Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Model of the Relationship of Perceived Mental and Emotional Problems in the Family-of-Origin on Marital Satisfaction of Adult Offspring

THE RELATIONSHIP OF MENTAL OR EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS IN THE FAMILY-OF-ORIGIN ON MARITAL SATISFACTION OF ADULT OFFSPRING Benjamin O. Weinheimer Marriage and Family Therapy Program School of Family Life Master of Science The effects of perceived mental/emotional problems (psychopathology) in the family-of-origin on adult offspring marital satisfaction was tested in a model considering the mediating variables of parental marital satisfaction, mother-child relationship quality, father-child relationship quality, and resolution of issues from the family-of-origin. The nationally representative sample (n = 802) drawn from the RELATionship Evaluation (RELATE) database included mostly college educated, lower-middle-class individuals in their first marriage. This sample was used to test a structural equation model that results showed fit the data well. Results showed that historical (distal) factors (such as psychopathology in the family-of-origin) explain only a small portion of the variance in adult offspring marital satisfaction and suggest that more contemporary (proximal) factors (such as individual characteristics) have a stronger relationship to adult offspring marital satisfaction. Results showed that 56% of the variance in achieving resolution of issues from the
Non-destructive Assessment of Highbush Blueberry Fruit Maturity Parameters and Anthocyanins by Using a Visible/Near Infrared (vis/NIR) Spectroscopy Device: A Preliminary Approach

We evaluate the use of a portable and non-invasive technology based on visible and near infrared (vis/NIR) spectroscopy (Cherry-Meter) for monitoring fruit maturity parameters and anthocyanins in two highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) cultivars (Misty and Sharpblue). This device measures an Index of Absorbance Difference (I AD ), which showed high correlations with fruit quality parameters in other fruit crops. We found positive but differential correlations between I AD values and fruit anthocyanins, which was higher for Misty (r = 0.970, p≤0.01) than for Sharpblue (r = 0.714, p>0.05). Interestingly, Cherry-Meter measurements were also correlated with solid soluble concentrations (r = 0.685, p≤0.01) and fruit firmness (r = -0.714, p≤0.01), but only in Sharpblue. For both cultivars, I AD values were also significantly (p≤0.01) related with fruit FW (0.447 for Sharpblue and 0.559 for Misty). The High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) data indicated that I AD variations were associated with significant changes in single berry anthocyanidins levels. These findings are the first approach, highlighting the potentialities of Cherry-Meter for the non-destructive assessment of fruit maturity and anthocyanidin profile in blueberries.
A Corpus-Based Study of the Phraseological Pattern It + V-link + ADJ + That Clause in L1 and L2 Expert Academic Writing

This study discusses the phraseological pattern It + V-link + ADJ + That Clause as a rhetorical feature of argumentation in Ghanaian scholars’ research articles (RAs) across the disciplines of Sociology, Economics and Law. It looks at the pattern’s occurrence with the adjectives possible, likely and clear in RAs by Ghanaian authors based in Ghana and in RAs by international scholars who are native speakers to determine potential divergent patterns of use between the two groups of scholars in the three disciplinary fields. Because RAs produced by non-native writers are often said to be characterized by overuse, underuse or misuse of rhetorical features (e.g., Martinez, 2005, Englander, 2006), this study adopts a corpus-based approach to investigate the extent to which Ghanaian scholars’ use of the above collocational pattern involving possible, likely and clear differs from international scholars’ use of the pattern in terms of frequency information, levels of epistemic force, and intensification/mitigation styles. A close inspection of a million-word corpus of RAs, supported by robust statistical analyses, reveals considerable differences in the way the pattern is used between the two groups of scholars across the disciplines studied, which suggest that Ghanaian scholars do not fully apply the preferred stereotypical uses of the pattern found in reputable international RAs. The study has implications for how Ghanaian scholars have acquired rhetorical strategies of academic writing.
Authority and Communication in Organizations

