Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Single-trial regression elucidates the role of prefrontal theta oscillations in response

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Uncertainty in predictive ecology : consequence of choices in model construction

Les systemes ecologiques sont des systemes complexes qui ne peuvent pas etre d´ecrits par un unique modele mathematique. De nombreux modeles peuvent etre construits pour un meme systeme, selon les internets du modelisateur et ses choix dans la construction du modele. Quel est l’impact de ces choix dans la construction du modele sur les predictions de la dynamique des systemes ecologiques et les informations qu’elles fournissent sur la resilience de ces systemes est la question generale qui guide le travail presente dans cette these. Cette theses focalise sur un choix entre formulations de modele basees sur des mecanismes biologiques et qui decrivent les donnees empiriques avec la meme efficacite. Ces modeles sont proches l’un de l’autre, donc on s’attendrait `a ce que leurs predictions soient similaires. Cependant, nous montrons avec un exemple generique de modele predateur-proie que des formulations similaires du processus de predation peuvent predire des dynamiques qualitativement differentes en terme de: (i) nombre et type d'etats stables, et (ii) reponse et resilience du systeme face a une perturbation exterieure. Ces differences dans les predictions du modele sont expliquees par une analyse mathematique detaillee du modele predateur-proie. Ensuite, ce modele est etendu a des reseaux trophiques compos´es de dizaines d’especes. La complexite de ces reseaux (nombre d'especes et d’interactions) explique leur persistance, alors que leur dynamique temporelle est fortement affectee par la fonction utilisee pour modeliser la predation. Des methodes sont ´egalement proposees pour quantifier la sensibilites d’un modele. Finalement, nous montrons que si un minimum de details biologiques sont pris en compte, des modeles predateurs-proies sont moins sensibles `a la formulation de la predation. Ceci nous donne des pistes pour gerer les incertitudes dans la construction d’un modele, qui sont intrinseques a la complexite des systemes naturels.
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The purpose was to investigate the influence of guanxi (personal relationships) on availability within physical distribution service quality (PDSQ) for sourcing high street fashion garments from China via e-commerce. The research reviewed articles on guanxi and although it is still widely considered important its contribution and nature appears to be changing as Chinese business practices and sourcing policy have matured over time. Qualitative research was used in two Chinese based case study companies with detailed access through semi structured face-to-face and telephone interviews. The findings suggest that personal relationships through guanxi can facilitate e-commerce availability of fashion product, particularly where there is limited lead time in the sourcing activity, although its form and application in each case study company and their respective supply network was not as widespread as had been previously reported. The form of quanxi was observed as personal relationships but some aspects of co-operative relationships were also found. Since the paper is based on a phenomenological ontology the findings are largely exploratory. Future research should focus on understanding physical distribution service quality and personal relationships in other sectors. Guanxi by definition is an unstructured array of socially-based relationships without a simplistic rationale or logic. By understanding how guanxi is applied in a supply chain management context will aid those practitioners involved in an e-commerce Chinese business practice.
Pole‐zero analysis and wavelength scaling of carbon nanotube antennas

Carbon nanotube (CN) antennas have applications in the THz electromagnetic spectrum. Nanotubes have a highly dispersive and frequency dependent conductivity model. In this article, we compare the poles and zeros in the input impedance of CN antennas at different lengths. We used model‐based parameter estimation to approximate the input impedance of the antenna with a rational function in the complex frequency domain. Despite dispersive conductivity of CN, the imaginary part of the poles and zeros are respectively the integer multiples and odd multiples of the imaginary part of the first pole and zero. However, the real part of poles is almost constant, while the pattern was not observed for the real part of zeros. We also show that CN dipoles operating between 43 and 53 GHz are well matched if the source impedance is much higher than 50 ohms, and even higher than 12.9 kΩ. The fundamental resonances (f0) of CN dipoles plotted versus their inverse‐half‐length (1/L) are linearly related, but the intercept of the fitted straight line is non‐zero unlike that for perfect electric conductor (PEC) dipoles. This leads to non‐linear variation in wavelength scaling of CN dipoles. The resonant CN antennas are relatively much shorter than PEC dipoles.
One-Attribute Sequential Assignment Match Processes in Discrete Time

We consider a sequential matching problem where M offers arrive in a random stream and are to be sequentially assigned to N waiting candidates. Each candidate, as well as each offer, is characterized by a random attribute drawn from a known discrete-valued probability distribution function. An assignment of an offer to a candidate yields a nominal reward R > 0 if they match, and a smaller reward r â¤ R if they do not. Future rewards are discounted at a rate 0 â¤ α â¤ 1. We study several cases with various assumptions on the problem parameters and on the assignment regime and derive optimal policies that maximize the total discounted reward. The model is related to the problem of donor-recipient assignment in live organ transplants, studied in an earlier work.
INCIDENCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF DOWNY MILDEW DISEASE (PERONOSCLEROSPORA SORGHI) OF SORGHUM IN UGANDA.

