Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Use of Vibrotactile Feedback and Stochastic Resonance for Improving Laparoscopic Surgery Performance

CONTINUED) iv feedback and human performance. The vibrotactile feedback and SR vibrations were administered via two different haptic actuators attached to subjects’ dominant upper and lower arms, respectively. Each subject was presented 36 tissue samples (24 w/tumor, 12 non-tumor) in random order, under the control condition and then presented the same 36 samples in a different random order under the assigned vibration condition (SR, VIB, VIB+SR, Control), for a total of 72 tissue samples (48 w/tumor, 24 non-tumor). A maximum of 30 seconds was allowed for each trial. The dependent variables of accuracy and time to detection were measured. Results show significant improvement over the control condition in accuracy with the Control-SR group only. A one-way ANOVA was performed on the delta accuracy and delta time values for each subject group and results show that the SR group performed significantly better than the VIB and VIB+SR groups in terms of improved accuracy (See Figure 1). Results for the time variable did not produce any significant effects, suggesting that SR increases accuracy in compliance differentiation, but not in the time needed to make a decision during the process. The results have implications for the design of instruments and potential methods for increasing accuracy performance in minimally invasive surgical procedures such as in the case of tissue compliance differentiation. This technology could help surgeons better identify tumors located in healthy surrounding tissue.
The Francis Psychological Type Scales (FPTS): factor structure, internal consistency reliability, and concurrent validity with the MBTI

ABSTRACT The Francis Psychological Type Scales (FPTS) were developed to operationalise psychological type theory in a way appropriate for and accessible to survey-style research, administered either online or offline. For the present study, two samples of adults participating in short courses relevant for Christian ministry (N = 185 and 392) completed the FPTS at least one day after completing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®). The data: confirmed the basic factor structure of the FPTS; demonstrated the satisfactory internal consistency reliability of the indices of introversion and extraversion, sensing and intuition, feeling and thinking, judging and perceiving; and supported the concurrent validity of this measure against the MBTI® in terms of both correlations between continuous scale scores and allocation to type categories.
A Kilo-Amp Linear-Motor Type Flux Pump

A kilo-amp linear-motor type flux pump with the maximum output DC current exceeding 1610 A had been designed and manufactured. We had optimized the large-current flux pump based from the previous design, and shortened the travelling wavelength of the flux pump, and simulated its magnetic density distribution with COMSOL Multiphysics, and obtained the present design parameters after analysis. We had placed 12 superconducting single loops side by side in the air gaps on both sides of the flux pump, and had used the flux pump to charge them. We had applied different magnetic flux density in the air gap, the maximum DC output current of the flux pump was measured at 1619 A in the liquid nitrogen at 77 K. We have carried out theoretical analysis on the direction of the pumped current on both sides of the flux pump, while had changed the polarities of the DC windings to make sure that the current directions on both sides are the same. Comparing with the traditional superconducting power supply of the same output current level, this flux pump had not only eliminated the current leads, but also reduces the cost, size and energy consumption of the power source by at least one order. Finally, we designed the prototype of the kilo-amp linear-motor type flux pump to measure the critical current of the superconducting cables.
Metascience Is Not Enough – A Plea for Psychological Humanities in the Wake of the Replication Crisis

The replication crisis led to the rise of metascience as a possible solution. In this article, we examine central metascientific premises and argue that attempts to solve the replication crisis in psychology will benefit from a tighter integration of approaches from the psychological humanities. The first part of our article identifies central epistemic merits that metascientific endeavors can contribute to psychology. However, we argue secondly against the widespread claim that metascience is the only way to deal with the replication crisis in psychology and point to major epistemic problems: the one-sided notion of a singular scientific method, the homogenizing view of psychology, and the exclusion of practices of theorizing. As a possible compensation for such shortcomings, we introduce, third, the reflective and pluralistic approach of psychological humanities. In so doing, we show how psychological humanities can serve as an important complement to the objective of improving psychological research. Psychological humanities contribute to a more precise determination of validity, to ethical considerations, and a better understanding of psychology’s objects in regard to replication. Accordingly, we argue for the integration of psychological humanities into both metascience and psychology to provide a better basis for addressing epistemic and ethical questions.
Sulfide and methane production in anaerobic sewer pipes: from microbial community characterization to effective mitigation strategies

