Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Association between Sleep Duration and Obesity in Young Korean Adults

Obesity is a major public health burden in developed countries and is also a well-known risk factor of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Short sleep duration is associated not only with obesity, but also with diabetes mellitus, heart disease, and death. An inverse relationship between inadequate sleep duration and obesity has been shown in young adults, specifically in young women. Associations between sleep duration and health indicators differ according to factors such as race, culture, and sex. Koreans, in particular, are known to have relatively few sleep hours compared with those in other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. However, few studies have focused on the association between sleep duration and obesity in the Korean population. Therefore, we investigated the association between sleep duration and obesity after adjusting for socioeconomic position, health behaviors, and other clinical factors.
HOW DOES PENSIONS AFFECT SAVINGS IN NIGERIA? EVIDENCE FROM QUARTERLY DATA

This study investigates the effect of pensions on savings in Nigeria using quarterly data over the 2004-2015 period. Employing the ARDL bounds testing technique, the empirical evidence reveal that there is cointegration between pensions and savings, along with internal conflicts, unemployment, real interest rate and income level. The results indicate that pensions has a negative and significant effect on savings in the short-run, while its effect on savings is positive and significant in the long-run. These findings suggest that the availability of pensions will displace savings in the short-run, while it provides an avenue for individuals to increase their retirement income in the long-run, leading to higher national savings. In addition, internal conflicts and unemployment have a negative and significant effect on savings in the short-run and the long-run. Based on these findings, this study recommends policies to promote pension contributions, including reducing internal conflicts and unemployment to raise savings in Nigeria in the long-run.
What Moves You? How SBAE Teachers Navigate Program Migration

Little data exists to examine the stigmatized phenomenon of program mobility within agricultural education. Our research starts the conversation through interviews with eight School-Based Agricultural Education (SBAE) teachers across the United States, using qualitative phenomenology, to provide a unique perspective of retention through migration. We define teacher migration as a program move while choosing to remain in SBAE. Utilizing the theoretical lens of expansive learning through activity systems (Engeström, 2009), we present teacher migration as a means to learn and grow in the craft of teaching within SBAE, particularly among teachers with more than eight years of experience. Although additional efforts are needed to quantify migration within SBAE, and to examine the common narrative, our research reveals program migration to be a relational issue. In our study, participants expressed community, opportunity to learn, and time as functions of support through a career transition. They identified resources and expectations as challenges faced in the migration process. Our research provides a starting place for conversations around teacher migration through a focus on the assets of experience, viewing migration as a means of retention rather than as a function toward attrition.
The broken plural in Soqotri

Abstract The article investigates the broken pural in the Modern South Arabian language Soqotri (island of Soqotra, Gulf of Aden, Yemen). It is based on extensive field research and rich collections of lexical evidence. Primarily synchronic in its approach, the article pays attention to historical problems of Modern South Arabian and Semitic phonology and morphology whenever appropriate.
RELAÇÃO ENTRE CONHECIMENTO ESPECIALIZADO E O PROCESSO DE IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DO eSOCIAL NAS EMPRESAS DE SERVIÇOS CONTÁBEIS DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL

O presente estudo busca analisar a relacao entre as caracteristicas do processo de implementacao do eSocial e o nivel de conhecimento especializado das empresas de servicos contabeis do estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Para a execucao da proposta central, foi realizado uma pesquisa descritiva, com desenvolvimento de uma survey , sendo aplicada nas 230 empresas associadas ao SESCON/RS, obtendo uma amostra de 36 empresas. Os dados coletados foram tabulados e analisados com o uso do software Stata v12, por meio do Teste de Correlacao de Pearson. Para avaliacao da relacao proposta, realizou-se um teste empirico avaliando o nivel de conhecimento dos profissionais das empresas em relacao aos Eventos Iniciais e de Tabelas do eSocial, com o processo de implementacao desta obrigatoriedade. Os principais resultados revelam que, de modo geral, os profissionais apresentam alto nivel de conhecimento quanto aos Eventos Iniciais e de Tabelas, apresentando menor dificuldade no processo de implementacao do eSocial.
Follicular and Luteal Phases of Estrus Cycle of Tapri and Mixed Goats Under Semi Intensive Management System

