Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
HUBUNGAN ANTARA DURASI PENGGUNAAN ALAT ELEKTRONIK (GADGET), AKTIVITAS FISIK DAN POLA MAKAN DENGAN STATUS GIZI PADA REMAJA USIA 13-15 TAHUN

Latar belakang: Beberapa studi menunjukkan terdapat hubungan antara screen-time viewing, aktivitas fisik dan pola makan dengan status gizi pada remaja. Penggunaan gadget yang berlebihan pada remaja berkaitan dengan status gizi. Screen-time yang tinggi, tingkat aktivitas fisik rendah, dan pola makan menjadi tidak sesuai dengan rekomendasi sehingga dalam jangka panjang dapat mempengaruhi status gizi.Metode: Desain studi observasional dengan rancangan cross-sectional yang melibatkan remaja usia 13-15 tahun di Kendal. Pengambilan sampel menggunakan simple random sampling dengan 61 responden. Status gizi ditentukan berdasarkan z-score indeks massa tubuh terhadap umur (IMT/U). Data durasi penggunaan alat elektronik (gadget) diperoleh dari kuesioner terstruktur yang telah divalidasi, data aktivitas fisik diperoleh dari kuesioner International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) dan data pola makan diperoleh melalui wawancara dan kuesioner Semi-Quantitative Food Frequency Questionnare (SQ-FFQ) yang ditentukan berdasarkan Pedoman Gizi Seimbang (PGS). Analisis data menggunakan uji Chi-Square serta Fisher Exact.Hasil: Hasil penelitian menunjukkan 72,1% responden memiliki durasi penggunaan alat elektronik (gadget) yang tinggi. Selain itu, ditemukan 14,8% responden dengan aktivitas fisik rendah. Pola makan pada 80,3% responden sudah sesuai dengan anjuran PGS, tetapi 96,7% responden tidak memenuhi anjuran konsumsi sayur. Status gizi pada responden berdasarkan Z-score IMT/U ditemukan sebanyak 6,6% responden dengan kategori kurus dan 14,8% gemuk. Hasil analisis menunjukkan terdapat hubungan antara durasi penggunaan alat elektronik (gadget), aktivitas fisik dan pola makan dengan status gizi (p<0,05). Simpulan: Terdapat hubungan antara durasi penggunaan alat elektronik (gadget), aktivitas fisik dan pola makan dengan status Gizi pada remaja usia 13-15 tahun (p<0,05).
Clinicopathological Characteristics of Hirschsprung’s Disease With Emphasis on Diagnosis and Management: A Single-Center Study in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Introduction: Hirschsprung’s Disease (HD) is a motor disorder of the gut caused by the failure of neural crest cells to migrate craniocaudally into the bowel during intestinal development, resulting in a functional obstruction. The majority of patients with HD are diagnosed in the neonatal period when they present with symptoms of distal intestinal obstruction. Aim: This study aims to identify the clinic-pathological characteristic of HD patients in our institution in KSA and comparing it with local and international data. Materials and Methods: This retrospective cohort study was conducted in King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC), a tertiary care center in Riyadh, Kingdome of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Results: A total of 54 patients (72% male) were diagnosed with HD. Forty-eight patients (89%) were born at term, and 6 were pre-term. Sixty-three percent of the patients presented in the neonatal period. Twenty-two patients (41%) underwent one-stage endorectal pull-through procedure, 23 patients (43%) two-stage endorectal pull-through, and 9 patients (16%) had three-stage endorectal pull-through. Five out of 54 patients had ganglion cells seen on FS but were absent in the permanent section. Therefore, the concordance rate was 90.8%. Conclusion: FS biopsy is a necessary method to determine the level of aganglionosis intraoperatively in HD, but the definitive diagnosis should be with permanent section. Also, the choice of surgical operation type (single-stage or multi-stage pull-through) depends on the patient’s clinical condition.
Multi-sensor platform for real time measurements of honey bee hive parameters

Honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) are well-known insects that have positive effects on the environment and on the human life. They are so important that the decline of honey bee colonies happened in the last years has triggered an increasing interest for their safeguard. In this context, the proposed work aims at developing a multi-sensor platform to monitor the beehives’ conditions in real time, based on the measurement of sounds emitted by the bees, temperature, humidity, CO2, weight inside the beehive, and weather conditions outside the hive. In this paper, a detailed description of the multi-sensor platform is reported and its application in a real scenario is presented.
Correction: CRISPR Typing and Subtyping for Improved Laboratory Surveillance of Salmonella Infections

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Survey of Bauxite Resources, Alumina Industry and the Prospects of the Production of Geopolymer Composites from the Resulting by-product

Guinea is endowed with huge mineral resources. Several geological surveys have identified bauxite, iron, gold, diamond, and several metal ores. Because of the diversity and the magnitude of its resources, the country is referred to as a geological scandal. Nowadays the aluminum industry is still at the quarrying stage of bauxite, the main raw material that is converted into alumina and further to aluminum. Approximately 35 – 40% of the processed bauxite ore goes into the waste as alkaline red mud RM slurry which consists of 15 – 40% solids. RM and other industrial wastes material such as fly ash FA, rice husk ash RHA, that poses environmental hazards can be mixed to make them apt for usage in engineering applications. Geopolymers GP represent a new class of materials consisting of Al 2 O 3 ▬ SiO 2 -based material suitable for several engineering application. The present chapter presents the baux-itic potential of Guinea, the subsequent developing alumina industry. It reviews the application of RM for the production of geopolymer materials in the perspective of the valorization of the huge bauxite potential of Guinea.
Changes in Binocular Color Fusion Limit Caused by Different Disparities

When the color asymmetry between the left and right eyes exceeds a threshold value, named binocular color fusion limit, the color rivalry is said to occur. For stereoscopic displays, the horizontal disparity is the most important information to produce depth perception. When the stereo pair stimuli are presented separately to both eyes with disparities and those two stimuli also differ in color but share an iso-luminance polarity, it is possible for stereopsis and color rivalry to coexist. In this paper, we conducted a psychophysical experiment to quantitatively measure the color fusion limit at different disparity levels. In particular, it examined how disparities affect the binocular color fusion limit. A binocular color fusion limit was measured at five relative disparity levels: 0, ±60, and ±120 arc minutes for five sample color points, which were selected from the 1976 CIE u’v’ chromaticity diagram. The experimental results show that the color fusion limit for each sample point varies with the disparity magnitude, disparity sign, and color direction. It is new research finding that the color fusion limit increases as the disparity increases from −120 to +120 arc minutes. The average color fusion limit ranges from 0.036 to 0.064 in terms of Euclidean distance in the u’v’ chromaticity diagram ( $\Delta \text {E}_{\mathrm {u'v'}}$ ). The new finding shows that the human eye has different information processing mechanisms for crossed disparity (sign −) and uncrossed disparity (sign +), and uncrossed disparity can contribute to color fusion. We suggest that the color fusion limit varies with the color direction, but it has nothing to do with the distribution of cone cells. The color fusion limit was quantified by using ellipses in the chromaticity diagram, and the axis of the ellipses ranges from 0.017 to $0.145~\Delta \text {E}_{\mathrm {u'v'}}$ . The experiments and data analysis in this paper indicate that the binocular disparity fusion affects binocular color fusion. This research result can strongly support 3D system design and 3D content creation.
The influence of HEXACO personality factors and job demands on counterproductive work behaviour

