Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Translation and Cross-Cultural Adaptation to a North American Context of the 51-Item Swedish Flodén Attitudes Toward Organ Donor Advocacy Instrument (Flodén ATODAI)

Background: Intensive and critical-care nurses are the key to successful donor management in the critical-care setting. No studies measuring attitudes toward organ donor advocacy existed before 2011, when the 51-item Swedish “Attitudes Toward Organ Donor Advocacy Scale” was developed. The aim of this study was to translate, adapt and establish the psychometric properties of the North American version of the Flodén ATODAI (Attitudes Toward Organ Donor Advocacy Instrument) in terms of validity and reliability. Methods: A multi-step approach was used: Initial translation; Back-translation; Review and synthesis of these translations; Expert panel (N=7) rated the prefinal version of the instrument for content validity index (CVI); International panel made adjustments guided by the expert panel . Reliability testing with test and retest of the adjusted 46-item version was conducted using intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), weighted kappa ( ҡ Weight ), sign test, and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient (α), (N=50); and finally Delphi technique procedure with a preselected Delphi panel (N=15). Results: The CVI was determined to be greater than the 0.05 significance level. Item level (I-CVI) ranged 0.82-1.0, with a mean of 0.97. Scale level (S-CVI) on the entire instrument was 0.97. Test-retest procedure was performed to estimate stability. In total, 34 of the items had good-to-high ICC. Accepting an ICC of > 0.70 resulted in a total of 24 items. Homogeneity reliability was estimated by α and was calculated for these items where α=0.90. In total, 20 of the items had a substantial or almost perfect ҡ Weight and 23 showed a moderate ҡ Weight . None of the items showed systematical differences. The Delphi technique procedure was used on the 22 items with ICC <0.70 resulted in adjustments establishing that consensus was achieved. Conclusions: Undertaking this multi-step, cross-cultural adaptation procedure has effectively ensured that the 46-item Flodén ATODAI [North America version] produces valid and reliable measurements.
Single Parent Mothers: A Q-Methodology Study

The current study will be an investigation of University of East London students’ ideas, beliefs, and shared understandings on the issue of single parent mothers. A Q-methodology research was chosen for this study because it allows people’s subjective opinions to emerge from data. Five students took part in this study. It was found that students have scored the negative Q-items as “unlike their point of view,” whereas the positive ones as “like their point of view. ”
Delayed and Approved: A Quantitative Study of Conflicts and the Environmental Impact Assessments of Energy Projects in Chile 2012–2017

The Sistema de Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental (Environmental Impact Assessment System—SEIA) evaluates all projects potentially harmful to human health and the environment in Chile. Since its establishment, many projects approved by the SEIA have been contested by organized communities, especially in the energy sector. The question guiding our research is whether socio-environmental conflicts affect the evaluation times and the approval rates of projects under assessment. Using a novel database comprising all energy projects assessed by the SEIA, we analyzed 380 energy projects that entered the SEIA review process between 2012 and 2017 and matched these projects with protest events. Using linear and logit regression, we find no association between the occurrence of protests aimed at specific projects and the probability of project approval. We do, however, find that projects associated with the occurrence of protest events experience significantly longer review times. To assess the robustness of this finding, we compare two run-of-river plants proposed in Mapuche territory in Chile’s La Araucanía region. We discuss the broader implications of these findings for sustainable environmental decision making.
NiFe2O4@SiO2–PPA Nanoparticle: A Green Nanocatalyst for the Synthesis of β-Acetamido Ketones

ABSTRACT In this work, silica coated magnetic nanoparticles of modified polyphosphoric acid (NiFe2O4@SiO2–PPA deigned as NFS–PPA) represent as a reusable and green catalyst for one-pot four-component synthesis of β-acetamido ketones at room temperature under solvent-free conditions. This catalyst was synthesized and characterized by X-ray diffractions, transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and vibrating sample magnetometry. The magnetic catalyst can be easily removed by a simple magnet and reused up to five times without any loss of its high catalytic activity. In addition to facility, this protocol enhances product purity and promises economic and also environmental profits.
Implementation of Music Generation using Recurrent Neural Network

