Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Interventions that Universities can Undertake to Meet needs of Adult Learners through Mentoring and Academic Advising

The purpose of this study was to establish interventions that universities can undertake to meet the needs of adult learners through Mentoring and Academic Advising. Respondents of the study were 320 adult learners attending classes during school holidays and fourteen academic advisors. Stratified and systematic random sampling techniques were used to collect data. Data was collected using questionnaires, interviews, focus group discussions and analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The study findings were that universities should organize for computer classes, set time outside the semester when students meet mentors, put in place a mentorship program targeting the Institutional Based Students, Mentoring and Academic Advising to be part of the formal responsibility of all academic staff, train all lecturers in Mentoring and Academic Advising, improve modes of communication by having more communications between students and administration, have more forums with the adult learners, have Face-to-face interactions, Avail mentors’ contacts and Peer mentoring system.
Analysis of error functions for the iterative closest point algorithm

In recent years a lot of progress has been made in the development of self-driving cars. Multiple big companies are working on creating a safe and robust autonomous vehicle . To make this task possible, theses vehicles rely on lidar sensors for localization and mapping. Iterative Closest Point (ICP) is a registration algorithm used in lidar-based mapping. This thesis explored approaches to improve the error minimization of ICP. The first approach is an in-depth analysis of outlier filters. Fourteen of the most common outlier filters (such as M-estimators) have been tested in different types of environments, for a total of more than two million registrations. The experimental results show that most outlier filters have a similar performance if they are correctly tuned. Nonetheless, filters such as Var. Trim. , Cauchy, and Cauchy MAD are more stable against different environment types. The second approach explores the possibilities of large-scale lidar mapping in a boreal forest. Lidar mapping is often based on the SLAM technique relying on pose graph optimization, which fuses the ICP algorithm, GNSS positioning, and IMU measurements. To handle those sensors directly within the ICP minimization process, we propose an alternative technique of embedding external constraints. We manage to create a crisp and globally consistent map of 4:1 km of snowmobile trails and narrow walkable trails. These two approaches show how ICP can be improved through the modification of a single step of the ICP’s pipeline.
The cereal-root crop mixed farming system

• The cereal-root crop mixed farming system is a potential food basket of west and central Africa, with an area of more than 200 million ha, good rainfall and an agricultural population of only 43 million. • This crop-livestock system features a variety of cereals, legumes, cattle and small ruminants and has similarities to the maize mixed farming system in east and southern Africa. • The main drivers of change are population increases and, recently, improving market access for grain and livestock. • The long-term prospects for agricultural growth and sustainable intensification are excellent. There are great potential knowledge-intensive innovations such as mechanized conservation agriculture. • Key enabling factors are transport infrastructure, enabling policies and farmer organizations to underpin market access and farmer-to-farmer learning and innovation.
Highly sensitive persons, caregiving strategies and humour: the case of Italian and Israeli medical clowns

The medical clown is a healthcare practitioner whose character is strictly associated with the performer’s own personality. In this study, the relationships between level of sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), caregiving strategies and humour in Italian and Israeli clowns were compared. Participants were 159 medical clowns (97 Italian and 62 Israeli), ranging from 22 to 74 years of age, who completed a demographic questionnaire, the self-reported Highly Sensitive Person Scale, the Caregiving Strategies Scale and the BenCor. Results showed that higher SPS was related to higher hyperactivation and deactivation, and that hyperactivation was related to lower benevolent humour and greater corrective humour. Hyperactivation negatively predicts benevolent humour but positively predicts corrective humour, beyond the effect of SPS. Deactivation had no relationship to either benevolent or corrective humour. The results are also discussed in reference to differences between the two groups and to previous studies conducted with general populations.
The Sn2 Reaction: A Theoretical-Computational Analysis of a Simple and Very Interesting Mechanism

