Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Electrorheological Properties of Polypyrrole–Silver Composite Particles

Polypyrrole–silver (PPy–Ag) composite particles were synthesized by an oxidation of pyrrole with mixture of ammonium peroxydisulfate and silver nitrate. The molecular structure of PPy was assessed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy while the presence and amount of Ag was confirmed by X-ray diffraction analysis and thermogravimetric analysis, respectively. The scanning electron microscopy further revealed that the incorporation of Ag into PPy did not change the particles size and shape. Although the Ag presented in the composite particles increased their conductivity in one order of magnitude, the electrorheological (ER) performance did not change significantly above 63 wt. % of Ag, which was still below the percolation, compared to that of pure PPy. Moreover, it appeared that this amount of Ag improved the compatibility of dispersed particles with silicone oil used as a carrier liquid in ER suspensions. Furthermore, a faster interfacial polarization of PPy–Ag composite particles was observed from dielectric spectra. Key-Words: Electrorheological suspensions, intelligent system, polypyrrole, silver, deprotonation, conductivity
Learning Mechanics Principles by Playing Sport

Most of high-school students have typically lower assimilation of the basic concepts of mechanics in comparison with other subjects which are closer to their daily life. In addition, the technical language fairly used in mechanics lessons is far away from their common vocabulary, thus generating estrangement and lack of interest. On the other hand, high-school students are in general attracted and familiarized with sports and sports terminology. The idea hereby proposed is trying to get high-school students closer to mechanics by integrating concepts of mechanics and technical language in their sport activities. In this work, an innovative experimental and demonstrative pedagogical methodology is described. The methodology is based on two main pillars: embracing concepts while playing and normalizing technical language during pleasant moments. The work provides several activities descriptions and procedures as well as suggestions of technical language, uses to mechanics and sports high-school teachers in order to achieve a better inclusion of mechanics in high-school students.
I. PENDAHULUAN MKM berkembang sangat cepat dalam kurun waktu belakangan ini. Berbagai bentuk UMKM tumbuh dengan sendirinya tanpa perlu bimbingan dari suatu lembaga. Fasilitas serta ilmu untuk menjalakan UMKM dapat ditemukan pada berbagai sarana. Pemanfaatan teknologi menjadi tantangan tersendiri bag

Usage of Technology should have become a strategy to the micro-enterprise’s businessman to do their business. With support from many rules and facilities from the government or private companies, the businessman should be able to take advantage of technology as well according to their business’s needs. Fintech become a financial services that can help them to make payment transactions with the promised benefit. In fact, many factors that can support or become the obstacle them to while use this technology. Adaptive Structuration Theory can be used to search for these factors, so that a conclusion can be found for various party involved in the use of this technology.
GREEN 2018 Proceedings

Energy is a strategic sector in France. The concept of energy transition has favored the development of renewable energies. In the traditional energy model, a few large groups, resulting into an oligopoly situation, control the market. Systems based on renewable energies, on the other hand, can be deployed in a decentralized way. The concept of Renewable Energy Ecosystem (REE) is then relevant in order to think about the transition. This emerging ecosystem relies heavily on innovation, including start-ups. However, the risks posed by innovation and technology are significant; they favor start-up failures and limit the investments of venture capitalists and business angels in the ecosystem. We propose the principles of a risk assessment approach related to innovation, which takes into consideration the characteristics of the ecosystem, the role of economic models, and finally, the role of digital in accelerating the energy transition. KeywordsEcosystems; Renewable Energies; Ecosystem Model; Risk indicators; Evaluation of Innovation.
Driving Factors and Implementation Mechanisms for Quality Assurance in the Spanish PhD Adaptation to the Bologna Process – Experience in Mechanical Engineering

