Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Screening for Service Needs in Primary Health Care Clinics: an Evaluation in Bangladesh

Many clients attending primary health care (PHC) facilities in developing countries are not aware of all the services available and of all their needs. This study in Bangladesh tested a screening tool for identifying needs for services other than those requested by clients. The more systematic approach to screening significantly increased the amount of checking for service needs and the number of additional needs identified. The proportion of additional needs that were met also improved from 24.3% to 80.3% in NGO intervention clinics and from 4.6% to 14.0% in Government clinics. The total number of additional services provided per 100 requested services increased from 12 to 28 and from 3 to 10 respectively. The results suggest that introducing a screening tool more widely in PHC clinics is feasible and could significantly increase coverage of reproductive and child health services. (authors)
Software Dependency Estimation in the code Repositories for the Requirement Evolution

Dependency is the only means to ensure that the source code of a system is consistent with its requirements. During software maintenance and evolution, requirement dependency links become obsolete because dependency model is been not trained properly to updating them. Yet, recovering these dependency links later is a daunting and costly task for building the model for unsupervised enhancements. Consequently, the literature has proposed methods, techniques, and tools to recover these dependency links semi-automatically or automatically. Among the proposed techniques, the literature showed that information retrieval (IR) techniques can automatically recover traceability links between free-text requirements and source code through classification techniques to the Software repositories. However, IR techniques lack accuracy (precision and recall) in terms of Text and concept based mining also leads to code sense disambiguation. In this paper, we show that Semantic mining of software repositories and combining mined results with IR can improve the accuracy (precision and recall) of IR techniques. We apply Dependency Estimation on to compare the accuracy of its dependency links with those recovered using state-of-the-art IR techniques from Vector Space model and Concept based mining. We thus show that mining software repositories and combining the mined data with existing results from IR techniques improves the precision and recall of requirement dependency links.
Effects of perinatal meditation on pregnant Chinese women in Hong Kong: A randomized controlled trial

Objective: To assess the effects of Perinatal Meditation on pregnant Chinese women in Hong Kong. Design: A prospective longitudinal randomized control quantitative study. Data were collected using the Prenatal Distress Questionnaire, Prenatal Coping Inventory, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, Body-Mind-Spirit Well-Being Inventory (BMSWBI) and salivary cortisol. Data were collected during first visit, 36 th weeks pregnant, 5 th weeks and 5 th months after delivery. Settings: Perinatal meditation program (Eastern Based Meditative Intervention, EBMI) for pregnant Chinese women in Hong Kong who were attending the hospital clinic for routine perinatal care. Participants: 64 pregnant Chinese women were recruited for intervention and 59 were for control. 36 cases were classified as Frequent Practice (FP) in intervention group. Results: Quantitative results showed statistically significant increase in positive appraisal ( p < .05) at 36th weeks, difference in evening salivary cortisol ( p < .05) and decreased in physical distress ( p < .05) at 5th weeks postpartum in the Frequent Practice (FP) group. Conclusions: Frequency of practice of meditation is directly related to its effects. Perinatal meditation can help pregnant women to reduce perinatal stress through its effect on coping mechanism and improves physical discomfort in postnatal period which are risk factors for maternal health, fetal health and child health. Perinatal meditation can be added into present perinatal counselling and perinatal program to promote maternal health, child health and family health.
Control of Liquid Sloshing Container using Active Force Control Method

This paper presents a robust control method to relieve the sloshing of liquid container transport using Active Force Control (AFC) method. A model of two degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) liquid container transfer was implemented in this research as the main dynamical system to be controlled. The surface of liquid is maintained in a flat position, so that changes the slope of liquid surface countered by changing the acceleration of container. The focus of this research is how to use AFC method being applied to the system, so that it can suppress liquid sloshing. The control scheme were simulated, compare between PID-AFC and pure PID. Simulations has been conducted, the results show that the PID-AFC have superior performance to suppress the sloshing compared with pure PID, especially if disturbance occurred.
Emerging Threats and Opportunities for Large‐Scale Ecological Restoration in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil

Over the past 150 years, Brazil has played a pioneering role in developing environmental policies and pursuing forest conservation and ecological restoration of degraded ecosystems. In particular, the Brazilian Forest Act, first drafted in 1934, has been fundamental in reducing deforestation and engaging private land owners in forest restoration initiatives. At the time of writing (December 2010), however, a proposal for major revision of the Brazilian Forest Act is under intense debate in the National Assembly, and we are deeply concerned about the outcome. On the basis of the analysis of detailed vegetation and hydrographic maps, we estimate that the proposed changes may reduce the total amount of potential areas for restoration in the Atlantic Forest by approximately 6 million hectares. As a radically different policy model, we present the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact (AFRP), which is a group of more than 160 members that represents one of the most important and ambitious ecological restoration programs in the world. The AFRP aims to restore 15 million hectares of degraded lands in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest biome by 2050 and increase the current forest cover of the biome from 17% to at least 30%. We argue that not only should Brazilian lawmakers refrain from revising the existing Forest Law, but also greatly step up investments in the science, business, and practice of ecological restoration throughout the country, including the Atlantic Forest. The AFRP provides a template that could be adapted to other forest biomes in Brazil and to other megadiversity countries around the world.
Development of Compact Self-Balancing Robot with Self-Standing and Stair-Climbing Capability

Self-balancing robots can turn on the spot using differential steering with better efficiency than tracked or four-wheel drive robots, and they can be many times their width in height. However they have two major limitations: they cannot stand-up on their own and cannot climb stairs. In this paper, a novel design is proposed to address these issues. A single degree of freedom is added to the center of a four-wheel drive robot. This arm allows the robot to climb stairs and stand-up on its own. A model and simulation of the balancing and the stair-climbing process are derived and the stair-climbing is compared against experimental results with a prototype. It was shown that the model closely follows the trend of the experimental results and provides a basis for future studies on the concept.
Forecasting Portuguese GDP with factor models 1

In this article, we assess the relative performance of factor models to forecast GDP growth in Portugal. A large dataset is compiled for the Portuguese economy and its usefulness for nowcasting and short-term forecasting is investigated. Since, in practice, one has to cope with diff erent publication lags and unbalanced data, we also address the real-time performance of such models.
5 . 4 GHz Lamb Wave Resonator using LiNbO 3 Crystal Thin Plate and Application to Tunable Filter LiNbO

In recent years, a high-frequency device of 3 GHz or more, for instance, for a fourth generation mobile phone system in Japan, has been required. It is proper to use the a 1-st anti-symmetric (A1) mode of a Lamb wave with a high velocity in order to realize a high frequency acoustic device and to use a substrate with large electromechanical coupl-ing factor in order to realize a wide band acoustic device. As such device, authors realized a 4.5 GHz high frequency Lamb wave resonator on an elect-rode/c-orientated twin epitaxial LiNbO3 thin film /air gap/base substrate structure like MEMS depo-sited by chemical vapor deposition method (CVD) in 2008. Conventionally it is considered that it is difficult to realize a very thin crystal plate for a high frequency Lamb wave device. This time, the author tried to fabricate a high frequency Lamb wave resonator on a very thin Z-LiNbO3 crystal plate instead of a thin LiNbO3 film and apply it to a ladder type of tunable filter.
Telecommunication Externality on Migration: Evidence from Chinese Villages

We use a unique data set of Chinese villages to investigate whether access to telecommunications, in particular, landline phones, increases the likelihood of outmigration. By using regional and time variations in the installation of landline phones, our difference-in-differences (DID) estimation shows that the access to landline phones increases the ratio of out-migrant workers by 2.1 percentage points, or about 54 percent of the sample mean in China. The results remain robust to a battery of validity checks. Furthermore, landline phones affect outmigration through two channels: information access on job opportunities and timely contact with left-behind family members. Our findings underscore the positive migration externality of expanding telecommunications access in rural areas, especially in places where migration potential is large.
Residual control chart for monitoring pediatrics hospital admission performances

