Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Help seeking behaviour of abused older women (Cases of Austria, Belgium, Finland, Lithuania and Portugal)

This article based on a recent European study examines the subjective consequences of abuse against older women and their help seeking behavior. In 2010, survey data concerning experiences of abuse in domestic settings were collected from 2,880 older women across five European countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, Lithuania, and Portugal). The results of the study indicated that overall 30.1% of older women reported at least one experience of abuse in the past year. Less than half of the victims talked about it in the informal setting or reported it to any formal agency. An ecological framework is used to explain factors influencing women’s decisions to seek help. Some consequences of abuse (anger, tension, sleeping difficulties, and concentration difficulties), type of abuse (physical abuse and violation of personal rights), higher abuse intensity, and density are connected with positive help seeking behaviours. Victims abused by current partners or a spouse were more passive to seek help.
Reconsidering the spatiality of religion and the state: relationality and the mosque not built

ABSTRACT Interactions between religious groups and state actors in cities across Europe are increasingly marked by complex relations that transcend the limitations usually associated with ‘local’ context, religion, or politics. However, scholars often fail to adequately conceptualise the multiple connections between religion and the state across various spatial dimensions. This contribution addresses this lacuna by introducing a relational approach to understanding the nexus of space, religion, and state. It is argued that a relational understanding of space helps to avoid the fallacy of neglecting other spatial categories such as the translocal or the global. This contribution’s conceptual arguments are based on an investigation of the spatial implications of the puzzle of why one of the largest mosque projects in Germany, the Munich Forum for Islam, failed to materialise.
Attitudes towards Foreign Language Learning in Schools

The increasing need for multilingualism in the recent decades has brought language learning and teaching into focus, both on the national level, where governments need to ensure quality foreign language education for their citizens, and on personal level, with an increasing number of individuals being required to speak more than one language. It is not surprising, then, to find more and more individuals interested in foreign language learning, which is increasingly introduced in early childhood. When it comes to early foreign language learning, it is the parents who choose the target language(s) their child is going to learn, their number and succession. These decisions depend on a number of factors, some of them being the attitudes of parents towards foreign language learning in general, towards the target language and its speakers. It is obvious that the attitudinal aspect of foreign language learning is of great importance, particularly when it comes to the role of parental attitudes in their child’s second language learning. The main goal of this thesis is to elicit the attitudes of parents or potential parents towards bilingualism and foreign language learning in general, towards early foreign language learning, towards speakers/learners of foreign languages and towards foreign language learning in Croatian primary schools. Furthermore, the thesis aims to analyse the beliefs of the participants in relation to contemporary scientific findings in the field of bilingualism. The second part of the thesis is dedicated to presenting theoretical explanations related to the focus of the thesis, as well as the conclusions of researchers concerned with (early) foreign language learning, which serve as a theoretical framework for the present study. The third part of the thesis involves the research study, which was conducted in the form of a questionnaire completed by the participants. The results of the study are first analysed quantitatively and then further discussed and contrasted with the findings of modern research. The thesis ends with a conclusion, in which the main points of the study are summarised.
Shared Knowledge between Reading and Writing among Middle School Adolescent Readers

Orthographic and linguistic knowledge are known predictors of reading and writing, yet little research with adolescent readers explores how such knowledge predicts reading and writing in a single model. We worked with 583 adolescent readers in remedial reading classes in grades 6–8 to collect indicators of orthographic and linguistic knowledge as well as reading comprehension and written expression. Using structural equation modeling, we examined how orthography and language predicted reading and writing and whether reading predicted writing and vice versa. We found that morphology, syntax, and orthography all independently predicted reading and writing, but linguistic knowledge was more strongly associated with reading than writing. Writing and reading did not differ in their effects on one another. Results extend theory on the relationship between language, reading, and writing and add to the research base on adolescent readers with implications for curriculum and instruction.
PENGEMBANGAN MODEL ADOPSI TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI TERHADAP MODEL PENERIMAAN TEKNOLOGI DIANTARA UMKM

