Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Mercado de vizinhança ou atacarejo para consumidores de baixa renda em regiões periféricas

Neste estudo escrutinamos um conjunto dos principais determinantes das preferencias dos consumidores de baixa renda, consumidores de regioes perifericas, considerando os formatos de mercado de vizinhanca e atacarejo. As regioes perifericas tem forte concentracao de consumidores de baixa renda que sao clientes dos formatos de supermercado. O entendimento da preferencia do consumidor e importante para as decisoes de investimento na expansao das redes supermercadistas no Brasil. Para entender os criterios de selecao dos consumidores de baixa renda sobre a escolha do formato de supermercado, conduzimos um survey junto a clientes de lojas de diferentes formatos, com uma amostra de 107 respondentes. Os resultados apontam que embora o preco ser um fator importante da satisfacao dos consumidores, o acesso facil as lojas (isto e, a localizacao em proximidade) e um fator crucial determinante da escolha do supermercado para consumidores de baixa renda. Como implicacoes gerenciais, este estudo auxilia a compreender os criterios de decisao dos consumidores, e proporciona insights para a expansao das redes de supermercados direcionadas ao mercado de baixa renda, incluindo a concecao da oferta de produtos e servicos que ajudam a atrair mais consumidores.
Invasive marine and brackishwater invertebrates in Kanagawa Prefecture

はじめに 近年,アライグマやタイワンリス,釣魚のブ ラックバスなど移入動物が話題となっている. これらは人為的に国内に持ち込まれた動物た ちであり,古来からの日本の自然との協調がう まくいかず,その土地独自の生き物の存在をお びやかしたりと各地で問題となっている. 海の 生態系に目をむけても,知らず知らずのうちに 様々な生物が外国から渡来してすでに蔓延って いる種も多いことが最近わかってきた(日本生 態学会, 2002). ムールガイとして食されるム ラサキイガイやミドリイガイが良く知られてい るが,他にも多くの外国産の無脊椎動物が東京 湾や相模湾には普通に分布している. これら外 国からの侵入者が関東近海に現在どれだけ生息 しているのか,沿岸の生態系に影響を与えてい ないか,日本独自の生き物を駆逐していないか を調べる目的で,以下の調査を行った. 今回の調査では,これまで多くの外来種が見 つかっている河口部と港湾部を中心に行い,ま た,他の外来種調査(例えば木村ほか, 2004; 岩崎ほか, 2004a, b)との比較も行った.
Estimating Soil Available Phosphorus Content through Coupled Wavelet–Data-Driven Models

Soil phosphorus (P) is a vital but limited element which is usually leached from the soil via the drainage process. Soil phosphorus as a soluble substance can be delivered through agricultural fields by runoff or soil loss. It is one of the most essential nutrients that affect the sustainability of crops as well as the energy transfer for living organisms. Therefore, an accurate simulation of soil phosphorus, which is considered as a point source pollutant in elevated contents, must be performed. Considering a crucial issue for a sustainable soil and water management, an effective soil phosphorus assessment in the current research was conducted with the aim of examining the capability of five different wavelet-based data-driven models: gene expression programming (GEP), neural networks (NN), random forest (RF), multivariate adaptive regression spline (MARS), and support vector machine (SVM) in modeling soil phosphorus (P). In order to achieve this goal, several parameters, including soil pH, organic carbon (OC), clay content, and soil P data, were collected from different regions of the Neyshabur plain, Khorasan-e-Razavi Province (Northeast Iran). First, a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) was applied to the pH, OC, and clay as the inputs and their subcomponents were utilized in the applied data-driven techniques. Statistical Gamma test was also used for identifying which effective soil parameter is able to influence soil P. The applied methods were assessed through 10-fold cross-validation scenarios. Our results demonstrated that the wavelet–GEP (WGEP) model outperformed the other models with respect to various validations, such as correlation coefficient (R), scatter index (SI), and Nash–Sutcliffe coefficient (NS) criteria. The GEP model improved the accuracy of the MARS, RF, SVM, and NN models with respect to SI-NS (By comparing the SI values of the GEP model with other models namely MARS, RF, SVM, and NN, the outputs of GEP showed more accuracy by 35%, 30%, 40%, 50%, respectively. Similarly, the results of the GEP outperformed the other models by 3.1%, 2.3%, 4.3%, and 7.6%, comparing their NS values.) by 35%-3.1%, 30%-2.3%, 40%-4.3%, and 50%-7.6%, respectively.
Regulated Morphogen Gradients for Target Surrounding and Adaptive Shape Formation

