Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Constructing a Smart Home for Future Elders toward All-around Happiness: Taking Connectivity as the Core Element

Smart homes, as one of the most prosperous industries of the Internet of Things, have tremendous potential in helping the elderly aging in place and dealing with the global aging society challenges. This study takes the needs of future elderly in China as a starting point and proposes that the core requirement of the aging group is “connectivity”, smart homes for older adults should assist them with connectivity establishment both physically and psychologically to improve their quality of life and help them live an independent, safe, and happy life in their older stage. The article defines the types of elderly connectivity needs as two main types and eight sub-connectivity, and further puts forward thirty smart home subsystems and their implementation elements. Moreover, the research applies the Kano model and questionnaire survey to provide the empirical proof of those thirty smart home subsystems based on the analysis of 371 questionnaire responses. Last but not least, we construct a five-layer architecture and abstract four principles on the connectivity building of a smart home for future Chinese elders. The research explores the possibility of building a wide range of connectivity and all-around happiness smart home environment for future elderly, which provides significant insights and an important reference for both the smart home industry and the pension industry.
QUALITY BY DESIGN APPROACH FOR DEVELOPMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF NITRENDIPINE LOADED NIOSOMAL GEL FOR ACCENTUATED TRANSDERMAL DELIVERY

Objective: The purpose of the present investigation was to develop and optimize nitrendipine loaded niosomal gel for transdermal delivery using quality by design approach. Methods: Niosomal formulations were developed by application of the thin-film hydration method using different ratios of span 60, cholesterol, temperature, and optimized by three factors-three levels Box-Behnken statistical design. The independent variables were non-ionic surfactant, cholesterol, and temperature, while vesicle size, polydispersity index, and entrapment efficiency were dependent variables. The nitrendipine loaded optimized formulation was incorporated into gel and evaluated for in vitro release, ex-vivo skin permeation, confocal laser scanning microscopy, and histopathological studies. Results: The optimized formulation showed the vesicular size of 226.1±4.36 nm, polydispersity index of 0.282±0.012, and entrapment efficiency of 95.34±3.18% with spherical morphology. The optimized niosomal gel formulation showed transdermal flux 127.60 µg/cm2h through albino Wistar rat skin. Niosomal gel was proved significantly superior by confocal laser scanning microscopy for satisfactory permeation and distribution of gel, deep into the rat skin. Furthermore, dermal safety was confirmed by histopathological studies for transdermal application. Conclusion: It was concluded that the developed niosomal gel overcomes the limitation of low penetration through rat skin and could be a potential nano vesicular system for transdermal delivery.
Fatty acid composition and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) content of the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina fed on dried yeast: compared with algal prey

Copyright © 2017 The Korean Society of Phycology 67 http://e-algae.org pISSN: 1226-2617 eISSN: 2093-0860 Fatty acid composition and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) content of the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina fed on dried yeast: compared with algal prey Eun Young Yoon, Jaeyeon Park*, Hae Jin Jeong and Jung-Rae Rho Environment and Resource Convergence Center, Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology, Suwon 16229, Korea School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea Department of Marine Biotechnology, Kunsan National University, Kunsan 54150, Korea
Brazilian Import Demand of Dairy Products with Emphasis in the Mercosul Context

Abstract Brazil is the largest milk producer in South America, with an increasing trend in the last 20 years which allowed the country to start exporting some output. However, it has not become self-reliant and continues to be a major importer in the region, the most relevant partner for Argentina and Uruguay in Mercosul. In this paper, the Brazilian import demand of dairy products is estimated by using a source differentiated demand system framework that is derived from consumer theory. This model takes into account the countries of origin (i.e., Argentina, Uruguay and other grouped competitors) and various dairy aggregated items that compete in the Brazilian market. The expenditure elasticities, and the own and cross-price elasticities are computed with the estimated parameters of the demand system. Interpretation of results follows as well as some conclusions, including the need of further studies and usefulness of this type of research.
Proportional adaptive algorithm to improve reception techniques and mitigate the multipath fading effect in sub‐6 GHz 5G applications

This letter presents a proportional adaptive technique to mitigate the multipath fading effect in advanced wireless communication systems. The designed system consists of a realized ultra‐wideband (UWB) dual antenna array and two universal software radio peripheral (USRP) platforms synchronized by a MIMO cable, with one digital RF phase shifter implemented in the reception chain of one of the two receiving antennas. Without requiring any statistical knowledge channel, the proposed approach adjusts the phase shifter in order to maximize the combined received power proportionally to the amplitude of its gradient. The used antennas operate in different frequencies in the fifth‐generation (Sub‐6 GHz 5G) wireless communication applications. The proposed algorithm has been implemented on a USRP that has been used to carry out experimental measurements on fixed and mobile receiving antennas, and it is compared with other approaches. The measurements reveal, that using the amplitude of the gradient of the received power rather than its sign, as it is proposed in the initial on‐off algorithm presented in a previous published work, allows achieving better performance in combatting fading. The phase adjustment with the proposed algorithm is more efficient than in the other approaches allowing a better reception of the received signal with a higher received power level. The measured performances indicate that gain improvement of 8 to 10 dB can be achieved by using the proportional adaptive technique.
Little raven (Corvus mellori) as an egg predator of other bird species

