Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Most Southern Scots Pine Populations Are Locally Adapted to Drought for Tree Height Growth

Most populations of Scots pine in Spain are locally adapted to drought, with only a few populations at the southernmost part of the distribution range showing maladaptations to the current climate. Increasing tree heights are predicted for most of the studied populations by the year 2070, under the RCP 8.5 scenario. These results are probably linked to the capacity of this species to acclimatize to new climates. The impact of climate change on tree growth depends on many processes, including the capacity of individuals to respond to changes in the environment. Pines are often locally adapted to their environments, leading to differences among populations. Generally, populations at the margins of the species’ ranges show lower performances in fitness-related traits than core populations. Therefore, under expected changes in climate, populations at the southern part of the species’ ranges could be at a higher risk of maladaptation. Here, we hypothesize that southern Scots pine populations are locally adapted to current climate, and that expected changes in climate may lead to a decrease in tree performance. We used Scots pine tree height growth data from 15-year-old individuals, measured in six common gardens in Spain, where plants from 16 Spanish provenances had been planted. We analyzed tree height growth, accounting for the climate of the planting sites, and the climate of the original population to assess local adaptation, using linear mixed-effect models. We found that: (1) drought drove differences among populations in tree height growth; (2) most populations were locally adapted to drought; (3) tree height was predicted to increase for most of the studied populations by the year 2070 (a concentration of RCP 8.5). Most populations of Scots pine in Spain were locally adapted to drought. This result suggests that marginal populations, despite inhabiting limiting environments, can be adapted to the local current conditions. In addition, the local adaptation and acclimation capacity of populations can help margin populations to keep pace with climate change. Our results highlight the importance of analyzing, case-by-case, populations’ capacities to cope with climate change.
Alkol Bağımlılığı Olan Erişkin Hastalarda Hastanede Kalış Süresini Etkileyen Faktörler

Objective: We aimed to investigate the causes of long hospital stay in adult patients with alcohol use disorder inpatient treatment. Method: This is a retrospective descriptive study. The data of the study included the records of patients treated in the alcohol and drug addiction clinic of Gazi University Hospital between 2005 and 2016. The records of 1543 patients with alcohol dependence were reached. Only the first hospitalization data of patients with recurrent admission were included in the analysis. As a result, the records of 906 patients were analyzed. ICD-10 classification was used as the diagnostic system. Results: The mean age of the study population was 51.95±11.54 years and 89.4% (n = 810) were male. Recurrent hospitalization was 26.7% (n = 242), medical comorbidity 5% (n = 45), and psychiatric comorbidity 28% (n = 254). In the logistic regression analysis evaluating the duration of hospitalization, the presence of bipolar affective disorder (BDD) increased the duration of hospitalization by 3.4 times (OR=3,457), and the presence of depression extended the duration of hospitalization by 1.8 times (OR=1,854). The length of hospital stay of those hospitalized between 2014-2016 was 12 times (OR=0,082) shorter than those hospitalized between 2005-2007. Conclusion: Some clinical variables (age, BDD and depression) have been shown to affect the duration of hospitalization in alcohol dependence. Together with these clinical variables, a non-clinical variable, such as the year of hospitalization, was found to affect the length of hospital stay 12-fold. Moreover, this effect can increase up to 34 times.
Game rules vs. fandom. How Nintendo’s Animal Crossing fan-made content negotiates the videogame meanings.

