Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Satisfaction With Health Care in Families Following a Diagnosis of Cleft Lip and/or Palate in the United Kingdom

Objective: Having a child born with a cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) poses several challenges for new parents and can have a significant psychological impact on the family as a whole. Previous research has indicated that dissatisfaction with health care is a risk factor for poor parental adjustment and family functioning. Yet, knowledge is lacking in regard to which aspects of care parents may be dissatisfied with. The current study aimed to comprehensively evaluate health-care satisfaction in families following a diagnosis of CL/P by utilizing data collected from a UK-wide birth cohort. Methods: Self-reported questionnaire data were obtained from 517 parent dyads enrolled in The Cleft Collective Birth Cohort Study. The “Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory—Healthcare Satisfaction Generic Module” was used as the primary outcome measure. Results: Overall, parents were satisfied with the care they had received. However, less favorable scores were identified in relation to the information parents had been given. A good degree of agreement between mothers and fathers was observed. However, marginal evidence suggested that fathers were significantly more dissatisfied than mothers regarding the “Communication” and “Inclusion of Family” subscales. Conclusions: Although the findings of this large-scale study reflect overall health-care satisfaction, issues are raised in relation to the quality of information families received, particularly for fathers. In addition, fathers may feel less included in their child’s treatment pathway. These findings offer practical suggestions as to which areas of care could be targeted by all health professionals to improve parents’ health-care experiences and promote overall familial adjustment.
Silicon is an inducible and effective herbivore defence against Helicoverpa punctigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in soybean

Abstract The role of silicon (Si) in alleviating the effects of biotic and abiotic stresses, including defence against insect herbivores, in plants is widely reported. Si defence against insect herbivores is overwhelmingly studied in grasses (especially the cereals), many of which are hyper-accumulators of Si. Despite being neglected, legumes such as soybean (Glycine max) have the capacity to control Si accumulation and benefit from increased Si supply. We tested how Si supplementation via potassium, sodium or calcium silicate affected a soybean pest, the native budworm Helicoverpa punctigera Wallengren (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Herbivory reduced leaf biomass similarly in Si-supplemented (+Si) and non-supplemented (–Si) plants (c. 29 and 23%, respectively) relative to herbivore-free plants. Both Si supplementation and herbivory increased leaf Si concentrations. In relative terms, herbivores induced Si uptake by c. 19% in both +Si and –Si plants. All Si treatments reduced H. punctigera relative growth rates (RGR) to a similar extent for potassium (−41%), sodium (−49%) and calcium (−48%) silicate. Moreover, there was a strong negative correlation between Si accumulation in leaves and herbivore RGR. To our knowledge, this is only the second report of Si-based herbivore defence in soybean; the rapid increase in leaf Si following herbivory being indicative of an induced defence. Taken together with the other benefits of Si supplementation of legumes, Si could prove an effective herbivore defence in legumes as well as grasses.
A smartphone-based support group for alcoholism: Effects of giving and receiving emotional support on coping self-efficacy and risky drinking

The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature and effects of exchanging emotional support via a smartphone-based support group for patients with alcohol dependence. Of the 349 patients who met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.) criteria for alcohol dependence, 153 patients participated in the discussion group within the Addiction-Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System, a smartphone application aimed at reducing relapse. This was developed to prevent problem drinking by offering individuals in recovery for alcohol dependence automated 24/7 recovery support services and frequent assessment of their symptom status as part of their addiction care. The results showed that receiving emotional support from health care providers improved coping self-efficacy. Giving emotional support and receiving emotional support from health care providers acted as a buffer, protecting patients from the harmful effects of emotional distress on risky drinking. Clinicians and researchers should use the features of smartphone-based support groups to reach out to alcoholic patients in need and encourage them to participate in the exchange of emotional support with others.
Association between MCP‐1 gene and SLE: a meta‐analysis

The MCP-1 -2518G/A polymorphism has been reported to be inconsistently associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)1-4 . To generate large-scale evidence on whether MCP-1 -2518G/A polymorphism is associated with SLE and lupus nephritis (LN) susceptibility. A comprehensive search of the literature was performed in the Medline, EMBASE, CNKI, WanFang, and Cochrane Library databases saved up to June 2018. Two investigators independently assessed the articles for inclusion and consensus was achieved for all data5-10 (see Tables 1 and 2). It is a summary on previous studies and would provide important clues for future studies.
Circadian rhythmicity and the community of clockworkers

