Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Sexual Health, Suicidal Ideation and weight changes in Cancer patients during Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy Treatment

Background: During chemotherapy or radiotherapy sessions, cancer patients often go through a series of physical, psychological, social and environmental changes that affects the QOL of the patients. While assessing for the anxiety and depression scores affecting the QOL, maximum of the patients left the question of sexual activity, suicidal ideation and weight issues unanswered. Objectives: The present paper focused on the issue of sexual activity, suicidal ideation, and weight changes during chemotherapy or radiotherapy sessions while determining the anxiety and depression scores for QOL of cancer patients during the treatment regimen. Methods: It was a cross-sectional, descriptive, hospital based evaluation study. Total duration of the study was 5 months (December 2015April 2016), conducted in Medical and Radiation Oncology department of Dr. B.L. Kapur Memorial Hospital, New Delhi, India. A convenience sample of 60 patients (Chemotherapy group (n= 30) and Radiotherapy group (n= 30)) with cancer was selected. Data was obtained through direct interview, using validated Psychological intervention tool in the form of Questionnaire: WHOQOL-Bref Questionnaire, Zung Self-Rating Anxiety scale and Zung Self-Rating Depression scale, which was further managed through a statistical program, using appropriate statistical tests. Results: A total of 60 cancer patients were included in the study in which Chemotherapy group consisted of 30n cancer patients and Radiotherapy group consisted of 30n cancer patients. In the study, 6(20%) were males and 24(80%) were females in the chemotherapy group, and, 15(50%) were males and 15(50%) were females in the radiotherapy group. Majority of the patients 32(53.34%) were in the age range of 46-60 years. Conclusion: It could be concluded from the present study that in Indian scenario, cancer patients felt sexual activity and suicidal ideation as a social stigma which is further accompanied by hesitation. Moreover, maximum patients observed stable weight and some patients observed increase in weight during chemotherapy sessions.
Educativa SELF-REGULATED LEARNING , SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS AND PERFORMANCE DURING THE LATE CHILDHOOD

This article analyzes relations between self-regulated learning, self-efficacy beliefs and performance on tasks of solving arithmetic problems. The investigation has been developed with 268 students with six years old and enrolled in the first year of primary education in Spain. The results obtained by the application of binary logistic regression models indicate that self-regulated learning and its interaction with self-efficacy beliefs predict performance. Finally, the application of cluster analysis shows four profiles of students, called: i) positive adjusted; ii) negative unadjusted I; iii) negative unadjusted II y; iv) negative adjusted. Resumen Este artículo analiza relaciones entre el aprendizaje autorregulado, las creencias de autoeficacia y el desempeño en tareas de resolución de problemas aritméticos. El estudio se ha llevado a cabo con 268 escolares de seis años de edad y matriculados en el primer año de educación primaria en España. Los resultados obtenidos mediante modelos de regresión logística binaria indican que el aprendizaje autorregulado y su interacción con las creencias de autoeficacia predicen el desempeño. Por último, la aplicación de un análisis Cluster muestra cuatro perfiles de escolares, denominados: i) ajustado positivo; ii) desajustado negativo I; iii) desajustado negativo II y; iv) ajustado negativo.
EVALUATION OF BLENDED LEARNING PROCESS OF EXPERT SYSTEM COURSE PROGRAM BY USING CSE-UCLA MODEL BASED ON MOBILE TECHNOLOGY 1 DEWA

The aim of this research was to know the implementation of CSE-UCLA evaluation model based on Mobile Technology and to know the evaluation result of blended learning implementation on expert system course program by implementing CSE-UCLA evaluation model based on mobile technology. Research method used in this study was development method with development design that was 4-D development model (Define, Design, Develop, and Disseminate). Research subjects who were involved in the initial trial were 4 people, they were: 2 informatics experts and 2 education experts, while the subject of this research on trial usage was 10 people, they were: 6 lecturers, 2 informatics experts, and 2 Educational experts. Data analysis technique used in this research was quantitative descriptive analysis technique. The results of this study indicated that the implementation of CSE-UCLA evaluation model based on Mobile Technology was realized in the design of model and evaluation application program which had been compiled well. The effectiveness level of the implementation for blended learning on expert system courses program at one private computer university in Bali by using CSE-UCLA evaluation model based on Mobile Technology was 88.15%, thus, it belong to good qualifications.
Gradient Effects of Tonal Scaling in the Segmentation of Korean Speech: An Artificial-Language Segmentation Study

