Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The central role of mental health and skills training, supervisor, and future career prospects in job satisfaction of postdoctoral fellows

252/250 words) The postdoctoral position was originally created as a short training period for PhD holders on the path to becoming university professors. Over time, the number of postdoctoral trainees (postdocs) has exceed the number of available faculty positions. To better understand trends and the state of the postdoctoral training in the 21st century the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars – l’Association Canadienne des Stagiaires Postdoctoraux (CAPS-ACSP) conducted three professional national surveys in 2009, 2013, and 2016 of postdocs working in Canada and Canadian postdocs working internationally. We investigated longitudinal changes in postdoctoral demographics and career goals, as well as used the 2016 data to develop a path model for predicting postdoctoral training satisfaction using structural equation modelling. Our analysis revealed an aging cohort of postdocs, with positive trends towards gender equity in earnings. The strongest predictors of satisfaction with career training were opportunities for skills development, mental health symptoms, and level of encouragement from supervisors. Predictors of satisfaction with compensation were salary, skills training, mental health, and encouragement from supervisors. To investigate the importance of mental health, we also quantified the extent that mental health factors mediated the effects of significant predictors of satisfaction. This first in-depth analysis of mental health symptoms illuminates the postdoc experience in academia. Our results add to other international research findings on postdoctoral training and indicate that adjustments to training policies, such as prioritizing access to physical and mental health services, and better preparation for non-academic training goals, are critically needed to improve both intrinsic and extrinsic job
Active thermography data processing for the NDT&E of frescoes

In this study, a reproduction of Giotto’s fresco “Meeting at Golden Gate” containing artificial defects typical of fresco decay was inspected by active infrared thermography. Data was processed using different techniques in order to improve the infrared signature of the defects and to reduce the impact of non-uniform heating and emissivity variations due to the painting's pigments. It is shown that active thermography constitutes an interesting alternative for the in situ inspection of frescoes without impairing their integrity. More research should be carried out to optimize the way that heat is delivered to the surface to improve defect detectability.
www.econstor.eu How to Educate Entrepreneurs?

Entrepreneurship education has two effects: it improves students’ entrepreneurial skills and provides impetus to those suited to entrepreneurship while discouraging others. While entrepreneurship education helps students to make a vocational decision its effects may conflict for those unsuited to entrepreneurship. We show that vocational and skill formation effects of entrepreneurship education can be identified empirically using a structural equation model. While conflicting effects of vocational and skill directed course content are observed in some individuals, overall these types of content are complements. We discuss how our results extend recent research and provide implications for the design of entrepreneurship courses.
Stressors and Coping Strategies among the Patients undergoing Maintenance Haemodialysis at B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences

Background: Haemodialysis patients had more problems in physical, social and psychological dimensions of life and these dimensions are the stressful factors and they use various strategies to cope with the stressors. This study aims to identify the stressors and the coping strategies among the patients undergoing maintenance haemodialysis and to determine the association between the stressors and coping strategies with the selected demographical variables of patients. Materials and Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 55 patients who were in current schedule of haemodialysis in B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences. Total enumerative sampling technique was used wherein data was collected over duration of one month using semistructured interview questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used. Results: The mean age of the respondents was 54.40 ±13.93 and two third (65.5 %) were male. Mean score for stressors was 43.58 (SD = 16.69) and for coping strategies was 66.65 (SD = 9.17). The study revealed that there was significant association of psychosocial stressors with age and financial support with p value of 0.01. Similarly, there was significant association of educational status with coping strategies with p value 0.03. No correlation was found between stressors and coping strategies. Conclusion: The study concluded that cost factors was stressors to cause high stress followed by loss of bodily function, fatigue, limitation on time and place for vacation. Coping strategies adopted by the patients undergoing haemodialysis were acceptance, use of emotional support, humor, use of instrumental support whereas substance use, denial , self blame were least used.
MEMORANDUM No 01 / 2018 February 2018

Recent work suggests the patterns of international trade may be distorted because of information frictions. Little is known, however, about how advancements in information communication technology (ICT) affect trade patterns. The goal of our paper is to analyze how and why the adoption of such technology affects bilateral trade flows. Our context is the adoption of broadband internet in Norwegian firms over the period 2000-2008. We use panel data with information on Norwegian firms with regards to their production, technology, and trade. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points, and provides plausibly exogenous variation in the availability and adoption of broadband internet in firms. We find that adoption of broadband internet makes trade patterns more sensitive to distance and economic size. Going from no broadband availability to full coverage increases the magnitude of the elasticity of trade with respect to distance by 0.12, and the elasticity of trade with respect to destination size by 0.06. For distance, this means that an increase in internet availability of 10 percentage points increases trade for a country at the 25th distance percentile by 1.1% more than for a country at the 75th distance percentile. The same difference for the GDP of a destination is 2.1%. We interpret the empirical results through a gravity theory of trade patterns, augmented with information frictions. We provide comparative statics predictions with respect to a reduction in information frictions, and show that these predictions are consistent with our empirical findings. Taken together, our results point to the importance of incorporating information frictions in the frequently used gravity equation, and they may help explain the so-called “distance puzzle” in international trade.
Perception Deception: Audio-Visual Mismatch in Virtual Reality Using The McGurk Effect

