Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Metabolic syndrome and 10-year risk of cardiovascular events among schizophrenia inpatients treated with antipsychotics

Background: The metabolic syndrome is highly prevalent among patients with schizophrenia. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and the risk of cardiovascular disease in the next 10 years among schizophrenic patients. Methods: This cross sectional study was performed on 100 Iranian patients with schizophrenia in 2016. The prevalence of metabolic syndrome was determined by adult treatment panel III criteria, and 10-year cardiovascular risk was calculated by Framingham Risk Score. SPSS software was used to perform statistical analysis. Chi-square and Fisher's exact or extended Fisher's exact tests were used to compare dichotomous variables. Also, Mann-Whitney U test was applied to compare the quantitative variables. Significance level was considered to be less than or equal to 0.05. Results: In this study, 83 participants (83%) were male and 17 (17%) were female. The prevalence of metabolic syndrome was 27% (21.7% in males and 52.9% in females, p=0.015). Among all components of metabolic syndrome, low HDL-C in men and abdominal obesity in females were the most common disorders. Based on Framingham Risk Score, 76%, 16%, and 8% of patients had low, intermediate, and high level of risk, respectively. A significant difference was observed between the level of risk among participants with and without metabolic syndrome (p=0.042). Conclusion: In this study, patients with schizophrenia showed a high prevalence of metabolic syndrome, but most of them had low risk of developing cardiovascular disease. These results suggest regular screening and early interventions to modify the risk factors of metabolic syndrome.
An Approach for Improving Playback Quality for P 2 P IPTV in NAT Major Access Environment

Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is a quickly growing Internet service. Through computer online, users can access the network service to receive video streaming data and watch TV programs from around the world. Traditionally, IPTV service provider adopted client-server architecture. However, when the client population grows up to a certain amount, it usually faces the scalability and high cost problems. Fortunately, the P2P file sharing success and VoIP application has proved that the P2P paradigm is an efficient solution to deliver many kinds of content over the Internet. Nowadays, P2P IPTV services have been popularly deployed on the Internet. We may face the problem that there are more and more Network Address Translator (NAT) users, and peers behind NAT (NATed Peer) can not directly deliver its streaming data to other NATed peers. This situation easily leads to the so-called free rider problem. In this thesis, we propose a “grouping” scheme to increase the share rate of NATed peers. By restricting transmission connectivity of those peers with public IP address and properly arrange data chunk delivery, we could allow NATed peer to contribute more data on the overlay network. We developed a simulation program to evaluate our proposed scheme. The numerical result shows that our proposed scheme is able to increase the share
O n the D emocratic W eights of N ations

Which voting weights ought to be allocated to single delegates of differently sized groups from a democratic fairness perspective? We operationalize the ‘one person, one vote’ principle by demanding every individual’s influence on collective decisions to be equal a priori. The analysis concerns intervals of alternatives. Weights should be proportional to the square root of constituency sizes if preferences are drawn independently from the same distribution for all agents. A Shapley value-based variation of simple proportionality to size becomes optimal if voters are polarized along constituency lines.
How to Evaluate Self-Driving Testing Ground? A Quantitative Approach

Testing ground has been a critical component in testing and validation for Connected and Automated Vehicles, or CAV. Although quite a few world-class testing facilities have been under construction over the years, the evaluation of testing grounds themselves as testing approaches has rarely been studied. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of CAV testing grounds by its capability to recreate real-world traffic scenarios. We extract typical use cases from naturalistic driving events leveraging non-parametric Bayesian learning techniques. Then, we contribute to a generative sample-based optimization approach to assess the compatibility between traffic scenarios and testing ground road structure. We evaluate the effectiveness of our approach with three CAV testing facilities: Mcity, Almono (Uber ATG), and Kcity. Experiments show that our approach is effective in evaluating the capability of a given CAV testing ground to accommodate real-world driving scenarios.
Integrating ABSYNTHE autonomous navigation system into ROS

ABSYNTHE, which stands for Abstraction, Synthesis, and Integration of Information for Human-Robot Teams, is an interdisciplinary project which aims to develop basic concepts and structures for the abstraction of partial views of the environment and the actions and intentions of teams, as well as the integration of this information into situation assessments. One of our key objectives with this project is to develop the autonomous navigation system to be used in different platforms (big all terrain outdoor and small indoor robots) that can contain a variety of heterogeneous sensors. It represents a challenging topic because we have to develop a robust and safety navigation system that can be used by these different robots. The goal of this paper is to show the integration of the navigation system into Robot Operating System (ROS) platform. Some experimental results and conclusions will be presented.
Influences of organic and inorganic fertilizers on productivity and soil fertility of wheat ( Triticum aestivum L . ) in Typic Ustochrept soil of Uttar Pradesh

