Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
School-based targeted prevention compared to specialist mental health treatment for youth anxiety.

BACKGROUND The 'FRIENDS for life' program (FRIENDS) is a 10-session cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program used for prevention and treatment of youth anxiety. There is discussion about whether FRIENDS is best applied as prevention or as treatment. METHODS We compared FRIENDS delivered in schools as targeted prevention to a previous specialist mental health clinic trial. The targeted prevention sample (N = 82; Mage = 11.6 years, SD = 2.1; 75.0% girls) was identified and recruited by school nurses in collaboration with a community psychologist. The clinical sample (N = 88, Mage = 11.7 years, SD = 2.1; 54.5% girls) was recruited for a randomized controlled trial from community child- and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinics and was diagnosed with anxiety disorders. RESULTS Both samples showed significantly reduced anxiety symptoms from baseline to postintervention, with medium mean effect sizes across raters (youths and parents) and timepoints (post; 12-months follow-up). Baseline youth-reported anxiety symptom levels were similar between the samples, whereas parent-reported youth anxiety was higher in the clinical sample. CONCLUSIONS The study suggests that self-reported anxiety levels may not differ between youth recruited in schools and in clinic settings. The results indicate promising results of the FRIENDS program when delivered in schools by less specialized health personnel from the school health services, as well as when delivered in clinics by trained mental health professionals.
Modelling Safety Impacts of Automated Driving Systems in Multi-Lane Traffic

The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of several automotive applications that take over the task of vehicle driving on a sustained basis. The most advanced class of such applications is known as Automated Driving Systems (ADSs). ADS can autonomously operate the vehicle on road stretches that fall under its operational design domain. Industry and governments expect that such systems will be technologically feasible shortly and the traffic will be mixed with system-driven and human-driven vehicles. Even though ADSequipped vehicles will have an impact on traffic safety, there is no clarity on if they would enhance or detriment traffic safety and at what conditions and magnitude. A human and an ADS apply fundamentally different processes to acquire information, make decisions, and operate the vehicle. Therefore, our current insights on the relationship between driving behaviour and safety may not be sufficient to predict the possible impacts of ADS systems. Hence there is an urgent need to study the impacts of ADS functionalities and design factors on traffic safety.
A State Of Art Survey For Web Server Performance Measurement And Load Balancing Mechanisms

: Nowadays, the massive load on the internet by the demanders and diversity of web applications, the web servers have become crucial. Therefore, many related companies and web developers try to generate powerful structures and efficient systems for web servers in order to satisfy internet users and the web servers from being overworked. Furthermore, in big web-based companies due to enormous number of clients, one server could not handle all the incoming requests and some of them be rejected. Hence, the idea of cluster server and load balancing methods been provided to tackle the problem. In this paper, twenty up-to-date references have been depended for reviewing different studies who addressed web server performance and load balancing algorithms in the last half-decade, to compare their capabilities and provide an efficient platform to build web-based system structures.
Utilization Techniques of Circadian Clock

