Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Reptile assemblages across agricultural landscapes: where does biodiversity hide?

Comunidades de reptiles en paisajes agricolas: ? donde se esconde la biodiversidad? La transicion de la agricultura tradicional a la intensiva, orientada a la produccion a gran escala, ha alterado rapidamente los paisajes agricolas, lo que ha conllevado la reduccion y fragmentacion de los habitats naturales y la consiguiente perdida de biodiversidad. La herpetofauna esta gravemente amenazada por la intensificacion agricola en todo el mundo, pero se sabe poco acerca de su distribucion en los ecosistemas agricolas, especialmente a escala local. Se analizaron la abundancia y la diversidad de reptiles en ocho usos del suelo agricolas y seminaturales, asi como dentro de parches de vegetacion intercalados entre cultivos. Curiosamente, la mayoria de los reptiles se observo en los parches de vegetacion, mientras que en los cultivos intensivos y los pastos solo se encontro una especie de lagarto. La riqueza de individuos y de especies aumenta cuando los parches de vegetacion estan en contacto con zonas seminaturales, independientemente de la anchura y la estructura de la vegetacion de estas. En vista de los resultados obtenidos, que ponen de relieve la influencia de las caracteristicas del paisaje de menor importancia en la presencia de vertebrados en los ecosistemas agricolas intensivos, recomendamos incluir parches de vegetacion como medida de conservacion de los vertebrados en los paisajes agricolas.
Assessment of Heavy Metals Immobilization in Artificially Contaminated Soils Using Some Local Amendments

Three alluvial soil samples with different textures were artificially polluted with chloride solutions of Cd, Pb, Co and chromate solution for Cr. The aqua-regia extracted concentration ranges in the artificially polluted soils were 1134 - 1489 mg·kg-1 for Pb, 854 - 938 mg·kg-1 for Cr, 166 - 346 mg·kg-1 for Co and 44 - 54 mg·kg-1 for Cd. The aqua-regia extracted metals were the highest in the spiked clay soil due to its high adsorption capacity. Rock phosphate (PR), lime-stone (LS) and Portland-cement (Cem) were mixed with the spiked soils at 1% and 2% rates (w/w) and incubated at 30 C for 2, 7, 14, 30, 60, 150 and 360 days. The extracted DTPA metals significantly decreased with different magnitudes with increasing the incubation period accompanied by increases in both pH and EC. The data showed that cement (Cem) treatment dropped the DTPA-Pb from @ 1000 to @ 400 mg·kg-1 in all the studied soils (60% decrease) in the first 2 months while it gradually decreased from 400 to 200 mg·kg-1 (20% decrease) in the next 10 months. Limestone (LS) and rock phosphate (PR) materials were relatively less effective in lowering DTPA-Pb after 12 months of incubation. The data showed also that cement (Cem) treatment was the most effective one in lowering DTPA-Cd by @ 60% as compared to the un-amended soils after 12 months of soil incubation. Extractable DTPA-Co and Cr showed consistent decreases with time down to nearly 50% of un-amended soils due to the effect of the added amendments after 12 months of incubation with superior reductions for the cement treatment in all the investigated soils. The statistical analysis confirmed that in all the studied metals and treatment, cement treatment (Cem) was significantly the most effective in lowering the DTPA extracted metals as indicated from LSD test. It was found that up to 73% and 57% of the applied Pb and Cd, respectively, were fixed by only 1% cement. However, the present study showed that from the practical and economic points of view, that 1% Cement was the best treatment to immobilize Pb and Cd from all the artificially polluted soils.
Investigation of the Correlation between Belonging Needs of Students Attending University and Well-Being.

Belonging is one of the basic psychological needs dealt with by many conceptualists. In different contexts the need to belong may be met at different levels. In this study the affiliation of 276 university students (178 females 64.5%, 98 males 35.5%) to their university was dealt with. The aim of this study is to investigate the correlation between the students' belonging to the university and well-being levels. Students in the research group were aged from 18 to 26 years, with mean age of 20.7 and standard deviation of 1.53. The group included 111 (40.2%) first year students, 95 (34.4%) second year students, 46 (16.7%) third year students and 24 (8.7%) fourth year students. Of students, 16 (5.8%) had poor economic status, 157 (56.9%) had moderate, 94 (34.1%) had good and 9 (3.3%) had very good economic status. The data collection tools of the Belonging to the University Scale and PERMA Profiler were used along with a personal information form. Analysis in the research used the multiple regression analysis and correlation techniques. According to the analysis results, the belonging to the university subdimensions of identification, expectation and motivation had a low level and significant correlation with well-being and these three subdimensions explained 15% of well-being. Additionally, there were significant correlations determined between belonging to the university, well-being, identification, meaning and health variables. In conclusion, as the belonging to the university level increases, it is considered university students' well-being levels will increase.
2017 Thyroid Radiofrequency Ablation Guideline: Korean Society of Thyroid Radiology

