Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Coastal sands of Northeastern Tasmania: geomorphology and groundwater hydrology

A regional study of the Quaternary geomorphology of coastal northeastern Tasmania defined landforms and deposits which offer good groundwater development potential, and also pointed to geomorphic problems worthy of more detailed research. Marine transgression and regression appear to have been a main feature of landform development in coastal northeastern Tasmania since Late Tertiary times. The present landscape is dominated by low, sandy plains created during the Last Interglacial marine transgression and by aeolian landforms which were formed during the succeeding glacial stage. The immediate coastal areas are backed by marine and aeolian landforms deposited during and since the marine transgression. The regional study revealed that deposits of possible marine origin and interglacial age, occur to an elevation of approximately 32 m. This is — 10 m above the upper limits of similar deposits elsewhere in Tasmania and is — 26 in higher than equivalent features in stable areas of mainland Australia. These relationships indicated that tectonic uplift in Tasmania may have occurred during the late Quaternary. Further research indicated that the sea level in northeastern Tasmania most likely attained an elevation of — 32 in during the Last Interglacial Stage, and that the area has experienced a moderate uplift rate of approximately 0.2 m/ka. The stratigraphic relationships between Quaternary marine deposits also indicate that older, probably of Oxygen Isotope Stages 7 and 9 age, marine deposits occur to 49 and 71 in respectively, thus indicating that uplift in Tasmania has been occurring over at least 300,000 years. Mapping and examination of the extensive longitudinal dunes and lunettes during initial stages of the programme indicated that they are products of environmental conditions substantially different from those of today. Dune morphology and grainsize characteristics suggest that zonal westerly air flows appear to have been stronger and from a slightly more northerly direction during the Last Glacial Stage than air flows which occur today. Stratigraphic studies infer that the temperature was markedly lower during formation of the longitudinal dunes. Evidence from fossil groundwater podzols indicates that precipitation during the Last Glacial Stage may have been only approximately one half of the present rainfall. Lunette stratigraphy and morphology reveal shifts in the relative importance of key components to the hydrologic cycle, such as precipitation, evapotranspiration and surface run-off, both during and since the late Last Glacial Stage. The coastal plains of interglacial marine sand form extensive unconfined aquifers and contain Abundant and accessible groundwater supplies. Computer and graphical simulations are applied to pumping test and drilling results, water table maps and continuous water level records to assess the groundwater system. Groundwater dynamics are controlled principally by precipitation and evapotranspiration. The system is renewable and moderate rates of groundwater withdrawal may even be beneficial.
Downstream migration of Salmo salar and S. trutta smolts in two regulated northern Swedish rivers

The downstream migration of Atlantic salmon and anadromous brown trout smolts was studied in two flow controlled northern Swedish rivers. The annual mean flow in Umealven and Pitealven is c. 430 m3/s and c. 150 m3/s, respectively. Water power constructions located in the lower parts of these rivers may hinder or kill downstream migrating fish. Naturally produced salmon smolts in these rivers have two alternatives for passage of the water power constructions when they undertake their seasonally timed seaward migration in may-june: a) passing the turbines, or b) pass through the spill-way over the dam. Existing power-stations in Stornorrfors (Umealven) use Francis turbines while Sikfors (Pitealven) use Kaplan turbines. In spring 2002 and 2003 a total of 90 Atlantic salmon and 56 brown trout two-year old hatchery-reared smolts were radio tagged with internal esophageal, individually coded radio transmitters (ATS). Trout were significantly larger (average length: 23.8 cm) than salmon (19.7 cm) (t-test, p<0.01). One to two days post-tagging the fish were released upstream the dammed areas, c. 5.0 km above Stornorrfors dam and c. 2.5 km above Sikfors dam, respectively. Their downstream migration routes were tracked both manually and with automatic listening stations in the horizontal plane (2-dimensional). Simultaneously, velocity profiles were measured in selected cross-sections using an Acoustic Doppler Profiler (ADP) applied to depth measurements giving a digitalised GIS-map over the dammed areas. Our main findings from the telemetry trackings, depth- and flow-measurements, and flow simulation show that the downstream migrating smolts move in the main flow in the river where the highest water velocities were registered. This subsequently resulted that fish entered the power-station, and did not pass downstream over spillways via dams or the fish ladders. The discharge ratio between power-station and spillway, with excess of water passing the power-station, guided fish to pass the turbines giving an extra mortality. Comparing the water velocities in the upper part of the water column with the estimated speed of smolts indicate that the downstream migration is passive. The average migration speed for downstream migrating smolts for the two species tested was found to be c. 0.4 m/s (c. 2 bodylengths/sec). Of the fish that passed trough the Sikfors power-station 83 % was registered downstream the turbine outlet. Remaining fish (17 %) that was not registered could have died or lost their tags in the power-station. Data from a Carlin-tagging study made during the years 98-99 in Pitealven (7450 tagged salmon smolts) is analysed and indicate a mortality of 20-30 % caused by the power-station. These results are discussed and compared to previously conducted studies at Umealven and other regulated rivers.
Pengaruh Employee Engagement terhadap Kepuasan Kerja dengan Work Life Balance sebagai Variabel Intervening

