Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impacts of Rice–Rape Rotation on Major Soil Quality Indicators of Soil in the Karst Region

Arable land resources in karst regions are relatively scarce. The original crop rotation pattern can no longer meet the requirements of productivity development, while different crop rotation patterns have different impacts on the physicochemical properties of the soil. Through field experiments and laboratory analysis, the physicochemical properties and pollution characteristics of the soil during different crop growing stages in rice–rape rotation were investigated systematically. The main results are as follows. During the rice–rape rotation, fine sand in the topsoil experienced the greatest variation. During the rotation, pH variation in the subsoil was greater than that in the topsoil. The soil in paddy fields was poorly ventilated, and the rotation could reduce the redox potential of the soil. In the rotation process, the soil organic matter in the topsoil was higher than that in the subsoil, but the variation of soil organic matter in the topsoil was lower than that in the subsoil. The worst Cd pollution of the topsoil occurred in the seedling stage of rice, while that of the subsoil occurred in the flowering stage of rape; the comprehensive pollution index of Cr and Cd in the subsoil was higher than that in the topsoil. It is of great significance to investigate efficient crop rotation patterns under the conditions of the current productivity for promoting sustainable increases of rape and rice yield, maintaining soil fertility, and improving the soil.
Disease-Specific Knowledge, Physical Activity, and Physical Functioning Examination among Patients with Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain

Physical activity, physical functioning, and pain are some of the most critical factors of low back pain (LBP) treatment and prevention, but it was unknown that the back school program (BSP) influences the physical activity level of the patients with LBP. Data from 306 healthy patients and patients with chronic non-specific low back pain (cnsLBP) were used. We used the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ), the Low Back Pain Knowledge Questionnaire (LKQ), the visual analog scale, and the Roland–Morris Disability Questionnaire (RMDQ). The significance level was set at p < 0.05. The amount of sedentary time in cnsLBP patients enrolled in the BSP was significantly lower compared to the other two groups (p < 0.001). Significantly higher moderate-intensity activities, leisure time activities, and active transportation were observed in the cnsLBP patients enrolled in the BSP than in the other two groups (p < 0.001). RMDQ scores and the pain intensity of the cnsLBP patients enrolled in the BSP were significantly lower than in patients with LBP receiving only exercise therapy (p < 0.001). The physical activity level and low-back-pain-specific knowledge was significantly higher, while back-related disability and pain intensity were significantly lower among patients with low back pain syndrome who participated in a back school program.
1.4: PROFESSIONAL SOCIALIZATION OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS

Today’s clinical learning environments can seem overwhelming. Students in the health care professions face a complex and stressful transition from learners to competent practitioners. How do students make the transition from struggling beginners to fully functioning professionals? The transition occurs in part during pre-service education. However, educating health care professionals is more than teaching them to successfully deliver a series of skills. Students also need to be guided in developing professional values and identity through socialization.
A classification of radial and totally geodesic ends of properly convex real projective orbifolds III: the convex but nonproperly convex and non-complete-affine radial ends

Real projective structures on $n$-orbifolds are useful in understanding the space of representations of discrete groups into $\mathrm{SL}(n+1, \mathbb{R})$ or $\mathrm{PGL}(n+1, \mathbb{R})$. A recent work shows that many hyperbolic manifolds deform to manifolds with such structures not projectively equivalent to the original ones. The purpose of this paper is to understand the structures of ends of real projective $n$-dimensional orbifolds. In particular, these have the radial or totally geodesic ends. In previous papers, we classified properly convex or complete radial ends under suitable conditions. In this paper, we will study radial ends that are convex but not properly convex nor complete affine. The main techniques are the theory of Fried and Goldman on affine manifolds, and a generalization of the work on Riemannian foliations by Molino, Carri\`ere, and so on. We will show that these are quasi-joins of horospheres and totally geodesic radial ends. These are deformations of joins of horospheres and totally geodesic radial ends.
Stories of Teacher Candidates of Color in a Teacher Preparation Program: Using Community Cultural Wealth to Disrupt Majoritarian Narratives

Abstract Society portrays a deficit perspective on teachers and communities of color. Our research serves as a tool to name these inequitable stereotypes and disrupt majoritarian narratives by highlighting the stories of former teacher candidates of color (TCoC). This qualitative research study utilized in-depth semi-structured interviews with each participant to capture their counter stories. This research focuses on the General Knowledge Test (GKT), a licensure examination, which must be passed to gain entrance to the College of Education. Although our participants continued to experience difficulties during their teacher preparation program, they resisted against gatekeeping mechanisms and refused to allow the GKT to dictate their goals of becoming educators. We came to this research with a critical lens to centralize the counter-stories of TCoC and to raise questions about equity and justice. Using Critical Race Theory and Community Cultural Wealth, we attempt to disrupt and dismantle majoritarian narratives regarding TCoC.
Labeled Trees and Spanning Trees: Computational Discrete Mathematics and Applications