Thermal ablation using radiofrequency is a new, minimally invasive modality employed as an alternative to surgery in patients with benign thyroid nodules and recurrent thyroid cancers. The Task Force Committee of the Korean Society of Thyroid Radiology (KSThR) developed recommendations for the optimal use of radiofrequency ablation for thyroid tumors in 2012. As new meaningful evidences have accumulated, KSThR decided to revise the guidelines. The revised guideline is based on a comprehensive analysis of the current literature and expert consensus.
Towards Seamless Validation of Land Cover Data

Abstract. This article demonstrates the ability of the Bayesian Network analysis for the recognition of uncertainty patterns associated with the fusion of various land cover data sets including GlobeLand30, CORINE (CLC2006, Germany) and land cover data derived from Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) such as Open Street Map (OSM). The results of recognition are expressed as probability and uncertainty maps which can be regarded as a by-product of the GlobeLand30 data. The uncertainty information may guide the quality improvement of GlobeLand30 by involving the ground truth data, information with superior quality, the know-how of experts and the crowd intelligence. Such an endeavor aims to pave a way towards a seamless validation of global land cover data on the one hand and a targeted knowledge discovery in areas with higher uncertainty values on the other hand.
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome and takotsubo cardiomyopathy associated with lenvatinib therapy for thyroid cancer: a case report and review

As immunotherapies including tyrosine kinase inhibitors become more widely used for the treatment of a variety of malignancies, it is important for prescribers and patients to understand the potential adverse effects associated with these drugs. It is especially important to understand the potentially fatal side effects associated with these drugs to further determine risk factors for their development. The review presents a case of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome with concomitant Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, associated with use of lenvatinib therapy for thyroid cancer. It discusses the interventions performed and outcome. Potential mechanisms for development of these rare adverse effects, as well as cases in which these adverse effects are seen with use of other tyrosine-kinase inhibitors will be presented. It is important to continue to report these side effects, and further studies are needed to elucidate potential risk factors for their development, as well as to determine prognosis after development.
Foraging modes in lacertid lizards from southern Africa

Most lacertids are active foragers, but intrafamilial variation in foraging mode is greater than in most lizard families. We collected data on eight species of African lacertids to assess this variation. Both active and ambush foraging occurred within Pedioplanis and Meroles. Meroles ctenodactylus had a proportion of time moving and proportion of attacked prey detected while moving intermediate to those for actively foraging and ambushing Pedioplanis, but its number of movements per minute was exceptionally high. This species has a unique mixed foraging mode. Like active foragers, it seeks food by tongue-flicking while moving and spends a high percentage of the time moving. Like ambush foragers, it searches visually for prey during pauses between movements. Our findings confirm published data on four Kalahari lacertids. We discuss the history of foraging modes in advanced lacertids.
Relevant Classes of Weakly Picard Operators

Abstract In this paper we consider the following problems: (1) Which weakly Picard operators satisfy a retraction- displacement condition? (2) For which weakly Picard operators the fixed point problem is well posed? (3) Which weakly Picard operators have Ostrowski property? Some applications and open problems are also presented.
Erosion shock wave in laminar flumes

The present paper investigates the formation of the rhomboid pattern appearing when a granular layer is eroded by a laminar flow. As in turbulent rivers, laminar flows can generate unstable erosion waves. These instabilities, which provide the classical explanation for alternate bars formation, propagate in a direction inclined with respect to the main flow. Through numerical simulations, we demonstrate that this instability becomes an erosion shock wave, which in turn results in diamond-shaped patterns. An experimental set-up able to reproduce this instability is also briefly presented. ability to represent the formation of rhomboid patterns. The full problem consists in solving the SaintVenant (shallow water) equations coupled with the following equation of mass conservation for sediments (Exner Equation):
On heat transfer at microscale with implications for microactuator design

The dominance of conduction and the negligible effect of gravity, and hence free convection, are verified in the case of microscale heat sources surrounded by air at atmospheric pressure. A list of temperature-dependent heat transfer coefficients is provided. In contrast to previous approaches based on free convection, supplied coefficients converge with increasing temperature. Instead of creating a new external function for the definition of boundary conditions via conductive heat transfer, convective thin film coefficients already embedded in commercial finite element software are utilized under a constant heat flux condition. This facilitates direct implementation of coefficients, i.e. the list supplied in this work can directly be plugged into commercial software. Finally, the following four-step methodology is proposed for modeling: (i) determination of the thermal time constant of a specific microactuator, (ii) determination of the boundary layer size corresponding to this time constant, (iii) extraction of the appropriate heat transfer coefficients from a list provided and (iv) application of these coefficients as boundary conditions in thermomechanical finite element simulations. An experimental procedure is established for the determination of the thermal time constant, the first step of the proposed methodology. Based on conduction, the proposed method provides a physically sound solution to heat transfer issues encountered in the modeling of thermal microactuators.
The Diagnostic Performance of Liver MRI without Intravenous Contrast for Detecting Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Case-Controlled Feasibility Study

