Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Villainous snakes and heroic butterflies, the moral alignment of animal-themed characters in American superhero comic books

ABSTRACT People view animals through a framework of a negative to positive scale, with these views having wide-ranging implications including conservation programmeinvestment and success. Media can change public perception, and one media form that has largely been ignored in this regard is comic books. Within superhero comic books, characters are defined by use of animal monikers, traits, or resemblance. Superhero comic books are a unique medium due to characters existing on a hero to villain dichotomy. Examining animal representation on this hero/villain dichotomy can reveal public perceptions of various taxa. For this study, a total of 558 characters were categorised as heroes, villains, or morally ambiguous. Findings indicate vertebrate-themed characters outnumbered invertebrate-themed characters despite invertebrates making up the majority of fauna biodiversity. Additionally, male comic book characters outnumbered female comic book characters. Amphibians, fish, snakes, and lizards were more frequently portrayed as villains, while mammals, birds, butterflies, and beetles were more frequently portrayed as heroes. Exceptions to heroic mammals were even-toed ungulates and Primates which were more villainous than heroic in their depictions. Investigating animal depictions in media, such as superhero comic books, can help reveal where public perceptions originate and add further context to existing species bias research.
Influence of elastic 3D printed polymers on the mechanical properties and tribology of textile fabrics

Combining textile fabrics with 3D printing has been investigated intensively during the last years. Mostly, research concentrated on the adhesion between both partners of the composite or on the new freedom of design, enabled by combining these techniques. Here, we present examinations of the influence of elastic 3D printed patterns on the elongation and wearing out of elastic textile fabrics as well as on the tribological properties of the textile surface, comparing pure and imprinted textile fabrics. Therefore, thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) was 3D printed in different patterns on diverse textile fabrics. Our study shows that for a sufficient adhesion, reached by small enough nozzle-fabric distance, elastic 3D printed patterns can indeed improve the surface resistance against wear.
Magnetic Nanocomposite Hydrogel with Tunable Stiffness for Probing Cellular Responses to Matrix Stiffening

As cells have the capacity to respond to their mechanical environment, cellular biological behaviors can be regulated by the stiffness of extracellular matrix. Moreover, biological processes are dynamic and accompanied by matrix stiffening. Herein, we developed a stiffening cell culture platform based on polyacrylamide-Fe3O4 magnetic nanocomposite hydrogel with tunable stiffness under the application of magnetic field. This platform provided a wide range of tunable stiffness (∼0.3-20 kPa) covering most of human tissue elasticity with a high biocompatibility. Overall, the increased magnetic interactions between magnetic nanoparticles reduced the pore size of the hydrogel and enhanced the hydrogel stiffness, thereby facilitating the adhesion and spreading of stem cells, which was attributed to the F-actin assembly and vinculin recruitment. Such stiffening cell culture platform provides dynamic mechanical environments for probing the cellular response to matrix stiffening, and benefits studies of dynamic biological processes. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: : Cellular biological behaviors can be regulated by the stiffness of extracellular matrix. Moreover, biological processes are dynamic and accompanied by matrix stiffening. Herein, we developed a stiffening cell culture platform based on polyacrylamide/Fe3O4 magnetic nanocomposite hydrogels with a wide tunable range of stiffness under the application of magnetic field, without adversely affecting cellular behaviors. Such matrix stiffening caused by enhanced magnetic interaction between magnetic nanoparticles under the application of the magnetic field could induce the morphological variations of stem cells cultured on the hydrogels. Overall, our stiffening cell culture platform can be used not only to probe the cellular response to matrix stiffening but also to benefit various biomedical studies.
Assessing Business Process Re-Engineering Warning Signs and Organizational Performance: A Case Study of Perbadanan Kemajuan Pertanian Pahang, Malaysia

