Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparison of Calcimycin and Ionomycin-induced Assisted Oocyte Activation in Cases with Male Infertility: A Study of Control Sibling Oocytes

Using control sibling oocytes, the prospective study on the treatment of male infertility factors was conducted in a private IVF center located in Cairo, Egypt. Each case of male factor infertility was treated with both calcimycin and ionomycin, and then the rate of fertilization, cleavage, and quality of embryo were statistically compared. The total number of included cases in the study was n=112. Pregnancy and postpartum follow-up were not investigated. Calcimycin and ionomycin showed nonsignificant T-value in rates of fertilization, cleavage, and good-quality embryos than non-treated embryos. Group I (n=59) treated versus control show fertilization rate of 76.6%, 48.9%, cleavage rate of 95.4%, 85.3%, the good quality embryos 47.1%, 18.5%, respectively. Group II (n=53) treated versus control show fertilization rate of 81.1 %, 50.8%, cleavage rate of 92.5%, 81.4%, the good quality embryos 42%, 29.9%, respectively. The utilization of assisted oocyte activation, ionomycin, and calcimycin has been proposed to possibly increase the number of zygotes, improve cleavage, and create high-quality embryos, boosting the probability of embryo transfer trials. KEY WORDS: Calcimycin, Ionomycin, Male factor infertility, Sibling oocytes.
MORFOMETRIA DE REDES FLUVIALES: REVlSlON CRITICA DE LOS PARÁMETROS MÁS UTILIZADOS Y APLICACIÓN AL ALTO GUADALQUIVIR

A critica1 review of the strength of each parameter commonly used in morphometric studies of drainage basins is presented. At the same time the most significant parameters, when studying the morphometry of the headwaters of the Rio Guadiana Menor in the Upper Guadalquivir, are presented. Following an initial study of 42 variables grouped under relief, length, geometry and fluvial intensity, and subjected to factor analysis, 9 variables were finally selected; confirming that these variables characterize well the drainage basin for which they were studied. Using nine variables the loss of information is minimal and the time needed to undertake the morphometric analysis is reduced considerably.
The late field life of the East Midlands Petroleum Province; a new geothermal prospect?

Modification of existing oilfield infrastructure could deliver a cost-effective way to extend the economic life of depleted onshore oilfields. Naturally warm connate and injection water contained within these fields could be initially co-produced with remaining oil reserves and used to deliver clean, cheap, non-intermittent heating. The East Midlands Petroleum Province contains over 30 fields with a production history spanning 95 years, and we have chosen to examine the Welton field in detail. Well data for the Welton field have been analysed to ascertain extractable heat within both oil- and non-oil-bearing (water-bearing) strata within the field. Production rates were calculated to be 728 m3 d−1 oil and 854 m3 d−1 water. These values also include productivity of intervening largely water-bearing intervals. Target formation temperature at 1500 m was determined to be 52.5°C, allowing an extractable heat energy calculation to be undertaken for a range of temperature differentials. For a 30°C depletion in temperature, 1.6 MWt extractable heat is available within the Welton field alone. This equates to 14040 MWh of heat energy available for consumption by the domestic market or within commercial greenhouses.
Development of a Quick Reliability Method for Mechanistic-Empirical Asphalt Pavement Design

In Mechanistic-empirical (M-E) pavement design, the Monte Carlo method has proven to be an effective means of determining reliability. One drawback is the amount of computing time required to carry out a simulation. Performing a Monte Carlo simulation on a complex load spectrum can require hours on a typical desktop computer. The Minnesota Department of Transportation is developing a shortcut method for estimating reliability in its MnPAVE flexible pavement design program. In this program, variability in the layer thicknesses and moduli are expressed as coefficients of variation (CV). Development of the shortcut method involves running a large number of pavement design simulations to generate damage factors (using Miner’s Hypothesis) and reliability values (using the Monte Carlo method). For a given set of CV values, there is a strong correlation between the damage factor and reliability. For the two asphalt fatigue models tested, this correlation exists regardless of the number and thickness of pavement layers, layer moduli, number of seasons, and number of axle configurations. For the rutting model the addition of more seasons and loading configurations increases scatter in the data. A family of curves can be generated to include the range of expected CV combinations, and the resulting equations can be used to estimate the reliability of a pavement design based on a single damage calculation.
Helium Cold Atmospheric Plasma Causes Morphological and Biochemical Alterations in Candida albicans Cells

