Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ICT infrastructure in university libraries of Karnataka

Survey of the status of ICT infrastructure in six selected university libraries of Karnataka revealed that the libraries greatly vary from one to another as far as the ICT infrastructure is concerned. Most of the libraries lack sufficient hardware and software facilities and do not have adequate internet nodes and bandwidth. The campus LANs of the universities are not fully extended to exploit the benefits of digital information environment.
Image, Attachment, Perceived Value and Tourist Behavior in Heritage Tourism: A Study of Wuyishan, China

Purpose of the study: China is the second holder of world natural as well as cultural heritage sites. Wuyishan is a natural and cultural World Heritage Site among them. While many factors influencing tourist behaviour have been explored in the context of destination marketing in the past, few of them focused on domestic travel programs. Methodology: This study administered the survey to 457 valid local visitors who visited Wuyishan on the spot. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was employed to examine the relationships among destination image (DI), destination attachment (DA), perceived value (PV), destination satisfaction (DS), and destination loyalty (DL). Main findings: Empirical findings highlighted two critical roles of heritage tourism, PV and DS. The former acts as a complete mediator in the relationship between DI and DS, whereas the latter does the same in the relationship between PV and DL. Originality/value: Managers of tourism and hospitality should offer and shape those unique self-characteristics and attributes first in order to create an impressive PV that will strongly link the DI of these tourists to their DS. By contrast, DA is not a determinant factor in heritage tourism.
Tuning the electronic, optical, and thermal properties of cubic perovskites CsPbCl3-nBrn (n = 0, 1, 2, and 3) through altering the halide ratio

The metal halide-based perovskites have been used for photovoltaic device applications owing to their outstanding properties, low-temperature solution, and cheap manufacturing cost. The electronic, optical, mechanical, and thermal properties of CsPbCl3-nBrn (where n = 0, 1, 2, and 3) have been calculated using first-principles density functional theory (FP-DFT) calculations. The Perdew, Burke, and Enzerofe (PBE) exchange-correlation functional has been considered for the structural calculations. The calculated electronic properties of CsPbCl3-nBrn (where n = 0, 1, 2, and 3) suggest that these materials are direct bandgap semiconductors at normal pressure. The bandgap of CsPbCl3 has been decreased by substituting the Cl atom with the Br atom. Moreover, it is observed that the values of the bandgap of CsPbCl3-nBrn (where n = 0, 1, 2, and 3) materials diminished by rising the pressure, even the semiconductor phase transitioned to the metallic phase under high pressure. The narrowing bandgap enhances the strong light absorption properties of these materials in visible spectrum region. Elastic constants and thermal characteristics obtained for these compounds also demonstrate their structural integrity. Therefore, these compounds can be the promising candidates for optoelectronic and solar cell applications.
Predictors of Waterpipe Smoking among Male Students of Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia

Background: Smoking is the leading cause of preventable premature death worldwide. Therefore, tobacco consumption is labeled as one of the major threats to public health. Aim of Study: To identify predictors of waterpipe smoking among male students of Jazan university. Subjects and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate characteristics and factors associated with tobacco use among 409 undergraduate male students in Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia. A self-administrated questionnaire was used for data collection. It consists of 26 questions in 3 domains, covering demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of participants, tobacco use history, and factors associated with waterpipe use. Results: A total of 409 university students took part in this study. About three-quarters of students (73.8%) reported having a friend who smokes waterpipe and 37.7% had a sibling who smokes waterpipe, while 15.2% and 2.4% of participants had fathers and mothers who smoke waterpipe, respectively. Moreover, 22.1% of waterpipe smoker students reported that they smoke waterpipe once a day, 12.6% smoke twice a week, 9.1% smoke once a week, 14.7% smoke once a month and 16.9% smoke once a year. For students who smoke waterpipe, the average number of smoking times was 16 times during the last month, 5 times during the last week and twice during the last day. Regardless of waterpipe smoking, 48.4% of students try to smoke cigarettes at least once. Conclusions: The main factors associated with waterpipe smoking are age, monthly income, and having a father, siblings or friends who smoke waterpipe. Furthermore, students who smoke cigarettes or tobacco or have many friends who smoke waterpipe are significantly more likely to engage in waterpipe smoking. Key Words: Smoking, waterpipe, cigarette, nicotine, university students, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.
A Case Report of Secondary Syphilis Co-Infected with Measles: A Diagnostic Dilemma with Fever and Rash

