Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Applying a Service Mindset When Thinking and Communicating about Systems and Projects

Despite the best of intentions, many IT groups have difficulty engaging and communicating with business professionals, managers, and executives they hope to serve. A shift toward applying a deeper service mindset when thinking and communicating about systems and projects might lead to greater success in addressing business issues directly and attaining more effective engagement. This paper explains four principles underlying a service mindset for thinking and communicating about systems and projects. These principles lead directly to three frameworks for thinking and communicating about IT-reliant systems. In turn, the frameworks lead to straightforward tools that support business-oriented description and analysis of IT-reliant systems in organizations.
Knowledge and Awareness about Obesity Complications in Pregnancy among Reproductive Women

Background: obesity in general predisposes expected to various noncommunicable diseases but its awareness in regards to the complications posed by it in reproductive women is underseen. Methods: cross sectional study using an structured questionnaire. Goal: To access the knowledge and awareness about complications of obesity in pregnancy among reproductive women Statistical Analysis Used: Data was entered in excel spreadsheet and analysed using SPSS version 16. Results: Majority of the participants [129 (86%)] knew that obesity affects reproductive health causing problem problems like just gestational diabetes mellitus GDM [ 136 (90.6%)], difficulties during labour, higher Chance of Caesarean [91(60.6)] section, Increased risk for hypertension [120 (80%)] infertility [ 53 (35.3%)], during pregnancy. Almost all of them know That obesity can increase problems in pregnancy for both mother and for the baby. Majority of them we are not sure if obesity causes increased chance of Foetal malformations [75 (50.2%)] Increased bleeding after delivery [103 (68.8%)] Most of them don’t know that obesity can cause increased bleeding after delivery, stillbirth [125 (83.3%)], miscarriage [111(74%)], difficulties in Ultrasound examination of the abdomen [81 (54%) ]Most of them thought that obesity does not cause difficulties in measuring BP [79 (52.6)], delivery of big baby [98 (65.3%) ], premature delivery [56 (37.3%)]. Conclusion: Generating Awareness about obesity and its complications in pregnancy is required to prevent those complications in future and bring behavioural and lifestyle modification for sustainability in the long run.
Impact of COVID-19 on Brazilian women in teleworking

The COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on the personal, professional, and academic routines of female Brazilian teleworkers. This study aims to analyze the impact of teleworking on the lives of Brazilian women amid the pandemic. The method was a quantitative and exploratory approach, and an online cross-sectional survey conducted with 478 women. The results showed a positive correlation between academic routines and teleworking (p < 0.05; r > 0.00) and a significant association between emotional health and academic routines (p < 0.001). Black women were shown to expend more effort toward academic activities than White women (p < 0.044). The study results contribute to the social sciences by demonstrating the impact of COVID-19 on Brazilian women in teleworking and indicate potential implications for policy formulation and public management in Brazil.
Entrepreneurship in higher education: The key role of self-efficacy-A cross sectional study

Entrepreneurship is the engine of a nation's economic, cultural, and social development. Since Higher Education Institutions play a crucial role, it is important to analyze the academy's entrepreneurial education effectiveness in promoting entrepreneurial intention amongst students. This study aims to analyze the effect of the education agenda of a Higher Education Institution on the students’ entrepreneurial intention, exploring the effect of self-efficacy as a mediator. A quantitative, cross-sectional, and non-experimental study was performed. A sample of 176 Portuguese higher education students fulfilled the “Entrepreneurial Motivations Survey,” which includes the HEInnovate Self-Assessment Scale, the Self-Efficacy Scale, and the Entrepreneurial Intention Scale. Data analysis was performed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), AMOS, and PROCESS software. Through structural equation models, it was created a mediation model to assess the impact of the University education agenda on the entrepreneurial intention of the students. All scales showed adequate validity and reliability. The Faculty was not perceived as an entrepreneurial academy by the students. The results did not show a direct effect of the entrepreneurial education agenda on the students’ entrepreneurial intention. The effects emerged through self-efficacy, which plays a mediating effect between entrepreneurial education agenda on the students’ entrepreneurial intention. The entrepreneurship agenda didn’t directly influence the entrepreneurial intention. It is mandatory to offer a rich agenda in order to improve the students’ entrepreneurial competencies, preparing them to strive in the competitive market, in which self-efficacy plays an important role.
Modeling and analysis of an electro-magneto-elastic rotating cylindrical tube actuator

