Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Placements through the Lens of Host-Supervisors and Librarianship Students: A Study of Monash University Library Experience

ABSTRACT The paper presents students and host-supervisors’ perceptions of Monash University Library placement program. The study critically investigates what past placement students perceive as having been gained from the experience and how they see the experience facilitate their future career. In addition, the study also analyses what host-supervisors (library staff members) see as beneficial for placement students, themselves and the library. In this qualitative research, data collection was done through semi-structured individual interviews with participants. The results revealed that students and host-supervisors view placements as a means of putting theory into practice, and highly regard relationship building between placement students and host-supervisors. It was also found that teamwork is one of the host-supervisors’ expectations, but none of the students consider teamwork as their expectation. Host-supervisors also perceive the program as beneficial for placement students and the library, but not necessarily for themselves. In addition, students believe that placements facilitate their career planning. Both students and host-supervisors also put forward ideas for placement program improvements.
Hospital Charges Associated With Critical Bronchiolitis From 2009 to 2019*

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the contribution of PICU care to increasing hospital charges for patients with bronchiolitis over a 10-year study period. DESIGN: In this retrospective multicenter study, changes in annual hospital charges (adjusted for inflation) were analyzed using linear regression for subjects admitted to the PICU with invasive mechanical ventilation (PICU + IMV) and without IMV (PICU – IMV), and for children not requiring PICU care. SETTING: Free-standing children’s hospitals contributing to the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS) database. SUBJECTS: Children less than 2 years with bronchiolitis discharged from a PHIS hospital between July 2009 and June 2019. Subjects were categorized as high risk if they were born prematurely or had a chronic complex condition. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: PICU patients were 26.5% of the 283,006 included subjects but accrued 66% of the total $14.83 billion in charges. Annual charges increased from $1.01 billion in 2009–2010 to $2.07 billion in 2018–2019, and PICU patients accounted for 83% of this increase. PICU + IMV patients were 22% of all PICU patients and accrued 64% of all PICU charges, but PICU – IMV patients without a high-risk condition had the highest relative increase in annual charges, increasing from $76.7 million in 2009–2010 to $377.9 million in 2018–2019 (374% increase, ptrend < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: In a multicenter cohort study of children hospitalized with bronchiolitis, PICU patients, especially low-risk children without the need for IMV, were the highest driver of increased hospital charges over a 10-year study period.
Incremental Clustering of Search History in Personalized Search

Long-term search history containing rich information about individual preference plays an important role in personalized search. Although various methods have proposed to explore long-term search history, most are assuming that the whole long-term history is available and every piece of history is helpful to the current search. This paper takes into account the individual history as streaming on-line sources and presents a personalized search model that can be updated by means of incremental clustering algorithm as new data arrive. Two strategies for selecting related history cluster are investigated, i.e. picking the latest cluster to represent user recent interests, and choosing the cluster with highest content relevance to current query. Tested on a large-scale search log of a commercial search engine, this approach outperforms the baseline model, especially when a user submits a fresh query with a new search need that has not occurred before.
A modular framework for optimal scheduling of industrial processes

Abstract This paper proposes an extended Petri net formalism as a suitable language for composing optimal scheduling problems of industrial production processes with real and binary decision variables. The proposed approach is modular and scalable, as the overall process dynamics and constraints can be collected by parsing of all atomic elements of the net graph. To conclude, we demonstrate the use of this framework for modeling the moulding sand preparation process of a real foundry plant.
Modelling SO2 conversion into sulphates in the mid-troposphere with a 3D chemistry-transport model: the case of Mount Etna's eruption on April 12, 2012