: With the development of deep learning, neural networks are increasingly used in various art fields such as music, literature and pictures, and even comparable to humans. This paper proposes a music generation model based on bidirectional recurrent neural network, which can effectively explore the complex relationship between notes and obtain the conditional probability from time and pitch dimensions. The existing system usually ignored the information in the negative time direction, however which is non-trivial in the music prediction task, so we propose a bidirectional LSTM model to generate the note sequence. Experiments with classical piano datasets have demonstrated that we achieve high performance in music generation tasks compared to the existing unidirectional biaxial LSTM method
Optical properties of cerium oxide (CeO2) nanoparticles synthesized by hydroxide mediated method

The nanoparticles of cerium oxide have been successfully synthesized by hydroxide mediated method, using cerium nitrate and sodium hydroxide as precursors. The microstructural properties were analyzed by X-ray diffraction technique (XRD). The X-ray diffraction results show that the cerium oxide nanoparticles were in cubic structure. The optical absorption spectra of cerium oxide were recorded by UV-VIS spectrophotometer in the range of 320 to 600 nm and photoluminescence spectra in the range of 400-540 nm and have been presented. The energy band gap was determined by Tauc relationship. The crystallite size was determined from Debye–Scherer equation and came out to be 6.4 nm.The nanoparticles of cerium oxide have been successfully synthesized by hydroxide mediated method, using cerium nitrate and sodium hydroxide as precursors. The microstructural properties were analyzed by X-ray diffraction technique (XRD). The X-ray diffraction results show that the cerium oxide nanoparticles were in cubic structure. The optical absorption spectra of cerium oxide were recorded by UV-VIS spectrophotometer in the range of 320 to 600 nm and photoluminescence spectra in the range of 400-540 nm and have been presented. The energy band gap was determined by Tauc relationship. The crystallite size was determined from Debye–Scherer equation and came out to be 6.4 nm.
The Identification of Genetic Variation in Insulin-Like Growth Factors-I (IGF-I) Gene Region in Some Turkish Sheep Breeds

Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) is known as peptides with important metabolic effects required for cellular growth and metabolism. IGF-I is synthesized in liver tissue under control of growth hormone (GH) and released to blood. In the process of GH to accelerate growth, IGF-I occupies a large place. IGF-I clearly showed its important effects on the growth of animal studies. In this study, the IGF-I genes of sheep were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in sheep breeds (Akkaraman, Kivircik, Awassi, Sakiz, Daglic, Morkaraman, Malya Karayaka (15 to 20 sheep per breed)) reared in Turkey. Informative restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) were obtained with HaeII enzyme. The digestion of IGF-I gene with Hae II produced two alleles and three genotypes. Genotype frequencies were 59%, 19%and 22% for AA, BB and AB genotypes, respectively. Alleles frequencies were 0.70 for A allele and 0.30 for B allele. This study indicates the genetic profiles of the IGF-1 gene in native Turkish sheep breeds.
Scattering by Slightly Non-spherical Particles on Surfaces, ed. by T. Wriedt

We investigate the shape dependence of the scatteri ng by dielectric and metallic particles on surfaces by considering particles whose free-space scatterin g properties are nearly identical. The scattering by metallic particles is found to be strongly dependen t upon the shape of the particle in the region near where the particle and surface contact. These resul ts have a significant impact on the use of light scattering to size and identify particles on surfac es.
Multimorbidity and  health-related quality of life among people 55 years and up: results of a longitudinal study in New Zealand

