Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Prospective associations between hand grip strength and subsequent depressive symptoms in men and women aged 50 years and older: insights from the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe

Introduction In previous cross-sectional and longitudinal studies, depressive symptoms have been associated with lower hand grip strength (HGS), which is a convenient measure of overall muscular strength and serves as a marker of poor health. Most studies have considered low sample sizes or highly selective patient cohorts. Methods We studied the association between depressive symptoms (EURO-D) and HGS in three waves from the cross-national panel dataset Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Linear regressions and Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) were conducted to determine factors associated with depressive symptoms and investigate whether HGS predicts future depressive symptoms. Results Cross-sectional HGS explained 7.0% (Wave 4), 5.7% (Wave 5), and 6.4% (Wave 6) of the EURO-D variance. In the GEE, we analyzed people without depression in Wave 4 (N = 39,572). HGS predicted future EURO-D (B = −0.21, OR = 0.979, 95%CI (0.979, 0.980), p < 0.001) and remained a significant predictor of future depressive symptoms after adjustment for age, sex, psychosocial and physical covariates. Discussion Muscle strength is a known marker for physical health, but a relation with mental health has also been proposed previously. This study confirmed the link between HGS and depressive symptoms in men and women aged ≥50 years in a large longitudinal dataset. Further research is required to understand the mechanisms behind this link to determine whether HGS can serve as a specific marker of depressive symptomology, or whether they coexist due to common underlying disease processes.
Using Sport Media Contact to Promote Gender Equality: Counter-Stereotypical Gender Perceptions and 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup

By relying on literature on counter-stereotypes and media contact, we investigated whether media exposure is associated with counter-stereotypical gender perceptions. Focusing on the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup , we recruited samples ( N = 2,228) from eight competing countries (China, France, Germany, Italy, Scotland, Spain, England, USA) across three continents. We hypothesized that media exposure to the competition’s counter-stereotypical female exemplars would be associated with increased counter-stereotypical perceptions of women. Results revealed that media exposure was associated with greater communion and agency attributed to women. In turn, communion and agency were associated (negatively and positively, respectively) with attribution of stereotypically male abilities (abilities to engage in stereotypically male academic disciplines and jobs) to women compared to men. No effects emerged for perceptions of stereotypically female characteristics. Gender moderated these effects, with associations being stronger among male than among female respondents. Theoretical and practical implications of findings are discussed.
Fair value accounting: Current practice and perspectives for future research

A fundamental issue debated in the accounting literature centers on the appropriate basis for which to measure firms’ assets and liabilities. During the last several decades, scholars have generated a growing body of important insights about the use of the fair value measurement attribute in financial reports around the globe. In this paper, we provide an overview of the institutional background of fair value accounting and the associated accounting standards that prescribe the use of fair value measurements under International Financial Reporting Standards and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the US. We discuss and document the extent to which firms across different industries and accounting regimes recognize and disclose in their financial reports assets and liabilities measured at fair value and we reflect on aspects of the fair value accounting literature. In doing this, we identify several areas in which additional research can further our understanding of fair value measurements and disclosures.
Comparative study of the antimicrobial activity of bis ( N a-caproyl-L-arginine )-1 , 3-propanediamine dihydrochloride and chlorhexidine dihydrochloride against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli

Objectives: The aim of this study is to gain insight into the mechanism of the antimicrobial action of a novel arginine-based surfactant, bis(N-caproyl-L-arginine)-1,3-propanediamine dihydrochloride [C3(CA)2]. Methods: To this end, we compared its effects against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli with those caused by the commercial and widely known antiseptic, chlorhexidine dihydrochloride (CHX).
The Use of Birds as Biodiversity Indicators of Climatic Change: Downscaling European Indicators to Regional and National Trends

