Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
I Told You So! Restaurant Customers’ Word-of-mouth Communication Patterns

S ince it is not possible to eliminate service failures completely, restaurant managers need to understand the elements that influence customers’ complaints that almost inevitably arise from those failures. Building on previous research, the study described in this article examines consumers’ reactions to a restaurant’s food-service failure. In particular, I examine how the nature of a service failure together with the restaurant’s service-recovery effort influences customers’ intentions to return to the restaurant and their subsequent word-of-mouth communication regarding the incident and the restaurant.
Advanced Statistical and Meta-Heuristic Based Optimization Fault Diagnosis Techniques in Complex Industrial Processes: A Comparative Analysis

Industrial processes are nonlinear and complicated in nature, requiring accurate fault detection to minimize the deterioration in performance and to respond quickly to emergencies. This work investigates industrial process defect identification and isolation, which is analytically difficult owing to their complexity. This paper carefully analyzes four design methods for flaw identification and isolation based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Fisher Discriminant Analysis (FDA), Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis (KFDA), and Sequential quadratic programming (SQP). Our study includes the Tennessee Eastman Process (TEP) and the Penicillin Fermentation Process (PFP), among other comparable methods. We assess the proposed fault detection and isolation methods through detailed analysis and comparison. The simulation findings from our extensive investigation provide remarkable insights. Simulation findings show that FDA and KFDA work well in fault identification and isolation, but PCA has certain limits. We also considered SQP as a TEP fault detection and isolation improvement tool. SQP is noted for its success in nonlinear and restricted optimization problems, making it ideal for fault identification and isolation in complicated industrial processes. Data-driven design approaches increase problem identification in complicated industrial processes with greater reliability and efficiency than PCA-based methods. This study also shows that advanced data-driven techniques can improve industrial fault diagnosis, improving operational safety and system performance by leveraging the FDA, KFDA, and SQP.
The Impact of Discrepancies between Offerors’ Self-Disclosure and Customers’ Reviews on Online Sales of Experiences in Sharing Economy

ABSTRACT Experience sharing is becoming popular as customers increasingly respond to the rapid platform technology development. However, because of format diversity and quality variation, customers refer to multiple information sources before booking. Two of the most important information sources are the hosts’ self-disclosure texts about the experience project and customers’ online reviews. Using natural language processing (NLP) techniques, we analyze the data from Airbnb experience projects. We find that the information discrepancies in hosts’ self-disclosure texts of the experience project and customers’ online reviews, in terms of their focus on the attributes of products and services and the linguistic styles, exist, and these discrepancies affect sales. Hosts elaborate more on the descriptive attributes, whereas customers focus mainly on individual perceptions in their reviews. Customers also write online reviews in a more concise, diverse, and relaxed fashion, conveying positive emotion and a more subjective tone than expressed by hosts’ project descriptions. Additionally, a large topic difference, reflected by customers’ more details about various attributes elaborated in their online reviews compared with the attributes described by the hosts in the project description, increases sales. Further, a larger discrepancy in length and diversity increases sales, whereas a larger discrepancy in subjectivity reduces sales. Compared with the online mode, the in-person mode strengthens the impact of content and linguistic discrepancies on sales. This study’s findings will help hosts and sharing economy platforms use a relative approach to optimize their information provision and exploit the electronic word-of-mouth effect to improve customers’ online purchase intention and behavior.
Biocontrol Efficacy of Metschnikowia spp. Yeasts in Organic Vineyards against Major Airborne Diseases of Table Grapes in the Field and in Postharvest

The aim of this work was to evaluate the efficacy of two antagonistic yeasts, Metschnikowia pulcherrima strain MPR3 and M. fructicola strain NRRL Y-27328 (commercial product NOLI), applied in addition to the “on-farm biological treatments” (BIO) carried out during the production season, for the containment of powdery mildew and grey mould diseases on organic table grapes ‘Italia’. The yeast strains were applied in the field three times, and their efficacy was evaluated during the production season and under postharvest conditions. Overall, M. pulcherrima MPR3 combined with BIO treatments reduced disease incidence caused by Erysiphe necator and disease incidence and severity caused by Botrytis cinerea with values between 67.8% and 86.2%, showing higher efficacy than BIO treatments applied alone and in combination with NOLI. Field treatments based on BIO+MPR3 maintained their performance also during fruit storage, protecting grape berries from grey mould development to a greater extent than the other treatments (disease reduction of about 98%). Thus, the presence of M. pulcherrima MPR3 seems to improve disease management both in the field and in postharvest environments, without negative impacts on grape microbial communities. These findings highlight the potential of M. pulcherrima MPR3 as a promising alternative strategy for disease control in organic vineyards and in postharvest, providing sustainable solutions to improve food quality and safety.
Electricity Generation from Single Chamber Microbial Fuel Cells using Granular Activated Carbon as Anode for Wastewater Treatment

