Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Attachment, acculturative stress, and mental health of Mexican immigrants

ABSTRACT Mexican immigrants in the United States (US) account for 11.4 million individuals, yet little psychological research has examined the role of adult attachment on their acculturation experience and mental health outcome. This study investigated the relations among adult attachment, acculturative stress, and mental health (i.e., psychological distress, life satisfaction) with a sample of 154 non-US-citizen Mexican immigrants. Results indicated that the direct effects of attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance on psychological distress were not significant when considering acculturative stress, but both attachment variables indirectly associated with psychological distress via acculturative stress. Consistent with our hypothesis, attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance were positively associated with acculturative stress. Higher acculturative stress was positively correlated with psychological distress, but it was not significantly associated with life satisfaction. Further, attachment avoidance was directly associated with life satisfaction, but its indirect effect on life satisfaction via acculturative stress was not significant. Attachment anxiety did not have a significant direct or indirect effect on life satisfaction. Findings highlight the role of acculturative stress in the association of adult attachment and mental health and suggest that psychological interventions targeting at alleviating acculturative stress may be important in reducing psychological distress for non-US-citizen Mexican immigrants with insecure attachment.
Food web structure of aphids and their parasitoids in Belgian fruit agroecosystems

Community structures of aphids and their parasitoids were studied in fruit crop habitats of eastern Belgium in 2014 and 2015. Quantitative food webs of these insects were constructed separately for each year, and divided into subwebs on three host‐plant categories, fruit crop plants, non‐crop woody and shrub plants and non‐crop herbaceous plants. The webs were analyzed using the standard food web statistics designed for binary data. During the whole study period, 78 plant species were recorded as host plants of 71 aphid species, from which 48 parasitoid species emerged. The community structure, aphid / parasitoid species‐richness ratio and trophic link number varied between the two years, whereas the realized connectance between parasitoids and aphids was relatively constant. A new plant–aphid–parasitoid association for Europe was recorded. Dominant parasitoid species in the study sites were Ephedrus persicae, Binodoxys angelicae and Praon volucre: the first species was frequently observed on non‐crop trees and shrubs, but the other two on non‐crop herbaceous plants. The potential influence, through indirect interactions, of parasitoids on aphid communities was assessed with quantitative parasitoid‐overlap diagrams. Symmetrical links were uncommon, and abundant aphid species seemed to have large indirect effects on less abundant species. These results show that trophic indirect interactions through parasitoids may govern aphid populations in fruit crop habitats with various non‐crop plants, implying the importance for landscape management and biological control of aphid pests in fruit agroecosystems.
Revisitation analysis uncovers spatio‐temporal patterns in animal movement data

Animals regularly return to locations such as foraging patches, nests, dens, watering holes, or movement corridors, and these revisited locations are often sites of ecological significance. Analyzing the temporal and spatial pattern of revisitation can lead to important insights into the life history and ecology of populations. We introduce the R package ‘recurse’ to calculate revisitations to locations in the movement trajectory or other locations for one or multiple individuals. The package also calculates metrics such as residence time and time between visits. It can be used to quantitatively identify frequently used sites (e.g. dens, nests, foraging locations), to examine patterns of revisitation and link them with covariates such as habitat features or climatic data, and to address conservation questions of interest about specific locations. We present an example application with movement trajectory data from a turkey vulture Cathartes aura during the breeding season and demonstrate analyzing recursions, specific locations, seasonal and daily temporal patterns, and visit timing. The ‘recurse’ package should be of interest both to ecologists looking to analyze their movement data and to conservationists needing site-specific information for management and conservation actions.
Phylogeographical and cytogeographical history of Artemisia herba-alba (Asteraceae) in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa: mirrored intricate patterns on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea

1Laboratoire des Productions Valorisations Végétales et Microbiennes, Département de Biotechnologie, Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Université des Sciences et de la Technologie d’Oran Mohamed Boudiaf, B.P. 1505, El M’Naouar, Oran 31000, Algeria 2Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Université Ziane Achour de Djelfa, Cité Aîn Chih, BP 3117, Djelfa 17000, Algeria 3Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB, CSIC-Ajuntament de Barcelona), Passeig del Migdia s.n. , Parc de Montjuïc, 08038 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 4Laboratori de Botànica (UB) – Unitat associada al CSIC, Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l’Alimentació – Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Joan XXIII 27–31, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 5Laboratory of Microbial Biotechnologies, Agrosciences and Environment (BioMAgE), Regional Herbarium ‘MARK’, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, PO Box 2390, Marrakech, 40 001, Morocco 6Laboratoire des Ecosystèmes Pastoraux et Valorisation des Plantes Spontanées et des Microorganismes Associés, Institut des Régions Arides, Université de Gabès, Médenine, Tunisia
Comparison Some Robust Regularization Methods in Linear Regression via Simulation Study

In this paper, we reviewed some variable selection methods in linear regression model. Conventional methodologies such as the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) technique is one of the most commonly used method in estimating the parameters in linear regression. But the OLS estimates performs poorly when the dataset suffer from outliers or when the assumption of normality is violated such as in the case of heavy-tailed errors. To address this problem, robust regularized regression methods like Huber Lasso (Rosset and Zhu, 2007) and quantile regression (Koenker and Bassett ,1978] were proposed. This paper focuses on comparing the performance of the seven methods, the quantile regression estimates, the Huber Lasso estimates, the adaptive Huber Lasso estimates, the adaptive LAD Lasso, the Gamma-divergence estimates, the Maximum Tangent Likelihood Lasso (MTE) estimates and Semismooth Newton Coordinate Descent Algorithm (SNCD ) Huber loss estimates.
DNA Barcoding of Common Commercial Sea Catfish (Genus: Plicofollis) from Kuwait

Kuwait fish market is one of the richest markets of native marine fish species. Sea catfishes are not very important in economic point of view, and only few of them (four species) are present and mistakenly, they all named (Chem). Using DNA barcode technique, the common sea catfish present in the East major fish market (Sharq) was analyzed. Based on the most common species ID databases (Barcoding of life database, BOLD and NCBI database), the most proposal identification that is compatible with major survey in 1997, the sea catfish is Plicofollis tenuispinis, the thin-spin sea catfish with similarity 100% and phylogenetic support of 78% bootstrap value. This is the first application of DNA barcode technique to thin-spine sea catfish of Kuwait.
New species and a new genus of the Orthoseirales from Patagonia, Argentina, with comments on systematic affinities within the Order

The presence of ‘carinoportulae’ was suggested to be diagnostic for the Order Orthoseirales and Family Orthoseiraceae. Members of this group have been assigned to a single genus, Orthoseira Thwaites, which was diagnosed by also lacking rimoportulae. The genus Cavernosa Stidolph is chain-forming, may have marginal spines, lacks carinoportulae and possesses rimoportulae. Its placement among other members of melosiroid diatoms has not been settled, though its lack of carinoportulae precludes its placement within the Orthoseirales. Species of both genera were described from aerophilous habitats. Recently Orthoseira limnopolarensis Van de Vijver and Crawford was described from the South Shetland Islands (maritime region of Antarctica) with a unique combination of features, as it possesses carinoportulae and rimoportulae, the first species of the genus with this suite of characters. Cyclotella stipata Frenguelli, described from Neuquen Province, Argentina, is a species that according to the original illustrations shows characters similar to Orthoseira. Light and electron microscope observations of Frenguelli´s type material and more recent collections from Patagonia offer specimens with an elongated mantle, chain-forming frustules with thick marginal spines and presence of carinoportulae (like Orthoseira ) and rimoportulae (like Cavernosa and O. limnopolarensis ). Considering this unique combination of characters, we propose the new genus Guarreraea to encompass Cyclotella stipata and Orthoseira limnopolarensis. Its systematic placement relative to other genera assigned to the Order Orthoseirales is discussed. The examination of additional materials from Neuquen deposited at the Frenguelli Collection revealed the presence of two other taxa with carinoportulae that are described as the new species, Orthoseira frenguellii and O. ferrarioana.
New notes on Amblyseiini. 2. Organotaxic survey of the adult dorsal face (protoadenic gamasids, Phytoseiidae)

