extremity and trunk was measured during CMJ performed on a force place (KISTLER). An on-line operating computer (IBM PC) was used to process the force signal. The force-velocity parameters of arm flexion and extension were measured using CES Ariel modified in its mechanical part. Handballers performed STh in the sitting position, propelling the bar of the Arm-Leg Station. The movement was similar to the last phase before the release of the ball during a real throw. Each subject executed 3 kinds of tests: maximal speed diagnostic, isokinetic exercises at angular velocities of 100, 300 and 500 deg/s and isotonic exercises at external torque of 10, 30 and 50 Nxm. Thirty-three parameters were chosen to further the analysis. Result distributions were tested using the Shapiro-Wilk test of normality. A Pearson's correlation matrix was calculated in order to reduce the number of parameters (p50.05). At the next stage, multiple regression analysis was used to estimate relations between tested parameters. Statistically significant contribution of muscle strength (trunk flexors, strength indicator) and maximal forearm speed to the ball velocity has been found.
Genetic variability of roe deer Capreolus capreolus in Italy: electrophoretic survey on populations of different origin

Lorenzini R. , Patalano M. , Apollonio M. and Mazzarone V. 1993. Genetic variability of roe deer Capreolus capreolus in Italy: electrophoretic survey on populations of different origin. [In: Ecological genetics in mammals. G. B. Hartl and J. Markowski, eds]. Acta theriol. 38, Suppl. 2: 141 - 151. In order to investigate genetic variability and differentiation of roe deer Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Italy, four populations were examined for polymorphism at thirty-two gene loci by means of vertical polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Mean values of polymorphism (mean P = 15.6%, SD 4.4%) and expected average heterozygosity (mean He = 4.7%, SD 1.9%) were comparable to those reported previously for roe deer populations of Central Europe. Moreover, the results confirmed that roe deer is one of the genetically most variable deer species yet studied. Nei's standard genetic distances (mean D = 0.008, SD 0.004) were consistent with the values generally obtained at the level of local populations in deer species. Estimates of relative genetic differentiation showed that 11.5% of the total diversity can be assigned to genetic divergence among populations. Differences in levels of genetic variation among the Italian populations studied are discussed with respect to their respective demographic origin and historical background. The implications of our data for the management of roe deer in Italy are outlined.
Effect of temperature and storage of eggs

Recebido para publicacao em 7/11/2007 Aceito para publicacao em 6/1/2009 (002928) 1 Universidade Federal Rural da Amazonia – UFRA, CEP 68515-000, Parauapebas PA, Brasil, E-mail: maria.vieira@ufra.edu. br; svsmaria@yahoo.com. br 2 Departamento de Zootecnia, Universidade Federal do Ceara – UFC, CP 12168, CEP 60356-000, Fortaleza CE, Brasil 3 Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria – EMBRAPA, Caprinos, Sobral CE, Brasil 4 Departamento de Zootecnia, Universidade Federal do Ceara – UFC, CP 12168, CEP 60356-000, Fortaleza CE, Brasil 5 Agronomia, Universidade Federal do Ceara – UFC, CEP 60356-000, Fortaleza CE, Brasil *A quem a correspondencia deve ser enviada Efeito da temperatura e estocagem em ovos
The Impact of Bank and Stock Market Developments on Economic Growth in Zimbabwe: 1988 To 2012

The paper examines the short and long run impact of bank and stock market developments on growth in Zimbabwe using annual data from 1988-2012, inclusive. The study uses a financially-augmented production growth function and applies the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach and the error correction mechanism to simultaneously examine the short and long run relationships. Bank and stock market developments indices are used to measure developments in the banking sector and the stock market. The results indicate the existence of a steady long run relationship between growth, bank and stock market developments. Banks are found to have a greater impact on economic growth than stock markets. Evidence of supply-leading hypothesis is found. The results suggest that economic growth is better promoted through a financially-based economic system than a stock market based one. Key Words : Zimbabwe, financial development, bank developments, economic growth, stock market developments
Resonant-tunneling-diode terahertz oscillator with a cylindrical cavity for high-frequency oscillation

