Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
IoT for Smart Environment Monitoring Based on Python: A Review

Air pollution, water pollution, and radiation pollution are significant environmental factors that need to be addressed. Proper monitoring is crucial with the goal that by preserving a healthy society, the planet can achieve sustainable development. With advancements in the internet of things (IoT) and the improvement of modern sensors, environmental monitoring has evolved into a smart environment monitoring (SEM) system in recent years. This article aims to have a critical overview of significant contributions and SEM research, which include monitoring the quality of air , water pollution, radiation pollution, and agricultural systems. The review is divided based on the objectives of applying SEM methods, analyzing each objective about the sensors used, machine learning, and classification methods. Moreover, the authors have thoroughly examined how advancements in sensor technology, the Internet of Things, and machine learning methods have made environmental monitoring into a truly smart monitoring system.
Relational Embeddedness and BOP-Oriented Dynamic Capability—A Multi-Case Study

The Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) market is composed of a large number of low-income groups around the world and contains huge wealth that has not yet been discovered. An exploratory multi-case study was conducted to analyze the impact of relational embeddedness on dynamic capability (DC). On the basis of theoretical presuppositions, based on the intra- and inter-case analysis of six companies in the China BOP market, this paper explores how relational embeddedness affects the DC of companies through exploitative learning and exploratory learning. Twelve research propositions are presented and the theoretical framework of relational embeddedness affecting the DC of enterprises is constructed. The study found that mutual trust and reciprocity norms in the BOP cooperation network can promote the acquisition and utilization of existing knowledge and new knowledge of the enterprise, thereby enhancing the enterprise environmental sensing, environmental adaptive, and environmental shaping capabilities.
Sn Quantum Dots for Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to HCOOH

Sn based materials, as low-cost and earth-abundant electrocatalysts, are potential candidates for CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) into liquid fuels. Unfortunately, the low selectivity and stability limits their applications. Herein, we developed an electrocatalyst of Sn quantum dots (Sn-QDs) for efficient, durable and highly selective CO2 reduction to HCOOH. The Sn-QDs were confirmed with high crystallinity and an average size of only 2-3 nm. The small particle size endowed the electrocatalyst with improved electrochemical active surface area (ECSA), which was about 4.4 times of that of Sn particle. The enlarged ECSA as well as accelerated CO2RR kinetics favored the electrochemical conversion of CO2. The Faradaic efficiency of HCOOH (FEHCOOH) on Sn-QDs/CN reached up to 95% at -1.0 V (vs RHE), which exceeded 83% in the recorded wide potential window of 0.5 V. Moreover, the Sn-QDs electrocatalyst exhibited good electrochemical durability for 24 h.
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on some academic aspects of veterinary students of India

ABSTRACT Purpose This paper explored the impact of prolonged lockdown caused by coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic on the academic aspects of veterinary students of India and its relationship with their socio-economic status. Design/methodology/approach We conducted a study with 224 first-year veterinary students engaged in e-learning system from four veterinary colleges of India at the end of 7th week of lockdown using Google Forms questionnaire in a set of multiple-choice questions . The primary data were analysed using the non-parametric chi-square test, Kruskal–Wallis test, Wilcoxon rank sum test and Kendall’s tau-b correlation coefficients using the SAS software. Findings The pandemic situation exerted an effect over the socio-economic and academic aspects of the students. The alternate e-learning system of education was adapted to the veterinary students and the teachers . The techniques of e-learning were mostly useful for the students from less affected family with sound income. Practical implications The study suggests the decision-making for adopting e-learning system of education and also helps to assess the impact of lockdown in versatile socio-economic and diversified institutional infrastructural stratum of India. Theoretical implications Any education is effective when it results in changes of behavioural components such as knowledge, attitude, skill and action of an individual. Based on this basic theory, the study has been conducted, which will help the policy makers to make a strategic plan for the implementation of e-learning system as an effective alternative in teaching and learning of agricultural education system. Originality/Value This study provides a clear dimension about the degree of adoption of the e-learning system as a substitute of physical classroom teaching during crisis situation apart from any gender or institutes.
A Descriptive Analytical Study on Physical Activity and Quality of Life in Sustainable Aging

