Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Multi-centric study of psychological disturbances among health care workers in tertiary care centers of western India during the COVID-19 pandemic

Introduction: The world has been facing a pandemic of COVID-19, and while dealing with this pandemic is not easy for anyone, it is especially hard on health care workers (HCWs) as they are the front-line warriors Aim of the study: To assess the psychological disturbances that the COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted on healthcare workers in India and to assess the correlation between different parameters including socio-demographic variables, job-related variables, personal history and psychological disturbances such as perceived stress, depression and anxiety Material and methods: Health care workers from a few tertiary care institutes (government as well as private sectors, which are caring for patients with COVID-19) in a western state of India were invited to participate with a self-administered online questionnaire That questionnaire consisted of self-report scales including Fear of COVID-19 Scale, the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale 21 items (DASS 21), and the Perceived Stress Scale with socio-demographic, job-related and personal details Results: Out of 302 subjects, on the Perceived Stress Scale, 101 (33 44%) reported low, 185 (61 26%) moderate and 16 (5 30%) high levels of stress On DASS 21, depression was reported by 56 (18 54%) subjects, 60 (19 87%) subjects were found to have anxiety and 50 (16 56%) subjects reported to have stress Perceived stress score on Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) was significantly correlated with the depression, anxiety and stress score on DASS 21 A few risk factors such as female gender, single marital status, past history of psychiatric illness, working as interns and residents doctors with lesser experience and high risk duty areas such as COVID-19 duties in a particular situation were significantly associated with psychological disturbances such as stress, depression and anxiety Conclusions: We observed significant psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on HCWs as well as a few risk factors related to it Supporting the mental health of HCWs is a critical part of the public health response to maintain an adequate workforce and to maximize the ability of HCWs to face this pandemic © 2020 Termedia Publishing House Ltd All rights reserved
Analytical Method Development and Validation of First Order Derivative Spectrophotometric Method for Simultaneous Estimation of Telmisartan and Metformin Hydrochloride in their Combined Pharmaceutical Dosage Form

Spectrophotometric Methods of Analysis1,2 The ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry method is important in pharmaceutical analysis. It involves the measurement of the amount of ultraviolet (190–380 mm) or visible (380–800 mm) radiation absorbed by a substance in solution. Instruments that measure the ratio or a function of the ratio, of the intensity of two beams of light in the UV-visible region are called UV-visible spectrophotometers. Absorption of light in both the UV and visible regions of the electromagnetic spectrum occurs when the energy of the light matches that required to induce in the molecule an electronic transition and its associated vibrational and rotational transitions. It is thus convenient to consider the techniques of UV and visible spectrophotometry together. Derivative Method3 Derivative spectroscopy involves the conversion of a normal spectrum (fundamental, zero-order spectrum) to its first, second or higher derivative spectra by differentiating absorbance of the sample with respect to wavelength (λ). The differentiation of the zero-order spectrum can lead to separation of overlapped signals, elimination of background caused by presence of other compounds in a sample, improvement of resolution of mixtures as it enhances the detectability of mirror spectral features and enhancement of sensitivity and specificity. Derivative spectra yield a more characteristic profile in comparison to the parent one: new maxima and minima appeared and points, where derivative spectra cross the X-axis Derivative spectra, keeps all laws of classical spectrophotometry, e.g., dependence of derivative value on analyte concentration and additives law. These features allow the determination of several components in a mixture by measuring the amplitude of the derivative spectrum of mixture at several wavelengths. If the measured height of the derivative peak of analyte is performed at those wavelengths at which spectra of other components undergo zeroing, the measured amplitude is proportional only to the concentration of this analyte. This approach of quantitative determination is called the “zero-crossing technique. ” This has been used for the simultaneous determination of different mixtures in pharmaceutical formulation.
Synthesis of Li-adsorbent and its adsorption property

The effect of acid solution of HCl,HNO3 or H2SO4 on the precursor LiMn2O4 was investigated,especially HCl concentration and operating time.The adsorption capacity of the lithium adsorbent was also studied.The results indicate that the approximate cubic spinel Li-adsorbent whose granularity is 200-500 nm can be made after eluted about 15 min by 0.50 mol/L HCl,but it has trifling crystal disfigurement;the adsorbent′s capacity of adsorption decreases to 18.12 mg/g from 18.56 mg/g for Li+ at pH 7 after being reused twice,and the adsorption can be well described by the Langmuir model.
The MW = 5.6 Kanallaki Earthquake of March 21, 2020 in West Epirus, Greece: Reverse Fault Model From Insar Data and Seismotectonic Implications for Apulia-Eurasia Collision

