Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Road Markings and Their Impact on Driver Behaviour and Road Safety: A Systematic Review of Current Findings

As part of the traffic control plan, road markings form the traffic surface and provide visual guidance for road users. Since their first application to the present day, road markings have become a common element of road infrastructure and one of the basic low-cost safety measures. The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic review of the most significant academic activities to date regarding the influence of longitudinal and transverse road markings as well as road markings for hazard locations (curves, intersections, and rural-urban transitions) on driver’s behaviour and overall road safety. The review includes a total of 71 studies from which are 52 peer-reviewed journal studies, 4 conference proceedings, and 15 professional reports. The studies are, based on their aim, divided into two categories: (1) studies on the impact of road markings on driver behaviour (36 studies) and (2) studies on the impact of road markings on road safety (35 studies).
Antitumor effects of four licoflavones in vitro

Objective:The aim of this study was to investigate the antitumor effects of Isoliquiritigenin,Liquiritigenin,Isoliquiritin and Liquiritin in vitro.Methods:The proliferation and IC50 of four compounds on HL60,HT-1080,BEL-7402 cancer cell lines were assayed by SRB method in vitro.The morphology changes of tumor cells treated by drugs were observed by AO/EB fluorescence staining.Results:The inhibition effects of isoliquiritigenin on all three tumor cell lines were significant.Liquiritin inhibited proliferation of HL-60 cell obviously,but liquiritigenin and isoliquiritin has less toxicity to all three tumor cell lines.Conclusion:The antitumor activity of four licoflavones may be related to its mother rings crazing and hydroxy amounts on its side chains.Our results showed that isoliquiritigenin possess strong effects of inhibiting tumor cell proliferation in vitro,it may be a potential anti-cancer drug and need study further.
Risk Factors for Postoperative Urinary Tract Infections Following Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion

ABSTRACT Background Although risk factors contributing to UTI have been studied in posterior approaches to lumbar fusion, there is a lack of literature on factors contributing to UTI in anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF). Our purpose was to identify preoperative independent risk factors for postoperative urinary tract infection (UTI) following anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) so that surgeons may be able to initiate preventative measures and minimize the risk of UTI-related morbidity following ALIF. Methods The American College of Surgeons–National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database was queried to identify 10 232 patients who had undergone ALIF from 2005 to 2016; 144 patients (1.41%) developed a postoperative UTI while 10 088 patients (98.59%) did not. Univariate analyses were conducted to compare the 2 cohorts' demographics and preoperative comorbidities. Multivariate logistic regression models were then utilized to identify significant predictors of postoperative UTI following ALIF while controlling for differences seen in univariate analyses. Results Age ≥ 60 years (P = .022), female sex (P < .001), alcohol use (P = .014), open wound or wound infections (P = .019), and steroid use (P = .046) were independent risk factors for postoperative UTI. Longer operative times were also independent predictors for developing UTI: 120 minutes ≤ x < 180 minutes (P = .050), 180 minutes ≤ x < 240 minutes (P = .025), and ≥ 240 minutes (P = .001). Postoperative UTI independently increased the risk for pneumonia, blood transfusions, sepsis, thromboembolic events, and extended length of stay as well. Conclusions Age ≥ 60 years, female sex, alcohol use, steroid use, and open wound or wound infections independently increased the risk for UTI following ALIF. Future work analyzing the efficacy of tapering alcohol and steroid use preoperatively and reducing procedural time with the aim of lowering UTI risk is warranted. Preoperative wound care is strongly encouraged to decrease UTI risk. Level of Evidence III.
Resveratrol Inhibits Ischemia-Induced Myocardial Senescence Signals and NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation

