Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Measuring the impact of perceived service quality on insured and uninsured patients’ satisfaction

Purpose This study aims to investigate the difference in the pattern of influence of perceived service quality on insured and uninsured patients’ satisfaction levels. Design/methodology/approach This study follows a cross-sectional primary research design. A questionnaire survey method is implemented to collect primary data from 322 respondents who have received medical care during the past 1 year. A total of 168 respondents had a subscription to health insurance and 154 of them were without health insurance coverage. Data is analysed through factor analysis and multiple regression with SPSS-26. Findings This study identifies a critical difference in the pattern of influence of perceived service quality on patient satisfaction in the case of insured and uninsured patients. This difference is mainly related to the number of technical and functional service quality dimensions as significant predictors of insured and uninsured patients’ satisfaction. Originality/value The present study extends the existing body of knowledge related to perceived service quality and patient satisfaction with an interesting observation. Technical dimensions of perceived service quality act as equally important drivers of patient satisfaction in the case of both uninsured and insured patients. However, more number of functional service quality dimensions act as important drivers of patient satisfaction in the case of insured patients compared to uninsured patients. This serves as an important takeaway for health-care managers/administrators to identify areas of service quality need to be strengthened.
REE-Rich Turonian Phosphates in the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic: Assessment as Source of Critical Elements and Implications for Future Exploration

Numerous phosphate occurrences are located in the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (BCB) of the Czech Republic, within the Cenomanian–Turonian sequences. Small phosphate occurrences have been reported in the Upper Cenomanian, Lower Turonian, and Upper Turonian marine glauconitic siliciclasts. The phosphates are generally <1 m thick, present as phosphatized hardgrounds, nodules, coprolites, skeletal remains, phosphatized shells, peloids, sponges, and tube-fills, associated with black mudstone and other siliciclasts. Only recently the critical elements have been highlighted in these phosphates. The present study covers eight of these occurrences and provides information on petrography, mineralogy, and chemical composition of major elements, trace elements, and stable isotopes. The phosphate mineralogy is comprised of carbonate-fluorapatite, associated with quartz, glauconite, smectite, kaolinite, and pyrite. Most of the phosphates are rich in organic matter. The phosphate chemistry is dominated by P2O5, CaO, F, Na2O, SO3, and CO2. Minor amounts of SiO2, Al2O3, K2O, and MgO are found, related to quartz and alumino-silicate impurities. Evidence of fossil microbial structures is revealed. The indices derived from rare earth elements (REE) indicate phosphogenesis at various redox conditions, ranging from anoxic to oxic, whereas the carbon stable isotopes of the apatite suggest generally reducing conditions. The critical and other valuable elements found in these Mid-Cretaceous phosphates include P2O5 (18.9–26.76 wt. %), F (1.67–3.25 wt. %), REE (325–1338 ppm), Y (74–368 ppm), and U (10.4–37.9 ppm). The investigation of the Turonian phosphate occurrences show that those located at the base of the Bílá Hora Formation (earliest Turonian) are the most persistent in the southern margins of the BCB, and found in localities extending for about 200 km. They were developed at the onset of the Early Turonian global transgression and are strata-bound to the base of the Bílá Hora Formation. Future exploration for marine sedimentary phosphorites should focus on thicker and better developed deposits at the base of the Turonian sediments as the main target.
Recognition of environmental estrogen-like compounds based on fluorescent imaging analysis of ERα-EGFP nuclear granules formation

