Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Location-Independent Doppler Sensing System for Device-Free Daily Living Activity Recognition

The recent advancements in sensing technology have opened up the possibilities for various services that support daily life, such as energy-saving home appliance control. To realize such services, accurate and cost-effective daily living activity recognition in a wide range is essential. To actualize such a system, it is imperative to address the following requirements: the acquisition of sensors entails very high costs (Issue 1), it is hard to achieve precise recognition for location-independent activities like reading a book (Issue 2), a burden of wearing devices from the perspective of residents (Issue 3), and the preservation of residents’ privacy is compromised by using image data from the camera (Issue 4). In this paper, we propose a method for recognizing daily living activities utilizing Doppler sensors in a relatively longer detection range than other motion detection sensors that can be used for dynamic objects. We assess the proposed system by optimizing recognition accuracy, evaluating ensemble methods, and examining sensor reduction’s impact. In the first assessment, the logistic regression achieved the highest accuracy of 65.99% in the leave-one-person-out cross-validation. The second assessment revealed an accuracy of 59.39% for the parallel activity recognition method and 57.24% for the joint recognition method of location and activity. In the third assessment, logistic regression achieved a recognition accuracy of 65.26% when four sensor nodes were used: two sensors were placed on both sides of a participant, another was diagonally behind the participant, and the other was installed on the ceiling.
PLANNING FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: EFFECT OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, SOCIAL CAPITAL AND COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

The main focus of the study is to evaluate the perspective of strengthening social capital resources of rural communities for rural development in Terengganu. Utilizing a convenient sampling procedure, participants for this study were taken from one hundred and seventy leaders in rural Terengganu. This study employed a self-administered online survey to gather primary data. The data were analysed using the Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). The research findings unveiled that social capital and community leadership are germane and indispensable traits in rural development. Ubiquitously, this is true regardless of the stages of development any country is going through at the time. It is therefore the responsibility of the community and its leaders to create their social capital and make efficient use of it to advance rural development in Terengganu and refine the state's local policy.
Exogenous Melatonin Alleviates the Inhibitory Effect of NaHCO3 on Tomato Growth by Regulating the Root pH Value and Promoting Plant Photosynthesis

Soil salinity is a severe threat to agricultural production. Most saline soils turn alkaline, increasing the soil pH and, in turn, hampering the growth and development of crops. In this study, the effects of a foliar spray of melatonin (MT; 100 μmol·L−1) on the pH of the root environment, growth of tomato seedlings, endogenous MT levels, rapid chlorophyll fluorescence induction kinetics, and key enzymes of the Calvin cycle under alkaline (60 mmol·L−1 NaHCO3) stress were studied in Riegel 87-5 tomatoes. The results revealed that the growth and photosynthesis of tomato seedlings were inhibited by increased pH in the root environment under alkali stress; however, the application of exogenous MT reduced the pH of the root environment, alleviated the inhibition of growth of tomato seedlings under alkali stress, increased the content of photosynthetic pigments, alleviated the damage of the donor and acceptor sides of the photosynthetic electron transport chain, increased the activity and efficiency of photosynthetic electron transport, and optimized the share of the light energy allocated to PSII reaction centers. Increased expression levels of Calvin-cycle enzymes, including fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (FBA), fructose-1,6-bisphosphate esterase (FBP), and phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK), led to enhanced photosynthetic performance in tomato seedlings. Exogenous MT boosted endogenous MT levels and stimulated the production and secretion of organic acids in the root system. This regulation of organic acid content reduced the environmental pH in the inter-root zone, alleviating the damage caused by alkali stress. This study indicated that the exogenous administration of MT may mediate an increase in endogenous MT levels, regulate the efficiency of photosynthesis and root pH levels, and play a crucial role in mitigating injury caused by alkali stress in tomato seedlings.
Epidemiological situation of Equine Infectious Anemia in the state of Paraná, Brazil