Aims The aim of this study was to investigate whether resveratrol (RSV) could ameliorate ischemia- and hypoxia-associated cardiomyocyte apoptosis and injury via inhibiting senescence signaling and inflammasome activation. Materials and Methods Mice were treated with RSV by gastric tube (320 mg/kg/day) or vehicle one week before left coronary artery ligation or sham surgery until the end of the experiments. After pressure–volume loop analysis, mouse hearts were harvested for histopathological (including PSR, TTC, TUNEL staining, immunohistochemistry, and immunofluorescence) and molecular analysis by western blotting and RT-PCR. In addition, neonatal rat cardiomyocytes (NRCMs), cardiac fibroblasts (CFs), and macrophages were isolated for in vitro experiments. Key Findings. RSV treatment decreased mortality and improved cardiac hemodynamics. RSV inhibited the expression of senescence markers (p53, p16, and p19), inflammasome markers (NLRP3 and Cas1 p20), and nuclear translocation of NF-κB, hence alleviating infarction area, fibrosis, and cell apoptosis. RSV also inhibited expression of interleukin- (IL-) 1β, IL-6, tumor necrosis factor-α, and IL-18 in vivo. In in vitro experiment, RSV prevented hypoxia-induced NRCM senescence and apoptosis. After inhibition of sirtuin 1 (Sirt1) by EX27, RSV failed to inhibit p53 acetylation and expression. Moreover, RSV could inhibit expression of NLRP3 and caspase 1 p20 in NRCMs, CFs, and macrophages, respectively, in in vitro experiments. Significance. Our findings revealed that RSV protected against ischemia-induced mouse heart injury in vivo and hypoxia-induced NRCM injury in vitro via regulating Sirt1/p53-mediated cell senescence and inhibiting NLRP3-mediated inflammasome activation.
Ultimate Secrecy in Cooperative and Multi-hop Wireless Communications

In this work, communication secrecy in cooperative and multi-hop wireless communications for various radio frequencies are examined. Attenuation lines and ranges of both detection and ultimate secrecy regions were calculated for cooperative communication channel and multi-hop channel with various number of hops. From results, frequency ranges with the highest potential to apply bandwidth saving method known as frequency reuse were determined and compared to point-to-point channel. Frequencies with the highest attenuation were derived and their ranges of both detection and ultimate secrecy are calculated. Point-to-point, cooperative and multi-hop channels were compared in terms of ultimate secrecy ranges. Multi-hop channel measurements were made with different number of hops and the relation between the number of hops and communication security is examined. Ultimate secrecy ranges were calculated up to 1 Terahertz and found to be less than 13 meters between 550-565 GHz frequency range. Therefore, for short-range wireless communication systems such as indoor and in-device communication systems (board-to-board or chip-to-chip communications), it is shown that various bands in the Terahertz band can be used to reuse the same frequency in different locations to obtain high security and high bandwidth.
Perceived Stress Level and Coping Mechanisms Among Health Allied Students

Purposes: This study identified and compared between the levels and types of stressors as well as coping behaviors. Design: Cross-Sectional Survey Methods: Data were collected using a convenience sample of 286 students Findings: The results showed that ‘‘teachers and nursing staff’ ’and ‘‘assignments and workload’’ were the highest sources of stress among nursing and MLS students. But this was much higher among nursing students. In addition, lack of professional knowledge and skills were cited the least stressors among both students’ groups. Practice Implications: The result can be used to support Nursing student to utilize positive coping mechanism to deal with stress successfully. Enhance academic staff awareness about re-allocation of the academic demands and the emphasis on the benefit of orientation week for the students.
Values of Multiple L-functions and Periods of Integrals

