Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
What is The Character of Student Tolerance in The Indonesian Political Situation?

—Indonesian students have a variety of cultures, languages, ethnicities, and religions. A variety of religions also influence the tolerance character in political choice of the Indonesian president. The presidential election in 2019 is a complex problem and raises cases of intolerance. The study measures the tolerance of character students as voters in the 2019 presidential election through a quantitative descriptive approach. The research subjects were 739 with the character scale tolerance instrument. The findings explained that the tolerance character of students in political conditions or presidential elections has high criteria. The peace aspect when the presidential election has high criteria, aspects respect each other the difference in choice in the low criteria and the of self-awareness aspect in the high criteria. Comfort in personal life in the low criteria and fear of students in the high criteria. Character education in schools as a solution to the tolerance character development.
Massively Parallel GPU Implementation of the Lattice-Boltzmann Method for the Simulation of Coupled Aero-Thermodynamic Systems

The automotive industry is showing high demand for efficient design of cooling systems in electric vehicles. The development of complex aero-thermodynamic systems requires reliable, high-fidelity simulations of high Reynolds number flows. We implemented a numerical solver based on the double-distribution lattice-Boltzmann method (LBM). The main advantage of the LBM, compared to the Navier-Stokes-based solvers, is its computational efficiency and intrinsic parallelism, which allows for execution on massively parallel architectures (GPUs). We have validated our GPU implementation by simulating a natural convection flow and a heated cylinder in an enclosed cavity. Both cases show very good agreement with published literature. In the future, we aim to extend the usage of the LBM framework to industry-relevant cases like the simulation of various packaging concepts for electric vehicles.
Surface Potential-Based Approach to Estimate Bias Dependent Sensitivity of 1-D Metal Oxide Resistive Gas Sensors

The current work concern a surface potential based approach to study the bias voltage dependent sensitivity of 1-D metal oxide gas sensors. Bias dependent sensitivity for granular metal oxide gas sensors has already been reported. Considering the wide applicability of 1-D nanomaterials in gas sensing application, the bias dependent sensitivity has been studied in present work by theoretical route which was supported by experimental findings. The concept was established based on the surface potential (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\Psi _{{\mathbf {S}}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) effect due to the carrier concentration gradient by surface adsorption of gases on the metal oxide. Considering the effect of both the potentials i.e. <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\Psi _{{\mathbf {S}}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and bias voltage, the exact bias point was found to get the peak response of 1-D metal oxide gas sensor. TiO<sub>2</sub> nanotubes array was considered as the test sensing material. In the first phase of the article, the theoretical approach has been reported to estimate the sensor response of 1-D nanotubes and in the second phase of the study, the theoretical concept has been justified with experimental results. Highly oriented TiO<sub>2</sub> nanotube array was synthesized, characterized and used to fabricate Au/TiO<sub>2</sub> nanotubes/Ti type vertical structured sensor device. Simulation results exhibited the highest response of the TiO<sub>2</sub> nanotube sensor in-between 0.1-0.4 V of bias voltage which was then authenticated with the experimental ethanol sensing behavior of the sensor in the concentration range of 90 to 630 ppm at 300 K.
A study of leprosy patients attended tertiary care hospital

Background: Recorded leprosy case load has come down from to less than one case per 10,000 populations at national level in December 2005. Considerable changes in the epidemiological pattern of the disease have been observed due to the historical trend of the disease; the impact of interventions; the efficacy of chemotherapy and the role of improved health services. This study was planned to know the pattern of leprosy cases attending tertiary care hospital, their treatment & outcome. Methods: It is a retrospective study conducted from Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Medical College & Hospital from 2007 till December 2015. Study-subjects include patients with leprosy and sample size includes all the patients of leprosy from January 2007 to December 2015. The study-tools: records, biopsy tissue blocks. Statistical analysis: percentages. Results: There were total 42 cases. Total 9.5% were children. Male to female ratio was 1.33:1. Two (4.8%) patients gave family history of leprosy, 23 (54.8%) were from rural area. Clinically 16.66% patients had single patch, 50% had nerve involvement. The most common type was borderline tuberculoid leprosy (35.7%). Out of these 42 cases 22 cases had completed the treatment, 14 on treatment. Six patients were defaulted. Conclusions: Early diagnosis & treatment of leprosy is happening as none of the cases had disability. History of contact in study subject was not common & presence of leprosy in paediatric age group indicates continued transmission. However there is a need of strong follow-up system for defaulters.
PREVALENCE OF METABOLIC SYNDROME AMONG NORMAL WEIGHT CAMEROONIANS

