Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Correlation Between Land Use and Metro Rail Ridership in Los Angeles

As oil price continues to grow and traffic jams making daily travel harder than never, public transportation is widely considered a preferred option for major metropolitans worldwide. Los Angeles County, facing the worst congestion in the nation, has several Metro rail extensions on the way. As rail stations are expected to grow, there are a great number of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) projects around the existing and new stations, aiming to increase the transit ridership. There have been various studies on factors that affect ridership. This paper studies the correlation between rail station ridership and land uses around the station in Los Angeles County. We found that different land use around different stations have different results. According to the findings, some suggestions are provided for future research. Urban Planning Thesis Zhewu Zhuang, zz2257
Relationship Between Perceived Social Support and Stress before and after Cesarean in Pregnant Women

Background & Objective: Most pregnant women experience a degree of stress before and after cesarean. Stress can have unfavorable complications for the mother and the baby. Given the probable relationship of social support with the amount of stress, the present study aimed to determine the relationship between perceived social support and stress, before and after cesarean in pregnant women referring to Besat Hospital in Sanandaj in 2018. Materials & methods : This study was a descriptive-correlational and cross-sectional study performed on 180 pregnant women under selective cesarean section surgery in 2018. Using the available sampling method, pregnant women referring to Besat Hospital in Sanandaj were selected with the criteria to enter the study. The data collection method in this study was a two-part questionnaire of demographic and midwifery information, perceived social support questionnaire and Dass 21 stress questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software version 16, descriptive statistics, and the Pearson correlation test. Results : Results indicated that the degree of the overall rate of stress, before cesarean was 36.1% and in the post operation stage 13.9% respectively. Besides, there was a negative significant difference between social support and stress, before the operation (p<0.05, r= -0.728), and stress, after cesarean (P<0.05, r= -0.658). Conclusion : The results of the study showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between perceived social support and stress, before and after the cesarean section. Hence, it is recommended that interventions be designed to identify and improve the level of social support of pregnant women under cesarean section.
Circular Head Region Coastal Foreshore Habitats: Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment

This project is about the relationship of people, especially the local people, to the natural environments of the extensive sheltered shores of the Circular Head region including Duck Bay, Big Bay, Robbins Passage and Boullanger Bay. This project is designed to focus on the benefits that flow to people from the natural environments (or habitats) in the area and then broadly assess whether or not they are vulnerable to sea level rise impacts.
New precise measurement method of power harmonics based on FFT

Taking the rectangular window as an example, the summation in the expression of discrete Fourier transform is solved by the integral operation. Under the condition of asynchronous sampling, the long-range leakage and short-range leakage effects of the spectrum are explained. A new method, named multi-spectrum-line interpolation correction algorithm (MICA), is presented to correct the leakage effects. The difference between MICA and the previous windowed interpolation algorithm is analyzed. The simulation results show the measurement accuracy of MICA is very high and the long-range leakage effect can be corrected by applying not only the window with better spectral performances, but also the interpolation algorithm. MICA based on FFT can be applied to measure precisely the electrical harmonics and estimate the frequency offset in the orthogonal frequency diversion multiplexing (OFDM) communication system.
Advances in Bioscience & Clinical Medicine

In patients with cholelithiasis, 6-12% may have concurrent choledocal stones. The incidence is even higher in older ages and 20 to 25% of patients older than 60 who have gallstone disease present with concurrent choledocal stones. It may result in complete or incomplete bile duct obstruction and manifest with cholangitis or gallstone pancreatitis (1). Abstract Background: Common Bile Duct (CBD) exploration for choledocolithiasis is usually closed after T-tube insertion. However, complications of T-tube insertion limit its use. In the present study, we wanted to compare outcomes between primary repair of choledocotomy and traditional T-tube insertion. Material and methods: Thirty patients with CBD stones disease admitted at Sina and Imam Reza hospitals of Tabriz, from April 2012 to February 2013, were included in this study. The patients were randomly divided into two groups: T-tube drainage group and primary closure group. Intraoperative findings and postoperative complications were recorded and analyzed. Results: There was no mortality and retained stones in both groups. Two of 15 patients in the T-tube group and four of 15 patients in primary closure group suffered from minor bile leakage. There was no major bile leakage in the T-tube group but one patient in the primary closure group had major bile leakage, which was treated conservatively without surgical or endoscopic intervention. Wound infection was seen in two patients in the T-tube group and one patient in the primary closure group. In follow up assessment, there was no intra-abdominal collection in both groups. Overall postoperative complications include biliary complications, wound infection and intra-abdominal collections, were seen in four patients in the T-tube group and six patients in primary closure group; that was not statically significant difference. Conclusion: primary closure of CBD after open choledocotomy is feasible and is as safe as T-tube insertion. In effect, primary closure avoids T-tube insertion and disadvantages associated with the use of T-tube. Primary closure can be recommended for selected patients with CBD stone disease.
Circulating Transforming Growth Factor- (cid:1) 1 Levels in Asymptomatic Carotid Plaques to the

