Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effectiveness of TERMS for developing scientific reasoning among secondary school students

Education plays a very dynamic role in changing the society and its needs. In this world of technology the teachers should acquire and update the technological skill so that they can reach up to the needs of a student of present era and fulfil it.The learning realm of today’s student is packed with computer and other gadgets. As this enhances their knowledge, the mastery over this becomes inevitable for the teacher trainers and the trained graduates.Then only the students of these teachers are benefitted out of it. It makes them more creative and scientific than the students of traditional class room. The total facet of society is being changed due to globalization and its demands are attained faster as the more techno-pedagogical skilled students work for it. This paper gives an overview of a new blog ‘TERMS’(E-Resource Management Systemfor Teachers) created by DIET, Kasargode District, Kerala with the help of IT@school, Kasargode and focuses on the influence of resources in TERMS for developing scientific reasoning amongstudents. The blog TERMS is a new techno-pedagogy for developing students learning. The primary focus of the blog is to provide experiences for the students that will help them effectively infuse technology into their future classrooms. This objective is accomplished by providing students with the opportunity to use a variety of resources to accomplish tasks and by explicitly exposing them to the process of learning new technologies. This blog attempts to develop the critical and reflective thinking, scientific reasoning ability in students. Here in the present study the investigator attempts to study the effectiveness of TERMS for developing scientific reasoning among secondary school students.
La dysfonction cardiaque au cours du sepsis Myocardial dysfunction in the patient with sepsis

Actual data suggest that patients in sepsis or septic shock present after resuscitation hyperkinetic status with a high or normal cardiac output. This hyperkinetic status is associated with a myocardial dysfunction. This dysfunction is reversible with sepsis recovery. Pathophysiologically, this dysfunction is complex and involves pro-inflammatory cytokines, nitrite oxide, alteration of beta-adrenergic receptors, apoptosis and calcium abnormalities particularly a decreased myocardial fibers sensibility. Clinical assessment includes right catheterization, echocardiography and biological parameters. The left ventricular dysfunction is characterized by an alteration of the segmental or global contractility with decreased ejection fraction. Right ventricular dysfunction is associated with right ventricular dilation and paradoxical septum. Biologically, troponin I, BNP and NT-pro-BNP are increased and confirm the myocardial damage. High levels of BNP and NT-pro-BNP seem to be excellent markers of pejorative evolution. New therapeutics such levosimendan in septic shock or beta-blockers in sepsis (with normal blood arterial pressure) may have benefits but need more clinical validations. © 2006 Société de Réanimation de Langue Française. Publié par Elsevier SAS. Tous droits réservés. Mots clés : Sepsis ; Choc septique ; Fonction cardiaque ; Échocardiographie ; Ventricule gauche
Bacterial Load Reduction after Primary and Secondary Treatment in Guheswori Sewage Treatment Plant, Kathmandu, Nepal

Background: Water sources such as lakes, ponds, river etc. have been continuously contaminated by the micro organisms and chemicals. The former can pose a significant threat to human health. This work aims at detecting the bacterial load before and after the sewage treatment and hence isolating pathogens from the sewage before primary treatment and secondary treated effluent. Methods: Grab sampling (50mL sewage before primary treatment and secondary treated effluent) was performed for 20 days in the Guheswori sewage treatment plant. The reduction in microbial load was determined through heterotrophic plate count. Pathogens were screened from the effluent obtained from the secondary treatment plant. Results: Bacterial load reduction was found to be about 48.02% on average. The observed bacterial load reduction might have been caused by bacteriophage flocculation and sedimentation. Pathogens isolated from the treated effluent were Escherichia coli, Salmonella Typhi, Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus aureus , Coagulase negative Staphylococcus (CONS), Citrobacter fruendii, Enterobacter aerogenes, Proteus mirabilis, P. vulgaris, Pseudomonas aeruginosa . Conclusions: It has been found that the sewage treatment plant helps to reduce the bacterial load which is, however, not capable of effluent polishing where all pathogens are killed.
FINDING COMMON GROUND; INDIVIDUAL TRAIT DIFFERENCES AND THE PERSUASIVE EFFECTS OF MORAL FRAMING