Little ravens were major predators of ground-nesting red-capped Plover and burrow-nesting Little penguin eggs. Ravens also congregated at the breeding sites of these two species to exploit eggs. As raven numbers increase with human habitation of land, their impact on other bird species needs to be monitored and managed.
A new approach for the production of multifilament suture - in vitro and in vivo analysis

Abstract We investigated, unique multifilament suture (UMS) was prepared from animal skin fiber (ASF) and cotton fiber (CF), which can be used for external surgeries and wound-healing applications. The distinctive properties of the UMS is that it shows tensile strength of 85.25 ± 0.09 (Mpa), 81.9 ± 0.46 (%) as elongation at break, 7.59 ± 0.26 (kgf) knot strength, 58.95 ± 0.55 (%) of flexibility and water absorption of about 51.03 ± 0.63 (%). In vitro study, performed its biocompatible in nature and in vivo experiments exhibited accelerated suturing and wound-healing properties. Graphical Abstract
La difusión del vídeo musical en YouTube. Análisis de la capacidad viral del vídeoclip

Introducción: La aparición de las redes sociales ha posibilitado que los usuarios compartan y difundan masivamente contenidos multiplicando su repercusión. En ocasiones, se alcanzan grandes cuotas de éxito en plazos de tiempo muy cortos, dando lugar a producciones “virales”, entre las que los vídeos musicales son las más destacadas y YouTube la plataforma preferida de los usuarios. Metodología: Con el objetivo de conocer las bases esenciales que expliquen la capacidad viral de un video musical, se ha realizado una investigación utilizando como técnica metodológica el análisis de contenido aplicado a una muestra de 400 videoclips, 200 en 2015 y 200 en 2018 siguiendo criterios de difusión. Resultados: los videoclips han evolucionado, en los 3 años que separan los dos análisis, en aspectos como el idioma de las canciones, su estilo o la temática. Discusión y conclusiones: A partir del análisis se percibe un cambio en los gustos musicales de los públicos que acceden a este tipo de contenidos y, como consecuencia, la evolución hacia un nuevo modelo de videoclip que los usuarios estén dispuestos a compartir a través de sus redes sociales.
Fruit Sector Strategic Management: An Exploration of Agro-food Chain Actors’ Perception of Market Sustainability of Apple Innovation

The fresh fruit industry is a highly dynamic sector in the food market. Fresh fruit chain actors have to adapt to the changing market environment in order to face upcoming challenges. The objective of this study is to analyze the market sustainability of red-fleshed apples (RFA) by exploring consumers’ and fresh fruit industry experts’ and stakeholders’ opinions in Italy and New Zealand. The study was carried out in Italy and New Zealand from December 2018 to June 2019 including 778 consumers and 29 expert and stakeholder interviews. Results show a promising market potential of RFA. Innovative attributes and nutritional value of RFA are the most important factors that push consumers’ interest and willingness to buy RFA. New Zealand consumers and women show a higher appreciation of RFA. The nutritional value of the fruit can be a strategic marketing management attribute especially for health-conscious consumers. However, experts think the market for RFA will develop slowly, and will remain a niche product. Some stakeholders are skeptical about consumer RFA appreciation, and fear that RFA are too radical a novelty on the market. The RFA may be perceived as not natural. There is the need to coordinate food chain stakeholders’ management practices on RFA. This allows to mitigate risks, set food standards acceptable for all chain stakeholders, and make sustainable economic investment on innovation.
Early indicators of MPA effects are detected by stereo-video

Resource managers often outline discrete goals when implementing marine protected areas (MPAs), such as increases in organism abundance, biomass, or body size, to evaluate MPA success and thus inform future management decisions. Understanding which biological indicators are most sensitive to protection is essential for adaptive management, and while density is a commonly used metric to monitor MPAs, previous work has pointed to a lack of reliability of this metric to effectively evaluate MPAs, particularly during initial stages of protection. To determine which biological indicators of MPA success were evident 5 yr after protection began, we examined the differences in populations inside vs. outside MPAs for 3 fishes targeted by anglers—kelp bass Paralabrax clathratus, barred sand bass P. nebulifer, and California sheephead Semicossyphus pulcher—and 4 non-targeted species. We used stereo-video to determine the average body size, biomass, and density of each species in 7 MPAs in Southern California that were paired with nearby non-MPA sites. Responses of targeted species were detectable after 5 yr of protection in some MPAs. In most but not all MPAs, individuals were larger compared to outside MPAs for kelp bass and California sheephead. Biomass and density of targeted species appeared to be less sensitive to MPA effects. As expected, non-targeted species did not show evidence of MPA effects. Similar to past studies, our findings indicate that the choice of response variable and species studied may influence the perceived efficacy of MPAs, and we emphasize that increases in length may be a particularly sensitive indicator of effective protection.
Medical Malpractice Cases in Kerman Province, Iran (2010 - 2014)

