Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Atherosclerotic Lesion of the Carotid Artery in Indonesian Cynomolgus Monkeys Receiving a Locally Sourced Atherogenic Diet

The atherosclerotic lesion is a principal hallmark of atherosclerotic animal models. This study aimed to assess lesions of the carotid artery in Indonesian cynomolgus monkeys exposed to an IPB-1 atherogenic diet. A total of 20 adult male cynomolgus monkeys received the local IPB-1 diet for two years. Blood lipid profiles, morphology, and carotid ultrasound of monkeys were measured. Nine of them were euthanized to confirm atherosclerotic lesions. Common carotid arteries (CCA) and carotid bifurcation (BIF) samples were collected and stained using Verhoef-van Giessen and CD68 immunohistochemistry. The results reveal the presence of severe atherosclerosis plaques in six out of nine animals (66.7%) corresponding to intermediately and hyper-responsive groups. The hyper-responsive group displayed the highest response in the developing intimal area (IA) at the CCA (0.821 mm2), whereas the hyporesponsive group had the smallest IA (0.045 mm2) (p = 0.0001). At the BIF, the hyporesponsive group showed the smallest IA (p = 0.001), but there was no difference between the intermediately and hyper-responsive groups (p = 0.312). The macrophage marker CD68 was also expressed on the cartotid of the intermediately and hyper-responsive groups. These results indicate that severe atherosclerotic lesions with high infiltration of macrophages were formed in the carotid arteries of intermediately and hyper-responsive Indonesian cynomolgus monkeys fed with the local atherogenic diet IPB-1 over two years, thus confirming atherosclerosis in a nonhuman primate model.
Modeling Health Event Impact on Smoking Cessation

Background This study examined how cognitive and affective constructs related to an acute health event predict smoking relapse following an acute cardiac health event. Methods Participants were recruited from emergency departments and completed cognitive and emotional measures at enrollment and ecological momentary assessments (EMA) for 84 days postvisit. Results Of 394 participants, only 35 (8.9%) remained abstinent 84 days postvisit. Time to relapse was positively associated with age, actual illness severity, self-efficacy, and quit intentions. Conclusions Older, seriously ill patients with strong confidence and intentions to quit smoking remain abstinent longer after discharge, but most still relapse within three months.
Coherent structures in turbulent mixed convection flows through channels with differentially heated walls

The occurrence and shape of turbulent structures in mixed convection flows through a differently heated vertical channel are investigated in terms of thermally induced attenuation and amplification of turbulent velocity, pressure, and temperature fluctuations using direct numerical simulations. It is shown that the wall‐normal momentum transport is decreased and increased near the heated and cooled wall, respectively, and that this leads to a reduced and elevated production of turbulent velocity fluctuations in the streamwise velocity component in the aiding and opposing flow, respectively. The corresponding flow structures are smoother, faster and warmer in the aiding flow and aligned along the main flow, while the colder structures in the opposing flow are more frayed and less directed. The warmer flow structures in the aiding flow are overall more stable than the colder structures in the opposing flow. Besides, the study reveals that the position of the maximum temperature fluctuations moves toward the heated wall, so that the sweeps produced at the two walls are affected differently by the former. As a consequence, the distance and time period over which the fluctuations develop in the aiding flow are shorter than in the opposing flow. It is further shown that vortex structures oriented in the streamwise direction usually arise with an offset to the right or left above a sweep or an ejection, whereby the decreasing values of the correlation coefficients with increasing Grashof number indicate a weakening of the vortex structures. Since none of the evaluated vortex criteria, that is, the distributions of the vorticity, λ2 ‐ value or Rortex‐value correlate well with the evaluated minima of the pressure fluctuations, they do not allow a clear identification of the vortex structures. Finally, analyzing the budget of the turbulent kinetic energy it is confirmed that the velocity fluctuations are only indirectly influenced by the buoyancy force. Thus, the attenuation and amplification of the turbulent velocity fluctuations is reflected in the reduction and exaggeration of the Reynolds shear stresses in the aiding and opposing flow, respectively.
Attitudes and Concerns of Pre-Service Teachers’ about Inclusive Education Enshrined in the New Four-Year Basic Education Curriculum in Ghana

