Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Application of Bio-Electrical Instruments for Monitoring the Effect of Muscle Massage on Post-Stroke Patients Through Electromyography Signal Measurement

The problems faced by partners are: in carrying out traditional massage massage practice activities, partners do not carry out the process of recording medical conditions before or after the massage process. Thus, this causes partners to be unable to remember the conditions before and after the provision of traditional massage therapy. In addition, when giving traditional massage to patients who have to return periodically, partners cannot know the impact after giving traditional massage. So, to know the result is to ask questions to the patient (e.g. "how is the result after the massage? "). Therefore, monitoring the massage process in post-stroke patients is qualitative and subjective. The implementation methods are: Measuring the physical and medical parameters of the patient such as weight, height and blood pressure, before and after the partner performs traditional massage to the patient, the bio-electrical muscle signal (EMG) is measured by attaching electrodes to the partially paralyzed limbs. Next, the patient contracted the muscle by pressing a rubber ball connected to an electronic pressure measuring module. Together with partners, they monitor the measured value of the muscle bio-electric signal (which is displayed on the computer panel), c) monitor the bio-electric signal in post-stroke patients who undergo traditional massage therapy in subsequent therapy activities (2-5 therapies). The output of PKM activities with the title "Implementation of Muscle Bio-electric Signal Measurement to Monitor the Healing Process of Post-Stroke Patients as an Effort to Support Traditional Massage Workers" is the device that can be used by the partners to monitor the effect of the massage to the patient. The targets and achievements expected in this PKM activity are that partners can monitor the effectiveness of traditional massage with the support of science and technology.
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores de Coimbra Institute of Systems Engineering and Computers INESC-Coimbra

Communication networks resilience is very important considering the impact that disruption of communication services can have in today's society. In previous works the spine concept was introduced as an approach to ensure high availability to critical services while ensuring the possibility of very di erent levels of resiliency for less demanding services. A spine is a subgraph of a network and in this work it will considered to be a spanning tree. The spine concept is discussed and approaches for a quick selection of a spanning tree (the spine), are presented. It is assumed end-to-end protection for all node pairs in the network, considering edge-disjoint path pairs, where the active path is routed on the spine. The rst the objective of this work is to evaluate if using a k-minimum spanning tree iterative algorithm is a more e ective approach (considering the same link cost) than a previously proposed heuristic that requires only Kruskal's (or Prim's) algorithm. The second objective is to compare the performance of di erent link costs, seeking to identify the most e ective cost, namely regarding average end-toend availability, for obtaining an adequate admissible spine, considering a certain number k of sequentially generated spanning trees. Regarding the rst objective, using a relatively small number of k minimum spanning trees and a lexicographic version of Dijkstra's algorithm for calculating the backup path, allowed to improve previous results. Regarding the second objective, it was concluded that the k-betweenness centrality seems to the the metric with leads to better results.
An integrated meta-omics approach reveals the different response mechanisms of two anammox bacteria towards �uoroquinolone antibiotics

Background: The emerging �uoroquinolone antibiotics (FQs) are highly in�uential in nitrogen removal from livestock wastewater. However, beyond the capability of nitrogen removal, little is known about the molecular mechanism (e.g., shift of core metabolism and energy allocation) of anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria(AnAOB) under continuous FQ stress. Results: This study investigated the effectsof cipro�oxacin, o�oxacin and their mixture at concentrations detected in livestock wastewater on an anammox community in membrane bioreactors.It was found 20 μ g/L FQs promoted nitrogen removal e�ciency and community stability. Integrated meta-omics analysis revealed varied gene expression patterns between the two dominant AnAOB, Candidatus Brocadia sapporoensis (B AnAOB) and Candidatus Kuenenia stuttgartiensis (K AnAOB). The nitrogen metabolic processes were bolstered in B AnAOB, while those involved in anammox pathway of K AnAOB were inhibited. This difference was tentatively attributed to the up-regulation of reactive oxygen species scavenger genes (ccp and dxf) and FQ resistance gene (qnrB72) in B AnAOB. Importantly, most enhanced core biosynthesis/metabolism and close cross-feeding of B AnAOB with accompanying bacteria were also likely to contribute to higher levels of biomass yield and metabolism activity under FQ stress. Conclusions: This �nding suggests that B AnAOB has the advantage of higher nitrogen metabolism capacity over K AnAOB in livestock wastewater containing FQs, which is helpful for e�cient and stable nitrogen removal by anammox community.
Run to the nest: A parody on the Iron Maiden song by Corotoca spp. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

