Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cross Sectional Study on Characteristics of Bipolar Disorder Association with Alcohol Dependence in a Tertiary Care Center in South India

Bipolar disorders are commonly associated with other psychiatric disorders, which influence the course, severity and outcome of the disorder Aim: to study the association of alcohol dependence on bipolar disorder and to compare bipolar patients without alcohol dependence in tertiary care center in south India Methods : A total of 83 patients with age of 18-65 years who were admitted in the acute in-patient ward of the Institute of mental Health were administered M.I. N.I PLUS neuropsychiatric interview module and the patients who fulfil the diagnostic criteria for BPAD after ruling out the secondary causes of mood disorder were included in the study. The scales utilized to study the alcohol dependence association with bipolar disorder are in the form of illness variables and symptoms severity. Results: Group-A (n=42) patients with bipolar disorder and co-morbid alcohol dependence and group-B (n=41) patients with bipolar disorder without alcohol dependence (Group-B) was noted in our study. Strong positive correlation between severity of alcohol dependence score and YMRS score, functioning score, positive scale of PANSS and aggression scores noted and Only treatment adherence, family H/o BPD and family H/o alcohol dependence show significance in the present study. Conclusion : Increase in severity of alcohol dependence is associated with severity of Bipolar disorder.
Towards more efficient screening of pharmaceutical cocrystals

Pharmaceutical cocrystals are formed between active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and coformers that are biologically safe. Cocrystals are of considerable relevance to the pharmaceutical industry as they offer the ability of optimizing the physical properties of an API whilst retaining its biological function. However, producing cocrystals is experimentally challenging and often results in undesired forms. The objective of work presented herein is to investigate a more effective screening approach. Assuming that the formation of cocrystals is thermodynamically driven, we tested whether a contemporary computational methodology can account for the formation of 26 known cocrystals. By comparing their calculated lattice energies with the sum of their components we found the majority of cocrystals to be thermodynamically more stable, implying that this computational method is sufficient and could be applied to the prediction of cocrystal formation. An experimental screening procedure for the formation of succinic acid and 4-aminobenzoic acid cocrystals was explored. Grinding and hot stage microscopy experiments provided a rapid indication of cocrystal formation. For systems showing an indication of cocrystal formation, more extensive screening was carried out using slow solvent evaporation with a diverse variety of solvents to grow single crystals for X-ray structural determination. The results produced 4 novel cocrystals. Finally a multistage computational process was used to generate lattice energy landscapes for succinic acid•2,2´-bipyridine and succinic acid•1,4-dicyanobenzene cocrystals and their components. Analysis of these landscapes rationalized why only one of these cocrystals had been formed in the experimental screening. This thesis shows that computational methods can be used as a complementary technique to experimental screening of cocrystals. The calculations could have been performed prior to the experimental work and so have the potential to narrow down experimental investigations to the most promising candidates.
Perpetrators’ Profiles in Urban Patriarchies: An Investigation of Domestic Violence against Men in Ibadan, Nigeria

In urban patriarchies, the voices of male-victims of Domestic Violenceare relegated to the background. Tounderstand the rootsand improve risk prediction,there isneed to profile female perpetrators of domestic violence against men. This paper bridges this gap by characterizing female offenders and typifying profiles in an exploratory crosssectional study of female perpetrators in Ibadan. Akiwowo’s variation in the theme of sociation was used to explain this paper. Quantitative and qualitative data were obtained from a total of 120 male victims of domestic violence from Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State, using purposive and snowball sampling techniques. Data were analyzed using inferential statistics and typologies.Traits that prompted abuse of partners among women included economic independence, physical size, peer-influence, developmental issues, substance use and abuse, the need for retaliation, and a troublesome nature.Seven profile types of perpetrators were identified in this light. This paper affirms that perpetrators of DVAM are varied and refutes notions that give the impression that men are only abusive to women while women are passive recipients of abuse.
CSRs Knowledge and Management of Corporate Social Responsibility in Pakistan

