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Plato’s Timaeus: Physics for the Sake of Philosophy

It should be reasonable to think of the Timaeus as an exposition on physics or, what I consider to be synonymous, cosmology. Such a view, in fact, is a constant in commentary on the dialogue. What is less prevalent, I find, is prolonged attention to why cosmology is at issue in the first place, and in this dissertation, at the most general level, I am filling in for this lack of attention. The Timaeus is not solely a physical treatise. Rather, it is part of a larger multifaceted narrative. As we learn at the outset of the dialogue, the previous day Timaeus and his cohort, which includes most notably, Critias, ask Socrates to offer his views on the nature of the ideal city. Socrates accepts but asks the group to reciprocate with a story about his city at war. They agree and the following day return to tell the story. When digging deeper, we see that Socrates is asking more specifically for an encomium to his city that highlights not only its actions in war but also its warriors’ education as philosophers. Critias, who spearheads the response, recognizes these details though instead of offering a story entirely his own, he draws on Solon’s account of the culture of ancient Athens and its battle with Atlantis. This account includes not only the martial component of the encomium but also specifics about the Athenian warriors’ education which, as it turns out, is centered on the study of the kosmos. In the end, Critias and Timaeus split the task of presenting Solon’s account. Critias will relay the story about the Athenian warriors’ victory but only after Timaeus, who shows cognizance of both Socrates’ interest in philosophy and the ancient Athenians study of the kosmos, presents an account of the cosmological education of philosophers. Thus, my most comprehensive contention is that the physical views expressed in the Timaeus are first and foremost the substance of an educational program that acts as the gateway to philosophy and consequently to superior philosopher-warriors, and I spend the majority of the dissertation unpacking this claim.
The optimal cutoff score of the 2-min step test and its association with physical fitness in type 2 diabetes mellitus

This study was carried out to evaluate sensitivity, specificity, and test cutoff score to predict cardiorespiratory fitness by using the 2-min step test (2MST) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellites (DM). The association of the 2MST and physical fitness tests including a 6-min walk test (6MWT), a 5 time sit-to-stand test (FTSST), and leg strength in the form of a leg performance test were also investigated. This study was cross-sectional and conducted in 100 type 2 DM patients. Patients were screened through health questionnaires, medical illness, general characteristics, and physical fitness tests; 2MST, 6MWT, FTSST, and leg strength. Blood was collected for assessment of fasting blood sugar and lipid profiles. The number of steps in the 2MST was positively correlated with the distance of the 6MWT (r=0.6995, P<0.0001) and leg strength (r=0.4292, P<0.0001). 2MST was negatively correlated with time to perform the FTSST (r=−0.405, P<0.0001). Moreover, this study established the optimal cutoff score of the 2MST at ≤61 steps with 92.24% sensitivity, and 81.36% specificity to predict cardiorespiratory fitness in type 2 DM patients. Our findings indicate that the 2MST may be used as a predictor for walking capacity, leg strength, and ability to change position from sitting to standing in type 2 DM. In addition, this result may imply that patients with type 2 DM performing the 2MST at less than 61 steps was significantly associated with decreased cardiorespiratory fitness.
Fog and Cloud Load Balancing Using Regression Based Reccurent Deep Learning Algorithm

Fog computing has been studied by a variety of academics, and they have identified concerns which need to be solved. It is the primary goal of this project to build and execute an energy conscious load balancer that will reduce energy usage and help in the distribution of loads. In order to test the method that was created, establishing a fog computing platform By assigning a job and assessing the outcomes, the energy-aware load balancing method was found to be effective when it was tested.
Comparison of the impact of laser-assisted hatching on fresh cleavage and blastocyst embryo transfer and association with pregnancy outcomes

Objective: Assisted hatching (AH) techniques can improve live birth (LB) and clinical pregnancy (CP) rates. Since there are limited data regarding this subject, we investigated the impact of laser-assisted hatching (LAH) on fresh embryo transfer (ET) and association with pregnancy outcomes in unselected patient population. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study included the fresh ETs performed at our center between April 2010 and April 2019. Among 3.782 fresh ETs, 3.286 underwent LAH (n=1.583 at cleavage stage and n=1.703 at blastocyst stage) while 496 underwent non-assisted hatching (NAH) (n=213 at cleavage stage and n=283 at blastocyst stage). The ETs were performed at the blastocyst or cleavage stages, and single or double embryos were transferred. LB rate was the primary outcome, while secondary outcomes were the pregnancy test, monozygotic twinning (MZT), and CP rates. Results: The LAH and NAH groups showed similar LB, pregnancy test, CP, and MZT rates at cleavage and blastocyst stages. On the other hand, LAH significantly affected LB rates at the blastocyst stage (20.6% at blastocyst stage vs. 16% at the cleavage stage, p=0.001). Conclusion: In conclusion, LAH does not improve reproductive outcomes of fresh blastocyst-stage and cleavage-stage ETs. However, LAH significant impacts LB rates in the blastocyst stage than the cleavage stage.
Primary Broiler Hepatocytes for Establishment of a Steatosis Model