Sewer systems transport wastewater from its source to treatment plants. During this transport, wastewater microorganisms colonize pipe walls and develop biofilms. The activity of microbial communities generates sulfide (H2S) and methane (CH4) which can cause environmental, corrosion and health problems. For that reason, a good control of H2S and CH4 emissions from sewer systems is essential for the optimal management of these facilities. Overall, the results of this PhD Thesis could be useful for sewer managers to determine the suitable strategy to control H2S and CH4 emissions in these systems. Also, this thesis provides fundamental knowledge on the microbial communities present in sewer biofilms and their role in biotransformation processes that can be highly relevant in terms of environmental and public health issues. Els tubs col·lectors s’utilitzen pel transport d’aigues residuals des del seu origen fins una estacio depuradora. Durant el transport, els microorganismes que es troben en l’aigua colonitzen les superficies interiors de les canonades del clavegueram i formen biofilms. L’activitat d’aquestes comunitats microbianes genera sulfhidric (H2S) i meta (CH4), els quals poden comportar problemes ambientals, de corrosio i salut publica. Per aquest motiu, el control acurat del H2S i CH4 en els sistemes de clavegueram es essencial per la bona gestio d’aquestes infraestructures. Els resultats d'aquesta tesi poden ser de gran utilitat per als gestors de les xarxes de clavegueram ja que permetran valorar amb dades reals quina es la millor estrategia per al control adequat de les emissions de H2S i CH4 en aquests sistemes. Aquesta tesi doctoral representa, a mes, una contribucio significativa pel que fa el coneixement dels grups implicats en la formacio del biofilm.
Predicting Students’ Response to Entrepreneurship in Hospitality and Tourism Education: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior

ABSTRACT Globally, the study of entrepreneurship is increasingly becoming a prominent component of hospitality and tourism education. However, uncertainties arising from an unpredictable business environment, inadequate governmental support as well as the ramifications of the recent Covid-19 pandemic have heightened the risks of starting business ventures. Yet the role of risk-taking propensity in driving entrepreneurial attitudes and career decisions in the context of developing economies has received limited attention. Using a survey of 547 hospitality and tourism students from five public universities, the structural equation modeling technique of partial least squares was applied in examining students’ response to entrepreneurship. While entrepreneurial attitudes are driven by risk-taking inclination, the findings suggest that entrepreneurial career decisions are more complicated. The study outcome further underscores the critical roles of personal attitude, normative influence, and behavioral control in shaping entrepreneurial mind-sets.
How Efficient are Basic Public Health Services Between Urban and Rural in Shandong Province, China? A Data Envelopment Analysis and Panel Tobit Regression Approach

Background Improving basic public health services efficiency becomes priority to guarantee its sustainability for Chinese government. This study aimed to explore basic public health services efficiency and its influencing factors between urban and rural in Shandong Province, China, providing policy implications to improve efficiency. Methods This research assessed basic public health services efficiency of 54 districts (representing urban) and 83 counties (representing rural) in Shandong, China, from 2014 to 2019. The data were obtained from Medical Management Service Center of Shandong Health Commission and Statistical Yearbooks. Input variables were subsidy funds, public health staffs and material expenditures. Output variables were assessment indicators covered all service contents from national standard. The data envelopment analysis and panel tobit regression were used to measure efficiency scores and efficiency influencing factors. Results Basic public health services efficiency scores of urban were higher than those of rural during 2014 to 2019. Scale efficiency change and technological change promoted basic public health services total factor productivity change of urban and rural respectively. Panel tobit regression indicated that proportion of health expenditures in general public budget expenditures (P<0.01), subsidy funds (P<0.01), public health personnel expenditures (P<0.01) and the frequency of professional health institutions’ guidance (P<0.01) were positively associated with efficiency in both urban and rural. The number of primary medical and health institutions and public health personnel were positively associated with urban (P<0.01), but those did not affect rural (P>0.10). Conclusion To improve basic public health services efficiency, urban should focus on health resource structure, especially increasing primary medical and health institutions and public health personnel. Rural should expand the input scale, paying more attention to subsidy funds and public health personnel expenditures. The government should also care strengthening the guidance to primary medical and health institutions from professional health institutions.
Analysis of Metabolomic Changes in Xylem and Phloem Sap of Cucumber under Phosphorus Stresses

Cucumber xylem and phloem sap is a key link in nutrient distribution, transportation and signal transduction of cucumber plants; however, the metabolic response mechanism of cucumber xylem and phloem sap under phosphorus stress has not been clearly revealed. In this study, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) combined with principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) were used to analyze the metabolites in cucumber xylem and phloem sap under different phosphorus stress. A total of 22 differential metabolites were screened from xylem and phloem sap, respectively. Through the analysis of metabolic pathways of differential metabolites, four and three key metabolic pathways were screened, respectively. The results showed that compared with the normal phosphorus level, the content of most amino acids in the key metabolic pathway increased in xylem but decreased in phloem both under low and high phosphorus stress levels. The contents of sucrose and glucose in phloem glycolysis pathway showed a positive correlation with the change of phosphorus nutrient levels. The tricarboxylic acid cycle was promoted in xylem and phloem of cucumber under low and high phosphorus nutrient levels, and the contents of malic acid and citric acid increased significantly. This study provided abundant biochemical information for the metabolic response and regulation strategies of cucumber xylem and phloem under phosphorus stress, and is committed to looking for more sensitive markers to evaluate the supply level of phosphorus nutrients in cucumber.
Surgical Treatment of Upward Fixation of the Patella in a Multiparous Borana Breed Cow

