Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Internet-Based versus Center-Based Intervention Training for Parents of Young Children with Post-Digital Nanning Autism Syndrome (PDNAS): A Comparative Study

AbstractobjectivesInternet-based intervention approach is one novel strategy to train. However, only a few clinical trials have compared internet-based parent training intervention with an equal center-based intervention for children with ASD. The primary aim of this study was to compare treatment outcomes of an internet-based intervention with a center-based intervention for young children with Post Digital Nanning Autism Syndrome (PDNAS). MethodsA total of 40 mother–young children with PDNAS dyads were assigned to the internet-based (n=20) and to the center-based intervention (n=20). Parents in both groups received intervention that involves 7 sessions (one session per week). Primary outcome measures were the Gilliam Autism Rating Scale - Second Edition (GARS-2), Repetitive Behavior Scale- Revised (RBS-R) and Parenting Stress Index (PSI). ResultsThe analysis yielded no significant between-group difference for any of the pre- to post-intervention measurements. At post-intervention both intervention conditions revealed significant symptoms changes compared to before the intervention. Also, the parental stress was significant related to the child’s autism symptoms and repetitive behaviors severity.Conclusion: Internet-based parent training intervention for young children with PDNAS and their parents is equally beneficial to regular center-based parent training intervention. These findings support the potential for using telehealth to provide research-based parent training interventions to any family that has access to the Internet.
Prevalence high risk Human Papillomavirus (HPV) in HIV-infected women from Belém, Pará, Amazon region of Brazil: A cross-sectional study

Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the world. Several studies have shown a higher prevalence of HPV infection in HIV-infected women. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and the genotype diversity of HPV infection in HIV-infected women.Methods: From April 2010 to December 2012 cervical specimens were collected from 169 HIV-infected women who screening for cervical cancer at Reference Unit in Belém. The detection of HPV infection was performed by nested PCR and HPV type was performed using the commercial kit.Results: The prevalence of HPV infection was 63,3%. Of the 47 genotyped samples, 40,4% was found positive for high risk-HPV 16 and 12.8% for high risk-HPV 52. HPV infection was predominant in the group of women with no incidence of cytological abnormalities and more prevalent in women of reproductive age, unmarried, low education level and who used condoms during sexual intercourse. It was observed an association between HPV infection and independent variables, such as condom use, multiple sexual partners and history of sexually transmitted diseases.Conclusions: High-risk types of HPV infection were prevalent in our study. Infection with multiple high-risk HPV genotypes may potentiate the development of cervical cancer in HIV-infected women.
Labiodentals /r/ here to stay: Deep learning shows us why

L’articulation labiale secondaire qui accompagne l’approximante post-alveolaire /r/ en anglais a beaucoup moins suscite l’interet des linguistes que son articulation primaire, linguale. Or les levres peuvent presenter un interet tout particulier dans la variete d’anglais parlee en Angleterre car les realisations labiodentales sans geste lingual ([ʋ]) sont en voie d’expansion. La labiodentalisation resulte probablement de la preservation d’un geste labial aux depens du geste lingual, ce qui impliquerait que /r/ soit toujours labiodental, y compris dans les productions linguales. Nous verifions cette hypothese en comparant la configuration des levres du /r/ et du /w/ chez des locuteurs d’anglais d’Angleterre qui ont conserve la composante linguale dans leur production. Si le /r/ post-alveolaire est labiodental, le geste labial du /w/, qui est unanimement considere comme arrondi, devrait etre tres different. Nous avons utilise des techniques de l’apprentissage profond afin de classer automatiquement et de mesurer la configuration labiale de /r/ et /w/ a partir d’images des levres de 23 locuteurs. Nos resultats suggerent qu’il existe bel et bien une difference nette de configuration labiale entre /r/ et /w/, qu’un reseau de neurones artificiels a convolution est capable de detecter avec une tres grande precision. Des mesures effectuees automatiquement au niveau des levres au moyen d’un reseau de neurones artificiels montrent que /r/ a effectivement une configuration des levres de type labiodental, ce qui nous permet de decrire precisement la realisation phonetique de cette labiodentalisation. Nous finirons avec une discussion des implications methodologiques de l’utilisation de l’apprentissage profond dans les analyses phonetiques.
Rock ’n’ Roll but not Sex or Drugs: Music is negatively correlated to depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic via reward-related mechanisms

