Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Relationship Between Psychological Resilience and Perceived Stress in Adults: The Mediating Role of General Self Efficacy Yetişkinlerde Psikolojik Sağlamlık ile Algılanan Stres Arasındaki İlişki: Genel Öz Yeterliğin Aracı Rolü

Authors Information Sinan Okur Lecturer, National Defense University, Air Force Academy, İstanbul, Turkey sokur@hho.edu. tr Durmuş Ümmet Associate Professor, Marmara University, İstanbul, Turkey dummet@marmara.edu. tr ABSTRACT In this study, it was aimed to examine the mediating role of general self efficacy in the relationship between psychological resilience and perceived stress of adult individuals. The participants of the study are 634 people, 362 women and 272 men, aged between 18 and 72. SPSS PROCESS macro plug-in was used to test the hypotheses using the data collected in the research and conditional process analysis was performed. Apart from this, the significance of the mediator variable was made using the bootstrapping method, which is considered a more modern approach today. First, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient was calculated to determine the relationship between variables, and it was found that there were significant relationships between psychological resilience, both with perceived stress and general self efficacy. In addition, a significant relationship was found between perceived stress and general self efficacy. General self efficacy was found to have a significant partial mediating role in the relationship between psychological resilience and perceived stress. The fact that the mediating role of general self efficacy in the relationship between psychological resilience and perceived stress has not been examined in the literature is considered important for this study. All the findings obtained in this direction were discussed with similar studies in the light of the literature and some suggestions were made.
Gastrointestinal cancers: new therapies bring hope after much frustration

C ollectively representing numerous distinct cancers, gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies are a major health burden worldwide. Despite the development of numerous targeted therapies that have advanced the treatment of several GI cancer types, current treatment options have aforded only modest improvements in survival. Here, we discuss how valuable insights gained from both successes and failures are fostering hope for new therapies.
Design and Empirical Testing of a Framework for Implementing PFABC Costing Systems

Performance Focused Activity Based Costing (PFABC) system is the third generation of the ABC systems. The major purposes of this study were: 1. to design a framework for identifying constructs that should be selected for successful implementation of the PFABC system? And empirically test it and 2: to explain why there is a gap between theory and practice of this system? In achieving these objectives, content analysis, contingent theory, and innovation theory were employed. The statistical population consisted of all Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) companies. In 2018, 450 questionnaires were sent to (TSE) corporate executives and 262 usable responses were collected. The Structural Modeling Equations (SME), SPSS and SMARTPLS software were employed to test related hypotheses and analyze the results. The results of the study clearly showed that environmental constructs (0.997) had the greatest impact, followed by cost constructs (0.996), technological constructs (0.993) and finally organizational constructs (0.981), respectively. However, there was no significant relationship between the desire to save, system integration, time of system implementation, and implementation of the PFABC costing system. These constructs are also the major imputes responsible for the existence of a gap between theory and practice. The application of ABC, TDABC, and PFABC among TSE firms, was 6.1%, 0.04% and 0%, accordingly. Hence, there is a huge gap between theory and practice.
Extended-range predictability of sudden stratospheric warming events suggested by mode decomposition

