Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Roles of Indulgence versus Restraint Culture and Ability to Savor the Moment in the Link between Income and Subjective Well-Being

Over the past few decades, various academic fields have reported contradictory findings regarding whether income is positively or negatively associated with subjective well-being (SWB). To reconcile the inconclusive observations, researchers tend to use various mediators and moderators that could explain why income is more strongly associated with SWB for certain groups of people and why income could be negatively associated with SWB for other groups. This study endeavored to first test additional mediation roles of financial satisfaction and a sense of control in the link between income and three related yet distinct measures of SWB: life satisfaction, happiness, and emotional well-being (EWB), at both cross-national and individual levels. We further investigated the direct and moderating impacts of national difference in Indulgence versus Restraint (IVR) cultural orientations over two mediating mechanisms (income → financial satisfaction → SWB; income → a sense of control → SWB) using data from 49,097 participants in the 2017–2020 World Values Survey. Additionally, we conducted a moderated mediation analysis of individual difference in ability to savor the moment (ASM) for these two mediating mechanisms based on surveys with 796 respondents from China. Analyses at both national level and individual level confirmed the partial mediating roles of financial satisfaction and a sense of control. We further find a positive, direct impact of IVR on SWB such that people in more indulgence cultures report a higher SWB than those in more restraint cultures. The mediating effects of financial satisfaction were found to be weaker in more indulgence cultures than in more restraint ones, while the mediating effects of a sense of control remain the same. Finally, we find that individuals’ ASM does not only directly lead to a higher SWB, but also amplifies the mediation impact of financial satisfaction in the link between income and life satisfaction and in the link between income and EWB. Implications of these findings are offered for public policy makers, employers, and citizens, as well as researchers from different fields.
The Effect of Competence and Career Development on Employee Interest in Certain Functional Positions with Compensation as Intervening Variable

The problem that occurs are there is lack of still ASN to understanding about JFT, and the formation of ASN placement is still not in accordance with JFT competencies. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of competence on the interest of employees at JFT, Career Development influences the interest of JFT employees, the effect of competence on compensation. The study was quantitative research , the data collection methods are documentation and questionnaires. Data analysis used Partial Least Square (PLS), the samples of this research are Secretariat General Employees of the Ministry of Religion of the Republic of Indonesia. The results of the research show that competence has a positive effect on employee interest, career development has a positive effect on employee interest, competence has a positive effect on competence has a positive effect on compensation for employees of the Secretariat General of the Ministry of Religion of the Republic of Indonesia Keywords: Career Development, Compensation, Employee Interest
Interactive Games Using Hand-Eye Coordination Method for Autistic Children Therapy

Recent studies have found that imbalanced motor skills (hand-eye coordination) among autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autistic children cause lower efficiency in daily routines. Autistic children need long-term rehabilitation programs to improve their abilities. However, problems with a lack of motivation to participate in conventional therapy and the high cost of therapy sessions arise over time. Autism children need to do repetitive activities every time therapy sessions been done. Repetitive activities cause children having less interest to participate ongoing therapy sessions. Other than that, the therapy process usually requires a long time to be implemented that cause the relatively high cost had to be paid by the patient's family. The use of technology is seen more effective and less boring for child with autism. However, the use of games technology require gamer to hold game controller. Proposals for motion-based touchless games using NUI technology, such as the Kinect Xbox 360, to be used in rehabilitation are exciting for patients, but the design elements do not meet the requirements of autistic people. Hence, this research proposes a Kinect game based on design elements for autistic rehabilitation. The objective of this research is to identify symptom of eye-hand coordination problem and develop serious game using Kinect technology as the solution for the problem faced by autism children. This technology provides a low-budget solution costs of therapy and games base on 3D sensor without the use of control equipment which must be hold or touch by hand. Moreover, Kinect does not need a controller or additional body-worn attachment during play time. A game prototype was developed and measured, and an evaluation resulted in positive feedback from the user and therapists, thus meeting the objective of this study.
Kidney Failure among Patients with Takotsubo Syndrome or Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Analysis

