Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A randomized controlled trial comparing repeated ultrasound guided aspiration versus suction catheter drainage in breast abscess

Background: Among different comorbidities in lactating women, breast abscess is most dreaded and common. It is more prevalent in developing world, etiology implicated to malnutrition, poor hygiene and health conditions. In era of technical advances management of breast abscess has shifted to minimally invasive and painless techniques which are more patient friendly.Methods: Hospital based randomized controlled trial was conducted at Department of Surgery, and Department of Radiodiagnosis, King Georges Medical University, Lucknow UP.Results: In our study total 80 patients were analysed, 40 randomized into USG guided needle aspiration group and other 40 into suction catheter placement group. Incidence of breast abscess was higher in lactating group and most common organism was Staphylococcus aureus. It was found that majority of women in both groups were lactating and mean age was 30 years. Same degree of fever was experienced in lactating group as in non-lactating. Amount of pain and scar volume was significantly higher in USG guided needle aspiration group.Conclusions: It seems that two treatment modalities have same effect in terms of fever and residual volume but pain and scar volume was significantly higher in group with USG guided needle aspiraton.
Subcutaneous pharmacokinetic interaction of tulathromycin With flunixin meglumine in goats

ARTICLE INFO The pharmacokinetic aspects of tulathromycin (2.5 mg/kg) administered alone and in combination with flunixin meglumine (2.2 mg/kg) after a single subcutaneous (SC) administration, werestudied in clinically healthy goats. The animals were divided into two groups: the 1 st group was the 2 alone and given tulathromycin nd given tulathromycin group was with flunixin meglumine. Serum concentrations of concurrently tulathromycin were determined using microbiological assay method. Tulathromycin was rapidly absorbed with a half-life of absorption (t(0.5)ab) of 0.54 h and the peak plasma concentration (Cmax) was 3.7 μg /ml was attained after 0.98 h (Tmax). Flunixin significantly altered the pharmacokinetics of tulathromycin by increasing its absorption and delay its elimination from body where t0.5(ab)were 0.54 and 0.34 h and the elimination half-lives (t0.5(el)) were 1.35 and 1.8 h, for alone and combination groups, respectively. Significant decreases (39.8%) in the area under the curve (AUC) and (22.6%) in the elimination rate constant (Kel) from the central compartment were found following coadministration with flunixin compared with administration of tulathromycin alone. It was concluded that the combination of tulathromycin and flunixin negatively altered the kinetics of tulathromycin. Article history:
Preferred Learning Styles of Criminology Students

Over the past decades, knowledge on the students’ learning styles gained interest among educators. Several studies considered learning styles as predictors to academic performance. This study aimed to investigate on the learning styles of criminology students of Cor Jesu College. It employed descriptive quantitative research design using the instrument developed by Andrew D. Cohen, Rebecca L. Oxford, and Julie C. Chi. Results showed that the respondents were visual, introverted, random-intuitive, closure-oriented, particular, synthesizing, sharpener, deductive, field-independent and reflective. They also considered themselves as both metaphoric and literal. The respondents were also consistent when it came to preferred learning style regardless of sex, except for field-independent for males and field-dependent for females. Hence, it can be argued that the respondents can easily be grouped according to their preferred styles. The result served as a useful feedback to students to maximize their potentials and preferences and for teachers to tailor their teaching strategies in line with the learning styles of the students. On a larger scale, it is important that in the revision of curriculum the school should consider the learning preferences of the students for it to be adaptive, effective and relevant.
Comparing Conventional and New Policy Approaches for Carnivore Conservation: Theoretical Results and Application to Tiger Conservation

