Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Enhancing Foster Care Home NGO Sustainability via Social Franchising

* Corresponding author: Catherine T. Kwantes, e-mail: catherine.kwantes@uwindsor.ca Research Question: This paper investigates how the social franchising approach may enhance the sustainability and capability of Foster Home NGOs in the Global South. Motivation: While many programmes exist to address issues such as poverty and lack of education for children in nations of the Global South, many operate in isolation, and are grassroots and/or stand-alone operations. Little research has been undertaken to understand how various approaches to organizational sustainability may be enacted for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) seeking to provide care for children in foster care homes. Our goal was to apply franchising and social franchising concepts as a framework for NGOs and non-profit organizations to use as a way of enhancing both the capability of achieving their mission as well as a method of organizational sustainability. Idea: Much of the literature on social franchising has been in the area of providing health care and services – however, this model may be useful to enhance the sustainability for NGOs and non-profit organizations that provide other critical services as well, such as foster care homes in the Global South. Findings: The social franchising model offers a concrete and actionable business model to foster home organizations with multiple homes to standardize care delivery as well as develop a strong core organization. Contribution: This paper explores how applying the social franchising model could enhance sustainability of NGOs with foster care home programmes, as well as some of the opportunities and challenges in applying this model to such NGOs and non-profit organizations.
High-definition map update framework for intelligent autonomous transfer vehicles

ABSTRACT Autonomous transfer vehicles (ATVs) can be considered as one of the critical components of context-aware structured smart factories in Industry 4.0 era. Conventional mapping methods such as grid maps can provide information for navigation, but they are not enough for complex environments that require interactions. On the other hand, high-definition (HD) mapping, which is mainly used in traffic networks, includes more information about an environment to perform excellent autonomous behaviour. In order to increase the efficiency of ATVs in flexible factories, an up-to-date environmental map information is required to perform successful long-term autonomous navigation. Therefore, when there exists a change in the environment, a simultaneous update of HD-map is as important as the creation of it. In this study, we propose an HD-map update methodology for ATVs that operates in smart factories. To the best of our knowledge, HD mapping has not been applied in smart factories. The proposed method includes the object detection and localisation tool to detect objects visually and determines their positions in connection with the conventional maps of the environment. Experimental results of a simulated factory environment demonstrate that the ATV can properly update the HD-map when a predefined sign is removed from or a new sign is added to the environment.
Bibliometric analysis of psychological interventions with a randomized controlled trial in parents of children with disabilities from 1980 to 2019

Children born with a specific disability require primary caregivers who are trained to care for and enhance their abilities. The present study is a bibliometric analysis of the publications of psychological interventions with a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that have been realized in parents of children with disabilities in the period from 1980 to 2019. As part of the search strategy, the Cochrane Library, Pubmed and Elsevier databases were used, making different combinations with the keywords "children with disabilities", "parents", "intervention" and "randomized controlled trial”. The outcomes obtained reflect that 2015 was the year with the highest scientific activity in this field, being the Research in Developmental Disabilities journal the most prominent and the Cochrane Library database the one who concentrates the largest number of articles. In addition, the investigations have been realized in Anglo-Saxon countries such as Canada and United States, with an inclination towards the build-up of articles individually and focused on disabilities such as Down Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Regarding the characteristics of these interventions, it can be summarized that their format is group with an approximate duration of 2 hours per session, being the cognitive-behavioral approach and the behavioral control techniques the ones that stand out the most. Finally, the variable that has been more worked is effective communication and the most used statistical test to measure the effects of interventions is MANOVA.
GERAÇÃO DE RESUMO AUTOMÁTICO DE TEXTO BASEADO EM LÓGICA FUZZY

Este artigo propõe a geração de resumos de texto por extração a partir dos conceitos do Paradigma Edmundsoniano onde o resumo do texto é um conjunto de suas sentenças de maior peso. O peso das sentenças é calculado a partir de critérios independentes como posição das sentenças dentro do texto e determinação de palavras chaves, sendo os pesos calculados são ponderados usando lógica fuzzy. O sistema de extração proposto foi desenvolvido com a linguagem Java e as bibliotecas Lucene e jFuzzyLogic sendo as regras fuzzy especificadas na linguagem FCL. A metodologia proposta é aplicada à textos de jornais, sendo o resumo gerado avaliado usando métricas Rouge. As métricas obtidas utilizando-se lógica fuzzy foram superiores ao uso do critério de peso de palavras chaves comumente usado nos sites de resumo online.
Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy of Gold Nanoparticle-Coated Substrates: Use as an Indicator of Exposure to Chemical Warfare Simulants

