Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Corrigendum to ‘Does Gender Top Family Ties? Within-Couple and between-Sibling Sharing of Elderly Care’

Most elderly care continues to be delivered informally within families. Yet we still lack a thorough understanding of how care responsibilities are shared across both family ties and generations. We explore the gender dimension of caregiving in the distribution of elderly care between couple members (care provided to parents and parents-in-law and to children or grandchildren) and its associations with siblings' sex composition in a range of European countries. Using SHARE data and multinomial multilevel models, we test how responsibility for elderly care is shared across children and mediated by their partners and their siblings' sex composition as well as how it is combined with other downward care responsibilities, towards children and grandchildren. Results confirm the very gendered nature of elderly care. But who do men shift elderly care responsibilities to? We find that elderly care is more likely shifted to sisters than brothers, especially when caregiving becomes intense. We also find that the lower contribution by sons does not seem to prompt transfers of care responsibilities to their female partners within couples. Finally, although upward and downward caring responsibilities might compete, we find that individuals who are more inclined to provide care tend to do so in both directions.
Evaluation of the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire in a Community and Clinical Population of Children and Adolescents

Evaluation of the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire in a Community and Clinical Population of Children and Adolescents Objectives: To evaluate the use of the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) in a community and clinical population of children and adolescents and to record their sleep problems; to develop a Greek version of the CSHQ and to assess its psychometric properties. Methods: The CSHQ was translated in Greek and it was administered to the parents of 576 children aged 1 – 17 years. The community sample was drawn from schools, while the clinical from a Community Mental Health Center and a Pediatric Neurology Department of a Pediatric Hospital. Internal consistency was measured based on Cronbach's α. Differences in the scores were assessed by ANOVA followed by t-tests. Age-dependent analysis was performed for children younger than 4 years and older than 12 years in the clinical population. Results: Cronbach's α were 0.745 for the total and 0.708 for the community sample. Cronbach's α if item deleted ranged from 0.725 to 0.753. Cronbach's α of the subscales extended from 0.502 (sleep anxiety) to 0.735 (bedtime resistance). For children younger than 4 years, α was 0.732; for children older than 12 years it was 0.878. Conclusions: The Greek version of the CSHQ demonstrated satisfactory psychometric properties in community and clinical populations. Previous findings that CSHQ is a useful tool for toddler and clinical groups were confirmed. This is the first study to demonstrate satisfactory psychometric properties of the CSHQ in a clinical group of adolescents.
Distributed Stochastic Reserve Scheduling in AC Power Grids With Uncertain Generation

The large-scale integration of wind generation in power systems represents a significant challenge for the Transmission System Operators (TSO) due to the unpredictable and highly variable pattern of wind power generation. In order to accommodate the unpredictable nature of wind power, the productions and consumptions scheduled in an electricity market need to be modified during the actual operation of the power system. Operating reserves balance mismatches between generation and demand and their sufficient provision is crucial in terms of a secure power system operation. Reserve scheduling problems are typically addressed under a loss less DC power flow set-up [1]. This is based on the assumption of constant voltages, while ignoring the active power losses. Recently, progress has been made toward formulating probabilistic variants of the reserve scheduling problems, still using a DC approximation of the power flow equations [2]. Operating power systems with high amount of renewable generation (e.g. wind power), highlights the necessity of formulating stochastic variants of standard day-ahead planning problems like reserve scheduling, while enhancing the developed algorithms with AC optimal power flow (OPF) models to achieve a more accurate representation of the grids.
ENGAGING THE SOCIAL NEWS USER Comments on news sites and Facebook

