Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Biochemical evaluation of phytoplankton and microbial load in water, sediments, macrophytes and fish during drought and high flooding season in Dahmeit and Tushka khors, Lake Nasser, Egypt

After building the High Aswan Dame (HAD), flood water is stored in Lake Nasser. The biochemical composition of the phytoplankton community and microbial load are considered as biomarkers of the ecosystem including water, sediments, plant and fish in different khors of Lake Nasser. So the present study investigated the variation of chlorophyll a in water of Dahmeit and Tushka Khors during high flood and drought seasons. Also, the total protein, carbohydrate and lipid contents of phytoplankton and the microbial load in water, sediment, macrophytes and fish in these Khors during high flood and drought seasons were investigated. Data of this study indicated that Tushka khor recorded higher yield of all biochemical contents of algae than Dahmeit khor during the two seasons. In addition, higher chlorophyll a and protein contents were recorded in surface layer than bottom one. Microbial analyses indicated that the total bacterial counts and the total diazotrophs were present in high population densities in all water samples at different seasons. Higher flooding season recorded higher autochthonous and allochthonous as well as higher diazotrophic bacteria than drought season for Tushka khor. Furthermore, Tushka Khor recorded higher nitrogen-fixing bacteria than dahmiet khor. Also, Tushka khor recorded slightly higher total sediment bacterial counts than Dahmeit khor. On the other hand, the highest bacterial load of various fish organs was recorded in Dahmeit khor compared to Tushka khor. Microbial analyses of macrophyte species included total bacterial counts, as well as total diazotrophs were present in high population densities in all sample at deferent seasons. This study provides evidence that the biochemical composition of phytoplankton as well as water and sediment quality and fish healthy and distribution of macrophytes is affected by the flood. Thus, great efforts and cooperation between different authorities are needed to regular evaluation and study Lake Nasser and its khors to protect them from pollution and reduce environmental risk.
THE EFFECT OF LITIGATION RISK AND AUDIT QUALITY ON EARNING MANAGEMENT: EVIDENCE IN INDONESIA

In agency theory, entities that separate management and ownership functions will become vulnerable to agency conflicts. Agency conflicts that arise cause information provided by managers to be different or can be manipulated. One common practice carried out by managers is earnings management, where earnings management is a choice of accounting policies carried out by managers for various specific purposes. This research aims to examine and analyze the effect of litigation risk on earnings management and whether audit quality moderates the relationship litigation risk on earnings management. Warp PLS version 5.0 is used as a data processing tool. The object of this research is food and beverage companies that are listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange period 2013-2017. The test results prove that litigation risk affects earnings management and audit quality strengthens the influence of litigation risk on earnings management. Key-Words: Litigation Risk, Audit Quality and Earning Management
Gender role in anxiety, depression and quality of life in chronic kidney disease patients

Objective: To investigate gender role in quality of life, anxiety, and depression in chronic kidney disease patients. The study hypothesized that men will score high on depression and, anxiety and will score low on quality of life and perceived social support as compare to women Methods: One hundred patients with chronic kidney diseases were selected using purposive sampling strategy from nephrology ward of Leady Reading Hospital, Peshawar. The participants were included both male (n=50) and female (n=50) ranging in age from 18-65 years (M=44.16, SD= 15.15) Patients were recruited on the basis of preset inclusion criteria i-e (willing to participat, could read, speak and understand urdu language, with no previous history of dialysis treatment) and exclusion criteria (Age > than 18, Previous psychiatric history, Diagnosis less than one year, Education less than high school). All participants completed Quality of Life Questionnaire, Anxiety and depression questionnaires. Results: Statistical analysis of independent sample t-test shows significant difference of men and women on QOL t(98)=2.34,p=. 021), anxiety t(98)=4.23,p=. 001), and depression t(98)=4.54, p=. 001) while no significant gender differences were reported on perceived social support t(98)= . 98,p= . 327. Conclusion: Male showed more depression, anxiety as compared to females while women reported poor quality of life as compared to men.
A Developing Country Perspective

This paper revisits the pollution haven hypothesis in the context of Pakistan by offering a systematic analysis of its trade and production patterns. Using bilateral trade statistics from 1975-2003, we test the hypotheses that Pakistan’s net exports of pollutionintensive products have increased to the OECD countries. We also investigate if the stringency of environmental governance in the importing countries plays a role in determining Pakistan’s exports of pollution-intensive products. The results reveal that there has been a change in the composition of output and exports towards pollutionintensive manufacturing that parallels the opening of the economy. Overall, the findings appear to be in favour of the pollution haven hypothesis and call for effective environmental policy response for poverty alleviation and sustainable development.
Determination of Some Heavy Metals (Cu, Co, Ni) in Edible Clay from South Eastern Nigeria and Its Effect Due to Consumption

