Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Results and interpretation of preliminary aquifer tests in boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada

Introduction . Purpose and scope . Acknowledgments . Physical setting . Borehole construction . Site geology . Site hydrology . Matrix permeability . Heat-pulse flowmeter surveys . Transmissive intervals . Calico Hills Aquifer . Prow Pass Upper Bullfrog Aquifer . Bullfrog Aquifer . Tram Aquifer . Fluid-injection tests . Falling-head tests . Pressure-injection tests . Constant-flux tests . Analytical methods . Pumping tests in borehole UE-2% #1 . Pumping test in borehole UE-2% #2 . Procedures and problems . Test analyses . Procedures and problems . : . Test analyses . Injection test in borehole UE-25c #2 . Second pumping test in borehole UE-2% #3 . Procedures and problems . First pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3 . Test analyses . Summary and conclusions . Selected references . Supplementary data .
Improving Cancer Survival Prediction via Graph Convolutional Neural Network Learning on Protein-Protein Interaction Networks

Cancer is one of the most challenging health problems worldwide. Accurate cancer survival prediction is vital for clinical decision making. Many deep learning methods have been proposed to understand the association between patients’ genomic features and survival time. In most cases, the gene expression matrix is fed directly to the deep learning model. However, this approach completely ignores the interactions between biomolecules, and the resulting models can only learn the expression levels of genes to predict patient survival. In essence, the interaction between biomolecules is the key to determining the direction and function of biological processes. Proteins are the building blocks and principal undertakings of life activities, and as such, their complex interaction network is potentially informative for deep learning methods. Therefore, a more reliable approach is to have the neural network learn both gene expression data and protein interaction networks. We propose a new computational approach, termed CRESCENT, which is a protein-protein interaction (PPI) prior knowledge graph-based convolutional neural network (GCN) to improve cancer survival prediction. CRESCENT relies on the gene expression networks rather than gene expression levels to predict patient survival. The performance of CRESCENT is evaluated on a large-scale pan-cancer dataset consisting of 5991 patients from 16 different types of cancers. Extensive benchmarking experiments demonstrate that our proposed method is competitive in terms of the evaluation metric of the time-dependent concordance index(${C}^{td}$) when compared with several existing state-of-the-art approaches. Experiments also show that incorporating the network structure between genomic features effectively improves cancer survival prediction.
The Perception of the Body Condition of Cats and Dogs by French Pet Owners and the Factors Influencing Underestimation

Simple Summary Obesity is a significant health concern among companion animals, particularly dogs and cats, with numerous detrimental health implications. Many pet owners struggle with managing their pets’ weight, and they often underestimate their pets’ body condition. This study, held in France from 2020 to 2022, revealed that about one quarter of pet owners underestimate their pets’ body condition. Having children was linked to this underestimation for both dog and cat owners. This discovery highlights the importance of taking a comprehensive approach to the health and well-being of pets and emphasizes the need for a holistic “One Health” strategy. Abstract Managing pet obesity relies heavily on the active involvement of owners; however, a key challenge arises from misperceptions about their own pet’s body condition. Given evolving societal dynamics like the body positivity movement, understanding owners’ perceptions is increasingly pivotal. To evaluate the differences in owners’ perception, this study compared the use of verbal and visual body condition score scales versus the established nine-point body condition score system. The factors linked to underestimation were further specifically investigated. Owners of healthy adult dogs and cats attending vaccination consultations in Veterinary Hospitals in France between 2020 and 2022 were recruited. They were required to assess their pets’ body condition initially using an oral description and then with the nine-point BCS visual scale. Their assessments were then compared with the BCS determined by veterinary health care personnel, considered the primary investigator. A total of 304 dogs and 270 cats were included in the study. It was observed that 27% of dog owners and 24% of cat owners underestimated their pets’ body condition. Among dog and cat owners, factors associated with the underestimation of body condition were the pets’ overweight status and having children. This discovery emphasizes the need for a holistic One Health approach that prioritizes the health and well-being of both humans and their pets. When it comes to pet owners evaluating their pets’ body condition, underestimation proved to be the predominant misperception. Addressing this issue requires comprehensive education to empower owners to recognize and comprehend their pets’ overweight status, a critical step for the overall well-being of companion animals.
Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Patients' Self-perception of Periodontal Diseases

