Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Adherence to a Low Carbohydrate Diet may Modify Resting Metabolic Rate among Overweight and Obese Women

Objective Resting metabolic rate (RMR) accounts for most of the daily energy expenditure. The low-carb diet attenuates decreases in RMR. This study aims to investigate the relationship between a low-carb diet and resting metabolic rate status. Methods We enrolled 304 overweight and obese women in this cross-sectional study. BMI, fat mass, fat-free mass, visceral fat, insulin level were assessed. RMR was measured using indirect calorimetry. A low carbohydrate diet score was measured using a validated semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ). Results Our results showed no relationship between LCDS and DNR even after adjust for confounders (Inc. RMR: OR: 0.97; 95% CI: 0.92–1.01, P = 0.20; Dec. RMR: OR: 0.97; 95% CI: 0.94-1.00, P = 0.14). Some components of LCDS had significant differences with DNR, such as carbohydrate and Dec. RMR in adjusted model (OR: 1.62; 95% CI: 0.98–1.37, P = 0.08), MUFA and Dec. RMR in adjusted model (OR: 0.48; 95% CI: 0.21–1.10, P = 0.08) and refined grain and Inc. RMR in crude model (OR: 0.87; 95% CI: 0.77–0.99, P = 0.04). Conclusion Our study showed that there is no association between a low-carb diet and RMR status but carbohydrate, MUFA, and refined grain had a significant relationship.
Systematic Analysis of Effectiveness of Using Mobile Technologies (MT) in Teaching and Learning Foreign Language

Although Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) is rapidly evolving, there is still a lack of research synthesis and systematic meta-analysis. The effectiveness of mobile devices for language learning under various conditions remains unclear . A limited study is carried out on how the latest smartphone devices effectively teach and learn. Mobile technology is the most Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tool used in our daily life for different purposes, including educational purposes. For instance, Mobile Technology (MT) has been significantly used for learning languages because today’s students tend to use this technology frequently and almost every hour. This research aimed to explore the effects of mobile devices in foreign language learning and present the sample studies conducted between 2014 and 2021; 100 articles were chosen from Google Scholar, ResearchGate and Science Direct database through using different search keywords. The results of the research revealed that the most examined studies were published in Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. The university students were selected as sample groups in these articles, and that most articles used the experimental research design. The findings also showed that English was the most foreign language examined in these articles, and WhatsApp is the most mobile application used in these
Design Syntactics: A Functional Approach to Visual Product Form – Theory, Models, and Methods

In line with the increasing importance of high quality appearance and aesthetic appeal in the design of consumer products, there is a growing need for enhanced understanding and ability to handle visual product form in industrial product development. In an approach for meeting that need, this thesis concerns the nature and development of visual design aesthetics in product form design. The contributions provide a means for enhanced reasoning about the structure and function of form design. The aim is that the findings will provide support for the specification, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of visual product form in relation to technical aspects in the area industrial design and engineering design interaction. In the thesis, theory, models and methods supporting the development of such product aspects are proposed. Based on theoretical elements from a number of fields, including engineering design science, design semiotics, form aesthetics, and visual perception, a hybrid theory for visual design aesthetics is proposed, which links the aesthetic form of the product to functional reasoning. Through the theoretical framework of design syntactics, a descriptive model of the nature and workings of the visual product form is developed. The framework consists of three main conceptual elements; form functionality , concerning the purpose and function of visual product form; form syntactics , related to the structure and organization of the visual form; and design formats , associated with form content and design philosophy from a company perspective. Based on the modeling framework, methodology support for form design activities in industrial design development is proposed. The three suggested methods include approaches for analysis of technically and aesthetically determined functionality of form, for development of visual form aesthetics in product design, and for the creation of design formats for utilization in operative and strategic design development.
Work Activity 4 "Business as Usual Deterministic Impact Studies"

This document presents scenario-based deterministic impact studies on the validated and representative low voltage (LV) feeders considering the business as usual integration of electric vehicles (EVs), i.e., uncontrolled charging of EVs. This report also assesses in economic terms the network reinforcements needed to cope with high penetrations of EVs. This makes then possible to link penetration levels to the potential costs of the uncontrolled adoption of EVs.
Shadowing

Shadowing is a voluntary experience with an Attending Physician, Physician’s Assistant or Physical Therapist in the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation. Those approved are permitted to shadow over the course of a 21-day period within a calendar year. Dress is business casual, and the shadower is not permitted to wear scrubs or a lab coat. Note: We do not offer any academic credit or medical certification for shadowing in the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation. Shadowing does not constitute medical education, graduate medical education, continuing medical education, or training leading to licensure or board certification. The shadower is not a student, resident, medical staff member, or employee of UF COM and must not represent him/herself as such. Shadowers are not allowed to provide patient care, even under direct supervision.
Influence of caprine arthritis encephalitis on milk production and quality along the lactation curve in primiparous dairy goats

