Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ANALISIS KUALITAS PELAYANAN RUMAH SAKIT TERHADAP PASIEN MENGGUNAKAN PENDEKATAN LEAN SERVPERF (LEAN SERVICE DAN SERVICE PERFORMANCE) (Studi Kasus Rumah Sakit X)

Kepuasan pelanggan merupakan hasil (outcome) yang dirasakan pengguna atas produk atau jasa, sama atau melebihi harapan yang diinginkan. Pelayanan di bagian poli rawat jalan di rumah sakit idealnya lebih bersahabat, cepat dan akurat. Penelitian ini dilakukan di sebuah Rumah Sakit pendidikan selama 2 bulan. Metode yang digunakan adalah observasi dan penyebaran kuesioner. Responden yang terlibat sebanyak 320 orang, tapi yang menjawab kuesionerr secara lengkap hanya sebanyak 295 responden. Kuesioner disusun atas 7 dimensi kualitas, yaitu Tangible (26 pertanyaan), Reliability (9 pertanyaan), Responsiveness (14 pertanyaan), Assurance (13 pertanyaan), Empathy (19 pertanyaan), Access (17 pertanyaan), dan Secure (11 pertanyaan). Dalam penelitian ini metode yang digunakan menggunakan Pendekatan Lean ServPerf (Lean Service dan Service Performance). Service Performance digunakan untuk menganalisis tingkat instrumen kinerja pelayanan. Lean Service digunakan untuk menghilangkan waste aktivitas yang tidak bernilai tambah. Hasil dari penelitian ini, terdapat 15 atribut pelayanan yang perlu dilakukan perbaikan untuk meningkatkan kualitas pelayanan di Rumah Sakit X Kata Kunci : Kepuasan pelanggan, Service Performance, Lean Service, Rumah Sakit
Does Emotional Expression Moderate Implicit Racial Bias? Examining Bias Following Smiling and Angry Primes

Given the pervasiveness of prejudice, researchers have become increasingly interested in examining racial bias at the intersection of race and other social and perceptual categories that have the potential to disrupt these negative attitudes. Across three studies, we examined whether the emotional expression of racial exemplars would moderate implicit racial bias. We found that racial bias on the Affect Misattribution Procedure only emerged in response to angry but not smiling Black male faces in comparison to White (Study 1) or White and Asian (Study 3) male faces with similar emotional expressions. Racial bias was also found toward Asian targets (Studies 2 and 3), but not only following angry primes. These findings suggest that negative stereotypes about Black men can create a contrast effect, making racial bias toward smiling faces less likely to be expressed in the presence of angry Black male faces.
Statistical characterization of RF power amplifier efficiency for CDMA wireless communication systems

Power amplifier (PA) efficiency for wireless communication systems is universally calculated at maximum output power. While this method has evolved into the de-facto efficiency figure-of-merit, it ignores the system effect on the average output power, and cannot in general provide an accurate estimate of the PA impact on phone talk-time. A more meaningful efficiency estimate is its long-term mean based on the statistics of the phone output power in a typical environment. This new efficiency characterization method provides an improved estimate of the PA impact on phone talk-time by including the efficiency variation of the PA output power, not the maximum average output power. A summary of the new efficiency characterization method is given, with two examples each for the IS-95 CDMA system and the AMPS system.
Drivers of and Barriers to Adoption of Improved Sunflower Varieties amongst Smallholder Farmers in Singida, Tanzania the Double-Hurdle Approach

