Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of Dactylopterus volitans (Syngnathiformes, Dactylopteridae)

Abstract The complete mitochondrial genome was determined for the flying gurnard Dactylopterus volitans belonging to the family Dactylopteridae. The total length of the D. volitans mitochondrial genome is 16,632 bp, which consists of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, two rRNA genes, and a control region. It has the typical vertebrate mitochondrial gene arrangement. Phylogenetic analysis using mitochondrial genomes of 20 species showed that D. volitans formed a well-supported monophyletic group with other Dactylopteridae species.
Intelligent Light Communication from Automated Vehicles to Other Road Users

The development of AVs (automated vehicles) is moving rapidly and many automakers are including more and more ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System) in their vehicles as steps towards full autonomy. However, there are many aspects to consider before AVs can function on public roads. One important topic is how these AVs will communicate with other road users, which is what this master thesis project aims to investigate. The project is in collaboration with Volvo GTT (Group Trucks Technology) and focuses on external light communication from automated HGVs (Heavy Goods Vehicles) to other road users. A survey, answered by 111 participants, was used to investigate in what situations additional light communication is needed. Additionally, a need for AVs to be able to act assertive just as human drivers do in certain situations to help the overall traffic flow was identified. Based on this, a scenario where an HGV needs to merge from a highway on-ramp into traffic congestion was chosen for further investigation. When analysing the chosen scenario, three primary needs for additional light communication were identified: (1) communicating that the HGV has to merge, (2) communicating the urgency of the situation and (3) communicating when the HGV will initiate the turn. A concept was developed consisting of long LED-strips mounted on the cab together with a modified flash sequence of the light. The new sequence consists of three phases, the first being the same steady turn signal used today. In the second phase, the light flashes in a double pattern, similar to a heartbeat, to communicate urgency. In the third phase, which is activated just before the turn is initiated, the light flashes with higher frequency to catch even more attention from the other road users. The concept was tested using a VR-simulation of the chosen scenario where eleven participants drove a passenger vehicle and had to interact with a merging HGV equipped with the proposed concept. The evaluation confirmed the hypothesis that the larger LED-strips attracted more attention than traditional turn signals. When interviewed about the new flash sequences, the majority of the participants understood its meaning and thought that it would help an AV to communicate the urgency of the situation.
Permittivity estimation of a shallow-layered medium using high-resolution ground-penetrating radar

ABSTRACT This paper proposes a method of permittivity estimation using ground penetrating radar (GPR). The proposed method can estimate the permittivity of a shallow-layered medium. In the proposed method, antenna calibration is introduced to improve the vertical resolution of the GPR. The conventional surface reflection method is slightly modified to be suitable for operation at a shallow depth since the antenna calibration impacts the signal amplitude being exploited to estimate the permittivity. Simulation and experimentation examples are illustrated to confirm that the proposed method can estimate the permittivity of each layer of dielectric ground medium. Simulations were divided into two main catalogues in order to investigate the resolution improvement and estimation accuracy of the GPR. The experimentation of the GPR along with the proposed method were conducted. The experimental results showed good agreement with those obtained from the commercial dielectric prob kit.
Comparative Study of an ANN-ARIMA Hybrid Model for Predicting Karachi Stock Price

Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) has been considered a popular linear model for forecasting time series. Artiﬁcial Neural Network (ANN) has been considered a powerful tool which is used to define the complex economic relationships with various patterns. In this study, the forecasting performance of Hybrid ANN-ARIMA is compared with Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) of KSE viz. National Foods (NATF) and Engro Foods (EFOOD). Experimental results obtained show the excellence of Hybrid NN-ARIMA model over ANN and ARIMA, respectively. Further, it can be concluded that Hybrid ANN-ARIMA model has the best forecasting accuracy for forecasting stock price.
BIST 30 ENDEKSİ VE DOLAR-TL KURU İÇİN FUTURES KONTRATLARA DAYALI OPTİMAL HEDGE RASYOLARININ VE HEDGİNG ETKİNLİĞİNİN İNCELENMESİ: KAPSAMLI BİR ANALİZ

Bu calismada BIST 30 endeksi ile Dolar-TL kuru uzerine yazili futures kontratlarin sundugu optimal hedge rasyolari ve hedging etkinligi incelenmistir. Calismada, kapsamli bir analiz sunulmasi amaciyla, hem DBEKK, CCC-GARCH, DCC-GARCH, GOGARCH-ML ve GOGARCH-NLS modellerinden olusan dinamik hedging stratejilerine hem de OLS, VAR, ECM ile kisa ve uzun hafizali GARCH modellerine (GARCH, GJR-GARCH, FIGARCH, FIEGARCH) dayali statik hedging stratejilerine yer verilmistir. En uygun modelin belirlenmesinde ise minumum varyans yaklasimi ile ortalama varyans yaklasimina dayali fayda fonksiyonundan yararlanilmistir.Calisma bulgulari, BIST30 endeksi icin DBEKK modeli tarafindan sunulan optimal hedge rasyosunun; Dolar-TL kuru icinse GOGARCH-NLS modeli tarafindan sunulan optimal hedge rasyosunun hedging etkinliginin daha iyi oldugunu gostermektedir.
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow - Political Ambition, Coalitions, and Accountability as Determinants of Ministerial Turnover in the Brazilian Multiparty Presidential System

