Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A study on self-esteem of college sportspersons

The purpose of this study was to measure the level of self-esteem of college sportspersons and to compare the attributes of self-esteem between male and female sportspersons. Total sample of 182 college sportspersons, studying in different colleges affiliated to Panjab University, Chandigarh from the regions of Sri Muktsar Sahib and Fazilka districts of Punjab state, were selected for this study. The purposive sampling was utilized to pick male and female college sportspersons. All the selected subjects were aged 19 to 25 years. Self-esteem Scale (SES-DSDU) developed by Dhar and Dhar (2015) was applied to survey the self-esteem of college sportspersons. To figure out the total self-esteem level of college sportspersons, percentage method was applied. Independent t-test was used to know the difference between male and female college sportspersons. The significance level was set at 0.05. Most of the college sportspersons (55%) had normal self-esteem. While 31% of sportspersons had high and 14% had low self-esteem. Male college sportspersons had significantly higher level of competence, humility, self-worth and self-esteem (total) as compared to female college sportspersons. No significant difference was found with regard to positivity and learning orientation between male and female college sportspersons.
Effect of vitamin D level on COVID-19 and the risk of complications in children

The immunomodulatory and pro-apoptotic role of vitamin D is still being investigated and the relationship between its deficiency and the development of many diseases is widely described. Vitamin D deficiency, which is prevalent in the world population, is under investigation, especially in the current epidemiological situation and the risk of complications from COVID-19, including multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. Recommendations regarding the norms of vitamin D levels in children suggest monitoring of its concentration in groups at risk of deficiency and supplementation to the optimal level. Studies on the relationship of vitamin D deficiency with the severity of COVID-19 and an increased risk of complications after the disease suggest strong associations. At the same time, the literature review also noted data that indicated no or only a small effect of vitamin D on the morbidity of the studied population.
Silver nanoparticles in mouthwashes against infection caused by SARS-CoV-2: a
 scoping review

The Silver nanoparticle (AgNPs) have received attention for their antiviral potential against SARS-CoV-2. The objective is to conduct a scope review and map the scientific evidence on the use of AgNPs in mouthwashes as an adjunct in decreasing the viral load in the oral cavity of patients with SARS-CoV-2. A search was performed in the PubMed, Medline, Scielo databases, and a manual search in the reference lists, following the standards of the Joanna Briggs Institute for Scoping Review without restriction of year, language or sample size. Thus, 14 articles were included, where they researched the use of AgNPs with antiviral effect against SARS-CoV-2, mouthwashes for SARS-CoV-2 and AgNPs as mouthwashes. We can suggest that AgNPs are likely antiviral therapies for SARS-CoV-2 and its use in mouthwashes associated with other therapies are promising strands for decreasing viral load and infection by the virus.
Discount or Prestige: E-reputation, Compatibility, and Continued Mobile Apps Usage Intention of Low-Cost Carriers

In low-cost carrier (LCC) businesses, LCCs have developed cabin design and production services that are different from the available airlines to compete for routes in certain regions. The LCC reduces operating costs. Its operation mode has quickly robbed ordinary airlines of a market, and its business model is also a concern for academia and the industry. This study aims to explain how low-cost mobile carrier apps can enhance decision-making during shopping with an LCC. Stratified sampling was used for data collection in this study, which included individuals who had experience using LCCs and utilized LCC mobile apps; 868 participants completed the surveys, and their data were considered for analysis. We then evaluated our hypotheses using structural equation modeling (SEM). The findings of this study offer some critical implications for the design of mobile applications and results to succeed in LCC business endeavors: the mobile application's interface design can be personalized and display things that are the user interface for passengers while reflecting lifestyles and preferences that appeal to them, to increase their willingness to continue using the application. Moreover, LCCs can adjust their competitive market strategies by implementing mobile applications. This study is based on the operation of LCCs, presents a continued usage mobile device application model, and provides strategic practice guidelines and academic insights.
Bronchiolitis and its Different Ways of Management in Raparin Teaching Hospital, Erbil-Iraq

