Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
OVERWEIGHT IN ADOLESCENTS: MODERATING ROLE OF GENDER AND MOTHER’S EDUCATION LEVEL Excesso de peso em adolescentes: papel moderador do sexo e da escolaridade materna Exceso de peso en adolescentes: papel moderador del sexo y de la escolaridad materna

Objective: To investigate the moderating effect of gender and mother’s education level on the relation between overweight and associated factors in adolescents. Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study, performed with 945 students, of both sexes, aged between 14 and 18 years, of Ponta Grossa, Paraná. Weight and height measurements were collected. The adolescents filled out a questionnaire addressing sociodemographic information (gender, age, occupation/work, adolescent’s address and parents’ level of education), sedentary behavior (time watching TV/at the computer), participation in Physical Education classes and practice of physical activities. For data analysis, Poisson regression was used in STATA 9.2 software, adopting a significance level of p<0.05. Results: The prevalence of overweight among the adolescents was 18.8%. There was association between overweight and the variables age and sedentary behavior. However, when the estimates were adjusted for all the other independent variables, only the ages of 15 and 16 remained associated with overweight. A moderating effect of gender was observed in the association between overweight and sedentary behavior, and a moderating effect of mother’s education on the association between adolescents’ age and prevalence of overweight. Conclusion: The prevalence of overweight in adolescents was lower in the age range of 14 to 16 years old. Nevertheless, the age increase and the presence of sedentary behaviors were associated to lower risk of being overweight among boys whose mothers had lower formal schooling. As for the girls, a lower risk of overweight was observed when mothers presented higher level of education. Descriptors: Adolescent; Overweight; Obesity.
ASTRA-SIM: Enabling SW/HW Co-Design Exploration for Distributed DL Training Platforms

Modern Deep Learning systems heavily rely on distributed training over high-performance accelerator (e.g., TPU, GPU)-based hardware platforms. Examples today include Google's Cloud TPU and Facebook's Zion. DNN training involves a complex interplay between the DNN model architecture, paral-lelization strategy, scheduling strategy, collective communication algorithm, network topology, and the end-point accelerator. As innovation in AI/ML models continues to grow at an accelerated rate, there is a need for a comprehensive methodology to understand and navigate this complex SW/HW design-space for future systems to support efficient training of future DNN models. In this work, we make the following contributions (i) establish the SW/HW design-space for Distributed Training over a hierarchical scale-up fabric, (ii) develop a network simulator for navigating the design-space, and (iii) demonstrate the promise of algorithm-topology co-design for speeding up end to end training.
Disentangling Commodity Demand, Commodity Supply, and International Liquidity Shocks on An Emerging Market

This paper examines the effects of commodity demand and supply shocks as well as international liquidity shocks on the small open economy of Brazil using an SVAR model. The paper highlights the importance of modeling both types of shocks in the commodity sector. Including only commodity prices overstates the effect of commodity price shocks on the output of Brazil. Commodity demand shocks are much larger than commodity supply shocks in the long run. Including commodity demand and international liquidity also reduces the impact of commodity price shocks on the interest rate made available to Brazil in international capital markets. The interest rate channel is considered a source of business cycles for emerging market economies in the literature.
www.econstor.eu Jumps in Oil Prices – Evidence and Implications

This paper studies the dynamic behavior of daily oil prices and finds strong evidence of GARCH as well as conditional jump behavior. This implies that conditional heteroscedasticity is present and the empirical distribution of oil price changes has heavy tails. Thus, the oil price considerably sensitive to news and does not settle around a long-run trend. This finding has several important implications: First, this financial market variable-type behaviour hampers finding optimal depletion paths of oil as exhaustible resource as well as optimal decisions regarding the transmission to alternative technologies. Second, as the usage of oil is one of the main sources of carbon emissions, this non-existence of a clear long-run trend is likely to cause a current overextraction of oil, accompanied by severe consequences for the global climate. JEL Code: C22, Q30.
Performance of Sweet Potato’s Leaf-Derived Activated Carbon for Hydrogen Sulphide Removal from Biogas

In this study, sweet potato leaf activated carbon (SpLAC) was prepared by the chemical activation method using KOH and applied as an adsorbent for H2S removal from biogas. The study focused on the understanding of the effect of carbonization temperature ( ), varying KOH : C activation ratio, flow rate (FR) of biogas, and mass of SpLAC on sample adsorption capacity. The BET analysis was performed for both fresh and spent activated carbons as well as for carbonized samples, which were not activated; also, the activated carbon was characterized by XRF and CHNS techniques. The results showed that removal efficiency (RE) of the SpLAC increased with increase carbonization temperature from 600 to 800°C and the mass of sorbent from 0.4 g to 1.0 g. The optimal test conditions were determined: 1.0 g of sorbent with a KOH : C ratio of 1 : 1, °C, and m3/h which resulted in a sorption capacity of about 3.7 g S/100 g of the SpLAC. Our findings corroborated that H2S removal was contributed not only by the adsorption process with the pore available but also by the presence of iron in the sample that reacted with H2S. Therefore, upon successful H2S sorption, SpLAC is suggested as a viable adsorbent for H2S removal from biogas.
Environmental Citizenship and Energy Efficiency in Four European Countries (Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Hungary)

