Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Correlates of Client-Perpetrated Violence Against Female Sex Workers in Bogotá

This paper aims to estimate the prevalence of client-perpetrated violence against female sex workers (FSWs) in Bogotá and to understand what structural and environmental factors are associated with such victimization. The project used secondary data from interviews with 2,684 FSWs. Multivariable binary logistic regression was used to test for associations with client-perpetrated violence. Findings reveal that factors such as experiencing police harassment and social stigma were positively associated with client-perpetrated violence. Situational factors such as providing services in motels, hotels, on the street, and in cars were also associated with increased odds of becoming a victim of violence.
Pengaruh Motivasi, Kepemimpinan, dan Budaya Organisasi terhadap Kinerja Karyawan di Lampung

Tujuan dari penelitian ini antara lain untuk Mengetahui dan kepemimpinan kepemimpinan, budaya organisasi dan motivasi terhadap kinerja pegawai di Daerah Lampung. Penelitian ini termasuk dalam penelitian kuantitatif karena pendekatan yang digunakan untuk penelitian, proses, hipotesis, analisis data, dan penelitian. Subyek penelitian adalah karyawan di daerah Lampung dengan jumlah 70 responden. Uji statistik dilakukan dengan menggunakan Structurel Equation Modeling berbasi PLS. Uji validitas menggunakan nilai faktor loading, sedangkan reliabilitas menggunakan nilai cronbach'c alpha, composite reliability dan Average Variance Extracted (AVE). Setelah seluruh indikator hasil yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini valid dan reliabel, selanjutnya dilakukan uji hipotesis. Dari pihak ketiga yang diajukan hanya dua pihak yang terdukung, namun untuk hipotesis pertama tidak signifikan. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah bahwa sangat penting dalam perusahaan / organisasi yang melakukan motivasi kepada karyawan / anggota organisasi guna meningkatkan kinerjanya. Sama hal nya dengan budaya oraganisasi, jadi lebih baik / lebih erat kekeluargaan di dalam suatu perusahaan / organisasi maka dapat meningkatkan kinerja karyawan / anggota yang nantinya akan berdampak baik bagi produktifitas perusahaan / organisasi
Cooperative Spacing Sampled Control of Vehicle Platoon Considering Undirected Topology and Analog Fading Networks

The work on this paper studies the combined effect of vehicle dynamics, sampling period and the quality of inter-vehicle sensing and communication on the performance of platoon control. First, we induce the sampled control protocol from continuous–time linear consensus protocol by employing zero–order hold circuit and periodic sampling technology, then by virtue of the obtained sampled control protocol, the continuous–time platoon system is equivalently transformed into a discrete–time system. Second, for the inter–vehicle communication with ideal channel and under undirected information flow topology (UIFT), the stability thresholds of control gains are explicitly established by solving a discrete–time simultaneous stabilization problem, bilinear transformation and the Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion. Meanwhile, to ensure the fastest asymptotic stability of the platoon dynamics, we propose an optimal asymptotic convergence factor and a correspondingly optimal sampled control protocol. Third, For the inter–vehicle communication with identical fading networks and under UIFT, through solving a modified Riccati inequality, we provide a sampled control protocol depending not only on information flow topology (IFT) and sampling period, but also on the statistics of the inter–vehicle communication channel. Besides, employing Lyapunov inequality in probability theory, we show a necessary condition for the sampled control protocol ensuring the platoon dynamics mean square stable. Finally, simulations are performed to demonstrate the theory’s discoveries.
Task Shedding and Control Performance as a Function of Perceived Automation Reliability and Time Pressure

Research has demonstrated that workload and past machine performance influences operator allocation of task responsibilities to machines. We extended past investigations by offering task operators the opportunity to relinquish task control to a robotic entity. Forty-three participants navigated a remotely controlled vehicle around a prescribed course under conditions of low or high time pressure. While navigating, they could allocate camera monitoring to a low-or high-reliability automated agent. Results showed most participants retained control of the camera; others relinquished control immediately. Time pressure and reliability did not interact to influence task performance. Course navigation time was faster under high time pressure but errors were unaffected. Bivariate correlations revealed a positive relation between self-ratings of robotic expertise and pressure to perform, and between pressure to perform and errors committed during navigation. These results demonstrate low levels of trust in the robotic camera and comparative sensitivity of navigation time to time pressure.
Optimal Synthesis of Six-Bar Function Generators

