Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Research collaboration for Young Scholars of Indian Education: Case Study of a Global Conclave

The aim of the first “Global Conclave of Young Scholars of Indian Education” held in New Delhi in 2011 was to help build bridges for research collaboration primarily for young scholars of Indian education to collaborate with their partners across borders. This paper draws on an “intrinsic case study” of this “global conclave”. Historically, established scholars from the global North or Western countries have initiated partnerships for research collaboration with individual scholars in the global South or Eastern countries, often for data mining or to test out theories. Within this context of unequal power relations in research collaborations, the concept note of the “global conclave” was a bold attempt by the organizers to create a forum for young scholars of Indian Education to collaborate for research across borders. However, based on the case study, this paper identifies several issues with regards to specific social, academic and institutional culture within India which might actually cause barriers to building bridges for research collaboration, both at the individual level and institutional level. The success of research collaborations can be discussed in terms of solidarity, emotional energy, trust, agency, power, and ethical praxis. Each of these aspects of successful collaboration could be adversely affected because of the differences in social, academic and institutional cultural practices among scholars within India compared with their counterparts abroad. Therefore, this paper suggests further critical inquiry into each of the issues identified as potential barriers for successful research collaboration in order to improve the quality of research collaborations in the future.
[Parasitism of the fox (Vulpes vulpes L.) by Ixodidae (Acarina) in northeast France. Interpretation of the seasonal dynamics of the parasites in relation to the biology of the host].

Contribution a l’etude du parasitisme du renard (Vulpes vulpes L.) par les Ixodidae (Acarina) dans le nord-est de la France. Interpretation de la dynamique saisonniere des parasites en relation avec la biologie de l’hote. - Some 230 foxes were examined for collecting Ixodidae (Acarina). Six species occured, they were in decreasing frequency order: Pholeoixodes hexagonus (Leach 1815), Phloleoixodes canisitga (Johnston 1849), Ixodes ricinus (Linne 1758), Dermacentor reticulatits (Fabricius 1792), Phloleoixodes riigicollis (Schylze and Schlottke 1929), Ixodes acuminatus (Neumann 1901). The last species is regarded as an accidenta! one. The parasitic dynamics of Ixodes ricinits appears to be identical with results achieved by other authors by removing that tick from other mammals or by collecting it in its habitat by the ’blanket method’: spring and autumn activity in the north-eastern part of France, the microclimate of the fox s habitat and the nocturnal trips of fox explain the parasitism by Ixodes ricinus during high summer temperatures or during non-existent rainfall spells in spite of the sensibility of this parasite to desication. Under 48°F (ten days mean minimum temperature) and under 34°F . (ten days mean minimum temperature), Ixodes ricinus has hardly ever been found on foxes. The parasitism by species of the genus Pholeoixodes depends on the frequency of earth visits by foxes or on their seasonal reproductive activity, (there is a close connection between those two facts). The parasitism is very high before and during the rut, high during whelping and rearing of cubs. Three annual waves are observed. The lower number of Ph. canisuga during the intermediate periods, the sex-ratio, the proportion of larva, nympha, and adults, show by comparison with Ph. hexagonus the greater subjection to earths of the first species.
‘Abazali abazamayo’ (parents who keep on trying): mothers' responses to the Ububele Mother-Baby Home Visiting Programme

ABSTRACT Early parent–infant home visiting interventions have been found to be effective in both developed and developing countries. However, there is a need to build an evidence base for these interventions in the South African context, to inform local early childhood development policy. The Ububele Mother-Baby Home Visiting Programme in Alexandra, Johannesburg, combines a psychoanalytic approach to thinking about parent–infant relationships and local infant care knowledge. Trained, local women offer a 14-visit intervention, which aims to support mothers, increase knowledge about the relational needs of infants, and increase maternal reflective function capacities. A mixed-methods approach was used to evaluate preliminary findings regarding mothers' responses to the programme and found significant increases in the mothers’ levels of perceived support, in levels of knowledge regarding the relational needs of infants and in maternal reflective function capacities. The supportive relationship between home visitors and mothers was highlighted as key to programme success.
Impact of consensus development conference guidelines on primary care of bronchiolitis: are national guidelines being followed?

