Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Educational Context of Adolescents in a Low-Income Urban District: A Mixed-Method Research on Family Functioning and Schooling

For disadvantaged communities in the society, educational and family-based problems are more likely to affect children and adolescents. In this regard, the aim of the study is to examine adolescent students’ experience in their educational life in terms of family relations and family functioning, from an ecological perspective. The study was carried out in a low-income district of Ankara. Based on the mixed-method approach, a convergent design was used. The quantitative data were collected from vocational high school students, using McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD). Qualitative data were obtained from 22 students and 8 school professionals through one-on-one interviews. Findings showed that students’ perceptions of family functioning varied by mother’s employment, average grade point, attitudes towards school, educational support from family, student-family consensus on education. The qualitative findings mostly supported the quantitative findings, referring to adolescent’s low academic motivation, problematic and dysfunctional family relationships
System-level design tools for RF communication ICs

The progress in VLSI technology allows the integration of complex heterogeneous systems on a chip. In order to boost the design productivity and guarantee the optimality of such systems while meeting the time to market constraints, a systematic top-down design approach has to be followed with sufficient time and attention paid to system-level architectural design before proceeding to the detailed block design. This paper presents a system exploration tool for telecom applications. This tool allow to analyze and compare alternative RF system architectures and provides quantitative data to support important design decisions and trade-offs such as analog-digital partitioning. This is illustrated with several experimental results.
Mapping the entrepreneurial university literature: a text mining approach

ABSTRACT Since the introduction of the concept of entrepreneurial university in 1980s, the number of studies has dramatically increased, in particular since 2015. This had made the literature on the entrepreneurial university complex, fragmented and difficult to navigate. This paper provides a comprehensive review of all topics covered in the body of literature on the entrepreneurial university and identifies the most salient topics and papers within this literature, making use of text-mining techniques. Our paper employs topic modelling that reveals the underlying semantic structure of texts to identify the different underlying. Our study systematically analyses 1,110 papers over the period 1983–2020 using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm. Our analysis shows that the entrepreneurial university is fragmented around different topics that are very diverse. We find a total of 20 differentiated topics. Our study suggests that topics related to the overarching theme of academic entrepreneurship, in particular to commercialisation of research and the triple helix model are very popular within the entrepreneurial university literature. Finally, our analysis reveals that case-study type of research is losing momentum, giving path to nascent topics of research in the areas of entrepreneurial capability and university-industry alliances, which are becoming very popular within the entrepreneurial university literature.
Power Trips: Early Understanding of Preparedness and Travel Behavior During California Public Safety Power Shutoff Events

Recent wildfire risks in California have prompted the implementation of public safety power shutoff (PSPS) events, procedures enacted by utility operators to deenergize parts of the electrical grid and reduce the likelihood of wildfire ignition. Despite their yearly occurrence, PSPS events are severely understudied, and little is known about how these events affect disaster preparation activity, travel behavior, and transportation systems. With growing wildfire risks in North America and beyond, PSPS events require immediate and thorough research to reduce their negative externalities and maximize their benefits. This exploratory study employs survey data from East Bay Hills residents in Alameda and Contra Costa counties in California who were affected by two PSPS events in October 2019 (n = 210). Through descriptive statistics and basic discrete choice models for the decision to conduct typical or changed travel, this research contributes to the literature as the first assessment of PSPS event travel behavior. We found that travel did not change drastically during the event, although respondents conducted a high number of preparedness activities. A sizable portion of the sample conducted extended trips during the PSPS event days, whereas a small number evacuated to a destination overnight. Respondents received relatively clear information from multiple communication methods, indicating substantial information about the events. Modeling results found that power loss was a driver in travel behavior change, whereas demographics indicated heterogeneous responses within the sample. The paper concludes with a discussion of key takeaways and suggestions for research in this nascent field.
Care Provided to Women Victims of Intimate Partner Violence From the Perspective of Health Professionals

