Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
EnVIRonMEnTAL DRIVERS SHAPInG BEETLE ASSEMBLAGES In FoUR RIVERS oF nW SPAIn AFFECTED By HyDRoELECTRIC PoWER STATIonS

– Environmental drivers shaping beetle assemblages in four rivers of nW Spain affected by hydroelectric power stations. In this work, we studied the environmental drivers that shape the water beetle assemblages in four rivers from nW Spain. We also tested whether hydroelectric power stations have a negative impact on these assemblages. A total of 24931 specimens were collected at 20 sites in eight sampling fields (during years 2001-2002). The fauna was collected with a quantitative Surber net. In addition to habitat and spatial parameters, several physical and chemical variables were measured at each site. The environmental variables were then condensed by means of Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The relationship between species and environmental variables was explored by Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA). The assemblage composition was analyzed by a non-metric multidimensional scaling (nMDS), and the differences between groups were tested using the analysis of similarity (AnoSIM) considering two factors, the nMDS grouping and the power station impact. The SIMPER routine was used to verify the species contribution to the dissimilarity. We detected a total of 47 species of Coleoptera belonging to 11 families, 43 % of which were Iberian endemics. A Canonical Correspondence Analysis revealed that altitude, distance from source and conductivity were the variables that most influence the studied fauna. Significant differences in the faunal composition were registered in nMDS groups 1 and 2, which were made up of sites belonging to different river basin and lithology. Moreover, differences related to the hydroelectric power stations impact could not be detected due to the experimental design. The SIMPER routine highlighted that elmis aenea (Müller, 1806), dupophilus brevis Mulsant & Rey, 1872 and e. rioloides (Kuert, 1890) were the species that most contributed to explain the differences between groups. ENVIRONMENTAL DRIVERS HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATION
1 Hijacking the Host Immune Cells by Dengue Virus : 2 Molecular Interplay of Receptors and Dengue Virus 3 Envelope 4 1

dengue virus (DENV), being one of the lethal pathogens in the hot climatic regions of the 21 world, have been extensively studied to decipher its mechanism of pathogenesis and missing links 22 of its life cycle. With respect to the entry of DENV, multiple receptors have been recognised in 23 different cells of the human body. However, scientists still argue whether these identified receptors 24 are the exclusive entry mediators for the virus. Adding to the complexity, DENV has been reported 25 to be infecting multiple organ types in its human host. Also, more than one receptor in a particular 26 cell has been discerned to take part in mediating the ingress of DENV. In this review, we aim to 27 discuss about the different cells of the human immune system that support DENV infection and 28 their corresponding receptors that DENV deploy to gain access to the cells. 29
INTRAVENOUS NESIRITIDE, A NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, IN THE TREATMENT OF DECOMPENSATED CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE

A BSTRACT Background Intravenous infusion of nesiritide, a brain (B-type) natriuretic peptide, has beneficial hemodynamic effects in patients with decompensated congestive heart failure. We investigated the clinical use of nesiritide in such patients. Methods Patients hospitalized because of symptomatic congestive heart failure were enrolled in either an efficacy trial or a comparative trial. In the efficacy trial, which required the placement of a Swan–Ganz catheter, 127 patients with a pulmonary-capillary wedge pressure of 18 mm Hg or higher and a cardiac index of 2.7 liters per minute per square meter of body-surface area or less were randomly assigned to double-blind treatment with placebo or nesiritide (infused at a rate of 0.015 or 0.030 μg per kilogram of body weight per minute) for six hours. In the comparative trial, which did not require hemodynamic monitoring, 305 patients were randomly assigned to openlabel therapy with standard agents or nesiritide for up to seven days. Results In the efficacy trial, at six hours, nesiritide infusion at rates of 0.015 and 0.030 μg per kilogram per minute decreased pulmonary-capillary wedge pressure by 6.0 and 9.6 mm Hg, respectively (as compared with an increase of 2.0 mm Hg with placebo, P<0.001), resulted in improvements in global clinical status in 60 percent and 67 percent of the patients (as compared with 14 percent of those receiving placebo, P<0.001), reduced dyspnea in 57 percent and 53 percent of the patients (as compared with 12 percent of those receiving placebo, P<0.001), and reduced fatigue in 32 percent and 38 percent of the patients (as compared with 5 percent of those receiving placebo, P<0.001). In the comparative trial, the improvements in global clinical status, dyspnea, and fatigue were sustained with nesiritide therapy for up to seven days and were similar to those observed with standard intravenous therapy for heart failure. The most common side effect was dose-related hypotension, which was usually asymptomatic. Conclusions In patients hospitalized with decompensated congestive heart failure, nesiritide improves hemodynamic function and clinical status. Intravenous nesiritide is useful for the short-term treatment of decompensated congestive heart failure. (N Engl J Med 2000;343:246-53.)
1 Enteral Nutrition in Patients with Inflammatory 2 Bowel Disease : Systematic Review , Meta-Analysis 3 and Meta-Regression 4

