Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Interactive comment on “Properties of black carbon and other insoluble light-absorbing particles in seasonal snow of northwest China” by

This paper deals with light absorbing impurities and their sources in snow in northern China. As the authors clearly state, these impurities impact upon the radiative budget of snow and are therefore important climate agents. These are relevant scientific questions within the scope of TC. This study applies the same general method used in several previous studies (Hegg et al., 2010; Wang et al., 2013; Zhang et al., 2013), and expands geographically on these studies, reaching similar conclusions as to the different sources responsible for those impurities in snow. C1
AMOC Recovery in a Multicentennial Scenario Using a Coupled Atmosphere‐Ocean‐Ice Sheet Model

We simulate the two Coupled Model Intercomparison Project scenarios RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, to assess the effects of melt‐induced fresh water on the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC). We use a newly developed climate model with high resolution at the coasts, resolving the complex ocean dynamics. Our results show an AMOC recovery in simulations run with and without an included ice sheet model. We find that the ice sheet adds a strong decadal variability on the freshwater release, resulting in intervals in which it reduces the surface runoff by high accumulation rates. This compensating effect is missing in climate models without dynamic ice sheets. Therefore, we argue to assess those freshwater hosing experiments critically, which aim to parameterize Greenland's freshwater release. We assume the increasing net evaporation over the Atlantic and the resulting increase in ocean salinity, to be the main driver of the AMOC recovery.
Ana Margarida Silva Gonçalves

v Introduction.6 Autobiographical memories . 6 Music and emotion . 8 Music-evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs) . 9 Method . 11 Participants . 11 Stimuli . 11 Study design . 12 Procedure . 12 Results . 13 Autobiographical memories during individual’s lifetime period . 13 Social context during individual’s lifetime period . 14 Ratings of autobiographical memories valence . 15 Frequency and recency of the songs . 16 Ratings of PANAS scores. 16 Discussion . 17 References . 21
Age, Criminal Punishment, and Accountability: What the Public Recommends for Guilty Defendants

Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to assess the eﬀect of a defendant’s age on public perceptions of recommended punishment, accountability, and the likelihood of re-oﬀending. Methods: We use an experimental vignette design which provides a depiction of a violent robbery and vary the robber’s age from 15-25. Survey respondents were asked to recommend a prison sentence, a restitution amount, how accountable they believe the robber to be, and how likely he is to reoﬀend. Results: Overall, the was no signiﬁcant eﬀect of age on recommended prison sentence but a signiﬁcant eﬀect $389 (p = 0.022) on recommended restitution. Female respondents recommended an additional 0.270 (p = 0.002) years of prison for each year of defendant age and no signiﬁcant diﬀerence for restitution. Male respondents had no signiﬁcant diﬀerence in recommended prison time but recommended an additional $500 (p = 0.017) in restitution for each year of defendant age. There was no eﬀect of defendant age on accountability or reoﬀending. Conclusion: These ﬁndings have implications on policies that diﬀerentiate punishment by oﬀender age, and for restorative justice practices given diﬀerences in preferred punishment by gender.
Trillium govanianum Wall. Ex. Royle rhizomes extract-medicated silver nanoparticles and their antimicrobial activity

Abstract Synthesis of nanoparticles is a fast-growing area of interest in the current development in science and technology. Nanoparticles are also used in biomedical applications. Green synthesis of nanoparticles is an environmental friendly and cost-effective technique. Trillium govanianum Wall. Ex. Royle crude extract was used for the eco-friendly genesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). Aromatic amines were the functional groups involved in the bio-fabrication and synthesis of the AgNPs. The production of AgNPs was established by the appearance of brown color. The manufactured AgNPs were characterized by UV-Vis spectrophotometer, X-ray diffractometer, and FTIR spectrophotometer. AgNPs were face-centered cubic in nature with an average size of 9.99 nm. The produced AgNPs (18 µL disc−1) showed substantial antibacterial (53.74, 52.75, 51.61, 43.00, 36.84, and 36.84%) and antifungal (54.05, 42.11, 41.10, 40.85, 30.55, and 29.73%) potential against the tested bacterial (X. campestris, P. aeruginosa, S. aureus, E. coli, B. subtilis, and K. pneumoniae) and fungal (A. alternaria, Paecilomyces, C. albicans, Curvularia, A. niger, and Rhizopus) strains, respectively.
Quadruple construction of decomposable double MS-algebras

