Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Pregnancy and childbirth during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland: qualitative evidence from experts interviews.

Background: The COVID-19 outbreak has significantly altered the provisions and shape of medical services for expecting mothers worldwide. In Poland, the country where pregnancy and childbirth are subject to comparably greater medicalization, those shifts are particularly tangible. This study aimed at capturing how maternal health professionals tackle care over pregnant and birthing women during a pandemic, highlighting possible long-term implications for the expecting and new mothers, as well as the reproductive health sector.Methods: This is a qualitative and rapid-response study which addresses the themes around the emerging implications of the viral outbreak. Semi-structured expert interviews were conducted with 46 individuals, all highly-skilled, working in either medical or adjacent sectors connected with reproductive medicine, as well as varied antenatal and postpartum care services. In this analysis, 7 digital experts were excluded as observers rather than field practitioners. Among 38 interviews, 5 have been conducted with OB-GYNs, 13 with midwives, 6 with doulas, 14 broadly-conceived category of maternal support experts including psychologists and physiotherapists. The recorded data were input into thematic grids and meticulously transcribed prior to being subject to an inductive, thematic analysis.Results: The findings revealed that the context of the heightened medicalization of pregnancy and hospital care during birth in Poland, resulted in strong restrictions and immediate fall back to a clinical care model. The majority also claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the implications of the decades of Polish maternal health recommendations contradicting the WHO regulations. Professionals’ anxieties concern limited access to services assisting women during pregnancies. While those linked to hospitals pointed out physiological risks, other maternal support experts drew attention to the effects of stress and uncertainty on maternal mental health. Conclusions: Experts face various challenges when providing care to pregnant and birthing women in Poland. They underscore both the information chaos surrounding recommendations and procedures, and see the pandemic as a moment of reflection, mostly being vocal in their critiques of the over-medicalized Polish care model. The interviewed maternal health experts believe that the pandemic will have multifaceted consequences that are being exacerbated by both a sudden cessation of extensive degree of medicalization during pregnancy, and a fallback to alienation during intervention-focused hospital deliveries.
THE PRACTICAL OPERATION OF PHOTOVOLTAIC DESALINATION SYSTEMS

An electrodialysis (ED) desalination system powered by photovoltaic (PV) cells was developed. The 25 kW PV-ED demonstration plant was accomplished in March 1986 and has been actually operating since June 1986. By evaluation of the long term actual operating data, we confirmed the reliability of this system and the ED method is one of the solutions for utilizing varying DC-power of PV-cells. We developed the Partially Desalinated Water (PDW) storing system for sea water desalination by solar energy and its concept will be expanded to another technology. Next stage, we have been developing the 65 kW PV-ED system for brackish water desalination system. This plant was constructed in March 1990 and has been operating since July 1990.
Methods for assessing the field performance of stress-laminated timber bridges

A national program to improve wood utilization in bridge applications is currently being administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service. As a part of this program, the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), has developed a bridge monitoring program to determine the field performance of timber bridges. This paper presents an overview of the methods used by the FPL to assess the field performance of stresslaminated timber bridges. Included are discussions related to the equipment and procedures used to monitor the force in prestressing bars, moisture content in lumber laminations, vertical creep, and behavior of the structure under static loading conditions.
Design and implementation of an algorithm for creating templates for the purpose of iris biometric authentication through the analysis of textures implemented on a FPGA

Currently addressing problems related to security in access control, as a consequence, have been developed applications that work under unique characteristics in individuals, such as biometric features. In the world becomes important working with biometric images such as the liveliness of the iris which are for both the pattern of retinal images as your blood vessels. This paper presents an implementation of an algorithm for creating templates for biometric authentication with ocular features for FPGA, in which the object of study is that the texture pattern of iris is unique to each individual. The authentication will be based in processes such as edge extraction methods, segmentation principle of John Daugman and Libor Masek's, and standardization to obtain necessary templates for the search of matches in a database and then get the expected results of authentication.
Structural and mutational analysis of the ribosome-arresting human XBP1u

