Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Analysis and Design of Waste Management System Using the Spiral Model Towards Smart Cities

IT Governance has provided hope in human life, especially waste management and environmental cleanliness services. The role of IT becomes very important when people want services that are fast, accurate and relevant. Technology using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has provided opportunities and made it possible to interact easily . The purpose of this research is to provide a GIS for the city environmental and sanitation services in order to provide good services in creating a clean environment. The research method uses the system analysis method with a spiral model approach in system design. The results of the design of GIS have been able to improve the performance of waste management in the city of Makassar.
The fantasy of healthy food: desire and anxiety in healthy food guide magazine

ABSTRACT Healthy Food Guide (HFG) has been a hugely successful magazine, both dominating the health magazine market and becoming deeply imbedded within the public health discourse, sanctioned and legitimated through a range of State apparatuses. Central to this has been an ability to differentiate itself from ‘restrictive diet programs’ and other forms of ‘misleading’ health advice, which they claim, unlike their magazine, are ungrounded in the latest scientific evidence. Through a qualitative analysis of the lead article in every issue of HFG from 2005 to 2017, we question its endorsement by New Zealand public health agencies, arguing that it acquires revenue through the intensification of health anxiety within its target readership. It does this through constructing its ideal reader as a health entrepreneur within the discourse of new public health, able to collect the right information to make the appropriate consumer choices, within a risk-saturated marketplace. A key contribution of this article is bringing a Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to the broad area of public health, which has been so far under-applied. By linking Lacanian theory to the health entrepreneur, we developed that concept by foregrounding the roles of desire and anxiety in healthism discourse. We argue that the consumer of HFG is bound to its libidinal economy in a relation of domination, whereby they are given the task of allaying anxiety through the collection of data on their bodies, information which only produces more anxiety.
3D printed bio-inspired adhesives, friction force generation by modulating stiffness

For over a decade the use of bio inspired adhesives have been explored to achieve high reversable attachment on a wide range of surfaces. Based on the fibrillar adhesive toepads of geckos, many patterned adhesives have been produced that are able to form and preserve contact with rigid and smooth substrates. But on other types of surfaces, such as soft and deformable substrates, the performance of these micro patterned adhesives diminishes. Alternative methods have to be investigated to create adhesives that optimize the ability to form and preserve contact on these types of substrates. In this study, 3D printing is used to produce a series of adhesives with internal cylindrical porous structures of various geometry. The internal structure modulates the adhesives stiffness in the normal and shearing direction, designed to affect the friction force. Friction forces are measured on glass, soft elastomeric substrates and cloth. On glass, the highest friction forces are generated by the adhesive with the lowest normal stiffness, unaffected by their shear stiffness. On soft substrates, the highest friction forces are achieved with adhesives that combine a low normal stiffness, promoting contact formation, with a high sear stiffness, enhancing contact preservation. The effect of this anisotropic stiffness becomes more pronounced when the stiffness of the substrate decreases, contributing to contact formation. On cloth, generation of friction forces remains challenging, more research is required to create adhesives that excel on these kinds of substrates.
Identifying stakeholder perspectives and worldviews on sustainable urban tourism development using a Q-sort methodology

ABSTRACT Tourism growth, particularly in cities, is coming under increased scrutiny. However, even often visited cities appear to find it difficult to agree upon a strategy to limit tourism growth. The current paper investigates this issue by looking at the extent to which different stakeholders’ perspectives on tourism development align. Q-sort methodology is employed to find the main worldviews and the extent to which they are shared by stakeholders in similar roles (e.g. policymakers, industry, resident). Results point to the existence of five different worldviews, which differ in the extent to which tourism growth is desirable or problematic and whether resident participation is advantageous or counterproductive. Stakeholders have highly different worldviews, even those with similar roles, which may help explain the difficulty to change the tourism growth paradigm as they limit opportunities for generating new consensus-based collective solutions. If we accept that tourism development strategies are driven and informed at least in part by individual worldviews, it may be impossible to make ‘objective’ policy choices. Instead, it might be more useful to explore possibilities to allow stakeholders to express their worldviews to better understand what sustainable tourism development entails for different people at different places and moments in time.
A Global Probabilistic Prediction of Cold Seeps and Associated SEAfloor FLuid Expulsion Anomalies (SEAFLEAs)