In swarm robotics, developing algorithms for self-organizing minimalistic robots has become a popular research topic. Unlike others, minimalistic robots may not be able to self-localize themselves, making it very challenging to accomplish missions such as surrounding a target, whose position is typically unknown. In target surroundings, reaching a target and joining the swarm do not always lead to a satisfactory enclosure of the target. Furthermore, it is impossible for individual minimalistic robots to figure out what a global shape of the swarm should be without a collective decision making. In this article, we make use of diffusion and reaction of two morphogens for target surrounding and formation of a circular shape swarm. We show that the proposed method is able to adaptively form shapes surrounding multiple targets. Computer simulations and physical experiments using Kilobots are performed to assess the performance of the proposed algorithm.
Pesquisa de Rickettsia, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, Babesia, Hepatozoon e Leishmania em Cachorro-do-mato (Cerdocyon thous) de vida livre do Estado do Espírito Santo

Foram coletados cinqüenta e oito (58) amostras de cachorro-do-mato (Cerdocyon thous) de vida livre, provenientes do Estado do Espírito Santo, Brasil. Os animais eram mortos por atropelamento ao longo da rodovia estadual ES-060 que liga os municípios de Vila Velha à Guarapari, passando por duas reservas florestais de Mata Atlântica. Todos os animais eram encaminhados para a Universidade de Vila Velha UVV pela concessionária RodoSol, onde passavam por detalhado exame necroscópico com coleta de tecidos e ectoparasitas para pesquisa de patógenos pela técnica de Reação em Cadeia de Polimerase (PCR). Todas as amostras obtidas foram testadas quanto à presença de agentes pertencentes à família Anaplasmataceae e membros dos gêneros Rickettsia, Borrelia, Babesia, Coxiella, Leishmania, Hepatozoon e Ehrlichia. No total foram colhidos 25 espécimes de carrapatos, todos em estágio ninfal e pertencentes à espécie Amblyomma cajennense. Na pesquisa de patógenos pela PCR, não foi encontrada nenhuma amostra de animal ou carrapato positiva para Leishmania spp, Rickettsia spp, Borrelia spp, Babesia spp e Coxiella spp. Das 58 amostras de tecidos, 29 (50%) foram positivas para Hepatozoon spp no gene 18S rRNA, tendo sido identificado dois genótipos, um denominado Hepatozoon sp. ex Cerdocyon thous, presente em 96,55% dos animais testados, com máxima similaridade de 98,67% com a espécie Hepatozoon sp. curupira 2 (AY461377). O outro genótipo foi encontrado em somente um animal (3,44%), denominado Hepatozoon sp. P20 Cerdocyon thous, que apresentou máxima similaridade de 97,5% com Hepatozoon sp. 744C (EU430234). Na pesquisa para Ehrlichia spp, seis amostras foram positivas (10,34%). As seis amostras foram caracterizadas como uma possível nova espécie de Ehrlichia, denominada Ehrlichia sp. ex Cerdocyon thous, com máxima similaridade de 97,57% com a espécie Ehrlichia ruminantium (DQ482915) para o gene 16S e 82,51% similar com E. ruminantium str. Gardel (CR925677) para o gene dsb. Todas as espécies de carrapatos foram negativas. Hepatozoon spp e Ehrlichia spp são agentes infecciosos transmitidos por carrapatos, com potencial zoonótico, de potencial impacto para saúde animal e humana
Understanding the Implications of Alternative Bioenergy Crops to Support Smallholder Farmers in Brazil

