Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Australian native seed sector practice and behavior could limit ecological restoration success: further insights from the Australian Native Seed Report

The Australian native seed sector is critical for undertaking ecological restoration but faces serious challenges from interacting factors, including native vegetation loss and habitat fragmentation, low funding levels, and climate change impacts. The Australian Native Seed Survey was conducted in 2016–2017 to better understand sector structure, practitioner perceptions, and practice. It found that most native seed is collected from small and fragmented tenures and from geographic ranges that greatly exceed “local provenance”; that the diversity of species available for restoration is typically low; that native seed is seldom quality tested; and that most annual seed collections (wild or production) are small in volume suggesting overall seed yields are modest in quantity and not sufficient to support large‐scale restoration. Together, survey findings raise serious concerns about the ability of the sector, as currently constituted and resourced, to meet projected future increases in the demand for seed or for achieving the effectiveness and efficiency required to meet UN‐Decade type ecological restoration outcomes. Central to recommendations for sector improvement are the following focus areas: maturing the native seed sector; sustainability; seed production; licensing; seed testing and tracking; and research.
Hospital Variation in Cancer Treatments and Survival OutComes of Advanced Melanoma Patients: Nationwide Quality Assurance in The Netherlands

Simple Summary The survival of advanced melanoma patients has improved significantly over the last decade due to the introduction of new systemic therapies. It is unknown whether survival outcomes of advanced melanoma patients differ between melanoma centers in the Netherlands. This research aimed to assess center variation in treatments and 2-year survival probabilities of advanced melanoma patients diagnosed between 2013 and 2017 in the Netherlands. Significant center variation in 2-year survival probabilities of patients diagnosed in 2014–2015 was observed after correcting for case-mix and treatment with new systemic therapies. The different use of new systemic therapies partially explained the observed variation. From 2016 onwards, no significant difference in 2-year survival was observed between centers. This study shows the added value of quality monitoring with a national registry that enables the study of variation between centers. Abstract Background: To assure a high quality of care for patients treated in Dutch melanoma centers, hospital variation in treatment patterns and outcomes is evaluated in the Dutch Melanoma Treatment Registry. The aim of this study was to assess center variation in treatments and 2-year survival probabilities of patients diagnosed between 2013 and 2017 in the Netherlands. Methods: We selected patients diagnosed between 2013 and 2017 with unresectable IIIC or stage IV melanoma, registered in the Dutch Melanoma Treatment Registry. Centers’ performance on 2-year survival was evaluated using Empirical Bayes estimates calculated in a random effects model. Treatment patterns of the centers with the lowest and highest estimates for 2-year survival were compared. Results: For patients diagnosed between 2014 and 2015, significant center variation in 2-year survival probabilities was observed even after correcting for case-mix and treatment with new systemic therapies. The different use of new systemic therapies partially explained the observed variation. From 2016 onwards, no significant difference in 2-year survival was observed between centers. Conclusion: Our data suggest that between 2014 and 2015, after correcting for patient case-mix, significant variation in 2-year survival probabilities between Dutch melanoma centers existed. The use of new systemic therapies could partially explain this variation. In 2013 and between 2016 and 2017, no significant variation between centers existed.
Knowledge and Attitude towards Safe Abortion among Undergraduate Students in Jana Bhawana Campus, Lalitpur, Nepal