Determination of heavy metal contents in edible clay (kaolin) from Enyigba in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State of Nigeria was carried out using Atomic absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS). The quantitative analysis of heavy metal analyzed in the edible clay sample were 0.012 mg/kg for Co, 0.113 mg/kg for Cu and 0.712 mg/kg for Ni. This study shows that the levels of these heavy metals (Co, Cu and Ni) in kaolin are below the permissible limits as established by the regulatory organization (World Health Organization, WHO). Compared to the safety intake levels for these heavy metals recommended by US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), Expert Group on Vitamins and Minerals (EVM), and Agency for toxic substance and disease Registry (ATSDR), the dietary intakes of the three heavy metals from daily consumption of 20 g of kaolin should pose no health risk to human.
SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS THAT AFFECT EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF LITHUANIAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

This study explores relationships among high school students’ emotional intelligence, subjective health status, depressiveness, anxiety and psychological well-being. Participants were 16–19 years old students ( n =371) from high schools in various regions of Lithuania. The results suggested that total emotional intelligence positively correlates with psychological well-being and negatively correlates with subjective health status, depressiveness, and anxiety subscales.
www.econstor.eu Flipping a Coin: Evidence from University Applications

We empirically investigate the possibility that a decision-maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an external device, e.g., a coin ip. A large data set from the centralized clearinghouse for university admissions in Germany shows a choice pattern of applicants that is consistent with coin ipping and that entails substantial consequences for the matching outcome. In a series of experiments capturing the relevant features of university choice, participants often choose lotteries between allocations rather than certain allocations. This contradicts most theories of choice such as expected utility. A survey among university applicants links their choices to the experiments and con rms that the choice of random allocations is intentional.
Towards Three-Dimensional Model of Affective Experience of Music

Although there is debate among some scholars does the music elicit true emotions in the listeners (Kivy, 1990; Konečni, 2008), findings from studies using subjective, behavioral, physiological, and neurological measures indicate that listeners respond affectively to music (e.g., Gagnon & Peretz 2003; Mitterschiffthaler et al. 2007). Dimensional models of emotion suggest that affective experience can be explained by a set of underlying dimensions that are bipolar and consist principally of valence (pleasantness–unpleasantness) and arousal (high and low activation) (e.g., Russell 1980, 2003; Watson & Tellegen, 1985, 1999). This line of research started with the work of Osgood in 1950s on affective meaning of concepts which resulted in three stable and culturally invariable dimensions of affective meaning: evaluation (pleasant-unpleasant), potency (strong-weak) and activity (active-passive) (Osgood, Succi & Tannenbaum, 1957; Osgood, May & Miron, 1975). Following dimensional stream in emotion theory, abundant number of studies has been conducted using variety of stimuli materials in order to discover underlying structure of affective experience. In an earlier study on music stimuli (Nordenstreng, 1969) listeners rated music pieces on a number of different emotion attributes. Four factors were extracted and labeled as softness, colourfulness, relaxation and magnitude. In an extended study that followed Wedin (1972) proposed that emotions to music can be accounted for by three bipolar factors: tension/energy (vehement, violent, furious), gaiety-gloom (playful, exuberant, glad) and solemnity-triviality (solemn, sublime, grand). Recent studies focused more on specific aspects of emotional responses to sounds, such as music-specific affects (e.g., Zentner, Grandjean, & Scherer, 2008), thrills (e.g., Guhn, Hamm, & Zentner, 2007), or strong experiences elicited by music (Gabrielsson, 2001, 2006) However, despite rapidly expanding research in the field there is a lack of broader consensus on the structure of music induced affective reactions. As a consequence, inconsistent findings directed great number of researchers to rely on two-dimensional model of emotion, in accordance with widespread recognition of valence and arousal as basic dimensions of affective experience. Indeed, in recent years, two-dimensional model of emotion has gained support among researchers and has been applied widely with considerable success. Nevertheless, number of studies suggest that the two-dimensional model is not able to account for all the variance in sound elicited affective experiences and that two dimensions may not be enough (e.g., Bigand, Vieillard, Madurell, Marozeau, & Dacquet, 2005; Ilie & Thompson, 2006). Aims
High Power Tunable Tm-fiber Lasers and Its Application in Pumping Cr:ZnSe Lasers

