Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
CONTESTED DOCUMENTS: A NEO-DOCUMENTALIST APPROACH TO SECRET POLICE FILES IN POST-

or Résumé: This paper is about a certain type of contested documents (the secret police files known as “informative notes”). It employs a neo-documentalist framework and thematic analysis to examine informative notes on four major intellectuals in communist Romania. The paper focuses on three emerging themes: the power effects that the materiality of informative notes has had, after 1989, on Romanian society; the reasons informers interpreted the writing conventions of this textual genre in radically different ways; and the epistemic aspects of this type of document. I emphasize that, despite their nature as historic documents, secret police files have uncanny relevance for understanding the present-day societies of mass surveillance.
Comparing genome-based estimates of relatedness for use in pedigree-based conservation management

Researchers have long debated which estimator of relatedness best captures the degree of relationship between two individuals. In the genomics era, this debate continues, with relatedness estimates being sensitive to the methods used to generate markers, marker quality, and levels of diversity in sampled individuals. Here, we compare six commonly used genome-based relatedness estimators (kinship genetic distance (KGD), Wang Maximum Likelihood (TrioML), Queller and Goodnight (Rxy), Kinship INference for Genome-wide association studies (KING-robust), and Pairwise Relatedness (RAB), allele-sharing co-ancestry (AS)) across five species bred in captivity–including three birds and two mammals–with varying degrees of reliable pedigree data, using reduced-representation and whole genome resequencing data. Genome-based relatedness estimates varied widely across estimators, sequencing methods, and species, yet the most consistent results for known first order relationships were found using Rxy, RAB, and AS. However, AS was found to be less consistently correlated with known pedigree relatedness than either Rxy or RAB. Our combined results indicate there is not a single genome-based estimator that is ideal across different species and data types. To determine the most appropriate genome-based relatedness estimator for each new dataset, we recommend assessing the relative: (1) correlation of candidate estimators with known relationships in the pedigree and (2) precision of candidate estimators with known first-order relationships. These recommendations are broadly applicable to conservation breeding programs, particularly where genome-based estimates of relatedness can complement and complete poorly pedigreed populations. Given a growing interest in the application of wild pedigrees, our results and are also applicable to in-situ wildlife management.
Differences in outcomes following an intensive upper-1 limb rehabilitation programme for patients with 2 common CNS-acting drug prescriptions.

33 Difficulty using the upper-limb is a major barrier to independence for many patients post-34 stroke or brain injury. High dose rehabilitation can result in clinically significant 35 improvements in function even years after the incident, however there is still high variability 36 in patient responsiveness to such interventions that cannot be explained by age, sex or time 37 since stroke. 38 This retrospective study investigated whether patients prescribed certain classes of CNS-39 acting drugs - GABA agonists, antiepileptics and antidepressants-differed in their outcomes 40 on the 3 week intensive Queen Square Upper-Limb (QSUL) programme. 41 For 277 stroke or brain injury patients (167 male, median age 52 years (IQR 21), median 42 time since incident 20 months (IQR 26)) upper-limb impairment and activity was assessed at 43 admission to the programme and at 6 months post-discharge, using the upper limb 44 component of the Fugl-Meyer (FM), Action Research Arm Test (ARAT), and Chedoke Arm 45 and Hand Activity Inventory (CAHAI). Drug prescriptions were obtained from primary care 46 physicians at referral. Specification curve analysis (SCA) was used to protect against 47 selective reporting results and add robustness to the conclusions of this retrospective study. 48 Patients with GABA agonist prescriptions had significantly worse upper-limb scores at 49 admission but no evidence for a significant difference in programme-induced improvements 50 was found. Additionally, no evidence of significant differences in patients with or without 51 antiepileptic drug prescriptions on either admission to, or improvement on, the programme 52 was found in this study. Whereas, though no evidence was found for differences in 53 admission scores, patients with antidepressant prescriptions experienced reduced 54 improvement in upper-limb function, even when accounting for anxiety and depression 55 scores. 56 These results demonstrate that, when prescribed typically, there was no evidence that 57 patients prescribed GABA agonists performed worse on this high-intensity rehabilitation 58 programme. Patients prescribed antidepressants, however, performed poorer than expected 59 on the QSUL rehabilitation programme. While the reasons for these differences are unclear, 60 identifying these patients prior to admission may allow for better accommodation of 61 differences in their rehabilitation needs.
Running title : Effect of olive-derived antioxidants in liquid ram sperm 10