The article aims at understanding the determinants of ministerial turnover in presidential systems. There are essentially three key factors that govern the propensity for ministerial turnover in a presidential system: 01. political ambition – reflected in the individual or collective strategies and tactics employed by the party-affiliated actors represented in the cabinet; 02. the presence or absence of a governing coalition – which has bearing on the degree of ideological distance between the president and such political parties as form [. ]
Avaliação da satisfação de usuários da Atenção Básica portadores de hipertensão e diabetes

Este estudo teve como objetivo identificar a satisfacao dos usuarios hipertensos e diabeticos com o cuidado recebido na atencao basica, a partir de uma pesquisa de delineamento transversal com dados oriundos da avaliacao externa do 2o ciclo do PMAQ. O desfecho “satisfacao dos usuarios” foi composto pela resposta negativa a pergunta: “se pudesse, mudaria de equipe ou unidade de saude? ”, somado a resposta positiva a pergunta: “voce recomendaria esta unidade de saude para um amigo ou familiar? ”. Dos 47.927 usuarios hipertensos e/ou diabeticos do estudo, observou-se que 80,3% (IC95% 79,9-80,6) encontravam-se satisfeitos com o cuidado recebido. Apos analise ajustada, o principal fator que afetou o desfecho foi a percepcao negativa sobre o cuidado clinica recebido, reduzindo em 17,0% (IC95% 0,82-0,84) a satisfacao dos usuarios. Os resultados reforcam a relevância do investimento em acoes voltadas para equipe de saude, propiciam condicoes para melhoria na oferta do cuidado oferecido.
Oximeter Behavior While Using a Tourniquet

This letter is a case report presenting the behavior of an approved for marketing oximeter device under tourniquet test, while comparing it with another approved for marketing device, the Cnoga TensorTip MTX (this letter is not a clinical trial report). Pulse oximetry is used for measuring the peripheral pulse and arterial oxygen saturation (SpO2) in the blood. The TensorTip MTX can measure over 15 bioparameters, among them the peripheral pulse and oxygen saturation.
Exposing three dark sides of social innovation through critical perspectives on resilience

ABSTRACT In this essay we expose three dark sides of social innovation (SI) by mobilising the concept of resilience. We examine implications for SI from (1) resilience thinking, (2) (critical) resilience studies and (3) the exceptional contexts in which resilience is needed. The first dark side of SI is that SIs lead to disruptions likely to cause unintended adverse consequences. The second dark side is that top-down SIs tend to be deployed in the name of vulnerable communities, but in neoliberal ways mainly concerned in making these communities more productive for society, at the risk of heightening their marginalisation. The third dark side is that SI discourse lends itself too easily to hijackings by powerful actors driving their own interests of capital accumulation while calling for communities to self-organise. We discuss how critical perspectives on resilience help us challenge these dark sides of SI.
Corrigendum: Hierarchical vortical structures extracted from turbulent fields (2020 Fluid Dyn. Res. 52 015503)

Geometrical relationships and interactions among hierarchical structures in isotropic turbulence are investigated by identifying individual vortices of three different scales in the inertial subrange. Fourier bandpass ﬁ lters are employed to extract the vortices, and each extracted vortex is replaced by a group of vortex segments with a cylindrical shape. The axes of neighboring vortices tend to be anti-parallel when the distance between them is equivalent to their diameter. Further, results indicate that a vortex is most strongly stretched by vortices twice the scale irrespective of the Reynolds number and the vortex scales. Then, the geometric relationships between the vortices being stretched and those that cause the stretching are analyzed, and the stretching is found to be particularly strong when the two vortices are orthogonal to each other.
Challenges Faced by Students and Teachers on Writing Skills in ESL Contexts: A Literature Review

English is an international language and in demand today. English is by far the most widely used language around the world. However, English language writing has always been a challenge for second language students to master. Developing students’ ability in writing is one of the major challenges faced by the ESL teachers in most schools nowadays. Nevertheless, writing has always been a major difficulty faced by students in English language learning, especially in elementary schools. Not only that, teachers are also facing some challenges in teaching writing skills for students in elementary schools. Thus, this study aims to explore the challenges faced by both the students and teachers in learning as well as teaching writing skills in elementary schools.
Pulmonary Streptomyces Infection in Patient with Sarcoidosis, France, 2012

