Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of yoga on sleep quality in women: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Objectives To examine the effectiveness and safety of yoga for women with sleep problems by performing a systematic review and meta-analysis. Methods Medline/PubMed, Clincalkey, ScienceDirect, Embase, PsycINFO, and the Cochrane Library were searched throughout the month of June 2019. Randomized controlled trials comparing yoga groups with control groups in women with sleep problems were included. Two reviewers independently evaluated risk of bias by using the risk of bias tool suggested by the Cochrane Collaboration for programming and conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The main outcome measure was sleep quality, which was measured using subjective instruments, such as the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), or objective instruments, such as polysomnography, actigraphy, and safety of the intervention. For each outcome, standardized mean difference (SMD) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were determined. Results Nineteen studies including 1832 participants were included in this systematic review. Meta-analyses revealed positive effects of yoga using PSQI or ISI scores in 16 randomized control trials (RCTs) compared with the control group in improving sleep quality in women, PSQI (SMD = −0.42; 95% CI = −0.76 to −0.09 ; P = 0.01). However, three RCTs revealed no effects of yoga compared with the control group in improving sleep quality in women using ISI (SMD = −0.13; 95% CI = −0.74 to 0.48; P = 0.69). Seven RCTs revealed no evidence for effects of yoga compared with the control group in improving sleep quality for women with breast cancer using PSQI (SMD = −0.15 ; 95% CI = −0.31 to 0.01; P = 0.5). Four RCTs revealed no evidence for the effects of yoga compared with the control group in improving the sleep quality for peri-or postmenopausal women using PSQI (SMD = −0.31; 95% CI = −0.95 to 0.33; P = 0.34). Yoga was not associated with serious adverse events. Discussion This systematic review and meta-analysis found that yoga intervention in various groups of women was beneficial in managing sleep problems. Despite certain disadvantages in methodology in the included studies, yoga may be recommended as an additional therapy to women in addition to pharmacological treatment.
Fast estimation of RL‐loaded microelectronic interconnections delay for the signal integrity prediction

This article presents a modelling method of the signal delays induced by microelectronic interconnections regarding RL impedance load. The method proposed is based on the RLC model of the transmission lines (TL) extracted from the equivalent S parameters. Formulation for estimating the interconnection propagation delay is established according to the behaviour of the TL unit step responses. The second order model is validated with a microstrip interconnect prototype with simulations and measurements in frequency and time domains. The developed propagation delay model was validated with SPICE computations. For that, a transient simulation was performed by considering input signals corresponding to high‐speed data of some Gbits/s. Then, accurate results were found for interconnections with different lengths in order of millimetre and also by varying the load values. It was shown that the computed 50% propagation delays present of relative errors about 5%. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Factors Affecting Taxpayer Compliance in Paying Pajak Bumi dan Bangunan (PBB P2) in Kutai Kartanegara

This study purpose to determine the effect of tax knowledge, awareness of taxpayers, the level of trust in the government, and tax sanctions on compliance with PBB P2 taxpayers in Kota Bangun Sub-district of Kutai Kartanegara District. The population in this study is the PBB P2 taxpayer in Kota Bangun Sub-district of Kutai Kartanegara District. The sampling technique uses accidental sampling, the number of samples is 100 respondents. The data collection method used was a questionnaire. The study used an analytical tool in the form of an instrument test, a classic assumption test, multiple linear regression analysis. The results showed that tax knowledge and the level of trust in the government had a positive and significant effect on compliance with PBB P2 taxpayers, while awareness of taxpayers and tax sanctions had a positive and not significant effect on compliance with taxpayers.
Assessment of Critical Constructability Activities Among Malaysian Building Contractors