AIM To measure the impact of French national consensus guidelines on the clinical practices of primary care paediatricians and general practitioners. DESIGN Non-randomized intervention study, with a first survey 1 year before the consensus development conference and a second survey 1 year after. INTERVENTION Implementation of bronchiolitis management guidelines through the medical press and the Internet. SUBJECTS Paediatricians and general practitioners treating infants 1 year of age and under consulting for a first-time episode of bronchiolitis. RESULTS Ninety-three doctors and 510 infants were included during the first phase of the study and 96 doctors and 394 infants during the second phase. This study showed a slight increase in adherence to the guidelines for non-validated drugs (6.6% adherence before and 14.3% after), general advice (29.0% adherence before and 57.1% after) and flow modulation respiratory physical therapy (91.9% adherence before and 98.8% after). Increase in adherence to guidelines for other practices, that is, hospitalization, prescribing antibiotics and complementary examinations, was not statistically significant. Adherence to the guidelines on providing general advice increased the most between the two studies. CONCLUSION The guidelines helped practitioners evolve slightly in their approach to the treatment of bronchiolitis. Non-validated drugs remain frequently used. Additional resources for implementing the guidelines should be provided to improve primary care doctors' practices.
Technomethodology: paradoxes and possibilities

The design of CSCW systems has often had its roots in ethnomethodological understandings of work and investigations of working settings. Increasingly, we are also seeing these ideas applied to critique and inform HCI design more generally. However, the attempt to design from the basis of ethnomethodology is fraught with methodological dangers. In particular, ethnomethodology’s overriding concern with the detail of practice poses some serious problems when attempts are made to design around such understandings. In this paper, we discuss the range and application of ethnomethodological investigations of technology in working settings, describe how ethnomethodologically-affiliated work has approached system design and discuss ways that ethnomethodology can move from design critique to design practice: the advent of technomethodology.
Improvements to the Bayesian Topic N-Gram Models

One of the language phenomena that n-gram language model fails to capture is the topic information of a given situation. We advance the previous study of the Bayesian topic language model by Wallach (2006) in two directions: one, investigating new priors to alleviate the sparseness problem caused by dividing all ngrams into exclusive topics, and two, developing a novel Gibbs sampler that enables moving multiple n-grams across different documents to another topic. Our blocked sampler can efficiently search for higher probability space even with higher order n-grams. In terms of modeling assumption, we found it is effective to assign a topic to only some parts of a document.
Power allocation in wireless asynchronous localization networks

Wireless localization systems based on determination of signal runtime, such as time of arrival and time difference of arrival, are of great importance for a variety of applications. In many cases, synchronization of the clocks of the agent nodes to those of the network nodes anchors has to be performed together with the localization. The current paper investigates the fundamental accuracy limits of such a joint localization/synchronization. In particular, we analyze the impact of allocating power to the different anchor nodes and optimize this power allocation to maximize accuracy. Optimal trade-offs between localization and synchronization can be drawn according to the presented frameworks. Simulation results confirm the importance of proper power allocation; known special cases time difference of arrival localization, localization with already-synchronized clocks are recovered from our general solution. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Study on workplace bullying exposure among Romanian employees. Gender differences

This study aims to identify workplace bullying exposure among Romanian employees taking into account the possible gender differences in the exposure to stress and the exposure to workplace bullying. The results of the present study revealed a percentage of workplace bullying exposure of 1.6%. This percentage reflects the number of bullying acts encountered in workplace settings with a frequency of at least once a week during a period of at least six months and revealed no gender differences in workplace bullying manifestation. Furthermore, a percent of 7.7% have been exposed to workplace bullying while only 6% have been exposed to workplace bullying. The Chi square test didn’t evidenced statistically significant differences between female and male in their exposure to workplace bullying. 64.1% of female have experienced stress at their workplaces and 53.8% of male have felt stress at their workplaces. The Chi square test didn’t reveal these differences as being statistically significant. The percentages of workplace bullying exposure are comparable with those existing in the literature. Moreover, the study didn’t reveal that there are differences between women and men in workplace bullying exposure.
Potential Benefits of Jujube (Zizyphus Lotus L.) Bioactive Compounds for Nutrition and Health

Zizyphus lotus, belonging to the Rhamnaceae family, is a deciduous shrub which generally grows in arid and semiarid regions of the globe. In traditional medicine, Z. lotus is used as antidiabetes, sedative, bronchitis, and antidiarrhea by local populations. Recently, several scientific reports for health benefit and nutritional potential of bioactive compounds from this jujube have been reported. This plant is rich in polyphenols, cyclopeptide alkaloids, dammarane saponins, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and polyunsaturated fatty acids. These identified compounds were supposed to be responsible for most of Z. lotus biologically relevant activities including antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, hypoglycemic, antioxidant, and immunomodulatory effects. The aim of the present review was to give particular emphasis on the most recent findings on biological effects of the major groups of Zizyphus lotus components and their medical interest, notably for human nutrition, health benefit, and therapeutic impacts.
Leptin Level and Oxidative Stress Contribute to Obesity-Induced Low Testosterone in Murine Testicular Tissue

