Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Mode of Wind and Sea Surface Temperature Over the South China Sea During Rainy Season in Indonesia

Research on near-surface wind and sea surface temperature dynamics in the South China Sea (SCS) is important to understand their impact on Indonesia’s rainy season variations. In this study, we use daily wind data from the National Center for Environmental Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR) reanalysis and sea surface temperature (SST) from the Optimal Interpolated Sea Surface Temperature (OISST) during November-to-March (NDJFM) period of 2000-2016 to explore the dominant signal of temporal and spatial variations in the SCS. Results of the first EOF (EOF-1) show that the SST cooling occurred in the entire region (the South China Sea, local Indonesian sea, and the Indian Ocean nearly Sumatra), thus, is remarked as “Cold Tongue” (CT). Additionally, the CT coincides with the strengthening of northerly wind over the South China Sea (SCS) elongated in the equator’s vicinity, which is indicated as a cross-equatorial north wind (CENS). For meridional wind, the spatial pattern of the EOF-1 (17.75%) shows that the strength of this CENS is associated with SCS-type (remarked as South China Sea type) of Cold Surge (CS) pathway. This CS SCS-type could enhance the Asian winter monsoon flows over Indonesia. On the other hand, the spatial pattern of the second EOF (EOF-2) shows the enhancement of the northerly wind towards the Philippine Sea (12.65%) associated with PHP-type (remarked as Filipina sea type) of CS pathway (CS PHP-type). The CS PHP-type has a relationship with strong CT (12.65%). The CT, which is observed extending southward close to the Karimata Strait, appeared not to relate to the local CENS, which occurred early. Regarding the EOF-1 results, it appeared that the correlation between northerly wind and SST in the whole of the Maritime Continent region. It also shows that the CT developed from mid-December to mid-January. On the other side, the CENS occurred from mid-December to last-February.
A Multi-view Image Sets Classification Based on Graph Convolutional Neural Network

Multi-view images represent the target object from various perspectives. We propose a new spectral graph convolutional neural network (BSGCN) for multi-view image sets, which uses spectral graph convolution technology to process multi-view image sets. With the batch normalization techniques, the BSGCN speeds up the model convergence and improves the generalization capabilities of the model. We analyze the performance of two variants of BSGCN and its model by experiments on multi-view datasets. Experimental results show that the BSGCN is 2.84% and 7.26% higher than the classic graph CNN [17] on Modelnet10 and Modelnet40 multi-view datasets, respectively, and 0.34% higher than the classical CNN [6] on Modelnet40 multi-view dataset.
The effects of wheat, tapioca, corn, and red rice flour on TBA value and color sensory quality and the aroma of dangke nuggets

Dangke nuggets are innovative products of processed dangke, a type of fresh cheese from the Province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The anthocyanin content in red rice provides added value to its use as a filler nugget, but it reduces the quality of the color and aroma of the products. One solution is to combine red rice with other filler ingredients that have been commonly used in nugget formulations. This study aimed to examine the effects of the types and levels of flour combined with red rice flour on the TBA value and the organoleptic quality of the color and aroma of dangke nuggets. The types of flour that were combined with red rice flour included wheat flour, tapioca, and corn at the levels of 10%, 20%, and 30% respectively to substitute red rice flour. At the 30% level, the nugget formulation used only the flour tested without combination with red rice flour. The results showed that nuggets with corn flour had the highest TBA value, yellow color brightness, and milk aroma, in contrast to nuggets made from wheat flour. The increase in the level of substitution of red rice flour with other flour tended to cause the TBA value to decrease and the aroma of dangke nugget milk to become stronger, while the brightness of the yellow color was not affected. Tapioca flour and corn flour either alone or in combination with red rice flour can be used as a filler for dangke nuggets.
Preharvest calcium applications improve postharvest quality of papaya fruits (Carica papaya L. cv. Eksotika II)

