Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Spatial and temporal patterns in the Mediterranean populations of Aristaeomorpha foliacea and Aristeus antennatus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Aristeidae) based on the MEDITS surveys

The aristeids Aristaeomorpha foliacea and Aristeus antennatus are two species of great economic importance in the Mediterranean Sea, where they are exploited almost exclusively by bottom trawlers. We analysed their geographical and inter-annual patterns using data collected, following a standardized protocol, during the MEDITS international experimental bottom trawl surveys. The data used consisted of standardized abundance and biomass indices, size structure and individual biological information collected in the northern Mediterranean for more than two decades. Several univariate and multivariate methodologies were used to analyse the data. The current study confirms previous findings, such as the longitudinal gradient in the relative presence of the aristeids, but also offers additional information for a better understanding of the intrinsic variability of the data over the years and between areas. Moreover, geographical variability in the somatic condition index is discussed, taking into account the role of environmental conditions and fishing pressure. The large geographical variability found for both species in this regional approach reflects the importance of additional studies at a small-scale geographical level. Such studies could be particularly important for managing and ensuring the stability of these species, for which large regional approaches may be inadequate.
A retrospective study of 100 cases of ectopic pregnancy: clinical presentation, site of ectopic and diagnosis evaluation

Background: Over the last few decades, the incidence of ectopic pregnancy has increased almost to the extent of an epidemic disease. Ectopic pregnancy is one of the commonest acute abdominal emergencies. Ectopic pregnancy remains the leading cause of maternal deaths in early pregnancy. The aim of the study was the clinical presentations, ultra sound features and diagnostic difficulties of all cases of ectopic pregnancy. Methods: This is a retrospective study conducted at Government Medical College and Hospital, Rajkot from January 2013 to June 2016, in the three and half year study period, there were a total of 100 ectopic pregnancies. Results: Most common symptom in our study was lower abdominal pain, in 90% cases. Amenorrhea was present in 100 cases, whereas vaginal bleeding in 48 cases. Nausea, vomiting observed in 26% of patients, cervical tenderness in 48%, and adnexal tenderness in 40% while shock was observed in 10% of patients. Conclusions: Ampullary part of the fallopian tube is the most common site of ectopic pregnancy observed during our study. Complex adnexal mass was the most common finding on ultrasound. Surgical management by laparotomy and salpingectomy continues to be the preferred mode of management of ectopic pregnancy in our institution.
Ensemble Hierarchical Extreme Learning Machine for Speech Dereverberation

Data-driven deep learning solutions with gradient-based neural architecture, have proven useful in overcoming some limitations of traditional signal processing techniques. However, a large number of reverberant–anechoic training utterance pairs covering as many environmental conditions as possible is required to achieve robust dereverberation performance in unseen testing conditions. In this article, we propose to address the data requirement issue while preserving the advantages of deep neural structures leveraging upon hierarchical extreme learning machines (HELMs), which are not gradient-based neural architectures. In particular, an ensemble HELM learning framework is established to effectively recover anechoic speech from a reverberant one based on spectral mapping. In addition to the ensemble learning framework, we further derive two novel HELM models, namely, highway HELM [HELM(Hwy)] and residual HELM [HELM(Res)], both incorporating low-level features to enrich the information for spectral mapping. We evaluated the proposed ensemble learning framework using simulated and measured impulse responses by employing Texas Instrument and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (TIMIT), Mandarin hearing in noise test (MHINT), and reverberant voice enhancement and recognition benchmark (REVERB) corpora. The experimental results show that the proposed framework outperforms both traditional methods and a recently proposed integrated deep and ensemble learning algorithm in terms of standardized objective and subjective evaluations under matched and mismatched testing conditions for simulated and measured impulse responses.
Five Rings, Five Screens? A Global Examination of Social TV Influence on Social Presence and Social Identification During the 2018 Winter Olympic Games

This study uses social presence theory and social identity theory as theoretical frameworks to examine global social TV usage during a mega-sporting event. A total of 2,296 people from six different nations (Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) were surveyed about their social TV usage, degree of social presence, and team identification in the week following the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. Primary findings illustrate that increased social TV use predicts increased measures of social presence, social capital, and perceived sociability, which then influences one’s identification with their national team and Winter Olympics fandom. Additional insights are found regarding global social TV engagement and ancillary device usage habits.
When is age dissimilarity harmful for organisational identification? The moderating role of age stereotypes and perceived age-related treatment

