Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Is this a Real Choice? Critical Exploration of the Social License to Operate in the Oil Extraction Context of the Ecuadorian Amazon

The purpose of this research was to critically analyze the social license to operate (SLO) for an oil company operating in Block 10, an oil concession located in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The specific study area is an important biodiversity hotspot, inhabited by indigenous villages. A mixed-methods approach was used to support a deeper understanding of SLO, grounded in participants’ direct experience. Semi-structured interviews (N = 53) were conducted with village leaders and members, indigenous associations, State institutions, and oil company staff, while household surveys were conducted with village residents (N = 346). The qualitative data informed a modified version of Moffat and Zhang’s SLO model, which was tested through structural equation modelling (SEM) analyses. Compared to the reference model, our findings revealed a more crucial role of procedural fairness in building community trust, as well as acceptance and approval of the company. Procedural fairness was found to be central in mediating the relationship between trust and the effects of essential services provided by the company (medical assistance, education, house availability) and sources of livelihoods (i.e., fishing, hunting, harvesting, cultivating, and waterway quality). The main results suggested that the concept of SLO may not appropriately apply without taking into account a community’s autonomy to decline company operation. To enhance procedural fairness and respect for the right of community self-determination, companies may need to consider the following: Establishing a meaningful and transparent dialogue with the local community; engaging the community in decision-making processes; enhancing fair distribution of project benefits; and properly addressing community concerns, even in the form of protests. The respect of the free prior informed consent procedure is also needed, through the collaboration of both the State and companies. The reduction of community dependence on companies (e.g., through the presence of developmental alternatives to oil extraction) is another important requirement to support an authentic SLO in the study area.
The Effectiveness of Spiritual Emotional Freedom Technique (SEFT) Therapy against the Reduction of Work Fatigue in PT WIKA Beton Makassar

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of Spiritual Emotional Freedom Technique therapy to reduce work fatigue in workers at PT. WIKA Beton Makassar. This type of research was a quantitative approach with a quasi-experimental research method, and the research design used was a pretest-posttest control group design. In this study, the population was 60 workers and was taken into a sample of 38 respondents. Those were divided into 19 respondents in the experimental group and 19 respondents in the comparison or control group using a purposive sampling technique for sampling. The results of the different tests using the Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks test as the non-parametric analysis found that the intervention group value of ρ 0.000 <0.005 was obtained, and the control group got a value of ρ 0.001 <0.005. It indicated differences at the level of fatigue before and after therapy, both in the intervention and control group. Then the results of the Mann-Whitney test as the non-parametric comparison analysis showed that the intervention group got a value of ρ 0.000 <0.005, while the control group obtained a value of ρ 0.035 <0.005. The results of the analysis indicated that Spiritual Emotional Freedom Technique therapy was more effective in reducing work fatigue compared to the untreated control group. It is suggested that the results of this study can be a reference for company leaders, workers, and also future researchers to use SEFT therapy as an alternative therapy in reducing physical and psychological problems such as work fatigue.
Fetal Epicardial Fat Thickness: Can It Serve as a Sonographic Screening Marker for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus?

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as the new onset of impairment in carbohydrate tolerance during pregnancy. The aim of the current study was to define fetal epicardial fat thickness (fEFT) changes that developed before 24 weeks of gestation, to evaluate the diagnostic effectiveness of fEFT in predicting GDM diagnosis, and to correlate fEFT values with hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C) values. Methods: The study included a total of 60 GDM patients and 60 control subjects. A record consisted of fEFT measurements, maternal body mass index, maternal subcutaneous fat thickness, and fetal subcutaneous fat thickness during sonographic screening performed at 18–22 gestational weeks. Fetal abdominal circumference (AC) values, estimated fetal weight (EFW), and fetal gender were also recorded. Results: The median fEFT measurement of the whole study population was 0.9 ± 0.21 mm; 1.05 ± 0.21 mm in the GDM patients, and 0.8 ± 0.15 mm in the control group. The median fEFT values of the GDM patients were significantly higher than those of the control group (P < 0.01). According to the correlation analysis results, a strong positive correlation was determined between the fEFT and HbA1C values (r = 0.71, P < 0.01), gestational week of the fetus (r = 0.76, P = P < 0.01), AC (r = 0.81, P < 0.01), and EFW (r = 0.71, P < 0.01). According to the receiver operating characteristic analysis results, a fEFT value of > 0.95 can predict GDM diagnosis with sensitivity of 65% and specificity of 88% (odds ratio = 13). Conclusion: fEFT values are increased in GDM cases, and the increase can be detected earlier than 24 weeks of gestation. fEFT values are positively correlated with HbA1C values and can serve as an early predictor for GDM diagnosis.
Multisubspace Orthogonal Canonical Correlation Analysis for Quality-Related Plant-Wide Process Monitoring