Land public transportation modes are experiencing a significant increase after constructing the Trans Java toll road. Many bus companies maximize the use of the Trans Java toll road to serve the community, one of these companies is PT. Haryanto Motor Indonesia. This company is engaged in Autobus Transportation. This study aims to determine the effect of employee engagement on job satisfaction with work-life balance as an intervening variable. This type of research is quantitative with 66 employees using purposive sampling technique with criteria is all of the respondents have worked in east java. The statistical analysis technique used is Partial Least Square with the help of SmartPLS 3 software. The results obtained from the study explain that employee engagement has a positive but not significant effect on job satisfaction, employee engagement has a positive and significant effect on work-life balance, work-life balance has a significant positive effect. On job satisfaction and work-life balance can mediate with full mediation category. The implication of this research is in terms of job satisfaction; the company may be able to add labour guarantees to its employees to increase the sense of security and satisfaction of the employees.
Methodological challenges in impact evaluation: the case of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)

In this paper, we explore some of the methodological challenges that evaluators face in assessing the impacts of complex intervention strategies. We illustrate these challenges, using the specific example of an impact evaluation of one of the six focal areas of the Global Environment Facility; its biodiversity program. The paper discusses how theory-based evaluation can provide a basis for meeting some of the challenges presented.
Pricing Carbon: Evidence from Expert Recommendations

We study the variation of carbon price recommendations and their determinants using survey evidence from more than 400 experts across almost 40 countries. We quantify the extent of disagreement and reveal that a majority of experts can agree on short-and medium-term global carbon price levels, and on unilateral carbon price levels in most countries. The majority of recommendations do not exhibit a “free-riding” pattern of lower unilateral than global carbon prices. Furthermore, border carbon adjustment facilitates higher unilateral price recommendations. We show how recommendations vary with additional survey responses, and with country and expert characteristics. (JEL Q54, H43 )
Combined Leaderless Control of Translational, Shape-Preserving, and Affine Multirobot Formations

This letter considers existing leaderless distributed controllers that achieve three types of planar multirobot formation. Concretely, these formations are equal to a reference configuration up to translation (type F1), shape-preserving transformation (type F2), and affine transformation (type F3). As contribution, we show that a linear combination of these controllers maintains their convergence properties, while also allowing specific control of the formation during the trajectory. This latter control is not possible when using the individual controllers separately, and is interesting in practical cases. As an example scenario, we study rotation-and-resizing formation maneuvers, where the goal is to achieve an F1 formation while remaining close to an F2 formation in the transient period. We show that, in this scenario, our combined controller produces trajectories approximating shortest-path shape-preserving maneuvers, which are desirable for efficiency and safety. We validate the controller in this and other scenarios using simulations and experiments with physical mobile robots.
A Cross-sectional Assessment of Depression, Anxiety, and Cognition in Perimenopausal and Menopausal Women

Introduction: Menopausal transition involves failure of ovarian function followed by cessation of menstruation. This has been said to lead to psychiatric comorbidities such as depression and anxiety. Estrogen also has beneficial effects on cognition and thus fluctuation in the same can lead to cognitive decline. Given the number of women undergoing menopause, timely screening of the comorbidities is of importance. Aims and Objectives: Our study aimed at assessment of anxiety, depression, and cognitive impairment in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women presenting in the medicine and gynecology units of a tertiary care hospital. The objectives were to screen the peri- and postmenopausal women presenting with medical and gynecological complaints for the presence of depression and anxiety and assess their cognitive function. To find association of their symptoms with psychosocial and menopausal factors with the psychiatric parameters. Settings and Design: Our study was conducted among the perimenopausal and postmenopausal women visiting gynecology and medicine units in a tertiary care hospital. One hundred and five women in the age group of 45–55 were assessed using a specialized pro forma, Beck's Anxiety Inventory, Beck's Depression Inventory, and Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination III. Statistical Analysis Used: The results were analyzed using SPSS software (version 20.0). Results: 21.9% of females had moderate levels of anxiety, 24.76% had clinical depression, and 13.33% had mild cognitive impairment. The presence of psychosocial stressors had a significant impact on the anxiety, depression, and cognitive impairment. There was no significant association found between psychiatric parameters and peri- and postmenopausal stage as well between natural or surgical menopause.
Sero-prevalence of hepatitis B surface ( HBsAg ) antigen in three densely populated communities in Kumasi , Ghana

