Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Preparation of highly ordered nanoporous alumina by two step anodising: process and industrial applications

Abstract Highly ordered porous alumina film can be obtained by two methods: pretexturing and two step anodising. Two step anodising in oxalic acid was studied and both these methods were compared. The dependence of the porous layer structure with time has been presented. The structure of these films depends on many experimental parameters. Relationships between effective growth rate of the porous alumina layer, temperature and anodising time were investigated. The growth kinetics are favoured by increasing temperature until a certain value but above that, structures were not hexagonally ordered. Experimental conditions which lead to an ordered regime are presented.
The ultrasound diagnostic criteria for diastasis recti and its correlation with pelvic floor dysfunction in early postpartum women.

Background There has been a long-standing controversy about diastasis recti diagnostic criteria and its relation to pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD). This study aimed to establish ultrasound diagnostic criteria for diastasis recti and investigate the correlation between it and PFD in early postpartum females. Methods The inter-rectus distance (IRD) was measured at 3 locations in 116 healthy nulliparous females and 108 postpartum females. At the same time, they remained relaxed and then maintained a head-lift posture. The measurement for the 90th percentile was used to define the normal IRD in the nulliparous group. Afterward, the 108 postpartum females underwent an ultrasonographic examination of pelvic floor function. The correlations of these values with the IRD were then examined. Results We established the following ultrasonographic diagnostic criteria for diastasis recti: an IRD of >2 mm at 3 cm below the umbilicus, >20 mm at the umbilicus, and >14 mm at 3 cm above the umbilicus. The IRD was positively correlated with body mass index (BMI) in the nulliparous group (r=0.286, P<0.01) and with age in the postpartum group (r=0.230, P<0.05). The IRD was not relative to either the PFD ultrasound results or the clinical symptoms. Conclusions We established a set of ultrasonographic diagnostic criteria for diastasis recti at 3 locations along the umbilicus. There is no clear correlation between diastasis recti and PFD in early postpartum females.
The Influence of Different Fertilization Strategies on the Grain Yield of Field Peas (Pisum sativum L.) under Conventional and Conservation Tillage

Weather, tillage, and fertilization are the major factors affecting the grain yield of field peas (Pisum sativum L.). However, the impact of tillage and fertilization on yield is not well understood. Therefore, this experiment was initiated in 1999. In this manuscript, we report the data recorded during the period of 2011–2015 to quantify the impacts on yield. Field peas were planted in seedbeds prepared through conventional tillage (CT)—moldboard ploughing to the depth of 0.22 m; and minimum tillage (MT)—disking to the depth of 0.12 m. The crop received three fertilization treatments, including zero fertilization (control); nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (NPK) mineral fertilization treatment; and NPK mineral fertilization plus the incorporation of pre-crop biomass. Five years’ average data indicated the highest yield on fertilized treatments (2.85–2.98 t ha−1 vs. 2.66 t ha−1) regardless of the tillage. When comparing the yield of fertilized treatments, the yield under CT (2.98 t ha−1) was significantly higher than that of MT (2.85 t ha−1). However, on non-fertilized treatments (less fertile plots), a higher yield was recorded under MT (2.71 t ha−1) compared with CT (2.40 t ha−1). Overall, the results of this study suggest that fertilizer application together with incorporation of the above-ground biomass of the previous crop may help sustain pea grain yield.
Dynamic failure analysis of renewable energy systems in the remote offshore environments

For effective integrity management of marine renewable energy systems in the dynamic and uncertain ocean environments, understanding the failure dynamics is crucial. The cost of investment in marine/offshore renewable energy infrastructures and the associated cost due to failure and loss of energy production necessitate a predictive monitoring methodology that is dynamic and adaptive. This paper presents an integrated multi‐state pure‐birth‐pure‐death Markovian‐net profit value model for the offshore turbine subsystem failure analysis and its cost‐based consequences. The integrated model captures the offshore turbine subsystem's dynamic failure states and its economic implications due to the cost of energy loss and downtime for the period under consideration. The model applies a phase‐type exponential distribution to describe the monotonic state of failure. The methodology is demonstrated with an offshore wind turbine gearbox, and it captures the dynamic state of the system and its failure mechanisms. The cumulative effect of the subelements deterioration decreases the gearbox performance by over 35% within the first 2 years of operation.
Considerations for virtual surgical planning and simulation in orthognathic surgery—a narrative review

