Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
System design for social intervention : improving throuhg interior design the client’s experience and staff productivity

Santa Casa de Misericordia is an organization, whose mission is to treat and support the sick and disabled, as well as assist “exposed ones”. Principally, it is recognizable by its social services. Big matters of society are social exclusion, loneliness, managing unemployment, etc. At some point of our lives we will all need some kind of level of care. By intervention is destined any program, service, policy, or product that is intended to eventually influence or change people ́s social, environmental, and organizational conditions as well as their choices, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Social care interventions tend to be compound, programmatic and dependent. They occur through investigation and analysis and discovering solutions at the end. To achieve this, there is a need to select, adapt and evaluate given information and apply it to present environment. This dissertation aims to create physical surroundings that are “psychologically supportive”, where a significant relationship exists between a client and organization. Different features are studied, in order to achieve a matching solution and interior design guides to create a specific type of space. There is scientific evidence, that poor design works in contradiction of the well being of clients of social services, also its employees. The second part of this study is based on existing facility located in Rua das Janelas Verdes. It is a base for project, helping to understand the space and relationships occurring there. I have used methods of Evidance Based Design and a questionnaire to collect primary data. By changing the interior design of this facility, it was intended to improve mostly patient ́s experience with Santa Casa de Misericordia, but also the employees. Improving facilities image may help clients enjoy better the service and help the employees cope better with workplace stress and to provide a better service, while outcomes will rise. Current design and floor plans were investigated and studied. Its exploration, observation and analysis led me to significant solutions and conclusions. Environmental factors do have an influence, on how service is perceived but its clients. Not only clients, but also employees are always a part of it. Interior and exterior surroundings have impact on all human beings. Textures, lights, nature and art have individual responses and the majority of respondeds believed that the social care environment had a direct influence on well-being, productivity and coping with stress.
NURBS Enhanced Virtual Element Methods for the Spatial Discretization of the Multigroup Neutron Diffusion Equation on Curvilinear Polygonal Meshes

Abstract The Continuous Galerkin Virtual Element Method (CG-VEM) is a recent innovation in spatial discretization methods that can solve partial differential equations (PDEs) using polygonal (2D) and polyhedral (3D) meshes. Recently, a new formulation of CG-VEM was introduced which can construct VEM spaces on polygons with curvilinear edges. This paper presents the application of the curved VEM to the multigroup neutron diffusion equation and demonstrates its benefits over the conventional straight-sided VEM for a number of benchmark verification test cases with curvilinear domains. These domains were constructed using a topological data-structure developed as part of this paper, based on the doubly-connected edge list, with curves and surfaces both represented using non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBS). This data-structure is used both to specify the geometry of the reactor and to represent the curvilinear polygonal mesh. We also present two separate methods of performing integrations on curvilinear polygons, one for homogeneous functions and one for non-homogeneous functions.
BADANIA USZKODZE$ UZWOJENIA STOJANA KLATKOWEGO SILNIKA INDUKCYJNEGO TESTING OF FAILURES IN STATOR WINDING OF SQUIRREL-CAGE INDUCTION MOTOR

Phenomena associated with inter-turn short-circuit in stator winding of squirrel-cage motor were investigated. Investigations were realized with field-circuit mathematical model and physical model of motor. Short-circuit happens when motor is working with nominal load. Based on this assumption time characteristics of stator phase currents, currents in short-circuited turns and instantaneous power of motor, were calculated. Two causes were investigated: short-circuit of four turns and whole coil (51 turns). Influence of resistance value in short-circuited point on electromechanical phenomena was investigated too.
Sostenibilidad Corporativa y Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible: innovación para luchar contra la corrupción

Desde la definición de Bowen, la responsabilidad social moderna ha sufrido muchas transformaciones. Paralelamente, el concepto de sostenibilidad ha superado sus límites medioambientales. En consecuencia, la sostenibilidad corporativa es un concepto que integra los aspectos financieros, sociales y medioambientales, sin dejar de reconocer la importancia del gobierno corporativo como clave de todo el proceso empresarial. De hecho, algunos estudios empíricos han demostrado que el gobierno corporativo es clave para lograr la sostenibilidad corporativa. Esto nos lleva a estudiar la responsabilidad de la alta dirección en la implementación de las políticas de responsabilidad social. Dentro de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), la innovación tecnológica (ODS 9) puede disminuir los riesgos de corrupción, aumentar la transparencia y fomentar la rendición de cuentas (ODS 16). Los datos de distintas organizaciones demuestran que los países más innovadores se sitúan en los mejores puestos en materia de corrupción. En este sentido, el gobierno corporativo puede alcanzar la sostenibilidad corporativa a través de la innovación que proporcionan las nuevas tecnologías. Automatización, análisis de grandes datos en búsqueda de patrones, correlaciones o anomalías, redes sociales y canales de información y comunicación pueden disminuir los riesgos asociados a la corrupción, aumentando la accountability. Aumentar la inversión en innovación y posibilitar sinergias mediante la colaboración público-privada —posibilidades planteadas en los ODS 9 y ODS 17—, pueden permitir alcanzar las metas específicas del ODS 16: disminuir la corrupción, aumentar la transparencia y mejorar la rendición de cuentas.
Research on low cycle fatigue life prediction considering average strain