Simple Summary Fatty liver hemorrhage syndrome (FLHS) in chickens is a nutritional disease caused by a metabolic disorder. It mostly occurs in caged layer hens and in broiler breeders, which causes huge losses in the poultry industry. Cultured primary hepatocytes, which closely resemble the in vivo liver cell activity and physiological gene expression, have become the standard in vitro model for studying hepatic diseases. Hepatocyte steatosis models have been successfully used to study the disease in human and other animals. Fat emulsion is high in energy and contains essential fatty acids, which provide biosynthetic materials for hepatocyte steatosis. FLHS in chickens has been studied primarily using in vivo models, but rarely with an in vitro cell model. The pathological process of FLHS in vitro in both broilers and layers were shown to be similar. In the current study, to investigate the possible mechanisms of hepatic steatosis in broilers, a steatosis model was established by incubating cultured primary broiler hepatocytes with fat emulsion. In summary, the induction condition was selected as 10% fat emulsion incubation for 48 h, and we successfully established a fatty liver degeneration model for broilers, which provides the foundation for future study of fatty liver disease. Abstract Fatty liver hemorrhage syndrome (FLHS) in chickens is characterized by steatosis and bleeding in the liver, which has caused huge losses to the poultry industry. This study aimed to use primary cultured broiler hepatocytes to establish a steatosis model to explore the optimal conditions for inducing steatosis by incubating the cells with a fat emulsion. Primary hepatocytes were isolated from an AA broiler by a modified two-step in situ perfusion method. Hepatocytes were divided into an untreated control group and a fat emulsion group that was incubated with 2.5, 5, 10, or 20% fat emulsion for different times to determine the optimal conditions for inducing steatosis of primary hepatocytes. Incubation of the cells with 10% fat emulsion resulted in cell viability at 48 h of 67%, which was higher than the control group and met the requirements of the model. In the second experiment, steatosis was induced by incubating hepatocytes with 10% fat emulsion for 48 h. In consequence, the apoptosis rate decreased (p > 0.05) and the concentration of ALT (p < 0.001), AST (p < 0.01), and TG (p < 0.05) increased significantly; the expression level of SREBP-1c (p < 0.05) increased, and the expression levels of PPARα (p < 0.001), CPT1 (p < 0.001), and CPT2 (p < 0.05) were lower in the fat emulsion group than in the control group. In conclusion, the induction condition was selected as 10% fat emulsion incubation for 48 h, and we successfully established a fatty liver degeneration model for broilers.
Undermining the rules in home care services for the elderly in Norway: flexibility and cooperation.

OBJECTIVES This study explores the provision of home care services (home nursing and domiciliary help) for the elderly in Norwegian municipalities with purchaser-provider split model. The study draws on the assumption that flexibility in adjusting services to the care receivers' needs, and cooperation between provider and purchasers are indicators of good quality of care. DATA AND METHODS Data were collected through semi-structured telephone interviews with 22 team leaders of provider units in nine municipalities. Data were collected in 2008-2009. The study has been approved by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services. FINDINGS We identified four different ways of organising home care services under a purchaser-provider split model: Provider empowerment, New Public Management, Vague instructions and undermining the rules. High flexibility in providing care and cooperation with the purchaser unit were identified by the team leaders as characteristics for good care. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that the care providers use individual strategies that allow flexibility and cooperation rather than rigidly abiding to the regulations the purchaser-provider split models implies. Ironically, in provider units where the 'rules were undermined', the informants (team leaders of provider units) seemed to be most satisfied with the quality of home care that they delivered.
Review of Wood Modification and Wood Functionalization Technologies

Wood modifications are becoming popular as a way to enhance the performance of wood, either to make it more durable, improve the performance of wood, or give it new functionality as a multifunctional or smart material. While wood modifications have been examined since the early 1900s, the topic has become a dominant area of study in wood science over the past decade. This review summarizes recent advances and provides future perspective on a selection of wood modifications, i.e., the methods that are currently commercialized (acetylation, furfurylation, and thermal modification), a rediscovered ancient practice (charring), a family of polymerization modifications that have so far made it to the pilot scale, and examples of novel wood-based functional materials explored at laboratory scale.
Genomic Characterization of Enterococcus hirae From Beef Cattle Feedlots and Associated Environmental Continuum