Bimolecular nucleophilic substitution (SN2) reaction is one of the most frequently processes chosen as model mechanism to introduce undergraduate chemistry students to computational chemistry methodology. In this work, we performed a computational analysis for the ionic SN2 reaction, where the nucleophile charged (X−; X=F, Cl, Br, I) attacks the carbon atom of the substrate (CH3Cl) through a backside pathway, and simultaneously, the leaving group is displaced (Cl−). The calculations were performed applying DFT methods with the Gaussian09 program, the B3LYP functional, the 6-31+G* basis set for all atoms except iodine (6-311G*), and the solvents effects (acetonitrile and cyclohexane) were evaluated with the PCM model. We evaluated the potential energy surface (PES) for the mentioned reaction considering the reactants, the formation of an initial complex between the nucleophile and the substrate, the transition state, a final complex where the leaving group is still bound to the substrate and the products. We analyzed the atomic charge (ESP) and the bond distance throughout the process. Gas phase and solvent studies were performed in order to analyze the solvation effects on the reactivity of the different nucleophiles. We observed that increasing solvent polarity, decreases reaction rates. On the other hand, we thought it would be enriching, to carry out a reactivity analysis from the point of view of molecular orbitals. Therefore, we analyzed the MOs HOMO and the MOs LUMO of the different stationary states on PES, both in a vacuum (gas phase) and in acetonitrile as the solvent.
Impact of environment color on individual responses in public spaces of shopping malls

This study aims to explore the specific impact of a color’s hue, saturation, and brightness value on people's evaluation, behavior, and emotions in the public space of existing shopping malls. Following a field investigation, color composition and distribution characteristics in the public spaces of shopping malls are summarized. In the real scenes, the hues of colors are mainly warm colors, with some supplemented by blue. The saturation of the majority colors, which are almost greyish colors, is lower than 33% and their brightness is very wide and evenly distributed. An experiment was then conducted in the laboratory, wherein photos taken and sounds recorded on-site were shown to participants; the participants were then asked to answer questionnaires based on the pleasure-arousal-dominance emotion and approach-avoidance behavior theories. The results showed that hue has a weak effect on individual responses, whereas saturation was found to have a significant effect. Moreover, the brightness difference between colors can cause a change in satisfaction, behavior intention, and emotion. Additionally, in the public spaces of shopping malls, the red color is more associated with embodied meaning, whereas the green color is more associated with referential meaning, in which different objects have significantly different influences.
Urinary Tract Infection in Cancer Patients at Government Cancer Hospital Aurangabad, India

Urinary tract infection (UTI) remains the most common hospital associated infection despite the increasing awareness of the dangers of urethral catheterization (Patwardhan, 2006). According to an estimation, about 150 million reports of UTIs per annum were recorded worldwide (Gonzalez et al., 1999). About 35% of all the UTIs are of nosocomial origin (Mishra et al., 2013). Urinary tract infections are the major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with malignant diseases due to their several impairments of host defense. General factors in the etiology of UTIs are E. coli and other organisms of the family Enterobacteriaceae. In epidemiological studies, aimed at finding the sources of nosocomial infections, it is important to identify the bacterial species involved. Most of the UTIs are treated empirically, the criteria for the selection of antimicrobial agent should be determined on the basis of the most likely pathogen and its expected resistance pattern in a geographical area (Alabi et al., 2013). Knowledge of infection epidemiology and the institutional resistance pattern can help physicians to select the optimal empirical treatment in critically ill patients (Jeena et al., 2013). The purpose of the present study is to analyse the cases of urinary tract infection in cancer patients and to study their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern. This study will help to International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 5 (2017) pp. 2259-2263 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
Implementation of a renewed questionnaire, applied in the adolescent contact moment in Child Health Care, by GGD Twente : analysis of the facilitating and impeding determinants.

The objective of this research is to find out which determinants have a facilitating or impeding influence on the implementation process of the renewed questionnaire developed by GGD Twente to support the contact moment between adolescents and Child Health Care (CHC) professionals at high schools, according to the opinions of the stakeholders. The research design is explorative with qualitative data collection methods. By interviewing 6 adolescents and 4 mentors and organizing an online focus group for 4 CHC professionals the opinions of the stakeholders were collected. It can be concluded that the most important facilitators are associated with the innovation itself, which is overall an improvement compared to the former questionnaire. Adolescents do like the questionnaire and are willing to cooperate. However, the questionnaire should be more effective if the adolescents should fill in the questionnaire in a situation wherein the adolescents sit separately, it is quiet and every adolescent stays for a certain time period. Mentors should be more aware of the procedures around the questionnaire. A protocol should be made for the professionals about the procedures after they receive the completed questionnaires.
Opacificación capsular posterior: diagnóstico, prevención y tratamiento con láser Nd-YAG

