Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Secular Trend of Birth Height and Weight in a Population of Iranian Neonates during 1991 and 2011

Background: The secular trend in growth is a well-documented and recurrent phenomenon in many developed and developing countries. In this study, we examined the secular trends in birth length and weight among Iranian neonates. Methods: This cross-sectional population-based survey was conducted between 1991 and 2011. Using a two-stage stratified cluster sampling, the birth weights and heights of neonates born in Shahroud, Iran were studied using health records from different households. The mean birth weights and heights for neonates were calculated every year. Secular trends were analyzed using linear regression models and joinpoint regression. Results: A random sample of 11,165 neonates was evaluated, and the mean birth weight of neonates during the investigation period was calculated. The mean birth weight changed from 3232.1±444.1 g in 1991 to 3204.1±436.9 g in 2011, and the mean birth height changed from 49.5±2.2 cm to 49.3±1.9 cm. The mean birth weights and heights between 1991 and 2011 were not significantly different; however, the birth weight increased by 6.75 g annually between 2000 and 2011 (P < 0.021), and the mean birth height increased by 0.03 cm annually between 2003–2011 and 1991–2003 (P = 0.009). Conclusions: The mean birth height and weight of neonates in Shahroud did not change significantly from 1991 to 2011; however, we found a significant improvement after 2000.
Prevalence of Deliberate Self-Harm in Teenage Students in the State of Guanajuato, Mexico: 2003

The presence of deliberate self-harm (DSH) among adolescents in Guanajuato State in 2003 was identified by sex, age, educational attainment, and health jurisdiction and the characteristics were described by sex according to number of times, age of only/first/last DSH, motive, method, purpose, and death wish. The sample design was stratified, by stage and by conglomerates. A total of 2,530 students from high school affiliated to the University of Guanajuato participated. The results showed that 3.1% of males and 10.7% of females had engaged in at least 1 episode of DSH; age of first DSH was 13 in both males and females; and age at last DSH was 13 in males and 14 in females. The characteristics of the DSH were also described.
Academic self-efficacy and first year college student performance and adjustment.

A longitudinal study of 1st-year university student adjustment examined the effects of academic self-efficacy and optimism on students' academic performance, stress, health, and commitment to remain in school. Predictor variables (high school grade-point average, academic self-efficacy, and optimism) and moderator variables (academic expectations and self-perceived coping ability) were measured at the end of the first academic quarter and were related to classroom performance, personal adjustment, stress, and health, measured at the end of the school year. Academic self-efficacy and optimism were strongly related to performance and adjustment, both directly on academic performance and indirectly through expectations and coping perceptions (challenge-threat evaluations) on classroom performance, stress, health, and overall satisfaction and commitment to remain in school. Observed relationships corresponded closely to the hypothesized model.
Use of friction debranning to evaluate ash distribution in Italian durum wheat cultivars