In our paper we aim at analysing the social factors influencing energy use and energy efficiency in four different European countries, using the data from the PENNY research (Psychological social and financial barriers to energy efficiency—Horizon 2020). As a part of the project, a survey was conducted in four European countries (Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Hungary) to compare environmental self-identity, values and attitudes toward the energy use of European citizens. Previous research has examined the effect of a number of factors that influence individuals’ energy efficiency, and attitudes to energy use. The novelty of our paper that presents four attitudes regarding energy use and environmental consciousness and compares them across four different regions of Europe. It analyses the differences between the four attitudes among the examined countries and tries to understand the factors explaining the differences using linear regression models of the most important socio-demographic variables. Finally, we present a typology of energy use attitudes: four groups, the members of which are basically characterised by essentially different attitudes regarding energy use. A better understanding of the diversity of energy use may assist in making more accurate policy decisions.
Deep Neural Network with Joint Distribution Matching for Cross-Subject Motor Imagery Brain-Computer Interfaces

Motor imagery brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have demonstrated great potential and attract world-spread attentions. Due to the nonstationary character of the motor imagery signals, costly and boring calibration sessions must be proceeded before use. This prevents them from going into our realistic life. In this paper, the source subject's data are explored to perform calibration for target subjects. Model trained on source subjects is transferred to work for target subjects, in which the critical problem to handle is the distribution shift. It is found that the performance of classification would be bad when only the marginal distributions of source and target are made closer, since the discriminative directions of the source and target domains may still be much different. In order to solve the problem, our idea comes that joint distribution adaptation is indispensable. It makes the classifier trained in the source domain perform well in the target domain. Specifically, a measure for joint distribution discrepancy (JDD) between the source and target is proposed. Experiments demonstrate that it can align source and target data according to the class they belong to. It has a direct relationship with classification accuracy and works well for transferring. Secondly, a deep neural network with joint distribution matching for zero-training motor imagery BCI is proposed. It explores both marginal and joint distribution adaptation to alleviate distribution discrepancy across subjects and obtain effective and generalized features in an aligned common space. Visualizations of intermediate layers illustrate how and why the network works well. Experiments on the two datasets prove the effectiveness and strength compared to outstanding counterparts.
Contact Heat Transfer of a Cutting Diamond Disk With a Boundary Layer of Air and a Decrease in the Temperature of Heating of the Disk

Cutting of natural and artificial building materials is most often carried out with diamond cutting disks on a metal base at cutting speeds of about 50-80 m / s. The intensity of the cutting process causes a significant heat release, as a result of which the disk temperature rises to unacceptable values. The value of these unacceptable temperatures is about 600 6500С. At these temperatures, graphitization of diamond grains occurs, i.e. loss of diamond layer and loss of cutting properties. In addition, a thin diamond disk (thickness 1 3 mm) is deformed, which leads to jamming and its tensile strength at these temperatures is reduced by half, which creates the risk of rupture by centrifugal forces. In this work, it is taken into account that during the rotation of the disk, a boundary layer of air is created around it, which is stationary relative to the disk. Consequently, contact heat transfer occurs between the disk and the boundary layer, and then convective heat transfer occurs between the boundary layer and the surrounding air. This scheme allows you to more accurately determine the time of safe operation of the diamond disk. Contact heat transfer between the wheel and the boundary layer is not effective enough to lower the temperature. When air with a negative temperature is introduced into the boundary layer by means of a Rank-Hillsch tube, the disk temperature decreases by about 10%. When a sprayed coolant (fog cooling) is introduced into the boundary layer by means of an ejector tube, the disk temperature decreases by 25%, which ensures an increase in the time of continuous operation.
Differentiated Instruction Using Technology A Guide For Middle And High School Teachers

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Sleep quality & prevalence of restless legs syndrome among healthcare professionals

