Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) Approach in Explaining the Impact of Livestock Export on Economic Growth in Somalia

Somalia has suffered instability and civil war in the last two decades, which have wedged the economy of the country as wells as population. Although Somalia is the one of the impoverished country, it has registered a small growth in recent years. This study examines the short run impact of livestock export on economic growth in Somalia using annual time series data for the period 1990 – 2015 by applying cointegration analysis and vector error correction model (VECM). Cointegration was performed under Engle-and Johansen co-integration tests and a VECM were applied according to its result. Our model results point of the association between variables on a short run. The empirical resultsof the study indicate that, cattle and Sheep exportshave a positive and significant relationship with economic growth, whereasexports of camel and goat have been found to have a positive but insignificant effect on economic growth. Based on the findings, this study recommendsthe government of Somalia should support livestock exports by making subsidies in both federal and state level, and have to finance the fundamental veterinary serves to fuel the productivity of the sector. And the government of Somalia should activate the policies of the livestock sector. Further, the government should make a separate ship that can easily transport for camels in order to avoid the price of take care of (watering, feeding and health care) of the animal.
Microbial insight into rhizosphere of arecanut palms of Wayanad using metagenomics

The rhizosphere bacterial diversity of a plant is considered to play an essential role in mediating plant as well as soil health. An attempt to explore the bacterial diversity in the rhizosphere of arecanut palms in Wayanad was done to obtain an understanding of dominant bacterial phylotypes and the status of nutrient concentrations in rhizosphere soil and plants. Since arecanut production in Wayanad is facing a decline, a study to understand the rhizosphere conditions of healthy palms essentially provided insight into what strategies needed to be adopted for improvement of arecanut cultivation. The nutrient imbalance involving increased iron in soil and deficiencies of calcium, magnesium, zinc, and boron in the Arecanut rhizosphere was found to be an evident reason for the decline in production. Apart from that, the biological activities in the rhizosphere by the diversity of microorganisms were studied to understand the dominant bacterial phyla and genera present in the Arecanut rhizosphere. The presence of various important bacterial phyla like Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Acidobacteria, Firmicutes, and Bacteroidetes revealed the presence of various beneficial soil microorganisms and emphasized the need to enhance or augment the population of native microflora for efficient nutrient cycling by increasing the organic content of the soil. Since organic carbon is an essential requirement to support bacterial diversity, proper management practice that encompasses organic carbon amendment along with proper nutritional management could enhance bacterial diversity as well as health of the arecanut palms. The study indicated that the dominant bacterial phyla contained various beneficial microorganisms that can be exploited for improving nutrient recycling in the arecanut rhizosphere.
Effects of the Proactive Interdisciplinary Self-Management (PRISMA) Program on Online Care Platform Usage in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Online care platforms can support patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in managing their health. However, in the use of eHealth, a low participation rate is common. The Proactive Interdisciplinary Self-Management (PRISMA) program, aimed at improving patients' self-management skills, was expected to encourage patients to manage their disease through the use of an online platform. Therefore, the objective of the current study was to investigate whether a group education program can improve the use of an online care platform in patients with T2DM treated by primary care providers in the Netherlands. In a randomized controlled trial, patients with T2DM received either PRISMA with usual care or usual care only. During a six-month follow-up period in 2014-2015, usage (number of log-ons and time spent per session) of an online care platform (e-Vita) aimed at improving T2DM self-management was assessed. A training about the functionalities of e-Vita was offered. The sample consisted of 203 patients. No differences were found between the intervention and control groups in the number of patients who attended the platform training (interested patients) (X2(1) = 0.58; p = 0.45), and the number of patients who logged on at least once (platform users) (X2(1) = 0.46; p = 0.50). In addition, no differences were found between the groups in the type of users—patients who logged on twice or more (active users) or patients who logged on once (nonactive users) (X2(1) = 0.56; p = 0.45). The PRISMA program did not change platform usage in patients with T2DM. In addition, only a small proportion of the patients logged on twice or more. Patients probably need other encouragements to manage their condition using an online platform.
Efficient C2 Continuous Surface Creation Technique Based on Ordinary Differential Equation

In order to reduce the data size and simplify the process of creating characters’ 3D models, a new and interactive ordinary differential equation (ODE)-based C2 continuous surface creation algorithm is introduced in this paper. With this approach, the creation of a three-dimensional surface is transformed into generating two boundary curves plus four control curves and solving a vector-valued sixth order ordinary differential equation subjected to boundary constraints consisting of boundary curves, and first and second partial derivatives at the boundary curves. Unlike the existing patch modeling approaches which require tedious and time-consuming manual operations to stitch two separate patches together to achieve continuity between two stitched patches, the proposed technique maintains the C2 continuity between adjacent surface patches naturally, which avoids manual stitching operations. Besides, compared with polygon surface modeling, our ODE C2 surface creation method can significantly reduce and compress the data size, deform the surface easily by simply changing the first and second partial derivatives, and shape control parameters instead of manipulating loads of polygon points.
Non-linear magnetohydrodynamic hybrid simulations of the stability in tokamaks

