Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The mediating role of body image concern in the relationship between immature defense mechanisms and postpartum depression in Iranian women

BACKGROUND: Postpartum depression leaves irredeemable impacts on a mother's mental health and her child. Little is known about the relationship between immature defense mechanisms and body image concerns or postpartum depression. The present study examines the mediating role of body image concerns in the relationship between immature defense mechanisms and postpartum depression. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In a correlational study, 227 women were selected through a convenience sampling method from all women in the postpartum period in medical centers in 2021 in Tehran, Iran. The participants were asked to fill out the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), the Defense Style Questionnaire-40 (DSQ-40) by Andrews et al., and the Body Image Concern Inventory (BICI). The collected data was analyzed using the IBM SPSS Amos 24 and SPSS 21 software. RESULTS: There was a positive correlation between body image concern, immature defense mechanisms, and postpartum depression. Furthermore, body image concern was a mediator in the relationship between immature defense mechanisms and postpartum depression. The immature defense mechanisms had an indirect positive impact on depression due to the concerns over one's body image after giving birth (P > 0.05). CONCLUSION: Immature defense mechanisms and body image concerns can increase the risk of postpartum depression. Therefore, providing mental health and psychiatric services to expecting mothers is an effective tool to decrease the activation of immature defense mechanisms, which would reduce their body image concerns and prevent them from falling into postpartum depression.
Listening to Children: Perceptions of Nature

This exploratory study investigates children’s perceptions and experiences of nature during a residential outdoor environmental education program and contributes to an understanding of how nature experiences arouse biophilia, a love of life and all living things. Using interviews, naturalistic observation, and artifact collection, we studied children’s responses to nature during and following their participation in a residential environmental education program known as Mountain School. We explored how an examination of biophilic sensibilities can help researchers and educators focus on the vital intersection between the individual, environment, and action. Our study suggests that children’s perceptions of nature are varied and dependent on prior experiences. Our study indicates that after spending time in the wilderness program at Mountain School, children’s perceptions of nature changed. Children formed connections with the fauna and flora of the North Cascades. Our use of biophilia as a framework for inquiry demands that we consider what it means to include the larger biotic community in our discussion of educational reform. This research contributes to an evolving understanding of the relationship between people and the natural world.
Higher education at a crossroad : the case of Estonia

Raamatututvustus annab ulevaate artiklikogumikust "Higher education at a crossroad: The case of Estonia". Raamat keskendub muutustele, mis on Eesti korghariduses toimunud viimase paarikumne aasta jooksul, samuti eesseisvatele ulesannetele, mille need muutused on endaga kaasa toonud. Kogumik esindab multidistsiplinaarset koostooprojekti, sest uuringute labiviijad ja artiklite autorid on kasvatusteadlased, psuhholoogid, majandusteadlased ja sotsioloogid kolmest Eesti korgkoolist.
5G Sub-6 GHz Wideband Antenna with PSO Optimized Dimensions

—In this paper, a rectangular patch antenna that covers the band from 3.2 to 5.7 GHz to support 5G New Radio (NR) sub-6 GHz with high gain and eﬃciency is designed and implemented. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is used to get the dimensions of the antenna and slots. The optimization goals are to reach the smallest dimensions of the antenna in the required bandwidth keeping scattering parameter at port 1 | S 11 | below − 10 dB, a gain of 4 dBi or higher, and eﬃciency more than 90%, respectively. The resonance frequency of a microstrip patch is 4.45 GHz. PSO using the computer simulation tool (CST) software is used to design an antenna with desired frequency response and radiation characteristics for 5G New Radio (NR) sub-6 GHz. The antenna is designed over an FR-4 substrate with a noticeable reduction in cost, simplicity in design, and a small overall size of 23 × 15 mm 2 . The antenna is with the partial ground. The antenna has two parallel stubs and EL slots; the lengths of these slots control the desired bandwidth. A high agreement between the simulated and measured results is noticed.
Monitoring environmental conditions using participatory photo-mapping with Inuvialuit knowledge holders in the Mackenzie Delta Region, Northwest Territories

