Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Life-Form A Matters-Syncytium: DeepScience for Matter Correlates of Conscious States EC PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY Special Issue-2020

It is all material at observable plane. Living state could be understood as a multidimensional syncytium of several matter-states cohabitating in an extraordinarily unique and sustainable manner that grows and evolves as systems with emergence of cognitive and decision-making ability reflected in homeorrhetic far from equilibrium behaviour. “Life-form”, within a porous enclosure by cell wall/membrane, stands at the centre of the spectrum between ordinary and exotic states of matter. As in neuroscience one looks for neural correlates/correspondences of conscious states (NCC), similarly it is possible to find out matter correlates/ correspondence of conscious states (MCC). The perspective developed in this paper calls for a DeepScience to show how the essence of the material science is interconnected with the essence of the Multiversity along the sub-quantum and sub-subquantum recess of nature involving presently non-observable several exotic states of matter, dark matter, neutrinos, operations of informationstates, operations of cognitive faculty such as mind, self, life-principle and consciousness. Investigation of this interdisciplinary terrain has translational value for next three century’s science.
Study of Serum Nitrate, Albumin and Ascitic Fluid Nitrate, Albumin Levels in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis

Nitric Oxide (NO 0 ), a potent vasodilator has been proposed to play a role in pathogenesis of ascites and hepatic disorders. Hence, this study was aimed to study synthesis of nitric oxide in liver cirrhosis patients with ascites and without ascites. The study showed highly significant increase in nitric oxide synthesis in liver cirrhosis patients with ascites as compared to controls as well as compared to liver cirrhosis patients without ascites. In addition, serum albumin level was highly significantly decreased in both ascitic as well as non-ascitic liver cirrhosis patients. Thus the study differentiates the expression of isoforms of nitric oxide synthase in healthy human liver and cirrhotic liver.
Te Impact of Family on Children’s Attitude Toward Health

plans 46.6% 38.8% p > 0.05 Lack of readiness for action 0% 0% – Health promotion factors (causes) Action (healthy lifestyle) 60% 38.8% p ≤ 0.01 Environment 20% 16.6% p > 0.05 Congenital physical properties 20% 44.4% p ≤ 0.01 Value of health Absolute value 80% 83.3% p > 0.05 Mental condition 13.3% 5.5% p ≤ 0.01 Physical condition 6.6% 11.1% p > 0.05 Quality of life 0% 0% – Note. The percentage was calculated as frequency of a response among the sampled group. 154 E. I. Pervichko, I. M. Shishkova the first category of children is much more often faced with the need to improve their health, which is emphasized by parents and the school environment as a significant value. Frequently ill children reveal their idea of the disease through an emotionally intense assessment (“bad”, “terrible”, “nightmarish”). The frequency of such assessments in the group of frequently ill children significantly exceeds that in the group of rarely ill children (53.3% vs. 33.3, p ≤ 0.01), whereas for rarely ill children, the description of the disease through its objective definition (66.6%) is typical. This distinction may be related to the discomfort caused by diseases and the personal emotional reaction to them in frequently ill children. Children of both groups with the highest frequencies of answers note the paramount importance of health for a person’s life (83.3% vs. 80%, p > 0.05).
Evaluating the integration of Jing® screencasts in feedback on written assignments

The Open University is always keen to develop ways of enhancing feedback to students, since comments on assignments are a key aspect of the distance tuition process. Students traditionally receive detailed written feedback on their assignment scripts in the form of annotations and corrections as well as separate written comments summarising their overall performance. For foreign language speaking assignments, students also receive audio feedback in addition to written summary comments. Jing® [1], a free software tool, allows the recording of a five-minute video commentary of what is happening on a computer screen, i.e. to make a screencast. Jing® enables tutors to record themselves annotating and commenting on their students' scripts or to provide a presentation on an aspect of grammar relevant to the assignment. This presentation reports on both the student and tutor responses to the medium, as well as the nature of the feedback in terms of depth and focus.
Three-Dimensional NumericalySimulation of Injection Moulding

