Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Family reminiscence scale: A measure of early communicative context

We developed and validated the Family Reminiscence Scale (FARS) in which adults rate their frequency of reminiscing with their parents about childhood experiences. In three studies, we characterized how FARS was related to adults’ recollections of their earliest memories in different cultural contexts. First, we examined the factorial structure of FARS and obtained two factors of reminiscing: first-time events and general-recurrent events. In the second study, confirmatory factor analyses were conducted, in which we established measurement invariance across gender and age groups. In Study 3, we tested the factorial structure of FARS in an American sample to ensure cross-cultural invariance. We also showed that the two factors were differentially related to the phenomenology of earliest memories in samples from Turkey and United States (Study 2 & Study 3). Overall FARS was found to be reliable and valid to measure family reminiscing in adult samples across different gender, age, and culture groups.
TREBALL FINAL DE MÀSTER

The pig farming sector is a very competitive business where innovation is a key factor. On the research side, there exists a large body of models and research that too often do no reach real companies for practical use. In this paper, we propose a cloud-based decision support system to overcome the main practical limitations and make a contribution in a specific decision problem of pig meat-packing plants. We propose a tool based on a scalable cloud architecture based on microservices and mainly focused at: (i) integrate the data in the system, (ii) integrate the model, (iii) automate the resolution process, and finally present the results in an interactive way to the end-users. The results show the benefits of the decision support system assisting a real Spanish meat-packing plant to make a better negotiation, planning, product profitability studies or marketing campaign. It is demonstrated the competitive advantages of using the proposed model in a usable, flexible and transparent way.
Existence and stability results for Hilfer-Katugampola-type fractional implicit differential equations with nonlocal con- ditions

This article contains a new discussion for Hilfer-Katugampola-type fractional derivative. We establish an existence and uniqueness results of Hilfer-Katugampola-type fractional derivative for implicit differential equations with the help of Schaefer’s fixed point theorem and Banach contraction principle. Also, we use the Gronwall’s lemma for singular kernels to prove the Ulam-Hyers-Rassias stability results. Further, the examples are given to illustrate our main results.
Effect of addition of whole seed linseed at different level on rheological properties of dough

The present investigation was undertaken to study its rheological study by addition of whole linseed. The farinograph study reported increase in water absorption (at 500 FU and 14 % moisture content), mixing tolerance index, time to breakdown and farinograph quality number whereas reduction was observed in dough development time and dough stability with increased addition of whole linseed from 5 to 20 %. The extensiograph indicated that the energy, resistance to extension, extensibility, maximum (BU), ratio number and ratio number (max) decreased. The amylograph observation revealed that beginning of gelatinization temperature decreased, gelatinization temperature increased and gelatinization maximum decreased with increased addition of whole linseed flour.
Exploring the potential of metabarcoding to disentangle macroinvertebrate community dynamics in intermittent streams

Taxonomic sufficiency represents the level of taxonomic detail needed to detect ecological patterns to a level that match the requirement of a study. Most bioassessments apply the taxonomic sufficiency concept and assign specimens to the family or genus level given time constraints and the difficulty to correctly identify species. This holds particularly true for stream invertebrates because small and morphologically similar larvae are hard to distinguish. Low taxonomic resolution may hinder detecting true community dynamics, which thus leads to incorrect inferences about community assembly processes. DNA metabarcoding is a new, affordable and cost-effective tool for the identification of multiple species from bulk samples of organisms. As it provides high taxonomic resolution, it can be used to compare results obtained from different identification levels. Measuring the effect of taxonomic resolution on the detection of community dynamics is especially interesting in extreme ecosystems like intermittent streams to test if species at intermittent sites are subsets of those from perennial sources or if independently recruiting taxa exist. Here we aimed to compare the performance of morphological identification and metabarcoding to detect macroinvertebrate community dynamics in the Trebbia River (Italy). Macroinvertebrates were collected from four perennial and two intermittent sites two months after flow resumption and before the next dry phase. The identification level ranged from family to haplotype. Metabarcoding and morphological identifications found similar alpha diversity patterns when looking at family and mixed taxonomic levels. Increasing taxonomic resolution with metabarcoding revealed a strong partitioning of beta diversity in nestedness and turnover components. At flow resumption, beta diversity at intermittent sites was dominated by nestedness when family-level information was employed, while turnover was evidenced as the most important component when using Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) or haplotypes. The increased taxonomic resolution with metabarcoding allowed us to detect species adapted to deal with intermittency, like the chironomid Cricotopus bicinctus and the ephemeropteran Cloeon dipterum. Our study thus shows that family and mixed taxonomic level are not sufficient to detect all aspects of macroinvertebrate community dynamics. High taxonomic resolution is especially important for intermittent streams where accurate information about species-specific habitat preference is needed to interpret diversity patterns induced by drying and the nestedness/ turnover components of beta diversity are of interest to understand community assembly processes.
Benthic foraminifera to assess ecological quality status of Kaduvaiyar and Uppanar estuaries, Southeast coast of India