Abstract This paper is devoted to the study of the class of decomposable double MS-algebras. Necessary and sufficient conditions for a decomposable MS-algebra to be a decomposable double MS-algebra are deduced. We construct decomposable double MS-algebras by means of decomposable MS-quadruples and we prove that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between decomposable double MS-algebras and decomposable MS-quadruples. Moreover, a construction of decomposable K2-algebras (Stone algebras) by means of K2-quadruples (Stone quadruples) is given. We conclude by introducing and characterizing isomorphisms of decomposable double MS-algebras in terms of decomposable MS-quadruples.
Fasting plasma glucose, lipid ratios, and atherogenic coefficient are the risk factors for hypertension in chronic kidney disease patients on hemodialysis: A report from the Regional High Speciality Hospital of Peninsular Yucatan, Mexico

Abstract Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with the development of cardivascular disease (CVD). CKD is one of the major public health problems in Mexico. Derived parameters of lipid profile, namely atherogenic index of plasma (AIP), atherogenic coefficient (AC), and Castelli risk index (CRI I and CRI II) are useful for predicting hypertension among CKD patients on hemodialysis that are not widely reported from Mexico. Objective of the present study was to find interrelationships among blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose (FPG), and derived parameters of lipid profile (AIP, AC, CRI-I, and CRI-II) among adult CKD patients on hemodialysis in a hospital in Yucatan, Mexico. Methods: An observational study was performed using the medical records (2016 and 2017) of 47 CKD patients on hemodialysis in the Regional High Speciality Hospital of Yucatan Peninsula (HRAEPY in Spanish acronym). Multiple linear regression models were developed to evaluate the use of FPG level and derived parameters of lipid profile (AC, CRI-I, and CRI-II) as risk factors predicting mean arterial pressure (MAP). Results showed remarkable prevalence of excess weight (55% overweight, 15% obesity) and hypertension (64%) in the sample. Correlation coeffcients and multiple linear regression models showed significant rise of blood pressure in association with elevated FPG level and derived lipid profile parameters. The results confirm the use of FPG, AC, CRI-I and CRI-II as the indicators for an early diagnosis of hypertension and related CVDs among CKD patients on hemodialysis.
Conversion of sub-µm calcium carbonate (calcite) particles to hollow hydroxyapatite agglomerates in K2HPO4 solutions

Abstract Sub-µm CaCO3 (calcite; CC) particles were converted to calcium monohydrogenphosphate dihydrate (DCPD) and hydroxyapatite (HAp) via soaking treatments in K2HPO4 solutions with varied pH (3–12) and concentrations (0.1–1.5 M) at 37°C for up to 10 days. DCPD was derived from the solutions with pH ≤ 6; while hollow HAp was yielded when pH ≥ 7 in assemblies of petal-like crystallites. Results of magic angle spinning (MAS) and cross-polarization magic angle spinning (CP-MAS) NMR studies have shown that the HAp lattice has only PO4 2− but no HPO4 2− at B (phosphate) sites. Trace amounts of CO3 2− have occupied both A (OH) and B (PO4) sites, and H2O is adsorbed on surface crystallites. The primary crystallite size of HAp derived from Scherrer equation increases quickly in a 12 h period and becomes gradually stable afterward. Samples of particles soaked within 3 h in a temperature range of 20–80°C were analyzed by X-ray diffraction. It is shown that the rate constant of 1 M solution is about an order of magnitude greater than that of 0.1 M solution and the apparent activation energy is 33 kJ/mol. In this work, the conversion of CC to HAp can be quantitatively controlled to solve the problem of slow degradation of HAp. Graphical abstract
When is it OK to Joke? Adding humor to fear-based colonoscopy screening messages may increase compliance

