Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Energy Drink Mechanisms of Harm in Young People: A Narrative Review

: Caffeinated energy drink consumption has grown rapidly worldwide, particularly among young people. This review considers whether the health outcomes associated with young people’s energy drink consumption are too narrowly defined on physiological mechanisms, and whether there is evidence to support the hypothesis that energy drink consumption incurs broader social costs. A narrative review of studies published between 1997 and 2017 focusing on the behavioural, physical and mental health outcomes associated with EDs consumption and the two main ingredients, sugar (including glucose, sucrose and fructose) and caffeine with explication of causal mechanism linking ingredient to outcome where relevant. The population of interest was children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 years of age. A total of 33 studies were identified. EDs consumption was found to be associated with health problems including high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, headaches, sleep disorder, substance use, stress and hyperactivity. The causal relationship could not be determined for all outcomes. The caffeine and sugar contained in EDs can promote adverse effects on children and adolescents. There is weak evidence that these effects could extend beyond physical health to educational attainment, mental health and substance use. Increased awareness, regulation, and further prospective studies are required.
Transductive Learning With Prior Knowledge for Generalized Zero-Shot Action Recognition

It is challenging to achieve generalized zero-shot action recognition. Different from the conventional zero-shot tasks which assume that the instances of the source classes are absent in the test set, the generalized zero-shot task studies the case that the test set contains both the source and the target classes. Due to the gap between visual feature and semantic embedding as well as the inherent bias of the learned classifier towards the source classes, the existing generalized zero-shot action recognition approaches are still far less effective than traditional zero-shot action recognition approaches. Facing these challenges, a novel transductive learning with prior knowledge (TLPK) model is proposed for generalized zero-shot action recognition. First, TLPK learns the prior knowledge which assists in bridging the gap between visual features and semantic embeddings, and preliminarily reduces the bias caused by the visual-semantic gap. Then, a transductive learning method that employs unlabeled target data is designed to overcome the bias problem in an effective manner. To achieve this, a target semantic-available approach and a target semantic-free approach are devised to utilize the target semantics in two different ways, where the target semantic-free approach exploits prior knowledge to produce well-performed semantic embeddings. By exploring the usage of the aforementioned prior-knowledge learning and transductive learning strategies, TLPK significantly bridges the visual-semantic gap and alleviates the bias between the source and the target classes. The experiments on the benchmark datasets of HMDB51 and UCF101 demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model compared to the state-of-the-art methods. The source code of this work can be found in https://mic.tongji. edu.cn
Isolation and Characterization of 15 New Microsatellite Markers in Oncomelania hupensis, the Snail Intermediate Host of Schistosoma japonicum in Mainland China

Oncomelania hupensis is the unique intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum, which plays a key role during the transmission of schistosomiasis. It is mainly found in the Yangtze River valley and mountains or hills in southwest China. In this paper, we described 15 new microsatellite makers in O. hupensis. Polymorphism of each locus was assessed in 80 individuals from four wild populations (n = 20 per population). The number of alleles per locus ranged from 6 to 29, with an average of 15.8. The observed (HO) and expected (HE) heterozygosities varied from 0.397 to 0.851 and from 0.696 to 0.948, respectively. These microsatellite markers will be useful for population genetic studies and genome mapping in O. hupensis.
Post-mortem Fertilizing Capacity of Spermatozoid Chirostoma jordani (Atheriniformes: Atherinopsidae)

Post-mortem fertilization is considered a technique in which semen is extracted from a dead male to fertilize the egg of a living female. Therefore, this technique can be an excellent option in the face of the loss of biodiversity of multiple animal species. The objective of this research is to implement post-mortem assisted reproduction in the charal, Chirostoma jordani, which is a species of economic, biological and cultural importance in Mexico. Mature males were obtained from commercial capture Atlangatepec Dam, Tlaxcala, Mexico. The mature males were sacrificed and divided into three groups: 1) room temperature 18±1°C, 2) ice 5±1°C and 3) refrigeration 11±1°C. The variables evaluated were: percentage (s), duration of motility (%), and fertilization rate (%) at zero, two, four, six, eight and ten hours in quadruplicate, respectively. The results indicate that sperm viability decreased over time; at room temperature it lasted six hours; in ice and refrigeration 10, denoting significant differences (P<0.05). Semen from organisms preserved in ice and refrigeration presented the best fertilization percentages at two and four hours (>90 and ~80%, respectively) (P<0.05). For practical purposes, it was demonstrated that semen from post-mortem organisms can be used to develop conservation practices.
Sürenin COVID-19