Although there are many benefits to use 3D virtual surgical planning (VSP) for orthognathic surgery, there are only a few reports on the potential errors or mistakes that can occur with VSP and simulation processes. This narrative review updates information on VSP and discusses the various precautions and considerations for VSP in orthognathic surgery. Application of VSP allows visualization of the interosseous relationship, segment overlap or bony interference, and significant interosseous gaps. Potential sites for additional bone grafts or bone reduction can be anticipated. Additionally, presurgical planning can be performed with unlimited time. Since most VSP is performed by an outsourced company, quality assurance in VSP depends on a third-party, and sometimes there is lack of clarity when delineating the responsibilities for surgical outcomes. To increase the precision of 3D planning and simulation, surgeons need to be aware that the VSP cannot automatically ensure the success of surgical outcomes. Errors can occur at every step, such as integration of 3D dentition to skull data, segment identification and mobilization, computer-aided surgical simulation, fabrication of splint and surgical guides, 3D image superimposition, and determination of occlusion in virtual space. Thorough understanding of the source of errors in VSP can lead to successful surgical outcomes in orthognathic surgery performed with VSP.
Polyaniline electrospinning composite fibers for orthotopic photothermal treatment of tumors in vivo

A nanocomposite fabricated by electrostatic spinning, which incorporated polyaniline nanoparticles into poly(e-caprolactone) and gelatin (PG), was used to form nanofiber fabrics. Polyaniline nanoparticles have a strong optical absorption at near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths and can convert optical energy into thermal energy under 808 nm laser irradiation, allowing them to ablate tumor cells thermally. Pieces of the nanocomposite were surgically implanted into tumors in mice, and orthotopic photothermal therapy was performed. The experimental results in vivo suggested that polyaniline PG can inhibit tumor growth efficiently by converting optical energy into thermal energy to ablate tumor cells.
Comparative transcriptome analysis in three sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) cultivars reveal genomic basis of differential seed quality

Abstract Sorghum is a globally important C4 crop that serves both as staple food and as bio-fuel, and showed high phenotypic variation in grain quality. In this study, we performed RNA-seq in grains of three local Sorghum cultivars Z6, Z27 and HC4, which have differential agronomic traits especially in grain color. Our analysis revealed more than 3000 differentially expressed genes among the three cultivars. The differentially expressed genes were enriched in carbohydrate, amino acid and flavonoid metabolic pathways, which may affect the appearance and nutrition value of grains. We also identified new genes and SNPs in the three cultivars. Our results revealed the transcriptome variations among different Sorghum cultivars that correlates with grain nutrition, and provided valuable information for sorghum breeding.
Media, Disaster Response, Ebola: What Local Government Needs to Understand About Media Influence of Response Operations When the Improbable Becomes Reality

Abstract Research has shown that mass media can influence response operations by influencing the way that information is disseminated to the public before, during, and after disaster. After the 2014 Ebola event, the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) conducted an After Action Review that proposes the need for government to ensure that the media does not control the narrative of response. The goal of this study is to understand if and how the media did attempt to control the narrative of response. To achieve this goal, we conduct a content analysis of three major newspapers, from July 26, 2014 to November 1, 2014, that focuses on Adaptive Governance in response to Ebola’s debut in the United States shortly after September 20, 2014. The results indicate that articles are more likely to focus on federal agencies and response efforts that follow established federal guidelines. However, the mention of local government, the boots on the ground first responders, is not significant to the mention of Adaptive Governance. This suggests that print media is controlling the narrative of the response and local government needs to provide the print media more access to emergency management professionals for more effective dissemination of effective local response.
USAR simulation system: presenting spatial strategies in agents'
task allocation under uncertainties

Abstract. Task allocation in uncertainty conditions is a key problem for agents attempting to achieve harmony in disaster environments. This paper presents an agent- based simulation to investigate tasks allocation through the consideration of appropriate spatial strategies to deal with uncertainty in urban search and rescue (USAR) operation. The proposed method is presented in five phases: ordering existing tasks, finding coordinating agent, holding an auction, applying allocation strategies, and implementation and observation of environmental uncertainties. The methodology was evaluated in Tehran's District 1 for 6.6, 6.9, and 7.2 magnitude earthquakes. The simulation started by calculating the number of injured individuals, which was 28856, 73195 and 111463 people for each earthquake, respectively. The Simulations were performed for each scenario for a variety of rescuers (1000, 1500, 2000 rescuer). In comparison with contract net protocol (CNP), the standard time of rescue operations in the proposed approach includes at least 13% of improvement and the best percentage of recovery was 21 %. Interval uncertainty analysis and the comparison of the proposed strategies showed that an increase in uncertainty leads to an increased rescue time for CNP of 67.7 hours, and for strategies one to four an increased rescue time of 63.4, 63.2, 63.7, and 56.5 hours, respectively. Considering strategies in the task allocation process, especially spatial strategies, resulted in the optimization and increased flexibility of the allocation as well as conditions for fault tolerance and agent-based cooperation stability in USAR simulation system.
Egg shell membrane – a potential natural scaffold for human meniscal tissue engineering: an in vitro study

