Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Navigating the waves of feminism(s): a duoethnography of two feminist travellers

ABSTRACT Accepting reality as multi-faceted, duoethnography questions the dominant scientific paradigm, thereby allowing a sharing of unique, subjective, and evocative stories that contribute to the understanding of the social world. As such, telling our narrative, through a storytelling approach modelled by a duoethnographic methodology, we share our own positioning, visibility, and performance while engaging as solo women travellers. Informed by feminist frameworks, we share and compare our lived experiences travelling alone trying to navigate and negotiate within a system positioned for men. Furthermore, on our respective journeys, we wrestle with our own position as feminists and what feelings of anger, guilt, and frustration reveal about ourselves. Our hope is to generate a deeper dialogue around the construction of a feminist identity, reflecting on how one could or should feel while travelling alone as a woman.
Pediatric angiocentric glioma with acute intracerebral hemorrhage: A case report with 36 months follow-up

Background: Angiocentric glioma (AG) is an extremely rare intracranial tumor that was first described in 2005 and identified as a special type of intracranial tumor in 2007 by the WHO, which mainly affects children and young adolescents. Epilepsy is the main presentation; therefore, it was recognized as a seizure-related tumor in the past. Here, we report a case of AG with acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) as the first symptom who never had a seizure onset. Case Description: A 3-year-old girl with the right limb weakness was admitted to our hospital 4 h after onset in 2018. Computed tomography showed a hematoma of about 20 ml accompanied by a hyper/iso-dense spheroid lesion located in the sub-cortex of the left parietal lobe. Magnetic resonance image (MRI) showed signs of hypointense signal in T1, T2, and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery sequence, distinct enhancement of this tumefactive lesion in the contrast-enhanced sequence. Thus, the admission diagnosis was neoplasm with acute ICH. A gross total resection of the tumor was achieved by parietal craniotomy. The histopathological diagnosis was AG. No signs showed tumor recurrence after 36 months of follow-up. Conclusion: This is the sole case of AGs with acute intracranial hemorrhage as the first symptom without any kind of epilepsy by far. This case had unique MRI signs that were different from the previous description. This case enriches the clinical and radiological manifestations of AG and reveals that further investigations are needed to further understand AG.
The development of a principal change leadership competency model: a structural equation modelling (SEM) approach

The objectives of the study were twofold: to develop a substantiated Principal Change Leadership Competency Model (PCLCM) and to develop an instrument to identify change leadership competencies that facilitate change and maximise change effctiveness in secondary schools. A total of 936 teachers from 47 high-performing schools in Malaysia completed the survey. Structural equation modelling was applied to test the models. An exploratory factor analysis was employed to identify the underlying factors, while a confimatory factor analysis was applied to test the measurement models. The analysis yielded a four-factor PCLCM: a) goal framing; b) capacity building; c) defusing resistance and conflct; and d) institutionalising. The results demonstrated a good fi of the model: normed x2=3.184, TLI=. 983, CFI=. 987 and RMSEA=. 048. The results also provided evidence for convergent validity, discriminant validity and construct reliability. The PCLCM is a coherent premier empirically tested model derived in a local Malaysian cultural education setting. It provides direction for practitioners as useful feedback in planning, designing, implementing and evaluating future training and development programmes for school principals. Specifially, it is an effctive training needs analysis tool tailored for school principals to identify their distinct needs on relevant training programmes at the diffrent stages of change. It therefore has far-reaching implications for the one-size-fis-all approach frequently employed by trainers and, thus, maximising learning impact. In addition, the Principal Change Leadership Competency Scale is a promising and welcome tool for both practitioners and relevant parties. With only 12 items, it covers four phases of change. It is economic, easy to administer and not time consuming.
Keeping Seniors Safe and Mobile: An Evaluation of a Local Drive Test Option

This study builds on an earlier AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety-sponsored project to develop a database of state driver licensing policies and practices pertaining to older and/or medically-at-risk drivers. As part of the earlier project, information was gathered on 40 “noteworthy initiatives” being undertaken by the states. The current study evaluated the safety and mobility consequences of one of these initiatives: the offering of local drive tests. Local drive tests (LDTs) are an alternative to standard road tests typically offered by state driver licensing agencies. LDTs allow some drivers who otherwise might not qualify to renew their licenses the option of taking a road test near their homes, on familiar roadways, and/or to specific destinations they want or need to access. Drivers who pass this more limited road test are then restricted to driving only within the specific area or radius where they were tested, and often have additional restrictions placed on their licenses. This study evaluated LDTs using data provided by the Iowa Office of Driver Services. ODS staff identified 239 drivers who took LDTs between January 2005 and August 2008 inclusive. Of these, 236 were age 65 or older and 205 went on to hold an LDT license. The median age for these 205 case drivers was 85, and almost two-thirds were female. Although 43% of the LDT license recipients lived in rural areas or small towns with populations less than 2,500, this was not dissimilar from the overall population of Iowa residents. In addition to their area restrictions (most often either 5 or 10 miles of their homes, or within the city limits of their communities), 44% of LDT license recipients were also restricted to no nighttime driving, 35% to operating their vehicle below a certain speed (or only on roadways with speed limits not exceeding a certain level), and 15% to no Interstate or freeway driving. Taken together, findings from this study suggest that local drive test licenses, at least as offered in Iowa, are a viable option for extending mobility to some older drivers, without posing undue safety risks to either the drivers themselves or to others sharing the roadway.
Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organizations Buzz with Energy # and Others Don't

