Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impact of an insect growth regulator on the development and the reproduction potency of mosquito

The present study was conducted under laboratory conditions and consisted to evaluate the lethal concentrations (LC50 & LC90) effects of an agonist of the molting hormone, the halofenozide (RH-0345), on several physiological and biological aspects (developmental duration, morphology, metabolites and potential reproduction) after treatment of newly ecdysed fourth instar larvae of mosquito species, Culex pipiens. The results showed that the RH-0345 induced a decrease of the developmental duration of the treated larval stage with morphological aberrations. The duration of control ones was 7.5 days whereas for treated series, it was 6.66 and 6 days for LC50 and LC90, respectively. The biochemical assays showed that the product has reduced significantly the amount of the metabolite contents; carbohydrates, lipids and proteins. The potential of reproduction of adult females emerged from treated fourth instar larvae, was affected and the number of laid eggs, hatching and fecundity were decreased compared to the control.
Response Selection on EBDM-Dialogue System based on Entrainment Analysis

Entrainment is a factor in dialogue that affects not only human-human dialogue but also human-machine interaction. While the entrainment on the lexical level is well documented, less is known about how entrainment affects dialogue on a more abstract, and structural level. In previous works, we investigated the effect of entrainment on lexical choice given dialogue acts. From these results, we build the example selection on the EBDM dialogue system that would like to entrain with users in a similar manner.
Development of Pro-Environmental Conduct in Individuals and its Determinants

The aim of this study is to learn more about pro-environmental conduct in individuals, providing classification in levels of conduct according to diversity/intensity of environmental actions, showing how proenvironmental conduct develops in people and identifying the factors that determine such conduct. The application of cluster analysis and structural equation models to CIS Study 2837 classifies individuals with different degrees of environmental involvement into five groups, showing how pro-environmental conduct develops in people, from specific activities (such as recycling) performed with reduced intensity to greater and more intense pro-environmental involvement.
CHILDREN WITH HEIGHTENED PRENATAL ANDROGEN EXPOSURE ABSTRACT Understanding how gender identity develops has important theoretical implications for typically developing populations and clinical implications for those with gender variability or dysphoria (e.g. low contentment with one’s assigned gende

Understanding how gender identity develops has important theoretical implications for typically developing populations and clinical implications for those with gender variability or dysphoria (e.g. low contentment with one’s assigned gender) and practical implications for the assignment and management of gender in children born with ambiguous sex/genitalia. While chromosomal females exposed to heightened levels of androgens prenatally consistently express later masculinised/defeminised gendered behaviour, the relationship between prenatal androgen exposure and gender identity development (masculinisation/defeminisation and feelings associated with this) is less consistent. Between-group differences in gender identity, gendered behaviour, gender typicality, gender contentedness, and felt pressure for gender conformity were examined in a sample of children (age 7 – 11) with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH; 23 males, 26 females) together with unaffected siblings (19 males, 29 females). Analyses reveal reduced gender typicality and gender contentedness in girls with CAH together with reduced female gender identity and increased cross-sex gendered behaviour. Bootstrapping mediation analysis examining gender typicality, gender contentedness, and gendered behaviour as mediators between prenatal androgen exposure typicality and gender identity revealed two important relationships: (1) gendered behaviour mediated the relationship between prenatal androgen exposure typicality and gender identity and, (2) this mediation was moderated by gender typicality and gender contentedness. These findings suggest that, for girls with CAH, the increased expression of cross-sex gendered behaviour contributes to the development of desires to be the other sex and that this relationship may depend upon feelings of gender typicality and contentedness.
Measuring creativity : two studies