This study is preliminary in the development of a new model whereby combining and integrating an existing model, the adoption model of information technology with the technology acceptance model. The development of this model is done by using the logic of the IPO (input-process-output) and the causal model by combining, adopting, and adapting the previous model. The effect of the formed path consists of 16 links and produces 11 variables. The existing variables will be formed into 55 indicators, where one variable creates five indicators. The process of developing this model will assist researchers in testing the information technology adoption model and the technology acceptance model so that it will get the effect that occurs in both models. This research will also contribute to further research, especially in the study of information systems, which will provide a theoretical basis for modeling. Besides, the transparency of the development and proposed models, especially in the instruments used, will be taken into consideration in conducting further research .
‘It’s in my interest to collaborate … ’ – parents’ views of the process of interacting and building relationships with preschool practitioners in Sweden

ABSTRACT This article aims to explore parents’ perspectives on, and experiences of, home and preschool collaboration in a Swedish context. The research question is: How do parents perceive the process of building good relationships with preschool practitioners? The data consist of interviews with 10 parents with one or more children attending preschool. The research process follows the procedures significant to constructivist grounded theory. In the results, parents stress the necessity of continuity in building trusting and authentic relationships with preschool practitioners in order to shoulder parental responsibilities from afar and facilitate children’s well-being, development and learning at preschool. Parents attempt to create prerequisites for collaboration when choosing a preschool. The relationship-building process is described in different ways; some see it as effortless, while others see it as a struggle.
SMALL DERMATAN SULPHATE PROTEOGLYCANS IN CULTURED FIBROBLASTS FROM GUINEA-PIG SKIN

Guinea-pig fibroblasts were shown to synthesize mainly small dermatan sulphate proteoglycans. The secreted dermatan sulphate proteoglycans were metabolically labelled with [35S]methionine and/or [3H]glucosamine. The newly synthesized proteoglycans could be recovered as the immune complexes from the culture medium by the addition of polyclonal antibodies against calf skin dermatan sulphate proteoglycans. After digestion with chondroitinase ABC in the presence of proteinase inhibitors, two core proteins (M, 55,000 and 53,000) were detected by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by fluorography or autoradiography. Although [3H]glucosamine was incorporated into the core proteins, the small proteoglycans had no ability to interact with concanavalin A Sepharose. Guinea-pig skin fibroblasts also synthesized chondroitin sulphate. However, no labelled chondroitin sulphate-rich large proteoglycans could be detected from the culture medium, suggesting that chondroitin sulphate chains are linked to core proteins different from those of small dermatan sulphate proteoglycans. Proteoglycans are major components of the extracellular matrix and in recent years a large number of different types of proteoglycans have been isolated. Two types of interstitial galactosarninoglycan containing proteoglycans, large and small proteoglycans, were separately isolated from various interstitial connective tissues (l5). Small proteoglycan consists of dermatan sulphate side chain(s) and small size core protein, the other one of large size core protein and chondroitin sulphate chains and/or possibly in some cases dermatan sulphate with a high glucuronic acid/ iduronic acid ratio. The cultured fibroblasts from human skin produced these two similar Abbrevi'ari'0ns. ' MEM, Eagle’s minimum essential medium; DMEM, Dulbecco’s modified Eagle medium; FCS, fetal calf serum; SDS, sodium dodecyl sulphate proteoglycans (7, 9, ll), and mainly synthesized the small proteoglycan (6, 9, ll-»l3, l6). Iduronic acid-rich small proteoglycan was associated specifically to the collagen fibre when fibroblasts from human skin were cultured on the collagen gel (l l). Since only small amounts of radioactivities were incorporated into dermatan sulphate chains when fibroblasts from human skin were cultured with [3H]glucosamine as a precursor, [35S]sulphate has been used to metabolically label sulphated glycosaminoglycans. We have previously reported that the radioactivity was mainly incorporated into dermatan sulphate chains as [3H]galactosamine when fibroblasts from guinea-pig skin were cultured with [3‘H]glucosamine as a precursor (20). Since this culture system eventually seemed to be suitable for metabolic analysis of proteodermatan sulphate due to the minimal disturbance by other glycosaminoglycans, the newly synthesized
Dynamic-DSO: Direct Sparse Odometry Using Objects Semantic Information for Dynamic Environments

