Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Electronic records management in the public health sector of the Limpopo province in South Africa

Implementation of electronic records management appears to be a serious challenge in the public health sector of Limpopo Province, South Africa, which sacrifices quality of health care. The ob-jective of this study was to establish how electronic records were managed and the current medi-cal recordkeeping practice. Qualitative and quantitative methods were triangulated. Purposive sampling and stratified random sampling methods were applied to select participants for inter-views and questionnaires respectively. Data was collected using questionnaires, observation and interviews. The study discovered that records management negatively affected timely and effec-tive health care services, which resulted in long patient waiting times and patients being treated without medical history. The study recommended the introduction of an electronic records man-agement system that is capable of capturing and providing access to a full patient record and tracking paper record movement, such as Electronic Document and Records Management Sys-tem (EDRMS). Keywords: Electronic records management, electronic documents management, Electronic Document and Records Management System, medical records, service delivery, public health sector, Limpopo Province, South Africa
CT for evaluation of urolithiasis: image quality of ultralow dose CT with model-based iterative reconstruction and diagnostic performance of low dose CT with statistical iterative reconstruction

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Some remarks on modelling the PDF of the concentration of a dispersing scalar in turbulence

The paper deals with the probability density function (PDF) of the concentration of a scalar within a turbulent flow. Following some comments about the overall structure of the PDF, and its approach to a limit at large times, attention focusses on the so-called small scale mixing term in the evolution equation for the PDF. This represents the effect of molecular diffusion in reducing concentration uctuations, eventually to zero. Arguments are presented which suggest that this quantity could, in certain circumstances, depend inversely upon the PDF, and a particular example of this leads to a new closure hypothesis. Consequences of this, especially similarity solutions, are explored for the case when the concentration field is statistically homogeneous.
The analysis of kickpoints in carbon fibre composite golf shafts

The aim of this thesis is to characterise and quantify the construction method of carbon fibre composite golf shafts and the subsequent kickpoint position of the shaft, for the future manufacture and testing of shafts with specific kickpoints. For this purpose the geometrical and material properties of commercial carbon fibre composite golf shafts were investigated for their influence on the kickpoint position. The shafts were investigated via geometrical, static deflection tests, quasi – static frequency and material analysis. The static stiffness of the commercial shafts ranged between 242.1 – 563.3 N/m at a single cantilever length. The kickpoint position in commercial golf shafts ranges from 45 – 52.9 % of the shaft length and the position of the kickpoint is the location of the greatest strain in static testing (1700 μm). The kickpoint position decreased as the gradient of the stiffness profile of the shaft increased (R2 = 0.77). The quasi – static frequency analysis presented a maximum 4.8 % variation around the circumference of sheet laminated shafts and 0.2 % variation in filament wound shafts, the variation around the circumference of the sheet laminated shafts is the result of “seams” due to resin rich regions in the manufacturing process resulting in a drop of volume fraction from the mean of 8.9 % and local wall thickness variation around the circumference (6 %). The size of the resin rich regions in the sheet laminated shafts were the result of off-axis fibre orientations between plies constraining fibre movement during the cure cycle. Though the “seam” position had a measurable effect on the stiffness of the shaft, a negligible influence of “seam” orientation on kickpoint position was analysed.
The politics of diversity: Social and political integration of immigrants in Iceland

The ethnic diversity of modern states raises the question of where successful countries are in terms of immigrant inclusion. The number of immigrants in Iceland has increased significantly since 2004, and by the end of 2016, immigrants made up around 10% of the population of Iceland. Research reveals a gap between immigrants and natives in terms of social and political inclusion. This paper examines the social and political integration of male and female immigrants in Iceland via comparisons with the native population. We ask how native Icelanders and people with a non-Icelandic background experience their social position and political participation within Icelandic society. We focus on political efficacy, ideas about what makes a good citizen, and subjective status position as indicators of the degree of social and political integration. We use data from the 2014 International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) on Citizenship, which is based on a random sample of 2,000 individuals and random samples of 600 individuals each targeting two of the largest immigrant groups in Iceland—Lithuanians and Poles—as well as the largest Asian immigrant group: Filipinos. Although the findings show integration of immigrants up to a certain extent, the differences between Icelandic and non-Icelandic participants are apparent and include certain disadvantages for participants with a foreign background. Although other variables—such as income, education, paid employment status, and age—play a larger role in social and political status than foreign nationality, the findings of this study suggest that there is room to improve the integration of immigrants in Iceland.
New limit on a varying proton-to-electron mass ratio from high-resolution optical quasar spectra

