Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Anti-epileptic drugs adherence of epilepsy patients in Indonesia

Background: Adherence to medication is an important component of successful epilepsy treatment. However, the disease’s long-term treatment makes it difficult to achieve good adherence. This study aimed to assess the adherence level of anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) among adult epilepsy patients in Indonesia and its associated factors.Methods: We reviewed the medical records of epilepsy patients in a tertiary public hospital between September 2018 and August 2019. Subjects were patients who were electro-clinically diagnosed with any type of epilepsy, have been taken at least one AED for at least three months, have a record of Morisky medication adherence scale 8 items (MMAS-8) score, and aged 20 years old and above. The level of adherence was measured by the MMAS-8 Indonesian version.Results: We found 97 eligible subjects and the majority were males (56.7%), unemployed (69.1%), and aged ≥30 years old (55.7%). Most subjects (41.2%) showed a high adherence level. The remaining 30.9% and 27.8% had a moderate and low adherence level respectively.Conclusions: This study reveals that high AEDs adherence is associated with being male, younger than 30 years of age, received monotherapy instead of polytherapy, and no memory impairment. A further investigation related to the reason why these factors play roles in the Indonesian setting is important to design appropriate strategies to improve AEDs adherence of epilepsy patients.
Comparison between consumption rates of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) estimated with a digestive tract model and with a radioisotope approach

We compared consumption rates of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) obtained from surveys of complete digestive tract contents (CDTC) with two radioisotope approaches using 137Cs as a biological tracer. We sampled fish of age 1+, 2+, and 3+ from three lakes for a total of six lake - age-class combinations. The two radioisotope methods provided very similar estimates of consumption rates. The relative differences between the CDTC approach and the radioisotope approaches ranged from 67 to 128% when the sampling interval length was 28-35 days. At the time scale of 70 days, the relative differences between the approaches ranged from 15 to 20%. We propose that the ratio of the sampling interval length to the biological half-life of the contaminant determines the discrepancy between consumption estimates obtained using CDTC and radioisotopic approaches. Our analyses suggest that, under the specific conditions encountered in our study, a minimum value for this ratio to obtain adequate consumption rates may be 45%.
Effects of cooling and supplemental recombinant bovine somatotropin on diet digestibility, digestion kinetics and milk production of cross-bred Holstein cattle in the tropics

SUMMARY The aim of the current study was to determine how cooling and supplemental recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST) affect body function with respect to digestion kinetics, digestibility and other variables relevant to milk production in cross-bred Holstein cattle. Ten primiparous cross-bred dairy cattle (0·875 Holstein Friesian×0·125 Red Shindi) were used and divided into two groups of five animals each that were housed in a normal shaded barn (NS barn; non-cooled cows) and in a shaded barn with mist-fan cooling (MF; cooled cows). The cows in each group were supplemented with rbST in early, mid and late stages of lactation with three consecutive subcutaneous injections of 500 mg rbST every 14 days. All cows were fed the same total mixed ration twice daily at approximately 1·1 of assumed ad libitum intake and water was offered ad libitum. During the experimental periods, values of ambient temperatures and temperature humidity index (THI) in the NS barn were significantly higher than in the MF barn, whereas the relative humidity in the MF barn was significantly higher than in the NS barn (P<0·01). The respiration rate and rectal temperature were significantly higher for non-cooled cows than for cooled cows during the daytime whether there was or was not rbST supplementation. Supplementation of rbST for either cooled or non-cooled cows significantly increased dry matter intake (DMI), the efficiency of feed utilization and milk yields (P<0·05). Digesta kinetics using chromic oxide as an external marker showed a high digesta passage rate constant and low mean retention time of digesta in cows either by cooling or supplementation of rbST, whereas no changes were seen for the digestibility of dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), crude protein (CP), neutral detergent fibre (NDF) and acid detergent fibre (ADF). The half-time of Cr2O3 in the whole digestive tract of cooled cows was lower than those of non-cooled cows and significantly decreased (P<0·05) during rbST supplementation in both groups in all stages of lactation. The magnitude of responses for the digesta passage rate and efficiency of feed utilization were larger in animals supplemented with rbST than in animals under MF cooling only. The main effect of cooling and supplemental rbST was to improve digestion by an increase in the rate of passage of digesta and in turn an increase in feed intake. Digestibility was not influenced by changes in passage rate of digesta either by cooling or rbST supplementation. Milk production in response to rbST supplementation is probably enhanced with cooling. The increased milk production induced by rbST supplementation was mediated by increased efficiency of feed utilization without changes in diet digestibility.
Development and characterization of poly- meric membranes for electromechanical actuation

