Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Measuring the vulnerability of Scottish soils to a changing climate

The second Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme (SCCAP) identifies soil health as a priority research area to support sustainable soil management and ecosystem services. This follows concerns over a perceived lack of data or gaps in understanding that have been raised in both independent assessments of the first SCCAP by the Committee on Climate Change. The aim of this study is to summarise previous work on Scottish soils, explore existing datasets, and identify those metrics which could support the monitoring of Scotland’s soil health and measure the vulnerability of Scottish soils to climate change in future.
Research on Manager’s Overconfidence and Enterprise Financial Dilemma: A Case Analysis Based on LeEco company

Most business managers will overestimate their abilities, have greater confidence in the business situation of enterprises, easily overestimate investment returns and underestimate the risks in operation. Such overconfidence will easily lead to radical financial decisions and increase the probability of enterprises falling into financial difficulties. This paper takes the former Star Enterprise LeEco Company as the research object. From the perspective of managers' overconfidence, it takes managers' investment and financing behavior as intermediary variable to explore how managers' overconfidence affects and causes enterprises to fall into financial distress. It is found that managers' overconfidence will make enterprises tend to over-investment and prefer debt financing, and then increase the financial risk of enterprises, and make enterprises fall into financial difficulties. Keywords—LeEco; Overconfidence of managers; Financial
Uso de visualização de dados para auxiliar na análise e pré-processamento de dados categóricos

A quantidade de dados disponíveis sobre diferentes assuntos cresceu muito nos últimos anos, gerando novos desafios para os cientistas de dados e para diversas áreas de pesquisa, tais como mineração e visualização de dados. Com o objetivo de auxiliar na análise e pré-processamento de dados categóricos, esse trabalho propõe a inclusão de duas novas visualizações para dados categóricos à biblioteca Pandas Profiling. A primeira corresponde a um Diagrama de Cordas Bidimensional que possibilita ver a relação entre dados categóricos. A segunda é uma visualização do tipo Display Tabular que permite fazer uma análise de todo conjunto de dados. Estas visualizações visam auxiliar cientistas de dados na etapa de pré-processamento, principalmente com o objetivo de ajudar a entender o volume de dados a ser analisado.
Phytochemical evaluation and in vitro antidiabetic efficiency of isopropanolic leaf extract of pimenta racemosa

The traditional herbal medicines are mainly obtained from plants are used in the management of Diabetes mellitus. The main objective of this work was to assess the presence of phytochemical compounds and to evaluate the in vitro antidiabetic activity of isopropanolic extracts of Pimenta racemosa leaves by studying their α-amylase inhibitory activity and glucose transport across yeast cells. Screening of phytochemicals showed positive results for alkaloids, steroids, cardiac glycosides, terpenoids, reducing sugars, anthraquinones, and results of in vitro α-amylase inhibitory studies demonstrated there was a dose-dependent increase in percentage inhibitory activity by the isopropanolic leaf extracts of Pimenta racemosa. At a concentration of 1 mg/ml, the extract showed a percentage inhibition 33.6 and for 5 mg/ml it was 91.2. The glucose uptake study was also studied through yeast cells by analyzing theamount of glucose remaining in the medium after a specific time intervals. It serves as an indicator for the capability of isopropanolic leaf extracts of Pimenta racemosa to transport the glucose into yeast cells. As a result, we found that the isopropanolic leaf extract of Pimenta racemosa have inhibitory activity against αamylase and also, which is efficient in glucose uptake. This therapeutic potentiality of Pimenta racemosa could be exploited in the treatment of Type 2 Diabetes mellitus. Further studies are also required to elucidate whether the plant have antidiabetic potential by in vivo for corroborating the traditional claim of the plant.
A Human Kinetic Dataset and a Hybrid Model for 3D Human Pose Estimation

