Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cross-Cultural Issues in Personality Assessment

Personality assessment is an established part of many selection procedures in Western countries (Furnham, 2008; Sackett & Lievens, 2008), despite its questioned predictive validity throughout the years. Opponents (e.g., Morgeson et al., 2007a, 2007b) have mainly inquired the small magnitude of the predictive correlations and further criticized the fakability of self-descriptions in at-stake contexts such as job selection procedures. Proponents (Ones, Dilchert, Viswesvaran, & Judge, 2007; Tett & Christiansen, 2007) meta-analytically reviewed validity coefficients and concluded that validities (1) are not trivial; (2) generalize across different contexts and cultures, with job characteristics acting as a moderator; (3) have demonstrated utility for selection decisions; and (4) are not necessarily worse than validities obtained with alternative methods of selection assessment (Rolland & De Fruyt, 2009). Although most authors agree that many individuals will put their best feet forward when describing their personality (in a selection context), there are varying opinions on how to handle and consider impression management. In addition to selection, personality assessment is used more and more in the context of career development and coaching, so its prominence and impact in the industrial and organizational (IO) field is steadily increasing. Given the range of criteria that are predicted by traits, it is to be expected that the frequency of personality assessments in IO professional practice will amplify in a globalized economy, where direct and indirect contacts with colleagues and customers representing diverse cultural backgrounds will be the norm rather than the exception. This multicultural context generates a series of questions and challenges that are beyond the description of personality differences for members of a single culture. With respect to personality description, questions at stake include the following: (1) what kind of trait model (and accompanying operationalization) should one use to describe individual’s personality within and across cultural contexts, which gets at whether one can use inventories that are developed in one culture to assess applicants with a different cultural background? (2) What norms should one use when comparing individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds applying for jobs in which they will have to collaborate intensively? (3) Do applicants from diverse cultural backgrounds perceive assessment contexts differently? In other words, are self-enhancing strategies in personality descriptions in development or selection contexts perceived alike across cultural groups? (4) What about the accuracy of personality stereotypes of cultural groups? Given their potential impact in selection processes, it is important to know whether such stereotypes reflect a kernel of truth or do not match observed differences among cultural groups. With respect to the predictive validity of personality, a key question is whether culture acts as a moderator of personality–criterion relationships.
HIV-1 Diversity and Its Implications in Diagnosis, Transmission, Disease Progression, and Antiretroviral Therapy

Due to an error prone reverse transcriptase, HIV-1 has diversified into multiple variants. Currently, there are four phylogenetic groups named M, N, O and P (Gurtler et al., 1994; Plantier et al., 2009b; Simon et al., 1998). HIV-1 group M, which is responsible for most of the infections in the world, has diversified into nine subtypes named A, B, C, D, F, G, H, J and K, seven sub-subtypes (A1-A5 and F1-F2), multiple circulating recombinant forms (CRFs) and countless unique recombinant forms (UFRs) (Gao et al., 2001; Meloni et al., 2004; Triques et al., 1999; Vidal et al., 2009; Vidal et al., 2006). At present, 49 CRFs were recognized of which 37 are first generation recombinants and 12 are second generation recombinants (Los Alamos Sequence Database, 2011).
BLOCK QUOTATIONS IN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL)

This study investigated the use of block quotations (BQs) in 25 English Literature (EL) and Applied Linguistics (AL) articles published in 2007-2009 in five volumes of an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) academic journal. A block quotation is a direct quotation that consists of four or more lines, presented in a text by indenting its beginning on the left side of the text and without using quotation marks. Findings show (a) the use of BQs as a whole in the EL and AL articles; (b) the frequency of BQs in the sections of the articles; and (c) the appropriateness of the use of the BQs in the articles. This study is significant to support the argument that the ways of integrating the borrowed words and ideas in the texts of the borrowers may vary depending on the borrowers’ backgrounds and their knowledge and skills of producing academic texts.
Offspring sex ratios correlate with pair--male condition in a cooperatively breeding fairy--wren

