Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Immersive Imagination in Urban Oases of Mindfulness: The VR-SenseCity Toolbox for Sensible,Emotional and Measurable Experiences in Future Smart Cities

Quality of life, health and well-being, as well as the creative potential originating from positive experiences and interaction with our environment and interaction are pivotal human factors underlying a rich and productive social context. Respect and careful treatment of users, i.e., the citizen who will populate, cocreate and co-operate in the scenarios, mandate overarching topics for developing user centered design schematas. Virtual Reality (VR) technologies have recently offered tools to anticipate the affordances of future scenarios. In the serious game VR-SenseCity (Paletta et al., 2017) we created tools for the imagination of affective and sensory experiences, in particular, referring to visual affordances that enable induction of imaginated sensory experiences in real urban environments. We investigated the potential for the motivation of elderly people, in particular, persons with dementia, to encounter their daily environment in positive attitude, with pleasant and aware sensory experiences, the purpose to improve their cognitive reserve (Stern, 2009). The functionalities were developed in cooperation with a Co-creation group of four elderly persons providing substantial critical and constructive feedback for the development of the toolbox.
Cross-Talk between Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Preeclampsia

The occurrence of hypertensive syndromes during pregnancy leads to high rates of maternal-fetal morbidity and mortality. Amongst them, preeclampsia (PE) is one of the most common. This review aims to describe the relationship between oxidative stress and inflammation in PE, aiming to reinforce its importance in the context of the disease and to discuss perspectives on clinical and nutritional treatment, in this line of research. Despite the still incomplete understanding of the pathophysiology of PE, it is well accepted that there are placental changes in pregnancy, associated with an imbalance between the production of reactive oxygen species and the antioxidant defence system, characterizing the placental oxidative stress that leads to an increase in the production of proinflammatory cytokines. Hence, a generalized inflammatory process occurs, besides the presence of progressive vascular endothelial damage, leading to the dysfunction of the placenta. There is no consensus in the literature on the best strategies for prevention and treatment of the disease, especially for the control of oxidative stress and inflammation. In view of the above, it is evident the important connection between oxidative stress and inflammatory process in the pathogenesis of PE, being that this disease is capable of causing serious implications on both maternal and fetal health. Reports on the use of anti-inflammatory and antioxidant compounds are analysed and still considered controversial. As such, the field is open for new basic and clinical research, aiming the development of innovative therapeutic approaches to prevent and to treat PE.
Dependency Tree Annotation with Mechanical Turk

Crowdsourcing is frequently employed to quickly and inexpensively obtain valuable linguistic annotations but is rarely used for parsing, likely due to the perceived difficulty of the task and the limited training of the available workers. This paper presents what is, to the best of our knowledge, the first published use of Mechanical Turk (or similar platform) to crowdsource parse trees. We pay Turkers to construct unlabeled dependency trees for 500 English sentences using an interactive graphical dependency tree editor, collecting 10 annotations per sentence. Despite not requiring any training, several of the more prolific workers meet or exceed 90% attachment agreement with the Penn Treebank (PTB) portion of our data, and, furthermore, for 72% of these PTB sentences, at least one Turker produces a perfect parse. Thus, we find that, supported with a simple graphical interface, people with presumably no prior experience can achieve surprisingly high degrees of accuracy on this task. To facilitate research into aggregation techniques for complex crowdsourced annotations, we publicly release our annotated corpus.
Antioxidants in Health and Disease

This book reviews the basic chemistry of free radical formation in the body, the consequences of free radical induced tissue damage, and the function of antioxidant defence systems, with particular reference to their role in oral disease and oral cancer.As part of a healthy lifestyle and a well-balanced, wholesome diet, antioxidant supplementation is now being recognized as an important means of improving free radical protection. Additional work aimed at investigating the source, function, and regulation of antioxidants may help determine new therapeutic strategies based upon these apparent effects on oral and systemic disease associated with reactive oxygen species.
A 4.6 W/mm2 Power Density 86% Efficiency On-Chip Switched Capacitor DC-DC Converter in 32nm SOI CMOS

