Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Multiple dimensions of semantic and perceptual similarity contribute to mnemonic discrimination for pictures.

People often misrecognize objects that are similar to those they have previously encountered. These mnemonic discrimination errors are attributed to shared memory representations (gist) typically characterized in terms of meaning. In two experiments, we investigated multiple semantic and perceptual relations that may contribute: at the concept level, a feature-based measure of concept confusability quantified each concept's tendency to activate other similar concepts via shared features; at the item level, rated item exemplarity indexed the degree to which the specific depicted objects activated their particular concepts. We also measured visual confusability over items using a computational model of vision, and an index of color confusability. Participants studied single (Experiment 1, N = 60) or multiple (Experiment 2, N = 60) objects for each basic-level concept, followed by a recognition memory test including studied items, similar lures, and novel items. People were less likely to recognize studied items with high concept confusability, and less likely to falsely recognize their lures. This points to weaker basic-level semantic gist representations for objects with more confusable concepts because of greater emphasis on coarse processing of shared features relative to fine-grained processing of individual concepts. In contrast, people were more likely to misrecognize lures that were better exemplars of their concept, suggesting that enhanced basic-level semantic gist processing increased errors due to gist across items. False recognition was also more frequent for more visually confusable lures. The results implicate semantic similarity at multiple levels and highlight the importance of perceptual as well as semantic relations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
Mapping the self: A network approach for understanding psychological and neural representations of self-concept structure.

How people self-reflect and maintain a coherent sense of self is an important question that spans from early philosophy to modern psychology and neuroscience. Research on the self-concept has not yet developed and tested a formal model of how beliefs about dependency relations amongst traits may influence self-concept coherence. We first develop a network-based approach, which suggests that people's beliefs about trait relationships contribute to how the self-concept is structured (Study 1). This model describes how people maintain positivity and coherence in self-evaluations, and how trait interrelations relate to activation in brain regions involved in self-referential processing and concept representation (Study 2 and Study 3). Results reveal that a network-based property theorized to be important for coherence (i.e., outdegree centrality) is associated with more favorable and consistent self-evaluations and decreased ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) activation. Further, participants higher in self-esteem and lower in depressive symptoms differentiate between higher and lower centrality positive traits more in self-evaluations, reflecting associations between mental health and how people process perceived trait dependencies during self-reflection. Together, our model and findings join individual differences, brain activation, and behavior to present a computational theory of how beliefs about trait relationships contribute to a coherent, interconnected self-concept. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
‘Powerful knowledge’, ‘cultural literacy’ and the study of literature in schools

There is no doubting the infl uence of E.D. Hirsch and Michael Young on UK education policy and practice over the last ten years. Hirsch’s notion of ‘cultural literacy’ and Young’s idea of ‘powerful knowledge’ are the theoretical drivers of a national shift towards ‘knowledge-led’ or ‘knowledge-rich’ school curricula. Evidence of this shift is plain to see in the current iteration of the National Curriculum for England and in the mission statements of a growing number of schools and academy trusts across the country. According to Robert Eaglestone, however, there is a mistake under the fl oorboards of the new, knowledge-rich curriculum. It is a mistake that damages and distorts teaching in a number of curriculum subjects, but Eaglestone – a literary critic and theorist – focuses on its disastrous impact on the teaching of literature. Both Hirsch and Young fall prey to scientism: they take knowledge in the natural sciences as a template for knowledge across the board. Eaglestone shows fi rst how scientism is baked into the theories of ‘cultural literacy’ and ‘powerful knowledge’, then how the adoption of these theories in schools has disfi gured and diminished the teaching of literature. Eaglestone’s argument is arresting, timely and compelling. For those tasked with planning and teaching English curricula in schools, his penetrating analysis of where things have gone wrong and how to put them right will be revelatory and transformative. And for those concerned with curriculum theory and education policy more generally, it will reinvigorate and reorient the debate about what is helpful and what is not in the work of E.D. Hirsch and Michael Young.
Red sandstone as raw material of Baden culture (Late Copper Age) grinding stones (Balatonőszöd - Temetői dűlő site, Hungary), with a review of the red sandstone formations of SW Hungary

