Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Frequency of Isolation of Coagulase Negative Staphylococcus from Blood Cultures and its Antibiogram

Background: Coagulase-negative Staphylococci are members of stable skin inhabitants. They are frequent contaminants in blood cultures and can lead to unnecessary exposure of patients to antimicrobial drugs and excess hospital costs. This study aims to estimate the frequency of Coagulase-negative Staphylococci in blood cultures and their antibiograms. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in a tertiary care hospital over one year from April 2018 to March 2019. Blood cultures received in the laboratory were processed to isolate Coagulase-negative Staphylococci. Susceptibility to various antimicrobial drugs was detected by disc diffusion method and E-strips. Results: A total of 13802 blood cultures were processed in one year. 1750 blood cultures yielded bacterial growth and 374 blood cultures were positive for Staphylococci. Out of these 374 blood cultures, 97 were categorized as Staphylococcus aureus and 277 were Coagulase-negative Staphylococci. Out of 13802 total blood cultures performed during study period, 277 blood cultures positive with Coagulase negative Staphylococcus means contamination rate of 2% out of total blood cultures. 277 Coagulase negative Staphylococcus positive cultures out of 1750 positive blood cultures means contamination rate of 15.8% out of positive blood cultures. Among Coagulase-negative Staphylococci, 68.2% isolates were resistant to Cefoxitin, 95.3% to Penicillin, 85.1% to Erythromycin, 37.5% to Ciprofloxacin, 59.6% to Gentamicin, 68.6% to Fusidic acid, 3.6% to Teichoplanin, and 1.4% to Linezolid. All isolates were sensitive to Vancomycin. Conclusion: The rate of blood culture contamination was 2% out of total blood cultures and 15.8% out of positive blood cultures.
Results and Achievements of the ALLIANCE Project: New Network Solutions for 5G and Beyond

Leaving the current 4th generation of mobile communications behind, 5G will represent a disruptive paradigm shift integrating 5G Radio Access Networks (RANs), ultra-high-capacity access/metro/core optical networks, and intra-datacentre (DC) network and computational resources into a single converged 5G network infrastructure. The present paper overviews the main achievements obtained in the ALLIANCE project. This project ambitiously aims at architecting a converged 5G-enabled network infrastructure satisfying those needs to effectively realise the envisioned upcoming Digital Society. In particular, we present two networking solutions for 5G and beyond 5G (B5G), such as Software Defined Networking/Network Function Virtualisation (SDN/NFV) on top of an ultra-high-capacity spatially and spectrally flexible all-optical network infrastructure, and the clean-slate Recursive Inter-Network Architecture (RINA) over packet networks, including access, metro, core and DC segments. The common umbrella of all these solutions is the Knowledge-Defined Networking (KDN)-based orchestration layer which, by implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, enables an optimal end-to-end service provisioning. Finally, the cross-layer manager of the ALLIANCE architecture includes two novel elements, namely the monitoring element providing network and user data in real time to the KDN, and the blockchain-based trust element in charge of exchanging reliable and confident information with external domains.
PENGARUH BUKTI FISIK, LAYANAN, DAN RELIGIUSITAS TERHADAP LOYALITAS DENGAN KEPUASAN SEBAGAI INTERVENING

