Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cold seeps, active faults and the earthquake cycle along the North Anatolian Fault system in the Sea of Marmara (NW Turkey)

After the 1999 I . zmit earthquake (Mw7.4), along the North-Anatolian Fault (NAF), an increase in gas emissions from the seafloor of the Sea of Marmara was observed. Using a multidisciplinary approach, that includes a combined analysis of high-resolution marine geophysical and gas-geochemical data, we determined the character of gas/fluid emissions and their spatial relationship with tectonic structures in the Darica Basin (Gulf of Izmit), close to the western termination of the 1999 earthquake surface rupture. Data collected during several oceanographic expeditions allowed us to investigate the fine structure of active fault branches, as well as the geochemical signature of the cold seeps. We observed that gas emissions at the seafloor of the Darica Basin are mostly constituted by biogenic CH4, and are aligned along strike-slip and transtensional fault segments. Although maximum CH4 concentrations were measured in correspondence of transtensional strands, we suggest that the biogenic CH4 emissions found along strike-slip segments, showing a relatively low gas background noise and a potential to increase during seismic events, are more suitable to study relationships between gas expulsion and the earthquake cycle.
Prenatal diagnosis of hypoplastic left heart syndrome: current knowledge

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is characterized by underdevelopment of the left-sided heart structures. The prenatal diagnosis of this congenital heart disease is crucial because a newborn with undiagnosed HLHS often presents with clinical signs of low cardiac output once the ductus arteriosus begins to close. With that in mind, the aim of this article was to perform a non-systematic review focusing on the key ultrasound features that can be used in the prenatal diagnosis of HLHS. Severe forms of HLHS are characterized by a markedly abnormal four-chamber view of the fetal heart (small left atrium, hypoplastic left ventricle, or abnormal mitral valve). The left ventricular outflow tract view allows the degree of hypoplasia in the tract to be evaluated and the diameter of the ascending aorta to be measured. The Z-scores are intended to aid in the diagnosis and follow-up of HLHS. In mild forms of HLHS, a right ventricle/left ventricle length ratio > 1.28 was the strongest predictor of a univentricular outcome.
Parenting Styles, Peer Relations, General Self-Concept, and Life Satisfaction among Adolescents in Klang Valley

Empirical studies recognised parenting styles and peer relations as correlates of adolescents' life satisfaction. However, most past studies only examined one of the correlates of adolescents' life satisfaction simultaneously. The present study aimed to examine the relationships of parenting styles, peer relations and general self-concept to adolescents' life satisfaction in the Klang Valley. Using a multi-stage cluster sampling, 153 respondents aged between 14 to 17 years old were involved in the study. A self-administered questionnaire consisting of four instruments (Parental Authority Questionnaire, Positive Relations with Other Scale, general items from Self-Description Questionnaire II, and Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction) was used for data collection. Results of the study showed that adolescents were moderately satisfied with their lives. Results of Pearson Correlations revealed that authoritative parenting, peer relations, and general self-concept were positively related to life satisfaction. The results of hierarchical multiple regression demonstrated that peer relations, general self-concept, and authoritative parenting could predict 46.7% of the variability in life satisfaction. Overall, the study contributes to the fundamental understanding of Malaysian adolescents' development, specifically life satisfaction. Findings from this study may provide helpful information regarding adolescents’ life satisfaction to educators, policymakers, parents and caregivers, counsellors and professionals who work closely with adolescents.
Factors Influencing Willingness to Reduce Meat Consumption among Students in Universiti Putra Malaysia

Meat is one of the most consumed and nutritious foods, but excessive consumption is often associated with negative effects on the environment and human health. Based on the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), this study aims to understand the relationship between environmental attitude, health attitude, subjective norms and willingness to reduce meat consumption as well as the factors that influence willingness to reduce meat consumption. A total of 202 students of Universiti Putra Malaysia were involved in this study where they were selected using simple random sampling. Data were collected through a set of self-administered questionnaires. The results of the study show that environmental attitudes (r=0.528, p < 0.001), health attitudes (r= 0.595, p < 0.001) and subjective norm (r= 0.455, p < 0.001) have a significant relationship with willingness to reduce meat consumption. Regression results showed that all three determinant variables explain 41.2% of the variability of willingness to reduce meat consumption. Health attitude had the highest beta (β) value of 0.526 (p < 0.001) followed by environmental attitude and subjective norm with beta values of 0.200 (p < 0.001) and 0.086 (p < 0.001), respectively. Therefore, to reduce meat consumption, it is important to use target intervention and communication messages as well as celebrities’ endorsement and social influence.
Molecular and immunological characteristics of patients with CMTM6 low expression colorectal cancer

