Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Resilience, stressors and protective factors in sports performance

Our study focuses on a meta-analysis related to the concept of resilience and its role in the practice of sports in extreme conditions. We try to understand resilience as a dynamic concept, as well as the related elements such as protective factors, stressors, especially the impact of injury on sports activities. For our research, it is important to have a better understanding of these concepts and their role in sports performance. These features are studied in both athletes and general cohorts. We also aim to better understand the resilience scales and their specificity. At the same time, we try to emphasise the implications of resilience for endurance athletes. In extreme conditions, athletes attract attention, and their performance becomes well known. We look into such experiences and extend our research to stressors and their relationship to injury. Apart from their unique way of expressing themselves, athletes engaged in extreme sports (and their performance) involve important stressors and protective factors. The latter allow athletes to balance their functions and bounce back from aversive events. So, sports in extreme conditions enjoy media coverage and great popularity, but the harsh environment where competitions take place brings challenges and unexpected outcomes. From this point of view, we reflected on the stressors and protective factors, and the lack of statistics and studies on such athletes who often face fatalities.
Triboelectric Nanogenerator: A Foundation of the Energy for the New Era

As the world is marching into the era of the internet of things (IoTs) and artificial intelligence, the most vital development for hardware is a multifunctional array of sensing systems, which forms the foundation of the fourth industrial revolution toward an intelligent world. Given the need for mobility of these multitudes of sensors, the success of the IoTs calls for distributed energy sources, which can be provided by solar, thermal, wind, and mechanical triggering/vibrations. The triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) for mechanical energy harvesting developed by Z.L. Wang's group is one of the best choices for this energy for the new era, since triboelectrification is a universal and ubiquitous effect with an abundant choice of materials. The development of self‐powered active sensors enabled by TENGs is revolutionary compared to externally powered passive sensors, similar to the advance from wired to wireless communication. In this paper, the fundamental theory, experiments, and applications of TENGs are reviewed as a foundation of the energy for the new era with four major application fields: micro/nano power sources, self‐powered sensors, large‐scale blue energy, and direct high‐voltage power sources. A roadmap is proposed for the research and commercialization of TENG in the next 10 years.
Association of low birthweight and premature birth with hypertensive disorders in pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text Background: Growing evidence suggests that women born preterm or small have an increased risk of experiencing hypertensive disorders during pregnancy; however, a quantitative summary of the evidence on this issue is unavailable. Objective: We aimed to systematically review the literature to describe the association between being born preterm, low birthweight (LBW), or small for gestational age (SGA), and future gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, or eclampsia. Methods: We searched the MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, ClinicalTrials.gov, and ICTRP databases. We included all cohort and case–control studies examining the association between LBW, preterm birth, or SGA and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy. We pooled the odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals using the DerSimonian and Laird random-effects model. We assessed the certainty of evidence for each outcome using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation criteria. Results: Eleven studies were identified, totalling 752 316 participants. Being born preterm, LBW, or SGA was associated with gestational hypertension [pooled odds ratio (OR), 1.31; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.15–1.50; moderate certainty of evidence] and preeclampsia (pooled OR, 1.35; 95% CI 1.23–1.48; moderate certainty of evidence). No study measured eclampsia as an outcome. Conclusion: Women born preterm, LBW, or SGA have an increased risk of gestational hypertension and preeclampsia. The course of the mother's own birth might be used to identify women at risk of gestational hypertension and preeclampsia.
Restoration of a Lake Ontario‐connected fen through invasive Typha removal

