Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Racial/Ethnic Differences in COVID-19-Traumatic Symptoms, Sleep, Coping Outcomes in a Group of New-Yorkers

Background: Little research has examined within/between group predictors and mediators of race/ethnic differences or disparities in mental and sleep health outcomes arising from the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. Objectives: This study sought to evaluate the effect of COVID-19 experiences on trauma-related symptoms and sleep quality among a multiracial/ethnic sample in New York. Method: This is a cross-sectional study conducted online among multiethnic adults (n=541) who experienced the pandemic in New York from September to November 2020. Comparisons of characteristics and mean scores by race/ethnicity status were conducted using one-way ANOVA and independent samples t-tests for continuous variables and chi-square tests for categorical variables. Multilinear regression was used for associations between social determinants of health and/or SES, trauma-related symptoms, coping, and sleep. Results: Compared to Whites [Mean (SD)= (24.1(7.6)] and other group [Mean (SD)=24.9(8.2), Blacks [Mean (SD)=(26.3(6.4)] and Hispanics [Mean(SD)=(27.2(8.2)] reported higher level of peritraumatic distress [ df= 3; F=4273; p=0.005). The prevalence of clinically significant PTSD symptoms was 21.4%(n=113): [Whites=31(16.3%); Blacks=28(25.7%); Hispanics=24(25%); and other groups=30(22.4%); x2 =4.93; p=0.177]. This rate doubled [48.3%(257)] when it comes to the overall clinically significant depression level. Compared to all subcategories, [Blacks=52(47.7%); Hispanics =62(64.6%); other group=66(49.3%)], depression symptoms were lower among Whites [77(39.9%; x2 =15.71; p=0.001]. We found a prevalence of insufficient sleep <6 hours of 41%(198): [Whites=69(39.4%); Blacks=43(41.7%); Hispanics=46(52.3%); other groups=40(34.2%); x2=12.21; p=0.057]. Several unique demographic predictors of PTSD emerged for distinct racial/ethnic groups. Among Blacks, sex [{beta} = -0.22; p < . 01] and employment [{beta} = -0.159; p < . 05] emerged as significant predictors for PTSD, but for no other racial/ethnic group. Interestingly, among Hispanics [{beta} = -0.144; p = . 064] and Blacks [{beta} = -0.174; p = . 0.076], coping strategies did not mitigate PTSD or depressive symptoms. Conclusion: As New York and the rest of the world are trying to bounce back from the COVID-19 consequences, mental health outcomes are devastating, particularly among historically marginalized communities. This study provides insight into the emergency for policymakers to invest in racial justice programs and provide free access to culturally responsive mental health care for the most vulnerable groups.
Estimation of Abortions in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina: a Bayesian Approach

Abortion is one of the reasons for hospital discharge among women of fertile age in Argentina. The criminalization of abortion prior to the enactment of the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Act (IVE), coupled with the fragmentation of the health system, has hindered the availability of reliable records to quantify induced abortions in the country. Given the lack of information reflecting the magnitude of these practices, it is necessary to perform an accurate estimation to characterize abortion access within the healthcare system. Using a Bayesian approach and abortion records in the province of Buenos Aires in 2021, the incidence of abortions per thousand women of fertile age was estimated. This study, based on a direct case count methodology, is the first of its kind in Argentina. The method used allows for the correction of bias caused by underreporting of practices. An incidence of 29.92 (Credibility Interval, CI95: [29.38; 30.47]) abortions per thousand women of fertile age was obtained during 2021. The results are consistent with previous national research and agree with estimates made for the region. In conclusion, the estimates of abortion incidence highlight its frequency in the lives of people with gestational capacity, underlining the importance of fully guaranteeing the right to comprehensive sexual health through a wide network of abortion access.
A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PRODUCT INNOVATION IN JORDAN’S PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR

Product Innovation, especially New Product Development (NPD) is critical for the continued success, development, and long-term growth of a company. Despite extensive research on how to achieve NPD success, NPD process remains a difficult and a highly risky venture. The research was conducted to investigate factors that affect NPD in the Jordanian pharmaceutical sector. Five factors were conceptually identified from past literature as initial factors. They include senior management support (SMS), cross-functional teams (CFT), customer involvement (CI), supplier integration (SI), and time to market (TTM). These five factors were used to build the basic research model as independent variables; whereas NPD was the dependent variable for the research model. A qualitative research methodology was designed and used to achieve the research objectives. The needed data for this study was captured through personal interviews, and a survey that targeted all Jordanian pharmaceutical companies. The population from which respondents was chosen included research and development managers, marketing managers, and other personnel involved in NPD process in Jordanian pharmaceutical producing companies. Through conducting a number of personal interviews and using Content Analytical Technique (CAT) for data analysis, the results of the research show the existence of a number of factors that affect NPD process in Jordanian pharmaceutical sector such as: SMS, TTM, CFT, R&R, Knowledge, and Technology. In addition, a number of factors were European Scientific Journal February 2015 edition vol.11, No.4 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e ISSN 18577431 475 identified as NPD challenges and constraints. These factors include the toughness and lack of clarity in R&R related to NPD process, the lack of financial and human resources, as well as addition to increasing DC. This paper suggests several recommendations. Firstly, senior managements need to provide enough support to NPD process whether as financial, moral or any other kind of support. Secondly, companies have to take the necessary actions to speed up NPD process in order to get the benefits of introducing products earlier into the market. Thirdly, companies have to work hard to ensure higher levels of knowledge among their staff, especially those who are involved in NPD process by providing continued periodic training to them.
The boundary behavior of cohomology classes and singularities of normal functions

In a family of projective complex algebraic varieties, all nonsingular fibers are topologically equivalent; in particular, their cohomology groups are isomorphic. Near the “boundary,” where the varieties acquire singular points, this is no longer the case. The theory of variations of Hodge structure provides strong tools to understand the local behavior near points on the boundary (Cattani, Kaplan, and Schmid, 1986); these have been used, for instance, to prove that the locus of Hodge classes is a union of algebraic varieties (Cattani, Deligne, and Kaplan, 1995). Recently, there has been interest in global questions related to the behavior at the boundary, especially for the family of all hypersurfaces (of large degree) of a given smooth projective variety. Green and Griffiths (2007, 2006) introduced the concept of the “singularity” of a normal function; following their ideas, Brosnan, Fang, Nie, and Pearlstein (2007), and de Cataldo and Migliorini (2007) proved that the Hodge conjecture is equivalent to the existence of such singularities. In this dissertation, we investigate the boundary behavior of cohomology classes in families (in the above sense), from several different points of view. We also obtain new interpretations for the singularity of a normal function in the family of hypersurface sections of sufficiently large degree.
Physical, chemical and microbiological changes in alcoholic fermentation of sugar syrup from cassava flour

Changes in alcoholic fermentation of sugar syrup produced from cassava flour with Saccharomyces cereviseae (baker’s yeast) were investigated. Cassava flour paste was hydrolysed using rice malt to produce hydrolysate (sugar syrup), which was fermented at 28 – 30°C for 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 days. The fermented sugar syrup was analysed for alcohol content, reducing sugars, specific gravity, soluble solids, pH, volatile acids and total acidity using standard analytical methods. Yeast growth was also monitored. Results showed that pH values decreased with increased total acidity with concomitant increase in yeast growth (biomass) and alcohol contents of the fermenting sugar syrup. There were decreases in soluble solid contents, refractive indices of the fermenting medium. Volatile acids (as acetic acids), increased with alcoholic fermentation. Fermentation of sugar syrup from cassava flour is associated with physical and chemical changes that occur in other form of fermentation alongside increased in biomass.
Binary max-sum for multi-team task allocation in RoboCup Rescue

