Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Understanding , attitudes and dehumanisation towards autistic individuals

Research suggests that while individuals may self-report positive attitudes towards autism, dehumanising attitudes (seeing another as less than human) may still prevail. The present study investigated knowledge, openness and dehumanising attitudes of non-autistic people towards autistic people. 361 participants completed a survey measuring autism openness, knowledge and experience, along with a measure of dehumanisation. Results showed that knowledge of autism was comparable to past research and females were more open towards autism. Findings also indicated evidence for dehumanisation, with a particular denial of ‘human uniqueness’ traits. Further, dehumanisation was related to openness towards autism. These findings have implications for targeting attitudes to reduce stigma associated with autism.
Identi fi cation of a mechanogenetic link between substrate sti ff ness and chemotherapeutic response in breast cancer

Mechanical feedback from the tumor microenvironment regulates an array of processes underlying cancer biology. For example, increased stiffness of mammary extracellular matrix (ECM) drives malignancy and alters the phenotypes of breast cancer cells. Despite this link, the role of substrate stiffness in chemotherapeutic response in breast cancer remains unclear. This is complicated by routine culture and adaptation of cancer cell lines to unnaturally rigid plastic or glass substrates, leading to profound changes in their growth, metastatic potential and, as we show here, chemotherapeutic response. We demonstrate that primary breast cancer cells undergo dramatic phenotypic changes when removed from the host microenvironment and cultured on rigid surfaces, and that drug responses are profoundly altered by the mechanical feedback cells receive from the culture substrate. Conversely, primary breast cancer cells cultured on substrates mimicking the mechanics of their host tumor ECM have a similar genetic profile to the in situ cells with respect to drug activity and resistance pathways. These results suggest substrate stiffness plays a significant role in susceptibility of breast cancer to clinically-approved chemotherapeutics, and presents an opportunity to improve drug discovery efforts by integrating mechanical rigidity as a parameter in screening campaigns.
Secure encryption from cyclic codes

Encryption is the process of scrambling a message and can provide a means of securing information. Information security is becoming more important in data storage and transmission. It is known that most encryption method in the literature. In this paper we propose two new encryption schemes by using cyclic codes. Our method is based on the One Time Pad system. We use the properties of cyclic codes to provide its security. Cite this article as: Selda Ç, Murat G. Secure encryption from cyclic codes. Sigma J Eng Nat Sci 2022;40(2):380–389. Sigma Journal of Engineering and Natural Sciences Web page info: https://sigma.yildiz. edu.tr DOI: 10.14744/sigma.2022. 00040
An Awareness and Acceptance of the COVID-19 Vaccine among Foreign Students in Higher Institutions in China

The COVID-19 vaccination drive has made much buzz around the world. The vaccination is been discussed around the global for a long time and lot of rumors and fake information spreads all over the social media. The situation has created many fears and uncertainties among people which is affecting the vaccination drive in many countries. This study investigates the approach Chinese universities used in the vaccination drive for international students and how they respond to this vaccination drive. The study used a mixed-method approach to collect data from the respondents. Both their quantitative responses and their narratives were considered as the base for the analysis. The results of this study found that Chinese higher educational institutions approach for international students was very formal. On one end, the administration was able to carry out the vaccination drive successfully; the approach was failed to eliminate the fears and nervousness of the international students regarding vaccines. Furthermore, while fear and nervousness are found among the international students regarding the vaccination, most of the students did acknowledge the benefits of taking the vaccine for their health and as a gateway to move around or outside the country. The study highlights a crucial administrative approach from the Chinese higher educational institutions regarding an ongoing phenomenon. The results of this study can be used for administrative purposes so that the students' feedback should be considered while implanting some policy for their satisfaction and better results.
Ecosystem Approach to Aquaculture

Aquaculture was practiced in several coastal areas of the world by simple methods such as collecting seed from naturally abundant areas growing them to harvestable size in coastal ponds. Simple supplementary feed using locally available natural resources wereused and the production rates were moderate. The aqua farmers were satisfied since investments were low, mass mortalities of stocked resources were rare and there was moderate profit. These traditional systems in Asia especially in China and Vietnam have been productive for more than 3000 years.These eco-friendly aquaculture practices like paddy cum fish culture have benefitted several millions of rural people in Asia and have been designated as a “Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System”.
What Makes You Move? Reducing visitor car use through segmentation

