Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Constructing Climate Change Scenarios of Urban Heat Island Intensity and Air Quality

As the global population becomes increasingly urbanised, so interest has grown in the potential climate change impacts on city infrastructure, services, and environmental quality. However, urban areas are only beginning to be represented explicitly in the land-surface schemes of dynamical climate models through modified energy and moisture budgets. This paper summarises recent evidence of urban impacts on climate and vice versa. The technique of statistical downscaling is then introduced through exemplar studies of London's future urban heat island and peak ozone concentrations. Projections of both indices are derived from atmospheric variables supplied by four general circulation models, driven by a medium-high (A2) emissions scenario for the 2050s. The results show further intensification of the nocturnal heat island and higher ozone concentrations that are most pronounced in summer. These changes reflect sensitivity to variations in regional climate alone, so omit other factors such as changes in land use, emissions, climate feedbacks, or synergies between air quality and heat islands. Nonetheless, the downscaled scenarios are consistent with an emerging picture of increasing risks to human health in urban areas unless appropriate adaptation measures are taken.
Crucial steps leading to social parasitism in the Cape honey bee, Apis mellifera capensis

Social parasitism of African honeybee colonies, Apis mellifera scutellata, by the Cape honeybee, A. m. capensis, has caused huge losses of African bee colonies in northern South Africa. Once inside African colonies, Cape workers start producing female bees parthenogenetically, which has led to pseudo-clones of the social parasites spreading in the African population. Crucial steps leading to parasitism are invasion into new colonies, development of ovaries without being killed by African workers and production of eggs that are accepted. In mixed apiaries of African and Cape bees invasion into new colonies seems to readily occur and in contrast to other bee races eggs from Cape laying workers are accepted by nest-mates. The interaction between Cape bees starting to develop their ovaries and African workers is crucial, however, in determining if a successful take-over of the colony follows.
Changes in distress of psychiatric in-patients after the changeover of junior psychiatric trainees as a function of attachment style: A pilot study

Background and Objectives: Therapists, including psychiatrists, may act as attachment figures. Rotational training schemes necessitate the regular and frequent ending of therapeutic relationships. The effects on patients are rarely studied. This is a pilot prospective study to evaluate whether relative distress in adult psychiatric in-patients follows change in trainee psychiatrists; whether differences in distress are mediated by patient attachment style; and to provide data for power calculation. Methods: Twenty adult in-patients were assessed using the Mental Health Inventory 5 (MHI-5) scale before and after changeover of psychiatric trainees; attachment style was assessed prior to the changeover. Qualitative data were also collected. Results: The average MHI-5 scores improved with time (p = 0.021). Less improvement correlated with higher score on preoccupied attachment (rho = 0.41, p1-tail <0.05). A nonsignificantly stronger improvement was seen with secure/dismissing styles compared to preoccupied/fearful styles (p1-tail = 0.08). Based on these results, a study of at least 87 patients is likely to produce a statistically significant result. Most patients were not aware a staff change was due and would like to be informed by their clinical team. Conclusions: Relative distress following junior trainee changeover may have a link with patients� attachment styles.
Impact of Foreign Investment in the Yemen's Economic Growth: The Country Political Stability as a Main Issue

This paper investigates the moderating role of political stability in the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows into Yemen over the last two decades. Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) test was employed to check the stationary of the data. Following the ADF test, the standard and hierarchal regression approaches were used for the analysis. The standard regression results show that the GDP growth rate has significant negative effects on FDI inflows into Yemen while exchange rate, inflation rate, balance of payment, and gross national income have no effect on the FDI inflow in the country. However, when the moderating variable, political stability is used together with other variables such as exchange rate, inflation rate, balance of payment and gross national income, the results of hierarchical regression indicate that these variables are important determinants of FDI inflows into the country. Therefore, the results suggest that political stability is critical for the future growth of Yemen economy.
Sharpening The Infodesk Toolbox: Peer Learning Through Flexible Modules To Ensure Sustainability In Professional Development

The Lund University Library reference service is influenced by students’ and researchers’ changing information behaviour. The service consists of a physical and a virtual reference desk that engages about 30 librarians from different departments with different educational backgrounds and experiences. To meet new challenges, the Library has launched a training programme for the reference staff. The programme is intended to develop professional skills and competencies and to create a new workplace culture based on openness, sharing and dialogue. The programme runs from autumn 2014 to spring 2016. After the end of the first part in December 2014, an evaluation was carried out by the participants and, based on the outcome of the evaluation, some adjustments were made in the continued programme design.
The Information Content of Price Movements for Consumers: Wait or Buy?

