Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Migration of pseudoestrogen bisphenol A from various types of paper with thermochromic prints to artificial sweat solutions

Abstract Thermochromic inks, materials that change color at a certain temperature, are increasingly used on papers and other materials in the areas of design, commercials, and security printing. Pseudo-estrogen bisphenol A (BPA) may be one of their main compounds present in mass fractions of up to several percent. In this work, the mass fractions of BPA in thermochromic prints on seven types of paper were determined. Migration of BPA from the surface of the thermochromic print to artificial sweat solutions was investigated as well. Total amount of BPA in papers with thermochromic prints was determined by an HPLC-UV method with ultrasonic-assisted extraction in methanol developed and validated in this work. Total amount of BPA, which ranged from 0.126 to 0.778 mg/g, was compared with the amounts extracted under the same conditions in two artificial human sweat solutions, which differed in chemical composition, ionic strength, and pH-value. Mass fractions of BPA extracted with artificial sweat solutions were from 0.047 to 0.175 mg/g with respect to the mass of the paper. On average, the mass fraction of BPA was four times less when extracted with artificial sweat solutions than the maximal amount extracted with methanol. The amounts of extracted BPA raise a concern of health risk through dermal exposure to BPA from thermochromic prints on paper. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
Resilience and its association with the intensive care unit nurses’ intention to leave their profession

Article type: Original Article Received: May 2017 Accepted: Aug. 2017 e-Published: 28 Nov. 2017 Corresponding author: Azad Rahmani e-mail: azadrahmani@yahoo. com Background & Aim: Exposure to high stress in the work environment among the intensive care unit nurses results in leaving the profession and their unwillingness to continue their activities. This is one of the major challenges in the nursing profession and has a great effect on the effectiveness of health systems. Despite the importance of resilience, there is few studies on the intensive care unit nurses’ resilience. The aim of this study was to determine resilience and its association with the intensive care unit nurses’ intention to leave their profession. Methods & Materials: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive analytical study on 400 nurses working in the intensive care units of teaching hospitals affiliated to Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in 2016. Data were collected through a modified form of Anticipated Turnover Scale designed by liou and a summarized form of Connor-Davidson’s resilience scale". Descriptive and inferential statistics (Mann-Whitney, and KruskalWallis) were used for data analysis through SPSS version 13. Results: The mean rank for intention to leave and resilience was 2.83 (IQR: 0.67) and 25.50 (IQR: 8) respectively. Also, there was a negative, significant correlation between resilience and intention to leave (P<0.001, R=-0.173). Conclusion: Considering the rate of intention to leave the profession, more attention is needed to the factors affecting the intention to leave. In addition, due to the significant relationship between resilience and intention to leave, incorporating resilience-promoting strategies into nursing curriculum is recommended.
Prevalence of Disability and Family Burden in Patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: An Observational Study

Introduction: Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common psychiatric disorder with significant disability. Aim: To study the prevalence and extent of family burden and disability in patients with OCD and its correlates. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study involving 75 consecutive patients with OCD was done. Family burden was assessed using the family burden schedule (FBS). Disability was calculated using the World Health Organization’s (WHOs) disability assessment schedule (DAS). Various variables were analyzed and significance of correlation was assessed using chi-squared test of significance. Results: Prevalence of family burden was 13.33% and that of disability was 42.67%. These were significantly associated with low socioeconomic status, single marital status, early age of onset, and severity of disease. There was significant association between severity of disability and family burden. Conclusion: Patients with OCD have significant disability and burden on family.
BMF-CNN: an object detection method based on multi-scale feature fusion in VHR remote sensing images

ABSTRACT Object detection in very-high-resolution (VHR) remote sensing images is one of the important technical means in many fields. In recent years, conventional object detection methods have been completely replaced by Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based methods, which are more accurate and efficient. However, most current CNN-based methods applied in VHR image sets have certain defects: (1) Scale preference is common in the framework designs, and the representation ability of feature maps for large and small objects is quite different, so accuracy promotion can hardly be made comprehensively in the detection of different objects. (2) The scale difference of the objects leads to training difficulties. (3) Some high-precision methods require high hardware costs, and the overall frameworks lack practicality. To address such problems, we propose a new object detection method in this paper, namely Balanced Multi-Scale Fusion-based CNN (BMF-CNN). It is a redesigned two-stage detection framework according to the region-based object detection methods, which enabled the detection accuracy of both large and small objects to reach a high level. Through the evaluation in the open VHR remote sensing image sets, we found that BMF-CNN showed a better integrative performance than the current mainstream detection methods.
Physical Performance and Exercise Training in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

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Soil sample timing, nitrogen fertilization, and incubation length influence anaerobic potentially mineralizable nitrogen

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Is the Use of Reference Managers Driven by Necessity or Policy Pressure?