Plant-wide processes often have the characteristics of large-scale and multiple operating units. Moreover, due to the closed-loop control, it is possible that the fault never affects product quality. In this article, a novel data-driven method called multisubspace orthogonal canonical correlation analysis (CCA) is proposed, which can not only tell whether the fault occurs but can also judge whether the fault affects the product quality in real time. First, to reduce process analysis complexity and to construct an accurate monitoring model, the original process variable space is divided into four subspaces. Second, the developed orthogonal CCA is conducted on process data and quality data for correlation feature extraction. Then, the quality-related and quality-unrelated features are obtained. Afterward, a total of six monitoring statistics are constructed and integrated to four statistics with physical interpretation via the Bayesian fusion strategy. Finally, the developed method is tested under an industrial case.
Novel Soft Smart Shoes for Motion Intent Learning of Lower Limbs Using LSTM With a Convolutional Autoencoder

Estimating the joint torques of lower limbs in human gait, known as motion intent understanding, is of great significance in the control of lower limb exoskeletons. This study presents novel soft smart shoes designed for motion intent learning at unspecified walking speeds using long short-term memory with a convolutional autoencoder. The smart shoes serve as a wearable sensing system consisting of a soft instrumented sole and two 3D motion sensors that are nonintrusive to the human gait and comfortable for the wearers. A novel data structure is developed as a “sensor image” for the measured ground reaction force and foot motion. A convolutional autoencoder is established to fuse multisensor datasets and extract the hidden features of the sensor images, which represent the spatial and temporal correlations among the data. Then, long short-term memory is exploited to learn the multiscale, highly nonlinear input-output relationships between the acquired features and joint torques. Experiments were conducted on five subjects at three walking speeds (0.8 m/s, 1.2 m/s, and 1.6 m/s). Results showed that 98% of the ${r}^{2}$ values were acceptable in individual testing and 75% of the ${r}^{2}$ values were acceptable in interindividual testing. The proposed method is able to learn the join torques in human gait and has satisfactory generalization properties.
Managing cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic: brief report from a North African single center

The potential threat of COVID-19 pandemic on the continuity of care for cancer patients is thought to be significant. Oncologists are weighing up the balance of risks and benefits carefully when planning daily cancer care and making treatment decisions in the face of rapid change during this public health crisis. This report describes management strategies and care models that have been adopted by a single Medical Oncology department in a North Africa, Morocco.
Epidemiology of canine ehrlichiosis from 2010-19 in Chennai, India

