Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Information Sources Consulted and Found Useful in Answering Drug-Related Questions

Getting the wrong answer to drug-related questions could be life threatening. We need to better understand which drug-related information sources, including those on the Internet, are best for answering these questions. This paper presents data from documented information search and retrieval efforts performed under the supervision of a pharmacist, seeking answers to drug-related questions. This study uses media richness theory to inform hypotheses about information source uses. The hypotheses center on the premise that reducing uncertainty is the key to compiling a complete and accurate answer; information sources are judged based on their actual performance in supplying the answers to questions submitted to a professional drug information center. The findings of this exploratory study based on logistical and OLS regressions suggest the type of question being asked significantly influences an expert pharmacist’s decision not to consult certain information sources. The findings further suggest that, depending on the type of question being asked, certain sources are much less useful than others in helping arrive at a complete answer. If pharmacists and other health professionals know what influences the sources that experts consult and which sources are the most useful, their ability to get answers to questions is likely to improve, which in turn will improve the quality of care they provide to patients. These findings have implications for theory and practice.
Selecting an IT Control Framework

Companies have now weathered several years of scrutiny under regulatory requirements with the inception of HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley, and other industry regulations. To meet these compliance challenges, many companies have looked to different frameworks to help build controls structures within the organization. For IT organizations, this has required a shift in mindset to adopt a “controls oriented” approach while keeping up with the technology needs of the business. A key to the adoption of any framework has been ensuring the approach is applicable to your business.
A Review of the Oncology Patient's Challenges for Utilizing Fertility Preservation Services.

PURPOSE The American Society of Clinical Oncology issued practice guidelines in 2006 to provide critical information about fertility impact to adolescents and young adults (AYA) at the time of cancer diagnosis. Survivors continue to express concerns about their long-term reproductive health after cancer therapy even as treatment options for fertility preservation evolve. An underutilization of fertility preservation methods by cancer patients continues to persist. A review of the literature cites barriers and challenges that limit fertility information and preservation options for AYA cancer patients. METHODS A review of medical literature was conducted to examine current practice for patients receiving fertility information and the barriers to patients receiving fertility preservation services. RESULTS A total of 69 publications were included in this review. The review summarizes (1) patient experiences with receiving fertility information and (2) patient desires, barriers, and challenges to utilizing fertility preservation services. CONCLUSIONS Despite advances in fertility preservation, there are challenges for patients to utilizing fertility preservation services. Barriers include the following: urgency to initiate treatment, inadequate information, clinic time constraints, and perceptions around patients' gender, age, cost, parity, race, relationship, and sociodemographic status influence whether patients receive fertility preservation consultation. Patients report a lack of adequate information to make informed fertility decisions.
Performance analysis of selection decode-and-forward relay networks

The performance of decode-and-forward (DF) co-operative networks with relay selection is presented. Specifically, closed-form expressions are derived for symbol error probability, bit error rate, and the achievable spectral efficiency of the DF relay selection system in independent but not identically distributed (INID) Rayleigh fading channels taking into account the incapability of decoding the received signals' cyclic redundancy code at the relays. Monte-Carlo simulations were performed to validate the analysis.
Model Checking Active Database Rules under Various Rule Processing Strategies

An active database is a database system that can react to internal, as well as external, database events. The reactive behavior of an active database is determined by a predefined set of active database rules, along with a rule processing strategy. A common problem associated with active database systems is the possible non-termination of the active database rules. Previous work on the analysis of the conditions required for the termination of active database rules has only considered limited rule processing strategies. This paper proposes an approach for automatically detecting the non-termination of active database rules using a model checking technique. With this approach, a general framework for modeling active database systems is first proposed. This framework is useful for analyzing the behavior of rules with different rule processing strategies and for allowing the adoption of different contexts and different execution coupling modes for the active database rules. Based on the proposed modeling framework, the termination property of active database rules with various rule processing strategies is next checked using SPIN, a model checking tool. Through experimental results, we demonstrated the feasibility of using this method.
Factors Affecting Students’ Continued Usage Intention Toward Business Simulation Games

While the impact and value of simulation games have been investigated in the context of business and management education, few studies have investigated why students are willing to reuse the games or not. The main purpose of this study is to explore the determinants of students’ continued usage intention for business simulation games in a higher education context based on the expectation-confirmation theory, flow theory, and motivation theory. Data collected from 381 valid respondents were used to test the research model using the partial least squares approach. The results of this study can provide several important theoretical and practical implications for educational use of business simulation games. The results indicate that continuance usage intention is influenced by learning satisfaction, which is in turn affected by perceived learning performance, learning confirmation, and learning expectation, and that learning confirmation is affected by learning expectation through the mediation of perceived learning performance. Additionally, perceived playfulness affects perceived learning performance while learning motivation influences learning expectation.
How Compatible are Communities of Inquiry and the Internet? Some Concerns about the Community of Inquiry Approach to E-learning

