Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Climate change exposure of waterbird species in the African-Eurasian flyways

Summary Climate change presents a particularly complex challenge in the context of flyway scale conservation of migratory bird species as it requires coordinated action by multiple countries along these species’ migratory routes. Coordinating conservation responses requires understanding the vulnerability of species and their habitats to climate change at the flyway scale throughout each species’ annual cycle. To contribute to such understanding, we used species distribution models to assess the exposure to climate change of waterbird species that are the focus of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA). We found that the species with the smallest proportion of their current range projected to be climatically suitable by 2050 (those whose distributions respond to changes in water availability but that do not perform synchronised migration) are dispersive species in the Afrotropical biogeographic realm, and migratory species in their breeding season, particularly Arctic breeding waders. These species also have the most limited availability of newly suitable areas. Projections for most other Palearctic migratory waterbird species suggest that losses of suitable areas in their current passage and wintering ranges may be largely offset by new areas becoming climatically suitable. The majority of migratory Palearctic waterbirds in the breeding season and Afrotropical waterbirds are widely dispersed with only a small proportion of their populations currently supported by ‘Critical Sites’ (i.e. sites that are either important for Globally Threatened Species or support 1% of the bioregional population of any waterbird species). This makes it unlikely that climate change adaptation measures focusing only on key sites will be sufficient to counter the predicted range losses. Therefore, climate change adaptation responses should also be implemented at the landscape scale for Afrotropical waterbirds and for breeding populations of Palearctic migrant waterbirds.
Unboxing the green box: an empirical assessment of buying behavior of green products

PurposeBecause of the increasing significance of green marketing and its aspects, it develops a need for examining the impact of all these factors on green product buying behavior. As social media marketing also has an enormous positive impact on green product buying behavior, this study aims to provide a cohesive role of green marketing and social media marketing in determining green purchase behavior.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, data were collected through an online survey by using convenience sampling from 692 respondents, and through structural equation modeling, the hypothesized associations among variables of this study were empirically tested.FindingsThe findings suggest that attitude, eco-labels and green advertising had a significant influence on the decision to purchase green products. The influence of peer groups, behavioral intention and price consciousness was also examined. Peer influence did not moderate the relation between green buying behavior and environmental concern.Originality/valueThe influence of factors like attitudes, price consciousness, behavioral intentions social media marketing, eco-labels, and environmental concern green purchase behavior has not been scrutinized cohesively in the past. The current study used the theory of planned behavior in elucidating green buying behavior.
Identification of Hub Genes Associated with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Prognosis by Bioinformatics Analysis

Objective: This study aimed to identify hub genes that are associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) prognosis by bioinformatics analysis. Methods: Data were collected from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) liver HCC datasets. The robust rank aggregation algorithm was used in integrating the data on differentially expressed genes (DEGs). Online databases DAVID 6.8 and REACTOME were used for gene ontology and pathway enrichment analysis. R software version 3.5. 1, Cytoscape, and Kaplan-Meier plotter were used to identify hub genes. Results: Six GEO datasets and the TCGA liver HCC dataset were included in this analysis. A total of 151 upregulated and 245 downregulated DEGs were identified. The upregulated DEGs most significantly enriched in the functional categories of cell division, chromosomes, centromeric regions, and protein binding, whereas the downregulated DEGs most significantly enriched in the epoxygenase P450 pathway, extracellular region, and heme binding, with respect to biological process, cellular component, and molecular function analysis, respectively. Upregulated DEGS most significantly enriched the cell cycle pathway, whereas downregulated DEGs most significantly enriched the metabolism pathway. Finally, 88 upregulated and 40 downregulated genes were identified as hub genes. The top 10 upregulated hub DEGs were CDK1, CCNB1, CCNB2, CDC20, CCNA2, AURKA, MAD2L1, TOP2A, BUB1B and BUB1. The top 10 downregulated hub DEGs were ESR1, IGF1, FTCD, CYP3A4, SPP2, C8A, CYP2E1, TAT, F9 and CYP2C9. Conclusions: This study identified several upregulated and downregulated hub genes that are associated with the prognosis of HCC patients. Verification of these results using in vitro and in vivo studies is warranted.
Judges’ emotion: an application of the emotion regulation process model

Courtrooms are often emotionally charged atmospheres where parties have a vested interest in the proceedings and their outcomes. Judges are exposed to a wide range of emotions and stressors in the course of their work. Though the ideal of a dispassionate judge persists, more empirical work is needed to identify how judges regulate their own emotional experience in court. Using Maroney and Gross typology of emotion regulation strategies, this study explored the self-reported use and preference of these strategies among a sample of U.S. judges. Using both quantitative and qualitative approaches, we found that judges reported using a variety of intrinsic (self-directed) and extrinsic (directed toward others) emotion regulation strategies, though judges reported using some strategies such as suppression more frequently than others. We also found that many of the strategies judges described matched a subset of the strategies described by Maroney and Gross supporting their typology.
The employee's job satisfaction during pandemic covid-19 and the counselor's role