This research reviews the ideologies present in the Nintendo’s videogame saga Animal Crossing and aims to discover how fans interpret them. The process involves an exploration of the online fanart of the videogame and its classification into reproductive, neutral or critical fandom, depending on the revised operating ideologies. Following, a content analysis and brief semiotic analysis have been conducted to interpret the meanings that fans elaborated and wanted to share with the community. As a result, this research shows that the fandom of Animal Crossing reinterprets the ideologies of the game producing a critique of struggles present in society against sexism and consumerism. However, some fanart is aligned with the neoliberal and sexist ideas that emanate from the canonical text. Thus, analysing fandom’s production is a worth way to discover how audiences interact with videogames and how they expand its meanings beyond the game.
Plague as Biological Weapon

dations to treat CA UTIs only when they are symptomatic, the symptoms associated with CA UTI have not been clearly defined. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison, reported on the findings of a study to determine the prevalence of signs and symptoms attributable to CA UTI and the relative contribution of CA UTI to nosocomial bloodstream infection (BSI). In a prospective study, 1,497 newly catheterized patients were followed, and daily quantitative urine cultures and urine leukocyte counts were obtained. A detailed analysis was done of a subset of 1,024 patients, 89 of whom developed CA UTI with more than 103 colony-forming units per mL, who did not have another potentially confounding site of infection besides the urinary tract. There were 235 new cases of nosocomial CA UTI during the study period. More than 90% of the infected patients were asymptomatic; only 123 infections (52%) were detected by patients' physicians using the hospital laboratory. In the subset analysis, there were no significant differences between patients with and without CA UTI in signs or symptoms commonly associated with UTI—fever, dysuria, urgency, or flank pain—or leukocytosis. Only 1 of the 235 episodes of CA UTI that were prospectively studied was unequivocally associated with secondary BSI. CA UTIs are a major reservoir of antibiotic-resistant organisms in the hospital, but they are rarely symptomatic and infrequently cause BSI. Symptoms referable to the urinary tract, fever, or peripheral leukocytosis have little predictive value for the diagnosis of CA UTI. FROM: Tambyah PA, Maki DG. Catheter-associated urinary tract infection is rarely symptomatic: a prospective study of 1,497 catheterized patients. Arch Intern Med 2000;160:678-682.
Natural capital and environmental justice: A socio-spatial analysis of ecosystem services in England

Poorer communities tend to be located within lower quality natural environments, experiencing greater environmental burdens and fewer benefits. These environmental benefits are critical for human health and wellbeing and can be effectively conveyed as ecosystem services derived from natural capital. This thesis presents a multiscale spatial analysis in England which addresses a knowledge gap regarding the social distribution of ecosystem services and natural capital assets in a high-income country context. Understanding how equally natural capital and ecosystem services are distributed is important for informing their equitable management, required by the Convention on Biological Diversity. Nationally, differences in deprivation are found across a natural capital classification of districts. Higher deprivation is often associated with a lower natural capital, but the pattern is not consistent for all types of natural capital or places. This implies equitable management of ecosystems should be driven at a local level. To realise this, case study analysis is needed and is carried out for three regions; Leeds, Northampton and the South Pennines. Analysis addresses three ecosystem services, thus accounting for the flows of benefits from natural capital including from assets outside the district boundaries. The distribution of air pollutant removal is unequal across all regions; service is lower for more deprived areas. Ecosystem services are also lower for more deprived areas in Leeds with respect to surface water runoff reduction, and in Northampton with respect to recreation. Indicating their social distribution is location dependent. Sensitivity tests further show that that social distribution of ecosystem services may depend on how they are quantified. This thesis provides evidence of some inequalities in the social distribution of ecosystem services, emphasising the need to better account for inequalities within management of natural capital. The mixed results demonstrate a need for further distributional analysis of ecosystem services encompassing more locations and services.
Effectiveness of an Educational Program on Nurses Knowledge Concerning Complications Prevention of Mechanical Ventilation at Intensive Care Unit in Al- Hussain Teaching Hospital at Nassiryah City

