Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Digital Health and the Care of the Arrhythmia Patient; What Every Electrophysiologist Needs to Know.

The field of cardiac electrophysiology has been on the cutting edge of advanced digital technologies for many years. More recently, medical device development through traditional clinical trials has been supplemented by direct to consumer products with advancement of wearables and healthcare apps. The rapid growth of innovation along with the mega-data generated has created challenges and opportunities. This review summarizes the regulatory landscape, applications to clinical practice, opportunities for virtual clinical trials, the use of artificial intelligence to streamline and interpret data, and integration into the electronic medical records and medical practice. Preparation of the new generation of physicians, guidance and promotion by professional societies, and advancement of research in the interpretation and application of big data and the impact of digital technologies on health outcomes will help to advance the adoption and the future of digital health care.
Multimodale graphische Kommunikation im pharaonischen Ägypten: Entwurf einer Analysemethode

“Multimodal graphic communication in Ancient Egypt: A method for analysis”: This article presents a method to analyse Hieroglyphic-Egyptian artefacts based on the semiotic approach of multimodality. In a first step, the theoretical background of multimodality research is given and its methodological application to Hieroglyphic-Egyptian text-image-compositions is discussed. In a second step, the method is illustrated analysing a relief from an Old Kingdom mastaba in Giza – the will of Wep-em-nefert (G8882). In a third step, some graphic techniques for information structuring are compared to similar techniques that can be found in Franco-Belgian comics. In indenting semiotic methods of multimodality research with Egyptology, this article presents a new perspective for the investigation of Hieroglyphic-Egyptian artefacts, which opens new grounds for both research areas and for interdisciplinary dialog.
Research on Energy Recovery Method of Virtual Track Train Based on Working Conditions Segmentation Strategy

In order to improve the efficiency of energy recovery of hybrid virtual track train, an energy management method based on the strategy of working condition segmentation is proposed under the condition of known line information. This method adjusts the power allocation of power battery and supercapacitor in different power modes of virtual track train. Based on the environment of MATLAB/Simulink, a simulation system for energy recovery of virtual track train is developed. Then this paper carries on the simulation analysis. The simulation results show that the proposed energy management method can achieve more efficient energy recovery under the condition of meeting the train power demand. After optimization, the power output of the train's power battery is reduced by 9.9%, and the recovery rate of the train's braking energy is increased by 9.3%.
Planned Parenthood as a Public Health Imperative: A Participatory Research Exploring the Use of Contraception by Indigenous Women of Chilcapamba, Ecuador

Background: Government policies have led to an increase in modern contraception use. Rural indigenous populations in countries like Ecuador, however, have relatively lower rates of utilization. Our objectives were to work with the community to identify perceived barriers for contraception use and determine solutions for an indigenous Ecuadorian community. Methods: Using a qualitative descriptive study design based on participatory research principles, focus groups and individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with women in the community as well as semi-structured interviews with physicians working at the regional hospital. All sessions were taped, transcribed, translated and analyzed using descriptive thematic analysis. Results: Women had basic knowledge about contraception, but also had many fears related to false beliefs about side effects. Women using modern contraception spoke of difficulties getting to a doctor to get a prescription. They had a relationship of trust with their partners although men were perceived to have preponderant decisional powers. Physicians suggested creating a mobile team to provide information about maternal health and to distribute contraceptives directly in the communities. Conclusions: There is need for rural communities to have better information and access to contraception. While the Ecuador national contraception policy has made an impact, several practical barriers prevented optimal implementation.
INTRAORAL SCANNING SYSTEMS - A CURRENT OVERVIEW

1. Post Graduate Student, Department of Prosthodontics, KSR Institute Of Dental Science And Research, KSR Kalvi Nagar, Thokkavadi, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu -637215. 2. Head of the Department, Department of Prosthodontics, KSR institute of Dental Science and Research, Tiruchengode. 3. Post Graduate Student, Department of Prosthodontics, KSR institute of Dental Science and Research, Tiruchengode. Manuscript Info Abstract . Manuscript History Received: 30 August 2020 Final Accepted: 30 September 2020 Published: October 2020
The thermodynamics of charged defects in ionic crystals