Fever and rash as manifestations of infection by microorganisms are collectively known as febrile exanthem. Since viruses are more frequently associated with fever and rash, these symptoms are thus impetuously termed viral exanthem. However, bacteria represent a frequently overlooked infectious etiology causing rash in humans. In addition, certain microbes may exhibit pathognomonic features that erupt during illness and facilitate clinical diagnosis. Conversely, coinfections often obscure the clinical characteristics of the primary disease and further challenge clinicians attempting to reach a diagnosis. We retrospectively looked at de-identified clinical data of a patient who presented to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Bangkok in July 2019 with complaints of fever and rash. The case involved a 35-year-old who presented with a 3-day history of fever, respiratory symptoms, myalgia, conjunctivitis, diarrhea, and a generalized maculopapular rash. On examination, the patient was febrile, tachycardic, and tachypneic, with a mean arterial pressure of 95 mmHg. A differential white blood cell count showed: leukocytes, 5800/µL; neutrophils, 4408/µL; lymphocytes, 406/µL; and platelets, 155,000/µL. Striking findings involving the integumentary system included Koplik’s spots and generalized maculopapular rash. Further serology revealed positive immunoglobulin (Ig)M and IgG for both measles and rubella virus, including reactive serology for Treponema pallidum. Here we describe the clinical course and management of this patient.
The bias blind spot among HR employees in hiring decisions

Research on human resources (HR) indicates that many biases (e.g., halo effect, confirmation bias, stereotyping bias) affect decisions taken by HR employees. However, it remains unclear whether HR employees are aware of their susceptibility to bias. To improve understanding, this study examines the “bias blind spot” phenomenon, the tendency of individuals to believe they are less likely to be biased than their peers. This quantitative survey among 234 HR employees in Switzerland measured the bias blind spot on seven interview biases in recruitment decision-making. The study shows that participants rated the average HR colleague as more susceptible to bias than themselves. Furthermore, male HR employees partly showed a greater bias blind spot than female HR employees. These findings contribute to behavioral research in HR and offer practical insights.
The Impact of COVID-19 on Postdischarge Outcomes for Dialysis Patients in the United States: Evidence from Medicare Claims Data

Key Points We studied the effect of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the 30-day postdischarge outcomes of patients with end-stage kidney disease who are on dialysis. During the first postdischarge week, patients on dialysis who were hospitalized with COVID-19 were more likely to experience readmission and death. After the first week, there was no marked difference in the risks of readmission and death between patients with COVID-19 and those without. Visual Abstract Background Recent investigations have shown that, on average, patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have a poorer postdischarge prognosis than those hospitalized without COVID-19, but this effect remains unclear among patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) who are on dialysis. Methods Leveraging a national ESKD patient claims database administered by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, we conducted a retrospective cohort study that characterized the effects of in-hospital COVID-19 on all-cause unplanned readmission and death within 30 days of discharge for patients on dialysis. Included in this study were 436,745 live acute-care hospital discharges of 222,154 Medicare beneficiaries on dialysis from 7871 Medicare-certified dialysis facilities between January 1 and October 31, 2020. Adjusting for patient demographics, clinical characteristics, and prevalent comorbidities, we fit facility-stratified Cox cause-specific hazard models with two interval-specific (1–7 and 8–30 days after hospital discharge) effects of in-hospital COVID-19 and effects of prehospitalization COVID-19. Results The hazard ratios due to in-hospital COVID-19 over the first 7 days after discharge were 95% CI, 1.53 to 1.65 for readmission and 95% CI, 1.38 to 1.70 for death, both with P<0.001. For the remaining 23 days, the hazard ratios were 95% CI, 0.89 to 0.96 and 95% CI, 0.86 to 1.07, with P<0.001 and P=0.50, respectively. Effects of prehospitalization COVID-19 were mostly nonsignificant. Conclusions In-hospital COVID-19 had an adverse effect on both postdischarge readmission and death over the first week. With the surviving patients having COVID-19 substantially selected from those hospitalized, in-hospital COVID-19 was associated with lower rates of readmission and death starting from the second week.
Association of p53 with Neurodegeneration in Parkinson's Disease

p53 is a vital transcriptional protein implicated in regulating diverse cellular processes, including cell cycle arrest, DNA repair, mitochondrial metabolism, redox homeostasis, autophagy, senescence, and apoptosis. Recent studies have revealed that p53 levels and activity are substantially increased in affected neurons in cellular and animal models of Parkinson's disease (PD) as well as in the brains of PD patients. p53 activation in response to neurodegenerative stress is closely associated with the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons accompanied by mitochondrial dysfunction, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, abnormal protein aggregation, and impairment of autophagy, and these pathogenic events have been implicated in the pathogenesis of PD. Pathogenic p53 integrates diverse cellular stresses and activate these downstream events to induce the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons; thus, it plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of PD and appears to be a potential target for the treatment of the disease. We reviewed the current knowledge concerning p53-dependent neurodegeneration to better understand the underlying mechanisms and provide possible strategies for PD treatment by targeting p53.
Weed Competition Effects on Growth and Yield of Spring-Sown White Lupine