Rove beetles belonging to the genus Corotoca (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) are termitophiles exclusively found in nests of Constrictotermes (Isoptera: Termitidae). We observed the reproductive behavior of Corotoca melantho and C. fontesi during host (C. cyphergaster) foraging events. The reproductive behaviors of both species are similar. The variables collected for analysis were distance traveled, the time of larval deposition, nest return time, and locomotion speed. The fact that the female stops in the middle of the foraging trail to deposit the larva leads to a discussion of how its physiological or voluntary mechanisms function to determine the correct stopping time and the importance of speed when returning to the nest as a strategy to avoid predation. This study provides new information concerning the life cycle of Corotoca spp. , although complete understanding of host-termitophile relationships, their evolutionary history, and the significance of viviparity will require additional studies.
Not Quite Filling the Void: Comparing the Perceptions of Local Online Groups and Local Media Pages on Facebook

With the steady closure of local newspapers, news consumers increasingly turn to community forums and neighborhood apps to fill the information void. This study investigates how local online groups are perceived relative to more traditional local news outlets, and compares the benefits provided by each information source. Based on prior theoretical contributions, we develop a framework for measuring the benefits of local information on individual-level pro-community attitudes (attachment, knowledge, and civic attitudes.) In a field experiment ( 𝑁 = 170), we asked frequent Facebook users living in four U.S. cities to start following local news pages or local online groups on Facebook for one month, and compared their perceptions of source quality and changes in pro-community attitudes. We find that posts from local news pages are perceived to be of higher quality than posts from local online groups. However, following local news pages or local groups did not lead to significant changes in pro-community attitudes during our study period. We discuss implications for the future study of local news in a changing media ecology.
Forensic investigation of a slender high-rise structure subject to dynamic wind conditions

The forensic engineering of a collapsed reinforced concrete fin wall structure is presented in this paper. The investigative process considers the assessment between the actual wind load conditions structure during the time of collapse against the actual structural capacity of the structure. Three design conditions are considered in this study; in-situ wind speed during the time of incident, wind speed used by the design consultant and wind speed recommended by Jabatan Meterologi Malaysia (JMM) in 1995, which was the time of design. The structure is both analyzed from a static analysis and dynamic time history analysis standpoint. It was found that the amplification factor due to the near resonance of wind energies between 0.25-0.30 Hz and the natural frequency of the structure, 0.27Hz. This resulted in a amplification of 1.8 over quasi-static loading conditions as governed by CP3 design code. It was further found that the dynamic wind loading imposed against the structure was 10% less from the actual capacity of the structure determined via nonlinear pushover analysis. This result is at best marginal considering the inelastic performance of the structure and the actual as-built condition of the structure; giving strong indication to the role of resonance in the collapse. The technical interpretation of the design codes leading to the responsibilities of the design consultant are not discussed in this paper.
Estimation and Out-of-Sample Prediction of Sudden Stops: Do Regions of Emerging Markets Behave Differently from Each Other?

We identify episodes of sudden stops in emerging economies and estimate the probability to observe them. Sudden stops are more likely when global growth falters, risk aversion in financial markets rises, and vulnerabilities in the external and financial sectors increase. However, the significance of the explanatory variables vary across regions. In Latin America and Eastern Europe, gross capital inflows are more responsive to changes in global growth than in Asia. Trade linkages tend to be more important than financial linkages in Eastern Europe, while in Asia and Latin America the opposite is true. The model captures only a third of sudden stops outside the estimation sample, but issues reliable sudden stop signals.
Modeling Cognitive Processes in Design from the Designer’s Perspective Towards a computational model for implementing intentional capacities in digital systems

Summary : Inquiry into design cognition is important for the progress of artificial intelligence. This research aims to model a well-known cognitive phenomenon often referred to as “seeing as”, which plays an important role in designing. In short, seeing as consists of the ability of a human subject to attribute various meanings to the same object. This phenomenon is tightly linked with the cognitive process of interpretation - a major component of human design processes. Accordingly, its elucidation is expected to help implement human-like design capabilities within computational systems. In this study, we collect and analyze empirical data from a design task, developed to enable us to closely observe of this phenomenon. We then present an approach for systematically modeling seeing as, which serves as a first step toward its implementation within computational design systems. Our model integrates state-of-the-art frameworks for design cognition with the highly important notion of intentionality from the philosophy of mind. As such, it serves as an invitation for constructing a bridge between these rather disparate disciplines. By applying our model, we suggest implications for studying design cognition phenomena, towards the construction of artificial agents which can design in a human-like manner.
Insights into the circular The cryptic plasmidome and its derived antibiotic resistome in the urban water systems