Many employees can not work as usual, even having to lose work due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Generally, employees have difficulty adapting to the demands that all are done at home or better known as Work From Home. In this situation, employees need to continue to work in the company or its organization while paying attention to health protocols that the Government has established. However, this has an impact on job satisfaction and employee mental health. This manuscript analyzes the impact of the pandemic on employee performance and the role of counselors in optimizing mental health. Many employees feel that their work must be more extra to meet the needs of life to be fulfilled and how the level of work satisfaction of the employees themselves in the face of this COVID-19 pandemic. Here also required an expert or counselor to know the job satisfaction of the employees themselves so that they can still provide services or the best results for the company and himself.
POPPINS: A Population-Based Digital Spiking Neuromorphic Processor with Integer Quadratic Integrate-and-Fire Neurons

The inner operations of the human brain as a biological processing system remain largely a mystery. Inspired by the function of the human brain and based on the analysis of simple neural network systems in other species, such as Drosophila, neuromorphic computing systems have attracted considerable interest. In cellular-level connectomics research, we can identify the characteristics of biological neural network, called population, which constitute not only recurrent fully- connection in network, also an external-stimulus and self- connection in each neuron. Relying on low data bandwidth of spike transmission in network and input data, Spiking Neural Networks exhibit low-latency and low-power design. In this study, we proposed a configurable population-based digital spiking neuromorphic processor in 180nm process technology with two configurable hierarchy populations. Also, these neurons in the processor can be configured as novel models, integer quadratic integrate-and-fire neuron models, which contain an unsigned 8-bit membrane potential value. The processor can implement intelligent decision making for avoidance in real-time. Moreover, the proposed approach enables the developments of biomimetic neuromorphic system and various low-power, and low-latency inference processing applications with normalized energy efficiency of 13.2 pJ/SOP.
Confounding Factors in Container-Based Drought Tolerance Assessments in Solanum tuberosum

Potato is an important food crop with high water-use-efficiency but low drought tolerance. The bottleneck in drought tolerance breeding is phenotyping in managed field environments. Fundamental research on drought tolerance is predominantly done in container-based test systems in controlled environments. However, the portability of results from these systems to performance under field conditions is debated. Thus, we analyzed the effects of climate conditions, container size, starting material, and substrate on yield and drought tolerance assessment of potato genotypes compared to field trials. A leave one out assessment indicated a minimum of three field trials for stable tolerance prediction. The tolerance ranking was highly reproducible under controlled-conditions, but weakly correlated with field performance. Changing to variable climate conditions, increasing container size, and substituting cuttings by seed tubers did not improve the correlation. Substituting horticultural substrate by sandy soil resulted in yield and tuber size distributions similar to those under field conditions. However, as the effect of the treatment × genotype × substrate interaction on yield was low, drought tolerance indices that depend on relative yields can be assessed on horticultural substrate also. Realistic estimates of tuber yield and tuber size distribution, however, require the use of soil-based substrates.
The Long-Term Governmental Parties in Post-Communist Democracies

ABSTRACT Post-communist democracies have been notorious for their under-institutionalized party systems and unstable governments. However, two exceptional cases stand out in the region: Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS) ruled the country for 12 years uninterrupted, and the Estonian Reform Party (RE) was in government for an unbroken 17 years. The article explores the factors that contributed to the success of both parties. The results show that long-term governmental parties may emerge under the conditions of proportional representation (PR) electoral systems and in fragmented and less-institutionalized party systems, if those parties use clever coalition strategies, introduce a politico-ideological hegemony, and rely on their own internal resources in which leadership or organizational capacities are crucial.
Kawasaki disease is not linked to COVID-19 in Chinese pediatric population