Follicular and luteal phases of estrus cycle of Tapri and mixed goats under semi intensive management system. In order to get insight to understand the mechanism of steroidogenesis and study of various phases of estrus cycle in highly prolific Tapri goats of Sindh, in first phase an attempt was made to determine the length of various phases of estrus cycle of Tapri breed and its comparison with cross breed goats during three estrus cycles. Total ten healthy adult cycling goats (five from each breed) were maintained at the departments of animal reproduction and livestock management, FAHVS, SAU, Tandojam. Vaginal cytology method was used as marker to determine the status of estrus cycle. It was found that mean length of estrus cycle in tapri and cross breed goats were 21.32±0.26 and 21.2±0.56 days, respectively, both the longest (22.2±0.67 days) and shortest (20.4±0.66 days) duration of estrus cycles length were found in cross breed. The length of follicular phase including the estrus was 1.48±0.07, 1.34±0.01 days and during proestrus period it was 2.98±0.01 and 3.20±0.1 days in tapri breed and cross breed respectively, similarly, during luteal phase the length of metestrus and diestrus were in tapri versus cross breed goats were 3.25±0.14 vs 3.28±0.6 and 13.59±0.10 vs 13.28±0.4 days, respectively.
Self-Other Representation in the Social Brain Reflects Social Connection

Social connection is critical to well-being, yet how the brain reflects our attachment to other people remains largely unknown. We combined univariate and multivariate brain imaging analyses to assess whether and how the brain organizes representations of others based on how connected they are to our own identity. During an fMRI scan, female and male human participants (N = 43) completed a self- and other-reflection task for 16 targets: the self, five close others, five acquaintances, and five celebrities. In addition, they reported their subjective closeness to each target and their own trait loneliness. We examined neural responses to the self and others in a brain region that has been associated with self-representation (mPFC) and across the whole brain. The structure of self-other representation in the mPFC and across the social brain appeared to cluster targets into three social categories: the self, social network members (including close others and acquaintances), and celebrities. Moreover, both univariate activation in mPFC and multivariate self-other similarity in mPFC and across the social brain increased with subjective self-other closeness ratings. Critically, participants who were less socially connected (i.e., lonelier) showed altered self-other mapping in social brain regions. Most notably, in mPFC, loneliness was associated with reduced representational similarity between the self and others. The social brain apparently maintains information about broad social categories as well as closeness to the self. Moreover, these results point to the possibility that feelings of chronic social disconnection may be mirrored by a “lonelier” neural self-representation. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Social connection is critical to well-being, yet how the brain reflects our attachment to people remains unclear. We found that the social brain stratifies neural representations of people based on our subjective connection to them, separately clustering people who are and are not in our social network. Moreover, the people we feel closest to are represented most closely to ourselves. Finally, lonelier individuals also appeared to have a “lonelier” neural self-representation in the mPFC, as loneliness attenuated the similarity between self and other neural representations in this region. The social brain appears to map our interpersonal ties, and alterations in this map may help explain why lonely individuals endorse statements such as “people are around me but not with me. ”
Promoting China’s Inclusive Finance Through Digital Financial Services

While much progress has been made in promoting inclusive finance through the ownership of a basic personal account, billions of people in developed and emerging markets are still underrepresented in financial services. Also, they are unable to contribute to the provision of better access to financial services. The purpose of this study was defined as to explore the contribution of digital financial services (DFSs) in promoting inclusive finance in China. This study presents a theoretical discussion on how DFSs play an important role in promoting China’s inclusive finance. This study uses the systematic review method of qualitative sampling to achieve the goal of this study. Different forces play different roles behind the promotion of inclusive finance. However, DFSs are considered to be one of the most influential forces in the development of inclusive finance in the present world. Many examples of how DFS can improve inclusive finance are discussed in the literature. In addition, different contributions to DFS usage are presented here to achieve the objectives of this study. The contents of the study contributed to a better understanding of the practical impact and implication of DFS tools in transforming the financial sector. In this study, first, a structured review method is followed; second, most important discussion on the contribution of DFS in promoting inclusive finance is presented and third, the relation between the topic and related research is identified.
Polymorphisms in Human APOBEC3H Differentially Regulate Ubiquitination and Antiviral Activity