Objective To preliminarily evaluate the diagnostic performance of an unenhanced MRI for detecting hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with a case-control study design. Materials and Methods The case group consisted of 175 patients with initially-diagnosed HCC, who underwent a 3T liver MRI. A total of 237 HCCs were identified. The number of HCCs that were smaller than 1 cm, 1 cm ≤ and < 2 cm, and ≥ 2 cm were 19, 105, and 113, respectively. For the control group, 72 patients with chronic liver disease, who did not have HCC, were enrolled. Two radiologists independently reviewed the T2 half-Fourier acquisition single-shot turbo spin echo, T2 fast spin echos with fat saturation, T1 gradient in- and out-of-phase images, and diffusion-weighted images/apparent diffusion coefficient maps to detect HCC. Per-patient analyses were performed to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the non-contrast MRI for diagnosing HCC. Furthermore, the per-lesion sensitivity was also calculated according to tumor size. Results In the per-patient analyses, the sensitivity and specificity of reader 1 were 86.3% (151/175) and 87.5% (63/72), respectively; while those of reader 2 were 82.9% (145/175) and 76.4% (55/72), respectively. When excluding HCCs smaller than 1 cm, the sensitivity of reader 1 and 2 were 88.0% (147/167) and 86.2% (144/167), respectively. In the per-lesion analyses, the sensitivities of reader 1 and reader 2 were 75.9% (180/237) and 70.5% (167/237), respectively. Conclusion The per-patient sensitivity and specificity of non-contrast MRIs were within a reasonable range for the initial diagnosis of HCC. Non-contrast MRIs may have a potential for surveillance of HCC. Further confirmatory diagnostic test accuracy studies are needed.
Recent Advances in Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Gas Diffusion in Metal Organic Frameworks

Over approximately the last decade, metal organic framework (MOF) materials have attracted a great deal of attention as a new addition to the classes of nanoporous materials. MOFs, also known as porous coordination polymers (PCPs) or porous coordination networks (PCNs), are hybrid materials composed of single metal ions or polynuclear metal clusters linked by organic ligands through strong coordination bonds. Due to these strong coordination bonds, MOFs are crystallographically well defined structures that can keep their permanent porosity and crystal structure after the removal of the guest species used during synthesis. (Eddaoudi et al., 2000; Li et al., 1999; Rowsell et al., 2005; Yaghi et al., 2003) MOFs typically have low densities (0.2-1 g/cm3), high surface areas (500-4500 m2/g), high porosities and reasonable thermal and mechanical stabilities. This combination of properties has made MOFs interesting materials for a wide range of potential applications, including gas storage, gas separation, catalysis and biomedical applications. (Eddaoudi et al., 2002; KeskinK MillwardY Mueller et al., 2006; Pan et al., 2004)
BAHAVIOUR PROFILE AND HABITUATION IN OPEN FIELD TEST OF TWO SPECIES OF LIZARD, THE ITALIAN WALL LIZARD, PODARCIS SICULUS AND THE DALMATIAN WALL LIZARD, PODARCIS MELISELLESIS

The Italian wall lizard, Podarcis siculus and the Dalmatian wall lizard, Podarcis melisellesis are two lizards from the family of Lacertidae. When this two species share same habitat, P. siculus overpowers P. melisellesis as a dominant competitor, usually leading to extinction of P. melisellesis. In this Graduation thesis I was trying to establish the behaviour of these two species of lizards, Podarcis siculus and Podarcis melisellesis in a new environment. In order to do so, we observed habituation period in open field test and 8-arm radial maze. Habituation is an extremely simple form of learning, in which an animal, after a period of exposure to a stimulus, stops responding. We had 28 specimens of each species, 14 females and 14 males. Each experiment lasted 15min or maximum of 23 minutes. We had 3 trials and then compare first and third trial. Parameters of interest were latency time, time spent in the central vs. marginal area and returning into hiding place. We tested for the behavioural differences between the species and sexes. (59 pages, 45 figures, 17 tables, 48 references, original in: English) Thesis deposited in the Central Biological Library
Relationships between Maternal Size, Egg Size, Clutch Size, and Hatchling Size in European Lacertid Lizards

