Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Predictors of Organizational Commitment in Public Sector Hospitals of Pakistan—A Moderated Mediation Study

Organizational commitment, a psychological construction of responsibility towards the mission, is a mounting challenge in the healthcare sector of developing countries. The study aims at examining the factors including organizational cronyism, organizational politics, and informational justice and their moderated mediation relationships affecting employees’ perception of their job and improving their commitment towards their work in hospitals. A total of 496 medical house officers and post-graduate residents from public sector hospitals in Pakistan participated in this study. Structural equation modeling was employed to examine the structural model and the measurement model for the constructs. Findings of this study revealed the significant positive effects of organizational politics, supervisor support, organizational cronyism and cynicism on reducing the level of commitment, however, informational justice appeared insignificant. The moderating role of Guanxi network appeared significant in decreasing the impact of counterproductive practices on a high level of commitment. The study concluded with explaining the underlying mechanism of organizational commitment in the service industry with a special focus on the health sector in Pakistan.
Stressors in patients admitted to adult intensive care units

Background: Intensive care units (ICU) are stress-generating settings given the environment and the biomedical approach that is practiced there. Objectives: To identify the perception and level of stress that the situations that occur in the ICU generate on the patients and determine the sociodemographic characteristics influencing stress. Methodology: Observational, cross-sectional study with an analytical approach in which the Escala de Factores Estresantes Experimentados por los Pacientes en UCI was applied. Results: In this sample, 13% of respondents had a moderate or high level of stress. The most stressful situations included being concerned about their health and its consequences, not being able to go to the bathroom, not being able to fulfill their role in the family, not having control over their activities, and feeling pain. The analysis of the sociodemographic data showed that education (p = 0.028): basic (p = 0.028; OR = 16) and university (p = 0.027 ; OR = 17) influenced the level of stress. Conclusion: For most of the interviewees, ICU stay was not stressful or mildly stressful. The educational level predisposes to stress perception. The most stressful situations are emotional situations.
Functional genomic analysis of K+ related salt-responsive transporters in tolerant and sensitive genotypes of rice

Introduction Salinity is a complex environmental stress that affects the growth and production of rice worldwide. But there are some rice landraces in coastal regions that can survive in presence of highly saline conditions. An understanding of the molecular attributes contributing to the salinity tolerance of these genotypes is important for developing salt-tolerant high yielding modern genotypes to ensure food security. Therefore, we investigated the role and functional differences of two K+ salt-responsive transporters. These are OsTPKa or Vacuolar two-pore potassium channel and OsHAK_like or a hypothetical protein of the HAK family. These transporters were selected from previously identified QTLs from the tolerant rice landrace genotype (Horkuch) and sensitive genotype (IR29). Methods In silico comparative sequence analysis of the promoter sequences of two these genes between Horkuch and IR29 was done. Real-Time expression of the selected genes in leaves and roots of IR29 (salt-sensitive), I-14 and I-71 (Recombinant Inbred Lines of IR29(♀)× Horkuch), Horkuch and Pokkali (salt-tolerant) under salt-stress at different time points was analyzed. For further insight, OsTPKa and OsHAK_like were chosen for loss-of-function genomic analysis in Horkuch using the CRISPR/Cas9 tool. Furthermore, OsTPKa was chosen for cloning into a sensitive variety by Gateway technology to observe the effect of gain-of-function. Results The promoter sequences of the OsTPKa and OsHAK_like genes showed some significant differences in promoter sequences which may give a survival advantage to Horkuch under salt-stress. These two genes were also found to be overexpressed in tolerant varieties (Horkuch and Pokkali). Moreover, a coordinated expression pattern between these two genes was observed in tolerant Horkuch under salt-stress. Independently transformed plants where the expression of these genes was significantly lowered, performed poorly in physiological tests for salinity tolerance. On the other hand, positively transformed T0 plants with the OsTPKa gene from Horkuch consistently showed growth advantage under both control and salt stress. Discussion The poor performance of the transgenic plants with the down-regulated genes OsTPKa and OsHAK_like under salt stress supports the assumption that OsTPKa and OsHAK_like play important roles in defending the rice landrace Horkuch against salt stress, minimizing salt injury, and maintaining plant growth. Moreover, the growth advantage provided by overexpression of the vacuolar OsTPKa K+ transporter, particularly under salt stress reconfirms its important role in providing salt tolerance. The QTL locus from Horkuch containing these two transporters maybe bred into commercial rice to produce high-yielding salt tolerant rice.
From basalt to biosphere: Early non-vent community succession on the erupting Vailulu’u deep seamount