Supervisory Committee Supervisor Dr. Trevor C. Lantz, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria Departmental Member Dr. Karena Shaw, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria Additional Member Dr. Andrea N. Walsh, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria The Mackenzie Delta region of Northwestern Canada is a dynamic environment that is ecologically and culturally significant. This region is experiencing rapid environmental change that is expected to worsen with continued climate warming and additional anthropogenic stressors. In northern regions, conventional environmental monitoring strategies can be hindered by complex and cost prohibitive logistics. In this context of environmental change and uncertainty, there is a critical need to draw on traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and observations to inform decision-making. In some areas changes in land cover are occurring so rapidly that maintaining an accurate inventory is problematic. Knowledgeable land users are in a unique position to assess changes in regional environmental conditions and inventory cumulative impacts. Environmental decision-making in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region requires Inuvialuit participation in several co-management bodies. The objectives of this project were to develop and field-test a community-based monitoring program that shares Inuvialuit observations with stakeholders in environmental decision-making in a standardized and accessible format. Working with the Hunter and Trapper Committees of Aklavik, Inuvik, and Tuktoyaktuk, the Inuvialuit Joint Secretariat, and the Cumulative Impacts Monitoring Program we adapted a participatory photo-mapping (PPM) method to record Inuvialuit observations of environmental conditions using a strategy consistent with community goals and Inuvialuit culture. In the summer of 2010, we worked with knowledgeable Inuvialuit hunters and land users to document Inuvialuit observations of environmental conditions using digital cameras 1 Because chapters 2 and 3 were co-­‐authored, plural was used throughout the entire document.
Development of a telesimulation design for basic life support

Objective To construct and validate a synchronous and observational telesimulation design in nursing for care according to in-hospital basic life support protocol for adults. Methods A methodological study based on the phases of the theoretical procedure carried out through a scoping review; empirical phase developed through the telesimulated design content validity and analytical phase in which the content validity index was adopted. Results A care design was constructed according to the basic life support protocol, going through six steps: planning, preparation, participation, teledebriefing, assessment and feedback and additional learning, with a Content Validity Index of 0.96. Conclusion The developed design was considered valid in content to plan and execute telesimulation by nursing and still be adapted to other educational contexts.
Discovery of inhibitors of protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B contained in a natural products library from Mexican medicinal plants and fungi using a combination of enzymatic and in silico methods**

This work aimed to discover protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) inhibitors from a small molecule library of natural products (NPs) derived from selected Mexican medicinal plants and fungi to find new hits for developing antidiabetic drugs. The products showing similar IC50 values to ursolic acid (UA) (positive control, IC50 = 26.5) were considered hits. These compounds were canophyllol (1), 5-O-(β-D-glucopyranosyl)-7-methoxy-3′,4′-dihydroxy-4-phenylcoumarin (2), 3,4-dimethoxy-2,5-phenanthrenediol (3), masticadienonic acid (4), 4′,5,6-trihydroxy-3′,7-dimethoxyflavone (5), E/Z vermelhotin (6), tajixanthone hydrate (7), quercetin-3-O-(6″-benzoyl)-β-D-galactoside (8), lichexanthone (9), melianodiol (10), and confusarin (11). According to the double-reciprocal plots, 1 was a non-competitive inhibitor, 3 a mixed-type, and 6 competitive. The chemical space analysis of the hits (IC50 < 100 μM) and compounds possessing activity (IC50 in the range of 100–1,000 μM) with the BIOFACQUIM library indicated that the active molecules are chemically diverse, covering most of the known Mexican NPs’ chemical space. Finally, a structure–activity similarity (SAS) map was built using the Tanimoto similarity index and PTP1B absolute inhibitory activity, which allows the identification of seven scaffold hops, namely, compounds 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 11. Canophyllol (1), on the other hand, is a true analog of UA since it is an SAR continuous zone of the SAS map.
Effects of Nutritional and Culture Medium-based Approaches for Aquaponics System with Bio-floc Technology on Pak Choi and Catfish Growth Rates