sympatholytic action might explain, at least in part, the neuro- protective effects of MK-801 in neurotoxic disorders. Therefore, we would like to know the magnitude of the changes in the content or release of catecholamines in the perihematomal brain after intracerebral hemorrhage in the present study of Ardizzone et al. Further studies are necessary to assess more thoroughly the relationships between glucose metabolism and neuroprotective effect of MK-801 in the intracerebral hemorrhage.
Clinical characteristics of the patients with cavernous angiomas

Aim: Cerebral cavernous angiomas (CCAs) are a rare type of hamartoma characterized by a small sinusoidal vein without normal parenchyma. This study aimed to assess the radiological findings, clinical symptoms, and localization of CCAs and compare results with those in the literature. Material and Methods: Patients with CCA who underwent surgery between January 2012 and January 2018 were retrospectively evaluated. Results: Of the 41 patients with CCA, 24 (58.5%) were males and 17 (41.5%) were females. The patients were aged from 6 to 72 (mean: 36.75 Â± 16.97) years. Moreover, 13 (31.7%), 6 (14.6%), 14 (34.1%), 4 (9.8%), and 2 (4.9%) patients presented with supratentorial lesions localized in the frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, and thalamic regions, respectively. Two (4.9%) patients had cavernomas in the infratentorial area that contains the pons. No pathology was observed on brain computed tomography scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the control examinations. Conclusion: Surgical excision should be performed in individuals with cavernous angiomas that are symptomatic. Critically localized and asymptomatic cavernous angiomas can be monitored with MRI at regular intervals. Surgical treatment should always be considered since neurological deterioration may occur due to epileptic seizures and recurrent bleeding that do not respond to treatments.
Genotypic competition among elite wheat breeding lines under irrigated and rainfed conditions.

Development of high yielding cultivars is one of the prime objecti v s of all wheat breeding programs. An experiment was conducted during 2008-09 at Agriculture Researc h F rm, Khyber Pakhtunkawa Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan in which fifteen wheat line s were evaluated for yield and yield contributing traits under irrigated and rainfed field conditions. Lines exhibit ed significant differences for days to heading, days to maturity, plant height, number of grains spike , grain weight spike , 100-grain weight, biological yield and grain yield except for harvest index. The interactions betwe en g notype and environment for plant height was significant (P<0.01) while non significant (P> 0.05) for rest other traits. Mean data ranged from 109 to 121 for days to heading, 122 to166 for days to maturity, 93.95 to108.14 cm for plant height, 64 to 46 for grains spike, 1.92 to 2.90 g for grain weight spike , 3.93 to 5.31g for 100-grain weight, 13311 to 10489 kg ha -1 for biological yield, 4044 to 2933 kg ha -1 for grain yield and 25.90 to 33.16 % for harvest index. Correlati on analysis revealed that days to maturity with days to heading, 100-g rain weight, biological yield and grain yield, plant height with grains spike -1 and grain weight spike , grains spike with plant height, grain weight spike , biological yield, grain yield and harvest index, 100-grain we ight with grain weight spike -1 and grain yield, biological yield with days to heading, days to maturity, grains spik e, grain weight spike -1 and grain yield, grain yield with days to maturity, grains spike , grain weight spike , biological yield, harvest index and 100grain weight were significantly positive. Based on the re sults of this study, most of the genotypes performed well for grain yield in both conditions but this needs to be confirm ed over years and locations for conclusive recommendations.
Connected: Exploring the Extraordinary Demand for Telecoms Services in Post‐collapse Somalia

Abstract In this article, I examine the extraordinary demand for telecoms services that lies behind the emergence of Somalia’s telecoms industry in the wake of state collapse. I argue that this demand is not only driven by the size of the collapse‐induced Somali diaspora and the astounding amount of money they remit each year, but is a reflection of an ethno‐national logic that has shaped the ways in which Somalis at home and abroad have dealt with unpredictability in the wake of state collapse – by staying mobile and staying connected. In turn, I conclude that this created an extraordinary demand for telecoms services in post‐collapse Somalia for the very reason that telecoms were necessary to adapt and use these culturally and historically informed strategies on a global scale.
Complete Genome Sequence of Bacillus subtilis Strain PY79

ABSTRACT Bacillus subtilis is a Gram-positive soil-dwelling and endospore-forming bacterium in the phylum Firmicutes. B. subtilis strain PY79 is a prototrophic laboratory strain that has been highly used for studying a wide variety of cellular pathways. Here, we announce the complete whole-genome sequence of B. subtilis PY79.
Unremarkable Augmentation in Busy Practitioners’ Surrounding: Exploring Peripheral Interaction with Teachers and Nurses

