Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Inside-Out Health: An Integrative Health Education Program for Women in Substance Abuse Treatment

Background: Women in treatment for substance use disorders have been identified as at risk for developing co-occurring addictions (e.g., eating disorders) during and following treatment [1] as well as health-related concerns (e.g., inadequate nutrition, weight gain) [2]. Methods: Two evidence-based programs, Full of Ourselves [3] and Healthy Steps to Freedom [4], inspired the development of an integrative health education program (i.e., Inside-Out Health) designed to promote physical activity, healthy nutrition and positive body image. Forty-nine participants aged 18-59 (M=30.61, SD=6.90) came to the weekly program with 74% of participants attending 4 or more sessions out of 6 and 22% having perfect attendance. Nutrition, physical activity and body image were evaluated at pre- and post- and exploratory questions were included to assess program satisfaction. Results: While statistical analyses did not reveal significant changes in body esteem and physical activity, the Food Choice Questionnaire responses on two subscales (i.e., FCQ-weight control, FCQ-nutrition) approached significance. FCQ-weight control scores increased from pretest (M=.2.24, SD=1.0) to posttest (M=2.55, SD=.74) and FCQ-nutrition scores increased from pretest (M=2.70, SD=.67) to posttest (M=2.82, SD=.68). Discussion: This integrative health education program is an initial attempt to incorporate health education and eating disorder prevention efforts into an existing substance abuse treatment program. This study confirms the feasibility of promoting physical activity, nutrition and positive body image among female substance abuse clients.
Synthesis of Chiral Gold Nanoparticle by Direct Reduction with L and D-Serine and Enhanced Anti-Mycobacterial Activity by D-Serine Protected Gold Nanoparticle

Current situation demands more biocompatible and non-toxic nanostructures. Towards this the present study describes the synthesis of gold nanoparticle by direct reduction of tetrachloroauric acid with both D- and L-enantiomeric forms of the amino acid serine. The formation of nanoparticle was confirmed by examining different physical characteristics like surface plasmon resonance. Moreover, the retention of chirality of the reduced particle was also evident from circular dichroism spectroscopy experiment. In addition, the shielding of the nanoparticle by respective amino acid was confirmed by Scanning Electron Microscope and Energy Dispersive X-ray Analysis (SEM-EDAX). As D-serine is known to be active against Mycobacteria, examination of the biological activity of the D-serine protected particle was performed against the same. The result showed higher inhibitory activity of the particle against Mycobacterium smegmatis than D-serine alone. Thus the present study describes a new protocol for the synthesis of chiral gold nanoparticle that can be beneficial in enantioselective biological applications.
Fig juice Fortified with Inulin and Lactobacillus Delbrueckii: APromising Functional Food

Background and Objective: Nowadays, consumption of functional foods is favored because of their health promoting characteristics. Also there is an increasing demand for nondairy products because of lactose intolerance in dairies. Fig juice as a source of dietary fiber and other nutrients would be a functional food. Adding probiotics and prebiotics makes it more functional for daily use. No study has yet been done on synbiotic fig juice. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to characterize synbiotic fig juice prepared by Lactobacillus delbrueckii and inulin. Material and Methods: Samples consisted of control fig juice; fig juice fermented by Lactobacillus delbrueckii (probiotic) and fig juice containing inulin fermented by Lactobacillus delbrueckii (synbiotic) were produced. Physico-chemical parameters, total phenolic content, antioxidant capacity and microbial survival aspects were analyzed during the fermentation period. Aforementioned parameters were also evaluated in 4 weeks with one-week time intervals. Sensory characteristics of fig juices were assessed in the second week of storage. Results and Conclusion: The results showed significant differences among treatments (p ≤0.05) in physico -chemical indices during incubation and storage time. Total phenolic content and antioxidant capacity of fermented fig juices were significantly increased in comparison to the control samples (p ≤0.05). Viability of Lactobacillus delbrueckii was increased in both probiotic and synbiotic treatments during incubation; but a significant reduction was observed during storage time. Sensory analysis revealed that there were significant differences in terms of odor, taste and overall acceptance between the fermented fig juices and control (p ≤0.05) and the highest scores were obtained for control. Considering viable counts of Lactobacillus delbrueckii depicted that fermented fig juice could be a suitable medium for survival and proliferation of Lactobacillus delbrueckii in adequate amount for health promotion. So this research showed that fig juice can be a potential product for manufacture of a new functional food. Conflict of interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Poetics of Audiovisual Translation: the Barber of Siberia on French Screen