White lupine (Lupinus albus L.) is an annual legume that is grown for both seeds and green biomass, but several agronomic aspects of this crop, including response to weed competition, have not been studied extensively. Field experiments over two growing seasons (2012 and 2016) were carried out in Orestiada, Greece, to study the growth and development of spring-sown white lupine under season-long weed competition from natural weed flora compared with its growth without weed competition. Treatments were arranged in a randomized complete block design with four replications and included (i) a non-treated (weedy) control, where weeds (Chenopodium album and Sorghum halepense) remained in the plots throughout the experiments and (ii) a weed-free control, where weeds were removed upon crop emergence and the plots were kept free of weeds throughout the experiments by hand removal. The presence of Chenopodium album and Sorghum halepense reduced the aboveground dry matter accumulation of white lupine ‘Multitalia’ at 7 weeks after crop emergence by 18.0% in the first growing season and 29.5% in the second growing season, while the corresponding decrease in the aboveground dry matter accumulation at 9 weeks after crop emergence was 25.3 and 33.4%. However, the reduction in dry matter accumulation was limited to lower levels after flowering (9.9% in the first and 12.8% in the second growing season). In both growing seasons, values of the ability to withstand competition (AWC) index were lower at 7 and 9 weeks from crop emergence than at maturity. Seed yields were 1.58 Mg per ha under weedy conditions and 2.20 Mg per ha under weed free conditions in the first growing season, and 1.59 and 2.32 Mg per ha, respectively, in the second growing season. The values of the relative yield loss (RYL) index for seed yield were 28.2% in the first growing season and 31.5% in the second growing season. Overall, white lupine growth and seed yield was significantly affected by the occurrence of weeds mostly at the early vegetative stages, resulting in the potential yield not being achieved due to weed competition. Future research on weed competition across several sites and years would be useful to define more clearly the critical period of weed control in white lupine.
Predicting dynamic responses of frame structures subjected to stochastic wind loads using temporal surrogate model

Determining structures' dynamic response is a challenging and time-consuming problem because it requires iteratively solving the governing equation of motion with a significantly small time step to ensure convergent results. This study proposes an alternative approach based on the deep learning paradigm working in a complementary way with conventional methods such as the finite element method for quickly forecasting the responses of structures under random wind loads with reasonable accuracy. The approach works in a sequence-to-sequence fashion, providing a good trade-off between the prediction performance and required computation resources. Sequences of known wind loads plus time history response of the structure are aggregated into a 3D tensor input before going through a deep learning model, which includes a long short-term memory layer and a time distributed layer. The output of the model is a sequence of structures' future responses, which will subsequently be used as input for computing structure' next response. The credibility of the proposed approach is demonstrated via an example of a two-dimensional three-bay nine-story reinforced concrete frame structure.
What Should the Inflation Target Be? Views from 600 Economists

In a survey of more than 600 economists, most respondents prefer their central bank to have an explicit inﬂation target. Roughly half want the central bank to keep its current target. Two thirds of the rest want to raise the target, with a median preferred change of one percentage point. In a hypothetical scenario in which the central bank has no prior history of inﬂation targeting, an additional 12% of the respondents would prefer a diﬀerent (typically higher) target than the current one. This result suggests that the costs of changing the current target hold some respondents back from wanting an actual target change. Respondents who are worried about the central bank credibility are less likely to support a target raise. Conversely, preference for a target raise is more likely to come from those who are concerned about the zero lower bound on the nominal interest rate. The average estimate of the equilibrium real interest rate in the sample is 0.6%. However, personal views about the equilibrium real interest rate do not predict a preference for a target raise.
Organizational and technical factors for implementing business intelligence

For both academics and practitioners concerned with Business Intelligence (BI) systems, one of important issues is to identify the factors which are vital for successful implementation of BI projects. Hence, this paper offers a broad summary of the most common and impact factors which can be influenced in implementing BI projects. We believe it is valuable to determine these factors, particularly for managers of those companies are involved in implementing BI projects and they face to evaluate readiness of their organizations before launching the project in pre-implementation stage. The objective of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the important and critical success factors and it is to conduct a survey and comprehensive study of the critical factors in evaluation phase of the readiness by classifying the factors into two main categories; organizational and technical. It is obvious that each category has its own characteristics and a brief description of each factor is discussed. Keywords—Business Intelligence, Critical Success Factors, Readiness Evaluation.
Vascularization of Patient-Derived Tumoroid from Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer and Its Microenvironment