Increasing cases of children infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) presenting with severe Kawasaki-like disease have recently been reported in some Western countries, raising the possibility of SARS-CoV-2 being a trigger of Kawasaki disease (KD). We aimed to investigate whether KD is linked to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Chinese pediatric population. Methods: Patients were enrolled if diagnosed with KD in the 40 hospitals of China Kawasaki Disease Research Collaborative Group from January to April 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic period in China. Information of demographic data, KD shock syndrome, macrophage activation syndrome (MAS), evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection and the number of KD cases were retrospectively analyzed. Results: The completed response was received from 29/40 hospitals (72.5%) across 19 provinces. Of 2,108 KD patients enrolled, the median age was 1.9 years and 63.8% were male. KD shock syndrome and MAS were diagnosed in 8 (0.4%) and 2 (0.1%) patients, respectively, none of whom had contact history with COVID-19 patients. A greater number of KD cases from January to April 2020 than the upper limit of 95% confidence interval (95% CI) of estimated numbers of cases of the past 3 years were observed in only 2 out of 29 (6.9%) hospitals. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests in 434 patients and antibody tests in 64 patients for SARS-CoV-2 were all negative, including nine with exposure history. Conclusions: There is no evidence of the link of KD with COVID-19 in Chinese children in terms of its prevalence and severity. © Pediatric Medicine. All rights reserved.
Thermokinetic Modelling of High-Temperature Evolution of Primary Nb(C,N) in Austenite Applied to Recrystallization of 316Nb Austenitic Stainless Steel

The size evolution of niobium carbonitrides Nb(C,N) and the evolution of the composition of an austenitic matrix in 316Nb stainless steel were simulated using DICTRA software. For the first time, the complete nine-element composition of steel was taken into account during isothermal and even anisothermal heat treatments. A reduced model was then proposed to optimize the calculation time for complex heat treatments. The change in the mean Nb content in austenite due to Nb(C,N) evolution during different heat treatments was studied. It qualitatively agrees with experimental data as obtained by electron probe microanalysis. Furthermore, the model was successfully applied to explain the effect of heat treatments on the recrystallization behavior of 316Nb steel during hot torsion tests. Moreover, the effect of the thermodynamic database and the number of alloying elements chosen was discussed. We showed that taking into account seven or even nine elements greatly improves the accuracy compared to usual simplified compositions. The proposed method can be useful in designing heat treatments promoting or conversely hindering recrystallization for a wide variety of Nb-bearing steels.
Primary Lymphoma of Cervix

Lymphomas that originate from the female genital tract are very rare. Primary cervical lymphoma only accounts for less than 1% of all extra-nodal lymphomas. Clinical mani-festations of primary cervical lymphoma can be nonspecific, vaginal bleeding being the most common symptom, and this makes timely diagnosis often difficult. Prognosis and optimal treatment have yet been established due to the rarity of the disease. In this article, a rare case of primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of cervix is reported with a review of the available literature. (Ewha Med J 2021;44(2):41-45)
Biochemical composition and antiradical activity of rowanberry (Sorbus L.) cultivars and hybrids with different Rosaceae L. cultivars.

Rowanberry ( Sorbus aucuparia L.) is a common yellowish, wild berry that grows i n the Northern part of Europe. Rowan has been described as an impo rtant source of flavonoids and their antioxidant activity affects reactive oxygen specie s and lipid peroxidation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the biochemical composition of 8 ro wanberry cultivar fruits and the fruits of their hybrids with Rosaceae L. cultivars and to establish the correlation of t heir biochemical composition with antiradical activity. The experiments were don e at the Faculty of Food Technology, Latvia University of Agriculture (LLU) and in the Latvia S tate Fruit Growing institute, Dobele. The content of ascorbic acid, the total phenols, anthoc yanins, carotenoids, soluble solids, titrable acids , tannins and the antiradical activity of fresh and f rozen rowanberry×hawthorn 'Granatnaya', rowanberry×chokeberry 'Likiornaya', rowanberry (Sorbus aucuparia) 'Rosina', rowanberry (Sorbus aucuparia) 'Zholtaya', wild rowanberry (Sorbus aucuparia), rowanberry×pear 'Alaya Krupnaya', rowanberry (Sorbus aucuparia) 'Rosina Variegata', rowanberry (Sorbus aucuparia) 'Krasnaya Krupnaya' were analysed. There were no significant differences between the chemical composition of fresh and frozen rowanberry samples. The highest con ent of ascorbic acid was in fruits of the rowanberry ‘Rosina’, 'Rosina Variegata', 'Krasnaya Krupnaya', and 'Zholtaya' (49 – 53 mg 100 g ). The highest content of carotenoids were detected in rowanberry×hawthorn 'Granatnaya‘ (13.04 mg 100 g), but the highest phenol content was detected in t he rowanberry and chokeberry hybrid 'Likiornaya' (484.9 mg 100 g ). 'Likiornaya' showed also the highest antiradical activity (11.2 g of berries per 1g of DPPH radical). Kopsavilkums Pīlādži (Sorbus aucuparia L.) ir izplatīts savaĜas augĜaugs, kas aug Eiropas zieme Ĝu daĜā. Pīlādži ir raksturoti kā nozīmīgs flavonoīdu avots un to antioksidat īvā aktivitāte ietekmē reaktīvo skābekli un lipīdu peroksidāciju. Pētījuma mērėis bija izvērtēt bioėīmisko sast āvu 8 pīlādžu šėirĦu un to
The influence of ethical leadership on innovative performance: modeling the mediating role of intellectual capital