Abstract : Gold nanoparticles with diameters of 9 +or- 6 nm have been synthesized, using the citrate reduction method, and deposited onto quartz substrates. The responsiveness of the resulting gold nanoparticle films to gas-phase warfare agent simulant exposures has been examined using 2-chloroethyl ethyl sulfide and paraoxon. Significant shifts in the peak position of the surface plasmon resonance associated with the nanoparticles were observed in both cases. This shift was reversible and the peak positions returned to their pre-exposure values once the simulants were removed. The response to the exposure events was also found to be faster than ^10 s, the rate at which data was acquired in the experiments. A larger shift was observed upon exposure of the films to formaldehyde, a highly hazardous toxic industrial chemical. Unlike 2-chloroethyl ethyl sulfide and paraoxon, the shift was not readily reversible and extensive heating and pumping under vacuum was required to shift the peak position back to pre-exposure values. Through analysis of the 2-chloroethyl ethyl sulfide and paraoxon data, ^600 pM and ^2 nM are estimated as lower detection limits for the two simulants, respectively.
Career self-efficacy and education abroad: implications for future global workforce

Purpose This study aims to explore how career self-efficacy shapes an individual’s career decisions and how learning and development interventions, including participation in education abroad, might play a role in career choice. Design/methodology/approach The authors used the following databases to review the literature on career self-efficacy: Academic Search Premier, Education Resources Information Center and ProQuest. The following key search terms were used in the search: career self-efficacy, career choice and education abroad. The titles of the identified articles were first reviewed for relevance, followed by the abstract, before further review for inclusion suitability. Findings Findings suggest career self-efficacy plays a vital role in career decision-making, generating interests and deciding career goals. By improving career self-efficacy among college students, career interests can be reshaped. Findings evidence a relationship between education abroad and career competencies and career development. Research limitations/implications The review offers an invaluable pathway to breed ideas and thoughts about research in the career self-efficacy domain. While education abroad itself may be a useful intervention in the development of a student’s career self-efficacy, among other characteristics and skills, a further empirical study is necessary to determine the extent to which this is true. Using or creating an accurate scale for the measurement of career self-efficacy among undergraduate students is critical to determine a reliable and valid measure, as is controlling for potential differences in self-efficacy between students who self-select for high impact endeavors such as education abroad and those who do not. Practical implications Noting that practices in international education support collaboration between career services offices and study abroad offices, the authors point to the importance of interventions that intentionally and explicitly incorporate the career self-efficacy construct. Originality/value Findings evidence a relationship between education abroad and career competencies and career development, through research examining connections to career self-efficacy and education abroad is noticeably scarce. The paper explores the above relationship.
Determining the hydraulic properties of coastal aquifer systems using groundwater response to tidal fluctuations: applicability and limitations

ABSTRACT Determination of the hydraulic properties of a coastal aquifer system with lower cost and acceptable accuracy has practical implications. Although many theoretical solutions have been developed over recent decades, most of them assume that an aquifer system extends inland and subjected a single-frequency tidal fluctuation on coastline boundary. In addition, only one hydraulic parameter, i.e., the hydraulic diffusivity, of an aquifer can be obtained in most cases. In this paper, the solution of groundwater response in a leaky confined coastal aquifer to dual frequency tidal fluctuations has been established. The new solution was then used as an example to discuss the applicability and limitations of using tidal fluctuations for determining coastal aquifer hydraulic properties. Our study illustrated that ocean tides could only transport to a limited distance towards inland depending on the coastal aquifer hydraulic properties. The tidal method is applicable only when changes in the hydraulic head within in a monitoring well can be detected with an acceptable accuracy. Both the hydraulic diffusivity and leakage can be identified from the monitored hydraulic heads. By incorporating the use of aquifer thickness, the transmissivity and storage coefficient of a perfectly confined aquifer can also be simultaneously estimated.
The Impact and Perception of Cell Phone Usage in a Teaching Hospital Setting

Objective: To evaluate perceptions regarding cell phone use in a teaching hospital setting among health care providers, residents, medical students, and patients. Methods: Fifty-three medical students, 41 resident physicians, 32 attending physicians, and 46 nurses working at University Hospital completed a questionnaire about cell phone use practices and their perceptions of cell phone use in the hospital. Forty-three inpatients admitted to medical/surgical units at University Hospital were surveyed at bedside about their perceptions regarding physicians’ cell phone use. Results: All health care providers identified cell phones as a risk to patient confidentiality with no specific group significantly more likely to attribute risk than another. Practitioners were identified as either primarily as inpatient or outpatient practitioners. Inpatient practitioners were significantly more likely to rate cell phones as beneficial to patient care than outpatient practitioners. Physicians were statistically more likely to rate mobile phones as beneficial to patient care as compared to nurses. Among the patient population surveyed, one quarter noted that their physician had used a cell phone in their presence. The majority of those patients observing practitioner cell phone use had reported a beneficial or neutral impact on their care. Significance: Perceived risk of cell phones to patient confidentiality was equal across health care providers surveyed. Physician and medical students were significantly more likely to rate cell phones as beneficial to patients’ care than nurse providers. Patients indicated that their physicians used cell phones in their presence at low rates and reported that the use was either neutral or beneficial to the care they received.
Guidelines for Accommodation Designs to Promote Community-Based Tourism in Takua Pa Old Town