The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply affected mental health. We assessed which of many leisure activities had positive psychological effects, with particular attention to music, which has been reported anecdotally to be important. Questionnaire data from over a thousand individuals primarily from Italy, Spain, and the USA during spring 2020 show that people picked music most often as the best activity to cope with psychological distress. Hours of engagement in music and food-related activities during the pandemic were associated with decreased depression symptoms. The benefits of music were mediated by individual differences in sensitivity to reward, whereas the positive effects of food-related activities were related to emotion regulation. Our results demonstrate that music is an important means of improving well-being, and suggest that the underlying mechanism is related to reward, consistent with neuroscience findings. Our data have practical significance in pointing to effective strategies to cope with mental health issues.
Classification of Community Complaints Against Public Services on Twitter

The Surakarta Al-Islam Vocational School is a private educational institution that requires all students to pay school tuition fees. Education is an obligation for all Indonesian citizens. The cost of education is one of the most important input components in implementing education. Because cost is the main requirement in achieving educational goals. SPP School is a routine school fee that is carried out every month. Based on last year's School Admin report, many students were late in paying school tuition fees, around 60%. This is a very big problem because the income of school funds comes from school tuition. The purpose of this research is that the researcher will build a prediction system using the best classification method, which is to compare the accuracy level of the Naïve Bayes method with the K-K-Nearest Neighbor method. Because both methods can make class classifications right or late, in paying school fees. processing using dapodic data for 2017/2018 as many as 236 data. In improving accuracy, the researcher also applies feature selection with Information Gain, which is useful for selecting optimal parameters. System testing is carried out using the Confusion Matrix method. The final results of this study indicate that the Naïve Bayes Method + Information Gain Method produces the highest accuracy, namely 95% compared to the Naïve Bayes method alone, namely 85% and the K-NN method, namely 81%. Keywords— Big Data, Twitter, Naïve Bayes, Classification, Complaint.
Metal bioaccumulation in tissues of Puntius sarana and Labeo rohita and its associated risk status: A case study of Damodar River, India

Contamination of water bodies is a result of anthropogenic activities. An investigation of the degree of metal contamination in water, sediment and fish species (Puntius sarana and Labeo rohita) of two sampling sites of the Damodar River, situated in close vicinity to fly ash dump site, in India was performed. Bioaccumulation of heavy metals (Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn, Fe and Cd) in liver, gills and muscles of fishes were analyzed by Flame Atomic Absorption spectrophotometry (FAAS). The concentrations of Cu, Mn and Fe in water samples of Site 1 (1.04 mg/L Cu; 0.74 mg/L Mn; 1.13 mg/L Fe) and Site 2 (0.64 mg/L Cu; 0.56 mg/L Mn; 0.90 mg/L Fe) were found above permissible limits (Indian Standards, IS:10500) of drinking water. Copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) concentrations in sediments of Site 1 ranged from 541.08–552.92 mg/kg and 744.68–754.76 mg/kg dry weight, respectively. Sediments of Site 1 had higher Cu and Zn levels as compared to Site 2 but both the sites had Cu and Zn concentrations above the prescribed sediment limits of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) 1986. Risk Index (RI) for sediments of Site 1 was 102.2, while, for Site 2 was 59.59. The trend for chromium (Cr) concentration in tissues of P. sarana from Site 1 was: muscles > liver > gills and for Lead (Pb) in P. sarana was: liver > gills > muscles. In Site 2, the trend for Zn concentration in L. rohita was: liver > gills > muscles. Concentrations of Cu and Iron (Fe) in muscles of P. sarana of Site 1 were found to be 18.64 mg/kg and 14.26 mg/kg, wet weight, respectively, and were above permissible limits as prescribed by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) 1983 while, at Site 2, Fe (13.91 mg/kg) was above FAO limits for muscles of L. rohita. Highest bioaccumulation factor (BAF) value was observed for Pb (145.18) in liver of L. rohita of Site 2. Target hazard quotient (THQ) values for all the metals were below 1, indicating no risk relating to the consumption of fish on human health.
Open Education Policies in Irish Higher Education and the Role of Librarians: Review and Recommendations