When practitioners are in the midst of their busy day-to-day work—such as teachers facilitating learners in the classroom or nurses caring for patients in the hospital—they face complex social or material environments and intensive, intertwined activities. Yet unprecedentedly, these practitioners also need to incorporate technologies, as increasingly necessary supports, in their surroundings. A challenge thereby concerns practitioners’ limited attention: current human-technology interfaces usually demand users’ focus of attention, whereas interacting with digital devices is often neither the only nor the central task in practitioners’ ongoing activities. This work explores the design of peripheral interaction to understand how surrounding technologies could leverage the periphery of human attention to tacitly augment practitioners’ daily routines. Via a series of field explorations with teachers at school and nurses in neonatal intensive care units (NICU), we illustrate how peripheral interaction designs could seamlessly enrich the practitioners’ action repertoire (readily available actions) or enhance their reflection-in-action (sensemaking of the unfolding situation) without interfering with their ongoing routines. From these cases, we extract two relevant design properties to inform future practice: i.e., the designed interaction being subsidiary to the main practice and open to practical knowing . Six considerations are provided to help designers to achieve these properties in practice.
Comparison of Grain Quality Traits between Japonica Rice Cultivars from Korea and Yunnan Province of China

Improving eating quality is one of the most important objectives in japonica rice breeding programs in Yunnan Province of China. Eating quality and its relevant traits of nine Korean and 11 Yunnan rice cultivars were comparatively analyzed in this study. The grain shape of most Yunnan japonica rice cultivars have a relatively slender shape and are slightly larger than Korean rice cultivars. Palatability value of cooked rice of Yunnan rice cultivars was significantly lower, while the protein content of Yunnan rice cultivars was significantly higher than that of Korean cultivars. Peak viscosity and breakdown viscosity of the Yunnan rice cultivars were significantly lower, while setback viscosity of the Yunnan rice cultivars was significantly higher than in Korean rice cultivars. Palatability value of cooked rice was negatively correlated with protein content and setback viscosity but positively correlated with peak viscosity, breakdown viscosity, and cool paste viscosity. Through multiple linear regression analysis, an equation for estimating palatability value (PV) of cooked rice based on quality traits was generated as dependent only upon protein content (PC), PV=139.024-(10.865×PC) with an R 2 value of 0.822. The results suggest that reducing protein contents should be the major target in improving eating quality of Yunnan japonica rice cultivars through integrated approaches of both cultivar development and appropriate cultural practices. Genetic similarities among cultivars based on DNA markers which had been identified as associated with grain quality seemed not to be directly related to PV.
The Consequences of Mortgage Credit Expansion: Evidence from the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis

We demonstrate that a rapid expansion in the supply of mortgages driven by disintermediation explains a large fraction of recent U.S. house price appreciation and subsequent mortgage defaults. We identify the effect of shifts in the supply of mortgage credit by exploiting within-county variation across zip codes that differed in latent demand for mortgages in the mid 1990s. From 2001 to 2005, high latent demand zip codes experienced large relative decreases in denial rates, increases in mortgages originated, and increases in house price appreciation, despite the fact that these zip codes experienced significantly negative relative income and employment growth over this time period. These patterns for high latent demand zip codes were driven by a sharp relative increase in the fraction of loans sold by originators shortly after origination, a process which we refer to as "disintermediation. " The increase in disintermediation-driven mortgage supply to high latent demand zip codes from 2001 to 2005 led to subsequent large increases in mortgage defaults from 2005 to 2007. Our results suggest that moral hazard on behalf of originators selling mortgages is a main culprit for the U.S. mortgage default crisis.
Risk Factors for Eating Disorders Among Jewish and Arab Young Adults

: The prevalence of eating disorders (EDs) has been steadily increasing in recent years during young adulthood. Therefore, there is great importance in examining the factors that increase the risk of developing EDs among young people. The innovation of the current study is an examination of a series of risk factors: differentiation of self which is a central family factor, culture, gender, BMI and other background factors. Of the 859 participants (670 females, mean age 26.8), 440 were Jewish and 419 were Arab. Participants completed the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26), the Differentiation of Self-Revised (DSI-R) questionnaire (including four dimensions: emotional reactivity, I-position, emotional cutoff, fusion with others), BMI and background questionnaires. Results revealed that Jewish participants had significantly lower dieting, bulimia
Savings Gluts and Asset Price Booms in Emerging Economies