Abstract. Volcanic activity is an important source of atmospheric sulphur dioxide (SO2), which, after conversion into sulphuric acid, induces impacts on, among others, rain acidity, human health, meteorology and the radiative balance of the atmosphere. This work focuses on the conversion of SO2 into sulphates (, S(+VI)) in the mid-tropospheric volcanic plume emitted by the explosive eruption of Mount Etna (Italy) on Apr. 12, 2012, using the CHIMERE chemistry-transport model. Since volcanic plume location and composition depend on several often poorly constrained parameters, using a chemistry-transport model allows us to study the sensitivity of SO2 oxidation to multiple aspects such as volcanic water emissions, transition metal emissions, plume diffusion and plume altitude. Our results show that in the mid-troposphere, two pathways contribute to sulphate production, the oxidation of SO2 by OH in the gaseous phase (70 %), and the aqueous oxidation by O2 catalyzed by Mn2+ and Fe3+ ions (25 %). The oxidation in aqueous phase is the faster process, but in the mid-troposphere, liquid water is scarce, therefore the relative share of gaseous oxidation can be important. After one day in the mid-troposphere, about 0.5 % of the volcanic SO2 was converted to sulphates through the gaseous process. Because of the nonlinear dependency of the kinetics in the aqueous phase to the amount of volcanic water emitted and on the availability of transition metals in the aqueous phase, several experiments have been designed to determine the prominence of different parameters. Our simulations show that during the short time that liquid water remains in the plume, around 0.4 % of sulphates manage to quickly enter the liquid phase. Sensitivity tests regarding the advection scheme have shown that this scheme must be chosen wisely, as dispersion will impact both oxidation pathways explained above.
Ophthalmological findings in patients suspected with COVID-19 at a tertiary hospital in Pernambuco, Brazil.

PURPOSE This study evaluated the frequency of the most common ophthalmological, neurological, and systemic findings in symptomatic patients seen at a COVID-19 screening service at Hospital das Clínicas - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. METHODS A total of 104 patients under clinical suspicion of SARS-CoV-2 infection underwent medical evaluation through an ophthalmological and systemic symptoms survey. All participants selected for the study underwent COVID-19 RT-PCR testing. RESULTS The mean age was 38.8 years, with 44.23% between 31 and 40 years old, 68.27% female, and 31.73% male. The most common symptoms in patients with a positive RT-PCR test were cough (69.23%), fever (42.3%), hyposmia (38.46%), myalgia (38.46%), and ageusia (30.77%). In the positive group, 34.61% presented with ophthalmological symptoms: burning (19.23%), eye pain (11.54%), foreign body sensation (7.7%), hyperemia (7.7%), and tearing (3.84%). CONCLUSIONS Systemic clinical features were characteristic of upper respiratory infection, but neurological findings of hyposmia and anosmia proved to be important markers for suspicion of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Ophthalmic symptoms in patients with COVID-19 were similar to those observed in other viral conditions and may precede systemic conditions. A high rate of self-medication was observed for general symptoms compared with ophthalmological conditions.
Ictogenesis? That’s Random…..

Seizure initiation is the least understood and most disabling element of epilepsy. Studies of ictogenesis require high-speed recordings at cellular resolution in the area of seizure onset. However, in vivo seizure onset areas cannot be determined at the level of resolution necessary to enable such studies. To circumvent these challenges, we used novel GCaMP7-based calcium imaging in the organotypic hippocampal slice culture model of post-traumatic epilepsy in mice. Organotypic hippocampal slice cultures generate spontaneous, recurrent seizures in a preparation in which it is feasible to image the activity of the entire network (with no unseen inputs existing). Chronic calcium imaging of the entire hippocampal network, with paired electrophysiology, revealed 3 patterns of seizure onset: low amplitude fast activity, sentinel spike, and spike burst + low amplitude fast activity onset. These patterns recapitulate common features of human seizure onset, including low voltage fast activity and spike discharges. Week-long imaging of seizure activity showed a characteristic evolution in onset type and a refinement of the seizure onset zone. Longitudinal tracking of individual neurons revealed that seizure onset is stochastic at the single neuron level, suggesting that seizure initiation activates neurons in non-stereotyped sequences seizure to seizure. This study demonstrates for the first time that transitions to seizure are not initiated by a small number of neuronal “bad actors” (such as overly connected hub cells), but rather by network changes which enable the onset of pathology among a large populations of neurons.
Pedestrian traffic flow operations on a platform: observations and comparison with simulation tool SimPed

