Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Mental health professionals’ attitudes and knowledge about hearing voices groups

ABSTRACT Background An initiative was proposed to integrate local Hearing Voices Groups within statutory adult mental health services in a particular NHS Trust. The aim of this service evaluation was to assess clinician’s attitudes towards, and understandings, of the groups to better inform the proposal. Methods Multi-disciplinary NHS staff members were invited to participate in a brief survey on their attitudes towards and understanding about Hearing Voices Groups. The survey was co-produced with people with lived experience of hearing voices, and local mental health professionals. Content analysis was used to analyse qualitative data from an additional free text section of the survey. Results Forty mental health professionals responded to the survey. There was majority agreement (>50% agreement) on all items related to perceived benefit of Hearing Voices Groups. The findings also showed that only 25% of respondents felt that they were aware of the evidence base for Hearing Voices Groups and only 30% felt confident explaining Hearing Voices Groups to service users. Discussion The data suggest that the majority of mental health professionals hold positive attitudes towards Hearing Voices Groups. However, many expressed uncertainty about the evidence base and discussing the groups with service users, highlighting further training needs in these areas.
Space and Human Consciousness: The Great Whisper

Human Consciousness is one of most elusive issues in the scientific history. Its nature created major historical debate started thousands of years ago and still ongoing. Despite the explosive developments in the last century to explore its nature, the knowledge about it is still deficient. The important advances in the twentieth and 21st centuries in understanding cerebral cortex dynamics fortified by the dominant materialistic approach of the era dictated its impact on consciousness science, which is perceived as sole human brain function. This original review is a call for holistic perception of human consciousness incorporating the ancient wisdom of the human civilizations with the massive current era advances in different disciplines of applied sciences. The description of Rene Descartes in the 17th century of the Cartesian dualism is timely to revisit with new holistic perspective, in view of the major advances of our understanding of heart brain communications, astrophysical resonances with human heart ascending afferents to central nervous system, and signaling between humans and the space. Universal vibrations, frequencies and resonances as perceived by Nikola Tesla constitute the core of our new conceptual and experimental perspective on human consciousness. Neural and psychological correlates of human consciousness which dominate the consciousness research nowadays should undergo revolutionary conceptual understanding to perceive consciousness as a massive universal event expanding from human genes to galaxies. In the next discussion, we are going to navigate in the nature and fate of human consciousness with new innovative universal perspective based on heart rate variability of human heart and its cosmic resonances as represented by Schumann Resonances, Solar Wind Indices and Galactic Cosmic Rays. The interpretation of our existential secrets and biology without the space around us is a major gap in our scientific perception of life. The delicate orchestration between human heart and the space frequencies create the great whisper which in our perspective, encodes the secrets of human consciousness.
Is Distance Really Dead in the Online World? The Moderating Role of Geographical Distance on the Effectiveness of Electronic Word of Mouth

The authors investigate how the geographical distance between online users is associated with electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) effectiveness. Their research leverages variation in the visibility of eWOM messages on the social media platform of Twitter to address the issue of correlated user behaviors and preferences. The study shows that the likelihood that followers who are exposed to users’ WOM subsequently make purchases increases with followers’ geographic proximity to the users. The authors propose social identification as a potential mechanism for why geographical distance still matters online in eWOM: because consumers may form a sense of social identity based on their physical location, information regarding the spatial proximity of users could trigger online social identification with others. The findings are robust to alternative methods and specifications, such as further controlling for latent user homophily by incorporating user characteristics and embeddings based on advanced machine-learning and deep-learning models and a corpus of 140 million messages. The authors also rule out several alternative explanations. The findings have important implications for platform design, content curation, and seeding and targeting strategies.
The first record of Cuon alpinus (Pallas, 1811) from Poland and the possible impact of other large canids on the evolution of the species

