Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effectiveness of Mechanisms for Enforcement of Ethical Standards in the Construction Industry

Gross unethical conducts are common issues among professionals in the construction sector due to the heterogeneous nature of the industry. However, limited efforts are made to ensure that ethical standards become enforced among professionals in the sector. Therefore, this study assessed effective mechanisms for the enforcement of ethical standards to improve public confidence in construction professionals. Data were collected through copies of questionnaire administered on professionals in consultancy, contracting and government organizations in Southwestern Nigeria. One hundred and seventy-two (172) copies of questionnaire were retrieved and found suitable for the analysis. Data collected was analyzed using both the descriptive and inferential statistics. The study revealed that all the ethical standards identified were moderately significant with relative effective index (REI) that ranged from 0.585 to 0.526. Some of these included personal reputation, promotion of civic right, good citizenry, among others. Four major effective mechanisms for the enforcement of ethical standards extracted through factor analysis are the roles to be played by the stakeholders (68.22%), individual (9.44%), industry (3.64%) and legal instruments (3.08%). It was concluded that these four mechanisms are effective in the enforcement of ethical standards in the construction industry. The study recommends that all construction stakeholders must ensure that all hands are on deck through collaborations to sanitise the image of the industry. The outcome of this research will improve the ethical orientation of each professional, which will have a positive effect on the general public's perception of the industry.
Blazing Beetles: The Effect Of Temperature On The Locomotion of A Namib Dune Beetle

Author(s): Philips, Jonathan; Cobos, Anthony; Higham, Timothy | Abstract: Deserts represent some of the harshest ecosystems for life to survive in. In order to thrive, species must find novel adaptations either through behavioral or physiological modulation. The Namib desert of Southern Africa is no exception. In the Namib, temperatures can swing from 10 to 30°C throughout the day. Previous studies have indicated that there is temperature dependence in muscle power output in ectotherms. With the Namib being an understudied ecosystem, the present study aimed to investigate if invertebrate muscle output is affected by wild temperature fluctuations. Onmyacris plana, a Tenebrionid beetle endemic to the dunes of the Namib, was chosen due to being dorsally flattened, which results in low heat storage capacity. Although the thermoregulatory strategies, running ability, size and metabolic needs of O. plana have been studied, there have been no studies on the effect of temperature on the running performance of O. plana. We collected 8 beetles from the dunes and kept them in a vivarium in the lab. Beetles were subjected to three temperatures, to represent temperatures commonly experienced throughout the day. They were then placed on a 1-meter trackway in the lab and we made them run while recording them with a high-speed camera. Using the Matlab DLTdv5 digitizing tool we quantified their speed throughout the trials and analyzed differences in speed for the three treatments. We found no significant differences between running ability for beetles running at daytime temperatures and had significant difficulty in getting the beetles to run at temperatures experienced early in the morning. Our findings suggest that the beetles have a threshold muscle temperature which, if met, is sufficient for running at maximal speeds.
Process for the synthesis of 4,5,6,7-tetrachloro-3',6'-dihydroxy-2',4',5',7'-tetraiodo-3h-spiro[isobenzofuran-1,9'-xanthen-3-one (rose bengal) and related xanthenes

The present invention relates to a novel method of producing a high purity iodide, xanthene containing the cyclization step and a subsequent step iodide. The chromatographic solvent or concentration step needed, without extraction, and the intermediates and final compounds may be isolated by filtration or like means. The method requires a single organic solvent, and the steps are completed, at a temperature of less than 100 ℃. Chloride free from reagents which can generate these species in situ in the presence of a reagent or oxidizing agent-radical, hypochlorite ion or hypochlorous acid, or elimination of chloride ions to prevent unwanted impurities that are formed. A number of new compounds were spherical and isolated by such methods. These novel compounds also forms a novel medicament.
Thermodynamics, Dynamics, and Kinetics of Nanostructured Fluid-Solid Interfaces