Locally sourced granule-activated carbon (GAC) has been used in wastewater treatment systems, but it is not widely used in single chamber microbial fuel cells (SCMFCs). The GAC in an anode coupled with a carbon cloth was used in the SCMFCs in this research, with 1.00-L of the GAC added to the carbon cloth in the anode. Three SCMFCs were operated in continuous flow mode. The synthetic wastewater was prepared from rice flour dissolved in tap water, with a chemical oxygen demand (COD) value of 1,816.32 ± 204.78 mg/L. The organic loading rates (OLRs) in the study were 0.91, 1.82, and 7.27 kgCOD/m 3 - d. The maximum power density levels generated by the three SCMFCs were 13.16, 7.96 and 4.11 mW/m 2 from OLRs of 0.91, 1.82, and 7.27 kgCOD/m 3 -d, respectively, and the efficiency rate of COD removal were 24.96%, 24.85%, and 20.75%, respectively. This research also presented a voltage boost converter circuit for charging a 0.25F storage supercapacitor. Only two OLRs provided an electric voltage that could run the circuit (0.49V and 0.45V generated by OLRs of 0.91 and 1.82 kgCOD/m 3 -d, respectively.) The supercapacitor set was charged to reach the maximum output of 5.25 V taking 19.5 hr and 37.5 hr, respectively.
A HIGH-SPEED MIDWATER ROPE TRAWL FOR COLLECTING COASTAL PELAGIC FISHES

The development and testing of a new high-speed midwater rope trawl (HSMRT) was initiated in the fall of 1992 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center and the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG). The HSMRT was designed to collect fishery-independent data for adult coastal pelagic fish species including Pacific sardine (Sardirzops sagax), northern anchovy (Eirgvuulis rw~rdax), jack mackerel (Zachttrus symmrtrirus), and Pacific mackerel (Sio~zber juponinrs). Originally the trawl was constructed as a four-panel net with 53-meter head- and footropes with 6.5-meter meshes in the opening panels tapering down to hentimeter nieshes in the rear and 10-centimeter nieshes in the cod end. The net was niodified after several cruises in 1992 and 1993 aboard NOAA’s Duvid Star? Jovdun and CDFG’s 12rlako. During fishing operations, targeted speeds of 4 to 1.5 knots were obtained by both vessels. For shallow tows, deployment took approximately 30 minutes with a fairly sinal1 crew (4-5 people). Fork lengths of fish captured ranged from 136 to 280 nini for Pacific sardine, 30 to 140 nim for northern anchovy, 50 to 320 nini for jack mackerel, and 60 to 450 mni for Pacific mackerel. Mature hydrated female sardine were taken during April-May, 1994, only by the Mako, which generally fished in deeper water than the David Starv Jovdarz. The HSMRT worked well on both the David Starrjordarz and the Mako, but because the Muko had less horsepower, it was unable to maneuver while trawling or to tow the net shallower than 18 meters below the surface.
The relation between primary dysmenorrhea in adolescents and body mass index