Physical activity (PA) improves the quality of life (QOL) of older people, increasing overall health and well-being and enabling them to take control over their own lives, and is highly correlated with sustainable aging. Objective: To relate the practice of PA with QOL for sustainable aging. Method: The sample of this cross-sectional inquiry analytical observational ex post facto research was composed of 690 community-dwelling older people of both genders, non-selected volunteers, living in Brazil, present at a road run in Rio de Janeiro, from 30 October 2019 to 12 March 2020, that answered an instrument starting with profile questions, followed by selected questions on QOL from world health organization quality of life for old age (WHOQOL-Old) and on PA from Baecke-Old. Results: The mean age bracket was 65–69 years, 73.6% female. This sample was characterized as active (84%), having university level education (75%), fitting the concept of a high level of QOL (73.35 ± 12.6). QOL was distributed as: 562 (81.2%) at 70–100%; 123 (17.9%) at 41–69%; 5 (0.7%) at 32–40%. Between active and sedentary lifestyle and QOL, the sedentary lifestyle presented a lower QOL score while the active QOL score was highest, with a correspondence with p < 0.001, DF = 2, with 99.9% certainty and Pearson’s chi-square test critical value = 19.2. Conclusion: The sample of older people characterized by high QOL and PA with a university level education suggests the triangulation between advanced education, PA and QOL. The QOL of the older people with high scores was associated with the practice of PA, and low scores were associated with a sedentary lifestyle; this conclusion can be applied to sustainable aging of general society.
Effectiveness of the low-level laser therapy in the management of bisphosphonate-induced osteonecrosis of the jaws: A case report

The aim of this study was to report a clinical case of osteonecrosis caused by bisphosphonates and its treatment with the aid of laser therapy. Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) is a resource used that is characterized by photobiostimulation and photobiomodulation, promoting analgesia and anti-inflammatory effects and can also be a tool for treating osteonecrosis induced by bisphosphonates (BFs), when associated also to drug therapy. The present case is a 63-yearold patient, leukoderma, with thyroid disorder and osteoporosis, making continuous use of medicaments classified as BF’s. He had a dental fracture and sensitivity to cold and treatment started with prophylaxis. After radiography of the dental elements, restorations were performed and tooth extraction (element 46). In the postoperative period, the patient reports pain and a bone exposure were observed clinically in the region of the extracted area, with osteonecrosis being diagnosed. Drug therapy was promptly applied and the use of LLLT was chosen as an adjunctive and supportive therapy. It is plausible to infer the need for attention to patients undergoing drug treatment with bisphosphonates, fully evaluating Research, Society and Development, v. 10, n. 6, e17510615199, 2021 (CC BY 4.0) | ISSN 2525-3409 | DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.33448/rsd-v10i6.15199 2 the best treatment for the possible occurrence of osteonecrosis in view of LLT as an effective complementary therapeutic approach.
Use of full-dose contrast-enhanced CT for extrahepatic staging using Gallium-68-DOTATATE PET/CT in patients with neuroendocrine tumors.