Patient-derived tumoroid (PDT) has been developed and used for anti-drug screening in the last decade. As compared to other existing drug screening models, a PDT-based in vitro 3D cell culture model could preserve the histological and mutational characteristics of their corresponding tumors and mimic the tumor microenvironment. However, few studies have been carried out to improve the microvascular network connecting the PDT and its surrounding microenvironment, knowing that poor tumor-selective drug transport and delivery is one of the major reasons for both the failure of anti-cancer drug screens and resistance in clinical treatment. In this study, we formed vascularized PDTs in six days using multiple cell types which maintain the histopathological features of the original cancer tissue. Furthermore, our results demonstrated a vascular network connecting PDT and its surrounding microenvironment. This fast and promising PDT model opens new perspectives for personalized medicine: this model could easily be used to test all therapeutic treatments and could be connected with a microfluidic device for more accurate drug screening.
Body appreciation as a protective factor in women with fibromyalgia: an examination of associations between pain perception, social comparison and psychological distress.

OBJECTIVES While symptoms of fibromyalgia (FM) and psychological distress are directly linked, indirect effects are also apparent. The aim of the present study was to develop an explanatory model for the effect of FM on women's psychological distress and identify possible protective and risk factors. METHODS This study comprised of total of 293 women aged 20-68 (M= 34.3, SD = 12.1), of which 141 were women with FM and 152 healthy peers (HP), who completed questionnaires regarding demographic characteristics, anxiety (GAD-7), depression (PHQ-9), body appreciation (BAS-2), social comparison strategies, and pain assessment (SF-MPQ). RESULTS FM patients demonstrated higher psychological distress, i.e., depression and anxiety and lower body appreciation. Body appreciation significantly correlated with social comparison coping strategies. Body appreciation and social comparison strategies mediated the link between FM and psychological distress. Among FM patients, body appreciation moderated the links between pain intensity and aspects of social comparison strategies, thus explaining the link between pain intensity and psychological distress. CONCLUSIONS Women with FM demonstrated higher levels of anxiety and depression symptoms and lower body appreciation compared to HP. The unique role of body appreciation in moderating the indirect link between pain and psychological distress appears to be protective.
FE Modeling of Superconducting EDS System Employing Mixed Formulations and Field-circuit Coupling Method

Superconducting electrodynamic suspension (EDS) technology utilizes the electromagnetic force generated by the interaction between the onboard superconducting (SC) magnets and ground figure-8-shaped coils. In this paper, a transient 3D finite element (FE) model using a suspension unit with cross-connected null-flux coils is established. Firstly, mixed A-V formulations are adopted to solve different domains. The field-circuit coupling method is introduced to connect the 8-shaped coils on two sides of the track and realize the simulation of the operation of lateral offset. Secondly, the periodic linear extrusion operator solves the continuity of electromagnetic quantities across the common boundaries of the moving and fixed domains and avoids mesh reconstruction and distortion. The computational efficiency of the model is significantly improved. The customed boundary conditions are demonstrated in detail. The dynamic circuit analytical model is used to verify the correctness of the model. Finally, high-speed operations of a vertical or lateral offset of the EDS system are simulated. The transient electromagnetic force and force density acting on the figure-8-shaped coils are analyzed. This paper provides a more efficient and general analysis approach for the long-term operation of EDS trains with cross-connected figure-8-shaped null-flux coils, especially with lateral offset.
On the monophyly of the Macrolepidoptera, including a reassessment of their relationship to Cossoidea and Castnioidea, and a reassignment of Mimallonidae to Pyraloidea

There have been persistent reports that the closest relatives of various Macrolepidoptera are the Cossoidea or Castnioidea. Thus Brock (1971) claimed that butterflies evolved from Castnioidea, Bombycoidea (includ¬ ing Sphingoidea) evolved from Cossoidea, and Noctuoidea-Geometroidea evolved from Pyraloidea. Brock’s paper is a worthwhile contribution to certain aspects of morphology of adult Lepidoptera, but he failed to place exact character changes on the branches of his tree, so his tree cannot be considered either phylogenetic in any sense, or phenetic, but rather intui¬ tive (of course, every author claims that his tree represents the one and only true phylogeny, but other workers have the right to demand proof in terms of actual characters). However, a detailed examination of Lepidopteran anatomy of all life stages reveals that a very large number of characters separate the Cossoidea and Castnioidea from the Macrolepidoptera, and that the Macrolepidoptera form a monophyletic group. The traits are listed below and numbered, and the numbers placed on the phylogenetic tree (Fig. 1) where they changed in the manner described in the text. For larval traits, see Fracker, 1915; Petersen, 1965; Forbes, 1923-1960, and Common and Edwards, 1981. For pupae, see Mosher, 1916; Common, 1974. No doubt there are dissenting views, and the author has no great per¬ sonal experience with moth anatomy; others should publish their phylogenies, provided that they are supported by actual character changes and their exact positions on the lineage, so that objective judgments may be made about them.