Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Optimizing Recipient Reproductive Management Using New Approaches for Synchronization

Introduction: Current economic and environmental conditions have increased awareness of farmers’ mental health. Agribusiness professionals may be important key informants to assist agricultural safety and health professionals in understanding the mental health experience of farmers and inform the potential role for their business/organization in mental health promotion. Methods: Fifteen informal interviews of agribusiness representatives were conducted at Farm Technology Days in Wood County, Wisconsin. Results and Discussion: Many interviewees commented on the mental health status of farmers in Wisconsin stating their farmers are stressed and depressed. However, agribusiness personnel were hesitant of their organization’s role in mental health promotion. Several respondents cited lack of training and confidence as barriers to addressing mental health with their clients. Others were optimistic about their organization’s role in mental health promotion; however, participation would be mostly passive, admitting mental health is a difficult topic to broach with some individuals. Conclusion: To engage agribusiness in mental health promotion, efforts to reduce the stigma of mental health disorders and increase agribusiness representatives’ confidence and skills in talking about mental health will be necessary.
Influence of Universal Basic Education on Political Development in Etung Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria

-In this study, a careful examination of influence of Universal Basic Education on Political development in Etung Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria is made. The survey research design is used. Population of the study consisted of all teachers and stakeholders of Universal Basic Education in primary schools in Etung Local Government Area. The population size therefore was three hundred and fifty (350) teachers. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select one hundred (100) respondents, forming the sample size. A structured instrument was used for data collection. Data was statistically analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis at.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that there was a significant relationship between Universal Basic Education and Political development. Based on the findings, it was recommended that teachers, managers, government and all stakeholders in the Universal Basic Education programme should be more focused and dynamic in their tasks, with the understanding that these efforts would translate into political transformation in Nigeria.
Infant Behavior and Development, in press The Influence of Maternal Anxiety and Depression Symptoms on fNIRS Brain Responses to Emotional Faces in 5- and 7-Month-Old Infants

Greater relative right (versus left) frontal cortical activation to emotional faces as measured with alpha power in the electroencephalogram (EEG), has been considered a promising neural marker of increased vulnerability to psychopathology and emotional disorders. We set out to explore multichannel fNIRS as a tool to investigate infants’ frontal asymmetry responses (hypothesizing greater right versus left frontal cortex activation) to emotional faces as influenced by maternal anxiety and depression symptoms during the postnatal period. We also explored activation differences in fronto-temporal regions associated with facial emotion processing. Ninety-one typically developing 5and 7-month-old infants were shown photographs of women portraying happy, fearful and angry expressions. Hemodynamic brain responses were analyzed over two frontopolar and seven bilateral cortical regions subdivided into frontal, temporal and parietal areas, defined by age-appropriate MRI templates. Infants of mothers reporting higher negative affect had greater oxyhemoglobin (oxyHb) activation across all emotions over the left inferior frontal gyrus, a region implicated in emotional communication. Follow-up analyses indicated that associations were driven by maternal depression, but not anxiety symptoms. Overall, we found no support for greater right versus left frontal cortex activation in association with maternal negative affect. Findings point to the potential utility of fNIRS as a method for identifying altered neural substrates associated with exposure to maternal depression in infancy.
TOWARDS EXAMINING THE LINK BETWEEN WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY, EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AND JOB SATISFACTION

This study examines the signifi cance of workplace spirituality and its infl uence on employee positive attitudes (Employee Engagement & Job Satisfaction) in the workplace. Data were collected via questionnaires from two hundred employees working in NGO’s & INGO’S by using convenience sampling technique. Results showed that spiritual workplace has huge and benefi cial outcome on worker commitment and their satisfaction level. It can be concluded that the level of employee engagement to its role and employee job satisfaction can be enhanced by focusing on the workplace spirituality in an organization. This study also defi ned others attitudes that may be enhanced by focusing on spirituality in future.
The gender gap in mental well-being during the Covid-19 outbreak: evidence from the UK

We document a decline in mental well-being after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. This decline is twice as large for women as for men. We seek to explain this gender gap by exploring gender differences in: family and caring responsibilities; financial and work situation; social engagement; health situation, and health behaviours, including exercise. Differences in family and caring responsibilities play some role, but the bulk of the gap is explained by social factors. Women reported more close friends before the pandemic than men, and increased loneliness after the pandemic's onset. Other factors are similarly distributed across genders and so play little role. Finally, we document larger declines in well-being for the young, of both genders, than the old.
SYNAPTIC MECHANISMS Plasticity of synaptic inhibition in mouse spinal cord lamina II neurons during early postnatal development and after inactivation of the glycine receptor a3 subunit gene