The objective of this qualitative study was to find out guidelines for accommodation designs to promote community-based tourism in Takua Pa Old Town, Phang-nga Province. Data were collected from seven informants consisting of owners of old residential buildings who lived in the community and members of organizations involved in old town conservation through in-depth interviews and non-participant observations. For data analysis, the data were categorized, interpreted and concluded using descriptive analysis. The results of the study were that designing accommodations for Takua Pa Old Town began from investigating the conditions, architecture and uses of old buildings. After that the results of the investigations were used in designing an accommodation in the category of “hometel” with two storeys based on the old architectural style in the area. Thus, the hometel was designed to have a space for doing activities, recreation and get togethers. This design of accommodation in the community would promote tourists to learn and understand the community’s way of life and this type of accommodation could be used as guidelines for development and promotion of another way for making income in the community.
Prospects for Electric Vehicles

The transformation from conventional vehicles to electric vehicles is underway, but its timeline is still uncertain. The battle against climate change provides the essential backdrop, leading governments to encourage this transformation by providing both consumer incentives to purchase electric vehicles and by establishing regulations requiring automakers to produce them. Behind this prodding are a set of fundamental forces that both encourage and discourage consumer interest, as set forth in the text. Fortunately, intensive battery research and development is proceeding that should alter market forces and make electric vehicles more attractive to segments of the population not now in the market for an electric vehicle. Hence, even if the timeline for battery improvement cannot be predicted with certainty, continued government support, and upstart automakers, such as Tesla, should ensure that the transformation will proceed over time.
Mechanical Properties of FeCr‐Based Composite Materials Elaborated by Liquid Metal Dealloying towards Bioapplication

Liquid metal dealloying (LMD) is a new technology to create porous materials. From a (FeCr)x‐Ni1–x precursor, it is possible to get a bicontinuous structure of FeCr and Mg: a metal–metal composite. An etching step removes the Mg solid‐state solution phase to give a metal–air composite. The last step, polymer infiltration, gives metal–polymer composites. Herein, metal–metal, metal–air, and metal–polymer (rubbery or glassy polymers) with three different phase ratios are elaborated by LMD from Ni‐based precursors and their mechanical properties are analyzed. A full polymer infiltration into the pores is obtained and the epoxy polymer properties are not affected by the metallic foam presence. Concerning control of the mechanical properties, the material's second‐phase selection is a key factor. Herein, it is shown that the mechanical properties are easily designed by optimizing phase ratio, ligament size, and second‐phase type and that these materials are promising materials for biomedical applications.
An assistive environment for EAL academic writing using formulaic sequences classification

ABSTRACT Writing an English research article for novice English as an additional language (EAL) writers is a challenging task that requires experience and training at both the sentence and meaning levels. One strategy that EAL writers employ when writing a research article is the use of formulaic sequences (FSs). However, available FS corpora are general purpose and are very limited in size. Previous studies have reported the effectiveness of FS usage in writing using a small set of FSs. The present work proposes an assistive environment for academic writing improvement through the use of domain-specific FSs. FSs are extracted from published articles and are classified under rhetoric categories using a machine learning technique. The user can then search for and add new FSs of his/her choice from any research article using proposed prototypes. The effectiveness of the proposed approach was evaluated in a real environment. The results show a positive impact of the proposal in terms of academic writing improvement. Novice writers who worked with the proposed prototype reported a significantly higher degree of perceived usefulness than those who worked with the traditional phrasebank approach.
Crop Yield Prediction through Proximal Sensing and Machine Learning Algorithms

