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SCIENTIFIC NOTE ORIGIN OF AEDES AEGYPTI IN CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA

Aedes aegypti is the primary vector for serious diseases, including those caused by chikungunya, dengue, and Zika viruses. In 2017, the Southern Nevada Health District first detected this invasive species in Clark County, NV, including in the city of Las Vegas. We analyzed Ae. aegypti from the city of North Las Vegas to determine the likely source of the invasion. We genotyped a sample of Ae. aegypti at 12 highly variable microsatellites and analyzed the data in reference to published data from 25 sites in the southern USA. We found that the Ae. aegypti in Las Vegas most likely invaded from southern California. Knowing the source of new invasions may provide information about the invading population (e.g., previous insecticide exposure) and can help prevent future invasions from the region.
WHAT IS IN A TWEET? DESIGNING A SEMANTIC LEXICON BASED ON DISTANCE EDUCATION STUDENTS’ OPINIONS

Ademais, o corpus trabalhado revelou uma grande recorrência do uso de linguagem figurativa, gírias e elementos extralinguísticos, tais como GIFS e emojis . Os resultados também indicaram que a abordagem adotada não é eficiente para prover recursos que auxiliam na identificação automáticas de recursos tais como gírias, neologismos, elementos extralinguísticos e linguagem figurada.
THE INTERMEDIATE HOST OF SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI

305 INFECTED FRESHWATER SNAILS, BIOMPHALARIA ALEXANDRINA, THE INTERMEDIATE HOST OF SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI BY AMINA M. IBRAHIM, OLFAT A. HAMMAM AND SHADIA M. EL-DAFRAWY Departments of Medical Malacology and Pathology, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Imbaba P.O. Box 30, Giza, Egypt Abstract The objective was to study the chromosomes of Biomphalaria alexandrina snails (class Gastropoda) in control and infected state which could be helpful in understanding how host-parasite relationships in feasible and effective control measures. The chromosomal changes were studied using the air-drying method. The results showed that B. alexandrina had a diploid chromosome number, 2n = 36. Also, the meiotic stages were detected as earlyleptotene and late leptotene, zygotene, diplotene, metaphase I. The result also revealed the presence of a primitive sperm, with a conical head and a very long, uni-flagellate tail. A comparative meiotic chromosome analysis between the control and infected ones showed some significant differences, as pachytene and diplotene were more condensed.
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The evolution of antifreeze glycoproteins has enabled notothenioid fish to flourish in the freezing waters of the Southern Ocean. Whereas successful at the biodiversity level to life in the cold, paradoxically at the cellular level these stenothermal animals have problems producing, folding, and degrading proteins at their ambient temperatures of –1.86 C. In this first multi-species transcriptomecomparisonof theaminoacidcompositionofnotothenioidproteinswith temperate teleostproteins,weshowthat, unlike psychrophilic bacteria, Antarctic fish provide little evidence for the mass alteration of protein amino acid composition to enhance protein folding and reduce proteindenaturation in the cold. The exceptionwas the significant overrepresentation of positions where leucine in temperate fish proteins was replaced by methionine in the notothenioid orthologues. We hypothesize that these extra methionines have been preferentially assimilated into the genome to act as redox sensors in the highly oxygenated waters of the Southern Ocean. This redox hypothesis is supported by analyses of notothenioids showing enrichment of genes associated with responses to environmental stress, particularly reactive oxygen species. So overall, although notothenioid fish show cold-associated problems with protein homeostasis, they may have modified only a selected number of biochemical pathways to work efficiently below 0 C. Even a slight warming of the Southern Ocean might disrupt the critical functions of this handful of key pathways with considerable impacts for the functioning of this ecosystem in the future.
Syntheses and crystal structures of three bis(triorganotin) benzenedicarboxylates