1 Volume55, Issue3 March 2020 Pages 325-332, which has been published in final form at 2 https://doi.org/10.1111/rda.13631. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in 3 accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving 4 5 6 Effect of olive-derived antioxidants (3,4-dihydroxyphenylethanol and 3,4 7 dihydroxyphenylglycol) on sperm motility and fertility in liquid ram sperm stored at 8 15oC or 5oC 9 Running title: Effect of olive-derived antioxidants in liquid ram sperm 10 Ander Arando, Juan Vicente Delgado, Alejandra Bermúdez-Oria, José Manuel León, 11 África Fernández-Prior, Sergio Nogales Baena, Carlos C. Pérez-Marín 12 13 Department of Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, , Cordoba 14014, Spain 14 Instituto de la Grasa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Sevilla, 15 41013, Spain 16 Centro Agropecuario Provincial de la Diputación de Cordoba, Cordoba 14014, Spain 17 Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of 18 Cordoba, Cordoba 14014, Spain 19 20 Corresponding author: Ander Arando, Department of Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary 21 Medicine, University of Cordoba, Cordoba 14014, Spain; E-mail: anderarando@hotmail.com 22 23
Online Business Capabilities and Online Business Performance in the Malaysian Fashion Industry

Objective - The digital economy is believed to be one of Malaysia's largest sectors as online businesses are expected to exhibit an increase of 10% in the near future. This factor eventually prompted subsequent studies on online business models. This study aims to discover the types of online business capabilities that could enhance the firm competitiveness of online business in the Malaysian fashion industry. Methodology/Technique - A questionnaire was developed and distributed by hand to a number of Malaysian online business owners in the fashion industry. The data was analysed using SPSS version 26 and SmartPLS 3.0. Finding - The findings indicated that digital marketing capability and CRM capability were significantly correlated to firm competitiveness, which in turn, also showed a significant and positive relationship with online business performance. Nevertheless, IT capability was an insignificant factor of firm competitiveness. Novelty - This study concluded the importance of CRM capability and digital marketing capability for online business owners to enhance firm competitiveness. The results also implied the importance of firm competitiveness for online businesses to perform in Malaysian fashion industry. Type of Paper - Empirical. Keywords: Online Business Performance, Online Business Capabilities, Digital Marketing Capability, CRM Capability, IT Capability, Firm Competitiveness, Fashion Industry JEL Classification: L20, L25 URI: http://gatrenterprise.com/GATRJournals/GJBSSR/vol9.2_2. html DOI: https://doi.org/10.35609/gjbssr.2021. 9.2(2) Pages 114 – 127
Cash Is Not Always King: Economic Policy Uncertainty and the Marginal Value of Corporate Cash Holdings

This paper studies the relation between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and the marginal value of corporate cash holdings. We find that the markets place a lower value on firms’ cash holdings under high level of EPU. Our quasi-experiment tests relating to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the gubernatorial elections support the causal relationship between EPU and the value of cash holdings. Further, we show that this relation is more pronounced for firms with less redeployable capital assets, more investment opportunities, poor corporate governance, or positive excess cash. Overall, our evidence suggests that cash is not always king especially in periods of high uncertainty of policies.
Consumption Responses to an Unpopular Policy: Evidence from a Short-lived Soda Tax

Public policies that intervene or restrict consumer choices for the benefit of the society are often controversial. For instance, the compliance rate of COVID-19 pandemic social distancing rules varied dramatically across cities and states, and these policies even backfired among some consumers who strongly disagreed with them. Motivated by such controversies, we investigate whether such rebellion behavior happens in the context of a sin tax. More specifically, we hypothesize that opponents of a sin tax will decrease their consumption of taxed products by more compared to supporters of the tax, in order to avoid the tax burden. By combining detailed voting records with price and quantity data at over a thousand grocery retailers, our diff-in-diff estimation results show that in response to the short-lived Washington State soda tax, stores mainly patronized by tax opponents experience twice the reduction in quantity sold of taxed beverages (6%) compared to stores mainly patronized by tax supporters (3%), even though the tax pass-through is uniform across all stores (5% increase in prices). Moreover, our estimation results show an inward shift of the demand curve for tax opponents' stores, providing additional support for the theory that consumer disagreement with a policy induces tax avoidance.
The Begging Game: On the Power of the Ask in Monetary Giving

The literature on monetary giving has largely focused on the psychological mechanisms that underlie prosocial giving behaviors. Yet in practice giving is almost always done in response to a solicitation or "ask. " In this paper we study solicitation strategy, providing evidence that the "ask" may alter the nature of an exchange relationship in a manner that favors recipients relative to giving situations in which the recipient is passive. We introduce a variant of the dictator game called the "begging game" in which an individual can ask for some or all of an amount of money bestowed upon another individual. Our results indicate that both the asked for and received amounts in the begging game are systematically higher than typically shown in dictator games, while asks of half yield the best result in expectation. When counter-offers are allowed, 87.5% ask for half or more of the total sum, with 80% receiving at least some money. Hence large asks are often not punished. Our combined results help quantify the "power of the ask. "
Advancement of the Manta Checker DFP System

