Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Quasi-Experimental Study of a Basics of Evidence-Based Practice Educational Intervention for Health and Social Care Professionals

Education is one of the central interventions to promote evidence-based practice (EBP) in service organizations. An educational intervention to promote EBP among health and social care professionals was implemented in a Finnish hospital. The aim of this study was to explore the outcomes of an educational intervention, focusing on the basics of EBP for health and social care professionals, using a quasi-experimental study design. The data were collected with a questionnaire before, immediately after, and 6 months after the education (n = 48). The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and nonparametric tests. Immediately after the education, an increase was found in the EBP knowledge of participants, in participants’ confidence in their own ability to conduct database searches and read scientific articles, and in the number of participants using databases at work. Six months after the education, improvements were still found between the first and the third measurement in the participants’ knowledge and confidence in their own ability to conduct database searches and read scientific articles. The number of those who had made an initiative about a research topic regarding the development of their own work had increased from the first to the third measurement. The educational intervention produced a statistically significant improvement on most of the areas evaluated. Significant improvements were often found even 6 months after the education was finished. However, the low completion rate and a quasi-experimental before and after design limit the conclusions that can be derived from this study.
New bioactive Cu(I) thiourea derivatives with triphenylphosphine; synthesis, structure and molecular docking studies

Abstract The synthesized thioureas, 1-(3-fluorobenzoyl))-3-(4-(diethyl aminophenyl) thiourea (I1 ), 1-benzoyl-3-(2-chlorophenyl) thiourea (I2 ) and 1-(2-fluorobenzoyl)-3-(2-chlorophenyl) thiourea (I3 ) along with triphenylphosphine were reacted with Cu(I) chloride in mole ratios 1:2:1 by using dry acetone as solvent under nitrogen to get 1–3. The synthesized thioureas and metal derivatives were characterized by spectroscopic techniques such as IR and multinuclear (1H, 13C) NMR. Compound 3 is analyzed by single crystal X-ray analysis and data reveal that the Cu is four coordinate having tetrahedral molecular geometry. The interaction of 1–3 with DNA is ascertained by cyclic voltammetry, determining binding constant, binding energy and diffusion coefficient. The findings suggest that the complexes interact with DNA in an electrostatic mode. The antioxidant activity data show that 3 has the highest free radical scavenging ability having Ic50 value of 10 µg/mL. The synthesized compounds were also screened against various bacterial strains and found some encouraging results. The binding interactions of the metal complexes with a specific protein were further validated by molecular docking studies and the results obtained show their strong interaction with amino acid residue in the binding pocket of the target protein. Graphical Abstract
Perceived Usage of E-Wallet among the Y Generation in Surabaya based on Technology Acceptance Model

Although the government of Indonesia is building the cashless society, the number of e-wallet users are increasing slowly. E-wallet is becoming a common instru­ment of payments from the paper-based instruments to server-based electronic money. The aim of this research is to investigate the perceived usage of the Y Genera­tions on e-wallet based on Technological Acceptance Model (TAM) which is a power­ful model to describe single approval to the usage of a new information technology system. As a quantitative research, the data analysis is using the Partial Least Square (PLS) with the SmartPLS 3.0 software. The results show that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use brings impacts positive significant impacts to behavioural intention to use, then, the behavioural intention to use affect a positive significant impact to perceived usage. However, a direct effect from perceived useful­ness to perceived usage shows a negative and no significant impact, meanwhile an unintended effect from perceived usefulness to perceived usage through behavioural intention to use show a positive significant impact. Finally, a direct effect from perceived ease of use to perceived usage shows a lower t-statistic value than an indi­rect effect from perceived ease of use to perceived usage through behavioural inten­tion
Hydrothermal synthesis, structure refinement, and electrochemical characterization of Li2CoGeO4 as an oxygen evolution catalyst

