Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Designing for Growth and Development – A co-designed course for homeless people

In many developed countries, homelessness remains an intractable challenge for intersectoral policies. People who are homeless struggle with a myriad of problems. They frequently experience stigmatisation and social marginalisation. Physical and mental health may be severely compromised, and it could be challenging to retain a sense of personal agency. To co-design a personal and organisational development training course, in collaboration with clients and staff of a homeless service provider. To ensure that homeless individuals develop strategies and supports to help them navigate complex life circumstances. 6 three-hour workshops, informed by design-thinking. Each workshop session was co-designed (2 clients of a homeless charity, one staff member of staff, and two academics) in Ireland. Workshops followed the design cycle, starting with empathy exercises, then moved to define specific life challenges related to homelessness. Solution-focused ideation sessions followed. The team proceeded then to build a testable 'prototype'. The team jointly developed a high degree of creative confidence and shared responsibility for different sessions. The team developed a 'peer-support programme' as a tangible output. Academic team members gained deep insights into the lived experience of homelessness; client members deployed skills and experiences and gained renewed confidence in their abilities. The homeless charity proceeds with testing the 'peer-support' programme prototype. We expect the Access and Life-Long learning programme at the university will offer the programme as a credit-bearing course. Its acceptability and usability will be tested. Homeless individuals can be meaningfully involved in designing services that empower them to navigate complex systems. Design thinking yields personal and organisational benefits.
A system thinking approach for harmonizing smart and sustainable city initiatives with United Nations sustainable development goals

Correspondence Murat Kucukvar, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. Email: mkucukvar@qu.edu. qa Abstract Technology has indispensably been a part of the city evolution throughout history. In recent years, there has been a shift in the pattern of development in smart cities, where smart cities attempt to embrace practices of sustainability using Information and Communication Technologies and other smart solutions. Past studies reveal that these smart cities have failed in successfully incorporating sustainable development goals into their smart strategies, where they tend to focus more on achieving smartness goals rather than sustainability goals and targets. This paper presents a multifaceted interrogative study on several ongoing smart city initiatives around the globe that supports United Nations Urban Sustainability Agenda. This paper aims to focus on harmonizing smart and sustainable city initiatives with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals using a systems thinking approach. The study develops conceptual models that support the city transition into being a sustainable smart city. These conceptual models were designed based on the fundamentals of system thinking for a system of several elements under the key catalyzers “Policy and Governance,” “Research & Development,” and “Partnership. ” The causalities and interrelationships among elements in developed conceptual models justify the dynamicity and the impact of these elements within a system. The outcome of this research paper would support industry experts, policymakers, and city planners to adopt robust policy interventions and best practices for developing strategies that support the transition of smart cities to the futuristic label of sustainable cities.
Effect of Nitrogen Applications, Micronutrients and Cyanobacteria on Wheat Yield and the Availability of some Nutrients

Most soils used for crop production in North Nile Delta of Egypt have low fertility accompanied with high pH and low micronutrients and soil organic matter (SOM) contents (Malakouti, 2008). Under such conditions, crop response to soil application of micronutrients can be very high. Foliar feeding of micronutrients has been more effective and less costly than soil application (El-Fouly and ElSayed, 1997). Micronutrients are involved in chlorophyll formation, nucleic acid and protein synthesis, and play an active role in several enzymatic activities that control photosynthesis and respiration (Reddy, 2004). Foliar application of micronutrients was reported to have positive effects on 1000-seed weight, plant height, biological yield, grain yield, the harvest index and oil content of sunflower (Babaeian et al., 2011). Potarzycki and Grzebisz (2009) reported that zinc greatly affects nitrogen uptake and metabolism, protein quality, photosynthesis, chlorophyll synthesis, and carbonic anhydrase activity.
Incorporation of microalgae and seaweed in instant fried wheat noodles manufacturing: nutrition and culinary properties study.