The APOBEC3 family of cytidine deaminases are an important part of the host innate immune defense against endogenous retroelements and retroviruses like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). APOBEC3H (A3H) is the most polymorphic of the human APOBEC3 genes, with four major haplotypes circulating in the population. Haplotype II is the only antivirally-active variant of A3H, while the majority of the population possess independently destabilizing polymorphisms present in haplotype I (R105G) and haplotypes III and IV (N15del). Here, we show that instability introduced by either polymorphism is positively correlated with degradative ubiquitination, while haplotype II is protected from this modification. Inhibiting ubiquitination by mutating all of the A3H lysines increased expression of haplotypes III and IV, but these stabilized forms of haplotype III and IV had a strict nuclear localization, and did not incorporate into virions, nor exhibit antiviral activity, thus separating stabilization from function. On the other hand, the instability and functional deficiencies of haplotype III could be rescued by fusion to haplotype II, supporting a model by which antiviral A3H is actively stabilized through a cytoplasmic retention mechanism. Thus, the evolutionary loss of A3H activity in many humans involves functional deficiencies independent of protein stability.
Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Wind Farm Layout Optimization: A Benchmark Study

The optimal layout of wind turbines is an important factor in the wind farm design process, and various attempts have been made to derive optimal deployment results. For this purpose, many approaches to optimize the layout of turbines using various optimization algorithms have been developed and applied across various studies. Among these methods, the most widely used optimization approach is the genetic algorithm, but the genetic algorithm handles many independent variables and requires a large amount of computation time. A simulated annealing algorithm is also a representative optimization algorithm, and the simulation process is similar to the wind turbine layout process. However, despite its usefulness, it has not been widely applied to the wind farm layout optimization problem. In this study, a wind farm layout optimization method was developed based on simulated annealing, and the performance of the algorithm was evaluated by comparing it to those of previous studies under three wind scenarios; likewise, the applicability was examined. A regular layout and optimal number of wind turbines, never before observed in previous studies, were obtained and they demonstrated the best fitness values for all the three considered scenarios. The results indicate that the simulated annealing (SA) algorithm can be successfully applied to the wind farm layout optimization problem.
Factors associated with smoking among Romanian senior high school students

Understanding why adolescents smoke is essential for developing efficient smoking prevention programmes among teenagers. Hence, the objective of our study was to assess the factors associated with smoking among Romanian adolescents. A cross sectional written survey was conducted among 473 students aged 15-17 years from 5 senior high schools in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (May/June 2004). All students filled in an quesstionnaire which assesed their smokingrelated behaviour.One quarter (24.5%) of the subjects were smokers. Adolescent’s attitudes regarding smoking and the smoking behaviour of the best friend were important factors related to smoking behaviour. Adolescent smoking was also strongly associated with low self–efficacy expectations to refuse smoking in different situations and with intention to smoke in the next year. The results suggest the need for strengthening positive attitudes towards non-smoking, resistance against peer influences and for enhancing self-efficacy beliefs to refuse smoking in order to prevent smoking among Romanian adolescents.
Artykuł oryginalny Przetrwała aktywacja płytek u pacjentów z ostrymi zespołami wieńcowymi jest związana z bardzo wczesnymi zdarzeniami sercowo-naczyniowymi

