Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Influence of Parental Religiosity on the Health of Children during Late Adolescence/Early Adulthood: A Test of Mediation

The present study explores whether adolescent religiosity, health-related behaviors, and marital stability mediate the association between parental religiosity and health. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult (Add) Health, I model potential direct and indirect effects between three measures of parental religiosity (i.e., parental institutional religiosity, parental personal religiosity, and parental religious affiliation); three sets of mediators indicating adolescent religiosity, health-related behaviors, and marital stability; and self-rated health during late adolescence/early adulthood. Overall, I found that parental institutional religiosity has a direct effect on the self-rated health of children during late adolescence/early adulthood, and that it influences self-rated health by reducing adolescent and parental smoking. I also found evidence for deleterious effects of parental institutional religiosity on health as well. Future research should explore variation in the influence of parental religiosity on self-rated health between various sociodemographic groups and between different stages of the life course.
Radiotherapy With or Without Chemotherapy in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer

This randomized study assessed the role of synchronous chemotherapy with intravenous 5-fluorouracil and mitomycin in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer undergoing radiotherapy compared to radiotherapy only. This study demonstrated improved 2-year locoregional recurrence-free survival and also suggested improved overall survival favoring combination therapy. High-grade, primarily gastrointestinal toxic events were increased with combination therapy, while cystectomy rates were decreased.
Changes of lymphocyte subsets in patients with COVID-19 and clinical significance: a case-control observational study

Objective: To investigate and analyze changes of T lymphocyte and other lymphocyte subsets in the peripheral blood of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), with the goal of improving clinical understanding and the value of research applications. Method(s): General data of 66 confirmed COVID-19 patients admitted to the Fifth Medical Center of Beijing PLA General Hospital from January 2 to March 23, 2020 were collected in this retrospective case-control observational study, and they were divided into mild (n = 26), mid-grade (n = 19), and severe/critical disease groups (n = 21) according to disease severity. Neutrophils, lymphocytes, neutrophil/lymphocyte ratios, CD4 absolute counts, CD8 absolute counts, and CD4/CD8 expression ratios of peripheral whole blood among the three patient groups were compared. The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Fifth Medical Center, General Hospital of Chinese PLA (approval No. 2020-69-D) on May 5, 2020. Result(s): Among the 66 COVID-19 patients examined, 38 were male and 28 were female, with an average age of 53 +/- 17 years. Among patients, 26 cases were mild, 19 cases were mid-grade, and 21 cases were severe/critical. Neutrophils, neutrophil/ lymphocyte ratios, and CD4+/CD8+ ratios of the severe/critical group were significantly higher compared with mild and mid-grade groups (P < 0.01);however, there was no obvious difference between mid-grade and mild groups (P > 0.05). Lymphocytes, CD4 absolute counts, and CD8+ absolute counts of the severe/critical group were significantly lower compared with mild and mid-grade groups (P < 0.01);however, there was no significant difference between mid-grade and mild groups (P > 0.05). Conclusion(s): Counts of lymphocytes and T lymphocytes in severe/critically ill patients were decreased, which is of great significance for the identification of severe and critical COVID-19 patients. Copyright © 2021 The Chinese Medical Association, Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.
Design Implication of a Distribution Transformer in Solar Power Plants Based on Its Harmonic Profile

This article presents a comparative analysis for the design considerations for a solar power generation transformer. One of the main existing problems in transformer manufacturing is in the renewable energy field, specifically the solar power generation, where the transformer connected to the inverter is operated under a certain harmonic content and operating conditions. The operating conditions of the transformer connected to the inverter are particularly unknown for each solar power plant; thus, the transformer will be subject to a particular harmonic content, which is defined by the inverter of the solar power plant. First, the fundamental calculations for solar power plant transformer and the proposed methodology for the design calculation of the distribution pad-mounted three phase transformer are presented. Then, a design study case is described where a distribution transformer and an inverter of a particular solar power plant are used for the analysis. Next, the transformer under analysis is modeled using finite element analysis in ANSYS Maxwell® software, where the transformer will be designed for a non-harmonic and harmonic content application. Lastly, the main design parameters, flux density, the core losses and the winding excitation voltage of the transformer are calculated and presented in results and discussion section.
Students’ creative and innovation skill on chapter of Newton’s law using SSCS learning model

Creative and innovative thinking skills were among essential skills in a rapidly expanding world. These skills served to understand and solve real problems in the 21st century. The research aimed to analyze the improvement of students’ creativity and innovation skills in Newton’s law material using SSCS or Search, Solve, Create, and Share. The research method used is pre-experimental with the one group pretest-posttest design. The research samples were 29 grade 8 students of junior High school who were taken randomly at a school accredited A. Data collection using the Instrument test Essay on Newton’s law at the assessment rubric adapted from the P21 validated indicators. The instrument test used was valid and reliable. The results of N-gain on indicators consisting of Think Creatively, Work Creatively With Others, Implement Innovation were 0.47, 0.32, 0.55, and were in the medium category. Therefore, the SSCS learning model could improve creativity skills and innovation students primarily on the indicators think creatively and implement Innovation.
Breast Cancer Lesion Detection and Classification in mammograms using Deep Neural