Corresponding author/Sorumlu yazar: Ülkü Figen Demir Address/Adres: Merkez mahallesi, Çukurçeşme caddesi, no:51, Gaziosmanpaşa, İstanbul, Türkiye e-Mail: drfigendemir@gmail.com ⸺ Ethics Committee Approval: Ethics committee of İstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl Universty, Science, Social and Non-interventional Health Sciences Research. Number: 2019/11. Etik Kurul Onayı: İstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl Üniversitesi, Bilim, Sosyal ve Girişimsel Olmayan Sağlık Bilimleri Araştırmaları Etik Kurulu. Numarası: 2019/11. ⸺ Conflict of Interest: No conflict of interest was declared by the authors. Çıkar Çatışması: Yazarlar çıkar çatışması bildirmemişlerdir. ⸺ Financial Disclosure: The authors declared that this study has received no financial support. Finansal Destek: Yazarlar bu çalışma için finansal destek almadıklarını beyan etmişlerdir. ⸺ Published: 2/27/2020 Yayın Tarihi: 27.02. 2020
Awareness of Diabetic Retinopathy amongst Patients and their Attendants, Attending Diabetes Ophthalmology Clinic – A Population Based Study

1 Professor, Dept of Ophthalmology 2,3 Resident, Dept of Ophthalmology, 4 MBBS Abstract Introduction: According to the International Diabetes Federation, the number of adults afflicted by diabetes in the world is estimated to be 366 million in 2011. Prevalence of Diabetic retinopathy (DR) in diabetic patients is estimated to be 12.2% to 18.03%. Diabetic retinopathy is one of the leading causes of preventable blindness in India. The purpose of this study was to assess the current status of awareness by sampling the people who attended outpatient department for Ophthalmology checkups. Material and methods: This was a population based prospective study conducted on 200 patients attending the ophthalmology outpatient department. All the patients were asked to fill a questionnaire containing details such as duration of diabetes and whether or not they were aware of the ophthalmological risks associated with diabetes mellitus and so on. Results: 60.5% has had Diabetes for over 5 years and among these 40.49% go for regular eye examinations. 57.14% have been diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy. Among the subjects who have had diabetes for more than 5 years, 66.12% show evidence of diabetic retinopathy. Among 79 subjects who are recently diagnosed cases of diabetes mellitus, 11 cases show diabetic retinopathy the incidence rate being 13.92%. Conclusion: There is below average awareness of diabetic retinopathy in general population, patients especially the diabetics should be made aware of the ocular risks associated with diabetes and encouraged to undergo regular screening by their family members so as to prevent them from the devastating effects of diabetic retinopathy.
Redesign Presentation Technique: Challenges to Encourage Learning Motivation

— Communicating is one of the demands of scientific learning that requires students to explain to their learning partners about what they have already obtained (learning outcomes). Design to communicate this through performance or class presentations in groups or independently. The main goal is to facilitate the learning character of students who are more receptive to explanations from their peers than from their facilitators. However, the findings in the classroom as much as 80% of students do not prepare for a discussion of the findings of his study; they feel already completed the obligations it when it is communicating the results in the classroom. Lottery Presentation Design is a modification of regular presentations made in groups, namely by drawing three groups (consisting of 3-4 students) who will present on the same day, and divide the things presented into several sections. After completing the draw, the lottery number is put back into the lottery, which means that the group that has advanced makes it possible to return to the next meeting to present the part that has not. Motivation to learn indicated by the participant students. Learning motivation data includes: (1) Before implementation which measured from the desire to prepare themselves and (2) when learning measure from (a) the desire to be involved from the beginning of learning, (b) the duration of involvement, and (c) the type of involvement. Collection using a questionnaire and observation. Existing data were analyzed descriptively using a single tabulation to determine learning motivation patterns.
Magnitude of Antenatal Depression and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women in West Badewacho Woreda, Hadiyya Zone, South Ethiopia: Community Based Cross Sectional Study

