Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Growth of Tomato on a Tropical Soil under Plastic Cover as Influenced by Irrigation Practice and Soil Salinity1

When soil-water tension in the rootzone was maintained below 0.2 bar the yield of marketable ‘Tropic’ tomato was 17% greater than when tension was maintained below 0.4 or 0.6 bar. At all 3 tensions yields and total amounts of irrigation water required under trickle irrigation did not differ significantly from yields and water required under basin irrigation. Soil salinity tended to increase with decreases in the total amount of irrigation water applied and with distance from the center of the row. These tendencies were slight under basin irrigation but marked with trickle irrigation. The salt tolerance of ‘Tropic’ appears to be lower than that reported for other cultivars; tolerance was considerably lower on highly acid soil (pH 4.1) than on limed soil (pH 5.7). With limed soil the electrical conductivities of the soil water at field capacity associated with yield decreases of 10, 25 and 50% were 3.5, 6.8 and 12.2 mmho/cm, respectively, as compared to corresponding U.S. Salinity Laboratory values of 8.0, 13.4 and 16.0 mmho/cm.
Examining the impact of upright and recumbent positions on labor outcomes in Saudi Arabia: A quasi-experiment

Background Helping the woman to adopt a comfortable position during childbirth significantly affects labor changes and pain management. However, there is a lack of consensus on the impacts of different childbirth positions on labor outcomes. In addition, a scarce of studies have assessed the effects of the upright and recumbent positions on delivery outcomes, especially in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Objective This study aimed to examine and compare the influence of upright and recumbent childbirth positions on birth outcomes. Methods The setting was the childbirth unit at East Jeddah Hospital from November 2020 to March 2021. The research design was quasi-experimental, including 300 women in labor under 18-45 years. The sample includes two equal groups of 150 women: upright (experiment) and recumbent (comparison) position groups. Three tools were used to collect data: a structured interviewing questionnaire, the modified WHO partograph, and the Wong-Baker FACES® pain rating scale. Descriptive statistics, chi-square, independent t-test, and paired t-test were used for data analysis. Results Women in the recumbent position spent a longer duration in the first, second, and third stages of childbirth and had higher pain scores and less satisfaction with the assumed position than women in the upright position, with a highly significant difference (p <0.001). Conclusion Laboring women in upright positions experienced faster progress of labor, shorter duration of childbirth, less pain, and higher satisfaction than those assumed recumbent positions. This study serves as an input for midwives and nurses to enable them to offer appropriate advice to improve intrapartum care. In addition, educational programs targeting pregnant women about the positive impacts of upright position on women’s birth experience are encouraged.
Depressive Dysfunctional Attitudes and Post-Traumatic Stress in Victims of Terrorist Attacks

ABSTRACT The DSM-5ʹs new conception of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) includes, as a diagnostic criterion, the presence of persistent and exaggerated negative beliefs, thoughts, or expectations about oneself, others, the world, and one’s guilt. These symptoms increase the symptomatic similarity with major depressive disorder (MDD) and with the negative cognitive triad of Beck’s cognitive theory of depression and allow us to assume that the dysfunctional attitudes that this theory proposes as a vulnerability factor for MDD could also refer to PTSD. This study aims to examine the relationship between depressive dysfunctional attitudes and the symptoms and diagnosis of PTSD. A sample of 378 adult victims of terrorism completed measures of depressive dysfunctional attitudes (DAS-A), DSM-IV post-traumatic stress symptoms (PCL-S), depressive symptoms (BDI-II), and DSM-IV diagnosis of emotional disorders (SCID-I). A significant relationship was found between depressive dysfunctional attitudes and PTSD symptomatology, even after controlling for the effect of depression, sex, age, education level, anxiety, and previous depressive episodes. It was also found that victims with PTSD, with or without MDD, had more depressive dysfunctional attitudes than those without emotional disorders and more achievement-perfectionism attitudes than victims with emotional disorders other than PTSD or MDD. The results suggest that depressive dysfunctional attitudes could be a vulnerability factor for PTSD. The results also suggest the need to refine Beck's cognitive theory proposals about dysfunctional attitudes common and specific to each emotional disorder and identify potential therapeutic targets of cognitive therapies for these disorders.
Effectiveness of Medication, Surgery, and Combination Therapy to Decrease Intraocular Pressure on Glaucoma Outpatient at Outpatient Ophthalmic Clinic Dr. Soetomo General Hospital Surabaya in January – December 2017

