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On the Survival Assessment of Asthmatic Patients Using Parametric and Semi-Parametric Survival Models

The goals of asthma management are to prevent or minimize symptoms, avert or reduce risk of asthma attacks and to ensure that asthma does not limit the patient’s activities since it is not curable. Thus in this study, the degrees of success following treatments given to patients over time were assessed based on the patient’s length of stay on admission and factors responsible for patients’ response to treatment were equally examined using survival analysis models of parametric and semi-parametric distributions. The study was conducted on 464 asthmatic patients from four different hospitals in Ogun State. The data were extracted from patients’ records and prognostic factors such as age, sex, smoking, hereditary, obesity, respiratory illness and environmental pollution were considered for survival analysis. It was observed that there was drastic reduction in survival rate from 7 days upward at a cut-off probability value of 0.485, based on Kaplan-Meier (KM) results. Log-normal regression model, a parametric model with the least AIC value (2969.74) and least negative Log likelihood value (1475.87) shows best performance in handling asthma data with prognostic factors of Smoking (HR = 1.32, 95% CI: 0.93 - 1.88), Obesity (HR = 1.25, 95% CI: 0.80 - 1.93), Environmental pollution (HR = 0.79, 95% CI: 0.52 - 1.18) and Respiratory illness (HR = 1.93, 95% CI: 1.33 - 2.79) were found to have significantly affected the length of stay of asthmatic patients in hospital.
Biology and Environmental Preferences of Wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier, 1832), in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO)

Wahoo Acanthocybium solandri is a common bycatch pelagic species in oceanic fisheries targeting tuna and tuna-like species. Biology and environmental preferences are important parameters in understanding life history of fish species including wahoo. Despite the socio-economic importance of wahoo in many coastal countries, little is known about their biological and fisheries information in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO). These parameters were analyzed on the basis of samples collected via the Chinese tuna long-line Fishery Observer Programme in 2012. Results obtained from this study show that the fork length (FL) of wahoo ranged from 59 to 169 cm with an average of 111.3 cm, and two dominant size groups were identified at 100 to 130 cm for males and 90 to 130 cm for females. Body size did not significantly differ between female and male wahoo specimens. Wahoo specimens expressed a positive allometric growth (b = 3.183), and the sex ratio was 1.9:1 (female/male), which differed significantly between both sexes. Only female wahoo were observed in catches of FL > 150 cm. The estimated lengths at 50% maturity (FL50) of female and male wahoo were 84 cm and 83 cm, respectively. Gonadosomatic index (GSI) of wahoo was at its peak in November, and on the basis of the stomach content analysis, wahoo mainly preyed on fish (84.64%), cephalopods (14.26%), and crustaceans (1.1%), found on the basis of prey number. The optimal swimming depth and water temperature of wahoo in the WCPO were found to range between 70 and 110 m and 23.1 and 24 °C, respectively. The updated life history information presented in this work helps to address current data limitations and provides critical information for future assessments of wahoo stocks in the WCPO.
Morphometric variations of Asian Common Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, Pallas 1777) from Bali Island, Indonesia as the basis of morphometrics diversity data

Abstract. Winaya A, Maftuchah, Nicolas CM, Prasetyo D. 2020. Morphometric variations of Asian Common Palm Civet (Paradoxurus Hermaphroditus, Pallas 1777) from Bali Island, Indonesia as the basis of morphometrics diversity data. Biodiversitas 21: 1027-1034. Asian Common Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, Pallas 1777) is one of the small carnivores that also lives in Bali island, Indonesia. Civets can process coffee beans by fermenting them in the digestive tract, so the coffee beans have a unique aroma. This coffee product, commonly known as Kopi Luwak, is the most expensive type of coffee in the world. The purposes of this study were to obtain the morphometric variations, genetic diversity, and genetic relationship of Bali civets. In this study, we involved 73 civets from four different areas (Bangli, Tabanan, Gianyar, and Denpasar) of Bali Islands, Indonesia. The quantitative character was the body size of animals, and the qualitative character was their hair color. The body size among populations was not significantly different (P>0.05). The complete canonical structure analysis showed that tail length (1.04) and body length (0.76) in canonical 1 and body height (0.96) and head width (0.94) in canonical 2 could be used as a group differentiator. The genetic distance among Bali civets was categorized as close except Bangli civets having far distance than others.
“HIV Is a Gift”: Posttraumatic Growth in Women With HIV

