Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Home Health Care Routing and Scheduling with Consistency in Patient-Aide Assignments

This work addresses a real-world home health care routing and scheduling problem (HHCRSP) faced by a home care agency in the United States. In home health care scheduling, there is a desire to retain consistency with respect to the home health aide servicing each patient; this consistency is referred to as continuity of care. To address this preference for continuity of care, we propose a rolling horizon approach to the routing and scheduling problem and introduce the consistent home health care routing and scheduling problem (Con-HHCRSP). We present two different constructive methods to solve HHCRSP on a daily basis: an integer programming-based method with approximations and a variant of a petal heuristic. We present adjustments on these methods to address Con-HHCRSP, where the goal is to be able to quantify and control the deviation of the new schedule suggested each day from the existing schedule in place, so that some of the existing assignments may be retained in the new schedule that is produced. We discuss the performance and computational efficiency of these methods.
Polymer Recycling and Additive Manufacturing in an Open Source context: Optimization of processes and methods

Polymer recycling is a way to reduce environmental impacts of accumulation of polymeric waste materials. However, low recycling rates are often observed in conventional centralized recycling plants mainly to the challenge of collection and transportation for high-volume low-weight-polymers in conventional centralized recycling plants. As the democratization of open-source 3D printers is going forward thanks to initiatives such as FabLab environments, there is a growing interest on how to use this technology to improve the efficiency of use of raw materials. Studies have been proposed in order to recycle waste polymer into open-source 3D printer feedstock. The recycling of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) issued from bottles of used milk jugs through use of an open-source filament fabricator system called RecycleBot has been evaluated. In this study, we propose an evaluation of the mechanical recyclability of Polylactic Acid (PLA), material widely used in the open-source 3D printing context, in order to establish the viability of this recycled material to be used in the open-source 3D printers. The degradation of the material’s mechanical and rheological properties after a number of cycles of multiple extrusion and printing processes is evaluated. The characterization of recycled raw materials for open-source 3D printing has implications not only to reduce the environmental impact of polymers waste, but also it will allow us to understand the technical requirements and challenges for development of open-source filament recycle machine/process. The coupling of open-source 3D printers and filament extruders can offer the bases of a new distributed polymer recycling paradigm, which reverses the traditional paradigm of centralizing recycling of polymers where is often uneconomic and energy intensive due to transportation embodied energy. Moreover, this characterization also will allow the exploration of new source of materials and new composite materials for open-source 3D printing, in order to improve the quality of products made by this technology.
Effect of Socio-Demographic Variables on the Prevalence of Anaemia Among Pregnant Women in Sokoto , Nigeria

Results: Prevalence of anaemia showed significant relationship with occupation, educational status and family status (p<0.05) while marital status and residence showed no significant association with anaemia (p>0.05). Housewives had the highest prevalence of anaemia (44.3%) while the civil-servants had the least prevalence of 25.0%. Prevalence of anaemia decreases with increasing educational status as primary or no formal education, secondary education and tertiary education had prevalence of 80.0-83.3%, 53.8% and 19.4%, respectively.
Producing and perceiving gestures conveying height or shape

In this paper, we analyze single-handed hold gestures that convey either the height or the shape of an object. The analyses include (1) differentiating which parts of the hands are profiled in each gesture, (2) considering whether these parts are occluded by other fingers, and (3) deriving predictions from (1) and (2) with regard to what hand shape characteristics favor height or shape gestures. In a production experiment, we asked participants to indicate either the height of a small ball or its shape, using only the index finger and the thumb. As predicted, the middle, ring and little finger were more curled in for height gestures. For shape gestures, those three fingers were more raised. In two perception experiments, participants viewed virtual hands from a computer-generated continuum of hand-shape stimuli. We found that if the middle, ring and little finger were more curled in, participants were more likely to interpret a gesture as indicating height. Our results pose new questions with regard to the relation between the physical form of a gesture and the inferred imaginary forms that are involved in deriving meaning from a gesture.
The Relationship between Dichotomous Thinking and Music Preferences among Japanese Undergraduates

The relationship between dichotomous thinking and music preferences was investigated with a sample of 176 Japanese undergraduates (111 males, 65 females). Participants completed the Dichotomous Thinking Inventory (Oshio, 2009) and the Short Test of Music Preferences (Rentfrow & Gosling, 2003). Individuals who thought dichotomously preferred intense and rebellious, energetic and rhythmic, and fast and contemporary music rather than music that was complex and conventional. Specifically, they most liked rock, alternative, soul, funk, and heavy metal and disliked classical music.
Exploratory Completeness Analysis of Mapillary for Selected Cities in Germany and Austria