The aim of this study was to examine the influence of caprine arthritis encephalitis (CAE) on the production of milk and its components (protein, fat and total solids) along the lactation curve of primiparous goats. The study was developed using a database from the years 2014 to 2018. Sixty-one animals were subjected to the serological test for CAE, whose result indicated that 42 were seropositive and 19 seronegative, and milk production and quality data were compiled. To adjust the curve for production of milk, fat, protein and total solids during lactation, the following nonlinear model developed by Wood (1967) was used: Y = atb e-ct, where Y represents the observations of milk, fat, protein or total solid production at time t; a is the parameter associated with the initial production; b is the parameter associated with the rate of rise in production until the peak; c is the parameter associated with the rate of decline of the lactation curve; and is the representative time of the day in milk. The parameters were compared by the confidence interval considering 95% probability. Peak production was calculated using the following formula: a(b/c)b e-b. There was no statistical difference (p > 0.05) between seropositive and seronegative primiparous goats for initial production and the rates of rise and decline of the parameters of milk, fat, protein and total solid production. However, at their peak, these variables were 26, 27, 23 and 23% higher, respectively, in the seronegative goats than in their seropositive counterparts. In conclusion, CAE does not affect milk production or the production of fat, protein and total solids along the lactation curve, but seropositive goats produce less milk and respective components at the peak of the lactation curve than seronegative goats.
Fragility of Bench-Mounted Equipment Considering Uncertain Parameters

This paper presents analytically developed seismic fragility curves for unattached bench-mounted equipment considering representative building, bench, and equipment interface properties. The emphasis of the study is on rigid scientific equipment, which is often placed on the surface of ceramic laboratory benches in science laboratories or other buildings. The paper first addresses the inherent uncertainty in the frictional behavior of the equipment supported on benches (defined by the static and kinetic coefficients of friction, μs and μk , respectively) and then describes the resulting variability of their sliding response when subjected to earthquake motions. Seismic fragility curves are generated for these types of equipment, considering 32 short distance ground motions of different hazard levels, propagated through three different building models. It is observed that although the variation in response is highly sensitive to the uncertainty in μs and μk , this variability does not propagate to the frag.
The Effects of IFRS Compliance on Earnings Reporting Quality of Financial Firms in Ghana

Purpose: We investigate whether compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is associated with earnings reporting quality of financial firms operating in Ghana. Our paper is based on the premise that complying with International Financial Reporting Standards reflects the combined effects of the financial reporting framework of applying the standards, their interpretation and enforcement. Methodology: With sample size of 51 financial firms made up of both listed and non-listed firms, we modelled earnings reporting quality as a function of IFRS compliance and relevant control variables using dichotomous logistic regression. Findings: Contrary to our hypothesis, IFRS compliance has a positive coefficient with our earnings management proxy for reporting quality. The positive coefficient infers higher earnings management and thus, lower earnings reporting quality with the new reporting standards. Our result suggests that the application of IFRS does not necessarily improve the quality of financial reporting among Ghanaian financial firms. The result contradicts the idea that IFRS adoption eliminates certain accounting alternatives, thus reducing managerial discretion, which in turn limits the extent of opportunistic earnings management and thereby improving reporting quality. Research Limitations/implications: Our sample is limited by industry (i.e. the financial services industry) and geography (i.e. Ghana). We suggest further research that will widely consider other sectors as well as countries in order to widen the industry specific literature in this area. Besides, theoretically, our study is limited to the agency theory and we feel compelled to reiterate the importance of considering alternative theories. Practical implications: Our results demonstrate that the compulsory adoption of IFRS by financial firms in Ghana has not yielded positive outcome in terms of the reporting quality of the firms. Besides, the results provide information to International Accounting Standards setters on how effectively the standards they set meet intended objective of improved reporting quality. Originality: Our results extend prior research IFRS based accounting quality in uncharted industry in Ghana. We use two different quality metrics drawn from common time period. Unlike prior research, our paper considers both listed and unlisted firms. Besides, we present the sensitivity of accounting reporting quality to IFRS compliance, firm size and audit quality as a transmission mechanism as well as robustness check.
Understanding a housing cooperatives' reasons for rejecting energy-efficient outdoor lighting