This paper presents the static modeling and analysis of a novel cylindrical tube actuator subjected to a rotation about longitudinal axis with an internally applied air pressure under an electromagnetic field. The current tube actuator belongs to a smart actuator category and is made of an electro-magneto-active polymer filled with a particular volume fraction of suitable fillers. A continuum mechanics-based electro-magneto-mechanical model is developed to predict the response of the actuator for a combined pressure and electromagnetic field loading. To validate the same, the model is compared with the outputs of an existing spring roll actuator. Parametric studies are subsequently performed for varying input pressure, electric field, magnetic field, fillers content, and actuator’s rotational speed. The output sensitivity in terms of strain intensity at inner and outer surfaces of the actuator is also checked at different controlling inputs. In addition, various electro-magneto-mechanical instability curves are drawn to examine the critical inflation of the tube actuator. In general, the developed model provides initial steps toward the modern actuator designs for applications where a precise control with high load-carrying capability of the actuator plays a significant role.
Would Travel Experiences or Possessions Make People Happier?

To inform consumption choices bring people greater happiness, it is necessary to identify the types of consumption with greater happiness-generating potential. Using an experimental design, this research demonstrates that tourism experiences tend to cultivate happiness better than possessions, by empirically testing a potential underlying mechanism of such superiority—tourism’s potential to cultivate eudaimonia (i.e., the more enduring form of happiness that accounts for the bigger picture beyond the self) without explicit eudaimonic motives. The mechanism can aid the identification of forms of consumption that maximize happiness. This research makes multi-faceted contributions to the tourism and consumption literature on eudaimonia and happiness promotion, including how its revealed potential in implicitly cultivating eudaimonia renders tourism a better consumption choice than material possessions for happiness maximization. Practically, the study suggests how tourism experiences can be designed and marketed to capitalize on the eudaimonic potential.
Task Offloading and Scheduling Strategy for Intelligent Prosthesis in Mobile Edge Computing Environment

Traditional intent recognition algorithms of intelligent prosthesis often use deep learning technology. However, deep learning’s high accuracy comes at the expense of high computational and energy consumption requirements. Mobile edge computing is a viable solution to meet the high computation and real-time execution requirements of deep learning algorithm on mobile device. In this paper, we consider the computation offloading problem of multiple heterogeneous edge servers in intelligent prosthesis scenario. Firstly, we present the problem definition and the detail design of MEC-based task offloading model for deep neural network. Then, considering the mobility of amputees, the mobility-aware energy consumption model and latency model are proposed. By deploying the deep learning-based motion intent recognition algorithm on intelligent prosthesis in a real-world MEC environment, the effectiveness of the task offloading and scheduling strategy is demonstrated. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithms can always find the optimal task offloading and scheduling decision.
High associative neuron numbers could drive cognitive performance in corvid species

Corvids possess cognitive skills, matching those of nonhuman primates. However, how these species with their small brains achieve such feats remains elusive. Recent studies suggest that cognitive capabilities could be based on the total numbers of telencephalic neurons. Here we extend this hypothesis further and posit that especially high neuron counts in associative pallial areas drive flexible, complex cognition. If true, avian species like corvids should specifically accumulate neurons in the avian associative areas meso‐ and nidopallium. To test the hypothesis, we analyzed the neuronal composition of telencephalic areas in corvids and noncorvids (chicken, pigeons, and ostriches—the species with the largest bird brain). The overall number of pallial neurons in corvids was much higher than in chicken and pigeons and comparable to those of ostriches. However, neuron numbers in the associative mesopallium and nidopallium were twice as high in corvids and, in correlation with these associative areas, the corvid subpallium also contained high neuron numbers. These findings support our hypothesis that large absolute numbers of associative pallial neurons contribute to cognitive flexibility and complexity and are key to explain why crows are smart. Since meso‐/nidopallial and subpallial areas scale jointly, it is conceivable that associative pallio‐striatal loops play a similar role in executive decision making as described in primates.
A Study of the Components of Brain-based Curriculum model in Pre-school and its Accreditation: A Quantitative Research

Ramin Nozohouri, Eskandar Fathiazar, Youef Adib, Hasan Bafandeh, Somayyeh Rasouli 1. Ph.D. of Curriculum, Faculty of Education and Psycholog, University of Tabriz, Iran 2. Professor, Department of Education, Faculty of Education and Psycholog, University of Tabriz, Iran 3. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education & Psychology, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran 4. Ph.D. Student of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Tabriz, Iran
How do justice and top management beliefs matter in industrial symbiosis collaboration: An exploratory study from China

