Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Design Guidelines to Increase the Persuasiveness of Achievement Goals for Physical Activity

Achievement goals are frequently used to support behavior change. However, they are often not specifically designed for this purpose nor account for the degree to which a user is already intending to perform the target behavior. In this paper, we investigate the perceived persuasiveness of different goal types as defined by the 3x2 Achievement Goal Model, what people like and dislike about them and the role that behavior change intentions play when aiming at increasing step counts. We created visualizations for each goal type based on a qualitative pre-study (N=18) and ensured their comprehensibility (N=18). In an online experiment (N=118), we show that there are differences in the perception of these goal types and that behavior change intentions should be considered to maximize their persuasiveness as goals evolve. Next, we derive design guidelines on when to use which type of achievement goal and what to consider when using them
ADAPTIVE NEURO FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM BASED FUSION OF MEDICAL IMAGE

— Medical Image fusion is considered to be the process in which the multiple image information belonging to similar characteristics are merged to produce an output image. The features of input image and its adorable information is retained at the output. This process results in extended operational range, minimized uncertainties and expanded reliabilities. In field of medical images, various images of similar treated region of a patient using different imagery system is obtained and the visualized information from these imaging devices seems adulatory to each other. The patient abnormality is localized precisely utilizing the embedded information in the fused images. The present research proposes the digitalized fusion of medical images through implementation in ANFIS and its performance is simulated
DETERMINANTS OF INDONESIAN CONVENTIONAL AND ISLAMIC BANK DEPOSITOR TRUST DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Depositor trust plays an essential role in the banking sector. The main objective of this study is to test several factors that significantly affect depositors’ confidence in conventional and Islamic banks in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted qualitative research with a sample of 217 customers who had a minimum of two bank accounts, one conventional, and one Islamic. In a questionnaire, customers were asked their opinions related to indicators of the variables studied, such as depositor trust, and their perceptions of inflation, conventional bank interest, the equivalent yield rate of Islamic banks, and industry perception Productivity Index. The results of the questionnaire were analysed using the partial least squares (PLS) method. The PLS analysis results show that the indicators related to conventional bank interest and the equivalent yield rate of Islamic banks significantly affected depositors’ trust and hands. In other words, customers were influenced when making bank deposits by the factors related to conventional bank interest and the equivalent yield rate of Islamic banks. The external aspect of the industrial production index based on the PLS test had a significant effect on depositors’ trust in both types of bank. In contrast, the external factor of inflation did not significantly affect depositors’ trust in either conventional or Islamic banks. Therefore, based on the PLS-SEM results, conclusions can be drawn regarding the factors influencing depositor trust.
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF POWER SYSTEM NETWORKS USING FLEXIBLE ALTERNATING CURRENT TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS DEVICES: THE NIGERIAN 330 KV ELECTRICITY GRID AS A CASE STUDY

A wide electricity supply-demand gap especially in developing economy such as Nigeria has created series of challenges such as frequent power outages, poor voltage profile and high power losses among others yet to be addressed. This work examines the effect of Static Var Compensator (SVC), a Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS) device for performance improvement of power system networks with the Nigerian 330 kV, 28-bus electricity grid considered as a test network. The steady state performance of the system was modeled using Newton-Raphson load flow equations and was simulated without and with compensation on MATLAB/PSAT toolbox (version 2.1.9 ‘R2012a’). The obtained results showed that the system voltage profile improved to acceptable limit defined as . ≤ ≤ . with compensation compared to when voltage magnitudes of buses 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 22 and 26 of the test network fell outside of the acceptable limit without compensation. Also, the system total active power loss reduced from 15.727 MW without SVC to 14.709 MW with SVC, giving a 6.47% reduction in total active power loss. These results showed that the inclusion of SVC on the Nigerian electricity grid will improve both voltage profile and power transfer capability of the system.
The Relationship between Chinese and Japanese Stock Markets *

The global financial crisis has had various impacts on China and Japan through exchange rates, stock markets, and other elements. A consideration of the linkage of stock prices between the two countries is indispensable if we are to plan ahead for the future of the Asian economy. In this paper, the linkage between stock prices for Japan and China since the 1990s is analyzed, as well as the influences of the global financial crisis on their stock markets. The estimation results of the EGARCH model show that for China, although stock price volatility is much more intense than Japan, the impacts of the global financial crisis of 2007 was relatively small compared with Japan. In addition, China’s stock price volatility during the period of the early 1990s just after the stock market was established was more intense than the period of the global financial crisis. Furthermore, it has been revealed that the interdependence in stock prices between the Chinese and the Japanese markets has increased since the global financial crisis. In China, since 2000, especially after accession to the WTO in December 2001, the Chinese stock market has also become easy to be affected by asset price fluctuations of other countries compared to before due to the advancement of globalization of stock markets by a series of reform measures. However, because the stock market of China, unlike Japan, has not been internationalized and liberalized completely, although it was influenced by the global financial crisis, the influence was relatively small. Currently, China has the 2nd largest economy in the world now, but the stock market is still developing and the financial system is vulnerable.
Fog Integrated Secured and Distributed Environment for Healthcare Industry with Software Defined Networking