This paper aims to demonstrate the use of pre whitening (PW) technique to handle the presence of autocorrelation on the statistical control charts, for 3-year (2008-2010) daily pediatrics (less than 4 years old) hospital admission.The PW technique has been implemented as an alternative procedure to obtain residuals series which are statistically uncorrelated to each other.Results showed that there is a reduction in the number of out-of–control signals in residual series control chart as compared to the amount of the out-of–control signals on traditional statistical control chart before the use of PW technique.Thus, it is suggested that statistical control chart using residual series performs better when the original pediatric hospital admission series are auto-correlated. In addition, it can be concluded that the Phase II (monitoring period) performance process is likely to follow the similar pattern of the Phase I (baseline period) process except for only one day on the 13th October 2009 that exceeds the upper control limit.This means that the pediatrics hospital admission on that particular day has not improved and fundamentally changed from what are expected in stable process.
Assessment of Heavy Metals and Bioaccumulation in Periwinkle (Tympanotonus fuscatus var. radula (L.))Obtained from the Upper Reaches of the Bonny Estuary, Nigeria

The aim of this study was to assess accumulation of heavy metals in tissues of Periwinkle (Tympanotonus fuscatus var radula (L.)) obtained from Azuabie creek using Okujagu creek as control location. Fifty samples were collected from each site for three months (October-December 2015). Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometric technique was used in heavy metal analysis. Mean metal concentrations in sediments were as follows Zn: 178.08 mgkg-1; Cd: 0.3 mgkg-1; Cr: 14.27 mgkg-1 and Pb: 18.75 mgkg-1. While those in Periwinkle tissue with biosediment accumulation factor (BAF) in parenthesis were thus Zn: 24.42 mgkg-1 (0.137); Cd: 0.02 mgkg-1 (0.067); Cr: 1.57 mgkg-1 (0.11) and Pb 0.01 mgkg-1 0.001). The result of BAF of metals indicated low values which could be related to assimilation and excretion rate of heavy metals in the organisms examined. Variations in the concentration of Zn in the gastropod tissues showed significant difference (p<0.01) between sites, likewise, Cr (p<0.001) and Cd (p<0.05). In conclusion, comparison between the two creeks showed that tissue samples from St1, St2 and St3 (Azuabie creek) had higher concentration of metals in relation to the control station (Okujagu creek) indicating potentials for accumulation, mainly due to differences in anthropogenic activities. Cr, Cd and Pb concentrations in tissue had mean values less than the recommended limits in seafood by FAO/WHO however, regular monitoring is required to observe perturbations.
Ecological Restoration Indicators in Agroforestry Systems in the Atlantic Forest

The Agroforestry Systems (SAF) are forms of land use and land occupation in which woody plants are managed in association with herbaceous and agricultural ones. They present the possibility to recover degraded areas, as comprehended in legislation. Thus, the monitoring and assessment of areas recovered with Agroforestry Systems are extremely important, seeking to evaluate if their environmental functions can be equivalent to areas recovered only with native species. Thereby, the objective of this study was to evaluate, through forest restoration indicators, the recovery of ecosystem functions in SAF implanted in Ribeirao Grande, Sao Paulo State. The sample design was randomized by 3 installments (15 x 15 m each) randomly allocated in a SAF area and other 3 installments in a reforestation area with native species only (RN), both five years old, in the same watershed. The indicators were crown diameter, forest litter stock, height and diameter above the base of the individual trees, temperature, and humidity. The assumptions of normality and homogeneity of variance were verified through the Waste Analysis, with subsequent analysis using the nonparametric Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test. Statistical analyzes were performed using the R software (R Delopment Core Team, 2012) with a significance level of 5% (α = 0.05). It is concluded that the recovery area only with native species presents better development of vertical structure, with greater canopy closure. For soil indicators there were no differences. SAF, run by natural succession, can be presented as an alternative to the recovery of degraded areas, because they are more similar to the structure of native forests.
Differences and similarities between Shape Dynamics and General Relativity

