Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Factors associated with dental erosions in gastroesophageal reflux disease: a cross-sectional study in patients with heartburn

Background and aim Dental erosion (DE) represents a frequent condition in adults and the elderly. The gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is considered an important endogenous factor causing dental erosions. The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of DE in GERD patients and to establish the correlation between pathogenic intrinsic and extrinsic factors of DE and their relation to GERD. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted on 263 patients (median age 43). Patients with heartburn were recruited in two countries with different prevalence of GERD. Patients were recruited from France (n=158, 60%) and Romania (n=105, 40%) including 163 females and 100 males. The Basic Erosive Wear Examination (BEWE) index for diagnosis and evaluation of dental erosion was used. Based on the value of BEWE score, each patient was included in a risk group for DE development (low risk: BEWE=3–8, medium risk: BEWE=9–13, high risk: BEWE ≥14). Patients filled a questionnaire regarding GERD symptoms, medications, life style. Salivary parameters (pH and buffering capacity) were also assessed and analyzed. Results DE was significantly more frequent and more severe in GERD subjects than in the non-GERD controls. Low salivary pH but not salivary buffering capacity was associated with BEWE scores. Buffering capacity however was significantly more altered in patients with BEWE score over 9 (medium DE) than in patients with mild DE (BEWE <9). Although extrinsic factors (consumption of citrus fruits, soda drinks) were associated with DE in GERD, there was no statistical correlation with the BEWE score. From the total of 263 patients, 229 (87.1%) presented BEWE score <9, and 34 (12.9%) presented BEWE ≥9. The DE was significantly associated with the presence of GERD (p<0.001). BEWE score >9 was more frequently present in GERD patients (30 patients: 21.3%) than in non GERD patients (4 patients: 3.3%). DE were more frequent in French subjects compared to Romanian subjects. Romanians had lower BEWE scores than the French. Conclusions DE is more frequent and more severe with GERD vs. non-GERD. DE in GERD is associated with extrinsic dietary factors like citrus fruits and soda drinks.
Experimental sites and encounters: Open formats as catalysts for the renewal of ethnographic arts

The text engages with the rise of collaborative methods in anthropology against the background of a transformation in anthropological knowledge production, itself part of a wider scientific and academic institutional project. It describes art and design-inspired methodological experiments presented at the first workshop of the European Association of Social Anthropologists’ #Colleex network (Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation) ‘Ethnographic Experimentation. Fieldwork Devices and Companions’, held in Lisbon July 2017. It foregrounds a mode of research explored there addressed as ‘open formats’. These are different from the critical approaches mostly seen hitherto, generally being focused on the production of venues or opportunities for knowledge creation. Three illustrations of these situations are presented.
Tinnitus: present and future

The phenomena we call tinnitus have been reported for more than 5000 years. Still, the quest for effective treatments continues. Tinnitus is a symptom and not a disease. It has been defined as the subjective perception of sound occurring in the absence of externally evoking auditory stimuli. Tinnitus may correlate with alterations in spontaneous auditory neural activity, and a connection appears to exist between many forms of stress and tinnitus. Tinnitus is neither simply nor narrowly represented in the nervous system, and contemporary research has focused on central and peripheral generators of tinnitus. Because tinnitus has many forms and accompanies many pathologies, it is understandable that no single effective management has emerged. Many management options may be required in the future to address the number and diversity of tinnitus cases. These management options likely will be the result of present neurophysiologically or pharmacologically based investigations.
Toxicity of Bt crystal protein Cry55Aa against pest of tomato and model nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans

Bioefficacy of Cry55Aa protein was tested against a model nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans and tomato pests viz. Helicoverpa armigera, Spodoptera litura, Tuta absoluta and Meloidogyne incognita. When tested against Caenorhabditis elegans in lawn feeding method, 10.00 percent mortality was observed with severe inhibition of growth on surviving nematodes and live worms looked very sick and did not produce progeny. Bioassay on tomato against H. armigera, S. litura, T. absoluta showed that the Cry55Aa is not effective against these insects. When the protein was tested against root knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita, a decrease in Gall Index was observed. Besides, significant reduction in number of galls, number of females, number of egg mass and number of eggs per egg mass was also observed.
Outsourcing of IT and Absorptive Capacity: A Multiple Case Study in the Brazilian Insurance Sector