TO THE EDITOR: Streptomyces spp. are aerobic, gram-positive bacteria of the order Actinomycetales, known for their ability to produce antimicrobial molecules such as streptomycin. Streptomyces spp. , usually saprophytic to humans, can cause local cutaneous fistulized nodules known as actinomycetoma or mycetoma. Severe invasive infections have seldom been reported, but most cases reported have occurred in immunocompromised patients (1-5). We report a case of invasive pulmonary infection caused by a Streptomyces sp. in a splenectomized patient with sarcoidosis.
SUBCONJUNTO TERMINOLÓGICO DA CIPE PARA PACIENTES COM DOENÇA DE PARKINSON EM REABILITAÇÃO

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder, multisystemic, uncurable and manifestations characterized by motor and non-motor symptoms. Specialized nursing care adds quality and integrality for the multidisciplinary care. Objective: To build a terminological subset of the International Classification for Nursing Practice ICNP® for patients with Parkinson's disease in rehabilitation. Method: Documentary study with cross mapping, which analyzed 352 medical records of patients with Parkinson's disease who underwent rehabilitation program in a specialized centre, from May 2009 to March 2014. Four methodological steps were developed: 1- data collection of the demographic characteristics of patients and empirical evidence of diagnosis/outcome and nursing interventions; 2- standardization of terms; 3- cross-mapping of empirical evidence to ICNP®; 4- validation of terms with nurses judges. Results: The profile of the patients was characterized by 61,9% men, aged between 59 and 78 years (67.0%), and 77.7% had the disease for 1 and 9 years, 37.8% in stage 2 of Hohen & Yahr scale and 58.0% had the mixed form of Parkinson's disease. 3.825 primitive concepts regarding nursing diagnosis/outcome emerged which resulted in 155 pre-coordinated concepts according to ICNP® (10.9±0.1). Among these, 113 were directly related to Parkinson's disease, 65.5% were considered syndromes and 98.2% of the total were validated by the judges. The non-motor symptoms were represented by 59.3% prevailing the diagnosis/outcome syndrome of "Impaired Urinary System Process" (100.0%). Motor symptoms were represented by 15.9%, where the diagnosis/outcome syndrome of "Hypoactivity" was the most prevalent (100.0%). Diagnostics/outcome related to the principles of rehabilitation accounted for 24.8% and the syndrome "Positive Ability To Perform Self Care" represented the set of most prevalent diagnosis (57.1%). In the case of the Nursing Interventions, 3.695 primitive concepts emerged from the records that after the cross-mappinp with ICNP® resulted in 66 pre-coordinated interventions (11.2±1.7). Among these, 56 were related to Parkinson's disease and the principles of rehabilitation and 91.0% were validated by the judges. The interventions were: "Contracting For Adherence" (100%), "Advise Patient for Fluid Intake" (67.0%), "Teaching About Medication Handling" (55.1%). Conclusions: We suggest the inclusion in ICNP® of the terms "Urinary urgency", "Nocturia", “Valsalva Maneuver”, “Crede’s Maneuver” and "Voiding Diary" in addition to the revision of the term "Hypoactivity". The creation of terminology subset subsidizes the development of clinical protocols in the context of rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson's disease, and above all, enables the implementation of a nursing specialty language.
Global mobility in music higher education: Reflections on how intercultural music-making can enhance students’ musical practices and identities

Music higher education institutions are increasingly recognising the educational value of intercultural learning experiences. Delivering such learning experiences in a way that provides music students with a rich cultural and musical learning experience, rather than a superficial one, can be a challenging task, particularly in the case of short-term ‘mobility’ or ‘study-abroad’ programmes. This article explores ways to address this challenge by reflecting on student learnings from a suite of international study experiences, or ‘global mobility programmes’, at one Australian tertiary music institution, run in collaboration with community partners, universities and nongovernmental organisations in the Asia Pacific. Focusing on how intercultural music-making in the context can enhance students’ musical practices and identities, we first outline the sociocultural contexts of our music global mobility programmes in Cambodia, China and India, and explore the different modes of music-making these experiences afforded. We then draw on Coessens’ ‘web of artistic practice’ to explore site-specific examples of the ways in which global mobility programmes can enhance students’ musical practices and identities. These findings hold particular relevance for music educators and higher education institutions in justifying, designing and carrying out such intercultural experiences to maximise student learning and success.
Performance Evaluation of Dynamic HV Cables With Al Conductors for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