Kumi Frank 1,2 , Agbahoungba Symphorien 1 , Badji Arfang 1 , Odong Thomas 1 , Edema Richard 1 , OchwoSsemakula Mildred 1 , Nakubulwa Dianah 1 , Tusiime Geoffrey 1 , Biruma Moses 3 and Rubaihayo Patrick 1 . 1. Department of Agricultural Production, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda. 2. Department of Crop Science, College of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, University of Cape Coast, P.M. B Cape Coast, Ghana. 3. National Semi-Arid Resources Research Institute (NaSARRI), Serere, Uganda. Manuscript Info Abstract . Manuscript History
REVISTA DE CONTABILIDAD SPANISH ACCOUNTING REVIEW

Despite evidence suggesting that specialised knowledge should be more relevant than generic knowledge to explain different levels of audit quality across individual auditors, no study to date has addressed the respective impacts of the industry-specific and the generic audit experience of audit partners on the quality of audit services. Our study investigates this issue in the Spanish audit market. We proxy audit quality by discretionary accruals and by the opinion of the audit report, and differentiate among client-specific experience, industry-specific experience and generic audit experience of individual auditors. As expected, our results show significantly higher audit quality when the client is audited by a partner with stronger industry-specific audit experience. Furthermore, we observe that neither client-specific experience nor generic audit experience of audit partners are significant determinants of the quality of audit services provided by these auditors. These results may have some interesting implications for audit firms. Therefore, whereas some prior studies on the related issue of industry specialization point out that specialised knowledge is more relevant than generic knowledge to explain the quality of audit services, our findings suggest that specialised knowledge is, in fact, the only type of knowledge that seems to matter. ©2020 ASEPUC. Published by EDITUM Universidad de Murcia. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
REVISTA DE CONTABILIDAD SPANISH ACCOUNTING REVIEW

This study aims to investigate whether government withdrawal affect corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance, and how CEO’s political connection moderates its relationship. We use sample data from Chinese listed firms over the 2010 to 2015 period to test our hypotheses. We find that decrease in state ownership through government withdrawal tends to negatively affect firms’ CSR performance, but the CEO’s political connection weakens its negative relationship and increases the firm’s likelihood towards CSR activities. Our findings imply that firm’s social engagement mainly result from high governmental involvement, and usually from political connections, because such firms are subject to close scrutiny by stakeholders and thus are more likely to improve social performance. Moreover, this research provides important implications to policy makers regarding the social outcomes of government withdrawal and the usefulness of firms’ political connection in developing economies like China. ©2022 ASEPUC. Published by EDITUM Universidad de Murcia. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Códigos JEL: M1 M14 M48 P2 P3
REVISTA DE CONTABILIDAD SPANISH ACCOUNTING REVIEW

Securities commissions regularly review corporate reports, and if the review reveals a possible deficiency— such as a potential accounting error— or requires further clarifications, they send the company a comment letter (CL), including a request for providing written responses and relative additional information. Current study aims to examine whether and how corporate social responsibility (CSR) affects CLs. This empirical study is based on a sample of 437 Iranian firm year observations from 2011 to 2017. Results show that firms with more CSR are less likely to receive CL, that more CSR does not influence the association of managerial misbehavior and CLs, and that the negative association between CSR and CLs is stronger among firms facing higher environmental information asymmetry and firms having higher corporate governance quality. Collectively, this paper contributes to the literature by providing new evidence on the beneficial effect of CSR in the context of CLs. ©2022 ASEPUC. Published by EDITUM Universidad de Murcia. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Códigos JEL: G12 G14 G18 M48 Palabras clave: RSC Supervisión Carta de comentarios Efecto indirecto Gestores Mercados emergentes El impacto de la responsabilidad social de las empresas en las cartas de comentarios regulatorios: Evidencia de Irán
KBAC: Knowledge-Based Admission Control

Many methods have been proposed in the literature to perform admission control in order to provide a sufficient level of Quality of Service (QoS) to accepted flows. In this paper, we introduce a novel data-driven method based on a time-varying model that we refer to as Knowledge-Based Admission Control solution (KBAC). Our KBAC solution consists of three main stages: (i) collect measurements on the on-going traffic over the communication link; (ii) maintain an up-to-date broad view of the link behavior, and feed it to a Knowledge Plane; (iii) model the observed link behavior by a mono-server queue whose parameters are set automatically and which predicts the expected QoS if a flow requesting admission were to be accepted. Our KBAC solution provides a probabilistic guarantee whose admission threshold is either expressed, as a bounded delay or as a bounded loss rate. We run extensive simulations to assess the behavior of our KBAC solution in the case of a delay threshold. The results show that our KBAC solution leads to a good trade-off between flow performance and resource utilization. This ability stems from the quick and automatic adjustment of its admission policy according to the actual variations on the traffic conditions.
'Means of Survival' as Moderator of the Relationship between Cumulative Torture Experiences and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among Refugees

