Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Advance Care Planning Among Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment

In this study, we used data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to investigate factors associated with older adults’ engagement with advance care planning (ACP) across varying levels of cognitive functioning status. Our analysis used a sample of 17,698 participants in the HRS 2014 survey. Survey descriptive procedures (Proc SurveyMeans, Proc SurveyFreq) and logistic regression procedures (Proc SurveyLogistic) were used. Race, ethnicity, level of cognition, education, age, and number of chronic diseases consistently predicted ACP. Participants with lower levels of cognition were less likely to have a living will and durable power of attorney for healthcare (DPOAH). African American and Hispanic participants, younger participants, and those with lower cognition and education levels were less likely to engage in ACP. Marital status and loneliness predicted ACP engagement. Some results varied across the cognition cohorts. Our results indicated that sociodemographic status, together with health and cognitive status, has a significant role in predicting ACP. The results can provide valuable insights on ACP for older adults with or at risk of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia and other cognitive impairments, caregivers, families, and healthcare providers.
Positive Traits Inventory: Psychometric analyses of a short form

The aim of this paper was generating a short form of the Positive Traits Inventory (PTI-5-SF) by means of three consecutive studies, using a cross-sectional design. The first study tested the psychometric properties of the shorter version of PTI-5. Results showed that a 25-item scale was appropriate to capture the five positive traits of the Positive Personality Model (PPM). In the secondstudy, the PTI-5-SF was used to replicate the analyses of PPM traits and different job outcomes, such as performance, satisfaction, and well-being. Here we found that the PPM traits, as measured by theshort form, increased the variance explained by the normal traits in all job outcomes. The third study replicated the explicative model of academic achievement that included PPM traits as background variables. Fit indexes and effects were as expected and replicated the results found with the long form. The PTI-5-SF can be recommended as an appropriate measure of PPM traits since its psychometric properties proved to be adequate and the results obtained with the long form were appropriately replicated with the short form.
Fast reversal dynamics in perpendicular magnetic recording media with soft underlayer

Reversal dynamics in perpendicular magnetic recording media is investigated using finite element micromagnetic simulations. The results show that gyromagnetic precession plays an important role during the magnetization reversal of both the soft underlayer and the data layer. Magnetization reversal within the soft underlayer starts at positive applied field due to its low anisotropy and high demagnetization field. The switching of the data layer starts at an applied field of about −0.3 Hk,DL, where Hk,DL is the anisotropy field of the data layer. At finite temperature, thermal activation reduces the dynamic coercivity. However, this effect is smaller than the change of the dynamic coercivity found by varying the Gilbert damping parameter, α. Media dynamic coercivity was found to increase significantly when α was decreased from 0.1 to 0.01.
Completing Projects on Time and Budget: A Study on the Analysis of Project Monitoring Practices Using Real Data

This article analyzes the relationship between project cost and time performance indicators and monitoring activities, namely, tracking frequency and regularity with real project data. The existing literature on project monitoring and control remains scant, mainly based on self-reported, simulation-based artificial data for a single project, and somewhat inconclusive. Data from 60 projects managed in Belgium between 2011 and 2019 with different project duration and sizes were first used to reveal associations of regular monitoring with project performance with linear probability models; then, to dissect nonlinear associations between monitoring frequency and project performance indicators using random effects models. Earned value management technique with performance indicators is adopted to assess the project performance. Empirical findings indicate that regularly tracked projects are less likely to be late. Tracking frequency displays a U-shaped association with the likelihood of late completion. Moreover, tracking frequency has inverted U-shaped relationships with cost performance and schedule performance indexes. Moving beyond the direct effects, this article is the first to analyze a nonlinear relationship between monitoring and project performance. Our results also validate prior studies' findings on regular and frequent tracking effects using real-life multiple-project data and assess the EVM metrics and their behavior in project management.
Acoustic axes in orthorhombic media

The directions in an anisotropic medium along which there occur multiple points on the slowness (or velocity) surface for elastic waves are termed acoustic axes. The degeneracies, in general, may be characterized as tangential or conical and may be essential, dictated by symmetry,' or inessential, dependent on relative magnitudes of stiffnesses within a given symmetry. The existence of such axes for all possible elastodynamic classifications of orthorhombic media has been investigated. In general, the essential degeneracies are of conical type and occur in all but two of the 120 classifications. Observed stiffnesses show that all known media exhibit at least two essential acoustic axes, a few exhibit four. The maximum number of acoustic axes, hitherto reported as 14, is shown to be 16 and the observed stiffnesses of iodine and boron fibre are used to investigate this possibility in real materials. The geometry of a typical conical degeneracy is discussed and equations to the cone of tangency and corresponding ray cone are explicitly derived.
Effects of 12 Weeks of Physical-Cognitive Dual-Task Training on Executive Functions, Depression, Sleep Quality, and Quality of Life in Older Adult Women: A Randomized Pilot Study

