Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Sensing Physiological Change and Mental Stress in Older Adults From Hot Weather

This study combines wearable sensors, weather data, and self-reported mood surveys to assess mental stress on older adults from heat experience. It is designed as a pilot and feasibility study in preparation for a large-scale experiment of older adults’ mental wellbeing during extreme heat events. Results show that on-body temperatures from two i-Button sensors coupled with heart rate monitored from a smart watch are important indicators to evaluate individualized heat stress given a relatively uniform outdoor temperature. Furthermore, assessing their mood in their own environment demonstrates potential for understanding mental wellbeing that can change with varying time and location.
"Skin and Wound Complications after Calcaneal Fracture Fixation"

Soft tissue complications are one of the most feared complications after operative treatment of calcaneus fractures. The incidence of wound complications is reported to be as high as 32%. The better understanding of the blood supply of the hind-foot together with the development of minimally invasive and percutaneous techniques helped to reduce such complications. Authors have reported on patient and surgery related factors that can contribute to skin and soft tissue complications however; drawing a definitive conclusion about the importance of each of these factors is cumbersome. In this article, we discussed the reported incidence of soft tissue complications associated with operative treatment.
Distinct Functions of MEKK3 and MEKK4 in Heart Valve Morphogenesis

16 CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION 18 1.1. HEART MORPHOGENESIS 18 1.1.1. Early Heart Morphogenesis and Endocardial Cushion Formation 18 1.1.2. Late Heart Valve Morphogenesis 19 1.2. VALVULAR DISORDERS 22 1.2. 1. Myxomatous Valves 22 1.2. 2. Mitral Valve Prolapse 23 1.3. CELLULAR PROCESSES IN CARDIAC CUSHION MORPHOGENESIS.24 1.3. 1. Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) 24 1.3. 2. Invasion 25 1.3. 3. Proliferation 26 1.3. 4. Apoptosis 26 1.4. SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION DURING HEART MORPHOGENESIS 27 1.4. 1. Extracellular Matrix 27 1.4. 2. TGFβ/BMP Signaling 29 1.4. 3. Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor 31 1.4. 4. ErbB Ligands and Receptors 31
Social Support and Marital Coping with Chronic Illness

This article reviews a number of issues related to married couples' coping with and adjustment to chronic physical illness. Spouses occupy a dual role in the coping process, as primary provider of support to the ill partner and as a family member who needs support in coping with the illness-related stresses he or she is experiencing. Studies on the impact of illness on the healthy spouse and the marital relationship are reviewed, with a focus on social support transactions between partners. In addition, sources of support for the healthy spouse are described. Two theoretical models of couples' coping are presented and suggested for future research in the area: one focuses on relationship-focused coping efforts and the other focuses on the congruence or fit between husbands' and wives' coping efforts. An integrative framework is presented, and a call is sounded for research on couples' coping with chronic stress that addresses the multiple influences of gender.
CoViD-19: an automatic, semiparametric estimation method for the population infected in Italy

To date, official data on the number of people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 , responsible for the CoViD19 , have been released by the Italian Government just on the basis of a non representative sample of population which tested positive for the swab. However a reliable estimation of the number of infected, including asymptomatic people, turns out to be crucial in the preparation of operational schemes and to estimate the future number of people, who will require, to different extents, medical attentions. In order to overcome the current data shortcoming, this paper proposes a bootstrap driven, estimation procedure for the number of people infected with the SARSCoV2. This method is designed to be robust, automatic and suitable to generate estimations at regional level. Obtained results show that, while official data at March the 12th report 12.839 cases in Italy, people infected wiyh the SARSCoV2 could be as high as 105.789.
Automatic Content Inspection and Forensics for Children Android Apps

With the development of Internet and communication technologies, various information can easily spread to children via applications (Apps) on Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices (e.g., emerging smart toys, watches, and phones), especially, the Apps on smart phones based on Android. While greatly bringing up convenience for children’s lives and studies, these Apps also make illegal and inappropriate contents (such as violence, pornography, gambling, and drug) more accessible to kids, which is harmful to minors’ growth. To keep children away from inappropriate contents in applications, previous researches mainly focused on detecting unsuitable videos and advertisements in children applications or designing App maturity rating methods and parental control software. There are few literature that specially investigate the inspection of inappropriate contents in children Android Apps. Toward this end, we propose a novel automatic content inspection and the forensics framework to identify children Android Apps which are not proper for kids under 12. In addition, this framework offers evidence to make users understand why the inspected App is judged as unsuitable. In experiments, we apply this framework on some specially chosen Android Apps which distinctly include inappropriate contents to verify its performance. The results show that it can successfully identify those applications with high precision that reaches 85.7%. Besides, by analyzing the collected children’s Android Apps through our framework, we find that 40% of them are identified to be improper, which illustrates the serious issue of unsuitable children Android Apps.
Olfactory sensitivity in CD-1 mice for the sperm-attractant odorant bourgeonal and some of its structural analogues