The audio-visual synchronisation is a big challenge in the Virtual Reality (VR) industry. Studies investigating the eﬀect of incongruent multisensory stimuli will have a direct impact on the design of immersive experience. In this paper, we explored the eﬀect of audio-visual mismatch on the sensory integration in a VR context. Inspired by the McGurk eﬀect, we designed an experiment addressing a few critical VR content production concerns today including sound spatialisation and unisensory signal quality. The results conﬁrm previous studies using 2D videos where audio spatial separation has no signiﬁcant impact on the McGurk eﬀect, yet the ﬁndings raise new thoughts regarding the future compression and multisensory signal design strategies to optimise the perceptual immersion in the 3D context.
Survival, risk assessment and causes of death in a series of 439 patients with systemic sclerosis

systemic sclerosis Ph.D. thesis Gabriella Nagy, MD Supervisor: Gábor Kumánovics, Ph.D. Program: Theoretical Medical Sciences Leader of the Doctoral School: Júlia Szekeres, MD, Ph.D., DSc Program: B-372; Immunological and clinical aspects of polysystemic autoimmune conditions Program leader: László Czirják, MD, Ph.D., D.Sc. University of Pécs, Medical School Department of Rheumatology and Immunology
Pathogenicity and quantitative resistance in Mediterranean durum and bread wheat cultivars of Syrian origin towards Fusarium head blight agents under controlled conditions

Although Syrian high-yielding wheat cultivars grown under Mediterranean conditions include acceptable levels of resistance to biotic constraints, little is known about their susceptibility to Fusarium head blight (FHB), a harmful disease of wheat cultivation worldwide. The capacity of 16 fungal isolates of four FHB species to confer the disease on spikes and spikelets of six widely grown old and modern Syrian durum and bread wheat cultivars with known in vitro quantitative resistance to FHB was evaluated. Quantitative traits were visually assessed using spray and point inoculations for determining disease development rates, disease incidence (DI) and disease severity (DS) under controlled conditions. Differences in pathogenicity and susceptibility among wheat cultivars were observed, emphasizing the need for breeders to include aggressive isolates or a mixture of isolates representative of the FHB diversity in their screenings for selection of disease resistant cultivars. Bread wheat cultivars showed lower levels of spike and spikelet damage than durum cultivars regardless of the date of cultivar release. Overall, the six wheat cultivars expressed acceptable resistance levels to initial fungal infection and fungal spread. Quantitative traits showed significant correlation with previous standardized area under disease progress curve (AUDPC standard ) data generated in vitro . Thus, the predictive ability of AUDPC standard appears to be crucial in assessing pathogenicity and resistance in adult wheat plants under controlled conditions. While in the Mediterranean countries the risk of disease is progressively increasing, the preliminary data in this report adds to our knowledge about four FHB species pathogenicity on a Syrian scale, where the environment is quite similar to some Mediterranean wheat growing areas, and show that Syrian cultivars could be new resistant donors with favorable agronomical characteristics in FHB-wheat breeding programs.
Running Head: RELATIONAL RECASTING

21 Carolyn Saarni’s theory of emotional competence has made a central contribution by 22 directing attention to some important functions of emotion in social interaction. Her work is 23 permeated with examples of how emotions function within both successful and unsuccessful 24 social interactions and relationships. An examination of her stated principles of emotional 25 competence suggest in places a perspective that is primarily intrapsychic in nature, harking back 26 to the early roots of emotion theory and research. In this piece, we note where Saarni has 27 advanced implications of a relational theory of emotion for understanding emotional 28 competence. In addition, we reframe some of Saarni’s principles to make them more consistent 29 with current relational approaches to emotion. Finally, we offer additions and extensions that we 30 believe are compatible with the general direction of her thinking before her untimely death. 31
Incidence and Risk Factors for Post-thyroidectomy Hypocalcemia

