Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
VALIDATION OF ELDERLY ABUSE ASSESSMENT TOOL

Background: Several screening tools for elderly abuse have been developed but they have rarely been validated properly for wider use. The multiplicity of the tools available revealed the need to develop through collaborative research, a simple and reliable tool that can be adapted and used in different geographical and cultural settings. As the cases of abuse increase, nurses are in a position to rescue this vulnerable population through equipping knowledge and be knowledgeable on using elderly assessment tool for abuse cases.Objective: To validate the developed Filipino-based elderly abuse assessment tool. Methods: The study utilized descriptive confirmatory method design and underwent validation and reliability process. Five experts conducted the scrutiny during validation and 220 elderly clients’ subjected the tool for reliability tests. Data are analyzed using SPSS version 23, while frequency and percentage were used for continuous variable.Results: The Elderly Abuse Assessment Tool is valid and reliable. The tool is clear in terms of the word composition, the texts are understood easily, comprehensive, and relevant based on expert reviews. It has I-CVI of 0.84 (44 items) and increases value in its second version to 0.87 (42 items). On one hand, the tool obtained a very high degree of reliability with Cronbach’s Alpha of 0.974 during the second version. Regardless of item numbers are retained, the value remains high. Constructs identified from the validated tool. Kaiser’s criterion or the Eigenvalue result of the second version of the developed tool revealed six factors that can be extracted. However, in the Scree test or plot, only two factors located above the inflection points. This means that two factors or constructs can be named. The researcher decided to choose the lesser number for easier naming of factors. The tool was classified into two constructs, namely physico-sexual and psycho-financial factors, respectively.Conclusion: The Elderly Abuse Assessment Tool (EAAT) is valid and has a very high degree of reliability. Physico-sexual and Psycho-financial are the two major constructs of the tool. Filipino nurses can now articulate their expression of unending caring through the utility of the validated Elderly Abuse Assessment Tool (EAAT).
Failsafe Mechanism to Hazard Analysis and Risk Mitigation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle based on NCES

In the last few years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are receiving more focus in order to execute a wide variety of applications such as the military, agriculture and medical fields. It is known the high vulnerability of the UAV not only to unexpected faults of their software but also to the environment. For this reason, safety should be considered as the main requirement at design time, since any unexpected behavior of the vehicle or any hazard would lead to potential risks. To maintain their safe operation during their missions, a failsafe mechanism based on Net Condition Event System (NCES) is proposed. The failsafe mechanism is a control logic that guides risk reduction actions to be performed when hazards occur. To generate such a controller using formal models, the proposed process is decomposed into three phases: (1) the first phase consists on hazard identification and analysis according to reactive methods of literature, (2) the second phase allows risk estimation using the standard ISO 13849, and (3) the third phase consists of performing reconfiguration scenario in order to risk mitigation while analyzing safety requirements. The motivation behind the use of formal methods is that they have proven to be useful for making the development process reliable at early design stages. We demonstrate the applicability and feasibility of our proposal on an illustrative medical drone as a case study.
Forecast Analysis of Hydro-climatic Data of Nouhao Sub-basin in East-Central of Burkina Faso

Forecast analysis of hydro-climatics data of Nouhao Sub-Basin shows how useful local rain gauges data collected by population during 4 to 7 years in three (03) villages on the experimental site for the local planning and forecasting. The first results show that i) the breakdown of the series determines the seasonality and occurrence of "casual" rains; ii) the auto-correlation detection test showed that casual rains are not self-correlated and validates the model; iii) the dry/rainy season cycle is from mid-October to April and from mid-April to mid-October for this experimental site, iv) the forecasts for N+1 years in 2016, 2017 and 2018, compared to the collected data, clearly show that the statistical forecast model is robust. The level of correlation is satisfactory with a positive correlation coefficient close to unity. The deficit of cumulative rainfall average around to 14%. The 2019 forecast shows a deficit compared to the previous year (2018). It is a dry year compared to the average index for the period 2012-2018. However, the 2019 forecast for the experimental area corroborates well with the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (ICDS/CILSS) forecasts indicating a normal to surplus year with pockets of drought in the second part of the season for part of Burkina Faso. Longer monitoring in the basin would contribute to seasonal forecasting efforts in Burkina Faso.
Cryptonemia rotunda (Halymeniales) and Schizymenia apoda (Nemastomatales), two new records of red algae from Korea