Manta Checker is an automated code review tool for large data warehouses. Its dataflow module is leveraging the dataflow programming paradigm (DFP), thus even a users with lesser technical skills can use the application. The dataflow nature of the module allows simple visualization of code review rules and their straightforward improvement. This thesis further extends the
Generalized H 2 Control with Transients for Linear Hybrid Systems ⋆

This paper considers linear time-varying hybrid systems and introduces a notion of the finite-horizon generalized H2 norm with transients. It is defined as the worst-case peak value of the output in response to uncertain initial states and external disturbances. Such a measure represents the induced operator norm from L2 to L∞ because the peak value of the vector signal is considered as its generalized L∞ norm. This approach allows to characterize the generalized H2 norm in terms of both the difference Lyapunov equation and difference linear matrix inequalities (DLMIs). By using the derived characterization the optimal control and Pareto optimal controls are synthesized minimizing the finite-horizon generalized H2 norm with transients. Finally, an example is given to illustrate the proposed technique.
Effects of storage on the properties of rapeseed oil and alcohol blends

Kinematic viscosity and density are important fuel properties because they influence fuel atomisation during injection into the engine cylinder. The viscosity and density of neat vegetable oils usually are too high to allow optimal use of these oils in compression ignition engines. Blending vegetable oils with alcohols can improve these properties, but it is not known whether the blend properties remain stable during storage. This study measured kinematic viscosity (at 40 °C), density (at 15 °C) and surface tension of rapeseed oil-alcohol blends that had been stored in closed borosilicate glass bottles at room temperature in the dark for 49 weeks. The values were compared with those of the fresh blends. Further measurements of oxidation stability for the rapeseed oil and the blends were taken after 72 weeks of storage. The blends consisted of rapeseed oil with ethanol at 5 vol–%, and rapeseed oil with 1–butanol at 5 vol–%, 10 vol–%, 20 vol–% and 30 vol–%. All in all, the observed changes during storage were small. Density values deviated by less than 1%, surface tension by no more than 3% and kinematic viscosity differed from the fresh blends’ values by 1% to 8%. Surface tension had increased in some blends and decreased in others. Kinematic viscosity rose in all blends, with the smallest increase measured for the rapeseed oil–butanol 30 vol–% blend. This blend also showed the best oxidation stability, which was close to six hours.
Metabolomics Response to Drought Stress in Morus alba L. Variety Yu-711

Mulberry is an economically significant crop for the sericulture industry worldwide. Stresses such as drought exposure have a significant influence on plant survival. Because metabolome directly reflects plant physiological condition, performing a global metabolomic analysis is one technique to examine this influence. Using a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) technique based on an untargeted metabolomic approach, the effect of drought stress on mulberry Yu-711 metabolic balance was examined. For this objective, Yu-711 leaves were subjected to two weeks of drought stress treatment and control without drought stress. Numerous differentially accumulated metabolic components in response to drought stress treatment were revealed by multivariate and univariate statistical analysis. Drought stress treatment (EG) revealed a more differentiated metabolite response than the control (CK). We found that the levels of total lipids, galactolipids, and phospholipids (PC, PA, PE) were significantly altered, producing 48% of the total differentially expressed metabolites. Fatty acyls components were the most abundant lipids expressed and decreased considerably by 73.6%. On the other hand, the prenol lipids class of lipids increased in drought leaves. Other classes of metabolites, including polyphenols (flavonoids and cinnamic acid), organic acid (amino acids), carbohydrates, benzenoids, and organoheterocyclic, had a dynamic trend in response to the drought stress. However, their levels under drought stress decreased significantly compared to the control. These findings give an overview for the understanding of global plant metabolic changes in defense mechanisms by revealing the mulberry plant metabolic profile through differentially accumulated compounds.
Evidence of spontaneous selfing and disomic inheritance in Geranium robertianum