The purpose of this contribution is to elucidate some of the properties of Shape Dynamics (SD) and is largely based on a recent longer article. We shall point out some of the key differences between SD and related theoretical constructions, illustrate the central mechanism of symmetry trading in electromagnetism and finally point out some new quantization strategies inspired by SD. We refrain from describing mathematical detail and from citing literature. For both we refer to the longer article.
Study of the environmental and optical durability of AR microstructures in sapphire, ALON, and diamond

Data is presented for the erosion resistance and pulsed laser damage threshold of anti-reflecting (AR) microstructures built in the surface of the infrared light transmitting window materials sapphire, ALON, and diamond. It was found that the erosion resistance of AR microstructures (ARMs) in sapphire is comparable to the resistance of sapphire with no AR treatment. Such environmental durability, combined with the enhanced light transmission of windows incorporating ARMs, provides system designers with an effective solution for applications requiring high transmission over long mission times operating in abrasive environments. In addition, the optical power handling capacity of sapphire and ALON windows was investigated through pulsed laser damage threshold measurements with a laser source operating in the near infrared at a wavelength of 1573nm. As with prior results reported for ARMs in fused silica and borosilicate glass, the measured damage threshold of 19 J/cm2 for ARMs treated sapphire windows is comparable to the damage level measured for untreated sapphire windows, and this level is at least two times higher than that found with the most durable thin-film AR coatings designed for fused silica. The damage thresholds measured for untreated and ARMs treated ALON windows was also comparable, but at a level more than four times less than the sapphire windows. Lastly, the long-wave infrared light transmission of high performance ARMs fabricated in clear diamond windows is presented. The Air Force Research Laboratoy's Laser Hardened Materials Evaluation Laboratory at WPAFB tested the damage threshold of the ARMs treated diamond windows along with untreated diamond windows using their pulsed CO2 laser setup operating at 9. 56μm. Although the results of the tests using two different laser settings were quite variable and inconsistent due to the nature of the diamond material, the damage thresholds measured were in the 50 to 100 J/cm2 range, a level much higher than can be achieved with thin-film AR coatings.
Effects of genetically modified, herbicide-tolerant crops and their management on soil food web properties and crop litter decomposition

Summary 1. Genetically modified (GM), herbicide-tolerant crops have been adopted extensively worldwide, resulting in increased homogenization of agricultural practices. However, several countries still view GM crops with trepidation, citing potential risks to human health and the environment. We currently know little about how non-target biota responds to cultivation of GM crops under field conditions. 2. This study describes a series of microcosm and field experiments in Ontario, Canada, that estimated the effects of transgenic, glyphosate-tolerant (GT) crops and their management on the abundances of detritivorous soil biota and crop litter decomposition. 3. Absolute abundance of few of the measured biotic groups were affected by either the herbicide or variety treatments and, where significant effects were observed, the responses were not consistent across all years or for all sample dates within a year. More frequently, but not consistently, the GT herbicide system was associated with increased fungal : bacterial biomass ratios, suggesting a state of reduced enrichment. 4. Although the conventional and GT varieties studied differed in composition, we observed few effects of the modification for glyphosate-tolerance on maize Zea mays and soybean Glycine max litter decomposition. Overall, the herbicide system associated with GT crops reduced soybean- and corn-litter decomposition, but responses were inconsistent across Ontario, with many trials demonstrating no effect. Effects were probably underrepresented in this study as average daily precipitation was positively correlated with the magnitude of this system effect and many sites received well-below average levels of precipitation. 5. Synthesis and applications. Most concerns regarding the potential impacts of GM crops on non-target biota have targeted traits associated with the biotechnology itself. However, shifts in management practices associated with biotechnology are also widespread and have the same, if not greater, potential to alter the structure and functioning of agroecosystem biodiversity. The lack of observed permanent negative effects on soil biota in this study is heartening; however, more research is required to determine the functional consequences of observed transient effects and effects on other biota, as well as how altered crop litter decomposition affects agroecosystem nutrient cycling and carbon sequestration.
Coordinated Roles of the Putative Ceramide-Conjugation Protein, Cwh43, and a Mn2+-Transporting, P-Type ATPase, Pmr1, in Fission Yeast