Background: Unsafe abortion is one of the health issue of the reproductive age women. In spite of abortion legalization, woman’s access to safe abortion is based on the knowledge related to safe abortion. Knowledge is essential part which equip women to get services and prevent from complications of unsafe abortion. Materials and methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted with the objective to identify the knowledge and attitude on safe abortion among bachelor level student. Non probability total enumerative sampling technique was used to select the sample. Total of 310 respondents were included in the study. The structured pretested questionnaire was used to collect data. Pearson chi-square was used to find out the association between demographic variables and knowledge on safe abortion. Result: The result of the study showed that among the respondents majority 247(79.7%) were ≥20 years of age with mean age 21.4 years with SD 1.9. More than half 173(55.8) of respondents were female. Majority 193(62.3%) of the respondents had fair knowledge and nearly half of the respondents 154(49.7%) had positive attitude regarding safe abortion. Respondents’ knowledge on safe abortion were not significantly associated with their age, gender, marital status, ethnicity, type of family, area of residence and living arrangement. Conclusion: Despite having fair level of knowledge among majority of respondents, it is seen that half of the respondents had negative attitude towards safe abortion. This shows that there is a need for educational intervention among undergraduate students in order to change their attitude. Key words: Attitude, Knowledge, Safe Abortion, Undergraduate Students.
Pharmacophore modeling and 3D-QSAR studies on flavonoids as α-glucosidase inhibitors.

Pharmacophore mapping studies were undertaken for a set of 29 flavonoids as α-glucosidase inhibitors. Four point pharmacophores with two hydrogen bond acceptor, one hydrogen bond donor and one aromatic ring as pharmacophoric features were developed. Amongst them the pharmacophore hypothesis AADR1 yielded a statistically significant 3D-QSAR model with 0.903 as R2 value and was considered to be the best pharmacophore hypothesis. The developed pharmacophore model was externally validated by predicting the activity of test set molecules. The squared predictive correlation coefficient of 0.69 was observed between experimental and predicted activity values of test set molecules. The geometry and features of pharmacophore were expected to be useful for the design of selective α-glucosidase inhibitors.
Electronic transport in intermediate sized carbon nanotubes

We have measured the low temperature transport properties of single multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNT) of diameters (D) in the range 2-10 nm. Almost all previous work on MWNT’s has been on tubes with diameters above 10 nm. In nearly all samples in this work, with D < 10 nm, the gate dependent conductance exhibits a gap whose size increases with the inverse tube diameter and increasing electrode separation. This so called transport gap is attributed, based on the experimental findings, on a combination of localization effects and narrow diameter induced gaps in the electronic band structure. These results have significant similarities to the current research on graphene nanoribbons (GRN). As graphene does not intrinsically possess a bandgap, GNR’s are fabricated, where a gap is created via quantum confinement due to the narrow width of the channel/nanoribbon. The size of the gap is then roughly in a similar inverse relation with the width of the constriction as in the case of the diameter dependence of the MWNT's in our work. The transport gap has not generally been observed in the previous works on MWNT’s because of the large diameters of the tubes in these. Our work, of which some early results were published previously [1], complements and bridges previous works on both single walled nanotubes and MWNT’s, and also to the field of GNR’s.
Slope does not affect autonomous recorder detection shape: considerations for acoustic monitoring in forested landscapes

ABSTRACT To date, there are no published guidelines on how to optimally install recorders on sloped terrain, although slope could potentially affect a recorder’s detection space. This study experimentally investigated the effect of microphone orientation in relation to slope of recorders from two cost classes. We installed four recorders at each plot centre (n = 16), oriented either parallel or perpendicular to the slope. We played standard tones of 1–11 kHz at distances of 10, 20, 40 and 80 m from the recorders. Our two response variables were the presence/absence of each tone (coarse spatial scale) and predicted sound extinction distance (fine spatial scale), which were tested for effects of microphone orientation and sound source direction (SSD). We observed a significant effect of microphone orientation on extinction distance when recorders were perpendicular to the slope at the finer spatial scale as an interaction with SSD, indicating that microphones are biased towards the direction they face. Despite the advertised directionality of most recorder microphones, detection space is not circular. This trend was observed across all frequencies, for both high- and low-cost recorders. Microphone orientation in relation to slope is not an important methodological consideration, instead dominant factors such as frequency and prevailing wind direction drive detection space shape.
Examining Ghana’s Cash Transfer Programme Outcomes in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality from Conversation and Membership Categorisation Analyses Perspectives