To assist decision making regarding the National Equine Health Program in the state of Paraná, a study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of infected farms and seropositive animals for Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) and also identify possible risk factors for the disease. The state was divided into three regions, within which about 300 farms were randomly selected. On the selected farms, a minimum number of animals aged 6 months or older were examined to characterize them as infected or free of EIA. In the sampled farms, an epidemiological questionnaire was applied to investigate possible associations between the disease and its characteristics, including sanitary practices and livestock management. The test used was the Agar Gel Immunodiffusion Test. A total of 2818 equids from 889 farms were tested. In the state, the prevalence of infected farms was 1.55% [0.92; 3.00] and the prevalence of seropositive animals was 0.55% [0.27; 1.00]. Introduction of equids showed an association with EIA (OR=5.5 [1.9; 15.9]). Paraná equine owners should be alerted to the need to observe health precautions regarding EIA when introducing animals to their herd. In 2018, the sensitivity of the Surveillance System for EIA in Paraná was only 1.36%, probably insufficient to change the endemic balance of the disease, therefore, needs to be re-evaluated involving in the process all public and private agents interested in the subject.
Working Capital Management and Extent of Influence on Public Listed Firms’ Performance in Industrial Product Industry.

Due to the turbulent global environment, effective working capital management has been accentuated ever since the manifestation of the global financial crisis wherein the eventuality of the unforeseen plight is immensely affecting both firms’ profitability and liquidity risk. The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of working capital management on firm performance, likewise furnishing insight into the pertinence of the theories that are applicable to exemplify the management of short-term resources in a firm. This study adopts dynamic panel data methodology, a one-step system generalised method of moments (GMM) to capture the endogeneity issues arising from the unobserved time-invariant firm-specific elements as well enhance the data efficiency. Adopting a sample of 156 Malaysian public companies listed on bursa Malaysia in the industrial products economy sector with the time period of 10 years (i.e. from 2007 through 2016), the researcher discovers evidence as follows: the coefficient results implying a significant negative linkage between working capital proxy (i.e. ccc) and firm performance indicators. The firm size has been signified as a remarkable control variable that might affect firm profitability as well as firm market valuation due to the competitive edges that could gain through economies of scale. The novelty verdict endeavours to accommodate intuitions for finance managers as well prospective investors in envisaging the momentous working capital management in trading-off liquidity and returns, particularly in the region of emerging countries such as Malaysia.
DoseTransfer: A Transformer Embedded Model With Transfer Learning for Radiotherapy Dose Prediction of Cervical Cancer

Cervical cancer stands as a prominent female malignancy, posing a serious threat to women’s health. The clinical solution typically involves time-consuming and laborious radiotherapy planning. Although convolutional neural network (CNN)-based models have been investigated to automate the radiotherapy planning by predicting its outcomes, i.e., dose distribution maps, the insufficiency of data in the cervical cancer dataset limits the prediction performance and generalization of models. Additionally, the intrinsic locality of convolution operations also hinders models from capturing dose information at a global range, limiting the prediction accuracy. In this article, we propose a transfer learning framework embedded with transformer, namely, DoseTransfer, to automatically predict the dose distribution for cervical cancer. To address the limited data in the cervical cancer dataset, we leverage highly correlated clinical information from rectum cancer and transfer this knowledge in a two-phase framework. Specifically, the first phase is the pretraining phase which aims to pretrain the model with the rectum cancer dataset and extract prior knowledge from rectum cancer, while the second phase is the transferring phase where the priorly learned knowledge is effectively transferred to cervical cancer and guides the model to achieve better accuracy. Moreover, both phases are embedded with transformers to capture the global dependencies ignored by CNN, learning wider feature representations. Experimental results on the in-house datasets (i.e., rectum cancer dataset and cervical cancer dataset) have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Seasonal Azithromycin Use in Paediatric Protracted Bacterial Bronchitis Does Not Promote Antimicrobial Resistance but Does Modulate the Nasopharyngeal Microbiome

