Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Under the Weather : Health , Schooling , and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall

How sensitive is long-run individual well-being to environmental conditions early in life? This paper examines the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 and 1974. We link historical rainfall for each individual’s birth-year and birth-location with current adult outcomes from the 2000 wave of the Indonesia Family Life Survey. Higher early-life rainfall has large positive effects on the adult outcomes of women, but not of men. Women with 20% higher rainfall (relative to normal local rainfall) in their year and location of birth are 3.8 percentage points less likely to self-report poor or very poor health, attain 0.57 centimeters greater height, complete 0.22 more grades of schooling, and live in households that score 0.12 standard deviations higher on an asset index. These patterns most plausibly reflect a positive impact of rainfall on agricultural output, leading to higher household incomes and food availability and better health for infant girls. We present suggestive evidence that eventual benefits for adult women’s socioeconomic status are most strongly mediated by improved schooling attainment, which in turn improves socioeconomic status in adulthood.
Cost-effective prostate cancer detection. Reduction of low-yield biopsies. Investigators of the American Cancer Society National Prostate Cancer Detection Project.

BACKGROUND In hopes of limiting low-yield prostate biopsies, results of digital rectal examination (DRE), transrectal ultrasound (TRUS), prostate specific antigen (PSA) and age-related PSA values, gland-volume-adjusted PSA levels, and longitudinal PSA changes were analyzed to identify their cost-effectiveness as prognostic indicators in screening, biopsy, and follow-up of patients with prostate cancer. METHODS Twenty-nine hundred men with complete data sets from an initial cohort of 2999 men with an annual follow-up for up to 5 years were examined. Intrapatient PSA and gland-volume variability, optimal PSA operating points (o.p.), and test performance scores were determined for each parameter. Decision analysis was then applied retrospectively to each parameter to determine the cancer detection yield, biopsy requirements, and costs for commonly used detection strategies. RESULTS For the initial screening decision, the optimal PSA o.p. was 3.0 ng/ml but increased to 5.0 ng/ml in combination with DRE, whereas age-related PSA performed no better than did PSA. The mean intrapatient variability in TRUS gland volume (+5.5 cc) relative to mean volume (34 cc) was 16%, which was less than the 28% (0.64/2.3 ng/ml) relative variability for PSA. For biopsy decisions, using PSA density (PSAD) with a level of 0.12 ng/ml/cc there was no significant difference in accuracy compared with the systematic biopsy of all patients with elevated PSA or age-related PSA levels. Rather than perform systematic biopsy on all patients with PSA levels greater than 4 ng/ml, decision analysis showed that a 16-55% reduction in biopsies could be achieved with a respective cancer loss of 4-25% by limiting biopsy to patients with an increased PSAD level and/or abnormal results of DRE. Using age-related PSA criteria in combination with DRE reduced biopsies by 12% but resulted in minimal cost reductions. The greatest biopsy reduction relative to cancer yield and lowest cost per cancer detected occurred with PSAD-driven biopsy strategies. During follow-up, longitudinal changes in absolute PSA and PSAD levels were significantly better (P < 0.05) than the percentage change in PSA levels per year. CONCLUSIONS Cost-effective prostate cancer detection with PSA as a parameter is better achieved if screening and biopsy decisions are not linked intimately. A tailored-biopsy approach for patients with disproportionately elevated PSA levels of suspicious DRE results in the greatest biopsy reduction by selecting lower risk groups for more conservative follow-up.
ARCHIVES OF CURRENT MEDICAL RESEARCH

Telemedicine describes the remote medical support that the patients receive from physicians for their health. Telehealth, on the other hand, covers all subjects such as patient education, diagnosis, treatment, raising awareness about health issues, and includes mobile health as well as telemedicine. Preventive medicine describes practices and approaches to prevent undesirable situations and complications before, during, or after the occurrence of diseases. Primary care providers, who practice preventive medicine most intensively, also frequently exercise telehealth practices. Costeffectiveness, data security, addressing the lack of education of patients and doctors, redesigning computer systems in terms of ease of use, making necessary legal regulations, and simplifying bureaucratic duties create concerns for physicians and users. Since physical contact with the patient is not possible, communication between the doctor and the patient should be maintained simultaneously through technological methods. Therefore, the existing infrastructure, internet network, and hospital data system should be both fast, and near-perfect. Telemedicine may be a very good alternative for patients, assuming that healthcare institutions are largely concerned with pandemic patients, or that the risk of Covid-19 has not yet been eliminated in hospitals.
Patient Experience Journal Patient Experience Journal