Synaptic inhibition mediated by GABAA receptors and glycine receptors (GlyRs) in the outer laminae of the spinal cord dorsal horn efficiently filters ascending nociceptive messages, controlling pathological pain symptoms. However, although many studies have utilized transgenic models to study spinal nociceptive processing, very little is known about the development of functional inhibitory synapses onto these interneurons in mice. Here we report that most interneurons in lamina II are placed under phasic control by both GABAergic and glycinergic synapses, a number of which exhibit dual GABA ⁄ glycine co-release. A developmental switch is also apparent: a subpopulation of lamina II interneurons controlled exclusively by either GABAergic or glycinergic synapses becomes detectable only after postnatal days 15 and 21, respectively. Using mice older than postnatal day 21, we also characterized the plastic changes in glycinergic transmission resulting from the inactivation of the GlyR a3 subunit gene, a key player in inflammatory pain pathways. This allowed us to demonstrate that synapses containing GlyR a3 contribute in large part to synaptic inhibition in lamina II. In Glra3 knockout mice, we found that synaptic currents at the remaining glycinergic synapses, containing GlyR a1, showed faster decay kinetics with unchanged amplitudes but increased frequency. These findings explain the absence of any basal nociceptive hypersensitivity in Glra3 knockout mice, as GlyR a1 is still available for mediating synaptic inhibition at lamina II synapses, but cannot be modulated by the prostaglandin–E-prostanoid type 2 (EP2) receptor–protein kinase A signalling cascade. Our results clearly demonstrate that presynaptic GABA ⁄ glycine release properties are influenced by the nature and complexity of postsynaptic inhibitory receptor subtypes.
HISTOLOGY AND HISTOCHEMICAL STRUCTURE OF THE STOMACH (PROVENTRICULUS AND VENTRICULUS) IN MOORHEN (GALLINULA CHLOROPUS) IN SOUTH IRAQ

Five moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) both sex were collected to conduct the current study. They were bought from specific markets at (AlBasra provincesIraq) from the local suppliers. Birds were euthanized prior to its dissection with an intravenous injection of sodium pentobarbitone (140 mg/kg) and dissected to the stomach the specimens were fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin and Bouin’s solution. After well fixation the specimens were dehydrated by grade ethanol and then specimens were cleared in xylene after that embedded in paraffin wax and then the blocks were sectioned at 6 μm thickness and stained with: Mayer’s hematoxylin and eosin, Masson trichrome stain, PAS and PAS-alcian blue (AB) (pH 2.5). The histological results of the wall moorhen of stomach revealed the presence of four layers of the typical tubular organ that were (mucosa, submucosa, muscularis and serosa). The mucosa lining with simple cuboidal epi. The underlying lamina propria was constructed of loose connective tissue filled with blood vessels, the submucosa of proventricular it was formed of dense connective tissue containing oval-shaped branched tubular proventriculus glands surrounded by a fibrous capsule. The ventricular of current moorhen the presence of cuticle was similar to other avian species that possessed thick cuticle layer with welldeveloped muscular stomach. The muscularis appeared as a very thick structure of smooth muscles bundles. In the moorhen, three layers of muscles were distinguished that were thin inner, outer longitudinal and very thick intermediate circular layers. Histochemically, strong PASpositive reaction in the surface mucous cells of the proventriculus. The connective tissue of the lamina propria showed moderate reaction toward PAS, whereas, submucosal glands gave negative reaction. The cuticle covering in the ventriculus showed positive reaction with PAS stain (purple color). The connective tissue gave the positive reaction with PAS and negative with AB. Keyword: Histology, Histochemical, Moorhen, Stomach.
Progress in Organic Coatings

Many insects are considered to be pests and can be serious threats to buildings. Insecticides represent an effective way to control pest insects but are harmful to the environment. As an eco-friendlier alternative, we have formulated waterborne, organic paints which provided a slippery physical barrier for leafcutter ants (Atta cephalotes) on vertical surfaces. Different paints were produced by varying the Pigment Volume Concentration (PVC) and amount of TiO2 and CaCO3 particles, and characterised in terms of contact angles, surface roughness and scrub resistance. The paints’ slipperiness for A. cephalotes ants was evaluated in climbing tests on vertical paint panels (by recording the percentage of fallen ants). Two main factors reduced the insects’ attachment to vertical paint surfaces: (1) the PVC: in paints above a critical PVC, more loose particles detach from the coating and thereby reduce insect attachment; and (2) the type, dimensions and shape of solid particles: CaCO3 particles detach more easily from the paint than TiO2, probably due to their larger size and platelet shape. Paints formulated at PVC 70 and containing 20wt% CaCO3 showed the best performance in terms of slipperiness, as well as providing good scrub resistance.
Electoral uncertainty and financial volatility: Evidence from two‐round presidential races in emerging markets

