Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A comparative study of two design charrettes: implications for codesign and participatory action research

The purpose of this paper is to explore how participatory prototyping, through the use of design charrettes, can advance participatory action research (PAR) approaches and contribute to codesign practices in organisational settings. This will be achieved through the comparison of two varying design charrette experiences from a PAR initiative to redesign spaces in the Auraria Library in Denver, Colorado. Each design charrette followed a three-stage sequence of information sharing, idea generation and prototyping, and prioritisation with each stage building upon the former, both in terms of design concepts and in building up elements of ‘making’. While both charrette structures were similar, leadership and execution varied considerably. Lessons learned from the two design charrette experiences are presented, including the value of participatory prototyping within PAR to support ‘research through design’ activities. In addition, it highlights the value of authentic design participation of ‘designing with’ rather than ‘designing for’ to encourage optimal design outcomes.
Macroeconomic Forecasting using Dynamic Factor Models

During the recent period, dynamic factor modelling is gaining importance as one of the key forecasting tools exploiting the information contained in large datasets. The major advantage with the factor modelling approach is that, it can cope with many variables without running into scarce degrees of freedom that often arise in regression analysis. This technique allows forecasters to summarize the information contained in large datasets and extract a few common factors from them. This study attempts to develop a dynamic factor model (DFM) to forecast industrial production and price level in India. For this purpose, domestic as well as external economic indicators, that appear to contain information about the movement of industrial production/ price level, were used. Based on empirical analysis, it is found that the out-of-sample forecast accuracy of DFM, as measured by root mean square percentage error, is better than the OLS regression. JEL Classifi cation : C3, E2, E3.
Radiomics Models for Predicting Microvascular Invasion in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Systematic Review and Radiomics Quality Score Assessment

Simple Summary Microvascular invasion (MVI) is regarded as a sign of early metastasis in liver cancer and can be only diagnosed by a histopathology exam in the resected specimen. Preoperative prediction of MVI status may exert an effect on patient treatment management, for instance, to expand the resection margin. Radiomics can identify delicate imaging features from routinely used radiological images that are invisible to the naked eye and has been increasingly adopted to predict MVI. We reviewed the available radiomics models to evaluate their role in the prediction of MVI. The discriminative capacity of the models ranged from 0.69 to 0.94. Even though the studies were preliminary and the methodologic quality was suboptimal, radiomics models hold promise for the accurate and non-invasive prediction of MVI. In accordance with a standardized radiomics workflow, future prospective studies with external validation are expected to provide a reliable and robust prediction tool for clinical implementation. Abstract Preoperative prediction of microvascular invasion (MVI) is of importance in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patient treatment management. Plenty of radiomics models for MVI prediction have been proposed. This study aimed to elucidate the role of radiomics models in the prediction of MVI and to evaluate their methodological quality. The methodological quality was assessed by the Radiomics Quality Score (RQS), and the risk of bias was evaluated by the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS-2). Twenty-two studies using CT, MRI, or PET/CT for MVI prediction were included. All were retrospective studies, and only two had an external validation cohort. The AUC values of the prediction models ranged from 0.69 to 0.94 in the test cohort. Substantial methodological heterogeneity existed, and the methodological quality was low, with an average RQS score of 10 (28% of the total). Most studies demonstrated a low or unclear risk of bias in the domains of QUADAS-2. In conclusion, a radiomics model could be an accurate and effective tool for MVI prediction in HCC patients, although the methodological quality has so far been insufficient. Future prospective studies with an external validation cohort in accordance with a standardized radiomics workflow are expected to supply a reliable model that translates into clinical utilization.
Forecasting of solar particle event doses using Bayesian inference