In this study, two microalgae flours (Chlorella vulgaris and Spirulina platensis), and a seaweed flour (Eucheuma cottonii) were incorporated to wheat flour in noodles manufacturing. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of the compositions of wheat flourmarine plants flours composite and the compositions of marine plants flour composites on the nutrition contents and culinary properties of the noodles. The results showed that the incorporation of microalgae to noodles dough, increased protein, fat, ash and dietary fibre contents, but reduced carbohydrate content of the noodles. No significant change was observed for moisture content. Furthermore, the incorporation of marine plants flours to wheat flour also produced noodles with acceptable culinary properties such as, texture, colour, aroma, and flavour. The best composition of flour composite for noodle manufacturing obtained in this work was 90 g wheat flour, 5 g Spirulina platensis, and 5 g Eucheuma cottonii flours. This flour composite resulted noodle with lowest fat content but highest protein content and consumer acceptability.
Development and Psychometric Properties of Decision-Making Scale for Emergency Hospital Evacuation in Disasters

Abstract Background: The evidence shows that the need for emergency evacuation in hospitals has arisen. Designing an emergency evacuation decision making tool increases the confidence of hospital managers in the decision made. Therefore, this study was aimed at the development, and the psychometric properties, of the decision-making scale for emergency hospital evacuation in disasters. Methods: This study was done in 2 phases of qualitative study and literature review and designing and psychometric properties of the instrument. After development of the primary item pool, the psychometric properties of the questionnaire were evaluated. In this regard, face and content validity, internal consistency (Alpha’s Cronbach), reliability (ICC), and stability were assessed. Results: In the validity stage of the instrument, 4 items were removed. Also, 4 items were modified and 2 items were merged. The number of items was thus decreased to 64. After CVI calculation, 5 items were removed, 4 items were modified, and 2 items were merged. As a result of this, the number of items decreased to 58 items. The scale has good reliability and stability. Conclusion: It seems that the instrument could be useful in decision-making for emergency hospital evacuation in disasters.
Detection of Legionellae pneumophila in Waters by Culture and Polymerase Chain Reaction

Legionella pneumophila (L. pneumophila) is the most common causative agents for all outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease. Prevention and control of Legionellosis requires surveying and monitoring of Legionella in the environment using conventional and modern technologies. The present study aims to compare detection of L. pneumophila in water samples using both culture and PCR techniques. A pre-enriched contaminated water sample was split into 13 subsamples. Culture and PCR tests were done from the subsamples after different intervals. The results showed a positive PCR result for L. pneumophila after 8 h of incubation. Also, L. pneumophila was detected by culture on non-selective BCYNE agar and selective GPVC agar after 5 and 6 days of incubation respectively. There was no significant difference between the non-selective BCYE- and the selective GVPC method. The PCR procedure was found more sensitive and differed significantly from the conventional selective GVPC method in isolation of L. pneumophila from water samples. It was concluded that pre-enrichment incubation allows the detection of L. pneumophila by PCR within a maximum of 12 h from the collection of water samples.
Adaptation of the Student Expectations of Online Learning Survey Revised (SEOLS-R) into Turkish

Bu calismanin amaci Harris, Larrier ve Castano-Bishop (2011) tarafindan gelistirilen Revize Edilmis Cevrimici Ogrenmeye Iliskin Ogrenci Beklentileri Olcegi’ni (Student Expectations of Online Learning Survey Revised [SEOLS-R]) Turkceye uyarlamaktir. Bu amacla ozgun formu 5’li Likert yapida 7 faktor ve 43 maddeden olusan olcegin uyarlanmasi sureci, ilk olarak gereken izinlerin alinmasiyla baslamis, daha sonra ceviri ve kulturel adaptasyon sureci gerceklestirilmistir. Kulturel adaptasyon surecinin ardindan Amasya Universitesi’nin uzaktan egitim programlarina devam etmekte olan 411 ogrenci uzerinde olcegin yapi gecerligi sinanmistir. Yapi gecerligi bulgularinin ardindan olcegin guvenirlik degerleri incelenmistir. Elde edilen bulgular dogrultusunda, SEOLS-R olceginin Turkce formunun, Turk kulturune uygun, gecerli ve guvenilir bir olcme araci olabilecegi sonucuna ulasilmistir.
Effect of a strength and stretching program, combined or isolated, on active flexibility in physical education setting. A pilot study