Aquaponics with bio-floc can potentially offer sustainable food production with zero waste as it allows farming plants and fish simultaneously, whereby the former use fish waste as their nutrient sources, while the latter receives cleaner water from the plants in a closed-loop system. In the aquaponics system, additional nutrients are usually added to support optimal plant growth, but it is suggested that the amount of such chemical nutrients should be controlled to prevent any harm to the fish. Furthermore, the plant and fish growth rates are influenced by the nutrients and the culture media used. This study aims to examine the effect of nutrition (full-nutrient and half-nutrient treatments) and different types of culture mediums (rockwool, rockwool-perlite, and rockwool-husk) on the growth rates of pak choi (Brassica rapa) and catfish (Clarias gariepinus) using split-plot design. Findings show that the half-nutrient treatment yielded a 17.12% higher plant growth rate and 23.87% heavier catfish weight than the full-nutrient treatment, but these treatments did not affect the fish survival rate. It was also observed that using different culture mediums did not result in any significant difference.
The Importance of Dynamic Iron Deposition in Projecting Climate Change Impacts on Pacific Ocean Biogeochemistry

Deposition of mineral dust plays an important role in upper‐ocean biogeochemical processes, particularly by delivering iron to iron‐limited regions. Here we examine the impact of dynamically changing iron deposition on tropical Pacific Ocean biogeochemistry in fully coupled earth system model projections under several emissions scenarios. Projected end‐of‐21st‐century increases in central tropical Pacific dust and iron deposition strengthen with increasing emissions/radiative forcing, and are aligned with projected soil moisture decreases in adjacent land areas and precipitation increases over the equatorial Pacific. Increased delivery of soluble iron results in a reduction in, and eastward contraction of, equatorial Pacific phytoplankton iron limitation and shifts primary production and particulate organic carbon flux projections relative to a high emissions projection (SSP5‐8.5) wherein soluble iron deposition is prescribed as a static climatology. These results highlight modeling advances in representing coupled land‐air‐sea interactions to project basin‐scale patterns of ocean biogeochemical change.
Examining terror management theory in Ukraine: impact of air-raid alarms and explosions on mental health, somatic symptoms, and well-being

Objective This study sought to evaluate Terror Management Theory (TMT) assumptions about death awareness and its psychological impact in the context of a real-world war situation with high external validity. We examined if factors such as habituation to war circumstances and psychological resilience could buffer the effects on civilians’ anxiety, physical and mental health, and affect. Method We implemented a pre-registered smartphone-based experience sampling method study over four weeks, with 307 participants (k = 7,824) living in war-affected areas in Ukraine whereby participants were regularly exposed to war situations, including air-raid alarms, explosions, and infrastructural problems. Results The data indicated that war situations significantly increased anxiety, negatively impacting mental health, and raising somatic symptom severity. While habituation showed a mild buffering effect on these impacts, resilience did not. Conclusion This real-world investigation supports TMT’s fundamental assumptions about death awareness and its psychological implications. However, even amidst the presence of real, life-threatening situations, the buffering effects of habituation were surprisingly minimal. This suggests that further exploration of TMT’s buffering factors in real-world scenarios is warranted.
Implementing a mentoring program for clinical research professionals: A novel professional development initiative for university health research staff

