Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Reaction of Ni film with In0.53Ga0.47As: Phase formation and texture

The solid-state reaction between Ni and In0.53Ga0. 47As on an InP substrate was studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning transmission electron microscopy-energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy techniques. Due to the monocrystalline structural aspect of the so-formed intermetallic, it was necessary to measure by XRD a full 3D reciprocal space mapping in order to have a complete overlook over the crystalline structure and texture of the intermetallic. The formation of the intermetallic was studied upon several different Rapid Thermal Annealings on the as-deposited samples. Pole figures analysis shows that the intermetallic features a hexagonal structure (P63/mmc) with an NiAs-type (B8) structure. Although only one hexagonal structure is highlighted, the intermetallic exhibits two different domains characterized by different azimuthal orientations, axiotaxial relationship, and lattice parameters. The intermetallic phases seem to present a rather wide range of stoichiometry according to annealing temperat.
Strategies for cooperation between business and higher education for attracting graduates to a large enterprise of an international corporation in the conditions of a Russian monotown

The article analyzes strategies for attracting young highly qualified professionals to a large industrial enterprise that is part of an international corporation and forms a monotown, their strengths and weaknesses and also proposes new ways of cooperation between RESUMEN: El artículo analiza las estrategias para atraer a jóvenes profesionales altamente cualificados a una gran empresa industrial que forma parte de una corporación internacional y constituye una ciudad monproductora, sus fortalezas y debilidades y propone también nuevas higher education and business in training and recruitment of young professionals in Russian education and Russian youth labor market. The authors conclude on how effectively the problems are solved, as well as those of the labor market of a Russian monotown.
An observational study of incidence of urological intervention in patients of renal colic with normal and abnormal ultrasound study

Renal stones, one of the most painful urologic disorders, have beset humans for centuries. Each year, worldwide millions of people visit to health care providers and emergency department with urolithiasis. Although ultrasonography (USG) has lower sensitivity and specificity in diagnosing urolithiasis compared to computed tomography (CT), it is an alternative imaging modality that does not expose the patient to ionizing radiation. While acknowledging the superior diagnostic accuracy of CT, there is increasing concern about cumulative radiation exposure from imaging with CT, particularly since patients with renal colic are often young and undergo multiple diagnostic imaging tests over their lifetime. An important limitation of nonenhanced CT is the fact that it does not permit functional evaluation of the kidney and the degree of obstruction. Despite a lower sensitivity for calculus detection than CT, USG is noninvasive, quick, portable, repeatable and relatively inexpensive. Moreover, the avoidance of ionizing radiation makes it attractive screening modality ABSTRACT
Bird species richness and diversity at montane Important Bird Area (IBA) sites in south-eastern Nigeria

Summary The mountains of south-eastern Nigeria are a western extension of the Cameroon mountain range, which is classified as an endemic bird area (EBA). Unlike its eastern extension in Cameroon, most of the ornithological surveys in the western extension of the Cameroon highlands in Nigeria have produced only limited checklists and inventories. There is a clear need for quantitative baseline data so that conservation problems can be identified. Twenty line transects covering a total transect length of 28.8 km were used to survey five sites (Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary, Oban Division and Okwangwo Division of Cross River National Park, Sankwala Mountains and Mbe Mountains) in the westernmost extension of the Cameroon Mountains EBA in south-eastern Nigeria. Vegetation measurements were taken to control for the potential confounding effect of variation in vegetation density and structure on detectability of birds between sites. The 193 bird species recorded in Afi, 158 in Sankwala, 124 in Oban, 100 in Mbe and 73 in Okwangwo Division included most of the Cameroon highlands restricted range species. The results show that the mountains of south-eastern Nigeria are important parts of the Cameroon EBA, particularly Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary. However these sites are threatened by fire and livestock grazing on the hilltops, shifting agriculture on the hillsides and lowlands, and logging for timber in some parts, as well as wildlife hunting for bushmeat.
A cc ep te d A rti cl e Increased liver fat and glycogen stores following high compared with low glycaemic index food : a randomized cross over study AUTHORS

cc ep te d A rti cl e Increased liver fat and glycogen stores following high compared with low glycaemic index food: a randomized cross over study AUTHORS Stephen Bawden, Mary Stephenson, Yirga Falcone, Melanie Lingaya, Elisabetta Ciampi, Karl Hunter, Frances Bligh, Jorg Schirra, Moira Taylor, Peter Morris, Ian Macdonald, Penny Gowland, Luca Marciani, Guruprasad Aithal AUTHOR AFFILIATIONS NIHR Nottingham Digestive Diseases Biomedical Research Unit, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK Clinical Imaging Research Centre (CIRC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore Unilever Discover, Unilever, Colworth, UK Department of Internal Medicine II, Clinical Research Unit, Ludwig-Maxmillians University, Campus Großhadern, Munich, Germany School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK CORROSPONDING AUTHOR Dr. Stephen Bawden SPMIC, University Park, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD Tel: +44 (0) 115 951 4747; Fax: +44 (0) 0115 951 5166
Metagenomic analysis of clinical fungi associated with urban pigeon feces : implications for public health

