Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Unanticipated Virtual Year: How the Big 5 Personality Traits of Openness to Experience and Conscientiousness Impacted Engagement in Online Classes during the COVID-19 Crisis

ABSTRACT The COVID-19 crisis dramatically impacted how academic classes were taught. The present two studies used two-wave prospective longitudinal designs (following two separate cohorts of university students) to examine the predictive role of the Big 5 personality traits of openness to experience and conscientiousness on students’ engagement in online classes. Students were asked to report on their levels of motivation and self-efficacy for engagement in online classes. Results suggest that during the Fall 2020 semester the trait of openness to experience may have allowed students to be more engaged in online classes. However, openness to experience was no longer associated with greater engagement during the Winter 2021 semester. Instead, during this second online semester, conscientiousness emerged as the best predictor of heightened engagement in online classes. Interestingly, results suggest that openness to experience and conscientiousness may have different pathways: the benefit of openness to experience was mediated by intrinsic motivation whereas that of conscientiousness by self-efficacy.
In Silico Mixed Ligand/Structure-Based Design of New CDK-1/PARP-1 Dual Inhibitors as Anti-Breast Cancer Agents

CDK-1 and PARP-1 play crucial roles in breast cancer progression. Compounds acting as CDK-1 and/or PARP-1 inhibitors can induct cell death in breast cancer with a selective synthetic lethality mechanism. A mixed treatment by means of CDK-1 and PARP-1 inhibitors resulted in radical breast cancer cell growth reduction. Inhibitors with a dual target mechanism of action could arrest cancer progression by simultaneously blocking the DNA repair mechanism and cell cycle, resulting in advantageous monotherapy. To this aim, in the present work, we identified compound 645656 with a significant affinity for both CDK-1 and PARP-1 by a mixed ligand- and structure-based virtual screening protocol. The Biotarget Predictor Tool was used at first in a Multitarget mode to filter the large National Cancer Institute (NCI) database. Then, hierarchical docking studies were performed to further screen the compounds and evaluate the ligands binding mode, whose putative dual-target mechanism of action was investigated through the correlation between the antiproliferative activity data and the target proteins’ (CDK-1 and PARP-1) expression pattern. Finally, a Molecular Dynamics Simulation confirmed the high stability of the most effective selected compound 645656 in complex with both PARP-1 and CDK-1.
Safety of endoscopic ultrasound-guided hepaticogastrostomy in patients with malignant biliary obstruction and ascites.

Background/Aims Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided hepaticogastrostomy (EUS-HGS) is useful for patients with biliary cannulation failure or inaccessible papillae. However, it can lead to serious complications such as bile peritonitis in patients with ascites; therefore, development of a safe method to perform EUS-HGS is important. Herein, we evaluated the safety of EUS-HGS with continuous ascitic fluid drainage in patients with ascites. Methods Patients with moderate or severe ascites who underwent continuous ascites drainage, which was initiated before EUS-HGS and terminated after the procedure at our institution between April 2015 and December 2022, were included in the study. We evaluated the technical and clinical success rates, EUS-HGS-related complications, and feasibility of re-intervention. Results Ten patients underwent continuous ascites drainage, which was initiated before EUS-HGS and terminated after completion of the procedure. Median duration of ascites drainage before and after EUS-HGS was 2 and 4 days, respectively. Technical success with EUS-HGS was achieved in all 10 patients (100%). Clinical success with EUS-HGS was achieved in 9 of the 10 patients (90 %). No endoscopic complications such as bile peritonitis were observed. Conclusions In patients with ascites, continuous ascites drainage, which is initiated before EUS-HGS and terminated after completion of the procedure may prevent complications and allow safe performance of EUS-HGS.
Authentication using c-VEP evoked in a mild-burdened cognitive task

In recent years, more and more researchers are devoting themselves to the studies about authentication based on biomarkers. Among a wide variety of biomarkers, code-modulated visual evoked potential (c-VEP) has attracted increasing attention due to its significant role in the field of brain-computer interface. In this study, we designed a mild-burdened cognitive task (MBCT), which can check whether participants focus their attention on the visual stimuli that evoke c-VEP. Furthermore, we investigated the authentication based on the c-VEP evoked in the cognitive task by introducing a deep learning method. Seventeen participants were recruited to take part in the MBCT experiments including two sessions, which were carried out on two different days. The c-VEP signals from the first session were extracted to train the authentication deep models. The c-VEP data of the second session were used to verify the models. It achieved a desirable performance, with the average accuracy and F1 score, respectively, of 0.92 and 0.89. These results show that c-VEP carries individual discriminative characteristics and it is feasible to develop a practical authentication system based on c-VEP.
Using Simple Interactive Technology to Help People with Intellectual and Visual Disabilities Exercise Functional Physical Responses: A Case Series Study