Injection moulding of polymeric materials is an important manufacturing process used to produce cost effective parts for a large number of industries. Very often, moulded parts must satisfy stringent quality requirements in terms of mechanical behaviour and dimensional characteristics. Numerical simulations are cost effective and provide quick solutions, thus being an inevitable tool for the design and evaluation of the processingparameters. Numerical investigations are able to estimate aspects of the physical model which otherwise would be difficult to quantify. What if? tests give information on the effect of process parameters on the final part and provide setup conditions to obtain the optimal process and final part characteristics. The injection moulding cycle can be described as being formed by three main stages: filling, packing-holding and cooling. During the initial filling stage, when the molten polymer fills the cavity, compressibility effects are small and the flow is usually considered incompressible. During this phase, non-isothermal effects are important, even if they are concentrated in boundary layers close to the mould-cavity interface. Once the entire cavity is filled, the process enters the packing-holding stage during which a much larger pressure is applied on the material. At this point a compression occurs and the solution behaviour is driven by the polymer compressibility. The compression phase is very short but results in dramatic changes on the nature of the polymer flow in the cavity. Velocities may take values comparable with those during the filling stage, while the pressure increase propagates into the entire cavity. As soon as the pressure reaches its maximum value, the velocity amplitude falls. It is the beginning of the holding stage during which compressibility effects are still important. The inflow of material must compensate for the decrease of the specific volume from cooling. The polymer in the gate then freezes and the mass of polymer in the cavity is set. The physics during the remaining cooling phase are modeled by the energy and state equations. Co-injection moulding involves injection of skin and core polymer melt into a mould cavity such as the core material is embedded within the solidified layers of the skin material. The process has the potential of providing optimal properties of the moulded part by using a proper combination of the skin and core materials. It may also reduce part weight, part cost, injection pressure, residual stresses and warpage when comparing with the traditional single material injection moulding. Co-injection moulding popularity increased over the last years as recent developments in machines, materials and design concepts made the process more flexible and useful. In gas-assisted injection moulding, gas is injected into the cavity in the place of a second polymer melt. Gas-assisted injection demands lower injection-packing 9
Adsorption Studies of Oil Spill Clean-up Using Coconut Coir Activated Carbon (CCAC)

The adsorption of crude oil from water by using Potassium hydroxide (KOH) prepared from coconut coir activated carbon CCACKOH was investigated by batch adsorption under varying parameters such as adsorbent dosage, contact time, initial oil concentration, temperature and agitation speed. The morphological modification significantly increased the hydrophobicity of the adsorbent, thus creating a CCAC with a much better adsorption capacity for crude oil removal having a maximum adsorption capacity of 4859.5 mg/g at 304 K as evidently proven by FTIR and SEM analysis. The experimental results showed that the percentage of crude oil removal increased with an increase in adsorbent dosage, contact time and decrease in initial oil concentration. The experimental isotherm data were analysed using Langmuir, Freundlich, Temkin, Toth, Sip and Redlich-Peterson isotherm equations and the best fitted isotherm model was Freundlich model with a high correlation coefficient (R2 = 0.999). The kinetic data were properly fitted into various kinetic models with Pseudo-second order model showing best fit having a correlation coefficient (R2 = 0.999) and Boyd model revealed that the adsorption was controlled by internal transport mechanism and film-diffusion was the major mode of adsorption. The crude oil adsorption was chemisorption and endothermic in nature (ΔH° = 134 KJ/mol.K) and the positive value of entropy (ΔS° = 0.517 KJ/mol.K) showed an increase in disorder and randomness at the adsorbent-adsorbate interface during the adsorption of crude oil from water. The decrease in Gibbs energy (ΔG°) with increasing temperature indicated an increase in the feasibility and spontaneity of the adsorption at higher temperatures. The prepared adsorbent showed significant capability to be used as a low-cost, re-generable and eco-friendly adsorbent in oil spill clean-up.
Why COVID-19 May Be Disproportionately Killing African Americans: Black Overrepresentation among COVID-19 Mortality Increases with Lower Irradiance, Where Ethnicity Is More Predictive of COVID-19 Infection and Mortality Than Median Income

COVID-19 is killing African Americans at a rate 7% to 193% higher than the general population. Understanding why, as well as the reasons behind the wide variation, is paramount to saving lives. Here, we test two potential explanations for this effect. On the one hand, African Americans might be dying more because they have a lower average income (‘the Socioeconomic Hypothesis’). On the other hand, they might be dying more because their skin is more resistant to UV radiation, as we previously showed that COVID-19 infections and deaths decrease with higher irradiance (‘the Irradiance Hypothesis’). The two hypotheses are not mutually exclusive. We show that the overrepresentation of African Americans among COVID-19 deaths shows a significant negative correlation with mean solar irradiance, with a 20% decrease in Global Horizontal Irradiance leading to a 76% increase in the overrepresentation of African Americans amongst COVID-19 deaths. We then show that in Michigan, one of the US states with the lowest irradiance in early April, the % of each county’s population that is black, more than its median income, median age or % of the population above 65 years old, predicts COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates. These results suggest a susceptibility linked to low irradiance may play a large role in African American vulnerability to COVID-19, and that black populations in (darker) locations with lower irradiance may benefit from sunlight exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Weakly-Supervised Learning of Visual Relations