In this paper we define two notions of multiple L-functions of modular forms and study their special values. For one type we show that some of the special values can be expressed as periods of integrals and hence obtain some algebraicity results for these values. We also show that there are relations between them coming from ‘shuffle’ and ‘stuffle’ products. Finally, we speculate on the relation between these values and periods of mixed Hodge structures on the fundamental group of modular curves. Multiple Zeta Values (MZVs) have been studied a great deal lately [Gon01],[KZ01],[Wal00]. A starting point of the study of the space of multiple Zeta values is the expression of an MZV as an iterated integral, due to Kontsevich in the most general form. This expression, combined with the shuffle product structure on the space of iterated integrals, gives relations between different MZVs which are called the shuffle relations. There are certain other relations that come from directly expanding the result of multiplying two series. Those are called the stuffle relations. These two, along with a third type of relation coming from a combination of the two, conjecturally gives all possible relations. The situation for Multiple L-values (MLVs) is somewhat different. To start with, there are two kinds of natural definitions of the MLVs. In this paper we find an expression for one kind in terms of iterated integrals. Combining this with the shuffle product gives us shuffle relations between these kinds of MLVs. However it is not clear if there is a direct way of expressing the product of two such MLVs in terms of such MLVs. For the second kind, one can express the result of directly multiplying and expanding the series in terms of similar series, except that one has to add the naive Rankin-Selberg product of such series. So the algebra of such MLVs has stuffle relations. From Kontsevich’s expression [KZ01] for a multiple Zeta value as an iterated integral, it is clear that those values are periods. For the multiple L values, this is not at all clear. For some of the multiple L-values, a generalization of the notion of critical L-values of L-functions of modular forms, we show that this is the case. Of course there is a lot more to the theory of MZVs there is a deep link between the algebra of the MZV’s and the geometry of the mixed Hodge structure on the fundamental group of P − {0, 1,∞}. So one might expect there is some geometry underlying the algebra of multiple L-values as well. At the end of this paper we speculate on the possible geometry underlying the algebra of multiple L-values of the first kind. This is being worked out in [DS04].
IFS ENCODING OF IMAGE SEGMENTS: . NEW DETERMINISTIC SCANNING AND HYBRID ALGORITHMS FOR FAST DECODING

Deterministic algorithms for decoding IFS (Iterated Function System) sets involves determining all the IFS (dynamic) descendants of seed pixels. Timing data was obtained for previously describe algorithms, and new algorithms: the scanning algorithm; the stack algorithm; and a hybrid combination. Decode time data indicates the superiority of the hybrid algorithm
Improving Polri Performance Management Online Practices In Polrestabes Surabaya East Java

The Performance Evaluation of Indonesian National Police-INP initially used a system using an assessment list. But this system is no longer in line with the current development needs of the National Police Human Relation. For this reason, a revision to Perkap Number 16 of 2011 concerning Performance Assessment for Civil Servants of INP with a Performance Management System became the Regulation of the National Police Chief Number 2 of 2018 concerning Performance Evaluation of Members of the Indonesian National Police. This study uses a qualitative approach. The results of the study indicate that the implementation of performance appraisal has so far only pursued formalities and aborted obligations. The lack of knowledge and awareness of personnel regarding Perkap Number 16 of 2011, which causes the performance evaluation to be not optimal. The results of this study also show that the provision of innovative rewards and punishment such as free umrah (for Muslim police personnel) and punishment that provides learning namely verbal reprimand from superiors and compulsory reporting, is one of the keys to improving innovation in evaluating the performance of the Indonesian National Police personnel to increase motivation to improve performance.
Rural entrepreneurship: towards collaborative participative models for economic sustainability

Rural entrepreneurship development is one of the strategies for encouraging the acceleration of rural development by focusing on the exploration of local resources. The role of rural entrepreneurship is crucial in creating new economic activities that can help to reduce unemployment and poverty, especially in rural areas. One of the Indonesian government's programs for encouraging rural entrepreneurship is establishing BUMDes - a village-owned enterprise. This study aims to propose a participatory rural development model to optimize stakeholder collaboration in promoting local economic growth in rural areas. This study uses a qualitative method with a multi-case study approach. There are three BUMDes from three regencies in West Java, Indonesia participated in this research. Triangulation used to check the validity of the data by comparing the results of interviews, FGD's, observations and secondary data. The results of the study found three sustainability dimensions to measure the success of BUMDes performance such as economic sustainability, social sustainability and market sustainability. The results suggest a collaborative model to optimizing BUMDes performance. The new model illustrates the collaboration between stakeholders to pursue rural entrepreneurship sustainability.
Impedance Decomposition for Design-Oriented Analysis of Grid-Forming Voltage-Source Converters

Grid-forming voltage-source converters (VSCs) tend to suffer from sideband oscillations in stiff grids. Conventional state-space eigenvalue analysis or impedance-based stability analysis based on generalized Nyquist stability criterion can only analyze how specific control parameters affect the overall system stability, which ends up with less insight into a controller design-oriented analysis. To tackle this challenge, this article starts with the impedance modeling and stability analysis of grid-forming VSCs in stiff grids. Then, an impedance decomposition approach to characterizing the impacts of multiple control loops is proposed, which benefits in a controller design-oriented analysis for stability enhancement. Finally, simulation and experimental results are provided to validate the approach.
Wideband 4-Port MIMO Antenna Array for 5G Millimeter-Wave Mobile Device Terminals

