Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Event-Triggered Guaranteed Cost Controller Design for T-S Fuzzy Markovian Jump Systems With Partly Unknown Transition Probabilities

This article is concerned with the event-triggered guaranteed cost control for a class of Markovian jump systems with time-varying delays and partly unknown transition probabilities, which is described by the Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy model. For the sake of saving network bandwidth, an event-triggered mechanism related to system modes is developed in the feedback channel, in which network-induced delay randomly occurs. The stability criterion for the system with a guaranteed cost index is derived by the Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional. Moreover, sufficient conditions that ensure the existence of the admissible fuzzy controllers are given. By means of the proposed approach, the fuzzy control gains and event-triggered parameters can be codesigned. Finally, some simulation results are presented to demonstrate the superiority and effectiveness of the developed method.
Performance analysis of Turkey’s participation and conventional indices using TOPSIS method

The purpose of this paper is to rank the performances of two participation indices developed in Turkey according to Islamic principles and six conventional indices based on their risks and returns for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017. ,The performance of the two Islamic and six conventional indices were ranked using the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS), i.e. a multiple-criteria decision-making method, and the weights of the decision criteria were determined using the objective weighting method called entropy. ,The results do not show any statistically significant difference in returns between the participation indices and their conventional counterparts. However, all analyses performed using various risk metrics revealed the lowest risks for the Participation indices. Furthermore, in the TOPSIS ranking for all of the years, the Participation indices ranked above BIST 100, which was selected as the benchmark. ,Participation indices provide investors adhering to Islamic faith with opportunities through which they can comfortably invest with limited loss of financial performance for the study period. They also serve as a good alternative for risk-averse investors. ,The paper is distinguished by the criteria and methodology it uses for index ranking. Furthermore, it is believed to be useful for the limited literature on the Participation Index in Turkey as well as for national and international investors and institutions interested in Islamic indices in particular.
Hippocampal and cortical mechanisms at retrieval explain variability in episodic remembering in older adults

Age-related episodic memory decline is characterized by striking heterogeneity across individuals. Hippocampal pattern completion is a fundamental process supporting episodic memory. Yet, the degree to which this mechanism is impaired with age, and contributes to variability in episodic memory, remains unclear. We combine univariate and multivariate analyses of fMRI data from a large cohort of cognitively normal older adults (N=100; 60-82 yrs) to measure hippocampal activity and cortical reinstatement during retrieval of trial-unique associations. Trial-wise analyses revealed that hippocampal activity predicted cortical reinstatement strength, and these two metrics of pattern completion independently predicted retrieval success. However, increased age weakened cortical reinstatement and its relationship to memory behaviour. Critically, individual differences in the strength of hippocampal activity and cortical reinstatement explained unique variance in performance across multiple assays of episodic memory. These results indicate that fMRI indices of hippocampal pattern completion explain within- and across-individual memory variability in older adults.
Influences of age and pubertal status on number of perineuronal nets in the rat medial prefrontal cortex

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is a late developing region of the cortex, and its protracted maturation during adolescence may confer a period of plasticity. Closure of critical, or sensitive, periods in sensory cortices coincides with perineuronal net (PNN) expression, leading to enhanced inhibitory function and synaptic stabilization. PNN density is known to increase across adolescence in the male rodent medial PFC (mPFC). However, the trajectory of female PNN development has not been explored nor has the potential role of pubertal onset in PNN expression. Here, we examined rats at four time points spanning adolescent development to quantify the number of PNNs in the mPFC, as well as the total volume of the prefrontal white matter. Additionally, because puberty coincides with broad behavioral and neuroanatomical changes, we collected tissue from age-matched pre- and post- pubertal siblings within a litter. Results indicate that both males and females show an increase the total number of mPFC PNNs and in white matter under the mPFC between postnatal day (P) 30 and P60. Male puberty did not affect PNNs, while female pubertal onset led to an abrupt decrease in the total number of PNNs that persisted through mid-adolescence before increasing at P60. This decrease in female rats may indicate a difference in timing of maximal plasticity between the sexes during adolescence.
IMPLEMENTATION OF HUMAN RESOURCES COMPETENCY IN NURSING SERVICES FIELD IN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 4.0 ERA: A STUDY AT REGIONAL GENERAL HOSPITAL OF KLUNGKUNG

The purpose of the study is to obtain an overview of the implementation of human resource competencies in the field of nursing services in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 at Regional General Hospital of Klungkung. This research is a qualitative descriptive study with inductive approach using primary data and secondary data obtained using interviews and observation methods from informants and documents from Regional General Hospital of Klungkung. The data was processed qualitatively and tested for validity using the triangulation method. The results of the study found that nurses had performed their competencies well. The hospital has also implemented nursing competencies in accordance with the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 such as the use of existing application systems in hospitals. In addition, the hospital also held education and training and dissemination of training results in an effort to develop human resources in improving service quality in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0.
Perceptions toward school and self of graduating seniors deemed at risk of school failure enrolled in non-traditional and traditional high schools