(1) Background: Previous studies reported the promising inhibitory effect of cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) on Candida albicans. However, the exact mechanisms of CAP’s action on the fungal cell are still poorly understood. This study aims to elucidate the CAP effect on C. albicans cell wall, by evaluating the alterations on its structure and biochemical composition; (2) Methods: C. albicans cells treated with Helium-CAP were analyzed by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) in order to detect morphological, topographic and biochemical changes in the fungal cell wall. Cells treated with caspofungin were also analyzed for comparative purposes; (3) Results: Expressive morphological and topographic changes, such as increased roughness and shape modification, were observed in the cells after CAP exposure. The alterations detected were similar to those observed after the treatment with caspofungin. The main biochemical changes occurred in polysaccharides content, and an overall decrease in glucans and an increase in chitin synthesis were detected; (4) Conclusions: Helium-CAP caused morphological and topographic alterations in C. albicans cells and affected the cell wall polysaccharide content.
Large Sediment Accumulations and Major Subsidence Offshore; Rapid Uplift on Land: Consequences of Extension of Gorontalo Bay and Northern Sulawesi

Gorontalo Bay is a deep inter-arm basin in northern Sulawesi. It is surrounded by mountains up to 23 km high formed by metamorphic complexes and granitoid intrusions that can be traced from the Central North Arm to the Neck and further south into mid Central Sulawesi. These contrast with the bay which reaches depths of 2 km with sediment accumulations beneath the seabed of several kilometres thickness. Most of the metamorphic rocks have previously been interpreted as Mesozoic or Palaeozoic basement. Late Miocene to Pliocene granitic igneous and volcanic rocks crop out in the North Arm and in Central Sulawesi. Combination of several geochronometers (U-Pb, Ar-Ar, (U-Th)-He) shows rapid, near-isothermal Pliocene exhumation of these granitoids in the Neck region. Almost all metamorphic rocks are Neogene. Neogene metamorphic core complexes have been identified in the North Arm and to the south of Gorontalo Bay in the Tokorondo and Pompangeo Mountains and suggest an extensional setting. Low-temperature thermochronology on apatites from granitoid rocks in the Neck reveals rapid exhumation rates of 0.75– 0.9 mm/yr that indicate removal of c. 2 km of upper crust since the Middle Pliocene. Thermochronological systems with higher closure temperatures (Zr-He, Ar-Ar) suggest even higher exhumation rates, and therefore also higher erosion rates, of c.1-4 mm/yr. Young and rapid uplift is supported by sediment sequences on land including the Plio-Pleistocene Celebes Molasse on the west side of the Neck and the Middle to Upper Miocene Dolokapa Formation in the central North Arm. These sediments are * Royal Holloway, University of London suggested to be correlated with much thicker sequences offshore in Gorontalo Bay. Rapid uplift on land with contemporaneous subsidence offshore is interpreted to have resulted from extension driven by clockwise rotation of the North Arm associated with northward rollback of the North Sulawesi subduction zone.
Dynamic Automated Labeling System for Real-Time User Intention Analysis

Real-time online user responses can be useful for identifying people’s reactions to business strategies or social phenomena. Many approaches have been proposed to classify user responses, yet most of them exploit either manual or automatic labeling that fails to reflect real-time information, preventing use as a generalized model. In this study, we propose a dynamic automated labeling technique that considers changes in user response over time by combining LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) topic modeling and word2vec. Topic modeling is used to extract topics that will be used as true labels, and word2vec is used to map the dominant topic into label to annotate the users’ textual data by calculating the vector similarity. Experimental results on disaster-related Tweet datasets show that our approach outperforms other baseline approaches of automated annotation in terms of classification performance. The technique presented in this study can be applied in business to create an automated system to analyze and continuously monitor users’ real-time reactions.
International Journal of Management Sciences and Business Research, July-2023 ISSN (2226-8235) Vol-12, Issue 7

The global climate situation of the last decade remains to be desired. Each year we witness a series of different natural disasters that impact the daily lives of those affected. Due to their Severity, natural disasters sometimes cause considerable damage, exceeding the local government's capacity to respond using their resources but just relying on humanitarian aid. To provide an adequate response, fund allocation from various governments may apply. How does the donor decide whom to help when the need alert comes from all the places in the world, especially if the environment differs from his? Our work aims to study the Hofstede cultural difference of Individualism and Uncertainty Avoidance on the donor's attitude when allocating bilateral funding during natural disaster response from 2014-2019. Using data collected on the FTS website, our result demonstrates a positive attitude of generosity from donors willing to give despite the difference in culture. However, we also notice a change in terms of similarity and non-similarity for high individualism donors when allocating funds, while high Uncertainty avoidance donors demonstrate a static attitude. Our research enables donors to make financial decisions that could improve the flow of donations to better the distant other, which helps to achieve more effective humanitarian aid.
International Journal of Management Sciences and Business Research, May-2021 ISSN (2226-8235) Vol-10, Issue 5

