Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Economic burden and psycho-social implications of Non- Communicable Diseases on adults and their households in South-west Nigeria

Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), are associated with significant economic and psycho-social burden on sufferers. Objective: To compare the economic burden of disease management on adults with NCDs and control subjects in Ogbomoso, Nigeria. Method: A total of 322 participants consisting of 165 adults with at least one of two NCDs - hypertension and diabetes mellitus- and 157 controls (without NCDs) were recruited by stratified random sampling method. The participants were evaluated for the economic burden and psycho-social implications of NCDs on them and on their households. Results: The presence of NCDs was associated with significantly higher psycho-social implication on the subjects including poorer patient-reported personal health assessment, higher frequency of hospital visits and longer average total hours of hospital visits compared to the controls. A significant proportion of subjects with NCDs depended on family supports for their hospital bills (32.7% vs. 7.6%). The total average monthly health expenditure among subjects with NCDs was significantly higher. Catastrophic health expenditure was found in 12.1% of subjects with NCDs who indicated their hospital bills were far higher than their total monthly wages. Conclusion: The management of NCDs is associated with significantly higher psycho-social and economic impact on affected individuals. There is a need for appropriate health insurance scheme and health system financing programs to reduce economic and psycho-social burdens, minimise long-term complications and improve quality of life.
The variety, popularity and nutritional quality of tuck shop items available for sale to primary school learners in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Abstract Objectives: To determine the variety, popularity and nutritional quality of the food and beverages sold to primary school pupils. Method: A cross-sectional tuck shop survey. Nutritional analyses were conducted using the South African Medical Research Council Foodfinder 3 for Windows® software. Eleven mixed-race, well-resourced, government primary schools were studied in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Subjects included tuck shop managers from each school. Results: Savoury pies were the most popular lunch item for all learners for both breaks (n = 5, 45%, and n = 3, 27.3%), selling the most number of units (43) per day at eight schools (72.7%). Iced popsicles were sold at almost every school, ranked as the cheapest beverage, and also sold the most number of units (40.7). Healthy beverages sold included canned fruit juice and water, while healthy snacks consisted of dried fruit, fruit salad, bananas, yoghurt and health muffins. The average healthy snack contained almost half the kilojoules of the unhealthy counterpart (465kJ vs. 806kJ). Nutritional analyses of the healthy lunch options revealed total fat contents that exceeded the Dietary Reference Intake and South African recommended limits. Perceived barriers to stocking healthy items included cost and refrigeration restrictions. Conclusion: School tucks shops are selling products that encourage an unhealthy lifestyle, thereby promoting the obesity epidemic. Extensive consultation is required among dietitians, school principals and privatised tuck shop managers to overcome barriers to stocking healthy food in tuck shops.
The Riverside Shakespeare

List of Illustrations Abbreviations General Introduction Shakespeare's Text Chronology and Sources Opening Pages of the First Folio Comedies The Comedy of Errors The Taming of the Shrew The Two Gentlemen of Verona Love's Labors Lost A Midsummer Night's Dream The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor Much Ado about Nothing As You Like It Twelfth Night, or What You Will The History of Troilus and Cressida All's Well That Ends Well Measure for Measure Histories The First Part of Henry the Sixth The Second Part of Henry the Sixth The Third Part of Henry the Sixth The Tragedy of Richard the Third The Life and Death of King John The Tragedy of King Richard the Second The First Part of Henry the Fourth The Second Part of Henry the Fourth The Life of Henry the Fifth The Famous History of the Life of Henry the Eighth Tragedies The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet The Tragedy of Julius Caesar The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice The Tragedy of King Lear The Tragedy of Macbeth The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra The Tragedy of Coriolanus The Life of Timon and Athens Romances Pericles, Prince of Tyre Cymbeline The Winter's Tale The Tempest The Two Noble Kinsmen Edward III Sir Thomas More: The Additions Ascribed to Shakespeare Poems Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece Sonnets A Lover's Complaint The Passionate Pilgrim The Phoenix and Turtle A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter Appendix A. Shakespeare's Plays in Performance, from 1660 to the Present (updated) Appendix B. Records, Documents, and Allusions Appendix C. Annals, 1552-1616 Appendix D. Recent Criticism Selected Bibliography Index to the Characters in the Plays Index to First Lines of the Sonnets Index to First Lines of The Passionate Pilgrim Index to First Lines of Songs and Song Snatches Selected Glossary Genealogical Tables
Awareness and Use of Electronic Resources in University Libraries: A Case Study of University for Development Studies Library