Abstract Objectives The study aimed to evaluate type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) patients' self-perceived periodontal health status and to identify the association between periodontal disease (PD) and DM. Materials and Methods This cross-sectional study included 113 T1DM children between 3 and 18 years old from the Universiti Teknologi MARA and the University of Malaya. Periodontal health parameters, including plaque index, gingival index, probing pocket depth, simplified basic periodontal examination, and clinical attachment loss, were recorded. Self-perceived periodontal health status was assessed with questionnaires. Statistical Analysis Statistical analysis was performed to evaluate the sensitivity of the questionnaire and the relationship between T1DM and periodontal parameters. Results The median age was 11.4 years. Half of them (50.4%) were females. A total of 83.5% rated their oral condition as good, whereas 27.5% reported a history of gingival bleeding. Clinical examination revealed that 48.7% had healthy gingiva, whereas 47.8% had gingivitis. The question “Do you have bleeding when brushing, flossing, or eating food? ” showed good accuracy in the evaluation of PD ( p < 0.001). Conclusion The questionnaire has a high potential to be used by medical professionals in identifying T1DM patients at risk of PD to guide nondental health care providers in making appropriate referrals to dental services.
Electrification in Rural Bangladesh Using Solar Home System: Progress, Problems and Prospect

Electrification is one of the most crucial factors to ensure economic growth and industrialization in Bangladesh. Being in a developing country, people from various districts of Bangladesh have been experiencing a severe electricity crisis due to the increasing daily demand for power, which outweighs the supply of on-grid electricity. This poor energy situation is evident by the fact that only slightly more than half of the total Bangladeshi population has been able to access on-grid electricity while two-thirds of rural households have been living without. Consequently, the shortage of energy hampers socio-economic development and lowers living standards of people. Since, non-renewable sources such as fossil fuels and natural gas, the primary sources of energy production in Bangladesh, are limited, usage of renewable energy technology (RET) such as solar energy efficiently can satisfy the rising energy demand and in turn improve the existing energy shortage situation. Adopting the Solar Home System (SHS) has enabled access to electricity in households in off-grid rural areas of Bangladesh where the possibility of extending on-grid electricity is less likely in the foreseeable future. This review research paper depicts the progress of SHS in rural areas over the last one and a half decades (1996-2014) and the socio-economic as well as the environmental benefits to SHS households. This paper also presents the prospects of SHS in rural areas of Bangladesh as well as aims to explain some of the challenges which SHS has been experiencing that can hinder significant progress of SHS installations in rural households. Detailed survey results and analysis have been provided in this review paper which indicates noticeable increments in the number of SHSs installed in various rural villages in Bangladesh and the improvements in the livelihoods of SHS adopted households.
Adhesion of epoxy coatings to an alloy-coated steel sheet

