Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Relationship Between Economic Status, Infectious Diseases and Urinary Iodine Excretion with Stunting Incidence of Elementary School Children in IDD Endemic Areas, Enrekang Regency

This study aimed to determine the relationship of economic status, infectious diseases, and Urinary Iodine Excretion (UIE) with the incidence of stunting in elementary school children in IDD endemic areas, Enrekang Regency. This research was an observational analytic study with a cross-sectional approach. Subjects in this study were taken by purposive sampling as many as 100 children aged 6-12 years. Research data were collected using a questionnaire, microtoise, and UIE Lab Test and then processed using the chi-square test. The results showed that the proportion of stunting was 72.2% and normal was 28.0%, the low family economy was 82.0%, infectious disease was 79.0%, and low urinary iodine deficiency was 21.0%. The chi-square test showed that there was a significant relationship between economic status (p=0.045) and infectious diseases (p=0.012) with the incidence of stunting, but there was no relationship between UIE and stunting (p=1,000). The economic status of parents and a history of infectious diseases contribute to the incidence of stunting. Modification of parents' crops by harvesting crops in a short time is recommended to increase family income and increasing children's healthy and clean behaviour is considered necessary to prevent infectious diseases.
Real-Time Wrist Motion Decoding With High Framerate Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT)

Human wrist motion decoding with a biological-signal-based interface is a key technique in the upper-limb exoskeleton and prosthesis control. One critical issue in this field is achieving high recognition precision and fast time response while against external disturbances of sensor re-wearing. In this study, we proposed a high-framerate Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) system combined with an adaptive recognition algorithm for real-time wrist kinematics decoding. The high-framerate EIT system was developed by a parallel stimulation-measurement sequence, and the sampling rate was as high as 104 Hz. Compared to the most widely used myoelectric techniques, the EIT-based interface can provide extra deep muscular spatial information with similar surface electrodes. It greatly benefited the subsequent recognition algorithms, in which the key EIT regions indicating muscle morphology kept consistent after an arbitrary sensor re-donning. The designed adaptive algorithm achieved equally high performance with an automatic update of the classifier mean values with a fast self-operated calibration process. We validated the approach on 12 subjects with a 2-dimensional Fitts’ law test. The wrist gestures and joint angles were mapped to the direction and speed of the cursor movement, respectively. The average throughputs (TPs) of Fitts’ law tests were 1.0269 ± 0.0971 bits/s and 1.0095 ± 0.0931 bits/s without and with sensor re-donning, respectively, which were comparable to the TPs of sEMG-based studies. The results showed the promise of the EIT-based interface on real-time human motion intent recognition. Future endeavors are worth being paid in this direction for more complicated robotic tasks.
The intersecting associations between race and ethnicity, skin color, and perceived unfair treatment by police

Abstract This study examines the association between self-identified race and ethnicity, perceived skin color, and ever being unfairly stopped, searched, or questioned by police among a nationally representative sample of Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and other groups. Results show that Non-Latino Blacks and Latinos are more likely to experience unfair police treatment compared with non-Latino Whites. Respondents with medium brown, dark brown, or black skin tones are more likely to report unfair treatment by police than those with white skin. Darker skin is consequential within Latinos, although Black respondents (regardless of color) are among those most likely to experience unfair police treatment.
Role of slip and fracture in the oscillating flow of HDPE in a capillary

Certain polymers exhibit two distinct branches in their capillary flow curves (wall shear stress versus apparent wall shear rate). This gives rise to oscillatory flow in constant‐piston‐speed rheometers and to flow curve hysteresis in controlled‐pressure rheometers. These curious phenomena have attracted considerable interest over a period of many years, but their basic mechanisms are still the subject of debate. Building on previous work we have developed a model that predicts all the essential features of the curves of pressure and flow rate versus time in the oscillatory flow regime. Fluid compressibility and the second branch of the flow curve are necessary features of the model, but fluid elasticity is found not to be an essential element. While our macroscopic measurements do not prove it conclusively, our data lead us to believe that on the high‐flow‐rate branch of the flow curve there is slip along a cylindrical fracture surface near the wall. The jump to the high‐flow branch occurs when this fracture occurs, at an upper critical value of the shear stress, while the jump back to the low‐flow branch occurs when adhesion is established at the fracture surface at a lower critical shear stress.
Seismic Response Analysis of the Planar Rocking Frame