vii List of Abbreviations . ix List of Symbols . xi Índice Geral . xiii List of tables . xv List of figures . xvii 1 Motivation and objectives. xix 1.1 Motivation . xix 1.2 Objetives. xix 2 Introduction . 1 2.1 State of the art . 1 2.2 Electroactive polymer actuators . 1 2.3 PEDOT:PSS . 2 2.4 Applications . 3 3 Materials and Methods . 7 3.1 Thin film production . 7 3.2 Polymeric films formation for passive layer . 7 3.3 Conductivity measurement . 8 3.4 Mechanical Tests . 9 3.5 Bending tests . 10 3.6 Electronic-stimuli . 10 3.7 Structural and morphological characterization . 11 4 Results and discussion . 13 4.1 Preliminary study: selection of passive and active layers. 13 4.2 Electrical properties: Influence of layer thickness . 14 4.3 Ionic conductivity of PVDF . 16 4.4 Mechanical tests . 17 4.5 Electronic-stimuli . 19 5 Conclusions and future perspectives . 29 5.1 Conclusions . 29 5.2 Future perspectives . 30 6 Bibliography . 31 7 Annex . 33 Annex A – Tensile test graphics . 33
Biologically Inspired Four Elements Compact Antenna Arrays With Enhanced Sensitivity for Direction of Arrival Estimation

A new four elements compact antenna array is presented and discussed to achieve enhanced phase resolution without sacrificing the array output power. This structure inspired by the Ormia Ochracea’s coupled ears. The analogy between this insect acute directional hearing capabilities and the electrically compact antenna array is used to enhance the array sensitivity to direction of arrival estimation of an electromagnetic wave. This four elements biomimetic compact array is composed of four strongly coupled antenna elements and two external coupling networks which are designed to enhance the phase resolutions between all antenna element outputs without decrease in the array output power. In other words, this four elements compact array extracts the same power level from the incident EM wave compared with regular array, while the output phase sensitivity is significantly enhanced. The simulation results confirm the advantages of this new compact array compared with the previously reported ones in the literature.
A Novel Dual-Input Asymmetrical 17-Level Inverter

Multilevel inverters are the new structures of power electronic circuits that are used in high voltage DC-AC conversion systems. These kinds of inverters create more output voltage levels which reduce the harmonic components. This paper presents a new dual-input asymmetrical single phase multilevel inverter topology capable of producing seventeen level output voltage with reduced number of devices. In order to obtain the desired output voltage, capacitors are connected in all the combination of addition and subtraction through different switches. Inherent creation of the negative voltage levels without any additional circuit, such as H-bridge circuit is one of the main advantage of proposed module. In addition, the module has inherent selfbalancing property. Comparison between the existing topologies shows that the proposed topology requires less number of components. Proposed topology is modeled and simulated using MATLAB/Simulink 2017 software in order to verify the feasibility and performance of the module. A phase disposition sinusoidal pulse-width modulation strategy is used in this inverter. The results show that the proposed topology is capable to produce a seventeen-level output voltage with less number of component counts and acceptable harmonic distortion content. A prototype of proposed inverter is designed, analyzed and implemented using Arduino Mega 2560.
AN AUGMENTED IIM FOR HELMHOLTZ/POISSON EQUATIONS ON IRREGULAR DOMAINS IN COMPLEX SPACE