This research aims to highlight the role librarians can play in OER policy, development, design, collaboration, publishing, teaching and management. This research will interview key experts, advocates, and librarians working in this area. Semi-structured interviews will be analyzed using thematic analysis. The main results of the study for policy are that institutional culture and institutional buy-in are of paramount importance, pervading policy discussions, policy involvement, rewards and incentives, OER use and management. Recommendations from the study are that a national OER policy be created with a timeline for compliance to allow autonomy of the institution and consider institutional culture, librarians should be supported to up-skill, we should follow a Team Science model for reward and incentive, and that a national university press is a worthwhile idea in an Irish context.
Parametric study for the development of a new indicator of the sound quality in open plan offices

Among the various sound sources present in open offices, intelligible speech is the one that has the greatest impact on the occupants of these spaces. Indeed, many field or laboratory studies have shown the effect of intelligible speech on annoyance or fatigue [Pierrette, 2015, Kostallari, 2017]. For several years, INRS has been working on an indicator to evaluate the emergence of speech in noise, the Meq [Chevret, 2017]. This indicator, calculated as the difference between the equivalent level of ambient noise and the level exceeded 90% of the time (Leq - L90), has already shown convincing results in the evaluation of the effect of speech during laboratory experiments [Kostallari, 2019]. However, due - in part - to the simplicity of its definition, the link between this metric and sound perception in real conditions is still too weak. In this study, a parametric analysis (measurement time resolution, frequency weighting, background noise type effect) was conducted and compares the Meq with various speech modulation indicators used to assess the acoustic quality of open offices (STI, Fluctuation strength, .).
Effect of growth retardants (Alar and Cycocel) on flower yield and carotenoid content in African marigold ( Tagetes erecta L.) varieties

A field study was conducted to assess the effect of growth retardants in African marigold ( Tagetes erecta L.). The effect of Alar and Cycocel on flower yield and carotenoid content in two varieties of African marigold was studied. The experiment was carried out in split plot design during two seasons viz., May sown crop and January sown crop. The main plots included two popular varieties Pusa Narangi Gainda and Maxima Yellow F1 and sub plot treatments comprised of Alar @ 500, 1000 and 1500 ppm, Cycocel @ 1000, 1500 and 2000 ppm and distilled water as control applied as foliar spray. The number of flowers per plant, total flower yield per plant and carotenoid content of flower petals were significantly influenced by growth retardant application during both the seasons. Maximum carotenoid content was recorded in plants treated with Cycocel 1000 ppm in May sown crop and with Cycocel 2000 ppm in January sown crop.
Trends in reactivity of oxides: applied to catalytic oxidation of hydrogen halides

The results in this thesis are based on Density Functional Theory calculations. The catalytic activity of oxides and other compound materials are investigated. It is found that the adsorption energy of the molecules NH2, NH, OH and SH on transition metal nitride, oxide and sulfide surfaces scales linearly with the adsorption energy of their central N, O and S atoms. It is also found that they follow the same trend as in the case of adsorption of the same molecules on transition metals. The same type of scaling relations are also established between the adsorption energies of the halides (Cl, Br, and I) and OH on a wide range of rutile oxide surfaces. Furthermore, Brønsted-Evans-Polanyi (BEP) relations are found for the adsorption of a large number of molecules (including Cl, Br and I) on transition metal oxides. In these relations the activation energies scale linearly with the dissociative chemisorption energies. It turns out that the BEP relation for rutile oxides is almost coinciding with the dissociation line, i.e. no barrier exists for the reactive surfaces. The heterogeneous catalytic oxidation of hydrogen halides (HCl, HBr, and HI) is investigated. A micro-kinetic model is solved and the oxidation activities are compared at different coverage. Based on the obtained scaling relations two descriptors are identified that describe the reactions uniquely. By combining scaling with the micro-kinetic model, activity volcanoes for the three different oxidation reactions are derived. It is found that the commonly used RuO2 catalyst for HCl oxidation is the closest to optimal for all three oxidation processes. Finally, a study of transition metal substituted zeolites shows that relations similar to the above mentioned scaling applies for this type material.
Examination of Factors Reported by Athletes to Interfere with Their Lives Outside of Sports