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic disease mediated by the immune system 12 and characterized by the inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. One of the possible treatments 13 for this pathology is a change in the type of diet, the enteral nutrition (EN) is one of them. This study 14 is to understand how the use of EN can affect the adult population diagnosed with IBD. We 15 conducted a systematic review, meta-analysis and a meta-regression. On the different databases, 16 (MEDLINE, Scopus, Cochrane, LILACS, Cinhal, WOS) we found 363 registers, the accuracy was 12% 17 (44 registers); After a Full-text review, only 30 research studies were selected for qualitative 18 synthesis and 11 for Meta-analysis and Meta-regression. The variables used were Crohn’s Disease 19 Activity Index (CDAI), C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR). EN has 20 shown to have efficacy for the treatment of Crohn’s Disease and is compatible with other medicines. 21 As for the CDAI or the rates of remission, there were no differences between enteral and parenteral 22 nutrition. Polymeric formulas, have shown better results with respect to the CRP. The long-term 23 treatment could dilute the good CDAI results that are obtained at the start of the EN treatment. 24
Perceptual limits of visual-haptic simultaneity for virtual object contact

The goal of this work is to establish the range of visual-haptic asynchronies that go unnoticed when touching an object. To perform a psychophysical study, however, we would need asynchronous visual-haptic stimuli, but because the contact of the finger with a real object inevitably creates synchronized haptic feedback, here we employ instead a virtual reproduction of the interaction. Participants immersed in a realistic Virtual Reality environment tapped on a virtual object with their index while viewing a fully articulated representation of their hand. Upon tapping, they received haptic feedback in the form of vibration at their fingertip. After each tap, participants judged whether they perceived the view of the contact and the haptic signal to be synchronous or asynchronous and they also reported which of the two seemed to happen first. Despite the difference between the two judgments, results indicate that none of the 19 participants could reliably detect the asynchrony if haptic feedback was presented less than 50ms after the view of the contact with an object. The asynchrony tolerated for haptic before visual feedback was instead only 15ms. These findings can be used as guidelines for haptic feedback in hand-based interactions in Virtual Reality.
Effects of the Body Wearable Sensor Position on the UWB Localization Accuracy

Over the years, several Ultrawideband (UWB) localization systems have been proposed and evaluated for accurate estimation of the position for pedestrians. However, most of them are evaluated for a particular wearable sensor position; hence, the accuracy obtained is subject to a given wearable sensor position. This paper is focused on studying the effects of body wearable sensor positions i.e., chest, arm, ankle, wrist, thigh, forehead, and hand, on the localization accuracy. According to our results, the forehead and the chest provide the best and worst body sensor location for tracking a pedestrian, respectively. With the wearable sensor at the forehead and chest position, errors lower than 0.35 m (90th percentile) and 4 m can be obtained, respectively. The reason for such a contrast in the performance lies in the fact that, in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) situations, the chest generates the highest multipath of any part of the human body. Thus, the large errors obtained arise due to the signal arriving at the target wearable sensor by multiple reflections from interacting objects in the environment rather than by direct line-of-sight (LOS) or creeping wave propagation mechanism.
Adherence to insulin therapy and associated factors among patients with diabetes mellitus in public hospitals of Central Zone of Tigray, Ethiopia, 2018: a cross-sectional study

Introduction Adherence to insulin therapy is a critical factor for adequate control of diabetes mellitus. Despite the multiple well-known benefits of adherence to insulin therapy, poor adherence remains to be a common cause of diabetes mellitus-related complications. A better management of diabetes mellitus requires determining the level of patient adherence and identifying why non-adherence to insulin therapy occurs. Therefore, this study was designed to assess the level of adherence to insulin therapy and associated factors among diabetes mellitus patients. Methods The study was conducted from May 1 to July 1, 2018, using a cross-sectional study design. Interviewer-administered questionnaire was employed for data collection and systematic random sampling technique was used to select study participants. The collected data were entered using Epi data version 3.1. 1 and exported to SPSS version 22 for analysis. Logistic analysis was carried out to check the level of association between adherence to insulin therapy and the independent variables with significance level of 0.05 at 95% confidence interval. Results 273 respondents were selected with a 100% response rate. Near to one-fourth (24.2%) of the respondents were adherent to their insulin therapy. The study revealed that good knowledge of diabetes mellitus [AOR=6.51; 95% CI [1.58, 26.71], age [>30 years] [AOR=2.63; 95% CI [1.27, 5.42], knowledge regarding insulin self-injection [AOR=4.21; 95%CI [1.06,16.65], favorable attitude towards insulin injection [AOR=2.14; 95% CI [1.04,4.41], free-of-cost insulin therapy [AOR= 4.62, 95% CI [1.06,16.65], having of glucometer at home [AOR= 2.82, 95% CI [1.12,7.09], and being a member of Ethiopian diabetic association [AOR= 5.41, 95% CI [2.31,12.64] were found to significantly affect adherence to insulin therapy. Conclusion Nearly one-fourth of the study participants were adherent to their insulin therapy. Good knowledge and favorable attitude towards insulin injection, good knowledge regarding diabetes mellitus, being a member of the Ethiopian Diabetes Association, age greater than thirty years old, free-of-cost insulin therapy and having glucometer at home were found to be significant predictors of adherence to insulin therapy.
Deposition and coagulation of aerosols from household spray products

