Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Very Young Child Survivors’ Perceptions of Their Father’s Suicide: Exploring Bibliotherapy as Postvention Support

Each year in the United States, 7000 to 30,000 children experience their parent’s suicide. Due to the stigma associated with suicide, feelings of guilt, and intense grief, surviving family members avoid talking about suicide. Over time, children struggle with confusion and intense emotions associated with their parent’s suicide. In this study, seven adults, who reported being younger than six years old at the time of their father’s suicide, participated in individual semi-structured interviews. Participants’ responses highlight the challenges that young children face due to limited memories of their deceased parent. Interviews concluded with an opportunity for participants to review and express their impressions of 10 children’s picture books. Participants offered impressions about how these books may or may not be helpful in supporting young child survivors. Implications for applied practice include considering how children’s literature may open communication and assist children in navigating Worden’s tasks of grief: (a) accepting the reality of their parent’s death; (b) facing the grief and pain; (c) adapting to life changes due to their father’s suicide, in particular adapting to altered family relationships; and (d) building memories of the deceased loved one, when possible, to ensure healthy attachment to the deceased parent. Participants’ insights provide considerations for selecting children’s literature for bibliotherapy. Due to young child survivors’ increased risk for attempting and completing suicide, supporting child survivors of parent suicide not only addresses postvention needs but aligns with suicide prevention.
Fire resistance of FRP-strengthened RC beams : numerical simulation and performance-based design

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Parallel Ensemble Deep Learning for Real-Time Remote Sensing Video Multi-Target Detection

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is one of the main means of information warfare, such as in battlefield cruises, reconnaissance, and military strikes. Rapid detection and accurate recognition of key targets in UAV images are the basis of subsequent military tasks. The UAV image has characteristics of high resolution and small target size, and in practical application, the detection speed is often required to be fast. Existing algorithms are not able to achieve an effective trade-off between detection accuracy and speed. Therefore, this paper proposes a parallel ensemble deep learning framework for unmanned aerial vehicle video multi-target detection, which is a global and local joint detection strategy. It combines a deep learning target detection algorithm with template matching to make full use of image information. It also integrates multi-process and multi-threading mechanisms to speed up processing. Experiments show that the system has high detection accuracy for targets with focal lengths varying from one to ten times. At the same time, the real-time and stable display of detection results is realized by aiming at the moving UAV video image.
NDT for concrete under accelerated freeze/thaw tests and surface scaling

Freezing of water or salt solution in concrete pores is a main cause for severe damage and significant reduction of the service life. Most of the freeze-thaw (F-T) accelerated tests measure the scaling of concrete by weighting. This paper presents complementary procedures based on the use of strain gages and ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV) for measuring the deterioration of concrete due to freezing and thawing. These non-destructive testing (NDT) procedures are applied to two types of concretes, one susceptible to F-T damage and the other does not. The results show a good correlation between scaling and the measurements obtained with NDT. Showing NDT the advantage to detect before the damage and to perform continuous measurement
What is the Problem of Homelessness in Japan? Conceptualisation, Research, and Policy Response

The definition of homelessness and the policies responding to it differ from society to society, as does understanding a state of being "homeless", all of which are socially constructed. Because in Japan today homelessness is perceived only as a situation of sleeping on the street, the prevalence is perceived as low. However, this definition is narrow compared to what, for example, FEANTSA has proposed in Europe. Therefore, Japanese policy and policy makers need to shift to be congruent with international standards. To begin this shift we need to understand how the "narrow" perception of homelessness in Japan has been constructed. Therefore, in this paper a historical review is provided starting on the premise of the "loss of home" of Japanese society after World War II, the rapid increase of "visible homelessness" since the 1990s, the enactment of formal homelessness law, and rising "visible homelessness". More recently there is also expanded interest in "invisible homelessness" due to current homelessness research. The issue of lack of a public housing allowance and limited public housing is explored connected to an absence of housing policy. Finally, the Covid-19 pandemic has increased anxiety about the loss of homes and there is a need to shift homelessness measures into housing policy.
Evaluation of Technological Environment on Organizational Performance among Selected Medium Scale Enterprise in Enugu State