Volcanic eruptions provide rare opportunities to witness the biological recolonization of areas covered by new lava flows by effectively resetting the ecological succession clock to zero. The role of submarine volcanic eruptions as disturbance events and the resulting patterns of ecological succession have mainly been studied in hydrothermal vent ecosystems. However, the effects of submarine volcanic eruptions as disturbance forces have rarely been studied in non-vent ecosystems, particularly on seamounts. Here, we document the early stages of ecological succession of non-vent benthic communities inhabiting the summit caldera of the active Vailulu’u submarine volcano in American Samoa. Sitting above the Samoan volcanic hotspot, Vailulu’u is the youngest volcano of the Samoan chain. Repeated mapping of Vailulu’u in 1999, 2005, 2006, 2012, and 2017 revealed the progressive growth of a new cone named Nafanua. In 18 years, the cone grew >300 meters in height from a starting depth of ~1000 meters below sea level (mbsl). The differential analyses of this time-series bathymetry dataset enabled the assignment of maximum age ranges to different portions of the new cone. High-definition ROV imagery collected in 2017 revealed patterns of community structuring consistent with ecological succession: newly erupted seafloor contained a subset of the benthic species found on older seafloor. Furthermore, individual animal sizes in the younger seafloor zones were smaller than in the older zones. This unusual interdisciplinary combination of geological and biological observations provides constraints on which deep-sea animals recolonize new seafloor after a major disturbance event and how quickly. This knowledge could be applied to identify signs and states of recovery from anthropogenic disturbances by a deep seamount ecosystem.
Evaluating transfer prediction using machine learning for skill acquisition study under various practice conditions

Recent research highlighted the interest in 1) investigating the effect of variable practice on the dynamics of learning and 2) modeling the dynamics of motor skill learning to enhance understanding of individual pathways learners. Such modeling has not been suitable for predicting future performance, both in terms of retention and transfer to new tasks. The present study attempted to quantify, by means of a machine learning algorithm, the prediction of skill transfer for three practice conditions in a climbing task: constant practice (without any modifications applied during learning), imposed variable practice (with graded contextual modifications, i.e., the variants of the climbing route), and self-controlled variable practice (participants were given some control over their variant practice schedule). The proposed pipeline allowed us to measure the fitness of the test to the dataset, i.e., the ability of the dataset to be predictive of the skill transfer test. Behavioral data are difficult to model with statistical learning and tend to be 1) scarce (too modest data sample in comparison with the machine learning standards) and 2) flawed (data tend to contain voids in measurements). Despite these adversities, we were nevertheless able to develop a machine learning pipeline for behavioral data. The main findings demonstrate that the level of learning transfer varies, according to the type of practice that the dynamics pertain: we found that the self-controlled condition is more predictive of generalization ability in learners than the constant condition.
Segmentation of Objects by Hashing

We propose a novel approach to address the problem of Simultaneous Detection and Segmentation introduced in [Hariharan et al 2014]. Using the hierarchical structures first presented in [Arbelaez et al 2011] we use an efficient and accurate procedure that exploits the feature information of the hierarchy using Locality Sensitive Hashing. We build on recent work that utilizes convolutional neural networks to detect bounding boxes in an image [Ren et al 2015] and then use the top similar hierarchical region that best fits each bounding box after hashing, we call this approach C&Z Segmentation. We then refine our final segmentation results by automatic hierarchical pruning. C&Z Segmentation introduces a train-free alternative to Hypercolumns [Hariharan et al 2015]. We conduct extensive experiments on PASCAL VOC 2012 segmentation dataset, showing that C&Z gives competitive state-of-the-art segmentations of objects.
Assessment of Return to Consciousness After Electrical Stunning in Lambs

