Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
INVESTIGATED CHARACTERISTICS OF WEAVING SECTIONS FROM FIELD DATA AND DEVELOPED SIMULATION MODEL

Weaving sections widely spread among other traffic facilities. Different types of weaving section have been recognized through various editions of Highway Capacity Manual (HCM). However, the HCM has suffered from inability to represent driver behaviour at these sections. Therefore, for each type, there is a specific behaviour. This study has focused on investigating weaving characteristics using more than 60 hours of field data and also MIDAS data have involved. The observed characteristics include merging and diverging points for weaving vehicles, how drivers react to weaving sections in terms of changing their speed, cooperative and aggressive behaviour of drivers and effective length for each type of weaving sections. Seven different sites have been investigated in the UK through this study. The results of this study indicate that the effective length is equal to full weaving length for weaving length less than 300m and 200m for the weaving length higher than 300m. Moreover, specific limits for merging and diverging points have been investigated through this study. Then, the simulation model has been developed to find out other characteristics from the simulation model such as applying new effective management by changing weaving section from Type A to Type B with significant increase in the capacity of the new section.
Anticipation of Technology as an Entrepreneurial Skill

Anticipation of technological change is crucial for startup companies and entrepreneurs to survive and grow in the volatile environment. The concepts, processes and tools have mainly been developed in and for larger corporations with ample resources that can run the often lengthy and slow processes of technology anticipation (TA). The dilemma facing TA in entrepreneurial startup companies is that they need to build and commercialize their first technology and prepare simultaneously to its disruption – to anticipate. This paper studies the rationale of TA and the different TA approaches utilized in technology-based young and evolving companies and proposes a framework – a taxonomy of TA approaches in entrepreneurial context for further study.
Coding Education in a Flipped Classroom

- The main purpose of this research is to determine the influence of the flipped classroom model on digital game development and student views on the model. 9th grade students attending Bilişim Teknolojiler II at secondary level participated in the study. The research is an experimental research, designed according to the pretest-posttest research model with experimental and control groups. In the experimental group, the lectures were carried out according to the flipped classroom model while the control group was taught with the traditional methods in the laboratory environment. As a result of the research, the success of the digital game development and the opinions of the students were favored by the experimental group students who were educated with the flipped classroom model. The results obtained in the last part of the study and suggestions for the results are discussed.
A limit on the evolutionary rescue of an Antarctic bacterium from rising temperatures

Climate change is gradual, but it can also cause brief extreme heat waves that can exceed the upper thermal limit of any one organism. To study the evolutionary potential of upper thermal tolerance, we evolved the cold-adapted Antarctic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis to survive at 30°C, beyond its ancestral thermal limit. This high-temperature adaptation occurred rapidly and in multiple populations. It involved genomic changes that occurred in a highly parallel fashion and mitigated the effects of protein misfolding. However, it also confronted a physiological limit, because populations failed to grow beyond 30°C. Our experiments aimed to facilitate evolutionary rescue by using a small organism with large populations living at temperatures several degrees below their upper thermal limit. Larger organisms with smaller populations and living at temperatures closer to their upper thermal tolerances are even more likely to go extinct during extreme heat waves.
Paraprobiotics and Postbiotics of Lactobacillus delbrueckii CIDCA 133 Mitigate 5-FU-Induced Intestinal Inflammation

Intestinal mucositis is a commonly reported side effect in oncology practice. Probiotics are considered an excellent alternative therapeutic approach to this debilitating condition; however, there are safety questions regarding the viable consumption of probiotics in clinical practice due to the risks of systemic infections, especially in immune-compromised patients. The use of heat-killed or cell-free supernatants derived from probiotic strains has been evaluated to minimize these adverse effects. Thus, this work evaluated the anti-inflammatory properties of paraprobiotics (heat-killed) and postbiotics (cell-free supernatant) of the probiotic Lactobacillus delbrueckii CIDCA 133 strain in a mouse model of 5-Fluorouracil drug-induced mucositis. Administration of paraprobiotics and postbiotics reduced the neutrophil cells infiltrating into the small intestinal mucosa and ameliorated the intestinal epithelium architecture damaged by 5-FU. These ameliorative effects were associated with a downregulation of inflammatory markers (Tlr2, Nfkb1, Il12, Il17a, Il1b, Tnf), and upregulation of immunoregulatory Il10 cytokine and the epithelial barrier markers Ocln, Cldn1, 2, 5, Hp and Muc2. Thus, heat-killed L. delbrueckii CIDCA 133 and supernatants derived from this strain were shown to be effective in reducing 5-FU-induced inflammatory damage, demonstrating them to be an alternative approach to the problems arising from the use of live beneficial microorganisms in clinical practice.
Reconciling Conflicting Results of Cultural Diversity’s Effect on Project Team Performance: A Quasi-Experimental Examination