Abstract Molecular transitions recently discovered at redshift zabs=2.059 toward the bright background quasar J2123-0050 are analysed to limit cosmological variation in the proton-to-electron mass ratio, μ ≡ mp/me. Observed with the Keck telescope, the optical spectrum has the highest resolving power and largest number (86) of H2 transitions in such analyses so far. Also, (7) HD transitions are used for the first time to constrain μ-variation. These factors, and an analysis employing the fewest possible free parameters, strongly constrain μ's relative deviation from the current laboratory value: Δμ/μ =(+5.6±5.5stat±2.7sys)×10−6. This is the first Keck result to complement recent constraints from three systems at zabs>2.5 observed with the Very Large Telescope.
Diversity and distribution of amphibians and reptiles in Gashaka Gumti National Park, Nigeria

Gashaka Gumti National Park (GGNP), the largest national park in Nigeria, is located within the northernmost extension of Africa’s Gulf of Guinean rain forest. Studies providing information on the diversity and distribution of herpetofauna are vital for understanding local biodiversity and influencing guidelines for conservation. Therefore, the present study was aimed to compile inventory of herpetofauna of GGNP and compare patterns of distribution across habitats. Herpetological collection was carried out between 21 August to 25September 2017, through visual encounter, opportunistic observation and non-lethal pitfall trap array. Literature data and previous herpetological records of GGNP were used to complement the species inventory. A total of 44 species including 18 amphibian and 26 reptile species were documented. Diversity analyses showed that forest and savannah regions of GGNP harbour high diversity and abundance of herpetofauna compared to wetland/swampy areas and agricultural fields. Our study therefore improves knowledge of herpetofauna diversity and distribution of the region. Finally, we offer recommendation for the protection of the associated habitats of herpetofauna.
Towards Modelling Factors of Intention to Adopt Cloud-Based M-Retail Application among Textile Cyberpreneurs

Nowadays, conducting retail activities through the use of mobile devices are very common among the internet entrepreneurs or cyberpreneurs in Malaysia. The emergence of various mobile applications especially social media apps have boosted the buying and selling activities due to the increasing number of mobile device users. Clothes are one of the most popular products that are being sold via Internet. Besides social media channels, textile cyberpreneurs in Malaysia use websites and m-retail applications like mobile marketplace applications that utilize cloud services for conducting online business. Determining the intention to use m-shopping services among the consumers was usually conducted in previous researches, but investigating the issue from retailer’s perspective was rarely done. Therefore, this study intends to investigate the factors that affect the intention to use cloud-based m-retail application among textile cyberpreneurs for better understanding by integrating Decomposed Theory of Planned Behaviour (DTPB) with Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Task Technology Fit (TTF) and Information System Success (ISS) models. Modelling the right factors may result in future enhancements on the current m-retail applications in m-commerce context based on the requirements of textile cyberpreneurs. This study can be used as a platform in understanding the needs of textile cyberpreneurs in Malaysia to adopt cloud-based m-retail application. 
Morinda citrifolia L.: Phyto-pharmacological perspective review

Morinda citrifolia is a tree in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. Its native range extends through Southeast Asia, Central America, and Australasia, and the species is now cultivated throughout the tropics and widely naturalised. M. citrifolia L. also called as Noni or Indian mulberry is a small evergreen tree. It is one of the most important traditional Polynesian medicinal plants. The present study was undertaken to review of M. citrifolia for its effects on antioxidant, anti-epileptic, breast cancer prevention, antibacterial effect, liver protective effects, antifungal activity, anti-helmintic activity, anxiolytic activity, estrogenic activity, immunological activity, analgesic activity, hypotensive activity, insecticidal activity, and cancer preventive effect. This plant has also been popular as a source of red, yellow, and purple dyes.
Laser frequency comb techniques for precise astronomical spectroscopy

ABSTRACT Precise astronomical spectroscopic analyses routinely assume that individual pixels in charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have uniform sensitivity to photons. Intra-pixel sensitivity (IPS) vari-ations may already cause small systematic errors in, for example, studies of extra-solar planetsvia stellar radial velocities and cosmological variability in fundamental constants via quasarspectroscopy, but future experiments requiring velocity precisions approaching ˘1cms 1 willbe more strongly a ected. Laser frequency combs have been shown to provide highly precisewavelength calibration for astronomical spectrographs, but here we show that they can also beused to measure IPS variations in astronomical CCDs in situ. We successfully tested a laserfrequency comb system on the Ultra-High Resolution Facility spectrograph at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. By modelling the 2-dimensional comb signal recorded in a single CCDexposure, we ﬁnd that the average IPS deviates by <8per cent if it is assumed to vary sym-metrically about the pixel centre. We also demonstrate that series of comb exposures withabsolutely known o sets between them can yield tighter constraints on symmetric IPS varia-tions from ˘100 pixels. We discuss measurement of asymmetric IPS variations and absolutewavelength calibration of astronomical spectrographs and CCDs using frequency combs.Key words: instrumentation: spectrographs – instrumentation: detectors – methods: labora-tory – techniques: spectroscopic
The assessment of static balance in children with hearing, visual and intellectual disabilities