Using a conditioning paradigm and an automated olfactometer, I investigated the olfactory sensitivity of five CD-1 mice for seven aromatic aldehydes. With two of the stimuli (3-phenylpropanal and canthoxal), the animals discriminated concentrations as low as 10 ppb (parts per billion) from the odorless solvent and with four of the stimuli (helional, cyclamal, lilial and lyral) they discriminated concentrations as low as 1 ppb, with single individuals even scoring better. All five animals yielded the by far lowest threshold value with bourgeonal and discriminated a concentration of 0.1 ppq (parts per quadrillion) from the odorless solvent. The detection threshold values for aromatic aldehydes were found to be affected by the type of functional groups and oxygen moiety attached to the benzene ring. A comparison of the present data with those obtained in other species found no clear correlation between olfactory sensitivity and the size of the olfactory receptor repertoire.
Efficiency Perspective on Telecom Mobile Data Traffic

Objective – The global industry is transforming into a digital world, evidenced by digital transformation performed by almost all of the industry sectors. One of the digital drivers is the support of connectivity provided by the telecommunication industry. The increasing mobile subscribers, along with the growth of mobile data traffic, is the sign of digital transformation itself. However, the rise of OTT (Over the Top) service providers tends to acquire the revenue share of the current telecom industry, seeing the trend of voice and SMS revenue that projected to decline. Methodology/Technique – This research is intended to measure the impact of increasing mobile data traffic that mostly caused by OTT services to telecom efficiency. The efficiency measurement & analysis were performed using the Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) & Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. Findings – By using the SFA method, Maxis (Malaysia) got the highest efficiency score (0.98), followed by AIS (Thailand) with efficiency score 0.94 and Indosat Ooredoo (Indonesia) as the least efficient telecom provider (0.5). However, by using the DEA method, TLKM (Indonesia) got the highest efficient (0.98), and Celcom Axiata (Malaysia) was the least efficient (0.73/0.8). Novelty – The compelling results of this study are variable total asset variable had a significant negative impact on the efficiency score, and the variable of mobile data traffic was not significantly impacting the efficiency value (t-Ratio 0.71). Type of Paper: Empirical. Keywords: Telecom Operators; Efficiency; Mobile Data Traffic Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Hendrawan, R; Nugroho, K.W. A; Permana,G.T. 2019. Efficiency Perspective on Telecom Mobile Data Traffic, J. Bus. Econ. Review 5(1) 38 – 44 https://doi.org/10.35609/jber.2020.5.1(5) JEL Classification: M10, M15, M19.
Network Bioinformatics Analysis Provides Insight into Drug Repurposing for COVID-2019

The COVID-2019 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (aka 2019-nCoV) has raised significant health concerns in China and worldwide. While novel drug discovery and vaccine studies are long, repurposing old drugs against the COVID-2019 epidemic can help identify treatments, with known preclinical, pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, and toxicity profiles, which can rapidly enter Phase 3 or 4 or can be used directly in clinical settings. In this study, we presented a novel network based drug repurposing platform to identify potential drugs for the treatment of COVID-2019. We first analysed the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 and identified SARS as the closest disease, based on genome similarity between both causal viruses, followed by MERS and other human coronavirus diseases. Using our AutoSeed pipeline (text mining and database searches), we obtained 34 COVID-2019-related genes. Taking those genes as seeds, we automatically built a molecular network for which our module detection and drug prioritization algorithms identified 24 disease-related human pathways, five modules and finally suggested 78 drugs to repurpose. Following manual filtering based on clinical knowledge, we re-prioritized 30 potential repurposable drugs against COVID-2019 (including pseudoephedrine, andrographolide, chloroquine, abacavir, and thalidomide) . We hope that this data can provide critical insights into SARS-CoV-2 biology and help design rapid clinical trials of treatments against COVID-2019.
Comparative Study of the Desiccation Resistance of Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) and Quagga Mussels (Dreissena bugensis).