Given the universally high rates of trauma in women living with HIV and the positive health benefits associated with posttraumatic growth, recognizing how posttraumatic growth is expressed in words by women with HIV has important application to clinicians working with this population. This study examined qualitative narratives from a women’s HIV support group to look for spontaneous statements and comments that corresponded to the five domains of posttraumatic growth identified by Tedeschi and Calhoun. Participants in this study described how their lives had been transformed, consistent with posttraumatic growth, into what was described as a “gift. ” Implications for clinical practice are offered.
Hierarchical neural network for facial attribute transfer

The facial attribute transfer refers to generating a face image with desired attributes while preserving other details. In the existing methods, some of the them consider the independence among attributes but neglect the integrity. It may result in information loss and lead to distorted generation. The others ensure the integrity at the cost of insufficient independence limits. The generated images will be partially blurred. In this paper, GAN and Variational Autoencoders (VAE) structure are incorporated to preserve the details while attribute transfer occurs. The concept of hierarchical latent representation is introduced to realize the attribute independence. These methods work with each other forming an effective network for facial attribute transfer, referred as Hi-GAN. Experiments on the CelebA dataset show that our model can output clearer and more realistic images on facial attribute transfer.
Colony size, nestmate density and social history shape behavioural variation in
 Formica fusca
 colonies

In ants, individuals live in tightly integrated units (colonies) and work collectively for its success. In such groups, stable intraspecific variation in behaviour within or across contexts (personality) can occur at two levels: individuals and colonies. This paper examines how colony size and nestmate density influence the collective exploratory behaviour of Formica fusca (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), in the laboratory. The housing conditions of the colonies were manipulated to vary the size of colonies and their densities under a fully factorial design. The results demonstrate the presence of colony behavioural repeatability in this species, and contrary to our expectations, colonies were more explorative on average when they were kept at lower nestmate densities. We also found that experimental colonies created from larger source colonies were more explorative, which conveys that a thorough understanding of the contemporary behaviour of a colony may require knowing its social history and how it was formed. Our results also convey that the colony size and nestmate density can have significant effects on the exploratory behaviour of ant colonies.
Detection of major genotypes combination by genotype matrix mapping

It is important to identify the interaction of genes about human disease and characteristic value. Many studies as like logistic analysis, have associated being pursued, but, previous methods did not consider the sub-group of the genotypes. So, QTL interactions and the GMM (genotype matrix mapping) have been developed. In this study, we detect the superior genotype combination to have an impact on economic traits of Korean cattle based on the study over GMM method. Thus, we identified interaction effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) responsible for average daily gain(ADG), marbling score (MS), carcass cold weight (CWT), longissimus muscle dorsiarea (LMA) using GMM method. In addition, we examine significance of the major genotype combination selected by implementing permutation test of the F-measure which was not obtained by Sachiko et al.
Habitat suitability modelling to predict the spatial distribution of cold‐water coral communities affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

The Deepwater Horizon disaster resulted in the largest accidental marine oil spill in history and caused extensive injury to deep‐sea habitats, including cold‐water coral communities dominated by Paramuricea species. One of the primary difficulties in assessing the full extent of the injury to cold‐water coral ecosystems is the extreme paucity of observational data and the subsequent lack of knowledge of their distribution within the affected region. The aim of this study was to use habitat suitability modelling to estimate the number of potentially affected Paramuricea sp. corals across the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Mycorrhizal Communities associated with Soil Aggregates in the Rhizosphere of Willows (Salix Spp.) Inoculated with Rhizophagus intraradices and Hebeloma cylindrosporum inoculants