Inclusive education, that is, the inclusion of learners with special educational needs and disabilities into regular schools is now one of the most significant core pillars in the New Bachelor of Education (Basic Education) Curriculum for teacher education in Ghana. In order to address this issue, pre-service teachers in their first year per the curriculum are introduced to inclusive education as a subject. The study aimed at finding out the attitude and concerns of pre-service teachers towards inclusive education in Ghana. The study employed mixed method approach with the sequential explanatory strategy. The sample population composed of 562 students from six (6) colleges of education in Ghana under one mentor university. The quantitative research approach consisted of 10-item questionnaire which was adapted from the Teachers’ Attitudes towards Inclusive Education (TAIS) scale. Data was collected using both the questionnaire and interview guide. The analysis of quantitative data involved the use of multiple statistical procedures; frequency counts, simple percentages, and standard deviation, while the thematic analysis was used to analyze the qualitative data. The study revealed that pre-service teachers has positive attitude towards the implementation of inclusive education in Ghana. About eighty percent (80.1%) stated that children with special educational needs can be effectively supported to learn in regular classrooms in Ghana (1.30, SD=.64). However, the current regular schools in Ghana cannot accommodate children with special needs education (1.25, SD=.62) due to inadequate space. It is therefore recommended that the government of Ghana and the Ghana Education Service should work together to ensure that there is the availability of adequate facilities in all schools for teachers to effectively implement inclusive education in the new Bachelor of Education (Basic Education) Curriculum
Assessing Awareness and Competence of Best Practices in Synchronous Online Instruction During the COVID-19 Pandemic for Clemson Cooperative Extension Professionals

Traditional delivery of Extension programming changed overnight in March 2020, when the COVID-19 outbreak forced switching traditional methods to virtual delivery. Extension professionals across South Carolina quickly adapted to online delivery. Concerns over instructor preparedness to use online tools, including functions to assure accessibility, did arise. Findings from this non-experimental, descriptive research study suggested Extension professionals used online tools (primarily Zoom). The majority were not comfortable using many of the features that would enhance instruction, including polling, file transfer, and live-streaming media platforms. Additionally, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint skills to assure accessibility for clientele were lacking.
Effects of Customized Progressive Addition Lenses vs. Single Vision Lenses on Myopia Progression in Children with Esophoria: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Purpose To evaluate the effect of customized progressive addition lenses (CPALs) versus single vision lenses (SVLs) on the progression of juvenile-onset myopia in children with near esophoria. Methods Ninety-three Chinese children, aged 7–14 years with spherical equivalent refraction (SER) ranging from −0.50 to −4.00 D and near esophoria ≥2Δ, were randomly assigned into a CPALs (n = 46) and an SVLs group (n = 47) for a 2-year, double-masked, randomized trial. The primary outcome measure was the progression of myopia, as determined by cycloplegic autorefraction. A customized near addition, calculated by a regression equation, was prescribed to establish a fixed heterophoria status for each child, which was −3Δ exophoria. Results Eighty-four (90.3%) of the 93 children completed the 2-year follow-up. The mean initial near addition lenses were 1.65 ± 0.07 D (mean ± SE). The adjusted 2-year myopia progression was 0.23 ± 0.08 D slower in the CPALs group than in the SVLs group (p=0.046). Post hoc analysis found significantly larger treatment effects for CPALs in children without myopic parents (0.47 ± 0.15 D; 95% CI: 0.18–0.76), with lower baseline myopia (0.33 ± 0.09 D; 95% CI: 0.14–0.52; p < 0.05), with higher baseline accommodative lag (0.36 ± 0.11 D; 95% CI: 0.12–0.60; p < 0.05), and with higher baseline near esophoria (0.30 ± 0.10 D; 95% CI: 0.12–0.48; p < 0.05). Conclusion CPALs exerted a significant but minimal protective effect against myopia progression in Chinese children with esophoric myopia, as compared with SVLs. Regulating near heterophoria and accommodative lag by near addition lenses may not be an appropriate way to prevent myopia progression.
Design and Testing of a Novel, High-Performance Two DoF Prosthetic Wrist