XBP1u, a central component of the unfolded protein response (UPR), is a mammalian protein containing a functionally critical translational arrest peptide (AP). Here, we present a 3 Å cryo-EM structure of the stalled human XBP1u AP. It forms a unique turn in the upper part of the ribosomal exit tunnel and causes a subtle distortion of the peptidyl transferase center, explaining the temporary translational arrest induced by XBP1u. During ribosomal pausing the hydrophobic region 2 (HR2) of XBP1u is recognized by SRP, but fails to efficiently gate the Sec61 translocon. An exhaustive mutagenesis scan of the XBP1u AP revealed that only 10 out of 21 mutagenized positions in the XBP1u AP are optimal with respect to translational arrest activity. Thus, XBP1u has evolved to induce an intermediate level of translational arrest, allowing efficient targeting by SRP without activating the Sec61 channel and thereby serving its central function in the UPR.
Compound enzyme inhibition

Un compuesto que tiene la formula: **Formula** o una sal farmaceuticamente aceptable del mismo, para uso en el tratamiento de la inflamacion, enfermedad neurodegenerativa, enfermedades de desgaste muscular, cancer, enfermedades infecciosas cronicas, una afeccion hiperproliferativa, desuso muscular, afecciones relacionadas con el sistema inmunitario; para uso en inhibir o reducir la infeccion por HIV; para uso en afectar al nivel de expresion de genes viricos en un sujeto; o para uso en alterar la variedad de peptidos antigenicos producidos por el proteasoma en un organismo.
A Short Wavelength and Low Loss Thin-Film Transmission Line Employing ML/CPW Composite Structure on Silicon Substrate

In this work, a thin-film transmission line (TFTL) employing microstrip line/coplanar waveguide (ML/CPW) on silicon substrate was proposed, and its RF characteristics were investigated. The TFTL employing ML/CPW composite structure exhibited the wavelength shorter than conventional coplanar waveguide and thin-film microstrip line. Concretely, at 10 GHz, the wavelength of conventional coplanar waveguide and thin film waveguide is 10.35 and 7.83 mm, while the wavelength of the TFTL employing ML/CPW composite structure was 6.26 mm, which was 60.5 % of the conventional coplanar waveguide. The TFTL employing ML/CPW composite structure with a length of λ/8 showed the loss less than 1.12 dB up to 30 GHz, which was lower than conventional coplanar waveguide and thin-film microstrip line. Above results indicates that the TFTL employing ML/CPW composite structure is a promising candidate for application to a miniaturization of RF components on silicon RFIC.
Examination of perceptions of 6th grade students regarding the concepts of law and justice

Within the scope of the Law and Justice course curriculum, it is aimed to provide students with knowledge and skills such as the development of law and justice awareness, and the development of legal literacy. This study aims to reveal students' perceptions about the concepts of law and justice in the Law and Justice course curriculum, which is taught in the 6th grade of secondary school. Phenomenology, one of the qualitative research methods, was used as a method in the study. The working group of the research consists of 150 students studying in the 6th grade at Atatürk Secondary School and Gazi Mustafa Kemal Secondary school located in the center of Çay district, Afyonkarahisar in the 2019-2020 academic year. The "Law and Justice Word Association Test" prepared by the researcher was used as the data collection tool. Descriptive analysis, one of the qualitative data analysis methods, was used in the analysis of the data, and frequency tables were created to determine students' perceptions about each concept and to reveal the relationships between concepts. Concept networks have been prepared using frequency tables. The data were analyzed and interpreted according to the relationships that emerged in the concept networks. Within the framework of the results obtained from the research, the perceptions of the students towards the concepts of law and justice are close to each other. It has been revealed that the students have enough conceptual knowledge to raise awareness about the concepts of law and justice. With the help of word association tests, it is seen that students can have an idea about their concept perception.
European Democracy after COVID-19

In the past 70 years, situations that featured a lack of solidarity were always followed by the communitization of structures in the European Union. This contribution reflects on possible consequences of the COVID-19 crisis for the European Union. Even though the initial response from the EU looked unpromising and was driven at the nation-state level, the crisis may lead to new forms of solidarity through communitization. We argue that the EU needs equality for all EU citizens as well as institutionalized solidarity in order to finally become a real European democracy.
Decision support for the design of affective products

Affective design quantifies user reactions and defines their relationship to physical parameters of designs. This knowledge can inform the generation of better interfaces between product and user and can increase the product appeal in both mature and new markets. This study presents a decision support framework that assists the development of emotionally appealing products by eliciting user needs early in the development process. It has been developed and validated through industrial case studies. Some aspects of the approach have evolved from Kansei engineering but the fields of linguistics, engineering and psychology have contributed further functionality and user support. The framework can be adopted at any stage early in the product development process to provide guidelines for optimising the emotional product communication. The framework embodies methods for adjective selection, concept definition, user experiments and quantitative user evaluations. Using these, the practitioner can select the range of user-focused evaluations central to the product concepts. The measurement of the consumer perceptions uses a controlled semantic differential survey. The results are analysed using a range of statistical techniques including principal component analysis.
Exact Design of TEM Microwave Networks Using Quarter-Wave Lines