Lithium cobalt germanate (Li2CoGeO4) has been synthesized for the first time by a hydrothermal method at 150 °C. Elemental composition, morphology, and crystal structure of this compound were characterized by various analytical techniques including SEM, TEM, ICP, and XRD analyses. Structure refinement and DFT calculation suggests the crystal structure of the resulting Li2CoGeO4 from hydrothermal synthesis is isostructural to Li2ZnGeO4, significantly different from previous reports. Electrochemical studies confirmed Li2CoGeO4 as an active catalyst for oxygen evolution reaction (OER). In alkaline electrolyte (0.1 M NaOH), rotating disk electrodes made with Li2CoGeO4 as catalyst have a Tafel slope of ca. 67 mV dec−1 and an overpotential of 330 mV at 50 μA cm−2cat, about 90 mV less than the electrodes containing another known OER catalyst, Co3O4. Further characterization with cyclic voltammetry, high resolution transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and elemental analyses revealed the oxidation of Co from 2+ to 3+ during the reaction along with significant surface amorphization and loss of Li and Ge from the catalyst.
Impact of Children Dental Fear on Quality of Life Among Urban and Peri Urban School Children

Dental fear is the most expressed feeling by children during dental visit and can arise through observation of an unpleasant object and is instinctively avoided by children in an attempt to protect themselves from harm. This consequently often be a reason to ignore dental visit. Quality of life has been generally used to describe the impact of oral health conditions and dental care on children. The differences of environmental characteristics between urban and periurban can contribute to oral health or quality of life related to oral health. To assess the impact of children dental fear on quality of life among urban and peri urban school children. This cross-sectional study was carried out among 278 children aged 8-10 years old who came from urban and periurban elementary school. Children dental fear was assessed using Children’s Fear Survey Schedule-Dental Subscale (CFSS-DS) and quality of life was assessed using Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ8-10). Data were analysed using SPSS Version 25.0 and descriptive statistics and linear regression were used (P<0.05). Statistical test results showed that children dental fear have significant impact on all domains quality of life that are oral symptoms, functional limitations, emotional well being, and social well being, both in urban and periurban school children with P value<0.001. Children dental fear have significant impact on quality of life among urban and periurban school children. Clinical article (J Int Dent Med Res 2018; 11(3): 971-975)
Influence of values, brand consciousness and behavioral intentions in predicting luxury fashion consumption

Purpose This paper aims to examine the relationships among two distinct yet interconnected forms of value orientations, namely, terminal and instrumental values, brand consciousness and behavioral intentions. This study validated the conceptual model for branded fashion apparel consumption in an emerging market, e.g. India. Design/methodology/approach The research design followed a two-step approach to test the measurement and structural models for partial least squares structural equation modeling with SmartPLS (v.3.0) as recommended by Anderson and Gerbing (1988). Findings The results illustrated that both the instrumental and terminal values influence brand consciousness and, consequently, brand consciousness had an impact on behavioral intentions for fashion apparel consumption. Instrumental values had a greater influence on brand consciousness and behavioral intentions than terminal values. Brand consciousness mediated the relationship between instrumental/terminal values and behavioral intentions. Research limitations/implications This study defined two value orientations (i.e. instrumental versus terminal) using cross-sectional data from an emerging market. Future studies may examine the research findings’ generalizability using diverse data sets (longitudinal and cross-sectional) and evaluate the value orientation and customers’ favorable behavioral intentions for luxury fashion consumption. Practical implications This study provides insights into luxury marketers and practitioners to understand the contribution of instrumental and terminal values on brand consciousness and behavioral intentions for luxury fashion apparel. The findings would assist in developing marketing strategies for an emerging market, i.e. India. Social implications With the rapid proliferation of materialism, the Indian market has witnessed the dawn of a new era of luxury fashion acceptance. The research offers evidence that in emerging markets such as India, consumers exhibit value orientation toward luxury brands while holding a sense of fashion involvement in their consumption behavior. Originality/value This study is a pioneering attempt to understand the relationships between the value orientation, namely, instrumental and terminal values and their underlying influence on brand consciousness and behavioral intentions toward fashion apparel. Rokeach’s (1973) two-dimensional value dichotomy was adapted to understand luxury apparel consumption in an emerging market context, specifically India.
Ethnos : a database of ethnically variant single-nucleotide polymorphisms