Abstract. Major sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) are extreme wintertime circulation events of the Arctic stratosphere that are accompanied by a breakdown of the polar vortex and are considered an important source of predictability of tropospheric weather on subseasonal to seasonal time scales over the Northern Hemisphere mid- and high- latitudes. However, SSWs themselves are difficult to forecast, with a predictability limit of around one to two weeks. The predictability limit for determining the type of event, i.e., wave-1 or wave-2 events, is even shorter. Here we analyze the dynamics of the vortex breakdown and look for early signs of the vortex deceleration process with lead times beyond the current predictability limit of SSWs. To this end, we employ a mode decomposition analysis to analyze potential vorticity (PV) equation on the 850 K isentropic surface by decomposing each term in the PV equation using the empirical orthogonal functions of the PV. The first principal component (PC) is an indicator of the strength of the polar vortex and starts to increase from around 25 days before the onset of SSWs, indicating a deceleration of the polar vortex. We then use a budget analysis based on the mode decomposition to characterize the contribution of the linear and the nonlinear PV advection terms to the rate of change (tendency) of the first PC. The linear PV advection is the main contributor to the PC tendency at 15 to 25 days before the onset of both types of SSW events. The nonlinear PV advection becomes important between 1 to 15 days before the onset of wave-2 events, while the linear PV advection continues to be the main contributor for wave-1 events. By linking the PV advection to the PV flux, we find that the linear PV flux is important for both types of SSWs from 15 to 25 days before the events but with different wave-2 spatial patterns, while the nonlinear PV flux displays a wave-3 wave pattern, which finally leads to a split of the polar vortex. The signals found here indicate that both the lead times for predicting the SSW onset and the lead times for predicting the type of the SSW event could potentially be extended beyond the current predictability limit of one to two weeks.
Intention Progression using Quantitative Summary Information

A key problem for Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents is intention progression , i.e., which plans should be selected and how the execution of these plans should be interleaved so as to achieve the agent’s goals. Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has been shown to be a promising approach to the intention progression problem, out-performing other approaches in the literature. However, MCTS relies on runtime simulation of possible interleavings of the plans in each intention, which may be computationally costly. In this paper, we introduce the notion of quantitative summary information which can be used to estimate the likelihood of conflicts between an agent’s intentions. We show how offline simulation can be used to precompute quantitative summary information prior to execution of the agent’s program, and how the precomputed summary information can be used at runtime to guide the expansion of the MCTS search tree and avoid unnecessary runtime simulation. We compare the performance of our approach with standard MCTS in a range of scenarios of increasing difficulty. The results suggest our approach can significantly improve the efficiency of MCTS in terms of the number of runtime simulations performed.
Spatial and temporal patterns of human avoidance by brown bears in a reintroduced population

Acknowledgements We thank the Forest and Wildlife Service of the Autonomous Province of Trento, and particularly Claudio Gro , for the fruitful collaboration o ered for the study. We also thank the Adamello-Brenta Natural Park. Funding came from the Autonomous Province of Trento through a formal agreement with MUSE — Museo delle Scienze, and we thank Paolo Pedrini for facilitating the agreement implementation. We are grateful to the following sta of these institutions and volunteers for their help in the field: Enrico Dorigatti, Riccardo Dorna, Alessandro Franceschini, Marzia Pin, Renato Rizzoli, Stefania Truschi, Massimo Vettorazzi, Gilberto Volcan, Matteo Zeni, Michele Zeni. Elise Zipkin kindly provided statistical advice during the analyses. Finally, we are grateful to the handling editor and two anonymous reviewers for constructive comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. Abstract
SECONDARY ETIOLOGICAL FACTORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERI-IMPLANTITIS

Purpose: The aim of this review was to investigate the potential impact of secondary etiological factors on the development of peri-implant infections. Results: During the review process we found sufficient evidence to define the following factors as secondary etiological factors for the development of peri-implantitis: a history of periodontitis; implant surface characteristics; suprastructure characteristics; cemented restorations; implant-abutment connection; smoking; diabetes and peri-implant mucosa characteristics. Conclusion: To reduce the risk of peri-implantitis, the following recommendations should be considered: (1) in partially edentulous patients, implant treatment should start after elimination of the periodontal infection and after the establishment of a stable periodontal status; (2) implants should be placed in areas where there is a minimum of 2 mm of keratinized mucosa; (3) an internal implant-abutment connection and screw-retained suprastructures are preferred; (4) suprastructures should be planned carefully to facilitate good oral hygiene; and (5) smoking cessation should be promoted and (6) only patients with controlled diabetes should undergo implant placement.
A modified integer and categorical PSO algorithm for solving integrated process planning, dynamic scheduling and due date assignment problem

