Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Adolescent beliefs about antisocial behavior: mediators and moderators of links with parental monitoring and attachment

The current study examined whether parental monitoring and attachment were related to adolescent beliefs about antisocial acts, with temperament, gender, and age considered as potential moderators. A total of 7135 adolescents, ages 14-18 years, completed self-report measures of antisocial beliefs, parental monitoring, attachment security, and temperament. Results indicate that both attachment security and parental monitoring are associated with adolescent beliefs about antisocial behaviour. It also appears that the two aspects of parenting are complementary, in that a secure attachment relationship is associated with greater parental monitoring knowledge, which in turn is linked with a lower tolerance for antisocial behaviour. However, the relations between these aspects of parenting and beliefs about antisocial acts depended on the young people's characteristics, with some results varying by age, gender and temperament. Implications for future research and parent-focused interventions to prevent antisocial beliefs and behaviour are discussed. Keywords: parental monitoring, attachment, antisocial behavior, temperament, adolescents
Molecular Characterization and Possible Immune Function of Two Members of Interleukin Family from Trachinotus ovatus

Interleukins (ILs) are a group of cytokines which play a core regulatory role in the immune system. In the present study, two members of the IL family, IL7 and IL8, were detected in Trachinotus ovatus. IL7 and IL8 cDNAs of T. ovatus consist of a 492 bp and 300 bp ORF (open reading frame) encoding a polypeptide of 163 and 99 amino acids, respectively. Multiple sequence alignment revealed that IL7 and IL8 contain characteristic arrangements of several conserved cysteine residues, which in T. ovatus are in positions 20, 57, 67, 105, 140, 152 and 35, 37, 61, 78, respectively. The phylogenetic tree showed that all ILs fell into four categories. Moreover, IL7 and IL8 mRNA of T. ovatus were constitutively expressed at different levels in all examined tissues, except muscle. Transcripts of IL7 were mainly expressed in liver, intestine, kidney, stomach, and fin, while transcripts of IL8 were highly detected in the eye, liver, kidney, and intestine of healthy fish. After Photobacterium damselae innoculation, mRNA levels of IL7 were higher than IL8 in the spleen and intestine, however, mRNA expression levels of IL7 were lower than IL8 in kidney 3 h post-injection. These results suggest that the two IL molecules play an important role in the inflammatory response of T. ovatus. 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.
Anomaly Detection Using Data Mining Methods in IT Systems: A Decision Support Application

Anomali tespiti uzerine cesitli calismalar olmasina ragmen, buyuk olcekli ag ortamlari icin uygun yaklasimlarin eksikligi nedeniyle basit ve etkili anormali tespit yaklasimlari hala gereklidir. Mevcut calismalardaki analiz yontemlerinde, genellikle on tanimli analiz tekniklerinin kullanildigi, kapsam disi durum ve olasiliklarin dikkate alinmadigi ve danismansiz ogrenen yapay sinir aglari (NN) metotlarinin yeterince kullanilmadigi gorulmektedir. Alternatif olarak bu calismada ozorgutlemeli harita aglari kullanimi tercih edilmistir. Diger calismalarda, genellikle ag trafiginden elde dilen veriler analiz edilirken, bu calismada diger bilisim sistemi verilerinin de analizine ve alternatif olabilecek cozum onerilerine yer verilmektedir. Ayrica, buyuk olcekli ag ortamlarinda analiz edilecek verilerin buyuk boyutlu olmasina bagli olarak, analiz calismalarinda islemlerin daha hizli gerceklestirilebilmesi amaciyla uygulamada Bellek Ici Veritabani Sistemleri (BIVTS) kullanilmistir. Bilisim sitemlerindeki yonetim araclarindan edinilen uygulama log verilerinin analizi sonrasinda anomali tespitinin %96 oraninda basari ile gerceklestigi gozlenmistir. Calismanin isletme ve kullanicilarina bilisim sistemlerini izleme ve guvenlik takibi islemlerinde on tanimlama ihtiyacini ortadan kaldirarak, yogun is yukunu azaltma yonunde fayda saglayacagi dusunulmektedir. Boylelikle, onemli bir maliyet kaleminin ortadan kalkacagi da dusunulmektedir. Ayrica, ongorulemeyen hususlara bagli guvenlik aciklari ve problemlerin, uygulama ile tespiti ve boylelikle bircok saldiri ve problemin onceden engellenilecegi ongorulmektedir.
The Effect of Eddy–Eddy Interactions on Jet Formation and Macroturbulent Scales