Era modern ditandai dengan perilaku seseorang yang melakukan segala hal dengan ditujukan untuk mengikuti zaman, salah satunya dalam berbusana. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui seberapa besar pengaruh bukti fisik dan layanan purna jual dikaitkan dengan religiusitas terhadap loyalitas yang dimediasi kepuasan konsumen pada perusahaan busana muslim dengan model busananya yang terkenal, Rabbani. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif deskriptif dengan data primer yang diperoleh dari metode penyebaran kuesioner kepada 96 mahasiswa IAIN Salatiga yang menjadi konsumen Brand Rabbani melalui google form dengan teknik purposive sampling. Berdasarkan hasil uji T dan path analysis menunjukkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh yang positif dan signifikan dari bukti fisik terhadap kepuasan, layanan purna jual terhadap loyalitas, dan kepuasan terhadap loyalitas. Terdapat pula hasil lain yaitu positif dan tidak signifikan yaitu diperoleh dari pengaruh layanan purna jual terhadap kepuasan, religiusitas terhadap kepuasan, bukti fisik terhadap loyalitas, layanan purna jual terhadap loyalitas. Pengaruh negatif dan tidak signifikan didapatkan dari pengaruh religiusitas terhadap loyalitas. Kepuasan tidak mampu menjadi mediasi dari layanan purna jual, bukti fisik dan religiusitas terhadap loyalitas. Maka dari itu, penting untuk Rabbani agar memperhatikan kepuasan konsumen agar retensi perusahaan tetap terjaga.
Passing the Baton: Building Student Autonomy and Democracy in the Large Ensemble Setting

The purpose of this study was to explore the phenomena of participation in a democratic large ensemble experience in a secondary public school setting. Specific research questions included (a) Do high school band students feel capable of performing a music work without teacher intervention? (b) In what ways do high school band students describe the experience of performing in a student-led large ensemble? (c) What music decisions were most often made by high school band students in a student-led large ensemble? and (d) Were there any changes in high school students’ perceptions of autonomy following a student-led large ensemble music rehearsal and performance experience? Findings illustrated that the democratic experience increased student autonomy and music discrimination across larger distances in the classroom as students listened to other nonsimilar sections. Furthermore, student voice, self-efficacy, and personal affect also increased as a result of the experience. Students felt empowered to offer their rehearsal critiques; however, a lingering concern is that participants continued to feel that their peers would not listen to their opinions on rehearsal issues or strategy usage.
Novel reduced-order small-signal model of a three-phase PWM rectifier and its application in control design and system analysis

A reduced-order (RO) small-signal model of three-phase pulse-width-modulation (PWM) rectifiers is proposed. By combining the PWM switch model and equivalent multimodule model techniques in DC-DC converters, a three-phase rectifier can be modeled as a DC-DC converter with equivalent power capability and small-signal characteristics. This model reduces the system order to two and greatly simplifies the control design and system analysis of three-phase converters. In this paper, the proposed model is also used for control design and for system interaction analysis on the three-phase interface of a boost rectifier. The RO model is verified with the d-q model, switching-model simulation, and experimental results.
Imitation Learning with Graph Neural Networks for Improving Swarm Robustness under Restricted Communications

This paper focuses on generating distributed flocking strategies via imitation learning. The primary motivation is to improve the swarm robustness and achieve better consistency while respecting the communication constraints. This paper first proposes a quantitative metric of swarm robustness based on entropy evaluation. Then, the graph importance consistency is also proposed, which is one of the critical goals of the flocking task. Moreover, the importance-correlated directed graph convolutional networks (IDGCNs) are constructed for multidimensional feature extraction and structure-related aggregation of graph data. Next, by employing IDGCNs-based imitation learning, a distributed and scalable flocking strategy is obtained, and its performance is very close to the centralized strategy template while considering communication constraints. To speed up and simplify the training process, we train the flocking strategy with a small number of agents and set restrictions on communication. Finally, various simulation experiments are executed to verify the advantages of the obtained strategy in terms of realizing the swarm consistency and improving the swarm robustness. The results also show that the performance is well maintained while the scale of agents expands (tested with 20, 30, 40 robots).
Urologists' knowledge base and practice patterns in Peyronie's disease. A national survey of members of the italian andrology society.

