Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Voedingsstatus van Hindoestaanse en Creoolse Surinamers en autochtone Nederlanders in Nederland : Het SUNSET-onderzoek

Dit onderzoek toont aan dat de vitamine D status met name in Surinamers en de ijzerstatus van vrouwen in de vruchtbare leeftijd in het algemeen ontoereikend zijn. Daarnaast is aandacht nodig voor de matige vitamine D-status ( Onderzoek naar de voorziening van voedingsstoffen in het lichaam (voedingsstatusonderzoek) geeft inzicht in mogelijke problemen die er zijn met de voedingsstoffenvoorziening en kan aanleiding zijn om bepaalde bevolkingsgroepen gericht te adviseren hoe de voedingsstoffenvoorziening verbeterd kan worden. Over het algemeen is er weinig bekend over de voedingsstatus van Nederlanders met een niet-westerse achtergrond. Op basis van de beperkt beschikbare gegevens wordt verondersteld dat eventuele knelpunten in de voedingsstoffenvoorziening kunnen verschillen tussen autochtone Nederlanders en Nederlanders met een niet-westerse achtergrond, waardoor deze laatste groep specifieke aandacht verdient. In het huidige onderzoek is de voedingsstatus onderzocht van 35-60 jarige deelnemers aan de SUNSET-studie (SUrinamers in Nederland: Studie naar gezondheid en ETniciteit). Deze studie is uitgevoerd tussen 2001 en 2003 bij een steekproef uit de Surinaamse en autochtoon Nederlandse bevolking van Amsterdam. Aan de hand van verschillende parameters is van deze groepen de vitamine D, ijzer, vitamine B12, magnesium en zink status vastgesteld en beoordeeld. Vergeleken met de door de Gezondheidsraad opgestelde richtlijn voor een toereikende vitamine D status (>30nmol/L, en voor vrouwen >50 jaar >50nmol/L), komt een gebrek aan vitamine D voor bij ongeveer 40% van de Surinamers. Bij Surinaamse vrouwen ouder dan 50 jaar ligt dit percentage zelfs op 80% (tegenover 40% van de Nederlandse vrouwen ouder dan 50 jaar). Van de autochtoon Nederlandse bevolking heeft circa 40% een matige (
3D-DCT Pipe Coding

The paper reports on a video sequence coding method taking advantage of the generic video-communication layout: some moving objects on a still background. The algorithm operates on groups of frames in which the whole digital video sequence is divided, that implies the synchronization requirements' satisfaction and an acceptable level of compatibility with standard video coding (H.261[1], MPEG[2,3], etc.). An analysis of the spatial-temporal continuum, represented by each group of frames, is performed, in order to detect a tridimensional segmentation that identifies the moving objects by means of spatial regions. These regions can spread, as a sort of "pipes", through the whole group of frames in the temporal direction. Various pipes' construction and coding strategies, including techniques based on object recognition and coding, are allowed. In this work a pipes' identification method based on fixed size moving blocks and their coding by means of a 3DDCT transform is reported. The above method allows adjacent starting pipes to part themselves, leaving uncoded stripes at their boundaries. The proposed method does not imply the stripes coding, while it minimizes their number and the amount of the artefacts generated by their presentation. As final topic, the paper reports some considerations on the coding efficiency related to the quality of the reconstructed sequences and on the compatibility characteristics.
Calcio: A History of Italian Football

The first history of Italian football to be written in English, 'Calcio' is a mix of serious analysis and comic storytelling, with vivid descriptions of games, goals, dives, missed penalties, riots and scandals in the richest and toughest league in the world. 'Calcio' tells the story of Italian football from its origins in the 1890's to the present day. It takes us through a history of great players and teams, of style, passion and success, but also of violence, cynicism, catenaccio tactics and corruption. We meet the personalities that have shaped this history - from the Italian heroes to the foreigners that failed, the model professionals to the mavericks. 'Calcio' evokes the triumphs (the 1982 World Cup victory) and the tragedies (Meroni, the 'Italian George Best', killed by his number one fan), set against a backdrop of paranoia and intrigue, in a country where the referee is seen as corrupt until proven otherwise. Calcio is no longer a game. It is sometimes difficult to define it as a sport. It is certainly big business and a fanatical civic religion. There is no moral code here. Winners are always right, losers always wrong. This history of Italian football reveals all about the richest and toughest league in the world.
Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched

Chapter 1 1 Between the New Medium and the Old Chapter 2 2 The Promise of the Digital Revolution Chapter 3 3 Rediscovering Reality Chapter 5 4 The Kinder, Gentler Gaze of Big Brother Chapter 6 5 Access to the Real Chapter 7 6 It's All About the Experience Chapter 8 7 Reality TV and Voyeurism Chapter 9 8 Survivor and Uncanny Capitalism Chapter 10 Bibliography
Auxo: a temporal graph management system

As real-world graphs are often evolving over time, interest in analyzing the temporal behavior of graphs has grown. Herein, we propose Auxo, a novel temporal graph management system to support temporal graph analysis. It supports both efficient global and local queries with low space overhead. Auxo organizes temporal graph data in spatio-temporal chunks. A chunk spans a particular time interval and covers a set of vertices in a graph. We propose chunk layout and chunk splitting designs to achieve the desired efficiency and the above-mentioned goals. First, by carefully choosing the time split policy, Auxo achieves linear complexity in both space usage and query time. Second, graph splitting further improves the worst-case query time, and reduces the performance variance introduced by splitting operations. Third, Auxo optimizes the data layout inside chunks, thereby significantly imporving the performance of traverse-based graph queries. Experimental evaluation showed that Auxo achieved 2.9× to 12.1× improvement for global queries, and 1.7× to 2.7× improvement for local queries, as compared with state-of-the-art open-source solutions.
Fetomaternal Outcome in Cesarean Sections Done in Second Stage of Labor

Objective: To study the fetomaternal outcome in cesarean sections done in second stage of labor. Method: It is a prospective observational study of 26 cases of cesarean sections done in second stage of labor in Adichunchanagiri institute of medical sciences from January to September 2014. Result: There were 1533 deliveries including 468 cesarean sections in the study period. The cesarean rate was 30%. Of 468 cases 26 were performed in second stage of labor contributing 1.6% of total deliveries and 5.5% of all cesarean sections. Most common indication for cesarean section in second stage of labor is deep transverse arrest. Second stage cesarean sections are associated with increased risk of atonic PPH requiring surgical management (7.69%), lower segment tears including angle extension and broad ligament hematoma(15.38%) along with other complications like extraction difficulty, post operative fever, wound sepsis, longer duration of hospital stay. Meconium stained amniotic fluid is present in 30.76% cases. Though timely second stage ceserean sections reduce perinatal mortality few complications like neonatal hyperbilirubinemia occur. Conclusion: Cesarean sections done in second stage of labor are associated with increased intra-operative maternal complications and neonatal morbidity. Theme: Healthy mother, healthy baby: Timely intervention to reduce fetomaternal complications. Key words: Cesarean section, Second stage of labor, Maternal morbidity, Complications
Improving functional vision in school for the blind students with low vision aids in Pune, India

Context: Many students admitted in schools for blind have some vision. Aim: To study cause of blindness ( Setting and design: Prospective series among schools for blind students. Materials and Methods: Ocular evaluation of students enrolled in special schools in Pune district was done using World Health Organization's eye examination protocol. Medical records of the students were examined and ocular examination done by using torchlight, slit lamp examination, ophthalmoscopy and retinoscopy and visual acuity estimation with low vision assessment. The logMAR chart at a distance of 4 m and reduced Snellen's acuity charts and LVAs were used. Results: Four hundred and sixty students were examined; their mean age was 12.6 years (std dev 3.3 years, range 5-20 years) and 246 (53.5%) were males. Four hundred and fifteen (90%) were blind since birth. The students were blind due to microphthalmos and anophthalmos 142 (30.9%), cornea 60 (13%), lens 78 (16.9%), uvea 5%, retina 43 (9.3%) including retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and optic nerve lesions 6%. LVA for distance was prescribed to 59 students (12.8%) who improved >1 line and for near was prescribed to 72 students (15.7%) of whom 68 attained N6-N12 acuity. Seventy-seven (16.7%) of the total students were benefited with LVA. Conclusion: LVA prescription improved visual acuity of 'blind' students and allowed them to learn and read print. ROP was a new addition in past decade as the cause of blindness.
3'UTR Polymorphism of IL12B in Relation to Susceptibility and Development of Diabetes

