Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Methods of mapping the lands disturbed by mining operations and accuracy of cartographic images obtained from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A review

Purpose. Analyzing the land disturbance consequences caused by surface mining operations and methods for mapping these lands, as well as studying the accuracy of point coordinates of digital images obtained from materials of aerial photographic surveys using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Performing a quantitative assessment of the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of point coordinates on cartographic images and determining the dependences of the RMSE of point coordinates on the photogrammetric parameters. Methods. The review of previous research publications within the framework of the presented subject is performed in the following sequence: analysis of ecosystem disbalance as a result of surface mining operations; based on previous studies, collecting the data for quantitative assessment of accuracy in the form of RMSE of point coordinates on cartographic images obtained from the materials of aerial photographic survey using UAVs; statistical study of the relationship between the RMSE and photographic survey parameters. Findings. The methods for mapping the disturbed lands to return them to their natural state after the consequences of surface mining operations are presented, based on a review of previous research publications on the subject of the work. According to the previous studies, the RMSE of point coordinates of cartographic images has been systematized, and, based on this, the accuracy of topographic plans has been determined for them. Statistical studies of the relationship between the quantitative assessment of the RMSE (xy) and RMSE (z) accuracy in relation to the photographic survey parameters have been performed. In addition, the scattering diagrams of the correlation dependence and the range of RMSE relative frequency have been presented. Originality. Based on a critical analysis of previous studies on the lack of quantitative accuracy regulation of cartographic images obtained from aerial photographic survey using UAVs, the RMSE systematics has been performed in terms of the photographic survey height. Based on this, the accuracy of topographic plans, the relative frequency of horizontal and vertical distribution of errors, the mean value and the root mean square error (σ) have been determined. Practical implications. The systematics of the RMSE values of cartographic image point coordinates for certain photographic survey parameters and the scale of topographic images makes it possible to take this into account in the project of aerial photographic survey using UAVs of lands for various purposes, as well as to choose the height and photographic equipment according to the required accuracy.
Social media: An essential capability for business effectiveness?

The issue of social media is rather new and unexplored in comprehending how this capability can improve effectiveness in emerging economies, in particular, that of the companies classified as micro, small and medium‐sized (MSMEs). It is argued that some company and manager characteristics may affect the role of social media in business performance, therefore this research attempts to answer the following questions: Does the use of social media contribute to improving performance of MSMEs? How does the relationship behave according to the characteristics of the company and those of the manager? For this purpose, the resource‐based view of the firm is used as a framework of the analysis, which was carried out with data collected before the COVID pandemic. To validate the proposed hypotheses, we used Structural Equation Model (SEM) with a sample of 229 Mexican enterprises. The main contribution of this study is twofold: providing empirical evidence on the existence of influence from social media capability to the business performance and effectiveness of MSMEs in a Latin American emergent economy, even before the imposition of radical constraints by the pandemic; and the key theoretical implication is a better understanding of the nature of this influence.
Membrane-Free Stem Cell Extract Enhances Blood–Brain Barrier Integrity by Suppressing NF-κB-Mediated Activation of NLRP3 Inflammasome in Mice with Ischemic Stroke

Membrane-free stem cell extract (MFSCE) of human adipose tissues possesses various biological activities. However, the effects of MFSCE on blood–brain barrier dysfunction and brain damage are unknown. In this study, we determined the role of MFSCE in an ischemic stroke mouse model. Mice were treated with MFSCE once daily for 4 days and 1 h before ischemic damage. Experimental ischemia was induced by photothrombosis. Pretreatment with MFSCE reduced infarct volume and edema and improved neurological, as well as motor functions. Evans blue leakage and water content in the brain tissue were reduced by MFSCE pretreatment relative to those in the vehicle group. MFSCE increased the expression of the tight junction proteins zonula occludens 1 and claudin-5, as well as vascular endothelial-cadherin, but decreased that of matrix metalloproteinase 9. Notably, MFSCE treatment decreased cell death and the level of NOD-like receptor protein 3 inflammasome, consistent with the downregulated expression of the pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1β and IL-18 in the ischemic brain. These effects might have occurred via the suppression of the expression of Toll-like receptor 4 and activation of nuclear factor-κB. The results highlighted the potential of MFSCE treatment as a novel and preventive strategy for patients at a high risk of ischemic stroke.
Above-Ground Biomass and Nutrient Accumulation in Ten Eucalyptus Clones in Leizhou Peninsula, Southern China