Introduction The aim was to assess the relation between primary dysmenorrhea in adolescents and body mass index (BMI). Material and methods Two-hundred and ten adolescents were recruited for this cross-sectional research. After detailed evaluation, pelvic sonography was performed for the studied adolescents to rule out any pelvic abnormalities and/or lesion(s). The severity of the studied adolescents’ dysmenorrhea was assessed by the visual analogue scale (VAS). The studied adolescents were divided into underweight, normal-weight, overweight, and obese adolescent groups based on their BMI (kg/m2). Collected data were analyzed using the ANOVA test, and correlation analysis (Pearson’s correlation) to assess the relation between primary dysmenorrhea in adolescents and BMI. Results The visual analogue scale of dysmenorrhea was statistically higher in the underweight adolescent group (8.7 ±0.8) compared to normal-weight (6.5 ±0.5) (p = 0.000001), and overweight (6.3 ±0.6) (p = 0.000001) adolescent groups. The visual analogue scale of dysmenorrhea was also statistically higher in the obese adolescent group (9.4 ±0.6) compared to underweight (8.7 ±0.8) (p = 0.000001), normal-weight (6.5 ±0.5) (p = 0.000001), and overweight (6.3 ±0.6) (p = 0.000001) adolescent groups. Conclusions The visual analogue scale of dysmenorrhea was statistically higher in the underweight adolescent group compared to normal-weight, and overweight adolescent groups, and there was a strong negative relation between the VAS and BMI in the underweight adolescent group. In addition, the VAS of dysmenorrhea was statistically higher when the obese adolescent group was compared with the overweight, normal-weight and underweight adolescent groups, and there was a moderate positive relation between the VAS and BMI in the obese adolescent group.
RP-HPLC Separation and 1H NMR Identification of a Yellow Fluorescent Compound—Riboflavin (Vitamin B2)—Produced by the Yeast Hyphopichia wangnamkhiaoensis

The yeast Hyphopichia wangnamkhiaoensis excretes a brilliant yellow fluorescent compound into its growth culture. In this study, we isolated and identified this compound using reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography-diode array detector (RP-HPLC-DAD) as well as 1H NMR and UV–Vis spectroscopy. Two of the three RP-HPLC-DAD methods used successfully separated the fluorescent compound and involved (1) a double separation step with isocratic flow elution, first on a C18 column and later on a cyano column, and (2) a separation with a linear gradient elution on a phenyl column. The wavelengths of maximum absorption of the fluorescent compound-containing HPLC fractions (~224, 268, 372, and 446 nm) are in good agreement with those exhibited by flavins. The 1H NMR spectra revealed methyl (δ 2.30 and 2.40) and aromatic proton (δ 7.79 and 7.77) signals of riboflavin. The 1H NMR spectra of the samples spiked with riboflavin confirmed that the brilliant yellow fluorescent compound is riboflavin. The maximum excitation and emission wavelengths of the fluorescent compound were 448 and 528 nm, respectively, which are identical to those of riboflavin.
Edifying the Body: Troubling Notions of Impact When Discussing EAQ's Intellectual Structure

An Empirical Reflection on Educational Administration Quarterly’s Distinctive Contributions to the Field, 1965–2020 evaluated the impact of Educational Administration Quarterly using bibliometrics (EAQ). The authors in an analysis of articles from 1965 to 2020 highlighted scholars who made significant contributions to the journal. The outcomes, together with the most cited EAQ articles were then leveraged to infer the corpus’ essential features. While the information presented was important there were some key issues the interpretation. In this response, I questioned the concept of impact through a discussion of bias in citations and examined some of the limitations of the authors’ conception of social justice work, one of the schools of thought mentioned in the EAQ Intellectual framework.
An experimental study of the glacier boundary layer over melting ice

Abstract The results of an experiment to examine the glacier boundary layer over melting ice are described. They show that the boundary layer, as defined by the applicability of the log—linear profile, is approximately 1 m thick. The boundary layer is a frequent, but not a dominant feature of the air close to the ice. The frequency of occurrence is relatively high in cases where wind speeds are mainly controlled by katabatic forces.
MRSCFusion: Joint Residual Swin Transformer and Multiscale CNN for Unsupervised Multimodal Medical Image Fusion

