Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Isotopic Equilibrium Between Precipitation and Water Vapor in Northern Patagonia and Its Consequences on δ18Ocellulose Estimate

Modeling work of the isotopic composition of tree ring cellulose (δ18Ocell) relies on the isotopic equilibrium assumption between atmospheric water vapor and tree source water, frequently assimilated to integrated precipitation. Here, we explore the veracity of this assumption based on observations collected during a field campaign in Río Negro province (Argentina) in February–March 2017. We examine how the observed isotopic composition of water vapor deviates from equilibrium with precipitation. This deviation, named isotopic disequilibrium (Δ18Ovap_eq), is low (between −2.0‰ and 4.1‰) and a significant relationship is observed between the isotopic composition of water vapor and its expected value at equilibrium. Negative Δ18Ovap_eq can be explained by evaporation of small raindrops (from 1% to 5% of initial droplet mass). Positive Δ18Ovap_eq can result from vegetation transpiration with transpired water accounting for 14% to 29% to ambient water vapor. The low Δ18Ovap_eq at the study site may be due to the high level of relative humidity (from 70% to 96%) favoring isotopic diffusive exchanges between the two water phases and thus promoting the isotopic equilibrium. We examine the impact of the isotopic equilibrium assumption on the calculation of δ18Ocell. A perfect agreement is shown between observed and calculated δ18Ocell provided that the isotopic composition of source water is significantly higher than the expected averaged isotopic composition of precipitation over the tree growing period.
GOVERNANCE PRACTICES GOVERNMENT, OF ACCOUNTABILITY PERFORMANCE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF RISK MANAGEMENT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FRAUD DETECTION AND PREVENTION

The development of science, information and communication technology triggered a growing public awareness of intelligent, critical and realistic demand the rights and involvement in the governance of government that is clean, orderly and trustworthy. This study aims to explore the influence of government governance, risk management and performance accountability system to the detection and prevention of fraud in local government Banten Province. Population Research is working units in the Banten Provincial Government as much as 23 units. The sampling method using purposive sampling, the type of research is quantitative with primary data types. Methods of data collection using a questionnaire distributed directly to the respondents as much as 4-5 questionnaires at each work unit. Respondents are structural official echelon II, III and IV in each unit and the respondents as many as 94 people. The data were processed using SPSS version 22, which is used to test the research hypothesis. Results revealed that the implementation of government governance, risk management and performance accountability system has positive influence on the detection and prevention of fraud in the financial governance of the regional government of Banten Province. Results reinforce the theory that the detection and prevention of fraud need to be committed to implementing government governance, risk management and performance accountability system. Implications The study provides guidelines and principles of governance and financial governance system is orderly, disciplined and trustworthy. Foster awareness of government officials the importance of risk culture within the organization in order to avoid conflict of interest and focus on achieving the main objectives of the government. Encourage synergy among units in order to achieve a system of planning, budgeting, measurement and performance evaluation in an integrated and sustainable. The next study used a qualitative approach in the prevention of fraud.
Neuromotor Mechanisms Involved in the Recovery from Local Muscular Fatigue

The phenomenon of over-recovery consists of a participant’s maximal force levels returning to values above initial levels. The present study examined the presence and causes of over-recovery following local muscular fatigue. Fourteen males completed two fatigue protocols consisting of maximal isometric dorsiflexion contractions. Upon completion of the fatigue protocol participants’ force was monitored over a 15 minute recovery period. Dorsiflexion force and surface electromyography (sEMG) from the tibialis anterior and soleus were monitored concurrently. Following the two fatigue conditions (10 and 20% force decrement) force recovered to 100.5 and 99.5% of initial levels for each condition, respectively. Surface EMG root-mean-square amplitude and MPF exhibited changes consistent with a warm-up effect. It was concluded that over-recovery was not present in the tibialis anterior following a local muscular fatigue. However, the return in force to initial values, rather than a persistent decrement as normally observed, was mediated by the warm-up effect.
Parental Satisfaction and Objective Test Measurements Associated with Post-Partum versus Nursery Newborn Hearing Screening

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC; Boston, MA) initiated a change to the newborn hearing screening program in 2013 to encourage increased parental presence at the time of screening and support a more familycentered hospital environment. Newborn hearing screening program technicians were encouraged to conduct all hearing screens in the parent’s post-partum rooms instead of in the nursery. To measure the effect of this change on the families’ experience and screening measures, satisfaction surveys and retrospective data were collected over a 2-year period and compared. Newborn hearing screening program technicians and mother-baby nursing staff were surveyed to determine influence of this new process on their work flow. Results suggest post-partum room testing leads to an increase in family satisfaction without a resulting change in pass rates or decrease in the efficiency of screening activities or staff work flow.
Multi-Level Characterization of Eggplant Accessions from Greek Islands and the Mainland Contributes to the Enhancement and Conservation of this Germplasm and Reveals a Large Diversity and Signatures of Differentiation between both Origins