The presence of Cuon alpinus in Poland is documented here for the first time. Between 650 and 450 ka, Lycaon lycaonoides dominated the open lands, while Cuon alpinus priscus tended to prefer forests, mountains and highlands. Canis mosbachensis coexisted in all these environments. Between 480 and 430 ka, there was a drastic reduction in the number and range of L. lycaonoides. The balance between canids was disturbed and a critical point in the lycaon–wolf relationship was passed. Probably between 450 and 400 ka, the lycaon was too rare to be a real competitor and a limiting factor for the wolf. It was also at this time that the lycaon disappeared completely. With disappearance of the lycaon from Eurasia, there was a slow increase in the body size of the wolf. Between 400 and 300 ka, the dhole and the wolf were still close in body size, but the wolf was slowly increasing in size. Between 300 and 250 ka, the wolf became the dominant dog species and took a niche occupied until then by the lycaon. Because of competition, C. alpinus decreased in body size and adapted to hunting and living in forest, mountain and highland environments.
Investigation on tube end forming behaviour of AA6061 alloy

ABSTRACT End formed components are generally used at various interconnecting elements, exhaust system of machines, fuel pipes etc. In this paper AA6061 alloy has been considered to analyse the tube end behaviour by performing the experimental and simulation studies. Simulations are performed by DEFORM-3D software. The process parameters considered are rp/r0 ratios (1.39, 1.53 and 1.67), the forming angle (α) of the punch (15°, 30° and 45°) and the thickness of tube is 2 mm. The experimental and simulation results almost following the same path. The formability values are more for the process parameters rp/r0 ratio is 1.39 and die cone angle 45°. This die is used for the further studies. The stress, strain and thickness distribution along the contact surface between tube and punch analysed and reported. The simulations revealed that the maximum stress induced at the tip of the tube and this will cause to initiate the crack. Thickness measurement was done along the tube wall from tip of the deformed tube to undeformed tube. The minimum thickness found as 1.456 mm at the tip of the tube, this is the maximum reduction of tube while forming.
Lightweight and Compact Radiometers for Soil Moisture Measurement: A review

Fresh water is considered to be one of the most precious natural resources in many countries. Given that soil moisture plays a salient role in vegetation growth, the continuous and timely measurement of soil moisture content is critical to manage water shortages, especially in the agriculture sector <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">[1]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">[2]</xref>, which is the largest water use sector in Australia. A 10% water savings in the Australian agriculture sector would be equivalent to a reduction of more than 30% of the combined water consumption from Australian capital cities <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">[3]</xref>. Further, soil moisture influences the process of rainfall being partitioned into runoff and infiltration, and saturated soil could turn heavy rain into floods. Therefore, soil moisture information is essential for accurate climate forecasting as well as improving flood and drought prediction <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">[3]</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref4"/><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref5">[5]</xref>.
Área de preservação permanente em processo de revegetação com espécies arbóreas e adubos verdes