Due to demographic changes, age diversity is growing in the workplace, creating a potential challenge to social integration. However, who is most affected by working with colleagues of different ages and when is being dissimilar in age from others more likely to hinder organisational identification? Drawing on relational demography and on the social identity approach, we suggest that certain individual and contextual conditions can lead employees to react to greater age dissimilarity by reducing their psychological attachment to the organisation. We propose that negative age stereotypes and perceived age-related treatment affect the salience of age as a social category for employees and threaten their age group identity, thereby creating conditions in which age dissimilarity might hinder organisational identification. We therefore examine the moderating effects of negative age stereotypes and perceived age-related treatment on the relationship between age dissimilarity and organisational identification in a sample of 434 schoolteachers from 16 schools in Italy. Findings show that age dissimilarity per se is not sufficient to hamper employees’ identification with the organisation. However, it has detrimental effects when employees hold negative age stereotypes and/or perceive an unfair organisational treatment towards their own age group. Implications for research are discussed along with practice implications.
Determination of Relationship between Thyroid Gland Volume and Anthropometric Indices

Objective: To sonographically determine the thyroid gland volume in normal adults in Jos University Teaching Hospital, as well as how it relates to anthropometric factors. Background: The thyroid gland is one of the largest endocrine glands in the body weighing about 10-25g. It regulates the rate of metabolism and controls the growth and rate of function of many other systems in the body. These it does, by producing thyroid hormones, principally thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). The accurate estimation of the size of the thyroid is very important for the evaluation and management of thyroid disorders. Thus, knowing the normal size in a geographic location would form a baseline for detecting abnormalities. Ultrasonography is a cheap, readily available, easy to perform and non-invasive method to image the thyroid gland, hence its use in this resource-limited setting. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study of sonographic measurement of thyroid gland volume on 400 normal (healthy) adults in Jos, Plateau State, Northern part of Nigeria. All examinations were performed using LOGIC 5, a real-time ultrasound machine using a 10MHZ linear transducer and ultrasound transmission gel to act as a coupling gel. Measurements of each lobe and isthmus were obtained in longitudinal (length), transverse (width) and depth(breath) in centimetres (cm). Blood samples were taken for thyroid function tests. The weight and heights were obtained. The data obtained were statistically analyzed using SPSS software version 17. The results were presented in forms of tables, graphs and chart. Results: The mean thyroid volume for males 6.03 cm3±2.22 was higher than that of females 5.62 cm3±2.14. The mean right lobe volume (RLV) was 3.09 cm3±1.47 and that of males and females were 3.16 cm3 ±1.34 and 3.04 cm3 ±1.55 respectively. The mean left lobe volume (LLV) was 2.69 cm3 ± 1.37 and that of males and females were 2.89 cm3±1.32 and 2.57 cm3±1.39 respectively. The right lobe volume was significantly greater than the left lobe(p=0.000). The total mean isthmus volume was 0.27 cm3±0.31. The mean isthmus volume in males 0.3±0.28 is significantly higher than that of females 0.24±0.23 (p=0.025). The BMI increases in females with increasing age. BMI and BSA are higher in males. Conclusion: The volume obtained in this study was slightly lower than those reported by previous studies in Nigerian adults. The right lobe volume was higher than that of the left and the volume was higher in males compared to females. Anthropometric parameters were noted to affect the thyroid volume.
The impact of mindfulness meditation on self-esteem and self-compassion among prisoners

Abstract The impact of mindfulness meditation on self-esteem and self- compassion was examined among 56 inmates at a local jail. Participants were assigned to a 1 h weekly mindfulness meditation or wait list control group. Participants in the meditation group were further divided into less experienced or more experienced. Results supported that the more experienced meditators had higher self-esteem, self-compassion and felt less isolation than the other two groups. Curiously, the less experienced meditation group experienced lower self-esteem and self-compassion compared to the control group. Discussion of these findings and directions for future research are offered.
Capacity Choice, Monetary Trade, and the Cost of Inflation

Abstract Both buyers and sellers in decentralized markets make investments ex ante that constrain trading possibilities ex post: buyers decide in advance how much money to carry, while sellers decide how much inventory to stock. We show that the interaction between these choices naturally leads to indeterminacy of equilibrium. When neither inflation nor the scrap value of unsold goods is high, there is a continuum of equilibria in which buyers and sellers coordinate on their choices of money balances and capacity. Furthermore, at low inflation rates, traded quantities are pinned down by the seller’s capacity choice, and inflation therefore has no effect on output and welfare. We also contrast our results with other environments with strategic complementarities and discuss how they depend on the pricing mechanism.
Weight Gain Among Elderly Women as Risk Factor for Disability