Capital outﬂows from emerging economies after ﬁnancial integration can lead to simultaneous increases in the savings rate and in domestic asset prices. Under autarky, ﬁrms in emerging economies invest in risky capital while facing a borrowing constraint that creates a precautionary savings need. Financial integration provides ﬁrms with access to foreign risk-free assets and results in two eﬀects: a substitution eﬀect, whereby ﬁrms divert some investments to foreign assets and cause capital outﬂows; and a wealth effect, whereby they grow richer in equilibrium and thus demand more domestic capital. Savings gluts and asset price booms occur when the wealth eﬀect dominates.
Longitudinal trajectories of brain age in young individuals at familial risk of mood disorder [version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]

Background: Within young individuals, mood disorder onset may be related to changes in trajectory of brain structure development. To date, however, longitudinal prospective studies remain scarce and show partly contradictory findings, with a lack of emphasis on changes at the level of global brain patterns. Cross-sectional adult studies have applied such methods and show that mood disorders are associated with accelerated brain ageing. Currently, it remains unclear whether young individuals show differential brain structure ageing trajectories associated with onset of mood disorder and/or presence of familial risk. Methods: Participants included young individuals (15-30 years, 53%F) from the prospective longitudinal Scottish Bipolar Family Study with and without close family history of mood disorder. All were well at time of recruitment. Implementing a structural MRI-based brain age prediction model, we globally assessed individual trajectories of agerelated structural change using the difference between predicted brain age and chronological age (brain-predicted age difference (brain-PAD)) at baseline and at 2-year follow-up. Based on follow-up clinical assessment, individuals were categorised into three groups: (i) controls who remained well (C-well, n = 93), (ii) high familial risk who remained well (HR-well, n = 74) and (iii) high familial risk who developed a mood disorder (HR-MD, n = 35). Results: At baseline, brain-PAD was comparable between groups. Results showed statistically significant negative trajectories of brainPAD between baseline and follow-up for HR-MD versus C-well (β = 0.60, pcorrected < 0.001) and HR-well (β = -0.36, pcorrected = 0.02), with a potential intermediate trajectory for HR-well (β = -0.24 years, pcorrected = 0.06). Open Peer Review
The 2006 Analysis of Information Remaining on Disks Offered for Sale on the Second Hand Market

All organisations, whether in the public or private sector, use computers for the storage and processing of information relating to their business or services, their employees and their customers. A large proportion of families and individuals in their homes now also use personal computers and, both intentionally and inadvertently, often store on those computers personal information. It is clear that most organisations and individuals continue to be unaware of the information that may be stored on the hard disks that the computers contain, and have not considered what may happen to the information after the disposal of the equipment. In 2005, joint research was carried out by the University of Glamorgan in Wales and Edith Cowan University in Australia to determine whether second hand computer disks that were purchased from a number of sources still contained any information or whether the information had been effectively erased. The research revealed that, for the majority of the disks that were examined, the information had not been effectively removed and as a result, both organisations and individuals were potentially exposed to a range of potential crimes. It is worthy of note that in the disposal of this equipment, the organisations involved had failed to meet their statutory, regulatory and legal obligations. This paper describes a second research project that was carried out in 2006 which repeated the research carried out the previous year and also extended the scope of the research to include additional countries. The methodology used was the same as that in the previous year and the disks that were used for the research were again supplied blind by a third party. The research involved the forensic imaging of the disks which was followed by an analysis of the disks to determine what information remained and whether it could be easily recovered using publicly available tools and techniques.
A lexical approach for identifying behavioural action sequences

Animals display characteristic behavioural patterns when performing a task, such as the spiraling of a soaring bird or the surge-and-cast of a male moth searching for a female. Identifying such recurring sequences occurring rarely in noisy behavioural data is key to understanding the behavioural response to a distributed stimulus in unrestrained animals. Existing models seek to describe the dynamics of behaviour or segment individual locomotor episodes rather than to identify the rare and transient sequences of locomotor episodes that make up the behavioural response. To fill this gap, we develop a lexical, hierarchical model of behaviour. We designed an unsupervised algorithm called “BASS” to efficiently identify and segment recurring behavioural action sequences transiently occurring in long behavioural recordings. When applied to navigating larval zebrafish, BASS extracts a dictionary of remarkably long, non-Markovian sequences consisting of repeats and mixtures of slow forward and turn bouts. Applied to a novel chemotaxis assay, BASS uncovers chemotactic strategies deployed by zebrafish to avoid aversive cues consisting of sequences of fast large-angle turns and burst swims. In a simulated dataset of soaring gliders climbing thermals, BASS finds the spiraling patterns characteristic of soaring behaviour. In both cases, BASS succeeds in identifying rare action sequences in the behaviour deployed by freely moving animals. BASS can be easily incorporated into the pipelines of existing behavioural analyses across diverse species, and even more broadly used as a generic algorithm for pattern recognition in low-dimensional sequential data.