Lake‐level regulation that began in 1960 eliminated large fluctuations of Lake Ontario water levels, altering coastal wetland plant communities. More than a half century later, the altered hydroperiod supports dense, monotypic stands of invasive cattail (Typha angustifolia and Typha × glauca), which have diminished overall plant community diversity. As a result, Lake Ontario coastal wetlands are less capable of providing many of their traditional ecological functions. One such wetland is Buttonwood Fen, a floating, lake‐connected peatland on Lake Ontario's southern shore near Rochester, NY. We implemented cattail‐control measures from 2016 to 2018 with the goal of decreasing live and dead cattail biomass and increasing cover of native fen taxa. Site manipulation included removal of dead cattail biomass, cutting new cattail growth when rhizome carbohydrate reserves were at their lowest, and hand‐wicking regrowth with herbicide in early fall. Results showed a decrease in live cattail stem density and cover and dead biomass cover, as well as an increase in cover of fen taxa. Although not a replicated study, our results suggest that removing dead cattail biomass and targeted treatment of live cattail stems via cutting and hand‐wicking with glyphosate can reduce cattail and improve site quality.
Accounting Quality and its Challenges in 21st Century

This paper describes current research to drive future research challenges in accounting quality. The definition of accounting quality is mainly varying depending on the objective that the study pointed. Previous research revealed that many proxies describe the accounting quality but most of them from the financial perspective. Furthermore, this paper tries to expose this research issue in the behavioural approach and drive future research in the mixed method. It concludes that the behavioural issues can be a research model, triggering future research challenges in accounting quality. The authors support these triggers from the perspectives of political hegemony, bureaucracy ratcheting, cognitive distortion, and international accounting standard. Finally, we infer and simultaneously predict that accounting quality would broaden its concepts and lasting impression in the 21st century.
Excellent binding effect of l-methionine for immobilizing silver nanoparticles onto cotton fabrics to improve the antibacterial durability against washing

Silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) have outstanding antimicrobial effects, but their weak adhesive force onto cotton fiber surfaces often causes undesired silver loss from antibacterial fabrics, diminishing antibacterial durability, and even leading to environmental and health risks. To improve adhesion of the Ag NPs, various strategies have been tried, but achieving long-term antibacterial effectiveness still remains challenging. Here, l-methionine is proposed as a binder reagent because it has low toxicity towards mammalian cells and has a methyl group to enhance its coordination ability. The antibacterial cotton fabric was fabricated via a very simple pad-dry-cure process: after dipping a cotton fabric in an l-methionine solution followed with heating for esterification, Ag NPs are formed via the reaction of silver nitrate with sodium borohydride. The resulting cotton fabric exhibits an excellent antibacterial property and laundering durability. Its bacterial reduction rates (BR) against both S. aureus and E. coli remained over 97% even after 90 consecutive laundering cycles. Moreover, the modification causes insignificant damage to cotton's characteristics, such as tensile breaking strength, water absorptivity, and vapor permeability.
A Note on Greater Downside Risk Aversion

This paper characterizes downside risk aversion in a simple and intuitive manner. It is shown that using this characterization one can simplify considerably a theorem by Jindapon (2010) relating to greater downside risk aversion as measured by the prudence probability premium. The comparative statics of downside risk aversion in risk-free wealth are also considered.
Optimised isolation, partial-purification and profiling of peroxidase extracted from saccharomyces cerevisiae of fresh palm wine

© 2021 Okoroafor Prince Odilichukwu. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Abstract Saccharomyces cerevisiae was obtained from palm wine and used for the extraction of peroxidase. Peroxidase isolated from Saccharomyces cerevisiae was partially purified and characterized. A twelve-day pilot study was carried out which gave the highest activity on day eight. The crude enzyme-specific activity –0.751 U/ mg with 70% ammonium sulfate precipitation of peroxidase was achieved. Peroxidase was partially purified with ammonium sulfate precipitation, following gel filtration on Sephadex G-100. Two peaks connoted as fractions (A & B) on the elution profile of the gel filtration were obtained. The optimum operational conditions for peroxidase substrate reactions were evaluated. A combined purification fold for both fractions yielded 0.657 with specific activity –0.494 U/ mg. A purification fold of 2.470 with specific activity –1.855 U/mg was obtained for fraction A, while 2.269 fold with specific activity –1.704 U/mg was for fraction B. The optimum pH and temperature were 6.5 and 30 °C for fraction A and 6.0 and 40 °C for fraction B. The peroxidase activity was stable at a pH range of 5.5-7.0 and below 40 °C. The Michaelis-Menten constant (Km) for o-dianisidine and hydrogen peroxide were 0.2 mM, 0.1111 mM, and 0.0833 mM, 0.1428 mM for fractions A and B. The maximum velocity (Vmax) for o-dianisidine and hydrogen peroxide were 10 U/min, 7.1428 U/min, and 8.333 U/min, 9.0909 U/min for fraction A and B. considering these characteristics of peroxidase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, it helps to understand how yeast cells operate during fermentation.
Antihyperglycemic activity of chalcone based novel 1-{3-[3-(substituted phenyl) prop-2-enoyl] phenyl} thioureas