Extrinsically powered prosthetic wrists have the potential to offer significant improvements to the functionality and dexterity of a prosthetic hand. They can also reduce a user’s overreliance on their intact limb and help prevent injury from overuse of upper limb (both intact and residual) and trunk joints. Despite these potential advantages, there are very few prosthetic wrist options that are commercially available and these devices are not commonly used by prosthetic hand users due to several factors including inadequate performance specifications. In this paper, we first seek to establish the target specifications for a prosthetic wrist suitable for both median men and women. We then complete a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in extrinsically powered prosthetic wrists in the research, commercial, and patent literature. This review determines that no existing prosthetic wrist meets the target specifications due to the presence of actuators and transmissions that do not offer sufficient torque density, power density, and specific power. In order to address this challenge and produce a prosthesis that achieves target specifications, we next review the performance of existing actuators and transmissions and determine that Brushless DC motors with planetary gearboxes and ball screws offer the best potential to achieve the target specifications. We then present the design of a novel two Degree of Freedom parallel kinematic prosthetic wrist that incorporates this actuator-transmission combination. This first iteration of the proposed prosthetic wrist meets the target torque, speed, and weight but does not meet the target dimensions or range of motion yet. We propose design improvements in subsequent iterations that could lead to a prosthetic wrist that meets all the target specifications of torque, speed, weight, and volume.
Processing of Distillery Stillage to Recover Phenolic Compounds with Ultrasound-Assisted and Microwave-Assisted Extractions

This study investigated the effect of ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) and microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) conditions (extraction time, acetone concentration, solid-to-solvent ratio) on the efficiency of polyphenol recovery from distillery stillage and antioxidant activity of the extracts. The highest total polyphenol content, flavonoid content, and phenolic acid content were obtained with 10-min UAE and 5-min MAE at a solid-to-acetone ratio of 1:15 (w:v). Recovery yield was the highest with an aqueous solution of 60% acetone, confirming the results of Hansen Solubility Parameter analysis. Although UAE resulted in approximately 1.2 times higher extraction yield, MAE showed a better balance between extraction yield and energy consumption exhibited by its 3-fold higher extraction rate than that of UAE. Content of total polyphenols and phenolic acids strongly correlated with antioxidant activity, indicating that these compounds provide a substantial contribution to the bioactive properties of the extracts. Six phenolic acids were extracted, predominately ferulic and p-coumaric acids, and free forms of these acids constituted 91% of their total content, which opens various possibilities for their application in the food, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries.
Widely-Targeted Metabolic Profiling in Lycium barbarum Fruits under Salt-Alkaline Stress Uncovers Mechanism of Salinity Tolerance

Wolfberry (Lycium barbarum L.) is an important economic crop widely grown in China. The effects of salt-alkaline stress on metabolites accumulation in the salt-tolerant Ningqi1 wolfberry fruits were evaluated across 12 salt-alkaline stress gradients. The soil pH, Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, and HCO3− contents decreased at a gradient across the salt-alkaline stress gradients. Based on the widely-targeted metabolomics approach, we identified 457 diverse metabolites, 53% of which were affected by salt-alkaline stress. Remarkably, soil salt-alkaline stress enhanced metabolites accumulation in wolfberry fruits. Amino acids, alkaloids, organic acids, and polyphenols contents increased proportionally across the salt-alkaline stress gradients. In contrast, nucleic acids, lipids, hydroxycinnamoyl derivatives, organic acids and derivatives and vitamins were significantly reduced by high salt-alkaline stress. A total of 13 salt-responsive metabolites represent potential biomarkers for salt-alkaline stress tolerance in wolfberry. Specifically, we found that constant reductions of lipids and chlorogenic acids; up-regulation of abscisic acid and accumulation of polyamines are essential mechanisms for salt-alkaline stress tolerance in Ningqi1. Overall, we provide for the first time some extensive metabolic insights into salt-alkaline stress tolerance and key metabolite biomarkers which may be useful for improving wolfberry tolerance to salt-alkaline stress.
Development of Pulsed Eddy Current Testing System Based on LabVIEW