French and Korean have similar intonational systems but differ in the alignment of the phrase-final High (H) tone and scaling of the following phrase-initial Low (L) tone. Tremblay et al. [1] found that Korean listeners have difficulty using tonal cues to segment French speech, raising the question of whether Korean listeners ’ segmentation of French was inhibited by the different alignments of the phrase-final H tone or scaling of the phrase-initial L tone in the two languages. This study investigates this issue, thereby shedding light on the importance of fine-grained language-specific tonal cues in speech segmentation. Native Korean listeners completed three artificial-language (AL) segmentation tasks over three sessions. In Experiment 1, one AL contained no tonal cues to word-final boundaries (control), one contained French alignment cues, and one contained Korean alignment cues. Experiments 2 and 3 were identical to Experiment 1, except the phrase-initial L tone in the ALs containing prosodic cues was lowered by 20 Hz and by 40 Hz, respectively. The results showed that Korean listeners’ segmentation of the ALs improved as the phrase-initial L tone was lowered, highlighting the gradient effects of tonal scaling in Korean listeners ’ speech segmentation, consistent with the intonational grammar of the language.
Stellar mass estimates in early-type galaxies from lensing+dynamical and photometric measurements

Aims. Our purpose is to compare two different diagnostics for estimating stellar masses in early-type galaxies and to establish their level of reliability. In particular, we consider the well-studied sample of 15 field elliptical galaxies selected from the Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) Survey ($z = 0.06$–0.33). We examine here the correlation between the stellar mass values, enclosed inside the Einstein radius $(R_{\rm Ein})$ of each lens, based on analyses of lensing and stellar dynamics combined and based on multiwavelength photometry spectral template fitting. Methods. The lensing+dynamics stellar mass $M_{\mathrm{len+dyn}}^{*}(\le R_{\mathrm{Ein}})$ is obtained from the published SLACS Survey results, assuming a two-component density distribution model and a prior from the fundamental plane on the mass-to-light ratio for the lens galaxies. The photometric stellar mass $M_{\mathrm{phot}}^{*}(\le R_{\mathrm{Ein}})$ is measured by fitting the observed spectral energy distribution of the galaxies (from the SDSS multi-band photometry over 354–913 nm) with composite stellar population templates, under the assumption that light traces stellar mass. Results. The two methods are completely independent. They rely on several different assumptions, and so, in principle, both can have significant biases. Based on our sample of massive galaxies $(\mathrm{log}\,M_{\mathrm{phot}}^{*}(\le R_{\mathrm{Ein}})\simeq[10.3,11.5])$, we find consistency between the values of $M_{\mathrm{len+dyn}}^{*}(\le R_{\mathrm{Ein}})$ and $M_{\mathrm{phot}}^{*}(\le R_{\mathrm{Ein}})$. We obtain a Pearson linear correlation coefficient of 0.94 and a median value of the ratio between the former and the latter mass measurements of 1.1 ± 0.1. This suggests that both methods can separately yield reliable stellar masses of early-type galaxies, and confirms that photometric mass estimates are accurate, as long as optical/near-IR rest frame photometry is available.
Introduction to 5-Aminolevulinic Acid-Protoporphyrin IX-Mediated Radiodynamic Therapy ( RDT )

Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is a light-based method that uses photo-reactive molecules, such as protoporphyrin IX (PpIX), to ablate tumors. Recently, PpIX was shown to act as a radio-reactive molecule by enhancing generation of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) upon X-ray irradiation. This characteristic enables radiodynamic Therapy (RDT), which uses radiation as a physical stimulus instead of light used in photodynamic therapy. The merit of RDT over PDT is the X-ray’s penetrability through tissues, which will find many applications for treatment of deep cancers. In this mini-review, we discuss the potential applications of radiodynamic therapy.
Maintenance of Foreign Language Vocabulary and the Spacing Effect