Political disagreement, both interpersonally and universally, undermines the prospect of a central ideological meeting point. While there is much research to connect individual traits with political preference, less exists on the ways in which these differences might be alleviated. Particularly, more must be done to scrutinize the specific language we use and the persuasive effects that it carries. This study utilizes moral language preferable by either Conservatives or Liberals in a persuasive experiment designed to persuade Liberals and Conservatives respectively to favor an issue of the opposing political party. A 2x3 experimental design presented respondents with an issue that their party would not typically agree with, using moral language that they would. The experiment designed to persuade Conservatives used both loyalty and purity language, while the experiment designed to persuade Liberals used fairness language. Results indicate that differences in political preference were significant, and that fairness language (i.e. justice, equality, opportunity) was most effective in persuading both Republican and Democratic respondents on the issues of making English the official language of the United States, and universal health care. Both purity and loyalty frames were not found to be significant. Implications and future considerations are discussed.
Acquisition of Fuzzy Target by Reinforcement Learning and Its Application to Four-wheeled Vehicle Control

A “fuzzy target” is a control target value defined by “fuzzy set”. In this paper, it is acquired by reinforcement learning, which is a machine learning method. The control target had been defined as a single target so far. Therefore, when restrictions were newly added and a surrounding situation changed, it was necessary to calculate the target again and set it again. But, by using this fuzzy target, control system is able to correspond to changes in the situation flexibly without target resetting. This target was applied to the driving control of a fourwheeled vehicle, under the change of the situation. And computer simulations that assumed an actual vehicle were done. Simulation results show the effectiveness of this fuzzy target.
Monitoring of Long-term Urban Expansion by the use of Remote Sensing Images from Different Sensors

Rapid urbanization and industrialization have caused not only social problems but also environmental problems in most of the Asian mega -cities. History of land-cover changes and infrastructure changes due to urban expansion is one of the essential data to assess and predict the urban risk and environment in the future. Monitoring of urban expansion is, however, not easy because of the lack of information in the past. Remote sensing may provide us with an efficient tool to monitor land-cover changes in and around urban areas during past thirty years. With time series satellite data we may detect long -term changes. The long-term monitoring of land-cover, however, requires using different types of sensors since the mission life of satellite sensors is at most five years. Different sensors have different spectral and spatial characteristics, and direct comparison of spectral signatures may not give us correct information on land-cover changes. The objective of this paper is to investigate long-term land-cover changes with remote sensing data from different sensors. In order to detect land-cover changes from different sensors,a new method was devised which does not compare the spectral signature directly but compare the land-cover category-mixing ratio in each pixel derived from different sensors. Linear mixture model was used in this study to estimate category-mixing ratio. The method was applied to the city of Bangkok as a case study, and the long-term changes in and around the same were evaluated with LANDSAT TM and ETM+ during the period of ten years.
eview DM guidance-ceramics : Fatigue principles and esting

Background. Clinical failure of dental ceramics is usually reported as partial fracture of the restoration (chipping) or as catastrophic fracture of the whole structure. In contrast to metals, ceramics are linear-elastic, brittle materials exhibiting extremely low damage tolerance to failure. Well documented clinical and lab reports have shown this fracture event often occurs at loads far below their fracture strength due to intrinsic fatigue degradation via slow crack growth or cyclic fatigue mechanisms. The presence and development of surface flaws have a dominant role in damage accumulation and lifetime reduction of ceramic structures. Aims. This ADM guidance document aims to summarize the aspects related to fatigue degradation of dental ceramics, reviewing the concepts of fatigue testing and furthermore aims to provide practical guidance to young scientists entering into fatigue related research. Please cite this article in press as: Kelly JR, et al. ADM guidanc https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dental. 2017.09. 006 eramic fracture
Subjective Innovations : Pedagogical Movement in the Context of Radical Social Change

