Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Compact Modeling of a 3.3 kV SiC MOSFET Power Module for Detailed Circuit-Level Electrothermal Simulations Including Parasitics

In this paper, an advanced electrothermal simulation strategy is applied to a 3.3 kV silicon carbide MOSFET power module. The approach is based on a full circuital representation of the module, where use is made of the thermal equivalent of the Ohm’s law. The individual transistors are described with subcircuits, while the dynamic power-temperature feedback is accounted for through an equivalent thermal network enriched with controlled sources enabling nonlinear thermal effects. A synchronous step-up DC-DC converter and a single-phase inverter, both incorporating the aforementioned power module, are simulated. Good accuracy was ensured by considering electromagnetic effects due to parasitics, which were experimentally extracted in a preliminary stage. Low CPU times are needed, and no convergence issues are encountered in spite of the high switching frequencies. The impact of some key parameters is effortlessly quantified. The analysis witnesses the efficiency and versatility of the approach, and suggests its adoption for design, analysis, and synthesis of high-frequency power converters in wide-band-gap semiconductor technology.
Hindrance to Day Care Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in India

Ab s t r Ac t Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is considered “gold standard” for the treatment of gallstone disease. In spite of the increasing number of laparoscopic cholecystectomies being performed as day care surgery in the West, the surgeons of developing countries are reluctant to adopt this trend probably due to the inadequate resources and infrastructure which they consider a hindrance for safe discharge. Our study aims to assess the feasibility of day care laparoscopic cholecystectomies. Materials and methods: This is a prospective observational study. All patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy were assessed postoperatively for dischargeability using post-anesthetic discharge scoring system (PADSS). We assessed the factors delaying the early discharge of laparoscopic cholecystectomy patients in terms of patient factors, intraoperative factors, postoperative factors, social factors, and logistic factors. Results: Of the total 88 patients, 57 (64.7%) were dischargeable at 6 hours and 78 (88.6%) were dischargeable at 24 hours. Factors found to affect dischargeability of patients at 6 hours were acute cholecystitis and increased duration of surgery. Difficulty of surgery and the use of drain had significant association with nondischargeability at 24 hours. Eighteen patients were fit for discharge by PADSS criteria but not discharged at 24 hours. Factors, which delayed the discharge of these patients, were continuation of intravenous antibiotics, delay in processing insurance, patients’ unwillingness for early discharge, presence of drain, and surgeon’s perceived fear of complications. Conclusion: Sixty-five percent of all laparoscopic cholecystectomies can be performed as day care procedure safely. Patients with acute cholecystitis and patients requiring an operative time more than 104 minutes should be observed for 24 hours.
Peran Pengungkapan CSR dalam Memoderasi Pengaruh Penerapan Tax Planning dan IOS terhadap Nilai Perusahaan

This study aims to determine the impact of the implementation of tax planning, investment opportunity set on company value with disclosure of corporate social responsibility as a moderating variable. Data collection is carried out at the Indonesia Stock Exchange through the website www.idx. co.id. This type of research is quantitative research. The sampling technique in this study was purposive sampling, with criteria for manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) for five years in a row namely 2015 - 2019, which produced 27 companies. The data analysis model used in moderated regression analysis (MRA). The results of this study indicate that the application of tax planning affects the value of the company, the investment opportunity set influences the value of the company, the disclosure of corporate social responsibility does not moderate the application of tax planning and the investment opportunity set on company’s value Keywords: application of tax planning; investment opportunity set; disclosure of corporate social responsiveness; the value of the company
The Value of Chest CT in Staging of Gastric Cancer

Aims: Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most common malignant tumors in the world. However, the significance of chest computed tomography (CT) in staging of GC is uncertain and the relevant study is few. So this study aims to evaluate the value of chest CT in gastric cancer staging.Methods: This study included 1158 cases of GC patients admitted to Shaoxing People's Hospital from 2015 to 2018. Chest, abdominal and pelvic CT scans were used to systematically evaluate the site of metastasis. All images were reviewed twice by two radiologists. Clinical data was Statistically analyzed.Results: The study finally included 846 patients, 672 cases (79.4%) received surgical treatment. Only 55 cases (6.5%) had lung metastases before or after surgery, and 20 cases (2.4%) had thoracic or supraclavicular lymph nodes (LN) metastases, of which 8 cases had double lung and thoracic LN metastases. The most common site of metastases is the peritoneum (265/390, 67.9%). Almost all lung or thoracic LN metastases accompanied with metastases to other sites, only one patient had a single thoracic LN metastases (1/846, 0.12%), while no single lung metastases was found. When tumor involved gastric fundus/cardia, compared to distal GC, there was a higher probability of lung metastases, and the difference was statistically significant (P=0.028). Conclusions: This study shows that chest CT has a low application value in the routine staging of gastric cancer, but when the tumor is located in the fundus/cardia, due to the high proportion of lung metastases, chest CT has a certain existence value.
Rare genetic variants prioritize molecular pathways for semaphorin interactions in Alzheimer’s disease patients