Background: Balance is a fundamental part of many movement tasks a child performs. Maintaining upright posture is a complex process involving multiple body parts and functional systems. Objective: This study aimed to explore the mean amplitude and velocity of the center of pressure (COP) displacements during static balance tests in children with and without disabilities. Methods: Participants were 34 children (age 8.5 to 10.8 years) including 6 typically developed children, 8 children with hearing, 8 children with visual and 12 children with intellectual disabilities. Static balance data were obtained in 15 s bipedal stance with eyes open and eyes closed, and also in 10 s unipedal stance. A force plate was used to collect data of COP amplitude in anterior-posterior (COP A-P ), medio-lateral (COP M-L ) directions and COP velocity (COP V ). Results: Study outcomes revealed that all subgroups presented larger COP displacement and velocity with eyes closed (p M-L and COP V no significant differences were found between children with and without disabilities (p > .05). Children with intellectual and visual impairments presented significantly larger displacement in COP A-P and COP M-L in comparison with children with hearing impairment and without disability (p < .05). Conclusions: This study provided evidence of comparative outcomes on static stability assessment in elementary school children with and without disability. While in many test items children with disability did not demonstrate a significantly decreased level of postural control outcomes comparing to their peers without disability, the balance assessment should be used for early detection of dysfunction in children, so as to guide the application of appropriate intervention.
Chronic Disease Self-Management: Do Patient Demographics and Leader Characteristics Affect Outcomes?

Aim and objectives: The objectives of the present study are to identify characteristics which influence outcomes of the chronic disease self management programme (CDSMP), and to compare the outcomes of lay versus professional- led CDSMP. Background: Chronic Disease Self-Management Programme (CDSMP) is a widely accepted intervention for people with chronic diseases. However, whether it benefits all types of patients remains controversial. Moreover, the efficacy of classes taught by older lay leaders compared with professionals needs further evaluation. Method: 567 community-dwelling persons aged ≥ 55 years with at least one chronic disease were recruited from various community settings. Participants were assigned to either an intervention or a control group. The intervention group was further allocated to standardised CDSMP courses led by professional or older lay leaders. Outcome measures included self-management behaviours, self-efficacy, health status and health care utilization. Two-way ANCOVA was used to compare outcomes of participants from different subgroups of age, education and frailty levels. The Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare the outcomes of lay and professional-taught groups. Results: The post-hoc subgroup analysis revealed that in certain domains, subjects who were older, less educated and frailer experienced better outcomes than other subgroups. Overall, the outcomes of lay-taught and professional- taught classes were not significantly different. Conclusions: The findings from this study suggest that even ‘disadvantaged’ patients can benefit from CDSMP. Moreover, older persons can be trained to lead the programme as effectively as professiona
Two Strategies for Analogical Reasoning: The Cases of Mind Metaphors and Introspection