Smallholders constitute more than three quarters of the world’s farmers, and despite their numbers, they commonly lack opportunities to advance their development status. Bioenergy production and consumption can help sustain smallholders’ energy needs and generate employment and income, but it also raises concerns over social justice and equity, especially where crops used for bioenergy could also be used for food. This perspective paper is grounded in a literature review related to three different crops in Brazil: sugarcane, landrace maize and sweet potato. It seeks to determine if these crops offer the potential to support smallholder farmers’ development in a more equitable way, focusing on opportunities for their use in bioenergy. We review the literature to identify policies shaping the smallholder development context in relation to these crops, assessing whose knowledge informs policy and institutional decision making, and highlighting the policy attention afforded to the different crops from different sectors. We further evaluate the literature on each crop in relation to water use and calorific value (i.e., food and energy). Our review indicates that while sugarcane has received the most policy and institutional attention, its development is largely anchored in research and development investments that support large-scale commercial farms and agri-businesses. Smallholders have not benefited or had the opportunity to engage in relevant policy decision making for sugarcane cultivation. At the same time, smallholders hold valuable untapped knowledge on the cultivation of sweet potato and landrace maize, both of which have the potential to generate development opportunities for smallholders. Our review suggests that the environmental impact of landrace maize and sweet potato in terms of water use is significantly lower than sugarcane, while they can generate more calories for energy or food consumption and offer diversification opportunities. Despite that these alternative crops offer considerable untapped potential to support rural development, more research is still needed to harness these benefits. Changes are needed to address inequities in policies, institutions and the types of knowledge informing decision making. Such changes need to afford smallholder farmers greater recognition and participation in decision making, so that the distribution of benefits from the three study crops can reach them to support their development better.
SEX EDUCATION FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH HEARING DISABILITIES: DEVELOPMENT OF ANIMATION LEARNING MEDIA

This research aims to know the opinion or responses from Special Education Teachers in Jabodetabek related to the needs of learning media about reproduction health for people with hearing disorders. The method of this research was quantitative. Data collection of this research used a questionnaire instrument that was tested on 105 teachers in 14 SLB as respondents. The samples were taking by using incidental sampling. Data analysis was in the form of descriptive for obtaining the picture about the needs of developing learning media about health reproduction for disability people with hearing disorders. The results of this research obtain most of respondents are at score 118 – 126 in the amount of 44 people (41,91%) stating agree and the least 3 people (2,84%) stating extremely disagree. The results of the table show that 79 respondents (75,25%) expect animation based media development for students with hearing disorders for sex learning about reproduction health. In the contrary, there are 26 respondents (24,75%) who do not expect development on that media. The conclusion of this research which was conducted on 105 Special Needs School in Jabodetablek area, the results positively welcome the development of animation media on reproduction health for students with hearing disorders.
A Hybrid Three-Phase AC/DC Power System for Low-Frequency Pulsed Load Applications

A hybrid three-phase ac/dc power system, which is composed of a diode-bridge rectifier and a two-stage ac–dc converter, is proposed in this article, for low-frequency pulsed load applications. With the proposed hybrid power system, the low-frequency pulsed load power is decoupled with the average power of the ac source, while the high-frequency harmonics induced by the diode-bridge rectifier is compensated by the ac–dc converter. Fault-tolerant operation is achieved with four possible operation modes of the proposed hybrid power system. Therefore, high reliability is achieved with these redundant operation modes. Operation principles, control methods, and design considerations of the hybrid ac/dc power system are analyzed in detail. An experimental prototype is built and tested to verify the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed hybrid ac/dc circuit and its control strategy.
Differentiation of Low-Grade and High-Grade Glioma Using the Combination of Conventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Value

