Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Rising temperatures and rising prices: the inflationary impacts of climate change and the need for degrowth-based solutions to the ecological crisis

ABSTRACT This paper highlights the role of climate change as a persistent, systemic, long-term inflationary driver. The inflationary impacts of climate change have been commonly overlooked in the economic literature. As global temperatures rise and extreme weather events become more frequent and severe, the inflationary effects of climate change will only intensify. These effects could be further exacerbated by the considerable pricing power of the corporate sector. As a persistent inflationary driver, climate change poses a serious threat to central banks’ ability to maintain price stability mandates. The traditional tools of monetary policy will be ineffective in curbing climate change-induced price pressures. Further, growth-based Green New Deal and related fiscal policies will be ineffective at mitigating climate change and reducing its inflationary impacts. Unless degrowth solutions are sought, climate change and its price effects will only intensify over time.
Prevalence of Trichomonas vaginalis Infection among Women of Reproductive Age in Anambra State, South Eastern, Nigeria

Aim: This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of Trichomonas vaginalis infection among women of reproductive age in some selected hospitals in Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. Methods: This study, conducted from October to December 2021, involved 200 women aged 20 years and above as participants. Prior to specimen collection, informed consent was obtained from each woman by qualified medical personnel. High vaginal swab sticks, labeled and sterile, were used to meticulously and aseptically collect specimens from the high vaginal area. A few drops of normal saline were added to each swab stick, and within 30 minutes of collection, a wet mount examination was performed to ensure optimal results. For the wet preparation of vaginal discharge, a drop from the sample was applied to a clean glass slide with a cover slip, avoiding the trapping of air bubbles. The wet smear was then examined under a microscope using a low-power objective (x10) followed by a high-power objective (x40) to detect motile T. vaginalis. The vaginal secretion was characterized by the presence of epithelial cells, white blood cells, and red blood cells. The T. vaginalis trophozoite was identified based on its oval shape, flagellation, and distinct jerky movement. Results: The study area had an overall prevalence rate of 11.0% for T. vaginalis infection. Among the selected hospitals, COOUTH had the highest prevalence at 13.24%, while Rock Foundation Hospital had the lowest at 6.67%. Prevalence varied across age groups, with the highest rate of 16.42% found in the 30-39 years age group, and the lowest rate of 5.0% in the 20-29 years age group. Divorced women had the highest prevalence at 60.0%, while singles had the lowest at 4.7% among the marital groups. Among different occupations, traders had the highest prevalence at 12.24%, whereas students and civil servants had the lowest rates at 4.0% and 7.72%, respectively. T. vaginalis infection was only observed in non-pregnant women, with a prevalence rate of 13.3%. Conclusion: T. vaginalis infection is prevalent among sexually active women of reproductive age in the study area. The findings highlight the importance of practicing good personal hygiene and being faithful to a single sexual partner. It is recommended to raise public awareness regarding the prevention and control of T. vaginalis in order to reduce its prevalence among women in the study area.
Effectiveness of a CPR Training Program Using Medium and Low Fidelity Simulators in Primary School Students for the Acquisition of Learning Skills

The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training program using medium and low fidelity simulators in primary school students for the acquisition of learning skills. Quasi-experimental pre-post study, carried out at public Elementary school in Perú. Results: nine-two students from third-to-sixth grades included, participated in this study. Assessments of knowledge, attitudes and skills were carried out immediately after the training and at 30 days. 81% passed the knowledge test immediately after training and 87% after 30 days. With the three simulators and in both measurements, the majority passed the practical skills test, with the obtained result being better in the second measurement. After the training, 96.74% felt capable of facing CPR and all at 30 days post-training. Finally, the developed training program was shown to be effective regardless of the used simulator. Conclusions: Training in CPR must begin at an early age, with age-appropriate methodologies and materials, economic possibilities and accessibility to training spaces, with periodic recycling. A CPR training program aimed at boys and girls is shown to be effective in terms of the knowledge acquisition skills, and perception of positive attitudes towards its performance using medium and low fidelity simulators.
Interpolations of Bargmann Type Measures

Abstract In this paper, we shall discuss Bargmann type measures on C for several classes of probability measures on R. The unified interpolation expressions include not only the classical Bargmann measure and its q-deformation, but also their t-deformations and dilations. As a special case, we get conditions on existence and an explicit form of the Bargmann representation for the free Meixner family of probability measures.
Analysis of an electrostatically actuated micro-plate subject to proportional-derivative controllers