Objective To establish a quick method to probe the environmental estrogen-like compounds via fluorescent imaging analysis in high content analysis(HCA) technology.Methods HCA assays were performed to quantitatively investigate the effect of collected environmental pollutants,including bisphenol A,nonylphenol,1,2-phenylenediamine,4-aminophenol,resorcinol,3-aminophenol,1,4-phenylenediamine and 2,5-diaminotoluene on nuclear granules formation(Foci-formation) of estrogen receptor α(ERα)-EGFR(enhanced green fluorescent protein) fusion-protein,which was selected as a research model in this study.The results were confirmed by the ERα transcriptional activity by luciferase assays.Results Compounds 1,2-phenylenediamine,4-aminophenol,resorcinol,3-aminophenol,1,4-phenylenediamine and2,5-diaminotoluene sulfate could not induce the ERα-EGFR nuclear granule formation.17-β-Estradiol,bisphenol A,or nonylphenol enhanced ERα-EGFR nuclear granule formation in a dose-dependent manner.The EC50 value was(4.17 ±0.41) nmol / L,(1.48 ± 1.79) μmol / L,or(3.70 ± 0.78) μmol / L,respectively.The minimum detectable concentration was 1 nmol / L(17-β-estradiol) and 300 nmol / L(bisphenol A,nonylphenol). In luciferase tests,17-β-estradiol,bisphenol A,or nonylphenol increased ERα transcriptional activity in a dose-dependent manner,and the EC50 value was(4.46 ±0.56) nmol / L,(2.31 ± 0.21) μmol / L,or(6.60 ± 0.94) μmol / L,respectively.The minimum detectable concentration was 3 nmol / L(17-β-estradiol),300 nmol / L(bisphenol A),and 1 μmol / L(nonylphenol). Conclusion As an efficient method for ERα agonist identification,HCA assays based on the cell image phenotypes analysis can be used in quick recognition of environmental compounds with ER agonist-like activity.In all experimental compounds,only bisphenol A and nonylphenol have a clear ER agonist-like activity.
Study of friction stir spot welding for thermotolerant engineering thermoplastic polyimide joints

In this research, thermoplastic polyimide (TPI) were welding via friction stir spot welding (FSSW) in order to evaluate the feasibility of the technology. The welding tool with a tri-flute pin was used for keeping the welding effectiveness. The effect of the rotation speed and dwell time on the microstructure and shear strength was studied. The results shows that the number of gap defects between the shoulder affect zone and the pin affect zone decreased with the increase of the rotation speed. The boundary of the shoulder affect zone and the pin affect zone was no clear when increasing the dwell time from 10 s to 20 s. Long dwell time could increase the mixing time and reduce the materials viscosity, which made the structure was denser. The maximal shear strength was obtained 85.5% of the base materials. The differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) results indicated that the melting behaviour of different regions was no obvious difference. It indicated that FSSW had a feasible and potential technology to join the high temperature resistant engineering plastics.
Academic stress among adolescents in government and corporate colleges

Stress occurs when an individual is confronted by a situation that they perceive as threatening on and not in a position to cope up with. Many researchers carried out extensive research on stress and its outcomes and concluded that it needed more attention at different spheres of life. But recent times stress in academic institutions is increasing and has its positive and negative consequences on mental health. Due to academic stress, there is a decline mental health of students particularly in adolescent group. Thus, the present study focuses on academic stress among adolescent students in Government and Corporate Colleges. The sample of the present study includes 120 (Government = 60; Corporate = 60) adolescent students from Government and Corporate colleges. A standardized tool namely Academic Stress Questionnaire, which consists of 36 statements which covers five factors. The subjects were contacted individually, after explaining the purpose of the study, the subjects were asked to give responses to the questionnaire. The results will be discussed in the light of psychological interventions in the present-day scenario.
A Dynamic Multi-Objective Duopoly Game with Environmentally Concerned Firms

Social pressures, in addition to the law, incite more and more firms to pursue multiple and separate objectives. This trend raises the following question: will the change in the number of objectives pursued by firms affect their strategic interactions? To address this issue we focus on a dynamic duopoly where each firm has two objectives: one of the firms’ objectives is financial and the other is environmental. Production is a polluting activity and the actual level of pollution depends on current and past emissions. We analyze both open-loop Nash and cooperative equilibria (these equilibria are also trivially feedback as the equilibrium strategies are constant). We show that contrary to the case where firms’ unique objective is the financial one, there are Nash equilibria where production is lower than in the cooperative equilibrium. This stems from the fact that in a Nash equilibrium firms do not coordinate the choice of the relative weight given to the environmental objective. We obtain the same conclusion when firms can mitigate pollution. In this case, we also show that there are Nash equilibria where the sum of the firms’ mitigation efforts is higher than its value in the cooperative equilibrium.
Ultrasound-Assisted Synthesis and Crystal Structure of Novel 2D Cd (II) Metal–Organic Coordination Polymer with Nitrite End Stop Ligand as a Precursor for Preparation of CdO Nanoparticles