This work reports the use of Bayesian inference methods to make forecasts of dose-time profiles due to solar particle event proton fluxes using dose and dose rate values from early in the evolution of the event. Predicted profiles for absorbed dose in water are presented for the September 24,2001, November 4,2001. and November 22.2001 solar particle events. Dose-time profiles are modeled with nonlinear regression techniques that assume Weibull and Gompertz growth curves. Predictions are implemented by Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling techniques. Results for the September 24. 2001 event under-predict actual asymptotic dose and suggest a refinement of the categorization methodology. Predictions for the November 2001 events provide good agreement with the actual dosetime profiles. This work provides encouraging results towards the development of a real-time, event-triggered, advanced warning system.
Recent Advances in Electrical Impedance Sensing Technology for Single-Cell Analysis

Cellular heterogeneity is of significance in cell-based assays for life science, biomedicine and clinical diagnostics. Electrical impedance sensing technology has become a powerful tool, allowing for rapid, non-invasive, and label-free acquisition of electrical parameters of single cells. These electrical parameters, i.e., equivalent cell resistance, membrane capacitance and cytoplasm conductivity, are closely related to cellular biophysical properties and dynamic activities, such as size, morphology, membrane intactness, growth state, and proliferation. This review summarizes basic principles, analytical models and design concepts of single-cell impedance sensing devices, including impedance flow cytometry (IFC) to detect flow-through single cells and electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) to monitor immobilized single cells. Then, recent advances of both electrical impedance sensing systems applied in cell recognition, cell counting, viability detection, phenotypic assay, cell screening, and other cell detection are presented. Finally, prospects of impedance sensing technology in single-cell analysis are discussed.
Disparities in Unmet Needs in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians with Cirrhosis: An Exploratory Study

Purpose Understanding and responding to the supportive care needs of people with cirrhosis is essential to quality care. Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, are overrepresented amongst patients with cirrhosis. This study documented the nature and extent of supportive care needs of Indigenous Australians with cirrhosis, in comparison with non-Indigenous Australians. Patients and Methods The supportive care needs of adult patients diagnosed with cirrhosis attending public hospitals in Queensland were assessed through the Supportive Needs Assessment tool for Cirrhosis (SNAC). Patients indicated how much additional help they needed on four subscales: 1. psychosocial issues; 2. practical and physical needs; 3. information needs; and 4. lifestyle changes. We examined the rate of moderate-to-high unmet needs based on Indigenous status (Poisson regression; incidence rate ratio (IRR)). Results Indigenous (n=20) and non-Indigenous (n=438) patients included in the study had similar sociodemographic and clinical characteristics except for a lower educational level among Indigenous patients (p<0.01). Most Indigenous patients (85.0%) reported having moderate-to-high unmet needs with at least one item in the SNAC tool. Following adjustment for key sociodemographic and clinical factors, Indigenous patients had a greater rate of moderate-to-high unmet needs overall (IRR=1.5, 95% CI 1.31–1.72; p<0.001), and specifically for psychosocial issues (IRR=1.7, 95% CI 1.39–2.15; p<0.001), and practical and physical needs subscales (IRR=1.5, 95% CI 1.22–1.83; p<0.001), compared to non-Indigenous patients. Conclusion Indigenous Australians with cirrhosis more frequently had moderate-to-high unmet supportive care needs than non-Indigenous patients. Specific targeting of culturally appropriate supportive care for psychosocial, practical and physical needs may optimize cirrhosis care and improve the quality of life for Indigenous Australians with cirrhosis.
Ultra-thin body fully-depleted SOI devices with metal gate (TaSiN) gate, high K (HfO/sub 2/) dielectric and elevated source/drain extensions

We report for the first time physical and electrical characterization of ultra-thin (<100-150A) Fully-Depleted Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) n and pMOSFETs using TaSiN gate and HfO/sub 2/ dielectric with elevated Source/Drain extensions.
Active Vision for Deep Visual Learning: A Unified Pooling Framework