The innovative pedagogical movement that boomed in the second half of the 1980s exhausted itself relatively early on and never became a sustainable factor of institutional development in Russia. In this article, we investigate the reasons behind this phenomenon using interviews with participants and narrative analysis of periodicals and archival materials. By doing so, we justify the point that the goal of promoting subjective emancipation and adopting the culture of freedom dominated the goals of organizational project management. We show that the pedagogical movement was dependent on the institutional patterns ingrained in the social order of the late Soviet era. Innovations developed within the framework of a specific situation: individual communities emerging around individual authors were capable of establishing the “new” as a subjective legacy, but they were unable to develop or even retain it in existing institutionalized forms.
THE PREDICTIVE POWER OF MACROECONOMIC VARIABLES ON STOCK MARKET RETURNS. THE CASE OF THE ATHENS STOCK EXCHANGE

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether it is possible to predict stock market returns with the use of macroeconomic variables in the Athens Stock Exchange. The emerging stock market of Greece, is a small and relatively underinvestigated market. Hence, there is a possibility that a predictive model may exist for stock returns, violating the Efficient Market Hypothesis (E.M.H.) which states that stock market returns cannot be predicted. In the international literature there is a wide variety of methods used for predictive purposes. In this study we have used cointegration analysis, and as explanatory variables some macroe­ conomic factors which are believed by economists and market practitioners, to influence stock returns. Namely the macroeconomic predictive variables are, the inflation rate measured by the Consumer Price Index, the M3 measure of money supply and the exchange rate of US Dollar/Greek Drachmae (JEL G14).
TRoPHIC AMPLITUDe AS AN INDICAToR oF AqUATIC FooD WeB CoMPLexITy

– Real food webs are characterized by complex set of interactions that are considered fundamental to keep the system stable as well as to provide resilience and resistance to perturbations. The complexity of food webs is intrinsically connected with the degree omnivory of a system, therefore omnivory provides a basis for defining existing and new indicators of food web complexity. Here I first compare omnivory Index, i.e. the variance of the trophic position of each food web element, with the Trophic Amplitude that accounts for the spectrum of trophic levels of the preys instead of their average value. I then define measures of food web complexity: the System omnivory Index (SoI), the System Trophic Amplitude (STA) and the Average Trophic Amplitude (ATA) that are compared using both static and dynamic food webs. Results for a large set of static food webs highlight the independency of these indicators from the number of nodes used to describe the food web structure. Calculation of these indicators of complexity on the basis of results of a calibrated dynamic model showed that Average Trophic Amplitude is easy to calculate, responsive and a sensitive measure of the trophodynamic changes occurred in the system. Findings of this paper are thus suggesting the potential usefulness of the Average Trophic Amplitude in the context of Marine Strategy Framework Directive for evaluating good environmental status of marine food webs. oMNIVoRy TRoPHIC AMPLITUDe TRoPHoDyNAMIC INDICAToRS
ヘルスケアロボットへのパーソナリティ付与による説得効果 Persuasive Effects of Robots ’ personality 中川 佳弥子

1. まえがき 近年,生活環境において人間にさまざまなサービスを提供す るコミュニケーションロボットの研究開発が進んでいる [1][2]. その中でも,コミュニケーションロボットを用いて,自宅や老 人ホームで見守りや健康管理のサポートなどを行うヘルスケア への応用可能性がある [3][4] (図 1). このようなロボットが提供するサービスとしては,ユーザの 体調のセンシングや,その結果に基づいた食事メニューの提案 などが考えられる. 一方で,ヘルスケアに必要なのは,そのよ うな実用的な機能だけではない. 例えば,生活習慣改善を行う 場合,まず,見守り,励ましてくれるパートナーがいること, そして,アドバイスの内容に従って,実際に行動を変化させる ことが必要である. 生活習慣改善を行う際,パートナーが,話を聞いたり,共 感や信頼を示してくれる情緒的サポートや,肯定的なフィード バックをくれる評価的サポートがある場合,改善のための行動 を継続しやすい [5]. 一方,ロボットの存在感が,人間がいる 時と同じように,人の行動に影響を与えることが分かっている [6]. このことから,ヘルスケアサービスが,無機質な装置に よってではなく,コミュニケーションロボットによって提供さ れることによって,健康管理をより効果的に行うことができる と考えられる. 例えば,持病のためにお酒を控えなければなら ないユーザに対して,「頑張って我慢しようね」と励ましたり, 「飲んじゃ駄目! 」と叱ったりすることで,ユーザの飲みたい 衝動を抑える助けになると考えられる.
Dermatitis of camels ( camelus dromedaries ) due to Tick infestation at abattoir of Sammawah in Iraq

