Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cognitive Bias Modification in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Cognitive behavioral therapy, consisting of exposure and response prevention and cognitive restructring, is still one of the most effective treatments for obsessive compulsive disorder. However, some patients do not fully benefit from the treatment. This condition results in more search for novel approaches that can contribute to effectiveness of standard treatments. In this regard, the use of technology-based methods in recent researches is noteworthy. Cognitive bias modification is one of these current efforts of technology-based methods. Cognitive bias modification involves computerized tasks designed to modify some cognitive biases such as attention and interpretation associated with psychopathology, particularly anxiety disorders. Researches have generally demonstrated that cognitive bias modification can be effective way to alter cognitive biases and to reduce anxiety symptoms. In recent years, there have been also some studies to investigate the potential effects of cognitive bias modification for obsessive compulsive disorder. Although more researches with larger clinical samples are warranted, there is emerging evidence for efficacy of cognitive bias modification for obsessive compulsive disorder as well. Beside, some studies suggest that cognitive bias modification can be used as a supplementary technique to standart cognitive behavioral therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder. Accordingly, the aim of this article is to review the limited number of empirical studies, particularly focusing on the effects of cognitive bias modification on obsessive compulsive symptoms and mechanisms of action underlying these effects.
Automatic analysis of linguistic features in Communist propaganda texts

Here we will analyze Hungarian Communist propaganda texts using the digital corpus ‘Pártélet’, the official journal of the Central Leadership of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party between 1956 and 1989. We will focus on the first and the last two years of the era in question and compare some of the statistical, morphologic, syntactic and semantic features of texts from the two periods. Since these texts unequivocally represent a totalitarian language usage, the research results may be utilized in our subsequent political propaganda detection research and development tasks.
Knowledge Sharing Behavior Factors of Public Sector Employees in Jambi, Indonesia

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the individual, organizational and technological factors that influence knowledge sharing behavior among public sector employees in Jambi City. This is a survey and explanatory research with questionnaires used to obtain data from 86 employees in Jambi's public sector and analyzed using factor analysis. The results showed that individual, organizational, and technological factors, such as awareness and altruism, organizational rewards, and IT application usage, respectively, have a significant effect on knowledge sharing. This is opposed to self-efficacy and top management support.
The cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum L.) – a viable solution for bioremediating soils polluted with heavy metals

Heavy metal pollution, manifested by the accumulation, toxicity and persistence in soil, water, air, and living organisms, is a major environmental problem that requires energetic resolution. Mining tailing areas contain metal minerals such as Cu, Zn, Pb, Cr and Cd in high concentrations that pollute the environment and pose threats to human health. Phytoremediation represents a sustainable, long-term, and relatively inexpensive strategy, thus proving to be convenient for stabilizing and improving the environment in former heavy metal-polluted mining sites. This study presents the bioremediation potential of Silphium perfoliatum L. plants, in the vegetative stages of leaf rosette formation, grown on soil polluted with heavy metals from mining dumps in Moldova-Noua, in the Western part of Romania. The bioaccumulation factor (BAF), translocation factor (TF), metal uptake (MU) and removal efficiency (RE) of Cu, Zn, Cr and Pb by S. perfoliatum plants were determined in a potted experiment in controlled environmental conditions. The reference quantities of heavy metals have been determined in the studied soil sample. The experiment followed the dynamics of the translocation and accumulation of heavy metals in the soil, in the various organs of the silphium plants, during the formation of the leaf rosette (13-18 BBCH). The determination of the amount of heavy metals in soil and plants was achieved by the method of digestion with hydrochloric and nitric acid 3/1 (v/v) quantified by atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). The obtained experimental results demonstrate that the substrate has a high heavy metal content being at the alert threshold for Zn (260.01 mg kg-1 in substrate compared with alert threshold 300 mg kg-1) and at intervention thresholds for other metals (Cu -234.66 mg kg-1/200 mg kg-1; 299.08 mg kg-1/300 mg kg-1 and Pb-175.18 mg kg-1/100 mg kg-1). The average concentration of the metals determined in dynamics in the dry biomass of plants varied between roots, petioles, and laminas. The root is the main accumulator for Cu and Cr (Cu – 37.32 mg kg-1 -13 BBCH to 43.89 mg kg-1-15 BBCH and 80.71 mg kg-1 – 18 BBCH; Cr – 57.43 mg kg-1 – 13 BBCH to 93.36 mg kg-1 -18 BBCH), and for Zn and Pb the lamina seems to carry the same function. Preliminary results show that Silphium perfoliatum may be a viable alternative in the bioremediation and treatment of heavy metal-contaminated area.
The liquidity premium: Evidence from the Polish stock market