The investigation reported in this thesis was carried out to study the adhesion between epoxy coatings and an alloy-coated steel sheet substrate. The main aspects studied were (1) developing and evaluating a suitable test method for measuring adhesion; (2) the effects of test conditions (temperature and loading rate ) on the adhesion; (3) the effects of different coating curing techniques on the adhesion; and (4) the effects of material factors (thickness of coating and composition of coating materials ) on the adhesion. A number of test methods were studied and compared in this investigation. The results have shown that a "pull-off" test is the best method for measuring the adhesion between the epoxy coating and metallic substrate because it can supply more information regarding the mechanisms of adhesion and its failure. The adhesion was measured from -30 to 120 °C with loading rate from 0.001 to 60 mm/min. Test results showed that increasing the loading rate decreases the adhesion, since a higher loading rate results in higher stress concentration at the tips of micro cracks at the interface between the coating and substrate. However, the adhesion increases to a maximum as the test temperature increases since more viscoelastic flow and plastic deformation can occur at high temperature resulting in a higher toughness. The adhesion decreased at higher temperature due to a decrease in the modulus of the epoxy. The behaviour could be accurately predicted using a fracture mechanics model. Analyses of the effect of cure conditions on the adhesion were undertaken. Samples baked at 232 °C for a various time from 3 to 63 minutes showed that the adhesion strength passes through a maximum. Crosslink density, modulus and Tg increase with curing time up to a maximum value with the result that the pull off force also increases. At longer cure times the adhesion decreases due to brittleness resulting from degradation of the coating. A second baking cycle ( as commonly used in industry ) was found to have a similar effect to extending the cure In industrial coating processes, the coating is water quenched following baking. Chemical and physical changes occur in the coating during the cooling process. Chemical changes result in the formation of crosslinks, while physical changes result in internal stress occurring between the coating and the substrate. Increasing cooling rate results in decreasing adhesion because it produces a lower modulus and higher internal stress. The internal stress was found to dominate in the system studied in investigation. The coating adhesion increases with increasing peak curing temperature and longer heating time due to an increase in modulus and better wetting of thesubstrate. If the peak curing temperature is too high, however, degradation of the coating occurs and the adhesion decreases. The effects of three factors (thickness of coating, ratio of pigment to binder and ratio of resin to hardener ) on the adhesion were studied. Thicker coatings show lower…
Conformance testing : measuring the alignment between event logs and process models

Many companies have adopted Process Aware Information Systems (PAIS) for supporting their business processes in some form. On the one hand these systems typically log events (e.g., in transaction logs or audit trails) related to the actual business process executions. On the other hand explicit process models describing how the business process should (or is expected to) be executed are frequently available. Together with the data recorded in the log, this raises the interesting question "Do the model and the log conform to each other? ". Conformance testing, also referred to as conformance analysis, aims at the detection of inconsistencies between a process model and its corresponding execution log, and their quantification by the formation of metrics. This paper proposes an incremental approach to check the conformance of a process model and an event log. At first, the fitness between the log and the model is ensured (i.e., "Does the observed process comply with the control flow specified by the process model? "). At second, the appropriateness of the model can be analyzed with respect to the log (i.e., "Does the model describe the observed process in a suitable way? "). Furthermore, this suitability must be evaluated from both a structural and a behavioral perspective. To verify the presented ideas a Conformance Checker has been implemented within the ProM framework.
If it looks and smells like the reals...

Given a topological space ∈ M, an elementary submodel of set theory, we define XM to be X ∩ M with topology generated by {U ∩ M : U ∈ T ∩ M}. We prove that if XM is homeomorphic to R, then X = XM . The same holds for arbitrary locally compact uncountable separable metric spaces, but is independent of ZFC if “local compactness” is omitted. Given a model of set theory, i.e. a collection W of sets which satisfies the usual set-theoretic axioms (ZFC), a set M ⊆ W is an elementary submodel of W if for every natural number n and for every formula φ with n free variables in the predicate calculus with = and a 2-place relation symbol ∈, and every x1, · · · , xn ∈ M (we will systematically confuse the membership relation and the symbol ’∈’), φ(x1, · · · , xn) holds in M if and only if it does in W. We usually think of W as being V, the universe of all sets, but for technical reasons officially deal with W = H(θ), the collection of all sets of hereditary cardinality less than θ, a “sufficiently large” regular uncountable cardinal and rather than dealing with ZFC, we deal with sufficiently large fragments of it. (For more on these technical reasons, see [JW].) The non-logician reader will not lose much by thinking of elementary submodels of V. Elementary submodels have been used in set-theoretic topology with increasing frequency and depth over the past 20 years (see e.g. [D]). As often happens in mathematics, one’s tools become objects of study; thus in [JT] we inaugurated a systematic investigation of the topological spaces induced by elementary submodels. This paper is a continuation of that study, although it is mainly independent of [JT]. The Downward Lowenheim-Skolem Theorem of Logic implies that, given any set X ∈ H(θ) and an infinite cardinal κ ≤ |H(θ)| , there is an elementary submodel M of H(θ) with X ∈ M and |M | = κ. Given a topological space ∈ M, we define XM to be the space X∩M with topology TM generated by {U ∩M : U ∈ T ∩M}. The Downward Lowenheim-Skolem Theorem yields XM ’s with X ∩ M having any infinite cardinality ≤ |X | ; a natural question is whether an Upward Lowenheim-Skolem Theorem holds in this context, i.e. 1Research supported by NSERC grant A-7354. AMS Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 03C62, 03E35, 54A35. Secondary 54F65.
The Impact of Breathiness on Speech Intelligibility in Pathological Voice

