Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Pengembangan E-Modul Interaktif Berbasis Proyek Pada Mata Kuliah Sistem Evaluasi Pembelajaran Matematika

Abstract Improving the quality of education was obtained by the process of learning evaluation, so the skills was required in conducting a good learning evaluation. However, the research, in fact, showed that many teachers found difficulty in carrying out assessment in the curriculum 2013. An effort that could be done to improve the skill of students as prospective teachers in conducting learning evaluation was the application of project-based learning methods to train performance. Learning methods could be developed by changing the presentation of teaching materials from the printed module into modules set in digital format or electronic module (E-module). By applying ADDIE development model, the first result obtained from validity test of project-based interactive e-module in mathematical learning system evaluation courses validated by media experts and design experts included in the category was very valid with the precentage value 85, so it could be concluded that e-module feasible to use. Some input from the instructional media expert was to note the size of a particular font and add the latest features. The input of the design of the learning expert was to improve the grammar, especially foreign terms. In addition, the calculation result showed that 81,81% of the students gave the very positive response, and 18,18% positive student response with precentage value. Keywords: Interactive E-module, Project, Learning Evalution
14C Variations During the Upper Pleistocene

Parallel determinations of 14C and ionium dates on a stalagmite from the Cango Caves provide evidence of variations in the 14C content of the atmosphere beyond the range of the California tree-ring sequence. During the Holocene growth period the 230Th dates are compatible with the tree-ring calibrated 14C dates. At 18,000 BP and between 30,000 and 40,000 BP the 14C ages are markedly younger than the 230Th ages, suggesting that the 14C level of the atmosphere was considerably higher at these times. Between the 230Th ages of 35,000 and 29,000 BP the 14C ages remain nearly constant at 29,500 BP, indicating that 14C production must have been drastically reduced during this period. The 14C fluctuation is greater than that predicted by Barbetti (1980) but it may be explained by postulating a substantial increase in the geomagnetic dipole field, for which there is mounting evidence.
CLIMATE CHANGE IN CROATIA, SERBIA, HUNGARY AND BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: COMPARISON THE 2010 AND 2012 MAIZE GROWING SEASONS

Maize is the main field crop on arable land in Croatia, Serbia, Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). In the period 2006-2010 total of 2 854506 ha (5-y mean) of arable lands in this area was covered by maize. Annual maize yield variations were from 3.6 to 7.5 t ha-1 (Hungary), from 3.2 to 5.9 t ha-1 (Serbia), from 4.9 to 8.0 t ha-1 (Croatia) and from 3.2 to 5.1 t ha-1 (B&H). The aim of this study was testing the 2010 and 2012 growing seasons for maize in terms of weather characteristics. Maize yields in 2012 (4.34 t ha-1 in Croatia, 3.98 t ha-1 in Hungary 2.78 t ha-1 in Serbia and 2.74 t ha-1 and in B&H were lower than in especially favorable 2010 by 53%, 38%, 38% and 40% respectively.
Long-Term Follow-Up of HRQoL up to Six Years after Outpatient Phase-II Cardiac Rehabilitation

Background: Low health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes in coronary heart disease (CHD) patients. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) improves HRQoL; however, evidence on long-term HRQoL changes after CR, and their predictors, is missing. Methods: A total of 153 patients with complete HRQoL data in the short-form (SF)-36 Health Survey at CR entry, discharge and follow-up were included. Using linear mixed-effects regression models for repeated time measurements, we examined predictors of follow-up HRQoL, including age and clinical characteristics. Results: Both physical (t = −5.66, p < 0.001) and mental (t = −2.06, p = 0.040) HRQoL improved significantly from CR entry to discharge, with improvements remaining stable over a mean follow-up of four years (range 2.4–6.1). Better functional capacity (6MWT) at CR entry predicted better physical HRQoL (t = 5.50, p < 0.001) and, with a trend, better mental HRQoL (t = 1.92, p = 0.056) at follow-up. A psychiatric diagnosis at CR entry predicted better mental HRQoL at follow-up (t = 3.85, p < 0.001). Conclusions: Improvements in HRQoL during CR remain stable during long-term follow-up. Levels of functional capacity appear to be relevant to both physical and mental HRQoL at follow-up.
CHINA'S PATH TO GREAT POWER STATUS IN THE GLOBALIZATION ERA

