Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Conceptual Study of a Transonic NLF Transport Aircraft with Forward Swept Wings

DLR’s concept for a natural laminar flow transonic transport aircraft with forward swept wings is presented. Giving an overview on the aircraft’s configurational layout first, the focus is on the multidisciplinary design of NLF wing and its aerodynamic performance. Results from high-fidelity coupled aero-structural simulations show that a significant extent of laminar flow is achievable. Torsional divergence of the wing is successfully suppressed by aeroelastic tailoring. The impact of elastic wing deformation on boundary layer stability and NLF performance is studied. Finally, results of the aircraft’s cruise performance and expected fuel savings are provided and compared to results from preliminary design.
Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory 2: antecedents, development, and future improvements

Personality disorders (PDs) are characterized by impairments in the self and interpersonal relationships. People diagnosed with PD present distress in several areas of life. The prevalence of these disorders is 13% in Western countries and around 7% in Brazil. Despite the adverse outcomes related to PDs and their prevalence, these disorders tend to be undertreated in Brazil. One possible explanation is the lack of assessment scales to measure PDs` typical traits. To fill this gap and improves mental health care in Brazil, the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory 2 (IDCP-2) was developed, an assessment tool that follows international guidelines and considersthe Brazilian reality. This paper aimed to present the main characteristics of IDCP-2, including its antecedents, development, theoretical and empirical foundations, as well as definitions of its 12 dimensions distributed in 47 factors. We discussed ongoing clinical research, limitations, and future improvements of the IDCP-2. Although IDCP-2 helps fulfill the gap regarding PDs assessment in Brazil, actions for the continuity of research focused on the PDs traits assessmentare more than desirable, necessary for the mental health research area advance in the country.
PROFITABILITY AND PROFIT EFFICIENCY OF CATFISH FINGERLINGS PRODUCTION IN EDO SOUTH, NIGERIA

This study used descriptive statistics, budgetary analysis, and stochastic profit function to analyze data collected from 120 catfish fingerlings producers in Edo State, Nigeria to examine the profitability and profit efficiency of their production. Results from the study show that catfish fingerlings production is a male dominated activity with a modal age of 21-40 years and 53.3% engaged full time as fingerlings producers. Clarias gariepinus was the dominant species used for fingerlings production. Producers earn a revenue of NGN 2,885,443.2 and make NGN 2,084,004.24 as net profit per production cycle 120,000 implying that catfish fingerlings production is a profitable venture in the study area. Labor cost, depreciation, and cost of transportation affected the profits of fingerlings producers positively in that they led to an increase in their normalized profit. About 70% of the catfish fingerlings producers operated above the mean efficiency value implying that most of the farmers were relatively efficient in profit making. Inadequate water supply, cost of feed, high cost of transportation, and inadequate Joseph Ahmadu, Reader, University of Benin, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension Services, Benin City, Nigeria, 234300283 (joseph.ahmadu@uniben.edu). ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5151-5870. Emmanuel Egbodo Boheje Odum, DS/PhDc, University of Benin, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension Services, Nigeria, 234300283 (odumboheje@gmail.com). ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5740-5207. Faith Omoyemwen Osariemen, RA, University of Benin, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension Services, Nigeria, 234300283 (osaomofaith@gmail.com). ORCID id: 0000-0002-7089-4113. DOI: 10.30858/zer/142780 Joseph Ahmadu, Emmanuel Egbodo Boheje Odum, Faith Omoyemwen Osariemen 6 4(369) 2021 funds were the major constraints faced by the respondents in the study area. Pest and disease outbreaks were not serious constraints. The study therefore recommends that causes of inefficiencies should be considered and treated so as to enhance higher efficiencies by catfish fingerlings producers and to operate at the optimum profit frontier. It is also recommended that solutions should be proffered to constraints to catfish fingerlings production by concerned authorities to make the venture sustainable in meeting with demands all year round.
Resilience concordance in Chinese mother–child dyads: moderating effect of depressive symptoms