Background: The pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes (T1D), as an autoimmune and multifactorial disease, depends on both environmental and genetic factors. Methods: This study investigates the distribution of the 3'UTR polymorphism of IL12B in 51 diabetic Bulgarian children stratified by age of diagnosis and its influence on IL-12p40 serum levels. The quantity of serum IL-12p40 was detected by ELISA and the genotyping was performed by PCR-RFLP. Results: Significantly-higher frequency of Callele was observed in patients diagnosed at greater than 12 years of age (0.50) compared with patients with early onset of T1D (0.22 and 0.25) and controls (0.24). Strongly-elevated serum IL-12p40 was observed in patients (245.6 ± 100 pg/mL) than in healthy children (58.5 ± 17.3pg/mL; p=0.0001) and adults (72.2 ± 31 pg/mL; p=0.0001), independently of 3’UTR polymorphism in IL12B and age of diagnosis. Conclusion: Our data suggests that 3'UTR polymorphism in IL12B was not associated with T1D susceptibility or IL-12p40 serum level, but carrying of variant allele may contribute to late onset of disease.
ANALISIS PENGARUH PENDAPATAN ASLI DAERAH DAN PENGELUARAN PEMERINTAH DAERAH TERHADAP PERTUMBUHAN EKONOMI (Studi Kasus Di Kabupaten Kota Jawa Timur Tahun 2008-2012)

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan pengaruh Pendapatan Asli Daerah dan pengeluaran pemerintah terhadap Pertumbuhan Ekonomi di Kabupaten Kota Jawa Timur Tahun 2008-2012. Penelitian ini menggunakan analisis data panel di setiap 37 Kabupaten kota yang ada di Jawa Timur tahun 2008-2012 juga dilakukan uji chow dan uji Hausman untuk menentukan data regresi yang akan dipakai dalam penelitian ini. Data ini diperoleh dari data sekunder dari BPS dan DJPK. Dari hasil analsisis data panel Random Effect Model diperoleh bahwa PAD berpengaruh secara kurang signifikan dan berpengaruh negatif, sementara Belanja barang dan jasa berpengaruh secara positif dan signifikan, lalu belanja modal berpengaruh secara signifikan dan negatif terhadap peertumbuhan ekonomi. Juga dipaparkan bagaimana peneliti memberi solusi dan sarannya untuk pemerintah daerah berdasarkan teori yang sudah ada. Kata Kunci: Pendapatan Asli Daerah, Pengeluaran Pemerintah, Belanja Barang dan Jasa, Belanja Modal, pertumbuhan ekonomi
ORTAÖĞRETİM OKULLARINDA ÖRGÜTSEL SAĞLIK İLE ÖRGÜTSEL VATANDAŞLIK DAVRANIŞLARI ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİ

Bu arastirmanin amaci, ortaogretim okullarinda gorev yapan ogretmenlerin algilarina gore orgutsel saglik ile orgutsel vatandaslik davranislari arasindaki iliskiyi belirlemektir. Arastirmanin orneklemi amacli ornekleme yontemi ile secilen ve Ankara’da bulunan 12 ortaogretim okulunda calisan toplam 215 ogretmenden olusmaktadir. Arastirmada, okullarin orgutsel saglik derecesi, “Orgutsel Saglik Envanteri”, ogretmenlerin orgutsel vatandaslik dereceleri ise “Orgutsel Vatandaslik Olcegi” kullanilarak belirlenmistir. Verilerin analizinde Pearson Moments korelasyon katsayisi ve Regresyon analizi teknikleri kullanilmistir. Arastirma bulgularina gore, orgutsel vatandaslik ile akademik onem arasinda yuksek bir korelasyon bulunmaktadir. Regresyon analizi sonuclarina gore ise, orgutsel vatandaslik davranislari ile orgutsel sagligin yonetsel ve teknik duzeyleri arasinda anlamli bir iliski bulunmaktadir.
Fall Risk Classification in Community-Dwelling Older Adults Using a Smart Wrist-Worn Device and the Resident Assessment Instrument-Home Care: Prospective Observational Study