MEANS OF SURVIVAL’ AS MODERATOR OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CUMULATIVE TORTURE EXPERIENCES AND POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AMONG REFUGEES by Lydia Odenat Refugee torture survivors often present with a myriad of psychological challenges, such as posttraumatic stress and depression, stemming from their exposure to torture and other preand post-settlement experiences (Gong-Guy and colleagues, 1991). The present study examined the moderating effect of four coping processes (i.e., family support, religious beliefs, political beliefs, and will to survive) on the relationship between cumulative torture and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among a sample of 204 (N=204) adult refugee torture survivors. Subjects completed a demographic questionnaire, the Torture Severity Scale (TSS; Kira, Lewandowski, Templin, Ramaswamy, Ozkan, Hammad, & Mohanesh, 2006), the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS-2; Weathers, Keane, & Davidson, 2001), and the Means of Survival Scale (MOS; Kira, 2012). Twenty-three percent (N = 74) of the sample endorsed clinically significant levels of PTSD. Torture and PTSD were positively associated, indicating that greater exposure to cumulative torture is associated with greater trauma symptoms (r[2] = .18, p<.01). Significant positive correlations were found between will to survive and cumulative torture (r[2] = .31, p<.01), PTSD and political beliefs (r[2] = .13, p<.05), PTSD and will to survive (r[2] = .141, p<.05), religious beliefs and will to survive (r[2] = .15, p<.01), and family support and will to survive (r[2] = .130, p<.05). Results of the regression analyses demonstrated that CTE (b=.12, p=.035) and political beliefs (b=.17, p=.002) were significant predictors of PTSD symptoms in this sample, R 2 = . 039; F (2,323) = 7.55, p=. 001. None of the interaction terms examined accounted for significant variation in PTSD symptoms. Study findings will help counseling psychologists devise the most appropriate treatment plans and strategies to treat posttraumatic stress reactions among refugee torture survivors, as well as inform future interventions developed for this vulnerable population. ‘MEANS OF SURVIVAL’ AS MODERATOR OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CUMULATIVE TORTURE EXPERIENCES AND POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AMONG REFUGEES by Lydia Odenat
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health the Occurrence and Nature of Early Signs of Schizophrenia and Psychotic Mood Disorders among Former Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Patients Followed into Adulthood

Background: This investigation was designed to characterize psychotic disorders among patients originally treated as in-and outpatients by child and adolescent psychiatric services and subsequently followed-up into mid-adulthood. The age at the first onset on symptoms, possible changes in diagnoses, early signs noted prior to or upon admission to child and adolescent psychiatric care and possible differences between patients with early-and later-onset disorder were of particular interest.
Nutritional disturbance in acid–base balance and osteoporosis: a hypothesis that disregards the essential homeostatic role of the kidney

The nutritional acid load hypothesis of osteoporosis is reviewed from its historical origin to most recent studies with particular attention to the essential but overlooked role of the kidney in acid–base homeostasis. This hypothesis posits that foods associated with an increased urinary acid excretion are deleterious for the skeleton, leading to osteoporosis and enhanced fragility fracture risk. Conversely, foods generating neutral or alkaline urine would favour bone growth and Ca balance, prevent bone loss and reduce osteoporotic fracture risk. This theory currently influences nutrition research, dietary recommendations and the marketing of alkaline salt products or medications meant to optimise bone health and prevent osteoporosis. It stemmed from classic investigations in patients suffering from chronic kidney diseases (CKD) conducted in the 1960s. Accordingly, in CKD, bone mineral mobilisation would serve as a buffer system to acid accumulation. This interpretation was later questioned on both theoretical and experimental grounds. Notwithstanding this questionable role of bone mineral in systemic acid–base equilibrium, not only in CKD but even more in the absence of renal impairment, it is postulated that, in healthy individuals, foods, particularly those containing animal protein, would induce ‘latent’ acidosis and result, in the long run, in osteoporosis. Thus, a questionable interpretation of data from patients with CKD and the subsequent extrapolation to healthy subjects converted a hypothesis into nutritional recommendations for the prevention of osteoporosis. In a historical perspective, the present review dissects out speculation from experimental facts and emphasises the essential role of the renal tubule in systemic acid–base and Ca homeostasis.
Edinburgh Research Explorer Genome-wide analysis of ruminant Staphylococcus aureus reveals diversification of the core genome