2017年のノーベル生理学・医学賞は,「概日時計のメカニ ズム解明に関する研究」に贈られた. 概日時計は,24時間 周期の昼夜サイクルの下,生物の活動を最適化する重要な 生理機構である. その応用分野は健康・医療,スポーツ,労 働管理,農林水産業など多岐に渡る . 農業においては,植 物の成長,ストレス応答,花成など,農作物の収量に直結す る生理現象の制御に関わっており,概日時計の利用に注目が 集まっている . しかしながら,概日時計の利用が植物生産においてブレー クスルーとなることはこれまでなかった. 概日時計による劇的な 収量増大やコスト低減の技術は,現在のところ開発できてい ない. 概日時計が劇的な効果をもたらさない理由は,進化の 過程で概日時計はシステムとして十分に最適化されており,更 なる機能増強の手立てを容易には見出せないためと考えられ る . いずれにしても,実用から見た有用性や緊急性の低さ は概日時計研究の大きな課題であり,発展の足枷となっている. 一方,医学における概日時計の研究は,健康水準を維持 するための「リスク管理」として役立っている . 例えば,睡 眠障害,肥満,うつ病,高血圧など,身近な生活習慣病の予 防には概日時計に基づく生活リズムの管理が必要である. ま た,不登校や小児慢性疲労症候群,交代制勤務による発癌 リスク,投薬時間と副作用など,社会システムにおける健康リ スクや医療の最適化プログラムにおいて,概日時計の研究は 必須となっている. このように,概日時計の研究は特定の疾患 の治療や,通常以上の能力を引き出すためではなく,社会シ ステムや医療システムにおけるリスク管理や最適化に貢献して いる. 最近では,植物生産においても医学と同様の状況となりつ つある. 植物工場や施設園芸の AI化など,生産システム全 体が高度に最適化されていく中,高時間分解能の生体情報 によって将来の生産性を高精度に予測しリスクを管理(回避 または低減)する技術が求められている . したがって,植 物体内の時間軸上の規則性を司る概日時計が,植物生産シ ステムの最適化やリスク管理に向けて無視できなくなりつつあ る. このように,概日時計は社会・産業システムの最適化やリス ク管理を行う上で重要な技術要素である. そして,対象となる システムが高度になればなるほど,概日時計の重要性は増 し,その効果を設計できるようになる. そこで本稿では,対象と なる社会・産業システムを「植物工場」とし,その最新のトピ ックスに着目して,概日時計研究が次に進むべきステージを新 しい切り口で示すことを試みる. そして,概日時計の研究が植 物工場の技術開発において一層重要性を増していることを示
Democratization as institutional change: Hong Kong 1992–2015

The limited democratization in Hong Kong has been on-going for more than three decades. Unlike typical democratizations as the abrupt breakdown of authoritarian regimes, the case of Hong Kong is characterized by gradual and incremental changes under a constitutional framework. The process, involving actors such as the Chinese government, colonial government, and local democratic forces, provides a wide variety of forms of institutional changes. By utilizing concepts from the literature on institutional change, namely path dependence, layering, and conversion, important junctures of democratization in Hong Kong are analyzed. It is found that the case can be suitably explained by the framework of institutional change. This research carries implications for the study of central-regional interactions, democratization, and Hong Kong politics.
Fatherhood as a Spatial-Contextual Phenomenon: Israeli Gay Fathers through Surrogacy

This study aims to explore the experiences and accounts of Israeli gay fathers through surrogacy, with regard to contextual elements in general and geographical location in particular. Fourteen Jewish-Israeli gay fathers who became parents through surrogacy abroad were interviewed. Half of the participants live in Tel Aviv, and the other half live in the country’s outlying areas in villages or relatively small towns. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted, recorded, transcribed, and thematically analyzed. The analysis yielded three themes: (a) between “periphery” and “center,” which reflects a spatial binary as expressed in the fathers’ accounts; (b) realms of belonging, which focuses on the challenge the fathers pose to the binary periphery/center distinction; and (c) movement toward inclusion, which explores the fathers’ constant movement toward belonging within the different spatial realms. Our findings represent fatherhood as a spatial-contextual phenomenon.
Event‐triggered based decentralised control for frequency regulation of power systems

The present work focuses on the design of optimal proportional–integral–derivative with filter controller for the frequency regulation in single and multi-area thermal power systems considering effective utilisation of the network resources. The proposed strategy uses global neighbourhood algorithm (GNA), a meta-heuristic algorithm, to obtain optimal controller parameters. Since the controller, in load frequency control (LFC) systems, communicates via open channels there is a need for effective utilisation of channel bandwidth. Therefore, for effective communication, the decentralised adaptive periodic event-triggered scheme is adopted in this study. In order to find the appropriate values of sampling time and to study the effects of time-delay introduced by the communication channel, delay-dependent stability is investigated using Lyapunov theory. The theoretical concepts, developed in this study, are verified using the time-domain simulations carried out using MATLAB which validates the superiority of the GNA-based approach for LFC systems.
Single IMU Displacement and Orientation Estimation of Human Center of Mass: A Magnetometer-Free Approach