Since the start of cash transfer programmes in developing countries in the late 1990s and its spread, studies have demonstrated a variety of outcomes comprising education, health, and nutrition for the poorest households. These studies focused on macro analysis of programmes’ outcomes but paid little attention to an indepth micro study of the everyday intersubjective accounts and actions of local community focal persons and caregivers, which construct programme outcomes. The objective of this study is to highlight the everyday concrete outcomes of a cash transfer programme in Ejisu-Juaben Municipality in Ghana. This study draws on Foucault’s notion of subjectivation and discourse to construct a conversation and membership categorisation analyses framework to explore community focal persons’ and female caregivers’ conversations from focus group discussions. The Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty cash transfer programme in Ghana is the empirical case. This article demonstrates that caregivers and poor households arehappier, practice joint decision-making, and have cohesive social relations in poor households. Thus, localised programme outcomes improved participation in the decision-making, happiness, and social cohesion of beneficiary poor households. Evaluation mechanisms for programme outcomes could consider the everyday intersubjective accounts, practices of focal persons, caregivers/beneficiaries in poor households at the micro-level. Keywords: Social Protection, Ethnography, Discourse, Subjectivation, Governmentality
A Critical Perspective on Short-Term International Mobility of Faculty: An Experience from Kazakhstan

This article looks at the relatively understudied phenomenon of short-term international mobility of faculty from the critical internationalization perspective. It uses data from interviews with academics from Kazakhstan, who participated in short-term professional development trips abroad to understand who benefits and who loses as a result of short-term faculty mobility and how the short-term international mobility may contribute to the process of reproduction of the existing social structures and inequality. Critical internationalization perspective in general, as well as mobility paradigm more specifically, helps to reveal some important insights about short-term international mobility from a non-Western country to predominantly Western institutions. The main conclusion from the study is that host university’s engagement in hosting mobile faculty coming on short visits seems to be driven predominantly by the neoliberal profit-seeking motives rather than by a more humanistic desire to serve the larger global society by sharing its expertise or to engage in equal and mutually beneficial partnership relationships.
Electron capture and ionization processes in high-velocity Cn+ , C–Ar and Cn+ , C–He collisions

Single-electron and double-electron capture as well as projectile single-ionization and multiple-ionization processes in 125 keV u−1 C n + ? > –He (n = 1–5) and C n + ? > –Ar ( n = 1 , 2 , 4 ? > ) collisions have been studied experimentally and theoretically. Helium target single-ionization and double-ionization cross sections are also reported for C n + ? > –He (n = 1, 4) collisions in the 100–400 keV u−1 impact energy domain. These results are compared with predictions from the independent atom and electron (IAE) model developed for describing cluster–atom collisions. The ion/atom–atom probabilities required for the IAE simulations have been determined by classical trajectory Monte Carlo (CTMC) and semiclassical atomic orbital close coupling (SCAOCC) calculations for the Ar and He targets, respectively. For comparison, electron capture cross sections were also measured in C–He and C–Ar collisions. In general the agreement between experiment and IAE calculations has been found to be rather good, with the exception of double-electron capture leading to anionic C n − ? > species.
High-power short-duration radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation

Type of funding sources: None. In recent times, high-power short-duration (HPSD) radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has emerged as an alternative strategy for pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) in atrial fibrillation (AF). We aimed to compare HPSD approach and conventional, ablation-index (AI) guided PVI using contact force sensing ablation catheters in respect of efficacy, safety, procedural characteristics, and outcome. A total of 184 consecutive AF patients with first PVI were enrolled (age: 60 ± 11 years, paroxysmal: 56.5%, persistent: 43.5%) between November 2016 and December 2019. An ablation protocol of 50W energy with 15-20 g contact force was used for a duration of 8-12 sec based on the loss of capture concept in the HPSD group (n = 91) meanwhile, PVI was achieved according to the conventional power settings (posterior wall 25W, AI: 400, anterior wall 35W, AI: 550 ) in the control group (n = 93). During 1-year follow-up, documented AF for more than 30 seconds was considered as recurrence. Radiofrequency time and procedural time were significantly shorter using HPSD ablation (26.0 ± 12.7 min vs. 42.9 ± 12.6 min, p < 0.001, and 91 ± 30.1 min vs. 105.3 ± 28 min, p < 0.001). The HPSD strategy significantly lowered fluoroscopy time and radiation dose (5.47 ± 4.07 min vs. 8.15 ± 10.04 min, p = 0.019, and 430.2 ± 534.06 cGycm2 vs. 604.2 ± 633.9 cGycm2, p = 0.046). The HPSD group showed significantly less arrhythmia recurrence during 1-year follow-up with 76.9% of patients free from AF compared to 66.7% in the control group (p = 0.037). No pericardial tamponade, periprocedural thromboembolic complication, or atrio-oesophageal fistula occurred in the HPSD group. We observed 2 pericardial tamponade and 1 periprocedural stroke in the control group. HPSD RFA for AF was demonstrated to be safe, and lead to significantly improved 1-year outcome in our mixed patient population. HPSD protocol significantly shortened procedural and radiofrequency time with decreased fluoroscopy time and radiation exposure.
Research progress on the immunological platelet transfusion refractoriness in patients with acute leukemia: a narrative review

: Acute leukemia (AL) is a malignant clonal disease of hematopoietic stem cells, many patients have achieved remission, long-term survival, and even cured. Thrombocytopenia is one of the main clinical manifestations of AL. With the development of blood transfusion medicine, platelet transfusion has become an important measure for the treatment of AL. However, platelet transfusion refractoriness (PTR) increases the risk of bleeding in patients and intensifies the demand for platelet transfusion, the occurrence of PTR is still a huge challenge for clinicians. This article reviews the research on the mechanism, prevention and treatment of immunological PTR in AL. PTR includes immune and non-immune factors, immune factors are an important reason for PTR. Some patients are prone to PTR, while others are not. The specific mechanism is currently unclear. Among the immune factors, humoral immunity is currently considered to be the main reason, including HLA antigen incompatibility, antibodies produced by platelet-specific antigens (HPA), and ABO blood group incompatibility, it has been discovered that anti-CD36-mediated alloimmune responses can produce platelet immune abnormalities. There is still a lack of effective methods to completely prevent and treat immunological PTR, we still need to conduct more in-depth research on the mechanism of immunological PTR in AL. Only by further clarifying the mechanism of immunological PTR can be possible to find more effective prevention and treatment methods. 6
A New Data Fusion Neural Network Scheme for Rainfall Retrieval Using Passive Microwave and Visible/Infrared Satellite Data

A new data fusion technique based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) for the design of a rainfall retrieval algorithm is presented. The use of both VIS/IR (VISible and InfraRed) data from GEO (Geostationary Earth Orbit) satellite and of passive microwave data from LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellite can take advantage of both types of sensors reducing their limitations. The technique can reconstruct the surface rain field with the MSG-SEVIRI (Meteosat Second Generation–Spinning Enhanced Visible Infrared Imager) spatial and temporal resolution, which means 3 km at the sub satellite point and 5 km at mid-latitudes, every 15 min, respectively. Rainfall estimations are also compared with H-SAF (Hydrology Satellite Application Facility) PR-OBS3A operational product showing better performance both on the identification of rainy areas and on the retrieval of the amount of precipitation. In particular, in the considered test cases, results report an improvement in average of 83% in terms of probability of rainy areas detection, of 45% in terms of false alarm rate, and of 47% in terms of root mean square error in the retrieval of the amount of precipitation.
Rationalization as a Dissonance Management Strategy among Electronic Gambling Machine Players