Abstract Three bis(triorganotin) benzenedicarboxylates, 1,n-C6H4(COOSnR3)2 (n, R=3, C6H5C(CH3)2CH2, 1; 4, C6H5C(CH3)2CH2, 2; 4, C6H11-c, 3), were synthesized by the reaction of 1,3 or 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid with triorganotin chlorides in the solution of CH3ONa-CH3OH and characterized by means of elemental analysis, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) (1H, 13C, and 119Sn) spectra, and X-ray single-crystal diffraction. Compounds 1–3 are all di-nuclear tin complexes in which the carboxylate is monodentate and each tin atom possesses a distorted SnC3O tetrahedral geometry.
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ence of white matter hyperintensities on MRI, the datasets do not include systematic information regarding comorbidities. Particularly in older individuals, further knowledge concerning co-existing conditions such as diabetes and hypertension is likely to throw light on the pathogenesis and development of Alzheimer’s disease. Specifically, knowing whether certain subtypes are more likely to suffer from one or more of these conditions may further inform our understanding of the variable rate of progression across subtypes (Li et al., 2011). The lectures will keep becoming more complicated, and even more interesting.
Numerical Study on the Propagation of Premixed Flames in Confined Narrow Disc-Shape Chambers

ABSTRACT The laminar flame propagation in narrow confined disc-shape chambers of millimeter scale is investigated, concerning the flame front displacement speed and the influences from the changes of the gap width and radius. An asymptotic analysis treating the flame front as a discontinuity successfully predicts the velocity profiles of the flame front and illustrates the importance of heat release parameter and laminar flame speed of the fuel. The unsteady flame propagation process is simulated by a full numerical computation which employs the n-butane/air mixture as the reactant. The numerical simulation emphasizes the sensitivity of spatial scale to the flame propagation in narrow spaces, indicating that the acceleration rate and the maximum speed of the flame have a non-monotonic relation with the gap width, of which the optimal value is about 0.8 mm. Faster flame propagation is favored for larger gap radius due to stronger flame straining, but it is restricted by the gap width.
Tools for the assessment of quality and risk of bias in Mendelian randomization studies: a systematic review

Background. The use of Mendelian randomization (MR) in epidemiology has increased considerably in recent years, with a subsequent increase in systematic reviews of MR studies. We conducted a systematic review of tools designed for risk of bias and/or quality of evidence assessment in (MR) studies, and a review of systematic reviews of MR studies. Methods. We systematically searched MEDLINE, Embase, the Web of Science, preprints servers and Google Scholar for articles containing tools for assessing, conducting and/or reporting MR studies. We also searched for systematic reviews and protocols of systematic reviews of MR. From eligible articles we collected data on tool characteristics and content, as well as details of narrative description of bias assessment. Results. Our searches retrieved 2464 records to screen, from which 14 tools, 35 systematic reviews and 38 protocols were included in our review. Seven tools were designed for assessing risk of bias/quality of evidence in MR studies and evaluation of their content revealed that all seven tools addressed the three core assumptions of instrumental variable analysis, violation of which can potentially introduce bias in MR analysis estimates. Conclusions. We present an overview of tools and methods to assess risk of bias/quality of evidence in MR analysis. As none of these methods has been tested and validated for general use, we do not provide recommendations on their use. Our findings should raise awareness about the importance of bias related to MR analysis and provide information that is useful for assessment of MR studies in the context of systematic reviews.
Noncontact Vital Sign Sensing Under Nonperiodic Body Movement Using a Novel Frequency-Locked-Loop Radar

Most conventional vital-sign radars cannot easily detect human vital sign signals under nonperiodic body movement. This article presents a novel frequency-locked loop (FLL) radar that can track the phase changes that are caused by nonperiodic body movement. A gain/phase detector and a cross correlation function (CCF) in the FLL radar greatly reduce the second harmonic, the intermodulation terms between vital sign signals and nonperiodic body movement noise, enhancing both the signal-to-noise ratio and the accuracy of detection of the vital signs. Measurements indicated that the implemented 2.4-GHz FLL radar with a gain/phase detector and CCF can effectively detect the human respiration rate (RR) and heart rate (HR) under nonperiodic body movement. Using a chest belt as the measurement reference, the standard deviation (SD) of RR and HR measurements were 1.27 and 5.69 beats/min, respectively, when the seated subject under test (SUT) swung nonperiodically his upper body. When the SUT walked away from the radar naturally at 2.6 km/h, the implemented FLL radar measured RR and HR with SDs of 2.67 and 8.28 beats/min, respectively.
Significant Association of Adam 33 Polymorphism with COPD in Javanese Population of Indonesia