Objectives. This study aimed to determine the incidence and risk factors for post-thyroidectomy hypocalcemia. Methodology. This was a retrospective study of 242 patients who underwent total or completion thyroidectomy from 2011-2014 at the St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City, Philippines. The overall and type-specific incidences of hypocalcemia were determined. Patient and surgery-related factors were assessed and hypocalcemic events described. Results. Overall incidence of hypocalcemia is 11.98% distributed into symptomatic (10.74%) and asymptomatic (1.24%). The following patient-related factors were not found to be significantly associated with hypocalcemia: age, gender, thyroid disease and thyroid gland weight. Among surgery-related factors, the presence of concomitant complications of thyroidectomy (hoarseness and/or hematoma) and inadvertent parathyroidectomy were significantly associated with hypocalcemia both in the univariate [p=0.046; OR 2.369 (95%CI: 0.995-5.643) and p=0.027; OR 2.426 (95%CI: 1.084-5.432), respectively] and multivariate analyses [p=0.025; OR 2.842 (95%CI: 1.142-7.069) and p=0.013; OR 2.941 (95%CI: 1.252-6.907), respectively]. Other surgery-related factors were not found to be significantly associated with hypocalcemia: extent of thyroidectomy [total vs completion]; neck dissection; surgery duration (hours); and surgeon [consultant vs. trainee]. Among those with symptomatic hypocalcemia, manifestations occurred 29.85±23.07 hours post-operatively and these were: Chvostek’s (80.8%), acral paresthesia (76.9%), perioral numbness (46.1%), carpopedal spasm (15.3%), Trousseau’s (7.7%) and cramps (3.8%). Those who presented with manifestations of hypocalcemia but with normal serum iCa post-operatively comprised 33.9% of the study population and the majority presented with Chvostek’s sign (52%) and acral paresthesia (50%). Conclusion. In this study, hoarseness and/or hematoma and inadvertent parathyroidectomy are risk factors for post-thyroidectomy hypocalcemia. Closer monitoring of these patients for hypocalcemia may be necessary.
Prediction of density and compressive strength 1 for rubberized concrete blocks 2 3

11 The influence of rubber content within the range of 5% to 50% as the replacement for 12 sand volume and water/cement (w/c) ratio (0.45 to 0.55) on the density and compressive 13 strength of concrete blocks was investigated. All the mixtures were proportioned with a 14 fixed aggregate/cement ratio of 5.6. A total of 50% of the total aggregate was fine 15 aggregate. Based on the experimental results, the density and strength reduction factors 16 for rubberized concrete blocks were calculated by considering the dependent factors of 17 rubber content and w/c ratio. Linear and logarithm equations derived, based on the results 18 from experimental work are proposed to predict the density and compressive strength of 19 rubberized concrete blocks. 20 21
Microbiome of the lower genital tract in Chinese women with endometriosis by 16s-rRNA sequencing technique: a pilot study

Background Endometriosis is a benign, chronic, gynecological disease which affect the women in reproductive age. The dysfunction of immune system is associated with endometriosis and the diversity of microbiota in genital tract. According to previous studies, microbiota significantly contributes to multi-systemic function, but the evidence of relationship between microbiota and endometriosis remains insufficient. Methods There are 68 participants were included in this study and 134 samples obtained from the cervical canal, posterior fornix and uterine cavity were analyzed by 16s-rRNA sequencing. The raw data was filtered, analyzed, and visualized, and bio-information methods were used to identify the characteristics of microbiota. Results Two different locations near the cervix, cervical canal, and posterior fornix, exhibited no differences in alpha diversity. The microbiota profile of adenomyosis with endometriosis patients is different from control group through PCoA. Among the different disease groups, five microbiotas were distinctive in the genus level, and Atopobium presented with the greatest significance in adenomyoisis-endometriosis patients. The LeFSe analysis failed to identify the special biomarkers, while several characteristic functions were identified through PICRUSt. Conclusions Lactobacillus is the predominant genus in the female lower genital tract, and Atopobium is higher in patients with endometriosis combined with adenomyosis. Several different functions of microbiota were explored, some of them are found to be associated with endometriosis or adenomyosis, other functions are needed to be further verified. These findings may provide a new concept of microbiota/immune system/endometriosis system.
Parvovirus Infection-Related Anemia after Kidney Transplantation

Anemia postkidney transplantation is an important issue which has been correlated with increased hospitalizations and higher mortality. Infections, including those due to parvovirus B19, CMV, and BK virus (polyomavirus), have also been associated with an increased risk of anemia. Here, we present a case of new-onset anemia in a kidney transplant recipient within 3 months of transplant. The patient was found to have multiple viral infections from parvo B19, BK virus, and rhinovirus. The anemia resolved completely after successful reduction in the parvo B19 and BK viral load. Workup for viral infections must be considered in the differential diagnosis of postkidney transplant anemia.
Costs of Future Medical Care in the United States: The Unique Contribution of the Physiatrist

Craig Lichtblau1, Bernard Pettingill2*, Trish Cardillo3, Gabrielle Meli4 and Christopher Warburton5 1Paley Orthopaedic and Spine Institute, St. Mary’s Hospital, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA 2LSU Medical Centre, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA 3Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA 4Cornell University, 219 Donlon Hall, Ithaca, New York 1583, USA 5University of Virginia, 301 15** Street N, West Charlottesville, Virginia 22903, USA *Corresponding author: Bernard Pettingill, PhD, Consulting Economist LSU Medical Centre, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA, Tel: 561-346-7828; E-mail: biffpett@gmail.com
Whole Blood Stimulation Assay as a Treatment Outcome Monitoring Tool for VL Patients in Ethiopia: A Pilot Evaluation