It is crucial to integrate the complementary information of multimodal medical images for enhancing the image quality in clinical diagnosis. Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based deep-learning methods have been widely used for image fusion due to their strong modeling ability; however, CNNs fail to build the long-range dependencies in an image, which limits the fusion performance. To address this issue, in this work, we develop a new unsupervised multimodal medical image fusion framework that combines the Swin Transformer and CNN. The proposed model follows a two-stage training strategy, where an autoencoder is trained to extract multiple deep features and reconstruct fused images. A novel residual Swin-Convolution fusion (RSCF) module is designed to fuse the multiscale features. Specifically, it consists of a global residual Swin Transformer branch for capturing the global contextual information, as well as a local gradient residual dense branch for capturing the local fine-grained information. To further effectively integrate more meaningful information and ensure the visual quality of fused images, we define a joint loss function, including content loss, and intensity loss to constrain the RSCF fusion module; moreover, we introduce an adaptive weight block (AWB) to assign learnable weights in the loss function, which can control the information preservation degree of source images. In such cases, abundant texture features from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images and appropriate intensity information from functional images can be well preserved simultaneously. Extensive comparisons have been conducted between the proposed model and other state-of-the-art fusion methods on CT-MRI, PET-MRI, and SPECT-MRI image fusion tasks. Both qualitative and quantitative comparisons have demonstrated the superiority of our model.
Les politiques de l'habitat à l'épreuve de la fragmentation métropolitaine. Le cas de l'Ile-de-France

Le debut des annees 2000 a vu la multiplication des diagnostics et des rapports faisant etat de la situation critique du marche du logement en Ile-de-France. La loi Grand Paris du 3 juin 2010 a fixe un objectif ambitieux de production de 70 000 nouveaux logements par an, « geographiquement et socialement adaptes ». Mais sa mise en œuvre se heurte, semble-t-il, a la complexite du pilotage de l'action publique. La metropole se demarque en effet par l'absence d'une politique de l'habitat territorialisee a son echelle. Dans ce contexte, cette recherche vise a demontrer, a partir d'elements qualitatifs et quantitatifs, qu'il est operant, en Ile-de-France, de parler de fragmentation metropolitaine en matiere d'habitat. La fragmentation est d'abord gestionnaire, alors que la mise en œuvre des politiques de l'habitat souffre d'un manque de pilotage. Elle est aussi d'ordre socio-spatiale car le marche du logement engendre d'importantes disparites sociales entre les differentes composantes de la metropole. La recherche s'efforce aussi de construire une grille d'analyse pour comprendre comment la fragmentation politique vient s'opposer a la regulation du marche et a la resorption des disparites socio-spatiales en matiere d'habitat. Elle repose pour ce faire sur une etude comparative de quatre politiques infra-metropolitaines (a Paris, Plaine-Commune, dans les Hauts-de-Bievre et a Mantes-en-Yvelines).
Could Exposure to Glyphosate Pose a Risk to the Survival of Wild Animals? A Case Study on the Field Lizard Podarcis siculus

Simple Summary The use of the herbicide glyphosate in agriculture exposes wildlife to this substance. In this review, data obtained using the lizard Podarcis siculus as an unconventional model organism were collected and analyzed. This is to answer the question of whether occasional exposure to glyphosate can endanger the reproductive health of terrestrial vertebrates, shifting the balance of agricultural ecosystems, in which these animals play an important role by feeding on phytopathogenic organisms. The results state that glyphosate affects the liver and gonads, inducing many morphological and molecular alterations and acting as an endocrine disruptor. The data also validate the common field lizard as a valuable model organism that can provide an assessment of the toxic effect of environmental contaminants. By sharing physiological processes and reproductive mechanisms with many other animals, both aquatic and terrestrial, the information gleaned from the lizard can be transferred to other vertebrates and can serve as a starting point for the recovery of endangered wildlife. Abstract Soil contaminants (herbicides, pesticides, and heavy metals) are among the main causes of change in terrestrial ecosystems. These substances lead to a general loss of biodiversity, both of flora and fauna and being able to biomagnify and pass through the food chain, they can endanger the survival of terrestrial vertebrates at the top of this chain. This review analyzes the risks associated with exposure to glyphosate, the active principle of many herbicide products, for the reproductive health of the field lizard (Podarcis siculus) potentially exposed to the substance in its natural habitat; therefore, introducing it as a possible model organism. Data demonstrate that glyphosate is toxic for this animal, affecting the health of the reproductive organs, both in males and females, and of the liver, the main detoxifying organ and closely involved in the female reproductive process. Sharing structural and functional characteristics of these organs with many other vertebrates, the information obtained with this reptile represents a wake-up call to consider when analyzing the cost/benefit ratio of glyphosate-based substances. The data clearly demonstrate that the P. siculus lizard can be considered a good target organism to study the reproductive risk assessment and hazards of exposure to soil contaminants on wild terrestrial vertebrates.
Functional and Antioxidant Evaluation of Two Ecotypes of Control and Grafted Tree Tomato (Solanum betaceum) at Different Altitudes