Plasma physics plays a fundamental role in fusion technology research. However, the main equations governing the plasma dynamics, Navier-Stokes coupled with Maxwell equations, have challenges such as non-linearity and multiple coupling among all the evolving properties. Thus, any analytical study has been reduced to linearized models, which can not properly reproduce the plasma behavior. These simple analytical models cannot fully reproduce an important and current drawback in fusion devices, i.e., plasma instabilities in tokamaks. Instabilities represent a non-negligible contribution to the loss of plasma confinement. Consequently, they limit the fusion energy release and also represent a source of material damage. Understanding, predicting and, eventually, mitigating these instabilities is an open research line within the plasma and fusion community. Accordingly, these instability studies should be carried out from both experimental and theoretical points of view, obtaining, in the theoretical approach, analytical results from equations and finally, solving numerically the plasma dynamics. This approach is followed in this work in order to study one particular type of instability, Toroidal Alfvén Eigenmode, TAE, giving a physical and mathematical background of its origin and carrying out several numerical simulations of the plasma dynamics. To study these instabilities, a realistic geometry has been developed during this work. The properties of the simulated losses are studied and correlated with the detection of the TAE instabilities inside the plasma.
Measuring High School Students’ Science Identities, Expectations of Success in Science, Values of Science and Environmental Attitudes: Development and Validation of the SIEVEA Survey

This article describes the development and validation of an instrument called Science Identities, Expectations of Success in Science, Values of Science and Environmental Attitudes (SIEVEA). The instrument is a convenient online survey that can be used to measure students' science identities, expectations of success in science, values of science, and environmental attitudes. First, 1,764 high school students from 11 school districts in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut took the SIEVEA. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and exploratory factor analysis (EFA). The EFA results provided useful insights into the factor structure of the data and led to the formation of three candidate models. All three models were evaluated based on their fit to data, their alignment with the research constructs, and their factor loadings. Because of this evaluation, the three-factor model was selected as the final model. Next, the instrument was validated via confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) using a new sample data made up of responses of 1,495 high school students. The developed instrument is valuable for both researchers and educators, as it allows for measurement of constructs that play an important role in successful science learning.
Effect of Marble Tile Waste Powder (MTWP) Filler on Cure and Mechanical Behaviour of Natural Nubber (NR) Compound

As part of the increasing effort to reutilize of residue generated from industrial activities, an attempt hasbeen made to utilize marble tile waste as a potential filler in natural rubber (NR) composite when lowstrength applications are required. In the experimental part, 10 μm size of marble tile waste powder(MTWP), with five different loadings up to 40 parts per hundred of rubber (phr) were used in NRcomposites to study the effect of MTWP loading on the cure characteristics and mechanical properties.The addition of MTWP as filler resulted in shorter cure time and scorch time which is preferable inrubber processing. It also enhanced the properties of tensile modulus and hardness while tensilestrength, elongation at break and swelling ratio decreased with increasing MTWP loading. This studythus shows that MTWP can be used as economical alternative filler in NR compound and has potential asa partial replacement of reinforcing filler like carbon black in various rubber products. Keywords: natural rubber, filler, composite, marble tile waste
Bisphenol-A in Wistar Rats: Toxicological Study as Mitochondrial Disrupting Agent

BPA is an EDC which is continuously released into the environment because of its extensive usage as plasticizer and other industrial applications. The present study establishes BPA induced alterations in mitochondrial marker enzymes and hence cause mitochondrial dysfunction. Studies were performed to evaluate the histopathological changes in tissue on exposure to different doses of BPA for different time periods. Light microscopic examination of samples was done to evaluate the possible changes caused by treatment of different doses of BPA. After getting the results in light microscopy the changes and damage caused by BPA ultra-structurally were observed. Light microscopic study showed that BPA exposure for short duration of 7 days did not resulted in significant change in histology of Rat of treated a nimals. Light microscopic observations showed that low doses of BPA (5 and 10 mg/kg body weight) exposure for 14 days caused reduction in the number of cells in the layers of seminiferous tubules. Highest dose of BPA treatment for 14 days caused much damage to the seminiferous tubules. There were many ultra-structural changes found in the treated groups as compared to the control group. Hence it can be stated that due to the toxic effect of BPA the mitochondrial marker enzymes have shown marked reduction in their activities.
Glitch as the Representation of the Uncanny in Oxenfree (2016)