Selecting suitable clones and regulating nutrients for Eucalyptus plantation are a key management practice for improving productivity and nutrient use. Therefore, this study evaluated growth performance, above-ground biomass, nutrient content (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, and magnesium) and nutrient use efficiency (NUE) of ten Eucalyptus Clones for three sites in Leizhou Peninsula. The present study showed a significant genetic variation among clones in growth parameters. Organs have different characteristics in biomass and nutrient content. Stemwood had the highest biomass but lowest total nutrient concentration. While, the stembark exhibited high contents of nutrients and biomass. On average, the NUE of clones was in the following order: phosphorus > magnesium > nitrogen > potassium > calcium. Taken together, among ten clones tested, clones LH1-9211, TH9224, DH32-13, M1 and DH32-22 showed consistently growth and production performance, as well, their NUE were superior in ten clones. Maximum amount of biomass was allocated to economically harvestable component (stemwood) and nutrients in non-harvestable components (stembark and foliage). While nutrients are removed from the planting area as part of the harvest, we can calculate nutrients loss by NUE and biomass. These findings provided useful insights for selection of Eucalyptus Clones and regulating nutrient export during the harvest of Eucalyptus Clones from a planted forest system.
Evaluation: A Booming Business but is it Adding Value?1

Evaluation, monitoring, inspection and performance auditing have become a booming business. The numbers of professional societies have strongly increased and there are so many studies that authors recently referred to them as ‘streams’ and ‘fleets’. Evaluation has also been called a ‘positive social epidemic’. This article reveals that the booming business not only has positive consequences and ‘added value’, but also unwanted downsides. ‘Evaluation machines’, ‘death by evaluation’, ‘evaluitis’ and the ‘performance paradox’ are examples. This article presents three possible explanations for the situation in which a booming business goes hand in hand with the beginnings of diminishing returns of evaluation for society. The first explanation is that evaluations are becoming part of management support systems that produce information that often only reinforces management decisions. The second looks into the unintended and negative consequences of ‘paradigm wars’. And the third suggestion deals with the limited explanatory power of evaluations.
A Bayesian Filtering Framework for Continuous Affect Recognition From Facial Images

Continuous affective state estimation from facial information is a task which requires the prediction of time series of emotional state outputs from a facial image sequence. Modeling the spatial-temporal evolution of facial information plays an important role in affective state estimation. One of the most widely used methods is Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN). RNNs provide an attractive framework for propagating information over a sequence using a continuous-valued hidden layer representation. In this work, we propose to instead learn rich affective state dynamics. We model human affect as a dynamical system and define the affective state in terms of valence, arousal and their higher-order derivatives. We then pose the affective state estimation problem as a jointly trained state estimator for high-dimensional input images, combining an RNN and a Bayesian Filter, i.e. Kalman filters (KF) and Extended Kalman filters (EKF), so that all weights in the resulting network can be trained using backpropagation. We use a recently proposed general framework for designing and learning discriminative state estimators framed as computational graphs. Such approach can handle high dimensional observations and efficiently optimize, in an end-to-end fashion, the state estimator. In addition, to deal with the asynchrony between emotion labels and input images, caused by the inherent reaction lag of the annotators, we introduce a convolutional layer that aligns features with emotion labels. Experimental results, on the RECOLA and SEMAINE datasets for continuous emotion prediction, illustrate the potential of the proposed framework compared to recent state-of-the-art models.
Atmospheric Forcing of the Pacific Meridional Mode: Tropical Pacific‐Driven Versus Internal Variability

The Pacific Meridional Mode (PMM) impacts tropical Pacific sea surface temperature variations, which in turn affect the PMM through the excited atmospheric teleconnections. Previous studies linked this loop to the tropical Pacific‐excited North Pacific Oscillation (NPO; the second empirical mode of North Pacific sea level pressure variability), while a recent study proposed the linkage to the excited Aleutian low (AL) variability (the first empirical mode). Unraveling their relative importance for the loop is thus crucial for better understanding subtropical‐tropical interactions. Here, using tropical Pacific pacemaker experiments we show that tropical Pacific‐forced AL variability is tied to the loop, while the tropical Pacific‐forced NPO does not effectively induce PMM variability, hence not being in the loop. Our study emphasizes the role of tropical Pacific‐forced AL variability in the PMM‐tropical Pacific interaction, which should be paid more attention in future studies.
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Related to the Incident of Toddler Pneumonia