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be generally regarded as learning-based visual systems for computer vision tasks. By imitating the operating mechanism of the human visual system (HVS), CNNs can even achieve better results than human beings in some visual tasks. However, they are primary when compared to the HVS for the reason that the HVS has the ability of active vision to promptly analyze and adapt to specific tasks. In this article, a new unified pooling framework is proposed and a series of pooling methods are designed based on the framework to implement active vision to CNNs. In addition, an active selection pooling (ASP) is put forward to reorganize the existing and newly proposed pooling methods. The CNN models with an ASP tend to have a behavior of focus selection according to tasks during the training process, which acts extremely similar to the HVS.
Choice of a PISA selector in a hybrid algorithmic structure for the FJSSP

Fil: Frutos, Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientiificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Bahia Blanca. Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas y Sociales del Sur; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Ingenieria; Argentina
PC-1D version 2: enhanced numerical solar cell modelling

PC-1D is a finite-element program for modeling semiconductor devices in one dimension on personal computers. It has the ability to address complex issues associated with heavy doping, high-level injection, and transients. Significant improvements have been made to the program, resulting in a new version. The authors describe the enhancements and their application to modern crystalline cells, including new provisions for heterostructures, antireflection coatings and light trapping, an upgraded user interface, and unattended operation for optimization studies. <<ETX>>
Necessity of Terrain Correction in Magnetotelluric Data Recorded from Garhwal Himalayan Region, India

The magnetotelluric (MT) method is one of the useful geophysical techniques to investigate deep crustal structures. However, in hilly terrains, e.g., the Garhwal Himalayan region, due to the highly undulating topography, MT responses are distorted. Such responses, if not corrected, may lead to the incorrect interpretation of geoelectric structures. In the present paper, we implemented terrain corrections in MT data recorded from the Garhwal Himalayan Corridor (GHC). We used AP3DMT, a 3D MT data modeling and inversion code written in the MATLAB environment. Terrain corrections in the MT impedance responses for 39 sites along the Roorkee–Gangotri profile in the period range of 0.01 s to 1000 s were first estimated using a synthetic model by recording the topography and locations of MT sites. Based on this study, we established the general character of the terrain and established where terrain corrections were necessary. The distortion introduced by topography was computed for each site using homogenous and heterogeneous models with actual topographic variations. Period-dependent, galvanic and inductive distortions were observed at different sites. We further applied terrain corrections to the real data recorded from the GHC. The corrected data were inverted, and the inverted model was compared with the corresponding inverted model obtained with uncorrected data. The modification in electrical resistivity features in the model obtained from the terrain-corrected response suggests the necessity of terrain correction in MT data recorded from the Himalayan region.
Certificação de fornecimento e custos de transação: resultados do Programa Integrado de Desenvolvimento e Qualificação de Fornecedores - Prodfor

This research had two main purposes: understanding the development of the private institution "Programa Integrado de Desenvolvimento e Qualificacao de Fornecedores - (PRODFOR)", a program directed to the standardization and certification of local suppliers in the State of Espirito Santo; and testing hypotheses related to the program's impact on the transaction costs of the buyer companies. The concepts from the New Institutional Economics were used in order to develop hypotheses regarding the impact of certification on the sponsors' buying performance. The results obtained from the field research and the non-parametric tests of equality of means revealed that the certification caused a reduction on both the ex-ante and the ex-post buyers' transaction costs. Moreover, it was possible to observe that the impact was greater on the ex-post transaction costs.
Optoelectromechanical switch array with passively aligned free-space optical components

An all-optical switch array with micro mirrors driven by electrostatic micro motors has been developed in a LIGA-technique. The system has been designed for single mode application at the telecommunication wavelength of 1.55 /spl mu/m. All fixed optical components are passively aligned inside a LIGA-structured micro optical bench. The signals are detoured inside the optical bench by means of micro mirrors, which are attached to micro wobble motors. In order to avoid angular displacements of the deflected light beams double mirrors are used. First, prototypes with 2 input and output ports have been realized. Two of these 2 /spl times/ 2 switch matrices have been integrated on a 10 /spl times/ 10 mm/sup 2/ ceramic substrate with six micro motors of 1.7 mm diameter. Switching times down to 30 ms have been achieved. The crosstalk between different channels is 90 dB. The insertion loss with passive alignment of the optical elements yielded 3 dB with a repeatability better than /spl plusmn/0.3 dB.
Vehicle Classification Using Gabor Filter and Support Vector Machine