In this thesis, we examine two topics. In the first part, we consider Leech tree which is a tree of order n with positive integer edge weights such that the weighted distances between pairs of vertices are exactly 1, 2, . , ( n 2 ) . Only five Leech trees are known and some non-existence results have been presented through the years. Variations of Leech trees such as the minimal distinct distance trees and modular Leech trees have been considered in recent years. In this thesis, such Leech-type questions on distances between leaves are studied as well as some other labeling questions related to the original motivation for Leech trees. In the second part, we consider the question of finding spanning trees under various restrictions. A “dense” tree, from graph theoretical point of view, has small total distances between vertices and large number of substructures. In this thesis, the “density” of a spanning tree is conveniently measured by the total distance of the tree. An edge-swap heuristic for generating “dense” spanning trees is developed by utilizing established conditions and relations between trees with the minimum total distance.
Development of an End-Effector Type Therapeutic Robot with Sliding Mode Control for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation

Geriatric disorders, strokes, spinal cord injuries, trauma, and workplace injuries are all prominent causes of upper limb disability. A two-degrees-of-freedom (DoFs) end-effector type robot, iTbot (intelligent therapeutic robot) was designed to provide upper limb rehabilitation therapy. The non-linear control of iTbot utilizing modified sliding mode control (SMC) is presented in this paper. The chattering produced by a conventional SMC is undesirable for this type of robotic application because it damages the mechanical structure and causes discomfort to the robot user. In contrast to conventional SMC, our proposed method reduces chattering and provides excellent dynamic tracking performance, allowing rapid convergence of the system trajectory to its equilibrium point. The performance of the developed robot and controller was evaluated by tracking trajectories corresponding to conventional passive arm movement exercises, including several joints. According to the results of experiment, the iTbot demonstrated the ability to follow the desired trajectories effectively.
Traps spectroscopy of the Si3Ni4 layer using localized charge-trapping nonvolatile memory device

A spectroscopy method is proposed and implemented for Si3Ni4 layer using the NROM® cell and the gate-induced-drain-leakage measurement. The proposed method allows probing of both electron and hole traps in the entire band gap with almost no fitting parameters. The energy levels of occupied charge traps are extracted following a thermionic emission model. It is found that the peak energy distribution of the electron traps is located ∼2.2eV below the nitride conduction band with a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 0.16eV, while the peak energy distribution of the hole traps is located ∼1.5eV above the nitride valence band with a FWHM of 0.64eV. Based on these results, the retention loss of the NROM cell is successfully predicted over a wide range of temperatures and time scales.
Compact Integrated Transformer – Grid Inductor Structure for E-Capless Single-Stage EV Charger

This article proposes a planar magnetic integration technique that combines the grid inductors and transformer in the single-stage E-capless electric vehicle charger into one core. The proposed integration technique reduces the number of magnetic components; therefore, the cost, total magnetic core loss, and volume can be significantly reduced. Using the integrated structure, the overall converter power density increases up to 11.1% compared to the nonintegrated one. This article also presents a detailed analysis of the optimal printed circuit board (PCB) winding arrangement considering both ac resistance and winding stray capacitance. Due to the high dc resistance of PCB winding, Litz wire was also considered for the proposed integrated structure. The effectiveness of the proposed structure was validated by implementing it on a 3.7-kW prototype of a single-stage ac–dc converter. Results show that the prototype with the proposed integrated structure achieved higher efficiency with both PCB winding and Litz wire. Peak efficiency of 97.17% and 6.55-kW/L power density were achieved.
Automatic left ventricular feature extraction and visualisation from echocardiographic images

A fully automatic system for extraction and visualisation of the cardiac Left Ventricular (LV) features such as ventricular volume, ejection fraction, thickness of the myocardium and wall motion from two-dimensional echocardiographic images is presented. The system has the ability of processing both the Short Axis (SA) and Long Axis (LA) standard echo views. In the proposed system fuzzy logic is used to automatically define a central point inside the LV cavity using knowledge of the standard echo views and the heart morphology. A robust multiresolution edge detection technique based on wavelet transform is then used an conjunction with a radial search algorithm, to define a candidate single boundary point on each radial intensity profile emanating from the predefined central point. Both spatial and temporal median post filtering and Cubic B-spline approximation methods are employed to refine the estimated boundary points and to construct the final closed sequence of LV boundaries. These boundaries together with some appropriate approximating formulae are used to calculate and visualise the above mentioned LV features. Experiments and results with real SA and LA echo images (supplied by Cardiology Department of the Western Infirmary, Glasgow) are presented.
Considering the Subjective Well-Being of Israeli Jews during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Messaging Insights from Religiosity and Spirituality as Coping Mechanisms