It has been identified that the physiotherapy needs of patients with central neurological conditions are specific and that this cohort are generally under-serviced in rural and remote areas in Australia. A quality improvement project was undertaken to improve patient experience in outpatient physiotherapy services in Tasmania, facilitating increased self-efficacy and quality of life, in patients with central chronic neurological conditions. An experience-based co-design approach was utilised, involving past and current patients as well as physiotherapy staff in the project design, data collection, analysis and evaluation phases. The results suggest that timely access to care and goal achievement are common areas of need across both patient and staff cohorts. Patients also identified that shared-decision making is important for improving patient experience and staff were generally unclear on what services were available. The findings from this study demonstrate the importance of including patients and staff in the health service improvement process.
First report of resonant interactions between whistler mode waves in the Earth's magnetosphere

Nonlinear physics related to whistler mode waves in the Earth's magnetosphere are now becoming a hot topic. In this letter, based on Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms waveform data, we report several interesting whistler mode wave events, where the upper band whistler mode waves are believed to be generated through the nonlinear wave‐wave coupling between two lower band waves. This is the first report on resonant interactions between whistler mode waves in the Earth's magnetosphere. In these events, the two lower band whistler mode waves are observed to have oppositely propagating directions, while the generated upper band wave has the same propagating direction as the lower band wave with the relatively higher frequency. Moreover, the wave normal angle of the excited upper band wave is usually larger than those of two lower band whistler mode waves. Our results reveal the large diversity of the evolution of whistler mode waves in the Earth's magnetosphere.
Motion Sensing Behaviour in Weakly Electric Fish

ii RESUMÉ . iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . iv TABLE OF CONTENTS . vi LIST OF FIGURES . vii LIST OF TABLES . iv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS . x CHAPTER 1: Introduction . 1 1.1 Depth perception and motion parallax.2 1.2 Weakly electric fish . 5 1.3 Tracking . 7 1.4 Electric image . 10 1.5 Hypothesis and predictions . 13 CHAPTER 2: Materials and Methods . 15 2.1 Experimental fish . 16 2.2 Experiment 1: tracking performance with rods . 16 2.3 Experiment 2: testing the parallax hypothesis with rods . 17 2.4 Experiment 3: testing the parallax hypothesis with a shuttle . 18 2.5 Analytical measurements . 21 CHAPTER 3: Results . 26 3.1 Tracking and centering behaviour . 27 3.2 Experiment 1: tracking performance with rods . 29 3.3 Experiment 2: testing the parallax hypothesis with rods . 33 3.4 Experiment 3: testing the parallax hypothesis with a shuttle . 42 3.5 Comparison of the rod and shuttle tracking methodologies . 50 CHAPTER 4: Discussion . 54 4.1 Discussion of Experiment 1: tracking performance with rods . 56 4.2 Discussion of Experiment 2: testing the parallax hypothesis with rods.58 4.3 Discussion of Experiment 3: testing the parallax hypothesis with a shuttle.63 4.4 EOD frequency and size . 67 4.5 Inconsistencies . 68 4.6 Future study . 70 4.7 Summary . 73 REFERENCES . 75
Design and Simulation

transducers made of 64 0 YZ LiNbO3 at a frequency of 400 MHz are studied and analyzed with the help of MATLAB. Design formulation are based on a two dimensional piezoelectric transducers operating at 400 MHz The frequency dependence of Radiation Conductance and Acoustic Susceptance are studied with the help of Impulse Response method. The impulse response method is used for the calculation of transducer input admittance and filter frequency response with much less computational effort than required by earlier approaches. A high quality factor with very low insertion loss is obtained.
Variational-Like Inequalities for Weakly Relaxed Pseudomonotone Set-Valued Mappings in Banach Space

