Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Focus Cat: Designing Idle Games to Promote Intermittent Practice and On-Going Adherence of Breathing Exercise for ADHD

Adherence and frequency of play are well-established challenges for serious games that target breathing exercises, because exercises are most effective when practiced in short and frequent sessions. Researchers have recognized that elements of idle games ideally align with many therapeutic use cases because idle games have a frequently repeating gameplay cycle that draws people in for short play sessions. However, there is little research about how idle games can be used to motivate consistent, frequent practice of therapies like breathing exercises that are often recommended for chronic conditions like ADHD. This paper describes the design and implementation of a therapeutic idle game, Focus Cat. This game is designed to help people with ADHD incorporate breathing exercises into their symptom management routine. Our work demonstrates how the unique qualities of idle game design—including short, frequent gameplay sessions, simple mechanics that make mundane tasks engaging and mechanics that pull and push players into and out of active gameplay—can be used for ADHD breathing exercises to improve adherence and frequency of practice.
The Influence of Parent’s Socio Economic Status on Adolescents and Youths Health Risk Behaviors in Enugu Nigeria

Risk behaviors among the youth are associated with considerable negative health and developmental outcomes. The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between parent’s socioeconomic status and the risk behaviors practiced by adolescents and youths in Enugu. It was a cross-sectional descriptive study. Data was collected from students in 2 tertiary institutions, who were selected consecutively using semi- structured interviewer administered questionnaire. Data was analysed using SPSS version 20.0. The level of statistical significance was set at p<0.05. There was a high prevalence of priority health risk behaviors among the adolescents and youths. 35.8% drove recklessly, 41.2% used alcohol and 4.4% used “hard” drugs. 34.6% had unprotected sex, 18.7% smoked cigarette, 23.8% practiced unhealthy dietary behaviors while 38.1% indulged in sedentary lifestyle. Age, gender and socioeconomic class had profound influence on the practice of risk behaviors. The age range 15-24 years and the male gender were more involved. Sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy dietary habits were commoner among students from the upper socioeconomic class. Youths from all socioeconomic strata are susceptible to health risk behaviors, thus prevention efforts for these health concerns should be universal.
Dive In! Computer World Action: A Platform Game for Secondary School Students to Learn Boolean Operations in Computer Science

The power of video games in education is becoming more prominent because children and young adolescents nowadays spend more time than ever in the digital world. Previous studies have investigated the effectiveness of using games for learning concepts in computer science and even computer programming at the secondary level. However, games for learning concepts related to mathematics in computer science have not been thoroughly investigated. In this paper, we introduce Dive In! Computer World Action, a platform game that allows players to learn Boolean operations in the context of computer science through fast-paced gameplay. The importance and usage of Boolean operations are also conveyed via in-game storytelling. The results of the playtesting suggested that Dive In! Computer World Action was effective in learning Boolean operations and related concepts. The participants generally welcomed the game-based approach. The nature of platform games also allows us further expand the gameplay for learning other mathematical operations and concepts in the context of computer science in the future.
Formalizing Routing Models in ACL2

We present two preliminary formalizations of router networks, both expressed in the logic of the ACL2 theorem prover. One formalization focuses on connectivity requirements by formalizing validity, visibility, and a trivial example routing policy, and demonstrates the ability to execute specifications. The other formalization focuses on network security properties, specifically information-flow and non-interference, and includes theorems demonstrating these properties for a simple formalization of a router network.
The evaluation of urine concentration and diagnostic
usefulness of interleukin-8 and interleukin-18 in bladder cancer diagnostics
– preliminary report

Introduction. The participation of cytokines in the development of inflammation is well documented, while recently attention is paid to their role in the pathogenesis of the cancer process. Cytokines show very different, and also diverse action on the cancer progression. The aim of the study was to estimation whether the determination of concentration two interleukins: IL-8 and IL-18 in the urine may be helpful in the diagnosis of bladder cancer.Material and Methods. The material for examinations was morning urine and serum of patients diagnosed with bladder cancer, verified histopathologically with staging according to TNM (Tumor Nodules Metastases) and grading according to WHO (World Health Organization) classification. Interleukins concentration was determined in the urine by immunoassay method ELISA (Diaclone, R & D Systems). Results. In patients with bladder cancer, significantly higher mean concentration of both interleukins and total protein in urine were found. The concentration of C-reactive protein in serum was not significantly higher than the value in healthy people. A significant positive correlation was found between the concentration of IL-8 in the urine and the staging (T) and grading (G) of the tumor. There were no such dependences for IL-18.Conclusions. Changes in IL-8 concentrations in the urine may be helpful in diagnosing patients with bladder cancer. However, the studies conducted due to the small number of patients may not be able to be referred to the general population, and therefore further estimation of interleukin 8 concentration changes is require in order to confirm its diagnostic potential.
Comparison of maximum voluntary contraction positions for serratus anterior muscle in men with scapular dyskinesis: Electromyography analysis