In the present study, the ecological conditions of Kaduvaiyar and Uppanar estuaries and its adjacent coastal waters was studied by using foraminiferans as a veritable tool. A total of 43 species of foraminifera belonging to 33 genera, 26 families, and 7 orders were recorded in this study. The occurrence of Ammonia beccarii, Ammonia tepida, Bolivina hantkeniana, Elphidium subevolutum and Rosalina globularis was relatively higher. Among the Orders, Rotallida and Miliolida were found to be the dominant groups. Diversity, expressed as the effective number of species (exp H’bc) was found lower in Uppanar estuarine stations (highly polluted sites), whereas the higher values were recorded in coastal stations of Kaduvaiyar Estuary (relatively pristine quality sites). The EcoQS values ranged between 5.0 (UE-1) and 73.3 (KC-LS). This study proves that EcoQS indices are robust tool for assessing the ecological quality of the stressed ecosystem.
School culture as a predictor of student loyalty in a turkish university

The aim of this study is to determine the regression levels of perceived school culture to university students’ loyalty levels. This research is designed in correlational design. School culture is an independent variable, and student loyalty is a dependent variable. The sample of the study consists of 382 university students determined by a stratified sampling method. School Culture Scale and Student Loyalty Scale were used to collect data. According to the findings of the study, the level of student loyalty varies according to faculty type, class level, and taking the course at a regular time. Multiple regression analysis was conducted to determine whether school culture factors predict student loyalty. It was concluded that instructor-student relationship, commitment, structure/process, and support factors predicted 38% of student loyalty, respectively.
TsoKaDo: An Image Search Engine Performing Recursive Query Recommendation Based on Visual Information

—This paper tackles the problem of the user’s incapability to describe exactly the image that he seeks by introducing an innovative image search engine called TsoKaDo. Until now the traditional web image search was based only on the comparison between metadata of the webpage and the user’s textual description. In the method proposed, images from various search engines are classiﬁed based on visual content and new tags are proposed to the user. Recursively, the results get closer to the user’s desire. The aim of this paper is to present a new way of searching, especially in case with less query generality, giving greater weight in visual content rather than in metadata.
Oviposition Behavior of Monoctonus paulensis (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae): Factors Influencing Reproductive Allocation to Hosts and Host Patches

Mated females of the solitary parasitoid Monoctonus paulensis (Ashmead) frequently self-superparasitize pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris), during single encounters. Superparasitism varied with egg load but was independent of host density. Two-day-old virgin females abandoned host patches earlier, and superparasitized fewer pea aphids, than did 2-d-old mated females. Six-day-old virgins did not superparasitize more pea aphids than did 2-d-old virgins. However, 6-d-old virgins remained in host patches as long as mated females of the same age, and ai tacked similar numbers of aphids. Prepatch encounters with conspecific females caused virgins to superparasitize a larger proportion of aphids. Virgin females that had encountered con specifically parasitized aphids shortly after emergence remained longer in patches of unparasitized aphids, and parasitized a larger proportion of them, than did virgins that had encountered only unparasitized aphids.
Modelling exchange rate pass-through: A model of oil prices and asymmetric exchange rate fluctuations

Orientation: The literature on exchange rate pass-through appears to have shifted from the question of whether the pass-through is complete or incomplete to whether or not it is sufficient to assume that the pass-through is exogenous despite the vulnerability of exchange rates to shocks because of other external prices. Research purpose: The primary objective of this study is to examine the role of oil prices in the dynamics of exchange rate pass-through to domestic inflation in net oil-exporting and oil-importing countries. Motivation for the study: Motivated by the increasing evidence of significant responses of exchange rates to changes in oil prices, this study hypothesises that changes in oil prices matter for the degree and direction of exchange rate pass-through in the context of oil-importing and oil-exporting dichotomy. This study attempts to re-define the areas of ambiguities on the exchange rate, and other accompanying factors linked to it for clarity. Research approach/design and method: Using a macro panel data set, we explore the newly formulated non-linear panel autoregressive distributed lag model to account for asymmetries in our assessment of the role of oil prices in the degree and direction of pass-through of the exchange rate. Thus, in addition to reflecting the pass-through in a nonlinear form, this study also accounts for heterogeneity as well as non-stationarity. Besides, we also evaluate the role of prices in the pass-through of exchange rates symmetrically using the symmetric version of the Panel ARDL model. Main findings: Given the data under consideration, our empirical findings give credence to the school of thought challenging the widely held assertion that the declining pass-through of the exchange rate is mainly caused by the phenomenon of the developed market. Practical/managerial implications: We also find that accounting for asymmetries in the pass-through matters for the extent to which changes in oil prices accelerate the degree of pass-through. Contribution/value-add: This study finds evidence of an insignificant role of oil prices in the pass-through of the exchange rate fluctuations to inflation. Once the pass-through is captured asymmetrically, it becomes evident that changes in oil prices matter in the pass-through.
Downregulated Recycling Process but Not De Novo Synthesis of Glutathione Limits Antioxidant Capacity of Erythrocytes in Hypoxia