PURPOSE Studies have demonstrated that positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) with Gallium-68 (68Ga)-labeled somatostatin analogues are effective at detecting metastatic disease in neuroendocrine tumors (NET), especially extrahepatic metastases. However, PET in combination with full-dose contrast-enhanced CT (ceCT) exposes patients to higher radiation (~25 mSv). The use of non-contrast-enhanced low-dose CT (ldCT) can reduce radiation to about 10 mSv and may avoid contrast-induced side effects. This study seeks to determine whether ceCT could be omitted from NET assessments. METHODS We retrospectively compared the performance of PET/ldCT versus PET/ceCT in 54 patients (26 male, 28 female) who had undergone a 68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT. The selection criteria were as follows: available ldCT and ceCT, histologically confirmed NET, and follow-up of at least 6 months (median, 12.6 months; range, 6.1-23.2 months). The PET/ldCT and PET/ceCT images were analyzed separately. We reviewed metastases in the lungs, bones, and lymph nodes. The results were compared with the reference standard (clinical follow-up data). RESULTS The PET/ceCT scans detected 139 true-positive bone lesions compared with 140 lesions detected by the PET/ldCT scans, 106 true-positive lymph node metastases (PET/ceCT) compared with 90 metastases detected by the PET/ldCT scans, and 26 true-positive lung lesions (PET/ceCT) compared with 6 lesions detected by the PET/ldCT scans. The overall lesion-based sensitivity for full-dose PET/ceCT was 97%, specificity 86%, negative predictive value (NPV) 93%, and positive predictive value (PPV) 93%. The overall lesion-based sensitivity for PET/ldCT was 85%, specificity 73%, NPV 72%, and PPV 85%. CONCLUSION This study presents the first evidence that ceCT should not be omitted from extrahepatic staging using 68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT in patients with NET. ceCT alone can be used as a follow-up to reduce radiation exposure when the patient has already undergone PET/ceCT and suffers from non-DOTATATE-avid NET.
FinTech Services and Factors Determining the Expected Benefits of Users: Evidence in Romania for Millennials and Generation Z

The purpose of this research is to define the level of significance for various indicators that influence the degree of consumer satisfaction regarding the use of FinTech technologies and services. The most important factors that influence the level of satisfaction when using FinTech services were considered: comfort and ease of use, legal regulations, ease of account opening, mobile payments features, crowdfunding options, international money transfers features, reduced costs associated with transactions, peer-to-peer lending, insurances options, online brokerage, cryptocoins options and exchange options. The study was conducted on a sample of 162 respondents, persons belonging to the Millennials and Generation Z generations. The values of the indicators for different categories of users of FinTech services and different categories of generations can be determined based on the statistical tests performed and the results obtained from the regression analysis. The values of the indicators are the basic elements for determining the regression model that will help the FinTech service vendors to make personalized decisions for each category of users so that the level of customer satisfaction is maximized. The study carried out within the present article is the first of its kind for Romania, because up to this moment in the specialized literature there are no such studies for Eastern Europe. The research we conducted aims to fill the gap existing in the literature and responds to the expectations and needs of stakeholders in the FinTechs’ business area. The results of the article are relevant to both stakeholders and the scientific community that is concerned about the impact of FinTech technologies.
lenguaje malsonante y su traducción: comparación entre los doblajes de filmes anglófonos al italiano y al español

El léxico soez se emplea en la interacción social y cumple, en la mayor parte de los casos, unafunción ofensiva. En los largometrajes los vulgarismos sirven esencialmente para dotar a losdiálogos fílmicos de una fuerza emotiva y para caracterizar lingüísticamente a los personajes;asimismo, son marcas orales que contribuyen a recrear una lengua que resulte natural y verosímil, que se asemeje en la manera de lo posible al hablado espontáneo. En este estudio, basándonos en un corpus paralelo, se ha investigado el grado de mitigación que se registra en las versiones meta italianas y españolas de cinco películas originales estadounidenses y se ha cotejado la frecuencia por minuto de palabrotas moderadas, fuertemente ofensivas y altamente ofensivas en dichos productos. De los datos recabados se observa que la presencia de vulgarismos en las versiones meta españolas es superior en comparación con las italianas y, por tanto, en estas últimas ha imperado en mayor escala la tendencia a la atenuación. Estos resultados coinciden con el número de ocurrencias por minuto de términos y secuencias malsonantes que se han inventariado en un conjunto de filmes de producción propia italianos y españoles. Por consiguiente, se puede vislumbrar que en la cultura española existe una mayor propensión a la inserción del lenguaje soez en los textos fílmicos que en la italiana, en la cual se percibe una mayor reticencia. Asimismo, en ambas lenguas y culturas en la traducción para el doblaje de palabrotas se constata que predominan las estrategias de hibridación y de domesticación.
Child development with the D-score: tuning instruments to unity