Background: Despite the prevalence, global impact, financial burden, and mortality and morbidity related to bronchiolitis, clinical management still seems to be difficult. Objective: To describe the diversity medical treatment options used to manage bronchiolitis and conclude the safest and most effective way to treat it in order to help the development of an evidence based treatment protocol at Raparin teaching hospital. Patients and Methods: This current study design was randomized controlled trial, in which total of 125 children presented with bronchiolitis enrolled in our study, we divided them into five groups (A, B, C, D and E), each of 25 cases. All the groups received supportive treatment in the form of oxygen and intravenous (IV) fluid in addition to specific treatment except group A subjects who received supportive treatment only. The treatments were The study was conducted at the inpatient wards of Raparin teaching hospital in Erbil city-Iraq, from the period of 1st January to 1st August 2022. The infants and children’s age was ranging from 1 to 60 months with clinical diagnosis of bronchiolitis. Results: There was non-significant statistical association between treatment groups and presence of wheeze after treatment (p:0.538), while statistically significant association between various treatment modalities (groups) and cough after treatment (p:0.006) in the same way the association was significant with accessory muscle use after treatment (p:0.037). Conclusion: Generally patients in groups B (inhaled bronchodilator) and D (inhaled bronchodilator and intravenous steroids) had better response rates in terms of cough, accessory muscle use, respiratory rate (tachypnea), time to resolution of fever and coryza, duration of IV fluid therapy, oxygen therapy and hospital stay. Which conclude using of inhaled bronchodilator and IV steroid
Quantum Entropies and Decoherence for the Multiparticle Quantum Arnol’d Cat

I study the scaling behavior in the physical parameters of dynamical entropies, classical and quantum, in a specifically devised model of collision-induced decoherence in a chaotic system. The treatment is fully canonical and no approximations are involved or infinite limits taken. I present this model in a detailed way, in order to clarify my views in the debate about the nature, definition, and relevance of quantum chaos.
The Impact of Practical Training on Student Understanding of Plagiarism

In order to develop an understading of plagiarism and how best to avoid it, a workshop was conducted with masters’ students. They took part in a 4 hour interactive session that covered types of plagiarism, appropriate acknowledgement of sources, paraphrasing and contract cheating. They also completed a literature review afterwards for which they received two rounds of feedback on plagiarism issues. Students completed a survey assessing their understanding of plagiarism pre and post the workshop. A paired samples t test showed a significant improvement in student understanding of plagiarism as a result of the intervention. It is planned to roll out the initiative to other student groups in the coming academic year.
The effect of a bedding materials on performance, welfare and behavior of broiler chickens: A review

Bedding material has a significant effect on life, health and production of broiler chicken since they are in direct contact with litter. When condition of litter is poor, it increases an occurrence of pododermatitis. Birds living in chronic pain move less and consequently eat and drink less and because of that their production is less efficient. The aim of this review is to compare different bedding materials used in Europe and elsewhere in the world and to evaluate their effects on production parameters, health and animal welfare. During the last years, a lot of research has been done using both traditional and alternative bedding materials. A significant part of materials was evaluated as suitable or improving production parameters. There is an evidence that at least one quarter of broiler chicken live in constant pain due to footpad dermatitis, joint inflammations or other locomotory disorders for more than one third of their live. The health of the locomotory system is the major challenge for improving poultry welfare. Several substrates can be used as bedding material for poultry. In general, we can conclude that, the finer particles are the lower is the occurrence of pododermatitis. However optimal bedding material must be able to absorb excess water but also to be dried properly. Another important aspect of animal welfare is the opportunity to manifest their natural behaviour. Research clearly shows that poultry prefer to perform dustbathing only in dry and dusty substrate.
Time-Integrated Searches for Point-like Sources of Neutrinos with the 40-String IceCube Detector

We present the results of time-integrated searches for astrophysical neutrino sources in both the northern and southern skies. Data were collected using the partially-completed IceCube detector in the 40-string conﬁguration recorded between 2008 April 5 and 2009 May 20, totaling 375.5 days livetime. An unbinned maximum likelihood ratio method is used to search for astrophysical signals. The data sample contains 36,900 events: 14,121 from the northern sky, mostly muons induced by atmospheric neutrinos and 22,779 from the southern sky, mostly high energy atmospheric muons. The analysis includes searches for individual point sources and targeted searches for speciﬁc stacked source classes and spatially extended sources. While this analysis is sensitive to TeV–PeV energy neutrinos in the northern sky, it is primarily sensitive to neutrinos with energy greater than about 1 PeV in the southern sky. No evidence for a signal is found in any of the searches. Limits are set for neutrino ﬂuxes from astrophysical sources over the entire sky and compared to predictions. The sensitivity is at least a factor of two better than previous searches (depending on declination), with 90% conﬁdence level muon neutrino ﬂux upper limits being between E 2 dN/dE ∼ 2 − 200 × 10 − 12 TeV cm − 2 s − 1 in the northern sky and between 3 − 700 × 10 − 12 TeV cm − 2 s − 1 in the southern sky. The stacked source searches provide the best limits to speciﬁc source classes. The full IceCube detector is expected to improve the sensitivity to E − 2 sources by another factor of two in the ﬁrst year of operation.
Impact of torsion and stretching on the thermal conductivity of polyethylene strands