Hepatitis B infection is endemic in many developing countries including Ghana. It is also known that there are differences in the prevalence in communities of different socioeconomic levels. Reports are scanty on the seroprevalence of hepatitis B-virus in densely populated suburbs in Kumasi, Ghana. This study was conducted in three densely populated communities in Kumasi to determine the relative seroprevalence of hepatitis B. Serum samples were collected in 2009 during a crosssectional survey of individuals from Aboabo, Tafo and Garrison and tested for HBsAg using a commercial test kit (One Step HBsAg Test Device, InTEC Products, INC, China) after obtaining their informed consent. A total of 783 subjects (mean age: 37.93 ± 0.62) had their samples collected for testing. There were 376 females and 407 males. A higher prevalence of HBsAg seropositivity was detected among the males (11.79%) as compared to the females (5.33%). Prevalence of seropositivity was highest among adolescents (19-24 years, 14.14%; 25-34 years, 13.10%) and children (<19 years, 12.26%) and lowest among the aged >54 years old. Of all the three sub-populations sampled, only Garrison was determined to be in the intermediate endemicity class for HBsAg (6.78%); both Aboabo (9.02%) and Tafo (10.0%) are in the high endemicity class. However, overall prevalence of HBsAg seropositivity was 8.68%. Our study suggests that in Ghana, local prevalence of the disease may vary widely, possibly as a consequence of lifestyle and socioeconomic variations even in closely related settlements. Journal of Medical and Biomedical Sciences (2012) 1(2), 59-65
Data Networks

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DEFINING THE CRITERIA USED IN PATH SELECTION.

The purpose of this paper is to examine from a cognitive behavioral point of view the processes of path selection. This activity is designed to interface with another project concerned with building a GIS based Computational Process Model designed to identify feasible opportunity sets for destination choice and path selection. The project is multi-year in nature, depending in part on the successful completion of laboratory and survey research which is designed to define the criteria used in path selection and to show how sets of prioritized temporal activities can define spatial sets of feasible alternative destinations.
Cancer prevalence, health expenditure and economic output: Panel econometric application*

Introduction and Objectives: From countries’ perspective, chronic diseases, such as cancers, cardiovascular disease, reduce life expectancy and ultimately economic productivity, thus depleting the quality and quantity of countries’ labour force. This may result into lower national output in national income. Moreover, diseases also have an increasing effect on health expenditures. This effect is higher for chronic noncommunicable diseases. Because noncommunicable diseases are often complex cases that require long-term, continuous care. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of cancer disease on economic output and health expenditure. Methods : The effect of cancer on health expenditures was analyzed with the static panel regression equation, and the effect on economic output using the dynamic model. Data in empirical analysis was obtained from the World Bank, Global Health Data Exchange-GHDx database, International Monetary Fund and UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2019) database. STATA 13.0 is used for all estimations. Results : The increase in cancer prevalence has a negative effect on economic output for the period between 2000 and 2017 in OECD countries. It was also concluded that the increase in cancer prevalence has a positive effect on total and public health expenditure per capita in OECD countries between 2004 and 2017. Conclusions : Noncommunicable diseases, such as cancer, emerge as a global social problem. Multi-stakeholder action plans should be developed in partnership with national and international organizations in order to prevent the increase of non-communicable diseases in the society.
Political instability and economic growth at different stages of economic development:: historical evidence from Greece

This study explores the relationship between political instability and growth within the perspective of Greece’s modern history. The narrative approach is used to identify major events of political unrest which took place in the period from 1833 onwards. Econometric estimates show that political instability exerts an adverse effect on economic growth. Likewise, poor economic performance increases the likelihood of political risk. Their relationship is not uniform across time but strengthens only after the second half of the 20th century. The impact of political instability is conditional on the stage of economic development with the most harmful effect observed in the phase of rapid industrialization. When distinguishing between permanent and temporary effects of political instability, a strongly negative effect is observed on the growth rate of potential output and a weakly negative impact on the cyclical component of GDP. Political instability is unfavorably affected by the growth rate of potential output.
A novel method for sEMG-Based Hand Gesture Recognition