Metabolic syndrome is the co-occurence of several factors including hypertension, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, obesity and glucose intolerance that increase in subjects the risk to develop cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. This study aimed to assess metabolic syndrome and its individual components among normal weight adults Cameroonian living in Yaounde, Cameroon participating in Health Campaigns. This cross-sectional study was conducted in Yaounde on three hundred and thirty six (180 men and 156 women) normal weight adults. Metabolic syndrome was diagnosed using Adult Treatment Panel-III (ATP-III) definition. The general prevalence of metabolic syndrome was 11.9% (higher in women7.74% than in men 4.17%). No men exhibit higher waist circumference. In both sex the most common metabolic abnormality was Low HDL-cholesterol 54.46% (26.79% for men and 27.68% for women and hypertension 48.66% (26.79% for men and 22.398% for women. In our results 10.42% (3.57% for men and 6.85% for women) had three altered metabolic syndrome components while 1.49% (0.3% for men and 1.17% for women) had four; nobody met five criteria. Metabolic syndrome was more common in upper grade of normal body mass index (70%) than normal lower grade (30%) in both sexes. The prevalence of metabolic syndrome in normal weight Cameroonian is relative high. Screening, promoting healthy diets and physical activity should be enhanced in this group.
Observations, Simulations, and Reasoning in Astrophysics

Astrophysics faces methodological challenges as a result of being a predominantly observation-based science without access to traditional experiments. In light of these challenges, astrophysicists frequently rely on computer simulations. Using collisional ring galaxies as a case study, I argue that computer simulations play three roles in reasoning in astrophysics: (1) hypothesis testing, (2) exploring possibility space, and (3) amplifying observations.
Increased Subglacial Sediment Discharge in a Warming Climate: Consideration of Ice Dynamics, Glacial Erosion, and Fluvial Sediment Transport

We evaluate changes to subglacial sediment discharge during glacier retreat by considering ice dynamics, bedrock erosion, and sediment transport processes. Coupling these components together within a single framework, we simulate sediment discharge from synthetic alpine glaciers experiencing accelerated glacier melt for 100 years. We find that sediment discharge increases by about 8 times the steady glacier values by the end of the simulation. The enhanced sediment discharge persists through peak water discharge and despite annual bedrock erosion volume decreasing by approximately 30% from the initial value. The greater sediment discharge results from increased melt at the glaciers' higher region, where transport was limited prior to glacier retreat. These findings suggest that large increases in sediment discharge may occur as glaciers retreat. The magnitude of the sediment discharge increase primarily depends on the quantity of sediment stored subglacially.
The Iconic Boom in Modern Russian Art

Motivated by the fast growth of personal wealth in emerging economies like Russia, the authors investigate the investment performance of modern Russian art. A hedonic analysis of more than 50,000 art transactions results in a geometric average return of 3.97%, in real USD terms, between 1967 and 2007. The Russian art index shows an impressive annualized return of 12.37% since 1997. This is roughly double the average yearly appreciation of a global art market index over the same period. Art from the nineteenth century has performed especially well. The returns on Russian art correlate positively with the returns on global equities, gold, and (especially) London real estate. Also, they seem to be affected more by trends in oil prices than are global art prices. The results illustrate how the new wealth created in fast-developing economies has an impact on the demand for art from these countries, which reflects a home bias in taste.
Preventing Harm in the Name of Help: A Guide for Addiction Professionals

“The history of medicine demonstrates repeatedly that unevaluated treatment, no matter how compassionately administered, is frequently useless and wasteful and sometimes dangerous or harmful. The lesson we have learned is that what is plausible may be false and what is done sincerely may be useless or worse. ” --Enoch Gordis, Director of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1986-2001 (Gordis, 1987, p 582).
Boko Haram Insurgency, Youth Mobility and Better Life in the Far North Region of Cameroon

This article portrays youth mobility in Cameroon as a means to escape poverty and to achieve a better life. Youth mobility though not new is, however, taking a new dimension as a result of Boko Haram’s violent conflict. To explore how this violence has affected mobility, this study analyses narration of youngsters’ escape experiences from Boko Haram and their ideas of how to achieve a better life, drawing on interviews in Cameroon’s Far North Region. The study begins with the origin and regionalisation of Boko Haram, followed by the concept of youth, the evolution of mobility trends and better life. It then proceeds to narrations of escape experiences, places of destination and sheds light on mobility pathways and integration dynamics.
Investigating digital doings through breakdowns: a sociomaterial ethnography of a Bring Your Own Device school