A method to automatically detect and classify a lesion into either malignant or non-malignant is presented in this work. The dataset used is obtained from INbreast database and are in format of full-field digital mammography (FFDM). Some of the key challenges in detecting cancerous lesion in mammography are the low contrast between cancerous lesion and its surrounding tissues, apparent contrast similarities between lesion and pectoral muscle, presence of calcifications that may disrupt the detection process, and some level of morphological similarities between the lesion and some normal tissues. The work here consists of two main parts. The first part is the image processing section that aims to sample the lesion with intended lesion-to-surrounding ratio (0.4-0.6) and to avoid sampling from unintended regions such as pectoral muscle. Another key challenge is that the database is relatively small while machine learning requires a relatively large dataset. To improve size of samples, eighty fixed-size images (250 pixels x 250 pixels) are randomly cropped out of each of the previously processed image. The second part is to build the machine learning application based on deep neural network framework to classify samples into two classes, malignant and non-malignant. In present work we apply two different frameworks known as Plain and Residual Net (ResNet). Our calculations show that both models can detect a single lesion with more than 90% accuracy and area under ROC curve >0.94.
A novel genotype-independent technique for successful induction of somatic embryogenesis of adult plants of Jatropha curcas L. using petiole transverse Thin Cell Layer (TCL)

Developing a protocol for somatic embryogenesis (SE) for adult mother plants of Jatropha curcas, aids to overcome problems such as harvesting time and an uneven yield, providing the opportunity to propagate proven elite genotypes. Until now, several authors have achieved SE in J. curcas using different explants, however, in none of these protocols adult plants have been used as mother plant material. Furthermore, the challenge of overcoming the morphogenesis limitations successfully and further regeneration of adult plants of J. curcas has been great. The main objective of this study was to develop a somatic embryogenesis protocol for adult plants of the oil producing J. curcas. transverse thin cell layers (tTCL) of young petioles were used as explants. Half strength Y3 and MS media were used containing three different concentrations of 2,4-dichloropherioxyacetic acid and 6-benzil-aminopurine in a factorial trial. Nine accessions of J. curcas of various ages (3-12 years.) were tested using this protocol. All accessions responded positively to callus induction and to the induction of somatic embryos, demonstrating the protocol to be genotype-independent. This study enables micropropagation of adult of proven elite plants of J. curcas via somatic embryogenesis. Key words: Jatropha curcas, transverse thin cell layers (tTCL), somatic embryos, half strength media, regeneration.
Numerical investigation of the potential influence of advection-induced phase change on in-situ bioventing operations

A finite element model is presented and used to examine the potential influence of evaporation/condensation on moisture content and temperature distributions during unsaturated zone remediation. The presented model is a one-dimensional multiphase flow simulator which describes mass and energy transport in porous media. The coupled equations are solved using a sequential iterative solver with matric potential and temperature as primary variables. A literature-derived relation is used to quantify the influence of water potential change and temperature change upon biological growth rates. Simulations indicate that the injection of gas at temperatures and/or relative humidities different from the initial ambient soil conditions can result in changes in water potential and local soil temperature which could significantly impact biological activity.
Cryogenic Core Collection (C3) from Unconsolidated Subsurface Media

We evaluated tools and methods for in situ freezing of cores in unconsolidated subsurface media. Our approach, referred to as cryogenic core collection (C3), has key aspects that include downhole circulation of liquid nitrogen (LN) via a cooling system, strategic use of thermal insulation to focus cooling into the core, and controlling LN back pressure to optimize cooling. Two cooling systems (copper coil and dual‐wall cylinder) are described. For both systems, the time to freeze a single 2.5‐foot (76‐cm) long by 2.5‐inch (63‐mm) diameter core is 5 to 7 min. Frozen core collection rates of about 30 feet/day (10 m/day) were achieved at two field sites, one impacted by petroleum‐based light nonaqueous phase liquids (LNAPLs) and the other by chlorinated solvents. Merits of C3 include (1) improved core recovery, (2) potential control of flowing sand, and (3) improved preservation of critical sediment attributes. Development of the C3 method creates novel opportunities to characterize sediment with respect to physical, chemical, and biological properties. For example, we were able to resolve water, LNAPL, and gas saturations above and below the water table. By eliminating drainage of water, gas and LNAPL saturations in the range of 6 to 23% and 1 to 3% of pore space, respectively, were measured in LNAPL‐impacted intervals below the water table.
An Empirical Likelihood Ratio-Based Omnibus Test for Normality with an Adjustment for Symmetric Alternatives

