Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and pregnancy: a case report

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is seen in approximately 3% of women of childbearing age. Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is the most common glomerular disorder that causes end stage renal disease (ESRD). It commonly presents with nephrotic syndrome which increases the risk of pregnancy complications. We report successful pregnancy outcome in a young woman with FSGS and nephrotic syndrome who was not on treatment till 20 weeks of gestation. Antihypertensives and immunosuppressants were titrated. Strict antepartum fetal surveillance and follow-up with nephrologist were done. Caesarean section was performed at 32 weeks because of rising proteinuria despite therapy and IUGR. Post-operative recovery was uneventful. Resolution of proteinuria is the cornerstone in the management of FSGS as this delays the progression of the disease.
Positional behavior and canopy use of black snub-nosed monkeys Rhinopithecus strykeri in the Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China

Abstract Studies on positional behavior and canopy use are essential for understanding how arboreal animals adapt their morphological characteristics and behaviors to the challenges of their environment. This study explores canopy and substrate use along with positional behavior in adult black snub-nosed monkeys Rhinopithecus strykeri, an endemic, critically endangered primate species in Gaoligong Mountains, southwest China. Using continuous focal animal sampling, we collected data over a 52-month period and found that R. strykeri is highly arboreal primarily using the high layers of the forest canopy (15–30 m), along with the terminal zone of tree crowns (52.9%), medium substrates (41.5%), and oblique substrates (56.8%). We also found sex differences in canopy and substrate use. Females use the terminal zones (56.7% versus 40.4%), small/medium (77.7% versus 60.1%), and oblique (59.9% versus 46.5%) substrates significantly more than males. On the other hand, males spend more time on large/very large (39.9% versus 22.3%) and horizontal (49.7% versus 35.2%) substrates. Whereas both sexes mainly sit (84.7%), and stand quadrupedally (9.1%), males stand quadrupedally (11.5% versus 8.3%), and bipedally (2.9% versus 0.8%) more often than females. Clamber, quadrupedalism, and leap/drop are the main locomotor modes for both sexes. Rhinopithecus strykeri populations never enter canopies of degenerated secondary forest and mainly use terminal branches in the middle and upper layers of canopies in intact mid-montane moist evergreen broadleaf forest and hemlock coniferous broadleaf mixed forests across their habitat.
MOF(ZM)/Potassium Citrate-Derived Composite Porous Carbon and Its Electrochemical Properties

Metal-organic frameworks are compounds with a reticulated skeletal structure formed by chemically bonding inorganic and organic units that are widely used in many fields, such as photocatalysis, gas separation and energy storage, because of their unique structures. In this paper, we prepared a metal-organic framework [(μ2-2-methylimidazolyl)12-Zn(ii)6-H18O10]n(ZM) with well-developed pores and high specific surface area of MOFs by the solution method. And MOF-derived porous carbon was prepared by the direct charring method in an argon atmosphere using a mixture of ZM, ZM and potassium citrate as carbon precursors. Characterization analysis revealed that the maximum specific surface area of ZMPC-800-1:15 was 2014.97 m2⋅g−1, and the pore size structure was mainly mesoporous. At a current density of 1.0 A⋅g−1 the specific capacitance of ZMC-800 and ZMPC-800-1:15 was 121.3 F⋅g−1 and 226.6 F⋅g−1, respectively, with a substantial increase of 86.8%. The specific capacitance of ZMPC-800-1:15 decays to 168.8 F⋅g−1, with a decay rate of 25.5%, when the current density increases to 10.0 A⋅g−1. After 5000 constant current charge/ discharge cycles, the capacitance retention rate was still 96.41%. These results prove that the application of MOF-derived carbon materials in future supercapacitors is very promising.
MintM: the start-up transforming businesses real-time