Nouvelles notes sur les Amblyseiini. 2. Le releve organotaxique de la face dorsale adulte (gamasides, protoadeniques, Phytoseiidae). Very few is known about comparative dorsal adult organotaxy in Protoadenic gamasids. In young stases, not one of these organotaxies has been fully described. vVe there for are not ready for perfecting a general nomenclature based on unquestionable homologies of the dorsal cuticular organs as a whole. From this point of view idionymic glands, sensilla and sigilla are often easy to identify and the status of many uncertain hairs has to be reexamined owing to their topological behaviour towards the formers. In ProtoadeniC cohorts, the organotactic diversity in the opisthonotum is much greater than in the peltidium. This paper is not actually a morphological contribution as it lacks the general (comparative) scale; this is mainly a guide to the cartographical survey and to the interpretation of adult amblyseiine dorsum; moreover this surveying process is quite suitable to comparative investigations in other Protoadenic taxa. The leading aim of the paper is to promote the introduction, into species descriptions, of features characteristic of the described material in order that these attributes take the place of useless familial or cohort features in such descriptions. The cartography of an amblyseiine adult ennomic orthoadenic dorsal surface is given. Within the Tribe, dorsal organocuticular diversity has three sources: meristic, topological and structural variabilities. These are illustrated by numerous instances. The division of the dorsum into organogerous areas makes the checking of the survey much easier and is well adapted to comparative observations. Some advices concerning preparing, observing and drawing specimens are provided. Several basic terminological elements are listed.
Effect of Hofmeister Anions on Interfacial Properties of Mica Surface in Concentrated Aqueous Solution

The electric double layer (EDL) formed at the water/solid interface is the key to understanding a wide variety of natural phenomena; and nowadays, this knowledge may lead to ideas for technological innovations in the industrial and biomedical fields. The properties of the EDL on a surface directly determine the performance of an EDL-based device. In electrolyte solution, the coions with the same charge sign with the surface are usually ignored. However, they are expected to make a considerable contribution in concentrated conditions when ionic specific effects should be considered. Herein, we investigated the effect of anions in the Hofmeister series, including kosmotropes (Ac−), chaotropes (I−), and intermediate (Cl−), on the properties of the EDL on a negatively charged mica surface by observing intersurface forces using the surface forces apparatus (SFA). The SFA results indicated that at a concentration of 1 M and above, the effect of the monovalent anions in the sodium solutions were mainly correlated with their hydration behaviors. Exclusively in the solutions with strongly hydrated anions, we measured the abnormal long-range repulsions in the diffuse layer region farther away from the surface. By further investigating the solutions with kosmotropic divalent SO42− at relatively low concentrations, we may attribute the observation to the formation of ion pairs and hydrodynamic effects in the presence of concentrated kosmotropic anions. Moreover, these anions can also contribute to the formation of a complete and stable hydration layer near the surface. This work demonstrates the considerable effects of Hofmeister anionic coions on the properties of a simple colloid interface, which has attracted little attention in the past. Therefore, further investigations are desirable in the development of electrolytes and surface materials for the promising EDL-based technologies.
Learning Expression Features via Deep Residual Attention Networks for Facial Expression Recognition From Video Sequences