The study assessed a new interactive technology system for helping six people with intellectual and visual disabilities exercise relevant physical responses embedded within a fairly straightforward activity (i.e., placing objects in containers). Activity responses consisted of the participants taking objects from the floor or a low shelf and placing those objects in a container high up in front of them (thus bending their body and legs and stretching their arms and hands). The technology involved a portable computer, a webcam, and three mini speakers whose basic functions included monitoring the participants’ responses, delivering preferred stimulation contingent on the responses and verbal encouragements/prompts for lack of responses, and assisting in data recording. The study was conducted following a non-concurrent multiple baseline design across participants. During baseline (i.e., when the system was used only for data recording), the participants’ mean frequency of responses per session varied between zero and nearly 12. During intervention (i.e., when the system was fully working), the participants’ mean frequency of responses per session increased to between about 34 and 59. Mean session duration varied between nearly 10 and over 14 min. The new system may be a valuable tool for supporting relevant physical activity engagement in people with intellectual and multiple disabilities.
Disseminated Staphylococcus aureus Infection in an Adolescent Patient Following a Traditional Phlebotomy Procedure

Al-Fashdu is a well-known Islamic medicine-based alternative treatment, and it has been widely practiced with the aim of treating certain health issues in various countries. Unfortunately, this therapy can lead to certain complications, including life-threatening infections. We report a case of a 12-year-old male patient who developed a disseminated Staphylococcus aureus infection following Al-Fashdu therapy. He was treated with surgical drainage and intravenous antibiotics. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a disseminated Staphylococcus aureus infection following Al-Fashdu therapy in an adolescent patient.
Promoting the participation of low-risk pregnant women in the child birth process by developing a birth plan: The protocol of an action research study

BACKGROUND: The birth plan reflects the preferences and expectations of women in the delivery process and can be designed with the participation of women and her partner and implement as a basis for midwifery care during childbirth. This research was designed to promote the participation of low-risk pregnant women in the child birth process by developing a birth plan. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present study is a participatory action research designed in a single specialized, main maternity hospital in Isfahan, Iran. This study was conducted in four stages proposed by the Kemmis, including planning, action, observation, and reflection with the participation of all midwives, gynecologists, and managers who involved in childbirth. CONCLUSIONS: Considering the importance of childbirth as an opportunity for participation and empowerment of women, it seems that designing a birth plan based on the preferences of these women and all people involved in this process can strengthen women's participation in child birth process.
Estimating PM2.5 over southern Sweden using satellite measurements

values (0.012 µg -1 m 3 and 0.013 µg -1 m 3 for MERIS and MODIS, respectively) agree reasonable well with 0.014 µg -1 m 3 and 0.019 µg -1 m 3 found by Wang and Christopher (2003) and Shinozuka et al. (2007), respectively. A relative humidity value of 80% (Shinozuka et al., 2007) and a growth factor according to polluted aerosol are assumed in the present estimations. The relationship between satellite estimated and ground measured PM2.5 has been applied on MERIS FR data over Stockholm and surrounding area. Our preliminary analysis shows that the geographic variations in particle emissions from road traffic in Stockholm correlate with satellite derived measurements of PM2.5.
Confidence bounds for threshold similarity graph in random variable network

Problem of uncertainty of graph structure identification in random variable network is considered. An approach for the construction of upper and lower confidence bounds for graph structures is developed. This approach is applied for the construction of upper and lower confidence bounds for the threshold similarity graph. The stability of confidence bounds and gaps between upper and lower confidence bounds are investigated. Theoretical results are illustrated by numerical experiments.
Discovering Search Space Using M-distance Clustering of Semantic Relatedness Based Weighted Network for the Content-based Recommender System

As part of the research process, relevant documents are identified to keep up with the latest advancements in the domain. Document recommendation systems are used by researchers as a means of accomplishing this goal. Textual content, collaborative filtering, and citation information-based approaches are among the proposed approaches for the recommendation systems. Content-based techniques take advantage of the entire text of papers and produce more promising results, but comparing input document text data to every document in the dataset is not practical for the content-based recommender system. This study looks into the possibility of using bibliographic data to reduce the number of comparisons. The proposed system is based on the assumption that two scientific papers are semantically connected if they are co-cited more frequently than by chance. The likelihood of co-citation, also known as semantic relatedness, can be used to quantify this connection. This work presents a new way to distribute the weight among connected scholarly documents based on a semantic relatedness score. Our proposed solution eliminates a substantial amount of needless text comparisons for the system by gathering scholarly document pairs with high likelihood values and using them as a search area for the content-based recommender system. By spreading the co-citation relationship out to certain distances, the proposed approach can find relevant documents that are not found by traditional co-citation searches. The results reveal that the system is capable of reducing computations by a significant margin and of detecting false positive situations in content comparison using Doc2vec.
Long Range Transport Contribution to PM 10 Concentrations in a Subtropical City (Qena/Egypt)