Dynamic patterns of prices in different markets may motivate (strategic) consumers to game vendors. Intentionally or unintentionally, vendors may induce volatility into their menu of prices. This price volatility could reflect stochastic demand but could also be employed to confound consumers and change their price perceptions. Conducting empirical work in the airline industry on near 1,000 U.S. domestic routes, we find that some price-metrics carry information about future price swings: these variables can assist consumers in predicting the probability of a price drop (or increase) in the immediate future and the relative magnitude of this price movement.
EMOTIONS AND IDENTITY RESEARCH ON EMOTION IN ORGANIZATIONS

This study explores the sources and triggers of positivity during a major organizational change. The qualitative research methodology is developed around discovering and interpreting employees’ perceptions in a mergers & acquisitions (M&A) process. The results lead us to suggest that change may be perceived in at least three positive ways to constitute positive identity construction. Implications for work-related identity and identification research are discussed.
The Effect of Gamification on Involvement, System Usability and System Use in an Online Positive Psychology Intervention

Background. The main problem of online interventions are the high drop-out rates. This research explores how gamification affects involvement, system usability and how these variables correlate with actual system use in a positive psychology online intervention. Method. An experiment was conducted with 80 participants. They used either the non-gamified version or the gamified version of the intervention Dit is jouw leven (translated: This is your life. They did exercises on a website, which contained the intervention, and filled in the revised Personal Involvement Inventory and the System Usability Scale within one hour in a laboratory or at home. Results & Discussion. The gamified version of the intervention exhibited a higher effect on involvement than the non-gamified version of the intervention which is important to secure adherence. Neither gamification, nor involvement, nor system usability correlated with actual system use. That could be ascribed to the measurement of the actual system use, which might be incorrect. More research should be done on the effect of gamification, but this research indicates that the utilization of gamification in online interventions could act as a solution to the high drop-out rates. Keywords: gamification, online positive psychology interventions, involvement, system usability, actual system use
Efficacy and safety of tiotropium bromide in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review of randomized clinical trials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is among the most prevalent pulmonary diseases. This study aimed at assessing the efficacy and safety of anticholinergic tiotropium bromide (TB) in Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. This is a systematic review of randomized clinical trials performed in the Brazilian Cochrane Center. Electronic database searched: Cochrane library, Medline, LILACS, Pubmed. There were no language, date or other restrictions. Participants: Patients with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Intervention: tiotropium bromide. Comparison: Other bronchodilators or placebo. Outcomes: Mortality, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation, hospitalizations, adverse effects. Results: 14 studies were included in this systematic review. Mortality was lower in the tiotropium bromide group when compared with the salmeterol group [statistical significance: relative risk (RR) 0.16, confidence interval 95% (CI) 0.03 to 0.89, number needed to treat (NNT) of 100]. There was not a statistical difference in the mortality outcome in the comparison between tiotropium bromide and placebo groups (RR 0.88, CI 0.74 to 1.06). Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation decreases significantly in the tiotropium bromide group when compared to placebo (statistical significance: RR 0.85, CI 0.77 to 0.93, NNT 25), but in comparison to the salmeterol group there was no statistical difference (RR 0.93, CI 0.80 to 1.08). The number of hospitalizations was lower in the tiotropium bromide group than in the placebo group (statistical significance: RR 0.77, CI 0.59 to 0.99, NNT 50). The results indicate that tiotropium bromide is an effective once-daily bronchodilator. Tiotropium bromide was associated with consistent health benefits, including reduced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations, hospitalizations and even mortality when compared with salmeterol.
Emotional Instability as Derivative factor of Depression amongst Adolescents

Aim: Present investigation sought to investigate emotional instability as factor of depression. Introduction: Emotional instability is a fundamental personality trait in the study of psychology. It is an enduring tendency to experience negative emotional states. Depression is an emotional state marked by emotional symptoms (e.g. depressed mood), Motivational symptoms (e.g. loss of interest or pleasure), cognitive problems (e.g. negative thoughts, feeling of hopelessness) and somatic (loss of energy, sleep disturbances). Methodology: The present study was conducted on adolescents, the description of the sampling procedure is given below, and as far as design of present investigation is concerned it is correlational as well as comparative in nature. Purposive random sampling technique was used. The sample of present research comprises of n=100 further more sample was divided into 50 males and 50 females adolescents, the age range of the adolescents was 13 to 15 years. Both of the variables were measured using PTI by Pershad and Verma, comprised of 9 personality traits having 90 items. Results: Findings show that emotional instability became significant factor of depression and same was stated by regression analysis, but no significant gender difference was found on both the dimensions.
Effectiveness of Soft Tissue Mobilisation as an adjunct to the Conventional Therapy in patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis

Introduction: The HRMT (Human Resting Myofasial Tone) factor plays an important role to initiate the trigger the infl ammation at the disease site in Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) as in all spondyloarthropathies. The incidence of fi bromyalgia is higher in AS and a limiting factor to undergo the exercise program. Aim of the study: To know the effectiveness of soft tissue mobilisation in patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis when it used as an adjuncts to the conventional exercises. Methodology: 40 subjects were randomly assigned in to experimental and conventional group. Experimental group (n=20) received conventional exercises along with soft tissue mobilisation and the conventional group (n=20) received only conventional exercises (fl exibility exercises, aerobic exercise and breathing exercise) for a period of 4 weeks, 5days/week. Results: The result of the study showed that both the conventional and experimental groups improved signifi cantly in stiffness, pain and physical function aspects after treatment. However the experimental group had a greater change as compared to conventional group. Conclusion: The study demonstrates that soft tissue mobilisation has an effect when it used before the conventional exercise in patients with ankylosing spondylitis. Research Article Effectiveness of Soft Tissue Mobilisation as an adjunct to the Conventional Therapy in patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis Patitapaban Mohanty* Associate Professor (Physiotherapy), Swami Vivekanand National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research, Olatpur, Bairoi, Cuttack, India *Address for Correspondence: Patitapaban Mohanty, Ph.D, Associate Professor (Physiotherapy), Swami Vivekanand National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research, Olatpur, Bairoi, Cuttack, India, Email: ppmphysio@rediffmail.com Submitted: 20 December 2017 Approved: 03 January 2018 Published: 05 January 2018 Copyright: 2018 Mohanty P. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The outcome of protoplanetary dust growth: pebbles, boulders or planetesimals?

Context. The evolution of dust particles in protoplanetary disks determines many observable and structural properties of the disk, such as the spectral energy distribution (SED), appearance of disks, temperature profile, and chemistry. Dust coagulation is also the first step towards planet formation. Aims. We investigate dust growth due to settling in a 1D vertical column of a disk. It is known from the ten micron feature in disk SEDs, that small micron-sized grains are present at the disk atmosphere throughout the lifetime of the disk. We hope to explain such questions as what process can keep the disk atmospheres dusty for the lifetime of the disk and how the particle properties change as a function of height above the midplane. Methods. We used a Monte Carlo code to follow the mass and porosity evolution of the particles in time. We gradually build up the complexity of the models by considering the effects of porosity, different collision models, turbulence, and different gas models, respectively. This way we can distinguish the effects of these physical processes on particle growth and motion. The collision model used is based on laboratory experiments performed on dust aggregates. As the experiments cannot cover all possible collision scenarios, the largest uncertainty of our model comes from the necessary extrapolations we had to perform. We simultaneously solved for the particle growth and motion. Particles can move vertically due to settling and turbulent mixing. We assumed that the vertical profile of the gas density is fixed in time and that only the solid component evolves. Results. We find that the used collision model strongly influences the masses and sizes of the particles. The laboratory-experiment based collision model greatly reduces the particle sizes compared to models that assume sticking at all collision velocities. We find that a turbulence parameter of α = 10−2 is needed to keep the dust atmospheres dusty, but such strong turbulence can produce only small particles at the midplane, which does not favor for planetesimal formation models. We also see that the particles are larger at the midplane and smaller at the upper layers of the disk. At 3–4 pressure-scale heights, micron-sized particles are produced. These particle sizes are needed to explain the ten micron feature of disk SEDs. Turbulence may therefore help keep small dust particles in the disk atmosphere.
Characterization of a female-specific protein from the wild silkworm Actias selene