Human pose estimation represents the skeleton of a person in color or depth images to improve a machine’s understanding of human movement. 3D human pose estimation uses a three-dimensional skeleton to represent the human body posture, which is more stereoscopic than a two-dimensional skeleton. Therefore, 3D human pose estimation can enable machines to play a role in physical education and health recovery, reducing labor costs and the risk of disease transmission. However, the existing datasets for 3D pose estimation do not involve fast motions that would cause optical blur for a monocular camera but would allow the subjects’ limbs to move in a more extensive range of angles. The existing models cannot guarantee both real-time performance and high accuracy, which are essential in physical education and health recovery applications. To improve real-time performance, researchers have tried to minimize the size of the model and have studied more efficient deployment methods. To improve accuracy, researchers have tried to use heat maps or point clouds to represent features, but this increases the difficulty of model deployment. To address the lack of datasets that include fast movements and easy-to-deploy models, we present a human kinetic dataset called the Kivi dataset and a hybrid model that combines the benefits of a heat map-based model and an end-to-end model for 3D human pose estimation. We describe the process of data collection and cleaning in this thesis. Our proposed Kivi dataset contains large-scale movements of humans. In the dataset, 18 joint points represent the human skeleton. We collected data from 12 people, and each person performed 38 sets of actions. Therefore, each frame of data has a corresponding person and action label. We design a preliminary model and propose an improved model to infer 3D human poses in real time. When validating our method on the Invariant Top-View (ITOP) dataset, we found that compared with the initial model, our improved model improves the mAP@10cm by 29%. When testing on the Kivi dataset, our improved model improves the mAP@10cm by 15.74% compared to the preliminary
Nutritional Status, Development Level, and Psychosocial Function of Preschool Children

Background: Childhood is a critical period of growth and development. Children with malnutrition will cause a decrease in nutritional status so that children become malnourished, it affects physical growth disorders, the quality of intelligence, and future development. Method : This type of research that used in this study was an observational study with a cross-sectional design, The sample of this study were all students of the play group and Kindergarten in Mutiara 17 August Bekasi, totaling 59 children. Result: there was a significant relationship between the history of exclusive breastfeeding and the inci- dence of stunting in Mutiara 17 August Bekasi (p <0.05), there was a significant relationship (p <0.05) between education, employment and foster care of a mother with functions children’s development us- ing the DENVER II instrument. Speech delay in a language development results from the DENVER II test are related to children’s psychosocial functioning (p <0.05). Conclusion : Adequacy of nutrition and history of exclusive breastfeeding contribute to the size of the nutritional status of child growth if nutritional insufficiency continues and it is not handled with care- fully there will be nutritional deficiencies during growth that will affect they development.
Superspace description of trimethyltin hydroxide at T = 100 K

Abstract At low temperatures the metalorganic compound trimethyltin hydroxide, (CH3)3SnOH, possesses a commensurately modulated crystal structure, the modulation wave vector can be described as q = 12c∗. ${\bf{q}}\; = \;{1 \over 2}{{\bf{c}}^ * }. $ The crystal structure is studied by analysing single-crystal X-ray diffraction data within the (3+1)-dimensional superspace approach and superspace group P21212(00γ)00s. The corresponding twofold superstructure has space group symmetry P212121. The structure is characterised by polymeric chains running along c-axis, generated by Sn–O–Sn bridges between neighbouring Sn atoms and packed in a distorted hexagonal pattern and linked via C–H···O interstrand hydrogen bonds along the (orthorhombic) directions [110] and [11̅0], but not along [100].
Properties of Crystal Water of α-, β-, and γ-Cyclodextrin

The water vapor sorption isotherms have been established for α-, β-, and γ-cyclodextrin at 40°C. The powder X-ray diffraction patterns of crystal forms of cyclodextrins stored at various levels of relative humidity (RH) were examined and the results are discussed in terms of the hydration numbers. α-Cyclodextrin hydrate was stable at RH as low as 11%. The water vapor desorption isotherm of β-cyclodextrin showed pronounced hysteresis, which extended to lower RH.The hydrate form of β-cyclodextrin was stable over a wide range of RH in the desorption process, like that of α-cyclodextrin. The crystal form of γ-cyclodextrin 7H2O was obtaiend in addition to the dehydrate form and the 17H2O hydrate form.
Radiolytic syntheses of hollow UO2 nanospheres in Triton X-100-based lyotropic liquid crystals