The Bologna Process (BP) intends to create a European Higher Education area through the compatibility of degrees in the signatory countries, which has supposed that Universities adapt its studies programmes at all academic levels. In Spain, changes in doctoral studies are structured around five topics: the creation of doctoral schools, competences, tutoring and supervision, collaboration and internationalization, doctoral programmes and duration of studies. This paper analyses how this change have been dealt with in the department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Zaragoza and the implications in number of students and thesis presented. The results show that the adaptation to the BP has supposed a quality assurance of the doctoral programme as a consequence of the training activities requirements set by the Academic Committee. The main contribution of the research work is that it reflects how greater control over the drivers of doctoral programmes implies a substantial improvement in the quality of the research work and the thesis.
Resveratrol Plays Protective Roles on Kidney of Uremic Rats via Activating HSP70 Expression

Objective To investigate the protective effects of resveratrol on kidney of uremic rats and to explore whether the mechanism is associated with heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) expression. Methods Sixty male Sprague Dawley rats were randomly separated into 5 groups, including sham group, uremic model group, and different doses of resveratrol group (5 mg/kg, 10 mg/kg, and 20 mg/kg). The serum creatinine (Cr) and urea nitrogen (BUN) levels were detected by Automatic Biochemical Analyzer (ABA). The pathological changes of renal tissues and the renal interstitial fibrosis were analyzed by hematoxylin-eosin (HE) and Masson, respectively. The expression of HSP70 protein in renal tissues was detected by immunohistochemistry. The expression of HSP70 and NF-κB pathway-related proteins were detected by Western blot. To further validate the protective role of resveratrol through activating HSP70 in uremic rats, HSP70 activator (17-AAG) and HSP70 inhibitor group (MKT-077) were used. Results In the model group, the levels of Cr and BUN in serum were significantly increased, and the renal interstitial collagen deposition was also obviously increased (p < 0.05). Compared with the model group, the levels of Cr and BUN in different doses of resveratrol groups were remarkably declined, and the renal interstitial collagen deposition was declined (p < 0.05). Resveratrol also significantly improved the renal tissue lesions when compared with the model group. In renal tissues, different doses of resveratrol treatment remarkably raised HSP70 and p-IκBα expression and also remarkably declined the level of p-P65 protein (p < 0.05). Meanwhile, the effect of 17-AAG was similar to 20 mg/kg resveratrol on NF-κB pathway-related proteins expression. After the added MKT-077 in the resveratrol treatment group, the levels of HSP70 and p-IκBα in the renal tissue were remarkably declined; however, the levels of p-P65 protein was remarkably raised (p < 0.05). Conclusion Resveratrol played a protective role on the kidney of uremic rats through activating HSP70 expression.
Outcome of Parotid Gland Surgery in Terms of Complications Especially the Facial nerve Palsy at Mayo Hospital, Lahore

Objectives: Parotid gland surgery is the second most frequently performed endocrine surgery at our hospital after thyroid surgery. The objectives of our study was to see the incidence of the complications in patients especially the facial nerve weakness and palsy with respect to gland size. Methods: This is a descriptive study conducted retrospectively at South Surgical Unit, Mayo Hospital, Lahore. We operated upon 22 patients for parotid gland tumors with varying gland sizes. Results: Our study shows that 16 out of 22 patients were males and 6 were females. Around 45.5% of the patients had tumor between 3-4 cm and had the most complications and in the second group of patients 27.3% (6 patients) had complications and tumor size was more than 4 cm. The patients who had tumor size less than 3 cm virtually having negligible complications. Conclusion: The size of the parotid gland is an important predictive factor for the occurrence of complications in the parotid surgery.
Self-mention Markers and their Rhetorical Functions in Dentistry Research Articles: A Corpus-based Study of Intradisciplinary Variations within Seven Dentistry Subdisciplines

