Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Is Pregnancy Length in Martina Franca Jennies Influenced by Lunar Cycle?

In humans and animals there is a popular belief that spontaneous parturition, and therefore pregnancy length, could be influenced by the lunar cycle, but results from humans are often impaired by multiple variables of the studied population. In domestic animals those problems can be limited by studying restricted population, such as a single breed, reared under uniform conditions. The present study aimed to assess the possible influence of the lunar cycle on pregnancy length in Martina Franca jennies belonging to a single breeding farm. The retrospective study was performed on data collected from 96 Martina Franca healthy jennies with a normal singleton pregnancy course. The present study showed that, whit lunar cycle divided in 4 lunar phases, neither lunar phase at ovulation, nor lunar phase at foaling significantly influenced pregnancy length (371.8±6.45 days). Pregnancy length was not significantly influenced also by the month of the year in which ovulation and spontaneous foaling occurred, as well as by jennies’ age and foal’s sex. In conclusion, pregnancy length in Martina Franca jennies is very variable (335-395 days) but does not seem to be influenced by lunar phases at ovulation or at foaling, month of ovulation and foaling, and by jennies’ age and foal’s sex. Further studies are needed to clarify the reasons for this pregnancy length variability in Martina Franca donkey breed.
Running head: R.I.G.H.T. LEADERSHIP 1 R.I.G.H.T. Leadership: Scale Development and Validation of a Psychologically Healthy Leadership Model Conditionally accepted to be published at the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences

The R.I. G.H. T. leadership model prescribes five specific behaviors for leaders in organizations to create psychologically healthy workplaces. The aim of this paper was to develop and validate a scale to measure the R.I. G.H. T. leadership behaviours. Collecting data from three samples across two studies (N=108, N=233, N=420), we examined the factor structure and tested the validity of the R.I. G.H. T. Leadership Scale. We found support for the five-factor structure of R.I. G.H. T. leadership. Moreover, we observed a positive association between R.I. G.H. T. leadership and mental health mediated by psychological safety at work. The scale developed in this study can be used in future research involving leadership and mental health.
Multi-compartment kinetic–allometric (MCKA) model of radionuclide bioaccumulation in marine fish

Abstract. A model of the radionuclide accumulation in fish taking into account the contribution of different tissues and allometry is presented. The basic model assumptions are as follows. (i) A fish organism is represented by several compartments in which radionuclides are homogeneously distributed. (ii) The compartments correspond to three groups of organs or tissues: muscle, bones and organs (kidney, liver, gonads, etc.) differing in metabolic function. (iii) Two input compartments include gills absorbing contamination from water and digestive tract through which contaminated food is absorbed. (iv) The absorbed radionuclide is redistributed between organs or tissues according to their metabolic functions. (v) The elimination of assimilated elements from each group of organs or tissues differs, reflecting differences in specific tissues or organs in which elements were accumulated. (vi) The food and water uptake rates, elimination rate, and growth rate depend on the metabolic rate, which is scaled by fish mass to the 3 / 4 power. The analytical solutions of the system of model equations describing dynamics of the assimilation and elimination of 134 Cs, 57 Co, 60 Co, 54 Mn and 65 Zn, which are preferably accumulated in different tissues, exhibited good agreement with the laboratory experiments. The developed multi-compartment kinetic–allometric model was embedded into the box model POSEIDON-R (Maderich et al., 2018b), which describes transport of radionuclides in water, accumulation in the sediment and transfer of radionuclides through the pelagic and benthic food webs. The POSEIDON-R model was applied for the simulation of the transport and fate of 60 Co and 54 Mn routinely released from Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) located on the Baltic Sea coast of Sweden and for calculation of 90 Sr concentration in fish after the accident at Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP. Computed concentrations of radionuclides in fish agree with the measurements much better than calculated using standard whole-body model and target tissue model. The model with the defined generic parameters could be used in different marine environments without calibration based on a posteriori information, which is important for emergency decision support systems.
Improving Feedlot Profitability Using Operational Data in Mortality Prediction Modeling