Guided by the Categorization-Elaboration Model, we developed and tested a model to reconcile the conflicting results of cultural diversity’s influence on team performance. Previous theory and studies have inconsistent arguments and evidence regarding cultural diversity’s effects on team performance. We recognize that member cultural diversity is one possible influence on the variety and meanings of messages generated within groups, and the messages’ meanings may then affect performance. Work-related information sharing, including information sharing openness and uniqueness, is proposed as an underlying mechanism that translates the effect of cultural diversity to project team performance. Additionally, team cultural intelligence may moderate the relationship between cultural diversity and the information sharing processes. Participants constituted three types of teams: all American (N = 32 teams), all Chinese (N = 34 teams), and mixed (N = 38 teams), in which team members finished a business problem identification task collectively. Results showed that in culturally diverse teams, high levels of cultural intelligence amplified the positive relationship between cultural diversity and information sharing uniqueness, which in turn led to higher team performance. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Arctic sediment routing during the Triassic - sinking the Arctic Atlantis

Opening of the Arctic Ocean has been the subject of much debate, and the placement of terranes in the Early Mesozoic remains a crucial part of this important discussion. Several continental terranes complicate the palaeogeographic reconstruction. One such terrane is Crockerland, which has been inferred to explain sediment distribution in the Arctic throughout the Mesozoic. However, Triassic successions throughout the Arctic basins bear many similarities, and a common sedimentary source could offer a simpler explanation with fewer complications for the past configuration of the Arctic. The study's goal is to test the hypothesis of long-distance sediment transport from a common source in present-day Russia to all Arctic basins in the Triassic, and to demonstrate how estimates of sediment routing distances can improve pre-breakup plate tectonic reconstructions.Results confirm that (1) the Arctic basins were closely connected prior to breakup in the Mesozoic, (2) based on regional facies distribution, sediment budgets, sediment modelling and detrital zircon age spectra, the Crockerland terrane is unlikely to have existed as a major sediment supplying area, (3) the reconstructed Arctic sediment routing system can help to constrain plate tectonic models, and (4) statistical estimation of sediment transport is a novel and potentially important tool for improving plate tectonic and palaeogeographic reconstructions.Supplementary material:https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare. c.6086468
The myth of goats :: how many people have fingerprints that are hard to match?

The proportion of people who have fingerprints that are particularly hard to match (also known as “Goats”) is a topic of great interest in biometrics, especially for those involved in the design, development, or evaluation of fingerprint-based identification or verification systems. There have been a variety of statements made in the recent past that a small percentage of people (usually 2%) cannot be fingerprinted due to poor quality fingers. This study shows these statements are based on misconceptions: the fact that some small percentage of fingerprints may be hard to match does not mean that a corresponding percentage of people are hard to match. This study describes the results of tests using fingerprint data collected operationally by US-VISIT. Ten sets of right and left index fingerprints from each of 6,000 individuals were used in the evaluation. Two of the more accurate matchers from the NIST Software Development Kit (SDK) tests were used. The definition of a Goat, or person whose fingerprints are intrinsically hard to match, varies. However, results clearly show that the proportion of Goats is very small, regardless of the definition. None of the 6,000 subjects had fingers that were always hard to match (with single-finger mate scores worse than a threshold corresponding to a verification False Accept Rate of 1%); less than 0.05% of the subjects had fingers that were usually hard to match; less than 0.3% of the subjects had fingers that were hard to match even a quarter of the time. Many individuals were particularly easy to match: for 77% to 81% of subjects, every fingerprint comparison had mate scores better than a threshold corresponding to a verification False Accept Rate of 10-6 (0.0001%). This study concludes that for the subject population (frequent users of US-VISIT) fingerprints that are hard to match cannot generally be attributed to intrinsic characteristics of a person’s fingerprints, but should be attributed to collection problems or other characteristics of the specific fingerprints used. Note that these results should be generalized with caution: results obtained using less accurate matchers, data from a source with lower operational quality controls, or substantively different subject populations would be likely to differ.
Coactosin-Like Protein in Breast Carcinoma: Friend or Foe?

