Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Constraints and Facilitators of Sport Participation in Qatar: Perceptions of Ooredoo Marathon Participants

The Qatari government has increasingly supported education of Qatar residents on the importance of physical activity, along with developing and improving sport infrastructure, and bidding for and hosting a collection of sport events. Despite these efforts, a number of challenges inherent to Qatar may hinder participation among the country's residents. The current research examines constraints to physical activity described by participants in a sport event in Qatar, along with factors that facilitated their participation. Semistructured interviews were conducted with Qatari residents who had participated in the Ooredoo Marathon (N = 22), the largest participatory sport event in Doha, Qatar that targets individuals of all running abilities. Four constraints (social life, reluctance to walk, lack of time and competing priorities, and expectations for women) along with three facilitators (technology, peer and familial support, and government support) emerged from these interviews. The findings provide implications for sport and event managers to promote the social aspects of sport event participation in Qatar, as well as heightening awareness of sport focused technology.
Coping strategy- determinant of Dermatology Life Quality Index in psoriasis patients.

Abstract Background : Psoriasis is the psycho-dermatological disease of chronic and inflammatory nature. Psychological factors are causing and / or aggravate during a psoriasis. Disease exacerbates the presence of nervous stress and worsens the quality of life of patients. Patients suffering from psoriasis try to deal with the problem using different coping strategies. It is important to define patient's coping strategy towards Dermatology Life Quality Index. Aim: Ability to use of patients coping strategies for determining of Dermatology life Quality Index in psoriasis patients. Methods: Ten patients with psoriasis were enrolled in the study. Dermatology Life Quality Index score of psoriasis was assessed by the DLQI Questionnaire and through the formula we have adopted. Results: The results of the study indicated minor difference between the indicators, which confirms the high susceptibility of formulas. Conclusions: Psoriasis is a distressing disorder that significantly impairs quality of life. There is a close link between quality of life and coping strategies. We have shown that the values we have obtained from the Dermatology life Quality Index questionnaire and using the new formula with multiple variables, do not nearly differ from each other and the formulas are suitable for use in daily clinical practice. Keywords: Psoriasis; Coping strategies; Dermatology Life Quality Index; Formulas.
Ratooning as a management strategy for lodged or drought‐damaged rice crops

Abstract Rice (Oryza sativa L.) plants have the ability to develop ratoon tillers if the terminal growing point is lost, such as when the panicle has been aborted, matured, or harvested. We examined postharvest and midseason ratooning as management strategies for damaged rice crops, both in irrigated and rainfed conditions. Genotypic variation was observed in terms of postharvest ratoon tillering, midseason ratoon crop growth after lodging, and midseason ratoon crop growth after drought stress. The genotypic variation in postharvest ratoon tillering was related to stem carbohydrate levels at the time of main crop harvest and was affected by soil moisture levels at the time of main crop harvest. Drought‐tolerant varieties did not consistently show improved ratoon crop growth. After lodging, cutting stems at a height of 30 cm produced the highest numbers of ratoon tillers, and the contribution of the ratoon crop to the total harvestable grain yield was highest when the ratoon crop was initiated at earlier growth stages. The highest ratoon grain yields recovered from lodged crops ranged up to 3.58 t ha−1. Total grain yield after drought was improved by trimming the leaves and panicles only in certain conditions and did not appear to be correlated with stem carbohydrate levels. These results suggest that management strategies may be recommended to farmers that exploit the ratooning ability of rice for improved recovery after midseason crop damage.
Timbre and Pitch Characterization of Monophonic Samples of Philippine Indigenous Instruments

We attempted to describe monophonic samples of Philippine indigenous instruments through the audio semantics brightness, roughness, and fullness. Using Pearson's correlation factor to compare results with listening tests, brightness and roughness values have a moderate correlation approaching significance, while fullness had the lowest correlation with low significance with perception. The data set was clustered using a Self-Organizing Map which showed audibly alike sounds associating to the same or nearby neurons. Fundamental frequency contours extracted through the YIN algorithm exhibited that the pitch of Philippine indigenous instruments differed from the western music scale by 0 to 49 cents in magnitude.
How to Decompose Production Chain and Utilize It to Unveil GVC Connections Among Countries

This paper aims to contribute to the literature by developing a calculation method which can be used to explore GVC connections among countries. The present work introduces International Production Stage Length as an indicator of a country's involvement into the global production. The developed calculation method is employed to test GVC connections between China, USA, Germany, and their neighboring countries. The empirical study confirms a higher level of production sharing among countries which belong to the same region which indicates the existence of several regional value chains rather than a one global value chain.
The complete mitochondrial genome of the freshwater crab Potamiscus motuoensis (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamoidea)