The use of a reference manager (RefWorks, Mendeley, EndNote, Zotero) has become very important in the writing of scientific papers for students and lecturers. The Faculty of Economics of Semarang State University (FE UNNES) has called on students to use a reference manager when composing a thesis. This study aims to analyze factors that influence the utilization of reference managers by FE UNNES students. The theories used are the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). The research population was students working on their theses at FE UNNES. The data collection method used is a questionnaire distributed online to respondents through the Google platform. The data analysis method used is path analysis. The results show that performance expectancy and social influence have positive and significant effects on a student’s intention to use a reference manager. Meanwhile, effort expectancy is not proven to have a significant effect on a student’s intention to use a reference manager. Effort expectancy, performance expectancy, and social influence have a significant effect on the use of reference managers. Other results show that behavioral intention, lecturer guidance, and policy pressure do not significantly influence the use of reference managers. The results of this study demonstrate that the use of reference managers by students is more influenced by perceptions of their usefulness. That is, students assume that the use of a reference manager is a necessity.
Teacher Accountability and Pay-for-Performance Schemes in (Semi-) Urban Indonesia

Teacher evaluations are conducted to inform employment decisions and teacher professional development with the ultimate goal to create beneficial student learning environments. The effectiveness and feasibility of teacher evaluations, particularly in high-stakes contexts (hiring, firing, promotion, pay-for-performance schemes), crucially depends on the support these evaluations receive from the various education stakeholders involved. While many governments around the world, including the Government of Indonesia, are interested in reforming and expanding their current teacher evaluation systems, often little is known about how principals, teachers, parents, and students perceive these evaluations. This paper uses data from a recent large-scale opinion survey in Indonesia to examine and provide rare insights into the attitudes of key education stakeholders towards teacher performance evaluations. Four key insights are identified. First, many principals and teachers agree with existing evaluation schemes employed in Indonesia, such as the teacher competence test (ujian kompetensi guru (UKG)) and the teacher performance evaluation (penilaian kinerja guru (PKG)) and are also open to reforms and the introduction of new schemes. Second, pay-for-performance schemes are generally popular among principals and teachers, and preferred over seniority-linked pay systems. Third, teachers in urban areas are more favorable towards pay-for-performance schemes than teachers in semi-urban areas. Finally, all stakeholders generally support the concept of principals, teachers, and parents fulfilling performance evaluator roles.
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a System Based Nurse Manager Collaborative Council on Work Engagement, Psychological Empowerment, and Value

BACKGROUND: Nurse Managers often do not receive direct acknowledgment for their accomplishments or have input into the facility wide decisions which directly impact them. Currently there are no known shared governance programs tailored to the nurse manager level. PURPOSE: To determine the impact of a system shared governance model on nurse manager’s work engagement, psychological empowerment, and inclusion. METHOD: A pretest and posttest design was utilized to determine the impact of shared governance participation for nurse managers. Spreitzer’s psychological empowerment scale and the Ultrech “Work and Well-being” instrument, in addition to some Likert scale and open-ended descriptive questions, were included in the survey for this study. RESULTS: For both work engagement and psychological empowerment, the mean pre and post intervention scores were above the average. In relation to the value of participation in the manager shared governance council, managers reported feelings of being heard, connectivity, collaboration, and networking. CONCLUSION: Future studies should be conducted within multiple organizations to determine the impact of nursing leaders participating in a shared governance committee. Participation in a manager shared governance model may lead to manager empowerment and help managers drive change and adapt to workplace challenges. EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A SYSTEM BASED
Output Feedback Fault‐Tolerant Control of Heterogeneous Multi‐Agent Systems

This paper investigates the design of an output feedback fault‐tolerant control (FTC) scheme for heterogeneous multi‐agent systems subject to loss of effectiveness and time‐varying additive actuator faults as well as external disturbances. The main aim of the proposed FTC approach is to maintain the behavior of a multi‐agent system after the occurrence of faults and external disturbances similar to the desired healthy and undisturbed one. The proposed FTC scheme does not depend on the implemented mission of the multi‐agent systems and it can be easily augmented to the existing nominal controller of each agent. Simulation results corresponding to a team of AUVs demonstrate and illustrate the effectiveness of our proposed FTC scheme.
Anatomy, Shoulder and Upper Limb, Hand Cutaneous Innervation