Abstract Large scale campaigns frequently use humor to increase compliance with colonoscopy screening recommendations. Problematically, we know little about how humor functions to influence screening. This study seeks to understand whether and how messages framed using humor appeals function differently from those using fear appeals to increase colonoscopy intentions. An online experiment (N = 186) was conducted comparing colonoscopy screening messages framed with a fear appeal and mixed humor/fear appeal. The addition of humor was more effective among those with high frequency of cancer worry, whereas the fear appeal resulted in significantly higher response efficacy, which was in turn associated with increased colonoscopy intentions. These results begin to describe situations in which intervention messages framed with a mixed humor/fear appeal may be more or less effective than interventions framed with fear appeals alone. Practical and theoretical implications for persuasive message design are discussed.
Disturbance Triggers Non-Linear Microbe-Environment Feedbacks

Conceptual frameworks linking microbial community membership, properties, and processes with the environment and emergent function have been proposed but remain untested. Here we refine and test a recent conceptual framework using hyporheic zone sediments exposed to wetting/drying transitions. Throughout the system we found threshold-like responses to the duration of desiccation. Membership of the putatively active community--but not the whole community--responded due to enhanced deterministic selection (an emergent community property). Concurrently, the thermodynamic properties of organic matter became less favorable for oxidation (an environmental component) and respiration decreased (a microbial process). While these responses were step functions of desiccation, we observed continuous monotonic relationships among community assembly, respiration, and organic matter thermodynamics. Placing the results in context of our conceptual framework points to previously unrecognized internal feedbacks that are initiated by disturbance, mediated by thermodynamics, and that cause the impacts of disturbance to be dependent on the history of disturbance.
Traditional and Non-traditional Plant Growth Regulators alter the Growth and Photosynthetic pigments in Mentha piperita Linn.

Alteration of traditional and non-traditional plant growth regulators (pGR) treatments on the growth characteristics of Mentha piperita Linn. (pippermint, Family: Lamiaceae) was investigated in the present study. The traditional PGR used were gibberellic acid (GA3), Abscisic acid (ABA) and non-traditional POR used were Difenoconazole (DIZ) by soil drenching on 35, 50, 65 and 80 days after planting (DAP). The plants were taken randomly on 45,60, 75 and 90 DAP and used for estimating the growth and biochemical changes. DIZ and ABA treatments increased the fresh weight, dry weight, root growth, total chlorophyll and carotenoid content, while it decreased the stem length. Among the treatments GA3 enhanced the fresh and dry weights and stem length increased the larger extent. Photosynthetic pigments were increased in DIZ treatments when compared to control.
The evolution of the milk sector in Portugal: Implications from the Common Agricultural Policy

Abstract The milk sector across the European Union (EU) has experienced several changes, due to the intrinsic characteristics of its respective structures of production. In fact, due to significant increases in production, this sector has suffered dramatic surplus supplies, which have had a relevant impact, namely on the market’s management. In this framework, the EU created the milk quota system in the 1980s to control the milk markets and prepare the sector for the subsequent reforms verified by the agricultural policy instruments. However, this system was a temporary measure from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and was removed in 2015, having new and relevant impacts on the sector around Europe and, specifically, in Portugal. In this context, the main objective of this research was to assess the several impacts from the several reforms of the CAP instruments for the milk sector within the Portuguese context. For this, a literature survey from the Web of Science (Core Collection) was carried out searching for the topics “milk” and “Common Agricultural Policy. ” From this search, 57 documents (only articles were considered, excluding, for example, proceedings papers) were obtained. To complement this literature review, several data from the Eurostat and from the Portuguese agricultural market information system were considered and explored through econometric approaches. The main insights obtained show that the milk sector is a controversial topic, which continues to need special policy attention, namely to avoid asymmetries across the several EU member-states.
Where do demonstratives come from?