We examined sex allocation patterns in island and mainland populations of cooperatively breeding white-winged fairy-wrens. The marked differences in social structure between island and mainland populations, in addition to dramatic plumage variation among males both within and between populations, provided a unique situation in which we could investigate different predictions from sex allocation theory in a single species. First, we test the repayment (local resource enhancement) hypothesis by asking whether females biased offspring sex ratios in relation to the assistance they derived from helpers. Second, we test the male quality (attractiveness) hypothesis, which suggests that females mated to attractive high-quality males should bias offspring sex ratios in favor of males. Finally, we test the idea that females in good condition should bias offspring sex ratios toward males because they are able to allocate more resources to offspring, whereas females in poor condition should have increased benefits from producing more female offspring (Trivers-Willard hypothesis). We used molecular sexing techniques to assess total offspring sex ratios of 86 breeding pairs over 2 years. Both offspring and first brood sex ratios were correlated with the pair-male's body condition such that females increased the proportion of males in their brood in relation to the body condition (mass corrected for body size) of their social partner. This relation was both significant and remarkably similar in both years of our study and in both island and mainland populations. Although confidence of paternity can be low in this and other fairy-wren species, we show how this finding might be consistent with the male quality (attractiveness) hypothesis with respect to male condition. There was no support for the repayment hypothesis; the presence of helpers had no effect on offspring sex ratios. There was weak support for both the male quality (attractiveness) hypothesis with respect to plumage color and the maternal condition hypothesis, but their influence on offspring sex ratios was negligible after controlling for the effects of pair-male condition. Copyright 2005.
The herpetofauna of the Guayana Highlands: amphibians and reptiles of the Lost World

South America has an extremely diverse herpetofauna that includes about onethird of all living amphibian and one-fifth of all living reptile species (Duellman 1979b, 1999; Uetz 2000). The rate of discovery and description of amphibian and reptile species, unlike that of birds and mammals, continues to increase. Many of these new taxa are from South America (Bauer 1998; Glaw and Kohler 1998), a continent for which 60% of the species of amphibians have been described in the past 40 years (Duellman 1999). In contrast to other continents, South America has only moderate topographic complexity. Lowlands cover about half of the continent and are associated primarily with the major drainage systems of the Orinoco, Amazon, and Parana rivers. The highland regions are generally discrete and occur in the northeast (Guayana Shield), the southeast (Brazilian Shield), and along the western margin of the continent (Andes). Narrow coastal lowlands fringe these upland areas in the east and west. Even though the tropical lowland regions and their wet forests contribute substantially to herpetofaunal species diversity, species diversity among amphibians is highest in montane regions, where the numbers of endemics are high (usually above 75%; Duellman 1999). Comparable data for species of reptiles are not available, but typically, species diversity of reptiles in montane regions lags behind that of amphibians (e.g., amphibians make up 64% of the Andean herpetofauna; Duellman 1979c). In contrast, reptile diversity in lowland Neotropical regions may be 20%-30% higher than that of amphibians in any particular area (e.g., Hoogmoed 1979a; Duellman 1990).
Title : Jamming transitions induced by an attraction in pedestrian flow Year : 2017 Version : Final

Rights: © 2017 American Physical Society (APS). This is the final version of the following article: Kwak, Jaeyoung & Jo, Hang-Hyun & Luttinen, Tapio & Kosonen, Iisakki. 2017. Jamming transitions induced by an attraction in pedestrian flow. Physical Review E. Volume 96, Issue 2. 022319/1-14. ISSN 2470-0045. DOI: 10.1103/physreve.96. 022319, which has been published in final form at https://journals.aps. org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.96. 022319.
Molecular cloning and characterization of the HDR gene involved in the methyl-erythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway from sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam)

1 Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), Chongqing Sweet potato Research Center, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, People’s Republic of China. 2 Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, People’s Republic of China. 3 Tibet Agricultural and Animal Husbandry College, Nyingchi of Tibet 860000, People’s Republic of China.
Precipitating radiation belt electrons and enhancements of mesospheric hydroxyl during 2004-2009