One of the most common formats of audience participation in journalism consists of online reader comments in response to articles, weblogs, or online television and radio broadcasts. While initially the audience only commented on media platforms themselves, Facebook made it possible to outsource commenting to a third-party platform. The options users have, the rules commenters are obliged to follow, and the moderation regime they confront, could influence the quantity and quality of comments. In this study, we explore how news media deal with audience comments on Facebook and their own news site, and how this influences the quality and quantity of comments. We compared comments on news platforms and Facebook of 62 Dutch national and regional newspapers, public and commercial broadcasters, newsweeklies, national news programmes, and online news sites. Subsequently, we analysed the content of the comments with the qualitative text analysis tool MAXQDA. The results indicate that news media prefer outsourcing comments to Facebook although commenting on their own platforms is still possible. By discouraging anonymous responses, the quality of comments improved but above all the quantity of comments decreased after outsourcing comments to Facebook.
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Sintayehu Hailu Bedasa Woldemichael 1Department of Public Health, School of Health Sciences, Goba Referral Hospital, Madda Walabu University, Bale-Goba, Ethiopia; 2Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, Goba Referral Hospital, Madda Walabu University, BaleGoba, Ethiopia Background: Dietary diversity is a proxy indicator of nutrient adequacy. However, little is documented on dietary diversity among pregnant women in Ethiopia in general and specifically in the study area. This study assessed dietary diversity and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care in public health facilities in Bale Zone, Southeast Ethiopia. Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Bale Zone from January to March 2017. The sample size was determined using a single population proportion formula. Data were collected by pretested structured interviewer-administered questionnaires from a total of 413 pregnant women who were identified through systematic random sampling. The sample was drawn proportionally from selected public health facilities based on the client load. Dietary diversity was computed from information about the nine food groups obtained using a 24-hour dietary recall method. Statistical analysis was done using bivariate and multivariate logistic regression with the P-value <0.05 at 95% confidence interval considered as statistically significant. Results: The mean age of the pregnant women was 26.93 with standard deviation ±6.12 years. About 55.2% of the pregnant women had inadequate dietary diversity. Getting information from a health professional [AOR =5.26, 95% CI (1.60, 17.36)], being an urban dweller [AOR =8.95, 95% CI (4.42, 18.16)], having a protected water source [AOR =11.16, 95% CI (4.74, 26.27)], having a latrine [AOR =8.21, 95% CI (4.01, 16.80)], having a home garden [AOR =4.26, 95% CI (2.08, 8.70)], having a bank account [AOR =12.25, 95% CI (6.01, 24.97)] and having use of a mobile phone [AOR =3.82, 95% CI (1.92, 7.62)] were significantly associated with dietary diversity. Conclusion: In this community, the prevalence of inadequate dietary diversity is high. Variables which indicate a better living condition such as having a protected source of water, having a latrine, having a home garden, being an urban dweller, having a bank account and having use of a mobile phone were independent predictors of dietary diversity. Therefore, attention should be paid to improve to better living conditions of pregnant women by addressing determinate variables through community awareness.
Survey of awareness of contraception and procreative hygiene in 114 college students

Objective To understand the current status of undergraduate students towards premarital sexual behavior,contraception and procreative hygiene so as to provide the reference for improving procreative and mental health education and their medications.Methods Totally 151 students were investigated with questionnaire of "knowledge,concept and practice in respect of contraception and procreative hygiene in undergraduate students"and 114 valid replies were got(75.5%). Results The premarital sexual intercourse rate was 15.8%(18 of 151),82.5% of the students supported the premarital sexual behavior,93.9% of the students were aware of unexpected pregnancy,and 91.2% of the students were aware of the potential risks of induced abortion towards future pregnancies.Conclusions More than 90% of the undergraduate students are sharing quite a common standpoint on the acceptance of premarital sexual behavior but they are also aware of the potential risks of premarital pregnancy and induced abortion.
HERBAL DRUGS FOR THE TREATMENT OF OPIOID WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME : A MINI REVIEW

Addiction to opioid drugs is the extensive medical and social burden of human life. Chronic usage of morphine in the severe pain has also been associated with its major drawback for development of dependence and tolerance. In different brain regions, there are various receptors which play important role in opioid withdrawal syndrome. The herbal drugs; like Nigella sativa, Withania somnifera, Aloe vera, Matricaria recutita, venlafaxine, curucumin play vital role to treat the abstinence syndrome. Most of the above mentioned drugs are related with some adverse effects. So there is need to develop some novel agents targeting the various mechanism underlying the opioid withdrawal, thereby providing significant relief from opioid withdrawal syndrome. In this review, we discussed the usefulness and limitations of various drug treatments for opioid withdrawal syndrome.
Enhanced Circuit Security Through Hidden State Transitions

A technique is developed that uses the state space of an integrated circuit (IC) to increase security. Timing path dependencies and coupling capacitance are utilized to create hidden state transitions that are not observable after netlist extraction. Temporal based transitions are also introduced to shift key dependencies into the time domain. The state space dependencies of the IC serve as a means to counter the SAT attack. Implementing temporal based transitions increases the area of the circuit by 68.42%, the power by 43.17%, and does not impact circuit delay. However, an increased circuit size significantly reduces the overhead of implementing state space encryption. For example, encrypting two registers in the s15850 ISCAS89 benchmark circuit resulted in an area overhead of 0.026%, providing a means to secure sequential logic with minimal overhead. Keywords—Logic encryption; logic locking; hardware security; sequential obfuscation
On the Importance of the Philosophy of Well-being