Pulsed eddy current testing employs pulses with rich frequency components as the exciting signal,and consequently,there exist many frequency components in corresponding response.Meanwhile,the counter-interference of pulsed eddy current testing is improved,and the detection depth is enlarged also.a LabVIEW based pulsed eddy current testing system was developed.The system was composed of hardware circuit,computer,data acquisition card and relative software.The design of the carrier frequency generator,head filter and sensor was introduced in detail.Testing experiments were done using the system,and the results showed that the system had good testing capability.
ISUR: Iris Segmentation based on UNet and ResNet

Iris segmentation is an important research subject. There are many studies for iris segmentation. Deep learning-based methods have improved iris segmentation accuracy greatly. Now, the main challenge for researchers is to segment the noisy iris images captured in non-ideal environments created by visible light and user non-cooperation. This study proposes a robust method based on deep learning to segment noisy iris images called ISUR that includes two stages: detection and segmentation. First, an attention mask is created via a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based detector. Second, the eye image is segmented using a new CNN, and the obtained attention mask is used to focus on the iris region in this network. The proposed method has been tested on well-known iris datasets: UBIRIS and Iris Distance subset from CASIA, and has shown promising results compared to UNet.
Stable Matching Relay Selection (SMRS) for TWR D2D Network With RF/RE EH Capabilities

The green Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a promising paradigm to reduce the energy consumed by nodes in dense networks. To ensure energy efficiency (EE) operation, network devices are equipped with energy harvesting (EH) batteries that can further prolong the network lifetime. This study investigates a two-way relaying (TWR) device-to-device (D2D) model sharing the same resources with the underlying cellular network where all devices can harvest renewable energy (RE) from the surrounding environment. Each relay can assist one D2D link and harvest part of the received signal using the power splitting (PS) protocol. The radio frequency (RF) harvested energy is modeled using a non-linear EH model to match the behavior of the practical energy harvester. The main objective is to maximize the data rate (DR) of D2D links while preserving the quality of service (QoS) constraints. Therefore, a joint optimization solution based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) for power allocation (PA) and one-to-one stable matching (SM) for best relay selection (RS) is performed to untangle the mixed integer non-linear programming (MINLP) problem. Simulation results illustrate the behavior of the proposed model under different parameters as well as it is superiority over the most recent algorithm in terms of D2D link rate and EE.
A Survey on Finding Topic Specific Expert in Twitter using JGibbLDA and TF-IDF

: Social Networks are now been used tremendously all over the world. Its growth has paved the way for bulk amount of information in Social Networks. It has become very difficult to identify which among these information are rich ones. So, Expert finding has become a hot topic with the flourishment of social network. Information from Experts are considered to be trustworthy and relevant. Opinion Mining from such experts can be used in many applications such as Information retrieval, Pattern Matching and so on. This paper conducts a detailed survey on existing technologies and emerging trends in Expert finding in Twitter using JGibbLDA and TF-IDF. New approaches are developing day by day.
2D high-resolution SBT image for subsurface soil zonation from limited CPTs using Bayesian compressive sampling

A novel method is presented in this paper for subsurface soil classification and zonation in a two-dimensional (2D) vertical cross-section using a limited number of cone penetration tests (CPT). CPT is usually performed vertically, and the number of CPT soundings in a site is often limited in geotechnical engineering practice due to time and budget constraints. It is, therefore, difficult to properly interpolate CPT results along horizontal direction for depicting spatial variation of geo-material properties. The method presented in this study aims to address this difficulty, and it consists of three modules: 2D interpolation of CPT data using 2D Bayesian compressive sampling, determination of soil behavior type (SBT) using Robertson chart at every location in the 2D cross-section, and soil layer/zone delineation using an edge detection method. High-resolution images of CPT data and SBT information in the 2D vertical cross-section can be obtained. Soil layer/zone boundaries are delineated automatically. The proposed method is illustrated using a simulated example. It shows that in the simulated example the method performs well even when only five sets of CPT soundings are available.
Sources of Transient and Prolonged Feelings of Loneliness Across Ontogeny