Enterococci are commensal bacteria of the gastrointestinal tract of humans, animals, and insects. They are also found in soil, water, and plant ecosystems. The presence of enterococci in human, animal, and environmental settings makes these bacteria ideal candidates to study antimicrobial resistance in the One-Health continuum. This study focused on Enterococcus hirae isolates (n = 4,601) predominantly isolated from beef production systems including bovine feces (n = 4,117, 89.5%), catch-basin water (n = 306, 66.5%), stockpiled bovine manure (n = 24, 0.5%), and natural water sources near feedlots (n = 145, 32%), and a few isolates from urban wastewater (n = 9, 0.2%) denoted as human-associated environmental samples. Antimicrobial susceptibility profiling of a subset (n = 1,319) of E. hirae isolates originating from beef production systems (n = 1,308) showed high resistance to tetracycline (65%) and erythromycin (57%) with 50.4% isolates harboring multi-drug resistance, whereas urban wastewater isolates (n = 9) were resistant to nitrofurantoin (44.5%) and tigecycline (44.5%) followed by linezolid (33.3%). Genes for tetracycline (tetL, M, S/M, and O/32/O) and macrolide resistance erm(B) were frequently found in beef production isolates. Antimicrobial resistance profiles of E. hirae isolates recovered from different environmental settings appeared to reflect the kind of antimicrobial usage in beef and human sectors. Comparative genomic analysis of E. hirae isolates showed an open pan-genome that consisted of 1,427 core genes, 358 soft core genes, 1701 shell genes, and 7,969 cloud genes. Across species comparative genomic analysis conducted on E. hirae, Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium genomes revealed that E. hirae had unique genes associated with vitamin production, cellulose, and pectin degradation, traits which may support its adaptation to the bovine digestive tract. E. faecium and E. faecalis more frequently harbored virulence genes associated with biofilm formation, iron transport, and cell adhesion, suggesting niche specificity within these species.
A text mining analysis of the change in status of the Hagia Sophia on Twitter: the political discourse and its reflections on the public opinion

ABSTRACT The Hagia Sophia served as a museum from November 24th, 1934 until it was reopened for worship on July 24th, 2020 with a Presidential Decree of the Republic of Turkey. As a result of the change in status of the Hagia Sophia, there have been discussions on Twitter. Hence, aiming to present text and sentiment analysis of those Tweets, text mining as a sub-branch of data mining is used as a methodology, which is for achieving meaningful information and outputs from raw data by configuring systematic ordering of unstructured data by using natural language processing methods and tools. In this research, 102,430 tweets that include Hagia Sophia as a word and a hashtag from July 10th, 2020 -that the status change of the Hagia Sophia was declared- to June 12th, 2021 are resolved and analyzed using the frequency, sentiment and network analysis. In conclusion, although there are more positive sentiments than the negative ones, the negative sentiment is clearly a discontent and backlash especially against Turkey and Islam. Furthermore, it becomes clear that Islam is associated with terrorism and radicalism.
An Ultrasonic Transmission/Reflection Tomography System for Industrial Multiphase Flow Imaging

Monitoring multiphase flow process and measuring its parameters have been a research topic that received broad attentions for the past decades. Ultrasonic process tomography (UPT) obtains the distribution of the two-phase flow based on ultrasound propagation in different fluids, making it valuable to the industrial monitoring and measurement. UPT can nonintrusively explore transient hydrodynamics of the multiphase flow, but the reconstruction quality of single modality is always dependent on phase distribution. In this paper, a dual-mode UPT that fuses the attenuation and time-of-flight of ultrasound is presented. To implement this scheme, a digital dual-mode UPT system that works under both the transmission-mode and reflection-mode is designed. A 16-channel ultrasound data acquisition system is proposed, which is flexibly programmable and reconfigurable through an field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The system includes a series of functional modules, and is based on the compact peripheral component interconnect bus for real-time data transmission to meet industrial field requirements. Static experiments show that the system can distinguish the interface of the different inclusions and preferably reconstruct the position and area of the inclusions through fusing the transmission and reflection reconstruction, the relative error and correlation coefficient of the reconstructed images are presented, respectively, which show preferable and stable distinguishability of different inclusions.
Effect of PCC Joint Skew on Reflective Cracking in HMA Overlays

Reflective cracking is a relatively premature distress that occurs in HMA materials overlaying cracked and jointed underlying pavements. The high concentration of stresses and strains in the vicinity of the discontinuity of the old pavement causes the cracks to reflect into the newly placed HMA overlay. While it is a common practice to use skewed transverse joints in rigid pavements to improve the latter's performance, the impact of such a practice on the cracking of a potential HMA overlay has not been examined so far. In this context, this study investigates the effect of using skewed transverse joints in rigid pavements on reflective cracking development in the HMA overlay. Advanced three-dimensional Finite Element models including viscoelastic material properties for the HMA overlay, 3D beam modeling of dowel bars, non-uniform tire-pavement contact stresses, friction interfaces, and infinite boundary elements were constructed for both normal and skewed transverse joints using ABAQUS v-6.11. The potential for reflective cracking was monitored through the fracture mechanics J-integral parameter. Results obtained show, among other things, that the practice of skewing transverse joints increases the potential for reflective cracking development in the asphalt concrete overlay.
Improvement in the Thermostability of a Recombinant β-Glucosidase Immobilized in Zeolite under Different Conditions