ABSTRACT Based on the cascading resilience model and the developmental systems framework, this study aimed to examine the concordance in resilience among Chinese mother–child dyads in Hong Kong, and to test the moderating effects of mothers’ and children’s depressive symptoms on concordance. Participants for the present study were 133 Chinese mother–child dyads (Child M age = 11.0 years old; SD = 0.21; 51.9% female) living in Hong Kong, who completed measures on resilience and depressive symptoms. Based on bivariate correlations, mothers’ resilience was not significantly associated with children’s resilience. However, there was a significant interaction between mothers’ resilience and depressive symptoms in predicting children’s resilience, such that mothers’ resilience was positively associated with children’s resilience when mothers reported lower levels of depressive symptoms. Children’s depressive symptoms did not significantly moderate the association between mothers’ and children’s resilience. These findings contribute new knowledge on the extent to which mothers’ and children’s self-reported resilience are related in the context of mothers’ depressive symptoms. The findings have practical implications for designing resilience-based intervention programs.
Short term effects of restricted food availability and peripheral leptin injections in redheaded bunting, Emberiza bruniceps

Migratory birds need continued food supply and efficient metabolic machinery to meet high energy demands of the magnanimous feat of flight. Two questions are important i.e. as to 1) how a bird adapts to a temporary food constrain on a daily basis, and 2) how peripheral leptin, an anorectic hormone, impacted feeding and migratory behaviour in buntings? The aim of this study was to induce a non-photoperiodic tweak in the physiology of redheaded buntings through exogenous leptin administration and study its effect on their food intake and migratory behaviour. Groups of male redheaded buntings, Emberiza bruniceps (n=17) were transferred from short (8L: 16D) to long (16L: 8D) days and presented with food only either for first (morning food presence, MFP) or second (evening food presence, EFP) half of the 16h lighted phase, while control group received food ad libitum. Total daily food intake (FI) did not differ significantly between the MFP, EFP and controls, but hourly FI in MFP and EFP indicated increased activity differences based on time of food availability and bird’s tendency to cache food/ recompense for food scarcity during migration. In another experiment, a chemical tweak in bird’s FI was induced by peripheral administration of leptin, to add to current understanding of transition in buntings’ metabolic efficiency during high energy demanding migratory journey. Exogenous leptin appeared to safeguard cadaveric effect of exogenous injection in migrating buntings through promoting blood cholesterol and reduced liver fibrosis. Food restriction in the morning was better responded by buntings than that in evening. Therefore, migratory buntings exhibited diurnal variation in response to food scarcity.
Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Recent Adherence With Real-Time Adherence Feedback and Partner Human Immunodeficiency Virus Self-Testing: A Pilot Trial Among Postpartum Women

Abstract Background Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is safe and effective in postpartum women. Human immunodeficiency virus self-testing (HIVST) for male partners combined with biofeedback counseling through real-time adherence measures may improve PrEP use among postpartum women. Methods Between August 2020 and April 2021, we randomized postpartum women who initiated PrEP in pregnancy 1:1 to the intervention group (HIVST + biofeedback counseling after urine tenofovir test) or to standard of care ([SOC] facility-based human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] tests and routine counseling without biofeedback). The outcomes of interest were PrEP adherence in the past 48–72 hours via urine tenofovir tests and partner HIV testing, measured 1-month after randomization. Secondary outcomes included the proportion of partners who tested for HIV and the discrepancy between self-reported PrEP adherence and urine tenofovir result. Results We enrolled 106 women (median age = 26 years). At enrollment, 72% of women reported missing <2 doses in the past 7 days; 36% of women had tenofovir present in her urine. One month after enrollment, 62% (n = 33) of women in the intervention arm had tenofovir present in their urine compared to 34% (n = 18) in SOC (risk ratio [RR] = 1.83; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.19–2.82; P = .001). Two thirds of women in the intervention arm reported that her partner tested for HIV (66%; n = 35), compared to 17% (n = 9) in SOC (RR = 3.89; 95% CI = 2.08–7.27; P < .001). Self-reported PrEP adherence (took PrEP >5 of last week) with no tenofovir in urine test was lower in the intervention group (17% vs 46%; RR = 0.33; 95% CI = 0.17–0.67; P = .03). No social or clinical adverse events were reported in the intervention arm. Conclusions The HIVST for partners and biofeedback counseling increased levels of recent PrEP adherence, pointing to the importance of these interventions to support PrEP use in this population.
How Well Does Evolution Explain Endogenous Retroviruses?—A Lakatosian Assessment