Purpose : Yield-enhancing agricultural technologies such as improved crop varieties are widely promoted by public and private agencies in developing countries because they are important for improving food security, income and welfare of farm households. Nonetheless, the low rate of adoption of these technologies by farm households is still a less-understood phenomenon. We thus investigate the drivers of and the barriers to adoption of improved sunﬂower varieties by smallholder farmers in Tanzania as an empirical example. Undertaking this study can help to improve policies, development programmes and business decisions, which are geared towards enhancing agricultural productivity and farm household welfare. Methodology : Our empirical study applies the double-hurdle econometric model to a cross-sectional survey data set of 416 smallholder farmers in Singida region, Tanzania. Findings : Our results suggest that risk aversion and liquidity constraints are signif-icant barriers to the adoption of improved sunﬂower varieties, while radios, extension service and farmers’ groups are important channels for farmers for receiving information about new technologies. Originality : Compared to earlier studies of the adoption of improved oilseeds varieties, our study distinguishes two dimensions of the adoption, i.e. the decision to adopt or not and, in case of adoption, the extent of adoption. Furthermore, our analysis investigates the roles of market constraints, liquidity constraints and contract farming for adoption of improved varieties, which are largely ignored in previous adoption studies.
Online Adaptation for Implicit Object Tracking and Shape Reconstruction in the Wild

Tracking and reconstructing 3D objects from cluttered scenes are the key components for computer vision, robotics and autonomous driving systems. While recent progress in implicit function has shown encouraging results on high-quality 3D shape reconstruction, it is still very challenging to generalize to cluttered and partially observable LiDAR data. In this paper, we propose to leverage the continuity in video data. We introduce a novel and unified framework which utilizes a neural implicit function to simultaneously track and reconstruct 3D objects in the wild. Our approach adapts the DeepSDF model (i.e., an instantiation of the implicit function) in the video online, iteratively improving the shape reconstruction while in return improving the tracking, and vice versa. We experiment with both Waymo and KITTI datasets and show significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods for both tracking and shape reconstruction tasks. Our project page is at https://jianglongye.com/implicit-tracking.
How Russian speakers express evolution in Pokémon names: an experimental study with nonce words

Abstract Sound symbolism, systematic and iconic relationships between sounds and meanings, is now a topic that is very actively explored by linguists, psychologists and cognitive scientists. As a new research strategy to study the nature of sound symbolic connections across different languages, a number of scholars have started using Pokémon names, a research paradigm that is now dubbed “Pokémonastics. ” The previous Pokémonastics studies have experimentally explored how the evolution status is symbolically expressed by native speakers of English, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese. Building on these studies, the current experiment examined the sound symbolic knowledge of Russian speakers, and found that they are more likely to associate large, post-evolution Pokémon characters with names containing voiced obstruents than with names containing voiceless obstruents, and that they are also more likely to associate post-evolution characters with names containing [a] than with names containing [i]. The experiment also revealed that Russian speakers are less likely to associate post-evolution characters with names having labial consonants than with names having coronal or dorsal consonants. Overall, the current results show that Russian speakers generally have knowledge of sound symbolic associations that is similar to that of English, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese speakers, suggesting that some sound symbolic patterns hold robustly across multiple languages.
Mechanistic insights into the enhancement or inhibition of phase separation by polyubiquitin chains of different lengths or linkages

Ubiquitin-binding shuttle UBQLN2 mediates crosstalk between proteasomal degradation and autophagy, likely via interactions with K48- and K63-linked polyubiquitin chains, respectively. UBQLN2 is recruited to stress granules in cells and undergoes liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) in vitro. However, interactions with ubiquitin or multivalent K48-linked chains eliminate LLPS. Here, we found that, although some polyubiquitin chain types (K11-Ub4 and K48-Ub4) did generally inhibit UBQLN2 LLPS, others (K63-Ub4, M1-Ub4 and a designed tetrameric ubiquitin construct) significantly enhanced LLPS. Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and complementary biophysical techniques, we demonstrated that these opposing effects stem from differences in chain conformations, but not in affinities between chains and UBQLN2. Chains with extended conformations and increased accessibility to the ubiquitin binding surface significantly promoted UBQLN2 LLPS by enabling a switch between homotypically to partially heterotypically-driven phase separation. Our study provides mechanistic insights into how the structural and conformational properties of polyubiquitin chains contribute to heterotypic phase separation with ubiquitin-binding shuttles and adaptors. Highlights Ubiquitin or short polyubiquitin chains bind to phase separation-driving stickers on UBQLN2 and inhibit its phase separation whereas longer chains provide the multivalency needed to enhance UBQLN2 phase separation. Phase separation of UBQLN2 is promoted over a wide range of Ub:UBQLN2 ratios in the presence of extended M1- and K63-linked Ub4 chains, but not compact K11- and K48-linked Ub4 chains. Chain conformation and accessibility of the Ub interacting surface is a driving factor of UBQLN2/polyUb co-phase separation. UBQLN2 condensates assemble during in vitro enzymatic assembly of K63-linked polyUb chains as free ubiquitin is reduced.
Role of percutaneous thermal ablation in cancer treatment