In this paper, an augmented immersed interface method has been developed for Helmholtz/Poisson equations on irregular domains in complex space. One of motivations of this paper is for simulations of wave scattering in different geometries. This paper is the first immersed interface method in complex space. The new method utilizes a combination of methodologies including the immersed interface method, a fast Fourier transform, augmented strategies, least squares interpolations, and the generalized minimal residual method (GMRES) for a Schur complement system, all in complex space. The new method is second order accurate in the L∞ norm and requires O(N log(N)) operations. Numerical examples are provided for a variety of real or complex wave numbers.
Quantifying TCP SYN DDoS Resilience: A Longitudinal Study of Internet Services

One of the most prevalent attacks in the Internet are TCP SYN floods, during which a massive number of malicious connection requests is being sent to a victim that will eventually use up all of the server’s resources. In order to make these attacks more difficult to track back and defend against, SYN floods are typically injected with spoofed source addresses, which provides the interesting side effect that an “echo” of ongoing attacks becomes visible through the resulting background noise. This paper provides a longitudinal study of this Internet backscatter received at more than 65,000 IP addresses over a period of 5 years, which allows us to quantify the types of victims that are attacked, the attack duration and intensity, and whether services collapse under the load – thereby providing an insight into the resilience of services provided publicly on the Internet. Our findings show that DDoS attacks have significantly changed in type and magnitude within this relatively short period of time, however we also see that Internet services by-and-large co-evolved with the increased threat landscape and become increasingly better provisioned, yet at a rate insufficient to keep up with the growth of attacks.
Baixas temperaturas sobre a fluorescência da clorofila a em plantas de diferentes híbridos de canola

O objetivo do trabalho foi estudar os efeitos de baixas temperaturas sobre o aparato fotossintetico de hibridos de canola. Plantas de canola foram cultivadas em casa de vegetacao e, 50 dias apos a semeadura, acondicionadas em câmara de crescimento com ausencia de luz, onde foram submetidas a temperaturas de 0 ou 4oC pelo periodo de 1 ou 4 horas. Avaliou-se a cinetica de emissao da fluorescencia da clorofila a. Os hibridos apresentaram o mesmo comportamento em relacao a fluorescencia da clorofila em resposta ao estresse. Os parâmetros da fluorescencia foram amplamente afetados em todos os tratamentos e a analise da cinetica revelou efeitos da temperatura, principalmente no passo J, que representa o acumulo de plastoquinona reduzida e na fase I-P, que reflete a reducao dos aceptores de eletrons finais do lado aceptor do fotossistema I. Conclui-se que os parâmetros mais responsivos as condicoes impostas pelo frio sao os que descrevem o grau de reoxidacao do aceptor final de eletrons do fotossistema II e a atividade do fotossistema I
Contributing factors to academic achievements: from community college to university in Hong Kong

Academic achievement of students transferring from community colleges to 4-year institutions has been a topic of interest to educational researchers globally. However, local empirical evidence remains limited on how transfer students’ learning approaches and the teaching-learning environment relate to their academic achievement in Hong Kong’s universities. The study aims at exploring the relationship between transfer students’ approaches to learning, their perceptions of the teaching-learning environment and academic achievement. The participants were 617 undergraduate students transferring from community colleges to an university in Hong Kong. Students’ approaches to learning and perceptions of the teaching-learning environment were measured using the HowULearn questionnaire. Analyses were carried out using factor analysis, Pearson correlation and linear regression. The results confirmed positive relations between students’ perceptions, approaches and achievement. Students studying in an organised manner achieved better academic performance, whereas those using a surface approach poor performance. Others might also adopt an intermediate approach to learning. The results indicate that promoting awarenesses of choosing and using appropriate learning approaches is important for fostering academic success among students.
Significant perceived stressors in irritable bowel syndrome: a stress interventional module analysed

