Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Towards fully non-inductive current drive operation in JET

Quasi-steady operation has been achieved at JET in the high-confinement regime with internal transport barriers (ITBs). The ITB has been maintained up to 11 s. This duration, much larger than the energy confinement time, is already approaching a current resistive time. The high-performance phase is limited only by plant constraints. The radial profiles of the thermal electron and ion pressures have steep gradients typically at mid-plasma radius. A large fraction of non-inductive current (above 80%) is sustained throughout the high-performance phase with a poloidal beta exceeding unity. The safety factor profile plays an important role in sustaining the ITB characteristics. In this regime where the self-generated bootstrap current (up to 1.0 MA) represents 50% of the total current, the resistive evolution of the non-monotonic q-profile is slowed down by using off-axis lower-hybrid current drive.
Pengaruh Kompensasi Dan Motivasi Terhadap Kinerja Pegawai Pada Departemen Sumber Daya Manusia PT. Columbindo Perdana

This thesis was made in order to determine how much ofthe correlation of compensation and motivationon the performance of Pegawai Departemen SDM, PT. Columbindo Perdana. The method used in this research is descriptive and qualitative with path analysis. Data collection method used is through the study of literature, observation and interviews. The study was conducted at the Human Resource Departement on PT. Columbindo Perdana, the number of respondents 64 people. From these results it is known that the compensation and motivation has apositive and significant correlation to the performance of the company, in this case PT. Columbindo Perdana. Compensation has a higher correlation to the performance of the company compared to the motivation.
On T-duality in brane gas cosmology

In the context of homogeneous and isotropic superstring cosmology, the T-duality symmetry of string theory has been used to argue that for a background space–time described by dilaton gravity with strings as matter sources, the cosmological evolution of the Universe will be nonsingular. In this paper we discuss how T-duality extends to brane gas cosmology, an approximation in which the background space–time is again described by dilaton gravity with a gas of branes as a matter source. We conclude that the arguments for non-singular cosmological evolution remain valid.
Overview of results from the MST reversed field pinch experiment

An overview of recent results from the MST programme on physics important for the advancement of the reversed field pinch (RFP) as well as for improved understanding of toroidal magnetic confinement more generally is reported. Evidence for the classical confinement of ions in the RFP is provided by analysis of impurity ions and energetic ions created by 1 MW neutral beam injection (NBI). The first appearance of energetic-particle-driven modes by NBI in a RFP plasma is described. MST plasmas robustly access the quasi-single-helicity state that has commonalities to the stellarator and ‘snake’ formation in tokamaks. In MST the dominant mode grows to 8% of the axisymmetric field strength, while the remaining modes are reduced. Predictive capability for tearing mode behaviour has been improved through nonlinear, 3D, resistive magnetohydrodynamic computation using the measured resistivity profile and Lundquist number, which reproduces the sawtooth cycle dynamics. Experimental evidence and computational analysis indicates two-fluid effects, e.g., Hall physics and gyro-viscosity, are needed to understand the coupling of parallel momentum transport and current profile relaxation. Large Reynolds and Maxwell stresses, plus separately measured kinetic stress, indicate an intricate momentum balance and a possible origin for MST's intrinsic plasma rotation. Gyrokinetic analysis indicates that micro-tearing modes can be unstable at high beta, with a critical gradient for the electron temperature that is larger than for tokamak plasmas by roughly the aspect ratio.
Nursing diagnosis in children with signs and symptoms of asthma: a description study

