Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Helicopter Parenting Is Unrelated to Student Success and Well-Being: A Latent Profile Analysis of Perceived Parenting and Academic Motivation During the Transition to University

We examined helicopter parenting (e.g., intervening, assisting with tasks that emerging adults are capable of performing independently) during the transition to university relative to positive parenting (autonomy support, warmth, age-appropriate involvement) and academic motivation. Participants were n = 460 full-time, first-year undergraduates who completed surveys in September and December. In a latent profile analysis, differences were prominent for positive parenting (three profiles featured relatively low, moderate, and high levels). Amotivation was highest in combination with lower positive parenting. Intrinsic motivation was highest in combination with higher positive parenting; helicopter parenting was similar across profiles and was not meaningfully associated with end-of-semester well-being. End-of-semester outcomes were poorest for low positive parenting, but supplemental analyses showed disadvantages were already evident in September. Perceptions of parents during the transition to university likely reflect continuity from adolescent parenting environments. Results do not support the narrative that helicopter parenting is common or a barrier to student success.
Applying 2-stage DEA model to evaluate the corporate social responsibility implementing efficiency of FDI firms

Article history: Received: February 16, 2020 Received in revised format: March 27 2020 Accepted: March 29, 2020 Available online: March 31, 2020 From the stakeholder theory, the research evaluates the efficiency and impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) implementation for various stakeholders including government, labor, customer, community on corporate reputation. A 2-stage Data Enveloped Analysis (DEA) model was employed using a quantitative method of questionnaire survey among a sample of 208 foreign direct investment (FDI) enterprises in Hanoi, Vietnam: Stage 1: Using DEA model to evaluate the efficiency of CSR implementation to improve the reputation of enterprises; Stage 2: Using multivariate regression model to assess the impact of CSR implementation on stakeholders in order to improve the reputation of enterprises. The result of the study should give managerial implications for the government and FDI firms in understanding the current state of CSR efficiency, as well as to formulate more target policies to promote FDI firms’ efficient commitment to CSR. © 2020 by the authors; licensee Growing Science, Canada
How to deal with destroyed type material? The case of Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae)

Abstract. When the museums of Lübeck, Stuttgart, Tübingen and partly of Wiesbaden were destroyed during World War II between 1942 and 1945, also all or parts of their type material were destroyed, among them types from spider species described by Embrik Strand between 1906 and 1917. He did not illustrate type material from 181 species and one subspecies and described them only in an insufficient manner. These species were never recollected during more than 110 years and no additional taxonomically relevant information was published in the arachnological literature. It is impossible to recognize them, so we declare these 181 species here as nomina dubia. Four of these species belong to monotypic genera, two of them to a ditypic genus described by Strand in the context of the mentioned species descriptions. Consequently, without including valid species, the five genera Carteroniella Strand, 1907, Eurypelmella Strand, 1907, Theumella Strand, 1906, Thianella Strand, 1907 and Tmeticides Strand, 1907 are here also declared as nomina dubia. Palystes modificus minor Strand, 1906 is a junior synonym of P. superciliosus L. Koch, 1875 syn. nov.
Whole-Exome Sequencing Identifies Three Candidate Homozygous Variants in a Consanguineous Iranian Family with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Skeletal Problems