A newly compiled, open‐source database of focused fluid flow sites (e.g., cold seeps) and associated SEAfloor FLuid Expulsion Anomalies (SEAFLEAs) reveals a variable distribution of anomalies across global continental margins. The SEAFLEA distribution is heavily biased toward North American continental margins, with most observations between 100‐ and 200‐m water depth globally, and with an equal distribution between active and passive margins. Using a machine learning classification methodology based on outlier detection algorithms, we predict the probability of encountering a SEAFLEA globally. Results show the highest probability in regions with multiple SEAFLEA observations and parametrically similar regions concentrated on continental margins. In general, geologic, biologic, and chemical predictors are the best predictors of SEAFLEAs. We validate our results using a random and geospatial validation technique that reveals our methods are robust to random variations in observations, but that certain margins, such as the Svalbard Margin, represent parametrically distinct locals. These distinct regions have control over the global distribution of predicted anomalies due to their unique features. Our final prediction on a global 5 × 5 arc minute grid reveals that the average probability of encountering a SEAFLEA is 33.1 ± 17.7% on active margins and 31.2 ± 18.9% on passive margins, showing equal likelihood of encountering fluid expulsion between passive and active margins. Therefore, the lateral compaction on active margins does not increase the likelihood of fluid expulsion relative to the predominantly vertical compaction on passive margins. These results however say nothing of the fluid flux rates or density of expulsion features.
Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials in Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo: Will it be a potential diagnostic tool?

Authors Anish Bava Salim*, Dali Prabhakaran, Shyja Kannur Medical College, Kannur, Kerala *Corresponding Author Dr Anish Bava Salim Associate Professor, Kannur Medical College, Kannur, Kerala Email: dr.anishbhava@gmail.com Abstract Objectives: To investigate the incidence of VEMP abnormalities in patients suffering from BPPV. Methods: 30 consecutive patients referred to our vertigo clinic were selected as per the inclusion and exclusion criteria and evaluated as per the standard vertigo protocol. VEMP was performed on patients with BPPV and results compared to other parameters by detailed statistical analysis. Results: We observed that VEMP was not a helpful tool in diagnosing BPPV. There was no correlation between VEMP changes and BPPV, but VEMP is an additional tool to the currently available tests for peripheral vertigo. Conclusions: According to our study VEMP was not a useful test in diagnosing BPPV.
Assessment of Renal Damage in Patients with Multi-Drug Resistant Strains of Pneumonia Treated with Colistin

Background: Treatment of multi-drug-resistant strains of pneumonia with common antibiotics in renal patients is ineffective and physicians are compelled to use Colistin for such cases. Objectives: This study was conducted to assess the mortality, length of stay, and renal damages in the treatment of multi-drugresistant pneumonia with Colistin among multiple trauma patients admitted to the emergency department and transferred to the ICU. Methods: This retrospective cohort study was conducted between 2011 and 2016. 102 multiple trauma (MT) patients with multidrug-resistant strains of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) admitted to the emergency department then transferred to the ICU were assessed. All patients received Colistin according to their weight. Renal damage was evaluated according to the RIFLE criteria. The mortality and the length of stay were assessed. In order to statistically analyze the data, SPSS version 23 software was used to conduct t-test and chi-square test. Results: Out of 102 patients, 55 (54%) died and 50 (49.1%) developed acute renal failure; 64 cases had no hypertension. Patients according to the RIFLE index were assessed: Risk (11.01%), Injury (14%), Failure (18%), Loss (6%), and End-stage renal disease. The prevalence and prognosis of acute kidney injury in multiple trauma patients treated with Colistin were significantly correlated with drug dosage, body mass index, and use of corticosteroids (when assessed using relevant scoring systems, P < 0.05). Conclusions: The use of a scoring system in the intensive care unit, determining those patients requiring Colistin, and adjusting the dosage of this drug for treatment of MT patients with multi-drug resistant strains of HAP are vital. Creatinine levels must be carefully monitored.
Podiatric surgery and the diabetic foot: an audit of a community-based diabetic foot surgery

Article points 1. The diabetic foot multidisciplinary team may benefit from access to a podiatric surgery service for the management of patients who have non-acute neuropathic foot ulceration that has failed to heal through the usual means. 2. Judicious use of communitybased podiatric surgery has the potential to reduce reliance on hospital beds, inpatient stays and costly acute sector operating theatres. 3. Podiatric surgery can be safely offered in the community as a day case under local anaesthetic for patients with diabetic foot disease.
Solutions to fractional differential equations involving integral boundary conditions

ABSTRACT In this article, we discuss the existence and uniqueness of solutions to a class of integral boundary value problem of fractional differential equations. Different fractional order derivations are included in the nonlinear term and boundary conditions. The unique solution is derived by a new fixed point theorem of increasing -concave operators defined on ordered sets. Further, we construct a monotone iterative scheme to approximate the unique solution. An example is given to illustrate the validity of our main results.
Risk factors for suboptimal adherence and facilitators of adherence to HAART in HIV-infection