This paper studies delegation as an alternative to communication. We show that a principal prefers to delegate control to a better informed agent rather than to communicate with this agent as long as the incentive conflict is not too large relative to the principal's uncertainty about the environment. We further identify cases in which the principal optimally delegates control to an “intermediary”, and show that keeping a veto-right typically reduces the expected utility of the principal unless the incentive conflict is extreme. Copyright 2002, Wiley-Blackwell.
Feeding versus feedback in active galactic nuclei from near-infrared integral field spectroscopy – X. NGC 5929

We present near-infrared emission-line ﬂux distributions, excitation and kinematics, as well as stellar kinematics, of the inner 520 × 520 pc 2 of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 5929. The observations were performed with Gemini’s Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) at a spatial resolution of ∼ 20 pc and spectral resolution of 40 km s − 1 in the J and K l bands. The ﬂux distributions of H 2 , [Fe II ], [P II ] and H recombination lines are extended over most of the ﬁeld of view, with the highest intensity levels observed along PA = 60 / 240 ◦ , and well correlated with the radio emission. The H 2 and [Fe II ] line emission originated in thermal processes, mainly due to heating of the gas by X-rays from the central active galactic nucleus (AGN). The contribution of shocks due to the radio jet is observed at locations co-spatial with the radio hotspots at 0.50 arcsec north-east and 0.60 arcsec south-west of the nucleus, as evidenced by the emission-line ratio and gas kinematics. The stellar kinematics shows rotation with an amplitude at 250 pc from the nucleus of ∼ 200 km s − 1 after correcting for the inferred inclination of 18.3 ◦ . The stellar velocity dispersion obtained from the integrated K -band spectrum is σ ∗ = 133 ± 8 km s − 1 , which implies a mass for the supermassive black hole of M • = 5 . 2 1 . 6 − 1 . 2 × 10 7 M (cid:5) , using the M • – σ ∗ relation. The gas kinematics present three components: (1) gas in the plane of the galaxy in counter-rotation relative to the stars; (2) an outﬂow perpendicular to the radio jet that seems to be due to an equatorial AGN outﬂow; and (3) turbulence of the gas observed in association with the radio hotspots, supporting an interaction of the radio jet with the gas of the disc. We estimated the masses of ionized gas and warm molecular gas to be ∼ 1.3 × 10 6 M (cid:5) and ∼ 470 M (cid:5) , respectively.
Skill Mismatch and Migration in Egypt and Tunisia

The objective of this paper is to shed light on the issue of skill mismatch in the context of return migration in Egypt and Tunisia. Using data on both return and potential migrants in Egypt and Tunisia, we analyze the skills that migrants acquire before and during migration and the way these skills are used upon return. We find evidence of skill mismatch, especially in Tunisia. The undereducation phenomenon is more prevalent among return migrants, indicating that they make up for their lower education using their migration experience. Finally, we estimate the determinants of skill mismatch on the Egyptian and Tunisian labour markets and find a significant negative effect of return migration on the probability of being undereducated.
Managing Urban Deer

Conflicts are emerging between humans and wildlife populations adaptable to the high density of humans found in urban and suburban areas. In response to these threats, animal control programs are typically designed with the objective of establishing and maintaining a stable population. This article challenges this view by studying the management of urban deer in Irondequoit, NY. Pulsing controls can be more efficient than steady-state regimes under a wide range of conditions in both deterministic and stochastic environments, but potential gains can be dissipated by management constraints. The effect of citizen opposition to lethal control methods is also investigated.
Comparison of Lumped and Quasi-Distributed Clark Runoff Models Using the SCS Curve Number Equation