In this article, a self-contained procedure to estimate the vertical, medial–lateral, and anterior–posterior displacement of a single sacrum-worn inertial measurement unit (IMU) is presented, which can be related to the human body center of mass (CoM) displacement during treadmill walking through an adaptation of the sacral marker method. Furthermore, a magnetometer-free custom sensor-fusion algorithm for orientation estimation is proposed alongside a practical alignment procedure to refer relative IMU orientation estimation to a ground-fixed reference frame. Twelve healthy subjects performed two trials of treadmill walking at 3, 4, and 5 km/h for 150 s, with a sacrum-worn IMU. Orientation and displacement estimations were then compared with those obtained from an optoelectronic measurement system. Roll, pitch, and yaw angles showed root mean square error (RMSE) lower than 2° for walking trials at 3, 4, and 5 km/h, with Pearson’s correlation coefficient higher than 0.90 for each angle. Displacement accuracy was evaluated in terms of peak-to-trough distances and RMSE. Mean errors resulted lower than 1 mm for each axis of interest and for each gait speed, with RMSE not higher than 2.5 mm. The proposed off-line algorithm can be used in low-budget and infrastructure-free environments, to achieve reliable CoM displacement estimation during cyclic activities such as treadmill walking.
In vivo biocompatibility and fracture healing of hydroxyapatite-hexagonal boron nitride- chitosan-collagen biocomposite coating in rats

The biocompatibility of orthopaedic implants and their effects on fracture healing have key roles for success. In this study, it was aimed to investigate the effects of a novel biocomposite consisting of hydroxyapatite (HA), hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), chitosan (Cs), and type 1 collagen (Ct1) on biocompatibility and fracture healing in rats. A total of 60 adult male Wistar rats weighing 300? 500 g were used in the study. The rats were randomly divided into 2 groups named A (uncoated/control) and B (biocomposite coated). Biocomposite (HA/h-BN/Cs/Ct1) coated and uncoated stainless-steel implants were used as intramedullary pins. Groups A and B were divided into subgroups of A1 and B1 (15th day), A2 and B2 (30th day), A3 and B3 (45th day) according to the date of euthanasia. Clinical, radiographic, haematological, biochemical, and histopathological findings were evaluated by pairwise comparisons. The findings were consistent and similar. No statistically significant difference was found for a finding disturbing the biocompatibility. Histopathological examinations showed that coating biomaterials did not resorb over the course of 15, 30, and 45 days. It is thus revealed that the content is biocompatible. However, it has been concluded that it is necessary to increase the physical strength of the coating surface against sterilization and surgical procedures. As a result, based on the interpretations of the clinical, radiographic, haematological, biochemical, and histopathological findings, the biocompatibility of HA/h-BN/Cs/Ct1 biocomposite materials has been revealed.
Determinants of condom use among unmarried youth in Yaounde and Douala Cameroon.

The objective of this paper is to identify the key determinants of having ever used condoms and current condom use with regular and casual partners among unmarried youth in urban Cameroon. Data stem from a reproductive health (RH) survey conducted in July-August 2000 among a representative sample of 1284 unmarried sexually experienced youth aged 15-24. Following theoretical models of behavior change the authors use logistic regression to assess the effect of perceptions about the severity of HIV/AIDS condom access condom effectiveness social support self-efficacy and personal risk perception on condom use. While most youth have tried condoms at least once use remains inconsistent and many youth did not use a condom in their last sex act. The authors analyses indicate that parental support and personal risk perception increase the likelihood that youth have used condoms. For males having had multiple sexual partner and having discussed family planning or sexually transmitted infection prevention also increases the likelihood of having ever used condoms. The likelihood that a young female used a condom with her regular partner in last sex increases significantly with level of self-efficacy and decreases with age. For males it increases with higher levels of self-efficacy and is lower for those who believe that condom use reduces sexual pleasure. The predictors of condom use with casual partners are different. Among males use with casual partners is significantly higher for those who have discussed sexually transmitted diseases in the past year who know of a condom source within 10 minutes distance and who perceive themselves to be at moderate/high risk of HIV infection. The authors findings indicate that youth-oriented programs that aim to increase the number of new condom users should seek to increase parental support for condom use as well as perceptions of personal risk. This may require programs that focus on encouraging parents to discuss RH issues with their teenage children. Programs that implement activities that help convince youth that their sexual history can put them at risk of HIV infection and that dispel the myth that HIV risk with regular partners is low may increase personal risk perception. Communications programs that help increase self-efficacy can also help increase condom use with regular partners. (authors)
The dependence upon context of project critical success factors: test of the contingency hypothesis and effects of technological uncertainty and collectivism culture