Wstep: Przetrwa³a aktywacja p³ytek w trakcie leczenia przeciwp³ytkowego u pacjentow z ostrymi zespo³ami wiencowymi (OZW) wp³ywa na czesto¶ae negatywnych zdarzen. Cel: Ocena, czy aktywno¶ae p³ytek mierzona w testach z kolagenem i epinefryn± (CEPI-CT) oraz kolagenem i dwufosforanem adenozyny (CADP-CT) przy u? yciu Platelet Function Analyzer 100® (PFA-100®) jest zwi±zana z bardzo wczesnymi, wewn±trzszpitalnymi zdarzeniami sercowo-naczyniowymi u pacjentow z OZW. Metody: Do badania w³±czono 91 pacjentow z OZW leczonych przezskorn± interwencj± wiencow± (PCI) z implantacj± stentu, ktorzy otrzymali kwas acetylosalicylowy (ASA) i klopidogrel. Pacjentow podzielono na grupy w zale? no¶ci od wyniku CEPI-CT (190 s) odzwierciedlaj±cego oporno¶ae na ASA oraz na podstawie wyniku CADP-CT, wykonywanych po ¶rednio 6 dniach od przyjecia. Zdarzenia wewn±trzszpitalne obejmowa³y: dorzut zawa³u, nag³e zatrzymanie kr±? enia, nawrot d³awicy, z³o¶liwe arytmie, obrzek p³uc i wstrz±s kardiogenny. Wyniki: Pacjentow zaklasyfikowano do 4 grup: grupy 1. z CADP-CT
Digital Confucius? Exploring the implications of artificial intelligence in spiritual education

This paper explores the prospect of artificial intelligence (AI) supplementing or supplanting the human teacher in spiritual education using the example of Confucianism. The article compares the role and capabilities of two Confucian teachers: Confucius and an imagined robot teacher (“Digital Confucius”). It is argued in this article that Digital Confucius, if developed, would be useful as an “AI partner” in transmitting the knowledge and skills. As “AI mind”, however, digital Confucius, would be weak in catering its teaching to suit the learner’s profiles and contextual needs as well as serving as an ethical-spiritual guide and role-model to its students. Two major implications are discussed in this paper. First, the study highlights the potential complementary function of AI in the transfer of information and the irreplaceable role of the human teacher in moral education. Secondly, rather than making spirituality redundant, the limitation of AI in Confucian teaching speaks of the continuous relevance and centrality of spiritual development for human beings.
Morphology and distribution of the South American snake Chironius leucometapus (Serpentes: Colubridae)

Morphology and distribution of the South American snake Chironius leucometapus (Serpentes: Colubridae). Chironius leucometapus was described more than 25 years ago as subspecies of C. fuscus from restricted area in the Department of Junín in central Peru, with no additional specimens reported since. Examination of 17 new specimens reveals that C. leucometapus is widespread along the Amazonian slopes of the Andes between central Peru and northern Ecuador. New morphological data including scalation, hemipenes, color in life, and the first description of the skull of Chironius to be based on high-quality CT-scan images are presented. The number of species of Chironius from Ecuador is elevated to eight.
A Phase II Trial of Imatinib Mesylate (Gleevec®) in Myeloproliferative Disorders Other Than CML.