In the present research, a sonochemical approach was applied to prepare new cadmium(II) coordination 2D polymer, [Cd(L)(NO2)2]n (L = 1,2-bis(1-(pyridin-3-yl)ethylidene)hydrazine) and structurally characterized with various spectroscopic techniques including XRD, elemental analysis, SEM, and IR spectroscopy. The coordination number of cadmium (II) ions is seven (CdN2O5) by two nitrogen atoms from two organic Schiff base ligand and five oxygen of nitrite anions. The 2D sheet structures ended by nitrite anions and the nitrite anion displayed the end-stop role. The comprehensive system showed a three-dimensional structure with several weak interactions. The high-intensity ultrasound is regarded as an easy, environmentally-friendly, and flexible synthetic instrument for the compounds of coordination. CdO NPs was obtained by thermolysing 1 at 180 °C with oleic acid (as a surfactant). Further, the size and morphology of the produced CdO nanoparticles were investigated through SEM.
One-Minute Finger Pulsation Measurement for Diabetes Rapid Screening with 1.3% to 13% False-Negative Prediction Rate

Previous non-invasive Diabetes Mellitus (DM) prediction methods for rapid screening suffered from the trade-off between speed and accuracy. The accurate results of questionnaires rely on long and detailed questions thus sacrifice speed, meanwhile, photoplethysmography (PPG) offers convenient and fast testing but lacking accuracy. In this work, we developed a 5-grade model to accurately screen out non-DM subjects (low prediction grades) via one-minute PPG measurement. This efficient and effective rapid screening will practically reduce the loading for further invasive verification on the remaining DM-grade subjects. A total of 2538 subjects are recruited (DM: 1310, non-DM: 1228) with two 1-minute PPG samples taken from each subject. The model includes 8 features: 3 autonomic- and 3 vascular-related PPG features, heart rate, and waist circumference. All 8 features monotonically alter with increased DM prediction grade. The model provides users 5 DM risk grades. While defined grade 1 and grade 2 as non-DM grades, the prediction result shows a low false-negative rate of 13%. If only considering grade 1 as non-DM, the false-negative rate will be significantly reduced to 1.3%. Thus subjects predicted as grades 1 and 2 are substantially away from DM. The remaining subjects with higher DM risk grades such as grades 3, 4, and 5 (or unlikely grade 2) are recommended to take clinical-standard invasive DM test for corresponding therapeutic treatment. A table for assessing the risk index for each feature is also compiled. We have experimentally demonstrated a 1-minute pulsation measurement with PPG-based device (SpO 2 oximeter, smartphone, or wearable device) can be an efficient/effective DM rapid screening technique to filter out non-DM subjects. The resulted high-risk feature indexes also pose as warning signs of the degradation of either autonomic or vascular functions for personal healthcare management. The fast and convenient execution and useful results suggest that our approach is very simple and informative for quick DM risk assessment.
Development and metrological characterization of a high-performance Cs cell atomic clock based on coherent population trapping

This thesis work, performed in the frame of the MClocks European project (http://www.inrim.it/mclocks), reports the development and metrological characterization of a high-performance Cs vapor cell atomic clock based on coherent population trapping (CPT). The clock uses an optimized CPT pumping scheme, named push-pull optical pumping (PPOP), allowing the detection of high-contrast CPT resonances on the 0-0 magnetic-field insensitive clock transition. A detailed characterization of key components of the clock is reported. The clock was operated in the continuous-wave (CW) regime and in a Ramsey-like pulsed regime. In both regimes, the clock demonstrates a short-term fractional frequency stability at the level of 2 10−13 τ−1/2 up to 100 s averaging time, mainly limited by laser power effects. This CPT clock, ranking among the best microwave vapor cell atomic frequency standards, could find applications in telecommunication, instrumentation, defense or satellite-based navigation systems.This thesis reports also a novel laser frequency stabilization technique using dual-frequency sub-Doppler spectroscopy in a vapor cell. The clock ”platform” has also been used to perform using CPT spectroscopy the characterization of a Cs vapor cell coated with octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS) or original buffer-gas filled Cs vapor micro-fabricated cells developed in FEMTO-ST for CPT-based miniature atomic clocks.
Prevalence of computer-gaming in the general population of adolescents: results from a Czech population-based survey