This article covers thermodynamic, dynamic, and kinetic models that are suitable for the analysis of wetting, adsorption, and related interfacial phenomena in colloidal and multiphase systems. Particular emphasis is made on describing crucial physical assumptions and the validity range of the described theoretical approaches and predictive models. The classical sharp interface treatment of thermodynamic systems where a perfectly smooth surface is assumed to separate homogeneous phases can present significant limitations when analyzing systems that are subject to thermal motion and present multiple metastable states caused by interfacial heterogeneities of nanoscale dimensions. Mesoscopic approaches such as stochastic Langevin dynamics can extend the application of sharp interface models to a wide variety of systems exhibiting metastability as they undergo thermal motion. For such metastable systems, dynamic and kinetic equations can describe the evolution of observable (macroscopic) variables as the system approaches thermodynamic equilibrium. Sufficiently close to equilibrium, Kramers theory of thermally activated escape from metastable states can be effectively employed to describe diverse wetting and interfacial processes via kinetic equations. Future directions for further advancement and application of thermodynamic, dynamic, and kinetic models are briefly discussed in the context of current technological developments involving nanoparticles, nanofluidics, and nanostructured surfaces.
A single-center experience with service organization for patients with ARFID

Background To date, very little research has explored the impact that the newly articulated diagnosis Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) has had on feeding and eating disorder program service organization and delivery. The purpose of this paper is to provide a descriptive overview of a single-center, ARFID-specific pilot clinic that sought to better understand the specific needs of patients with ARFID and gain insight into treatment requirements. Methods A retrospective cohort study was completed on patients with ARFID admitted to a specialized pilot clinic within a tertiary care hospital. Results Over an 18 month period, a total of 31 patients were assessed, with 26 patients completing follow-up assessments. Patients presented with heterogeneous manifestations of ARFID, with treatment plans tailored to meet individual needs at assessment and over the treatment period. A multidisciplinary approach was most often administered, including a combination of administered individual therapy, family therapy, medical monitoring, and prescribed medications. Only 30% of patients were treated exclusively by therapists on the eating disorder team. Conclusions The experiences gained from this pilot study highlight the need for specialized resources for assessment and treatment of patients with ARFID, the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to treatment, and the necessity of utilization of ARFID-specific measures for program evaluation purposes.
Understanding the Reaction Kinetics to Optimize Graphene Growth on Cu by Chemical Vapor Deposition

Understanding and controlling the growth kinetics of graphene is a prerequisite to synthesize this highly wanted material by chemical vapor deposition on Cu, e.g. for the construction of ultra‐stable electron transparent membranes. It is reviewed that Cu foils contain a considerable amount of carbon in the bulk which significantly exceeds the expected amount of thermally equilibrated dissolved carbon in Cu and that this carbon must be removed before any high quality graphene may be grown. Starting with such conditioned Cu foils, systematic studies of the graphene growth kinetics in a reactive CH4/H2 atmosphere allow to extract the following meaningful data: prediction of the equilibrium constant of the graphene formation reaction within a precision of a factor of two, the confirmation that the graphene growth proceeds from a C(ad)‐phase on Cu which is in thermal equilibrium with the reactive gas phase, its apparent activation barrier and finally the prediction of the achievable growth velocity of the growing graphene flakes during chemical vapor deposition. As a result of the performed study, growth parameters are identified for the synthesis of high quality monolayer graphene with single crystalline domains of 100–1000 μm in diameter within a reasonable growth time.
First Case Report of Vibrio harveyi infection in Salema ( Sarpa salpa ) in a Public Aquarium *