Organizational change – be it moderate or radical – is a must for a better future. Situations such as increasing demands of government regulations, growth, competition, technological developments and changing workforce cause organizations to change. Perbadanan Kemajuan Pertanian Negeri Pahang is one of the biggest organizations in Pahang Darul Makmur. Operating for more than 49 years and has more than 116 staff in the organization, the main headquarters need to deliver the right business process not only to external but internal customers as well. Due to the political and economic change recently, it is important for the organization to stay competitive for the future. The present study aims to examine the Business Process Re-engineering (henceforth BPR) warning signs in the process, technology, and organizational structure as well as company performance. A total of 56 responses collected from the respondents were analyzed, and the findings indicated that all the warning signs do not affect the company’s performance. The implications of the study are further discussed in the paper.
An evaluation of three trap designs for invasive rusty crayfish (Faxonius rusticus) suppression on critical fish spawning habitat in northern Lake Michigan

High densities of invasive rusty crayfish on critical spawning reefs present a potential impediment to the recovery of native fish in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Suppression of rusty crayfish on spawning reefs to protect fall spawning native fishes in the Great Lakes is hampered by regular storm events and ambient weather conditions, limiting the number of practical days traps can be checked, cleared, and re-baited. The Gee minnow trap design is the most common gear for sampling and managing crayfish, yet design constraints of the standard Gee minnow trap manifest as tradeoffs between capture efficiency and retention for users. In this study, we compared catch rates from a semi-controlled field experiment and escapement probabilities from laboratory controlled trials for a Gee minnow trap, a modified Gee minnow trap with intention to reduce escapement, and an experimental flat-bottomed pyramid design which showed potential promise during prototype-stage development. Bayesian parameter estimation of generalized linear models applied to catch data suggested that standard Gee minnow traps performed at least as well and often better than both novel trap designs in catch rate and escapement probability. Escapement during laboratory controlled trials was high for all trap designs, demonstrating that retention of trapped individuals is a persistent problem for crayfish monitoring and management. We conclude from our data that standard Gee minnow traps are a sensible gear choice for monitoring and/or potential suppression efforts for invasive rusty crayfish on nearshore spawning reefs in the Great Lakes. However, modifications to its design to improve retention should yet be pursued.
Artificial Companions as a New Kind of Interface to the Future Internet

This research report seeks to connect the future of the Internet to a new, even though relatively developed, technology; that of computer speech and language and its embodiment in a concept I shall call an Artificial Companion. I will argue here that such entities are coming into being and that they will change fairly rapidly from the rather primitive entities now available, largely in Japan, to being entities that will lead to profound social and psychological consequences; they will also constitute a new and much more personal way of dealing with information and its so-called 'overload' upon all of us.This is not a paper in social science, but rather in speculative technology: however, the underlying technologies exist already and I will briefly describe them, along with some account of the current debates over their consequences. The crucial move in the paper will be when, after describing Artificial Companions, real and possible, I go on to argue that they can be seen as links to the Internet, at least for vulnerable classes of people (the old, the young) but perhaps for all of us when faced with the coming torrent of information on the Internet, particularly information about ourselves. Most citizens will not be able to deal with this at all, let alone control or 'own' it, without some assistance, and one form that assistance will take will be the persistent, personal, Internet agent, or Companion.
Domain Adaptation for Hindi-Telugu Machine Translation Using Domain Specific Back Translation

In this paper, we present a novel approachfor domain adaptation in Neural MachineTranslation which aims to improve thetranslation quality over a new domain.Adapting new domains is a highly challeng-ing task for Neural Machine Translation onlimited data, it becomes even more diffi-cult for technical domains such as Chem-istry and Artificial Intelligence due to spe-cific terminology, etc. We propose DomainSpecific Back Translation method whichuses available monolingual data and gen-erates synthetic data in a different way.This approach uses Out Of Domain words.The approach is very generic and can beapplied to any language pair for any do-main. We conduct our experiments onChemistry and Artificial Intelligence do-mains for Hindi and Telugu in both direc-tions. It has been observed that the usageof synthetic data created by the proposedalgorithm improves the BLEU scores significantly.
Protection of Pedestrians as the Key Action for Implementing Poland’s Vision Zero