We proposed and fabricated resonant-tunneling-diode (RTD) terahertz oscillators integrated with a cylindrical cavity. Oscillation frequency of 3 THz is expected from theoretical analysis. As a preliminary experiment, the proposed oscillator was fabricated using electron-beam lithography with a three-layer-resist process. An oscillation of up to 1.79 THz was obtained in the fabricated oscillators, which was lower than the theoretical expectation. This was because of a parasitic capacitance of the metal post connecting the cavity and the RTD. Theoretical calculations, including this parasitic capacitance, agreed well with the experiment. The parasitic capacitance can be suppressed by adding a simple process to the cavity fabrication.We proposed and fabricated resonant-tunneling-diode (RTD) terahertz oscillators integrated with a cylindrical cavity. Oscillation frequency of 3 THz is expected from theoretical analysis. As a preliminary experiment, the proposed oscillator was fabricated using electron-beam lithography with a three-layer-resist process. An oscillation of up to 1.79 THz was obtained in the fabricated oscillators, which was lower than the theoretical expectation. This was because of a parasitic capacitance of the metal post connecting the cavity and the RTD. Theoretical calculations, including this parasitic capacitance, agreed well with the experiment. The parasitic capacitance can be suppressed by adding a simple process to the cavity fabrication.
Formulation and Characterization of Edible Films Based on Organic Mucilage from Mexican Opuntia ficus-indica

The consumption of organic products has increased in recent years. One of the most important products in Mexico is nopal. Nopal’s content and properties make the formulation of edible films possible. In this study, we aimed to develop and characterize biodegradable edible films containing mucilage from Opuntia ficus-indica. The mucilage extraction yield, thickness, color, water vapor permeability, light transmission rate, film transparency, solubility, stability of dispersion, and puncture strength were measured. The use of mucilage from different cultivars affected the water vapor permeability (8.40 × 10−11 g·m−1·s−1·Pa−1 for cultivar Villanueva, 3.48 × 10−11 g·m−1·s−1·Pa−1 for Jalpa, and 1.63 × 10−11 g·m−1·s−1·Pa−1 for Copena F1). Jalpa provided the most soluble mucilage with the highest thickness (0.105 mm). Copena F1 provided the clearest film with the greatest transparency (3.81), the best yellowness index, and the highest resistance (4.44 N·mm−1). Furthermore, this film had the best light transmission rate (48.93%). The Copena F1 showed the best film formation solution viscosity. These results indicate that mucilage mixed with pectin is a potential source for the formulation of edible films.
Citation: Hedley, Claire (2015) Evolving Sounds: Exploring the Relationship Between Enterprise Social Networks and Employee Voice. In: 2nd European Conference on Social Media (ECSM

This paper examines the role of the Enterprise Social Network as an enabler of employee voice and argues that established conceptualisations of voice have limited explanatory power in the online arena. This is because traditional concepts focus primarily on oneor two-way communication up and down the organisational hierarchy and tend to overlook the multidirectional nature of Enterprise Social Networks. These networks impact on the development and expression of individual (and collective) voice in the workplace, but the pace of technological development has outstripped academic research on its implications for employee voice. There is therefore a pressing need to re-evaluate our conceptual approach. Only by reconstructing employee voice to take into account peer-to-peer communication will we be able to advance our understanding of the role of the Enterprise Social Network as a mechanism for voice from both an academic and practitioner perspective. The Enterprise Social Network is an emergent phenomenon which has huge potential to transform workplaces by changing the way employees collaborate, communicate, organise work, and voice their opinions and expectations. E plo ees’ i reasi g desire to use so ial edia in their working lives means that over the next few years many organisations could be wholly reliant on their network, with the platforms becoming as essential as telephones and email. Yet si e M Afee’s se i al paper (2006) on Enterprise 2.0 there has been a lack of research in the area. This paper draws upon extant literature in both Enterprise Social Networking and Employee Voice to propose a framework which reconceptualises employee voice as a multidimensional, multidirectional concept and provides conceptual clarification on its link to Enterprise Social Networking.
The Urocortin System: A Novel Bone Regulatory Triad, Working In Opposition to RANKL/RANK/OPG

Bone is in a continual state of flux, with old bone being continually replaced by new. This bone turnover, or remodelling, needs to be highly regulated to prevent disorders associated with aberrant bone mass. This process is controlled principally by two cell types, osteoclasts and osteoblasts, which are responsible for bone resorption and deposition respectively. A crucial, well established regulatory mechanism involved in the control of these cells is the RANKL/RANK/ OPG pathway. With this, an osteoblast derived ligand, RANKL, binds to an osteoclastic receptor RANK, producing increased osteoclastogenesis and resorption. In contrast the Ucn system has only recently been found in bone cells, where an osteoblast and osteoclast derived ligand Ucn1, binds to an osteoclast derived receptor CRF-R2β, resulting in inhibition of osteoclastogenesis and resorption. Both systems possess a representative osteoblast derived binding factor with the potential to terminate the ligand signal. In this review we will briefly describe the discovery of the two systems and then go on to compare and contrast the respective components of these two bone regulatory mechanisms. We will review the pathways employed to produce their bone metabolising effects, and finally, we will speculate upon new areas of research which could be exploited to alleviate conditions associated with abnormal bone mass.
Drought-induced effects in coexisting Mediterranean shrubs in relation to species' bioclimatic niche