Background: Psychological stress is an important factor for the development of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). More and more clinical and experimental evidences are showing that IBS is a combination of irritable bowel and irritable brain. As IBS is a stress sensitive disorder, its treatment should focus on managing stress and stress-induced responses. Methods: This is a hospital based longitudinal study. 72 patients fulfilling the Rome IV criteria for irritable bowel syndrome were enrolled into the study. Perceived stress was assessed using student stress dimension questionnaire (SSDQ) while IBS severity was assessed using IBS severity scoring system (IBS-SSS). The stress interventional module (SIM) consist of specific domain targeted psychological interventions given to the patients weekly based on the stress domain mapping. The effectiveness of these interventions on reducing stress as well as IBS severity was assessed at baseline, and weeks 2, 4 and 6 follow-ups. Results: Of the studied IBS patients, most had SPS in multiple life domains while familial and interpersonal domains were affected in 78%. Also, total stress load in form of mean cumulative stress load at baseline was 451.1 which decreased significantly to 274.4 over 6 weeks. This SIM brought about a reduction in mean irritable bowel syndrome severity score from 27.5 to 20.6 in 6 weeks. This reduction in IBS severity score overtime was significant (p=0.001). Conclusions: Patients of irritable bowel syndrome show significant stress in multiple domains of life, which require proper assessment and management. Authors propose that individual-specific interventions aimed at reducing stress in all psychosocial life domains are efficacious and should be an integral part of managing IBS.
The Challenge of Research Supervision: The Experience of Lecturers in Various Academic Disciplines

Research supervision is the highest level of teaching for academics. Yet, in many cases, academics are allocated supervision without any formal training. For many supervisors, their supervision approach will be a mirror of what they have experienced themselves at post-graduate levels. Many supervisors consider that this form of teaching is stressful and onerous due to the responsibility placed on it by the Higher Education Institution and the student ultimately. What can be done to support supervisors in their supervisory journey? There is a void in the academic literature on research supervision with scant aids available to the supervisor (Cullen, 2009). Brew and Boud (1995) outline the importance of instructor knowledge; however, supervisors only gain extensive supervisory experience over the years. The aim of this study is to better understand the supervisory process. Data was gathered from 12 lecturers engaged in supervision across various disciplines. Findings indicate that supervisors need to adopt and continually change to differing circumstances and different student personalities while supervising. It is essential that formal supervisory training be provided for all supervisors. The findings from this evaluation are novel and will be beneficial to research supervisors across various disciplines. Keywords: Research Supervision, Multi-Disciplinary, Reflection.
NITROGEN IN THE INITIAL GROWTH AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS

The use of N fertilizers can contribute to seedling production in native species, such as Alibertia sessilis (Vell.) K. Schum, a fruit plant of the Cerrado ecoregion. Considering that there are few studies on mineral nutrition for this species, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of N on the growth and photosynthesis photochemical of A. sessilis. The experiment was carried out in plastic pots in a greenhouse with five N (urea) concentrations: 0, 25, 50, 75, and 100 mg kg. The experimental design used was a randomized block design with four repetitions. At day 180 after transplantation, morphometric and photochemical characteristics, including biomass and seedling quality, were evaluated. Seedling survival, the stem diameter of the harvest, and the height/diameter ratio were not influenced by N. The maximum height was 14.38 cm with 54.2 kg N. The greatest number of leaves and value of the chlorophyll index were found in seedlings produced with maximum doses of N. The photochemical characteristics of photosynthesis, except initial fluorescence, were positively influenced with N concentrations between 60-85 mg kg N. The largest fresh leaf and stem biomass was 2.391 and 0.257 g plant with 54.0 and 33.0 mg kg of N, respectively. The multivariate analysis of the major components explained 79.81% of the remaining data variability. The seedlings of A. sessilis responded positively during the initial growth phase, reflected in their biomass, with N concentrations close to 50.0 mg kg.
Microbial hazards related to rice sprouting

