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Assessing the Potential Health Benefits of Cycling at the City of Viana do Castelo

Mobility has an important impact on the overall functioning of cities and quality of life of citizens. On the other hand, motorized road traffic is associated with high levels of noise and air pollutant emissions along with congestion and other externalities, leading to considerable social and environmental costs and degradation of human health. Following the World Health Organization, physical inactivity is one of the leading risks in Europe, associated with nearly 1 million deaths per year. In Portugal around 69% of the adult population do not reach the minimum recommended level of physical activity and 31% were considered sufficiently and highly active. Therefore, more sustainable transport modes such as walking and cycling are envisaged. This paper is built upon the contracted work with the city of Viana do Castelo, located in the North of Portugal, conducted for the World Health Organization (WHO) by the University of Minho and LNEC. The work integrates a research roadmap (case study plan for the application of the Health Economic Assessment Tool) for the appraisal of health benefits of specific walking and cycling investments in the city. The work presented here focus on the former part of the study which involved joint team work with the city officers for defining the target policy scenarios for using the WHO Economic Assessment Tool, the exchange of experiences and practices with other European cities regarding the use of this tool for health benefits assessment, the characterisation of the mobility patterns at the reference and alternative policy scenarios set for the cost-benefit analysis, the data collection plan and the expected impacts from the early consideration of health benefits of those non-motorized investments. Results from the evaluation study can help the City elected officials to demonstrate the health benefits of walking and cycling investments. Individuals’ awareness and perceptions of the health benefits of cycling and walking are important to encourage people to uptake active mobility styles.
Thermohaline Circulation: High-Latitude Phenomena and the Difference Between the Pacific and Atlantic

▪ Abstract Deepwater formation, the process whereby surface water is actively converted into deep water through heat and freshwater exchange at the air-sea interface, is known to occur in the North Atlantic but not in the North Pacific. As such, the thermohaline circulation is fundamentally different in these two regions. In this review we provide a description of this circulation and outline a number of reasons as to why deep water is formed in the North Atlantic but not in the North Pacific. Special emphasis is given to the role of interactions with the Arctic Ocean. We extend our analysis to discuss the observational evidence and current theories for decadal-interdecadal climate variability in each region, with particular focus on the role of the ocean. Differences between the North Atlantic and North Pacific are highlighted.
A text mining and network analysis of topics and trends in major nursing research journals

Abstract Aim This study is set to determine the main topics of the nursing field and to show the changing perspectives over time by analysing the abstracts of several major nursing research journals using text mining methodology. Design Text mining and network analysis. Methods Text analysis combines automatic and manual operations to identify patterns in unstructured data. Detailed searches covering 1998–2021 were conducted in PubMed archives to collect articles from six nursing journals: Journal of Advanced Nursing, International Journal of Nursing Studies, Western Journal of Nursing Research, Nursing Research, Journal of Nursing Scholarship and Research in Nursing and Health. This study uses a four‐phase text mining and network approach, gathering text data and cleaning, preprocessing, text analysis and advanced analyses. Analyses and data visualization were performed using Endnote, JMP, Microsoft Excel, Tableau and VOSviewer versions. From six journals, 17,581 references in PubMed were combined into one EndNote file. Due to missing abstract information, 2496 references were excluded from the study. The remaining references (n = 15,085) were used for the text mining analyses. Results Eighteen subjects were determined into two main groups; research method topics and nursing research topics. The most striking topics are qualitative research, concept analysis, advanced practice in the downtrend, and literature search, statistical analysis, randomized control trials, quantitative research, nurse practice environment, risk assessment and nursing science. According to the network analysis results, nursing satisfaction and burnout and nursing practice environment are highly correlated and represent 10% of the total corpus. This study contributes in various ways to the field of nursing research enhanced by text mining. The study findings shed light on researchers becoming more aware of the latest research status, sub‐fields and trends over the years, identifying gaps and planning future research agendas. No patient or public contribution.
Determinants influencing fraud prevention in e-procurement: Empirical evidence from Indonesia

Electronic procurement of government products and services strives to promote good governance by enhancing internal control and fraud prevention. This study aims to assess how e-procurement and internal control can prevent fraud in purchasing goods and services in Indonesia. Participants in the regional work units (SKPD) in Riau’s procurement of goods and services make up the study’s population. The sample included 85 respondents with the requirements for a position relating to the successful procurement of goods and services from December 2021 to December 2022. The paper used a purposeful sampling technique. This study employed a quantitative method and SmartPLS 3.0 to evaluate the data. The results concluded that the implementation of e-procurement (β = 0.231; p &lt; 0.05) and internal control (β = 0.231; p &lt; 0.05) have a substantial impact on fraud prevention during the procurement of goods and services. By absorbing the capital expenditure budget and limiting fraud, it is envisaged that the Indonesian government may maximize its fraud prevention. It is desired that persons involved in procuring products and services constantly broaden their understanding of and perspectives on procurement, particularly those on other crucial aspects of procurement.
Predicting Loneliness through Digital Footprints on Google and YouTube

