Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
For Practitioner Obesity and Overweight in Children - Epidemiology and Etiopathogeny

In the last few decades, obesity has become one of the most frequent nutritional diseases in the world, resembling a pandemy and being considered the 21 st century disease. At present, one can notice an increased tendency with an epidemic character of obesity and overweight frequency, which came to affect, on a world scale, approximately 20-25% of children and 45-50% of the teenagers. According to a study carried out in 79 countries, WHO estimates that there are 250 million obese people in the world, among which approximately 22 million are children aged less than 5 years. Obesity is a plurifactorial disease, its occurrence supposing multiple interactions among genetic, neuroendocrine, social, behavioral, psychological or a combination of these, metabolic, cellular and molecular factors that lead to changes of the energetic balance.
A Dual-Polarized Magnetoelectric Dipole Array Based on Printed Ridge Gap Waveguide With Dual-Polarized Split-Ring Resonator Lens

In this article, a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1 \times 4$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dual-polarized magnetoelectric (ME) dipole antenna array is proposed. The antenna is excited by a dual-polarized fork-shaped microstrip line based on printed ridge gap waveguide technology. To achieve additional gain, a dual-polarized split-ring resonator (SRR) is designed, which has a mu-near zero (MNZ) feature. This scatterer works as a meta-lens to convert the radiated spherical wave to a plane wave for both polarizations. Integrating four layers of the proposed inclusions on top of the ME dipole antenna results in an increase in the antenna gain by a maximum of 3 dB. The proposed <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1 \times 4$ </tex-math></inline-formula> antenna array was fabricated and tested, and the measured reflection coefficient at Port 1 is less than −10 dB over the frequency band of 28–35 GHz, while the measured realized gain varies from 14.3 to 15.4 dBi, and the measured radiation efficiency varies from 78% to 88%. The measured reflection coefficient at Port 2 for the orthogonal polarization is less than −8 dB over the frequency band of 28–35 GHz, with a measured gain of 14.8–16 dBi, and the measured radiation efficiency varies from 81% to 90%.
‘The object is to change the heart and soul’: Financial incentives, planning and opposition to new housebuilding in England

In 2014 the UK government announced plans to reduce opposition to housing development by making a direct payment to households in England. 1 This was part of a wider experiment with behavioural economics and financial inducements in planning policy. In this paper, we explore this proposal, named ‘Development Benefits’, arguing it offers important insights into how the governing rationality of neoliberalism attempts to govern both planning and opposition to development by replacing political debate with a depoliticised economic rationality. Drawing on householder and key player responses to the Development Benefits proposal we highlight significant levels of principled objection to the replacement of traditional forms of planning reason with financial logics. The paper therefore contributes to understandings of planning as a site of ongoing resistance to neoliberal rationalities. We conclude by questioning whether Development Benefits represent a particular strand of ‘late neoliberal’ governmentality, exploring the potential for an alternative planning rationality to contest the narrow marketisation of planning ideas and practices.
Cryo-EM structures and functional properties of CALHM channels of the human placenta

The transport of substances across the placenta is essential for the development of the fetus. Here, we were interested in the role of channels of the calcium homeostasis modulator (CALHM) family in the human placenta. By transcript analysis, we found the paralogs CALHM2, 4, and 6 to be highly expressed in this organ and upregulated during trophoblast differentiation. Based on electrophysiology, we found that activation of these paralogs differs from the voltage- and calcium-gated channel CALHM1. Cryo-EM structures of CALHM4 display decameric and undecameric assemblies with large cylindrical pore, while in CALHM6 a conformational change has converted the pore shape into a conus that narrows at the intracellular side, thus describing distinct functional states of the channel. The pore geometry alters the distribution of lipids, which occupy the cylindrical pore of CALHM4 in a bilayer-like arrangement whereas they have redistributed in the conical pore of CALHM6 with potential functional consequences.
Determinantal Patch Processes for Texture Synthesis

Because of their repulsive property, determinantal point processes (DPPs) provide an efficient tool to subsample discrete distributions. In this paper, we investigate the use of DPPs to subsample the distribution of patches of a texture image. We show that in a texture model based on optimal transportation, DPP subsampling helps to reach a good compromise between visual quality of the synthesis and execution time.
Ethics and the business of biomedicine