v List of Tables . vii List of Figures . viii 1! Introduction.1! 1.1! Thesis Overview. 1! 1.2! Literature Review. 2! 1.2.1! Voice Quality and Breathy Voice.2 1.2.1.1 Voice Quality in Pathological Voice . 3! 1.2.1.2! Breathiness in Normal Voice.4 1.2.1.2.1 Breathiness as a Feature in Languages . 4 1.2.1.2. 2 Breathiness in the Female Voice . 6 1.2. 2! Speech Intelligibility.9 1.2. 2.1 Intelligibility of Clear versus Conversational Speech . 9 ! 1.2. 2. 2! Intelligibility of Hearing-Impaired Talkers . 11 1.2. 3 Acoustic Measures . 13 1.2. 3.1 Acoustic Measures Related to Breathiness in Pathological Voice . 13 1.2. 3.2 Acoustic Measures Employed in This Study . 17 1.2. 3.2.1 Formants One and Two (F1 and F2). 17 1.2. 3.2. 2 Vowel Space . 18 1.2. 3.2. 3 Amplitude Difference Between Harmonics One and Two. (H1-H2) . 19
Thriving in the Face of Childhood Adversity

Contents: Introduction. Part 1. Historical, Cultural, and Scientific Perspectives on Children's Physical and Medical Disorders. Ways of Thinking about Children's Physical and Medical Disorders. Conceptualizing Medical and Physical Disorders in the Sciences: A Shifting Story. How Do Children Thrive (Or Fail to Thrive) in the Face of Early Adversity? Part 2. The Experiences of Children with Mobility Constraints. Mobility Constraints: Why the Caged Bird Sings. Parents and Children as Collaborators in Managing Mobility Constraints. I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends. Part 3. The Child in a World Apart: The Experiences of Children who Appear to be Socially Unresponsive. Ways of Understanding the Child in a World Apart. Parental Reactions to the Child in a World Apart. Social Relationships Experienced by Children in a World Apart. Part 4. The Socially Stigmatized Child: The Experiences of Children with Appearances Anomalies. Understanding the Experiences of Children Who Look Different. Parental Responses to Children with Stigmatizing Disorders. Moving Outside the Family: The Worlds of Children Who Look Different. Part 5. The Positive Possibilities of an Early Intervention Program. Epilogue.
Nationen på spel. Kropp, kön och svenskhet i populärpressens representationer av olympiska spel 1948 – 1972