Peyronie's disease is a chronic inflammatory disease involving the formation of plaque in the tunica albuginea of the corpora cavernosa, resulting in penis deformity. It is often associated with penile pain, especially in younger patients, but it is not rare for pain to be absent; the disease is also associated with erectile dysfunction and a depressive state in a large percentage of cases. OBJECTIVE Aim of our study was to explore the basic knowledge base and diagnostic and therapeutic practice patterns in Peyronie's disease (PD) of a large number of physicians belonging to the Italian Andrology Society (SIA). METHODS Our survey is based on two questionnaires which were e-mailed to the members of the SIA. The first questionnaire explored diagnostic and therapeutic practice patterns of SIA physicians, while the second questionnaire focused on their knowledge of the disease, as well as their training and level of experience in the specific field. We then planned to compare our outcomes with similar PD surveys from other countries. RESULTS The first questionnaire was answered by 142 SIA physicians. The second questionnaire was answered by 83 SIA physicians. Most respondents (74.6%) chose penile ultrasonography as first-line diagnostic approach and 47.1% prefer to perform a color Doppler ultrasound after pharmaco-induced erection. Concerning the therapeutic practice patterns in active stage of the disease, most respondents (99.29%) prefer conservative medical therapy. Additionally, most respondents (64.78%), when failure of conservative treatment had been established, considered surgical treatment necessary, specifically corporoplasty, which may be associated with other techniques. CONCLUSIONS The results of our survey show that, in comparison to their foreign counterparts, Italian SIA uro-andrologists have a more proactive diagnostic approach right from when patients first present. When PD is still in its active stage, SIA uro-andrologists mostly opt for medical therapy. In advanced disease or if conservative treatment fails, our survey indicates a greater preference for surgical treatment. Answers to the theoretical knowledge questions showed that SIA physicians have a good understanding of the disease's etiology, epidemiology, and clinical picture, and of the appropriate indications for treatment.
The Challenge of Managing Safety in Africa

The authors provided an empirical overview of the African regional and national socioeconomic influences on safety management and the leading causes of non-natural fatalities and injuries: Motor vehicle accidents and work accidents in both the formal and informal sectors. The authors point to three different theoretical approaches to African safety management that address the fact that the rate of motor vehicle deaths, for instance, was about 18 times higher than in the U.S. Recommendations for improving African safety management were also provided.
Pragmatic functions of discourse marker ‘well’ in selected spoken discourse of Philippine English

The present paper investigates the use of the discourse marker “well,” one of the expressions that evoke emotive rather than referential functions. Taking a discourse-pragmatic approach, this study examines the functions of well as a discourse marker in selected spoken discourse of Philippine English. This paper investigates the functions and frequency of the discourse marker well in various speech event categories set in a dialogue and monologue environments. The data for the analysis have been selected from the International Corpus of English – Philippines (ICE-PHI). Also, the study focuses on the spoken component of the ICE-PH, which is one of the least studied dimensions of Philippine English. Further, it employs both quantitative and qualitative analyses while applying the suggested classification proposed by Ran (2003) and Jucker (1993). This study claims that the discourse marker well has several discourse-pragmatic functions in various speaking contexts, including 1) initiating utterance; 2) indicating the speaker's hesitancy; 3) mitigating various Face Threatening Acts; 4) correcting one's utterance; and 5) changing or shifting the current topic, based on 346 cases of well in four different spoken types.
Sintering Modeling of Thermal Barrier Coatings at Elevated Temperatures: A Review of Recent Advances

To achieve a higher efficiency in gas turbine engine by increasing the inlet-temperature of burning gas is one of the primary goals in aviation industry. The development of thermal barrier coating system (TBCs) continuously raises the inlet-temperature of gas turbine engine in the past decades. Due to the complexity of TBCs and harsh operation environments, the degradation and failure mechanisms of hot section components have not been fully understood, and consequently limits the application of TBCs. It was identified that high-temperature sintering of the topcoat in a typical TBC could be one of the major sources of its failure since the microstructures of the constituent coating layers evolve dynamically during the service period, resulting in significant changes of mechanical and thermal physical properties of the coating system. This paper intends to review recent advances of analytical and numerical modeling of sintering of topcoat in TBCs including the modeling methodology and applications of the models, particularly the implementation of finite element combined with specific materials constitutive functions. Critical remarks on the future development and applications of these models are also discussed in the end.
Early Childhood Sex Education Media as a Preventive Step for Sexual Violence