Three independent nerves supply the cutaneous innervation of the hand. From lateral to medial these nerves include the superficial branch of the radial nerve, the median nerve, and the ulnar nerve. These peripheral nerves originate from the C5 to T1 levels of the spinal column. The sensory distribution discussed here includes both the ventral and dorsal aspects of the hand ending proximally at the level of the wrist. Also briefly discussed here will be a set of muscles innervated by these nerves as they supply the cutaneous innervation of the hand.
On the Use of Fly’s Eye Lenses with Leaky-Wave Feeds for Wideband Communications

In order to fulfill the exponential increase in the demand of high-speed wireless links, future XG wireless networks will be developed at higher carrier signal frequencies, reaching the hundreds of gigahertz. In this contribution, a leaky-wave-fed HDPE lens antenna working at ${G}$ -band which can be useful for future XG communications is presented. The proposed lens design enables the generation of up to 40 beams, with gains higher than 30 dB. Analytical tools have been applied to optimize the lens aperture efficiency, validating the results via full-wave simulations. The reached aperture efficiency for the broadside beam is higher than 80% over a 44% relative bandwidth. The measurement results for a fabricated prototype show excellent agreement with the simulated performance.
An Inspection of Preferred Argument Structure in Mapudungun Narratives1

The surface form of arguments in natural discourse, theoretically freely chosen, is by no means arbitrary. Clear tendencies emerge when analyzing stretches of discourse. One such pattern concerns the different proportions of lexically realized arguments in A, as opposed to S and P, and has been explained by Du Bois through a set of underlying principles. The pattern has more recently been suggested to be an epiphenomenal effect of animacy. In this paper, I analyze a corpus of Mapudungun narratives and investigate the form and information status of 4,218 references. The results show S between A and P in its lexicality, and a discord with constraints constituting PAS. There is also an unexpectedly high proportion of lexical human S arguments, independent of information status. Not only do these findings contribute to the growing body of evidence suggesting that PAS is flawed and that animacy should not be neglected, they also suggest that animacy alone does not explain all patterns. In addition, they promote an independent treatment of information status and formal expression in this kind of corpus study.
Cardiopulmonary changes in Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis should be viewed as a multisystem disease affecting multiple organs. Vigilance for lung and cardiac involvement is necessary among rheumatologists and patients. Despite the absence of effective treatment for advanced respiratory and cardiovascular disease, it is possible that therapeutic intervention at an early stage may be beneficial. Keeping in view the above mentioned facts, we have undertaken this study to see the various cardiac and pulmonary changes associated with rheumatoid arthritis and, their age and sex wise distribution in study population. Objective; To study prevalence and severity of cardiovascular and pulmonary changes in patients of rheumatoid arthritis in accordance to age and sex. Method; All patients fulfilling 1987, revised criteria for diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, proposed by American College of Rheumatology were selected without any bias for age, sex, duration, severity of disease. Result; Female to male ratio was 2.6: 1 with hypertension as most common co-morbid disease. Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide was more specific than rheumatoid factor. 40.5% cases had abnormal pulmonary function test results in the form of restrictive and/or obstructive abnormality. 35.7% had abnormal echocardiography with valvular lesions, pericardial effusion and left ventricular dysfunction in decreasing order. Mitral valve was involved in 87.5% of total valvular involvement. Conclusion; Cardiopulmonary involvement were restrictive pattern of lung involvement along with mitral valve lesions, pericardial effusion and left ventricular dysfunction. Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide was more specific than rheumatoid factor
Student Perception on Teaching Materials Development to Increase Students’ Knowledge of Aceh's Maritime Potential

Aceh has the potential as a world trade route, fish catch lane and marine tourism in Indonesia. Therefore, students' knowledge of Aceh's maritime potential needs to be developed. The purpose of this study was to determine student perceptions of teaching materials to Increase Students’ Knowledge of Aceh's Maritime Potential. This study used a quantitative research design. The results of the study were obtained from the answers to the questionnaires that were developed, validated, and tested by researchers. The results were analyzed through descriptive statistics. The results of the study indicate that geography education students need teaching materials to Increase Students’ Knowledge of Aceh's Maritime Potential. Teaching materials were very important to be developed because there was no teaching material and students' knowledge of Aceh's maritime potential was very lacking. Based on the research, it was suggested to develop teaching materials to increase students’ knowledge of the Aceh Maritime Potential comprehensively.
Biaxial flexural strength and Weilbull characteristics of adhesively luted hybrid and reinforced CAD/CAM materials to dentin: effect of self-etching ceramic primer versus hydrofluoric acid etching