This paper introduces a new approach for the synthesis of planar six-bar mechanisms via multi-objective numerical optimisation. Using the input-output relationship of such a mechanism, the structural error is formulated. In addition to the structural error, its derivative is also included in the objectives, leading to results which are comparable in accuracy to the exact methods reported in existing literature, and better than the optimisation-based methods. Also, analytical conditions are derived for the identification of the candidate designs which are free of singularities, mobility or branch defects. The formulation and results are demonstrated in the context of a Stephenson-III mechanism, though these can be generalised to the six-bar mechanisms of other topologies.
Chemical composition of forage watermelon fruit at different maturity stage or storage length

This study aimed to assess the chemical responses of forage watermelon fruit at different maturity stages or storage lengths, performing two experimental tests. In the first test, four maturity stages were assessed: 30, 45, 60, and 75 days after anthesis, with four replicates. In the second test, fruits were maintained under three storage lengths: T1D (harvest day), T3M (3 months after harvest), and T6M (6 months after harvest), with eight replicates. Experimental design was completely randomized in both experimental tests. Fruit maturity stage did not affect crude protein, total carbohydrate, neutral detergent fiber, in vitro dry matter digestibility (IVDMD), pulp firmness, soluble solids content and total pectin content, but increased acid detergent fiber content from 45 days after anthesis. Storage length up to six months after harvest increased ash, crude protein and IVDMD, and reduced the content of soluble solids. Forage watermelon fruit can be harvested from 30 to 75 days after anthesis equivalent to 75 - 120 days after planting, and they can be stored under tree shade up to 6 months after harvest.
Rescue and homogenisation of 140 years of glacier mass balance data in Switzerland

Abstract. Glacier monitoring in Switzerland has resulted in some of the longest and most complete data series globally. Mass balance observations at individual locations, starting in the 19th century, are the backbone of the monitoring as they represent the raw and original glaciological data demonstrating the response of snow accumulation and snow/ice melt to changes in climate forcing. So far, however, the variety of sources of historic measurements has not been systematically processed and documented. Here, we present a new complete and extensive point glacier mass balance dataset for the Swiss Alps that provides attributes for data quality and corresponding uncertainties. Original sources were digitized or re-assessed to validate or to correct existing entries and to identify metadata. The sources of data are highly diverse and stem from almost 140 years of records, originating from handwritten field notes, unpublished project documents, various digital sources, published reports, as well as meta-knowledge of the observers. The project resulted in data series with metadata for 63 individual Swiss glaciers, including more than 60'000 point observations of mass balance. Data were systematically analyzed and homogenized, e.g. by supplementing partly missing information based on correlations inferred from direct measurements. A system to estimate uncertainty in all individual observations was developed indicating that annual point balance is measured with a typical error of 0.07 m water equivalent (w.e.), while the average error in winter snow measurements is 0.20 m w.e. Our dataset permits further investigating the climate change impacts on Swiss glaciers. Results show an absence of long-term trends in snow accumulation over glaciers, while melt rates have substantially increased over the last three decades.
Social security or insecurity? The experience of welfare participation by financially vulnerable households in the Netherlands.

Social welfare aims to support financially vulnerable households by protecting them from financial shocks and providing them with a basic standard of living. Many eligible households, however, do not take up social welfare. We present the results of in-depth interviews with 31 members of financially vulnerable households in two large Dutch cities about their experiences with welfare. We examined the role that money played in their lives, what inhibited them from taking up social welfare, and how they sought support. For many interviewed households, money was a source of stress. We found that the fear of reclaims and mistrust in government institutions were the main inhibitors for participating in welfare programs. Whereas the experience of shame and stigma were substantial inhibitors for claiming local welfare benefits, they were not for participating in national welfare programs. Both formal and informal help promoted welfare participation, but many participants lacked access to both forms of help. We discuss policies that could decrease the uncertainty associated with benefits receipt and give directions for future research.
Vision Transformer: An Excellent Teacher for Guiding Small Networks in Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification

Scene classification is an active research topic in remote sensing community, and complex spatial layouts with various types of objects bring huge challenges to classification. Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods attempt to explore the global features by gradually expanding the receptive field, while long-range contextual information is ignored. Vision transformer (ViT) can extract contextual feature, but the learning ability of local information is limited, and it has a large computational complexity simultaneously. In this article, an end-to-end method is exploited by employing ViT as an excellent teacher for guiding small networks (ET-GSNet) in remote sensing image scene classification. In the ET-GSNet, ResNet18 is selected as the student model, which integrates the superiorities of the two models via knowledge distillation (KD), and the computational complexity does not increase. In the KD process, the ViT and ResNet18 are optimized together without independent pre-training, and the learning rate of teacher model gradually decreases until zero, while the weight coefficient of KD loss module is doubled. Based on the above procedures, dark knowledge from the teacher model can be transferred to the student model more smoothly. Experimental results on the four public remote sensing data sets demonstrate that the proposed ET-GSNet method possesses the superior classification performance compared to some state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods. In addition, we evaluate the ET-GSNet on a fine-grained ship recognition data set, and the results show that our method has good generalization for different tasks in terms of some metrics.
Hot Yoga Leads to Greater Well-being: A Six-week Experience-sampling RCT in Healthy Adults

