Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ICT Usage at Rural Libraries: Does Positive Youth Development exist?

This study was to discover the Positive Youth Development (PYD) dimensions towards ICT usage in rural libraries among youths in Malaysia. This is a quantitative design and descriptive study in nature, which involved 400 respondents among rural youths from 16 selected rural libraries in four states of Peninsular Malaysia were chosen based on multistage cluster and simple random sampling. Rural youth community in Malaysia exhibited high level of PYD towards ICT usage at rural libraries especially on level of confidence when using ICT. Based on the analysis performed, education level and employment status have significance difference, meanwhile age has positive relationship with PYD towards ICT usage at rural libraries. The findings are of limited generality due to the small size of the sample. However, the study has implications on the understanding of the acceptance of technology among socioeconomically disadvantaged people towards PYD. The practical implications is the implementation of PYD through ICT usage in local rural libraries instead of other positive places, particularly in terms of local community participation. Data on demographic can be used as evidence of service provision for rural community in the future.
Levels of trace metals in Shatt Al-Arab branches during spring and summer seasons, 2006.

The levels of trace metals Co, Cu, Ni and Zn in both dissolved and particulate phases of water from six branches of Shatt Al-Arab River have been investigated during two seasons, spring and summer 2006 by means of Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry. Levels recorded in μg/ml were: Co (0.019-0.078), Cu(0.163 0.240), Ni(0.035 – 0.094) and Zn (0.130–0.215) in dissolved phase during both seasons compared to particulate phase in which levels recorded in μg/g were Co (11.10 – 26.468), Cu(76.340376.543), Ni (7.778 – 150.676) and Zn (222.546 – 654.128). These levels were higher than most previous studies at the same sites. It is appeared that all studied branches are highly polluted and water appears highly turbid, viscose and greenish in color due to the expected abundance of phytoplanktons.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Recent Work Title Soil exchange rates of COS and CO 18 O differ with the diversity of microbial communities and their carbonic anhydrase enzymes

Differentiating the contributions of photosynthesis and respiration to the global carbon cycle is critical for improving predictive climate models. Carbonic anhydrase (CA) activity in leaves is responsible for the largest biosphere-atmosphere trace gas fluxes of carbonyl sulfide (COS) and the oxygen-18 isotopologue of carbon dioxide (COO) that both reflect gross photosynthetic rates. However, CA activity also occurs in soils and will be a source of uncertainty in the use of COS and COO as carbon cycle tracers until process-based constraints are improved. In this study, we measured COS and COO exchange rates and estimated the corresponding CA activity in soils from a range of biomes and land use types. Soil CA activity was not uniform for COS and CO2, and patterns of divergence were related to microbial community composition and CA gene expression patterns. In some cases, the same microbial taxa and CA classes catalyzed both COS and CO2 reactions in soil, but in other cases the specificity towards the two substrates differed markedly. CA activity for COS was related to fungal taxa and β-D-CA expression, whereas CA activity for CO2 was related to algal and bacterial taxa and α-CA expression. This study integrates gas exchange measurements, enzyme activity models, and characterization of soil taxonomic and genetic diversity to build connections between CA activity and the soil microbiome. Importantly, our results identify kinetic parameters to represent soil CA activity during application of COS and COO as carbon cycle tracers.
Some effects of parasitism on food web structure : a topological analysis

So far most of the food webs lack parasitism. It has been found that parasites can profoundly affect food web properties. In this study we tried to consider parasitism in the food web analysis in order to provide a basis for further and more complete theory development. The data for topological analysis of food webs was from the food web studies of Lafferty et al. Pajek software was used to conduct topological analysis on food webs. The results revealed that in the food web the number of base species kept to be constant but the number of top species declined remarkably and the number of intermediate species increases sharply when parasitism was considered. Parasitism increased the food chain cycles. There were 508 cycles in the parasite-parasite sub-web but not any cycle was found in the predator-prey sub-web. The connectance and link density increased after parasitism was added. The links between predators and parasites were greater than the links between predators and preys. The connectance of predator-prey sub-web, predator-parasite sub-web, parasite-host sub-web, and parasite-parasite sub-web is 0.29, 0.16, 0.24, and 0.34, respectively. The link density of predator-prey sub-web, predator-parasite sub-web, parasite-host sub-web, and parasite-parasite sub-web is 11.95, 9.84, 15.5, and 7.64, respectively. Chain length increased slightly and omnivorous species and omnivory increased also. The present study revealed that parasitism would yield substantial effects on food web structure.
Nutlet micromorphology in selected species of Salvia ( Lamiaceae ) in Iran