Background:The purpose of this study was to quantify the surface EMG activity of the serratus anterior muscle during two main test positions performed with the maximum effort by the subjects with scapular dyskinesis. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 30 men (aged 18 to 28) who were suffering from scapular dyskinesis. Scapular dyskinesis was measured by scapular dyskinesis test and surface EMG was employed to record the EMG activity of the serratus anterior during two common positions of maximal voluntary isometric contraction. Results: The results revealed that there is no significant difference in the mean EMG activity of the serratus anterior muscle during two MVIC testing positions (P=0.846). Notably, the test-retest ICC scores for the EMG recordings during position 1 (P=0.97) and position 2 (P=0.96) were excellent. Conclusion: It was found that no one muscle test produced the highest MVIC for all subjects. Therefore, to perform normalization of every muscle within each subject, it is suggested that two tests identified in this study be performed which usually produce high levels of EMG activity.
Accelerating range queries of primary and secondary indices for key-value separation

Primary and secondary indices in LSM-tree-based key-value (KV) stores play significant roles for real-world applications, but they suffer severe I/O amplification due to compaction operations. Prior works show that KV separation can mitigate the I/O amplification under various workloads for either primary or secondary indices. However, range queries of primary and secondary indices only achieve suboptimal efficiency for two reasons: (1) KV separation improves insert/update performance by sacrificing the performance of range queries, (2) range queries of primary and secondary indices may conflict with each other. We observe that it can maximize the range query performance by maintaining purely sequential reads(i.e., strict sequentiality), on SSD devices. Moreover, range queries can be improved even in loose sequentiality. Based on these observations, we propose RISE, aiming to improve the Range query performance of prImary and SEcondary indices by leveraging the strict and loose sequentiality of SSD devices. RISE follows the basic design of KV separation and divides the value log into multiple groups. First, to achieve loose sequentiality, it adopts a key-range data grouping policy to bound the key range of primary indices but relaxes the internal key order in each group; Second, RISE proposes a co-location garbage collection(GC) policy to maintain strict sequentiality for the secondary index; Third, RISE employs a parallel parsing policy to accelerate the parsing process of secondary indices. We implement RISE and the decoupled secondary index of SineKV on top of WiscKey and HashKV for comparison. Evaluations show that RISE can outperform the range query performance of WiscKey and HashKV by 21.3% and 23% for the primary index and 29.8% and 31% for the secondary index. Besides, RISE can provide reasonable update performance and accelerate the value parsing phase of GC by 17.9%.
Understanding the Social Dividends and Risks for Female Gamers in Online Spaces

This paper presents a work in progress that focuses on exploring the social experiences of female gamers in online spaces. This qualitative study aimed to gather and analyse social experiences for female gamers from their own perspectives. Using purposeful sampling methods six female gamers were recruited and interviewed by the researchers. This data is currently undergoing thematic analysis, however, some emergent themes highlight participant's perspectives as to the toxicity and risk they face in choosing to play online alongside the positive experiences including the opportunities to recognise their shared experiences, support each other and thus co-create online spaces that support positive socialisation.
Smokeless tobacco and its constituents

Smokeless tobacco is defined as follows in Volume 89 of the IARC Monographs (IARC, 2007): “Smokeless tobacco is used with­ out burning the product, and can be used orally or nasally. Oral smoke­ less tobacco products are placed in the mouth, against the cheek or behind the lip and sucked (dipped) or chewed. Tobacco pastes or pow­ ders are used in a similar manner and applied to the gums or teeth. Fine tobacco mixtures are usually inhaled and absorbed in the nasal passages. ” This chapter considers carcino­ genicity studies, data on constitu­ ents, and mechanistic investigations on smokeless tobacco, to evaluate over all coherence between observa­ tions in humans and in experimental animals. Because of the differences between human use of smokeless tobacco and the exposure condi­ tions in studies in experimental an­ imals, the term “coherence”, which means logical consistency, is more appropriate here than the term “con­ cordance”, which connotes a one­to­ one agreement, with no conflicting data.
Exchange Networks with Stochastic Matching