Background: This study aimed to examine the association of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) and multimorbidity (MM) and its correlates over time in New Zealand. Methods: People aged 55 years and over were invited to participate in a nationally representative population-based longitudinal study in 2006 and followed up biennially until 2016. Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) with an exchangeable correlation matrix and robust standard errors adjusted for both time-constant and time-varying factors using baseline and five subsequent waves of data were used, to compare a range of factors related to changes in MM and HRQOL. Results: Of 2632 participants at baseline, 957 of the participants were classified as “MM participants”; 570 had two, and the rest had three chronic conditions. The results of the GEE regression models demonstrated that SF12-PCS decreased over time, and there was a significant difference in SF12-PCS between MM and Non-MM participants. Having MM was negatively associated with HRQOL-PCS [-3.00 (95 %CI -3.60, -2.49); p <0.001)]. Although the results showed an increase in SF12-MCS over time, the score of the mental dimension of HRQOL was lower among MM participants compared to Non-MM participants [-2.60, 95 %CI -3.09, -2.11]. Conclusions: According to this longitudinal study, there is an inverse association between MM and one of the most important health outcomes; HRQOL, in older adults.
Usage of Social Media Applications and Social Interaction Patterns among Teenagers

The present finding aimed at studying "Usage of Social Media Applications and Social Interaction Patterns among Teenagers". Keeping in view the major concepts of the study, Uses and Gratification theory and Dependency theory is applied. In the current study, data were collected from the students of schools and colleges through the survey research method. A well-designed questionnaire is used for data collection. A purposive convenient sampling technique is used. A sample of 400 students is selected. The analysis of findings reveals that teenagers more frequently use WhatsApp (81%). Teenagers like Education-related content on social media applications (66%). The findings also reveal that teenagers agree that the use of social media applications has reduced Indoor Activities (79%). A correlation test is applied. The hypothesis of the study is that there is a negative relationship between times of using social media applications with content liking on social media applications. Times of using social media applications are negatively correlated with the reduction of Indoor Activities, Offline Friendship, Outdoor Activities and Sports.
Yield and Heavy Metal Content of Wastewater-Irrigated Cauliflower and Soil Chemical Properties

ABSTRACT A two-year field study was conducted to determine the effects on the growth, yield, heavy metal content, and water use of cauliflowers and on the soil chemical properties of irrigation with reclaimed urban wastewaters (filtered, aerated, diluted) by comparing with fresh water under semi-arid climate conditions. Cauliflower curd yield, water use efficiency, and heavy metal contents were found to be the highest in the filtered wastewater application. Cadmium (Cd) content was just over the critical level for human health. Filtered and aerated wastewater applications created higher soil salinity, organic matter, and total nitrogen (N), dipotassium oxide (K2O), and phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5) contents. Copper (Cu), iron (Fe), and manganese (Mn) contents in the surface soil were also found to be significantly higher. Treated-wastewater irrigation could increase cauliflower yield and water productivity. However, higher heavy metal contaminations under these conditions may increase health risks. Therefore, the diluted wastewater application may be preferred, but it must be utilized while taking human health into account.
Immanenten Systemvertrauen der Blockchain für Internet of Things - Ergebnisse einer systematischen Überprüfung

Mehr als 50 Milliarden physische Objekte sollen bis 2020 mit dem Internet verbunden sein. Diese reichen von kleinen und rechenarmen RFID-Systemen bis zu komplexen Geraten wie Smartphones, intelligenten Geraten und Fahrzeugen. Fur dieses Internet of Things (IoT) bedarf es eines Systemvertrauens, da die Nutzung intelligenter Dienste uber das Internet ohne menschliches Eingreifen geschieht. Heute vorhandene zentrale Vertrauensinstanzen fur IoT verlieren aufgrund von Hacker- und Cyberangriffen ihr Vertrauen. Mit der Blockchain existiert eine Vertrauensarchitektur, die es dem Menschen erlaubt, einem System und seinen Komponenten, und nicht einer zentralen Instanz zu vertrauen. Kann die Symbiose von Blockchain und IoT Vertrauen generieren? Dieser Artikel prasentiert eine systematische Literaturubersicht zum Konzept Vertrauen im Kontext der Blockchain-Technologie fur das IoT und deren Geschaftsmodelle. Das Ziel dieses Beitrags ist die Darstellung der aktuellen Entwicklungen im Zusammenspiel von Blockchain und IoT, um diese als Blaupause fur die Schaffung von Vertrauen in weiteren Anwendungsfeldern nutzen zu konnen.
Synthesis of Al8B4C7 from Al/ Na2B4O7•10H2O/C Mixed Powders