In this study, moribund salema (Sarpa salpa) individuals from a public aquarium were investigated to identify the cause of disease. A minor scale loss and partial skin depigmentation were observed in the diseased fish. Internal investigation of fish revealed hyperemia in the liver and the intestines and haemorrhages in the muscle tissues. When the histopathological sections of tissues were examined, it was determined that the bacterial infection affected especially the gill epithelium, the intestinal mucosa, the heart muscle and hemopoietic tissues of the spleen. According to phenotypic and biochemical characteristics as well as SSU rRNA sequencing results, the isolated bacteria was Vibrio harveyi and consistently seen all the examined samples of visceral organs including kidney, spleen, liver and blood. However, Vibrio vulnificus and Pseudoalteromonas piscicida bacteria were also isolated from blood and spleen tissues of one sick fish among others.
The Acquisition of Culturally Patterned Attention Styles Under Active Inference

This paper presents an active inference based simulation study of visual foraging. The goal of the simulation is to show the effect of the acquisition of culturally patterned attention styles on cognitive task performance, under active inference. We show how cultural artefacts like antique vase decorations drive cognitive functions such as perception, action and learning, as well as task performance in a simple visual discrimination task. We thus describe a new active inference based research pipeline that future work may employ to inquire on deep guiding principles determining the manner in which material culture drives human thought, by building and rebuilding our patterns of attention.
Examining Moderators of Vocabulary Acquisition from Kindergarten Through Elementary School Using Local Structural Equation Modeling

Parental socio-economic status (SES) is often found to be associated with children’s language competence in the first decade of life. To examine the effect of SES on children’s vocabulary development, as well as a potential compensatory effects of schooling and learning-related activities, we examined the joint and unique effects of parental education, occupational status, and learning environment at home on children’s receptive vocabulary competence and growth in early childhood. We used latent growth curve models to distinguish between pre-school receptive vocabulary and growth across primary school. Analyses were based on data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), a large-scale longitudinal study assessing vocabulary competence and family background from Kindergarten to the 3rd grade of elementary school. To examine the moderating effects of parental education, occupational status, and learning environment at home, we used local structural equation modeling. Results revealed a moderate to strong positive association between parental education and children’s receptive vocabulary competence, which fully explained the effect of occupational status on this language skill. With the exception of reading aloud, we found no effect of learning environment at home. Initially lower performing children showed steeper growth trajectories across school, but rank-orders were relatively stable across time. In summary, the results suggest large initial differences in receptive vocabulary between children from different educational backgrounds, which are reduced, but not fully overcome across elementary school.
Mid-long term  results of total knee arthroplasty followed by ipsilateral total hip arthroplasty versus total hip arthroplasty subsequent to ipsilateral total knee arthroplasty: A retrospective cohort study

Background Total hip arthroplasty (THA) altered the mechanical axis and loading distribution of the lower extremity. The effect of a prior THA on clinical outcomes of a subsequent ipsilateral total knee arthroplasty (TKA) remains unknown. Methods We reviewed 83 patients who underwent ipsilateral THA and TKA for rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis between January 2008 and April 2014. Forty-seven patients were classified as TKA followed by ipsilateral THA (THA-TKA group) and 36 as THA subsequent to ipsilateral TKA (TKA-THA group). Twenty-eight patients (30 hips and knees) were selected for each group after the propensity score was matched with preoperative demographics and hip-knee-ankle angle (HKA). Clinical measurements, radiographic evaluations, and complication data were compared between 2 groups. Results Both groups had a significant improvement in modified Harris Hip Scores (HHS), Knee Society Score (KSS), and Short Form-12 at final follow-up compared to baseline (p < .001). The clinical parameters were actually lower in THA-TKA group. However, those differences were not significant (p > .05). Meanwhile, there was no significant difference in postoperative radiographic axial alignment and implant survivorship (90.0% vs 96.7%, p = .305). The rate of complication was also similar in both groups. Conclusions A prior THA does not appear to influence clinical outcome of a subsequent ipsilateral TKA. Patients with different sequence of ipsilateral THA and TKA have similar mid-long term clinical outcomes and implant survivorship. Trial registration: The trial was registered in the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR2000035147) dated 2rd August 2020.
Gamifying Sexual Education for Adolescents in a Low-Tech Setting: Quasi-Experimental Design Study