Canine Ehrlichiosis is globally distributed vector-borne Haemoprotozoan disease in dogs.The present work was based on retrospective study of 11,000 blood smears of dogs received over a period of nine years (2010 to 2019) in and around Chennai at Madras Veterinary College Teaching Hospital. On blood smear examination 3,840 blood smears were found to be positive for various Haemoprotozoan diseases. Among the recorded positive Haemoprotozoan diseases, the highest incidence was of Ehrlichia canis of 2167 cases (56.43%). The percentage change in occurrence of Canine Ehrlichiosis follow the pattern of 2012 (0%), 2013 (-51.9%), 2014 (+84.6%), 2015 (+25%), 2016 (+13.3%), 2017 (+140%), 2018 (18.1%) and 2019 (+4.9%). The most frequent symptoms were fever, anorexia, apathy, abdominal pain, lymphadenopathy and dyspnoea. Regarding haematological alterations, 70.3% of the animals presented anaemia, 58.12% presented thrombocytopenia and 77.3% of animals have Monocytosis. Season-wise occurrence of the disease recorded highest cases in Monsoon (36.31%) followed by Summer (27.69%), Winter (20.26%) and Autumn (15.74%). The prevalence of Canine Ehrlichiosis was highest in Non-descript Dogs (ND) (34.97%), Labrador retriever (25.91%), Spitz (15.28%), German Shepherd (7.25%), Golden Retrievers (5.45%), Pug (4.67), Doberman (3.89%) and others (2.58%) respectively. Maximum number of cases reported were 1,163 cases (53.7%) in the age group of 2-6 years followed by 505 cases (23.3%) in 0-2 years and 498 cases (23%) in above 6 years. The epidemiological study would help the veterinary physician to identify the trends in occurrence of disease and clinical pattern followed by the protozoa, which helps in treatment and control of Canine Ehrlichiosis in dog population.
Influence of chemical composition and environmental conditions on the textural properties of dried fruit bars.

Ozilgen S. (2011): Influence of chemical composition and environmental conditions on the textural properties of dried fruit bars. Czech J. Food Sci., 29: 539-547. The influences of the composition, environmental humidity, and temperature on the stability of dried fruit bars during storage were investigated. Sultana bars were chosen to represent similar types of fruit bars. The moisture sorption isotherms and textural stability of sultana bars with and without glucose and maltodextrin additives were determined at 20°C and 40°C using the standard static gravimetric method. The shape of all of the isotherms was found to be typi - cal of high sugar foods and could be explained by four different models. Additives and storage temperatures affected the monolayer moisture content, equilibrium moisture content, and the textural stability of the sultana bars during storage at the same water activity. The relationship between the loss of stiffness and water activity had a sigmoid shape and was explained by Fermi's equation. This paper fills an important gap with that which does not exist in a large number of sorption behaviour publications available in the literature. It presents real data explaining the true mechanism of textural change during storage with both water activity and glass transition theories for high sugar fruit pastes. The information obtained from this study may help the food producers, who make high sugar containing dried fruit products, to create better textural and sensory properties, and may also help to predict the storage stability and packaging requirements.
Catalytic Reduction of NO by CO over Rhodium Catalysts: 3. The Role of Surface Isocyanate Species

The formation, stability and reactivity of surface isocyanate species with CO, NO, and O2 has been examined over Rh/TiO2(W6+) catalysts, under conditions of NO reduction by CO, using FTIR and transient MS techniques. It has been found that W6+ doping of TiO2 results in stabilization of the Rh–NCO species and in expansion of the temperature window of N2O formation toward lower temperatures by ca. 50°C. Surface isocyanates react with NO to yield gas-phase N2O, thus providing an alternative route for the production of nitrous oxide.
Time-Delayed Feedback Control Design and Its Application for Vibration Absorption

In this article, the vibration absorption performances of a vibration absorber with time-delayed feedback control for a low frequency primary system are studied. In order to extend the effective working frequency band of the time-delayed vibration absorber, its stiffness is designed as an adjustable parameter. The stiffness value of the beam-structure absorber can be tuned by a group of stoppers that can change the constraint condition of the beam. First, the mechanical model of the proposed delay-coupled system is established. Then, the stability boundaries of the proposed system are derived. Next, the analytical approximate solutions of the system are obtained to reveal the frequency response functions. Moreover, two parameter design principles for low-frequency nonlinear primary system are proposed based on the antiresonance frequency and optimum condition. The results show that, for the low-frequency nonlinear primary system, according to the design principles, the antiresonance frequency band can be tuned and the vibration amplitude can be reduced to zero due to the effect of time-delayed control. Relevant experimental prototype is constructed to verify the efficacy of the proposed vibration absorber with time-delayed control.
Management of Third-degree Atrioventricular Block with Intraoperative Transvenous Temporary Pacemaker