The Gothic engages its audiences in the constant play by evoking the same anxieties in its audience and its protagonists. Furthermore, it could be argued that transgressions are its immanent feature. The supernatural elements, with the strong emphasis on the ghosts, often create the feeling of the uncanny, which, defined by the mixing of the familiar with unfamiliar, is not unknown to the video game genre. In the paper I offer a close reading of Oxenfree (2016), demonstrating the Gothic elements featured in the game, concentrating on how the uncanny manifests through the use of the audiovisual glitch.
Perceived Value, Store Image and Satisfaction as Antecedents of Store Loyalty Moderated by Procedural Switching Costs

The phenomenon of measuring behavioral loyalty on specific stores or merchants obviously popular, particularly despite the existence of structural and fundamental criticism on specific issue. The objectives of this research is to examine the antecedents of customer loyalty specifically on store loyalty. We operate survey method to gather primary data. The focus of the research is to examine the effect of perceived value, store image, and customer satisfaction on store loyalty. The results indicate that customer who perceive low perception of procedural switching costs and high perception of procedural switching costs experienced different perception in their perceived value on customer satisfaction, perceived value on loyalty, and store image on customer satisfaction. The results shows that the perceived value, store image, and customer satisfaction has a positive and significant relationship of store loyalty in the different perception of procedural switching costs. Furthermore, procedural switching costs play a significant role in moderating the relationship between customer satisfaction and store loyalty. There was an indirect effect in the relationship between perceived value and store loyalty, which was mediated by customer satisfaction. The indirect effect of the relationship between store image and store loyalty was also proven to be mediated by the customer satisfaction.
Secondary Control of Islanded Microgrids Using PI-Evolutionary Algorithms Under Uncertainties

Electrical grids converge now to a novel concept which named Microgrids (MG). it consists on producing energy with isolated connected to grid to reduce dependency on fuel and main grids due to its fluctuant cost and to decrease harmful emission in the atmosphere. Constituted by renewable sources, energy storage system and controllable sources, a hybrid combination of these DERs is adopted to maintain MG reliability, transparency and efficiency with the deregulate power production according to weather conditions; ( e.g. temperature, solar radiation, wind speed. . . ) of the non-controllable sources and load fluctuation. These perturbations affect frequency as one parameter of quality of energy sensitive to active power balance. That’s why a smart management of controllable sources is highly recommended to minimize this frequency deviation. In this paper, a dynamic model is adopted with PI controller in controllable sources and storage system and presents a novel approach to design PI controller parameters by hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) GA-TLBO for a robust control of frequency regulation under uncertainty. A simulated isolated MG is tested on scenarios to validate the approach adopted in conceiving the PI parameters to avoid the frequency fluctuation in the different cases of study.
Peculiarities of interhemispheric functional asymmetry of the frontal region in 4–7 year-old children with mental development and speech development delay

This work is an attempt to evaluate the ratio of sustainable potentials in the frontal region of the right and left hemispheres in children of 4–7 years of age with speech dysphasia (SD) and light mental problems of cerebral-organic genesis (LMP). The survey was administered to 30 children (20 boys and 10 girls) aged 4 to 7 years (5,5 ± 1,1 years); 15 children had been diagnosed with General Speech Underdevelopment (GSU) in the 2nd or 3rd degree, and the other 15 children had been diagnosed with both SD and LMP. To confirm the diagnoses all the children were examined by a neurologist and a speech therapist. The data obtained during the neurological examination determined the presence of changes on the brainstem, pyramidal and extrapyramidal levels. In turn, the speech therapist determined the degrees of SD caused by a primary disorder of cortical mechanisms. The dynamics of sustainable potential (SP) of the brain in symmetrical prefrontal leads of the left and right hemispheres, corresponding to the projection of the F9 Brodmann area, was evaluated by means of applying miniature liquid non-polarisable silver chloride electrodes. For children with the 2nd and 3rd degree SD in a state of rest a high level of activity coordination in the frontal areas of the right and left hemispheres was detected, whereas a shift to a functional state entailed a reduction in the level of such coordination. In children with a combination of the SD and the LMP there was no change in the level of activity coordination in the hemispheres during the transition from one functional state to another. A higher level of activity in the right hemisphere was revealed in children with a combination of the SD and the LMP in comparison with children with the 2nd and 3rd degree SD only.
MFIT 1.0.0: Multiflow inversion of tracer breakthrough curves in fractured and karst aquifers