and December 2021, 221 SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2) PCR positive/thoracic CT compatible patients over the age of 40 hospitalized in the COVID-19 services of Mersin City Training and Research Hospital were included. Patients included in the study were grouped as ≤1 month, 1-3 months, 3-6 months, and ≥6 months after receiving the second dose of CoronaVac/BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine. Patient information, thoracic CT and laboratory values at the first admission were obtained retrospectively from patient files and hospital information system. Results: The median time to develop positivity after the second dose of vaccine in all patients was 111 (CI: 93-132) days. In the BNT162b2 mRNA-vaccinated group, no significant difference was found between the groups in terms of thoracic CT and laboratory values (p>0.05). In the CoronaVac-vaccinated group, a very weak positive correlation was found between the development time of positivity after vaccination and the thoracic CT total severity score (r=0.148, p=0.048). Conclusion: It has been shown that as the time after the second dose increases in CoronaVac vaccinated patients, the degree of lung involvement increases, and there is no difference as the duration increases in BNT162b2 vaccinated patients
THE INFLUENCE OF E-WORD OF MOUTH AND E-SERVICE QUALITY ON CUSTOMER LOYALTY MEDIATED BY CUSTOMER SATISFACTION (STUDY ON RAKAN RAJA TOUR & TRAVEL)

This research aims to examine the e-word of mouth (e-wom) and e-service quality (e-servqual) influence on customer loyalty which is mediated by customer satisfaction. The population in this research was all customers at Rakan Raja Tour & Travel whose addresses in Lhokseumawe City and Aceh Besar District, Indonesia. Because the population was infinite, the sample in this study was determined using the number of research indicators times 5 to obtain a sample size of 22x5=110 respondents. Data collection was carried out by distributing questionnaires to all research respondents. Data was measured using a Likert scale and analyzed using the SEM-AMOS model. The results show that the descriptive hypothesis testing proves that e-wom, e-servqual, satisfaction, and loyalty are good; the direct hypothesis testing shows that e-wom significantly influences satisfaction, e-wom does not significantly influence loyalty, e-servqual significantly influences satisfaction, e-servqual significantly influences loyalty, and satisfaction does not significantly influence loyalty; and the indirect hypothesis testing proves that satisfaction mediates (full mediation) e-wom on customer loyalty, and satisfaction mediates (partial mediation) eservqual on customer loyalty. All these findings prove that the model of strengthening customer loyalty is a function of increasing and strengthening e-WOM, e-servqual, and customer satisfaction
Alcohol Misuse Screening Performance Improvement Initiative

Background: A trauma registry review of our trauma center's alcohol misuse screening compliance noted inconsistent screening and data collection methods, putting our American College of Surgeons trauma center reverification at risk for a deficiency. Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate an alcohol misuse screening improvement initiative on screening compliance in trauma patients. Methods: This before and after analysis of a quality improvement initiative to improve alcohol misuse screening was conducted from 2019 to 2021 at a Southwestern U.S. Level II trauma center on admitted trauma patients aged 13 years and older. The multicomponent initiative included a change in the screening instrument and timing of application, implementing electronic medical record documentation screens, and educating staff. The primary outcome measure was screening adherence. Results: A total of n = 4,734 patients were included in the study period. Alcohol misuse screening improved from 2.9% to 87.4% and remained sustained for over a year after the initiative's implementation. Conclusion: The performance improvement initiative improved the alcohol misuse screening process, resulting in consistent screenings exceeding the American College of Surgeons standards of 80% for verified trauma centers.
Water quality and hydrology in farm-scale coastal plain watersheds: Effects of agriculture, impoundments, and riparian zones

ABSTRACT: Dense dendritic stream networks in the Tifton Upland (southeastern U.S. coastal plain) provide an opportunity to determine the effects of land management practices on individual farms on downstream hydrology and water quality. A typical farm will be drained by two or three small streams. The streams may be bordered by riparian forests or impounded into farm ponds. Two adjacent farm-scale basins, both of which were 50 to 60 ha (124 to 148 ac) in size were compared for seven years to determine the effects of upstream agricultural land uses, downstream riparian zones, and small impoundments on stream water quality and hydrology. Stream water quality was sampled at four points on the two basins and at a downstream outlet where the two streams came together in a farm pond. The north basin had more cropland than the south basin and had much more area in plastic-covered beds for vegetable production. The south basin had less land in crop production and much more of the total basin area in farm ponds used to supply irrigation water. The north basin had more surface runoff and higher loads of all nutrients and sediment. The south basin had only 55% of the total runoff of the north basin, probably due to the presence of about 6% of the total watershed area in farm ponds. Up to 26% of the north basin (38% of total cropland) was occupied by wide plastic-covered beds in the last two years of the study. Large quantities of sediment transported in surface runoff from these fields on the north basin led to increases in sediment concentrations and loads of over 100 times compared to both the south basin and to earlier years of the study. Based on reductions in differences in loads and concentrations between upstream and downstream sites, there is less potential to reduce nutrients and sediment once these materials are in stream flow than when water is moving to streams through a riparian buffer. A downstream pond that received inputs from both the north and south basins had significantly lower concentrations of most nutrients and sediments than either of the upstream sampling sites.
Block Copolymer Self-Assembled and Cross-linked Block Copolymer Self-Assembled and Cross-linked Nanoassemblies for Combination Delivery of Iron Oxide and Nanoassemblies for Combination Delivery of Iron Oxide and