To address the difficult problems in the study of the effect of average strain on fatigue life under low-cycle fatigue loads, the effect of average strain on the low-cycle fatigue life of materials under different strain cycle ratios was discussed based on the framework of damage mechanics and its irreversible thermodynamics. By introducing the Ramberg-Osgood cyclic constitutive equation, a new low-cycle fatigue life prediction method based on the intrinsic damage dissipation theory considering average strain was proposed, which revealed the correlation between low-cycle fatigue strain life , material properties, and average strain. Through the analysis of the low-cycle fatigue test data of five different metal materials, the model parameters of the corresponding materials were obtained. The calculation results indicate that the proposed life prediction method is in good agreement with the test, and a reasonable characterization of the low-cycle fatigue life under the influence of average strain is realized. Comparing calculations with three typical low-cycle fatigue life prediction models, the new method is within two times the error band, and the prediction effect is significantly better than the existing models, which is more suitable for low-cycle fatigue life prediction. The low-cycle fatigue life prediction of different cyclic strain ratios based on the critical region intrinsic damage dissipation power method provides a new idea for the research of low-cycle fatigue life prediction of metallic materials.
Special issue on translational biophotonics

Lingjie Kong1,2,∗, Conor Evans, Lei Su, Daniel S Elson and Xunbin Wei6,∗ 1 State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China 2 IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China 3 Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, United States of America 4 School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom 5 Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom 6 Biomedical Engineering Department, Peking University, Beijing 100191, People’s Republic of China E-mail: konglj@tsinghua.edu. cn and xwei@bjmu.edu. cn This special issue on ‘Translational Biophotonics’ was initiated when COVID-19 started to spread worldwide in early 2020, with the aim of introducing the advances in optical tools that have the ability to transform clinical diagnostics, surgical guidance, and therapeutic approaches that together can have a profound impact on global health. This issue achieves this goal comprehensively, covering various topics including optical techniques for clinical diagnostics, monitoring and treatment, in addition to fundamental studies in biomedicine.
Description of the properties of dark matter by deformed statistics

We consider the condensate of q-deformed bosons as a model of dark matter. Our observations demonstrate that for all q values, the system condenses below a q-dependent critical temperature Tcq . The critical temperature interestingly tends to infinity when q → 0, so that the q-deformed boson gas is always in the condensed phase in this limit irrespective to the temperature. We argue that this has remarkable outcomes, e.g. on the entropy of the system, and also the fraction of the particles in the ground state. Especially, by direct evaluation of the entropy of the system we reveal that it tends to zero at this limit for all temperatures, and also the fraction of particles in the ground state becomes unity. These observations prove the consistency of the model, put it in the list of appropriate candidates for dark matter.
Clinical experience with paliperidone palmitate in a specialty hospital in the Philippines: A short report

Objective: To describe the clinical outcomes related to the introduction of paliperidone palmitate in a specialty hospital in the Philippines Design: Cross-sectional study among patients seen at the psychiatry service of a specialty hospital catering to veterans who were initiated on paliperidone palmitate. We reviewed and abstracted baseline patient data from the medical record of eligible patients. Outcome of treatment was collected through a one-time objective assessment of the patient by a third-party psychiatrist using the Structured Clinical Interview for Symptoms of Remission (SCI-SR) tool. Main Result: A total of 30 patients were recruited for the study from August 2020 and June 2021, the majority of whom were males (80%), residents of the National Capital Region (50%), and single (20%). The median duration from schizophrenia diagnosis to initiation of paliperidone treatment was 19.50 years (IQR: 16.60 - 33.50). In eight patients (22.67%), other antipsychotic drugs were discontinued following initiation of paliperidone treatment; in the remaining 22 participants (73.33%), paliperidone was taken concurrently with other antipsychotic drugs. The median duration from the initiation of paliperidone treatment to follow-up assessment was 27.20 months (IQR: 24.73 - 30.50), with all participants having at least 6 months of treatment. At follow-up assessment, all participants were classified to be in remission. Conclusion: In this study among patients with schizophrenia seen in a specialty hospital in the Philippines, we found evidence that clinical outcomes with paliperidone palmitate were comparable to those given a combination of oral and long-acting antipsychotics.
Comportement d'endettement des PME au Maroc : Etat des lieux et facteurs explicatifs