Justice has been widely studied by behavior researchers in recent years. However, it has not received very much attention in industrial symbiosis (IS) network research. This inductive study presents a synthetic conceptual model connecting justice to corporate collaborative actions in the context of IS through top management. Using structural equation modeling to analyze a survey of 209 firms in two eco‐industrial parks in China, we examined inductively the effects of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice on top management, IS collaboration, and environmental performance of firms. Results demonstrate that different aspects of justice have different direct and indirect effects on IS collaboration and environmental performance. Furthermore, we detected that top management beliefs (TMB) affect IS collaboration and influence environmental performance. The mediating effect of IS collaboration between TMB and environmental performance was examined and discussed.
Effect of salt level on some physical and chemical properties and acceptability of camel milk cheese

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of different salt levels on camel milk cheese. The cheese was made from camel milk, using Camifloc enzyme as a coagulant with different levels of salt (0.0%; 0.5%; 1.0%), then refrigerated for four days. The cheese yield was estimated as 10.3%. There were significant (P 0.05) differences in total proteins and ash percentages, and in total bacterial, coliform, yeast and mould, and psychrotropic counts. However, there were significant (P<0.05) differences during the storage period. Sensory evaluation conducted showed that the cheese made from camel milk containing 1.0% salt was more acceptable than cheese containing 0.5% salt, which was moderately acceptable, and the least acceptable was the unsalted cheese It was concluded that cheese made from camel milk could be accepted by consumers in Sudan, provided that suitable salt concentration (1.0%) was added.
Hybrid control

An effort to investigate an environment for the design, implementation and evaluation of hierarchical, distributed, intelligent hybrid control is summarized. Hybrid control here means an integrated approach to continuous physical devices (mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, etc.) being controlled by discrete computational units (digital CPUs). Nonlinear dynamical systems theory is being used to support the design and analysis of controls and the adaptation of simulation tools from this area to control problems. <<ETX>>
Engineered extracellular vesicle-based sonotheranostics for dual stimuli-sensitive drug release and photoacoustic imaging-guided chemo-sonodynamic cancer therapy

Sonodynamic therapy has shown promise as an effective alternative to conventional photodynamic therapy owing to its ability to treat deep-seated tumors. However, the development of stimuli-responsive sonosensitizers with high biocompatibility faces a significant challenge. Methods: In this study, we developed dual stimuli-responsive sonosensitizers with desirable biosafety using extracellular vesicles (EVs), a class of naturally occurring nanoparticles. Indocyanine green (ICG), which functions as both a sonosensitizer and photoacoustic (PA) imaging agent, was loaded into EVs, together with paclitaxel (PTX) and sodium bicarbonate (SBC), to achieve pH-responsive PA imaging-guided chemo-sonodynamic combination therapy. Results: The EVs significantly improved the cellular uptake of ICG, thus triggering enhanced sonodynamic effects in breast cancer cells. SBC-, ICG-, and PTX-loaded EV [SBC-EV(ICG/PTX)] efficiently released the PTX in response to acidic pH in the endo/lysosomes because CO2 bubbles generated from the SBC caused the EV membranes to burst. The drug release was further facilitated by ultrasound (US) treatment, demonstrating dual pH/US-responsive drug release. The ICG- and PTX-loaded EVs exhibited efficient anticancer activity against breast tumor cells owing to the combination of chemo-sonodynamic therapy. High-resolution PA imaging visualized the preferential tumor accumulation of SBC-EV(ICG/PTX) in tumor-bearing mice. Notably, a single intravenous injection of SBC-EV(ICG/PTX) with US irradiation significantly suppressed tumor growth in mice without systemic toxicity. Conclusions: Our findings demonstrate that dual stimuli-responsive SBC-EV(ICG/PTX) are promising sonotheranostic nanoplatforms for safe and efficient chemo-sonodynamic combination cancer therapy and photoacoustic imaging.
Characteristics and origins of viscoelastic turbulence in a 3-stream contraction-expansion micro-channel