The aim of the study is to collect first-hand information from the corporate practitioners regarding the “why” “how” “when” and “where” of corporate social responsibility (CSR hereafter) by conducting an interview session with the companies listed on the Pakistan Stock exchange. It was observed that the involvement in CSR is beneficial for firm performance and affected by external forces (institutional forces) and internal features (firm’s resources). In addition, the priority of stakeholders and the urgency of CSR dimensions (CSR’s pyramid) are well understood in the context of Pakistan too.
Anomaly in optical thickness monitoring of a quarterwave thin film multilayer stack — Its cause and how to avoid it

During the optical monitoring of a quarterwave thin film optical multilayer stack being deposited sequentially on a substrate in a deposition chamber, the intensity of the light beam transmitted through or reflected from the monitoring plate goes through a series of turning points (maxima and minima). The deposition of a film is stopped at a turning point in order to obtain a quarterwave thick film at the monitoring wavelength. In most of the cases, the maxima and minima occur sequentially. However, during the deposition of some quarterwave multilayer stacks a maximum is not followed by a minimum (or vice versa) during the deposition of successive films. Rather, the intensity may change slightly in the opposite direction to that which is expected or not change appreciably, making the monitoring of the deposited film thickness difficult, if not impossible. This occurs when the effective refractive index of the multilayer stack is very close to the refractive index of the film to be deposited next. Either an alternative method of monitoring the thickness of that particular film has to be adopted, or fresh monitoring plates have to be used at crucial stages during the sequential deposition of the multilayer stack.
Influence of the wave dispersion phenomenon on the flicker generated by a wave farm

— The inherently fluctuating nature of waves may be reflected to some extent in the power output of wave energy converters (WECs). These fluctuations can induce voltage fluctuations which can potentially generate flicker. Hence, wave farm managers will be required to demonstrate that their farm is compliant with grid codes and similar regulations, in order to be granted grid connection. This is usually performed through grid impact assessment studies by means of numerical power system simulators. However, in many studies, the electrical power output of a wave farm is calculated as the sum of identical power profiles corresponding to a single WEC, each shifted by a random time delay. Hence, this approach does not take into account the wave dispersion phenomenon. A comparative study was performed, and is presented in this paper, for assessing the validity of neglecting the influence of this phenomenon on flicker. This study is expected to contribute in defining the required level of hydrodynamic detail necessary for simulating the output power of a wave farm when it is to be used for flicker analyses.
Moderation of [CO2]-induced gas exchange responses by elevated tropospheric O3 in trembling aspen and sugar maple

The greenhouse gases CO2 and 03 are increasing in the earth's atmosphere. Little is known about long-term impacts of these two co-occurring gases on forest trees. We have been examining the impacts of these two gases on the physiology and growth of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) and sugar maple (Acer saccharum) in an open-air exposure system in northern Wisconsin, USA for the past 5 years.
Etude expérimentale et numérique de la propagation de flammes prémélangées turbulentes dans une atmosphère pauvre en hydrogène et humide

L'objet de la these est l'amelioration de l'evaluation du risque hydrogene dans les reacteurs nucleaires, dans le cas ou les melanges pauvres donnent lieu a des deflagrations accelerees. Dans ce but les proprietes explosives des melanges hydrogene/air/diluant ont ete etudiees avec deux dispositifs : (1) une bombe spherique afin de determiner les proprietes des flammes laminaires (vitesse fondamentale a etirement nul, energie globale d'activation, nombre de Zeldovich, longueur de Markstein. . . ). (2) Une ENceinte d'ACCEleration de Flamme (ENACCEF) hautement instrumentee et encombree d'obstacles afin de d'observer l'acceleration de flammes. Le premier dispositif a permis la validation d'un modele de cinetique chimique et la formulation de la vitesse normale de combustion parametree des conditions initiales (composition, temperature, pression). L'etude des accelerations de flammes (jusqu'a 600m/s) en presence d'obstacles a mis en evidence les influences sur les profils de vitesse de flamme, du taux de blocage, de la forme des obstacles, de la composition du melange reactif ainsi que de la presence de gradients de concentration. Enfin, une etude de simulation numerique portant sur des flammes laminaires et accelerees a permis d'ameliorer le code de calcul TONUS en introduisant un suivi fin de la position de flamme. Les experiences en bombe spherique ont ete reproduites grâce a la mise au point d'une correlation entre le taux numerique de combustion et la richesse. La modelisation a conduit a une meilleure comprehension des phenomenes d'acceleration de flamme. La prise en compte, dans le code, des pertes thermiques a ameliore la simulation des experiences d'acceleration de flamme.
PRODUTIVIDADE DE HÍBRIDOS DE MILHO EM FUNÇÃO DO ESPAÇAMENTO E DA POPULAÇÃO DE PLANTAS EM SISTEMA DE PLANTIO CONVENCIONAL

