Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SEASONAL CYCLES OF FAT AND GONAD VOLUME IN FIVE SPECIES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ROCKFISH (SCORPAENIDAE: SEBASTES)

Seasonal changes in visceral fat volume and gonad volume are compared in five species of rockfish from northern and central California: Sebastes entomelas, S. paucispinis, S. goodei, S. pinniger, and S. flavidus. In these species, visceral fat was deposited between spring and fall, at the same time as gametogenesis. Visceral fat declined in volume between fall and spring, coinciding with the decline in volume of testes and preceding the release of embryos in females. We suggest that increased feeding during the summer upwell­ ing season provides the energy for simultaneous fat accumulation, gametogenesis, and perhaps somatic growth. During subsequent seasons of presumed food storage, these rockfishes may utilize visceral fat reserves for maintenance. This pattern of fat deposition and utilization may contribute to the long life and repeated reproduction of rockfishes, at the expense of current fecundity and growth. Our data also suggest that rockfishes which spawn only once during the reproductive season have fat cycles of greater magnitude than those spawning more than once a year. Of the species that we studied, the apparent single spawners S. entomelas and S. flavidus have more northerly geographic distributions and larger fat cycles than the multiple spawners S. goodei and S. paucispinis. It is possible that the shorter and more pronounced productive season in the north leads to a greater need for fat reserves during winter and makes the wintertime production of additional batches of eggs energetically difficult.
Randomized Trial Effect of Fluoroscopically Guided Caudal Epidural Steroid or Local Anesthetic Injections in the Treatment of Lumbar Disc Herniation and Radiculitis : A Randomized , Controlled , Double Blind Trial with a Two-Year Follow-Up

lower extremity pain. Among minimally invasive treatments, epidural injections are one of the most commonly performed interventions. However, the literature is mixed about their effectiveness in managing low back and lower extremity pain. In general, individual studies and systematic reviews of epidural steroid injections have been hampered by their study design, baseline differences between treatment groups, inadequate sample sizes, highly controlled settings, lack of validated outcome measures, and the inability to confirm the injectate location because fluoroscopy was not used.
Towards a real sustainable agri-food security and food policy: Beyond the ecological fallacies?

The recent rises in food prices represent the ‘tip of the iceberg’ and a ‘canary in the mine’ moment for world agriculture. They are underlain by a continuing ‘race to the bottom’ and speculative process whereby systems of resource production and exploitation are continuing to rely upon ‘infinite supply’ assumptions and narrow technological solutions to ‘feeding the world’. I argue here that these conditions are leading to a dominant policy framing that tends to marginalise diverse and place-based agro-ecological systems by creating a new legitimacy for bio-economic rather than eco-economic solutions. Government and policy-making bodies need to redefine and widen their approaches to agriculture and agri-food in ways that recognise its social, cultural, political and spatially diverse contribution in a post-carbon world.
The growing degree-day and fish size-at-age : the overlooked metric

Growth rate in ectotherms, including most fish, is a function of temperature. For decades, agriculturalists (270+ years) and entomologists (45+ years) have recognized the thermal integral, known as the growing degree-day (GDD, °C·day), to be a reliable predictor of growth and development. Fish and fisheries researchers have yet to widely acknowledge the power of the GDD in explaining growth and development among fishes. We demonstrate that fish length-at-day (LaD), in most cases prior to maturation, is a strong linear function of the GDD metric that can explain >92% of the variation in LaD among 41 data sets representing nine fish species drawn from marine and freshwater en- vironments, temperate and tropical climes, constant and variable temperature regimes, and laboratory and field studies. The GDD demonstrates explanatory power across large spatial scales, e.g., 93% of the variation in LaD for age-2 to -4 Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) across their entire range (17 stocks) is explained by one simple GDD function. Moreover, GDD can explain much of the variation in fish egg development time and in aquatic invertebrate (crab) size-at-age. Our analysis extends the well-established and physiologically relevant GDD metric to fish where, relative to conven- tional time-based methods, it provides greater explanatory power.
Prosodic Movement

A basic assumption in generative grammar is that all movement is syntactic. This paper proposes that hyperbaton in Classical Greek, Latin and Colloquial Russian involves post-syntactic movement of prosodic constituents to prosodic edges. We are led to this conclusion by four major observations about hyperbaton: it moves prosodic constituents (ω and φ) while ignoring syntactic constituency, and it respects prosodic constraints such as the OCP while ignoring syntactic constraints like the CSC or the LBC. We propose that this is just what we should find with prosodic movement: sensitivity to prosodic constituency and prosodic constraints and insensitivity to syntactic constituents and syntactic constraints.
Assessment of Participatory Management in Strategy Implementation: Case of Mabati Rolling Mills Company Limited, Mombasa

