Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
STUDENTS’ MATHEMATICAL CONNECTION PROCESSES IN PROBLEM POSING BASED ON REFLECTIVE-IMPULSIVE COGNITIVE STYLE

This study aims to describe the student’s mathematical connection processes in problem-posing reviewed by reflective-impulsive cognitive style. This research is descriptive qualitative with the chosen subjects are two female eleventh graders, one having a reflective cognitive style and one having an impulsive cognitive style, with both have a high mathematical ability. The subjects were chosen through analysis of math ability test (TKM), Matching Familiar Figure Test (MFFT), problem-posing test (TPM), and interview results. The result shows that: (1) the processes of mathematical connection of the student with reflective cognitive style in problem-posing are done consecutively. At the understanding information stage, the student identifies mathematics concepts, other science concepts, and their relationships with the real world. At the planning the problem-posing stage, the student plan to make a story problem with mathematics and other sciences concepts that have been identified. At the stage of making problems, the student does as planned and gives clear reasons for the use of information for the problem and the solution. At the re-checking stage, the student checked the completeness of the information that was used in the problem and also checked the correctness of the answer by proving it. (2) The processes of mathematical connection of the student with impulsive cognitive style in problem-posing are done dynamically and don’t up to the re-checking stage. At the stage of understanding information, the student couldn’t directly identify mathematics concepts and other sciences, and so started the processes again by reading information repeatedly, then continued to connect it with the real-world context. At the stage of planning the problem-posing, the student plans to make a story problem related to the mathematics and other sciences concepts that have been identified. At the stage of making problems, the student used all the information given and gave no apparent reason for it.
An Artificial Neural Network Model for Electro-Thermal Effect Affected Hot Carrier Injection Reliability in 14-nm FinFETs

FinFETs have a bright future for advanced analog/RF and digital circuit design in 5G/6G technology. As the integration density increases, the self-heating effect (SHE) becomes more severe, and the hot carrier injection (HCI) reliability of FinFETs further deteriorates since it is highly dependent on temperature. In this article, an artificial neural network (ANN) model for HCI prediction is proposed for 14-nm FinFET with consideration of SHE under various voltage stresses and environment temperature. The HCI numerical simulation can be mainly divided into two parts: 1) the temperature responses for the device under different stresses are obtained by numerically solving time-dependent thermal conduction equation with heat generation in the nanoscale FinFET and 2) based on the transient temperature response to different stress voltages, HCI-induced threshold voltage shift (TVS) as a function of time is captured numerically. Our HCI-induced TVS simulation results agree well with others’ experiment results, which verifies the simulation methods. An ANN model is then developed to predict the TVS induced by HCI with the training data obtained from numerical simulations. The ANN model has good accuracy with an average relative error of 0.36% in predicting TVS and greatly reduces simulation cost once the ANN model is built for the HCI prediction of FinFETs, which has great potential for reliability design in circuits and systems.
JAK2 Unmutated Polycythaemia—Real-World Data of 10 Years from a Tertiary Reference Hospital

(1) Background: Polycythaemia is defined by an increase in haemoglobin (Hb) concentration, haematocrit (Hct) or red blood cell (RBC) count above the reference range adjusted to age, sex and living altitude. JAK2 unmutated polycythaemia is frequent but under-investigated in original publications. In this retrospective cohort study, we investigated the clinical and laboratory data, underlying causes, management and outcomes of JAK2 unmutated polycythaemia patients. (2) Methods: The hospital database was searched to identify JAK2 unmutated patients fulfilling WHO 2016 Hb/Hct criteria for PV (Hb >16.5 g/dL in men and >16 g/dL in women, or Hct > 49% in men and >48% in women, or RBC mass > 25% above mean normal predicted value) between 2008 and 2019. Clinical and laboratory data were collected and analysed. (3) Results: From 727,731 screened patients, 294 (0.04%) were included, the median follow-up time was 47 months. Epo and P50 showed no clear pattern in differentiating causes of polycythaemia. In 30%, the cause remained idiopathic, despite extensive work-up. Sleep apnoea was the primary cause, also in patients under 30. Around 20% had received treatment at any time, half of whom had ongoing treatment at the end of follow-up. During follow-up, 17.2% developed a thromboembolic event, of which 8.5% were venous and 8.8% arterial. The mortality was around 3%. (4) Conclusions: Testing for Epo and P50 did not significantly facilitate identification of underlying causes. The frequency of sleep apnoea stresses the need to investigate this condition. Idiopathic forms are common. A diagnostic flowchart based on our data is proposed here. NGS testing should be considered in young patients with persisting polycythaemia, irrespective of Epo and P50 levels.
The Moderation Role of Need of Social Acceptance on the Relationships between Gender Roles and Sexual Quality

