Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Design of Singly Fed Dual-Band Antenna With a Large Frequency Ratio by Introducing a Monopole Mode to Yagi–Uda Antenna

This communication presents a novel design for a singly fed dual-band antenna with a large frequency ratio, which is achieved by introducing a microwave (MW) monopole mode to a millimeter wave (MMW) planar Yagi–Uda antenna. The design involves extending the top metal strip of the feeding stripline of the Yagi–Uda antenna to cross the Yagi–Uda directors, which forms the monopole antenna. The extended top metal strip, together with the crossed directors, achieves a low antenna height of 0.17 wavelength due to the captive loading effect of the directors. The driven dipole of the Yagi–Uda antenna not only excites the MMW Yagi–Uda antenna but also prevents the MMW signal from flowing into the monopole antenna. This design eliminates the need for an additional filtering element, which makes it an efficient and cost-effective solution for 5G applications. The proposed antenna design offers high flexibility, as the antennas in both bands can be designed independently. It is fabricated on a single-layer substrate, which makes it lightweight and easily integrated into the circuitry. A prototype was fabricated to verify the design, and the results showed an impedance bandwidth of 14.4% and 16.3% in the 2.6 and 28 GHz bands, respectively.
Corporate governance quality, corporate life cycle and investor confidence in commercial banks: Evidence from Nigeria

A dominant strand of literature advances a positive association between corporate governance quality and investor confidence. However, the corporate life cycle may influence the relationship. Therefore, this study investigated the moderating role of the corporate life cycle in the association between corporate governance quality and investor confidence in the Nigerian banking industry. Corporate governance quality was proxied using a composite measure of board characteristics comprising board size, board meeting, independence, and board gender diversity, while investor confidence was proxied using the price-earnings ratio. Secondary data were obtained from the audited annual financial statements of 12 banks from 2006 to 2021. The study adopted a pooled regression model based on the results of Hausman, and the Breusch and Pagan Lagrangian multiplier test. The results showed that corporate governance quality positively and significantly impacted investor confidence at the introduction (coef = .318, p = 0.017) and decline (coef = 383, p = 0.011) phases of the life cycle. Banks at the introduction and decline phases of the life cycle were characterized by a narrow resource base, low profitability, and higher risky investments sufficient to attract investor confidence. The study concludes that corporate governance quality enhanced investor confidence at the introduction and decline phases of the banks’ life cycle.
Ordinal Logistic Regression Analysis and Outlier Detection for Sports Talent Identification

The purpose of this study is to explain the techniques in detecting the outlier of the ordinal data by using the regression coefficients. We use a dataset derived from the sport talent identification tests of j unior h igh s chool s tudents (SMP) in Pekanbaru. The ordinal logistic regression combined with the proportional odds model are used to calculate the modulus of regression coefficients by using jackknife technique. The satisfactory results show the graphically outlier identification. The average observation of the regression coefficients appears the same impact that against the regularly best application deviance observation. Eventually, the absolute average of regression coefficient s can be use d as an alternative technique in identifying the outlier existence and the residual deviances.
Pengaruh Kualitas Produk, Harga dan E-WOM pada Keputusan Pembelian Konsumen pasca Pandemi Covid-19 dengan Kepercayaan sebagai Variabel Mediasi

This study aims to see the effectproduct quality, price and e-wom on consumer purchasing decisions after the Covid-19 pandemic with trust as a mediating variable for Solo meatball consumers in the city of Padang. The population is all consumers of Solo meatballs in the city of Padang. Sampling by purposive sampling method.The sample criteria is that the respondent has visited, bought and eaten at least once at Bakso Solo stalls in Padang City. The number of samples in the study was 270 respondents. Test the hypothesis using statistical analysis using Smart PLS.3. 3. The results of the study show that product quality, price and e-WOM have a positive and significant effect on purchasing decisions. product quality, price and e-wom have a significant positive effect on trust. Trust influences purchasing decisions. And trust can be a mediating variable between product quality, price and e-WOM on purchasing decisions in a significantly positive way.
Current, ctd, and pressure measurements in possible dispersal regions of the Chukchi Sea. Final report