According to the Regional Task Unit of Banda Raya Public Health Service, Banda Aceh City, there was an increase in Pneumonia Toddlers from 62 patients in 2017 to 135 patients in 2018. This study aims to determine the intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors related to the incidence of toddlers pneumonia in the work area of the Regional Task Unit of Banda Raya Public Health Service, Banda Aceh City, in 2019. Spatial analysis was used to analyze and describe the results of toddler pneumonia distribution and to see the relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic factors to the incidence of toddlers pneumonia using a Case-Control Study or Retrospective Study design. This study uses a total population sample of 142 people, consisting of 71 cases and 71 controls using a 1:1 ratio. The results showed that the variables associated with pneumonia were education (OR=2.47; 95% CI=1.51-5.32; p value=0.049), vitamin A administration (OR=4.56; 95% CI=1.81-11.49; p value=0.001), and exclusive breastfeeding (OR=0.35; 95% CI=0.11- 1.09; p value=0.072). Intrinsic factors related to the incidence of pneumonia are vitamin A administration and exclusive breastfeeding. Then the Extrinsic factor related is edu­cation. The recommendation is to improve MCH management, such as complete basic immunization, vitamin A administration, and others.
Why tyrannosaur forelimbs were so short: an integrative hypothesis

The unusually shortened limbs of giant theropods, including abelisaurids, carcharodontosaurids, and derived tyrannosauroids such as Tyrannosaurus rex have long been an object of wonder, speculation, and even derision on the part of both paleontologists and the public. Two questions commonly asked are “Why did the forelimbs become so short? ” and “What did the animals use such short forelimbs for, if for anything? ” Because basal tyrannosauroids and their outgroups, as well as the outgroups of other giant theropods, had longer forelimbs, the foreshortening of these elements in derived taxa was secondary, and it ostensibly involved a shift in developmental timing of the forelimb elements. Factors proposed to have influenced the evolutionary foreshortening include natural selection, sexual selection, energetic compensation, ontogenetic vagaries, and rudimentation due to disuse. Hypotheses of use have varied from a supporting anchor that allows the hindlimbs a purchase to stand from a reclining position to a pectoral version of pelvic claspers during inter-course to a sort of waving display during sexual or social selection. None of these hypotheses explain selective regimes for reduction; at best, they might argue for maintenance of the limb, but in all cases a larger limb would have suited the function better. It is likely that we have been looking the wrong way through the telescope, and that no specific function of the forelimbs was being selected; instead, another crucial adaptation of the animal profited from forelimb reduction. Here I propose, in the context of phylogenetic, ontogenetic, taphonomic, and social lines of evidence, that the forelimbs became shorter in the context of behavioral ecology: the great skull and jaws provided all the necessary predatory mech-anisms, and during group-feeding on carcasses, limb reduction was selected to keep the forelimbs out of the way of the jaws of large conspecific predators, avoiding injury, loss of blood, amputation, infection, and death. A variety of lines of evidence can test this hypothesis.
Effectiveness of education intervention to reduce sugar-sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juice in children and adolescents: a scoping review

ABSTRACT Objective To determine the impact of educational intervention in reducing the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and 100% fruit juice in children and adolescents. Design We conducted a comprehensive Ovid Medline and Scopus search. Articles had to be peer-reviewed, full-text and published in English. Studies had to be controlled intervention, published between 1 January 2010 to 7 February 2021, and in children and adolescents. Study quality was measured using the Quality Assessment Tool for Controlled Intervention Studies. Results Forty intervention articles were included in this review involving 25,069 children and adolescents. All studies employed a quantitative research method using the Randomized Controlled Trial designs. Twenty-eight out of forty interventions used psychosocial theories. Study quality ranged from ‘fair’ to ‘good. ’ Results showed that education intervention effectively reduced SSBs, and reduced 100% fruit juice in children. Expert opinion Reducing the SSBs consumption in children should be initiated by conducting school-based programs consisting of interactive learning process, psychosocial theories and the involvement of parents or caregivers. Theories that focus on personal, behavior and environment factors improve the effectiveness of the intervention. More research is warranted to investigate the impacts of 100% fruit juice on obesity, dental caries and risk of co-morbidities in children.
The Soteria model: implementing an alternative to acute psychiatric hospitalization in Israel

ABSTRACT Background Since 2016, Soteria homes have been operating in Israel. In this report we describe the implementation of the model. Methods Data for 486 residents staying in one of three Soteria homes from 2016 through 2020 are presented. The model, and necessary modifications, are discussed. Results The majority of the residents in the Soteria homes suffered from psychotic (41.3%) or bipolar disorder (20.9%) and were of a mean age of 34.5 (SD = 12.83). While operating according to the principles of Soteria, adaptations had to be made. The homes used professional staff as well as companions. Accepting a wide range of residents exposed the home to situations of violent behaviour which required adjustment in admission policy. Work with insurers limited the possible length of stay. Financial constraints expanded the home capacity to 10 residents, while limiting work shifts to 12 hours. Cultural considerations led to the establishment of single-gender homes. Discussion Soteria homes can be a viable component of publicly-funded mental health care systems. The implementation of the Soteria model can provide important lessons for the future development of a professional and humane mental health care service – not as an alternative, but as an integral part of the system.
Active vs. Passive Ambivalent Voters: Implications for Interactive Political Communication and Participation