The Clark synthetic unit hydrograph and the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) curve number method has been used to simulate the rainfall and runoff behavior of a watershed for many years. Methodologies like Clark generally rely on the use of lumped or average rainfall and runoff parameters defined for the watershed, even though such parameters are spatially variable. In an attempt to leverage spatial parameters derived from geographic information, a modified Clark (ModClark) method or quasi-distributed model was developed for HEC-HMS. The ModClark method was initially developed to use the national network of WSR-88D radar (NEXRAD) rainfall data but few has been published on its application which is likely because of the difficulties in obtaining usable and reliable radar rainfall data and because of a lack of despisal preprocessing tools required to parameterize a ModClark simulation. While the original implementation and testing of the ModClark method required the use of NEXRAD data in specific formats, th.
Microfinance and Women Empowerment in Zimbabwe: A Case of Women Development Fund in Umguza District

The gender dimension of poverty focuses on the dilemma of women, their numerous roles as women and their role in dealing with poverty. In many developing countries, women are discriminated upon in terms of their access to capital means of production; basic needs support, employment opportunities and access to credit facilities. In Zimbabwe, like in many developing countries, empowering women through micro-credit finance is viewed as a means of reducing women poverty, empowering them, reducing their vulnerability and improving their well-being especially in the rural areas. This paper discusses the role of the government of Zimbabwe in empowering rural women through the introduction Women Development Fund (WDF). The study was carried out in Umguza district in Matabeleland North province of Zimbabwe. The study employed mainly purposive sampling and data was collected using questionnaire, key informant interviews, focus group discussion observation and oral history. Research revealed that WDF as a strategy has made a difference in the livelihoods of the recipients through initiation of income generating projects. However the major handicap with WDF is that the amount of money given are small and that it was employed in isolate hence the need to have complementary initiatives such as capacity building, market networking among others.
Meteorological Modeling of Very High-Resolution Wind Fields and Snow Deposition for Mountains

Abstract The inhomogeneous snow distribution found in alpine terrain is the result of wind and precipitation interacting with the snow surface. During major snowfall events, preferential deposition of snow and transport of previously deposited snow often takes place simultaneously. Both processes, however, are driven by the local wind field, which is influenced by the local topography. In this study, the meteorological model Advanced Regional Prediction System (ARPS) was used to compute mean flow fields of 50-m, 25-m-, 10-m-, and 5-m grid spacing to investigate snow deposition patterns resulting from two snowfall events on a mountain ridge in the Swiss Alps. Only the initial adaptation of the flow field to the topography is calculated with artificial boundary conditions. The flow fields then drive the snow deposition and transport module of Alpine3D, a model of mountain surface processes. The authors compare the simulations with partly new measurements of snow deposition on the Gaudergrat ridge. On the ba.
Pregnancy outcome and neonatal health by mothers aged 40 years and over

This study was carried out to investigate obstetric outcomes in single pregnancies conceived by women older than 40 compared to those of their younger counterparts in a low natality setting with high mean age at first pregnancy. Data were collected about women who delivered in our Clinic between January and July 2005, excluding multiple pregnancies. Statistical analysis was performed using R (version 2.10.1), considering significant a p<0.05. We selected 688 women: 50 of them are 40 years or older and 638 are younger. Advanced age correlates with higher BMI (p=0.056) and seems to increase the risk of gestational hypertension (p<0.05) and gestational diabetes (p<0.05), cesarean sections (p<0.05) and vacuum extraction (p0.089), neonatal clavicle fracture (p<0.05) and perinatal mortality (p<0.05). Advanced age women have an increased risk of pregnancy complications, such as gestational hypertension and diabetes, neonatal clavicle fracture and perinatal death, and undergo more frequently cesarean sections.
Studies on serum alpha-tocopherol, selenium levels and catalase activities in lambs with white muscle disease

This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of combined deficiencies of Se and vitamin E on catalase activity in order to investigate the possible interactions between Se, αtocopherol, and catalase in lambs with white muscle disease (WMD). Ten healthy and fifteen WMD affected lambs of the Akkaraman breed were used. Serum α-tocopherol and Se levels, and catalase activity were analysed. The catalase activity as well as α-tocopherol and Se levels in lambs with WMD before the treatment (day 0), were found to be lower than those of the control group (P<0.001). Therefore, the catalase activity should be taken into consideration in lambs with WMD.
Evidence for Spatially Correlated Gaia Parallax Errors in the Kepler Field