As doencas respiratorias sao muito comuns na infância. A asma merece destaque por ser a principal doenca cronica na infância e sua sintomatologia gera sofrimento aos seus portadores e familiares. O estudo teve como objetivo analisar os diagnosticos de Enfermagem presentes em criancas com sinais e sintomas respiratorios no municipio de Quixada-CE, Brasil. Pesquisa descritiva, do tipo transversal, realizada com 30 criancas em internamento hospitalar. Os dados foram coletados entre marco e abril de 2009. As criancas avaliadas apresentaram 13 diagnosticos de enfermagem, sendo identificadas 41 caracteristicas definidoras, 23 fatores relacionados e 19 fatores de risco. O diagnostico de enfermagem mais prevalente foi desobstrucao ineficaz das vias aereas (96,7%), seguido de padrao respiratorio ineficaz (80%) e risco de infeccao (63,3%). E importante que os enfermeiros que prestam assistencia as criancas com doencas respiratorias possam direcionar suas intervencoes para os diagnosticos de maior frequencia aqui apresentados. Descritores: Sinais e Sintomas; Respiracao; Diagnostico de Enfermagem; Crianca.
Role of the Transcription Factor Nrf2 in Parkinson’s Disease: New Insights

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic and progressive disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. PD is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s disease. The incidence rate is around 1-4% of the population above the age of 60 and 80 years, although there is a lower incidence in younger people. The major clinical hallmarks are manifested by resting tremor, rigidity, postural instability and akinesia, symptoms that are often accompanied by cognitive impairment. At the molecular level, the main characteristics of PD are the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta, the formation of Lewy bodies, oxidative stress and chronic low-grade inflammation. Nowadays, the main standard clinical treatment for PD patients is based on dopamine replacement with levodopa, which manages to ameliorate only motor symptoms and does not delay the neurodegenerative process. Therefore, it is essential to find out new therapies that allow us to improve not only motor symptoms, but non-motor symptoms like cognitive impairment and the dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, and modulate disease progression. During the last decade, the transcription factor NRF2 has emerged as a suitable target to modulate PD related molecular hallmarks. NRF2 was first described as a master regulator of oxidative stress, but new evidences showed that NRF2 is also implicated in the modulation of inflammatory processes through its crosstalk with the transcription factor NF-κB, the principal regulator of inflammation. Additionally, it has been described that NRF2 is essential in proteostasis, modulating the proteasome and autophagy processes. Thus, pharmacological targeting of NRF2 could be an effective treatment for PD patients. Parkinson’s Disease Molecular Hallmarks
Making European cult cinema: fan production in an alternative economy

This study gives attention to the fan production surrounding European cult cinema, low budget exploitation films often in the horror genre, that engage a high level of cultural commitment and investment from its fans. It addresses wider issues of debate relating to why people are fans and whether they are anything more than obsessive in their consumption of media. The academic study of fandom is relatively a new area, the formative year being 1992 when studies such as Henry Jenkins’ Textual Poachers, Lisa Lewis’ The Adoring Audience and Camille Bacon-Smith’s Enterprising Women approached fandom as a cultural activity. Studies such as these celebrate fandom and focus on fan production as a symbolic activity rather than an economic activity. Academics have only recently have academics recognised the commitment, time and effort that fans invest when producing artefacts. I explore the ways European cult cinema fandom might be understood as an alternative economy of fan production by looking at how fans produce artefacts and commodities. It uses a method of data collection, which includes ethnographic observation and interviews, focused on public offline and online fan activities, and my own personal experiences as autoethnography. The collected data is interrogated using a theoretical framework that incorporates ideas from cultural studies and political economy: using the concept of an ‘alternative economy’ of European cult cinema fan production. The purpose being to interpret an object of fandom as a production of meaning, physical artefacts and commodities, therefore understanding fandom as both cultural and economic production. I argue that, in this alternative economy, fans are ‘creative’ workers, using digital technologies to produce artefacts that are exchanged as gifts or commodities; this practice relating to repertoires of professionalism. I find that fans are not just producing artefacts and commodities relating to European cult cinema, but that through these processes they are culturally and economically making what has become known as European cult cinema.
Equivalence between three scattering formulations for ultrasonic wave propagation in particulate mixtures

