Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
- Lahti Psychological Well-Being Acculturation Expectations and Experiences as Predictors of Ethnic Migrants '

There is a need for a better acknowledgement of the preand postmigration factors that influence postmigration psychological adaptation of ethnic migrants. In the present study, first, we examined the effects of pre-acculturative stress, anticipated sociocultural difficulties, and anticipated discrimination on ethnic migrants’ (N = 153) psychological well-being in the postmigration stage. These pre-migration factors were expected to influence postmigration acculturation experiences (i.e., perceived acculturative stress, sociocultural difficulties, and discrimination), which, in turn, were expected to be decisive for postmigration well-being. Second, we examined how the concordance between these premigration and postmigration factors affects postmigration well-being. According to the first set of results, (1) the effect of anticipated sociocultural difficulties on psychological adaptation is mediated by perceived sociocultural difficulties and acculturative stress in the postmigration stage, and (2) the effects of preacculturative stress and anticipated discrimination are present in terms of their impact on subsequent postmigration experiences (stress and discrimination, respectively), which are further associated with postmigration well-being. The second set of results, in turn, shows that ethnic migrants’ psychological adaptation is highest (1) when both anticipated and perceived sociocultural difficulties are low and correspond with each other (but not when they anticipated more sociocultural difficulties than they experienced after migration), (2) when they both anticipate and perceive low levels of ethnic discrimination, and (3) when their perceived acculturative stress after migration is lower than pre-acculturative stress. The implications of the results for premigration interventions are discussed.
Evaluation of phytoconstituents, nephro-protective and antioxidant activities of Clitoria ternatea

Clitoria ternatea(CT), is an herbaceous medicinal plant used to treat, liver problems India. Acetaminophen is a commonly used analgesic and antipyretic agent which, at high doses, causes liver and kidney necrosis in man and animals. The aim of the present study is to evaluate phytoconstituents and investigate the nephroprotective & antioxidant activities of the ethanol extract of Clitoria ternatea on acetaminophen induced toxicity in rats. Phytoconstituents like
Assessment of Some Heavy Metal Contents in Fresh and Salted (Feseakh) Mullet Fish Collected from El- Burullus Lake, Egypt

Fe, Zn, Cu, Pb and Cd concentrations were determined in muscle, gills and liver of fresh and salted (either by analytical or industrial salt) mullet fish caught from El-Burullus Lake. Heavy metal concentrations varied significantly depending on the type of the tissue and salt. Generally, the lowest concentrations of the studied metals were found in fresh fish, while the highest concentrations were recorded in salted fish by industrial salt which were higher than salted fish by analytical one. Fish organs of fresh and salted fish by analytical salt contain metals followed the order: liver>gills>muscle, while in salted fish by industrial one showed: gills>muscle>liver. The metal levels were ranked as follow: Fe>Zn>Cu>Pb>Cd. Fe and Cd concentrations exceeded the upper limit of standards while, Zn one recorded much below level in all deliberate fish organs. Cu content was slightly higher than the permissible limit in muscle and gills of salted fish by industrial salt. Concerning Pb level, it was almost double the concentration of the permissible limit in the liver of all groups and muscle of salted fish by industrial salt, while it were triple the concentration of the permissible limit in gills of that group. (Yosef TA and Ghada M Gomaa. Assessment of Some Heavy Metal Contents in Fresh and Salted (Feseakh) Mullet Fish Collected from El- Burullus Lake, Egypt. Journal of American Science 2011; 7(10):137-144). (ISSN: 1545-1003). http://www.americanscience. org. 18
HYDROPHILIDAE : The genus Chaetarthria STEPHENS – description of a new species from New Caledonia and notes on C . nigerrima ( BLACKBURN ) from Australia ( Coleoptera )

Chaetarthria incisa sp.n. (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) from New Caledonia is described and illustrated. The tribe Chaetarthriini is recorded for the first time from New Caledonia. Taxonomic notes on C. nigerrima (BLACKBURN, 1891) are provided. Terrestrial habits of the species of the genus Chaetarthria STEPHENS, 1835 are discussed.
Crack dynamics in elastic media