Objective : A weak approach to well-being policy means that government’s goal should be to choose policies that make people better off over those that make them worse off, with other things being equal. The question is what kind of underlying assumptions should be fulfilled to achieve this goal. In particular, do policymakers have to agree on some substantive theory of well-being, like hedonism or objective list theory, or persist in choosing the formal preference satisfaction theory of well-being? According to Haybron and Tiberius (Well-being Policy: What Standard of Well-being? , “Journal of the American Philosophical Association” 2015, vol. 1, no 4), we can avoid raising such questions by drawing a strict distinction between the varieties of concepts or theories of well-being and policy processes aiming at promoting the well-being of citizens. They claim that such policies are “justified only when they are grounded in the conceptions of the well-being of those on whose behalf policy is being made”, and call this approach “pragmatic subjectivism” (p. 713). From their reasoning it follows that policymakers need not develop the appropriate concept of well-being, but can leave it to citizens to choose. The paper examines Haybron and Tiberius’ proposal and defends the claim that while theoretically we can avoid discussing the concept of well-being when we follow pragmatic subjectivism, we cannot do this in practice. Research Design & Methods : The paper uses an argument analysis. Findings : One way or another we will have to move in the direction of purely formalistic preference satisfaction theory or some substantive approaches like hedonism or objectivism. If we do not want to take for granted the incoherent intuitive concepts of well-being people hold, and because “well-being” is a normative concept, we have to develop philosophical theories of well-being that openly reveal their strengths and weaknesses. Implications / Recommendations : To facilitate the process of political decision-making, philosophically informed measures of well-being are needed. To a certain extent, those measures already exist, and they are widely applied by policymakers, e.g., GDP per capita, the Human Development Index or various happiness / subjective well-being indices. However, they seem to be either insufficient or purely philosophically informed. Contribution : The paper contributes to the development of the analysis of well-being and measures its philosophical underpinnings.
MICRO CT 3D VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS OF COLLAGEN SCAFFOLDS

In this paper we describe proposed methodology of image processing of collagen scaffolds. The description and visualization of the 3D porous structure is essential for tissue regeneration. First part of work deals with delimitation of fibrillar and cellular structure of collagen using local adaptive cluster analysis with fuzzy logic. In next section the segmentation of pores and subsequent analysis of structure features is reported. Eventually, we illustrate and discuss achieved results.
Low Overhead Gate Level Logic Encryption

Integrated circuits (ICs) used in both commercial and government applications require the utmost reliability and security. As IC design firms continue to shift towards third-party foundries, serious concerns regarding the safety and reliability of ICs have emerged. Concerns include IC counterfeiting, intellectual property (IP) theft, IC overproduction, and the insertion of hardware Trojans. An area of research aimed at ensuring secure and reliable ICs for critical applications is logic encryption, which requires a key to enable the correct functionality of an IC. While the security of an IC is increased when using logic encryption, current implementations, such as the XOR or the look-up table (LUT) methods, have high per gate overheads. A reduction in the per-gate overhead is required to implement logic encryption in a wide variety of applications. Novel gate level designs for logic encryption are described in this paper, resulting in reduced overhead in power, area, and performance as compared to the XOR or LUT based techniques. With the proposed gate level technique, encrypting an AND gate results in a power reduction of 43.2%, an estimated area reduction of 19.8%, and a performance increase of 46.9% in comparison to the XOR based implementation.
Developing Critical Thinking Skills Through a Mandatory English Course in Korean Higher Education

Oh, Kyung-Ae. (2017). Developing critical thinking skills through a mandatory English course in higher education. English Teaching, 72(4), 53-80. The purpose of the study is to investigate whether critical thinking skills can be fostered through a college English course. Approximately eighty female Korean students taking a basic freshman mandatory reading course participated in the study. The researcher taught them critical reading skills along with other reading comprehension skills and provided them with Korean local context in the given topic. The students critically read two units of the required textbook and attended presentations of high school students with minority cultural backgrounds. The students submitted four online reports about multiculturalism, and they were analyzed using a thematic analysis. The results revealed that even students with relatively low English proficiency could enhance their critical thinking skills by practicing critical reading. Also, additional information about local contexts not only compensated for a culturally limited text but also facilitated the development of critical thinking. The findings indicate that teaching critical thinking is feasible in an English language course despite limited environments. Yet, more studies are required to generalize the findings.
Biofunctionalization of Natural Fiber-Reinforced Biocomposites for Biomedical Applications