A comprehensive review of poetics from view points of literary studies, cinematography and translation allows the author of the paper to derive a notion of audiovisual translation poetics. It is stated that while translating a film one has to consider a subjective poetic vision of the film director that determines the genre of the cinema of poetry in terms by P.P. Pasolini and J. Genevray. The author’s speculations are illustrated by a case study of the Barber of Siberia, a feature film by Nikita Mikhalkov.
Challenges In Deep Offshore Imaging, West Africa

The deep offshore of the Gulf of Guinea is a challenge to seismic processing and imaging techniques, due to the complexity of the salt body structures and the omnipresence of mode conversions that mask the primary signal. Even though true (Kirchhoff) prestack time migration can recover the top of salt and wide, sedimentary basins (not salt covered), it fails elsewhere. We show that wave equation 3D PreSDM is necessary to properly image target sedimentary reflectors in between and below salt domes, compared to Kirchhoff 3D PreSDM. However, this is true only for synthetic data using an exact model; in practice, the difficulty of deriving a proper model of sediment velocities drastically reduces the difference between the two algorithms. We show further that one of the difficulties of building this model, i.e. masking of sediment pinchouts against salt flanks by strong mode conversions, can be overcome using appropriate filtering techniques.
BEHAVIOURAL ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE (Case Study:SME’s Manufacture Industrial Sector in Jabodetabek)

Behavioral analysisof information technologyacceptance for SME’s manufacture industrial sector isaimto know how far information technology usage, especially computer in course of company operation. Therelation between predictors variable, coveringperformance expectation, strive expectation, social influenceand supporter conditionof information technologyusage, as wellas in circuit withthe moderating effect variable that is gender, experience, and age. Behavior analysis of information technology acceptance for SME’s manufacture industrial sector using test of validity and reliability, correlation of rank spearman, partial correlation, and UTAUT model. Test the validity whendata processed have the character of valid hence will be used innext calculation and moment tested with test of data reliability fromall variablehave the reliable character. While fromthat good correlationtest correlation ofrank spearman and partial indicate thatrelation between predictors variable to use information technology own the very real relation. Also variable moderating/control consisted thegender variable, experience and age influencing predictor’s variable to goodness use storey level and also company performance own the very real relation. There are36 responder with making financial reports usage computer. The predictor variables is performance expectation 0,525**, effort expectation 0,476** and social influence 0,165**. Hal ini tidak terlepas dari sektor industri manufakuritu sendiri yang memang tingkat kegiatan operasionalnya yangcukup tinggi. Variabel moderating/kontrol seperti variabel jenis kelamin, variabel pengalaman, dan variabel umur mempengaruhi variabel prediktor baik pada tingkat penggunaanteknologi informasi maupun kinerja perusahaan. Artinyatingkat penggunaan teknologi informasi dan kinerja perusahaan tidak hanya dipengaruhioleh variabelprediktor saja tetapi juga variabel moderating/kontrol. Third have enough influence reality to usage information technologySME’s manufacture industrial sector inJabodetabek region. Thismatter not quit of manufacture industrial sector itselfwhich istrue mount the operational activity enough. Themoderating/control variable like gender variable, experience variable and of old age variableinfluence predictor variable good usage information technology and company performance.That means the level information technology usage and company performance do not only influenced bypredictor variable but also moderating variable. Key words: small to industry, correlation,moderating effect 1. INTRODUCTION Use of information technology in environmentis effort have become the requirement for every company to reach the efficiency and effective company. Pursuant to intention ofadjustment technology the information hence various available to be information technology application form exploited, for example office application (data processing,calculation, graphical processing),decisionsupportsystem, information system management, and others. Impacts which requireto be studied from attendan
Factors Affecting Performance of Construction Projects

