Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Breaking down Barriers: A Bridge Program Helps First-Year Biology Students Connect with Faculty.

Summer bridge programs often aim to build social connections for first-year students to ease their transition into college, yet few studies have reported on bridge programs successfully leading to these outcomes. We backward designed a summer bridge program for incoming biology majors to increase the comfort and connections among students and between students and faculty. We found that first-year students who participated in the bridge program had greater comfort and connections with faculty compared with matched students who did not participate in the bridge program. However, there were no differences in the comfort and connections with peers for students who participated in the bridge program compared with matched students who did not participate in the program. Bridge students reported specific elements of the bridge program that they perceived led to greater comfort and connections with faculty, which can help guide bridge developers in the design of their programs aimed to enhance student relationships with faculty. This study adds to the growing literature on bridge programs and demonstrates how a bridge program can be designed to lead to increased comfort and social connections with faculty. Breaking Down Barriers: A Bridge Program Helps First-Year Biology Students Connect With Faculty
Microfluidic Preparation of Air- and Moisture-sensitive Precursor Solutions and Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Syntheses of a wide range of airand moisture-sensitive chemistries are conducted in dedicated, capital-intensive setups that are not amenable to automation and offer only limited process control and scalability. Here, we demonstrate a compact Schlenk-line-to go (SL2G) platform that overcomes these limitations. Case studies of semiconductor precursor solutions and colloidal nanomaterials are presented. The rapid and reproducible preparation of precursor solutions and NCs is achieved by a microfabricated sparger that promotes rapid mixing and temperature control. We expect the benchtop SL2G platform to enable airand moisture-sensitive syntheses to be conducted independent of a fume hood or a glovebox and in a manner that is scalable, automatable, and compatible with flow chemistry.
Changes in forest structure and composition after fire in tropical montane cloud forests near the Andean treeline

Background: In tropical montane cloud forests (TMCFs) fires can be a frequent source of disturbance near the treeline. Aims: To identify how forest structure and tree species composition change in response to fire and to identify fire-tolerant species, and determine which traits or characteristics are associated with fire tolerance. Methods: Shifts in forest structure and diversity were assessed on 15 paired plots in burnt and unburnt (control) forests, along a fire chronosequence. Species were classified as fire-sensitive, fire survivors or fire thrivers, using a fire tolerance index. Regression and tree analyses were used to determine which traits contributed to the fire tolerance of species. Results: There were more small- and medium-sized trees in the burnt plots independent of time since the last fire. There were shifts in family importance value and in species diversity among the plots. Of the 73 species analysed there were 39 fire-sensitive species, 19 fire survivors and 14 fire thrivers. Sprouting ability and biomass showed a positive relationship with the fire tolerance of species. Conclusions: There were immediate as well as long-term (up to 15 years) effects of fire on forest structure and species composition, suggesting that TMCFs take more than 15 years to regenerate from a fire. Long-term studies are needed to fully understand regeneration patterns of TMCFs after fires.
Pre-morbid Psychiatric Morbidity, Comorbidity and Personality in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa Compared to their Healthy Sisters

Anorexia nervosa (AN) has been linked with pre-morbid disorders, comorbidity, and specific personality traits in between-family case–control studies. However, these findings have not been replicated in within-family studies, and it is not known whether these factors are linked specifically with AN or are shared familial factors. We aimed to compare pre-morbid disorders, comorbidity, and specific personality traits between sister-pairs discordant for AN. Forty-five families with two sisters discordant for AN were retrospectively assessed by interview and questionnaires. The proband with AN had mood disorders and personality disorders (PDs) more frequently than their sister and had lower scores of novelty seeking, self-directedness and cooperativeness, and higher scores of harm avoidance, persistence, self-transcendence and of all EDI-2 scales. In conclusion, major depression, cluster C PDs, persistence, harm avoidance, and self-transcendence appear to be specifically linked to AN and to be individual-specific in nature. Major depression seems to be a risk factor for AN. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.
Non-invasive thermometry for microwave hyperthermia - Evaluation of MW-thermometry

The importance of non-invasive temperature monitoring during microwave hyperthermia treatment has motivated the development of non-invasive thermometry (NIT) methods. Currently, the clinically established method for NIT is magnetic resonance thermometry (MRT). This method has however some limitations such as high costs, high sensitivity to patient motion and the requirement of a large installation space. Microwave tomography became of interest for thermal monitoring during hyperthermia treatment recently. The work in this thesis is aimed at investigating microwave tomography for 3D thermal mapping with the same antenna array used for heating. MRT was used as a reference method to evaluate the accuracy of microwave thermometry (MWT). This study uses two antenna arrays developed at Chalmers University of Technology with the aim of investigating the feasibility of MWT. Both simulations and experiments with two antenna systems were performed on a phantom specifically developed for this study to gain a better understanding of how these two systems affect the results. In addition, the metric Good Data Ratio (GDR) was evaluated and applied to the obtained data in the MWT method. Finally, experimental measurements with MRT were performed to evaluate the temperature resolution and accuracy in comparison with MWT.
Community Participation and Recovery for Mental Health Service Users: An Action Research Inquiry