Abstract Myeloproliferative disorders are a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by increased cell numbers and variable degrees of organomegaly and myelofibrosis. To date, the standard of care has been phlebotomy followed by Hydroxyurea or anagrelide to control thrombocytosis. Anagrelide has gained popularity in recent years due to its theoretical non leukemogenic potential. Gleevec® is a small molecule inhibitor of several tyrosine kinases including c-kit and platelet derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR). The latter is expressed on platelets and megakaryocytes and may offer an explanation for the megakaryocytic hyperplasia and clustering via an autocrine loop action. In vitro, Gleevec® inhibits spontaneous burst formation in polycythemia vera (PV) probably by inhibiting c-kit. By inhibiting PDGFR, it could inhibit megakaryocytic proliferation by blocking an autocrine effect which may be responsible for megakaryocytic hyperplasia and clustering in essential thrombocytosis (ET) and PV. In 2003 we initiated a study to explore the effectiveness of Gleevec® in these two entities. 11 patients have been enrolled, 5 with PV, and 6 with ET. The starting dose in each case was 400mg, with escalation to 800 mg based on response. Complete response (CR) was defined as therapeutic range hematocrit without phlebotomy, a normal platelet count and discontinuation of Hydrea or Anagrelide. There were two CR's and one PR in PV. All three patients discontinued treatment because of toxicity at 2, 6, and 10 months, respectively. There was one CR and one PR in ET, but both discontinued treatment due to toxicity at 7 months and non-compliance at 2 months, respectively. The toxicities observed that led to discontinuation of therapy were grade 2–3 diarrhea (3/11), grade 2–3 periorbital and ankle edema (5/11), grade 2 skin rash (1/11), grade 1 blurred vision (1/11). One major post operative bleeding was observed and was probably related to platelet dysfunction. Two patients (one each of PV & ET) had to discontinue therapy for lack of response at maximum tolerated dose. The ending dose was 400 mg (3), 600 mg (5), and 800 mg (3), with two at the 800 mg dose level being non-responders, and all others having discontinued therapy on account of toxicity. This study suggests that Gleevec® has activity in PV and ET, but toxicity at the studied dose escalation schedule could lead to discontinuation of therapy. However, this does not preclude its use in a new clinical trial with a more tolerable dosing schedule over a longer period of time.
Phytochimiques des plantes médicinales utilisées dans la prise en charge des maladies infantiles au SudBénin

In southern Benin, medicinal plants are used for the health care of children aged 0 to 12 years. The present study aims to highlight some medicinal plants used in southern Benin to treat childhood diseases including malaria, candidiasis, teething disorders, infant colic and diarrhea. The phytochemical screening of the leafy stems of the selected plants revealed the presence of alkaloids, tannins (gallic and catechic), coumarins, anthocyanins and leuco-anthocyans, quinone derivatives, triterpenoids, steroids, saponosides and reducing sugars. These various metabolites possess various therapeutic properties involved in the treatment of the indicated disorders. This would confirm the therapeutic uses reported by the populations surveyed. However, the evaluation of antimalarial, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities as well as the toxicity test of the aqueous extract of these plants would be necessary.
Depth of invasion and GLUT-1 as risk predictors in oral squamous cell carcinoma

Object: Predictor of the risk of subclinical nodal metastasis in early oral cancer would be of significant benefit in determining the need for elective neck dissection or adjuvant therapy. Depth of invasion (DOI) and glucose transporter (GLUT-1) expression have been assigned an independent prognostic significance in predicting the risk of nodal metastasis. The present study has been undertaken to evaluate the mechanisms linking GLUT-1 expression to DOI in progressive grades of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Method: The GLUT-1 expression was analysed by immunohistochemistry, and its association with the DOI was assessed in 90 patients in progressive histological grades of OSCC. Result: We hypothesized that OSCC characterized by high frequency of lymph node metastasis, distant metastasis, or local recurrences showed highly significant statistical correlation of DOI with the GLUT-1 over expression at the invasion front in progressive histological grades of OSCC, thereby revealing their potential role in predicting both tumour aggressiveness and prognosis. Conclusion: The correlation of these two parameters, that is, DOI with GLUT-1 over expression at the invasion front, used simultaneously in progressive histological grades of OSCC, might have a significant prognostic value by highlighting those cases that should be subjected to further lymph node assessment, thereby predicting their risk of occult metastasis, assisting in the selection of patients requiring more aggressive therapy.
Adolescence: A "Risk Factor" for Physical Inactivity.

Exercise is good for your health-a lesson learned from the ancients-but the recommendations for achieving such benefits has undergone a significant transition in the closing decades of the Twentieth Century. Most particularly, there has been a shift away from the importance of developing cardiovascular (aerobic) physical fitness and toward the promotion of life-long physical activity. This change has resulted from an understanding that the biological mechanisms linking exercise to health are not simply related to achieving high cardiovascular function but also in increasing caloric expenditure (obesity), weight-bearing activities (osteoporosis), and muscle strength (back problems, physical incapacity in the elderly).