1.1 Research background Interest in the Tm3+-doped fiber laser originates from its emission band in the range of 14002700nm lying between the bands of Er3+ and Nd3+ ions. Since the advent of double-cladding configuration of fiber and the recent technological development of high-power laser diodes, output power (performance) of Tm3+-doped fiber lasers has scaled exponentially. Up to date, the maximum output achieved in Tm3+-doped fiber lasers has been comparable with that from Yb3+-doped fiber lasers. Laser beam in the 2~3┤m wavelength range has wide applications. First, it is a good candidate in laser microsurgery due to high absorption of water in this spectral region thus can provide high-quality laser tissue cutting and welding. In addition, this wavelength-range laser has potential applications in environment monitoring, LIDAR, optical-parametric-oscillation (OPO) pump sources, and so on [1-4]. For obtaining laser emission in the mid-infrared wavelength region, the Tm3+-doped fiber is an excellent candidate due to several unique advantages it possesses. First, the Tm3+-doped fiber has a strong absorption spectrum that has good overlap with the emission band of commercially available AlGaAs laser diodes, which have been significantly developed and are being developed with an unprecedented speed. Second, the specific energy-level structure of Tm3+ ions provides the Tm3+-doped fiber laser a special advantageous energytransfer process-the 3H4+3H6→3F4+3F4 cross relaxation process. In this process, two excitedstate ions can be obtained with depletion of just one absorbed pump photon. With an appropriately high doping level, the cross relaxation process can offer a quantum efficiency close to two, which greatly improves the efficiency of the Tm3+-doped fiber laser. Thirdly, the Tm3+-doped fiber has a very broad emission band, spanning over more than 400 nm. This feature offers the Tm3+-doped fiber laser an especially high-degree wavelength tunability, which is very useful in applications such as spectroscopy, atmospheric sensing and so on.
Pattern of Otorhinolaryngological Disorders in HIV Positive Paediatric Patients at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH)

Background: HIV is a worldwide disease and affects all systems of the body. Despite the high burden of Paediatric HIV in Nigeria, few studies have been done on Otolaryngological disorders in children living with HIV. This study aimed to determine the pattern and prevalence of Otorhinolaryngological disorders among HIV positive paediatric patients and to compare them with age and sex-matched control. Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional case-control study carried out among 130 HIV positive and 130 HIV negative children aged 6 to 15 years at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH). Eligible patients were recruited via a systematic sampling method and matched with HIV negative controls and an interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to extract relevant information. All patients had Otorhinolaryngological examination and CD4 count determination, while children with tonsillar enlargement underwent X-ray of the post nasal space. HIV patients were graded for severity using WHO clinical Staging. Original Research Article Vincent et al.; AJMAH, 17(2): 1-9, 2019; Article no.AJMAH. 53047 2 Results: A higher proportion of the HIV positive patients had allergic rhinitis (66.9% vs.30.8%, p=0.01), pharyngitis (40.8% vs.18.5%, p=0.01), tonsillitis (34.6% vs.20.8%, p=0.013), adenotonsilar disease (24.6% vs. 13.8%, p=0.028), cervical lymphadenopathy (15.4% vs. 5.4%, p=0.001) and otitis media (5.4% vs. 0.8%, p=0.031). There was a significantly higher prevalence of ORL disorders among HIV positive children (95.4%) compared to HIV negative children (78.5%). (P=0.001). Conclusion: Pattern of ORL disorder appeared similar in both HIV-positive and -negative children. However, the overall high prevalence of the findings among the HIV-positive children required regular ORL assessment in these children.
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Evidence-Based Nursing Practice and Barriers

Professional nurses, one of the human resources in the health sector, are obliged to carry out the nursing process, especially nursing, based on scientific evidence. This study aimed to describe the knowledge, attitudes, and practice of evidence-based practice and its barriers to the hospital. Quantitative research with a descriptive approach was conducted at Dr. M. Djamil Hospital, Padang. A consecutive sampling technique was utilized, with 139 selected nurse practitioners, and only 90 nurses filled in the questionnaires. The instruments used were Evidence-Based Practice Profiles (EBP2) and the BARRIERS Scale. Characteristics of respondents were 70.0% diploma education; mean age was 36.7 (SD=7.95) years and 13.35 (SD=8.37) years of working time. The mean attitude towards EBP was higher than the mean of EBP knowledge/understanding, confidence, understanding of research terms, and practice towards EBP (3.32; 2.93; 2.72; 2.53; 1.95). Therefore, there is a definite need for improving knowledge, comprehending EBP, and research terminology to overcome the obstacles of EBP implementation in the nursing service practice.
Applying Aging Effect on Facial Image with Multi-domain Generative Adversarial Network

—Face Aging is an important and challenging application in computer vision. This is an application of conditional image generation. Until recently generative model was not good enough to generate considerable good resolution images. A generative model called generative adversarial network has introduced impressive capabilities in generating realistic images in both unconditional and conditional settings. Still, the task of generating images of different age conditioning on a given image is a very challenging task. Because there are two constraints to satisfy here in the generated images. The generated image must preserve the identity of the person in the source image and the image must have the features of the target age. In this work, we have applied the generative adversarial network in conditional settings along with custom loss function to satisfy the two mentioned constraints. The experiment has shown improved performance both in preserving the person’s identity and classification accuracy of generated images in the target class compared to previous known approach to this problem.
Problematic use of short message service (SMS) in medical students and its possible association with personality dimensions

