Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Occurrence, Fate and Transport Behaviors of Pesticides on Urban Impervious Surfaces

Urban and residential areas are covered by impervious surfaces such as concrete. During rainfalls and irrigations, these surfaces transfer runoff directly to surface water through urban sewage. Impervious surfaces are highly possible to be contaminated with pesticides, through direct treatments or through indirect deposits from surrounding areas (e.g., lawns) via wind- or water-aided movements. Although pesticides have been widely found in urban watersheds, their persistence and runoff potential from impervious surfaces have been seldom studied. This dissertation includes a series of lab and field scale experiments to assess pesticide contamination on concrete surfaces, as well as different environmental and application parameters that may affect their runoff potential. The results showed pesticide wash-off potential from concrete rapidly decreased after treatments, but low levels were constantly detected in the water from concrete with extended outdoor exposure. Immediately after treatments with pesticides in liquid formulations, concrete surfaces were equilibrated with 30 mL CaCl2 solution for 10 min to mimic runoff, and 14 C-labeled permethrin. Although the sorption equilibrium was quickly achieved within 24-h, permethrin desorption continued for over 300-h, and around 20 % of applied 14 C still remained on concrete after 300-h. If the desorption started 7-d after permethrin treatments, the amounts of desorbed permethrin decreased by 58 % compared the freshly spiked concrete. Finally, field study was conducted to assess pesticide runoff following simulated and natural rainfalls. 80 % of runoff pyrethroids were found on suspended particles. Besides, a surface wiping method was developed to collect transferable particles from concrete and its potential to predict pesticide runoff prior to rainfall starts was demonstrated.
Moving to a World Beyond “p < 0.05”

Some of you exploring this special issue of The American Statistician might be wondering if it’s a scolding from pedantic statisticians lecturing you about what not to do with p-values, without offering any real ideas of what to do about the very hard problem of separating signal from noise in data and making decisions under uncertainty. Fear not. In this issue, thanks to 43 innovative and thought-provoking papers from forward-looking statisticians, help is on the way.
JOB SATISFACTION AND TURNOVER INTENTION AT PT. X YOGYAKARTA

This quantitative study investigates the correlation between job satisfaction and turnover intention among employees at PT. X Yogyakarta. Utilizing a correlational design, the researchers sampled 48 participants aged between 21 to 48 years old, employing a saturated sampling technique. The research employed the Turnover Intention scale and the Job Satisfaction scale for measurement. The findings affirm a significant and negative relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention among PT. X Yogyakarta's workforce. In other words, higher job satisfaction levels correspond to lower turnover intention, while lower job satisfaction leads to higher turnover intention. These results have crucial implications for the organization, emphasizing the importance of enhancing job satisfaction to mitigate turnover intentions. By understanding the inverse relationship between these two variables, PT. X Yogyakarta can devise targeted strategies and interventions to improve overall employee satisfaction, consequently reducing turnover rates. It is worth noting that the study's correlational design does not imply causation, and further research might explore the underlying factors that contribute to job satisfaction and turnover intention at PT. X Yogyakarta. Nevertheless, these findings offer valuable insights for the organization to foster a positive work environment, boost employee morale, and retain a committed and satisfied workforce.
The number of critical points in Morse approximations

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Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations

This and a companion report constitute one of twenty-one Synthesis and Assessment Products called for in the Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. These studies are structured to provide high-level, integrated research results on important science issues with a particular focus on questions raised by decision-makers on dimensions of climate change directly relevant to the U.S. One element of the CCSP's strategic vision is to provide decision support tools for differentiating and evaluating response strategies. Scenario-based analysis is one such tool. The scenarios in this report explore the implications of alternative stabilization levels of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere, and they explicitly consider the economic and technological foundations of such response options. Such scenarios are a valuable complement to other scientific research contained in the twenty-one CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Products. The companion to the research reported here, Global-Change Scenarios: Their Development and Use, explores the broader strategic frame for developing and utilizing scenarios in support of climate decision making.
Modelling of planimetric/historical changes of the Geul river (The Netherlands)