In a 9-year longitudinal investigation, 4 subjects learned and relearned 300 English-foreign language word pairs. Either 13 or 26 relearning sessions were administered at intervals of 14, 28, or 56 days. Retention was tested for 1.2. 3. or 5 years after training terminated. The longer intersession intervals slowed down acquisition slightly, but this disadvantage during training was offset by substantially higher retention. Thirteen retraining sessions spaced at 56 days yielded retention comparable to 26 sessions spaced at 14 days. The retention benefit due to additional sessions was independent of the benefit due to spacing, and both variables facilitated retention of words regardless of difficulty level and of the consistency of retrieval during training. The benefits of spaced retrieval practice to long-term maintenance of access to academic knowledge areas are discussed.
Anisotropic viscous dissipation in transient reconnecting plasmas

Aims. We examine the global energy losses associated with reconnecting coronal plasmas. Methods. Using planar magnetic reconnection simulations we compute resistive and bulk viscous losses in transient coronal plasmas. Resistive scalings are computed for the case of incompressible reconnection powered by large scale vortical flows. These results are contrasted with an example of magnetic merging driven by the coalescence instability. Results. We demonstrate that the large scale advective flows, required to sustain resistive current sheets, may be associated with viscous losses approaching flare-like rates of 10 29 erg s 1 . More generally, bulk viscous dissipation appears likely to dominate resistive dissipation for a wide variety of magnetic merging models. We emphasize that these results have potentially important implications for understanding the flare energy budget.
Assessing the impact of peripheral mega retail centres on traditional urban shopping centres

Recently, retail planning policy in the Netherlands has become much more liberal, probably stimulating the development of new (types of) out-of-town retail centres. This raises the question whether these new out-of-town retail centres will threaten existing retail centres. The purpose of this paper is to present a method to assess the likely effects of new peripheral retail centres on existing retail structures.The method is based on the stated choice approach. Different realizations of an imaginary peripheral mega shopping centre are presented to respondents. The respondents have to estimate the number of times each existing shopping centre and the new imaginary peripheral centre would have been visited if the imaginary centre had existed. The following variables were used to define the imaginary peripheral retail centre: supply of six branches, distance from home to the peripheral centre, price-product quality ratio, design and ambiance, and entertainment. The results show that depending on its characteristics, a peripheral mega centre can have severe impact on existing shopping centres.
Biologically realistic mean-field models of conductancebased networks of spiking neurons with adaptation

Accurate population models are needed to build very large scale neural models, but their derivation is difficult for realistic networks of neurons, in particular when nonlinear properties are involved such as conductance-based interactions and spike-frequency adaptation. Here, we consider such models based on networks of Adaptive exponential Integrate and fire excitatory and inhibitory neurons. Using a Master Equation formalism, we derive a mean-field model of such networks and compare it to the full network dynamics. The mean-field model is capable to correctly predict the average spontaneous activity levels in asynchronous irregular regimes similar to in vivo activity. It also captures the transient temporal response of the network to complex external inputs. Finally, the mean-field model is also able to quantitatively describe regimes where high and low activity states alternate (UP-DOWN state dynamics), leading to slow oscillations. We conclude that such mean-field models are “biologically realistic” in the sense that they can capture both spontaneous and evoked activity, and they naturally appear as candidates to build very large scale models involving multiple brain areas.
Sexual reproductive cycle of the epibiotic soft coral Alcyonium coralloides (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea)