ABSTRACT This research was conducted to evaluate the effects of calcium chloride (CaCl2) and calcium nitrate Ca(NO3)2 on nutrient concentrations and postharvest quality of papaya fruits. In the first experiment, plant stem height increased significantly after Ca(NO3)2 application compared to CaCl2. The calcium content in the peel and pulp for both sources [CaCl2 and Ca(NO3)2] significantly rose with increasing calcium concentrations, but there was a significantly higher content of calcium in fruit peel and pulp in the CaCl2 treatment. Magnesium and potassium in fruits decreased with increasing calcium concentrations. A reduction in anthracnose lesion diameter in the infected fruit with increasing calcium was observed in both CaCl2 and Ca(NO3)2 treatments. Ethylene production in fruits decreased with increasing calcium concentrations. In the second experiment, only CaCl2 was used as the calcium source, and results showed that the calcium content in fruit peel and pulp significantly increased at higher CaCl2 levels, whereas ethylene production, anthracnose lesion diameter, and magnesium content decreased compared to control.
Complexation of Ciprofloxacin with Paracetamol and Zinc in Aqueous Medium

Concurrent administration of more than one drug is a common practice in medical science and in such case one drug may affect the pharmacology of another drug. Ciprofloxacin is a commonly used antibiotic in Bangladesh and frequently prescribed with paracetamol and zinc salt for concomitant use in patients suffering from infections. Therefore, the interaction of ciprofloxacin with paracetamol and zinc salt was studied in vitro at pH 1.2, 6.8 and 7.4 which are related to gastric, intestinal juices and blood, respectively. Analysis of drug-drug and drug-metal complexation was carried out by using UV/VIS spectrophotometer as well as the conductometric titration. It was observed that ciprofloxacin formed complex with paracetamol and zinc at pH 1.2.
Development of Predictive Tools for Anti-Cancer Peptide Candidates using Generative Machine Learning Models

Many scientists have explored anticancer peptides (ACPs), which are peptides with anti-tumor activity that can be safer than conventional drugs due to high activity coupled with high selectivity and delivery control. However, current in vitro methods of discovery are both time-consuming and ex - pensive. This study aims to use modern machine learning tools to discover new ACP candidates. Discriminative models were trained to classify between anti-cancer and non-anti-cancer peptides using data from several anti-cancer peptide databases, totaling 584 known ACPs. The best-performing model, the support vector machine (SVM) could identify with a 90.4 percent whether a given peptide carried anticancer properties. A long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent network was also developed as a method of ACP generation. The model created 40 preliminary sequences
Carbon Availability and Nitrogen Mineralization Control Denitrification Rates and Product Stoichiometry during Initial Maize Litter Decomposition

Returning crop residues to agricultural fields can accelerate nutrient turnover and increase N2O and NO emissions. Increased microbial respiration may lead to formation of local hotspots with anoxic or microoxic conditions promoting denitrification. To investigate the effect of litter quality on CO2, NO, N2O, and N2 emissions, we conducted a laboratory incubation study in a controlled atmosphere (He/O2, or pure He) with different maize litter types (Zea mays L., young leaves and roots, straw). We applied the N2O isotopocule mapping approach to distinguish between N2O emitting processes and partitioned the CO2 efflux into litter- and soil organic matter (SOM)-derived CO2 based on the natural 13C isotope abundances. Maize litter increased total and SOM derived CO2 emissions leading to a positive priming effect. Although C turnover was high, NO and N2O fluxes were low under oxic conditions as high O2 diffusivity limited denitrification. In the first week, nitrification contributed to NO emissions, which increased with increasing net N mineralization. Isotopocule mapping indicated that bacterial processes dominated N2O formation in litter-amended soil in the beginning of the incubation experiment with a subsequent shift towards fungal denitrification. With onset of anoxic incubation conditions after 47 days, N fluxes strongly increased, and heterotrophic bacterial denitrification became the main source of N2O. The N2O/(N2O+N2) ratio decreased with increasing litter C:N ratio and Corg:NO3− ratio in soil, confirming that the ratio of available C:N is a major control of denitrification product stoichiometry.
Surgical Site Infections Following Pediatric Cardiac Surgery in a Tertiary Care Hospital: Rate and Risk Factors