Cereal Chem. 73(2):232-234 A new method to evaluate ash distribution patterns in durum wheat is levels, years, locations, and cultivars. Differences among cultivars for proposed. Dururo wheat samples (198) collected during two years from ash distributions and WMR were noted. No association between DAL three locations in southern Italy were debranned by a friction debranning and WMR was found, showing that DAL could be a suitable measure of machine (Satake) at five successive time intervals (levell,2,3,4,5). Ash kernel ash gradient. In general, a diminishing ash trend was observed as content of debranned samples (DAL1,2,3,4,5 ) and of whole kernel (WKA) debranning level increased. Almost all of the correlation coefficients was determined. Calculations indicated the percentage of ash removal between WKA and DAL 1,2,3,4,5 were high, both in general and for each (RAL) from the WKA after each debranning level. The weight of the cultivar. In general they were significant, showing DAL, as the most material removed (WMR) during each debranning stage was also calcu- correlated. lated. Statistical analysis showed the significant effect of debranning The most simple indexes in durum wheat milling are: ash content, test weight, 1,000 kernel weight, and shrunken kernels. Several authors have shown the correlation between test weight, 1,000 kernel weight, and semolina yield (Matsuo and Dexter 1980, Barnes et al 1988). However, there is not a general agreement on the meaning of these indexes as milling yield indicators (Hook 1984). All these factors are affected by the environment. Dexter and Matsuo (1981) have shown the unfavorable effects of crop damage both on semolina yield and spaghetti quality. Milling industries in several European countries consider ash content as the most important durum wheat characteristic. In Italy, for example, a law imposes limits on ash content in durum wheat products used for human food (0.9% dmb for semolina and pasta). Studies have proved that there is a strong genotype-byenvironment interaction (Cubadda 1969, Peterson et al 1986). Semolina ash content is correlated both with ash content of the whole kernel (Cubadda 1988) and with the extraction rate (Dexter and Matsuo 1978). Since the presence of a gradient in ash distribution in the kernel has been demonstrated (Morris et al 1945, Hinton 1959, Matsuo and Dexter 1980, Dexter et al 1994), it can be useful to classify commercial cultivars according to their ash distribution patterns in the kernel to improve milling yield. The objectives of this study were: 1) to develop a new and simple method for evaluating ash distribution in durum wheat kernel based upon a friction debranning machine; 2) to evaluate ash distribution pattern among cultivars; 3) to evaluate whether differences in ash distribution patterns are related to whole kernel ash content.
Combination of Single-Grain Fission-Track Chronology and Morphological Analysis of Detrital Zircon Crystals in Provenance Studies--Sources of the Macigno Formation (Apennines, Italy)

Fission track (FT) analyses on unannealed detrital min- erals provide a powerful tool both for refining provenance models de- rived from traditional methods and for collecting information about erosion rates of the source area. Their power is increased if they are coupled with the study of zircon morphology. This combination of methods is applied to the Chattian-Aquitanian (25-23 Ma) Macigno turbidite complex. Basin-fill patterns and petrographical studies con- sistently identify the uplifting western Central Alps as the main source region for the Macigno Formation. Most zircon grains fall into a young age cluster ( ; 40-30 Ma), de- rived from a rapidly exhuming crystalline source region with a high cooling rate. Within this cluster, two age subgroups can be distin- guished at 30 and 40 Ma. In the younger subgroup, the zircon mor- phology supports the presence of two main populations: (1) from ig- neous rocks (S-type euhedral zircons), which appear to be partly de- rived from airborne tuffs; and (2) from metasedimentary units. In huge volumes of these metamorphic rocks, mica Ar-Ar and zircon fission- track thermochronometers have been reset, because of high geothermal gradients in the vicinity of the Periadriatic intrusives in mid-Oligocene times. At the present surface of the Alps, zircon FT ages around and slightly less than 30 Ma are reported in the Sesia-Lanzo zone, the Gran Paradiso Massif, the Upper Pennine nappes, the Monte Rosa Massif, and the Dent Blanche complex. The older subgroup of the Tertiary zircons (40 Ma) may have been supplied by metamorphic and mig- matitic rocks affected by an Eocene high-temperature phase. A Late Cretaceous age cluster ( ; 70-60 Ma) is related to cooling after the main Austroalpine metamorphic event at 110-100 Ma. Most of the recently exposed Austroalpine nappe complex displays mica cooling ages and zircon FT ages between 95-70 Ma and 99-55 Ma, respectively. Finally, an ill-defined Jurassic age cluster, with a mean in Late Ju- rassic times, is related to rift-shoulder heating of the Austroalpine/ South-Alpine crystalline basement due to rifting of the Pennine oceanic domain. Presently, the Silvretta nappe complex, situated at the western termination of the Austroalpine realm, and the South-Alpine basement west of the Canavese Line, display similar zircon FT ages. Therefore, a westward continuation of the Silvretta complex prior to deep Neo- gene erosion is suggested.
THE PERCEPTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING TRADE TEACHERS ON THE USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHING IN TECHNICAL COLLEGES IN ADAMAWA AND GOMBE STATES OF NIGERIA