Research on intradisciplinary variations in self-mention marker use in research articles (RAs) in dentistry subdisciplines is lacking. The present study investigates self-mention markers used in each of the seven dentistry subdisciplines (oral sciences, periodontics, endodontics, pediatrics, prosthodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, and orthodontics), sections of RAs that employ more self-mention devices in each of the seven dentistry subdisciplines, and common rhetorical realizations of first-person pronouns in the seven dentistry subdisciplines. The analytical framework was primarily based on Hyland’s (2003) four rhetorical functions of self-mentions in RAs. The findings showed the lack of qualitative and quantitative intradisciplinary variations across six of the seven dentistry subdisciplines. The first-person plural pronouns “we” and “our” were the most frequently employed self-mention devices in the Discussion section of RAs. Authors in the periodontics subdiscipline preferred to retain an objective stance through the use of passive constructions, abiding by the conventional norms of academic writing that restrict them. The findings also revealed that explaining a procedure and stating findings/claims were the most frequent realizations associated with the use of self-mention devices, with the exception of periodontics RAs that employed passive constructions instead. The findings contribute to the fields of discourse and genre studies as well as ESP/EAP courses. They may have implications for dentistry RA writing and teaching. An awareness of more frequently used self-mentions in dentistry RAs and their rhetorical functions can help English dentistry scholars successfully produce RAs in line with the academic writing norms of each subdiscipline.
Measuring Interpersonal and Institutional Trust in the Context of a Democratic Educational Policy in Campinas City, Brazil

Since the 1980 trust has been conceived as a relational or organizational resource that leads to ‘organizational effectiveness’ and ‘orientation towards innovation’ through strengthening cooperation in the school-level. We sought to investigate how this concept is shaped in the context of a Brazilian municipal education system where a Participatory Institutional Evaluation policy is taking place. Considering trust as a result of social relations pervaded by respect, personal regard, recognition, integrity, competence and support, a Likert Trust Scale was built embracing the following relational settings: teachers teachers; teachers management team; teachers parents; teachers Municipal Department of Education. It was applied to 559 teachers from thirty municipal schools and submitted to face, content and statistical validation. We show the final structure of the Scale with the retained items which met very satisfactorily the criteria of statistical validity. We discuss the findings in the light of quantitative and qualitative data brought from field ethnography coupled with theoretical reflections motivated by the theories of recognition and communicative action. It allows us to acknowledge the shortcomings of the existing theories on trust in schools, pointing to the need for future investigations to pay closer attention to the way interpersonal and institutional trust is attached to the aims of social justice and enables the collective construction of negotiated social goals for education. By doing so, trust can be a valuable asset for democratic modes of regulation to flourish as an alternative to vertical accountability reforms.
Survival Outcome and Its Predictors for Treated Patients with Glioblastoma Multiforme-A Single Centre Retrospective Study

Background: Glioblastoma multiforme is the most aggressive form of primary brain tumour with a median survival 1 year. Aim: To assess the survival outcome and predictive factors for theglioblastoma multiforme patients who were treated with combined modality approach. Methods and materials: We have analyzed retrospectively 30 patients of Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) diagnosed and treated in our oncology department during the period of March 2014 to March 2017. Inclusion criteria for this study was biopsy proven GBM patients who underwent maximal safe resection and postoperative chemoradiotherapy. Data regarding age, gender, histopathology, extent of surgery, performance status, radiotherapy and chemotherapy details were collected. Kaplan meier analysis was used to find out the median survival of the patients. Both univariate and multivariate analysis were done to assess the predictive factors for survival by using Cox regression model. Results: The median survival time for patients with GBM is 4.1months. Both univariate and multivariate analysis showedperformance status had significant impact over the survival. (p=0.01,0.002 respectively). Patients who had completed full dose of radiotherapy showed a trend towards better survival in multivariate analysis(p=0.09). Conclusion: Despite multimodality aggressive management, survival of patients with newly diagnosed GBM is poor. Predictive factors will help to identify the subgroup of patients with better survival.
Risk Factors Affecting Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis in Surakarta and Ngawi, Indonesia

