Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Kuznets Curve based Analysis on the Relationship between Economic Growth and Environmental Quality in Beijing

It is well known that the economic growth of big cities may cause risk on the environment, thus it is essential to study the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality. Particularly, this paper establishes the environmental Kuznets curve measurement models between Beijing’s economic growth and environmental pollution levels using 2000-2017 Beijing time series data. Economic development level is measured by GDP per capita. The level of environmental pollution is measured by the discharge of industrial waste water, the discharge of industrial waste gas, the production of industrial solid waste, and the discharge of industrial sulfur dioxide. The empirical results show that the environmental Kuznets curve of Beijing’s economic growth and industrial wastewater discharge has an inverted N-type characteristic. Second, the economic Kuznets curve of Beijing’s economic growth, whether it is related to the amount of industrial exhaust emissions or the amount of industrial solid waste produced, has an inverted U-shaped curve. In addition, the environmental Kuznets curve of Beijing’s economic growth and industrial sulfur dioxide emissions has linear characteristics. Based on the characteristics of these environmental Kuznets curves, this paper finds that there is a relatively good relationship between Beijing’s economic development level and the environment relationship after a comprehensive analysis. On this basis, this paper puts forward the suggestions of Beijing’s environmental Kuznets curve to Beijing’s good environmental level.
Dietary behaviour of pregnant women with anaemia in Bangladesh

In pregnancy a healthy dietary behavior is beneficial for the expecting mother and her fetus. Anemia is one of the most common nutritional deficiency disorders that can be prevented through promoting dietary behavior. The aim of this study is to examine the dietary behavior of pregnant woman with anemia in Bangladesh. A descriptive cross-sectional study design was applied. By using G* Power, 135 pregnant women were purposively recruited from MMCH, Dhaka. Data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, independent t-test and one way ANOVA. Findings showed the mean age of the participants was 25 (SD=4.96) years. Multi gravida was 55.6% and 68.1% reported their medium healthy condition. The average dietary behavior reported 56.03 (SD=6.15) and 67.4% participants’ hemoglobin concentration were within 10-10.9 g/dl. In bivariate analysis, finding showed that anemia has significantly related with age (F = 12.88, p < 001), level of education (F = 2.92, p = .036), income (r = 0.19, p = .027), gravida (F = 5.63, p = .004) health condition (F = 10.89, p < 001). The result of dietary behaviors showed that anemia has positively correlated (r = 0.21, p = .017) with dietary behavior. Dietary behavior is related with some factors, age, low level education, grand multi and primiparous, poor health condition found less hemoglobin concentration indicate as less dietary intake. Monthly income and dietary behavior impact in increasing Hemoglobin concentration. In this regards, maternal nurses might play a vital role for providing nursing intervention to improve pregnant women’s dietary behavior. Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. December 2020, 6(4): 674-682
Conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma in Verruca Vulgaris- A rare case report

Purpose: To report a rare association of conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma with the benign skin condition, Verruca Vulgaris, with the common aetiology being HPV. Case Report: A 30 year-old-male with benign, diffuse, verrucous lesions all over the skin, presented with conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma, involving more than 180 degree of the limbus and cornea was treated successfully with topical chemotherapy without recurrence. HPV infection is the predisposing to both these conditions. Results: The association of Verruca Vulgaris and Conjunctival papilloma has been established to a great degree in literature along with the common etiological factor HPV, and not conjunctival Squamous cell carcinoma, is the peculiarity of this case report. Keywords: Verruca Vulgaris, Conjunctival Squamous Neoplasia, OSSN, Mitomycin -C.
Comparison of diamond nanoparticles captured on the floating and grounded membranes in the hot filament chemical vapor deposition process

Negatively charged diamond nanoparticles are known to be generated in the gas phase of the hot filament chemical vapor deposition (HFCVD) process. However, the structures of these nanoparticles remain unknown. Also, the effect of charging on the stability of nanodiamond structures has not been studied experimentally. Here, by installing a capturing apparatus in an HFCVD reactor, we succeeded in capturing nanoparticles on the floating and grounded SiO, carbon, and graphene membranes of a copper transmission electron microscope grid during HFCVD. We examined the effect of charge on the crystal structure of nanodiamonds captured for 10 s under various conditions and identified four carbon allotropes, which are i-carbon, hexagonal diamond, n-diamond, and cubic diamond, by analyzing 150 d-spacings of ∼100 nanoparticles for each membrane. Nanoparticles captured on the floating membrane consisted mainly of cubic diamond and n-diamond, whereas those captured on the grounded membrane consisted mainly of i-carbon. Diamond particles deposited for 8 h on the floating silicon (Si) substrate exhibited an octahedron shape with well-developed facets, and a high-intensity 1332 cm−1 Raman peak, whereas diamond particles deposited on the grounded Si substrate showed a spherical shape partially covered with crystalline facets with a broad G-band Raman peak. These results indicate that charging stabilizes the diamond structure.
Distributed Cooperative Kinematic Control of Multiple Robotic Manipulators With an Improved Communication Efficiency

