Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Encouraging Trust In Social Media And Social Commerce Intention: Do Informational Support And Emotional Support Matter?

Social media has transformed into social commerce; therefore, a greater understanding of social commerce is crucial. As a social media site, TikTok earns more profit through its social commerce, TikTok Shop. This study examines the influence of informational and emotional support on trust in social media and social commerce intention. A survey was conducted among 242 TikTok Shop users, and the data was analyzed using structural equation modeling. In this study, it is revealed that informational support affects trust in social media significantly but that informational support does not influence social commerce intention. Moreover, both trust in social media and social commerce purposes were influenced considerably by emotional support. Finally, trust in social media mediates the relationship between informational support and s and between emotional support and social commerce intention. Keywords: Informational support; Emotional support; Trust in social media; Social commerce intention.
DESIGN OF POLYNOMIAL FRICTION PENDULUM ISOLATOR CONSIDERING MULTIPLE PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

Previous studies have revealed that sliding isolators with variable curvature (SIVCs) possess better isolation performance than that of conventional isolators, because of their variable mechanical property. However, their applications are hindered by the lack of a systematic design method. To accelerate the implementation of the advanced SIVC technology, this paper proposes a performance-based design method for one type of SIVCs called the polynomial friction pendulum isolator (PFPI). The proposed method that consists of a linear and a nonlinear design stages is able to satisfy multiple performance objectives under dual earthquake levels. In the linear stage, the linearized isolator parameters that comply with design code in the DBE and MCE levels are determined, while in nonlinear stage, the PFPI parameters are determined based on the linearized parameters. Finally, the feasibility of the proposed design method is verified by the dynamic responses of a hysteretic building model with the designed PFPIs
Aspects of Arbitral Awards in the Indonesian Justice System: Historical and Theoretical Review

This study aims to analyze aspects of arbitral awards in the Indonesian justice system from historical and theoretical perspectives. The Arbitration Law confirms that arbitral awards have the same legal force as court decisions. The method used in this research is normative legal method. This legal method focuses on the analysis of existing legal norms, including statutory regulations, court decisions, legal principles, and other legal documents in this context, namely, aspects of arbitral awards in the Indonesian justice system. The results of the study show that the implementation of the arbitral award by the parties must be seen as a consequence of choosing arbitration to resolve the dispute, it is the parties who choose their own judges, even for their choice of law, then the implementation of the arbitral award is consciously a necessity of the parties themselves. Arbitration awards can be annulled in the justice system in Indonesia as a form of protection for justice and legal order. Grounds for annulment of an arbitral award, as provided for in the Arbitration Act, may include a breach of procedure, the incompetence of the arbitrator, or an award that violates decency or public decency. Arbitration awards are an important tool in the dispute resolution system in Indonesia, especially in the business and investment sphere.
Rancang Bangun Absensi Praktikum Laboratorium Advanced Manufacturing Berbasis QR Code

Absensi pada dunia pendidikan sangat penting dimiliki oleh perguruan dan universitas dalam menggapai tingkat disiplin dan dapat berdampak pada kinerja masing-masing individu. Pencatatan yang akurat dan realtime diperoleh dengan menggunakan sistem QR Code dapat menggantikan sistem manual yaitu absen dilakukan dengan cara mencentang langusng pada lembar absen. Absen manual masih digunakan oleh beberapa perguruan tinggi hingga saat ini. Hal ini meningkatkan resiko kesalahan absensi karena lupa maupun kehilangan lembar absensi. Dengan dihasilkannya aplikasi absensi mahasiswa berbasis QR Code ini dapat memberikan kemudahan dalam proses absensi dan juga mengurangi resiko kehilangan data absensi. Absensi berbasis QR Code juga dapat mempermudah dalam hal perhitungan guna mendapatkan salah satu elemen penilaian yaitu elemen kehadiran.
Public Librarians' Views of the Public's Geospatial Information Needs

Public librarians often interact with patrons seeking geographic information. This project investigated those interactions with a sense-making (timeline) survey instrument. Content analysis of the librarians' responses reveals a limited range of situations for which patrons seek geographic information in public libraries compared with peoples' geographic queries outside the public library. Further, librarians' expectations of clarifying geographic questions with patrons often lead to frustration and inadequacy on the part of librarians, rather than reaching closure with their patrons as they expected. Expected and actual formats for geospatial information are highly correlated, and digital geospatial products such as electronic maps are rarely employed in public library settings. Additional results include the determination that public library patrons appear to ask librarians fewer cause and effect or interpretation questions compared with their actual information needs. Implications for altering reference interviews to evoke the broader geospatial information needs that bring people to the public library are explored, as is the potential role of digital geographic data to support resolving patrons' information needs. We also present a series of recommendations for practice stimulated by these research results.
Design Considerations for the Development of Lower Limb Pediatric Exoskeletons: A Literature Review