Analogical reasoning is often employed in problem-solving and metaphor interpretation. This paper submits that, as a default, analogical reasoning addressing these different tasks employs different mapping strategies: In problem-solving, it employs analogymaximising strategies (like structure mapping, Gentner & Markman 1997); in metaphor interpretation, analogy-minimising strategies (like ATT-Meta, Barnden 2015). The two strategies interact in analogical reasoning with conceptual metaphors. This interaction leads to predictable fallacies. The paper supports these hypotheses through case-studies on ‘mind’metaphors from ordinary discourse, and abstract problem-solving in the philosophy of mind, respectively: It shows that (1) default metaphorical interpretations for visionand spacecognition metaphors can be derived with a variant of the analogy-minimising ATT-Meta approach, (2) philosophically influential introspective conceptions of the mind can be derived with conceptual metaphors only through an analogy-maximising strategy, and (3) the interaction of these strategies leads to hitherto unrecognised fallacies in analogical reasoning with metaphors. This yields a debunking explanation of introspective conceptions. Analogical reasoning is an engine of creative thought and language use: Its use in problemsolving has been studied in artificial intelligence (review: Gentner & Forbus 2011), cognitive psychology (review: Holyoak 2012) and the philosophy of science (review: Bartha 2013); its use in motivating and interpreting metaphorical expressions is a central tenet of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson 1980, 1999, extension: Steen 2011, review: Gibbs 2011), has been studied in artificial intelligence (review: Barnden 2008), and has experimental support from cognitive psychology (Gentner et al. 2001, Bowdle & Gentner 2005). This paper will put forward and philosophically deploy the new differential processing hypothesis that analogical reasoning employs different mapping-strategies in problem-solving and metaphor-interpretation, respectively: As a default, our hypothesis claims, analogical reasoning in problem-solving employs analogy-maximising mapping-strategies; as a default, what analogical reasoning is involved in metaphor-interpretation uses restricted or analogyminimising mapping-strategies. I.e.: When using analogies in problem-solving, we try to maximise the correlations between source-model and target and row back only where this leads to absurd conclusions; in metaphor interpretation, we try to minimise those correlations, and add new ones only in rare cases where we otherwise fail to make sense of people’s talk. Most computationally-implemented models of analogy follow analogy-maximizing strategies (Hodgetts et al. 2009), the best-known models being structure mapping theory SMT (Gentner 1983, Gentner & Bowdle 2008) (implemented as Structure Mapping Engine SME, Falkenhainer et al. 1989, Forbus et al. 2016), ACME (Holyoak & Thagard 1989) and LISA (Hummel & Holyoak 1997). By contrast, there are only three detailed computational models
Corporate Governance in Nigerian Banks: a Theoretical Review

Nigeria’s banking sector had seen corporate failures in the past, which principally resulted due to lack of a robust corporate governance structure. The study provides a theoretical framework and a model for understanding the concept of corporate governance rather than empirical views. This was achieved by delineating the theory of corporate governance, corporate governance model, mechanisms of corporate governance and the legal frameworks. The study concludes that the key setback to corporate governance in Nigerian banks is non-adherence to principles and dearth of the understanding of the theories and mechanisms of corporate governance.
RESEARCH: "Responses to the Mystical Scale by Religious Jewish Persons: A Comparison of Structural Models of Mystical Experience"

This study examined various structural models of mystical experience. Confirmatory factor analysis of the responses of a sample of 191 religious Jewish persons residing in Israel to the Mystical Scale (Hood, 1975) was used to examine and compare various models of mystical experience. In general, multidimensional models provided a better fit to the relations between the Mystical Scale items than did a unidimensional model. Models based on Stace's (1960) conceptualization of mystical experience that associates ineffability with interpretive religious experience fitted the data more closely than did Hood and Williamson's (2000) conceptualization that associates this feature with noninterpretive dimensions of mystical experience. Finally, models in which the unity relevant features were independent of the interpretive dimension fitted the data more closely than did models that did associate unity features with the interpretive dimension. The latter finding provided support for the purported universality of Stace's "unity thesis. "
Immigration, Education and Labour Market Institutions

In this paper we analyse the effect of immigration on the labour market conditions for different skill groups. We develop a model of endogenous labour supply in which immigration affects educational decisions. We show how the skill premium changes with immigration of low skilled labour under flexible and rigid wages. Depending on the labour market institutions, immigration of low skilled labour is absorbed either by an increased skill premium or increased unemployment of low skilled labour. Thus, we extend the existing explanations of changing skill premia and unemployment of low skilled labour experienced during the last decades. Our model gives a rationale for the debate on immigration of high skilled workers as a way to reduce unemployment of low skilled workers in highly rigid labour markets.
Synchronization of Nellore Jodipi ewes by different doses of PGF2a

Nellore Jodipi cyclic ewes were synchronized to assess the effectiveness of two different doses of double PGF2a (Cloprostenol sodium) @ either 125 or 250 µg with 9 d interval in Groups I and II based on the estrus response and fertility rate after intra cervical inseminations at 60 and 72 h after 2nd PGF2a. The estrus response (%), onset of estrus (%), duration of estrus (h) and intensity of estrus in ewes synchronized by PGF2a were 80.95 and 85.71; 50.94+3.12 and 48.00+3.40; 24.35+1.41 and 28.22+1.15 and 6.76+0.29 and 6.83+0.34 in Groups I and II, respectively. The conception rate based on 25 d non return rate was 85.71 and 80.95 % with an overall lambing rate of 71.43 and 66.67 % in Group I and II, respectively. The study revealed that the synchronization response among the treated ewes by 125 µg of PGF2a was slightly lesser with higher lambing rate than 250 µg of PGF2a.