AbstractUnlike conventional seismic design, the columns of a rocking frame are designed to uplift and pivot during earthquake excitation. This paper investigates, analytically and numerically, the seismic response of a rocking frame with columns unequal in height (asymmetric), which are either freestanding or hybrid, i.e., enhanced with supplemental damping and recentering capacity. The paper establishes the equations of motion following the principles of analytical dynamics. Throughout the study, the deformation of the structural members is considered negligible. The analysis considers both pulse-type and non-pulse-type (historic) ground motions. It shows that the effect of asymmetry on the seismic stability of the rocking frame is marginal compared with the symmetric configuration, despite the very different kinematics of the corresponding rocking mechanisms. In contrast, the seismic stability of the hybrid rocking frame is very sensitive to fracture elongation of the supplemental restoring (tendons) an.
Disappearance of Plaque Following Treatment with Antioxidants in Peyronie’s Disease Patients—A Report of 3 Cases

Peyronie’s disease (PD) is a fibrotic disorder of the penile tunica albuginea. To date, only a few cases of recovery from PD following medical treatment have been reported in the literature. In this article, we describe three new cases of PD where patients achieved complete resorption of plaque following multimodal antioxidant treatment. In all three cases, treatment included the following antioxidants: bilberry, propolis, ginkgo biloba, silymarin, and vitamin E. Only in case nos. 1 and 2 did we also use the following antioxidant substances: L-carnitine, coenzyme Q10, and Boswellia. In all three cases, we also used a local therapy with diclofenac gel. Only in case no. 2 did we also use periodic perilesional injections with pentoxifylline. Although the sample of cases presented here was small, these patients incontrovertibly experienced complete plaque disappearance and recovery (in one case, only after a short course of treatment). Therefore, it is our conviction that urologists may find our experiences of considerable interest in their clinical practices.
EFFICIENCY EVALUATION OF A SMALL NUMBER OF DMUS: AN APPROACH BASED ON LI AND REEVES'S MODEL

This paper deals with the evaluation of Decision Making Units (DMU) when their number is not large enough to allow the use of classic Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models. To do so, we take advantage of the TRIMAP software when used to study the Li and Reeves MultiCriteria DEA (MCDEA) model. We introduce an evaluation measure obtained with the integration of one of the objective functions along the weight space. This measure allows the DMUs joint evaluation. This approach is exemplified with numerical data from some Brazilian electrical companies.
Short‐term Clinical Outcome of Dual Plate Fixation in the Treatment of Proximal Humerus Fractures with Calcar Comminution

Calcar comminution has been considered to be the main cause of the failure of internal fixation and fracture nonunion in proximal humerus surgery. Anatomical reduction and increasing the strength of internal fixation is the key to success. The purpose of this study was to investigate the short‐term clinical effect of dual plate fixation in the treatment of proximal humeral fractures with calcar comminution.
Comparative qualitative and quantitative analysis of lactic acid bacteria by molecular methods in different Greek cheeses

Abstract In the present research communication, we report on identification and quantification of four main lactic acid bacteria (LAB) genera (Lactococcus, Lactobacillus, Streptococcus and Leuconostoc), most common in Greek cheeses, by a novel culture-independent method. More specifically, new primers were designed to be used in both multiplex PCR for simultaneous identification and in real-time PCR for quantification of the LAB. The method was validated by applying it in parallel to culture-dependent method in a variety of cheeses from different Greek geographical locations, of different animal milk origins and of different production methods. While the standard plate culture method showed absence of Leuconostoc sp. in all cheeses, the culture-independent methods detected all four LAB genera studied. Furthermore, the relative presence of the four genera detected by the culture-independent method showed a pattern present in almost all cheese samples tested, indicating Lactococcus genus as the dominant one.
Magnetorheological elastomer mount for shock and vibration isolation