Abstract The classical theory of fracture mechanics states that a crack propagating in an unbounded body should smoothly accelerate until it reaches the Rayleigh wave speed. We introduce here a general approach for solving the equation of motion of the crack tip. We show that the loading conditions and the geometry of the configuration do not produce inertial effects. The equation of motion of a propagating crack is always a first-order differential equation.
LTE commsense for object detection in indoor environments

In this work, we describe a new method of using long-term evolution (LTE) telecommunication infrastructure to sense environmental changes. We call it LTE communication-based sensing (Com-mSense). It can be used in various environment-sensing tasks, e.g., sea level monitoring, security of large unmanned landscapes, snow avalanche monitoring, and activity detection inside forests. The main concept of this technology is to focus on the known signal embedded in the data frames. It compares the received signal with the expected reference signal to estimate the change in the environment. LTE telecommunication infrastructure is used for this environment-sensing task because of its wide coverage. In addition, LTE uses a two-dimensional (2D) frame structure of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and multiple input and multiple output (MIMO), which may yield better performance compared to previous communication standards. This procedure of extracting channel characteristics using commensal radar principles does not affect the existing telecommunication system, because it is a receive-only system. After the channel characteristics are estimated, they can be used to obtain phenomenological knowledge of the environment using an application-specific instrumentation (ASIN) framework. The capability analysis of this scheme is presented in this article, first in simulation and then using field-collected data captured with the help of a software-defined radio (SDR) platform.
EGT prediction of a micro gas turbine using statistical and artificial intelligence approach

Small size gas turbine application has increased with the advancement of technology. These engines have simple structures, fewer number of operating components, and less design and construction costs in comparison with large gas turbines. Small size gas turbines can be used in different fields such as remotely piloted vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, helicopters, and special purpose aircraft such as vertical takeoff and landing aircrafts [1]. The advantages of these engines compared to the large gas turbine engines leads to high usage of small-sized engines and growing demand for research activities and experimental test results on the operating parameters of these engines, such as exhaust gas temperature (EGT). In general, research on gas turbine engines, related with the present work, can be divided into two parts. The first part includes studies about past experiments and modeling of gas turbine engines, and the second part focuses on data mining methods applied on gas turbine engines. These two areas are discussed in the following sections.
Aggression in Columbian ground squirrels: relationships with age, kinship, energy allocation, and fitness

Matrilineal kin groups are common in social mammals and often exhibit cooperative behaviors. Social interactions in such groups may have varying consequences on fitness depending on the number of kin present. We used social network analysis to study which factors (including individual spatial distribution, sex, age, and kinship) affected patterns of aggressive interactions in Columbian ground squirrels during the important breeding period of lactation. In addition, we studied how patterns of aggressive interactions affected female reproduction and fitness. Received aggressions lessened as ground squirrels aged, likely reflecting greater dominance in older individuals. Outwards aggression peaked at prime reproductive age, but decreased in older individuals. In females, outwards aggressiveness was positively related to energy allocated to reproduction and annual fitness, suggesting that highly aggressive females were either of high intrinsic quality or were able to defend high-quality territories. Finally, female–female aggression was primarily targeted toward non-kin individuals, revealing the advantage for breeding adult females of having close kin neighbors that were also breeding. Thus, breeding females that were close kin appeared to be “genial neighbors” that benefited from increased fitness, highlighting the role of kin selection in mitigating the costs (e.g., injuries, stress) of aggression.
SIDE EFFECTS OF TWO PLANT INSECTICIDES ON NATURAL ENEMIES OF INSECTS IN ALFALFA (MEDICAGO SATIVA L.) SEED PRODUCTION