ABSTRACT Practicing hot yoga may bring significant psychological benefits, but it is largely unstudied. We examined the effects of hot yoga on multifaceted well-being indicators with 290 healthy yoga-naïve volunteers partaking in a six-week randomized controlled trial. Participants completed questionnaires pre- and post-intervention, and reported their emotional experiences four times per day throughout an experience-sampling study. Results revealed that the hot yoga group (n = 137) improved their well-being from pre- to post-treatment, comparing to the wait-list control group (n = 153). These improvements included life satisfaction, general health, mindfulness, peace of mind, and eudaimonic well-being (ΔR2 ranging from .01 to .08)—but not flourishing, which describes major aspects of social-psychological functioning. Multilevel analyses demonstrated that momentary positive emotional experiences increased significantly throughout the trial in the yoga group only (conditional R2 = .68), particularly when attending a yoga class (conditional R2 = .50). Interestingly, this increase in momentary positive emotion explained the improvement in post-intervention mindfulness, peace of mind, and general health by 21%, 31%, and 11%, respectively. Finally, the benefits of hot yoga were more notable in individuals with lower levels of baseline eudaimonic well-being (conditional R2 = .45), flourishing (conditional R2 = .61), and mental well-being (conditional R2 = .65), even after ruling out any possible ceiling effects. To sum up, this study demonstrated multiple psychological benefits of hot yoga and its potential to be an effective positive psychology intervention. Future research—especially considering an active control group—is warranted.
SCALE MODEL MEASUREMENT OF THE SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS OF RIB/BLOCK STRUCTURE WALLS

Regarding scattering coefficient that represents acoustic scattering of wall surfaces, a reverberation room method for measuring the random-incidence value has recently standardized by ISO 17497-1. The scattering coefficient is widely used in geometric room acoustic simulation, however, there are few measured data available. In this report, a variety of rib and block structure walls are tested by the reverberation room method in order to provide a database of scattering coefficients. Furthermore, characteristics of the scattering coefficients are investigated, especially regarding the effect of surface profile and absorbent finish for rib structures, and that of arrangement for block structures.
Evolution of Bioactive Compounds during Storage of Poyo Bananas after Treatment with Calcium Chloride

Visually, the obvious characteristic of banana ripening is the progressive change of the epicarp from green to yellow according to several stages whose importance contributes to extend the total duration of the process. The present study was carried out with the aim of prolonging the ripening time of bananas while following the behavior of the physiological parameters related to this process. To achieve this objective, after treatment of bananas with calcium chloride, several parameters were evaluated. These were ripening rate, firmness, water content, soluble solids content and pigment content in the peel. Secondly, the evolution of antioxidant parameters such as: lycopenes and β-carotenes in the pulp; total phenols, flavonoids and ascorbic acid contents in the peel and pulp have been assessed. As a result of these analyses, it appeared that the best shelf life was obtained with bananas treated with tween 80 at 2 and 4% Cl2Ca. The lowest bananas shelf lives were recorded in 6 and 8% Cl2Ca and in the control. Similarly, the low loss of firmness, low accumulation of total soluble solids, low increase in water content in the pulp were found in the 2 and 4% Cl2Ca tween 80 treatments. The change in chlorophyll went in a decreasing direction during storage, but almost similarly in all treatments. The increase in lycopene content was effective during this time in a less rapid manner in the 2 and 4% calcium chloride treatments. Variations in β-carotenes, total phenols, and ascorbic acid were also increased throughout the storage period. However, at the end, it was difficult to correlate their evolution to any concentration of calcium chloride used for banana processing. It is also this lack of influence of calcium chloride as a treatment on the significant decrease of flavonoids in the pulp and not significant in the peel that was observed. Furthermore, the contents of the compounds measured in the peel and the pulp were lower in the pulp. It is thus with the bananas treated with tween 80 to 2 and 4% of calcium chloride that the majority of the parameters were influenced in favour of the preservation of bananas.
Public Expectations of School Board Trustees

School board trustees play an important role in the education of children throughout Ontario. Using an online survey of Ontario residents, expectations of school board trustees are explored in detail. The survey included an open-ended question that asked respondents what role they see being performed by trustees, as well as a question that asked respondents whether they preferred a “delegate” governing model, which believes trustees should represent constituents, or a “trustee” model, which believes trustees should render decisions based on their best judgement. On the surface, respondents see three primary and distinct roles: represent the public; support the administrative functions of the school board, and to ensure educational outcomes are met. In addition, the sample tilts favourably towards the “delegate” governing model. Regression models identify some factors that help explain respondents’ choices.
Loss of Visual Reference in U.S. Aviation: An Analysis of 129 Accidents