O presente trabalho foi realizado na Escola de Agronomia da Universidade Federal de Goias, onde existe uma represa cuja agua utilizada para fins de abastecimento industrial, humano e tambem para a criacao de peixes exoticos, nao pertencentes a fauna do Cerrado. Em 2011 foi iniciado um processo de revegetacao da area com especies arboreas nativas, entre essas: baru (Dipteryx alata), pequi (Caryocar brasiliense), mutamba (Guazuma ulmifolia), murici (Byrsonima crassifolia), no-de-porco (Physocalymma scaberrimum) e apeiba (Apeiba albiflora). Antes o solo era ocupado com o cultivo de hortalicas, culturas anuais e forrageiras. Em consorcio com algumas especies arboreas foram utilizados adubos verde, que entre outros beneficios promovem a descompactacao do solo e ciclagem de nutrientes por meio das raizes. O objetivo principal do presente trabalho foi diagnosticar a situacao da area em estudo, incluindo o corpo hidrico que e abastecido pelo Corrego Samambaia. Foram realizadas medicoes de altura e diâmetro das especies arboreas, durante doze meses. Alem disso ocorreram coletas de amostras da agua da represa, onde analisou-se os parâmetros pH, condutividade, P total e metais pesados. Nos meses de julho de 2014 e dezembro do mesmo ano, foram realizadas analises de turbidez, cor, demanda bioquimica de oxigenio (DBO) e oxigenio dissolvido (OD). Os parâmetros foram avaliados de acordo com o preconizado no Standard Methods For Examination of Water & Wastewater (APHA, 2012) e foram realizadas no Laboratorio de Analises de Solos, Substrato e Nutricao de Plantas (Lassnut) na Escola de Agronomia (EA), alem do uso do Laboratorio de Saneamento da Escola de Engenharia Civil, ambos pertencentes a Universidade Federal de Goias. Foram tambem realizadas analises fisico-quimicas do solo. Essas foram realizadas no Lassnut e tambem no Laboratorio de Fisica do Solo da EA-UFG. No monitoramento realizado de setembro de 2013 a agosto de 2014, algumas plantas tiveram boa resposta em relacao ao uso dos adubos verdes, porem outras tiveram alta mortandade durante o estudo, como foi o caso do pequi. A competicao entre especies exoticas e as nativas foi reduzida, o que aumentou em geral a sobrevivencia. Elementos tais como Mn nao apresentaram diferenca significativa em todos os tratamentos nos periodos de avaliacao. A reposicao das especies leguminosas onde houve morte de plantas e uma das alternativas para a reducao dos niveis de compactacao. Os valores de macro e micro poros foram parecidos, porem para textura a area apresentou diferencas. Para os testes de resistencia a penetracao (RP) feitos em area com adubo verde e outra sem as especies leguminosas, os maiores valores de RP foram encontrados na area sem adubos verdes. O corpo hidrico recebe o despejo de esgotos de residencias ocupadas irregularmente. Parâmetros tais como condutividade eletrica da agua, apresentaram-se estaveis durante os 12 meses de estudo. Os resultados para OD e DBO estao fora do preconizado pela resolucao de No 357 do Conama.
Towards the Sustainable Development of Digital Educational Games for Primary School Students in China

Despite considerable discussion on the benefits of digital educational games, empirical research on their effectiveness in primary schools in China is limited. This case study aimed to promote the sustainable development of digital educational games in primary schools in China by examining the effect of digital educational games on primary school students’ vocabulary acquisition and ascertaining their perceptions and attitudes toward this approach. Given the purposes of this study, an embedded mixed methods research design was employed. Two Grade 4 classes at a Chinese primary school were recruited in this study. During the quasi-experiment, the experimental class (n = 50) was provided with educational game software, Quizlet, while the control class (n = 50) was taught through a traditional teaching method. The results show that integrating educational games into language education in the primary schools was effective in improving students’ vocabulary acquisition. This study makes a case for further research of digital educational games in language classrooms at a primary level in China. Implications are made regarding the future sustainable implementation of digital educational games in primary schools in China.
A Natural Language Processing Approach to Measuring Treatment Adherence and Consistency Using Semantic Similarity

Though there is widespread recognition of the importance of implementation research, evaluators often face intense logistical, budgetary, and methodological challenges in their efforts to assess intervention implementation in the field. This article proposes a set of natural language processing techniques called semantic similarity as an innovative and scalable method of measuring implementation constructs. Semantic similarity methods are an automated approach to quantifying the similarity between texts. By applying semantic similarity to transcripts of intervention sessions, researchers can use the method to determine whether an intervention was delivered with adherence to a structured protocol, and the extent to which an intervention was replicated with consistency across sessions, sites, and studies. This article provides an overview of semantic similarity methods, describes their application within the context of educational evaluations, and provides a proof of concept using an experimental study of the impact of a standardized teacher coaching intervention.
Electromagnetic modeling of reconfigurable antenna array for 5G communications