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Self-Activating Neural Ensembles for Continual Reinforcement Learning

The ability for an agent to continuously learn new skills without catastrophically forgetting existing knowledge is of critical importance for the development of generally intelligent agents. Most methods devised to address this problem depend heavily on well-defined task boundaries which simplify the problem considerably. Our task-agnostic method, Self-Activating Neural Ensembles (SANE), uses a hierarchical modular architecture designed to avoid catastrophic forgetting without making any such assumptions. At each timestep a path through the SANE tree is activated; during training only activated nodes are updated, ensuring that unused nodes do not undergo catastrophic forgetting. Additionally, new nodes are created as needed, allowing the system to leverage and retain old skills while growing and learning new ones. We demonstrate our approach on MNIST and a set of grid world environments, demonstrating that SANE does not undergo catastrophic forgetting where existing methods do.
DOES THE REALISTIC CONTACT AND DAILY USE CONDITIONS LIMIT THE USE OF POLYCARBONATE BABY BOTTLES FOR MIGRATION AND RESIDUE LEVEL OF BISPHENOL-A

Bisphenol-A (BPA) which is a plastic monomer acting as endocrine disruptor, can cause developmental effects and change the metabolism even at low concentrations. This study was carried out to make (i) a general assessment by performing residue analysis on the polycarbonate baby bottles, (ii) determining the factors affecting the migration of BPA to the food and (iii) determining the effect of repetitive procedures on PC baby bottles in daily use. Amount of residual BPA ranged from 0.60 ±0.05 ppm to 6.23 ±0.24 ppm and BPA migration could not be detected in any of contact conditions. Estimated daily intakes of BPA via infant formula in PC baby bottle were calculated as 1.8 µg kg -1 bw day -1 for a 3 month-old infant and 1.22 µg kg -1 bw day -1 for a 6 month-old infant which was lower than but very close to the latest value of t-TDI (4 µg kg -1 bw day -1 ) determined by EFSA. Sterilization procedures changed the amount of residual BPA significantly. Although it is concluded that the use of brand-new PC baby bottles does not pose a risk to health, sterilization procedures can lead to the higher amounts of migrated BPA which can be toxically important.
Tuning the Opto-Electronic Properties of Organic Semiconductors: Derivatives ofAzadipyrromethene, Naphthalene Diimide and Poly(3-hexylthiophene)

By FORREST SAMUEL ETHERIDGE Applications of organic semiconductors are extensive, including organic photovoltaics and organic field effect transistors. Controlling the organic semiconductors’ optical and electronic properties is critical for device performance. Here, select organic semiconductors were modified to develop new materials with enhanced properties. Fluorinated azadipyrromethene derivatives were synthesized and the electronic and optical properties of their respective zinc(II) and BF2 chelates were studied. In two complexes, it was found that the addition of fluorine elements raised the oxidation and lowered the reduction potentials, while the addition of fluorine had little effect on the absorption spectra of solutions and films. Preliminary results in organic photovoltaics suggest that fluorine has a favorable impact in organic photovoltaics, but further research is required. Selective thionation of the distal carbonyls using a combination of core and imide substituents on naphthalene diimide (NDI) was demonstrated. Each addition of sulfur causes a 50 nm bathochromic shift of
MiR-1301-3p Inhibits Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition via Targeting RhoA in Pancreatic Cancer

