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Assessing the glare potential of side-lit indoor spaces: a simulation-based approach

This work proposes a new digital tool to assess visual comfort in side-lit indoor spaces, which: (i) provides useful and simple visualizations for preliminary glare studies, (ii) spatially maps glare potential, and (iii) reduces the computational overhead of annual visual comfort studies. The implemented heuristic spatially and temporally samples annual vertical illuminance data to find the critical points-of-view and hours-of-the-year regarding glare. Using the tool, we conduct a comparative study of 3 different fenestration schemes, in a typical office space, in 3 locations; London, UK – dominated by overcast skies, Oakland, CA, USA – an example of annual mixed sky, and Phoenix, AZ, USA – clear sky dominated. The proposed tool signaled critical events and suggest when and where the user should conduct detailed glare simulations, showing its usefulness in early to intermediate design stages; phases when it is desirable to avoid expensive and time-consuming glare simulations.
Resilient Module Soil-Cement Prediction based on Setting Temperature

This research correlates the setting temperature of the Soil Cement (SC) with its resilient modulus, based on the maturity index of three mixtures made with different types of cements: general use, High Early Resistance, and Moderate Heat of Hydration. Each mix design has a compressive strength of 4,5 MPa at 7 days of age and durability measured with the 10% wetting and drying test. The method consisted of curing the samples of the three mix designs at three different temperatures -11, 30, and 40 ◦C- and then monitoring the development of the temperature within the samples during the first thirty hours. At 28 days of age, the resistance modulus of the samples was measured with cyclic triaxial equipment. After analyzing the results, a linear equation was deduced which would facilitate quality control during the construction process. This prevents microcracking of the compacted layers, since their fracturing is not neccessary during the extraction of nuclei and field density tests. This research correlates the setting temperature of the Soil Cement (SC) with its resilient modulus, based on the maturity index ofthree mixtures made with different types of cements: general use, High Early Resistance, and Moderate Heat of Hydration. Eachmix design has a compressive strength of 4,5 MPa at 7 days of age and durability measured with the 10% wetting and drying test.The method consisted of curing the samples of the three mix designs at three different temperatures 11,30, and 40 Candthenmonitoring the development of the temperature within the samples during the first thirty hours. At 28 days of age, the resistancemodulus of the samples was measured with cyclic triaxial equipment. After analyzing the results, a linear equation was deducedwhich would facilitate quality control during the construction process. This prevents microcracking of the compacted layers, sincetheir fracturing is not neccessary during the extraction of nuclei and field density tests.
Predictors of Prescription Drug Misuse among High School Students in the United States

ABSTRACT The misuse of prescription medication is a prominent public health concern in the United States. The current study examines prescription drug misuse among adolescents under age 18, a segment of the population that is particularly vulnerable to this issue. The study further explores the correlates of prescription drug misuse among adolescents through analysis of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey results. The analysis is framed through Routine Activities Theory. Results indicate that aspects of the theory are moderate to strong predictors of youth prescription drug misuse.
Exploring the Internationalization of Zimbabwe’s Higher Education Institutions Through a Decolonial Lens: Postcolonial Continuities and Disruptions

Looking through the history of higher education in Zimbabwe, we argue that the concept of internationalization of higher education is not new to Zimbabwe. Understandings, manifestations, and processes of the phenomenon over time are examined to reveal the nuances of the internationalization process in its current mode of occurrence, in an attempt to not only understand it in its colonial and postcolonial manifestation but to situate it within a wider decolonial project. Using a decolonial lens, this article explores various processes of internationalization in Zimbabwe’s higher education institutions (HEIs), viewing them either as continuities or disruptions. In so doing, we argue that for internationalization in Zimbabwe’s HEIs to fully deliver on its promises, it needs to not only engage with the issues of colonial(ism/ity) but also to understand its particular specificity in the Zimbabwean society, and the effects that this continues to have on internationalization attempts.
Current review on COVID-19 pandemic: a global perspective

COVID-19 is a serious infectious disease caused by the novel corona virus, SARS-CoV2, threatening the public health with high transmission rate of infection causing more deaths across the globe in elderly population, immunocompromised individuals and in patients with comorbid conditions. At this point of uncertainty, understanding the pandemic challenges is most essential. As very few literature are becoming available in detailing the different perspectives of the disease, this paper presents the readers with current clinical spectrum of infection like details on epidemiology, pathogenesis, manifestations, diagnostic criteria, treatments and preventive measures of this new type of coronavirus.
The Effect of IFRS Adoption on Supply Chain Management and Earnings Persistence