Traditional Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) (with loop closure detection), or Visual Odometry (VO) (without loop closure detection), are based on the static environment assumption. When working in dynamic environments, they perform poorly whether using direct methods or indirect methods (feature points methods). In this paper, Dynamic-DSO which is a semantic monocular direct visual odometry based on DSO (Direct Sparse Odometry) is proposed. The proposed system is completely implemented with the direct method, which is different from the most current dynamic systems combining the indirect method with deep learning. Firstly, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are applied to the original RGB image to generate the pixel-wise semantic information of dynamic objects. Then, based on the semantic information of the dynamic objects, dynamic candidate points are filtered out in keyframes candidate points extraction; only static candidate points are reserved in the tracking and optimization module, to achieve accurate camera pose estimation in dynamic environments. The photometric error calculated by the projection points in dynamic region of subsequent frames are removed from the whole photometric error in pyramid motion tracking model. Finally, the sliding window optimization which neglects the photometric error calculated in the dynamic region of each keyframe is applied to obtain the precise camera pose. Experiments on the public TUM dynamic dataset and the modified Euroc dataset show that the positioning accuracy and robustness of the proposed Dynamic-DSO is significantly higher than the state-of-the-art direct method in dynamic environments, and the semi-dense cloud map constructed by Dynamic-DSO is clearer and more detailed.
WAVE-INDUCED LOADS ON CROSS-DECK OF A WAVE-PIERCING TRIMARAN WITH DIFFERENT HULL FORMS OF OUTRIGGERS

Trimaran has unique hull form with a rapidly growth in recent years due to its application as a mode of transports and naval vessels. Designing trimaran faces many technical challenges because of its complex structural outlines and high-speeds operation. This article investigates the influence of side hulls configuration (symmetric, inboard and outboard types) for wave loads on cross-deck of a trimaran ship when advancing at sea in regular waves. The computation of these hydrodynamic forces is carried out using MAESTRO-Wave 3D panel method code. This code is based on potential flow theory that uses Green’s function with the forward speed correction in the frequency domain. The results demonstrate that the outboard side hull form has the best performance on wave-induced load among three kinds of side hull forms. Furthermore, the results of this study offer more information for selecting the side hull form of the trimaran.
Narratives of power and powerlessness: cultural competence in social work with asylum seekers and refugees

ABSTRACT With increasing international migration, social workers have not only been confronted with growing diversity, but also with the effects of displacement, trauma and immigration controls in the lives of their service users. Although the ongoing debates on migration, migrant integration and social cohesion have facilitated a growing literature on, and demand for cultural competence in social work, little progress has been made to arrive at an agreement of what exactly is required from social workers in cross-cultural encounters. This paper draws from the qualitative element of a mixed-methods study on social workers’ experiences of cross-cultural practice conducted in Glasgow, Scotland in 2016. By focusing on social workers’ experiences of accommodating and negotiating cultural differences with asylum seekers, this paper illustrates how social workers are moving beyond the cultural lens in understanding difference and disadvantage. The findings suggest that whilst culture continues to influence social workers’ encounters with service users, addressing cultural conflicts requires social workers to understand the complex power relations which asylum seekers are subject to both within and beyond the care relationship. Practice perspectives on the challenges and successes in cross-cultural social work illustrate the interplay between cultural and structural considerations involved in social work with asylum seekers.
Evaluation participative de types de semis et de l’écartement en culture de fonio (Digitaria exilis Stapf.) au Bénin

