Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Berriasian Stage and the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary

It is recommended that the base of the Berriasian Stage be placed either at the base of the Berriasella jacobi Zone or at the base of the Tirnovella subalpina Subzone. The choice of stratotype section will depend on the choice of zone, but will be in SE France or SE Spain. Subdivision of the Berriasian Stage into 2 or 3 substages will again depend on which level is chosen to define the base of the stage.
Learning Strategies: A Means to Deal with the Reading of Authentic Texts in the EFL Classroom

English learners usually have difficulties with reading authentic texts because they are mostly used to learning the foreign language with communicative textbooks adapted to their own language levels. Therefore, this case study examined how a group of English learners used learning strategies to read authentic literary materials for the first time in their lives. Data collected through questionnaires, logs, and field notes showed that they became aware of their reading improvement with the help of these strategies. Findings showed that they used mainly four learning strategies: creating mental linkage, summarizing/highlighting, translating, and analyzing. Participants also recognized the contributions of learning strategies in their interaction with authentic texts, including self-regulation, autonomy, and responsibility for reading more purposefully.
Public perceptions of climate change: a case study with school teachers and undergraduate students in Brazil

The scientific consensus on the subject of climate change has not eliminated the existence of climate change denial. In this study we investigate how two distinct demographics perceive climate change. Questionnaires were employed to assess whether, following lectures on the subject, participants maintained their original position or reconsidered their stance on climate change. Most participants’ beliefs were in accordance with scientific findings. No participant denied that global warming is a reality. After being presented with an up‐to‐date scientific overview of the subject, the majority of participants disagreed that mass media communications regarding climate change constituted a reliable source of information. The demographics evaluated in this study are potential opinion‐makers and it is therefore of paramount importance to evaluate their level of knowledge about such a serious and urgent issue.
Maxent estimation of aquatic Escherichia coli stream impairment

Background The leading cause of surface water impairment in United States’ rivers and streams is pathogen contamination. Although use of fecal indicators has reduced human health risk, current approaches to identify and reduce exposure can be improved. One important knowledge gap within exposure assessment is characterization of complex fate and transport processes of fecal pollution. Novel modeling processes can inform watershed decision-making to improve exposure assessment. Methods We used the ecological model, Maxent, and the fecal indicator bacterium Escherichia coli to identify environmental factors associated with surface water impairment. Samples were collected August, November, February, and May for 8 years on Sinking Creek in Northeast Tennessee and analyzed for 10 water quality parameters and E. coli concentrations. Univariate and multivariate models estimated probability of impairment given the water quality parameters. Model performance was assessed using area under the receiving operating characteristic (AUC) and prediction accuracy, defined as the model’s ability to predict both true positives (impairment) and true negatives (compliance). Univariate models generated action values, or environmental thresholds, to indicate potential E. coli impairment based on a single parameter. Multivariate models predicted probability of impairment given a suite of environmental variables, and jack-knife sensitivity analysis removed unresponsive variables to elicit a set of the most responsive parameters. Results Water temperature univariate models performed best as indicated by AUC, but alkalinity models were the most accurate at correctly classifying impairment. Sensitivity analysis revealed that models were most sensitive to removal of specific conductance. Other sensitive variables included water temperature, dissolved oxygen, discharge, and NO3. The removal of dissolved oxygen improved model performance based on testing AUC, justifying development of two optimized multivariate models; a 5-variable model including all sensitive parameters, and a 4-variable model that excluded dissolved oxygen. Discussion Results suggest that E. coli impairment in Sinking Creek is influenced by seasonality and agricultural run-off, stressing the need for multi-month sampling along a stream continuum. Although discharge was not predictive of E. coli impairment alone, its interactive effect stresses the importance of both flow dependent and independent processes associated with E. coli impairment. This research also highlights the interactions between nutrient and fecal pollution, a key consideration for watersheds with multiple synergistic impairments. Although one indicator cannot mimic theplethora of existing pathogens in water, incorporating modeling can fine tune an indicator’s utility, providing information concerning fate, transport, and source of fecal pollution while prioritizing resources and increasing confidence in decision making.
Real Analysis: Measure Theory, Integration, and Hilbert Spaces