The nutlet morphology of 12 Salvia L. (Lamiaceae, Mentheae) species was examined using scanning electron microscopy. The morphology of nutlets exhibited variation in size, shape, color, attachment scar and surface sculpturing. Nutlet size ranged between 1.5 and 2.7 mm in length and between 1.0 and 2.4 mm in width. Observed shapes included spherical, ovoid and ovoid-trigonous. Three types of ornamentation were identified: reticulate, foveolate and psilate. Our results from nutlet data do not support the correlation between nutlet sculpture and stamen type in these Salvia species.
MMP 1-1 Generation and Characterization of DENV-1 / 2 EDIII Chimeric Virus like-Particles การสร้างและศึกษาคุณสมบัติของอนุภาคคล้ายไวรัสลูกผสม ระหว่างเช้ือไวรัสเด็งกี ่ชนิดที ่ 1 และ ชนิดที ่ 2

Dengue virus (DENV) infection causes dengue fever, dengue hemorrhagic fever, and dengue shock syndrome. In this study C6/36 cells were employed in the generation of chimeric DENV-1 (EDIII)/DENV-2 viruslike particles (VLPs) by transfecting with an insect cell expression plasmid encoding the prM and E genes of DENV2 in which the domain III and the stem-anchor region of E protein had been substituted with corresponding regions of DENV-1 and Japanese encephalitis virus, respectively. Selection with blasticidin resulted in transfected cells with high level of expression of E protein in the cytoplasm. SDS-PAGE analysis of partially purified extracellular Econtaining materials revealed three structural protein bands (E, prM and M) and unknown protein band. Electron microscopy analysis demonstrated the presence of spherical particles with size heterogeneity. Cleavage of prM in these particles was reduced from that of the parental DENV-2 VLPs. The results indicated that the DENV-1/2 EDIII chimeric E protein can assemble into spherical particles of various class sizes in stably transfected C6/36 cells.
The Generic Structure of Chinese MA Students’ Thesis Acknowledgments: A Comparative Study across Contexts

In the past two decades, the generic structures of acknowledgments in theses and dissertations have been studied in various contexts (Giannoni 2002; Hyland 2004; Al-Ali 2010; Yang 2012; Jalilifar–Mohammad 2014), and it has been revealed that the genre of acknowledgments has been shaped by the influence of disciplinary, social, cultural and contextual variables. However, there is relatively little literature on the cross-context analysis. On the basis of Hyland’s (2004) move model, the present study involves the genrebased comparative analysis of 20 MA theses acknowledgments written by Chinese students, 10 of them studying for their degree in Chinese universities and the other 10 in American universities. Focusing on the generic structures and linguistic features of these acknowledgments, this study supports the idea that the Chinese students in the two contexts dominantly applied the obligatory thanking move and optional reflecting move, without the announcing move. However, the slight divergences occurring in the construction of moves/step, choices of acknowledgees and expressions of gratitudes could possibly be explained by contextual factors including academic conventions and
Moving Fingers Moving Toes : A Heterogeneous Entity

Painful legs and moving toes is a rare movement disorder. It can be associated with peripheral neuropathy, trauma, radiculopathy or autonomic disturbances. Variants of the phenomenon involving fingers and arms, with or without pain were described. The electrophysiological studies show several patterns, such as repetitive spontaneous discharges and complex alternating patterns in agonist and antagonist muscles. We describe two patients who presented with progressive, painless, involuntary movements of fingers and toes. The movements were also present during sleep. There was no significant history of trauma or other neurological disease. Myokymic discharges in doublets, triplets and multiplets were seen on electromyography. We postulate that in a subgroup of patients moving fingers and toes is a focal neuromyotonia and autoimmunity may play a role in its pathogenesis.
MRI Distinguish the Types of Placental Accrete Ability and Finding: 27 Patients Results

