Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Sosyal Ağ Sitelerinde Sosyal Karşılaştırma Davranışı: Instagram- Twitter Karşılaştırması

The purpose of this study is to examine social comparison behavior on social networking sites (SNS). Quantitative research method based on the closed-ended questionnaire technique was used in the study in which social comparison behavior was examined on image-based SNS, Instagram and text-based SNS, Twitter. Findings show that; individuals make social comparisons more in physical environments than on SNS. The level of social comparison is higher on Instagram compared to Twitter. Individuals are more frequently engaged in upward comparisons than downward comparisons on both Instagram and Twitter. Wealth is the domain in which individuals make comparisons the most on Instagram while the prominent comparison domain on Twitter is success. Inspiration is an emotion experienced most by individuals towards upward comparisons, whereas sympathy is the most experienced emotion by individuals towards downward comparisons on both Instagram and Twitter. There is no relation between social comparison level and frequency of SNS use.
Determinants of debt maturity structure: Evidence in Vietnam

Abstract This paper examines the determinants of debt maturity structure in listed small and medium enterprises in Vietnam from 2010 to 2019. Agency cost theory, signaling theory, tax-based theory, and matching theory are discussed as platform theories for determining the factors affecting corporate debt maturity structure. Based on those theories and previous research studies, combined with the two-step generalized method of moments regression model, the impact of lagged debt maturity structure, leverage ratio, profitability, firm size, growth opportunities, gross domestic product, and inflation has been demonstrated to be statistically significant at 5%. The contribution of this paper is to define the debt maturity structure of enterprises as dynamic, and the debt maturity structure is adjusted to the optimal structure at the speed of 46%.
Prognostic factors in breast cancer

Breast cancer is a malignant process whose outcome is among the most pernicious and for which the prognosis still remains difficult to establish. Survival of this cancer depends on parameters known as prognostic factors. Traditional first generation factors are based on histologic nodal status which is the best known. In effect overall survival and survival without metastases are inversely proportional to the number of nodes affected. Prognostic factors are based on tumor size histologic grade of the tumor and hormone receptors whose role is to indicate when present that adjuvant therapy must be hormone therapy. The histologic type parameter is rarely taken into consideration in the therapeutic decision. The influence of age and the state of menuopause is quite controversial. Knowledge of the patients prognostic factors shall influence the therapeutic strategy and adjuvant therapy may be proposed as a function of the risk of recurrence. They rapidly show themselves to be inadequate in predicting potential aggressiveness of a discovered tumor. It is for this reason that it appeared necessary to study other factors those that are essentially biological called 2nd generation. Over some ten years publications have come one after the other in this domain leaving clinicians perplexed when faced with the abundance of data coming either from molecular biology in which the most frequently observed abnormalities are amplifications of protooncogenes and losses of heterozygotes or studies concerning DNA.
Formula Synthesis in Propositional Dynamic Logic with Shuffle

We introduce the formula-synthesis problem for Propositional Dynamic Logic with Shuffle (PDL || ). This problem, which generalises the model-checking problem againsts PDL || is the following: given a finite transition system and a regular term-grammar that generates (possibly infinitely many) PDL || formulas, find a formula generated by the grammar that is true in the structure (or return that there is none). We prove that the problem is undecidable in general, but add certain restrictions on the input structure or on the input grammar to yield decidability. In particular, we prove that (1) if the grammar only generates formulas in PDL (without shuffle), then the problem is EXPTIME-complete, and a further restriction to linear grammars is PSPACE-complete, and a further restriction to non-recursive grammars is NP-complete, and (2) if one restricts the input structure to have only simple paths then the problem is in 2-EXPTIME. This work is motivated by and opens up connections to other forms of synthesis from hierarchical descriptions, including HTN problems in Planning and Attack-tree Synthesis problems in Security.
Ketimpangan representasi hantu perempuan pada film horor Indonesia periode 1970-2019

Since Lisa (1971) became part of the Indonesian cinema screen as the first horror film to be shown in the modern Indonesian period, female ghosts have dominantly appeared in Indonesian horror films in each period. Female ghosts outperform male ghost representations in terms of numbers, and unequally place women as if they are more frightening and haunting entities than men. This study examined the most comprehensive corpus of Indonesian horror films available, namely: The Indonesian Film Catalog 1926-2007 (2007), the Film Indonesia website (filmindonesia.or.id), and the Wikipedia page “Categories: Indonesian Films”, trying to show how the inequality of ghost representation in women and men are found in the historiography of Indonesian horror films from 1970 to 2019. This study first mapped the entirety of Indonesian horror films followed by breaking down three criteria; the gender of the main protagonist character, gender of main ghosts, and gender of directors in horror films. This study also show how the configuration of genres in the inequality of representation of female and male ghosts in the period 1970 to 2019. The results of this study show that women are dominantly the central characters in horror films who are represented as ghosts or monsters. Indonesian horror films with the representation of female ghosts are dominated by the paranormal horror genre. In addition, although the number of female directors who directed horror films increased in the post-2010 period, where 34 films were directed by women, not all female directors were completely free from the misogynistic vision.
Determination and Comparison of the SERS Enhancement Factor for Nanocomposite Substrates

The surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) enhancement factor (EF) for different types of Au NP – epoxy surface nanocomposites were determined and compared in this work. The surface nanocomposites were fabricated with varying nanoparticle and inter-particle distances and were used for the label-free detection of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) molecules with SERS. Different types of SERS EF (electrical field-enhancement based, substrate-specific, etc.) were determined for three different surface nanocomposites. The relevance and applicability of different SERS EFs for the characterization of the substrates and the effect of particle size / interparticle gap ratio on the determined EFs were discussed in the paper.
Style-Guided and Disentangled Representation for Robust Image-to-Image Translation

Recently, various image-to-image translation (I2I) methods have improved mode diversity and visual quality in terms of neural networks or regularization terms. However, conventional I2I methods relies on a static decision boundary and the encoded representations in those methods are entangled with each other, so they often face with ‘mode collapse’ phenomenon. To mitigate mode collapse, 1) we design a so-called style-guided discriminator that guides an input image to the target image style based on the strategy of flexible decision boundary. 2) Also, we make the encoded representations include independent domain attributes. Based on two ideas, this paper proposes Style-Guided and Disentangled Representation for Robust Image-to-Image Translation (SRIT). SRIT showed outstanding FID by 8%, 22.8%, and 10.1% for CelebA-HQ, AFHQ, and Yosemite datasets, respectively. The translated images of SRIT reflect the styles of target domain successfully. This indicates that SRIT shows better mode diversity than previous works.
Across the Myeloablative Spectrum: Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Conditioning Regimens for Pediatric Patients with Sickle Cell Disease

One out of every five hundred African American children in the United States has sickle cell disease (SCD). While multiple disease-modifying therapies are available, hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) remains the only curative option for children with SCD. HLA-matched sibling HCT has demonstrated excellent efficacy, but its availability remains limited; alternative donor strategies are increasingly explored. While Busulfan-Cyclophosphamide has become the most widespread conditioning regimen employed in HCT for pediatric SCD, many other regimens have been examined. This review explores different conditioning regimens across the intensity spectrum: from myeloablative to non-myeloablative. We describe survival and organ function outcomes in pediatric SCD patients who have received HCT and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the various conditioning intensities. Finally, we posit novel directions in allogeneic HCT for SCD.
The time course of pitch variation towards possible places of speaker transition in German and Swedish

A large body of studies has been carried out to investigate the phonology of conversation. One of the main issues is the significance of certain linguistic settings for turn-taking. The present study adds to the ongoing discussion by investigating pitch movements at different time points: (i) at the turn end, (ii) 200ms before potential turn boundary, (iii) 500ms before potential turn boundary. These values are exacted and compared between different situations of speaker change, backchannels and floor keeps. Moreover, we carry out a cross-linguistic comparison by analyzing pitch as a turn-taking cue in two languages i.e. German and Swedish. Results of our pilot study give evidence for differences concerning final pitch patterns before the offset of speech. Most strikingly, we find much more variation in the pitch span of German speakers, while Swedish is more restricted in F0 variation at turn boundaries. We also observe that German speakers terminate turns with a higher F0 compared to Swedish speakers, who fall more often to their baseline pitch. Interpreted are these findings in the light of structural differences between German and Swedish concerning deployment of pitch accents as being either lexical or for prominence marking. The Swedish pitch accent permits the use of pitch for conversational purposes while German allows a free variation of F0.
Informing the Design of Attention Assessment System for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Thematic Analysis Approach

Attention deficits are highly prevalent in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and these deficits affect their academic achievement. Teachers use subjective attention assessment as a metric to provide required learning support. The subjective approach requires long year of experience, and it is timing consuming as compared with objective assessment. Utilizing the advantage of existing technologies for objective assessment in children with ASD can speed up the time for attention assessment and support stakeholders who have less experience with attention assessment. The goal of this study is to explore attention assessment parameters that are commonly used by experts with children with ASD. A semi-structured interview was conducted with 17 experts from six different ASD related disciplines. Thematic analysis was applied to identity the main factors informing the design of attention evaluation tool. Five main themes emerged as critical parameters for objective attention assessment in children with ASD which are nature of attention, strategies of gaining attention, attentional behaviors, and quantifying attention level. The findings reveal that parallel consideration of attentional behaviors provides an enhanced paradigm for designing an attention assessment system for children with ASD.
Diet composition of the North African freshwater crab, Potamon algeriense (Bott, 1967) in Oued Zegzel (Northeast of Morocco)

