Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Detailed distribution of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis among schoolchildren in the Bélier and Marahoué regions, central Côte d’Ivoire: a tool for an efficient control

Cross-sectional epidemiological surveys were conducted from December 2012 to January 2013 to better understand the distribution of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis in the health districts of the Belier and Marahoue regions in central Cote d’Ivoire. Urine and stool samples were provided by 4900 schoolchildren of 7-14 years old from six health districts. Urine was consecutively analysed by reagent strips and filtration method whilst stool was examined using Kato-Katz method. Eggs of helminth species were identified under a microscope. The investigated schools were georeferenced. The predominant diseases were hookworm infection (12.7%) and urinary schistosomiasis (11.2%). At the health district level, they are a public health problem with moderate prevalence in Tiebissou, Toumodi, Yamoussoukro (Belier region) and Sinfra (Marahoue region) for urinary schistosomiasis and in Toumodi for hookworm infection. At the school level (i.e. village), the focal and water-related characteristics of schistosomiasis were highlighted mainly alongside Marahoue, Bandama and Kan rivers, and around Lake Kossou where was observed highest prevalence. Hookworm infection and urinary schistosomiasis were sex and age-related. Findings call the need for treatment implementation. In the case of schistosomiasis, however, treatment should be based on the school level instead of the entire health district for an efficient control. © 2018 International Formulae Group. All rights reserved. Keywords: Hookworm infection, urinary schistosomiasis, predominant, health district level, school level, central Cote d’Ivoire
in a reservoir in the semiarid region of NE Brazil: responses to hydrological and climatic changes

: Aim: The main goal of this research was to investigate the changes in water quality and longitudinal patterns of the Pacajus Reservoir in response to alterations in hydrological and climatic conditions during the dry and rainy seasons; Methods: Four sites, located along the main longitudinal axis of the reservoir, were sampled bimonthly. Samples for chemical analysis were collected in depths corresponding to the surface, middle and bottom of the water column, while physical variables and dissolved oxygen were measured in regular intervals from subsurface to near the bottom sediments with a multiparametric probe. Samples for chlorophyll-a analysis were collected only in the surface of the water column; Results: The reservoir was particularly susceptible to wind action, especially during the second semester, when resuspension of the bottom sediments, internal phosphorus load and reduction in water transparency were observed. The rainy period was essentially characterized by the enrichment of the reservoir by the inflows from the Choró River and the greater longitudinal gradients between the fluvial and lacustrine zones. The decomposition of the flooded phytomass and deposition of the allochtonous material at the transitional zone of the Pacajus Reservoir gave rise to oxyclines in April and June/99. The longitudinal pattern of the reservoir revealed a superior zone, with high algal biomass during the dry period and probably light-limited during the rainy period; an intermediary site, characterized as a sedimentation and decomposition zone; and a lacustrine zone, optically deep and with low algal biomass variability throughout the research; Conclusions: With relation to nutrient dynamics, the Pacajus Reservoir was dependent on the loads from the Choró River inflows during the rainy period, and on the internal regeneration during the dry period, a process favored by high water temperatures and by the instability of the water column.
Mentoring as a form of support for prisoners’ children

Abstrakt: Children of incarcerated individuals constitute an at-risk group vulnerable to exclusion, social maladjustment, and criminality. Interventions aimed at them primarily involve establishing community-based support networks and resources. Building supportive relationships within the community enables youth facing parental incarceration to overcome challenges. One such intervention is mentoring. Unfortunately, there is still a lack of evaluative research concerning mentor-mentee relationship-based programs. However, the studies conducted so far suggest that it can yield positive outcomes, mitigating some of the risks associated with parental incarceration.
Evaluating L-band InSAR Snow Water Equivalent Retrievals with Repeat Ground-Penetrating Radar and Terrestrial Lidar Surveys in Northern Colorado

Snow provides critical water resources for billions of people, making the remote sensing of snow water equivalent (SWE) a highly prioritized endeavor, particularly given current and projected climate change impacts. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a promising method for remote sensing of SWE because radar penetrates snow and SAR interferometry (InSAR) can be used to estimate changes in SWE (ΔSWE) between SAR acquisitions. We calculated ΔSWE retrievals from 10 NASA L-band Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle SAR (UAVSAR) acquisitions in northern Colorado during the winters of 2020 30 and 2021 and evaluated the retrievals against measurements of SWE from ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and terrestrial lidar scans (TLS) collected as part of the NASA SnowEx 2020 and 2021 Time Series Campaigns. Next, we evaluated the full UAVSAR time series at the northern Colorado sites using SWE measured at seven automated stations and ascertained whether coherence can be used as an accuracy metric for ΔSWE retrievals. For single InSAR pairs, UAVSAR ΔSWE retrievals displayed high correlation with TLS and GPR ΔSWE retrievals (overall r = 0.72–0.79) and yielded an RMSE of 35 19–22 mm. When compared to SWE at seven automated stations, cumulative SWE from UAVSAR retrievals exhibited poor agreement in 2020, but high agreement in 2021. We found that SWE can be reliably retrieved, even for lower coherences, as RMSE values ranged by <10 mm from coherences of 0.10 to 0.90. The upcoming NASA-ISRO SAR satellite mission, with a 12-day revisit period, offers an exciting opportunity to apply this methodology globally, but further quantification of limitations is necessary, particularly in forested environments and as the snowpack begins to melt.
A Comparison Study of Radioactivity and Radiation Hazard Index between Legal and Illegal Cigarettes