Why and how do companies get indebted? This is the main issue that this work aims to investigate. In fact, through this study we look forward to humbly to the heated debate on the small and medium sized enterprises (S.M.E.) behavior of indebtedness. We have integrated the financial characteristics of SME. This research focuses on three axes of research: Financial theory, the field of S.M. E and the intersection on these too. Based on the literature, three hypothesis have been deduced: they are based first to the financial characteristics of S.M. E, second to the owner manager profile and finally to the characteristics of the external environment. To test the validity of these hypotheses, we have conducted a survey among 30 Moroccan S.M. E working in the industrial sector. The results of this survey have shown that S.M. E present small levels of indebtedness. This indebtedness is basically a short time one. The explanations have revealed the correlation of indebtedness successively with benefit, growth opportunities, and the owner-manager profile. In sum, our study is both descriptive and explanatory of the indebtedness behavior among the national S.M. E.
The Voynich manuscript: Symbol roles revisited

In this article, we employ simple descriptive methods in order to explore the peculiar behavior of the symbols in the Voynich Manuscript. Such an analysis reveals a group of symbols which are further analyzed for the possibility of being compounds (or ligatures), using a specifically developed method. The results suggest the possibility that the alphabet of the manuscript is a lot smaller, and steganographic type of encoding is proposed to explain the newly revealed properties.
Dining with liberals and conservatives: The social underpinnings of food neophobia

Although food and politics seem to be distant domains, socio-political ideology and food neophobia (i.e., reluctance to eat unfamiliar food) may be related. Conservatives’ high threat sensitivity and the inherently threatening nature of novel foods (the existential explanation), along with conservatives’ negative attitudes toward minority outgroups (e.g., foreigners) and the role of the latter in introducing novel foods to a culture (the social explanation), led us to expect that socio-political ideology would predict food neophobia over and above their common roots. Across two correlational and two experimental studies (N = 627), socio-political ideology emerged as a strong predictor of food neophobia. In addition, the findings did not support the existential explanation, while confirming the social explanation of the ideology–food neophobia link: Conservatives seem more neophobic than liberals not because of their higher threat sensitivity but rather because they hold more negative attitudes toward foreigners who are associated with those foods.
Clinical and radiographic characteristics of presumptive tuberculosis patients previously treated for tuberculosis in Zambia

Background Persistent respiratory symptoms and radiographic abnormalities are common among individuals previously treated for tuberculosis (TB) and may contribute to misdiagnosis and incorrect treatment when they seek care. We sought to determine if clinical and radiographic characteristics differed among previously treated, presumptive TB patients according to their current TB disease status. Methods Adults (>18 years of age) seeking care at a public health facility in Lusaka, Zambia were systematically evaluated for active TB using symptom screening and chest X-ray. All patients with presumptive TB submitted a sputum sample for microbiological TB testing. Patients who reported a prior history of TB treatment were included in the present analysis. ‘Confirmed TB’ was defined by the detection of TB using Xpert Ultra and/or liquid culture, while ‘possible TB’ was defined by the receipt of TB treatment without a positive Xpert Ultra or culture result. We evaluated the positive predictive value (PPV) of clinical symptoms and radiographic features for active TB alone and in combination. Results Of 740 presumptive TB patients, 144 (19%) had been previously treated for active TB. Of these, 19 (13%) patients had confirmed TB, 14 (10%) had possible TB, and 111 (77%) had no pulmonary TB. Overall, 119 (83%) patients had ≥1 current respiratory symptom—this did not differ according to current TB disease classification (95%, 93%, 79%; p = 0.23). Sixty-one patients (56%) had radiographic abnormalities suggestive of active TB and such findings were more common among patients with confirmed or possible TB compared to those without TB (93%, 71%, vs. 47%; p = 0.002). Most patients (n = 91, 83%) had at least one radiographic abnormality—no difference by current TB classification was observed (93%, 100%, 79%; p = 0.08). The PPV of any current respiratory symptom, active TB radiographic finding, or any radiographic abnormality for TB was 13% (95%CI: 7–21%), 21% (95%CI: 12–34) and 14% (95%CI: 9–23), respectively; combining clinical and radiographic characteristics did not significantly improve the PPV for active TB. Conclusions Among presumptive TB patients previously treated for TB, respiratory symptoms and radiographic abnormalities were common and poorly differentiated those with current active TB from those without current active TB. Reliance on clinical and radiographic characteristics alone in this patient population may result in substantial overtreatment and therefore, microbiological investigations should be used to inform TB treatment decisions whenever possible.
Access to highly specialized growth substrates and production of epithelial immunomodulatory metabolites determine survival of Haemophilus influenzae in human airway epithelial cells