Abstract Studies in grammaticalization have established that processes of grammatical change frequently have lexical items as their source, and more specifically nouns and verbs. But there is at least one potential exception: As argued by Holger Diessel in a number of publications, demonstratives cannot be historically derived from other entities, such as lexical items. Based on a survey of languages from different parts of the world and belonging to different language families, the present paper argues that this generalization is in need of reconsideration.
Differential effects of emotional valence on mnemonic performance with greater hippocampal maturity

The hippocampal formation (HF) facilitates the creation of declarative memories, with subfields providing unique contributions to the discriminability and generalizability of events. The HF itself and its connections with other structures exhibit a protracted development. Maturational differences across subfields facilitate a shift towards memory specificity, with peri-puberty sitting at the inflection point. Peri-puberty also happens to be a sensitive period in the development of anxiety disorders. Taken together, we believe HF development is critical to negative overgeneralization, a common feature of anxiety disorders. To investigate the role of the HF in behavioral discrimination and generalization we examined the relation between behavior and cross-sectional indices of HF maturity derived from subfield volume. Participants aged 9-14 years, recruited from clinical and community sources, performed a recognition task with emotionally valent (positive, negative) and neutral images. T1-weighted and diffusion-weighted structural scans were collected. Partial least squares correlations were used to derive a singular metric of maturity for both HF volume and structural connectivity. We found our volumetric HF maturity index was positively associated with discrimination for neutral images and generalization for negative images. Hippocampal-medial prefrontal cortex structural connectivity maturity metric evidenced a similar trend with behavior as the HF volumetric approach. These findings are important because they reflect a novel developmentally related balance between discrimination and generalization behavior supported by the hippocampus and its connections with other regions. Maturational shifts in this balance may contribute to negative overgeneralization, a common feature of anxiety disorders that escalates during the same developmental window. Significance Statement The hippocampal formation (HF) facilitates declarative memory specificity and is composed of subfields whose development during adolescence overlaps with the onset of anxiety disorders. Aberrations in mechanisms governing memory specificity may contribute to negative overgeneralization in anxious youth. Participants completed an emotional memory discrimination task while in the scanner. Using a multivariate maturity metric based on subfield volume we found individuals with more “mature” HF were better at differentiating similar neutral images and more likely to generalize similar negative images. These findings are important because they capture a novel developmental mechanism related to the balance between discrimination and generalization. Shifts in this balance, may contribute to negative overgeneralization, a common feature of anxiety disorders.
Immune lag is a major cost of prokaryotic adaptive immunity during viral outbreaks

CRISPR adaptive immune systems enable bacteria and archaea to efficiently respond to viral pathogens by creating a genomic record of previous encounters. These systems are broadly distributed across prokaryotic taxa, yet are surprisingly absent in a majority of organisms, suggesting that the benefits of adaptive immunity frequently do not outweigh the costs. Here, combining experiments and models, we show that a delayed immune response which allows viruses to transiently redirect cellular resources to reproduction, which we call “immune lag”, is extremely costly during viral outbreaks, even to completely immune hosts. Critically, the costs of lag are only revealed by examining the non-equilibrium dynamics of a host-virus system occurring immediately after viral challenge. Lag is a basic parameter of microbial defense, relevant to all intracellular, post-infection antiviral defense systems, that has to-date been largely ignored by theoretical and experimental treatments of host-phage systems.
Ein Laboratorium des Ausnahmezustands: Schutzhaft während des Ersten Weltkriegs und in den Anfangsjahren der Weimarer Republik – Preußen und Bayern 1914 bis 1923

