Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Profile of Metacognition Skill of Students with Dependent Field Cognitive Style in Solving HOT Problems in Science

Metacognition is a skill that focuses on monitoring activities and self-responsibility, so students are able to organize themselves in planning, monitoring and reflecting on their learning activities. The purpose of this study is to describe the metacognition skills of VIII grade students of SMPN 3 Sidoarjo in solving HOT problems. The research subject was a student who had a dependent field cognitive style. This research is a type of qualitative research. The data was in the form of HOT test results, interview transcripts and observation results. The data is described, analyzed and tested for validity using triangulation techniques. The result of this study showed that the student who had dependent field cognitive style master the metacognition indicators of planning, monitoring and reflection in solving the C4 and C5 HOTs problems. Meanwhile, in the case of HOTS C6, subject mastered the indicators of planning and monitoring.
Geoporn: spectacular reproduction in Olympic Rio de Janeiro

Abstract This article proposes geoporn as an analytic lens to examine the ways in which the processes and effects of representing urban landscapes have remained remarkably consistent over several centuries. The analysis begins with the exploration of the differences and similarities between geoporn and ecoporn, suggesting that the latter lens is too narrowly focused on ecology and “nature” to examine the violences, exclusions, and power imbalances embedded in representations of place. By examining the ways in which representations of Rio de Janeiro create cascading power dynamics that range in scale from the landscape to the human body, this article proposes geoporn as an entrenched practice, an analytic frame, and a heuristic. The analysis begins with landscape paintings in Brazil’s colonial period and works through the dynamics of capital accumulation that reshaped Rio de Janeiro during a decade of hosting sports mega-events.
Risk Factors Associated With Cervical Spine Lesions in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Role of Biological Agents

Purpose To investigate the prevalence and risk factors of cervical lesions in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) under current pharmacological treatments with biological agents. Methods One hundred and eighty-five consecutive patients with RA who underwent both cervical plain radiography and bone mineral density (BMD) scanning were enrolled. RA cervical lesions included atlantoaxial subluxation (AAS), vertical subluxation (VS), and subaxial subluxation (SAS). We assigned patients with AAS, VS, or SAS to the cervical-lesion group, and all other patients to the non-cervical-lesion group. Radiological findings, BMD, and clinical data on RA were collected. We used multivariate logistic regression analyses to assess the risk factors of cervical lesions in patients with RA. Results The cervical-lesion and non-cervical-lesion groups included 106 and 79 patients, respectively. There were 79 patients with AAS, 31 with VS, and 41 with SAS. The cervical-lesion group had younger age of onset, longer RA disease duration, and lower femoral neck BMD than those in the non-cervical-lesion group. Multivariate analyses showed that the risk factors of RA cervical lesions were RA disease duration, prednisolone usage, biological agents, and femoral neck BMD. Femoral neck BMD in patients with VS was lower than in those without VS. Conclusions Cervical lesions were confirmed in 57% of the patients. RA duration, prednisolone usage, biological agents, and femoral neck BMD were significant risk factors of cervical lesions in patients with RA. The general status of osteoporosis might contribute to the development of VS.
Emotion driven mood enhancing multimedia recommendation system using physiological signal

This paper exhibits a proposal for developing a multimedia recommendation system that is driven by the emotion of the user. The multimedia system is designed in such a way that the user will not have to manually browse for the audio/video to be played, it will be played automatically based on the emotion. The database comprises ECG signals collected from DECAF. Anger and sadness, emotions contributing to negative mood are considered. Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) was used for feature extraction and classification accuracy was determined using kNN, SVM. It was found that kNN classifies better than SVM. Realtime signals of one single healthy subject were collected based on a protocol built. Multimedia recommendation system operates automatically based on the classified emotion.
Are highway constructions associated with increased transport incidents? A case study of NSW Pacific Highway construction zones 2011-16