Alcyonium coralloides is an epibiotic soft coral overgrowing living colonies of Medi- terranean gorgonians. The main features of the sexual reproductive cycle of this soft coral species are described and quantified for the first time, in a population found at 18 to 22 m depth off the Medes Islands (NW Mediterranean). A. coralloides is a gonochoric internal brooder. The sexual cycle showed a single reproductive event per year. Gametogenesis took 5 to 6 mo, which is the shortest known gametogenesis in littoral octocorals (especially for oogenesis). The maximum mean ± SD diameter was 365 ± 86 µm for spermatic cysts and 632 ± 125 µm for mature oocytes. Sperm was released in spring (late May). Average male and female fecundity in this last phase of the cycle was 15 ± 9 spermatic cysts and 7 ± 4 oocytes per polyp, respectively. Larvae of about 1000 µm in length were observed in the gastrovascular cavities of female colonies in May, before they were released in June. We suggest that the remarkable short gametogenesis and timing shown by A. coralloides is an adaptation to optimize the colonization of its host (in this case the gorgonian octocoral Paramuricea clavata). We conclude that A. coralloides larvae could be ready to settle in early summer when the host P. clavata is probably more vulnerable as a result of its own reproductive cycle coming to an end.
Past selection impacts the strength of an aquatic trophic cascade

1. In complex food webs, interactions among species in different trophic levels can generate cascading indirect effects that couple top predators with primary pro -ducers, thereby affecting ecosystem functioning. Natural selection imposed by top predators on intermediate predators may play a role in shaping the strength of these trophic cascades, but this conjecture remains largely untested. 2. To determine the effects of natural selection on the strength of trophic cascades, we conducted a two-part experiment in a four-level aquatic trophic system involv ing a top predator (fish), an intermediate predator (damselflies), herbivores (zoo -plankton) and primary producers (algae). We first quantified how predation by fish generated selection on damselfly activity levels after controlling for phenotypic plasticity. We then measured the indirect effects of this selection on primary pro duction (phytoplankton biomass). In both experiments, we varied the density of predators, allowing us to elucidate both trait-mediated and density-mediated indi rect effects. 3. We found that as fish density increased, damselfly survivorship declined, which generated natural selection favouring less active damselflies. These results are robust after taking into account latent effects of plasticity in response to fish predator cues. The surviving damselflies likely foraged
Analysis of internal helically finned tubes for parabolic trough design by CFD tools

This paper has analysed the effect of the utilization of internal finned tubes for the design of parabolic trough collectors with computational fluid dynamics tools. Our numerical approach has been qualified with the computational estimation of reported experimental data regarding phenomena involved in finned tube applications and solar irradiation of parabolic trough collector. The application of finned tubes to the design of parabolic trough collectors must take into account features as the pressure losses, thermal losses and thermo-mechanical stress and thermal fatigue. Our analysis shows an improvement potential in parabolic trough solar plants efficiency by the application of internal finned tubes.
ELECTROCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF CYSTEAMINE AT CARBON FIBER MICRODISK ELECTRODE

The electrooxidation of cysteamine compound was carried out using convolutive cyclic voltammetry, linear sweep voltammetry and chronoamperomtry techniques at a carbon fiber microdisk electrode in 0. 1 M perchloric acid. The electrooxidation potential ( E0'' ) of cysteamine occurs at + 0.921 V. The mechanistic pathway of electrooxidation process at carbon fiber microelectrode is loss of 1 electron per molecule. The electrode process is controlled mainly by diffusion. The chemical and electrochemical parameters of the investigated system were determined experimentally and verified theoretically via digital simulation method. The unique properties of microdisk electrodes offer a number of particular advantages for their use in analytical applications. In the steady-state mass transport to the microdisk is dominated by quasi-hemispherical diffusion. As a consequence, the mass transport to and from the microdisk electrode surface is efficient, reproducible and insensitive to random convection. In analytical applications based on accumulation and stripping techniques this obviates the need for stirring during the preconcentration step, improves the precision of the measurement, and reduces analysis times. In addition, the small electrode surface area of the microdisk means that the double layer capacitance of the electrode is small, thus significantly reducing the charging current. As a consequence, the ratio of the steady-state Faradaic current to the non-Faradaic current is increased and the detection limit is enhanced.1 The small size of the electrodes also means that the currents passed at the microelectrode are small resulting in negligible ohmic drop (iR drop) even in the absence of a supporting electrolyte.2,3 This has dual advantages in analytical applications that sample preparation can be simplified and that the possibility of impurities from the added electrolyte is eliminated. Microelectrodes are thus particularly well-suited for trace analysis. Pt, Au, Hg and carbon microelectrodes have been used in stripping analyses for the determination of trace metals by a number of authors.4-8 In contrast, studies using microelectrodes for the determination of organic species are far less numerous and are restricted to the use of carbon fiber microelectrodes. 9-19
Beyond the sensory: Findings from an in-depth analysis of the phenomenology of “auditory hallucinations” in schizophrenia