The microbiology of rice seeds selected for commercial production of sprouts was studied. Bacteria were numerous but generally nonpathogenic: almost all were gram-negative rods, predominantly pseudomonads. There were also several enterobacteria, in particular Enterobacter and Kiebsiella species. Escherichia coli was present in very few samples and its serotype was not enteropathogenic. Moulds were infrequent. Storage of seeds under laboratory conditions did not greatly modify the composition of the microflora but counts decreased with time. When grains were stored in a cold room, the microflora remained almost unchanged quantitatively and qualitatively. After 2 days of germination, mesophilic aerobic plate counts increased by about 2 log cycles; thermotolerant coliforms and faecal enterococci increased by up to 6 log cycles. No foodborne pathogens were detected on sprouts. Moreover, both dry seeds and sprouts were negative for aflatoxins. Experiments with artificially inoculated seeds showed that Bacillus cereus and Listeria sp. could develop without any antagonistic effect from the background flora of germinating rice.
Characteristics Associated with the Differential Activity of Nondominant and Dominant Affected Hands in Patients with Poststroke Right Hemiparesis

Objectives Spontaneous arm use in patients with poststroke hemiparesis is crucial to the recovery of functional interaction. Patients with stroke and subsequent right hemiparesis have more difficulty adapting to a right-handed environment. The aim of this study was to use wearable devices to assess the asymmetry and difference in the amount of activity of the nondominant and dominant affected hands among patients with stroke and right hemiparesis. The real activity of both hands was measured to assess the correlation with various aspects of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Subjects and Methods. Patients with stroke and right hemiparesis were recruited. They were divided into two groups according to the affected hand. Groups A and B comprised patients with affected nondominant and dominant hands, respectively. The Fugl-Meyer assessment-Upper Extremity (FM-UE) scores, Motor Activity Log (MAL), and hand function domain scores on the Stroke Impact Scale (SIS) were used for assessment. Patients were asked to wear smart wearable devices on both hands 24 hours a day for a month. The amount of activity in both hands was recorded and analyzed. Results A total of 29 patients with stroke were divided into group A (n = 14) and group B (n = 15). FM-UE scores were significantly and strongly correlated with the amount of use (AOU) in the MAL. The recorded differential real activity of both hands in group B was significantly lower than that in group A. The asymmetry index of hand use was significantly less favorable in group B. However, no significant differences in AOU in the MAL, FM-UE, and hand function domain in the SIS were identified between the nondominant and dominant affected hands. Conclusions The asymmetry and differential activity of both hands were worse in the patients with poststroke right hemiparesis, whose dominant hand was affected. However, no differences of three aspects of the ICF were found between dominant and nondominant affected hands.
Sustained Release of Melatonin from GelMA Liposomes Reduced Osteoblast Apoptosis and Improved Implant Osseointegration in Osteoporosis

A reduction in bone mass around an implant is the main cause of implant loosening, especially in postmenopausal osteoporosis patients. In osteoporosis, excessive oxidative stress, resulting in osteoblast apoptosis, largely contributes to abnormal bone remodeling. Melatonin (MT) synthesized by the pineal gland promotes osteoblast differentiation and bone formation and has been effectively used to combat oxidative stress. Therefore, we hypothesized that MT attenuates osteoblast apoptosis induced by oxidative stress, promotes osteogenesis in osteoporosis, and improves bone mass around prostheses. Moreover, considering the distribution and metabolism of MT, its systemic administration would require a large amount of MT, increasing the probability of drug side effects, so the local administration of MT is more effective than its systemic administration. In this study, we constructed a composite adhesive hydrogel system (GelMA-DOPA@MT) to bring about sustained MT release in a local area. Additionally, MT-reduced apoptosis caused by hydrogen peroxide- (H2O2-) induced oxidative stress and restored the osteogenic potential of MC3T3-E1 cells. Furthermore, apoptosis in osteoblasts around the implant was significantly attenuated, and increased bone mass around the implant was observed in ovariectomized (OVX) rats treated with this composite system. In conclusion, our results show that GelMA-DOPA@MT can inhibit osteoblast apoptosis caused by oxidative stress, thereby promoting osteogenesis and improving bone quality around a prosthesis. Therefore, this system of local, sustained MT release is a suitable candidate to address implant loosening in patients with osteoporosis.