Abstract Knowing species’ breeding system and mating processes occurring in populations is important not only for understanding population dynamics, gene flow processes, and species' response to climate change, but also for designing control plans of invasive species. Geranium robertianum, a widespread biennial herbaceous species showing high morphological variation and wide ecological amplitude, can become invasive outside its distribution range. A mixed‐mating system may be expected given the species’ floral traits. However, autonomous selfing is considered as a common feature. Genetic variation and structure, and so population mating processes, have not been investigated in wild populations. We developed 15 polymorphic microsatellite markers to quantify genetic variation and structure in G. robertianum. To investigate whether selfing might be the main mating process in natural conditions, we sampled three generations of plants (adult, F1, and F2) for populations from the UK, Spain, Belgium, Germany, and Sweden, and compared open‐pollinated with outcrossed hand‐pollinated F2 progeny. The highly positive Wright's inbreeding coefficient (F IS) values in adults, F1, and open‐pollinated F2 progeny and the low F IS values in outcross F2 progeny supported autonomous selfing as the main mating process for G. robertianum in wild conditions, despite the presence of attractive signals for insect pollination. Genetic differentiation among samples was found, showing some western–eastern longitudinal trend. Long‐distance seed dispersal might have contributed to the low geographic structure. Local genetic differentiation may have resulted not only from genetic drift effects favored by spontaneous selfing, but also from ecological adaptation. The presence of duplicate loci with disomic inheritance is consistent with the hypothesis of allotetraploid origin of G. robertianum. The fact that most microsatellite markers behave as diploid loci with no evidence of duplication supports the hypothesis of ancient polyploidization. The differences in locus duplication and the relatively high genetic diversity across G. robertianum range despite spontaneous autonomous selfing suggest multiple events of polyploidization.
Effect of Omega-3 or Omega-6 Dietary Supplementation on Testicular Steroidogenesis, Adipokine Network, Cytokines, and Oxidative Stress in Adult Male Rats

This study was undertaken to elucidate the effect of omega-3 and omega-6 supplementation on the levels of different adipokines and cytokines, as well as the antioxidant system, in relation to male reproductive hormones and testicular functions. Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were daily gavaged with either physiological saline (control group), sunflower oil (omega 6 group; 1 mL/kg body weight), or fish oil (omega-3 group; 1000 mg/kg body weight) for 12 weeks. The administration of omega-3 or omega-6 resulted in decreased serum concentrations of kisspeptin 1, gonadotropin-releasing hormone, luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, and testosterone. In addition, it downregulated the mRNA expression levels of steroidogenic genes. The intratesticular levels of apelin, adiponectin, and irisin were elevated while chemerin, leptin, resistin, vaspin, and visfatin were declined following the administration of either omega-3 or omega-6. The testicular concentration of interleukin 10 was increased while interleukin 1 beta, interleukin 6, tumor necrosis factor α, and nuclear factor kappa B were decreased after consumption of omega-3 or omega-6. In the testes, the levels of superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase 1, and the total antioxidant capacity were improved. In conclusion, the administration of omega-3 or omega-6 adversely affects the process of steroidogenesis but improves the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory status of the reproductive system via modulating the levels of testicular adipokines.
Assessment of Attentional Functioning in Health Professionals of a Brazilian Tertiary Referral Hospital for COVID-19

This study is aimed at assessing differences in basic attentional functioning between substantial and minimal work-related exposure to COVID-19 patients in professionals working in a tertiary referral hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Therefore, hospital employees performed a Continuous Visual Attention Test. This test consisted of a 90-second Go/No-Go task with 72 (80%) targets and 18 (20%) nontargets. For each participant, reaction time and intraindividual variability of reaction times of all correct target responses, as well as the number of omission and commission errors, were evaluated. Participants were divided into 2 groups based on their exposure to COVID-19 patients (substantial versus minimal exposure). The substantial exposure group consisted of participants with 24 hours/week or more direct contact with COVID-19 patients. This cut-off was based on the clear division between professionals working and not working with COVID-19 patients and considered that 12-hour and 24-hour daily shifts are common for hospital employees in Brazil. A MANCOVA was performed to examine between-group differences, using age, sleep quality, sex, education level, previous COVID-19 infection, and profession as covariates. Of 124 participants, 80 had substantial exposure and 44 had minimal exposure to COVID-19. The overall MANCOVA reached statistical significance (P = 0.048). Post hoc ANCOVA analysis showed that the substantial exposure group had a statistically significantly higher intraindividual variability of reaction time of all correct target responses (P = 0.017, Cohen′s δ = −0.55). This result remained after removing those with a previous COVID-19 infection (P = 0.010, Cohen′s δ = −0.64) and after matching groups for sample size (P = 0.004, Cohen′s δ = −0.81). No other variables reached statistical significance. Concluding, hospital professionals with a substantial level of exposure to patients with COVID-19 show a significant attention decrement and, thus, may be at a higher risk of accidental SARS-CoV-2 infection.