Crop landraces are found in many inhabited islands of Greece. Due to the particularity of environment and isolation from the mainland, Greek islands represent a natural laboratory for comparing the diversity of landraces from the islands with those of the Greek mainland. A collection of 36 Greek eggplant landraces and traditional cultivars from the mainland and the islands has been phenotypically and genetically characterized using 22 morphological descriptors and 5 SSR markers. The mineral composition (K, Mg, Cu, Fe, Mn, Zn) of fruits was also determined. The objectives of this study include the multi-level characterization of eggplant local landraces and the comparison of diversity among accessions from the Greek mainland and the islands. Characterization of eggplant landraces will contribute to the enhancement and prevention of genetic erosion in this local group and will provide a resource for future investigation and breeding. PCA analysis of morphological traits explained 45.4% of the total variance revealing the formation of two clusters, one with most of the island accessions, and another with most of the mainland ones. The SSR markers used exhibited high average values for the number of alleles/locus (4.6), expected heterozygosity (0.60) and PIC (0.55), while the observed heterozygosity was low (0.13). Both STRUCTURE and PCoA analyses based on SSR data revealed two genetic clusters, one made up mainly by the mainland accessions, while the other one was mainly made up by the island accessions. Although there was considerable variation among the landraces for the concentration of minerals studied, only average Mg concentration was significantly different between mainland and island accessions. Based on our data, the Greek eggplant landraces present considerable morphological and genetic diversity with some differentiation signatures between the island and the mainland accessions. Our results have implications for conservation of Greek landraces and suggest that Greece might be considered as part of a secondary center of diversity for eggplant in the Mediterranean basin.
"Day Hospital in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Is It Effective for Whom?" Effectiveness of Infant Psychiatric Day Hospital

The infant day hospital is a therapeutic option to patients with high complexity neuropsychiatric disorders. It is essential to evaluate its effectiveness and the patients’ profile that better respond to this type of intervention so the national resources are better invested. Objectives: (1) to describe the population admitted in a psychiatric infant day hospital (HDI); (2) to evaluate the clinical response to this intervention and (3) to identify predictive factors of dropout. Methods: All patients (n=62) admitted to our HDI unit were evaluated and received multidisciplinary treatment for a 3-month period from 2011 to 2014. The psychiatric diagnostic interviews, patients´ records analysis and the clinical scales Children’s Global Assessment Scale (CGAS) and Clinical Global Impressions Scale (CGI) were the measures used for outcome evaluation. Results: The mean age was 13 years old (SD: 3.1 years). Thirty-five patients (56.5%) were male and 53 patients (83.9%) referred occurrence of family conflicts. The most prevalent initial diagnostic was Mood Disorder (n=28, 45.1%). The mean C-GAS increased from 36 to 52 (p=0,00) and the mean CGI decreased from 5 to 2 (p=0.00) during the period. Older patients presented higher odds to abandon the treatment in HDI (OR= 0.448; p=0.019) as well as those with a relative with affective disorder (OR = 2.303; p=0.003). Conclusion: The HDI was effective in promoting clinical stabilization of severe psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. It is important to address factors such as the age of the patients and the psychopathology in the family to try to decrease dropout rates.
The Effect of Market Orientation and Entrepreneurial Orientation on the New Product Development

THE AIMS OF THE PAPER The researches on the effect of Market Orientation (MO) and Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) on firms’ performance have demanded much effort in marketing researches and unparalleled results have been observed depending up on the context of the studies. But, it seems that much attention has not been given to the effect of these orientations in New Product Development (NDP), applying various forms and approaches of innovation, which is the stem for the overall performance of firms. Hence, this paper aimed to identify different forms and approaches of innovation in NPD and to explain the role or effect of EO and MO on NPD with respect to these forms and approaches of innovation. METHODOLOGY Literatures published from 1980 to 2018 in various databases (Business source Premier, Scopus, Web of Science, Science Direct and Academic Search Complete) were accessed and over forty publications were synthesized using systematic literature survey. MOST IMSPORTANT RESULTS The product innovation forms and approaches such as discontinuous versus continuous, radical versus incremental, market-driven innovation versus driving-market innovation, and pure product innovation versus marketing mix-product innovation are identified. In the case of discontinuous (also called disruptive or radical) innovation and pure product innovation forms and driving-market innovation approaches, the role of EO outweighs MO in NPD and the latter may not be even useful in these cases. In contrast to MO, EO makes firms pro-active, innovative and to take risk that leads to ground breaking product innovation. On the other hand, in the case of continuous (also called incremental) innovation, and marketing-mix related product innovation forms and market-driven innovation approaches of innovation, it is MO that plays prominent role and equips firms with up to date market intelligence from customers, competitors and suppliers. Literature also adequately supports that MO makes firms competitive in the market and helps them to cope with the existing market system. RECOMMENDATIONS Both MO and EO are important for product innovation but their application and the extent of their role or contribution varies depending on the approaches and forms of product innovation adopted, and it is not the issue of being complementary to each other or not as most studies argued. Therefore, practitioners, first, need to know the approaches and forms of innovation they needed before relying either in EO or MO. This study focused on product innovation from manufacturers’ points of view but further empirical research can be done involving service sector organizations regarding the unique roles of EO and MO.
Psychological consequences of multiple sclerosis and assistance possibilities