• (p.166) In the middle of the page, the quantity ‖SN (f) − SM (f)‖ should be replaced by ‖SN (f)− SM (f)‖2. • (p.169) ∞k=1 akek should read g = ∑∞ k=1 ake ′ k. • (p.171) At the bottom of the page, one should read e2πan instead of ean. • (p.170) In the discussion of completion, the end of the last paragraph should read: To see that H is complete, let {F }k=1 be a Cauchy sequence in H, with each F k represented by {fk n}n=1, f n ∈ H0. If we define F ∈ H as represented by the sequence {fn} with fn = f N(n), where N(n) is so that |fn N(n) − f j | ≤ 1/n for j ≥ N(n), then we note that F k → F in H. • (p.188) The definition of a compact set should read: “a set X ⊂ H is compact if for every sequence {fn} in X, there exists a subsequence {fnk} that converges in the norm to an element in X”. In other words, the sequence {fn} need not be bounded. • (p.194 Exercise 3) Re(f, g) should be 2Re(f, g). • (p.301) At the bottom of the page reference should be made to Theorem 1.3 in Chapter 3 (and not Theorem 4).
Draft Genome Sequence of Clinical Isolate Alcaligenaceae sp. Strain 429

Here, we present the 3.53-Mb genome for Alcaligenaceae sp. strain 429, isolated from a patient with unknown etiology. While the 16S rRNA gene most closely resembles Paenalcaligenes species, average amino acid identity (AAI) analysis did not meet the threshold to classify our strain as a species of this family. ABSTRACT Here, we present the 3.53-Mb genome for Alcaligenaceae sp. strain 429, isolated from a patient with unknown etiology. While the 16S rRNA gene most closely resembles Paenalcaligenes species, average amino acid identity (AAI) analysis did not meet the threshold to classify our strain as a species of this family.
Ship Detection and Motion Parameter Estimation with TanDEM-X in Large Along-Track Baseline Configuration

In the paper ship position and motion parameter estimation results obtained with the German TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X radar satellite formation are presented. For processing a novel ground moving target indication (GMTI) algorithm applicable for dual-platform SAR systems separated by a large along-track baseline is used. This algorithm enables high accurate estimation of the true geographical positions, the velocities and moving directions of the detected ships and land moving targets without the need of a priori knowledge. The algorithm is verified and evaluated using SAR data and ground truth reference data acquired during the commissioning phase of TanDEM-X in 2010.
RPA assessment of outdoor recreation: past, current, and future directions.

In f 974, the US. C o n p s s passed the Forest a d Rangelmd Renewable Raources Planning Act (RPA). -his legislation requ iss the Secretary of Agriculture to t\ssess the klemand and supply situation for the Nation's forest and rmgeland resources every 110 years. The Secretary of Agricullure has designated the USDA Forest Semice as the lead agency for the RPA Assessntent. The h t RPA Assessment was published in 1975, a year after the passage of the 1974 Act. The second was publiskd 5 years later in 1980. The third (the 1989 Assessment) was completed in 1989 and published In ornmencing the 10-year internal for publishing fubre Assessments. In this paper, the outdoor ~ctvcation sections of the W A Assessmnb cotlducbd to date are feviewed. The resulb of a survey on cument policy and managernent applications of the outdoor recreation results published in 1989 BPA Assessment are also presented. By and large, it appears tlrat these r e s u l ~ are providing useful and valuable input into natural resource policy and management decisions in the Uni td States. The paper concfudes with a discussion of limitations of the a984 Assessment and opport.unities for irngrovillg the applicabilit)i of the oulc;ioor =creation results to policy and managernent decisions. P r i o r i ~ issues identified for future W A Assessment efforts 'mciude national demmd and supply &ends, regional demand and supply trends, units of measure far recreation quantity, the esects of qualiq on recreation demand and supply, the ef-fects of demographic changes on recteation demand and supply, and estimzllion of the net economic value and regional economic impacts of outdoor recreation.
The Lisbon Treaty

The Lisbon Treaty which came into force on 1 December 2009 alters institutional arrangements and the distribution of responsibilities within the European Union. Despite being an internal EU change it is certain to produce external effects. Although neither the scale nor precise nature of these effects can yet be predicted clearly, this issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics offers a preliminary guide to the potential areas of change and an assessment of how these might impact upon developing countries in general (including least developed countries and small vulnerable economies) and on members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of states in particular. The Trade Hot Topics series provides concise and informative analyses of various trade and trade-related issues which are prepared both by Commonwealth Secretariat and international experts. For further information on the work of the Commonwealth Secretariat on International Trade please click here
A SLAM-Based Mobile Augmented Reality Tracking Registration Algorithm

This paper proposes a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)-based markerless mobile-end tracking registration algorithm to address the problem of virtual image drift caused by fast camera motion in mobile-augmented reality (AR). The proposed algorithm combines the AGAST-FREAK-SLAM algorithm with inertial measurement unit (IMU) data to construct a scene map and localize the camera’s pose. The extracted feature points are matched with feature points in a map library for real-time camera localization and precise registration of virtual objects. Experimental results show that the proposed method can track feature points in real time, accurately construct scene maps, and locate cameras; moreover, it improves upon the tracking and registration robustness of earlier algorithms.
Suicide in the elderly: approach to social determinants of health in the Dahlgren and Whitehead model.