Consistent with Terror Management Theory (TMT), COVID-19 has made us question our mortality and past studies have indicated the importance of religiosity to enhance subjective well-being (SWB), however, studies on spirituality’s impact are incomplete. The pandemic has created an environment where both religiosity and spirituality may play a vital role. Israel was selected due to the emergence of Jewish spirituality, a phenomenon that is growing in importance but understudied. In response to these caveats, the current study examines the mediating role played by spirituality on the SWB of the religious during the pandemic. Participants from Israel (n = 138) were recruited via Qualtrics’ online panels. Findings showed Jews’ religiosity was important to enhance their SWB, i.e., religious beliefs bring certainty and happiness to one’s life, especially, during the COVID-19 pandemic. More importantly, spirituality mediated the effect of religiosity on SWB, specifically, spirituality was important to enhance the well-being of low religious Jews. Implications for health messaging during a global pandemic are discussed.
Spatiotemporally heterogeneous deformation, indirect tectonomagmatic links, and lithospheric evolution during orogenic activity coeval with an arc flare-up

Broad overlap between deformation and magmatism in active margins has spurred the development of a conceptual framework of direct tectonomagmatic links in both active and ancient arcs. Although widespread and highly influential, such models have only rarely been critically evaluated. Rigorously linking tectonism, geodynamics, lithospheric evolution, and arc activity requires detailed reconstructions of the spatiotemporal patterns of magmatism and deformation across both a sufficiently wide area and a range of observational scales. Herein, new constraints on the timing, extent, and characteristics of deformation during mid-Cretaceous tectonism in the central Sierra Nevada (eastern California, USA) are synthesized with published geologic mapping, structural studies, and geochronology to create an updated reconstruction of one of the type examples of a hot, magma-rich orogen. Tilted strata, tectonic fabrics, and shear zones with variable geometries, kinematics, intensity, and timing reveal a significantly revised record of ~25 m.y. of heterogeneous deformation ca. 105–80 Ma. Deformation and magmatism show distinct and unrelated spatiotemporal patterns throughout this orogenic episode. Contrary to previous models of direct tectonomagmatic links, many of which were developed in the central Sierra Nevada, arc activity did not control the location, intensity, or kinematics of intra-arc deformation, nor did shear zones control the location of magmatism. Furthermore, arc lithosphere appears to have strengthened, rather than weakened, as the arc-orogenic flare-up proceeded. In addition to changing plate-scale boundary conditions, lithospheric-scale rheological evolution likely played a key role in the patterns of Late Cretaceous deformation observed across strike of the entire Cordilleran margin.
Bibliometric Analysis of Educational Researches on Bilingualism

The aim of this research is to perform a bibliometric analysis of published academic studies on “bilingualism” in the category of educational research in the Web of Science (WoS) database. Research titles were searched using the keyword “bilingualism” in all WoS data bases on the Web of Knowledge Web page. In order to reach a holistic interpretation, the study was done to cover the 51-year time period between the years 1970-2021 by starting from the oldest date available in the database. As a result of the search, the bibliometric data of the 1975 academic study was used as the data set of the study. The bibliometric analysis was used as the data analysis technique in the study. The research topics and orientations of the academic publications examined within the scope of the study were visually mapped through the keywords in the publications. Within this direction, WordArt online word cloud software was preferred. The social network analysis of the keywords of the 1975 academic study on bilingualism that is one of the bibliometric analysis tools, was visualized by using the VOSviewer (Version 1.6.16) package program. As a result of the analysis done, the year 2020 was the year with the most publications on bilingualism in the WoS database. In the field, mostly English publications were made. Most of the detected publications are of the article type. The California State University System – USA ranks first as the institution in which the authors publish on bilingualism. Most publications on bilingualism were done in the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. The country with the most publications and the country with the most cooperation network is the USA. It has been determined that concepts such as bilingualism, multilingualism, bilingual education, language policy, language switching, dual literacy, identity, language ideologies, second language acquisition, code change and literacy are used in scientific publications. It is thought that the study draws a broad framework for researchers in the field and contributes to the field.
Analysis of Fractional Thin Film Flow of Third Grade Fluid in Lifting and Drainage via Homotopy Perturbation Procedure