Background: Surgical site infections [SSIs] are the second most common type of healthcare-associated infections and leading cause of postoperative morbidity and mortality in pediatric cardiac surgery. This study aims to determine the rate of, risk factors for, and most common pathogen associated with the development of SSIs after pediatric cardiac surgery. Methods: Patients aged ≤14 years who underwent cardiac surgery at our tertiary care hospital between January 2010 and December 2015 were retrospectively reviewed. Results: The SSI rate was 7.8% among the 1510 pediatric patients reviewed. Catheter-associated urinary tract infection [CAUTI] [odds ratio [OR] 5.7; 95% confidence interval [CI] 2.3e13. 8; P < 0.001], ventilator-associated pneumonia [VAP] [OR 3.2; 95% CI 1.4e7. 2; P 1⁄4 0.005], longer postoperative stay [≥25 days] [OR 4.1; 95% CI 2.1e8. 1; P < 0.001], and a risk adjustment in congenital heart surgery [RACHS-1] score of ≥2 [OR 2.4; 95% CI 1.2e5. 6; P 1⁄4 0.034] were identified as risk factors for SSIs. Staphylococcus aureus was the most common pathogen [32.2%]. Conclusions: SSI risk factors were longer postoperative stay, CAUTI, VAP, and RACHS-1 score of ≥2. Identification and confirmation of risk factors in this study is important in order to reduce the rate of SSIs following cardiac surgery.
Practice of Auditable Pharmaceutical Transactions and Services at Dessie Referral Hospital , North East Ethiopia

Introduction: Auditable pharmaceutical transactions and service established for transparent and accountable medicines transaction and service provision to optimize utilization of medicines budget, improve access to medicines, workflow, generate reliable information for decision making, and improve p customers’ satisfaction. Although the system becomes a solution to improve the country’s pharmaceutical service delivery system, not as effective as expected. Therefore, this study evaluated the practice of the system in the Dessie referral hospital. Methods: A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted using a structured questionnaire on pharmacy professionals and patients who received pharmacy service at Dessie referral hospital. A simple random sampling technique was used to select the study participants. Descriptive and inferential statistics were computed using the statistical package for social sciences version 20. Results: Twenty-one (56.8%; 95% CI: 40.5%, 73%) pharmacy professionals perceived that auditable pharmaceutical transactions and services had improved the pharmacy services. Two-third (63%; 95% CI: 56.9%, 69.9%) of patients were satisfied with auditable pharmaceutical transactions and services. The number of pharmacy professionals service years was significantly associated (P-value: 0.01) with the good practice of auditable pharmaceutical transactions and services. Urban residence (P-value: 0.001, AOR: 11.76, 95% CI: 4.43-31.20), new visiting patients (P-value: 0.001, AOR: 14.32, 95% CI: 4.89-41.93) and male sex (P-value: 0.006, AOR: 0.36, 95% CI: 0.17-0.75) were predictors for satisfactory auditable pharmaceutical transactions and services. Human resource shortage, workload, attrition, lack of indemnity policy, inadequate salary, lack of capacity building, and absence of regular financial auditing were the major challenges. Conclusion: More than half a pharmacy professional and two-third of patients was satisfied with auditable pharmaceutical transactions and services. Various factors hindered the successful implementation of pharmacy service. Workload determination, introducing indemnity and other incentive mechanisms, capacity building, management ownership, and follow up is recommended to improve pharmacy service.
Toughness of Timber
Beams Strengthened
with Jute Fibers

This research involves investigating the toughness behavior of timber beams strengthened by jute fibers with various forms of strengthening. Ten timber specimens with dimensions (70×100×1000) mm are divided into four groups and loaded under a third point loading. The experimental program was carried out to investigate shear and flexural strengthening effects on toughness, toughness indices, ultimate loads, and the mid-span deflection of the tested beams. One beam as a control beam (un-strengthened beam), four specimens are wrapped in U technique in single and double layers along the whole length of the beam in full and strips wrapping technique, three specimens are wrapped in full technique along the whole length of the beam in full and strips wrapping technique, three timber specimens wrapped in flexural strengthening technique with two, four, and six layers of jute fibers. The results show that jute fibers strengthening increases the toughness ratios of timber beams by about (175%-320%), (190%-401%), and (106%-240%) for U, full, and flexural strengthening techniques, respectively, at the ultimate loads compared with the control beam. Furthermore, it is found that the highest toughness ratio is when the beam is wrapped in full strengthening technique.
OBJECTIFICATION OF THE FEMALE BODY IN SPORT EVENTS1