This study aimed to overcome problems related to the lack of integrated sex education media in integrated thematic learning so that it can make it easier for teachers to deliver sex education materials to early childhood. This research is a type of research and development. This study employed the Borg and Gall development model which consists of two main objectives, namely developing products and validating the resulting products. The population in this study was Jogja Green School and Aisyiyah Pembina Piyungan Kindergarten. The research sample chosen in Jogja Green School was 13 children and in Aisyiyah Pembina Piyungan Kindergarten as many as 30 children. The questionnaire as an instrument was used to validate and evaluate the quality of the developed product. The data analysis technique applied was descriptive qualitative analysis and descriptive statistics. The results of the study showed that: (1) The results of the validation of material experts, media experts, and education practitioners on the products developed were feasible to use, (2) The results of the limited trial showed that the product developed was suitable for use, (3) The results of the trial were more widely known that the product developed was suitable to use and was effective in increasing knowledge of early childhood sex education.
Performance of Rigid Pavements Containing Recycled Concrete Aggregates

State highway agencies in Connecticut, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming have successfully designed and constructed rigid pavements containing recycled concrete aggregate (RCA). Success has been attributed in part to the minimization of old mortar content in the RCA during recycling processes, thereby controlling the total mortar content of the new portland cement concrete (PCC) mixture, or to the achievement of higher-than-expected compressive strengths through adjustments in mix proportions, or both. There was no clear correlation between mortar content and cracking distresses in field investigations, although one project did exhibit significantly more slab cracking in the recycled pavement than in the corresponding control pavement. The increased cracking may have been due to the large differences in total mortar content between the recycled and control sections. In general, the recycled PCC pavements considered in this study have performed comparably with their conventional PCC pavement counterparts, including the recycled pavements that incorporated RCA derived from concrete affected by D-cracking and alkali-silica reactivity (ASR). There is, however, evidence of small amounts of localized recurrent ASR in the recycled Wyoming pavement. Whether this reactivity will eventually develop into widespread distress remains to be seen.
POULTRY PRODUCTION AND SELLING CLASSIFICATIONS IN JIMMA HORRO WEREDA, OROMIA WESTERN WOLLEGA

A survey was conducted at Jimma Horro District, Oromia Region. The key purpose of the study was to describe the present poultry production and selling structure of the Jimma Horro District. Over-all 165 aimlessly nominated poultry holders were used for the study. As the results, indicate there were three poultry manufacture structures in the study areas, foraging with seasonal feed supplementation (86.7%). The mean amount of eggs placed/clutch and yearly yield of local hens was 12.3 and 39.8eggs respectively. There was no formal chicken and chicken product marketing channel in the Jimma Horro District and informal marketing of live birds and eggs involving open markets are common throughout the district.
Total dose failures in advanced electronics from single ions

Hard errors from single heavy ions have been reported in advanced commercial CMOS memories. The authors examine the physical interactions of ions with MOS gate oxides-charge generation, recombination, transport, and trapping. They also consider device and circuit characteristics. They conclude that hard errors from single ions are to be expected, and should not be considered surprising. >
Allocation of Static Var Compensator Using Gravitational Search Algorithm

Gravitational optimization (GO) is used to place the Static Var Compensator (SVC) in a large power system based on its primary function, where the optimization is made on two parameters: its location and size. The primary function of a SVC is to improve transmission system voltage, thereby enhancing the maximum power transfer limit. To validate the results, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) Algorithm is applied and the performances of GO and PSO are compared. The results show GO quickly finds the optimal solution in finding the location and size of SVC.
Labour Absorption in Crop Production for Principal Crops in Semi-Arid and Flood Prone Eastern Plain Region of Rajasthan