This paper introduces a novel approach for modeling visual relations between pairs of objects. We call relation a triplet of the form (subject; predicate; object) where the predicate is typically a preposition (eg. ’under’, ’in front of’) or a verb (’hold’, ’ride’) that links a pair of objects (subject; object). Learning such relations is challenging as the objects have different spatial configurations and appearances depending on the relation in which they occur. Another major challenge comes from the difficulty to get annotations, especially at box-level, for all possible triplets, which makes both learning and evaluation difficult. The contributions of this paper are threefold. First, we design strong yet flexible visual features that encode the appearance and spatial configuration for pairs of objects. Second, we propose a weakly-supervised discriminative clustering model to learn relations from image-level labels only. Third we introduce a new challenging dataset of unusual relations (UnRel) together with an exhaustive annotation, that enables accurate evaluation of visual relation retrieval. We show experimentally that our model results in state-of-theart results on the visual relationship dataset [32] significantly improving performance on previously unseen relations (zero-shot learning), and confirm this observation on our newly introduced UnRel dataset.
A SUMMARY OF INDIAN CHEILANTHOID FERNS AND THE DISCOVERY OF NEGRIPTERIS (PTERIDACEAE), AN AFRO-ARABIAN FERN GENUS NEW TO INDIA

A summary of Indian cheilanthoid ferns treated under nine genera includes three new names, Notholaena dipinnata Fras. -Jenk. , Cheilanthes bhutanica Fras.Jenk. & Wangdi and Cheilanthes tibetica Fras. -Jenk. & Wangdi, and five new combinations, Cheilanthes nitidula Hook. subsp. henryi (Christ) Fras. -Jenk. , Aleuritopteris bicolor (Roxb.) Fras. -Jenk. & Dulawat, Aleuritopteris subdimorpha (C.B.Clarke & Baker) Fras. -Jenk. and Notholaena muelleri (Hook.) Fras. -Jenk. Negripteris scioana (Chiov.) Pic.Serm. (Pteridaceae), a close relative of both Aleuritopteris and Chrysochosma, was discovered by the second author in semi-arid conditions in the Kumbhalgarh and Sitamata Reserves of the Aravalli Hills in central Rajasthan, N.W. India, the first record for the Indian sub-continent. It was known previously only from N.E. Africa, Socotra and S. Arabia and is an Afro-Arabian species which, as now found, extends eastwards into the hills of the semi-arid region of W. India. INTRODUCTION The cheilanthoid ferns of India have at various times been placed in the families Sinopteridaceae, Negripteridaceae, Cheilanthaceae and Hemionitidaceae, but are now generally accepted as belonging to subfamily Cheilanthoideae, within Pteridaceae, with the other four families, among others, in its synonymy. The common term cheilanthoid is a vague and undefined one, though it should be recognisable to most fern-workers. The most obviously “cheilanthoid” ferns of India belong to nine genera, though various other genera are also allied or within Subfam. Cheilanthoideae, but are not dealt with here (see, for example, Tryon, Tryon & Kramer 1990). These nine genera with their Indian subcontinental species are as follows: 1. Notholaena R.Br. , includes Cosentinia Tod. , Paraceterach Copel. and Paragymnopteris K.H. Shing, perhaps also Chrysochosma (J.Sm.) Kümmerle. This genus has long been accepted internationally as typified by N. marantae (L.) Desv. , following Christensen (1905) and subsequently the carefully reasoned work of Pichi Sermolli (1981, 1989). An apparent lectotypification by Smith (1875) merely used the word “type” in the sense of “typical species”, or even “representative species” and in several other cases Smith cited species not included by the original author of a genus, or even cited more than one species after the word “type”. His misuse of the word FERN GAZ. 18(5):216-229. 2009 216
The use of blood-fed mosquitoes as diagnostic tools for the detection and monitoring of infectious disease in wildlife

When a mosquito bites its host, it carries away a blood sample containing specific antibodies which can provide a history of the immune responses of the vertebrate host. The purpose of this research was to determine whether antibodies which are specific for agents of infectious disease could be detected in blood-fed mosquitoes. Mosquitoes were fed on blood containing a specific antibody and assayed using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to determine the limits of detection of the antibody post-feeding over time, and at different temperatures and antibody concentrations. The results showed that the antibody, at an initial concentration of 1 pglml could be detected in mosquitoes for 24-72 hours after feeding. Blind tests simulating the assay of feral mosquitoes detected positive mosquitoes with few false negatives and no false positives. This research indicates that the collection and immunological assay of mosquitoes could be used to detect and monitor infectious disease in wildlife.
Virtual Sectorization: Design and Self-Optimization