O espacamento e a populacao de plantas afetam a produtividade do milho. Objetivou-se, com o presente trabalho, avaliar o efeito da populacao de plantas e do espacamento entrelinhas sobre o crescimento e a produtividade de dois hibridos de milho. O experimento foi realizado em sistema de cultivo convencional no municipio de Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso, em um Latossolo Vermelho Amarelo distrofico. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi o de blocos ao acaso, em esquema fatorial 3x2x2, com tres repeticoes, sendo tres densidades de semeadura da cultura do milho (40.000, 60.000 e 80.000 plantas ha -1 ), dois espacamentos entrelinhas (0,45 m e 0,90 m) e dois hibridos de milho (AS 32 e AS 1540). Foram avaliadas as variaveis de crescimento (altura de plantas, altura de insercao de espiga, comprimento do entreno e diâmetro de colmo) e os componentes de producao (comprimento da espiga, diâmetro da espiga, massa do sabugo, diâmetro do sabugo, numero de graos por fileira, fileiras por espiga e massa de 100 graos), alem da produtividade de graos. Os hibridos estudados (AS 32 e AS 1540) apresentam respostas semelhantes para as variaveis de crescimento (altura de insercao de espiga, altura de plantas, comprimento do entreno e diâmetro do colmo) e produtividade de graos. O espacamento de 0,45 m entrelinhas promove aumento de produtividade de graos de 17,2% em relacao ao espacamento de 0,90 m, sendo o comprimento da espiga e o numero de graos por fileira os principais responsaveis por esse aumento. As densidades de 60.000 e 80.000 plantas ha -1 proporcionam incremento na produtividade de graos de 12,5 e 13,6%, respectivamente, quando comparadas a populacao de 40.000 plantas ha -1 .
Evaluation of Nursing Information Systems Using the HIS-Monitor Instrument: Nurses Perspectives

Introduction: Nurses are one of the largest providers of health and treatment services in the healthcare setting. A well-designed information system is one of the necessities for nurses.For this purpose, a proper evaluation of available systems is needed. The aim of this study to evaluate nurses’ perspectives on nursing information systems in hospitals of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences.Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. Two hundred and seventy-five nurses participated in this study. The evaluation instrument was HIS-monitor and 41 specific questions that were related to nurses in four criteria were selected. The validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by experts and the reliability of the instrument was calculated byCronbach Alpha (α =0.88). Data were analyzed by SPSS Statistics version 16 using descriptive and analytic statistics.Results: 50.8% stated that the studied NIS supports nursing admission process well or very well and 47.7% believed that these NISs improve access to patient-related information and documentation of nursing care (48.1%) . 25% evaluated the function of NIS in the nursing care plan poor or very poor.Conclusion: According to the results, the status of nursing information systems is approximately acceptable and more attention is needed in designing and manufacturing hospital software.
Video Object Segmentation and Tracking: A Survey