Abstract Although the relationship between critical success factors (CSFs) and project performance is established, evidence regarding the dependence on the context of CSFs is patchy. To advance this field, we conduct two complementary studies. Study 1 examines contingency theory regarding managerial CSFs using survey responses (N = 211) of project management professionals from the United Kingdom. Using survey data from projects (N = 336) in the United Kingdom, Study 2 examines the contextual dependence of managerial CSFs in a moderated-moderation, theoretical framework whereby project technological uncertainty moderates the relationship between managerial CSFs and project execution and efficiency, and in-group collectivism culture of the executing organisation moderates the effect of technological uncertainty. Results confirm that external and internal contexts influence managerial CSFs. Managerial CSFs have a greater than expected influence on project execution and efficiency. The positive effect of managerial CSFs is weaker when technological uncertainty is high. When technological uncertainty is high, the effect of managerial CSFs strengthens as levels of in-group collectivism culture increase. However, when technological uncertainty is low, the effect of managerial CSFs weakens as levels of in-group collectivism culture increase. We discuss the managerial and theoretical implications.
A Novel Modified Switched Inductor Boost Converter With Reduced Switch Voltage Stress

Recently, switched inductor (SI) and switched capacitor techniques in dc–dc converter are recommended to achieve high voltage by using the principle of parallel charging and series discharging of reactive elements. It is noteworthy that four diodes, one high-voltage rating switch, and two inductors are required to design classical SI boost converter (SIBC). Moreover, in classical SIBC, the switch voltage stress is equal to the output voltage. In this article, modified SIBC (mSIBC) is proposed with reduced voltage stress across active switches. The proposed mSIBC configuration in this article is transformerless and simply derived by replacing the one diode of the classical SI structure with an active switch. As a result, mSIBC required low-voltage rating active switches, since the total output voltage is shared into two active switches. Moreover, the proposed mSIBC is low in cost, provides higher efficiency, and requires the same number of components compared with the classical SIBC. The continuous conduction mode and discontinuous conduction mode analysis, the effect of nonidealities on voltage gain, design methodology, and comparison are presented in detail. The operation and performance of the designed 500-W mSIBC are experimentally validated under different perturbations.
2nd Place: Patient Activation Among Diverse Populations: A Systematic Review (Final Research Paper)

The purpose of this article was to review the current research regarding patient activation among diverse populations. Patient activation is defined as an individual’s knowledge, skill, and confidence in managing his or her own health and health care. A total of 62 articles were used in this review (54 primary research articles, six retrospective analyses, and two systematic reviews). Articles were obtained using the EBSCO search engine through the Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University. Preliminary and secondary searches were conducted using the keywords “patient activation. ” Only articles published within the last ten years (2007 to 2017) were included to ensure the most current data was examined. Two landmark studies from 2004 and 2005 were included as well. All articles were required to meet the relevance of the paper: an overview of patient activation among diverse populations. Additional articles related to the patient activation measure as well as the theory, outcomes, and interventions of patient activation were included. The selected articles presented data from normal, low socioeconomic status and minority, older adult, chronically ill, obese, diabetic, HIV-infected, mentally ill, neurological, orthopedic surgical, hospitalized, clinical, and parental populations. Patient activation was significantly associated with a wide range of positive health outcomes and clinical markers. Higher patient activation scores were related to lower healthcare costs, beneficial health behaviors, and improved confidence in health management. Emphasizing patient activation bodes a more sustainable future health care system. PATIENT ACTIVATION AMONG DIVERSE POPULATIONS 3
Lie detection using extreme learning machine: A concealed information test based on short‐time Fourier transform and binary bat optimization using a novel fitness function