Background Coactosin-like protein (COTL1) was first identified as protein that binds 5-lipoxygenase and F-actin; its functions in tumors remain unknown. COTL1 could inhibit the proliferation of breast cancer (BRCA) in vivo and in vitro; however, online public databases including UALCAN and Kaplan–Meier plotter showed high COTL1 expression in breast cancer tissue, which was correlated with poor prognosis. Therefore, we studied the role of COTL1 expression in human breast cancer and its use in determining clinical prognosis. Methods We first used the UALCAN database and immunohistochemical analysis to elucidate COTL1 expression in BRCA. We then performed Kaplan–Meier plotting and immunohistochemical analysis to assess prognosis in BRCA in relation to COTL1 expression. Finally, we used the CancerSEA and LinkedOmics databases to evaluate the function of COTL1 in BRCA. The TIMER and TISIDB databases were used to evaluate the association between COTL1 expression and immune cell infiltration in BRCA. Results UALCAN and immunohistochemical analysis showed that COTL1 was highly expressed in breast cancer. Furthermore, high COTL1 expression was correlated with poor prognosis in BRCA. We also found that COTL1 is involved in immune response via the CancerSEA and LinkedOmics databases. The TIMER and TISIDB databases showed that high COTL1 expression was correlated with immune cell infiltration. Conclusion COTL1 expression was higher in breast cancer tissues than in normal tissues, and high COTL1 expression was correlated with poor prognosis and immune cell infiltration. These results provide a basis for the development of applications of COTL1 in determining the prognosis of breast cancer and its treatment.
EMPIRICAL STUDIES RECHERCHES EMPIRIQUES PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR STRATEGIES OF CAR DRIVERS IN REGULATING SPEED OF APPROACH TO A PRECEDING VEHICLE

L’objectif de ce travail etait d’identifier les strategies perceptivo-motrices utilisees par les conducteurs d’automobiles en vue de reguler la vitesse d’approche vers un autre vehicule et ainsi d’eviter une collision. Afin d’evaluer l’influence de l’experience de conduite, deux groupes de participants etaient testes. Le premier groupe etait forme de 13 conducteurs ayant moins de trois ans d’experience de conduite (âge moyen 20,5 ans) et le deuxieme etait forme de 13 conducteurs ayant plus de cinq ans d’experience de conduite (âge moyen 26,5 ans). Tous les participants etaient testes sur un simulateur a base fixe (INRETS SIM2), dans 16 conditions experimentales differentes, combinant differentes vitesses initiales et differentes vitesses d’obstacle. Dans chaque condition, le conducteur demarrait sur une portion vide d’une route a deux voies et accelerait pour atteindre une vitesse cible (60, 80, 100 ou 120 km/h). Juste avant d’atteindre la vitesse cible, un autre vehicule, servant de masque, depassait le conducteur, se placait a une distance de 2 s devant sur la voie de droite et adoptait la meme vitesse. Apres une periode variable, le vehicule masque changeait de voie, devoilant ainsi le vehicule obstacle (positionne a une distance d’arret du vehicule masque). Ce vehicule obstacle roulait a une vitesse egale a 100%, 67%, 33% ou 0% (vehicule arrete) de celle du conducteur, creant ainsi des situations allant d’une absence de danger (obstacle a la meme vitesse) jusqu’aux situations presentant un danger imminent (obstacle immobile). Dans une premiere serie d’analyses, les effets des differentes conditions experimentales sur la distance parcourue, l’interdistance et le temps necessaire pour
The effect of culture on risk-taking activities of banks

One of the topical issues under debate in bank governance is the effect of organizational culture on bank risk (Nguyen, Nguyen, & Sila, 2019; Srivastav & Hagendorff, 2016). We contribute to this discourse by examining the impact of organizational culture on the risk behavior of banks in South Africa. Using the generalized least squares (GLS) estimation which controls autocorrelation and heteroskedasticity, we found that banks with externally-oriented cultural values (create and compete) are more likely to take more credit risk whereas banks with an internally focused culture (collaborate) are less likely to take high risk. We, however, could not find evidence of the role of control-oriented culture on bank risk-taking activities. Our findings are robust to alternative specifications. Our results also show that remuneration (bonus deferment and clawbacks) moderates the relationship between culture and bank risk, particularly in banks with an external focus. Our evidence carries governance and regulatory implications
The Relationship between ESG Scores and Firm-Specific Risk of Eurozone Banks

This paper investigates the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the idiosyncratic risk of Eurozone banks. Idiosyncratic risk represents firm-specific risks for banks, and the Carhart four-factor model is used for 31 Eurozone banks from 2002 to 2019 to determine the idiosyncratic risk. Thomson Reuters ESG scores are used to determine the ESG scores of these banks during the same period, and the effects of the environmental, social, and governance dimensions are investigated separately. The quantile regression method reveals a relationship between ESG and idiosyncratic risk over different risk levels. A significant negative relationship has been found between the overall ESG scores and the idiosyncratic risk of banks for medium- to high-risk levels. The effect becomes stronger as the riskiness of the banks increases. Similar to the overall ESG score, the governance and environmental dimensions have a negative impact on banks with medium- to high-risk levels. No significant relationship could be identified between the social dimension and the idiosyncratic risk of banks.
Collective Expert Perspectives on the Use of Safinamide as Adjunctive Therapy for Parkinson's Disease: Online-Based Delphi Survey

