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Late Cretaceous Notogoneus from Microvertebrate Assemblages of the Dinosaur Park Formation, Campanian of Southern Alberta, Canada, and Insight into the Ecology and Evolution of Early Gonorynchids

ABSTRACT We here report the first documented occurrence of a gonorynchiform from the Mesozoic of Canada, represented by disarticulated material recovered from multiple localities in the Lethbridge Coal Zone, in the Late Cretaceous Campanian upper Dinosaur Park Formation of southern Alberta. Despite the preservation of these specimens as disarticulated and isolated microvertebrate material, we can identify this fish as the gonorynchid Notogoneus. Although this material was recovered from estuarine settings, the local environment was freshwater, and this occurrence does not constitute evidence that this species of Notogoneus was amphidromous, as has previously been hypothesized for early gonorynchids. We offer suggestions regarding the whole-body anatomy of the fish represented in our sample through comparisons with articulated specimens of Notogoneus osculus from the Green River Formation as well as with modern comparative material. Such details include a narrow mouth in a ventral position and probable possession of branchial tooth plates, from which aspects of the ecology of this fish can be deduced, such as durophagy and a probable demersal environmental preference. Additionally, these comparisons highlight the mosaic evolution of early gonorynchids, combining a primitively chanid-like vertebral anatomy and a more derived, Gonorynchus-like jaw.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Risk of Allergic Sensitisation in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

W Feleszko, M Ruszczynski, J Jaworska, A Strzelak, BM Zalewski, M Kulus. Arch Dis Child. 2014;99:985–992 Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in children is associated with respiratory infections, impaired lung function, and increased risk of asthma. The association between ETS and total and specific immunoglobulin (Ig)E has not been extensively investigated. The meta-analysis included studies with participants aged 0 to 18 years from nonselected, random populations reporting the effects of postnatal ETS exposure on total IgE (tIgE) …
Completely Decentralized Design of Distributed Observer for Linear Systems

This article presents a decentralized design of a distributed state observer for a continuous-time linear time-invariant plant. The plant is monitored by a group of agents and each agent's measurement of the plant's state suffers from lack of detectability with the plant dynamics. Then the missing information (i.e., the undetectable portion) is compensated by a local communication with the neighboring agents. In particular, when the local observer for each agent is designed, no global information such as the structure of network and the number of agents is needed, and so, the decentralized design is achieved. Therefore, the plug-and-play operation is enabled; that is, during the operation, a new agent can design a local observer for itself without any global information and join the network, and any agent may leave the network without hampering the operation as long as the rest of the agents remain detectable. The main idea is to let each agent recover its own detectable part while the undetectable part is compensated by a projection of the neighbors' estimates into the receiver's undetectable subspace. An adaptive algorithm for individual agent is designed in order to find suitable gains for compensating the undetectable portion. Simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed design.
Unsupervised anomaly detection system for railway turnout based on GAN

With the rapid development of society, the railway system plays an important role in human life, and the safety of railways has become an extremely important task. As we all know, the switch is one of the important equipment to ensure the safe operation of trains. Real-time detection of the turnout current plays a vital role in train safety. However, the previous signal-based processing methods require a large number of feature engineering, which greatly increases the workload of pre-processing. Some neural network-based methods show good performance, but for the time series data of the switch, these methods cannot fully extract its local features, resulting in poor information loss and poor prediction accuracy. Based on the generational confrontation network, this paper proposes a kind of unsupervised anomaly detection system. We combine the one-dimensional convolution with the Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). The one-dimensional convolution network can effectively extract the local features of the time series. The GAN can self-game learning to sample distribution and is better than self-encoder and other models, which improves the accuracy of prediction. In the real railway system, abnormal data is extremely rare and varied, while unsupervised learning does not require label data, and it can well learn the distribution of normal samples. The system improves the efficiency of the staff, accurately diagnoses the switch, greatly shortens the processing time, and avoids the blindness in maintenance. Using our model on the turnout data, the accuracy rate is 0.992, the recall rate is 0.815, and the F1 score is 0.895.
The effect of an islamic praise (Zikr) on postoperative anxiety of patients undergoing coronary artery bypasses graft surgery: A randomized clinical trial on Iranian Shia Muslims