Most studies on reasons for good and poor performance in companies in Kenya and the world over have been done and findings and recommendations made whose adoption have not aided in enhancement of the profit margins of the said companies. Most of the recommendations have been focusing on methods like retrenchment, diversification and concentration strategies which have not been effective in improving the companies’ performance as envisaged in their strategic plans. These studies have failed to consider the management styles whose adoption could lead to improved output by all employees. This study looked into the detailed relationship between participatory management and employee commitment towards strategy implementation with an aim of resolving the question that “Does participatory management payoff in terms of employee performance in strategy implementation? ” Research results in this area clarified the relationship. This, it achieved through an analytic study of the employee participation in management as well as the level of strategy implementation at the company. The study used cross sectional descriptive involving systematic collection and presentation of data to give a clear picture of the situation with participative management as the independent variable and strategy implementation as the dependent variable. The design was preferred because it allowed deep analysis of the units under study. Data was collected at two levels namely; management staff and junior staff levels in MRM. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 21 to determine the relationship between the two main variable namely extent of participatory management and performance. The study established a positive and significant relationship between employee participation in management and strategy implementation and formulation at the company. This implies that, the more satisfying the employee involvement in the management of the affairs of the company the greater the extent of strategy implementation in a company. Overall, employee participation in management influences significantly strategy formulation and implementation at MRM. It would be of interest to consider how the company involves other stakeholders such as suppliers in its strategic plans’ formulation and implementation as well as find out the effect of the risk of not involving employees in the management process with an aim of assessing the costs and benefits of implementing stakeholder focused strategic plans for the company. Key Words: Participatory Management, Strategy Implementation, Mabati Rolling Mills Company Limited, Mombasa .
Erişim Kontrolü Temelli Eşzamanlı Birincil ve İkincil SW-ARQ Yapılarının Performans Analizi

Bu calismada, kanal hakkinda birincil kullanicinin ileri yonlu haberlesme parametreleri hakkinda bilgi edinemeyen ikincil bilissel radio kullanicilarinin, sadece birincil kullanicidan alacagi SW (Stop and Wait) - ARQ (Automatic Repeat Request) geribesleme sinyallerini degerlendirmek suretiyle kendisine bir haberlesme kaynagi bulmaya calismasi incelenmektedir. Calismada, birincil ve ikincil kullanicilarin sabit bir guc seviyesinde eszamanli paket gonderim dahilinde calistigi kabul edilirken, birincil kullanicida ihmal edilebilir veya makul gorulebilir bir seviyede enterferansin uygun gorulmesi halinde ikincil kullanici icin ne kadar miktarlik bir haberlesme kaynagi saglanabilecegi ve bu durumda birincil ve ikincil kullanicilarin basarim performanslarinin ne sekilde degistigi hususlari onerilen erisim kontrol metodu ile irdelenmistir.
A NOVEL COMBINATION OF NON-SELF MODELLING AND REAL-TIME VISUAL FEEDBACK TO IMPROVE ROWING PERFORMANCE

This study assesses the use of a method of concurrent video feedback combined with non-self modelling to assist learning and performance in rowing. A video image, containing a live video feed, is presented to the participant combined with a pre-recorded video sequence of an elite rower at various stroke rates. Sixteen volunteers participated in the study (20.8+1.7 years); eight were allocated to the experimental group (E) and eight to the control group (C). Data pertaining to rowing skill (stroke length (SL) and stroke rate (SR)) and rowing performance (overall distance (D) and average power (AP)) were obtained during a pre- and post-test separated by a seven-week intervention period. The results illustrate significant changes in all four parameters for the experimental group; D – P=0.013, AP – P=0.011, SL – P=0.001, & SR – P=0.042. The control group demonstrated significant changes in skill (SL – P=0.003; SR – P=0.005) and no significant differences in performance (D – P=0.21; AP – P=0.093). The results indicate that concurrent real-time video feedback had a positive effect on both skill acquisition and performance of the rowing motor skill for beginner rowers.
On Boundedness and Attractiveness of Nonlinear Switched Delay Systems

This paper is concerned with the boundedness and attractiveness of nonlinear switched delay systems whose subsystems have different equilibria. Some sufficient conditions which can guarantee the system’s boundedness are obtained. In addition, we work out the region where the solution will remain and furthermore the relationship between the initial function and the bounded region. Based on the new concept of attractor with switching laws, we show that the nonlinear switched delay system is attractive and then obtain the attractive region.
Value and structure of fish catches and stocking intensity in lake enterprises before and after fisheries ownership transfer in Poland