Protracted bacterial bronchitis (PBB) causes chronic wet cough for which seasonal azithromycin is increasingly used to reduce exacerbations. We investigated the impact of seasonal azithromycin on antimicrobial resistance and the nasopharyngeal microbiome. In an observational cohort study, 50 children with PBB were enrolled over two consecutive winters; 25/50 at study entry were designated on clinical grounds to take azithromycin over the winter months and 25/50 were not. Serial nasopharyngeal swabs were collected during the study period (12–20 months) and cultured bacterial isolates were assessed for antimicrobial susceptibility. 16S rRNA-based sequencing was performed on a subset of samples. Irrespective of azithromycin usage, high levels of azithromycin resistance were found; 73% of bacteria from swabs in the azithromycin group vs. 69% in the comparison group. Resistance was predominantly driven by azithromycin-resistant S. pneumoniae, yet these isolates were mostly erythromycin susceptible. Analysis of 16S rRNA-based sequencing revealed a reduction in within-sample diversity in response to azithromycin, but only in samples of children actively taking azithromycin at the time of swab collection. Actively taking azithromycin at the time of swab collection significantly contributed to dissimilarity in bacterial community composition. The discrepancy between laboratory detection of azithromycin and erythromycin resistance in the S. pneumoniae isolates requires further investigation. Seasonal azithromycin for PBB did not promote antimicrobial resistance over the study period, but did perturb the microbiome.
NEMACHEILUS TEBO, A NEW LOACH FROM SANGKULIRANG KARST, EAST KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA (TELEOSTEI: NEMACHEILIDAE)

Nemacheilus tebo, new species, is described from Lake Tebo drainage, in the Sangkulirang peninsula karst formation, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is distinguished from all other species of Nemacheilus by its unique colour pattern: fl ank with 11-16 bars, those in front of dorsal fi n short, close together or fused, forming a kind of large elongate blotch; those below and behind dorsal fi n distinct and usually not continuous across dorsum.
The use of gamma distributions to quantify the dependence of cloud particle size distributions in hurricanes on cloud and environmental conditions

Mesoscale models that predict the evolution of tropical cyclones (TCs) are sensitive to the representation of cloud microphysical processes. Bulk cloud parametrizations used in such models make assumptions about the particle size distributions (PSDs) of different ice species, and their representativeness for TCs is not well known. In situ cloud probe data acquired in tropical storms, depressions and waves during the NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) project are used to define PSDs of snow and graupel, and of all ice hydrometeors combined. These PSDs are fitted to gamma functions to determine how the intercept (N0), shape (μ), and slope (λ) vary with cloud and environmental conditions. Families of PSDs are determined for each condition (e.g. PSDs found in updraughts, downdraughts and stratiform regions, for different ranges of ice water content (IWC) and temperature (T), and for differing stages of TC development). A volume of equally plausible solutions in (N0‐μ‐λ) phase space is defined for each environmental condition sampled based on the goodness of the fits and the uncertainty in the measured PSDs due to statistical sampling. Per cent overlap between two families in each environmental and cloud condition was calculated, and results show that areas with sustained vertical velocity with a magnitude of at least 1 m·s−1 lie in a different phase space than stratiform regions, and PSDs corresponding to IWC < 0.01 g·m−3 lie in a different phase space than PSDs corresponding to IWC > 0.1 g·m−3. All other environmental and cloud conditions did not have significant impacts on either the location or uncertainty in the family of ellipsoids.
The relationship between loneliness and fear of missing out on students of the State University of Semarang