This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of the need for social acceptance in relation to the relationship between gender roles and sexual quality. The study was conducted with 576 participants aged 18 to 65 years who were married or in a relationship. Due to the pandemic, the scales were made available to participants through online platforms. The Personal Information Questionnaire was used to obtain participants' demographic data, the Gender Roles Scale (GRS) to measure their gender perceptions, the New Sexual Satisfaction Scale (NSS) to determine the quality of their sexuality, the Social Approval Need Scale (SANS) to determine their social approval needs. The data were analyzed using the SPSS 25.0 program. According to ANOVA and t-test results, demographic variables differed according to gender roles, sexuality quality, and social approval needs. A positive and negative correlation was found between gender roles and the sexuality quality variable with social approval. As a result of the intermediary variable analysis, it was found that the need for social approval plays an intermediary role in the relationship between gender roles and sexuality quality. The findings were discussed in the context of the results in the field.
SIRT1: A Novel Protective Molecule in Pre-eclampsia

Pre-eclampsia is a severe pregnant complication, mainly characterized by insufficient trophoblast invasion, impaired uterine spiral artery remodeling, placental hypoxia and ischemia, and endothelial dysfunction. However, the potential mechanisms of pre-eclampsia remain unclear. SIRT1 is a NAD+-dependent deacetylase, involving in multiple biological processes, including energy metabolism, oxidative stress, inflammatory response, and cellular autophagy. Several studies showed that SIRT1 might play a vital role in the pathogenesis of pre-eclampsia. In this review, we aim to integrate the latest research on SIRT1 and pre-eclampsia to explore the comprehensive mechanisms of SIRT1 in pre-eclampsia. More specifically, SIRT1 might affect placental development and trophoblast invasion through autophagy and senescence in pre-eclampsia, and SIRT1 protects vascular endothelial cells from oxidative stress, inflammatory response, autophagy, and senescence. Furthermore, SIRT1 deficiency mice showed typical pre-eclampsia-like performances, which can be reversed via direct SIRT1 supplement or SIRT1 agonist treatment. Additionally, resveratrol, a SIRT1 agonist, attenuates vascular endothelial injury and placental dysfunction, and exerts protective effect on decreasing blood pressure. In this review, we provide new insights into the development of pre-eclampsia, which can establish a theoretical basis for prevention and treatment for pre-eclampsia. Besides, we also propose questions that still need to be further addressed in order to elucidate the comprehensive molecular mechanisms of pre-eclampsia in the future.
Population Attributable Risks of Potential Modifiable Factors for Atrial Fibrillation in China: A National Survey

Background There is an association between atrial fibrillation (AF) and overall mortality as well as mobility. It is not known, however, what the preventable burden of AF in China is. This study aims to identify what proportion of the burden of AF may be avoided by modifiable risk factors. Methods As part of the China National Stroke Screening and Prevention Project, 726,451 adults aged ≥40 years were enrolled in a representative cross-sectional study. The following seven factors have been categorized as modifiable risk factors for AF: body mass index, smoking, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and dyslipidemia. In order to calculate population-attributable risks (PARs), odds ratios (ORs) were calculated for selected risk factors. Results The crude ORs increased with age (ORs ranged from 1.92 to 4.02). A total of 18,736 cases of prevalent AF have been identified. The overall prevalence of AF was 2.6%. The crude ORs increased with age (ORs range 1.92–4.03). The adjusted ORs and the corresponding confidence intervals (CIs) for these seven modifiable factors were 1.16 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.12–1.19), 1.56 (95% CI: 1.49–1.62), 2.15 (95% CI: 2.02–2.28), 2.07 (95% CI: 2.01–2.14), 2.71 (95% CI: 2.62–2.79), 2.10 (95% CI: 2.02–2.19), 2.52 (95% CI: 2.44–2.60), and 3.32 (95% CI: 3.18–3.48), respectively. Accordingly, 59.3% of all cases of AF could be explained by having these modifiable risk factors, among which hypertension accounted for the greatest share. Conclusion In China, hypertension is the leading preventable cause of AF, and more than half of these cases can be prevented through improving those modifiable risk factors.
Research on Non-Cognitive Ability Disparity of Chinese Adolescent Students: A Rural-Urban Analysis

ABSTRACT This paper has examined rural-urban Chinese student’s non-cognitive abilities using the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS) by employing include Two-Sample t-Test, Regression analysis, and Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition analysis. The results reveal a significant gap in the non-cognitive abilities of rural and urban students in which that of the urban students is higher. Furthermore, irrespective of whether rural or urban, male students have higher non-cognitive ability than female students. Moreover, it discovered that about 52% of the rural-urban non-cognitive abilities gap accounted by the following factors, namely region, gender, whether the student is the only child, school grade, and ethnic minority.
Life history traits modulate the influence of environmental stressors on biodiversity: The case of fireflies, climate and artificial light at night