Background: Patients undergoing heart surgery experience different levels of anxiety that may affect their recovery. Objectives: As it is essential to use low-cost and non-invasive methods for these patients, wedecided to assess the effect of an Islamic praise (Zikr) on patients' anxiety after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Methods: In this trial, 80 hospitalized patients, who underwent CABG surgery at Busheher Bentolhoda Hospital, Iran, were randomly allocated to intervention (n = 40) and control (n = 40) groups. We asked patients in the intervention group to recite Hazrate Zahra's praises while they received routine care, and in the control group patients received only routine care. In both groups, anxiety was assessed at three consecutive days before and immediately after the intervention. Data was collected by demographic and clinical checklist and hospital anxiety depression scale (HADS). Results: There was no significant difference between patients' anxiety of both groups before the intervention (P > 0.05), while after the intervention a significant difference was seen in anxiety between patients, who had recited the praise and those who had not, on all three days (P≤0.001). Also, in the intervention group, before and after the recitation, a significant difference was seen during three days (for three days P ≤ 0.001), but no significant difference was indicated before and after the intervention in the control group (P = 0.423, P = 0.541 and P = 0.621, respectively). Conclusions: Recitation of Hazrate Zahra's praises was effective on patients' anxiety reduction after CABG surgery among Shia Muslims.
Rubella and CMV Antibodies Screening During Pregnancy - A Retrospective Study in a Tertiary Hospital

Background: In India, RUBELLA & CMV Antibodies screening is routinely carried out, but due to absence of clear intervention, its value is questionable. This retrospective study evaluated the usefulness of rubella & cmv antibody screening during pregnancy. Methods: Blood is collected from pregnant women & children, tested for rubella and CMV specific IgM Antibody by capture ELISA. The data were analysed to determine the incidence of rubella &CMV infection during pregnancy & in congenital infections. Results: In asymptomatic pregnancy females (n=252) rubella positivity was 1.58% and in woman with BOH (n=110) it was 3.66%, while CMV passivity was 2.9% in both asymptomatic and BOH women. In children (n=100) the overall positivity for rubella and CMV specific IgM antibodies was 7.5% and 12.5% respectively. The incidence of rubella and CMV infections in pregnant women & women with BOH has declined. In children, also the congenital rubella syndrome has declined but for the past 5 years the incidence of CMV infection remained same without any change. Conclusions: The incidence of rubella over the past 5 years can be reduced after giving the rubella vaccine to school going girls & women with reproductive age apart from routine vaccine. But CMV infection is a big problem due to unavailability of vaccine & safe treatment against CMV infection, so routine screening for rubella and CMV should be reserved for women with obstetric complications only.
Audit Committee Characteristics, Board Diversity, and Fraudulent Financial Reporting in Malaysia

We investigate the relationship between audit committee characteristics, board diversity, and the propensity of committing fraud among Malaysian firms. Based on a matched-pair sample of 64 observations for the years 2002–2014, we find limited evidence to suggest that audit committee characteristics matters. However, we find a negative relationship between the percentage of female directors and the likelihood of fraud. Results highlight the importance of the audit committee (in) effectiveness and the relative importance of female directors in Malaysia. Our results are robust when we consider a structural change in corporate governance policies in Malaysia.
Entrepreneurial passion and a firm’s innovation strategies

ABSTRACT Drawing upon the role of affect in the entrepreneurship model and the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, this study surveyed 195 entrepreneurs in Vietnam and found that entrepreneurial passion has a positive effect on a firm’s exploratory innovation strategies and a complex inverted U-shaped effect on the exploitative innovation strategies. These results extend the literature on entrepreneurial emotions and underscore the need to depart from the simplistic linear association between entrepreneurial passion and firm-level indicators. Furthermore, this study enriches our understanding of three types of entrepreneurs’ social identities by supporting their contingent effects on the links between passion and innovation strategies.
Interactions of cells with nanotopography