Abstract : The emersion tolerance of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) and quagga mussels (Dreissena bugensis) was comparatively studied. Mussels (n = 60) were emersed at 15 deg C under relative humidities (R.H.) of 95 percent LT50 (i.e., time for 50-percent sample mortality estimated by probit analysis) in D. polymorpha ranged from 67.7 hr in 95-percent R.H. and SM(100) values (i.e., time required for actual 100-percent sample mortality), from 120 to 537 hr. LT50 and SM(100) value ranges for D. bugensis were 80A to 238.2 hr and 120 to 312 hr, respectively. Total water lost (TWL) during emersion (total water is corporal plus extracorporal water) was positively correlated with shell length (SL) and hours of emersion. While affected by TWL did not differ between species. -BKA
Women with breast cancer and their living in and through discourses : a feminist postmodern study

W OM EN W ITH BREAST CANCER AND T H E IR LIVING IN AND TH R O U G H DISCOURSES: A FEMINIST POSTM ODERN STUDY Supervison Dr. Laurene Sheilds This feminist postmodern praxis oriented research investigates the journey and discourses o f w om en living with breast cancer. This smdy explores the ways in which discourses and health care practices are implicated in relations o f power, and hoŵ these discourses and practices inter-relate and inform each other. Alternative possibilities for creating new discourses and practices for women living with breast cancer are also examined in the
Hypoglycemia as the onset manifestation of somatostatinoma: A case report and review of the literature

Somatostatinoma is a rare pancreatic tumor characterized by diabetes mellitus, cholelithiases, and diarrhea. Although hypoglycemia is a distinctively unusual manifestation of the condition, most patients are symptomatic at the time of diagnosis. However, since the tumor is slow growing and symptoms are often not present for several years before diagnosis, the disease is often quite advanced by the time, patients seek medical attention and preoperative diagnosis is therefore often difficult. We reported a 30-year-old man who presented with hypoglycemia, hypersomnia and hyperinsulinemia. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated a low-density mass in the head of the pancreas suggestive of a malignancy that was definitively identified as a somatostatinoma by immunohistochemical staining of a biopsy specimen.
A cross sectional study of elderly widows residing in urban field practice area of S. N. Medical College, Bagalkot, Karnataka

Background: Widows are the most vulnerable segment among the elderly population in India. Elderly widows face several social, economic, emotional and cultural deprivations due to their gender, widowhood and old age. Hence, this study was done with the objective to know the socio demographic profile and morbidity of elderly widows residing in urban field practice area of S.N. Medical College, Bagalkot.Methods: This cross sectional study was done in 8 Anganwadi areas during 2016 by cluster random sampling. All the elderly widows residing in the areas were included after informed consent. Ethical clearance was obtained from Institutional review board. Data regarding their socio demographic profile, cause of death of husband, the number of years being a widow, health seeking behavior and their chronic morbidities were noted. Height and weight of each elderly widow was measured and body mass index calculated using the formula weight in kilogram divided by height in meter 2 and classified according to South East Asian category. Blood pressure was recorded three times with the widow in a sitting posture in an interval of 3 minutes and the least value was documented according to JNU classification.Results: Out of 140 elderly widows who were residents of the areas, majority (69.29%) were between 60 to 74 years of age followed by 27.86% between 75 to 89 years of age. It was observed that 75% of them were illiterate. The leading cause of death of husband was coronary heart disease (19.29%), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (12.86%) and alcoholic cirrhosis (10.71%). On examination of the non-hypertensive widows, it was observed that 36.06% were in Stage I and 22.68% were in Stage II of hypertension (JNU classification). Conclusions: Elderly widows are a vulnerable segment of the community. Their health care needs are a priority and regular health check-ups are to be planned.
How agile software development methods reduce work exhaustion: Insights on role perceptions and organizational skills

Agile methods are widely used in the software industry as a way to more rapidly develop and deliver new software. They define iterative work processes, advocate self‐organization and openness for change, and prescribe how software developers interact with each other and external stakeholders. Despite their popularity, it is unclear how agile methods influence work exhaustion in software developers and how developer skills play into this effect. On the one hand, agile methods may reduce software developers' work exhaustion by levelling out their workload across the entire duration of a project. On the other hand, agile methods exert a high level of pressure on software developers to continuously deliver working software, create many intensive social interactions, and to frequently adapt to changes. In light of these effects, prior research could not explain why some software developers become less exhausted from using agile methods, whereas others perceive the exact opposite. Based on the job demand‐control model, we develop a theoretical model connecting agile method use to individual developer skills and to two established determinants of employee exhaustion: role conflict and role ambiguity. We tested our research model in a field study among 1894 software developers in 217 project teams that used agile methods. The random coefficient modelling results show that agile method use facilitates the achievement of clear and unambiguous role perceptions and thereby reduces work exhaustion in developers, particularly if developers possess the organizational skills to effectively interact with others in their organization. We highlight implications for theory on the individual‐level effects of software development methods and provide practical insights for software companies.
The Information System Development Based on Knowledge Management in Higher Education Institution

