Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Emotional modulation of cortical activity during gum chewing: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study

Distinct brain regions are known to be associated with various emotional states. Cortical activity may be modulated by emotional states that are triggered by flavors during food intake. We examined cortical activity during chewing with different flavors and assessed the emotional modulation of cortical activity using multichannel near-infrared spectroscopy. Thirty-six right-handed volunteers participated in this crossover trial. The participants experienced positive and negative emotions from chewing flavorful (palatable) or less flavorful (unpalatable) gums, respectively for 5 min. Participants rated the taste, odor, and deliciousness of each gum using a visual analog scale. Bilateral hemodynamic responses in the frontal and parietal lobes, bilateral masseter muscle activation, and heart rate were measured during gum chewing. Changes in all measured data during gum chewing were also evaluated. The ratings of the tastes and odors of each gum significantly differed among the participants (P < 0.001). Hemodynamic response changes were significantly elevated in the bilateral primary sensorimotor cortex during gum-chewing, in comparison to resting. The difference in hemodynamic responses between palatable and unpalatable gum conditions was detected in the left frontopolar/dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Muscle activation and heart rate were not significantly different between different gum types. Our findings indicate that differential processing in the left prefrontal cortex might be responsible for the emotional states caused by palatable and unpalatable foods.
European Journal of Alternative Education Studies-ISSN 2501-5915

A comparative study of adulthood was conducted to explore the levels of self-esteem and the parameters of adulthood among students at the Aegean University, Department of Food Science and Nutrition (D.F.S.N.) and the students of public Institute of Vocational Training (Greek: IEK), both located on the Greek island of Lemnos. Thus, maturity, responsibility, autonomy, self-management and the sense of social responsibility were measured on a Likert scale and Rosenberg’s self-esteem scale. The research investigated whether being a student of Tertiary Education or a student of Vocational Training has an effect on the concept of adulthood or influences the level of individual self-esteem. The quantitative results brought to light that adulthood can be attained without direct relevance to the Educational Institute whereas the degree of self-esteem and selfmanagement in women was determined to some extent by the choice of School. This conclusion has raised issues of major importance for further research.
Machine Learning and Cybersecurity: Studying network behaviour to detect anomalies

Cybersecurity is an indispensable part of the Internet nowadays as almost everything can be connected by Internet. Individual privacy and property will face great danger if they are attacked by malware. This project aims to use the machine learning knowledge to build a classifier that can detect malware behaviour and avoid further damage to the network and its entity. The dataset used in this project is the CTU-13 dataset[1], which is NetFlow traffic from the normal, malware infected and background hosts. The classifier is built with the labelled normal and infected NetFlow, then applied to the unlabelled background NetFlow. This project follows the O’Neil & Schutt data science process[7] to process the data. The data is cleaned and processed, then aggregate based on time window to create a new dataset with the extracted features. This new dataset is the inputs of the following machine learning classification model: logistic regression, decision tree and random forest. Random forest model with an optimal threshold turns out to be the best model with an accuracy of 0.946 on the test dataset. Further application with this model is also implemented to the background traffic to detect potential malware.
Successful Partnerships in Emerging Markets: The Moderating Role of Operational Performance