Coordination of agents involved in rescue missions is an important open research problem. We focus on the RoboCup Rescue Simulation (RCS) challenge, where different teams of agents perform urban rescue operations. Previous approaches typically cast such coordination problem as separate single-team allocation problems, and solve them separately. Our first key contribution is to focus on the max-sum approach, which has been successfully applied in this setting. We show that it is possible to reduce the computational complexity associated to maxsum from exponential to polynomial time. Our empirical evaluation shows that, by using our approach, the fire brigades team obtains significantly better results when compared to state-ofthe-art approaches. Our second key contribution is a methodology that allows teams in RCS to make joint allocations. Specifically, our approach supports a modular design, where teams are independently modeled and subsequently connected via well-defined coordination points. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first task-assignment approach in the literature that enables teams in RCS to make simultaneous joint allocations. Experiments with fire brigades and police agents show that teams employing inter-team coordination are significantly more effective than uncoordinated teams.
Bayesian Inference and Optimal Design in the Sparse Linear Model

The sparse linear model has seen many successful applications in Statistics, Machine Learning, and Computational Biology, such as identification of gene regulatory networks from micro-array expression data. Prior work has either approximated Bayesian inference by expensive Markov chain Monte Carlo, or replaced it by point estimation. We show how to obtain a good approximation to Bayesian analysis efficiently, using the Expectation Propagation method. We also address the problems of optimal design and hyperparameter estimation. We demonstrate our framework on a gene network identification task.
Pengaruh Green Human Resource Management Terhadap Sustainability Business: Pendekatan Konsep

Di tengah isu meningkatnya kerusakan lingkungan hidup karena proses produksi, maka manajemen sumber daya hijau diperlukan untuk meminimalisir kondisi tersebut. manajemen sumber daya hijau merupakan suatu kebijakan perusahaan dalam pengelolaan sumber daya manusia secara berkelanjutan dengan melibatkan aspek lingkungan untuk menjaga kelestarian alam dalam pengelolaan perusahaan. Tujuan dari penulisan artikel ini adalah untuk memaparkan pendekatan konseptual yang menggambarkan hubungan variabel-variabel manajemen sumber daya hijau terhadap keberlanjutan sebuah perusahaan. Artikel ini mempresentasikan beberapa konsep teori dari rekrutmen hijau, pelatihan hijau, kinerja hijau, kompensasi hijau dan keberlanjutan perusahaan serta beberapa tujuan penelitian yang mengamati mengenai hubungan variabel-variabel rekrutmen hijau, pelatihan hijau, kinerja hijau, kompensasi hijau dan keberlanjutan perusahaan yang diharapkan untuk dapat mengembangkan tujuan penelitian.
Chemical characterization and evaluation of the antioxidant potential of gabiroba jam ( Campomanesia xanthocarpa Berg) - doi: 10.4025/actasciagron.v35i1.14389

Four formulations of gabiroba jam were processed, and their physicochemical and functional characteristics, rheological profile and jam acceptance were assessed. The physicochemical and chemical characteristics evaluated were water activity, titratable acidity, pH, reducing and non-reducing sugars, proteins, ashes, dietary fibers, color, and firmness. For functional analyses of the formulations, vitamin C, phenolic compounds and carotenoid contents were determined. The ABTS + and DPPH · methods were employed to evaluate the antioxidant potential. Rheological analysis was performed in a HAAKE RS 75 Rheoestress rheometer with a plate/plate sensor. The flow curve behavior was adjusted using the Power Law and Herschel-Bulkley models. Sensory analyses were performed by 52 untrained testers using a 9-point structured hedonic scale. The content of total phenolic compounds in the jam was between 322.09 and 728.48 mg 100 g -1 . The variation of vitamin C content was 97.39 to 123.39 mg 100 g -1 . The samples also showed good retention of beta carotene. All samples showed a higher storage modulus (G’) than loss (G”) Thsensory evaluation revealed a satisfactory acceptance of the gabiroba jam formulations.
Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine Acute and Sub Chronic Oral Toxicity of Sida rhomboidea . Roxb Leaf Extract