Voters express different attitudes toward competing political parties and the issues they support. In this study, a polytomous latent class analysis of their opinions regarding party-divided issues identifies several types of voters and highlights the distinction between active and passive ambivalent voters. Such a distinction is necessary to clarify the relationship between party ambivalence and political participation. Drawing on research into ambivalent attitudes, the current study postulates that active ambivalent citizens adopt amplification strategies, whereas passive ambivalent citizens adopt avoidance strategies. A comparison between them further indicates that active ambivalent citizens are motivated to fulfill their civic duties and be accountable when they seek political information, and they express more political interest than their passive counterparts. A three-wave panel survey confirms the influence of ambivalent voter types (wave 1) on political participation (wave 3), according to voters’ political orientation (i.e., civic duty motives to seek political information and interest in politics) and their interactive political communication (interactive engagement with digital political information and interpersonal political discussions) (wave 2).
Technologies for Environmental Safety Application of Digestate as Biofertilizer

The purpose of the paper is to determine the environmentally safe and economically feasible technology of biofertilizer production from the digestate including dewatering process. Methodological basis is based on the systematic approach to the determination of factors effected on the distribution of nutrients and pollutants between liquid and solid fractions after digestate separation. We studied modern technologies aimed at dewatering the digestate and reduction of its volume, showed their effectiveness. These technologies allow expanding the opportunities for commercialization of the digestate, increasing the cost of its transportation and application to the soil instead of complex fertilizers, using some valuable products. The results of the study showed that the ecological quality of the digestate is the highest as well as co-digested thermally pre-treated feedstock is used for solid-liquid separation in centrifuge with polymer addition as post-treatment approach to the flocculation. In order to increase efficiency of biofertilizer application the technological scheme of production process of granular fertilizers from digestate was proposed. Special feature of this scheme is in the use of phosphogypsum binder for the production of organomineral fertilizer that contributes phosphogypsum recycling in the waste management system.
Combining diffusive gradients in thin‐films (DGT) and 31P NMR spectroscopy to determine phosphorus species in soil

The diffusive gradients in thin‐films (DGT) technique shows in many publications a superior correlation to the amount of plant‐available phosphorus (P) in soil. However, this technique cannot give information on the plant‐available P species in soil. Therefore, we combined DGT with solution 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. This was achieved by using a modified DGT device in which the diffusive layer had a larger pore size, the binding layer incorporated an adsorption material with a higher capacity, and the device had a larger exposure area. The spectroscopic investigation was undertaken after elution of the deployed DGT binding layer in a NaOH solution. Adsorption tests using solutions of known organic P compounds showed that a sufficient amount of these compounds could be adsorbed on the binding layer in order for them to be analyzed by solution 31P NMR spectroscopy. Furthermore, various intermediates of the hydrolysis of trimetaphosphate in soil could be also analyzed over time.
Efficacy and Safety of Laparoscopy for Mild and Moderate Pediatric Abdominal Trauma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of laparoscopy for pediatric patients with abdominal trauma. Relevant articles were obtained by searching the MEDLINE PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane databases until 7 December 2021. Meta-analyses were performed using odds ratio (OR) for binary outcomes, standardized mean differences (SMDs) for continuous outcome measures, and overall proportion for single proportional outcomes. Nine studies examining 12,492 patients were included in our meta-analysis. Our meta-analysis showed younger age (SMD −0.47, 95% confidence interval (CI) −0.52 to −0.42), lower injury severity score (SMD −0.62, 95% CI −0.67 to −0.57), shorter hospital stay (SMD −0.55, 95% CI −0.60 to −0.50), less complications (OR 0.375, 95% CI 0.309 to 0.455), and lower mortality rate (OR 0.055, 95% CI 0.0.28 to 0.109) in the laparoscopy group compared to the laparotomy group. The majority of patients were able to avoid laparotomy (0.816, 95% CI 0.800 to 0.833). There were no missed injuries during the laparoscopic procedures in seven eligible studies. Laparoscopy for stable pediatric patients showed favorable outcomes in terms of morbidity and mortality. There were no missed injuries, and laparotomy could be avoided for the majority of patients.