Proximal sensing techniques can potentially survey soil and crop variables responsible for variations in crop yield. The full potential of these precision agriculture technologies may be exploited in combination with innovative methods of data processing such as machine learning (ML) algorithms for the extraction of useful information responsible for controlling crop yield. Four ML algorithms, namely linear regression (LR), elastic net (EN), k-nearest neighbor (k-NN), and support vector regression (SVR), were used to predict potato (Solanum tuberosum) tuber yield from data of soil and crop properties collected through proximal sensing. Six fields in Atlantic Canada including three fields in Prince Edward Island (PE) and three fields in New Brunswick (NB) were sampled, over two (2017 and 2018) growing seasons, for soil electrical conductivity, soil moisture content, soil slope, normalized-difference vegetative index (NDVI), and soil chemistry. Data were collected from 39–40 30 × 30 m2 locations in each field, four times throughout the growing season, and yield samples were collected manually at the end of the growing season. Four datasets, namely PE-2017, PE-2018, NB-2017, and NB-2018, were then formed by combing data points from three fields to represent the province data for the respective years. Modeling techniques were employed to generate yield predictions assessed with different statistical parameters. The SVR models outperformed all other models for NB-2017, NB-2018, PE-2017, and PE-2018 dataset with RMSE of 5.97, 4.62, 6.60, and 6.17 t/ha, respectively. The performance of k-NN remained poor in three out of four datasets, namely NB-2017, NB-2018, and PE-2017 with RMSE of 6.93, 5.23, and 6.91 t/ha, respectively. The study also showed that large datasets are required to generate useful results using either model. This information is needed for creating site-specific management zones for potatoes, which form a significant component for food security initiatives across the globe.
Étude de l'association de variants génétiques rares aux formes précoces de cancer colorectal

L’analyse des genes responsables de formes mendeliennes de CCR reste parfois negative chez des patients presentant un Cancer ColoRectal (CCR) de survenue tres precoce, situation clinique pourtant suggestive d’un determinisme genetique fort. Plusieurs etudes ont suggere la contribution de variants rares affectant des genes de reparation de l'ADN au determinisme du CCR mais le manque de significativite statistique a l’echelle de l’exome limite l'interpretation de ces resultats. Afin de determiner la contribution des variations genetiques rares affectant la reparation de l'ADN au CCR, nous avons sequence par Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) un panel de 201 genes impliques dans le cancer chez 84 patients atteints de CCR tres precoce d'origine francaise rigoureusement selectionnes (CCR diagnostique jusqu’a l'âge de 32 ans, exclusion du syndrome de Lynch et des polyposes adenomateuses et hamartomateuses). Nous avons egalement sequence l’exome de 93 patients, selectionnes selon les memes criteres, et de 567 temoins FREX (French Exome Project). Nous avons filtre les variants rares predits pathogenes, affectant les 201 genes du cancer ou les 296 genes de reparation de l'ADN selon l’analyse realisee, et nous avons compare leurs frequences relatives entre les cas et les temoins. A l’aide d’un test statistique de charge en variants (Burden test SeqMeta), nous avons obtenu un Odds Ratio (OR) de 1,412 (p = 0,165) pour les variations Loss of Function (LOF) rares (Minor Allele Frequency, MAF < 1%) affectant les genes de la reparation de l’ADN, et un OR de 1,681 (p = 0,017) pour les variations LOF tres rares (MAF < 1‰). L’effet observe est plus fort lorsque le test est restreint aux variants tres rares affectant le systeme de reparation des liaisons inter-brins (Inter-strand CrossLink, ICL), avec un OR de 5,88 (p = 0,012). Fait remarquable, la comparaison de la cooccurrence d'au moins deux variations LOF tres rares affectant la reparation de l'ADN entre patients et temoins donne un OR de 7,196 (p = 0,077). Ces resultats posent la question de la contribution de la voie ICL au CCR et de la place de l’oligogenisme, base sur l'effet cumulatif de plusieurs variations affectant en particulier la reparation de l'ADN, dans la predisposition au CCR.
Effects of HSQ4 Concentration into dyes of Carica Papaya on the Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell

Organic dyes are very important in improving the performance of solar cells, at very low prices and friendly to the environment. DN-F15 transparent green is a squaraine dye with good stability on DSSC or with an alternative name HSQ4. HSQ4 is a synthetic dye that is very expensive, but sensitive to light so that it can improve the performance of solar cells. DSSC uses titanium dioxide (TiO2) as a semiconductor, electrodes are used as substrates for the flow of electric charge. DN-EP01 is a thixotropic terpineol-based screen-printable Pt paste with a viscosity of 4-7 Pa.s at 10s−1. In furnaces around 450°C will produce an even and transparent platinum particle layer which has high catalytic activity. The color of the platinum paste is straw or light yellow. Measurement of absorbance dyes solution using a spectrophotometer with a wavelength of 400 nm -800 nm. Characterization of I-VDSSC Carica Papaya produced a V ocvalue of 560 mV, Isc 1.5 x 10−4 A, fill factor 0.47 and efficiency of 0.43%. After doping with HSQ4 the concentration of 1 resulted in a Voc value of 378 mV, Isc 4.0 x 10−4 A, fill factor 0.49 and efficiency of 0.14%. An increase in efficiency in variation 3 is 0.24% and variation 5 is 0.35%, this shows the effect of HSQ4 concentration on the coloring of papaya leaf extract can improve the performance of DSSC.