Introduction. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a two-session-per-week strength and stretching program, on sit and reach score, among high-school students in the physical education setting. Methods. A sample of 75 high-school students (26 girls and 49 boys) aged 12-14 years from four classes were clustered and randomly assigned to a stretching group (n = 21), a strengthening group (n = 18), a strengthening + stretching group (n = 20) or a control group (n = 16). During physical education classes, the experimental students performed a 1-minute stretching, a 1-minute strengthening or a 1-minute strengthening + 1-minute stretching program twice a week a total of 20 weeks. Control students performed the same physical education classes, but they did not follow any strength and/or stretching program. Active flexibility (estimated by the classic sit-and-reach test) was assessed at the beginning and at the end of the intervention program. Results. The Wilcoxon test results showed that students that performed a combined strengthening and stretching program increased statistically significantly their active flexibility levels from pre-intervention to post-intervention (∆ = 1.8 ± 3.2 cm; p 0.05). Conclusions. Since in physical education many curricular contents need to be developed each academic year and the subject is also restricted by its limited curriculum time allocation, teachers could improve students’ flexibility combining stretching and strength workout. Therefore, in addition to the improvement of students’ flexibility levels, this intervention program might permit regular development of other physical education curricular contents. This knowledge could help and guide teachers to design programs that guarantee a feasible and effective development of flexibility in the physical education setting.
Dual-Comb Spectroscopy using a Single Frequency-Shifting Loop

Dual-comb spectroscopy (DCS) is a multi-heterodyne interferometrie technique that employs two optical frequency combs (OFCs) with different line spacing. When DCS is carried out with a pair of mode-locked OfCs, the need of a tight phase locking between them leads to sophisticated hardware and/or software implementations [1]. A strategy to simplify the DCS architecture, demonstrated with several comb modalities, is the use of a bidirectional laser cavity to produce two counter-propagating combs, each one having different line spacing [2,3]. Alternatively, but offering much more flexibility on the mode separation, electro-optic (EO) frequency combs can also be used for carrying out DCS. In that DCS scheme, both EO combs are fed by a single cw laser, which ensures by default a high degree of mutual coherence between them [4]. In the same vein, but comparatively much less exploited, frequency-shifting loops (FSLs) are also an easily implementable comb platform. Based on the recirculation of light in a loop containing an acousto-optic frequency shifter (AOFS), FSLs are capable of producing spectra with hundreds or even thousands of lines, without resorting to non-linear broadening or optimized fast driving electronics [5]. Recently, we have demonstrated DCS using two different FSLs [6]. However, this system requires the use of a low-bandwidth stabilization system to compensate for the uncorrelated fluctuations between the two combs, a requirement also found in other DCS schemes, and necessary for increasing the acquisition time (and, hence, the measurement signal-to-noise ratio) beyond the ms time scale.
Emotional Intelligence and Workplace Conflict Resolution: The Case of Secondary Education Teachers in Greece

The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence and conflict resolution among secondary education teachers in Greece. The research sample consists of 130 high schools’ teachers in Greece. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire, concerning teachers’ working environment, their behavior during workplace conflicts as well as their emotional intelligence and were analyzed using descriptive and inductive statistics. The statistical analyses have revealed that the main reason for workplace conflicts in secondary schools is the existence of informal groups. In addition, emotional intelligence seem to have a direct relationship with conflict resolution styles, while a negative relationship between emotional intelligence and the frequency of involvement in workplace conflicts is observed. Furthermore, it was found that holding a position of responsibility does not play a significant role in conflict resolution style adoption. The research results show that the solution-oriented method is the most popular amongst the other conflict resolution styles. Last, it was found that the average score of emotional intelligence among the respondents was high.
Hey2 restricts cardiac progenitor addition to the developing heart