Background: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is one of World health cases that is commonlyknown, which is triggered by the combination of environmental factors especially cigarette smoking andgenetic factors. The association between A disintegrin and metalloprotease 33 (ADAM33) polymorphismsand COPD has been investigated and reported by other researchers. Objective: The main aim of this study isto identify the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in ADAM 33 gene with COPDin the Javanese population in Lampung, Indonesia. Methods: A randomized cross-sectional study was usedin this research. PCR-Sequencing method was involved to analyze the polymorphic for three SNPs (T1, T2,and Q-1) of the ADAM33 gene. Statistical analysis data was performed in descriptive and comparative aswell as it was measured by parametric/non-parametric tests. Results: The results showed that the T2 GG,and T1AG genotypes in COPD group were significantly more frequent rather than in control group (p <0.05). In case of allele, it was found that the T1G and T2G was higher in COPD group rather than in thecontrol group (p = 0.440 and 0.131, respectively). Conclusion: The results clearly conclude that there wassignificant association between T1 and T2 polymorphisms of ADAM33 gene and COPD in the Javanesepopulation of Lampung, Indonesia.
The Precenicco 11th–13th-Century AD Bottom-Based Vessel: Excavation and Preliminary Results

ABSTRACT The remains of a wooden hull were exposed in 2012 near Precenicco, Italy, beside the Stella River. In 2014 it was exacavated and recovered as a single unit. Radiocarbon dated to the 11th–13th century AD, it has a flat bottom with no keel, but curved sides and a smooth turn of the bilge, atypical of riverboats. Its internal structure, with alternating L-shaped floor-timbers with one futtock per bend, is also unusual. The study is part of the Anaxum Project of the University of Udine, with the Archaeological Heritage of Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, investigating the human-landscape relationship along the Stella River through time.
Discrimination, Emotions, and Identity: Unpacking Latinx Pathways to Crime

In the United States, populations of Color are overrepresented across virtually all arenas of the criminal justice system. These realities have led scholars to bring race and ethnicity to the forefront of our examinations of crime and justice. Understanding how culturally specific factors distinctly impact a group is imperative when it comes to understanding why some engage in offending while others do not. Analyzing the pathways specified by the theory of African American Offending (TAAO) among a Latinx population can help shed light on whether this theory may be broadly applicable to populations of Color. This insight can aid in the development of culturally appropriate interventions and policies to combat the institutional racism that increases marginalized populations’ likelihood of contact with the criminal justice system. Thus, we explore how well TAAO pathways apply to a Latinx sample of youth. Findings lend support for culturally distinct examinations. Implications are discussed.
The Influence of Transformational Leadership on Organizational Culture : The Case of Food and Beverage Employees in Indonesia

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of transformational leadership on organizational culture. The research was conducted on Small and Medium Enterprises in the Food and Minimum Industry Sector in Medan City. The sample in this study were employees in the Food and Minimum Industry Sector in Medan City. 350 questionnaires were distributed, 188 were returned. Thus the participants in this study amounted to 188 people. The data is carried out with Structural Equation Modeling. The results show that transformational leadership can improve the corporate culture of the food and beverage industry in Medan City. Suggestions in this study are for the owner as the owner to improve leadership and good organizational culture.
Comparative Analysis of Acute Physiological Responses between Short and Middle Distance Swimming Athletes with Physical Loading Test