The return to consciousness of 24 electrically stunned lambs was assessed by measurement of physiological reflexes and electroencephalography (EEG) recordings. The physical activity of the lambs after head-only electrical stunning included one tonic phase and two clonic phases. The tonic phase began immediately after the stun and ended 10 s after the stun; the first clonic phase started immediately after the tonic phase and ended 36 s after the stun, and the second clonic phase started immediately after the first clonic phase and ended 70 s after the stun. During the tonic phase and the first clonic phase, electrical activity recordings of the brain showed a dramatic increase in the relative power spectra of alpha and beta frequencies. Both frequencies returned to pre-stun levels with the end of the first clonic phase. During the second clonic phase, the relative power spectrum of theta frequency was higher than that before stunning. These results suggest that during the tonic phase and the first clonic phase, the animal was unconscious, whereas during the second clonic phase the return of some conscious function began. Spontaneous breathing returned at about 29 s post-stun, whereas the corneal reflex returned at about 38 s. It is therefore suggested that the return of spontaneous breathing is the safest indicator that the animal is close to recovering consciousness.
Prevalence of hypercementosis in a Saudi Arabian population: A cone beam computed tomography study.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of hypercementosis in a Saudi Arabian population. Material and methods: A total of 642 CBCT scans from patients comprising 4471 teeth were incorporated in the study sample. All teeth were analyzed for the presence of hypercementosis in sagittal, axial and coronal plains by two qualified and experienced observers. The characteristics of the involved tooth in terms of gender, jaw and location were recorded from the CBCT scans. The obtained data were statistically analyzed using SPSS 21.0. The reliability of measurements was evaluated by kappa statistics. Results: Out of total 642 subjects hypercementosis was observed in 31 patients (4.82%) and 43 teeth (0.96%). Eight (2.68%) maxillary 1st molars, 6 (1.88%) mandibular 1st molars, 5 (1.46%) maxillary second molars, 7 (1.95%) mandibular 2nd molars, 9 (4.76%) maxillary 3rd molars and 8 (3.58%) mandibular 3rd molars were observed to have hypercementosis. Among males, 4.76% were affected with hypercementosis as compared to 4.86% of females (p=0.97). Likewise, no significant difference in the occurrence of hypercementosis was observed between maxillary and mandibular arches or between sides (p>0.05). Conclusion: The prevalence of hypercementosis in a Saudi population was found to be 4.82% with respect to patients and 0.96% with respect to teeth. No significant propensity for gender, jaw and arch side was noted.
Construction and Validation of the Character Strengths Scale for Youth (CSS-Youth)

Abstract Character strengths are positive individual characteristics that may be expressed through thoughts, feelings and actions. The present study aimed to build an instrument to assess the virtues and character strengths of adolescents and to seek psychometric evidence for the scale. A total of 836 adolescents participated, between the ages of 14 and 18 and enrolled in high school, being 60.4% girls. Students responded to the Character Strengths Scale for Youth (CSS-Youth). Judges’ analysis indicated that CSS-Youth has evidence of content validity. Confirmatory factorial analysis allowed the extraction of five factors, and the alpha coefficient showed good accuracy. The initial psychometric data for CSS-Youth is promising, but further studies are necessary to find other validity evidence, as well as new analyses to test the factorial structure of the model used.
Characterization of mortality and high-risk characteristics of thyroid cancer in Filipinos using the California Cancer Registry