AbstractThe effect of eddy–eddy interactions on zonal and meridional macroturbulent scales is investigated over a wide range of eddy scales, using high-resolution idealized GCM simulations with and without eddy–eddy interactions. The wide range of eddy scales is achieved through systematic variation of the planetary rotation rate and thus multiple-jet planets. It is found that not only are eddy–eddy interactions not essential for the formation of jets, but the existence of eddy–eddy interactions decreases the number of eddy-driven jets in the atmosphere. The eddy–eddy interactions have little effect on the jet scale, which in both types of simulations coincides with the Rhines scale through all latitudes. The decrease in the number of jets in the presence of eddy–eddy interactions occurs because of the narrowing of the latitudinal region where zonal jets appear. This narrowing occurs because eddy–eddy interactions are mostly important at latitudes poleward of where the Rhines scale is equal to the Rossby .
Capital Structure in Blockholder-Dominated Firms: A Closer Look on Corporate Ownership and Control

In countries where holding control takes on much relevance it is arguable that capital structure choices are shaped in response to ownership characteristics. These issues are explored in the Italian context being dominated by pyramidal groups and majority-controlled firms. The results show that (1) family firms are more indebted than non-family counterparts and, within family firms, (2) founding-family controlled ones are more reliant on debt; (3) family firms exploit control-enhancing devices along with long-term leverage; (4) higher cash flow rights are associated with a lower leverage; (5) institutional investors are more common in firms with a higher dependence on long-term debt; (6) decreasing trends of the long-term leverage over time seem to occur with upward paths of the votes-to-capital ratio.
Analysis of outcome of diabetic foot ulcer following topical phenytoin and betadine use: a comparative study

Background: Diabetic ulcer is the major cause of morbidity and excess hospital care cost for the patients with diabetes and most frequent reason for hospitalization in patients. Diabetic foot ulcers precede almost 85% of amputations in India. Though there are many modes for care of the wound, treating diabetic wounds are still an enormous problem. Aim of the study was to analyse the outcome of topical phenytoin dressing as compared to conventional wound dressing in diabetic ulcers and thus to know if phenytoin is a better and cheaper alternative option in the management of diabetic ulcers Methods: A sample of 90 patients were selected using purposive sampling technique. Of which 45 underwent topical phenytoin dressings, remaining 45 underwent conventional wound care. Daily dressing was done for 14 days and then was subjected to split skin grafting. The variables were compared based on rate of granulation tissue formation, graft uptake & duration of hospital stay. The categorical variable was compared by chi square test and continuous variable by student t-test. A p value <0.05 was considered significant. Results: In Phenytoin group, mean rate of granulation tissue formation was 92.51%. Mean graft up-take was 92.98% and mean hospital stay was 35.68 days. In Conventional group, mean rate of granulation formation was 83.31%. The Mean graft up-take was only 78.09%, mean hospital stay was 47.31 days. Conclusions: Topical phenytoin helps in faster healing of the diabetic ulcer and better graft up-take and reduces hospital stay.
Quantification of runoff generation from a combined glacier and páramo catchment within an Ecological Reserve in the Ecuadorian highlands