After the primary researches on constructability issue which were implemented in United States, United Kingdom and Australia, more explorations were applied on that in order to assess this unique scientific fact in East Asian country of Malaysia. Based on the latest researches done on constructability concept in Malaysia, the most Critical Constructability Activities (CCAs) are defined according to amount of contractors’ participation in each activity and amount of gap between actual and potential effects of each of them on achieving the overall objectives of the construction projects with more cost and time savings and better quality which is the whole aim of a beneficial constructability activity. The present research aims to assess the current findings on CCAs in order to identify the types of contractors and projects which these CCAs are getting performed in and also the types of contracts is used in these CCAs. Finally it was found that there are some significant differences in amount of contractors’ involvement in CCAs among various considered independent variables. This study uses the former researches to help Malaysian construction stakeholders to find out the barriers of constructability implementation in building projects via giving more details on application of CCAs among different IVs.
The role of the midwife in the therapy of infertility in Poland in the opinion of patients

Background. Infertility is a disease of the reproductive system manifesting with the inability to get pregnant within a minimum of 12 months. In diagnosing infertility and the therapeutic process, pharmacotherapy, surgery and assisted reproductive technology are used. In Poland, the NaProTechnology program is also available, which is a diagnostic and therapeutic method of reproductive health disorders without utilizing assisted reproduction. The midwife can play an important role in the care of the infertile couple.
Customer Relationship Marketing and Institutional Support Influence on the Women’s Companies Sustainability in Serbia

Current sustainability challenges require businesses to develop their relations with customers and markets through relationship marketing and jointly create added value of their services responsive to environmental, social and economic requirements at the same time. This article also supports the gender equality within the SDGs (fifth goal). As (SMEs Report, 2018) micro companies make 89.137, small enterprises make 11.219, entrepreneurs in shops and services sectors make 272.969 and cooperatives in agriculture and food trade make 1.196, they comprise most of the SMEs sector in Serbia, while Medium-sized firms make 2.517, and large enterprises make 540. Female entrepreneurs, which represent 32% of all SMEs and 22% from cooperatives were selected for the research sample with the aim to primarily represent the sectors their businesses operate within. The empirical research was provided in Serbia in 2021 on the sample of 220 female enterprises, shops and cooperatives, most of which operate in service sectors. The aim is to indicate the importance of the institutional factors (IF, government support) and customer relationship marketing (CRM) and their influence on the sustainability of the women’s enterprises (WES). Findings show that CRM significantly impacts the WES, showing that the market and customer loyalty are the most important for the sustainability and resilience of the business. At the same time, results show the importance of the IF government measures’ and policies’ influence and reveal that insufficient attention that has been dedicated to (WES) and SDGs goals of gender equality in feminist economics.
Enhanced performance of delayed teleoperator systems operating within nondeterministic environments

II ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IV TABLE OF CONTENTS 5 LIST OF FIGURES 9 LIST OF TABLES 13 CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION 1 1. 1 BACKGROUND 1 1. 2 THESIS GOALS 4 1. 3 OUTLINE OF THE THESIS 5 CHAPTER 2 : TELEOPERATION REVIEW 7 2.
APPLYING A RESPECIFICATION OF THE DELONE ANDMCLEAN’S MODEL TO MEASURE THE SUCCESS OFACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM IN SRAGEN

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi kesuksesan sistem informasi di Kabupaten Sragen mengggunakan Model Kesuksesan Sistem Informasi DeLone dan McLean yang direspesifikasi.Faktor kesuksesan sistem informasi yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kualitas sistem, kualitas informasi, kepuasan pengguna, manfaat bersih dan penggunaan. Lima puluh delapan kuestioner digunakan sebagai sampel analisa data menggunakan analisis jalur (path analysis). Hasil dari analisa regresi menunjukkan bahwa kualitas informasi dan manfaat bersih berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap kepuasan pengguna. Peneliti menemukan bahwa manfaat bersih berpengaruh terhadap kepuasan pengguna dan kepuasan pengguna mempunyai pengaruh langsung terhadap penggunaan tetapi penggunaan tidak mempunyai pengaruh terhadap manfaat bersih. Peneliti menyimpulkan bahwa ketika SIMDA memberikan manfaat bersih dan pengguna puas, maka pengguna akan menggunakan SIMDA. Untuk itu, peneliti menyarankan agar Pemerintah Kabupaten Sragen perlu meningkatkan kualitas informasi dan manfaat bersih SIMDA agar pegawai semakin menggunakan SIMDA dan siap menghadapi e-government. Kata kunci : Sistem Informasi Akuntansi, Model Kesuksesan Sistem Informasi DeLone dan McLean, Analisis Jalur
Predictive value of aberrant right subclavian artery for fetal chromosomal in women of advanced maternal age