Loneliness is an increasingly prevalent condition with many adverse effects on health and quality of life. Accordingly, there is a growing interest in developing automated or low-cost methods for triaging and supporting individuals encountering psychosocial distress. This study marks an early attempt at building predictive models to detect loneliness automatically using the digital traces of individuals’ online behavior (Google search and YouTube consumption). Based on a longitudinal study with 92 adult participants for eight weeks in 2021, we find that users’ online behavior can help create automated classification tools for loneliness with high accuracy. Furthermore, we observed behavioral differences in digital traces across platforms. The “not lonely” participants had higher aggregated YouTube activity and lower aggregated Google search activity than “lonely” participants. Our results indicate the need for a further platform-aware exploration of technology use for studies interested in developing automated assessment tools for psychological well-being.
TALP at MediaEval 2010 Placing Task: Geographical Focus Detection of Flickr Textual Annotations

This paper describes our geographical text analysis and geotagging experiments in the context of the Multimedia Placing Task at MediaEval 2010 evaluation. The task consists of predicting the most probable coordinates of Flickr videos. We used a Natural Language Processing approach trying to match geographical place names in the Flickr users textual annotations. The resources employed to deal with this task were the Geonames geographical gazetteer, stopwords lists from several languages, and an electronic English dictionary. We used two geographical focus disambiguation strategies, one based on population heuristics and another that combines geographical knowledge and population heuristics. The second strategy does achieve the best results. Using stopwords lists and the English dictionary as a lter for ambiguous place names also improves the results.
Echo state networks as an alternative to traditional artificial neural networks in rainfall–runoff modelling

Despite theoretical benefits of recurrent artificial neural networks over their feedforward counterparts, it is still unclear whether the former offer practical advantages as rainfall-runoff models. The main drawback of recurrent networks is the increased complexity of the training proce- dure due to their architecture. This work uses the recently introduced and conceptually simple echo state networks for streamflow forecasts on twelve river basins in the Eastern United States, and compares them to a variety of traditional feedforward and recurrent approaches. Two modifications on the echo state network models are made that increase the hydrologically relevant information content of their internal state. The results show that the echo state networks outper- form feedforward networks and are competitive with state- of-the-art recurrent networks, across a range of performance measures. This, along with their simplicity and ease of train- ing, suggests that they can be considered promising alter- natives to traditional artificial neural networks in rainfall- runoff modelling.
In Vitro Evaluation of Antidiabetic Activity of Stem Extracts of Oroxylum Indicum

Background: It is estimated 180 million people in the world have diabetes mellitus. The ethnobotanical information reports about 1000 plants that may possess antidiabetic activity. Roots, leaves, seeds, fruits and stems of Oroxylum indicum have been used as a single drug or as a component of certain compound drug preparations in the Indian Ayurvedic system of medicine. , Aim: The current study designed In vitro evaluation of antidiabetic activity of aqueous and methanolic stem extracts of Oroxylum indicum. Materials & Methods: About 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 μg concentrations of acarbose, aqueous, and ethanolic stem extracts of O. indicum were used for the study. The absorbance values were taken in spectrophotometer at 540 nm and 546 nm for α-amylase and α-glucosidase enzyme, respectively. Results: Dose-dependent % inhibition of α-amylase and α-glucosidase enzymes are observed with the both extracts. However, compare with aqueous extract, methanolic extract shows more % inhibition. Conclusion: In this study, aqueous and methanolic stem extracts of O. indicum showed the in vitro antidiabetic activity.
Big data analytics for relative humidity time series forecasting based on the LSTM network and ELM

Accurate and reliable relative humidity forecasting is important when evaluating the impacts of climate change on humans and ecosystems. However, the complex interactions among geophysical parameters are challenging and may result in inaccurate weather forecasting. This study combines long short-term memory (LSTM) and extreme learning machines (ELM) to create a hybrid model-based forecasting technique to predict relative humidity to improve the accuracy of forecasts. Detailed experiments with univariate and multivariate problems were conducted, and the results show that LSTM-ELM and ELM-LSTM have the lowest MAE and RMSE results compared to stand-alone LSTM and ELM for the univariate problem. In addition, LSTM-ELM and ELM-LSTM result in lower computation time than stand-alone LSTM. The experiment results demonstrate that the proposed hybrid models outperform the comparative methods in relative humidity forecasting. We employed the recursive feature elimination (RFE) method and showed that dewpoint temperature, temperature, and wind speed are the factors that most affect relative humidity. A higher dewpoint temperature indicates more air moisture, equating to high relative humidity. Humidity levels also rise as the temperature rises.
Nucleic Acid-Based Approaches to Tackle KRAS Mutant Cancers

