Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Why Do I Care?: Understanding Motivations of Volunteers Working with Those Experiencing Homelessness in Japan

aFaculty of Fukuoka Medical technology, teikyo university, Itabashi-ku, Japan; bFaculty of Health sciences, graduate school of Medicine, Yamaguchi university, Yamaguchi, Japan; csusan Wakil school of nursing and Midwifery, the university of sydney, sydney, nsW, australia; dschool of Health, Medical and applied sciences, Central Queensland university, sydney, nsW, australia; eschool of nursing, Midwifery & social sciences, Central Queensland university, sydney, nsW, australia
An exploratory study of service quality in the Malaysian public service sector

Purpose – The paper seeks to obtain a better understanding of the extent to which service quality permeates within the Malaysian public service sector by drawing on management and customer perceptions of service quality.Design/methodology/approach – Two separate surveys were distributed to managers and customers across 86 branches of a public sector department within the Malaysian Ministry. The manager survey comprised instruments relating to organisational service performance, while the customer survey contained instruments relating to service quality and customer satisfaction. A total of 430 manager and customer surveys were completed, representing a 95 percent response rate.Findings – The results support the conceptual model in demonstrating a strong correlation between service quality dimensions, service performance and customer satisfaction. In particular, service providers classified as “excellent” were rated most favourably in terms of responsiveness, access and credibility.Research limitations/imp.
Short rotation forestry

Short rotation forestry (SRF) has got a high relevance the last decades. Fast-growing tree plantations with low rotations and high yields are expanding worldwide to meet the increasing demand of forest products. Furthermore, management of fast-growing species with energy purposes is playing an important role to accomplish bioenergy goals in the way to reduce fossil fuels consumption. This paper describes short rotation forestry aspects and its differences in Sweden and Spain, with main species and the practices used in both countries. Eucalyptus sp, Pinus radiata and Populus sp, mostly managed for pulpwood, wood-based panels and sawn products are the main species in Spain. On the other hand, Sweden is one of the leaders in Europe in willow SRF for energy, with more than 16 000 ha of willow plantations and small areas of hybrid aspen and poplar.
Extended (FD)2TD formulations for lumped elements

Currently extended finite‐difference time domain (FDTD) formulations require the permittivity and conductivity to be independent of frequency. However, for many real materials of interest, these parameters vary significantly with frequency. The extended frequency‐dependent finite‐difference time domain (FD)2TD method makes it possible to analyze hybrid integrated circuits with lumped element within dispersive medium by combining lumped parameters (R, C, or L) and frequency‐dependent dielectric substrate in the algorithm. This method allows the full‐wave analysis of virtually hybrid integrated circuits and gets parameters with a wide frequency range with one simulation. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 38: 206–209, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.11016
Attitude towards HPV Vaccination and the Intention to Get Vaccinated among Female University Students in Health Schools in Jordan

Cervical cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in women worldwide. The availability of prophylactic vaccines for high-risk types of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection represents an important advancement in the prevention of cervical cancer. In Jordan, the availability of the HPV vaccination is restricted to individuals who are willing to pay. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the willingness and attitude of female university students in health schools/faculties in Jordan to get HPV vaccination and their knowledge about the virus. A self-administered online questionnaire was distributed in October 2021, which comprised 27 items to evaluate HPV knowledge, history of HPV vaccination, intentions to get the HPV vaccine, and the reason(s) behind vaccine refusal for those who rejected vaccination. The study sample comprised 836 participants: medical students (39.7%), pharmacy students (26.0%), dental students (21.2%), and nursing students (13.2%). Only 524 participants had heard of HPV prior to the study (62.7%), of which 48.7% knew about the availability of HPV vaccines. The lowest level of HPV knowledge was observed among nursing students. Only 19/524 students reported a history of HPV vaccination (3.6%). The overall willingness to receive HPV vaccination if provided freely was 75.0%, while only 16.0% were willing to pay for the vaccine. The most common reason for HPV vaccine rejection was the perceived low risk to get HPV infection. Significantly higher intentions to get HPV vaccination were found among older participants and medical students. The embrace of vaccine conspiracy beliefs was associated with a significantly less willingness to get the HPV vaccination (p < 0.001). Dependence on the internet/social media as the source of HPV knowledge was associated with a significantly lower intention to get HPV vaccination (p = 0.002). The coverage of the HPV vaccination among female university students in health schools in Jordan appeared extremely low; however, three-fourths of the students who had heard of HPV were willing to receive the HPV vaccination if provided freely. Complacency appeared as a major factor for HPV vaccine rejection. Increasing the levels of knowledge and awareness of HPV infection and its association with cervical cancer through reliable sources is recommended. This can be helpful for the individual benefit of the students besides the potentially positive role they can play in community education. Countering vaccine conspiracy beliefs with proper education and awareness programs can be helpful to appraise the role of HPV vaccines in cancer prevention.
Trajectory Tracking Control of Intelligent Electric Vehicles Based on the Adaptive Spiral Sliding Mode