Highlights:1. Combination of medication and surgery on glaucoma had the least post-therapy intraocular pressure.2. There was no significant difference in the efficacy of drugs, surgeries, and combination of both therapies for glaucoma intraocular pressure reduction. AbstractIntroduction: Glaucoma leads to blindness in its end stage. Quality of life drops as visual field loss as progressive optic nerve damage since high intraocular pressure elevation. Glaucoma treatment focused on aqueous humor regulation, thus the intraocular pressure is maintained at normal.Methods: This was a retrospective analytical study using secondary data gathered from medical records as total sampling data. The sample was determined by the purposive non-probability technique. The mean of intraocular pressure after therapies was defined as the dependent variable while the independent variable was the type of therapy.Results: Combined therapy (16.00 ± 6.77 mmHg) had the least post-therapy intraocular pressure. The statistical test indicated no significant difference in the effectiveness of medication, surgery, and combination therapy for glaucoma intraocular pressure reduction.Conclusion: There was no prominent difference in the efficacy of drugs, surgeries, and combined therapies for glaucoma intraocular pressure reduction.
Becoming a Teacher: Integrating Strategies, Activities, and Objectives

This portfolio reflects the perspectives that the author believes are effective in second language teaching. The first section comprises the author’s teaching philosophy which includes creating a favorable classroom environment, facilitating learning through a communicative approach, and applying activities with appropriate and specific objectives. Following the teaching philosophy are three research papers: the use of fairy tales to promote a communicative approach together with other academic skills in second language teaching, the importance of teaching pragmatics, and the significance of helping Hispanic students develop confidence through Dual Language Immersion. The last section of this portfolio contains three annotated bibliographies about specific methodologies that support language acquisition: dialogue journals, collaborative writing v in a second language using wikis, and teaching language through content-based instruction.
Transcatheter closure of multiple secundum atrial septal defects using multiple occluder devices: A comparative experience between pediatric and adult patients

Background: Device closure of multiple atrial septal defects (MASDs) is frequently done using a single centrally deployed septal or cribriform occluder, but multiple devices are needed for large defects separated more than 6 mm. There is a concern about complications while using multiple devices, especially in children. Methods: Patients who received multiple devices for closure of MASD were grouped according to their age and analyzed for procedural techniques, immediate and late complications. MASDs closed by a single device were not included. Balloon sizing was done when echocardiographic images were suboptimal before simultaneous device deployment through two venous accesses or sequential deployment through one access. Duration and number of antiplatelet drugs and residual flows were analyzed on follow-up. Results: Twenty-five patients received multiple devices. Balloon interrogation was performed in 16/18 adults but only in 2/7 children. Device size was 2–5 mm larger than echocardiographic defect size or equal to balloon waist. There were no procedural failures; 7/25 showed small postprocedural residual flows. Complications including embolization in one, arrhythmia in one, and cobra deformity in two were managed successfully. On a median follow-up of 5.5 years (1–12 years), residual flows disappeared in 4/7 and there were no major late complications. Conclusions: Use of multiple devices for closing MASD is feasible with good technical success. Echocardiography and balloon interrogation are the keys for success. Simultaneous deployment is often needed and sequential delivery is feasible rarely if the defects are far apart. Minor residual leaks are common but improve on follow-up. There are no significant new complications on long-term follow-up.
Bootstrap rank tests for trend in time series

The Mann–Kendall (MK) test is a popular test for monotonic trend when the observations are independent, but its null distribution properties under independence do not apply to the situation where the observations are dependent. We provide block and sieve bootstrap methods for approximating the null distribution of MK in such a situation. In the case of the block bootstrap, when the observations follow a weakly dependent β mixing process, such an approximation is based on the determination that MK and its block bootstrap counterpart are asymptotically normal. In addition, we note that sieve methods are applicable to a statistic that is asymptotically equivalent to MK. Simulations are conducted to compare the significance levels achieved by both block and sieve bootstrap methods for various models. An effective procedure is proposed for testing for trend when the form of the underlying process is unknown. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
How much do survey response rates affect relationships among variables?