Job performance consists of three equally important broad performance domains: task performance, organisational citizenship behaviour and counterproductive work behaviour (CWB) (Viswesvaran & Ones, 2000). Thus, CWB is regarded as important for work effectiveness. Despite advances in clarifying what drives CWB, there is a lack of consensus in the literature on the extent to which specific personality traits are of potential use to predict CWB. Additionally, the role of certain job demands’ moderating effects has also received little attention. The objective of this study was, firstly, to determine which antecedents play a primary role in determining CWB. Through an investigation of the relevant literature it was determined that, although job characteristics play an important role, personality remains the main primary antecedent involved in explaining the occurrence of CWB. Consequently, the investigation revolved around finding evidence on whether certain personality traits have an impact on the likelihood of an individual resorting to CWB, which can be exacerbated by certain demands at work. More specifically, the honesty-humility personality factor was considered as the possible trait that can explain the tendency to display deviant behaviours more accurately than previously believed traits. Lastly, the roles of specific job demands, including work overload and job insecurity, were investigated in the proposed model. Based on the review of the literature, hypotheses were formulated. A conceptual model depicting the relationships was also developed and tested with an ex post facto correlation design. The sample consisted of 180 professional individuals from various industries in South Africa to ensure that different occupations and levels of job demands were considered. Furthermore, this was done to ensure a wide spread investigation into the importance of certain personality factors that can be identified in relation to an important part of job performance such as CWB. A self-administered web-based survey was used for collecting the data. Participation was voluntary. The data collected was strictly confidential and anonymous. Several valid and reliable measurement instruments were used to measure the specific latent variables. A series of Partial Least Square (PLS) Analyses was performed to test the antecedent model of CWB. Of the ten hypotheses formulated in the study, four were found to be significant. The reason for the non-significant hypotheses could be attributed to a multitude of reasons outside the scope of the present study. Of the direct relationships with CWB that were explored, honesty-humility, conscientiousness, and work relationship overload yielded significant results, in accordance with Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za
Variation of 14C in Japanese Tree Rings Related to the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

ABSTRACT Radiocarbon (14C) analysis was performed on Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) tree rings from Koriyama, Fukushima prefecture. Our primary aim was to detect any 14C release from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident on 11 March 2011. We also completed and assessed the 14C level in Japanese tree rings for the period of 1990–2014 because of the lack of environmental 14C results in the Japanese island that time. For this reason, we used a trajectory model to investigate the air mass forward and backward trajectories at the area of the power plant and sampling site. The modeling data show that the air masses mainly moved to the Pacific Ocean, both during March 2011 and during the growing season (March–September). During the period 1990–2014 there was no significant 14C excess in any of the samples, but there was a detectable Suess effect in almost every tree ring sample. The average fossil contribution was 0.83 ± 0.01% and the calculated anthropogenic component ratio, the 14C excess varied between +0.5 and –1.6%. The Δ14C value decreased from 150.0‰ to 9.5‰ from 1990–2014, which follows the decline of the 14C bomb peak, in addition to any detectable Suess effect.
Role conflict, role ambiguity, and proactive behaviors: does flexible role orientation moderate the mediating impact of engagement?

Abstract This study investigates the relationships between role conflict, role ambiguity, and proactive behaviors at work (i.e. individual innovation and taking charge) as mediated by work engagement. It also investigates the moderating role of flexible role orientation on the relationships between role conflict and ambiguity, work engagement, and employee proactivity. Data were collected from 227 employees and their supervisors working in 20 small and medium-sized enterprises in Istanbul, Turkey. The findings indicated that role conflict was negatively related to taking charge while role ambiguity was negatively related to individual innovation. Work engagement acted as a full mediator in the relationship between role ambiguity and individual innovation, while partially mediating the relationship between role conflict and taking charge. With regard to the moderating role of flexible role orientation, the findings indicated that the conditional indirect relationship between (a) role conflict and taking charge, and (b) role ambiguity and individual innovation through engagement were stronger when the level of flexible role orientation was low.
Single or combined effects of dietary supplemental vitamin C and ethanol extracts of propolis on productive traits, egg quality and some blood biochemical parameters of laying hens