A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system is proposed for fifth-generation (5G) millimeter-wave (mm-wave) mobile communications. The proposed design provides a wide bandwidth at the mm-wave frequency of 24 GHz to 40 GHz $(\mathrm{S}_{11}\leq-10\mathrm{d}\mathrm{B})$ with high isolation $(\mathrm{S}_{12}\gt 40\mathrm{d}\mathrm{B})$ that achieved by a T-shaped radiating patch with a slot-based on the ground plane. An integrated four-element MIMO antenna has an overall size of $150\times 75\times 0.2\mathrm{m}\mathrm{m}^{3}$. Moreover, the proposed MIMO has been investigated for the performance diversity, in terms of the envelope correlation coefficient and diversity gain, which has a good agreement that appropriates for mobile terminals applications.
Uncoupling of circadian and other maternal cues in decidualizing endometrial cells

The differentiation of human endometrial stromal cells (HESCs) into specialised decidual cells prepares the endometrium for embryonic implantation. The biochemical and morphological transformation of these cells is highly temporally regulated in order to define a transient period of endometrial receptivity. Currently, the involvement of circadian machinery, and clock dependent pathways in this process are not fully understood. Firstly, analysis of circadian rhythms in HESCs revealed a consistent loss of oscillations in clock components upon decidualization. Down-regulation of Period 2 (PER2) expression, apparent in the early stages of differentiation, was shown to be sufficient to cause this aperiodicity. In turn, temporal suppression of PER2 expression was achieved via reduced CLOCK binding to a non-canonical Ebox enhancer in the PER2 promoter. RNA sequencing analysis upon premature PER2 knockdown revealed a disorganised decidual phenotype in which cell cycle and mitotic regulators were perturbed. As such, PER2 acts to uncouple the endometrium from circadian oscillations during decidualization. Secondly, the gene PRIP-1 was shown to be PER2 dependent in undifferentiated HESCs. Endometrial expression of PRIP-1 was induced and maintained upon decidualization by the post-ovulatory rise in progesterone. Analysis of Ca2+ fluxes demonstrated the ability of PRIP-1 to act as a chelator of IP3 signalling. Additionally, PRIP-1, via its regulation of the AKT pathway, is shown to be an anti-apoptotic regulator in decidual HESCs. Together, these results indicate PRIP-1 functions as a molecular switch in response to progesterone signalling. High PRIP-1 levels during differentiation enable AKT and IP3 mediated cell survival, whilst declining levels upon P4 withdrawal leads to decidual apoptosis. In summary, I provide a novel paradigm whereby both PER2 and PRIP-1 act to uncouple the endometrium from various signalling inputs, enabling an autonomous decidual response. Asynchrony in these pathways can lead to a cascade of events resulting in an array of adverse pregnancy complications.
Strain-induced Electric Effects in Condensed Matters

In this work, shock polarization, electric properties of dislocations and mechanical-electric coupling are investigated in condensed matters. By means of research, a new law for condensed matters was found and it was formally named as Yuheng Zhang equation. Utilizing this law, it is found that 1) under non-uniform strain, materials may behave as a p-n junction, exhibiting current-rectifying properties; 2) pure semiconductors with strain gradient can be utilized as a solar cell; 3) thermoelectric power or Seebeck coefficient of materials may be dominated by this law and thermal expansion (contraction); 4) this law gives a new mechanism of electron-phonon interaction; 5) an electric field always accompanies defects in materials, such as dislocations, Abrikosov vortices and so on, and their electric field and related electrical potential are given; 6) strain gradient can cause an electric polarization in dielectric materials; 7) the gravity induced electric field persists within planets including the earth; 8) this law may be the microscopic physical origin of flexoelectric effect and the flexoelectric coefficients can be derived by means of this equation; 9) microscopic theory of shock polarization, another long-standing problem in the world, may be clarified in terms of this law. In all, the newly found law may offer people new understanding of electric properties of strained materials, and may find various applications in multi-areas.
Generalized Additive Model (GAM) Smoothing Penalized Piecewise Linear Basis