During the last 30 years, the semiconductor industry has had a significant influence on our society through advances in computers, communications, energy, and transportation. Semiconductor technology exploded following the development of exquisitely precise and versatile miniaturisation techniques that allowed features on computer chips to be reduced to submicron dimensions. In addition, microfabrication tools developed for the microelectronics industry have also entered the basic science arena and are beginning to serve as a driving force for discovery in cell biology, and tissue engineering in the utilisation of this technology for fabricating precisely defined cell devices. Recent advances in semiconductor technology have enabled scientists to fabricate devices in the nanometer range. In this thesis electron beam lithography was employed to fabricate nanometric pillars in quartz, which were then reversed embossed into a range of biocompatible polymers generating a relief pattern of nanopits. The effects of this type of topography on cell behaviour was then investigated using a combination of light, fluorescence, video scanning electron and atomic force microscopies. The results of using this type of topography revealed a marked decrease in cell adhesion, this was due to the super-hydrophobicity generated by fabricating ordered nanotopography. This reduction in cell adhesion had subsequent effects on cell behaviour, namely increased motility, a reduction in cell and focal adhesion size coupled with a disruption in cytoskeletal development. The work carried out in this thesis have possible implications for the future design of biomaterial implant surfaces as well as possible uses in the design of future in-vitro tissue engineering devices where the lack of cell adhesion in specific regions is a desirable outcome.
Evaluation of femoral neck shaft angle on plain radiographs and its clinical implications

Background: The femoral neck-shaft angle is the measurement of the angle formed between the oblique oriented neck with the vertical shaft and is an important anatomic measurement for the evaluation of biomechanics of hip. The neck shaft angle is important in surgeries that involve the neck of femur, Intertrochanteric fractures, slipped capital femoral epiphysis, and developmental dysplasia of hip. Different variation of neck shaft angle has been seen in different literature and all the orthopedic implants are designed according to the values of the western literature which is different from the Indian subcontinent . Methods: Pelvic radiographs of patients who presented to Accident and emergency care or the outpatient department were used in the study 110 patients radiographs were assessed in the study. There were 55 males and 55 females in our study. The mean age for males was 46.5 years and that for females was 43.2 years. The pelvis radiographs were studied for neck shaft angle . The measurements were performed bilaterally on the digital screen using the PACS (picture archiving and communication system) with handheld 360 degree goniometer. Results: The mean neck shaft angle in our study was129.26 degree for males and 126.62 degree for females . The overall mean neck shaft angle in 110 radiographs was 128.60 degree . Conclusions: We conclude that consideration of neck shaft angles in orthopedics surgery and designing of implant can give more angle options for the surgeons which can improve the overall prognosis of the patient.
Social Media Effect, Investor Recognition and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

Investor recognition affects cross-sectional stock returns. In informationally incomplete markets, investors have limited recognition of all securities, and their holding of stocks with low recognition requires compensation for being imperfectly diversified. Using the number of posts on the Chinese social media platform Guba to measure investor recognition of stocks, this paper provides a direct test of Merton's investor recognition hypothesis. We find a significant social media premium in the Chinese stock market. We further find that including a social media factor based on this premium significantly improves the explanatory power of Fama-French factor models of cross-sectional stock returns, and these results are robust when we control for the mass media effect and liquidity effect. Finally, we find that investment strategies based on the social media factor earn sizable risk-adjusted returns, which signifies the importance of the social media premium in portfolio management.
Spider assemblage (Arachnida: Araneae) in a riparian firefly sanctuary of Sungai Chukai, Terengganu, Malaysia.