Background: The success rate of Tuberculosis treatment in Indonesia decreased by 81.3% in 2014, which below the 85% target. The current increasing problem in the developing world is multidrug resistance of Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Many factors may contribute to MDR-TB. At the individual level these factors may include adherence to medication, perception of vulnerability, seriousness, benefit, barrier, and nutritional status. At the institutional level these factors may include the availability of drugs and implementation of DOTS program. This study aimed to analyze factors that affect MDR-TB in Surakarta and Wonogiri district, Central Java, Indonesia. Subjects and Method: This was an observasional analytic study with case control design. It was carried out in August-October 2016 in Surakarta and Ngawi, Indonesia. A total of 120 patients were selected by fixed disease sampling. Another sample of 44 health workers was also selected for the study. The endogenous variables: adherence, nutritional status, and implementation of the treatment of DOTS. The exogenous variables: perception of vulnerability, seriousness, benefits, barriers, the availability of anti Tuberculosis drugs. The data was collected by questionnaire and analyzed by path analysis. Results: Nutritional status (b=-2.98; 95% CI =-5.31 to -0.64; p = 0.012), adherence to anti Tuberculosis drugs (b=-3.38; 95% CI =-5.94 to -0.82; p = 0.010), treatment with DOTS for MDR TB (b=-0.88; 95% CI = 1.43-3.18 ; p = 0.456) were associated with MDR-TB. Perceived vulnerability (b= 2.81; 95% CI= 0.99 to 4.64; p = 0.003), seriousness (b=4.47; CI 95% = 2.38 to 6.57; p 0.001), benefits (b= 3.4; CI 95%= 1.52 to 5.18; p=0.001), barriers (b =-1.81; 95% CI=-3.48 to -1.39; p=0.034), as well as availability of DOTS treatment (b = 3.14; CI 95% = 0.95 to 5.32; p = 0.002), were associated with adherence to treatment. Conclusion: Nutritional status, adherence to treatment, implementation of DOTS strategy for MDR-TB affect the risk of MDR TB. Perceived vulnerability, seriousness, benefit, and barrier, as well as availability of DOTS treatment, affect adherence to treatment. Partnership between patients and health care personnel is recommended to increase the success of TB treatment. Keywords: tuberculosis, risk factor, MDR-TB, adherence to treatment Correspondence:Â Novi Indah Aderita. Polytechnic of Health Sciences Bhakti Mulia, Sukoharjo, Central Java Email: adherita_alhaniin@yahoo.com Journal of Health Promotion and Behavior (2016), 1(2): 86-99 https://doi.org/10.26911/jepublichealth.2016. 01.02. 02 Â
“Challenging public rhetoric justifying immigrants as ‘indecent’”

Abstract Elites employ various rhetorical strategies in public discourse, including on the topic of immigration. As such, those with influence rely on storytelling to shape views about the narratives related to immigrants as a minority out-group. This has significant consequences, particularly in areas of policy development. Policy shapers have isolated immigrant groups by creating certain ideologically derived criteria well beyond citizenship for them to eventually receive “full American” status. Further, such status first has required immigrants to unduly prove their “worthiness” as exceptional—like being extra hardworking and very law abiding. Our essay seeks to show how foundational rhetoric is often intentionally chosen in order to categorize immigrants as inherently different and intrinsically inferior. As an alternative, we propose a pragmatically conceived model of discourse for the practice of public rhetoric that redescribes immigrant narratives as one of belonging and inclusion. To this end, we draw on examples of how rhetoric, informed by Richard Rorty, has sought to emphasize this-worldly commonalities rather than metaphysical abstractions about similarity or difference. Pragmatism prevents the philosophical justification of cruel acts endured by immigrants, both in indecent rhetoric and wrong-headed public policy, while simultaneously enlarging the definition of “one of us,” in part by reconceiving the notion of democratic loyalty.
Design and Performance Analysis of 1 bit Full Adder in 45nm Technology Using Multiplexer Based GDI Logic

: This paper proposes a new method for implementing a low power full adder by multiplexer based Gate Diffusion Input (GDI) and Pass Transistors using 90nm and 45nm technology. Full adder is a very common example of combinational circuits and is used widely in Application Specific Integrated Circuits. It is always advantageous to have low power action for the sub components used in VLSI chips. The explored technique of realization achieves a low power high speed design for a widely used subcomponent full adder. Simulated outcome using state-of-art simulation tool shows power and speed comparison between conventional and proposed full adders also presented. All simulations have been performed on 90nm and 45nm standard models on Tanner EDA tool.
Cancerous Masses Segmentation by Using Heuristic Ant Colony Algorithms in Medical Images