ABSTRACT While video games can be helpful in personal development, participating in certain gaming activities may lead to negative effects such as video game addiction. The overuse of computer games, which can lead to reduced quality of life and affect a person’s practical skills. Around 3% of adolescents suffer from Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD), there is currently no universally accepted psychometric method. The AICA-S scale was applied to results from 3,901 respondents aged between 11 and 19. During the 2017/2018 school year, a battery of questionnaires in "pen and paper" form was administered to students at primary schools and secondary schools. The respondents were selected from all the regions of the Czech Republic through a random stratified selection to ensure that the respondents were an accurate representation of students across the Czech Republic. The results were obtained using statistical methods such as ANOVA, chi-square tests and t-tests. These results affirm the psychometric quality of AICA-S and note the prevalence of IGD among Czech adolescents. Based on our results, 0.8% of our respondents fulfilled the criteria for an IGD.
Mothers Education and Respiratory Infection in Under-Five Children in Nigeria

Respiratory infection is one of the major causes of child ill health and mortality not only in Nigeria, but in most developing countries of the world. This study therefore, investigated the causal relationship between mothers’ level of education and under-five age respiratory infection in Nigeria. Probit regression is used to analyse data from Nigeria Multiple indicator cluster survey 2017. Results from the bivariate regression indicated a significant negative relationship between mothers’ educational level and respiratory infection in under-five age children in Nigeria. Mothers’ educational level became insignificant after controlling for other important covariates which signifies an indirect relationship with child respiratory infection. This implies that mothers’ education influences child respiratory disorder through other variables like place of residence and immunization. Other variables found to influence child respiratory infection includes region of residence, age of child, immunization and ethnicity. On the other hand, sex of child and wealth index were not found to be significant determinants of child respiratory infection. Nigerian government should encourage girl child education through the provision of free quality education at least to secondary school level. Programs to target free diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Original Research Article Paul and Osu-Kure; SAJSSE, 10(1): 1-14, 2021; Article no.SAJSSE. 65226 2 respiratory infection especially among under-five children should be prioritized by the ministry of health. Health care providers should also intensify awareness to mothers on preventive measures of child respiratory infection especially during antenatal care programs.
Deleterious mutation load in diverse cattle breeds of the world

Domestication of wild animals results in a reduction in the effective population size and this could affect the deleterious mutation load of domesticated breeds. Furthermore, artificial selection will also contribute to accumulation deleterious mutations due to the increased rate of inbreeding among these animals. The process of domestication, founder population size, and artificial selection differ between cattle breeds, which could lead to a variation in their deleterious mutation loads. We investigated this using the whole genome data from 432 animals belonging to 54 cattle breeds of the world. Our analysis revealed a negative correlation between the genomic heterozygosity and the ratio of amino acid changing diversity to silent diversity. This suggests a proportionally higher amino acid changing Single Nucleotide variants (SNVs) in breeds with low diversity. Our results also showed that breeds with low diversity had more high-frequency (DAF > 0.51) deleterious SNVs than those with high diversity. A reverse trend was observed for the low-frequency (DAF ≤ 0.51) deleterious SNVs. Overall, taurine cattle breeds had more high-frequency deleterious SNVs than indicine (or taurine-indicine hybrid) breeds. However, within taurine breeds European or Northeast Asian taurines had more high-frequency deleterious SNVs than East Asian or African taurine breeds. Similarly, within indicine breeds South Asian indicines had more high-frequency deleterious SNVs than East Asian indicine breeds. All the above observed patterns were reversed for low frequency deleterious SNVs. Some of the variation in the deleterious mutation load observed between different breeds could be attributed to the population sizes of the wild progenitors before domestication. However, the variations observed withing taurine and within indicine breeds could be due to the difference in the extent of inbreeding, strength of artificial selection and/or founding population size. The findings of this study imply that the rate of incidence of genetic diseases might vary between cattle breeds.
Moving Into the Media World: The Moral Psychology of Emerging Adults in Journalism and Communication

