Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Linking Cyber Incivility With Job Performance Through Job Satisfaction: The Buffering Role of Positive Affect

PSI CHI JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH ABSTRACT. Incivility at work has the potential to impact both individual (e.g., psychological health) and organizational outcomes (e.g., job performance and turnover). In line with Affective Events Theory, the current study proposed a moderated mediation model wherein employee job satisfaction would mediate the relation between cyber incivility and job performance, and trait positive affect would buffer the negative impact of cyber incivility on performance. Two-hundred twenty participants completed measures of cyber incivility, job satisfaction, job performance, positive affect, negative affect, and quantitative workload. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that cyber incivility was negatively related to job satisfaction (ß = -.19, p = .006), as well as job performance (ß = -.14, p = .037), while controlling for negative affect. Additionally, results of mediation analyses indicated that job satisfaction served as a mediator of the cyber incivility-job performance relationship because employees who experienced cyber incivility reported lower job satisfaction, which was linked with lower job performance (indirect effect = -.020, 95% CIs = -.041, -.009; Sobel z = -2.36, p = .02). Trait positive affect moderated the relationship between cyber incivility and job performance such that the performance of those individuals with higher positive affect was not as negatively impacted by the cyber incivility as individuals with lower positive affect (b = .08, p = .044). The results are discussed in terms of their implications for the wired 21st century world of work. Linking Cyber Incivility With Job Performance Through Job Satisfaction: The Buffering Role of Positive Affect
TREE SPECIES DIVERSITY IN A NIGERIAN MONTANE FOREST ECOSYSTEM AND ADJACENT FRAGMENTED FORESTS

The study was conducted at Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve to capture the tree species composition, diversity and richness in a Nigerian montane forest ecosystem, and to compare same between a protected natural forest Main Forest (MF), and unprotected forest fragments (A, B, and C) within the buffer zone. Vegetation sampling was carried out using the Point-Centred Quarter (PCQ) method. Alpha diversity was measured using both Simpson and Shannon-Wiener indices while similarity or otherwise dissimilarity in species composition between the sites was measured using Sorenson’s index. A total of 22 tree species were encountered in MF while 19, 18, 17 species were encountered in fragments A, B, and C respectively. Only 5, 3 and 4 tree species were common to MF and A, MF and B, and MF and C, respectively. A total of 10 tree species were common to fragments A and B, while 11 species were common to each of fragments A and C and B and C. Tree density (per hectare) was higher in the fragments than MF except for fragment C; though, individuals with larger diameter classes were more in MF. Tree diversity was higher in MF than in the fragments with C being the least diverse. Considering the importance of fragment C as a corridor within a buffer zone, and a source of livelihood to the rural community, the need for its restoration, protection and the introduction of stringent measures to ensure sustainable resource utilization was emphasized.
Pedigree Selection to Improve the Seed Yield in Two Segregating Populations of Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.)

The present investigation was conducted at El Mattana Agricultural Research Station, Luxor Governorate, Egypt during three successive seasons i.e., 2013/2014, 2014/2015 and 2015/2016. The objective of this study was to achieve two cycles of pedigree line selection for improving seed yield/plant using two segregating populations of faba bean in the F4 and F5 generations. Remarkable variations among families of the both base populations as well as the selected families in cycle 1 and cycle 2 of pedigree line selection were observed for all studied traits. In Pop. I, families no. F233, F141, F182, F187 and F086 were the best families in most studied traits and out yielded both parents and bulk’s mean after two cycles of pedigree selection. In Pop. II, families no. F203, F177, F111, F076 and F036 were the best families and surpassed both bulk sample and better parent. The selected families of Pop. II were higher for seed weight, seed index, biological yield, pods weight and pods number than the selected families of Pop. I. These families could be considered as promising material for seed yield production. Accordingly, the pedigree selection would be reasonably effective for selecting the superior genotypes for seed yield/plant.
GENDER INTEGRATION IN AQUACULTURE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION PROCESSES: LESSONS LEARNED IN BANGLADESH GENDER INTEGRATION IN AQUACULTURE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION PROCESSES: LESSONS LEARNED IN BANGLADESH

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Comparison of Episodic Future Thinking and Working Memory in Adolescents With Internalizing Problems and Non-clinical Adolescents