Mycorrhizal Communities associated with Soil Aggregates in the Rhizosphere of Willows (Salix Spp.) Inoculated with Rhizophagus intraradices and Hebeloma cylindrosporum inoculants Madantha A. K. Wijesinghe Advisor: Professor Kari E. Dunfield University of Guelph, 2012 Mycorrhizae improve plant growth and ecosystem sustainability by forming a symbiotic association with higher plants including the economically important willows (Salix spp.). With the recognition of the importance of mycorrhizae in terrestrial ecosystems, inoculation of plants with mycorrhizae is becoming a common practice in agricultural and land reclamation industries. However, little information is available on important ecological parameters such as soil aggregation, soil organic carbon content (SOC) and mycorrhizal communities associated with willow rhizospheres in response to mycorrhizal inoculation in willow systems. The main objectives of this research were to explore how commercial mycorrhizal inoculation of willows impacts (1) percent waterstable soil aggregates (%WSA); (2) indigenous arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) community composition associated with different size soil aggregates; (3) SOC, and (4) willow growth. These objectives were examined under both greenhouse and field conditions. Using molecular approaches, we observed the existence of spatial variability in indigenous AMF communities among different soil aggregate size classes. This spatial variability varied with type of soil and could be reduced by inoculating with a commercial AMF inoculant. The indigenous EMF diversity was low and did not show spatial heterogeneity among soil aggregates, but it did vary with soil type. In addition, other parameters, including %WSA, SOC within the willow rhizosphere, and willow plant growth also varied by soil type and changed in association with commercial mycorrhizal inoculation. In the field experiment, soil extracts from willow nursery soil had comparable plant growth promotion with commercial mycorrhizal inoculation, and altered the AMF community associated with bulk soil and soil aggregates in the willow rhizosphere. These results suggest that historically superior willow growth in the willow nursery soil could be due to pre-existing soil microbiological factors. Overall this research indicates that AMF and EMF inoculation has the potential to influence the composition of the AMF community, but had little influence on the composition of the EMF community in the systems tested.
The Public Service Quality of Library Service at the Library Unit Polytechnic State of Sriwijaya

Satisfaction is the level of feeling in which someone expresses the results of comparisons of the performance of products or services received and expected by that person. One unit in charge of serving all Polsri students is the Polsri Library Unit. Thus students’ satisfaction need to be continually pursued with the aim that they continue to utilize the library. This means that students’ satisfaction will be created if the library services received by students are at least comparable to the services provided by the library. Finding out the service quality can be done by comparing the students’ perceptions toward the service that they actually have received with the service they actually expect toward the library service attributes. To create student satisfaction, the library must be able to meet the students’ expectations, the problem to be solved is knowing how the Public Services Quality in the Polsri Library Unit are. The data taken in this qualitative study is about how the Public Services Quality in the Polsri Library Unit are, where data collection were be carried out to determine the extent of the public services quality that have been provided by the Polsri Library unit. Describing the description of the library service quality measured through aspects of service quality dimensions by Zeitahml, Pasuraman, and Berry was given as the result of this qualitative study. In conducting this research, the data were conducted by using the literature study and observation stages. Deeper, the implementation of this method in addition to conducting observations, interviews were also conducted directly with the head of Polsri Library Unit along with its staff and students as visitors. Researchers came directly and ask for input on the Public Services Quality in the Polsri Library Unit.
Emotion Based Content Credibility Prediction Model For Twitter Social Network