Purpose – With the reported high failure rate among Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the professional service sector of emerging markets, coalescing their resources via strategic partnerships to effectively compete in the market place is seen as crucial to their growth and survival. This paper investigates the impact of attributes of partnership, communication behaviour and collaborative conflict resolution on partnership success among Professional Service Firms (PSFs) in emerging markets. It further contributes to the body of knowledge by exploring the moderating role of operational performance in the hypothesised relationships. Design/methodology/approach – Relying on a positivistic paradigm, 300 small and medium-sized PSFs were surveyed, yielding a 79% response rate. Descriptive statistics, hierarchical regression and exploratory factor analysis were used to analyse the collected data. Findings – A positive significant relationship was found between two of the three dimensions of attributes of partnership (commitment and coordination) and the success of partnerships. Despite their importance for partnerships, trust and information sharing negatively impacted partnership success in this study. A positive significant impact was however realised for trust and information sharing when operational performance moderated the relationship. Practical implications – PSFs must develop innovative and workable tools to effectively monitor their operational performance given its significant influence on the relationship between attributes of partnership, communication behaviour and partnership success. Social and cultural competence training is needed for staff to improve the relationship bond, trust and collective goals of partnerships. Originality/value – This paper introduces operational performance as a moderating variable to investigate the hypothesised relationships. It offers insights into how PSFs can manage the pertinent issues critical to the effective management of partnerships in emerging markets.
Collaboration between practitioners of traditional and conventional medicine: A report of an intervention carried out with traditional women healers in the province of Sanmatenga (Burkina Faso) to improve the obtaining of the license to practice traditional medicine

Traditional medicine (TM) is an important source of care for most poor people. Aware of this role, most African countries have developed national policies to give legal status to TM and its practitioners. Currently, at least 30,000 people practice TM in Burkina Faso. However, few, particularly women, have licenses to practice TM. This paper presents the results of a pilot project that aimed at accompanying the traditional women healers from Sanmatenga province in obtaining licenses. The application for TM practice includes personal attested documents and ethnomedical evidence or proof of efficacy of the traditional product. To assess the ethnomedical evidence, the traditional healer is monitored by a nurse over a four-month period during which the nurse follows patients receiving the traditional treatment. The nurse investigates the work of the traditional healer and its final report includes its opinion on the traditional healer and the number of patients followed, cured or lost after treatment with the traditional product. Perceptions of different stakeholders regarding the intervention were obtained through unstructured interviews. 60 traditional women healers were selected from three health districts of the province of Sanmatenga. They were followed by 10 nurses. Currently, about 37% of traditional women healers are licensed. Findings showed that the different stakeholders welcomed the intervention and made recommendations to strengthen this relationship. Thus, strengthening the capacities of traditional healers as well as the collaboration with conventional medicine practitioners contribute to build stronger healthcare systems. Key words: Traditional medicine, traditional women healer, conventional medicine, license, ethnomedical evidence, healthcare system.
Brønsted–Lewis Acidic Ionic Liquids and Application in Oxidative Desulfurization of Diesel Fuel

Study on alternative methods to hydrodesulfurization is always an interesting area, because of the ineffectiveness for hydrodesulfurization to remove some cyclic sulfur compounds (S-compounds) and the high cost from harsh operation conditions and expensive catalyst, among which oxidative desulfurization (ODS) using ionic liquids (ILs) as solvent is intensively studied recently. Here, we synthesize a series of Bronsted–Lewis acidic ILs of N-methylpyrrolidonium zinc chloride ([Hnmp]Clx/(ZnCl2)y, x:y from 2:1 to 1:2) and investigate the ODS of both model diesel fuel composed of n-octane and dibenzothiophene and real FCC feedstock where such ILs are used as extractant and catalyst and 30 wt % H2O2 is used as oxidant, involving the factors such as IL composition (or x:y), temperature, dose of oxidant (or molar ratio of O/S), dose of IL (or mass ratio of IL/oil), recycling of IL and multistage desulfurization. IL composition has an important effect on sulfur removal (S-removal) efficiency, and [Hnmp]Cl/ZnCl2 (x.
Liquid Flow and Mixing in Bottom Regions of Baffled and Unbaffled Vessels Agitated by Turbine-Type Impeller

Abstract For a vessel agitated by the turbine-type impeller, the liquid flow and mixing in the bottom region were studied for comparison between conditions with and without baffles. Visualization of the flow and its measurement were done using particle tracking velocimetry. The flow along the bottom surface of the unbaffled vessel was observed to be more intensified than that of the baffled one. The related local energy dissipation was larger and the effective energy transmission was indicated for the condition without the baffles. For the unbaffled vessel, enhancement of micromixing near the bottom was demonstrated through a mixing experiment in a system involving chemical reactions.
Study on residue of imidacloprid in rice and field environment