Construction projects located in the Gaza Strip, Palestine suffer from many problems and complex issues. Consequently, the objective of this study is to identify the factors affecting the performance of local construction projects; and to elicit perceptions of their relative importance. The most important factors affecting project performance are: delays because of borders/roads closure leading to materials shortage; unavailability of resources; low level of project leadership skills; escalation of material prices; unavailability of highly experienced and qualified personnel; and poor quality of available equipment and raw materials. Based on these findings, the study recommends that: 1) project owners must work collaboratively with contractors and facilitate regular payments in order to overcome delays, disputes and claims; 2) project participants should actively have their input in the process of decision- making; and 3) continuous coordination and relationship between project participants are required through the project life cycle in order to solve problems and develop project performance.
BST Algorithm for Duplicate Elimination in Data Warehouse

Data warehousing is an emerging technology and has proved to be very important for an organization. Today every business organization needs accurate and large amount of information to make proper decisions. For taking the business decisions the data should be of good quality. To improve the data quality data cleansing is needed. Data cleansing is fundamental to warehouse data reliability, and to data warehousing success. There are various methods for datacleansing. This paper addresses issues related data cleaning. We focus on the detection of duplicate records. Also anefficient algorithm for data cleaning is proposed. A review of data cleansing methods and comparison between them is presented.
Age-specific probability of childbirth. Smoothing via bayesian nonparametric mixture of rounded kernels

The municipality of Milan is one of the most important areas in Italy being the center of many economic activities and the destination of strong national and international immigration. In this context, policy makers are interested in understanding socio-demographical and economical differences among the different urban areas. In this paper we concentrate in estimating differences in fertility among the nine areas of Milan. The knowledge of age-specific fertility indicators, indeed, is extremely useful in order to decide where to build a new nursery-school, where to increase obstetrics departments in hospitals, or which kind of services can be offered to families. To estimate the age-specific probabilities of child-births in the municipality of Milan, we use open-data on the births residents in Milan in 2011. It has recently been observed that the patterns of fertility of developed countries show a deviation from the classic right-skewed shape due to the fact that women tend to have children later. Also, when a large component of immigrants is present, the age-specific fertility rate exhibits an almost bimodal shape, the curve shows a little hump between 20 and 25 years of the woman, presumably due to the presence of subpopulations. To deal with this phenomena and to compare fertility between the nine urban areas of the municipality of Milan, we apply a Bayesian nonparametric mixture model which can account for skewness and multimodality and we estimate the age-specific probability of childbirth.
REGENERATION AND TRANSFORMATION SYSTEM IN EGYPTIAN SWEET POTATO (Ipomoea batatas Lam.) CULTIVARS

Genetic transformation is considered as one of the most favorable options for improvement of crop traits. In this study the regeneration frequency and transformation system were established on the Egyptian sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. ) cv. Abees and Mabruka. The effect of different hormone combinations and type of explant on shoot regeneration was evaluated. The regeneration percentages from Abees and Mabruka cv. 26.3 and 13.3%, respectively were obtained on Murashige and Skoog MS basal salt mixture + 1.0 mg/l BA + 30.0 g/l sucrose + 2.2 g/l Phytagel with Abees cv. and the same media was used for cv. Mabruka with only cytokinin type different as 5.0 Kin and shoots were rooted on MS medium + 30 g/l sucrose and 2.2 g/l Phytagel. The Agrobacterium-mediated and microprojectile bombardement transformation system were successfully introducing the reporter gus and selectable bar marker genes in the sweet potato explants under pressure of 900 and 1100 psi and microcarrier travel distance (6 and 9 cm). Incorporation and expression of the gus and bar genes into sweet potato plants were confirmed using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and GUS histochemical assay. Several factors were found to be important for regeneration and transformation in sweet potato. The most effective factors were plant genotype and the type of explants. Co-cultivation time and optical density of the Agrobacterium suspension were also critical for sweet potato transformation. This work is an attempt to open the door for further genetic improvement of sweet potato using important agronomic traits.
Diagnostics of Hall Thruster Plume by Laser Absorption Spectroscopy

