Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The development of intelligent control media for problem-based learning with power-of-two approach

The present study aims to (1) develop intelligent control (IC) media (hardware, software, and manual instruction) for Planning of Industrial Automation System (PIAS) course, (2) describe the results of the implementation (validation and verification) of the developed IC media, and (3) improve the quality of learning and student learning outcomes (LOs). This is research and development (R & D) carried out through two stages. (1) First, the development of IC media and operational function programs, (2) Second, the product implementation was carried out by involving students. The data were collected by observation, documentation, and questionnaire, and were analyzed by descriptive quantitative and evaluative techniques. The results obtained are as follows. 1) The developed learning resources, are perceived as Good (76%) by students, 2) The learning process using IC instructional media seems “Good” (71%), 3) Based on the predetermined targets, the researcher found that students make a very significant improvement in terms of the mastery of the PIAS course materials, specifically in IC System. As recorded in three assessment stages, students obtaining grade A and B are 20%, 60%, and 80% consecutively. The results show that in the third assessment, 80% of students have exceeded than the predetermined target of 75%.
Photoexcitation spectroscopy of insulating cuprates

The ultrafast optical response of noble metals and insulating cuprates have been studied and characterized to better understand the lifecycle of photoexcitations in these two drastically different materials systems. Through the use of a tunable two-colour optical pump-probe system combined with THz photoconductivity measurements we are able to resolve questions around the nature of ultrafast response in these materials and estimate physical parameters, including the electron-phonon coupling in Au and Cu, the Auger recombination coefficient in YBa2Cu3O6, and the effect of carriers on the charge-transfer gap in La2CuO4 and Sr2CuO2Cl2. In the noble metals, where electrons thermalize on timescales shorter than our laser pulses, we use the systemic ability to tune the energy of the pump photons to expand upon past measurements. We show that the two-temperature model may be applied under a wide variety of conditions, demonstrate the importance of considering the depth dependence of the photoexcitation profile in tunable pump-probe experiments, and find mathematical simplifications for the fluence dependence of the relaxation time of the photoexcitation system. We estimate the electron-phonon coupling g = (23 ± 1) PWm−3 K−1 for Au and g = (120± 10) PWm−3 K−1 for Cu. Single-crystal and thin-film samples of the insulating cuprates, Sr2CuO2Cl2, La2CuO4, and YBa2Cu3O6, were studied over a variety of pump-probe conditions. Prior measurements of insulating cuprates showed seemingly contradictory behaviour, where the magnitude of the response had a sublinear fluence dependence but the dynamics of the response were fluenceindependent. Through a series of experiments we identify a simple model which can explain both behaviours through strong Auger recombination combined with Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) recombination. For YBa2Cu3O6 we find that the nonlinear response depends primarily on the carrier density throughout our measurement time window, and we estimate an Auger coefficient of Ch = 7.8× 10−26 cm6/s, several orders of magnitude larger than in conventional semiconductors with comparable gap energies. For Sr2CuO2Cl2 and La2CuO4 we find that the nonlinear response also depends primarily on carrier density at early times, but that as time evolves contributions emerge from the bosons given off as the carriers relax.
Impact of Improved Cooking Stove on Maternal Health in Rural Bangladesh: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Introduction: Two-thirds of all households in developing countries depend on unprocessed biomass fuel for cooking. Traditional stoves have poor combustion capacity which produce heavy smoke and numerous harmful pollutants. Switching to Improved Cooking Stove (ICS), a well-designed earthen made stove equipped with a chimney could be beneficial for health. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of ICS on maternal health in rural areas of Bangladesh. Methods: A quasi-experimental design was adopted to conduct the study. This study selected 150 Households from 5 villages (intervention) and 150 Households from 2 villages (control) from the Manikgonj District of Bangladesh during January 1, 2012 to July 30, 2012. Differences between control and intervention group were examined by applying t-test or one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The conventional cut-off value of 0.05 was taken as statistical significance. Stata (version 13) was used to do the analysis. Results: Most of the respondents (62%) were less than 30 years of age. About 94% participants resided in tin-shaded houses, and 51% kitchens were small. After the intervention period, the measured mean concentrations of Particulate Matter (PM2.5) for the intervention and control group was 259 µg/m3 and 1285 µg/m3, respectively (p 0.05). Conclusion: ICS reduced the incidence of respiratory illness among the intervention group, however, did not demonstrate significant changes in LFT during the six months of the follow-up period. Therefore, this study found ICS might have the potential to be used to improve the maternal health in rural Bangladesh. However, more longitudinal investigations are expected to demonstrate the efficacy and impact of ICS on maternal health to support the statement.
Clinical and pathomorphological features of penetrating spinal cord injury model with prolonged persistence of a foreign body in the vertebral canal