Le fonio, ancienne cereale africaine, est negligee malgre son role crucial dans la securite alimentaire. Cette etude vise a comparer les types de semis pour l’amelioration des techniques culturales de cette espece au Benin. Les semis en lignes continues a 25cm et 30cm entre lignes, et a la volee ont ete compares dans un dispositif de bloc aleatoire complet disperse dans dixhuit villages. Les donnees agronomiques ont ete collectees et les perceptions paysannes recueillies au moyen de questions structurees. Les statistiques descriptives, analyses de variance et tests de Khi-deux ont ete realisees. Les semis en ligne ont consomme pres du double de la quantite de semence utilisee a la volee. Ils ont necessite plus de deux fois la duree du semis a la volee. Cependant, le desherbage a ete plus facile et rapide avec les semis en lignes. Les types de semis n’ont eu aucun effet significatif sur la verse des plants. Les rendements en grain ont ete meilleurs pour les semis en lignes continues avec un surplus de 150 a pres de 200 kg/ha par rapport a la volee. Les deux ecartements du semis en ligne ont presente des tendances similaires pour l’ensemble des variables evaluees. Les producteurs ont note que le desherbage a la houe est facile dans les semis en ligne qu’a la volee, bien que cette operation se trouve laborieux et difficile. Le semis en ligne ameliore par un outil mecanique equipe de semoir, apporterait une plus-value a la production du fonio. Fonio, former African cereal, is neglected despite its crucial role in food security. This study aims to compare types and spacings of sowing for improving fonio cultivation techniques in Benin. Sowing in continuous rows at 25cm and 30cm between rows, and by broadcasting were compared in dispersed random complete block design in eighteen villages. Agronomic data was collected and farmer perceptions collected through structured questionnaires. Descriptive statistics, analysis of variance and Chi-square tests were performed. Sowing in rows consumed almost double the seed rate used for broadcasting. They required more than twice the time spent for broadcasting sowing. However, weeding was easier and faster to manage in rows sowing. Sowing types had no significant effect on plant lodging. Grain yields were better under continuous rows sowing with surplus of 150 to nearly 200 kg/ha over broadcasting technique. The two spacing of in-rows sowing showed similar trends for all variables assessed. Farmers noted that hoe weeding is easier in row sowing than by broadcasting, although they find difficult row seeding method. In-row sowing improved by mechanical tool equipped with a seeder, would bring an added value to fonio production chain.
In Vivo Recognition of Vascular Structures by Near-Infrared Transillumination

Transillumination is a very well-known non-invasive optical technique that relies on the use of non-ionizing radiation to obtain information about the internal morphology of biological tissues. In a previous work, we implemented a laser-based illuminator operating at a wavelength of 850 nm, combined with a CMOS digital camera and narrow-band optical detection that showed great potential for in vivo imaging. A great advantage is the use of low-cost semiconductor lasers, driven by a very low current (about 11 mA, spatially distributed as a 6-by-6 matrix covering a 25 cm2 area). Thanks to the strong absorption of hemoglobin at this wavelength, we have collected raw data of vascular structures that have been further processed to achieve images with much better quality. In particular, here we show that a higher contrast can be attained by the expansion of gray level histograms to exploit the full range, 0–255. This elaboration can be, for instance, exploited for the recognition of vascular structures with better resolution. Examples are reported relative to hand dorsal vein patterns and live chick embryos’ blood vessels. Analyses can be successfully performed without applying any thermal or mechanical stress to the human tissue under test and without damaging or puncturing any parts of the eggshell.
Improving environment detection by behavior association for context‐adaptive navigation