New policy approaches to facilitate the co-existence of wildlife and livestock are needed for situations where predation incidents greatly impact households’ income and retaliatory killing threatens endangered carnivore species’ survival. In this paper, models are developed to assess how two alternative policy approaches impact a herder’s decisions on carnivore hunting and livestock protection. We find that while the well-established ex-post compensation policy induces suboptimal livestock protection it can generate sufficient incentives for the herder to refrain from hunting so that the carnivore population reaches its socially optimal level. Performance payments are proposed as alternative policy. They are found not to distort livestock protection incentives and can also help achieve a socially optimal carnivore population level. Which of the two scheme types gives rise to less cost is ambiguous. An empirical analysis of the model with data from tiger-livestock conflicts in India is presented.
TIME-DEPENDENT PHOTOIONIZATION OF GASEOUS NEBULAE: THE PURE HYDROGEN CASE

We study the problem of time-dependent photoionization of low density gaseous nebulae subjected to sudden changes in the intensity of ionizing radiation. To this end, we write a computer code that solves the full time-dependent energy balance, ionization balance, and radiation transfer equations in a self-consistent fashion for a simplified pure hydrogen case. It is shown that changes in the ionizing radiation yield ionization/thermal fronts that propagate through the cloud, but the propagation times and response times to such fronts vary widely and nonlinearly from the illuminated face of the cloud to the ionization front (IF). IF/thermal fronts are often supersonic, and in slabs initially in pressure equilibrium such fronts yield large pressure imbalances that are likely to produce important dynamical effects in the cloud. Further, we studied the case of periodic variations in the ionizing flux. It is found that the physical conditions of the plasma have complex behaviors that differ from any steady-state solution. Moreover, even the time average of ionization and temperature is different from any steady-state case. This time average is characterized by overionization and a broader IF with respect to the steady-state solution for a mean value of the radiation flux. Around the time average of physical conditions there is a large dispersion in instantaneous conditions, particularly across the IF, which increases with the period of radiation flux variations. Moreover, the variations in physical conditions are asynchronous along the slab due to the combination of nonlinear propagation times for thermal fronts/IFs and equilibration times.
THE INFLUENCE OF EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELD ON TREE SEEDLINGS ê

This study is focused on the biochemical changes induced by extremely low frequency magnetic field in arbor seedlings (black locust, i.e. Robinia pseudoacacia) of ecological interest during their early ontogenetic stages. Chronic exposure has been done by daily exposures of 0.5 – 1 – 2 – 4 – 8 hours, to young Robinia pseudoacacia seedlings (two months old), during 10 days. Assimilatory pigments and average nucleic acid level were assayed after low frequency magnetic field exposure, by spectrophotometric methods. Certain stimulation of chlorophyll biosynthesis was noticed while inhibitory effect upon the nucleic acid biosynthesis was also revealed.
Design of entrance and escape gaps in collapsible trap for mangrove crabs Scylla sp.

Research was done to obtain entrance and escape gaps design that enable all size of mangrove crabs (Scylla sp.) entered and let the small sized crabs out. Both gaps were made from rectangular-shape metal with 30 cm length. Entrance gaps and escape gaps width are 7 cm and 3.3 cm respectively, because the smallest of adult crabs carapace thickness is 3.3 cm. Gaps were equipped by 10 triggers with 8 cm and 5 cm length, in order to avoid crabs going in and out trap easily. The experiment has used 2 new designed traps and 2 standard traps which were usually used by fishermen. Entrance gaps of fishermen traps only have oval shape with uncertain width. The four traps were sunk in to a water tank which contained 16 adult and 11 small crabs for 20 minutes long. Within 20 times experiments, the new designed traps caught 127 crabs while only 13 crabs for the standard one. Furthermore, escape gaps test was done by putting 5 adult and 5 small crabs in to 2 new designed traps. By 3 trials all of small crabs could escaped.
Identification and characterisation of microsatellite markers in narrow barred Spanish mackerel Scomberomorous commerson (Lacepede, 1800)