Background: Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is a syndrome with ambiguous pathophysiology. Impaired kidney function (KF) seems to impact the outcome of patients with TTS. We hypothesized that KF worsens the outcome among TTS patients and furthermore, TTS patients with concomitant KF experience more adverse events compared to myocardial infarction (MI) patients with concomitant KF. Methods and Results: This retrospective single-center study comprised two groups (cohorts) of patients including patients with TTS and concomitant KF (n = 61, 27.1%) and patients with MI and concomitant KF (n = 164, 72.9%). The clinical outcomes were delineated as short-term outcomes defined as in-hospital adverse events during index hospitalization and long-term outcomes defined as adverse events over five-year clinical follow-ups. All-cause mortality, stroke, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), life-threatening arrhythmias, need for respiratory support, and cardiogenic shock with subsequent use of inotropic agents during index hospitalization were denoted as in-hospital adverse events. All-cause mortality, rehospitalization due to heart failure, stroke, thromboembolic events, and the recurrence of primary pathology (TTS and MI) were analyzed during five-year follow-ups after index hospitalization. A higher mortality rate was noted among TTS patients with KF compared to TTS without KF. In addition, in-hospital event rates in patients with TTS and concomitant KF compared to MI and concomitant KF were comparable with the exception of a higher rate of respiratory support in TTS patients. The mortality rate was significantly higher among patients with TTS and KF at 4 years (29.5% vs. 15.9%, p = 0.02) and 5 years (34.4% vs. 20.7%, p = 0.03) in comparison to patients with MI and concomitant KF. In contrast, the rate of re-hospitalization related to heart failure was higher at 30 days, and at one-, four-, and five-year follow-ups in patients suffering from MI and KF compared to TTS and concomitant KF. Additionally, the recurrence of MI after 4 and 5 years was higher than the recurrence of TTS (4.9% vs. 15.2%; 4.9% vs. 16.5%). There were no differences in life-threatening arrhythmias and stroke in both groups. Conclusions: Patients with TTS and concomitant KF have higher all-cause mortality when compared to MI and concomitant KF. The mechanisms responsible remain to be determined.
Experimental evaluation of using BLE beacon for outdoor positioning in GPS-denied environment

Abstract. Although Global Positioning System (GPS) is widely used in outdoor location-based services, it still lacks precision due to obstacles that reduce its performance, such as near tall buildings, with bad weather conditions, and under tree canopies. In some situations, inaccurate localization or delay in getting location locks can adversely affect some location-based services’ functionality. Furthermore, it might make these services less efficient or even completely useless, especially when the receiver device has no SIM card or when the service requires a precision higher than three meters. As a solution to this issue, this study designs, develops, and evaluates a prototype location-based system that uses Bluetooth Low Energy beacons for short-range positioning in outdoor environments as a GPS alternative. The proposed system is a game that includes navigational tasks, which can be accomplished by reaching the proximity of two meters from the beacon’s location. The study involved conducting an experiment outdoors with a focus on areas where GPS signals are degraded to assess our proposed system’s efficiency and feasibility compared to the usage of GPS. The results proved BLE beacons’ ability to provide better positioning results than GPS, not only in terms of accuracy but also in terms of stability of positioning results over time. Based on the findings, the study outlines a set of guidelines to be considered in choosing a suitable positioning technology.
Plastic Fiber Optics Simulations

Plastic fiber optics media is viable for small networks. The current applications include data distribution in aircraft and automobiles. Plastic fiber systems being an order of magnitude less expensive than silica fiber optic systems and being more robust have applications in other traditional data communication systems. In this paper, we present the simulation results for possible applications for a high-rise office buildings and premises distribution architectures. The signal to noise ratio for optical rates up to 2.5 Gb/s and for link lengths up to 5 km are reported, even though the signal level becomes too low for the PIN diodes. The quality of components affects the performance dramatically and their impact is reported. Experimental results are scarce in the literature for either of the two (PMMA and PF) categories of commercial plastic fibers. The simulations are focused for the PMMA plastic fiber to offer a window and envision other applications for this new breed of optical fibers.
Diagnostic Tests for the Necessity of Weight in Regression With Survey Data

To weight or not to weight in regression analyses with survey data has been debated in the literature. The problem is essentially a tradeoff between the bias and the variance of the regression coefficient estimator. An array of diagnostic tests for informative weights have been developed. Nonetheless, studies comparing the performance of the tests, especially for finite samples, are scarce, and the theoretical equivalence of some tests has not been investigated. Focusing on the linear regression setting, we review a collection of such tests and propose enhanced versions of some of them that require an auxiliary regression model for the weight. Further, the equivalence of two popular tests is established which has not been reported before. In contrast to existing reviews with no empirical comparison, we compare the sizes and powers of the tests in simulation studies. The reviewed tests are applied to a regression analysis of the family expenditure using the data from the China Family Panel Study.
A Switched Control Strategy of Heterogeneous Vehicle Platoon for Multiple Objectives With State Constraints