Feedlot managers make difficult culling decisions using their best subjective judgment together with advice from animal health professionals. Using routinely collected operational feedlot data and five well-known classification methods, we construct mortality predictive models to aid managers in making objective culling decisions. Simulation results suggest that net return per head for calves having been treated at least once for any health incident would increase on average by $14.01 if the best-performing model were used as a culling decision aid. The probability of a positive return is 60.9%. Using cost-sensitive learning, the average value may increase to $45.27/head.
Aerial Base Station Assisted Cellular Communication: Performance and Trade-Off

The use of Aerial Base Stations (ABSs) has received a great deal of attention in academia and industry as a means to support the cellular communication traffic growth. In this article, we focus on obtaining the optimal altitude of an ABS using two criteria - maximum cell coverage area and minimum Symbol Error Rate (SER). Our study is done by using a probabilistic air-to-ground channel model, developed for low altitude aerial platforms via simulations on a commercial ray tracing software, for different scenarios like Urban High Rise, Urban, and Suburban. The probability distributions of the received power of the ground users and of the power delay profile at optimal ABS altitude are provided as a function of the size of the cell area. For the SER analysis, we present a system model based on Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing (GFDM), in a time-frequency grid that is compatible with Long Term Evolution, by implementing parameters for low latency communication at the physical layer. The impact of “Better than Nyquist” pulses on the GFDM system is evaluated in terms of SER performance. From the presented results, a significant improvement is demonstrated compared to the traditional Nyquist pulses.
Compact Coprocessor for KEM Saber: Novel Scalable Matrix Originated Processing

Recent advance in the quantum computing field has initiated a new round of cryptosystem innovation as the existing public-key cryptosystems are proven to be vulnerable against the attacks launched from a mature quantum computer. Along with this innovation, several types of cryptographic algorithms have been proposed for possible post-quantum cryptography (PQC) candidates, where the lattice-based key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) Saber is one of the promising cryptosystems. Noticing that the recent trend in the field has switched more on the efficient implementation of PQC algorithms, in this paper, we propose to present a novel compact coprocessor for KEM Saber on the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) platform. Particularly, the proposed strategy aims to obtain a generic method suits for different security levels of Saber with flexible processing styles yet with low-complexity. In total, we have carried out four layers of major innovations to finalize the proposed work: (i) we have formulated and derived a Scalable Matrix Originated Processing (SMOP) strategy for the main computation-intensive operation, i.e., polynomial multiplication, of the mentioned KEM Saber in a general format; (ii) we have then presented the details of the SMOP strategy based polynomial multiplication algorithm including the algorithmic operation and structural/implementational innovation with respect to the Saber PQC scheme; (iii) we have also followed the existing coprocessor design process to build a new compact coprocessor for KEM Saber deploying the proposed polynomial multiplication architecture based on novel algorithm-architecture co-implementation techniques, along with other important building blocks; (iv) we have also finally given thorough complexity analysis and comparison to demonstrate the superior efficiency of the proposed compact coprocessor (including the polynomial multiplication architecture) over the state-of-the-art solutions. The proposed design strategy and the coprocessor are highly efficient: (a) ultra low-complexity; (b) flexible processing rate; (c) structural generic; and (d) suitable for practical lightweight application environments. To the authors’ best knowledge, this is the FIRST paper on compact based implementation for the KEM Saber in a generic format. The outcome of this work is expected to be useful reference for further development and related standardization for KEM Saber.
Father Presence, Father Engagement, and Child Outcomes in Mongolia