Artificial light at night (ALAN) is an unprecedented stressor recently introduced in the abiotic milieu of natural landscapes. As such, understanding how ALAN and other natural stressors act in concert to shape the spatial distribution of biodiversity is a core goal in conservation ecology. Here, we aim at understanding how ALAN and climate interact with life history traits and courtship signalling systems to dictate the composition of firefly communities in a global biodiversity hotspot.
Norethisterone Reduces Vaginal Bleeding Caused by Progesterone-Only Birth Control Pills

(1) Background: Progesterone-only pills (POP) are widely used contraceptives. About 40% of women taking these pills report vaginal bleeding/spotting; 25% find this a reason for cessation. To date, no effective remedy has been described. We aimed to examine the therapeutic approaches offered by health providers. (2) Methods: A prospective questionnaire-based study of women experiencing vaginal bleeding due to POP, comparing the effectiveness of prescribed therapies. Women were recruited through social networks, and subsequently divided into groups according to the treatment offered: (1) POP with norethisterone (n = 36); (2) double dose POP (n = 19); (3) single dose POP (continuing initial treatment, n = 57); and (4) different POP formula (n = 8). Women rated bleeding quantity and frequency at four intervals, at weeks 0, 2, 4, and 6. (3) Results: Women who added 5 mg norethisterone acetate reported a significant decrease in bleeding frequency compared to the other groups, observed after 2, 4, and 6 weeks (p-values 0.019, 0.002, and 0.002, respectively). Women also reported an overall decrease in combined bleeding quantity and frequency (p-values 0.028, 0.003, and 0.005, respectively). There was no difference in the rate of side effects among groups. (4) Conclusions: Adding 5 mg norethisterone acetate (Primolut-nor) to progesterone-only pills significantly reduces bleeding and spotting associated with POP contraception.
Species richness and composition of Caribbean aquatic entomofauna: role of climate, island area, and distance to mainland

From a literature review, we constructed a database comprising >1000 freshwater insect species (especially Odonata, Coleoptera, Trichoptera, Ephemeroptera; OCTE) in 26 Geographical Caribbean Units (GCU) and quantified local filtering (climate heterogeneity, annual rainfall, annual temperature), geography (area, distance from the mainland) and emergence age as a proxy for island ontogeny. We investigated the relative role of these variables on the species richness, endemism and composition of the units using island species-area relationship (ISAR), generalised linear modelling (GLM) and nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS). In addition, we analysed the spatial patterns of species richness and composition using Moran’s I index. ISAR generally demonstrated one or two thresholds and continuous or discontinuous responses according to OCTE groups. A small island effect could be detected for Trichoptera and Ephemeroptera richness, whereas Odonata and Coleoptera only demonstrated differences in slope between smaller and larger GCUs. Area, climate heterogeneity, maximal rainfall and distance from mainland were major drivers of species composition in GCUs, whereas local climate variables were of main importance for the endemism rate. Due to the potential complexity of the Caribbean island ontogeny, middle-stage islands had an expected higher freshwater invertebrate richness than younger ones but an unexpected lower richness compared to older islands. Finally, the degree of colonization of islands was linked to the dispersal ability of species, with Odonata and Coleoptera having larger distribution ranges than Trichoptera and Ephemeroptera, which were more restricted by their comparatively narrow ecological niches. The high endemism (>60%) found in the Caribbean freshwaters calls for more conservation effort in managing these highly threatened freshwater environments.
Evaluation of Consumers' Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Regarding Front-ofPackage (FOP) Labels at the Point of Purchase

Background: Food labeling is one of the information promotion policies designed to support necessary information of the products that consumer purchase. However, food labeling giving incentives to the food industry to reformulate their products with healthier nutrients. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted as a point-of-purchase survey on 550 customers in chain stores in Tabriz, Iran. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire that assessed the respondents' knowledge, perception, and behaviors towards the information on food labels. Results: The results showed that 91.8% of the consumers had knowledge about food label information. Among all the nutritional information included on food labels, the participants were most aware of the information about the calories and fat content of the foods. Most of the respondents (84.7%) paid attention to food labels to observe the expiration and production dates, 51.6% were looking at food prices in food labels, and only 8.7% of the participants read food labels to obtain information about the food additives and artificial color contents. Conclusion: Our study suggests that food labeling could be an effective measure in health policy when the consumers' nutrition knowledge and awareness regarding how to use and interpret the information on food labels increases.
Enhanced Semantic Segmentation of Aerial images with Spatial Smoothness Using CRF Model