For more than a century, there has been an objectification of women in the form of cheerleading in sport events. Far from the center of those events, prurient shows of cheerleaders are a peripheral part of a sport event and contribute to the empowerment of the cult of the body in contemporary sport through its sexualization while the reason is surely a profit that goes to the organizers of those events. However, a different approach is possible and authors state an example of the basketball club Alba from Berlin, the management of which had decided, after 25 years, to stop the practice of cheerleading during the time-outs of the matches. The management stated the reason for the fact that the appearance of young attractive women cheerleaders is not convenient today because the club strives to promote women in sport as basketball players who could be a role model for the youth. A similar reason why they do not have cheerleaders could be found amongst some clubs from the National Football League in the USA. 1 The main idea of the paper was exposed through an oral presentation within the 3rd Osijek Days of Bioethics, Osijek, November 11-12, 2019 (Mijatov, Radenović, Marković, 2019: 61-62). Pannoniana, vol. IV, no. I (2020): 233-244 234 Mentioned examples should encourage a broader interest for this issue from the complex sphere of sport bioethics, permanent and normalized objectification of women through cheerleading that should not be a part of modern society.
Relationship between Temporal Variables and Rate of Force Development during Block Jump Skill in Junior Volleyball Players

There are controversies among the researchers with respect to relationship between rate of force development (RFD) and temporal variables. So the aim of this research was to determine relationship between temporal variables and RFD during block jump skill in junior volleyball players. Twenty one junior male volleyball players of national team participated in this study. Block jump, consisting of an eccentric phase following by an immediate concentric action was performed by participants. The temporal and RFD variables data for the best of three Block jumps were exported and analyzed with the force platform system (Kistler® force platform, 1000 Hz). Pearson product moment correlation coefficient (r) was employed for the analysis of the relationship between RFD and temporal parameters of block jump using SPSS software ver. 21 (p <0.05). The results showed that none of the variables have significant correlation with initiation phase and peak RFD of concentric phase. Eccentric phase showed correlation with concentric phase, average RFD of eccentric phase, peak RFD of eccentric phase, and peak RFD of eccentric phase and average RFD of eccentric phases well as average RFD of concentric phase. Concentric phase showed correlation with average RFD of eccentric. Average RFD of eccentric phase also presented correlation with peak RFD of eccentric phase and average RFD of concentric phase. Findings of the present study would be useful for volleyball trainers and coaches who desire to monitor and enhance their athletes’ jump performance.
Value of Pathological Q Waves and Angiographic Collateral Grade in Patients Undergoing Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion Recanalization: Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Study

Background/aim: Successful coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO) revascularization was found by many studies to be associated with improved left ventricular (LV) systolic function and survival if evidence of viability is present. Little is known about the association of CTO revascularization in patients with electrocardiographic Q waves and improvement in angina burden as a measurement of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) afterwards. Methods: In this study, 100 patients with single vessel CTO were included. Myocardial viability was tested by late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and 50 patients showed evidence of viability. Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ) scores were used as a measure of HRQOL. Results: Pathological Q waves were present in 48 patients (including 19 patients with viable CTO territory) out of 100 patients. Patients with Q waves tended to have worse Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ) scores compared to those with no Q waves (31.2 ± 11.7 vs 45.3 ± 13.9 respectively, p 1⁄4 0.002), worse LV systolic function and wall motion score index (WMSI) on CMR. They also had significantly less prevalence of viability (p < 0.001). Patients with Q waves and positive viability had lower SAQ scores (37.2 ± 10.1 vs 52.7 ± 13.2 respectively, p 1⁄4 0.02), higher LVEF and lower WMSI. They also had well developed collateral grade (2.1 ± 1.03 vs 0.7 ± 0.82 respectively, p < 0.001). After successful percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), in the viable LV group, presence of Q waves was not associated with better LV functional recovery, while those with higher collateral grades were more likely to have better LV functional recovery post CTO-PCI. Patients with Q waves and viable CTO territory showed significantly better SAQ scores compared to pre-PCI (87.3 ± 12.2 vs 37.2 ± 10.1 respectively, p < 0.001). For angina frequency, postePCI score was 80.2 ± 7.9 compared to 39.2 ± 7.1 before PCI, p < 0.001). Multivariate regression analysis showed that pathological Q waves, Rentrop's collateral grade and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) angina class before PCI were the most significant independent predictors of improved HRQOL as reflected by SAQ (OR for Q waves 7.83, 95%CI 1.62e18.91,p 0.003), (OR for Rentrop's collateral grade 8.31,95% CI 2.21e26.33, p < 0.001), (OR for CCS class 8.39, 95%CI 1.21e20.8, p 0.01). Conclusion: Well-developed collateral circulation could independently predict LV functional recovery after CTO-PCI. Patients with Q waves and viable CTO territory tend to have higher CCS class before revascularization and get significant improvement of HRQOL after PCI. Other predictors of improved HRQOL are Rentrop's collateral grade and worse CCS class before PCI.
Development of 3D spheroid cultures of cancer cells for the preclinical evaluation of novel theranostic agents