Navigation and positioning systems depend on both the operating environment and the behavior of the host vehicle or user. The environment determines the type and quality of radio signals available for positioning, and the behavior can contribute additional information to the navigation solution. In order to operate across different contexts, a context-adaptive navigation solution is required to detect the operating contexts and adopt different positioning techniques accordingly. This paper focuses on determining both environments and behaviors from smartphone sensors, serving for a context-adaptive navigation system. Behavioral contexts cover both human activities and vehicle motions. The performance of behavior recognition in this paper is improved by feature selection and a connectivity-dependent filter. Environmental contexts are detected from global navigation satellite system (GNSS) measurements. They are detected by using a probabilistic support vector machine, followed by a hidden Markov model for time-domain filtering. The paper further investigates how behaviors can assist within the processes of environment detection. Finally, the proposed context-determination algorithms are tested in a series of multicontext scenarios, showing that the proposed context association mechanism can effectively improve the accuracy of environment detection to more than 95% for pedestrian and more than 90% for vehicle.
Achieving an unprecedented hydrogen evolution rate by solvent-exfoliated CPP-based photocatalysts

How to prompt higher photocatalytic hydrogen production (PHP) efficiency from water to achieve practical applications still remains a big challenge with conjugated porous polymers (CPP)-based photocatalysts. Herein, we developed a simple and efficient cosolvent-assisted strategy to significantly improve the photocatalytic efficiency of CPP-based photocatalysts by introducing water-soluble aprotic bipolar co-solvents, including N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF), N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAc), and N-methyl pyrrolidone (NMP). The PHP activity of the pyrene–bithiophene-based CPP (named CP-St) using ascorbic acid (AA) as a sacrificial electron donor could be excellently accelerated in the presence of an aprotic bipolar NMP solvent. CP-St dispersed in an NMP/H2O/AA mixed solution under visible-light (λ > 420 nm) irradiation without the aid of a Pt cocatalyst achieved an unprecedented hydrogen evolution rate (HER) of 190.7 mmol h−1 g−1. As a result, 6 mg CP-St amazingly produced 128.1 mL H2 (∼5.72 mmol) under visible-light irradiation for only 5 h. Excitingly, by introducing 0.5 wt% Pt cocatalyst into the NMP/H2O/AA system, the HER of CP-St could be further boosted to 303.7 mmol h−1 g−1 (1.82 mmol h−1/6 mg), which represents the highest photocatalytic HER ever reported. This outstanding photocatalytic performance is mainly ascribed to the enhanced dispersity, strong hydrogen-bond interactions, and exfoliation effect by the NMP solvent. This study provides us with some new design ideas and opportunities for effectively catering to the actual hydrogen production demand.
Safety evaluation of plasma-treated lettuce broth using in vitro and in vivo toxicity models

Cold atmospheric plasma is a promising new non-thermal technology for improving the microbiological safety and shelf-life of food products, particularly fresh produce and minimally processed fruit and vegetables. Limited research has been conducted on the safety of plasma-treated foods for human or animal consumption. This study focuses on basic safety studies by investigating lettuce broth treated with a di-electric barrier discharge plasma device as a fresh produce model in terms of in vitro cytotoxic and mutagenic effects on mammalian cells and its in vivo toxicity on Galleria mellonella larvae. Low cytotoxic effects were detected in vitro and mutagenic events were likely to be spontaneous mutations. However, a strong response of G. mellonella larvae to injection with plasma-treated lettuce broth was observed for 5-min-treated broth, with larvae survival of less than 10%. No significant effects on quality attributes such as colour were detected and only low concentrations of peroxide were generated in the broth. This study highlights the need for more detailed investigations into the impact of plasma treatment on food components and the subsequent in vitro and in vivo effects to ensure safe implementation of plasma technology for the processing of food products.
Radiation Pattern Reconfigurable FM Antenna

In this work, a radiation pattern reconfigurable antenna design using compact printed spiral monopoles that operates at 102 MHz is reported. The proposed antenna changes its radiation behaviour that responds towards a desired direction with the use of RF switches. The antenna is printed on a 76.6mm × 50mm PCB layer providing more than 20MHz bandwidth at -10 dB threshold and is easily fabricated with low manufacturing cost. The antenna was also simulated on 500mm × 500mm ground plane that represents the roof top of a vehicle.