Introduction: The social inclusion of individuals with mental health problems is an issue for mental health services, for the individuals who experience stigma, discrimination and exclusion, and for society at large. To develop community-orientated services that are capable of promoting inclusion it will, therefore, be advantageous to all parties to understand what service users find most helpful. Method: A 2-year action research project explored the recovery journeys of a group of assertive outreach service users who had progressed from being socially excluded and occupationally deprived to being participants in their local communities. The research aimed to understand how these outcomes were produced and to use this knowledge to inform local service development. Findings: This paper focuses on eight qualitative interviews, where service users recounted their stories of community participation and inclusion. The findings show how assertive outreach practitioners harnessed occupation as a basis for building relationships between practitioners and service users, and how this became a conduit towards participation in the mainstream community. Conclusion: Facilitating engagement in community-based occupations through creative collaboration helped participants reconnect with cherished roles, achieve long-standing goals and develop feelings of self-efficacy, belonging and wellbeing.
Know Your Risk — Is it Time for a Paradigm Shift ?

Atherosclerosis continues to be the number one cause of death in the US. Annually, 1,000,000 people will suffer a myocardial infarction (MI): one-third of those will occur in people who have already suffered an event. Despite treatment of major modifiable risk factors proved to reduce CVD, the high recurrence rate raises serious questions that the current standard of care using modifiable risk factors to reduce MI is inadequate and that it is critical to start looking beyond the status quo. Framingham and Reynolds Risk Scores fail to identify the majority of people who will have an event. Most MIs are caused by nonobstructing plaques of less than 50 % of the arterial lumen. Traditional cardiology focuses on stress testing and angiography to assess MI risk (‘lumenology’—is the lumen open? ) The pitfall is that many people will still have atherosclerosis and be at high risk for a MI despite having a normal stress test or angiogram. A new paradigm (‘arteriology’—is disease present? ) using noninvasive tools such as carotid intima media thickness (cIMT), carotid and aortic ultrasound, and coronary calcium score (CCS) is necessary. If disease (atherosclerosis) is discovered, a comprehensive evaluation and treatment plan must be implemented to reduce the high recurrence rate of MI.
Recent Developments in Neutrino/Antineutrino-Nucleus Interactions

Recent experimental results and developments in the theoretical treatment of neutrino-nucleus interactions in the energy range of 1–10 GeV are discussed. Difficulties in extracting neutrino-nucleon cross sections from neutrino-nucleus scattering data are explained and significance of understanding nuclear effects for neutrino oscillation experiments is stressed. Detailed discussions of the status of two-body current contribution in the kinematic region dominated by quasielastic scattering and specific features of partonic nuclear effects in weak DIS scattering are presented.
Mirrlees Meets Modigliani-Miller: Optimal Individual/Corporate Taxes and Capital Structure ⁄

This paper shows why the corporate tax (as a form of double taxation) is crucial for achieving socially optimal allocations in the Mirrlees framework with an additional but realistic assumption that the tax authority cannot tax unrealized capital income at the individual level. Use of the corporate tax requires adjustment of the individual capital tax. This sophisticated tax system is designed to in∞uence the individual agent’s portfolio choice of debt and equity, which in turn endogenizes the leverage ratio. The corporate tax is indeterminate, but there is a minimal level. The socially optimal allocation can be achieved by any corporate tax and properly adjusted individual income taxes. An immediate question is what happens to capital structure if we increase or decrease the level of the corporate tax. In this optimal tax code, surprisingly, the flrm’s leverage ratio is independent of the corporate tax rate, unlike in classical capital structure theories. With respect to the labor income tax, without intertemporal resource transfer, if the tax system provides more (less) insurance against low skill shocks, then the leverage ratio increases (decreases).
SHOCK-WAVE EXPLOSIONS IN GENERAL RELATIVITY 6-30-95

