Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The usefulness of balance test in preseason evaluation of injuries in amputee football players: a pilot prospective observational study

Background Low balance ability is generally associated with an increased risk of ligament injuries. It seems that assessing the level of stability in amputee football players can help evaluate the accompanying risk of sports injuries. Thus, the study aimed to examine the usefulness of the balance test in preseason evaluation by calculating between-group differences in stability parameters between injured and non-injured amputee players. Methods The study was designed as a pilot prospective observational study. Twenty-five elite amputee football players representing the Polish National Team and the highest division in Polish League completed one-leg preseason balance tests on the Biodex Balance System before the start of the football season. All players in this study were male, with an average age of 29 years (SD = 7.9), a stature of 174.2 cm (SD 5.2) and a body mass of 80.1 kg (SD = 13.1). Then, players were prospectively observed over one football season, and lower leg injury data were prospectively collected through the nine months. The between-group differences were tested using the non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test for players who sustained an injury (yes) and those who did not within the analysed season (no). Overall (OSI), medial-lateral (MLSI), and anterior-posterior stability index (APSI) were analysed as primary outcomes. Results The preseason values of the balance tests were not predictive (p > 0.05) regarding sustaining an injury during the season. No between-group differences were noted for any analysed outcomes (p values ranged from 0.093 to 0.453). Conclusions Although static balance tasks offer a chance to make a preliminary assessment of injury prediction in amputee footballers, in overall, the balance test results cannot be regarded as the sole predictive injury risk factor in amputee football.
Colonization and population dynamics of total, viable, and culturable cells of two biological control strains applied to apricot, peach, and grapevine crops

The ecological fitness of the biological control strains Bacillus velezensis A17 and Lactiplantibacillus plantarum PM411 was evaluated in different crops, geographical zones, and growing seasons. Both strains (2 g L−1 of dried formulation) were spray-inoculated on apricot trees, peach trees, and grapevines. Depending on the crop, flowers, fruits, and leaves were picked at several sampling time points. The population dynamics of viable, viable but non-culturable, and dead cells were studied by comparing viability qPCR (v-qPCR), qPCR, and plate counting estimations. A17 showed high survival rates in apricot, peach, and grapevine organs. The A17 viability was confirmed since qPCR and v-qPCR estimations did not significantly differ and were rather constant after field applications. However, higher population levels were estimated by plate counting due to the non-selective characteristics of the medium used. The viability of PM411 was constrained by plant organ, crop, and climate conditions, being higher in apricot than in grapevine. PM411 survival declined after field application, indicating difficulties in its establishment. The PM411 population level was made up of dead, culturable, and viable but non-culturable cells since significant differences between the three methods were observed. In conclusion, A17 and PM411 differ strongly in their survival in grapevine, peach, and apricot.
Efficacy of a metacognitive intervention programme on reading comprehension in third grade students

This study examined the efficacy of a metacognitive intervention programme in a classroom group of 33 third-grade students. Two groups were formed: the intervention group with students in the classroom who showed reading delay and cognitive attention processes (n=8) and the comparison group (n=25). In the intervention group, a planning facilitation programme was implemented that aimed to improve inhibition processes and, correspondingly, overall reading comprehension indices. The Das-Naglieri: Cognitive Assessment System (D.N: CAS; Naglieri & Das, 1997) was used to measure attention processes. For reading processes, the Catalan et al. (2010) Reading Comprehension Assessment (ACL) test was used. The measurements were taken at pre-test, post-test, and follow-up. The results showed that the intervention group equalled the comparison group in reading comprehension and significantly improved in inhibition processes in the post and follow-up measures. It is concluded that the programme has had an impact on improving inhibition processes when facing reading activities.
Processes affecting upwelling and primary productivity of the Messina Straits

The effect of tidal currents on the upwelling in the Messina Straits was investigated during summer 1992, both by continuous survey of tracer parameters with a sailing vessel and by 24-hour surveys at significant hydrological stations. The current field of the Straits was also monitored by a grid of currentmetric chains and periodical surveys using a Doppler current profiler. Deep waters reach the upper layer everywhere in the Ionian basin of the Straits during syzygy, with the exception of the middle zone of the system where the warmer Tyrrhenian surface water flows. The upwelling of nutrients stimulates phytoplanktonic growth and greatly increases the primary productivity. Divergence of deep waters is strongly reduced in quadrature phase, when current velocity is attenuated. The oscillation of the tidal level is mainly responsible for the upwelling at the sill, while the vertical movement induced by longitudinal advection on the lateral areas appears to be correlated with the speed of both southward and northward fluxes.
What Makes Project Teams Succeed? Students' Post-Covid Perceptions on IT Project Management Education Fostering Professional Skills