Activating mutations in KRAS are highly relevant to various cancers, driving persistent efforts toward the development of drugs that can effectively inhibit KRAS activity. Previously, KRAS was considered ‘undruggable’; however, the recent advances in our understanding of RNA and nucleic acid chemistry and delivery formulations have sparked a paradigm shift in the approach to KRAS inhibition. We are currently witnessing a large wave of next-generation drugs for KRAS mutant cancers—nucleic acid-based therapeutics. In this review, we discuss the current progress in targeting KRAS mutant tumors and outline significant developments in nucleic acid-based strategies. We delve into their mechanisms of action, address existing challenges, and offer insights into the current clinical trial status of these approaches. We aim to provide a thorough understanding of the potential of nucleic acid-based strategies in the field of KRAS mutant cancer therapeutics.
Did quality of education exist during the COVID-19 pandemic? A study of integrated total quality management of high schools in Aceh, Indonesia

Abstract Aceh grappled with political conflict with the Indonesian government from 1973 to 2005, which coincided with the devastating impact of the mega earthquake and tsunami on December 26, 2004. Subsequently, the province faced the global outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019. Therefore, a thorough evaluation of the education quality of the youth in this province by considering the various complex challenges they encounter over time is warranted. This study sought to describe the implementation of integrated total quality management and explore the correlation and relationship among customer satisfaction, leadership, and control/evaluation regarding the quality of online teaching and learning (QOLT) within senior high schools in Aceh Province, Indonesia, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately 200 participants completed online survey questionnaires for data collection. The findings revealed that all independent variables (customer satisfaction, leadership, and control/evaluation) significantly influenced QOLT. However, a weak relationship existed between customer satisfaction and control/evaluation, and the correlation between leadership and control/evaluation was less pronounced. Overall, this study highlights the importance of integrated total quality management in enhancing QOLT in Aceh Province during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings contribute to the understanding of the factors that impact education quality and can inform strategies for improving the effectiveness of the education system in similar contexts.
Choosing allowability boundaries for describing objects in subject areas

Anomaly detection is one of the most promising problems for study and can be used as independent units and preprocessing tools before solving any fundamental data mining problems. This article proposes a method for detecting specific errors with the involvement of experts from subject areas to fill knowledge. The proposed method about outliers hypothesizes that they locate closer to logical boundaries of intervals derived from pair features, and the interval ranges vary in different domains. We construct intervals leveraging pair feature values. While forming knowledge in a specific field, a domain specialist checks the logical allowability of objects based on the range of the intervals. If the objects are logical outliers, the specialist ignores or corrects them. We offer the general algorithm for the formation of the database based on the proposed method in the form of a pseudo-code, and we provide comparison results with existing methods.
Empirical Research on Key Factors of Social Presence: Comparison of Three Universities

This study investigates how cognitive presence and affective connectedness impact social presence. We employed Partial Least Square (PLS-SEM) to analyze the data (N=679). Respondents were gathered from an online survey questionnaire by Indonesian and Malaysia undergraduate students in three universities: Universitas Negeri Medan (n=405), Universitas Negeri Malang (n=215), and Universiti Putra Malaysia (n=59). The result of this study indicates that in terms of the overall sample, cognitive presence and affective connectedness were found to have a positive and significant effect on social presence. If we peel the sample based on three universities, the result is consistent in Universitas Negeri Medan and Universiti Putra Malaysia samples. However, not the case in Universitas Negeri Malang. In this sample, affective connectedness was found to not significantly impact social presence. The findings are discussed in detail related to the key factors of social presence that have unique characteristics from the three campuses. This study suggests that in establishing students’ social presence, the teacher needs to utilize learning that intensifies cognitive presence and affective connectedness in order to foster the social presence.
Unveiling the Role of Nonionic Surfactants in Enhancing Cefotaxime Drug Solubility: A UV-Visible Spectroscopic Investigation in Single and Mixed Micellar Formulations

