Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Knowledge, Attitude, Practice of Biosafety Precautions amongst Laboratory Technicians in a Teaching Hospital

Background: Biosafety among lab technician is an important aspect and needs to be assessed. Present study was conducted to find out awareness of biosafety precautions amongst technicians working in laboratory. It determined the knowledge, attitude, and practice of universal precautions amongst medical laboratory technicians. Material and Methods: Cross-sectional study of health care workers was conducted using a standardized self-administered questionnaire, which enquired about knowledge, attitude and practices of universal precautions. Participants included; Medical laboratory technicians working in Pathology, Microbiology, and Biochemistry departments in Krishna Institute of Medical Science, Karad. Result: In this study 19 technicians from Biochemistry, Pathology and Microbiology were involved. Accordingly in knowledge in pathology 50% of study subjects were having average and 50% were having good scores while in biochemistry 25% had average and 75% had good scores and in microbiology 100% of study subjects had good grade. For attitude, in pathology dept 83.3% had average and 16.7% had good grades. In biochemistry 12.5% had poor grades, 75% had average grades and 12.5% had good grades. In microbiology 100% had good grades. For practice in pathology dept 16.7% had poor grades, 66.7% had average grades and 16.7% had good grades. In biochemistry 81.5% had average grade and 12.5% had good grades. In microbiology 100% of study subjects had good scores. Conclusion: Knowledge, attitude, practice with universal pre-cautions amongst these highly exposed laboratory workers are good, direct need to develop SOPs and to encourage use of Personal Protective Equipment’s (PPEs).
Peripherally inserted central venous catheters in critical care patients.

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical outcomes and cost for high-risk critical care patients with peripherally inserted central venous catheters (PICCs). DESIGN A prospective descriptive study. SETTING A private acute care facility. SUBJECTS Ninety-seven consecutive PICC insertions in four critical care units per physician order. Five subjects were excluded due to five abortive attempts. Data were analyzed on 92 PICC insertions. Age range was 23 to 92 years. OUTCOME MEASURES Frequency of insertion complications, postinsertion complications, and cost factors were measured. RESULTS When subjects were in critical care areas, catheters remained in place a mean of 10 days with a range of one to 50 days. After patient transfer with catheters in place to acute care areas (medical-surgical units), convalescent units, and home care, catheters were maintained a mean of 13 days with a range of 1 to 116 days. Catheter days totaled 2069. The total number of catheter days while in critical care were 878, with 1191 catheter days after transfer to other areas. Seventy-one of the original 92 PICC catheters remained in place until treatment was completed or the patient expired. Twenty-one were removed for nonelective reasons. Of these patients, only one had significant morbidity related to sepsis. This septic episode occurred in a convalescent unit. Percentage of catheter-related sepsis was 0.48% per 1000 catheter days. Because PICCs are not used to any degree in critical care patients throughout the United States, this study should increase awareness among practitioners that this approach is a safe alternative method to chest or neck insertion for central venous access in high-risk critical care patients.
Clinical supervision in mental health : a Foucauldian discourse analysis

The practice of clinical supervision amongst mental health practitioners is hampered by a lack of shared understanding of its nature and purpose and by a complex mixture of assumptions and external expectations. As a result, potential benefits of supervision are diminished and its practice risks losing credibility amongst those in a position to resource it. This study addresses these conflicts through an analysis of the discourse of supervision within mental health nursing, counselling and clinical psychology.
I3D-LSTM: A New Model for Human Action Recognition

Action recognition has already been a heated research topic recently, which attempts to classify different human actions in videos. The current main-stream methods generally utilize ImageNet-pretrained model as features extractor, however it’s not the optimal choice to pretrain a model for classifying videos on a huge still image dataset. What’s more, very few works notice that 3D convolution neural network(3D CNN) is better for low-level spatial-temporal features extraction while recurrent neural network(RNN) is better for modelling high-level temporal feature sequences. Consequently, a novel model is proposed in our work to address the two problems mentioned above. First, we pretrain 3D CNN model on huge video action recognition dataset Kinetics to improve generality of the model. And then long short term memory(LSTM) is introduced to model the high-level temporal features produced by the Kinetics-pretrained 3D CNN model. Our experiments results show that the Kinetics-pretrained model can generally outperform ImageNet-pretrained model. And our proposed network finally achieve leading performance on UCF-101 dataset.
A Portrait of Practitioners' Understanding and the Use of Freirean Pedagogy in a Summer Camp for Girls in Iran

Title of Document: A PORTRAIT OF PRACTITIONERS’ UNDERSTANDING AND THE USE OF FREIREAN PEDAGOGY IN A SUMMER CAMP FOR GIRLS IN IRAN Nassim Abdi Dezfooli Doctor of Philosophy 2010 Directed By: Professor Hanne B. Mawhinney, Department of Educational Leadership, Higher Education and International Education (EDHI) In the summer of 2008, I went to Tehran to conduct a one-week Freirean summer camp in collaboration with a team of Iranian and Iranian-American practitioners in order to create a liberatory space for adolescent girls to practice expression skills. Bartlett (2005) identifies that “understanding the meaning of dialog” and “transforming traditional teacher-student relations” (p. 345) are among the most challenging aspects of Freirean pedagogy for practitioners around the world. Examining Freirean approach in theory and practice, I use Bartlett’s (2005) study as a heuristic framework for my research to portray how the practitioners in the summer camp understood the key concepts of Freirean pedagogy. In this study, I used portraiture methodology to draw a picture of the practitioners’ understanding and the use of Freirean pedagogy. Portraiture is a qualitative narrative inquiry methodology that paints individuals and their detailed and complex socio-historical contexts with words. Painting with participants’ words, I portray how sociopolitical complexities of the society influence practitioners’ understanding and employing of Freirean approach in theory and practice. A PORTRAIT OF PRACTITIONERS’ UNDERSTANDING AND THE USE OF FREIREAN PEDAGOGY IN A SUMMER CAMP FOR GIRLS IN IRAN
Counseling People of African Ancestry: Counseling People of African Ancestry Multiple Choice Answers