This thesis examines the impacts of recent climatic change on bird species across Europe and develops robust indicators of ecosystem change at national and supra-national levels. The performance of three methods of species distribution modelling of European bird populations in relation to climatic change over the last 60 years is evaluated; the models being generalized additive models (GAM), climate response surface models (CRS) and maximum entropy models (MaxEnt). European breeding bird distributions were simulated using models that were parameterised using: (1) distribution data from the Climatic Atlas of European Breeding Birds and (2) augmenting these European data with distribution data from Turkey, Cyprus and North Africa. Including data from a wider geographical area improved the fit of SDMs; this was especially marked for some species with relatively poor fits based on the Europe-only dataset. Of the three SDM models tested CRS best simulated current species range data (mean AUC=0.982), closely followed by GAM (mean AUC=0.950), with MaxEnt performing worst (mean AUC=0.741). The most robust of the modelling techniques (CRS and GAM) were used to produce climate suitability trends (CST) for European breeding birds, using population data provided by the Pan European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS). Population trends in European breeding birds significantly correlated with SDM retrodicted trends in 5 of 11 countries considered. Biological variables were assessed to examine their impacts on recent abundance trends; of these, habitat preference was the only biological variable found to impact upon the relationship between CST and the PECBMS trends. We generated indicators of the impact of climatic change by contrasting species trends of those projected to increase versus those projected to decline from the SDMs based on regional and national level data. Indices were also produced for individual species based on their observed and simulated trends among countries. Monitoring duration had a substantial effect on the strength of the indicator; therefore, the continuous updating of monitoring schemes is vital to ensure the accuracy of such indicators. Downscaling the continental indicator produced informative and reliable indicators that can inform policy decisions at a national level, helping to preserve biodiversity.
Selecting a Sprinkler Irrigation System

subsurface irrigation (“subirrigation” which uses tile drain lines), surface or gravity irrigation, trickle irrigation (also called drip irrigation), and sprinkler irrigation. Of the acres currently irrigated in North Dakota, over 75 percent use some type of sprinkler system. Statewide, the center pivot is the most popular sprinkler system. If the sprinkler system is for a new installation, you have two important tasks you must perform before purchasing the system. First, you must check the county soil survey maps to make sure the soils in the field are irrigable. Second, you must have a readily available source of water near the field and have a State Water Commission-issued water permit for that water. The water source must be of sufficient quantity and quality for successful irrigation. Extension circular AE-92, Planning to Irrigate. A Checklist, provides more information on the requirements to begin irrigating. A sprinkler “throws” water through the air in an effort to simulate rainfall whereas the other three irrigation methods apply water directly to the soil, either on or below the surface. A sprinkler system can be composed of one or many sprinklers. In systems that use many sprinklers, the sprinklers are attached to a pipeline at a predetermined spacing in order to achieve a uniform application amount. When selecting a sprinkler system, the most important physical parameters to consider are:
Page 1 of 17 Title: Targeting Vaccinations for the Licensed Dengue Vaccine: Considerations for Serosurvey Design

Objective: WHO recommends countries consider dengue vaccination in geographic settings only where epidemiological data indicate a high burden of disease. In defining target populations, WHO recommend that prior infection with any dengue serotype should be >70% seroprevalence. Here we address considerations for serosurvey design in the context of the newly licensed CYD-TDV vaccine. Methods: To explore how the design of seroprevalence surveys (age range, survey size) would affect estimates of the force of infection, for every combination of age range, total survey size, transmission setting, and test sensitivity/specificity, 100 age-specific seroprevalence surveys were simulated using a beta-binomial distribution and a simple catalytic model. The transmission intensity was then re-estimated using a MetropolisHastings Markov Chain Monte-Carlo algorithm. Findings: Sampling from a wide age range led to more accurate estimates than having a larger sample size. This finding was consistent across all transmission settings. The optimal age range to sample from differed by transmission intensity, with younger and older ages being important in high and low transmission settings respectively. The optimum test sensitivity and specificity given an imperfect test also differed by transmission setting with high sensitivity being important in high transmission settings and high specificity important in low transmission settings. Conclusions: When assessing the suitability for vaccination by seroprevalence surveys, countries should ensure that an appropriate age range is sampled, taking into account epidemiological evidence about the local burden of dengue.
A continuous-time ripple reduction technique for spinning-current Hall sensors