Sources of external knowledge are critical to the implementation of strategies to achieve innovation, especially in the case of information technology. The concept of absorptive capacity reflects the ability of firms to obtain, assimilate, combine, and extract advantages from external knowledge to generate innovations. The objective of this multiple case study was to investigate how outsourcing of IT can influence the absorptive and innovative capacity of organizations, focused on the insurance sector. The results of comparing four insurers with different degrees of innovation and adoption of IT outsourcing indicate that the connections between the strategy of relationship with suppliers and the stance of the IT area of the cliente company, and its previous activity and level of knowledge, are essential to determine the absorptive and innovative capacity. Besides this, companies that neglect outsourcing of IT to leverage their absorptive and innovative capacity can suffer significant harm regarding the use of resources, agility, and competitiveness.
Version Neighbourhood Turnover and Teenage Attainment

Theories about neighbours’ influence on children’s education that are based on social capital, cohesion, and disorganisation stress the importance of neighbourhood stability. This is because stability is regarded as necessary for building strong ties and friendships, which in turn affect educational outcomes. However, amongst the vast number of studies on the effect of neighbours on a child’s education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of residential turnover on student test score gains. Estimation is based on administrative data on four cohorts of secondary school students in England, allowing us to control for pupil-level, neighbourhood-level, and school-by-cohort level unobservables and for changes in neighbourhood composition driven by students’ residential mobility. We show that a high turnover of same-school-grade students reduces value added for teenagers who stay in their neighbourhood, although turnover of other age groups does not matter. These results coupled with auxiliary findings based on survey data suggest that neighbours’ turnover damages education through the disruption of local ties and friendships, highlighting a so-far undiscovered spillover of mobility. (JEL: C21; I20, R23)
Neurobiological Perspectives on Body Psychotherapy

Christian Gottwald is particularly qualified to delineate a shared neuropsychological/ body-psychotherapeutic perspective, given his extraordinarily broad and multifaceted training and wide range of clinical experience. As neurologist, psychiatrist, medical psychotherapist, former scientific assistant and later director of the outpatient psychotherapy clinic at the University of Mainz, he is very familiar with the medical model. At the same time he went through a number of psychotherapy trainings, aside from his work as psychoanalyst and teaching analyst, including Organismic Psychotherapy (Malcolm Brown), Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor, and Hakomi Experiential Psychology. Additionally, he was trained in Gestalt therapy and has participated in other trainings in the tradition of humanistic psychology. Aside from his work in private practice in Munich since 1980, he works as lecturer, trainer, and supervisor. Dr. Gottwald is a member of the Hakomi faculty in Germany, and has expressed his view on how neuropsychological research might inform psychotherapeutic perspectives in numerous publications and presentations. His area of specialization is “Awareness-Centered Body Psychotherapy”.
Effect of rumen-protected methionine supplementation to diets of Holstein dairy cows on their lactation performance

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of rumen-protected methionine supplementation to diets of high producing Holstein dairy cows on milk yield and milk chemical composition. Ninety-nine pregnant Holstein dairy cows were randomly assigned to three nutritional groups to receive a total mixed ration and supplemented with rumen protected methionine (RPM) as; Smartamin (T1) or Met55 (T2) or non-supplemented (the control), at 260 days late gestation. Although, the two treated groups, (T1 and T2) were daily supplemented with RPM for 30 days pre- and another 30 days post-partum; different experimental groups including the control one were daily provided with 60 g/h choline chloride (Reashour) and 300 cm3 propylene glycol/ h, as an additional supply, during the same treating periods. Different experimental groups were fed a basal ration (16.2 CP % and 70 TDN %) during pregnancy and (16.4 CP % and 74 TDN %) during lactation. Results obtained showed that, supplementing different experimental groups with either Smartamin or Met55 did not improve (p<0.05) cows actual milk yield, 3.5%, fat corrected milk (FCM), energy corrected milk (ECM), milk fat yield nor protein yield kg.h. d-1. Supplementing Holstein dairy cows with (RPM) did not lead to any significant improvement (p<0.05), neither in animals feed conversion ratio, nor milk chemical composition traits. Animals body condition score (BCS) differed (p<0.05) among different experimental groups due to their yielding productivity in the former breeding season. However, lower milking group tended to have an improved BCS (3.79), but without significant difference with highly producing ones. In conclusion, Smartamin as (RPM) supplement was favored than that of Met55, if there were a necessity to be provided to lactating cows under the local environment.
TJP2 Gene Mutation c.G1012A May Responsible for Congenital Hearing Loss with Incomplete Penetrance in An Iranian Pedigree