There is an extensive body of literature which argues that the Internet supports student-centred learning, collaboration, community, higher-order thinking and the construction of meaning and knowledge. As such, many e-learning advocates have turned to the Community of Inquiry as an ideal pedagogy because it too shares these educational ideals. However, I argue that the Internet may actually conflict with many aspects of the Community of Inquiry, as described by Dewey and Lipman. In particular, the Internet can negate many of the attributes and skills it is assumed to promote, such as higher-order thinking, the construction of meaning and community. E-learning needs to respond to these potential problems in order to develop pedagogies and curricula that can counter them. The author suggests that Philosophy for Children may provide the basis for such a pedagogy and curriculum.
Efficacy of Parasternal Injection of Bupivacaine on Postopeartive Pain for Early Extubation in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of parasternal injection of Bupivacaine on postoperative pain for early extubation in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. Material and methods: Patients admitted throughout patient department for elective primary coronary artery bypass surgery into the surgical ward were enrolled for the study. A total of 35 patients were randomized into two groups, (Bupivacaine) group 1 13 (37.14%) and (Placebo) group 2 15 (42.85%). Patients were induced with standard anesthetic protocols. Bupivacaine injection 0.5% at 2mg per kg was diluted in 50 mls syringe with normal saline and 50mls of normal saline was used as Placebo. Identical syringes marked with a study number of patient were delivered to the operating theaters. Both the surgeon and the anesthetist were blinded of the content of the solution. At the end of the procedure the injection was infiltrated into the parasternal wound before placing the sternal wires. Patients were assessed in the intensive care unit by the anesthetist for early extubation. At the time of extubation pain intensity was measured with Visual analogue scale system and recorded. Results: A total of 35 patients were selected for the study.28 patients were able to complete the study as [Seven (2.45%) out of 35 patients were excluded from the study secondary to prolonged ventilation 5(14.2%), and reopening 2(5.71%). Mean Visual analogue scale was 1.38±1.19 and 6.13±2.92 in the Bupivacaine and Placebo group respectively with a significant (P<0.001) requirement of rescue pain medication was nil in the Bupivacaine while 8(53.3%) patients were given rescue pain medication in the Placebo group. Mean difference of total ventilation time in the Bupivacaine and Placebo group was Bupivacaine - 5.8±1.3 and Placebo - 122±2.8 hrs, which was statistically significant (p=0.002). Mean Partial oxygen pressure was found 208.23±42.57 and 126.40±23.15 in the Bupivacaine and Placebo groups respectively which was a significant value (P<0.001). Conclusion: We conclude that parasternal wound infiltration of long acting local anesthetic Bupivacaine is an effective method of pain control after sternotomy. It facilitates early extubation with significant improvements in oxygenation and Visual Analogue Scale scales.
Effect of Anti-VEGF Intravitreal Injection on Emmetropization Process

Adv Ophthalmol Vis Syst 2016, 4(6): 00131 this process. Many studies have proven that preterm neonates are more myopic than term infants. Prematurity is associated with 3 type of myopia: firstly physiological myopia that is temporary; secondly myopia without Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP); and thirdly myopia induced by severe ROP. Many factors were speculated in this regard, including bone deficiency, temperature, light, visual deprivation and retinal dysfunction. Not only the ROP disease and its severity, but also the treatment employed believed to lead to myopia. However, there is no agreement if the treatment itself is a factor or severity of disease which necessitate treatment will lead to myopia [1-3]. To isolate the effect of disease severity from treatment effect, preand post treatment designed studies are indicated.
Autonomous Navigation with Constrained Consistency for C-Ranger

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have become the most widely used tools for undertaking complex exploration tasks in marine environments. Their synthetic ability to carry out localization autonomously and build an environmental map concurrently, in other words, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), are considered to be pivotal requirements for AUVs to have truly autonomous navigation. However, the consistency problem of the SLAM system has been greatly ignored during the past decades. In this paper, a consistency constrained extended Kalman filter (EKF) SLAM algorithm, applying the idea of local consistency, is proposed and applied to the autonomous navigation of the C-Ranger AUV, which is developed as our experimental platform. The concept of local consistency (LC) is introduced after an explicit theoretical derivation of the EKF-SLAM system. Then, we present a locally consistency-constrained EKF-SLAM design, LC-EKF, in which the landmark estimates used for linearization are fixed at the beginning of each local time period, rather than evaluated at the latest landmark estimates. Finally, our proposed LC-EKF algorithm is experimentally verified, both in simulations and sea trials. The experimental results show that the LC-EKF performs well with regard to consistency, accuracy and computational efficiency.
Survey of Three Different Methods of Delivering Engineering Content in Lectures