The purpose of this study is to express the experiences, ideas, needs, and the use of information technology for the development of management information systems in a higher education institution. This study is qualitative approach research using the case study method. The research data collection uses the techniques of observation, interview, and documentation study. The research procedure used in this research consists of several research steps utilizing the case study method of Robert K. Yin: research planning, research design, research preparation, research data collection, research data analysis, and doing the research report. The research analysis is done by pattern matching. The data validity testing through data source triangulation and technique triangulation. The result of the study presents: (1) the analysis of management information system based on tacit and explicit knowledge through the process of exchanging experience, idea, and initiative, (2) the management information system design based on the needs analysis, and (3) the development of management information system using information technology.
Comparison of Dysphonia Severity Index and its Parameters Among Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis and Healthy Subjects

Background: Concerning demyelination’s process in multiple sclerosis (MS), speech changes often occur earlier than other symptoms; thus early diagnosis of these changes is necessary. According to recent studies, phonation subsystem appears with the most symptoms compared with other subsystems, especially in the initial stages. In this study, the researchers aimed at comparing these symptoms in MS patients with healthy people using dysphonia severity index (DSI) and its parameters. Methods: This study was conducted on 40 MS patients and 20 healthy individuals in Ahvaz city. The subjects were asked to phonate vowel /a/ for calculating maximum phonation time (MPT), maximum F0, jitter, minimum intensity, and DSI score with the Praat software. For statistical analysis of data, Kolmogorov-Smirnov and independent t-test were used. Results: The mean scores of DSI in MS patients (1.07 ± 1.51) was significantly lower than the control group (3.603 ± 1.13) (P value < 0.001). Maximum phonation time and maximum frequency values in MS patients were lower than the control group (MPT, P value = 0.005; maxF0, P value = 0.003). Jitter and minimum intensity values in MS patients were higher than the control group (jitterppq5, P value < 0.001; min intensity, P value = 0.040). Conclusions: The findings of this study indicated that the MS group had worse vocal quality than the healthy group, which means they were at risk of voice and speech problems; therefore, acoustic assessments can determine the vocal impairments of the disease at the early stages and prevent progression of vocal impairments with an appropriate treatment plan. Also, dysphonia severity index, as a reliable tool, can detect vocal quality impairments in multiple sclerosis and can be a supplementary assessment tool for early detection of degenerative diseases.
Establishment potential of non-native glasshouse biological control agents, with emphasis on Typhlodromips montdorensis (Schicha) (Acari: Phytoseiidae) in the UK

Typhlodromips montdorensis is a non-native predatory mite used for control of red spider mite and thrips, but is not yet licensed for use in the UK. Current legislation requires that non-native glasshouse biological control agents may not be introduced into the UK without a risk assessment of establishment potential outside of the glasshouse environment. This work focuses on the application of a recently developed protocol to assess the establishment potential of T. montdorensis in the UK. Further, the use of alternative prey outside the glasshouse by, Macrolophus caliginosus is examined, and interactions between Neoseiulus californicus, Typhlodromus pyri and T. montdorensis are investigated. Laboratory results demonstrate that T. montdorensis has a developmental threshold of 10.7°C, lacks cold tolerance and is unable to enter diapause when tested under two different regimes. Field studies indicate that no reproduction occurs within the field in winter (November to March) and 100% mortality of eggs, larvae and adults occurs within two weeks of release during this period. It is suggested that T. montdorensis would be a ‘safe candidate’ for introduction as a glasshouse biological control agent in the UK as outdoor establishment is unlikely to occur. Macrolophus caliginosus is able to feed and reproduce on Trialeurodes vaporariorum, Myzus persicae and Aleyrodes proletella although performance (lower fecundity and longevity) is reduced on the latter prey source. Both N. californicus and T. pyri were able to feed on larval stages of each other but when given a mixed diet, showed a preference for Tetranychus urticae over their phytoseiid prey. Neoseiulus californicus showed a preference for T. urticae over T. montdorensis, whereas the latter species showed no preference between T. urticae and N. californicus. This work has identified a robust experimental protocol for predicting the establishment potential of non-native biological control agents outside the glasshouse and has begun to develop a further experimental system for assessing the possibility of non-native biological control agents feeding on alternate hosts outside the glasshouse.