Abstract Contemporary genetic methods have not yet solved the ‘missing heritability’ problem of complex diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The impact of rare or less common variation on human complex diseases and traits remains to date barely investigated. In this study rare population variants detected using whole-exome sequencing were employed to examine how molecular pathways are prioritized in four groups: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients, Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) patients, young and healthy individuals and centenarians. The set of prioritized genes in AD patients associated with Semaphorin interactions pathways, contrasting with the results of the other groups. We identified rare pathogenic, likely pathogenic and variants of unknown significance in these prioritized genes in AD patients. The results of this study offer evidence that semaphorin pathways play a role in AD genetic etiology.
Automatic Camera-Trap Classification Using Wildlife-Specific Deep Learning in Nilgai Management

Camera traps provide a low-cost approach to collect data and monitor wildlife across large scales but hand-labeling images at a rate that outpaces accumulation is difficult. Deep learning, a subdiscipline of machine learning and computer science, can address the issue of automatically classifying camera-trap images with a high degree of accuracy. This technique, however, may be less accessible to ecologists or small-scale conservation projects, and has serious limitations. In this study, we trained a simple deep learning model using a dataset of 120,000 images to identify the presence of nilgai Boselaphus tragocamelus, a regionally specific nonnative game animal, in camera-trap images with an overall accuracy of 97%. We trained a second model to identify 20 groups of animals and one group of images without any animals present, labeled as “none,” with an accuracy of 89%. Lastly, we tested the multigroup model on images collected of similar species, but in the southwestern United States, resulting in significantly lower precision and recall for each group. This study highlights the potential of deep learning for automating camera-trap image processing workflows, provides a brief overview of image-based deep learning, and discusses the often-understated limitations and methodological considerations in the context of wildlife conservation and species monitoring.
Strategic Planning and Public Sector Effectiveness in Jordan: A Conceptual Approach

Strategic planning has recently become more widely accepted in recent theorization, and it has been seen as a physical, social, emotional, even spiritual and complex human activity. Thus, the aim of this study is to investigate the correlations between some selected strategic planning practices and organizational effectiveness in public sector of Jordan. The study will approach this conceptual research by reviewing the relevant past studies pertaining to strategic planning process, affective commitment and organizational effectiveness in Jordan. Additionally, this study is examining the important dimensions of strategic planning practices that are considered crucial in a situation where organization is facing global, complex and highly turbulent external environment. Those measuring practices are horizon of planning, locus of planning, flexibility of planning and environmental scanning intensity while being mediated respectively by affective commitment with their relationships with organizational effectiveness. The Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory as an underpinning theory shows that the overall connection of these variables determines how an individual’s behaviour is affected or altered by individual-work place relationship which include the economic and social environment, technology and the pace of environmental change.
The need and implications of the human capital management system

In an era where technology and innovation seem to take over every organizational process, differentiation in terms of sustainable economic growth is achieved by implementing a human capital management system. In order to develop a proper model that encompasses a long-term perspective and an infinite organizational mindset, using a survey questionnaire collected data from 118 responses and 3 focus groups were conducted. This paper aims to highlight the results regarding the degree of implementation of the human capital management system and the implications for organizational performance arising from this approach. The results of this study present an evaluation model of human capital in organizations operating in the automotive field.
The functioning of adolescents during quarantine – the role of non-professional and professional support in overcoming the problem of social isolation

Purpose The main aim of the article is to discuss common concepts about the role of non-professional and professional support offered to teenagers during social isolation due to COVID-19 pandemic. A short description of various activities that could be offered by parents, teachers, resilient peers and psychologists are given. Some information on teenage resilience is presented. The information is discussed in the developmental context, including the main biological, environmental, and social problems revealed in teenage functioning during the pandemic. Views The COVID-19 pandemic heavily modified the social life of teenagers, and changed their daily lives. Young people were abruptly withdrawn from schools and outdoor activities. In effect, they were faced with uncertainty and alienation, which led to decreased levels of well-being and an increase in psychological problems. Some teenagers report feeling as well as they felt before the pandemic, or report a higher level of well-being than they experienced prior to period of social isolation. Discussion on the topic of resilience is therefore needed. Adolescents, more than any other age group, need social interactions with peers, time spent outdoors, and face-to-face communication with others. The lack of these thing, accompanied by stress, leads to many mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, and changes in daily activity. Teenagers put a lot of effort to resisting these, but since the tentative social conditions continue, the damage to their mental functioning increases. Conclusions Raising awareness and discussing these issues is crucial, in order to alert the public health system about the mental health needs of adolescents during the pandemic.
Exploring Mentoring Practices Contributing to New Teacher Retention: An Analysis of the Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Study

