Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A sociabilidade como fator motivacional para a prática de atividade física em idosos: uma revisão de literatura

Objetivo: Identificar o que a literatura revela sobre a sociabilidade como motivação no idoso para a prática de atividade física. Método: O presente estudo foi realizado através de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, trazendo um levantamento de artigos científicos na base de dados Google Acadêmico, localizando 33.800 estudos. Após o aproveitamento dos filtros os números foram reduzidos para 38 estudos. Foi realizada uma seleção de pesquisa por título e resumo totalizando 18 artigos. Após uma verificação minuciosa foram selecionados apenas sete estudos para a pesquisa. Resultados: Os resultados apontaram que a sociabilidade esteve presente como um importante fator motivacional em todos os estudos selecionados, mostrando a importância da atividade física no âmbito de contribuição para interação social e construção de vínculos para os idosos. Conclusão: Concluiu-se que a sociabilidade foi um dos principais determinantes motivacionais que mais levaram o indivíduo idoso a praticar atividade física.
New Five-Bar and Six-Bar Linkages in Three Dimensions

The author outlines the historical background for the study of linkages, both in a plane and of the three-dimensional type. The latter have not received very much attention, although some investigations of special types of space linkages have been reported. The present paper is confined to a discussion of two types of five-bar linkages and four types of six-bar linkages. While it is little known by the engineering field, the Bennett linkage is a useful and economic mechanism. An explanation of this linkage, its mathematical derivation, and combinations of its elements are discussed at some length. Among the possible applications of space linkages, the most obvious is the conversion of oscillating or rotational motion in one plane to motion in another plane. The Bennett linkage is the simplest for this purpose. Other uses of various types of linkages are mentioned.
Focusing on the Positive: Home Health Aides’ Desire for Autonomy and Control

Home Health Aides (HHAs) are one of the fastest growing workforces in the country, yet the industry struggles to recruit and retain workers. This study explored HHAs’ experiences with the level of control, autonomy, and decision-making authority in their work. Six focus groups with 37 HHAs were conducted in Massachusetts. Findings showed that HHAs viewed control as a positive job characteristic, which attracted them to and led them to remain in the position. Positive benefits included having control over client selection, location, hours, and the ability to determine their day-to-day tasks and schedules. The study results highlight the value that HHAs place on autonomy and control and the potential benefit that these job qualities have for greater recruitment and retention of these workers. Amplifying control by bolstering training and expanding scope of practice may entice new individuals to pursue a HHA career and help maintain those currently in the position.
What Is the Role of Sex‐Related Differences in the Effectiveness and Safety of Biological Drugs Used in Patients With Severe Asthma?

Biological drugs are used to treat severe asthma with an improvement of clinical symptoms. Data on sex difference of these drugs in patients with severe asthma are sparse. This study aimed to assess the effects of sex‐related differences on biological drugs in patients with severe asthma. In this observational, open‐label, prospective, noncontrolled, single‐center cohort pilot study, we enrolled adult patients aged >18 years diagnosed with severe asthma and not previously treated with biological drugs. The first clinical end point was the statistical difference (P < .05) in the efficacy of biological drugs evaluated using the asthma control test and spirometry between sexes. The first safety end point was the statistical difference (P < .05) in developing adverse drug reactions between sexes. We enrolled 74 patients with severe asthma (48 women and 26 men) with a mean age of 59.4 (standard deviation, 11.8) years. The mean forced expiratory volume in 1 second was 6.9 (standard deviation, 13.9) for women and 9.4 (standard deviation, 10.7) for men and improved significantly after the treatment (P < .01), with no significant differences in sex (P = .8). Similarly, the asthma control test improved 12 months after the beginning of the treatment without significant differences between men and women (P = .5). The most common drug used was omalizumab (45.9% of the patients; P < .01) without significant differences between sex (P > .05). We did not observe the development of adverse drug reactions during the study. In conclusion, in asthmatic patients, sex does not have a role in either the effectiveness or safety of biological drugs.
Pasting and Rheological Properties of Starch Paste/Gels in a Sugar-Acid System