During the period 2012-2014, in the experimental field of the Institute of Forage Crops, Pleven, Bulgaria, the side effect of neem and pyrethrum products on banded thrips, Aeolothrips ntermedius Bagnall (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) and the seven-spot ladybird Coccinella septempunctata L. (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) adults was defined. Treatments were carried out at the beginning of the flowering stage of alfalfa ( Medicago sativa L.) in the second intercut. Sweeping with an entomological net was used to collect specimens. It was found that the biological insecticides NeemAzal and Pyrethrum were nontoxic with respect to Coccinella septempunctata adults, and in almost 70% of cases were harmless to Aeolothrips intermedius . Analysis of variance (ANOVA) regarding product toxicity on predatory species demonstrated that the factor B (type of insecticide) had the strongest effect – 89.1 and 82.5% of the total variance for C. septempunctata and A. intermedius , respectively. Tested plant insecticides showed no negative impact on the predatory species and they can be applied in organic seed production of alfalfa.
Seismic Radiation from a Kink on an Antiplane Fault

We study radiation and energy balance for an antiplane fault containing a kink. A semi-infinite crack with a sharp rupture front propagates along the flat portion of a kinked crack. At time t � 0, the crack reaches the kink located at the origin of coordinates and continues propagating beyond the kink at a different speed. We com- pute the exact solution for this problem using a Chaplygin transformation, a variation of the well-known Cagniard-de Hoop method. We first establish an integral equation for the computation of stress intensity factor after the kink and then we solve numeri- cally for the velocity and stress field around the crack. We find that the propagation of the crack across the kink produces a sharp change in energy balance that in turn pro- duces a circular SH wave centered at the kink that we call the kink wave. Across the wavefront of this wave there is a sudden jump in particle velocity and radial stress. At the same time, a local stress concentration appears on the external side of the kink. We establish an exact energy balance for this problem in terms of energy rates per unit crack advance. Radiated energy is shown to maintain the balance between elastic en- ergy released by the bulk and energy used to make the crack advance. The kink wave- front is the boundary between a field dominated by the initial flat portion of the crack and a region dominated by radiation from the kink.
Isolation and Identification of New Alkaloids from Purslane (Portulacaoleracea L.)Leaves Using HPLC/ESI- MS

Purslane (Portulacaoleracea L.) leaves are well-known traditional Kurdish favorite foods. In the present study, from Purslane leaves ten alkaloids were extracted, isolated and Identified for the first time, By using HPLC/ESI-MS. The identified alkaloids were; Nandigerine(1), Reticuline(2), (R)-3,4-Dehydromagnocurarine(3), itingensine(4), (S)-Tembetarine(5), Homolycorine(6), Angustureine (7), Cyclobullatine-A (8), 10-(5-p-coumaroyl-6-methylpiperidin-2-yl) dodecan-2-one(9) and 10-(5-p-coumaroyl-6-methylpiperidin-2-yl)tetradecan-2-one(10).
Prevalence of overweight and obesity among Belgrade youth : A study in a representative sample of 9 – 14-year-old children and adolescents

This study was designed to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity of urban schoolchildren in Serbia, based on the data collected from the representative sample from schools located in Belgrade, the national capital, as a part of a wider national project. The sample consisted of 11,644 schoolchildren (14% of Belgrade’s elementary school population from 9–15 years of age). The body-mass index cut-off points of the International Obesity Task Force were used to identify the prevalence of overweight and obesity. The present study has indicated that the overall prevalence observed in the whole sample was 24.2%, of which 19.2% were overweight, and 5% were obese students. Moreover, a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity has been revealed in boys rather than in girls, in all age groups. These high prevalence trends should be accepted as a warning sign and strategies that promote healthy weight among children and adolescents should be adequately developed and applied.
Stable Isotopes of Water Vapor in the Vadose Zone: A Review of Measurement and Modeling Techniques