Background: Medical malpractice is a major cause of patient complaints and dissatisfaction, which is an alarming event for healthcare professional and medical practitioners. Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate medical malpractice cases in Kerman province, Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional, retrospective study was performed to analyze the complaint cases reported in Kerman Medical Council and Kerman Legal Medicine Organization during 2010 - 2014. Physician data were recorded on age, gender, academic degree, specialty, work experience, place of failure, and type of medical malpractice. Data analysis was performed in SPSS. Results: In total, 551 complaint cases were investigated, 167 of which (31%) were medical malpractice cases. The most common medical malpractices were imprudence (44.31%) and carelessness (41.31%). In addition, most of the medical malpractice cases occurred in governmental hospitals (64.07%). In most of the cases, physicians with specialty degrees were convicted of medical malpractice (73.65%), and the highest number of the medical malpractices was observed in ophthalmology (20.95%). Conclusions: Despite the significant advancement in medical affairs, the rate of patient complaints and medical malpractices has increased noticeably.
Formulation of Full Instant Functional Drinking Making With Coffee Addition

Galangal (Alpinia officinarum) is a type of rhizome plant such as ginger. Utilization of galangal which is still well known by the public is a spice in cooking and as a traditional herbal medicine that has not yet attracted people's interest. Further processing needs to be done to attract the public so that they can benefit from galangal. The study was designed using a Randomized Block Design (RCBD) using 2 factors. Comparison of coffee and galangal are 9: 1, 7: 3, 5: 5, and factor 2 for 50 grams of sugar, 100 grams, and 150 grams. The research results obtained by the panelists the most important formulation is the ratio of galangal and coffee 7: 3 with the approval of 150 grams of coconut sugar. The results of the antioxidant activity test obtained data about instant galangal functional drinks having antioxidant content of IC50 8.10 mg/ml have not been approved as functional drinks. The results of the caffeine content test showed that instant galangal functional drinks had caffeine levels of 2.63 ± 0.04%
Distance effects of gas field infrastructure on pygmy rabbits in southwestern Wyoming

As domestic energy development activity continues in the western United States, wildlife conservation planning in affected regions is increasingly important. The geologic basins where oil and gas energy exploration is occurring are primarily sagebrush steppe rangelands. Sagebrush steppe habitats may support more than 20 vertebrate species of conservation concern, and for many of these species, information is lacking on the effects of gas energy development. In earlier work, we demonstrated a negative relationship among development density of gas ﬁ eld infrastructure and pygmy rabbits ( Brachylagus idahoensis ). We now examine the spatial relationship among gas ﬁ eld infrastructure, pygmy rabbits, and their habitat on four major gas ﬁ elds in southwest Wyoming. Using data collected from 120 plots over three years (2011 – 2013) and 2012 National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) imagery, we evaluated (1) whether well pads are more likely to be located in areas of pygmy rabbit habitat, (2) whether the presence and abundance of pygmy rabbits are related to distance from infrastructure, and, if so, (3) how much of the total surface area on a gas ﬁ eld is affected. Well pads on three gas ﬁ elds occurred in higher quality pygmy rabbit habitat than did a set of randomly generated points, and the abundance and probability of pygmy rabbits being present were lower within approximately 0.5 – 1.5 km of the nearest road and 2 km of well pads and utilities. Buffering a digital layer of roads and well pads on one gas ﬁ eld revealed that nearly 82% of the (4417 km 2 ) surface area was within 1 km of infrastructure, and over 95% of the gas ﬁ eld surface area was within 2 km. This need not be the case on future gas ﬁ elds. Directional and horizontal well drilling technologies now make it possible for gas to be recovered from a greater area per well pad, enabling future gas ﬁ eld developments that require fewer well pads, roads, and pipeline corridors. Such changes would enable increased well pad spacing and provide the opportunity to locate gas ﬁ eld infrastructure in areas of poor quality wildlife habitat, avoid high priority habitat, and conserve a greater amount of on- ﬁ eld wildlife habitat overall.
“There’s No Place Like Home”: Female EU Migrants in Belgrade