Aiming at the multi-objective control problem of the tracking effect and vehicle stability in the process of intelligent vehicle trajectory tracking, a coordinated control strategy of the trajectory tracking and stability of intelligent electric vehicles is proposed based on the hierarchical control theory. The vehicle dynamics model and trajectory tracking model are established. In order to tackle the chattering problem in the traditional sliding mode controller, an Adaptive Spiral Sliding Mode controller is designed by taking the derivative of the controller as the upper controller, which is intended to reduce the heading deviation and lateral deviation in the trajectory tracking process whilst ensuring the stability of the vehicle itself. In the lower controller, a four-wheel tire force optimal distribution method is designed. According to the requirements of the upper controller, combined with the yaw stability of the vehicle, the directional control distribution of the four-wheel tire force is realized. A joint simulation model was built based on CarSim and Simulink, and simulation experiments were performed. The results show that the proposed control strategy can effectively control the heading deviation and lateral deviation in the vehicle trajectory tracking while ensuring the lateral stability of the vehicle.
Efficient Occluded Road Extraction from High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery

Road extraction is important for road network renewal, intelligent transportation systems and smart cities. This paper proposes an effective method to improve road extraction accuracy and reconstruct the broken road lines caused by ground occlusion. Firstly, an attention mechanism-based convolution neural network is established to enhance feature extraction capability. By highlighting key areas and restraining interference features, the road extraction accuracy is improved. Secondly, for the common broken road problem in the extraction results, a heuristic method based on connected domain analysis is proposed to reconstruct the road. An experiment is carried out on a benchmark dataset to prove the effectiveness of this method, and the result is compared with that of several famous deep learning models including FCN8s, SegNet, U-Net and D-Linknet. The comparison shows that this model increases the IOU value and the F1 score by 3.35–12.8% and 2.41–9.8%, respectively. Additionally, the result proves the proposed method is effective at extracting roads from occluded areas.
CNN-GRU-AM for Shared Bicycles Demand Forecasting

The demand forecast of shared bicycles directly determines the utilization rate of vehicles and projects operation benefits. Accurate prediction based on the existing operating data can reduce unnecessary delivery. Since the use of shared bicycles is susceptible to time dependence and external factors, most of the existing works only consider some of the attributes of shared bicycles, resulting in insufficient modeling and unsatisfactory prediction performance. In order to address the aforementioned limitations, this paper establishes a novelty prediction model based on convolutional recurrent neural network with the attention mechanism named as CNN-GRU-AM. There are four parts in the proposed CNN-GRU-AM model. First, a convolutional neural network (CNN) with two layers is used to extract local features from the multiple sources data. Second, the gated recurrent unit (GRU) is employed to capture the time-series relationships of the output data of CNN. Third, the attention mechanism (AM) is introduced to mining the potential relationships of the series features, in which different weights will be assigned to the corresponding features according to their importance. At last, a fully connected layer with three layers is added to learn features and output the prediction results. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, we conducted massive experiments on two datasets including a real mobile bicycle data and a public shared bicycle data. The experimental results show that the prediction performance of the proposed model is better than other prediction models, indicating the significance of the social benefits.
Analytical approach to estimating AMHS performance in 300 mm fabs

Contemporary simulation technology can produce accurate assessments of integrated circuit factory (fab) production performance, including the contribution by the automated material handling systems (AMHS). However, the corresponding simulation models are both expensive and time-consuming to construct, and require long execution times to produce statistically valid estimates. These attributes render simulation ineffective as a decision support tool in the early phase of system design, where requirements and configurations are likely to change often. In this paper, we describe an analytical approach to AMHS performance modelling for a simple closed loop AMHS, such as is typical in supporting a 300 mm wafer fab bay. In this system, due to the significant impact of vehicle blocking, a straightforward queueing network model which treats the material handling system as a central server can be very inaccurate. We propose an alternative model that estimates the MHS performance considering the possibility of vehicle-blocking. While the resulting large-scale model presents some computational challenges, it promises reasonably accurate estimates with computation times that are acceptable in a design environment.
Chemical Risk Factors of Primary Liver Cancer: A Short Comment [Letter]

Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan Dear editor I have read with interest the article “Chemical Risk Factors of Primary Liver Cancer: An Update”. I appreciate the authors for this brilliant work. The article has discussed the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) identified chemicals related to medications, lifestyle and occupational exposure, which can potentially cause hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). I suggest adding a few more such chemicals related to occupational exposure. 4-Aminobiphenyl (4-ABP) is classified as Group 1 carcinogen in humans. It was formerly used in the rubber and dye industry, now used as carcinogen in mutagenicity study and cancer research. Occupational exposure to 4-ABP can occur via 4-ABP contaminated products or benzidine and benzidine-based dyes which yield 4-ABP on metabolism. Its metabolism results in a mutagen, N-hydroxyl ABP formation. It can form DNA adducts. Its ingestion in rats results in bladder cancer, angiosarcoma and HCC. It has been associated with bladder cancer in workers exposed to it. Increased 4-ABP DNA levels were observed in HCC patients than controls. 4,4′-Methylene bis (2-chlorobenzenamine) (MOCA) is also an IARC Group 1 agent. It is used for polyurethane prepolymers in the manufacture of castable urethane rubber products and as a model compound to study carcinogens. Workers can be exposed during its production and use in the polyurethane industry mainly via dermal contact. It interacts with DNA and haemoglobin to form adducts. In vivo studies indicate risk of lung and mammary gland adenocarcinoma, and HCC. Bladder cancer risk has been identified in workers exposed to it. Ortho-Toluidine (o-toluidine) is used for production of herbicides, such as metolachlor and acetochlor, dyes and pigments, rubber, pharmaceuticals and other chemicals. In the laboratory it is used for glucose analysis and tissue staining. Occupational exposure can occur while manufacturing these products. Laboratory staff may be exposed while staining tissues. Epidemiological studies show significant association between its exposure and human bladder cancer. Oral administration in rats causes increased risk of HCC. There is sufficient evidence for its carcinogenicity in humans and animals (Group 1). Benzidine and dyes metabolized to it are Group 1 carcinogens. Benzidine is used in dye production to color textiles, leather, and paper products and in the petroleum, rubber, plastics, wood, soap, fur, and hair-dye industries. Workers can be exposed during its production or use of products containing it. Although no evidence of human cancer due to its exposure, it has been shown to increase HCC in rats. Correspondence: Laraib Ghanghro Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan Email lareb.manan19@dmc.duhs. edu.pk
Equivalent heat circuit based power transformer thermal model

An equivalent heat circuit based thermal model of oil-immersed power transformers and a methodology for model construction using intelligent learning based on real-world data are presented. The proposed thermal model is established to calculate the real-time temperatures of the main parts of a natural oil, natural air (ONAN) and forced oil, forced air (OFAF) cooled power transformer, which is based on the principles of heat exchange and electric circuit laws. A genetic algorithm is used as a search method, based on a few onsite measurements, to determine the thermal model parameters.
EFFECTS OF FEEDING CONCENTRATE DIETS CONTAINING NARROW- LEAFED LUPIN , YELLOW LUPIN OR SOYA WHEN COMPARED WITH A CONTROL DIET ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF FINISHING LAMBS

An experiment investigated the hypothesis that incorporating lupins ( Lupinus spp.) into lamb finishing diets would not alter lamb productivity and carcass characteristics when compared with a soya bean ( Glycine max ) meal concentrate or a commercial concentrate diet. The 4 dietary treatments were: narrow-leaf lupin (cv. Prima), yellow lupin (cv. Wodjil), soya bean meal and a commercial (control) lamb finisher diet. Eighty male Suffolk-cross castrated lambs were used. Diets were formulated so as to be iso-nitrogenous (160 g kg DM -1 ) and iso-energetic (ME 11.0 MJ kg DM -1 ). The experiment comprised of 3 phases: a 14-d covariate period, a 14-d adaptation period (14 days prior to day 0) and an 8-week measurement period (Day 0-56). During the covariate period, lambs were kept as one group on pasture. During the adaptation period, lambs were housed and offered increasing amounts of their treatment diets. Each blocking group was allocated at random to a set of four adjacent pens within 4 treatment blocks. During the measurement period, animals were offered straw and concentrate ad libitum , with refusal margins of 0.10 to 0.15 d-1. Lambs were weighed and condition scored every 7-d throughout the experiment. The measurement period was split into two phases. From Day 0-28, live weight data from all lambs was collected to determine liveweight gain, with the mean of each replicate pen of 5 lambs used in the data analysis. The mean liveweight gain of lambs offered concentrates incorporating soya, narrow-leaf lupin, yellow lupin or a commercial control diet were 185, 229, 193 and 166 g d-1, respectively. There was no significant effect (P > 0.05) of dietary treatment on the liveweight gain of lambs offered the different dietary treatments. From Day 29 onwards, lambs were selected-out for slaughter and their carcass characteristics determined. The killing out percentage of lambs offered the soya, narrow-leaf lupin, yellow lupin or commercial control concentrate diet was 50.1, 50.7, 51.3 and 50.1%, respectively. Lambs offered a commercial control concentrate or concentrates containing yellow lupin took, on average, 31 days to finish for slaughter, with lambs offered narrow-leaf lupin and soya diets taking 29 and 32 days, respectively.
Effective Resource Utilization: A Better Approach to Teaching and Learning of Physics