ABSTRACT The integration of extra wireless services in the limited size of mobile devices is a very challenging task. In this context, the antenna array presents the best choice to meet these requirements. This research demonstrates a reconfigurable antenna array system proposed for future 5G applications. The characteristics of the proposed structure are examined while using electromagnetic modeling. The mathematical formulation reposes on combining the moment method and generalized equivalent circuit’s methods (MoM-GEC), and the deduced electromagnetic equations allow the computation of the input impedance , the reflection parameter and the current and electric field distributions. Software simulations prove good agreement with MoM-GEC results. The obtained results offer the possibility to generate various modes governed by a decision tree. Thus, these modes are related to different resonant frequencies suitable for 5G mobile communications with a large bandwidth reaching 560 MHz.
Kinetics, equilibrium, isotherm and thermodynamic modeling of sorption of Reactive Yellow 37 on to balsamodendroncaudatum wood waste activated carbon

Balsamodendron caudatum wood waste activated carbon (BAC) have the capability to absorb the dyes from aqueous solution. The unsuitable dumping of dyes in waste water constitutes an ecological trouble and can cause damage to the ecosystem. Present investigation deals with the utilization of (BAC) waste as adsorbent for the exclusion of Reactive Yellow 37 dye from its aqueous solutions. The investigation indicates that adsorption is influenced by initial dye concentration, contact time, dye solution pH, thermodynamic parameters such as the free energy, enthalpy, entropy and adsorption temperature have been investigated in the present study. A Kinetic study of dye followed the pseudo-first-order, pseudo second-order and Elovich models respectively. Equilibrium isotherms for the adsorption of Reactive Yellow 37 on BAC were analyzed by the Langmuir isotherm. Outcome show that the pseudo first order kinetic model was found to compare the investigational data fit.
Collective Magnetic Behavior of 11 nm Photo-Switchable CsCoFe Prussian Blue Analogue Nanocrystals: Effect of Dilution and Light Intensity

The collective magnetic behavior of photoswitchable 11 nm cyanide-bridged nanoparticles based of the Prussian blue analogue CsCoFe were investigated when embedded in two different matrices with different concentrations. The effect of the intensity of light irradiation was studied in the less concentrated sample. Magnetization studies and alternating magnetic susceptibility data are consistent with a collective magnetic behavior due to interparticle dipolar magnetic interaction for the two compounds, even though the objects have a size that place them in the superparamagnetic regime.
A tension lens for understanding public innovation diffusion processes

ABSTRACT How do public servants diffuse public innovations in a bureaucratic and political environment that is fraught with tensions? Through a longitudinal case study, this research explores how tension management evolves with regard to two tensions observed in the diffusion process: control versus resistance and competing interests among stakeholders. Drawing upon three theoretical perspectives (contingency, paradox, and dialectic), the study shows that tension management strategies often evolve from simple to complex through a mechanism of joint learning. This study moves away from a traditional approach that considers tensions as barriers and argues that tensions can be engaged to move innovations forward.
La mensajería instantánea en la enseñanza de la literatura en el aula de Secundaria: WhatsApp Messenger

Los avances tecnológicos provocan que los estudiantes queden absortos en sus teléfonos móviles, ordenadores y otros instrumentos de la misma índole. Por este motivo, los profesores deben aprovecharse de dicha situación y de la influencia que actualmente ejercen los diferentes géneros híbridos que existen, tales como la mensajería instantánea. Lo que se sostiene en este artículo es el beneficio que puede aportar la utilización de dicha mensajería, a través de la aplicación WhatsApp Messenger, como recurso pedagógico dentro del aula de secundaria y, más concretamente, en la literatura de 3º de la ESO. Para apoyar esta hipótesis, la investigación parte de la consideración de la hibridez del género, a pesar de la reticencia que existe por parte de algunos lingüistas a tal distinción.
Comparative study of roadside avenue trees as bio-indicators of air pollution in and around Mumbai, India: A case study