The chapter familiarises the reader with an intuitive yet powerful methodology to tune instruments to a common unit, presenting a fresh approach that expresses measurements made by different instruments on the D-score scale. As a result, the reader may compare D-scores between ages, children or cohorts. It shows how to exploit common developmental milestones to bridge instruments and cohorts; presents an analysis to obtain D-scores from 16 cohorts and 14 instruments; compares D-score age-distribution across populations from four continents; suggests an indicator for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals; and defines developmentally-on-track.
Living and Planning on the Edge: Unravelling Conflict and Claim-Making in Peri-Urban Lahore, Pakistan

In Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city, high population growth rates, decades of rural-urban migration, and rampant land and real-estate speculation have contributed to the rapid urbanization of peri-urban land and the engulfing of pre-existing rural settlements. Lahore’s spatial transformation goes hand in hand with an increasingly complex urban governance framework. Historically shaped by colonial planning institutions and decades of political instability as power alternated between military and civilian regimes, Pakistan’s governance practices have contributed to increasing levels of urban segregation and inequality. This raises questions around the in- and exclusionary role of planning in fostering or constraining residents’ access to housing and services. Comparing three vignettes and drawing upon insights gained from extensive fieldwork, this article employs the concept of ‘access-assemblages’ to analyze how access to urban resources—i.e., land, housing, and services—is experienced, disputed, and negotiated in the rapidly urbanizing peri-urban fringe of Lahore. The cases represent different spatial and socio-political configurations brought about by a variety of actors involved in the planning and development of the city’s periphery as well as in contesting development: private developers, the army, the city development authorities, and the residents of affected villages. The analysis unpacks the planning rationalities and mechanisms that reinforce inequalities of access and exclusions. Unfolding practices that enable or hinder actors’ ability to access resources sheds light on the complex layers assembled in urban planning in Lahore and serves as a basis to rethink planning towards a more inclusive approach.
A Theoretical Study on the Catalytic Synergetic Effects of Pt/Graphene Nanocomposites

A detailed understanding of synergetic catalytic effect of graphene−metallic nanoparticles composite is challenging and the heart of the graphene-based catalyst. On the basis of density functional theory, we have theoretically studied the confinement of Pt/graphene composite by using the conversion from the ozone decomposition to the hydroxyl radical generation as the probe reactions, finding that graphene plays a direct role in regulating the electronic structure of the Pt nanoparticles during every step of reactions. Furthermore, an electric field was introduced to guide the charge transfer direction between the Pt nanoparticles and the graphene sheet and to change the electronic state of the Pt/graphene composite. We attribute the presenting synergetic catalytic effect to the transfer of electrons between the π orbitals of graphene and the d orbitals of metal atoms. We believe that our discovery may be of a quite general nature and could lead to new advances and development of a new class of graphene-b.
The dark side of journalism: Understanding the phenomenology of conflicts in the newsroom and the mechanisms intended to solve them

The practice and structural conditions of the journalism craft provide fertile grounds for facilitating the emergence of conflicts in the newsroom. However, extant research on journalism studies have largely neglected the boundary conditions for their emergence and the individual and organizational mechanisms displayed to unravel them. Based on in-depth interviews with 40 Spanish journalists, we conceptualize newsrooms’ conflicts as the dark side of journalism and examine the structural and individual factors that nurtures their appearance. We also clarify the main strategies for conflict management, arguing that conflict resolution is typically based on informal mediation strategies, rather than institutionalized plans directly implemented by news organizations.
Deep Membrane Proteome Profiling of Rat Hippocampus in Simulated Complex Space Environment by SWATH

