Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Predicting fiber‐reinforced polymer–concrete bond strength using artificial neural networks: A comparative analysis study

The repair efficiency of fiber‐reinforced polymer (FRP) is crucially linked to bond strength between FRP and concrete. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) technique is employed for the prediction of FRP–concrete bond strength based on more than 440 data points collected from literature work for training and testing of the proposed ANNs model. Such a model facilitates investigating the effect of various key parameters in controlling the bond. These are concrete compressive strength, maximum aggregate size, FRP thickness and modulus of elasticity, FRP‐to‐concrete length and width ratios, and adhesive tensile strength. The proposed ANNs model shows high fitting and prediction capability of training and testing data, respectively, with low mean square errors. Its accuracy of prediction far exceeds that of literature empirical models. Furthermore, the present comparative and sensitivity study of the predicted bond strength promotes the understanding of the impact of the above key parameters.
Characterization of a composite polylactic acid-hydroxyapatite 3D-printing filament for bone-regeneration

Autologous cancellous-bone grafts are the current gold standard for therapeutic interventions in which bone-regeneration is desired. The main limitations of these implants are the need for a secondary surgical site, creating a wound on the patient, the limited availability of harvest-safe bone, and the lack of structural integrity of the grafts. Synthetic, resorbable, bone-regeneration materials could pose a viable treatment alternative, that could be implemented through 3D-printing. We present here the development of a polylactic acid-hydroxyapatite (PLA-HAp) composite that can be processed through a commercial-grade 3D-printer. We have shown that this material could be a viable option for the development of therapeutic implants for bone regeneration. Biocompatibility in vitro was demonstrated through cell viability studies using the osteoblastic MG63 cell-line, and we have also provided evidence that the presence of HAp in the polymer matrix enhances cell attachment and osteogenicity of the material. We have also provided guidelines for the optimal PLA-HAp ratio for this application, as well as further characterisation of the mechanical and thermal properties of the composite. This study encompasses the base for further research on the possibilities and safety of 3D-printable, polymer-based, resorbable composites for bone regeneration.
Dental care utilization pattern and barriers encountered toward seeking oral health care services among the residents of Nimbut Village, Maharashtra, India

Objectives: The objectives of the present study have been conducted to evaluate the dental care utilization pattern and barriers encountered toward seeking oral healthcare services. Materials and Methods : A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted using a structured interview using the investigator's guide to assess felt needs, utilization, and barriers. Using systematic random sampling technique recruitment of 625 (125 participants per ward of each WHO age group) was done. Results: It was observed that only 52.8% had ever been to a dentist in the past 1 year, and maximum visits were by 65–74-year-olds. The oral healthcare need was majorly met by visiting a private dental practitioner (27.4%) and through outreach programs (23.8%). About 43.5% of participants responded that receiving of oral healthcare was “important only when in pain. ” About 66.9% participants felt “cost” was the main barrier restricting them to visit dentist. About 17.11% participants felt that having oral healthcare facility in primary health centers would have helped them. Conclusions: There is an urgent need to increase awareness and utilization of oral healthcare services through mass education and preventive programs.
Assessment of SNPP VIIRS RSB detector-to-detector differences using deep convective clouds and deserts

Abstract. An accurate on-orbit characterization of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite is essential to satisfy the requirements from NOAA, NASA, and the general research community for high-quality operational and research products. NASA’s Land Science Investigator-led Processing System (LSIPS) sensor data records (SDRs) are utilized to assess the stability of the calibrated top of atmosphere reflectance over the deep convective clouds (DCCs) and over the Libya-4 desert site. The results from DCCs and desert show detector-to-detector (D2D) reflectance differences in the VIIRS reflective solar bands, 10 moderate-resolution bands (M-bands, M1 to M5, M7 to M11), and three imagery resolution bands (I-bands, I1-I3). More importantly, the D2D differences exhibit an increase in magnitude over time for bands M1 to M5 and I1 to I2, which induces noticeable striping and higher uncertainties in the downstream data products. The largest D2D difference is observed in bands M1 and M2, with magnitudes greater than 1.8% in trends among the 16 detectors and standard deviations less than 0.12% over time. The D2D stability assessment results over DCCs are consistent with those observed over the Libya-4 desert site. To improve the quality of the calibrated SDR reflectance data, NASA’s VIIRS characterization support team has improved the calibration algorithm to incorporate corrections based on these DCC measurements to mitigate the striping (detector differences) observed in the current version of the SDR. These improvements are planned to be included in the next mission reprocessing of the LSIPS land products.
Effects of Short-term High Glucose on nIH/3T3 Fibroblast Proliferation, Apoptosis, and Collagen Type I Production