In earlier work the authors constructed a class of spherically symmetric, fluid dynamical shock-waves that solve the Einstein equations of general relativity. These shock-waves extend the celebrated Oppenheimer-Snyder result to the case of non-zero pressure. In general our shock-waves are determined by a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE^s) that describe the matching of a FriedmannRobertson-Walker metric, (a cosmological model for the expanding universe), to an Oppenheimer-Tolman metric, (a model for the interior of a star), across a shock interface. A global exact solution of these ODE'S was found for isothermal equations of state, and in this exact solution, the Big Bang begins with a shock-wave explosion instead of the usual singularity of cosmology. In this talk we discuss new work of the authors in which we derive an alternate version of the general ODE'S, and we use these to demonstrate that our theory generates a large class of physically meaningful outgoing (Lax admissible) shock-waves that model blast waves in a general relativistic setting. We also obtain formulas for the physical quantities that evolve according to the equations. The resulting formulas are important for the numerical simulation of these solutions.
Crisis in the Information Systems Discipline: A Reflection

This paper explores the issue of crisis in Information Systems discipline. It is argued that lack of a clearly shaped identity for the discipline is causing the problem of legitimacy and wide spread acceptance that IS discipline is facing. These problems put the discipline in crisis. Three dimensions of crisis are examined, viz., absence of core theories and concepts, lack of rigor and relevance in IS research outputs, and fragmented nature of IS research. It is concluded that IS research community must create an identity for itself for a better future.
On the meridional ageostrophic transport in the tropical Atlantic

Abstract. The meridional Ekman volume, heat, and salt transport across two trans-Atlantic sections near 14.5° N and 11° S were estimated using in situ observations, wind products, and model data. A meridional ageostrophic velocity was obtained as the difference between the directly measured total velocity and the geostrophic velocity derived from observations. Interpreting the section mean ageostrophy to be the result of an Ekman balance, the meridional Ekman transport of 6.2±2.3 Sv northward at 14.5° N and 11.7±2.1 Sv southward at 11° S is estimated. The integration uses the top of the pycnocline as an approximation for the Ekman depth, which is on average about 20 m deeper than the mixed layer depth. The Ekman transport estimated based on the velocity observations agrees well with the predictions from in situ wind stress data of 6.7±3.5 Sv at 14.5° N and 13.6±3.3 Sv at 11° S. The meridional Ekman heat and salt fluxes calculated from sea surface temperature and salinity data or from high-resolution temperature and salinity profile data differ only marginally. The errors in the Ekman heat and salt flux calculation were dominated by the uncertainty of the Ekman volume transport estimates.
Studies on different concentration of Lead (Pb) and Cadmium (Cd) on growth and accumulation in different parts of Tulsi (Ocimum tenuifolium) L

Present investigation on studies of growth character and its accumulation in different parts of Tulsi under various concentration of some heavy metals (Lead and Cadmium), done at Department of Dravyagunna, Faculty of Ayurveda, Institute of Medical science during the year of 2007.The graded levels of these two metals Cd (0, 20, 50, 100 and 200 ppm) and Pb (0, 50, 100, 250, and 500 ppm) applied after the germination of Tulsi. The plant exhibited a decline in growth, chlorophyll content and carotenoids with increasing levels of Pb and Cd. , more accumulation of Pb and Cd was observed in roots than shoots in 0. tenuifolium L.
Title Acquired resistance of leukemic cells to AraC is associated with the upregulation of aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 family

Acquired resistance of leukemic cells to AraC is associated with the upregulation of aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 family member A2. Author(s) Kawasoe, Misaki; Yamamoto, Yasuko; Okawa, Katsuya; Funato, Tadao; Takeda, Mayu; Hara, Takeshi; Tsurumi, Hisashi; Moriwaki, Hisataka; Arioka, Yuko; Takemura, Masao; Matsunami, Hidetoshi; Markey, Sanford P; Saito, Kuniaki Citation Experimental hematology (2013), 41(7): 597-603.e2
Finite element method application to calculate the friction discs of the hydromechanical transmission control system

In article presents the results of experimental researches of friction elements of a hydromechanical transmission control system, the loadings to which they are subjected. Substantiates the need to improve the methodology for calculating friction discs. Modern automatic transmission with electrohydraulic control can significantly improve the comfort of control reduce fuel consumption through the selection of the optimal control law of the gearshift. The tests have shown that the transmission parts are subjected to significant dynamic loads limiting their durability. In particular, the increased load is experienced by the metal-ceramic discs of the friction control units of the gearshift [1]. Wear and deformation are typical causes of friction discs failure. However, it was noticed a new kind of failure – a disruption discs, which is observed in the developed transmissions as well as in designs world leader in the design and production of transmissions – Allison company (Fig. 1). Fig. 1. Destruction of metal-ceramic discs _________________________________ * Corresponding author: khomichev.alexey@mail.ru © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). MATEC Web of Conferences 224, 02025 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201822402025 ICMTMTE 2018
Identifying Gaps in Institutional Theory