A novel magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) mount is designed, fabricated, and tested to provide a wide controllable compression static stiffness range for protecting a system with variable payload from external shock and vibration. The shear static stiffness and compression dynamic stiffness were also studied. MRE is a field-controllable material in which the stiffness properties can be altered by changing the applied magnetic field. A MRE mount is developed by using 0.5-inch thick MRE layers and built-in electromagnets. The performance of the 2-layer MRE mount is characterized by compression, shear, vibration, and shock tests. The tests demonstrate that the variable-stiffness MRE mount can be used for shock and vibration isolation applications.
Quasi-One-Dimensional Periodic Structure with Locally Resonant Band Gap

The propagation of longitudinal elastic waves in quasi one-dimensional structure consisting of harmonic oscillators periodically jointed on a slender beam is studied. Sub-frequency locally resonant band gap with highly asymmetric attenuation is observed in both theoretical and experimental results, and both results match well. The stiffness and mass ratios are found analytically as two factors that influence the actual attenuation in the band gap of the locally resonant phononic crystals. The study on the weights of the two factors shows that the stiffness ratio is the key one. Thus, the reason for the mismatch between the regions of the sharp attenuation and the theoretical band gap in the locally resonant phononic crystals is discovered.
PREDICTION OF TURBULENT BUOYANT FLOW USING AN RNG A-ϵ MODEL

Numerical predictions were carried out for turbulent natural convection in two tall air cavities. The standard and RNG k-e turbulence models were used for the predictions. The predicted results were compared with experimental data from the literature, and good agreement between prediction and measurement was obtained. Improved prediction was achieved using the RNG k-e model in comparison with the standard k-e model. The principal parameters for the improvement were investigated.
Effects of Contrast Enhancement Phase on the Reproducibility and Predictivity of CT-Based Renal Lesions Radiomic Features

The extraction of quantitative medical imaging features, or radiomics, has been an exponentially growing research field in recent decades. Nonetheless, more studies are investigating the limitations of the quantitative imaging features, especially the reproducibility of RFs across different scanning settings. In this experiment, we investigate the reproducibility of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) RFs between the non-contrast, arterial, and late phases contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CE-CT) scans; and the ability of ComBat technique to harmonize these RFs. In addition, we assessed the predictive performance of the RFs extracted from the different phases. A total of 69 CECT scans with the three different phases were analyzed. Original RFs were extracted from the segmented lesions on each phase using Pyradiomics toolbox. The agreement in RF values before and after harmonization was evaluated with the concordance correlation coefficient (CCC). Our results show that most RFs are not reproducible across different imaging phases. In addition, ComBat harmonization did not significantly increase the number of reproducible RFs in any of the three scenarios. Furthermore, RFs extracted from the arterial phase were, on average, the most predictive of overall survival in RCC patients. The findings can guide the analysis of retrospective RCC heterogeneous data acquired in different phases and add to the call for radiomics-specific harmonization techniques.
Pollution of the Environment and Pollen: A Review

Bioindication of the environment is one of the actively developing directions of ecology. Information about pollutants and the level of environmental pollution can be obtained as a result of studying the biological reaction of plants to pollution. Ecological palynology is a new direction, when pollen of various woody and herbaceous species is used for bioindication of the level of environmental pollution and the presence of mutagens. The review considers the morphological variability of pollen, its fertility and viability under the influence of pollutants, the possibility of its use as a bioindicator of pollution of urban areas by emissions of vehicle transport and industry.
Data and Markets

Big data is changing every corner of economics and finance. The largest firms in the US economy are valued chiefly for their data. Yet, these data are largely excluded from macroeconomic and finance research. We review work and relevant tools for measuring economic activity, market power, data markets, and the role of data in financial markets. We also highlight areas where future work is needed. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Economics, Volume 15 is August 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews. org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
Breaking with traditions? How parental separation affects adolescents’ gender ideologies in the UK