Narrow barred Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson (Lacepede 1800) is one of the commercially important fish in Indian waters. For sustainable management of the species, it is necessary to understand the genetic stock structure of the species. Accurate delineation of genetic stock structure can be achieved using nuclear microsatellite markers. A study was carried out to identify and validate polymorphic microsatellite markers in S. commerson using information available from closely related fish species. The study could identify 10 polymorphic microsatellite loci which can be effectively utilised for identifying genetic stock structure of the species. Validation of the identified loci was also done by testing the loci in natural populations of the species. The findings of the present study will be useful in devising stock-specific management measures for conservation and sustainable utilisation of this commercially important fish species in Indian waters.
Factors influencing survival of desert mule deer in the greater San Andres Mountains, New Mexico

Mule deer numbers have declined precipitously in the San Andres Mountains of southcentral New Mexico. To assess reasons for population declines, we monitored condition, survival, and causes of mortality for a range of 37 to 64 radio-collared, >1.5-year-old female mule deer annually, and a range of 14 to 31 radio-collared, >1.5-year-old male mule deer annually from 2003 to 2009, and modeled environmental factors affecting survival. We found annual survival rates of 0.74 to 0.86 for females and 0.74 to 0.92 for males, rates that were similar among years within sexes. Causes of mortality for 50 radio-collared females and 22 radio-collared males included predation (13 females, 2 males), accidents (4 females, 1 male), malnutrition (13 females, 7 males), disease (6 females, 2 males), unknown-not-predation (3 females, 6 males), unknown (11 females, 3 males), and harvest (0 females, 1 male). Condition of females varied among years and was poor in most years (i.e., lactating females had 1.0) > 0.937). Potential rates of increase of mule deer in the greater San Andres Mountains were limited by production and survival of fawns, rather than adult mortality.
Distinguishing the Dark Triad: Evidence from the Five-Factor Model and the Hogan Development Survey

The Dark Triad consists of Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy. The aim was to add to the evidence for their differential validity. A battery including the Hogan Development Survey, the IPIP Big 5 and measures of Empathy, Aggression and the Dark Triad was administered to 241 undergraduate psychology participants at an Australian university. Multivariate regression indicated that the Dark Triad shared significant predictors and the Five Factor Model facets failed to clearly distinguish between them. The results of a principal components analysis indicated considerable overlap among the constructs. Overall, limited evidence for the differential construct validity of the Dark Triad of personality was found. Implications for the psychometric properties of some dominant paradigms in personality research, and applications in organisational settings, are discussed.
Macroanatomic investigations on the course and distribution of the celiac artery in Hooded crow (Corvus cornix) with special reference to the arterial supply of the stomach

The aim of this study was to investigate the course and distribution of the celiacartery in Hooded crows and to extend our knowledge on the captured crows.Scarce information in the field of veterinary comparative anatomy and theavailable literature on the celiac artery and its distribution is provided. So, thepresent study tried to declare the confusion about the course and distributionof the celiac artery in the Hooded crows. Therefore, 10 apparently healthyHooded crows of different ages and sexes were captured. The birds wereanaesthetized by IM injection of 0.5 cc of 2% xylazine HCL (3 mg/kg). Coloredgum milk latex (60%) was then injected through the descending aorta. Then,specimens were subjected to fine dissection to demonstrate the origin, courseand distribution of the celiac artery. The celiac artery erupted laterally from theright face of the descending aorta opposite to the distance between the 5thand 6th vertebral rib, on a level with the junction of the esophagus and theproventriculus. It proceeded ventrally and slight caudally, where it gave off theesophageal artery after, 5 cm from its origin, the dorsal proventricular artery,splinc arteries and at the middle of spleen then bifurcated into left and rightbranches. The left branch of the celiac artery gave rise to right hepatic artery,ventral proventricular artery, pyloric branches, ventral gastric artery and thencontinued as the A. gastrica sinistra. The right branch of the celiac arteryreleased the caudal group of splenic arteries, A. gastrica dextra, then continuedas A. pancreaticoduodenalis.
TEMPLATE Visual descriptors for content-based retrieval of remote sensing images