Business organizations the world over are sufficiently environmental dependent and environmental serving because they do not exist in a vacuum. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of technological environment on organizational performance. The specific objectives of the study were to examine the role technological environment on organizational customer satisfaction and organizational market share among selected Small and medium scale enterprises in Enugu. Descriptive research design was adopted in the study among 217 staff of the selected medium scale enterprises in Enugu. Structured questionnaire was used in collecting data which was presented in tables. The result of the study shows that Technological environment has no significant role on organizational customer satisfaction among selected Small and medium scale enterprises in Enugu (R = .782 a , p =.000) and technological environment has a significant effect on organizational market share among selected Small and medium scale enterprises in Enugu (R = .835 a , p =.000). The study recommended that the management of medium scale enterprise should look deeply inward and see how best they can utilized the technological advancement in achieving the organizational goal of customer satisfaction (c) the political and (d) the technological and (2) determine which one had the strongest impact on organizational performance. The data were collected from multiple sources comprising of (1) interviews (2) observations (3) self-administered questionnaire and (4) documents and records. In all, 630 respondents were used for the study. The respondents were selected using multiple sampling techniques - comprising of (i) stratified random sampling (ii)quota sampling and (iii) systematic sampling techniques. The data were analyzed using parametric and non-parametric statistics. The result of the study showed that the organizations under focus were not performing very well because they appear to be operating in an unfavourable economic political and technological environment in the period between 1993 and 1998. Only the socio-cultural environment appears to be favourable but this did not help to enhance organizational performance
A comparison of developmental reasons for substance use between sexual minority and heterosexual emerging adults

Abstract Emerging adults (EAs; 18–29 years) have the highest rates of substance use across the lifespan, with some research displaying sexual minority EAs are at higher risk of substance use than their heterosexual counterparts. We explored differences in rates of substance use and developmental reasons for alcohol, binge drinking, and cannabis between sexual minority and heterosexual EAs. Participants (n = 145) in a randomized control trial completed Emerging Adult Reasons for Substance Use (EARS) and substance use frequency measures, pertaining to the past 90 days. Although unsolicited, 17% (n = 25) of the sample identified as a sexual minority (i.e., not exclusively heterosexual). EARS concepts include developmental strain, subjective invulnerability, and normative expectancy. Sexual minority EAs experienced greater developmental strain, putting them at risk for problematic substance use. Compared to their heterosexual peers, sexual minority EAs reported higher alcohol and cannabis use, significantly higher binge-drinking, and were identified as hazardous drinkers by the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Tool (AUDIT-C). Future research should continue to examine dimensions of emerging adulthood and substance use with larger samples of sexual minority EAs and with qualitative methods. Practitioners should address unique developmental stressors sexual minority EAs experience when assisting those with substance use problems.
Prevention of hepatocellular carcinoma and monitoring of high-risk patients

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) accounts for some 80% of primary liver tumors. According to recent data, HCC is the sixth most common type of cancer and the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Risk factors for HCC include the presence of the hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and exposure to noxious agents, such as alcohol, or toxins, such as aflatoxin, which are considered preventable etiologies of HCC. Monitoring strategies are needed for patients at risk of developing HCC. There is a consensus on routine monitoring of cirrhotic patients due to definitive evidence of a significantly high rate of progression to HCC; however, the appropriate surveillance of patients with advanced fibrosis remains a topic of discussion. Nevertheless, adherence to a strict observation protocol is the cornerstone of early detection and treatment with curative options for patients with a high risk of developing HCC. This review examines prevention strategies, risk factors, and surveillance based on current guidelines.
Feature Mapping and Deep Long Short Term Memory Network based Efficient Approach for Parkinson’s disease Diagnosis

In this paper, a novel approach was developed for Parkinson’s disease (PD) diagnosis based on speech disorders. When the literature about the speech disorders-based PD diagnosis was reviewed, it was seen that the most of approaches were concentrated on the feature selection as the datasets contained a huge number of features. In contrast, in the proposed approach, instead of eliminating some of the features by using any feature selection method, all features were initially used for forming a mapping procedure where the input feature vectors were converted to the input images. Then, a deep Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) network was employed for PD detection where the obtained images were used. The deep LSTM network carried out both feature extraction and classification processes and its training was carried out in an end-to-end fashion. The activations in the convolutional layer were converted to sequence data through the sequence-folding and sequence-unfolding layers. The activations in the LSTM output with learning parameters were conveyed to the Softmax layer for the classification process. A publically available PD dataset was used in the experimental works and classification accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, precision, and F-score metrics were used for performance evaluation. The obtained accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, precision and F-score values were 94.27%, 0.960, 0.960, 0.910 and 0.930, respectively. The obtained results were also compared with some of the published results and it had seen that most of the achievements of the proposed method are better than the compared methods.
Phase Transition and Magnetoelectric Effect in 2D Ferromagnetic Films on a Ferroelectric Substrate