Bestselling author Lynda Gratton - a world-renowned authority on business strategy - takes an extensive look at Hot Spots -- places and times where cooperation flourishes, resulting in productivity and excitement. Now, these previously unexplained flares of ideas and innovation are thoroughly examined, as Gratton shows how to develop of Hot Spots within ones own environment.
Are Online and Offline Delinquency Mutually Exclusive? Blurred Boundaries between Cyber Space and the Real-World

This study examines the similarities and differences between the causes of juvenile delinquency in online and offline environments and in personal characteristics. The study utilizes data from the ‘2014 Survey on Juvenile Victimization in Korea’. The population of this survey is students attending middle and high schools across the country. While this paper is based on the Self-Control theory, opportunity factors based on the Routine Activity theory and the Situational Action theory are also applied. Results show that the causes of offline delinquency are low self-control, routine activity and frequent gaming and SNS use. The causes of online delinquency are high self-control, existence of communication with unknown persons and the spectrum of personal information online. The common element of offline and online delinquency was the presence of delinquent peers. These results show that while online and offline delinquency cannot be explained with the same methodology, at the same time they are not mutually exclusive.
Evaluation of Warm-Mix Asphalt Produced with the Double Barrel Green Process

During the past 3 years, warm-mix asphalt (WMA) technologies from European countries have entered the North American market. European experiences with WMA technologies have indicated that a significant reduction in mixture temperature, mixture viscosity, energy consumption, and environmental emissions during asphalt mix production and placement can be achieved in comparison with traditional hot-mix asphalt (HMA). On the basis of North American experiences with these technologies to date, transportation agencies and HMA producers are unlikely to adopt WMA technologies solely for the reduction in manufacturing energy costs and environmental emissions, because these benefits do not cover the associated increase in investment and additive costs of WMA over HMA, even in the most expensive North American energy markets. This paper presents an evaluation of the economic, environmental, and mixture performance factors to assess the sustainability of WMA in North America. The paper examines the benefits, risks, investment and material costs, and sustainability associated with the different WMA technologies and specifically the Double Barrel Green process. Included is a mixture performance evaluation of WMA mixes containing reclaimed asphalt pavement and Manufactured Shingle Modifier produced with the Double Barrel Green System during field trials in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Powering the Future: The Ballard Fuel Cell and the Race to Change the World

Acknowledgements. Preface. Miracle Valley. Engine of the Future. A Notable Surface of Action. An Opportunity for Canada. Small is Beautiful. Three Guys and a Prayer. Nugget of Gold. Going for Broke. On the Road. Venturesome but Conservative. Bad Blood. Strategic Partners. Company with a Difference. The Starting Pistol Has Been Fired. The Intel of the Auto Industry. Dare to be Different. Endnotes. Index.
Effect of Different Types of Stenosis on Generalized Power Law Model of Blood Flow in a Bifurcated Artery

This study is focus on generalized power law model of blood flow in a stenosed bifurcated artery under the effect of different types of stenosis. Stenosis can cause the narrowing of the artery that may reduce the flow of blood supply to the heart, and this may lead to the heart attacks. The geometry of the bifurcated artery with different classification of stenosis locations is considered in order to shows four possible morphologies formation of plaque from healthy artery to disease artery. The bifurcated artery is modelled as a two-dimensional rigid wall since the wall of a disease artery is reported to be less flexibility. Few assumptions are considered such as blood are incompressible, laminar, steady and characterized as the generalized power-law model. Simulation results are obtained using COMSOL Multiphysics 5.2, which is a software that based on the finite element method to solve this problem. Results concerning the effect of different locations of stenosis on generalized power law model of the blood flow characteristic such as streamlines pattern are discussed.
Exploring Undergraduate Research Projects Success Factors in Muni University, Uganda