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2017 was awarded for the study of the molecular/cellular basis of circadian rhythms in flies. The work was on flies is an example of a principle, repeated in subsequent decades, that simple model systems can uncover universal cellular and subcellular events. We briefly trace how this work opened new fields of research by making it possible to examine how circadian clocks work across many levels of analysis, from molecules, to cells, to tissues/glands and to whole organisms. The Nobel award provided an impetus for reflection: an opportunity to contemplate why research done in the early 1980's drew the Nobel committee's attention so many years later. What anteceded and followed the discovery of the cellular/molecular clock?
Performance evaluation of different classification techniques using different datasets

Nowadays data mining become one of the technologies that paly major effect on business intelligence. However, to be able to use the data mining outcome the user should go through many process such as classified data. Classification of data is processing data and organize them in specific categorize to be use in most effective and efficient use. In data mining one technique is not applicable to be applied to all the datasets. This paper showing the difference result of applying different techniques on the same data. This paper evaluates the performance of different classification techniques using different datasets. In this study four data classification techniques have chosen. They are as follow, BayesNet, NaiveBayes, Multilayer perceptron and J48. The selected data classification techniques performance tested under two parameters, the time taken to build the model of the dataset and the percentage of accuracy to classify the dataset in the correct classification. The experiments are carried out using Weka 3.8 software. The results in the paper demonstrate that the efficiency of Multilayer Perceptron classifier in overall the best accuracy performance to classify the instances, and NaiveBayes classifiers were the worst outcome of accuracy to classifying the instance for each dataset.
A Quick Walkthrough untuk Pengenalan Desain IC

Technology brought by human race has been evolving from known stone age, axe age, wood age and until we now reach the point where semiconductor or integrated circuit (IC) technology support human life. Its implicitly important to us to know, how current technology developed and what possible next technology look like. In this paper, we emphasize the quick walkthrough how our scientist and practical engineer made IC. Furthermore, a cheat sheet provided for a very basic equation we use when we made IC. Experiment on this research performed by using open source software which allow others to redo the same experiment. The outcome of this paper is well-structured introduction about IC technology and global discussion regarding next generation technology. Keywords— electric, integrated circuit, metal-oxide semiconductor, very large scale integrated
MYIASIS IN MAN AND ANIMALS IN THE OLD WORLD

Prior to the work of Cable and Hopp (J. Parasit. 40(6): 674.680, 1954) Neoechinorhynchus emydis (L e i d y, 1851) was the only recognized species of Acanthocephala in North American turtles. To date, a total of five species have been described. Of these, two species (Neoechinorbynchus pseudemydis Cable and Hopp, 1954, and N. emyditoides Fisher, 1960) were recovered from six of 12 Louisiana turtles (Pseudemys scripta elegans (Wied)) examined by Fisher (J. Parasit. 46(2): 257-266, 1960). He (1960) also found N. chrysemydis Cable and Hopp, 1954 in Pseudemys scripta subsp. The data pt . sented are results of studies conducted between the spring of 1965 and the summer of 1966. Seventynine turtles (48 female and 31 males) encompassing seven species (47 Pseudemys scripta elegans (Wied), three P. floridana hoyi (Holbrook), eight Chelydra serpentina serpentina (L.), eight Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis Gray, seven Terrapene carolina carolina (L.), five T. c. triunguis (Agassiz) and one Trionyx muticus (LeSueur) collected from Baton Rouge and vicinity were examined. This investigation revealed the presence of three species of Acanthocephala (Neoechinorhynchus pseudemydis, N. emyditoides, and N. chrysemydis) in Louisiana turtles and confirms Fisher’s (1960) work. Of the seven species of turtles examined, only P. s. e! egans (25 16 females and 9 males) and P. floridana hoyi (2 females) were positive with infection. Three of the 25 P. s. e! egans had mixed infection comprising three species of Neoechinorhynchus while seven had two species respectively. P. f! oridana hoyi represents a host record for N. chrysemydis;
Effectiveness of artificial neural networks in recognising handwriting characters

Artificial neural networks are one of the tools of modern text recognising systems from images, including handwritten ones. The article presents the results of a computational experiment aimed at analyzing the quality of recognition of handwritten digits by two artificial neural networks (ANNs) with different architecture and parameters. The correctness indicator was used as the basic criterion for the quality of character recognition. In addition, the number of neurons and their layers and the ANNs learning time were analyzed. The Python language and the TensorFlow library were used to create the ANNs, and software for their learning and testing. Both ANNs were learned and tested using the same big sets of images of handwritten characters.
Methodological Approaches to Ensure the Competitiveness of Organizations