Characters of skin lesions of camels due to ticks’ infestation were evaluated in abattoirs of Sammawah city of Iraq. Out of 30 camels inspected before slaughter, 10 skin specimens had no complication of scratching related to tick biting were processed for microscopical examination. Grossly the tick bite lesions showed congestion and swelling. The microscopic feature at skin attachment sites of ticks were congestion of the blood vessels of dermal plexuses and extensive haemorrhage in dermis with chronic inflammatory cellular response.
Turmeric and Vitamin E on the Performance and Quality of Eggs from White Layers

A 112-day experiment was conducted to evaluate turmeric and vitamin E levels on the productive performance and quality of hen eggs. A total of 432 20-week-old white layers were used, distributed in an entirely randomized design, in a 4 × 3 factor scheme (turmeric extract levels and vitamin E levels), with 6 repetitions of 6 birds per cage. The treatments consisted of four levels of turmeric extract inclusion (0; 0.1; 0.2 and 0.3) and three levels of vitamin E inclusion (0; 50 and 100 IU/kg). Egg quality was evaluated at each 28-day cycle through the variables specific gravity, yolk percentage, albumen percentage, shell percentage and thickness, Haugh unit, yolk index and staining, and production performance: weight, egg production and mass, feed intake, feed conversion (kg/kg; kg/dz), and mortality. The addition of vitamin E alone worsened feed intake, egg weight and feed conversion of layers. Turmeric added to 100 IU of Vit E improved egg mass indices, Haugh Unit and yolk index and intensified yolk staining. The amount of turmeric used in this experiment was not sufficient to improve the performance or egg quality of the birds.
View management for distributed user interfaces

We present a new approach to designing user interfaces based on view management. View management refers to layout decisions that determine spatial relationships between objects, taking into account visibility constraints that allow applications to man age what users see. Our techniques are used to satisfy these constraints by controlling what is seen in a wide range of user interfaces: from 2D desktops to 3D immersive environments, from view-only presentations to interactive techniques, and from single user to collaborative situations. Screen space is a difficult resource to utilize properly in user interfaces. Poorly designed user interfaces, consisting of overlapping windows, unwanted popups, and unused screen space, occur on many different types of displays, such as PDAs, laptops, cell phones, and wall-sized displays. We avoid these problems by providing techniques for representing and managing unused screen space to avoid overlapping when possible. Applying these techniques to 3D user interfaces imposes visual constraints on the placement of objects, such as labels and annotations, relative to the 2D visible projections of 3D objects on the view plane. We develop techniques to handle issues such as performance and temporal stabilization, and we create guidelines to help ensure that labels and annotations behave well across a wide range of situations. We have applied our techniques to augmented reality, in which information is visualized directly within the context of the real world by overlaying graphics onto what is seen. We develop tools, including an annotated situation-awareness aid based on a world in miniature , that make it easy to visualize information about the environment, including parts of the environment that might not be completely visible from their current location. We extend these ideas further into distributed interactive environments. In a world encompassing a wide range of display technologies, we are interested in how people will access, use, and interact with information and each other. All of this work presented has been developed (or redeveloped) using an efficient rule-based programming technique we call Data Programming , which is designed for standalone and distributed development and has given us the flexibility to investigate a wide range of scenarios in these environments.
Tradeoff Analysis of Wavelet Transform Techniques for the Detection of Broken Rotor Bars in Induction Motors