A study was conducted to assess fertilizer effect on wheat yield and soil fertility with the following treatments; T1Control, T2100 % NPK, T3-75 % NPK + FYM, T475 % NPK + FYM + PSB+ Azotobactor, T5100 % NPK + Zn, T6100 % NPK + Zn+ Mn, T7-100 % NPK + Zn + Mn + Fe, T8-75 % NPK + FYM+ PSB+ Azotobactor + Zn + Fe + Mn, T9-125 % NPK, T10125% NPK + Zn, T11125 % NPK + Zn+ Mn, T12-125% NPK + Zn + Mn + Fe, T13-100% NPK + FYM+ PSB+ Azotobactor + Zn + Fe + Mn and T14-50% N +100%PK + FYM+ PSB+ Azotobactor + Zn + Fe + Mn + LCC based N top dressing. Treatments differed significantly in influencing soil fertility and grain and straw yields of wheat crop. The study indicated that addition of 100% NPK + FYM + PSB + Azotobactor+ Zn + Fe + Mn recorded significantly higher value of growth and yield attributes in terms of plant height (cm), dry matter accumulation (g m), number of effective tillers (m) and yield attributes character grains spike ,1000-grain weight (g), harvest index (%), grain yield (58.40 q ha) and straw yield (83.9 q ha) followed by 125% NPK + Zn+ Mn grain yield (57.9 q ha) and straw (82.9 q ha). The content of organic carbon increase with the combined application of organic and inorganic with biofertilizer. Integration of 100% NPK + FYM + Azotobactor + Zn + Mn + Fe was found more productivity and remvaerative with the higher residual soil fertility status after wheat crop. Based on the study, 100% NPK + FYM + Azotobactor + Zn+ Mn+ Fe could be recommended for attaining maximum wheat crop productivity and sustainability of soil under semi-arid and sub-tropical sandy loam.
Using an Immediate Approach in Researching the Tourist Experience

This note introduces a multiple research method approach in capturing immediate real time experiential, visual, and spatial data on tourist experiences. Immediate experiential data is captured using the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) modified for hand-held smartphones. Immediate visual data involves the collection of digital photographs taken by the tourist at the destination. Immediate spatial data is collected using Global Positioning System (GPS) technology which captures routes taken by the tourist. Post trip interviews and email surveys are also employed to provide the ability to compare immediate experiences with recollected experiences. Recommendations are made on how to further refine these research methods using an immediate approach to gather meaningful and in-depth information on the tourist experience.
A Neighbor Coverage-Based Rebroadcast in MANETs Based on Energy Efficient Rebroadcast Probability

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) consist of a set of mobile nodes lacking a predetermined infrastructure. Due to this dynamic nature, there exist rapid link breakages which leads to frequent path failures and simultaneous route discoveries. For improving the routing performance we propose a novel routing protocol called Enhanced Neighbor Coverage-Based Probabilistic Rebroadcast Protocol (ENCPR) for reducing routing overhead in MANETs, it propose the strong coverage condition for reducing the number of redundant transmissions. It also checks the link and path stability among nodes to allow the reduction of control overhead and it can offer some benefits also in terms of energy saving in mobile ad hoc networks. It can get hold of more precise additional coverage ratio by sensing neighbor coverage knowledge, it also identify a connectivity factor to offer the node density adaptation. By combining the additional coverage ratio and connectivity factor, it put a sensible rebroadcast probability. This approach combines the advantages of the neighbor coverage knowledge and the probabilistic mechanism, which can drastically diminish the number of retransmissions so as to reduce the routing overhead, and can also improve the routing performance
SLOSHING MODEL FOR ENSO SUBMITTED TO PRL Sloshing Model for ENSO

The El Nino southern oscillation (ENSO) behavior can be effectively modeled as a response to a 2-order Mathieu/Hill differential equation with periodic coefficients describing sloshing of a volume of water. The forcing of the equation derives from tidal-forcings as in QBO, angular momentum changes synchronized with the Chandler wobble, and a metastable biennial modulation. One regime change was identified in 1981.
Chapter 1 Representing 3 D shape and location