Abstract Potamiscus motuoensis is the only one freshwater crab species distributed in Yarlung Zangbo River Grand Canyon and its complete mitochondrial genome was obtained for the first time. The complete mitochondrial genome of P. motuoensis is 17,971 bp in length, including 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes, and 1 control region. In addition, the mitogenome has 19 noncoding regions ranging from 1 to 1396 bp in length. The report of the mitochondrial genome will enrich the species diversity of Yarlung Zangbo River Grand Canyon and provide data support for further research.
Leader Member Exchange, Social Comparison and Subjective Career Success: Envy and its Positive Outcomes as Explanatory Mechanism

This study investigates the explanatory mechanisms (envy and its positive outcomes) between the leader member exchange and subjective career success. Using Affective Events Theory an integrated framework was developed by incorporating the study variables in it. The study extends the framework of Affective event theory by proposing two serial mediation models. One model serial mediation of social comparison, envy and achievement motivation between leader member exchange and subjective career success.The second model estimates the serial mediation of social comparison, envy ad thriving at work between leader member exchange and subjective career success. Along with the mediating mechanism of envy and its functional outcomes like achievement motivation and thriving at work, moderating role of self-control was also examined. This dissertation incorporated social comparison as affective event at workplace. Furthermore, this study demonstrates how leader member exchange differentiation is associated with subjective career success and social comparison. In this study fifteen hypotheses were developed, fourteen were supported while one failed to meet the acceptance criteria.Data were collected in five time lags from a sample of 414 respondents working in Fast moving consumer goods organizations, telecommunication organization, Healths sectors and banks as envy is universal phenomena. The sample of study were working employees of these sectors under the supervision of leaders. Data was collected by using survey based questionnaires. Findings of hypotheses indicate that leader member exchange has positive relationship with subjective career success, while it is negatively associated with social comparison as per expectation. This study also investigated the impact of social comparison on envy which showed positive and significant relationship, envy in turn leads to achievement motivation and thriving at work.Regarding explanatory mechanisms, social comparison mediates between the relationship of leader member exchange and envy.
Segmentation of Single and Overlapping Leaves by Extracting Appropriate Contours

Leaf detection and segmentation is a complex image segmentation problem as leaves are most often found in groups with natural background. Edges of leaves cannot be clearly defined from image because of their color similarities.Also,separating every single as well as overlapping leaf individually is even more challenging as leaves share almost same color, texture and shape. In this paper, we propose a new automatic approach for leaf segmentation from image. Our leaf segmentation process uses efficient techniques for processing an image to obtain contours of every individual objects. Then, it selects the best appropriate connected contours that represent region of every leaves appearing in an image. Our model archives an overall 90.46% segmentation rate where segmentation rates for single and overlapping leaves are 95.34% and 86.73%, respectively.
First report on fatty acids composition, total phenolics and antioxidant activity in seeds oil of four fig cultivars (Ficus carica L.) grown in Morocco

With the progresses of oilseed industry, an important interest is currently being focused on exploiting novel and underutilized sources for vegetable oils. Being so far the less studied part in fig fruits, seeds separated from four fig cultivars were assessed for their oil content, fatty acids identification, total phenolics and invitro antioxidant analysis. A one-way Anova yielded statistically significant differences for all parameters, with the exception of pentadecylic, margaric and arachidic acids besides the total saturated fatty acids. Fig seeds presented a yellow colored oil, of which the content ranged from 21.54 ± 1.71 to 28.52 ± 0.62%. Gas liquid chromatography analysis of the seed oil showed high percentages of linolenic acid in the four cultivars ranging from 38.43 ± 0.01 to 43.57 ± 0.04, followed by linoleic acid (28.9 ± 0.06–34.5 ± 0.04%). Palmitic acid and stearic acid were the dominating saturated fatty acids in all samples, where the amounts were in the range from 8.54 ± 0.04 to 9.05 ± 0.06% and from 2.59 ± 0.13 to 3.3% respectively. The efficiency of the desaturation from oleic acid to linoleic acid estimated within desaturation pathway, was higher among all cultivars than the efficiency of the desaturation from linoleic acid to linolenic acid. This explains the large increase of 18:3 concentration in all samples. The local cultivar ‘C11A21’ exhibited the highest total unsaturated fatty acids and the lowest level of saturated fatty acids, while the cultivar ‘White Adriatic’ combined the most relevant phenolics content, antioxidant activity and half maximum inhibitory concentration. All sampled oil possessed an important phenolics content that displayed variable levels of antioxidant activity. The objective of this study is to bring new data on the biochemical attributes of fig seeds as a new source oil that can be used for nutritional, pharmaceutical and cosmetic purposes.
Sex differences in the trauma-related symptoms: A pilot study