This report presents the analyses and conclusions of a study on the planform evolution of the Geul river in the last 80 years. The results are compared with those of studies carried out by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA). The Geul river is to tributary of the Meuse River (The Netherlands). It has been straightened and protected against the erosion in the past, but since 1980 some stretches are allowed to meander freely. A meandering stretch near the Belgian border has been analysed. Historical planform changes are analysed with aerial photographs between 1935 and 2003. Channel migration is observed through the movement of the centreline of the river for each photograph. Channel width evolution, the presence of trees and its effects are also studied from the photos. In order to simulate the planform changes of the Geul river, the river planform model Miandras (Crosato, 1990) has been applied. Flow parameters (discharge, Chezy factor.) are analysed and discussed. After the calibration of some of them, erodibility coefficients needed for Miandras computations are obtained. The results of the aerial photos analysis show that bank erosion and channel width increase with time, as expected, due to the bank protection removal. Bank stability analysis is more affected by the properties of riverbanks than by the flow properties. The flowing ground water from the hills to the rivers and though the valley has an importance influence of the stability. Centreline coordinates obtained from the aerial photos are affected by inaccuracies in the photos, and the river migration obtained from them does not correspond with the one observed tn field analysis. This renders aerial photos unsuitable to monitor small displacements of this type of rivers. The results obtained with Miandras reproduce the migration trend as derived from the field observations for a short scale of time. This means that a prediction for a period of few years is possible
Association between three exonuclease 1 polymorphisms and cancer risks: a meta-analysis

To date, the results of studies exploring the relation between exonuclease 1 (Exo1) polymorphisms and cancer risks have differed. In this study, we performed a meta-analysis to investigate the effect of the three most extensively studied Exo1 polymorphisms (Pro757Leu, Glu589Lys, and Glu670Gly) on cancer susceptibility. The related studies published before August 5, 2015, were collected by searching the PubMed and EMBASE databases. We found 16 publications containing studies that were eligible for our study, including 10 studies for Pro757Leu polymorphism (4,093 cases and 3,834 controls), 12 studies for Glu589Lys polymorphism (6,479 cases and 6,550 controls), and 7 studies for Glu670Gly polymorphism (3,700 cases and 3,496 controls). Pooled odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were used to assess the strength of the associations, and all the statistical analyses were calculated using the software program STATA version 12.0. Our results revealed that the Pro757Leu polymorphism was significantly associated with a reduced cancer risk, whereas an inverse association was found for the Glu589Lys polymorphism. Furthermore, subgroup analysis of smoking status indicated that the Glu589Lys polymorphism was significantly associated with an increased cancer risk in smokers, but not in nonsmokers. However, no evidence was found for an association between the Glu670Gly polymorphism and cancer risk. In conclusion, this meta-analysis suggests that the Pro757Leu polymorphism may provide protective effects against cancer, while the Glu589Lys polymorphism may be a risk factor for cancer. Moreover, the Glu670Gly polymorphism may have no influence on cancer susceptibility. In the future, large-scaled and well-designed studies are needed to achieve a more precise and comprehensive result.
University of Birmingham The risk of colectomy and colorectal cancer after appendectomy in patients with ulcerative colitis

This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Crohn's & Colitis following peer review. The version of record Merel E Stellingwerf, Marlou A de Koning, Thomas Pinkney, Willem A Bemelman, Geert R D’Haens, Christianne J Buskens; The Risk of Colectomy and Colorectal Cancer After Appendectomy in Patients With Ulcerative Colitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, jjy163, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjy163
Clinical utility of brain stimulation modalities following traumatic brain injury: current evidence

: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains the main cause of disability and a major public health problem worldwide. This review focuses on the neurophysiology of TBI, and the rationale and current state of evidence of clinical application of brain stimulation to promote TBI recovery, particularly on consciousness, cognitive function, motor impairments, and psychiatric conditions. We discuss the mechanisms of different brain stimulation techniques including major noninvasive and invasive stimulations. Thus far, most noninvasive brain stimu­ lation interventions have been nontargeted and focused on the chronic phase of recovery after TBI. In the acute stages, there is limited available evidence of the efficacy and safety of brain stimulation to improve functional outcomes. Comparing the studies across different techniques, transcranial direct current stimulation is the intervention that currently has the higher number of properly designed clinical trials, though total number is still small. We recognize the need for larger studies with target neuroplasticity modulation to fully explore the benefits of brain stimulation to effect TBI recovery during different stages of recovery.
Écoulements de suspensions concentrées de globules rouges en micro-canaux : étude expérimentale