A generic methodology is developed in this thesis to calculate the thermodynamic contribution due to high concentrations of charged defects in ionic crystals. The aim of this methodology is to allow atomistic defect behaviour, such as correlation between defects, to be included in higher-level simulation techniques, for example, when calculating phase diagrams (using CALPHAD [1, 2]) or obtaining charge-concentration profiles through techniques such as solving the Poisson-Boltzmann equation. A number of Monte Carlo methods (specific-heat integration (SHI) [3], Wang-Landau sampling (WL) [4,5] and nested sampling (NS) [6]) have been applied to a model of a simple solid-electrolyte system. This is an example of a system wherein defects in ionic crystals play a central role in the behaviour. The methods are then used to calculate the thermodynamic properties of the model; for example, it is shown that one can readily obtain the Helmholtz free energy. These properties can in turn be used to parameterise simple regularsolution approaches that allow the provision of a continuum-level description of the free energy. The thermodynamic description obtained from these Monte Carlo methods is compared to those given by more-traditional defect models, such as ideal-solution theory and Debye-Huckel theory, and it is shown that the thermodynamic behaviour of our model system agrees with such a description in the correct limits. The SHI, NS, and WL methods are compared in terms of computational efficiency and ease of implementation, and suggestions are made concerning the applicability of the methods in different regimes. Finally, some suggestions are made as to extensions and further applications of the work.
The thermochromic vanadium dioxide. I. Role of stresses and substitution on switching properties

Abstract The monoclinic ⇔ tetragonal transition occurring at 341 K for VO 2 vanadium dioxide and the corresponding switching of the optical properties can be affected in various ways by thermal treatments, substitution, and pressure. The transition in pure or substituted powdered samples is characterized by thermal analysis (DSC), X-ray (XRD) and neutron (NRD) diffractions, and infrared spectroscopy (IR). The influence of pressure on the transition is discussed from neutron diffraction experiments at high pressure. The anisotropic compressibility coefficients in the monoclinic and tetragonal phases are considered. Some kinetic effects close to T c , the transition temperature, have been observed by X-ray diffraction. The influences of pressure and substitution on the transition are then interpreted from a classical description of the chemical bonds in VO 2 .
The Work of Sales Representatives in the Context of Interactions and Work with Emotions

The article aims to present the interactional encounters undertaken within their professional context by the studied group of Polish sales representatives concerning their emotions and emotional work. It is an internally diverse group made of individuals skillful in managing their emotions, as well as the ones of others. Additionally, the professional group at hand is purposefully trained to acquire skills in the area of managing emotions. The concepts of Everett Hughes (1958) concerning work, Arlie Hochschild (1983) in the context of emotional labor, Anselm Strauss (1993) pointing to the coexistence of emotions and action, and Robert Prus (1997) on the contextual nature of social life are the theoretical underpinning of the article. They all derive from the interpretative paradigm and fit into the theoretical premises of symbolic interactionism, assuming the constant construction of social reality as a result of interactions undertaken by social actors (see: Blumer 2007). It is the nature of their interactions with customers, colleagues, and direct and indirect superiors that determines the specificity of a sales representative’s work situation. The analyses presented in the article are based on qualitative research using unstructured interviews, conversational interviews, and observations.
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF RP-HPLC-DAD METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF NINE DRUGS AND THEIR ELEVEN METABOLITES IN PLASMA AND URINE: PLASMA SAMPLES MEASUREMENTS

A new RP-HPLC-DAD method for determination of nine drugs and eleven metabolites in body fluids was developed. The separation of drugs and metabolites (PAR, SOT, MET, ASP, PRO, NIF, CAR, DEX, KET, PAR-S, PAR-G, MET-H, D-MET, SAL, GENT, PRO-S, D-NIF, ODMC, O-DEX, and KET-G) was achieved using Develosil RP-AQUEOUS-AR5 C30 column in 30 min. The obtained MQL values (0.02 µg/mL−0.23 µg/mL) are suitable for urine/plasma measurements. Correlation coefficient (r2) was higher than 0.98 for all analytes. The recoveries ranged from 72.1% to 115.2% (RSD <6.4%). Chromatographic data were obtained with accuracy in the range from 0.3 to 5.6%.
Chloroplast genome sequence of a yellow colored rice (Oryza sativa L.): insight into the genome structure and phylogeny

Abstract Colored rice is gaining popularity due to its use in creative agriculture and the value of healthy consumption. However, the quality and yield characteristics of most rice varieties still need to be improved. Revealing the genetic background of colored rice is of great significance to promote crop improvement. Here, the completed chloroplast (cp) genome sequence of yellow colored Oryza sativa voucher HSAGSDYD1802 was sequenced and reported. It was a 134,502 bp circular DNA with a typical quadripartite structure, consisting of two reverse repeat regions (IRa and IRb, 20,804 bp) separated by a large single-copy region (LSC, 80,547 bp) and a small single-copy region (SSC, 12,347 bp). The total GC content was 39%. The cp genome encoded 146 genes, containing 100 protein-coding genes, 8 rRNAs, and 38 tRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that O. sativa voucher HSAGSDYD1802 was closely related to O. sativa L. TN1, RP Bio-226 and IR8. This study enriches the genetic information of colored rice and is helpful for future molecular breeding.
Iron Incorporation From Seawater Into Antarctic Sea Ice: A Model Study