The subject of this paper is the anthropological analysis of narratives of female migrants from the EU who are living in Belgrade. The analysis uses the approaches of “transnationalism from below” and home studies. The paper addresses the question of what is home for EU citizens living outside the EU. The aim is to cast increased light on middle-class migrations from more developed countries to a less developed country. The main results show that the notion of home is intricately linked with the interviewees’ understanding of their transmigrant position and their “bifocal lives”. The study draws attention to educated and skilled EU migrants as a compelling research topic.
Small‐scale experimental study on the optimisation of a rooftop rainwater energy harvester using electromagnetic generators in light rains

This research proposes a new rooftop rainwater energy harvester using electromagnetic generators, which demonstrates better rain‐energy harvesting performance than the traditional rainwater energy harvesters that use electromagnetic generators under light rain conditions. Conventionally, the rainwater collected from the roof of a building or a residential attic using the installed roof gutter system is drained directly along a pipe to drive water turbines combined with electromagnetic generators for generating electricity. Such an energy harvesting method has high energy harvesting efficiency under heavy rain conditions but is inefficient under light rain conditions. To improve the energy harvesting efficiency in light rains, a pipe‐connected tank including a passive rainwater buffer is introduced and fixed below the rooftop gutters in the proposed structure. The passive rainwater buffer is attached above the pipe‐connected tank. After collecting a certain amount of rainwater from the gutters, the passive rainwater buffer automatically releases the rainwater periodically into the pipe‐connected tanks. The released rainwater results in a large flow along the pipe, which can drive water turbines with electromagnetic generators to work at a high efficiency for a short period of time. A small‐scale experimental prototype was built for validating the energy harvesting performance of the proposed structure. The results show that the intermittent high‐efficiency power generation of the proposed structure is better than the continuous low‐efficiency power generation of the traditional structure during light rains. The proposed structure can charge a 680 μF capacitor with at least nine times the electrical energy that is stored in a conventional capacitor for a rainwater flow rate of less than 300 mL/min in the same amount of time. However, with the increase in the rainwater flow, the energy harvesting performance gap between the proposed structure and the traditional one gradually narrows.
Food‐web structure varies along environmental gradients in a high‐latitude marine ecosystem

295 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– © 2018 The Authors. This is an Online Open article This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Subject Editor: Dominique Gravel Editor-in-Chief: Miguel Araújo Accepted 9 May 2018 42: 295–308, 2019 doi: 10.1111/ecog.03443 doi: 10.1111/ecog.03443 42 295–308
Stocking density influences common carp larval development. Can restocking processes activate compensatory growth consequent to previous high stocking density?

Aim of study: to analyse the effect of stocking density on common carp larvae production. Since stocking density is one of the most important variables in recirculating aquaculture system, it is fundamental to understand its implication on fish larval development. Area of study: BrazilMaterial and methods: In an initial trial over a 30-day period, 18,000 Cyprinus carpio larvae were subjected to eight different stocking densities (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 larvae/L). In a second trial over a 15-day period, the larvae subjected to the 40 larvae/L treatment were selected according to size and 360 of them were subjected to restocking processes at a density of 5 larvae/L, in order to evaluate possible compensatory growth, while those subjected to the 5 larvae/L treatment were likewise selected according to size and were distributed at the same stocking density (5 larvae/L), to be the control treatment during the restocking process.Main results: The larvae kept at the density of 5 larvae/L showed better growth and development. Increased heterogeneity of the concomitant batch was observed with higher stocking density. Restocking at low density (5 larvae/L), for larvae that had previously been kept at high density (40 larvae/L), caused partial compensatory growth, with an increase in the specific growth rate. Increasing the density caused increased productivity up to the density level of 25 larvae/L, but from then on there was no significant difference (p > 0.05). Research highlights: Carp larvae reared at high densities need to be restocked during rearing in order to avoid the “shooting” problem.
A Review on Unresolved Major Causes of Land Conflicts in Tanzania: A case of Kiteto District, Manyara Region.

Conflicts are unavoidable in many circumstances and generally they include relational disputes between two or more parties such as land conflict between farmers and pastoralists as stipulated in this study. The study was conducted in Kiteto district, Manyara, Tanzania. The objective of the study was to find out unresolved major causes of land conflict in Kiteto district, Manyara, Tanzania. The study followed a positivism research philosophy whereby descriptive research design was used as well as quantitative research approach. Means and standard deviations were used to analyze data on unresolved major causes of land conflict in Kiteto district, Manyara, Tanzania. Findings revealed nine unresolved major causes of land conflict in Tanzania which were; competition over resources like land and water, land policy deficiencies and contradictions, imbalance political representation in leadership, bad governance and corruption, human rights violations, pastoralists’ grazing cattle in farmers’ farms, no proper demarcation of land use plan, increased human and livestock population scored and insecurity of land tenure. The study concludes that resolving unresolved major causes of land conflict in Tanzania is key to peaceful and harmonious relationships between communities in Tanzania especially those conflicting over land use.