[1] Energetic particle precipitation leads to enhancement of odd hydrogen (HOx) below 80 km altitude through water cluster ion chemistry. Using measurements from the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS/Aura) and Medium Energy Proton and Electron Detector (MEPED/POES) between 2004–2009, we study variations of nighttime OH caused by radiation belt electrons at geomagnetic latitudes 55–65°. For those months with daily mean 100–300 keV electron count rate exceeding 150 counts/s in the outer radiation belt, we find a strong correlation (r ≥ 0.6) between OH mixing ratios at 70–78 km (0.046–0.015 hPa) and precipitating electrons. Correlations r ≥ 0.35, corresponding to random chance probability p ≤ 5%, are observed down to52 km (0.681 hPa), while no clear correlation is observed at altitudes below. This suggests that the fluxes of ≥3 MeV electrons were not high enough to cause observable changes in OH mixing ratios. At 75 km, in about 34% of the 65 months analyzed we find a correlation r ≥ 0.35. Although similar results are obtained for both hemispheres in general, in some cases the differences in atmospheric conditions make the OH response more difficult to detect in the South. Considering the latitude extent of electron forcing, we find clear effects on OH at magnetic latitudes 55–72°, while the lower latitudes are influenced much less. Because the time period 2004–2009 analyzed here coincided with an extended solar minimum, and the year 2009 was anomalously quiet, it is reasonable to assume that our results provide a lower-limit estimation of the importance of energetic electron precipitation at the latitudes considered.
Adults During General Anes Pleth Variability Index Predicts Fluid Responsiveness in Mechanically Ventilated thesia for Noncardiac Surgery

Objective: To investigate whether the pleth variability index (PVI), derived noninvasively from a pulse oximeter probe, would predict fluid responsiveness in patients undergoing noncardiac surgeries. Design: A clinical, prospective, observational study. Setting: Operating room of a tertiary care hospital. Participants: Twenty-nine adult patients undergoing a range of noncardiac surgeries, requiring general anesthesia, tracheal intubation, and mechanical ventilation. Interventions: Intravenous volume expansion with 500 mL of colloid following induction of general anesthesia and after a period of hemodynamic stability before the start of surgery. Measurements and Main Results: Baseline values for PVI and stroke volume index, derived from an esophageal Doppler monitor, were compared with final values after the volume expansion. Patients were classified into fluid responders and nonresponders based on a stroke volume index increase of Z10%. The optimal cut-off value
Theme 2 : Regulation of Diet for Diabetes Prevention is Antithetical to Adolescents ’ Usual Lifestyle

Objective: To explore minority adolescents’ perceptions of their diabetes risk, barriers and facilitators to adopting lifestyle changes, and ideas for adapting a youth diabetes prevention model. Methods: The study was conducted at collaborating community sites in East Harlem, NY. Trained moderators facilitated focus groups, which were audio taped and transcribed. Participants were 21 Latino and African American adolescents aged 14–18 years with a family history of diabetes and no reported personal history of diabetes. The phenomenon of interest was youth input in adapting a diabetes prevention model. Two researchers independently coded transcripts, identified major themes, compared findings, and resolved differences through discussion and consensus. Results: Dominant themes included (1) the impact of diabetes on quality of life within adolescents’ personal networks; (2) conflict between changing diet and activity and their current lifestyle; (3) lifestyle choices being dictated by cost, mood, body image, and environment, not health; and (4) family, social, and environmental pressures reinforcing sedentary behaviors and unhealthy diets. Conclusions and Implications: Themes from youth focus groups were framed in the context of an existing youth diabetes prevention conceptual model, with results informing expansion of the model and identification and organization of potential intervention components.
Function of Latent EBV Antigens and Lymphomas Developing as a Consequence of Their Action Latent Protein Function Developing Lymphoma Latency

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Capital structure of Brazilian public companies: normality, global financial crisis and economic recession