Introduction, 1. Medicine and the market Daniel Callahan 2. Broken promises: do business friendly strategies frustrate just health care? Norman Daniels 3. Are patents an efficient and internationally fair means of funding research and development for new medicines? Paul Menzel 4. The exploitation of the economically disadvantaged in pharmaceutical research disclosure Tom L. Beauchamp 5. The dangers of detailing: how pharmaceutical marketing threatens health care Jason Hubbard 6. The ethics of direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising Denis G. Arnold 7. Industry-funded bioethics and the limits of disclosure Carl Elliott 8. Two cheers for the pharmaceutical industry Richard T. De George 9. The third face of medicine: ethics and business and challenges to professionalism Mary V. Rorty, Patricia Werhane, and Ann Mills 10. Theoretical foundations for an organizational ethics: developing norms for a new kind of health care George Khushf 11. A crisis in medical professionalism: time for Flexner II Daniel Wikler Bibliography Index.
KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND OTHER FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS ENHANCEMENT OF ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE

This study is a step towards understanding more precisely, the other elements contributing towards enhancement of institutional performance of a Public Sector institution set-up to provide training to officers functioning in the central Secretariat. As everyone know that the environment is changing faster nowadays, this change is being propelled by more race, which further putting pressure on the organisation to change the way they do their business. For doing their business efficiently, new things are required to satisfy their customer and to meet the competition. It is pertinent to mention that, in the puzzling times, organization cannot just live but also has to develop. This development is based on two key parts ie clients and personnel. Therefore, we can increase the clients loyalty and increase the business. To meet this requirement, the knowledge and skills of the employees needs to be developed. Receiving the most out of the individuals will lead to superior performance over the period of time. Everyone is expected to perform and also accountable to the clients directly as well as indirectly, due to the changes taking place in terms of their expectation as well as the completion in the market. Those who perform well will survive in the field otherwise they will perish slowly. For survival various aspects are required like knowledge within the organisation and also sharing it with others for larger benefit. In addition to this there are various other factors also contributing to meet the requirement.
Characterisation of a Drosophila model of cardiovascular disease

The heart, as a vital organ, must pump continuously to deliver oxygenated blood to the tissues of the body. The physical stress of pumping is supported by the extracellular matrix (ECM), a dynamic protein scaffold inside and around the heart. While a regulated ECM is required to maintain heart function, aberrant or excessive ECM remodelling, called fibrosis, is associated with disease states and is a hallmark of cardiovascular disease. One major trigger of cardiovascular disease is obesity, and fibrotic remodelling is known to occur in this context. In order to study the impact of increased body size on heart function and the molecular and biophysical characteristics of the ECM, a larval overgrowth model for obesity in the genetic model Drosophila melanogaster has been developed and characterised. This model produces giant larvae twice as heavy as their wildtype counterparts, and allows a unique opportunity to study changes in the cardiac ECM in a simple genetic model. Results demonstrate a remarkable ability of the ECM to accommodate this increase in size. The muscles of the heart are particularly robust, and there are no obvious observable defects to the matrix. Preliminary results suggest Collagen fibres are thicker and more disperse. When observing heart functionality, the cross-sectional area of the heart lumen is increased significantly in giant larvae, both at diastole and systole. However, giant larvae display defects in contraction of the heart tube, characterised by an inability to contract fully at systole. This results in a less than proportional increase in stroke volume, and an increase in heart rate. Heart function of giant larvae is clearly affected by the increase in body size. To quantify the impact to the biophysical structure of the ECM, an atomic force microscopy protocol is being developed.
Power management for spectrum sharing in cognitive radio communication system: a comprehensive survey

The underlay spectrum access is a very prominent technique in cognitive radio (CR) communication systems in which the primary users (PUs) share the spectrum with the cognitive users (CUs), simultaneously. However, the PU communication is protected by constraining the CUs' transmission power in such a way that the interference power introduced at the PU receiver is under the tolerable limits. In this comprehensive survey, we have presented the general framework of CR communication technology and emphasized on the spectrum accessing and sharing techniques. Various approaches of the optimal power allocation to CUs, namely, the game theory, price auction, convex optimization and iterative water-filling are presented. Moreover, to address the random nature of channel, the performance metrics analysis with the perfect and imperfect channel state information is also illustrated. Finally, the potential issues and research challenges for power management in the CR communication systems are presented which need to be explored.
Reconfigurable Model Predictive Control for Articulated Vehicle Stability With Experimental Validation

This article proposed a reconfigurable control scheme for articulated vehicles’ stabilization by leveraging optimization-based control techniques. The central objective is to maintain a good lateral and yaw stability of the vehicle with optimal corrective brakes, meanwhile applicable to different actuation configurations. This is achieved by a two-layer control structure, where the high-level controller formulates as a model predictive control (MPC) tracking problem to generate corrective center-of-gravity (CG) yaw moment of each unit. The lower level controller utilizes the control allocation (CA) algorithm with real-time constraints to optimally calculate differential brakes at each wheel with maximum utilization-of-tires capacity. To evaluate its real-time performance, experimental validation is carried out on the electrified tractor-trailer with selective differential braking systems. It is observed that the controller is effective in dynamics control, meanwhile reconfigurable to various actuation configurations. Furthermore, the proposed system has great potential in production tractor-trailer systems due to the low cost and number of sensor requisites.
Project-Based Learning: Enhancing EFL Students’ Speaking Skill through Vlog