The intrinsic offset of Hall sensors can be reduced with the help of the spinning-current technique, which modulates this offset away from the signal band. The resulting offset ripple can then be removed by a low-pass filter, which, however, limits the sensor's bandwidth. This paper presents a ripple-reduction technique that does not require a low-pass filter. Measurements on a Hall sensor system implemented in a 0. 18μm CMOS process show that the technique can reduce the residual ripple by at least 40dB - to the same level as the sensor's noise.
Soil microbial community responses to common pesticides of conventional, IPM and organic farming

1 Istituto di Chimica Agraria ed Ambientale, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Via Emilia Parmense 84, 29122 Piacenza, Italy 2 Centro per lo Studio delle Relazioni tra Pianta e Suolo , C.R. A. –RPS, Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura Via Trieste 23, 34170 Gorizia, Italy 3 Istituto di Microbiologia, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Via Emilia Parmense 84, 29122 Piacenza, Italy 4 Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, Ploutonos 26 and Aiolou, 41221 Larisa, Greece * marco.trevisan@unicatt.it
Effects of suprahyoid muscle strengthening exercise using kinesiology taping on muscle activation and thickness in community-dwelling elderly: A randomized controlled trial

Background: Recently, swallowing resistive exercise using kinesiology taping (KT) has been reported as a novel method for dysphagia rehabilitation However, clinical evidence is still unclear, and effects in the elderly have not been confirmed. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effects of suprahyoid muscle strengthening exercise using KT on muscle activation and thickness in community-dwelling elderly. Methods: A total of 24 healthy older people were enrolled in this study and randomly assigned to an experimental group and a placebo group. In the experimental group, KT was attached to the front of the neck with a tension of about 70% to 80%, and a resistive swallowing exercise was performed. In the placebo group, the tape was applied similarly but without tension. Both groups performed resistive swallowing exercises 10 times a day (50 swallows per day) for 6 weeks. The activation and thickness of the suprahyoid muscles were measured using portable ultrasound equipment and an surface electromyelograph device. Results: The experimental group showed a significant increase in suprahyoid muscle activation (mean and peak) and muscle thickness (digastric and mylohyoid) than the placebo group (all, P < .05). Conclusion: This study confirmed that suprahyoid muscle strengthening exercise using KT had a positive effect on the suprahyoid muscles in healthy older adults, thus suggesting the possibility of a therapeutic exercise method for dysphagia rehabilitation.
Improving the ability of PRI in light use efficiency estimation by distinguishing sunlit and shaded leaves in rice canopy

ABSTRACT Light use efficiency (LUE) plays an important role in gross primary production (GPP), so accurate estimation of LUE is crucial. The estimation of LUE using the photochemical reflectance index (PRI) is considerably promising, but on the other hand there is always uncertainty in obtaining the PRI due to the changing viewing angle and sun position in remote sensing observations. The objective of this study was to distinguish between sunlit and shaded leaves to improve the performance of PRI estimating LUE, and we used rice canopy reflectance data collected by the automatic multi-angle remote sensing platform and flux data for each half hour from 9:00 to 15:00 in Shouxian, Anhui Province, China. We modified the two-leaf model based on the characteristics of the rice canopy, was thought of by distinguishing between sunlit and shaded leaves PRI by two-leaf model on the rice canopy. The results showed that the -LUE correlation improved relative to PRI-LUE on clear days and was essentially negligible on cloudy days. We found that the photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), temperature, and humidity had some influence on , the -LUE correlation was strongest at higher temperature and vapour pressure deficit (VPD) and was linear with the change of temperature. We conclude that the modified two-leaf model improves the integrity of the PRI remote sensing observation and increases the accuracy of its LUE estimation by adequately separating sunlit and shaded leaves in the rice canopy.
University of Birmingham Adaptive Sampling-based View Planning under Time Constraints