The aim of this paper is to present a unified approach to the calculation of the complex wavenumber for a randomly distributed ensemble of homogeneous isotropic spheres suspended in a homogeneous isotropic continuum. Three classical formulations of the diffraction problem for a compression wave incident on a single particle are reviewed; the first is for liquid particles in a liquid continuum (Epstein and Carhart), the second for solid or liquid particles in a liquid continuum (Allegra and Hawley), and the third for solid particles in a solid continuum (Ying and Truell). Equivalences between these formulations are demonstrated and it is shown that the Allegra and Hawley formulation can be adapted to provide a basis for calculation in all three regimes. The complex wavenumber that results from an ensemble of such scatterers is treated using the formulations of Foldy (simple forward scattering), Waterman and Truell, and Lloyd and Berry (multiple scattering). The analysis is extended to provide an approximation for the case of a distribution of particle sizes in the mixture. A number of experimental measurements using a broadband spectrometric technique (reported elsewhere) to obtain the attenuation coefficient and phase velocity as functions of frequency are presented for various mixtures of differing contrasts in physical properties between phases in order to provide a comparison with theory. The materials used were aqueous suspensions of polystyrene spheres, silica spheres, iron spheres, pigment (AHR), droplets of 1-bromohexadecane, and a suspension of talc particles in a cured epoxy resin.
ESl Lecturers’ Voices on Tell Me More

: In the past, the cost of computers and courseware greatly restricted the use of computers in education. However, computers and courseware are now becoming important tools for learning in the institutions. In order to maximize the utilization of the courseware, it is important to get to know how the teachers perceive the use of the courseware in their classroom. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate how ESL lecturers in a polytechnic in Malaysia perceive the ease of use, usefulness and suitability of a courseware named TELL ME MORE. Data was collected via semi-structured interviews with four ESL lecturers at the polytechnic. Findings show that ESL lecturers indicated positive perceptions on the ease of use, usefulness and suitability of the courseware. However, it was found that the courseware is not quite suitable for the teaching and learning of writing.
Exploring SUSY light Higgs boson scenarios via dark matter experiments

We examine the dark matter phenomenology in supersymmetric light higgs boson scenarios, adapting nonuniversal Higgs masses at the gauge coupling unification scale. The correct relic density is obtained mostly through the annihilation into a pseudoscalar A, which gives high values for the self-annihilation cross-section at present times. Our analysis shows that most part of the A pole region can produce detectable gamma-rays and antiproton signals, and still be compatible with with recent direct detection data from XENON100 and CDMS-II.
Polyhomogeneity and zero-rest-mass fields with applications to Newman-Penrose constants

A discussion of polyhomogeneity (asymptotic expansions in terms of 1/r and lnr ) for zero-rest-mass fields and gravity and its relation with the Newman-Penrose (NP) constants is given. It is shown that for spin-s zero-rest-mass fields propagating on Minkowski spacetime, the logarithmic terms in the asymptotic expansion appear naturally if the field does not obey the `peeling theorem'. The terms that give rise to the slower fall-off admit a natural interpretation in terms of an advanced field. The connection between such fields and the NP constants is also discussed. The case when the background spacetime is curved and polyhomogeneous (in general) is considered. The free fields have to be polyhomogeneous, but the logarithmic terms due to the connection appear at higher powers of 1/r . In the case of gravity, it is shown that it is possible to define a new auxiliary field, regular at null infinity, and containing some relevant information on the asymptotic behaviour of the spacetime. This auxiliary zero-rest-mass field `evaluated at future infinity (i + )' yields the logarithmic NP constants.
On reconstruction of dynamic permeability and tortuosity from data at distinct frequencies