Plasmids have been a concern in the dissemination and evolution of antibiotic resistance in the environment. In this study, we investigated the total pool of plasmids (plasmidome) and its derived antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in different compartments of urban water systems (UWSs) in three European countries representing different antibiotic usage regimes. We applied a direct plasmidome approach using wet-lab methods to enrich circular DNA in the samples, followed by shotgun sequencing and in silico contig circularisation. We identified 9538 novel sequences in a total of 10,942 recovered circular plasmids. Of these, 66 were identified as conjugative, 1896 mobilisable and 8970 non-mobilisable plasmids. The UWSs ’ plasmidome was dominated by small plasmids ( ≤ 10 Kbp) representing a broad diversity of mobility (MOB) types and incompatibility (Inc) groups. A shared collection of plasmids from different countries was detected in all treatment compartments, and plasmids could be source-tracked in the UWSs. More than half of the ARGs-encoding plasmids carried mobility genes for mobilisation/conjugation. The richness and abundance of ARGs-encoding plasmids generally decreased with the flow, while we observed that non-mobilisable ARGs-harbouring plasmids maintained their abundance in the Spanish wastewater treatment plant. Overall, our work unravels that the UWS plasmidome is dominated by cryptic ( i.e. , non-mobilisable, non-typeable and previously unknown) plasmids. Considering that some of these plasmids carried ARGs, were prevalent across three countries and could persist throughout the UWSs compartments, these results should alarm and call for attention.
What is in PageRank? A Historical and Conceptual Investigation of a Recursive Status Index

: This paper proposes an analysis, based in a software studies mindset, of Google’s PageRank algorithm. It develops two lines of investigation: first, it situates this ‘evaluative metric’ in a larger genealogy of ideas, concepts, theories, and methods that developed, from the 1930s onwards, around the fields of sociometry, citation analysis, social exchange theory, and hypertext navigation. This backdrop is presented as a conceptual a priori , in the Foucauldian sense, from where PageRank becomes ‘sayable’. Second, by comparing the algorithm to a close cousin, Jon Kleinberg’s HITS, and by examining a particular parameter in the PageRank model, the paper shows that the concrete model does not follow teleologically from this historical a priori . Behind the particular empirical case lurks the larger epistemological and methodological question of how to study software. The paper advocates a multilayered approach that combines different types of methodological and conceptual resources.
ANÁLISE DE REDES SOCIAIS COMO FERRAMENTA DE GESTÃO EM UMA INSTITUIÇÃO DE ENSINO SUPERIOR PÚBLICA

As instituições de ensino superior (IES) brasileiras têm buscado se adaptar em um ambiente de mudanças, tanto em termos de política educacional, demandas do setor produtivo, atualização dos docentes e expectativas dos alunos. Dentro deste contexto, este estudo objetiva elaborar uma rede entre os professores de uma IES Pública localizada no interior do Estado de São Paulo, visando entender o tipo de relação existente e os benefícios ou não deste tipo de relacionamento. Para a compreensão dos dados utilizou-se a Análise de Redes Sociais (ARS), com auxílio do software Gephi® para confecção das redes de relações entre os atores identificados. Tal método é um contraponto ao modelo centralizado e hierárquico comumente utilizado na gestão pública. Como resultados foram identificados 76 docentes que ministraram alguma disciplina no 1º semestre de 2019, sendo que dos professores identificados com maior grau de intermediação, apenas 1/4 ocupa cargos de gestores, enquanto que os demais, mesmo sem altos cargos, possuem mais acesso a informações e contatos, podendo influenciar diretamente toda a rede.
Low-Temperature Emitter Passivation for Solar Cells Bonded to Glass

In imec's iModule concept, rear-contacted solar cells are fabricated after bonding monocrystalline silicon foils to module glass. The specific structure of the substrate after bonding imposes a temperature budget limitation of 300°C. This presents a challenge to device integration, amongst others for emitter passivation. It is shown that state-of-the-art emitter passivation by thermal oxide can be degraded by plasma processes and metal sputtering. Hydrogenated amorphous silicon presents an alternative that is compatible with low process temperatures and is not affected by subsequent processing. J0 values of approximately 50fA/cm 2 have been obtained, both on freestanding wafers and on bonded thin silicon foils.
Information Systems Management