How to best support new teachers through the beginning years of their careers and thus to increase new teacher retention is an important question. To explore the predictor variables for new teacher retention from the perspective of effective teacher mentoring practices, multinomial logistic regression was applied in the secondary analysis of the restricted-use data of the Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Study (BTLS). The analysis identified both predictive and non-predictive mentoring practices for new teacher retention, which provides important insight for school leaders and policy-makers in regards to designing effective induction programmes to better increase new teacher retention.
A Mixed Switching Event-Triggered Transmission Scheme for Networked Control Systems

Switching approaches are commonly used to design event-triggered (ET) control schemes for reducing the communication overhead in networked control systems. This article develops a mixed switching event-triggered (SET) transmission scheme by interpreting the resultant closed-loop system as a switching between systems under time-trigger, self-trigger, and discrete event-trigger with a dynamical threshold. For stability analysis, a novel looped-functional is constructed by introducing additional integrals. An asymptotic stability criterion is further derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities. For direct comparison between different transmission schemes, we also demonstrate the criterion by applying it to systems under time-trigger, discrete SET, SET, discrete ET, and continuous ET. The looped-functional is then employed to the robust stabilization of the systems with transmission delays and external disturbance. Finally, numerical simulations corroborate that the proposed MSET leads to (often considerably) fewer transmissions than other schemes.
Challenges of Patients with Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder During COVID-19 Pandemic

March 11, 2020 is a tragic date on which the Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was recognized by the World Health Organization, stunning people globally (1). At present, millions of people have been infected, and hundreds of thousands are falling dead because of the virus (1). It is more stressful as it strikes the most vulnerable elders, people with chronic diseases, and those on immunosuppressants in addition to risk factors such as smoking and obesity (2-4). Demyelinating diseases get more attention for being chronic, with the usage of immunosuppressant treatments. Making definite conclusions is hard about drug usage and how doctors and people with risk factors should manage this issue due to a shortage of time because of the spread of disease (5). Diverse thoughts were presented regarding medicines used for treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) as well as for the increased risk and protective effect during the pandemic (5,6). All this information puts stress on patients diagnosed with NMOSD (7,8). NMOSD is a condition that affects the elderly population, with more severe attacks and without an immunomodulator choice of treatment as in MS (9). In addition, patients face the risk of being infected during their visits to hospitals, which is an issue during attacks or routine visits (10). Considering all these factors against patients with NMOSD, which could pose difficulties to physicians actively involved in managing these patients (11), their condition was evaluated from their point of view; what are the patients’ choices, how they managed the stress when the entire world swirled in the pandemic crisis, and how they deal with sedentary lifestyles during a lockdown.
Does cognitive load differ among sight-singers? An exploratory study using pupillometry and interviews

Sight-singing is challenging for many music students, yet they can experience various difficulties with this task. To explore how cognitive load (CL) might differ among students, we combined two approaches: 1) a quantitative approach using pupil size diameter—a psychophysiological indicator of CL—to see whether CL differed as a function of sight-singing achievement and experience; 2) a qualitative approach to learn student’s challenges when sight-singing and verify how such challenges reflect on sight-singing scores. We asked 56 post-secondary music students to complete a musical background questionnaire and to complete a sight-singing exercise, while an eye-tracker gathered data about their pupil size. After that, we interviewed them about the difficulties they experienced. The results revealed that CL did not vary between sight-singing performance and musical experience levels. However, we found a tendency suggesting that students with the highest intonation scores and lowest intonation scores both experienced a lower CL. On the contrary, CL was higher for students with average intonation scores. Interviews also revealed that many students experienced information overload while sight-singing, and students who shared such perception obtained, on average, lower sight-singing scores. Future studies should include qualitative data collection to deepen our understanding of learners’ experiences.
Digital implementation of continuous-time observers for nonlinear networked control systems