Hereditary hearing loss (HHL) comprises half of the congenital deafness which arises from genetic mutations. Mutations in the TJP2 gene, encoding tight junction protein 2, are one of the gene alterations in HHL resulting in an autosomal dominant nonsyndromic form of the disease. An 11-year-old male patient with clinically approved congenital hearing loss was referred to our laboratory. The molecular genetic analysis detected an atypical heterozygous variant -c.1012G > C, p.G338R in exon 5 of the TJP2 gene on chromosome 9 position 71836379 (GRch37). Segregation analysis for his parents has uncovered the same mutation in the patient’s mother, but without any deafness phenotype. This case report provided evidence to demonstrate for the first time the incomplete penetrance of this TJP2 mutation and proposed this mutation as a “likely pathogenic” variant in an Iranian pedigree.
FELL BUNDLES OVER QUASI-LATTICE ORDERED GROUPS AND C∗-ALGEBRAS OF COMPACTLY ALIGNED PRODUCT SYSTEMS

We define notions of semi-saturatedness and orthogonality for a Fell bundle over a quasi-lattice ordered group. We show that a compactly aligned product system of Hilbert bimodules can be naturally extended to a semisaturated and orthogonal Fell bundle whenever it is simplifiable. Conversely, a semi-saturated and orthogonal Fel bundle is completely determined by the positive fibres and its cross sectional C∗-algebra is isomorphic to a relative Cuntz–Pimsner algebra of a simplifiable product system of Hilbert bimodules. We show that this correspondence is part of an equivalence between bicategories and use this to generalise several results of Meyer and the author in the context of single correspondences. We apply functoriality for relative Cuntz–Pimsner algebras to study Morita equivalence between C∗-algebras attached to compactly aligned product systems over Morita equivalent C∗-algebras.
Exploring plant root-fungal interactions in a neotropical freshwater wetland

Background: Wetlands in Neotropics harbor high fungal diversity, including arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and dark septate endophytes (DSE). This study describes the interaction of plant roots with AMF and DSE in a freshwater wetland belonging to a hotspot of biodiversity. Hypothesis: Differential root colonization between arbuscular mycorrhizal and dark septate endophyte fungi is influenced by plant species and abiotic conditions in a freshwater wetland. Studied species: Plant species colonized by arbuscular mycorrhizal and dark septate endophyte fungi. Methods: Properties of soils and the water column, floristic composition, root colonization by AMF and DSE, and molecular identification of AMF inside roots were studied. Results: Soils were Gleysol and flooded during the rainy season. Most of identified plant species were herbaceous, with Cyperus articulatus and Mimosa pigra as the dominant species. Seven of 8 analyzed plant species exhibited differential co-colonization between AMF and DSE. Repeated sampling for one year under flooding/dry conditions demonstrated that C. articulatus and M. pigra were mainly associated with DSE and AMF, respectively. A positive correlation between dissolved O2 in the water column and fungal colonization was observed in C. articulatus. Glomerales and Archaeosporales were molecularly identified inside roots containing arbuscules of M. pigra. Conclusions: Findings highlight differential coexistence between AMF and DSE in plant roots; fungal colonization was influenced by flooding/dry conditions in a neotropical wetland; the community of AMF inside arbusculated roots of M. pigra includes at least four clades.
Lecturer Support and Self-Efficacy on Students’ Off-Classroom Training Effectiveness

Off-classroom training is important to sharpen the soft skills of university students. The study discussedthe relationship of lecturer support and self-efficacy with training effectiveness of students outside theclassroom. The scope of study was 314 agriculture students taking human resource management course.The study applied quantitative research method and underpinned by training engagement theory, whichconsiders both internal and external factors in evaluating training effectiveness. The findings wereanalyzed using IBM-SPSS v 24 software. The findings showed that both variables significantly influencedtraining effectiveness, and self-efficacy influenced training effectiveness more than lecturer support. It isconcluded that the understanding of the best factor influencing training effectiveness will assist lecturersin designing suitable training programs for the students in the future. Keywords: lecturer support; self-efficacy; off-classroom training; training effectiveness; training engagement theory
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Internal sources of support to the review External sources of support to the review Date of last minor update Date new studies sought but none found Background Objectives Criteria for considering studies for this review Types of participants Types of intervention Types of outcome measures Types of studies Search strategy for identification of studies Methods of the review Description of the studies Methodological qualities of included studies Results
Intern Clinical Psychologists' Experiences of their Training and Internship Placements

The study involved a mail survey of all 150 intern clinical psychologists registered with the HPCSA during the year 2009. A response rate of 55.3% was achieved with a representative provincial distribution. The results indicated that 34.9% of the respondents felt adequately prepared for the internship and 53% felt only partly prepared, while 53% considered the training to be relevant and 31.3% felt it was only partly relevant. Although the majority of the respondents were satisfied with various components of their work and supervision, less than half reported having adequate infra-structural support. Only 12% had completed their Masters' dissertations, and less than one-third of the sample favoured the proposed HPCSA ruling on dissertation completion before the internship. The majority of respondents were keen to pursue further research and a doctorate. One-third had planned to emigrate, and this group showed significantly higher levels of dissatisfaction with aspects of the training and supervision, experienced significantly more language difficulties with patients, and had significantly less favourable views of Community Service. The results are discussed within the context of local and international training issues in Professional Psychology, with some recommendations provided.
Community Transmission of Oseltamivir-Resistant A(H1N1)pdm09 Influenza