PurposeRecent research studies have increasingly suggested leadership as a major antecedent to encourage innovative work behavior among business employees. Empirical studies which investigated the influence of various leadership aspects such as style and ethics on employees' innovative performance and unraveled the mechanism through which leadership exerts its impact on employees' innovative work behavior were restricted. Thus, the purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between ethical leadership and employees' innovative performance by focusing on the mediating role of two forms of the intellectual capital (IC), i.e. human capital and social capital.Design/methodology/approachData for present research were collected through in person administered questionnaire-based survey from the managerial level employees of the targeted sample of the manufacturing firms. Furthermore, due consideration was given while selecting the individuals from R&D departments of these organizations, who were typically involved in knowledge-intensive jobs and where application of intellectual assets was needed.FindingsEthical leadership was observed as to positively influencing employees' innovative performance. Two forms of IC, i.e. human capital and social capital were observed as playing mediating role in the ethical leadership – employees' innovative performance relationship.Originality/valueThe contemporary research study adds value in the literature of the ethical leadership. The most imperative theoretical contribution of the present research study underlines the psychological process, i.e. IC by which ethical leaders encourage innovative behavior among employees.
Changes in gut microbiota composition and their associations with cortisol, melatonin and interleukin 6 in patients with chronic insomnia

The relationship between the gut microbiota and chronic insomnia remains understudied. The aim of this paper was to investigate changes in the taxonomic composition of the gut microbiota and their associations with the levels of cortisol, melatonin and IL6 in patients with chronic insomnia. Our comparative prospective cross-sectional study enrolled 55 patients with chronic insomnia, who formed the main group (female patients: 58.2%, male patients: 41.8%; mean age 31.6 ± 7.4 years), and 50 healthy volunteers, who comprised the control group (females: 68.0%, males: 32.0%; mean age 33.2 ± 6.6 years). The taxonomic composition of the gut microbiota was profiled using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Plasma cortisol and IL 6 and urine melatonin were measured by means of ELISA. Sleep quality was evaluated using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). In patients with chronic insomnia, the abundance of Faecalibacterium (p = 0.048), Prevotella 9 (p < 0.001) and Lachnospira (p = 0.036) was lower, whereas the abundance of Blautia (p = 0.012) and Eubacteriumhallii (p = 0.003) was higher than in healthy volunteers. Significant correlations were established between the levels of IL6 and the abundance of Faecalibacterium (r = –0.44; p = 0.001) and Blautia (r = 0.42; p < 0.001), as well as between cortisol concentrations and the abundance of Lachnospira (r = –0.41; p = 0.048). The abundance of Faecalibacterium and Blautiaс was correlated with higher PSQI (r = –0.47, p = 0.001; r = 0.45, p < 0.001, respectively). Our study contributed to the pool of data about changes in the gut microbiota and their associations with some endocrine and inflammation markers in patients with chronic insomnia. These data can be exploited to propose new strategies for the diagnosis and personalized treatment of insomnia aimed at normalizing the patient’s gut microbiota.
The importance of flowcytometry study with the first aspirate taken during bone marrow aspiration in the diagnosis of multiple myeloma and follow-up of minimal residual disease

Objective: Flow cytometry (FC) is a diagnostic method supporting traditional morphological examination in disease follow-up and the diagnosis of Multiple myeloma (MM). Normal and atypical plasma cells (PCs) can be told apart from each other by means of FC method. The plasma cell rate is the highest in the blood obtained in the first aspirate during bone marrow aspiration in MM. Material and methods: A total of 60 patients that have been diagnosed with MM between 2018 and 2020, including 30 patients whom flow cytometry was studied with the first aspirate during bone marrow aspiration, and 30 patients whom FC was studied with the second aspirate were included in our study. The characteristics of the patients were analyzed retrospectively from their files. Results: The median ratio of plasma cells (PCs) detected by FC and bone marrow biopsy was 17,5% and 44%, respectively. While this rate was median 37,5% in patients that flow cytometric study was performed with the first aspirate, the rate was found to be median 7% in patients that FC was performed with the second sample. The PCs rates were statistically significantly higher with the flow cytometric study with the first aspirate than the second one (p=0.000). Conclusion: Flow cytometric study with the first aspirate during bone marrow aspiration in patients with MM is diagnostically important.