Abstract Hollow nanospheres (ϕ: 60–80 nm, wall thickness: 10–20 nm), consisted of UO2 nanoparticles (ϕ: 3–5 nm), were successfully prepared in a Triton X-100-water (50:50, w/w) hexagonal lyotropic liquid crystal (LLC) by γ-irradiation, where water soluble ammonium uranyl tricarbonate was added as precursor. The product was stable at least up to 300°C. Furthermore, whether the nanospheres were hollow or not, and the wall thickness of the hollow nanospheres could be easily controlled via adjusting dose rate. While in the Triton X-100 based micellar systems, only solid nanospheres were obtained. At last, a possible combination mechanism containing adsorption, aggregation and fracturing processes was proposed.
Coordinated dispatch of integrated electricity-natural gas system and freight railway network

With the significant development of liquefied natural gas (LNG) rail transport, the railway system is increasingly more closely connected with the integrated electricity-natural gas system (IEGS). To coordinate the economic operations of the two systems, this paper innovatively proposes a coordinated dispatch model of IEGS with LNG infrastructures and a freight railway network with LNG transport. First, an operational scheduling model of the railway network, considering energy consumption, is put forward for both LNG transmission and ordinary freight transport. Then, the coordinated dispatch problem of IEGS and the railway network is formulated into a mixed-integer linear programming model via the big M method and a modified incremental linearization approach. Finally, a bi-level optimization algorithm based on generalized benders decomposition (GBD) is presented to solve the coordinated dispatch problem due to the restrictions on exchanging private information. Case studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model and algorithm as well as the potential benefit for wind power accommodation.
Study of Proportion of HIV in Patients of Malignancy in Tertiary Care Cancer Hospital of Malwa Region of Punjab:A Hospital based Study

Introduction: Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/ AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus. The purpose of this study is to obtain data on the prevalence of HIV in the cancer population and vice versa at a major tertiary cancer in Bathinda and as the HIV population is also growing, the proportion, epidemiology and demographic profile of HIV in cancer patients need to be evaluated. Aims & Objectives:- To estimate the proportion of HIV infection among cancer patients visiting tertiary care hospital in District Bathinda and to study the demographic profile of patients suffering from HIV and cancer as primary outcome and to study the epidemiology of cancer among HIV-infected people as secondary outcome. Materials and Method:- Descriptive cross sectional study in cancer patients coming to tertiary care cancer hospital in Bathinda. Results & Conclusion:- In our hospital based study, we observed low proportion of HIV (0.28%) as well as HIV+ Cancer patients(0.23%). In cancer patients burden of HIV-infection will have implications for current and future cancer risk.
The screening value of mammography for breast cancer : an overview of 22 systematic reviews with evidence mapping (Preprint)

UNSTRUCTURED Several meta-analyses have evaluated the screening value of mammography for breast cancer, but the overall results have remained mixed or inconclusive. Comprehensive literature search was conducted for SRs (systematic reviews) in Chinese Biomedical Databases (CBM), Cochrane Library, EMBASE, and PubMed until July 10, 2020. SRs with meta-analysis reported the benefit and performance of mammography screening were included. Two reviewers independently extracted data and performed the methodological quality assessments using The Risk Of Bias In Systematic Reviews (ROBIS). The characteristics of included SRs, the results of the quality of Risk of bias (RoBs) assessment and the pooled estimates of effect size were descriptively summarized using systematically structured tables and evidence mapping. Twenty two systematic reviews with meta-analysis were included. Only 13.6% of SRs were assessed as low-risk bias according to the overall risk of bias rating results in ROBIS tool. Pooled estimates for a reduction in breast cancer mortality attributable to mammography screening were range from 0.51 (OR, 95% CI: 0.46-0.55) to 1.04 (RR, 95% CI: 0.84-1.27). Sensitivity of difference mammography was ranged from 55% to 91%, specificity of difference mammography was ranged from 84% to 97%. According to the results of included SRs suggested, the statistically significant was observed that digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) increased the cancer detected rate (CDR) and reduced the recall rate compared to digital mammography (DM), DM increased the CDR compared to screen-film mammography (SFM), and add DBT to digital or synthetic mammography increases the sensitivity, specificity, and CDR than DBT alone. Further study should investigate the value of different imaging technology in breast cancer screening.
Risk and impact of using mask on COPD patients with acute exacerbation during the COVID-19 outbreak: a retrospective study