Interviews with board members and surveys of residents in a Swedish housing cooperative revealed that their choice to partly reject new energy-efficient outdoor lighting for their outdoor environment (retrofit with light emitting diods) was motivated by multiple goal frames. The board weighed the normative goal of perceived safety and the subordinate hedonic goal of the perceived quality of the light against gain goals. The final choice could be attributed to the normative goal of perceived safety for the elderly. This was consistent with the view of the residents who rated all goal frames high, but perceived safety as the most important. Adoption or rejection of new energy-efficient lighting technology is determined by both cost and energy savings, and people's expectations and perceptions of the light and the lit environment.
Aperture coupling and penetration in various configurations

The problem of a slot in a perfectly conducting surface is addressed for a variety of configurations using both integral equation and transmission line techniques. The use of Bethe hole theory to model short slots is discussed and utilized where appropriate. Primary problems of discussion are a slot array, wires coupling through slots in a ground plane, and wires coupling through slots in a bent ground plane. Additionally, the use of the extended BLT formulation for incorporation of slot effects in a transmission line problem is addressed. In this manuscript, the work of Bethe is extended to include cross-aperture coupling for the first time. Further, techniques for coupling Bethe hole theory with the method of moments are presented. Other major contributions include method of moments formulations for apertures in wedge geometries.
Effect of Post-Stroke Motor Training on EEG Movement-Related Cortical Potentials

BackgroundRehabilitation of post-stroke patients with motor impairments promotes re-learning of lost motor functions through the brain neuroplasticity. Monitoring of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals has the potential to show neuroplasticity changes that take place during motor training.MethodsIn this study, an EEG-derived time-domain pattern namely movement-related cortical potential (MRCP) was deployed to assess the effect of motor training in seven post-stroke patients. Patients were divided into two groups; group A comprising four subjects with supratentorial lesions and group B consisting of three subjects with infratentorial lesions. Both groups participated in motor training with an AMADEO hand rehabilitation device. During pre and post-training periods, EEG signals at eight selected electrodes were recorded. In addition, hand-kinematic parameters, and clinical tests were measured at the beginning and the end of all training sessions.ResultsThe negative peak of the MRCP signals decreased at all electrodes and reached significance in seven of eight electrodes for group A after 12 training sessions, while it was decreased at all electrodes and reached significance in two of eight electrodes for group B after 24 sessions according to paired t-test (p < 0.05). Moreover, these MRCP changes correlated with improvements in kinematic parameters and clinical test results for both groups.ConclusionsThis study shows that robot-assisted training that improves clinical outcomes is associated with MRCP pattern changes. Subjects with infratentorial strokes improved slower clinically compared to subjects with supratentorial strokes. This was consistent with the longer rehabilitation required for this group of patients to produce significant changes in MRCP. The reduction of negative peaks of the MRCP signal indicates that neurological pathways are established and less cortical resources are needed for motor tasks. This study demonstrates the significance of EEG as a practical and low-cost tool in detecting patterns associated with brain neuroplasticity in the course of motor re-learning. Ethics ApprovalThe procedures performed in this study were approved by the University of Wollongong Ethics Committee (Ethics application number: 2014/400) on 03/07/2017.
Auditory Information in the Soundscape of a Train Station

This paper's issues are (1) to reveal people's ability to collect information in the soundscape of a train station, and (2) to indicate how this information is involved in the recognition of the different types of space (platform, hall, etc.). In a first study, two listening experiments are carried out on a set of recorded soundscape samples. Three types of acoustical information are revealed by the first experiment: sound sources, human activities, and room effects. The second experiment shows that people were able to recognize the type of space just by listening to its soundscape. Then, the auditory information involved in the space recognition is found by comparing the two experiments. In a second study, an in situ questionnaire survey asked the travellers to describe the soundscape of the space in which they were situated. The results show that the same kind of auditory information is used as those found in the laboratory.
1 Care for the Self – But Not for the Career? Men’s Perceptions of Work-related Self-care

: Research into men ’ s health has found that the potential conflict between health awareness and masculinity centred on paid work has been replaced by men ’ s understanding of health as a competitive edge in working life. In contempo-rary organisations, being healthy, demonstrating high performance and expressing a willingness to participate in workplace health promotion voluntarily promote one ’ s career. This chapter describes men ’ s agentive encounters with health-related social expectations in Finnish working life. The study focuses on how and why men care for their health in the context of work. The material consists of 18 interviews of men concerning work-related self-care. The study shows that the most prevalent aim of self-care was personal wellbeing, understood as a situation in which most areas of life are enjoyable in a sustained way. To this end, the men co-opted disciplined practices that aimed to change or maintain certain qualities of the body and mind. However, this goal of personal wellbeing was supplemented by an aspiration for a balance between work and non-work. The majority of participants felt that self-care was addressed repeatedly in both the workplace and in the media. When participants co-opted recommended practices, this was done critically and for the sake of personal benefit. Thus, the study shows how men practice resistance when they navigate expectations surrounding working life. Concurrently, the participants perceived masculinity as more broadly defined and less binding than before. Besides contributing empirical data to the literature on men ’ s health, this chapter challenges men and masculinity scholars to focus their analytical gaze on men ’ s agency.
Effect of Rootstock on Citrus Fruit Quality: A Review