ABSTRACT This is the first study of the diet composition of the North African freshwater crab Potamon algeriense by examining stomach contents. Crabs were collected during 1 year, October 2018 to September 2019, from Oued Zegzel, a mountain stream in the Northeast of Morocco. From a total of 72 crabs captured, only 35 males and 30 females had stomach contents that could be analyzed. Diet composition analysis was carried out using the frequency of occurrence and the percentage point methods. Stomach content analysis showed that P. algeriense was found to be an opportunistic omnivore capable of ingesting both vegetal and animal materials, with a predominance of vegetal tissues. High values of the feeding index were observed from summer to late autumn; however, lower values were recorded during the wet season.
Ozonated Olive Oil: Enhanced Cutaneous Delivery via Niosomal Nanovesicles for Melanoma Treatment

Ozonated olive oil (OL) combines the therapeutic effects of both ozone and olive oil. However, it suffers from limited water solubility and poor transdermal permeation, which hinder its application in melanoma treatment. Nanocarrier host molecules, such as niosomes, were used to improve the water solubility, transdermal permeation, and anticancer effect of hydrophobic compounds. This study aims to design and optimize a niosomal vesicular nanoplatform loaded with OL (OL/NSs) to improve OL’s skin permeation and anti-melanoma effect. In this regard, OL was prepared and characterized by evaluating its chemical properties (acid, peroxide, and iodine values) and fatty acid composition using gas chromatography. Then, OL/NSs were developed using the thin film hydration method employing cholesterol, Span 60, and Tween 60 at five different molar ratios. The optimized niosomes had an average diameter of 125.34 ± 13.29 nm, a surface charge of −11.34 ± 4.71 mV, and a spherical shape. They could entrap 87.30 ± 4.95% of the OL. OL/NSs showed a 75% sustained oil release over 24 h. The skin permeation percentage of OL/NSs was 36.78 ± 3.31 and 53.44 ± 6.41% at 12 and 24 h, respectively, three times higher than that of the free OL (11.50 ± 1.3 and 17.24 ± 2.06%, at 12 and 24 h, respectively). Additionally, the anticancer activity of the developed niosmal formulation, when tested on human melanoma cells (A375), was double that of the free OL; the IC50 of the OL/NSs was 8.63 ± 2.8 μg/mL, and that of the free OL was 17.4 ± 3.7 μg/mL. In conclusion, the encapsulation of ozonated olive oil in niosomes enhanced its water solubility, skin permeation, and anticancer activity and thus may represent potent natural chemotherapy in treating melanoma.
Within‐community variation of interspecific divergence patterns in passerine gut microbiota

Abstract Gut microbiota (GM) often exhibit variation between different host species and co‐divergence with hosts' phylogeny. Identifying these patterns is a key for understanding the mechanisms that shaped symbiosis between GM and its hosts. Therefore, both GM‐host species specificity and GM‐host co‐divergence have been investigated by numerous studies. However, most of them neglected a possibility that different groups of bacteria within GM can vary in the tightness of their association with the host. Consequently, unlike most of these studies, we aimed to directly address how the strength of GM‐host species specificity and GM‐host co‐divergence vary across different GM clades. We decomposed GM communities of 52 passerine species (394 individuals), characterized by 16S rRNA amplicon sequence variant (ASV) profiles, into monophyletic Binned Taxonomic units (BTUs). Subsequently, we analyzed strength of host species specificity and correlation with host phylogeny separately for resulting BTUs. We found that most BTUs exhibited significant host‐species specificity in their composition. Notably, BTUs exhibiting high host‐species specificity comprised bacterial taxa known to impact host's physiology and immune system. However, BTUs rarely displayed significant co‐divergence with host phylogeny, suggesting that passerine GM evolution is not shaped primarily through a shared evolutionary history between the host and its gut microbes.
THE IMPACT OF NURSING SAFETY CLIMATE ON REPORTING PATIENT SAFETY EVENTS IN SOME EGYPTIAN NURSING UNITS

Background: Although, the reporting of events has been the first priority and has received most attention in health care, many events are underreported for some reasons. So, implementing appropriate safety climate is necessary for managing reporting of events. Objectives: The main objective of this study is to examine the impact of nursing safety climate on reporting patient safety events Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive correlational design amongst 314 nurses was used in this study. Also, two adopted and three developed instruments were used. Results: Valid and reliable instruments were used to assess nursing safety climate and barriers to report events. Underreporting of events among nurses was related to some barriers. There was a significant negative correlation between reporting climate barrier and nurses’ attitude towards the models of reporting events. Also, there was a significant positive correlation between reporting process dimension and barriers towards nurses’ attitudes to reporting events. Conclusion: Two developed instruments could only be generalized in Egyptian nursing units. Reporting rates and attitudes can be greatly enhanced by overcoming the barriers to reporting events and improving nursing safety climate.
Social Anxiety and Quality of Life: Mediating Role of Stigma Perception in Individuals Who Stutter