La opacificacion de la capsula posterior es una de las complicaciones mas frecuentes que suelen producirse despues de la cirugia de cataratas, como resultado de una migracion y proliferacion de restos de celulas epiteliales que quedan en el saco capsular desde el momento de la intervencion. En un principio, esta opacificacion se produce en la periferia y luego avanza hacia la zona central, lo que puede afectar, en ultima instancia y si no se diagnostica a tiempo, la vision central y originar una disminucion de la agudeza visual, la sensibilidad al contraste y la sensibilidad al deslumbramiento. El tratamiento necesario para la restauracion de la vision consiste en eliminar la opacidad mediante la capsulotomia con laser Nd-YAG. Nuevos disenos y materiales de lentes intraoculares y los hapticos, disposicion de anillos de tension capsular y mejora en la intervencion quirurgica consiguen que en la actualidad la tasa de incidencia de opacidad capsular posterior haya disminuido considerablemente
Mouth Breathing and Prevalence of Sleep Bruxism among Preschoolers aged 2 to 5 years

Objective: To determine the prevalence of bruxism, associating it with mouth breathing in preschool children in Florianopolis, Brazil. Material and Methods: Clinical examination and questions to parents/guardians of 429 children aged 2-5 were conducted. The clinical examination was performed by three calibrated examiners to register the presence of tooth wear on incisors and molars. The questions were related to sleep bruxism (teeth grinding) and mouth breathing. For determinate diagnosis, were “possible” bruxism by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and “probable” bruxism, whereas the Item Response Theory was employed for mouth breathing. To determine the associations, a Chi-square test and Fisher exact test with a standard error of 5% and 95% interval confidence were applied. Results: The clinical examination revealed bruxism in 8.2%, whereas the parental report revealed bruxism in 17.2%. When clinical examination was associated with the parent’s report, bruxism was present in 2.1%. Among the non-clinical variables, the most prevalent changes included: child presenting a regular stuffy nose (19.6%), followed by child is always open-mouthed (16.1%). A significant statistical association between bruxism and age was obtained (p 0.05). Conclusion: Bruxism was prevalent for children aged 4-5 and bruxism had no association with mouth breathing.
Hop-Constrained mmWave Backhaul: Maximising the Network Flow

This letter investigates millimetre wave (mmWave) backhaul network flow as affected by the interplay between deployment/topology, hardware architectures of the nodes and the number of hops while taking into account minimum demand per a node. The objective is to maximise the network flow, for a given deployment, based here on the Madrid-grid model. The optimisation problem firstly minimises the number of fibre-connected nodes to meet the hop-constraint, followed by the maximisation of flow to meet the constraints on the number of radiofrequency (RF) chains on the node and minimum demand. The results show that by minimising the number of hops, the network flow generally increases but requires a higher number of fibre-connected nodes, while, at the same time, the total number of RF chains in the network is reduced.
Effect of Mustard Oil Supplementation During Transition Period on Milk Composition and Calves's Birth Weight in Murrah Buffaloes

The present study was carried out to evaluate the effect of mustard oil supplementation during transition period on milk composition and calf birth weight of Murrah Buffaloes. The study was carried out at Livestock Research Centre, NDRI, Karnal, using 16 advanced pregnant Murrah buffaloes. Buffaloes of similar body weight and condition, parity and age were selected and randomly allotted to control and treatment group of having 8 animals each. The buffaloes under treatment group received 200 gram/head/day. Mustard oil mixed along with concentrate as per NDRI feeding ration while the control group received molasses (500gm/day/head) as per traditional NDRI ration during transition period to maintain iso-energy feeding in both the groups. Milk samples were collected on 7 th , 14 th , 21 st day for the analysis of milk fat, protein, solid non-fat (SNF) and lactose content. Results of milk analysis revealed highly significant improvement in milk fat percentage (P<0.01) in treatment group as compared to control groups. However mean difference of protein, SNF and lactose between control and treatment group were statistically non-significant. Thus it can be concluded from the study that 200g/h/d Mustard oil supplementation during transition period improved the milk quality and calf birth weight in Murrah buffaloes.
Prespecifiable fixed‐time control for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems in strict‐feedback form

