Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Abraham solvation parameter model: updated correlations for describing solute partitioning into plant cuticles from water and from air

ABSTRACT Abraham model correlations are reported for describing the logarithms of water-to-plant cuticle partition coefficients and logarithms of air-to-plant partition coefficients based on experimental values retrieved from the published chemical and environmental literature for 24 different plant species. Data sets containing more than 200 experimental partition coefficients were used in determining each correlation equation. The derived correlations back-calculated the experimental data to within a standard deviation of 0.23 log units.
Genetic Aberrations in Caspase Family of Genes and Their Possible Association with HNSCC

The cell suicide pathway of apoptosis is a necessary event in the life of multicellular organisms. It is involved in many biological processes ranging from development to the immune response. Over expression of interleukin-1β-converting enzyme (later renamed caspase-1) was shown to be sufficient to induce apoptosis in mammalian cells. The present study aims to assess the gene alterations in the Caspase family of cytochromes so as to derive an association with HNSCC. Earlier eleven genes were found in the human genome to encode 11 human caspases, caspase-1 to caspase-10 and caspase-14, which is now populated to 13, whereas 10 genes were found in the mouse genome to encode 10 murine caspases including caspase-1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 14. Original Research Article Nirubama et al.; JPRI, 32(15): 83-95, 2020; Article no.JPRI. 59682 84 Caspases share a number of features distinguishable from other proteases. The analysis follows an observational study design, employing several computational tools to identify and predict the possible outcomes of gene alterations identified in HNSCC patients. cBioportal server was used to identify the gene alterations which was further analyzed using tools such as PROVEAN, I-Mutant and gnomAD. Several reported polymorphic variants were also identified. The pathogenicity and protein stability of gene alterations documented in the present study were identified at standard biological conditions. Further experimental studies would provide concrete evidence on the association of the observed genetic abnormalities with HNSCC especially in individuals exposed to habitual carcinogens.
The Diplomacy Discount in Global Syndicated Loans

We investigate whether state-to-state political ties with a global superpower affects the pricing of international syndicated bank loans. We find statistically and economically significant effects of stronger state political ties with the United States, arguably the most dominant global superpower of our times, on the pricing of global syndicated loans. A one standard deviation improvement in state political ties between the U.S. and the government of a borrower's home country is associated with 14 basis points lower loan spread. This is equivalent to a cumulative savings in loan interest payments of about 10 million USD for the average loan in our sample. The effect of political ties on loan pricing is also stronger when lead arrangers are U.S. banks, during periods in which the U.S. is engaged in armed conflicts such as in the Afghan, Iraq and Syrian wars, when the U.S. president belongs to the Republican Party, and for borrowers with better balance sheets and prior lending relationships. Notably, we find that not all firms exploit this mechanism, as cross-listed firms and firms in countries with strong institutional quality and ability to attract institutional investors are much less reliant on political ties for lowering their borrowing costs.
Do Accounting Standards Matter for Productivity?

In this study, we examine whether productivity shifts when accounting standards change. Using mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as a shock to the accounting regime, we examine the changes in country‐level productivity. We find that mandatory IFRS‐adopting countries experience significant increases in total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity. The post‐adoption productivity improvements are greater for countries without IFRS convergence. Further, TFP increases more for countries that experience a larger increase in industry comparability. Taken together, the evidence suggests that the new IFRS accounting regime increases economic productivity via improving information environments and facilitating internal firm decisions.
Pengaruh CAR, NPF, FDR, Inflasi dan BI Rate terhadap Profitabilitas Perusahaan Perbankan Syariah di Indonesia Periode 2014-2018

This study aims to analyze whether internal and external factors can affect Sharia banks' profitability in Indonesia because data is viewed data that the profitability of Sharia banks in Indonesia is increasing. However, Sharia banks' development decreases from the number of Sharia bank offices in Indonesia that remain even declining annually. The population used in this study is 14 Islamic commercial banks in Indonesia which the Financial Services Authority registers (OJK) rather than those filtered using specific criteria as stipulated during 2014-2018 in Indonesia and published financial statements for all periods of study and finally gained ten banks, this type of research is a quantitative causal. The results showed that one of the internal factors of the Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) had a positive influence over Sharia banking profitability (ROA) and other variables such as Non-Performing Finance (NPF), Financing of Debt Ratio (FDR), inflation, and BI Rate had no effect on Return On Asset (ROA).
Correlation between Level of Personal Well-being and Spirituality