One of the most sophisticated philosophies of science is the methodology of scientific research programmes (MSRP), developed by Imre Lakatos. According to MSRP, scientists are working within so-called research programmes, consisting of a hard core of fixed convictions and a flexible protective belt of auxiliary hypotheses. Anomalies are accommodated by changes to the protective belt that do not affect the hard core. Under MSRP, research programmes are appraised as ‘progressive’ if they successfully predict novel facts but are judged as ‘degenerative’ if they merely offer ad hoc solutions to anomalies. This paper applies these criteria to the evolutionary research programme as it has performed during half a century of ERV research. It describes the early history of the field and the emergence of the endogenization-amplification theory on the origins of retroviral-like sequences. It then discusses various predictions and postdictions that were generated by the programme, regarding orthologous ERVs in different species, the presence of target site duplications and the divergence of long terminal repeats, and appraises how the programme has dealt with data that did not conform to initial expectations. It is concluded that the evolutionary research programme has been progressive with regard to the issues here examined.
Inverse lithography (ILT) mask manufacturability for full-chip device

Inverse Lithography Technology (ILT) is becoming one of the strong candidates for 32nm and below. ILT masks provide significantly better litho performance and need to be enabled for production as one of the leading candidates for low-k1 lithography. By the very nature ILT masks are computed, they could seem to be complicated to manufacture in production. In a prior publication [1], it has been shown at clip level that the Inverse Synthesizer (ISTM) product has the capability to adjust for mask complexity to make it more manufacturable while maintaining the significant litho gains of nearly ideal ILT mask. The production readiness of ILT needs to be studied at full chip level with various aspects including mask data fracturing, MRC constraints, writing time, and inspection. The computation of ILT mask usually starts with the calculation of an optimized contoured mask then followed by manhattanization step to convert contour into horizontal-vertical segments. By varying the segmentation length during manhattanization, it can affectively change the mask complexity while maintains the shape of mask. The result of segmentation length impact on writing time and lithography performance at full-chip is presented. MRC is another important factor in mask manufacturability which needs to be carefully studied. Mask pattern transfer fidelity and inspectability at various selected MRC rules are also presented in the paper.
The TQM extension: Total customer relationship management

From reviewing literature pertaining to customer relationship management (CRM), most research has focused partially on profitable customers, customer segmentation, information technology, or value creation. Curry and Kkolou (2004) found that CRM has revealed many aspects that closely resemble the total quality management (TQM) approach. A comprehensive viewpoint put forward in this study is going to propose a concept of ‘total customer relationship management’ (TCRM). Since ISO 9000 QMS (International Organization for Standardization 9000 Quality Management System) is always available and useful in the field of TQM implementation, it is introduced offering the framework with five components. Issues and content pertaining to CRM literature are classified and lodged into these components as elements. The TCRM system, therefore, is composed of five components and their own elements, as shown in Table 1. It is proposed hopefully to validate CRM activities more effectively, to pursue business excellence in CRM practice, as well as to have CRM become a mission covering all members, resources, processes and endeavours of an organisation.
Pulmonary Nodule Detection Using 3-D Residual U-Net Oriented Context-Guided Attention and Multi-Branch Classification Network