In this paper, we investigate the behavior of 2D ferromagnetic (FM) films on a ferroelectric (FE) substrate with a periodic structure. The two-dimensional Frenkel–Kontorova (FK) potential simulates the substrate effect on the film. The substrate potential corresponds to a cubic crystal lattice. The Ising model and the Wolf cluster algorithm are used to describe the magnetic behavior of a FM film. The effect of an electric field on a FE substrate leads to its deformation, which is uniform and manifests itself in a period change of the substrate potential. Computer simulation shows that substrate deformations lead to a decrease in the FM film Curie temperature. If the substrate deformations exceed 5%, the film deformations become inhomogeneous. In addition, we derive the dependence of film magnetization on the external electric field.
Determining end user behaviours for wireless telecommunication services

With the advent of numerous wireless telecommunication services, users are moving to 'any where, any time and any how' services. Yet the advantages of wireless telecommunication services are not fully realised due to inherent problems including difficulties encountered by end-users in adopting wireless networks, finding services that are suitable to meet their needs, current limitations on user mobility, limitations placed on terminal capabilities and system interoperability issues. Due to technical and regulatory limitations, network providers find it difficult to provide users with services that they demand as there are numerous challenges yet to be addressed. This has given the impetus to find factors that determine the adoption of wireless telecommunication services by end users. This research examined the behavioural characteristics of the end-users for their choice of wireless telecommunication services to address those issues with adoption of wireless services. The study began with an initial exploration of existing literature including a review of theories such as TAM, WIMD, TPB and UTAUT to identify challenges that impact user behaviour and their influence on using wireless telecommunications services. Due to the relative newness of the topic, both qualitative and quantitative approaches involving convergent interviews and online surveys respectively were considered suitable for the study. Eight convergent interviews followed by an online survey with respondents having wireless usage experience have been conducted to determine the factors that influence the end user behaviours for their choice of wireless services. The findings revealed that mobility, system interactivity, wireless trust environment, system interoperability and user context play a significant role in determining the adoption of wireless services by end users.
The Association of Recurrent and Multiple Types of Abuse with Adverse Mental Health, Substance Use, and Sexual Health Outcomes among Out-of-School Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Cape Town, South Africa

Although physical and sexual abuse exposure is a well-established risk for poor health, the dimensions of abuse associated with health among socially vulnerable adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) remain underexamined. This article describes associations between combinations of abuse type and timing with mental health, substance use, and sexual risk outcomes among a sample of 499 AGYW (aged 16 to 19) who had left school early and were recruited for a cluster randomized trial in Cape Town, South Africa. Approximately one-third (33.5%; 95% CI: 28.7, 38.6) of participants reported lifetime abuse. Exposure to more than one type of abuse was associated with increased risk of depression (β = 3.92; 95% CI: 2.25, 5.59) and anxiety (β = 3.70; 95% CI: 2.11, 5.28), and greater odds of polydrug use (OR = 2.10; 95% CI: 1.02, 4.34) and substance-impaired sex (OR = 2.17; 95% CI: 1.31, 3.86). Exposure to multiple types of abuse during childhood/early adolescence and again in late adolescence was associated with increased risk of depression (β = 4.65; 95% CI: 3.15, 6.14), anxiety (β = 4.35; 95% CI: 2.70, 6.02), and polydrug use (OR = 2.37; 95% CI: 1.03, 5.73). Findings underscore the need for trauma-informed interventions that reduce mental health, substance use, and sexual risks among AGYW who have experienced multiple forms of abuse and recurrent abuse.
Point-of-Interest (POI) Data Validation Methods: An Urban Case Study