Fog computing is a segment of cloud computing where a vast number of peripheral equipment links to the internet. The term "fog" indicates the edges of a cloud in which high performance can be achieved. Many of these devices will generate voluminous raw data as from sensors, and rather than forward all this data to cloud-based servers to be processed, the idea behind fog computing is to do as much processing as possible using computing units colocated with the data-generating devices, so that processed rather than raw data is forwarded, and bandwidth requirements are reduced. A major advantage of processing locally is that data is more often used for the same computation machine which produced the data. Also, the latency between data production and data consumption was reduced. This example is not fully original, since specially programmed hardware has long been used for signal processing. The work presents the integration of software defined networking with the association of fog environment to have the cavernous implementation patterns in the health care industry with higher degree of accuracy. Keywords— Fog Computing, Health Care and Fog Computing, Health Care Industry and Fog Environment
Relationship between higher Serum ferritin levels, Insulin resistance marker and components of metabolic syndrome in Men and Women in west part of India

Background: There are no effective studies in west part of India on relationship between higher serum ferritin levels in impaired glucose individuals, type 2 diabetes mellitus patients are markers for insulin resistance and reinforce to metabolic syndrome. The association between serum ferritin levels, insulin resistance marker (HOMA IR), Glycosylated Hemoglobin A1C with individual components of metabolic syndrome in type 2 diabetes mellitus, impaired fasting glucose, obesity and healthy subjects are unclear. Objectives: This research was delineated to find out the interrelation between serum ferritin levels with fasting glucose levels, waist hip ratio, fasting insulin levels, insulin resistance marker (HOMA-IR) and components of metabolic syndrome in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients, newly identified type 2 diabetes mellitus patients, Impaired fasting glucose subjects and healthy participants. To investigate any menopause transition effects on serum ferritin levels and components of metabolic syndrome for identifying insulin resistance and early diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus in men and women of age 30-65 years. Subjects and Methods: The number of individuals included in this study 1058, out of them 365 patients with previously diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus with poor and good glycemic control patients, 144 patients with newly identified type 2 diabetes mellitus, 189 with participants with impaired fasting glucose levels and 360 healthy participants. Ferritin levels in serum, fasting glucose in plasma, fasting insulin levels in serum, Glycosyalted HbA1c in blood and serum lipid levels were analyzed. Waist Hip ratio is measured. Homeostasis Model Assessment-Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR) is calculated. Results: In our analysis, out of 1058 participants, 289 individuals (27.2%) with increased levels of ferritin levels in which 46.6% (newly identified type 2 diabetes mellitus patients), 31.95% previously diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus 20.4% impaired fasting glucose subjects and 10.55% healthy participants. The odd ratios for men in newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus were 4.94 and for women 3.61. Linear regression analysis between serum ferritin, blood insulin, and glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin showed significant correlation. Conclusion: our research findings suggest increased ferritin in blood as marker for insulin resistance and early indicator for diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. High ferritin in metabolic syndrome identify early indicator for insulin resistance and pre diabetes mellitus.
Volatile Terpenoids from Water Pepper (Polygonum punctatum) Against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus Virulence Strategies

Polygonum punctatum Elliot (water pepper) is a pungent herb ancestrally employed as a disinfectant in traditional medicine by Toba Indians of the north-eastern region of Argentina and also commonly used as spice in Japanese cuisine. GC-MS of whole diethyl ether extract (EE) from aerial parts allowed to identify 14 volatile terpenoids such as sesquiterpenes: α-bisabolol (3.4 %), polygodial and isotadeonal (34.0%); various methylated phenol like αtocopherol or vitamin E (3.6 %), and phytosterols: stigmasterol (2.1%) and β-sitosterol (29.9 %). Thus, water pepper is a promising source of drimane sesquiterpenes and phytoestrogens with important bioactivities. Following a tasteguided fractionation by CC and HPLC, drimane-type sesquiterpenes, polygodial (1) and its stereoisomer isotadeonal (2) were isolated as main compounds from the EE. The antipathogenic effects on the bacterial growth, biofilm formation, and elastase activity of both pure compounds and EE were evaluated against two Staphylococcus aureus and two Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains at 10 and 100 μg/mL. The highest effects were observed for the non pungent drimane isotadeonal (2) which was able to reduce about 75 % the bacterial growth of all tested microorganisms and to inhibit Gram-positive biofilm formation (85 % mean) at 100 μg/mL. In addition, elastase activity of P. aeruginosa, another virulence strategy, was attenuated more than 50 % at 100 μg/mL by 2. These results provide evidence that support the antimicrobial use of P. punctatum against P. aeruginosa and S. aureus, as well as, demonstrating that isotadeonal (2), despite it has been suggested to lack biological properties, is a bioactive compound able to control biofilm formation and bacterial growth of both human pathogens.
Work Engagement, Self Efficacy and Job Satisfaction of Professional Educators