This paper tries to prove that the outcomes stemming from interactions on assignment markets bring about coordination in case of a stochastic matching subject to various forms of expectations. We consider an exchange network with stochastic matching between the pairs of players and analyze the dynamics of bargaining in such a market. The cases of convergent expectations, divergent expectations and of social preferences are studied. The extension of earlier works lies in the consideration of a stochastic matching on a graph dependent on the weights of edges. The results show that, in all three cases, the dynamics converges rapidly to the generalized Nash bargaining solution, which is an equilibrium that combines notions of stability and fairness. In the first two scenarios, the numerical simulations reveal that the convergence toward a fixed point is speedily achieved at the value of the outside option. In the third scenario, the fixed point promptly converges to the value of the outside option supplemented by the surplus share.
Elastic moduli of porous polymeric biomaterials using 3 D μ CT image stack and FE characterization

The objective of this experimental and computational study was to propose a rapid procedure allowing the obtention of an estimation of elastic moduli of solid phases of porous natural-polymeric biomaterials used for bone tissue engineering. This procedure was based on the comparison of experimental results to finite element (FE) responses of parallelepiped so-called representative volume elements (rev) of the material at hand. To address this issue a series of quasi-static unconfined compression tests were designed and performed on three prepared cylindrical biopolymer samples. Subsequently, a computed tomography scan was performed on fabricated specimens and two 3D images were reconstructed. Various parallelepiped revs of different sizes and located at distinct places within both constructs were isolated and then analyzed under unconfined compressive loads using FE modeling. In this preliminary study, for the sake of simplicity, the solid phase constituent is assumed to be linear elastic. Mots clefs : Biomatériaux poreux. Éléments finis. microtomographie. Élasticité. 22ème Congrès Français de Mécanique Lyon, 24 au 28 Août 2015
Social Influence and Monetization of Freemium Social Games

Abstract One fundamental economic challenge in social gaming is how to monetize players. We address this problem from the lens of social influence. Specifically, we examine how players’ paying behaviors in a social game are associated with their pure friends and Simmelian-tie friends. Analyzing a comprehensive social game dataset provided by Tencent.com, we find that the cohesion effect emanating from players’ direct connections in the social gaming network exhibits positive impacts on players’ willingness to pay. Surprisingly, the cohesion effect of pure friends is found to be significantly stronger than that of Simmelian-tie friends, contrary to the common findings in the literature. These new findings have direct implications for companies tasked with designing social games or gamification systems and, more broadly, to help better understand the mechanism behind the microscopic economic behavior of individuals in a virtual economy.
Method overloading the circuit

Circuit breakers are frequently deployed in microservice applications to improve their reliability. They achieve this by short circuiting RPC invocations issued to overloaded or failing services, thereby relieving pressure on those services and allowing them to recover. In this paper, we systematically examine the state of the art in industrial circuit breakers designs. We first present a taxonomy of existing, open-source circuit breaker designs and implementations based on a systematic mapping study. We then examine the relationship between these circuit breaker designs and application reliability. We make a clear case that incorrect application of circuit breakers to an application can hurt reliability in the process of trying to improve it. To address the deficiencies in the state of the art, we propose two new circuit breaker designs and provide guidance on how to properly structure microservice applications for the best circuit breaker use. Finally, we identify several open challenges in circuit breaker usage and design for future researchers.
Human pentatricopeptide proteins Only a few and what do they do ?

Copyright: This is an Open Access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. The article may redistributed, reproduced and reused for non-commercial purposes, provided the original source is properly cited. DOI link for article: http://dx.doi. org/10.4161/rna.24770 Further information on publisher website: http://www.landesbioscience. com Date deposited: 25 July 2013 Version of file: Published
Preliminary Study on Antimicrobial Properties of Lactic Acid Bacteria Involved in the Fermentation of Corn Dough during Doklu Processing in Côte D ’ Ivoire Marina Christelle

This study aimed to assess the antimicrobial activities of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) isolated from corn dough for doklu production during spontaneous fermentation. Fermentation was conducted for 10 days by mixing corn dough with water at room temperature and biochemical analysis and LAB isolation was performed every 2 days. LAB isolated were then tested for potential antimicrobial activity. Biochemical analyses revealed the presence of 3 main organic acids in corn dough: tartaric acid, oxalic acid and lactic acid. Moreover, pH decreased while titratable acidity increased. Corn dough contains a diversity of LAB including homoand heterofermentatives. From the 109 isolates, 83.33% showed the ability to inhibit the growth of a pathogen bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25915 with diameters of inhibition ranging from 10.4 0.55 mm to 16 mm. Twenty six of these positive LAB produced inhibitory substances which could be bacteriocins with a large spectrum of action against several human pathogens. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Size compensation in Drosophila after generalised cell death

