Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Deep Multi-Modal Learning Method and a New RGB-Depth Data Set for Building Roof Extraction

This study focuses on tackling the challenge of building mapping in multi-modal remote sensing data by proposing a novel, deep superpixel-wise convolutional neural network called DeepQuantized-Net, plus a new red, green, blue (RGB)-depth data set named IND. DeepQuantized-Net incorporated two practical ideas in segmentation: first, improving the object pattern with the exploitation of superpixels instead of pixels, as the imaging unit in DeepQuantized-Net. Second, the reduction of computational cost. The generated data set includes 294 RGB-depth images (256 training images and 38 test images) from different locations in the state of Indiana in the U.S., with 1024 × 1024 pixels and a spatial resolution of 0.5 ftthat covers different cities. The experimental results using the IND data set demonstrates the mean F1 scores and the average Intersection over Union scores could increase by approximately 7.0% and 7.2% compared to other methods, respectively.
Multi-trial free recall dynamics in preschool children and young adults

ABSTRACT This study explored temporal-contextual memory search by examining recall dynamics in preschool children and young adults. Participants viewed a series of pictures and were asked to recall them in any order they remembered. Participants completed five study-test cycles for four separate lists. For two of the lists, the presentation order was fixed. For the other two, stimuli were presented in a different order every time. All participants tended to initiate recall with the last item of the list. Young adults most commonly transitioned from one item to a neighbouring item in a forward direction, especially for fixed lists, indicative of temporal-contextual search. Preschool children showed a small tendency to transition to neighbouring items but not always in the forward direction. This did not improve with practice. This suggests that the mechanisms that produce temporal-contextual memory search are not fully developed in preschool children, nor do they improve substantially with practice.
THE INTENTION TO USE E-COMMERCE TO PURCHASE GREEN COSMETICS WITH A MODIFIED UTAUT2 APPROACH

The quantitative research examines factors affecting the intention to use e-commerce by employing a modified UTAUT2 model. The sample is 263 e-commerce users in Surabaya, Malang, and Kediri who have e-commerce account and know about Sensatia Botanicals. The Data was analyzed using PLS (Partial Least Square) in SmartPLS 3.0. The results of the analysis indicate that performance expectancy, facilitating conditions, social influence, habit, perceived playfulness and price value have a significant positive influence on the behavior intention to use e-commerce, and that effort expectancy and hedonic motivation do not have any significant positive influence. Gender difference in this study can increase the intention of individuals to use e-commerce on the price value factors, while age and income difference in this study neither increase nor decrease the intention of individuals to use e-commerce to purchase the products of Sensatia Botanicals.
Dual Career Couple

This study examined the relationship between a couple of career and family life. The double role of female worker gots complex problems, that produces organization and the female worker challenges, because of the role function of the woman (Parasuraman dan Greenhaus, 1992). The balance of workplace support and family support composes job satisfaction, family satisfaction, and declining job stress. That spouses realize that supporting each other is capable of success achieved in the workplace. This phenomenon enhances this research, especially about why employees have a readiness to support their peers in the workplace, and the influences on well-being on the dual-career couple. Population research is all dual career-couples or a married couple of employees in Private Hospital because these dual career-couples need to build their characteristics of Hospital employees. The number of this research respondent is 186 employees. This is a lifestyle for many women, as the larger female worker opportunity dan, the larger female education opportunity. The analysis result shows that intergroup knowledge does not influence well-being in the workplace, and intergroup knowledge influence positive and significant toward peer support. The influence of intergroup knowledge toward well-being is negative and not significant.
Value of Pelvic Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Local Staging of Rectal Cancer

Background: The prognosis for patients with rectal cancer is closely related to the stage of the disease at the time of diagnosis. Currently, rectal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the most encouraging imaging modality for local staging of rectal cancer. Aim of Sudy: This study aimed to evaluate the role of pelvic MRI in staging of the rectal cancer for management decision. Patients and Methods: This prospective study included 30 patients who proved to have rectal cancer by clinical and histopathological studies. Pelvic MRI was accomplished for all patients according to the following protocol: Sagittal T2WI; Axial T2WI; Axial T 1 SPIR; Axial T 1 WI; and Coronal T2 TSE. T staging and N staging were performed for the lesions. Results: Thirty patients were included in this study, 21 males and 9 females with their ages range between 19 and 80 years (mean=43 years). MRI defined the location of the tumor in the upper third (2 cases), 6 cases at the middle third and in 21 cases at the lower third of the rectum. T staging: No lesions were staged as T1, one case was staged as T2, twentythree lesions were diagnosed as T3; five cases were diagnosed to have T4 lesion (local infiltration) involving; prostate (4 cases) and infiltrating the skin and penile root in another case. The operative findings confirmed MRI data in those cases. One case was staged as T0 stage following proctoscopic resection of rectal polyp and proved to be rectal carcinoma (villous carcinoma). The sensitivity of MRI was identical to (100%) operative and histopathological assessment in all T stages from (T 1 to T4). N staging: The N stage was interpreted according to the TNM classification, any enlarged node in this study was suspected to be positive for metastatic deposits. Conclusions: Pelvic MRI provides high resolution images of the entire mesorectum allowing for an accurate staging of rectal cancer. It offers multiplannar capabilities with high resolution, non-invasive however it is relatively a costly examination. It is of high value in building up the best therapy strategy for cancer rectum patients. Correspondence to: Dr. Moustafa E. Radwan, E-Mail: ezeldienmos@yahoo.com
Role of subtropical Rossby waves in governing the track of cyclones in the Bay of Bengal