ABSTRACT In an increasingly digital world, technology-based start-ups face challenges which are of unique nature and hence cannot be fathomed by organizations belonging to another genre. The case study focuses on a series of strategic and business model redesigning challenges faced by Ashutosh Chouksey, Executive Vice President – Expansion and Strategic Operations, while co-leading a technology-based customer engagement and digital signage solutions start-up, MintM. MintM has a business to business (B2B) based model that relies on its own proprietary software to display targeted audio-visual content in stores and supermarkets, offering the unique value proposition of simultaneous last mile advertising connectivity and customer analysis. The core product of MintM requires regular upkeep creating a conflict: a chance of global outreach versus operational hassles hindering its growth trajectory. The case is an appropriate platform for demonstrating information technology-based business model management dilemma in a fast-changing digital milieu, whether to improvise on organizational structure or product particulars. The case also presents an opportunity to discuss operational challenges hindering expansion plans and how to strategize and redesign business model to overcome the same and cater to clientele in a niche nascent market while still maintaining a lean team.
Secondary amenorrhea in a case of gonadotropin independent precocious puberty: McCune-Albright syndrome

Precocious puberty may be gonadotropin dependent or gonadotropin independent and due to a myriad of causes including syndromic association. McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS) is a rare disorder, characterized by the triad of precocious puberty, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia of bone and café-au-lait macules. Here, we describe a case of childhood onset gonadotropin independent precocious puberty who presented at 19 years of age with secondary amenorrhea. On detailed evaluation, she was found to have multiple café au lait spots and polyostotic fibrous dysplasia and diagnosis of MAS were made. Typically, the lesions of fibrous dysplasia are most active during childhood and adolescence, tending to become quiescent in adult life, new active lesions being rare in adults. In our case, despite fibrous dysplasia being asymptomatic on presentation, there were multiple active polyostotic lesions with bilateral encroachment of optic foramina, which is rare at this age. This case highlights the fact that careful examination for syndromic features and periodic follow up are important in all cases of precocious puberty.
Multicycle Simulation of Strike-Slip Earthquake Rupture for Use in Near-Source Ground-Motion Simulations

Realistic dynamic rupture modeling validated by observed earthquakes is necessary for estimating parameters that are poorly resolved by seismic source inversion, such as stress drop, rupture velocity, and slip rate function. Source inversions using forward dynamic modeling are increasingly used to obtain earthquake rupture models. In this study, to generate a large number of physically self-consistent rupture models, rupture process of which is consistent with the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of stress produced by previous earthquakes on the same fault, we use multicycle simulations under the rate and state (RS) friction law. We adopt a one-way coupling from multicycle simulations to dynamic rupture simulations; the quasidynamic solver QDYN is used to nucleate the seismic events and the spectral element dynamic solver SPECFEM3D to resolve their rupture process. To simulate realistic seismicity, with a wide range of magnitudes and irregular recurrence, several realizations of 2D-correlated heterogeneous random distributions of characteristic weakening distance (Dc) in RS friction are tested. Other important parameters are the normal stress, which controls the stress drop and rupture velocity during an earthquake, and the maximum value of Dc, which controls rupture velocity but not stress drop. We perform a parametric study on a vertical planar fault and generate a set of a hundred spontaneous rupture models in a wide magnitude range (Mw 5.5–7.4). We validate the rupture models by comparison of source scaling, ground motion (GM), and surface slip properties to observations. We compare the source-scaling relations between rupture area, average slip, and seismic moment of the modeled events with empirical ones derived from source inversions. Near-fault GMs are computed from the source models. Their peak ground velocities and peak ground accelerations agree well with the ground-motion prediction equation values. We also obtain good agreement of the surface fault displacements with observed values.
A survey of current practice in reporting third trimester fetal biometry and Doppler in Australia and New Zealand

Inconsistent reporting practices in third trimester ultrasound, the choice of reference charts in particular, have the potential to misdiagnose abnormal fetal growth. But this may lead to unnecessary anxiety and confusion amongst patients and clinicians and ultimately influence clinical management. Therefore, we sought to determine the extent of variability in choice of fetal biometry and Doppler reference charts and reporting practices in Australia and New Zealand.
Real-space parallel density matrix renormalization group with adaptive boundaries

