Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Scalable and Stacked Ensemble Approach to Improve Intrusion Detection in Clouds

The availability of automated data collection techniques and the growth in the amount of data collected from cloud network traffic and cloud resource activities has transformed into a big data challenge, compelling the engagement of big data tools to handle, manage, and interpret it. A single classification method may fail to execute successfully for the amount of acquired data. Despite being more complex and consuming more computational resources, the research shows that stacking-based ensemble Machine Learning (ML) methodologies perform better in data classification approaches than single classifiers. This research proposes Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), both based on the ensemble of ML algorithms built on the Stacked Generalization Approach (SGA) and big data technology. The suggested approaches are tested and assessed on NSL-KDD and UNSW-NB15 datasets, utilizing a Gain Ration (GR) based Feature Selection (FS) approach, J48, OneR, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), Multi- layer Perceptron (MLP) and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) classifiers and Apache Spark, a prominent big data processing platform. The first technique involves storing data on HDFS, while the second involves selecting the most suitable subset of base classifiers for stacking. A thorough performance investigation reveals that our proposed model outperforms other current IDS models either in terms of accuracy or FPR or other performance metrics, in discovering intrusions for the Cloud.
First record of Pollia assimilis (Reeve, 1846) (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) from Italy

EnglishWe first report the presence of Pollia assimilis (Reeve, 1846) from Italy (southern Sardinia). Present sightings widen the known distribution of this species, only known from the Atlantic Ocean (from Senegal to Morocco) and the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Finally, we provide comparative diagnostic features for all the species of the genus Pollia Gray, 1834 recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. italiano[Primo ritrovamento di Pollia assimilis (Reeve, 1846) (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) in Italia]. Riportiamo per la prima volta la presenza di Pollia assimilis (Reeve, 1846) in Italia (Sardegna meridionale). I presenti rinvenimenti ampliano l'areale di distribuzione di questa specie, precedentemente conosciuta solo dall'Oceano Atlantico (dal Senegal al Marocco) e dalla costa mediterranea spagnola. Infine, riportiamo i caratteri diagnostici noti per tutte le specie del genere Pollia Gray, 1834 segnalate per il Mar Mediterraneo.
Correlation analysis between corn yield and soil physical properties by different subsoiling time and different depth result

According to the mensuration and analysis of soil moisture,soil bulk density,soil hardness,corn yield and agronomic characters,we researched the change and correlation analysis between corn yield and soil physical properties by different subsoiling time and different subsoiling effect.The results showed the highest output was 9 442.5 kg/hm2 after subsoiling 40 cm in spring,the corn yield was higher 18.84% than CK,kernels per row and weight of hundred grains were also best.We found that the corn yield was highly significant positive correlation with oil moisture and was highly significant negative correlation with soil bulk density and oil hardness at seedling stage.During the growing period,the soil moisture with different treatment was higher than CK,soil moisture after subsoiling 40 cm and 30 cm in spring was higher than other treatments.
MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING: TECHNIQUES FOR INCREASING STUDENT ACADEMIC INDEPENDENCE IN THESIS COMPLETION

Insufficient independence leads to reduced encouragement and individual drive when it comes to accomplishing goals and resolving issues. This is particularly crucial for students who bear the sole responsibility of completing their thesis. Hence, they must possess the autonomy to tackle and solve it. The objective of this study was to examine the efficacy of motivational interviewing as a technique to enhance academic independence among final-semester students who are working on their thesis. The research employed an experimental approach, utilizing a design known as non-equivalent control group design. The participants of the study consisted of both an experimental group (N=7) and a control group (N=7). The intervention involved five group counselling sessions. The results of the hypothesis test, conducted using the Mann Whitney U test, revealed that the Asymp.sig (2-tailed) value was 0.002, which is less than 0.05. Therefore, it can be concluded that the motivational interviewing technique effectively enhances academic independence. Furthermore, the findings indicate that the increase in independence is accompanied by the emergence of intrinsic motivation, which serves as the primary driving force for students to complete their thesis.
Neuroinflammation in epileptogenesis: from pathophysiology to therapeutic strategies