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has many successful applications on solving continuous optimization problems. It has been adapted to solve discrete optimization problems using different variants, such as integer PSO (IPSO), discrete PSO (DPSO) and integer and categorical PSO (ICPSO). ICPSO, a recent PSO variant, uses probability distributions instead of the solution values. In this study, we applied ICPSO algorithm to solve dynamic integrated process planning, scheduling and due date assignment (DIPPSDDA) problem which is a higher integration level of well-known problems which are integrated process planning and scheduling (IPPS) and scheduling with due date assignment (SWDDA). Briefly, due date assignment function is integrated to IPPS problem as the third manufacturing function in DIPPSDDA. Furthermore, DIPPSDDA performs scheduling function in a dynamic environment in where jobs arrive to shop floor in any time. The objective of DIPPSDDA problem is to minimize the earliness, tardiness and given due dates length. Since the experimental results show that ICPSO does not find better solutions, crossover and mutation operators used in genetic algorithm were implemented to ICPSO, namely modified ICPSO (MICPSO). Finally, experimental results indicate that the proposed MICPSO provides better performance as compared to genetic algorithm, ICPSO and modified discrete PSO.
Effect of zinc, molybdenum and urea on chlorophyll and protein content of mungbean (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek)

HIND AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE SUMMARY The effect of zinc, molybdenum and urea has been studied on chlorophyll, nitrogen and protein content of mungbean crop. Two varieties of mungbean [Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek] i.e., Pant Mung-4 and Narendra-1 were studied in the Department of Botany, Meerut College, Meerut (U.P.) in the years 2011-2012. Simple Randomized Block Design was followed with 4 replications and 11 treatments along with control. The treatments were Zn (5, 10, 15 and 20 ppm), Mo (1, 2, 3 and 5 ppm) and urea (1% and 2%). The results were found significant of both varieties of mungbean.
Effect of modified atmosphere packaging on storability and quality attributes of fresh-cut cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp)

Purpose: Increasing demand for pre-packaged fresh-cut cowpea based on nutritional content, convenience and ready-to–use attributes is limited due to its highly perishable nature. Research method: Two experiments were conducted to investigate the shelf life and storability of fresh-cut cowpea. Fresh-cut cowpea (cv. Local Green) subjected to hydro-cooling with or without sodium hypochlorite was sealed-packaged in LDPE bags and stored at 4-5°C and 20-22°C up to 12 days. The second experiment focused on the occurrence and alleviation of chilling injury (CI) on fresh-cut cowpea (cv. Local Green and cv. Local Pink), stored at 4-5°C and 20-22°C in sealed LDPE bags after 3 and 6 days and upon transfer after 6 days at 4-5°C plus 1, 2 and 3 days at 20-22°C. Findings: Fresh-cut cowpea (Local Green cv.) was 100% marketable after 6 days in sealed LDPE bags at 4-5°C, then decreased to 70% after 12 days. At 20-22°C marketable quality ratings were 87.3% after 3 days, declined to 30% after 6 days and eventually to 100% after 12 days. Absence of chilling injury for both fresh-cut cowpea cultivars, were obtained within the initial 6 days of storage at both temperatures. After 6 days at 4-5°C plus 1, 2 and 3 days at 20-22°C, resulted in progressive increases in CI development which was higher for the Local Pink versus Local Green cultivar. Limitations: Wider range of postharvest dips required. Originality/Value: Temperature control combined with MAP prolonged shelf-life of fresh-cut cowpea and reduced incidence of chilling injury.
The effect of intraoperative Mitomycin-C in different dose schedule and time of application in Trabeculectomy