Indonesia regulates the duties and authorities of Teachers in Law Number 14 of 2005 concerning Teachers and Lecturers. Teachers are specifically mentioned as having various tasks, namely educating, teaching, guiding, giving directions, providing training, giving assessments, and conducting evaluations to students who take their education from an early age through formal government channels in the form of elementary to middle school. Therefore the teacher must be good at choosing the right learning strategy in this aspect, so that the objectives of the material can be achieved properly (Siahaan, 2020). Through this Law, teachers are placed in a vital and strategic position to be able to realize the goals of national education in Indonesia, namely as professional educators. Teachers have an important role in optimizing human resource development through education and learning (Costley, 2009). Education in this case cannot be equated with learning which only focuses on intellectual development efforts alone. Education has a broad scope, not only limited to intellectual development but also developing all aspects of personality and individual abilities cognitively, affective and psychomotor. So it can be understood that education in this case has a wider contextualization than learning (Costley, 2009). The important contribution of a teacher is certainly not free from problems. When teachers experience problems and obstacles in terms of teaching, often the teacher does not have a place to discuss and give input on what is being faced (Saragih, 2019). The majority of teachers in Indonesia still face threats related to demands for quality, welfare, and teacher politicization (Chang, Shaffer, Samarrai, Ragatz, de Ree & Stevenson, 2014; Tobias, Fletcher, Dexter & Wind, 2014). In terms of quality, teachers are required to meet the government constitutional criteria such as pedagogical, personal, social and Abstract
Thai-IC: Thai Image Captioning based on CNN-RNN Architecture

—The trend of news are represented in an image with a short description (or caption) and quickly shared on social media. Most short captions in many languages (e.g., English, Indonesian, Myanmar, Chinese, Arabic, etc.) are manually written by human. Instead of human labor, the visual objects within an image have enough information to autonomously generate the caption, called image captioning. Thai image captioning (Thai-IC) is such a new problem in Thai natural language processing (Thai-NLP) to make the model understand the image. This paper proposes an end-to-end deep learning model to generated Thai image caption. The model consists of encoding stage by convolutional neural network (CNN) and decoding stage by recurrent neural network (RNN). Visual geometry group in 16-layers (VGGNet-16) is used to extract visuals from an image as CNN-encoder. The visuals are used to generate Thai captions by Long-short-term memory (LSTM) as RNN-decoder. Thai captioning corpus is constructed by secondary and primary data that has 10,732 images. This Thai-IC is evaluated by Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU) on the 10-fold cross validation. (Abstract)
Carbon Monoxide Gas Pollution Control Model Using Reducing Plants

Objectively, this study addresses several objectives, such as 1) identifying the existing vegetation conditions and the amount of CO concentration in the study location, 2) to investigate the ability to reduce plants to absorb CO, and 3) to projecting the absorption capacity of vegetation by CO through air prediction models. The research location was conducted at Veteran Selatan, Makassar City, Indonesia. The survey was conducted in Makassar City, Indonesia, as well as data available in the field. The research period from January to April 2020. From the analysis of the results and discussion, the conclusions drawn from this study are: 1) The CO concentration based on the calculation results is 1.186. 52 μg / m3. While the CO concentration measured in the field is 2,290.39 μg / m3, so the difference between the calculation and measurement results is 1,103, (48.2%). The number of trees as vegetation, namely 189 trees, had an enormous average volume of cover, namely 2,673.01 m3. 2). The existing plants or vegetation on exsiting location can absorb CO of 1,889.8 tons/year. 3). A balance between CO pollutants and vegetation uptake can be achieved by applying a scenario of planting vegetation for trees, shrubs, and shrubs. Modeling and simulation results show that the total CO emissions will reach 3,184.6 tons/year in the next ten years. However, by applying the planting scenario, the total CO emission in the next ten years will only reach 2,761.9 tons/year, with an average percentage reduction of 8.93%.
Electrical Size Reduction of Microstrip Antennas by Using Defected Ground Structures Composed of Complementary Split Ring Resonator