AT RISK OF SCHOOL FAILURE ENROLLED IN NON-TRADITIONAL AND TRADITIONAL HIGH SCHOOLS by CHERYL DENISE WASHINGTON (Under the Direction of Myra N. Womble) ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of self as a person, of self as a student and of school of graduating seniors deemed at risk for school failure enrolled in nontraditional and traditional high schools in Georgia. This study wanted to determine if there were significant differences in these students‘ perceptions (self-concept, student self, school) based on gender and socio-economic status. Graduating seniors deemed at risk of school failure were of particular interest in this study because they represent students who have overcome significant barriers in their academic and personal lives to graduate from high school. The findings were discussed in relations to the dependent and independent variables of the study. The results and the conclusion for the study were also presented, in addition to recommendations for further research and practice.
Immunization Status of Children Under 5 Years in a Tribal Area, Parol, Thane District -

Results: Completely immunized children were 71.1%, partially immunized were 17.8% and 11.1% were not immunized. The most common reason for not immunizing the child was ‘fear of side effects’ (40%) and for partially immunizing the child was ‘visit to native place’ or ‘other sibling not well’ (37.5%). There was significant association between poor immunization status and Muslim religion of the children, poor socioeconomic status, home delivery, and not having immunization card.
Comparative Study of Biodegradation and Coagulation of Dairy Effluent by Using Immobilized Microbial Isolates and Chitosane Silver Nano Particles and Production Biodiesel

Environmental pollution is one of the major ecological difficulties, rapid growth of industrial and explosion of population are the primary reasons for the dwindling water quality. In last few decades, requiring urgent attention has been paid to the industrial wastes, which are usually discharged harmful and toxic substances into on land or into different natural water sources such as rivers and canals and creating health hazards.
The Rate of Information Literacy of Faculty Members and PhD students of Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery based on Successful Evidence Healthcare

1 Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Khorasan Razavi, Mashhad University, Iran 2 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Khorasan Razavi, Mashhad University, Iran 3 MSc, School of Management and Medical Information, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran 4 MSc, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran * Corresponding author: Maryam Razmkhah, MSc, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran. E-Mail: Razmkhahmr@gmail.com Received: 25 Feb 2016 Accepted: 15 Oct 2016
Investigation of coarse-grained models across a glass transition

ABSTRACT Due to their computational efficiency, coarse-grained (CG) models have become increasingly popular for simulating soft condensed matter. At least in principle, bottom-up CG models can reproduce the properties of all-atom (AA) models that are observable at the CG resolution. Unfortunately, the resulting effective potentials vary with thermodynamic state point, which can significantly limit the range of densities and temperatures for which the CG model is valid. In this study, we revisit these considerations for a 3-site CG model of ortho-terphenyl (OTP), which is a representative glass former. We employ force-matching and self-consistent pressure matching to parameterize the CG models. The resulting models accurately reproduce the OTP pair structure and pressure–volume equation of state at each state point for which they were parameterized. Above the glass transition, the effective potentials vary monotonically with temperature and density, as expected for molecular liquids. However, below the glass transition, these simple trends do not hold. Nevertheless, the effective potentials generally appear more sensitive to density than temperature. Moreover, despite this state-point dependence, the potentials appear reasonably transferable in the sense that they reasonably describe OTP across a fairly wide density and temperature range that spans the glass transition. Interestingly, the glass phase potentials appear most accurate and transferable. Conversely, the potentials parameterized near the glass transition appear least accurate and transferable.
Datura poisoning, clinical and laboratory findings. Report of five cases