The Delft University of Technology, in cooperation with Holland Railconsult, has developed the tool SimPed for simulating pedestrian operations in transfer stations. SimPed models all processes that are related to pedestrians inside a transfer station, such as walking, performing activities and route and activity location choices. In order to validate pedestrian flow modeling in SimPed and to study pedestrian traffic flow operations on a platform in detail, observations have been collected on a platform of a Dutch railway station. These observations concentrated on boarding and alighting times, (individual) walking times, and levels of service. This paper will describe the data collection effort and discuss in detail the results of the study such as numbers of boarding and alighting passengers, individual walking times and densities on the platform. The paper also makes a comparison between the observations and the modeling results of SimPed in an effort to show the validity of SimPed concerning pedestrian traffic flow operations.
Psychological consequences of tourism ideal affect

ABSTRACT Guided by the affect valuation theory, this study examined the relationships among tourism ideal affect (i.e. how people want to feel at tourism destinations), tourism actual affect (i.e. how people really feel at tourism destinations), and tourism satisfaction. Online surveys were conducted before and after travel, and 418 Japanese adults provided usable data. Our SEM results indicated that (a) tourism ideal affect, not global ideal affect, influenced tourism actual affect; (b) tourism ideal affect influenced tourism actual affect with matching arousal levels (high- vs. low-arousal); and (c) tourism ideal affect influenced tourism satisfaction via tourism actual affect, but only for high-arousal levels. Our research extends ideal affect to the tourism context, which has motivational force and better explains tourism experience and satisfaction than global ideal affect. Tourism federations and agencies need to know that tourism and global ideal affect is distinct, and the former predicts actual emotional experiences in tourism. Providing people with tourism experiences that match their tourism ideal affect is the key to tourism development and planning/managing tourism destinations.
Efficacy and Safety of Gefitinib Plus Pemetrexed/Platinum in Advanced EGFR-Mutated Lung Adenocarcinoma Patients: A Real-World Observational Study

Background Recent clinical trials illustrated that gefitinib plus pemetrexed/platinum regimen improves survival in advanced lung adenocarcinoma patients with EGFR mutation, while data on its efficacy and safety in a real clinical setting are limited. Thus, this real-world observational study aimed to explore this issue. Methods Fifty-one advanced lung adenocarcinoma patients with EGFR mutation who received gefitinib plus pemetrexed/platinum (GPP) were enrolled as GPP group, meanwhile 30 patients who only received gefitinib were retrospectively recruited as control group. Progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), and adverse events were assessed. Results PFS was prolonged in GPP group compared to control group (P=0.013) (median PFS: 23.0 vs 14.0 months, 1-year PFS rate: 78.4% vs 60.0%, 3-year PFS rate: 19.6% vs 5.3%). Furthermore, OS was longer in GPP group compared to control group (P=0.023) (median PFS: 42.0 vs 28.0 months, 1-year PFS rate: 94.1% vs 86.7%, 3-year PFS rate: 56.9% vs 32.7%). After adjustment by multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression, GPP group vs control group was independent predictive factor of prolonged PFS (P=0.004, hazard ratio (HR)=0.450) and OS (P=0.031, HR=0.462). Moreover, the most common adverse events among patients in GPP group included myelosuppression (66.7%), digestive toxicity (62.7%), renal toxicity (31.4%), and hepatotoxicity (23.5%), and most of them were grade 1–2. Conclusion Gefitinib plus pemetrexed/platinum exhibits favorable efficacy with low occurrence of severe adverse events in advanced lung adenocarcinoma patients with EGFR mutation, suggesting it could be a potential option for these patients.
Factors Influencing Online Shopping Behavior of Students in Engineering Colleges at RangaReddy District