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports show that pedestrians account for 10 to 70% of total road crash fatalities. In Poland, pedestrians also represent a significant road safety problem. For many years, pedestrian collisions have accounted for approx. 30% of total road crashes with more than 30% of pedestrians killed. Therefore, pedestrian safety has been one of Poland’s main objectives in its road safety programs implemented over the past 20 years. The paper describes the implementation of Poland’s national road safety program GAMBIT 2005, which adopted the far-reaching Vision Zero. Despite the lack of a dedicated pedestrian safety program, pedestrians are key to the implementation of Vision Zero. Therefore, one of the program’s main objectives was the safety of pedestrians, cyclists and children. Because pedestrian fatalities have not decreased, the implementation of Vision Zero requires a more focused approach to pedestrian safety. To manage pedestrian safety, a risk-based approach is used. The paper describes pedestrian safety management based on methods for estimating measures of strategic societal risk, tactical risk classification, and assessing the effectiveness of operational level actions. The paper also describes the effectiveness of pedestrian safety studies and their evaluation.
On-line Generation of Three-Dimensional Core Power Distribution Using Incore Detector Signals to Monitor Safety Limits

It is essential in commercial reactors that the safety limits imposed on the fuel pellets and fuel clad barriers, such as the linear power density (LPD) and the departure from nucleate boiling ratio (DNBR), are not violated during reactor operations. In order to accurately monitor the safety limits of current reactor states, a detailed three-dimensional (3D) core power distribution should be estimated from the in-core detector signals. In this paper, we propose a calculation methodology for detailed 3D core power distribution, using in-core detector signals and core monitoring constants such as the 3D Coupling Coefficients (3DCC), node power fraction, and pin-to-node factors. Also, the calculation method for several core safety parameters is introduced. The core monitoring constants for the real core state are promptly provided by the core design code and on-line MASTER (Multi-purpose Analyzer for Static and Transient Effects of Reactors), coupled with the core monitoring program. through the plant computer, core state variables, which include reactor thermal power, control rod bank position, boron concentration, inlet moderator temperature, and flow rate, are supplied as input data for MASTER. MASTER performs the core calculation based on the neutron balance equation and generates several core monitoring constants corresponding to the real core state in addition to the expected core power distribution. The accuracy of the developed method is verified through a comparison with the current CECOR method. Because in all the verification calculation cases the proposed method shows a more conservative value than the best estimated value and a less conservative one than the current CECOR and COLSS methods, it is also confirmed that this method secures a greater operating margin through the simulation of the YGN-3 Cycle-1 core from the viewpoint of the power peaking factor for the LPD and the pseudo hot pin axial power distribution for the DNBR calculation.
Techniques for Cathodic Protection Testing over Airfield Pavements.

Abstract : This report summarizes the techniques developed for cathodic protection testing over airfield pavements. Test results conclusively proved that the accuracy of all pipe-to-surface potential measurements taken over pavement surfaces are questionable. On concrete pavement it was found that potential readings differed from readings on adjacent soil by more than 100 millivolts. Potential readings over well sealed asphalt surfaces were not possible even when using high input impedance, electronic voltmeters. Potential readings over deteriorated asphalt were possible but the accuracy was poor. Accurate potential measurements over pavement surfaces can be made only if the reference electrode contacts the surface beneath the pavement. This report recommends a procedure for easily penetrating the pavement surface and installing a pavement insert through which a modified reference electrode may be inserted. (Author)
Management control systems in research and development organisations: A multiple case study in Indonesia

level but the translation of that into operational goals may not be self-evident. Such operational goals may need frequent modification in the light of new knowledge, and the cause and effect relationships are normally less well defined in key dimensions than most other human endeavours. Repetition of tasks increases the ability to predict future events and/or consequences, and decreases uncertainty (Thompson, 1967, p. 16), to which the traditional model of rational choice can be applied. However, in the situation where operational goals are often ill defined and/or discretionary, this model would probably be inappropriate (Cooper et al., 1981, p. 179). As the objectives of the RD Flamholtz, 1983). The behaviour of personnel within an organisation should follow, or presumably will strive for or will be influenced by, control systems following a set of behaviour patterns that had been defined as being appropriate. This type of presumption is similar to that in administrative control, which set a standard before the action and uses it as a yardstick to be compared to performance.
On rapid vector alignment in permanent magnet brushless motor