Particulate matter (PM10) concentrations have been measured during the period (May-2006 to April-2012) in forecasting and research center, south valley university in Qena-Egypt. The data have been matched with backward air mass trajectories calculated by HYSPLIT4 for assessing long range transport influence in PM10 concentrations. In this regard, Effect of different air masses has been studied using clustering technique of backward air mass trajectories during the whole period as well as during different seasons. Statistical analysis techniques have been used for assessing significance of inter- cluster variation in PM10 concentration and explained variance of PM10 by different clusters as well as for defining the significant differences in PM10 concentration associated with different clusters. In addition, probable source regions of PM10 have been determined. Results show that seasonal average PM10 concentrations characterized with maximum value 103 ± 7% µg/m^3 in spring and minimum values 89 ± 6% µg/m^3 and 89 ± 5% µg/m^3 in winter and autumn, respectively. Northern clusters comprised68%, 52%,88%and71% of the total number of trajectories during all the period, spring, summer and autumn, respectively. One of these clusters in each period is associated with the maximum concentration of PM10, 105 µg/m^3, 124 µg/m^3, 139 µg/m^3 and 97 µg/m^3, respectively. The situation is changed during winter, where, air masses are originated mostly from northwest direction with 44% of the trajectories, with maximum concentration 100 µg/m^3associated with one of these clusters. North of Africa and south-west of Turkey are found to be the most probable sources of PM10 during spring and all the period, respectively.
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS OF SEVERAL DATA MINING SOFTWARES

Data mining is to find correlations and rules which ensure meaningful and potentially useful estimations to be carried out for future among vast amount of existing data through computer programs. Today, many commercial or open source software tools are used regarding this matter. In this study, Classfication Analysis comparisons were carried out over the car evaluation data set consisting of 1728 registers especially on Weka, Orange, KNIME and Tanagra as open source software tools.
The Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Validity to Detect Omicron Variants

Introduction Mutation of SARS-CoV-2 has generated several variants of concern (VOC) which spread promptly worldwide. These emerging variants affected global strategies to overcome COVID-19. Variants of SARS-CoV-2 are determined by the whole genome sequencing (WGS) assay, which is time-consuming, with limited availability (only in several laboratories). Hence, a faster and more accessible examination is needed. The single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) method is one of the options for genomic variation surveillance that can help provide an answer to this challenge. This study aims to determine the validity of the SNP method with PCR to detect omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 compared with the gold standard, WGS. Methods This is a diagnostic analysis of 140 confirmed COVID-19 nasopharyngeal samples taken from the Kemayoran COVID Emergency Hospital Laboratory and the West Java Provincial Health Laboratory from April to October 2022. Data analysis was carried out to determine conformity and validity values. Results Analysis using Cohen's kappa coefficient test showed high conformity between SNP and WGS (p value <0.001; kappa coefficient = 0.948). SNP showed great validity values on omicron BA.1 (90% sensitivity; 100% specificity), omicron BA.2 (100% sensitivity; 99% specificity), and omicron BA.4/5 (99.2% sensitivity; 100% specificity). Conclusion The SNP method can be a more time-efficient alternative to detect omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 and distinguish their sublineages (BA.1, BA.2, and BA.4/5) by two different specific gene mutations in combination analysis (ΔH69/V70 and Q493R mutations).
Effects of microbial agent application on the bacterial community in ginger rhizosphere soil under different planting years

Ginger is one of the important spice crops in the world. Due to the prevalence of ginger wilt disease and the lack of effective prevention and control methods, the planting area, total production and value have declined sharply, which have become a key factor restricting ginger industry development in China. Understanding the influence of microbial agents on the rhizosphere microbiota of ginger will facilitate developing novel technologies for the prevention and control of ginger wilt disease. In the new planting and continuous cropping ginger fields, using large-root ginger and microbial agents, two inoculation levels (inoculation and no inoculation) were designed, and high-throughput sequencing technology was used to study the bacterial community structure in the rhizosphere soil at mature stage of ginger. The results showed that newly planted ginger showed a significant yield advantage over continuous cropping ginger, with a yield increase of 39% to 56%, and the lowest ginger wilt disease index. The community structure at the phylum level of soil bacteria in each treatment was very similar to that in the control, but the abundance of some taxonomic units changed significantly. The four dominant phyla of bacteria in mature ginger rhizosphere soil were Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Chloroflexi, and Acidobacteria, accounting for 72.91% to 89.09% of the total. The microbial agent treatment of continuous cropping had beneficial microorganisms such as Acidobacteria and Gemmatimonadetes with abundances increased by 12.2% and 17.1%, respectively, compared to the control. The microbial inoculant treatment of newly planted ginger increased the abundance of Acidobacteria and Gemmatimonadetes by 34.4% and 10.7%, respectively, compared to the control. The composition of bacterial communities were affected by changes in soil properties. Redundancy analysis showed that the hydrolysable nitrogen, available phosphorus, available potassium, and organic matter were significantly related to the composition of soil bacterial communities. Therefore, the microbial agents can not only promote the proliferation of beneficial microorganisms in the continuous cropping soil but also further reshape the soil bacterial community structure by changing the soil physicochemical properties such as effective phosphorus. These results provided a reference for related research on the impact of ginger continuous cropping on soil environment and soil management improvement in ginger fields.
Costs of deep Geothermal Energy in the Netherlands

