Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Impact of the Low Quality of Teachers on the Learning Process Results of School Accreditation in Manggarai Regency Indonesia

In 2021, Manggarai Regency had 20 schools targeted for BAN S/M NTT accreditation. This accreditation process evaluates school services based on key components such as the quality of graduates, the learning process, teacher quality, and school management, utilizing 36 core assessment points. Our research centers on understanding the intricate relationship between teacher quality components and the learning process. Employing a cross-analysis and a concise descriptive approach, we identified both positive and negative impacts within each component, either directly or indirectly. Utilizing a descriptive-qualitative method, we scrutinized accreditation results documents and conducted cross-cutting analyses to discern these impacts. Our findings revealed a significant connection between the components of teacher quality and the learning process. Specifically, the subpar performance of teachers in points 22 and 21 directly influenced the students' activeness, ability, and skills during the learning process (as evident in points 12 and 15). The primary objective of this research is to delve into this relationship between accreditation components and offer strategic solutions to address the identified negative impacts. In adhering to the research objectives, we maintain brevity in presenting the methods and results, prioritizing a focused exploration of the relationship between teacher quality components and the learning process.
Bilinear forms on the Dirichlet space

Let $\mathcal{D}$ be the classical Dirichlet space, the Hilbert space of holomorphic functions on the disk. Given a holomorphic symbol function $b$ we define the associated Hankel type bilinear form, initially for polynomials f and g, by $T_{b}(f,g):= _{\mathcal{D}} $, where we are looking at the inner product in the space $\mathcal{D}$. We let the norm of $T_{b}$ denotes its norm as a bilinear map from $\mathcal{D}\times\mathcal{D}$ to the complex numbers. We say a function $b$ is in the space $\mathcal{X}$ if the measure $d\mu_{b}:=| b^{\prime}(z)| ^{2}dA$ is a Carleson measure for $\mathcal{D}$ and norm $\mathcal{X}$ by $$ \Vert b\Vert_{\mathcal{X}}:=| b(0)| +\Vert | b^{\prime}(z)| ^{2}dA\Vert_{CM(\mathcal{D})}^{1/2}. $$ Our main result is $T_{b}$ is bounded if and only if $b\in\mathcal{X}$ and $$ \Vert T_{b}\Vert_{\mathcal{D\times D}}\approx\Vert b\Vert_{\mathcal{X}}. $$
Electromyographic monitoring of facial nerve under different levels of neuromuscular blockade during middle ear microsurgery

Background The evoked electromyography (EMG) is frequently used to identify facial nerve in order to prevent its damage during surgeries. Partial neuromuscular blockade (NMB) has been suggested to favor EMG activity and insure patients’ safety. The aim of this study was to determine an adequate level of NMB correspondent to sensible facial nerve identification by evaluating the relationship between facial EMG responses and peripheral NMB levels during the middle ear surgeries. Methods Facial nerve evoked EMG and NMB monitoring were performed simultaneously in 40 patients who underwent tympanoplasty. Facial electromyographic responses were recorded by insertion of needle electrodes into the orbicularis oris and orbicularis oculi muscles after electrical stimulation on facial nerve. The NMB was observed objectively with the hypothenar muscle's twitching after electrical stimulation of ulnar nerve, and the intensity of blockade was adjusted at levels of 0, 25%, 50%, 75%, 90%, and 100% respectively with increased intravenous infusion of Rocuronium (muscle relaxant). Results All of the patients had detectable EMG responses at the levels of NMB ≤50%. Four out of forty patients had no EMG response at the levels of NMB ≥75%. A significant linear positive correlation was present between stimulation thresholds and NMB levels while a linear negative correlation was present between EMG amplitudes and NMB levels. Conclusions The facial nerve monitoring via facial electromyographic responses can be obtained when an intraoperative partial neuromuscular blockade is induced to provide an adequate immobilization of the patient. The 50% NMB should be considered as the choice of anesthetic management for facial nerve monitoring in otologic microsurgery based on the relationship of correlation.
Bag of Optical Flow Volumes for Image Sequence Recognition