This study reports the interfacial phenomenon of cefotaxime in combination with nonionic surfactants, Triton X-100 (TX-100) and Tween-80 (TW-80), and their mixed micellar formulations. Cefotaxime was enclosed in a micellar system to improve its solubility and effectiveness. TX-100 and TW-80 were used in an amphiphilic self-assembly process to create the micellar formulation. The effect of the addition of TX-100, a nonionic surfactant, on the ability of TW-80 to solubilize the drug was examined. The values of the critical micelle concentration (CMC) were determined via UV-Visible spectroscopy. Gibbs free energies (ΔGp and ΔGb), the partition coefficient (Kx), and the binding constant (Kb) were also computed. In a single micellar system, the partition coefficient (Kx) was found to be 33.78 × 106 and 2.78 × 106 in the presence of TX-100 and TW-80, respectively. In a mixed micellar system, the value of the partition coefficient for the CEF/TW-80 system is maximum (5.48 × 106) in the presence of 0.0019 mM of TX-100, which shows that TX-100 significantly enhances the solubilizing power of micelles. It has been demonstrated that these surfactants are effective in enhancing the solubility and bioavailability of therapeutic compounds. This study elaborates on the physicochemical characteristics and solubilization of reactive drugs in single and mixed micellar media. This investigation, conducted in the presence of surfactants, shows a large contribution to the binding process via both hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic interactions.
Measuring and quantifying scatter from a variety of sample types

When using the BRDF to learn about surface statistics or to estimate hemispherical scatter from in-plane measurements the assumption is usually made that the surface is isotropic. Unfortunately, this is often not the case; for example a diamond turned mirror is not isotropic. Other common examples are rolled surfaces and situations where scatter is mostly caused by small discrete surface features such as scratches, pits or particles. Another example is scatter from an extended edge that is much longer than the illuminated spot. In these situations the measurements may be made differently and quantified in different units (such as area/sr or 1/deg instead of the common 1/sr associated with BRDF) in order to have a result that can reliably characterize the scatter source. The situation is further complicated by the fact that the popular stray radiation codes accept scatter data only in the standardized BRDF format with units of 1/sr. This paper reviews these situations for both measurement and analysis issues.
Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America

A great deal of debate has developed over the last two decades regarding the subsistence orientation of Clovis, Folsom, and other late Pleistocene and early Holocene peoples in North America. The discovery of several sites containing fluted projectile points associated with extinct Pleistocene megafauna led many researchers to argue that these early people specialized in hunting large game. This perspective was supported by hunting-oriented tool kits and by what appeared to be a highly mobile settlement system geared toward the seasonal movements of local prey populations. A growing body of research conducted in areas outside the open grassland habitats where the classickill sites are usually located has shown a more diversified set of adaptations, including sites where smaller game appear to have constituted a large part of people's diet. These findings lead some to argue that late Pleistocene and early Holocene peoples were not big-game specialists and that the original Clovis and Folsom kill sites may have been the exception rather than the rule. The purpose of this book is to provide additional examples of the more generalized adaptation using data from a variety of locations in North America. Mter a brief intro243
Seismic response of a deep continental basin including velocity inversion: the Sulmona intramontane basin (Central Apennines, Italy)

The Sulmona plain (central Italy) is an intramontane basin of the Abruzzi Apennines that is known in the literature for its high seismic hazard. We use extensive measurements of ambient noise to map the fundamental frequency and to detect the presence of geological heterogeneities in the basin. We perform noise measurements along two basin-scale orthogonal transects, in conjunction with 2-D array experiments in speciﬁc key areas. The key areas are located in different positions with respect to the basin margins: one at the eastern boundary (fault-controlled basin margin) and one in the deepest part of the basin. We also collect independent data by using active seismic experiments (MASW), down-hole and geological surveys to characterize the near-surface geology of the investigated sites. In detail, the H/V noise spectral ratios and 2-D array techniques indicate a fundamental resonance ( f 0 ) in the low-frequency range (0.35–0.4 Hz) in the Sulmona Basin. Additionally, our results highlight the important role that is played by the alluvial fans near the edge-sectors of the basin, which are responsible for a velocity inversion in the uppermost layering of the soil proﬁle. The H/V ratios and the dispersion curves of adjacent measurements strongly vary over a few dozens of meters in the alluvial fan area. Furthermore, we perform 1-D numerical simulations that are based on a linear-equivalent approach to estimate the site response in the key areas, using realistic seismic inputs. Finally, we perform a 2-D simulation that is based on the spectral element method to propagate surface waves in a simple model with an uppermost stiff layer, which is responsible for the velocity inversion. The results from the 2-D modelling agree with the experimental curves, showing deampliﬁed H/V curves and typical shapes of dispersion curves of a not normally dispersive site.