Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Voices From the Community: Maternal Healthcare Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Introduction The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had a significant impact on health services around the world. Many hospitals and clinics were overwhelmed by the influx of patients, leading to delays and disruptions in care. The fear of contracting the virus also led to a decrease in the number of people seeking medical care, even for urgent or life-threatening conditions. Various studies have reported a decrease in overall utilization of maternal health services. However, it remains vital to find the reasons for reduced utilization along with the experiences of the women as well as healthcare workers during the pandemic. Objective The objective of this study was to identify the facilitators and barriers to maternal healthcare services utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods It was a qualitative study conducted in a rural area of Haryana, India. Twelve in-depth interviews (IDIs) were conducted with health workers and four focused group discussions (FGDs) were conducted with pregnant women. Textual analysis was done for both IDIs as well as FGDs. Qualitative analysis was done manually. Results The identified themes were complete cessation of services, no outpatient department (OPD) services for many months, no antenatal care (ANC) services for two months, disruption of supply of medicines, unavailability of drugs, fear of getting COVID-19 infection, mandatory COVID-19 negative report for admission in hospital, and increased referral from government health facilities during the pandemic and lockdown. Conclusion Maternal healthcare services suffered during COVID-19 for various reasons including the closure of health facilities, limited supply of stocks, or fear of the disease among pregnant women. This evidence can be used to prepare as well as manage healthcare services in future.
The Contribution Of Emotional Intelligence In Students' Basketball Playing Skills

This research aims to discover the correlation between emotional intelligence and basketball-playing skills in physical education students at the University of Muhammadiyah Palopo. This quantitative research with a correlational design with 29 students who programmed the basketball teaching as the sample. This sample was determined by using the total sampling technique. The Data were collected using an emotional intelligence questionnaire via Google form, while the researcher measured the playing skill using a test. The collected data were analyzed by using SPSS 25.0 for windows. The Correlation test results show that the significant value is smaller than 0.05(0.000 ≤ 0.05), and T- arithmetic is bigger than T-table (5.126≥2.055). Thus, it can be concluded that emotional intelligence correlates with basketball playing skills.
q-deformed statistics and the role of light fermionic dark matter in SN1987A cooling

Light dark matter($\simeq 1-30~\rm{MeV}$) particles pair produced in electron-positron annihilation $ e^-e^+ \stackrel{\gamma}{\longrightarrow} \chi \bar{\chi}$ inside the supernova core can take away the energy released in the supernova SN1987A explosion. Working within the formalism of $q$-deformed statistics (with the average value of the supernovae core temperature(fluctuating) being $T_{SN} = 30~\rm{MeV}$) and using the Raffelt's criterion on the emissivity for any new channel $\dot{\varepsilon}(e^+ e^- \to \chi \overline{\chi}) \le 10^{19}~{erg~g^{-1}s^{-1}}$, we find that as the deformation parameter $q$ changes from $1.0$ (undeformed scenario) to $1.1$(deformed scenario), the lower bound on the scale $\Lambda$ of the dark matter effective theory varies from $3.3\times 10^6$ TeV to $3.2 \times 10^7$ TeV for a dark matter fermion of mass $m_\chi = 30~\rm{MeV}$. Using the optical depth criteria on the free streaming of the dark matter fermion, we find the lower bound on $\Lambda \sim 10^{8}~\rm{TeV}$ for $m_\chi = 30~\rm{MeV}$. In a scenerio,where the dark matter fermions are pair produced in the outermost sector of the supernova core (with radius $0.9 R_c \le r \le R_c$, $R_c (=10~\rm{km})$ being the supernova core radius or the radius of proto-neutron star), we find that the bound on $\Lambda$ ($\sim 3 \times 10^7$ TeV)obtained from SN cooling criteria (Raffelt's criteria) is comparable with the bound obtained from free streaming (optical depth criterion) for light fermion dark matter of mass $m_{\chi}=10 - 30$ MeV.
Damaging Surface Wind Mechanisms within the 10 June 2003 Saint Louis Bow Echo during BAMEX

Abstract Detailed radar and damage survey analyses of a severe bow echo event that occurred on 10 June 2003 during the Bow Echo and Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) Experiment are presented. A bow echo formed just east of Saint Louis, Missouri, and produced a continuous straight-line wind damage swath approximately 8 km in width and 50 km in length along with five F0–F1 tornadoes. Careful superposition of the damage survey analysis and Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) data from Saint Charles, Missouri (KLSX), showed that the primary straight-line wind damage swath was not collocated with the bow echo apex as has been suggested in previous studies. Rather, the primary damage swath was found north of the bow apex, collocated with a low-level vortex that formed on the leading edge of the bow echo. Much of the primary damage swath appeared to have been created by the low-level vortex. Moreover, most of the surface straight-line wind damage was generated during the early stages of bow echo mo.
Form data as a resource in architectural analysis: an architectural distant reading of wooden churches from the Carpathian Mountain regions of Eastern Europe