This paper deals with the analysis of stability and dynamics of simply supported micro-plate, actuated by suddenly applied electrostatic forces on both sides and subjected to proportional-derivative control. The Galerkin decomposition is used to obtain the modal equation of the system. Using both a continuous time approach with delay and discrete time approach, the stability analysis is presented in order to obtain the stability boundary and stability charts in the parameter space of control gains. The bifurcation diagram and time series are used to confirm the existence of the Hopf bifurcation and to analyse the pull-in instability. By applying the proportional derivative control to the system under study, the vibrations are controlled and it is found that the control voltage generated digitally is more effective compared to the voltage generated continuously.
Breastfeeding in peripartum cardiomyopathy mothers: A systematic review

Introduction: Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) develops around the end of pregnancy or in the initial months after delivery. PPCM is induced by vasculotoxic chemicals secreted from the placenta and pituitary. Prolactin is one of these hormones that could be harmful. The maternal pituitary release prolactin in response to breastfeeding. The advantages of nursing for both mother and child must be taken seriously while deciding whether to breastfeed with PPCM. This systematic review aims to analyze the existing scientific evidence on breastfeeding in PPCM patients. Method: To ensure comprehensive retrieval of relevant research we search the following key databases: PubMed and ScienceDirect through 1000 for peer reviewed articles (in all languages) evidence related to breastfeeding in peripartum cardiomyopathy. Results: The studies suggest that PPCM influenced by the hormone prolactin which related to breastfeeding. Therapy of prolactin inhibitors is given to inhibit the worsening of PPCM patients, but with side effects patients cannot provide exclusive breastfeeding. From the study, breastfeeding has no significant effect on the LVEF of mothers with PPCM, but in PPCM conditions that are not well compensated, breastfeeding is not recommended and patients should undergo therapy with bromocriptine. Conclusion: Breastfeeding and bromocriptine go opposite but both have benefits for PPCM patients, consideration for breastfeeding or bromocriptine administration must considering the patient's condition. Administration of bromocriptine for certain conditions such as severe PPCM can accelerate LV function recovery. There will be side effects for both children and mothers who are not breastfed.
Mental health of pre-clinical medical students in Indonesia during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A reflection

Background & Objective: Perceived awareness and concern for mental health issues among students in Indonesia are still lacking, proceeding before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In order to gain future benefits, this study evaluates pre-clinical medical students' mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on pre-clinical medical students at the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Islam Indonesia (FM UII), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in April 2021. A total sampling method was employed. Participants completed online self-reported questionnaires, including socio-demographic data and the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) questionnaire to evaluate mental health. Descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate analysis was performed. Results: A total of 273 pre-clinical medical students were included in this study. They suffered from depression (35.2%) and stress (40.3%) more than a third and about half suffered from anxiety (50.2%). Females were more likely to have depression (AOR: 2.22;95%CI: 1.19 to 4.15), anxiety (2.56;1.42 to 4.61), and stress (3.44;1.81 to 6.54) than males. Anxiety was less common in medical students in their second (0.48;0.23 to 0.98) and third (0.29;0.13 to 0.67) years than in the first year. Being a third-year student was a protective factor for stress (0.38;0.17 to 0.87). Conclusion: A high prevalence of depression, anxiety, and stress among pre-clinical students was observed. This study can become a reflection for educational institutions and policymakers to prepare good strategies to maintain pre-clinical students' quality and mental health during and after COVID-19 pandemic. © 2023, J Med Edu Dev.
Kontribusi perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use dan perceived security terhadap behavioral intention to use aplikasi JAKET

The development of the use of information technology in various fields provides added value to society in an advanced development process. The existence of the use of information technology has entered all sectors, especially when it has penetrated the transportation sector. The success of technology acceptance is reflected in the user's ability to apply this technology in their daily lives without encountering several obstacles. The substance of this study is to determine the effect of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and perceived security on the behavioral intention to use the JAKET application. The sample in this study amounted to 120 respondents who were determined by convenience sampling approach. Data analysis using the SPSS application by displaying the results of data processing through test research instruments with validity and reliability, multiple regression analysis, the coefficient of determination, and hypothesis testing. The research results prove that only perceived ease of use and perceived security have a significant effect on behavioral intention to use. As for the effect of perceived usefulness on behavioral intention to use, the results are not significant.
Revisiting the association between treatment with antidepressants and mania: A nationwide within‐individual study of 3554 patients with bipolar disorder

Antidepressants are commonly used “off‐label” for bipolar depression, despite concerns over the risk of potential treatment‐emergent mania (or “manic switch”). Treatment‐emergent mania is difficult to study with adequate power in clinical trials as it requires a large group of participants and long follow‐up. Therefore, naturalistic register‐based studies have been applied to assess this phenomenon. Here, we aimed to replicate previous findings and address key methodological limitations that were not previously taken into account.
A Comparative Analysis of Traditional and Online Assessments: Perceptions and Performance of Undergraduate Students