We introduce and study variational-like inequalities for generalized pseudomonotone set-valued mappings in Banach spaces. By using KKM technique, we obtain the existence of solutions for variational-like inequalities for generalized pseudomonotone set-valued mappings in reflexive Banach spaces. The results presented in this paper are generalizations and improvements of the several well-known results in the literature.
The Embryo and Formation of Graupel

Embryos of graupel particles were studied by the thin section technique under a polarization microscope and direct observation by picking graupel particles apart under a microscope. Snow crystals and a frozen drop were picked out from graupel particles. They were considered as embryos morphologically. And it was confirmed by numerical calculations that they satisfy the condition for the graupel growth. According to the embryo and falling behavior of graupel, the formation of graupel was classified and a few formation mechanisms were presented.
Assessing Mitigation Strategies to Reduce Potential Exposures to 1 Indoor Particle Release Events

15 16 Airborne transmission is a major concern for many infectious pathogens, including the novel 17 coronavirus. Ventilation is the principal engineering method used to control airborne health 18 hazards in buildings. Understanding potential air pollution hazards are a particular concern for 19 highly populated indoor environments, such as workplaces and classrooms. This study discusses 20 the results of ventilation testing in a university classroom which contains two fan coil units as the 21 primary HVAC system. A particle nebulizer was used to release aerosol particles into the air, and 22 multiple particulate measuring devices were placed strategically around the room to measure the 23 particle concentration over time. An exponential particle decay rate is determined from the data 24 and converted to a particle concentration half-life, which ranged from over 60 minutes down to 25 under 10 minutes. We then assess how quickly the particles were removed by ventilation systems 26 with varying conditions, including the addition of both high- and low-cost portable mitigation 27 devices into the classroom. Our results indicate that a low-cost unit, made of a simple box fan with 28 a MERV13 filter taped to it, may perform as well at removing particles from a room as a high-cost 29 HEPA filter unit, owing to a tradeoff between filtration efficiency and the number of air changes 30 per hour. As is observed in numerous other studies, the particle concentration half-life in each 31 classroom setup decreases as the mechanical air changes per hour increases from about 1.3 to 9.3. These results are used to evaluate the potential personal exposure risk associated with various 33 classroom ventilation setups. Our results indicate that, when compared to running the fan coil units 34 on low fan speed, operating on a high fan speed reduces potential exposure by 22% and using a portable HEPA filter in the room reduces potential exposure by 66%.
Single-frequency infrared tunable lasers with single-angle-facet gain chips for sensing applications

In this work we present latest achievements on gain chips as sources for single-frequency tunable laser absorption spectroscopy and sensing. External cavity lasers based on Brolis Semiconductors (2.05 – 2.45) μm wavelengths GaSb gain chips exhibited single mode laser emission with linewidths <100 kHz and output powers of <5 mW in the entire tuning range of <100 nm per chip. Continuous current tuning of 60 GHz and mode-hop free piezo tuning of 26 GHz were demonstrated. Additionally, we report on extended wavelengths range by demonstrating low spectral modulation 850 nm GaAs-based gain chips. Finally, experimental results on GaSb-based gain chip integration with silicon photonics are presented.
Numerical study of rigid and flexible wing shapes in hover

This study is focused on evaluating the aerodynamic performance of rigid and isotropic flexible wing shapes defined by the radius of the first moment of wing area (r¯1) at Reynolds number of 6000. An immersed boundary method was used to solve the 3D, viscous, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, and coupled with an in-house non-linear finite element solver for fluid structure interaction simulations. Numerical simulations of flexible r¯1=0.43,0.53and0.63 wing shapes performed with a single degree of freedom flapping shows that thrust and peak lift coefficients increase with r¯1. Higher thrust in the r¯1=0.63 wing is attributed to the large induced pitch angle, and higher peak lift (compared to the rigid counterpart) results from an increase in the stroke amplitude and spanwise deformation of the wing that anchors the leading edge vortex.
On the monadicity over graphs of categories with limits