Objective: To investigate the mechanisms of in vitro high glucose induced model of liver fibrosis. Material and methods: The effcts of high glucose concentration on fibroblast proliferation were investigated by BrdU immunostaining. Apoptosis and necrosis levels were analyzed by flw cytometric assay. The content of collagen type I was measured by Collagen Estimation Assay through ELISA. Results: A high glucose medium not only increased NIH/3T3 fibroblast proliferation, but also increased type I collagen synthesis, showing a similar condition to the fibrosis. Moreover, the high glucose caused an increased level of cellular apoptosis and necrosis. Conclusions: High glucose modulates the fibrosis in NIH/3T3 fibroblast cells via inducing the production of type I collagen while maintains the homeostasis by inducing the apoptosis and necrosis of cells.
A Business Case for the Adoption of a Knowledge Management Strategy and Government Policy as Precursors for Divapreneurship Development in Zimbabwe

The study showcases a business value proposition to policy makers for the adoption of a business paradigm involving the infusion of knowledge management practices, strategic thinking and government policy intervention for divapreneurship development in Zimbabwe. The significance of knowledge management (KM) in women entrepreneurial development arises from the fact that, KM is considered as one of the most effective strategic tools for enterprise survival (Kim and Koh, 2011). The study also investigated the antecedents of bringing about the divatude (positive attitude) in women, as a new way of addressing the impediments to the development of women so that they could be united, driven, inspired, action oriented and victorious ensuring that divapreneurship development becomes a reality in Zimbabwe (Bbenkele, 2013). The mixed method research paradigm was adopted with both quantitative and qualitative data integrated in data collection. Consequently, basing on a purposive sample of 558 structured questionnaires, and focus group discussions, data was collected in line with the sequential explanatory approach. The study was carried out in Bulawayo and Harare Metropolitan Provinces, and Matabeleland North Provinces in Zimbabwe. The study recommended a ten factor framework for divapreneurship development involving universities as the nerve centre, in unrolling entrepreneurial education and training working in collaboration with the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Gender and Community Development.
Case Report: Guillain-Barré Syndrome Secondary to Dengue Virus Infection in Northeast Mexico

Aims: Dengue virus is a mosquito-born viral disease that infects about 390 million people each year. The clinical manifestations are fever, arthralgia and myalgia. Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) caused by dengue fever has been rarely reported. Presentation of Case: A 46-year-old man with no relevant medical history was seen because of progressive quadriparesis, dysautonomia, dysphagia and facial paresia. Ten days before seeking medical care the patient had fever, myalgia, arthralgia, rash, thrombocytopenia, and a positive NS1 dengue antigen. GBS was suspected and immunoglobulin was started while nerve conduction studies confirmed an acute motor axonal polyradiculoneuropathy. According to Brighton criteria, the patient was classified with a level 2 diagnostic certainty, since it was decided to not perform Case Study lumbar puncture for CSF analysis. The patient had a good clinical response and was subsequently discharged. Discussion: Dengue virus is arthropod-borne. It presents with high fever, rash, arthralgia, myalgia, and in rare cases, neurological complications such as GBS. In Mexico, there were 14,112 confirmed cases of non-severe dengue and 3,683 cases of severe dengue or with warning signs in 2016. There are no reported cases of GBS secondary to dengue infection in this country. Conclusion: GBS following dengue fever should be considered in countries with a high incidence of dengue infection such as Mexico even if there are no previous manifestations of dengue fever.
Randomized Algorithms for High-Dimensional Integration and Approximation

We prove upper and lower error bounds for error of the randomized Smolyak algorithm and provide a thorough case study of applying the randomized Smolyak algorithm with the building blocks being quadratures based on scrambled nets for integration of functions coming from Haar-wavelets spaces. Moreover, we discuss different notions of negative dependence of randomized point sets which find applications in discrepancy theory and randomized quasi-Monte Carlo integration.
Applications of oscillators in energy conversion