Objective. This study evaluated the effects of obesity on the function of reproductive organs in male mice and the possible mechanism of male secondary hypogonadism (SH) in obesity. Methods. Ninety-six mice were randomly assigned to three groups: the control group, diet-induced obesity group, and diet-induced obesity resistant group for 8 weeks and 19 weeks. The effects of short- and long-term high-fat diet on the reproductive organs were determined by measuring sperm count and motility, relative testis weight, testosterone level, pathological changes and apoptosis of Leydig cells. Oxidative stress was evaluated by determining malondialdehyde, H2O2, NO levels, and GSH in testis tissues. CAT, SOD, GSH-Px and Nrf2 mRNA were measured by real-time PCR. Results. Short- and long-term high-fat diet decreased sperm count and motility, relative testis weight, testosterone level; decreased CAT, SOD, GSH-Px and Nrf2 mRNA expression; increased MDA, H2O2, NO and leptin levels; inhibited the activity of CAT and GSH-Px enzymes. Pathological injury and apoptosis of Leydig cells were found in testis tissue. Conclusions. Pathological damage of Leydig cells, oxidative stress in testis tissue, and high level of leptin may provide some evidence to clarify the mechanisms of male SH in obesity.
Learning physics in a Taiwanese college classroom: a constructivist perspective

iii Acknowledgements v List of Tables x List of Figures xi Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Chapter 2: Literature Review 11 Constructivism 15 Cognitive Constructivism 17 Sociocultural Constructivism 23 Critical Constructivism 26 Constructivist Learning Environments 29 Constructivist Learning Environment Survey (CLES) 31 Chapter 3: Methodology and Methods 34 Methodology 34 Theoretical Framework: Constructivist Learning Environment 36 Methods 38 Data collection 38 Data analysis 41 Summary 47 Chapter 4: Narrative Analysis 48 Lesson One: Lecture – Vectors and Vector Addition 48
A Population-Based Case–Control Study of Extreme Summer Temperature and Birth Defects

Background: Although hyperthermia is a recognized animal teratogen and maternal fever has been associated with birth defects in humans, data on the relationship between high environmental temperatures and birth defects are limited. Objective: To determine whether pregnancies are potentially vulnerable to the weather extremes anticipated with climate change, we evaluated the relationship between extreme summer temperature and the occurrence of birth defects. Methods: We performed a population-based case–control study by linking the New York State Congenital Malformations Registry to birth certificates for the years 1992–2006. We selected nonmalformed infants from a 10% random sample of live births as controls. We assigned meteorologic data based on maternal residence at birth, summarized universal apparent temperature (UAT; degrees Fahrenheit) across the critical period of embryogenesis, and estimated adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) with multivariable logistic regression, controlling for confounders available on the birth certificate. Results: Among 6,422 cases and 59,328 controls that shared at least 1 week of the critical period in summer, a 5-degree increase in mean daily minimum UAT was significantly associated with congenital cataracts (aOR = 1.51; 95% CI: 1.14, 1.99). Congenital cataracts were significantly associated with all ambient temperature indicators as well: heat wave, number of heat waves, and number of days above the 90th percentile. Inconsistent associations with a subset of temperature indicators were observed for renal agenesis/hypoplasia (positive) and anophthalmia/microphthalmia and gastroschisis (negative). Conclusions: We found positive and consistent associations between multiple heat indicators during the relevant developmental window and congenital cataracts which should be confirmed with other data sources.
The Effect of Adjuvant Chemotherapy on Survival in Patients with Residual Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma after Undergoing Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy

Background Guidelines from the U.S. National Comprehensive Cancer Network have recommended use of concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT), followed by a 3-cycles combination of platinum and 5-fluorouracil chemotherapy as standard treatment for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). The benefits of CCRT for treatment of locally advanced NPC have been established. Whether platinum and 5-fluorouracil chemotherapy should be routinely added to locally advanced NPC after CCRT is still open to debate. Whether adjuvant chemotherapy provides an additional survival benefit for the subgroup of patients with residual nasopharyngeal carcinoma who have undergone CCRT is also unclear. This retrospective study was initiated to determine the survival benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) in residual NPC patients who have undergone concurrent chemoradiotherapy. Methods The retrospective study included 155 nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients who had local residual lesions after the platinum-based CCRT without or with AC. Kaplan-Meier analysis and the log-rank test were used to estimate overall survival (OS), failure-free survival (FFS), local relapse-free survival (LRFS) and distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS). Results Median follow-up was 47 months. Adjuvant cisplatin or nedaplatin plus 5-fluorouracil chemotherapy did not significantly improve 3-year OS, LRFS, FFS, and DMFS for patients with residual nasopharyngeal carcinoma after undergoing CCRT. The 3-year OS rates for the no-AC group and AC group were 71.6% and 73.7%, respectively (P= 0.44). The 3-year FFS rates for no-AC group and AC group were 57.5% and 66.9%, respectively ((P= 0.19). The 3-year LRFS rates for no-AC group and AC group were 84.7% and 87.9%, respectively ((P= 0.51). The 3-year DMFS rates for no-AC group and AC group were 71.4% and 77.4%, respectively ((P= 0.23). Conclusions Since we did not find sufficient data to support significant survival in 3-year OS, LRFS, FFS, and DMFS, whether Adjuvant cisplatin or nedaplatin and 5-fluorouracil chemotherapy should be routinely added to residual nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients after undergoing CCRT remain uncertain.
Concept of Organizational Justice in the Context of Academic Achievement