A 6-year-old multiparous Borana breed cow, which has been suffering from difficulty walking for 6 months, was presented to veterinary teaching hospital. As her previous history indicated, the lameness started during the second gestation, especially in the early morning, and subsides after a few hours of sunrise. She was completely cured after giving her second birth and a similar condition reappeared from the 5th month of the third gestation until she gave birth. However, unexpectedly the disease aggravated after 2 days of parturition, and she was unable to walk and forced to stay indoors due to complete extension of the stifle joint. As a result, she was unable to lay down and maintained a permanent standing position for 2 months of aggravation. Clinical findings showed difficult mobilization of the right hind leg, which was locked in extension at the stifle joint, and the hoof was dragging on the floor. Based on history and clinical findings, upper fixation of the patella was diagnosed, and it was treated with median patellar desmotomy under local anesthetic infiltration. Finally, after the complete severing of the medial ligament and skin closure, the animal was able to walk normally, and the wound was healed uneventfully.
Using a change control system and building information modelling to manage change in design

ABSTRACT Today, there are few satisfying change management systems to handle changes in design, both internal changes initiated by the engineering team and external changes initiated by the client. How can changes in design be managed using a change control system (CCS), and how can building information modelling (BIM) be utilized to optimize evaluation of changes? This paper introduces a change management process and a corresponding CCS for managing changes in detailed design, and assesses how BIM can be used to identify consequences of changes. Findings are based on experiences from execution of major oil and gas projects. Data are gathered from projects, primarily through a Norwegian engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor, using case study research. The research portrays how changes can be handled using the CCS. When a design change request is created, it is presented to a Change Board, where it is processed, categorized, evaluated and either approved or rejected. BIM is used to consider impact and consequences for affected disciplines. The client will be added in the decision process and presented for cost and schedule impact. Results indicate that the dynamics of the CCS combined with the utilization of BIM can keep control of changes in detailed design and reduce overall impacts of changes.
The multidimensional nature of privacy risks: Conceptualisation, measurement and implications for digital services

While today consumers benefit from personalised service offerings, they are also understandably concerned about the privacy risks generated by disclosing their personal information online. We know that such perceived risks in general shape behaviour, but we know little about what specific privacy risks obstruct the use of digital services, making it difficult to implement technologies that could mitigate these risks. Based on qualitative and quantitative studies involving over 1000 participants, we conceptualise and quantify a multidimensional perspective on privacy risks consisting of physical, social, resource‐related, psychological, prosecution‐related, career‐related and freedom‐related privacy risks. Our results explicate the prospects of distinguishing privacy risk dimensions by demonstrating how they are differently pronounced across contexts and how technology designs can be tailored to assuage them. Thus, our findings improve the understanding of context and service‐specific privacy risks, helping managers to adjust their digital offerings to mitigate users' privacy risk perceptions.
Spatial-temporal data analysis of digital twin

Background: Digital Twin (DT) has proven to be one of the most promising technologies for routine monitoring and management of complex systems with uncertainties. Methods: Our work, which is mainly concerned with heterogeneous spatial-temporal data, focuses on exploring data utilization methodology in DT. The goal of this research is to summarize the best practices that make the spatial-temporal data analytically tractable in a systematic and quantifiable manner. Some methods are found to handle those data via jointly spatial-temporal analysis in a high-dimensional space effectively. We provide a concise yet comprehensive tutorial on spatial-temporal analysis considering data, theories, algorithms, indicators, and applications. The advantages of our spatial-temporal analysis are discussed, including model-free mode, solid theoretical foundation, and robustness against ubiquitous uncertainty and partial data error. Finally, we take the condition-based maintenance of a real digital substation in China as an example to verify our proposed spatial-temporal analysis mode. Results: Our proposed spatial-temporal data analysis mode successfully turned raw chromatographic data, which are valueless in low-dimensional space, into an informative high-dimensional indicator. The designed high-dimensional indicator could capture the ’insulation’ correlation among the sampling data over a long time span. Hence it is robust against external noise, and may support decision-making. This analysis is also adaptive to other daily spatial-temporal data in the same form, for example in a digital substation such as Cai Lun. Conclusions: This exploration and summary of spatial-temporal data analysis may benefit the fields of both engineering and data science.
Halophyte Artemisia caerulescens L.: Metabolites from In Vitro Shoots and Wild Plants