Object segmentation and object tracking are fundamental research area in the computer vision community. These two topics are diffcult to handle some common challenges, such as occlusion, deformation, motion blur, and scale variation. The former contains heterogeneous object, interacting object, edge ambiguity, and shape complexity. And the latter suffers from difficulties in handling fast motion, out-of-view, and real-time processing. Combining the two problems of video object segmentation and tracking (VOST) can overcome their respective difficulties and improve their performance. VOST can be widely applied to many practical applications such as video summarization, high definition video compression, human computer interaction, and autonomous vehicles. This article aims to provide a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art tracking methods, and classify these methods into different categories, and identify new trends. First, we provide a hierarchical categorization existing approaches, including unsupervised VOS, semi-supervised VOS, interactive VOS, weakly supervised VOS, and segmentation-based tracking methods. Second, we provide a detailed discussion and overview of the technical characteristics of the different methods. Third, we summarize the characteristics of the related video dataset, and provide a variety of evaluation metrics. Finally, we point out a set of interesting future works and draw our own conclusions.
High-temperature growth of graphene films on copper foils by ethanol chemical vapour deposition

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is widely utilized to synthesize graphene with controlled properties for many applications, especially when continuous films over large areas are required. Although hydrocarbons such as methane are quite efficient precursors for CVD at high temperature (∼1000 °C), finding less explosive and safer carbon sources is considered beneficial for the transition to large-scale production. In this work, we investigated the CVD growth of graphene using ethanol, which is a harmless and readily processable carbon feedstock that is expected to provide favorable kinetics. We tested a wide range of synthesis conditions (i.e., temperature, time, gas ratios), and on the basis of systematic analysis by Raman spectroscopy, we identified the optimal parameters for producing highly crystalline graphene with different numbers of layers. Our results demonstrate the importance of high temperature (1070 °C) for ethanol CVD and emphasize the significant effects that hydrogen and water vapor, coming from the thermal decomposition of ethanol, have on the crystal quality of the synthesized graphene.
Characterization of aerosol growth events over Ellesmere Island during the summers of 2015 and 2016

Abstract. The occurrence of frequent aerosol nucleation and growth events in the Arctic during summertime may impact the region's climate through increasing the number of cloud condensation nuclei in the Arctic atmosphere. Measurements of aerosol size distributions and aerosol composition were taken during the summers of 2015 and 2016 at Eureka and Alert on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. These results provide a better understanding of the frequency and spatial extent of elevated Aitken mode aerosol concentrations as well as of the composition and sources of aerosol mass during particle growth. Frequent appearances of small particles followed by growth occurred throughout the summer. These particle growth events were observed beginning in June with the melting of the sea ice rather than with the polar sunrise, which strongly suggests that influence from the marine boundary layer was the primary cause of the events. Correlated particle growth events at the two sites, separated by 480 km, indicate conditions existing over large scales play a key role in determining the timing and the characteristics of the events. In addition, aerosol mass spectrometry measurements were used to analyze the size-resolved chemical composition of aerosols during two selected growth events. It was found that particles with diameters between 50 and 80 nm (physical diameter) during these growth events were predominately organic with only a small sulfate contribution. The oxidation of the organics also changed with particle size, with the fraction of organic acids increasing with diameter from 80 to 400 nm. The growth events at Eureka were observed most often when the temperature inversion between the sea and the measurement site (at 610 m a.s.l.) was non-existent or weak, presumably creating conditions with low aerosol condensation sink and allowing fresh marine emissions to be mixed upward to the observatory's altitude. While the nature of the gaseous precursors responsible for the growth events is still poorly understood, oxidation of dimethyl sulfide alone to produce particle-phase sulfate or methanesulfonic acid was inconsistent with the measured aerosol composition, suggesting the importance of other gas-phase organic compounds condensing for particle growth.
Analytical and Practical Aspects of Drug Testing in Hair