The placenta accrete is a kind of emergency and it leads to maternal postpartum hemorrhage, and one of the causes of death. Its aims is to evaluate diagnostic ability and findings of MRI in placental accrete of different types. This study included 27 pregnant women who were all histologically confirmed placental accrete after operation. According to the Maldjia diagnostic MRI criteria. The sensitivity and accuracy of MRI imaging were compared, and the MRI features of placental accrete were also described. The results showed a statistically significant difference among the three radiologists in MRI classification (P 0.05), chi square test (c2) showed no difference between the two types diagnostic capabilities (P>0.05). ADC and high b value DWI both showed slightly high signal of placental accrete. Residual placenta demonstrated "flower braid" or "mushroom" inhomogeneous enhancement. Comparison of MRI and US, 0 and 1 type are no obviously difference between US and MRI (P>0.05), but there are statistical difference (P<0.05) for distinguishing type 2 and type 3. MRI has a high diagnostic accuracy in placental implantation and the location, extent and depth of its invasion, displaying the condition of blood supply, and the drawing the typing diagnosis based on them. Moreover, MRI was more useful than US in distinguishing type 2 and type 3 of placental accrete.
Is China "Keeping Its Powder Dry"? Developing a Cultural Transmission Model of Gun Behaviors and Attitudes

The objective of this study was to provide a cultural transmission model that partially explains attitudes towards gun ownership and related behaviors. We utilized cross-sectional data collected from Chinese university students in two separate provinces. This paper specifically examines a cultural transmission model of Chinese attitudes towards gun ownership, carrying, purchasing guns for selfdefense, and beliefs regarding whether family and friends would own guns. Our model includes measures of attachment, commitment, belief, prior military service, feelings concerning safety in the presence of firearms, beliefs of the respondent regarding whether or not their close associates would own guns, age, gender, and residential location. Findings suggest that the cultural transmission model partially explains Chinese attitudes regarding gun ownership and related activities. ________________________________________________________________________
Positive frequency dependence of Q and geometrical spreading in crustal attenuation studies

Attenuation measurements by using crustal body, surface, or coda waves often result in frequency-dependent quality factor Q ≈ Q0f with  > 0. Such dependences can be explained as spurious and largely caused by variations of geometrical spreading (GS). In realistic lithospheric structures, GS is complex and often impossible or impractical to model. Nevertheless, GS variations can be measured concurrently with Q and described by a parameter denoted . In bodyand coda-wave measurements at 0 100-km observation distances, this parameter is consistently positive, which also causes positive  values. Here, the causes for such positive  are examined by using 1D waveform synthetics. Generally, the results show that the upper-crustal structure and position of the earthquake hypocenter within it determine the character of GS. In typical crustal structures, is positive and of the order of 0.01 s, in agreement with the observations. Strong velocity and attenuation contrasts within the upper crust and above the seismogenic zone further increase the values of  in tectonically-active structures.
Investigating the relationship between management accounting techniques and sustainability development in Iraqi tourism firms