ABSTRACT It is often assumed that parental union dissolution leads to more egalitarian gender ideologies among children. Yet evidence on variations in gender ideologies by family structures is scant and based mostly on cross-sectional data. This study offers a closer examination of whether any effect of parental union dissolution can be explained by parents restructuring work and care responsibilities along more egalitarian lines after separation. Drawing on longitudinal data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, this study applies fixed-effects panel models to estimate the effects of parental union dissolution on gender ideologies of 6,577 adolescents between ages 11 and 14. Parental separation is found to result in more egalitarian gender ideologies toward female employment among boys but not among girls. In line with the role restructuring argument, the positive effect of separation on egalitarianism is driven by boys, whose fathers had rarely had full responsibility for childcare before separation. By highlighting differential effects and possible mechanisms, the findings offer a more nuanced understanding of the implications of increasing deinstitutionalization of family relationships.
Instability of Thin Liquid Sheet and Its Break-Up

This paper deals with symmetrical waves of arbitrary amplitude but long wavelength propagating on a thin liquid sheet. These waves are governed by a simple set of two simultaneous equations which allows only periodic wave trains as its steady solutions. From the results obtained in a previous paper, it is highly probable that the steady solutions may be unstable. To conjecture, initial value problems to the set of equations are solved numerically. It is then shown that these waves are remarkably unstable to a subharmonic disturbance. Furthermore, wave energy distributed uniformly at the initial stage is concentrated in a narrow region and at last the solution bursts at a finite time. Thus it is concluded that such a `burst instability' leads to break-up of the liquid sheet.
Magnetic Phase Diagram of van der Waals Antiferromagnet TbTe3

Terbium tritelluride, TbTe3, orders antiferromagnetically in three steps at TN1 = 6.7 K, TN2 = 5.7 K, and TN3 = 5.4 K, preceded by a correlation hump in magnetic susceptibility at T* ~8 K. Combining thermodynamic, i.e., specific heat Cp and magnetization M, and transport, i.e., resistance R, measurements we established the boundaries of two commensurate and one charge density wave modulated phases in a magnetic field oriented along principal crystallographic axes. Based on these measurements, the magnetic phase diagrams of TbTe3 at H‖a, H‖b and H‖c were constructed.
Speaking Rate, Oro-Laryngeal Timing, and Place of Articulation Effects on Burst Amplitude: Evidence From English and Tamil

The relationship between speaking rate and burst amplitude was investigated in plosives with differing oro-laryngeal timing: long-lag voice-onset time (VOT) (North American English) and short-lag VOT (Indian Tamil). Burst amplitude (reflecting both intraoral pressure and flow geometry of the oral channel) was hypothesized to decrease in pre-vocalic plosive syllables with the increase in speaking rate, which imposes temporal constraints on both intraoral pressure buildup behind the oral occlusion and respiratory air flow. The results showed that decreased vowel duration (which is associated with increased speaking rate) led to decreased burst amplitude in both short- and long-lag plosives. Aggregate models of bilabial and velar plosives (found in both languages) suggested lower burst amplitudes in short-lag stops. Place-of-articulation effects in both languages were consistent with models of stop consonant acoustics, and place interactions with vowel duration were most apparent with long-lag English stops. The results are discussed in terms of speaking rate and language-internal forces, contributing to burst amplitude variation and their implications for speech perception and potential to affect lenition phenomena.
Nonoperative Treatment of Single-Tendon Proximal Hamstring Avulsions in Recreational Athletes

Abstract The purpose of this study was to evaluate the patient-reported and objective functional outcomes of those patients who underwent nonoperative management of a single-tendon retracted proximal hamstring avulsion. A retrospective case series of consecutive patients with an MRI-confirmed diagnosis of single-tendon proximal hamstring avulsion treated nonoperatively with at least one year of follow-up was performed. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) including SF-12v2, Lower Extremity Functional Score (LEFS), Hip Outcome Score-activities of daily living and sport subscale (HOS-ADL, HOS-SS) were prospectively collected. Objective measurements included strength testing of the affected and unaffected limbs with a handheld dynamometer and single-leg hop test. Student’s t-tests were used to determine differences between limbs. Eleven of fourteen patients were available for PROMs (79%); five completed functional testing. Subjective scores revealed a mean SF-12v2 mental component score of 56.53±8.2, and a physical component score of 50.1±12.7. LEFS was 84%±19.8, HOS-ADL 87.9%±17.2, and HOS-SS 80.9%±24. The differences between limbs were not statistically significant for strength at 45 or 90 degrees of knee flexion, nor for single-leg hop distance. Patients in a non-professional athlete population who undergo nonoperative management of single-tendon retracted proximal hamstring avulsions can expect good subjective and objective outcomes.
KEMAMPUAN LITERASI NUMERASI SISWA SMA KELAS XI MIPA DALAM MATA PELAJARAN FISIKA