There has been a rapid increase in the use of technology in university classrooms. Many university classrooms and laboratories include an overhead projection unit, computer, and connections for laptops. More recently, tablet PCs have been investigated as another way to effectively engage students in a classroom environment. This study summarizes the results of student surveys comparing three different lecture delivery methods: using complete PowerPoint slides and handouts, using traditional chalkboard lectures without handouts, and using skeleton PowerPoint slides and handouts. Both PowerPoint lectures were delivered through a Tablet PC with a wireless link to an LCD projector, allowing for instructor mobility. Second year engineering students were asked to evaluate six learning assessment statements and to provide written feedback regarding the strengths and weaknesses for each of the three methods. Using the Tablet PC resulted in the highest overall scores but with much variance between the six survey questions.
Potentialities and limits for the local economic and innovative development: a comparative analysis of technology parks located in the Northeast region of Brazil

The objective of this paper is to identify the potential and limits to the economic development of innovative technology parks that are in operation in Northeast Brazil. The findings indicate that the technology parks are potentially positive for economic development and local innovation, as the parks generate jobs, funding and educational opportunities in the region. However, the research also demonstrates that there are limits to the amount of economic and innovative development that can be generated by these technology parks, due to the current economic situation in the Northeast of Brazil.
MANIPULATING L2 LEARNERS' ONLINE DICTIONARY USE AND ITS EFFECT ON L2 WORD RETENTION

This study explored the effect of two enhancement techniques on L2 learners' look-up behaviour during a reading task and word retention afterwards amongst Flemish learners of German: a Vocabulary Test Announcement and Task-induced Word Relevance. Eightyfour participants were recruited for this study. They were randomly assigned to one of two groups: 1) not forewarned of an upcoming vocabulary test (incidental condition) or 2) forewarned of a vocabulary test (intentional condition). Task-induced Word Relevance was operationalized by a reading comprehension task. The relevance factor comprised two levels: plus-relevant and minus-relevant target words. Plus-relevant words needed to be looked up and used receptively in order to answer the comprehension questions. In other words, the reading comprehension task could not be accomplished without knowing the meaning of the plus-relevant words. The minus-relevant target words, on the other hand, were not linked to the reading comprehension questions. Our findings show a significant effect of Test Announcement and Word Relevance on whether a target word is looked up. In addition, Word Relevance also affects the frequency of clicks on target words. Word retention is only influenced by Task-induced Word Relevance. The effect of Word Relevance is durable.
High-performance MIMO receivers based on multi-stage partial parallel interference cancellation

Turbo-encoded multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radio links have recently been proposed for the support of high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) in UMTS, where the re-use of spreading codes across the transmitter antennas results in high levels of interference. The state-of-the-art receiver chain for such a link incorporates space-time channel equalization, de-spreading, pre-whitening and finally a posteriori probability (APP) detection. A multi-stage partial parallel interference canceller (MS-PPIC) is considered as a low complexity alternative to the APP detector and its max-log variant. Nonlinear cancellation metrics are derived for the MS-PPIC and its performance is compared with the APP detector for flat and dispersive channels. It is shown that the MS-PPIC can provide similar performance compared to APP and, for low coding rates, superior performance compared to max-log-APP, at a substantially lower computational complexity.
Output attitude control of flexible spacecraft from quaternion measures: a passivity approach

A dynamic controller is derived for a spacecraft with flexible appendages. The control aim is to design a control law that, using only attitude measures, allows for performing large angle manoeuvres. The approach is based on passivity concepts and the resulting controller ensures the asymptotic satisfaction of the control objectives and gives also estimates of the modal variables converging to the real values.
A statistical overview of recent literature in information fusion

The objective of this paper is to make a picture of the recent articles published on information fusion. Indeed, a great number of documents dealing with this technique are available in the literature. A classification scheme including application fields, fusion goals, fusion system architecture and mathematical tools is proposed. This overview of the last three years allows one to compute the article distribution in each class. Finally, some elements of a preliminary analysis of this classification are drawn.
Correlation of Cord blood Cardiac Troponin-T to Echocardiographic and Tissue Doppler Variables in Infants of Diabetics Mothers with and without Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Objective: The objective was to evaluate the value of cord blood cardiac troponin-T levels and tissue Doppler echocardiography in evaluation of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in infants of diabetic mothers. Methods: A prospective study involved 60 infants of diabetic mothers and 60 healthy neonates. Cord blood level of cardiac troponin-T was measured and conventional and tissue Doppler echocardiographies were performed for all infants. Results: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was present in 19 cases (31.6%) of infants of diabetic mothers. There were significant increase in the cord blood cardiac troponin-T levels (P<0.0001) and more significant systolic and diastolic dysfunction in infants of diabetic mothers than in control group. Infants of diabetic mothers with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy had significant increase in the cord blood cardiac troponin-T levels (P<0.0001) and more significant systolic and diastolic dysfunction than infants of diabetic mothers without hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. There was no significant correlation between infant’s birth weight and cord blood cardiac troponin-T levels while there was significant correlation between maternal glycosylated hemoglobin and cord blood levels of cardiac troponin-T. There were significant negative correlation between cord blood levels of cardiac troponin-T and E/A ratio at mitral valve, E’/A’ ratio and S wave at mitral annulus, E/A ratio tricuspid valve, E’/A’ ratio and S wave at tricuspid annulus. There were positive correlations between cord blood cardiac troponin-T levels with septal/posterior wall, and Tie indices. Conclusion: cardiac troponin-T was a useful marker especially when combined with tissue Doppler echocardiography for evaluation of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in infants of diabetic mothers.
Project-based learning: characteristic and the experiences with application in the science subjects