CKLF-like MARVEL transmembrane domain-containing 6 (CMTM6), a regulator of programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1), has attracted extensive attention due to its role in tumors. However, research on the expression of CMTM6 in colorectal cancer (CRC) and its relationship with PD-L1 expression and immune cell infiltration is limited. We used The Cancer Genome Atlas database to mine and analyze data from patients with CRC using bioinformatics methods. We investigated the expression of CMTM6 in CRC and its relationship with PD-L1 expression and immune cell infiltration. Immunohistochemistry and PCR were performed to detect CMTM6 and PD-L1 expression in CRC tissues. Differential gene expression analysis was performed using the edgeR package in R and immune cell infiltration analysis was performed using the ssGSEA algorithm. Additionally, GO and KEGG enrichment analyses were conducted to identify the biological processes and pathways associated with low CMTM6 expression. Our study found that CMTM6 expression was significantly upregulated in CRC tissues compared to that in adjacent normal tissues. Patients with high CMTM6 expression exhibited significantly increased levels of PD-L1 expression and higher levels of tumor-infiltrating immune cells compared to patients with low CMTM6 expression. GO and KEGG analyses suggested that CMTM6 may be involved in multiple immune regulatory pathways in CRC.
Double Photocrosslinked Responsive Hydrogels Based on Hydroxypropyl Guar

Double crosslinked hydrogels based on a biodegradable polymer were prepared by photocopolymerization of methacrylated hydroxypropyl guar (HPG-MA) and 3-acrylamidophenylboronic acid. Along with irreversible strong covalent crosslinks by methacrylic groups, these hydrogels contained labile boronate crosslinks formed as a result of the interaction of boronic acid with cis-diol moieties of HPG. These hydrogels demonstrated higher elasticity than HPG-MA hydrogels with only irreversible covalent crosslinks. Labile boronate crosslinks not only strengthened the hydrogels but also imparted to them pronounced responsive properties. It was demonstrated that the mechanical properties, the swelling behavior, as well as the uptake and release of some substances from the double crosslinked hydrogel were pH controlled. For instance, the hydrogels could release cationic disinfectant at a rate regulated by pH. Such photocrosslinkable in situ forming hydrogels are very promising for the production of smart coatings that release targeted substances at the desired rate.
A Memory-Efficient Hybrid Parallel Framework for Deep Neural Network Training

With the increasing volumes of data samples and deep neural network (DNN) models, efficiently scaling the training of DNN models has become a significant challenge for server clusters with AI accelerators in terms of memory and computing efficiency. Existing parallelism schemes can be broadly classified into three categories: data parallelism (splitting data samples), model parallelism (splitting model parameters), and pipeline model parallelism (splitting model layers). Hybrid approaches split data and models, offering a comprehensive solution for parallel training. However, these methods encounter limitations in efficiently scaling larger models across more computing nodes, as they incur substantial memory constraints that affect training efficiency and overall throughput. In this paper, we propose HIPPIE, a hybrid parallel training framework designed to enhance memory efficiency and scalability of large DNN training. First, to evaluate the optimization effect more reasonably, we propose an index of Memory Efficiency (ME) to quantify the tradeoff between throughput and memory overhead. Second, driven by the informed ME optimization objective, we automatically partition the pipeline to balance the throughput and memory. Third, we optimize the model training process via a novel hybrid parallel scheduler that improves the throughput and scalability by informed pipeline scheduling and communication scheduling with gradient-hidden optimization. Experiments on various models show that HIPPIE achieves above 90% scaling efficiency on a 16-GPU platform. Moreover, HIPPIE increases throughput by up to 80%, while saving 57% of memory overhead and achieving 4.18× memory-efficiency improvement.
SAGA Complex Subunit Hfi1 Is Important in the Stress Response and Pathogenesis of Cryptococcus neoformans

The Spt-Ada-Gcn Acetyltransferase (SAGA) complex is a highly conserved co-activator found across eukaryotes. It is composed of a number of modules which can vary between species, but all contain the core module. Hfi1 (known as TADA1 in Homo sapiens) is one of the proteins that forms the core module, and has been shown to play an important role in maintaining complex structural integrity in both brewer’s yeast and humans. In this study we successfully identified the gene encoding this protein in the important fungal pathogen, Cryptococcus neoformans, and named it HFI1. The hfi1Δ mutant is highly pleiotropic in vitro, influencing phenotypes, ranging from temperature sensitivity and melanin production to caffeine resistance and titan cell morphogenesis. In the absence of Hfi1, the transcription of several other SAGA genes is impacted, as is the acetylation and deubiquination of several histone residues. Importantly, loss of the gene significantly impacts virulence in a murine inhalation model of cryptococcosis. In summary, we have established that Hfi1 modulates multiple pathways that directly affect virulence and survival in C. neoformans, and provided deeper insight into the importance of the non-enzymatic components of the SAGA complex.
Preparing Students for Careers in the Esport Industry