Herein, we report the case of an 82-year-old man with colon cancer and perioperative emphysemas, who manifested a difficult to manage complete atrioventricular (AV) block during alaparoscopic colectomy. The patient’s heart rate decreased to 40 beats per minute with a third-degree AV block. The intravenous administration of atropine was not effective. We used a transcutaneous pacemaker (TCP), and increased the current amplitude, but found no notable capture. We tried management using a transvenous temporary pacemaker, and the patient became hemodynamically stable. We discharged him without signs of neurological complications. The intraoperative hemodynamic management of complete AV blocks with TCPs has not been adequately discussed.
Degree of Anaemia and Severity of HIV Infection in HIV Patients on Art and Art-Naive

Background: Anaemia is a very common finding in patients living with HIV/AIDS, particularly in patients with advance stage. The frequency and severity of anaemia in HIV-patients increased with the decline in CD4 counts as HIV disease is progresses. Aim: To determine the degree of anaemia and severity of HIV infection in HIV patients on ART and ART-naive. Methodology: This Study was carried out at Federal Teaching Hospital (FETHI), Ido Ekiti, Nigeria. One hundred (100) HIV positive subjects on ART and one hundred (100) HIV positive subjects ART naive were the study population. Six millilitres (6 ml) of whole blood was collected from each consented subject, 3 ml was dispensed into 5 ml K2EDTA bottle for immediate analysis of haemoglobin concentration, CD4 count, CD8 count and HIV screening. The remaining 3 ml of blood was dispensed into plain bottle, allowed to clot and centrifuged at 2500 revolution per minute for 5 minutes to extract the serum into another plain bottle, stored at -400°C for the analysis of erythropoietin and viral load. Results: HIV ART-naive and ART subjects had prevalence of 57% normocytic normochromic anaemia and 55% macrocytic normochromic anaemia respectively. Prevalence of severe anaemia in ART-naive and ART subjects were 56 and 16 respectively. Mean values of CD4, CD8, CD4/ CD8 and EPO in Hb 13.0 g/dL among ART-naive and ART subjects. Conclusion: Degree of anaemia and severity of HIV-infection was higher in HIV-infected ART-naive compared to HIV-infected on ART.
Average Brightness Temperature of Lunar Surface for Calibration of Multichannel Millimeter-Wave Radiometer From 89 to 183 GHz and Data Validation

Calibration of satellite-borne radiometer is a key issue for quantitative remote sensing. Its accuracy depends on the stability of the calibration source. Because of no atmosphere and biological activity, the Moon surface keeps stable in the long term and may be a good candidate for thermal calibration. Observation of microwave humidity sounder (MHS) onboard the NOAA-18 made measurements of the disk-integrated brightness temperature (TB) of the Moon for the phase angle between −80° and 50°. The measurement of NOAA-18 has been studied to validate the TB model of lunar surface. In this article, the near side of the Moon surface is divided into 900 subregions with a span of $6^{\circ }\times 6^{\circ }$ in longitude and latitude. By solving 1-D heat conductive equation with the thermophysical parameters validated by the Diviner data of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the temperature profiles of the regolith media in all 900 subregions are obtained. The loss tangents are inversed from the Chang’e-2 (CE-2) 37-GHz microwave TB data at noontime. Employing the fluctuation–dissipation theorem and the Wentzel–Kramer–Brillouin (WKB) approach, the microwave and millimeter-wave TBs of each subregion are simulated. Then, the weighted average TB can be disk-integrated from 900 TBs of all subregions versus the phase angle. These simulations well demonstrate diurnal TB variation and its dependence upon the frequency channels. It is found that the disk-integrated TB of the Moon in MHS channels is sensitive to the full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of the deep space view (DSV), which is corrected in our simulation, where the Moon is now taken as an extended target, instead of a point-like object. Simulated integrated TBs are compared with the corrected MHS TB data at 89, 157, and 183 GHz. The simulated TB is well consistent with these MHS TB data at 89 and 183 GHz at various phase angles. But the maximum TB of MHS data at 157 GHz is unusually lower than that of 89 GHz. The influence of the loss tangent, emissivity, and the pointing error is analyzed. Some more careful design to observe the Moon TB and technical parameters, especially the FWHM should be well determined. Our model and numerical simulation provides a tool for TB calibration and validation.
Minimal-Set Trellis Min-Max Decoder Architecture for Nonbinary LDPC Codes