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a recurring phenomenon in society and can have important repercussions for the lives and health of women worldwide. Even in this alarming global scenario, many health workers still have difficulties approaching IPV with women and providing care for the victims of this type of violence. Given this context, this qualitative study aims at understanding how primary health care professionals provide care for women victims of violence by intimate partners. In view of the methodology design proposed in the Grounded Theory, data collection took place through theoretical sampling. Data collection was carried out in 22 institutions offering primary health care, with 31 female workers from different professional categories being interviewed individually and in depth, including physicians, nurses, dentists, psychologists, and social workers. The results show that, in order to overcome the difficulties encountered in caring for victims of IPV, primary health care workers have been developing strategies for the care of these women. These strategies include identification of such cases through questions about the woman’s intimate relationship, by establishing a bond with the victim so that she feels welcomed, and through articulation with other team professionals to propose expanded health care. The interventions carried out by these professionals include meeting the demands of women in the health institution where they work, referral to other services in the network, if necessary, and notification of IPV cases to epidemiological surveillance. Based on this understanding of the care offered by the professionals to women who are victims of IPV in primary health care, the research aims at contributing to the sensitization of professionals working in health institutions regarding the identification of signs that raise suspicion of IPV, as well as at addressing such cases in a way to fully meet these women’s needs.
Relationship between parental stress and attitude towards cochlear implantation outcomes in children in an Indian context

ABSTRACT Purpose The study was aimed to investigate the relationship between parental stress and attitude of parents towards the outcomes of cochlear implantation in an Indian scenario. Methods A total of 59 parents of children with cochlear implantation participated in the study. The outcomes of cochlear implant was measured using Parental attitudes of various aspects of cochlear implantation questionnaire and parental stress was measured using parental stress scale. The questionnaires were circulated to participants and data was collected in the form of e-survey. Results The present study showed that the parental stress level was similar among mothers and fathers. Further, the parental attitude towards communication abilities of children and education were positively correlated with the duration of cochlear implantation. Finally, a significant positive correlation was found between the parental stress and the parental attitude towards communication abilities of children and social skills. Conclusion The present study showed a positive relationship between parental stress and parental attitude towards the outcomes of cochlear implantation for aspects of communication abilities and social skills.
Mechanical behavior of polymer-based composites using fused filament fabrication under monotonic and fatigue loadings

The use of additive manufacturing has been widely developed in the industry due to its ability to make complex shapes. The use of reinforcing fibers has provided a wider design capability in this field. Due to the effect of the number of fibers reinforced used on the mechanical properties, the study of the obtained mechanical properties is of great importance. This paper presents the experimental findings of tensile loading and three points bending fatigue tests performed on polymer-based composites (Onyx (which is CF-PA6) and reinforced Onyx with continuous glass fiber (CF-PA6 + GF) using Fused Filament Fabrication. Tensile properties of various types of printing conditions (Solid, Triangular, Rectangular, and Hexagonal fill patterns) have been compared. The coupled frequency amplitude affects the nature of the overall fatigue response which can be controlled by the damage mechanisms accumulation and/or by the self-heating. For fatigue loading, self-heating has been observed and yielded a temperature rise to about 60°C which is more than the glass transition temperature of the polymer. Multi-scale damage analysis of the sample in fatigue showed that the first observed damage phenomenon corresponds to the debonding of the filaments which leads to the propagation of transverse cracks.
Prevalence of Soil-Transmitted Helminthes and Associated Risk Factors Among People of Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Background: A Soil-transmitted helminthic infection (STHIs) remains a notable health problem in resource-limited countries. Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to determine the overall prevalence of STH infections in Ethiopia. Methods: Articles written in English were searched from online public databases. Searching terms taken separately and jointly were “prevalence,” “soil-transmitted helminths” “nematode,” “Geo-helminths,” “roundworm,” “Necator,” “Ancylostoma,” “Ascaris,” “Trichuris,” “hookworm,” “whipworm,” “S. strecoralies,” “associated factors,” and “Ethiopia. ” We used STATA version 14 for meta-analysis and Cochran’s Q test statistics and the I2 test for heterogeneity. Result: From 297 reviewed articles 41 fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The pooled prevalence of STH infections in Ethiopia was 36.78% Ascaris lumbricoides had the highest pooled prevalence 17.63%, followed by hook worm12.35%. Trichuris trichiura 7.24% when the prevalence of S. strecoralies was 2.16% (95% CI: 0.97-3.35). Age, sex, residence, family education level, lack of shoe wearing habits and open defecation were identified as risk factors for STH infection. Eating unwashed and uncooked fruit and vegetables increased the risk of STH infection by 1.88 times while untrimmed finger nail and lack of hand washing habits increase the risk of STH infection by 1.28 and 3.16 times respectively with 95% CI. Limitation: Lack of published studies from Afar, Gambela, Somali, and Benshangul gumuz regions may affect the true picture. The other limitation is that the search strategy will be restricted articles published only in the English language but there might be articles that published using another language. Conclusion: Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworms and Trichuris trichiura, are the most prevalent soil-transmitted helminthes infections in Ethiopia. Age, sex, residence, family education level, lack of shoe wearing habits Open defecation untrimmed finger nail and lack of hand washing habits significantly associated with STH infection. When eating unwashed, uncooked fruit and vegetables were not significantly associated with STH infection. Strategic use of anti-helminthic, health education, and adequate sanitation, taking into account this epidemiologic information is helpful in the control of STH infections in Ethiopia.
A C4.5-based research on islanding detection in distributed generation system