The goal of this research-to-practice full paper is to present current findings of the evaluation of a learner-centered course on IT project management aiming to foster digital skills along with professional competencies and share derived good practices. The 21st century and the ongoing digitization pose new challenges to the workforce and, in particular, young professionals in the IT sector. Digital skills, personal skills, and interpersonal skills have never been more relevant, which especially applies to project teams of the IT sector. This paper uses a qualitative content analysis of students' teamwork reflection forms to identify success factors and barriers of teamwork in the 21st century from the perspective of 42 students of a learner-centered course on IT project management as part of the computer science bachelor degree program of a large mid-European university. Within this context, the present study carried out in the summer term 2022 utilized four research instruments: a pre-course questionnaire, a teamwork reflection form, a standardized course evaluation survey, and an analysis of the teams' performance. The results show that students predominantly relied on online collaboration during self-regulated working phases, whereby “interpersonal skills” and “communication” were the most frequently mentioned success factors. The standardized course feedback revealed that students were satisfied with the course, scoring a mean rating of 1.5 on a scale from 1 (very good) to 5 (very bad). Positive feedback revolved around the attitude of the lecturer, the provided freedom, and teamwork. Based on the course experience, the paper proposes six recommendations for modern student-centered project management courses. We conclude that developing interpersonal skills should go hand in hand with a high quality of interacting with digital tools and be emphasized in managing students' IT-projects for which the described course is intended to serve as a source of inspiration for instructors, study directors, and curriculum designers.
Compassionate Care: A Qualitative Exploration of Nurses’ Inner Resources in the Face of Burnout

There is a universal shortage of nurses, with a current needs-based shortage of 5.9 million. This is not solely a recruitment issue but one of retention, triggered by high levels of work-induced stress, burnout, and reports of low job satisfaction resulting in poor care delivery. Some of the health repercussions on nurses include anxiety, insomnia, depression, migraines, irritability, absenteeism, and sometimes alcoholism and drug abuse. To tackle some of these costly issues, a qualitative exploration into how inner resources is used by nurses to cope with stress at different points of their careers is proposed. Through the lens of grounded theory, semi-structured interviews will be carried out with two distinct sets of participants: (1) Student nurses registered at the University of the Illes Baleares between 2022–2025. (2) Experienced nurses on the Balearic nursing register. Interviews will be coded and then analysed using Atlas.ti. Expected results will inform curriculum improvements that will benefit the well-being of (student) nurses, from the outset of their training, pre-empting potential psycho-social risks before they arise in the workplace. This is vital as it addresses nurses’ mental health as well as chronic issues of retention and absenteeism.
Improving Students’ STEM Skills Through the Development of an E-Learning Chemistry Book Integrated with Sasak Local Wisdom

This study aims to develop a feasible and effective e-learning chemistry book integrated with Sasak’s local wisdom to enhance students’ science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills. The research adopts a development approach utilizing the ADDIE model include analysis, design, development, evaluation and implementation. Product trial on chemistry education students at UIN Mataram employing a quasi-experimental pre-test and post-test control group design. The study reveals that the e-learning chemistry book, integrated with Sasak local wisdom, achieves an Aiken’s validity coefficient of 0.890, an intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) value of 0.810, and a Cronbach’s alpha reliability value of 0.875. Furthermore, the results of the independent sample T-test indicate a significance value of 0.01, which is less than α (0.05), affirming that the e-learning chemistry book integrated with Sasak local wisdom meets valid and reliable criteria and is declared effective in enhancing students’ STEM skills
Management and Genetic Variability of Kikuyugrass (Pennisetum clandestinum Hochst. Ex Chiov.)