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by 3 core symptoms with impaired social communication, repetitive behavior, and/or restricted interests in early childhood. As a complex neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD), the phenotype and severity of autism are extremely heterogeneous. Genetic factors have a key role in the etiology of autism. In this study, we investigated an Azeri Turkish family with 2 ASD-affected individuals to identify probable ASD-causing variants. First, the affected individuals were karyotyped in order to exclude chromosomal abnormalities. Then, whole-exome sequencing was carried out in one affected sibling followed by cosegregation analysis for the candidate variants in the family. In addition, SNP genotyping was carried out in the patients to identify possible homozygosity regions. Both proband and sibling had a normal karyotype. We detected 3 possible causative variants in this family: c.5443G>A; p.Gly1815Ser, c.1027C>T; p.Arg343Trp, and c.382A>G; p.Lys128Glu, which are in the FBN1, TF, and PLOD2 genes, respectively. All of the variants cosegregated in the family, and SNP genotyping revealed that these 3 variants are located in the homozygosity regions. This family serves as an example of a multimodal polygenic risk for a complex developmental disorder. Of these 3 genes, confluence of the variants in FBN1 and PLOD2 may contribute to the autistic features of the patient in addition to skeletal problems. Our study highlights the genetic complexity and heterogeneity of NDDs such as autism. In other words, in some patients with ASD, multiple rare variants in different loci rather than a monogenic state may contribute to the development of phenotypes.
Role of photoreceptors in the synchronization of the circadian locomotor activity rhythms with the LD cycle in cockroaches (Periplaneta americana)

The possible role of different kind of photoreceptors in synchronization of circadian locomotor activity in cockroaches is presently still contradictory. We try to clarify the part played by the compound eyes and the ocelli with lesion and black‐varnishing experiments. The locomotor activity of isolated animals is automatically recorded in ring‐shaped cages equiped with infra‐red beams. Circadian rhythms are detected by using the Whittaker and Robinson periodogram. We obtained the following results: - Animals submitted to a shifting of their LD cycle keep the ability to synchronize with the new photocycle when their ocelli are destroyed or black‐varnished. When the eyes are destroyed or varnished, animals start free‐running or become arrhythmic. - Animals kept in IX from the eggs and submitted to a photocycle after the operation become rhythmic with ocelli destroyed or black‐varnished. With destroyed eyes, they stay arrhythmic. Only a few become rhythmic with black‐varnished eyes. - These results support Roberts, Nishiitsutsuji‐Uwo and Pittendrigh, Sokolove and Page results. The two kinds of photoreceptors are not equally powerful in synchronizing the locomotor activity rhythm with the external LD cycle. The compound eyes lead the information to the optic lobes which are considered to be circadian pacemakers. We still need to ask if they are the only circadian pacemakers in the insect brain.
The effect of failure criteria on risk-based inspection planning of offshore wind support structures

Offshore Wind Turbine (OWT) support structures are subjected to harsh deterioration mechanisms due to the combined action of wind loading, sea induced load actions and corrosive environment. Fatigue failure becomes a key failure mode for offshore wind structures, as they experience considerable number of stress cycles (more than 10 million cycles per year). Fatigue failure can be assessed through fatigue assessment approaches. However, such assessments possess various uncertainties which may be quantified and updated through findings from in-service inspections. Since, offshore maintenance actions incur significant costs, an optimal maintenance strategy which balances the maintenance efforts against the risk of failure is desired. Based on pre-posterior decision theory, a risk-informed maintenance optimization can be performed to define the optimal maintenance strategy and support the decision maker(s). Within the risk maintenance optimization scheme, the probabilistic deterioration model is updated based on the inspection outcomes. Several fracture mechanics models have been used in the literature to estimate the deterioration of the structure containing flaws. Although, a through-thickness failure criterion is commonly used in the literature as the failure criteria, a Failure Assessment Diagram (FAD) approach has been receiving increasingly attention, as well. This investigation examines the effect of the selected fracture mechanics models and failure criteria on the optimal maintenance strategy. Moreover, the obtained maintenance strategies corresponding to different fracture mechanics models are compared for a tubular joint case study structure.
An explicit analytical solution for temperature rise in a half-space induced by ellipsoidal inclusions and its application for problems related to friction heating