Abstract . This study aims to examine the effect of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption on supply chain management and earnings persistence. This research is quantitative research with multiple linear regression models. The sample used in this research is manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). The type of data used in this study is secondary data in the form of financial statements and annual companies listed on the Stock Exchange from 2009 to 2015. The sample selection using a purposive sampling method with the number of samples of 66 companies, so that the overall sample amounted to 462 observations. This study uses data with the same number of years for three years, so that this paper is research with panel data. The results that IFRS had significant association with supply chain management. A better implementation of international financial reporting, as a set of principle-based standards is the key to enhance the supply chain management for earning managements.
Disagreement among Arabic speakers in faceless computer-mediated communication

Abstract This study provides a pragmatic taxonomy of asynchronous computer-mediated expressions of disagreement by Arabic speakers. It draws on a specialized corpus of approximately fifty thousand words in the form of naturally occurring comments/posts compiled over a period of ninety days from 19 Arabic Facebook Pages and Groups in three topic areas: (i) religion, (ii) politics and (iii) society. Following Relational Work (Locher and Watts 2005, 2008), I propose ten discursive strategies as underlying patterns of the pragmatic realization of disagreement among Arabic speakers. These include IRRELEVANCY CLAIM, CONTRADICTION, COUNTERCLAIM, CHALLENGE, EXCLAMATION, VERBAL IRONY, ARGUMENT AVOIDANCE, MILD SCOLDING, SUPPLICATION, and VERBAL ATTACK. With the exclusion of some examples, I argue that most of these strategies are neither polite nor impolite, but rather appropriate (i. e., politic) in the context of disagreement. I also provide evidence that sociocultural and religious norms have impacts on SUPPLICATION and MILD SCOLDING.
SEMEN QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF IMPROVED WALLACHIAN SHEEP BREED: A PRELIMINARY STUDY

Viability and sperm motion parameters are the most common indicators of sperm quality. Semen samples (n = 15) of Improved Wallachian (IW) sheep males with no evidence of genital tract infections were used to determine the quality of semen. We applied computer-assisted semen analysis (CASA) system to determine sperm motility parameters. Flow cytometry (FCM) was used to evaluate occurrence of live or apoptotic sperm. Our results showed quite good motility parameters: 81.12 ± 2.72 % of total motility (TM) and 77.91 ± 3.15 % of progressive motility (PM). Moreover, the ratio of viable sperm was 70.77 ± 4.81 % and of apoptotic sperm ˗ 9.37 ± 3.37 %. These results suggest that semen can be collected from IW sheep and used for artificial insemination or cryopreservation for gene bank of animal genetic resources. However, evaluation of higher sample numbers using different methods are needed to analyse the semen quality in details.
Study of epidemiological aspects and hormone receptor status of meningiomas

Background: Meningiomas account for about a third of all central nervous system tumours worldwide. Though very common, quite less is known about its epidemiology. This study aims to establish the epidemiological parameters and hormone receptor status (Progesterone Receptor-PR) involved in the development of Meningiomas. Methods: This observational study included 50 patients. Epidemiological parameters studied included age, sex, symptoms, history of hormone intake, smoking, recurrence, family history, history of other hormone related tumours and radiological assessment of tumour site. Surgical samples were grossed and typed according to the WHO standards. Immunohistochemical staining was done using PR to establish the role of hormonal receptors in the development of meningiomas. Results: The mean age was 46.84±13.54 years. The ratio of male and female (Male:Female) was 1.0:2.3. 48.5% of females had history of hormonal pill intake and 28.6% had hormone related tumours, of which fibroid was most common. Amongst the sites involved cerebral convexity was most common (56%). Chi-square (χ) test showed that there was a significant association between histological grade and PR expression of the patients (p=0.0002). Conclusions: Positivity for hormone receptors like PR, increased intake of hormonal pills by females and association of meningioma with hormone related tumours indicates that hormonal milieu plays a significant role in the growth of meningiomasχχ. This could thus provide an insight to the pathogenesis of meningiomas. In addition, mifepristone, an anti-progestin could be a player in the medical management of meningiomas.
Mobiles in public: Social interaction in a smartphone era

This article reports on the findings from a field study of mobile phone use among dyads in public. Replicating an originally published field study from 2005, this study highlights how mobile phones and use have changed in the last 15 years and demonstrates the ways that mobile phones are used to both detract and enhance social interactions. Drawing on the notions of cellphone crosstalk and caller hegemony, we identify behavioral responses to mobile phones and the use of mobile phones by others, which help to manage both face-to-face and mediated social expectations of responsiveness. Based on observational fieldwork and interviews, we identify specific behavioral categories that demonstrate how social vulnerability and ostracism due to mobile phone use may be mitigated through parallel or collective mobile phone use. We also expand the original concepts of cellphone crosstalk and caller hegemony to mediated crosstalk and notification hegemony to account for contemporary changes in the sociotechnical mobile landscape.
The Effect of Digital Marketing on Organizational Performance Through Intellectual Capital and Perceived Quality in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Article Info Abstract Digital marketing is one of marketing media taken as an opportunity to expand the marketing area with the help of digital technology for Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) which have a limited average background in terms of capital. These issues encourage the researchers to conduct the study entitled the effect of digital marketing on organizational performance through intellectual capital and perceived quality in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in East Java. This is explanatory research that uses a survey method by distributing questionnaires through a quantitative approach and using PLS as data analysis. Findings. The results showed that there are weaknesses of MSMEs in Perceived Quality, so it is needed training especifically related to digital marketing which involves intellectual capital and perceived quality to improve organizational performance. MSME as one of the informal sectors that plays a role in supporting the community's economy in order to survive and develop.
Caspase-1: Past and Future of this Major Player in Cell Death and Inflammation