The present article considers the issues related to competitiveness of domestic enterprises that is one of the high-priority tasks in Russia. The emphasis is made on the globalization processes, requiring from Russian companies a fierce competitive struggle, including an increase in the quality of products and services, cost optimization, profit maximization and certain efforts to improve other factors of competitiveness. In such circumstances, the state is not always able to protect domestic enterprises from global competition, because many protective barriers, designed to support enterprises, apply no longer.
Simultaneous determination of Atenolol, Amiloride hydrochloride and Hydrochlorothiazide using reversed phase liquid chromatography 4038

New, simple, rapid and precise reversed phase liquid chromatographic method has been developed and validated for the simultaneous determination of atenolol, amiloride hydrochloride and hydrochlorothiazide. Chromatographic separation was carried out on a C18 column with a mobile phase consisting of 25 mM sodium acetate anhydrous: acetonitrile: triethylamine (95:5:0.1%, v/v/v) at a flow rate 0.9 ml min-1 at ambient temperature. Quantitation was achieved with UV detection at 280 nm. Linearity, accuracy and precision were found to be acceptable over the concentration range of (5-50 g ml-1) for atenolol, (0.25-2.5 g ml-1) for amiloride hydrochloride and (1.25-25 g ml-1) for hydrochlorothiazide. The optimized method proved to be specific, robust and accurate for the quality control of the cited drugs in pharmaceutical preparation.
Assessment of mouth opening limitation in myogenic temporomandibular disorder patients

This research was to evaluate a new assessment of mouth opening limitation in myogenic temporomandibular disorder (TMD) patients. The suggested assessment was accomplished by calculating the opening ratio (OR) which depends on the ratio between maximum comfortable mouth opening and maximum assisted mouth opening. There was a remarked significant difference in the OR between the TMD patients and control groups. There was no significant relationship between OR with age or sex in both groups. A significant reversible correlation between OR with number of tender muscles and temporomandibular joint tenderness was found. It could be concluded from this research that the OR has diagnostic value in TMD patients, but unlike other measures, as it independent on age and gender.
Stigmella pruinosa (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae), a species feeding on Guazuma and exhibiting extraordinary sexual dimorphism, now known to be occurring from Mexico to Colombia

We document a sample of Stigmella pruinosa Puplesis & Robinson, 2000, collected for the first time in Colombia in 2019. We also provide updated data on the biology and significantly wider distribution of the species, and describe outstanding sexual dimorphism of S. pruinosa. The males possess seven different androconia on both sides of the forewing, upper side of hindwing, and the abdomen. Some of these androconia were previously either unknown or poorly illustrated.
Comparison of GTO-ECV and Adjusted-MERRA total ozone columns from the last two decades and assessment of interannual variability

Abstract. In this study we compare the satellite-based GOME-type Total Ozone Essential Climate Variable (GTO-ECV) record, generated as part of the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative (ESA-CCI) ozone project, with the Adjusted total ozone product from the Modern Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (Adjusted-MERRA) reanalysis, produced at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO). Total ozone columns and associated standard deviations show a very good agreement in terms of both spatial and temporal patterns during their 23-year overlap period from July 1995 to December 2018. The mean difference between Adjusted-MERRA and GTO-ECV 5° × 5° monthly mean total ozone columns is −0.9 ± 1.5 %. A small discontinuity in the deviations is detected in October 2004 when data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) was ingested in the GTO-ECV data record. This induces a small overall negative drift in the differences for almost all latitude bands, which, however, does not exceed 1 % decade−1. The mean difference for the period prior to October 2004 is −0.5 ± 1.7 %, whereas the difference is −1.1 ± 1.2 % for the second period. The variability in the differences is considerably reduced in the later period due to significant increase in data coverage and sampling. In the tropical region the differences indicate a slight zonal variability with negative deviations over the Atlantic, Africa, and the Indian Ocean, and positive deviations over the Pacific. Ozone anomalies and the distribution of their statistical moments indicate a very high correlation among both data records as to the temporal and spatial structures. Furthermore, we evaluate the consistency of the datasets by means of an empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis. The interannual variability is assessed in the tropics, and both GTO-ECV and Adjusted-MERRA exhibit a remarkable agreement with respect to the derived patterns. The first four EOFs can be attributed to different modes of interannual climate variability, and correlations with the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO), the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) signal, and the solar cycle were found.
Research on Control Strategy of Quasi-Z Source Network DC/DC Converter for Fuel Cell Vehicle