This study explored father involvement as a social determinant of child health within the context of macro-environmental changes in Mongolia. Using data for children aged 3-4 from UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, this cross-sectional analysis examined the association between father presence and engagement with child health and educational outcomes. Multivariate regression modeling was employed to identify associations between father presence, engagement, and child outcomes including fever, respiratory illness, diarrhea and preschool attendance. In unadjusted analyses, father engagement was associated with higher odds of pre-school attendance (OR=1.12; 95% CI 1.04-1.20) but not with child illness (OR=1.04; 95% CI 0.95-1.14). Father engagement was no longer associated with pre-school attendance after controlling for potentially confounding variables (ORadj = 0.95; 95% CI 0.88-1.03). Unadjusted and adjusted analyses showed that father presence was not associated with acute illness or preschool attendance. Results also suggest that a larger proportion of children were engaged in activities by their mother compared to their father or other adults. Data indicate that father presence and engagement were not associated with child illness or pre-school attendance. Factors such as maternal education, household wealth, and region of residence are stronger predictors of preschool attendance and should continue to be considered for promoting child health and development in Mongolia.
SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF KETO-ENOL EQUILIBRIA

rlicyano esters show an absorption band around 245 mp in alcoholic solutions which is not found in non-polar and other polar solvents. This anolnalous behavior has been found to be due to the unusual solvent clepenclence of the equilibrium between the keto ancl el101 forms. The intensity of the absorption band in alcoholic solutions decreases with increase in concentration of the 1,2-dicyano ester, indicating association of the en01 form. The keto-enol equilibrium is also found to be sensitive to the substitucnt R of the alcohol ROM.
Future Paths of Electric Vehicle Adoption in the United States: Predictable Determinants, Obstacles, and Opportunities

This paper identifies and quantifies major determinants of future electric vehicle demand to inform widely held aspirations for market growth. Our model compares three channels that will affect electric vehicle market share in the United States from 2020 to 2035: intrinsic (no-subsidy) electric vehicle demand growth, net-of-subsidy electric vehicle cost declines (e.g., batteries), and government subsidies. Geographic variation in preferences for sedans and light trucks highlights the importance of viable electric vehicle alternatives to conventional light trucks; belief in climate change is highly correlated with electric vehicle adoption patterns; and the first $500 billion in cumulative nationwide electric vehicle subsidies is associated a 7%–10% increase in electric vehicle market share in 2035, an effect that diminishes as subsidies increase. The rate of intrinsic demand growth dwarfs the impact of demand-side subsidies and battery cost declines, highlighting the importance of nonmonetary factors (e.g., charging infrastructure, product quality, and/or cultural acceptance) on electric vehicle demand.
COVID-19 Lockdown Education: The Importance of Structure in a Suddenly Changed Learning Environment

In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, which resulted in global lockdowns. As a result, education could no longer be provided in its current form and was therefore provided online. This study discusses the consequences of online instruction in secondary education and how students perceived this new way of learning. Specifically, this research focuses on how online education was facilitated, how this differs from regular education and how students and teachers experienced these practices. In this study, qualitative and quantitative data were collected from teachers and students. Our findings revealed that the students were missing a proper structure in the lessons. There was a decline in the understanding and enjoyment by students in all courses. This study also shows that the variety of instructional strategies that the teachers used increased during the lockdown period. However, teachers were lacking in other aspects that define good instruction. Moreover, teacher data demonstrate that the teachers needed guidance from the schoolboard. It is remarkable that the schoolboard plays a key role in improving this situation. This research suggests that if the schoolboard provides guidelines on planning education, teachers could focus more on other aspects of a good instruction.
Rushmore: securely displaying static and animated images using TrustZone