The main aim of using thermal ablation strategies is to eliminate the targeted malignant cells within a specific volume. However, it should be noted that some researchers have reported the potential limitations of some of these techniques. On the other hand, more updated investigations indicated that these limitations could be overcome by the adjuvant use of other management modalities as chemotherapy. Many limitations have been reported with the modality, including the prolonged therapeutic time. Therefore, cryoablation and microwave ablation techniques were introduced in the literature as safe and efficacious modalities that overcame the limitations of the radiofrequency technique. Overall, percutaneous thermal ablation is associated with favorable outcomes and should be used in clinical settings due to the various advantages that have been reported for the modality, in addition to being less invasive.
Pre-operative predictors of difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy and its correlation with post-cholecystectomy syndrome and its impact on quality of life in North Indian population

Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is the most preferable surgical procedure worldwide. LC is not completely risk-free and 2 to 15% of attempted LC procedures have to be converted to open cholecystectomy. The aim of the study was to assess the predictors of difficult LC procedures and for knowing the impact of difficult LC procedures on post-cholecystectomy syndrome and quality of life of patients.Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted on patients who underwent LC. Clinical, demographic, radiological and biochemical parameters along with detailed history of patients were documented. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy was then done on patients using standard technique. Level of difficulty in LC procedure was assessed and graded. Occurrence of post-cholecystectomy syndrome was investigated and quality of patient’s life was assessed using SF-36 inventory.Results: The difficulty rate in LC procedure was observed to be 17.4%. The clinical predictors of difficult LC procedures were old age and prior history of abdominal surgery. Contracted gall bladder, peripancreatic fluid and thick gallbladder wall were radiological predictors and presence of adhesions, longer duration of surgery and conversion to open procedures were intraoperative predictors of difficult LC procedures. Early PCS was affected by difficult LC procedures; though with passage of time it reduced. Post-operative quality of life was affected more by PCS incidence than the difficult LC procedure.Conclusions: The findings of the study would help in anticipating predictors of difficult LC procedures and in understanding the phenomenology and determinants of PCS along with its relationship with operative difficulty and quality of life of patients.
Effectiveness of Modified Hybrid Brainstorming Learning Program in Increasing Innovative Work Behavior and Innovative Idea Performance among Nurses

The ability to learn and innovate has been known as a key-factor for nurses to deliver quality of care and patient safety. To be successful in nursing innovation, nurses should perform sound innovative behaviors; thus, their innovative work behavior (IWB) should be promoted. A comprehensive learning program aimed at improving IWB with effective cognitive stimulation could enhance innovation abilities and quality of innovative idea performance. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a learning program that uses Modified Hybrid Brainstorming (MHB) techniques in increasing IWB and improving the quality of ideas generated (fluency, flexibility and originality) among nurses. A sample of 60 nurses were randomly assigned to a within group pre-test and post-test study design. The learning program with the MHB method was developed and implemented for 3 sessions workshop. IWB was measured pre- and 12 weeks post-program. Pre- and post-training session fluency, flexibility, and originality of generated ideas were also measured. The percentage of absolute agreement and the index of item- objective congruence of research instruments were met. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, and paired t-test. The results revealed that the average IWB scores of nurses after the implementation of the MHB learning program increased significantly (p < 0.05). There was also a significant difference in post-test scores (p < 0.05) of fluency, flexibility, and originality of ideas. This study showed that offering the MHB learning program to nurses is a feasible method to improve IWB and innovative idea.
Motivation of Volunteering activities among university students