Online shopping is in advance thrust in India Inc. With internet penetration improving in the country, smart phones becoming inexpensive and lifestyles becoming excited, the way people used to shop are varying. Also with a huge portion of young and working population, Indian demographics are a delight for E-Retailers. As a shopping medium, internet is attracting humans. Youthful people can get used to newer technologies in very short span. Hence they can adapt internet as an instrument for shopping. In order to get the trust and attention of Indian consumers in this virtual shopping world there are numerous aspects of consumer behavior which call forexploration. This research has tried to analyze the online shopping behavior and online shopping activities of UG & PG students in engineering colleges in RangaReddy Region. This study finds out whether students studying in Engineering Collegesare comfortable with the click-of-the mouse purchase, any particular factor of online buying which delights him. To answer such questions the present research provides an insight. This study aims to classify the most important factors which influence online buyer considers while making online purchases by Correlation analysis. The results have shown various reasons like time saving, less price, promotional activities offered by E-Retailers, Ease in payment are the factors influencing online shopping behavior of Student respondents Research results show that both male & female are more interested to purchase goods such as Apparels, electronics, Books.
An Improved Clustering Using by Likely Attributable Function and Informed Selection in WSN for Science of Management and Engineering

Wireless sensors networks (WSNs) are traditionally composed of large number of tiny homogenous sensors nodes connected through a wireless network that gather data to be treated locally or relayed to the sink node through multi-hop wireless transmission. The low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH) protocol is one of the Famous protocols used in the wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The LEACH protocol in wireless sensor network suffers from many Bugs and many researchers proposed different methods to mitigate them. In this paper, we propose two ideas in a format for improving leach protocol. For Cluster head selection we used a Likely Attributable Function that in this function used from a factor. This factor that we called the informed selection factor helps to farther nodes not selection for cluster head. This significantly decreases the energy consumption and increases the lifetime of associated nodes. Simulation is conducted in using MATLAB results are analyzed for energy consumption.
Epidemiological and clinical features of pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis: A population-based study in Isfahan, Iran, between 1997-2020

Background: Pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis (POMS) is an autoimmune demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system (CNS), affecting individuals younger than 18 years of age. We sought to characterize the epidemiological and clinical features of patients with POMS in Isfahan, Iran, from April 1997 to March 2020. Methods: The medical records of patients with POMS in the databases of Isfahan Department of Public Health and Isfahan Multiple Sclerosis Society (IMSS) were retrospectively reviewed. The 2006 and 2016 Isfahan Province population censuses were used as reference values for assessing the temporal trend of POMS. Results: From April 1997 to March 2020, 509 individuals under18 years of age were diagnosed with POMS in Isfahan. 404 of these patients (79.4%) were girls, and 105 patients (20.6%) were boys (a female to male ratio of 3.85:1). Most of the patients (83%) were monosymptomatic at onset, with optic neuritis and brainstem-cerebellar disorders being the most frequent initial presentations. Mean ± standard deviation (SD) of age at disease diagnosis was 15.8 ± 2.5 years (ranging from 3 to 18, mode = 18). From April 2019 to March 2020, the crude prevalence and the crude incidence rate of the POMS were 5.42 per 100000 and 1.86 per 100000, respectively. Poisson regression analysis revealed a 3.4% increase in the incidence rate of POMS from April 1997 to March 2020 [relative rate:1.034, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.021-1.048]. Conclusion: The female to male ratio in our cohort was significantly higher than any other studies conducted previously. The high female to male ratio and increasing incidence of the disease suggest increasing regionalization of care.
Mediation Role of Anxiety Sensitivity on the Relationships between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Fear of COVID-19