Human infectious fungi are a growing health concern worldwide, with cities posing a higher risk of infection. The dramatic upsurge of pigeon populations in cities has been implicated in the increased incidence of human fungal infection. In the current study, I used a culture-independent, high-throughput sequencing approach to elucidate the diversity of clinical fungi associated with pigeon feces. I mapped the absolute abundance of clinical fungi across Seoul, Korea, using quantitative PCR. In addition, I tested whether certain geographical, sociological, and meteorological factors were significant predictors of either the diversity or the absolute abundance of clinical fungi, or the presence/absence of specific clinical fungi species. Finally, I compared clinical fungi from fresh and old pigeon feces to elucidate the source of the
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System

The U.S. health care industry has accomplished amazing advances over the past forty years. Dramatic improvements in technology have expanded the length and improved the quality of life. Survey evidence shows that Americans are remarkably satisfied with the quality of health care that they receive. Yet the U.S. health care system has several well-known problems - high costs of care, high rates of uninsurance, and glaring gaps in the quality and efficiency of care - with major consequences for health care and America's economic well-being. What is the right way to preserve the strengths while addressing the weaknesses of this system? Policymakers, like Americans as a whole, are divided about whether making private markets work better or increasing government involvement is the most appropriate strategy. Supporters of private markets point out that competition and choice provide consumer satisfaction in most markets, so why not health care? Supporters of government's role argue that high costs and imperfect information give government a natural, direct role in health care financing, if not delivery. In Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise, John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler argue that the unintended consequences of a handful of public policies are in large part responsible for our system's problems. These policies have something in common - each of them interferes with, or at best fails to promote, the proper functioning of markets. Cogan, Hubbard, and Kessler believe that the first step to improving our health care system must be reform of these policies, and they map out the path to such reforms. Their patient-centered proposal calls for: health care tax reform to reduce the distorting role of third-party payers in the health care system; insurance reform to foster portable health insurance; legal reforms to improve health care access and quality; better provision of information to providers and consumers; and an explicit public goal to reduce medical errors. The path laid out in Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise shows all concerned citizens that the stakes for successful reform are high, but health reform that delivers the highest value for the resources devoted to health care is achievable through incremental market-oriented reform.
A pricing kernel approach to valuing options on interest rate futures

This paper builds on existing asset pricing models in an intertemporal capital asset pricing model framework to investigate the pricing of options on interest rate futures. It addresses the issues of selecting the preferred pricing kernel model by employing the second Hansen–Jagannathan distance criterion. This criterion restricts the set of admissible models to those with a positive stochastic discount factor that ensures the model is arbitrage-free. The results indicate that the three-term polynomial pricing kernel with three non-wealth-related state variables, namely the real interest rate, maximum Sharpe ratio, and implied volatility, clearly dominates the other candidates. This pricing kernel is always strictly positive and everywhere monotonically decreasing in market returns in conformity with economic theory.
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Findings of research conducted in America and Europe have shown that children’s academic self-efficacy is influenced by gender stereotypes of such environments as their parents and teachers (Eccles, 1989; Eisenberg, Martin, & Fabes, 1996; Junge & Dretzke, 1995). Consequently, children may have high self-efficacy in certain academic areas in accordance with how they perceive the gender-stereotypes they are exposed to. It is believed that boys are more excellent in mathematics and science than girls who are more talented in language. This study is aimed at exploring whether or not Indonesian male and female children show differences of academic self-efficacy in mathematics, science, and language; and whether or not their academic achievements in those three subjects are different. This study is also intended to examine whether children’s academic self-efficacy influence their achievements. 375 fifth graders of private and public elementary schools in Yogyakarta, Indonesia were involved in this study. Using survey approach with scale and documentation methods to collect data, the results of the analyses showed that there were no differences of mathematics selfefficacy, science self-efficacy, and language self-efficacy between male and female children. Further, there were neither differences of mathematics achievement nor science achievement between male and female children. However, female children showed significantly higher language achievement than male. At last, children’s academic self-efficacy was found to significantly influence their achievement. Some of these results contradicted those revealed in America and Europe, and are currently dealt with in this article.
Forms of Self-Implication in Literary Reading