The stable isotopes of soil water vapor are useful tracers of hydrologic processes occurring in the vadose zone. The measurement of soil water vapor isotopic composition (δ18O, δ2H) is challenging due to difficulties inherent in sampling the vadose zone airspace in situ. Historically, these parameters have therefore been modeled, as opposed to directly measured, and typically soil water vapor is treated as being in isotopic equilibrium with liquid soil water. We reviewed the measurement and modeling of soil water vapor isotopes, with implications for studies of the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum. We also investigated a case study with in situ measurements from a soil profile in a semiarid African savanna, which supports the assumption of liquid–vapor isotopic equilibrium. A contribution of this work is to introduce the effect of soil water potential (Ѱ) on kinetic fractionation during soil evaporation within the Craig–Gordon modeling framework. Including Ѱ in these calculations becomes important for relatively dry soils (Ѱ < −10 MPa). Additionally, we assert that the recent development of laser‐based isotope analytical systems may allow regular in situ measurement of the vadose zone isotopic composition of water in the vapor phase. Wet soils pose particular sampling difficulties, and novel techniques are being developed to address these issues.
Coastal plain stratigraphy records tectonic, environmental, and human habitability changes related to sea-level drawdown, ‘Upolu, Sāmoa

Abstract Coastal plain stratigraphy is often over looked in paleo–sea-level reconstructions because carbonate sediments do not precisely constrain former sea level. Pacific Island sedimentology provides an invaluable record of geomorphic and environmental consequences of coastal evolution in response to changes in sea level and local tectonics. A series of coastal auger cores obtained from eastern ʻUpolu reveal a subsurface carbonate sand envelope predominately composed of coral and coralline algae derived from the reef framework. Coupling the sedimentological record with geophysical models of Holocene sea level, we identify a critical value (0.3–1.0 m) during the falling phase of the sea-level high stand (1899–2103 cal yr BP) that represents the transition from a transgressive to a regressive environment and initiates coastal progradation. Correlating the critical value with time, we observe nearly a millennium of coastal plain development is required before a small human population is established. Our findings support previous studies arguing that Sāmoa was colonized by small and isolated groups, as post–mid-Holocene drawdown in regional sea level produced coastal settings that were morphologically attractive for human settlement. As future sea level approaches mid-Holocene high stand values, lessons learned from Pacific Island sedimentological records may be useful in guiding future decisions related to coastal processes and habitat suitability.
Modeling of patient virus titers suggests that availability of a vaccine could reduce hepatitis C virus transmission among injecting drug users

A future vaccine could reduce hepatitis C virus transmission among those sharing syringes, even in the presence of postexposure viral replication in vaccinees. Hampering hepatitis C virus transmission No hepatitis C virus (HCV) vaccine is currently available, and evidence from studies in nonhuman primates suggests that any future human HCV vaccine would be unlikely to induce complete immunity against the virus. Major et al. examined whether lowered HCV titers potentially resulting from an imperfect vaccine might still stem HCV transmission in people who inject drugs. The authors measured the HCV RNA from infected human plasma retained in contaminated needles and syringes. Their mathematical model combining these measurements with published HCV viral kinetics data suggested that a partially effective vaccine could reduce the HCV transmission risk among individuals who share contaminated needles and syringes. The major route of hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission in the United States is injection drug use. We hypothesized that if an HCV vaccine were available, vaccination could affect HCV transmission among people who inject drugs by reducing HCV titers after viral exposure without necessarily achieving sterilizing immunity. To investigate this possibility, we developed a mathematical model to determine transmission probabilities relative to the HCV RNA titers of needle/syringe-sharing donors. We simulated sharing of two types of syringes fitted with needles that retain either large or small amounts of fluid after expulsion. Using previously published viral kinetics data from both naïve subjects infected with HCV and reinfected individuals who had previously cleared an HCV infection, we estimated transmission risk between pairs of serodiscordant injecting drug users, accounting for syringe type, rinsing, and sharing frequency. We calculated that the risk of HCV transmission through syringe sharing increased ~10-fold as viral titers (log10 IU/ml) increased ~25-fold. Cumulative analyses showed that, assuming sharing episodes every 7 days, the mean transmission risk over the first 6 months was >90% between two people sharing syringes when one had an HCV RNA titer >5 log10 IU/ml. For those with preexisting immunity that rapidly controlled HCV, the cumulative risk decreased to 1 to 25% depending on HCV titer and syringe type. Our modeling approach demonstrates that, even with transient viral replication after exposure during injection drug use, HCV transmission among people sharing syringes could be reduced through vaccination if an HCV vaccine were available.
Intralymphatic Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase-Alum Administration Induced Th2-Like-Specific Immunomodulation in Responder Patients: A Pilot Clinical Trial in Type 1 Diabetes