The objective of this research was to examine how sustainability management accounting techniques (MATs) are used by Iraqi companies. The study also investigated the purposes of using MATs in relation to sustainable development. The analysis is in accordance with how these factors such as frequency use of techniques affect the sustainability’s three dimensions: integrative, social and environmental. Inferential and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the results of the web-survey that was collected through questionnaires from the targeted population. The extent of sustainability MATs implementation was low showing that issues of sustainability are not adequately combined into the management accounting systems of Iraqi companies. However, most companies employ at least one technique of each part: integrative, social and environmental. For other reasons, the MATs are found to be used mostly as an example, outside reporting, monitoring internal compliance and to some extent, for a purpose of internal decision-making.
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Department of Hematology, Zhongda Hospital Southeast University, Institute of Hematology Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, People’s Republic of China Purpose: To investigate the overall efficacy and toxicity of cladribine and cladribine-based chemotherapy in the treatment of patients with refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) based on meta-analysis. Methods: PubMed, EMBASE database, and the Cochrane Library were searched for relevant studies. Eligible studies were clinical trials of refractory AML assigned to cladribine with data on efficacy including complete remission (CR) rate, overall response rate (ORR) and overall survival. Toxicity was evaluated based on the early death rate and the incidence of grade 3 and 4 adverse events (AEs). Results: A total of 10 clinical trials including 422 refractory AML patients were analyzed. The overall CR rate was 42.2% (95% CI: 31.0–54.3%). And the ORR of seven trials including 235 patients was 49.7% (95% CI: 33.5–66.0%). The overall early death rate of 260 patients enrolled in five trials was 6.8% (95% CI: 4.3–10.6%). Thrombocytopenia, anemia, neutropenia, and infection were the most common grade 3 and 4 AEs. Conclusion: Cladribine is effective for refractory AML, and its efficacy can be increased with the combination of cladribine, cytarabine, and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor regimen.
Dextral Shear Zone between Nove Mesto Unit and the Core of Orlica-Snieznik Massif ( the Sudetes ) – a Variscan Terrane Boundary ?

The Palaeozoic collage of the northeastermost extremity of the Variscan belt exposed in the Sudetes, includes a number of probable suture zones (e.g., in the southern and eastern KarkonoszeIzera massif, around the Góry Sowie massif and along the Stare Mesto shear zone), few of which, however, were so far explicitly interpreted as such. A Variscan suture separating the Saxothuringian zone (terrane) to the NW from the Tepla-Barrandian zone (terrane) to the SE, has been interpreted within the Rudawy Janowickie and south Karkonosze metamorphic complexes (Mazur et al. 1998; Mazur and Aleksandrowski 2001; following earlier concepts of Pin et al. 1988 and Matte et al. 1990). The counterpart of the latter suture seems to be a major shear zone developed in the Orlica Mts along the boundary between the Nove Mesto – Lewin Klodzki phyllite-greenstone complex in the SW (probably representing the Tepla-Barrandian terrane) and the gneissic Orlica-Snieznik and the mica schist Stronie complexes in the NE (probably representing the Moldanubian/Gföhl terrane). Both crustal domains show different structural patterns (Fajst 1976; Dumicz 1998) and their contact is occupied by 1.5 to 5 km wide amphibolite belt intruded by metagabbroic and acid igneous rocks. The amphibolite displays MORB-like geochemical features (Opletal et al. 1990; Floyd et al. 1996). The structural study performed by the present authors revealed that the continuous belt of the Stronie complex mica schists adjacent to the contact from the NE, defines a 1–2 km wide shear zone overprinting and obliterating all earlier fabric elements. This shear zone shows evidence of predominantly dextral shearing along moderately westerly dipping foliation and shallow NW-plunging stretching lineation. The strain intensity decreases both to the NE and SW of the contact. Locally, the rocks show record of younger top-toSW semi-brittle shearing event associated with extensional collapse. These relationships partly correspond to recent results of Dumicz (1998), who interpreted the discussed contact as located along the ductile-to-brittle normal-displacement Olešnice-Uhrinov shear zone. Our results point to a later reactivation in semi-brittle regime of an earlier, predominantly strike-slip, ductile shear zone along Dextral Shear Zone between Nove Mesto Unit and the Core of Orlica-Snieznik Massif (the Sudetes) – a Variscan Terrane Boundary?
PAAVO YLI-OLLI The Finnish Stock Market : A Survey of Some Empirical Evidence and its Practical Relevance

This paper reviews some of the main results of the 88 refereed journal articles authored or co-authored by the researchers of the University of Vaasa that empirically investigate the behavior of the Finnish stock market. The studies are divided into three main categories: market microstructure; asset pricing models and fundamentals; and the predictability of stock returns. Several institutional characteristics and results that are specific to the Finnish stock market are reported. Also the practical relevance of the empirical findings are discussed from the perspectives of researchers, corporate financial managers and investors.
Catalytic inulin conversions to biobased chemicals