Abstract. Hydrological processes in combined glacier and paramo catchments are vitally important to serve the water needs of communities in the surrounding areas. Previous studies have shown that the melting of glaciers contributes to runoff generation and that the paramo ecosystem acts as a natural sponge, which plays an important role in regulating the runoff during the dry-season. However, not all runoff processes are well-understood in the Andean region due to the high spatial variability of precipitation, young volcanic ash soil properties, soil moisture dynamics and other local factors such as vegetation interception and high radiation that might influence the hydrological behaviour. In addition, there is a lack of evidence of the origin and quantification of the contribution of runoff components in the paramo ecosystem. This study focuses on data collection and experimental investigations in a small catchment (15.2 km 2 ) within an ecological reserve in the Ecuadorian Andean region. The approach consists of the identification of suitable environmental tracers and hydrochemical features to identify the various runoff sources in order to determine their respective contribution during dry and wet conditions. The results show the great importance of the paramo on the contribution to total runoff during baseflow and rainfall conditions.
Message Framing, Source Credibility, and Consumer Risk Perception with Motivation as Moderating Variable in Functional Food Advertisements

Promotion is important in marketing. One such tool is the advertising campaign. Advertising is meant to inform, persuade, or remind. In order to achieve these objectives, the ad must be packaged properly in order for consumers to respond as expected. There are some things that need to be considered by marketers in advertising, among endorser and message framing. For functional food marketers, advertising is also an important thing. Functional food manufacturers need to inform customers and prospects about the product. This study was to analyze the use of message framing and source credibility appropriate use of functional food products in advertising. The research strategy used by the researchers is the experimental method. Categories experimental design used in this study is experimental lab. Factorial design experiments in this study are: 2x1 between subjects at the time of testing of hypotheses 1 and 2; 2x2 between subjects at the time of testing hypothesis 3, 4, 5; 2x2x2 between subjects at the time of testing of hypothesis 6. Testing hypotheses used analysis of variance (ANOVA). So from the whole hypothesis testing can be concluded that the functional food product, the more effective message framing is used a negative message framing. Consumers feel less risk perception in functional food advertising with a negative message framing. The source credibility is more effectively used in functional food products are high source credibility. Consumers feel less risk perception in functional food advertising delivered by high source credibility. In ads that combine aspects of message framing and source credibility, apparently participants will focus more on the aspects of message framing. Ads that combine aspects of message framing and source credibility would be more effective to use for consumers who have a rational motive.
Strontium and barium in sea water and marine organisms

Since the advent of nuclear fission, considerable interest has been aroused in the biological fate of strontium, as two isotopes of this element are among the longer-lived fission products of uranium. Strontium 90, in particular, constitutes the major hazard in old fission products because it is readily taken up by all kinds of plants and may then be concentrated in the bones of animals feeding on the plants. Strontium 90 contamination may be derived from fall-out from atomic explosions or from uncontrolled disposal of fission products. The oceans should receive more than twice as much Strontium 90 from fall-out as the continents because 70% of the surface area of the globe is covered by sea. The oceans are also used, though to a very limited extent at present, for the disposal of fission products from reactor wastes. Hence it is obviously important to study the behaviour of strontium in marine organisms in order to evaluate the health hazard caused by controlled or uncontrolled radioactive contamination of sea water. Barium has only relatively short-lived fission-product isotopes, but can readily be studied at the same time as strontium because of its similar chemistry.
Emergent sociolinguistic variation in severe language endangerment