Not since the debate in the mid-1960s over containment with or without isolation have the implications of rising Chinese power been so pervasive and controversial as in recent years. This article joins the debate by tracking and explaining China's path to great power status in the post-cold war era of globalization. Globalization has greatly infiuenced not only the dynamics of power on the world stage but also the very meaning of power. While external assessments of the significance of a rising China vary considerably depending on normative or theoretical perspective , China's own conceptualization and assessment have come to focus more on economic, scientific, and technological than military factors. As China is increasingly integrated into the world community , how it wields whatever power it holds determines in the end the character of its international influence.
Experimental study of the performance of plastic pipes buried in dune sand

This paper presents a laboratory model to study the performance of plastic pipes installed in dune sand. Model PVC pipes were installed in a rigid steel tank and tested. The model simulated trench construction with the pipe placed in the middle of the tank and dune sand along the boundaries and on the bottom of the tank to simulate the native soil. The bedding underneath the pipe and the backfill around the pipe were constructed using carefully placed and compacted dune sand. For comparison purposes, a well-selected coarse sand was also used as a bedding material. Different factors were considered such as type of bedding, degree of compaction of bedding, soil cover depth, magnitude of applied surface pressure, and load repetition. The experimental results showed that plastic pipes can be installed in well-placed and compacted dune sand bedding and backfill. A minimum soil cover of 2d is required to guard against adverse effects of surface loading on the pipe. The pipe behaved in elastic range during all stages of loading with small amount of unrecoverable deformations upon the removal of all loads. However, significant recovery (or rebound) occurred only after the removal of all applied surface pressure and portion of the soil cover soil up to 1d above the crown.
Evaluation of Urinary L-FABP as a Tubular Damage Marker in Pediatric Neurogenic Bladder—A Pilot Study

The article aims to find potential biomarker for the detection of tubular damage in pediatric neurogenic bladder (NB) by investigating urinary levels of liver-type fatty acid-binding protein (uL-FABP). This prospective analysis was conducted on two groups: 42 children with NB and 18 healthy children. The uL-FABP concentrations were measured using ELISA methods. The medical charts of the children were examined to determine age, sex, anthropometric measurements, activity assessment using Hoffer’s scale, and renal function parameters. The results revealed that the uL-FABP/creatinine ratio was higher in the study group compared with the reference group, but the difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.52, p > 0.05). However, the uL-FABP/creatinine ratio exhibited a wider range in NB patients compared to the reference group. NB children with proteinuria and the history of high-grade vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) tended to have the highest uL-FABP concentrations. In conclusion, uL-FABP may be considered a potential tubular damage biomarker in children with NB. Proteinuria and the history of VUR may be the factors influencing the uL-FABP.
Supratidal Land Use Change and Its Morphodynamic Effects along the Eastern Coast of Laizhou Bay during the Recent 50 Years

ABSTRACT Wang, Q. ; Zhong, S. Y. ; Li, X. Y. ; Zhan, C. ; Wang X. , and Liu, P., 2016. Supratidal land use change and its morphodynamic effects along the eastern coast of Laizhou Bay during the recent 50 years. Using nautical charts, topographic maps, high resolution remote sensing images and field observation, this study analyzed the land use change of the supratidal zone and its coastal morphodynamic effects along the eastern coast of Laizhou Bay. The results show that land use along the eastern coast of Laizhou bay has been significantly changed in the recent 50 years. The main evolution trend is the transition from aeolian sandy land, woodland and farmland to aquaculture ponds and residential land since the early 1990s. A belt zone of aquaculture facility parallel to the coastline has been formed and dykes are constructed along the outside of the coastal aquiculture zone. The significant land cover change in the supratidal zone has profoundly modified the boundary conditions of storm surges. The hydrodynamic modeling results show that the ocean dynamics near the coastline are enhanced and caused severe erosion of the coastline, beach and underwater coastal sea slope along the eastern coast of Laizhou Bay over the recent 30 years.
Development of a Consumer Health Vocabulary by Mining Health Forum Texts Based on Word Embedding: Semiautomatic Approach