Cerebral Palsy is the most prevalent cause of gait disorder in childhood, affecting the range of motion, power, and joint torques of children. Several treatments are available, ranging from physical therapy to surgery. However, these treatments are usually complex, costly, and long. Robotic exoskeletons could provide longer, more frequent, and personalized training sessions with quantified data on the gait characteristics. Unfortunately, very few pediatric exoskeletons are available compared to those for adults. Therefore, design guidelines are needed for the development of pediatric exoskeletons to facilitate market entry. This article proposes design considerations through an in-depth review of the available pediatric lower-limb exoskeletons. This research has identified nine exoskeletons with at least one actuated joint at the ankle level and discussed their clinical, mechanical, and control characteristics. Although all the identified exoskeletons use electric motors to reduce their weight, improvements must be made to further minimize it. In addition, these exoskeletons need to be more easily adaptable to the user’s morphology. Impedance control methods are commonly used, which ensures the interaction safety. However, they should be more personalized to the specific neurological deficiencies. Furthermore, stronger validation of these exoskeletons is required through clinical trials.
Planted forests on ancestral land: the experiences and resilience of Māori land owners

Little research has been undertaken into the management priorities of indigenous people who have exotic species forests planted on their ancestral land. This thesis investigates two case studies in the central North Island of New Zealand, where planted forest leases exist over large areas of tribal land. In both cases, Māori families have maintained collective ownership of the land but the forest management is undertaken by a third-party entity. This thesis draws from four fields of knowledge to investigate the experiences of the Māori land owners: forestry science, New Zealand post-colonial history, social science and resilience thinking. The study uses document analysis and in-depth interviews to identify historical and contemporary perceptions of the forests, the existence of non-negotiable cultural values for land management, and the potential for improving the forest management practices to better meet land owners’ aspirations. In both the case studies, Lake Taupō Forest Trust and Maraeroa C Incorporation, the land owners discuss the planted forest in terms of land management structure, forest management practices and non-negotiable values. The realisation of land management objectives is critically influenced by the governance, tenure and regulatory frameworks of their land. Forestry management practices are generally compatible with the land owners’ non-negotiable cultural values for their land. Applying a resilience framework provides insights into the effectiveness of land owners’ resistance to land loss, their adaptations to land management approaches, and their contemporary goals for forest management. While the experiences of the land owners might have been expected to result in transformation, this, in fact, has not occurred and the communities have remained resilient. The concept of ‘resilience pivots’ is proposed to describe matters of fundamental and enduring importance central to cultural wellbeing which have been retained, around which other components have been adapted. The resilience pivot concept provides a novel approach for discussing resilience, adaptations and transformations of indigenous communities. The findings of this research have been productive in several respects – in revealing the histories and lived experiences of a largely unexamined forestry sector; in developing an interview format with potentially wider application to other forest stakeholders; in proposing an extension to resilience thinking; and in recommending changes to forest management.
Evaluation of debris flow susceptibility in El Salvador (CA): a comparison between Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) and Binary Logistic Regression (BLR)

In the studies of landslide susceptibility assessment, which have been developed in recent years, statistical methods have increasingly been applied. Among all, the BLR (Binary Logistic Regression) certainly finds a more extensive application while MARS (Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines), despite the good performance and the innovation of the strategies of analysis, only recently began to be employed as a statistical tool for predicting landslide occurrence. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the predictive performance and identify possible drawbacks of the two statistical techniques mentioned above, focusing in particular on the prediction of debris flows. To this aim, an inventory of debris flows triggered by the passage of the hurricane IDA and the low-pressure system associated with it 96E, on 7th and 8th November 2009, in an area of about 26 km2 close to the Caldera Ilopango, El Salvador (CA), was employed. Two validation strategies have been applied to both statistical techniques, thus obtaining four models – BLR (I), MARS (I), BLR (II) and MARS (II) – to be compared in pairs. Model performance was assessed in terms of AUC (area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve), Sensitivity, Specificity, Positive Prediction Value and Negative Prediction Value. Moreover, to evaluate the robustness of the modelling procedure, 50 replicates were created for each model and standard deviation was calculated for each of them. The results show that both techniques allow for obtaining good or excellent performances so that it is not possible to define one of the two techniques as absolutely better. However, the validation procedure reveals slightly better performance of the MARS models, with greater sensitivity and greater discrimination among True Negatives (TNs).
Estimating Local Structural Equation Models