Tree tomato (Solanum betaceum) is susceptible to nematode attack; for this reason, grafting is used as an alternative to reduce this impact. In this study, the bioactive compounds of the fruit (shell, pulp, and seed jelly) of two tree tomato ecotypes (‘giant orange’ and ‘giant purple’) were evaluated in both control and grafted plants grown at different altitudes (2010–2250, 2260–2500, 2510–2750 and 2760–3000 masl). Commercial quality, vitamin C, organic acids, phenolics, carotenoids and antioxidant activity were determined by microextraction and quantified by liquid chromatography (RRLC) or spectrophotometry (microplate reader). The results showed high concentrations of vitamin C, organic acids and antioxidant activity in the seed jelly, organic acids in the pulp and phenolic compounds, carotenoids, and antioxidant activity in the shell. The main phenolics were ferulic acid, caffeic acid and luteolin, while the main carotenoids were lutein, B-cryptoxanthin and B-carotene. Multivariate analysis showed that tree tomato quality was mainly influenced by altitude and fruit part and that grafting positively affected soluble solids for both ecotypes and all altitudes.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE EVALUATED BY ULTRASOUND AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE EVALUATED BY CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY

The prospective study was conducted in the Department of Cardiology, Nishtar Medical & Institute of Cardiology Hospital from June 2022 to June 2023 to evaluate the association between the severity of CAD and carotid IMT through multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) scan in symptomatic or asymptomatic patients. Patients with dyspnea, chest pain, or asymptomatic patients with low to moderate pre-test probability of CAD detected by MSCT were included in the study. Mean IMT, presence or absence of plaque, CACS, and any evidence of atherosclerosis were recorded. Of 250 patients, 8% had dyspnea, 14.8% had chest pain, 10.8% had dizziness, 6.4% had palpitations, and 62% were asymptomatic. Corid plaque and higher CAC score (P<0 .0001) had a significant association. 48% (50 of 105) patients with CACS 0 had carotid plaque, while 87.5% (127 of 145) patients with CACS >0 had carotid plaque, which shows the association between higher CACS and carotid plaque (P=0.0001). Similarly, 52.3% (55 of 105) patients without atherosclerosis had carotid plaque, and 85% (119 of 140) patients with atherosclerosis had carotid plaque (P < 0.0001). It is concluded that plaque and carotid IMT are associated with the degree and presence of coronary disease and calcification on CTA. Due to modest correlation, imaging modality should be selected based on the pattern of atherosclerosis and methodological considerations.
Vitamin D Levels Among Rheumatoid Arthritis Sudanese Patients: Prevalence and Correlation to Disease Activity – A Bicentric Study

Purpose To evaluate vitamin D levels among adult Sudanese RA patients and identify its correlation with RA disease activity. Patients and Methods A bicentric cross-sectional analytical hospital-based study was performed in two Khartoum State Hospitals between October 2019 and January 2020, enrolling 90 Sudanese patients with RA. Serum vitamin D levels were measured with a standard reference level of 30ng/mL–100ng/mL. A detailed interview-based questionnaire was used to collect the patient’s information, clinical data and lab results—disease activity was assessed via the DAS-28 score. The data was then analyzed using SPSS v-24. Results Vitamin D levels were low in 79 candidates (87.8%), 53 of which (67.1%) showed moderate insufficiency (10–30ng/mL), and 26 candidates (32.9%) had severe deficiency (less than 10 ng/mL). Regarding the disease activity, 57 participants (63.3%) had moderate disease activity (DAS-28=3.2–5.1), and 22 participants (24.4%) had high disease activity (DAS-28 >5.1). A significant negative correlation was reported between high DAS-28 scores and low vitamin D levels with p-value = <0.001 (95% CI: −0.8591 to 0.0015) and r = −0.44. Conclusion Most adult Sudanese rheumatoid arthritis patients showed low vitamin D levels (87.8%), which was also significantly correlated with increased disease activity (P-value <0.05). Moreover, the prevalence of low vitamin D levels was significantly higher than in numerous countries worldwide.