Facial expression recognition from video sequences is currently an interesting research topic in computer vision, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, etc. Considering the problem of semantic gap between the extracted hand-designed features in affective videos and subjective emotions, recognizing facial expressions from video sequences is a challenging subject. To tackle this problem, this paper proposes a new method of facial expression recognition from video sequences via deep residual attention network. Firstly, due to the difference in the intensity of emotional representation of each local area in a facial image, deep residual attention networks are employed to learn high-level affective expression features for each frame of facial expression images in video sequences. The used deep residual attention networks integrate deep residual networks with a spatial attention mechanism. Then, average-pooling is performed to produce fixed-length global video-level feature representations. Finally, the global video-level feature representations are utilized as inputs of a multi-layer perceptron to conduct facial expression classification tasks in video sequences. Experimental results on two public video emotional datasets, i.e. BAUM-1s and RML, demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Prevalence of Cutaneous Disorders in Patients with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of cutaneous disorders of PCOS and indicate the specific cutaneous lesions that have reliable association with PCOS. Methods: 134 female participants had met the criteria to be diagnosed as PCOS. Dermatological examination regarding hirsutism, acne, androgenic alopecia and acanthosis nigricans as well as any other cutaneous manifestations and assessment of each as regards duration, distribution and scoring was done. Hormonal assay for FSH/LH was done together with ultrasound examination. Results: The study included 134 female participants who had met the criteria to be diagnosed as PCOS; the range of age was 18 - 35 years, with a mean (26.31 ± 4.47 years). Among the PCOS patients at least one cutaneous disorder was found in 18 patients (13.4%), two cutaneous disorders in 44 patients (32.8%), three cutaneous disorders in 47 patients (35.1%), four cutaneous disorders in 24 (17.9%) and five cutaneous disorders were found in only one patient (0.7%). Statistically, there was a significant positive correlations between hirsutism, acne, acanthosis nigricans and LH/F.S. H ratio (p -significant difference between patients with and without seborrheic dermatitis regarding LH/F.S.H ratio and total testosterone level (p > 0.5). Conclusions: The current study showed the possible association of hirsutism, acne, acanthosis nigricans, and seborrheic dermatitis with PCOS. These cutaneous manifestations could be relied upon as potential cutaneous indicator of PCOS. Using Rotterdam criteria women who met criteria of PCOS had a higher prevalence of hirsutism, acne, AN, androgenic alopecia and seborrheic dermatitis.
Functional and technological indicators of fermented minced meat

Enzymatic processing of raw meat is a promising technique for balancing its properties. The paper presents the results of a study of the functional and technological parameters of minced meat subjected to enzymatic treatment with transglutaminase and sequential treatment with pepsin and transglutaminase. The object of the study is beef with a connective tissue content of 20%. The highest values of moisture-binding, water-holding abilities and product yield after heat treatment were established for a test sample of minced meat with sequential treatment with pepsin and 0.3% transglutaminase. According to the results of the studies, it can be concluded that low-grade beef should be treated first with a proteolytic enzyme to soften the connective tissue, and then with transglutaminase for better binding and retention of moisture.
A conserved structural element in the RNA helicase UPF1 regulates its catalytic activity in an isoform-specific manner

Abstract The RNA helicase UPF1 is a key component of the nonsense mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway. Previous X-ray crystal structures of UPF1 elucidated the molecular mechanisms of its catalytic activity and regulation. In this study, we examine features of the UPF1 core and identify a structural element that adopts different conformations in the various nucleotide- and RNA-bound states of UPF1. We demonstrate, using biochemical and single molecule assays, that this structural element modulates UPF1 catalytic activity and thereby refer to it as the regulatory loop. Interestingly, there are two alternatively spliced isoforms of UPF1 in mammals which differ only in the lengths of their regulatory loops. The loop in isoform 1 (UPF11) is 11 residues longer than that of isoform 2. We find that this small insertion in UPF11 leads to a two-fold increase in its translocation and ATPase activities. To determine the mechanistic basis of this differential catalytic activity, we have determined the X-ray crystal structure of the helicase core of UPF11 in its apo-state. Our results point toward a novel mechanism of regulation of RNA helicases, wherein alternative splicing leads to subtle structural rearrangements within the protein that are critical to modulate enzyme movements and catalytic activity.
Sensory Capabilities of Polypterus Senegalus in Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments

In the amphibious fish Polypterus senegalus, focussing on lateral line, vision and electrosensation, we investigated sensory abilities, their interactions, and changes in their effects on locomotor behaviour between aquatic and terrestrial environments. First, we blocked lateral line, vision, or both, and examined effects on locomotion in both environments. Both senses affected both types of locomotion. When fish could see but not feel, variation in several kinematic variables increased, suggesting that sensory integration may affect locomotor control. Next, we assessed response to optokinetic stimuli of varying size and speed. Temporal and spatial visual acuity were both low, as expected in a nocturnal ambush predator. Visual ability in air was much reduced. Finally, we attempted to record electrogenesis in Polypterus, but did not observe the electric discharges reported in a previous study. Future studies might examine changes in sensory function, interaction and importance in behaviour in Polypterus raised in a terrestrial environment.
Downward Migration of the Zonal‐Mean Circulation in the Tropical Atmosphere

The annular modes of the extratropical atmosphere have received much attention for quantifying variability of the jet streams and storm tracks, despite the fact that the midlatitude circulation itself does not vary uniformly with longitude. While tropical fluctuations in geopotential height have lower amplitude than in the extratropics, they exhibit stronger zonal coherence, or dynamical annularity. A simple index is developed to characterize zonal‐mean anomalies of the tropical circulation. It reveals that anomalies in geopotential height and zonal wind migrate downward from the upper troposphere to the surface on a time scale of about 10 days. These features are distinguishable from known modes of tropical variability, the Madden‐Julian Oscillation in particular. Evidence from reanalysis and idealized model experiments confirms that this downward migration is quite generic and driven by mechanically forced variations in the strength of the Hadley circulation on subseasonal time scales.
All-Inkjet Printed Organic Thin-Film Transistors with and without Photo-Sensitivity to Visible Lights

Printable organic thin-film transistors have enabled flexible low-cost electronics, which has the potential for a lot of emerging electronic applications. Despite the excellent dark performance of advanced all-inkjet printed organic thin-film transistors, their photoresponse is less explored and needs to be investigated, especially photoresponse to visible lights that human beings can see and are most familiar with. Importantly, for electronics integration, both devices with and without photo-sensitivity to visible light are important, for photo-detecting and signal processing, respectively. In this study, two organic semiconductor materials are used in all-inkjet printed organic thin-film transistors, namely 2,7-dioctyl[1]benzothieno[3,2-b][1]benzothiophene (C8-BTBT), 6,13-bis (triisopropylsilylethynyl) pentacene (TIPS-pentacene). By characterizing devices under optical exposure with wavelengths from 400 to 800 nm, photocurrents and threshold voltage shifts of the devices are extracted. The fabricated C8-BTBT organic thin-film transistors do not exhibit noticeable photo-sensitivity to visible light, whereas the TIPS-pentacene devices demonstrate significant photoresponse to visible lights, with photocurrents in nano- to micro-ampere levels and threshold voltage shifts of hundreds of millivolts to several volts depending on the photon energy of lights under the same intensity. The TIPS-pentacene devices demonstrated reproducible characteristics before and after light exposure. In addition, the responsivity and sensitivity of the devices were characterized with a decent responsivity of 55.9 mA/W. The photoresponse mechanisms are explained with ultraviolet–visible (UV–vis) adsorption spectroscopy measurements and extracted optical bandgaps of the two semiconductors. This study shows both printed organic transistors with and without photo-sensitivity can be fabricated with the same device structure and fabrication process at low cost, which opens the new possibility of using printed organic thin-film transistors for integrated optoelectronic applications.