Regeneration is a response mechanism to restore tissues that have been damaged or lost by mechanical or physiological insults. We are studying in the wing imaginal disc of Drosophila the regenerative response to a high dose of Ionizing Radiation (IR), which we estimate kills at least 35% of the cells. After such treatment irradiated discs are able to restore normal size and shape, indicating there is a mechanism to replace the lost cells. We have tested the role of the Jun N-terminal Kinase (JNK), Janus Kinase (JAK/STAT) and Wingless (Wg) pathways, which have been shown to promote cell proliferation in regenerating tissues. We find that there is size compensation after IR in the absence of function of these pathways, strongly suggesting that they are not necessary for the compensation. We also find that the proliferation rate is not increased after IR. We argue that after generalized death caused by IR there is not a specific mechanism to promote cell proliferation. The irradiated discs suffer a developmental delay and then resume growth at normal rate until they reach the final stereotyped size. The delay appears to be associated with a developmental reversion, as irradiated discs undergo rejuvenation towards an earlier developmental stage. The response to generalized damage is fundamentally different from that to localized damage, which requires activity of JNK and Wg.
EFFECTS OF AQUEOUS STEM BARK EXTRACT OF VITELLARIA PARADOXA ON HUMAN NEUTROPHIL FUNCTION AND VIABILITY

Int J Biol Med Res. 2019; 10(3): 6790-6795 Manisha Ray, Jagruti Mishra, Abhishikta Priyadarshini, Souvagyalaxmi Sahoo Analysis of proteoglycan content in combined intermediate and deep zones of degenerating patellar articular cartilage in adult male mice after administration of diazepam Int J Biol Med Res. 2019; 10(3): 6796-6799 Anber Saleem, M Yunus Khan, Ruqqia Minhas Evaluation of insulin like protein from dolichos lablab linn Int J Biol Med Res. 2019; 10(3): 6800-6804 Sachin Palekar & Behnaz Patel 6782
How Inequality Influences Political Trust ? Investigating the Change of Political Trust in China from a Social Structure Approach

China has experienced simultaneously the climbing of social inequality and the declining of governmental trust in the last 15 years. This paper starts from the revision of the classical dual binary framework (culture institution, macro micro) about sources of governmental trust, and develops a new middle-range analytic system based on social inequality as well as linking cultural and institutional factors. Using the data from three waves of the Asian Barometer Survey (ABS 2002-2011) and its 2015-2016 companion version “China Social Governance Survey (CSGS2015),” we examined stepwisely the impacts of cultural, institutional, and social inequality variables on the Chinese public’s trust in the government. The result shows that the social inequality reflected by social stratum cognition and distributive justice/injustice perception has significant effects on the governmental trust. Besides, interaction effects between the perceived distributive injustice and some cultural and institutional variables are significant. Through slope rate analysis on these interaction effects, we further revealed causal mechanisms of social inequality on governmental trust in contemporary China. 1. Question consciousness: declining trust in government According to various global social surveys, the World Values Survey, the Barometer Survey series, etc., conducted in the past two decades, it has been found that, compared with most West advanced democracies and Asian emerging
Toward an Integrated Statistical System Based on Registers

This note describes how Latin American and Caribbean countries can join a revolution in statistical systems, moving from data collection based on geographic frames to one based on administrative registers, and the advantages of making this change. Northern European countries have already shifted from a traditional area frame-based statistical system to a register-based system, in which all surveys are based on statistical registers. Among the key advantages of the shift are: i) lower production costs; ii) potential for higher levels of geographic disaggregation and greater frequency; and iii) reduce the burden on informants by following the maxim of “ask once, use many times”. Evidence from Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru points to the viability of this transition in the region. However, to take better advantage of the new strategy, countries should invest to improve the quality and coverage of their administrative systems and should create an integrated register system, allowing for efficient data use, and ensuring consistency and coherence across statistical registries.
Is There Convergence across European Countries ? Simple Cluster Analysis Approach

In this paper, we have verified the convergence pro cess in the EU in the period 2001 – 2013. The methodology of this paper is simil ar to that of Artis and Zhang (1997), Boreiko (2003), and Crowley (2013), who als o focused on the European convergence process. This paper is based on the the sis that the convergence process is proven if the clusters are gathering in shorter squared Euclidean distances during the time, or, alternatively, if th e distances between European Union economies and Germany are shorter. First, in order to perform the cluster analysis, the convergence criteria are identifi ed (the choice of the criteria is based on optimum currency area). Second, with regar ds to the criteria, we conduct thirteen cluster analyses for every year of th e period 2001 – 2013. From this perspective, we focus on the differences betwe en the analyses' outputs during the time. According to our results, it is po ssible to draw the conclusion that the economic convergence process in the EU was not proven.