Abstract The present study describes the synthesis of novel chalcone based 1-{3-[3-(substituted phenyl) prop-2-enoyl] phenyl} thioureas (4a-c) using Claisen Schmidt condensation and investigates their protective role in diabetic conditions and associated oxidative stress. Spectral properties for the synthesized compounds were studied. Novel compounds were screened for antihyperglycemic effect in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats in a 6 week study and compound 4b exhibited significant (p ≤ .05) results similar to the standard drug glipizide. Treatment of diabetic animals with compound 4b (10 and 20 mg/kg, body weight) for 12 weeks, reduced the increased blood glucose level significantly (p ≤ .01) and restored attenuated serum biochemical parameters to normal levels. Altered antioxidant enzyme activity was also considerably (p ≤ .01) restored to the standard normal range. β-apoptotic TUNEL assay indicated that compound 4b (AI: 1.2 ± 0.05) could prevent further β-cell death in the pancreas of diabetic animals in a dose-dependent manner, which highlights its potentiality as an effective antihyperglycemic agent. Graphical Abstract
P038 The metabolic switch of hepatitis C virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma after ephrin type-A receptor 2 is knocked down

in patients with paracetamol-induced ALF PEX (n=16) and PEX (n=68). at care then after cycle of PEX, at timepoints for Analysis of in 16 PEX and non-PEX found significant improvements in biochemical parameters in patients 24 hours after PEX (INR, PT, ALT, P<0.01), compared to those who were on SMT only. The admission Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) the PEX group than non-PEX (P<0.01), the difference in mortality rates found in this study (37% and 22% respectively). in comparison to healthy non-carriers and wild type patients with NAFLD. Variant-expressing hepatocyte-like-cells (HLCs) were derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells gen-erated from homozygous donor skin fibroblasts. The phenotype was assessed using imaging, targeted RNA analysis and molecular expression arrays. Results We identified a rare causal variant in MTTP, encoding microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (MTP) associated with progressive non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, unrelated to metabolic syndrome. Although other described mutations in MTTP cause abetalipoproteinemia, neither homozygotes nor heterozygotes exhibited characteristic manifestations of this severe disease. HLCs derived from a homozygote donor had lower lipoprotein ApoB secretion, compared to wild type cells. Cytoplasmic triglyceride accumulation in HLCs triggered endoplasmic reticulum stress, secretion of pro-inflammatory mediators and production of reactive oxygen species.
Impact of AKI in Patients with Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Managed with VA ECMO

Key Points AKI is associated with a high rate of mortality in patients managed with VA ECMO after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Therapeutic hypothermia is associated with hypokalemia and hypophosphatemia. During rewarming after hypothermia, hyperphosphatemia and hyperkalemia can develop. Electrolyte replacement should be carefully monitored.
An Exploration of New Energy Storage System: High Energy Density, High Safety, and Fast Charging Lithium Ion Battery