This paper presents the fault detection of broken rotor bars using different mother wavelets and the tradeoff analysis of these wavelets is performed. The stator phase current was used as input to the fault detecting module based on wavelet analysis. DWT coefficients of the stator current in a particular frequency band are calculated and analysed. Daubechies db8, db9, db10 and Symlet sym7 and sym8 wavelets are applied to analyse stator current disturbed due to broken bars . The sensitivities of these wavelets to fault signals do vary and they are compared and evaluated to choose the most optimal one. This facilitates the diagnosis of broken rotor bar and also indicates the number of broken bars. This paper presents the results and demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed approach for fault diagnosis.
R ESTO R IN G OYSTER REEFS TO RECOVER ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

Overharvesting of wild oysters and environmental mismanagement in estuaries around the world have resulted in the loss of fisheries income and collapse of an ecologically important ecosystem engineer and its associated ecosystem goods and services. The decline of the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin 1791), throughout the mid-Atlantic and southeastern U.S., has reduced landings to 1-2% of the historic peaks approximately a century ago in many estuaries such as the Chesa­ peake Bay and eastern North Carolina (Frankenberg 1995, Heral et al. 1990, Newell 1988, Rothschild et al. 1994). Declines in the abundance of oysters are a consequence of degradation of oyster reefs via destructive harvesting practices as well as overfishing, oyster disease, sedimenta­ tion, and water quality degradation, which collectively have greatly reduced the quantity and quality of intact reef habitat (Frankenberg 1995, Rothschild et al. 1994). Although restoration efforts have proceeded for several decades in estuaries throughout the eastern U.S., these efforts have traditionally focused on reversing the trend of declining landings rather than rebuilding sustainable oyster reefs that create habitat and other ecosystem services (Peterson et al. 2003).
Mothers at work : The relationship between Labor Market Participation and External Child Care in Germany .

Recent family policy programs mainly focus on two aims: bringing women into work and raising the birthrate. These goals appear to be contradictorily because usually it is the mother who leaves her workplace to care for the children. So, she has to face the risk of reducing chances for an adequate labor market return. Improving the external child care supply is widely regarded as appropriate solution of this problem. This study investigates the relationship between the rate of child care arrangements and the labor market participation of mothers using large scale data between 2006 and 2012. This study leads to two main results: first, the child care rates influence part time employment among mothers positively. It moreover increases the general employment rates as well. Second, the employment type remains relatively stable over time. The findings suggest that switches from part time to full time employment are a negligible pattern in the working life of mothers. So, the findings are good news for politicians that the family policy programs seem to reach their aim and bring mothers back into work. But they are bad news regarding the gender time gap: It seems to be likely that higher child care provision rates do not help to change the working patterns of mothers.
A Cross Sectional Study of Prevalence of ABO and Rh Positive Blood Groups among the Premenopausal and Post-menopausal Women in Relation to Hypertension in Kamrup ( Metropolitan ) District .

Background: Hypertension is the subsequent elevation of the systemic arterial pressure to a level that places the patients at increased risk for target organ damage More than 140/90mmHg should be considered hypertensive and should get treated. Materials and methods: This study was done to evaluate and compare the prevalence of ABO and Rh positive blood groups among pre-menopausal and post-menopausal hypertensive women in Kamrup (Metropolitan) district. It was a population-based study, 500 pre-menopausal and 500 post-menopausal hypertensive women were selected according to inclusion and exclusion criterias. Their basal blood pressures were determined using palpatory and auscultatory method. Their blood groups were determined using slide haemagglutination technique. Results: In pre-menopausal hypertensives ‘O’ Rh positive was most prevalent (44%), followed by ‘B’ Rh positive (32%,) then ‘A’ Rh positive (19%) and lastly ‘AB’ Rh positive blood group (5%). Similarly, in postmenopausal hypertensives ‘O’ Rh positive was most prevalent (46%), followed by ‘B’ Rh positive (33%), ‘A’ Rh positive (18%) and lastly ‘AB’ Rh positive blood group(3%). Conclusion: This study shows that among ABO and Rh positive blood groups the most prevalent one is ‘O’ Rh positive, followed by ‘B’ Rh positive, then ‘A’ Rh positive and lastly by ‘AB’ Rh positive blood group among the pre-menopausal and post-menopausal women in relation to hypertension.