We identify the source of the Mw = 5.6 earthquake that hit west-central Epirus on March 21 21, 2020 00:49:52 UTC. We use synthetic aperture radar interferograms tied to one permanent 22 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) station (GARD). We model the source by inverting the 23 INSAR displacement data. The inversion model suggests a shallow source on a low-angle fault 24 (39°) dipping towards east with a centroid depth of 8.5 km. The seismic moment deduced from our 25 model agrees with those of the published seismic moment tensors. This geometry is compatible 26 with the Margariti thrust fault within the collision zone between Apulia and Eurasia. We also 27 processed new GNSS data and estimate a total convergence rate between Apulia and Eurasia of 8.9 28 mm yr-1 , of which shortening of the crust between the Epirus coastal GNSS stations and station 29 PAXO in the Ionian Sea is equivalent to ~ 50% of it or 4.6 mm yr−1. A 60-km wide deformation 30 zone takes up nearly most of the convergence between Apulia-Eurasia, trending N318°E. Its central 31 axis runs along the southwest coast of Corfu, along the northeast coast of Paxos, heading toward 32 the northern extremity of the Lefkada island. 33
Modified Nursing Program to Improve Health Condition Asthmatics Older Adult

Asthma is a serious and common global health problem among older adult; can cause serious health problems if untreated properly. Aim of the present study was to evaluate the modified nursing program to improve health conditions among asthmatics older adult. Research design: A quasi-experimental design (one group pretest post-test) was used in this study. Setting: The study was carried out in three (3) outpatient clinics affiliated Chest Qena Hospital, Qena, Egypt. Subjects: A convenient sample was composed of 97 older adult’s diagnostic asthmatic. The study covers a period of 8 months from the beginning of September 2018 until the end of April 2019. Tools: Five tools were used to collect study data: Tool I: patients’ assessment questionnaire: includes four parts; Part 1. Demographic characteristics Part II. Medical history Part III. Medical Research Council dyspnea scale. Part IV: Older adults' knowledge regarding to asthma. Tool II: Observational checklist older adult patients’ practice. Tool III: Asthma Control Test. Tool IV: Medication Adherence Reporting Scale. Tool V: Patients’ self-care strategies. Results: Findings of this study revealed that more than half of the studied subjects were males and had asthma with statistical significance improvement in grades of asthma after the implementation of the modified nursing program, statistically significant improvement in the level of knowledge , and practice and self care strategy post program, highly statistically significant improvement in the study participants' asthma control test and medication adherence, significant positive correlations between MRC dyspnea scale and medication adherence among asthmatic old age. Conclusions: This study concluded that the asthma modified nursing program is effective for improving' health conditions among asthmatics older adult. Recommendation: The study recommended for further modifing nursing program to be conducted on larger number of older adult’s patients to improve their knowledge, practice, and self-care strategies.
An Intelligent Fuzzy Logic Based Traffic Controller

Increasing road congestion, travel time, number of accidents, carbon dioxide emissions, and fuel consumption are some of the consequences of growth in the vehicle population. Therefore, intelligent traffic controllers are required to solve road traffic congestion problems. The results of prevalent methods, including preset cycle time controller and vehicle-actuated controller, indicated that they do not effectively perform at traffic peak moments. Therefore, due to the deficiency of common methods, fuzzy logic based traffic signal controllers have attracted a lot of attention among researchers. In this article, a fuzzy logic based algorithm for 4-way intersections is proposed and it consists of two main stages for sorting the phase and determining the green light duration. The proposed system is simulated in the MATLAB programming environment and the performance of the designed controller and a conventional controller is compared for some of the presumed conditions. The results of applying the proposed system indicate that this algorithm has a better performance in different traffic conditions in contrast to a preset cycle time controller and it can reduce the number of vehicles behind traffic lights at intersections and the waiting time of passengers.
The individual effect of coating thicknesses and deposition temperatures on Raman spectra of carbon films deposited on silica glass fibers by thermal chemical vapor deposition

Abstract Carbon films are deposited on silica glass fibers by thermal chemical vapor deposition using pure methane as the precursor gas, and the individual effect of coating thicknesses and deposition temperatures on Raman spectra of carbon films is investigated. The results show that if the temperature is fixed at 950°C, the D peak position, the full‐width‐at‐half maximum of D band, and the integrated intensity ratio of the D band to the G band increase with increasing the coating thickness. This is because the size and number of particles grown on the carbon film surface increase with increasing the coating thickness and the carbon film becomes more disordered. Alternatively, if the coating thickness is fixed at 1200 nm, the D peak position, the full‐width‐at‐half maximum of D band, and the integrated intensity ratio of the D band to the G band decrease with increasing the deposition temperature. This indicates that the carbon film becomes more ordered and its nano‐grain size increases as the deposition temperature increases from 925 to 1025°C.
Robustness in Coreference Resolution