Sea ice acts as an iron (Fe) reservoir in the Southern Ocean (SO) where primary productivity is largely Fe limited. The mechanisms leading to Fe enrichment in sea ice result from the combination of poorly understood and largely unexplored physical and biological processes. We analyze the biogeochemical impacts of three plausible idealized formulations of dissolved Fe (DFe) incorporation into sea ice corresponding to (i) constant Fe concentration in sea ice, (ii) constant ocean‐ice Fe flux, and (iii) ocean‐ice Fe flux linearly varying with seawater Fe concentration in a global ocean‐sea‐ice‐biogeochemical model, focusing on the SO. The three formulations simulate different geographical distributions of DFe concentrations in sea ice. Iron in sea ice remains largely uncertain due to the limited number of spatial and seasonal observations, poorly constrained Fe sources and sinks, and significant uncertainties in simulated sea ice and hydrography. Despite these differences, the fertilization effect by sea ice on phytoplankton photosynthesis is qualitatively similar regardless of the formulation considered. Iron incorporation during sea‐ice formation, transport, and melt release, common to all formulations, dominates over differences in sea‐ice Fe concentrations. Formulating the Fe incorporation rate as proportional to seawater Fe concentrations gives the closest agreement to field observations. With this formulation, sediments work in synergy with Fe transport to fertilize the waters north of the continental shelf. Southern Ocean primary production and export production increase by 5–10% and 9–19%, respectively, when Fe incorporation into sea ice is considered, suggesting a moderate effect of Fe‐bearing sea ice on marine productivity.
Combination of Convolutional Neural Network Architecture and its Learning Method for Rotation‐Invariant Handwritten Digit Recognition

This letter presents several combinations of a convolutional neural network (CNN) and its learning method for rotation‐invariant digit recognition. Rotation data augmentation is widely used for improving rotation invariance. Data augmentation commonly assigns the same label to all augmented images of the same source. However, this learning method causes some collisions between original and rotated digits. Thus, this letter presents three types of rotation‐invariance learning methods and applies them to five popular CNN architectures. Experimental results indicate that multi‐task learning on ResNet‐50 is the best combination. © 2020 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
Inhibition experiments on nitrous oxide emission from paddy soils

Rice fields using nitrogen‐based fertilizers play an important role in the global N2O budget. However, our knowledge is still limited with regard to the mechanisms affecting the N2O emission and to the measures that can reduce the emission. This paper reports a study of N2O emission from paddy soils. The effects of urea, hydroquinone (HQ, a urease inhibitor), and dicyandiamide (DCD, a nitrification inhibitor) have been studied in pot experiments with and without rice plants and with and without addition of wheat straw. With no wheat straw amendment, all treatments with inhibitors, especially with HQ + DCD, had a much smaller N2O emission during the rice growing period than the urea treatment, whereas a substantially increased N2O emission was observed from a rice‐free soil with inhibitors. The N2O emission from the rice‐planted soil was exponentially positive correlated with the NO3−‐N concentration in the rice aboveground biomass. By comparing the total N2O emission from the rice‐free soil and from the rice‐planted soil, we found that urea application alone might induce an apparent plant‐mediated N2O emission, being 0.39 ± 0.08% of the applied urea N. Wheat straw incorporated into the flooded surface layer soil could increase the plant‐mediated N2O emission significantly. However, application of HQ + DCD could reduce this emission (0.27 ± 0.08% of the applied urea N, compared with 0.89 ± 0.18% in the urea treatment). It also reduced the N2O emission from the rice‐free soil and from the rice‐planted soil. Stepwise regression analysis indicates that denitrification in the flooded surface layer soil was the main source of N2O emission from this wetland rice cultivation, particularly when wheat straw was added. A significantly nonlinear negative relation was found between the N2O emission and the CH4 emission when no wheat straw was added, but it was hard to quantify this trade‐off relation when wheat straw was incorporated into the flooded surface layer soil.
Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure STEM Teachers’ Instructional Preparedness