Mapillary, founded in early 2014, is a Web 2.0 application that allows voluntary users to contribute street level photographs from all over the world. This paper analyses the growth in uploaded data and contributor numbers over time, and assesses data completeness by comparing Mapillary with Google Street View and OpenStreetMap data for selected cities in Germany and Austria. Results show that as of now Google Street View generally provides a better coverage in the cities in which it is offered, but that Mapillary has the potential to reach higher coverage along off-road segments, such as footpaths and bicycle trails, or even railroads.
A graphical interface for the Gromov-witten
 theory of curves

We explore the explicit relationship between the descendant Gromov--Witten theory of target curves, operators on Fock spaces, and tropical curve counting. We prove a classical/tropical correspondence theorem for descendant invariants and give an algorithm that establishes a tropical Gromov--Witten/Hurwitz equivalence. Tropical curve counting is related to an algebra of operators on the Fock space by means of bosonification. In this manner, tropical geometry provides a convenient "graphical user interface" for Okounkov and Pandharipande's celebrated GW/H correspondence. An important goal of this paper is to spell out the connections between these various perspectives for target dimension 1, as a first step in studying the analogous relationship between logarithmic descendant theory, tropical curve counting, and Fock space formalisms in higher dimensions.
Uplink Oblivious Cloud Radio Access Networks: An Information Theoretic Overview

In this work, we consider transmission over a Cloud Radio Access Network (CRAN) in which the relay nodes (radio units) are constrained to operate without knowledge of the users' codebooks, i.e., are oblivious (nomadic), and only know time- or frequency-sharing protocols. The model is shown in Figure 1. Focusing on a class of discrete memoryless channels in which the relay outputs are independent conditionally on the users' inputs, we establish a single-letter characterization of the capacity region of this class of channels. We show that both relaying à-la Cover-El Gamal [1], i.e., compress-and-forward with joint decompression and decoding, as suggested in [2], are optimal. This is equivalent to noisy notwork coding [3]. For the proof of the converse part, we utilize useful connections with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) source coding problem under logarithmic loss distortion measure [4]. For memoryless Gaussian channels, we provide a full characterization of the capacity region under Gaussian signaling, i.e., when the users' channel inputs are restricted to be Gaussian. In doing so, we also discuss the suboptimality of separate decompression-decoding and the role of time-sharing. Furthermore, we elaborate on meaningful connections with the problem of distributed information bottleneck problem [5]–[7]. Finally, we evaluate and compare the performance of some oblivious, including the recent scheme [8], and non-oblivious schemes, such as [9] and [10], and cut-set bounds.
Twenty Chemical Element Contents in Normal and Cancerous Thyroid

Thyroid cancer (TC) is the most common endocrine malignancy. TC incidence has dramatically increased in the recent decades [1]. During the same period no other cancer has increased as much as TC. With the worldwide increase in the incidence of TC, it has become the fifth most common cancer in women [2-4]. In some countries, the incidence of TC has increased extremely fast, and it has been the most common cancer for the last years [5].
Temporal Distancing and Emotion Regulation : An ERP study

Reappraisal is a cognitive emotion regulation strategy that induces a reduction in the arousal response elicited by both unpleasant and pleasant stimuli. One form of reappraisal is that of temporal distancing. Temporal distancing is the cognitive tool that allows the individual to perceive the stimuli in a broader temporal perspective. Reappraisal’s impact on the arousal response can be measured by assessing the amplitude of the event-related potential (ERP) component the late positive potential (LPP), a centroparietal slow-wave ERP beginning around 350 ms post-stimulus and sustaining for up to several seconds. The aim of this study was to test various temporal-related perspectives in order to see their effect on the LPP. The analysis of the data suggests that a decrease in the amplitude of the LPP in response to emotionally unpleasant facial stimuli corresponds to adopting a temporal distancing strategy, regardless of the exact temporal distance chosen.
Satellite image texture and a vegetation index predict avian biodiversity in the Chihuahuan Desert of New Mexico