We present evidence for a spatially dependent systematic error in the first data release of Gaia parallaxes based on comparisons to asteroseismic parallaxes in the Kepler field and provide a parameterized model of the angular dependence of these systematics. We report an error of mas on scales of 0. °3, which decreases for larger scales to become mas at 8°. This is consistent with the ∼2% zero-point offset for the whole sample discussed by Huber et al. and is compatible with the effect predicted by the Gaia team. Our results are robust to dust prescriptions and choices in temperature scales used to calculate asteroseismic parallaxes. We also do not find evidence for significant differences in the signal when using red clump versus red giant stars. Our approach allows us to quantify and map the correlations in an astrophysically interesting field, resulting in a parameterized model of the spatial systematics that can be used to construct a covariance matrix for any work that relies on TGAS parallaxes.
Conhecimento sobre a tuberculose por estudantes universitários

Resumo O objetivo do presente estudo foi identificar aspectos relacionados a vulnerabilidade a tuberculose em moradores do conjunto residencial da Universidade de Sao Paulo (CRUSP), especificamente no que se refere ao seu conhecimento em relacao a enfermidade. A partir da adocao de referencial teorico-metodologico sobre a vulnerabilidade, desenvolveu-se este estudo descritivo e quantitativo, sendo a populacao selecionada por amostra estatisticamente significativa dos alunos de graduacao e de pos-graduacao, perfazendo 106 estudantes (69,8% de graduacao e 30,2% de pos-graduacao). Os dados foram coletados atraves da aplicacao de um questionario, no periodo de outubro a novembro de 2002. Apresentam-se resultados em relacao ao perfil de caracteristicas pessoais dos alunos, identificando-se que 84 estudantes (79,2%) sabiam o que era tuberculose, fazendo mencao correta a enfermidade, 63% conheciam a sintomatologia, 84% responderam que a doenca pode ser transmitida pessoa a pessoa e 78,3% responderam que havia possibilidade de cura. Entretanto, 56,6% desconheciam o agente causal da doenca. Dos 72 (67,9%) que referiram ja ter ouvido falar sobre a doenca, para aproximadamente um quarto isto havia ocorrido em instituicao de ensino. Os estudantes foram, ainda, indagados sobre o conhecimento do local a que deve-se recorrer para realizacao de exames a fim de verificar a presenca da enfermidade; 45,3% nao souberam responder. Chama a atencao que 20,8% dos alunos referiram nao saber sobre a doenca, apontando, inclusive, a sua inexistencia no cenario epidemiologico. O estudo evidencia pontos de vulnerabilidade a respeito do conhecimento sobre a enfermidade, principalmente tendo em vista que constituem um grupo aparentemente diferenciado, pois em tese teriam condicoes mais favoraveis para acessar informacoes a respeito da doenca.
Projections of economic impacts of climate change in agriculture in Europe

This study provides monetary estimates of the impacts of climate change in European agriculture. Future scenarios are derived from several socio-economic scenarios and experiments conducted using global climate models and regional climate models. The economic valuation is conducted by using GTAP general equilibrium model across simulations based on crop productivity changes that consider no restrictions in the volume of water available for irrigation in current irrigated areas or in the application of nitrogen fertilizer. Thus the results should be considered optimistic from the production point and pessimistic from the environmental point of view. Regional differences between northern and southern European countries are found and the monetary estimates show that uncertainty derived from socio-economic scenarios has a larger effect than uncertainty derived from climate scenarios.
The 2D phase diagram associated with a PDE model for self-assembly of diblock copolymers

Diblock copolymers are macromolecules formed by grafting together two polymer chains of types A and B respectively. Melts of these macromolecules exhibit an amazing ability for self-assembly into A- and B-rich domains, which resemble highly regular periodic structures, such as lamellae, spheres, cylindrical tubes, and gyroids. Understanding the process by which these structures are created may ultimately enable the synthesis of materials with tailored properties. The goal of this thesis is the computation of a two-dimensional phase diagram for self- assembly of diblock copolymers. The self-assembly process is modeled by a modified Cahn- Hilliard equation, which is derived as a gradient flow of the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard energy. We choose a pseudospectral exponential time differencing scheme to numerically simulate solutions of the PDE. Furthermore, we apply center manifold theory to obtain specific characterizations of the phase boundaries. These results are used as guidance for numerical extension of the phase diagram.
Isolation of Carnobacterium piscicola and an unidentified Gram-positive bacillus from sexually mature and post-spawning rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss.