Point-of-interest (POI) data from map sources are increasingly used in a wide range of applications, including real estate, land use, and transport planning. However, uncertainties in data quality arise from the fact that some of this data are crowdsourced and proprietary validation workflows lack transparency. Comparing data quality between POI sources without standardized validation metrics is a challenge. This study reviews and implements the available POI validation methods, working towards identifying a set of metrics that is applicable across datasets. Twenty-three validation methods were found and categorized. Most methods evaluated positional accuracy, while logical consistency and usability were the least represented. A subset of nine methods was implemented to assess four real-world POI datasets extracted for a highly urbanized neighborhood in Singapore. The datasets were found to have poor completeness with errors of commission and omission, although spatial errors were reasonably low (<60 m). Thematic accuracy in names and place types varied. The move towards standardized validation metrics depends on factors such as data availability for intrinsic or extrinsic methods, varying levels of detail across POI datasets, the influence of matching procedures, and the intended application of POI data.
Factors Influencing Electronic Information Sources Utilised by Pharmacy Lecturers in Universities in South-South, Nigeria

This study is a comprehensive investigation of key factors influencing the utilisation of electronic information sources (EIS) by pharmacy lecturers in both government and private universities in South-South Nigeria. This study aims at identifying the significant factors that influence the usage of EIS in order to provide remedies to increase their utilisation. Survey research method was adopted using questionnaire as an instrument for data collection from the population by simple random sampling. Results indicate that awareness level of EIS among the lecturers was moderate and usage was high. There is no significant difference in the level of awareness of EIS across the five universities. There is no significant influence of academic and gender status of respondents on the usage of EIS. Awareness of EIS, computer and Internet literacy skills and competence of pharmacy lecturers in using EIS were found to be key factors that significantly influence the utilisation of EIS.
Finding headspace in green workplaces : the restorative value of science park open space

Person-environment relationships in five urban-fringe science parks in central Scotland were investigated through the application of a mixed method case study design. The study sought to explore the impact of greenspace at these knowledge-sector workplaces on employee wellbeing, with particular focus on restorative effects of viewing and spending time in green environments. The thesis also aims to develop understanding of how workers at these sites engage with, and relate to, the outdoor environment at their workplace. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected; the former through an online questionnaire (n=366), and the latter through in-depth semi-structured walking interviews (n=16) conducted on and around the sites. This research is the first to provide evidence of wellbeing benefits of greenspace in the context of UK workplaces. Its focus on the landscape of science parks is of particular relevance given the prominence of this development model in planning policy to promote regional economic growth, as well as the central role of employee functioning in the productivity of innovative knowledge-sector businesses. The insights gained through the research point to a number of conclusions for the planning and design of future business sites at the urban fringe. The research also makes an original contribution to the international research on restorative environments in its exploration of how different types and designs of open space impact on the wellbeing of workers and, in particular, how individual factors influence responses to elements of open space design and management in the workplace context.
Circulating miRNAs as Potential Biomarkers in Prostate Cancer Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy

Introduction Disease recurrence is a major concern in patients with localized prostate cancer (PCa) following treatment with radiotherapy (RT), and few studies have evaluated the clinical relevance of microRNAs (miRNAs) prior and post-RT. Purpose We aimed to investigate the significance of miRNAs in the outcomes of prostate cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy and to identify the related pathways through bioinformatics analysis. Materials and Methods The expression levels of miR-21, miR-106b, miR-141 and miR-375 involved in the response to radiotherapy were assessed by RT-qPCR in the serum of PCa patients (n=56) prior- and post-RT. Results Low expression levels of miR-106b prior-RT were associated with extracapsular extension and seminal vesicles invasion by the tumor (p=0.031 and 0.044, respectively). In the high-risk subgroup (n=47), post-RT expression levels of miR-21 were higher in patients with biochemical relapse (BR) compared to non-relapse (p=0.043). Also, in the salvage treatment subgroup (post-operative BR; n=20), post-RT expression levels of miR-21 and miR-106b were higher in patients with BR compared to non-relapse (p=0.043 and p=0.032, respectively). In the whole group of patients, high expression levels of miR-21 prior-RT and of miR-106b post-RT were associated with significantly shorter overall survival (OS; p=0.049 and p=0.050, respectively). No associations were observed among miR-141 and miR-375 expression levels with clinicopathological features or treatment outcome. Bioinformatics analysis revealed significant enrichment in DNA damage response pathways. Conclusion Circulating miRNAs prior or post-RT may hold prognostic implications in patients with PCa.