Haemophilus influenzae (Hi) infections are associated with recurring acute exacerbations of chronic respiratory diseases in children and adults including otitis media, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma. Here, we show that persistence and recurrence of Hi infections are closely linked to Hi metabolic properties, where preferred growth substrates are aligned to the metabolome of human airway epithelial surfaces and include lactate, pentoses, and nucleosides, but not glucose that is typically used for studies of Hi growth in vitro. Enzymatic and physiological investigations revealed that utilization of lactate, the preferred Hi carbon source, required the LldD L-lactate dehydrogenase (conservation: 98.8% of strains), but not the two redox-balancing D-lactate dehydrogenases Dld and LdhA. Utilization of preferred substrates was directly linked to Hi infection and persistence. When unable to utilize L-lactate or forced to rely on salvaged guanine, Hi showed reduced extra- and intra-cellular persistence in a murine model of lung infection and in primary normal human nasal epithelia, with up to 3000-fold attenuation observed in competitive infections. In contrast, D-lactate dehydrogenase mutants only showed a very slight reduction compared to the wild-type strain. Interestingly, acetate, the major Hi metabolic end-product, had anti-inflammatory effects on cultured human tissue cells in the presence of live but not heat-killed Hi, suggesting that metabolic endproducts also influence HI-host interactions. Our work provides significant new insights into the critical role of metabolism for Hi persistence in contact with host cells and reveals for the first time the immunomodulatory potential of Hi metabolites.
An Analysis for Price Determinants of Small and Medium-sized Office Buildings Using Data Mining Method in Gangnam-gu

본 연구는 오피스시장의 흐름을 고려하여 대형오피스빌딩 중심의 기존연구에서 벗어나, 중소형오피스빌 딩에 대한 다양한 분석을 통해 모형별 중요변수 도출 및 예측력을 검증하여, 중소형 오피스를 대상으로 투 자를 하고자 하는 투자자들에게 정보를 제공함이 목적이다. 중소형오피스빌딩은 대형오피스빌딩과 달리 규 모에 대한 기준이 불명확하고, 주거용과 상업용이 혼재되어 있는 경우가 많기 때문에 자료수집의 한계가 있기 때문에 기존 연구는 대형오피스빌딩을 대상으로 변수간의 인과관계 추정에 탁월한 회귀모형에 편중되 었다. 본 연구에서는 강남구 중소형오피스빌딩을 직접 전수조사하고 최종 1,056개의 자료를 추출하여 인과 관계 과정을 추정하는 선형회귀모형외에, 반복학습을 통해 최적의 결과를 만들어내는 신경망모형 및 의사 결정나무모형을 통해 매매가격 결정요인을 추가로 분석하였으며, 이를 통해 대형오피스빌딩과의 차별점을 비교하였다.
Phytoplankton growth regulation by dissolved P and mortality regulation by endogenous cell death over 35 years of P control in a Mountain Lake

Abstract Dynamics of phytoplankton and phosphorus were quantified in Lake Dillon, Colorado, over 35 years of P control. The lake provides an example of early intervention for P enrichment rather than remediation of advanced eutrophication. Phosphorus control began with tertiary treatment of effluent, which caused a phytoplankton decline (8.1–4.5 μg L−1 chla); a second decline (4.6–2.5 μg L−1 chla) occurred later following replacement of failing septic systems. Results showed that bioavailable phosphorus (BAP) loading was the only significant correlate of phytoplankton biomass; total P loading was not significantly related to biomass measured as chlorophyll. Phytoplankton composition changed greatly over the study interval, even though there was no long-term trend in potential causes of phytoplankton abundance other than reduction in BAP. Gradual decline of BAP loading also appears to have been the cause of large, gradual changes in phytoplankton community composition. Factors typically assumed to control phytoplankton mortality accounted for only ~50% of phytoplankton biomass turnover; the balance of mortality appears to be accounted for by endogenous cell mortality.
Study on the Role of Occlusal Support for the Body Equilibrium Function among Elderly People. Examination with Static and Dynamic Configuration.

The objective of this study was to examine the effect of occlusal support on the whole body equilibrium function in edentulous patients during static and dynamic events. Ten edentulous and dentate adult volunteers over 50 years old were asked to stand on an equilibrium function testing machine (Equitest: Neurocom USA). The system consists of a computer controlled movable platform with five pressure sensors and movable surrounding walls with some scenery. By changing the location and angle of the platform with scenery angulation, equilibrium and balance adjustment function were evaluated during static and dynamic events. Our results suggested that occlusal support with prosthetic appliances in edentulous patients might be helpful for the static equilibrium function.