This study was to investigate the impact of granule size, amylose content, and starch molecular characteristics on pasting and rheological properties of starch paste/gels in neutral (water) and sugar–acid systems. Normal rice starch (RS), waxy rice starch (WRS), normal tapioca starch (TS), and waxy tapioca starch (WTS) representing small-granule starches and intermediate-granule starches respectively, were used in the study. Impacts of granule size, AM content, and their synergistic effects resulted in different starch susceptibility to acid hydrolysis and interactions between starch and sucrose-water, yielding different paste viscosities in both systems. The high molecular weight (Mw¯) and linearity of amylopectin and amylose molecules increased the consistency of starch pastes. RS produced a stronger and more brittle gel than other starch gels in both neutral and sugar–acid systems. The results indicated the impact of the effect of granule size and amylose content on starch gel behaviors. Properties of waxy starch gels were mainly governed by amylopectin molecular characteristics, especially in the sugar–acid system. Adding sugar and acid had minor impacts on starch gel behaviors in the linear viscoelastic (LVE) region but were most evident in the nonlinear response regime of starch gels as shown in the Lissajous curves at large oscillatory strain.
Instability due to Viscosity and Density Stratification in Axisymmetric Pipe Flow

The stability of a steady, axisymmetric, laminar, primary flow composed of two fluids flowing concentrically in a straight circular tube is investigated by the method of small perturbations. Both asymmetric and axisymmetric disturbances to the primary flow are considered. It is demonstrated that, regardless of the size of the Reynolds number, no situations are encountered for which the primary flow is stable to both types of disturbances, simultaneously. The primary cause of instability is found to be the difference in viscosities of the two fluids.
Soluble suppression of tumorigenicity-2 in pregnancy with a small-for-gestational-age fetus and with preeclampsia

Abstract Objective Preeclampsia and fetal growth disorders are pregnancy-specific conditions that share common pathophysiological mechanisms. Yet, why some patients develop preeclampsia while others experience fetal growth restriction, or a combination of both clinical presentations, is unknown. We propose that the difference in severity of the maternal inflammatory response can contribute to the clinical phenotypes of preeclampsia vs. small for gestational age (SGA). To assess this hypothesis, we measured maternal plasma concentrations of the soluble isoform of suppression of tumorigenicity-2 (sST2), a member of the interleukin-1 receptor family that buffers proinflammatory responses. Previous reports showed that serum sST2 concentrations rise in the presence of intravascular inflammation and Th1-type immune responses and are significantly higher in patients with preeclampsia compared to those with normal pregnancy. The behavior of sST2 in pregnancies complicated by SGA has not been reported. This study was conducted to compare sST2 plasma concentrations in normal pregnancies, in those with preeclampsia, and in those with an SGA fetus. Methods This retrospective cross-sectional study included women with an SGA fetus (n = 52), women with preeclampsia (n = 106), and those with normal pregnancy (n = 131). Maternal plasma concentrations of sST2 were determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Doppler velocimetry of the uterine and umbilical arteries was available in a subset of patients with SGA (42 patients and 43 patients, respectively). Results (1) Women with an SGA fetus had a significantly higher median plasma concentration of sST2 than normal pregnant women (p = .008); (2) women with preeclampsia had a significantly higher median plasma concentration of sST2 than those with normal pregnancy (p < .001) and those with an SGA fetus (p < .001); (3) patients with SGA and abnormal uterine artery Doppler velocimetry had a higher median plasma concentration of sST2 than controls (p < .01) and those with SGA and normal uterine artery Doppler velocimetry (p = .02); (4) there was no significant difference in the median plasma sST2 concentration between patients with SGA who had normal uterine artery Doppler velocimetry and controls (p = .4); (5) among patients with SGA, those with abnormal and those with normal umbilical artery Doppler velocimetry had higher median plasma sST2 concentrations than controls (p = .001 and p = .02, respectively); and (6) there was no significant difference in the median plasma sST2 concentrations between patients with SGA who did and those who did not have abnormal umbilical artery Doppler velocimetry (p = .06). Conclusions Preeclampsia and disorders of fetal growth are conditions characterized by intravascular inflammation, as reflected by maternal plasma concentrations of sST2. The severity of intravascular inflammation is highest in patients with preeclampsia.
TRACER TRANSPORT IN FRACTURES : ANALYSIS OF FIELD DATA BASED ON A VARIABLE-APERTURE CHANNEL MODEL

A variable-aperture channel model is used as the basis to interpret data from a 3-year tracer transport experiment in fractured rocks. The data come from the so-called Stripa-3D experiment performed by Neretnieks and coworkers. Within the framework of the variable-aperture channel conceptual model, tracers are envisioned as traveling along a number of variable-aperture flow channels, whose properties are related to the mean and standard deviation σ of the fracture aperture distribution. Two methods are developed to address the presence of strong time variation of the tracer injection flow rate in this experiment. The first approximates the early part of the injection history by an exponential decay function and is applicable to the early time tracer breakthrough data. The second is a deconvolution method involving the use of Toeplitz matrices and is applicable over the complete period of variable injection of the tracers. Both methods give consistent results. These results include not only estimates of and σ, but also the number of channels involved in the tracer transport and their Peclet numbers and dispersivities. An interesting and surprising observation is that the data indicate that for each channel the Peclet number increases with the mean travel time; i.e., dispersivity decreases with mean travel time. The meaning of this trend is discussed in terms of the strong heterogeneity of the flow system.
Interdisciplinary co-teaching in higher education: Comparing results from music-drama and music-physics partnerships in Sweden and Ireland