Author(s): Mock, Tyler | Advisor(s): Baird, James H | Abstract: Kikuyugrass is an invasive, warm-season turfgrass (C4) that was introduced into California in the 1920s. Although it is used in many sport, and residential turfgrass areas, very little focus has been on the improvement of the species. A comprehensive project was designed and implemented to address kikuyugrass management, improvement through anther culture, and genetic variation within California and other collections. To study kikuyugrass management a field trial took place in 2012 and 2013 to identify cultural and chemical practices that are most important for producing quality turf and optimal playing conditions on golf course fairways. A 25 factorial design was used to evaluate mowing frequency, cultivation, trinexapac-ethyl, nitrogen, and fungicide treatments. Turf quality was assessed visually and by an instrument that measures “greenness” or Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). Turf firmness and ball roll were measured with a Clegg Soil Impact Tester (2.5 kg hammer Gmax) and Pelz meter, respectively. Treatments of trinexapac-ethyl, heavy verticutting, and more frequent mowing practices produced the highest quality turfgrass by increasing firmness, improving turf quality and color, and reducing scalping. Androgenesis through anther culture was attempted on kikuyugrass in order to develop a less vigorous variety. Androgenesis has been successful on the closely related pearl millet but never attempted on kikuyugrass. Kikuyugrass and later pearl millet were tested with two types of media (C17 and Yu-Pei) combined with two different incubation regimes. No signs of mitosis were seen on any of the observed anthers and no embryos were formed in either species. The results were inconclusive and the possibility of successful androgenesis in kikuyugrass remains an open question. To assess the presence of genetic variation as an indispensable condition for eventual breeding efforts, genotypes were sampled from collections in California (from around the state and at the University of California, Riverside), Hawaii, and Australia. A total of 20,000 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) makers were discovered using the Diversity Array Technology sequencing (DArTseq) platform. The hierarchical plot, gap statistics, and principle coordinate analysis all show that the 336 accessions in the study separated into three main clusters. The analysis shows that the amount of genetic variation is low, with 77% of the total genetic variation due to within population variation, while 23% is due to among population variation. The accessions from California show the least genetic variation with accessions from Australia and Hawaii showing a much broader degree of genetic diversity. Although California showed low genetic diversity, there may be enough variation between the accessions at the University of California, Riverside and those collected in the state to begin breeding a turf-type cultivar in California.
How a complex basaltic volcanic system works: Constraints from integrating seismic, geodetic, and petrological data at Mount Etna volcano during the July–August 2014 eruption

Integrating geodetic, seismic, and petrological data for a recent eruptive episode at Mount Etna has enabled us to define the history of magma storage and transfer within the multilevel structure of the volcano, providing spatial and temporal constraints for magma movements before the eruption. Geodetic data related to the July–August 2014 activity provide evidence of a magma reservoir at ~4 km below sea level. This reservoir pressurized from late March 2014 and fed magmas that were then erupted from vents on the lower eastern flank of North‐East Crater (NEC) and at New South‐East Crater (NSEC) summit crater during the July eruptive activity. Magma drainage caused its depressurization since mid‐July. Textural and microanalytical data obtained from plagioclase crystals indicate similar disequilibrium textures and compositions at the cores in lavas erupted at the base of NEC and NSEC, suggesting comparable deep histories of evolution and ascent. Conversely, the compositional differences observed at the crystal rims have been associated to distinct degassing styles during storage in a shallow magma reservoir. Seismic data have constrained depth for a shallow part of the plumbing system at 1–2 km above sea level. Timescales of magma storage and transfer have also been calculated through diffusion modeling of zoning in olivine crystals of the two systems. Our data reveal a common deep history of magmas from the two systems, which is consistent with a recharging phase by more mafic magma between late March and early June 2014. Later, the magma continued its crystallization under distinct chemical and physical conditions at shallower levels.
Progressive Feature Fusion Framework Based on Graph Convolutional Network for Remote Sensing Scene Classification

Remote sensing (RS) scene classification plays an important role in the intelligent interpretation of RS data. Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN)-based and attention-based methods have become the mainstream of RS scene classification with impressive results. However, existing CNN-based methods do not utilize long-range information, and existing attention-based methods do not fully exploit multiscale information, although both aspects of information are essential for a comprehensive understanding of RS scene images. To overcome the above limitations, we propose a progressive feature fusion (PFF) framework based on graph convolutional network (GCN), namely PFFGCN for RS scene classification in this article, which has a strong ability to learn both multiscale and contextual (local/long-range) information in RS scene images. It mainly consists of two modules: a multilayer feature extraction module and a multiscale contextual information fusion (MCIF) module. The MFE module is utilized to extract multilevel features and global features, and the MCIF module is constructed to capture rich contextual information from multilevel features and fuse them in a progressive manner. In MCIF, GCN is adopted to explore intrinsic attributes (including the topological structure and the contextual information) hidden in each feature map. Through the PFF strategy, the graph features at each level are fused with the next-level features to reduce the semantic gap between nonadjacent features and enhance the multiscale representation of the model. Besides, grouped GCN based on channel grouping is further proposed to improve the efficiency of PFFGCN. The proposed method is extensively evaluated on various RS scene classification datasets, and the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms current state-of-the-art methods.
EmoSociograms: An Open-Source Psychometric Tool for the Assessment of Social and Emotional Competencies of Students

The positive impact of the development of social and emotional competencies of students is well documented, with benefits being evident in various aspects at individual and classroom level. Based on these findings, multiple social and emotional training programs have been created and combined with methodologies for their proper implementation within classrooms. However, the development of relevant tools to assess these competencies has not followed a similar pace. The few assessment techniques currently available require extensive expertise from teachers in the area of social and emotional training, making accurate and efficient assessments difficult to achieve. To address this issue and improve the assessment process, we introduce the EmoSociograms psychometric tool, an open-source software designed for easy application by teachers in both in-person and online classrooms. We detail the main components and functionalities of EmoSociograms, along with an evaluation based on its usage in primary and secondary education schools.
Risk Aversion and Stock Price Volatility