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system. It is a chronic, unpredictable and pleomorphic disease, with a variety of symptoms and diverse course, which changes the life of the patient, their family and relatives. Therefore, the analysis of the nature and individuality of psychological issues in MS has become an important aspect for health professionals. Psychological consequences may occur before, during, or after the diagnosis. The adaptation process, mental changes observed in patients and how they live their lives with a chronic disease are very individual in character. The disease and its sequelae are so stressful that they cause dramatic changes which are contrary to the previous development, to the image of self. The quality of life in MS patients is conditioned not only in physical but also in psychological terms; thus there is a necessity to seek treatment, support, and specialist rehabilitation of patients in relation to psychological help. The full rehabilitation program should represent a holistic approach to the patient and include physical, cognitive, emotional, personal, and social aspects.
Challenges of retinoblastoma management in a Nigerian tertiary eye care facility

Background: Retinoblastoma is the most common intraocular childhood malignancy. Its management is, however, not without challenges especially in a developing country like Nigeria. This study sought to present the clinical profile and treatment outcome of patients with retinoblastoma managed in a Nigerian tertiary eye care facility highlighting the challenges with a view to improving the management of the disease. Materials and Methods: A retrospective, single-institution, and institutional review board-approved review of all patients diagnosed with retinoblastoma between January 2012 and December 2015 was done. Data obtained from case files of patients include demographic characteristics, presenting complaint, laterality of disease, tumor stage using the International Intraocular Retinoblastoma Classification, treatment, and outcome. Information obtained from phone calls to the caregivers were also summarized. Results: The review included 54 eyes of 41 patients between the ages of 2 months and 5 years. The mean age at presentation was 24.4 ± 11.4 months. There were 18 males (43.9%). Duration of symptoms before presentation ranged from 2 weeks to 2 years. Tumor was bilateral in 13 (31.7%) patients. Leukocoria was the most common presenting complaint observed in 32 (59.2%) eyes. Groups D and E were the most common intraocular tumor stage documented in 16 (29.7%) and 15 (27.8%) eyes, respectively. Most patients (29, 70.7%) defaulted from treatment after the first or second presentation. Only 6 (21.4%) of 28 patients offered enucleation or modified exenteration either at presentation (Class E) or after chemoreduction (orbital disease) consented. Conclusion: Late presentation, high default rate, and noncompletion of treatment were the major challenges facing retinoblastoma management in this center.
What do lab experiments tell us about the real world? The case of lotteries with extreme payoffs

In this study, we conduct a laboratory experiment in which the subjects make choices between real-world lottery tickets typically purchased by lottery customers. In this way, we are able to reliably offer extremely high potential payoffs, something rarely possible in economic experiments. In a between-subject design, we separately manipulate a number of features that distinguish the situation faced by the customers in the field and by subjects in typical laboratory experiments. We also have the unique opportunity to compare our data to actual sales data provided by the operator of the lottery. Overall, we find the distributions to be highly similar (meaning high external validity of the laboratory experiment). The only manipulation that makes a major difference is that when the probabilities of winning specific amounts are explicitly provided (which is not the case in the field), choices shift towards options with lower payoff variance. We also find that standard laboratory measures of risk posture fail to explain our subjects’ behavior in the main task.
The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Acidosasa gigantea (Bambusoideae: Arundinarieae): an ornamental bamboo species endemic to China

Abstract We, at first, fully characterized the complete chloroplast genome of the woody bamboo Acidosasa gigantea using genome skimming and focused on comparative analyses among Acidosasa and Indosasa. This newly sequenced chloroplast genome (GenBank NO. MN917206) is a typical circular structure with 139,711 bp in length and comprises of an 83,295 bp large single-copy (LSC) region, a 12,824 bp small single-copy (SSC) region, and a pair of 21,796 bp inverted repeats (IRs). The GC content of A. gigantea is 38.9% and the sequences contained 132 unique genes were successfully annotated, including 39 tRNA genes, 8 rRNA genes, and 85 protein-coding genes. Phylogenetic analysis shows that A. gigantea is highly clustered in the Arundinaria clade (clade VI) of Arundinarieae, a sister of the clade of Acidosasa purpurea and was not clustered on the same branch as Indosasa sinica. Therefore, it is more accurate to classify A. gigantea into Acidosasa.
WorldFlora: An R package for exact and fuzzy matching of plant names against the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone data