The future trends in microprocessor supply current requirements represent a bottleneck for next generation highperformance microprocessors since the number of supply pins will constitute an increasingly larger fraction of the total number of package pins available. This leaves few pins available for signaling. On-chip power conversion is a means to overcome this limitation by increasing the input voltage – thereby reducing the input current – and performing the final power conversion on the chip itself. This paper details the design and implementation of on-chip switched capacitor converters in deep submicron technologies. High capacitance density deep trench capacitors with a low parasitic bottom plate capacitor ratio available in the technology facilitate high power density and efficiency in on-chip switched capacitor converter implementations. The measured performance of a 2 : 1 voltage conversion ratio onchip switched capacitor converter implemented in 32 nm SOI CMOS technology with 1.8V input voltage results in a power density of 4.6W/mm at 86% efficiency when operated at a switching frequency of 100MHz.
Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics

For the importance of protein subcellular localization in different branch of life science and drug discovery, researchers have focused their attentions on protein subcellular localization prediction. Effective representation of features from protein sequences plays most vital role in protein subcellular localization prediction specially in case of machine learning technique. Single feature representation like pseudo amino acid composition (PseAAC), physiochemical property model (PPM), amino acid index distribution (AAID) contains insufficient information from protein sequences. To deal with such problem, we have proposed two feature fusion representations AAIDPAAC and PPMPAAC to work with Support Vector Machine classifier, which fused PseAAC with PPM and AAID accordingly. We have evaluated performance for both single and fused feature representation of Gram-negative bacterial dataset. We have got at least 3% more actual accuracy by AAIDPAAC and 2% more locative accuracy by PPMPAAC than single feature representation.
ANALYSIS OF THE DETERMINANTS OF RURAL HOUSEHOLDS’ ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN IBARAPA AREA OF OYO STATE, NIGERIA

It is a common belief that rural farmers’ livelihoods are susceptible to climate change. Literature has even suggested that locally driven adaptations are critical complementary strategies that can be targeted to reduce the negative effects of climate change in the short-term. This study examined the determinants of rural households’ adaptation to climate change in Ibarapa Area of Oyo State, Nigeria. The paper also assessed farmers’ perceived effects of climate change on their livelihood and the strategies adopted by households to adapt to the effects of climate change, as well as the constraints to their adaptation to climate change. One hundred and twenty copies of questionnaire were administered to household heads out of which only one hundred and eighteen copies were found analysable and used for the study. The results showed that there were several effects of climate change perceived by the farmers. These include poor crop yields, which is the most noticeable effect by farmers. Others are a loss of livestock, environmental degradation, and even psychological trauma. The regression results revealed that several socioeconomic variables significantly influenced rural households’ decision to adapt to climate change. Some of these variables were farmers’ access to weather information, access to credit facilities, farming experience, household size. Some of the challenges rural households encountered in their bid to adapt to climate change were also identified. These were unpredictability of weather, high costs of farm inputs, lack of access to water during dry season and lack of access to timely weather information. It is therefore recommended that government through its agency, Nigerian Meteorological Agency, should provide timely weather information to farmers to help them plan their farming activities. In addition, irrigation facilities should be made available to farmers in the study area so that they can engage in dry season farming and make farm produce available all-year round. This will help boost food security status of farmers and by extension,
Authentication in distributed systems: theory and practice

We describe a theory of authentication and a system that implements it. Our theory is based on the notion of principal and a "speaks for" relation between principals. A simple principal either has a name or is a communication channel; a compound principal can express an adopted role or delegation of authority. The theory explains how to reason about a principal's authority by deducing the other principals that it can speak for; authenticating a channel is one important application. We use the theory to explain many existing and proposed mechanisms for security. In particular, we describe the system we have built. It passes principals efficiently as arguments or results of remote procedure calls, and it handles public and shared key encryption, name lookup in a large name space, groups of principals, loading programs, delegation, access control, and revocation.
EFFECT OF USING SOME ORGANIC MATERIALS ON GROWTH, YIELD AND SOME NUTRIENTS UPTAKE OF SPINACH PLANTS GROWN UNDER SALT CONDITIONS