Sungai Chukai is a riparian sanctuary for synchronize firefly population. In riparian ecosystem, spider acts as top-invertebrate predator influencing the food-web. A survey of spider was conducted in Sungai Chukai, Terengganu, Malaysia. The objective of this study was to identify the assemblage of spider in the riparian area. Samples were collected in six sampling occasions from December 2017 to May 2018 using sweep net at both day and night. Collection of samples was done at 20 sampling points along the riverbanks with an averaged interval of 200 meter between each point. A total of 149 spider individuals from seven families (Araneidae, Clubionidae, Oxyopidae, Salticidae, Sparassidae, Tetragnathidae and Thomisidae) and 26 morphospecies were successfully collected. The most abundant family was Thomisidae (50 individuals; 33.56%) followed by Sparassidae (49 individuals; 30.87%) and Salticidae (24 individuals; 16.11%). There is no significant difference (p>0.05) for spider population between night and day. Three spider guilds had been identified according to its foraging pattern which are the orb-weaver, running hunter and ambush hunter. There is strong positive correlation between Araneidae and Dysderidae, Oxyopidae and Salticidae while Dysderidae is negatively correlated Nur-Athirah Abdullah, Izfa Riza Hazmi, Lailatul-Nadhirah Asri, Norela Sulaiman, Azman Sulaiman, Shahril Mod Husin and Engku Muhamad Faris Engku Nasrullah Satiman 1362 Pertanika J. Trop. Agric. Sc. 42 (4): 1361 1373 (2019) with Thomisidae and Sparassidae. This study adds to the inventories of spiders in Peninsular Malaysia.
Risk/Benefit Discussion of Alcohol Use Disorder Medications: BehavioralEconomic Considerations and General Recommendations

Background: Despite the development of several relatively safe and effective medications to treat alcohol use disorder (AUD), underutilization of these medications continues to be a challenge. With other factors, judgments about medications’ risks and benefits can influence prescribers’ practices and patients’ acceptance of these medications. Objective: Describe how behavioral economic principles and presentation of risks/benefits of AUD medications can impact these medications’ utilization and suggest guidelines for how prescribers should describe these medications to patients. Methods: Literature selected by the authors was used in this commentary and formulation of guidelines. Results: Behavioral economic principles relevant to judging risks and benefits of AUD medications include salience, recency, the halo effect, narrative thinking, avoiding cognitive dissonance, and patients’ interoceptive effects. Benefits of reduced alcohol use may be too abstract without elaboration. Medications are more likely to be taken by patients who envision their benefits as salient, prompt, and consistent with other ideas they have about their alcohol use and/or tailored to their psychological state. Explaining risks and benefits using established quantitative and qualitative terms has predictable effects on patients’ perceptions. Risk/benefit discussion should be bi-directional between patient and provider, personalized to issues valued by each patient, and tailored to the individual’s alcoholinduced state. We propose methods to improve information transfer and reduce biased decision making. Conclusion: Whether and how a risk/benefit discussion of AUD medications is conducted can influence utilization of these medications.
Subordinate–Supervisor Friendship in Cyberspace: A Typological and Comparative Analysis of Hotel Employees

Individuals’ social and professional arenas entangle so easily today with the rise of social networking sites (SNS). Drawing upon the boundary and social exchange theories, this study investigates whether supervisor–subordinate interactions in cyberspace will spill over to the workplace. A two-dimensional typology of hotel employees is delineated on the basis of their SNS interaction behaviors. The moderating effect of individual type is also investigated. The results indicate that supervisor–subordinate SNS interactions could transition to favorable leader–member exchanges in the workplace that, in turn, promote employees’ organizational citizenship behaviors. In addition, the impact of SNS interaction on leader–member exchange is stronger for employees with proactive personalities and self-disclosure tendencies. This study fills the void of inadequate empirical literature on hierarchical friendship in cyberspace and advances research on the moderating effect of employee personality. Managerial implications are also discussed.
Citizen Satisfaction With Private Police in Russia: Does Satisfaction With Public Police Matter?