The Chukchi is the northeastern end of the great Arctic Continental Shelf system, the world's largest, which surrounds the northern Eurasian land mass. These vast shelf seas are remarkably wide and shallow, typically 600-800 km and 50 m respectively, characteristics which greatly affect marine conditions. Oceanographically, the Chukchi Sea is an area of great contrasts. While in many respects it is an adjoining shelf sea of the Arctic Ocean, much as the East Siberian or the Laptev Sea is, it is also anomalous in that it is the recipient of the large northward discharge of the North Pacific through Bering Strait. The nutrient-rich waters, carrying Pacific planktonic life forms, define a migratory pathway between the Arctic and the Pacific for a great variety of animals, including marine mamals.
A praxis-based perspective on supporting care-experienced students to thrive in higher education using the capabilities approach

Students who spent time in state care as children, usually due to neglect or maltreatment, are a growing community within higher education in many countries. However, their participation rates generally remain below average and they are more likely to withdraw early, while their experiences have not yet been well-theorised. In this article, we synthesise and reconsider data from three national studies from the United Kingdom that collectively explored the lives of 461 care-experienced students using di ﬀ erent methodologies. We use the lens of the capabilities approach – a normative social justice framework that seeks to identify ‘ capabilities ’ allowing people to live lives that they value, with the goal of alleviating ‘ unfreedoms ’ that prevent them from doing so. We argue that many care-experienced students have a precarious engagement with higher education for reasons directly or indirectly related to their early lives, concluding that the capabilities approach provides a useful praxis-based heuristic to review how policymakers, managers and practitioners can support care-experienced students to thrive. We use our data to propose amendments to the theoretical framework and suggest that its usefulness extends to other marginalised groups within higher education.
Faith-based Leadership as an Art of Mastering Ambiguity

This article addresses the relationship between leadership and faith-based spirituality in the context of organizational ambiguity. 1 First, it argues that organizations increasingly face competing expectations from different institutional environments and stakeholders, inevitably leading to ambiguous and even contradictory situations of decision-making that managers must somehow deal with. Their learned economic theories and applied business management tools usually aim to dissolve ambiguities and contradictions in favour of a purely economic rationality. This leads to major conflicts between different stakeholder groups in many organizations, and this puts managers under enormous pressure because they cannot please everyone at the same time by making a decision. The question arises of how managers can learn to deal with ambiguity and contra-dictoriness in a more suitable way for multi-rational decision-making situations, and there is the argument that a certain form of faith-based spirituality can prepare leaders to deal with ambiguity and contradiction more appropriately. Finally, the article concludes by presenting four different strategies on how managers can deal with these phenomena of multiple rationalities in practice.
Investissements Directs Etrangers, Diffusion Technologique Et Concentration Spatiale Dans Les Pays En Developpement

The establishment of multinational firms in the technological sector may have different effects on growth and on the location where domestic firms choose to set up in a developing country, depending on whether linkage effects or the effects of competition prevail. This theoretical model, inspired by Krugman and Livas-Elizondo (1996) and extended by Catin, Ghio and Van Huffel (2001), tries to account for the specific role of the (local and/or interregional) spread of knowledge and of the domestic country's absorption capacity of new technologies. The model shows that after a tendency to polarization in the first stages of development, centrifugal forces are largely determined by the intensity of knowledge externalities.
Uterine Atony: Management Strategies

It is estimated about 529,000 mothers die every year (World Health Organisation [WHO] 2005). Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), a life-threatening condition, remains the major cause of maternal mortality worldwide (Pahlavan et al., 2001). Majority of these mortalities are from Asia (48%) and Africa (47.5%) with only the minority (less than 1%) from developed countries. (Ramanathan & Arulkumaran, 2006) In Malaysia, the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CEMD) from 1991 to 2005 revealed that PPH attributed 13-27% of all reported deaths(Division of Family Health Development, Ministry of Health, 1994; Division of Family Health Development, Ministry of Health, 1996; Division of Family Health Development, Ministry of Health, 2000; Division of Family Health Development, Ministry of Health, 2005).
Antibodies to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein in idiopathic optic neuritis