We present Rushmore, a system that securely displays static or animated images using TrustZone. The core functionality of Rushmore is to securely decrypt and display encrypted images (sent by a trusted party) on a mobile device. Although previous approaches have shown that it is possible to securely display encrypted images using TrustZone, they exhibit a critical limitation that significantly hampers the applicability of using TrustZone for display security. The limitation is that, when the trusted domain of TrustZone (the secure world) takes control of the display, the untrusted domain (the normal world) cannot display anything simultaneously. This limitation comes from the fact that previous approaches give the secure world exclusive access to the display hardware to preserve security. With Rushmore, we overcome this limitation by leveraging a well-known, yet overlooked hardware feature called an IPU (Image Processing Unit) that provides multiple display channels. By partitioning these channels across the normal world and the secure world, we enable the two worlds to simultaneously display pixels on the screen without sacrificing security. Furthermore, we show that with the right type of cryptographic method, we can decrypt and display encrypted animated images at 30 FPS or higher for medium-to-small images and at around 30 FPS for large images. One notable cryptographic method we adapt for Rushmore is visual cryptography, and we demonstrate that it is a light-weight alternative to other cryptographic methods for certain use cases. Our evaluation shows that in addition to providing usable frame rates, Rushmore incurs less than 5% overhead to the applications running in the normal world.
A New Set of 32 Inequivalent Hadamard Matrices of Order 404 of Goethals-Seidel Type

This research introduces a new set of 32 in-equivalent Hadamard matrices of order 404 of Goethals Seidel type. To apply the Goethals Seidel method, four Turyn type sequences of lengths 34 are found by a computer search. These sequences are used to construct base sequences of lengths 67 and are used to generate a set of four T-sequences of length 101. There were 16 possible ways of the linear combinations of these Tsequences and 1820 possible ways of choosing four sequences. Among them only 32 possible choices gave the new set of in-equivalent Hadamard matrices of order 404. © 2014 Elixir All rights reserved ARTIC LE INF O Article h istory: Received: 27 September 2013; Received in revised form: 29 March 2014; Accepted: 16 April 2014;
Global peatlands under future climate – seamless model projections from the Last Glacial Maximum

Abstract. Peatlands are diverse wetland ecosystems distributed mostly over the northern latitudes and tropics. Globally they store a large portion of the global soil organic carbon and provide important ecosystem services. The future of these systems under continued anthropogenic warming and direct human disturbance has potentially large impacts on atmospheric CO2 and climate. We performed global long term projections of peatland area and carbon over the next 5000 years using a dynamic global vegetation model forced with climate anomalies from ten models of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) and three scenarios. These projections are continued from a transient simulation from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present to account for the full transient history. Our results suggest short to long term net losses of global peatland area and carbon, with higher losses under higher emission scenarios. Large parts of today's active northern peatlands are at risk. Conditions for peatlands in the tropics and, in case of mitigation, eastern Asia and western north America improve. Factorial simulations reveal committed historical changes and future rising temperature as the main driver of future peatland loss and increasing precipitations as driver for regional peatland expansion. Additional simulations forced with two CMIP6 scenarios extended transiently beyond 2100, show qualitatively similar results to the standard scenarios, but highlight the importance of extended future scenarios for long term carbon cycle projections. The spread between simulations forced with different climate model anomalies suggests a large uncertainty in projected peatland variables due to uncertain climate forcing. Our study highlights the importance of quantifying the future peatland feedback to the climate system and its inclusion into future earth system model projections.
Effect of therapeutic horseback riding on self-esteem and physical self-efficacy of college women

Therapeutic horseback riding, a term which takes into account the relationship formed with the horse both while riding and on the ground, has been widely accepted among the professionals in the therapeutic field. Purpose: The present study was developed to determine how 10 weeks of horseback riding programme can have an effect on self-esteem and physical self-efficacy on college women. Subjects: Thirty women were divided into the horseback riding exercise and control group (n = 15 each. Methods: The exercise was performed for 15 minutes, 3 times per week for 10 weeks. Post-exercise evaluation was performed after 10 weeks. Results: t test revealed significant mean difference from pre to post test score on self-esteem and physical self-efficacy on college women. Conclusion: self-esteem and physical self-efficacy improved in college women after 10 week Therapeutic horseback riding programme.
Secondhand Cigarette Smoke Exposure Pattern, Knowledge, Attitude and Perception of Harm amongst Non-Smokers in Sokoto Metropolis, Nigeria