In this study, we assess citizens’ satisfaction with private security guards (PSGs) and whether contact experience and their assessment about the guards’ competence in their work and procedural fairness in their interactions influence their satisfaction. We also examine whether their general satisfaction with public police mediates the factors that influence their satisfaction with PSGs. Results from a sample of 364 respondents from the city of St. Petersburg show that citizens come in contact with private police in large numbers as they do with public police. Findings suggest that citizens’ judgments of effectiveness and procedural fairness of private police appear to be the strongest predictors of citizens’ satisfaction with PSGs. In addition, respondents’ satisfaction with private police on various dimensions of professionalism, effectiveness, and procedural fairness of PSGs is partially mediated by citizen satisfaction with public police, a finding that does not hold for those who had contact with PSGs. We discuss implications in light of strengthening training protocols by incorporating procedural justice issues to highlight citizen-guard interactions, as well as to enhance self-legitimacy of guards.
The Relationship Between Serum Levels of Troponin I and Myocardial Function in Neonates Under Mechanical Ventilation

Background: Some of the severe diseases in the neonatal period lead to a myocardial injury that, if not detected promptly, would aﬀect prognosis. Detection of acquired myocardial injury in the early stages of the diseases may be possible with simultaneous examination by echocardiography and determination of serum troponin I levels. Methods: Inthiscross-sectionalstudy,betweenDecember2016andDecember2018,myocardialfunctionof 60(33males,27females) term neonates with a mean birth weight 3175.5 ± 441.18 grams who were at least 72 hours under ventilation, was studied using conventional and tissue Doppler echocardiography and measuring serum troponin I levels by ELFA method. Results: Mean and standard deviation of serum troponin I level, left and right MPI in neonates under study were 0.22 ± 0.64, 40.11 ± 0.11, and 0.41 ± 0.13, respectively. The correlation coeﬃcient between serum troponin I level related to right MPI was +0.502 (P < 0.001) and left myocardial performance index was +0.524 (P < 0.001), and other criteria correlated to troponin I on right side of heart were Em, Sm, TAPSE, TR gradient in patients with PH was related to troponin I levels (P < 0.001). Conclusions: Serum level of troponin I is helpful in determination of right and left myocardial dysfunction especially in the presence of pulmonary hypertension in the neonates under mechanical ventilation. diastolic) in the We of valves. Tricuspid systolic excoriation tricuspid M-mode. Doppler study of and left ventri-cles, (early diastolic diastolic
THE EFFECT OF SPACING BETWEEN GEOGRID AND FOOTING LENGTH ON RECTANGULAR FOOTING UNDER ECCENTRIC LOAD

Designing a foundation needs to be done carefully because of its important function to support the upper structure, including the soil condition. The soil must be able to withstand the load which applied above it. Recently, a lot of construction was built in areas with an insufficient bearing capacity of soil due to the limitation of the area. Therefore, It is needed to reinforce the soil and improve the bearing capacity by adding synthetic materials, such as geogrid. In this study, sand soil with a relative density of 80% will be tested under several variations in the length of the foundation (L) and vertical spacing between geogrid layers (h). The tests were carried out in the laboratory using rectangular footing with 10×12 cm, 10×14 cm, 10×16 cm in sizes and vertical spacing between geogrid layers 1 cm, 2 cm, 3 cm. The loading test was carried out using hydraulic jack and load cell on the model with eccentricity (e) 1 cm and the number of geogrid reinforcement (n) 3 layers. To observe the settlement that occurs, the value of the digital dial gauge was read every 50 kilos. The reinforced models, both L and h variation, showing the greater value of bearing capacity than the unreinforced model. Based on the analysis results, the test model produces the maximum of Bearing Capacity Ratio (BCR) 1.75 when the dimension of the rectangular footing is 10×12 cm and vertical spacing between geogrid layers is 3 cm.