Objectives To investigate the differences of clinical features, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), MRI findings and response to steroid therapies between patients with optic neuritis (ON) who have myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibodies and those who have seronegative ON. Setting We recruited participants in the department of neurology and ophthalmology in our hospital in Japan. Methods We retrospectively evaluated the clinical features and response to steroid therapies of patients with ON. Sera from patients were tested for antibodies to MOG and aquaporin-4 (AQP4) with a cell-based assay. Participants Between April 2009 and March 2014, we enrolled serial 57 patients with ON (27 males, 30 females; age range 16–84 years) who ophthalmologists had diagnosed as having or suspected to have ON with acute visual impairment and declined critical flicker frequency, abnormal findings of brain MRI, optical coherence tomography and fluorescein fundus angiography at their onset or recurrence. We excluded those patients who fulfilled the diagnostic criteria of neuromyelitis optica (NMO)/NMO spectrum disorders (NMOSD), MS McDonald's criteria, and so on. Finally we defined 29 patients with idiopathic ON (14 males, 15 females, age range 16–84 years). Results 27.6% (8/29) were positive for MOG antibodies and 3.4% (1/29) were positive for AQP4. Among the eight patients with MOG antibodies, five had optic pain (p=0.001) and three had prodromal infection (p=0.179). Three of the eight MOG-positive patients showed significantly high CSF levels of myelin basic protein (p=0.021) and none were positive for oligoclonal band in CSF. On MRIs, seven MOG-positive patients showed high signal intensity on optic nerve, three had a cerebral lesion and one had a spinal cord lesion. Seven of the eight MOG-positive patients had a good response to steroid therapy. Conclusions Although not proving primary pathogenicity of anti-MOG antibodies, the present results indicate that the measurement of MOG antibodies is useful in diagnosing and treating ON.
Pioneering Transparent ESG Analysis on Public Markets: Leveraging Machine Learning to Transform ESG Data

Sifting through millions of pages from thousands of company documents to extract and meaningfully compare Environmental, Social, and Governance data is an exceptionally challenging task for professional investors. In this short paper, in a practitioner-talk inspired fashion, we share some of the Machine Learning journey Integrum ESG undertook to solve this challenge and how a blend of human and artiﬁcial intelligence allowed us to become the only ESG risk rating provider to deliver completely transparent and always up to date ESG risk analysis and Impact data.
FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF ALLANTOIN LOADED HYDROGEL FOR SKIN REGENERATION AND REJUVENATION

Advancements in dermatology and cosmetics emphasize the significance of skin rejuvenationand regeneration. Hydrogels have emerged as a favorable platform for delivering active agents due to their biocompatibility, hydration potential, and controlled release characteristics. This study focused on creating and evaluating a hydrogel containing allantoin, intended to facilitate skin revitalization and renewal. The hydrogel formulation was meticulously crafted by combining natural and synthetic polymers, optimized to achieve desired viscosity, gel strength, and allantoin-loading capacity. Allantoin, recognized for its skin-calming, hydrating, and regenerative attributes, was successfully integrated into the hydrogel matrix. Comprehensive characterization of the hydrogel encompassed assessments of physicochemical attributes such as pH, rheological performance, drug release kinetics, and mechanical properties. In vitro release profiles exhibited a sustained and controlled release of allantoin from the hydrogel spanning hours, indicating its potential for prolonged topical application. Rheological analysis unveilled the hydrogel's shear-thinning behavior, a property that augments its ease of application. Mechanical testing ascertained the hydrogel's mechanical robustness, establishing its suitability for skin contact. Biocompatibility and cytotoxicity evaluations employing human skin fibroblast cells corroborated the hydrogel's cell-friendly nature and its potential to encourage cellular proliferation. These results imply that the allantoin-infused hydrogel holds promise for stimulating skin regeneration. Furthermore, the hydrogel's efficacy in retaining skin moisture was validated through tests on a skin-equivalent model. In summary, the allantoin-loaded
Autonomy Within Business Groups: A Meso Perspective for Evaluating Intra-group Interlocks (IgI) and Internal Flows