Literary reading has the capacity to implicate the self and deepen self-understanding, but little is known about how and when these effects occur. The present article examines two forms of self-implication in literary reading. In one form, which functions like simile, there is explicitly recognized similarity between personal memories and some aspect of the world of the text (A is like B). In another form, which functions like metaphor, the reader becomes identified with some aspect of the world of the text, usually the narrator or a character (A is B). These forms of self-implication can be differentiated within readers' open-ended comments about their reading experiences. The results of a phenomenological study indicate that such metaphors of personal identification are a pivotal feature of expressive enactment, a type of reading experience marked by (1) explicit descriptions of feelings in response to situations and events in the text, (2) blurred boundaries between oneself and the narrator of the text, and (3) active and iterative modification of an emergent affective theme. The self-modifying feelings characteristic of expressive enactment give it a fugal form, manifest as thematic developments that move toward saturation, richness, and depth. The results of an experimental study suggest that expressive enactment occurs frequently among individuals who remain depressed about a significant loss that occurred some time ago. Together with the phenomenological study, [End Page 171] this research suggests that expressive enactment is a form of reading that penetrates and alters a reader's understanding of everyday life, especially following a personal crisis.
Testing the Cultural Boundaries of a Model of Trust: Subordinate-Manager Relationships in China, Norway and the United States

The purpose of this study is to test a model of trust in the organizational setting, incorporating hypotheses about the effect of culture on the trust process. It is predicted that subordinates’ trust in their supervisors is a function of their perceptions of their supervisors’ behavior and their own propensity to trust. In addition, subordinates’ cultural orientation toward relationships moderates the relationship between their perceptions of their managers’ trustworthiness and trust, and their orientation to human nature directly affects propensity to trust. These predictions are tested by using data collected with questionnaires completed by businesspeople in China (n=180), Norway (n=128) and the United States (n=203).
Effects of substrate and salinity in hydroponically grown Cichorium spinosum

The present work, examined the effect of salinity (5, 40 and 120 mmol L-1 NaCl) in the growth and the quality of hydroponic culture of stamnagathi (Cichorium spinosum L.). Plants were developed in perlite, pumice, rockwool and sand respectively. High salinity decreased leaf number, leaf size and plant biomass in plants grown in perlite, pumice and sand. Reduced plant biomass also observed in plant grown in rockwool, although an increased number of leaves were produced. Leaf area reduced in plants grown in rockwool and sand under 120 mmol L-1 NaCl. Low salinity maintained almost similar status as the control treatments. Symptoms of tip burn appeared in 120 mmol L-1 NaCl treated stamnagathi for perlite and pumice. No differences observed in leaf chlorophyll content, leaf fluorescence and in symptoms of discoloration. When the perlite was used as substrate, salinity increased total phenols and decreased protein content. Finally, the low concentration of salinity improved some plant quality parameters as recorded by panelists, following organoleptic test. Thus, stamnagathi proved to successfully tolerate low salinity concentration in hydroponically grown plants.
Factors affecting the purchasing of rabbit meat: A study of ethnic groups in the Western Cape.

Die bemarking van konynvleis in ander lande het 'n verskuiwing ondergaan, van die verkoop van heel konynkarkasse tot die later ontwikkeling van die verkoop van konynvleis in porsies as 'n geriefsverpakking. Ander bemarkingsvraagstukke met betrekking tot konynvleis, byvoorbeeld of daar 'n mark daarvoor is, is nie ondersoek nie. In hierdie studie is die bemarkingspotensiaal van konynvleis ondersoek. Die beskrywende opnamemetode, wat gebruik maak van 'n gestruktureerde vraelys, is gebruik en toegepas op 304 respondente. Die gemiddelde waardes van faktore wat die bemarking en aankoop van konynvleis bei? ½nvloed, is bereken. Dit was bepaal dat die mark vir konynvleis nog baie beperk is. Slegs 43% van die respondente wat wel konynvleis verbruikers is, het aangedui dat hulle een of twee keer per maand konynvleis sal wil eet, waarvan 29 swart, agt wit en 23 bruin respondente was. Die voorgenome frekwensie van inname van die res van die verbruikers van konynvleis was een of twee keer per jaar. Die resultate dui daarop dat respondente, wat verbruikers van konynvleis is, dit sou verkies om konynvleis in porsies (53%), eerder as die hele karkas te koop. Indien vars verkoop, sal die porsies die bemarkbaarste wees. Varsheid is deur al die respondente, ongeag etniese groep, as die belangrikste kwalitatiewe eienskap van konynvleis beskou. Die meeste respondente het aangedui dat hulle die agter- en voorbeen, en borsgedeeltes as porsies sal verkies, met die agterbeen as die mees gewilde gedeelte en die borsgedeelte as die minste gewild. Die verskille wat waargeneem is in die opinies met betrekking tot die bemarking van heel karkasse, het aangedui dat die swart respondente die kop saam met die karkas sou wou koop. Die hoofrede vir die voorkeur, is dat hulle wil seker maak dat die karkas wat aan hulle verkoop word, inderdaad die van 'n konyn is, en nie van 'n kat nie. Die respondente wat verbruikers van konynvleis is, het aangedui dat hulle sou verkies om die aankoop van konynvleis te beperk tot supermarkte (41%), slagters (44%), jagters (30%) en restaurante (23%), eerder as om konynvleis van telers te verkry. Maksimum verkope van konynvleis kan bereik word deur 'n manipulasie van die verkoopprys. Resultate het aangedui dat die meeste respondente (61%) sou verkies om konynvleis teen 'n prys laer as die van hoender aan te koop, terwyl 37% gewillig sou wees om meer vir konynvleis as vir hoender te betaal. Die verwagtinge en voorkeure van die verskillende respondente met betrekking tot konynvleis is 'n belangrike faktor wat in gedagte gehou moet word by die bemarking daarvan. Blanke respondente het aangedui dat hulle die vleis van maer, jong (sagte) konyne sal verkies, terwyl swart respondente aangedui het dat hulle 'n voorkeur sou he vir vetterige, taaier konynvleis.
Leakage in Mobile Online Social Networks