Staphylococcus aureus causes disease in humans and a wide array of animals. Of note, S. aureus mastitis of ruminants, including cows, sheep, and goats, results in major economic losses worldwide. Extensive variation in genome content exists among S. aureus pathogenic clones. However, the genomic variation among S. aureus strains infecting different animal species has not been well examined. To investigate variation in the genome content of human and ruminant S. aureus , we carried out whole-genome PCR scanning (WGPS), comparative genomic hybridizations (CGH), and the directed DNA sequence analysis of strains of human, bovine, ovine, and caprine origin. Extensive variation in genome content was discovered, including host- and ruminant-speciﬁc genetic loci. Ovine and caprine strains were genetically allied, whereas bovine strains were heteroge- neous in gene content. As expected, mobile genetic elements such as pathogenicity islands and bacteriophages contributed to the variation in genome content between strains. However, differences speciﬁc for ruminant strains were restricted to regions of the conserved core genome, which contained allelic variation in genes encoding proteins of known and unknown function. Many of these proteins are predicted to be exported and could play a role in host-pathogen interactions. The genomic regions of difference identiﬁed by the whole-genome approaches adopted in the current study represent excellent targets for studies of the molecular basis of S. aureus host adaptation.
Atomic Layer Deposition of Titanium Oxide on Single-Layer Graphene: An Atomic-Scale Study toward Understanding Nucleation and Growth

Controlled synthesis of a hybrid nanomaterial based on titanium oxide and single-layer graphene (SLG) using atomic layer deposition (ALD) is reported here. The morphology and crystallinity of the oxide layer on SLG can be tuned mainly with the deposition temperature, achieving either a uniform amorphous layer at 60 °C or ∼2 nm individual nanocrystals on the SLG at 200 °C after only 20 ALD cycles. A continuous and uniform amorphous layer formed on the SLG after 180 cycles at 60 °C can be converted to a polycrystalline layer containing domains of anatase TiO2 after a postdeposition annealing at 400 °C under vacuum. Using aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy (AC-TEM), characterization of the structure and chemistry was performed on an atomic scale and provided insight into understanding the nucleation and growth. AC-TEM imaging and electron energy loss spectroscopy revealed that rocksalt TiO nanocrystals were occasionally formed at the early stage of nucleation after only 20 ALD cycles. Understanding and controlling nucleation and growth of the hybrid nanomaterial are crucial to achieving novel properties and enhanced performance for a wide range of applications that exploit the synergetic functionalities of the ensemble.
Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, And The First Amendment

* Introduction Charles R. Lawrence III, Mari J. Matsuda, Richard Delgado, and Kimberl Williams Crenshaw. * Public Response to Racist Speech: Considering the Victims Story M. J. Matsuda. * If He Hollers Let Him Go: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus C. R. Lawrence III. * Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name Calling R. Delgado. * Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew Kimberl Williams Crenshaw. * Epilogue: Burning Crosses and the R.A. V. Case M. J. Matsuda and C. R. Lawrence III.
COVID-19 Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Obstetric Interventions at a Public Hospital

Introduction: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems quickly implemented changes in care delivery with a goal of balancing patient-focused obstetric care with the need to protect pregnant persons and health care providers from infection. Yet, there is no consensus within the scienti ﬁ c community on the impact these measures have on ob- stetric outcomes in vulnerable populations. We aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rates of obstetric procedures and severe maternal morbidity (SMM) among births at an urban safety net institution. Methods: We used an interrupted time series design to calculate risk ratios (RRs) and 95% con ﬁ dence intervals (CIs) comparing monthly rates of labor induction, cesarean births (overall and among nulliparous, term, singleton, vertex births), operative vaginal births, and SMM among births occurring at a public hospital before (March 1, 2016, to February 29, 2020) and during (March 1, 2020, to May 31, 2021) the COVID-19 pandemic. Results: There were 10,714 and 2,736 births in the prepandemic and postpandemic periods, respectively. Overall, the rates of obstetric interventions and SMM were constant over the two time periods. There were no signi ﬁ cant differences in rates of labor induction (42% during prepandemic period vs. 45% during pandemic period; RR,1.12; 95% CI, 0.93 – 1.34),
Eplerenone in Patients with Systolic Heart Failure and Mild Symptoms

Zannad, Faiez; McMurray, John JV; Krum, Henry; van Veldhuisen, Dirk J; Swedberg, Karl; Shi, Harry; Vincent, John; Pocock, Stuart J; Pitt, Bertram; EMPHASIS-HF Study Group; (2010) Eplerenone in patients with systolic heart failure and mild symptoms. The New England journal of medicine, 364 (1). pp. 11-21. ISSN 0028-4793 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1009492 Downloaded from: http://researchonline.lshtm. ac.uk/id/eprint/2206/ DOI: https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1009492