The project-based learning is a method for imparting students and pupils thinking competencies. First reference about project-based learning comes from the beginning of 20th century. Project-based learning is described by many definitions. Every of these definitions contain solution of a problem by the group of students. By this method is different role of teacher in comparison with traditional teaching. Teacher must be very good facilitator for the successful implementation this method to the curriculum. During the seminars from Didactics of biology students had got an opportunity to try this kind of method by the using obseravtion method of research. There were three groups of students, which presented three projects, where the main subject was biology. On the basis of presentation and analysis of the observation there were determined some imperfections, which had got presented in the students projects.
Comparison of Spatiotemporal Activities in Human Brain for Words and Symbols with Directional Meaning

同じ意味を有する単語と記号を提示された際のヒト脳内処理過程を比較するため, 本研究では同じ意味を有する単語と記号として, 向きを示す単語 (漢字 : 上, 下, 左および右) と記号 (矢印 : ↑, ↓, ←および→) の8種類を視覚刺激として用い, 被験者がこれらの視覚刺激を観察する際の脳波 (electroencephalograms: EEGs) を計測した. 実験では, それぞれの刺激を30回ずつ, 合計240回の提示を行った. 本研究では正常な視覚を有する20～21歳の女性4名を被験者として実験を行った. 計測されたEEGsを刺激の種類別に加算平均を求め, 事象関連電位 (event related potentials: ERPs) を得た. 得られたERPsの傾向を比較すると, 漢字提示の場合には “上” または “下” では潜時420ミリ秒前後で, “左” または “右” では潜時500ミリ秒程度で振幅の大きな変化が観察された. 矢印提示の場合には, 全ての刺激に対して潜時500ミリ秒程度で振幅の大きな変化が観察された. 同じ向きを意味する漢字と矢印とでのERPsを比較すると, それぞれ潜時の差は存在するものの, 振幅の大きな変化に関しては同様の傾向であった. また逆の向きを意味する漢字同士あるいは矢印同士のERPsを比較すると, 振幅の大きな変化が観察されたピーク潜時はほぼ同様であったが, その極性は逆であった. ERPsのピーク潜時を重点的に等価電流双極子推定 (equivalent current dipole source localization: ECDL) 法を試みた結果, 潜時110ミリ秒前後でMT野に, 続いて潜時300ミリ秒以前で中心前回にECDが推定された. この傾向については8種類すべての推定結果で大きな差はみられなかった. 中心前回にECDが推定された以後では, 漢字提示の場合, 刺激の向きによらず右中側頭回にECDが推定され, その後左中側頭回のWernicke野, 左角回, 左舌状回など言語に関係する部位にECDが推定された. その後左中前頭回および左下前頭回に, その後前頭前野にECDが推定され, ERPsの振幅が大きく変化する直前に中心前回にECDが推定された. 一方矢印提示の場合には, 右中側頭回にECDが推定され, その後右下前頭回および右中前頭回など空間認知のワーキングメモリとされる部位にECDが推定された. その後は漢字提示と同様に前頭前野, そして中心前回にECDが推定された. 逆の向きを意味する視覚刺激で推定されたECDを比較すると, ERPsが逆向きのピークを示す潜時ではほぼ同様の部位にECDが推定されていたが, そのモーメントは異なっていた.
The Compensatory Effectiveness of the Quicktionary Reading Pen II on the Reading Comprehension of Students with Learning Disabilities

The study investigated the compensatory effectiveness of the Quicktionary Reading Pen II (the Reading Pen), a portable device with miniaturized optical character recognition and speech synthesis capabilities. Thirty participants with reading disabilities aged 10–18 were trained on the operation of the technology and given two weeks to practice decoding single words and using various dictionary functions during independent silent reading in the classroom and other settings. Participants were then given a reading comprehension test under the following conditions: (a) reading passages silently using the Reading Pen, and (b) reading passages silently without assistance. Paired sample comparisons revealed significant differences under the two conditions in favor of using the pen (p<.0001+). Results are discussed in light of previous research on related technologies.