Transport incidents are among the major causes of trauma and injury in Australia and worldwide. While improving infrastructure can decrease the rate of incidents, the required construction imposes challenges regarding simultaneous public use of the relevant road sections. This study focused on construction zones along the New South Wales (NSW) Pacific Highway. We aimed to investigate if the rate of people who had major trauma as a result of a transport incident in a construction zone was higher than the rate of people with similar incidents at other times. This was a retrospective study, conducted by screening the data of patients admitted to the trauma services, or who died due to traffic incidents on the NSW Pacific Highway 2011-2016. We identified 35 causalities who experienced a traffic incident within a construction zone, 19 of these incidents occurred during the construction dates and 16 before or after those dates. The rate of casualty in construction periods was 2.21 per 1000 days, which is significantly higher than the rate in non-construction periods (1.2 per 1000 days, p-value: 0.037). There was no significant difference between the age, injury severity score and mortality rate of casualties who had an incident during the construction dates and those who had an incident in non-construction periods. This study indicated that the rate of incidents increased at NSW Pacific Highway construction zones during construction periods. More investigation is needed to improve the safety of road users during highway road constructions.
International transfer of vocational education and training: a literature review

ABSTRACT The transferability of vocational education and training (VET) systems is a central issue within international comparative VET research. However, scholars working in related disciplines also focus on the international cooperation associated with VET. This literature review presents relevant findings from the field of VET research, but also from the fields of comparative political economy, comparative educational research, and international human resource management. It explores differences and parallels in research about policy transfer between these fields. For example, scholars working in the comparative political economy and educational sciences tend to focus on transfer activities at the systemic level, while those working in international human resource management tend to focus on regional management strategies, and scholars working in VET research focuses on successes and obstacles associated with cooperation. All of these features are interconnected, providing important insights into the transferability of VET systems. The following discussion begins by exploring the rationales underpinning different disciplinary perspectives on policy transfer in VET. Next, it reviews empirical research on the transfer of VET policies from different disciplinary perspectives. It concludes with a critical reflection on the transfer potential – and how scholars in all relevant disciplines stress the need for cultural sensitivity, adaption, and long-term planning when transferring policy from one country to another.
The impact of post-operative voiding trial on length of stay following laparoscopic hysterectomy: a prospective, randomized control trial

Objective: Same day discharge (SDD) is feasible following laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH) in gynecologic oncology patients resulting in low complication and re-admission rates. Following vaginal surgery, backfill or active voiding trials have been shown to reduce hospital discharge with a catheter. The aim of this study is to determine if performing an active backfill voiding trial (AVT) vs. passive voiding trial (PVT) leads to expedited discharge following TLH.Methods: Subjects scheduled for SDD TLHwere enrolled and randomized to an AVT or a PVT. The primary outcome was length of stay. Secondary outcomes include time to void, catheter replacement, admission to the extended recovery unity (ERU), post-operative pain, and complications. Results: 121 patients were randomized: 60 to an AVT and 61 to a PVT. There was a statistically significant reduction inmedian length of stay for patients undergoing an AVT vs. PVT (271.5 minutes vs. 329 minutes, P = 0.015). Median time to void was also decreased with an AVT vs. PVT (30 minutes vs. 289 minutes, P < 0.001). There was no di ference in median pain score (2), catheter replacement, peri-operative complications, or overnight admissions between the two groups. Conclusion: There is a significant reduction in time to void and total length of stay in patients randomized to a backfill voiding trial followingTLHwithno increasedpatientdiscomfort. While the numbers of post-operative admissions were low and underpowered to detect a di ference in admission rate, these data will help to streamline post-operative care for SDD gynecologic oncology patients.
Medical imaging algorithms exacerbate biases in underdiagnosis