We propose an improved real-space parallel strategy for the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method, where boundaries of separate regions are adaptively distributed during DMRG sweeps. Our scheme greatly improves the parallel efficiency with shorter waiting time between two adjacent tasks, compared with the original real-space parallel DMRG with fixed boundaries. We implement our new strategy based on the message passing interface (MPI), and dynamically control the number of kept states according to the truncation error in each DMRG step. We study the performance of the new parallel strategy by calculating the ground state of a spin-cluster chain and a quantum chemical Hamiltonian of the water molecule. The maximum parallel efficiencies for these two models are 91% and 76% in 4 nodes, which are much higher than the real-space parallel DMRG with fixed boundaries.
Toxic Effects of Heavy Metals and Organic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sediment Porewater on the Amphipod Hyalella azteca and Zebrafish Brachydanio rerio Embryos from Different Rivers in Taiwan

The amphipod (Hyalella azteca) and zebrafish (Brachydanio rerio) embryos were used for toxicological sediment porewater testing. Porewaters from 35 sampling stations of eight streams in southern Taiwan were screened for toxic effects and their relationship with 6 metal and 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Concentration analysis results showed that the following PAHs, naphththalene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, dibenz(a,h)anthracene, acenaphthalene, and the heavy metal cadmium were not detected in 35 sampling stations. The highest detection rate of 94.1% was caused by the PAHs fluoranthene and pyrene. The highest detection rate of the metal zinc was 88.6% of 35 analyzed samples. The majority of samples (88%) were classified as level tier 1 according to USEPA national sediment inventory. This indicates the probability of adverse effects on aquatic life or human health. The results of a zebrafish embryo test showed that heart rate and survival were significantly reduced with all porewater samples. Therefore, fish exposed to contaminated river conditions may be affected in their cardiovascular functions. Looking at correlations between toxic effects of metals and PAHs, we found that phenanthrene, anthracene, pyrene, benzo(a)anthracene, chrysene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, and benzo(a)pyrene were low, while fluorene was highly correlated with toxic effects of metals.
Domain-Aware Self-Attention for Multi-Domain Neural Machine Translation

In this paper, we investigate multi-domain neural machine translation (NMT) that translates sentences of different domains in a single model. To this end, we propose a domain-aware self-attention mechanism that jointly learns domain representations with the single NMT model. The learned domain representations are integrated into both the encoder and decoder. We further propose two different domain representation learning approaches: 1) word-level unsupervised learning via a domain attention network and 2) guided learning with an auxiliary loss. The two learning approaches allow our multi-domain NMT to work in different settings as to whether the domain information is available or not. Experiments on both Chinese-English and English-French demonstrate that our multi-domain model out-performs a strong baseline built on the Transformer and other previous multi-domain NMT approaches. Further analyses show that our model is able to learn domain clusters even without prior knowledge about the domain structure.
Wet Deposition of Mercury and Dissolved Organic Carbon during Pre-Monsoon and Monsoon Periods at Sitapuri Site in Delhi (India)

This rainwater chemistry study was carried out during monsoon and pre-monsoon seasons in 2018. The rainwater samples were collected in the residential area of Sitapuri which is situated the southwest zone of city Delhi. The rainwater samples were collected with the help of the funnel and bottle assembly on event basis. To refrain any contamination from the ground, the assembly was mounted at 5m above the ground level on a terrace. The assembly was always installed on the onset of rain and retrieved soon after the rain stopped. The collected samples were filtered. The samples were analyzed for Mercury (Hg0), Total Nitrogen (TN) and Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC). The Hg(o) determination was done using Differential Pulse Anodic Stripping Voltammetry through standard addition methods and DOC species and TN species were determined using DOC/TN analyzer (Shimadzu model LCPH/CPN). The average concentration of Hg0 was recorded as 54.9 μg/l, while that of DOC and TN as 160.2 mg/l and 12.6 mg/l respectively. The study indicated that Hg0 and DOC were not contributed by common emission sources. Also, the study indicated that pre-monsoon air was more contaminated with Hg (0), TN and DOC as compared to the monsoon season.
Morphological properties of one-dimensional ZnO nanostructures grown by thermal chemical vapor deposition with defferent source materials