Introduction. Plants of Datura species contain belladonna alkaloids that can cause central and peripheral anticholinergic effects. Abuse of Datura plants for their hallucinogenic effects is growing among adolescents and young adults. Datura poisoning has caused a diagnostic challenge in medical emergency wards. In this article we report 5 cases of Datura toxicity at Clinical Toxicology Emergency of Baharloo Hospital, Tehran, Iran during Summer-Fall 2015, and discuss their clinical presentations and laboratory findings. Cases Description. All 5 cases with Datura toxicity were young males and had intentionally used the plants. Mean duration of hospitalization was 3.2 days. ree cases were multiple drug abusers. Mydriasis, tachycardia, tachypnea and ushing alongside with psychotic-like signs and symptoms were observed in all cases. Elevation of liver enzymes was present in three of cases but without clinical signi cance. Raised LDH or CPK in four patients were without myoglubinuria and evidence of rhabdomyolysis and these biomarkers returned to normal by supportive care. All patients discharged with complete recovery and there was no need to ICU admission. Discussion. With the absence of routine laboratory screening tests for alkaloids and complex and confusing presentations of Datura intoxication, diagnosis of such cases is difficult. Physicians' clinical suspicion and su cient knowledge plays the mainstay role in appropriate and timely diagnosis and management of cases with Datura toxicity. Since regulatory legislation wouldn't be successful in halting the availability of natural plants, the best strategy to prevent Datura abuse is informing people about the adverse e ects of these plants. Key Words: datura stramonium, poisoning, abuse, anticholinergic, laboratory ndings, liver function tests, rhabdomyolysis. Language: en
Spontaneous polarization, tilt angle, hysteresis and low-frequency relaxations in hydrogen bonded chiral liquid crystal dimer: M*SA:9OBA

Abstract Influence of low-frequency (2-Hz-10MHz) AC field on LC phases exhibited by chiral hydrogen bonded liquid crystal dimer, viz., M*SA:9OBA is investigated. Phase transition temperatures Tc determined by capacitance C(T) and loss factor TanΔ(T) agree with the earlier report. Induced surface polarization reflected through capacitance C(E) exhibited hysteresis in behavior SmC* phase. Growth of primary order parameter in SmC* phase investigated by tilt angle θ(T) inferred critical field exponent β1. Secondary order parameter investigated as spontaneous polarization Ps in SmC* inferred Mean field exponent β2. Dipole moment (μ) is resolved as longitudinal (μl) and transverse (μt) components. Reorientation of μ to the field analyzed. Relaxation studied at different temperatures in SmC*; SmBcryst and SmG phases inferred a low-frequency (LF fR∼100Hz) and another high frequency (HF fR∼100kHz) reorientation processes. LF relaxation in SmC* phase is influenced by dc bias field to suggest polarization helix formed by coupling of field μt. Threshold field (Vth) for polarization switching estimated from the data of field variation of loss εmax″(E). LF relaxation in SmC* is identified with Goldstone mode (GM) manifested as the suppressed ε″max(E) with field. HF relaxation in SmC* is identified with Soft Mode (SM) by its decreasing trend of fR towards TIC*. Activation energies (Ea) estimated from Arrhenius behavior of fR(T) agree with reports. Field influence on GM manifests through shift of loss ε″max(E) and fR(E). Activation energy Ea is estimated from the shift of fR(E) in terms of equivalent temperature plots. Dispersion, ε″ versus ε′ in LC phases infers a non-Debye distribution of relaxation times. Cole-Cole plots inferred large shift of static permittivity εo. Data of dielectric relaxation parameters, i.e., relaxation frequency fR, relaxation time τR, activation energy Ea, loss maxima ε″max, static permittivity (εo), high frequency permittivity ε∞, dielectric strength Δε and distribution (α) parameter are presented. Dielectric strength analyzed for SM in SmC* phase confirms Ferro-Electric Curie-Weiss behavior.
Relationship between self-esteem and stigmatization in psoriasis patients

Introduction Psoriasis is classified as a psychosomatic disease since its development and outcome may be modulated by various psychological factors. Due to the presence of clinical signs visible to others and poor social awareness of the disease, psoriasis patients are not infrequently classified as different or stigmatized, and their value as human beings tends to decrease. Aim To analyse the relationship between self-esteem and stigmatization in psoriasis patients. Material and methods The study included 120 patients with psoriasis vulgaris. The study participants completed Polish versions of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) and the 6-Item Stigmatization Scale developed by Evers et al., as well as an original survey containing questions about their sociodemographic characteristics. Results Mean RSES score of the study participants was 24.1 points. Mean RSES score for female patients was nearly 2 points lower than the mean score for men. Analysis of Spearman’s rho coefficients showed that the higher the self-esteem in the study participants the less often they considered themselves unattractive to others (0.23), less often believed that people gaze at their skin lesions (0.23) or avoid them because of their condition (0.38). Conclusions Our findings demonstrate clearly that both self-esteem and stigmatization are significant components of psoriasis’ influence on the patient life. Psoriasis should not be considered merely as a somatic problem, but also as a significant psychological and social burden.
Growing and Pruning Based Deep Neural Networks Modeling for Effective Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis

: Parkinson’s disease is a serious disease that causes death. Recently, a new dataset has been introduced on this disease. The aim of this study is to improve the predictive performance of the model designed for Parkinson’s disease diagnosis. By and large, original DNN models were designed by using specific or random number of neurons and layers. This study analyzed the effects of parameters, i.e., neuron number and activation function on the model performance based on growing and pruning approach. In other words, this study addressed the optimum hidden layer and neuron numbers and ideal activation and optimization functions in order to find out the best Deep Neural Networks model. In this context of this study, several models were designed and evaluated. The overall results revealed that the Deep Neural Networks were significantly successful with 99.34% accuracy value on test data. Also, it presents the highest prediction performance reported so far. Therefore, this study presents a model promising with respect to more accurate Parkinson’s disease diagnosis.
Development of data dictionary for neonatal intensive care unit: advancement towards a better critical care unit

Abstract Background Critical care units (CCUs) with extensive use of various monitoring devices generate massive data. To utilize the valuable information of these devices; data are collected and stored using systems like clinical information system and laboratory information management system. These systems are proprietary, allow limited access to their database and, have the vendor-specific clinical implementation. In this study, we focus on developing an open-source web-based meta-data repository for CCU representing stay of the patient with relevant details. Methods After developing the web-based open-source repository named data dictionary (DD), we analyzed prospective data from 2 sites for 4 months for data quality dimensions (completeness, timeliness, validity, accuracy, and consistency), morbidity, and clinical outcomes. We used a regression model to highlight the significance of practice variations linked with various quality indicators. Results DD with 1555 fields (89.6% categorical and 11.4% text fields) is presented to cover the clinical workflow of a CCU. The overall quality of 1795 patient days data with respect to standard quality dimensions is 87%. The data exhibit 88% completeness, 97% accuracy, 91% timeliness, and 94% validity in terms of representing CCU processes. The data scores only 67% in terms of consistency. Furthermore, quality indicators and practice variations are strongly correlated (P < 0.05). Conclusion This study documents DD for standardized data collection in CCU. DD provides robust data and insights for audit purposes and pathways for CCU to target practice improvements leading to specific quality improvements.
A Total-Evidence Dated Phylogeny of Echinoids and the Evolution of Body Size across Adaptive Landscape

Several unique properties of echinoids (sea urchins) make them useful for exploring macroevolutionary dynamics, including their remarkable fossil record that can be incorporated into explicit phylogenetic hypotheses. However, this potential cannot be exploited without a robust resolution of the echinoid tree of life. We revisit the phylogeny of crown group Echinoidea using both the largest phylogenomic dataset compiled for the clade, as well as a large-scale morphological matrix with a dense fossil sampling. We also gather a new compendium of both tip and node age constraints, allowing us to combine phylogenomic, morphological and stratigraphic data using a total-evidence dating approach. For this, we develop a novel method for subsampling phylogenomic datasets that selects loci with high phylogenetic signal, low systematic biases and enhanced clock-like behavior. Our approach restructure much of the higher-level phylogeny of echinoids, and demonstrates that combining different data sources increases topological accuracy. We are able to resolve multiple alleged conflicts between molecular and morphological datasets, such as the position of Echinothurioida and Echinoneoida, as well as unravelling the relationships between sand dollars and their closest relatives. We then use this topology to trace the evolutionary history of echinoid body size through more than 270 million years, revealing a complex pattern of convergent evolution to stable peaks in macroevolutionary adaptive landscape. Our efforts show how combining phylogenomic and paleontological evidence offers new ways of exploring evolutionary forces operating across deep timescales.
THE EFFECT OF REVENUE SHARING FUNDS, GENERAL ALLOCATION FUNDS, SPECIAL ALLOCATION FUNDS AND SPECIAL AUTONOMY FUNDS ON CAPITAL EXPENDITURE WITH ECONOMIC GROWTH AS MODERATING VARIABLES IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT / CITY IN ACEH PROVINCE IN 2008 – 2017

This study aims to determine and analyze whether Revenue Sharing Funds, General Allocation Funds, Special Allocation Funds and Special Autonomy Funds have a simultaneous and partial effect on Capital Expenditure in district / city governments in Aceh Province and to find out and analyse whether the variable Economic Growth as a variable moderating can strengthen and weaken the influence of Revenue Sharing Funds, General Allocation Funds, Special Allocation Funds and Special Autonomy Funds on Capital Expenditures in district / city governments in Aceh Province. The results of the study simultaneously show the Revenue Sharing Fund, General Allocation Fund, Special Allocation Fund and Special Autonomy Fund significantly affect Capital Expenditures. Partially, Revenue Sharing Funds does not have a significant effect on capital expenditure; General Allocation Funds have a significant effect on capital expenditure; Special Allocation Funds have no significant effect on capital expenditure; The Special Autonomy Fund has a significant effect on capital expenditure. Economic Growth Variable as a moderator is unable to moderate the effect of Revenue Sharing, General Allocation Funds, Special Allocation Funds and Special Autonomy Funds on Capital Expenditures.