Few studies exist on the impact of interdisciplinary co-teaching in Higher Music Education. The aim of the present study is to compare and analyse the findings from two pioneer interdisciplinary co-teaching studies involving music/drama and music/physics co-teaching partnerships, conducted independently in Sweden and Ireland. Elements of Vygotskian scholarship informed the theoretical framework and a reflexive and thematic analytic methodology was employed. Four themes emerged similar to those from interdisciplinary scholarship in diverse disciplines. These include: a heightened awareness of subject synergies, problem solving as a catalyst for creativity, new/deeper insights into collaboration and expanded professional identity. In conclusion, didactical implications are addressed, related to potential challenges.
Analysis of Product Knowledge and Shopping Experience on Intention to Buy an Oppo Smartphone at Shopee with Perceptions of Risk

SMARTPHONE is considered a device that helps in everyday life, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. One of the smartphones that have the largest market share in Indonesia is Oppo, but amid the sharp increase in smartphone online sales, Oppo's online sales are not showing an increase. Even though currently, there are various types of online shopping destinations, one of which is the marketplace, which provides shopping convenience and complete information about products. This is expected to form a good shopping experience and product knowledge to reduce consumer risk perceptions about creating online purchase intentions, so the purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of product knowledge and shopping experience on purchase intention with risk perception as an intervening variable. This research is quantitative. Respondents are residents of Surabaya who have made purchases at Shopee. The sample used was 110 people. The withdrawal used the snowball sampling technique. The research instrument was a questionnaire, then the data obtained were processed by PLS-SEM. The results show that product knowledge contributes to purchase intention. The shopping experience does not contribute to purchase intentions. Product knowledge and shopping experience contribute to risk perception. Meanwhile, the indirect relationship shows that risk perception is proven to mediate the relationship between product knowledge and shopping experience variables with purchase intention.
Maximum principles for implicit parabolic equations

In [6], Nirenberg derived a strong maximum principle for second order linear parabolic equations. This result was extended by Besala [2] to nonlinear parabolic equations of the form ( u (t, x, u, u, u), where x--(x, ,x), Ut--U/t, U--(U/3Xi)= and u=(3u/x3x). ,=. On the other hand, Picone [7] and Krzyiafiski [4] established a maximum principle in unbounded domains which was particularly useful to the study of the Cauchy problem for second order linear parabolic equations. An extension of this principle to nonlinear equations of the form (.) was given by Besala [1]. The purpose of this paper is to generalize the above mentioned results of Besala to the implicit parabolic equation ( 1 ) F(t, x, u, ut, u, u) 0. Let D be a domain in the (n+ 1)-dimensional Euclidean space R of points (t,x). For each fixed point (t ,x)eD we define S(t, x)[Sg(t, x)] to be the set of all points (t, x)e D which can be joined to (t, x) by a upward [downward] directed broken line contained in D, with (t, x) as initial point and (t, x) as endpoint. Consider a function F(t, x, z, p, Q, R) defined for all (t, x) e D, z, p, Q=(q)\l and R-(r),__. The function F(t, x, z, p, Q, R) is said to belong to the class P(D) if there exist positive constants and such that
Image-based robot assisted bicompartmental knee arthroplasty versus total knee arthroplasty

Objective: To evaluate the short-term clinical outcomes of image-based robot-assisted bicruciate retaining bicompartmental knee arthroplasty and compare it to robot-assisted total knee arthroplasty in the Indian population. Methods: Between December 2018 and November 2019, five patients (six knees) underwent robot-assisted bicompartmental knee arthroplasty (BCKA). These patients were demographically matched with five patients (six knees) who underwent robot-assisted total knee arthroplasty (TKA) during the same period. Clinical outcomes of these twelve knees were assessed in the form of knee society score (KSS) score, Oxford knee score (OKS), and forgotten joint score (FJS) after a minimum follow-up period of 25 months. The data between the two cohorts were compared and analyzed. Results: Scores obtained from both cohorts were subjected to statistical analysis. SPSS software was utilized and the Mann Whitney U-test was utilized to compare the two groups. There was no statistically significant difference found between the two groups in terms of functional outcome. Conclusion: Image-based robot-assisted BCKA is a bone stock preserving and more physiological procedure which can be a promising alternative to patients presenting with isolated arthritis of only two compartments of the knee. Although long-term, larger trials are warranted to establish it as an alternative, our pilot study shows an equally favorable outcome as TKA, making it an exciting new avenue in the field of arthroplasty.
A Postcolonial Analysis of Austria’s Political Approach to Islam