Le sang est une suspension concentree (45 % en volume) de cellules deformables, les globules rouges, dans un liquide newtonien, le plasma. Dans la microcirculation, i.e. le sous-ensemble du systeme de circulation sanguine ou s'effectuent les echanges de matiere entre le sang et les tissus, les tailles de vaisseaux sont comparables a la taille d'un globule rouge (environ 10 µm). En consequence, les effets dynamiques lies a la presence de ces cellules induisent des comportements rheologiques complexes, qui jouent un role important dans le transport de l'oxygene vers les tissus. En particulier, aux bifurcations microvasculaires divergentes, les debits de globules rouges et de plasma peuvent se repartir de facon non proportionnelle entre les deux branches filles. La fraction volumique de globules rouges (hematocrite) dans l'une des branches filles est alors plus elevee que celle de la branche d'entree, et la fraction volumique dans l'autre branche y est plus faible. Cet effet, connu sous le nom d'effet de separation de phase, induit une tres grande heterogeneite de l'hematocrite d'un vaisseau a l'autre dans la microcirculation. Il induit egalement un couplage entre l'architecture du reseau microvasculaire et la dynamique de l'ecoulement sanguin dans ce reseau. L'objectif de ce travail de these est d'etudier finement l'effet de separation de phase in vitro, dans un regime representatif des conditions physiologiques, au moyen de dispositifs microfluidiques modelisant les bifurcations microvasculaires et de suspensions de globules rouges. Dans ce but, un dispositif experimental microfluidique a d'abord ete elabore. Puis, les aspects metrologiques specifiques aux suspensions concentrees ont ete abordes afin de quantifier les parametres de l'ecoulement. En particulier, la technique de dual-slit a ete comprise et optimisee, assurant une mesure precise de profils de vitesse de globules rouges en microcanaux. Des metrologies specifiques a nos conditions experimentales ont egalement ete mises en place pour determiner l'hematocrite. Ces techniques ont ete validees par verification du principe de conservation de la masse entre les trois branches d'une bifurcation, et elles nous ont permis de caracteriser les ecoulements de globules rouges dans des micro-canaux de differentes tailles (10 a 100 µm), et ce pour de larges gammes de debits et de concentrations. Enfin, l'ecoulement de suspensions de globules rouges a ete etudie au niveau de micro-bifurcations, dans l'objectif de caracteriser l'effet de separation de phase pour des tailles de canaux et des gammes d'hematocrites qui n'ont pas ete etudies auparavant en conditions d'ecoulement maitrisees.
A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis of Blockchain Application in Consumer Service

The potential of blockchain to modify and innovate established business structures and frameworks has received widespread attention. As a result, academics and industries are increasingly interested in how this technology might be used in consumer services and operations. Although research into the application of blockchain in consumer services has gained traction, there is a scarcity of comprehensive summaries in the literature. Hence, this bibliometric analysis, combined with a systematic review, aims to convey qualitative and quantitative knowledge on the ever-evolving subject of blockchain application in consumer services in an organized manner. Specifically, this paper analyses: 1) the current publication trends in studies devoted to blockchain-based applications for consumers, 2) the most important publications and themes of research in this field, 3) the evolution of blockchain in customer service over the years, and the most current trends in this field, 4) the advantages and challenges of incorporating blockchain technology into consumer services, 5) gaps in the existing literature that future researchers should investigate. The review includes 727 documents after searching for scholarly publications in two databases (Web of Science and Scopus) and choosing documents based on their relevance to the stated goals.
Situated knowledge and fungal conservation: Morel mushroom management in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States

of the Dissertation . ii Acknowledgements. iv Dedication . ix Table of contents. x Lists of tables . xiv List of illustrations . xv List of acronyms . xvi Chapter 1: Introducing Fungal Conservation. 1 1.1: Introduction. 1 1.2: Study Background. 2 1.3: Research Questions. 8 1.4: Methods and Sampling Procedures. 10 Qualitative Components of Interviews: Semi-structured Interviews . 10 Quantitative Components of Interviews: Questionnaires and Q analysis . 13 Ecological Field Study . 15 1.5: Study Area and Demography. 16 Primary Study Area. 16 Basic Demographics . 19 1.6: Theorizing Fungal Conservation . 22 Chapter Summaries. 23 Chapter 2: Dueling Epistemic Constructions of Fungi . 27 2.1: Introduction. 27
Is Overfitting Necessary for Implicit Video Representation?