The Author Replies: In their attempt to understand the reason for the lower-than-expected decline in FEV 1 , van Dijk and Schermer think it unlikely that drug treatment is an acceptable explanation. We concur, since such statements cannot be made based on observational data — as we explained in our article. Nevertheless, since most patients were cared for in specialist settings, our findings may not be valid for patients with COPD who were followed and managed differently. We agree that smoking cessation is essential. Our analyses showed that FEV 1 declined more rapidly among current smokers than among former smokers (21±4 ml per year, P<0.001); however, there is substantial overlap between these two groups in terms of the distribution of the rate of this change. We believe that the linear decline over 3 years argues against a strong effect of regression toward the mean. Had there been a strong effect, it would have most strongly affected the first measurements, thus leading to nonlinear changes over time. We maintain that a revision of the general understanding of the natural history of COPD is needed in light of our findings and of those reported
Spirituality in the Physical Therapy Curriculum: Effects on the Older Adult

For the purpose of this study, spirituality is defined as the individuals' view of relating to something greater than self. It refers to anything that gives meaning, wholeness, and direction of life. The physical therapy profession currently does not require the integration of spirituality in patient care in the physical therapy curriculum, and it is unclear how physical therapy faculty and practitioners view its inclusion. There is limited research on the integration of spirituality in the field of physical therapy or within its academic environment. The study utilized standard survey research methodology to gather data relating to spirituality and its inclusion in a physical therapy curriculum. Five participants from each of 101 sampled programs received a survey instrument along with instructions and consent form disseminated through electronic mailing. There was a response rate of 32.8% (166 respondents). Data were analyzed on 166 respondents using descriptive and inferential statistics. Approximately half (49.0%) of the respondents indicated that their physical therapy programs included spirituality concepts. More than half of the respondents (56.0%) also indicated that they believed that spirituality concepts should be included in physical therapy education and that every physical therapy program should include it in its curriculum. Response patterns indicated that respondents felt that spirituality concepts should be integrated into the physical therapy curriculum rather than having specific courses focused on spirituality. It is possible that by the inclusion of spirituality in a physical therapy intervention, the older adult may have an increased potential of recovering from his or her injury. This will also decrease a potential barrier to the elderly patient in receiving physical therapy interventions.
The benefits and pitfalls of a multicultural teaching faculty and a monocultural student population: An interpretive analysis of tertiary teachers’ and students’ perceptions in the United Arab Emirates

Abstract Emirati students at public universities have a wide demographic of faculty members teaching them courses in their second language, English. These faculty members bring with them their own cultural assumptions, epistemologies and use of language which at times are in stark contrast to those of the students. The aim of the research is to shed light on the effects that a multicultural faculty have on a monocultural student body and vice versa. This study looks at both faculty and students’ perceptions of public tertiary education in the UAE. Namely, the research questions surround themes regarding the benefits and pitfalls of multiculturalism in a university environment. Contentions are made based on qualitative data received regarding the levels of intercultural competence of both faculty and students. Noted are the importance of intercultural competence, how and why it is significant to have not only as a globalized member of a multicultural teaching faculty but how and why it is a central skill the fresh graduates must develop during their undergraduate careers.
Structural Organization and Features of Speech and Music Perception in Language Functionsâ€™ Implementation with Timbreâ€™s Perceptive Assessment

In cognitive science, the psychological and biological foundations of music are often considered in the context of comparison with the functions of speech and language. The article describes some aspects of the similarities and differences between music and speech in the implementation of language functions, as well as a typological study of its features according to Buhler, Jakobson, Halliday and Kiklewicz classifications. A general comparison of structural organization and main perceptual characteristics of music and speech signals is carried out additionally, with separate consideration of neurophysiological foundations of the auditory analysis of timbre characteristics of speech sources (speaker's voice) and music (instrument sounds). Some aspects of the practical application of auditory and musical training in the context of training and rehabilitation measures for sensory-cognitive dysfunctions of various genesis are explained, with the prospects of further research aimed at studying the influence of the timbre on the indices of spatial selectivity of musical perception in comparison with the characteristics of the spatial selectivity of speech hearing in the perception of complex acoustic scenes.