Al8B4C7 should be a successful antioxidant in carbon-containing refractories, and it have excellent hydration resistance. In this paper, the synthesis process of Al8B4C7 and the mechanism have been studied. Aluminum, borax and activated carbon powders were used as starting material. Using borax as the source of B, can greatly reduce the cost of synthesis. Our experiments showed that use these materials can synthesize Al8B4C7, and the final product is closely related to the temperature and ratio of raw materials. Al8B4C7 appeared at about 1300°C, and with the temperature increased, more Al8B4C7 was generated in the heating samples. The phase compositions of these samples heated at 1700°C were Al8B4C7, Al2O3, Al4O4C and Al2OC.
Business Opportunity of Platform-based Automotive Consultancy Bridging the European and the Chinese Markets

The complementarity between the European and the Chinese automotive markets brings about considerable amount of business exchange with each other. However, the market participants suffer from low communication efficiency and high transaction cost, which indicates new entry opportunities for consulting firms to create customer value for the clients by making the intermarket deals easy and inexpensive. The present thesis work aims at putting the particular scenario of such opportunities into the theoretical framework of resource-based competitive advantage and tries to determine the optimal resource bundle for supporting the generation and exploitation of the new entry opportunities. Based on that, it further addresses a number of practical issues for the new entry exploitation, such as market entry strategy, marketing strategy, organizational scheme, operational issues, risk reduction strategy, firm performance evaluation and feedback, etc. The investigation reveals that the resource bundle shall contain not only knowledge resources but also several other specific resources like personal network and cultural adaptability, among others. It suggests a narrow-scope market entry strategy with which a service portfolio consisting of three different categories of consulting service shall be implemented in two developing phases of the firm. The marketingand operation strategies of the firm are designed accordingly in order to be adapted to the two phases. An open innovation platform connecting consulting firms with technical specialists is discussed and recommended to solve the organizational dilemma between revenue and fixed cost for consulting business. Bootstrapping and resource planning are determined as the effective approaches for risk reduction. Iterative firm performance evaluation and feedback create further loops of new entry generation and exploitation for the firm. The present work contributes to the automotive consultancy community to the extent that it analyzed the specific situation between the European and the Chinese markets and suggested the possibility of adopting open innovation platform in human resource management in automotive industry.
Avoiding Dark Cloud: Secure Storage and Trusted Computing

Cloud Computing offers a wide range of attractive benefits, however its adoption is met with concerns regarding the protection of data whilst it is in the cloud. Moving data into the cloud means that the users have less control over their data, this means that the cloud users must trust the cloud provider to protect the data from both external and internal attacks. Several studies has provided security threats in cloud computing and several protocols has been proposed to counter these threats. One of the main concern is data confidentiality in the public cloud which prompted proposals for secure storage systems. Searchable encryption is one of the technique believed to be suitable for providing data confidentiality in the cloud, several techniques has been proposed over the years, however none of this techniques has been implemented by a public cloud services providers. Furthermore several security concerns has been raised in regard to Infrastructure as a Service in the cloud. Several vulnerabilities has been pointed out in the public cloud, raising serious concerns on using IaaS in public clouds. This thesis combines secure storage and trusted computing to provide security in the IaaS. The thesis reviewed Searchable Symmetric Encryption Schemes(SSE) that can be used to provide data confidentiality without compromising the effciency of the cloud services. SSE schemes provides good security notions however there is a tradeoff between effeciency and privacy. The trusted launch protocols are aimed at reducing the abstraction to the virtual machines launch and migration process, although there is good progress in providing a trusted security platform, more need to be done inorder to make close box execution a reality in virtualization. To Ndawana and Ndeyapo. You two are my sunshine!
Prediction of particle size distribution of dronedarone hydrochloride in spiral jet mill using design of experiments