This study aims to examine the effects of 12 weeks of physical-cognitive dual-task training on cognition, depression, sleep quality, and quality of life in older women (n = 44; 66.20 ± 4.05 years). Of these, 22 were randomly allocated to the dual-task training (DT) group, and 22 participated in the activities of the education control group (CG). Assessments were performed at baseline, at the end of 12 weeks of intervention, and after 12 weeks of follow-up using the following instruments: Trail Making Test parts A and B, ΔTMT (B-A), Stroop test parts A, B, C, and ΔStroop (C-B), Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), sleep quality (PSQI), quality of life (SF-36). The results showed a positive and significant time-group interaction for two cognitive domains (TMT and Stroop). No time-group interaction effect was indicated for depression and sleep quality perception. There was a positive and significant interaction effect between time and group for three SF-36 subcategories (physical function, physical role, and general health). Our training protocol was not able to improve depressive symptoms and sleep quality. On the other hand, DT training was able to promote the performance of executive functions and the physical and mental component summary of the quality of life with lasting effects of up to 12 weeks after the intervention.
An Empirical Investigation on Integrated Waqf Governance in Malaysian Waqf Institutions

This study explores the current integrated waqf governance practices in waqf institutions in Malaysia. The questionnaires were distributed to the administrators of 11 waqf institutions in Peninsular Malaysia to measure the level of accountability, transparency, and fairness practices in managing the waqf. The descriptive results indicated that transparency, accountability, and fairness are crucial and reliable determinants of enhancing waqf governance. Consequently, it implies that the success of waqf management significantly benefits the nations. The findings of this study are enlightened to strengthen the administration of waqf practices that may restore the public's confidence to support such practices. Keywords: Waqf; Integrated governance; Transparency; Fairness eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7i22. 4146
Predictors of unwillingness or inaccessibility to receive the COVID-19 vaccination among persons with disabilities in Bangladesh

Introduction Persons with disabilities (PWDs) are among the most vulnerable communities to suffer the serious consequences of COVID-19, and accepting COVID-19 vaccination is one of the recommended health advisories for them. Unwillingness to receive vaccines is a concerning issue, especially in the countries of Southeast Asia. The study aims to find out the COVID-19 vaccination rate of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Bangladesh, the rate of unwillingness or inaccessibility of vaccination for PWDs, and predict the possible reasons for unwillingness. Methods A descriptive cross-sectional survey of PWDs aged 12 years or more was conducted in 12 rehabilitation centers in Bangladesh between February 2022 and May 2022. A self-developed structured questionnaire on socio-demographic, disability, and health indicators, acceptance and accessibility of COVID-19 vaccines, and knowledge and attitude towards vaccination was used for the survey. The study has been conducted according to the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines for a cross-sectional survey. Results With a 69% response rate, 241 PWDs participated in the study. PWDs with a spinal cord injury were the major respondents (62.7%). A total of 186 (77.2%) PWDs had taken one or more doses of COVID-19 vaccines of three doses supplied, and 55 (22.8%) were unwilling to have a vaccination. All vaccine recipients reported good accessibility to vaccination booths. The predictive factors of unwillingness were spinal cord injury type of disability (OR .36, P<.01), people coming to the rehabilitation center from rural areas (OR .44, P<.01), poor knowledge of COVID-19 vaccination (OR .78, P<.01), and dependency on mobility (OR.24, P<.001). Conclusion More than one-fifth of the persons with disabilities aged between 12 and 80 years were unwilling to receive the COVID-19 vaccination despite the accessibility of information and availability of the COVID-19 vaccine, mainly due to poor knowledge and mobility issues.
Effect of Burdock (Arctium lappa) Roots and Basil (Ocimum basilicum) Leaves in Alloxan _ Induced Diabetic Rats