Introduction: During the year 2014, a part of the population from Serbia was exposed to floods. After natural disasters and other types of extreme trauma, some people will be more affected by trauma than others. How women and men differ, in the symptoms that can manifest after the exposure to extreme trauma, is still an open question. Aim: To evaluate if there are differences in the severity of trauma-related symptom clusters between the sexes (re-experiencing, avoidance, negative cognitions and mood, and arousal; according to DSM V) and in expiriencing negative emotional states (depression, anxiety, stress). Material and methods: Forty healthy volunteers from Obrenovac (25 women and 15 men) were administered with three instruments: The Life Events Checklist − LEC-5, PTSD checklist for DSM V – PCL-5 and Depression Anxiety Stress Scale − DASS. Results: The majority of subjects reported floods as the major lifetime trauma (72.5%). Despite the relatively low level of the post-traumatic symptom intensity (5.02 ±4.99), women exhibited significantly higher total post-traumatic symptom severity scores in comparison to men (p<0.01) and higher severity of trauma re-experiencing symptoms (p<0.01). Sex differences were neither observed in other trauma-related symptoms clusters, nor in the severity of current depression, anxiety and stress symptoms. Conclusion: In the non-clinical sample, with only a sub-threshold level of post-traumatic symptoms, the most prominent difference between sexes was found in relation to reexperiencing and this finding is consistent with the results obtained from clinical samples. Future studies are needed, in order to examine whether trauma-focused treatments can be gender-tailored and to which extent they might prevent the full-blown post-traumatic stress disorder.
Biochemical and molecular differentiation of Anacroneuria species (Plecoptera, Insecta) in Andean National Park, Venezuela

Inferring species boundaries or speciation events is not straightforward as these processes are often fuzzy and difficult to identify. This may be simplified by the use of integrative approaches that combine molecular and biochemical techniques. Here, we examined four stoneflies species differentiation using a combination of genetic signals involving mitochondrial genetic markers (cytochrome oxidase, cox1, and 12S) and biochemical signals involving cuticular hydrocarbons. A combination of both the techniques revealed strong interactions among Anacroneuria species and potential recent speciation events refuting species hypothesis from three out of four species despite consistent morphological differences, which enhance our understanding of species divergence in Anacroneuria species. Our results may serve as a basis for further studies assessing species boundaries and evolutionary relationships among other insect species for biodiversity implications on river management.
Prospective Visual Arts Teachers’ Innovation Skills and Attitudes towards Computer Assisted Instruction

The aim of this study is to examine the prospective visual arts teachers' innovation skills and their attitudes towards computer-assisted teaching in terms of demographic and school factors. In this context, using comparative relational research model; the students' attitudes towards innovation skills and computer assisted teaching were examined with a comparative approach. The study group of this research consists of 305 visual arts teacher candidates studying at Dicle University, Anadolu University, Mersin University, Necmettin Erbakan University and Marmara University. Attitude scale and innovation skills scales were used to collect data. According to the analysis of the data, it was seen that visual arts teacher candidates' perceptions of innovation skills and their attitudes towards computer aided teaching are high. In addition, significant differences were found in computer aided teaching attitudes and innovation skills according to faculty type, grade level and gender. Finally, significant relationships were found between innovation skills and entrepreneurship perception.
Democracy in Crisis: Civic Freedom in Contemporary Indonesia

--Civic freedom is the principle of modern democracies. A report from The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in 2018 explained that the civil liberties index in Indonesia had a very sharp decline. This has caused the quality of democracy in Indonesia to decline. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explain why civic freedom in Indonesia is in crisis? This study uses a qualitative method with the theory-driven approach. The data is obtained from books, scientific journals, and mass media. Analysis of data in this study from data reduction, to data organization and data interpretation. Civic freedom in Indonesia are currently experiencing a crisis caused by (1) "silencing" of freedom of expression; (2) Restrictions and violations of the freedom of association and assembly; and (3) discriminatory actions and violence that occur in the implementation of freedom of religion or belief. The conclusion is that threats and violations of civic freedom have made democracy in Indonesia is in a crisis and increasingly away from the practice of consolidation democracy.
A multilevel structural equation model for the interrelationships between multiple latent dimensions of childhood socio‐economic circumstances, partnership transitions and mid‐life health