DC/DC converter for fuel cell vehicles is required to operate in high voltage gain and wide voltage range conditions, which traditional boost converter is difficult to meet. In this paper, the control strategy of a quasi-zsource boost converter used in fuel cell vehicles is studied. Based on the small signal dynamic modeling method, the double-closed-loop control strategy of voltage and current is adopted. In addition, the input voltage feedforward compensation control strategy is adopted to improve performance in rejecting Input voltage disturbance. A 400W prototype is built for experimental verification. Experimental results show that the proposed input voltage feedforward compensation strategy and double- closed-loop control strategy of voltage and current effectively improve the system dynamic response speed and robustness.
“Men don't want things to be seen or known about them”: A mixed-methods study to locate men in a home based counselling and testing programme in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

While evidence for home based counselling and testing (HBCT) as an effective HIV testing strategy is growing, men are often under-represented in this approach. Following up on a sample of households previously offered HBCT, the study contacted men who had not tested. Ninety men were randomly divided between voice, text or instant message arms, contacted and encouraged to test. Additionally, focus groups were conducted with 10 men and 10 women to better understand the barriers that prevent men from participating in HBCT. Men who answered or replied to the unsolicited contact varied from a low of 23% with instant message to 60% with voice message. Overall, four men self-reported testing for HIV. The two major themes that emerged from the qualitative data were ambivalence towards seeking medical help and psycho-social barriers to HIV testing. These barriers were a discomfort with testing in a public forum, fear of positive results and fears of indirect disclosure due to HBCT. Although feasible and acceptable, this approach requires more work to understand how it could be made more effective and efficient at getting men tested.
Thermal regime, energy budget and lake evaporation at Paiku Co, a deep alpine lake in the central Himalayas

Abstract. Endorheic lakes on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) experienced dramatic changes in area and volume during the past decades. However, the hydrological processes associated with lake dynamics are still less understood. In this study, lake evaporation and its impact on seasonal lake level changes at Paiku Co, central Himalayas, were investigated based on three years of in-situ observations of lake thermal structure and hydrometeorology (2015–2018). The results show that Paiku Co is a dimictic lake with thermal stratification at the water depth of 15–30 m between July and October. As a deep alpine lake, the large heat storage significantly influenced the seasonal pattern of heat flux over lake surface. Between April and July, when the lake gradually warmed, about 66.5% of the net radiation was consumed to heat lake water. Between October and January, when the lake cooled, heat released from lake water was about 3 times larger than the net radiation. There was ~5 month lag between the maximum lake evaporation and maximum net radiation at Paiku Co. Lake evaporation was estimated to be 975±82 mm between May and December, with low values in spring and early summer, and high values in autumn and early winter. The seasonal pattern of lake evaporation at Paiku Co significantly affected lake level seasonality, that is, a significant lake level decrease of 3.8 mm/day during the post-monsoon season while a slight decrease of 1.3 mm/day during the pre-monsoon season. This study may have implications for the different amplitudes of seasonal lake level variations between deep and shallow lakes.
Research on the Impact of Electricity Price Fluctuation on Energy Management Strategy

Energy management strategy (EMS) is an effective measure to improve the energy economy, however, where fluctuant electricity and fuel prices were not taken into account. Since price fluctuations have an impact on rule-based energy management strategies, constant price energy management strategies are not optimal. This paper proposes a novel energy management strategy considering price fluctuation of electricity and fuel for plug-in electric vehicles (PHEVs). Firstly, the electricity price data of partial cities during peak and trough periods are counted. Secondly, a SA-PSO algorithm is used in the rule-based energy management strategy to optimize the key thresholds. The influence of electricity price fluctuation on energy management strategy has been analyzed.
The Pennsylvania State University

As globalization continues to affect employment and economic conditions within countries, it is important to recognize different specific labor systems that affect the workplace and market systems. This paper seeks to analyze the importance of comparative employment relations in the global marketplace between the Dominican Republic and Spain to understand how labor, management, unions, collective bargaining and benefits affect the economic structures of these two countries. Aspects such as culture, geographic location, and employment opportunities also strongly result in different standards within countries. Since these two countries share a long history dating back hundreds of years, one of the main arguments in this paper is that labor and employment relations in Spain and the Dominican Republic contain a strong historical connection based on Spanish imperialism. Along with recognizing the long-held historical relationship between Spain and the Dominican Republic, another focus of this study is to analyze differences and similarities in their modern employment relations systems. The main variables that are incorporated into the study include unions, labor relations, market structure, wages, and modern influence. These aspects of comparative employment relations reveal many different trends among workers in each country. Overall, the labor structures and perceptions seem to be more different than similar in that both the Dominican Republic and Spain have undergone significant changes in their economies since Dominican independence.