In this chapter, the use of biomass as an alternative resource for the production of biofuels, biobased chemicals and biobased performance materials will be discussed. This chapter also introduce platform chemical concept and provide an overview of 12 potentially very attractive platform chemicals. 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural is one among the 12 and is considered a “sleeping giant”. Synthetic procedures to produce HMF from biomass sources and particularly C6 sugars will be reviewed. The potential of inulin, a natural biopolymer, for HMF synthesis will be discussed and finally the objective and scope of the thesis will be provided.
Single-Atom X/g-C3N4(X = Au1, Pd1, and Ru1) Catalysts for Acetylene Hydrochlorination: A Density Functional Theory Study

The mechanisms of the single-atom X/g-C3N4(X = Au1, Pd1, and Ru1) catalysts for the acetylene hydrochlorination reaction were systematically investigated using the density functional theory (DFT) B3LYP method. The density functional dispersion correction obtained by the DFT-D3 method was taken into account. During the reaction, C2H2 and HCl were well activated and the analysis of the adsorption energy demonstrated the adsorption performance of C2H2 is better than that of HCl. The catalytic mechanisms of the three catalysts consist of one intermediate and two transition states. Moreover, our results showed that the three single-atom catalysts improve the catalytic activity of the reaction to different degrees. The calculated energy barrier declines in the order of Pd1/g-C3N4 > Ru1/g-C3N4 > Au1/g-C3N4, and the energy barrier for the Au1/g-C3N4 catalyst was only 13.66 kcal/mol, proving that single-atom Au1/g-C3N4 may be a potential catalyst for hydrochlorination of acetylene to vinyl chloride.
Generating Well-Formed Compounds : A Corpus-Based Model Tested Against Psycholinguistic Evidence

Because they tap into basically different things, corpora and elicitation tests may at times provide diverging results. In this paper, we will show that, far from being opposed to each other, corpus data and elicitation data should be seen as complementary and that their reconciliation can actually prove useful in a field such as Foreign Language Teaching (FLT). Two case studies will illustrate this. In the first one, we will use data coming from a learner corpus and from fill-in and evaluation exercises to investigate learners’ knowledge of make-collocations. We will see that only the combination of corpus and elicitation data can give the full picture, i.e. performance and competence, and that an analysis relying on just one source of language data therefore runs the risk of being biased. In the second case study, we continue to investigate the differences between competence and performance through a comparison of the existential structure in elicited data from native speakers an. Document type : Communication à un colloque (Conference Paper) Référence bibliographique Gilquin, Gaëtanelle ; Shortall, Terry. Reconciling corpus data and elicitation data in FLT.Fourth Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL 2007) (University of Birmingham, du 27/07/2007 au 30/07/2007). In: Davies, M. , Proceedings of the Fourth Corpus Linguistics Conference, 2007, p.12-27 Corpus and Cognition Colloquium: The Relation Between Natural and Experimental Language Data Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Terry Shortall
Infusing Mindfulness Capability into Pedagogical Agents

In this paper, a new vision for pedagogical agents is proposed. The pedagogical agents in the future should be able to identify the mindfulness state of the student and to remind the student to practice mindfulness for a short period before he/she continues with learning. For this purpose, this paper reviews different approaches to measuring mindfulness and identifies the weakness of the self-report measurement approach. In addition, the paper proposes to combine different physiological data types to identify the patterns of mindfulness state.
Creaky voice in spontaneous spoken Estonian

Creaky voice has many functions in spoken communication. In a number of languages (e.g. in Finnish, Swedish, English) it has been observed to function as a turn-yielding discourse marker. The use of voice quality has been associated with sociolinguistic variation, e.g, it is more frequent in informal settings. The use of different voice qualities has been ascribed to specific social groups, e.g., in American English creak is a characteristic of young educated women. Here we observe the use of creaky voice in Estonian. The data consist of spontaneous monologues and dialogues from the Phonetic Corpus of Estonian Spontaneous Speech. The results show that creak appears mainly in informal situations. They reveal an interesting sociolinguistic pattern where creakiness depends on the age and gender of dialogue partners. While creak tends to occur more likely towards the end of a turn, it does not seem to serve directly as a turn taking cue; our data suggest that it in fact suppresses overlaps by interlocutors.