Background Safinamide is a selective, reversible monoamine oxidase-B inhibitor with a sodium channel inhibitory effect. Published clinical evidence supports safinamide as an effective therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD) with wearing-off. However, to date, no consensus recommendations have been available to guide physicians in Asia on the optimal use of safinamide in clinical practice. To summarize opinions on the optimal patient profile and methods of using safinamide in common clinical scenarios, Japanese movement disorder specialists with expertise in PD investigated the perspectives of neurologists and neurosurgeons. Methods The Delphi panel approach was used to summarize the opinions of panelists. The panel comprised doctors from Japan with extensive clinical practice experience in the use of safinamide (n = 46 at the final round). The consensus was defined as 80% or more agreement between panelists for each scenario at the final round. Results There was a high level of agreement that patients with the following symptoms are suitable for safinamide treatment such as bradykinesia (100%), rigidity (95.7%), and/or gait disorder (89.1%) based on motor symptoms and PD-related pain (97.8%) and/or depression or apathy (93.5%) based on non-motor symptoms. Morning-off (95.7%), but not dyskinesia (71.7%), also reached consensus. The use of high-dose safinamide (100 mg/day) was recommended when the improvement in PD symptoms is insufficient and increasing the doses of other anti-PD medications is difficult (97.8%) or when the abovementioned non-motor symptoms adversely affect daily life (93.5%). Conclusions This report provides expert perspectives on the use of safinamide for a wide range of clinical scenarios in Japan.
Uptake of and Motivational Responses to Mental Health-Promoting Practices: Comparing Relaxation and Mindfulness Interventions

Background Comparative analyses of alternative interventions within the same trial enable acceptability and fidelity of each to be investigated more critically. In addition, whereas so far studies have focused on efficacy evaluations, more understanding is needed on motivational factors influencing the uptake of mental health-promoting practices rather than solely their effects. Purpose This study investigates whether the motivational responses to a mindfulness intervention are different from a relaxation intervention. We compare social cognitions outlined by the reasoned action approach and their roles in practice uptake, self-reported reasons for non-practice, and experienced benefits. Methods In a cluster-randomized trial (ISRCTN18642659; N = 3134), 12–15-year-old participants were given a 9-week intervention and followed up to 52 weeks. Main statistical analyses included t-tests, mixed ANOVAs, path models, and chi-square tests. Results Social cognitions in the mindfulness arm were slightly more positive immediately post-intervention, but recipients mostly responded similarly to the two interventions in the longer term. While attitudes, norms, intention, and self-efficacy were relatively high post-intervention, most of them slightly decreased by 26 weeks. Main reasons for non-practice in both arms included not finding the exercises helpful, no felt need, boringness of exercises and forgetting. The most common benefits experienced by practicing respondents were stress management and concentration ability. Better sleep was a more frequently reported benefit in the relaxation arm, but no other major differences emerged. Conclusion This study offers an example of comparing motivational responses to experimental and active control arm interventions, a potentially helpful approach in improving intervention adherence.
Sparsity-Aware Tensor Decomposition

Sparse tensor decomposition, such as Canonical Polyadic Decomposition (CPD), is a key operation for data analytics and machine learning. Its computation is dominated by a set of MTTKRP (Matricized Tensor Times Khatri Rao Product) operations. The collection of required MTTKRP operations for sparse CPD include common sub-computations across them and many approaches exist to factorize and reuse common sub-expressions. Prior work on sparse CPD has focused on minimizing the number of high-level operators. In this paper, we consider a design space that covers whether the partial MTTKRP results should be saved, different mode permutations and model the total volume of data movement to/from memory. Also, we propose a fine-grained load balancing method that supports higher levels of parallelization.
Increasing the Photovoltaic Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Zinc Oxide Film as a Recombination Blocking Layer

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have great potential in solar power generation due to their advantages of easy fabrication and low fabrication cost. One of the main problems of DSSCs is the loss of recombination between the fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrate/electrolyte. This is mainly due to the mesoporous nature of the TiO<sub>2</sub> film. The recombination effect can be reduced by introducing compact layers (CLs) on the photosensitive layer to prevent the direct contact between the transparent conductive oxide substrate and the redox electrolyte. When compared with TiO<sub>2</sub>, zinc oxide (ZnO) tends to have more negative conduction band edges. This helps to prevent, electronic recombination reactions and so improves the open-circuit voltage (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${V}_{{\text {OC}}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>). ZnO blocking layers (ZBLs) were deposited on the FTO substrate by RF sputtering and used for DSSCs. We employed a field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) to characterize ZBL. Photovoltaic (PV) parameters were measured on the DSSCs samples fabricated in this study under solar simulator illumination at AM 1.5 (100 mW/cm<sup>2</sup>). Compared with the DSSCs without ZBL, DSSCs with ZBL (31 nm) exhibit higher short-circuit current density (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${J}_{{\text {SC}}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) and photovoltaic conversion efficiency (PCE), which is 21.82% higher than that of the DSSCs without ZBL.