Original Research Article Background: Mitomycin-C used as adjuvant drug to enhance the outcome of trabeculectomies has no established regime regarding ideal site, dose and duration of application. The purpose of this study is to find out and compare the effect of intraoperative Mitomycin-C, in different dose schedule and time of application, emphasis being laid on intraocular pressure (IOP) lowering effect and side effects. Methods: In this prospective study, a total of 38 eyes of 28 patients were randomized into 4 groups: group A & B with 0.2mg/ml and group C & D with 0.4mg/ml mitomycin-C with one minute application repeated five times and with single five minute application respectively. All eyes undergo trabeculectomy surgery with intraoperative mitomycin-C used as per the group allocated. Surgical success was defined in terms of IOP measurements. Results: All the study groups were effective in lowering the IOP, the percentage reduction being 61.9% in group A, 54.30% in group B, 75.2% in group C, 69.9% in group D (p<0.05). The highest mean change was observed in group C as compared to group A,B&D. Postoperative bleb score was significantly higher in group D on 18 week followed by group C and A. Surgical success defined in terms of pressure control, all eyes of group C & D attained pressure reduction to 21mmHg or less without medication whereas in group A, 8 eyes (88.9%) and in group B, 6 eyes (60%) achieved complete success rate. Postoperative complications occurred more commonly in study groups in which higher concentration of Mitomycin-C was used . There was no major intraoperative complication in any of the groups. Conclusion: From the results, we suggest that the optimum dose and exposure time of Mitomycin-C in trabeculectomy may be 0.2 mg/ml, 5 applications of one minute each without increasing the complication rate.
Isolation and characterization of extracellular vesicles in saliva of children with asthma

Aim: To confirm the presence of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in cell-free saliva (CFS) of children with asthma and describe the isolated EV population. Methods: A pooled sample of CFS EVs isolated from 180 participants using ExoQuick-TC was examined in downstream analyses. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) was used to confirm the presence of EVs. Nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) and single particle interferometric reflectance imaging sensing (SP-IRIS) with fluorescence were used for sizing, counting, and phenotyping of EVs. Capillary immunoassays were used for protein quantitation. Results: TEM confirmed the presence of EVs of diverse sizes, indicating the prep contained a heterogeneous population of EVs. Capillary immunoassays confirmed the presence of EV-associated proteins (CD9, CD63, CD81, ICAM-1, and ANXA5) and indicated limited cellular contamination. As others have also reported, there were discrepancies in the EV sizing and enumeration across platforms. Fluorescent NTA detected particles with a mode diameter of ~90 nm, whereas SP-IRIS reported sizes of ~55–60 nm that more closely approximated the TEM results. Consistent with protein immunoassay results, SP-IRIS with fluorescence showed that the majority of these EVs were CD9- and CD63-positive, with little expression of CD81. Conclusion: EVs from CFS can be isolated using a high-throughput method that can be scaled to large epidemiological studies. To our knowledge, we are the first to characterize CFS EVs from patients with asthma. The use of CFS EVs as potential novel biomarkers in asthma warrants further investigation and opens a new avenue of research for future studies.
Development of a risk-oriented algorithm for the combined use of hemostatics and anticoagulants to prevent thrombosis and bleeding cases after total arthroplasty of knee or hip joints

Introduction: The goal of our study was to develop a risk-oriented algorithm for the combined use of hemostatics and anticoagulants in patients after total arthroplasty of the knee or hip joints to reduce the risk of thrombohemorrhagic complications. Materials and methods: We performed a retrospective study (n=253). In group (Gr.) 1, the time interval (TI) between the administration of hemostatic and anticoagulant prophylaxis was ≤17 hours (n=145; 57.31%), and in Gr. 2 – 18-24 hours (n=108; 42.68%). We analyzed the influence of different factors on the development of thrombosis and bleeding cases after the operation. Results and discussion: Thrombohemorrhagic complications were observed in 27 (10.67%) patients. Thrombosis in Gr. 1 was associated with the use of tranexamic acid, and were recorded 2.2 times more often than in Gr. 2 (p<0.05). The development of thrombosis in Gr. 1 was influenced by: class II obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, myocardial infarction, venous pathology, age of patients >75 years, for women – an initially low level of international normalized ratio, and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) (p<0.05). The development of bleeding in Gr. 1 was influenced by: age >75 years, among men and women – an increased preoperative level of APTT, for women – a decreased level of fibrinogen and platelets (p<0.05). Conclusion: To prevent thrombosis and bleeding after arthroplasty of large joints, the TI between the use of hemostatics and anticoagulants should be at least 18 hours, especially in patients with the above risk factors, in particular, when using tranexamic acid and low molecular weight heparins.
Bovine testicular fluid enhanced growth performance of broiler chickens

