Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Guidelines to Integrate Spirituality and Spiritual Care in Occupational Therapy Education: A Modified Delphi Study

ABSTRACT This modified Delphi study aimed to develop educational guidelines for integrating spirituality and spiritual care into occupational therapy education. The first round comprised a self-administered questionnaire, the second round used a face-to-face workshop, and last round reviewed the developed educational guidelines, which reached the highest agreement and median values greater than 3.25. A panel of 18 comprised occupational therapy educators, clinicians, and nursing experts were recruited. A total of 126 out of 142 items reached the highest agreements from the panel participants, categorized based on the content knowledge-based, importance, skills, ethics, pedagogical approaches, teaching and learning strategies, and assessment of student learning.
Improving Railway Operational Efficiency with Moving Blocks, Train Fleeting, and Alternative Single-Track Configurations

With installation of positive train control (PTC) on many U.S. rail corridors, Class I railroads may soon leverage these investments in communications network infrastructure to implement “advanced PTC” systems incorporating moving blocks. Train control with moving blocks can benefit operating strategies that dispatch fleets of multiple trains running at minimum headways. On single-track corridors with passing sidings long enough to hold multiple trains, fleeting may increase the efficiency of train meets, reduce train delay, and yield incremental capacity benefits. Alternative single-track configurations with fleet-length sidings at double the spacing of conventional single-train sidings can facilitate these operating strategies while minimizing additional track infrastructure and associated capital and maintenance costs. To investigate the operational synergies between moving blocks, fleeting, and longer but less frequent sidings, Rail Traffic Controller software is used to simulate and compare the delay performance of train operations on representative rail corridors for different combinations of fleeting strategy, train control system, siding configuration, and freight traffic composition. Operating fleets in conjunction with moving blocks produces the lowest overall train delay in specific cases of low schedule flexibility and heterogeneous traffic. With more efficient meets, moving blocks and/or fleeting primarily benefit low priority trains that typically wait for opposing traffic during train meets. Such incremental line capacity benefits have short-term financial consequences as they allow additional capital investments in double track to be deferred. Knowledge of train delay performance under moving blocks and fleeting will aid railway practitioners evaluating investments in advanced PTC systems and track infrastructure expansion.
Morphological and Structural Characterization of Rhizospheric Endomycorrhiza Communities Associated with Rice Grown in the Sahelian Zone (Chad)

In Chad, rice is grown for its starchy seeds or caryopses, but is also for consumption in the form of seeds pasta with soup. However, little or no work has been conducted in Chad to assess the composition of endomycorrhiza community inhabiting the plant rice rhizospheres. Hence, the main objective of this study was to investigate on native endomycorrhiza that are efficient to establish a symbiotic relationship with two rice varieties in the Sahelian zone in Chad. Two rice varieties were grown in a pot experiment on composite soils samples from Laï, Kelo, Kolobo and N’Djamena for 3 months. Parameters such as mycorrhizal frequency, intensity, specific density and richness were determined following to the standard methods. After spore extraction, species description and characterization were obtained through the informations provided by the International Vesicular Mycorrhizal fungi collection (INVAM): http://invam.caf. wv.edu/fungi/taxonomy/species ID.htm. The highest specific endomycorrhizal density (97.3%) and richness (11%) were registered respectively at kelo, Laï and Kolobo. The endomycorrhizal frequency and intensity were respectively between 4.33-7.33% and 0.8-2.9% for the two rice varieties. Eleven endomycorrhiza species belonging to six genera were identified from different soil samples. These include Septoglomus (S. constrictum, S. deserticola); Rhizophagus (R. aggregatus, R. fasciculatus, R. intraradices); Acaulospora (A. lacunosa, A. rugosa, A. trappei); Claroideoglomus lamellosum; Glomus pansihalos and Diversispora epigae. S. constrictum was the most dominant and frequent species found in all the soil sampling sites, while R. aggregatus was the less frequently encountered specimen. The lowest macorrhizal richness and frequency obtained is a proof that cultivation of rice dependent on endomycorrhiza in this zone. The multi-native endomycorhiza spores identified are the active principle to be included in the bioinoculants production in order to increase and improve the production of rice in the south of Chad.
NEEDLE STICK INJURIES AMONG HEALTH CARE WORKERS IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL OF RURAL INDIA