A growing body of psychology-based scholarship identifies emerging adulthood as a distinct, transitional stage of life and work characterized by several features, wherein relatively little is known regarding moral development. This study is part of a 3-year, longitudinal project involving recent graduates across six U.S. universities who studied journalism and media-related fields. Guided by emerging adulthood, moral psychology, and media exemplar research, this study analyzes results for 110 graduates who completed an online survey regarding their personality traits, virtuous character, moral reasoning, and ethical ideology. It constitutes the first detailed portrait of moral identity of emerging adults in media-related fields.
EVALUATING NONSTRUCTURAL CARBOHYDRATE VARIATION OF COOL-SEASON GRASSES BASED ON GENOTYPE, MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENT

OF THESIS EVALUATING NONSTRUCTURAL CARBOHYDRATE VARIATION OF COOLSEASON GRASSES BASED ON GENOTYPE, MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENT Understanding how nonstructural carbohydrates fluctuate in pastures and being able to quantify them is an essential component in successfully managing grazing animals that may require high or low nonstructural carbohydrate diets. The objectives of this study were 1) to evaluate the effects of genotype, management, and environment on water-soluble carbohydrates (WSC) and ethanol-soluble carbohydrates (ESC) in cool-season grass pastures in central Kentucky, and 2) to develop near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) equations to predict WSC and ESC in cool-season grasses. Ten cool-season grass cultivars consisting of Kentucky bluegrass, tall fescue, orchardgrass and perennial ryegrass were sampled in the morning and afternoon every two to four weeks during the growing season from the University of Kentucky Research Farm in Lexington, KY. Samples were immediately flash frozen after sampling, freeze dried, ground, and scanned into FOSS 6500 NIRS with ISIscan software. WSC and ESC were determined using colorimetric phenolsulfuric acid assays on a subset of samples and served as the basis for NIRS calibration. NIRS equations for both WSC and ESC accurately predicted wet chemistry values between 2% and 20%. Significant species and diurnal effects were observed for WSC and ESC. WSC and ESC concentrations were typically highest in the afternoon and lowest in the morning. Perennial ryegrass was the highest WSC accumulating species, followed by tall fescue, KY bluegrass, and orchardgrass. The effect of nitrogen fertility on WSC and ESC was inconsistent among harvest dates and cultivars. In conclusion, WSC and ESC in coolseason grasses are dependent on an interaction of factors including genotype, management and environment.
Behavioral Changes of Independent Palm Smallholders Farmers through Farmer Institution

Farmer institutions along with regulatory, normative, and cultural cognitive aspects have important roles in social cohesion to achieve the food security of independent palm smallholder farmer households. However, some dysfunctionalities and external challenges affect the structure of their institutions. This paper aims to find ways to change the behavior of independent palm smallholder farmers by identifying the internal and external factors of their behaviors in their institutions. The data were collected from 100 smallholders in West Kalimantan using Structural Equation Model (SEM). The results indicate that the internal factors do not influence farmers’ behavior because of lack of social influences on their relationships, exceptional characteristics of the region, and a mismatch between perceived risk sources and risk management strategies. Meanwhile, the external factors (the surrounding environment, institutional information, the extension roles, ISPO, reward, and family encouragement) show positive influences on farmers' behavior. Therefore, to optimize the behavioral changes of independent palm smallholders in their institutions, knowledge exchange is necessary through formal or informal communication networks. Also, they need to have the connections with institutional buyers and potential agroprocessing entrepreneurs and the connection with appropriate formal saving schemes, and financial products in their value chains.