In this paper we present an extensive evaluation of visual descriptors for the contentbased retrieval of remote sensing (RS) images. The evaluation includes global handcrafted, local hand-crafted, and Convolutional Neural Network (CNNs) features coupled with four different Content-Based Image Retrieval schemes. We conducted all the experiments on two publicly available datasets: the 21-class UC Merced Land Use/Land Cover (LandUse) dataset and 19-class High-resolution Satellite Scene dataset (SceneSat). The content of RS images might be quite heterogeneous, ranging from images containing fine grained textures, to coarse grained ones or to images containing objects. It is therefore not obvious in this domain, which descriptor should be employed to describe images having such a variability. Results demonstrate that CNN-based features perform better than both global and and local hand-crafted features whatever is the retrieval scheme adopted. Features extracted from SatResNet-50, a residual CNN suitable fine-tuned on the RS domain, shows much better performance than a residual CNN pre-trained on multimedia scene and object images. Features extracted from NetVLAD, a CNN that considers both CNN and local features, works better than others CNN solutions on those images that contain fine-grained textures and objects.
Examination of uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains conferring large plasmids

Suhartono (2010) Examination of uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains conferring large plasmids. Biodiversitas 11: 59-64. Of major uropathogens, Escherichia coli has been widely known as a main pathogen of UTIs globally and has considerable medical and financial consequences. A strain of UPEC, namely E. coli ST131, confers a large plasmid encoding cephalosporinases (class C I²-lactamase) or AmpC that may be disseminated through horizontal transfer among bacterial populations. Therefore, it is worth examining such large plasmids by isolating, purifying, and digesting the plasmid with restriction enzymes. The examination of the large plasmids was conducted by isolating plasmid DNA visualized by agarose gel electrophoresis as well as by PFGE. The relationship of plasmids among isolates was carried out by HpaI restriction enzyme digestion. Of 36 isolates of E. coli ST 131, eight isolates possessed large plasmids, namely isolates 3, 9, 10, 12, 17, 18, 26 and 30 with the largest molecular size confirmed by agarose gel electrophoresis and PFGE was ~42kb and ~118kb respectively. Restriction enzyme analysis revealed that isolates 9, 10, 12, 17 and 18 have the common restrictionpatterns and those isolates might be closely related.Key words: large plasmids, uropathogenic E. coli, electrophoresis, RE, PFGE
Effects of foliar applied copper and boron on fungal diseases and rice yield on cultivar MR219.

Long-term intensive cropping on the same piece of land with high-yielding varieties often exhausts the availability of soil micronutrients. Poor management of plant micronutrients has become a hurdle in the effort to increase rice production in Malaysia. The new rice variety, MR 219, was introduced to bring the yield potential up to 10 t ha-1. However, to sustain the high yield, more N-fertilizer input is needed and this will increase incidences of disease. Moreover, nutrients imbalance due to limited micronutrients application may worsen the situation. In this study, two seasons of field experiments were conducted at Sawah Sempadan, Kampung Seri Tiram Jaya, Tanjong Karang (3Â° 28â€™ 0â€� North, 101Â° 13â€™ 0â€� East) in the off season of 2007 (July 2007 â€“ November 2007) and the main season of 2008 (January 2008 â€“ May 2008), using high yielding cultivar of MR219 to evaluate the effects of copper (Cu) and boron (B) foliar applications on the reduction of fungal diseases, and also to evaluate the effects of foliar Cu and B applications on rice production. Nine combinations of Cu and B treatment at varying levels of Cu (0 â€“ 20 ppm) and B (0 â€“ 20 ppm) were replicated 4 times and applied through foliar spray at three different times, namely, 30, 45 and 60 days after seeding (DAS). The foliar application of Cu and B was found to be able to reduce fungal disease infestation in MR219 rice cultivar and subsequently increase rice yield. Meanwhile, the foliar treatment of Cu and B applied in combination at level T7 (7.53 t ha-1), T9 (7.33 t ha-1), T8 (7.28 t ha-1) and T6 (7.06 t ha-1) produced significantly higher (P >0.05) rice yield as compared with the control, T1 (5.75 t ha-1). A significant reduction in disease scoring was also recorded in the experiment where foliar treatment at level T9 (20 ppm Cu + 20 ppm B) cut down 5% of the disease incidence in MR219 rice plant. Rice yield components such as productive tiller m-2, number of spikelets panicle-1, percentage of filled grains and 1,000-grain weight have also shown remarkable increments as a result of the Cu and B foliar treatment.
Work environment and creativity:a social and motivational process