ABSTRACT Contrary to Labov's principle of style shifting, studies in language obsolescence portray speakers of dying languages as ‘monostylistic’, a characterization questioned here. Variationist methodology is adopted in a context of gradual language death. By combining quantitative and interactional analyses of data from older, younger, and new speakers of Francoprovençal in France and Switzerland, the article considers (a) to what extent variability in language obsolescence differs from that found in ‘healthy’ languages, and (b) how innovations might spread through communities speaking threatened languages characterized as ‘monostylistic’ and lacking overt normative infrastructure. It is argued that style variation (not monostylism) emerges from linguistic decay: among more fluent speakers, a categorical rule of /l/-palatalization before obstruents becomes underspecified, rendering palatalization available for strategic use. Among new speakers, novel palatal variants form part of an emergent sociolinguistic norm. The study offers fresh insights on the origins of sociolinguistic variation with implications for variationist theory. (Language obsolescence, language death, language variation and change, style variation, new speakers)*
Poverty experienced by crop farmers in crude oil polluted areas of Rivers State, Nigeria using socio-economic variables

Poverty experienced by crop farmers’ households in crude oil polluted areas of Rivers State, Nigeria was determined using socio-economic variables. Data were collected by multistage sampling technique and a total of 296 questionnaires were analysed. Results of crop farming experience showed that there was higher level of incidence of poverty (P0 = 63.8%) among crude oil polluted crop farmer households as compared to P0 = 52% in non-polluted and P0 = 58.2% in all crop farmer households surveyed in the state, significant at 1%. There were more headcount poverty (P0 = 65.3%) among crude oil polluted crop farmer households than among non-polluted (P0 = 49.7%) and in all crop farmer households surveyed (P0 = 56.4%) using household heads membership to cooperative societies (significant 1%). None membership of cooperative society contributed 80% of overall poverty. There was more poverty experienced at P0, P1 and P2 measures in households without other working members which contributed 57.8 to 63.8% of overall poverty. The poverty experienced among crude oil polluted crop farmer households (P0 = 65.9%) was higher than in non-polluted (P0 = 52.8%) and P0 = 57.3% in all households surveyed using other working members. The study found out that the reason for higher level of headcount poverty experienced among crude oil polluted crop farmer households was due to the presence of crude oil pollution on their crop farms. Therefore, crude oil pollution increased poverty level of crop farmers in Rivers State, Nigeria. Key words: Poverty, farming experience, cooperatives membership, working members, oil pollution, Nigeria.
CGEH Working Paper Series

In this paper we estimate inequality in Indonesia between 1932 and 1999. There was an increase in inequality at the start of this period but then a sharp decline from the 1960s. A shift from domestic to export agriculture over the period up to the Great Depression accounts for the increase in inequality. During the 1930s, as the price of export crops declined, the income of rich farmers suffered a blow. Yet, this was counterbalanced by increasing gap between expenditure in the urban and rural sectors, causing an over-all rise in inequality. As for the second half of the century, we find that the employment shift towards manufacturing and services, combined with an increase in labour productivity in agriculture, accounts for the decline in inequality. These inequality trends had an effect on poverty as well, but prior to the 1940s the negative impact of the rise in inequality was offset by an increase in per capita GDP. Between 1950 and 1980 a decline in inequality, combined with increased per capita GDP rapidly raised a large portion of the population above the poverty line.
Modelling and measurement of two-layer-canopy interception losses in a subtropical evergreen forest of central-south China

The original Gash analytical model and the sparse Gash's model were combined to simulate rainfall interception losses from the top- and sub-canopy layers in Shaoshan evergreen forest located in central-south China in 2003. The total estimated interception loss from the two canopy layers was 334.1 mm with an overestimation of 39.8 mm or 13.5% of the total measured interception (294.3 mm). The simulated interception losses of the top- and sub-canopy suggested that the simulated interception losses in the stages of ''during storms'' and ''after storms'' were in good agreement with the published ones. Both the original Gash model and the sparse model overestimated the interception losses, but the sparse model gave more accurate estimates than the original Gash model.
Traffic Measurements, Characterization and Emulation in Emerging Networks