ABSTRACT Recent research into architectural form analysis using deep learning (DL) methods has shown potential to identify features from large collections of building data, shedding new light into formal aspects of our built environment. As these methods begin to enter architectural, urban, and policy design contexts, it becomes important to develop critical approaches to employing them. In this paper, we document and reflect upon our efforts to create a custom dataset of 3-D models of 331 wooden churches located within the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe, and to use DL methods to explore this dataset with the goal of revealing unexpected formal traits and advancing architectural scholarship on this subject. While existing scholarship groups them into four distinct stylistic categories, our analysis reveals stylistic overlaps, previously undetected micro styles, and shared architectural features. We posit the resulting analyses as an example of an ‘architectural distant reading’ that enriches our understanding of this architectural typology through an unprecedentedly detailed portrait of its formal characteristics based on a large architectural dataset. Crucially, drawing on recent developments in critical data and algorithm studies, we show how the dataset construction and subsequent analyses, and their results, were shaped by slow, manual data curation processes, methodological constraints, subjective decisions, and engagements with archives, domain experts. We thus illustrate how DL techniques might be contextualized for architectural studies in relation to other modes of knowledge and labour, and offer a detailed case study of state-of-the-art computational methods enriching established approaches to architectural form and historical analysis.
Double-slit experiments and decay probability in microwave billiards

The present doctoral thesis is concerned, on the one hand, with the investigation of the decay probability in a quantum billiard, and, on the other, the realization of the double-slit experiment in microwave billiards. For both purposes transmission elements of the scattering matrix are experimentally measured in microwave cavities with regular and chaotic dynamics. One or more pieces of the billiards' boundary are removed and the leaked outward eld is investigated. The general aim is to distinguish the eect of the billiard dynamics on the temporal decay behaviour and on the interference patterns. The decay probability in an open quantum billiard can be explored by means of the scattering matrix formalismus derived in the framework of nuclear physics. In a circular billiard, archetype of regular systems, the opening breaks the spatial symmetry causing a splitting of the degenerate states observable at low frequencies. One state of the doublet remains unaected contributing to the long-time behavior inside the cavity (survival probability), while the short-lived one is strongly influenced by the opening and decays much faster. The case of chaotic dynamics is studied by means of a tilted stadium billiard. For sufficiently long times the decay probability shows an essentially nonexponential behaviour. Agreement with theoretical results derived by Harney, Dittes and Muller is obtained for a few of the open channels and intermediate times. For both, the circle and the stadium,the short time decay resembles the classical behaviour. Furthermore, a double-slit experiment is performed with a wave packet starting inside a microwave billiard domain, both for regular and chaotic dynamics. Stationary and temporal patterns formed by the leaking of the wave packet are experimentally determined. The evolution of a directed initial state is constructed by means of the electromagnetic propagator. Also single-slit experiments are carried out and compared with the corresponding double-slit experiments. The present work sheds light on the fundamental question of the decay of open quantum systems and provides plentiful information about the structure of the diracted eld from microwave billards with a double-slit on the boundary connecting classical properties with the corresponding quantum features in both cases.
Suburothelial hemorrhage masquerading as renal neoplasms: a case report of antopol Goldman lesion

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC), which accounts for 2-3% of all adult malignancies, is one of the most lethal urologic cancers. They are sporadic in the majority of cases with 4-6% being familial. They are adenocarcinomas arising from renal tubular epithelial cells. They can present with symptoms of loin pain, palpable mass and haematuria. Another rare presentation is spontaneous perirenal haemorrhage which can be seen in up to 50% of these patients. These patients are also predisposed to increased risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) due to prevailing pro-thrombogenic state. Management requires radical nephrectomy for localised disease, targeted therapy and cytoreductive nephrectomy for metastatic RCC. Our patient is adult female who was referred to surgical OPD given her history of gross haematuria and right flank pain for 6 days. She is a known case of DVT on treatment with Warfarin for 4 years. A diagnosis of renal malignancy was made, contrast CT was suggestive of solid mass lesion of the upper pole of calyx likely transitional cell carcinoma (TCC)/papillary RCC. She underwent an urgent radical nephrectomy which showed a hard 5×5 cm lump in the upper pole of the kidney, revealing a clot on the cut section. Post-op HPE showed a large subcapsular hematoma in the upper pole with microscopy showing large areas of haemorrhage surrounded by chronic inflammatory infiltrate, likely Antopol Goldman lesion notorious for its similarity to renal malignancy.
E-Learning in Practical Coures of Physical Education and Sports During Pandemic