Background Antenatal depression is prevalent and serious problems that is associated with psychosocial factors, obstetric history, and history of psychiatric illness. Evidence on prevalence and factors associated with antenatal depression at community level is limited in Ethiopia. The aim of this study was assessing the prevalence of antenatal depression and associated factors among pregnant women in West Badewacho Woreda, Hadiyya Zone, South Ethiopia, 2018. Methods A community based cross sectional study was conducted from March 15 to April 12, 2018. To draw a total sample size of 541 pregnant women, multistage sampling technique was used. Pretested semi-structured questionnaire and standardized scale was used to collect data from each study subject. Data were entered and cleaned using Epi-Data version 3.1 and exported to SPSS version 23 for analysis. Bivariate analysis was carried out to see crude association between each independent variable and outcome variable. Odds ratios at 95%CI were computed to measure the strength of the association between the outcome and the independent variables. P-value < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant in multivariate analysis. Results The prevalence of antenatal depression in the study population was 23.3% (CI: 19.8–26.8). Factors significantly associated with antenatal depression were marital status other than married (single, widowed, divorced) [AOR: (2.807; 95%CI: (1.268, 6.227); p-value = 0.042], history of previous depression [AOR: 3.414; 95%CI: (1.154, 12.999); p-value = 0.001] family history of mental illness [AOR: 3.874; 95%CI: (1.653, 7.052); p-value = 0.028], recent violence from intimate partner [AOR: 3.223; 95%CI: (1.359, 7.643); p-value = 0.008], unsatisfactory marital relation [AOR: 7.568; 95%CI: (3.943, 14.523); p-value < 0.001], lack of adequate social support [AOR: 5.491; 95%CI: (2.086, 14.451); p-value < 0.001] and unplanned current pregnancy [AOR: 2.013; 95%CI: (1.025, 3.953); p-value = 0.042]. Conclusion The prevalence of antenatal depression in west Badewacho woreda was high and it is associated with marital status, unplanned current pregnancy, history of previous depression, family history of mental illness, recent violence from intimate partner, poor marital satisfaction level, and poor social support. Improving maternal and child health services and introducing screening for depression as part of routine antenatal assessment to curb antenatal depression should get due attention.
Caregiving Resources and Psychosocial Stimulation Among Infants in Magelang Regency

The home environment is the main media for child development. Researchs have proven that responsive care plays an important role in child's development. Stimulation and family care become an important factor in child’s development. Objective: The objective of this paper is to identify the role of caregiving resources related to psychosocial stimulation of children in Magelang Regency, Central Java. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in 4 districts in Magelang Regency which represent replete and non replete iodine deficiency areas. Data were collected from 244 households based on simple random sampling method and data relating 216 samples of mothers and infants were analyzed. The psychosocial stimulation variable was measured using the Home Observation Measurement of the Environment inventory. Mother and infant characteristics were obtained using questionnaires and interviews. Data were analyzed using bivariate analyze and multivariate logistic regression analysis. Results: Most children (more than 50%) received good psychosocial stimulation. Nearly 2/3 of children aged less than or equal to 6 months and most of them were the first or second child. The age of the mother is mostly in the age of safe reproduction. Psychological status of the mother by 27.78% felt depressed (moderately depressed) and 37.5% felt anxious (moderately or severely anxious). The results of the bivariate analysis showed that there was no statistical relationship between the characteristics of mother and child with psychosocial stimulation. Multivariate analysis showed that maternal characteristics were not statistically significantly related, but maternal education and birth order had a risk of given psychosocial stimulation (OR 1.69, CI 0.932-3.066 and OR 2.03, CI 0.906-4.558). Conclusion: Mother's education and birth order may contribute to the psychosocial stimulation provided to children. Recommendation: The risk for low quality of care stimulation is related to formal maternal education, so programs that informally enhanced the quality of stimulation among low-educated mothers need to be strengthened. The significant prevalence of psychological problems in mothers needs to be followed up by looking at their effects on the child's growth and development outcomes.
A recipe for excellence in health care: investigating the relationship between health literacy, self-efficacy, awareness, and health services’ use

Purpose of the paper: Health services’ quality relies on the patients’ ability to participate in the provision of care as co-creators of value. Among others, individual health literacy i.e. the ability to access, understand, process and use health information for the purposes of health protection and promotion is crucial to realize the full potential of patient involvement. This paper investigates the consequences of inadequate individual health literacy on self-efficacy perception and awareness of health-related issues, which are expected to affect the process of patient empowerment. Methodology: A sample of 438 Italian patients was built. The Newest Vital Sign (NVS) was used to assess individual health literacy skills. A self-reporting survey was administered to assess the patients’ self-efficacy, awareness of health-related issues and health services’ use. Also, socio-demographic variables were collected to investigate the correlates of limited health literacy. Findings: Problematic health literacy was prevailing. The lower the health literacy skills, the poorer the individual self-efficacy and the lower the awareness of healthrelated issues. Interestingly, inadequate health literacy was associated with increased access to emergency care and hospital services. Practical implications: Inadequate health literacy is likely to prevent patient empowerment. Actually, it performs as a barrier to patient involvement in the provision of care. Policy makers should attach a specific health literacy concern to health policies intended to promote patient participation in the provision of care. Besides, health care providers should arrange and implement tailored health literacy promotion initiatives, in an attempt to realize the full potential of patient empowerment and improve the quality of care. Originality of the paper: Although health literacy is a well-established topic, evidence on the consequences of limited health literacy on health behaviors is still inconsistent. This paper contributes in advancing scientific knowledge on the issue, delving into the effects of limited health literacy on self-efficacy perceptions, awareness of health-related issues and health services’ use.