Children, adolescents, and adults who stutter widely experience anxiety and avoid social situations; hence stuttering negatively affects their quality of life (Yaruss & Quesal, 2004). The study aims to investigate the relation between social anxiety, stigma perception, and quality of life among individuals who stutter and to examine if stigma perception mediates between social anxiety and quality of life. Participants of aged 11- 25 years (Mage =18.83, SD = 4.74, N = 117) were recruited using purposive and snowball sampling technique. Participants were screened based on dysfluency using DSM-5 (2013) stuttering criteria. Results revealed significant association between social anxiety, stigma perception, and quality of life. Mediation analysis also showed that stigma perception partially mediated the relation between social anxiety and quality of life in individuals who stutter. Furthermore, significant age differences were found in social anxiety and quality of life in individuals who stutter. The study concluded that stigma perception partially mediates the relationship between social anxiety and quality of life; therefore, social anxiety and perceived stigma need to be reduced to enhance stuttering individuals’ quality of life. Results highlight the importance of multidisciplinary approach in the management of stuttering.
Object-Oriented Semantic SLAM Based on Geometric Constraints of Points and Lines

In semantic visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), accurate object-level reconstruction of the environment based on the deep learning techniques is very crucial for high-level scene recognition and semantic object association. However, existing work handles this problem with the assumption of a simple world. There is still a challenge to improve the accuracy of object reconstruction based on images with a complicated environment background. In this work, we propose an improved object recovery method applying the DBSCAN algorithm based on geometric features. Outlier points and abnormal clusters can be identified by combining the clustering algorithm and the nonparametric test. In addition, we develop an adaptive sampling strategy based on line features with varying-step intervals, which can achieve a more accurate estimation of the object orientation. The proposed method is integrated with the ORB-SLAM2 framework to construct a real-time image-based reconstruction system. The qualitative and quantitative evaluation on public data sets and real-world scenarios demonstrates the robustness and effectiveness of our approach compared to the related work.
Almost Full EFX Exists for Four Agents

The existence of EFX allocations of goods is a major open problem in fair division, even for additive valuations. The current state of the art is that no setting where EFX allocations are impossible is known, and yet, existence results are known only for very restricted settings, such as: (i) agents with identical valuations, (ii) 2 agents, and (iii) 3 agents with additive valuations. It is also known that EFX exists if one can leave n-1 items unallocated, where n is the number of agents. We develop new techniques that allow us to push the boundaries of the enigmatic EFX problem beyond these known results, and (arguably) to simplify proofs of earlier results. Our main result is that every setting with 4 additive agents admits an EFX allocation that leaves at most a single item unallocated. Beyond our main result, we introduce a new class of valuations, termed nice cancelable, which includes additive, unit-demand, budget-additive and multiplicative valuations, among others. Using our new techniques, we show that both our results and previous results for additive valuations extend to nice cancelable valuations.
Association of NTproBNP in metabolic syndrome

Aim: The association between NTpro BNP values and different biochemical and anthropometric parameters of metabolic syndrome patients and non-metabolic syndrome individuals are correlated here. Methods: The research involved 200 people aged 21 to 60 years old (100 control and 100 cases). The following measurements were taken- FBS, SBP, DBP, BMI, and lipid profile. Using multiple regression, we examined the correlation between NTproBNP and metabolic syndrome and non-metabolic syndrome patients. Correlation of Metabolic syndrome parameters with NTproBNP values are done. Result: NT pro BNP values are higher in metabolic syndrome patients in comparison to non-Metabolic syndrome patients. NTproBNP values are positively correlated with SBP, TG, LDL values in metabolic syndrome patients. Conclusion: NT pro BNP values are higher in metabolic syndrome patients in comparison to non-Metabolic syndrome patients.
Explainable Shapley-Based Allocation (Student Abstract)

The Shapley value is one of the most important normative division scheme in cooperative game theory, satisfying basic axioms. However, some allocation according to the Shapley value may seem unfair to humans. In this paper, we develop an automatic method that generates intuitive explanations for a Shapley-based payoff allocation, which utilizes the basic axioms. Given a coalitional game, our method decomposes it to sub-games, for which it is easy to generate verbal explanations, and shows that the given game is composed of the sub-games. Since the payoff allocation for each sub-game is perceived as fair, the Shapley-based payoff allocation for the given game should seem fair as well. We run an experiment with 210 human participants and show that when applying our method, humans perceive Shapley-based payoff allocation as significantly more fair than when using a general standard explanation.