This study was conducted to determine the perception of electrical engineering trade teachers on the role of information and communication technology (ICT) for classroom instructions in Technical Colleges in Adamawa and Gombe States of Nigeria. A forty item structured Questionnaire was distributed to twenty-six electrical engineering trade teachers from Adamawa and Gombe States technical colleges for collection of data. The questionnaire was face validated and trial tested on five electrical engineering trade teachers from Taraba state. Test- re-test method of establishing reliability was used and cronbanch Alpha formula was used to calculate a reliability index of 0.78. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions. Student’s t-test was used to test the three hypotheses formulated to guide the study. The study revealed that electrical engineering trade teachers lack some basic ICT skills like skills in database and spreadsheet. The findings revealed among others the following: electrical engineering teachers perceived themselves as having inadequate skills required to use the ICT for classroom instructions. It also revealed that teachers were not comfortable with regards to the role of ICT vis-a-vis their in classroom management/control and loyalty from students. Recommendations based on the findings included among others that electrical engineering trade teachers should be given sufficient retraining on how to use ICT for teaching and learning processes. Teachers should acquire
Effect of Wastewater Irrigation on Growth and Yield of Rice Crop and Uptake and Accumulation of Nutrient and Heavy Metals in Soil

Effect of irrigation with untreated and treated wastewater from Vidyaranyapuram sewage treatment plant station on growth and yield of rice as also in enrichment and bio accumulation of nutrients and metals in soil and rice plant in Vidyaranyapuram area in the South West of Mysore, Karnataka was selected. Treatments included untreated wastewater (UWW); treated wastewater (TWW) and ground water (GW) as control. Experimental was in randomized complete block design with 3 treatments with 3 replicates. Soil samples were collected from 0 - 60 cm depths were analyzed for pH, EC, nutrient and heavy metals contents. Plant height, tiller panicle length, number of tillers per plant, weight of 1000 seeds and yield/ plant were used as indicators. The wastewaters according to FAO system of water quality classification were found suitable for use in leaching and irrigating saline soils especially for short duration crops. Great changes in soil properties due to irrigation with UWW and TWW were observed. The growth and yield characters of rice crop were not improved by irrigation with UWW and TWW; however the high concentration of trace metals affected by lowering the growth and yield (number of grains/panicle, weight of 1000 seeds and yield/plant) attributing factors when irrigated by UWW and TWW as compared to GW control. These effects could be attributed to higher accumulation of micronutrients and macronutrients in soil and plant, when the mean values were highly significant as indicated by the present study.
Characteristics and classification of gleyic soils of Banat

In this paper we investigated basic characteristics of gleyic soils of Banat and presented different interpretations and classification of these soils. Twelve profiles were analyzed to access their physical and chemical properties. Investigated humogley profiles were predominantly clayic with vertic properties and under different influence of groundwater. Most of these soils we classified in Vertisols, but some of them we considered as Gleysols or Chernozems RSG (reference soil group). Eugley was under stronger influence by groundwater than humogley and showed textural uniformity, less clay content and notably higher average content of CaCO3. Eugley profiles we classified in Gleysols RSG. Every new analyzed soil profile has to be considered in particular regarding its diagnostic horizons, properties and materials and cannot be transferred from actual national classification to RSG by default.
A Printed Vivaldi Antenna with Improved Radiation Patterns by Using Two Pairs of Eye-Shaped Slots for UWB Applications

In this paper, a printed Vivaldi antenna with two pairs of eye-shaped slots is proposed for UWB applications. By using two pairs of eye-shaped slots, the side lobe levels of the radiation pattern are reduced, and the antenna gain is improved at low frequencies. To illustrate the efiectiveness of the proposed design, a prototype of the proposed antenna is fabricated and measured. Experimental results show that the proposed antenna presents a measured impedance bandwidth, deflned by jS11j < i10dB, from 3 to 12.8GHz with a compact size (36mm£36mm). Good unidirectional radiation characteristics with a front-to-back ratio better than 10dB are also achieved. The measured gain is better than 3.7dBi in the operating frequency band. In addition, the measured group delay of the proposed antenna is around 1.2ns with a variation less than §0:5ns.
Reappraisal of an ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of James Ross Island (Antarctica)