Objective: Assess of Knowledge nurses and the effectiveness of educational program on nurses in intensive care units to prevent the complications of mechanical ventilation and to find the relationship between such as age and years of experience in intensive care units at hospitals in Nasiriyah with knowledge of nurses. Methodology: a purposive non-random sample consists of 50 nurses divided into 25 control group study of 25 workers in the intensive care unit of Hussein Teaching Hospital in Nasiriyah. The sample collection in the March 12, 2015 until August 20 2015. The questionnaire consists of the first two parts and is made up of demographical data (6 items), and the second part including assessment of nurses knowledge (30 items), the educational program (40 items) that includes the pre-test and post multiple questions.Descriptive statistics (frequencies and the percentage of the arithmetic mean, standard deviation) and statistics evidentiary (linear correlation coefficient, test T, analysis of variance to analyze the results. Result: The findings of the present study indicate that the nurses have weak knowledge before application of program but post evaluation revealed high level of knowledge among nurses' at ICU toward prevention complication of mechanical ventilation. Conclusion: The study concluded that the program has a clear effect on improving the knowledge of nurses in ICU relating to prevent complications of mechanical ventilation which was indicated by the pretest and posttest of the program. Recommendation: The study recommended the great certainly that should be directed towards the educational aspects in intensive care units through the provision of educational posters and guidance and leaflets and should provide modern teaching aids for the team nursing classroom study purposes of continuing education in intensive care units to enhance the knowledge of nurses.
Strength and Conditioning for Competitive Rowers

Strength and conditioning (S&C) is an essential component of performance enhancement and injury reduction for competitive rowers. However, information regarding the practical application of appropriate S&C programming for competitive rowers is limited. The aim of this article is to provide an evidence-based needs analysis based on a review of the literature in the area of biomechanics, physiology, and injury epidemiology in the sport of rowing. Practical considerations and guidelines for the implementation of S&C programs for competitive rowers will be provided.
MINERAÇÃO DE TEXTO APLICADO A LAUDOS MÉDICOS: UMA ANÁLISE BIBLIOMÉTRICA

Este trabalho refere-se em uma analise bibliometrica abordando a aplicacao do estudo de mineracao de textos em laudos medicos. O objetivo do artigo e a realizacao de um levantamento bibliometrico que foi realizado atraves do Portal Periodico Capes. A pesquisa foi realizada tendo como palavra chave de pesquisa “Mining Text Information Extraction Medical Reports”. A pesquisa inicial somente utilizando a palavra chave, obteve 1.190 registros, sendo 1.636 resultados refinado por nivel superior de periodicos revisados por pares. Foram aplicados refinamentos diante dos resultados encontrados, assim resultando em 47 artigos, conforme e descrito no decorrer do trabalho. Ao final da analise completa dos artigos selecionados, foram considerados 10 trabalhos para compor o nucleo de partida para a pesquisa, analise esta que, demonstra e comprovam as aplicacoes efetivas e satisfatorias da utilizacao da mineracao de texto aplicadas a laudos medicos, oportunizando uma discussao positiva da utilizacao da tecnica de mineracao de texto na area da saude.
Design of a New Bilayer Multipole Electromagnetic Brake System for a Haptic Interface

This paper deals with the design, simulation and experimental verification of a new bilayer multipole electromagnetic brake. The design utilizes the superposition principle of magnetic flux across the inner and outer layers of axially-oriented electromagnetic poles to provide gradual braking about the single axis of rotation. The braking principle exploits the Coulomb friction between the two rigid contact surfaces. Compared with conventional, multi-pole, multi-layer type radial brakes in haptic applications, the proposed design provides high fidelity of free motion through an absolutely disconnected rotor. The design also provides a wide operating range by delaying the saturation limit of a magnetic circuit for a wide range of input power. In this paper, the analytical model of the brake is derived and compared with the FEM-based simulation results. The optimal design obtained from multi-objective optimization was experimentally verified for its capability in haptic applications.
Improving student retention through enhanced academic and pastoral support: A Case Study