Abstract One-dimensional (1D) ZnO nanostructures showing various shapes were synthesized on ZnO-deposited Si substrates using a thermal chemical vapor deposition technique and their morphological, crystallographic, and optical properties were investigated. Relative to ZnO nanostructures prepared at 700 °C, the nanostructures synthesized at 900 °C increased in grain size and were tapered, resulting in the tapering of the 1D ZnO nanostructures. However, the morphologies of two samples fabricated using different source materials are different from each other, which is probably related to the producer gas reactions due to a carbothermal reduction process. All samples showed hexagonal wurtzite structures with a preferred orientation of the (002) plane and revealed photoluminescence spectra with different optical trapping at surface defect states and oxygen vacancies.
Stories and Their Role in Social Cognition

Fiction – when it is listened to, or when it appears in print, film, and video games – introduces people not only to storyworlds, but also to characters, their relationships, and complex social interactions. A growing body of research suggests that people who listen to, read, or watch fiction may learn social skills from stories through various mechanisms, including identifying with and forming parasocial relationships with characters, and simulating the social experiences depicted in the story. This chapter begins by reviewing theories that explain the potential effects of engaging with fiction and the possible mechanisms through which these effects might manifest. We then describe the methods used to investigate the effects of fiction and present a brief overview of both correlational and experimental findings. This overview indicates that there is robust evidence of an association between lifetime exposure to fiction and social cognition, but results from experimental studies have been mixed. Finally, we identify the most important gaps in the current research and propose directions for future research. Despite recent efforts to test the effects of manipulating engagement with fiction on a limited range of social cognitive abilities, many aspects of social cognition have yet to be explored, and there is a clear need for longitudinal intervention studies.
New detrital zircon U–Pb insights on the palaeogeographic origin of the central Sanandaj–Sirjan zone, Iran

Abstract New detrital U–Pb zircon ages from the Sanandaj–Sirjan metamorphic zone in the Zagros orogenic belt allow discussion of models of the late Neoproterozoic to early Palaeozoic plate tectonic evolution and position of the Iranian microcontinent within a global framework. A total of 194 valid age values from 362 zircon grains were obtained from three garnet-micaschist samples. The most abundant detrital zircon population included Ediacaran ages, with the main age peak at 0.60 Ga. Other significant age peaks are at c. 0.64–0.78 Ga, 0.80–0.91 Ga, 0.94–1.1 Ga, 1.8–2.0 Ga and 2.1–2.5 Ga. The various Palaeozoic zircon age peaks could be explained by sediment supply from sources within the Iranian microcontinent. However, Precambrian ages were found, implying a non-Iranian provenance or recycling of upper Ediacaran–Palaeozoic clastic rocks. Trace-element geochemical fingerprints show that most detrital zircons were sourced from continental magmatic settings. In this study, the late Grenvillian age population at c. 0.94–1.1 Ga is used to unravel the palaeogeographic origin of the Sanandaj–Sirjan metamorphic zone. This Grenvillian detrital age population relates to the ‘Gondwana superfan’ sediments, as found in many Gondwana-derived terranes within the European Variscides and Turkish terranes, but also to units further east, e.g. in the South China block. Biogeographic evidence proves that the Iranian microcontinent developed on the same North Gondwana margin extending from the South China block via Iran further to the west.
Cryptic diversity and gene introgression of Moinidae (Crustacea: Cladocera) in Nigeria