—Planning for object search requires the generation and sequencing of views in a continuous space. These plans need to consider the effect of overlapping views and a limit imposed on the time taken to compute and execute the plans. We formulate the problem of view planning in the presence of overlapping views and time constraints as an Orienteering Prob-lem with history-dependent rewards. We consider two variants of this problem—in variant (I) only the plan execution time is constrained, whereas in variant (II) both planning and execution time are constrained. We abstract away the unreliability of perception, and present a sampling-based view planner that simultaneously selects a set of views and a route through them, and incorporates a prior over object locations. We show that our approach outperforms the state of the art methods for the orienteering problem by evaluating all algorithms in four environments that vary in size and complexity.
Question Answering: CNLP at the TREC-10 Question Answering Track

This paper describes the retrieval experiments for the main task and list task of the TREC-10 question-answering track. The question answering system described automatically finds answers to questions in a large document collection. The system uses a two-stage retrieval approach to answer finding based on matching of named entities, linguistic patterns, and keywords. In answering a question, the system carries out a detailed query analysis that produces a logical query representation, an indication of the question focus, and answer clue words.
Effects of Recycled Water On Landscape Plants

EFFECTS OF RECYCLED WATER ON LANDSCAPE PLANTS Casey Ray Miranda Recycled water is water that has been previously used, has suffered a loss of quality, and has been properly treated for redistribution (Wu et al. 2001). The use of recycled water as an alternative to fresh water in the landscape can have positive and negative effects. Experimentation on 40 different plant species during a 32 week period (2 phases of 16 weeks), was conducted to analyze the effects of recycled water irrigation on the appearance of landscape plants. Each species of plant was planted into 10 individual number 2 pots and irrigated with recycled water daily. Media and water were tested for nutrients and other constituents. In phase I there were four different species of grasses and grass-like plants, five different perennials, five species of shrubs, and four annuals tested; while phase II tested four species of herbaceous perennials, eight different species of shrubs, six species of groundcovers, and four species of annuals. All tests were conducted at the Paso Robles Waste Water Treatment Plant. Of the grasses and grass like species Yucca spp. and Buchloe spp. performed best. Osteospermum fruticosum, Lavandula angustifolia, Rosmarinus officinalis, Phormium tenax, and Pennisetum setaceum had the best appearance of the herbaceous perennials tested. For the shrubs, Coprosma repens, Cistus purpureus, Dodonea viscosa, Eleagnus pungens, Baccharis pilularis, Ceanothus thysiflorus, Thuja orientalis, and Nerium oleander had the best appearance when irrigated with recycled water. The best annuals were Senecio cineraria, Antirrhinum majus, Primula spp. , Viola spp. , and Calendula officinalis. Of the groundcovers Heuchera spp. , Lonicera japonica, Vinca major, Hedera helix, and Ceanothus griseus had the best results. From the experiment a list of
Zeb1 Regulates the Function of Lympho-Myeloid Primed Progenitors after Transplantation

Zeb1, a zinc finger E-box binding homeobox epithelial–mesenchymal (EMT) transcription factor, acts as a critical regulator of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) self-renewal and multi-lineage differentiation. Whether Zeb1 directly regulates the function of multi-potent progenitors primed for hematopoietic lineage commitment remains ill defined. By using an inducible Mx-1 Cre conditional mouse model where Zeb1 was genetically engineered to be deficient in the adult hematopoietic system (hereafter Zeb1−/−), we found that the absolute cell number of immunophenotypically defined lympho-myeloid primed progenitors (LMPPs) from Zeb1−/− mice was reduced. Myeloid- and lymphoid-biased HSCs in Zeb1−/− mice were unchanged, implying that defective LMPP generation from Zeb1−/− mice was not directly caused by an imbalance of lineage-biased HSCs. Functional analysis of LMPP from Zeb1−/− mice, as judged by competitive transplantation, revealed an overall reduction in engraftment to hematopoietic organs over 4 weeks, which correlated with minimal T-cell engraftment, reduced B-cell and monocyte/macrophage engraftment, and unperturbed granulocyte engraftment. Thus, Zeb1 regulates LMPP differentiation potential to select lympho-myeloid lineages in the context of transplantation.
airGRteaching: an open-source tool for teaching hydrological modeling with R