Mobile Online Social Networks (mOSNs) have recently grown in popularity. With the ubiquitous use of mobile devices and a rapid shift of technology and access to OSNs, it is important to examine the impact of mobile OSNs from a privacy standpoint. We present a taxonomy of ways to study privacy leakage and report on the current status of known leakages. We find that all mOSNs in our study exhibit some leakage of private information to third parties. Novel concerns include combination of new features unique to mobile access with the leakage in OSNs that we had examined earlier.
The effect of acute exercise on blood concentrations of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in healthy adults: A meta-analysis European Journal of Neuroscience: Proposed Journal Section: Clinical and Translational Neuroscience

It has been hypothesized that one mechanism through which physical activity provides benefits to cognition and mood is via increasing brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) concentrations. Some studies have reported immediate benefits to mood and various cognitive domains after a single session of exercise. This meta-analysis sought to determine the effect of a single exercise session on concentrations of BDNF in peripheral blood, in A cc ep te d A rt ic le This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. order to evaluate the potential role of BDNF in mediating the beneficial effects of exercise on brain health. MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, SPORTDiscus, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source, and CINAHL databases were searched for original, peer-reviewed reports of peripheral blood BDNF concentrations before and after acute exercise interventions. Risk of bias within studies was assessed using standardized criteria. Standardized mean differences (SMDs) were generated from random effects models. Risk of publication bias was assessed using a funnel plot and Egger’s test. Potential sources of heterogeneity were explored in subgroup analyses. In 55 studies that met inclusion criteria, concentrations of peripheral blood BDNF were higher after exercise (SMD = 0.59, 95% CI: 0.46 – 0.72, p < 0.001). In meta-regression analyses, greater duration of exercise was associated with greater increases in BDNF. Subgroup analyses revealed an effect in males but not in females, and a greater BDNF increase in plasma than serum. Acute exercise increased BDNF concentrations in the peripheral blood of healthy adults. This effect was influenced by exercise duration and may be different across genders.
Adam Green Running head : Norm compliance in gain and loss domains Lateral prefrontal / orbitofrontal cortex has different roles in norm compliance in gain and loss domains : a transcranial current stimulation ( tDCS ) study

Sanction is used by almost all known human societies to enforce fairness norm in resource distribution. Previous studies have consistently shown that the lateral prefrontal cortex (lPFC) and the adjacent orbitofrontal cortex (lOFC) play a causal role in mediating the effect of sanction threat on norm compliance. However, most of these studies were conducted in the gain domain in which resources are distributed among members. Little is known about the mechanisms underlying norm compliance in the loss domain in which individual sacrifices are needed. Here we employed a modified version of Dictator Game (DG) and high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) to investigate to what extent lPFC/lOFC is involved in norm compliance (with and without sanction-threat) in both gain and loss sharing contexts. Participants allocated a fixed total amount of monetary gain or loss between themselves and an anonymous partner in multiple rounds of the game. A computer program randomly decided whether a given round involved sanction threat for the participants. Results showed that disruption of the right lPFC/lOFC by tDCS increased the voluntary norm compliance in the gain domain, but not in the loss domain; tDCS on lPFC/lOFC had no effect on compliance under sanction-threat in either the gain or loss domain. Our findings reveal a complex context-dependent nature of norm compliance and differential roles of lPFC/lOFC in norm compliance in the gain and loss domains. A cc ep te d A rt ic le This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.