Inherited genetic variation plays a critical but largely uncharacterized role in human differentiation. The completion of the International HapMap Project makes it possible to identify loci that may cause human differentiation. We have devised an approach to find such ethnically variant singlenucleotide polymorphisms (ESNPs) from the genotype profile of the populations included in the International HapMap database. We selected ESNPs using the nearest shrunken centroid method (NSCM), and performed multiple tests for genetic heterogeneity and frequency spectrum on genes having ESNPs. The function and disease association of the selected SNPs were also annotated. This resulted in the identification of 100 736 SNPs that appeared uniquely in each ethnic group. Of these SNPs, 1009 were within disease-associated genes, and 85 were predicted as damaging using the Sorting Intolerant From Tolerant system. This study resulted in the creation of the SNP@Ethnos database, which is designed to make this type of detailed genetic variation approach available to a wider range of researchers. SNP@Ethnos is a public database of ESNPs with annotation information that currently contains 100 736 ESNPs from 10 138 genes, and can be accessed at http://variome.net and http://bioportal.net/ or directly at http:// bioportal.kobic. re.kr/SNPatETHNIC/.
Effects of Cholinesterase Inhibitors Tacrine and Galantamine in Pentilentetrazole induced Cognitive Dysfunction in Mice

The aim was to study the effects of tacrine and galantamine on learning and memory processes in pentilentetrazole-induced model of cognitive dysfunction in mice. Thirty-two male albino mice divided into four groups were treated as follows: Group 1: saline (controls); Group 2: saline+pentilentetrazole (PTZ) (model group); Group 3: tacrine+PTZ; Group 4: galantamine+PTZ. The effects of tacrine and galantamine were studied in automatic set-up for active learning with negative reinforcement "Shuttle-box" (Ugo Basile, Italy). The following parameters were recorded: number of conditioned stimulus responses (avoidances), number of unconditioned stimulus responses (escapes) and number of inter-trial crossings. The comparison between groups was made by Instat computer program using analysis of variance (ANOVA for repeated measurements). The pentilentetrazole (PTZ) significantly decreased the number of conditioned and unconditioned stimulus responses and exploratory activity in mice. Tacrine removed the suppressing effect of PTZ on the central nervous system and improved learning. Galantamine showed a better effect on long term memory. Both cholinesterase inhibitors improved the locomotor activity of the experimental animals.
Mathematical model of distributed registry architecture based on cloud and fog technologies

The formalized statement of the problem of the distribution of computing and information resources for storing and processing data, as well as the provision of services at the levels of the cloud and fog systems within the framework of optimizing the multi-level topology of the computing network of the distributed registry system from cloud and fog computing paradigm, is presented. The possibility of using a multi-level representation of the topological structure to determine the optimal network architecture of a distributed registry system based on cloud and fog computing using the genetic algorithm for a fractal model of information traffic is shown, in particular, the results of an experiment to minimize response time from the number of generations for Poisson and fractal models are presented traffic.
Glucose and cardiac Rhythms during pre-hospital care of Trauma Patients-a retrospective Analysis