Background Little is known about whether off-the-shelf wearable sensor data can contribute to fall risk classification or complement clinical assessment tools such as the Resident Assessment Instrument-Home Care (RAI-HC). Objective This study aimed to (1) investigate the similarities and differences in physical activity (PA), heart rate, and night sleep in a sample of community-dwelling older adults with varying fall histories using a smart wrist-worn device and (2) create and evaluate fall risk classification models based on (i) wearable data, (ii) the RAI-HC, and (iii) the combination of wearable and RAI-HC data. Methods A prospective, observational study was conducted among 3 faller groups (G0, G1, G2+) based on the number of previous falls (0, 1, ≥2 falls) in a sample of older community-dwelling adults. Each participant was requested to wear a smart wristband for 7 consecutive days while carrying out day-to-day activities in their normal lives. The wearable and RAI-HC assessment data were analyzed and utilized to create fall risk classification models, with 3 supervised machine learning algorithms: logistic regression, decision tree, and random forest (RF). Results Of 40 participants aged 65 to 93 years, 16 (40%) had no previous falls, whereas 8 (20%) and 16 (40%) had experienced 1 and multiple (≥2) falls, respectively. Level of PA as measured by average daily steps was significantly different between groups (P=.04). In the 3 faller group classification, RF achieved the best accuracy of 83.8% using both wearable and RAI-HC data, which is 13.5% higher than that of using the RAI-HC data only and 18.9% higher than that of using wearable data exclusively. In discriminating between {G0+G1} and G2+, RF achieved the best area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.894 (overall accuracy of 89.2%) based on wearable and RAI-HC data. Discrimination between G0 and {G1+G2+} did not result in better classification performance than that between {G0+G1} and G2+. Conclusions Both wearable data and the RAI-HC assessment can contribute to fall risk classification. All the classification models revealed that RAI-HC outperforms wearable data, and the best performance was achieved with the combination of 2 datasets. Future studies in fall risk assessment should consider using wearable technologies to supplement resident assessment instruments.
Designing for extensibility and planning for conflict: experiments in web-browser design

The past few years have seen a growing trend in application development toward "web applications", a fuzzy category of programs that currently (but not necessarily) run within web browsers, that rely heavily on network servers for data storage, and that are developed and deployed differently from traditional desktop applications. Where (typical) traditional applications are compiled pieces of code, written in arbitrary languages, that implement both an application's user interface and its functionality, web apps by contrast are written in three interpreted languages: HTML to define the structure or content of the UI, CSS to define the appearance, and JavaScript (JS) to define the behavior. These three languages feel nothing alike, and are used for different facets of the applications. The last decade has also seen the rise of Mozilla Firefox, a web browser whose UI and functionality are themselves written in (dialects of) HTML, CSS, and JS, making Firefox one of the first fully-fledged web apps. Part of Firefox's appeal is its strong support for extensions, which are downloadable, third-party pieces of code (i.e., not written by Mozilla or with Mozilla's cooperation) that enhance the browser with additional functionality or customizations. Firefox extensions are wildly popular: over six thousand distinct extensions have been downloaded over 2.5 billion times [193], and all major browser vendors have added varying degrees of support for extensions to their own products. Crucially, these extensions are also written in HTML, CSS, and JS: writing an extension feels fundamentally similar to writing a web page or web app. Thanks to the dynamic, interpreted nature of these three languages, it is mostly straightforward to incorporate the contents of an extension into the existing browser. There are, however, some caveats. Not all programs are equally amenable to post-hoc extension, and there are currently no guarantees that multiple extensions do not conflict, destabilizing each other or the base browser. In this dissertation, I aim to provide better support for rich extensibility for web apps. In particular, I claim that Language-specific extension mechanisms are needed for each of HTML, CSS, and JS, and such mechanisms are needed for building useful diagnostic tools to address inter-extension conflicts. To support this thesis, I first present C3, the "Cloud Computing Client", an implementation of the HTML/CSS/JS platform architected explicitly to support experimentation with extensibility. I then define two such extension mechanisms for HTML and for JS: overlays and aspects, respectively. I develop conflict analyses for HTML overlays, and evaluate them on a sample of Firefox extensions. Conflict analyses for JS are sketched, and extension mechanisms for CSS are left for future work.
İLKÖĞRETİM VATANDAŞLIK VE DEMOKRASİ EĞİTİMİ DERSİ (8. SINIF) KAZANIMLARI İLE DEĞERLENDİRME SORULARININ SOLO TAKSONOMİSİ’NE GÖRE İNCELENMESİ