Plume characteristics of a magnetic layer type Hall thruster were evaluated by laser absorption spectroscopy and single probe measurement. Translational temperature and total number density distributions of xenon atom were deduced using an absorption line of XeI 823.16 nm and electron temperature. As a result, the temperature was around 430±50 K in the almost all measured region, which agreed with the thermocouple measurement though it might be overestimated 850 K at the channel exit due to the Zeeman effect. The maximum total number density was 3.9x10 m at the channel exit. Then, the number density decreased by one order at 200 mm away from the exit.
Model of Islamic Monetary Operation for Liquidity Management in Islamic Banking: Case of Indonesia 2000-2009

The paper attempts to construct the model of islamic monetary operation for liquidity management in islamic banking. Particularly, the model investigates variables that determine the role of the central bank in managing liquidity. Firstly , it explores the related conventional models and chooses one to find general variables involved in monetary operations for managing liquidity. Secondly , it formulates the islamic model after considering the islamic monetary operation principles, characteristics of both islamic monetary instruments and Indonesian islamic banking industry. Specifically, it models Bank Indonesia’s islamic monetary instrument called Bank Indonesia Sharia Certificate (SBIS). Thirdly , the model points out that the volume of SBIS is influenced by reserves requirement, currency in circulation, and prior auctions of SBIS. It means that the application of islamic OMO is not significantly different from monetary instrument in conventional OMO. Therefore, the paper suggests the issuance of islamic investment monetary instruments to implement the ideal islamic monetary instrument and OMO.
Evaluation Of P-Possum Mortality Predictor Equation And Its Use As A Tool In Surgical Audit

"Physiological and Operative Severity Scoring system for enUmeration of Mortality"(POSSUM) and "Portsmouth" modification of POSSUM (P-POSSUM) are two scoring systems used to assess mortality exclusively in surgical patients. We wanted to study prospectively the accuracy of P-POSSUM mortality predictor equation in predicting in-patient mortality and compare "raw" mortality with risk adjusted mortality in six general surgery units of our hospital. Patients admitted and operated over a period of four months in six general surgery units of Kasturba Medical College and Hospital, Manipal, India were included in the study. Copeland's scoring system was used to classify patients and the data was analyzed using P-POSSUM mortality equation. Predicted mortality rate was calculated and was compared with observed mortality rate. Results were evaluated by χ2 test. A total of 493(n) patients were operated during this period of study. Of these, 103 patients underwent emergency surgeries. The mean physiological score was 18.93-(S.D.±8.05) and mean operative score was 10.54-(S.D. ±5.24). Among 493 patients operated, we had a mortality of 26. The raw mortality rate in surgical unit II was 3.96% and 5.45% in unit VI. It was lowest in unit V (1.69%) and highest in unit IV (6.41%). After adjusting for risk, it was noted that Observed:Expected mortality ratio was almost equal in unit II and unit VI (0.83 and 0.8 respectively), while it ranged from 0.66 in unit V to 1.25 in unit IV. It was also observed that mortality rates were not significantly different from predicted mortality rates (χ2 =0.75, 4 d.f*, p>0.5 [* degree of freedom]). Thus, at the end of the study it was concluded that P-POSSUM mortality predictor equation predicts death accurately in general surgical patients. Comparing risk adjusted mortality rate is more meaningful than comparing "raw" mortality rate.
Exploring the environmental Kuznets curve for CO2 and SO2 for Southeast Asia in the 21st century context