Vol. 11, No. 11, 2021, Pg. 764 – 770 Abstract Volunteering activity (VA) are important key as a bridge between a person, group of people, organisation to community as a function of social activity. It is an activity that encourage this group to give more and as return they would get benefits includes their purpose of involving volunteering, socials, supportive, leisure and most important helps in their career. Researchers tend to look at the motivation factor contributing to VA among university students. The samples are from 327 students who voluntary participated in this study. There is significance difference in term of “ purposive” (p = .047 < 0.05), “career” (p = .001 < 0.05), “leisure” (p = .003 < 0.05), “social” (p = .001 < 0.05) and “supportive ” (p = .019 < 0.05) . In addition, when it shown women student more participate in VA compared to male with mean are higher. Study found that tertiary students are motivate when VA has purposive, supportive, social, leisure and at the same time it would help them in build their career after study.
Does economic policy in Nigeria enhance sustainable water and sanitation facilities?

Over the years, economic policy in Nigeria has been a subject of concern for policymakers. The effectiveness of this policy in providing basic necessities for Nigerians has also been in question. There have been several controversies in terms of its implementation and sustainability over the years. In this paper, we investigate the impact of economic policies on providing sustainable water and sanitation facilities in Nigeria. In our analysis, the binary logistic model is adopted to understand how effective these policies are in providing these facilities. The results show that expenditure on social and community service leads to an increase in the use of unsafe sanitation facilities in the country. Furthermore, our study also shows that expenditure in the health services sector helps in reducing the use of such unsafe facilities. From the results, we recommend that policies aimed toward providing sustainable water and sanitation facilities need proper checks, improvement, and effective implementation so as to achieve viable results. These can be done by implementing supervised community projects on sanitation facilities and also by educating local communities through organized symposiums and workshops in rural and certain urban areas in the country.
Systematic assessment of lipid profiles for the discovery of tissue contributors to the circulating lipid pool in cold exposure

Plasma lipid levels are altered in chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease as well as acute stresses such as fasting and cold exposure. Advances in mass spectrometry based lipidomics have uncovered the complexity of the plasma lipidome which includes over 500 lipids that serve functional roles including energy substrate and signaling molecule. The plasma lipid pool is maintained through regulation of tissue production, secretion, and uptake. A major challenge is establishing the tissues of origin and uptake for various plasma lipids, which is necessary to determine the lipid function. Using cold exposure as an acute stress, we performed global lipidomics on the plasma and nine tissues that may contribute to the circulating pool. We found that numerous species of plasma acylcarnitines (ACars) and ceramides were significantly changed with cold exposure. Through computational assessment, we identified the liver and brown adipose tissue (BAT) as major contributors and consumers of circulating ACars, in agreement with our previous work. We further identified the kidney and intestine as novel contributors to the circulating ACar pool and validated these findings with gene expression analysis. Regression analysis also identified that the BAT and kidney as regulators of the plasma ceramide pool. These studies provide an adaptable computational tool to assess tissue contribution to the plasma lipid pool. Our findings have implications in understanding the function of plasma ACars and ceramides, which are elevated in metabolic diseases. Summary There are over 500 identified lipids in circulating plasma, many without known origin or function. Using untargeted lipidomics on plasma and nine other tissues of cold exposed mice, we identified novel regulation of circulating acylcarnitines through the kidney and intestine, and a multiorgan system that regulates plasma ceramides. Our findings offer new targets for the study and functional characterization of circulating lipids in acute cold exposure and a computational resource for other investigators to explore multi-tissue lipidome remodeling during cold exposure. Highlights Global lipidomics atlas of 9 tissues and plasma demonstrate dynamic shift with cold exposure. Adaptive resource for the selection of extraction method, data processing, and data analysis of multi-tissue global lipidomics data. Regression analysis identified the liver, BAT, intestine, and kidney as regulators of the plasma acylcarnitine pool that are not apparent by lipid levels alone. Acute cold exposure increases plasma ceramide levels, with the BAT and kidney as major contributors
KONTRIBUSI EKSTRAKURIKULER BOLABASKET TERHADAP PEMBIBITAN ATLET DAN PENINGKATAN KESEGARAN JASMANI