Accurate detection of pulmonary nodules on chest computed tomography scans is crucial to early diagnosis of lung cancer. To address the thorn problems on low detection sensitivity and high false-positive rate caused by heterogeneity and morphological complexity of 3-D nodule features, a computer-aided detection system is developed to increase the detection sensitivity and classification accuracy of pulmonary nodules. The contributions include: (1) Nodule candidate detection: 3-D Residual U-Net model is improved to detect candidate nodules, which constructs 3-D context-guided module to extract local and global nodule features by setting the dilated convolution with different dilation rates. Furthermore, channel attention mechanism is used to dynamically adjust the channel features, which enhances the generalization and expression ability of the detection-network to effectively learn 3-D spatial context features. (2) False-positive reduction: multi-branch classification network is designed for multi-task learning. Image reconstruction task is performed to retain more microscopic nodules information from convolutional neural network (CNN) hierarchy. Moreover, each branch deals with the feature map at corresponding depth layers, and then all branches’ feature maps are combined together to perform nodule classification task. Numerous experimental results show that the proposed system is perfectly qualified for pulmonary nodules detection on Lung Nodules Analysis 2016 dataset, which achieves detection sensitivity up to 94.0% and competition performance metric (CPM) score up to 0.959.
Evapotranspiration and Crop Coefficients of Wheat and Sorghum

Wheat and sorghum are important cereal crops next only to rice in India and several other Asian countries. Improved water management requires accurate scheduling of irrigation, which in turn requires an accurate measurement of daily crop evapotranspiration ETc. Thus, the first objective of this study was to measure daily, weekly, and seasonal crop ETc of wheat and sorghum directly from sensitive weighing-type lysimeters. Experiments were conducted in a set of two electronic weighing-type lysimeters, 2 × 2 m in surface area and 2-m deep, to measure the hourly evapotranspiration of wheat and sorghum from 1991 to 1995 at Karnal, India. The average daily ETc of wheat varied from 4 mm/d at milking stage. The peak ETc of wheat was 4.6 mm/d and it occurred 16 weeks after sowing at the reproductive growth stage when leaf area index was 3.5. The measured seasonal ETc of wheat was 336 mm. In the case of sorghum, ETc was 3 mm/d at the initial stage, achieved a peak value of 6 .
A vision-based LED defect auto-recognition system

Recognising different kinds of light-emitting diode (LED) defect is of great urgency for online manufacturers because such information not only assists in summarising the production variations but also in realising that the defects are caused either by fabricating process or by taping process. Although most of the studies nowadays engage in devising LED defect auto-inspection systems, they are rarely capable of auto-recognising the type of defects simultaneously. This study developed a vision-based defect auto-recognition system for three types of packaged surface-mounted device LEDs. A series of image processing are implemented to obtain the inherent feature of the LEDs. Then, a two-stage multiple discriminant analysis is used to recognise different kinds of defects. The recognition rates of up to 94.34% of LED1S, 95.17% of LED1B and 96.02% of LED2 are yielded, which demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed system.
Intel Teach to the Future: Lessons learned from the evaluation of a large-scale technology-integration professional development program

This paper draws on findings from an evaluation of Intel Teach to the Future (http://www.intel.com/education), a professional development initiative focused on helping K-12 teachers integrate project-based technology use into their everyday curriculum. The initial U.S. implementation of Intel Teach to the Future was designed to be delivered on a very large scale, reaching over 100,000 teachers in three years. The goal of this paper is to outline some lessons learned from this evaluation about how “scalability,” often cited as a desirable quality in effective educational interventions, can both advance and inhibit program impact within the individual school districts that participate in such a program. This paper presents information from two years (20002002) of external evaluation of Intel Teach to the Future, conducted by researchers from the Education Development Center’s Center for Children and Technology (http://www2.edc.org/cct). This evaluation provided a rare opportunity to closely examine an ambitious, large-scale professional development initiative, and to study a diverse population of teachers and administrators as they experienced and implemented this program.
One versus two adjacent interdigital neuroma excision: a patient outcome study