Background: The use of short message service (SMS) is very popular among youths. Recent research has shown that it has some adverse consequences such as dependency. Objective: The present research aimed to determine the frequency of SMS dependency and its association with the temperament and character of medical students. Methods: A total of 293 medical students participated in this cross-sectional study in 2015 in Mashhad, Iran. The study group was divided into four groups according to their grade (using stratified sampling). Temperament and character inventory (TCI) and an SMS addiction test (SAT) were distributed between participants. SPSS software (version 11.5) was used for data analysis. Linear regression, Spearman's Rank-Order Correlation, Independentsamples t-test, ANOVA, Mann–Whitney U, and Kruskal Wallis were used for data analysis. P-value less than 0.05 was considered significant. Result: The mean age of participants was 24.44±4.63. Novelty seeking (p=0.003), cooperativeness (p<0.001), self-directedness (p<0.001) and self-transcendence (p=0.003) showed significant inverse correlation with total SAT score. There was significant difference between the mean of the total SAT in three state variables of novelty seeking (p=0.02), cooperativeness (p<0.001), self-directedness (p<0.001) and self-transcendence (p=0.02). The residents group had the highest mean SAT score. There was a significant difference in the total SAT scores according to the grade of the student (p<0.001). Moreover, we compared the participants’ temperament and character with Iranian normative data (derived from a study conducted in 2005) and found that the mean score in each area differed significantly between the two datasets (p≤0.001). Conclusion: Use of communication technologies is different according to temperament. Considering the key role of medical students, more attention needs to be paid to cellphone usage in this group.
Interventions in Reducing Weight Bias in Healthcare Providers and Preservice Students

Weight bias is harmful to patients and pervasive in healthcare providers and healthcare students. Effective interventions to reduce weight bias in healthcare providers and students are urgently needed and would improve patient care and patient outcomes. A literature review of current research on interventions to reduce weight bias in healthcare professionals and students was conducted to evaluate strategies for efficacy. Twenty articles investigating weight bias reducing interventions in healthcare providers and students were analyzed. Five primary strategies are currently used: selfreflection and awareness of one’s own bias; empathy building experiences; the influence and experiences of others; narratives of and contact with obese people themselves; and education on the nonmodifiable factors that affect weight. Among them, education on the genetic, physiological, and environmental causes of obesity was the single most studied and effective strategy used for reducing explicit weight bias. Provider self-reflection on their own bias was also shown to be effective in reducing implicit bias. Contact with and narratives of obese people that presented obese people as happy and fulfilled people consistently reduced bias. Exposure to portrayals of obese people as unhappy or suffering did not reduce weight bias. No strategy was consistently effective in reducing implicit bias. Future research is needed to better understand what strategies best modify implicit weight bias over the long-term. Research that focuses on reducing weight bias in active, practicing healthcare providers is needed to better understand what would be most effective for wide application in healthcare systems.
Are smartphones and tablets influencing the quality of your sleep? A survey

Background: Electronic media use may affect sleep health. The present study aimed to estimate the association between technological devices usage, especially mobile phone, during the evening/night and self-reported sleep disorders. Methods: The survey was conducted between June and September 2016. Anonymous self-reported questionnaire was distributed to the Italian general population and investigated demographic data, presence of sleep disorders and the use of electronic devices. Results: The analysis was based on 597 questionnaires. Mobile phone exposure has been associated with increased difficulty falling to sleep (p= 0.018). The use of mobile phones at bedtime was significantly related to self-reported sleep disturbance (p <0.001). Using mobile phone more than 60 minutes before going to sleep, the use of these devices in bed, surfing internet remained statistically significant in the multivariate analysis. Conclusion: Our results suggest that the use of a mobile phone before going to sleep is associated with reporting sleep disturbances. Public health prevention strategies could comprise promotion of optimum sleep habits and information regarding the effects of an intensive electronic devices use on the sleep status. Bert Fabrizio (1), Gualano Maria Rosaria (1), Giacomelli Sebastian (1), Martorana Maria (1), Siliquini Roberta (1) (1) Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Turin, Italy via Santena 5 bis 10126, Torino, Italy tel. +390116705875 fax +390116705889 CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Dr. Maria Rosaria Gualano Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Turin, Italy via Santena 5 bis 10126, Torino, Italy tel. +390116705809 fax +390116705889 email mariarosaria.gualano@unito.it DOI: 10.2427/12808 Accepted on May 16, 2018