ABSTRACT This 8-week study was conducted to determine the effects of adding ethanol extract of propolis (EEP) and vitamin C (VitC) to diet on performance, egg quality characteristics and blood biochemical of laying hens. A total number of 144 Lohmann LSL-Lite laying hens (59 weeks of age) were assigned to six experimental diets with four replicate cages and six hens per cage. Based on a 3 × 2 factorial arrangement of treatments, 6 iso-caloric and iso-nitrogenous diets consisting 3 levels of EEP (0, 150 and 300 mg/kg) and 2 levels of VitC (0 and 250 mg/kg) were fed. EEP and VitC had no significant effect on overall egg production, egg weight, abnormal egg and feed intake. Improved egg mass and feed conversion ratio were observed in the EEP group. Increased shell thickness was seen in birds fed the diets included 150 and 300 mg/kg EEP compared to the control. VitC decreased the blood level of glucose, but had no significant effect on performance and egg quality characteristics. Decreased serum triglycerides were observed in birds fed 300 mg EEP/kg. In conclusion, EEP could improve productive performance, shell thickness and decreased blood plasma triglycerides; besides, diet inclusion of VitC decreased serum level of glucose.
Temperature issues in saliency-tracking based sensorless methods for PM synchronous machines

High frequency carrier signal excitation has been widely investigated for the position sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSM's) near and at zero speed. Selection of the injected signal characteristics (shape, frequency, magnitude, etc.) is a trade-off between performance criteria of the sensorless control (stability, accuracy, robustness, bandwidth, etc.) and minimization of its adverse effects (additional losses, noise, vibration, etc.). The increased losses due to the injected signal can be of importance in PMSM's, since they can produce a significant increase of the temperature in the rotor magnets. This can adversely impact the normally operation of the machine and can eventually result in the irreversible demagnetization of the magnets. This paper analyzes the impact that excitation using a high frequency signals for sensorless control of PMSM's has on the machine's temperature. The machine design, as well as the type of injected high frequency signal, will be shown to strongly influence the machine's thermal behavior. Analytical models will be developed to explain this behavior, with experimental results being used to verify the analysis.1
The kynurenine pathway is essential for rhodoquinone biosynthesis in Caenorhabditis elegans

A key metabolic adaptation of some species that face hypoxia as part of their life cycle involves an alternative electron transport chain in which rhodoquinone (RQ) is required for fumarate reduction and ATP production. RQ biosynthesis in bacteria and protists requires ubiquinone (Q) as a precursor. In contrast, Q is not a precursor for RQ biosynthesis in animals such as parasitic helminths, and most details of this pathway have remained elusive. Here, we used Caenorhabditis elegans as a model animal to elucidate key steps in RQ biosynthesis. Using RNAi and a series of C. elegans mutants, we found that arylamine metabolites from the kynurenine pathway are essential precursors for RQ biosynthesis de novo. Deletion of kynu-1, encoding a kynureninase that converts l-kynurenine (KYN) to anthranilic acid (AA) and 3-hydroxykynurenine (3HKYN) to 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid (3HAA), completely abolished RQ biosynthesis but did not affect Q levels. Deletion of kmo-1, which encodes a kynurenine 3-monooxygenase that converts KYN to 3HKYN, drastically reduced RQ but not Q levels. Knockdown of the Q biosynthetic genes coq-5 and coq-6 affected both Q and RQ levels, indicating that both biosynthetic pathways share common enzymes. Our study reveals that two pathways for RQ biosynthesis have independently evolved. Unlike in bacteria, where amination is the last step in RQ biosynthesis, in worms the pathway begins with the arylamine precursor AA or 3HAA. Because RQ is absent in mammalian hosts of helminths, inhibition of RQ biosynthesis may have potential utility for targeting parasitic infections that cause important neglected tropical diseases.
Fine Vertical Resolution Radiative‐Convective Equilibrium Experiments: Roles of Turbulent Mixing on the High‐Cloud Response to Sea Surface Temperatures