In this paper there is an endeavor to apply the concept of organizational justice, well known and mainly established in organizational settings, in new domain of interest. As a matter of fact, organizational justice, introduced by Greenberg (Greenberg, 1987), and originally created in the domain of organizational behavior could be seen in a new perspective as a more complex and interdependent factor, as some contemporary researches imply (O`Neill, at al., 2011; Rupp, 2011). Even Colquitt (Colquitt, 2006), one of the scholars, most engaged not only in theoretical but also in empirical conceptualization of the phenomenon, has recently hinted that the notion of organizational justice could be abridged by some personal variables applicable on a non organizational environment.
Brain stroke localization by using microwave-based signal classification

This research presents a new methodology of developing the brain stroke localization algorithm by using the machine-learning based pattern recognition approach for foreign object classification. Due to the new algorithm requires less bandwidth from the system hardware level, the proposed method would be helpful to reduce the challenges of designing a high-performance UWB antenna array required from most microwave stroke detection system nowadays. The presented algorithm employs the interconnection point of two lines that intersect the stroke region inside a brain and evaluates the properties of the stroke by using Support Vector Machines (SVM) classification method; the SVM classifier is trained by the data set acquired from EM simulations as well as the optimized coefficients from PSO algorithm. The proposed methodology of brain stroke classification has been verified by simulated data. The performance and effectiveness demonstrated it's a promising algorithm to be installed in the next-generation microwave brain stroke detection system.
Neurobehavioral characteristics of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in communities from Italy: Preliminary results.

BACKGROUND There has been considerable effort expended on defining neurobehavioral characteristics of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). Children with FASD display a range of cognitive deficits and behavioral problems. In this article, we report on the neurobehavioral characteristics of children with FASD in selected communities in Italy. It was expected that both inattentive and hyperactive/impulsive characteristics would discriminate children with FASD from controls and that the groups would also differ on intellectual functioning, language comprehension, and academic skills. METHODS Eighty-two children, 22 diagnosed with FASD and 60 control children, participated in this study. The children were administered tests of nonverbal reasoning, language comprehension, academic achievement, and behavior. RESULTS On tests of nonverbal reasoning and language comprehension, the FASD group earned lower scores than did controls. Moreover, on a test of academic achievement the FASD group scored lower. When comparing these 2 groups on disruptive behavioral symptomatology, similar results were obtained, the FASD group showing greater attentional difficulties and hyperactivity/impulsivity behaviors and more overall behavioral problems. Stepwise logistic regression analysis showed that a model containing inattention and error scores on the language comprehension task correctly classified 85% of the participants. Compared with the control group, a significantly greater proportion of children with FASD met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-fourth edition (DSM-IV) criteria of ADD, inattentive type, as reported by teachers. In contrast, hyperactive symptoms among children with FASD were comparable with the control group. Teachers rated children with FASD as having more inattentive behaviors and as performing lower in academic skills than controls. The association between reported hyperactivity symptoms and achievement scores was nonsignificant for both language and math scores, suggesting that it is not the hyperactivity causing problems, but the child's inattention. CONCLUSIONS This research indicates that a nonclinic-referred sample of Italian children with FASD display a profile of neurobehavioral functioning consistent with that reported by other researchers. Furthermore, the neurobehavioral characteristic most identified with children diagnosed with FASD was inattention followed by hyperactivity.
Conjugated linoleic acid evokes de‐lipidation through the regulation of genes controlling lipid metabolism in adipose and liver tissue

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a unique lipid that elicits dramatic reductions in adiposity in several animal models when included at ≤ 1% of the diet. Despite a flurry of investigations, the precise mechanisms by which conjugated linoleic acid elicits its dramatic effects in adipose tissue and liver are still largely unknown. In vivo and in vitro analyses of physiological modifications imparted by conjugated linoleic acid on protein and gene expression suggest that conjugated linoleic acid exerts its de‐lipidating effects by modulating energy expenditure, apoptosis, fatty acid oxidation, lipolysis, stromal vascular cell differentiation and lipogenesis. The purpose of this review shall be to examine the recent advances and insights into conjugated linoleic acid's effects on obesity and lipid metabolism, specifically focused on changes in gene expression and physiology of liver and adipose tissue.