Το ευρύτερο πεδίο της παρούσας διατριβής αφορά περιβαλλοντικές διεγέρσεις όπως θαλάσσια και ηχητικά κύματα. Συγκεκριμένα, εξετάζονται δύο ξεχωριστά επιστημονικά πεδία. Το πρώτο αφορά την παραγωγή ενέργειας από θαλάσσια κύματα, ενώ το δεύτερο αφορά την μείωση της ηχορύπανσης σε εναέρια και επίγεια μεταφορικά οχήματα, με τη χρήση παθητικών και ενεργητικών ακουστικών διατάξεων ελέγχου του θορύβου, με σκοπό την άνεση των επιβατών. Η σταδιακή εξάντληση των αποθεμάτων των ορυκτών καυσίμων, οι περιβαλλοντικές επιπτώσεις των εκπεμπόμενων ρύπων τους και η επιβλαβής επίδρασή τους στην ανθρώπινη υγεία, καθιστούν επιτακτική ανάγκη τη στροφή στις ανανεώσιμες και «πράσινες» πηγές ενέργειας. Η αυξημένη ενασχόληση με την εκμετάλλευση της ηλιακής και αιολικής ενέργειας δεν αντικατοπτρίζεται αντίστοιχα στην εκμετάλλευση της θαλάσσιας ενέργειας η οποία παρουσιάζει και υψηλότερη πυκνότητα ενέργειας από τις προαναφερόμενες. Συνεπώς, αποτελεί μια περιοχή με σημαντικά περιθώρια ενασχόλησης και σημαντική προοπτική. Όσον αφορά την ηχορύπανση στα μεταφορικά μέσα, το σημαντικότερο ζήτημα σχετίζεται με τον περιορισμό χαμηλόσυχνων θορύβων. Συμβατικές μέθοδοι όπως ακουστικά πάνελ τύπου «σάντουιτς», επιδεικνύουν χαμηλή απόδοση στον περιορισμό του χαμηλόσυχνου θορύβου που πηγάζει κυρίως από τους περιστρεφόμενους κινητήρες, καθώς συνήθως συμπίπτει με την περιοχή των ιδιοσυχνοτήτων των κατασκευών αυτών. Επιπλέον, για λύσεις που βασίζονται στην τοποθέτηση τοπικών αποσβεστήρων, η βελτίωση της ακουστικής τους συμπεριφοράς συνεπάγεται αύξηση της μάζας τους. Το γεγονός αυτό συγκρούεται με τις ολοένα αυξανόμενες απαιτήσεις για μείωση του βάρους στα μεταφορικά μέσα καθώς συνδέεται άμεσα με την κατανάλωση καυσίμου και τις απαιτήσεις ισχύος. Εξετάζονται δύο διαφορετικές υλοποιήσεις μετατροπέων με ταλαντωτές για την εκμετάλλευση της ενέργειας των θαλάσσιων κυμάτων, ενώ στο πεδίο του ακουστικού ελέγχου γίνεται διαχωρισμός μεταξύ παθητικών και ενεργών μέσων ελέγχου. Από την μια εξετάζεται η ενσωμάτωση του ταλαντωτή KDamper για τον σχεδιασμό ενός καινοτόμου πάνελ παθητικής ηχομόνωσης και εν συνεχεία η δημιουργία μετα-υλικών βασισμένων στον εν λόγω ταλαντωτή, τα οποία παρουσιάζουν ζώνες μερικού ή πλήρους περιορισμού της διάδοσης του ήχου σε συγκεκριμένα εύρη συχνοτήτων. Από την άλλη, παρουσιάζεται ο σχεδιασμός ενός ακουστικού μετατροπέα, χρησιμοποιώντας διηλεκτρικούς ελαστομερείς επενεργητές, με σκοπό την ενσωμάτωση τέτοιων ηχείων σε ένα αυτόματο σύστημα ενεργητικού ελέγχου ήχου σε επιβατικά οχήματα.
Knowledge Gain through Bee Keeping Training Programme

Saina Nehwal Institute of Agricultural Technology, Training &Education, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar organized eight training courses on bee keeping during the year 2017–18. In order to assess the impact of these courses on knowledge gain of trainees, pre and post training evaluation were conducted by developing a questionnaire comprising of general information and background of the participants and information related to various aspects of bee keeping. It was observed that mostly male candidates belonging to younger age group and who dropped their education at secondary or senior secondary level come forward to adopt beekeeping as an enterprise. More than half of the respondents were from farming background including nearly 2/3rdof marginal to small and about 1/5thof landless farmers. Majority of the respondents used to contact extension experts and also used mass media regarding information. The t-raining programmes proved very effective and resulted in remarkable increase in knowledge of trainees in all aspects of beekeeping. It was concluded that school dropouts, landless, marginal to small farmers can be promoted for adopting beekeeping as an enterprise through organizing various training programmes as these proved very effective in increasing the knowledge which is helpful to start and flourish beekeeping.
Entrainment of sediment particles by very large-scale motions

Stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (PIV) configured in two orthogonal planes was utilised to capture the flow structure at the instant of entrainment of spherical bed particles in open-channel flow. Experiments were conducted with lightweight target particles amongst a bed of coplanar fixed spheres with diameters of 16 mm. The protrusions of the target particles were set to give an average entrainment rate of $1/60~\text{s}^{-1}$. These protrusions were established from extensive initial experiments which utilised an automated mechanism to place spheres on the bed of the flume and record the time elapsed until they were entrained by the flow. The results showed that at lower flow depth to particle diameter ratios, bed particles are more stable and require larger protrusions to entrain at the same rate as at a larger depth. This effect is consistent with observations of reduced velocity variance and reduced drag force variance for lower flow submergences. The PIV measurements indicated that particle entrainment is associated with very large-scale motions which extend up to 50 flow depths in the streamwise direction. Contributions of smaller scale velocity and pressure spatial fluctuations are suppressed by a spatial averaging effect related to the particle size, and a temporal averaging effect related to the time taken to fully entrain a particle from its resting pocket. These observations are relevant to sediment transport modelling. However, further data are required to clarify the role of particle lift forces and particle shape in the entrainment process.
The rationality of anger