A key event in vertebrate heart development is the timely addition of second heart field (SHF) progenitor cells to the poles of the heart tube. This accretion process must occur to the proper extent to prevent a spectrum of congenital heart defects (CHDs). However, the factors that regulate this critical process are poorly understood. Here we demonstrate that Hey2, a bHLH transcriptional repressor, restricts SHF progenitor accretion to the zebrafish heart. hey2 expression demarcated a distinct domain within the cardiac progenitor population. In the absence of Hey2 function an increase in myocardial cell number and SHF progenitors was observed. We found that Hey2 limited proliferation of SHF-derived cardiomyocytes in a cell-autonomous manner, prior to heart tube formation, and further restricted the developmental window over which SHF progenitors were deployed to the heart. Taken together, our data suggests a role for Hey2 in controlling the proliferative capacity and cardiac contribution of late-differentiating cardiac progenitors.
Studies on Role of Environmental and Male Parental Factors on Lactation Period in HF x Deoni Crossbred Cattle

A land poor in livestock is never rich and a land rich in livestock is never poor. Livestock rearing is an integral part of farming system. In the present study pedigree records maintained at Cattle Cross Breeding Project, VNMKV, Parbhani (Maharashtra) for the period of 1977 to 2014 were utilized to study the role of genetic and non-genetic factors on production performance of 411 HF x Deoni crossbred having 1753 lactations. The LSM of lactation period were estimated. The average lactation period of HF x Deoni crossbred cows were 279.16  3.86 days. In HF x Deoni crossbred cows the influence of period of calving, season of calving and sire had significant on lactation period. However, the variation due to lactation order and age at first calving group were non-significant.
Genotoxicity: Modern Instrumental Approaches for its Control in Environmental Objects

The special attention is given to methods for control of genotoxicity. Among them, the detailed analysis is given that approaches which are based on the traditional molecular genetics tests, common instrumental systems and a modern biosensor devices. It is provided as general characteristics of the developed widely dispersed, most applicable in the practice approaches and detailed description of the basic principles of their functioning. The last a specially concerns instrumental analytical methods and, in particular, cell biosensors considering the possible type of the transducers, types of cells as sensitive structures, their integration in sensor elements and way of specific signal registration. In general it is analysed sensitivity and field of application of the existed approaches for the control of total toxicity and genotoxicity.
Hydroxyplumbopyrochlore, (Pb1.5,□0.5)Nb2O6(OH), a new member of the pyrochlore group from Jabal Sayid, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT A new mineral species of the pyrochlore supergroup, hydroxyplumbopyrochlore (IMA2018-145), (Pb1.5,□0.5)Nb2O6(OH), has been discovered in the Jabal Sayid peralkaline granitic complex of the Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia. It is associated with quartz, microcline, ‘biotite’, rutile, zircon, calcite, rhodochrosite, columbite-(Fe), goethite, thorite, bastnäsite-(Ce), xenotime-(Y), samarskite-(Y), euxenite-(Y), hydropyrochlore and fluornatropyrochlore. Hydroxyplumbopyrochlore usually shows euhedral octahedra, slightly rhombic dodecahedra and cubes or their combination (0.01–0.06 mm). The mineral is pale yellow to pale brown, transparent with white streak, and has adamantine to transparent lustre. It is brittle with conchoidal fracture. No cleavage or parting are observed. It is isotropic and non-fluorescent. The average microhardness is 463.4 kg mm–2. The calculated density is 6.474 g cm–3. Hydroxyplumbopyrochlore belongs to the cubic crystal system and exhibits the space group Fd$\bar{3}$m with unit-cell parameters a = 10.5456(6) Å, V = 1172.8(2) Å3 and Z = 8. Electron microprobe analysis gave (6-point average composition, wt.%): CaO 0.32, SrO 0.16, FeO 0.17, Ce2O3 0.07, Pr2O3 0.02, PbO 51.69, Nb2O5 40.06, SiO2 0.05, TiO2 1.68, Ta2O5 4.74, H2Ocalc 0.95, total 99.90, yielding the empirical formula (Pb1.34Ca0.03Fe0.01Sr0.01□0.61)Σ2(Nb1.75Ti0.12Ta0.12Si0.01)Σ2O6(OH0.53O0.08□0.39)Σ1, where □ = vacancy. The Raman spectrum of hydroxyplumbopyrochlore contains the characteristic bands of O–H vibrations and no bands for H2O vibrations.
Structural Analysis of Factors Influencing the Costs of Facade System Implementation