Aim: The aim of this paper is to define the correlation between experiencing personal well-being and manifestations of spirituality of an individual. Methods: The study involved the citizens of Chernihiv (average age – 33.2 years old): 96 people in total, 40 men and 56 women. The following methods were used: a) to measure the components of personal well-being – Satisfaction with Life scale by E. Diener, Psychological well-being scale by С. Riff, Questionnaire of parameters of subjective social well-being by T. Danylchenko; b) to measure the spiritual component – EPU Plus (Egoism - Personal Uniqueness) by L. Z. Levit, Methodology of measuring social interaction (mentality aspect) by G. L. Voronin. Results: The source of experiencing personal well-being is positive health (physical abilities, absence of physical limitations). Factors that decrease personal well-being are low level of tolerance and the pursuit of pleasure. Personal well-being is ensured by belief about collaboration and experiencing positive health as a state of readiness for activity. Psychological well-being has a negative correlation with basic egoism (the pursuit of pleasure) and a positive one with social egoism (ability to comply one’s needs with the group interests, following social rules and norms). Subjective social well-being relates to the highest egoism (unique self-realization, realization of existing potential in an acceptable way). The orientation towards achieving personal or public goals determines the peculiarities of experiencing well-being in the eudaemonic and hedonistic dimensions.
Who Is Open to Authoritarian Governance within Western Democracies?

Recent events have raised concern about potential threats to democracy within Western countries. If Western citizens who are open to authoritarian governance share a common set of political preferences, then authoritarian elites can attract mass coalitions that are willing to subvert democracy to achieve shared ideological goals. With this in mind, we explored which ideological groups are most open to authoritarian governance within Western general publics using World Values Survey data from fourteen Western democracies and three recent Latin American Public Opinion Project samples from Canada and the United States. Two key findings emerged. First, cultural conservatism was consistently associated with openness to authoritarian governance. Second, within half of the democracies studied, including all of the English-speaking ones, Western citizens holding a protection-based attitude package—combining cultural conservatism with left economic attitudes—were the most open to authoritarian governance. Within other countries, protection-based and consistently right-wing attitude packages were associated with similarly high levels of openness to authoritarian governance. We discuss implications for radical right populism and the possibility of splitting potentially undemocratic mass coalitions along economic lines.
The socioendocrinology of aggression-mediated stress in timber wolves (Canis lupus).

The goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of sociogenic stress (more specifically, aggression-mediated stress) in a large pack of captive timber wolves (Canis lupus). Urine contaminated snow was collected for three consecutive winters (from early December to the end of March) encompassing the mating seasons (January to mid-March). Audio-video recording of behaviour, with a focus on agonistic behaviour, was performed during the same time period. Urine samples were assayed for Creatinine (Cr), Cortisol (C) and Testosterone (T). The frequency and intensity of intra- and inter-sexual dyadic agonistic interactions were scored for both initiators and recipients. The data were examined for sex differences, for annual differences, and for individual differences in relation to rank and status in the pack. C:Cr ratios were higher in beta and omega animals as were the T:Cr ratios in some of the same animals. The associations between hormonal levels, aggressive behaviours, and weather parameters were shown to vary from one breeding season to the next. There was an increase in pack C:Cr levels over the three years of this study. Weather was an unlikely factor in the rise of cortisol across seasons. Historically, models of social stress as a regulator of group size have been based on studies conducted with rodents and have predicted higher glucocorticoid levels and lower androgen levels among low-ranking animals. Consistent with recent models of more social species in general, and of cooperative breeders specifically, the patterns here suggest an alternative trend. The data also suggest that behavioural-physiological mechanisms of reproductive suppression in subordinates by dominant individuals may not be as crucial as are purely behavioural strategies. The data are discussed in the context of recent socioendocrinological theories of social stress and reproductive suppression in the literature on Primates and Carnivores.
Hypothalamic regulation of metabolism

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Risk Factors’ Cpdag Roots and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns

The Asset pricing literature has produced hundreds of risk factor candidates aimed at explaining the cross-section of expected excess returns, although risk factors which are in fact capable of providing independent information remains an open question. Appling a sparse model, Kozak, Nagel, and Santosh (2020) achieve satisfactory results on explaining cross-sectional returns only with PCs (principal components). In this paper, we propose a new methodology that seeks to reduce risk factor predictor dimensions by estimating the joint risk factor distribution with CPDAG (complete partial directed acyclic graph), in addition to selecting the CPDAG root as the only new risk factor candidate set. Our approach yields a significant shrinkage in the original set of risk factors, whereas our findings lead to sparse models that pose better results than those attained with the standard models and with alternative methods proposed by PCs factor zoo-related research papers.
The Effect of Investment Motivation, Financial Literation, and Financial Behavior on Investment Decisions (Studies on Management Students at Pelita Bangsa University)