In Actias selene (Hubner) (Lepidoptera Saturniidae) there is at least one female specific protein limited to the fat body. Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis performed on the fat body proteins from male and female pupas of A. selene and a female-specific protein with a molecular weight of about 24 kDa was revealed. This protein was purified for determination of the Nterminal amino acid sequence. Conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) PCR were also carried out to clone the cDNA encoding 24 kDa protein (As-24K) based on the amino acid residues. The As-24K cDNA consists of 832 bp and the amino acid sequence shares 71% similarity with the 24 kDa proteins from Antheraea pernyi (GuerinMeneville) and Antheraea yamamai (Guerin-Meneville) (Lepidoptera Saturniidae). In female pupa western blotting using antiserum against As-24K revealed that 24 kDa protein was restricted to the fat body. It was not found in any other pupal tissues.
A Survey on Friendbook Using Semantic based Friend Recommendation System

Existing social networking services advise friends to users based on their social graphs, which may not be the most correct to reflect a user’s preferences on friend selection in real life. In this system a novel semantic based friend recommendation system for social networks, which advice the friends to users based on their life styles instead of social graphs. By taking advantage of sensor-rich smartphones, Friendbook expose life styles of users from usercentric sensor data, measures the similarity of life styles between users, and advice the friends to users if their life styles have high similarity . We further propose a similarity metric to measure the similarity of life styles between users, and calculate users’ impact in terms of life styles with a friend-matching graph. Upon receiving a request, Friendbook gaincoming a list of people with highest recommendation scores to the query user. Finally, Friendbook integrates a feedback mechanism to further improve the recommendation accuracy. The results show that the recommendations accurately reflect the preferences of users in choosing friends.
Regional Labour Market Developments in Transition: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

We summarize the empirical literature on regional labour market development in transition. This literature suggests that transition has been associated with increased regional disparities and there is some indication of polarisation. Capital cities and regions closer to EU-borders developed better and increased integration has also contributed to divergence. Spill-overs within countries, however, tend to be small. Regional disparities are also unlikely to diminish through migration, wage flexibility and capital mobility. Migration is lower in most transition economies than in the EU and capital mobility tends to reinforce existing regional disparities. Only wage flexibility is higher than in most European labour markets.
Multiple Interactions and the Management of Local Commons

We provide a model in which small and relatively isolated communities can successfully manage local commons informally in circumstances where larger or less isolated communities could not do so. The reason for this is the non-anonymous nature of many interactions between the members of a small and isolated community. Such communities may be able to use these multiple interactions to enforce informal restrictions on the usage of local commons. To the extent that the process of economic development reduces the number of non-anonymous interactions among community members, it will reduce the ability of the community to successfully manage the local commons informally. The resulting need for either explicit regulation or the introduction of private property rights represents a hidden cost of development.
The impact of plant residues on the soybean cyst nematode, Heterodera glycines

The potential of plant residues and plant root exudates, from a range of traditional and nontraditional crop species, to protect soybean (Glycine max (L.)) plants against Heterodera glycines (Ichinohe) was examined in vitro and under greenhouse conditions. Plant residues from nonhosts Lespedeza capitata Michx, Lespedeza intermedia (S. Wats.) Britt, Lespedeza hirta (L.) Hornem, Lolium multiflorum (Lam.), Lolium perenne (L.), Lupinus perennis (L.), Melilotus officinalis (L.) Lam. , Medicago sativa (L.), Trifolium pratense (L.), Fairway B Lawngrass mixture, and Pisum sativum (L.) reduced the number of H. glycines juveniles in the soil prior to planting soybeans and subsequently in the roots of soybeans. Root exudates of nonhosts Lespedeza capitata, Trifolium hybridum (L.), Trifolium repens (L.), Lolium multiflorum, Lupinus perennis, Echinochloa crusgalli (L.) Beauv. , Vicia villosa (Roth), Medicago sativa, and of the host G. max increased the egg hatching rate of H. glycines in comparison to the water control. In addition, root exudates of Trifolium repens and Lolium multiflorum increased egg hatching by 37.9 and 46.6%, respectively, compared to root exudates of soybeans. Root exudates of Trifolium repens, Lolium multiflorum, E. crusgalli, Lupinus perennis, Trifolium hybridum, Medicago sativa, and G. max significantly increased neutral lipid utilization of H. glycines juveniles in comparison to the control. Overall, Lolium multiflorum was the most effective of all species tested for reducing populations of H. glycines, by increasing egg hatching of the nematode in the absence of a host, depleting lipid reserves of the juveniles, and inducing the lowest nematode parasitism of all nonhost residues studied.