Mean Years of Schooling (MYS) is an important measurement to determine educational achievement in one region. From six provinces in Java Island, MYS in Central Java has the lowest level. This lowest achievement impacts the condition of socio-economic of an individual and also a region. Knowing the factors influencing the MYS is interesting to be studied. In this research, we proposed to use Generalized Additive Model (GAM) introduced by Hastie and Tibshirani in 1986. This method can be applied to data set where the relationship between response and predictor variables are not linear and more flexible to the distribution of the response as long as a member of the exponential family. In GAM can also control the smooth nature of a curve and hence the curve is protected from rigid and over-fitting properties.
Cirrus cloud shape detection by tomographic extinction retrievals from infrared limb emission sounder measurements

Abstract. An improved cloud-index-based method for the detection of clouds in limb sounder data is presented that exploits the spatial overlap of measurements to more precisely detect the location of (optically thin) clouds. A second method based on a tomographic extinction retrieval is also presented. Using CALIPSO data and a generic advanced infrared limb imaging instrument as examples for a synthetic study, the new cloud index method has a better horizontal resolution in comparison to the traditional cloud index and has a reduction of false positive cloud detection events by about 30 %. The results for the extinction retrieval even show an improvement of 60 %. In a second step, the extinction retrieval is applied to real 3-D measurements of the airborne Gimballed Limb Observer for Radiance Imaging in the Atmosphere (GLORIA) taken during the Wave-driven ISentropic Exchange (WISE) campaign to retrieve small-scale cirrus clouds with high spatial accuracy.
Interactive comment on “Temperatures from Energy Balance Models: the effective heat

is not a good description of the energy balance on the surface of the earth. A description of the spatial distribution of energy requires an introduction of energy redistribution by ocean currents, eddies, etc. Further, sun’s declination angle should be taken into account in order to describe reasonable spatial distribution of energy at any specific time of the year. What is described here is, at best, an energy balance in an annualmean sense when there is no physical mechanism for redistribution of strong energy surplus in the equatorial region and strong energy deficit in the polar region.
Native JSON datatype support

Both RDBMS and NoSQL database vendors have added varying degrees of support for storing and processing JSON data. Some vendors store JSON directly as text while others add new JSON type systems backed by binary encoding formats. The latter option is increasingly popular as it enables richer type systems and efficient query processing. In this paper, we present our new native JSON datatype and how it is fully integrated with the Oracle Database ecosystem to transform Oracle Database into a mature platform for serving both SQL and NoSQL style access paradigms. We show how our uniquely designed Oracle Binary JSON format (OSON) is able to speed up both OLAP and OLTP workloads over JSON documents.
Prostat Hacmi hem Prostat Kanserini hem de Gleason Skoru 7 veya Üzeri Olan Klinik Olarak Önemli Prostat Kanserini Öngörmede Tek Başına Güçlü Bir Araçtır

BULGULAR: Çalışmaya yaş, toplam-serbest PSA düzeyi ve TRUS ile hesaplanan prostat hacimleri bulunan 778 hasta dahil edilmiştir. PSA değeri <10ng/mL olan hastalar için hem PH hem de PSAD, PCa'nın bağımsız prediktörleri olarak bulunmuştur. Buna karşın, PSA >10ng/mL olan hastalar içinse sadece PH'nin PCa'nın bağımsız bir prediktörü olduğu bulunmuştur. ROC analizi, PSA <10ng/mL olan hastalarda PH için 51.5 cc bir kesme değeri ve PSA >10ng/mL olan hastalarda ise PH için 62.5 cc bir kesme değeri ortaya çıkarmıştır. ROC analizi, PSA <10ng/mL olan hastalarda PSAD için 0.099 kesme değerini ortaya çıkarmıştır. PSA <10ng/mL grubunda PV ve PSAD için önerilen kesme değerlerine göre, klinik olarak anlamlı kanseri olan ve olmayan hastalar arasında anlamlı bir fark varken, PSA >10ng/mL grubunda PV için önerilen kesme değerine göre anlamlı bir fark görülmemiştir.