In this study the effects of using defected ground structures (DGS) composed of a complementary split ring resonator (CSRR) and CSRR with dumbbell (CSRR-D) for rectangular microstrip antennas are investigated. On this aim, two different antennas, which are Antenna B having CSRR etched DGS and Antenna C having CSRR-D etched DGS are designed and fabricated in comparison with the ordinary rectangular patch antenna, which is Antenna A. In both Antenna B and C, CSRR structures are etched in the same position of the ground planes. On the other hand, another ordinary microstrip antenna, called Antenna D, is designed at resonance frequency of Antenna C. For the characterization, resonance frequencies, voltage standing wave ratios, percentage bandwidths, gains, ka values and gain radiation patterns are investigated both in simulations and experiments. The numerical analyses show that 29.39 % and 44.49 % electrical size reduction (ESR) ratios are obtained for Antenna B and Antenna C, respectively in comparison to Antenna A. The experimental results verify the ESR ratios with 29.15 % and 44.94 %. Supporting, Antenna C promises 68.12 % physical size reduction (PSR) as it is compared with Antenna D. These results reveal that Antenna C is a good alternative for DGS based microstrip electrically small antennas. INDEX TERMS Complementary split ring resonator, defected ground structure, electrical size reduction, microstrip patch antenna, miniature antenna.
Structural, optical properties and optical modelling of hydrothermally derived ZnO nanowires

ZnO nanowire films were produced at 90oC using a hydrothermal chemical deposition method, and were characterised with scanning electron microscopy, optical transmission spectrometry and x-ray diffraction. The results showed the optical band gap is between 3.274~3.347 eV. Film porosity and microstructure can be controlled by adjusting the pH of the growth solution. ZnO nanowire films are shown to comprise of a 2-layer structure as demonstrated by SEM analysis, showing different porosities for each layer. XRD shows preferential growth in the (002) orientation. A comprehensive optical modelling method for nanostructured ZnO thin films was proposed, consisting of Bruggeman effective medium approximations, rough surface light scattering and O'Leary-Johnson-Lim models. Fitted optical transmission of nanostructured ZnO films agreed well with experimental data.
Quality of life among Elderly Hearing Impairment (Presbycusis) at Benha City

Background: Hearing impairment (Presbycusis) is the third most prevalent chronic disease in the elderly, and it affects their quality of life. Aim: this study aimed to assess the quality of life among elderly hearing impairment (Presbycusis) at Benha City. Research design: A descriptive design was used. Setting: The study was conducted at Auditory Unit in Benha University Hospital and Benha Teaching Hospital. Sample: A purposive sample consisted of 100 elderly diagnosed with hearing impairment. Tools: Two tools were used include; (1) a structured interviewing questionnaire; it was composed of four parts: Socio-demographic characteristics, medical history, and knowledge regarding hearing impairment, (2) Quality of life of elderly with hearing impairment. Results: Most of the elderly people suffered from chronic diseases and the most common disease was hypertension, more than half of them had impairment in both ears, most of them had satisfactory level of knowledge, about two thirds had high score of total quality of life, and finally most of them had high score of total hearing impairment handicapping. Conclusion: Fortunately, the results revealed high total quality of life score and satisfactory level of knowledge among elderly. On other hand, most of them suffered from highly hearing impairment handicapping. Recommendations: Programs and studies should be done for teaching coping strategies for elderly with Presbycusis; this may have a positive impact on the quality of life of older people.
Promoting an Active Life Through Threatening Communication: Effects on College Student’s Emotions

This pilot study was aimed to evaluate the acute effects of a sedentary-focused intervention through threatening communication on college student’s emotions. Thirty-six female college students (mean age 20.8  2.7 years) who participated voluntarily where exposed to five neutral and five sedentary-related threatening video messages. In order to evaluate the emotional impact of the messages, the subjects’ faces were recorded and analyzed during these expositions using a facial expression recognition software (Face Reader System 4.0), and assessing the time-lapse percentage of the following basic expressions: neutral, sad, angry, surprised, scared, and disgusted. Compared to the neutral messages, a non-significant increase in sad, angry, and disgusted expressions were observed after threatening intervention; nevertheless, the effect size (d) for the disgusted expression was . 832. Moreover, the time-lapse percentage of neutral facial expression decreased after threatening messages although no statistical significance was reached (p = .174).
Determining the Nominal Exchange Rate in Sri Lanka: An Application of The Lagrange Multiplier Structural Break Unit Root Test and The Ardl Co-Integration

Bihari There is a vast literature on the impact of exchange rate on developing countries’ economies. This paper studies the determinants of nominal exchange rate fluctuations in Sri Lanka. It employs recent secondary macroeconomics monthly time series data (2011:01-2018:07) and tests the ARDL co-integration approach with structural break LM unit root test, which was introduced by Lee and Strazicich in 2013. Results of the bound test show that the nominal exchange rate has a long-term relationship with its determinants. Further, our empirical findings suggest that a strong depreciating link exists between the nominal exchange rate and money supply in Sri Lanka during the sample period. Outcomes are signals that identify new lessons for policy-makers to implement consistent foreign exchange policies. Doing so must consider both monetary and fiscal policy simultaneously.