This study aims to investigate the relationships between economic development and environmental degradation regarding the emissions of CO 2 and SO 2 in Southeast Asia (SEA). The pooling data consist of 10 countries, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, the Philippines, Thaila nd, and Vietnam, in the period 2003‒ 2012. Furthermore, income elasticity of CO 2 and SO 2 emissions is computed for each country to observe the sensitivity of environmental degradation through the emissions of CO 2 and SO 2 brought by economic development. The results indicate that CO 2 displays an inverted U-shape pattern, whereas SO 2 has decreased at an increasing rate since 2003. It is expected that SO 2 will increase as the SEA economies further develop. The turning points for both CO 2 and SO 2 indicate that the current SEA income level has not reached the turning point. The income elasticities show that income elasticities for CO 2 are positive for all 10 countries. Both Singapore and Malaysia are classified as countries with high income. However, Singapore, with 0.64%, has the highest income elasticity, and Malaysia, with 0.15%, has the second lowest. There is no indication that wealthy countries have a significant impact on CO 2 through economic development. Income elasticities for SO 2 of each country are all negative. This suggests that SO 2 is an inferior good. Brunei, with 8.41%, has the most sensitivity toward change in SO 2 emissions, whereas Myanmar, with only 0.58%, is the least sensitive to SO 2 emissions.
Synthesis of Nanosilica from Paddy Husk Ash and Their Surface Functionalization

Nanosilica was synthesized by a chemical precipitation process from paddy husk ash (PHA) efficiently and effectively. Surface functionalization of the silica nanoparticles was carried out with oleic acid (C 18 H 34 O 2 ). Scanning electron micrographs (SEM) data showed that the nanosilica particle size was in the range of 50-70 nm and they were in the agglomerate form. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis data revealed that synthesized nanosilica was in amorphous form showing a strong broad peak at 22.14° (2q). Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) data supported the presence of hydrogen bonded silanol group and siloxane groups in nanosilica. Surface functionalized nanosilica with oleic acid was characterized using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and FT-IR methods. FT-IR experimental data showed that the modified nanosilica formed the ester bonding between silanol group in nanosilica and the carboxylic group of oleic acid with a successful functionalization. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.4038/josuk.v8i0. 7238 J. Sci. Univ. Kelaniya 8 (2013): 33-48
Magnetic flux pileup and plasma depletion in Mercury's subsolar magnetosheath

Measurements from the Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer (FIPS) and Magnetometer (MAG) on the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft during 40 orbits about Mercury are used to characterize the plasma depletion layer just exterior to the planet's dayside magnetopause. A plasma depletion layer forms at Mercury as a result of piled‐up magnetic flux that is draped around the magnetosphere. The low average upstream Alfvénic Mach number (MA ~3–5) in the solar wind at Mercury often results in large‐scale plasma depletion in the magnetosheath between the subsolar magnetopause and the bow shock. Flux pileup is observed to occur downstream under both quasi‐perpendicular and quasi‐parallel shock geometries for all orientations of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). Furthermore, little to no plasma depletion is seen during some periods with stable northward IMF. The consistently low value of plasma β, the ratio of plasma pressure to magnetic pressure, at the magnetopause associated with the low average upstream MA is believed to be the cause for the high average reconnection rate at Mercury, reported to be nearly 3 times that observed at Earth. Finally, a characteristic depletion length outward from the subsolar magnetopause of ~300 km is found for Mercury. This value scales among planetary bodies as the average standoff distance of the magnetopause.
A Joint Estimation Method to Combine Dichotomous Choice CVM Models with Count Data TCM Models Corrected for Truncation and Endogenous Stratification

We update the joint estimation of revealed and stated preference data of previously published research to allow for joint estimation of the Travel Cost Method (TCM) portion using count data models. The TCM estimation also corrects for truncation and endogenous stratification as well as overdispersion. The joint estimation allows for testing consistency of behavior between revealed and stated preference data rather than imposing it. We find little gain in estimation efficiency, but our joint estimation might make a significant improvement in estimation efficiency when the contingent valuation scenarios involve major changes in site quality not reflected in the TCM data.