This case study presents an innovative approach to student retention. The Integrated Learner Support model brings together professional support services and programme-focused academic support to deliver ‘the team around the student’. A redesign of the University of Northampton’s Personal Tutoring system has sought to foster a sense of care and belonging; embedding this support within curricula with triage to the wider team. These developments have been informed by best practice from the University’s Faculty of Health and Society where two senior nursing lecturers have developed an additional level of student support. Initiated originally by the Subject Lead for Nursing, these roles provide emotional and pragmatic interventions to the needs of individual nursing students as they progress through their programme. Informal feedback and retention statistics suggest that in the face of rising mental health issues in the national student population, this kind of face-to-face, caring and timely support is of clear value.
Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Peri-Implant Soft Tissues: A Preliminary Study on Humans Using CDNA Microarray Technology

The mucosa around implants and the gingiva around teeth respond to plaque formation with the development of an inflammatory lesion which has similar magnitude and histological features. Different cell types in inflamed and healthy periodontal and peri-implant tissues are capable of producing a variety of important pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines and growth factors which mediate the host response. The aim of this study is to compare the expression levels of anti-inflammatory cytokines detectable in the peri-implant soft tissue of two single-implant crowns supported either by zirconia or titanium abutments. Two frozen samples of peri-implant soft tissue of two single-implant crowns supported either by zirconia or titanium abutments were treated to obtain mRNA. The mRNA extracted from these specimens was converted in cDNA and analyzed with “SuperArray GEArray Q Series Human Inflammatory Cytokine/Receptor Gene Array kit”, planned for studying 96 genes involved in inflammatory response. Data showed that gene expression levels of anti-inflammatory cytokines were higher in specimens sampled from the zirconia abutment compared with those from the titanium abutment. It was considered important to detect the mRNA levels of the anti-inflammatory mediators in healthy peri-implant tissues to verify the biological tolerability of zirconia compared with titanium abutments. The difference detected in cytokine expression could be due to the intrinsic biological tolerability of zirconia ceramics or to a lesser bacterial accumulation.
Le congé sécuritaire du nourrisson peu prématuré

Resume Les nourrissons peu prematures sont des nourrissons prematures, mais souvent assez matures pour etre pris en charge dans des milieux et a l’aide de regimes therapeutiques concus pour les nouveau-nes a terme. On les definit arbitrairement comme des nourrissons nes a 34, 35 ou 36 semaines d’âge gestationnel. Les nourrissons peu prematures ont plus de problemes d’adaptation que les nourrissons a terme et peuvent avoir besoin de soins intensifs neonatals et d’une hospitalisation prolongee. Cependant, ceux qui n’en ont pas besoin peuvent, de maniere tout a fait pertinente, etre envoyes en soins mereenfant dans une pouponniere a faible risque. Chez le nourrisson peu premature, il faut accorder une attention particuliere a l’homeostasie thermique pertinente et a la mise en place d’une alimentation satisfaisante avant le conge. Notamment, il faut s’assurer que ces bebes ne font pas d’hyperbilirubinemie tardive grave, qui se produit habituellement chez le bebe peu premature allaite de quatre ou cinq jours de vie et qui n’est pas toujours previsible par le depistage systematique de la bilirubine avant 48 heures de vie. Le conge d’un nourrisson peu premature s’associe a des exigences particulieres dans la collectivite. L’etablissement qui accorde le conge doit prevoir des installations accessibles pour reprendre des tests de depistage, proceder a une reevaluation et une rehospitalisation.
Masitinib plus gemcitabine for personalized treatment of PDAC patients with overexpression of ACOX1

ABSTRACT Introduction: Although advances in diagnosis, surgery and systemic therapy pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) patients have still bad prognosis. In contrast to the progress in early diagnosis and results of the treatment of other cancers the PDAC patients outcomes do not change significantly over the years. Areas covered: The main objective of this paper was to search for new treatment and research opportunities for PDAC patients, the second an attempt to understand the reasons for bad PDAC patients treatment results (chemoresistance? ) and why there was so many negative trials is this setting. As a consequence we search for new targets which blockade may lead to achieve better patients outcomes. Expert commentary: We found that ACOX1 overexpression plays an important role in cancer development. PDAC patients with ACOX1 overexpression have poor prognosis when treated with gemcitabine monotherapy. Treatment with masitinib in combination with gemcitabine significantly improves outcome of PDAC patients with ACOX1 overexpression with median overall survival (OS) of 11.7 months in comparison to median OS of 5.6 months in patients treated with gemcitabine in monotherapy, p<0.001, HR = 0.23. As these studies have many limitation, mainly due to small patients sample, confirmatory study is needed.
The magnitude of HIV/AIDS problem vis-à-vis the number and nature of studies on mass media prevention efforts across the globe: A descriptive review

