Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Becoming a part of ‘elsewhereness’: On the self‐perceived integration of Swedish immigrants in Portugal

This article discusses the self-perceived integration of Swedes permanently residing in Portugal. The knowledge of how EU citizens, particularly Swedes, live and integrate into Portuguese society is limited. The conceptual framework on self-perceived integration takes its points of departure from the concepts of a sense of belonging to society and place, feelings of discomfort and coping tactics. Using a semi-structured interview guide, 36 in-depth interviews with Swedes permanently residing in Portugal were conducted. Whereas some of the permanently residing Swedes have no ambition of integrating into Portuguese society, others display a strong self-perceived feeling of being integrated within the community where they live. The added value of this paper is that it shows the complexity behind the construction of the feeling of self-perceived integration of Swedes in Portugal. Building a feeling of self-perceived integration depends on many factors and is not a linear process.
Acceptability and Storage Studies of Guava-Aloe Nectar Blends

A study was undertaken during 2011 at post harvest technology laboratory, College of Horticulture, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, to prepare value added products from guava blended with Aloe vera and assess their storage behaviour and acceptability. By following a standardized protocol, nectar blends of guava and aloe were prepared. Pulps were extracted separately, blended at desired proportions, homogenized and used for making nectar blends. Products were preserved by pasteurization and packed in 200 ml glass bottles. In order to study storage stability and consumer acceptability, products were stored for a period of three months at 10 + 10 o C and analyzed for physico chemical quality and overall acceptability at monthly intervals. Results depict that there was slight increase in total soluble solids and acidity, and a considerable increase in reducing sugars but, slight decrease in pH, total sugars and a considerable decrease in ascorbic acid and antioxidant activity during storage of 90 days. All the blends were acceptable at all the storage intervals. However, blending G:A at 70:30 was found highly acceptable with higher sensory score. In any blend, as the storage period increased, ascorbic acid and antioxidant activity declined but there was minimum decrease noticed in G:A at 60:40 which was found more shelf stable.
Assessment of level of aggression among husbands and wives

In the present research an attempt was made to assess the level of aggression among husbands & wives (married couples). The study was carried on by formulating hypotheses that (a) – Husbands and Wives would differ significantly in terms of their aggressive behaviour. (b)- Husbands and Wives would differ significantly in terms of their Physical Aggression, Verbal Aggression, Anger and Hostility. For empirical verification of these two hypotheses a study was conducted on a sample of 100 Married Couples (50 Husbands and 50 Wives) from Patna by employing incidental sampling technique. The Buss-Perry Scale was used for measuring aggression among married couples. A personal data sheet was also prepared and used by the researcher for collecting necessary personal information about respondents. For the analysis of the obtained scores t-ratio was computed. The findings on the whole indicated that there is significant difference between husbands and wives in terms of their level of aggression.
The study of the risk factor profile of stroke in young: a retrospective study

Background: Cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) is the second leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the world. Traditional risk factors for stroke are not very frequent in young population. However, other permanent or transient risk factors such as smoking, alcohol consumption, use of oral contraceptives, migraine, and puerperium have a more important role in young population. The objective of our study is to establish the risk factor profile in stroke in young. Methods: This retrospective study of 100 patients of stroke, in the age group of 18–40 years, admitted in the medical wards of BMCRI, Bangalore. The patients were identified from the medical records from January 2018 to June 2019. Results: Out of 100 patients of stroke in young, males were (58%) than females (42%) sex ratio was 1.38:1. Most common age group was 36-40 years (34%), mean age was 31.24 years. Most common risk factor was Hypertension (34%) followed by smoking (33%), alcohol consumption (28%), diabetes (21%), morbid obesity (12%). Most common type of stroke was ischemic (78%) and hemorrhagic (22%). In our study, 63.6% of hemorrhagic patients had hypertension showing statistically significant. Among patients of ischemic stroke, most common risk factor was smoking and tobacco chewing (32%). Conclusions: There is rising trend in stroke among young, hence we should evaluate for various risk factors and identification these factors in otherwise healthy individuals and with life style modifications, we can prevent the increase in incidence of Stroke among young.
FIFTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE FOR ECUADORIAN RECORDS IN ORNITHOLOGY (CERO), WITH COMMENTS ON SOME PUBLISHED, UNDOCUMENTED RECORDS

Freile, J.F. , Olmstead, O. , Athanas, N. , Brinkhuizen, D.M. , Navarrete, L. , Nilsson, J., Sánchez-Nivicela, M. , Solano-Ugalde, A. , & Greenfield, P.J. (2020). Fifth report of the Committee for Ecuadorian Records in Ornithology (CERO), with comments on some published, undocumented records. Revista Ecuatoriana de Ornitología, 6, 103– 133. Fifth report of the Committee for Ecuadorian Records in Ornithology (CERO), with comments on some published, undocumented records
The role of the school in inculcating citizenship values in South Africa: Theoretical and international comparative perspectives