Modem network theory procedures, based on Ozaki-Ishii synthesis techniques, are reviewed for application in the design of TEM mode microwave networks using parallel coupled bars and/or series and shunt stubs. The circuit equivalences and identities obtained are theoretically valid over the entire frequency spectrum and lead to several physical configurations having identical response functions. These equivalent circuits often allow simplification of the physicrd circuitry and realization of both broad and narrow bandwidths. The problem of practical circuit configurations is discussed from the viewpoint of bandwidth and circuit element values. Neglecting multiple responses, TEM low-pass, high-pass and band-pass butterworth filters are shown to offer steeper bandedge characteristics than those of corresponding lumped element filters. The use of complementary filters to match a source and load over a wide frequency range is outlined and TEM realizations of these complements are obtained. A simple procedure for obtaining element values of butterworth complements is described. An analysis of parallel coupled filters is made and a simplified equivalent circuit is obtained. An exact synthesis procedure for parallel coupled bar filters and their equivalent forms is given. Construction details and experimental results are described for two filters which use series stubs.
The Use of Sweep and Dihedral in Multistage Axial Flow Compressor Blading—Part I: University Research and Methods Development

This paper describes the introduction of 3-D blade designs into the core compressors for the Rolls-Royce Trent engine with particular emphasis on the use of sweep and dihedral in the rotor designs. It follows the development of the basic ideas in a university research project, through multistage low-speed model testing, to the application to high pressure engine compressors. An essential element of the project was the use of multistage CFD and some of the development of the method to allow the designs to take place is also discussed. The first part of the paper concentrates on the university-based research and the methods development. The second part describes additional low-speed multistage design and testing and the high-speed engine compressor design and test.
Genetic Algorithms and Investment Strategies

From the Publisher: More and more traders now rely on genetic algorithms, neural networks, chaos theory, and other computerized decision-making approaches to help them develop winning investment strategies. They recognize that the battle in today's financial markets is increasingly being waged at computer speed, not human speed, and that anyone who fails to exploit these new tools may be headed for extinction. Written by the coauthor of the first published paper to link genetic algorithms and the world of finance, Richard Bauer's Genetic Algorithms and Investment Strategies is, likewise, the first book to demonstrate the value of GAs as tools in the search for effective trading ideas. Recognizing the continued resistance of many traders and analysts to GAs, it shows how these approaches do not herald an age in which people will be supplanted by machines, revealing instead how they serve only to augment human thinking. In clear, nontechnical language, Genetic Algorithms and Investment Strategies describes the biological bases of GAs, neural nets, and chaos theory.their historical development.the current state of the methodology for each.and their uses, advantages, and limitations as decision-making tools in the world of finance, ultimately demonstrating the superiority of GAs over the other two methods, particularly in handling critical optimization problems. It then focuses exclusively on GAs, presenting simple problems to illustrate the basic steps involved in using a GA and describing - with the help of numerous tables and diagrams - how the GA mimics nature's ruthlessly efficient evolutionary process and moves quickly and inexorably toward a near-optimal solution. Complete with a summary of available software programs, an extensive glossary of GA terms, and a bibliography covering GAs, neural nets chaos theory, and market timing, Genetic Algorithms and Investment Strategies doesn't offer a results-oriented, get-rich-quick scheme. Rather, it provides traders and investment
A Longitudinal Examination of Eating Disorders and Associated Risk Factors in Division I Student-Athletes

A LONGITUDINAL EXAMINATION OF EATING DISORDERS AND ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS IN DIVISION I STUDENT-ATHLETES NICOLE COURT-MENENDEZ 2018 CONTEXT: Eating disorders represent a significant concern across multiple populations including collegiate athletes. Risk factors for eating disorders may be amplified in athletes because of internal and external performance and image expectations. Little is known about how these risk factors change over time in collegiate student-athletes. OBJECTIVE: To longitudinally examine select eating disorder risk factors in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I student-athletes. DESIGN: Descriptive longitudinal study. SETTING: NCAA Division I collegiate athletics. PARTICIPANTS: Retired Division I collegiate athletes (n=204), ages 18-22, who competed in football, women’s soccer, women’s volleyball, baseball, men’s and women’s track and field, men’s and women's cross-country, golf, equestrian, tennis, wrestling, men’s and women's swimming, men’s and women's basketball, and softball. INTERVENTION(S): All participants completed an annual medical history questionnaire comprised of health information recommended by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) and NCAA. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Medical health history data was retrospectively analyzed to determine longitudinal changes in mental health, body weight satisfaction,
Is There A Relationship between The Components Of Metabolic Syndrome And Depression