Here we report the first finding of Cryptonemia rotunda and Schizymenia apoda in Korea based on plastid rbcL sequence analysis and morphological observations. C. rotunda occurred in the subtidal in Hongdo and Namyeodo on the south coast. Thalli have short stipe with foliose, membranous blades with dentate margin, a length of 2-8 cm. S. apoda occurred in many locations along the coast of Korea. Thalli are foliose, simple or broadly lanceolate blades with irregular lobes and proliferations from the margins, sometimes undulate, soft fleshy, and slippery, up to 32 cm tall, and have cystocarps with ostioles on the blade. Plastid rbcL sequences reveal that each of these species is clearly separated from other species of their respective genera. S. apoda was well resolved within the genus. However, C. rotunda was distantly related to other members of the genus, and this result needs an urgent revision of the genus.
Determinants of County-Level Poverty Rates in 2017: An Upper-Midwest Comparison

The American upper-Midwest as a region throughout the 2010s has experienced lower-than-average poverty rates. This paper seeks to uncover the determinants that have the greatest impact on the countylevel poverty rates for five states (Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas). Outcomes for this study came from an Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression to estimate the impact each independent variable had on the poverty rate. The empirical results showed the unemployment rate, the percentage of households headed solely by females, and percent of the population that was Native American in 2017 had a significant impact on a county’s poverty rate.
In Vitro.–Enhanced Production of Podophyllotoxin in Phytohormonal-Induced and Regenerated Roots of Podophyllum hexandrum.

ABSTRACT Sixty-day-old in vitro–induced roots and roots regenerated from totipotent calli of Podophyllum hexandrum Royle produced an enhanced quantity of podophyllotoxin. Induced root cultures originated from aseptically germinated seedlings, and regenerated roots were established on both Gamborg's B5 and Murashige and Skoog media. The podophyllotoxin content was compared with normal plant root/rhizomes by HPLC. The highest values, both in growth/proliferation and in podophyllotoxin production, were obtained using Gamborg's B5 medium.
ENHANCING DESIGN SCIENCE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

This paper argues on the importance of extending the capabilities of design science from its traditional orientation domain of ‘solving organizational problems’ to include general social development. The focus of the argument is taking into consideration the prevailing socio – economic characteristics of the developing countries of Africa (DCoA). It is conflated in this paper that, to enhance the service of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)in their totality in the social development of the nature of the developing countries of Africa, the institutions of higher learning in Africa need to design technical training programs that will be able to blend design science with social development theories. Bloom’s taxonomy conception of knowledge categorization is used to highlight rooms for improvement in the current technocentric curricula. The purpose is to produce professionals with the necessary insight in the socio-economic conditions of the target contexts for them to develop useful artifacts.
Anti-termite activity of Sterculia foetida L. seed extracts against Indian white termite, Odontotermes obesus Rambur

Phytochemical screening and anti-termite activity of the different solvent extracts of the Wild Indian almond, Sterculia foetida L. seed was studied in the present work. The seed powder of S. foetida was extracted by ethyl acetate, 98% methanol and water. All the extracts were subjected to phytochemical screening as per standard protocol and the results revealed that the presence of important secondary metabolites such as carbohydrate, amino acid, fats and oils, saponins, alkaloids, flavanoids and terpenoids. Later antibacterial activity of the all extracts were tested against two bacterial strains Styphylococcus aureus (G+ve) and Proteus mirabillis (G-ve) and the results revealed that the 98% methanolic extract was potent against both bacterial species at 30μg concentration. All extracts were subjected to anti-termite bioassay through Whatman filter paper method at different time duration. The results revealed that the 98% methanolic seed extract cause higher percentage of mortality compare than other extracts tested at 48 hours. Thus this study could help to develop potent plant based pesticide to control the insect pest like termites.
Constitutive Activation of Activin Receptor-like Kinase 2 in Human Breast Cancer Cells inhibits Metastatic Progression and Osteolytic Bone Lesions

Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) is a crucial player in metastasis of breast cancer cells to bone. We previously reported that bone morphogenetic protein-7 (BMP-7) can counteract the effects of TGF-β in vitro and inhibit the progression and formation of osteotropic MDA-BO2 human breast cancer bone metastasis in vivo. Whether BMP-7 acts directly on the breast cancer cells and/or on the cancer-associated bone stroma has remained elusive. Here, we demonstrated that activin-like kinase receptor 2 (ALK2) is the functional BMP-7 type I receptor in MDA-BO2 cells. Subsequently, to restrict BMP7-induced actions to MDA-BO2 cells we engineered these cells to ectopically express a constitutively active variant of ALK2, denoted caALK2. We demonstrate that caALK2 continuously activates the BMP signaling pathway as measured by Smad phosphorylation, BMP transcriptional reporter activity and target gene responses, and antagonized basal and TGF-β-induced transcriptional reporter activation. In vivo tumor-induced osteolysis and metastatic progression was mitigated in mice inoculated with MDA-BO2 cells overexpressing caALK2 compared to a control cell line. These observations suggest that cell autonomous activation of caALK2 or BMP7 over-expression in breast tumor cells inhibit osteolysis and metastatic progression possibly by interfering with the TGF-β-mediated self-amplifying cycle of bone destruction. Abbreviations ActR-II, Activin receptor type II; ALK, Activin receptor-like kinase; caALK, constitutively active ALK; BMP, bone morphogenetic protein; BMPR-II, BMP receptor type II; BRE, BMPresponsive element; caALK2, constitutively active ALK2; EMT, epithelial mesenchymal transition; GFP, green fluorescent protein; HLH, helix-loop-helix; ID, inhibitor of differentiation/DNA binding; μ-CT, micro-computed tomography; MET, mesenchymal epithelial transition; P-Smad, phosphorylated Smad; I-Smad, inhibitory Smad; Smad, small phenotype and mothers against DPP related protein; TGF-β, transforming growth factor β.
Optimized Far Field Boundary Conditions for Hyperbolic Systems

In this paper we improve large-time absorbing boundary conditions (ABCs) for first order hyperbolic systems. These boundary conditions combine the properties of ABCs for transient solutions and the properties of transparent boundary conditions for steady state problems. Initially they were defined up to an arbitrary matrix factor and then we develop a general strategy to specify this matrix factor in an optimal way with respect to the absorption of outgoing waves. Well-posedness of the resulting initial boundary value problem is studied in detail, and convergence in time of the transient solution to the steady state is established. Afterwards we consider a Lax-Wendrofftype finite difference scheme to solve the resulting initial boundary value problem and apply the GKS-stability theory to prove the stability of this scheme. Numerical examples are presented, to discuss convergence to the correct steady state and to compare the numerical solutions for different choices of the scaling matrix, illustrating the usefulness of our approach. AMS subject classifications: 65M06, 35L50
Floristic analysis and biogeography of Tubiflorae in Egypt