This study aims to examine the effect of investment motivation, financial literacy and financial behavior on investment decisions. This type of research is quantitative research using descriptive methods. Processed data is primary data obtained from the results of distributing questionnaires with simple random sampling technique to students majoring in management at Pelita Bangsa University. From 7179 students, a sample of 380 respondents was obtained. Data analysis was performed using the PLS (Partial Least Square) program. The results of this study indicate a positive and significant effect of investment motivation, financial literacy and financial behavior on investment decisions.
Social interactions, ethnicity, religion, and fertility in Kenya

Abstract Reproductive externalities are important for fertility behavior in Kenya. We identify from anthropology structural forms of social interaction operating across individuals belonging to different ethnic and religious groups on the number of children ever born. We use the 1998 Demographic and Health Survey, combined with primary meteorological data on Kenya, and GMM methods, to show that social interaction effects by ethnicity are important over and above an individual's characteristics such as their religion to explain variations in fertility. Our findings have implications for policy debates in Kenya and in other developing countries about ethnic, religious, and other differences in fertility behavior.
Kondisi Psikologis Perawat yang Memberikan Asuhan Keperawatan Pada Pasien COVID-19: Tinjauan Narasi

LATAR BELAKANG: Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) menjadi wabah dunia yang menimbulkan beban psikologis bagi masyarakat dan tenaga kesehatan yang memberikan perawatan pada pasien dengan COVID -19. Perawat merupakan salah satu tenaga kesehatan yang menjadi garda terdepan pemberian asuhan keperawatan pada pasien. TUJUAN: Mendeskripsikan kondisi psikologis perawat yang memberikan asuhan keperawatan pada pasien dengan COVID-19. METODE: Penelitian ini merupakan narrative review. Sebelas artikel dipilih dari Google Scholar, PubMed, EBSCO, dan ProQuest yang telah di-peer-reviewed dan dipublikasikan, full-text, serta dalam bahasa Inggris mulai dari tanggal 1 Januari 2020 sampai 31 Mei 2020. Istilah pencarian yang digunakan dalam pencarian artikel yakni COVID-19, nursing care, nurse, dan psychological effect. HASIL: Sebelas artikel yang telah ditinjau menyebutkan bahwa kondisi psikologis perawat yang memberikan asuhan keperawatan pada pasien COVID-19 meliputi kecemasan, rasa takut, depresi, kelelahan, sulit tidur atau insomnia, gangguan mental lain, somatisasi, mudah marah, obsesif-konvulsif, penurunan nafsu makan, merasa tidak nyaman, tidak berdaya, menangis, dan bahkan terlintas untuk bunuh diri. SIMPULAN: Memberikan perawatan kepada pasien dengan COVID-19 dapat menimbulkan gangguan psikologi pada perawat. Kata Kunci: Asuhan keperawatan, COVID-19, Efek psikologi, Perawat Psychological Condition of Nurses who Provided Nursing Care in Patient with COVID-19: A Narrative review ABSTRACT BACKGROUND : Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) became epidemic and caused psychological disorder for the community and health workers who provided care for patients with COVID-19. Nurses are one of the frontline workers who provide nursing care to the patients. OBJECTIVE: To describe psychological condition of nurses who provided nursing care for patients with COVID-19. METHOD : This article was a narrative review. Eleven articles were selected from Google Scholar, PubMed, EBSCO, and ProQuest which have been peer-reviewed and published, full text in English, started from 1st January 2020 to 31th May 2020. The search terms were COVID-19, nursing care, nurse, and psychological effects. RESULT : The eleven reviewed articles showed that psychological condition of nurses who provided nursing care in patients with VOVID-19 included anxiety, fear, depression, fatigue, insomnia, other mental disorders, somatization, irritable, obsessive-convulsive, loss of appetite, uncomfortable feeling, helplessness, crying, and even suicidal thought. CONCLUSION : Providing care in patients with COVID-19 may cause psychological disturbances for nurses. Keywords: Nursing care, COVID-19, psychological effect, nurse
Objective sleep patterns and validity of self-reported sleep monitoring across different playing levels in rugby union