This essay examines Austria’s political approaches to Islam between 2011 and 2022 at the interface of political science and religious policy as informed by postcolonial studies. Austrian political approaches to Islam are analyzed through the study of publications, press releases, government and party programmes, as well as laws, all conceptualized as an Islam dispositif. Against the backdrop of a restrictive policy on integration, it is considered that a similar situation exists for political approaches to Islam. In addition to an ambivalence of ideas of openness and restriction, the co-option of right-wing positions taken from the racist far right can be observed, which goes hand in hand with seemingly tolerant speech. The essay shows how on a discoursive level, the civilization and modernization theorem of the Habsburg Monarchy can today be found in the discourse of an Austrian/European form of Islam that stands for progress, enlightenment, and modernity in contrast to adherents of an alleged “political Islam” that represents independent Muslim agency. This idea of “political Islam” is then used to legitimize legal discrimination of Muslims. In all these discourses, Said’s concept of othering acts as a central formation for those in dominant positions to legitimate their position of power.
Forming New Orthographic Representations in Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment

When we read the same word several times, we end up forming an orthographic representation of it that allows us to read it in a fluid way. Several investigations were aimed at how healthy people, children or dyslexic adults learn new words, but little is known on how this process works on patients with neurodegenerative diseases, for example Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Hence, the aim of this project was to analyze the formation of new orthographic representations in these people. For that purpose, eight words of a very low frequency were selected, half of them short and half of them long, and were presented six times to the participants, 4 of them in a narrative context. The learning process was measured according to the elimination of the length effect that indicates the crossing from a sublexical reading to a lexical one. The results showed the disappearance of the length effect in the control group, as well as a reduction in RTs in MCI participants and AD patients, without a disappearance of length effect in these groups. All this indicates that learning was consolidated in the control group, whereas in the MCI and the AD group it cannot be said that a new representation has formed.
THE EFFECT OF COVID 19 ON COMPANY PERFORMANCE IN MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN INDONESIA

Purpose: This study was conducted to determine and explore the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on company performance using control variables for sales growth, leverage, and company size in companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange Design/methodology/approach: The study used a population of manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the quarter/quarter period during 2020. The sample was taken using purposive sampling 148 observation companies matched the research criteria. This study uses secondary data, namely the quarterly/quarterly financial statements of each sample company Findings: The results showed that in testing the partial correlation of the independent variables, namely covid 19 with the control variables of sales growth, leverage and company size has a significant effect on company performance, but the effect was still weak. Partially covid 19 has a significant positive effect on company performance. Partially, sales growth has no significant effect on the company's performance. Partially, leverage has no significant effect on company performance. Partially, company size has a significant positive effect on company performance. Simultaneously, the independent variables of covid 19, sales growth, leverage, and company size significantly affect the performance of manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2020. Research limitations/implications: Implikasi teoritis dalam penelitian ini berfokus pada tingkat kinerja perusahaan, Penelitian kami membahas secara konprehensif pengaruh pandemi Covid 19 terhadap kinerja perusahaan. Practical implications: Untuk pelaku bisnis di ASIA diharapkan dapat menemukan solusi terkait adanya ketidakpastian global ini Originality/value: Covid 19 ke kinerja perusahaan dengan pertumbuhan penjualan, leverage, size sebagai variabel kontrol. Paper type: Research paper Keyword: Covid 19, sales growth, leverage, company size, and firm performance.
Tornado Debris Characteristics And Trajectories During The 27 April 2011 Super Outbreak As Determined Using Social Media Data

Using publicly available information gleaned from over 1700 found-and-returned objects on the “Pictures and Documents found after the 27 April 2011 Tornadoes” Facebook page, the authors have created a database of 934 objects lofted by at least 15 different tornadoes during the 27 April 2011 Super Outbreak in the southeast United States. Analysis of the takeoff and landing points of these objects using GIS and high-resolution numerical trajectory modeling techniques extends previous work on this subject that used less specific information for much smaller sets of tracked tornado debris. It was found that objects traveled as far as 353 km, exceeding the previous record for the longest documented tornado debris trajectory. While the majority of debris trajectories were 10° to the left of the average tornado track vector, the longest trajectories exhibited a previously undocumented tendency toward the right of the average tornado track vector. Based on results from a high-resolution trajectory model, a relati.