GAD-alum given into lymph nodes to type 1 diabetes patients participating in an open-label pilot trial resulted in preservation of C-peptide similar to promising results from other trials. Here, we compared the immunomodulatory effect of giving GAD-alum directly into lymph nodes versus that induced by subcutaneous administration. Samples from T1D patients (n = 6) who received 4 μg GAD-alum into lymph nodes (LNs), followed by two booster injections one month apart, and from patients (n = 6) who received two subcutaneous injections (SC) (20 μg) given one month apart were compared. GADA, IA-2A, GADA subclasses, IgE, GAD65-induced cytokines, PBMC proliferation, and T cell markers were analyzed. Lower doses of GAD-alum into LN induced higher GADA levels than SC injections and reduced proliferation and IgG1 GADA subclass, while enhancing IgG2, IgG3, and IgG4. The cytokine profile was dominated by the Th2-associated cytokine IL-13, and GAD65 stimulation induced activated CD4 T cells. Patients responding clinically best account for most of the immunological changes. In contrast, SC treatment resulted in predominant IgG1, predominant IFN-γ, higher proliferation, and activated CD4 and CD8 cells. Patients from the LN group with best metabolic outcome seemed to have common immune correlates related to the treatment. This trial is registered with DIAGNODE (NCT02352974, clinicaltrials.gov) and DIABGAD (NCT01785108, clinicaltrials.gov).
Phase transitions in a programmable quantum spin glass simulator

Simulating correlated electron systems Correlated electron systems are generally difficult to simulate because of limited capabilities of computational resources. Harris et al. used a D-Wave chip based on a large array of superconducting elements to simulate the phases of a complex magnetic system. They tuned the amount of frustration within the lattice and varied the effective transverse magnetic field, which revealed phase transitions between a paramagnetic, an ordered antiferromagnetic, and a spin-glass phase. The results compare well to theory for this spin-glass problem, validating the approach for simulating problems in materials physics. Science, this issue p. 162 A programmable quantum simulator is used to model complex magnetic interactions. Understanding magnetic phases in quantum mechanical systems is one of the essential goals in condensed matter physics, and the advent of prototype quantum simulation hardware has provided new tools for experimentally probing such systems. We report on the experimental realization of a quantum simulation of interacting Ising spins on three-dimensional cubic lattices up to dimensions 8 × 8 × 8 on a D-Wave processor (D-Wave Systems, Burnaby, Canada). The ability to control and read out the state of individual spins provides direct access to several order parameters, which we used to determine the lattice’s magnetic phases as well as critical disorder and one of its universal exponents. By tuning the degree of disorder and effective transverse magnetic field, we observed phase transitions between a paramagnetic, an antiferromagnetic, and a spin-glass phase.
Impact of the Psychological Testing Assessment System (SATEPSI) for Scientific Publications in Psychological Assessment

El comienzo del siglo XXI marco el fortalecimiento de la Evaluacion Psicologica en Brasil, como resultado de acciones que culminaron en la implantacion del Sistema de Evaluacion de Tests Psicologicos (SATEPSI) a traves de la Resolucion Nro.02/2003 del Consejo Federal de Psicologia. En este sentido, el presente estudio tuvo como objetivo describir el impacto del SATEPSI en la investigacion en el area. Fue realizado un levantamiento de las publicaciones de investigadores brasilenos en dos periodos, 1993 a 2002 y 2003 a 2014, en las bases de datos SciELO y BVS-Psi, utilizando los terminos "evaluacion psicologica", "tests psicologicos" y "construccion / adaptacion de instrumentos psicologicos". En general, los resultados senalan el impacto positivo del SATEPSI en el area de la evaluacion psicologica, observado en el aumento de la cantidad y la calidad de publicaciones, asi como tambien en la mayor variedad de contextos y tests psicologicos utilizados en las investigaciones. Las metas deseadas con la publicacion de la Resolucion fueron en su mayoria alcanzadas.