Despite the development and great progress in the field of space biology, the astronauts are still facing many challenges in space. The space environment in which astronauts stay includes microgravity, noise, circadian rhythms disorder, and confinement, which has deep effect both on the physiology and psychology of astronauts. It was reported that long-term flight could cause the astronauts’ anxiety and depression. However, the underlying mechanism is not yet fully understood. Therefore, in the present study, the rat tail suspension model with noise, circadian rhythms, and confinement was employed to simulate complex space environment. We found that the rats exhibited the depressive-like behavior by the sucrose preference, forced swimming, and open-field tests. The membrane proteome of the rat hippocampus was investigated by “SWATH quantitation” technology both in control and simulated complex space environment (SCSE) groups. Out of 4520 quantified proteins, 244 differentially expressed membrane proteins were obtained between the SCSE and control rats, which were functionally enriched in a series of biological processes, such as translation, protein phosphorylation, brain development, endocytosis, nervous system development, axonogenesis, and vesicle-mediated transport. We found a reduction level of neurexin-2, the light, medium, heavy polypeptide of neurofilament, rab 18, synaptogyrin 1, and syntaxin-1A and an increase level of neuroligin-1, munc18, snapin, synaptotagmin XII, complexin-1, etc., which may play a key part in the development of depression. Furthermore, GSK-3β protein was upregulated in mass spectrometry, which was further validated by western blotting. The results of the study do the favor in designing the effective countermeasures for the astronauts in the future long-term spaceflight.
Modelling and comparative performance analysis of tin based mixed halide perovskite solar cells with IGZO and CuO as charge transport layers

n this study, SCAPS 1D software package is used for modelling tin based mixed halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with IGZO and CuO as electron transport material and hole transport material, respectively. Photovoltaic performance parameters of these PSCs are compared to that of pure lead based and lead‐free PSCs with the same charge transport layers. The study shows that the pure tin‐based PSCs are superior in performance to other device configurations. IGZO and CuO are found to be better substitutes for the commonly used unstable and expensive transport layers, TiO2 and SpiroMeOTAD. The study also shows that back metal contacts with work function above 5.5 eV provides stable performance parameters. The study includes an analysis of the influence of various input parameters of the perovskite absorber layer‐ thickness, dopant concentration, total defect density, band gap and electron affinity‐ on the photovoltaic performance parameters. PSCs with MASnI3 as absorber layer show the best performance with a fill factor (FF) and a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 68.38% and 25.08%, respectively. The effect of internal resistances and temperature dependence are also analysed. For PSCs with single halide perovskites as absorber layer, even a low value of series resistance of 5 Ω cm2 degrades the performance of the device and a large value of shunt resistance of 5000 Ω cm2 enhances the performance parameters of the device.
Unravelling Surface Seawater DMS Concentration and Sea‐To‐Air Flux Changes After Sea Ice Retreat in the Western Arctic Ocean

The receding of the seasonal ice cover in the Arctic due to climate change has been predicted by models to increase climate‐active biogenic trace gas emissions, specifically those of dimethylsulfide (DMS). However, insufficient DMS measurements are currently available to either support or refute this hypothesis and to fully understand the various responses of oceanic DMS in a rapidly changing Arctic Ocean environment. Here, we present high‐resolution surface water DMS data collected in the summer of 2014 in combination with a suite of ancillary variables including sea ice cover, salinity, and nutrients. We show that surface seawater DMS concentrations, generally below 0.5 nmol L−1, remained unchanged in the Canada Basin after sea ice retreat probably due to insufficient nutrients supply to the upper mixed layer and resulting low primary production. Moreover, in the Chukchi shelf region, DMS concentrations decreased following a phytoplankton bloom due to the rapid depletion and slow resupply of nutrients. Although the DMS sea‐to‐air fluxes were not high from a global perspective, they increased by a factor of 4‐fold after sea ice retreat in the Arctic Ocean high latitudes. This increase in DMS flux was mainly driven by increased wind speed. This work provides unique observations and insights on how surface seawater DMS and flux to the atmosphere may change in the future Arctic Ocean.