Lie detection is one of the major challenges that is being faced by the forensic sciences. Identification of lie on the basis of a person's mental behavior is a tedious task. Brain‐computer interface is one such medium which provides a solution to this problem by displaying visual stimuli and recording subject's brain responses. A P300 response is elicited whenever a person comes across a familiar stimuli in a series of rare stimuli. This P300 response is used for the lie detection method. In the proposed concealed information test, acquired signals are preprocessed to discard noise. Then, short‐time Fourier transform method is applied to extract features from the preprocessed electroencephalogram signals. To avoid the curse of dimensionality and to reduce computational overhead, binary bat algorithm is applied, which helps in choosing optimal subset of features. The obtained set of features is given as an input to the extreme learning machine classifier for training of guilty and innocent samples. The performance of the system is assessed using 10‐fold cross‐validation. The resultant accuracy obtained from the proposed lie detection system is 88.3%. The system has provided efficient results in contrast with most of the state‐of‐the‐art lie detection methods.
Clinically silent, right and left ventricular outflow tract obstructions in an adult patient (RCD code: IV‑3A)

Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction is a narrowing of the way that conducts blood from the right ventricle to the pulmonary ar‑ tery. Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction is a stenosis of the path that leads blood from the left ventricle to the aorta. Combination of right and left ventricular outflow tract obstruction is a very rare finding. We report a case of a 67‑year‑old male with asymptomatic bi‑ ventricular outflow tract obstruction. We discuss the clinical presentation, diagnostic procedures, treatment opportunities for the patient based on review of literature and actual recommendations. JRCD 2017; 3 (2): 50–53
INTEGRASI PASAR KOMODITAS KELAPA DAN PRODUK TURUNAN INDONESIA DENGAN PASAR DUNIA

Coconut products are mostly traditional export Indonesia. Coconut products seed is copra exports and coconut oil. The determination of product price coconut export determined by reference the world market often known only by some side. Asymmetrical market information received by producers can harm producers. Fluent market information can help improve the welfare of producers and increase the speed reaction producers on changes in the market. Through research, market integration is expected to determine the level of integration of Indonesian market reference world markets. Benefit from the study that can be done the next step and anticipation of to increase the market information for producers. Eventually with the market information obtained can improve producers when reaction that is a massive market, and the welfare of oil producer. To assess integration this market used method of var/vecm. The result showed that the Indonesian coconut by integrated with coconut the world market. On the Indonesian market, market integration that happened between copra market indonesia and palm oil market indonesia is market integration in line because of only coconut oil prices significant on the amount of copra Indonesia, and vice versa.
Synchronous Reluctance Motor Parameter and State Estimation Using Extended Kalman Filter and Current Derivative Measurement

The synchronous reluctance motor is becoming a very attractive alternative to the ac induction machine. This is due to the lack of rare-earth metals in their construction and a higher efficiency, which was brought about by recent progress in rotor design. However, in order to achieve an efficient and low-cost operation of the synchronous reluctance motor drive, an adaptive sensorless algorithm should be utilized to cope with machine nonlinearities. This article describes an adaptive observer, which can provide an estimation of rotor position and speed, as well as core loss and inductance parameters. A modified pulsewidth modulation (PWM) switching scheme and a current derivative measurement method are proposed, together with an extended Kalman Filter design. Experimental results are shown to demonstrate the method performance and feasibility.
Efficiency in the Public University

Usual efficiency evaluation methods, such as Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Estimation tend to calculate efficiency scores which are valid only at a given moment and for the units where in the sample. At most, Malmquist index determines efficiency scores for period t+1. Those drawbacks can be avoided by translating efficiency scores in terms of probabilities trough the Discriminant Analysis which enables also, to provide appropriate weightings activities of research laboratories, object of this study. In addition to Discriminant Analysis, Hierarchical Cluster Analysis is used to classify those activities into homogeneous groups, while Data Envelopment Analysis is employed to categorize laboratories in efficient and inefficient structures. This method is applied on a public university in east of Morocco. This study shows that indexed publications as well as the supported doctoral thesis or in state of supervision have the greatest impact on efficiency of the research laboratories.