OBJECTIVE Identify in literature the social determinants of health related to suicide in the elderly, according to the model proposed by Dahlgren and Whitehead. METHOD Integrative review of articles indexed in the databases BDENF, CINAHL, LILACS, and MEDLINE, with the following main descriptors: aged, suicide, social determinants of health, and risk factors. Primary studies were included which addressed social determinants of health and suicide in the elderly. RESULTS From the 19 articles analyzed, three categories emerged: proximal social determinants of health (male gender, mental disorders, physical illnesses, white race, 70-74 years old); intermediate social determinants of health (substance abuse, use of alcohol or psychotropic drugs, marital status, marital, social, and family problems, violence, previous suicide attempt, history of admission to psychiatric service); and distal social determinants of health (schooling, economic issues, sanitation, stressful events). CONCLUSION Proximal determinants have more effects on suicide. Intermediate determinants are composed mainly of changeable factors. Distal determinants showed lesser associations.
RMHP_A_267575 1839..1847

1Department of Physical Education, College of Sport Sciences and Physical Activity, King Saud University, Riyadh 4545, Saudi Arabia; 2Department of Exercise Physiology, College of Sport Sciences and Physical Activity, King Saud University, Riyadh 4545, Saudi Arabia; 3Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, College of Agricultural and Food Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 4The Cambridge Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK; 5Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Purpose: The association between objectively measured sedentary behavior and physical activity with metabolic syndrome (MetS) has been rarely investigated in Saudi Arabia. The purpose of the current study was to examine the association of objectively measured sedentary, light physical activity (LPA), and moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) with MetS among Saudi adult males. Materials and Methods: The study participants were 103 males from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (mean age = 54.9 ± 10.6 years). Metabolic syndrome was defined based on having three or more of cardiometabolic risk factors. Triaxial accelerometers were used to measure the time spent on sedentary and physical activities across 7 days. A minimum four days with ≥10 hours of wearing time per day were considered a valid data. Binary logistics regression models were performed to examine the association of sedentary and physical activity levels with MetS vs no MetS. Model 1 was unadjusted, models 2, 3, and 4 were mutually controlled for sedentary, light, and MVPA intensities. Results: About 38% of males in the present study were classified as having MetS as demonstrated by a significant (p<0.05) decrease in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and a significant (p<0.05) increase in body weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), systolic blood pressure, glucose, and triglycerides compared to those without MetS. In addition, low levels of LPA (less than 6.3 hours per day) were significantly associated with the risk of having MetS, independent of sedentary and MVPA (odds ratio (OR) 4.26–6.96). The results showed that the associations between sedentary tertiles and MetS were not statistically significant. Levels of MVPA were also not significantly associated with an increased risk of developing MetS in all models. Conclusion: This study showed that low levels of LPA were significantly associated with the risk of having MetS in Saudi males from Riyadh city, independent of MVPA and sedentary time. The results suggest that future intervention studies should assess the positive effect of increasing levels of LPA in reducing the risk of developing MetS in males.
Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology in the Diagnosis of Canine Cutaneous Transmissible Venereal Tumor— Case Report

Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has been widely used in the diagnosis of lesions from various origins, especially neoplastic. The technique is simple, fast, safe, minimally invasive and inexpensive, which allows through the evaluation of cell morphology to establish prognosis, delineate surgical margins, monitor lesion growth, validate indication euthanasia during surgery and monitor chemotherapy protocols. Diagnosis of canine transmissible venereal tumor (TVT) can be accomplished with ease and precision, even to be rated, according to the degree of aggressiveness. The study objective was to demonstrate the effectiveness of the examination in the diagnosis of TVT plasmacytoid type. An eight-month dog presented to the veterinary hospital (HV), faculty of veterinary medicine and animal science, FMVZ, UNESP-Univ Estadual Paulista with clinical suspicion of cutaneous lymphoma. By presenting multiple nodular lesions, FNAC was performed to cytological diagnosis. The tissue showed cells consistent with TVT. The animal was treated, and a total cure was achieved. According to the literature, TVT mainly affects external genitalia of sexually active animals and its transmission is more frequent during intercourse. In addition, animals sexually immature and without contact to the street dogs, hardly have injuries by TVT. In this case, verrucous and ulcerated lesions on the vulva of its mother during pregnancy and childbirth infected the animal. Diffuse and predominant dorsal injuries occurred due to both exfoliation of breast tumor during delivery and immunosuppression of pup at birth, thus favoring an atypical transmission.
Beyond the Big Five: Extinctions as Experiments in the History of Life