Clastic aquifers are marked by decreasing porosity and associated permeability with depth. As temperatures increase with depth, a trade-off in performance occurs resulting in a theoretical optimal depth in performance. This relation has been tested for one of the main geothermal aquifers in the Netherlands, underpinned by publically available oil and gas data. The results demonstrate that optimal depth can be clearly identified, corresponding to a pronounced and sharp minimum in levelized cost of energy (LCOE). Optimum depth ranges between 1.5 and 3 kilometres depending on regional porosity-permeability variations. Particularly in cases where subsurface aquifers have strong variations in depth over short distance, calculating optimal depth can assist in optimising exploration and production.
Experimental study of the wake interaction between two vertical axis wind turbines

Wakes and wake interactions in wind turbine arrays diminish energy output and raise the risk of structural fatigue; hence, comprehending the features of rotor–wake interactions is of practical relevance. Previous studies suggest that vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) can facilitate a quicker wake recovery. This study experimentally investigates the rotor–wake and wake–wake interaction of VAWTs; different pitch angles of the blades of the upwind VAWT are considered to assess the interactions for different wake deflections. With stereoscopic particle image velocimetry, the wake interactions of two VAWTs are analysed in nine distinct wake deflection and rotor location configurations. The time‐average velocity fields at several planes upwind and downwind from the rotors are measured. Additionally, time‐average loads on the VAWTs are measured via force balances. The results validate the rapid wake recovery and the efficacy of wake deflection, which increases the available power in the second rotor.
A Rare Case of Recurrent Parathyroid Adenomas After Initial Parathyroidectomy

Hyperparathyroidism usually presents asymptomatically with elevated levels of calcium and parathyroid hormone; this biochemical imbalance establishes the diagnosis. In 80-85% of cases of primary hyperparathyroidism, singular parathyroid adenomas occur. In rare cases, this problem occurs due to multiple adenomas, multiglandular hyperplasia, or parathyroid carcinoma. Recurrent primary hyperparathyroidism (R-PHPT), as demonstrated in this case, is defined as hypercalcemia that arises after six months of normocalcemia following initial surgery for PHPT. The aim of this report is to describe the diagnosis and management of three parathyroid adenomas in a patient, two of which occurred after an initial partial parathyroidectomy.
The Kreekrak locks on the Scheldt-Rhine connection

The Dutch Belgian treaty of may 1963 stipulated that a system of locks should he constructed in the canal section extending from the port of Antwerp to the Eastern Scheldt. The system of locks was called the 'Kreekrak locks' from the tidal gulley that once existed in this area. The lock system had to he designed in such a way that when it was in use virtually no salt water would pass from the higher Antwerp Canal section into the lower-lying fresh-water Zeeland Lake which would he created after the closing of the Eastern Scheldt. A further requirement was that fresh-water loss should he kept to a minimum in order to prevent salinization. Unless precautions were taken the contents of the lock chamber, filled with salt water when vessels passed through in the direction of the Zeeland Lake, would he almost entirely discharged into it, and the locks would fill up with fresh water. The fresh water would he lost when the locks operated in the opposite direction, since being less dense it would spill like a nappe over the salt-water canal pound. In the meantime, as a result of the government's decision to close the Eastern Scheldt by means of an opening dam, the situation has changed in that a fresh-water 'Zeeland Lake' is not to he created, hut a salt-water tidal basin is to he maintained. However, compartmentalization is to he employed in the Eastern Scheldt. No decision has yet been taken on the manner in which this is to he done; although the compartment dams are to he so arranged that in any case the Scheldt-Rhine connection will he situated in a fresh-water compartment - hereinafter referred to as the 'Eastern Basin' - shut off from the tidal basin. The need for an effective salinization-prevention system in the Kreekrak locks is as great as ever, and perhaps acquires even greater significance, for owing to the smaller area of the Eastern Basin it is much more susceptible to salinization than the much larger Zeeland Lake.