Background：Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease（COPD) is an inflammatory airway disease characterized by the presence of expiratory flow limitation. Exacerbations of COPD are common acute events. During epidemic of COVID-19, concerns have been raised with regard to mask- using because of increasing respiratory resistance. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the relationship between the vital signs , inflammation index, hypercapnia, hypoxia and mask-using in AECOPD patients.Methods：This retrospective study was performed at a tertiary hospital, and enrolled 23 patients with AECOPD who were hospitalized three or more times in the respiratory department. Patients in Group C were hospitalized and used masks during the epidemic period of COVID-19. Patient’s data of the previous two hospitalizations from the medical record system divided into group A and group B according to the time sequence. Vital signs, inflammation index, artery blood gas from medical record system and questionnaires of three hospitalizations in the same patient were collected to perform paired test.Results: Surgical mask using increased the levels of PaCO2 (8.98mm Hg; p = 0.004), HCO3-act (4.1mmol/L; p =0.006), BE (3.01mmol/L; p =0.019) and systolic blood pressure (11.39mm Hg; p = 0.01) in patients with AECOPD compared to last hospitalization. Surgical mask using for 30 to 120 minutes is associated with hypercapnia. There were no significant differences observed between group B and group A without using mask in vital signs, inflammation index, and artery blood gas.Conclusions: In this study, we found that systolic blood pressures and PaCO2, HCO3-act, BE were significantly elevated in AECOPD patients using masks compared to the other groups without masks. In addition，the changes in PaCO2,HCO3-act,BE is closely related to serum chloride concentration. Therefore, it is need to increase awareness and understanding of the use of masks in patients with chronic cardiopulmonary diseases.
Virtual reality and augmented reality create fair education opportunities for refugee children in camps

In this article, it is reported about Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, its impact on the technology world, and change it induced in the digital world. Virtual Reality is the next step in the evolution of technology, changing the face of technology, and whole new experience. Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality changing people’s daily lives and serving the helpless beings on the planet. Hence, helping to improve the educational system, introducing an innovative and compulsive method of teaching, creating new opportunities for helping out the refugee children in refugee children with lesser resources and opportunities. Identifying the current problems in the educational system, virtual Reality, and augmented Reality, providing solutions for the pre-existing problems in the system. Use of VR and AR for students with fewer resources to increase their exposure to the world. Conducting Virtual Reality trips, VR education in refugee camps, and use of VR to reach out to children with no formal education. Use of VR for educational purposes for refugee children and teachers in Turkey, Germany, Syria, Jordan, and all over the globe. Future of VR and AR, its impact on the world in the coming years, providing a completely new experience and visualization of the digital world.
Iguratimod Inhibits Renal Interstitial Fibrosis in Lupus Nephritis