A software replacement for the commutation signals of a permanent magnet brushless motor is presented. The feedback observed acceleration loop or equivalently the high-order position polynomial controller allows finding the initial relative orientation between the two magnetic fields of the motors within a fraction of a second. Also, using the proposed method allows a considerable cost saving, since the transducer that is usually used for this purpose can be eliminated. The cost saving is most obvious in the case of linear motors and angle motors with large diameters. The way the problem is posed is an essential part of this work and it is the reason behind the apparent simplicity of the solution. The method has been tested when a relative encoder was used and the motor current was regulated.
Defining Sexual Consent: Perspectives from a College Student Population

The current investigation explored how college students define sexual consent, and the sources from which they developed these definitions. Thematic analysis generated five categories of consent definitions: permission, agreement, willingness, wanted-ness, and contextual elements (i.e., stipulations regarding the consent process; behaviors that require sexual consent). Participants’ sources from which they learned about the definition of sexual consent included: educational experiences, friends, family, school, media, personal experiences, and unsure/common sense. Findings highlight the complex nature of sexual consent as a communicative construct and the varied sources from which college students constructed their conceptualization of consent. Implications for college health and sexual assault programming, as well as for researchers looking to further explore the multi-faceted construct of sexual consent, are discussed.
Evaluate the Effect of Home Enteral Nutrition Compared with Oral Diet after the Hospital Discharge of Subjects with Esophagectomy of Esophageal Cancer: A Systemic Review and Meta-analysis

Background: We performed a meta-analysis to evaluate the effect of home enteral nutrition compared with oral diet after the hospital discharge of subjects with esophagectomy of esophageal cancer. Methods: A systematic literature search up to July 2021 was performed and 12 studies included 970 subjects with esophagectomy of esophageal cancer at the start of the study; 481 of them were using home enteral nutrition after the hospital discharge and 579 were given oral diet. They were reporting relationships between the effects of home enteral nutrition compared with oral diet after the hospital discharge of subjects with esophagectomy of esophageal cancer. We calculated the odds ratio (OR) and the mean difference (MD) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) to assess the effects of home enteral nutrition compared with oral diet after the hospital discharge of subjects with esophagectomy of esophageal cancer using the dichotomous and contentious method with a random or fixed-effect model. Results: Home enteral nutrition had significantly higher body weight (MD, 31.4; 95% CI, 2.55–3.72, p < 0.001), body mass index (MD, 1.20; 95% CI, 0.66–1.74, p < 0.001), and serum albumin (MD, 3.14; 95% CI, 2.07–4.20, p < 0.001), hemoglobin (MD, 8.57; 95% CI, 6.52–10.63, p < 0.001), total protein (MD, 4.86; 95% CI, 2.93–6.80, p < 0.001), and pre-albumin (MD, 30.39; 95% CI, 1.27–59.50, p = 0.04) compared to oral diet after the hospital discharge of subjects with esophagectomy of esophageal cancer. Additionally, home enteral nutrition compared with oral diet after the hospital discharge of subjects with esophagectomy of esophageal cancer had no significant difference in feeding-related complications (OR, 1.04; 95% CI, 0.44–2.43, p = 0.93). Conclusions: Home enteral nutrition had significantly higher body weight, body mass index, and serum albumin, hemoglobin, total protein, and pre-albumin compared to oral diet after the hospital discharge of subjects with esophagectomy of esophageal cancer with no significant difference in feeding-related complications. Furthers studies are needed to confirm these findings.
An example of ridge-proximal hydrothermal mineralisation: evidence from radiolarian chert-hosted Fe-Mn-oxide mineralisation within the İzmir-Ankara-Erzincan Neotethyan Ocean, Central Turkey