STEM education curriculum is an effort mainly targeted for stakeholders to increase students' interest in STEM as well as to meet future workforce demand. Teachers’ instructional preparations are an important part to the overall effectiveness of the teaching and learning process. This study focuses on the development and validation process of STEM Teachers' Instructional Preparedness Instrument (STEMTIP). The study comprises ten steps ranging from development to validation phase. Social constructivist theory, 5E instructional model and STEM teaching and learning approach model were used as the basis for the development of this instrument. There were 51 items initially generated using inductive and deductive approaches which include face validity, content validity, construct validity and criterion validity as were confirmed by the experts’, and statistical results of Rasch model and regression analysis. The reliability analysis also demonstrated acceptable consistency for the instrument. After going through the validity process, a total of 41 items remained as final items for this instrument. Full details of reliability analysis, validation along with implication for practice are discussed. Keywords: instrument development, instructional preparedness, Rasch Model, STEM, validation
Knowledge of The Health Volunteer Team About Basic Life Support (BLS) At Indonesia University of Education

Emergencies often occur in Indonesia due to natural disasters, technology, disputes or fights caused by humans. Accuracy in the way and time in providing basic life assistance is very important to note because it will membenatu continuity of human life. If the assistance provided is too late, there will be a risk of disability resulting in a decrease in the quality of human life itself. The provision of emergency and emergency services in Indonesia increased in 2011-2012 from 98.80% to 100% with increasing complaints from various victims. The purpose of this research is to find out the knowledge of the Health Corps Volunteer Team of the Indonesian Education University about basic life support. Research design with the quantitative descriptive approach, sampling with a total sampling of 60 respondents. Results showed the respondents' knowledge into 2 categories: 46 participants (76.67%), enough 14 participants (23.33%) while there were no respondents. Knowledge is influenced by several factors; some are based on gender, age and the faculty of study. Knowledge of important basic living rocks is given to students in addition to health. Suggestions for increasing knowledge and training on basic life support with the aim of numbers helps to reduce mortality.
Defining the role of occupational therapy with people living with and beyond cancer: Perspectives of British and Irish occupational therapists

Introduction More people are surviving cancer treatment and face challenges in everyday life. Occupational therapists may often interact with people living with and beyond cancer. This study aimed to identify the perspectives of United Kingdom and Irish occupational therapists about their views on the role of occupational therapy with people living with and beyond cancer. Method A cross-sectional online survey was distributed via the United Kingdom and Irish occupational therapy professional associations, social media invitations and snowball sampling. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics. Results A total of 141 occupational therapists (56.6% from Ireland and 43.4% from the United Kingdom) responded; however, some did not answer every question. The largest group were those who worked in publicly funded community service settings: National Health Service, Health Service Executive in Ireland and social care (n = 49, 33.8%), or publicly funded hospitals (n = 45, 31.0%), and 40% (n = 54) frequently worked with people living with and beyond cancer. Participants rated the most common interventions used, therapeutic gaps, barriers to best practice in survivorship care and opinions about further education needed. Conclusion Participants agreed that the occupational therapy role with people living with and beyond cancer was under-developed. The study identified gaps in best practice that need to be addressed to accommodate the predicted growth in numbers of people living with and beyond cancer.
Neural Correlates of Value-Driven Spatial Attention

Reward learning has been shown to habitually guide spatial attention to regions of a scene. However, the neural mechanisms that support this bias in spatial orienting are unknown. In the present study, participants learned to orient to a particular quadrant of a scene (high-value quadrant) to maximize monetary gains. This learning was scene-specific, with the high-value quadrant varying across different scenes. During a subsequent test phase, participants were faster at identifying a target if it appeared in the high-value quadrant (valid), and initial saccades were more likely to be made to the high-value quadrant. fMRI analyses during the test phase revealed learning-dependent priority signals in the bilateral caudate tail and superior colliculus, frontal eye field, substantia nigra, and insula, paralleling findings concerning feature-based value-driven attention. In addition, ventral regions typically associated with scene selective and spatial information processing, including the hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, and temporo-occipital cortex, were also implicated. Taken together, our findings offer new insights into the neural architecture subserving value-driven attention, both extending our understanding of nodes in the attention network previously implicated in feature-based value-driven attention and identifying a ventral network of brain regions implicated in reward’s influence on scene-dependent spatial orienting.
Systematic Interferometric Phase Biases and Their Impact on Earth Surface Deformation Monitoring

In this work we scrutinize the reliability of multilooked interferograms for deformation analysis. Designing a simple approach in the evaluation of the accuracy of the estimated deformation signals, we reveal a prominent bias in the deformation velocity maps. The bias is the result of propagation of small phase error of multilooked interferograms through the time series and can sum up to 6.5 mm/yr in case of using the error prone short temporal baseline interferograms. We further discuss the role of the phase estimation algorithms in significant reduction of the bias and put forward the idea of a unified intermediate InSAR product for achieving high-precision deformation monitoring.