We propose a multilevel structural equation model to investigate the interrelationships between childhood socio‐economic circumstances, partnership formation and stability, and mid‐life health, using data from the 1958 British birth cohort. The structural equation model comprises latent class models that characterize the patterns of change in four dimensions of childhood socio‐economic circumstances and a joint regression model that relates these categorical latent variables to partnership transitions in adulthood and mid‐life health, while allowing for informative dropout. The model can be extended to handle multiple outcomes of mixed types and at different levels in a hierarchical data structure.
METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN PREDICTION MODELS AND DATA ANALYSES USING OBSERVATIONAL AND CLINICAL TRIAL DATA

ii PREFACE . v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . vi TABLE OF CONTENTS . vii LIST OF TABLES . viii LIST OF FIGURES . xi CHAPTER 1: Introduction . 1 CHAPTER 2: Prediction of individual combined benefit and harm for patients with atrial fibrillation considering warfarin therapy: a study protocol . 15 CHAPTER 3: Can we predict individual combined benefit and harm? Warfarin therapy for atrial fibrillation as a test case . 23 CHAPTER 4: Risk factors for and prediction of mortality in critically ill medical-surgical patients receiving heparin thromboprophylaxis . 75 CHAPTER 5: Competing risk analysis for evaluation of dalteparin versus unfractionated heparin for venous thromboembolism in medical-surgical critically ill patients. 87 CHAPTER 6: Conclusions. 99
Cyber-Enabled Product Lifecycle Management: A Multi-Agent Cyber-Enabled Product Lifecycle Management: A Multi-Agent Framework Framework

Trouble free use of a product and its associated services for a specified minimum period of time is a major factor to win the customer’s trust in the product. Rapid and easy serviceabili ty to maintain its functionalities plays a key role in achieving this goal. However, the sustainability of such a model cannot be promised unless the current health status of the product is monitored and condition-based maintenance is exercised. Internet of Things (IoT), an important connectivity paradigm of recent times, which connects physical objects to the internet for real-time information exchange and execution of physical actions via wired/wireless protocols. While the literature is full of various feasibility and viability studies focusing on architecture, design, and model development aspects, there is limited work addressing an IoT-based health monitoring of systems having high collateral damage. This motivated the research to develop a multi-agent framework for monitoring the performance and predicting impending failure to prevent unscheduled maintenance and downtime over internet, referred to as for cyber-enabled product lifecycle management (C-PLM). The framework incorporates a number of autonomous agents, such as hard agent, soft agent, and wave agent, to establish network connectivity to collect and exchange real-time health information for prognostics and health management (PHM). The proposed framework will help manufacturers not only to resolve the warranty failure issues more efficiently and economically but also improve their corporate image. The framework further leads to efficient handling of warranty failure issues and reduces the chances of future failure, i.e., offering durable products. From the sustainability point of view, this framework also addresses the reusability of the parts that still have a significant value using the prognostics and health data. Finally, multi-agent implementation of the proposed approach using a power substations for IoT-based C-PLM is included to show is efficacy.
Unbundling and higher education curriculum: a Cultural-Historical Activity Theory view of process

ABSTRACT The focus of this paper is on the contestations and dilemmas emergent in the higher education curriculum in a context of increasing processes of unbundling, digitisation and marketisation. The paper explores the notion of contestation through the theoretical lens of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory. It points to illustrative examples of this contestation from empirical data drawn from stakeholder research in South African higher education. The paper grapples with understandings of the concept of curriculum and argues how these have been shaped by – and are shaping – emergent meanings of the curriculum in an unbundling context. The argument is that these emergent meanings are a function of different explicit and tacit understandings of curriculum and what higher education offers to students. These understandings are deepened or modified by processes of unbundling. Empirical data from the research study show these understandings to be forming against the backdrop of powerful cultural and agentic forces and players.
Why do investors participate in tourism incentive crowdfunding? The effects of attribution and trust on willingness to fund

ABSTRACT Crowdfunding in tourism and leisure projects appears to be growing. However, little is known about why individuals participate in incentive crowdfunding from a theoretical perspective. To address the research question, this study aims to compare a theoretically integrated model regarding linkages among antecedents, attribution, trust, and behavior. This study conducted an online survey to collect the data from South Korea and employed partial least squares structural equation modeling for the data analysis. Results reveal that platform attribution has the greatest impact on trust in platform. Willingness to crowdfund is more influenced by trust in platform than trust in fundraiser.
An Improved Collaborative Filtering Algorithms Based on Maximum Entropy Model and Markov Process to Mine User Behavior

Aiming at problems of data sparsity and poor interpretability of recommendation reasons in user-based collaborative filtering algorithm, an improved collaborative filtering algorithm based on maximum entropy model and markov process is proposed to mine user behavior habits. Firstly, the maximum entropy model is established through the user-behavior matrix of collaborative filtering algorithm, and the user behavior is fuzzily and preliminarily mined. Secondly, fuzzy behavior information obtained by the maximum entropy model is introduced as the initial state of markov process, and an optimization model is set up according to the internal relation of user-behavior matrix, thus reaching the state probability transition matrix. Once the markov process reaches a stable state, the user’s final behavior habit is excavated. Finally, this user behavior is integrated into the recommendation process, so that the interpretability of the recommendation is enhanced. The experimental results show that the improved collaborative filtering algorithm can promote the recommendation accuracy.