Background: In entire population, aberrant right subclavian artery ( ARSA ) was in closely association with chromosomal abnormalities. The risk of fetal chromosomal abnormalities increased with the maternal age exponentially. While, the situation in advanced maternal age ( AMA ) group is uncertain. This study aimed to establish the incidence of ARSA in Chinese AMA and non-AMA women and to determine the frequency of aneuploidy among AMA and non-AMA women with ARSA. Methods: The retrospective study included 13,690 singleton pregnancies which were divided into AMA and non-AMA groups. Integrated obstetric ultrasonic screening, biochemical screening, noninvasive prenatal screening and fetal karyotype analysis were analyzed. Results: 1. The overall incidence of ARSA was 0.69 % with no difference in both groups. 2. The prevalence rate of chromosomal abnormalities in AMA group ( 37 / 2,860 ) was much higher than that in non-AMA group. The risk of chromosomal abnormalities significantly increased with both ARSA detected and additional ultrasound findings. 3. With ARSA detected, the incidence increased to 20.00 % and 10.00 % in AMA and non-AMA cases, respectively. 4. Additionally, a case with chimeric Turner syndrome ( 45X / 46XX ) was found with isolated ARSA in AMA pregnancy. Conclusion: There is a high prevalence of chromosomal abnormalities in AMA fetuses. Both isolated and nonisolated ARSA would increase the risk of chromosomal abnormalities. Moreover, when ARSA is found in AMA ones, it confers a sharp increase in the incidence of chromosomal abnormalities.
The Gendering of Information Technology

About the book: Ghosts in the Machine examines the complex relationships between gender and information and communication technologies (ICT). Written by women in four countries on three continents, it discusses the educational, social, artistic, and political implications of a feminine voice in the design of technology. The research presented here explores the «gendering of technology» and, in doing so, describes the Internet, computer games, computer-based design and construction environments, and digital art from a perspective that puts the social context in a key role. As the rate of technology design continues to grow, it is imperative that books such as this provide an alternate voice to the prevailing descriptions of technology use. Ghosts in the Machine brings women's voices out of the shadows to the forefront where they belong.
Comparison of direct simple shear confinement methods on clay and silt specimens.

Abstract : ASTM D2435 (2000) allows for both Teflon coated stacked rings and wire reinforced membranes to be used as confinement methods in direct simple shear (DSS) testing of soils. Although stacked rings were developed over 50 years ago, wire reinforced membranes have been used almost exclusively in practice. Over the past 10 years, however, stacked rings have become more popular and are now the dominant confinement system sold and used in the United States. Despite this change, no comprehensive testing program comparing both confinement methods has been published. The objective of this thesis is to perform a laboratory testing program to compare the results of using stacked rings and wire reinforced membranes as a confining system for direct simple shear tests. Tests were performed on samples of a high plasticity clay from the Gulf of Mexico, a low plasticity organic silt from Rhode Island, and a low plasticity sensitive clay from Portland, Maine.
Surgical Treatment of Degenerative Disk Disease in Three Scandinavian Countries: An International Register Study Based on Three Merged National Spine Registers