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the existence of a liquidity premium on the Polish stock market, using the liquidity-adjusted CAPM. In order to measure the influence of the liquidity of stocks returns, there was constructed a liquidity factor using the newest high-low spread liquidity measure, developed by Corwin and Schultz (2012). The results have showed that there is a significant liquidity premium positively influencing the excess returns of stocks from the Poland market, and the premium is growing from the most liquid portfolio to the less liquid one.
Knowledge of Malaria and Utilization of Its Preventive Measures among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care at a Tertiary Hospital in Port-Harcourt, Nigeria

Background: Prevention of malaria is a major priority for the roll back malaria partnership which recommends three-pronged approach for reducing the burden of malaria among pregnant women. The WHO framework for malaria prevention during pregnancy in areas of stable malaria transmission recommends IPT, use of ITN, and case management of malaria illness. Objective: This study sought to determine the knowledge of malaria and its preventive measures among pregnant women, assess their utilization of malaria preventive measures and attitude to treatment. To ascertain whether there exists any relationship between their knowledge and practice of prevention. Methodology: An institutional based, cross-sectional study was carried out. 385 consenting participants, between 18-48 years, were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. Information on socio-demographic characteristics, knowledge of malaria and its preventive measures, use of IPT and ownership/use of ITN, and attitude to treatment were recorded. Data were entered into Excel spreadsheet and analyzed with SPSS version 20. Associations between different variables were determined using Fisher’s exact test or Chi-square test, as appropriate, and logistic regression used to test statistical significance at P<0.05. Results: Of the 385 women, 307 (79.7%) had excellent (18.7%) and good (61%) knowledge, while 78 (20.3%) had average (16.6%) and poor (3.6%) knowledge. There was no difference in association of Knowledge with age, marital status, education, occupation, and parity. Of the 385 women, 61.3% were using IPT for chemoprophylaxis, 66.2% were using insecticide spray or repellants and 71.4% owned mosquito net; of these, 84% owned insecticide treated nets, but only 65.8% were using it in this current pregnancy. Reasons for not using nets ranged from unavailable 49.0%, discomfort due to heat 32.9%, fear of suffocation 6.9%, Spouse’s disapproval 3.9% and 1.0% ineffective. There was statistically significant difference between knowledge and use of IPT, ITN and insecticide sprays. Conclusion: There was adequate knowledge of malaria in pregnancy and its preventive measures, but utilization of these measures needs improvement. Efforts should be made to address barriers to utilization.
The Egyptian Cardiothoracic Surgeon Partial versus Full Sternotomy for Aortic Valve Replacement

Background: Minimal invasive approaches are used more frequently for aortic valve This study aimed to compare the outcomes of both minimally and full sternotomy for AVR. Methods: 100 patients with isolated aortic valve disease were enrolled in this prospective observational study. We grouped the patients according to the technique, group A (n=40) underwent upper J-shaped mini-sternotomy, and group B (n=60) underwent full sternotomy. Study endpoints were operative times and pain score. Results: The mean age of the patients was 46.4±10.1 years. There was no difference in preoperative data between both groups. There was a significant difference in aortic cross-clamp time (87.2± 8.6 vs. 59.2± 6.6 min in group A and B, respectively, p= 0.001), and total bypass time (115.1± 9.2 vs. 75.3± 4.3 min in group A and B, respectively, p= 0.001) between both groups. The total operative time was 341±11.7 and 196.1±18.4 min in groups A and B, respectively (p= 0.001). The ICU stay was 29.4±8.2 hours in group A and 41.2±13.3 hours in group B (p= 0.001). Patients who had mini-sternotomy had lower pain (p= 0.001) and better patient satisfaction score (p< 0.001). Conclusion: J-shaped upper mini-sternotomy is a safe and effective strategy for aortic valve replacement. The procedure may be associated with decreased pain and comparable morbidity to the conventional approach.
The Crosstalk between Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Damaged Cartilage in Osteoarthritis

Human cartilage contains multipotent stem cells, namely mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) which are progenitors of connective tissue that play homeostatic and reparative roles. Although the major constituent cells in the cartilage are chondrocytes, they possess a limited regenerative ability, and as a result, spontaneous cartilage repair by chondrocytes leads to the synthesis of fibrocartilage. Similarly, MSCs derived from articular cartilage of osteoarthritis patients have demonstrated inadequacy in cartilage repair. The role of MSCs in the pathophysiology of osteoarthritis (OA) is not entirely understood, whether the inflammatory milieu associated with OA joints affects the reparative properties of MSCs or the inherent defects of OA cartilage-derived MSCs impair the proper execution of the required immunosuppressive and reparative functions. Therefore, the current review explores the biological characteristics and features of MSCs derived from physiological state and OA condition with the aim of identifying how OA affects MSC functions as well as the role of MSCs in the pathophysiology of OA.
Geosocial Co-Clustering