The interspecific relationships among female size, clutch size, egg size, and hatchling size were examined for 64 European lacertids. The eggs of all species increased linearly in both linear dimensions and mass during incubation. Across species initial egg mass was positively correlated with juvenile mass, with an allometric relationship exponent of 0.87. Initial egg mass across species increased proportionally with female mass to the power of 0.57. Moreover, an increase in maternal mass was also accompanied by an increase in clutch size. The number of eggs per clutch across species scaled with female mass to the power of 0.39. Removing the effect of female mass resulted in a negative correlation between egg mass and clutch size. Species for which the average egg size was lower than expected on the basis of female mass, tended to have larger relative clutch size. The total egg mass per clutch was about one third of female mass (exponent 0.94).
Digital Hermeneutics. From Interpreting with Machines to Interpretational Machines

Today, there is an emerging interest for the potential role of hermeneutics in reflecting on the practices related to digital technologies and their consequences. Nonetheless, such an interest has not yet given rise to a unitary approach nor to a shared debate. The primary goal of this paper is to map and synthetize the different existing perspectives in order to pave the way for an open discussion on the topic. The article is developed in two steps. In the first section, the authors analyse digital hermeneutics “in theory” by confronting and systematising the existing literature. In particular, they stress three main distinctions among the approaches: 1) between “methodological” and “ontological” digital hermeneutics; 2) between data-and text-oriented digital hermeneutics and 3) between “quantitative” and “qualitative” credos in digital hermeneutics. In the second section, they consider digital hermeneutics “in action”, by critically analysing the uses of digital data (notably tweets) for studying a classical object such as the political opinion. In the conclusion, we will pave the way to an ontological turn in digital hermeneutics. Most of this article is devoted to the methodological issue of interpreting with digital machines. The main task of an ontological digital hermeneutics would consist instead in wondering if it is legitimate, and eventually to which extent, to speak of digital technologies, or at least of some of them, as interpretational machines.
The Relationship of Assertiveness and Locus of Control with Learning Styles of the Physical Education and Sports School Students

The present study have been conducted to investigate Physical Education and Sports School students’ learning style preferences in terms of assertiveness and locus of control to see relationship between and learning style. For this purpose “Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory” translated in Turkish by Askar and Akkoyunlu (1993), “Rathus Assertiveness Scale” which was developed by Rathus A.S. (1973) and “Rotter’s Locus of Control Scale” (1966) which was developed into Turkish by Dag (1990) was administrated to three hundred sixty six Erciyes University School of Physical Education and Sports students. For analysis of the data, Chi-Square test, Spearman correlation analysis and Multiple Linear Regression analysis were used and p<0.05 level of significance was searched. According to our findings, assertiveness between learning style were found low levels, negative and significant relationship. Furthermore, the students who have seen their preferred substantially (37.7%) diverge learning style and learning by the feeling and watching.
The branches of the descending palatine artery and their relation to the vomeronasal organ in Angora goats

The aim of this study was to reveal the branches of the descending palatine artery, and its relation to the vomeronasal organ in Angora goats. For this purpose, ten heads of adult Angora goats obtained from a slaughterhouse were used. The ramifications of the latex enjected descending palatine artery and their vomeronasal organ-related findings were revealed by fine dissection and transverse sections. Arterial blood reached the caudally vomeronasal organ primarily via the sphenopalatine artery, and also cranially via a fine branch of the major pala- tine artery by crossing the palatine fissure. The average diameters of both the descending palatine artery and its branches were thicker on the left side than on the right, and its ramifications were not variable in this species.
Revascularization: a review of clinical reports on a contemporary treatment modality for endodontics

Objectives: The purpose of this review is to provide a general update on clinical studies of revascularization which is frequently pronounced in recent endodontic literature. Materials and Methods: A PubMED search was carried out to retrieve articles pertaining to clinical attempts on revascularization. Articles extending until 2014 were retrieved. Filtering was performed to make necessary exclusions and an overall number of 62 articles were included. Results: Though a search of the available literature shows that there are variations among different authors in terms of treatment strategies in revascularization, the methodology appears to be a reliable and predictable treatment option. Conclusion: The establishment of a well-standardized protocol will render revascularization to be more strongly accepted as a universal treatment modality. Clinical Relevance: Revascularization is a conservative methodology whereby proliferation of a new connective tissue into a previously infected and necrotic pulp space is expected. In case a correct strategy is followed, continuation of root development with concurrent thickening of root canal walls will provide many advantages both for the patient and the clinician. With more standardized treatment protocols awaited for the future, the methodology will be better established in routine clinical practice.
Supporting 21st-Century Teaching and Learning: The Role of Google Apps for Education (GAFE).

er investigated whether using the course website, along with Google suites of apps, enhanced teaching, research, and learning on campus. A group of students from the University of Ghana (UG) were selected as research participants after GAFE use during one semester. In addition, the impact on student performance as a result of using this innovation was investigated. In other words, the study explored the role that Google Apps plays in 21st-century education. The critical factors leading to users’ adoption of innovations have inspired several streams of research over the decades. According to Allen and Seaman (2014), most academic institutions are currently securing