Rechargeable lithium ion battery (LIB) has dominated the energy market from portable electronics to electric vehicles, but the fast‐charging remains challenging. The safety concerns of lithium deposition on graphite anode or the decreased energy density using Li4Ti5O12 (LTO) anode are incapable to satisfy applications. Herein, the sulfurized polyacrylonitrile (SPAN) is explored for the first time as a high capacity and safer anode in LIBs, in which the high voltage cathode of LiNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2 (NCM‐H) is further introduced to configure a new SPAN|NCM‐H battery with great fast‐charging features. The LIB demonstrates a good stability with a high capacity retention of 89.7% after 100 cycles at a high voltage of 3.5 V (i.e., 4.6 V vs Li+/Li). Particularly, the excellent rate capability is confirmed and 78.7% of initial capacity can still be delivered at 4.0C. In addition, 97.6% of the battery capacity can be charged within 2.0C, which is much higher than 80% in current fast‐charging application standards. The feature of lithiation potential (>1.0 V vs Li+/Li) of SPAN avoids the lithium deposition and improves the safety, while the high capacity over 640 mAh g−1 promises 43.5% higher energy density than that of LTO‐based battery, enabling its great competitiveness to conventional LIBs.
Living on the EDGE: Canadian Experience With EUS-directed Transgastric ERCP (EDGE) in Patients With Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Anatomy

Abstract Introduction Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery imposes anatomic barriers to endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). Potential options for biliary access in these patients include laparoscopic-assisted ERCP or balloon enteroscopy. However, these approaches require specialized equipment and/or operating room personnel and are associated with high rates of failure and adverse events compared to conventional ERCP. A recently described technique, EDGE, is an endoscopic approach which involves accessing the excluded stomach to facilitate ERCP. Objective The objective of this study is to describe the results of EDGE procedures performed in Canada. Methods Data were collected from patient cases who had undergone an EDGE procedure across centers in Canada. All patients had a history of RYGB bariatric surgery. In each procedure, a 20-mm diameter lumen-apposing metal stent (LAMS) was deployed under EUS guidance to allow access from the gastric remnant/proximal jejunum to the excluded stomach. Subsequently, during a separate procedure, a duodenoscope was passed through the LAMS to perform ERCP. Following ERCP, the LAMS was replaced with a pigtail stent or APC was used to facilitate closure of the gastro-jejunal/gastro-gastric fistula. Results The indication for EDGE in the seven included cases was for the treatment of choledocholithiasis (six) or gallstone pancreatitis (one). The technical success rate of the EDGE procedure in these cases was 100%. Clinical success, defined by normalization of bilirubin and symptomatic relief, was observed in all cases. There were no adverse events reported. Conclusion The results of this series support EDGE as a safe and minimally invasive approach to biliary access and therapy in patients with previous RYGB surgery.
Development of Learning Package for Enhancing Reading and Writing Achievement in Thai for Communication Course for Undergraduate Students

The objectives of this study were 1) to develop learning packages to improve reading and writing performance in Thai for undergraduate students' communication course to meet the 80/80 criteria, 2) to compare the learning outcomes of the learning packages using pre- and post-tests, and 3) to investigate students' attitudes toward the learning packages. The research instrument used in the current study was the learning package. The sample group included 50 students enrolled in the Thai for Communication course. The statistics used in the data analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test. The results of the investigation were as follows: 1) the learning package was used to promote reading and writing performance in Thai language communication course, the quality was of high and efficiency according to the standard criteria, 2) the Thai language reading and writing performance, after learning with the learning package, was significantly higher than before learning at the . 05 level, and 3) the students' attitude toward learning with the learning package was at the extremely high level.
Debates on Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Nepal

The term “Social Exclusion” is used to describe a wide range of phenomena and processes related not only to poverty and deprivation, but also to social, cultural and political disadvantages, and in relation to a wide range of categories of excluded people. However, there is no single way of understanding the concepts of social exclusion and inclusion. In the context of Nepal, power was consolidated by interlinking it with the Hindu caste system. The social order was exclusionary because it classified all groups as distinct castes within the broad framework of the Hindu system of the four varnas based on concepts of ritual purity and pollution. This paper has attempted to present a quick and preliminary discussion on theoretical perspectives on social exclusion and inclusion. The paper has also emphasized on the major debates on social exclusion and inclusion in Nepal and thematic aspects of social exclusion and inclusion.
A Survey on Security Issues in IOT Enabled Smart Homes