This paper assesses the influence of supplier ICT integration on the procurement performance of pharmaceutical manufacturing firms in Nairobi County, Kenya. The pharmaceutical manufacturing companies are among the integral part of the country’s economy. In addition to these companies being part of the large pillar of manufacturing sector, they as well support the country’s healthcare, another critical pillar of the country’s socio-economic prosperity. It is therefore prudent that the suppliers of these pharmaceutical manufacturing companies be managed so as to obtain quality drugs and reliable services. Despite supplier’s contribution to the success of pharmaceuticals, there is scant evidence on how they have been brought closer in the decision making to determine the collective success of the entire sector. Available evidence shows the integrating information technology would a be a great move towards enhancing management of the suppliers. The paper was anchored on the Technology Acceptance Model. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The target population of the study was all the employees in the procurement department of the 110 pharmaceutical manufacturing firms in Nairobi County. Target respondents were the procurement managers of the pharmaceutical manufacturing firms in Nairobi County. A census was used where all the 110 firms were surveyed. Data collection instrument was a structured questionnaire which was used to collect primary data. Analysis of the collected data was done with the help of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) The findings revealed that supplier ICT integration through inventory control, information exchange and coordination of functions significantly influenced the procurement performance in the pharmaceutical manufacturing companies. It was concluded that procurement performance in most of the companies was affected by inadequate embrace of ICT in managing the suppliers, thus it is recommended that the procurement managers in these companies ought to embrace ICT integration as one of the aspects of effectively managing suppliers
World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues

Technological developments in the 21st century require educators to teach computational thinking (CT) to their students. Educators must have creative ideas in the learning process, one of which is utilizing learning media. Game-based learning (GBL) media is one of the most popular. In this research, we developed a GBL media which is part of this type of research development. The participants used were junior high school students with a total of 118 students. After testing the effectiveness, it is known that the GBL media developed can be an alternative media that supports students' better CT learning outcomes. This positive response is supported because the games provided have been adapted to the needs of students. Although this research has contributed to the theory of CT and GBL, this research still has some limitations. In the future, other researchers can deepen by differentiating the subjects, the level of participants, or the type of media used.
International Journal of Management Sciences and Business Research, Feb-2023 ISSN (2226-8235) Vol-12, Issue 2

Effective use of materials is one of the potential components of a green manufacturing strategy. There are many of these strategies proposed in the literature and used in practice, with intellectual debate over what they are, what are the differences between them and how they can be used by practitioners in design and manufacturing to improve the sustainability of their products and processes. This paper reviews the literature on green manufacturing strategies that provide improved material performance. Four main strategies for green manufacturing were found; They are: waste minimization; Material efficiency, resource efficiency; and environmental efficiency. The literature was analyzed to determine the key characteristics of these sustainable manufacturing strategies and 17 characteristics were found. Then the four strategies were evaluated through the motives and obstacles to applying the practices of these strategies through a questionnaire prepared for this purpose. It was distributed to the experts and specialists in charge of the Union Company in the province of Babylon to determine the level and reality of the application of these strategies, and the research reached a set of results, the most important of which.
on Urological Imaging:

The ACR Committee on Appropriateness Criteria and its expert panels have developed criteria for determining appropriate imaging examinations for diagnosis and treatment of specified medical condition(s). These criteria are intended to guide radiologists, radiation oncologists and referring physicians in making decisions regarding radiologic imaging and treatment. Generally, the complexity and severity of a patient’s clinical condition should dictate the selection of appropriate imaging procedures or treatments. Only those examinations generally used for evaluation of the patient’s condition are ranked. Other imaging studies necessary to evaluate other co-existent diseases or other medical consequences of this condition are not considered in this document. The availability of equipment or personnel may influence the selection of appropriate imaging procedures or treatments. Imaging techniques classified as investigational by the FDA have not been considered in developing these criteria; however, study of new equipment and applications should be encouraged. The ultimate decision regarding the appropriateness of any specific radiologic examination or treatment must be made by the referring physician and radiologist in light of all the circumstances presented in an individual examination.
on Urological