A “loss of visual reference” is a term used by the National Transportation and Safety Board investigators to describe a situation in which the pilot has lost reference to the horizon or ground. Previous research has largely focused on the conditions that are often associated with a loss of visual reference (e.g., spatial disorientation) instead of the term itself. The purpose of the present study is to examine the accident and pilot characteristics that are associated with a loss of visual reference and the extent to which both are associated with fatalities. A total of 129 accident reports from 2008 through 2020 were extracted from the NTSB online database in which the term loss of visual reference appeared in the event category. Fatal accidents, which made up more than half of the dataset, were more likely to have occurred during the en-route phase of flight compared to all of the other phases of flight combined. The reports in which “decision making” or “decision making/judgment” was present were more likely to be for fatal accidents compared to reports in which the terms were not listed. It is the pilot’s decision and lack of attention that are most commonly associated with accidents in which a loss of visual reference occurred. Decisions that are likely to cause a loss of visual reference include initiating or continuing in adverse weather or light conditions. The dangers of loss of visual reference need to be part of ongoing training of pilots as opposed to their initial training only.
Predicting Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy in Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma

Simple Summary Oesophageal adenocarcinomas are a distinct subtype of oesophageal cancer that has an increasing incidence in western countries. As these cancers are often late presenting, patients with locally advanced oesophageal adenocarcinomas are routinely treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy prior to surgery. Unfortunately, this neoadjuvant protocol demonstrates limited response, while exposing patients to the side effects of therapy. Biomarkers that can accurately predict neoadjuvant therapy response would save time, suffering, hospital resources and potentially improve survival. Abstract (1) Background: Oesophageal cancers are often late-presenting and have a poor 5-year survival rate. The standard treatment of oesophageal adenocarcinomas involves neoadjuvant chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy followed by surgery. However, less than one third of patients respond to neoadjuvant therapy, thereby unnecessarily exposing patients to toxicity and deconditioning. Hence, there is an urgent need for biomarkers to predict response to neoadjuvant therapy. This review explores the current biomarker landscape. (2) Methods: MEDLINE, EMBASE and ClinicalTrial databases were searched with key words relating to “predictive biomarker”, “neoadjuvant therapy” and “oesophageal adenocarcinoma” and screened as per the inclusion and exclusion criteria. All peer-reviewed full-text articles and conference abstracts were included. (3) Results: The search yielded 548 results of which 71 full-texts, conference abstracts and clinical trials were eligible for review. A total of 242 duplicates were removed, 191 articles were screened out, and 44 articles were excluded. (4) Discussion: Biomarkers were discussed in seven categories including imaging, epigenetic, genetic, protein, immunologic, blood and serum-based with remaining studies grouped in a miscellaneous category. (5) Conclusion: Although promising markers and novel methods have emerged, current biomarkers lack sufficient evidence to support clinical application. Novel approaches have been recommended to assess predictive potential more efficiently.
Molecular characterization of wild Pleurotus ostreatus (MW457626) and evaluation of β-glucans polysaccharide activities

Pleurotus ostreatus is a common cultivated edible mushroom worldwide. The fruiting bodies of P. ostreatus is a rich source of a $\beta$-glucans polysaccharide. The current study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of $\beta$-glucans as a natural polysaccharide produced by P. ostreatus as an antioxidant, antimicrobial, and anticancer. The molecular identification of P. ostreatus isolate was confirmed by Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) sequence. The sequence alignment and phylogenetic evolutionary relationship of studied ITS sequence were performed against some deposited sequences in GenBank. The analysis of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) as well as the result of fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) has confirmed the presence of $\beta$-glucans polysaccharide in the tested samples. The percentage of antioxidant activity of $\beta$-glucans showed a gradual increase from 8.59% to 12.36, 18.56, 23.69, 44.66 and 80.36% at the concentrations of 31.2, 64.4, 125, 250, 500, and 800 $\mu$g/ml, respectively. In addition, all concentrations of $\beta$-glucans showed higher antioxidant activities when compared with standard antioxidant (Vitamin C). The highest antimicrobial activity of $\beta$-glucans polysaccharide was against P. aeruginosa with a zone of inhibition (45 mm), while the lowest activity was against S. aureus (13 mm) both at 100 mg/mL. The percentage of growth-inhibiting of MCF-7 a humanbreast cancer cell line and normal WRL-68 cell line affected by $\beta$-glucans were determined by 3-(4,5)-dimethylthiazol (-z-y1)-3,5-di-phenytetrazoliumromide (MTT assay).