Abstract Green functions for temperature rise in a semi-infinite space containing an ellipsoidal inclusion are obtained in the present study. Explicit expression for disturbed temperature rise generated by eigen-temperature gradients uniformly distributed within a domain is derived. Further, the proposed analytical solution method is utilized to deal with temperature rise in heterogeneous half-space subjected to friction heating via applying the equivalent inclusion method (EIM), whose results are proven to be in good agreements with those of the benchmarks. Influences of heat load velocity, spatial orientation and aspect ratio of ellipsoidal inhomogeneity on temperature rise in a semi-infinite space are discussed. Finally, a model of semi-infinite medium with embedded dispersed ellipsoidal inhomogeneities of arbitrary spatial orientation is adopted to explore the application scope of the proposed solution method.
TOLERÂNCIA DO RABANETE AO ENCHARCAMENTO DO SOLO

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a resposta do rabanete ao encharcamento do solo em diferentes fases e duracao, e identificar o estadio fenologico em que ocorre a maior diminuicao no desenvolvimento das plantas. O delineamento experimental adotado foi inteiramente casualizado, arranjado em esquema fatorial 3 x 3 + 1, com 3 repeticoes. Os tratamentos consistiram tres periodos de inundacao (10, 17 e 24 dias apos a semeadura), tres duracoes de inundacao (5, 10 e 15 horas) e uma testemunha, na qual nao foi aplicado estresse por elevacao do lencol freatico. Aos trinta e cinco dias apos a semeadura as plantas foram coletadas e avaliadas quanto as seguintes variaveis: numero de folhas, area foliar, diâmetro de raiz, massa fresca de raizes e da parte aerea. O rabanete apresentou sensibilidade a saturacao hidrica, principalmente quando o estresse ocorreu nos primeiros estagios de desenvolvimento das plantas. Dentre os tres periodos nos quais o estresse causado pela elevacao do nivel freatico foi aplicado, o primeiro foi o que ocasionou maiores perdas. O sistema radicular da cultura do rabanete e mais sensivel ao encharcamento do que a parte aerea.
Does expedited partner therapy for genitourinary chlamydia infections in heterosexual patients decrease recurrence rates of chlamydia?

Expedited partner therapy (EPT) is effective in decreasing chlamydia reinfection in men, but not women, when compared with partner notification by the patient (SOR: A, meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials [RCTs]). Public health efforts to provide free EPT may decrease chlamydia rates slightly (SOR: B, single RCT), and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends EPT where legal and partner referral is suboptimal (SOR: C, guideline). Copyright © 2020 by Family Physicians Inquiries Network, Inc. DOI 10.1097/EBP.0000000000000884
Cloning and Expression of a Schwanniomyces occidentalis α-Amylase Gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

An α-amylase gene (AMY) was cloned from Schwanniomyces occidentalis CCRC 21164 into Saccharomyces cerevisiae AH22 by inserting Sau3AI-generated DNA fragments into the BamHI site of YEp16. The 5-kilobase insert was shown to direct the synthesis of α-amylase. After subclones containing various lengths of restricted fragments were screened, a 3.4-kilobase fragment of the donor strain DNA was found to be sufficient for α-amylase synthesis. The concentration of α-amylase in culture broth produced by the S. cerevisiae transformants was about 1.5 times higher than that of the gene donor strain. The secreted α-amylase was shown to be indistinguishable from that of Schwanniomyces occidentalis on the basis of molecular weight and enzyme properties.
Impact of Ambient Air Pollution and Meteorological Factors on Hospital Admission to the Cardiovascular System Disease on Ulaanbaatar City of Mongolia