The cyclones during November in the Bay of Bengal follow two distinct tracks. Analysis for the period 1982–2019 shows that some cyclones move west‐northwestward and make landfall at the Odisha, Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu coast of India, or the Sri Lanka coast, while others move north‐northeastwards and make landfall at the West Bengal, Bangladesh or Myanmar coast. Our analysis shows there is a significant difference in the steering winds governing these two different cyclone tracks. The north‐northeastward moving cyclones are associated with an anomalous upper‐level cyclonic circulation over India which is part of a subtropical Rossby wave train triggered by an anomalous upper‐level convergence over the Mediterranean region. This wave train propagates along the subtropical westerly jet from the east Atlantic/Mediterranean region and reaches the Indian subcontinent in 4 days. It induces an anomalous cyclonic circulation over the Indian landmass and provides south‐to‐north and west‐to‐east steering over the Bay of Bengal, causing the cyclones to move in a north‐northeastward direction. On the other hand, for west‐northwestward moving cyclones, there is no Rossby wave intrusion over the Indian subcontinent, hence the cyclones move in a west‐northwestward direction assisted by the beta effect and climatological winds which are from east to west over the south and central Bay of Bengal. This shows that the track of cyclones in the north Indian Ocean can be modulated by atmospheric changes in the extratropics and can act as a precursor for the prediction of the track of cyclones in this region.
Evaluation of Serum Level of Claudin‐ 3 and Its Association with Disease Severity in Patients with Psoriasis in Iraqi patients

Background Psoriasis is a prevalent inflammatory skin disease. Psoriasis is a complex illness in which environmental variables acting on individuals with unique genetic predisposition causing immunological dysregulation. Claudins are transmembrane proteins that help to generate tight junctions by binding to the actin cytoskeleton. Claudin 3 in the blood is thought to be a good indicator of intestinal permeability. Objective: The aim of this study was to detect of the alteration of claudin-3 in psoriasis patient and find the correlation between severity and concentration of the claudin-3. Patients and methods: forty psoriatic patients (25males and 15 females) and thirty normal healthy controls (19 men and 11 females) who were age and sex matched to the cases group were included in this study. They were chosen at random from Al Fallujah hospital Dermatology Department outpatient clinic. Result: When compared to the control group, the psoriasis group had substantially greater levels of claudin-3 (mean=2.18 ± 0.16 versus 1.27 ± 0.03; p0.0001). Furthermore, the amount of claudin-3 rose progressively as the severity grade increased (001). There were no significant correlations between claudin-3 levels and gender, dietary status, or family history in the psoriasis group (p>0.05 for each). Conclusion: Claudin-3 levels were considerably greater in psoriasis patients than in healthy controls. PASI levels were shown to be linked to claudin-3 levels.
Historical biogeography of the Gondwanan freshwater genus Boeckella (Crustacea): Timing and modes of speciation in the Southern Hemisphere

We investigated evolutionary relationships and biogeographical patterns within the genus Boeckella to evaluate (1) whether its current widespread distribution in the Southern Hemisphere is due to recent long‐distance dispersal or long‐term diversification; and (2) the age and origin of sub‐Antarctic and Antarctic Boeckella species, with particular focus on the most widely distributed species: Boeckella poppei.
Shooting at a Moving Target—Effectiveness and Emerging Challenges for SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Development