Testosterone has been reported to have anabolic influence on various organs of animals. Thus, an experiment was carried out to investigate the influence of crude testosterone in bovine testicular fluid (BTF) on the growth performance of broiler chickens. One hundred and twenty-five broiler chicks (Abore Acre) were used. They were raised for one week and randomly allotted into five treatments consisted of five replicates (five chicks per replicate) under the intensive management system. Four different levels; 25mL, 50mL, 75mL, and 100mL of bovine testicular fluid per litre of water were administered to the birds, while the control birds were offered ordinary water. Feeds (broiler starter and finisher diets) were provided ad libitum on daily basis at weeks 2-4 and 5-8, respectively and clean water was given at free choice throughout the period of the study. Average daily feed intake (ADFI), average daily water intake (ADWI), average daily weight gain (ADWG) per bird, and the feed conversion ratio (FCR) of the birds were determined. At week seven blood was sampled to assay for level of the luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), and testosterone. The results indicated that ALW and the ADWG of the T5 birds (1850.00g/bird and 43.79g/bird, respectively) were significantly (p<0.05) higher than birds in T1, T2, T3, and T4, while the ADFI of T1, T3 and T4 birds (90.33g/bird, 94.09g/bird, 90.39g/bird respectively) were significantly (P < 0.05) higher than T2 (84.60g/bird) and T5 (84.60g/bird). ADWI of the T5 and T4 birds (101.01mL/bird, and 98.68mL/bird, respectively) were significantly (P < 0.05) higher than TI (82.13mL/bird), T2 (86.50mL/bird) and T3 (93.01mL/bird) birds. Birds administered 100mL of BTF/litre (T5) had the best percentage carcass yield and feed conversion ratio of 76.60% and 2.11 respectively, among the treatments T1, T2, T3, and T4 birds. The result of the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay of the serum concentration of the sex hormones showed that the expression of the serum testosterone increased as the inclusion levels of the Bovine testicular fluid increased with birds on T5 having significantly (P < 0.05) higher values (3.64 nmol/L) than those on the control (2.60 nmol/L). However, testosterone levels in T2 (3.18 nmol/L), T3 (3.24 nmol/L) and T4 (3.40 nmol/L) was not significantly different from T5. This study suggests that 100ml of bovine testicular fluid per liter of the drinking water can be used as a growth promoter for broiler chickens.
Insights into the Potential of Pre-Processing of Ingredients to Improve their Economical Value to Aquaculture Species

Processed animal protein ingredients are valuable ingredients for aquaculture feed formulations. However, the variability of the chemical composition of different batches of these ingredients and the relatively low digestibility of some of the nutrients (i.e. amino acids, phosphorus) occasionally represent significant limitations for these ingredients at high levels in the diet of some species. Research efforts carried out at the University of Guelph explored the potential of simple and potentially costeffective processing techniques to improve the digestibility and nutritive value of these ingredients. Processing aimed at improving digestibility of phosphorus showed that incubation with different organic acids and a chelating agent and fine grinding significantly improved in vitro bio-availability of bone phosphorus of high ash poultry by-products meal. However, this processing offered no advantage in terms of in vivo digestibility of phosphorus to rainbow trout, a species with an acid stomach. The technique may be useful for species lacking an acid stomach (e.g. carps, shrimp) but this hypothesis has not been verified. In another series of research efforts, incubation of feather meals with protease and a reducing agent, aiming to disrupt residual disulphide bonds and cross-linkage of keratin, significantly improved in vivo digestibility of protein and amino acids and bio-availability of arginine of this ingredient to rainbow trout. The results illustrate the potential of simple processing techniques, based on sound chemical principles, to improve the bio-availability of nutrients of processed animal protein ingredients. However, careful animal assays need to be carried out to confirm the usefulness of these techniques in different species.