Abstract. More than half of the Earth’s population depends largely or entirely on fractured or karst aquifers for their drinking water supply. Both the characterization and modeling of these groundwater reservoirs are therefore of worldwide concern. Artificial tracer testing is a widely used method for the characterization of solute (including contaminant) transport in groundwater. Tracer experiments consist of a two-step procedure: 1) introducing a conservative tracer-labeled solution into an aquifer, usually through a sinkhole or a well, and 2) measuring the concentration breakthrough curve (BTC) response(s) at one or several downstream monitoring locations, usually spring(s) or pumping well(s). However, the modeling and interpretation of tracer test responses can be a challenging task in some cases, notably when the BTCs exhibit multiple local peaks and/or extensive backward tailing. MFIT is a new open-source, Windows-based computer package for the analytical modeling of tracer BTCs. This software integrates four transport models that are all capable of simulating single- or multiple-peak and/or heavy-tailed BTCs. The four transport models are encapsulated in a general multiflow modeling framework, which assumes that the spatial heterogeneity of an aquifer can be approximated by a combination of independent one-dimensional channels. Two of the MFIT transport models are believed to be new, as they combine the multiflow approach and the double-porosity concept, which is applied at the scale of the individual channels. Another salient feature of MFIT is its compatibility and interface with the advanced optimization tools of the PEST suite of programs. Hence, MFIT is the first BTC fitting tool that allows regularized inversion and nonlinear analysis of the postcalibration uncertainty of model parameters.
Research on Feature Extraction Algorithm of Palm Main Line Based on Bottom Hat Transformation

Aiming at the problem that the main line of palm is not easy to extract, and it is easy to be affected by illumination and uneven color of palm, this paper proposes a feature extraction algorithm based on base The bottom transformation. The bottom cap transform can eliminate the influence of uneven illumination and extract the main line of the palm. The collected palm image is first grayscaled and bottomed, and then binarized, the palm area is separated, the palm area is found, the palm boundary is separated by the Sobel edge detector, and the fingertip valley coordinates are determined. The palm area is divided, the knuckles and palm prints are found, and the vertical projection is used to match the palm print and the knuckle pattern. The experimental results show that the method can eliminate the influence of uneven illumination and uneven color of palm, and it has fast speed and strong anti-noise ability. It is suitable for large-scale palm database to achieve coarse screening.
Fatty acid-binding protein 5 predicts poor prognosis in patients with uveal melanoma

Fatty acid-binding protein 5 (FABP5), which participates in mediating the biological properties of tumor cells, has been recognized in several neoplasms. The present study aims to investigate FABP5 transcriptional expression profiles, reveal its underlying biological interaction networks and define its prognostic value in uveal melanoma (UVM). A total of 80 patients with UVM and their RNA-sequence data, available from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database, was analyzed. A differential transcriptional expression profile was obtained from TCGA and the Oncomine databases. The survival benefits were analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method and log-rank test. The correlation between FABP5 expression and immune infiltration level was analyzed using the Tumor Immune Estimation Resource database. Functional enrichment analyses using Gene Ontology, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes, and signaling hallmarks were utilized to describe the biological process, molecular functions, cellular component and significantly involved pathways. The elevated transcriptional expression of FABP5 was significantly associated with shorter overall survival (OS) and worse progression-free survival (PFS) times in patients with UVM (P<0.001). Moreover, FABP5 expression was significantly and positively correlated with tumor purity and CD8+ T cells and was negatively correlated with the infiltrating levels of CD4+ T cells and neutrophils. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis was performed to obtain 100 significantly associated genes of FABP5 and FABP5 was found to be critical in several hallmark pathways, including allograft rejection, complement, interleukin-6/Janus kinase-STAT3 signaling, interferon γ response, inflammatory response and tumor necrosis factor α signaling via NFκB. The present study is the first to demonstrate that FABP5 expression was positively associated with progression-associated clinicopathological factors and poor prognosis in UVM, which suggests its likely function as an oncogene and prognostic marker in patients with UVM.
The Counter-storytelling of Latinx Men’s Co-Constructions of Masculinities and Undergraduate Mathematical Success

While Latinxs complete undergraduate engineering degrees at lower rates than Whites and Asians, Latinx men trail behind Latinx women who recently earned over half of engineering and science degrees conferred to Latinxs. With multiple semesters of mathematics required in engineering majors, qualitative analyses of undergraduate Latinx men’s strategies of persistence and success in engineering can illuminate ways to inform more socially-affirming postsecondary educational opportunities and thus increase retention in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). This report presents findings from a phenomenological study that characterized variation in two undergraduate Latinx men’s negotiations of their masculinities with pursuits of mathematical success as engineering majors at a large, predominantly White four-year university. Findings illuminate the Latinx men’s strategies of managing risks of mathematics classroom participation, building academically and socially supportive relationships with faculty members, and negotiating pursuits of STEM higher education with their gendered sense of commitment to family.