This article focuses on the mathematical problem of reconstructing the dynamic permeability K ( &ohgr; ) ? > and dynamic tortuosity of poroelastic composites from permeability data at different frequencies, utilizing the analytic structure of the Stieltjes function representation of K ( &ohgr; ) ? > derived by Avellaneda and Tortquato (1991 Phys. Fluids A 3 2529), which is valid for all pore space geometry. The integral representation formula (IRF) for dynamic tortuosity is derived and its analytic structure exploited for reconstructing the function from a finite data set. All information of pore-space microstructure is contained in the measure of the IRF. The theory of multipoint Padé approximates for Stieltjes functions guarantees the existence of relaxation kernels that can approximate the dynamic permeability function and the dynamic tortuosity function with high accuracy. In this paper, a numerical algorithm is proposed for computing the relaxation time and the corresponding strength for each element in the relaxation kernels. In the frequency domain, this approximation can be regarded as approximating the Stieltjes function by rational functions with simple poles and positive residues. The main difference between this approach and the curve fitting approach is that the relaxation times and the strengths are computed from the partial fraction decomposition of the multipoint Padé approximates, which is the main subject of the proposed approximation scheme. With the idea from dehomogenization, we also established the exact relations between the moments of the positive measures in the IRFs of permeability and tortuosity with two important parameters in the theory of poroelasticity: the infinite-frequency tortuosity &agr; ∞ ? > for the general case and the weighted volume-to-surface ratio Λ for the JKD model, which is regarded as a special case of the general model. From these relations, we suggest a new way for evaluating these two microstructure-dependent parameters from a finite data set of permeability at different frequencies, without assuming any specific forms of the functions except the fact that they satisfies the IRFs. Numerical results for JKD permeability and tortuosity are presented.
Missed Nursing Care in Hospitalized Patients

Objective: Determine missed nursing care in hospitalized patients and the factors related to missed care, according to the perception of the nursing staff and the patient. Method: Correlational descriptive study of a sample of 160 nurses and hospitalized patients, using the MISSCARE Nursing Survey. Results: Nursing personnel indicated there were fewer care omissions in continuous evaluation interventions (M=94.56; SD=11.10). The greatest number of omissions pertained to basic care interventions (M=80.2; SD=19.40). Patients mentioned there were fewer omissions in continuous evaluation interventions (M=96.32; SD=7.96), while the greatest number of omissions pertained to patient discharge and education (M=45.00; SD=23.22). The factors that contributed to missed nursing care, according to the nursing staff, were related to human resources (M=80.67; SD=17.06) and material resources (M=69.72; SD=23.45); patients mentioned human resources and communication. Conclusions: Nursing care that is not carried out according to the needs of the patient, or is omitted or delayed, was identified. This aspect is relevant, since nursing care is fundamental to the recovery of hospitalized patients. DOI: 10.5294/aqui.2015. 15.3. 2
Semiclassical relations and IR effects in de Sitter and slow-roll space-times

We calculate IR divergent graviton one-loop corrections to scalar correlators in de Sitter space, and show that the leading IR contribution may be reproduced via simple semiclassical consistency relations. One can likewise use such semiclassical relations to calculate leading IR corrections to correlators in slow-roll inflation. The regulated corrections shift the tensor/scalar ratio and consistency relation of single field inflation, and non-gaussianity parameters averaged over very large distances. For inflation of sufficient duration, for example arising from a chaotic inflationary scenario, these corrections become of order unity. First-order corrections of this size indicate a breakdown of the perturbative expansion, and suggest the need for a non-perturbative description of the corresponding regime. This is analogous to a situation argued to arise in black hole evolution, and to interfere with a sharp perturbative calculation of ``missing information'' in Hawking radiation.
Comparison of Neural Network Training Algorithms for Classification of Heart Diseases