ABSTRACT Previous research extensively studied reasons for and ways to avoid low response rates, but it largely ignored the primary research issue of the degree to which response rates matter, which we address. Methodological survey research on response rates has been concerned with how to increase responsiveness and with the effects of response rates on variables’ means and frequencies. More important to theory-oriented research, however, are effects of response rates on effect sizes (strength of relationships between variables). We examined recent survey research (446 correlations in 252 studies 2000–2020) on commonly studied variables in the example domain of organizational behavior, where surveys are especially common. We found a nonsignificant relationship (r = .01) between response rates and effect sizes. The relationship between sample sizes (the numerator in response rates) and effect sizes was weak but significant (r = .13, p = .01). Furthermore, there was no evidence for variability across studies and no curvilinear effects. Response rates on surveys have no noticeable effect on correlations nor therefore on theory development and testing.
The Possibility of using Robot as one of the Artificial Intelligence Techniques in the Food and Beverage Department in Five-star Hotels: Managers' Perspective

Robots are increasingly being used in the hotel industry in the form of a chef robot, waiter robot, host robot, delivery robot, concierge robot, receptionist robot, and bellboy robot, which requires comprehensive knowledge of how robotics technology will be applied in the future in hotels. This research aims to study the viewpoint and perceptions of managers about the extent of the ability and readiness of Egyptian hotels to use robots in the food and beverage
How Can Mobile Health Technology Improve Usage and Delivery of the COVID-19 Vaccine in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

Background: Mobile health projects have been implemented all over the world, using mobile phones for record keeping, data collection, or patient communication. Further, mobile health tools have been used to promote behavior change in health workers and/or patients. For example, text message reminders have been shown to increase health care seeking behavior or medication adherence in some patients, and mobile data collection and communication tools for health workers have improved follow-up of patients and data reporting. Methods: This literature review was conducted through a keyword search of the following databases to identify relevant peer-reviewed articles: Google Scholar, PubMed, Embase, and EKB. Keywords used in these searches included mHealth, mobile health, mobile phone, coverage, usage, delivery, vaccination, immunization and COVID-19. Results: Eleven studies satisfied the inclusion criteria were included. They examined awareness, applications, challenges and strengths of Mobile-Health applications. All studies showed some evidence that mHealth intervention had a positive impact on increasing the coverage and use of COVID-19 vaccine. Bad awareness of people was strongly associated with declines in vaccination intent. The use of mobile applications has made a great revolution in tracking and data gathering about vaccination status. The main limitations were reporting bias and malfunctioning of mobile applications. The main strengths were getting real-time data, improving surveillance, using geographic mapping to monitor populations. Conclusion: Growing usage of smartphone and internet penetration in African countries opens the door to mHealth applications such as health literacy, vaccine supply and control, disease monitoring and intervention, and virtual consultations with health professionals around the world.
Higher order curvature theories of gravity matched with observations: A Bridge between dark energy and dark matter problems

Higher order curvature gravity has recently received a lot of attention since it gives rise to cosmological models which seem capable of solving dark energy and quintessence issues without using “ad hoc” scalar fields. Such an approach is naturally related to fundamental theories of quantum gravity which predict higher order terms for loop expansions of quantum fields in curved spacetimes. In this framework, we obtain a class of cosmological solutions which are fitted against cosmological data. We reproduce reliable models able to fit high redshift supernovae and WMAP observations. The age of the universe and other cosmological parameters are recovered in this context. Furthermore, in the weak field limit, we obtain gravitational potentials which differ from the Newtonian one because of repulsive corrections increasing with distance. We evaluate the rotation curve of our Galaxy and compare it with the observed data in order to test the viability of these theories and to estimate the scale‐length of the co.
Personalized Medicine in Acute Care Surgery: Are We Ready to Deal with Our Failures?

During the first decade of the 21st century, the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT), the Western Trauma Association (WTA), the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) established an ad hoc committee to develop a new specialty that embraces trauma surgery, critical surgical care, and emergency surgery [. ].
Transmesocolic approach in laparoscopic complete mesocolic excision for right sided colon cancers

Introduction A mesocolic plane, central vascular ligation (CVL) and proper proximal-distal margins are the essential components of complete mesocolic excision (CME). In the transmesocolic approach, we identify the middle colic vessels and enter the lesser sac through the mesocolon for ascending colon and caecum tumors. Aim To investigate the feasibility and identify the technical details of this technique. Material and methods The clinical and pathological findings of 26 patients who had undergone laparoscopic right hemicolectomy with CME between 2010 and 2020 were collected retrospectively. All operation videos were recorded and reviewed by the authors with regard to the components of CME. In the transmesocolic approach, dissection starts with identification of the middle colic vessels directly. After division of the middle colic vessels, we enter the omental bursa and dissection continues from superior to inferior direction. Results There were 26 patients in the study. The mean age was 59.3 ±16.1. There were 15 female and 11 male patients with a mean body mass index of 25.9 ±16.1 kg/m2. The mean operative time was 137.6 ±19.4 min. The mean length of hospital stay and the time to first flatus were 7.5 ±4.6 days and 2.3 ±1.5 days, respectively. None of the patients were re-admitted to the hospital in 30 days. There was no 30-day mortality in the patients. There were no major complications. Conclusions The transmesocolic approach seems to be feasible and safe for CME in right sided colon cancers. However, more prospective randomized studies are needed to use the transmesocolic approach as a standard technique.
Understanding logical connectives: a comparative study of language influence.

