Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Self-Assessment of Hygiene Practices towards Predictive and Preventive Medicine Intervention: A Case Study of University Students in Ghana

Introduction Personal hygiene is essential to the current paradigm shift towards predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine, which enables the prediction and prevention of infectious disease outbreaks. Objective The aim of this paper was to evaluate the personal hygiene practices among university students aiming at providing a basis for preventive and predictive medical interventions and to make future efforts improve target interventions for young people. Methods The study was conducted using a cross-sectional study. Validated instruments that related personal hygiene practices were used to obtain quantitative data from 412 tertiary students from seven universities in Accra, Ghana. The resulting data were analyzed with IBM-SPSS, version 23. Results There were more female respondents (54.4%) in the study than male respondents (45.6%). Respondents between the age group of 19-24 years constituted majority (59.7%) of the respondents in the study. Respondents from urban areas exhibited good hygiene practice compared to those from urban residences. There was a significant association between residence and hygiene practice (χ2=17.8, P≤0.001). We also observed that those respondents within the upper class in society had a poor hygiene practice, compared to the Lower Class and Middle Class respondents. Lack of education (63.1%) was observed as the main barrier to personal hygiene among the respondents. Future of the society depends on the health of its youth. Conclusion A significant number of students are not actively practicing good hygiene. There is a need for deployment of preventive medicine interventions targeted at young people. It calls for improvement in methods of hygiene education for young people in tertiary institutions and the inclusion of hygiene in school curricula.
Transforming Development Knowledge THE MILLENNIUM VILLAGES: LESSONS ON EVALUATING INTEGRATED RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Most development interventions are complex, comprising several interacting activities affecting multiple outcomes. Impact evaluations of such interventions are widespread, but the literature offers little guidance on how to assess the cost-effectiveness of such integrated projects. We review the literature that conducts cost-effectiveness analyses of multiple interventions alongside impact evaluations in low- and middle-income countries. Only seven studies are identified in areas as diverse as de-worming, school support, conditional cash transfers, early childhood development, and social funds. We find that none of the applied approaches can be effectively employed in all instances, though each of them can be applied in some special cases. Furthermore, none of the studies reviewed addresses output synergies. Given the rising numbers of impact assessments in development practice and their importance for policy, research needs to develop sound methods to assess the cost-effectiveness of integrated interventions.
Protocols in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks : A Review

Failure of wireless link is considered as one of popular challenges faced by Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs). Whereas this type of networks does not have any fixed routers or any pre-exist infrastructure. Also, every node is capable of movement and can be connected to other nodes dynamically. Therefore, the network topology will be changed frequently and unpredictably according to continuous interaction between nodes that simultaneously affect network topology in the basis of dynamic ad-hoc nature. This factor puts routing operation in critical area of research under mobile ad-hoc network field due to highly dynamic environment. To adapt this nature, MANETs demand new routing strategies to occupy these challenges. Thereafter, huge amount of protocols are proposed to argue with ad-hoc requirements. Thus, it is quite difficult to specify which protocols perform better under different mobile ad-hoc scenarios. This paper examines the prominent routing protocols that are designed for mobile ad-hoc networks by describing their structures, operations, features and then comparing their various characteristics.
Implications of restructuring in the banking industry : the case of Spain

Since the late eighties, Spanish bank markets have been undergoing major changes that have affected both their structure and the nature of strategic interaction among Spanish banks. These changes have been a natural outcome of the heightening competitive pressure exerted on all countries' banks by processes such as deregulation, globalisation of financial and economic activities, the development of new technology and the prospects of greater integration of European financial markets.
Word embedding in form of symmetric and skew-symmetric operator

Existing word embedding models represent each word with two real-valued vectors: central and context. This happens because of words relations asymmetric nature and requires more time and data for training. We introduce a new approach based on asymmetric relations that uses the advantages of global vectors model. Due to the reduction of asymmetric information impact on resulting words representations, our model converges faster and outperforms existing models on words analogies tasks.
Magma in fl uence on propagation of normal faults : Evidence from cumulative slip pro fi les along Dabbahu-Manda-Hararo rift segment ( Afar , Ethiopia ) St