Indonesia’s swimming achievements are still far from that of other countries. Among other things, at the 2018Asian Games, Indonesia did not succeed in getting a single medal. If not improved, Indonesia’s swimmingperformance will get worse. One of the innovations is to identify the physical abilities and physiologicalresponses of an athlete through a physical loading test. This study aims to analyze the differences in acutephysiological responses between short and middle distance swimming athletes through continuous andinterval high intensity physical test. The sample of males aged 14-18 years consisted of the short distance(n=12) and middle distance (n=12) swimmers. Participants did a high intensity physical test with anergocycle for 21 minutes with a 7-minute warm-up and 3-minute cool down, intervally, and without restingfor continuous test. The variables studied included resting pulse rate, blood lactate, leg and shoulder musclestrength, arm andleg power. Data collected inbefore (pre) and after(post) physical test. The results showedthat the short distance swimmers had greater increase inlactate level and pulse rate in both physical tests.The leg power decreased significantly in the short distance swimmer when performed continue physical test,whereas the middle distance swimmer when performed interval physical test. The conclusion of this studywas to differ the leg power as acute physiology response for swimmers is more appropriate using continuousor interval high intensity physical test. Based on these results, training program for swimmer type can bedeveloped. However, further research is still needed to enhance the swimmers performance.
Association of the rs17574 DPP4 Polymorphism with Premature Coronary Artery Disease in Diabetic Patients: Results from the Cohort of the GEA Mexican Study

Previously, it has been reported that hypoalphalipoproteinemia (HA) is associated with rs17574 DDP4 polymorphism. Considering that in diabetic patients, HA is often present and is a risk factor for premature coronary artery disease (pCAD), the study aimed to evaluate the association of this polymorphism with pCAD in diabetic individuals. We genotyped the rs17574 polymorphism in 405 pCAD patients with T2DM, 736 without T2DM, and 852 normoglycemic individuals without pCAD and T2DM as controls. Serum DPP4 concentration was available in 818 controls, 669 pCAD without T2DM, and 339 pCAD with T2DM. The rs17574 polymorphism was associated with lower risk of pCAD (padditive = 0.007; pdominant = 0.003, pheterozygote = 0.003, pcodominant1 = 0.003). In pCAD with T2DM patients, DPP4 levels were lower when compared with controls (p < 0.001). In the whole sample, individuals with the rs17574 GG genotype have the lowest protein levels compared with AG and AA (p = 0.039) carriers. However, when the same analysis was repeated separately in all groups, a significant difference was observed in the pCAD with T2DM patients; carriers of the GG genotype had the lowest protein levels compared with AG and AA (p = 0.037) genotypes. Our results suggest that in diabetic patients, the rs17574G DPP4 allele could be considered as a protective genetic marker for pCAD. DPP4 concentrations were lower in the diabetic pCAD patients, and the rs17574GG carriers had the lowest protein levels.
Full Bayesian Significance Test para dados de sobrevivência bivariados: seleção de modelos encaixados da Cópula PVF

CANTONI, M. Full Bayesian Significance Test for bivariate survival data: PVF Copula’s nested model selection. 2021. 70 p. Tese (Doutorado em Estatística – Programa Interinstitucional de Pós-Graduação em Estatística) – Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos – SP, 2021. The investigation and modeling of the existing dependence in a set of random variables is a widely discussed topic in statistics. In this context, the use of copulas becomes interesting because it is a flexible approach that allows to study, in a first moment, the univariate distributions and, later, the dependency structure. In practical problems, knowing the copula that best connects marginal distributions to the joint distribution function is not a simple task. In general, several models are adjusted according to the type of dependence existing in the data set and some selection criteria are applied in order to choose the "best model". In this work, we use the two-parameter Archimedean family of Power Variance Function (PVF), which includes the Clayton, Gumbel and Inverse Gaussian (IG) copulas as special or limiting cases, once it offers a unified and flexible approach to adjust widely used copula models and we propose the use of the Full Bayesian Significance Test (FBST) as a model selection criterion. We validated the results through a simulation study and illustrated the usefulness of the methodology using data on appendectomy times for adult twins.
Extension of M Dwarf Spectra Based on Adversarial AutoEncoder