This paper employs a standard asset pricing framework with power utility to derive model-predicted volatility measures for the price-dividend ratio in a setting that allows for varying degrees of investor information about future dividends. When comparing the model predictions to the data, we nd evidence of excess volatility in long-run U.S. stock price data for relative risk aversion coe¢ cients below 5. For higher degrees of risk aversion, the evidence for excess volatility is less clear. We also examine the degree to which movements in the model price-dividend ratio can be accounted for by movements in either: (1) future dividend growth rates, (2) future risk-free rates, or (3) future excess returns on equity. We show that the theoretical variance decomposition di¤ers in important ways from the data. Thus even though the model can account for the observed volatility of the price-dividend ratio in the data, it does so by generating an implausibly volatile risk-free rate combined with an insu¢ ciently forecastable excess return on equity. Keywords: Asset Pricing, Excess Volatility, Variance Bounds, Risk Aversion, PresentValue Model. JEL Classi cation: E44, G12. Corresponding author. Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, P.O. Box 7702, San Francisco, CA 94120-7702, (415) 974-2393, FAX: (415) 977-4031, email: kevin.j.lansing@sf.frb. org, homepage: www.frbsf. org/economics/economists/klansing.html Risk Aversion and Stock Price Volatility
Association of Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Gene Polymorphism C677T with Oocyte Number and Embryo Quality in Iraqi Infertile Women Undergoing Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection

Background: Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T is a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) that affects the production of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF), the active folate that enables the recycling of homocysteine (Hcy) to methionine. Objective: to investigate the association between the MTHFR (C677T) polymorphism and the outcomes of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Methods: A prospective cohort study included 85 infertile women undergoing ICSI treatment at the High Institute of Infertility Diagnosis and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Baghdad, Iraq. The study period extended from January 2022 to September 2023. The MTHFR C677T polymorphism genotyping was evaluated in these patients, and they were classified into three groups according to genotyping results: normal (CC), heterozygote mutated (CT), and mutated homozygote (TT). In addition, we conducted a comparative analysis of oocyte, embryo and pregnancy rates among these three groups. Results: In comparison to the CT and TT genotypes, the total number of oocytes, total embryos, mature oocytes, good-quality embryos, and pregnancy rate were all found to be significantly higher (p<0.05) in the CC genotype. Compared to the CC group, the proportion of immature oocytes and poor-quality embryos was significantly higher in the TT and CT groups (p<0.05). The rate of fertilization was comparable among the study groups. Conclusions: The maternal MTHFR C677T polymorphism is linked to oocyte number, maturity, total embryo, embryo quality, and pregnancy in ICSI. In light of this, MTHFR polymorphism in our community offers useful data regarding the success of ICSI.
Effect of shared decision-making on trust in physicians in the management of systemic lupus erythematosus: The TRUMP2-SLE prospective cohort study

Objectives: Few studies have explored whether the involvement of patients in shared decision-making (SDM) is beneficial to the management of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Therefore, this study investigated the relationship between patient participation in SDM and their trust in physicians using data from the TRUMP2-SLE study. Methods: Data regarding the nine-item Shared Decision-Making Questionnaire (SDM-Q-9 scores), Trust in Physician Scale (TIPS) scores, and Abbreviated Wake Forest Physician Trust Scale (A-WFPTS) scores for interpersonal trust in a physician and trust in the medical profession were collected from patients with SLE who visited the outpatient clinics of five facilities in Japan through a self-administered questionnaire. The relationships between these scores were analyzed. Results: This study included 433 patients with SLE. The median baseline TIPS and A-WFPTS (attending physician version) scores were 82 (73-93) and 80 (70-95), respectively. A higher baseline SDM-Q-9 score was correlated with an increase in the TIPS score at 1 year (adjusted mean difference per 10-pt increase, 0.95 pt [95%CI 0.18-1.71]). A higher baseline SDM-Q-9 score was also correlated with a higher A-WFPTS score for interpersonal trust (adjusted mean difference per 10-pt increase, 2.16 pt [1.41-2.92]). The baseline A-WFPTS (general physician version) score of 65 (50-80) was also correlated with an increase in the A-WFPTS score at 1 year (adjusted mean difference per 10-pt increase, 1.28 pt [0.43-2.14]). Conclusions: Engagement of patients with SLE in SDM elevates their trust in the attending physicians and healthcare providers, potentially enhancing doctor-patient relationships and overall healthcare trust.