The prevalence of diabetes and its consequences has increased over the past several decades, and it is expected that it will double in the upcoming years. Diabetes problems are significantly influenced by chronic hyperglycemia, which is identified by highly advanced glycation end products. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of different concentrations 2 and 4% of basil leaves and burdock roots, as well as their mixture as powder, on glucose levels in diabetic rats. A total of 48 rats were used in this experiment, which were divided into eight groups of six rats each. Alloxan was used to induce rat’s diabetic. Biochemical tests were performed to evaluate glucose levels, total cholesterol, triglycerides, high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (VLDL-c), as well as liver and kidney functions. Results showed that rats fed on 4 % mixture powder recorded the lowest glucose level with significant differences being119.25 mg/dl. Data also indicated that rats fed on powder basil leaves, burdock roots, or their mixture increased HDL-c significantly (P≤0.05) and improved kidney and liver functions by lowering ALT, AST, ALP, creatinine, uric acid, and urea level. In conclusion, a 4% powdered blend of basil leaves and burdock roots improves all biochemical studies, especially glucose levels.
Analysis performance potential of Startups based on ambidexterity

Considering that ambidexterity is the capability of an organization to create, innovate and obtain new discoveries to ensure long-term sustainability, while improving internal procedures aimed at short-term operational efficiency, this research aimed to evaluate the potential that enterprises sheltered at Guamá Science and Technology Park (Belém – PA) have, to achieve a superior performance, based on their ambidextrous management characteristics. This research contributes to advances in strategies of Park's organizations and intends to inspire other enterprises with the same characteristics. Face-to-face interviews were carried out to apply a questionnaire to 19 resident managers of Guamá PCT, and the data were initially treated with descriptive statistics, followed by creation of an "Ambidexterity Index" capable of enabling the analysis of the performance potential of each enterprise. The results indicated that Guamá PCT startups have performance potential, with emphasis on the use of exploration dimension, which presented higher rates of management practices than the exploitation dimension, a fact that can be explained by the very innovation characteristic of the ventures housed in science parks. Thus, it is concluded that the Guamá-PCT ecosystem is favorable for the ambidextrous development of startups, that is, favorable to the development of the capacity to guarantee long-term sustainability, without losing sight of the need to properly manage short-term resources, and this study indicated gaps that must be observed and can be worked on through consulting and training with the sheltered organizations to enhance performance, increasing sustainability and seeking to ensure the long-term survival of these enterprises.
The brain activation of anxiety disorders with emotional stimuli—an fMRI ALE meta-analysis

ABSTRACT Numerous studies have analyzed the state of brain activation about anxiety disorders under emotional stimuli. However, there is no meta-analysis to assess the commonality and specificity activation concerning different subtypes of anxiety. Here, we used ALE to assess this. 29 studies revealed increased bilateral amygdala, anterior cingulate gyrus, parahippocampal gyrus activation in anxiety disorders during emotional stimuli. Moreover, we observed decreased activations in the posterior cingulate, lingual gyrus, and precuneus. In sub-analysis, although different anxiety showed dissimilar activations, the principal activations were observed in limbic lobe, which might indicate the limbic circuit was the main neural reflection of anxiety symptoms.
Decomposing Neural Representational Patterns of Discriminatory and Hedonic Information during Somatosensory Stimulation

Abstract The ability to interrogate specific representations in the brain, determining how, and where, difference sources of information are instantiated can provide invaluable insight into neural functioning. Pattern component modeling (PCM) is a recent analytic technique for human neuroimaging that allows the decomposition of representational patterns in brain into contributing subcomponents. In the current study, we present a novel PCM variant that tracks the contribution of prespecified representational patterns to brain representation across areas, thus allowing hypothesis-guided employment of the technique. We apply this technique to investigate the contributions of hedonic and nonhedonic information to the neural representation of tactile experience. We applied aversive pressure (AP) and appetitive brush (AB) to stimulate distinct peripheral nerve pathways for tactile information (C-/CT-fibers, respectively) while patients underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning. We performed representational similarity analyses (RSAs) with pattern component modeling to dissociate how discriminatory versus hedonic tactile information contributes to population code representations in the human brain. Results demonstrated that information about appetitive and aversive tactile sensation is represented separately from nonhedonic tactile information across cortical structures. This also demonstrates the potential of new hypothesis-guided PCM variants to help delineate how information is instantiated in the brain.
Strong absorption, intense forward-Raman scattering and relativistic electrons driven by a short, high intensity laser pulse through moderately underdense plasmas