Predicting broad-scale patterns of biodiversity is challenging, particularly in ecosystems where traditional methods of quantifying habitat structure fail to capture subtle but potentially important variation within habitat types. With the unprecedented rate at which global biodiversity is declining, there is a strong need for improvement in methods for discerning broad-scale differences in habitat quality. Here, we test the importance of habitat structure (i.e. fine-scale spatial variability in plant growth forms) and plant productivity (i.e. amount of green biomass) for predicting avian biodiversity. We used image texture (i.e. a surrogate for habitat structure) and vegetation indices (i.e. surrogates for plant productivity) derived from Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data for predicting bird species richness patterns in the northern Chihuahuan Desert of New Mexico. Bird species richness was summarized for forty-two 108 ha plots in the McGregor Range of Fort Bliss Military Reserve between 1996 and 1998. Six Landsat TM bands and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) were used to calculate first-order and second-order image texture measures. The relationship between bird species richness versus image texture and productivity (mean NDVI) was assessed using Bayesian model averaging. The predictive ability of the models was evaluated using leave-one-out cross-validation. Texture of NDVI predicted bird species richness better than texture of individual Landsat TM bands and accounted for up to 82.3% of the variability in species richness. Combining habitat structure and productivity measures accounted for up to 87.4% of the variability in bird species richness. Our results highlight that texture measures from Landsat TM imagery were useful for predicting patterns of bird species richness in semi-arid ecosystems and that image texture is a promising tool when assessing broad-scale patterns of biodiversity using remotely sensed data.
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM): Short Term Motor Outcome of Hospital Admitted Patients

Citation: Azam A, Hassanuzzaman, Majumdar S, kayasthagir PK, khandaker MA, et al. (2018) Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM): Short Term Motor Outcome of Hospital Admitted Patients. J Neurol Neurol Disord 4(1): 105
Multiscale DCNN Ensemble Applied to Human Activity Recognition Based on Wearable Sensors

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) provides valuable knowledge to many areas. Recently, wearable devices have gained space as a relevant source of data. However, there are two issues: large number of heterogeneous sensors available and the temporal nature of the sensor data. To handle those issues, we propose a multimodal approach that processes each sensor separately and, through an ensemble of Deep Convolution Neural Networks (DCNN), extracts information from multiple temporal scales of the sensor data. In this ensemble, we use a convolutional kernel with a different height for each DCNN. Considering that the number of rows in the sensor data reflects the data captured over time, each kernel height reflects a temporal scale from which we can extract patterns. Consequently, our approach is able to extract from simple movement patterns such as a wrist twist when picking up a spoon to complex movements such as the human gait. This multimodal and multitemporal approach outperforms previous state-of-the-art works in seven important datasets using two different protocols. In addition, we demonstrate that the use of our proposed set of kernels improves sensor-based HAR in another multi-kernel approach, the widely employed inception network.
Molecular Systematics of Mouse Opossums (Didelphidae: Marmosa): Assessing Species Limits using Mitochondrial DNA Sequences, with Comments on Phylogenetic Relationships and Biogeography

Abstract The genus Marmosa contains 15 currently recognized species, of which nine are referred to the subgenus Marmosa, and six to the subgenus Micoureus. Recent revisionary research based on morphological data, however, suggests that the subgenus Marmosa is more diverse than the currently accepted taxonomy indicates. Herein we report phylogenetic analyses of sequence data from the mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene representing 12 of the 14 morphologically defined taxa recently treated as valid species of Marmosa (Marmosa) in the aforementioned revisionary work. These data provide a basis for testing the monophyly of morphologically defined taxa in the subgenus Marmosa, and they afford the first opportunity to assess phylogenetic relationships among the majority of species currently referred to the genus. Ten of 11 species of Marmosa (Marmosa) represented by multiple sequences in our analyses were recovered as monophyletic. In contrast, our samples of M. mexicana were recovered as two deeply divergent haplogroups that were not consistently associated as sister taxa. Among other results, our analyses support the recognition of M. isthmica and M. simonsi as species distinct from M. robinsoni, and the recognition of M. macrotarsus and M. waterhousei as species distinct from M. murina. The validity of three other species long recognized as distinct (M. rubra, M. tyleriana, and M. xerophila) is also clearly supported by our results. Although cytochrome-b sequence data are not consistently informative about interspecific relationships in this study, we found strong support for several clades, including (1) the subgenus Micoureus; (2) a group comprised of Marmosa macrotarsus, M. murina, M. tyleriana, and M. waterhousei; (3) a group comprised of M. robinsoni and M. xerophila; and (4) a group comprising all of the species in the subgenus Marmosa that occur north and west of the Andes (M. isthmica, M. mexicana, M. robinsoni, M. simonsi, M. xerophila, and M. zeledoni). Our discovery of the latter clade suggests that the Andes may have played a major role in the early diversification of this speciose radiation of small Neotropical marsupials.
BISLON: BISociative SLOgaN generation based on stylistic literary devices