Role-play is an active learning tool that increases the involvement, motivation, and responsibility of students through their immersion in the very industry for which they are learning and preparing and has been used in a wide range of settings, including education, business, and entertainment, to facilitate education, problem-solving, and personal growth. As such, role-play was implemented in an Introduction to Esport course to help students better understand and experience the real-life planning, obligations, and execution of the many roles and responsibilities necessary to host and stream an esport competition. In this manuscript, we offer an overview of student experiences and provide lessons learned to help enhance future role-playing and experiential learning opportunities in the esport space. Results from this project demonstrated that role-play can be an effective pedagogical tool, affording students with opportunities to enhance their knowledge and familiarity with the esport industry, learn and practice industry-specific skills, and experience a real-time event competition requiring them to apply what they learned in the classroom.
Oasis of Dreams: Teaching and Learning Peace in a Jewish-Palestinian Village in Israel

The seemingly unending cycles of violence in the Middle East conflict have all but dashed any hope for the genuine building of a more lasting peace. However, like Anees Jung's Olives from Jericho: Peace in Winter Gardens (Paris: Unesco Publishing, 1999), this book plants another seed of hope. It is a case study of an experimental school in a small village not far from Jerusalem called Neve Shalom/Wahat Al-Salam, meaning in Hebrew and Arabic, Oasis of Peace. The community has been committed to peaceful coexistence, and in this study its primary and secondary schools have been placed under a microscope.
Deterministic passive optical networking

A time-division-multiplexed (TDM) passive optical network (PON) that behaves like multiple point-to-point (P2P) links can support applications with stringent timing requirements while also maintaining the cost benefits of the point-to-multipoint (P2MP) topology. This requires the TDM-PON to provide deterministic performance: lossless transmission and low and constant (with low variations/jitter) latency to selected flows, while also serving other, e.g., best-effort, traffic flows. We demonstrate two approaches for providing deterministic performance over a TDM-PON. In the first approach, we operate the PON asynchronously to its clients and use scheduling that provides upstream bursts at a low and constant period. Jitter compensator gateways (JC GWs) are used to compensate for the jitter introduced by the non-matching PON bursts and the input traffic cycles. In the latter approach, we implement a deterministic dynamic bandwidth allocation (detDBA) process that controls the placement of bursts at each PON frame for selected transmission containers (T-CONTs) that correspond to flows with given traffic profiles. We synchronize and co-schedule the PON with the rest of the network and applications to provide deterministic performance to those flows. As a use case, we study the communication of industrial applications over the deterministic PON system and demonstrate latency below 100 µs and sub-µs packet latency jitter for the industrial flows, while at the same time serving best-effort traffic flows.
The Effect of Melissa Officinalis on Postpartum Blues in Women Undergoing Cesarean Section

Background & aim: Postpartum blues is the most common postpartum mood disorder, which can turn into a chronic depression. Therefore, the prevention of this disorder is effective for the improvement of family mental health. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of Melissa officinalis(Lemon balm) on the incidence of postpartum blues. Methods: The present triple-blinded placebo-controlled clinical trial was performed on 60 women with cesarean section(C- section)at teaching hospitals affiliated to Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, in 2016-2017. The participants were randomly divided into case and placebo groups. The case group was administered lemon balm capsules (500 mg) from the first day after cesarean section three times a day for 10 days. Edinburgh postnatal depression scale was completed by all subjects at three stages, namely on the 3rd-5th,10th, and 14th days after C-section. The data were analyzed by SPSS software (version 16) using independent t-test, as well as Mann-Whitney U, Chi-square, Fisher's exact tests and Friedman test. P-value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The Fisher's exact test showed that the incidence rates of postpartum blues on the 3rd-5th , 10th, and 14th days after C-section were 3.3% and 43.3% (P<0.00), 3.3% and 50% (P<0.00), and 0% and 33.3% (P<0.00) in the case and placebo groups, respectively. The results of the two-way ANOVA test revealed that the depression score increased with maternal age due to the intervention (P=0.046). Conclusion: The present study showed that the use of lemon balm could reduce the incidence rate of postpartum blues, which is one of the most common postpartum psychiatric disorders, without the development of possible side effects. Therefore, it is recommended to use it especially in susceptible women after their delivery.
Immersive Virtual Reality Therapy Is Supportive for Orthopedic Rehabilitation among the Elderly: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Objective: This research aimed to determine the efficacy of VR therapy in mitigating symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress among older adults following arthroplasty surgery and to comprehend the influence of psychological improvement on changes in functional outcomes. Methods: Utilizing a parallel-group randomized controlled trial design, the study involved 68 osteoarthritis patients who had recently undergone either total hip or knee arthroplasty. Subjects were split into two groups. The experimental group underwent eight VR therapy sessions during their rehabilitation, while the control group was given standard care. Assessments encompassed both psychological and functional outcomes, with tools like the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Perceived Stress Scale, and the Barthel Index, among others. The experimental group showcased notable enhancements in both psychological and functional areas compared to the control group. Results: A significant (p value of < 0.001) relationship was found between psychological progress and functional recovery, indicating that psychological factors can serve as predictors for functional outcomes. Conclusions: The findings emphasize the promising role of VR therapy as a beneficial addition to the rehabilitation process for older adults’ post-hip and knee arthroplasty. The integration of psychological interventions in standard rehabilitation practices appears valuable, but further studies are needed to ascertain the long-term advantages of such an approach.
SHELF CULTIVATION OF OYSTER MUSHROOM With Emphasis on Substrate Fermentation