This paper presents the success factors for undergraduate research projects (URPs) at Muni University. The objectives of the study were to determine the relevant skills required for the success of undergraduate research projects and investigate the roles of students, supervisors and faculty towards the success of URPs. Questionnaires were administered to a population of 70 final-year students. SPSS-v.21 program was used to analyse the data collected. The research instrument was reliable at Chronbach’s alpha 0.9038. Results showed that research, research environment, research management, personal effectiveness, communication, networking and teamwork skills are paramount to the success of URPs. The study found out that the key stakeholders (students, supervisors and faculty) perform their roles throughout the project period. However, there’s a need to have a mechanism for project tracking, filing complaints, and having URPs externally examined among others.
FISHING VESSEL STABILITY AND SAFETY -- A CAUTIONARY NOTE WHEN CONSIDERING POSSIBLE CHANGES IN IMO STANDARDS

The adequacy of the IMO recommendation A168 for minimum intact stability criteria of fishing vessels has been widely debated since its introduction in 1968. The fact that losses still occur raises questions on the level of this stability standard and whether it is maintained in practice. This paper discusses the stability and seaworthiness of fishing vessels in the light of recent experience with UK vessels, and makes suggestions for improvements in safety of these vessels.
Estimation of geotechnical properties of municipal solid waste by field method

As biodegradation proceeds, municipal solid wastes (MSW) acquire pronounced soil-like properties and upon completion of the process can be used as the foundation. The solid waste massif is an inhomogeneous soil-like mass which requires non-destructive and minimally invasive methods of research. The cone penetration testing of MSW by piezocone (CPTU) in combination with the multichannel analysis of surface waves (MASW) provide extensive data about physico-mechanical properties of wastes, which are usually unavailable in traditional approaches and which can be directly used in geotechnical stability calculations of the waste massif.
Exploring the Sustainable Effects of Urban-Port Road System Reconstruction

The aim of the research is to identify and quantify the direct sustainable effects resulting from the improved road infrastructure in the local urban-port transport system. This case study considers the city port of Szczecin (Poland). The effects are identified for the local road transport system by comparing freight road transport performance in two options: with the investment and without the investment. The sustainable effects are quantified in terms of money and physical units. Sustainable economic, social, and environmental effects concern generalized freight road transport cost, i.e., truck operating costs and costs of truck drivers’ working time, as well as freight transit time, energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and environmental savings. To capture effects, the forecast of truck traffic demand, as well as unit vehicle operating costs, values of time, and air pollution and climate change, values are elaborated and revealed in freight road transport. The investigations show that the primary effect of investment is the reduced traffic congestion, which enhance the velocity of trucks in the transport system. The increased trucks′ speed affect freight road traffic performance, time of delivery, and environmental externalities.
Modeling and Predicting User Interests based on Taxonomy

In the thesis, we analyze user interests based on a domain specific taxonomy. We propose modeling user interests and measuring similarity of users according to the taxonomy in the domain. Then we apply our method to recommender systems. We propose identifying topics, those that include new concepts that are likely be interesting to the user even though those concepts are not present in the user profile. We try to expand user interests significantly by letting the user browse those topics. Recommender systems are widely used by content providers to drive their commercial success. Many content providers adopt methods based on collaborative filtering (CF), which is a broad term for the process of recommending items to an active user, who receives the recommendation, based on the intuition that users who access the same items with the user tend to have similar interests with the user. Basic CF methods measure the similarity of users only from the co-rating behaviors against items, and compute recommendation for the active user by analyzing the items possessed by the most similar users with the user. As a result, they are apt to recommend the types of items that have already been accessed by the user. For example, if the user highly rates a horror movie (as an item), the typical CF methods recommend items that were made by the same director, performed by the same actors, or included in the same genre, horror. Those items are not truly novel since they are often already known to the user, or easily discovered by the user. We also apply our method to knowledge management in a system devel-
Development of a DP system for CS Enterprise I with Voith Schneider thrusters