Th e ide a tha t physica l educatio n i s t o improv e physical fitnes s i s impossibl e becaus e th e limite d time provided i n secondar y hig h schoo l curriculum. Therefore , th e polic y t o hav e sport s a s extracurricular i s importan t whic h ar e drive n t o provid e programs based o n students ’ interest , talents , situation , and needs. Basketbal l a s a n extracurricula r contributes to improv e students ’ physica l fitnes s an d als o talent scouting . Regula r an d systemati c exercis e will improv e physica l fitnes s component s suc h a s : (1) cardiorespirator y endurance , (2 ) muscl e strengt h and endurance , (3 ) flexibilit y , (4 ) bod y composition. Basketbal l a s a n extr a curricula r progra m functions as developmen t o f basketbal l elit e athletes. Kat a kunc i : ekstrakurikule r bolabasket , pembibitan, kesegaran jasmani.
A two-phase plant-soil feedback experiment to explore biotic influences on Phragmites australis invasion in North American wetlands

Plants can cultivate soil microbial communities that affect subsequent plant growth through a plant-soil feedback (PSF). Strong evidence indicates that PSFs can mediate the invasive success of exotic upland plants, but many of the most invasive plants occur in wetlands. In North America, the rapid spread of European Phragmites australis cannot be attributed to innate physiological advantages, thus PSFs may mediate invasion. Here we apply a two-phase fully-factorial plant-soil feedback design in which field-derived soil inocula were conditioned using saltmarsh plants and then were added to sterile soil mesocosms and planted with each plant type. This design allowed us to assess complete soil biota effects on intraspecific PSFs between native and introduced P. australis as well as heterospecific feedbacks between P. australis and the native wetland grass, Spartina patens. Our results demonstrate that native P. australis experienced negative conspecific feedbacks while introduced P. australis experienced neutral conspecific feedbacks. Interestingly, S. patens soil inocula inhibited growth in both lineages of P. australis while introduced and native P. australis inocula promoted the growth of S. patens suggestive of biotic resistance against P. australis invasion by S. patens. Our findings suggest that PSFs are not directly promoting the invasion of introduced P. australis in North America. Furthermore, native plants like S. patens seem to exhibit soil microbe mediated biotic resistance to invasion which highlights the importance of disturbance in mediating introduced P. australis invasion.
T-DFNN: An Incremental Learning Algorithm for Intrusion Detection Systems

Machine learning has recently become a popular algorithm in building reliable intrusion detection systems (IDSs). However, most of the models are static and trained using datasets containing all targeted intrusions. If new intrusions emerge, these trained models must be retrained using old and new datasets to classify all intrusions accurately. In real-world situations, new threats continuously appear. Therefore, machine learning algorithms used for IDSs should have the ability to learn incrementally when these new intrusions emerge. To solve this issue, we propose T-DFNN. T-DFNN is an algorithm capable of learning new intrusions incrementally as they emerge. A T-DFNN model is composed of multiple deep feedforward neural network (DFNN) models connected in a tree-like structure. We examined our proposed algorithm using CICIDS2017, an open and widely used network intrusion dataset covering benign traffic and the most common network intrusions. The experimental results showed that the T-DFNN algorithm can incrementally learn new intrusions and reduce the catastrophic forgetting effect. The macro average of the F1-score of the T-DFNN model was over 0.85 for every retraining process. In addition, our proposed T-DFNN model has some advantages in several aspects compared to other models. Compared to the DFNN and Hoeffding tree models trained with a dataset containing only the latest targeted intrusions, our proposed T-DFNN model has higher F1-scores. Moreover, our proposed T-DFNN model has significantly shorter training times than a DFNN model trained using a dataset containing all targeted intrusions. Even though several factors can affect the duration of the training process, the T-DFNN algorithm shows promising results in solving the problem of ever-evolving network intrusion variants.