The species distribution and biogeography of the Egyptian Tubiflorae were exam­ ined in detail. We found 284 species of vascular plants belonging to 96 genera and 12 families, making the Egyptian Tubiflorae richer in species than that of other arid region floras: Libya and Saudi Arabia. The most species rich families were Scrophulariaceae, Boraginaceae, Labiatae, Convolvulaceae and Solanaceae, constituting more than 85% of the total species in the order. The generic spectrum dominated by a suite of species-rich genera (Convolvulus, Heliotropium, Veronica, Solanum, Salvia, Cuscuta, Echium, Ipomoea and Orobanche). Therophytes were the most dominant life forms among the families, followed by chamaephytes and hemicryptophytes. Boraginaceae and Scrophulariaceae had the highest share of annuals. Remarkable distribution patterns of the life forms in the seven studied biogeographic zones were noticed. Trees were dominant in the Mediterranean zone, while shrubs, perennial herbs and therophytes were dominant in the Sinai. Altogether 8 endemic species and 14 near-endemics were included in the Tubiflorae of Egypt; mostly from southern Sinai. We found that Labiatae and Scrophulariaceae were the families with higher concentration of endemics. Notably, Teucrium was among the genera of the Mediterranean Africa with highest endemism. Gamma diversity varied from 171 in the Sinai Peninsula to 43 and 39 in the Oases of the western Desert and along the Red Sea, respectively. Interestingly, highest significant values of similarity and species turnover (beta diversity) were observed between the Oases and the Nile lands. It is worthy noting the com­ bined effect of both temperature and precipitation on gamma diversity of Tubiflorae in the 7 biogeographic zones. Our results indicated that almost one-half of the species showed a certain degree of consistency, i.e., with narrow geographic expansion. On the basis of UPGMA clustering and PCoA analysis, 4 floristic groups were recognized, each include one or more biogeographic zone. The occurrence of the species of Tubiflorae in the adjacent regional arid floras and their phytochorological affinities, were discussed. Acta Biol Szeged 51(1):65-80 (2007)
ProteiNN: Privacy-preserving One-to-Many Neural Network Classifications

In this work, we propose ProteiNN, a privacy-preserving neural network classification solution in a one-tomany scenario whereby one model provider outsources a machine learning model to the cloud server for its many different customers, and wishes to keep the model confidential while controlling its use. On the other hand, these customers take advantage of this machine learning model without revealing their sensitive inputs and the corresponding results. The solution employs homomorphic proxy re-encryption and a simple additive encryption to ensure the privacy of customers’ inputs and results against the model provider and the cloud server, and to give the control on the privacy and use of the model to the model provider. A detailed security analysis considering potential collusions among different players is provided.
Comparative Assessment of Some Physicochemical Properties of Different Sesame Varieties and Oil Yield, Ethiopia

The proximate composition and physico chemical properties of released and improved Ethiopian sesame oil seed crops were evaluated. The results of statistical analyses showed significant variations in proximate composition values and physico chemical characteristics of sesame oil seed crops. The analysis of variance indicated that moisture content was ranged between 4.4% to 4.8%, total ash (4.70% to 8.72%), crude protein content (14.44% to 21.51%), crude fat /oil (44.40% to 50.84%) and carbohydrate was ranged between (16.23% to 29.46%). Maturity stage and storage conditions are the major factors for moisture contents. The lower moisture values indicated that there is low vulnerable for oil spoilage the so-called rancidity. Total ash values are the indication of inorganic elements that are present in food as minerals. From the ash values, comparatively Tate has a better mineral value as compared with others. Serkamo sesame variety has a better protein value while the minimum (14.44%) was recorded at Adi. This may due to the reason that protein values have direct correlation with agronomic practices. The oil contents of seed crops were significantly different; this may be due to genetic difference. The carbohydrate values have significant difference among varieties. These variations may be bringing form the concept that oil crops mostly have a better oil values, thus subtractions of carbohydrate from the proximate values have a significant effect on the carbohydrate’s values. On the other hand, the oil characterization of seed crops indicated that the range of saponification value was between (184.47 to 199.60 mgKOH/g), specific gravity (0.85 to 0.90), thousand seed weight (2.72 to 3.63 g), free fatty acid value (7.63 to 16.67%), ester value (151.32 to 182.90) and acid value (15.18 to 33.15 KOH/g). The physico chemical parameters of sesame oil seed crops were significantly different among varieties. This variation mainly exists due to genetic variabilities among the seed crops. From these ten different sesame varieties, Abasena with its lowest saponification value and high free fatty acid value indicated that the oil from this variety is regarded non-edible oil. Lower acid value indicated the oil stability against peroxidation. Abasena with its higher acid value indicated that the oil is not suitable for cooking as compared with the remain sesame varieties.
Effect of Primary Biotin Deficiency on the Skin of Germ-Free and Conventional Mice Fed a Purified Biotin-Deficient Diet without Supplementation with Egg White.