Vehicle classification plays an important role in a variety of applications like surveillance, security system, traffic congestion avoidance and accidents prevention etc. However, this is difficult for computer vision to achieve due to variations in shapes and colors of vehicles. In this paper, we present a vision-based vehicle classification method, which has the capability of classifying a wide selection of vehicles. The vehicle classification method consists of two stages ‐ extraction of features using Gabor Filter and then classification using Support Vector Machine (SVM). The method shows good performance in operating on realistic standard data sets and also confirms robust to partial occlusions.
Decoding the intestinal microbiota repertoire of sow and weaned pigs using culturomic and metagenomic approaches

Abstract To elucidate the role and mechanism of microbes, we combined culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches to investigate differences in gut bacterial composition between sows and weaned pigs. Under anaerobic conditions, several nonselective and selective media were used for isolation from fecal samples. All isolated bacteria were identified and classified through 16S rRNA sequencing, and the microbiota composition of the fecal samples was analyzed by metagenomics using next generation sequencing (NGS) technology. A total of 278 and 149 colonies were acquired from the sow and weaned pig fecal samples, respectively. Culturomics analysis revealed that diverse bacterial genus and species belonged to Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, and Bacteroidetes were isolated from sow and weaned pigs. When comparing culture-dependent and culture-independent analyses, 191 bacterial species and 2 archaeal bacterial species were detected through culture-independent analysis, and a total of 23 bacteria were isolated through a culture-dependent approach, of which 65% were not detected by metagenomics. In conclusion, culturomics and metagenomics should be properly combined to fully understand the intestinal microbiota, and livestock-derived microbial resources should be informed by culturomic approaches to understand and utilize the mechanism of host-microbe interactions.
Quasi-static CFD research of the spool flow valve parameters

ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of the flow rate characteristics study of the new design liquid flow valve. Data were obtained using finite volume numerical simulation in the OpenFOAM package of the spatial flow of liquid in the flow part of the valve. A simplified quasi-static approach was used, which allowed obtaining results at low-cost computing resources. One of the purposes was to show the reason for the difference in the flow-drop characteristic obtained experimentally and from the previously calculated one-dimensional mathematical model. It was found that the coefficient of hydrodynamic force, got in the OpenFOAM package, is greater than is accepted in the one-dimensional model.
Structural Performance Evaluation for Steel Wire-Integrated Deck Plate According to the Diameter of the Lattice Bar

오늘날, 철골조로 건축된 대부분의 고층건물 슬래브시스템 은 데크플레이트를 사용한 합성슬래브이다. 구조용으로 사용 되는 데크플레이트는 크게 일반 합성데크플레이트와 철선일 체형 데크플레이트로 분류된다. 최근 들어 건물의 장스팬화 및 고층화 등으로 인하여 일반 합성데크플레이트에 비해 철 선일체형 데크플레이트에 대한 수요가 급증하고 있다. 철선일 체형 데크플레이트는 고강도 이형철선을 입체형 삼각트러스 형태로 제작하여 아연도 강판위에 용접에 의해 일체화시킨 바닥구조로, 콘크리트 타설 시에는 설치의 용이성 및 작업공 간의 제공 등의 장점이 있고, 타설 콘크리트 자중과 작업하중 에 견디는 단일 휨재로서의 거푸집 역할을 한다(Lee et al., 2007; Lee et al., 2010; Oh et al., 2008). Abstract
Development of native Pseudomonas aeruginosa bioformulations with plant growth promoting potential for apple crop in Himachal Pradesh