Heart disease is the first cause of death in different countries. Artificial neural network (ANN) technique can be used to predict or classification patients getting a heart disease. There are different training algorithms for ANN. We compared eight neural network training algorithms for classification of heart disease data from UCI repository containing 303 samples. Performance measures of each algorithm containing the speed of training, the number of epochs, accuracy, and mean square error (MSE) were obtained and analyzed. Our results showed that training time for gradient descent algorithms was longer than other training algorithms (8-10 seconds). In contrast, Quasi-Newton algorithms were faster than others (<=0 second). MSE for all algorithms was between 0.117 and 0.228. While there was a significant association between training algorithms and training time (p<0.05), the number of neurons in hidden layer had not any significant effect on the MSE and/or accuracy of the models (p>0.05). Based on our findings, for development an ANN classification model for heart diseases, it is best to use Quasi-Newton training algorithms because of the best speed and accuracy.
Plantar pressure-measurement sensors

The sole of the foot acts as the interface between the ground and the body and is subjected to changing patterns of stress. These stresses will be accompanied by temporary or permanent strains within the tissues and may therefore be linked with those foot conditions which involve some degree of structural failure. One method of investigating the stresses is to measure the pressure distribution at the sole; an apparently simple task that continues to test scientific ingenuity and technological progress. Recent attempts to quantify shear stresses show that this extra goal may be even more challenging. Previous reviews describe the technology but not the relationship between the sensor characteristics and the associated data. The apparent lack of understanding of this relationship is reflected in some published reports and has meant that clinical findings can be misinterpreted. This report reviews those sensor characteristics that have been recorded in the literature. It also shows how the sensor design influences the data and explains why a realistic appreciation of clinical findings requires a preliminary understanding of the chosen sensor.
Vesicles and vesicle gels - structure and dynamics of formation

Vesicles constitute an interesting morphology formed by self-aggregating amphiphilic molecules. They exhibit a rich structural variety and are of interest both from a fundamental point of view (for studying closed bilayer systems) and from a practical point of view (whenever one is interested in the encapsulation of active molecules). In many circumstances vesicular structures have to be formed by external forces, but of great interest are amphiphilic systems, where they form spontaneously. Here the question arises of whether this means that they are also thermodynamically stable structures, which at least in some systems appears to be the case. If such vesicles are well defined in size, it is possible to pack them densely and thereby form vesicle gels that possess highly elastic properties even for relatively low volume fractions of amphiphile. Conditions for the formation and the microstructure of such vesicle gels have been studied in some detail for the case of unilamellar vesicles. Another important and topical issue is the dynamics of vesicle formation/breakdown, as the understanding of the transition process will open the way to a deeper understanding of their stability and also allow controlling of the structures formed, by means of their formation processes. Significant progress in the study of the transformation processes has been achieved, in particular by means of time-resolved scattering experiments.
Meta‐analysis of brain‐derived neurotrophic factor p.Val66Met in adult ADHD in four European populations

Attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a multifactorial, neurodevelopmental disorder that often persists into adolescence and adulthood and is characterized by inattention, hyperactivity and impulsiveness. Before the advent of the first genome‐wide association studies in ADHD, genetic research had mainly focused on candidate genes related to the dopaminergic and serotoninergic systems, although several other genes had also been assessed. Pharmacological data, analysis of animal models and association studies suggest that Brain‐Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) is also a strong candidate gene for ADHD. Several polymorphisms in BDNF have been reported and studied in psychiatric disorders but the most frequent is the p.Val66Met (rs6265G > A) single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), with functional effects on the intracellular trafficking and secretion of the protein. To deal with the inconsistency raised among different case–control and family‐based association studies regarding the p.Val66Met contribution to ADHD, we performed a meta‐analysis of published as well as unpublished data from four different centers that are part of the International Multicentre Persistent ADHD CollaboraTion (IMpACT). A total of 1,445 adulthood ADHD patients and 2,247 sex‐matched controls were available for the study. No association between the p.Val66Met polymorphism and ADHD was found in any of the four populations or in the pooled sample. The meta‐analysis also showed that the overall gene effect for ADHD was not statistically significant when gender or comorbidity with mood disorders were considered. Despite the potential role of BDNF in ADHD, our data do not support the involvement of p.Val66Met in the pathogenesis of this neuropsychiatric disorder. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.