Cancer remains one of the main causes of death worldwide, making the search for new diagnostic and therapeutic tools urgent, to guarantee an early diagnosis and to improve the patients' prognosis. Nevertheless, most drugs that enter human clinical trials fail to be approved due to their lack of efficacy, which is partly due to the use of preclinical models with limited predictive value. The goal of the present work was to establish and characterize 3-Dimensional cultures of 3 prostate cancer (PCa) and 2 glioblastoma cell lines that more closely resembled in vivo tumors (spheroids). To characterize the spheroids, their growth behaviour, integrity and viability were studied. Furthermore, the populations of cancer stem cells (CSCs) present in the spheroids were also evaluated using two different markers (CD44 and CD117). Finally, to analyse the potential of the models developed in the preclinical evaluation of metal-based compounds of clinical interest, the effects of exposure to CuCl2 and metallacarboranes were assessed. As expected, the results highlighted the higher resistance of the spheroids to both families of compounds when compared with monolayer-cultured cells. Interestingly, resistance to CuCl2 treatment was found to be higher in the cells that had a bigger population of CSCs, known to be important for cancer resistance and relapse. For metallacarboranes, which had been described as potential radiosensitizers, the preliminary results obtained showed no synergy between cytoand radiotoxic effects, proving that these models can provide important indications regarding potential advantages or shortcomings of the drugs under evaluation in the clinical setting.
Impatience and Learning in Queues

Customers often abandon waiting in queues when they get impatient. Prior literature on Markovian queues shows that it is not rational for customers to quit “midway”: Customers should either quit immediately on arrival (balk) or wait till the completion of their service. We show how in-queue abandonment behavior can be rational in queues because of learning. We compare how rational Bayesian customers make abandonment decisions under different information disclosures. Our paper reveals interesting features in waiting behavior, showing that customers can be (rationally) more patient in slower shorter queues, than in faster longer queues. Using stochastic comparisons, we demonstrate that customers who anticipate a congested system can become more impatient. Finally, we show that Bayesian customers may exhibit a more conservative threshold joining behavior compared to myopic customers with the same priors.
Data-Driven Robot Fault Detection and Diagnosis Using Generative Models: A Modified SFDD Algorithm

This paper presents a modification of the data-driven sensor-based fault detection and diagnosis (SFDD) algorithm for online robot monitoring. Our version of the algorithm uses a collection of generative models, in particular restricted Boltzmann machines, each of which represents the distribution of sliding window correlations between a pair of correlated measurements. We use such models in a residual generation scheme, where high residuals generate conflict sets that are then used in a subsequent diagnosis step. As a proof of concept, the framework is evaluated on a mobile logistics robot for the problem of recognising disconnected wheels, such that the evaluation demonstrates the feasibility of the framework (on the faulty data set, the models obtained 88.6% precision and 75.6% recall rates), but also shows that the monitoring results are influenced by the choice of distribution model and the model parameters as a whole.