Shelf cultivation of oyster mushrooms is a unique Korean production method. This method was adapted by Korean scientists in the early 1980’s from button mushroom (Agaricus bisporous) growing on shelves. Button mushroom cultivation can be summarized as follows: Phase I (outdoor fermentation), Phase II (pasteurization and conditioning), Phase III (spawning and incubation), fruiting, harvesting and emptying. The unique characteristics of shelf cultivation of oyster mushroom in Korea include the fact that the substrate is fermented in three steps (pre-fermentation, pasteurization, and post-fermentation) rather than on the shelf itself. Unlike the pasteurization process that lasts for 2-6 hours in most countries, shelf cultivation requires the substrate materials to be prefermented outdoors for 2-3 days, then pasteurized at 60-65°C for 8-10 hours, and finally post-fermented at 4555°C for 3-4 days. This process requires considerable time and generates significant expenses. In Korea, the main methods of oyster mushroom growing are shelf cultivation, bag cultivation and bottle cultivation. Korean oyster mushroom growers ferment the substrate materials in shelf cultivation while they sterilize substrate materials in the cases of bag and bottle cultivation. Button mushroom (A. bisporus) is a secondary decomposer requiring the previous degradation of substrates by bacteria or other fungi in order to be able to absorb nutrients from the substrate. On the other hand, oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus spp.) are primary decomposers, so they have ability to break down and absorb the components of substrate materials that have not been composted or degraded. Korean growers have normally fermented substrate materials in spite of the high fuel costs generated during the fermentation process because fermentation is definitely helpful in producing high yields and high quality oyster mushrooms. This article will discuss the process of shelf cultivation and the events relative to the substrate materials during each fermentation step.
Détection de communautés dans les grands graphes d'interactions (multiplexes) : état de l'art

In this paper, we present a quick survey of current approaches for community detection in multiplex networks. Most of existing approaches are based on transforming, in one way or another, the problem into a problem of community detection in simple graphs. This can basically be made either by applying a slice aggregation strategy, either by applying community detection on each slice aside then merging obtained partitions using ensemble clustering like approaches. We argue that more interesting approaches would be based on exploring all slices at once. Recently proposed multiplex metrics allow to extend the application of promising community detection approaches, mainly grain-based approaches.
Neuromechanism, recovery effect and case study of swimming training intervention in children with cerebral palsy: A case report

Background: Cerebral palsy, hereinafter referred to as “cerebral palsy”, refers to a non progressive injury that occurs during the development of brain tissue in fetuses or infants. The patients often have walking dysfunction, abnormal balance ability and abnormal body stability, which are mainly caused by Cranial nerves injury. Patient concerns: One child diagnosed with ataxia cerebral palsy by the hospital was recruited, aged 6 years and 9 months. The symptoms were: lower limb adduction and internal rotation, left neck tilt to the left due to insufficient muscle tension, and eyes squint to the right. The movement is clumsy and the coordination ability of limbs is poor; Its body balance function is poor, the sitting and standing position cannot keep the body upright and balanced for a long time, and the coordination of the random movement of hands and eyes is poor; Weak spatial cognition and orientation ability; Have persistent central motor dysfunction. When walking, the body leans forward and sideways, and the gait is staggered, which is easy to fall; In terms of expression, it shows vague language and unclear speech; Relatively retarded in intelligence. Diagnosis and intervention: The study used swimming training intervention to report a twelve months training intervention program for a child with ataxic cerebral palsy, and evaluated it with Berg balance scale and modified Ashworth scale. Outcomes: Swimming training has a significant effect on the rehabilitation of children with ataxic cerebral palsy; The forces from different directions in the water can improve the balance of children with cerebral palsy; Muscle endurance training with medium load intensity can help restore unilateral muscle tension deficiency to a certain extent, and make bilateral muscle tension gradually becomes. consistent, thus enhancing the balance ability, gait and body stability of children with cerebral palsy.