The present investigation was undertaken with a view to study the labour absorption (both family and hired labour) in principal crops in Semi-Arid and Flood Prone Eastern Plain Region of Rajasthan. The primary data were collected from 200 households of 10 villages during the year 2018-2019. To study the labour absorption in crop production for principal crops the model suggested by Singh, 1996 was used. In semi-arid and flood prone eastern region (Region-III), the average labour absorption in crop production was 48.72 man-days per hectare in selected principal crops i.e., pearl millet, green gram, wheat, rapeseed & mustard and chickpea. The participation of family and hired labour was 31.11 man-days per hectare and 17.61 man-days per hectare in region-III. The wage rate for machine labour was maximum on marginal farms (Rs. 849.86 per hour) while minimum on large farms (Rs. 596.71 per hour).
Multivariate statistical analyses of idle noise and vehicle positioning

Principal component analysis (PCA) and correspondence analysis (CA) are applied to characterise the differences in engine idle noise and market position analysis. The first principal component represents overall sound pressure level (SPL) showing general noise level and the second principal component as SPL at low frequencies between 25 Hz and 50 Hz. Principal component scores are used as a way for vehicle positioning analysis. CA shows that the profile difference in SPL occurs mostly at low frequencies below 80 Hz. PCA is useful for identifying vehicles with large variation in SPL and CA for distinguishing different profiles in SPL.
Autonomous induction generator with single phase rotor

An autonomous induction generator (IG) with an asymmetric configuration, both the stator and the rotor are single-phase, is shown to be capable of generating modulated waveforms. The experimental results are demonstrated to be in good agreement with the simulation waveforms and both strengthen the theoretical part. The developed equations can help as an IG design guideline. The modulated waveform periods are shown to be in a continuous transient state in a chaos manner. The IG is also explained by its steady-state equivalent circuit.
Automated determination of landslide locations after large trigger events: advantages and disadvantages compared to manual mapping

Abstract. Earthquakes in mountainous areas can trigger thousands of co-seismic landslides, causing significant damage, hampering relief efforts, and rapidly redistributing sediment across the landscape. Efforts to understand the controls on these landslides rely heavily on manually mapped landslide inventories, but these are costly and time-consuming to collect, and their reproducibility is not typically well constrained. Here we develop a new automated landslide detection index (ALDI) algorithm based on pixel-wise normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI) differencing of Landsat time series within Google Earth Engine accounting for seasonality. We compare classified inventories to manually mapped inventories from five recent earthquakes: Kashmir in 2005, Aysén in 2007, Wenchuan in 2008, Haiti in 2010, and Gorkha in 2015. We test the ability of ALDI to recover landslide locations (using receiver operating characteristic – ROC – curves) and landslide sizes (in terms of landslide area–frequency statistics). We find that ALDI more skilfully identifies landslide locations than published inventories in 10 of 14 cases when ALDI is locally optimised and in 8 of 14 cases both when ALDI is globally optimised and in holdback testing. These results reflect not only good performance of the automated approach but also surprisingly poor performance of manual mapping, which has implications both for how future classifiers are tested and for the interpretations that are based on these inventories. We find that manual mapping, which typically uses finer-resolution imagery, more skilfully captures the landslide area–frequency statistics, likely due to reductions in both the censoring of individual small landslides and amalgamation of landslide clusters relative to ALDI. We conclude that ALDI is a viable alternative to manual mapping in terms of its ability to identify landslide-affected locations but is less suitable for detecting small isolated landslides or precise landslide geometry. Its fast run time, cost-free image requirements, and near-global coverage suggest the potential to significantly improve the coverage and quantity of landslide inventories. Furthermore, its simplicity (pixel-wise analysis only) and parsimony of inputs (optical imagery only) mean that considerable further improvement should be possible.