Web (Web) are so widely popular, the use of the Web as a tool for training is now rapidly expanding into our society. Managers have already noted the potential of the Web in training and education. In general, Web-based training is a powerful environment, one that can reshape the format of conventional instruction, such as textbooks and lectures. Indeed, Web-based training offers flexibility and cost efficiency of online enduser training and individual attention for supporting learner-controlled training. In addition, it continuously empowers end users by providing them with more up-to-date knowledge and decision-making authority over their own training. Information technology with its capacity to process, store, transmit, and communicate information has a significant potential impact on organizational effectiveness and productivity. Therefore, today’s trend toward enduser computing (EUC) is moving to more user control of an organization’s information assets. Essentially, EUC can be broadly defined as the direct use of computing resources by non-computer professionals to support their own personal business or job needs. At the same time, EUC can also be narrowly defined as systems developed by end users to support their decision making. Although the primary goal of EUC is to make the user more productive, most non-programming users can only use menu-based application packages. In other words, end users cannot extract the maximum benefit from technology. Therefore, end-user training is a major factor in implementing EUC. In organizations that utilize training methods, users may not have full control over their own training schedules. In general, the greater the amount of user empowerment (e.g., enabling users to set their training schedule), the more positive the impact on the organization. However, some important training factors, such as the training material, WEB-BASED TRAINING
Photometric Enhancements to Improve Recognizability of Image Content

Prior work identifies the challenges image quality issues can present when machine learning systems attempt to recognize image content in photographs taken by people with visual impairments. In this paper, we focus specifically on the impacts of image quality issues on assistive technologies such as visual question answering (VQA), where the presence of photometric quality issues may require additional time and effort on the part of people with visual impairments to retake images with unrecognizable content. We use existing state-of-the-art methods to enhance low light images with the objective of improving recognizability of image content in photos from people with visual impairments. We show that enhancing images significantly improves recognizability of image content and use this result to motivate future studies for improving the results of VQA systems.
The Relationship between Exercise Perception, Pain, and Smartphone Addiction among First Year Physiotherapy Students

Purpose: We think that possible inactivity and a high risk of smartphone addiction may increase the potential musculoskeletal disorders in physiotherapy and rehabilitation students before beginning their professional lives. To draw attention to this issue, we aimed to investigate the relationship between exercise perception, musculoskeletal pain, and smartphone addiction. Material and Methods: Demographic data form, Exercise Benefit/Barrier Scale (EBS), Cornell Musculoskeletal Disorder Questionnaire (CMDQ), and Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS) were filled out online by 45 volunteer students from the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Department of Kırklareli University's Faculty of Health Sciences. Results: It was found that those who regularly exercised had lower EBS (p=0.031), exercise benefit (p=0. 029) and exercise barrier (p=0.251) scores, higher right forearm pain scores (p=0.035), higher median values for the CMDQ total score (p=0.052) and lower median SAS total scores (p=0.101) than those who did not. Discussion: There was no statistically significant correlation between exercise perception, musculoskeletal pain, and smartphone addiction. However, it has been found that students who have the habit of exercising regularly have a lower level of exercise perception, a higher level of musculoskeletal pain, especially a higher level of forearm pain
pro-Impact of inbreeding on production, fertility, and health traits in German Holstein dairy cattle utilizing various inbreeding estimators

In dairy cattle production, it is important to understand how inbreeding affects production, fertility, and health traits. However, there is still limited use of genomic information to estimate inbreeding, despite advancements in genotyping technologies. To address this gap, we investigated the impact of inbreeding on German Holstein dairy cattle using both pedigree-based and genomic-based inbreeding estimators. We employed one method based on pedigree information (F ped ) together with 6 genomic-based methods, including 3 GCTA estimators (F hat1 , F hat2 , F hat3 ), VanRaden’s first method (F VR1 , with observed allele frequencies and F VR0.5 when allele frequencies are set to 0.5), and one based on runs of homozygosity (F roh ). Data from 24,489 cows with both phenotypes and genotypes were used, with a pedigree including 232,780 animals born between 1970 and 2018. We analyzed the effects of inbreeding depression on production, fertility, and health traits separately, using single-trait linear animal models as well as threshold models to account for the binary nature of the health traits. For the health traits, we transformed solutions from the liability scale to a probability scale for easier interpretation. Our results showed that the mean inbreeding coefficients from all estimators ranged from −0.003 to 0.243, with negative values observed for most genomic-based methods. We found out that a 1% increase in inbreeding caused a depression ranging from 25.94 kg (F hat1 ) to 40.62 kg (F hat3 ), 1.18 kg (F hat2 ) to 1.70 kg (F hat3 ), 0.90 kg (F hat2 ) to 1.45 kg (F roh and F hat3 ), 0.19 (F ped ) to 0.34 d (F hat3 ) for 305 d milk yield, fat, protein, and calving interval respectively. The health traits showed slight changes when inbreeding was gradually increased by 5% with digital dermatitis showing rather a contrasting trend to that of mastitis which reduced the more an animal was inbred. Overall, our study highlights the importance of considering both pedigree-based and genomic-based inbreeding estimators when assessing the impact on inbreeding, emphasizing that not all inbreeding is harmful.