Objective: We aimed to evaluate patient satisfaction after surgery for both single and two adjacent neuromas. Methods: We reviewed the data of patients treated operatively for interdigital neuromas between 2003 and 2016. We interviewed them and administered the Self-Reported Foot and Ankle Score questionnaire. Patient scores were then analyzed categorically, and variation between groups was assessed. Results: Sixty-two patients were available for review. Thirty-one patients had a single interdigital neuroma excised and 31 had two adjacente interdigital neuromas excised. Twenty-eight of the 31 (90%) patients with a single neuroma had good or excellent results while 23 (74.2%) of those with adjacent neuromas had similar outcomes. One patient with a single neuroma had a poor result while four patients with adjacent neuromas had poor results. The mean score was 41 (excellent) for patients with a single interdigital neuroma and 37 (good) for those with adjacent neuromas (p=0.473). The majority of patients in both groups would undergo surgery again. Conclusion: We found no statistically significant difference in outcomes of patients who undergo surgery for either single or two adjacent interdigital neuromas. General patient satisfaction is good and/or excellent post excision. Level of Evidence II; Prognostic Studies; Retrospective Study.
GOODS-ALMA 2.0: Starbursts in the main sequence reveal compact star formation regulating galaxy evolution prequenching

Compact star formation appears to be generally common in dusty star-forming galaxies (SFGs). However, its role in the framework set by the scaling relations in galaxy evolution remains to be understood. In this work we follow up on the galaxy sample from the GOODS-ALMA 2.0 survey, an ALMA blind survey at 1.1mm covering a continuous area of 72.42arcmin$^2$ using two array configurations. We derived physical properties, such as star formation rates, gas fractions, depletion timescales, and dust temperatures for the galaxy sample built from the survey. There exists a subset of galaxies that exhibit starburst-like short depletion timescales, but they are located within the scatter of the so-called main sequence of SFGs. These are dubbed starbursts in the main sequence and display the most compact star formation and they are characterized by the shortest depletion timescales, lowest gas fractions, and highest dust temperatures of the galaxy sample, compared to typical SFGs at the same stellar mass and redshift. They are also very massive, accounting for $\sim 60\%$ of the most massive galaxies in the sample ($\log (M_{\rm{*}}/M_{\odot})>11.0$). We find trends between the areas of the ongoing star formation regions and the derived physical properties for the sample, unveiling the role of compact star formation as a physical driver of these properties. Starbursts in the main sequence appear to be the extreme cases of these trends. We discuss possible scenarios of galaxy evolution to explain the results drawn from our galaxy sample. Our findings suggest that the star formation rate is sustained in SFGs by gas and star formation compression, keeping them within the main sequence even when their gas fractions are low and they are presumably on the way to quiescence.
Tumor aggressiveness is associated with cell integrity changes in breast cancer-surviving women: a follow-up study.

INTRODUCTION cell integrity and fat mass had been studied as a prognostic marker for cancer survival. OBJECTIVE our aim was to evaluate the association between tumor aggressiveness and cell integrity changes and adiposity in breast cancer (BC) survivors. METHODS women with BC (n = 114) were evaluated at diagnosis and 5 years later. Percentage of lean mass, fat mass, phase angle (PA), resistance (R) and reactance (Xc) were obtained by bioimpedance (450-50 kHz). Plasma leptin was assessed by immunoassay. Changes in body composition were assessed by the paired t-test or Wilcoxon's test. The disease effect associated with the time of diagnosis was assessed by a generalized linear model. Regression models were structured to assess the prevalence ratio between tumor aggressiveness and body composition changes adjusted for age, income, and level of schooling. RESULTS patients with N+ (p = 0.02) and % Ki67 > 14 (p = 0.00) show a reduction in Xc. Patients with advanced clinical staging (CS) (p = 0.02), tumors > 2 cm (p = 0.01), N+ (p = 0.01), non-luminal tumors (p = 0.02), ER- (p = 0, 00) and PR- (p = 0.02) show a PA reduction, and N+ patients (p = 0.01) show a reduction in leptin during follow-up. Tumors  2 cm (CI: 0.33-0.95; p = 0.03), initial CS (CI: 0.20-0.93; p = .0.03), and luminal tumors (CI: 0.01-0.95; p = 0.04) are related to a lower reduction in PA. Initial CS (CI: 0.00-0.00; p = 0.00) are related to increased leptin. CONCLUSION tumor aggressiveness is associated with cell integrity changes in women who are BC survivors.