An omnibus test for normality with an adjustment for symmetric alternatives is developed using the empirical likelihood ratio technique. We first transform the raw data via a jackknife transformation technique by deleting one observation at a time. The probability integral transformation was then applied on the transformed data, and under the null hypothesis, the transformed data have a limiting uniform distribution, reducing testing for normality to testing for uniformity. Employing the empirical likelihood technique, we show that the test statistic has a chi-square limiting distribution. We also demonstrated that, under the established symmetric settings, the CUSUM-type and Shiryaev–Roberts test statistics gave comparable properties and power. The proposed test has good control of type I error. Monte Carlo simulations revealed that the proposed test outperformed studied classical existing tests under symmetric short-tailed alternatives. Findings from a real data study further revealed the robustness and applicability of the proposed test in practice.
Huaier increases the antitumor effect of gemcitabine on pancreatic cancer in vitro and in vivo

Background Pancreatic cancer has a high degree of malignancy and poor prognosis. As the first-line chemotherapy drug for pancreatic cancer, gemcitabine is widely used but is limited in its efficacy due to the development of chemoresistance. Huaier is a traditional Chinese medicine with anticancer effects. This present study explored the antitumor effect of gemcitabine combined with Huaier on pancreatic cancer in vitro and in vivo. Methods After treatment with gemcitabine combined with Huaier in PaTu8988 pancreatic cancer cells, including 3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2-H-tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay, wound healing, and Transwell invasion in vitro assays were performed to investigate the proliferation, migration and invasion of cells, respectively. The apoptotic rate of cells was detected by propidium iodide—annexin V staining and flow cytometry. In vivo PaTu8988 pancreatic cancer xenograft and tail vein injection into lung metastasis nude mice models were used to determine the tumor growth and lung metastasis efficiency. Results Huaier could not only inhibit the proliferation, migration, and invasion of cancer cells, but could also induce the apoptosis of pancreatic cancer in vitro and suppress tumor growth and lung metastasis in vivo. It further significantly increased the tumor suppressing effects of gemcitabine, and combined use of the two drugs exhibited a synergistic effect. Conclusions Our present study concluded that Huaier was capable of enhancing the antitumor effect of gemcitabine in pancreatic cancer in vitro and in vivo. Therefore, Huaier may be a potential drug to increase the therapy sensitivity of gemcitabine and improve the prognosis of pancreatic cancer patients.
Fake tense in Hausa counterfactuals: A novel argument for underspecified EXCL

The paper presents a novel argument from Hausa (Chadic) for the analysis of counterfactual fake tense in terms of a lexically underspecified EXCL-operator (Iatridou 2000). Evidence comes from the facts (i.) that Hausa has no obligatory inflectional tense marking on the verb; and (ii.) that temporal anteriority and counterfactuality in Hausa are both expressed by a left-peripheral operator element with the segmental shape daa , which is then tonally disambiguated to temporal dâa and counterfactual daa , respectively. The analysis is cast in von Prince's (2019) modified branching-world model of counterfactuals.
Board of directors and earnings management: conventional and Islamic banks

ABSTRACT This study examines how the board of directors (BOD) of Islamic banks (IBs) might affect earnings management differently, compared to BOD of conventional banks (CBs). Our results indicate that banks in the MENA region that promote BOD independence incur less earnings management. Distinguishing between CBs and IBs, we document higher loan quality and credit policy at IBs. Moreover, smaller BOD size and board independence decrease earnings management at IBs. Findings suggest that agency theory might not accommodate the agency conflicts at IBs, since it neglects stakeholders’ behavioural patterns. Thus, these results suggest the need to shape directors’ financial acumen at IBs.
Rates of Operative Management of Midshaft Clavicle Fracture in Adolescents Have Increased in Florida between 2005 and 2014

Background: It is not known if the adult literature on midshaft clavicle fracture treatment with open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) has influenced injury management in adolescents. Purpose: We sought to longitudinally evaluate the rates of operative management of adolescent midshaft clavicle fractures in the state of Florida. Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of data from the following Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project databases: the State Inpatient Database, the State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Database, and the State Emergency Department Database. Patients in Florida ages 10 to 18 years with midshaft clavicle fractures between 2005 and 2014 were identified along with data on age, sex, race/ethnicity, insurance type, treatment, and income percentile. We reviewed the data to identify trends in the rates of operative management of midshaft clavicle fractures. We then compared the rates of operative management between the first 3 years and the most recent 3 years (2005–2007 vs 2012–2014). Various demographic and socioeconomic factors were compared between patients treated with and without surgery. Descriptive statistics as well as univariate and multivariate analyses were performed. Results: There were 4297 midshaft clavicle fractures in adolescents identified between 2005 and 2014, and 338 (7.8%) of these fractures underwent operative management. There was a significant increase in the rate of operative management; it increased from 4.3% (n = 59) of the 1373 clavicle fractures that occurred between 2005 and 2007 to 11.2% (n = 130) of the 1164 clavicle fractures that occurred between 2012 and 2014. Patients with commercial insurance and patients who were older were more likely to undergo ORIF. Patients with Medicaid were more likely to undergo ORIF between 2012 and 2014 compared with patients with Medicaid between 2005 and 2007. Conclusions: Operative management rates of adolescent midshaft clavicle fractures have significantly increased in Florida over a decade; additional research is needed to understand these findings.
The Goldilocks zone: young adults’ credibility perceptions of online news articles based on visual appearance