Unlike much of the book, which is concerned with 2D shape, this chapter discusses the problem of representing 3D shape. However, I will argue that there is a strong link between these. 3D shape may be better understood in terms of the 2D image changes that occur when an observer moves than 3D ego-centred or world-centred coordinates frames. The same applies to representations of 3D location. 3D shape and 3D location are properties that remain the same as an observer moves through a static world, despite rapidly changing images. Two different conceptions for visual stability emerge. One relies on generating a representation that is like the world and is stable in the face of observer movements. The other relies only on an ability to predict the sensory consequences of a movement. The implications for representation of 3D shape (and location) are quite different under these two frameworks. Most of the literature on visual stability focuses on a situation that is relatively straightforward from a computational perspective, namely that of a camera (or the eye) rotating around its optic centre. In this case, all the light rays we wish to consider arrive at a single optic centre from all possible directions (a panoramic view, what Gibson called the ‘optic array’ at a single point). In computer vision, the process of ‘mosaicing’ a set of such images is now standard. In principle, it requires only that the rays corresponding to each pixel in each image to be registered in a common 2D coordinate frame, or sphere, of visual directions from the optic centre. Nevertheless, this is a sensible starting point for considering visual stability in general. If points in the scene are all very distant (take, as an extreme
Green Leases in Australia : An Analysis of Current Trends and Issues

The key drivers of green strategy and design in Australia are the issues of water conservation (in a drought-prone country), energy consumption (in a market of rising costs), and carbon emissions (in an era of international environmental responsibility). However, although a green building may be constructed or refurbished to high environmental standards, the green lease is the key to operating the building in a sustainable manner. Green leases include provisions to minimise environmental impacts, operate efficiently with respect to energy, emissions, and water, and to produce healthy working conditions during a building’s operation. This paper presents an examination of the trends, issues, and prospect of green leases from an Australian perspective. The study highlights the government as leading by example by using green leases (schedules) in leased premises (comprising 30% of the office market) as either landlord or tenant. Corporate reporting requirements and environmental sustainability policies and regulations are likely to additionally encourage adoption of green leases by the private commercial sector. Of importance also are the two environmental rating tools (Green Star for environmental design/features and National Australian Built Environment Rating Scheme for environmental performance). The growing use of these two rating tools will necessitate the increasing use of green leases as the mechanism (including remediation) for ensuring the establishment, attainment, and maintenance of building environmental performance by both landlord and tenant. Recent data show that green office buildings in Australia that have environmental ratings do provide an asset value and return advantage over non-rated office buildings; green leases will therefore be a means to protect/enhance asset values and returns for property investors by maintaining/improving buildings’ environmental efficiencies. All of these drivers will bring about a continued increase in uptake of green leasing in Australia. Current and prospective issues are identified, and include: (1) Harmonisation of the parameters of the rating tool(s) used to assess the “green-ness” of a building, improvements in the consistency of environmental ratings, the matching of green lease targets/benchmarks more closely to rating tool parameters, and the establishment of environmental components in green leases other than those relating to energy and water; (2) A need to better understand the drivers influencing the landlordtenant relationship in the private commercial sector regarding environmental performance/impact; (3) A need to better understand and quantify the government’s role in influencing lease trends in the commercial market; (4) Green leases are a relatively new area of law, and there will likely be judicial tests of such leases as they move into the legal mainstream; and (5) The development of a two-tier office market, one with green leases, and one without.
Entropy and Ergodic Theory Lecture 14 : Introduction to statistical mechanics , III 1

This is in contrast with the older subject of thermodynamics, which proposes some basic laws that govern certain kinds of macroscopic behaviour without probing the microscopic phenomena that give rise to those laws. In principle, one should be able to derive thermodynamics from statistical mechanics. Working out this derivation in detail is an important theoretical task of statistical physics. The first appearance of a notion of entropy was in the early thermodynamics of the nineteenth century. With the benefit of modern statistical physics, one finds that this appearance of entropy is really a consequence of the same underlying mathematical phenomena as the others we have met in this course. This lecture: a rough introduction to statistical mechanics based on the theory around entropy that we have already met.
An Assessment Of The Moderating Effect Of Growth-Need Strength On The Relationship Between Job Enrichment And Work-Related Attitudes Of Non-Academic Staff In Selected Private Universities In South-West Nigeria

Job enrichment and work related attitudes for ages have been a difficult issue for human resource managers of organizations worldwide; private universities in Nigeria are not an exception. Numerous researches have been carried out over the past years with the aim of resolving this problem. Job enrichment implementation schemes constitute a major problem that affects workrelated attitudes. This research evaluated the moderating effects ofgrowth – need strength on the relationship of job enrichment and work-related attitudes of non-academic staff in selected private Universities in South-West Nigeria. A survey research design was adopted. The population of the study was2462 non-academic staffdistributed among seven (7) approved private universities that had existed for six years in South-West, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling technique was adopted in selecting the sample from the population of the study. A sample of 740 respondents was selected using multistage sampling technique. 618 filled questionnaires were returned but 547 was found useable. Multiple regressions, analysis of variance and Pearson Product Moment Correlation were used to analyse the data collected and to test the hypotheses. The findings revealed that there is positive relationship between job enrichmentand work-related attitudes which was highly moderated by employee growth-need strength. The concluded that employee with strong growth-need strength will turn on eagerly to job enrichment than employee with weak growth –need strength. The study recommended that human resource manager should encourage the employees with high growth-need strength and find strategies for helping those with low growthneed strength through training.
The Factors Influencing On the Customer Adoption of Internet Banking System Special Reference to the Sampath Bank in Colombo District Akila