Climate-induced drought is one of the principal factors altering plant community dynamics and composition as well as species' geographic distributions in the Mediterranean basin. The use of bioclimatic models that consider both bioclimatic conditions and species' geographic distributions to predict potential scenarios under these climatic conditions have recently become extensively developed. However, studies relating the effects of drought over community dynamics with regional-scale patterns are very scarce. Here I relate field observations made in a Mediterranean community (NE Iberian Peninsula) on the effects of a climatic drought anomaly over local-population traits driving community dynamics (abundance and resistance to drought estimated from defoliation) with the species bioclimatic niche assessed at regional scale from Species Distribution Models. Results highlight that species' abundance increases when the average bioclimatic conditions are more suitable. Resistance to drought is not related with species’ bioclimatic suitability at such locality, estimated from average climatic conditions, but it diminishes when the displacement induced by the climatic anomaly over the species’ bioclimatic suitability is higher. Less frequent species appears more resistant than more common ones, suggesting the relevance of acclimation or natural selection over populations, and thus determining community dynamics under climate change scenarios. These results suggest that a drought climate scenario could lead to shifts in community dynamics and species' distributions and the emergence of new communities better adapted to the new conditions. I conclude that bioclimatic models can reflect both regional and local scale patterns and can be useful to predict community shifts in front of bioclimatic anomalies and I provide a procedure to link patterns at such distant scales. Further investigation is needed to assess and improve the prediction ability of this procedure as well as the importance of these climatic anomalies.
Use of time-delay actions in the controller design

It is shown that time-delay action can be used in the design of controllers having quick settling-time property. Specifically, when the feedback compensator is implemented by means of proportional minus delay action, the output performance of the closed-loop system can be better in the sense of ITAE index than that of the system which employs a conventional proportional-plus-derivative action. For actual design, a rule of thumb for determining the parameters of proportional minus delay feedback compensator is suggested.
The Interest Rate Conditioning Assumption: Investigating the Eects of Central Bank Communication in New Zealand

There has been a considerable academic and policy debate about the likely positive/adverse eects of central banks publishing their instrument forecasts. There is also a considerable debate whether the benets/adverse eects would depend on how the economic agents might perceive these forecasts. By using the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s forecasts of its policy instrument, going back to 1997, we attempt to shed light on these issues by testing the following: 1) Does the publication of the forecasts of the policy rate by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand help economic agents to better forecast other macroeconomic variables? 2) Does the way in which agents interpret these forecast matter for their forecasting performance? To do so, we employ conditional forecasting techniques in a small Bayesian vectorautoregression. Implicitly we assume that agents use such a model for forecasting purposes. Our results show that the eect of this additional information conveyed in the RBNZ policy rate track on agents’ forecasting ability depends crucially on they way in which the agents interpret this information. We believe our ndings illustrate the diculties central banks face when communicating forward guidance to the public.
Questioning CLT's applicability in an EFL context : The case of Japan

The Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) method is widely accepted amongst English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers. This paper will provide a methodological analysis discussing the background and development as well as the main arguments against this method’s application in Japan. Included are suggestions that while CLT has benefits, these are only for students looking to enter the English speaking community and perhaps it is not so applicable for students with only a superficial interest in learning the language.
Large-scale source regions of earth-directed coronal mass ejections

Based on SOHO/MDI, EIT, Yohkoh/SXT, H α , and other relevant observations, we analyzed all the earth-directed halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the interval from Mar. 1997 to Dec. 2003. A total of 288 earth-directed CMEs were studied and their associated surface activity events identified. Unlike the previous studies that often attributed a surface activity event or a given active region to a CME source region, this statistical analysis puts emphasis on the large-scale magnetic structures of CMEs, in which the CME-associated surface activity takes place. All the CMEs are found to be associated with large-scale source structures. The identified large-scale structures can be grouped into four different categories: extended bipolar regions (EBRs), transequatorial magnetic loops, transequatorial filaments and their associated magnetic structures, and long filaments along the boundaries of EBRs. The relative percentages of their associated CMEs are 36%, 40%, 13%, and 11%, respectively. The analysis indicates that CMEs are intrinsically associated with source magnetic structures on a large spatial scale.