: Twitter and other microblogging platforms are reportedly being used for propagating spams and other malicious content, which stand contrary to the vision of these platforms. This situation raises several ethical challenges in terms of deceiving people with pseudo information. Many a time, users of microblogging sites are held responsible for spreading spiteful information on social media, and they remain unknown in most of the cases. Tweet content may contain either genuine information or uncredible content. The uncredible content contains an abusive or absurd language for any caste, culture, religion or political party. This content needs to be filtered out so that it does not disturb the tranquility of nation in the long run. Therefore, filtering such content from Online Social Networks (OSNs) is the utmost requirement, and so, needs to be addressed. Earlier studies have focused on mainly feature-set belonging to content-based, topic-based and network-based categories. However, the potential of emotion-based features still remains to be explored in the domain. In this paper, IBM Watson and Meaning Cloud platforms have been used for evaluating emotions, sentiment and polarity scores in order to develop a classification model that will filter out all the uncredible content from the OSNs like Twitter. Initially, 35K tweets and associated features provided by Twitter were crawled. These tweets were further preprocessed and forwarded to six human experts for annotating it on a five-pointer credible class scores. The Multilayer perceptron, Naive Bayes, Random Forest and Support Vector Machine algorithms were used for developing a machine learning classification model for categorizing tweets into one of the given credibility classes. The acceptable level of accuracy, precision, recall, and f1 score is observed for all given credibility classes.
Teaching Vocabulary by Using Total Physical Response

This study aimed at finding out whether there is any improvement of students’ vocabulary mastery after being taught by vocabulary using Total Physical Response (TPR) in SD Swasta Pertiwi Sabang. This experimental research was conducted by giving the students a pretest before the treatments and a posttest after the treatments. The population of this research was the whole students at SD Swasta Pertiwi Sabang there are 75 students. The samples of this study were the students from fourth grade students which were chosen by using random sampling consist of 23 students. Total Physical Response can be used to teach vocabulary in Elementary School. The result revealed that there was a significant improvement of students’ vocabulary mastery after being taught by using Total Physical Response. The mean score from the pretest increase 53.81 points and in the posttest are 81.74. The t-test value was also found higher than the t-table (t s = 13.777 > t t = 2.080). It means the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted whereas the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected.
First Records of Morphological Diversity and Ecology of Periphytic Cyanobacteria from Tukun River, Penang Forest Reserve, Malaysia

Despite the abundance of streams and rivers in Malaysia, the algal communities of these lotic ecosystems have remained largely unstudied. In a one-year floristic survey conducted from December 2014, 24 cyanobacterial morphospecies were identified for the first time from Tukun River, Penang Forest Reserve. Ten morphospecies were identified directly from field specimens while the remaining 14 morphospecies were identified only in cultures derived from the field samples. A total of 17 morphospecies; Leptolyngbya cf. boryana, L. cf. foveolarum, L. valderiana, Chroococcus cf. cohaerens, C. cf. disperses, C. cf. membraninus, C. cf. minutus, C. cf. varius, Gloeocapsopsis cf. crepidinum, Geitlerinema cf. tenuius, Phormidium simplicissimum, Dolichospermum sp. , Fischerella sp. , Homoeoptyche repens, Nematoplaca inscrustans, Scytonema hofmanii and S. stuposum are new records for Malaysia. Crusts were the most dominant macroscopic forms (seven morphospecies) followed by mats (three morphospecies). Scytonema was the most frequently encountered genus, occurring at 8/9 sampling sites. The presence of heterocytous cyanobacteria (S. stuposum, S. hofmanni) in 8/9 sampling sites is consistent with the low nitrate levels (< 0.74 mg/L) recorded throughout the study stream. Chroococcales were dominant in both upper and middle parts of the stream. The morphospecies present showed distinct distribution patterns despite apparently minimal variations in ecological parameters such as temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH and conductivity between the sampling sites. This study provides important new baseline information in understanding the diversity of periphytic cyanobacteria not only in Penang Island but more widely in Malaysia. This information can make a useful contribution in biomonitoring stream health.
Burnout or Compassion Fatigue? A Comparative Concept Analysis for Nurses Caring for Patients in High-Stakes Environments