An efficiency-oriented solution is theoretically a preferred choice to support the efficient operation of a system. Although some studies on the multimanipulator system share the load of the control center by transforming the network topology, the whole system often suffers an increased communication burden. In this article, a multimanipulator cooperative control scheme with an improved communication efficiency is proposed to allocate limited communication resources reasonably. The entire control process is formulated from the perspective of the game theory, and finally, evolved into a problem of finding a Nash equilibrium with time-varying parameters. Then, a neural network solver is designed to update the strategies of manipulators. Theoretical analysis supports the convergence and robustness of the solver. In addition, Zeno behavior does not occur under the domination of the control strategy. Finally, simulative results reveal that the proposed control strategy has advantages over the traditional periodic control in communication.
Health expenditure and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: an empirical investigation

ABSTRACT In this study, the causal relationship between health expenditure and economic growth is examined using panel data from sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2008–2017. The study decomposes health expenditure into two components: public health expenditure and private health expenditure. In order to establish whether the causal relationship between health expenditure and economic growth depends on a country's level of income, the study divides the studied countries into two groups: low-income countries and middle-income countries. In order to address the omission-of-variable bias, which is associated with some of the previous studies, the study incorporates life expectancy as an intermittent variable between health expenditure and economic growth – thereby creating a system of multivariate equations. Using a panel ECM-based Granger-causality model, the study found that when public expenditure is used as a proxy, a distinct unidirectional causality from health expenditure to economic growth is found to prevail in low-income countries, but no causality is found to exist in middle-income countries. However, when private health expenditure is used, a short-run causality from economic growth to health expenditure is found to prevail in middle-income countries, but no causality is found to exist in low-income countries. Policy implications are discussed.
Rabbit Genetic Resources Can Provide Several Animal Models to Explain at the Genetic Level the Diversity of Morphological and Physiological Relevant Traits

The rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is a unique multipurpose domestic species that has relevant economic impacts in several contexts. This review is focused on rabbit genetic resources that have been mainly bred for the fixation of differentiating features (e.g., exterior traits) that have been already genetically characterized. Several naturally occurring rabbit mutants could be useful as animal models for the investigation of the biological mechanisms determining their characterizing aspects, with translational potentials. A historical overview of the origin of the domesticated rabbit populations and of their genetic differentiation into many breeds is summarized. Then, a detailed analysis of the genetic features that characterize the different breeds is reported, starting from coat color and coat structure affecting genes (MC1R, ASIP, TYR, MLPH, TYRP1, KIT, LIPH, and FGF5), determining major loci described by classical genetic studies. Mutations in these genes have implications in pigmentation features, hair growth, and related defects. Other gene mutations affecting body size or shapes (HMGA2) and other physiological disfunctions (RORB and BCO2) are also described Additional studies are needed to complete the genetic characterization of some of these loci and to investigate the large genetic variability available in fancy breeds and commercial meat and fur lines.
Keeping a Critical Eye on Majority Language Influence: The Case of Uptalk in Heritage Spanish

The goal of this study is to highlight the importance of taking into account variations in monolingual grammars before discussing majority language influence as a possible source of heritage speakers’ divergent grammars. In this study, we examine the production of uptalk in Spanish by heritage speakers of Mexican Spanish in Southern California. Uptalk (i.e., rising intonation contour at the end of a non-question utterance) is frequently associated with California English. Thus, heritage speakers’ use of uptalk is often considered to be influenced from English intonation (i.e., the majority language). Although uptalk in Spanish is not well understood, it has been observed in Mexican Spanish, which calls attention to the importance of investigating uptalk in monolingual Spanish. Using a dyadic interaction task, we obtained spontaneous speech data of 16 heritage speakers and 16 monolingual speakers of Mexican Spanish and compared the phonological and phonetic properties of uptalks produced by the two groups. Our results demonstrated that the heritage speakers and the monolingual speakers produced uptalks with similar frequencies and mainly used L+H* HH% and L* HH% contours. However, the two groups had more differences than similarities. Specifically, heritage speakers’ uptalks presented less dynamic contours and were produced with flatter rises than monolinguals’ uptalks. Heritage speakers’ divergent patterns showed close resemblance with patterns in English, suggesting majority language influence as a valid source of divergence. We discuss possible avenues for future research for a better understanding of the role of majority language influence on heritage Spanish uptalk.
Linking internal and international migration in 13 European countries: complementarity or substitution?