Objective: To examine the association between weight change and the incidence of disability in activities of daily living (ADL) among elderly women. Method: In 2006, 227 women aged ≥75 years and independent in ADL were selected from SABE Study (Health, Well-being, and Aging) in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The dependent variable was the report of difficulty on ≥1 ADL in 2009. Differences in weight were calculated between baseline and second interview, and converted to percentage change in relation to initial weight. A change (gain or loss) ≥5% was considered significant. A logistic regression analysis was performed including sociodemographic and health-related variables. Results: After adjusting, weight gain remained associated to disability (OR = 2.42; p = .027), whereas weigh loss lost significance (OR = 1.66; p = .384). Discussion: Weight loss is generally considered more worrisome than weight gain in elderly. However, weight loss alone was not a risk factor for disability in our study.
Deep Learning for EEG-Based Preference Classification in Neuromarketing

The traditional marketing methodologies (e.g., television commercials and newspaper advertisements) may be unsuccessful at selling products because they do not robustly stimulate the consumers to purchase a particular product. Such conventional marketing methods attempt to determine the attitude of the consumers toward a product, which may not represent the real behavior at the point of purchase. It is likely that the marketers misunderstand the consumer behavior because the predicted attitude does not always reflect the real purchasing behaviors of the consumers. This research study was aimed at bridging the gap between traditional market research, which relies on explicit consumer responses, and neuromarketing research, which reflects the implicit consumer responses. The EEG-based preference recognition in neuromarketing was extensively reviewed. Another gap in neuromarketing research is the lack of extensive data-mining approaches for the prediction and classification of the consumer preferences. Therefore, in this work, a deep-learning approach is adopted to detect the consumer preferences by using EEG signals from the DEAP dataset by considering the power spectral density and valence features. The results demonstrated that, although the proposed deep-learning exhibits a higher accuracy, recall, and precision compared with the k-nearest neighbor and support vector machine algorithms, random forest reaches similar results to deep learning on the same dataset.
Situating the left-lateralized language network in the broader organization of multiple specialized large-scale distributed networks

Using procedures optimized to explore network organization within the individual, the topography of a candidate language network was characterized and situated within the broader context of adjacent networks. The candidate network was first identified using functional connectivity and replicated across individuals, datasets, acquisition tasks, and analytic methods. In addition to classical language regions near to perisylvian cortex and temporal pole, additional regions were observed in dorsal posterior cingulate, midcingulate, anterior superior frontal and inferior temporal cortex. The candidate network was selectively activated when processing meaningful (as contrast to non-word) sentences, while spatially adjacent networks showed minimal or even decreased activity. Examined in relation to adjacent networks, the topography of the language network was found to parallel the motif of other association networks including the transmodal association networks linked to theory of mind and episodic remembering (often collectively called the default network). The several networks contained juxtaposed regions in multiple association zones. Outside of these juxtaposed higher-order networks, we further noted a distinct frontotemporal network situated between language regions and a frontal orofacial motor region and a temporal auditory region. A possibility is that these functionally-related sensorimotor regions might anchor specialization of neighboring association regions that develop into the language network. What is most striking is that the canonical language network appears to be just one of multiple similarly organized, differentially specialized distributed networks that populate the evolutionarily expanded zones of human association cortex.
BMI and outcomes of endometrial and ovarian cancer patients

Objectives We aimed to evaluate the association between body mass index (BMI), perioperative complications and outcomes in endometrial cancer (EC) patients at our institution. In addition, we performed a systematic review to compare our results to the literature. Methods This was a retrospective study of surgically managed EC patients between January 2006 and January 2015. Patient characteristics, surgical complications and intraand postoperative outcomes were evaluated across BMI groups; BMI <30 kg/m2, BMI ≥30 kg/m2 and BMI ≥40 kg/m2. The systematic review was performed according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Results In total, we identified 627 women of which 514 were included; 249 women had a BMI <30 kg/m2, 195 women had a BMI 30-39.9 kg/m2, and 70 women were morbidly obese (BMI ≥40 kg/m2). Obese women (BMI ≥30 kg/m2) had significantly more postoperative surgical complications, including wound complications and antibiotics use, which was confirmed by the systematic review. The increase in complications mainly occurred in open surgery and morbidly obese patients were at highest risk. Obesity did not impact other outcomes including 30-day mortality. Conclusion Obesity is associated with an increased risk of surgical morbidity in EC patients, and is most profound in open surgery and among the morbidly obese. Laparoscopic surgery may well prevent the majority of postoperative complications in this group of patients, and should therefore be the favoured approach.
WikiProject Medicine: Creating Credibility in Consumer Health