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Development and productivity of maize in response to spatial arrangement under semiarid condition of Northeastern Brazil

This study evaluates the development and productivity of maize plants at different spatial arrangements under rainfed conditions in cerrado-caatinga (savannah) transition zone, where characterised as semiarid. The experimental plan was Randomised Blocks Design (RBD) with four replications. This was 3×3 factorial design with three types of row spacing (0.35 m, 0.50 m, 0.75 m) and three types of population density (50,000, 65,000 plants.ha, 80,000 plants.ha). The hybrid 30F53YH recommended for the region was used in this experiment. We collected the morphological parameters of five plants in each subplot for six weeks after thinning. Then, productivity data were obtained by weighing harvested grain from two representative lines of each subplot. Furthermore, all data were analysed by performing both statistical tests Tukey (p≤0.05) and Shapiro-Wilk. The best response of maize canopy architecture and productivity was in smaller spacing (0.35 m) with high population density (80,000 plants.ha). However, the total productivity index was high in recommended row spacing and population (0.70m and 50,000 plants.ha-1). Thus, smaller row spacing with a higher population (e.g. 80,000 plants.ha) can deliver better plant distribution density as a solution for production losses due to drought during maize growth stages.
Agency, Strategic Entrepreneurship, and the Performance of Private Equity–Backed Buyouts

Agency theory has focused on buyouts as a governance and control device to increase profitability, organizational efficiency, and limited attention to growth. A strategic entrepreneurship view of buyouts incorporates upside incentives for value creation associated with growth as well as efficiency gains. In this paper, we develop the complementarity between agency theory and strategic entrepreneurship perspectives to examine the performance implications for different types of buyouts. Further, we study how the involvement of private equity (PE) firms is related to the performance of the post–buyout firm. These issues are examined for a sample of 238 PE–backed buyouts in the UK between 1993 and 2003. Implications for theory and practice are suggested.
The comparison of happiness in Orphanage and non-orphanage children

Purpose of this study was to compare happiness in orphanage and non-orphanage children. Research method was descriptive study. In so doing, through cluster sampling 74 orphanage and non-orphanage children selected. Measurement devise was The Memorial University of Newfoundland Scale of Happiness (MUNSH). Data analyzed by dependent t test and Pearson's correlation coefficient. Results showed that there is a significant difference between orphanage and non-orphanage children in positive and negative emotions. Orphanage children show more negative emotions (NA and NE) and less positive emotions (PA and PE) in comparison with non-orphanage children. There is no significant correlation between age, education and happiness.
M E ] 1 5 M ar 2 01 8 Hierarchical Species Sampling Models ∗

This paper introduces a general class of hierarchical nonparametric prior distributions. The random probability measures are constructed by a hierarchy of generalized species sampling processes with possibly non-diffuse base measures. The proposed framework provides a general probabilistic foundation for hierarchical random measures with either atomic or mixed base measures and allows for studying their properties, such as the distribution of the marginal and total number of clusters. We show that hierarchical species sampling models have a Chinese Restaurants Franchise representation and can be used as prior distributions to undertake Bayesian nonparametric inference. We provide a method to sample from the posterior distribution together with some numerical illustrations. Our class of priors includes some new hierarchical mixture priors such as the hierarchical Gnedin measures, and other well-known prior distributions such as the hierarchical Pitman-Yor and the hierarchical normalized random measures.