Today, banking sector plays a vital role when providing financial services and managing financial assets. With the development of the information systems and information technology, all banks adopt some new technological advancement for their entity. In a banking sector, customers are the most important part. Conventionally, all the transactions are done by manually. Customers had to go bank branch every time. Therefore, it concerns huge time and cost as well.But nowadays internet banking is becoming popular and it reduces the time and cost. This study based on within the Sri Lankan context and the researcher selected the Sampath bank in Colombo district to do this study. The researcher concerns the factors influencing on the customer adoption of internet banking system: Special reference to the Sampath bank in Colombo district. The main objective of this study is to identify the factors influencingon thecustomer adoption of internet banking system: Special reference to the Sampath bank in Colombo district. The research framework based on the factors which mainly includes Relative advantage, Perceived ease of use, Perceived usefulness. A Questionnaire survey was conducted to gather the data and 111 complete responses were gathered from random banking customers who were internet users from Colombo district. The researcher analyzed the collected data by using SPSS 20 package. Correlation Analysis and Regression analysis were used to check the relation and factors influencing on the customer adoption of internet banking system. Therefore, the researcher found the factors influencing on the customer adoption of internet banking and gives recommendations in this study to identify the factors influencing on customer adoption of internet banking in the study area
CT scan Positive Finding Pattern of Head Injury at the University of Gondar Hospital; North West Ethiopia

Background: Head injuries rank high among morbidities due to trauma. Computerized tomography is an important modality in the investigation of these cases. However, there is no literature on the importance of computerized tomography in the diagnosis of head injury in Ethiopia. This study therefore is aimed to document the computerized tomographic features of patients with head injury managed at the University of Gondar Teaching Hospital. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study involving 96 patients with head injury who had CT scan of the head in the UOG hospital over a 12-month period. Results: Most of the patients were male (74%). Majority (58%) were in the age range of 20 to 40 years with a mean age of 31yrs. The most common abnormal findings were skull fracture (52%) and intracerebral hemorrhage and contusions (51%). It is followed by subdural hemorrhage (33%) soft tissue swelling 32% and epidural hemorrhage 10%. Conclusion: Skull fracture and intra cerebral hemorrhage were the most common abnormal findings. This study has demonstrated the importance of CT scan in the evaluation of head injury by giving visibility of intracranial post traumatic injuries in a high proportion of patients which would be difficult to reach in to diagnosis clinically or using skull radiography alone. This obviously will have a significant role in improving patient management. Taking this in to account expansion of CT scan service for moderate to severe head injury patients is recommended in Ethiopia.
Heterogeneity spectrum of Earth's upper mantle obtained from the coherence of teleseismic P waves: Evidence for pervasive chemical and phase heterogeneity

Fluctuations in log-amplitude and travel time of teleseismic P waves recorded by the EarthScope USArray are used to invert for the heterogeneity spectrum of P-wave velocity in a 1000 km thick region of the upper mantle beneath the array. These fluctuations are used to form coherence functions. Best fits to joint transverse coherence functions require a depth dependent heterogeneity spectrum, with peaks in narrow depth ranges. These peaks agree well with peaks predicted for the temperature derivative of seismic velocity from models of the chemistry and phase of silicate mineral assemblages appropriate for the upper mantle, correlating with the depths of phase changes. The results show that chemistry and phase act in concert with lateral and depth variations in temperature to produce the observed heterogeneity in seismic velocities in the upper mantle at spatial scales from 50 to 300 km. AMS subject classifications: 86A15, 86A22, 74J20
1 Cooperation and the intrinsic value of a public good *

We examine the effect of preferences toward a real-life public good on the degree of cooperation. We conduct five rounds of contribution experiments for the procurement of sustainable supplies to two colleges' synagogues. We find that the contributions increase with the reported monthly visits at the campus synagogue. We also find that the contribution path of the religious subjects (who make frequent use of their campus synagogue) is upward sloping, while that of the non-religious subjects (who rarely use their campus synagogue) is lower and decreases toward the end of the experiment. In addition, we find evidence that individuals participating in a contribution experiment are subject to what we call an "experiment effect", that is, part of their contributions stem from their participation in the experiment. We also conducted a standard five-round linear public good experiment among religious subjects and found that the contribution path is downward sloping and that the contribution level is not related to the number of visits at the campus synagogue. In addition, we find that religious females consistently contribute more than religious males. Finally, we derive practical implications from our findings.