Physical education and sports can be a means of learning in encouraging students' physical and mental knowledge, appreciation, and reasoning. The main goal to be achieved in this research is to examine and describe the effectiveness of e-learning in physical education and sports education courses. This research is in the form of a quantitative survey with 33 samples using a total sampling technique. Data collection techniques using observation, questionnaires, field notes, and documentation. Data analysis used a quantitative descriptive method with a percentage scale. The results of this study indicate that there are two essential elements that lecture activities using online media have been implemented effectively. In the opinion of students as students, the implementation has been carried out according to the provisions. However, there are still some obstacles and obstacles, especially the internet network. Therefore, things still a barrier, such as signals and devices used during lectures, can be worked around with the group study method and determining an excellent point to get an internet network.
Financial Availability on Performance of MSMEs: Mediation of Entrepreneurial Orientation and Business Actor’s Rationality

This study investigates how business actors' entrepreneurial orientation and rationality affect MSMEs' performance, as well as how the availability of financing affects that performance. Using a random sampling technique, we surveyed 195 MSMEs from various business fields. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling and AMOS and SPSS software. We discovered that the mediation of entrepreneurial orientation and decision-making rationality significantly impacted the relationship between financial availability and performance. Adequate funding encourages an entrepreneurial mindset and the development of innovations that improve overall performance. The study suggests that business actors improve their capabilities, including managerial skills, practices, and procedures in the financial sector. When adequate funds are available, they could be used to improve performance. The study adds to the dynamic capability theory by demonstrating that MSMEs must be able to integrate, construct, and reconfigure their financial resources in the face of rapid environmental changes.
Regional Infrastructure Effects on the Life Satisfaction of Rural and Urban Residents. A Case Study for Ecuador

In developing countries, many households lack basic household services and the provision of utility infrastructure is uneven across regions, leaving lagged regions behind. This lack of infrastructure in specific places can affect the welfare of its inhabitants. This paper aims to measure the influence of household basic services and sub-national infrastructure activities on individual subjective well-being in Ecuador. To determine how important the geographical context is for individual welfare, a hierarchical ordered logistic multilevel model is conducted. The results show that the individual heterogeneity is explained in 7% by the variation across cantons. There are 52 cantons that are above the average life satisfaction and 43 cantons below it. Findings regarding infrastructure evidence that sub-national utility projects and road infrastructure have a positive significant effect on the life satisfaction of rural residents whereas it is not significant for urban residents, indicating the diminishing marginal utility of urban people. Once a satiation point is achieved, marginal utility increases are lower. As for household services, access to the internet has a higher positive welfare effect than access to sewerage and access to water via pipelines.
Geometry of complex Monge-Ampere equations

The Kähler-Ricci flow is studied on compact Kähler manifolds with positive first Chern class, where it reduces to a parabolic complex Monge-Ampère equation. It is shown that the flow converges to a Kähler-Einstein metric if the curvature remains bounded along the flow, and if the manifold is stable in an algebro-geometric sense. On a compact Calabi-Yau manifold there is a unique Ricci-flat Kähler metric in each Kähler cohomology class, produced by Yau solving a complex Monge-Ampère equation. The behaviour of these metrics when the class degenerates to the boundary of the Kähler cone is studied. The problem splits into two cases, according to whether the total volume goes to zero or not. On a compact symplectic four-manifold Donaldson has proposed an analog of the complex Monge-Ampère equation, the Calabi-Yau equation. If solved, it would lead to new results in symplectic topology. We solve the equation when the manifold is nonnegatively curved, and reduce the general case to bounding an integral of a scalar function.
An Extended Linear Difference Model for Mortality Projection, with Applications to Japan