Introduction Filipinos are the third largest Asian American subgroup and have the highest incidence of thyroid cancer among all races. To better understand this racial/ethnic disparity in thyroid cancer affecting Filipinos we analyzed the California Cancer Registry (CCR) data in Filipino thyroid cancer cases from 1988 to 2018. Methods 97,948 thyroid cancer cases in California from 1988 to 2018 (until 2015 for Asian subgroups) were evaluated. We examined the case distribution by sex, age at diagnosis, race/ethnicity including Asian ethnic subgroups, histology, TNM stage, tumor size, lymph node involvement, lymphovascular invasion, and multifocality. We also looked at treatment data including surgery and radiation including radioactive iodine therapy. We calculated age-adjusted mortality rates (AAMR) for each major racial group and each Asian ethnic subgroup. Binary logistic regression was used to determine the likelihood of high-risk characteristics and treatment when comparing Filipinos to other racial/ethnic groups. Kaplan-Meier Estimate was performed to evaluate thyroid cancer survival across all race/ethnicities. Multivariate Cox proportion hazards regression was performed to evaluate mortality risk from all causes of death by race. Results There were 5,243 (5.35%) Filipino thyroid cancer cases in California from 1988 to 2018. Filipinos had the highest AAMR (1.22 deaths per 100,000) in 2015. Filipinos had a higher likelihood of Stage IV thyroid cancer compared with Non-Hispanic Whites, Non-Hispanic Blacks, Hispanics and nearly all Asian subgroups. Filipinos had a worse 5-year and 10-year overall survival (OS) than the combination of all other Asian/Pacific Islanders. Filipinos compared to Non-Hispanic Whites had significant mortality risk in overall and papillary thyroid cancer cases (Overall HR: 1.10, 95% CI 1.07–1.13, p < 0.0001, Papillary HR: 1.11, 95% CI 1.07–1.14, p < 0.0001) when adjusted for race/ethnicity, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and stage. When stratified by Charlson comorbidity score, Filipinos compared to Non-Hispanic Whites still had significant mortality risk (Charlson 0 HR: 1.07, 95% CI 1.02–1.11, p = 0.0017, Charlson 1+ HR: 1.07 95% CI 1.002–1.14, p = 0.0434). Conclusions Filipino thyroid cancer patients have higher incidences of high-risk pathological features and greater AAMR and mortality risk. These findings warrant further investigation into better understanding the connection between the greater incidence of high-risk characteristics and increased mortality in Filipinos.
The Effect of Financial Ratios, Maqasid Sharia Index, and Index of Islamic Social Reporting to Profitability of Islamic Bank in Indonesia

This study aims to analyze the performance of Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR), Financing to Deposit Ratio (FDR), Net Income Margin (NIM), Operating Expenses Ratio (OER), Maqasid Sharia Index (MSI), and Index of Islamic Social Reporting (ISR) to influence the level of profitability. The main purpose of this study is to complete the previous research with try to add the variables MSI and Index of ISR to estimating the change of profitability of Islamic banks in Indonesia. The study conducted eight Islamic Banks to be analyzed in the period from 2010 to 2012. The tool of analysis is used multiple linear regression for predicting the level of profitability. The results of the study show that all of the independent variables are significantly affected simultaneously to the level of profitability. Partially, NIM and OER are significantly affected by the level of profitability. The low level of Maqasid Sharia Index and Islamic Social Reporting implementation of the Islamic banks in Indonesia in the period of the study proves that these two variables are not the main indicator or a major achievement of most Islamic banks, even though Islamic banks should refer to attain mashlalah (public interest). Keywords: CAR, FDR, NIM, OER, MSI, and Index of ISR. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis kinerja yang ditunjukkan oleh rasio Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR), Financing to Deposit Ratio (FDR), Net Income Marging (NIM), Biaya Operasional terhadap Pendapatan Operasional (BOPO), Indeks Maqashid Syariah (MSI), dan Indeks Islamic Social Reporting (ISR) terhadap profitabilitas bank syariah di Indonesia. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah melengkapi penelitian-penelitian sebelumnya dengan menambahkan variabel MSI dan ISR untuk mengestimasi profitabilitas bank syariah di Indonesia. Penelitian ini menggunakan data tahunan pada delapan bank syariah diperiode antara 2010 hingga 2012 dimana penelitian ini menggunakan metode regresi linear berganda. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa secara simultan seluruh variabel independen mempengaruhi profitabilitas bank syariah secara signifikan. Secara parsial, hanya NIM dan BOPO yang berpengaruh signifikan terhadap profitabilitas. Lemahnya pengaruh Indeks Maqashid Syariah dan Indeks Islamic Social Reporting mengindikasikan bahwa kedua variabel tersebut bukanlah faktor utama dalam pencapaian bank syariah, meskipun bank syariah juga harus memperhatikan faktor mashlahah. Kata kunci: CAR, FDR, NIM, OER, MSI, and Index of ISR.
The 2007 Ning'er Mw 6.1 Earthquake: A Shallow Rupture in Southwest China Revealed by InSAR Measurements