This paper introduces a novel 3D interest point detector and feature representation for describing image sequences. The approach considers image sequences as spatiotemporal volumes and detects Maximally Stable Volumes (MSVs) in efficiently calculated optical flow fields. This provides a set of binary optical flow volumes highlighting the dominant motions in the sequences. 3D interest points are sampled on the surface of the volumes which balance well between density and informativeness. The binary optical flow volumes are used as feature representation in a 3D shape context descriptor. A standard bag-of-words approach then allows building discriminant optical flow volume signatures for predicting class labels of previously unseen image sequences by machine learning algorithms. We evaluate the proposed method for the task of action recognition on the well-known Weizmann dataset, and show that we outperform recently proposed state-of-the-art 3D interest point detection and description methods.
The use of propofol, nitrous oxide, or isoflurane does not affect the reproductive success rate following gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT): a multicenter pilot trial/survey.

BACKGROUND Whether anesthetic agents administered during gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) affect reproductive outcome is controversial. This multicenter pilot trial and survey had two purposes: to evaluate the effect of propofol, nitrous oxide, midazolam, and isoflurane on pregnancy outcome after GIFT, and to determine if a larger prospective, randomized study is warranted. METHODS A written invitation was mailed to all 50 fertility programs in the United States that are members of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology and perform more than 30 GIFT procedures per year. They were invited to contribute information from the medical records of women who underwent GIFT during the calendar years 1993 and 1994. They were asked to document whether propofol, nitrous oxide, midazolam, a potent inhaled anesthetic agent was used during the GIFT procedure; if the woman became pregnant; and if she delivered at least one live neonate. RESULTS Seven medical centers participated and contributed data from 455 women. The clinical pregnancy rate (number of pregnancies/total number of GIFT procedures) and the delivery rate (number of women who delivered at least one live baby/total number of GIFT procedures) were 35% and 32%, respectively. A statistically significant difference could not be found in the clinical pregnancy or delivery rates between those women who received propofol, nitrous oxide, midazolam, or isoflurane during GIFT and those who did not. CONCLUSIONS No agent-related differences in pregnancy rates were found when propofol, nitrous oxide, isoflurane, or midazolam was used as part of the anesthetic technique for GIFT. Therefore, a more extensive prospective trial does not appear to be warranted.
Novel role for polycystin‐1 in modulating cell proliferation through calcium oscillations in kidney cells

Abstract. Objectives: Polycystin‐1 (PC1), a signalling receptor regulating Ca2+‐permeable cation channels, is mutated in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, which is typically characterized by increased cell proliferation. However, the precise mechanisms by which PC1 functions on Ca2+ homeostasis, signalling and cell proliferation remain unclear. Here, we investigated the possible role of PC1 as a modulator of non‐capacitative Ca2+ entry (NCCE) and Ca2+ oscillations, with downstream effects on cell proliferation. Results and discussion: By employing RNA interference, we show that depletion of endogenous PC1 in HEK293 cells leads to an increase in serum‐induced Ca2+ oscillations, triggering nuclear factor of activated T cell activation and leading to cell cycle progression. Consistently, Ca2+ oscillations and cell proliferation are increased in PC1‐mutated kidney cystic cell lines, but both abnormal features are reduced in cells that exogenously express PC1. Notably, blockers of the NCCE pathway, but not of the CCE, blunt abnormal oscillation and cell proliferation. Our study therefore provides the first demonstration that PC1 modulates Ca2+ oscillations and a molecular mechanism to explain the association between abnormal Ca2+ homeostasis and cell proliferation in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.
Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutical Implications of Intramembrane Receptor/Receptor Interactions among Heptahelical Receptors with Examples from the Striatopallidal GABA Neurons