Author(s): Ishii, Futoshi | Advisor(s): Wachter, Kenneth W; Wilmoth, John R | Abstract: In this dissertation, we propose the Tangent Vector Field (TVF) model for Japanese mortality projection, which is an extended Linear Difference (LD) model, and show its applications. In the two chapters following the introduction, we describe the mortality trends in Japan and review the mortality projection models for Japan. Then, in the following two chapters, we describe the data and methods for the mortality models, show the results of fitting, and discuss them with special emphasis on the LD model. We describe the mathematical formulations for decline-type and shift-type models, and discuss the inverse function of log mortality and differential forms of mortality models. We discuss five models: two decline-type models (the Proportional Hazard (PH) and Lee--Carter (LC) models), and three shift-type models (the Horizontal Shifting (HS), Horizontal Lee--Carter (HL), and LD models). In particular, we compare the LC and LD models from a statistical viewpoint. The result guides better construction of a mortality projection model, namely, a blended model with LC properties in youth and LD properties in older age. In the last chapter, we propose the TVF model applying the idea of tangent vector fields on the log mortality surface. We show a fully specified example of the projection procedure of the TVF model with all constants and coefficients applied for Japanese mortality projection. Then, we compare the TVF and LC models' results of mortality projection. From the observation of the relative mortality rates, we see that the LC model expresses mortality improvement only in a vertical direction, whereas the TVF model succeeds in expressing a shifting of mortality improvement in the direction of older ages that are observed in the actual mortality. In addition, we compare the projected mx curves. The mx by the LC model exhibits an unnatural pattern because the slope of the curve diminishes once around the age of 60 years and becomes much steeper after 80 years. The curve of the TVF model is more plausible. As a whole, we observe that the TVF model has many advantages for Japanese mortality projection compared with the LC model. We show that the TVF model proposed in this dissertation is not only quite useful for Japanese mortality projection but also has various applicability. At this point in time, there may be few countries with such strong shifting features for old age mortality as Japan. However, some countries are likely to experience the same mortality situation as Japan in the future through the extension of life expectancy. Thus, the TVF model will be a useful tool for projections in such situations.
The relationship between the risk of the asset and its expected rate of return: a case of stock exchange market of five European countries

Abstract The study proposes to verify the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and its validity for stock markets in the selected European countries’ stock markets: Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Czech Republic. We examined the top 40 companies listed in the five European countries through a data-set collected on a weekly basis from January 2009 to December 2013. The CAPM model is tested by performing a two-stage regression methodology using Eviews. We performed a first-stage regression to estimate stocks of the beta through a linear regression. After that, we used a second-stage cross-sectional regression to estimate the relationship of the average return of the portfolio and its beta. It is concluded that there is no relationship between average return of the portfolio and its beta. However, we only found that there was a linear relationship between the expected returns and beta of the Italian stock market. The negative relationship does not support the CAPM theory. Therefore, it is concluded that the CAPM does not hold for the selected sample of the five European countries’ stock markets.
Applying the temporal self-regulation theory to understand sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among Chinese college students

ABSTRACT Objective Worldwide, there is a growing trend that college students are consuming more and more sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). In order to develop effective intervention strategies, it is important to explore what social-cognitive factors impact on college students’ SSB consumption. Building on the temporal self-regulation theory (TST), the current study aimed to examine the effects of intention, behavioral prepotency, and self-regulatory capacity on SSB consumption among college students. Design Data were collected from five hundred Chinese college students online. Participants self-reported their intention, behavioral prepotency (environmental cues and habits), self-regulatory capacity, and behaviors of SSB consumption. Results Study findings showed that intention, behavioral prepotency, and self-regulatory capacity accounted for 32.9% of variance in SSB consumption. In terms of the direct effects, intention, behavioral prepotency, and self-regulatory capacity were significantly associated with the SSB consumption among college students. In addition, self-regulatory capacity and habits but not the environmental cues showed significant moderation effects on the intention-SSB consumption path, indicating that individual factors rather than environmental cues influenced the intention-behavior path of SSB consumption among college students. Conclusion Findings of the current study demonstrated that the TST can be used to explain and understand the impacts of social-cognitive factors on college students’ SSB consumption. Future research can apply TST to develop effective intervention programs targeting the reduction of SSB consumption among college students.
Van Allen Probes observation and modeling of chorus excitation and propagation during weak geomagnetic activities

We report correlated data on nightside chorus waves and energetic electrons during two small storm periods: 1 November 2012 (Dst≈−45) and 14 January 2013 (Dst≈−18). The Van Allen Probes simultaneously observed strong chorus waves at locations L = 5.8–6.3, with a lower frequency band 0.1–0.5fce and a peak spectral density ∼10−4 nT2/Hz. In the same period, the fluxes and anisotropy of energetic (∼10–300 keV) electrons were greatly enhanced in the interval of large negative interplanetary magnetic field Bz. Using a bi‐Maxwellian distribution to model the observed electron distribution, we perform ray tracing simulations to show that nightside chorus waves are indeed produced by the observed electron distribution with a peak growth for a field‐aligned propagation approximately between 0.3fce and 0.4fce, at latitude <7°. Moreover, chorus waves launched with initial normal angles either θ<90° or >90° propagate along the field either northward or southward and then bounce back either away from Earth for a lower frequency or toward Earth for higher frequencies. The current results indicate that nightside chorus waves can be excited even during weak geomagnetic activities in cases of continuous injection associated with negative Bz. Moreover, we examine a dayside event during a small storm C on 8 May 2014 (Dst≈−45) and find that the observed anisotropic energetic electron distributions potentially contribute to the generation of dayside chorus waves, but this requires more thorough studies in the future.