Anger has a bad reputation. The Stoics have famously advocated against anger (Nussbaum 2015; Bommarito 2017), while philosophers interested in oppression, particularly feminist philosophers, have on the other hand, highlighted the crucial motivational, political and epistemic value of anger in fighting against the oppressive status quo (Lorde 1981; Frye 1983; hooks 1995; Yancy 2008). I argue that the points of disagreement that emerge from the debate on anger hinge on its nature and (ir)rationality. Disagreement hinges on whether anger is instrumentally beneficial to the angry agent, in terms of its psychological effects and behavioural consequences, on whether anger is of epistemic value, and on how to construe the nature of anger itself. A foundational approach to the debate, one that makes the emotion of anger central, will reveal that anger is a rational phenomenon that can play the positive roles feminist philosophers have afforded it. I provide such a foundational account of anger. The project has four complimentary desiderata; to provide an account of anger’s nature, an account of anger as instrumentally rational for oppressed agents, an account of anger as reason-responsive, and finally an account of anger’s positive epistemic role. I work within two methodological constraints: not to abstract away from how social reality is structured, and to be informed by the most relevant empirical work in the brain and behavioural sciences. In meeting my four desiderata, I provide a currently lacking account of anger as rational. This provides the foundation for its constructive political roles. Four main findings emerge: that the dominant conception of anger should be revised, that anger is an effective and often constructive way of confronting social injustice, that anger, as an emotion, enjoys a sui generis relation to its reasons, and that this in turn allows anger to play distinctive and crucial epistemic roles.
Private Money Creation with Safe Assets and Term Premia

It has been documented that an increase in the demand for safe assets induces the private sector to create more money-like claims. Focusing on private repos backed by U.S. Treasury securities, I show that an increase in the demand for safe assets leads to a decreases in the issuance of Treasury repos. The intuition is that Treasury securities already function as a safe asset, thus in terms of safe asset creation, private Treasury repos are neutral. In the model, Treasury repos are beneficial because they shift risk (i.e. term premia) from relatively risk averse households to a more risk tolerant financial sector, which issues repos to finance its portfolio. When the demand for safe assets increases, Treasury securities are reallocated to households, reducing the amount of Treasury repo issued by the financial sector. By contrast, Treasury repos created by the Federal Reserve's RRP program---a safe asset created by the public sector---increase with the demand for safe as sets. I show the data supports the model's main predictions.
Intercropping French Bean with Brinjal at Varying Planting System

The experiment was carried out at the research field of Agricultural Research Station, Rajbari, Dinajpur during rabi season of 2014-15 and 2015-16 to find out suitable crop combination for higher productivity and economic return. Six different treatments viz. T1 = Sole brinjal (75 cm x 60 cm), T2 = Sole french bean (30 cm x 10 cm), T3 = Brinjal normal row (100%) + 1 line french bean between brinjal (33%), T4 = Brinjal normal row (100%) + 2 lines french bean between brinjal (66%), T5 = Brinjal paired row (100%) + 3 lines french bean between brinjal (40%) and T6 = Brinjal paired row (100%) + 4 lines french bean between brinjal (53%) were evaluated. The results revealed that the highest mean fruit yield of brinjal (44.26 t ha) and french bean (20.96 t ha) was obtained in sole cropping of component crops. Under intercropping, the highest brinjal yield (38.61 t ha) was recorded in brinjal normal row + 1 line french bean between brinjal, while, the highest french bean yield (16.06 t ha) in brinjal normal row + 2 lines french bean between brinjal. The highest mean brinjal equivalent yield (58.72 t ha) and land equivalent ratio (1.50) was also obtained in brinjal normal row + 2 lines french bean between brinjal. The highest gross return (Tk. 4,69,760 ha ), gross margin (Tk. 3,66,440 ha), and BCR (4.54) were obtained in brinjal normal row + 2 lines french bean between brinjal and the lowest in sole french bean. The overall results indicated that among the intercrop combinations brinjal normal row + 2 lines french bean between brinjal was found suitable for total productivity and economic return of the system.
ANALISIS WARIA ATAU TRANSGENDER MELAKUKAN OPERASI GANTI KELAMIN DALAM PERSPEKTIF HUKUM ISLAM DAN HUKUM POSITIF

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