Residue dynamics and terminal residue of imidacloprid in rice and field environment were studied by HPLC. The results showed that the recoveries of imidacloprid in soil, straw, rice, bran and water samples ranged from 71.66% to (96.34)% with c.v. of 0.31%-6.55%. The half-life of degradation for imidacloprid was 0.8-2.2 d in straw,2.6-(2.7) d in water and 12.1-24.1 d in soil. The terminal residue in rice was less than 0.025 mg/kg.
Incidence of insect pests of rice as affected by organic and inorganic fertilizers

A field study was conducted to assess the effect of organic manures on the incidence of insect pest on rice. Recommended dose of chemical fertilizers were applied as a check. The experiment was set out in a randomized block design (RBD) with seven treatments comprising 15 t/ha of FYM, 7.5 t/ha of vermicompost, 2 t/ha of neemcake, 4 t/ha of poultry manure, 12 t/ha of pressmud, 3 t/ha of karanj cake and Recommended Dose of Fertilizers (RDF). Each treatment was replicated four times. Organically manured plots showed significant (P<0.05) decrease in gallmidge and leaf folder incidence compared with the check. The gallmidge incidence was ranged from 6.61 to 9.25% with the organic treatments and 12.94% with the check. The leaf folder incidence was ranged from 11.75 to 13.46% with the organic treatments and 22.70 with the check. The natural enemy populations significantly (P<0.01) increased with organic treatments compared with the check. The natural enemy population was ranged from 21.5 to 23.5 per hill with the organic treatments and 14.75 per hill with the check. Gross yield was also significantly highest in karanj cake and FYM amended plots (7119 and 6651 kg/ha, respectively) compared with RDF amended plots (6485).
MetaNorm: Learning to Normalize Few-Shot Batches Across Domains

Batch normalization plays a crucial role when training deep neural networks. However, batch statistics become unstable with small batch sizes and are unreliable in the presence of distribution shifts. We propose MetaNorm, a simple yet effective meta-learning normalization. It tackles the aforementioned issues in a uniﬁed way by leveraging the meta-learning setting and learns to infer adaptive statistics for batch normalization. MetaNorm is generic, ﬂexible and model-agnostic, making it a simple plug-and-play module that is seamlessly embedded into existing meta-learning approaches. It can be efﬁciently implemented by lightweight hyper-networks with low computational cost. We verify its effectiveness by extensive evaluation on representative tasks suffering from the small batch and domain shift problems: few-shot learning and domain generalization. We further introduce an even more challenging setting: few-shot domain generalization. Results demonstrate that MetaNorm consistently achieves better, or at least competitive, accuracy compared to existing batch normalization methods.
Nutritional and Biochemical Quality Assessment of Commonly Consumed Jujube (Zizyphus mauritiana L.) Varieties Available in Bangladesh

A study was conducted to determine major biochemical and mineral constituents in commonly consumed jujube varieties of Bangladesh. A total of 15 (4 local/deshi and 11 exotic) varieties of matured jujube fruits were collected from the different markets and local areas of Mymensingh district, Bangladesh, and analyzed for this study. The study results revealed that all studied physical properties were lower in local/deshi sour varieties of jujube, and BAU kul contained the maximum amount of flesh (edible part of fruits) along with flesh and seed ratio. Among the biochemical propertiestitratable acidity, vitamin C, chlorophyll-a, chlorophyll-b, total sugar and reducing sugar content varied from 0.178-2.769%, 33.28-98.63 mg/100 g flesh, 0.0019-0.0174 mg/g tissue, 0.00070. 0148 mg/g tissue, 2.50-9.83% and 0.135-4.150%, respectively. The study results revealed that local/deshi varieties contained a comparatively higher amount of vitamin C and lower total sugar. However, BARI kuls contained significantly higher amounts of vitamin C and chlorophylls compared to other exotic varieties. The content of Ca, Mg, Na, K, P, and S in jujube varieties ranged from Original Research Article Paul et al.; JEAI, 43(3): 30-41, 2021; Article no.JEAI. 68188 31 0.040-0.233%, 0.071-0.164%, 0.054-0.189%, 0.490-2.602%, 0.062-0.234% and 0.079-0.359%, respectively. Regarding major nutrients studied, Ca, Na, K, P, and S contents were higher in local/deshi sour varieties while Mg content was higher in exotic varieties. The study results concluded that most of the biochemical and mineral contents in local/deshi sour jujube fruits were higher, allowing breeders to develop new varieties and improve the quality of existing exotic cultivars.
Integration of Extended Reality and a High-fidelity Simulator in Team-based Simulations for Arrhythmia Scenarios Among Undergraduate Nursing Students