At low Reynolds number (Re < 1), the flow of viscous liquids e.g. water, is laminar. An aqueous solution e.g. water becomes viscoelastic when a small amount of polymer additives (< 1 wt%) is added to it; its flow behavior can become drastically different and turbulent i.e. viscoelastic turbulence. This phenomenon has gained increasing attention because it violates the conventional school of thought i.e. highRe criteria, for creating chaos and disorder in a fluid dynamics system. As the polymer molecules are invisible, the indirect deduction of molecular behavior via motion analyses of tracer additives has been adopted as the main investigative approach in viscoelastic turbulent flows. Based on this approach, reported works attribute viscoelastic turbulence to the release of elastic energy by the polymer molecules, which had been extended due to strong velocity gradients in the flow field. The release of energy occurs over a range of time scales which is dependent on the characteristic time scales of the molecules and bulk viscoelastic liquid. Although the reported characteristic time scales vary significantly, their effects on the structure of the viscoelastic turbulent flow field have not been investigated. Despite the significant number of investigations based on the conventional approach, the underlying mechanisms in viscoelastic turbulence remains elusive; several outstanding questions on viscoelastic flows remain unresolved e.g. the high Weissenberg number problem, and the drag reduction theory debate. “How do the polymer molecules change the flow field so drastically when they are only present in minute amounts? ”. This fundamental question has yet to be clearly answered. Although fluorescent-tagged DNA molecules are commercially available, because they are costly and impractical for large-scale dynamic flow field investigations, their usage has been mostly limited to tracer additives or stress probes. Here, a viscoelastic turbulent flow field generated by a 3-stream flow through a contraction-expansion micro-channel was investigated. Based on the conventional approach i.e. tracer additives, the results show that the generated turbulence exhibits characteristics of 2-D turbulent flows, from which information on the molecular and bulk properties of the viscoelastic liquid could be extracted. In addition, a highspeed molecular imaging technique was developed to observe the polymer molecular conformation changes (i.e. extension and relaxation) in a turbulent flow. The technique is capable of image grabbing speeds of more than 1000 frames per second. The developed molecular fluorescein tagging technique has a much lower cost as compared to fluorescein-labeling of DNA, hence making it more feasible for large scale investigations. With the developed technique, the dynamic molecular conformation changes could be correlated with the statistical properties of the flow field obtained based on the conventional approach.
An improved multi-mode seismic vibration control method using multiple tuned mass dampers

Multiple vibration modes of an engineering structure might be excited by earthquake ground motions. Multiple tuned mass dampers (MTMDs) are widely used to control these multi-mode vibrations. However, in the commonly used MTMD system, the mass element in each tuned mass damper (TMD) is normally assumed to be the same. To improve the performance of MTMDs for seismic-induced vibration control, non-uniform MTMD masses are adopted in the present study to improve the mass utilization of TMD, and a location factor is proposed to determine the best location of each TMD in the MTMD system. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated through numerical study. The results show that the proposed method effectively reduces the seismic responses of the structure induced by multiple vibration modes.
Personality-Related Determinants of Physical Activity Among Polish and Spanish Physical Education Students

We aimed to analyze personality-related determinants of physical activity among Polish and Spanish physical education (PE) students. The study was conducted among 219 Polish and 280 Spanish PE students, using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and the NEO-FFI Personality Inventory. Compared with Spanish PE students, their Polish counterparts are characterized by a higher level of extraversion and conscientiousness and a lower level of neuroticism. The level of total physical activity for all students was 8,697.21 METs, and this value was higher among Polish students. Among Polish and Spanish PE students, the level of total, vigorous, and moderate physical activity increased along with the increase in extraversion, while a decrease occurred along with the increase in neuroticism. The level of each domain of physical activity also increased in line with the intensification of student conscientiousness. In moderation analyses, it was shown that the home country of students may be considered a moderator of the relationship between conscientiousness and total exercise in such a way that the physical activity increased along with the increase in conscientiousness only among the Polish students. In addition, the country is a moderator of the correlation between moderate physical activity and neuroticism (p = 0.031), openness (p = 0.049), and conscientiousness (p = 0.019), with moderate activity only decreasing among Polish students and increasing along with the increase in openness and conscientiousness. Positive correlations among physical activity, extraversion, and conscientiousness, as well as negative ones with neuroticism, were demonstrated among Polish and Spanish students, and also the moderating impact of the country on the correlation between personality-related dimensions and physical activity.
Developmentally-informed treatment for adolescent sex offenders: an effectiveness evaluation of the Forward-Focused Model

Abstract The purpose of this pilot program evaluation is to examine the effectiveness of a developmentally-informed treatment model for adolescent sex offenders. To accomplish this, 62 adolescents receiving treatment as usual were compared to 68 adolescents receiving a specialized developmentally-informed treatment (i.e., Forward-Focused Model). A total of 130 adolescents who offended sexually and who were confined in secure residential treatment were included in the analysis. The specialized treatment emphasized the promotion of prosocial development and included cognitive behavioral interventions specifically adapted to meet the developmental needs of adolescents. Clinical interventions were delivered individually and in group therapy with an emphasis on identification and treatment of complex needs (i.e., trauma-related symptoms, substance misuse, serious mental health disorders). Recidivism was evaluated at three years following release from long-term residential treatment (i.e., incarceration). Treatment as usual participants recidivated at almost double the rate of those participating in the Forward-Focused Model while the sexual recidivism rate for adolescents in the Forward-Focused Model was 2.9%.