This study aims to conduct a comparative analysis of traditional and online assessments and examine the perceptions and performance of undergraduate students towards these assessment methods. The study holds significance because it provides valuable insights into the effectiveness and appropriateness of these assessments, considering the recent surge in online education and assessments of undergraduates. An online survey questionnaire divided into three sections was used as a research tool used for data collection, addressing the advantages/disadvantages, perceptions, and performance of students. The sample population consisted of 120 students from three universities: GC Women University Sialkot, Punjab University, and Government Murray College. The findings reveal the traditional assessment methods are better than online which make positive impact on the performance of undergraduate students. This study contributes to the existing literature and provides recommendations to improve assessment practices in universities to ensure valid measurement of knowledge and abilities. Overall, the research provides significant knowledge into students' experiences and directs institutions towards improving evaluation procedures to meet the needs of learners.
DVFaaS: Leveraging DVFS for FaaS Workflows

In this letter, we propose <italic>DVFaaS</italic>, a per-core DVFS framework that utilizes control systems theory to assign <italic>just-enough</italic> frequency for the purpose of addressing the QoS requirements on serverless workflows comprising unseen functions. <italic>DVFaaS</italic> exploits the intermittent nature of serverless workflows, which enables staged control on distinguishable functions, which jointly contribute to the end-to-end latency. Our results show that <italic>DVFaaS</italic> considerably outperforms related work, reducing power consumption by up to 22%, with 2x fewer QoS violations.
Sparse Array Design for Optimum Beamforming Using Deep Learning

This article considers sparse array design for receive beamforming achieving maximum signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (MaxSINR). We develop a design approach based on supervised neural network where class labels are generated using an efficient sparse beamformer spectral analysis (SBSA) approach. SBSA uses explicit information of the unknown narrowband interference environment for training the network and bears close performance to training using exhaustive search by enumerations which is computationally prohibitive for large arrays. The employed deep neural network (DNN) effectively approximates the unknown mapping from the input received data spatial correlations to the output of sparse configuration with effective interference mitigation capability. The problem is posed as a classification problem where the sparse array configuration achieving MaxSINR is one-hot encoded, and indicated by the output layer of DNN. We evaluate the performance of the DNN in terms of the sparse array classification accuracy as well as in terms of the ability of the classified sparse array to mitigate interference and maximize signal power. It is shown that the DNN effectively learns the optimal sparse configuration which has desirable SINR characteristics, hence paving the way for efficient real-time implementation.
STUDY ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF THE PROCESS PARAMETERS OF VIBRO IMPACT CUTTING OF OPTICAL SLUGS ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF THE PROCESS

In the article, experimental studies were carried out, contributing to determination of degree of influence of the parameters of the modes of vibro-impact cutting of optical slugs on the productivity of the process. The optimal frequencies of the forced oscillations of the technological system "slug-cut disc" were reported, in which the durability of the tool and the quality of the obtained surfaces are maximum.
Adaptive Fuzzy-Based Event-Triggered Control for MIMO Switched Nonlinear System With Unknown Control Directions

An adaptive fuzzy-based event-triggered control (ETC) scheme is putted forward in this article, targeted at multi-input multioutput switched nonlinear systems with the situation of control directions are unknown. By designing a state observer and by means of fuzzy logic system, the unmeasurable state and unknown nonlinear function is resolved. The command filter is introduced to backstepping design process, combine with the Nussbaum function technology, overcome the trouble of calculation explosion derived from the partial derivative of the virtual controller, and also solves the influence of unknown control directions on the controller design. By construct multiple Lyapunov functions and under the designed ETC mechanism, an adaptive ETC scheme is developed. In addition, the stability of the system is verified by combining the average dwell time method. Finally, a numerical simulation verification example is given.
Local Edge/Corner Feature Integration for Illumination Invariant Face Recognition

—In this paper, we present a new appearance based feature descriptor, named Local edge/corner Feature Integration (LFI), which efﬁciently summarizes the local structure of face images. LFI is a nonparametric descriptor that utilizes a combined edge/corner detection strategy. The proposed method uses the approach suggested by Frei and Chen for corner and edge detection with nine different masks. After we obtain the information about corners and edges of the image, for each pixel position, we describe the relationship of pixels to their local neighborhood from the local edge/corner features using the edges and corners information separately. Then, we concatenate these patterns together to form the ﬁnal LFI feature vector. The performance evaluation of the proposed LFI algorithm is conducted on several publicly available databases and observed promising recognition rates.
Unsteady critical liquid sheet flows