This article aims to identify the determinants of the capital structure of Brazilian companies and compare it with financial theories. In addition, the normality periods (2007, 2009–2014) and financial crisis periods (2008 and 2015) will be considered in the analysis. The sample has 114 Brazilian public companies in the periods from 2007 to 2015. The methodology used for data analysis was multiple regression for panel data. The results showed that there are differences between the determinants of the capital structure in periods of crisis and of normality. Some of the hypotheses tested were accepted. These hypotheses relate financial theory to empirical analysis. Finally, the research contributed by demonstrating the main determinants of the capital structure in the analyzed periods, showing changes between such determinants.
Importance of conductivity, periodicity and collimation in a model for transmission of energy through sub-wavelength, periodically arranged holes in a metal lm

We investigate the difference between theoretical predictions and experiments measuring the transmission of energy through sub-wavelength, periodically arranged holes in a metal film. At normal incidence, our theoretical model predicts zero transmission when the wavelength is equal to the periodicity, and 100% transmission at two nearby wavelengths. Experiments, however, observe a less sharp minimum and only one transmission maximum. By incorporating each feature into our model, we find that varying conductivity and abandoning strict periodicity does not account for these differences, while imperfect conductivity contributes significantly. c © 2012 Optical Society of America
Plant Components of Agroforestry System Have Different Contributions to Soil Fertility

The objective was to evaluate soil fertility in agrosilvopastoral system in an area influenced by plant components. The study was carried out in the semi-arid region, in the municipality of Sobral (Ceara State, Brazil). The studied treatments were three plant components: shrub ( Leucaena leucocephala ), tree ( Poincianera pyramidalis ), crop ( Zea mays ) and an area of natural regeneration, all at four soil depths. The main chemical attributes were evaluated in the soil samples. The plant components contribute differently to the chemical attributes, especially the tree component, promoting improvements even without the addition of inputs.
CYTOTOXIC EFFECT OF CYPERMETHRIN AND ITS SYNERGIST PBO ON ALPHITOBIUS DIAPERINUS (PANZER) (COLEOPTERA: TENEBRIONIDAE) FOR BIOLOGICAL SECURITY OF STORED GRAINS AND CEREALS

To investigate the co-toxicity and co-efficient activity of Cypermethrin (Cythrin 20EC), a pyrethroid and Pyperonyl butoxide (PBO) against Alphitobius diaperinus (Panzer) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Repellency test was done by the residual film assay technique. Statistically the dose mortality relationship was expressed as a median lethal dose (LD 50 ) by the probit analysis. The regression lines and isoboles were drawn using the Fig-P (Biosoft) package. The Co-efficient values showed that all ratios of cypermethrin and piperonyl butoxide offered synergistic action to both larvae and adult. We observed that the toxicity of the cypermethrin was decreased as the ratio (amount) of PBO was increased. The individual LD 50 value of cypermethrin for adult is 0. 1235µgcm -2 . But in the mixture, the share of cypermethrin are 0.0080, 0.0058, 0.0018 and 0. 0015µgcm -2 at ratios of 1:1, 1:3, 1:5;1:10 when PBO causes reduction of dose level of 93.52%, 95.30%, 98.54% and 98.78% respectively. In case of larvae the individual LD 50 value of cypermethrin is 0. 0476µgcm -2 . But in the mixture, the share of cypermethrin are 0.0055, 0.0046, 0.0022 and 0. 0013µgcm 2 at ratios of 1:1, 1:3, 1:5;1:10 when PBO causes reduction of dose level of 76.89%, 61.34%, 72.26% and 69.74% respectively. The study suggests that the mortality rate of lesser meal worm is increase with the increase of insecticide dose. The LD 50 values of the insecticides are inversely related to the toxicity of the insecticides i.e. higher the LD 50 value lower the toxicity of the insecticide.
Imaging of CSF leak