Institutional theory has been applied to various dimensions of extant IS literature. The major part of this literature, however, is dedicated to studying the influence of institutional isomorphic mechanisms at macro level in bringing legitimacy to organisational structure through IT/IS adoption, development, and use. The influences of micro activities and the interplay between macro and micro activities in bringing success and efficiency to the institutionalisation process have been given little attention. This paper utilises the institutional logics concept to identify existing gaps in institutional theory. The proposed framework aims to fill these gaps by utilising institutional theory in conjunction with technology-organisation-environment (TOE) framework. This paper concludes with an illustrative case study of a utility organisation in Australia to show how suitable management of interactions between macro and micro institutional logics through various stages of ERP institutionalisation helped this organisation to experience success and performance, in addition to legitimacy.
Perceived Stressors of Hospitalized Patients’ Family in Cardiac Care Unites: A Qualitative Content Analysis

The present study attempts to justify the factors inducing stress in the families of patients hospitalized in cardiac intensive care units in the east of Guilan province in Iran. The study aims at gaining an accurate understanding on these stressors for appropriate planning directed at removing or decreasing these tension-inducing components. The present study is a qualitative study based upon a conventional content analysis approach. The study population was selected through purposive sampling (28 family members of cardiac patients), and the data were gathered through semi-structured interviews. Data analysis was performed as per the stages recommended by Graneheim and Lundman (2004). The strength and scientific accuracy of the study was also established. The study yielded three main themes and seven sub-themes: Heavy shadow of illness (fear of loneliness on the caring path, fear of disease, poor personal knowledge); Hesitation in the treatment (doubting the efficiency of technology, ungenial healthcare providers); and Economic storm (high cost of treatment, potential economic problems). The study results indicated that patients’ families underwent stress in various areas, pointing to the need for providing adequate training and information on the disease to family members and caregivers, as well as the sympathy of healthcare providers on the treatment path for reducing the disease-associated tensions suffered by hospitalized patients’ families.
Flow Past A Cylinder With Upstream Splitter Plate

This paper reports combined experimental and numerical investigations performed to study the effect of upstream splitter plate on drag reduction of a circular cylinder. The influence of spacing between the cylinder and splitter plate (aspect ratio) and thickness of the splitter plate (thickness ratio) on the flow characteristics of the cylinder is analyzed and discussed. The mathematical model governing the problem is numerically solved using a commercial computational fluid dynamics package ANSYS 14. The simulations have been carried out for Re=20,150 and 6 ×10 4 so as to cover the laminar regime. In order to validate the numerical model, experiments are performed by placing the cylinder along with the splitter plate in a low speed subsonic wind tunnel.
The Game Master : A study on procedurally generated game storylines

As a collective, Mankind has always had a strong desire to obtain entertainment and create stories. From the beginning of our days to the point of technological advance of our era, leisure has adapted and grown to take advantage of the potential of whichever media was available. This is what made video games possible, and with their conception, Interactive Narrative, which allows us to take a role previously never experienced story telling, as spectators were never able to fully become a part of the lore of the story. Although this is a significant difference with traditional media, as soon as we allow our computer systems to be the conductor of our stories, to narrate them and modify them as we play, why can’t we let them take care of making the story as well? In the course of this project we will explore the foundations of story generation and research how we could define creativity to a computer system. We will also consider what previous solutions have been implemented in the past and we will make a small, humble proposal of our own to attempt to answer one of the most complicated questions of this field: Can computer systems be creative?
Model predictive control of nonlinear systems: computational burden and stability

Implementation of model predictive control (MPC) or nonlinear systems requires the online solution of a nonconvex, constrained nonlinear optimisation problem. Computational delay and loss of optimality arise in the optimisation procedures. The paper presents a practical MPC scheme for nonlinear systems with guaranteed asymptotic stability. It is shown that when an initial control profile is chosen to satisfy an inequality condition in each online optimisation procedure, the nonlinear system under the proposed nonlinear MPC is asymptotically stable. The stability condition presented in the paper enables the 'fictitious' terminal control to be nonlinear, rather than only linear, thus the stability region is greatly enlarged. Furthermore, it is pointed out that nominal stability is still guaranteed even though the global, or even the local, minimisation of the objective cost is not achieved within the prescribed computational time.
Evaluation of anxiety and depression in cardiac patients after myocardial infarction

the purpose of the study is to evaluate anxiety and depression levels in cardiac patients after myocardial infarction. To achieve this goal the Beck’s Depression Inventory and Beck’s Anxiety Inventory were used in this study. The results showed that the levels of anxiety and depression were higher in women with myocardial infarction compared with men who had a myocardial infarction.