In view of the serious moral decay in South African society, this article reports on our research regarding the role of the school in the inculcation of citizenship values (as part of the brief of South African education). We regard a set of citizenship values consonant with a democratic dispensation to be a core component of a moral order essential for South Africa. Using a combination of interpretive-constructivist and comparative approaches, we examine and evaluate the experiences of other post-conflict societies in using education to inculcate citizenship values. We conclude that schools can be successful with respect to the inculcation of citizenship values, provided that the curriculum itself does not discriminate against any group or category of people. Desegregation can only be beneficial in the absence of negative depiction (including criminalisation) or the unequal treatment of any particular societal grouping. Our research suggests that active citizenship education is needed in schools. For this reason, we contend that teacher education has to form an integral part of a moral revival project. Lastly, we highlight the importance of finding democratically agreed-upon ways to continually engage with parents, legal caregivers and other stakeholders and role-players before and during the execution of any such project.
Morphology, Mineralogy, and Chemistry of Ocherous Precipitate Aggregates Downstream of an Abandoned Mine Site

Mineral precipitates forming downstream of abandoned and/or uncontrolled mine sites generally act as scavengers for heavy metals, such as As and Sb, leaking from the sites. This study reports the morphology of ocherous precipitate aggregates downstream of Ayuta, an abandoned antimony mine site in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, because its morphology differs significantly from those reported previously. The morphology of this aggregate consists of stacked, small terraces enclosed by numerous connected rimstone dams, although on a smaller scale compared to typical terrace landscapes. The rimstone pools contained ocherous spheroids precipitates at the bottom. Additionally, stream water and ocherous aggregates collected from the site were investigated for mineralogy and chemistry. As (0.07–0.17 μg/L) and Sb (0.02 μg/L) levels in the stream water were determined, and the distributions of As and Sb in the mineral phases of the precipitate were estimated using a sequential extraction procedure. The investigations revealed that As was adsorbed by iron-bearing ocherous precipitate aggregates, especially ferrihydrite that formed on the stream bank at concentrations, comparable to those reported by other studies (85 mg/kg). This adsorption contributed to the natural attenuation of As in the stream. Sb in the aggregate consisted of ultra-fine silt and clay-size particles of stibnite ore transported from the surrounding area and/or secondary minerals transported by groundwater and surface water.
BU-Net: Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Modified U-Net Architecture

The semantic segmentation of a brain tumor is of paramount importance for its treatment and prevention. Recently, researches have proposed various neural network-based architectures to improve the performance of segmentation of brain tumor sub-regions. Brain tumor segmentation, being a challenging area of research, requires improvement in its performance. This paper proposes a 2D image segmentation method, BU-Net, to contribute to brain tumor segmentation research. Residual extended skip (RES) and wide context (WC) are used along with the customized loss function in the baseline U-Net architecture. The modifications contribute by finding more diverse features, by increasing the valid receptive field. The contextual information is extracted with the aggregating features to get better segmentation performance. The proposed BU-Net was evaluated on the high-grade glioma (HGG) datasets of the BraTS2017 Challenge—the test datasets of the BraTS 2017 and 2018 Challenge datasets. Three major labels to segmented were tumor core (TC), whole tumor (WT), and enhancing core (EC). To compare the performance quantitatively, the dice score was utilized. The proposed BU-Net outperformed the existing state-of-the-art techniques. The high performing BU-Net can have a great contribution to researchers from the field of bioinformatics and medicine.
The evaluation of Heathy School Program at junior high school receiving the National Adiwiyata

The aimed of this research is to evaluate healthy school program at SMP N 2 Kalasan. A healthy school program are program issued by the ministry of education and culture. This program focuses on how schools are to develop a school movement that is healthy, safe, child-friendly and fun. In this study used the CIPP evaluation model, where the focus of the research is on the context, input, process, products of healthy school programs. The technique of collected data used observation, interviews and documentation studies. While for data validity used triangulation and data analysis techniques based on Miles and Bubberman models that used 4 steps, namely: data collection, data reduction, data presentation, data verification. The results showed: 1) from the aspect of context, the healthy school program at SMP N 2 Kalasan was a school appointed by the government because it was considered capable and appropriate, and have become an example of Adiwiyata Schools in Sleman districts and won the national level Adiwiyata School program; 2) from the aspect of input, the design of a healthy school program is able to answer problems related to the input of students who have different healthy life habits; 3) from the aspect of the process, the healthy school program has been implemented properly, but is constrained by funds and revitalization of facilities and infrastructure because it only uses independent funds from the school; 4) and from the aspect of the product, the healthy school program at SMP N 2 Kalasan has proceeded according to its objectives and has the right to continue the program, but with a note that there are still aspects to improvement.
Assessing Trees, Wood and Derived Products with near Infrared Spectroscopy: Hints and Tips