Red blood cells (RBCs) are susceptible to sustained free radical damage during circulation, while the changes of antioxidant capacity and regulatory mechanism of RBCs under different oxygen gradients remain unclear. Here, we investigated the changes of oxidative damage and antioxidant capacity of RBCs in different oxygen gradients and identified the underlying mechanisms using an in vitro model of the hypoxanthine/xanthine oxidase (HX/XO) system. In the present study, we reported that the hypoxic RBCs showed much higher oxidative stress injury and lower antioxidant capacity compared with normoxic RBCs. In addition, we found that the disturbance of the recycling process, but not de novo synthesis of glutathione (GSH), accounted for the significantly decreased antioxidant capacity of hypoxic RBCs compared to normoxic RBCs. We further elucidated the underlying molecular mechanism by which oxidative phosphorylation of Band 3 blocked the hexose monophosphate pathway (HMP) and decreased NADPH production aggravating the dysfunction of GSH synthesis in hypoxic RBCs under oxidative conditions.
Psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire for Elementary School

Os principais objetivos do corrente estudo consistiram na tradução e adaptação do Achievement Emotions Questionnaire – Elementary School (AEQ-ES) para Português e na análise das suas propriedades psicométricas. Uma amostra de 350 alunos portugueses do terceiro e quarto ano de escolaridade (com idades compreendidas entre os 7 e os 12 anos) completou a versão portuguesa do AEQ-ES (AEQ-ES-P). Tal como a versão original, o AEQ-ES-P mede o prazer, o aborrecimento e a ansiedade dos alunos em relação à matemática em três contextos académicos: assistir a aulas, fazer os trabalhos de casa e fazer testes. A análise fatorial confirmatória corroborou a estrutura hierárquica do AEQ-ES-P, que também se mostrou invariante entre géneros e anos de escolaridade. O instrumento mostrou também boa fiabilidade e estabilidade temporal. Foram encontradas correlações significativas na direção esperada entre o prazer, a ansiedade e o aborrecimento, bem como entre essas emoções, as perceções de competência dos alunos e a sua motivação intrínseca para a matemática, apoiando assim a validade interna e externa do questionário. Estes resultados indicam que o AEQ-ES-P apresenta boas propriedades psicométricas e é adequado para medir as emoções de realização de crianças portuguesas do terceiro e do quarto ano de escolaridade no domínio da matemática.
Biofilm production and its effects on virulence of MRSA: a study in tertiary care hospital, Delhi

Staphylococcus aureus is regarded as one of the most pathogenic species of the genera Staphylococcus. Problem arises with its carriage. It is a part of commensal flora found in the anterior nares, axillae and moist areas. Adapted to colonize our bodies which in turn probably provide big ecological niches for these bacteria. All of us daily counter the bacteria, but few people remain carriers over longer periods of time. Carriers are asymptomatic, bacteria is not harmful and could even be protective for a host if infected by S. aureus. Three types of carriers have been described: some who always carry them, few who carry the organism intermittently with different strains, and few people who never have S aureus. Children are persistent carriage than adults. Persistent carriers have high risk of infection and intermittent and non-carriers shows low risk. 1
Responses part 2 : Main concerns

Data assimilation is a powerful tool that requires available observations to improve model forecast accuracy. Infrared satellite measurements of volcanic ash mass loadings are often used as input observations for the assimilation scheme. However, these satellite-retrieved data are often two-dimensional (2D), and cannot easily be combined with a three-dimensional (3D) volcanic ash model to improve the volcanic ash state. By integrating available data including ash mass loadings, cloud top heights and thickness information, we propose a satellite observational operator (SOO) that translates satellite-retrieved 2D 5 volcanic ash mass loadings to 3D concentrations at the top layer of the ash cloud. Ensemble-based data assimilation is used to assimilate the extracted measurements of ash concentrations. The results show that satellite data assimilation can force the volcanic ash state to match the satellite observations, and that it improves the forecast of the ash state. Comparison with highly accurate regional aircraft in situ measurements shows that the effective duration of the improved regional volcanic ash forecasts is about a half day. 10
Mobility-Aware Proactive Edge Caching for Connected Vehicles Using Federated Learning