Background: Mongolia is situated in northern Central Asia. Landlocked between China and Russia, it is a vast expanse of high attitude grassland steppe, desert, and mountain covering an area of 1,565,000 square kilometers. Air pollution is an increasingly series problem in Mongolia. Materials and Methods: This is a time-series cross over study. All health and air pollution data of 2008-2017 was used for this survey. Results: The mean level of SO2 during the cold season was 35.22 μg/m3 and during the warm season it was 4.65 μg/m3. 24 hours PM10 concentration, during the cold season daily average concentration was 226.77 μg/m3. The 8 hours average daily carbon monoxide concentration (1352.85 μg/m3 [95% CI: 1313.07 - 1396.15]) was high during the cold season, ozone concentration (39.10 μg/m3 [95% CI: 37.95 - 40.35]) was high during the warm season. Air quality depends on metrological parameters. All correlation was statistically significant during the whole year and cold season. In total, 288,832 people get admitted to the hospital due to cardiovascular system disease in Ulaanbaatar during the year of 2008-2017. In general, hospitalization is increasing year by year. Significant associations were found for SO2 with hypertensive diseases (I10 - I15), ischemic heart diseases (I20 - I25), cerebrovascular diseases (I60 - I69), diseases of pulmonary circulation and other forms of heart (I00 - I09, I26 - I52) in all lags. For NO2 was less associated with Ischemic heart diseases (I20 - I25) and diseases of pulmonary circulation and other forms of heart (I00 - I09, I26 - I52). For both PM10 and PM2.5, every disease had observed significant RR in lag 0 - 3. Significant associations were found for air pollutants such as PM10, PM2.5, CO, SO2, and O3 in all lags had a statistically significant association with cold season’s cardiovascular system disease admission. As expected during the warm season significant association was found only lag 1 with PM2.5 and lags (0, 1) CO and O3. Conclusion: As expected this study demonstrated significant correlations between cardiovascular morbidity with PM2.5, PM10, NO2, SO2, CO, O3, and some meteorological parameters.
Can commercially imported bumble bees out‐compete their native conspecifics?

Summary 1 Although invasive species are major topics of research, little consideration has been given to the implications of introducing non-native subspecies or beneficial organisms such as pollinators. However, the extensive trade in bumble bees as pollinators of glasshouse crops involves both. Within regions in Europe, the importation of non-native commercially reared subspecies of Bombus terrestris could endanger native bumble bees through competitive displacement and/or hybridization. 2 This study made a direct ecological comparison between commercially imported and native B. terrestris colonies growing in the wild in the UK. In particular, using a paired design, we compared the nectar-foraging performance and reproductive outputs of commercial and native colonies growing under identical field conditions. 3 Commercial colonies performed well in the field, with substantially higher nectar-foraging rates than native colonies in four out of five locations. Nectar-foraging performance was positively correlated with forager size, with commercial bees being consistently larger than native bees. 4 All seven commercial colonies studied produced gynes (new queens), with two colonies each producing in excess of 50. In contrast, only two out of seven native colonies produced gynes, and those only produced small numbers (five in total). Males were produced by all colonies but there were no significant differences in numbers between commercial and native subspecies. 5 Synthesis and applications. The high reproductive success of commercial colonies indicates that there is an appreciable risk that they will become established and spread within the UK. Furthermore, their superior foraging ability and large colony size could lead them to out-compete native bumble bees. Clearly the invasive potential of non-native subspecies and/or beneficial organisms should not be overlooked. With respect to the current importation of commercial bumble bees, we strongly recommend a precautionary approach: native species and subspecies should be locally reared and the use/disposal of bees should be strictly regulated.
Why Self-fertilizing Plants Still Exist in Wild Populations: Diversity Assurance through Stress-Induced Male Sterility May Promote Selective Outcrossing and Recombination