Wood is a renewable and valuable resource for a variety of end-use application areas. However, rapid and reliable assessments are needed to identify the quality of the tree, timber or wood product at all stages of production and processing. The ideal technology for assessing wood and wood products must provide reliable data, be user-friendly, cost-competitive and provide a rapid analysis. The ultimate application of near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy of wood or wood products is to substitute for costly and time-consuming reference measurements in order to aid process optimisation or determine properties and genetic traits on large numbers of individual samples. Increased interest in the application of NIR spectroscopy in various research fields including wood is observed nowadays. A vast number of publications highlight the potential of NIR spectroscopy for the characterisation of wood in a broad area of uses. The Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy has published two special issues on the application of NIR to forestry and wood research in 2010 and 2011 and a recent literature search yielded in excess of 556,000 results which can be easily found by using the search terms “NIR” and “wood”. This mass of published data may suggest that the technique of NIR spectroscopy is widely understood and broadly adopted by the timber industry, but even in recent papers it is evident that there is still a need to better understand the fundamental issues regarding sample selection and preparation, instrument choice, correct measurement and spectral interpretation. In this paper we draw on more than 40 years of collective experience and summarise state-of-the-art knowledge regarding instrumentation, spectral acquisition and data mining in regard to wood science and technology. The goal of this tutorial is two-fold: first, to inform early career wood scientists of the critical steps in utilising NIR spectroscopy to assess the quality of wood. Second, to alert managers to the level of operator skill required for the successful adoption of NIR technology. Some basic information is presented here, but due to the limited size of the manuscript, reference to more specific and detailed literature is provided in each section.
The Elucidation of Total Polyphenols, Individual Phenolic Compounds, Antioxidant Activity of Three Underutilized Fruit Species—Black Crowberry, Honeyberry, European Cranberry with Their Accumulation

Total polyphenols content (TPC), antioxidant activity (AA) and polyphenolic spectrum assay of three underutilized fruit species—black crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), honeyberry (Lonicera kamtschatica) and European cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos) is the aim of the present work. TPC and AA assay was performed by spectrophotometry and “individual phenolic compounds” were established by high-performance liquid chromatography. The results showed that TPC ranged from 1.61 ± 0.16 (European cranberry) up to 5.65 ± 0.01 (Black cowberry) gallic acid mg/g fresh weight. The highest value of DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) free radical scavenging assay was determined in black crowberry fruit (7.43 ± 0.34 mmol TROLOX/g fresh weight of fruit). In all samples, the most prevalent phenolic acid was ferulic acid with the highest content in the samples of black crowberry (77.73 ± 3.99 µg/g FW of fruit), black crowberry and honeyberry were present by the highest level of gallic acid (21.82 ± 1.53; 15.07 ± 2.45 µg/g FW of fruit). Honeyberry represented a valuable source of quercetin (12.18 ± 7.88 µg/g FW of fruit), whereas European cranberry and honeyberry are a source of rutin (28.48 ± 0.83 and 27.99 ± 1.78 µg/g FW of fruit, respectively). The results of statistical analyses proved significant differences between cowberry and European cranberry in TPC content and in AA among assayed species. In the same way, statistically significant differences were confirmed in phenolic acids among the assayed species except for European cranberry-honeyberry (in trans p-coumaric, protocatequic and cinnamic acid) and honeyberry-cowberry (in cinnamic acid content). The catechin content is significantly influenced by species (p ≤ 0.05), on the other hand the species has no influence on the resveratrol content (p > 0.05). Each of the studied species can be considered as valuable source of total polyphenols and individual phenolic compounds. Polyphenolic compounds were most frequently accumulated in the vacuole as well as in the outer layers of pericarp.
Caregivers’ Perception and Practice of Infection Prevention and Control for COVID-19 at a Tertiary Centre, Southern Nigeria