Value and structure of fish catches and stocking intensity in lake enterprises before and after fisheries ownership transfer in Poland The current report was written using data from the 1973-2004 period regarding fisheries catches and stocking. These data come from management logs for 300 lakes with a total surface area of 116,736 ha. In the 1973-1982 period, the mean annual value of catches for all species of fish was 226.33 PLN ha-1, and this was twice as high as that in the 1995-2004 period (113.77 PLN ha-1). Of stocked species, eel, Anguilla anguilla (L.) (46%), and vendace, Coregonus albula (L.) (17%), dominated the value structure of catches in the first decade, while eel (35%), vendace (15%), pike, Esox lucius L. , (11%), and pikeperch, Sander lucioperca (L.) (9%) dominated in the second decade. The mean annual value of stocking material of all species in the 1973-1982 period, which was 385.91 PLN ha-1, was more than 7.5 times higher than that in the 1995-2004 period (50.40 PLN ha-1). This difference was determined by the value of eel stocking. With a share of more than 95%, the value of eel stocking dominated decisively in the first decade. In the second decade analyzed, the value of stocked eel (57%), vendace (15%), and pike (14%) dominated. After eliminating the value of eel catches and stocking, the value of stocking in comparison with the value of catches in the first decade analyzed was barely 15%, while in the second decade analyzed it was almost twice as high at 29%.
Higher expression of ZFAS 1 is associated with poor prognosis in malignant melanoma and promotes cell proliferation and invasion

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) ZFAS1 had been reported in several tumors, however, the clinical role and biological function of ZFAS1 expression level in malignant melanoma (MM) is not well studied. In the study, quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) methods were used to assess the expression levels of ZFAS1 in 88 cases of malignant melanoma tissues and adjacent non-cancerous tissues in MM patients. The ability of MM cell proliferation was analyzed by CCK8 cell proliferation assay. Western-blot analysis detected the expression of cell proliferation associated protein Ki67, PCNA and Cyclin D1. Our results demonstrated that the expression levels of ZFAS1 were significantly increased in MM tissues compared to adjacent non-cancerous tissues and the higher ZFAS1 expression levels were correlated with tumor thickness, lymph node metastasis, and tumor stages in patients. Moreover, patients who had higher ZFAS1 expression predicted shorted disease-free survival time (DFS) or over survival (OS). Multivariate Cox analysis showed that tumor thickness, lymph node metastasis, tumor stages and ZFAS1 expression were independent risks for prognosis in MM patients. After knockdown of ZFAS1, the results showed that the cell proliferation was inhibited in sk-mel-1 and A375 cells. Thus, the results suggested that ZFAS1 could be used as a potential biomarker for prognosis and a therapeutic target for MM patients.
Enhancing Employee’s Trust and Commitment through Strategic Human Resource Management: A Literature Review

This paper intends to explore the relationship between Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) practices, employee trust and organisational commitment. The preliminary framework provides an understanding of the specific role of trust between HRM practices and organisational commitment. A range of relevant literature is explored and a preliminary framework is proposed and discussed. A review of extant literature suggests various factors affect employee’s behaviour, trust, and commitment. This framework is set to help managers and decision makers understand the requirements of employees for increasing their trust and commitment and suitable SHRM approaches to that effect. The paper can help HR managers to understand the importance of HR strategies and policies through the integration of organisational support, lead to superior trust and commitment. The proposed preliminary framework is both original and unique that will hopefully contribute towards the enrichment of the relevant literature.
Management of Acute Hypertension in Cerebrovascular Accidents

Cerebrovascular Accidents (CVA) are commonly associated with acute rise in Blood Pressure (BP). This rise in BP is associated with worse outcomes. However, reduction to the normal range is not simply the solution, because elevated pressure may be necessary and protective to maintain the cerebral perfusion. Efforts have been made to determine the target BP in different CVAs, and the appropriate regimen to achieve the best outcomes. Determination of the type of CVA by neuroimaging is crucial and guides further management. Blood pressure control in hemorrhagic CVA should be rapid, while, in ischemic CVA, is usually more insidious.
Sappan Wood Extract Used as Preservative in Chili Paste

The study was conducted to evaluate the antioxidant activity and the antimicrobial property of sappan heartwood (Caesalpinia sappan L.) water extract as natural food preservative. The antimicrobial activities (MIC, MBC and MFC) were evaluated using the 96-well microdilution broth method. Antioxidant activities were determined using the free radical 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) method. The MICs of sappan wood extract 1 obtained from the antimicrobial activity testing against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhimurium and Candida albicans were 250, 125, 500 and more than 16,000 μg/ml, respectively, and were higher than MICs of those sappan wood extracts 2, 3 and 4. The solubility of sappan wood extract 1 was also well soluble. The sappan wood extracts at 2, 4, 8 times of the selected maximum MIC (500 μg/ml) were added to chili paste a favorite Thai food, and were packed in two kinds of utensil (glass and plastic) with covers in order to determine the preservative property up to 12 months (and 3 months repeated). From the total aerobic and fungal count in chili paste, it could be concluded that sappan wood extract could inhibit bacteria but not fungal. Therefore, sappan wood extract could be used as a preservative in food to inhibit bacterial growth for 6 months. Sappan wood extract at the concentration of 2 times of the MIC value can be used as a food preservative. The total aerobic count of chili paste packed in plastic utensils and glass utensils was variable. Therefore, it was difficult to conclude whether plastic or glass utensils would be appropriate to be used for chili paste products. Sappan wood extracts 1, 2, 3 and 4 provided 50 % inhibition (IC50) at the concentration of 23.19, 38.30, 29.82 and 71.54 μg/ml, respectively, while ascorbic acid and trolox showed IC50 at the concentration of 17.11 μg/ml and 24.27 μg/ml, respectively. Sappan wood extract also show promise to be a good antioxidant, which will increase the value of products and be useful for health.
Using Quadric-Representing Neurons ( QRENs ) for Real-Time Learning of an Implicit Body Model