ABSTRACT In pharmaceutical industry, micronization is used to achieve solubility enhancement through the increase in specific surface area, and finally improving the dissolution rate of the drug. Industrial application of micronization is mostly based on experience and trial and error method. This research deals with the micronization of dronedarone hydrochloride and the path for evaluation of characteristics of micronized drug. Micronization was performed in laboratory spiral jet mill and the samples were analyzed to determine particle size distribution, span of distribution, sphericity, shape, and specific surface area. Results were analyzed using analysis of variance and in terms of specific energy consumption. Paths for evaluation of particle size and span of distribution were proposed and good correlation between experimental and model results was achieved.
Nanomatériaux mono et bimétalliques à forte anisotropie magnétique

Les nanomateriaux magnetiques sont des materiaux prometteurs en raison de leurs applications potentielles dans l'enregistrement magnetique a haute densite. C’est dans ce contexte que nous avons developpe la premiere synthese mono-tope de nanocristaux (NCs) de cobalt de forme spherique et de structure hexagonale-compact (hc), ferromagnetiques a temperature ambiante. La strategie suivie est basee sur la simple combinaison de l’oleylamine et du precurseur organometallique de cobalt [CoCl(PPh3)3]. Nous avons mis evidence que la variation de la quantite de precurseur favorise le controle de la taille des NCs et obtenu des NCs spheriques de 9,2 nm, 7,8 nm et 2,5 nm de diametre avec une faible polydispersite. De plus, la modification des temps de reaction a permis de controler la forme des NCs et de realiser une transition de morphologie des spheres vers des nanobâtons hc. Ainsi, la variation d’autres parametres, comme la quantite d’amine et la temperature, a conduit au mecanisme reactionnel se produisant lors de la formation de NCs de cobalt, mecanisme gouverne par la reaction de dismutation du precurseur Co(I). Ce protocole de synthese monotope a ensuite ete etendu a l’elaboration d’autres NCs mono et bimetalliques (platine, palladium et les alliages CoPt). En variant la quantite du precurseur [CoCl(PPh3)3], differentes morphologies de NCs de platine, de palladium et des nanoalliages de CO33Pt67 ont ete obtenues. Par ailleurs, par recuit dirige de nanoparticules de Co50Pt50 dans des nanopores d’une membrane d’alumine (Al2O3), des nanofils de CoPt equi-atomiques avec une forte anisotropie magnetique ont ete elabores. Pour cela, nous avons detourne le phenomene de coalescence des NCs lors de recuit haute temperature.
The Effect of Pluronic 123 Surfactant concentration on The N2 Adsorption Capacity of Mesoporous Silica SBA-15: Dubinin-Astakhov Adsorption Isotherm Analysis

Mesoporous SBA-15 has been successfully synthesized at various concentration of Pluronic 123 surfactant (7mM, 50 mM, 54 mM, 60 mM and 66 mM) and the effect of these various concentrations on the N2 adsorption capacity has been investigated. The adsorption analysis was conducted using Dubinin-Astakhov isotherm model for multilayer adsorption phenomenon. It was found that etryat low concentration of Pluronic 123, the system exhibits type I adsorption isotherm while at high concentration, the system exhibits type IV adsorption with H1 hysteresis curve which indicates the existence of pores with cylindrical geometry, relatively uniform pore size and possibility of pore network effects. It also was found that, by using D-A isotherm model fitting, at 60 mM concentration of Pluronic 123, SBA-15 has the highest adsorption capacity which stands at 421 cm3/gram.