ABSTRACT As personal digital devices have become increasingly embedded in schools, what they do tends to silently fall into the background and generally be taken for granted. In order to scrutinize the silent doings of digital devices, this paper explores how attending to breakdowns as a methodological heuristic device can be an insightful entry point to surface and analyze these doings. By conducting a sociomaterial ethnographic study in one Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) school, this paper disentangles four different breakdowns that occurred during the ethnographic study. The analysis reveals a particular mode of digital doings at school, coined as digital pedagogics, that characterizes the school space–time as plastic and poly-synchronous and curates lesson activities. Moreover, this mode is heavily conditioned by and through the school’s sociomaterial infrastructure. The paper concludes that in the wake of the breakdowns, the school’s infrastructure comes into being not merely as a bundle of cables and basic structures that make the school function, but more importantly as a complex configuration of clouds, software and interfaces, algorithms and patterns, standards, protocols and negotiations. This sets the condition for framing contemporary digitized schools within a particular techno-scholastic milieu.
The Selling of Virtual Reality: Novelty and Continuity in the Cultural Integration of Technology

Since the spring of 2014, the consumer virtual reality (VR) industry has once again been racing to reach the public, providing an opportunity to track an emerging medium’s cultural integration in real time. We examined three sites on the sales chain that stretches from the laboratory to the living room: industry developer conferences, industrial prototypes, and end-user experiences. At each of these sites, marketers renegotiate VR’s novelty in order to sell it to specific constituencies. Paradoxically, these negotiations reveal how VR, typically presented as a disruptive innovation, has been called upon to stabilize and ensure the continuity of the past: that is, of particular cultural forms and of the industrial and technological infrastructures that sustain them. We argue that the enculturation of VR demonstrates that the processes that summon new technologies and construct them as novel also reinforce existing—and often unspoken—agreements about the ways that culture should be organized.
Stock Price Movements and Trading Behaviors Around Merger and Acquisition Announcements: Evidence from the Korean Stock Market

This study examines the relationship between price movements of target firms’ stocks and behaviors of local individual, local institutional, and foreign investors in trading target firms’ stocks around mergers and acquisitions announcements in Korea. Results reveal that the average abnormal return (AAR) becomes significantly positive three days prior to the announcement date and becomes insignificant after the announcement date. Results also show that local individual investors tend to sell more intensely prior to announcements for target firms with larger wealth effects. In contrast, foreign investors tend to buy target stocks with larger wealth effects more intensely prior to the announcement date, and then they sell them more intensely in the post-announcement period. This may imply that foreign investors are able to identify target stocks with large wealth effects prior to the announcement date and they realize short-term profits by selling them following the announcement.
Examining Local Time Variations in the Gains and Losses of Open Magnetic Flux During Substorms

The open magnetic flux content of the magnetosphere varies during substorms as a result of dayside and nightside reconnection. The open flux can be calculated from the area of the polar cap, delineated by the open‐closed field line boundary (OCB). This study presents a superposed epoch analysis of the location of the OCB and the change in the magnetic flux content in individual nightside MLT sectors during substorm growth, expansion, and recovery phases. Far ultraviolet (FUV) observations from the IMAGE satellite are used to derive a proxy of the OCB location. In the hour prior to substorm onset, the total nightside flux content increases by up to 0.12 GWb on average, resulting in an equatorward expansion of the OCB. Following substorm onset, the OCB contracts toward the pole as the open magnetic flux content decreases by up to 0.14 GWb on average, but the rate of decrease of the total nightside open flux content differs by 5–66% between the three IMAGE far ultraviolet instruments. The OCB does not contract poleward uniformly in all nightside magnetic local time (MLT) sectors after substorm onset. Close to the substorm onset MLT sector, the OCB contracts immediately following substorm onset; however, the OCB in more dawnward and duskward MLT sectors continues to expand equatorward for up to 120 minutes after substorm onset. Despite the continued increase in flux in these sectors after substorm onset, the total nightside flux content decreases immediately at substorm onset, indicating that the nightside reconnection rate exceeds the dayside rate following substorm onset.
Comparison of the biophysical profile and modified biophysical profile in prediction of the fetal outcome in pregnancy induced hypertension

Background: Pregnancy induces hypertension is one of the major causes of fetal morbidity and mortality. Biophysocal profile is one of the tests performed to predict the fetal outcome which though is simple, is time consuming and costly. This study was performed to compare the modified biophysical profile to the biophysical profile. Methods: 200 patients over the gestation period of 34 weeks with pregnancy induced hypertension were divided into Group A consisting of 100 patients who were studied with biophysical profile (BPP) and Group B consisting of 100 patietns who were studied by the modified biophysical profile (MBPP). Results: Mild hypertension was found in 80% of the cases while 20% of the cases had severe hypertension. Most of the patients were primigravida while very few of them were fourth gravidae. 78 patients had a score of BPP 8-10, out of which 7 had fetal distress while 71. Abnormal BPP score (<6) was observed among 22% of the patients in group A. Of these 22 patients, 9 patients had a score of <2 and all of them delivered by LSCS due to chronic fetal distress. Among the MBPP score, IUGR was seen among 4 fetuses who had a low score. Out of the 5 patients who had fetal distress, 2 fetuses were still born. Both BPP and MBPP were comparable to each other in terms of sensitivity, specificity and the predictive negative and positive values. Conclusions: Since BPP requires more expertise than MBPP in terms of processing and time saving, MBPP can be used as a substitute to BPP.
Situation analysis of the biomedical waste management in primary health care units of Ismailia district, Egypt