Burnout and compassion fatigue are two distinct concepts experienced by nurses caring for patients in high-stakes environments. Nurses often do not recognize which concept they are experiencing due to the similarities and interchangeable use of these terms in literature. Nurses in high-stakes settings need to have these concepts further explored as they impact their physical and psychological health. This comparative concept analysis examines these terms using Walker and Avant methodology. Defining attributes, antecedents, consequences, empirical referents, and constructed cases are discussed. This analysis adds to the nursing knowledge needed to support nurses in achieving optimal occupational health and well-being.
Melissopalinological characteristic of stingless bee (Trigona/Tetragonula) honey in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara

These research objectives were to identify the honey type and the potential plants as food source of stingless bees in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. Stingless bees honey samples were collected on September 2016 from four different locations in Lombok which are North Lombok, West Lombok, Central Lombok, and East Lombok. The pollen analysis was performed using Von Der Ohe et al. (2004) methods with modification. The result showed that stingless bees honey samples from four locations did not have predominant pollen which classified as multifloral honey. Meanwhile in the honey samples there identified 27 pollen types belonging to 21 families. The pollen spectrums of honey samples were diverse, with the highest dominancy of Arecaceae (Cocos nucífera) in North and Central Lombok and also Tiliaceae (Type Tílíaceae) in West and East Lombok.
Role of NKCC2A in Nervous system Activity

The NKCC2A channel is a splice variant of the Na+K+2Cl‐ co‐transporter 2 (Slc12a1), which is abundantly expressed in macula densa and apical membrane of the tubular cells in the kidney but has not been reported in nervous tissue. This study was designed to determine if the NKCC2A absence altered behavior and nervous system activity in mice. NKCC2A wild type (WT), heterozygous (HE) and homozygous (HO) mice were tested in a behavioral battery in which there was a significant decrease in immobility in the Forced Swim Test (FST), a measure of depression‐like behavior. There were no differences in open field, Y‐maze, plus maze, pre‐pulse inhibition, functional observational battery or the rotarod test. Brain regions and adrenals were homogenized and catecholamines were measured using HPLC coupled to electrochemical detector. The serotonin metabolite to parent ratio in HE was elevated in rostral brainstem, significantly lower in the HO in the caudate nucleus with a non‐significant trend toward the same pattern in the amygdala. There was an increase in the intraneural but not the extraneural metabolite to parent ratio for dopamine. There were significantly lower levels of epinephrine and norepinephrine in the adrenals of HO, with the HE having intermediate levels. The pattern of results is consistent with the decreased immobility in the FST suggesting effects in brain areas involved in depressive‐like behavior. Further experiments will examine the biogenic amine use in nucleus accumbens, frontal cortex, hypothalamus, brain stem and urine. We will also employ a different test for depressive‐like behavior that has different false positives. These results implicate NKCC2A in brain and adrenal function in addition to its known role in the kidney.
Patterns of coyote predation on sheep in California: A socio‐ecological approach to mapping risk of livestock–predator conflict

Conflict between livestock producers and wild predators is a central driver of large predator declines and simultaneously may imperil the lives and livelihoods of livestock producers. There is a growing recognition that livestock–predator conflict is a socio‐ecological problem, but few case studies exist to guide conflict research and management from this point of view. Here we present a case study of coyote‐sheep predation on a California ranch in which we combine methods from the rapidly growing field of predation risk modeling with participatory mapping of perceptions of predation risk. Our findings reveal an important selection bias that may occur when producer perceptions and decisions are excluded from ecological methods of studying conflict. We further demonstrate how producer inputs, participatory mapping, and ecological modeling of conflict can inform one another in understanding patterns, drivers, and management opportunities for livestock–predator conflict. Finally, we make recommendations for improving the interoperability of ecological and social data about predation risk. Collectively our methods offer a socio‐ecological approach that fills important research gaps and offers guidance to future research.