In the present study, natural egg shell membrane (ESM), harvested from locally available single comb white leghorn hen eggs was investigated for its ability to support adhesion and proliferation of human meniscal cells. The harvested ESM was subjected to moist heat (autoclaving) and compared with raw egg shell membrane (RESM) for meniscal cell growth. RESM and autoclaved egg shell membrane (AESM) were characterized using suitable techniques like field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), solid surface zeta potential, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and biodegradability in trypsin and phosphate buffered saline (PBS). From the characterization studies, it was evident that autoclaving resulted in surface modification of RESM. RESM was cationic in nature and was covered with a mucilaginous coating on the surface. However, AESM showed almost neutral surface charge without any mucilaginous coating. The AESM showed increased resistance to biodegradation when compared to RESM. The primary human meniscal cells, seeded onto the fibrous side of both ESM showed increased cell adhesion and proliferation in AESM than RESM. Extracellular matrix (collagen and glycosaminoglycan) secretion into the external medium by the adhered cells was higher with AESM than RESM. Cell attachment, DNA content on the scaffold, cell proliferation index, cytotoxicity and biodegradation studies also confirmed that AESM scaffolds supports better cell attachment and growth of meniscal cells when compared to RESM. Hence, AESM can be a potential and interesting natural scaffold matrix for meniscal tissue engineering.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Role of Pediatric Nurse

Dikkat eksikligi hiperaktivite bozuklugu (DEHB), cocuklukta baslayan bir saglik sorunudur ve cocuk/ergenlerde ortak bir psikiyatrik problem olarak ele alinmaktadir. DEHB, sik gorulen bir saglik sorunu olmasina ragmen, kullanilan farkli yontem ve tani koyma olcutleri nedeni ile siklik ve yayginlik konusunda kesin bir gorus birligi saglanamamistir. Dunyada yapilan calismalar incelendiginde; okul cagi cocuklarinda %0,2-%0,4 gibi cok dusuk degerlerden %23,4-%27 gibi daha yuksek degerler arasinda oldukca farkli prevalans oranlari gorulmektedir. DEHB’nin Turkiye’deki insidansi ise %5 olup, erkeklerde kizlara gore dort kat daha fazladir. DEHB’li cocuk/ergenleri erken donemde belirleyerek onlara verilecek destegin surekliliginde pediatri hemsireleri anahtar kisi rolundedir. Sonuc olarak pediatri hemsireleri, DEHB’li cocuklarin erken donemde tanilanabilmesi ve tedaviye yonlendirilmesi icin okullarda egitimler duzenlemeli, bu konuya yonelik tarama calismalari yapmali, cocugun, ailesinin, ogretmenin ve sosyal cevresine danismanlik saglamalidir.
Gas sensors based on Paschen's law using carbon nanotubes as electron emitters

In the case of typical gas sensors responding by gas adsorption on the surface, it is very difficult to detect inert gases which have low chemical adsorption energies under normal conditions. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are well known as electron emitters in applications like field emission displays. In this work, we fabricate a physical gas sensor (or vacuum sensor) using CNTs with compactness and reliability of the fabrication process and discuss current–voltage characteristics as a function of the vacuum pressure. The proposed sensor, based on an electrical discharge theory known as Paschen's law, works by figuring changes of the discharge current depending on the concentration of gases which can ionize through collisions with electrons emitted from CNT emitters.
Poroelectroelastic theory of water sorption and swelling in polymer electrolyte membranes

This paper presents a novel poroelectroelastic model of equilibrium water sorption and swelling in polymer electrolyte membranes. These phenomena determine transport properties, electrochemical performance, durability and lifetime of the membrane in a polymer electrolyte fuel cell. Based on a consistent treatment of thermodynamic equilibrium conditions, involving capillary, osmotic and elastic effects, we establish the equation of state of water in a single membrane pore. It relates the charge density at the pore walls to a microscopic swelling parameter. Extended to the water sorption equilibrium in a pore ensemble, the model reconciles microscopic swelling in a single pore with macroscopic swelling of the membrane. Theoretical relations are developed that rationalize the impact of external conditions, statistical distribution of anionic head groups and elastic properties of the polymer on water sorption and swelling. The model resolves Schroder's paradox and other unexplained phenomena related to water sorption equilibria, pressure distribution, and transport properties in PEM.
Soccer in the integration and assimilation processes of Amerindian peoples