Background. Penetrating spinal cord injury with a foreign body in the spinal canal is one of the most common spinal cord injuries during wartime; the experimental reproduction of particular elements of complex interaction between a foreign body and the spinal cord is complicated. Objective. To examine clinical and pathomorphological features of the model of this type of spinal cord injury. Materials and methods. Animals: albino male rats (5.5 months, 300 grams, inbred line, the original strain is Wistar); experimental groups: basic (spinal cord injury + immediate homotopical implantation of a fragment of the micro porous hydrogel – a foreign body [n=10]); comparison groups (spinal cord injury [n=16], spinal cord injury + immediate homotopical implantation of chemically identical macro porous hydrogel NeuroGel™ [n=20]). Model of injury: left-side spinal cord hemisection at ТXI level; monitoring the function of hind legs — the BBB scale; pathomorphological study: conventional histological techniques, transmission electronic microscopy. Results. Compression of the spinal cord by biologically compatible foreign body significantly worsens the course of the regeneration process; during the first 8 weeks the hind ipsilateral leg function indicator (HI LFI) in animals was the lowest one — (1.30±0.94) points by BBB scale; during the 3rd–4th month HI LFI increases to 2.35±0.95 points by BBB scale, which is likely due to the change in the form of a foreign body and its utilization, decrease of the pressure on the spinal cord. On the 24th week of the follow-up HI LFI was (8.45±0.92) points (in NeuroGelTM group) compared with (2.35±0.95) points by BBB scale (in the group with a foreign body). During the experiment a foreign body, unlike the fragments of the NeuroGelTM, was not integrated into the tissue of the spinal cord, was surrounded by a thick fibrous capsule, hardly infiltrated by tissue component. Morphological picture in the contra-lateral part of the spinal cord at the level of injury did not change. Conclusion. The model satisfactorily a mechanical component of a foreign body effect on the spinal cord tissue, presents the picture of post-traumatic syndrome of spasticity; reducing the spinal cord compression even at the late period of injury significantly improves the regeneration process.
The C-terminal helix of BubR1 is essential for CENP-E-dependent chromosome alignment

During cell division, misaligned chromosomes are captured and aligned by motors before their segregation. The CENP-E motor is recruited to polar unattached kinetochores, to facilitate chromosome alignment. The spindle checkpoint protein BubR1 has been reported as a CENP-E interacting partner, but to what extent, if at all, BubR1 contributes to CENP-E localization at kinetochores, has remained controversial. Here we define the molecular determinants that specify the interaction between BubR1 and CENP-E. The basic C-terminal helix of BubR1 is necessary but not sufficient for CENP-E interaction, while a minimal key acidic patch on the kinetochore-targeting domain of CENP-E, is also essential. We then demonstrate that BubR1 is required for the recruitment of CENP-E to kinetochores to facilitate chromosome alignment. This BubR1-CENP-E axis is critical to align chromosomes that have failed to congress through other pathways and recapitulates the major known function of CENP-E. Overall, our studies define the molecular basis and the function for CENP-E recruitment to BubR1 at kinetochores during mammalian mitosis.
Market formation, social movements and judgement devices: Creating the organic food market in Australia

A substantial literature demonstrates how social movements pioneer new economic spaces, engaging in activities that create the conditions for new markets. This article applies this insight to the creation of the organic food market in Australia. In doing so, it makes three contributions. First, it highlights the importance of judgement devices – notably a certification scheme – in the making of this market, given that organic and non-organic produce are visually indistinguishable. Second, it describes how judgement devices for organic foods draw commodity markets for mainstream agricultural foods into the symbolic realm, where health, ethical and aesthetic considerations inform value. Third, it demonstrates the socio-political construction of judgement devices, over and above their functional purposes. Specifically, it describes the struggle between challenger social movements and incumbent businesses in creating and promoting competing judgement devices directed towards the designation of value in new markets.
The minimal open preperitoneal (MOPP) approach to treat the groin hernias, with the history of the preperitoneal approach