Background: Health-care workers are at increased risk of infection with blood borne pathogens because of occupational exposure to blood and other body fluids. Needle stick injuries (NSIs) are major cause of blood borne infections transmitted among health care personnel. More than 90% of these infections occur in developing countries but most of these NSIs remain unreported. It is also found that 37.6% of Hepatitis B, 39% of Hepatitis C and 4.4% of HIV/AIDS in Health-Care Workers (HCWs) around the world are due to needle stick injuries. Aims & Objective: (1) To determine prevalence of needle stick injuries among health care workers. (2) To study circumstances under which they occur among health care workers in tertiary care hospital of Rural India. Material and Methods: A cross- sectional study was conducted among HCWs of rural tertiary care medical college and hospital. A total of 220 health care workers were included in the study. A self-designed, semi- structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the participants. Results: A total 130 (59.09%) HCWs reported having occupational exposure to blood and body fluid in last one year, out of these 108 (49.09%) had NSIs and 22 (10%) had history of splash of blood and body fluid. Maximum exposure of NSIs was found among nurses (50%), followed by resident doctors (25.93%). Conclusion: NSIs were common occurrence among health care workers and they are grossly underreported.
Evaluating the employability paradox: When does organizational investment in human capital pay off?

Abstract The paper explores the notion of the employability paradox which notes that while organizations investing in the career and competency development of their workforce can benefit from higher performance, they also risk losing more employable staff to competitors. Building on contributions from social exchange theory and signalling theory, we develop a model exploring the circumstances under which investment in career development benefits employees and organizations. We test our model in a longitudinal study following graduates entering the labour market. Our results show that when organizations signal that they care about employees by investing in their career development and individuals are receptive to such signals and proactively seek to manage their careers, investment in career development has a positive impact on organizational commitment and intention to stay with one’s employer. Our findings indicate that the idea of the employability paradox is simplistic and lacks theoretical and empirical support.
Working Memory Performance, Attention Maintenance and Executive Function in Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Background: Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who are receiving chemotherapy are at risk of developing a wide range of neurological disorder during medical treatment. This study was conducted to compare working memory performance, attention maintenance and executive function in children with ALL and healthy children. Methods: This causal-comparative research was performed on 50 children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and 50 healthy children (their sibling) who were between the ages of 7 and 12 years in Children hospital. We used random sampling method. N-back working memory test (N-Back) for working memory function, continuous performance test (CPT) for attention maintenance, and Wisconsin card sorting test (WCST) for executive function and flexibility were applied. Results: Independent T-test and Mann-Whitney tests were used to analyze the findings. Children with ALL have more deficiency in working memory performance (accuracy; correct response: r = 0.01 and unanswered r = 0.008) and executive functions compared to the control group (% Correct: r = 0.03, % Errors: r = 0.01, Categories achieved: r = 0.017, Failures to maintain set: r = 0.001). But there were no significant differences in attention maintenance scores between the two groups. Conclusions: Children with ALL compared to their healthy siblings show a weak function in cortical regions and frontal lobe. Biopsycho-social factors lead to cognitive disruption in ALL group.
An Assessment and Spatial Modelling of Agricultural Land Abandonment in Spain (2015–2030)

This article presents a study based on the outputs from the LUISA Territorial modelling platform (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission) focused on regional and local future projections of land abandonment between 2015 and 2030. Spain is taken as representative of one of the countries highly affected by agricultural land abandonment in the European Union. The most relevant factors driving land abandonment (biophysical, agroeconomics, farm structure and demographic) are described and mapped. Results from the analysis reveal that the Galicia region, northern Spain (Asturias, Cantabria, Gipuzkoa, Bizkaia), north-eastern Spain (Aragón region), central Pyrenees/Ebro basin (Huesca, Navarra, Lleida) and south-eastern Spain (Murcia, Almería, Alicante, Málaga) are expected to undergo important abandonment processes. The study also concludes that land abandonment within mountainous, high nature value farmland and Natura 2000 areas is lower compared to the outside area without conservation and protection measures.
A Review on Natural Antioxidants