This conceptual paper aims to contribute to the stream of research on autonomy within business group proposing a new perspective by switching the level of analysis from the subsidiaries to an intermediate level based on subsets of firms belonging to the same group. Literature findings concerning two devices for control and coordination of business groups, Intra-Group Interlocks (IgI) and internal flows, have been reviewed to find the concepts have been applied to offer an improvement in understanding the concept of autonomy for affiliated-group firms. Within the subsidiary-management literature, internal flows have been greatly used by scholars as one of the main determinants able to explain the autonomy of the subsidiaries. Less attention has been devoted to the IgI phenomenon even if some interesting findings concerning corporate group governance research on the degree of separation between management and control in holding-subsidiaries relationships can be integrated and adapted offering new theoretical lenses on the concept of autonomy. Considering business groups with more subsidiaries engaged in different activities, the paper offers two propositions able to reveal previously unaddressed aspects of the autonomy within business groups and new hints for further research in this area.
Financial Crises: A Survey

Financial crises have large deleterious effects on economic activity, and as such have been the focus of a large body of research. This study surveys the existing literature on financial crises, exploring how crises are measured, whether they are predictable, and why they are associated with economic contractions. Historical narrative techniques continue to form the backbone for measuring crises, but there have been exciting developments in using quantitative data as well. Crises are predictable with growth in credit and elevated asset prices playing an especially important role; recent research points convincingly to the importance of behavioral biases in explaining such predictability. The negative consequences of a crisis are due to both the crisis itself but also to the imbalances that precede a crisis. Crises do not occur randomly, and, as a result, an understanding of financial crises requires an investigation into the booms that precede them.
High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Make more knowledge even in less time every day. You may not always spend your time and money to go abroad and get the experience and knowledge by yourself. Reading is a good alternative to do in getting this desirable knowledge and experience. You may gain many things from experiencing directly, but of course it will spend much money. So here, by reading high noon in the cold war kennedy krushchev and the cuban missile crisis, you can take more advantages with limited budget.
100 Years of Progress in Forecasting and NWP Applications

Over the past 100 years, the collaborative effort of the international science community, including government weather services and the media, along with the associated proliferation of environmental observations, improved scientific understanding, and growth of technology, has radically transformed weather forecasting into an effective global and regional environmental prediction capability. This chapter traces the evolution of forecasting, starting in 1919 [when the American Meteorological Society (AMS) was founded], over four eras separated by breakpoints at 1939, 1956, and 1985. The current state of forecasting could not have been achieved without essential collaboration within and among countries in pursuing the common weather and Earth-system prediction challenge. AMS itself has had a strong role in enabling this international collaboration.
HIV-1 Vaccine Trials: Evolving Concepts and Designs

An effective prophylactic HIV-1 vaccine is needed to eradicate the HIV/AIDS pandemic but designing such a vaccine is a challenge. Despite many advances in vaccine technology and approaches to generate both humoral and cellular immune responses, major phase-II and -III vaccine trials against HIV/AIDS have resulted in only moderate successes. The modest achievement of the phase-III RV144 prime-boost trial in Thailand re-emphasized the importance of generating robust humoral and cellular responses against HIV. While antibody-directed approaches are being pursued by some groups, others are attempting to develop vaccines targeting cell-mediated immunity, since evidence show CTLs to be important for the control of HIV replication. Phase-I and -IIa multi-epitope vaccine trials have already been conducted with vaccine immunogens consisting of known CTL epitopes conserved across HIV subtypes, but have so far fallen short of inducing robust and consistent anti-HIV CTL responses. The concepts leading to the development of T-cell epitope-based vaccines, the outcomes of related clinical vaccine trials and efforts to enhance the immunogenicity of cell-mediated approaches are summarized in this review. Moreover, we describe a novel approach based on the identification of SIV and FIV antigens which contain conserved HIV-specific T-cell epitopes and represent an alternative method for developing an effective HIV vaccine against global HIV isolates.
Courbes de dérive des pôles du permien à l'actuel pour les continents péri-atlantiques et indiens : confrontation avec les reconstructions paléogéographiques