Background: Deranged glucose metabolism is frequently observed in trauma patients after moderate to severe traumatic injury, but little data is available about pre-hospital blood glucose and its association with various cardiac rhythms and cardiac arrest following trauma. Methods: We retrospectively investigated adult trauma patients treated by a nationwide helicopter emergency medical service (34 bases) between 2005 and 2013. All patients with recorded initial cardiac rhythms and blood glucose levels were enrolled. Blood glucose concentrations were categorised; descriptive and regression analyses were performed. Results: In total, 18,879 patients were included, of whom 185 (1.0%) patients died on scene. Patients with tachycardia (≥100/min, 7.0 ± 2.4 mmol/L p < 0.0001), pulseless ventricular tachycardia (9.8 ± 1.8, mmol/L, p = 0.008) and those with ventricular fibrillation (9.0 ± 3.2 mmol/L, p < 0.0001) had significantly higher blood glucose concentrations than did patients with normal sinus rhythm between 61 and 99/min (6.7 ± 2.1 mmol/L). In patients with low (≤2.8 mmol/L, 7/79; 8.9%, p < 0.0001) and high (> 10.0 mmol/L, 70/1271; 5.5%, p < 0.0001) blood glucose concentrations cardiac arrest was more common than in normoglycaemic patients (166/9433, 1.8%). ROSC was more frequently achieved in hyperglycaemic (> 10 mmol/L; 47/69; 68.1%) than in hypoglycaemic (≤4.2 mmol/L; 13/31; 41.9%) trauma patients (p = 0.01). Conclusions: In adult trauma patients, pre-hospital higher blood glucose levels were related to tachycardic and shockable rhythms. Cardiac arrest was more frequently observed in hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemic pre-hospital trauma patients. The rate of ROSC rose significantly with rising blood glucose concentration. Blood glucose measurements in addition to common vital parameters (GCS, heart rate, blood pressure, breathing frequency) may help identify patients at risk for cardiopulmonary arrest and dysrhythmias.
Influence of the Determination Methods of K and C Parameters on the Ability of Weibull Distribution to Suitably Estimate Wind Potential and Electric Energy

The modeling of the wind speed distribution is of great importance for the assessment of wind energy potential and the performance of wind energy conversion system. In this paper, the choice of two determination methods of Weibull parameters shows theirs influences on the Weibull distribution performances. Because of important calm winds on the site of Ngaoundere airport, we characterize the wind potential using the approach of Weibull distribution with parameters which are determined by the modified maximum likelihood method. This approach is compared to the Weibull distribution with parameters which are determined by the maximum likelihood method and the hybrid distribution which is recommended for wind potential assessment of sites having nonzero probability of calm. Using data provided by the ASECNA Weather Service (Agency for the Safety of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar), we evaluate the goodness of fit of the various fitted distributions to the wind speed data using the Q – Q plots, the Pearson’s coefficient of correlation, the mean wind speed, the mean square error, the energy density and its relative error. It appears from the results that the accuracy of the Weibull distribution with parameters which are determined by the modified maximum likelihood method is higher than others. Then, this approach is used to estimate the monthly and annual energy productions of the site of the Ngaoundere airport. The most energy contribution is made in March with 255.7 MWh. It also appears from the results that a wind turbine generator installed on this particular site could not work for at least a half of the time because of higher frequency of calm. For this kind of sites, the modified maximum likelihood method proposed by Seguro and Lambert in 2000 is one of the best methods which can be used to determinate the Weibull parameters.
Fertilizer-nitrogen use optimization for Tef in South Wollo Zone of Ethiopia

Tef [Eragrotis tef] is a major staple cereal crop in Ethiopia but yields are low due to inadequate nutrient supply and other constraints. A field study was conducted in 2014 and 2015 in Jamma district of South Wollo Zone of Amhara Region to determine the economic optimum rate of fertilizer-N for tef. Fertilizer-N rates of 0, 23, 46, 69, 92, 115 and 138 kg ha-1 were evaluated. The randomized complete block design with three replications was used. The fertilizer-N rate means fit a quadratic yield response function with R2=0.25**. The maximum mean grain and straw yields were recorded with 138 kg N ha-1 which was not statistically different from the 92 and 115 kg ha-1 N rates. The net economic returns to N were optimized with the 115 and 92 kg ha-1 N rates with respective net benefits of Ethiopian Birr 30508 and 28971 ha-1 and with marginal rate returns of 236 and 288%, respectively. The highest value to cost ratio (VCR) and highest benefit to cost ratio (BCR) of 10.9 and 5.2, respectively were obtained with 46 kg N ha-1. Using the yield response function determined, the profit-maximizing optimal rate of N was found to be 117 kg N ha-1. Therefore, for financially constrained farmers 46 kg N ha-1 is recommended, while for farmers without financial constraints 92 to 117 kg N ha-1 can be recommended for economic optimum return from tef production on the Vertisols in Jamma District and similar agroecologies. Key words: Economic optimum, Jamma district, nitrogen fertilizer, yields response of tef.
Microplastics abundance in four different species of commercial fishes in Bali Strait