Inflammation is a major physiological process required for the detection of pathogens and their elimination from an organism. It is triggered by the innate immune system that gets activated through the recognition of danger- or pathogen-associated molecular patterns by protein complexes called inflammasomes. The activation of inflammasomes does not only eliminate the replicative niche of pathogens by inducing infected cells’ death (called pyroptosis) but also leads to the secretion of proinflammatory cytokines such as Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and IL-18, which in turn triggers the recruitment of other immune cells to the infection site and mediates communication with neighboring resident cells. The cysteine aspartate protease Caspase-1 is the common effector enzyme of different inflammasomes and is responsible for the maturation of Gasdermin D and IL-1β required for the induction of pyroptosis and the secretion of IL-1β through the Gasdermin D pores. Several gain of function mutations in inflammasome forming receptor proteins including Caspase-1 were associated with severe auto-immune and auto-inflammatory diseases pointing out the necessity of the tight regulation of these complexes. In this review, we focused on Caspase-1 that is at the crossroad of inflammatory cell death and IL-1β secretion. We describe its discovery, Caspase-1 activator signals, its substrates and the inhibitors that have been designed. We also discuss ongoing research that reveals novel unexpected roles for this protease. This review is a good reference not only for the beginners in innate immunity and inflammation but also provides an update on Caspase-1’s biology for more advanced researchers.
Validation of the Cognitive Flexibility Scale (CFS) and its application in adoption of improved cassava technologies among cassava growers in Tanzania

This research paper discusses the validation process of the cognitive flexibility scale (CFS) as a measurement instrument for farmers’ cognitive flexibility (CF). The role of CF in influencing behaviour has been established for centuries among psychologists. Thus, individual differences might be among the correlates of adoption of cassava processing technology among farmers. However, lack of an effective instrument to measure farmers’ CF has been limiting the predictive and descriptive potential of farmers’ CF. The instrument was validated in a two stages study with some specific objectives guiding the study namely; assess the instrument’s component structure validity and reliability of CFS, examine whether CFS could categorise farmers’ performance in cognitive flexibility by farmers’ demographics; and whether or not could cognitive flexibility have an influence on farmers’ adoption of cassava farming technologies. In the first stage the instrument was pilot tested in a survey conducted in Serengeti district in Mara region of Tanzania among 200 participants. Principle component Analysis (CPA) indicated that CFS was a three factor scale with good internal consistency (α = 0.85). The three factors found were technology acceptance (α = 0.92), open mindedness (α = 0.86), and adapting to new situations (α = 0.37). In the second stage, a total of 360 participants, of whom 181 were males and 178 were females responded to the CFS. It was found that the improved CFS was a three factor scale reaching an internal consistency of α = 0.85. The three subscales in the CFS were adapting to new farming technologies (α = 0.88), acceptance of new farming technologies (α = 0.86), and open mindedness to other people’s ideas (α = 0.80). The findings further indicate low correlations among the subscales, implying discriminant validity of the scale. In addition to theoretical implications, the paper discusses the measure’s effectiveness and its potential applicability in the field of rural development and with specific focus to adoption of farming technologies. The findings provide support for validity and reliability of the CFS and its multidimensional nature. It is recommended that one needs to consider contextual factors such as the level of cassava processing technology before generalizing the validity and reliability of CFS, and thus, a need for further validation studies of the instrument. Key words: Cognitive Flexibility Scale, Flexibility in cassava processing technology, Cognitive Flexibility in Farming technologies, Psychology and adoption.
Generation and testing of emergent traits in composite professional stereotypes