The Ning'er Mw 6.1 earthquake on 3 June 2007 occurred in the southwest to the Sichuan‐Yunnan rhombic block with complicated seismic structures. The focal depth determined by the U.S. Geological Survey is only 5 km, but the field investigation did not find obvious surface ruptures in the epicenter area. The magnitude obtained by inverting the broadband waveforms is Mw 6.4 that is much larger than the Mw 6.1 calculated by U.S. Geological Survey, indicating this event is complicated. The Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar is used to study the fault geometry, coseismic slip model, and Coulomb stress changes around the seismic region. It shows that this event is mainly dominated by a right‐lateral strike‐slip fault with a slight thrust component. The fault plane is 28‐km long along the strike and 14‐km wide along the dip. The maximum slip is up to 1.02 m at a depth of 3.6 km and the released moment is 2.57 × 1018 Nm, corresponding to a magnitude of Mw 6.25. The shallow source of this event is related to inelastic off‐fault deformations along the fault or magma chamber. The lack of obvious surface ruptures indicates the strain is not completely released. The coseismic Coulomb stress changes suggest this earthquake has enhanced the stress on the Puwen fault and Mohei fault. The future seismic risks of these two faults and its adjacent regions cannot be ignored since aftershocks are fewer and the residual strain unreleased by the Ning'er event.
Study the Immune Response of Conjunctival and Subcutaneous Vaccination of Goats with RB51 Vaccine for Controlling Brucellosis

Accepted on 29/1/2013 Summary This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of RB51 vaccine in immunization of goats against brucellosis although it is a specific vaccine for cattle, fifteen pregnant and non-pregnant goats were divided into three groups, 5 goats were injected subcutaneously(S/C) with 2 mls of RB51 vaccine which contain 4 × 10 8 CFU , 5 goats were vaccinated through conjunctival route (C/J) with 0.2 ml of RB51 which contain 4 × 10 8 CFU , and the last 5 goats were injected with PBS and kept as control group. It has been ascertained that no abortion occurred in the vaccinated animals except one case of a weak kid was born in S/C vaccinated group. Humeral immune response for the vaccinated animals measured by serological test (Rose Bengal and Passive hemagglutination tests) every two weeks, while the cellular immune response measured by brucellin test at the 6 th week. Passive haemaglutination test (PHA) was positive and the antibodies were increased significantly (P<0.05) at the 2 nd week to reach 10.4±2.4 and 6.4±0.9 in S/C and C/J routes respectively, and increased significantly (P<0.05) at 8 th week to reach 38.4±6.4 and 22.4±3.9 in S/C and C/J routes respectively, and decreased significantly at 12th week which reach 9.6±1.6 to 6.4±0.9. Brucellin from RB51 strain prepared to be used as antigen in the PHA test and also in skin test to determine delayed type hypersensitivity, serial dilutions of RB51 brucellin had been done to confer the optimal concentration in skin test that did not induce toxicity for mice 40μg was the optimal concentration that has been given to goats. In goats the results indicated that the S/C group showed a high delayed type hypersensitivity compared with C/J group and the good skin reactions was increased to reach the maximum at 48 hrs post brucellin injection (PBI), when the erythema diameter reached 7.1±0.09mm and 5.4±0.3mm in S/C and C/J groups respectively and skin thickness was2.9±0.1 mm and 2.1±0.2 mm in S/C and C/J groups respectively. These results showed that immunized animals expressed cellular and humeral immune response examined by DTH and PHA. Concluded that the RB51 vaccine gave good level of immunization in goats and it can be considered as alternative vaccine against heterogonous Brucella spp.