A single polyethylene chain was reported to have a high metal-like thermal conductivity (TC), which stands in sharp contrast to the thermally insulating feature of common bulk polyethylene materials. This work numerically investigates the impact of torsion and stretching on the TC of polyethylene strands by using equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. The simulation results show that torsion slightly reduces the TC of a single polyethylene chain. In contrast, the heat conduction of polyethylene strands could be slightly enhanced under torsional loading with a specific torsional angle. Particularly, an apparent improvement of TC of polyethylene strands is achieved by combining torsion and stretching functions. It is found that the TC of torsional polyethylene strands is sensitive to torsional patterns. Our study proposes a specific torsional pattern of polyethylene strands that significantly enhances the heat conduction of the original counterpart. This study will play an essential role in guiding the.
Long-Period Ground Motion Evaluation From a Largeworldwide Digital Strong Motion Database

The reliability of long-period ground motion from digital strong motion data is first explored using records from co-located broadband and digital strong motion instruments. It is shown that displacement waveforms obtained by double integration of the accelerogram need not be free of unrealistic baseline drift to yield reliable spectral ordinates up to at least 10 s. These findings are further corroborated by considering a set of synthetic accelerograms contaminated by random long-period noise. The results of this study suggest that high-pass filtering the digital acceleration record from a cut-off period selected to suppress baseline drifts on the displacement waveform appears to be in most cases too conservative and unduly depletes reliable information on long-period spectral ordinates. Based on these results, new predictive equations for long-period ground motions are obtained and implemented in probabilistic seismic hazard analyses. To illustrate some representative results, ground motion hazard maps in terms of long-period spectral displacements for the Southern Calabrian Arc (Italy) are shown.
Fine-grained object categorization : plant species identification

We introduce models for fine-grained categorization, focusing on determining botanical species from leaf images. Images with both uniform and cluttered background are considered and several identification scenarios are presented, including different levels of human participation. Both feature extraction and classification algorithms are investigated. We first leverage domain knowledge from botany to build a hierarchical representation of leaves based on IdKeys, which encode invariable characteristics, and refer to geometric properties (i.e., landmarks) and groups of species (e.g., taxonomic categories). The main idea is to sequentially refine the object description and thus narrow down the set of candidates during the identification task. We also introduce vantage feature frames as a more generic object representation and a mechanism for focusing attention around several vantage points (where to look) and learning dedicated features (what to compute). Based on an underlying coarse-to-fine hierarchy, categorization then proceeds from coarse-grained to fine-grained using local classifiers which are based on likelihood ratios. Motivated by applications, we also introduce on a new approach and performance criterion: report a subset of species whose expected size is minimized subject to containing the true species with high probability. The approach is model-based and outputs a confidence set in analogy with confidence intervals in classical statistics. All methods are illustrated on multiple leaf datasets with comparisons to existing methods.
Transperineal US-MRI Fusion-Guided Biopsy for the Detection of Clinical Significant Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Comparing Cognitive and Software-Assisted Technique

Simple Summary US-MRI fusion biopsy is established as a technique of reference for the detection of clinically significative prostate cancer compared to the ultrasound “template” technique. Several software have been developed to aid clinicians to perform a real-time fusion between MRI and US prostate imaging; however, the images can also be mentally superimposed by the operator performing a cognitive fusion. Many papers in the literature describe the feasibility and efficacy of these two techniques, but few have performed a direct comparison between them. Therefore, we selected all comparative studies with the aim to perform a meta-analysis to find if one technique leads to an improvement in the detection rate of clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) for biopsies performed with a transperineal approach. Our findings indicate that csPCa detection is comparable between these techniques. Thus, clinicians can choose to perform a cognitive or software-assisted biopsy in accordance with their personal experience or technologic availability without the potential risk of offering an underperforming methodology. Abstract Introduction: We aimed to find potential differences in clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) detection rates between transperineal software-assisted fusion biopsy (saFB) and cognitive fusion biopsies (cFB). Methods: A systematic review of the literature was performed to identify comparative studies using PubMed, EMBASE, and Scopus according to the PICOS criteria. Cancer detection and complication rates were pooled using the Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel method with the random effect model and reported as odds ratios (ORs), 95% confidence intervals (CI), and p-values. A meta-analysis was performed using Review Manager (RevMan) 5.4 software by Cochrane Collaboration. The quality assessment of the included studies was performed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool, using RoB 2 for randomized studies and ROBINS-I for retrospective and nonrandomized ones. Results: Eight studies were included for the meta-analysis, including 1149 cases in software-based and 963 cases in cognitive fusion biopsy. The detection rates of csPCa were similar between the two groups (OR 1.01, 95% CI 0.74–1.37, p = 0.95). Study heterogeneity was low (I2 55%). Conclusion: There is no actual evidence of the superiority of saFB over cFB in terms of the csPCa detection rate. Operator experience and software availability can drive the choice of one fusion technique over the other.
Use of Pulse Oximetry during Resuscitation of 230 Newborns—A Video Analysis