Compact representation of multimedia signals us-ing implicit neural representations (INRs) has advanced significantly over the past few years, and recent works address their applications to video. Existing studies on video INR have focused on network architecture design as all video information is contained within network parameters. Here, we propose a new paradigm in efficient INR for videos based on the idea of strong lottery ticket (SLT) hypothesis (Zhou et al., 2019), which demonstrates the possibility of finding an accurate subnetwork mask, called supermask, for a randomly initialized classification network without weight training. Specifically, we train multiple supermasks with a hierarchical structure for a randomly initialized image-wise video representation model without weight updates. Different from a previous approach employing hierarchical supermasks (Okoshi et al., 2022), a trainable scale parameter for each mask is used instead of multiplying by the same fixed scale for all levels. This simple modification widens the parameter search space to sufficiently explore various sparsity patterns, leading the proposed algorithm to find stronger subnetworks. Moreover, extensive experiments on popular UVG benchmark show that random subnetworks obtained from our framework achieve higher reconstruction and visual quality than fully trained models with similar encoding sizes. Our study is the first to demonstrate the existence of SLTs in video INR models and propose an efficient method for finding them.
Effects of the neonatal intensive care unit environment on preterm infant oral feeding

Objective: To examine the effect of neonatal intensive care unit environmental characteristics (perceived levels of light and sound, and time of day) in open unit wards and single-family rooms (SFRs) on oral feeding outcomes in preterm infants. Design: Data were collected at each scheduled oral feeding for 87 preterm infants from the first oral feeding until discharge. Data included the prescribed volume of feeding and the volume consumed, the infant’s level of wakefulness before feeding, and the nurse’s perception of light and sound. Results: Data were collected on 5111 feedings in the ward unit and 5802 in the SFR unit from feedings involving 87 preterm infants. Light and sound were rated significantly lower in the SFR ( χ 2 = 139 and 1654.8, respectively). Feeding times of 9 am, 12 noon, and 3 pm were associated with the highest perceived levels of light and sound, regardless of unit design ( P , 0.0001). Moderate light levels and feeding times of 12, 3, and 6 am were associated with improved feeding outcomes. Infants consumed a greater proportion of their prescribed feeding volume when fed in the open ward and when awake before feeding. Conclusion: Further study on the clinical effects of unit design is needed, as is study on the effects of environmental stimuli, so that interventions can be appropriately developed and tailored for infants needing the most support for optimal development.
Patterns of labor market reforms: a regional approach to the Italian Jobs Act

After estimating the impact of wage subsidies and EPL reforms on open ended employment, we single out which macro characteristics are responsible for the variability of the estimated effects at the regional level. We find that the impact of incentives is higher where GDP and VA per head are higher, and the informal economy is limited. Instead, we do not find any heterogeneity and in most cases any impact for the EPL component. We conclude that regions with a stronger economy benefitted more from subsidies, which might exacerbate territorial inequality.
Zinc finger E-box-binding homeobox 1: its clinical significance and functional role in human thyroid cancer

Objective: Transcription factor zinc finger E-box-binding homeobox 1 (ZEB1), as one of the key inducers of epithelial-mesenchymal transition, has been reported to be regulated by microRNA-144 and Bcl-2-associated athanogene 3, which both promote thyroid cancer cell invasion. However, the involvement of ZEB1 in thyroid cancer has not been fully elucidated. In this study, we aimed to investigate the role and clinical implication of ZEB1 in this disease. Methods: Immunohistochemistry was performed to examine the subcellular localization and the expression level of ZEB1 protein in 82 self-pairs of formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded cancerous and adjacent noncancerous tissues obtained from patients with thyroid cancer. The roles of ZEB1 in thyroid cancer cell migration, invasion, and proliferation were also detected by transwell and MTT analyses, respectively. Results: Immunohistochemistry showed that ZEB1 was predominantly localized in the nucleus of thyroid cancer cells. Its immunoreactive score in thyroid cancer tissues was significantly higher than that in adjacent noncancerous tissues ( P = 0.01). In addition, ZEB1 overexpression was significantly associated with the advanced tumor node metastasis staging ( P = 0.008), the positive lymph node metastasis ( P = 0.01) and distant metastasis ( P = 0.02). Furthermore, ZEB1 knockdown by siRNA could efficiently inhibit the migration, invasion, and proliferation abilities of thyroid cancer cells in vitro. Conclusion: These findings indicated that ZEB1 might function as an oncogene, the overexpression of which was associated with the aggressive tumor progression of human thyroid cancer. Interestingly, ZEB1 also could promote thyroid cancer cell migration, invasion, and proliferation, suggesting that the inhibition of this protein might be a therapeutic strategy for the treatment of this malignancy.