At the beginning was Annandale who reported for the first time the concept of the preperitoneal posterior approach. The surgeon who popularized this approach in the sixties is Llyod Nyhus Jean Rives [1965], who proposed the placement of the unilateral prosthesis by the midline pro peritoneal route. In 1967 Rene Stoppa proposed the first tension free and suture less hernia repair. Since our collaboration with Rene Stoppa, our preference is this pre-peritoneal route, with a small incision, in front of the deep inguinal ring, in ambulatory sitting. We changed the classic mesh design, giving an asymmetrical ovoid shape, to fully adapt to the wide coverage of the musculo pectineal hole. After the introduction, the prosthesis is not subject to secondary displacement, it is not fixed. Strips are set up on the skin and will be removed during the first postoperative consultation. Here is the abstract of the results: 644 hernias (534 patients) have been operated between 2011 and 2015. Mean follow up: 711 days. Day surgery: 598, (92.8%). Complications: bladder retention: 2; phlebitis: 1; superficial infection: 2; reoperation: 0. Post-operative pain—day 30, N=553; VAS: 0, 452 (81.73%); 1–3, 77 (13.92%); 4–6, 19 (3.43%); 7–8, 5 (0.9%). Chronic pain—at 3 months, N=97; VAS: 0, 77 (79.38%); 1–3, 9 (9.27%); 4–6, 10 (10.30%); 7–8, 1 (1.03%). No medication needed and no activity limitation. At 2 years, patient opinion: excellent result 212 (99.53%), medium result 1 (0.47%). No recurrence. All these patients’ data are included in the French “club hernie” data base for a long term prospective study. So, minimal open preperitoneal (MOPP) technique gives an excellent result, with a very low chronic pain, recurrence and complication rates.
Cloning and Expression of Twin-Arginine Translocation D Family Deoxyribonuclease of Clostridium Chauvoei

Clostridium chauvoei, an anaerobic bacterium reported worldwide, is responsible for Black Quarter, a dreadful disease of ruminants. This bacterium produces many toxins responsible for the pathogenesis of the disease. Except for the well-studied virulence factors such as cctA, flagellin andsialidase genes, the exact role of other toxins of C. chauvoei remains unknown. This necessitates studies on the activities of the C. chauvoei toxins and virulence. In the present study, Twin-Arginine Translocation D (TatD) family deoxyribonuclease of the bacterium was selected. The tatD gene C. chauvoei was amplified by PCR and cloned into p-Rham-N-His-SUMO-Kan expression vector, followed by transformation into the E.cloni 10G competent cells. Clones obtained were confirmed by colony PCR. These tatDclones were sequenced and analysed phylogenetically, which revealed the close relationship of C. chauvoei strain to C. isatidis, C. saccharobutylicum, C. botulinum and C. taeniosporum based on tatD sequence analysis. Upon induction of the clones with L-rhamnose,the protein expression was obtained at 42.3 kDa and the same was further confirmed by Western blotting.
Exploring the Context of Fitness to Practise Concerns About Social Workers in England: Explanations Beyond Individuals

ABSTRACT There is a disproportionate number of complaints about social workers in England to the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) as compared with the other health care professionals regulated by HCPC. This paper discusses findings from interviews and focus groups that formed part of a mixed methods study that aimed to find out the reasons for complaints and the strategies that may reduce complaints. Four themes were identified: social work as an evolving profession; social work involves challenging practice; social work takes place in a pressurised environment; and public perceptions and expectations of social work are often negative and unrealistic. Findings highlight explanations that focus on organisational culture and public responses to social workers’ control functions. We argue that, at a time of change for the profession, there is a need for public education regarding the role and function of social workers and for regulators to have more proactive engagement with registrants and employers.
Essays on the Determination of Employment and Wages

This collection of essays investigates the determination of employment and wages. Chapter 1 explores how firms respond to changes in the demand for their output by comparing employers from which purchases were and were not made through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This analysis finds that companies responded to these demand shocks by increasing both employment as well as wages during the Great Recession. Taken together, these equilibrium labor market outcomes provide evidence of widespread and substantial monopsony power among employers in the United States. Chapter 2, which is co-authored with Alan B. Krueger, examines the extent to which economic rents are shared among different types of workers within a given company by utilizing the price of crude oil as an instrument for the productivity of petroleum extraction firms in the United States. This study demonstrates that the elasticity of wages with respect to exogenous shocks to productivity can be heterogeneous throughout a firm. Notably, we find that workers at the top of the earnings distribution tend to possess greater bargaining power over wages relative to their lower paid counterparts. Chapter 3, which is co-authored with both Alan B. Krueger as well as Judd N. L. Cramer and was published in the Spring 2014 issue of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, considers the labor market outcomes of workers who become long-term unemployed in the United States. Our results suggest that unemployed workers’ attachment to the labor force generally declines as their duration of joblessness rises. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the nonparticipation of long-term unemployed workers is a critical component of the cyclical patterns in the labor market that have traditionally been observed over the course of the business cycle.
Arthroscopic Reconstruction of the Anterior Inferior Tibiofibular Ligament for Chronic Disruption of the Distal Tibiofibular Syndesmosis: Technical Note