Introduction: Biomedical waste management has emerged as an issue of major concern. Advances in medical facilities and the introduction of more sophisticated instruments have increased the waste generation worldwide. Aim: This study aimed to assess the current biomedical waste management process. Methods: cross sectional descriptive study was conducted at the fifteen primary health care units (PHC) units affiliated to Ismailia health district. Data were collected using the World Health Organization Individualized Rapid Assessment Tool (WHO-IRAT) which takes into account biomedical waste management organizational structure, policy and planning, training, occupational health and safety, monitoring, periodic evaluation and corrective action, financing, segregation, waste generation, collection, handling, labeling, posters or signage, transportation, storage, treatment and waste disposal. Results: The aggregate score percentage per urban PHC unit when rated using the I-RAT ranged from as low as 44.6% to 55% with a total average score percentages 51% for urban PHC unit and as low as 39.9%to 52.4% and a total average 47% score percentages for rural PHC unit. The wastes are properly segregated at the source according to different categories in 71% of urban and 62.5% in rural PHC units. The storage area meets the proper requirements according to World Health Organization standards in 86% of urban and 50%rural PHC units. Conclusions: The baseline assessment using the individualized rapid assessment tool provides information that can be used to compare and rank PHC units for prioritizing interventions and to identify possible areas for improvement.
Patientsû opinion and practice toward unused medication disposal in malaysia: A qualitative study

This study was conducted to explore the opinion and practice toward disposal of unused medication among patients in Malaysia. An in-depth interview conducted during the period from December 2009 until February 2010. A total of 28 patients participated in this study. Once the participants identified, an appointment was fixed to conduct the interview in their house. Due to the small sample size the data were analyzed manually. The majority of them were male 15 (53.6%), older than 55 years old 18 (64.3%), Malay 20 (71.4%) and married 24 (85.8%). The most common diseases reported among the participants were hypertension 11 (39.3%) and diabetes mellitus type II 6 (21.4%). There were three main frequent disposal methods practiced by the respondents, the majority of them threw unused medication into the trash 16 (57.1%), followed by burning the unused medication 4 (14.2%) and storing it in a refrigerator 4 (14.2%). The majority of the participants 17 (60.7%) mentioned that the best way to educate the public about disposal unused medication is through school, university and public campaign. The most method to dispose unused medication among Malaysian patients is a throw of unused medication into the trash.
Measuring the Efficiency of Executive MBA Programs in China

Based on the data of the best EMBA ranking in China selected by Manager Magazine, DEA and Malmquist index were used to evaluate the efficiency of EMBA programs of top 17 business schools in China. The results show that the overall EMBA programs have a high value on technical efficiency due to the high pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency. As the technical regress deepened, the total factor productivity of EMBA program presents a dropped tendency. According to the cross analysis of technical efficiency and total factor productivity, different business schools should adopt different development strategies.
Image quality and radiation dose in cardiac imaging

Coronary artery disease is a major cause of death accounting for 8% of all deaths in the Netherlands. This disease can be detected in an early stage by cardiac imaging. However, this detection comes at the price of a relatively high radiation dose which is potentially harmful for the patient. Despite multiple widely-shared incentives in the last decade to optimize and revise protocols, the radiation dose from cardiac imaging remains relatively high and differs considerably between imaging centers. Recommended activity protocols have remained unchanged for decades, despite advancements in both hard- and software, and guidelines are sometimes outdated. Better adoption and further refinement of best practices and new techniques, such as patient tailored low-activity protocols and new X-ray equipment, can therefore contribute to reducing the cumulative radiation dose from medical imaging while maintaining or even improving image quality. In this thesis, we showed that a body-weight dependent activity protocol results in a stable and higher image quality across all patients in SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) (Chapter 2). Moreover, tracer activities can further be reduced significantly (Chapter 3) without affecting the diagnostic outcome (Chapter 6). These achievements are feasible in all types of SPECT cameras (Chapter 4 and 5). In the same way, also in Rb-82 PET MPI significant dose reductions can be achieved without affecting diagnostic outcome (Chapter 7) and tailoring the radiation exposure to the patient also reduced the variability in CT coronary angiography image quality (Chapter 8). Additional technical features may also help: while attenuation correction proved to be helpful in reducing overall radiation exposure (Chapter 10), software-based motion correction seemed less useful for SPECT MPI (Chapter 9). Final, new technical developments also help to reduce radiation dose in invasive cardiac procedures (Chapter 11) while the visibility of coronary artery calcifications during invasive coronary angiography remains very low (Chapter 12).