Apot experiment was carried out in the farm of Fac. of Agric. Mansoura University during the winter cultivation of 2010 and 2011 to investigate the impact of minimizing levels effect of salinity for spinach plant (SpinaciaOleracea) by using some organic materials. Thirty treatments were arranged in split-split block design, which three treatments of salinity levels, S1 (2.55), S2 (4.79), and S3 (6.39) ds /m in 1:5 soil water extraction were assigned to the main plots. Five treatments of organic materials, i.e; farmyard manure (F.Y.M.), chicken manure (Ch.M.),compost of rice straw, wood saw dust (W.S.) and the untreated treatments (control)were allocated in the sub-plots. Each treatment was investigatedtwice; one was sprayed with ascorbic acid and the other without spraying it and arranged in sub-sub plots. Thus, the total numbers of pots were 90 pots. The results of this investigation revealed that; with increasing salinity levels, the mean values of fresh and dry weights (g) of spinach plant leaves,rootsand the mean values of N, P&K uptake (mg/plant) of spinach plant leaves and roots.AlsoCa, Mg & Na uptakes (mg/plant) ofroots were decreased. On the other hand, the mean values of Ca, Mg and Na uptakes (mg/plant) of spinachleaves were increased with increasing salinity levels. Data also indicated that under addition of organic materials, all parameters under investigation were significantly increased.The highest mean values of fresh and dry weights (g) of spinach leaves and roots and the highest mean values of N, P &K uptakes (mg/plant) of spinach foliage and roots were recorded with adding chicken manure, however the highest mean values of Ca, Mg and Na uptakes (mg/plant) of spinach foliage and roots were realized with adding wood saw dust. Concerning the effect of ascorbic acid as foliar application at rate of 400 ppm, it wasfound that all parameters under investigation significantly increased except the mean values Ca, Mg & Na uptakes (mg/plant) of spinach rootswhich were significantly decreased.
Architectedmetamaterials with tailored 3D bucklingmechanisms at themicroscale

Attaining architected structures with unprecedented properties not found in natural materials is a long-sought goal for both materials science and additive manufacturing. Improving the mechanical behavior of engineered materials such as auxetics for bioengineering applications or bistable structures for mechanical actuation depends on the buckling mechanisms governing their response. Despite the fact that the design principles for two-dimensional buckling have been elucidated in previous studies, comprehending three dimensional buckling mechanisms is still tenuous. In this study, we aim to illuminate the buckling mechanisms governing the response of three-dimensional structures at the microscale, providing the critical guidelines for the design of novel metamaterials. In addition, finite element analysis and in-situ SEM — microindentation experiments are performed to investigate how scale effects affect the design principles to architect a controlled 3D buckling mechanism and reflect the mechanical response to the deformation of the structure in-situ. Our findings elicit the design process of tailored three dimensional buckling structures based on the geometric architecture instead of the behavior of the bulk material, while setting a broader framework to fabricate and characterize these structures at the microscale. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Maternal employment, child care, and long-run child outcomes∗

Today, 65 percent of women in the OECD countries with small children (aged 3-5) are working. However, we know little about the long-run consequences of maternal employment for these children. Using unique historical Danish data combined with high-quality administrative data, we examine the e ects of maternal employment on children's earnings and schooling at age 35. For identi cation, we use an IV strategy. As an instrument for maternal labor supply we use variation in child care openings across local child care authorities. We nd that maternal labor supply increases children's schooling (1.3 years) and earnings (25 percent) . JEL no. J13, J21, J22, H40 ∗Acknowledgments: We acknowledges nancial support from the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and innovation (grant DSF-09-070295). We are grateful for the comments of Thomas Dee, Bo Honore, Miriam Wüst, Marianne Simonsen, Rasmus Lentz and participants at the Copenhagen Education Network workshop, October 2014.
The Mediator Role of Employee Empowerment on the Effect of Organizational Learning on Innovation

The requests and needs of consumers change rapidly in parallel to rapidly changing and improving global world. As a result, organizations have to strive with this rapid change and improvement, and even start the change. One of the newest and the main weapons that an organization could have to survive and stand against national and international threats is innovation. Organizations should place importance on such a strong competition tool and search for ways to make sustainable innovation happen. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to demonstrate that organizational learning increases innovation through obtaining, sharing, evaluating, using and storing information. Additionally, the purpose is to demonstrate that employee empowerment plays a mediator role in the effect of organizational learning on innovation. In this research study conducted with 140 employees of a factory that exports to more than 50 countries, structural equation modelling and LISREL software were used. The analyses showed that the vision and open mindedness dimensions of organizational learning affects innovation types (process, strategy, market, product) significantly and positively. Additionally, employee empowerment affects only strategy and product innovation significantly and positively. On the other hand, employee empowerment plays a mediator role in all the relationships between vision and open mindedness, and strategy and product innovation.
Nitrate pollution, but not fin clipping, reduces ecto-symbiont abundance on three-spined sticklebacks