This writing presents empirical research using the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking to explore the question of creativity and its application within a design curriculum. Two studies were conducted and involved first year college students in design. The first study examined teaching creativity as a topic of learning, even in a curriculum which highly values creativity; the second study examined circadian rhythms, i.e., the variation of creativity at different times during the day. The Torrance Tests center on the idea that creativity can be measured through generative output, that is, ideas set forth in response to stimuli. Within this writing, the venue and methods of the two studies are presented, along with findings of the research. Design students receiving specific creativity training showed significant increases; a parallel group of students did not. Training can increase the ability to generate ideas, and in addition, both breakfast and time of day may affect the demonstrated level of creativity.
Features of Motives ’ Manifestation of Professional Development and Personal Characteristics of Future Teachers

Kazakhstan's integration into the global system of higher education, the modernization of the various fields of education and socio-economic changes in society requires new demands on higher education, the quality of training of specialists that involve rethinking the basic directions of the professional training of teachers. The allegation that it is the teacher for all more or less significant changes in school education is the decisive force that can change things to the better, is so obvious that it does not demand to deploy foundation. But nowadays, in addition to the traditional problems of pedagogical work it gained one more, acquiring every year more and more urgent. This is the problem of rejuvenation of teaching staff of schools, qualities providing of schools with young professionals. [Zholdasbekov A.A. , Lekerova G.J., Sihynbaeva Zh.S. , Zholdasbekova K.A. , Chinybaeva G.D. Features of Motives’ Manifestation of Professional Development and Personal Characteristics of Future Teachers. Life Sci J 2014;11(1s):179-183] (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com. 31
EFFECTS OF THE SERVICE SATISFACTION OF FLIGHT INFORMATION SYSTEM ON CUSTOMER SATISFACTION AND THE RATE OF RETURN CUSTOMERS IN KOREA-FOUCS ON LOW COST CARRIERS

Today, airline industry is going through a very difficult period of time in the aftermath of hostile events, such as 9.11 terror, Avian Influenza, Jika Virus which one of spread of diseases, financial crises and protectionism for national interests worldwide. And it is low cost carriers that emerged as an alternative for competitive advantage using fright information system. Recently, many low cost carriers started to provide services for long haul flights where full service carries used to take a large share in the past, and low cost carriers have been successful in attracting a lot of people by providing competitive services, such as fright information system which are on-time departure and arrival service and various cabin services, with competitive prices, compared with full service carries. Now, low cost carriers have become active participants in Korean market together with five major Korean Airline companies and various airline companies from overseas. Low cost carriers are also making a lot of efforts to make more people interested and reduce cost in their services based on fright information system including mobile system. In this study, the factors that have big impacts on the profitability of low cost carriers are investigated based on the fright information system. Therefore this research suggest fright information system which are Operating Service, Customer Service, Flight Service, Reserve, Ticketing and Refund Service, and offline service which is Cabin Service have positive influence on Customer Satisfaction and Return Customer. As a results, online and offline service which are Customer Service, Cabin Service, and Flight Service have positive influence on Customer Satisfaction and Return Customer.
The Discovery Mechanism of Adverse Drug Reactions Based on Comment Mining

Liangxi Cheng, Mingzhen Zhao, Hongfei Lin (Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning 116024, China) Abstract: When mining adverse drug reactions (ADRs) from the user comments on healthcare social networks, it is very important to recognize novel ADR expressions from comments and normalize them, since people probably adopt different expressions to describe adverse reactions and new adverse reactions may emerge with the listing of new drugs as well as the diversity of drug users. This paper utilized Conditional Random Field (CRF) model to recognize adverse reaction entities, and proposed a normalization method applied to the recognized entities. The effectiveness of this mining method was verified by comparing the mined results of known ADRs with database records, and a list of potential ADRs sorted by occurrence frequency in comments was obtained. Experimental results indicate that CRF model is capable of identifying both known and novel adverse reaction entities, and the standardization aggregates and merges the entities, which benefits the ADR discovery.
A Design Technique for Dual-band RF bandpass Filter