* Corresponding Author: Maryam Bahri, MSc. Address: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran Tel: +98 (911) 2439273 E-mail: bahri.maryam@azaruniv.edu Objective: The present study aimed to compare the adolescents with internalizing problems and non-clinical adolescents with respect to their episodic future thinking (EFT) and working memory (WM). Furthermore, this study examined the role of WM in the prediction of EFT.
ENVIRONMENTAL CADMIUM EXPOSURE:ADDITIONAL RISK FACTOR FOR TYPE II DIABETES

Objective: the contribution of environmental pollution to the overall risk for diabetes was assessed by evaluation to the role of inflammation and lipid peroxidation.Oxidative stress induced by accumulating cadmium in beta cells of pancreas was asuggested risk factor for type 2 diabetes. The antioxidant activities of glutathione peroxidase enzyme and sialic acid against reactive oxygen species were also investigated. Methods: levels of cadmium in blood (S-Cd) and urine (U-Cd) were measured using the graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometer. Fasting glucose level (FBS), glutathione peroxidase enzyme (GSH-Px) and serum sialic acid were measured by enzymatic colorimetric assay. The glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) was determined by high performance liquid chromatography.Results: the study was carried out on 26 patients diagnosed as type 2 diabetes for a mean duration of 4.66 ± 1.06 years, and a matched group of 31 non-diabetic subjects.Evaluating different life characteristics among the study population revealed an active role to rural versus urban residential areas and to current occupation in the development of diabetes in comparison to non-significant relation with feeding habits.The mean levels of serum (S-Cd) was 3.65 ± 1.17 μg/dl and 0.65 ± 0.42 μg/dl amongtype 2 diabetes and control groups, respectively, the difference was statistically highly significant, P<0.001. Similarly, highly statistically significant differences between the two groups were obtained for creatinine-corrected U-Cd, FBS and sialic acid, and sig- nificant differences for GSH-Px and HbA1c. Studying the associations between the different parameters, revealed that the main response variable was disease status and potential predictors included serum cadmium, creatinine-corrected urinary cadmium, residence and farming. Highly significant associations were detected for S-Cd and creatinine-corrected urinary Cd versus the kidney functions (urea, creatine and microalbuminuria),diabetes status (FBS and HbA1c), and the enzyme glutathione peroxidase.Similar results were obtained between S-Cd and sialic acid, which associated significantly with cadmium level in urine after correction for creatinine. The correlations studied between FBS and HbA1c versus the antioxidant GSH-Px as well as sialic acid proved highly significant with sialic acid only. No significant correlation was reported between the GSH-Px and the sialic acid. The effect of age, sex, body mass index, duration and onset of diabetes were dealt with. Conclusion: Environmental pollution by the biotoxic cadmium metal has proved to be a risk factor contributing to the high incidence of type 2 diabetes among the general population. The acute phase reactant, sialic acid appeared to give new hopes by its scavenging role against the generated hydroxyl radicals, thus guarding against the possible development of diabetes. Additionally, estimation of salivary sialic acidmay be used as a predictive non-invasive bio-marker of oxidative stress induced by the accumulation of cadmium in beta cells of pancreas.
Effects of controlled burns on the bulk density and thermal conductivity of soils at a southern Colorado site

Throughout the world fire plays an important role in the management and maintenance of ecosystems. However, if a fire is sufficiently intense, soil can be irreversibly altered and the ability of vegetation, particularly forests, to recover after a fire can be seriously compromised. Because fire is frequently used by land managers to reduce surface fuels, it is important to know if and how soil properties may change as a consequence of the fire-associated soil heat pulse.
Relationship marketing dynamics, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty in retail banking: The role of long-term orientation culture and service recovery

Extant literature has amply reported the associations between relationship marketing dynamics, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. However, these reports are contradictory and thus, inconclusive. Meanwhile, past studies have argued extensively on the influence of individual customer values on perception, decision making and buying behaviour.Yet, very little is known of the interaction effect of long-term orientation culture on the link between trust, bonding, communication, personalization and customer satisfaction in retail banking sector. Similarly, while several studies have documented the significant effect of customer complaints on customer loyalty, there is no noticeable research evidence on the intervening effect of service recovery on the relationship between customer complaints and customer loyalty.To fill these gaps, this conceptual paper is written
A note on the Bloch-Beilinson conjecture for K3 surfaces and spherical objects