Abstract Clinical and translational research relies on a well-trained workforce, but mentorship programs designed expressly for this workforce are lacking. This paper presents the development of a mentoring program for research staff and identifies key programmatic outcomes. Research staff participating in this program were matched with a senior mentor. Focus groups were conducted to identify key program outcomes. Surveys were administered throughout the program period to assess participants’ experience, gains in skill, and subsequent careers. Analysis of the resultant qualitative and quantitative data are used to characterize the implementation and impact of the program. A total of 47 mentees and 30 mentors participated in program between 2018 and 2023. A comprehensive logic model of short-, intermediate- and long-term outcomes was developed. Participants reported positive valuations of every programmatic outcome assessed including their program experience, learning and research careers. The pool of available mentors also grew as new mentors were successfully recruited for each cohort. This mentorship program developed and implemented by senior research staff successfully provided junior research staff with professional development support, mentorship, and professional development opportunities. Junior and senior health research staff built mentoring relationships that advanced their clinical and translational research careers.
Trends and Variability Assessment of Rainfall in Vhembe South Africa

Abstract This study focuses on assessing trends and variability in rainfall of Vhembe District South Africa. Mann-Kendall trend analysis and Sen’s slope estimator are used in determining the changes in the rainfall climatology. The interesting observation is that humid zone and semi-arid zones in the district exhibit different behaviour as far as trend analysis is concerned. Due to diverse rainfall zones, this study provides major evidence that rainfall is highly variable within local settings. The direction of rainfall trend was, in general, downward and statically significant across the semi-arid zone. Statistically significant (downward) trends (95% to 99%) were observed in densely populated areas affected by urban sprawl, depleted vegetation cover, or other human development such as large-scale farming and construction. Generally, changes in rainfall characteristics were mostly observed to start in the mid-1990s. Global climate change influence on the changes in rainfall characteristics was not conclusive. However, the local anthropogenic climate change was obviously one of the causes of changes in rainfall.
A rapid and eco-friendly method for determination of dictamnine, obacunone, and fraxinellone in Cortex Dictamni by LC–MS and matrix solid-phase dispersion extraction

Abstract This study develops a rapid and eco-friendly liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry method for determining dictamnine, obacunone, and fraxinellone in Cortex Dictamni. The samples were extracted by matrix solid-phase dispersion extraction with ethanol. The liquid chromatography separation was operated on an Agilent InfinityLab Poroshell 120 EC-C18 column (2.1 mm × 30 mm, 2.7 μm) using 45% ethanol at a 0.3 mL/min flow rate. Mass spectrometry detection was set at positive ion mode, and the selected ion monitoring mode was used to record the target compounds: dictamnine (mass-to-charge ratio 200), obacunone (mass-to-charge ratio 455), and fraxinellone (mass-to-charge ratio 233). The calibration curves exhibited good linearity (R > 0.9994) within the test range. The intra-day precision was 0.601% for dictamnine, 1.03% for obacunone, and 0.898% for fraxinellone. The recoveries were 100% for dictamnine, 101% for obacunone, and 96.2% for fraxinellone. Six samples were analyzed, and they all conformed to the content requirements of the Chinese Pharmacopeia. Notably, the developed method only requires 6.07 mL ethanol and costs 12 min. This study presents a rapid and eco-friendly analytical method for determining three components in Cortex Dictamni, which will help improve the quality evaluation technology of Cortex Dictamni. Graphical Abstract
The complete mitochondrial genome of Pseudofabraea citricarpa (Dermateaceae: Helotiales) causing Citrus target spot

Abstract Pseudofabraea citricarpa (Dermateaceae: Helotiales) is known as a significant pathogen causing Citrus target spot disease and results in profound yield loss. In the present study, the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) determined based on next-generation sequencing technology. The circular mitogenome (56,935 bp) comprised 14 conserved protein-coding genes (PCGs), 16 ORFs, two ribosomal RNA genes (rns and rnl), one non-coding RNA gene (rnpB), one ribosomal protein S3 (rps3) and 28 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes. The overall base composition is as follows: 36.08% A, 35.25% T, 13.04% C, and 15.63% G, with a GC content of 28.70%. The phylogenetic analysis shows that P. citricarpa, belonging to Dermateaceae, forms a separate clade and is sister to Sclerotiniaceae. The mitogenome of P. citricarpa reported in this study provides more molecular data for further research on the evolutionary relationships of Helotiales.
Unsupervised Seismic Facies Analysis via Class-Imbalanced Deep Embedding Clustering