Bu arastirmada, 2010 yilinda yayimlanan ve 2011 yilinda revize edilen Ilkogretim Vatandaslik ve Demokrasi Egitimi Dersi (8. Sinif) Ogretim Programi’nda yer alan kazanimlar ile MEB tarafindan 2011 yilinda kabul edilip, 2012 yilinda basilan ders kitabindaki degerlendirme sorularinin SOLO taksonomisinin duzeylerine gore analiz edilmesi amaclanmistir. Kazanim ve degerlendirme sorularinin analizi SOLO taksonomisinin tek yonlu yapi, cok yonlu yapi, iliskisel yapi ve soyutlanmis yapi duzeyleri referans alinarak gerceklestirilmistir. Calismada nitel arastirma yontemlerinden dokuman analizi teknigi kullanilmistir. Arastirma bulgularina gore; incelenen 12 kazanimdan, 8’i(%66.67) cok yonlu yapi, 2’si (%16.66) iliskisel yapi ve diger 2’si (%16.67) soyutlanmis yapi duzeylerine karsilik gelmektedir. Programda tek yonlu yapi duzeyine karsilik gelen kazanim olmadigi gorulmustur. Degerlendirme sorularinin analizine iliskin bulgular incelendiginde, 55 sorudan 27’sinin (%45.45) tek yonlu, 13’unun (%23.64) cok yonlu ve 15’inin (%27.27) iliskisel yapi duzeylerini temsil ettigi saptanmistir. Ders kitabinda, soyutlanmis yapi duzeyini temsil eden sorunun bulunmadigi belirlenmistir. Ulasilan bulgular dogrultusunda uygulamaya ve ileri arastirmalara yonelik oneriler getirilmistir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Solo Taksonomisi, Ilkogretim Vatandaslik ve Demokrasi Egitimi Dersi (8. Sinif), Ogretim Programi, Ders Kitabi, Degerlendirme Sorulari.
In Psoriatic Arthritis fatigue is driven by inflammation, disease duration, and chronic pain: An observational DANBIO registry study

Objective: Fatigue is one of the most significant symptoms, and an outcome of great importance, in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA), but associations between underlying components of fatigue experienced by patients in relation to the disease have been sparsely investigated. The objectives were to describe the degree of fatigue in PsA patients, and secondly to explore important components associated with fatigue. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional survey including patients registered in the Danish nationwide registry DANBIO from December 2013 to June 2014. Principal component analysis was used to identify factors associated with fatigue. Results: A total of 1,062 PsA patients were included in the study. A principal component analysis reduced co-variables into three components explaining 63% of fatigue in patients. The first component, contributing to 31% of fatigue, was composed of inflammatory factors including swollen and tender joints, doctors’ global assessment, elevated CRP, and high Pain Detect Questionnaire (PDQ) score; the second component, contributing to 17%, consisted of increasing age and long disease duration. The third component, contributing to 15%, consisted of high PDQ score, tender joint count, increasing age, and concomitant low CRP, suggestive of a chronic pain component consisting of central pain sensitization or structural joint damage. Conclusion: Fatigue in PsA patients may be driven by clinical inflammatory factors, disease duration, and chronic pain in the absence of inflammation. Principal component analysis was conducted for male and female, respectively, after grouping by gender. Similar components were identified, though with CRP showing lower influence on components, whereas PDQ score showed higher influence on components. PCA; principal component analysis, VAS; visual analogue scale, CRP; C-reactive protein.
The third chimpanzee : the evolution and future of the human animal

The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created breathtaking works of art -- while chimps remain animals concerned primarily with the basic necessities of survival. What is it about that two percent difference in DNA that has created such a divergence between evolutionary cousins? In this fascinating, provocative, passionate, funny, endlessly entertaining work, renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author and scientist Jared Diamond explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the capacity to rule the world . and the means to irrevocably destroy it.
A tax on knowledge

Rumours before the 1985 Spring budget, that the U.K. Chan cellor planned to extend Value Added Tax (VAT) to cover books and journals, gave rise to the National Book Committee's "Don't Tax Reading" campaign to combat the imposition of a tax on knowledge. The implications of a 15% tax on the printed word, particularly for institutions outside VAT such as univer sities and their libraries, and for the continuing economic viability of minority books and learned journals, are serious. This paper looks at the history of taxes on knowledge, at the economic and cultural arguments against VAT proposals, and at practice in other countries.