Abstract This study was conducted to characterize different plant growth promoting Pseudomonas strains isolated from wet temperate zones of Himachal Pradesh and two best effective plant growth promoting P. aeruginosa strains An-14-Mg and An-15-Mg were tested under field conditions to evaluate their growth promotional effect on apple crop. Maximum production of all the plant growth promoting traits were shown by two Pseudomonas isolate An-14-Mg and An-15-Mg. Maximum phosphate solubilization was shown by An-15-Mg (46 mm) whereas highest siderophore units (SU) were recorded in An-14-Mg (71.23%SU) followed by An-15-Mg (70.12%SU) which were statistically at par with each other. Highest IAA production (95 µg/ml), HCN (++++) and ammonia (++++) production was observed again in Pseudomonas isolate An-15-Mg. Both the strains exhibited 99% level of similarity with P. aeruginosa. The presence of An-14-Mg, An-15-Mg alone and consortium were tested under field conditions to study their effect on percent survival of apple rootstocks, plant height and number of shoots up to 3 years period. Maximum increase in percent survival, plant height, number of shoots, chlorophyll content and available NPK content of soil were observed in consortial bioformulation after 3 years growth observed in apple plants. Both the P. aeruginosa strains were reported first time as plant growth promoter with apple tree, therefore can be used as biofertilizer in apple crop of Himachal Pradesh.
High efficiency, high frequency power supplies for capacitor and battery charging

A power supply incorporating a simple series-parallel load-resonant converter, capable of efficiently charging both capacitors and batteries is presented. The converter can operate with either constant output current or constant output voltage with minimal control. The frequency of operation of the converter is maintained at 82 kHz. Practical results of the converter charging a capacitor bank to 60 V with constant current and operating with constant output voltage across a variable load are presented. A very simple circuit with inherent constant current or constant voltage characteristics is shown to be a cost effective solution to battery and capacitor charging applications. (10 pages)
Better to Forgive or to Forget? Marital Transgressions and Forgiveness in Older Couples

Navigating romantic transgressions in older adulthood is imperative for both relationship quality and longevity, making forgiveness a critical process. The current study examined marital transgressions and forgiveness among 64 older (age range = 56–89), higher-functioning, primarily White, married couples studied at two time points spaced 16.4 months apart. More than half the spouses did not report a transgression in the past year, and not doing so was associated with better marital functioning at both time points. Of the transgressions reported, thematic analyses revealed they fell into six categories (e.g., spouse behaving badly, financial issues), but were overall relatively minor in nature. If husbands engaged in greater avoidance after a transgression, both spouses were less maritally satisfied a year later. Findings suggest more attention to not only forgiveness approaches employed (avoidance of the issue versus avoidance of the person) but also to the potential role of gender and timing in these associations.
Health sciences librarians' engagement in open science: a scoping review

Objectives: To identify the engagement of health sciences librarians (HSLs) in open science (OS) through the delivery of library services, support, and programs for researchers. Methods: We performed a scoping review guided by Arksey and O'Malley's framework and Joanna Briggs' Manual for Scoping Reviews. Our search methods consisted of searching five bibliographic databases (MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, LISTA, and Web of Science Core Collection), reference harvesting, and targeted website and journal searching. To determine study eligibility, we applied predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria and reached consensus when there was disagreement. We extracted data in duplicate and performed qualitative analysis to map key themes. Results: We included fifty-four studies. Research methods included descriptive or narrative approaches (76%); surveys, questionnaires, and interviews (15%); or mixed methods (9%). We labeled studies with one or more of FOSTER's six OS themes: open access (54%), open data (43%), open science (24%), open education (6%), open source (6%), and citizen science (6%). Key drivers in OS were scientific integrity and transparency, openness as a guiding principle in research, and funder mandates making research publicly accessible. Conclusions: HSLs play key roles in advancing OS worldwide. Formal studies are needed to assess the impact of HSLs' engagement in OS. HSLs should promote adoption of OS within their research communities and develop strategic plans aligned with institutional partners. HSLs can promote OS by adopting more rigorous and transparent research practices of their own. Future research should examine HSLs' engagement in OS through social justice and equity perspectives.