The unsteady global dynamics of a gravitational liquid sheet interacting with a one-sided adjacent air enclosure (commonly referred to as nappe oscillation configuration) is addressed under the assumptions of potential flow and the presence of surface tension effects. From a theoretical viewpoint the problem is challenging, because from previous literature it is known that the equation governing the evolution of small disturbances exhibits a singularity at the vertical station where the local flow velocity equals the capillary wave velocity (local critical condition), although the solution to the problem has not yet been found. The equation governing the local dynamics resembles one featuring the forced vibrations of a string of finite length, formulated in the reference frame moving with the flow velocity, and exhibits both slow and fast characteristic curves. From the global system perspective the nappe behaves as a driven damped spring–mass oscillator, where the inertial effects are linked to the liquid sheet mass and the spring is represented by the equivalent stiffness of the air enclosure acting on the displacement of the compliant nappe centreline. A suited procedure is developed to remove the singularity of the integro-differential operator for Weber numbers less than unity. The investigation is carried out by means of a modal (i.e. time asymptotic) linear approach, which is corroborated by numerical simulations of the governing equation and supported by systematic comparisons with experimental data from the literature, available in the supercritical regime only. As regards the critical regime for the unit Weber number, the major theoretical result is a sharp increase in oscillation frequency as the flow Weber number is gradually reduced from supercritical to subcritical values due to the shift of the prevailing mode from the slow one to the fast one.
Silicon plasmonics at midinfrared using silicon-insulator-silicon platform

Abstract. We propose devices based on doped silicon. Doped silicon is designed to act as a plasmonic medium in the midinfrared (MIR) range. The surface plasmon frequency of the doped silicon can be tuned within the MIR range, which gives rise to useful properties in the material’s dispersion. We propose various plasmonic configurations that can be utilized for silicon on-chip applications in MIR. These devices have superior performance over conventional silicon devices and provide unique functionalities such as 90-sharp degree bends, T- and X-junction splitters, and stubs. These devices are CMOS-compatible and can be easily integrated with other electronic devices. In addition, the potential for biological and environmental sensing using doped silicon nanowires is demonstrated.
Multi‐peak standing waves for nonlinear Schrödinger equations involving critical growth

For the following singularly perturbed problem −ε2Δu+V(x)u=f(u),u∈H1RN,N≥3,we construct a solution uε which concentrates at several given isolated positive local minimum components of V as ε→0 . Here, the nonlinearity f is of critical growth. Moreover, the monotonicity of f(s)/s and the so‐called Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz condition are not required.
Fixed point theorems under weakly contractive conditions via auxiliary functions in ordered $G$-metric spaces

We present some fixed point results for a single mapping and a pair of compatible mappings via auxiliary functions which satisfy a generalized weakly contractive condition in partially ordered complete $G$-metric spaces. Some examples are furnished to illustrate the useability of our main results. At the end, an application is presented to the study of existence and uniqueness of solutions for a boundary value problem for certain second order ODE and the respective integral equation.
In-plane switching mode-based liquid-crystal hybrid Si wired Mach–Zehnder optical switch

A Mach–Zehnder optical switch based on a Si wire waveguide embedded in a liquid crystal overcladding is developed. Switching operation at a wavelength of 1550 nm with a voltage-length product of 1.86 V·mm is obtained for a device with a 300-µm-long loop-back phase shifter. The switching speed is qualitatively evaluated under various alignment film conditions, and switch-off and switch-on times of 7.9 and 8.4 ms, respectively, are achieved when the alignment layer is appropriately positioned relative to the waveguides.
TAM of E-parking in order to Increase Regional Income

The phenomenon of e-parking itself has been implemented in several big cities in Indonesia, namely in Jakarta, Bali, Solo, Surabaya, and Bandung. The application of e-parking carried out by DISHUB in Bandung was used to overcome the problem of leakage of parking retribution receipts. This study aims examine Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in the adoption of e-Parkir as parking infrastructure collection. In this study sampling using snowball sampling with staff in UPT Parkir Kota Bandung. The methodology of research is qualitative method and the data collected by interview, literature review, and observation. Meanwhile the analyses data done by reduction, presentation, and conclusion drawing and then the analyses method used description analysis. Conclude it was found perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use one of the most that affecting e-parkir acceptance. Our result also have confirmed perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use has been positively influencing attitude towards using e-parkir and give positive effect to behavioral intention dan actual usage e-parkir.