Blochemica1 and electrophoretic studles were done on bacterial isolates collected from rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss from 2 private hatcheries In the Pacific Northwest, USA. Five isolates onginated from post-spawning mortalities and morbidities; 2 other isolates were obtained from reproductively active 17 mo old rainbow trout. After 35S-methion~ne-labeled protein lysates were prepared from each isolate, correlation coefficients of electrophoretic proflles were calculated for each pair of isolates using an automated m~crobiological identification system (AMBIS) The Gram-pos~tive isolates appeared to represent 1 or possibly 2 genera: Carnobacterium and Lactobacillus Five isolates were identified as C. piscicola and two (106891,106892) did not correspond to any previously described species. Comparisons based upon correlation coefficients calculated for the 2 unidentified isolates and for biochemically similar strains, including C. piscicola (ATCC 15434), L. alimentarius (ATCC 29643) and L. homohiochi (ATCC 15434), resulted in values no greater than 0.792. This dissimilarity suggests that the 2 unidentified isolates represent a different blotype of C. plscicola or a previously undescribed species of Lactobacillus.
Foehn Event Triggered by an Atmospheric River Underlies Record‐Setting Temperature Along Continental Antarctica

A record‐setting temperature of 17.5°C occurred on 24 March 2015 at the Esperanza station located near the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP). We studied the event using surface station data, satellite imagery, reanalysis data, and numerical simulations. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Antarctic Ice Shelf Image Archive provides clear evidence for disintegration and advection of sea ice, as well as the formation of melt ponds on the ice sheet surface at the base of the AP mountain range. A deep low‐pressure center over the Amundsen‐Bellingshausen Sea and a blocking ridge over the southeast Pacific provided favorable conditions for the development of an atmospheric river with a northwest‐southeast orientation, directing warm and moist air toward the AP, and triggering a widespread foehn episode. A control simulation using a regional climate model shows the existence of local topographically induced warming along the northern tip of the AP (∼60% of the full temperature signal) and the central part of the eastern AP (>90% of the full temperature signal) with respect to a simulation without topography. These modeling results suggest that more than half of the warming experienced at Esperanza can be attributed to the foehn effect (a local process), rather than to the large‐scale advection of warm air from the midlatitudes. Nevertheless, the local foehn effect also has a large‐scale advection component, since the atmospheric river provides water vapor for orographic precipitation enhancement and latent heat release, which makes it difficult to completely disentangle the role of local versus large‐scale processes in explaining the extreme event.
Factors affecting banking agents to adopt Groupware system : empirical evidence from the UTAUT model

The introduction of the new technology of collaborative work (Groupware) by banks, expand the vertical organizational structure to the transverse work. However, Groupware use in the Tunisian Banks is still limited. This raises the problem of determinants influencing its use by banks. THIS research aims to identify the determinants of the technology groupware adoption by banking staff. The model chosen in this study is inspired from the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology. The purely experimental practice of the model was conducted on a sample of 272 front office Tunisian agents. The research results analysis was carried out through fractional analyses and structural equation methods. Our results show that the adoption of Groupware in Tunisian banks with mixed capital is influenced by the easing conditions, the social influence and the expected performance. However, the effort expectancy has no significant effect on the Groupware use in these banks. Knowing the determinants on Groupware adoption could help the human resource managers to develop more efficient policies for the use of the groupware system and to improve the collaborative work in their bank.