Epilepsy is a group of enduring neurological disorder characterized by spontaneous and recurrent seizures with heterogeneous etiology, clinical expression, severity, and prognosis. Growing body of research investigates that epileptic seizures are originated from neuronal synchronized and excessive electrical activity. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms of epileptogenesis have not yet been fully elucidated and 30% of epileptic patients still are resistant to the currently available pharmacological treatments with recurrent seizures throughout life. Over the past two decades years accumulated evidences provide strong support to the hypothesis that neuroinflammation, including microglia and astrocytes activation, a cascade of inflammatory mediator releasing, and peripheral immune cells infiltration from blood into brain, is associated with epileptogenesis. Meanwhile, an increasing body of preclinical researches reveal that the anti-inflammatory therapeutics targeting crucial inflammatory components are effective and promising in the treatment of epilepsy. The aim of the present study is to highlight the current understanding of the potential neuroinflammatory mechanisms in epileptogenesis and the potential therapeutic targets against epileptic seizures.
Tween 80-Based Self-Assembled Mixed Micelles Boost Valsartan Transdermal Delivery

Valsartan (Val) is an important antihypertensive medication with poor absorption and low oral bioavailability. These constraints are due to its poor solubility and dissolution rate. The purpose of this study was to optimize a mixed micelle system for the transdermal delivery of Val in order to improve its therapeutic performance by providing prolonged uniform drug levels while minimizing drug side effects. Thin-film hydration and micro-phase separation were used to produce Val-loaded mixed micelle systems. A variety of factors, including the surfactant type and drug-to-surfactant ratio, were optimized to produce micelles with a low size and high Val entrapment efficiency (EE). The size, polydispersity index (PDI), zeta potential, and drug EE of the prepared micelles were all measured. The in vitro drug release profiles were assessed using dialysis bags, and the permeation through abdominal rat skin was assessed using a Franz diffusion cell. All formulations had high EE levels exceeding 90% and low particle charges. The micellar sizes ranged from 107.6 to 191.7 nm, with average PDI values of 0.3. The in vitro release demonstrated a uniform slow rate that lasted one week with varying extents. F7 demonstrated a significant (p < 0.01) transdermal efflux of 68.84 ± 3.96 µg/cm2/h through rat skin when compared to the control. As a result, the enhancement factor was 16.57. In summary, Val-loaded mixed micelles were successfully prepared using two simple methods with high reproducibility, and extensive transdermal delivery was demonstrated in the absence of any aggressive skin-modifying enhancers.
Transmit Power Minimization for Vector-Perturbation Based NOMA Systems: A Sub-Optimal Beamforming Approach

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is one of the potential multiuser supporting techniques in the fifth generation (5G) cellular systems due to its higher spectrum efficiency (SE) and cell-edge throughput. Vector-perturbation (VP) is widely known as one of the nonlinear precoding schemes that achieves near-capacity performance in practical wireless multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) communication systems. In this paper, we propose a hybrid transmission strategy based on VP and NOMA (VP-NOMA) by designing a beamforming matrix with the power allocation strategy to minimize total transmit power for certain quality of service (QoS) requirements. Rather than searching for the optimal beamforming matrix, we propose a more intuitive sub-optimal algorithm, called iteration beamforming for VP-NOMA systems (IBVP-NOMA), to find beamforming vectors. Further, different user clustering strategies are considered and compared to enhance the performance of the VP-NOMA systems. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method requires lower transmit power than the NOMA system without VP.
Air temperature variability in the vertical profile over the coastal area of Petuniabukta, central Spitsbergen

Cycle in near-surface lapse rate in spring and autumn. Air temperature inversions occurred in up to 80% of the study period in the air layer below 136 m a.s. l. , with the relative frequency being much lower in the other two air layers. The air temperature inversions lasted as long as 139 hours. A case study revealed that one of the strongest air temperature inversions was connected to an area of lower pressure gradients at the 850-hPa pressure level.
Neutral Tropical African CO2 Exchange Estimated From Aircraft and Satellite Observations

Tropical lands play an important role in the global carbon cycle yet their contribution remains uncertain owing to sparse observations. Satellite observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) have greatly increased spatial coverage over tropical regions, providing the potential for improved estimates of terrestrial fluxes. Despite this advancement, the spread among satellite‐based and in‐situ atmospheric CO2 flux inversions over northern tropical Africa (NTA), spanning 0–24°N, remains large. Satellite‐based estimates of an annual source of 0.8–1.45 PgC yr−1 challenge our understanding of tropical and global carbon cycling. Here, we compare posterior mole fractions from the suite of inversions participating in the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO‐2) Version 10 Model Intercomparison Project (v10 MIP) with independent in‐situ airborne observations made over the tropical Atlantic Ocean by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) mission during four seasons. We develop emergent constraints on tropical African CO2 fluxes using flux‐concentration relationships defined by the model suite. We find an annual flux of 0.14 ± 0.39 PgC yr−1 (mean and standard deviation) for NTA, 2016–2018. The satellite‐based flux bias suggests a potential positive concentration bias in OCO‐2 B10 and earlier version retrievals over land in NTA during the dry season. Nevertheless, the OCO‐2 observations provide improved flux estimates relative to the in situ observing network at other times of year, indicating stronger uptake in NTA during the wet season than the in‐situ inversion estimates.
Where I am from matters: factors influencing behavioral and emotional changes in autistic individuals during COVID-19 in Latin America