The holotype of the upper Campanian ankylosaur Antarctopelta oliveroi n. gen., n. sp. , from James Ross Island, Antarctica, is described. Diagnostic characters include short cervicals (centrum length about 70% of the centrum height), distal caudal vertebrae with transverse processes well developed (centrum width including the transverse processes exceeds 30% of the posterior articulation width) and dorsoventrally depressed, and the presence of smooth, sub-circular osteoderms, surrounded by a mosaic of smaller polygonal osteoderms with a rugose surface texture and tiny, button-like ossicles. While a number of features, such as relatively large teeth with respect to the mandible and the presence of an asymmetrical cingulum, suggest an affinity with the Nodosauridae, others such as the dorsoventrally depressed morphology of the distal caudal vertebrae and, especially, the presence of ossified tendons on their ventral side, characterize the Ankylosauridae. This uncertainty impedes evaluation of the paleobiogeographi cal significance of this new species of dinosaur. RESUME
Contact processes with random vertex weights on oriented lattices

In this paper we are concerned with contact processes with random vertex weights on oriented lattices. In our model, we assume that each vertex x of Z d takes i. i. d. positive random value (x). Vertex y infects vertex x at rate proportional to (x) (y) when and only when there is an oriented edge from y to x. We give the denition of the critical value
A Survey of Graph Based Complex Brain Network Analysis Using Functional and Diffusional MRI

The brain network is the function of a structurally and functionally organized complex system. Its structure and activity analysis is one of the most significant challenges. The graph based techniques of brain complex networks have been successfully used in various types of image and medical data analysis. In this survey paper, we focus on a comprehensive study of the analytical methods for complex brain network based on graph theory. This review paper is intended to provide automated brain disease diagnosis based on functional and diffusional MRI modalities. Furthermore, we discuss subjective and objective quality evaluations of complex brain networks, important tools for automated brain disease diagnosis, challenging issues and future research directions in this increasingly evolving research field.
Transition Point Detection from the Surface Pressure Distribution for Controller Design

airfoil types: NACA 4415 and WTEA-TE1, as well as for 17 modified WTEA-TE1 airfoil shapes, obtained by displacing the flexible wing upper surface using a single point control mechanism. The second derivative of the pressure distribution is calculated, using two interpolation schemes: piecewise cubic Hermite interpolating polynomial and Spline, from which it is determined that transition may be identified as the location of maximum curvature in the pressure distribution. The results of this method are validated using the well-known XFoil code, which is used to theoretically calculate the transition point position. Advantages of this new method in the real-time control of the location of the transition point are presented.
Predicting Stock Market Returns Based on the Content of Annual Report Narrative: A New Anomaly

This paper uses the tools of computational linguistics to analyze the qualitative part of the annual reports of UK listed companies. More specifically, the frequency of words associated with praise, concreteness and activity is measured and used to forecast future stock returns. We find that our language indicators predict subsequent price increases, even after controlling for a wide range of factors. Elevated values of the linguistic variables, however, are not symptomatic of exacerbated risk. Consequently, investors are advised to peruse the annual report narrative, as it contains valuable information that may still not have been discounted in the prices.
Augmented Stabilized and Galerkin Least Squares Formulations

We study incompressible fluid flow problems with stabilized formulations. We introduce an iterative penalty approach to satisfying the divergence free constraint in the Streamline Upwind Petrov Galerkin (SUPG) and Galerkin Least Squares (GLS) formulations, and prove the stability of the formulation. Equal order interpolations for both velocities and pressure variables are utilized for solving problems as opposed to div-stable pairs used earlier. Higher order spectral/$hp$ approximations are utilized for solving two dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) problems with the new formulations named as the Augmented SUPS (ASUPS) and Augmented Galerkin Least Squares (AGLS) formulations. Excellent conservation of mass properties are observed for the problem with open boundaries in confined enclosures. Inexact Newton Krylov methods are used as the non-linear solvers of choice for the problems studied. Faithful representations of all fields of interest are obtained for the problems tested.
Importance of spatio-temporal data for predicting the effects of climate change on marine turtle sex ratios