Background: European guidelines recommend the use of pulse oximetry (PO) during newborn resuscitation, especially when there is a need for positive pressure ventilation or supplemental oxygen. The objective was to evaluate (i) to what extent PO was used, (ii) the time and resources spent on the application of PO, and (iii) the proportion of time with a useful PO signal during newborn resuscitation. Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted at Stavanger University Hospital, Norway, between 6 June 2019 and 16 November 2021. Newborn resuscitations were video recorded, and the use of PO during the first ten minutes of resuscitation was recorded and analysed. Results: Of 7466 enrolled newborns, 289 (3.9%) received ventilation at birth. The resuscitation was captured on video in 230 cases, and these newborns were included in the analysis. PO was applied in 222 of 230 (97%) newborns, median (quartiles) 60 (24, 58) seconds after placement on the resuscitation table. The proportion of time used on application and adjustments of PO during ongoing ventilation and during the first ten minutes on the resuscitation table was 30% and 17%, respectively. Median two healthcare providers were involved in the PO application. Video of the PO monitor signal was available in 118 (53%) of the 222 newborns. The proportion of time with a useful PO signal during ventilation and during the first ten minutes on the resuscitation table was 5% and 35%, respectively. Conclusion: In total, 97% of resuscitated newborns had PO applied, in line with resuscitation guidelines. However, the application of PO was time-consuming, and a PO signal was only obtained 5% of the time during positive pressure ventilation.
Effect of Circadian Preferences and Personality Traits on Academic Achievement in Active Students

Objective: During the past decades, several studies have explored individuals’ differences and their impact on scholarly achievement. The effect of circadian preference and personality on academic performance has been studied in different countries. However, studies have yet to analyze these variables in the Moroccan context (North West Africa) and test whether academic performance relates to circadian types and personality traits. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between those variables in young active students.Methods: This study included 167 Moroccan active students (age=16.34 years; SD=1.2). The personality trait was measured with Big Five Questionnaire for Children (BFQ-C). We also assessed the circadian typology by using Morningness–Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ). School grades were used to calculate academic success (grade point average [GPA]). We investigated the relationships between all the parameters.Results: This study indicates a significant difference in Big Five factors between athlete groups of chronotype. GPA is significantly related positively to MEQ score and openness but negatively to neuroticism. However, no correlation was observed with the other significant five factors.Conclusion: Professionals must consider circadian preferences and personality traits when looking to facilitate students’ scholarly achievement.
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain in the Successive Pandemic Waves on Hemodialysis Patients and Healthcare Personnel

(1) Background: The impact of SARS-CoV-2 has been variable over the time course of the pandemic and in different populations. The aim was to analyze the impact of COVID-19 infection in a known population of hemodialysis (HD) patients and professionals in Spain at different times of the pandemic. (2) Methods: We conducted an observational, descriptive study with a follow-up from 3 March 2020 to 23 April 2022 (776 days), using in average of 414 professionals and 1381 patients from 18 HD units in Spain. The data from the positive PCR or the rapid antigen detection test (RADT) subject were analyzed and segmented into six periods (waves). (3) Results: Of 703 positive COVID-19 tests, 524 were HD patients (74.5%), and 179 were HD professionals (25.5%). Overall, 38% of staff and 43% of patients were affected. Differences were observed in regard to incidence (21% vs. 13%), mortality (3.5% vs. 0%), and symptomatology between the patients and professionals and throughout the pandemic. (4) Conclusions: COVID-19 severity varied during different pandemic waves, with a greater impact seen in the first wave. HD professionals and patients had similar infection rates, but patients had higher mortality rates. Community transmission was the primary route of infection.
Numerical simulation model by volume averaging for the dissolution process of GaSb into InSb in a sandwich system

ABSTRACT The volume-averaging continuum technique has been utilized to obtain numerical predictions for the transport phenomena occurring during the dissolution process of GaSb into InSb melt in a sandwich system. Dissolution and subsequent growth in this system are achieved by the application of a temperature gradient. The developed model was first verified for two test cases [(i) fluid/solid conjugate heat transfer and (ii) the solidification process of the binary system]. The code was then utilized to simulate the dissolution process of GaSb into InSb in the GaSb/InSb/GaSb sandwich system. The present results show that the developed volume-averaging model provides accurate predictions.