Coreference resolution is the task of determining different expressions of a text that refer to the same entity. The resolution of coreferring expressions is an essential step for automatic interpretation of the text. While coreference information is beneficial for various NLP tasks like summarization, question answering, and information extraction, state-of-the-art coreference resolvers are barely used in any of these tasks. The problem is the lack of robustness in coreference resolution systems. A coreference resolver that gets higher scores on the standard evaluation set does not necessarily perform better than the others on a new test set. In this thesis, we introduce robustness in coreference resolution by (1) introducing a reliable evaluation framework for recognizing robust improvements, and (2) proposing a solution that results in robust coreference resolvers. As the first step of setting up the evaluation framework, we introduce a reliable evaluation metric, called LEA, that overcomes the drawbacks of the existing metrics. We analyze LEA based on various types of errors in coreference outputs and show that it results in reliable scores. In addition to an evaluation metric, we also introduce an evaluation setting in which we disentangle coreference evaluations from parsing complexities. Coreference resolution is affected by parsing complexities for detecting the boundaries of expressions that have complex syntactic structures. We reduce the effect of parsing errors in coreference evaluation by automatically extracting a minimum span for each expression. We then emphasize the importance of out-of-domain evaluations and generalization in coreference resolution and discuss the reasons behind the poor generalization of state-of-the-art coreference resolvers. Finally, we show that enhancing state-of-the-art coreference resolvers with linguistic features is a promising approach for making coreference resolvers robust across domains. The incorporation of linguistic features with all their values does not improve the performance. However, we introduce an efficient pattern mining approach, called EPM, that mines all feature-value combinations that are discriminative for coreference relations. We then only incorporate feature-values that are discriminative for coreference relations. By employing EPM feature-values, performance improves significantly across various domains.
Electronic structure and thermoelectric properties of half-Heusler compounds with eight electron valence count—KScX (X = C and Ge)

Electronic band structure and structural properties of two representative half-Heusler (HH) compounds with 8 electron valence count (VC), KScC and KScGe, have been studied using first principles methods within density functional theory and generalized gradient approximation. These systems differ from the well studied class of HH compounds like ZrNiSn and ZrCoSb which have VC = 18 because of the absence of d electrons of the transition metal atoms Ni and Co. Electronic transport properties such as Seebeck coefficient (S), electrical conductivity (σ), electronic thermal conductivity (κe) (the latter two scaled by electronic relaxation time), and the power factor (S2σ) have been calculated using semi-classical Boltzmann transport theory within constant relaxation time approximation. Both the compounds are direct band gap semiconductors with band extrema at the X point. Their electronic structures show a mixture of heavy and light bands near the valance band maximum and highly anisotropic conduction and valen.
mHealth Interventions for Treatment Adherence and Outcomes of Care for Cardiometabolic Disease Among Adults Living With HIV: Systematic Review

Background The success of antiretroviral therapy has led to an increase in life expectancy and an associated rise in the risk of cardiometabolic diseases (CMDs) among people living with HIV. Objective Our aim was to conduct a systematic review to synthesize the existing literature on the patterns of use and effects of mobile health (mHealth) interventions for improving treatment adherence and outcomes of care for CMD among people living with HIV. Methods A systematic search of multiple databases, including PubMed-MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, Scopus, Web of Science, African Journals online, ClinicalTrials.gov, and the World Health Organization Global Index Medicus of peer-reviewed articles, was conducted with no date or language restrictions. Unpublished reports on mHealth interventions for treatment adherence and outcomes of care for CMD among adults living with HIV were also included in this review. Studies were included if they had at least 1 component that used an mHealth intervention to address treatment adherence or 1 or more of the stated outcomes of care for CMD among people living with HIV. Results Our search strategy yielded 1148 unique records. In total, 10 articles met the inclusion criteria and were included in this review. Of the 10 studies, only 4 had published results. The categories of mHealth interventions ranged from short messaging, telephone calls, and wearable devices to smartphone and desktop web-based mobile apps. Across the different categories of interventions, there were no clear patterns in terms of consistency in the use of a particular intervention, as most studies (9/10, 90%) assessed a combination of mHealth interventions. Short messaging and telephone calls were however the most common interventions. Half of the studies (5/10, 50%) reported on outcomes that were indirectly linked to CMD, and none of them provided reliable evidence for evaluating the effectiveness of mHealth interventions for treatment adherence and outcomes of care for CMD among people living with HIV. Conclusions Due to the limited number of studies and the heterogeneity of interventions and outcome measures in the studies, no definitive conclusions could be drawn on the patterns of use and effects of mHealth interventions for treatment adherence and outcomes of care for CMD among people living with HIV. We therefore recommend that future trials should focus on standardized outcomes for CMD. We also suggest that future studies should consider having a longer follow-up period in order to determine the long-term effects of mHealth interventions on CMD outcomes for people living with HIV. Trial Registration PROSPERO International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews CRD42018086940; https://www.crd. york.ac. uk/prospero/display_record. php? ID=CRD42018086940
Dreams and waking life connection