BACKGROUND: The conventional magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) may have a role in predicting tumor grade for gliomas and may in turn assist in identifying tumor biopsy sites. In this study, we aimed to determine the added value of a joint approach of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and cMRI to determine of low grade and high-grade glioma, compare to cMRI alone. METHODS: Data were collected from 56 glioma patients, who underwent examinations and received treatment at Cipto Mangunkusumo National Central General Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia, from the period of 2015–2018. Inclusion criteria was patients who underwent cMRI with a DWIADC sequence and patient that were diagnosed with glioma according to the histopathological results. Pathology reports of the imaging results were reviewed independently. A receiver operator curve (ROC) analysis assessed the predictive potential of cMRI and ADC values for low-grade and high-grade gliomas. RESULTS: Fifty-six subjects met the inclusion criteria. The combination of MRI and ADC values increased sensitivity (to 90%) and negative predictive value (to 92.9%), and also improved the negative likelihood ratio (to 0.14). However, the combination of MRI and ADC values had the highest area under the curve (78.6%) and sensitivity (78.6%), which was similar to the separated examination. CONCLUSION: The combination of ADC value and conventional MRI increases sensitivity in differentiating low-grade and high-grade glioma compared to separated examination. KEYWORDS: glioma, conventional MRI, ADC value
Experience Design in Leisure and Recreation Curriculum

Abstract Experience design is a term that has risen to the forefront in a variety of professional fields and has relevance for the field of park and recreation. Park and recreation professionals are primarily focused on providing experiences and thus could naturally consider themselves experienced designers. Surprisingly, experience design is not a topic often discussed within park and recreation publications or curriculum. This absence is at least in part attributable to the fact that experience design is an emerging field that has grown independently out of multiple disciplines. Consequently, the fields of park and recreation and experience design overlap in a variety of mutually beneficial ways which deserve further consideration. The purpose of this paper is to provide leisure educators a brief introduction to the practice of experience design and present information drawn from experience designers across a variety of fields about the skills, certifications, and resources necessary to become an experienced designer.
Towards a revised Amphinomidae (Annelida, Amphinomida): description and affinities of a new genus and species from the Nile Deep‐sea Fan, Mediterranean Sea

Borda, E. , Kudenov, J.D. , Bienhold, C. & Rouse, G.W. (2012). Towards a revised Amphinomidae (Annelida, Amphinomida): description and affinities of a new genus and species from the Nile Deep‐sea Fan, Mediterranean Sea. —Zoologica Scripta, 41, 307–325.
Twitter Sentiment Analysis: A Political View

Twitter is a famous micro-blogging service for tracking public mood with respect to an object or entity. It involves an application of sentiment analysis on naturally written language to extract sentiments conveyed by the users. Twitter sentiment analysis is demanding. Because of the raw nature of text, limited size, use of slang words, abbreviations, tweet processing task became quite complicated. But, one cannot ignore the twitter data, as it hold sentiments towards variety of topics. This research aims to analyse political orientation of twitter users as positive or negative. Different machine learning algorithms are adopted to identify the user point of view on Ayodhya issue. Then the efficiencies of these built models are contrasted with one another to discover the best machine learning algorithm on text categorisation. The result is analysed based on the measurement metrics namely accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score measures for each sentiment class.
Heterosis Studies for Ethanol Yield and Its Related Traits in F1 Hybrids of Sweet Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]

Sweet sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench], a specific type of sorghum, has been considered a potentially valuable source for biofuel production because of its high energy convertion efficiency. Many characteristics such as green stalk yield, stalk sugar content, stalk juice extractability and grain yield have been proved as major contributors to its economic superiority. Although heterosis is well established in grain and forage sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench], reports of heterosis in sweet sorghum are limited to results from grain sorghum × sweet sorghum hybrids. Thirty hybrids, derived from a line × tester trial, were evaluated in kharif season during 2010 along with their parents and the checks. Heterosis over mid parent, better parent and standard checks viz., CSH 22SS, PAC 52093 and NSSV 13 was studied for bioethanol yield and its component characters. Based on standard heterosis the hybrids viz., NSS 1007A × CSV 19SS and RS 1220A × SSV 74 are found highly suitable for heterosis breeding as they exhibited significant positive standard heterosis for ethanol yield and its contributing traits.
Post-Infectional Development of Meloidogyne incognita on Susceptible and Resistant Soybean Genotypes