Donnee une classe petite M de categories petites, notons Cat M la categorie dont les objets sont les petites categories qui admettent, pour tout M ∈ M, des M-limites (choisies), et dont les morphismes sont les foncteurs qui preservent (strictement) ces limites; notons Gph la categorie des graphes (petits); et notons U: Cat M → Gph le foncteur d'oubli qui envoie une categorie a M-limites sur son graphe sous-jacent. Pour certaines classes M il est connu que ce foncteur U est monadique; mais les demonstrations emploient pour chacune de ces M une astuce differente. Nous demontrons que U est au moins de descente si chaque M ∈ M est une categorie librement engendree par un graphe, et que U est alors monadique quand ce graphe est acyclique.
JCMT Spectral and Continuum Imaging of Comet 252P/LINEAR

Comet 252P/LINEAR passed the Earth at a distance of 0.035 au on 2016 March 21, presenting a rare opportunity to study a comet at high spatial resolution. Even with a single dish facility such as JCMT, the chemical structure of the coma could be observed on scales of 500–1000 km, which are smaller than the scale lengths of known distributed cometary molecules. Our week-long observing campaign at JCMT started on March 27 (UT), 12 days after perihelion, and ended on April 3, during which time the comet's distance from Earth increased from 0.045 to 0.078 au. Our observations of the J = 4 − 3 transition of HCN showed generally uniform levels of activity. Expansion velocities were ∼0.6 km s−1 (±10%), and the derived mean HCN production rate during the week was 6.4 × 1024 mol s−1. Comparison with independent estimates of the water production rate during the same period yields a mixing ratio of 0.12% with respect to water. Methanol emissions appear to arise from an extended source—probably in the form of an ice halo—suggesting that all the gases from 252P may originate in large part from the sublimation of icy grains in the coma. Adopting a mean dust particle size of 1 mm, the mass of dust in the coma at the same time is estimated at 4 × 107 kg, implying a total dust production rate of 4 kg s−1. The dust-to-gas mass ratio of ∼0.025 is one of the lowest values ever observed for a comet.
A TWO-CLASS RETRIAL SYSTEM WITH COUPLED ORBIT QUEUES

We consider a single server system accepting two types of retrial customers, which arrive according to two independent Poisson streams. The service station can handle at most one customer, and in case of blocking, type i customer, i=1, 2, is routed to a separate type i orbit queue of infinite capacity. Customers from the orbits try to access the server according to the constant retrial policy. We consider coupled orbit queues, and thus, when both orbit queues are non-empty, the orbit queue i tries to re-dispatch a blocked customer of type i to the main service station after an exponentially distributed time with rate μ i . If an orbit queue empties, the other orbit queue changes its re-dispatch rate from μ i to $\mu_{i}^{\ast}$ . We consider both exponential and arbitrary distributed service requirements, and show that the probability generating function of the joint stationary orbit queue length distribution can be determined using the theory of Riemann (–Hilbert) boundary value problems. For exponential service requirements, we also investigate the exact tail asymptotic behavior of the stationary joint probability distribution of the two orbits with either an idle or a busy server by using the kernel method. Performance metrics are obtained, computational issues are discussed and a simple numerical example is presented.
Kidney Transplantation With Sirolimus and Mycophenolate Mofetil–Based Immunosuppression: 5-Year Results of a Randomized Prospective Trial Compared to Calcineurin Inhibitor Drugs