For a projective K3 surface X we introduce the dense triangulated subcategory S^* of the bounded derived category D^b(Coh(X)) of coherent sheaves on X that is generated by spherical objects. For a K3 surface X over \bar Q it is shown that S^* admits a bounded t-structure if and only if the Bloch-Beilinson conjecture holds for X, i.e. CH^2(X)=Z.
Distribution and lability of land-derived organic matter in the surface sediments of the Rhône prodelta and the adjacent shelf (Mediterranean Sea, France): a multi proxy study

Abstract. The Gulf of Lions is a river-dominated ocean margin that receives high loads of nutrients and particulate matter from the Rhone River but most particulate materials settle rapidly on the nearshore seafloor. One question is raised on the fate of these large quantities of organic carbon delivered by the river to the coastal marine environment. Surface sediments (0–0.5 cm) were collected in the Rhone prodelta and its adjacent shelf during a period of low river discharge (April 2007, 16 stations). The sources, distribution and lability of sedimentary organic matter were examined using bulk (organic carbon, total nitrogen, stable carbon isotope ratios, and grain size) and molecular-level (pigments, amino acids, fatty acids, and δ13C of individual fatty acids) analyses. Our results confirmed previous observations of a southwestward Rhodanian imprint in the nearshore sediments, with 97% of terrigenous inputs of organic matter near the river mouth. Isotopic values of bulk organic carbon, as well as fatty acid biomarkers and compound-specific δ13C signatures of most fatty acids clearly indicate that the Rhone inputs consist of a mixture of organic matter (OM) from different origins with a strong contribution from terrestrial sources (soil and plant debris), and a smaller input from freshwater microalgae, mostly diatoms. The influence of the Rhone River was prominent within the first ten kilometers, but may still be observed on the outer shelf (~21 km) as indicated by the occurrence of long chain fatty acids, which are derived from vascular plants, and their δ13C signatures. In the proximal prodelta, bacteria-specific fatty acids were abundant (1.65 mg g−1 OC at the mouth site) and were relatively depleted in δ13C confirming that bacteria mostly utilize land-derived OM. In the shelf area, the inputs of marine OM and its predominant utilization by the bacteria was confirmed, but the coupling between the pelagic and the benthic compartments appeared limited at this period of the year. Overall, degradation indexes based on amino acids (Dauwe's degradation index) and pigments (ratio of intact chlorophyll-a to the sum of chlorophyll-a + phaeopigment-a), as well as isotopic enrichment of source-specific fatty acids reveal an offshore gradient of OM decay reflecting the rapid deposition of the terrestrial material in the prodelta, the low mixing with OM deriving from marine sources and the efficient degradation of the OM. The OM delivered by the Rhone is relatively labile based on the intermediary value of Dauwe's degradation index, the high proportion of bio-available nitrogen and the occurrence of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Deltaic sediments off the Rhone River should thus be of sufficiently high nutritional quality to sustain dense macrofaunal communities.
Maternal costs in offspring production affect investment rules in joint rearing

When multiple individuals contribute to rearing the same offspring, conflict is expected to occur over the relative amounts invested by each carer. Existing models of biparental care suggest that this conflict should be resolved by partially compensating for changes by coinvestors, but this has yet to be explicitly modeled in cooperative breeders over a range of carer numbers. In addition, existing models of biparental and cooperative care ignore potential variation in both the relative costs of offspring production to mothers and in maternal allocation decisions. If mothers experience particularly high costs during offspring production, this might be expected to affect their investment strategies during later offspring care. Here, we show using a game-theoretical model that a range of investment tactics can result depending on the number of carers and the relative costs to the mother of the different stages within the breeding attempt. Additional carers result in no change in investment by individuals when production costs are low, as mothers can take advantage of the greater potential investment by increasing offspring number; however, this tactic ultimately results in a decrease in care delivered to each offspring. Conversely, when production costs prevent the mother from increasing offspring number, our model predicts that other individuals should partially compensate for additional carers and hence offspring should each receive a greater amount of care. Our results reinforce the importance of considering investment across all stages in a breeding attempt and provide some explanatory power for the variation in investment rules observed across cooperative species.
MALARIA BURDEN AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MALARIA CONTROL MEASURES IN NIGERIA: A Case Study of Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State.