Acute and sub chronic oral administration of Sida rhomboidea.Roxb (SR) aqueous leaf extract did not register any adverse behavioral alterations or significant toxic manifestations. However, significant decrement in food intake and body weight gain along with higher plasma AST and ALT levels were recorded with a dose of 3000 mg/kg body weight. It is inferred that SR extract is non-toxic, therefore, safe for consumption.
Integrating Data Rescue into the Classroom

Over much of the globe, the temporal extent of meteorological records is limited, yet a wealth of data remains in paper or image form in numerous archives. To date, little attention has been given to the role that students might play in efforts to rescue these data. Here we summarize an ambitious research-led, accredited teaching experiment in which undergraduate students successfully transcribed more than 1,300 station years of daily precipitation data and associated metadata across Ireland over the period 1860–1939. We explore i) the potential for integrating data rescue activities into the classroom, ii) the ability of students to produce reliable transcriptions and, iii) the learning outcomes for students. Data previously transcribed by Met Éireann (Ireland’s National Meteorological Service) were used as a benchmark against which it was ascertained that students were as accurate as the professionals. Details on the assignment, its planning and execution, and student-aids used are provided. The experience highlights the benefits that can accrue for data rescue through innovative collaboration between national meteorological services and academic institutions. At the same time, students have gained valuable learning outcomes and firsthand understanding of the processes that underpin data rescue and analysis. The success of the project demonstrates the potential to extend data rescue in the classroom to other universities, thus providing both an enriched learning experience for the students and a lasting legacy to the scientific community.
Transcranial Doppler monitoring during language tasks in stroke patients with aphasia (response to letter to the editor)

Sir: We thank V. K. Sharma for his letter that contains very interesting and relevant comments to our article. It is well known that blood flow velocities, as measured by TCD, cannot be used for describing absolute values of cerebral regional blood flow, but can be very helpful in obtaining information about changes in hemispheral cerebral activity in both normal and pathologic conditions [1]. Changes in flow velocity are strictly related to changes in the diameter of small resistance vessels and can be considered reliable indicators of modification of brain perfusion especially in the territory supplied by MCA [2]. The possibility of investigating changes in cerebral activity with TCD monitoring during different tasks or postural changes, has been widely validated in previous studies [3,4]. We agree with you opinion, that in post-stroke patients, patterns of brain circulation can be various. However, it was previously shown that even minor stroke impairs brain vasoregulation and that cerebral blood flow becomes less dynamic [5,6]. This fact can help in using TCD monitoring as appropriate tool for investigating hemispheric activation during language tasks. We agree that simultaneous monitoring of MCA with the immediate adjacent artery (ACA) may provide interesting information. However, it will be very difficult from the technical point of view and the results of ACA monitoring may be quite uncertain. We are aware the accuracy of our study is limited and it calls for further investigations of the patterns of language ability improvement among post-stroke patients with aphasia during rehabilitation treatment.
Section Ii-exercise Physiology & Sports Medicine the Effects of 17 Weeks of Ballet Training on the Autonomic Modulation, Hormonal and General Biochemical Profile of Female Adolescents

This study aimed to examine the alterations in physiological and biochemical markers, after 17 weeks of ballet training in high level ballet dancers. Twenty four female ballet dancers from 12 to 15 years old took part in the study. The study followed 17 weeks of ballet training and analyzed changes in body composition, the autonomic nervous system and biochemical variables before and after (post) training. The internal training load was obtained using the session rating of perceived exertion (session-RPE) method, calculated as the mean weekly session-RPE, monotony and strain. After 17 weeks of training there were significant increases in body mass, height, lean body mass, total protein, urea, hemoglobin concentration, testosterone and thyroxine. During this period, decreases in relative body fat, uric acid, red blood cells, C-reactive protein, and ferritin were also found. After the training period, the autonomic modulation demonstrated significant positive alterations, such as increases in parasympathetic related indices. Based on the results obtained we concluded that ballet training led to improvements in body composition and autonomic modulation. In general hematological and biochemical variables demonstrated that the training did not have adverse effects on the health state of the adolescents.
Section Ii‐ Exercise Physiology & Sports Medicine Determination of Aerobic Power through a Specific Test for Taekwondo ‐ a Predictive Equation Model