ABSTRACT Credibility judgments of online news are affected greatly by perceived expertise and trustworthiness, but users encounter an article’s visual appearance before its content, and yet visual appearance has not been studied in isolation. We conduct two studies of news article visual appearance. The first was with 31 undergraduates who rated the credibility of synthetic newslike articles containing only “lorem ipsum” text, indistinct videos and images, non-functional hyperlinks, and various fonts. The second study was with 30 different university students who rated the credibility of news articles from popular web outlets, half credible and half not. The articles were presented at 5600 words per minute, or 20 times faster than typical reading speeds, enabling only judgments of appearance, not substance. Findings show that credibility is affected by article length, image count and density, and font face and size. These factors interact to yield differential effects on perceived credibility. Articles that struck a balance among factors were most credible, giving rise to the notion of a “Goldilocks zone”, where credibility is highest. Interviews from both studies also revealed that perceived credibility was highest for articles that struck a balance among factors. This work has implications for visual information design, especially for online news.
Performance study of path loss models at 14, 18, and 22 GHz in an indoor corridor environment for wireless communications

The critical rule to achieve extremely high peaks of data transmission is the availability of a tremendous amount of bandwidth. The super high frequency (SHF) and the millimeterwave (mmWave) frequency bands are the candidates for the deployment of the 5555 cellular system and for satisfying future needs due to their massively available blocks of contiguous raw bandwidth that is capable of supporting additional data traffic for multimedia services. This research paper presents propagation measurements at three frequencies above 66 55GGGG, which are 1111, 1111, and 2222 55GGGG frequency bands. The measurements were carried out for both line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) communication scenarios in an indoor corridor environment to present frequencyand distance-dependent wireless channel models. Moreover, this study presents, investigates, and compares the performance of two well-known path loss prediction models; the single frequency close-in (CI) free space reference distance model and the single frequency floating intercept (FI) model. The LOS comparison study shows that the CI and FI models provide comparable and accurate estimates that fit the real measured data for the frequency bands selected. Furthermore, the study investigates the behavior of the path loss exponent (PLE) and the FI model parameters as a function of the reception angle of arrival (AoA) in the NLOS scenario. It is observed from this work that the path loss models’ parameters exhibit symmetrical behavior around 111111° AoA. The FI model provides the same standard deviation values as the CI model in the LOS scenario. In contrast, the FI model offers a notable reduction (up to 22. 1111 dddd) compared to the CI model in the NLOS scenario. Finally, the LOS and NLOS results reveal that the CI and FI models can be trusted as good path loss models for corridor environments and exhibit stable behavior over measured distances and frequencies.
Effects of different processing parameters on the semisolid microstructure of Al6061 produced by a direct thermal method

The effect of different processing parameters consist of pouring temperature and holding time on the semisolid microstructure of Al6061 feedstock billet produced by direct thermal method has been investigated in the present paper. In this experimental works, molten aluminium alloy 6061 was poured into a thin cylindrical copper mould at a constant temperature of 660 °C and held at different holding times of 20 s, 40 s, and 60 s. After it reached the desired holding time, the copper mould was then quenched into room temperature water. The microstructure formation of feedstock billets was characterized after the feedstock billets were taken out from the mould. Results show that, due to the rapid cooling condition of the molten 6061 inside the copper mould, more globular microstructures were obtained. The sample produced with a pouring temperature of 660 °C and holding time of 20 s, globular microstructure were apparent. Simultaneously, the sample with a pouring temperature of 660 °C and a holding time of 20 s produced smaller grain size than the sample with a pouring temperature of 660 °C and a holding time of 40 s and 60 s. Based on the results, the globular microstructures were superior at a shorter holding time, which allowed them to be quenched faster into room temperature water. The results from this experimental works suggest that the DTM feedstock billet globular microstructure formation merely depended on the heat convection of the molten alloy out from the copper mould. The faster heat convection out from the molten alloy which retarded the formation of dendritic microstructure thus transformed it into a globular microstructure for semisolid metal processing.