—The implementation of operators known as edge detection in medical images at times lead to elicitation of unimportant or inaccurate information as to the target spot in the image. In the compressed images and the ones with noise, edge detection accuracy reduces. In this paper, the technique of edge detection of medical images based on ant colony algorithm is introduced. By dispatching ants to the image pixels and relying on edge specifications, the pheromones matrix is formed which contains information related to the damaged tissue. Receiving 220 medical images composed of 90 retina images taken from diabetic patients, 80 MRI images as well as 50 microscopic images taken from various medical databases and applying system to them in contrast to such known operators as Canny and Sobel, an acceptable level of accuracy 94.90%, sensitivity 94.16% and specificity 94% was separated in the target area from the rest of image. The 88.79% Kappa coefficient indicates the high reliability factor of system in terms of performance. The application of this system to tissue imaging systems not only increases the accuracy of detection, but also steps up the process speed to a large extent. Reduced expenses, cost savings in long term and non-destructive quality of this system are the main distinguishing features of this system. 
Analysis Of Visual Inspection By Acetic Acid And Lugols Iodine Positive Cervical Biopsies In A Tertiary Care Centre In South India

Background: Cervical cancer is the commonest cancer among the females of developing countries. Before evolving into cancer, the cervical epithelium undergoes a series of dysplastic changes. Simple screening techniques done even in low resource setting will detect the lesion thereby facilitating early management. Nevertheless, these screening techniques not only detect the premalignant and malignant lesions but also the non-neoplastic lesions Aims and objectives:To categorize the VIA/VILI (Visual Inspection with Acetic acid / Visual Inspection with Lugols Iodine) positive cervical lesions Settings and design:The cervical biopsies of VIA/VILI positive cases were analyzed in the Department of Pathology in Kanyakumari Government Medical College for a period of one year. Materials and methods: It is a descriptive study Results: The results were tabulated using percentage. The most common histopathological pattern observed was chronic cervicitis followed by Low grade Squamous Intra Epithelial lesion. Conclusion:Screening tests coupled with cervical biopsy remains the gold standard method for detecting the premalignant, malignant and non-neoplastic lesions.
Multimodal Therapeutic Effects of Neural Precursor Cells Derived from Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells through Episomal Plasmid-Based Reprogramming in a Rodent Model of Ischemic Stroke

Stem cell therapy is a promising option for treating functional deficits in the stroke-damaged brain. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are attractive sources for cell therapy as they can be efficiently differentiated into neural lineages. Episomal plasmids (EPs) containing reprogramming factors can induce nonviral, integration-free iPSCs. Thus, iPSCs generated by an EP-based reprogramming technique (ep-iPSCs) have an advantage over gene-integrating iPSCs for clinical applications. However, there are few studies regarding the in vivo efficacy of ep-iPSCs. In this study, we investigated the therapeutic potential of intracerebral transplantation of neural precursor cells differentiated from ep-iPSCs (ep-iPSC-NPCs) in a rodent stroke model. The ep-iPSC-NPCs were transplanted intracerebrally in a peri-infarct area in a rodent stroke model. Rats transplanted with fibroblasts and vehicle were used as controls. The ep-iPSC-NPC-transplanted animals exhibited functional improvements in behavioral and electrophysiological tests. A small proportion of ep-iPSC-NPCs were detected up to 12 weeks after transplantation and were differentiated into both neuronal and glial lineages. In addition, transplanted cells promoted endogenous brain repair, presumably via increased subventricular zone neurogenesis, and reduced poststroke inflammation and glial scar formation. Taken together, these results strongly suggest that intracerebral transplantation of ep-iPSC-NPCs is a useful therapeutic option to treat clinical stroke through multimodal therapeutic mechanisms.