Measuring displacement-length profiles along normal faults provides crucial information on fault growth processes. Here, based on satellite imagery and topography we analyze 357 normal faults distributed along the active rift of Dabbahu-Manda-Hararo (DMH), Afar, which offers a unique opportunity to investigate the influence of magmatism on fault growth processes. Our measurements reveal a large variety of slip profiles that are not consistent with elastic deformation. Their analysis contributes towards a better understanding of the lateral propagation of faults, especially when nucleation points and existence of barriers are included. Using the fault growth model of Manighetti et al. (2001), we determine the preferred direction of lateral propagation for each fault. Our results suggest that lateral propagation of faults is easier away from areas where magma has been stored for long time at crustal depth, and has thus modified the thermo-mechanical properties of the host-rock. However, these areas correspond also to areas where the initiation of fault growth appears as easiest along the rift. In combining these results with the analysis of rift width and the position of magma reservoirs along DMH rift, we show that fault growth keeps track of the magma presence and/or movement in the crust. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Global Business Cycle and Stock Returns in Developed Equity Markets

This paper proposes a new global business cycle indicator—the world output gap—and shows that it strongly predicts returns in developed equity markets, both in-sample and out-of-sample. High world output gap today signals low aggregate returns in the future, consistent with a countercyclical equity risk premium. World output gap contains important predictive elements for regional and local stock markets, and captures a larger fraction of return variation than the national output gap. In contrast to the global economic growth which influences returns only at the end of the year, world output gap exhibits significant predictability all over the calendar year. The forecasting power of the world output gap can be largely attributed to its ability to anticipate changes in the market future discount rates. JEL Classification: G12, G14, G15
TRIM Fold of MuRF 1 Using anonical Antiparallel xtended COS-Box rzyna

MuRF1 (TRIM63) is a RING-type E3 ubiquitin ligase with a predicted tripartite TRIM fold. TRIM proteins rely upon the correct placement of an N-terminal RING domain, with respect to C-terminal, specific substratebinding domains. The TRIM domain organization is orchestrated by a central helical domain that forms an antiparallel coiled-coil motif and mediates the dimerization of the fold. MuRF1 has a reduced TRIM composition characterized by a lack of specific substrate binding domains, but contains in its helical domain a conserved sequence motif termed COS-box that has been speculated to fold independently into an α-hairpin. These characteristics had led to question whether MuRF1 adopts a canonical TRIM fold. Using a combination of electron paramagnetic resonance, on spin-labeled protein, and disulfide crosslinking, we show that TRIM63 follows the structural conservation of the TRIM dimerization domain, observed in other proteins. We also show that the COS-box motif folds back onto the dimerization coiled-coil motif, predictably forming a four-helical bundle at the center of the protein and emulating the architecture of canonical TRIMs. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
055 MULTI-SCALE COMPRESSION-BASED QUANTITATIVE ELASTOGRAPHY AND ITS APPLICATION TO BLOOD PRESSURE ESTIMATION

Compression-based ultrasonic quantitative elastography is implemented using a coarse-to-fine multi-scale approach. The multi-scale approach, tested in simulation and on phantoms, results in a 5 % decrease in required computational time to reconstruct accurately the tissue stiffness. The methods are extended to estimate, in simulation, blood pressure and arterial wall stiffness in addition to bulk tissue stiffness. Results show that pressure and vessel stiffness are accurately estimated to within 10 % error.
Taxonomic revision of Anacaena THOMSON , 1859 VII . Indonesia except Papua ( Coleoptera : Hydrophilidae )

The species of Anacaena THOMSON, 1859 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) from Indonesia (except Papua) are revised. The two known species are redescribed. The male of A. modesta ORCHYMONT, 1932 is described for the first time. Four new species, A. jaechi, A. javana, A. orchymonti, and A. sulawesica are described. All six species are endemic to Indonesia and five of them to a single island. A key to the species is presented.
Numerical modelling of the microstructure effect on fatigue behaviour of Ni-base superalloys for turbine disk

Nickel-based alloy like N18 can present various types of precipitate distributions according to the applied heat treatment. A model involving a three scale homogenization procedure is developed to characterize the influence of this microstructure on fatigue life. The microstructural parameters are the size and the volume fraction of the secondary and tertiary precipitates of gamma phase. Experimental results at 450 °C, specially designed to calibrate the model, allow to understand the role of tertiary precipitation. The first identification of the three scale homogenization model is shown.
Water Quality Assessment of Irrigation and Drainage Systems on the Basis of Phytoplankton Analysis