ABSTRACT Internal and international migration form part of the same continuum of population movement but are typically conceptualised, measured and studied separately. Despite early theoretical attempts at conceptualising internal and international migration jointly, existing evidence remains partial and fragmented, reflecting a diversity of traditions in migration research. To address this gap in knowledge, this paper takes a step towards integration by comparing the triggers, constraints and resources that shape internal and international migration decisions at the micro-level. To accomplish this, we analyse retrospective migration histories from a 13-country cross-national dataset (the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, n = 201,061 person-years from 6,112 individuals) using multinomial random-effect logistic regression models that account for duration dependence. The results show that internal and international migration are linked to the same life-course events, although economic-related transitions are more strongly associated with international than internal migration. We also find that the same resources (e.g. education) and constraints (e.g. homeownership) shape internal and international migration decisions. Altogether, our findings suggest that there is an opportunity for greater theoretical cross-fertilisation between internal and international migration.
Non-contact techniques for measuring moisture related properties of Ethylene Vinyl Acetate as a photovoltaic module encapsulant

Polymer based encapsulant materials such as Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA) are commonly used in silicon-based PV modules and play a central role in the structural integrity and hence long term performance of the device. In spite of many advantages, however, water can di! use through them, leading to swelling and chemical degradation that can make the device susceptible to accelerated corrosion and failure. This thesis reports on e! orts to provide novel methodologies to investigate the opto-mechanical response of EVA due to water di! usion and on the quantification of water concentration in deployed PV modules. A novel non-contact time-resolved measurement technique based on Wavelength Scanning Interferometry (WSI) is proposed to determine thickness, refractive index, thickness change and refractive index change in EVA during water uptake. This is preceded by numerical simulations to inform the design of the experimental methodology and setup, such as thickness of EVA layer, maximum surface velocity during measurements, type of data filters to use for data analysis and also for validating the proposed approach. The measured time-resolved thickness profiles provide a unique opportunity to study the swelling behaviour of EVA. Using a novel inversion technique, the hygroscopic expansion coe"cient (HEC) as a function of water concentration is established for the first time. A hygro-mechanical Finite Element model is also developed to predict time-resolved hygroscopic expansion of EVA and compare it with experimental measurements. The hygro-mechanical stress is further studied through a set of deflection tests on EVA-glass bi-material strip specimens immersed in water and intermittently measured with an optical profilometer.
Análise funcional da construção conectora contrastiva “mas olha”

Este artigo tem como objetivo principal investigar o uso da construção conectora “mas olha” no âmbito das relações discursivas do português contemporâneo. Com base nos pressupostos teórico-metodológicos da Linguística Funcional Centrada no Uso, com apoio na Gramática de Construções e nos estudos de coesão textual, analisamos ocorrências de “mas olha” pelo prisma da construcionalidade, em perspectiva sincrônica, como demonstrado em xxx (2019). Os dados são captados em blogues brasileiros do século XXI. Por meio de metodologia qualitativa, a análise dos contextos de uso permite a conclusão de que essa construção conectora foi formada por meio de chunking e de neoanálises sintática e semântica a partir de dois marcadores discursivos pré-existentes. No português, “mas olha” revela-se como um conector marginal, tendo em vista suas propriedades de uso no contexto de relações macrossintáticas, que extrapolam o âmbito do tradicional período composto. Em termos funcionais, atua na coesão sequencial entre proposições no campo das relações contrastivas, especialmente no nível do modus.
Data-Driven Caching With Users’ Content Preference Privacy in Information-Centric Networks

Information-centric networking (ICN) as an emerging networking paradigm has recently gained significant attention, due to the improvement of content delivery efficiency. The built-in network storage for caching is a key component in ICN to provide low latency service and reduce high backhaul traffic by caching popular content. However, users’ content preference contains individual sensitive characteristics which is distinguishable from others. Therefore, in this work, we propose a data-driven caching revenue maximization problem with the considerations of users’ local differential privacy. Specifically, we employ dBitFlip, a local differential privacy (LDP) mechanism, to locally add differential private noise to the users’ preference content information. We leverage data-driven approach to predict the content popularity based on the reference distribution constructed by the reported noisy preference content data from users, mathematically present the distance between the noisy reference distribution and the true distribution by the tolerance level, and prove the relationship among the tolerance level, differential privacy budget and the confidence level. We provide feasible solutions to the proposed revenue maximization problem, and conduct simulations to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
SIGNIFICANCE OF COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT IN RELATION TO OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PRACTICE, AN EXPLORATORY STUDY FOR PAKISTAN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY GUIDELINES