Background. We report the 5-year outcomes from a randomized prospective trial in primary adult renal allograft recipients, designed to evaluate calcineurin inhibitor (CNI)-free immunosuppression on kidney transplant function. Methods. Sixty-one patients were randomized to either sirolimus (n=31) or cyclosporine (n=30) after basiliximab induction and mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) with steroids. Sirolimus was concentration controlled at 10–12 ng/mL for at least 6 months. Results. After 5 years, sirolimus-MMF-steroids compared to cyclosporine-MMF-steroids provides similar patient survival (87.1 vs. 90%, P=0.681), acute rejection rates (12.9 vs. 23.3%, P=0.22), total cholesterol (209.1 vs. 204.3 mg/dL, P=0.973), urine protein/creatinine ratios (0.398 vs. 0.478 mg/dL, P=0.72), and overall medical and surgical morbidity (P=NS). Although unadjusted patient survival was similar, sirolimus based CNI-free patients had longer death censored graft survival (96.4 vs. 76.7%, P=0.0265), higher glomerular filtration rate (GFR) by the abbreviated Modified Diet in Renal Disease (66.7 vs. 50.7 cc/min, P=0.0075), and fewer graft losses from chronic allograft nephropathy. The Banff chronic scores at two years were strong predictors of 5-year GFR. At 5 years, there were six de novo (three solid organ, three skin) cancers in the CNI group and only two de novo (one skin, one leukemia, no solid organ) cancers in the sirolimus group (P=NS). Conclusions. This study of low to moderate risk patients demonstrates that excellent 5-year kidney transplant outcomes can be achieved without CNI drugs, when therapeutic drug monitoring of sirolimus is employed. The application of CNI drug avoidance protocols to high-risk recipients (retransplants, highly sensitized, etc.), extrarenal allograft recipients, or alternative drug regimens such as steroid or MMF elimination should be subjected to controlled trials.
ISSN 2348 – 0319 International Journal of Innovative and Applied Research (2013), Volume 1, Issue (1): 36- 47

1. School of Postgraduate Studies and Research, Busoga University, Iganga – Uganda. 2 School of Postgraduate Studies and Research, Busoga University, Iganga – Uganda. Abstract: Research has consistently indicated that worker turnover intentions are factors external to an employee; however, little work has investigated turnoverintention behaviour from personality perspective in a context of a private university in a low resourced country like Uganda. The purpose of this study was to investigate the interactive effect of personality dimensions and job turnover intentions among the Busoga University staff. Correlations and regression analysis methods were in the analysis. Data were collected with the aid of questionnaire based on a sample of (total N = 133). The findings revealed that apart from emotional stability (neuroticism), all the other four personality dimensions of (openness, conscientiousness, Extroversion, and agreeableness), positively and significantly predicted job turnover intentions among the staff of Busoga University in Uganda. This study contributes to knowledge of turnover intention by aligning individual personality dimensions as significant predictors of turnover intentions within the context of Busoga University. This studyunderscores the fact that workers‘ personality matters for organisations and can be instrumental in furthering managerial decisions relating to turnover intentions. One of study limitations was a small sample size that was less than 200 cases to support Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structures) which would have been an appropriate tool to test the hypotheses considering the fact that the study had multiple constructs. Also, this study was limited to the effect that it used cross – sectional design.
State-trace analysis of associative recognition: comparing single-process and dual-process models.

v Declaration vii Acknowledgements viii 1 Associative Recognition Memory 1 1.1 Associations, Associative Memory & Associative Information 2 1.2 Recent Associative Recognition Research: The Single-Process versus Dual-Process Debate 4 1.2. 1 The Unequal-Variance Signal-Detection Model: Development in Item Recognition 6 1.2. 2 The Unequal-Variance Signal-Detection Model: Application to Associative Recognition 12 1.2. 3 The High-Threshold Signal-Detection Model: Development in Item Recognition 14 1.2. 4 The High-Threshold Signal-Detection Model: Application to Associative Recognition 19 1.2. 5 The Single Process versus Dual-Process Debate: Summary 21 1.3 Unitisation 21 1.3. 1 Unitisation Summary 28 1.4 Other Recent Models of Associative Recognition 30 1.5 Model Fitting 32 1.5. 1 Single and Dual-Process Model-Fitting in Associative Recognition 34 1.5. 2 Model Fitting Summary 39 2 State-Trace Analysis 41
Earth Mass Change Tracking Using GRACE Satellite Gravity Data

Steric sea level changes are estimated over the Nordic Seas using ENVISAT (Environmental Satellite) altimetry and GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) gravity data. We have used altimetry data from the ENVISAT during October 2002 to October 2010, cycles 10 to 93, and the GRACE level 2 RL04 data released by GFZ (German Research Center for Geosciences) processing center during October 2002 to October 2010. It should be noted that some months are missing for the GRACE data set. Correction terms are applied to properly combine the altimetry and GRACE data, including the inverted barometer term, dynamic ocean and atmospheric terms and GRACE coefficients with degrees 0, 1, and 2 (with order 0). Finally, the steric sea level changes are derived over the Nordic Seas for October 2002 to October 2010.