Drug incorporation into hair / Robert Kronstrand and Karen Scott -- Passive exposure, decontamination procedures, cutoffs, and bias: pitfalls in the interpretation of hair analysis results for cocaine use / David A. Kidwell and Frederick P. Smith -- Opioids testing in hair / Michel Yegles and Robert Wennig -- Hair analysis for cocaine / Carmen Jurado -- Determination of cannabinoids in human hair / Michael Uhl -- Amphetamine determination in hair / Vincent Cirimele -- Pharmaceuticals in hair / Marjorie Cheze, Marc Deveaux, Gaelle Duffort, Francis Billault, and Gilbert Pepin -- Screening strategies in hair analysis on drugs / Hans Sachs -- Clinical applications of hair analysis / Simona Pichini, Oscar Garcia-Algar, and Rafael de la Torre -- Hair in postmortem toxicology / Robert Kronstrand and Henrik Druid -- Detection of doping agents in human hair / Pascal Kintz -- Applications of hair in drug-facilitated crime evidence / Marion Villain -- Application of hair in driving-license regranting / Manfred R. Moeller, Hans Sachs, and Fritz Pragst -- Alcohol markers in hair / Fritz Pragst and Michel Yegles -- Workplace drug testing using hair samples / Thomas Cairns, Michael Schaffer, and Virginia Hill -- Metals / Jean-Pierre Goulle.
Active Robot-Assisted Feeding with a General-Purpose Mobile Manipulator: Design, Evaluation, and Lessons Learned.

Eating is an essential activity of daily living (ADL) for staying healthy and living at home independently. Although numerous assistive devices have been introduced, many people with disabilities are still restricted from independent eating due to the devices' physical or perceptual limitations. In this work, we present a new meal-assistance system and evaluations of this system with people with motor impairments. We also discuss learned lessons and design insights based on the evaluations. The meal-assistance system uses a general-purpose mobile manipulator, a Willow Garage PR2, which has the potential to serve as a versatile form of assistive technology. Our active feeding framework enables the robot to autonomously deliver food to the user's mouth, reducing the need for head movement by the user. The user interface, visually-guided behaviors, and safety tools allow people with severe motor impairments to successfully use the system. We evaluated our system with a total of 10 able-bodied participants and 9 participants with motor impairments. Both groups of participants successfully ate various foods using the system and reported high rates of success for the system's autonomous behaviors. In general, participants who operated the system reported that it was comfortable, safe, and easy-to-use.
Thermodynamics Made Comprehensible

This book provides many new concepts on the difficult subject of thermodynamics. It consists of three parts. In Part I, the reader is exposed to learning the nucleus of thermodynamics in an easily understandable manner. Part II deals with the thermodynamics of substances which can directly by used in applications. Part III offers a graphic presentation of thermodynamics and challenges reaction synthesis and process systems as well.
A MODEL TO ESTIMATE VOLUME CHANGE DUE TO RADIOLYTIC GAS BUBBLES AND THERMAL EXPANSION IN SOLUTION REACTORS

Aqueous homogeneous solution reactors have been proposed for the production of medical isotopes. However, the reactivity effects of fuel solution volume change, due to formation of radiolytic gas bubbles and thermal expansion, have to be mitigated to allow steady-state operation of solution reactors. The results of the free run experiments analyzed indicate that the proposed model to estimate the void volume due to radiolytic gas bubbles and thermal expansion in solution reactors can accurately describe the observed behavior during the experiments. This void volume due to radiolytic gas bubbles and fuel solution thermal expansion can then be used in the investigation of reactivity effects in fissile solutions. In addition, these experiments confirm that the radiolytic gas bubbles are formed at a higher temperature than the fuel solution temperature. These experiments also indicate that the mole-weighted average for the radiolytic gas bubbles in uranyl fluoride solutions is about 1 {micro}m. Finally, it should be noted that another model, currently under development, would simulate the power behavior during the transient given the initial fuel solution level and density. The model is based on Monte Carlo simulation with the MCNP computer code [Briesmeister, 1997] to obtain the reactor reactivity as a function of the fuel solution density, which, in turn, changes due to thermal expansion and radiolytic gas bubble formation.