ABSTRACT Citrus rootstocks are a relevant tree part that contributes to crops adapting to biotic and abiotic conditions, it becoming a key factor to face the current era of climate change. Although the emphasis of most studies on rootstocks has been placed on the yield and optimization of the citrus fruit grown in different environments, other studies have paid attention to the effect of rootstock on fruit quality. Hence, the quality of citrus fruit is becoming increasingly more relevant as consumers demand high internal and external qualities to eat citrus fruit fresh. To better understand how rootstock influences citrus fruit quality, the literature that focuses on physico-chemical parameters, nutritional compounds and physiological disorders has been revised. This review points out the influence that the external aspects surrounding plants has on fruit quality, such as the rootstock/scion interaction, the water uptake capacity of roots, the modification of the photosynthetic rate or availability of nutrient minerals.
Servo Control of RF cavities under beam loading

I begin by giving a description of the RF generator–cavity–beam coupled system in terms of basic quantities. Taking beam loading and cavity detuning into account, expressions for the cavity impedance as seen by the generator and as seen by the beam are derived. Subsequently methods of beam-loading compensation by cavity detuning, RF feedback and feedforward are described. Finally, a dedicated phase loop for damping synchrotron oscillations is discussed.
Strain analysis of IC packages using a scanning Moire method

This study investigates the thermal deformations of an electronics package using a SEM (scanning electron microscope) Moire method and compares the results with those obtained using an optical Moire method. The specimen used to obtain Moire fringes to evaluate thermal deformations was a flip-chip ball grid array (FCBGA) package. The shear strains in different solder joints were analysed using the SEM Moire method. The results were then compared to those obtained. using an optical Moire interferometry technique, and they coincided well. The scanning Moire technique can be a useful method for deformation study of a wide range of problems in deformation analysis. Deformation measurement with a high resolution is possible by using the SEM Moire technique. The advantages and disadvantages of a full field optical Moire, a micro optical Moire, and two scanning Moire methods are also compared in this paper.
The New NASA Orbital Debris Engineering Model ORDEM2000

The NASA Orbital Debris Program Office at Johnson Space Center has developed a new computer-based orbital debris engineering model, ORDEM2000, which describes the orbital debris environment in the low Earth orbit region between 200 and 2000 km altitude. The model is appropriate for those engineering solutions requiring knowledge and estimates of the orbital debris environment (debris spatial density, flux, etc.). ORDEM2000 can also be used as a benchmark for ground-based debris measurements and observations. We incorporated a large set of observational data, covering the object size range from 10 mm to 10 m, into the ORDEM2000 debris database, utilizing a maximum likelihood estimator to convert observations into debris population probability distribution functions. These functions then form the basis of debris populations. We developed a finite element model to process the debris populations to form the debris environment. A more capable input and output structure and a user-friendly graphical user interface are also implemented in the model. ORDEM2000 has been subjected to a significant verification and validation effort. This document describes ORDEM2000, which supersedes the previous model, ORDEM96. The availability of new sensor and in situ data, as well as new analytical techniques, has enabled the construction of this new model. Section 1 describes the general requirements and scope of an engineering model. Data analyses and the theoretical formulation of the model are described in Sections 2 and 3. Section 4 describes the verification and validation effort and the sensitivity and uncertainty analyses. Finally, Section 5 describes the graphical user interface, software installation, and test cases for the user.
Chronotype and Social Jetlag - a (self-)critical review

The Munich ChronoType Questionnaire (MCTQ) has now been available for more than 15 years; its original publication has been cited 1,240 times (Google Scholar, May 2019); its online version, which was available until July 2017, has produced almost 300,000 entries from all over the world (MCTQ database). The MCTQ has gone through several versions, has been translated into 13 languages and has been validated against other more objective measures of daily timing in several independent studies. Besides being used as a method to correlate circadian features of human biology with other factors – ranging from health issues to geographical factors – the MCTQ gave rise to quantifying old wisdoms, like “teenagers are late” and has produced new concepts, like social jetlag. Some like the MCTQ’s simplicity and some view it critically; it is time to have a self-critical view on the MCTQ, to address some misunderstandings and give some definitions about MCTQ-derived chronotype and the concept of social jetlag.