We thank Philippa Ball for technical assistance. AMV was funded by a Marie Curie Fellowship (Para-Tox project: FP7-PEOPLE-2012-327941) and then the Severo Ochoa Program for Centres of Excellence in R+D+I (Ref: SEV-2012-0262) and ‘Ajuts de la Fundacio Barcelona Zoo i l’Ajuntament de Barcelona’.
ForkAES: a Tweakable Forkcipher

In the recent post-CAESAR era, it became clear that authenticated encryption optimized for short messages is a research problem that is both highly relevant, and not yet fully solved. The concept of forkcipher, a new kind of cryptographic primitive, has been proposed as a mean to sidestep the overcome the limitations of AE schemes based on typical primitives (such as blockciphers). This paper introduces a forkcipher construction that is based on the tweakable blockcipher KIASU, which is in turn based on AES.
THE NATURE OF CSR LEADERSHIP Definitions , Characteristics and Paradoxes

In CSR circles, we see the task of creating a more equitable and sustainable world as both a serious challenge and an enormous opportunity. We are convinced that without bold and effective leadership – at a political, institutional and individual level – we will fail to resolve our most serious social and environmental crises. We will also miss out on the vast business opportunities presented by society’s transition to a sustainable economy.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CIGARETTE SMOKING AND NOVEL RISK FACTORS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE.

The aim of the present study was to assess the association between cigarettesmoking and the alteration of plasma concentration of cardiovascular markers. Methods: Twenty male cigarette smokers and 20 healthy age matched male non smokers were included in the study. Plasma levels of fasting cholesterol, triglycerides, High Density Lipoprotein(HDL), Low Density Lipoprotein(LDL), Very Low Density Lipoprotein(VLDL) , C- reactive protein and homocysteine were estimated. Results Both serum total homocysteine and C-reactive protein levels were significantly increased in cigarette smokers than in non-smokers(p<0.001). Fasting serum levels of total cholesterol, triglycerides , LDL, VLDL and total cholesterol / HDL ratio were observed to be significantly higher in smokers than non-smokers(p<0.001). However,fasting HDL concentration was significantly decreased in smokers than non-smokers(p<0.001). In conclusion, our study identifies a strong ,positive relationship between cigarette smoking and elevated levels of all three novel risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Â Interpretation & Conclusion: These findings suggest that inflammation and hyperhomocysteinemia may be important mechanisms by which smoking promotes atherosclerotic disease Key words: Smoking, Homocysteine, Lipid profile, C-reactive protein.
Prophylactic midazolam for prevention of post-operative nausea and vomiting following adenoidectomy or adenotonsillectomy

Aim: Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is a common complication after tonsillectomy. Midazolam is known to decrease postsurgical vomiting. In this study, we investigate the effect of intramuscular Midazolam on postoperative nausea vomiting in children undergoing adenoidectomy or adenotonsillectomy. Material and Method: In a randomized double-blind study, we evaluated 66 healthy children, aged 5–12 years, who underwent adenoidectomy with or without tonsillectomy. Afterwards, anesthesia was induced by inhalation of sevoflurane, rocuronium bromide 0.6 mg kg–1, and fentanyl 1 μg kg–1, and anesthesia was maintained by sevoflurane for all patients. Patients were administered subcutaneous morphine 0.1 mg kg–1 for postoperative analgesia. Patient’s inGroup II were administered intramuscular midazolam 0.1 mg kg–1. The incidence of nausea/vomiting and antiemetic requirement 0-4 h and 4-24 h post surgery was recorded. Data for postoperative vomiting were grouped into the following time periods: 0-4 and 4-24 h. Data were analyzed using a Student’s t-test and chi-squared analysis. Results: No statistically significant different was found between groups in 0-4, and 4-24 hours in terms of median VAS levels (p=0,883 and p=0,881). Although Group II had lower incidence of nausea both in 0-4 and 4-24 hours compared to Group I, there was no statistically significant difference between the groups (p=0,618 and p=0,28). There was no statistically significant difference between the groups in 0-4, and 4-24 hours in terms of median nausea VAS levels (p=0,597 and p=0,982). There was also no statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of rates of additional analgesic requirement in 24 hours, and median additional analgesic number (p=0,197 and p=0,865). Antiemetic requirement rates in 24 hours in Group II were lower at a statistically significant rate compared to Group I (p=0,027). Yet, there was no statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of median antiemetic number in 24 hours (p=0,070). Conclusion: For children undergoing tonsillectomy, intraoperative midazolam treatment does not provide a prophylaxis against postoperative vomiting.