Vehicle safety, passenger comfort, formation control, and fuel economy are the major objectives in the cooperative adaptive cruise control of intelligent vehicles. However, almost none of the current literature takes all of the above objectives into comprehensive consideration. In this paper, a switched control strategy of heterogeneous vehicle platoon for multiple objectives with state constraints is proposed, in which the above four major objectives are all taken into account. To achieve the four major objectives, the distributed model predictive control with multiple objectives (DMPCMO) is proposed. To solve the problem that the DMPCMO controller cannot be achieved because of the inappropriate initial states of the vehicle platoon or the large perturbations in front of the platoon, the safety controller acting as the emergency brake to guarantee vehicle safety is also designed. The switch between the DMPCMO controller and the safety controller forms the switched control strategy of heterogeneous vehicle platoon for multiple objectives (SCSHPM). Since the DMPCMO controller has to be obtained by solving the nonlinear DMPCMO problem, in order to reduce the computational burden as much as possible, the DMPCMO problem is transformed into non-negative and non-positive 0–1 mixed integer linear programming problems after the fuel consumption table is constructed and calculated off-line. Finally, extensive experiments of heterogeneous platoon under different communication topologies are performed in simulation to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed SCSHPM.
Analysis of Consequent-Pole Flux Reversal Permanent Magnet Machine With Biased Flux Modulation Theory

This paper proposes a consequent-pole flux reversal machine (CP-FRM) with biased flux modulation theory, which employs homopolar permanent magnets (PMs) placed between the adjacent stator poles. The machine topology is introduced from the perspective of FRM with a shifted magnet position and CP arrangement, and the performance comparison between the proposed CP-FRM and its original surface-mounted PM (SPM) counterpart is presented to highlight the torque improvement of the CP structure. Then, a simplified permeance model is applied to the CP-FRM to identify the principal effective air-gap field harmonics engaging in the torque productions. It shows that the CP-FRM works based on a biased flux modulation effect due to its asymmetric air-gap field distribution caused by the CP configuration, which unveils its underlying torque improvement mechanism over its SPM-FRM counterpart. In order to obtain the highest torque capability, the key design parameters are analytically optimized by analyzing the winding configuration, which aids the establishment of a general design guideline for the CP-FRM. The analytical and FE results are validated by experiments.
Factors Associated with Subjective Well-Being of Chinese Adolescents Aged 10–15: Based on China Family Panel Studies

(1) Background: This study aimed to explore the factors associated with the subjective well-being (SWB) of Chinese adolescents from a more comprehensive perspective and to analyze the importance of its influencing factors. (2) Methods: Obtained from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) 2018, the research data involved 2316 adolescents aged 10–15. By using the Chi-square test, t-test and binary logistic regression, we investigated the associations of individual-, family- and community-level factors with SWB in Chinese adolescents. To explore the rank of the influencing factors of SWB, the random forest model was set up. (3) Results: In individual-level factors, girls, who were adolescents with higher academic performance and school satisfaction, with the habit of midday napping and reading books, and with higher self-esteem, had a higher SWB. In family-level factors, mothers living at home resulted in a higher SWB, while quarrelling with their parents led to low SWB. In community-level factors, adolescents with better social relationships, social trust and who were better at telling their troubles to others had a higher SWB. Based on the random forest model, the importance degree was ranked, and the top five were decided, including self-esteem (89.949), social relations (43.457), academic performance (31.971), school satisfaction (27.651) and quarrelling with parents (19.026). (4) Conclusions: Self-esteem, social relations, academic performance, school satisfaction and quarrelling with parents are all important variables that are related to the SWB of Chinese adolescents.
Shared autonomy for low‐cost underwater vehicles

This field report presents an overview of the development and testing of a semi‐autonomous underwater vehicle (sAUV). The work presented here is aimed at bridging the gap between current remotely operated vehicles and autonomous research platforms by developing shared autonomy capabilities for low‐cost underwater vehicles. We use commercially available components and open‐source software interfaces to provide a wider range of capabilities for underwater autonomy research at a lower cost than previously available systems. We describe the overall structure of the system, discuss its capabilities, and provide results demonstrating system performance. We place particular emphasis on shared autonomy, where a human operator is assisted in controlling an underwater tethered vehicle. We present three capabilities developed for the sAUV: (a) an assisted control mode that provides a variable level of assistance using an on‐line estimate of user skill level, (b) a planner to generate paths that avoid tether entanglement, and (c) a sonar processing algorithm that identifies informative sonar images for selecting features for 3D scene reconstruction. The vehicle has been deployed on five off‐shore and near‐shore marine field deployments since 2015, and this report includes selected results from four of those trials to demonstrate the capabilities and limitations of the sAUV system.
Anisotropic-Wormhole-Network Generation in Carbonate Acidizing and Wormhole-Model Analysis Through Averaged-Continuum Simulations