Les donnees paleomagnetiques selectionnees pour les continents peri-atlantiques et indiens sont utilisees pour construire les courbes de derive apparente du pole (cdaps) europeenne, nord-americaine, africaine, sud-americaine, australienne et antarctique depuis 280 ma. Ces courbes sont obtenues grace a une nouvelle methode de lissage par spline cubique. Elles sont confrontees aux modeles cinematiques publies pour l'atlantique nord, l'atlantique sud et l'ocean indien est. Cette confrontation permet de tester les differentes reconstructions paleogeographiques proposees pour ces oceans, notamment durant les premiers stades d'ouverture. Elle permet aussi de montrer les incertitudes de certaines donnees paleomagnetiques, comme les donnees nord-americaines d'age jurassique moyen et superieur. Finalement, elle conduit a proposer les cdaps synthetiques de laurussie (europe-amerique du nord), du gondwana ouest (afrique-amerique du sud) et du gondwana est (australie-antarctique). Ces trois courbes sont transferees dans le referentiel africain grace aux modeles cinematiques classiques proposes pour l'atlantique central et l'ocean indien ouest. La comparaison de ces courbes entre elles, est un moyen de contraindre la position de ces trois blocs au sein de la pangee. La configuration classique de la pangee (pangee a) est remise en cause au permo-trias. Durant cette periode, la pangee est plutot de type a2 (fermeture du golfe du mexique par rapport a la configuration classique), avec un passage pangee a2-pangee a a la fin du trias, qui se traduit par un cisaillement dextre de faible amplitude entre la laurussie et le gondwana ouest. Au meme moment, des mouvements de cisaillement dextre se produisent entre le gondwana ouest et le gondwana est. Les differentes donnees paleomagnetiques ramenees dans le referentiel africain, sont finalement utilisees pour construire une cdap synthetique, commune a l'ensemble des continents peri-atlantiques et indiens
Enhanced microglial pro‐inflammatory response to lipopolysaccharide correlates with brain infiltration and blood–brain barrier dysregulation in a mouse model of telomere shortening

Microglia are a proliferative population of resident brain macrophages that under physiological conditions self‐renew independent of hematopoiesis. Microglia are innate immune cells actively surveying the brain and are the earliest responders to injury. During aging, microglia elicit an enhanced innate immune response also referred to as ‘priming’. To date, it remains unknown whether telomere shortening affects the proliferative capacity and induces priming of microglia. We addressed this issue using early (first‐generation G1 mTerc−/−)‐ and late‐generation (third‐generation G3 and G4 mTerc−/−) telomerase‐deficient mice, which carry a homozygous deletion for the telomerase RNA component gene (mTerc). Late‐generation mTerc−/− microglia show telomere shortening and decreased proliferation efficiency. Under physiological conditions, gene expression and functionality of G3 mTerc−/− microglia are comparable with microglia derived from G1 mTerc−/− mice despite changes in morphology. However, after intraperitoneal injection of bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), G3 mTerc−/− microglia mice show an enhanced pro‐inflammatory response. Nevertheless, this enhanced inflammatory response was not accompanied by an increased expression of genes known to be associated with age‐associated microglia priming. The increased inflammatory response in microglia correlates closely with increased peripheral inflammation, a loss of blood–brain barrier integrity, and infiltration of immune cells in the brain parenchyma in this mouse model of telomere shortening.