Our aim was to verify the concurrent validity of a maximal taekwondo specific test (TST) to predict VO2max through an explanatory model. Seventeen elite male taekwondo athletes (age: 17.59 ± 4.34 years; body height: 1.72 ± 6.5 m; body mass: 61.3 ± 8.7 kg) performed two graded maximal exercise tests on different days: a 20 m multistage shuttle run test (SRT) and an incremental TST. We recorded test time, VO2max, ventilation, a heart rate and time to exhaustion. Significant differences were found between observed and estimated VO2max values [F (2, 16) = 5.77, p < 0.01]; post-hoc subgroup analysis revealed the existence of significant differences (p = 0.04) between the estimated VO2max value in the SRT and the observed value recorded in the TST (58.4 ± 6.4 ml/kg/min and 52.6 ± 5.2 ml/kg/min, respectively). Our analysis also revealed a moderate correlation between both testing protocols regarding VO2max (r = 0.70; p = 0.005), test time (r = 0.77; p = 0.02) and ventilation (r = 0.69; p = 0.03). There was no proportional bias in the mean difference (t =-1.04; p = 0.313), and there was a level of agreement between both tests. An equation/model was used to estimate VO2max during the TST based on the mean heart rate, test time, body height and mass, which explained 74.3% of the observed VO2max variability. A moderate correlation was found between the observed and predicted VO2max values in the taekwondo TST (r = 0.74, p = 0.001). Our results suggest that an incremental specific test estimates VO2max of elite taekwondo athletes with acceptable concurrent validity.
Probing new physics through B s * → μ + μ − decay

We perform a model independent analysis of new physics in Bs*→μ+μ- decay. We intend to identify new physics operator(s) which can provide large enhancement in the branching ratio of Bs*→μ+μ- above its standard model prediction. For this, we consider new physics in the form of vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudoscalar operators. We find that scalar and pseudoscalar operators do not contribute to the branching ratio of Bs*→μ+μ-. We perform a global fit to all relevant b→sμ+μ- data for different new physics scenarios. For each of these scenarios, we predict Br(Bs*→μ+μ-). We find that a significant enhancement in Br(Bs*→μ+μ-) is not allowed by any of these new physics operators. In fact, for all new physics scenarios providing a good fit to the data, the branching ratio of Bs*→μ+μ- is suppressed as compared to the standard model (SM) value. Hence the present b→sμ+μ- data indicates that the future measurement of Br(Bs*→μ+μ-) is expected to be suppressed in comparison to the standard model prediction.
A Primer on Mapping Class Groups (Pms-49)

The study of the mapping class group Mod(S) is a classical topic that is experiencing a renaissance. It lies at the juncture of geometry, topology, and group theory. This book explains as many important theorems, examples, and techniques as possible, quickly and directly, while at the same time giving full details and keeping the text nearly self-contained. The book is suitable for graduate students. A Primer on Mapping Class Groups begins by explaining the main group-theoretical properties of Mod(S), from finite generation by Dehn twists and low-dimensional homology to the Dehn-Nielsen-Baer theorem. Along the way, central objects and tools are introduced, such as the Birman exact sequence, the complex of curves, the braid group, the symplectic representation, and the Torelli group. The book then introduces Teichmuller space and its geometry, and uses the action of Mod(S) on it to prove the Nielsen-Thurston classification of surface homeomorphisms. Topics include the topology of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces, the connection with surface bundles, pseudo-Anosov theory, and Thurston's approach to the classification.
Adversarial Robustness Against the Union of Multiple Perturbation Models

In this section, we describe the steepest descent and projection steps for lp adversaries for p ∈ {∞, 2, 1}; these are standard results, but are included for a complete description of the algorithms. Note that this differs slightly from the adversaries considered in Schott et al. (2019): while they used an l0 adversary, we opted to use an l1 adversary. The l0 ball with radius ǫ is contained within an l1 ball with the same radius, so achieving robustness against an l1 adversary is strictly more difficult.