Post-infectional development, reproduction, and fecundity of Meloidogyne incognita on three soybean genotypes were examined under greenhouse conditions. The genotypes Bossier, Forrest, and PI 96354 were susceptible, partially resistant, and highly resistant, respectively, to M. incognita. Most second-stage juveniles in roots of Forrest and PI 96354 had emigrated from roots of these genotypes by 10 days after inoculation. Nematodes parasitizing PI 96354 had the slowest developmental rate and produced 99% fewer eggs per egg mass than females on the other two genotypes. Total eggs produced on Forrest was intermediate between egg production on Bossier and PI 96354.
Prospects for International Cooperation of EAEU Countries on Export Development

The article discusses the issues of export development in the context of Eurasian economic integration. Achieving the goal of creating an effective system of division of labor and production cooperation within the EAEU is planned through the growth in the volume of trade turnover between Russia and the EAEU member states by 2024 by 1.5 times. Successful implementation of challenges of integration within the framework of the EAEU may provide a total supplementary GDP growth of the EAEU by 2030 by $ 210 billion on current basis. In order to achieve the predicted effects, the article includes an estimation of the trade turnover between the EAEU member states using the Tinbergen gravity model. An analysis of the results obtained makes it possible to conclude that the GDP growth of the EAEU member states will lead to an increase in exports of goods from Russia. The paper also presents the impact of gross domestic products of Russia and the EAEU Member States on the total value of the relevant exports.
Evaluación del impacto de un programa de educación emocional en mujeres mexicanas

La evaluacion del impacto de los programas de educacion emocional toma relevancia para argumentar la necesidad de su inclusion en distintos ciclos de vida y distintos contextos. El presente trabajo muestra la evaluacion de un programa para el desarrollo de habilidades emocionales en mujeres mexicanas. Se muestra la estructura de las diez sesiones de trabajo, asi como los resultados de las evaluaciones previas y posteriores a la intervencion. Se aplicaron el inventario de competencias socioemocionales (EQi-SF), la escala de resiliencia para adultos (RSA) y el inventario de Ansiedad Rasgo-Estado (IDARE). Los resultados muestran una disminucion significativa de la ansiedad, un aumento en la competencia personal, social y cohesion familiar de la escala de resiliencia, asi como las habilidades para el manejo de estres y la generacion de estado de animo positivo en cuanto al inventario de competencias socioemocionales. Doi: 10.21703/rexe.20201939alva6
An expert–novice comparison of feature choice

Perceptual experts have learned to rapidly and accurately perceive the structural regularities that define categories and identities within a domain. They extract important features and their relations more efficiently than novices. We used fingerprint examination to investigate expert-novice differences in feature choice. On each fingerprint within our set, experts and novices selected one feature they thought was most useful for distinguishing a particular print and one feature they thought was least useful. We found that experts and novices often differed in the features they chose, and experts tended to agree more with each other. However, any such expert-novice difference appeared to depend on the image at hand typically emerging when salient or more conspicuous features of a fingerprint were unclear. We suggest that perceptual training ought to direct attention to useful features with the understanding that what is useful may change depending on the clarity of the stimuli.
DNA PROTECTION, TOTAL PHENOLICS AND ANTIOXIDANT POTENTIAL OF THE MUSHROOM RUSSULA VIRESCENS

Antioxidant properties and total phenolic, flavonoid, ascorbic acid, b-carotene and lycopene contents of ethanol and water extracts from the edible mushroom Russula virescens (RV) were examined in this study. Various experimental models including 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl-hydrazyl (DPPH), 2,2′-azino-bis(3ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid)diammonium salt (ABTS), nitrite, hydroxyl and superoxide radical scavenging activity, inhibition of linoleic acid oxidation, DNA protection and catalase activity were used to characterize the antioxidant activity of the extracts. The IC50 values for DPPH and ABTS radical scavenging activities were 0.22 and 0.44 mg/mL, respectively, for water extract and 1.90 and 0.65 mg/mL, respectively, for ethanol extract. The levels of phenolic compounds were 8.74 and 2.21 mg gallic acid/100 g dry mass, and flavonoid compounds were 2.83 and 1.02 mg catechin/100 g dry mass for the water and ethanol extracts, respectively. In addition, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analyses of RV extract revealed the presence of different phenolic compounds. R. virescens can therefore be considered to be a potential source of natural antioxidants.