This research looks at how to reduce the transport related environmental burden of visitors while maintaining economic benefit using a market segmentation approach. There were three main aims of the research. Firstly to understand what might best predict a desired behaviour change (i.e. reduced visitor car use). Secondly to develop and test different marketing messages intended to influence a reduction in car use. Thirdly, to identify market segments which demonstrate both a high propensity towards a positive behavioural change and which have the highest contribution to the destination in economic terms. The theoretical basis of this work is Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behaviour (Ajzen, 1988) which underpins the conceptual framework used to predict behaviour and the second is a synthesis of persuasive communication theory, based significantly on the work of Cialdini (2007). The paper emphasises the importance of context in successful communication to influence behaviour. The paper also concludes that a market segmentation approach allows for specific target audiences who are most amenable to behavioural change and who have greatest economic impact to be identified. The approach was tested in the Lake District National Park (UK).
Susac's syndrome - the crucial role of imaging tests for proper diagnosis.

INTRODUCTION Susac's syndrome (SS) is a rare, autoimmune-mediated endoteliopathy characterized by a clinical triad of encephalopathy, branch retinal artery occlusion, and sensorineural hearing loss. SS is also characterized by a neuroimaging triad consisting of white matter lesions, grey matter lesions, and leptomeningeal enhancement on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Considering the rarity of SS, as well as certain similarity to other, more frequent neurological diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), this syndrome is sometimes incorrectly diagnosed and treated. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study is to present the current state of knowledge on SS, with particular consideration for the differential diagnostics between SS and MS, using the latest available imaging techniques, such as brain MRI, optical coherence tomography (OCT), OCT angiography (OCTA) and fluorescein angiography (FA). REVIEW METHODS The major electronic databases (PubMed, Google Scholar) were searched manually in order to identify the relevant studies published on SS. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF KNOWLEDGE Distinguishing SS from MS is a diagnostic challenge. In the majority of cases, patients with SS do not present the complete clinical or neuroimaging triad, and a delay in making the correct diagnosis exposes the patient to the occurrence of complications, resulting from the development of the underlying disease, or/and the application of improper treatment. In the case of SS the results of brain MRI and FA are essential for making the correct diagnosis as they may reveal pathognomonic changes. SUMMARY Imaging examinations, such as brain MRI, FA, and OCT complement each other, due to which the diagnosis of SS may be simpler, irrespective of the stage of the disease.
Safety Analysis for Micromobility: Recommendations on Risk Metrics and Data Collection

Existing measures of road safety were primarily designed to evaluate motor vehicle crashes. Consequently, they are not well-suited for alternate or emerging modes of micromobile transportation, particularly the e-scooter, whose popularity has surged without a corresponding body of research on their safety. Effective safety analysis depends on complete, high-quality data capable of accounting for the relevant mode-specific dangers. The established criteria for measuring consequences and hazard exposure in risk metrics used for motor vehicles do not apply. Most road safety data sources and schemas have a similar motor vehicle-centric bias. This framing presents challenges when it comes to selecting and interpreting data about alternate modes of transportation like micromobility. This paper discusses a basic theory of risk metric selection and the purpose of transportation safety measures. It applies these ideas to the emerging mode of micromobility transportation and recommends appropriate criteria and limitations for each component of a metric. This paper also evaluates existing data sources and schemas to provide examples of bias and estimate the relative size of each issue. These considerations may serve as useful guidelines for further research in the area and help inform the requirements of data collection necessary to better answer questions of safety.
OPENING THE BLACK BOX: MULTINATIONALS AND THE COSTS OF DOING BUSINESS ABROAD.

The costs of doing business abroad has been a cornerstone of theories of the multinational enterprise for forty years. More recent work has focused on the concept of liability of foreignness. Are the two the same? This paper "opens the black box" of the costs of doing business abroad, arguing it should be decomposed into three parts: international transaction costs, costs of operating at a distance, and liability of foreignness. That is, liability of foreignness is a component of the costs of doing business abroad. We explore these components and discuss some implications for the firm's entry mode, location decision and performance.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Does team communication represent a one-size- ﬁ ts-all approach?: A meta-analysis of team communication and performance

Although it is consistently identi ﬁ ed as a critical component of team performance, team communication is often conceptualized in a variety of manners. The present meta-analysis addresses this inconsistency by examining the moderating in ﬂ uence of communication characteristics, as well as other salient team and task characteristics, on the relationship between team communication and performance. The ﬁ ndings revealed several fundamental insights. First, communication quality had a signi ﬁ cantly stronger relationship with team performance than communication frequency. Second, further distinguishing between di ﬀ erent communication types, classifying communication into the eight most commonly measured communication forms (e.g., knowledge sharing, in- formation elaboration), has further value; information elaboration has the strongest relationship with performance while self-report frequency and objective frequency have the weakest relationships. Third, familiar and face-to-face teams exhibited a stronger relationship between communication and performance. These results indicate the necessity of distinguishing between di ﬀ erent communication types in both practical and theoretical applications of team science.
Title Modeling the Effects of Urban Design on Emergency Medical Response Calls during Extreme Heat Events in Toronto , Canada Permalink