The propagation of a short and intense laser pulse (1.057 μm, 350 fs, 1017 W/cm2–2×1019 W/cm2) through preformed undercritical plasmas (≈5%–40% of nc) has been experimentally investigated on the 100-TW laser facility at the Laboratoire pour l’Utilisation des Lasers Intenses. The transmission and reflection of the 1 μm laser pulse, the forward- and backward-Raman (respectively, F-SRS and B-SRS) scattered light and the emission of fast electrons are reported. Significant absorption occurs in these plasmas, which is found to increase with the laser intensity. B-SRS is strongly driven at 1017 W/cm2 and gradually decreases at higher intensities. It is shown that the transmission is low and only weakly dependent on the laser intensity. In contrast, the forward Raman scattering continuously increases with the laser intensity, up to 7% of the incident energy at 2×1019 W/cm2 in the lowest density case. The relativistic electrons accelerated in the forward direction appear to be correlated with the F-SRS. The exper.
Asymmetric braking and dawnward deflection of dipolarization fronts: Effects of ion reflection

Dipolarization fronts (DFs), earthward propagating structures in the Earth's magnetotail with sharp enhancements of the northward magnetic field, can reflect and accelerate ions in the ambient plasma sheet. The ion reflection and acceleration process, which generates earthward flows ahead of the DF, also imposes a dynamic pressure on the DF to decelerate its earthward motion. It has been shown that the ion reflection process is not symmetric, with stronger ion accelerations at the evening side of the DF than at its morning side, which implies dawn‐dusk asymmetric reaction of the ambient plasma and consequently dawnward deflection of DFs. In this paper, we examine this scenario in detail, by carrying out statistical studies based on Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms observations from 2008 to 2011. We demonstrate the important role of the ion reflection process in the longstanding problems regarding DF evolution and bursty flow braking in the near‐Earth plasma sheet.
On the Annual Cycle of the Tropical Pacific Atmosphere and Ocean

Abstract The annual cycle in sea surface temperature (SST), surface wind and other atmospheric variables in the tropical Pacific are described. The primary data sets of SST and surface wind are derived from ship observations in the Pacific between 29°N and 29°S during the period 1946–76. The annual cycle in SST away from the equator can be attributed to the annual cycle in solar heating. However, in the eastern equatorial Pacific, the annual cycle in SST undergoes systematic longitudinal changes in phase and amplitude. Near the coast of Peru, the warmest temperatures occur during March, while further west along the equator, the warmest temperatures occur progressively later and with diminished amplitude. The annual cycle in surface wind convergence along the equator displays similar changes with longitude. The annual cycle in surface wind is dominated by the meridional migrations of the trade wind belts. Near the equator, the amplitude of the annual cycle in meridional wind is larger than that in zonal wi.
Simplified expressions for the gyrosynchrotron radiation from mildly relativistic, nonthermal and thermal electrons

Simplified expressions are presented for the gyrosynchrotron radiation from mildly relativistic electrons, both for nonthermal (power-law) and for thermal (Maxwellian) distributions. Expressions are given for the emissivity, absorptivity, effective temperature, frequency of peak brightness, and degree of circular polarization. The expressions are designed for the range from about 10 to about 100 of harmonic numbers, 20 to 80 deg of viewing angle, 3 to 7 electron energy spectral index (nonthermal electrons), and 10 to the 8th to 10 to the 9th K in temperature (thermal electrons). This range generally covers the cases of interest for the 10 keV to 1 MeV electrons that are probably important in solar and stellar flares and possibly in other astrophysical situations. The accuracy of these expressions, within the stated range of validity, is generally much better than a factor of 2, while the values of some of the quantities cover up to 15 orders of magnitude. The simplicity of the expressions should make them useful for semiquantitative investigations of models of astrophysical sources
Determination of the Heave and Pitch Motions of a Floating Cylinder by Analytical Solution of its Diffraction Problem and Examination of the Effects of Geometric Parameters on its Dynamics in Regular Waves

In this paper, diffraction problem of a floating vertical circular cylinder is studied. Detailed analytical solution for the boundary value problem to evaluate the wave loads for the cylinder with heave and pitch motions in water of finite depth in the presence of an incident wave, has been presented. Accordingly, diffraction problem for a truncated vertical circular cylinder of radius in water of finite depth has been considered. Incident wave used in this problem, is assumed to be linear with amplitude . In order to calculate the added mass and damping coefficients of the pitch motion of the body, strip theory is applied. For the heave motion, the hydrodynamic coefficients are found by the submerged disk method. Parametric studies of the effects of the wave excitation force on the floating cylinder have been performed for two different cases: 1) constant draft of the cylinder with varying water depth and 2) varying draft of the cylinder with constant water depth.