Introduction: The World Health Organization had recommended a multi-prong approach for the prevention and control of COVID-19, which has risen into a major global public health challenge. Government of nations are to disseminate information on these protective measures to the general public to mitigate the spread of the disease. However, people’s adherence to these preventive strategies is essential to guarantee success. Objective: To appraise the perception and practice of recommended measures for the prevention and control of COVID-19 by caregivers of children attending the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital. Methodology: This descriptive cross-sectional study was done among parents/caregivers of children attending the Children’s Out Patient clinics, wards and emergency room of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, between August and Original Research Article Eke and Yaguo-Ide; JAMMR, 32(24): 280-288, 2020; Article no.JAMMR. 64184 281 September 2020. Information obtained using a structured investigator-administered questionnaire included bio data and perception about COVID-19 while practice of its preventive measures was observed. Data were analysed using SPSS version 25. Results: All participants (161) have heard about COVID-19, mainly through the television and radio. The majority of them (n=141, 87.6%) knew that a combination of measures is needed for its prevention. More than half of participants (59%) washed their hands with water and soap provided, 89% of them had a facemask, a lesser proportion (58%) wore the mask and an even lesser proportion (28.6%) of them wore it properly. There was no significant difference between level of education or occupation of caregivers and proper wearing of the facemask. Conclusion: Though the awareness of COVID-19 was high, there was a gap between perception and practice of its preventive measures. Health education and innovative local strategies are recommended, to help improve the people’s acceptance of, and compliance to the stipulated multiprong preventive measures.
Evaluation of Yield and Quality Attributes of Grafted Brinjal under Treated Paperboard Mill Effluent Irrigation and Sludge Application

Field experiment was conducted to assess the impact of paperboard mill sludge compost and treated paperboard mill effluent irrigation on growth and yield of grafted brinjal. Among the different treatment combinations, application of phosphorus enriched ETP sludge compost at 5 t ha-1 along with treated effluent through drip irrigation and recommended level of NPK (200:150:100 kg NPK ha-1) resulted the highest brinjal yield of 42.7 t ha-1. There were no adverse effects on soil properties due to sludge compost application and treated effluent irrigation. Quality attributes of the fruits which include anthocyanin content, total phenol content, ascorbic acid content, titrable acidity and protein content were not affected due to the composted sludge application along with treated effluent irrigation. Thus, the treated effluent and the composted sludge which complies with the state pollution control board norms can be used as a viable alternative source of irrigation and nutrients for grafted brinjal cultivation without adversely affecting on crop quality.
Machine Learning Based Prediction of Nanoscale Ice Adhesion on Rough Surfaces

It is widely recognized that surface roughness plays an important role in ice adhesion strength, although the correlation between the two is far from understood. In this paper, two approaches, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and machine learning (ML), were utilized to study the nanoscale intrinsic ice adhesion strength on rough surfaces. A systematic algorithm for making random rough surfaces was developed and the surfaces were tested for their ice adhesion strength, with varying interatomic potentials. Using MD simulations, the intrinsic ice adhesion strength was found to be significantly lower on rougher surfaces, which was attributed to the lubricating effect of a thin quasi-liquid layer. An increase in the substrate–ice interatomic potential increased the thickness of the quasi-liquid layer on rough surfaces. Two different ML algorithms, regression and classification, were trained using the results from the MD simulations, with support vector machines (SVM) emerging as the best for classifying. The ML approach showed an encouraging prediction accuracy, and for the first time shed light on using ML for anti-icing surface design. The findings provide a better understanding of the role of nanoscale roughness in intrinsic ice adhesion and suggest that ML can be a powerful tool in finding materials with a low ice adhesion strength.
Heterosis and Combining Ability for Yield and Yield Attributing Traits in Tossa Jute (Corchorus olitorius L.)

Jute is one of the important bast fibre crop in the World next to cotton. Yield potential of this fibre crop is still under exploited and this natural fibre is facing challenges from synthetic products which calls for immediate attention to restore breeding works in a comprehensive manner. The present research has been contemplated with ten hybrids evolved from five lines of Tossa jute following half diallel matting design to ascertain gene action, combining ability and heterotic potential of the hybrids in respect of fibre yield and yield attributing traits. Methods comprised of growing of parents as well as F1s along with standard check in randomized complete block design (RCBD) maintaining three replications followed by recording observation on fibre yield and other yield attributing traits. Results revealed that most of the studied traits were governed by non-additive gene action which justified exploitation of heterosis utilizing these traits in this crop. The specific combining ability (SCA) components of variance (σ2 SCA) were larger than the general combining ability (GCA) components of variance (σ2 GCA) for all of the five traits under study which further implied the preponderance of non-additive components of variance towards the expression of these traits. JRO 524 was detected as the best general combiner considering the economically important trait. Finally, considering dry fibre and stick yield, three hybrids, namely OIN 24 × JRO 524, OIN 39 × OIN 46 and OIN 39 × JRO 524 has been identified to be superior over their better parent as well as standard check regarding these traits. Additionally, all these three hybrids exhibited positive and significant SCA effects. These three promising specific combiners can be advanced to get better Tossa jute lines for bolstering economic returns of the farming community in future.