Academic libraries are hub of knowledge and hence are considered as integral parts of academic life. Academic libraries have been in existence for over 500 years and are still very useful today to all educational institutions. The advent of Information and Communication Technology has led to the use of electronic resources in libraries. However, empirical studies have shown that the use of these resources by faculty members is very low. The objective of this study therefore, was to examine the use of electronic resources by lecturers of the University for Development Studies, Wa campus. Primary data were collected from 80 lecturers through the use of a simple random sampling procedure. The data were collected with the aid of a questionnaire and analysed through the use of binary logistics regression model. The results indicate that 88.8% of the respondents were users of the Library and 65% were aware of the availability of e-resources in the Library. This suggests that awareness is high but utilization is low. The determinants of e-resource utilisation in the Library include purpose of Library visit and sources of awareness of the e-resources in the Library. Besides, it was discovered that inadequate Library infrastructure, low internet bandwith, and inadequate trained library staff were the major challenges confronting the use of e-resources of the Library. The study therefore, recommends that efforts to improve the use of e-resources in the Library should include ways of creating user awareness, training/workshops for users and staff, and responding to the challenges confronting utilisation.
Should I Stay or Should I Go... North? First Job Location of U.S. Trained Doctorates 1957-2005

Based on a survey of graduating PhD students in the U.S., we study the determinants of location of their first jobs. We consider how locating in Canada versus the U.S. for all graduates is influenced by both their background and timeÂ­-varying factors that affect international mobility. We also study the choice of European graduates between North America and returning to Europe. We find that in many cases macro factors have the expected effect of choices after controlling for biases for home, which depend upon background variables in expected ways.
Psychotherapy, Psychological Treatments and the Addictions

Treatment of an ever increasing variety of addictive behaviors owes much to a wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches that have tended to roll continuously in and out of fashion. Over recent years, an initiative has been established to appraise critically the use of psychotherapy in all areas of psychiatry. This work serves as a timely review of psychological treatments in the addictions field and provides a rare combination of expertise both from addiction specialists and those who use psychotherapeutic approaches to solve a wide range of personal problems. Its coverage includes contextual ideas that are basic to the choice of approach to therapy, and an exploration of particular treatment strategies. Throughout, this volume provides authoritative statements while engaging the reader in the excitement of debate. It forms a valuable reference that is sure to appeal to a wide range of practitioners and researchers concerned with alcohol and drug abuse.
COMPARISON OF TWO EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS IN EARLY CLINICAL EXPOSURE PROGRAM BASED ON DUNDEE READY EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT MEASURE

Introduction: The undergraduate curriculum of Shiraz medical school underwent a major reform during the recent years. It comprised of integrated education, supplemented with an early clinical experience program. This study was carried out to find out how early experience in clinical experience affects medical students’ perception and identify strengths and limitations of the available methods and the environment of its delivery. Methods: During the academic year 2011-2012, this descriptive study was undertaken and the subjects were first year students studying medicine at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences using a DREEM questionnaire. Results: The DREEM questionnaire showed evidence of desirable educational climate during the program. Overall, 98 percent of the students were satisfied with the course and believed that the program helped them to become more familiar with the clinical environment and reduce their fear. Conclusion: The students’ satisfaction and their positive attitudes toward early clinical exposure suggested that this program improve the quality of basic science courses and implementation of personal and professional identity and also reduce students’ stress of hospital practice. Keywords:Education, Early clinical exposure, Educational environment
Automatic Fruit Classification Using Deep Learning for Industrial Applications