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have increasingly achieved expert-level performance, particularly in medical imaging (‎1). However, there is growing concern that AI systems will reflect and amplify human bias against under-served subpopulations (‎2-‎7). Such biases are especially troubling in the context of underdiagnosis: if AI systems falsely predict that patients are healthy, patients would be denied care when they need it most. This use case is particularly relevant in the context of existing health disparities where high underdiagnosis rates for under-served subgroups are well documented (‎8-‎11). Although bias in underdiagnosis can potentially delay access to medical treatment unequally, underdiagnosis due of AI has been relatively unexplored. In this work we examine algorithmic underdiagnosis in chest X-ray pathology classifiers and find that classifiers consistently and selectively underdiagnose under-served patients, actively amplifying the existing biases in clinical care. These effects are worse on intersectional subpopulations, e.g., Black females, and persist across three large and a multi-source chest X-ray dataset. Our work demonstrates that deploying AI systems risks exacerbating biases present in current care practices. Developers, clinical staff, and regulators must address the serious ethical concerns of -- and barriers to -- effective deployment of these models in the clinic.
Getting to the Core: Inflation Risks Within and Across Asset Classes

Decomposing inflation into core and non-core components (e.g., energy) sheds new light on the nature of inflation risk and risk premia. While stocks have insignificant exposure to headline inflation in the U.S., their core inflation betas are negative and energy betas are positive. Conventional inflation hedges such as currencies and commodities only hedge against energy inflation risk but not the core. These hedging properties are reflected in the prices of inflation risks: only core inflation carries a negative risk premium and its magnitude is consistent both within and across asset classes, whereas the price of energy inflation risk is indistinguishable from zero. The relative contribution of core and energy inflation varies over time, which helps explain why the correlation between stock and bond returns appears to switch sign in the data. We develop a two-sector New Keynesian model to account for these facts.
Engineering the Ground State of Complex Oxides

Transition metal oxides featuring strong electron-electron interactions have been at the forefront of condensed matter physics research in the past few decades due to the myriad of novel and exciting phases derived from their competing interactions. Beyond their numerous intriguing properties displayed in the bulk they have also shown to be quite susceptible to externally applied perturbation in various forms. The dominant theme of this work is the exploration of three emerging methods for engineering the ground states of these materials to access both their applicability and their deficiencies. The first of the three methods involves a relatively new set of compounds which adhere to a unique paradigm in chemical doping, a-site ordered perovskites. These compounds are iso-structural, i.e. constant symmetry, despite changing the dopant ions. We find that these materials, featuring Cu at the doped A-site, display the Zhang-Rice state, to varying degrees, found in high temperature superconducting cuprates, with the choice of B-site allowing “self-doping” within the material. Further, we find that within CaCu
Antimicrobial Property Of The Essential Oil From The Moroccan Fennel Fruits

The yield, chemical composition and antimicrobial proprieties of the essential oil extracted from Foeniculum vulgare mill from (Morocco) were studied. The essential oils yield average is 3.11%. Twelve components were identified by GC and GC/MS; trans-anethol, fenchone, limonene and estragole, are the principal components of this oil. The fruits essential oil of fennel has an inhibiting capacity of the growth of seven microbial strains.
Verification of DECY-13 cyclotron magnet design using cyclotron particle tracking codes

In order to increase a capacity building of an accelerator development, Center for Accelerator Science and Technology (CAST) - BATAN Yogyakarta, is developing DECY-13 Cyclotron for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) radioisotope production. One of the main components of the cyclotron, a magnet has been designed based on equilibrium orbits analysis of each increase in energy. To assure the designed magnet can guide a particle up to 13 MeV, a particle tracking is important to be carried out using simulation codes that have been benchmarked. Here, the designed magnetic field data and electric field data of the Dee were used in particle tracking simulation. The particle tracking results show that particles in the pass acceptance range can pass the central region and be accelerated up to 13 MeV. These results are consistent with the previous result of our particle tracking code. The range of phase acceptance of accelerated particle is around 110 degrees and the maximum initial axial excursion of the accelerated particles is + 1.5 mm. These results verify that the designed magnet can guide particles up to 13 MeV.
Total phenol, flavonoid, and individual phenolic acid contents and antioxidant and cytotoxic activities of methanol extracts from Ficus cordata ssp. salicifolia