Study Design: Observational study of prospectively collected data. Objectives: Patients with chronic low back pain resistant to nonoperative treatment often face a poor prognosis for recovery. The aim of the current study was to compare the variation and outcome of surgical treatment of degenerative disc disease in the Scandinavian countries based on The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement core spine data sets. Methods: Anonymized individual level data from 3 national registers were pooled into 1 database. At the time of surgery, the patient reports data on demographics, lifestyle topics, comorbidity, and data on health-related quality of life such as Oswestry Disability Index, Euro-Qol-5D, and back and leg pain scores. The surgeon records diagnosis, type of surgery performed, and complications. One-year follow-ups are obtained with questionnaires. Baseline and 1-year follow-up data were analyzed to expose any differences between the countries. Results: A total of 1893 patients were included. At 1-year follow-up, 1315 (72%) patients responded. There were statistically significant baseline differences in age, smoking, comorbidity, frequency of previous surgery and intensity of back and leg pain. Isolated fusion was the primary procedure in all the countries ranging from 84% in Denmark to 76% in Sweden. There was clinically relevant improvement in all outcome measures except leg pain. Conclusions: In homogenous populations with similar health care systems the treatment traditions can vary considerably. Despite variations in preoperative variables, patient reported outcomes improve significantly and clinically relevant with surgical treatment.
Facilitating innovation in construction

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight for future innovation research activities and for the role of universities in working with industry to promote innovation.Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an overview and synthesis of the literature on innovation and the role of universities. This is supported by interviews, case studies, and surveys within academic and industrial communities.Findings – The paper identifies that innovation, whether at an international, national, regional, firm or project level of analysis, continues to be at the forefront of the mind of policy makers and practitioners alike. Nevertheless, our understanding of innovation is far from complete. More research is required to study innovation at these different levels of resolution and at different points in the project life cycle. In order for the research base to play its part in promoting construction innovation, an engagement mechanism is required that brings together academia and industry in a way.
Accelerating Bayesian Inference in Computationally Expensive Computer Models Using Local and Global Approximations

Computational models of complex phenomena are an important resource for scientists and engineers. However, many state-of-the-art simulations of physical systems are computationally expensive to evaluate and are black box—meaning that they can be run, but their internal workings cannot be inspected or changed. Directly applying uncertainty quantification algorithms, such as those for forward uncertainty propagation or Bayesian inference, to these types of models is often intractable because the analyses use many evaluations of the model. Fortunately, many physical systems are well behaved, in the sense that they may be efficiently approximated with a modest number of carefully chosen samples. This thesis develops global and local approximation strategies that can be applied to black-box models to reduce the cost of forward uncertainty quantification and Bayesian inference. First, we develop an efficient strategy for constructing global approximations using an orthonormal polynomial basis. We rigorously construct a Smolyak pseudospectral algorithm, which uses sparse sample sets to efficiently extract information from loosely coupled functions. We provide a theoretical discussion of the behavior and accuracy of this algorithm, concluding that it has favorable convergence characteristics. We make this strategy efficient in practice by introducing a greedy heuristic that adaptively identifies and explores the important input dimensions, or combinations thereof. When the approximation is used within Bayesian inference, however, it is difficult to translate the theoretical behavior of the global approximations into practical controls on the error induced in the resulting posterior distribution. Thus, the second part of this thesis introduces a new framework for accelerating MCMC algorithms by constructing local surrogates of the computational model within the Metropolis-Hastings kernel, borrowing ideas from deterministic approximation theory, optimization, and experimental design. Exploiting useful convergence
The impact of Web-based lecture technologies on current and future practices in learning and teaching

Web-based lecture technologies cover a range of technologies, including iLecture/Lectopia, for digitally recording lectures for delivery to students online. There has been a rapid uptake in WBLT in recent years. Despite their popularity with students, they are challenging some long held traditions associated with attendance patterns, teaching and learning. This project, a collaboration between Macquarie University, Murdoch University, Flinders University and University of Newcastle was conducted to gain a better understanding of these challenges. The project report, supported by a number of research papers, summarises the key findings of the project. Based on these findings, a tool kit of resources has been developed for your use.
Evaluation the Effect of Bio-Fertilization on Some Wheat (Triticum Aestivum) Growth Parameters under Drought Conditions