Local structural equation models (LSEM) are structural equation models that study model parameters as a function of a moderator. This article reviews and extends LSEM estimation methods and discusses the implementation in the R package sirt. In previous studies, LSEM was fitted as a sequence of models separately evaluated as each value of the moderator variables. In this article, a joint estimation approach is proposed that is a simultaneous estimation method across all moderator values and also allows some model parameters to be invariant with respect to the moderator. Moreover, sufficient details on the main estimation functions in the R package sirt are provided. The practical implementation of LSEM is demonstrated using illustrative datasets and an empirical example. Moreover, two simulation studies investigate the statistical properties of parameter estimation and significance testing in LSEM.
Update on monitoring of magnetic and electromagnetic tectonic signals in Central Italy

A network of three absolute magnetometer stations and the geomagnetic observatory of LAquila (42°23N, 13°19E) monitors possible seismo- or tectonomagnetic effects in Central Italy, using LAquila Observatory as a reference for differentiation. A system of two VLF search coil wide-band antennas, working in two different frequency bands, at the LAquila Observatory, monitors possible electromagnetic effects related to seismic events occurring in Central Italy. Absolute magnetic field observations and VLF signals have been collected for several years. In particular the tectono-magnetic network started its operations in 1989. In this paper we report on the time variation of above mentioned data for the most recent years 2002 and 2003, also in connection with older measurements time series; we also report on seismic activity recorded in this area by the national seismic network. In the above mentioned time interval, no strong earthquake activity was recorded, and at the same time no clear evidence for magnetic or electromagnetic signals related to seismic events was found.
Identification and Spatial Analysis of Land Salinity in China’s Yellow River Delta Using a Land Salinity Monitoring Index from Harmonized UAV-Landsat Imagery

Precise identification and spatial analysis of land salinity in China’s Yellow River Delta are essential for the rational utilization and sustainable development of land resources. However, the accurate retrieval model construction for monitoring land salinity remains challenging. This study constructed a land salinity retrieval framework using a harmonized UAV and Landsat-9 multi-spectral dataset. The Kenli district of the Yellow River Delta was selected as the case study area, and a land salinity monitoring index (LSMI) was proposed based on field survey data and UAV multi-spectral image and applied to the reflectance-corrected Landsat-9 OLI image. The land salinity distribution patterns were then mapped and spatially analyzed using Moran’s I and Getis-Ord GI* analysis. The results demonstrated the following: (1) The LSMI-based method can accurately retrieve land salinity content with a validation determination coefficient (R2), root mean square error (RMSE), and residual predictive deviation (RPD) of 0.75, 1.89, and 2.11, respectively. (2) Land salinization affected 93.12% of the cultivated land in the study area, and the severely saline soil grade (with a salinity content of 6–8 g/kg) covered 38.41% of the total cultivated land area and was widely distributed throughout the study area. (3) Saline land exhibited a positive spatial autocorrelation with a value of 0.311 at the p = 0.000 level; high–high cluster types occurred mainly in the Kendong and Huanghekou towns (80%), while low–low cluster types were mainly located in the Dongji, Haojia, Kenli, and Shengtuo towns (88.46%). The spatial characteristics of various salinity grades exhibit significant variations, and conducting separate spatial analyses is recommended for future studies.
Grid Map Building through Neighborhood Recognition Factor of Sonar Data

Representing an environment as the probabilistic grids is effective to sense outlines of the environment in the mobile robot area. Outlines of an environment can be expressed factually by using the probabilistic grids especially if sonar sensors would be supposed to build an environment map. However, the difficult problem of a sonar such as a specular reflection phenomenon should be overcome to build a grid map through sonar observations. In this paper, the NRF(Neighborhood Recognition Factor) was developed for building a grid map in which the specular reflection effect is minimized. Also the reproduction rate of the gird map built by using NRF was analyzed with respect to a true map. The experiment was conducted in a home environment to verify the proposed technique.
Examining Preparatory Testing and Other Factors Associated With Performance on the Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination

Objective. To evaluate whether the score on the Pre-Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination (Pre-MPJE) predicts pharmacy students ’ performance on the MPJE, and to determine whether demo-graphics, pre-pharmacy school factors, or pharmacy school factors affect MPJE outcomes. Methods. We performed a retrospective review of pharmacy school graduates ’ (N 5 156) MPJE scores, Pre-MPJE scores, demographics, pre-pharmacy school academic performance factors, and pharmacy school academic performance factors. Bivariate and correlational analyses were conducted along with multiple linear regression models to determine the influence of variables on the MPJE total scaled score. Results. A total of 136 pharmacy school graduates were included, with most being female (59%) and non-Hispanic White students (75%). The score on the Pre-MPJE was not significantly correlated with students ’ first-attempt MPJE pass-fail outcome or total scaled score. Factors that were correlated with passing the MPJE were a younger age at graduation, a higher pharmacy law course grade, Pharmacy Curriculum Outcomes Assessment (PCOA) examination scores, specifically scaled total scores and scaled scores for content areas 1-4 and final pharmacy school grade point average (GPA). The MPJE total scaled score was correlated with a higher pre – pharmacy school GPA, pharmacy law course grade, PCOA total and content area 1-4 scaled scores, and final pharmacy school GPA. However, regression models found that the greatest variance in MPJE total scaled score was contributed by the pharmacy law course grade. The total scaled score on the PCOA contributed to some variance for all MPJE takers, but only the pharmacy law course grade significantly influenced the in-state MPJE total scaled score. Conclusion. The findings did not show that the Pre-MPJE score was a predictor for passing the MPJE or for the MPJE total scaled score. The most important determinant of the MPJE total scaled score was a student ’ s performance in the pharmacy law course.
Development and validation of GT3X accelerometer cut-off points in 5- to 9-year-old children based on indirect calorimetry measurements

The ActiGraph accelerometer is commonly used to measure physical activity in children. Count cut-off points are needed when using accelerometer data to determine the time a person spent in moderate or vigorous physical activity. For the GT3X accelerometer no cut-off points for young children have been published yet. The aim of the current study was thus to develop and validate count cut-off points for young children. Thirty-two children aged 5 to 9 years performed four locomotor and four play activities. Activity classification into the light-, moderate- or vigorous-intensity category was based on energy expenditure measurements with indirect calorimetry. Vertical axis as well as vector magnitude cut-off points were determined through receiver operating characteristic curve analyses with the data of two thirds of the study group and validated with the data of the remaining third. The vertical axis cut-off points were 133 counts per 5 sec for moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA), 193 counts for vigorous activity (VPA) corresponding to a metabolic threshold of 5 MET and 233 for VPA corresponding to 6 MET. The vector magnitude cut-off points were 246 counts per 5 sec for MVPA, 316 counts for VPA - 5 MET and 381 counts for VPA - 6 MET. When validated, the current cut-off points generally showed high recognition rates for each category, high sensitivity and specificity values and moderate agreement in terms of the Kappa statistic. These results were similar for vertical axis and vector magnitude cut-off points. The current cut-off points adequately reflect MVPA and VPA in young children. Cut-off points based on vector magnitude counts did not appear to reflect the intensity categories better than cut-off points based on vertical axis counts alone.
Racial differences in setting of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator placement in older adults with heart failure and association with disparate post-implant outcomes

Background Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) placement in heart failure (HF) patients during or early after (≤90 days) unplanned cardiovascular hospitalizations has been associated with poor outcomes. Racial and ethnic differences in this “peri-hospitalization” ICD placement have not been well described. Methods Using a 20% random sample of Medicare beneficiaries, we identified older (≥66 years) patients with HF who underwent ICD placement for primary prevention from 2008 to 2018. We investigated racial and ethnic differences in frequency of peri-hospitalization ICD placement using modified Poisson regression. We utilized Kaplan-Meier analyses and Cox regression to investigate the association of peri-hospitalization ICD placement with differences in all-cause mortality and hospitalization (HF, cardiovascular and all-cause) within and between race and ethnicity groups for up to 5-year follow-up. Results Among the 61,710 beneficiaries receiving ICDs (35% female, 82% White, 10% Black, 6% Hispanic), 44% were implanted peri-hospitalization. Black [adjusted rate ratio (RR) 95% Confidence Interval (95% CI): 1.16 (1.12, 1.20)] and Hispanic [RR (95% CI): 1.10 (1.06, 1.14)] beneficiaries were more likely than White beneficiaries to have ICD placement peri-hospitalization. Peri-hospitalization ICD placement was associated with an at least 1.5× increased risk of death, 1.5× increased risk of re-hospitalization and 1.7× increased risk of HF hospitalization during 3-year follow-up in fully adjusted models. Although beneficiaries with peri-hospitalization placement had the highest mortality and readmission rates 1- and 3-year post-implant (log-rank p < 0.0001), the magnitude of the associated risk did not differ significantly by race and ethnicity (p = NS for interaction). Conclusions ICD implantation occurring during the peri-hospitalization period was associated with worse prognosis and occurred at higher rates among Black and Hispanic compared to White Medicare beneficiaries with HF during the period under study. The risk associated with peri-hospitalization ICD placement did not differ by race and ethnicity. Future paradigms aimed at enhancing real-world effectiveness of ICD therapy and addressing disparate outcomes should consider timing and setting of ICD placement in HFrEF patients who otherwise meet guideline eligibility.