Abstract: This study aimed to evaluate the total phenol, flavonoid, and individual phenolic acid contents and the antioxidant and cytotoxic activities of methanol extracts from Ficus cordata ssp. salicifolia. Spectrophotometry and gas chromatography – mass spectrometry (GC–MS) were used for chemical analyses, and 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay was conducted to determine the antioxidant activity. The cytotoxic activity was assessed against MCF7 (human breast adenocarcinoma), A2780 (human ovary adenocarcinoma), HT29 (human colon adenocarcinoma), and MRC5 (normal human fetal lung fibroblast) using 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. The total content of phenols, flavonoids, and antioxidant activity of the studied dry leaf, stem bark, twig, and fruit extracts were between 13.14 and 22.94 mg·GAE g−1 dry weight, 8.03 and 12.72 mg ·QE g−1 dry weight, and 75.59% and 83.96%, respectively. Ten individual phenolic acids were quantified in the studied plant parts. The prominent phenolic acid was p-hydroxybenzoic acid, followed by vanillic acid. Methanolic fruit extracts exhibited promising cytotoxic activity against MCF7 (IC50: 21.11 μg·mL−1). Additionally, A2780 cell lines responded very well to all the extracts, with an IC50 from 8.16 to 13.72 μg·mL−1, except for the fruit extract, which was 47.39 μg·mL−1. The leaf extract showed significant cytotoxicity against HT29 cell lines, with an IC50 of 8.81 μg·mL−1. All extracts showed IC50 values ranging from 24.68 to 56.15 μg·mL−1 on normal cells. Further examination of the plant parts in this study could identify compounds accounting for the observed antioxidant and cytotoxic activities and might represent potential novel anticancer drugs.
Corneal endothelial alterations in patients with diabetic macular edema

Background/Aim: Diabetic macular edema (DME) is the main cause of visual loss in diabetic patients. Although it is known that diabetes mellitus could affect all corneal layers, there is no data about the morphological and quantitative changes of corneal endothelium in patients with DME. The aim of this study is to evaluate the corneal endothelial cell density (CD), morphology and central corneal thickness (CCT) in patients with DME. Methods: This retrospective study included 47 diabetic patients (79 eyes) with DME, 48 diabetic patients (93 eyes) without DME, and 46 nondiabetic subjects (74 eyes). Diagnosis of DME was based on fundoscopy and optical coherence tomography imaging. The corneal endothelial structure and CCT were evaluated using non-contact specular microscopy. The endothelial CD (cells/mm2), coefficient variation of cell area (CV), percentage of hexagonality (HEX) and CCT of the three subgroups were compared. Results: The mean age of participants was 59.8 (8.3) years. There was no significant difference in terms of age between diabetic patients and control subjects (P=0.761). In the diabetic subgroups, HbA1c levels and the number of patients receiving insulin were similar (P=0.962, P=0.082, respectively), but the mean duration of diabetes was significantly longer in the DME subgroup than in the no-DME subgroup (P=0.015). Patients in the DME subgroup did not differ from the patients in the no-DME and control subgroups with regards to endothelial CD and CCT. However, there was a statistically significant decrease in HEX and increase in CV in patients with DME (P=0.012, P=0.012, respectively). Conclusion: Patients with DME were found to have higher rates of polymegathism and polymorphism although there were no significant changes in corneal endothelial CD and CCT. These alterations may be the first signs of early corneal damage in patients with DME.
Effects of clearfell harvesting on soil CO2, CH4 and N2O fluxes in an
upland Sitka spruce stand in England