Plastic wastes in marine environment will be degraded for long period of time to become microplastics. The small size of microplastics could be ingested by marine species which has lead to harmful impacts not only to the marine species but also to human. This research aimed to investigate microplastics ingestion in four commercial fishes in the Bali Strait, namely largehead hairtail (Trichiurus lepturus), Indian scad (Decapterus ruselli), Bali sardinella (Sardinella lemuru), and Indian mackerel (Rastrelliger kanagurta). Thirty fish samples from each species of fishes were obtained from the fishermen. Microplastics contents were identified visually using microscope from the gastrointestinal tracks of the fish and polymer of microplastics were identified using Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) test. The results showed that three types of microplastics (fiber, film and fragment) were found in the four species of fishes with different total abundances. The highest abundance was found in Bali sardine (7.03±0.49 particle individual-1), followed by Indian mackerel (5.03±0.50 particle individual-1), Indian scad (4.23±0.38 particle individual-1) and largehead hairtail (3.83±0.50 particle individual-1). FTIR test showed that polymer types of microplastic found were polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyamide (PA), polycarbonate (PC), dan polyethylene (PE).
ANALYSIS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF LED AND LASER DIODE WITH CHARGE COUPLED DEVICE (CCD) LINEAR SENSOR MEASURING DIAMETER OF OBJECT

Simple experiment measuring diameter of a solid object (coin) using LED and laser diode with Charge Coupled Device (CCD) linear sensor was conducted in this early stage study. Mostly, CCD and laser diode system are higher in cost because CCD used in industries equipped with an anti blooming protection system to protect the CCD pixel from receiving too high laser light intensities. Low cost atomic laser (Helium: Neon 10:1) with simple modification on light propagation is introduced. Combination of fan beam and parallel beam projection helps to reduce light intensities and expand laser light coverage area. Statistical analyses based on dot plot graph, Anderson Darling test and T-test were applied to choose the best transmitter for Charge Coupled Device (CCD) sensor. Based on T-test results with 95% confidence interval, low intensity laser diode for 5 and 10 cent diameter measurement gave P-value greater than 0.05, accepts laser as the best transmitter compared to LED. Single sensor data for LED and laser used for image reconstruction as an additional approach to prove the above result.
Liquid Water Transport Behavior at GDL-Channel Interface of a Wave-Like Channel

This paper evaluates the liquid water at the gas diffusion layer-channel (GDL-channel) interface of reconstructed GDL microstructures with uniform and non-uniform fiber diameters in wave-like channels. A non-uniform GDL microstructure is reconstructed for the first time at the GDL-channel interface to evaluate droplet motion. The three-layer GDL microstructures are generated using the stochastic technique and implemented using the OpenFOAM computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software (OpenFOAM-6, OpenFOAM Foundation Ltd., London, UK). The present study considers the relationship between reconstructed GDL surfaces with varying fiber diameters, wettability, superficial inlet velocity and droplet size. Results show that the droplet detachment and the average droplet velocity decrease with an increase in the fiber diameter as well as the structural arrangement of the fibers. Under the non-uniform fiber arrangement, the removal rate of water droplets is not significantly improved. However, the choice of smaller fiber diameters facilitates the transport of droplets, as hydrophobicity increases even at slight surface roughness. The results also indicate that the average droplet velocity decreases under low inlet velocity conditions while increasing under high inlet velocity conditions. Therefore, the structural make-up of the GDL-channel interface influences the droplet dynamics, and the implementation of a non-uniform GDL structure should also be considered in the GDL designs.