Abstract: The purpose of this classroom action research is to enhance the students’ speaking skill using Project-Based Learning through Vlog and looking at their speaking performance in the teaching learning process using PBL through Vlog. Eleven students of vocational students in Indonesia were taken as research subject exposed to the treatment of PBL through Vlog in one cycle. The result of this study showed that after the students were taught by using PBL through Vlog, the eleven students successfully met the criteria of success. The use of PBL through Vlog enhanced the students’ fluency, grammatical accuracy, pronunciation, vocabulary, and content.Abstrak: Tujuan dari penelitian tindakan kelas ini adalah keterampilan berbicara menggunakan Project-Based Learning melalui pembelajaran dan proses belajar mengajar menggunakan PBL melalui Vlogs. Sebelas siswa siswa kejuruan di Indonesia diambil sebagai subjek penelitian untuk pengobatan PBL melalui Vlog dalam satu siklus. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa siswa terpenuhi oleh kriteria kesuksesan. Penggunaan PBL melalui Vlog meningkatkan kelancaran siswa, akurasi tata bahasa, pengucapan, kosa kata, dan konten.
SEVERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MEDIATION IN CRIMINAL FIELD IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOSOVO

Mediation is a type of alternative procedure that enables the resolution of a criminal case outside of court proceedings. This procedure has been regulated by a special law, and is applicable to various fields of law. The locus of this scientific paper shall exclusively be mediation in the criminal field. The Criminal Procedure Code of Kosovo, in addition to standard criminal proceedings, has outlined the “Alternative Procedures” of criminal case resolution including: Mediation; Provisional Suspension of Procedure; Conditions when criminal prosecution is not mandatory; Plea Agreement; Acquittal from Punishment; The announcement of defendant as “Cooperative Witness” as well as Diversion. Mediation as an alternative procedure in the criminal field is distinguished by several characteristics which make this procedure very efficient in comparison to standard criminal procedure. These include: the resolution of a criminal case without going to court; the possibility of improving a perpetrator’s behavior by applying non-criminal measures; reconciliation and peace-building between the parties; the economization of expenditures and time; and many other benefits. The modest results of this scientific paper indicate that mediation has several advantages which make it an efficient criminal case resolution mechanism. It is therefore encouraged to increase the level of its application in the criminal field, as it represents the most productive mechanism for resolving light criminal cases.
Optimization of K Value at the K-NN algorithm in clustering using the expectation maximization algorithm

Data is the most important thing in a study. The quality of the results of the research will be directly proportional to the quality of the data that will be used in the research is concerned. One of the problems that exist in the data set is the absence of a value in the data for a particular attribute or better known as the missing data. One method that is often used by researchers is the k-nearst Neighbor (KNN). However, this method has several drawbacks, one of which is the selection of appropriate values of k not to degrade the performance of the classification. In the process of calculating the parameters k KNN there that can affect the accuracy of the classification results. To use more than one parameter k then used by majority voting to determine the classification results. If the parameter k in KNN classification used 1 then the result was very tight because it will use the nearest neighbor to the results of the classification. Conversely, if the value of the parameter k used KNN is great then the classification results will blur.This research will optimize the parameters k in the UN tax cluster using the algorithm expectation Maximation(EM). The results of the research in the form of clustering information by using the number of clusters k value optimization and the number of clusters without using the optimization of the value k. Then analysis the results after getting data already clustered. Results from the study showed that k obtained from the optimization algorithm can improve the results of the cluster where the 66% error can be reduced to 64%, yet very close to the best result of the measurement accuracy is tested.
NARX-NN MODEL OF 2-DOF ROBOT ARM DYNAMICS DRIVEN BY FLUIDIC MUSCLES

The article contains the results of identification of manipulator arm dynamics that is driven by pneumatic artificial muscles (specifically, fluidic muscles). The NARX architecture model - a multilayer perceptron network (MLP model) was selected for identification. Simulations were realized using MATLAB, especially with use the System Identification Toolbox. The simulation results were tracked at 3 different delays for the upper and lower axis of the manipulator separately. The NRMSE criterion (Normal Root Mean Square Error) serves to compare simulation results by comparing output of simulations and measured output data.
Numerical Analysis of Turn-to-Turn Short Circuit Current Mitigation for Concentrated Winding Permanent Magnet Machines With Series and Parallel Connected Windings