Field experiment was conducted during 2018- 2019 in loam soil at the research field of the Department of Biology, College of Science, Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq, to study the effect of bio-fertilizers and two levels of chemical fertilization ( 50% and 100%) in some agronomic traits of wheat Triticum aestivum L. cultivar IPA 99 by the genus Azotobacter chroococum and AMF Glomus mosseae singly or in combination under drought condition. The experimental design was a Completely Randomized Block Design (CRBD)with three replications. The results revealed that the application of bio-fertilizers reduced the negative impacts of water deficit. However, (Azoto+AMF) were significantly increased the means of plant height, flag leaf area, flag leaf chlorophyll content and the fresh weight of total vegetative ( 86.81 cm, 65.45 cm2, 49.55 SPAD, 37.93 g) respectively compared to the control treatment at 20% water deficit and 50% fertilization. Besides, there was no antagonism between A. chroococcum and Glomus mosseae, which can recommend to use them as bio-fertilizer.
Hubungan antara Kapabilitas Kepemimpinan, Kompetensi Dosen, Komitmen Dosen, dan Akuntabilitas Lembaga dengan Kinerja Lembaga dalam Pelaksanaan Penjaminan Mutu pada Universitas Negeri di Jawa Timur

The purposes of this research are among others to understand the description of the institution performance in implementing quality assurance at state universities in East Java and to understand eiher direct or indirectly the relation between leadership capability, lecturer competency, lecturer commitment, and institution accountability with institution performance in implementing quality assurance at state universities in East Java. This research applies quantitative approach method of descriptive-co-relational. This research was conducted at seven state universities in East Java, and research samples obtained of 330 lecturers, by using the proportional random sampling. The research data were collected by means of questionnaire which has the required level of validity and reliability. Data analysis technique applied in this research is Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) on Partial Least Square (PLS) software. The result of the research shows that (1) the illustration of leadership capability, lecturer competency, lecturer commitment, and institution accountability and institution performance in implementing quality assurance at state universities in East Java perceptible by respondent are having good average category, (2) the stronger institution accountability and the stronger lecturer commitment is followed by the higher institution performance in implementing quality assurance, and (3) the stronger leadership capability and the stronger lecturer commitment is followed by the higher institution accountability.
Mixed analog-digital VLSI devices and technology

Contents: Introduction: Mixed Analog-Digital Chips The MOSFET: Introduction and Qualitative View MOSFET DC Modeling MOSFET Small-Signal Modeling Technology and Available Circuit Components Layout Appendices: Additional MOS Transistor Modeling Information A Set of Benchmark Tests for Evaluating MOSFET Models for Analog Design A Sample Spice Input File.
Four Principles of Explainable Artificial Intelligence

We introduce four principles for explainable artiﬁcial intelligence (AI) that comprise fundamental properties for explainable AI systems. We propose that explainable AI systems deliver accompanying evidence or reasons for outcomes and processes; provide explanations that are understandable to individual users; provide explanations that correctly reﬂect the system’s process for generating the output; and that a system only operates under conditions for which it was designed and when it reaches sufﬁcient conﬁdence in its output. We have termed these four principles as explanation, meaningful, explanation accuracy, and knowledge limits, respectively. Through signiﬁcant stakeholder engagement, these four principles were developed to encompass the multidisciplinary nature of explainable AI, including the ﬁelds of computer science, engineering, and psychology. Because one-size-ﬁts-all explanations do not exist, different users will require different types of explanations. We present ﬁve categories of explanation and summarize theories of explainable AI. We give an overview of the algorithms in the ﬁeld that cover the major classes of explainable algorithms. As a baseline comparison, we assess how well explanations provided by people follow our four principles. This assessment provides insights to the challenges of designing explainable AI systems.