Abstract. The effect of clearfell harvesting on soil greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) was assessed in a Sitka spruce forest growing on a peaty gley organo-mineral soil in northern England. Fluxes from the soil and litter layer were measured monthly by the closed chamber method and gas chromatography over four years in two mature stands, with one area harvested after the first year. Concurrent measurements of soil temperature and moisture helped to elucidate reasons for the changes in fluxes. In the three years after felling, there was a significant increase in the soil temperature, particularly between June and November (3 to 5 °C higher), and in soil moisture which was 62 % higher in the felled area, and these had pronounced effects on the GHG balance, in addition to the removal of the trees and their carbon input to the soil. Annual soil CO2 effluxes reduced to almost a third in the first year after felling (a drop from 24.0 to 8.9 t CO2 ha−1 yr−1) and half in the second and third year (mean 11.8 t CO2 ha−1 yr−1) compared to before felling, while those from the unfelled area were little changed. Annual effluxes of N2O more than doubled in the first two years (from 1.0 to 2.3 and 2.5 t CO2e ha−1 yr−1, respectively), although by the third year they were only 20 % higher (1.2 t CO2e ha−1 yr−1). CH4 fluxes changed from a small net uptake of −0.03 t CO2e ha−1 yr−1 before felling to a small efflux increasing over the 3 years to 0.34 t CO2e ha−1 yr−1, presumably because of the wetter soil after felling. Soil CO2 effluxes dominated the total net GHG emission calculated using the global warming potential (GWP) of the three gases, but N2O contributed up to 20 % of the total annual emissions. This study showed fluxes of CO2, CH4 and N2O responded differently to clearfelling due to the significant changes in soil biotic and abiotic factors and showed large variations between years. This demonstrates the need for multi-year measurements of all GHGs to enable a robust estimate of the effect of the clearfell phase on the GHG balance of managed forests. This is one of a very few multi-year monitoring studies to assess the effect of clearfell harvesting on soil GHG fluxes.
Establish Reference Intervals of Complete Blood Count for Twin Pregnancy

Background: Twin pregnancy is of high risk, which increased in recent years. Establishment of reference intervals of complete blood count (CBC) for twin-pregnant women during pregnancy might help for the properly prognosis of adverse outcomes in twin pregnancy. Methods: We screened out 253 cases of twin pregnancy reference cohort from 1153 twin pregnancy after the complications and adverse pregnancy outcomes were excluded. Complete blood count data were collected during the mid- and late-term of pregnancy and analyzed by SPSS to establish the reference intervals of peripheral blood of twin pregnancy. Results: The RBC, HGB, HCT, and PLT were lower in twin pregnant women than those in healthy nulligravida women during gestation, while the levels of WBC, NEU, and NEU% increased, especially in the mid-term. The reference intervals of late-term pregnancy validated by using 20 samples of twin pregnancy, then utilized for figuring out the distinctive characteristics of CBC with preterm birth (PTB) pregnancy. Absolutes of WBC and NEU increased in PTB pregnancy using our established reference intervals, implying they might be prognosis indicators of this adverse outcome. Conclusion: Establishing the reference interval of blood cell-related indicators of normal twin pregnancy is helpful for the monitoring and prognosis of PTB.
Influence of Silica Nano-Additives on Performance and Emission Characteristics of Soybean Biodiesel Fuelled Diesel Engine

The present study examines the effect of silicon dioxide (SiO2) nano-additives on the performance and emission characteristics of a diesel engine fuelled with soybean biodiesel. Soybean biofuel was prepared using the transesterification process. The morphology of nano-additives was studied using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). The Ultrasonication process was used for the homogeneous blending of nano-additives with biodiesel, while surfactant was used for the stabilisation of nano-additives. The physicochemical properties of pure and blended fuel samples were measured as per ASTM standards. The performance and emissions characteristics of different fuel samples were measured at different loading conditions. It was found that the brake thermal efficiency (BTE) and brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) increased by 3.48–6.39% and 5.81–9.88%, respectively, with the addition of SiO2 nano-additives. The carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbon (HC) and smoke emissions for nano-additive added blends were decreased by 1.9–17.5%, 20.56–27.5% and 10.16–23.54% compared to SBME25 fuel blends.