Background Growing evidence highlights that elite rugby union players experience poor sleep quality and quantity which can be detrimental for performance. Objectives This study aimed to i) compare objective sleep measures of rugby union players between age categories over a one week period, and ii) compare self-reported measures of sleep to wristwatch actigraphy as the criterion. Methods Two hundred and fifty-three nights of sleep were recorded from 38 players representing four different age groups (i.e. under 16, under 18, senior academy, elite senior) in a professional rugby union club in the United Kingdom (UK). Linear mixed models and magnitude-based decisions were used for analysis. Results The analysis of sleep schedules showed that U16 players went to bed and woke up later than their older counterparts (small differences). In general, players obtained seven hours of sleep per night, with trivial or unclear differences between age groups. The validity analysis highlighted a large relationship between objective and subjective sleep measures for bedtime (r = 0.56 [0.48 to 0.63]), and get up time (r = 0.70 [0.63 to 0.75]). A large standardised typical error (1.50 [1.23 to 1.88]) was observed for total sleep time. Conclusion This study highlights that differences exist in sleep schedules between rugby union players in different age categories that should be considered when planning training. Additionally, self-reported measures overestimated sleep parameters. Coaches should consider these results to optimise sleep habits of their players and should be careful with self-reported sleep measures.
Intake of Radionuclides in the Trees of Fukushima Forests 5. Earthquake Could Have Caused an Increase in Xyloglucan in Trees

A megathrust earthquake caused the Fukushima–Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, which dispersed abundant radioiodines, causing them to be bound to xyloglucan into forest trees. Nevertheless, targeted xyloglucan was found in increased quantities in the annual rings of forest trees affected by the earthquake. We propose that trees could acclimate rapidly to shaking stress through an increase in xyloglucan deposition as a plant response under natural phenomena.
Revisiting resource curse puzzle: new evidence from heterogeneous panel analysis

ABSTRACT This study examines the natural resource curse hypothesize on a panel of 111 countries over the period 1996–2015. Using a range of heterogeneous panel cointegration techniques, it tests the resource curse hypothesis while allowing for cross-section heterogeneity. Specifically, it employs common correlated effects mean group, cross-sectionally augmented autoregressive distributed lag (CS-ARDL), and cross-sectionally augmented distributed lag (CS-DL) techniques. It begins the analysis with a conventional method in which the average value of variables is considered. The conventional approach fails to provide any clear evidence. The CCEMG estimator yields limited evidence supporting the resource curse in the long-run. However, CS-DL and CS-ARDL results show strong evidence for resources as a curse in the short-run, however, the evidence is weak in suggesting any long-run influence of resource-dependence on economic growth. Furthermore, CS-ARDL-based results also show that the effects work with a lag. Overall, we find support for the resource curse hypothesis, suggesting that resource-rich economies tend to grow at a slower rate in comparison to the resource-deprived ones.
Systematic Optimization of Whole Plant Carbon Nitrogen Interaction (WACNI) to Support Crop Design for Greater Yield

On the face of the rapid advances in genome editing technology and greatly expanded knowledge on plant genome and genes, there is a strong demand to develop an effective tool to guide designing crops for higher yields. Here we developed a highly mechanistic model of Whole plAnt Carbon Nitrogen Interaction (WACNI), which predicts crop yield based on major metabolic and biophysical processes in source, sink and transport tissues. WACNI accurately predicted the yield responses of so far reported source, sink and transport related genetic manipulations on rice grain yields. Systematic sensitivity analysis with WACNI was used to classify the source, sink and transport related molecular processes into four categories, i.e. universal yield enhancers, universal yield inhibitors, conditional yield enhancers and weak yield regulators. Simulations using WACNI further show that even without a major change in leaf photosynthetic properties, 54.6% to 73% grain yield increase can be potentially achieved by optimizing these molecular processes during the rice grain filling period while simply combining all the ‘superior’ molecular modules together cannot achieve the optimal yield level. A common macroscopic feature in all these designed high-yield lines is that they all show ‘a sustained and steady growth of grain sink’, which might be used as a generic selection criteria in high-yield rice breeding. Overall, WACNI can serve as a tool to facilitate plant source sink interaction research and guide future crops breeding by design. One sentence summary A mechanistic model of source, sink flow model is developed and used to demonstrate that optimization of the whole plant carbon nitrogen metabolism can dramatically increase crop yield potential.
Imazaquin, Chlorimuron, and Fomesafen May Injure Rotational Vegetables and Sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

Carryover potential of imazaquin (0.14 kg ai ha−1), chlorimuron plus metribuzin (0.06 + 0.36 kg ha−1), and fomesafen (0.28 kg ha−1) to snap bean, watermelon, cucumber, mustard, and sunflower was evaluated in Arkansas in 1987 to 1989. Crops were direct-seeded into treated plots at various times after application. Imazaquin and chlorimuron plus metribuzin injured sunflower, watermelon, cucumber, and mustard when planted 16 wk following application in one of two years. Fomesafen injured all crops initially but did not injure snap bean, sunflower, watermelon, and cucumber planted 16 wk after application. In experiments in which herbicides were applied to soybean, fall-planted spinach and mustard were injured in one of two years.