Virtual Sectorization (ViSn) aims at covering a confined area such as a traffic hot-spot using a narrow beam. The beam is generated by a remote antenna array located at- or close to the Base Station (BS). This paper develops the ViSn model and provides the guidelines for designing the Virtual Sector (ViS) antenna. In order to mitigate interference between the ViS and the traditional macro sector covering the rest of the area, a Dynamic Spectrum Allocation (DSA) algorithm that self-optimizes the frequency bandwidth split between the macro cell and the ViS is also proposed. The Self-Organizing Network (SON) algorithm is constructed to maximize the proportional fair utility of all the users throughputs. Numerical simulations show the interest in deploying ViSn, and the significant capacity gain brought about by the self-optimized bandwidth sharing with respect to a full reuse of the bandwidth by the ViS.
“Until there is a cure, there is care”: A person-centered approach to supporting the wellbeing of people with Motor Neurone Disease and their family carers

Background: There is a lack of interventional studies to support the psychosocial wellbeing of people with MND (PwMND) and their family carers. Moreover, their experiences with the models of care already provided by ALS/MND voluntary organisations have not been well investigated.Objectives: To report on a person-centered model of care, the MND Advisory Service, designed to support the needs of PwMND and their family carers, to explore their experiences with the service they received and to identify which aspects of this service were most needed and valued by the service users.Methods: Participants were recruited from the MND Association in Western Australia. PwMND and carers were invited to separately complete anonymous postal surveys (2015-17), using a mixed method design comprising quantitative and open-ended questions.Results: The average response rate across the 3 years was 38% (138 patients and 117 carers); 84-89% of both groups felt more supported and cared for as a result of the service and 79-82% felt they were able to make more informed decisions to manage their health and wellbeing. Ninety percent of both groups found the MND Advisory Service of high value practically and emotionally, especially the personal contact and time dedicated to the visit, with 86-88% stating that the service had met their expectations.Conclusions: Two unique features of this service, not provided by other services to the same extent, are the emotional benefit to both groups and the particular focus on the family carers’ needs. Until such person-centered models of care are properly investigated through the experiences of their users, erratic changes in care funding will pose a threat to their effective operation and even viability. The drive to find a cure should not detract from the fact that PwMND and their families still need to be supported physically and psychologically until then.
A Study of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Generic Drugs among General population of Pune Region

Objective: Increasing expenses of health care burden, as regards to drugs especially is a growing concern. The stark variations in the prices of same medicines of different companies, is attributed the brand price quoted by the company. Medical council of India has made it mandatory that; drugs should be prescribed by their generic names only. However, perceptions of general populations about generic medications governs the use of generic medicines. This study provides an insight to the knowledge, attitude and practice of generic medicines use among the general population of Puneregion. Methods: This cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study was conducted in general population (n = 170) in Pune region. The sample was heterogenous as regards to educational and working status. They were interviewed using validated, structured questionnaire of 20 multiple choice questions, in two vernacular languages, to obtain information about knowledge, attitude and practice of generic drugs. Results: Correct meaning of generic medicine was known by only25% of the participants yet a large proprtion of them (87%) were aware of its low cost. 65% of the participants opined that improvement in quality control methods may boost the use of these drugs. Newspaper (58%) and internet (43%) were the most common source of information about generic drugs. Conclusion: Particpants had an idea but lacked detailed knowledge of generics which hindered the use of these drugs as against branded ones. Adequate and appropriate of information about these drugs provided by health care professionals may benefit the society at large.
Connections between the lines: augmenting social networks with text

Network data is ubiquitous, encoding collections of relationships between entities such as people, places, genes, or corporations. While many resources for networks of interesting entities are emerging, most of these can only annotate connections in a limited fashion. Although relationships between entities are rich, it is impractical to manually devise complete characterizations of these relationships for every pair of entities on large, real-world corpora. In this paper we present a novel probabilistic topic model to analyze text corpora and infer descriptions of its entities and of relationships between those entities. We develop variational methods for performing approximate inference on our model and demonstrate that our model can be practically deployed on large corpora such as Wikipedia. We show qualitatively and quantitatively that our model can construct and annotate graphs of relationships and make useful predictions.
Stability and Role of Dividends Payout Among Public Firms at Nairobi Securities Exchange

Stable dividends reduce uncertainty in the financial market. This reduces cost and in turn enhance shareholder wealth. Scholars have argued that developing stock markets do not follow stable dividend path and the outcome could be depressed stock price. The study investigated the hypothesis of unstable payout in growing stock markets by providing empirical evidence of dividend stability from public firms at the Nairobi Securities Exchange. Panel data for the period of 11 years is used to estimate coefficients of adjustment speed and target ratio which is then interpreted based on the partial adjustment dividend model. The results indicate that dividend payout in this stock market is fairly stable and depends on previously paid dividends although some sectors payout is not consistent with market expectation. In addition, dividends play a signaling role in the market possibly because of asymmetric information and agency cost concerns.