Background Sexual education has become increasingly important as unhealthy sexual practices and subsequent health risks become more prevalent during adolescence. Traditional sex education teaching methodologies are limiting for digital natives exposed to various digital technologies. Harnessing the power of technology applications attractive to the younger generation may be a useful approach for teaching sex education. Objective The aim of this study was to improve sexual health knowledge and understanding of the problems associated with unhealthy sexual practices and address sexual and reproductive health challenges experienced in a low-tech setting. Methods A participatory design approach was used to develop the digital gamified methodology. A sample of 120 secondary school students aged 11-15 were randomly assigned to either experimental or control group for each of the 3 teaching approaches: (1) gamified instruction (actual serious games [SG] in teaching); (2) gamification (GM; making nongames, such as game-like learning); and (3) traditional teaching (TT) methods. Results The SG and GM approaches were more effective than TT methods in teaching sexual health education. Specifically, the average scores across groups demonstrated an increase of mean scores from the pre- to posttest (25.10 [SD 5.50] versus 75.86 [SD 13.16]; t119=41.252; P<.001 [2 tailed]). Analysis of variance indicated no significant differences across groups for pretest scores (F2,117=1.048, P=.35). Significant differences across groups were evident in the posttest scores. Students in the SG and GM groups had higher average scores than the TT group (F2,117=83.98; P<.001). Students reported increased learning motivation, attitude, know-how, and participation in learning (P<.001) when using SG and GM approaches. Conclusions Digital health technologies (particularly teaching and learning through gamified instruction and other novel approaches) may improve sexual health education. These findings may also be applied by practitioners in health care settings and by researchers wishing to further the development of sex education.
Integrating vehicle-to-grid contract design with power dispatching optimisation: managerial insights, and carbon footprints mitigation

ABSTRACT Towards booms on massive electric vehicle adoptions, vehicle-to-grid service creates significantly social-environmental benefits on acting as a flexible power resource alternative for stabilising the violent fluctuations and overload in the power grid. However, the customer's acceptance and unstable external environment degrade these positive influences on embracing V2G operations. Motivated by these practical challenges, we attempt to design a V2G power dispatching plan integrated with a revenue-sharing contract to coordinate the multi-parties interests in the power supply chain and further improve V2G service adoption. Specifically, we focus on an urban microgrid system, in which the aggregator integrates the supply chain coordination conditions of a revenue sharing contract into a V2G power dispatching plan. The nonlinear terms generated by the supply chain coordination conditions are approximated into a tractable convex form. Furthermore, by solving instances generated from real-world and synthetic data from CAR2GO in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we demonstrate several implications: (1) the proposed contract integrated policy is proved cost-saving for the aggregator operation, revenue-improving for the EV user, and carbon footprint mitigation for the society; (2) our proposed policy facilitates the aggregator to balance the trade-off between revenue sharing ratio and operation cost; (3) based on our contract integrated policy, we also explore the influences of service rate.
Epileptic Focus Localization Based on iEEG Plot Images by Using Convolutional Neural Network

Patients with epilepsy need to locate the lesion before surgery. Currently, clinical experts diagnose the lesions through visual judgment. In order to reduce the workload of clinical experts, many automatic diagnostic methods have been proposed. Usually, the automatic diagnostic methods often use only one feature as the basis for diagnosis, which has certain limitations. In this paper, we use multiple feature fusion methods for automatic diagnosis. For the cause of epilepsy: abnormal discharge, we use the ﬁlter and entropy to capture the energy features of epilepsy discharge. Due to the epilepsy brain waves contain spike and shape waveforms, short time Fourier transform (STFT) is used to analysis the time-frequency features. In feature fusion, we plot the color map of entropy and spectrogram get from STFT together to combine the diﬀerent types of features. After the feature extraction and fusion steps, each brain signal is converted into an image. Next, we use the visual analysis capabilities of the convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify the plot image. With the visual recognition ability of CNN, in the experiment, we got a classiﬁcation accuracy of 88.77%. By using automatic diagnostic methods, the workload of clinical experts is greatly reduced in actual clinical practice.
Dutch Sensory Modality Norms