In this thesis, I study representations of summer and winter Olympic Games and Olympic athletes in six Swedish popular magazines 1948-1972. The purpose is to examine the forms of identity produced within the nation as an “imagined community”, in discursive processes where gender, sexuality, ”race”/ ethnicity, class and age/generation intersect and mutually construct each other. The study is inspired by feminist and postcolonial perspectives on how gender and “race”/ethnicity are upheld as socially relevant classifications through the cultural repetition of physical and mental differences. Theoretical points of departure is Foucault’s connecting of power and knowledge and Cultural Studies’ conception of representation and how the textual/visual address of the reader makes available and closes off subject-positions. ”Body” and ”nation” are used as intersectional analytical concepts, and the textual/visual meaning making is identified through the techniques that I have termed dichotomisation, compensation, harmonisation, contrasting and connecting. The material is understood in relation to changing historical contexts such as “folkhemmet” and the welfare state, gender relations, global political processes of decolonisation, the Cold war and the radicalised political climate of the 1960’s. The analysis highlights how historically specific configurations of Swedish masculinity and Swedish femininity are defined not only through gender dichotomisation, but also by differentiation from – for example – communist bodies/characters or “exotic” and racialised subjects. However, “Swedishness” is not only separated from, but also connected to specific identities. The textual ”us” is located in complex and sometimes contradictory processes, through affinity with Nordic countries, the western side in the Cold war and ”white civilisation” – but also in relation to an abstract and universalistic conception of to ”the world”. The thesis points out the crucial importance of physical work for the merging of masculinity and nation. The sport activities of female athletes are downplayed through compensating markers of conventional femininity and trivialised by being constructed as playful rather than as strained and disciplined physical work. However, the analyses also illustrate the conditions for discursive destabilisations; for example in the case of Olympic medals, where the visual and textual representation of a female Swedish body at work is made possible through intersections of gender, youth or nation. Furthermore, the results show a move towards a higher degree of complexity on the issue of masculinity during the time period, whereas the cultural conception of femininity is characterised by a great degree of stability. (Less)
Perceived Sleep Quality, Mood States, and Their Relationship With Performance Among Brazilian Elite Athletes During a Competitive Period

Abstract Brandt, R, Bevilacqua, GG, and Andrade, A. Perceived sleep quality, mood states, and their relationship with performance among Brazilian elite athletes during a competitive period. J Strength Cond Res 31(4): 1033–1039, 2017—We described the perceived sleep quality and mood states of elite athletes during a competitive period, and clarified their relationship to athletes' sport performance. Participants were 576 Brazilian elite athletes (404 men and 172 women) of individual and team sports. Mood states were evaluated using the Brunel Mood Scale, whereas perceived sleep quality was evaluated using a single question (“How would you evaluate the quality of your sleep in the last few days? ”). Evaluations of mood state and sleep quality were performed up to 60 minutes before national and international sports competitions began. Descriptive and inferential statistics (including logistic regression) were used to evaluate the relationship of sleep quality and mood states with performance (i.e., winning or losing). Athletes typically had good sleep quality and mood states similar to the Iceberg profile (i.e., high vigor and low tension, depression, anger, fatigue, and mental confusion). The Wald test revealed that sleep, anger, tension, and vigor predicted athletes' performance. Specifically, poor sleep quality and low vigor and anger decreased the odds of winning, whereas higher tension increased these odds. The Hosmer–Lemeshow test indicated that the results were sufficiently generalizable. Overall, we observed a significant relationship between sleep and mood states, which in turn both significantly influenced athletes' sports performance. Thus, coaching staff and athletes should monitor athletes' sleep quality before competitions to ensure athletes are in the optimal condition for performance.
Evaluation of driving simulator based training for older drivers in Sweden : Deliverable 2.4.3

Being able to assess your own performance can be vital to maintain safe mobility for older drivers. Overestimation can lead to increased risk of being involved in a crash and underestimation to unjustifiable restrictions in mobility. A pre/post intervention study was conducted with the aim to improve older drivers’ ability to assess their own driving performance. The aim was not to improve performance per se but the ability to assess, i.e. to calibrate themselves. Thus, a driving simulator program was developed and evaluated with a group of 36 older drivers. However, due to simulator sickness only 21 driver completed the study. Drivers repeatedly assessed their driving performance by answering the question “How well do you think you performed on the driving task? (1 = very bad to 5 = very well)”. As a reference of correctly assessed driving performance we used an experienced occupational therapist (specialised in driver assessment) who assessed the drive with the same scale (expert assessment). Feedback can be an effective tool for change, which we wanted to evaluate. Thus, feedback to the drivers were given as a specification of errors made (e.g. forgot to use direction indicators, driving too fast, etc.). Feedback could also include information on correct behaviour (e.g. give way to pedestrians, keeping the right speed etc.). Thus, the drivers were divided into two groups: one (n=11) who were told of their misses and one (n=10) who were also informed about their correct behaviour. Training was done at three different occasions.