Background: Cigarette smoke contains many carcinogens, and the negative health consequences associated with cigarette smoking are shared and suffered by the passive non-smokers. Objective: To assess secondhand smoke exposure pattern and knowledge, attitude and perception of exposure harm among non-Smokers in Sokoto metropolis. Material and Methods: We conducted a populationbased descriptive cross-sectional study among 400 non-smokers. We used a two-stage sampling technique to select respondents and an intervieweradministered questionnaire to collect data through personal interview. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 23.0. Mean, and standard deviation was calculated for continuous data, frequency and percentage for categorical data and multiple J Environ Sci Public Health 2021;5 (2):281-295 DOI: 10.26502/jesph.96120130 Journal of Environmental Science and Public Health 282 dichotomy analysis for variables where multiple responses were allowed. Results: Respondents’ mean age was 44.3 ± 4.7 years. Most, 299 (74.8%) were male, and less than half, 169 (42.5%), had tertiary education. More than half, 278 (69.4%) have had different form and level of exposure to secondhand smoke. A majority, 252 (63.0%) demonstrated good knowledge of exposure harm towards secondhand smoke. Lungs and heart were the most frequently mentioned organs affected by cigarette smoke, while Lung cancer and exacerbation of asthmatic attack were the most frequently cited ailment following exposure. Majority, 262 (65.4%), expressed appropriate attitude and perception to exposure harms, as 261 (68.1%) of the respondents perceived that breathing even small amount can be dangerous. Conclusion: Although many demonstrated good knowledge and expressed appropriate attitudes and perception to exposure harm of secondhand smoke, a large number experienced moderate to heavy exposure. Smoking in public places is a prevalent practice, therefore we recommend that the government should ensure that the law prohibiting smoking in public spaces are enforced.
The source of individual heterogeneity shapes infectious disease outbreaks

There is known heterogeneity between individuals in infectious disease transmission patterns. The source of this heterogeneity is thought to affect epidemiological dynamics but studies tend not to control for the overall heterogeneity in the number of secondary cases caused by an infection. To explore the role of individual variation in infection duration and transmission rate in parasite emergence and spread, while controlling for this potential bias, we simulate stochastic outbreaks with and without parasite evolution. As expected, heterogeneity in the number of secondary cases decreases the probability of outbreak emergence. Furthermore, for epidemics that do emerge, assuming more realistic infection duration distributions leads to faster outbreaks and higher epidemic peaks. When parasites require adaptive mutations to cause large epidemics, the impact of heterogeneity depends on the underlying evolutionary model. If emergence relies on within-host evolution, decreasing the infection duration variance decreases the probability of emergence. These results underline the importance of accounting for realistic distributions of transmission rates to anticipate the effect of individual heterogeneity on epidemiological dynamics.
AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD SCIENCE

Soil hydraulic properties play an important role in determining the level of crop productivity and the extent of environmental loading. Consequently, measurement of near-saturated soil hydraulic conductivity (K(h)) by tension infiltrometer (TI) is an interesting technique. To provide reference values for near-saturated K(h) in arable mineral topsoils of Finland and to investigate variability in these values caused by tillage, antecedent soil moisture content and earthworm burrows, field measurements were conducted in south-western and central-eastern Finland using the TI technique, at supply pressure head –6, –3, and –1 cm. The range of near-saturated K(h) values obtained was 0.02–12.6 mm h-1 at –6 cm, 0.30–85.9 mm h-1 at –3 cm, and 2.55–250 mm h-1 at –1 cm. At –6 cm pressure head, clay soils tended to show lower values than coarser-structured soils, but the order was reversed at –1 cm. The spatial variation in near-saturated K(h) was moderate and was exceeded by the temporal variation.