Fruit classification is an important task in many industrial applications. A fruit classification system may be used to help a supermarket cashier identify the fruit species and prices. It may also be used to help people decide whether specific fruit species meet their dietary requirements. In this paper, we propose an efficient framework for fruit classification using deep learning. More specifically, the framework is based on two different deep learning architectures. The first is a proposed light model of six convolutional neural network layers, whereas the second is a fine-tuned visual geometry group-16 pretrained deep learning model. Two color image datasets, one of which is publicly available, are used to evaluate the proposed framework. The first dataset (dataset 1) consists of clear fruit images, whereas the second dataset (dataset 2) contains fruit images that are challenging to classify. Classification accuracies of 99.49% and 99.75% were achieved on dataset 1 for the first and second models, respectively. On dataset 2, the first and second models obtained accuracies of 85.43% and 96.75%, respectively.
Life Means Nothing Behind the Green Wall

Professor Z Physician's Publishing, £12.99, pp 320 www.tfmpublishing. co.uk Rating ! [Graphic][1] ! [Graphic][2] ! [Graphic][3] ISBN 0 9665240 5 5 ! [Graphic][4] Dr Marc Zohar, the protagonist of this novel, had seen it all. His surgical training in the South African townships of the 1970s had given him more exposure to trauma and emergency surgery than most modern day surgeons-in-training could ever dream of, though it wasn't his surgical skills that would come into question in his future career. Zohar was a true academic, his resume could speak volumes, and he had the ability to pass on his skills and enthusiasm to his juniors. For … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif [2]: /embed/inline-graphic-2.gif [3]: /embed/inline-graphic-3.gif [4]: /embed/inline-graphic-4.gif
Workspace and Manipulability Analysis of Space Manipulator

This paper investigates operational performance of space manipulators mounted on a free-floating robot satellite, by defining and analyzing their workspace and manipulability measure. Since there is no one-to-one correspondence between the joint space and the inertial task space in space freefloating manipulators, a variety of workspaces can be defined according to additional constraints on the motion of the base satellite or on the operational path of the manipulator hand. By specifying such motion, the authors classify and define five types of workspaces, which would be useful to understand the characteristics of a space manipulator. A new manipulability measure is also defined using the Generalized Jacobian matrix that describes kinematic and dynamic characteristics of a space free-floating manipulator. The manipulability of such a space manipulator is evaluated generally lower than that of ground-based manipulators, reduced by dynamical coupling between the manipulator arm and the base satellite. Operational posture and configuration design issues are discussed for a two dimensional space robot with respect to wider workspace and higher manipulability.
Validazione dei modelli RELAP5 dello scambiatore di calore HERO-2

Nell’ambito della prima annualita dell’Accordo di Programma MiSE/ENEA Piano Triennale 2015-2017, e stata svolta un attivita validazione del modello per il codice RELAP5 usato nella precedente annualita per l’esecuzione di analisi pre-test che hanno portato allo svolgimento della campagna sperimentale sul componente HERO-2 presso i laboratori SIET. La campagna era finalizzata alla caratterizzazione di scambiatori con tubi a baionetta. Nel corso di precedenti annualita era stato realizzato e testato un circuito di prova per generatori di vapore a tubi elicoidali. Questo circuito e stato adattato e utilizzato per testare la sezione di prova HERO-2, costituita da due tubi a baionetta. I test termoidraulici condotti hanno consentito la creazione di un database finalizzato alla caratterizzazione dello scambio termico e alla rilevazione e quantificazione delle instabilita termoidrauliche dei tubi in specifiche condizioni operative di interesse per reattori SMR, utile per la qualifica di codici di calcolo. Nel presente documento sono riportati i risultati dell’analisi post-test eseguita con RELAP5 mod3.3 al fine di validare il modello e determinare eventuali limiti nel codice. Per questa analisi sono stati utilizzati i dati sperimentali rivisti da SIET. Il documento riporta in allegato lo studio condotto da POLIMI relativo al confronto prestazionale di un generatore di vapore a tubi elicoidali con uno a tubi a baionetta avvalendosi, per la validazione del modello di quest’ultimo, della caratterizzazione effettuata sui dati forniti dalla SIET. Per il confronto, tali scambiatori sono stati inseriti nel design di un SMR integrato e valutati per la rimozione passiva del calore di decadimento nelle condizioni incidentali di Station-Black-Out.
Inside the sea-spike: low grazing angle radar imaging of laboratory waves repeatedly breaking in wave groups