Since late 2019 the newly emerged pandemic SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, has hit the world with recurring waves of infections necessitating the global implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions, including strict social distancing rules, the wearing of masks and the isolation of infected individuals in order to restrict virus transmissions and prevent the breakdown of our healthcare systems. These measures are not only challenging on an economic level but also have a strong impact on social lifestyles. Using traditional and novel technologies, highly efficient vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 were developed and underwent rapid clinical evaluation and approval to accelerate the immunization of the world population, aiming to end the pandemic and return to normality. However, the emergence of virus variants with improved transmission, enhanced fitness and partial immune escape from the first generation of vaccines poses new challenges, which are currently being addressed by scientists and pharmaceutical companies all over the world. In this ongoing pandemic, the evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines underlies diverse unpredictable dynamics, posed by the first broad application of the mRNA vaccine technology and their compliance, the occurrence of unexpected side effects and the rapid emergence of variations in the viral antigen. However, despite these hurdles, we conclude that the available SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are very safe and efficiently protect from severe COVID-19 and are thereby the most powerful tools to prevent further harm to our healthcare systems, economics and individual lives. This review summarizes the unprecedented pathways of vaccine development and approval during the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. We focus on the real-world effectiveness and unexpected positive and negative side effects of the available vaccines and summarize the timeline of the applied adaptations to the recommended vaccination strategies in the light of emerging virus variants. Finally, we highlight upcoming strategies to improve the next generations of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.
Evidence of Weight Bias in the College Classroom: A Call for Inclusive Teaching Practices for Students of All Sizes

Abstract Groupwork is a useful classroom tool, but may not fully benefit students who are ostracized by peers due to nonacademic factors, like weight. Here, undergraduate students estimated GPAs of hypothetical student peers who were described as “overweight” or “normal-weight” and judged how much they wanted to work with them. We found small but significant effects: students rated overweight peers as having lower GPAs and reported less desire to work with them relative to normal-weight peers. Instructors should be cognizant that overweight students are believed by their peers to be less desirable class partners and may be excluded from classroom participation.
Social identity theory applied to the game of self-regulation of social exchanges based on multiagent systems

ABSTRACT Autonomous intelligent agents participate in complex social situations. It is necessary that agents are aware of their society and still understand their context of action and interaction. Such social situation with other agents is influenced by society’s characteristics, including their norms, values, common interests and objectives, members, and social structures. Each complex society is broken down into social groups, each one with an identity. Social identity theory is seen as an analysis of intergroup relations in social categories based on the cognitive definition and the autoconcept of a social group and their belonging. Researchers have been studying this theory in computing, more specifically in multiagent systems. Social exchanges are the object of study in diverse contexts in which social relations are understood as social exchanges. One of the investigated themes is the self-regulation of social exchanges. The game of self-regulation of social exchanges explores its self-regulation but it does not analyse the agents’ identity. Therefore, this research investigates the integration of psychosocial analysis of social identity theory into the social adaptive complex society of the game of self-regulation of social exchanges. The principal result of this work is the GSRSEPSIT, a social simulation model.
Are U.S. Presidents Becoming Less Rhetorically Complex? Evaluating the Integrative Complexity of Joe Biden and Donald Trump in Historical Context

Are U.S. political leaders becoming simpler in their rhetoric? To evaluate, we place the two most recent Presidents’ integrative complexity against a historical context for three different types of comparable materials. Results reveal that both Biden and Trump are simple when compared to the typical President. Further, segmented regression analyses reveal Biden's and Trump's low complexity is partially the continuation of an ongoing historical decline in complexity among Presidents. Importantly, this complexity decline is occurring for both Republicans and Democrats.
Ultra-minimally Invasive Sonographically-guided Trigger Digit Release: An External Pilot Study

Objectives The most common surgical option for releasing the first annular pulley in trigger digit (TD) is classic open surgery followed by blind percutaneous release. However, they have been related to major complications and incomplete releases, respectively. Intrasheath sonographically-guided first annular pulley release has recently been shown to be safe and effective in every digit. The objectives of this pilot study were to preliminary compare clinically an intrasheath sonographically-guided first annular pulley release versus a classic open technique and to evaluate the feasibility of a future clinical trial in patients with TDs. Methods Thirty patients were randomized 1:1 in an external pilot study comparing the two surgical techniques: a percutaneous sonographically-guided release performed through a 1 mm incision using a hook knife versus a classic open surgery with a 1 cm incision. Inclusion criteria were primary TD grade III (Froimson). We defined success if primary (safety and efficacy) and secondary (recruitment rates, compliance, completion, treatment blinding, personnel resources, and sample size calculation for the clinical trial) objectives could be matched. We registered the grip strength, the QuickDASH score and a set of postoperative clinical variables at one, three, and six weeks and at three months. We calculated the sample size for the clinical trial using the QuickDASH at the end of the follow-up. Outcomes assessors were blinded. Results All patients in both groups showed resolution of their symptoms with no associated complications or relapses. Secondary feasibility objectives were matched: 76.9% of eligible patients were included in the study, 3.3% refused randomization, 20 patients per month were recruited, 100% received blinded treatment, 98.5% showed compliance, and 100% completed the study. The sample size for a future clinical trial was 84 patients. There were no differences in grip strength. The intrasheath sonographically-guided first annular pulley release showed significantly better QuickDASH scores, until the sixth postoperative week. Conclusions The intrasheath sonographically-guided first annular pulley release is safe and efficacious, and shows a trend toward clinical superiority versus the classic open procedure, which should be confirmed with a clinical trial. Our study shows that a randomized clinical trial is feasible.
The Long and Winding Road