Halophyte plants are potential resources to deal with the increasing soil salinity determined by climatic change. In this context, the present study aimed to investigate the germplasm conservation of Artemisia caerulescens collected in the San Rossore Estate (Pisa, Italy) through in vitro culture, biochemical properties, and the phytochemical composition of the volatile fraction of both in vitro shoots and different organs of wild plants (leaves, young and ripe inflorescences). The best medium tested for the shoot proliferation was MS, with the addition of 1 μM BA. Total polyphenol content and antioxidant activity were noticeable in both the inflorescences, while leaves and in vitro shoots showed lower amounts. Concerning the phytochemical investigation, the headspaces (HSs) and the essential oils (EOs) were characterized by oxygenated monoterpenes as the main chemical class of compounds in all samples, and with α- and β-thujone as the major constituents. However, the EOs were characterized by noticeable percentages of phenylpropanoids (23.6–28.8%), with brevifolin as the unique compound, which was not detected in the spontaneous volatile emissions of the same parts of the wild plant. Good amounts of EOs were obtained from different organs of the wild plant, comprising between 0.17% and 0.41% of the young and ripe inflorescences, respectively.
Responses to social inequality across the life span: The role of social status and upward mobility beliefs

Economic inequality has been consistently rising in recent decades in many Western countries including Germany. This is a pressing issue as greater economic inequality within a society has detrimental consequences for well-being, social stability, productivity, and even life expectancy. However, little is known about how individuals of different ages experience and respond to social inequality across adulthood. Because status differences are perceived as more malleable in young adulthood (i.e., young adults can expect to move up the social ladder) and only manifest across adulthood, we predicted that negative emotional reactions to the perceived standing in the social hierarchy should become increasingly pronounced with age. Consistently, a first study based on a national representative sample in Germany (N = 2,542; 18–91 years) confirmed that subjective social status had a much stronger effect on the acceptance of social inequality among middle-aged and older, as compared with younger, adults. In a second experimental study (N = 387; 18–89 years), participants of any age responded with negative emotional reactions when rising inequality was made salient. However, subjective social status moderated this effect only in middle-aged and older, but not younger, adults. Finally, a third experimental study (N = 605; 18–82 years) showed that, compared with middle-aged and older adults, younger adults maintained stronger upward mobility beliefs that accounted for the age-differential effects of subjective social status on negative emotional reactivity to rising inequality. We discuss the central role of upward mobility beliefs for individuals’ responses to social inequality across the adult life span.
Gibberellic Acid and Benzyladenine Promote Early Flowering and Vegetative Growth of Miltoniopsis

Additional index words. pansy orchid, fl ower induction, plant growth regulators Abstract. Flowering of Miltoniopsis orchids is infl uenced by a combination of cool tempera- tures and short photoperiod. To determine if application of plant growth regulators could promote fl owering without the need for costly structural modifi cation to control photoperiod or temperature, we used drenches of gibberellic acid (GA 3 ) (2.5 or 5 mM), N 6 -benzyladenine (BA) (25 or 50 mM) alone or in combination. BA (25 or 50 mM) treatments promoted new vegetative shoots and decreased the number of plants with infl orescences compared to the untreated control plants. This reduction of fl owering and increased vegetative shoot produc- tion was alleviated by the addition of GA 3 in combination with BA. However, the number of plants with infl orescences remained less than the control. GA 3 hastened Miltoniopsis infl orescence emergence during the fi rst fl owering season by 10.9 to 14.9 days for Bert Field 'Eileen' and by 48.7 days for Rouge 'Akatsuka'. The number of 'Eileen' infl orescences pro- duced per plant increased from 2.2 to 3.0 with 2.5 mM GA 3 treatment. Flower deformities were not observed in the GA 3 treated plants, and fl ower size and infl orescence length were unaffected by the GA 3 treatment. In the U.S., orchids rank second in value for potted fl owering plants (between poinset- tias and chrysanthemums) and were valued at $128 million in 2004, a 5% increase over 2003 production (USDA-NASS, 2005). Commercial poinsettia and chrysanthemum production rely heavily on standard practices of fl ower induction to fulfi ll market demand (Larson,1980). In contrast, availability of most orchids is based on the genetic diversity of this large family and on fl owers produced at loca- tions that vary in climatic conditions. Potted orchid production in Hawaii ranks third in the U.S. behind California and Florida and is valued at $17 million (USDA-NASS, 2005). Growth of Hawaii's orchid industry is attributed to increased export sales with two- thirds of Hawaii's orchid production being exported out of the state. Demand for potted orchids is increasing in southern and western states of the U.S., where >90% of potted orchids are sold. Hawaii orchid growers face many challenges in producing orchids to meet the market demand, including foreign competi- tion from The Netherlands and countries in