Free radicals and related species have attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. Oxidative stress has been considered a major contributory factor to the diseases. They are mainly derived from oxygen (reactive oxygen species (ROS)) and nitrogen (reactive nitrogen species (RNS)) and are generated in our body by various endogenous systems and exposure to different physicochemical conditions or pathophysi-ological states. Free radical damage to protein can result in loss of enzyme activity. There are epidemiological evidences correlating higher intake of components/foods with antioxidant abilities to lower incidence of various human morbidities or mor-talities. The sources and origin of antioxidants which include fruits and vegetables, meats, poultry, and fish were treated in this study. The classification and characteristics of antioxidant, its measurements and level in food and free radicals, were also documented. The chemistry of antioxidants which includes chain reactions, molecular structures, food antioxidants and reaction mechanisms, biochemical activity, therapeutic properties, and future choice of antioxidants was reported in this review.
Seasonal Deformation of Permafrost in Wudaoliang Basin in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Revealed by StaMPS-InSAR

Abstract Permafrost is extremely sensitive to variance in external hydrothermal conditions. InSAR has advantages in monitoring surface deformation with decent temporal and spatial resolution as well as millimeter precision. In particular, the StaMPS-InSAR method can remove the disturbances of inaccurate digital elevation model (DEM), atmospheric delays and spatiotemporal decorrelation for an accurate estimation of temporal surface deformation. In this paper, a set of ascending and descending Sentinel-1 imageries spanning from March 2017 to June 2018 were acquired and processed by StaMPS-InSAR in order to investigate dynamic changes of permafrost in Wudaoliang Basin, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). The results revealed that significant seasonal changes of permafrost, namely subsidence (thawing) in summer and uplift (freezing) in winter, can be observed throughout the Wudaoliang region. This study shows the StaMPS-InSAR analysis on Sentinel-1 datasets has great potential in regional permafrost investigation.
Tax knowledge for the digital economy

Orientation: Because of the digital economy, taxpayers have access to new income streams. These virtual transactions have taxation consequences, and therefore taxpayers need specialised taxation knowledge to understand their tax obligations and act in a tax compliant manner. Research purpose: The aim of this article was to identify the unique tax knowledge requirements for individuals functioning in the digital economy by systematically reviewing literature on the tax challenges arising from this new economy. Applying a conceptual framework of tax knowledge, these knowledge requirements were categorised as either general, procedural or legal. By identifying these requirements, it was possible to point out the risks within these categories that may cause obstacles to individuals to act fully tax compliant. Motivation for the study: Understanding the different knowledge requirements of taxpayers may assist tax authorities to identify the tax compliance risks of these taxpayers in their capacity as individuals functioning in the digital economy. Research approach/design and method: A qualitative approach was used in the study through a thematic search of appropriate literature such as articles, reports, blogs and media releases. These documents were systematically reviewed to identify the knowledge requirements for individual taxpayers functioning in the digital economy. Main findings: The findings suggest that there are specific tax knowledge requirements in different areas that must be in place to ensure tax compliance in the digital economy. Any shortcomings in these areas of knowledge create the risk of non-compliance for individuals functioning in the digital economy. Practical/managerial implications: Taxpayers and tax authorities alike should take note of the risk areas identified in each area of knowledge (general, procedural and legal) and devise strategies to deal with taxation issues arising from transactions in the digital economy. Contribution/value-add: This study applied a tax knowledge framework and identified the general, procedural and legal tax knowledge requirements of individuals functioning in the digital economy. The study also pointed out associated compliance risks, which may assist tax authorities to target strategies for improving taxpayer knowledge in these three areas.
Classification of temporal lobe epilepsy with and without hippocampal sclerosis via two-level feature selection

Hippocampal sclerosis (HS) is one of the most common histopathological abnormalities encountered in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), which often serves as a diagnosis index of TLE. However, some patients with TLE have no pathologic characteristics of HS, which brings challenge to the diagnosis of TLE. Therefore, exploring effective methods to classify TLE patients with and without HS is meaningful to understanding the pathogenesis of TLE. In this paper, we propose a two-level feature selection method for classification. We select the categories of features as the first level and pick out the discriminating dimensions as the second level. Furthermore, we combine six regional brain characteristics as our features, including regional homogeneity (ReHo), amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF), regional functional connectivity strength (RFCS) and three graph-based features. Results show that our method yields higher classification performance compared against the classifiers with single feature and without any level feature selection using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. Moreover, the discriminative brain regions selected by our method are consistent with previous studies. Thus, our method can accurately classify TLE patients with and without HS, which is interpretable from the perspective of physiology at the same time.
Effects of Cross-border Merger and Acquisition on the Operational Risk of US and Canadian Companies