To investigate the effect of primary biotin deficiency on growth and the skin, germ-free and conventional mice were given a purified biotin-deficient diet without egg white for 57 days. The body weight was significantly reduced in germ-free mice fed the biotin-deficient diet, whereas no reduction was seen in the conventional mice. Biotin levels decreased significantly in tissues of conventional and germ-free mice fed a biotin-deficient diet except in the heart of the conventional mice. Pyruvate carboxylase activity also decreased significantly in the liver, kidneys, and skin of conventional and germ-free mice fed a biotin-deficient diet, and the activity in the tissues of germ-free mice was lower than that in the conventional mice. Most germ-free mice fed the biotin-deficient diet exhibited severe alopecia, whereas conventional mice on the same diet did not. The histological changes in the alopecic skin were degeneration of the medulla of hair and the cortex of hair in germ-free mice fed the deficient diet. These degenerative changes in the skin of germ-free mice fed the biotin-deficient diet induced downgrowth of the hair root.
Post-prison programs for Indigenous Sex Offenders

High levels of sexual violence are evident in some Indigenous communities in Australia (Cripps & McGlade, 2008; O’Brien, 2010; Smallbone, Rayment-McHugh, & Smith, 2013) and other colonised nations such as the USA and Canada (Ellerby & MacPherson, 2002; Stewart, Hamilton, Wilton, Cousineau, & Varrette, 2014). As a large majority of those incarcerated in relation to sexual offending will ultimately be released back into the community, it is vital to consider supports available to foster successful reintegration. However, very little has been documented about the reintegration support needs of Indigenous sex offenders.
The JHU Multi-Microphone Multi-Speaker ASR System for the CHiME-6 Challenge

This paper summarizes the JHU team's efforts in tracks 1 and 2 of the CHiME-6 challenge for distant multi-microphone conversational speech diarization and recognition in everyday home environments. We explore multi-array processing techniques at each stage of the pipeline, such as multi-array guided source separation (GSS) for enhancement and acoustic model training data, posterior fusion for speech activity detection, PLDA score fusion for diarization, and lattice combination for automatic speech recognition (ASR). We also report results with different acoustic model architectures, and integrate other techniques such as online multi-channel weighted prediction error (WPE) dereverberation and variational Bayes-hidden Markov model (VB-HMM) based overlap assignment to deal with reverberation and overlapping speakers, respectively. As a result of these efforts, our ASR systems achieve a word error rate of 40.5% and 67.5% on tracks 1 and 2, respectively, on the evaluation set. This is an improvement of 10.8% and 10.4% absolute, over the challenge baselines for the respective tracks.
Cloning and Identification of Rat Deoxyuridine Triphosphatase as an Inhibitor of Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor α*

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) are members of the nuclear receptor superfamily that transcriptionally regulate responsive genes by binding to the peroxisome proliferator response elements. Protein(s) interacting with PPAR isoforms (α, δ, and γ) may modulate the PPAR-mediated transcriptional activation. Using a yeast two-hybrid system to screen a rat liver cDNA library, we have identified rat deoxyuridine-triphosphatase (dUTPase, EC 3.6.1.23) as a PPARα-interacting protein. This cDNA encodes a polypeptide of 203 amino acids; the C-terminal 141-amino acid segment of this protein corresponds to the full-length human enzyme, which exhibits 92% identity with human dUTPase; the N-terminal extra 62-amino acid residue region is arginine-rich. In vitro binding assays indicate that rat dUTPase interacts with all three isoforms of mouse PPAR, but not with retinoid X receptor and thyroid hormone receptor. Interaction of PPARα with dUTPase is with the N-terminal 62-amino acid segment of rat dUTPase. Full-length rat dUTPase prevents PPAR-retinoid X receptor heterodimerization resulting in an inhibition of PPAR activity in a ligand-independent manner. Immunostaining of human kidney tsA201 cells, transiently expressing dUTPase showed that this protein is present predominantly in the cytoplasm but translocates into the nucleus with PPARα when PPARα is coexpressed with dUTPase. Northern blot hybridization shows that rat dUTPase is encoded by an abundant 1kilobase mRNA species present in all rat tissues. The identification of dUTPase as a PPAR-interacting protein suggests a possible link between tumorigenic peroxisome proliferators and the enzyme system involved in the maintenance of DNA fidelity.