This paper presents a dual-band passband filter tec hnique which consists of combining the individual filters into a single one by means of lossless multi-resonant circuits. These mu lti-resonant circuits are capable of providing open and short ci rcuit conditions at specified frequencies. As a demonstrator for thi s echnique, a dual-band Butterworth passband filter, centered at 2.45 GHz and 5.8 GHz, is designed. Simulation results show that, considering the Q-factor of the inductors equal to 40, as it is usual in discrete realization, the insertion losses for individual pa ssband filters centered at 2.45 GHz and 5.8 GHz are 0.435 dB and 0 . 290 dB, respectively. When combining both into just one, th e maximum insertion losses are 0.486 dB, which demonstrates t h feasibility of this technique.
Biofeedback and Gaming-Style Smartphone Applications as a Stress Reduction Intervention

Stress is a global epidemic affecting the mental and physical health of all demographics of society. Although interventions to reduce stress are available adherence and uptake are often relatively low perhaps due to time and cost considerations. The proliferation of smartphones along with advances in wearable technology offers a unique opportunity to expand the reach of stress reduction interventions and to implement them in everyday life. This research study demonstrates the potential effectiveness of a gaming-style smartphone application combined with a commercially-available biofeedback device in reducing physiological and psychological markers of stress in young adults. Although this is a short-term intervention it provides pilot evidence for the efficacy of a scalable solution to stress reduction in the modern world. Author
The Merensky and Bastard cyclic units and the Platreef of the Bushveld Complex : consequences of Main Zone magma influxes and dynamics

The Bushveld complex is the result of a number of magmatic influxes and that many of the ore deposits such as the chromitite layers (Kinnaird et al., 2002) including the Merensky’s and Platreef’s are associated with influxes (Kruger, 2005). The Merensky and Bastard reefs and the A-reef (a marginal pyroxenite-norite), B-reef (a highly heterogeneous mixed phase) and C-reef (a discontinuous websterite layer in contact with the Main Zone) parts of the Platreef package, have traditionally been viewed as sequential. In this view, the Merensky unit was deposited before the Bastard unit and the rest of the Main Zone. Furthermore, in the case of the Platreef the A-reef was considered to be the base, and was followed by the very well mineralized B-reef, and then the essentially unmineralized C-reef. All these reefs were considered to be part of the Critical Zone, and this was followed by the Main Zone. However, isotopic and field evidence indicate that the Platreef and the Merensky units are derived from Main Zone lineage magma and that in the case of the Platreef that there is no Upper Critical Zone magma at all (see: Kruger, 2005; Van der Merwe, 2008). Field relationships
silviculture Assessing Stand-Level Climate Change Risk Using Forest Inventory Data and Species Distribution Models

Climate change is having important effects on forest ecosystems, presenting a challenge for natural resource professionals to reduce climate-associated impacts while still achieving diverse management objectives. Regional projections of climate change and forest response are becoming more readily available, but managers are still searching for practical ways to apply this information. We propose that commonly collected forest inventory data be used in conjunction with species distribution models to better understand the potential response of forests to climate change and inform management at the site level. In this article, we propose a new climate risk metric that incorporates stand-level forest inventory data with projections of tree species habitat from the Climate Change Tree Atlas. This climate risk metric can serve as a starting point for managers to consider how forests may be altered by climate change. We also describe two examples of how this metric was used in real-world management situations.
Relationship between Human Resource Strategies and Employees ’ Innovation Performance : An Application

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between human resource strategies and employees’ innovation performance using a university hospital as a case study. For this purpose, the study recruited a total of 353 physicians and other health care employees working in the Ministry of Health, Ordu University Education and Research Hospital. Data were collected using the questionnaire form consisting of a human resource strategies scale and an innovation performance scale. Pearson correlation and regression analyses were used to determine the relationship between the human resource strategies and employees' innovation performance. Significant positive correlations were found between human resource strategies and innovation scale’s sub-dimensions. It was also determined that the strategic training was at least two times more effective than the sub-dimension of performance-based rewarding and teamwork development in process and service innovation. Thus, it is suggested to give prior place to educational activities in human resource practices to increase the innovation performance of education and research hospitals.
A Review of the Modal Decomposition Matrix for Calculating the Far Field of an Infinitely Flanged Rectangular Waveguide