Due to its high power density, the fractional slot concentrated winding permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) is a competitive candidate for the aircraft starter generator (SG) system. However, the short circuit (SC) fault, especially the turn-to-turn SC fault, is the obstruct crux in aviation applications. The turn-to-turn SC current can be restricted to a permissible level with higher reactance and the current injection mitigation method. However, higher self-inductance always leads to lower power density. So far, there have been no numerical criteria for the tradeoff between the two characteristics in machine design. In this article, an analytical model based on flux distribution is used to estimate the SC current. The effectiveness of the d-axis current injection mitigation method is numerically analyzed in the series and parallel connected windings individually. The requirement for PMSMs to survive the turn-to-turn SC fault is derived. The mathematical analysis is verified by finite-element analysis and experiments on a 12-slot, 10-pole PMSM. This article provides theoretical support for designing high-performance permanent magnet starter generator (PMSG) with SC current mitigation ability for the aviation power system.
OP TICAL DENSITY OF CORTICAL BONE MATRIX IS DIMINISHED IN EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED OSTEOPOROSIS

Osteoporosis is characterized by low bone mineral density (BMD) and abnormalities in bone structural and material properties, with unexplained low trauma fractures. The aim of the present study was to quantify the optical density of cortical bone matrix in rats with experimentally induced osteoporosis by ovariectomy. The experimental group was divided in two equal subgroups, the first sacrificed in the third month after ovariectomy and second sacrificed in the fifth month after ovariectomy. After decalcification, on routinely stained histopathologic sections optical density (OD), standard deviation of OD, mode OD, minimal and maximal OD of cortical bone matrix were estimated. Mean optical density and mode optical density of cortical bone were statistically higher in the control than in the experimental group (p<0.05). Maximal optical density of cortical bone was significantly lower in rats three months after ovariectomy than in other groups. Obtained results indicate that in experimentally induced osteoporosis the optical density of cortical bone matrix is diminished, similarly to low bone mineral density. Acta Medica Medianae 2016;55(2):35-39.
Apolo: Versão Digital de um Jogo de Tabuleiro para Apoio ao Ensino na Educação Básica

Good learning requires the interest and motivation of the student to learn. Traditional learning methods do not seem enough for such engagement, and so games are relevant teaching strategies. In this context, we propose the development of a digital game inspired by the Brazilian classic board game, known as “ Perfil ”. As a methodology, Progressive Web Apps, and a case study in Geography subject is used for high school students. As a result, the game is already available to the public in beta version, and preliminary assessments of students and teachers indicate good acceptance. Resumo. Uma boa aprendizagem requer interesse e motivação do aluno para aprender. Os métodos tradicionais de aprendizado não parecem suficientes para tal engajamento e por isso os jogos são relevantes estratégias de ensino. Nesse contexto, este trabalho propõe o desenvolvimento de um jogo digital inspirado no clássico jogo de tabuleiro “Perfil”. Como metodologia, adota-se Progressive Web Apps e o estudo de caso na área de Geografia, com alunos do Ensino Médio. Como resultados, o jogo já está disponı́vel ao público em fase beta, e as avaliações preliminares de alunos e professores indicam boa aceitação. 1. Introdução A falta de motivação dos alunos aos estudos é um dos fatores que dificulta o processo de aprendizagem em sala de aula. Pesquisas mostram que, entre 2016 e 2017, aumentou o número de jovens brasileiros, entre 15 e 29 anos, que não estavam na escola ou no trabalho, chegando a 25,1 milhões. Entre as razões identificadas, 20,1% desses jovens mencionaram a falta de interesse aos estudos [PNAD 2018]. Logo, manter o engajamento dos estudantes é uma temática desafiadora nas escolas e os professores têm discutido cada vez mais estratégias para tornar as atividades letivas mais agradáveis. Os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCN) e as Orientações Curriculares Nacionais (OCN) evidenciam que o ensino deve ser trabalhado em sala de aula de forma mais dinâmica e divertida, mudando o paradigma da aula tradicional e desenvolvendo a capacidade afetiva e as relações interpessoais, permitindo ao aluno colocar-se no ponto de vista do outro, refletindo, assim, sobre os seus próprios pensamentos. No Ensino Médio, especificamente, os PCN consideram importante a diversificação dos recursos e materiais didáticos tais como experimentos, dinâmicas, software e jogos [BRASIL. Ministério da Educação. Secretaria de Educação Média e Tecnológica 2002]. DOI: 10.5753/cbie.sbie. 2019.873 873 Anais do XXX Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (SBIE 2019) VIII Congresso Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (CBIE 2019)