Water systems in Upper Egypt appear to be vulnerable for Egyptians uses and abuses. Recognition of the ever increasing pressure on those resources and the inevitable conflicts of water utility always require promotion of strategies for better environmental management of this valuable resource. WHO has reported that about 40 thousand people worldwide are dying daily due to consumption of polluted water. Hence, it was thought imperative to assess the water quality and pollution status of aquatic habitats in Upper Egypt. Irrigation and drainage canals have an important role in controlling the water balance, for irrigation of agricultural lands and discharge from the cultivated soils. They may be subjected to anthropogenic impact that lead to perceptible changes in their regime particularly in the drainage canals. In such habitats, planktonic algae are sensitive to the dramatic fluctuations of water quality, and are therefore could be regarded as predictors for monitoring environmental conditions. Obvious differences were observed between the irrigation and drainage canals in water quality and phytoplankton abundance as well as its community structure. For instance, the species diversities in the irrigation canals were relatively higher than those in the drainage canals. Furthermore, some euglenoid and cyanoprokaryotic phytoplankton appeared in the drainage canals and completely disappeared in the irrigation canals. These observations provide evidence for possible use of phytoplankton to assess water quality.
Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

Quasi P -spaces are defined to be those Tychonoff spaces X such that each prime z-ideal of C(X) is either minimal or maximal. This article is devoted to a systematic study of these spaces, which are an obvious generalization of P -spaces. The compact quasi P -spaces are characterized as the compact spaces which are scattered and of Cantor-Bendixson index no greater than 2. A thorough account of locally compact quasi P -spaces is given. If X is a cozero-complemented space and every nowhere dense zeroset is a z-embedded P -space, then X is a quasi P -space. Conversely, if X is a quasi P -space and F is a nowhere dense z-embedded zeroset, then F is a P -space. On the other hand, there are examples of countable quasi P -spaces with no P -points at all. If a product X × Y is normal and quasi P , then one of the factors must be a P -space. Conversely, if one of the factors is a compact quasi P -space and the other a P -space then the product is quasi P . If X is normal and X and Y are cozero-complemented spaces and f : X −→ Y is a closed continuous surjection which has the property that f(Z) is nowhere dense for each nowhere dense zeroset Z, then if X is quasi P , so is Y . The converse fails even with more stringent assumptions on the map f . The paper then closes with a number of open questions, amongst which the most glaring is whether the free union of quasi P -spaces is always quasi P .
Renin angiotensin system modulates mTOR pathway through AT 2 R in HIVAN

Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) has been reported to contribute to the development of HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN). We hypothesized that HIV may be activating renal tissue mTOR pathway through renin angiotensin system (RAS) via Angiotensin Receptor Type II receptor (AT2R). Renal tissues of Vpr transgenic and Tg26 (HIVAN) mice displayed enhanced phosphorylation of mTOR and p70S6K. Aliskiren, a renin inhibitor attenuated phosphorylation of both mTOR and p70S6K in renal tissues of HIVAN mice. Interestingly, Angiotensin Receptor Type I (AT1R) blockade did not modulate renal tissue phosphorylation of mTOR in HIVAN mice; on the other hand, AT2R blockade attenuated renal tissue phosphorylation of mTOR in HIVAN mice. In vitro studies, both renin and Ang II displayed enhanced mouse tubular cell (MTC) phosphorylation of p70S6K in a dose dependent manner. HIV/MTC also displayed enhanced phosphorylation of both mTOR and p70S6K; interestingly this effect of HIV was further enhanced by losartan (an AT1R blocker). On the other hand, AT2R blockade attenuated HIV-induced tubular cell phosphorylation of mTOR and p70S6K, whereas, AT2R agonist enhanced phosphorylation of mTOR and p70S6K. These findings indicate that HIV stimulates mTOR pathway in HIVAN through the activation of renin angiotensin system via AT2R.
Music Similarity and Retrieval: An Introduction to Audio- and Web-based Strategies

This book provides a summary of the manifold audio- and web-based approaches to music information retrieval (MIR) research. In contrast to other books dealing solely with music signal processing, it addresses additional cultural and listener-centric aspects and thus provides a more holistic view. Consequently, the text includes methods operating on features extracted directly from the audio signal, as well as methods operating on features extracted from contextual information, either the cultural context of music as represented on the web or the user and usage context of music. Following the prevalent document-centered paradigm of information retrieval, the book addresses models of music similarity that extract computational features to describe an entity that represents music on any level (e.g., song, album, or artist), and methods to calculate the similarity between them. While this perspective and the representations discussed cannot describe all musical dimensions, they enable us to effectively find music of similar qualities by providing abstract summarizations of musical artifacts from different modalities. The text at hand provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the topics of music search, retrieval, and recommendation from an academic perspective. It will not only allow those new to the field to quickly access MIR from an information retrieval point of view but also raise awareness for the developments of the music domain within the greater IR community. In this regard, Part I deals with content-based MIR, in particular the extraction of features from the music signal and similarity calculation for content-based retrieval. Part II subsequently addresses MIR methods that make use of the digitally accessible cultural context of music. Part III addresses methods of collaborative filtering and user-aware and multi-modal retrieval, while Part IV explores current and future applications of music retrieval and recommendation.
Determinants of Innovation in SMES: An Emperical Analysis of South Korea