Micro(mi)RNAs play an essential role in the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) process in human cancers. This study aimed to uncover the regulatory mechanism of miR-1301-3p on EMT in pancreatic cancer (PC). The miRNA profilings from Gene Expression Omnibus data sets (GSE31568, GSE41372, and GSE32688) demonstrated the downregulation of miR-1301-3p in PC tissues, which was validated with 72 paired PC tissue samples through qRT-PCR detection. The low level of miR-1301-3p was associated with a poor prognosis for PC patients from the PC cohort of The Cancer Genome Atlas and the validation cohort. Gene Ontology analyses indicated that the target genes of miR-1301-3p were involved in cell cycle and adherent junction regulation. In vitro assays revealed that miR-1301-3p suppressed the proliferation and migration abilities of PC cells. Western blotting and luciferase reporter assays suggested that miR-1301-3p inhibited RhoA expression by targeting its 3′-untranslated region; RhoA upregulated N-cadherin and vimentin levels; however, it downregulated the E-cadherin level. In conclusion, our study showed that miR-1301-3p could serve as a prognostic biomarker for PC and suppress PC cell malignancy by targeting the RhoA-induced EMT process.
Stability and Hopf bifurcation analysis of a distributed time delay energy model for sustainable economic growth

This paper examines the consequences of including distributed delays in an energy model. The stability behaviour of the resulting equilibrium for our dynamic system is analysed, including models with Dirac, weak and strong kernels. Applying the Hopf bifurcation theorem we determine conditions under which limit cycle motion is born in such models. The results indicate that distributed delays have an ambivalent impact on the dynamical behaviour of systems, either stabilizing or destabilizing them.
N and p-type doping of GaN nanowires : from growth to electrical properties

Les nanostructures a base de nitrures d’elements III suscitent un interet croissant, en raison de leurs proprietes singulieres et de leurs applications technologiques potentielles, dans les diodes electroluminescentes (LED) notamment. La maitrise et le controle du dopage de ces nanostructures est un enjeu crucial, mais difficile. A ce sujet, cette these apporte une contribution nouvelle, en explorant le processus de dopage de type n et p des nanofils (NFs) de GaN crus par epitaxie par jets moleculaires (EJM). En particulier, les proprietes electriques de ces structures ont ete caracterisees par une approche multi-technique, a l’echelle du NF unique.Tout d'abord, les proprietes structurales et electriques d'une serie de NFs de GaN dopes au Si (type n) ont ete etudiees. Des mesures de spectroscopie de rayons X a haute resolution sur des NFs individuels ont mis en evidence une incorporation de Si plus elevee dans les NFs que dans les couches minces epitaxiees, ainsi qu’une migration du Si a la surface du NF pour le fil ayant le niveau de dopage le plus eleve. Des mesures de transport sur des NFs uniques (quatre contacts avec une temperature allant de 300 K jusqu’a 5 K) ont demontre un controle du dopage, avec une resistivite allant de 10^2 a 10^-3 Ω. cm et une concentration de porteurs comprise entre 10^17 et 10^20 cm-3. Des mesures realisees sur des transistors a effet de champ a NFs uniques non intentionnellement dopes ont demontre qu’ils sont de type n avec une mobilite de porteurs elevee.Parallelement a cela, les conditions de croissance de NFs de GaN dopes au Mg (p-type) et de jonctions p-n ont ete determinees afin d’obtenir une incorporation significative en Mg. Les proprietes electriques de jonctions p-n axiale a base de NFs de GaN posees sur un substrat de SiO2 et contactes avec de l’oxyde d’indium-etain (ITO) ont ete etudiees en utilisant la technique du courant induit par faisceau electronique (EBIC). L’analyse EBIC a permis de localiser la jonction p-n le long du fil et de clairement montrer son bon fonctionnement en polarisation directe ou inverse. L'analyse EBIC a demontre que le GaN de type p est hautement resistif, confirmant ainsi les difficultes a realiser des mesures de transport sur ce materiau.Cette etude originale a permis de decrire les proprietes electriques et de dopage de ces NFs de GaN a une echelle nanoscopique, facilitant ainsi la fabrication des futurs dispositifs incorporant des nanostructures a base de GaN.