─ We determine the radiation from an infinitely flanged rectangular waveguide using the modal decomposition matrix (MDM) method. The MDM method computes the electromagnetic field components at the aperture in the Fourier domain by representing the radiated field in terms of a sampling of the free-space transverse wave number. The results of the MDM approach show good agreement with numerical approaches using commercial electromagnetic modeling software. Index Terms ─ EM propagation, flanged rectangular waveguide, modal decomposition matrix, spherical value decomposition, stationary phase.
The Impact of Methamphetamine on Children An Annotated Bibliography

Catanzarite V. A. , & Stein, D. A. (1995). 'Crystal' and pregnancy--methamphetamine-associated maternal deaths. Western Journal of Medicine, 162(5), 454-457. The deaths of two pregnant women admitted to hospital were determined to be caused by the effects of methamphetamine abuse. Although the primary discussion concerns the issues surrounding the death of these two women, the effects on the fetus/newborn are also discussed. (NCAC Abstract)
FAUT-IL SYSTEMATIQUEMENT ADMINISTRER DE L’OXYGENE APRES UNE ANESTHESIE GENERALE ?

L’hypoxémie postopératoire se développe très précocement. Ces désaturations ont été mises en évidence précocement pendant le transport vers la salle de réveil mais également en salle de réveil et tardivement en salle d’hospitalisation. Le mécanisme de ces désaturations est probablement différent selon que l’on s’intéresse aux hypoxémies précoces ou tardives. Nous envisagerons successivement les causes des désaturations précoces et tardives, leurs conséquences et les effets de la prescription d’oxygène. Enfin, nous évaluerons les différentes modalités d’administration d’oxygène au cours de la période postopératoire.
Influence of microstructure and heat treatment on thermal conductivity of rheocast and liquid die cast Al-6 Si-2 Cu-Zn alloy

Influence of microstructure and heat treatment on thermal conductivity of rheocast and liquid die cast Al-6Si-2Cu-Zn alloy M. Payandeh, E. Sjölander, A. E. W. Jarfors & M. Wessén To cite this article: M. Payandeh, E. Sjölander, A. E. W. Jarfors & M. Wessén (2016): Influence of microstructure and heat treatment on thermal conductivity of rheocast and liquid die cast Al-6Si-2Cu-Zn alloy, International Journal of Cast Metals Research To link to this article: http://dx.doi. org/10.1080/13640461.2015. 1125990
German Dual System: A Model for Kazakhstan?

This paper deals with borrowing the German dual vocational training model in Kazakhstan. The aim of the paper is to identify the key issues and challenges of the transfer process. The analysis is based on the model proposed by Phillips and Ochs (2003, 2004) which outlines four stages of policy borrowing: (1) impulses, (2) decision, (3) implementation, and (4) internalization. Within this theoretical framework, a descriptive and comparative-historic method as well as content analysis are used to point out the development in Kazakhstan.
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Dan Wang,1 Li-Yun Hu,2,* Xiu-Mei Pang,1 Jun-Xiang Zhang,1 and Shi-Yao Zhu1,3 1The State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Opto-Electronics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, People’s Republic of China 2Department of Physics, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022 China 3Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, 100084, People’s Republic of China (Received 4 February 2013; revised manuscript received 30 August 2013; published 14 October 2013)
Direct Demodulation of Optical BPSK / QPSK Signal without Digital Signal Processing

We experimentally demonstrate the coherent detection of 5-Gbd/s BPSK/QPSK signal by direct phase compensation of the phase noise without using a sophisticated digital signal processing algorithm. The phase compensation is achieved by applying simply an error signal to a phase modulator located at the local oscillator for coherent detection, where the error signal is generated to keep the same power level for binary or quadrature signal.
The correlation between exposure to BPA and the decrease of the ovarian reserve.