M dwarfs are main sequence stars and they exist in all stages of galaxy evolution. As the living fossils of cosmic evolution, the study of M dwarfs is of great significance to the understanding of stars and the stellar populations of the Milky Way. Previously, M dwarf research was limited due to insufficient spectroscopic spectra. Recently, the data volume of M dwarfs was greatly increased with the launch of large sky survey telescopes such as Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopy Telescope. However, the spectra of M dwarfs mainly concentrate in the subtypes of M0–M4, and the number of M5–M9 is still relatively limited. With the continuous development of machine learning, the generative model was improved and provides methods to solve the shortage of specified training samples. In this paper, the Adversarial AutoEncoder is proposed and implemented to solve this problem. Adversarial AutoEncoder is a probabilistic AutoEncoder that uses the Generative Adversarial Nets to generate data by matching the posterior of the hidden code vector of the original data extracted by the AutoEncoder with a prior distribution. Matching the posterior to the prior ensures each part of prior space generated results in meaningful data. To verify the quality of the generated spectra data, we performed qualitative and quantitative verification. The experimental results indicate the generation spectra data enhance the measured spectra data and have scientific applicability.
Why do people pursue goals sequentially when they try to balance cost and utility?

ABSTRACT While research in Cognitive Psychology has investigated people’s ability to use feedback to pursue a single goal, little research has addressed their ability to use feedback to pursue multiple goals. We investigated the reasons for the sequential goal pursuit observed in previous research using a multiple-cue-probability learning task aiming at teaching energy efficiency, specifically, if it derives from cognitive constraints. The task was to balance utility (comfort) against cost, with an explicit budget for both variables (Experiment 1); with utility expressed in an accessible unit (Experiment 2); and with utility represented by a linear function (Experiment 3). The results suggest that the sequential goal pursuit behaviour is driven by limits on cognitive capacity that are little affected by training and goal phrasing. One cognitive constraint was the difficulty with interpreting the effect of actions on the nonlinear utility, which reinforced an initial priority assigned to actions on the linear cost.
Application of Lignite Combustion Waste Slag Generated in Heating Plants as a Partial Replacement for Cement. Part II: Physical–Mechanical and Physical–Chemical Characterization of Mortar and Concrete

The presented study is a continuation of the research with the aim of finding a useful value of hazardous waste slag generated by the combustion of lignite in heating plants and its application in the construction industry. The different amounts of cement (10%, 15%, 20% and 25%) were replaced with waste slag and silica fumes in mortars and concrete production. Detailed physical–mechanical characterization was performed on the mortar and concrete samples according to standard procedures. Test results indicated that the replacement of cement with slag and silica fumes reduces the physical and mechanical properties of mortar and concrete, but cement composites retained the required structural properties. If 15–20% is considered an acceptable level of compressive strength decrease, then it can be concluded that waste slag can be implemented in practice and be used as a construction material, with cement replacement in the maximal amount of 20% (17.8% of slag and 2.2% of silica fumes). On hardened mortar samples with maximal possible cement replacement (20%), physical–chemical characterizations were performed and included X-ray and infrared spectrophotometry, scanning electron microscopy, and thermal analysis. Results showed the absence of new phases and the presence of only those which were characteristic for starting samples, predominantly portlandite, quartz, calcite and calcium silicate-oxide.
Soft planning in macro-regions and megaregions: creating toothless spatial imaginaries or new forces for change?

ABSTRACT Both planning practice and research increasingly acknowledge the existence of new scales and governance arrangements alongside and between statutory planning systems. Examples of new scales of non-statutory planning are large-scale megaregions and macro-regions. Drawing on examples from North America and Europe (Southern California and the Danube Region respectively), this article examines how new processes of cooperation at this scale can influence other statutory levels of decision-making on spatial development. The analysis of spatial delineations, discourses, actors, rules and resources associated with megaregions and macro-regions suggests that this type of ‘soft planning’ can foster territorial integration when a perception exists that there are joint gains to be made, when informal rules are negotiated in context-specific and bottom-up processes, when soft spaces are used as arenas of deliberation to renegotiate shared agendas, and when actors succeed in ensuring the anchorage of informal cooperation in other arenas.