In a preliminary study conducted on 35 students at Universitas Negeri Semarang, it was found that a majority of respondents (97.1%) were female, aged 19-24 years. The study showed that all respondents felt entertained by the internet, with a significant portion using it as a diversion during sadness or boredom. Concerns about missing out on information online were prevalent, with many experiencing discomfort when unable to access the internet. The research aimed to explore the relationship between loneliness and the Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) among these students. Utilizing a sample of 400 respondents selected through cluster random sampling, loneliness and FoMO were measured using respective scales with reliabilities of 0.755 and 0.765. Spearman's Rank correlation with SPSS 21 software revealed a significant positive correlation (r=0.311, p<0.05) between loneliness and FoMO, with both variables predominantly falling in the moderate category among the students. Abstrak: Berdasarkan studi pendahuluan yang dilakukan pada 35 mahasiswa Universitas Negeri Semarang, ditemukan bahwa sebagian besar responden (97,1%) adalah perempuan berusia 19-24 tahun. Studi tersebut menunjukkan bahwa semua responden merasa terhibur oleh internet, dengan proporsi yang signifikan menggunakannya sebagai pengalihan saat sedih atau bosan. Kekhawatiran tentang ketinggalan informasi online cukup umum, dengan banyak yang merasa tidak nyaman ketika tidak bisa mengakses internet. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi hubungan antara kesepian dan Rasa Takut Ketinggalan Informasi (Fear of Missing Out - FoMO) di antara mahasiswa tersebut. Menggunakan sampel 400 responden yang dipilih melalui sampel kluster acak, kesepian dan FoMO diukur menggunakan skala masing-masing dengan reliabilitas 0,755 dan 0,765. Korelasi Spearman's Rank dengan perangkat lunak SPSS 21 mengungkapkan korelasi positif yang signifikan (r=0,311, p<0,05) antara kesepian dan FoMO, dengan kedua variabel terutama jatuh dalam kategori sedang di antara mahasiswa.
Lipidomics profiles of human spermatozoa: insights into capacitation and acrosome reaction using UPLC-MS-based approach

Introduction Lipidomics elucidates the roles of lipids in both physiological and pathological processes, intersecting with many diseases and cellular functions. The maintenance of lipid homeostasis, essential for cell health, significantly influences the survival, maturation, and functionality of sperm during fertilization. While capacitation and the acrosome reaction, key processes before fertilization, involve substantial lipidomic alterations, a comprehensive understanding of the changes in human spermatozoa's lipidomic profiles during these processes remains unknown. This study aims to explicate global lipidomic changes during capacitation and the acrosome reaction in human sperm, employing an untargeted lipidomic strategy using ultra-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS). Methods Twelve semen specimens, exceeding the WHO reference values for semen parameters, were collected. After discontinuous density gradient separation, sperm concentration was adjusted to 2 x 106 cells/ml and divided into three groups: uncapacitated, capacitated, and acrosome-reacted. UPLC-MS analysis was performed after lipid extraction from these groups. Spectral peak alignment and statistical analysis, using unsupervised principal component analysis (PCA), bidirectional orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis (O2PLS-DA) analysis, and supervised partial least-squares-latent structure discriminate analysis (PLS-DA), were employed to identify the most discriminative lipids. Results The 1176 lipid peaks overlapped across the twelve individuals in the uncapacitated, capacitated, and acrosome-reacted groups: 1180 peaks between the uncapacitated and capacitated groups, 1184 peaks between the uncapacitated and acrosome-reacted groups, and 1178 peaks between the capacitated and acrosome-reacted groups. The count of overlapping peaks varied among individuals, ranging from 739 to 963 across sperm samples. Moreover, 137 lipids had VIP values > 1.0 and twenty-two lipids had VIP > 1.5, based on the O2PLS-DA model. Furthermore, the identified twelve lipids encompassed increases in PI 44:10, LPS 20:4, LPA 20:5, and LPE 20:4, and decreases in 16-phenyl-tetranor-PGE2, PC 40:6, PS 35:4, PA 29:1, 20-carboxy-LTB4, and 2-oxo-4-methylthio-butanoic acid. Discussion This study has been the first time to investigate the lipidomics profiles associated with acrosome reaction and capacitation in human sperm, utilizing UPLC-MS in conjunction with multivariate data analysis. These findings corroborate earlier discoveries on lipids during the acrosome reaction and unveil new metabolites. Furthermore, this research highlights the effective utility of UPLC-MS-based lipidomics for exploring diverse physiological states in sperm. This study offers novel insights into lipidomic changes associated with capacitation and the acrosome reaction in human sperm, which are closely related to male reproduction.
Trichoderma koningiopsis Tk905: an efficient biocontrol, induced resistance agent against banana Fusarium wilt disease and a potential plant-growth-promoting fungus