Backscatter characteristics of 2.3 m waves breaking in wave groups have been investigated with a C-band FMCW radar (7.5 cm range resolution) in the large wind-wave tank of the University of California, Santa Barbara. The purpose of these experiments was to determine the hydrodynamic sources of the sea spike and its structure. This paper covers the experimental subset of mechanically generated breaking waves with the 15% highest radar cross sections (RCS) in horizontal copolarization (HH). Four phases of the breaking process with distinct hydrodynamic characteristics were identified and correlated with synchronous radar data. In addition to RCSs of more than 1 m/sup 2/ the breaking waves displayed concurrent copolarization ratios (HH/VV) exceeding 20 dB. Synchronous high speed video images showed that these peak values appear just after a plunging jet developed at the breaker crest, well before it hit the front face of the wave. Focusing of the electromagnetic energy on the jet by the parabolic front face of the breaking wave is suggested as a mechanism yielding both high HH returns and high HH/VV ratios. The Doppler speed of the HH peaks is 80% of the initial wave speed c/sub 0/.
Studies on College English Writing Teaching Basedon Blog

Different from traditional Internet communication manner, the Blog has its own advantages and features. It can increase communication between teachers and students, expand the field of study, the blog used in the teaching of English writing helps improve students’ English writing ability, students should be encouraged to use the blog wisely to improve their English writing. Key words-blog; advantages and weaknesses; application; English writing teaching
Bactericidal Activity and Phytochemical Screening of Moroccan Pomegranate

Punica granatum L. is an important medicinal plant in Morocco. Several researches were focused on antimicrobial activity of different pomegranate extracts, only few were on traditional preparations. To optimize and enhance the traditional use of this plant, aqueous extracts (decoction, infusion, maceration) of pomegranate fruit peels were examined for its antibacterial activity against some strains of human pathogenic bacteria. The sensitivity test performed with commonly used antibiotic test discs showed that majority of the bacteria tested are multiresistant to antibiotics. In spite of this, the plant extract was found to be more or equally effective as compared to standard antibiotics. Also, the decoction has a higher bactericidal activity with inhibition zones ranging from 12.3 to 30.3 mm, and minimum inhibitory concentration ranging from 0.048 to 3.12 mg/ml. The results provide a scientific basis for the centuries-old usage of aqueous extracts of this medicinal plant. Key words: Antibiotic resistance, aqueous extracts, bactericidal activity, Punica granatumL.
Prevalence, Risk Factors and Impacts of Schistosomal and Intestinal Parasitic Infections Among Rural School Children in Sohag Governorate