Floating Offshore Wind turbine installations will require HV dynamic power cables to be connected to the of longer length static export power cables. Experience from offshore wind installations has highlighted the criticality of power cables, underlining the need for high integrity, yet cost effective cable solutions. This paper will assess the mechanical performance and load parameters for an Aluminum power conductor cable. Whilst copper is the conventional choice due to its lower resistive losses, Aluminum cores are increasingly used for static power cables, due to their benefits regarding overall cable weight and material cost. The work presented adopts a coupled aero-elastic and hydrodynamic modelling approach to simulate the behavior of the well-documented OC4 semi-sub platform, together with the 5MW NREL wind turbine. The model allows a direct comparison between the two cable types, maintaining the overall system and environmental conditions. The results inform the design envelope regarding the ultimate load conditions a for the two principle cable designs, providing global load estimates, such as effective tension and bending stresses, to inform the local stress analysis. Furthermore, the results will form the basis for future physical demonstration and validation tests. This paper will be of interest to technology developers and practitioners concerned with submarine dynamic power cables, offer a methodology to directly compare and evaluate different cable design options, and providing some design guidance for and aluminum conductor cables.
Vignette for the anoint package

This document gives a brief introduction to the main functions of the anoint package. The package provides a set of tools for the “analysis of interactions” to investigate consistency of treatment effect with data from a parallel-group clinical trial. The examples will make use of a simulated clinical trial data set, motivated by the structure of the Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction Trial (SOLVD-T), a placebo-controlled trial of the angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitor enalapril for patients with congestive heart failure (Yusuf 1991). The simulated data set is included with the package.
Investigation of a Candidate for Cosmic Ray Acceleration

Studies of the non-thermal Galactic source population are essential to understand how and where the bulk of cosmic rays are being accelerated and to understand the mechanisms underlying very high energy (VHE, E>50 GeV) emitters [39, 51]. The plane of the Milky Way is rich with supernova remnants (SNRs) and pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) which are efficient accelerators of cosmic rays (CRs) whose interaction with the surrounding photon fields produces energetic γrays and neutrinos. SNRs and PWNe are some of the most powerful objects in our Galaxy and because they emit at very high energies (VHE, E>50 GeV), γ-rays represent an excellent probe of the non-thermal astrophysical processes in these objects. Relativistic electrons (i.e. leptons) can produce γ-rays by non-thermal bremsstrahlung or by inverse Compton scattering (IC) on ambient photon fields, whereas protons and heavier nuclei (i.e. hadrons) can generate γ-rays by the process of pion decay, produced in collisions between relativistic hadrons and ambient material. Understanding the particle population responsible for the observed γ-ray emission can provide clues to the potential of CR acceleration as most cosmic rays are made of protons or heavier nuclei (∼10% of all cosmic rays are leptons) so, if it can be established that the γ-ray emission is hadronic in origin, then we can better understand the likelihood for hadron CR acceleration in VHE objects. In this thesis, we report on the investigation of a very high energy (VHE), Galactic γ-ray source recently discovered at >50 GeV using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board Fermi. This object, 2FHL J0826.1−4500, displays one of the hardest >50 GeV spectra (Γγ ∼ 1.6) in the 2FHL sample, and a follow-up observation with XMM-Newton has uncovered diffuse, soft thermal emission at the position of the γ-ray source. A detailed analysis of the available multi-wavelength data shows that this source is located on the Western edge of the Vela supernova remnant: the observations and the spectral energy distribution modeling support a scenario where this γ-ray source is the
4D respiratory motion synchronized image synthesis from static CT images using GANs

Respiratory motion is a major limiting factor in computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET), especially in the thorax and in the abdomen. While four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) acquisitions may yield some degree of motion-awareness, it is at the cost of increased radiation dose delivered to the patient. In this paper, we are interested in synthesizing realistic phase-gated 4DCT data from single-helical CT images that could serve as surrogates for real 4DCT acquisitions. More precisely, we study the feasability of respiratory motion synthesis using deep conditional generative adversarial learning networks trained on real 4DCT data. The proposed network architecture is an ensemble of parallel image-to-image translation networks, each synthesizing one respiratory phase-gated frame of the 4DCT acquisition. We show that realistic breathing dynamics can be obtained from a small set of training 4DCT data. Although not clinically meaningful, these results constitute a first step among ongoing developments in our laboratory towards the synthesis of patient-specific pseudo-4DCT acquisitions from 3DCT images, where external breathing tracking system would further condition motion synthesis.
The ELECTRE 1 method for multi criteria decision making under bipolar intuitionistic fuzzy soft environment

In this paper, the elimination and choice translating reality (ELECTRE 1) method is proposed and expressed with bipolar intuitionistic fuzzy soft set (BIFS S). The purpose of this paper is to solve the multi criteria decision making problem in terms of bipolar intuitionistic fuzzy soft information. An illustration is given to explain the method.In this paper, the elimination and choice translating reality (ELECTRE 1) method is proposed and expressed with bipolar intuitionistic fuzzy soft set (BIFS S). The purpose of this paper is to solve the multi criteria decision making problem in terms of bipolar intuitionistic fuzzy soft information. An illustration is given to explain the method.