Radioactive nuclide which emits radiation and damages biological tissue is found in the cigarette. Illegal cigarettes are reported to contain higher toxic levels of the nuclide as compared to the legal cigarettes. Therefore, this study aims to compare the radioactive elements, concentration, radiation dose and Radiation Hazard Index (RHI) of the legal and illegal cigarettes. The natural radionuclides of Uranium-238 (238U), Thorium-232 (232Th) and Potassium-40 (40K) of six legal cigarette brands and six illegal cigarette brands were measured using a High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detector-based gamma spectroscopy system. The radioactive elements that were detected by gamma spectrometer were Lead-214 (214P) and Bismuth-214 (214Bi) from 238U decay series, Bismuth-212 (212Bi) and Actinium-228 (228Ac) from 232Th decay series and 40K. The activity and concentration of 238U for legal cigarettes were significantly higher than illegal cigarettes (p<0.01). On the contrary, a significantly high value of activity and concentration of 40K element of illegal cigarettes were recorded when compared with legal cigarettes (p<0.001). The mean value of RHI for both illegal and legal cigarette samples were calculated and found to be higher than the safe limit of unity (1). However, the statistical test to compare the RHI of internal hazard index (Hin) and external hazard index (Hex) between illegal and legal cigarettes was not significant. To conclude, both legal and illegal cigarettes were subjected to a high radiation exposure, which could have negative effects to health.
Conventional vs Natural Flood Control and Drainage Managements in a Tidal Coastal Zone: An Evaluation from a Productive Efficiency Perspective

Two competing flood control and drainage management (FCDM) systems, namely, the ‘silt-dredging and regulative-drainage management (SRM)’ and the ‘tidal river-basin management (TRM)’ systems were implemented in the Southwest coastal zone of Bangladesh as a safeguard for agricultural production. The fundamental difference between these two FCDM systems is that the SRM is a conventional system based on hard engineering structure and heavily dependent on routine dredging; in contrast, the TRM is a natural system. This paper primarily evaluates these two contrasting and competing FCDM systems from the perspectives of productive efficiency, going beyond the traditional approach which often takes an engineering perspective. Evaluation of these two FCDM systems has been made on three distinctive measurements including ‘technical efficiency’, ‘yield-gap’ and ‘potential yield increment’. The results reveal that the conventional flood defence system (SRM) marginally outperforms the natural system (TRM) in terms of productivity with paddy. This is despite SRM being more expensive to deliver, as well as the fact that, due to a relative sea-level rise with the SRM system, it is likely to become increasingly expensive in the future. In contrast, TRM benefits from counteracting a relative sea-level rise in an environmentally friendly way, keeping maintenance costs low.
Potential of Module Arrangements to Enhance Potential of Module Arrangements to Enhance Convective Cooling in Solar Photovoltaic Arrays Convective Cooling in Solar Photovoltaic Arrays

When solar photovoltaic (PV) module temperatures rise during operation, commonly-installed modules experience an ef ﬁ ciency loss between 0.1 and 0.5% per degree above 25 + C. Thus, extensive research has aimed to reduce the operating temperature of solar modules. However, many cooling solutions require additional cost or equipment that precludes their implementation in utility-scale PV plants. Based on previous studies of land-atmosphere interactions of surface thermal heterogeneity, we hypothesize that certain solar farm arrangements may enhance natural convective heat transfer between the solar modules and surrounding ﬂ ow. Due to the strong non-linear relationship between module temperature and convective heat transfer, enhancing the convective cooling could have substantial impacts on module ef ﬁ ciency. Here, we investigate the potential impact of module arrangements on the convective cooling of large PV arrays. Three idealized module arrangements are evaluated in comparison to the traditional, row-organized arrangement. To characterize each arrangement, a non-dimensional packing parameter is developed. Numerical simulation results indicate that dense arrangements with larger packing parameters more effectively enhance convective cooling than sparse arrangements. Compared to the baseline, the most compact arrangement exhibited an increase in convective heat transfer of 14.8%. These results indicate that module arrangement plays an in ﬂ uential role in solar farm convective cooling. ©
: A Dataset for Recommendation in Vietnamese E-Commerce