The integration of the world economies is responsible for an increase in the number of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), together with the growing participation of companies from emerging countries in this type of investment. However, the area studies focus their analyses on the determinants, antecedents and profitability of the companies, leaving the effects of this type of business on the operational risk of the companies involved as a gap to be explored. To fill it, we used panel data regressions to identify the relationship between cross-border M&A and the operational risk of companies. The results indicate that acquiring companies based in emerging economies are the ones that suffer the most significant impacts on this type of business. As the implication, this study serves as a basis for the decision-making of the managers of the acquiring companies, being able to identify the risks of this activity and the ways of preventing them.
College football bettors and the wisdom of crowds

This article examines whether the “wisdom of crowds” theory applies to college football wagering markets. We examine the movement of betting lines (which function as prices) in spreads and totals markets leading up to college football games. We find that 1) opening and closing lines on spreads and totals are generally efficient, and 2) the closing lines on totals and spreads are more accurate, providing evidence of the wisdom of crowds effect.
Novel surface-volume-surface electric field integral equations for electromagnetic analysis of 3-D metal-dielectric objects and H-matrix strategies for their fast direct solution

The hierarchical (H)-matrix acceleration method plays important role in electromagnetic analysis of large-scale problems. This thesis is about fast direct solution of 3-D full-wave scattering and radiation problems withH-matrix acceleration of the method of moments (MoM) for the novel surface-volume-surface electric field integral equation (SVS-EFIE) and the Locally Corrected Nyström (LCN) method for traditional magnetic field integral equation (MFIE). Two new formulations of the SVS-EFIE are proposed. First, new SVS-EFIE formulation is developed for the scattering and radiation problems on metal-dielectric composite objects with arbitrary number of regions situated in free space. Second, new SVS-EFIE formulation is developed for scattering and radiation problems on dielectric-dielectric composite objects situated in multilayered medium. The proposed SVS-EFIE formulations introduce independent surface electric current density on the boundary of each region. Thus, in the new formulations, the scatterer regions can be meshed independently according to their local material properties. This improves the flexibility and efficiency of the proposed formulations in the analysis of both multiscale and large-scale composite structures. An H-matrix based fast direct solution strategies are proposed for acceleration of the MoM solution of the new SVS-EFIE formulations. The method is largely insensitive to the poor conditioning of the MoM matrix equation. The required theory for applying H-matrices to the new formulations as well as the construction of the blockH-matrices pertinent to MoM discretization of the composite SVS-EFIE is described in details. Numerical validation shows that the proposed methods have a wide-range of applications and generate accurate results using only the small fraction of memory and total CPU time needed by conventional MoM solution of the SVS-EFIE. Fast error-controlled direct solution of the traditional integral equations for scattering problems on metal objects with H-matrices is also pioneered in this work. The proposed strategy for acceleration of the higher-order LCN method with H-matrices exhibits O(h) error behaviour in the fast direct solution of the scattering problems on smooth metal objects with characteristic mesh elements size h and order of solution approximation p.
Exploring Dockless Bikeshare Usage: A Case Study of Beijing, China

The rapid emergence of dockless bikeshare systems has had a considerable influence on individuals’ daily mobility patterns. However, information is still limited regarding the role that sociodemographics, social environments, travel attitudes and the built environment play on the adoption and usage of dockless bikeshare systems. To gain insight into what influences individuals to start and continue to use dockless bikeshare systems, this study sets out to assess the influential factors that are related to individuals’ initial adoption and frequency of usage of this transportation mode. A survey was conducted among the residents of Beijing to assess their usage of dockless bikeshare systems. A binary logistic regression is employed to assess travel mode adoption, and a set of hurdle negative binominal regressions is used to assess the travel frequency for four trip purposes. The results reveal that dockless bikeshare systems are more popular among younger, higher educated, or median-income groups and appear to be gender-independent. The total number of kilometers of roads within an individual’s neighborhood was reported to be positively associated with having higher odds of dockless bikeshare adoption, while the total length of bicycle paths does not show a significant relationship. Having a pro-bicycle attitude was found to play a strong positive role in deciding whether to use the dockless bikeshare system initially, but it became less important in determining bikeshare users’ frequency of usage. Finally, this study confirms that it is relevant to consider various trip purposes when exploring individuals’ travel behavior and dockless bikeshare usage.