Nonbinary low-density parity-check (NB-LDPC) codes offer a superior error correction capability compared to the existing binary counterparts. However, there exist two major disadvantages in NB-LDPC decoders that they require substantial hardware resources, particularly at the check node unit (CNU), and high latency in the decoding process. In this brief, a novel minimal-set trellis min-max (MS-TMM) algorithm for NB-LDPC decoders is proposed to reduce the complexity of the CNU and enhance the decoding throughput. The decoder architecture based on the proposed MS-TMM algorithm is implemented for the (837, 726) NB-LDPC code over Galois field GF(32) using 90-nm CMOS technology. The implementation results show that the proposed architecture offers a great reduction in hardware complexity and highest efficiency compared to the state-of-the-art works. Additionally, the proposed decoder architecture is able to achieve a throughput of 1.704 Gbps and 2.254 Gbps at eight and six iterations respectively, which is a considerable improvement compared to the previous works.
Control of acariosis in Helix aspersa Müller in production farms

From an anthropological point of view, land snails can have benefits and harms [2]. The beneficial aspects are mainly based on their production as farm animals, destined for consumption, as well as their use as experimental animals since it is considered a good biological indicator [3]. Conversely, they are also related to pests that can cause serious losses in agriculture and, in addition, several species of snails are intermediaries of parasites that can affect humans [2].
The Changes in Phenolic and Flavonoids Compound Related to the Harvest Times and Enzyme Activity during Stages of Leaves Development in Juglans Regia L

This study was conducted to investigate the activities of polyphenol oxidase (PPO) and Phenylalanine ammonialyase (PAL) total phenolic acid contents (TPC), total flavonoids content (TFC), radical scavenging capacity (RSC) and water contents (WC) during development stages of walnut leaves. The first plant samples were obtained 20 days after foliar started and the others were obtained each 20 day intervals up to the end of leaf growth. The results of multiple regression showed that increase in PPO activity over the seven harvests had a negative effect on the TPC and WC (p< 0.05), whereas PPO activity had a slightly positive effect on the TFC and RSC during the stages of leaf development (p< 0.05). The PPO activity and RSC gradually increased (p<0.05), whereas the PAL activity decreased and the concentrations of TFC increased steadily from the first sample until early September (p< 0.05). This was in contrast with the increase in concentration of TPC during early leaf growth and after budding to decline in mid June. The WC have a stronger effect on synthesize alterations in TFC and TPC of the leaves compared to the PAL and PPO activities. These results suggest that the synthesize alterations has been related to the enzymes activities and were linked with WC, leaf development and overall decreased cell wall plasticity.
Anatomy and Function of Autonomic Innervation of the Liver

The liver is one of the most important regulatory organs, and its extensive influence upon homeostatic balance is well-documented. However, the role of autonomic innervation in the control and regulation of hepatic function is poorly understood relative to the other organs of the digestive system. Furthermore, the neuroanatomical layout of the liver remains an incomplete puzzle with various missing pieces. The scarcity of information concerning such a critical organ presents an interesting conundrum for the scientific and biomedical communities alike, especially given the prevalence of liver degeneracy and disease in the modern clinical setting. A more complete understanding of the precise anatomy of hepatic autonomic innervation, as well as the role it plays in both the normal function and diseased state of the organ, could aid in the development of novel and improved treatments for various debilitating and potentially lethal conditions. The purpose of this review is to compile the breadth of knowledge regarding hepatic autonomic innervation, to discuss the limitations of previous research, and to suggest future directions for a field that shows great potential for continued advancement.