A cerebrospinal fluid leak [CSFL] from the cranial cavity requires presence of a fistulous communication between the subarachnoid and extra-cranial space through the skull base. Imaging plays a crucial role in identifying and characterizing the skull base defect and evaluating co-existing pathologies which may alter surgical approach. The authors discuss the epidemiology, imaging and management of CSFL, with particular reference to the imaging modalities and findings.
Hypoxia for MSC expansion and differentiation : the best way for enhancing

T h is p ap er h as b ee n p ee rre v ie w ed a n d a cc ep te d f o r p u b li ca ti o n , b u t h as y et t o u n d er g o c o p y ed it in g a n d p ro o f co rr ec ti o n . T h e fi n al p u b li sh ed v er si o n m ay d if fe r fr o m t h is p ro o f. Hypoxia for MSC expansion and differentiation: the best way for enhancing TGFß-induced chondrogenesis and preventing calcifications in alginate beads
Effect of bovine seminal ribonuclease (BS-RNase) on pigs bone marrow cells

Abstract. The effect of bovine seminal ribonuclease (BS RNase) on bone marrow cells in miniature pigs was studied. BS RNase at the concentration 20 and l00 ug/ml preincubated 1 h with bone marrow cells from normal miniature pigs did not influence the formation of CFU-GM and BFU-E colonies cultivated in methylcellulose medium. The bone marrow cells kept in 4 °C survived better in the presence of BS RNase than control cells cocultivated with bovine serum albumin (BSA). There was proved that pig bone marrow cells are able to bind the BS RNase on their surface without any morphological damage. For the experimental bone marrow transplantation in miniature pigs the whole body irradiation of 8G with a cobalt source was used. Two recipients from seven accepted semi-incompatible bone marrow cells preincubated 2 h with BS RNase (10 mg/5 x l08 cells). No recipient from eight transplanted control animals accepted semi-incompatible bone marrow cells preincubated with BSA.
the Cahn – Hilliard

We present a continuous/discontinuous Galerkin method for approximating solutions to a fourth order elliptic PDE on a surface embedded in R 3. A priori error estimates, taking both the approximation of the surface and the approximation of surface differential operators into account, are proven in a discrete energy norm and in L2 norm. This can be seen as an extension of the formalism and method originally used by Dziuk (1988) for approximating solutions to the Laplace–Beltrami problem, and within this setting this is the first analysis of a surface finite element method formulated using higher order surface differential operators. Using a polygonal approximation Γh of an implicitly defined surface Γ we employ continuous piecewise quadratic finite elements to approximate solutions to the biharmonic equation on Γ. Numerical examples on the sphere and on the torus confirm the convergence rate implied by our estimates.
Central but not peripheral fat mass percentage is associated with blood pressure components in the elderly.

BACKGROUND the human body composition changes with advances in age. Particularly, the central fat amount increases. Because the central fat mass is a cardiovascular risk factor, we investigated whether in an elderly population, fat mass (measured at different bodily locations) is associated with peripheral and central blood pressure components. METHODS cross-sectional design. Using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), fat mass was measured within a geriatric outpatient clinic population. Blood pressure was measured with an oscillometric device, and aortic blood pressure and augmentation index (AIx) were obtained by radial artery tonometry, using the SphygmoCor system. Multivariate adjustment for confounders was performed using linear regression analyses. RESULTS totally, 216 subjects were included (age 77.3 years ± 6.1, 34.7% male). The truncal fat mass percentage, but not the peripheral fat mass percentage, was positively associated with the peripheral systolic blood pressure (SBP) [beta 0.07 (95% CI: 0.02 to 0.11)] and the peripheral pulse pressure (PP) [beta 0.07 (95% CI: 0.02 to 0.11)], but negatively with the peripheral diastolic blood pressure (DBP) [beta -0.16 (95% CI -0.27 to -0.04)]. The truncal fat mass percentage was similarly associated with estimated aortic blood pressure components, but no association was found between the truncal fat mass percentage and the AIx. CONCLUSION in older persons, the truncal fat mass percentage as a reflection of the central fat mass percentage, but not the peripheral fat mass percentage is associated with peripheral and aortic blood pressure components.