The molecular basis for the known intramembrane receptor/receptor interactions among G protein-coupled receptors was postulated to be heteromerization based on receptor subtype-specific interactions between different types of receptor homomers. The discovery of GABAB heterodimers started this field rapidly followed by the discovery of heteromerization among isoreceptors of several G protein-coupled receptors such as δ/κ opioid receptors. Heteromerization was also discovered among distinct types of G protein-coupled receptors with the initial demonstration of somatostatin SSTR5/dopamine D2 and adenosine A1/dopamine D1 heteromeric receptor complexes. The functional meaning of these heteromeric complexes is to achieve direct or indirect (via adapter proteins) intramembrane receptor/receptor interactions in the complex. G protein-coupled receptors also form heteromeric complexes involving direct interactions with ion channel receptors, the best example being the GABAA/dopamine D5 receptor heteromerization, as well as with receptor tyrosine kinases and with receptor activity modulating proteins. As an example, adenosine, dopamine, and glutamate metabotropic receptor/receptor interactions in the striatopallidal GABA neurons are discussed as well as their relevance for Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, and drug dependence. The heterodimer is only one type of heteromeric complex, and the evidence is equally compatible with the existence of higher order heteromeric complexes, where also adapter proteins such as homer proteins and scaffolding proteins can exist. These complexes may assist in the process of linking G protein-coupled receptors and ion channel receptors together in a receptor mosaic that may have special integrative value and may constitute the molecular basis for some forms of learning and memory.
Intensification of Convective Rain Cells at Warmer Temperatures Observed from High-Resolution Weather Radar Data

AbstractThis study contributes to the understanding of the relationship between air temperature and convection by analyzing the characteristics of rainfall at the storm and convective rain cell scales. High spatial–temporal resolution (1 km, 5 min) estimates from a uniquely long weather radar record (24 years) were coupled with near-surface air temperature over Mediterranean and semiarid regions in the eastern Mediterranean. In the examined temperature range (5°–25°C), the peak intensity of individual convective rain cells was found to increase with temperature, but at a lower rate than the 7%°C−1 scaling expected from the Clausius–Clapeyron relation, while the area of the individual convective rain cells slightly decreases or, at most, remains unchanged. At the storm scale, the areal convective rainfall was found to increase with warmer temperatures, whereas the areal nonconvective rainfall and the stormwide area decrease. This suggests an enhanced moisture convergence from the stormwide extent toward th.
GROWTH PERFORMANCE OF THREE NATIVE TREE SPECIES FOR PULPWOOD PLANTATION IN DRAINED PEATLAND OF PELALAWAN DISTRICT, RIAU

The productivity of exotic species developed in pulpwood plantations in Indonesia (HTI-pulp) has been continuously decreasing. On the other side, there is a possibility to develop several promising native tree species in peatland HTI-pulp plantations. However, less information is available on the performance of those native tree species for planting in peatland pulpwood plantation. This study evaluates the performances (survival rate, growth and yield) of three native trees [mahang (Macaranga pruinosa), skubung (Macaranga gigantea) and geronggang (Cratoxylum arborescens)] in drained peatland, in terms of suitability for pulpwood plantation. An experiment plot was established by planting three native tree species and krasikarpa (Acacia crassicarpa) in drained peatland at Pelalawan District, Riau. Survival, growth and yield variables were monitored frequently until 5.5 years after planting (YAP) and then were analyzed. Geronggang (survival rate = 80.0%) and mahang (survival rate = 65.6%) showed good survival rates at 5.5 YAP which were significantly (p<0.05) higher than that of krassikarpa (22.4%). Geronggang and mahang are relatively promising growth and yield in which height, diameter and yield increment until 5.5 YAP were 1.96 m/year and 2.31 m/year; 2.08 cm/year and 2.59 cm/year; 13.1 m3/ha/year and 21.4 m3/ha/year, respectively. Yet, those growths and yields were still significantly (p<0.05) lower than those of krasikarpa, probably due to unequal seedling quality. These results indicated the potential of mahang and geronggang to be developed in peatland pulpwood plantations. However, tree improvement program is necessarily required for mahang and geronggang to initiate the development.
The Student Advice Recommender Agent: SARA