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 (FocTR4) is a devastating phytopathogen responsible for significant losses in banana production worldwide. Trichoderma and other biocontrol agents (BCAs) have been used as suitable disease control methods for banana Fusarium wilt. In this study, the endophytic T. koningiopsis Tk905 strain was isolated from the roots of dendrobe plants and identified utilizing morphological and molecular analyses. Antifungal activity tests revealed that Tk905 effectively inhibited mycelial growth with inhibition rates ranging from 26.52 to 75.34%. Additionally, Tk905 covered the pathogen mycelia, and spores were observed on or around the pathogen hyphae. The average root and shoot fresh weights and plant height, of Tk905-inoculated plants were significantly higher than those of the untreated plants. Furthermore, Tk905 treatment significantly increased the activity of antioxidant enzymes, such as catalase (CAT), phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL), polyphenol oxidase (PPO), and peroxidase (POD), suggesting that Tk905 may enhance plant defence systems by activating their antioxidant mechanisms. Most importantly, Tk905-treated plants inoculated by three methods exhibited significantly lower disease incidence and severity than untreated plants. The protective effects of Tk905 against FocTR4 infection were not only observed in the early stages of infection but persisted throughout the experiment, suggesting that T. koningiopsis Tk905 can provide long-lasting protection against Fusarium wilt.
The Effect and Signification of GIS and EIS on the Research of Environmental Geology

Environmental problems will be more serious in the world in the 21st century, so environmental geology should make more contribution to study and resolving of these problems. However, the methods and instruments that are used on environmental geology do not satisfy external need. This paper discusses some problems about establishing EIS (Environmental Imitation System) and coupling GIS (Geographical Information System) with EIS. Through research, the authors suggest that these problems have been resolved basically. The coupling technology could remedy some defects of the function of environmental imitation in GIS and make EIS into space management system of information in which space information are managed, appliance analyzed and spliced, and made videotex. In the end, the paper indicates that co-system of GIS and EIS can be established to accomplish interchange, second developing and using of information.
National Museums in the Republic of Turkey: Palimpsests within a Centralized State

This study considers how the various forms of the museum within the Turkish context serve in the production of a decentralized national narrative that becomes replicated to reify Turkish identity through multiple, non-hierarchized heritage sources. Through the overlay of institutions established during these periods, contemporary Turkish museums, whether public or private, serve as museums of the nation not because of their conceptual cohesion or administrative centralization, but because through this layering, they express the many competing threads through which national culture and heritage construct a complex, and at times contradictory, national narrative which enables competing segments of the population to coexist. The study provides a chronological survey of the development of museums with a special focus on five key case studies that each reflects changing relationships between the state, the nation, and the concept of the museum in various eras of Turkey’s history. In the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman emphasis on museums of archaeology and military spolia became transformed into an emphasis on historic museums as a means of glorifying early imperial history and differentiating the republic from its Ottoman past; ethnographic-archaeological museums as a means of inscribing a unified historical and ethnological map of the country, particularly Anatolia; and, more recently, using art (in lieu of archaeology) as a signal of participation in European cultural practices, particularly among urban elite audiences. As explored in this report, these types can be best understood as a complex palimpsest of the four historical eras of national identity production during which different museum typologies were introduced for different needs: the late Ottoman era (1839-1922); the early Republican era (1922-1960); the era between two eras of military rule (1961-1983) and the current era (19842010). The study will also focus on five key case studies that each reflects changing relationships between the state, the nation, and the concept of the museum in various eras of Turkey’s history: the Ottoman Imperial Museum (1846); the Topkapi Palace Museum (1924); the Ethnographic Museum (1928); the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations (1968) and the Istanbul Modern Museum of Art (2004).