The advent of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAARY) lias significantly improved the life expectancy of HIV-infccted individuals. However, a strict threshold of up to 95% of doses taken as prescribed ïs required for optimal virologic outcomes and to avoid the development of resistance to medication. However, adherence to these regimens is often suboptimal because they are frequently accompanied by side effects and are among the most complex medication regimens to follow. Because suboptimal adherence has serious implications for the treatment of HIV-infected individuals, as well as for public health, it is critical to get a better understanding of factors associated with adherence to FLAART regimens. This dissertation consists of two articles designed to improve the understanding of factors associated with HAART adherence in a sample of HIV-infected individuals ÇN = 82). The first article examined the relation between suboptimal adherence, measured over a period of $0 days, and the following risk factors measured within 60 days ofbaseline: (1) demographic characteristics, (2) medicaÏ characteristics, (3) psychosocial characteristics, and (4) beliefs about medication efficacy. It also explored participants’ factors associated with beliefs about medication efficacy. The second article explored both the reasons for suboptimal adherence (barriers of adherence) reported at the worst adherence episode, and the strategies and motivators that facilitated adherencc (facilitators of adherence) reported at one time point over the course of one year. It also examined the relation between participants adherence status measured over a one year period and the number or the type of facilitators reported by participants. In the first article, resuits of a logistic regression indicated that participants who had an alcohol use problem, a drug use problem, or who were more sceptical about HAART efficacy were at increased risk for suboptimal adherence. Results also suggested that beliefs
Growth and development of cowpea under wood ash doses and liming

Wood ash is a source of nutrients for plants and can be an option to correct and fertilize the soil, thus contributing to the increase of productivity and decreasing the costs in agricultural production by the use of mineral and organic fertilizers. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of combinations of wood ash doses and the absence and presence of liming on the growth and development of cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. ] cultivated in Oxisol. The experiment was conducted in a greenhouse at the Federal University of Mato Brazilian Journal of Development Braz. J. of Develop. , Curitiba, v. 5, n. 12, p. 28701-28718 dec. 2019 ISSN 2525-8761 28702 Grosso, Campus of Rondonópolis. The experimental design was in a randomized block, arranged in a factorial scheme 6 x 2, with four replications. The treatments consisted of six doses of wood ash (0; 9; 18; 27; 36; and 45 g dm) subjected to two conditions (without liming and with 60% liming of base saturation) in pots of 1.5 dm. Cowpea was positively influenced by the use of wood ash as fertilizer and concealer, contributing to the growth and development of cowpea, obtaining better results in the dose intervals between 36 g dm and 45 g dm.
Bioaccumulation of Trace Elements in Myctophids in the Oxygen Minimum Zone Ecosystem of the Gulf of California

Myctophids are key members of mesopelagic communities with a world biomass estimated at 600 million tons. They play a central role in oceanic food webs and are known to perform diel vertical migrations, crossing the thermocline and reaching the oxygen minimum zone, however, very scarce information exists on trace element content in these organisms. Therefore, the trace elemental composition (Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Cd and Pb) of Triphoturus mexicanus and Benthosema panamense specimens was determined. Zinc (Zn) was the most common trace element for both species, T. mexicanus presented 39.8 µg. g−1 dw and B. panamense 30.6 µg. g−1 dw. Contrasting, for T. mexicanus the less abundant trace element was Ni (0.332 µg.g−1 dw) and for B. panamense was Pb (0.236 µg.g−1 dw). T. mexicanus exhibited significantly higher concentrations of Cr, Cu, Zn and Pb in comparison to B. panamense, and these differences seemed to be related to inherent physiological and/or ecological traits rather than environmental element availability. These diel vertical migrators are crucial in the energy transfer between the deep-sea and epipelagic zones (and vice-versa), and the estimation of the Biomagnification Factor (based on Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb) levels revealed that both T. mexicanus and B. panamense play a major role in trace element transfer to higher trophic levels in the pelagic food web of the Gulf of California.
A Brief Survey of Multilingual Neural Machine Translation.