β-Glucosidase is part of the cellulases and is responsible for degrading cellobiose into glucose, a compound that can be used to produce biofuels. However, the use of the free enzyme makes the process more expensive. Enzyme immobilization improves catalytic characteristics and supports, such as zeolites, which have physical-chemical characteristics and ion exchange capacity that have a promising application in the biotechnological industry. This research aimed to immobilize by adsorption a recombinant β-glucosidase from Trichoderma reesei, obtained in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3), in a commercial zeolite. A Box Behnken statistical design was applied to find the optimal immobilization parameters, the stability against pH and temperature was determined, and the immobilized enzyme was characterized by SEM. The highest enzymatic activity was determined with 100 mg of zeolite at 35 °C and 175 min. Compared to the free enzyme, the immobilized recombinant β-glucosidase presented greater activity from pH 2 to 4 and greater thermostability. The kinetic parameters were calculated, and a lower KM value was obtained for the immobilized enzyme compared to the free enzyme. The obtained immobilization parameters by a simple adsorption method and the significant operational stability indicate promising applications in different fields.
The Role of Gender Moderates the Effect of Entrepreneurial Mindsets on Student Intention

The purpose of this research was to explain how gender roles in moderating the entrepreneurial mindset affect one's intentions. Is it through the entrepreneurial mindset that a man will be able to increase his intentions or is it greater than women? The method used in this article was Moderating Regression Analysis (MRA) and Process macro Hayes version 3.5. 3. This study had a population of 5170 students and 371 students were used as samples. The results of the analysis indicated if the entrepreneurial mindset had a positive and significant effect on intentions. There was no effect of gender moderation on the effect of entrepreneurial mindset and intention. An entrepreneur needs to own an entrepreneurial mindset in him to cultivate intentions. This improvement can be done by designing and creating a program that can develop and grow the entrepreneurial mindset of students without the need to pay attention to gender-related characteristics (both men and women have the same opportunities). The uniqueness of this research was to test the effect of an entrepreneurial mindset on intention, moderated by gender. The contribution to this research was the effect of gender moderating the effect of entrepreneurial mindset on student intentions.
The control and evaluation method of the cascaded buck–boost converter for equalization on battery strings

With the further implementation of the carbon peak carbon neutral strategy, new energy vehicles will play an important cornerstone in the realization of this policy. However, the power source lithium battery pack has reduced the charge and discharge capacity due to the variation in the energy of the single cells, which largely limits the wide application of new energy vehicles. A cascaded buck–boost converter is proposed to balance the inconsistent energy in the battery pack. This equalization circuit is equipped with two fundamental working modes on which a matrix equalization strategy is developed and optimized accordingly. Then, the systematic evaluation method on average efficiency and time is applied to investigate the performance of the converter. Subsequently, the proposed converter and its control method have shown better performance than the existing equalization circuit via simulation and experimental verification. The design has high scalability and is expected to be applied to large‐scale energy storage systems to serve the construction of the global energy Internet.
Azimuth-angle flavor instability of supernova neutrino fluxes

Dense neutrino fluxes experience self-induced flavor conversion caused by neutrino-neutrino refraction. For the first time, we include the azimuth angle of neutrino propagation as an explicit variable and obtain solutions without enforcing axial symmetry. We find a new generic multi-azimuth-angle (MAA) instability in addition to the one caused by multi zenith angles (MZA). For simple spectra, the MAA instability occurs in the normal neutrino mass hierarchy, but it affects the solution in both hierarchies, likely causing kinematical decoherence among angle modes. Suppression of the MAA instability in supernovae requires larger matter densities than for the bimodal case.
Factors Affecting The Quality Of Accounting Information

: Many variables affect the quality of AIS (the dimensions used include integration and ease of use). Variables that can affect the quality of AIS include leadership style (integrity, self-confidence, encouragement, charisma), knowledge management (tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge), and user training (vendor training and in-house training). An AIS used by organizations will have an impact on the quality of AI (relevance, accuracy, timeliness). Based on the review of these variables as presented in the introduction section, the problem statements in this study are as follows: (1) how is the influence of leadership on the AIS? , (2) how is the influence of knowledge management on the quality of AIS? , (3) how is the influence of user training on the quality of AIS? , and (4) how does a quality AIS affect the quality of accounting information. This study will use α = 0.05 to examine each hypothesis. This study is planned to be conducted at the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Bandung.