Background The COVID-19 pandemic brought an increased incidence of disease and mortality in the world at large, making it a particularly salient and stressful life event. For those individuals residing in Latin America, the pandemic was met with fragmented healthcare systems, economic downturn, and sociopolitical crisis which puts autistic individuals at risk for more detrimental outcomes. Behavioral and emotional challenges experienced by autistic individuals at the beginning of the pandemic could later develop into more severe symptomatology as the pandemic progresses. The present study aimed to explore changes in dysregulated (overt and internalizing) behaviors and preoccupation with getting sick during the COVID-19 pandemic among autistic children in 7 Latin American countries. Method Sample consisted of 1,743 caregivers, residing in: Argentina (n = 677, 38.8%) Brazil (n = 156, 9%), Chile (n = 251, 14.4%), Dominican Republic (n = 171, 9.8%), Mexico (n = 126, 7.2%), Uruguay (n = 259, 14.9%) and Venezuela (n = 103, 5.9%). The majority of caregivers who completed the questionnaire were mothers (85.1%), and most had a male autistic child (81.6%). A series of independent sample t-tests were conducted to assess country differences in dysregulated behaviors and preoccupation with getting sick. Linear regressions were conducted to identify which demographic characteristics and micro-level contextual factors predicted dysregulated overt behaviors and psychological changes. Results Contextual factors, such as country of residence, were related to preoccupation with getting sick and dysregulated behavior. Particularly, residing in Mexico and Brazil were related to changes in preoccupation with getting sick and mental health concerns. Coexistence predicted dysregulated internalizing behaviors, while being older significantly predicted preoccupation with getting sick. Increased screen time only predicted anxiety. Conclusion Our findings highlight differences and predictions of behavioral challenges and psychological changes based on certain contextual factors and individual characteristics while experiencing severe life stressors such as a worldwide pandemic. This knowledge could help inform policies and decrees aimed at protecting those most vulnerable due to their increased difficulty adapting to change.
The Effectiveness of the Problem Based Flipped Classroom Model with E-Modules in Improving Critical Thinking Skills of Pre-Service Physics Teachers

Critical thinking skills are one of four skills that students must have in the 21st century. However, several research results show that students' critical thinking skills in Indonesia are still very low. This research aims to test the effectiveness of the Problem-Based Flipped Classroom (PBFC) model assisted by e-Modules in improving the critical thinking skills of prospective physics teachers. This type of research is quasi-experimental with a non-equivalent control group design. The research was conducted at the Physics Education Study Program at the University of Mataram. The research subjects consisted of 52 prospective physics teachers who were studying Basic Physics I. Data was collected using a critical thinking skills test given before and after treatment. The results of data analysis show that the average score of critical thinking skills of prospective physics teachers in the experimental class and control class both increased to the moderate category with N-Gain scores of 0.63 and 0.48 respectively. Based on the results of the t-test at the 95% confidence level with the degree of freedom dk= 52 it shows that there is a significant difference in the increase in Critical Thinking Skills between the experimental class and the control class with a value of tcount= 2.21 with a value of ttable = 2.01 . Apart from that, based on the results of the effect size calculation, it shows that the effectiveness of the E-Module assisted PBFC model in improving students' critical thinking skills relative to the conventional model is different in the large category. In other words, the PBFC model assisted by e-modules can be used as an alternative learning in the classroom to improve the critical thinking skills of prospective physics teachers or students in general.
The usefulness of management accounting tools in reducing waste

Purpose: The aim of the article is to present the usefulness of the tools available in management accounting in the area of cost accounting by monitoring the resource management process, including waste management by the idea of sustainable development. The authors present the importance of the concept of a circular economy in waste management, indicating its positive impact on the environment and the company's financial results. Methodology: an analysis and criticism of literature. Hypotheses: H1. The implementation of the circular economy concept should be supported using management accounting tools. H2. Cost accounting (target costing, Product Life Cycle Costing, and Activity-Based Costing) helps isolate environmental costs. Value: The indication of the potential benefits of effective waste management and the role of management accounting (in the form of cost accounting) in this process.
Oxidation protection of a food, cosmetic or pharmaceutical product.