Background: Renal interstitial fibrosis (RIF) is one of the main poor prognostic factors of lupus nephritis (LN). Here, we tested whether iguratimod could inhibit RIF in LN. Methods: MRL/lpr mice, an animal model of lupus, were treated with iguratimod or vehicle solution. Pathological changes of kidney was evaluated blindly by the same pathologist. Renal type I collagen (COL-I), IgG, E-cadherin, fibroblast-specific protein 1 (FSP-1) were detected by immunofluorescence, immunohistochemical staining or quantitative real-time PCR. After treated with transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1) and iguratimod, E-cadherin, fibronectin, Smad2/3, p38 MAPK, p-Smad2/3 and p-p38 MAPK in HK2 cells were measured by western blotting, quantitative real-time PCR or immunofluorescence. Results: In MRL/lpr mice, iguratimod eased the renal interstitial deposition of collagen fibers, further confirmed by decreased expression of COL-I after iguratimod treatment. Moreover, upstream pathological processes of RIF, including IgG deposition along the tubular basement membrane, infiltration of inflammatory cells into renal interstitium and tubular injury, were also prevented effectively by iguratimod treatment. Furthermore, iguratimod suppressed the expression of FSP-1 and raised the expression of E-cadherin in renal tubular epithelial cells, suggesting that iguratimod reversed the process of tubular epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). In HK2 cells induced by TGF-β1, co-treatment with iguratimod not only reversed cellular morphologic change, but also prevented down-regulation of E-cadherin and up-regulation of fibronectin. Finally, iguratimod blocked TGF-β1-induced phosphorylation of Smad2/3 and p38 MAPK in HK2 cells. Conclusions: Our results suggest that iguratimod shows an inhibitory effect on the progress of RIF in vivo and in vitro, so iguratimod may be a potential drug for the treatment of RIF in LN.
The Effect of Leverage, Capital Intensity and Deferred Tax Expense on Tax Avoidance

This research was conducted to determine the simultaneous and partial effect of Leverage, Capital Intensity and Deferred Tax Expense on Tax Avoidance in the automotive subsector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) during 2012-2018. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling. The method of data analysis uses panel data regression analysis using Eviews 10 software by conducting several stages of testing. The results of this study indicate that leverage, capital intensity, and deferred tax expense simultaneously significantly affect tax avoidance. Capital intensity partially has a significant effect on tax avoidance in a negative direction. Meanwhile, leverage and deferred tax expense partially have no significant effect on tax avoidance.
Curcumin and Quercetin Loaded Nanoemulsion: Physicochemical Compatibility Study and Validation of a Simultaneous Quantification Method

Biphasic oily/water nanoemulsions have been proposed as delivery systems for the intranasal administration of curcumin (CUR) and quercetin (QU), due to their high drug entrapment efficiency, the possibility of simultaneous drug administration and protection of the encapsulated compounds from the degradation. To better understand the physicochemical and biological performance of the selected formulation simultaneously co-encapsulating CUR and QU, a stability test of the compounds mixture was firstly carried out using X-ray powder diffraction and thermal analyses, such as differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermogravimetric analyses (TGA). The determination and quantification of the encapsulated active compounds was then required being an essential tool for the development of innovative nanomedicines. Thus, a new HPLC–UV/Vis method for the simultaneous determination of CUR and QU in the nanoemulsions and their evaluation in stability studies in simulated biological fluids was developed and validated. The X-ray diffraction analyses demonstrated that no interaction between the mixture of active ingredients, if any, is strong enough to take place in the solid state. Moreover, the thermal analysis demonstrated that the CUR and QU are stable in the nanoemulsion production temperature range. The proposed analytical method for the simultaneous quantification of the two actives was selective and linear for both compounds in the range of 0.5 – 12.5 µg/mL (R2 &gt; 0.9997), precise (RSD below 3%), robust and accurate (recovery 100 ± 5 %). The method was validated in accordance with ICH Q2 R1 “Validation of Analytical Procedures” and CDER-FDA 2validation of chromatographic methods” guideline. Furthermore, the low detection (LOD &lt; 0.005 µg/mL for CUR and &lt;0.14 µg/mL for QU) and quantification limits (LOQ &lt; 0.017 µg/mL for CUR and &lt; 0.48 µg/mL for QU) of the method were suitable for the application to drug release and permeation studies planned for the development of the nanoemulsions. The method was then applied for the determination of nanoemulsions CUR and QU encapsulation efficiencies (&gt; 99%), as well as for the stability studies of the two compounds in simulated biological fluids over time. The proposed method represents, to our knowledge, the only method for the simultaneous quantification of CUR, and QU in nanoemulsions.