Controlling the body requires self-explorative behavior as well as the ability to build a model of the body. This model does not need to explicitly encode body shape, joint positions, and so on, but can just as well be built up implicitly. We introduce Quadric-Representing Neurons (QRENs) and show why they are very well-suited to model the plurality of body morphologies. QRENs can be either learned in a batch manner or on-the-fly in real-time. They possess the important property to extrapolate behavioral manifolds from a reduced and localized sensorimotor data set. QRENs can be used to elegantly control a robot’s body in a straightforward way. We comment on how QRENs have the potential to allow for modular and hierarchical learning strategies.
Convolution Based Unit Root Processes: a Simulation Approach

We propose a convolution based approach to the simulation of a modified version of a unit root process where the state variable $Y_{t-1}$ is dependent on the innovation $\varepsilon_t$. The dependence structure is given by a copula function $C$. We study by simulation the effect of a negative correlation on the properties of unit roots. We call this process C-UR(1).
ENGINEERING APPROACHES TO SITE SPECIFIC PROPAGATION OF VERTICAL GROUND MOTION FOR SEISMIC DESIGN

Despite both field and analytical observations have shown the damaging effect of vertical earthquake motion on structures (Papazoglou and Elnashai, 1996), vertical site response analysis remains a research topic (Matasovic and Hashash, 2012) and normally in professional practice even when carrying out 3D time history structural analysis for seismic design of large structures only horizontal ground motion propagation analyses are carried out. The main reasons for this have to do with several peculiar aspects that would require special consideration: back analysis of propagation of vertical ground motion as found in the literature (e.g. Mok et al., 1998) requires extensive geophysical field measurements such as downhole arrays which are not always available; both analytical evidences (Yang et al., 1996) and comparison with predicted response to site measurements (Mok et al. 1998) have shown that even a slight decrease from complete saturation can lead to a substantial influence on vertical motion; measurements off the coast of southern California (Boore and Smith, 1999) have shown that vertical to horizontal spectra ratio is influenced by water depth in the high frequency range for which the influence of P waves is more relevant. The purpose of this paper is to provide a synthetic overview of the main methods available at date for engineering evaluation of vertical ground motion in the most common case when rock outcrop defined motions are prescribed and to show their application to one hypothetical practical example which could be applicable to seismic design. In such example the results obtained by two vertical propagation analyses, one based on the methodology proposed by Mok et al. (1998) and one based on the methodology proposed by Beresnev et al. (2002) are compared to the results obtained by considering the simplified methods based on the estimation of spectral ratio of vertical to horizontal motion proposed by Gülerce and Abrahamson (2011) and Poggi et al. (2012).
Long-term population spike-timing-dependent plasticity promotes synaptic tagging but not cross-tagging in rat hippocampal area CA 1

Department of Physiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117593; Neurobiology/Aging Programme, Life Sciences Institute, Centre for Life Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117456; Department of Biomedical Engineering, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031; and Institutes of Brain Science, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Ministry of Education Frontiers Centre for Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, People’s Republic of China
Pathogenesis of HIV-associated lymphomas Pathogenesis of HIV-associated lymphoma involves a complex interaction of biological factors, such as the chronic stimulation with antigen, co-infection of oncogenic viruses, genetic abnormalities and deregulation of cytokines [22,35,39,50]. The chronic antig

In this article the clinical features, diagnosis and treatment of HIV-associated non-Hodgkin lymphoma are described. According to the WHO Classification (2008) most of the HIV-associated lymphoid tumors are diffuse large cell lymphoma. HIV-associated lymphomas are characterized by rapid growth of the tumor; occurrence of B symptoms in these patients is most commonly determined. Bone marrow affection is diagnosed in 25-40% of patients; gastrointestinal tract affection is diagnosed in 26% of patients. Central nervous system in involved into the tumor process in 12-57% HIV-infected patients. Patients with HIVassociated lymphoma and active immune function have a lower risk of infectious complication; therefore, an optimal and effective chemotherapy can be prescribed.