The present study explored individual’s connection between dreams and his waking life. Individuals’ personal experiences of dreams, their existence, purpose, belief, and truthfulness were explored in relationship to their daily life functioning. Present study aimed at identifying the collective themes of participants with researchers’ reflection. The sample of four adults (2 males, 2 females) with age range of 18-35 was recruited from different universities of Lahore. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted through interview schedule regarding participants’ personal demographics, schedules and hours of sleep, belief on the occurrences and fulfillment of dreams. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was applied to analyze the data individually and collectively across all participants. Findings revealed that 10 themes were generated from the data that include curiosity about dream content, dream and real life connection, intuition about death, wish fulfillment in dreams, sense of morality in dreams, and information about personality through dreams etc. These themes help us in better understanding of dreams and waking life connection.
Studies on preparation of ciprofloxacin·HCl liposomes and its tissue distribution in mice

OBJECTIVE To investigate the preparation of ciprofloxacin·HCl liposomes and to observe its tissue distribution in mice.METHOD The ciprofloxacin·HCl was encapsulated into liposomes in transmembrane ammonium sulfate gradients.The fluorospectrophotometry was developed for the determination of ciprofloxacin in mice tissue.RESULTS The entrapment efficiency of ciprofloxacin·HCl liposomes was more than 90%. The particle sizes of the liposomes were(141.5±31.9) nm.The liposomal ciprofloxacin and free ciprofloxacin were injected intravenously at a dose of 15 mg·kg -1 to mice . The elimination half-life(t 1/2β) of liposomal and free ciprofloxacin was 9.83 and 2.61 h,respectively.Compared to free ciprofloxacin,the AUC (0～24 h) in spleen,lung,kidney and liver were 5.08,3.48,3.37 and 2.88 times higher,respectively,after the administration of liposomal ciprofloxacin.CONCLUSION Through the transmembrane ammonium sulfate gradients methods,a relative high entrapment efficiency of ciprofloxacin liposomes was obtained.In vivo distribution studies showed that the elimination halflife as well as the delivery to spleen,lung,kidney and liver were increased by the liposomal ciprofloxacin.
The Motivations of Pilgrimage Walking the St.Olav Way in Norway

questionnaires with 53 respondents from 13 countries. It aims to shed light on the motives, expectations and hopes that make people walk the less known and studied Norwegian St. Olav Way and what motivational trends prevail there, compared to others pilgrimage routes such as the more popular Camino de Santiago de Compostela and Japanese Shikoku Henro trail. Motivational categories were generated through an inductive thematic analysis of their answers and explanations were sought, drawing on existing literature as well as meaning-making and motivational theories. Results indicate that religious motives were not predominant in people’s quest with the journey. Instead, contemplation, health, social / solitary, pilgrimage walking / repeating, and nature motives stood out as the most significant, followed by less mentioned motives such as historical / cultural / travel interests, spiritual / religious reasons, a more present / simple / slow life, and life celebrations / crossroads / transitions. These findings challenge popular assumptions about why people undertake long-term walking pilgrimages. Further research is needed given the emerging trend to seek long-distance pilgrimage walking for self-discovery / development / therapy. This is largely uncovered ground in health care / science, despite the fact that pilgrimages have, throughout time, been sought for betterment and wellbeing.
COVID-19 CHALLENGES FOR EU EXTRA AND INTRA-REGIONAL TRADE

The current COVID-19 crisis will take a severe toll upon the world and the EU economy. Exports and imports between member-states account for around 30.6% of EU GDP (average value for the period 2007-2018) and some EU economies are particularly exposed to the crisis due to their strong trade and value chain linkages. The trade with the rest of the world also decreased by mid-March 2020, and Rotterdam’s traffic from China fell for 20% compared to the same period in 2019. This paper estimates the different impact of the intraEU trade and extra-EU trade on EU GDP growth. By separating extra-EU trade flows from intra-EU trade flows and using cross-section fixed method, panel least squares for the period 2008-2018, we obtained results that confirm that trade exchange within EU has significantly higher effect on per capita economic growth in comparison with trade exchange with countries outside the EU (taking in consideration the sample of EU-27 countries, excluding Great Britain). The findings prove that the current measures proposed by the EU institutions are essential for sustaining the function of the Internal Market and for EU growth prospects. Despite all efforts to remain united against the rising global challenges under the COVID-19 crisis, the Union is growing further apart. The member-states are imposing restrains on the internal trade flows thus jeopardizing the achieved positive effects of trade liberalization. It is certain that the financial crisis from 2008 caused increased Euro scepticism. Therefore differences in national views and priorities must be taken into account in order to reach a democratic compromise within the EU that is going to be both effective and legitimate in order to confront the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemics. The solidarity among member-states is challenged once again.