As location-based services using mobile devices have become globally popular these days, social network analysis (especially, community detection) increasingly benefits from combining social relationships with geographic preferences. In this regard, this article addresses the emerging problem of geosocial community detection. We first formalize the problem of geosocial co-clustering, which co-clusters the users in social networks and the locations they visited. Geosocial co-clustering detects higher-quality communities than existing approaches by improving the mapping clusterability, whereby users in the same community tend to visit locations in the same region. While geosocial co-clustering is soundly formalized as non-negative matrix tri-factorization, conventional matrix tri-factorization algorithms suffer from a significant computational overhead when handling large-scale datasets. Thus, we also develop an efficient framework for geosocial co-clustering, called GEOsocial COarsening and DEcomposition (GEOCODE). To achieve efficient matrix tri-factorization, GEOCODE reduces the numbers of users and locations through coarsening and then decomposes the single whole matrix tri-factorization into a set of multiple smaller sub-matrix tri-factorizations. Thorough experiments conducted using real-world geosocial networks show that GEOCODE reduces the elapsed time by 19–69 times while achieving the accuracy of up to 94.8% compared with the state-of-the-art co-clustering algorithm. Furthermore, the benefit of the mapping clusterability is clearly demonstrated through a local expert recommendation application.
A. I. Bandura ENTIRE FUNCTIONS OF BOUNDED INDEX IN FRAME

k! , where ∂ b(z)F (z) = F (z), ∂ 1 b(z)F (z) = ∑n j=1 ∂F ∂zj (z) · bj(z), ∂ b(z)F (z) = ∂b(z)(∂ k−1 b(z)F (z)) for k ≥ 2 and b : C n → C is a entire vector-valued function. There are investigated properties of these functions. We established analogs of propositions known for entire functions of bounded index in direction. The main idea of proof is usage the slice {z + tb(z) : t ∈ C} for given z ∈ C. We proved the following criterion (Theorem 1) describing local behavior of modulus ∂ b(z)F (z+ tb(z)) on the circle |t| = η: An entire function F : C → C is of bounded frame index in the frame b(z) if and only if for each η > 0 there exist n0 = n0(η) ∈ Z+ and P1 = P1(η) ≥ 1 such that for every z ∈ C there exists k0 = k0(z) ∈ Z+, 0 ≤ k0 ≤ n0, for which inequality
Productivity and Profitability Enhancement in Little Millet through Frontline Demonstration in Vathalmalai Tribal Areas of Dharmapuri District of Tamil Nadu, India

Little millet, P. sumatrense, is native of India and is called Indian millet which is a major food crop for tribal people and the species name is based on a specimen collected from Sumatra (Indonesia) (de Wet et al., 1983). It is mainly cultivated in the Caucasus, China, east Asia, India, and Malaysia. Little millet is adapted to both the climates of temperate and tropical. It can withstand both drought and water logging. At present the crop is almost International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 9 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
VOCATIONAL VERSUS GENERAL UPPER SECONDARY EDUCATION AND LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES

We estimate effects of completing vocational instead of general upper secondary education programs on earnings and the probability of being employed or student at age 28, and we use surrogate index techniques to estimate effects on earnings at age 40 as well. Applying rich longitudinal administrative data for Denmark, we estimate marginal treatment effect models with distance to educational institutions as instruments in the model of choice between vocational and general education. We find important heterogeneity in earnings effects consistent with selection on gains. For those choosing vocational education, earnings at age 28 and 40 are on average higher than potential earnings with general education. For those choosing general education, earnings at age 40 are on average higher than potential earnings with vocational education. We also consider effects of a policy shifting students at the margin towards vocational education. For males shifted by such a policy, the effect on earnings at age 28 is positive, while it is negative at age 40. However, the long-term effect is small and insignificant for males with low math skills. For females at the margin, the effects are largely small and insignificant. Effects on labor market status at age 28 are less precisely estimated. JEL classification: J31, J21, C36.
Chilled Storage of High Pressure Processed Black Tiger Shrimp (Penaeus monodon)

The effect of high pressure (HP) treatment (at 100, 270, and 435 MPa for 5 min at 25°C) on microbiological (total viable count and total psychrotrophic count), physical (color, texture, and drip loss), and microstructural characteristics of black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) during storage at 2°C for 35 days was investigated. Pressure treatment increased drip loss, maintained low microorganisms level, imparted cooked appearance to the muscle, and resulted in improved texture. Results of scanning electron microscopy revealed more compact structure in treated samples, confirming the results of texture profile analysis. Pressure treatment of 435 MPa was most effective in preserving the quality of shrimp.
Further research