Wikipedia needs little introduction. But after 15 years of operation and growth, it still finds itself appearing to need a great deal of justification. Wikipedia, the crowd-sourced, communally written encyclopedia of all things, has been a giant of the Internet from soon after its inception. For some years, it has been one of the most heavily trafficked websites in existence, with hundreds of millions of monthly visitors avidly reading millions of encyclopedic articles in hundreds of languages (1). Among thousands of articles on Pokemon, the roster of Chelsea Football Club, different varieties of coffee pots, historical figures both incredibly well known and almost completely obscure, Wikipedia includes a huge number of articles on medical topics. This popular content dwarfs most, if not the entire standard, understood to be credible, and held-to-be-authoritative sources of health information. In 2013, Wikipedia’s medical content was viewed more than 6 billion times. This was not only a greater number of page views than the NIH website, but a figure outstripping WebMD, the Mayo Clinic, and the World Health Organization websites combined. See Figure 1 for the single most used website for health information (2).
SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING IN LATER LIFE

Abstract Social wellbeing is important to health, but maintaining social relations often becomes difficult in later life due to retirement, chronic disease, and the death of spouses and friends. Social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, present accessible and low-cost communication technologies that have been demonstrated to enhance feelings of social connection and reduce loneliness in younger age groups. This exploratory study uses a four-week social media training workshop as an intervention in a randomised controlled study to examine whether similar social benefits might be realised for those at older ages, aged 65+ years. Social wellbeing measures of social capital, loneliness, social connectedness and social provisions were examined, revealing only small differences in social integration. As these findings seemingly contradict studies conducted with younger persons, the contexts of social media use in older adulthood are discussed, along with proposals for future research directions.
The Adoption of Management Accounting Practices (Maps) in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's) of Pakistan

The practices of Management Accounting have not been highly adopted in developing countries. But with increased importance of these practices, firms of developing countries are motivated to adopt MAPs. In this research, MAPs align with increased importance of SMEs have been studied and provide understanding to enhance adoption of MAPs in SMEs. This study outlines the usage of MAPs in Pakistani SMEs; identify the contextual factors that affect the adoption of MAPs by SMEs and lastly explore perceived benefits and problems in adoption of these practices. A mixed methodology was used to collect data. A questionnaire with five categories of MAPs was used to examine the extent of use of MAPs by 100 SMEs of Multan from textile sector. Eight interviews were conducted to identify the factors, benefits and problems. However, the results shows that majority of respondent firms adopt traditional MAPs and other medium sized firms do more focus on contemporary MAPs. The findings of current study can be helpful and informative for practitioners and policy makers in the development of contemporary MAPs as well as provide deep insight for SMEs to enhance their business by adopting these practices.
Sword chape found at Santok: technological, technical, formal and typological aspects

Janowski A. , Gan P., Zamelska-Monczak K. 2019. Sword chape found at Santok: technological, technical, formal and typological aspects. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne 71, 387-406. This paper presents the results of studies and technological analyses of a fragment of the fittings from the lower part of a sword scabbard discovered in 2016 at the stronghold in Santok, Wielkopolska, Poland. The chape represents the type in widespread use across the Baltic lands in the second half of the tenth century and the early eleventh century AD, yet its embellishments are the subject of debate. According to some researchers, the scene shows Odin with his attributes or birds. Others believe that it depicts the sacrifice of Odin, similar to that of the crucified Christ, or the fight between the hero and the monsters. The chape was made of copper alloy, but its chemical composition is unusual, with very high levels of lead. This indicates the conscious and purposeful use of alloys with specific properties. Until now, only about 1% of such artefacts have been subjected to technological analyses, and further research is necessary to confirm standardization regularities in their production process.
The Mediating Role of E-Satisfaction on the Effect of E-Service Quality Dimensions on E-Loyalty: A Lesson from Bukalapak.Com Indonesia

This study examines the role of electronic satisfaction mediation on the effect of electronic service quality dimensions on electronic customer loyalty . Bukalapak.com was ranked ninth of the most popular sites accessed from Indonesia. Bukalapak.com is aggressively promoting and improving the quality of its services. However, the dimensions of electronic services quality that affect the behavior of its customers are still unclear. Research focusing on the effects of the dimensions of electronic service quality mediated by electronic satisfaction is still scarce. Therefore, we offer new insights on how the latest types of interactions must be maintained. We applied Structural Equation Modelling for hypothesis testing. This study found evidence that three dimensions of electronic service quality (privacy, web design, and compensation) have been shown to influence electronic loyalty which is mediated by electronic satisfaction. This influence is positive and pure mediation. The theoretical implication of this research is the need to prioritize a human aspect to an e-marketplace context. Even though these implications need to be tested in a broader context of population, the practical implications of this research are important incentives for e-marketplace sites such as bukalapak.com, tokopedia.com, lazada.com, etc., to pay attention to human aspects of their services to gain customer satisfaction and loyalty.