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usability and feasibility of smart glasses for team-based simulations constructed using a high-fidelity simulator. Methods: Two scenarios of patients with arrhythmia were developed to establish the process for interprofessional interaction via smart glass in 15-hour simulation training. Three to four participants made a team and took roles of either a remote supporter or bad-side trainee with smart glass. A quasi-experimental post-test design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of team-based simulation using smart glasses that assessed attitudes toward interprofessional health care teams and learning satisfaction. A scale for software evaluation was used to obtain quantitative data, and an essay questionnaire was used to assess the usability and feasibility of the current program. Statistical analyses were conducted using SPSS (version 25.0), and descriptive statistics, independent t-tests, and chi-squared tests were performed to test for homogeneity and group differences. Results: Data were obtained from 61 participants in which the scores were higher in the experimental group with smart glasses, but differences in attitude towards the interprofessional health care team and learning satisfaction were not different between groups. The current program was given an easy to use (3.61±0.95) rating, and the users reported feeling confident during use (3.90±0.87). Participants responded positively to long-term use (3.26±0.89) and low levels of physical discomfort (1.96±1.06). The likability of the smart glasses-based simulation was high, with a high rating for satisfaction (4.65±0.55). The majority (84%) of subjects provided favorable responses to their overall experience with high expectations for improving safety in future clinical practice. Key barriers and challenges of the current program include unstable internet connection, poor resolution and display, and physical discomfort of the smart glasses with accessories. Conclusion: We determined the feasibility and acceptability of smart glasses for interprofessional interaction within a team-based simulation environment. Participants responded favorably toward a smart glasses-based simulation learning environment that would be applicable in clinical settings.
Pediatric Nurses??? Professional Values and their Attitudes towards Patient Safety

Introduction: This study was conducted to determine whether pediatric nurses’ professional values affect their attitudes towards patient safety.Methods: The study was a descriptive cross-sectional study and it was carried out with 101 nurses working in pediatric clinics of a state hospital in Turkey in 2015. Data were collected using the Personal Information Form, the Nurses Professional Values Scale and the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire. Results: A positive correlation was determined between the scores obtained from the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire and the scores obtained from the Nurses Professional Values Scale (r: .315, p: .001). There was a significant positive correlation between the Perceptions of Management subscale of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire and the Nurses Professional Values Scale (r: .706), and its Activism (r: .796), ANA (American Nurses Association) Ethical Code 1 (r: .708), and ANA Ethical Code 11 (r: .772) subscales. There was a moderate positive correlation between the Perceptions of Management subscale of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire and the Nurses Professional Values Scale (r: .603), and its ANA Ethical Code 4 (r: .530)Conclusion: Pediatric nurses’ professional values affect their attitudes towards patient safety.
Evaluation of the Effects of Various Sound Pressure Levels on the Cognitive Performance of Petrochemical Workers: A field study