Objective: Research concerning the subjective sensory qualities of auditory hallucinations (AH) in people diagnosed with schizophrenia is scarce. Our goal was to investigate the “auditoriness” of AH and their overlap with symptoms grounded in alterations of thought rather than perception. Method: We undertook a detailed analysis of phenomenological interviews with 80 schizophrenia-spectrum voice-hearers. Results: We coded the dominant voice patterns of our subjects and found that only a minority (17.5%) reported a dominant pattern of AH which were experienced as literally auditory. Of dominant AH patterns, 11.3% were instead described as only quasi- or partially auditory, 28.8% as involving a combination of distinctly auditory and thought-like voices, and 15% as unambiguously thought-like. In addition, 5% reported exclusively simple, short-duration AH (e.g. hearing a single word), 12.5% the misperception of actual speech or sounds, and 10% predominantly multisensory voices. We also found substantial overlap between voices and symptoms traditionally considered abnormalities of thought rather than sensation. Conclusion: We believe these findings challenge common assumptions about AH in people diagnosed with schizophrenia, draw attention to potentially important but under-recognized characteristics of voices, and suggest a need for greater recognition of the heterogeneity of voices and the potential clinical as well as theoretical risks of conceptual over-simplification.
THE METALLICITY AND DUST CONTENT OF A REDSHIFT 5 GAMMA-RAY BURST HOST GALAXY

Observations of the afterglows of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) allow the study of star-forming galaxies across most of cosmic history. Here we present observations of GRB 111008A, from which we can measure metallicity, chemical abundance patterns, dust-to-metals ratio (DTM), and extinction of the GRB host galaxy at z = 5.0. The host absorption system is a damped Lyα absorber with a very large neutral hydrogen column density of and a metallicity of [S/H] = −1.70 ± 0.10. It is the highest-redshift GRB with such a precise metallicity measurement. The presence of fine-structure lines confirms the z = 5.0 system as the GRB host galaxy and makes this the highest redshift where Fe ii fine-structure lines have been detected. The afterglow is mildly reddened with AV = 0.11 ± 0.04 mag, and the host galaxy has a DTM that is consistent with being equal to or lower than typical values in the Local Group.
Impact of Emotional Intelligence on the Performance of University Teachers

Education plays its important role in the success of a human in each and every discipline. Education provides the skills to the students that enhance their skills, prepare them physically, and develop them mentally. For the successful teaching it is just not required the subject knowledge, but it is also needed the effective skills. If researcher consider it in broaden concern, it can be said, that is the combination of thinking and feeling. In 1995, Goleman declared those skills as emotional intelligence(Goleman, 1995). He reflected them in himself and observed them in others. So, our main focus in this study is also to find the impact of those skills which are known as emotional intelligence on teachers’ performance. Teachers are the backbone of the educational institutions, without teachers, these institutes are considered the body without soul. According to National Education Report, the trained teachers are essential for the education system. The teachers who got training can be expected have the highly knowledge of emotional intelligence. Definitely the teachers having good emotional intelligence, can teach the students in effective manner, But it is needed to measure this phenomena, at what level the emotional intelligence can plays its role in learning process. According to the literature, the role of emotional intelligence on teacher’s performance can be studied in western countries, but in Pakistan, it is not studied yet. So, as a student of education, I find this impact in this project.