Recent years have seen the increasing popularity of e-commerce platforms which have changed the shopping behaviour of customers. Valuable data from products, customers, and purchases on such e-commerce platforms enable the delivery of personalized shopping experiences, customer targeting, and product recommendations. We introduce a novel Vietnamese dataset speciﬁcally designed to examine the recommendation problem in e-commerce platforms, focusing on face cleanser products with 369,099 interactions between users and items. We report a comprehensive baseline experimental exploration into this dataset from content-based ﬁltering to attribute-based ﬁltering approaches. The experimental results demonstrate an enhancement in performance, with a 27.21% improvement in NDCG@10 achieved by incorporating a popularity score and content-based ﬁlter-ing, surpassing attribute-based ﬁltering. To encourage further research and development in e-commerce recommendation systems using this Vietnamese dataset, we have made the dataset publicly available at https://github.com/linh222/face cleanser recommendation dataset.
of canine skeletal conditions using 153

: The treatment of pets, service animals, and pre-clinical research subjects with radionuclides raises concern for the safety of the people who interact with the animals after their treatment. Three treatments of skeletal conditions in dogs are considered in this study: 153 Sm-1,4,7,10-tetraazacylcododecanetetrame-thylenephosphonic acid, which is a bone-seeking radiopharmaceutical; unencapsulated 90 Y permanent interstitial implants, which are some-times called “ liquid brachytherapy ” ; and 117m Sn radiosynoviorthesis, which is also called radio-synovectomy. External exposure rate readings of the 153 Sm and 117m Sn treatments, and Monte Carlo simulations of 117m Sn at a distance of 1 m and of all three in direct contact with tissue were analyzedfordoses.Dogs thathave received any ofthese treatments using typically administered activities may be released from radiation safety isolation immediately after treatment from the standpoint of externalexposure. People should avoid prolonged close proximity, such as sleeping with a treated dog, for three weeks following an 90 Yinterstitial implant or for a month following 117m Sn radiosynoviorthesis. No such avoidance is necessary after treatment with 153 Sm-1,4,7,10-tetraazacylcododecanetetramethylenephos-phonicacid.HealthPhys. 118(6):702 – 710;
Ti–Zr–Nb-bearing accessory minerals in high-K trachyandesitic rocks from the Western Outer Carpathians, Moravia, Czech Republic

The occurrence of chevkinite-group minerals (CGM), zirconolite and Nb-rich ilmenite is reported in Miocene high-K trachyandesites from the Uherský Brod area, Czech Republic, their occurrence reflecting the high Nb and Zr abundances in the host rocks. All three were late-magmatic phases, crystallizing from silicic residual melts. Strong zonation in some crystals is ascribed mainly to kinetic factors and in the case of the CGM by the replacement of less Fe-rich, more calcic (“perrieritic”) compositions by compositions richer in Fe and poorer in Ca (“chevkinitic”) as temperatures fell during crystallization. Zirconolite has high ThO 2 (≤7.75 wt%) and UO 2 (≤3.78 wt%) abundances and is commonly zoned, with significant fractionation of Th from U and within the LREE. The minerals may have crystallized at relatively high f o 2 , low p H 2 O, and at temperatures around 840°C. Zirconolite was stabilized relative to zircon by the Ti–Ca-rich nature of the melts and to baddeleyite by the high SiO 2 activity. Formation of Zr-bearing titanite, as recorded in other potassic suites, was precluded by the preferential entry of Ti into the CGM.
Influence of Chemical Corrosion on Pore Structure and Mechanical Properties of Sandstone

Chemical corrosion plays a significant role in affecting the properties of rock materials. To understand the effects of chemical corrosion on the pore structure and mechanical properties of sandstones, porosity, T2 spectrum distribution, and NMR images of sandstone specimens were measured after every 10 days of immersion in chemical solutions using the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique. Static uniaxial compressive tests and dynamic compressive tests were conducted using a conventional servo-controlled testing machine and a split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) system for specimens treated with chemical corrosion. The test results showed that after being treated with chemical corrosion, the porosity of a specimen increased, the T2 spectrum distribution would successively shift towards the right, and the distribution of pores tended to become more irregular. Additionally, all of the compressive strength and elastic modulus of sandstone treated with chemical corrosion under static and dynamic loads decreased, and the peak strain increased. The effect order of a chemical solution on the pore structure and mechanical properties of sandstone was H2SO4>NaOH>distilled water, which would be related to the different mechanisms of a water-rock reaction. According to the experimental results, the correlations between the mechanical properties and porosity were established. The results can serve as a reference for research in related fields.
The Association of Demographic Characteristics and Top Management Team Heterogeneity on Hospital Performance