We study how the predictability and the decisiveness of electoral outcomes affect financial volatility. We argue that traders’ optimal investment strategies depend on their ability to make accurate electoral forecasts and the prospective losses associated with placing a bet on the wrong candidate. Using a triple difference-in-differences approach and data from two-round presidential elections in five Latin American countries between 1999 and 2018, we find that financial volatility is greatest in the days immediately following unpredictable, decisive, elections. Post-electoral volatility also occurs following predictable, indecisive elections. The effect of learning the identity of the winning candidate on financial volatility is null when the election is unpredictable and indecisive; as well as when the election is decisive, but the outcome is predictable. These findings offer insights to investors seeking to hedge price risk around elections. They also have important implications regarding the relationship between public opinion polls and post-electoral financial volatility. * Forthcoming in Economics & Politics
Resilience and green spaces: association with stress among contact centre agents in the Philippines

The work environment in Philippine contact centres had been shown to expose employees to factors that contribute to work-related stress; health promotion strategies that could mitigate the impacts are needed. With the framework that stress is experienced as a result of the interactions of an individual with the environment, this study examined the relationship of stress with individual resilience and the presence of urban green spaces (UGS) in the environment. The study involved employees (N = 186) from six contact centres in the capital region of the Philippines, where a large number of contact centre service providers are located. A two-stage survey was administered online using standardised instruments to measure stress (10-item Perceived Stress Scale) and resilience (Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale), customised questions to gather demographic information, and open-ended questions to probe on insights of participants. Google Earth Pro was used to conduct satellite mapping of UGS, followed by on-site ocular inspection. This study revealed that the average stress level of participants was high. The percentages of UGS in the vicinity of the study sites were categorised as low. Linear regression revealed that amongst individual and environment factors, resilience, household income, and awareness of UGS in the vicinity were significant predictors of stress levels. Health promotion in Philippine contact centres could consider strategies that include resilience building, enhancing income security, and promoting the awareness of UGS within the workplace vicinity.
Evidence for a pervasive autobiographical memory impairment in Logopenic Progressive Aphasia: clinical and neural correlates

Logopenic Progressive Aphasia is a rare language disorder characterised by repetition and naming difficulties, reflecting the progressive degeneration of left-lateralized peri-sylvian temporal and inferior parietal regions. Mounting evidence suggests that cognitive impairments in this syndrome extend beyond the language domain to include episodic encoding and retrieval disturbances. To date, it remains unknown whether autobiographical memories from across the lifespan are also subject to decline, yet this information is critical to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of the Logopenic syndrome. The objective of this study was to provide the first in depth examination of autobiographical memory function in Logopenic Progressive Aphasia using the Autobiographical Interview, a validated semi-structured interview which assesses recollection of the past under free and probed recall conditions. Autobiographical memory performance in 10 well-characterised Logopenic Progressive Aphasia patients was contrasted with that of 18 typical amnestic Alzheimers disease and 16 healthy Control participants. Relative to Controls, Logopenic Progressive Aphasia cases showed marked impairment in the free recall of episodic details, scoring comparably to disease-matched cases of Alzheimers disease. This impairment was evident across all time periods and persisted even when formal structured probing was provided. Importantly, controlling for overall level of language disruption failed to ameliorate the autobiographical memory impairment in the Logopenic Progressive Aphasia group, suggesting a genuine amnesia spanning recent and remote memories. Whole-brain voxel-based morphometry analyses revealed that total episodic information retrieved in Logopenic Progressive Aphasia was associated with decreased grey matter intensity predominantly in a bilateral posterior parietal network. Taken together, our findings reveal for the first time the presence of marked remote and recent autobiographical memory impairments in Logopenic Progressive Aphasia, that cannot be explained solely due to their language difficulties or disease staging. Our findings hold important clinical implications for the accurate characterization of Logopenic Progressive Aphasia, and suggest that episodic memory difficulties should be considered as one of the core clinical features of this syndrome.
Plakophilin-2 loss promotes TGF-β1/p38 MAPK-dependent fibrotic gene expression in cardiomyocytes

Loss of the desmosome armadillo protein Plakophilin-2 in neonatal cardiomyocytes results in decreased stability and expression of the cytoskeletal linker protein Desmoplakin, which causes activation of a TGF-β1/p38 MAPK signaling cascade and induces expression of fibrotic genes.
A Preliminary Exploration of Teachers’ Attitudes towards Intercultural Communication through ELF