Has soccer favoured the integration processes of Amerindian peoples in the different national societies to which they belong, or has it rather permitted their cultural assimilation? Based on this general question, four different scenes are analysed: the ethnic through the Yanomami case; the regional with the populations of the Napo river basin; the national with the Pan-indigenous Games; and the international one with the America's Cup of the Indigenous Peoples. The methodology used for data production combines ethnographic work with documentaries, distributed in different places and periods of time. Among the conclusions, soccer has become one of the symbols of the new ages of the indigenous world, instrumentalized in different ways and used to expand and reinforce social links. By the moment, its practice is not directly denoting the abandonment of the cultural being of these towns.
DAEOM: A Deep Attentional Embedding Approach for Biomedical Ontology Matching

Ontology Matching (OM) is performed to find semantic correspondences between the entity elements of different ontologies to enable semantic integration, reuse, and interoperability. Representation learning techniques have been introduced to the field of OM with the development of deep learning. However, there still exist two limitations. Firstly, these methods only focus on the terminological-based features to learn word vectors for discovering mappings, ignoring the network structure of ontology. Secondly, the final alignment threshold is usually determined manually within these methods. It is difficult for an expert to adjust the threshold value and even more so for a non-expert user. To address these issues, we propose an alternative ontology matching framework called Deep Attentional Embedded Ontology Matching (DAEOM), which models the matching process by embedding techniques with jointly encoding ontology terminological description and network structure. We propose a novel inter-intra negative sampling skill tailored for the structural relations asserted in ontologies, and further improve our iterative final alignment method by introducing an automatic adjustment of the final alignment threshold. The preliminary result on real-world biomedical ontologies indicates that DAEOM is competitive with several OAEI top-ranked systems in terms of F-measure.
Matrix and tensor completion using tensor ring decomposition with sparse representation

Completing a data tensor with structured missing components is a challenging task where the missing components are not distributed randomly but they admit some regular patterns, e.g. missing columns and rows or missing blocks/patches. Many of the existing tensor completion algorithms are not able to handle such scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel and efficient approach for matrix/tensor completion by applying Hankelization and distributed tensor ring decomposition. Our main idea is first Hankelizing an incomplete data tensor in order to obtain high-order tensors and then completing the data tensor by imposing sparse representation on the core tensors in tensor ring format. We apply an efficient over-complete discrete cosine transform dictionary and sparse representation techniques to learn core tensors. Alternating direction methods of multiplier and accelerated proximal gradient approaches are used to solve the underlying optimization problems. Extensive simulations performed on image, video completions and time series forecasting show the validity and applicability of the method for different kinds of structured and random missing elements.
The mechanical thrombectomy during coil embolisation of the ruptured intracranial aneurysm

Experience in managing thromboembolic complications of distal blood vessels during coil embolization in the case of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is still limited. This is the presentation of the case of a 23-year-old man with a ruptured small aneurysm who experienced thromboembolic occlusion during coil embolization. Mechanical thrombectomy resulted in complete recanalization of the occluded branches without ischemic complications. This case should be used for the use of mechanical thrombectomies as an effective rescue strategy and treatment of distal arteries occlusions of the brain.
Spiritual Decline as a Predictor of Posttraumatic Stress

Many college students in the United States arrive on campus with exposure to both traumatic events and typical negative life events, as well as varying levels of emotional wellness. One way that students may seek out help is through spiritually supportive wellness programming. The current study examines the prevalence of and relationship between traumatic life events, typical negative life events, and spiritual growth and decline as predictors of posttraumatic stress in a sample of undergraduates (N = 88) seeking spiritually supportive wellness. Traumatic and typical negative life events and spiritual decline were predictive of posttraumatic stress. Furthermore, a moderation effect was found such that while participants with high trauma exposure and high spiritual decline reported the highest posttraumatic stress, those with high trauma exposure and low spiritual decline reported lower posttraumatic stress, similar to those with low trauma exposure. These results have implications for the role of spiritual decline in the etiology of PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder) within emerging adult populations who identify as spiritual that warrant further study.
Reactive nanostructured carbon as an effective doping agent for MgB2

A MgB2−xCx superconductor was prepared with reactive nanostructured carbon up to nominal x = 0.316 by high-energy ball milling. These products crystallize at temperatures below 700 °C, forming mainly MgB2−xCx with a particle size of about 20 nm and with lattice-dissolved carbon content up to about x = 0.13 under normal pressure conditions, and minor MgB4. The nominal higher addition of reactive nanostructured carbon does not have an influence on the a-axis of the MgB2−xCx structure. The superconducting behaviour reflects the optimum interplay of the lattice-dissolved carbon, which influences the carrier density, and the homogeneously distributed carbon, which probably acts as a pinning centre. For the sample with a nominal x = 0.221, the critical current density (Jc) increased by approximately one order of magnitude to Jc = 1.7 × 104 A cm−2 at 9 T and 4.2 K compared to the undoped MgB2.