Most people have experienced loneliness and have been able to overcome it to reconnect with other people. In the current review, we provide a life-span perspective on one component of the evolutionary theory of loneliness—a component we refer to as the reaffiliation motive (RAM). The RAM represents the motivation to reconnect with others that is triggered by perceived social isolation. Loneliness is often a transient experience because the RAM leads to reconnection, but sometimes this motivation can fail, leading to prolonged loneliness. We review evidence of how aspects of the RAM change across development and how these aspects can fail for different reasons across the life span. We conclude with a discussion of age-appropriate interventions that may help to alleviate prolonged loneliness.
Investigation on the electron energy distribution in the equatorial plane of the plasma confined by a dipole magnet

The dipolar magnetic field confines the plasma in a unique pattern, giving rise to a wealth of physical phenomena such as particle transport, fluctuations, excitation of waves, and instabilities resulting from its collective particle motion. These phenomena have been studied over a wide range of observations from the large-scale confinement in planetary magnetospheres such as those of Earth and Jupiter to laboratory experiments worldwide. However, there are hardly any experiments that carried out detailed spatial measurements of fundamental plasma parameters such as plasma density ( Ne ), electron temperature ( Te ), and electron energy distribution function (EEDF). Although EEDF has been studied in various plasma confinements like tokamak plasma , inductively coupled plasma , rf plasma , multi cusp confined plasma , the nature of the EEDF in a dipole plasma is yet to be explored, whether it belongs to one of the standard distributions such as Maxwellian, Druyvesteyn, or F4 distributions , or is of a different nature. It should be borne in mind that the dipole magnetic field goes as 1 r ⁄ , and therefore the plasma is relatively unmagnetized as one moves outward from the central magnet. More importantly, the EEDF at different spatial locations in the dipole plasma needs to be explored, which will help in the understanding of the particle energies and rates of processes such as ionization, recombination, and diffusion.
Acalculia in Parkinson's Disease? A registered report

Elderly people and patients with neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s Disease (PD) immensely rely on arithmetic skills to lead an independent life. Activities such as medication management, financial transactions or using public transport require intact abilities to manipulate numbers for different arithmetic tasks. However, research on cognitive deficits in PD has been focussing on domain-general functions such as executive functions, attention or working memory so far – largely neglecting potential domain-specific aspects of numerical cognition (e.g. carry or problem size effect). These aspects should be addressed, as PD-immanent deterioration of domain-specific numerical areas and domain-general functions suggests mechanisms of both primary and secondary (mediated by other cognitive deficits) acalculia respectively. The current study will systematically investigate arithmetic performance and effects in PD patients differing in cognitive impairment for the first time, targeting domain-specific cognitive representations of arithmetic as well as the influence of domain-general factors. PD patients with normal cognition (PD-NC) and PD patients with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI) will be compared to healthy controls in arithmetic performance in the four basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division). Discriminant analysis will be employed to assess whether performance in arithmetic tasks can differentiate between a healthy control group and both PD groups. The study results will help us to understand the underlying mechanisms of arithmetic deficits faced by PD patients in daily life.
NEXT WORD PREDICTION

: Writing long sentences is bit boring, however with text prediction within the keyboard technology has created this easy. Next Word Prediction is in addition referred to as Language Modeling. It's the endeavor of predicting what word comes straightaway. It's one in every of the key assignments of human language technology and has various applications. Long short time memory formula can perceive past text and predict the words which can be useful for the user to border sentences and this method uses letter to letter prediction suggests that it predict a letter when letter to form a word.