Seismic facies analysis (SFA) plays a pivotal role in the interpretation of subsurface structures, with a pressing need to develop automated techniques for analyzing 4-D prestack seismic data. Various automated SFA methods, encompassing both supervised and unsupervised paradigms, have shown encouraging potential in fulfilling this demand. Nonetheless, supervised methods heavily hinge upon precious labeled seismic datasets of high caliber, and unsupervised methods handle all seismic samples indiscriminately during training, resulting in pronounced biases toward the majority classes of seismic data. As an alternative, this letter proposes class-imbalanced deep embedding clustering (CDEC), an unsupervised deep clustering methodology devised to analyze seismic data with class-imbalanced facies distributions. Within CDEC, a focal loss meticulously tailored to address class imbalance challenges is seamlessly integrated into the classic deep convolutional embedding clustering (DCEC). By balancing weights between the minority and majority seismic samples during network training, this approach adeptly attenuates biases toward the majority classes while concurrently bolstering the efficacy of SFA. Experimental evaluations conducted on synthetic and real field datasets compellingly underscore the effectiveness and utility of the proposed CDEC method.
A Highly Modular and Extensible Architecture for an Integrated IMS-based Authoring System : The < e-Aula > Experience

A Highly Modular and Extensible Architecture for an Integrated IMS-based Authoring System: The <e-Aula> Experience José Luis Sierra , Pablo Moreno-Ger, Iván Martínez-Ortiz, Baltasar Fernández-Manjón12 (a) Dpto. Ingeniería del Software e Inteligencia Artificial. Fac. Informática. Universidad Complutense. 28040, Madrid. Spain. {jlsierra,pablom,balta}@fdi.ucm. es. (b) Centro de Estudios Superiores Felipe II. Aranjuez. Spain. imartinez@cesfelipesegundo.com
32. DARK-LIGHT RHYTHMS IN THE SEDIMENTS OF THE JAPAN SEA: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM SITE 798, WITH SOME ADDITIONAL RESULTS FROM SITES 797 AND 7991

Ocean Drilling Program Legs 127 and 128 in the Japan Sea have revealed the existence of numerous dark-light rhythms of remarkable consistency in sediments of late Miocene, latest Pliocene, and especially Pleistocene age. Light-colored units within these rhythms are massive or bioturbated, consist of diatomaceous clays, silty clays, or nannofossil-rich clays, and are generally poor in organic matter. Dark-colored units are homogeneous, laminated, or thinly bedded and include substantial amounts of biogenic material such as well-preserved diatoms, planktonic foraminifers, calcareous nannofossils, and organic matter (maximum 7.4 wt%). The dark-light rhythms show a similar geometrical pattern on three different scales: First-order rhythms consist of a cluster dominated by dark-colored units followed by a cluster dominated by light-colored units (3-5 m). Spectral analysis of a gray-value time series suggests that the frequencies of the first-order rhythms in sediments of latest Pliocene and Pleistocene age correlate to the obliquity and the eccentricity cycles. The second-order dark-light rhythms include a light and a dark-colored unit (10-160 cm). They were formed in time spans of several hundred to several ten thousand years, with variance centering around 10,500 yr. This frequency may correspond to half the precessional cycle. Third-order rhythms appear as laminated or thinly bedded dark-light couplets (2-15 mm) within the dark-colored units of the second-order rhythms and may represent annual frequencies. In interpreting the rhythms, we have to take into account that (1) the occurrence of the first- and second-order rhythms is not necessarily restricted to glacial or interglacial periods as is shown by preliminary stable-isotope analysis and comparison with the published δ 18 θ record; (2) they appear to be Milankovitch-controlled; and (3) a significant number of the rhythms are sharply bounded. The origin of the dark-light rhythms is probably related to variations in monsoonal activity in the Japan Sea, which show annual frequencies, but also operates in phase with the orbital cycles.