Characterized by high efficiency and performance, C4.5 decision-tree is particularly applicable to the condition of large amounts of mining data. The paper proposes a new approach based on C4.5 decision-tree for islanding detection in distributed generation (DG) system. Without any negative effect on the power quality, this novel method greatly reduces the damage to the utility resulting from the islanding running state, and also highly enhances the capability of detecting islands of the protection relay. How to construct C4.5 decision-tree on the basis of past operation data of an existed distributed generation system was introduced in detail firstly. And this method was tested on a typical distribution system with multiple distributed recourses by using Matlab/Simulink tools. The simulation results show that C4.5 decision-tree is effective and the island operating mode of DGs can be totally forecasted by this new algorithm. (7 pages)
Developing service oriented computing model basedon context-aware

SOA and Cloud Computing are making major changes in the way companies build and deploy applications. The challenge is to meet the business expectation of faster delivery of new functionality, while at the same time maintaining control of application performance and availability across a growing network of service providers. SOA facilitates the development cycle by providing common features to everyone. However, SOA has some disadvantages such as the lack of information of what a service can provide and how can we discover it. When working with web services, the number of exposed methods or functions becomes a problem for developers. We do not need to deal with whole services if a developer needs to call one function. This article suggests and validates a new selected service model for the SOA. The layout presentation and the communication is described between client and services.
Wideband Plasmonic Slot-silicon Wire Coupling

Wideband Plasmonic Slot-Silicon Wire Coupling Benedict Lau Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2010 An SOI-based platform designed for wideband coupling of light from optical fibers to a 50 nm wide plasmonic slot waveguide is described in this thesis. The device is based on a newly proposed orthogonal junction with coupling efficiencies above 70% near the telecom wavelength. To construct the coupling platform, two such junctions are utilized for input and output, where Si wires are place 90◦ with respect to each of the two ends of a plasmonic section. Analytic studies and FDTD simulations have demonstrated attractive properties such as a smooth micron-wide transmission spectrum that can be spectrally shifted with the design parameters, and the natural phase-matching between the dielectric and plasmonic sections consequent of the waveguide orientations. Fabrication procedures and proof-of-concept characterization work are also presented. The experimentally-tested platform with its unique features would enable applications in on-chip sensing and plasmonic slot-based waveguiding at the 50 nm scale.
How Well Are Sudden Stratospheric Warming Surface Impacts Captured in CMIP6 Climate Models?

Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) are associated with episodes of extreme winter weather, often leading to significant societal impacts. Using observations alone, it is hard to quantify the SSW impact on surface extreme weather, because the observational record only covers ∼40 events. Climate models provide an effective way to increase this sample size, potentially into 1000s of events, but only if we trust that they capture SSW processes well. We evaluate the representation of stratosphere‐troposphere coupling associated with SSWs in 10 models from the sixth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). In general, the models and the reanalysis have different patterns of tropospheric precursors, but similar stratospheric responses to precursors. The individual CMIP6 models capture the main spatial features of surface impact: A negative phase of the Northern Annular Mode (NAM), with distinctive alternating positive and negative temperature anomalies across the northern hemisphere. We assess the time evolution of SSW surface impacts for individual models over different regions and construct an overview of how well each model captures surface impacts. Models perform particularly well in simulating the surface impact evolution over the Baffin Bay and Siberia regions. Over the United States, Northwest Europe, and the Middle East, there is less agreement among models. Models underestimate the magnitude of temperature anomalies associated with SSWs over the Middle East and over the Eastern Seaboard of North America, but the magnitude of the circulation responses are comparable with reanalysis.
The Interaction of Daylight With Design and Place In Religious Buildings According To Modern Architecture

The most important external factor that interferes with the perceptual effect is light. In other words, light is the most effective element for the perception of architectural work. Daylight should be considered as a building element in architectural place design. In this way, it is possible to obtain different and original results in building designs. For this purpose, the use of daylight in the well-known religious buildings of 5 famous architects who lived or still live in the recent period was examined, and the relationship of daylight with design and place was analyzed. This analysis has been compared in terms of the incorporation of daylight into the structure (horizontal-vertical or directly-reflected light) and the way it is used (symbolic-physical). In the religious buildings designed by the selected architects, it has been seen that the light is used in the place by referring to a symbol. It has been observed that these architects used daylight as a design principle, sometimes giving physical and sometimes symbolic meanings in their buildings, and daylight was interpreted as an element that would add richness to the designed place. Therefore, the use of daylight as a design element in religious buildings contributed to the emergence of different meanings and original results in the interior.
Investigation of the effects of consumers' attitudes towards social media advertisements on their purchasing behaviours

Today, brands and businesses widely use social media ads to reach targeted customers. Therefore, examining the effect of social media advertisements on consumers' purchasing decisions stands out as an essential research topic. For this reason, it is crucial to reveal the factors that are effective in the purchasing behaviour of consumers in advertisements made on social media. In the light of these facts, effects of the ad credibility, perceived personalisation, ethics of social media advertising, attitude towards social media advertising variables on social shopping intention and the moderating effects of gender, age and educational status were examined. The research gathered data from 421 individuals living in Kocaeli via a questionnaire technique, and the obtained data were analysed using hierarchical regression tests. Findings of the analysis indicate that ad credibility, ethics of social media advertising and attitude towards social media advertising positively affect social shopping intention. Furthermore, age was found to have a moderating role between social shopping intention and ethics of social media advertising and attitude towards social media advertising. In contrast, educational status was found to have a moderating role between social shopping intention and ad credibility and attitude towards social media advertising. This study is expected to clarify the factors for the social shopping intention with demographic differences.
A Study on the Application of Visual Perception in Art Design Based on Industrial Mathematics Models

To study the beautification of art design and analyze the application of visual perception in art design, this paper proposes an image beautification processing technique based on multiple chromatic aberration compensation of illumination. The paper will then investigate the task of classifying styles, genres, and artists based on deep learning methods on fine art design images. The proposed method automatically classifies fine art design images with significant improvements in classification accuracy and efficiency. Experimental tests are conducted and the results show that the beautification of night images using this technique has good fine art presentation capabilities, improves the aesthetic and visual sensory expressive performance of the images, and has good fine art application value.
Thrust Performance Evaluation of a Turbofan Engine Based on Exergetic Approach and Thrust Management in Aircraft

Abstract The environmental parameters such as temperature and air pressure which are changing depending on altitudes are effective on thrust and fuel consumption of aircraft engines. In flights with long routes, thrust management function in airplane information system has a structure that ensures altitude and performance management. This study focused on thrust changes throughout all flight were examined by taking into consideration their energy and exergy performances for fuel consumption of an aircraft engine used in flight with long route were taken as reference. The energetic and exergetic performance evaluations were made under the various altitude conditions. The thrust changes for different altitude conditions were obtained to be at 86.53 % in descending direction and at 142.58 % in ascending direction while the energy and exergy efficiency changes for the referenced engine were found to be at 80.77 % and 84.45 %, respectively. The results revealed here can be helpful to manage thrust and reduce fuel consumption, but engine performance will be in accordance with operation requirements.