We describe the development of nanoscale polymer drug carriers for the combinational delivery of an anticancer drug (doxorubicin: DOX) along with super paramagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs). The drug molecules were electrostatically loaded into both block copolymer self-assembled nanoassemblies (SNAs) and cross-linked nanoassemblies (CNAs). Both nanoassemblies entrapped DOX and IONPs either individually or in tandem, maintaining sub-100 nm diameter. The IONP-loaded nanoassemblies generated heat in the presence of an alternating magnetic field (AMF). Incorporation of the drug payload, DOX, showed no adverse effects on the heating profile. Drug release from the SNAs and CNAs was accelerated as temperature increased from the normal body temperature (37°C) to a mild hyperthermic condition (40  42°C). CNAs released DOX faster than SNAs regardless of an incubation temperature. CNAs co-entrapped IONPs and DOX were more stable than SNAs in aqueous solutions for five days. These results suggest that block copolymer cross-linked nanoassemblies provide viable delivery platforms for combination delivery of inorganic molecules, anticancer drugs, and potentially other various biologically active substances.
Does Profitability Mediate the Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Stock Prices in ESG Leading Firms in Indonesia?

: This research aims to analyze whether profitability mediates the influence of corporate social responsibility on stock prices in ESG Leading firms in Indonesia. The sample for this study is 14 companies listed in IDXESGL during 2020–2022. In this quantitative study, path analysis of data panels using Eviews 12. The study's findings suggest that CSR and ROA have a significant influence on stock prices. However, ROA is not influenced by CSR, and ROA cannot act as a mediator for CSR in influencing stock prices. The study's findings provide businesses and stakeholders with insight that CSR is a long-term initiative that will eventually help both businesses and society.
Biologic-inspired Routing Algorithms for Distributed Collaborative Mobile Applications

—Mobile devices such as cell-phone and embedded systems have continuously increased in computing and sensing capacity. It is now practical to interconnect via wireless many of these devices enabling them to collectively cooperate in sophisticated discovery and service providing tasks. These applications, however, still need to address challenges such as unreliable and unsecured networks, transient distributed and centralized computing failures to deliver robust and reliable services. This paper describes an experience in building and evaluating a software and hardware architecture using MindStorm robots that communicate with cell-phone and a centralized ”station”. Collectively, with their own sensors these devices discover a simple scenario along with their obstacles. We present results from two types biologically-inspired message routing algorithms, namely and epidemic-based algorithm and an algorithm based n the behavior of ants. The results reveal that the ant-inspired algorithm tends to perform well in larger areas as it allows for multi-hopping of messages to reach remote nodes, whereas epidemic-inspired algorithm tends to perform well in more localized settings where the transmission capacity of the nodes reaches all nodes in that region thus avoiding the need for maintaining routing tables.
Hemşirelik Öğrencilerinin Akıllı Telefon Bağımlılığı ve Ders İçi Siber Aylaklık Düzeyleri Smartphone Addiction and in-Class Cyberloafing Levels of Nursing Students

Objective: This research was conducted to examine the relationship between nursing students' smartphone addiction and smartphone in-class cyberloafing levels. Method: The study is a descriptive, correlational research. The study sample consisted of state university nursing students (n= 370). The data was collected with descriptive information form, The Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version (SAS-SV), and The Smartphone Cyberloafing Scale in Classes (SPCSC) between 25.11. 2022 and 15.12. 2022. Results: It was determined that 49.4% of students spent five to seven hours on a smartphone a day, 80.1% expressed the purpose of using a smartphone in a face-to-face lesson as having fun; 54.9% of them used their smartphones during face-to-face lessons for purposes other than the lesson, 74.4% did not know the meaning of the word cyberloafing. The SAS-SV total score average of the nursing students was 30.61±10.96, SPCSC total score average was 42.41±18.19. There was a low-level positive correlation between SAS-SV total score and SPCSC total score and all SPCSC subdomains. Conclusion: It was found that half of the students spent five to seven hours a day on smartphones and were interested in smartphones out of class during face-to-face lessons. Most of them stated that they used smartphones for entertainment, most did not know the meaning of cyberloafing. It was concluded that the levels of smartphone addiction risk and smartphone cyberloafing in classes were at a moderate level, there was a low-level positive correlation between SAS-SV and SPCSC, and an increase in smartphone addiction risk would increase the level of smartphone cyberloafing in classes.
A biophysical allocation rule for meat products, based on energy requirements of body-tissue growth