This paper examines the effects of four determinants of innovation (profit, export, foreign-ownership and inter-firm cooperation) on small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) in South Korea. It also discusses the different implications which these determinants have on innovation in low-tech and high-tech industries. Data for this paper are collected from the Survey of Business Activities in South Korea for the period of 2014 and 2015. A negative binomial model is applied to deal with the over-dispersed dependent variable. In the full sample, export, foreign-ownership and inter-firm cooperation had significant positive influences on innovation output, whereas profit had no significant influence in the full sample. In the sample of high-tech industries, export was the only significant factor for innovation output, whereas export and foreign-ownership had positive influences on innovation output in low-tech industries. Limitations and the further research areas are discussed.
Studying Passwords to Create Domain-Specific Blacklists

Copyright held by the owner/author(s). USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), August 11-13, 2019 Santa Clara, CA, USA Abstract Password policies can incorporate a blacklist check to ensure that created passwords do not contain predictable patterns, dictionary words, or previously leaked passwords. In addition, some organizations also incorporate organizationor site-specific terms into their blacklist (e.g. Carnegie Mellon (CMU) might choose to prevent passwords containing the word "tartan"). Currently, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommends that passwords containing "context-specific words, such as the name of the service, the username, and derivatives thereof" be blacklisted [5]. In this paper, we investigated what kind of domain-specific information users include in passwords they create when they are prompted with a new website. Our study collected data from 680 Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) participants who were randomly presented with one of three imitation websites and asked to create a password. We analyzed the passwords created in our study and found that almost 10% of the passwords contained domainspecific information. This information included text found on the websites, visual features of the website, topics related to the content of the website, and words specific to the recruiting platform we used for the experiment.
Far Red Flowering Control Treatment for Brassica Chinensis in Indoor Farming Utilizing Wireless Sensor Network

This paper presents method of designing an intelligent indoor farming climate control system using light emitting diode (LED) light for Brassica Chinensis. Researches on wireless sensor network (WSN) have been adopted in many research works in outdoor farming unfortunately less attention was given for indoor farming due to wall penetration problem on high frequency such as in 2.4 GHz system. In the proposed system, 433 MHz was introduced using Dash-7 technology to eliminate this issue. The developed system comprises real-time data monitoring with acquisition/logging and feedback control system to monitor and control climate parameters for optimum growth of the plant. The study compares the effect of Far Red treatment plant growth with consistent amount of light exposed for both trials using 12 hours lighting system. The combined Red / Blue/White (RBW) LEDs of ratio 16:4:2 as light source has been used for control experiment and additional Far Red (FR) LED was injected on target specimen to stop and control the flowering period. The finding from the experiment has shown that no significant different between control and target specimen exposed to very high intensity of light continuously, since no flowering was recorded during 40 days of period. From data analysis, it can be concluded that the plant with FR light treatment has stop flowering period of the plant but due to high intensity of both trial no different was recorded. Key-Words: Far Red Treatment for Plant Growth, Wireless Sensor Network, Dash-7, Indoor Farming, Plant Factory, LED Light Spectrum, Sensor, Internet of Things and Intelligent Control Farming
VORTEX ELEMENT METHOD SCHEME FOR NUMERICAL SIMULATION IN FSI-PROBLEM FOR CLAMPED-CLAMPED CYLINDRICAL SHELL

Pure lagrangian vortex methods are suitable for engineering analysis when it is necessary to compute unsteady aerodynamic loads in complicated FSI-problems. Lagrangian vortex element methods allow to simulate dynamics of 3D vortex structures with small numerical diffusion because in these methods vorticity is ‘primitive’ variable and integral formulation of governing equations is used. Computational cost of these methods is small in comparison with grid CFD methods. In the present research the vortex element method with vortex fragmentons is used for clamped-clamped elastic cylindrical shell oscillations simulation exited by unsteady hydrodynamic loads. Shell dynamics is simulated using modal analysis method; normal modes are calculated using MSC.Nastran software.