We propose a digital implementation of continuous-time observers to networked control systems. We introduce a sufficiently small constant time step to construct the Euler model of continuous-time observers parameterized by this time step. Then, we propose a real-time iteration of this Euler model to implement continuous-time observers digitally and we give the sufficient conditions that the proposed digital implementation can estimate the state at sampling times semiglobally and practically. Numerical examples are also given to illustrate the proposed digital implementation of continuous-time observers.
Evolutional analysis of heat shock transcription factors in wild and cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Background：Heat shock transcription factors (Hsfs) take part in many physiological and biochemical pathways in plants by regulating the expression of various stress-responsive genes, such as heat shock proteins (Hsps). With the development of rice genome re-sequencing projects, some researches had been carried out to identify Hsf gene family members in rice at the whole genomic scale. However, Hsfs in cultivated and wild rice genomes has not been fully studied and compared, although genetic diversity in cultivated rice is limited compared to wild rice. Results：In this research work, Hsfs genes were screened and evolutionally compared in the genomes of 6 wild rice and 1 cultivated rice varieties, including O. barthii, O. glumaepatula, O. meridionalis, O. nivara, O. punctate, O. rufipogon and O. sativa & Nipponbare. Total 22, 23, 24, 24, 25, 25 and 25 Hsf genes were identified in the tested 7 rice genomes, respectively. The different number of Hsf genes between wild and cultivated rice genotypes was due to dispersed duplication and whole genome duplication (WGD) events, reversely contributed to different stress-tolerant ability between wild and cultivated rice. The evolutional analysis on the Hsf genes confirmed that O. rufipogon was the immediate ancestral progenitors of O. sativa. The expression profile of Hsf genes in Nipponbare and O. rufipogon under different stage of salinity stress showed that 4 root Hsf genes, including HsfA3a, HsfA4d, HsfC2a and HsfC2b, were simultaneously up-regulated by salinity stress in cultivated rice and its ancestral progenitor, implying that these 4 Hsf genes played conserved roles in rice in response to salinity stress. However, a substantial number of Hsf genes were exclusively regulated only in Oryza rufipogon rice seedling, suggesting that some of genuine salinity stress tolerance genes might be missing in cultivated rice. Conclusion：The results of this study would give insight into the evolution and function of Hsf gene members in rice, and hint to the use of wild relative genes to improve rice performance.
PERCEPÇÃO DE JUSTIÇA ORGANIZACIONAL E SEUS REFLEXOS NA SATISFAÇÃO E INTENÇÃO DE TURNOVER DE AUDITORES INTERNOS

Este estudo analisa as interações entre a percepção de justiça organizacional (dimensões distributiva, processual e interacional), satisfação no trabalho e intenção de turnover de auditores internos. Uma pesquisa de levantamento foi realizada com profissionais de auditoria interna e obteve-se um total de 126 respostas válidas, analisadas a partir da técnica de modelagem de equações estruturais. Os resultados revelaram que a justiça organizacional (dimensões distributiva e processual) se relaciona diretamente de forma positiva e significativa com a satisfação no trabalho e negativamente com as intenções de turnover. A relação entre a justiça organizacional (dimensões distributiva e processual) e as intenções de turnover é mediada pela satisfação no trabalho, com destaque para a dimensão processual. Assim, conclui-se que a justiça organizacional pode atuar tanto de forma proativa, ao proporcionar um ambiente capaz de gerar níveis de bem-estar funcional (satisfação), quanto de modo disfuncional nas organizações, ao propiciar intenções de se retirar da organização (turnover). Portanto, um alerta aos gestores sobre a relevância de um ambiente justo, com políticas de remuneração e processos de gestão explícitos, para que as interações entre a organização e funcionários possam proporcionar resultados atitudinais e comportamentais positivos.
Efectos de la privación de alimento en el desarrollo de la sensibilización locomotora provocada por metanfetamina en ratas

Actualmente hay pruebas acumuladas que indican que la hipoinsulinemia provocada por un agente diabetogénico reduce las autoadministraciones de anfetamina. Nosotros reportamos previamente que la privación de alimento también reduce la expresión de la sensibilización locomotora inducida por metanfetamina (met). En el presente estudio examinamos los efectos de la privación de alimento en el desarrollo de la sensibilización locomotora provocada por met. Diferentes grupos de ratas fueron tratados con met (1 mg/kg) o salina durante 5 días después de 24 horas de privación de alimento. En el día de prueba fueron tratados con met o salina. Los resultados mostraron que la administración repetida de met produjo un incremento en la actividad locomotora en las ratas durante la fase de desarrollo de la sensibilización locomotora, independientemente de si estaban o no privadas de alimento. Los resultados del día de prueba mostraron que en ningún grupo se alteró la actividad locomotora, independientemente si las ratas fueron privadas o no durante la fase de desarrollo de la sensibilización locomotora. Estos resultados están en línea con estudios previos que sugieren que la privación de alimento afecta la expresión y no el desarrollo de la sensibilización locomotora inducida por los psicoestimulantes como la cocaína, la anfetamina y la met.