We describe a novel slogan generator that employs biso-ciation in combination with the selection of stylistic literary devices. Advertising slogans are a key marketing tool for every company and a memorable slogan provides an advantage on the market. A good slogan is catchy and unique and projects the values of the company. To get an insight in construction of such slo-gans, we ﬁrst analyze a large corpus of advertising slo-gans in terms of alliteration, assonance, consonance and rhyme. Then we develop an approach for constructing slogans that contain these stylistic devices which can help make the slogans easy to remember. At the same time, we use bisociation to imprint a unique message into the slogan by allowing the user to specify the original and bisociated domains from where the generator selects the words. These word sets are ﬁrst expanded with the help of FastText embeddings and then used to ﬁll in the empty slots in slogan skeletons generated from a database of existing slogans. We use a language model to increase semantical cohesion of generated slo-gans and a relevance evaluation system to score the slo-gans by their connectedness to the selected domains. The evaluation of generated slogans for two companies shows that even if slogan generation is a hard problem, we can ﬁnd some generated slogans that are suitable for the use in production without any modiﬁcation and a much larger number of slogans that are positively evaluated according to at least one criteria (e.g., humor, catchiness).
Predominant learning styles in Saudi preparatory schools

The study proposes to investigate the predominant learning style of Saudi students in grade 7 and 8. The sample of the study consists of 399 students from eight schools. The study used VARK questionnaire - younger version to determine student learning style. The quad learning style was the predominant learning style for both grade and gender. Tri and bi learning styles typically followed the quad style with a variation in order of preference between the reading achievement groups.
An efficient oxygen reduction electrocatalyst from graphene by simultaneously generating pores and nitrogen doped active sites

A simple way to simultaneously create pores and nitrogen doped active sites on graphene for the electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is developed. The key aspect of the process is the in-situ generation of Fe2O3 nanoparticles and their concomitant dispersion on graphene by pyrolyzing graphene oxide (GO) with the iron phenanthroline complex. Thus the deposited Fe2O3 nanoparticles act as the seeds for pore generation by etching the carbon layer along the graphene–Fe2O3 interface. Detection of the presence of Fe3C along with Fe2O3 confirms carbon spill-over from graphene as a plausible step involved in the pore engraving process. Since the process offers a good control on the size and dispersion of the Fe2O3 nanoparticles, the pore size and distribution also could be managed very effectively in this process. As the phenanthroline complex decomposes and gives Fe2O3 nanoparticles and subsequently the pores on graphene, the unsaturated carbons along the pore openings simultaneously capture nitrogen of the phenanthroline complex and provide very efficient active sites for ORR under alkaline conditions. The degree of nitrogen doping and hence the ORR activity could be further improved by subjecting the porous material for a second round of nitrogen doping using iron-free phenanthroline. This porous graphene enriched with the N-doped active sites effectively reduces oxygen molecule through a 3e− pathway, suggesting a preferential shift towards the more favourable 4e− route compared to the 2e− reaction as reported for many N-doped carbon nano-morphologies. The 90 mV onset potential difference for oxygen reduction as compared to the state-of-the art 20 wt% Pt/C catalyst is significantly low compared to the overpotentials in the range of 120–200 mV reported in the literature for few N-doped graphenes.
Influence of Social Media on Psychosocial Behaviour and Academic Performance of Secondary School Students.

This study investigated the influence of social media on psychosocial behaviour and academic performance of secondary school students. It was conducted in Batagarawa Local Government, Katsina State, Nigeria. Two research hypotheses were formulated for the study, and descriptive survey research design was employed. The target population consists of four secondary schools purposively selected out of the seven public schools and 306 SSII students were randomly selected for the study. Researcher-made validated questionnaire and academic performance test in English Language was used for data collection. Collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation. Null hypotheses were subjected to t-test of independent samples. The study found among others that, social media usage has negative influence on psychosocial behaviour and academic performance. It therefore recommended that parents, teachers, educational psychologists should pay more attention to their student’s attitude on these platforms and also educate them on time management as not to waste too much of their time chatting, they should concentrate on their studies.
Influence of Age of Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) Broodstock on Reproductive Traits and Fertilization

In this study, we examined the age-dependent changes of sperm quality parameters and female properties in common carp. As well as, age-dependent reproductive performance of brooders was tested using two age groups of male and female (i.e. 2 and 3 years old brooders). For this aim, the brooders were crossed randomly from age classes. There were significant differences in sperm density and percentage of motile spermatozoa between ages, but duration of sperm motility and spermatocrit did not differ from two age groups. Some seminal plasma composition such as pH, chloride, acid phosphatase (ACP) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) showed significant differences between two age classes. Female properties revealed change in egg diameter between two age groups. No significant differences were observed in other female properties between two age groups. According to our results, the higher fertilization rate (%91) and survival rate (%90) was found when the 2 years old males were crossed with 3 years old female (P<0.05). Also, highest hatching rate (%96) and larvae length during hatching were found when the 3 years old males were crossed with 2 years old female (P<0.05), while larvae length at initiation of active feeding (after yolks soc absorption) was higher when the combination of 2 and 3 years old males were crossed with 2 years old females.