The aim of the present study is exploring the mediation role of anxiety sensitivity on the relationships between intolerance of uncertainty and fear of COVID-19. The study was conducted with the relational screening method. The research data were collected online from 302 individuals (Male n = 76, Female n = 226) with Fear of COVID-19 Scale, Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3, Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale. The result of both mediation analysis and bootstrapping analysis (with 5000 bootstrap resamples) showed that the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and fear of COVID-19 was mediated by anxiety sensitivity. Anxiety sensitivity decreased the effect of intolerance of uncertainty on fear of COVID-19. Moreover, comparing intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety sensitivity in terms of their predictive levels of the fear of COVID-19, it was concluded that anxiety sensitivity predicted the fear of COVID-19 more, and that anxiety sensitivity included the variance of intolerance to uncertainty associated with the fear of COVID-19. El objetivo del presente estudio es explorar el papel mediador de la sensibilidad a la ansiedad en las relaciones entre la intolerancia a la incertidumbre y el miedo al COVID-19. El estudio se realizó con el método de cribado relacional. Los datos de la investigación se recopilaron en línea de 302 personas (hombres n = 76, mujeres n = 226) con la escala de miedo a COVID-19, índice de sensibilidad a la ansiedad-3, escala de intolerancia a la incertidumbre. El resultado tanto del análisis de mediación como del análisis bootstrapping (con un remuestreo de 5000 bootstrap) mostró que la relación entre la intolerancia a la incertidumbre y el miedo al COVID-19 estaba mediada por la sensibilidad a la ansiedad. La sensibilidad a la ansiedad disminuyó el efecto de la intolerancia a la incertidumbre sobre el miedo al COVID-19. Además, al comparar la intolerancia a la incertidumbre y la sensibilidad a la ansiedad en términos de sus niveles predictivos del miedo al COVID-19, se concluyó que la sensibilidad a la ansiedad predijo más el miedo al COVID-19 y que la sensibilidad a la ansiedad incluyó la varianza de la intolerancia a la incertidumbre asociada. con el miedo al COVID-19.
Examining the framing patterns of environmental issues: Episodic and thematic analysis of Pakistani and British news stories

Practice and applicability of environmental journalism accelerate changes in environmental policy, foster environmental awareness amongst the public and encourage environmentalism in the society. Reporting news in episodic instead of thematic manner is imperative in altering the public narrative regarding environment as well as providing assistance for significant decision making, to concerned stakeholders for better policy formation. The comparative design of this study utilized quantitative content analysis to examines framing approach of Pakistani and British environmental news stories. Using simple random sampling technique total (n=1139) environmental news stories analysed from all four newspapers since 2007 to 2016-time period. The findings indicate the contrast among four newspapers of two countries (Dawn & Nation) from Pakistani print media however (Guardian & Telegraph) from Great Britain identify the divergent framing characteristics of Pakistani and British environmental news stories with thematic and episodic preferences. Guardian and Telegraph framed thematic news stories focusing on structural attributions while Dawn and Nation news stories evoke individualistic attributions with episodic frames. In spite of media’s regular journalistic practice of featuring episodic news stories still communicators can shift their professional approach by learning the construction of persuasive thematic environmental news stories for bigger social change.
ANALYSIS OF RISK FACTORS OF SEXUAL TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a very dangerous problem, especially with the transmission of STIs. The incidence of STIs is still high because people's knowledge of STIs is still low, and people are still ashamed to admit to STI sufferers so that STI cases are still high. The purpose of this study was to determine the analysis of risk factors of sexually transmitted infections in North Sumatera province (secondary data analysis for the 2017 IDHS). This study conducted a secondary data analysis of the 2017 IDHS in North Sumatra Province. This research was conducted on 1717 women of childbearing age in North Sumatra Province. This study used the Chi-square test and Prevalent Rate (PR). The results of this study show chi-square analysis results showed a relationship between the source for STI knowledge: health professional (p 0.001), knowledge of the source for STI knowledge: a religious institution (p 0.001), male STI symptoms (p 0.001) with sexual transmitted infections symptoms with a p-value 0.001. A woman of childbearing age who has a partner with STI symptoms has a 26.088 times greater risk of suffering from an STI than a woman of childbearing age whose partner does not have STI symptoms. Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are related to STI knowledge: health professional, knowledge of the source for STI knowledge: a religious institution, male STI symptoms. Symptoms of STIs in women of childbearing age partners are closely related to the incidence of STIs in women of childbearing age.