SARA, the Student Advice Recommender Agent is a system somewhat like an early alert system, where predictive models of learners’ success combined with incremental data on learners’ activity in a course can be used to identify students in academic distress. With SARA, rather than give alerts to academic advisors or professors, we provide personalized advice directly to students. An advice string – “A note from SARA” is prepared for each student every week in a semester-long course. The system attempts to direct students to appropriate learning supports and resources according to their individual needs. We have observed a significant year over year improvement in unadjusted student grades after the SARA’s advice recommender was implemented in a 1200student freshman STEM course.
A Fair Congestion Control Algorithm for FAST TCP

The overestimate of the round trip propagation delay in FAST TCP will cause unfairness. In this paper, we propose a new congestion control algorithm which regulates the window size using the packet marking probability of the router to overcome the unfairness of FAST TCP. The simulation results show that the algorithm can improve fairness and the stability is also analyzed
Le management par résultats: une perspective transculturelle

Preoccupation with performance is found in a great many administrations in the world, making it almost universal. It appears in most of the modernization or administrative reform projects that are shaking up the world of public administration. Administrators use the same words, but it is not certain that they have a common meaning. This article attempts to identify how performance management is conceived by public administrators from very different countries. It shows that, rather than being univocal, the principles are understood in ways that are sometimes contradictory, which should have an influence on reforms.
Coordinated downlink and uplink user association and beamforming for energy minimizationincloud radio access network

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) has been recently proposed, in which densely deployed access points (APs) are empowered by cloud computing, to achieve enormous mobile data rates. However, close proximity of many active APs results in more severe interference and also inefficient energy consumption. To tackle this problem, we propose a joint downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) user-AP association and beamforming design in this paper to coordinate interference in the C-RAN for energy minimization. The design problem is shown to be NP hard, but exhibits an interesting “group-sparse” property. By establishing a virtual DL transmission for the original UL transmission based on the celebrated UL-DL duality result, we convert the problem to an equivalent DL problem in C-RAN with two inter-related subproblems for the original and virtual DL transmissions, respectively, and obtain an efficient solution through “group-sparse” optimization.
Optimal quality (131)I-monoclonal antibodies on high-dose labeling in a large reaction volume and temporarily coating the antibody with IODO-GEN.

UNLABELLED A novel, facile procedure for efficient coupling of high doses of (131)I to monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) was developed with minimal chemical and radiation damage. METHODS To diminish the radiation and chemical burden during labeling, iodination was performed in a large reaction volume and by temporarily coating the MAb with a minimal amount of IODO-GEN. The MAb was coated by injection of IODO-GEN (dissolved in acetonitrile [MeCN]) into the aqueous MAb solution, and the coating was subsequently removed by addition of ascorbic acid. For chemoprotection before, during, and after PD-10 purification of the (131)I-MAbs, ascorbic acid and human serum albumin were used. The effects of autoradiolysis in the starting (131)I solution were countered by treatment with NaOH and ascorbic acid. For this so-called IODO-GEN-coated MAb method, the sensitive chimeric MAb MOv18 (c-MOv18) and the more robust murine MAbs K928 and E48 were used. The high-dose (131)I-labeled MAbs were characterized for radiochemical purity and MAb integrity by thin-layer chromatography, high-performance liquid chromatography, and sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by phosphor imager quantification. The high-dose (131)I-labeled MAbs were also characterized for immunoreactivity. The radiopharmacokinetics and biodistribution of (131)I-c-MOv18 were analyzed in human tumor-bearing nude mice. For comparison, (131)I-c-MOv18 batches were made using the conventional chloramine-T or IODO-GEN-coated vial method. RESULTS Conventional high-dose labeling of 5 mg c-MOv18 with 4.4 GBq (131)I resulted in a labeling yield of 60%, a radiochemical purity of 90%, an immunoreactive fraction of 25% (72% being the maximum in the assay used), and the presence of aggregation and degradation products. Using similar amounts of (131)I and MAb in the IODO-GEN-coated MAb method, 85%-89% overall radiochemical yield, at least 99.7% radiochemical purity, and full preservation of MAb integrity and immunoreactivity were achieved. For this labeling, 5 mg MAb were coated with 35 microg IODO-GEN during 3 min in a reaction volume of 6 mL. Also, biodistribution was optimal, and tumor accumulation was superior to that of coinjected (125)I-c-MOv18 labeled according to the conventional IODO-GEN-coated vial method. CONCLUSION A new, facile, high-dose (131)I-labeling method was developed for production of (131)I-labeled MAbs with optimal quality for use in clinical radioimmunotherapy.
[Obese pregnant women have complicated deliveries].