The optimal design of matrix-acidizing operations in carbonate reservoirs is a discussion in progress. Although several models are available to the industry for predicting wormhole propagation, most of them are not sufficiently practical to be used in real treatment designs, or they were developed to represent coreflood data and cannot be simply scaled up to represent wormhole formation in complex well geometries. This problem is addressed by Furui's wormhole-propagation model (Furui et al. 2012a), which is a modification of the Buijse and Glasbergen (2005) empirical correlation, including a scaleup procedure to represent field carbonate-acidizing operations using laboratory coreflood data. It is a practical engineering tool that can be used for treatment designs in horizontal wells, including barefoot and perforation-cluster completions in fairly isotropic and homogeneous reservoirs. In this work, an analysis of Furui's model is performed, including the effect of anisotropy (x, y, z permeability) in the carbonate reservoir. The analysis includes both radial and elliptical wormhole propagation that forms from an openhole completion, and the spherical or ellipsoidal wormhole propagation that emerges from each perforation in a perforation-cluster completion that makes the use of a limited-entry technique for achieving an acceptable acid placement. The development is made using extensive 3D numerical simulations with a two-scale continuum model and a finite-volume method to represent the dissolution of the porous medium. The numerical model is tuned to represent real results through matching experimental coreflood data and dissolution patterns. Conclusions are obtained regarding both isotropic and anisotropic formations. In isotropic formations with the radial propagation of wormholes, simulations indicate that a number from four to six wormholes propagates radially in each plane. When the propagation is spherical, simulations result in a number from 16 to 24 wormholes, propagating spherically from the point of acid injection. In anisotropic formations, the radial stimulated zone might become an elliptical stimulated zone, depending on the acid-injection rate and the permeability-heterogeneity magnitude. The major axis of the elliptical stimulated zone coincides with the direction of a higher permeability and a longer permeability-correlation length, and it is longer for larger acid-injection rates. In the same manner, the spherical wormhole-propagation pattern might become an ellipsoidal stimulated zone in anisotropic formations.
The Current Contexts of Newly Graduated Nurses’ Competence: A Content Analysis

Producing and sustaining a competent nursing workforce is imperative to protect the public. Identifying current issues and trends in nursing competence can strengthen insights and provide direction for the future nursing workforce. A summative content analysis was performed; PubMed, CINAHL, and Scopus were searched for content from the last ten years. A total of 3225 titles and abstracts regarding nursing competence were identified and analysed using the big-data analysis software Leximancer. Five themes were discovered from the analysis: (1) standardisation of nursing competencies with emerging competencies, (2) assessment competency levels, (3) graduates’ expectations and achievement, (4) safe and quality practice with teamwork, and (5) competency curriculum development. This found standardised nursing competencies, which suggests prioritising which core competencies should be focused on during education to produce competent generalist professional nurses, and employers could help nursing graduates improve their competence in specialised areas. This review also suggests that further education strategies should be developed to better prepare graduates for culturally safe practice to meet the needs of diverse minority populations and for informatics competency during the COVID-19 pandemic. Competence assessment methods must be extensively investigated to measure nursing competencies both longitudinally and cross-sectionally.
Experience and Perception of Patients and Healthcare Professionals on Acute Leukemia in Rwanda: A Qualitative Study

Purpose To explore challenges associated with the timely diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis of acute leukemia in Rwanda. Methods This is a qualitative study using a phenomenological approach that involved patients, patients’ guardians, and healthcare professionals such as physicians from district hospitals and specialists from referral hospitals, as well as healthcare administrators. The primary data were collected from district and referral hospitals and central healthcare administration in Rwanda. The data were collected between July and October 2019. In-depth interviews were conducted, and thematic analysis was employed to interpret the results. Results We identified barriers to seeking healthcare such as (i) insufficient knowledge within the population may lead patients and their guardians to consult traditional healers before seeking qualified medical care, and (ii) financial constraints that preclude payment of healthcare fees or other out-of-pocket cost related to diagnosis and treatment. We also observed that the referral system is tedious and primary healthcare facilities lack the competence and resources for the necessary diagnostic practices. Both may further delay diagnosis and therapy. Accordingly, healthcare professionals at the referral hospitals stated that most patients were seen at an advanced stage of the disease. For the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), only chemotherapy is utilized in Rwanda, while bone marrow (BM) transplantation is not available. Palliation is the only available treatment for the vast majority of Rwandan acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients. Conclusion ALL and AML are likely under-reported in Rwanda and diagnosis may be delayed, which may be explained by patient-related factors (lack of knowledge, financial constraints), a tedious referral system, and suboptimal diagnostic resources.