A model ship named CS Enterprise 1 (CSE1) has been purchased by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) to be used for demonstrations and student experiments at the Marine Cybernetics Laboratory (MC Lab). This model ship has in this project been equipped with two Voith Schneider Propellers (VSPs), and a new bow thruster, in addition instrumentation for these new actuators have been installed. Once the outfitting was completed, the aim was to develop a manual thruster control, joystick mode control, and a Dynamic Positioning (DP) system. In order to develop a DP system a system identification of the vessel was needed. This was performed by a combination of measurements and analysis from free-running tests using Matlabs System Identification ToolBox (SITB). CSE1 were equipped with VSPs, a new bow thruster, and instrumented in the MC Lab. A manual thruster control was developed, where a PlayStation 3 (PS3) controller was used for user input, allowing the operator to control all the vessels actuators precisely and simultaneously. For the system identification, the linear surge and sway damping were found by towing the model ship at different speeds, and measuring the drag forces with force sensors. Force sensors were also used to measure the thrust from the VSPs and the bow thruster at different set-points. Then-free-running tests were conducted, where the position and orientation of the vessel as well as the thruster set-points were recorded. This data was then fitted to a simplified DP model, using Matlabs SITB. The results from these analyzes were rejected as the standard deviation for the results were to high, and the method failed to provide consistent results. The vessel parameters from another model ship about the same size and geometry were therefore adopted to form the basis of the tuning of the DP controller. A proper Human Machine Interface (HMI) where created in LabView to monitor and control the vessel for all operational modes. This HMI includes a 3D window that displays the position and orientation of the model ship in real time. A Hardware In the Loop (HIL) simulator has also been implemented in order to test the DP controller, and verify signal routing and saturations. With the performed upgrades and instrumentation of CSE1 the vessel should be well suited for demonstrations and student experiments. The use of the PS3 controller provided a great way to control the model boat. The method of using SITB for system identification partially failed because the simplified DP model was used, and this model does not include some of the dynamics of the input data used. A more sophisticated model should be used as a grey-box model as this might improve the reliability of the estimated parameters. After some tuning of the DP controller and thrust allocation a working DP system were demonstrated, even though the DP system had some performance issues.
The rolling motorway as an alternative to door-to-door unimodal road transport: lessons from the Trieste-Chop project

Although there is a consistent and strong political consensus that intermodal transport, and especially intermodal rail transport, should play a greater role in the movement of freight across continental Europe, the available statistics for the rolling motorway (RoMo) show only a moderate absolute increase over time and worrying decrease in the last years. Understanding why that happened and what can be done about it is a challenging task for transport analysts. This paper illustrates, as a case study, the planned introduction of a new RoMo service, connecting Trieste Fernetti (Italy) with Chop (Ukraine). 42 valid interviews with freight forwarding and transport companies and truck drivers could be collected. However, the stated preference interviews, generated via an efficient design, allowed the authors to estimate a quite robust mixed logit model containing several attributes of interest. The results indicate that: a) on average, road transport is, ceteris paribus, much preferred to RoMo both by freight forwarding and transport companies and truck drivers, with the first showing a stronger adversity towards RoMo; b) travel time and monetary costs are important variables for both actors; c) highway toll is a very sensitive variable especially for the freight forwarders and transport companies; d) differently from the truck drivers, the freight forwarders and transport companies appreciate the possibility of using the RoMo service on weekends. A simple simulation performed with the estimated model allowed the authors to conclude that, under the current circumstances, the probability that a RoMo service between Trieste Fernetti and Chop be used is close to zero. A road toll increase of 300 Euros would not change the probability of using the RoMo. Only an increase of 660 Euros, setting the road toll to a level equivalent to that imposed in Switzerland or Austria, where it is motivated by the need of protecting the fragile Alpine valleys, would increase to 29% the chances of the RoMo service to be chosen. However, no equivalent motivation could be advanced in the case of the Trieste-Chop corridor. (A)
HIV Prevention Trials Network 078: High Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Antibodies Among Urban US Men Who Have Sex With Men, Independent of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Status

Background. Sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is uncommon, yet documented among men who have sex with men (MSM), primarily among those with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Methods. In the HIV Prevention Trials Network 078 study (HPTN 078), which assessed an integrated strategy to achieve HIV viral suppression, 1305 MSM were screened across 4 geographically diverse US cities. At screening, demographic/behavioral/psy-chosocial questionnaires were completed, along with HIV and HCV testing. Multivariable logistic regression was used to evaluate associations with HCV antibody positivity. Results. Among the 1287 (99%) of the MSM with HCV antibody results, the median age was 41, 69% were black, 85% had a high school education or more, 35% were employed, 70% had HIV, and 21% had undergone substance use counseling. The median lifetime number of male sexual partners was 17 (interquartile range, 6–50), and 246 (19%) were HCV antibody positive. HCV antibody positivity was high in MSM with HIV (20%) and MSM without HIV (17%) ( P = .12) and was higher in those receiving substance use counseling (36%) than in those who had not (15%) ( P ≤ .01). Substance use counseling (odds ratio, 2.51; 95% confidence interval, 1.80–3.51) and unstable housing (2.16; 1.40–3.33) were associated with HCV antibody positivity. Conclusions. Nearly 1 in 5 MSM screened for HPTN 078 have been infected with HCV. The prevalence is high regardless of HIV status and is high even in those who did not undergo substance use counseling. In HIV burden networks, high HCV infection prevalence may occur in MSM without HIV. As implementation of preexposure prophylaxis expands and condom use declines, routine HCV counseling and screening among MSM are important.