This paper addresses a deep learning method for high-resolution semantic segmentation in aerial images. U-net architecture promises end-to-end learning from basic ideas, making hand feature design deserted. However, the problem is gradually collecting information over larger image regions, making separating donations from different pixels. To solve this problem, the proposed training strategy is based on U-net, which contains two parts: contraction and expansion to segment foreground and background pixels. In addition, the significance of conditional random field (CRF) is applied to improve the accuracy of semantic segmentation. The proposed algorithm was evaluated on the Semantic segmentation of aerial imagery (Satellite images of Dubai) dataset, containing six common resources Land, Building, Road, Vegetation, Water, Unlabeled. The experimental findings reveal that the suggested approach outperforms other algorithms by achieving 0.99 accuracies and loss function 0.58.
Occurrence of Mycotoxins and Toxigenic Fungi in Cereals and Application of Yeast Volatiles for Their Biological Control

Fungal infections in cereals lead to huge economic losses in the food and agriculture industries. This study was designed to investigate the occurrence of toxigenic fungi and their mycotoxins in marketed cereals and explore the effect of the antagonistic yeast Cyberlindnera jadinii volatiles against key toxigenic fungal strains. Aspergillus spp. were the most frequent contaminating fungi in the cereals, with an isolation frequency (Fr) of 100% in maize, followed by wheat (88.23%), rice (78.57%) and oats (14.28%). Morphological and molecular identification confirmed the presence of key toxigenic fungal strains in cereal samples, including A. carbonarius, A. flavus, A. niger, A. ochraceus and A. parasiticus. Aflatoxins (AFs) were detected in all types of tested cereal samples, with a significantly higher level in maize compared to wheat, rice, oats and breakfast cereals. Ochratoxin A (OTA) was only detected in wheat, rice and maize samples. Levels of mycotoxins in cereals were within EU permissible limits. The volatiles of Cyberlindnera jadinii significantly inhibited the growth of A. parasiticus, A. niger and P. verrucosum. The findings of this study confirm the presence of toxigenic fungi and mycotoxins in cereals within the EU permissible limits and the significant biocontrol ability of Cyberlindnera jadinii against these toxigenic fungi.
A molecular line survey of the merger NGC 3256

A molecular-line survey of the southern merger remnant NGC 3256, made with the SEST 15 m telescope, is presented. Four lines were detected: C 18 O(J=1-0), CS (J=2-1), HCN (J=1-0) and HCO + (J=1-0), and an upper limit for the CH 3 OH (2 K -1 K ) line obtained. At the 9 kpc scale, the line intensities derived for CS, HCN and HCO + relative to 12 CO are within the range reported for CO-bright spirals at the much smaller scale of 1 kpc. They are weaker than those measured in Arp 220, which in turn compare to what is found at the 200 pc scale in the same spirals
On Asymptotic Stability of Leader–Follower Multiagent Systems Under Transient Constraints

We address the agreement-based coordination of first-order multiagent systems interconnected over arbitrary connected undirected graphs and under transient and steady-state constraints. The system is in a leader-follower configuration where only a part of the agents, the leaders, are directly controlled via an external control input, in addition to the agreement protocol. We propose a control law for the leaders, based on the gradient of a potential function, that achieves consensus and guarantees that the trajectories of the inter-agent distances of the entire system remain bounded by a performance function. Relying on the edge-agreement framework and Lyapunov’s first method, we establish strong stability results in the sense of asymptotic stability of the consensus manifold and, in the leaderless case, nonuniform-in-time input-to-state stability with respect to additive disturbances. A numerical simulation illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Association Between Self-Rated Positive Mental Health and Exposure to Potentially Morally Injurious Events in Deployed Canadian Forces Personnel

ABSTRACT Mental health has traditionally been viewed as an absence of mental illness; however more recent conceptualizations have begun to incorporate an ability to function in society. Thus, an individual’s mental health can be placed on a dual-continuum where someone who functions well but has a mental illness, can be considered mentally healthy; while another individual who is free of mental illness could be considered as lacking mental health if they are not functioning well. Using the Mental Health Continuum – Short Form (MHC-SF), this study set out to determine the prevalence rates of positive mental health in a sample of recently deployed Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members, and how these rates of positive mental health might be affected by exposure to potentially morally injurious events (PMIE). Results revealed that the positive mental health status of CAF members differed only slightly from those reported for the Canadian population as a whole. However, when CAF members’ positive mental health statuses were compared according to PMIE exposure, those who reported exposure were 37% less likely to be considered flourishing (ranging from 25% to 37% depending on PMIE question), and 138% more likely to be languishing (ranging from 71% to 229% depending on PMIE question) when compared to those who were not exposed. Results support the need for further research into the emotional, psychological, and behavioral ramifications of PMIE exposure in military personnel.