Background The vocabulary gap between consumers and professionals in the medical domain hinders information seeking and communication. Consumer health vocabularies have been developed to aid such informatics applications. This purpose is best served if the vocabulary evolves with consumers’ language. Objective Our objective is to develop a method for identifying and adding new terms to consumer health vocabularies, so that it can keep up with the constantly evolving medical knowledge and language use. Methods In this paper, we propose a consumer health term–finding framework based on a distributed word vector space model. We first learned word vectors from a large-scale text corpus and then adopted a supervised method with existing consumer health vocabularies for learning vector representation of words, which can provide additional supervised fine tuning after unsupervised word embedding learning. With a fine-tuned word vector space, we identified pairs of professional terms and their consumer variants by their semantic distance in the vector space. A subsequent manual review of the extracted and labeled pairs of entities was conducted to validate the results generated by the proposed approach. The results were evaluated using mean reciprocal rank (MRR). Results Manual evaluation showed that it is feasible to identify alternative medical concepts by using professional or consumer concepts as queries in the word vector space without fine tuning, but the results are more promising in the final fine-tuned word vector space. The MRR values indicated that on an average, a professional or consumer concept is about 14th closest to its counterpart in the word vector space without fine tuning, and the MRR in the final fine-tuned word vector space is 8. Furthermore, the results demonstrate that our method can collect abbreviations and common typos frequently used by consumers. Conclusions By integrating a large amount of text information and existing consumer health vocabularies, our method outperformed several baseline ranking methods and is effective for generating a list of candidate terms for human review during consumer health vocabulary development.
Robotic‐assisted approaches to urachal carcinoma: A comprehensive systematic review of the safety and efficacy outcomes

Abstract Introduction Surgical intervention is the treatment of choice in patients with urachal carcinoma. Due to complications and to reduce hospital stay from open surgery, minimally invasive approaches are desirable. Nowadays, robotic‐assisted surgery has become increasingly popular, and robot‐assisted cystectomy can be performed in patients with urachal carcinoma with low complication rates. Methods We performed a systematic review to search for studies that evaluated patients who underwent robotic‐assisted surgery for urachal carcinoma. The outcomes of interest were the type of cystectomy performed, whether there was umbilicus resection, total operative time, console time, intraoperative complications, estimated blood loss, postoperative complications, time of hospitalisation, positive surgical margins and the presence of documented tumour recurrence. Results In this study, we evaluated three cohorts comprising a total of 21 patients. The median follow‐up period ranged from 8 to 40 months. Medium age was between 51 and 54 years, with a majority (63.1%) being male. One patient (5.2%) underwent a radical cystectomy, and 19 patients (94.7%) underwent to partial cystectomy. Umbilical resections were performed in all cases, and pelvic lymphadenectomy in 14 cases (73.6%). Recurrence occurred in three patients at a median of 17 months postoperation, two cases in the trocar insertion site. Additionally, there was one death, which was attributed to postoperative cardiovascular complications. Conclusion Robotic‐assisted partial cystectomy has a low incidence of adverse outcomes in patients with urachal carcinoma. Controlled studies, ideally randomised, are warranted to establish the comparative efficacy and safety of the robotic‐assisted cystectomy approach relative to open surgery.
Analysis of the relationship between perceived stress level and death anxiety in individuals with COPD

ABSTRACT Objectives: The study aimed to investigate the relationship between perceived stress level and death anxiety in individuals with COPD. Method: It was planned with a descriptive and relational screening design. It was carried out with the participation of 132 patients diagnosed with COPD. The study data were collected through Patient Information Form, Perceived Stress Scale, and Death Anxiety Scale. Descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis were used in data analysis. Results: The COPD patients’ total perceived stress scale and perceived insufficient self-efficacy and perceived stress/distress subscale mean scores were found as 32.75 ± 5.32, 15.81 ± 3.60, and 16.93 ± 2.97, respectively. The patients’ Anxiety total scale mean score was determined to be 6.96 ± 3.40. A positive and statistically significant relationship was found between COPD patients’ Perceived Stress total scale mean score and their Death Anxiety Scale mean score (F = 4.332, p < 0.05). Conclusion: Perceived stress level of COPD patients was found to be at a high level, while their death anxiety level was determined as moderate. It was also determined that as perceived stress levels of the patients increased, their death anxiety levels also increased.
Residual Neuromuscular Block Remains a Safety Concern for Perioperative Healthcare Professionals: A Comprehensive Review

Residual neuromuscular block (RNMB) remains a significant safety concern for patients throughout the perioperative period and is still widely under-recognized by perioperative healthcare professionals. Current literature suggests an association between RNMB and an increased risk of postoperative pulmonary complications, a prolonged length of stay in the post anesthesia care unit (PACU), and decreased patient satisfaction. The 2023 American Society of Anesthesiologists Practice Guidelines for Monitoring and Antagonism of Neuromuscular Blockade provide guidance for the use of quantitative neuromuscular monitoring coupled with neuromuscular reversal to recognize and reduce the incidence of RNMB. Using sugammadex for the reversal of neuromuscular block as well as quantitative neuromuscular monitoring to quantify the degree of neuromuscular block may significantly reduce the risk of RNMB among patients undergoing general anesthesia. Studies are forthcoming to investigate how using neuromuscular blocking agent reversal with quantitative monitoring of the neuromuscular block may further improve perioperative patient safety.
Shape Deformation Statistics and Regional Texture-Based Appearance Models for Segmentation