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a lethal disease if left untreated. Current treatments produce variable rates of treatment failure and toxicity without sterile cure, rendering treatment efficacy monitoring essential. To avoid repeated invasive tissue aspirates as well as empirical treatment, there is a need for new tools that allow a less-invasive and early assessment of treatment efficacy in the field. Cross-sectional studies have suggested levels of cytokines/chemokines after whole blood stimulation as good markers of cure, but longitudinal studies are lacking. In this study, we followed 13 active VL cases in an endemic area in Ethiopia by measuring the production of IFN-γ, TNF-α, IP-10, IL-2, IL-10, MCP-1, and MIG before, during, and at the end of treatment. After 24 hours of stimulation of whole blood with soluble Leishmania antigen, we observed an early, robust, and incremental increase of IFN-γ, TNF-α, and IP-10 levels in all patients during treatment. Moreover, based on the IFN-γ levels that showed an average 13-fold increase from the time of diagnosis until the end of treatment, we could almost perfectly discriminate active from cured status. Similar concentrations and patterns were found in stimulation assays with the two main Leishmania species. The levels of IFN-γ, IP-10, or TNF-α also seemed to be inversely associated with the parasite load at baseline. Despite a 1/10 drop in concentrations, similar patterns were observed in IFN-γ and IP-10 levels when dried plasma spots were stored at 4°C for an average of 225 days. All the above evidence suggests a detectable restoration of cell-mediated immunity in VL and its association with parasite clearance. With a potential application in rural settings by means of dried plasma spots, we recommend to further explore the early diagnostic value of such assays for treatment efficacy monitoring in large cohort studies including treatment failure cases.
Effects of corporate governance on high growth rate: evidence from Vietnamese listed companies Quoc-Viet Phama*, Thu-Hoai Hoa, Duc-Huy Phama and Hong-Ron Nguyena

Article history: Received: November 3, 2019 Received in revised format: November 28 2019 Accepted: December 3, 2019 Available online: December 4, 2019 High-growth firm is the research object of economic and business studies, because of its important influence on job creation, innovation, and tax revenues increase for the nation. This paper is designed to find some empirical evidence on the role of corporate governance on the firm’s growth, thereby providing some policy implications for improving corporate governance activities in practice. Using a sample of 241 listed companies on Vietnam's stock market in the period 2008-2017, divided into 2 groups: high-growth firms and non-high-growth firms and applying a GMM regression with the dependent variable as 3-year compound growth rate, the study finds evidence of factors affecting the growing ability of corporate governance, namely: the ownership structure, the characteristics of the Board of Directors (size, independence, gender, non-executive member, experience), and the characteristics of the CEO (age, educational level, ownership, duality). © 2020 by the authors; licensee Growing Science, Canada
Correlation Between Theoretical Classroom Instruction and Related Learning Experiences: Evidence From a Philippine Nursing University

In nursing education, it is expected that theory underlies practice. However, studies have indicated nursing students still experience theory and practice gap. This study attempted to determine the relationship between theoretical classroom instruction and Related Learning Experiences (RLE) of nursing students. Using existing data set of nursing graduates in a Philippine Nursing University for a five year cohort (N=653) 653), this study employed a descriptive correlational research design. Pearson’s correlation and simple linear regression were used to analyze the data . Results indicated that a significant relationship existed between theoretical classroom instruction and RLE performance of nursing students. Theoretical classroom instruction explained 64% of the variance in RLE. This study highlights the importance of good theoretical instruction in predicting the performance of nursing students in the practicum or RLE component of nursing education and training. Success in the didactic portion significantly contributes to the success of the practical part of the nursing curriculum. Nursing academic institutions must continually strive to promote the transfer of learning from classroom to actual care setting to help bridge the gap between theory and practice.
DETERMINANTS OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF UNDER FIVE CHILDREN IN BANGLADESH: A MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION ANALYSIS

The key measures of child under-nutrition namely, stunting, wasting and underweight are sometimes inter-related and hence may mislead if univariate approach of analyzing the data is performed. This paper employed multivariate logistic regression model for identifying the most significant determinants of the three standard child under-nutrition measures using Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS, 2011) data. The analysis identified educational attainment of mother, wealth index, size of child at birth, and preceding birth interval as most responsible determinants of nutritional status of under-five children. Furthermore, this research revealed that a child may suffer from one or more form of under-nutrition and hence recommended different policy options. Overall, the findings of this report are expected to feed the policy decisions regarding child nutrition in an integrated and holistic manner.