Genetically controlled mechanisms of cell division and quiescence are vital for responding to changes in the nutritional environment and for cell survival. Previously, we have characterized temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants of the cwh43 gene in fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, which is required for both cell proliferation and nitrogen starvation-induced G0 quiescence. Cwh43 encodes an evolutionarily conserved transmembrane protein that localizes in endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Defects in this protein fail to divide in low glucose and lose mitotic competence under nitrogen starvation, and also affect lipid metabolism. Here, we identified mutations of the pmr1 gene, which encodes an evolutionarily conserved Ca2+/Mn2+-transporting P-type ATPase, as potent extragenic suppressors of ts mutants of the cwh43 gene. Intriguingly, these pmr1 mutations specifically suppressed the ts phenotype of cwh43 mutants, among five P-type Ca2+- and/or Mn2+-ATPases reported in this organism. Cwh43 and Pmr1 co-localized in the ER. In cwh43 mutant cells, addition of excessive manganese to culture media enhanced the severe defect in cell morphology, and caused abnormal accumulation of a cell wall component, 1, 3-β-glucan. In contrast, these abnormal phenotypes were abolished by deletion of the pmr1+ gene, as well as by removal of Mn2+ from the culture medium. Furthermore, nutrition-related phenotypes of cwh43 mutant cells were rescued in the absence of Pmr1. Our findings indicate that the cellular processes regulated by Cwh43 are appropriately balanced with Pmr1-mediated Mn2+ transport into the ER.
Antibody Markers for Studying Neurodegeneration in the Nothobranchius Central Nervous System

Fish of the genus Nothobranchius have a naturally short lifespan in which they develop several neurological biomarkers of aging. This short lifespan (several months compared to several years in mice and zebrafish) make these fish a promising alternative in aging research. Resveratrol dosing retarded the development of the neurological biomarkers of aging identified in N. furzeri. Resveratrol's method of action was not determined due to the lack of celltype specific markers of degenerative processes. Further research of the Nothobranchius CNS and its degeneration is hampered by the lack of cell-type specific antibodies and other cellular markers of degenerative processes. In this article the authors present a molecular toolbox of five antibodies and a lectin which can be used to study the Nothobranchius central nervous system and its degeneration. These antibodies were tested against western blots of rat, zebrafish and Nothobranchius guentheri brain homogenates as well as frozen sections. Antibodies shown to reliably bind with N. guentheri proteins were: SMI31 which labeled axons and dendrites; mouse anti-human GFAP and rabbit anti-cow GFAP which labeled astroglia; mouse anti-rat tenascin-R which labeled oligodendrocytes; and E587 anti-goldfish L1 which labeled neuronal and astrocytic cell bodies and processes. The BS-I isolectin B4 labeled microglia in the optic nerve and retina. This toolbox will enable researchers to study the aging brain of Nothobranchius as well as its normal development at a cellular level.
Evolution of the Concept and Models of Work Exhaustion (Burnout): The Research in Mexico

This is a review paper which describes "Burnout", its concept evolution, Burnout models, which is divided into two types: comprehensive models and process models, identification of varying quantification instruments and application area, it is also analysed, described, and discussed the models and instruments weaknesses. Finally is described the research made in Mexico. The main finding of the paper is that burnout is contingent with the environment and a phenomenon is important and the empirical evidence is too strong for to consider as occupational disease in the design of public policies to face the problem.