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Cognition is defined as the ability to perceive process and comprehend the information from the surrounding. Impairment in cognitive skills can significantly affect individual’s performance. The objective of the study is to identify the commonly used cognitive assessment tools by occupational therapist and determine its significance in occupational therapy practice. METHODOLOGY A total of 150 participants were enrolled in the cross-sectional survey that was responded by occupational therapist working in pediatric domain specifically in outpatient rehabilitation setting. The self-structured questionnaire was validated by factor analysis through SPSS. RESULTS: The findings of this study revealed that 96% of occupational therapists performed cognitive assessment out of which only 9.6% occupational therapist administer standardized assessments due to incompetency and lack of resources the rest use informal mode of assessments. Mini mental state examination (MMSE) is found to be most common cognitive assessment tool while tools like Loewenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment (LOTCA) is rarely used though it is very significant for Activities of daily living (ADL) cognition CONCLUSION It was concluded that the need of cognitive assessment in pediatric setting is an integral component in occupational therapy process for authentic evaluation and effective intervention plan. The curriculum must promote efficient training of standardize assessment and resources should be provided for better outcome and prognosis.
How to innovate business models for a circular bio‐economy?

Shifting from a linear to a circular bio-economy requires new business models. The objective was getting insights into the uncharted research field of business model innovation for a circular and sustainable bio-economy within the agrifood sector. Eight European cases valorising agricultural waste and by-products by closing loops or cascading were studied regarding their innovation drivers and elements, via interviews, on-site visits and secondary data. In this domain, the findings highlight that business model innovations are depending on the (i) macro-environmental institutional-legal conditions and market trends, (ii) driven by internal economic, environmental and/or social objectives, but especially strongly linked to (iii) other actors often from different sectors seeking synergies and (iv) value co-creation via combined organisational and technological innovations. Business models for a circular bio-economy thus depend on various action levels and need radical combined organisational and technological innovations for a most efficient usage of agricultural waste and by-products. This also means new business configurations instead of linear innovation strategies currently still being dominant due to economic viability.
On the Potential of Taxonomic Graphs to Improve Applicability and Performance for the Classification of Biomedical Patents

A core task in technology management in biomedical engineering and beyond is the classification of patents into domain-specific categories, increasingly automated by machine learning, with the fuzzy language of patents causing particular problems. Striving for higher classification performance, increasingly complex models have been developed, based not only on text but also on a wealth of distinct (meta) data and methods. However, this makes it difficult to access and integrate data and to fuse distinct predictions. Although the already established Cooperate Patent Classification (CPC) offers a plethora of information, it is rarely used in automated patent categorization. Thus, we combine taxonomic and textual information to an ensemble classification system comparing stacking and fixed combination rules as fusion methods. Various classifiers are trained on title/abstract and on both the CPC and IPC (International Patent Classification) assignments of 1230 patents covering six categories of future biomedical innovation. The taxonomies are modeled as tree graphs, parsed and transformed by Dissimilarity Space Embedding (DSE) to real-valued vectors. The classifier ensemble tops the basic performance by nearly 10 points to F1 = 78.7% when stacked with a feed-forward Artificial Neural Network (ANN). Taxonomic base classifiers perform nearly as well as the text-based learners. Moreover, an ensemble only of CPC and IPC learners reaches F1 = 71.2% as fully language independent and straightforward approach of established algorithms and readily available integrated data enabling new possibilities for technology management.
HEI Efficiency and Quality of Life: Seeding the Pro-Sustainability Efficiency

This study assesses the efficiency of higher education institutions (HEIs), considering the social, environmental and cultural factors (pro-sustainability), and at the same time examines how this efficiency can influence regional quality of life (QoL). The study adopts a two-step methodology. In the first step, the standard Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to estimate the efficiency scores of 23 Portuguese public HEIs; and in the second step, a multivariate logit regression is performed to assess the role played by the HEIs’ pro-sustainability efficiency in regional QoL. The main findings reveal that the HEIs located in the Greater Lisbon area have a higher pro-sustainability efficiency, but that efficiency is more significant regarding social factors. Concerning the contribution of pro-sustainability efficiency to the region’s QoL, this is significant for all the components, with the environmental and cultural aspects contributing positively to this significance.