INTRODUCTION On the background of the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity, we wanted to describe the deliveries among this group of women. MATERIAL AND METHODS A prospective study of 798 pregnant women during 1 1/2 year. According to Body-Mass-Index (BMI) all referred women were divided into three groups considering their age and parity. A) 270 pregnant women with BMI 26-30. B) 132 pregnant women with BMI > 30. C) 320 pregnant women with BMI 20-25, the control group. RESULTS The deliveries were induced at 9% and 11% in group A and group B, making a significant difference to the induction of 5% among the controls (p < 0.05). The most frequent reason for induction was graviditas prolongata. This was the case for 5% in group A and 6% in group B compared to 3% in group C. This was not significant (p = 0.24). The rates of cesarean section were 19% and 24% in group A and B, making a significant difference to the rate of 9% among the controls (p < 0.01). Disproportio foetopelvina and late decelerations were the most frequent reason for cesarean section during delivery. Disproportio foetopelvina discovered during delivery was the case for 5% in group A and 8% in group B compared to 1% in group C. This difference is significant with p < 0.05. DISCUSSION Our study shows that obese and pregnant women have a high rate of induction and postdatism. They have a higher rate of cesarean section compared to normal weight women and get more frequently cesarean section during delivery because of disproportio foetopelvina. Health service professionals working with pregnant women should be aware of the overweight problems.
An Experiment in Simulation Coercion

If simulations could be coerced -- literally reshaped -- to conform to requirements different from those for which they were originally designed, many of the challenges facing the simulation community should become less daunting. Success could foster reuse, enable linkages between multi-resolution models, and increase the chances of success for interoperability and composability. We consider coercing as it applies to multi-resolution modeling. Given two simulations of the same phenomenon at different levels of detail, we explore coercing the lower resolution simplified simulation to produce results that correspond satisfactorily with the detailed high resolution simulation. The product is a simulation possessing the speed of the low resolution simulation along with the desired accuracy of the high resolution simulation. Coercing involves a subject matter expert and optimization. The subject matter expert selects simulation parameters and establishes constraints within which those parameters are allowed to vary without compromising the validity of the simulation. Then, an optimization technique is employed to search through the possible parameter values and to select that set for which the simulation results most closely reflect the ideal; namely, conformance with new requirements stemming from the high resolution model. To explore the concept of coercing simulations, we selected a high resolution three-dimensional bicyclist simulation and a simple simulation of a particle moving in two-dimensional space as the low resolution simulation. For these two simulations, we were able to modify, using optimization, the parameters of the low resolution simulation to follow a route that more accurately reflected the route traced by the three-dimensional bicyclist on a given course. We report on our coercing experience, providing detailed insight into the process we have designed for coercing, and we describe results. Also, we discuss automating additional phases of the coercion process and their integration into our evolving coercion tool, SimEx.