Balatonőszod - Temetői dűlő is one of the largest excavated and longest-lived sites of the Late Copper Age Baden Culture in Hungary, where 500 lithic finds were registered. In the site finds belonging to the late Middle Copper Age Balaton-Lasinja Culture and the Late Copper Age Boleraz Culture were found too. This paper presents petrographic and geochemical analyses of stone utensils, mostly of grinding stones, made of red, or discoloured white sandstones. Almost all sandstone artefacts are upper and lower stones of grinding equipment and polishers, as well as objects whose function is not known, worked and non-worked fragments; boulders of raw material are also in the studied set. The detailed petrographic and geochemical methods applied here are polarized light microscopy and a distribution study of the framework grains in thin section, and ICP-OES and ICP-MS as bulk rock chemical methods. The results were compared to published petrographic and geochemical data. Most of the studied artefacts were made of the rocks of the Red Sandstone and Siltstone Member of the Balaton Highland Sandstone Formation, especially from the mature type sandstone in which quartz is predominant, and which is almost free of feldspar. This type is characteristic of the confines of the Southern Balaton Highland and the lower part of the formation in the Northern Balaton Highland. A minor part of the studied artefacts - red or purple, purplish grey sandstones - originates from the sandstones of the Jakabhegy Sandstone Formation (Western Mecsek mountains).
Back-off

Standstill behavior by a robot is deemed to be ineffective and inefficient to convey a robot’s intention to yield priority to another party in spatial interaction. Instead, robots could convey their intention and thus their next action via motion. We developed a back-off (BO) movement to communicate the intention of yielding priority to pedestrians at bottlenecks. To evaluate human sensory perception and subjective legibility, the BO is compared to three other motion strategies in a video study with 167 interviewees at the university and public spaces, where it excels regarding legibility. Implemented in a real encounter, objective motion behavior of 78 participants as a reaction to a stop-and-wait strategy, and two versions of BO (short and long), shows an improvement of the pedestrians’ efficiency in the second encounter with the robot’s short BO version compared to the stop strategy. Eventually, in the third encounter with all motion strategies, interaction causes only a small time consumption still required by the cognitive process of perceiving an object in the visual field. Hence, the design of kinematic parameters, BO path and time, exhibits the potential to increase the fluency of an interaction with robots at bottlenecks.
Characteristics and evolution of patients with urinary lithiasis in a tertiary hospital emergency

Introduction: The symptoms and complications of urinary lithiasis are a frequent cause of emergency care. Objetive: To determine the characteristics and evolution of patients with urinary lithiasis treated in the emergency service of a tertiary social security hospital. Methods: Observational study carried out at the Rebagliati hospital Lima-Peru, during the first quarter of 2019. Sociodemographic variables, time, and emergency indicators of the institutional statistical system were evaluated, performing descriptive statistics with IBM SPSS 25.0. Results: 583 visits were registered for urinary lithiasis (194 per month), corresponding to 14% of the genito-urinary pathology seen in the evaluated service. 55% male, average age 48 years (range 14 to 92). Mainly treated for topical surgery and priority 3, the most frequent causes of pain, infection, and hematuria. Time of first attention 4.8 hours, 70% leaving discharge. 10.5% were admitted to observation rooms with an average stay of 77 hours (3.2 days), 51% were hospitalized, 31% were discharged, 3% operated, and 2% died. Conclusion: Urinary lithiasis occurs in 1 out of 7 genitourinary pathology attentions of the emergency service evaluated, predominantly in men, of average age, 10% are admitted to the observation room, with short stay and low mortality.
The Influence of Internal Lean Practice, Postponement, and Supply Chain Integration towards Competitive Advantage

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between supply chain management practices (SCMP) and competitive advantage (CA) among manufacturing firms in Malaysia. In line with the following objectives, this study applies a quantitative research approach which will utilize stratified sampling technique and self-administered questionnaire surveys. The respondents for this survey will be the senior managers in operational management levels of various manufacturing firms in Malaysia. Subsequently, the survey data will be analysed to test the research framework and hypotheses. The results of the study can be useful for supply chain practitioners and manufacturers in integrating the appropriate SCMPs to improve supply chain performance and enhance competitive advantage. Additionally, industrial practitioners will also receive insight on how to account for the impact of SCMPs when developing their supply chain for stronger manufacturing performance by establishing competitive advantage. Many organizations are not clear regarding which practices to implement, resulting from poor understanding of what constitutes a thorough set of SCMPs. The results will also suggest successful dimensions of SCMPs that could be implemented in the effort to obtain competitive advantage in the manufacturing industry in Malaysia.
A survey on applications of optimization-based integrating process design and control for chemical processes