To protect a FAT sensitive to oxidation OR FOODSTUFF, COSMETIC OR PHARMACIST CONTAINING A FAT, sensitive to oxidation INCLUDING A RICH OIL FATTY POLYINSATURADOS is used, the Coenzyme Q where appropriate in combination with Ascorbic Acid And a natural emulsifier.
Contribution of Complement, Microangiopathy and Inflammation in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies

Purpose of review: Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) are a heterogeneous group characterized by muscle weakness and skin symptoms and are categorized into six subtypes: dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), anti-synthetase syndrome (ASS), immune-mediated myopathy (IMNM), inclusion body myopathy (IBM), and overlap myositis. Myositis-specific autoantibodies were detected for the diagnosis and classification of IIM. This review highlights the pathogenic contributions of the complement system, microangiopathy, and inflammation in IIM. Recent findings: Deposition of complement around capillaries and/or the sarcolemma was observed in muscle biopsy specimens from patients with DM, ASS, and IMNM, suggesting the pathomechanism of complement-dependent muscle and endothelial cell injury. A recent study using human muscle microvascular endothelial cells showed that Jo-1 antibodies from ASS induce complement-dependent cellular cytotoxicity in vitro. Based on both clinical and pathological observations, antibody- and complement-mediated microangiopathy may contribute to the development of DM and anti-Jo-1 ASS. Juvenile DM is characterized by the loss of capillaries, perivascular inflammation, and small-vessel angiopathies, which may be related to microinfarction and perifascicular atrophy. Several serum biomarkers that reflect the IFN1 signature and microangiopathy are elevated in patients with DM. The pathological observation of myxovirus resistance protein A (MxA), which suggests a type 1 interferon (IFN1) signature in DM, supports the diagnosis and further understanding of the pathomechanism of IIM. A recent report showed that an increase in triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells (TREM-1) around perimysial blood vessels and muscles in patients with IIM plays a role in triggering inflammation and promoting the migration of inflammatory cells by secreting proinflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor α. Summary: The deposition of complement in muscles and capillaries is a characteristic feature of DM, ASS, and IMNM. Microangiopathy plays a pathogenic role in DM, possibly resulting in perifascicular atrophy. Further understanding of the detailed pathomechanism regarding complement, microangiopathy, and inflammation may lead to novel therapeutic approaches for IIM.
Question-Use of an owner questionnaire to evaluate long-term surgical outcome and chronic pain after cranial cruciate ligament repair in dogs: 253 cases (2004–2006)

Objective —To evaluate, by means of an owner questionnaire, long-term outcome and prevalence of chronic pain after cranial cruciate ligament (CCL) surgery in dogs. Design —Retrospective case series. Animals —253 dogs with surgically treated CCL rupture. Procedures —Data from surgical records of dogs that underwent surgical repair of CCL between 2004 and 2006 were reviewed. An owner questionnaire, including the validated Helsinki chronic pain index (HCPI), served to evaluate long-term outcome and prevalence of chronic pain
Planetary Protection Knowledge Gaps for Human Extraterrestrial Missions: Workshop Report

This report on Planetary Protection Knowledge Gaps for Human Extraterrestrial Missions summarizes the presentations, deliberations and findings of a workshop at NASA Ames Research Center, March 24-26, 2015, which was attended by more than 100 participants representing a diverse mix of science, engineering, technology, and policy areas. The main objective of the three-day workshop was to identify specific knowledge gaps that need to be addressed to make incremental progress towards the development of NASA Procedural Requirements (NPRs) for Planetary Protection during human missions to Mars.
Qualitative Analysis: Effective Practices in Inclusive and Special Needs Education in China

The sphere of inclusive and special needs education has garnered significant attention in contemporary educational discourse. China, as an influential global actor, provides a pertinent case study due to its socio-cultural dynamics and rapid educational reforms. This qualitative analysis seeks to elucidate effective practices prevalent in China's special needs education system and examine their implications for further academic and policy-oriented discussions. A qualitative study method was chosen and in-depth interviews were used to obtain in-depth information. The study sample consisted of 4 teachers,3 students,1 parent and 1 school manager in China using purposive sampling technique. Data analysis was analyzed inductively and successively coded to generate emerging themes. The results of the study shows that special needs children enjoy equal educational access in China, however, there is a lack of systematic and comprehensive support at school level resulting in limited compensatory equity and differential equity. Also, the results of the study show that teachers’ professional ethics and professional level are the keys for implementing relevant policies and ideas and promoting the educational equity of children in regular classes.