The ACR Committee on Appropriateness Criteria and its expert panels have developed criteria for determining appropriate imaging examinations for diagnosis and treatment of specified medical condition(s). These criteria are intended to guide radiologists, radiation oncologists and referring physicians in making decisions regarding radiologic imaging and treatment. Generally, the complexity and severity of a patient’s clinical condition should dictate the selection of appropriate imaging procedures or treatments. Only those examinations generally used for evaluation of the patient’s condition are ranked. Other imaging studies necessary to evaluate other co-existent diseases or other medical consequences of this condition are not considered in this document. The availability of equipment or personnel may influence the selection of appropriate imaging procedures or treatments. Imaging techniques classified as investigational by the FDA have not been considered in developing these criteria; however, study of new equipment and applications should be encouraged. The ultimate decision regarding the appropriateness of any specific radiologic examination or treatment must be made by the referring physician and radiologist in light of all the circumstances presented in an individual examination.
Fertility and Female participation in the labor market in Colombia and its Caribbean Coast Fertilidade e participação feminina no mercado de trabalho no litoral caribenho, e na Colômbia

Resumen El objetivo del presente articulo es identificar los determinantes que explican las diferencias en las tasas de participacion laboral de las mujeres –con y sin hijos– en la Costa Caribe y en Co-lombia. Para tal proposito se realizaron modelos probit de los determinantes de la participacion de cada grupo de mujeres, y se implemento el metodo de descomposicion microeconometrica aplicado a los modelos de eleccion binaria. Los resultados sugieren a que tanto en la Costa Caribe como en Colombia las variables que explican dichas diferencias son: la escolaridad, la no tenencia de pareja y, en menor medida, la riqueza. Palabras clave autor: participacion laboral femenina, fecundidad, descomposicion micro-econometrica, funciones de verosimilitud, probit. Palabras clave descriptor: Trabajo de la mujer, Mercado laboral, Fecundidad humana. Abstract The aim of this article is to identify the determinants of the differences in the labor supply rates between the women with and without children in Colombia and its Caribbean Coasty. In order to achieve this, Probit models about the determinants of the labor supply rate for each group of women were estimated and the microeconometric decomposition method was applied to the binary models. The results suggest that in the Caribbean Coast of Colombia –as well as in the rest of the country- the main variables to explain such differences are: education, being single and wealth in a lesser degree.
The VEGA Venus Balloon Experiment

In June 1985, two instrumented balloons were placed in the atmosphere of Venus as part of the VEGA mission. Each balloon traveled about 30 percent of the way around the planet at a float altitude near 54 kilometers. In situ sensors measured pressure, temperature, vertical wind velocity, cloud particle backscatter, ambient light level, and frequency of lightning. A ground-based network of 20 radio antennas tracked the balloons by very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) techniques to monitor the Venus winds. The history, organization, and principal characteristics of this international balloon experiment are described.
Advances in Meso-Scale Dynamical Analysis of Torrential Rain Systems in Recent Years in China

The main study results on torrential rain and mesoscale dynamical analysis in recent years are summarized,which include large scale circulation,the interaction between the large scale and meso-micro scale systems,upper and low level jet,vortex,potential vorticity and convective vorticity vector,helicity and instability,etc.The review on meso-scale dynamical analysis of torrential rain systems manifests that the numerical simulation,transform and budget of energy,vorticity,divergence,vorticity budget,vorticity advection,temperature advection,various instability indexes,etc.,are still the general variables for diagnosing the meso-scale systems.But in recent years,besides the potential vorticity and the helicity are used more effectively than before,some new variables,such as generalized moist potential vorticity in non-uniformly saturated atmosphere,convective vorticity vector,and wind partitioning method in a limited region,are applied more to the meso-scale dynamical analysis of torrential rain systems.
A Matter of Time : An Impact Evaluation of the Brazilian National Land Credit Program

This paper provides an impact evaluation of the Programa Nacional de Crédito Fundiário, a market assisted land reform program in Brazil. The paper uses a panel dataset and a pipeline control group to evaluate the program’s impact on agricultural production and earned income, using both difference in differences and individual fixed effects models. The heterogeneous effect of additional years of land ownership is investigated. The findings suggest that the program increases agricultural production by over 100% and earned income by 35%, but only after four years of land ownership. The conclusions are supported by a number of robustness tests, including the use of attrition weights. The benefits of the program, however, largely go to making debt payments rather than to raising current income. If the program’s impact on income continues grow, as it did in the first five years, improvements in net wealth and current welfare could both be achieved.