Erroneous gambling-related beliefs are well researched in light of their association with problem gambling, with some research suggesting these beliefs also serve as justifications for gambling behaviour. The process of justification (i.e., rationalization) can provide insights into how those who gamble resolve dissonance resulting from persistent loss in the gambling context. Using in-depth interviews of 43 participants who identified electronic gambling machines as their preferred game type and were either experiencing gambling problems or were at risk of developing a problem, this study details how dissonance is managed through rationalizations in line with the Dawson (1999) framework. This framework is based on research of religious groups surviving prophetic disconfirmation and is employed here to highlight the contextual and socio-cultural underpinnings of rationalizations along with their supernatural and pseudo-religious qualities. Rationalizations reflect broader socio-cultural beliefs around morality, work, speculation, perseverance, and the supernatural. Implications for treatment are discussed.
Contribution core stability and strength to the performance athlete Slalom Number Water Ski in terms of gender Characteristics

The purpose of this study is to find out the contribution of core stability and strength to the performance athletes slalom number Water Ski in Jakarta in terms of gender characteristics. This research is a survey study using correlational design, while this study was conducted in lake Sunter Jakarta with a sample number of 15 male athletes slalom number water ski. This research instrument uses core stability and strength tests and measurements. For core stability use the ability to fight prisoners' lumbar-pelvic-hip muscles and to strength using tests sit_up and Push ups for 60 seconds. The data analysis in this study uses descriptive analysis and inferential analysis. Descriptive analysis aims to obtain average values,standard deviations, minimum values, and maximum values, while for inferential analysis using simple regression and multiple regression at a significant level α=0.05 overall data analysis using SPSS version 23. The results of this study show that:(1) there is a contribution of core stability to the performance of male athletes; (2) there is a core stability contribution to the performance of male athletes, and (3) there is a simultaneous contribution of core stability strength to the performance of male athletes slalom number Water Ski in the Jakarta. However, this study only involved a few physical components, for further research to consider the social environment, psychology athletes, and those associated with improving the performance of athletes athlete reviewed from gender.
Trap-Related Reliability Problems of Dielectrics in Memory Cells

A basic mechanism for storing data in memory cells is to record changes in electronic charges, material phases, resistivities, magnetic properties, and so forth. The change in electronic charge has been widely used in the majority of mass-produced memories, such as dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), static random-access memory (SRAM), NOR Flash, and NAND Flash. Other emerging memories have collected widespread attention for acquiring extra advantages which cannot be achieved using the change in electronic charge. Many years of studies have told us that reliability problems are critically important in the development of both conventional and emerging memories, in order to improve the product yield. However, the topics related to these problems are too wide to cover in these limited pages. In this review chapter, we address several interesting examples of trap-related problems in dielectrics for use in various memory cells. For engineering purposes, it is very important to grasp the relation of the achieved physical intuitions and electronic characteristics of dielectrics.
Exploring the Roles of Daily Spiritual Experiences, Self-Efficacy, and Gender in Shopping Addiction: A Moderated Mediation Model

Although spirituality has been considered a protective factor against shopping addiction, the mechanisms involved in this relationship are still poorly recognized. The present study aims to test the association of daily spiritual experiences, self-efficacy, and gender with shopping addiction. The sample consisted of 430 young adults (275 women and 155 men), with a mean age of 20.44 (SD = 1.70). The Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale, the General Self-Efficacy Scale, and the Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale were used to measure the study variables. The results showed that: (1) Daily spiritual experiences had a direct negative effect on shopping addiction; (2) daily spiritual experiences were positively related to self-efficacy, thought the effect was moderated by gender; (3) self-efficacy negatively correlated with a shopping addiction; and (4) the indirect effect of daily spiritual experiences on shopping addiction through self-efficacy was significant for women but insignificant for men. The findings confirm that spirituality protects young adults against developing a shopping addiction. They also suggest that when introducing spiritual issues into shopping addiction prevention or treatment programs, the gender-specific effects of spirituality on shopping addiction via self-efficacy should be considered to adequately utilize young women’s and men’s spiritual resources.