In this study, the vertical resolution dependency of the high‐cloud fraction response on the increase in sea surface temperature was investigated via radiative‐convective equilibrium simulations. We performed radiative‐convective equilibrium simulations for configurations with a wide range of vertical resolutions using a global nonhydrostatic model including explicit cloud microphysics. It was found that the high‐cloud cover almost monotonically decreased as the vertical resolution increased. We also found that the high‐cloud cover increased (decreased) as the sea surface temperature increased for higher (lower) vertical resolutions. Budget analyses of ice water condensate in transition states to equilibria were performed using the binned vertical profile method and revealed that the tendencies due to the turbulent mixing near convective cores were strongly dependent on the vertical resolution. Analyses of turbulent diffusivity profiles showed that the diffusivity tended to decrease as the vertical resolution increased. The vertical resolution dependency of turbulent mixing was related to frequently occurring weak stratification near the convective cores. We verified these findings via sensitivity experiments and determined that the contribution of the vertical resolution dependency of other processes was secondary. As substantial variability in vertical diffusivity has been reported in both models and observations, these results suggest that a more thorough understanding of turbulent mixing is needed to comprehend high‐cloud changes in warming climates better.
Fcrl5 and T-bet define influenza-specific memory B cells that predict long-lived antibody responses

Abstract Early surrogates for long-lived immunity after inactivated influenza vaccination (IIV) are lacking. Antigen-specific memory B cells (Bmem) after IIV have been recently identified. We show that the antigen-specific Bmem compartment after IIV is heterogenous and comprises a clonotypically and transcriptionally distinct T-bet hi subset that persists in circulation over time after vaccination and exclusively correlates with the long-lived antibody response. We demonstrate that this subset has an effector memory transcriptome and is epigenetically remodeled to facilitate intracellular immunoglobulin production. Finally, via clonal sharing, we show an enriched in vivo ontologic relationship between the secondary plasmablast response that develops after vaccine boost and the T-bet hi fraction of the flu-specific Bmem response that forms after initial prime. Collectively, our data identify a novel biomarker of durable humoral immunity after influenza vaccination.
Stratigraphy and chronology of Pleistocene coastal deposits in northern Aquitaine, France: a reinvestigation

Pleistocene deposits exposed along the coast of the Medoc area, south-west France, represent valuable palaeoenvironmental archives that have been the subject of extensive work in the past few decades. To further understand the palaeoenvironmental history and sedimentary dynamics of these deposits, a detailed lithostratigraphic study was performed on a series of new sections. Additionally, new chronological data were obtained from the combination of luminescence (OSL, IR-RF) and electron spin resonance (ESR) dating of quartz and feldspar grains (Kreutzer et al., 2018). The investigated sections comprise estuarine, lacustrine and peaty deposits (Negade Formation, Argiles du Gurp Formation), aeolian sands (Sables du Gurp Formation) and colluvial units (Gres de l'Amelie Formation). The Argiles du Gurp Formation, in which many remains of Palaeoloxodon antiquus were found, support the hypothesis of a progressive replacement of a tide-inluenced marsh by a peaty fresh-water pond during the Holsteinian Interglacial (MIS 11). IR-RF dating of green estuarine clays at L’Amelie, in the northernmost part of the investigated area, strongly suggests that they do not belong to the Argile du Gurp Formation, but were deposited during the MIS 9 sea level highstand. The estuarine deposits are overlain by sandsheets (Sables du Gurp Formation) dated to MIS 10 and MIS 8 at Pointe de la Negade in the southern part of the study area, and to MIS 8 at L’Amelie. Syngenetic frost cracks testify to a periglacial depositional environment. Regional studies show that the Sables du Gurp Formation is a local equivalent of the Sables des Landes Formation, and corresponds to the oldest aeolian phase recorded in south-west France so far. Colluvial material (Gres de l'Amelie Formation) dated to the Weichselian pleni-glacial (MIS 2) ill small palaeo-valleys incised in the Sables du Gurp Formation. Holocene coastal dunes cover the whole sequence.