This study investigated the dynamics of aerosols emitted from household spray products in terms of deposition rate, deposition velocity, and coagulation. Thirty brands of spray products were selected with respect to their uses. Time variations of particle size distribution and concentrations resulting from aerosol emission from the spray products were measured using the MetOne GT 321 particle counter. Deposition rates were estimated as a function of air exchange rate. Coagulation rates of singlet, doublet, and triplet particles were estimated using Smoluchowski’s equation. Average deposition rates for 0.3, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, and 5.0 μm aerosols were 0.154, 0.157, 0.159, 0.165, and 0.170 min, respectively. The results provide useful information about the fate of aerosols released from the spray products and can be used in indoor air quality modeling and exposure assessment studies.
EFFECT OF USING DIETARY ANTIBIOTIC AND ANISE OIL AS FEED ADDITIVES ON PERFORMANCE AND CARCASS QUALITY OF BROILER CHICKS

Received at: 20/3/2014 Accepted: 18/5/2014 The effect of feeding broiler chicks on diets containing antibiotic and different levels of anise oil as feed additive on productive performance, carcass characteristics and economical efficiency were studied. A total of two hundred and fifty one-day old, unsexed (Ross-308) broiler chicks were randomly divided into five experimental groups. Each group was further subdivided into five replicates ten chicks per pen in complete randomized design. The birds were fed with two basal diets (starter and finisher) to form five experimental groups. The first group (A) fed on basal diet without feed additives (negative control diet), the second group (B) fed on basal diet with 0.1% added antibiotic Neomycine sulphate (positive control diet). The other groups (C), (D) and (E) were fed on basal diet supplemented with anise oil (Pimpinella anisum) at levels (150, 250 and 400 ppm) respectively. The experimental diets were fed for 6-weeks duration. Health of the stock and performance parameters were recorded. At the end of the experiment, the birds were slaughtered, dressed then the different parameters and economical evaluation. The results showed that, the diet with 400ppm anise oil had significantly (P<0.05) heaviest body weight gain, highest feed intake, best feed conversion ratio, highest dressing percentage with highest percentages of commercial cuts (breast drumstick and thigh). In addition, the inclusion of anise oil in broiler diets showed significantly (P<0.05) the most tender breast and thigh meat and higher liver and gizzard percentages compared to both antibiotic and control diets. The birds fed the antibiotic and control diets produced significantly (P<0.05) highest abdominal fat percentage. The mortality rate did not significantly (P>0.05) affected by the experimental treatments. The highest profitability ratio (1.85) was recorded by the diet with 400ppm anise oil in broiler diet.
Gestalt Therapy and Gestalt Psychology GESTALT-ANTECEDENT INFLUENCE OR HISTORICAL ACCIDENT

There has been relatively little appraisal of the antecedent influence of Gestalt psychology on Gestalt therapy. This paper attempts to expand on the work of previous academic writers on the theoretical precursors of Gestalt therapy. Most of the relevant articles, monographs, or books which mention Gestalt psychology still refer to Wallen (1957), whilst Perls in his books referred to the influence of Gestalt psychology, but gave little indication of the extent of that influence. Yontef (1979, p.27) highlighted the need for this type of exploration:
GATA 4 Deficiency Impairs Ovarian Function in Adult Mice 1

Transcription factor GATA4 is expressed in granulosa cells and, to a lesser extent, in other ovarian cell types. Studies of mutant mice have shown that interactions between GATA4 and its cofactor, ZFPM2 (also termed FOG2), are required for proper development of the fetal ovary. The role of GATA4 in postnatal ovarian function, however, has remained unclear, in part because of prenatal lethality of homozygous mutations in the Gata4 gene in mice. To circumvent this limitation, we studied ovarian function in two genetically engineered mouse lines: C57BL/6 (B6) female mice heterozygous for a Gata4-null allele, and 129;B6 female mice in which Gata4 is deleted specifically in proliferating granulosa cells using the Cre-loxP recombination system and Amhr2-cre. Female B6 Gata4 mice had delayed puberty but normal estrous cycle lengths and litter size. Compared to wild-type mice, the ovaries of gonadotropinstimulated B6 Gata4 mice were significantly smaller, released fewer oocytes, produced less estrogen, and expressed less mRNA for the putative GATA4 target genes Star, Cyp11a1, and Cyp19. Gata4 conditional knockout (cKO) mice had a more severe phenotype, including impaired fertility and cystic ovarian changes. Like Gata4 mice, the ovaries of gonadotropinstimulated cKO mice released fewer oocytes and expressed less Cyp19 than those of control mice. Our findings, coupled with those of other investigators, support the premise that GATA4 is a key transcriptional regulator of ovarian somatic cell function in both fetal and adult mice. developmental biology, fertility, gene regulation, granulosa cells, ovary, ovulation, puberty, transcription factor
Development and Optimization of Flight Dynamics , Control Laws and Avionics System for a UAV with a Multi-scale Optimized Blended Wing Body Configuration