The teaching/learning of science has been advocated for sustainable national development. Physics is an integral part of science which requires special approach for effective understanding. For effective understanding of physics concepts, the application and effective use of resources has been identified as a better approach. The resources if well utilized, increase the achievement level of the students and also engender positive changes. This paper X-rayed how the classes of resources identified here could be harnessed by physics teachers and students for the purpose of educational training to facilitate and encourage the acquisition of knowledge competence, skill and know-how. Constraints to effective resources utilization were also identified and analyzed. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013. v2n6p35
A low profile tri‐band diversity antenna for WLAN/WiMAX/HIPERLAN applications with high isolation

A low profile tri‐band compact multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna operating at 2.4 GHz band (2.4−2.485 GHz), 3.4 GHz band (3.25−3.5 GHz), and 5.5 GHz band (5.15−5.85 GHz) for WLAN, WiMAX, and HIPERLAN band is presented, respectively. The proposed MIMO antenna consists of two planar inverted‐F antenna elements located at the top two corners of PCB. Each element dimension is reduced substantially by using a meandered line and folded patch structure with two vertical parasitic strips so that it takes a small volume of 9 × 8.8 × 5.4 mm3. Two nonradiating folded shorting strips are connected between each antenna element and ground plane of PCB to enhance the port isolation. The S‐parameters, mean effective gain, envelope correlation coefficient, effective diversity gain, total efficiency, and peak realized gain are studied. The optimized structure is fabricated and measured. Good agreement is obtained between the simulated and measured results. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 57:452–457, 2015
Sustainability of Rearing System Using Multicriteria Analysis: Application in Commercial Poultry Production

Simple Summary Organic poultry production is growing annually in Europe and USA. The main objective of the organic rearing system is to improve animal welfare, environmental impact and human welfare. All of these aspects are part of the "One Welfare" approach, which also includes food security, sustainability, the reduction of human suffering and improvements in the productivity of farms by applying high welfare standards. However, “One Welfare” is still a theoretical concept; it is important to determine practical applications for this concept in order to evaluate the production system in its entirety. This study, for the first time, applies the One Welfare approach in commercial poultry production by developing a specific a multicriteria model. This model was used to compare three different rearing systems, considering all their inputs and outputs simultaneously. Abstract The aim of the present study was to develop a multicriteria model for the comparison of three commercial poultry farms: organic with Ross 308 genotype (OR), organic with Naked Neck genotype (ONN) and a conventional system (C), which represents the most common commercial farming system. A model based on multicriteria decision analysis was developed, considering for the first time the One Welfare approach in an operational manner, including three dimensions: human, environmental and animal welfare. The three alternatives demonstrated different performances, according to the different dimensions considered. In particular, the two organic systems performed better for human welfare and animal welfare, with relevant differences due to the genetic strains used. Conventional rearing performed better for the environment index due to the method chosen. The multicriteria analysis showed that the organic system performed better overall than the conventional system. In particular, the use of an adapted Slow Growing (SG) strain positively affected the final rank, mainly by reducing welfare problems and producing good economic and social performance. The stability of the results was verified by performing a sensitivity analysis, specifically a weight stability analysis, which confirmed the strength of results.
Empowerment of Micro, Small Medium Enterprises (MSMES) in Coconut Oil Development

Entrepreneurship development at the household level is the forerunner to the growth of an MSME. In the village of Antiga, Manggis District, Karangasem Regency, there is a home-based business engaged in the production of coconut oil (kelentik oil). Currently the level of marketing is only limited to traditional markets while the target is to be able to market products in modern markets. Therefore, this study has the objective to know the level of efficiency of production costs incurred by the producers of coconut oil (kelentik oil) in Antiga village, Manggis district, Karangasem regency; to know how to empower Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises producing coconut oil (kelentik oil) and to analyze the factors that influence the intention of buyers or consumers to buy coconut oil (kelentik oil) in Bali. The research method is a qualitative method. The result is that the production process is still traditional so that production cost efficiency is achieved. Furthermore, the empowerment of MSMEs is not yet optimal as business partners in marketing their products. Several factors influence consumers' intention to buy coconut oil (kelentik oil). So the input that can be given is to improve relationships or networks to be able to expand the market and improve product packaging.