This study aims to show how the demographic characteristics and heterogeneity of the top management team (TMT) associate with hospital’s performance as measured by the balanced scorecard (BSC). The study employs cross-sectional primary data from hospitals in Central Java Indonesia, collected from 242 hospitals. The result shows that the demographic characteristics including age, female, period of experience serving as TMT, level and specialization of education, were not associated with the hospital’s performance. Likewise, the short period of experience in the organization inside or outside of a hospital’s TMT members was not associated with the hospital’s performance. However, TMT’s heterogeneity showed a positive result towards the hospital’s performance. The academic and practical implications of the findings are discussed.
Cultural Identity and Intertextual Discourse: A Study of Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu

This study investigates the intricate interplay between intertextuality and discourse in Ken Liu’s evocative short story Paper Menagerie, focusing on cultural identity negotiation and heritage language dynamics. Through qualitative literary analysis involving multiple close readings, thematic coding, comparative contextualization, and detailed interpretation, the interplay between Liu’s masterful integration of multifaceted cultural allusions and the discourse patterns surrounding generational language divides and struggles with self-concept is examined. The analysis reveals how Liu adeptly employs intertextuality through origins, Qingming festivities, and other symbols to create resonance and authenticity in exploring assimilationist tensions, while patterns in the text reinforce acculturative pressures and resulting linguistic barriers faced by immigrants. Ultimately, these layers synergize to reflect deeply on the preservation of identity tensions. As with textual analysis, subjective interpretive constraints persist, limiting generalizability. Further exploration through intertextual threads in Liu’s broader writings could enrich the understanding of his versatile identity while revealing philosophical evolution. The intricate symbiosis between intertextuality and discourse breathes life into this narrative, crystallizing universally relatable experiences through a culturally specific lens. While bittersweet, Liu’s artistry is a poignant reminder that interweaving past and present fosters empathy across paper menageries.
Measurements of Wγ and Zγ production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

The integrated and differential ﬁducial cross sections for the production of a W or Z boson in association with a high-energy photon are measured using pp collisions at ﬃﬃﬃ s p ¼ 7 TeV . The analyses use a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 4 : 6 fb (cid:1) 1 collected by the ATLAS detector during the 2011 LHC data-taking period. Events are selected using leptonic decays of the W and Z bosons [ W ð e(cid:1); (cid:2)(cid:1) Þ and Z ð e þ e (cid:1) ; (cid:2) þ (cid:2) (cid:1) ; (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Þ ] with the requirement of an associated isolated photon. The data are used to test the electroweak sector of the Standard Model and search for evidence for new phenomena. The measurements are used to probe the anomalous WW(cid:3) , ZZ(cid:3) , and Z(cid:3)(cid:3) triple-gauge-boson couplings and to search for the production of vector resonances decaying to Z(cid:3) and W(cid:3) . No deviations from Standard Model predictions are observed and limits are placed on anomalous triple-gauge-boson couplings and on the production of new vector meson resonances.
Mevalonate kinase-deficient THP-1 cells show a disease-characteristic pro-inflammatory phenotype

Objective Bi-allelic pathogenic variants in the MVK gene, which encodes mevalonate kinase (MK), an essential enzyme in isoprenoid biosynthesis, cause the autoinflammatory metabolic disorder mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD). We generated and characterized MK-deficient monocytic THP-1 cells to identify molecular and cellular mechanisms that contribute to the pro-inflammatory phenotype of MKD. Methods Using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, we generated THP-1 cells with different MK deficiencies mimicking the severe (MKD-MA) and mild end (MKD-HIDS) of the MKD disease spectrum. Following confirmation of previously established disease-specific biochemical hallmarks, we studied the consequences of the different MK deficiencies on LPS-stimulated cytokine release, glycolysis versus oxidative phosphorylation rates, cellular chemotaxis and protein kinase activity. Results Similar to MKD patients’ cells, MK deficiency in the THP-1 cells caused a pro-inflammatory phenotype with a severity correlating with the residual MK protein levels. In the MKD-MA THP-1 cells, MK protein levels were barely detectable, which affected protein prenylation and was accompanied by a profound pro-inflammatory phenotype. This included a markedly increased LPS-stimulated release of pro-inflammatory cytokines and a metabolic switch from oxidative phosphorylation towards glycolysis. We also observed increased activity of protein kinases that are involved in cell migration and proliferation, and in innate and adaptive immune responses. The MKD-HIDS THP-1 cells had approximately 20% residual MK activity and showed a milder phenotype, which manifested mainly upon LPS stimulation or exposure to elevated temperatures. Conclusion MK-deficient THP-1 cells show the biochemical and pro-inflammatory phenotype of MKD and are a good model to study underlying disease mechanisms and therapeutic options of this autoinflammatory disorder.