Given that 99.9% of species that have ever existed on the Earth are already extinct, the most effective approach to examining extinction over long time scales is to delve into the 3.7 billion year history of extinction preserved in the fossil record. The “discovery” of extinction, both as a philosophical concept and a biological reality, can be traced back to Baron Georges Cuvier and his studies of fossil mammoth and mastodon anatomy in the late 18th century (Rudwick, 1998). We have come a long way since then and much of this progress has taken place in the past 30 years. Two breakthroughs, both published in the early 1980s, launched a scientifi c movement that was recently dubbed “the extinction industry” (Bambach, 2006). Walter Alvarez and colleagues’ (1980) hypothesis that an extra-terrestrial event was responsible for the K/T mass extinction triggered a fi restorm of controversy and sparked intense interest in catastrophic extinction in the fossil record. The identifi cation and designation of the “Big 5” mass extinctions by Raup and Sepkoski (1982), based on Sepkoski’s compilation of fi rst and last occurrence data of Phanerozoic marine families (e.g., Sepkoski, 1982), solidifi ed this interest. In the past decade, the Paleobiology Database (www.paleodb.org) has built on Sepkoski’s (1982; 2002) and other early databasing efforts (e.g., Newell, 1952; Benton, 1993) and is already providing a foundation for future studies of Phanerozoic diversity and extinction. The “extinction industry” has fl ourished, exploding from a handful of papers published in the 1950’s, when Newell (1952; 1963; 1967) fi rst coined the term “mass extinction,” to hundreds in the new millennium (Bambach, 2006)(Fig. 1). The impact of these studies, which refl ect the wealth of long-term and large-scale data available in the fossil record, has extended beyond paleontological circles to infl uence such diverse fi elds as evolutionary biology, conservation, ecology, sedimentology, geomorphology, astronomy, and physics.
The Longitudinal Course of Fatigue in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results from the Norfolk Arthritis Register

Objective. Fatigue is common and burdensome in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Despite RA fatigue progression varying significantly between individuals in practice, existing longitudinal analyses only examine symptom advancement on a population level. This study aimed to determine fatigue trajectories at an individual level and to characterize those patients with the poorest prognosis, with a view to enabling earlier interventions. Methods. Patients with RA reporting clinically relevant baseline fatigue (≥ 20 mm on a 0–100 mm visual analog scale) were identified from a longterm inflammatory polyarthritis cohort (the Norfolk Arthritis Register). Fatigue changes from baseline to 1- and 4-year followups were calculated, and sex-stratified group-based trajectory modeling (GBTM) determined trajectories of the symptom between which baseline characteristics were compared. Results. Among 338 patients, only minimal average changes were observed between recruitment to 1 year (6.0 mm, SD 26.9) and 4 years (5.5 mm, SD 29.3). This was despite 45.6% and 40.7% of participants reporting clinically significant improvements (≥ 10 mm) at these respective followups. GBTM revealed varied trajectories of fatigue, which for both sexes consisted of Improved (men, n = 48 and women, n = 81) or persistent Moderate-high paths (n = 54, n = 105), and further included a persistent High trajectory in women (n = 50). Participants who followed persistent trajectories were best distinguished from improvers by patient-reported rather than demographic or clinical variables. Conclusion. Among patients with RA presenting with clinically relevant fatigue, distinct longitudinal symptom trajectories were identified on an individual level despite nominal average changes in fatigue on a group level. It is possible to identify and characterize subgroups of participants who report persistent fatigue and should therefore be targeted to receive future fatigue-alleviating interventions.
Effects of weight loss and long-term weight maintenance with diets varying in protein and glycemic index on cardiovascular risk factors: the diet, obesity, and genes (DiOGenes) study: a randomized, controlled trial

Gogebakan, O. , Kohl, A. , Osterhoff, M. A. , van Baak, M. A. , Jebb, S. A. , Papadaki, A. , Martinez, J. A. , Handjieva Darlenska, T. , Hlavaty, P., Weickert, M. O. , Holst, C. , Saris, W. H. , Astrup, A. , & Pfeiffer, A. F. (2011). Effects of weight loss and long-term weight maintenance with diets varying in protein and glycemic index on cardiovascular risk factors: the diet, obesity, and genes (DiOGenes) study: a randomized, controlled trial. Circulation, 124(25), 2829-2838. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111. 033274