In agricultural life cycle assessment (LCA), the choice of allocation methods to spread out impacts between coproducts is an important issue, as they may induce different conclusions in impact levels. We proposed a biophysical allocation method to dispatch the upstream environmental burdens and the use of raw materials to the body-related coproducts of beef cattle production system at slaughterhouse stage. The method is designed to build a relationship between coproducts of the beef cattle production system and their associated net energy requirements for body growth. So it doesn’t take into account the fate of the different coproducts, but only their building costs (i.e., energy needed for building tissues). A combination of metabolic growth model (Gompertz function) and models of energy cost of tissues was used to estimate the energy requirements for body growth from birth to slaughter age. The allocation factors were calculated based on the energy requirements attributed to build body tissues characterized by their chemical compositions (protein and lipid) with exclusion of waste. Finally, this method was compared with other allocation methods (e.g., physical, economic). The biophysical allocation reflects a physical and biological relationship between the coproducts as required by ISO standard. It provided a moderate allocation factor for human food due to their chemical characteristics compared to the other physical allocation methods. In addition, the data required is specific to species and less influenced within a predefined system than economic allocation. This study provides a generic and robust biophysical allocation method to handle the coproducts in beef cattle system. The method can be considered as an original contribution to the international debates on the allocation methods in LCA applied to livestock products, especially among the stakeholders of the meat value chains.
Folia Primatologica

The shared evolutionary histories and anatomical similarities between humans and nonhuman primates create dynamic interconnections between these alloprimates. In this foreword to Folia Primatologica ’s special issue on “Ethnographic Approaches in Primatology,“ we review the ethnographic method and existing literature at the intersection of primatology and ethnography. We summarize, compare, and contrast the five contributions to this special issue to highlight why the human-nonhuman primate interface is a compelling area to investigate via ethnographic approaches and to encourage increased incorporation of ethnography into the discipline of primatology.
Journal of Pharmacology and Therapy

Thyroid malignancies are considered rare but it is the most common type of endocrine malignancy that increase rapidly over the past decades. Specifically, papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) in the pyramidal lobe is extremely rare. Herein, we described a case of recurrence case of PTC in the pyramidal lobe post total thyroidectomy with category VI T2N1M1 (Bethesda classification) with right neck lymph nodes metastasis at once and attempt to determine both clinical presentation and therapeutical strategies to overcome this case to diminish the possibility of tumor recurrence and optimize therapeutic outcomes for PTC recurrence. It was reported a 28 yo female with a diagnosis of PTC from the pyramidal lobe post-total thyroidectomy procedure. A definite diagnosis of PTC is important to understand the patient’s condition and as a consideration to decide the appropriate procedure to cure it. The management of PTC with total thyroidectomy followed by removing the possible root source of recurrent PTC, such as the pyramidal lobe
Predicting prognosis and immune status in sarcomas by identifying necroptosis-related lncRNAs

Background: Sarcomas are a type of highly heterogeneous malignant tumors originating from mesenchymal tissues. Necroptosis is intricately connected to the oncogenesis and progression of tumors. The main goal of this research is to assess the prognostic value of necroptosis-related lncRNAs (NRlncRNAs) in sarcomas and to develop a risk model based on NRlncRNAs to evaluate prognostic and immune status of the sarcomas. Methods: We screened NRlncRNAs using the gene co-expression network, developed a prognostic risk model of sarcomas, and then verified the model. Following that, various bioinformatics analysis algorithms were employed to analyze the distinct characteristics of patients of the risk model. Furthermore, the function and regulatory mechanism of NRlncRNA SNHG6 in sarcomas were investigated through osteosarcoma cell experiments, such as qRT-PCR, Western blot, CCK-8, clone formation, and transwell assay. Results: We successfully developed a NRlncRNAs-related prognostic risk model and screened 5 prognosis-related NRlncRNAs, with SNGH6 being the most significant for prognosis of patients. According to results, the significant differences exist in prognosis, clinical characteristics, and tumor immune status among patients of the risk model. The experiments of osteosarcoma cells demonstrated that NRlncRNA SNHG6 knockdown significantly attenuated the cells’ proliferation, migration, and invasion. qRT-PCR and WB results showed that SNHG6 regulated AXL and AKT signaling. Conclusions: We have developed an innovative investigation on NRlncRNAs, which can serve as a reference for diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis of sarcomas. Additionally, we demonstrated that NRlncRNA SNHG6 regulated AXL and AKT signaling in osteosarcoma cells and the proliferation, migration, and invasion of tumor cells.