ABSTRACT Process design and control are closely related to each other in chemical engineering activities. Traditionally, process design and control system design are carried out in sequence. However, the integration of process design and control (IPDC) can bring greater economic benefits and process dynamic performance than traditional sequential design methods. This is true, particularly for modern chemical processes, in which various process units become more interacting and compact owing to the widespread use of heat integration and recycled streams, and the resulted impacts between process design and control begin to significantly influence both the capital and operational costs. Recently, considerable studies about the IPDC for chemical processes have been reported in published literature. The purpose of the paper is to survey the applications of optimization-based integrating process design and control for chemical processes. Firstly, attention has been focused on the applications of IPDC to different process units, for example, chemical reactors and separation columns. Then, the survey is extended to the applications of IPDC to plant-wide chemical processes. Finally, the future research challenges in the application of IPDC to chemical processes have been briefly discussed.
Improving The Performance Of Stepped-Type Solar Still Using External Booster Mirrors

In an attempt to improve its performance and productivity, a simple low cost modification of stepped-type solar still (SSS) was presented by installing external booster mirrors fixed at its top and bottom edges. The SSS’s step width was 4cm and depth of 2cm and black-painted aluminized absorber within area of 0.46 m2. Thus, two SSSs units (conventional without mirrors and modified with same fabricated specifications but with booster mirrors) were investigated at Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt in order to assess and compare their performance represented of productivity, indicated temperatures, some thermo-physical properties and daily efficiency under three different water salinity levels of 15000, 35000 and 45000 ppm under solar radiation flux range of 270-1143 and 267-998 W/m2 in case of modified and conventional SSS, respectively, and ambient temperature range of 31.2 to 37.6 oC. The obtained results revealed that, the indicating maximum temperatures gained by modified SSS comparing to the conventional one increased by 14.3, 11.5, 8.6 and 2.5% for glass, water, absorber and vapor, respectively. The daily yielded productively for the modified SSS were 9.91, 7.87 and 6.97 l/m2.d with increase of 84.2, 60.9 and 55.6 % compared to the productivity of the conventional SSS at the previous water salinity levels, respectively. Furthermore, the annual cost of one liter distillate (in EGP; 1 $ = 15.7 EGP) for both conventional and modified SSSs was estimated as (1.33 and 0.88), (1.46 and 1.107) and (1.6 and 1.25) at the same previously mentioned salinity levels, respectively.
Reasoning about climate change

Abstract Why is disbelief in anthropogenic climate change common despite broad scientific consensus to the contrary? A widely held explanation involves politically motivated (system 2) reasoning: Rather than helping uncover the truth, people use their reasoning abilities to protect their partisan identities and reject beliefs that threaten those identities. Despite the popularity of this account, the evidence supporting it (i) does not account for the fact that partisanship is confounded with prior beliefs about the world and (ii) is entirely correlational with respect to the effect of reasoning. Here, we address these shortcomings by (i) measuring prior beliefs and (ii) experimentally manipulating participants’ extent of reasoning using cognitive load and time pressure while they evaluate arguments for or against anthropogenic global warming. The results provide no support for the politically motivated system 2 reasoning account over other accounts: Engaging in more reasoning led people to have greater coherence between judgments and their prior beliefs about climate change—a process that can be consistent with rational (unbiased) Bayesian reasoning—and did not exacerbate the impact of partisanship once prior beliefs are accounted for.
Avoiding cardiovascular disease in type1and type2 Diabetes Mellitus by targeting the coagulatory Alterations A Systematic Review

Earlier we have already evaluated in detail the initiation of atherosclerosis in both type1 diabetes mellitus( T1DM) as well as type2 diabetes mellitus ( T2DM) and details of acetylation end-glycationproducts(AGE), receptor for AGE(RAGE) role of neutrophil extracellular trap formation and influence on cardiovascular disease (CVD) . Further we reviewed how CVD is avoided with better Sodium Glucose Transporter 2( SGLT2) inhibitors in both T1DM as well as T2DM. Further we have emphasized on use of weight neutral hypoglycaemics to reduce the morbidity with escalation of diabesity. Also we reviewed importance of microRNA’S, inHDL transport, significance of use of proprotein convertase subtilisin /kexin type9(PCSK9) inhibitors Here we tried to concentrate on reducing same by understanding how this DM might influence the cardiovascular System( CVS) alterations as well as changes caused by them in the amounts of plasma proteins as well as metal ions, changed lipid metabolism(causing changed metabolic control), cardiac lipotoxicity as well as atherosclerosis, endothelial impairment, platelets hyperreactivation along with the existence of procoagulant particles in the blood in aetiopathogenesis of CVD with lipid metabolism, sphingosine-1 phosphate ;alteration in coagulation parameters in both T1DM as well as T2DM. Thus we conducted a systematic review regarding same with utilization of search engines like pubmed, MEDLINE, Google scholar, Web of Science, scopus, Embase, using MeSH terms like fibrinogen; thrombin; antithrombin; antiplasmin; plasminogen activator inhibitor -1 (PAI-1), von Willebrand factor ; factor V, factor VII, factor IX, factor X factor, factor XII,tissue factor, metal ions like Ca2+ATPase, Zn2+, Cu2+, Mg2+, Fe3+ iron, platelet hyperactivation; platelet microparticles; complement alteration; endothelial impairment role of lipid metabolism LDL levels, High density lipoproteins High density lipoproteins (HDL) levels in type1 diabetes mellitus as well as type2 diabetes mellitus as well as from 1980’s till 2029 till date. We found a total of 650 articles out of which we selected 167 articles for this review. No metaanalysis was done. Thus we consider each step by step in influencing CVS risk and what prophylaxis is needed to avoid the CVD complications in each of DM along with influence in COVID mortality.
Intertextual Observations of Jimmy Boyle’s Handwritten Manuscripts