Parasitic diseases represent a major cause of morbidity and mortality in childhood in most parts of the world. Hygiene and play habits make children especially vulnerable to schistosomal and parasitic infections. The aim of this study is to define the prevalence of different types of parasitic infections, to define their risk factors and to determine their impacts on health and scholastic absenteeism and achievement of rural school students in Sohag Governorate, Egypt. A cross-section, analytical study design was chosen to perform this research on 960 rural school students. All the students were interviewed and examined clinically and laboratory. The study showed that 38.5% of the students were infected by parasites. Entaemoeba histolytica, Enterobius vermicularis and Giardia lamblia had the highest percentages, 20.4%, 16.6% and 15.2%, respectively. Male sex, last birth order, poor personal hygiene, low socioeconomic level, ≥3 infected siblings, previous parasitic infections and no early consultation for therapy were important risk factors (ORs=1.41, 2.32, 2.63, 2.86, 4.17, 9.80 and 10.83, respectively). Also, 29.2% and 31.6% of infected students were below the 5 th percentiles as regard weight-for-age and height-for-age, respectively. Anemia was present among 52.4% of infected students. Further, 3.2% of them had hepatomegaly. Also, 37.8% and 41.1% of infected students had 0-3 and 4-6 days/month absent, respectively, while, 34.3% of infected students had a scholastic achievement <50.0%. Improving personal and environmental hygiene and regular screening, treatment and health education for students as regard parasitic infections in Egypt is recommended.
The Impact of Digital Storytelling on Fourth Grade Students’ Motivation to Write

Educators often have difficulty motivating upper elementary and adolescent students to write, while still being held accountable for producing high academic achievement to the rigorous standards of today’s society. Educators today are also striving to prepare students for the ever-changing and advancing 21 st century world. Although teachers recognize that writing at the fourth grade level has become more rigorous and student motivation towards writing has decreased, they are unaware of the role digital storytelling has on both motivation and writing performance. Using a qualitative research design and case study approach, the current study examined the impact of digital literacy, in the form of digital storytelling, on the motivation levels and writing performance of fourth grade students. Results suggest that digital storytelling has the power to not only improve student motivation towards writing, but also improve student self-perception, creativity, and overall writing performance on a four point grading rubric. Running head: THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL STORYTELLING ON STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION TO WRITE 3 Section One: Introduction
The Role of Resistance Training in the Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Disease

Recent research suggests that resistance training (RT) in adults has the potential to prevent, treat, and possibly even reverse the impact of several chronic diseases. A properly designed progressive program can have profound effects on the musculoskeletal system, resulting in enhanced physical and mental health. In this review, the authors summarize recent research detailing the numerous benefits gained from participating in an RT program in those with or at risk for chronic disease. This includes increases in muscle mass and strength; enhanced physical function; reduced risks for osteoporosis and cardiovascular and metabolic diseases; improved management of cancer, neuromuscular disorders, HIV, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; and reductions in negative mood states. Given these benefits, numerous national organizations, including the committee commissioned to create the National Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, have endorsed the participation in RT as a necessary component of maintaining health. Fortunately, the most current estimates show that a growing number of individuals are participating in RT, but these national estimates still fall below the goal of 30% set by Healthy People 2010. Future research will therefore need to focus on increasing the adoption and adherence of RT, as it carries the potential to dramatically affect public health.
Analytical Network-Wide Optimization of CoMP-Aided MIMO-OFDMA Irregular Networks With Frequency Reuse: A Multiobjective Approach

Coordinated multipoint transmission (CoMP) and soft frequency reuse (SFR) techniques are two common mechanisms that are often combined with the aim of reducing the deleterious effects caused by inter-cell interference in current and envisaged cellular networks (4G/5G). The performance of this combined mechanism has been shown to be strongly influenced by the specific choice of the parameters determining the frequency reuse settings. So far, their optimization has relied on time-consuming simulations that make the CoMP-SFR optimization a challenging issue. In an attempt to revert this situation, this paper introduces a novel analytical framework that, for a specific set of SFR parameters, allows the computation of closed-form approximations to relevant performance metrics such as average total capacity, worst-users rate, and backhaul requirements. Remarkably, these approximations exhibit a dependence on the SFR parameters that match that of the true metrics, hence allowing the optimization of the SFR-related parameters based on the proposed analytical expressions. Furthermore, and very important from a practical perspective, the availability of these closed-form expressions allows the efficient application of multi-objective optimization techniques to realistic scenarios with irregularly deployed base stations that serve to evaluate the various tradeoffs the designer is facing when optimizing multiple, and often conflictive, performance metrics.