This document is the author deposited version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it. Published version KEIL, André and STIBBE, Matthew (2020). Ein Laboratorium des Ausnahmezustands: Schutzhaft während des Ersten Weltkriegs und in den Anfangsjahren der Weimarer Republik – Preußen und Bayern 1914 bis 1923. Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 68 (4), 535-573.
T–S Fuzzy Bibo Stabilisation of Non–Linear Systems Under Persistent Perturbations Using Fuzzy Lyapunov Functions and Non–PDC Control Laws

Abstract This paper develops an innovative approach for designing non-parallel distributed fuzzy controllers for continuous-time non-linear systems under persistent perturbations. Non-linear systems are represented using Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy models. These non-PDC controllers guarantee bounded input bounded output stabilisation in closed-loop throughout the computation of generalised inescapable ellipsoids. These controllers are computed with linear matrix inequalities using fuzzy Lyapunov functions and integral delayed Lyapunov functions. LMI conditions developed in this paper provide non-PDC controllers with a minimum *-norm (upper bound of the 1-norm) for the T–S fuzzy system under persistent perturbations. The results presented in this paper can be classified into two categories: local methods based on fuzzy Lyapunov functions with guaranteed bounds on the first derivatives of membership functions and global methods based on integral-delayed Lyapunov functions which are independent of the first derivatives of membership functions. The benefits of the proposed results are shown through some illustrative examples.
Characteristics of fluid inclusions in the Cenozoic volcanic-hosted Kushk-e-Bahram Manto-type Cu deposit of central Iran

Abstract The Kushk-e-Bahram Manto-type Cu deposit is located in central Iran, within Eocene to Oligo–Miocene volcanic strata which occur in the central part of the Uremia-Dokhtar Magmatic Arc (UDMA). Propylitization, silicification, argillization and carbonatization are the main types of alteration to have affected the pyroclastic and volcanic rocks. There are high amounts of oxide minerals, including malachite, azurite, hematite, magnetite and goethite. Three types of primary FIs have been determined in the Kushk-e-Bahram deposit, namely; I: two-phase liquid-rich FIs (L+V), II: mono-phase liquid FIs, III: two-phase vapour-rich FIs which have been identified based on petrographical studies. Based on FI studies of co-existing quartz and calcite, homogenization temperatures (Th) must have been between 67 and 228°C, with an average of 158°C. Moreover, salinity is between 14.0–30.3 wt% NaCl, equivalent to a 19.6% average. Fluid density values vary from 0.8 to 1.1 gr/cm3. Based on FI data and related diagrams, the depth of their trapping was estimated to be <200 m and ore formation occurred at pressures of <50 bars. Consequently, mineralogy, host rock and FIs characteristics in the Kushk-e-Bahram deposit are similar to the Manto-type Cu deposits in Mesozoic-Cenozoic volcanic belts of Iran and South America.
Assessment of the frequency and biochemical parameters of conjunctivitis in COVID-19 and other viral and bacterial conditions

Abstract Objectives We compared the laboratory and clinical symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), other viral (beside COVID-19), and bacterial conjunctivitis patients with the values of controls. Methods Twenty COVID-19, 15 other viral, 15 bacterial patients, and 15 control group were included in the study. COVID-19 was diagnosed with the real time reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction while the indirect immunofluorescent antibody test was used in the detection of other viral agents. Bacterial agents were determined with the detection of the agent. The ophthalmologic examination of all cases was carried out by direct penlight, and the anterior segment evaluation was performed. The laboratory findings of all cases included in the study were obtained from the hospital records. Results It was determined that 5% conjunctivitis and 5% diplopia developed in patients diagnosed with COVID-19, 20% conjunctivitis developed in patients due to other viral agents, and 66.6% conjunctivitis developed in patients due to bacterial agents. Conclusion The incidence of conjunctivitis in COVID-19 patients was lower than in other viral and bacterial groups. Neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio and C-reactive protein come to the forefront as precious parameters with high specificity and sensitivity that might be useful to distinguish these diseases.