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui tingkat literasi numerasi siswa kelas XI MIPA. Penelitian ini menggunakan jenis penelitian deskriptif dengan pendekatan kuantitatif. Sampel penelitian ini adalah kelas XI MIPA pada salah satu SMA Negeri di Kabupaten Kerinci Provinsi Jambi dengan jumlah 31 orang dengan teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan purposive sampling.Soal yang digunakan sebanyak 11 soal tes berbentuk pilihan ganda. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan siswa memiliki kemampuan yang bervariasi. Tingkat kemampuan literasi numerasi siswa berada pada kategori cakap dengan rata-rata 60,9% siswa telah menjawab benar. Kemampuan literasi numerasi siswa berada pada kategori perlu intervensi khusus sebanyak 1 orang, kategori dasar sebanyak 6 orang, kategoricakap sebanyak 18 orang, dan kategorimahir sebanyak 6 orang. Secara keseluruhan siswa memiliki kemampuan yang cukup baik pada indikator mengestimasi dan menghitung; menggunakan pecahan, desimal, persen dan perbandingan; menggunakan penalaran; dan menggunakan pengukuran yang semuanya berada pada kategori cakap dengan persentase jawaban benar berturut-turut 64,52 %, 72,58%, 62,90%, dan 59,68% sedangkan indikator mengnterpretasi informasi masih dalam kategori dasar dengan presentase jawaban benar sebesar 49,46%. Sehingga dapat disimpulkan kemampuan literasi numerasi siswa cukup baik. Namun, masih diperlukan tindakan lebih lanjut dalam mengasah kemampuan siswa terutama dalam meningkatkan literasi numerasi siswa dalam pembelajaran fisika.
Perturbations of Collective Hamiltonian Systems generated by Lie Algebra contractions

In this article we study perturbed Hamiltonian dynamics in the class of collective Hamiltonian systems associated to Lie algebra Hamiltonian actions. For perturbations of collective systems generated by contractions of a compact Lie algebra 𝔤 into a limiting algebra 𝔤0, we give general conditions to transform such perturbations coming from deformations of the action into perturbations produced by corrections in the energy function of the collective system associated to the action by the limiting Lie algebra g0. We give an application to perturbations of collective systems generated by contraction of so(4) into e(3).
Unimodular Perfect and Nearly Perfect Sequences: a Variation of Björck’s Scheme

Constant Amplitude (CA), Zero Auto Correlation (ZAC) sequences (or CAZAC sequences, aka perfect sequences) have numerous applications. We generalize the CAZAC notion to what we term as CASAC by permitting small autocorrelations (SAC). We extend Björck’s classification result of two-valued CAZAC sequences by providing a complete classification of all almost 2-valued (i.e., two-valued except for the first position which uses a third value) CASAC sequences. While Björck’s original work dealt only with primes p, we extend his ideas to any abelian group of order $v\equiv 1\pmod {4}$ , as opposed to restricting just to the prime fields GF(p). Björck sequences have better ambiguity function than Zadoff-Chu sequences, making them suitable for radar and communications applications in the presence of high Doppler shifts. In fact, the discrete narrow band ambiguity function has an optimal bound in case of Björck sequences (as opposed to Gauss sequences). A one-parameter infinite family of CASAC we construct would have applications in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) areas. Toward MIMO applications, we introduce a performance measure we term as cross merit factor to study cross correlation behavior, generalizing the well-known notion of Golay Merit Factor (GMF).