Many words are strongly connected to the senses, such as vision, taste, and touch. In order to facilitate research on language and the senses, large sets of linguistic stimuli and their corresponding measures of sensory associations should be available. To aid in such investigations, we present a new set of sensory modality norms for over 24,000 Dutch words. The sensory norms comprise perceptual strength ratings in six perceptual modalities: audition, gustation, haptics, olfaction, vision, and interoception. The new norms improve on existing Dutch sensory norms in three ways: 1) they significantly expand on the number of words rated; 2) they include multiple word classes; 3) they add a new perceptual modality: interoception. We show that the sensory norms are able to predict word processing behavior and outperform existing ratings of sensory experience: concreteness and imageability. The data are available via the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/ubvy2) and serve as a valuable resource for research into the relationship between language and perception.
Acute Myocardial Infarction During Hospitalization for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Geriatric Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and acute myocardial infarction cardiovascular (AMI) are two important health issues in elderly. Little is known regarding characteristics of AMI in elderly hospitalized for CAP. Therefore, we investigated the prevalence, characteristics compared with younger patients, impact on clinical outcomes and risk factors of AMI during hospitalization for CAP in geriatric patients.Methods: 11009 adult inpatients consisted of 5111 elderly patients≥ 65 years and 5898 patients＜65 years in respiratory ward and 1095 inpatients ≥65 years in geriatrics ward diagnosed with CAP were retrospectively analyzed by electronic medical records. Results: 159 (3.1%) elderly patients in respiratory ward and 77 (7.0%) patients in geriatrics ward experienced AMI during hospitalization for CAP. AMI were more frequently seen in elderly patients (3.1% vs. 1.0 %), Patients≥65 years who experienced AMI during hospitalization for CAP had higher percentage of respiratory failure (P = 0.001), hypertension (P = 0.008), dyspnea (P=0.046), blood urea nitrogen (BUN)≥7mmol/L (P < 0.001), serum sodium <130 mmol/L(P = 0.005) and had higher in-hospital mortality compared to patients＜65 years (10.1% vs. 6.6%). AMI was associated with increased in-hospital mortality (odds ratio, OR, with 95% confidence interval: 1.49 [1.24-1.82]; P<0.01). Respiratory failure (OR, 1.34 [1.15–1.54]; P<0.01), preexisting coronary artery disease (OR, 1.31[1.07–1.59]; P = 0.02), diabetes (OR, 1.26 [1.11–1.42]; P = 0.02), BUN (OR, 1.23 [1.01–1.49]; P = 0.04), and impaired consciousness (OR, 1.19 [1.07–1.32]; P = 0.03) were correlated with the occurrence of AMI in the elderly.Conclusions: The incidence of AMI during CAP hospitalization in geriatric patients is notable and have an impact on in-hospital mortality. Characteristics of the elderly differ from the general population. Particular attention should be paid to elderly patients with risk factors for AMI. Our study may represent useful information for clinical strategies aimed at preventing AMI and decreasing mortality in geriatric patients hospitalization for CAP.
Diodorus Cronus and Philo of Megara: Two Accounts of the Conditional

Diodorus Cronus and Philo of Megara presented criteria for identifying true conditionals. Diodorus’ criterion has been said to be a version of that of Philo requiring that the conditional is always true. However, in this paper, based on the mental models theory and its analysis of possibilities, I try to show that those two interpretations are very different and that they do not refer to the same combinations of possibilities. In my view, Philo’s account can be linked to the material interpretation of the conditional. Nevertheless, Diodorus’ explanation can be related to that very interpretation and, in addition, to three different combinations of possibilities, none of them being that corresponding to the material interpretation.