ABSTRACT Fe-Mn-oxide (oxyhydroxide) deposits are common within the late Cretaceous mélange units of the İzmir-Ankara-Erzincan Suture Zone, which marks the closure of part of the northern branch of the Neotethys Ocean in Turkey. In the Cihanpaşa region (Yozgat, central Turkey), Fe-Mn mineralisation occurs as interlayers within a sequence of mudstone and siliceous pelagic units that overlies altered pillow lavas belonging to the Artova ophiolitic complex. T-Fe-Mn mineralisations are characterised by moderate amounts of Ba (560 ppm), and low contents of Sr (243 ppm), Co (51 ppm), Zn (183 ppm), and Ni (221 ppm). Mn/Fe (0.69) and low Co/Ni (<0.40), Co/Zn (<0.50) and Y/Ho (25.7) ratios and ΣREE (233) values suggest that mineralisation formed in a submarine environment hydrothermal system. The low Ceanom. values (−0.60) are consistent with a mostly oxic depositional environment. Further, low LaSN/NdSN (<1), negative Ce anomaly (0.29), and low Al/(Al+Fe) (0.14), whereas high LaSN/CeSN (4.01) and Fe/Ti ratio (208) with moderately positive Eu anomaly (1.22), and Ti/V (1.99), LuSN/LaSN (0.89), ΣREE/Fe ratio (22.36 × 10–4) indicate that the Cihanpaşa Fe-Mn mineralisation formed in an oxygenised marine sedimentary environment with influence of a ridge-proximal (near spreading ridge) submarine hydrothermal vent system in the İzmir-Ankara-Erzincan Neotethyan Ocean. These results indicate that detailed geological and geochemical evidences determined in silicilastic rocks and submarine volcanics within mélange associations well-exposed along the suture belt could be applied to exploration studies for the discovery of ancient submarine deposits, including significant and precious metals such as polymetallic Fe-Mn deposits (Fe-Mn crust and nodules) and seafloor sulphide mineralisation.
The Impact of New-Onset Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension on All-Cause Mortality in an Apparently Healthy Population: A Ten-Year Follow-Up Study

Introduction The comparative effect of new-onset diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertension (HT) on long-term mortality is a matter of debate. Materials and Methods From 2007 to 2017, a 10-year longitudinal retrospective cohort study was conducted in Thailand's tertiary care setting. As baseline data, health check-up data from apparently healthy participants without underlying disease from 2007 were extracted. The vital status of all participants was determined in 2017, ten years after an initial examination. The impact of new-onset DM and HT at baseline on 10-year all-cause mortality was investigated using multivariable logistic regression analysis. Results The prevalence of new-onset DM and HT was 6.4% and 28.8%, respectively, at baseline. Newly diagnosed diabetes increased the risk of all-cause mortality over 10 years (adjusted OR 4.77 and 95% CI 2.23-9.99). HT, on the other hand, did not increase the risk of death (adjusted OR 1.24 and 95% CI 0.65-2.35). Different HT and DM status combinations were compared to a nondiabetic, nonhypertensive reference. Individuals who were diabetic and hypertensive had a greater risk of death (adjusted OR 6.22 and 95% CI 2.22-17.00). Having DM without HT also increased the risk of death (adjusted OR 4.36 and 95% CI 1.35-12.87). However, having HT without DM did not result in a significant increase in 10-year mortality risk (adjusted OR 1.21 and 95% CI 0.57-2.56). Conclusion In an apparently healthy population, new-onset DM is more strongly associated with 10-year all-cause mortality than new-onset HT. Having both DM and HT was associated with a greater risk of death when compared to having DM or HT alone.
Low Sidelobe Sparse Concentric Ring Arrays Optimization Using Modified GA

To minimize the peak sidelobe level (PSLL) of sparse concentric ring arrays, this paper presents an optimization method of grid ring radii of these arrays. The proposed method is based on modified real genetic algorithm (MGA); it makes grid ring radii as optimal variables and makes elements more reasonably distributed on the array aperture. Also, it can improve the PSLL of the sparse concentric ring arrays and can meanwhile control the computational cost. The simulated results confirming the efficiency and the robustness of the algorithm are provided at last.