The research presented in this paper was developed by the multiscale-optimized Blended Wing Body (BWB) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) team, an undergraduate capstone project at the Carleton University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. The development of the flight dynamics model of the BWB-UAV for stability and control is presented. The stability of the longitudinal and the lateral directional flight modes is examined as a function of flight and design parameters. The design of pole placement and LQR controllers is discussed, and their performance is compared. The PixHawk 2.1 Cube is selected as the flight control unit and the integration of the developed flight dynamics and control laws as a new airframe in the PX4 firmware is described. Parameter optimization and tuning of the flight dynamics model and the control laws using a hardware-in-the-loop simulation setup is presented and discussed. Lessons learned from flight tests, which test the developed firmware using off-the-shelf platforms before migrating to the presented BWB-UAV, and the collected test data are discussed.
Effect of Dietary Carbohydrate Levels on Growth Performance , Body Composition and Apparent Digestibility Coefficients in Cobia Rachycentron canadum L , at Two Different Growth Stages

A feeding experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary carbohydrate levels on growth, body composition, and apparent digestibility coefficients in cobia, Rachycentron canadum L, at two different growth stages (mean initial weight of 172.56±0.80 g, and 598.44±4.60 g, respectively). Six isonitrogenous and isolipidic experimental diets were formulated to contain 0% (the control), 6, 12, 18, 24 and 30% wheat starch, respectively. Amount of microcrystalline cellulose was adjusted to make up to 100%. Fish were distributed into floating net cages in seawater with a density of 20 per cage for the small cobia (Trial I), and 40 per cage for the large cobia (Trial II). Each diet was randomly fed to triplicate groups of fish. Fish were fed twice daily to satiation for 10 weeks. In both trials, fish fed high-carbohydrate diets (24% and 30%) showed higher specific growth rate (SGR) and feed efficiency ration (FER) than fish fed 0% carbohydrate diet. The small fish fed diets with higher starch levels (24% and 30%) showed significantly higher lipid contents in whole-body, liver and muscle compared to the control group (0%), however no significant differences among dietary treatments were observed in the large fish. In both trials, liver and muscle glycogen as well as apparent digestibility coefficients (ADCs) of dry matter and energy, significantly increased with increasing dietary carbohydrate. On the basis of the SGR and FER, diets containing 23.14-25.30% and 23.24-23.51% carbohydrate (wheat starch) was appropriate for cobia with 170g and 600g initial body weight, respectively. The IJA appears exclusively as a peer-reviewed on-line open-access journal at http://www.siamb. org.il/. To read papers free of charge, please register online at registration form. Sale of IJA papers is strictly forbidden.
Comparative Analysis of Tourism Determination in 36 Countries : A Panel Approach

This study utilizes panel estimation models to analyse the determinants of tourism in 36 countries1 with observations of 108, and countries are further disaggregated into sub-groupings of high income, upper middle income, low middle income and low income countries. The application of panel econometric methods allowed us to control for unobserved heterogeneity amongst different countries and that is necessary to circumvent certain econometric challenges indicated in the literature which include endogeneity of tourism variables and also measurement biasness. Our results shows that tourism arrivals have the expected effect on tourism with a positive elasticity on tourism receipts ranging from 0.41% in all countries to 0.63% in low income countries. However, exchange rates and inflation have an expected negative sign, which implies tourism earnings are affected by high exchange rates and inflation which is attributed to costs of tourism related to tourism services such hotel prices, domestic transportation and entrances to tourism facilities like for example, game reserves. Furthermore, the results show different specifications per income groups. Therefore some variables tend to change its effect as situations are different from one country to another.
5 Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory and personality

Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) is composed of two main components: (a) a state description of neural systems and associated, relatively short-term, emotions and behaviours; and (b) a trait description of longer-term dispositions to such emotions and behaviours. McNaughton and Corr (chapter 2) outlined the state level of description; this chapter explores the trait level of description and takes a more general view of the problems posed by the revised Gray and McNaughton (2000) theory.