The distal tibiofibular syndesmosis provides stability to the ankle mortise, and it is composed of the anterior inferior tibiofibular, posterior inferior tibiofibular, interosseous, and inferior transverse tibiofibular ligaments and the interosseous membrane. During external rotation of the foot the fibula is translated posteriorly and rotated externally, which results in a high tension of the anterior inferior tibiofibular ligament. This may attribute to the isolated rupture of the anterior inferior tibiofibular ligament. Rupture of the anterior inferior tibiofibular ligament, in its turn, causes instability of the ankle mortise. Reconstructive options for chronic syndesmosis disruption include arthroscopic debridement and screw fixation, arthrodesis of the syndesmosis, advancement of the anterior tibiofibular ligament, reconstruction of the interosseous and anterior inferior tibiofibular ligament. We describe an arthroscopic technique of anatomic reconstruction of the anterior inferior tibiofibular ligaments with tibialis allograft and biodegradable syndesmotic screw fixation.
Environmental and Behavioral Circumstances and Consequences of Falls in a Senior Living Development

ABSTRACT This article investigated the role of environmental and behavioral factors surrounding fall incidents in a senior living community. Using a mixed-methods approach, this research included both a retrospective analysis of fall reports and resident interviews. The quantitative analysis showed falls in the bedroom and bathroom were more likely to happen between 12 am and 8 am. Falls in the bathroom were more likely to result in severe injuries compared to falls in other rooms. The qualitative analysis identified three types of fall-related activity (transfer, ambulation, standing) and five behavioral factors surrounding fall incidents (transferring, slipping, misjudged behavior, tripping, health issue).
Effects of A 12-Week Strength Training on Hand Function of Type II Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Study aim: The purpose of this study was to establish the effects of a 12-week strength training (ST) programme on hand function in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients in a tertiary health institution in Benin-City. The findings of this study would help clinicians/clinical staff to take ST into consideration in the management of patients with T2DM thereby enhancing clinical outcome. Material and methods: This study was a pre-test, post-test control group design. A total of 36 T2DM patients participated in the study. Handgrip and pinch strength were measured using electronic hand dynamometer (in kg) and mechanical pinch gauge (in kg) respectively prior to and following a 12-week ST programme. The amount of handgrip and pinch strength of both hands generated by each participant was used as a quantitative measurement of the development of hand function. Data generated were analyzed using inferential statistics of one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the statistical significance was accepted for p value of <0.05. Results: The findings of the study showed that ST programme had significant effects on hand function of T2DM patients. Conclusion: It was concluded that ST programme can substantially enhance hand function of patients with T2DM. Therefore, ST programme should be considered a key element in the management of T2DM patients.
Vocal emotion expressions in infant‐directed singing: The impact of war trauma and maternal mental health and the consequences on infant development

Maternal singing is considered vital to infant well-being. This study focuses on vocal emotion expressions in infant-directed singing among mothers in war conditions. It examines the questions: 1) how traumatic war events and mental health problems are associated with the content and valence of vocal emotion expressions and 2) how these emotion expressions are associated with infant development. The vocal material consists of songs sung by 50 Palestinian mothers, who participated at delivery (T1) as well as when their infants were 6 (T2) and 18 (T3) months of age. These mothers reported traumatic war events (T1), depressive and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms (T2–T3), and infants’ emotional, sensorimotor, and cognitive development (T2–T3). Student judges evaluated the valence and content of vocal emotion expressions in maternal infant-directed singing (playfulness-vivacity, fear, joy, sadness, love-tenderness, anger, and tension). Severe traumatic war events and depressive symptoms were associated with low positive and high negative vocal emotion expressions. High levels of playfulness and joy, as well as low levels of fear and tension, were associated with infant positive affectivity, while low levels of fear, anger, and tension were associated with advanced infant language skills. Discussion focuses on the vocal markers of maternal mental health and infant development.
Real Estate Market Dynamics in the City of Naples: An Integration of a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and Geographical Information System

Urban development and regeneration projects produce multidimensional impacts on the city, on its environmental, economic, and social systems. An aspect that can be considerably affected by urban dynamics is linked to the real estate market. So, analysing real estate dynamics is useful to support decision-makers in the elaboration of urban regeneration plans and projects, and thus orient their choices. Focusing attention on the city of Naples (Italy), the purpose of this paper is to analyse in detail the real estate dynamics in this city through the integration of a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) method and Geographical Information System (GIS). This integration allowed us to map and analyse the territory, linking a specific issue (the real estate dynamics) to the territory itself, and to analyse it according to specific criteria. This aims for a better understanding and interpretation of real estate dynamics, representing a useful tool for orienting and supporting urban planning strategies.