Urban residents are at risk of health-related illness during extreme heat events but the dangers are not equal in all parts of a city. Previous studies have found a relationship between physical characteristics of neighborhoods and the number of emergency medical response (EMR) calls. We used a human energy budget model to test the effects of landscape modifications that are designed to cool the environment on the expected number of EMR calls in two neighborhoods in Toronto, Canada during extreme heat events. The cooling design strategies reduced the energy overload on people by approximately 20–30 W m−2, resulting in an estimated 40–50% reduction in heat-related ambulance calls. These findings advance current understanding of the relationship between the urban landscape and human health and suggest straightforward design strategies to positively influence urban heat-health.
Properties of Stochastic Arrangement Increasing and Their Applications in Allocation Problems

There are extensive studies on the allocation problems in the field of insurance and finance. We observe that these studies, although involving different methodologies, share some inherent commonalities. In this paper, we develop a new framework for these studies with the tool of arrangement increasing functions. This framework unifies many existing studies and provides shortcuts to developing new results.
Cross-border division of labor and China’s border control upon Myanmar migrants

Border cities in Yunnan, China, have become attractive destinations among Myanmar migrants. Using Ruili as a case study, this paper analyzes China’s border control upon Myanmar migrants to create a cross-border division of labor. It finds that China experiments with a flexible model of border control by allowing Myanmar migrants to cross the border with relative ease and integrate into the local labor market, while denying their rights to civil protection and limiting their mobility to other Chinese cities. This model promotes and regulates the movement of Myanmar migrant workers, constituting a pragmatic order to facilitate the logic of capital accumulation. The cross-border division of labor in production between Ruili and northern Myanmar articulates a spatially uneven structure of capitalist production that creates incentive and hinderance to low-end workers’ transnational migration and, moreover, reflects the Chinese state’s efforts to encourage industrial relocation from the affluent coast to the poor hinterland to address regional disparity.
Understanding Digital Banking Adoption During Post-Coronavirus Pandemic: An Integration of Technology Readiness and Technology Acceptance Model

Digital banking can make banking transactions easier in daily life. However, the presence of technology does not seem to be welcomed. This is due to the unpreparedness of technology for digital banking technology. The target respondents are millennial generation users in Indonesia who use digital banking services during post-corona virus. The sample selection using random sampling with 422 respondents. The data analyses were performed using SEM-PLS. The results show that Optimism, Discomfort, and Insecurity affect the acceptance of digital banking based on perceived ease of use and usefulness. However, Innovativeness has no connection on perceived usefulness. This is because post-covid conditions, the most important thing is how digital banking can support survival. They also argue that digital banking can make it easier and useful for daily life, especially in payment features connected.
Coping and Anxiety During Lockdown in Spain: The Role of Perceived Impact and Information Sources

Background/Purpose In the context of COVID-19 lockdowns, extant research suggests that secondary coping (a strategy aimed at adjusting oneself self to the stressor) is more robustly associated with better mental health than primary coping (a strategy aimed at adjusting the stressor to oneself). We investigated whether these findings are generalizable to Spain—one of the most severely affected countries at that time. We also tested whether the link between secondary coping and mental health (as measured by anxiety) can be accounted for by how individuals perceive the COVID-19 impact (ie, perceived life changes and personal global impact) and how frequently they use traditional and social media to check COVID-19-related information. Methods A diverse community sample (N = 408), collected during the first lockdown in Spain (early April 2020), completed a multi-measure online survey including the targeted variables. Results Secondary coping outperformed primary coping in predicting reduced anxiety during the lockdown in Spain. Moreover, lower perceived life changes from COVID-19 and reduced personal global impact from COVID-19 both mediated the negative secondary coping-anxiety relationship. No indirect effects emerged for either conventional or social media exposure. Conclusion These results (a) strengthen the cross-cultural validity of the link between secondary coping and anxiety and (b) advance our understanding of the psychological mechanisms underlying this association.
MIXED CONVECTION IN AN ENCLOSURE WITH DIFFERENT INLET AND EXIT CONFIGURATIONS