Our study on Jimmy Boyle (1922-1971) has been one that attempts to unfold the many facets of his creativity against the single-dimensional image of a patriotic songwriter. His sentiments as songwriters of many kind, a jazzman, and a cultural enthusiast have been proven through his different branches of work that are at times seem contrasting with each other in compositional styles. As a result of a long term archiving project, this paper reveals the entire set of handwritten artefact left after his death in 1971 and was recovered in Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2014, namely some 177 items of Boyle’s handwritten manuscript, that contains unpublished, published compositions as well as hand copy of others’ compositions. Main methods employed were that of the construct of taxonomy, and some cross-examination of the items covered within the catalogue mooted by the concept of intertextuality. Through narrating the interlinks between multiple manuscripts surrounding ‘Mutiara Ku’, ‘Pulau Pinang’ and ‘Medhini’, the process of composition was brought to life in displaying the all rounded capacity of Boyle.
The Potential Use of Blockchain Technology in Co-creation Ecosystems

Research literature on blockchain technology is starting to emerge. Blockchain technology is primarily associated with cryptocurrencies, raising interest in an application in other business sectors, thanks to its character - istics. The decentralized nature of blockchain creates the new concept of a token economy, which can help to trace and valorize intellectual property - one of the essential challenges in co-creation. This paper considers how blockchain technology and tokenization can solve challenges in co-creation projects consisting of large companies, startups and entrepreneurial accelerators. The paper proposes an exploratory analysis based on interviews conducted with French companies and startups. The findings include a framework of (1) challenges, lack of operating rules, trust
Development of a Multiphase Inactivation Model for an Advanced Oxidation Process and Uncertainty Analysis in Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment

ABSTRACT A multiphase inactivation model of an advanced oxidation process that uses O3/UV was developed and successfully validated with pilot-scale experiments. Using the inactivation rate constants and dispersion number estimated from the pilot-scale experiments, the inactivation efficacy of O3/UV under full-scale conditions was predicted. Uncertainty analysis in quantitative microbial risk assessment was performed to examine the impact of the hydraulic conditions of the O3/UV contactor. It was demonstrated that the estimation of the dispersion number in the full-scale contactor is necessary to improve the accuracy of the risk estimates.
Mood Variability Among Early Adolescents in Times of Social Constraints: A Daily Diary Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic and associated governmental regulations have drastically changed the daily social lives of children, adolescents, and adults. Changes in the social context may particularly affect children who are in the transition to adolescents (henceforth referred to as early adolescents) as adolescence is a crucial period for peer interactions and development of independence and autonomy. Yet, the impact of the pandemic and associated governmental regulations on early adolescents' emotional well-being has yet to be clarified. In the current study, we explored daily fluctuations in mood in 54 early adolescents (Mage = 11.07) during the first few months (April 2020–June 2020) of the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, the role of parents and peers on adolescents' mood variability was investigated. Adolescents rated their mood (i.e., happiness, anger, sadness, anxiety) and peer interactions once a day during four separate weeks across different weeks of containment measures in the Netherlands. Moreover, adolescents reported on their experienced attachment to parents and peers and internalizing problems during baseline and the final measurement, respectively. Results showed relatively stable levels of mood during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, individual differences in mood variability during the first assessment week were negatively associated with the experienced level of attachment to both parents and peers. Moreover, heightened levels of mood variability did not mediate the link between attachment and internalizing problems. Lastly, the quality of offline contact, but not online contact, was negatively related to adolescents' mood variability. Overall, this study suggests that mood of early adolescents did not heavily fluctuated across the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings add to the growing body of literature aiming to understand how adolescent's life are affected by the COVID-19 crisis and illustrates that social connectedness to parents or peers may facilitate resilience to distress and daily mood fluctuation in early adolescents.