Surface electromyography (sEMG) has significant importance in the development of human-machine interface due to its intrinsic information of human movement intention. As a result, there has been an increasing interest in the analysis and identification techniques of sEMG signals. This study proposes an approach for efficiently decomposing and identifying sEMG signals. Firstly, an improved method for decomposing sEMG signals is proposed, which offers faster computation and smaller reconstruction errors. Secondly, a novel convolutional neural network architecture for hand gesture recognition is proposed. This architecture amalgamates the benefits of the improved decomposition method and the slow-fusion model, facilitating superior acquisition of crucial features from sEMG. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, experiments were conducted on a common sEMG dataset, achieving an average classification accuracy of 97.91%.
Analysis of septic arthritis in a sample of Syrian population: a retrospective study

Introduction: This study found an increasing incidence and cost burden of septic arthritis because there are no criteria guiding the decision to perform arthrocentesis in adults. In this study, the authors aimed to determine whether arthrocentesis can be used as a diagnostic criterion for suspected septic arthritis. Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted in our rheumatology department, and include patients aged greater than 18 years with mono-arthritis suspected to be septic arthritis. The exclusion criteria were prosthetic joints, inflammatory arthritis, participation in the study, and the inability to provide informed consent. Information was registered, including demographic data, smoking, alcoholism, comorbidities, BMI, symptoms and signs via medical history, clinical examinations (joint pain, local fever, and range-of-motion), fever (temperature >38°C), and laboratory markers including white blood cell count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and C-reactive protein. The patients were divided into two groups: group 1 (patients who had arthrocentesis) and group 2 (patients who did not). The authors also divided patients who had arthrocentesis into two subgroups: patients with septic arthritis and patients without. Arthrocentesis was done. Results: A total of 256 patients were entered in our study, divided into two groups according to arthrocentesis. In all patients, the joint involved was the knee. Group 1 included 142 knee-aspirated patients (55.46%), and group 2 included 114 nonaspirated patients (44.53%). All aspirations were performed without image guidance. The ages, laboratory markers, physical exams, and comorbidities were not significant between the two groups on multivariate analysis. Synovial cultures were positive in 75.67% of patients. Staphylococcus aureus was the most common germ. No patient had died. The authors did not find any predictive risk factors for whether a joint was septic or not. Fever was significantly more frequent in joint-aspirated patients with septic arthritis. Conclusion: The aspiration decision is still the best in clinical practice in light of available clinical and laboratory findings, although further multicenter, larger studies are needed. Based on our findings, the authors decided to aspirate the joint based on positive guided findings and comorbidity risk factors.
Psychosocial Intervention

number of youths in out-of-home care increased in both countries over the last decade, specifically in foster care. Over the last decade, more studies have been conducted in residential care than in foster care in both countries. Despite similar trends and developments in out-of-home care practice, research mainly shows differences in applied topics and methods between Germany and the Netherlands
Review of practice informing data and current state of NCCN consensus guidelines in hepatobiliary cancers

guidelines include recommendations for screening, diagnosis and treatment of cancer (7). These guidelines are developed by a panel of experts based on review of the most recent data and the highest levels of evidence available. Evidence for each recommendation is graded on a scale from category 1 (highest level of evidence and strongest expert consensus) to category 3 (NCCN experts disagree about intervention). These guidelines are widely used by oncologists in the US and around the world to establish standards for treatment recommendations and are often used in the determination of standard therapies for insurance coverage in the US. When compared to other organizations that develop treatment guidelines, particularly in HCC, including American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO
Using Light Meters to Investigate the Light-Myopia Association – A Literature Review of Devices and Research Methods

Abstract With the increasing prevalence of myopia, evaluating its relationship with objective light exposure as a potential adjustable environmental factor in myopia development has been an emerging research field in recent years. From a thorough literature search, we identify ten wearable light meters from human studies on light exposure and myopia and present an overview of their parameters, thereby demonstrating the wide between-device variability and discussing its implications. We further identify 20 publications, including two reanalyses, reporting investigations of light-myopia associations with data from human subjects wearing light meters. We thoroughly review the publications with respect to general characteristics, aspects of data collection, participant population, as well as data analysis and interpretation, and also assess potential patterns regarding the absence or presence of light-myopia associations in their results. In doing so, we highlight areas in which more research is needed as well as several aspects that warrant consideration in the study of light exposure and myopia.