Operators called 'logical connectives' convey in a precise way the logical relationships between truth functional propositions and hence determine what can be inferred from them. Mathematical reasoning therefore relies heavily on their use. Whilst the operators are free of ambiguity, this is not so for the linguistic items (called 'linguistic connectives') by which they are codified. In English, at least, there is a widely reported mismatch between the logical concepts and the 'meanings' of the linguistic connectives with which they are frequently identified. This study compares the provision for expressing logical concepts in Japanese, Arabic and English and seeks to ascertain to what extent the problems reported for English are generalisable to the other two languages. It also aims to establish whether the concepts underlying certain logical connectives are 'more readily available' or 'better established' in the speakers of one or other of these languages and, if so, whether this can be attributed to differing provision in the lexicon. Two experiments were carried out using as subjects adults who were native speakers of either English, Japanese or Arabic. One was designed to determine to what extent the appropriate linguistic connectives in each of the three languages convey the associated logical concepts. The second compared performance on five concept identification tasks where the concepts tested were conjunction, inclusive and exclusive disjunction, the conditional and biconditional. The results indicated no significant differences between language groups in the understanding of the linguistic expressions of logical connectives. However, the Japanese language group consistently outperformed the other two groups in all five concept identification tasks and also offered descriptions of these concepts which were more succinct and less variable. Possible explanations for the superior performance of the Japanese group are suggested and some implications for the teaching and learning of mathematics proposed.
An Evaluation System Based on User Big Data Management and Artificial Intelligence for Automatic Vehicles

As artificial intelligence technique is widely used in the automatic driving system, the safety evaluation of automatic vehicles is considered to be the most important demand. Under this context, in this paper, an evaluation system, which is composed of several important evaluation projects is proposed based on big data. These indicators reflect the performance of the automatic driving system. Besides, the principle of the evaluation index and the data management scheme are explained. In terms of the evaluation projects, the online test and the offline test are included, when the former focuses on the function design that is as expected, while the latter aims to ensure the actual driving experience of the automatic driving system. The evaluated results provide optimization direction of the algorithm index. Furthermore, based on AI technology and user big data management, the system saves lots of test cost and guarantees algorithm performance and system stability.
The Boron Content of Developing Pear, Apple and Cherry Flower Buds1

Fruit buds of pear, apple and cherry, collected between the late dormant period and petal fall, were separated into their various parts and analyzed for B. Generally, the B content of the tissues reflected the amount in the soil. Total B increased gradually as the bud enlarged and then rapidly as the flower opened to full bloom. In many of the flower parts the B level was high. During the bloom period, the blossom parts (styles, petals, sepals, anthers, filaments and receptacles) contained more B than the leaves and pedicels.
Development of a Tailored Sol-Gel Immobilized Biocatalyst for Sustainable Synthesis of the Food Aroma Ester n-Amyl Caproate in Continuous Solventless System

This study reports the synthesis of a hybrid sol-gel material, based on organically modified silanes (ORMOSILs) with epoxy functional groups, and its application in the stabilization of lipase type B from Candida antarctica (CalB) through sol-gel entrapment. The key immobilization parameters in the sol-gel entrapment of lipase using epoxysilanes were optimized by the design of numerous experiments, demonstrating that glycidoxypropyl-trimethoxysilane can allow the formation of a matrix with excellent properties in view of the biocatalytic esterifications catalyzed by this lipase, at an enzyme loading of 25 g/mol of silane. The characterization of the immobilized biocatalyst and the correlation of its catalytic efficiency with the morphological and physicochemical properties of the sol-gel matrix was accomplished through scanning electron microscopy (SEM), fluorescence microscopy (FM), as well as thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis (TGA/DTA). The operational and thermal stability of lipase were increased as a result of immobilization, with the entrapped lipase retaining 99% activity after 10 successive reaction cycles in the batch solventless synthesis of n-amyl caproate. A possible correlation of optimal productivity and yield was attempted for this immobilized lipase via the continuous flow synthesis of n-amyl caproate in a solventless system. The robustness and excellent biocatalytic efficiency of the optimized biocatalyst provide a promising solution for the synthesis of food-grade flavor esters, even at larger scales.