Climate change creates challenges for wild species, but plants have survived and adapted to similar changes in their evolutionary past. Most plants were originally outcrossing, one theoretical genetic reason being that self-fertilization does not create novel recombinants that allow adaptation. Thus selfing seems an evolutionary “dead end”. Nevertheless, self-fertilizing plants make up 14% of seed plant species. We offer a new interpretation of a response by self-fertilizing wild species to extreme existential threats, which creates novel recombinant progeny. This proposed mechanism goes beyond reproductive assurance, the usual explanation of selfing. Extreme stress, such as excessive heat within a specific window, first makes plants male-sterile, while female organs remain functional and can receive wind-borne pollen from any of the few nearby stress-tolerant individuals. Thus stress-induced male sterility enables and/or enhances outcrossing in selfing plants. Although in practice this proposed mechanism requires very special circumstances and operates only in certain species with conducive floral traits, we posit that over evolutionary time even such rare events can make a significant lasting impact on a species’ survival in changing conditions. This proposed mechanism, which we call Diversity Assurance, allows a population subject to severe stress to sample preferentially those genes that underpin tolerance to that specific stress. These genes are then recombined in subsequent generations, along with the male-sterility-under-stress trait of the female parent. This contributes in part to explain the effective evolution and hence persistence of self-fertilizing species. Diversity Assurance, we propose, is an adaptive mechanism that has been selected under extreme stress, underpinned by a simple loss-of-function of the male reproductive system. It may be triggered not only by heat, but also by other stressors. This proposed mechanism helps to explain why even highly self-fertilizing plant species remain able to respond to environmental changes through triggered outcrossing.
The Effect of Career Indecision on Wrong Choice of an Occupation: A Mixed Methods Research

This research method, which aimed to determine the effect of career indecision on the choice of an occupation was carried out as mixed method research which includes quantitative and qualitative research approaches. In the qualitative part of the research, scale items were identified by interviewing with fifteen teachers, who were selected via purposive sampling method and convenient sampling technique. Scale items were written by analyzing qualitative data with thematic and descriptive analysis. In quantitative part of the resaerch, the research sampling was selected from the teachers working in official schools in Karatay, Meram and Selçuklu districts located in the center of Konya province. As a result of the survey studies, n=397 valid survey forms were obtained from the teachers. In accordance with the expert judgments, a pilot implementation was initiated. In the study, both the structure validity and scope validity of the scales relating to career in decision and wrong choice of an occupation were analyzed and the validity was verified. The reliability levels of the scales were also found to be high. Furthermore, it was concluded that career i decision had a significant effect on wrong choice of an occupation by twenty-six percent [β=. 26, p<. 05].
Selection of the Most Appropriate Renewable Energy Alternatives by Using a Novel Interval-Valued Neutrosophic ELECTRE I Method

Today energy demand in the world cannot be met based on the growing population of the countries. Exhaustible resources are not enough to supply this energy requirement. Furthermore, the pollution created by these sources is one of the most important issues for all living things. In this context, clean and sustainable energy alternatives need to be considered. In this study, a novel interval-valued neutrosophic (IVN) ELECTRE I method is conducted to select renewable energy alternative for a municipality. A new division operation and deneutrosophication method for intervalvalued neutrosophic sets is proposed. A sensitivity analysis is also implemented to check the validity of the proposed method. The obtained results and the sensitivity analysis demonstrate that the given decision in the application is robust. The results of the proposed method determine that the wind power plant is the best alternative and our proposed method’s decisions are consistent and reliable through the results of comparative and sensitivity analyses.
Structures for surface-enhanced nonplasmonic or hybrid spectroscopy

Abstract Absorption, scattering, and fluorescence are processes that increase with electric field intensity. The most prominent way to enhance electric field intensity is to use localized or propagating surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) based on metallic particles and nanostructures. In addition, several other, much less well-known, photonic structures that increase electric field intensity exist. Interference enhancement provided by thin dielectric coatings on reflective substrates is able to provide electric field intensity enhancement over the whole substrate and not only at certain hotspots, thereby being in particular suitable for the spectroscopy of thin surface layers. The same coatings on high refractive index substrates may be used for interference-enhanced total internal reflection-based spectroscopy in much the same way as Kretschmann or Otto configuration for exciting propagating SPPs. The latter configurations can also be used to launch Bloch surface waves on 1D photonic crystal structures for the enhancement of electric field intensity and thereby absorption, scattering, and fluorescence-based spectroscopies. High refractive index substrates alone can also, when nanostructured, enhance infrared absorption or Raman scattering via Mie-type resonances. As a further method, this review will cover recent developments to employ phonon polaritons in the reststrahlen region.