The aim of this paper is to firstly, summarize the empirical literature dealing with the relationship between formal and informal institutions on one side and foreign direct investment (FDI) on the other, and secondly, to propose a possible path for further progress in the field. The main proposition of the paper is that when formulating hypotheses, the empirical research on the institutions-FDI nexus should rely (to a greater extent) on the theories from institutional economics, more specifically on the theory of institutional stickiness (Boettke et al., 2008) and the hierarchy of institutions (Williamson, 2000), and the theory of coevolution of culture (informal institutions) and formal institutions (Bisin and Verdier, 2017). Within the framework of these theories, the paper provides four suggestions as regards the manner in which further progress in the empirical research on the institutions-FDI nexus can be achieved.
A Report of Unprovoked Bilateral Epistaxis in Patient with Covid-19: Our Experience

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a viral disease that was first reported in China in 2019. Since it was reported, it has resulted to close to nine hundred thousand deaths globally. The symptoms and signs of COVID-19 continue to evolve on a daily basis, therefore a knowledge of the common symptoms and other new symptoms is key to early diagnosis and control of this disease. In this report, we present a 30 year-old COVID-19 female patient, who presented with acute unprovoked epistaxis, a week after onset of symptoms (cough, malaise, fatigue) of COVID-19. Considering the evolving symptoms of COVID-19, health care personnel are advised to consider the possibility of COVID-19 in patients presenting with atypical symptoms like sudden unprovoked epistaxis especially during the pandemic period. This report further strengthens the need for more large inter-country studies to be done to completely highlight and harmonize the varying and evolving symptoms of COVID-19.
Assessment of Students’ Knowledge of Drug Abuse and Drug Addiction in Kwara Central Senatorial District

The development of a nation depends greatly on the mental alertness of its citizens especially the youth. Realization of this development might be invisible, if the current trends of drug use and addiction persist, hence the need to assess senior school students knowledge of drug abuse and addiction, four other specific purposes were addressed in the study. A descriptive research of the survey type was adopted. The random sampling technique was used to select 304 students that participated in the study. One of the researchers developed an instrument titled Knowledge of Drug Abuse and Addiction (KODAA) and an adapted drug avoidance self-efficacy instruments were used to source for data. The reliability coefficient of KODAA was 0.76 using the Spear-man brown statistic. Four research questions with corresponding hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Findings from the study revealed that gender had no influence on students’ knowledge of drug abuse and addiction. However, a significance difference existed between (i) school type and (ii) self-efficacy and students’ knowledge of drug abuse and addiction. It was, therefore, concluded that senior school students in Kwara central senatorial district have similar knowledge of drug use and addiction. It was recommended that students should be informed about the physical and psychological consequences of drug abuse and addiction.
Novel Variance-Component TWAS method for studying complex human diseases with applications to Alzheimer’s dementia

Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) have been widely used to integrate transcriptomic and genetic data to study complex human diseases. Within a test dataset lacking transcriptomic data, traditional two-stage TWAS methods first impute gene expression by creating a weighted sum that aggregates SNPs with their corresponding cis-eQTL effects on reference transcriptome. Traditional TWAS methods then employ a linear regression model to assess the association between imputed gene expression and test phenotype, thereby assuming the effect of a cis-eQTL SNP on test phenotype is a linear function of the eQTL’s estimated effect on reference transcriptome. To increase TWAS robustness to this assumption, we propose a novel Variance-Component TWAS procedure (VC-TWAS) that assumes the effects of cis-eQTL SNPs on phenotype are random (with variance proportional to corresponding reference cis-eQTL effects) rather than fixed. VC-TWAS is applicable to both continuous and dichotomous phenotypes, as well as individual-level and summary-level GWAS data. Using simulated data, we show VC-TWAS is more powerful than traditional TWAS methods based on a two-stage Burden test, especially when eQTL genetic effects on test phenotype are no longer a linear function of their eQTL genetic effects on reference transcriptome. We further applied VC-TWAS to both individual-level (N = ~3.4K) and summary-level (N = ~54K) GWAS data to study Alzheimer’s dementia (AD). With the individual-level data, we detected 13 significant risk genes including 6 known GWAS risk genes such as TOMM40 that were missed by traditional TWAS methods. With the summary-level data, we detected 57 significant risk genes considering only cis-SNPs and 71 significant genes considering both cis- and trans- SNPs, which also validated our findings with the individual-level GWAS data. Our VC-TWAS method is implemented in the TIGAR tool for public use.