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate whether exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) affects the ovarian reserve. METHODS Follicular fluid (FF) was collected from diminished ovarian reserve (DOR) and non-DOR patients who underwent in vitro fertilization or intracytoplasmic sperm injection. ELISA was used to detect the BPA and hormones levels in 54 cases of DOR and 67 cases of non-DOR. A total of 64, five-week-old SPF C57BL/6 mice were randomly divided into four groups, of which three were exposed to 5, 50, and 500 µg/kg/day of BPA solution, and one was exposed to con oil only as the control. The weight and estrus of each mouse were recorded daily, and the E2 hormone and anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) in the serum were detected by ELISA. The expression levels of AMH mRNA and protein were also detected. RESULTS The BPA levels in the FF of DOR patients were significantly higher than those of non-DOR patients (234.048±81.736 ng/L vs. 193.300±67.225 ng/L, P<0.01); The AMH and E2 levels in the FF of DOR patients were lower than those of non-DOR patients ([555.689+74.224] pg/ml vs. [587.178+77.731] pg/ml, P<0.05, [209.720+31.556] pg/ml vs. [221.845+32.632] pg/ml, P<0.05). The BPA concentration was correlated with the AMH and E2 levels in the FF (rBPA & AMH=-0.312, P<0.05; rBPA & E2=-0.290, P<0.05); in the animal experiment, the levels of serum AMH and E2 as well as the expression levels of the AMH gene and protein in the BPA treatment group displayed downward trends. The concentrations of the 5 and 500 µg/kg/day groups decreased significantly (P<0.05). CONCLUSION The increased BPA in the FF may promote the pathogenesis of DOR. BPA did not present a single-dose effect on the mouse ovary. Sub-chronic exposure to a low dose of BPA can reduce the ovarian reserve in female mice.
2 A Continuous Space-Time Model : The Advection-Diffusion SPDE

Increasingly larger data sets of processes in space and time ask for statistical models and methods that can cope with such data. We show that solutions of stochastic advectiondiffusion partial differential equations (SPDEs) provide a flexible model class for spatiotemporal processes which is computationally feasible also for large data sets. The solution of the SPDE has in general a nonseparable covariance structure. Furthermore, its parameters can be physically interpreted as explicitly modeling phenomena such as transport and diffusion that occur in many natural processes in diverse fields ranging from environmental sciences to ecology. In order to obtain computationally efficient statistical algorithms we use spectral methods to solve the SPDE. This has the advantage that approximation errors do not accumulate over time, and that in the spectral space the computational cost grows linearly with the dimension, the total computational costs of Bayesian or frequentist inference being dominated by the fast Fourier transform. The proposed model is applied to postprocessing of precipitation forecasts from a numerical weather prediction model for northern Switzerland. In contrast to the raw forecasts from the numerical model, the postprocessed forecasts are calibrated and quantify prediction uncertainty. Moreover, they outperform the raw forecasts.
Multimodal Database of Negative Emotion Recovery in Dyadic Interactions : Construction and Analysis

Social sharing of emotion is an essential part in processing a negative emotional experience. As the technology develops, the potential of dialogue systems to address this need has been growing as well. However, there is still a lack of resources that: 1) highlight the emotional problems commonly encountered in everyday life, and 2) involve an expert in the conversation. To fill these gaps, in this paper we present a multimodal database containing dyadic interactions between a professional counselor as an expert and 30 participants. Each session starts with negative emotion elicitation through short video clips, and in the interaction that follows, the goal of the expert is to aid emotion processing and elicit a positive emotional change. This database allows us to observe how an external party can guide and facilitate emotion processing after a negative emotional response in a common social situation. The construction, development, and analysis of the database are reported in this paper.