The present paper draws attention to the intercultural nature of English used as a lingua franca in flexible, dynamic and evolving communicative settings and consequently, to the need for language teachers to become aware of the multifaceted English world, where goals and purposes for using English are constantly challenged and re-created. Drawing on the connection between Intercultural communication research and ELF findings, the paper aims to provide empirically-grounded suggestions for language teachers in the hope to stimulate reflections on the role of intercultural aspects in classroom approaches and therefore, encourage to incorporate ELF-oriented pedagogies in well-established teaching practices. In light of a theoretical background, an exploration of language teachers’ attitudes towards ELF and intercultural issues will be conducted and the initial results of a preliminary study presented. Finally, implications for language teaching will be offered.
Combined influence of inorganics and transport limitations on the pyrolytic behaviour of woody biomass

Combined Influence of Inorganics and Transport Limitations on the Pyrolytic Behaviour of Woody Biomass Hernán Almuina-Villar*, Peter Sommersacher, Stefan Retschitzegger, Andrés Anca-Couce , Alba Dieguez-Alonso a Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Energy Engineering, Seestr. 13 13353 Berlin, Germany b BEST – Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH, Inffeldgasse 21b, A-8010 Graz, Austria c Technische Universität Graz, Institute of Thermal Engineering, Inffeldgasse 25B 8010 Graz, Austria h.almuinavillar@tu-berlin.de
AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF A MULTIPLE-TUNED- MASS-DAMPER-STRUCTURE SYSTEM WITH SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION

A tuned mass damper (TMD) is a popular vibration control device commonly used in buildings to resist wind and seismic loading. This is achieved through tuning the natural frequency of the damper to that of the building in the case of fixed-base conditions, or to that of a soil-structure system when soil-structure interaction (SSI) plays a significant role. The conventional design of a TMD is based on the control and reduction of the largest modal structural response which may cause the most damage to the structure in which it is to be installed (Ghosh & Basu, 2004). A single-tuned-mass-damper (STMD) can be used to reduce the peak accelerations and displacements of a multiple-degrees-offreedom (MDOF) structure. However, with the aim of reducing the likelihood of de-tuning from occurring through distributing the natural frequencies of several TMDs around the pre-dominant modal frequency of the structure, the use of multiple-tuned-mass-dampers (MTMDs) is recommended. Through the conduct of small-scale shaking table tests on a MDOF sway frame structure overlying a level sand bed of high relative density, this study aims to investigate the performance of a range of MTMD configurations in the context of a MDOF soil-structure-MTMD system with higher modes. This paper demonstrates the potential effectiveness of tuning MTMDs to higher mode frequencies and shows that when tuning MTMDs to the frequency of the dominant mode of excitation and placing these on consecutive storeys: (i) they can be more effective in attenuating a soil-structure system's response than when using a greater number of MTMDs, and (ii) they result in significantly more damping than when placing the same number of MTMDs on non-adjacent storeys.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Poverty and Covid-19 in Developing Countries

In March 2020, shelter-in-place and social-distancing policies have been enforced or recommended all over the world to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. However, strict containment is hardly achievable in low-income countries, as large parts of population are forced to continue income-generating activities to escape extreme poverty or hunger. To assess the trade-off between poverty and a higher risk of catching COVID-19, we use regional mobility to work and poverty rates across 241 regions of 9 countries from Latin America and Africa. With a difference-in-difference approach around the time of lockdown announcements, we measure the differential time variation in work mobility between high and low-poverty regions. We find that the degree of work mobility reduction is significantly driven by the intensity of poverty. Consistently, human movements vary significantly more between poverty levels when it come to work rather than less vital activities. We also estimate how higher poverty rates translate into a faster spread of COVID-19 cases through the channel of work mobility.
SDS- PAGE STUDY ON LEPTOSPIRA AUTUMNALIS PROTEIN DAMAGE DUE TO PHYLLANTHUS AMARUS AND ECLIPTA ALBA

Leptospirosis is a potentially fatal infectious disease which is neglected and very widely prevalent in India causing a major public health problem. The present leptospiral research is focused on Leptospira autumnalis protein damage due to Phyllanthus amarus and Eclipta alba. SDS – PAGE study on Leptospira autumnalis protein damage by both extract treated sample damaged 65 kDa region, a major outer protein (Sphingomyelinase). Interestingly Phyllanthus amarus treated leptospira protein additionally damaged 25 kDa region, inner membrane protein. Protein damage were reported at various levels in Phyllanthus amarus than Eclipta alba. Further in-depth analysis of phytochemical plant compounds against the leptospiral proteins will reduce the side effects produced by synthetic drugs.
Smokeless tobacco: Knowledge, attitudes and use among adults in Lagos, South-West, Nigeria

Background: Smokeless tobacco (SLT) use leads to nicotine addiction and is associated with several health problems. However, it may be perceived as a safe alternative to cigarettes resulting in a potential for increased use among smokers and non-smokers alike. We assessed the pattern of smokeless tobacco use, as well as, the knowledge and attitudes towards SLT among adult residents in Lagos, South West Nigeria.