Understanding the tra c pro le of the Internet has become one of the most important and most challenging issues for Internet Service Providers (ISP). To this end, ISPs use di erent tra c identi cation tools that can help them pro ling the network applications which load their systems. Using this crucial information they are able to apply di erent charging policies, tra c shaping, and o er di erent Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees to selected users or applications. Tra c identi cation tools are usually classi ed into three groups: (i) port-based methods, where a protocol is identi ed only by the information in the transportlayer header, (ii) statistical-based methods where statistical indicators are derived from di erent characteristics of the network ows (e.g., average of packet sizes or inter-packet times) and the results are matched with a learned database, and (iii) Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) where packet payloads are matched against a signature database which contains unique expressions for the di erent protocols. DPI was introduced as a solution for several issues associated with port-based and statisticalbased identi cation approaches in order to achieve an accurate and timely tra c identi cation. This procedure was proven to be the most e cient one among the tra c identi cation methods and it is often used as a ground truth for testing other identi cation tools. However, testing DPI algorithms in terms of both performance and accuracy is still an open issue in the research community. The goal of this dissertation is to present my research achievements on a tra c emulation framework named the User Behavior Based Tra c Emulator (UBE). UBE is able to generate high speed tra c aggregates mixed up by arbitrary user pro les. By this process the framework can generate a suitable input for DPI testing which can also be freely distributed among the research community without any privacy concerns. In the rst part I present the architecture of UBE which is constructed
Time Dependent Metabolomics and Transcriptional Analysis of Cannabinoid Biosynthesis in Cannabis sativa var. Bedrobinol and Bediol Grown under Standardized Condition and with Genetic Homogeneity

Cannabis sativa L. is mostly grown under non standardized conditions resulting in high fluctuations of cannabinoid contents. The exact measure of these metabolites is hampered as most of the research has been conducted on seized, extracted or non-standardized cultivated C. sativa L. material. In this report legal standardized cultivation of two C. sativa L. chemotypes is investigated by HPLC-UV, qPCR and 1 H-NMR, respectively during two cultivation phases of four (4) weeks each. Based on HPLC the cannabinoid spectrum over 4 week cultivation period is monitored under specific light conditions and in correlation with the expression profile of thca and cbda genes in both chemotypes. Cannabinoid accumulation is observed specifically after shortening of the light period. Gene transcript based chemotyping was only possible comparing the thca and cbda transcription level ratio at the middle of the cultivation period, while at the end differences in gene transcription ratio diminished. 1 H-NMR results indicate a clear difference between both chemotypes and cultivation phases by applying pattern recognition software. The differences detected by using simple and non-destructive 1 H-NMR were used to build a model, which can be applied to chemotyping and cultivation phase separation using selective 1 H-NMR signals.
Effectiveness of Permethrin Plus-C (Masterline ) and Carbaryl (Sevin SL ) for Protecting Individual, High-Value Pines (Pinus) From Bark Beetle Attack

Bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) are commonly recognized as the most important mortality agent in western North American coniferous forests. High-value trees such as those located in residential, recreational, or administrative sites are particularly susceptible to attack. Regardless of landowner objectives, tree losses in these unique environments generally have a catastrophic impact. The value of these individual trees, the cost of removal, and the loss of aesthetics may justify protection until the main thrust of a bark beetle infestation subsides. This situation emphasizes the need for assuring that effective insecticides are available for individual tree protection. In this study, we assessed the efficacy of permethrin plus-C (Masterline®) and carbaryl (Sevin SL®) for protecting ponderosa, Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex. Laws. , lodgepole, P. contorta Dougl. ex Loud. , and pinyon, P. edulis Engelm. , pines from bark beetle attack during two field seasons. Masterline® was effective for protecting P. contorta from mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, attack for one field season. However, Sevin SL® was efficacious for two field seasons. An insufficient number of P. ponderosa and P. edulis control trees were killed to make definitive conclusions regarding efficacy in those systems. The data reported here regarding Masterline® is the first published report on its effectiveness for preventing bark beetle attack on standing trees. Masterline® appears to be an effective individual tree protection tool, but repeated applications will be necessary if multiyear control is desired.