: We describe a pilot project designed to assess the feasibility of re-use across 12 diverse qualitative datasets related to HIV in the UK, from research projects undertaken between 1997 and 2013 – an approach which is chronically under-used. First, we consider the sweeping biomedical changes and imperatives relating to HIV in this timeframe, offering a rationale for data re-use at this point in the epidemic. We then reflexively situate the processes and procedures we devised for this study with reference to relevant methodological literature. Hammersley’s (2010) and Leonelli’s (2016) contributions have been particularly instructive through this process, and following their lead, we conclude with further considerations for those undertaking qualitative data re-use, reflecting on the extent to which qualitative data re-use as a practice requires attention to both the given and the constructed aspects of data when assembled as evidence.
Concilium

A revista foi fundada em 1965. Responsável pela sua publicação é a Fundação Concilium, com sede em Nimega (Holanda). Em seu primeiro editorial, escrito por Karl Rahner, S.J., e Edward Schillebeeckx, O.P., dizia qual era sua proposta: “A sua finalidade é trazer verdadeiros homens de ciência teológica à fala com aqueles que na Igreja realizam o trabalho prático. Muito depende da ação e decisão deles. Instruídos já pelas experiências do Concílio, sabem eles que as decisões práticas e a proclamação do Evangelho no mundo de hoje têm de aprender alguma coisa da ciência autenticamente teológica (e vice-versa naturalmente). Sabem estes homens da Igreja, perfeitamente, que não podem viver pura e simplesmente da prática da teologia que aprenderam há muitos anos ao longo de sua formação. Está em evidência uma teologia que, para o exercício de suas funções, lhes pode dizer mais do que tudo aquilo que encontra¬ram nos manuais escolares de há vários anos no decorrer dos seus estudos. Seria impossível, ainda que só em esboço, indicar aqui os traços marcantes dessa teologia que vive, com toda a consciência, da Escritura e da História da Salvação, e ao mesmo tempo tem a coragem de entrar com ousadia e, simultaneamente, com modéstia, nos problemas da hodierna ‘condition humaine’ para, a partir da nossa situação, buscar o caminho para um melhor entendimento da palavra de Deus aos homens e ao mundo, no nosso tempo” (Concilium n. 1, 1965, Editorial, p. 3-4).
THE INFLUENCE OF PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT AND SELF EFFICACY ON WORK ENGAGEMENT AT PT BHUMI BHAKTI SUKSES PERSADA

The purpose of this study is : 1) To find out the description of perceived organizational support, self efficacy, and work engagement of employee in PT Bhumi Bhakti Sukses Persada. 2) To find out the influence of perceived organizational support on work engagement of employee in PT Bhumi Bhakti Sukses Persada. 3) To find out the influence of self efficacy on work engagement of employee in PT Bhumi Bhakti Sukses Persada. 4) To find out the influence of perceived organizational support and self efficacy on work engagement of employee in PT Bhumi Bhakti Sukses Persada. The study used 70 respondents as a sample. Data collection technique using survey methods by distributing questionnaires which then processed with SmartPLS version 3. This research used descriptive and explanatory analysis. The result obtained from PLS analysis show that there is a positive and significant influence between perceived organizational support and self efficacy on work engagement. Variable of perceived organizational support and self efficacy is able to influence of work engagement in employees of PT Bhumi Bhakti Sukses Persada with t-statistical value for the perceived organizational support variable on work engagement (3,638 > 1.96) and signification value of (0.000 < 0.005), for self efficacy variables to work engagement has a t-statistical value of (2,876 > 1.96) and a significance value of (0.004 < 0.05), while for perceived organizational support and self efficacy towards work engagement have a t-statistical value of (21,990 > 1.96) with a value of significance (0.000 < 0.05). Keyword : Perceived Organizational Support, Self Efficacy, Work Engagement, Employee