Abstract. Hydrological modeling is at the core of most studies related to water, especially for anticipating disasters, managing water resources, and planning adaptation strategies. Consequently, teaching hydrological modeling is an important, but difficult, matter. Teaching hydrological modeling requires appropriate software and teaching material (exercises, projects); however, although many hydrological modeling tools exist today, only a few are adapted to teaching purposes. In this article, we present the airGRteaching package, which is an open-source R package. The hydrological models that can be used in airGRteaching are the GR rainfall-runoff models, i.e., lumped processed-based models, allowing streamflows to be simulated, including the GR4J model. In this package, thanks to a graphical user interface and a limited number of functions, numerous hydrological modeling exercises representing a wide range of hydrological applications are proposed. To ease its use by students and teachers, the package contains several vignettes describing complete projects that can be proposed to investigate various topics such as streamflow reconstruction, hydrological forecasting, and assessment of climate change impact.
Metallogenic Age and Ore‐forming Material Sources of the Dahongshan Fe‐Cu Deposit, Yunnan Province: Insights from Molybdenite Re‐Os Dating and H‐O‐S‐Pb Isotopes

The Dahongshan Fe‐Cu (‐Au) deposit is a superlarge deposit in the Kangdian metallogenic belt, southwestern China, comprising approximately 458 Mt of Fe ores (40% Fe) and 1.35 Mt Cu. Two main types of Fe‐Cu (‐Au) mineralization are present in the Dahongshan deposit: (1) early submarine volcanic exhalation and sedimentary mineralization characterized by strata‐bound fine‐grained magnetite and banded Fe‐Cu sulfide (pyrite and chalcopyrite) hosted in the Na‐rich metavolcanic rocks; (2) late hydrothermal (‐vein) type mineralization characterized by Fe‐Cu sulfide veins in the hosted strata or massive coarse‐grained magnetite orebodies controlled by faults. While previous studies have focused primarily on the early submarine volcanic and sedimentary mineralization of the deposit, data related to late hydrothermal mineralization is lacking. In order to establish the metallogenic age and ore‐forming material source of the late hydrothermal (‐vein) type mineralization, this paper reports the Re‐Os dating of molybdenite from the late hydrothermal vein Fe‐Cu orebody and H, O, S, and Pb isotopic compositions of the hydrothermal quartz‐sulfide veins. The primary aim of this study was to establish the metallogenic age and ore‐forming material source of the hydrothermal type orebody. Results show that the molybdenite separated from quartz‐sulfide veins has a Re‐Os isochron age of 831 ± 11 Ma, indicating that the Dahongshan Fe‐Cu deposit experienced hydrothermal superimposed mineralization in Neoproterozoic. The molybdenite has a Re concentration of 99.7–382.4 ppm, indicating that the Re of the hydrothermal vein ores were primarily derived from the mantle. The δ34S values of sulfides from the hydrothermal ores are 2‰–8‰ showing multi‐peak tower distribution, suggesting that S in the ore‐forming period was primarily derived from magma and partially from calcareous sedimentary rock. Furthermore, the abundance of radioactive Pb increased significantly from ore‐bearing strata to layered and hydrothermal vein ores, which may be related to the later hydrothermal transformation. The composition of H and O isotopes within the hydrothermal quartz indicates that the ore‐forming fluid is a mixture of magmatic water and a small quantity of water. These results further indicate that the late hydrothermal orebodies were formed by the Neoproterozoic magmatic hydrothermal event, which might be related to the breakup of the Rodinia supercontinent. Mantle derived magmatic hydrothermal fluid extracted ore‐forming materials from the metavolcanic rocks of Dahongshan Group and formed the hydrothermal (‐vein) type Fe‐Cu orebodies by filling and metasomatism.