Premise of the study Standardization of plant names is a critical step in various fields of biology including biodiversity, biogeography and vegetation research. WorldFlora matches lists of plant names with a static copy from World Flora Online (WFO), an ongoing global effort of completing an online flora of all known vascular plants and bryophytes by 2020. Methods and results Based on direct and fuzzy matching, WorldFlora inserts matching cases from the WFO to a submitted data set of with taxa. Results of selecting the expected best single matches are presented for four data sets, including a working list of commercial timber tree species, a subset from GlobalTreeSearch and 2 data sets used in previous comparisons of software tools for correcting taxon names. The success rate of credible matches varied from 94.7 (568 taxa) to 99.9 (1740 taxa) percent. Conclusions WorldFlora offers a straightforward pipeline for semi-automatic plant name checking.
Autologous serum skin test for evaluation of chronic idiopathic urticaria patients: a tertiary hospital study from central India

Background: Majority of patients with chronic urticaria, having no definite etiology are considered chronic idiopathic urticaria (CIU). In recent years, relatively significant number of chronic idiopathic urticaria patients has been classified as having autoimmunity on the basis of presence of auto antibodies (IgG anti IgE receptor alpha subunit or less frequently IgG anti IgE itself) which are responsible for mast cell and basophil activation. Material and Methods: A hospital based crosssectional study was carried out in the Department of Skin, Chirayu Medical College and Hospital, Bhopal located in central India, during the period from August 2012 to February 2014 after institutional ethics committee approval. Total 53 Patients in the age range of 16 to 65 years of CIU were enrolled for study after detailed clinical history and physical examination. Results: Out of total 53 patients, 23(43.39%) showed wheal/ swelling of 1.5 mm or larger at test site as compared to that of control site, thus considered as ASST positive. Duration of CIU ranged from 4 months to 11 years with mean duration of 6.13±2.25 years. 19(82%) of the patients had lesions over whole body whereas only 4(17%) had lesions over face and limbs. 10(43%) patients had angioedema and 14(60%) had dermographism. Conclusion: ASST is simple, cheap and effective diagnostic method to detect presence of autoimmunity in CIU patients thus helps in identifying severity of disease and to choose appropriate therapeutic options accordingly. Our study did not elicit distinct clinical parameters of CIU (except number of wheals/ swelling and frequency of lesions, though statistically not significant) in ASST positive patients from those patients who didn’t show ASST positivity.
Binary and ternary nickel (II) complexes with 2-methylquinoline-8-carboxylic acid and some amino acids

ABSTRACT In this work, the ligand 2-methylquinoline-8-carboxylic acid (HL) was prepared using a modification of a previous protocol, and its protonation constants were studied. The stability constants of the binary nickel (II) – ligand L− and the ternary nickel (II) – ligand L− – amino acids (B−) systems were investigated. The amino acids selected for this study were glycine (Gly), α-alanine (αAla), β-alanine (βAla), proline (Pro), serine (Ser), methionine (Met), threonine (Thr), phenylalanine (Phe), aspartic acid (Asp), glutamic acid (Glu), histidine (His) and cysteine (Cys). The stability constants were pH-metrically measured in 1.0 mol dm−3 NaCl at 25°C. The least squares program LETAGROP was used for the analysis of the potentiometric data. Species distribution diagrams as a function of pH are briefly discussed.
Improved SMAP Dual-Channel Algorithm for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture

The soil moisture active passive (SMAP) mission was designed to acquire L-band radiometer measurements for the estimation of soil moisture (SM) with an average ubRMSD of not more than 0.04 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{m}^{3}/\text{m}^{3}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> volumetric accuracy in the top 5 cm for vegetation with a water content of less than 5 kg/<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{m}^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. Single-channel algorithm (SCA) and dual-channel algorithm (DCA) are implemented for the processing of SMAP radiometer data. The SCA using the vertically polarized brightness temperature (SCA-V) has been providing satisfactory SM retrievals. However, the DCA using prelaunch design and algorithm parameters for vertical and horizontal polarization data has a marginal performance. In this article, we show that with the updates of the roughness parameter <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$h$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and the polarization mixing parameters <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, a modified DCA (MDCA) can achieve improved accuracy over DCA; it also allows for the retrieval of vegetation optical depth (VOD or <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\tau$ </tex-math></inline-formula>). The retrieval performance of MDCA is assessed and compared with SCA-V and DCA using four years (April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2019) of <italic>in situ</italic> data from core validation sites (CVSs) and sparse networks. The assessment shows that SCA-V still outperforms all the implemented algorithms.