We present a survey on multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT), which has gained a lot of traction in the recent years. MNMT has been useful in improving translation quality as a result of knowledge transfer. MNMT is more promising and interesting than its statistical machine translation counterpart because end-to-end modeling and distributed representations open new avenues. Many approaches have been proposed in order to exploit multilingual parallel corpora for improving translation quality. However, the lack of a comprehensive survey makes it difficult to determine which approaches are promising and hence deserve further exploration. In this paper, we present an in-depth survey of existing literature on MNMT. We categorize various approaches based on the resource scenarios as well as underlying modeling principles. We hope this paper will serve as a starting point for researchers and engineers interested in MNMT.
Some lessons learned that built self-efficacy

I am pleased to contribute a chapter to this volume. Whether anything I say is helpful or meaningful – well, as the saying goes, “Let the voters decide! ” As a spoiler alert, I have had a most-satisfying 40-year academic career. Of course, in retrospect there are some things I might have done differently. But I believe that things have worked out well, and along the way I have met and interacted with many fascinating people. In this chapter I discuss my background, career progression, significant influences on my life, and lessons learned along the way.
Study Compliance of Economic Security of Ukraine

The article examines the current state of security compliance of the Ukrainian economy. The essence of compliance and the possibility of its use to characterize the economic security of the object of study are considered. Various types of compliance violations in the Ukrainian economy over several years have been investigated. The main trends that are characteristic of the economies of Ukraine in the area of compliance are identified and substantiated: the level of the shadow economy, the number of officially registered compliance violations in industrial enterprises and their structure, the level of corruption and its perception in Ukraine, etc. It is proposed to determine the compliance safety of an industrial enterprise as protection of the vital interests of an industrial enterprise from external and internal violations of laws, regulations, standards, constituent and internal documents of an enterprise by determining, assessing and minimizing (eliminating) compliance risks. Recommendations are given for the industrial enterprises of Ukraine with the aim of improving their economic security. промислової продукції [A systematic approach to forecasting valuable, marketing, innovative characteristics of transfer of technological industrial products]
The effect of annual earnings announcements in the Netherlands

This thesis examines the stock market reaction caused by annual earnings announcements in the Netherlands. In order to do this, we monitored the short- and long-term performance of AEX listed companies which reported their annual report. The earnings announcements are categorized into two categories: earnings announcements which contain good news and earnings announcements which contain bad news. The division is made based on a comparison between the reported earnings per share and the earnings per share as estimated by analysts. We found evidence that good news leads to positive cumulative abnormal returns and bad news leads to negative cumulative abnormal returns in the short-term. In the long-term we see that stock prices drift in the direction of their initial price reaction: upwards for good news and downwards for bad news. Lastly, we found that a portfolio with a long position in stocks who reported good news and a short position in stocks who reported bad news generates a cumulative abnormal return of 2,34% when hold for 60 days. These findings are in violation with the efficient market hypothesis.
Sympathovagal Imbalance and Cognitive Deficit in Postmenopausal Women: A Mini Review

Menopause is a Greek word meaning, ‘meno’ – month, ‘pause’–ceases. Menopausal transition includes autonomic dysfunctions like somatic symptoms, vasomotor symptoms and mental disturbances such as mood changes, depression, irritability, forgetfulness and lack of concentration that decreases the quality of life. These climacteric vasomotor symptoms are due to alteration of autonomic hemodynamic regulation. Recently, there developed a concept of increased cardiovascular risk and mortality in individuals with sympathovagal imbalance. Sympathovagal imbalance has been observed in postmenopausal women. Cardiovascular risk has been shown to be associated with cognitive decline in elderly postmenopausal women. Sympathovagal imbalance with increased sympathetic and decreased parasympathetic activity could be linked to cognitive decline after menopause in women.
The Impact of the Efficiency of Rubber Production on the Welfare of Rubber Farmers in Jambi Province

This study aims to analyse the level of technical efficiency of rubber production and its impact on the welfare of rubber farmers in Jambi Province. The research was conducted in central area of rubber plantation in Jambi Province, namely Batanghari, Sarolangun, Tebo and Muaro Jambi. To explain the determinants of productivity and to analyse the efficiency of rubber production and the factors that influence it, the Cobb-Douglas production function model using the stochastic frozen production function approach is used. Measuring the welfare of farmers using the Farmers' Household Income Rate (FHIR) approach. The results showed that the average rubber farmers in the study area have not been efficient in allocating inputs and not yet prosperous production. Improving the technical efficiency of rubber production through increasing the number of young farmers up to 23 percent and increasing the farming experience by 5 percent can increase the FHIR of 1.33.
Fabrication of multi-mode tip fiber sensor based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR)

During this work, fiber optic sensor based on surface Plasmon resonance (SPR) was prepared. The sensor of SPR was configured by coating a thin layer of gold film on the end of a cleaved optical fiber by a sputtering technique. The source of white light was utilized to produce a series of wavelengths and excites surface Plasmon resonance at the fiber tip. SPR sensor was immersed into media with different refractive indexes in the range )1-1.58( including their similar Plasmon resonance wavelength shifts were saved by optical spectrum analyzer and noticed reflected light on a personal computer. Experimental results that obtained show there is a redshift when increasing the refractive index of solutions and sensitivity reach 298nm/ RIU, and resolution 4.31x .