A numerical analysis is carried out to study the performance of mixed convection in a rectangular enclosure. Four different placement configurations of the inlet and outlet openings were considered. A constant flux heat source strip is flush-mounted on the vertical surface, modeling an integrated circuit chips affixed to a printed circuit board, and the fluid considered is air. The numerical scheme is based on the finite element method adapted to triangular non-uniform mesh elements by a nonlinear parametric solution algorithm. Results are obtained for a range of Richardson number from 0 to 10 at Pr = 0.71 and Re = 100 with constant physical properties. At the outlet of the computational domain a convective boundary condition (CBC) is used. The results indicate that the average Nusselt number and the dimensionless surface temperature on the heat source strongly depend on the positioning of the inlet and outlet. The basic nature of the resulting interaction between the forced external air stream and the buoyancy-driven flow by the heat source is explained by the heat transfer coefficient and the patterns of the streamlines, velocity vectors and isotherms.
Motives of Stock Option Incentive Design, Ownership, and Inefficient Investment

This paper analyzes the effects of stock option incentives on inefficient investment. Specifically, based on the motive of design, we divide stock option incentives into incentive-driven and welfare-driven incentives. Our research is based on the panel data of 511 Chinese listed companies that declared stock option incentives from 2010 to 2014, including both incentive-driven and welfare-driven incentives. Our research shows that different types of stock option incentives have different effects on inefficient investment. Generally, incentive-driven stock option incentives reduce inefficient investment, whereas welfare-driven stock option incentives do not reduce inefficient investment, but increase it. However, there is a weakening effect in state-owned enterprises due to two opposite factors, numerous restrictions and more self-interested managers. Additionally, the paper provides implications that some stock options are manipulated by managers in the designing stage in order to pursue self-interests, and therefore monitoring abnormal share price movement and performance hurdles is important to safeguard the wealth of shareholders and promote effective motivation for managers.
Impact of protein supplementation on semen quality, fertility, and BMP1R gene expression in sheep of Bangladesh

Abstract A study was carried out to know the impact of protein supplementation on fertility and expressions of the fertility gene BMP1R. Three International Organization for Standardization (ISO), isocaloric but different levels of protein supplement ration (11.70% crude protein [CP] for control/To, 12.99% CP for T1, and 13.86% CP for T2) were fed to three different groups of sheep. DNA was extracted from the whole blood sample for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of the BMP1R fertility gene, and purified PCR products were sequenced by a Sanger sequencer. Sequence alignment, pair, and multi-alignment comparison of the BMP1R gene of the species were done with MEGA6. The semen volume (1.0 mL), sperm counts (4.2 × 107 million), and percentage of normal (94.3%) and viable sperm (3.7%) were higher in treatment 2 than in the other two groups. The semen volume (1.0 mL), sperm counts (4.2 × 107 million), and the percentage of normal (94.3%) and viable sperm (3.7%) were higher in treatment 2 than in the other two groups. Ewes treated with supplemented, protein concentrate reached the conception at an earlier age (treatment 1, 9.5 ± 0.16 mo and treatment 2, 10.3 ± 0.04 mo) than control (9.8 ± 0.15 mo). The lambing interval varied, from 198 to 202 d. Lamb’s birth weights in three treated groups were ranging from 1.2 to 1.39 kg. The designated sequences of BMP1R gene revealed 100% homology with the sequence of Kazakh sheep. The present study indicated that the influence of nutrition on reproductive performance and genomic study will be helpful for the genetic improvement of low-productive sheep.
Hybrid Quality Inspection for the Automotive Industry: Replacing the Paper-Based Conformity List through Semi-Supervised Object Detection and Simulated Data

The still prevalent use of paper conformity lists in the automotive industry has a serious negative impact on the performance of quality control inspectors. We propose instead a hybrid quality inspection system, where we combine automated detection with human feedback, to increase worker performance by reducing mental and physical fatigue, and the adaptability and responsiveness of the assembly line to change. The system integrates the hierarchical automatic detection of the non-conforming vehicle parts and information visualization on a wearable device to present the results to the factory worker and obtain human confirmation. Besides designing a novel 3D vehicle generator to create a digital representation of the non conformity list and to collect automatically annotated training data, we apply and aggregate in a novel way state-of-the-art domain adaptation and pseudo labeling methods to our real application scenario, in order to bridge the gap between the labeled data generated by the vehicle generator and the real unlabeled data collected on the factory floor. This methodology allows us to obtain, without any manual annotation of the real dataset, an example-based F1 score of 0.565 in an unconstrained scenario and 0.601 in a fixed camera setup (improvements of 11 and 14.6 percentage points, respectively, over a baseline trained with purely simulated data). Feedback obtained from factory workers highlighted the usefulness of the proposed solution, and showed that a truly hybrid assembly line, where machine and human work in symbiosis, increases both efficiency and accuracy in automotive quality control.