Abstract: Smart home systems are having in great popularity and demand for the past few decades as they increase the comfort and quality of life. Smartphones and microcontrollers are used to control most of these devices.A smartphone application is used to monitor home functions and perform various tasks with wireless communication technologies. IoT has changed organizations by incorporating dexterity and effectiveness. However, one of the biggest concerns associated with this field is Security. In 2016, a hacker had discovered a weakness in video cameras that came about in very nearly 300,000 IoT gadgets assaulting other online media stages, which even cut down Twitter. This is only one of the numerous instances of how Security has frequently got compromised in 'things. ' In this survey paper, our objective is to know the details of smart home ,its’s archictecture and it’s security issues in this contemporary world. We will survey the security concerns of IoT in Smart Homes. Towards the second part of the paper, we will also discuss some of the developments that have been made to overcome these challenges and used for security in smart homes. Keywords: Sensors, Internet of things, Security, Smart Homes, Home appliances.
A comprehensive survey on nature‐inspired algorithms and their applications in edge computing: Challenges and future directions

Driven by the vision of real‐time applications and smart communication, recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift from centralized cloud computing toward distributed edge computing. The main features of edge computing are to drag the cloud services toward the network edge with dramatic reductions of latency while increasing the resource utilization of the network and computing devices. Being the natural extension of cloud computing, edge computing inherits a variety of research challenges and brings forth different new issues to solve. These challenges are dealing with solving complex optimization problems including scheduling and processing real‐time applications. Nature‐inspired meta‐heuristic (NIMH) algorithm is an overarching term in the field of an optimization problem that provides robust solutions to the NP‐complete problems, from computationally tractable approximate solutions to real‐time optimization strategies. Nowadays, different NIMH algorithms have been applied in the field of edge computing for solving various research challenges including resource placement and scheduling, communication, mobility, and edge controlling with higher efficiency. In this survey, we classify the existing NIMH into three categories based on their nature of works and included fuzzy logic and systems in the field of edge networks along with different research challenges. Further, we introduce different challenges and future directions to identify promising research works in edge computing.
Efeito da associação de prática imagética e física na aprendizagem motora em crianças

Imagética dos próprios movimentos tem mostrado induzir aprendizagem motora em adultos, porém são escassas evidências similares em crianças. O objetivo deste experimento foi avaliar o efeito da associação entre prática imagética e prática física em comparação com prática física pura em uma habilidade manual em crianças de 9-10 anos de idade. A tarefa consistiu em transportar um bloco e encaixá-lo em um suporte com rapidez e estabilidade, avaliando-se o tempo de movimento para completar os componentes de “alcance” e “transporte”. As crianças foram distribuídas em três grupos: (a) prática física (FIS) (240 tentativas), (b) combinação (COMB) de prática imagética (180 tentativas) e prática física (60 tentativas), e (c) controle (CON), com associação de rotação visual (180 tentativas) e prática física (60 tentativas). O desempenho foi avaliado imediatamente e 24 h após a prática. Os resultados indicaram que o grupo FIS obteve ganho persistente de desempenho no componente “transporte”, porém não no componente “alcance”, enquanto o grupo COMB alcançou ganho persistente de desempenho em ambos os componentes de movimento; não foram encontradas diferenças significantes para o grupo CON. Estes resultados sugerem que a prática imagética aprimora a representação mental da tarefa motora em crianças, enquanto que a prática física oferece informação de feedback sensorial sobre o os movimentos realizados. Como conclusão, nossos resultados sugerem que a combinação de prática física e imagética é um procedimento que pode ser mais efetivo do que prática física pura para aprendizagem motora em crianças.