The distribution and species/lineage diversity of freshwater invertebrate zooplankton is understudied in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the present study, we explored the lineage diversity and regional distribution of Moinidae (Crustacea: Cladocera) species in Southeast Nigeria. Three species of Moinidae were identified, based on morphology, in 11 of 32 Nigerian lakes examined. Their phylogenetic relationships were investigated based on mitochondrial dna sequences (cytochrome oxidase c subunit I gene; coi) and two nuclear internal transcribed spacer regions (its-1 and its-2). Three coi lineages were detected, corresponding to the morphological species. Two of the coi lineages are newly reported, but one coi lineage (and the haplotype found) is globally distributed, suggesting an ability of moinids to disperse over long distances. Interestingly, two individuals that were morphologically M. cf. macrocopa and had its alleles typical of that species had mtDNA sequences typical of M. cf. micrura. Additionally, one individual that corresponded morphologically to M. cf. macrocopa (and also had a mitochondrial sequence typical of M. cf. micrura) had one its-2 allele typical of that species and one typical of M. cf. micrura. This discordance between mtDNA and nuclear phylogenies suggests gene introgression and/or hybridization between different species within the genus. Our data shows the lineage distribution/diversity and the presence of gene introgression/interspecific hybridization among moinid species from a tropical region.
Seal interactions and exits from fisheries: insights from the Baltic Sea cod fishery

Waldo, Seal interactions and exits from ﬁsheries: insights from the Baltic Sea cod ﬁshery. Marine Science, –. The number of seals in the Baltic Sea has increased dramatically in recent years. While growing seal populations are associated with a thriving marine environment, seals interact with coastal ﬁsheries causing signiﬁcant damages to catches and gears. One ﬁshery that is severely aﬀected is the coastal cod ﬁshery where the negative impact of seals is believed by many to threaten the existence of the ﬁshery. This article empirically investigates to what extent seal damages can explain the declining number of ﬁshing vessels active in the Baltic Sea coastal cod ﬁshery. The analysis makes use of detailed logbook data and statistical survival models to estimate the eﬀect of seal interactions with ﬁshing gears on the exit probability of vessels in the Swedish cod ﬁshery. The results show that seal interactions is an important factor explaining exits, suggesting that total losses caused by seals go beyond observed costs of broken gears and damaged catches.
Long Term Influence of Manure- Fertilizer Treatments on Soil Biological Health and Yield of Rice Crop

Long term manure fertilizer experiments provide valuable information on the impact of long term adoption of nutrient management systems with varying sources, types and combinations of plant nutrient inputs on soil fertility and productivity. A Permanent Manurial Experiment (PME) under rice monoculture is in operation since 1975 at the central farm of the Agricultural College and Research Institute, Madurai. The present study was taken up to evaluate the effects of different manure – fertilizer schedules on certain properties of the soil, available nutrient status, total microbial population and enzyme activities of the soil. In this experiment, four main plot treatments involving three organic manures viz., FYM, GLM and UC @ 12.5 t ha-1 with a no manure control and eight sub plot treatments viz., control N,P,K,NP,NK,PK and NPK. The 57th rice crop (Var ADT 49) was raised during rabi 2016 with NPK recommended dose of 150:50:50 kg N, P2O5 and K2O respectively. The maximum total bacterial population (128 x 106 CFUg-1 of dry soil), total fungal population (70 x 104 CFUg-1 of dry soil) and total actinomycetes population ( 84 x 103 CFUg-1 of dry soil) were registered in the plots that received integrated application of GLM @ 12.5 tha-1 and 100% recommended NPK (150:50:50 kgha-1 during this season). However compared to the bacterial population, the inorganic fertilizers did not have much influence on the fungal population as that of the organic manures. Integrated application of GLM @ 12.5 tha-1 along with N fertilizer with or without P and K registered the maximum dehydrogenase activity, during tillering stage of rice crop. The maximum yields of rice grain and straw (4790 and 8701 kg ha-1) respectively was recorded in the treatments that received GLM and NPK and it was evident that the inclusion of FYM or GLM or Urban compost along with NPK, N, NP, and NK fertilizers recorded significantly higher yields than their individual applications and unmanured and unfertilized control.