This paper comprehensively reviewed studies on the utilization of mass media in HIV/AIDS prevention efforts across the globe over the past ten years (2000-2010) and compared the number of studies in the different regions of the world with the regions’ respective magnitude of HIV/AIDS problem. It also attempted to shed some light on the nature of the studies by classifying them based on type, objective, outcome and the type of channel they dealt with. The review showed that most of the studies on the use of mass media in HIV prevention efforts come from three of the ten UNAIDS’ (2009) epidemiologic regions irrespective of the fact that the infection has increasingly become a global health threat. Most of the regions have been found to have very small, negligible number of studies that are not commensurate with the magnitude of their HIV/AIDS problem. The majority of the studies were also found to be neither formative nor summative in type and as such were not an integral part of prevention interventions. The review also revealed that studies are no longer limited to the measurement of knowledge and awareness levels of audiences and have increasingly included measures of mixed outcomes ranging from knowledge change through behaviour changes and their psychological and structural determinants. Moreover, it has been discerned that the majority of the studies reported that the uses of mass media in HIV prevention efforts across regions have been successful in varying degrees, suggesting the great potential of the mass media to enable prevention interventions achieve desired goals in places where they have been employed as campaign strategies.
A Study on Hair Dye Contact Dermatitis: Its Clinical Presentations and Allergens

INTRODUCTION: The desire for every individual to project a more youthful look has led to the innovation of various commercial hair coloring products which can cause both irritant and allergic contact dermatitis. Adverse reactions of hair dye affects the persons quality of life and confidence. It even forces the patient to change their occupation in case of hair dressers and cosmetic persons. Aim OF THE STUDY: To determine the epidemiological pattern, most prevalent clinical presentations and common possible allergens in hair dye contact dermatitis. METHOD: A prospective study of patients with a clinical suspicion of contact dermatitis to hair dye were studied. RESULTS: Among 43 participants, majority of the participants were males (70%) from urban locality (80%) and 30% of them were skilled workers. ACD to hair dye was more common in persons who have used hair dyes for one to five years with a frequency of once in a month. More than one third of them had itching immediately after application of hair dye and more than half of them had chronic skin lesions. 89% of the patients had positive patch test in which more than half of them showed PPD positivity while one third had pigmentation response alone. PPD was found to be the common allergen in contact dermatitis to hair dye which is in similar to other studies reported. CONCLUSION: Paraphenylenediamine (PPD) is the most common ingredient causing allergic contact dermatitis to hair dye. Awareness about the ingredients helps us in counselling the patient to avoid the causative hair dye and change to an alternative hypoallergenic dye.
Impact of Leadership Styles Upon Professional Commitment

The current study aimed to assess the effect of different leadership styles (Transformational, Transactional and Laissez-faire styles) upon the professional commitment. The study population encompassed the lecturers in Physical Education of all the public colleges in the province Punjab, Pakistan. Due to accessible population, no sampling techniques were preferred in this research study. The total number of lecturers (PE) was 576, in which 210 were male and 366 were female. Selfdeveloped scales were designed and used for data collection. The total 76% return rate of responses was recorded. Inferential and descriptive statistics were used to examine the collected information. On the basis of the findings, it was concluded that there is a positive effect of transactional style of head of institutions leadership upon professional commitment of lecturers (PE). Whereas, Laissez-faire style of leadership has a negative effect upon the professional commitment of lecturers in physical education. It was recommended that seminars and workshops may be arranged for leadership styles.