External facades of buildings and other structures shape the image of every building, creating the architecture of cities. Traditional concrete forms, as a symbol of durability and stability, have been replaced by lightweight enclosures—for example, in the form of aluminium–glass facades and ventilated facades. In this paper, the authors attempt to verify the strength of influence and relations between the identified factors shaping the costs of facade system implementation using structural analysis. On the basis of the collected quantitative and qualitative data obtained as a result of research on design documentation and cost estimates of implemented public buildings, as well as on the basis of interviews conducted among experts, factors which have a real impact on the costs of facade systems in the form of aluminium and glass facades and ventilated facades were identified. The indicated factors were analysed and classified using the method of structural analysis, namely the MICMAC method (refers to the French acronym for Cross-Impact Matrix Multiplication Applied to Classification). Particular influences and relations between factors were examined. Finally, six groups of factors influencing the costs of facade systems were identified, including regulatory factors that do not have a very strong impact on the level of costs, but which show a strong correlation with other factors; determinants that have a very strong impact on the costs; and a group of external factors that show the smallest influence on the estimation of façade cost.
‘Invisible in a visible role’: a photovoice study exploring the struggles of new resident assistants

ABSTRACT Past studies revealed that Resident Assistants’ (RAs) behavioural patterns are related to experiences and life outcomes of student residents. In this paper, the researchers aimed to investigate the struggles that new RAs encounter in university residential halls in Hong Kong, and to provide practical recommendations based on the findings. Photovoice was adopted to facilitate the participatory approach of the study; and six new RAs were recruited from different residential halls in a university for one semester to co-construct reliable knowledge. Four domains of struggles were identified in the study; difficulties to blend in, levels of involvement, workloads and performance, and role ambiguity. Further research is needed in different contexts to provide more insights to refine policies and approaches for better RAs’ residential environment, as it is believed that by improving their residential experiences, it can further enhance students’ residential experiences and foster positive residence life outcomes.
A Modeling Study of an Atmospheric Bore Associated With a Nocturnal Convective System Over China

Bores have been shown to play a role in the initiation and maintenance of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs), particularly during the night after the boundary layer stabilizes. To date, the generation, evolution, and structure of bores over China has received little attention. This study utilizes observations and simulations with the WRF‐ARW model to investigate the generation and evolution of an atmospheric bore observed over Yangtze‐Huai Plains of China. The bore was associated with a nocturnal MCS that first formed over elevated terrain. The bore was observed ahead of the MCS with a maximum lateral extension of ~100 km. The feature lasted for over 90 mins and propagated at a speed of ~13 m/s, slightly faster than the MCS. In the simulation, the bore evolved from the separating “head” of the convectively generated gravity current. The bore then continued to propagate ahead of the MCS, even after the dissipation of the feeder current, and took on the appearance of an undular bore. The bore lifted a layer of convectively unstable air above the nocturnal surface inversion, initiating new convection ahead of the MCS to help maintain the MCS. The Scorer parameter ahead of the bore revealed a low‐level wind profile with curvature of the vertical profile of horizontal wind, favoring the trapping of wave energy and the persistence of the bore. These results are generally consistent with the role of bores in the maintenance of nocturnal MCSs and emphasize the need for future studies into the relationship between bores and nocturnal MCSs over China.