Abstract This study evaluated the influence of the surface treatment and aging on the biaxial flexural strength of ceramic materials cemented to a dentin analogue. One hundred twenty disc-shaped specimens were allocated into 12 groups considering three study factors: ceramic material (lithium disilicate, leucite-based ceramic and hybrid ceramic), surface treatment (10% hydrofluoric acid etching + silane or self-etching glass-ceramic primer) and Aging (with 10,000 thermocycles of 5–37–55 °C or without). A tri-layer assembly was designed to mimic a cemented restoration (Variolink N) into a dentin analogue. All samples were submitted to the biaxial flexural strength assay. The flexural strength in MPa was calculated using the finite element method for each sample considering thickness, material properties, and the load to fracture during the in vitro test. Fractographic analysis was also performed. The data was evaluated using three-way ANOVA and Tukey test (α = 5%). ANOVA showed influence for the Material*Treatment*Aging interaction on the flexural strength (p = 0.011). The highest strength was calculated for lithium disilicate ceramic + self-etching ceramic primer without aging (499 ± 17 MPa)A and the lowest value for hybrid ceramic material + acid etching with aging (424 ± 48 MPa)E. According to the Weibull modulus, the most predictable strength was calculated for lithium disilicate + acid etching after aging. Acid etching or self-etching ceramic primer promotes similar immediate biaxial flexural strength for each evaluated ceramic. In the long-term, superior strength was observed using acid etching for lithium disilicate and the self-etching ceramic primer for the hybrid ceramic while no difference was observed for leucite-based ceramic. Clinical implications: Some protocols combining the CAD/CAM ceramic material and the surface treatment could present suitable and stable flexural strength.
Exploring the Dynamic Team Cohesion–Performance and Coordination–Performance Relationships of Newly Formed Teams

Emergent states, like cohesion, and behavioral processes, like coordination, are considered critical for team performance, yet little is known regarding their relative importance over time. Testing several hypotheses and exploring multiple research questions, this study used a laboratory design to better understand the evolution of cohesion–performance and coordination–performance relationships of newly formed teams. Forty-two teams of three completed 10 task episodes of an interdependent team task over the course of two and a half hours. Results reveal that cohesion and performance have a reciprocal relationship such that cohesion predicts subsequent performance, which then predicts subsequent cohesion. Moreover, coordination predicts subsequent performance, but performance does not predict subsequent coordination. Both the cohesion–performance and coordination–performance relationships weaken as the team works together, indicating that other states and processes predict performance at later stages of team development. Meanwhile, the relative importance of cohesion compared with coordination strengthens with increased team interactions.
Sublocations of cancers of the oral cavity, oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, primary lymph node and other epidemiological features in a French Tropical Island in the Indian Ocean 2009-2013

Background: This study had two objectives: firstly, to describe and compare sublocations of all cancer of the oral cavity, oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx and primary carcinoma cervical lymph node diagnosed in Reunion Island, a tropical French overseas territory in the southern hemisphere between 2009 to 2013; and secondly others epidemiological features. Methods: A retrospective study included 621 patients diagnosed with cancer of the oral cavity, oropharynx, hypopharynx or larynx or primary cervical node between 2009 and 2013 in Reunion Island. 13 possible sublocations of cancer for mouth are described, 14 for larynx, 12 for oropharynx, 3 for hypopharynx, 8 for primary cervical lymph node. Demographic characteristics, data on alcohol consumption, smoking habits, HPV infection, denutrition were analyzed. Results: Cancer location consisted of oropharynx (36.2%), larynx (25.6%), oral cavity (20.8%), hypopharynx (13.8%), primary carcinoma lymph node (3.6%). Sublocations in oral cavity mainly concerned palatin tonsil and base tongue. Vocal fold was the mostly frequent sublocation involved in larynx. Cancer in oral cavity were portion out more homogeneously. Excluding primary lymph node, sex ratio was 7.7 and mean age was 60 years. Cancer consisted of squamous cell carcinoma in 99.1% of patients. 340/375 patients (81.25%) showed alcohol abuse; 309/359 (86.1%) were smokers; 31/184 (16.8%) had HPV infection. Conclusions: First study including all cases of pharyngolarynx and oral cavity cancer and depicting all sublocations involved in one series. We found no significant difference of distribution between sublocations for larynx but some for oropharynx and oral cavity compared to literature.