Content Caching at the edge of vehicular networks has been considered as a promising technology to satisfy the increasing demands of computation-intensive and latency-sensitive vehicular applications for intelligent transportation. The existing content caching schemes, when used in vehicular networks, face two distinct challenges: 1) Vehicles connected to an edge server keep moving, making the content popularity varying and hard to predict. 2) Cached content is easily out-of-date since each connected vehicle stays in the area of an edge server for a short duration. To address these challenges, we propose a Mobility-aware Proactive edge Caching scheme based on Federated learning (MPCF). This new scheme enables multiple vehicles to collaboratively learn a global model for predicting content popularity with the private training data distributed on local vehicles. MPCF also employs a Context-aware Adversarial AutoEncoder to predict the highly dynamic content popularity. Besides, MPCF integrates a mobility-aware cache replacement policy, which allows the network edges to add/evict contents in response to the mobility patterns and preferences of vehicles. MPCF can greatly improve cache performance, effectively protect users’ privacy and significantly reduce communication costs. Experimental results demonstrate that MPCF outperforms other baseline caching schemes in terms of the cache hit ratio in vehicular edge networks.
Effect of gibberellic acid, potassium nitrate and silicic acid on enzymes activity in cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) irrigated with saline water

In Indian context, cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) is a minor pulse cultivated mainly in arid and semi arid regions. Salt stress is one of the most serious limiting factors for growth and production in most of the crops including cowpea. While silicic, gibberellic acid and potassium nitrate is known to alleviate its adverse effect. Thus, Green house experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of exogenous application of gibberellic acid, potassium nitrate and silicic acid under salt stress on the enzymatic activities in cowpea. The experimental design was factorial completely randomized design with different eight treatment combinations, two level of irrigation to induce salinity stress i.e. tap water (S1) and 4 EC (S2). The plants were sprayed with GA3, KNO3 and silicic acid after 10 and 30 DAS (Days after sowing) and samples withdrawn after 20 and 40 DAS for the analysis. The activities of enzymes were recorded for polyphenol oxidase, peroxidase, nitrate reductase and phenylalanine ammonialyase. The enzymes activities viz., polyphenol oxidase, phenylalanine ammonialyase and peroxidase that increased with increase in concentration of salt however, the nitrate reductase activity decreased. On application of GA3, KNO3 and silicic acid increased polyphenol oxidase, peroxidase, nitrate reductase and phenylalanine ammonialyase enzymatic activity. This investigation has suggested silicic acid, gibberellic acid, potassium nitrate as a potential biomolecules affecting the nitrate reductase as well as ROS scavenging enzyme under abiotic stress like salinity.
Relationships of Wall Lizards, Podarcis (Reptilia: Lacertidae) Based on Mitochondrial DNA Sequences

Mitochondrial DNA sequence data support conclusions based on morphology, that Podarcis is a clade and is derived from the paraphyletic genus Lacerta, its immediate outgroups being Lacerta andreanszkyi and then the sister species L. perspicillata and L. dugesii. Within Podarcis, there are four geographically coherent clades: the Western island group-filfolensis (liHfordi, pityusensis), tiliguerta; the Balkan group-[(melisellensis, taurica) (gaigeae, milenis) and perhaps wagleriana and (erhardii, peloponnesiaca)]; the Italian group-sicula, (raffonei, muralis); and the Southwestern group(atrata, bocagei), hispanica.
Regular Integrated Health Service Visit as a Dominant Factor of Stunting among Children Aged 6-23 Months in Bogor, Indonesia

Stunting is defined as height-for-age Z-score (HAZ) that is below -2 SD of WHO’s median growth standard for children. This study aims to determine the dominant factor of stunting in children aged 6-23 months in Babakan Madang District, Bogor Regency, West Java, Indonesia in 2019. This study is a secondary data analysis used a cross-sectional design, with a total sample of 283 children. The dependent variable used is stunting, while the independent variables are family income, maternal education level, maternal age on pregnancy, maternal height, colostrum feeding, age of introducing complementary foods, and integrated health service visit. The result showed that the prevalence of stunting reached 33,2 percent (included in the high category according to WHO classification). The result of bivariate analysis showed that there was a relationship between integrated health service visit and stunting. The result of multivariate analysis showed that regular integrated health service visit were the dominant factor in the incidence of stunting (OR: 2.102; 95% CI 1,268-3,486). Based on the results of study, suggestions for integrated health service is setting a regular time for integrated health service and routinely providing counselling related to nutrition and health for mother and child. Suggestions for the community is to participate actively in integrated health service activities. Suggestions for the other researchers is conducting research with a broader scope.