In the last ten years, environmental consciousness has increased worldwide, leading to the development of eco-friendly materials to replace synthetic ones. Natural fibers are extracted from renewable resources at low cost. Their combination with synthetic polymers as reinforcement materials has been an important step forward in that direction. The sustainability and excellent physical and biological (e.g., biocompatibility, antimicrobial activity) properties of these biocomposites have extended their application to the biomedical field. This paper offers a detailed overview of the extraction and separation processes applied to natural fibers and their posterior chemical and physical modifications for biocomposite fabrication. Because of the requirements for biomedical device production, specialized biomolecules are currently being incorporated onto these biocomposites. From antibiotics to peptides and plant extracts, to name a few, this review explores their impact on the final biocomposite product, in light of their individual or combined effect, and analyzes the most recurrent strategies for biomolecule immobilization.
Automatic gesture segmentation of a musical performance using a cumulative dissimilarity measure

This paper presents a methodology for gesture segmentation of musical performances. It uses a novel approach based on cumulative dissimilarity (CDIS) to determine the velocity of the movement, as well as the local displacement of the musician during a musical gesture. A segmentation algorithm is applied along the dissimilarity vector to provide information about musical gestures. These movement segments are then compared to previous studies of movement analysis and correlated to onsets, and velocity data. During experiments, acoustical and motion data of clarinet performances were analyzed. Results obtained from motion analysis of the clarinet bell showed that, despite CDIS being a 1-dimensional descriptor, it retains information about movement direction and shape and is correlated to expressive musical content.
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

The thesis considers machine translation(MT) in terms of difficulties it deals with, describes the most common methods and, with practical examples of MT, evaluates its quality and possible applications. In the first place, the MT has to deal with differences between languages, which can have different inflection, grammatical categories and syntax. Methods to deal with morphological, grammatical and syntactical differences are therefore required. Another problem is on the level of semantics; the MT systems must successfully identify meaning of words and choose appropriate translation. However, the computers have only limited capability in understanding of the meaning and considering context, as well as in making greater decisions about the whole text. To successfully deal with all problems of translation, a complete artificial intelligence would be required, which is not yet available. The most advanced in terms of AI seems to be the neural machine translation, which is the most modern method already used by online translators. The practical example of translation of several types of texts from English to Czech (and from CS to EN) with Google Translate shows that NMT can cope with many language differences and it can often successfully translate terminology and longer phrases, but it still produces a large number of mistakes, reason for which cannot be observed directly, and its behavior is inconsistent and sensitive to any change. To this day, there is still no universal system that would be able to produce Fully Automatic High-Quality Translation. MT application is restricted either by reduced quality of the output or by designing MT system only for specific field or purpose. MT can overall improve translation efficiency, while human involvement is required, but it will not replace human translators in the near future.
Journal of Textile Engineering

Various kinds of airflow are used for operating yarn during textile processes. In this study, we calculated numerically compressible airflows past a yarn in a thin pipe in order to operate yarn using both a circular jet and an annular jet. We proposed the way to arrange air drag coefficients of yarns by Reynolds numbers adopted the yarn length exposed to the airflow as the representative length for the higher range of pressured airflows taking their compressibility into consideration. Simulated results elucidated both the air velocity and density profiles in a thin pipe for both jets. In the circular jet, the influence of the potential core was strong but it disappeared comparatively earlier. At higher supplying pressure, the compressed air was not able to fully accelerate in the pipe because it kept high density and took under-expansion. On the other hand, in the annular jet, the influence of the potential core was small, thus the compressed air fully accelerated and expanded in the pipe even at higher supplying pressure. Furthermore, yarn operation experiments showed that increasing supplying pressure was not effective to accelerate yarn running speed, and yarn troubles such as yarn twist or entanglement occurred at supplying pressure higher than 0.3MPa for both jets.
4-2 Efficient Technologies for Creating Parallel Corpora

Large-scale parallel corpora are necessary language resources for corpus-based machine translation. It is however extremely difficult to create the corpora. In this paper we introduce two methods of creating large-scale parallel corpora. These methods can be applied to any languages but below we explain their application to Japanese-English parallel corpora. The first method is to extract translated sentences from existing Japanese-English translation texts. The second is used not to look up the existing translation texts but to directly obtain new bilingual translations from supporting volunteer translators.
Mohamed Hossameldin KHALIFA, Rana ZAKI (2017). Gender and the Perceived Equity-Perceived Organizational Support Link in Egypt. Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics 2017, Vo: 10 No: 20, 17-32

This study aimed at examining the relationships between perceived internal and external salary equities as independent variables, and perceived organizational support (POS) as a dependent variable among Egyptian employees. Another objective was to investigate the moderation effect of gender on the aforementioned relationships. Data was obtained using a direct survey of 115 Egyptian employees drawn from a variety of industries. Findings suggest that both facets of perceived salary equity (internal and external) have positive relationships with POS. Findings further suggest that the relationship between perceived internal salary equity and POS is stronger among males. Theoretical contributions, study limitations, as well as recommendations for future research are discussed.