In this paper, we investigate the prespecifiable fixed‐time control problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems in strict‐feedback form, where the settling (convergence) time is not only bounded but also user‐assignable in advance. One of the salient features of the proposed method lies in the fact that it makes it possible to achieve any practically allowable settling time by using a simple and effective control parameter selection recipe. Both fixed‐time stabilization and fixed‐time tracking are considered for uncertain strict‐feedback systems. Firstly, by adding exponential state feedback and using fractional power integration as Lyapunov function candidate, a global stabilizing control strategy is developed. It is proved that all the system states converge to zero within prespecified fixed‐time with continuous and bounded control action. Secondly, under more general uncertain nonlinearities and external disturbances, an adaptive fixed‐time controller is derived such that the tracking error converges to a small neighborhood of zero within preassigned time. Theoretical results are also illustrated and supported by simulation studies.
An Investigation of Measuring Driver Anger with Electromyography

Summary: This research explores a novel approach to measuring driver anger using facial electromyography (EMG) while completing a navigation task on a driving simulator. Participants’ anger was induced by traffic events that were frustrating in nature as well as time pressure while having to follow navigational directions. Participants’ feeling of anger was assessed multiple times via subjective self-reports while being continuously monitored through a facial EMG. Participants’ trait driving anger was assessed using the Driving Anger Scale. Results showed that, compared to baseline measures, participants had significantly higher facial EMG activation values and subjective feelings of anger upon experiencing frustrating events, suggesting facial EMG as a reliable physiological measurement for inferring drivers’ feelings of anger. This experimental protocol can be used to assess anger in navigational contexts in future studies.
Equity in Access to Outdoor Recreation—Informing a Sustainable Future

Despite an increasingly ethnically and racially diverse population in the United States (U.S.), growing evidence indicates that minorities are underrepresented in national forest visitation. Many reasons for continuing underrepresentation have been examined, involving research reaching back multiple decades. In the current study, a random sample of residents (n = 1977) from four large metropolitan statistical areas in California was involved in a telephone survey about forest visitation. Analysis revealed a continuing pattern of inequities in lifetime visitation to a national forest, as well as recency of visitation. Constraints to national forest visitation show similarities among groups. Lack of time was the most often mentioned constraint, with resource-related constraints more frequently cited by minority respondents. In contrast to prior studies, a lack of information or concerns about discrimination were not cited by survey respondents, though the open-ended approach to top constraints may underpin some of this variation from prior research. The primary information source for outdoor recreation used most frequently and most trusted was the Internet, followed closely by social networks (family and friends). In the presentation of U.S. outdoor recreation information, natural resource management agencies, use groups, and opportunity providers would benefit from incorporating culturally relevant messaging and images to affirm the message of inclusion and welcome.
Event‐based classification for global study of river flood generating processes

Better understanding of which processes generate floods in a catchment can improve flood frequency analysis and potentially climate change impacts assessment. However, current flood classification methods are either not transferable across locations or do not provide event‐based information. We therefore developed a location‐independent, event‐based flood classification methodology that is applicable in different climates and returns a classification of all flood events, including extreme ones. We use precipitation time series and very simply modelled soil moisture and snowmelt as inputs for a decision tree. A total of 113,635 events in 4155 catchments worldwide were classified into one of five hydro‐climatological flood generating processes: short rain, long rain, excess rainfall, snowmelt and a combination of rain and snow. The new classification was tested for its robustness and evaluated with available information; these two tests are often lacking in current flood classification approaches. According to the evaluation, the classification is mostly successful and indicates excess rainfall as the most common dominant process. However, the dominant process is not very informative in most catchments, as there is a high at‐site variability in flood generating processes. This is particularly relevant for the estimation of extreme floods which diverge from their usual flood generation pattern, especially in the United Kingdom, Northern France, Southeastern United States, and India.
Case report. Role of the Methylene Tetrahydrofolate Reductase (MTHFR) Gene Mutation in Acute Myocardial Infarction

Abstract This is a case report of a 36-year-old male who was diagnosed with acute inferior and right ventricular myocardial infarction and treated with percutaneous coronary angioplasty with a drug-eluting stent in the right coronary artery. A profile test for thrombophilia was performed for methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene mutation; the test was positive for a heterozygous mutation - C677C and 1298A. The patient received a long-term treatment with folic acid supplements, taken daily. This case report shows that medical doctors should have an outside-the-box approach for the diagnosis and therapeutic management of young patients who present with acute cardiovascular events. If the patient in question does not present clear cardiovascular risk factors for acute myocardial ischemia, the clinician should seek for possible causes, thus leading to several benefits in the management and secondary prevention of such cases.