In daily interactions, we frequently meet people that belong to multiple categories, sometimes with conflicting stereotypical implications. Studies show that, when generating attributes for composite stereotypes, novel emergent attributes are created, derived from the constituent categories, but also from real world knowledge (e.g., Hastie, Schroeder, & Weber, 1990; Kunda, Miller, & Claire, 1990). In this work, in a similar vein as the work by Kunda and collaborators (1990), we test composite professional categories, and their simple constituents, in a Portuguese sample. To our knowledge, there is no evidence that, in Portuguese language, composite categories are able to generate emergent properties. We empirically explore the kind of content that is generated, and how the conflict between constituents is solved. In Experiment 1, participants described 24 pairs of composite categories and each constituent. In Experiment 2, we refined the identification of emergent attributes by asking participants to evaluate each previously generated attribute on a rating scale, for each category, constituent or composite, in a between-subject design. Results provide evidence that emergent attributes were generated and revealed a different mean rating in the composite categories that were not in their constituents. We discuss their contribution for future research delving into what kind of processes are at the basis of the creation of composite stereotypes, as well as what is the nature of its mental representation, how stable composite stereotypes are, and how consensual are they, given different possibilities in conflict resolution modes and models (e.g., Hastie et al., 1990; Kunda et al., 1990).
Effect of a novel coronavirus in human and its clinical diagnosis and implications by students of community pharmacy

Coronavirus are coming under a broad family of virus that can cause respiratory illnesses such as the common cold, according to the centers for disease control and prevention (CDC). They are usual in many different species of animals, including camels and bats. Unusually, these corona viruses can evolve and infect humans and then spread between humans. Recent examples of this include SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. 2019 Novel Corona virus (2019nCoV) is a virus identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China. In some cases, the viruses can cause lower-respiratory tract illnesses such as pneumonia and bronchitis. In human corona viruses are currently classified into seven types that are HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43, HCoV-NL63, SARS-CoV, HKU1, MERS-CoV and 2019-nCoV. These two types of corona virus (MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV) are more dangerous. Some of corona viruses like HCoV-229E, HCo-OC43, HCoNL63 and HKU1 that are continuously circulate in the population of human and cause respiratory infections in human either may children and adults worldwide. They are generally transmitted between animals and humans through sneezing, coughing, touching or shaking hands and making contact with a surface or object. The symptoms of corona virus are sneezing, cough, fatigue, runny nose, sore throat, breathing difficulty and exacerbated. In more severe cases SARS, kidney failure, pneumonia and even death. Diagnosis can be carried out by healthcare provider in laboratory test on respiratory specimens and serum to detect human corona virus. For this virus no specific treatment like vaccines and antiviral drugs but symptoms can be treated.
Plant Growth Regulators in the in Vitro Cultivation of Acmella oleracea (L.)

Acmella oleracea is a tropical plant, typical of the northern region of Brazil. The species belongs to the Asteraceae family and has great therapeutic, pharmacological and industrial potential. A limiting factor for the production of this species on a large scale is the short life cycle. The tissue culture programs use synthetic hormones based on cytokinins, such as kinetin and benzylaminopurine (BAP) and auxins such as naphthalene acetic acid (ANA). The objective of this research was to evaluate the effect of growth regulators on the production of Acmella oleracea "in vitro". The experimental test was carried out with control (C), without the addition of growth regulators and five treatments, composed of: (T1) 0.1; (T2) 0.3; (T3) 0.5 mg L-1 kinetin; (T4) 0.1 mg L-1 of BAP and ANA; (T5) 0.5 mg L-1 of BAP and ANA. The experimental design was a completely randomized block in a factorial arrangement with six treatments, three blocks and twenty-five repetitions per block. The evaluated parameters were: germination, root formation, aerial part length, root length, aerial part fresh mass and root fresh mass, aerial part dry mass and root dry mass. The data obtained were subjected to analysis of variance (p <0.05) and compared using the Tukey test. The results showed that kinetin positively contributed to seed germination and aerial part dry mass development. Treatment 1 had the best results for the parameters root length, shoot length and root dry mass.
The unexpected profile of agricultural innovators: evidence from an empirical study

Innovation capacity is essential for farmers to remain competitive and overcome the challenges facing Mediterranean agricultural systems. Based on an extensive empirical study, this paper elucidates the common attributes of innovative farmers in the Region of Valencia (Spain). The model presented in this study investigates whether an innovative attitude can be explained by market-entrepreneurial orientation, learning orientation, individual profile traits and farm size. The findings provide insights into how age and experience affect innovation in agricultural smallholdings. The study shows that the most innovative farmers run large farms and have a strong market-entrepreneurial orientation. Farm size and learning orientation are key requirements to enhance the innovative attitude of farmers.
Radiofrequency Ablation for Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: An Updated Review of Literature from the Last Decade

This review summarizes the current findings on radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) from relevant literature published in the last decade. While most earlier studies included small populations and had short follow-up periods, more robust data have become available owing to prospective or large cohort studies. The reported overall survival rates after RFA for stage I NSCLC were 83-96%, 40-74%, and 23-61% at 1, 3, and 5 years, respectively, in recent studies. Furthermore, many comparative studies on the outcomes of RFA and stereotactic body radiotherapy have been performed. Most of these studies report no significant difference in survival outcomes between the therapies. Currently, major guidelines define RFA as a reasonable alternative treatment for stage I NSCLC in non-surgical candidates.