Analysis of thin film flows is an important topic in fluid dynamics due to the large number of industrial applications such as food processing, chip manufacturing, irrigation, oil refining process, painting finishing, etc. Analysis involves studying the effects of various parameters in absolute conditions. These parameters may be film thickness, volumetric flux, liquid velocity profile, viscosity, shear stress, gravity, density, and different boundary formations. We have expanded the formulations of non-Newtonian third grade fluid for lifting and draining in fractional space. Fractional calculus along with Homotopy Perturbation Method is used for the solution and analysis purposes. The suitability and consistency of the solutions is determined by detecting residuals in each case. Velocity profile, average velocity, and volume flow for lifting and drainage cases are calculated. To the best of authors knowledge, thin film flow of fractional third grade fluid is not attempted before in lifting and drainage. Investigation shows increase in value of fractional parameter that decreases the velocity profile in lifting while increases the velocity in drainage scenario. Also, the frictional parameter and the gravitational parameter have opposite, while material constant has direct relationship with the velocity profile in lifting case. All the parameters showed inverse effect on the velocity in drainage case.
Validation of an Electronic Visual Analog Scale App for Pain Evaluation in Children and Adolescents With Symptomatic Hypermobility: Cross-sectional Study

Background Rapid advances in mobile apps for clinical data collection for pain evaluation have resulted in more efficient data handling and analysis than traditional paper-based approaches. As paper-based visual analogue scale (p-VAS) scores are commonly used to assess pain levels, new emerging apps need to be validated prior to clinical application with symptomatic children and adolescents. Objective This study aimed to assess the validity and reliability of an electronic visual analogue scale (e-VAS) method via a mobile health (mHealth) App in children and adolescents diagnosed with hypermobility spectrum disorder/hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (HSD/HEDS) in comparison with the traditional p-VAS. Methods Children diagnosed with HSD/HEDS aged 5-18 years were recruited from a sports medicine center in Sydney (New South Wales, Australia). Consenting participants assigned in random order to the e-VAS and p-VAS platforms were asked to indicate their current lower limb pain level and completed pain assessment e-VAS or p-VAS at one time point. Instrument agreement between the 2 methods was determined from the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and through Bland–Altman analysis. Results In total, 43 children with HSD/HEDS aged 11 (SD 3.8) years were recruited and completed this study. The difference between the 2 VAS platforms of median values was 0.20. Bland–Altman analysis revealed a difference of 0.19 (SD 0.95) with limits of agreement ranging –1.67 to 2.04. An ICC of 0.87 (95% CI 0.78-0.93) indicated good reliability. Conclusions These findings suggest that the e-VAS mHealth App is a validated tool and a feasible method of collecting pain recording scores when compared with the traditional paper format in children and adolescents with HSD/HEDS. The e-VAS App can be reliably used for pediatric pain evaluation, and it could potentially be introduced into daily clinical practice to improve real-time symptom monitoring. Further research is warranted to investigate the usage of the app for remote support in real clinical settings.
Investigation of a dipolar coupled 8‐qubit system for quantum information processing by NMR

Dipolar couplings among spin‐1/2 nuclei are long‐range and have the potential to yield large mutually‐coupled spin‐systems for quantum information processing. An eight spin dipolar coupled system is investigated for building quantum processors. Transitions between various states are identified and complete energy‐level diagram of the system is constructed with the help of a HET‐Z‐COSY spectrum. Transition selective pulses have been used to implement various controlled operations. Preparation of pseudopure states and implementation of controlled‐NOT and controlled‐SWAP gates are demonstrated.
Flow‐rule integration for quality of service enhancement in software‐defined vehicular network

A software‐defined vehicular network (SDVN) is a concern, where roadside units are connected, and a massive amount of data is accumulated at the software‐defined network (SDN) switches, leading to the flow table overflow problem. Existing works are concentrated more on flow‐rule aggregation in a fast manner at the switches, which impacts quality of service (QoS) at SDVN. QoS‐wise flexible OpenFlow‐rule integration method is proposed to address the challenges of OpenFlow‐table overflow problem in SDN controller switches. By having minimal impact on the QoS of the vehicular network, it reduces the number of OpenFlow rules using a key‐based mechanism. However, we note that choosing a QoS path from numerous paths is important by considering the OpenFlow‐table usage at the switches. Based on this, a flexible‐fit heuristic approach is proposed, which considers the insertions of OpenFlow rule besides with congestion flow rule‐capacity switch on a path while reducing the cumulative number of OpenFlow rules in SDVN. Experimental results of this scheme show that it decreases average end‐to‐end time delay and packet dropping by 37% and 14%, respectively. Compared with the existing scheme, the average network throughput increases by 22%, and also it has a comparable improvement in the reduction of OpenFlow rules at the switches of SDVN.