Introduction: Metabolic syndrome is characterized as, have at least 3 of the following 5 criteria: high waist circumference, high blood pressure, high Triglyceride, low HDL (High Density Lipoprotein), and elevated Fasting Blood Glucose. The International Diabetes Federation estimates that 25% of the world's population has metabolic syndrome. Specially, metabolic syndrome is more prevalence in depressed people and other psychiatric patients, but some studies do not confirm it. So, we decided to evaluate the association between metabolic syndrome criteria and depression as a most common psychiatric disorder. Method: Our study was a cross sectional design of 130 participants aged 18-65 years. We assessed the metabolic syndrome based on International Diabetes Federation criterion and depression by using the criterion of DSM-IV. Results: After an adjustment for important confounders (Physical activity, calorie intake, history of depression, the depression score, menopausal status, body mass index and dietary patterns) depressed patients significantly had more waist circumference. Conclusion: Maybe visceral obesity results in depression or vice versa. So, we suppose more studies to clarify this relationship.
Lumped-parameter modelling of cardiovascular system dynamics under different healthy and diseased conditions

Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death in the modern society, and research into the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases is an urgent task. Lumped-parameter mathematical modelling as an efficient and effective research technique has been extensively applied in the cardiovascular dynamics research, and has achieved enormous success in assisting the cardiovascular physiology study. This thesis reports a coherent work of lumped-parameter cardiovascular modelling based on some selected works that the author has conducted and published in the past several years. After a critical and comprehensive review of the concurrent lumped-parameter modelling technique, an improved lumped-parameter model that effectively describes the important cardiovascular features of heart valve dynamics and atrial-ventricular septum motion is presented. The model is then adapted to study several application cases of typical heart failure condition with ventricular assist device support, and extension of the lumped-parameter modelling for the optimisation of a pulsatile bioreactor in cardiovascular tissue engineering study. Some on-going works and future directions are also introduced. The reported modelling studies are useful for the cardiovascular physiology research and design optimisation of cardiovascular prosthetic organs.
How conditional are the conditional willingness-to-pay estimates? A Monte Carlo evaluation

ABSTRACT This paper aims to examine whether or not differing sample compositions influence conditional willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates for the same respondents, using a Monte Carlo evaluation. The results in this paper challenge the use of individual-specific WTP values. Approximately at least one out of five respondents are likely to show frequent extreme WTP values. Interval variables might give more stable tastes across varying sample compositions than dummy variables. Nonmarket valuation researchers, exploring preference heterogeneity, should be more cautious about potentially unstable conditional WTP estimates, particularly when respondents are regrouped with differing memberships.
Mechatronic Design of an Electromagnetically Levitated Linear Positioning System using Novel Multi-DoF Actuators

The development of contactless electromagnetically levitated positioning systems is stimulated by the demand for vacuum compatible production machines. These vacuum compatible machines are used e.g. in the development of faster semiconductor chips and optical discs with larger data capacity. A novel vacuum compatible actuator is the IU-module. The IU-module allows wireless actuation in multiple degrees of freedom. The suspension force of this actuator is generated by permanent magnets allowing the force to be created with low power dissipation. In vacuum environments, low power dissipation is often a requirement due to the lack of convective cooling. In this research, the potential of this novel Multi-DoF actuator is studied by integrating it into nanometre resolution contactless linear position positioning system, the Slider. This Slider has to fulfill the specifications of a linear positioning system used in a modern optical disc mastering production machine. In its most critical direction, the developed Slider using the IU-modules realized a position stability of 0.12 nm (standard deviation) with a control strategy acting on the rigid body coordinates. When additional actuation capabilities of the IU-module were used, the excitation of flexible modes in the Slider could be reduced. This allowed the positioning performance of the Slider to be improved to 58 pm (standard deviation). The challenges addressed in the research are the electromagnetic design of the actuator itself, as well as the integral mechatronic design and control of the linear positioning system.