This study examines the trend of malaria burden and the effectiveness of malaria control measures using Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State as a case study. A total of 1200 households were interviewed using a questionnaire. The study used cost of illness approach to evaluate the burden of malaria. The evaluation was based on private direct costs (PDC) and private indirect cost (PIC) of malaria attack per episode. The findings indicated that 37percent of the population of the studied sample suffered malaria attack with a dependency ratio of 33percentage. An average of about 3 days are lost by sick adult, about 2 days by the caretaker while on the average a sick student misses about 2 school days. The total private direct cost of treatment is N 375,480 billion, total private direct protection cost is N 446,070 billion and total private indirect cost is N 1.409,790 billion. The total cost of malaria illness in Nigeria was estimated to be about ? 2,231.34 billion representing 7.3 percent of the GDP in 2011. Findings from this study also revealed that there has been a significant reduction in the burden of malaria on the economy when compared with the baseline study conducted in 2007. It showed a reduction in the burden of malaria from 13.3 percent in 2003 to 7.3percent in 2011. It is therefore recommended that government should expand the provision of free and highly subsidized insecticide treated mosquito nets. Households should also be enlightened on the importance of control and preventions from mosquito bite by using the control and prevention methods effectively. There should also be an increase in the availability of anti malaria drugs at health facilities and an increase in the access to laboratory services. More qualified health personnel,i.e. doctors and nurses, should be employed by the government in order to reduce pressure on the exiting health personnel and therefore, more efforts are needed in these suggested areas to reduce the malaria burden to the minimum target. Key words: Malaria burden, Control Measures, Nigeria
Evaluation of changes in colour properties of clarified red and rosé wines

TOMANKOVA, E. , BALIK, J., DULOVCOVA, K. : Evaluation of changes in colour properties of clarifi ed red and rose wines. Acta univ. agric. et silvic. Mendel. Brun. , 2012, LX, No. 8, pp. 239–246 Eff ects of some selected clarifying agents on the colour of red and rose wines were investigated. Selected clarifying agents were added in various doses to young red and rose wines. Total monomeric anthocyanins and total polyphenols were estimated in all treated wine samples, as well as the colour intensity, hues and parameters CIE L*a*b*. In accordance with our expectations, contents of anthocyanins were decreased in all samples treated with clarifying agents. The most marked loss of
Unilateral 6-OHDA th-fgfr1(tk-) mouse model supports the role of FGFs in Parkinson's disease and the effects of nicotine and L-DOPA on spontaneous motor impairments

In the developing and adult brain, neurotrophic growth factors support the growth and protec tion of dopaminergic neuronal systems. Recently, links between impaired neurotrophin support of dopamine (DA) neurons has been described in Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Fibro- blast growth factor (FGF) has a unique association with DA neurons in that FGF signaling is vitally important for the development and protection of adult DA neurons. We assessed the role of substantia nigra (SN)-expressed FGFs in the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system using a transgenic mouse, th-fgfr1(tk-). In these mice, generated by expression of dominant negative FGFR1(TK-) from the tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) gene promoter, reduced FGF signaling results in smaller and less dense adult nigrostriatal DA neurons, similar to what is observed in PD. With unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) lesions, th-fgfr1(tk-) mice exhibited extensive unilateral nigrostriatal damage with robust spontaneous (non-drug induced) asymmetrical turning and a decreased latency to remain on the accelerating rotarod. L-DOPA remains the gold standard for PD therapy despite debilitating hyperkinetic and dyskinetic side effects. The nicotinic acetylcholine system has recently been targeted as an alternative system to combat PD motor symptoms. Nicotine effectively stimulates dopaminergic transmission in the nigrostriatal pathway and mediates movement. Using unilaterally lesioned th-fgfr1(tk-) mice, long term (11 day) oral administration of nicotine increased spontaneous bidirectional turning and increased the latency before falling from the accelerating rotarod. In a separate analysis, L-DOPA treatment reversed directionality of rotation and further deepened motor discoordination, suggesting activation of hypersensitive postsynaptic DA receptors in the denervated striata. These results in a transgenic model of PD provide insights into the cellular mechanisms underlying L-DOPA and nicotinic therapies and offer further evidence of nicotine’s capacity to facilitate movement and enhance motor coordination in PD.
Interface roughness scattering in ultra-thin N-polar GaN quantum well channels

In this Letter, we report experimental and theoretical investigations on the effect of the channel thickness on the low-field electron mobility in N-polar GaN quantum well channels. From temperature dependent Hall mobility data and numerical modeling of the mobility, the interface roughness is identified as a strong factor in determining the low field mobility as the channel thickness is scaled down. In the graded AlGaN back-barrier N-polar GaN field effect transistor structures studied here, the roughness leads to localization of electrons at a channel thickness of 3.5 nm leading to extremely low mobility.