With rapid increase in urbanization followed by industrialization compounded due to ever-exploding population in the past few decades there is a steep rise in contamination of one of the most vital abiotic factors of the environment i.e., the air. In these circumstances, the clean and green measures to monitor and control air pollution have become inevitable. Air Pollution Tolerance Index (APTI) is one such index for indicating the extent of the plants to withstand air pollution. This includes analysis of physiological and biochemical parameters like total chlorophyll content, ascorbic acid content, pH of the leaf extract and relative water content of the leaves. In this study, the plants selected are mature tree species like Polyalthia longifolia, Putranjiva roxburghii, Alstonia scholaris, Delonix regia and Peltophorum pterocarpum from Mumbai and its surrounding regions. According to the Air Pollution Tolerance Index (APTI) values, plants can be classified as tolerant, intermediate, sensitive and highly sensitive. The tolerance of the plants studied in the decreasing order is as follows P. roxburghii > P. pterocarpum > D. regia > P. longifolia > A. scholaris. Species selected on the basis of their APTI values can then be used as bio-indicators of air pollution and in its mitigation for green belt development in urban areas.
Predictors of affective commitment at municipalities in the Nkangala district, Mpumalanga

Orientation: Less committed employees have a huge impact on organisational performance. The affective commitment of municipal employees is critical for a municipality to achieve its strategic objectives. Research purpose: To determine the predictors of affective commitment at the four municipalities in the Nkangala district, Mpumalanga. Motivation for the study: There is a shortage of studies conducted at South African municipalities that have simultaneously measured negative emotions, positive emotions and job satisfaction as the predictors of affective commitment. Research approach/design and method: The approach was quantitative and cross-sectional in nature. A closed-ended questionnaire was developed and administered to 808 respondents who were conveniently selected from four municipalities in the Nkangala district. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics. Inferential statistics were used to determine whether the predictors and affective commitment were unidimensional and to determine the relationships and the highest predictor. Main findings: The results showed that job satisfaction was the greatest predictor of affective commitment and negative emotions were the lowest predictor. Job satisfaction, positive and negative emotions explained 68% of the variance in affective commitment. Practical/managerial implications: This research will empower municipality managers in cultivating a conducive work environment. Improving the interpersonal skills of supervisors and implementing fair human resource practices that promote a conducive work environment have been highlighted as some contributors towards increased affective commitment. Contribution/value-add: This study has developed a two-path framework that could be used by human resource management practitioners to determine the affective commitment of employees in Mpumalanga municipalities.
Stimulus Iklan, Positive Electronic Word of Mouth (eWOM) dan Belanja Impulsif: Dampak Mediasi Motif Hedonis Pembelanja Online

Penelitian ini ditujukan untuk menguji kerangka teoritis yang menjelaskan bagaimana peran mediasi motivasi belanja hedonis dalam hubungannya dengan stimulus iklan, cerita dari mulut ke mulut (electronics word of mouth-eWOM), dan belanja impulsif pembelanja secara daring (online). Survey dilakukan terhadap 384 warga Kota Bandung yang dipilih dengan metode systematic random sampling. Data dihimpun dengan menggunakan instrumen kuesioner tertutup yang telah diuji aspek validitas dan reliabilitasnya. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan analisis jalur, yaitu salah satu varian analisis regresi. Penelitian dilakukan pada bulan Maret s.d April 2021 dan hasilnya menunjukan menunjukkan bahwa stimulus iklan berpengaruh positif langsung terhadap motivasi belanja hedonis dan belanja impulsif pembelanja online. Sementara, eWOM tidak berpengaruh terhadap motivasi belanja hedonis tetapi berpengaruh langsung terhadap belanja impulsif. Selain itu, terbukti motif belanja hedonis memediasi pengaruh stimulus iklan terhadap belanja impulsif. Pengiklanan yang masif dan persuasif tampaknya harus dijadikan strategi andalan bagi setiap lokapasar untuk membangkitkan motif belanja hedonis dan perilaku belanja impulsif pembelanja toko online. Hasil penelitian diharapkan dapat menjadi rujukan alternatif bagi peneliti dan praktisi dalam memahami peran motif belanja hedonis dan perilaku belanja impulsif.