Species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) are likely to be impacted by climate change. There is a paucity of data on the contemporary sex ratios of offspring produced by regional marine turtle populations. The lack of such information inhibits the ability of researchers to accurately predict how future meteorological and climate-driven changes may affect turtle populations. Moreover, these data are integral for the development of regional and global recovery plans for declining turtle populations. We estimate offspring sex ratios for the loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta at a range of beaches on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus over a 10 yr period (1997 to 2006; 40 beaches, 628 clutches, 29402 hatchlings). Based on hatchling sex determination, we found the pivotal incubation temperature (the temperature at which a 50:50 sex ratio occurs) to be 28.9°C, and the pivotal incubation duration to be 56.3 d. From the incuba- tion durations of over 628 in situ clutches laid on different beaches, we estimate that 89% of the offspring produced from these clutches were female. There was, however, both inter-annual (74 to 95% female) and inter-beach (58�98% female) variability in mean offspring sex ratios. These findings highlight the need for wide-scale, long-term monitoring of primary sex ratios in order to accurately predict the likely impacts of climate change. Despite spatial and temporal variation in offspring sex ratios produced, male hatchlings are certainly in the minority in Cyprus. It is there- fore highly likely that beaches producing males will become increasingly critical habitats for successful clutch incubation in the face of predicted rising temperatures.
Impact of Enhanced Input , Pushed Output , and Inner Speech on the Accuracy of EFL Learners under V of Content and Language

The integrated teaching of content and language has emerged as one of the recent educational practices with promising success in learning thinking, lexical gains and genres of academic language. Yet this pedagogical approach faced challenges in drawing the attention of learners to target language structures and attaining desired level of address this gap, three focus on form pedagogical tools namely, input enhancement, pushed output, and inner speech have been experimented in this study. Also, the study examined how degree of task complexity played out with the use of these pedagogical tools . The study employed quasi data analysis tools. The results demonstrates that learner inner speech helps to draw the attention of learners to target structures while the remaining two have limited or no impact. The procedures followed in experimentation of the interventions lend practical insights on how to fill this gap in CLIL practice. Copyright@2015 STAR Journal
Effect of Vedic chanting on memory and sustained attention

Researches and studies have shown that Yogasanas, Pranayama and meditation help in enhancing memory and improving attention, but no study is available on the effect of traditional Vedic chanting on memory and sustained attention, which is one of the important features of cognitive abilities. The present study compared the effect of chanting group, who had minimum two-years experience on memory and sustained attention with that of non-chanting group who had no exposure to such type of chanting. Data was analyzed using non-parametric Mann Whitney U test. Chanting group showed significant increased scorings in both the memory tests and considerable reduction in total error and total time taken for cancellation tests compared to non-chanting practitioners.
Low carrier concentration crystals of the topological insulator Bi2−xSbxTe3−ySey: a magnetotransport study

In 3D topological insulators achieving a genuine bulk-insulating state is an important research topic. Recently, the material system (Bi,Sb)2(Te,Se)3 (BSTS) has been proposed as a topological insulator with high resistivity and a low carrier concentration (Ren et al 2011 Phys. Rev. B 84 165311). Here we present a study to further refine the bulk-insulating properties of BSTS. We have synthesized BSTS single crystals with compositions around x = 0.5 and y = 1.3. Resistance and Hall effect measurements show high resistivity and record low bulk carrier density for the composition Bi 1.46 ? > Sb 0.54 ? > Te 1.7 ? > Se 1.3 ? > . The analysis of the resistance measured for crystals with different thicknesses within a parallel resistor model shows that the surface contribution to the electrical transport amounts to 97% when the sample thickness is reduced to 1 μm. The magnetoconductance of exfoliated BSTS nanoflakes shows 2D weak antilocalization with &agr; ≃ − 1 ? > as expected for transport dominated by topological surface states.