JARED VICORY: Shape Deformation Statistics and Regional Texture-Based Appearance Models for Segmentation. (Under the direction of Stephen M. Pizer) Transferring identified regions of interest (ROIs) from planning-time MRI images to the transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images used to guide prostate biopsy is difficult because of the large difference in appearance between the two modalities as well as the deformation of the prostate’s shape caused by the TRUS transducer. This dissertation describes methods for addressing these difficulties by both estimating a patient’s prostate shape after the transducer is applied and then locating it in the TRUS image using skeletal models (s-reps) of prostate shapes. First, I introduce a geometrically-based method for interpolating discretely sampled s-reps into continuous objects. This interpolation is important for many tasks involving s-reps, including fitting them to new objects as well as the later applications described in this dissertation. This method is shown to be accurate for ellipsoids where an analytical solution is known. Next, I create a method for estimating a probability distribution on the difference between two shapes. Because s-reps live in a high-dimensional curved space, I use Principal Nested Spheres (PNS) to transform these representations to instead live in a flat space where standard techniques can be applied. This method is shown effective both on synthetic data as well as for modeling the deformation caused by the TRUS transducer to the prostate. In cases where appearance is described via a large number of parameters, such as intensity combined with multiple texture features, it is computationally beneficial to be able to turn these large tuples of descriptors into a scalar value. Using the inherent localization properties of sreps, I develop a method for using regionally-trained classifiers to turn appearance tuples into the probability that the appearance tuple in question came from inside the prostate boundary. This
Unified Analysis of Multi-Chamber Contact Tanks and Mixing Efficiency Based on Vorticity Field. Part I: Hydrodynamic Analysis

Multi-chamber contact tanks have been extensively used in industry for water treatment to provide potable water to communities, which is essential for human health. To evaluate the efficiency of this treatment process, flow and tracer transport analysis have been used in the literature using Reynolds averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) and large-eddy simulations (LES). The purpose of this study is two-fold. First a unifying analysis of the flow field is presented and similarities and differences in the numerical results that were reported in the literature are discussed. Second, the vorticity field is identified as the key parameter to use in separating the mean flow (jet zone) and the recirculating zones. Based on the concepts of vorticity gradient and flexion product, it is demonstrated that the separation of the recirculation zone and the jet zone, fluid-fluid flow separation, is possible. The separation of the recirculation zones and vortex core lines are characterized using the definition of the Lamb vector. The separated regions are used to characterize the mixing efficiency in the chambers of the contact tank. This analysis indicates that the recirculation zone and jet zone formation are three-dimensional and require simulations over a long period of time to reach stability. It is recognized that the characteristics of the jet zones and the recirculation zones are distinct for each chamber and they follow a particular pattern and symmetry between the alternating chambers. Hydraulic efficiency coefficients calculated for each chamber show that the chambers having an inlet adjacent to the free surface may be designed to have larger volumes than the chambers having wall bounded inlets to improve the efficiency of the contact tank. This is a simple design alternative that would increase the efficiency of the system. Other observations made through the chamber analysis are also informative in redefining the characteristics of the efficiency of the contact tank system.
On the Influence of Wave-Shaped Tool Path Strategies on Geometric Accuracy in Incremental Sheet Forming

In incremental sheet forming (ISF), the geometrical accuracy is still a challenge that is only solved for specific applications. The underlying mechanisms of geometrical defects in ISF are very complex and still not fully understood. Nevertheless, the process understanding is constantly evolving. Recent work has shown, for example, how bending moments resulting from residual stresses affect geometric accuracy. It has become clear that resulting bending moments with an axis parallel to the main tool path direction are dominant. Based on that, the current paper investigates the hypothesis that linear and parallel tool paths lead to an unfavourable accumulation of residual bending moments along a common axis, and whether this accumulation effect can be reduced by wave-shaped tool paths. Thus, the described research investigates the influence of novel path strategies on the residual bending moments and the resulting geometrical deviations. The path strategies are based on wave-shaped path lines, whereas the curvature is within the sheet plane. The investigations focussed on a rectangular sheet that is clamped at its shortest edges and a part geometry-sensitive to springback. Experimental and numerical investigations show a significantly positive influence of some investigated path strategies on the geometric deviation, compared to a conventional path strategy.