Iran Occupational Health http://ioh.iums. ac.ir Iran Occupational Health. 2020 (4 Apr);17:1. Original Article Lighting and color temperature assessment in the office workplaces and relationship to visual fatigue Rostam Golmohammadi, (*Corresponding author), Professor, Department of Occupational Health, School of Health and Center for Health Sciences Research, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, Iran. golmohamadi@umsha.ac.ir Zahra Pirmoradi, MSc, Department of Occupational Hygiene, School of Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran Majid Motamedzadeh Torghabeh, Professor, Department of Ergonomics, School of Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran Javad Fardmal, Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, School of Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sci nces, Hama an, Iran
Experimental Analysis of Heat Generation in Carbon

The purpose of this research is to study a novel non-covalent functionalization technique of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and to examine the feasibility of using carbon nanotube films as thin film heaters. We developed a unique methodology to synthesize a well dispersed, environmentally friendly solution of CNTs that could be easily spin coated as well as spray coated on different substrates based on the application. Using the produced solutions, thin films of SWCNTs were fabricated on a glass substrate. Two sets of experiments were conducted to study the influence of polyaromatic moiety and the pH on the electro thermal characteristics of the fabricated film heater. Comparative tests were done on the carbon nanotube-based film heater samples to study the film’s resistance and heat generated with the application of input power. It was found that samples resistance varied significantly based on the amount of polyaromatic moiety added to the CNTs and the fabricated films did not show any linear trend when comparative test was made based on pH. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report analyzing the influence of polyaromatic moiety and the pH on the resistance and heat characteristics of the fabricated film heater. We present experimental results showing that the developed approach and the modified CNT material could be a promising alternative for heating applications such as deicing and defrosting. Further, this study also discusses the limitations and improvements needed in experimentation process that could yield high performance CNT based heaters. The fabricated CNT films show fast heating and cooling rate at a low driving voltage. The results provided could be a useful approach for the engineering of highly flexible transparent CNT-based heaters.
Effects of Acidic Sites in HA Zeolite on the Fire Performance of Polystyrene Composite

A Lewis acid has been considered as a char promoter during the combustion of polymers. The acidified 4A zeolites (HA zeolite) containing Lewis acid sites (4A-L zeolite) and Bronsted-acid sites (4A-H+ zeolite) were prepared and their crystallinity and acidic site structure were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. The thermal behavior and flammability of a polystyrene (PS) composite containing different types of zeolite were investigated by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), volatile gas and condensed phase FTIR analysis, limiting oxygen index (LOI), and cone calorimeter. Both 4A-L and 4A-H+ zeolite could enhance the flame retardancy of a PS composite significantly. The heat release rate (HRR) of a PS composite could be decreased by 48% after adding 2% 4A-L. It is suggested that Lewis acidic sites in HA zeolite can alter the degradation route and enhance the char formation of a PS composite.
THE EFFECT OF INHIBITOR LEVEL OF RAMBUTAN RIND EXTRACT AND HCL SOLVENT CONCENTRATION ON THE CORROSION RATE OF ST 37 STEEL

The steel processing industry using the pickling process method uses HCl solvent as a steel cleaner. Besides being a cleaner, HCl solvent is also corrosive and be a factor in the corrosion of the steel from the pickling process. Corrosion can be controlled using corrosion inhibitors made from organic materials. Organic materials contain tannin compounds that can react by forming complex compounds on the steel surface so they can protect the steel from corrosion attacks. In this study, the organic materials used as inhibitors were the rambutan rind extract with a concentration of 0.5%; 1.0%; 1.5%; and 2.0% in a concentration of 0.1 N HCl solvent; 0.5 N; and 1.0 N. The test sample used was St. 37 steel. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of inhibitor levels of rambutan rind extract and concentration of HCl solvent on the corrosion rate of St. 37 steel. The method used to calculate the corrosion rate is the weight loss method and the data analysis technique used is Two-Way Anava. The results showed that there was an effect of inhibitor levels of rambutan rind extract and the concentration of HCl solvent on the corrosion rate of St. 37 steel. The corrosion rate has the lowest value in the variation of the inhibitor mixture of 2.0% and 0.1 N HCl with the highest efficiency value of 63.13%.