Part I. Foundations of Counseling in African Settings: 1. Indigenous healing practices in sub-Saharan Africa Elias Mpofu, Karl Peltzer and Olaniyi Bojuwoye 2. The role of oral tradition in counseling people of African ancestry Jacobus G. Maree and Cecilia M. du Toit 3. Assessment for counseling intervention Lynne Radomsky, Sofoh Hassane, Michelle Hoy-Watkins and Chiwoza Bandawe 4. Research on counseling in African settings Lisa Lopez Levers, Michelle May and Gwen Vogel 5. Deconstructing counseling psychology for the African context Nithi Muthukrishna and David Lackland Sam 6. Racial oppression, colonization, and identity: towards an empowerment model for people of African heritage Alex L. Pieterse, Dennis Howitt and Anthony V. Naidoo Part II. Contexts of Counseling: 7. School counseling Elias Mpofu, Jacobus Gideon Maree, Joseph M. Kasayira and Carol Noela Van der Wethuizen 8. Counseling students at tertiary institutions Ilse Ruane, Joseph M. Kasayira and Elizabeth N. Shino 9. Family therapy within the African context Vinitha Jithoo and Terri Bakker 10. Pastoral care and counseling Daniel Johannes Louw 11. African refugees: challenges and prospects of resettlement programs Clemente Abrokwaa, Mary Shilalukey Ngoma, Edward Shizha and Elias Mpofu 12. Counseling orphans and vulnerable children in Africa Gertie Pretorius, Brandon Morgan, Magen Mhaka-Mutepfa, Mary Shilalukey Ngoma and Thokozile Mayekiso 13. Diversity counseling with African Americans Debra A. Harley and Kim L. Stansbury 14. Resolving conflict in Africa: in search for sustainable peace Joleen Steyn Kotze and Gerrie Swart Part III. Counseling Applications: 15. Counseling for trauma David J. A. Edwards and Linda Eskell Blokland 16. HIV and AIDS counseling Lisa Lopez Levers, Elias Mpofu, Ronel Ferreira and Joseph Kasayira 17. Substance use disorder counseling Monika M. L. dos Santos, Solomon T. Rataemane, Elias Mpofu and Andreas Pluddemann 18. Career counseling people of African ancestry Mark Watson, Mary McMahon, Nhlanhla Mkhize, Robert D. Schweitzer and Elias Mpofu 19. Counseling people with disabilities Elias Mpofu, Grace Ukasoanya, Anniah Mupawose, Debra Harley, John Charema and Kayi Ntinda Part IV: 20. Counseling in African cultural heritage settings: the challenges and opportunities Elias Mpofu, Terri Bakker and Lisa Lopez Levers.
Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis Workflows for eScience

Computing-intensive experiences in modern sciences have become increasingly data-driven illustrating perfectly the Big-Data era’s challenges. These experiences are usually specified and enacted in the form of workflows that would need to manage (i.e., read, write, store, and retrieve) sensitive data like persons’ past diseases and treatments. While there is an active research body on how to protect sensitive data by, for instance, anonymizing datasets, there is a limited number of approaches that would assist scientists identifying the datasets, generated by the work-flows,thatneed tobeanonymizedalongwithsettingthe anonymization degree that must be met. We present in this paper a pre-liminary for setting and inferring anonymization requirements of datasets used and generated by a workflow execution. The approach was implemented and showcased using a concrete example, and its efficiency assessed through validation exercises.
A novel link between Abl family kinases and NM23-H1 during metastatic progression

OF DISSERTATION A NOVEL LINK BETWEEN ABL FAMILY KINASES AND NM23-H1 DURING METASTATIC PROGRESSION Cancer patient mortality is caused by the ability of tumor cells to invade the extracellular matrix and metastasize. Our lab was the first to identify the role of Abl family of non-receptor tyrosine kinases (c-Abl and Arg) in the progression of solid tumor cancers. In our previous studies, we showed that high c-Abl/Arg activity promotes proliferation, invasion, and metastasis in melanoma and breast cancer cells lines. Here, we demonstrate that our previous findings are clinically relevant by showing increased cAbl/Arg kinase activity in primary melanoma tumor tissue in comparison to low activity as compared to benign nevi. Additionally, in breast cancer tissue, we found aggressive tumor subtypes (triple-negative and high-grade breast cancer) had increased c-Abl/Arg activity as compared to less aggressive subtypes. To define the mechanism by which cAbl and Arg promote melanoma and breast cancer metastasis, we searched for novel pathways by which c-Abl and Arg promote invasion, a key step in metastasis. Significantly, we found that c-Abl and Arg decrease the expression of non-metastatic protein, NM23-H1, a metastasis suppressor that is lost during metastatic progression. We demonstrate that NM23-H1 is localized and degraded within the lysosome via proteases, cathepsins L and B. Moreover, we show that c-Abl and Arg upregulate cathepsin mRNA levels and activate the cathepsins, which in-turn degrade NM23-H1. We demonstrate that this pathway is functionally significant as c-Abl and Arg require the downregulation of NM23-H1 to promote invasion in melanoma and breast cancer cell lines. We show that the pathway is clinically significant as c-Abl/Arg activity is inversely correlated with NM23-H1 expression in mouse lung metastases, as well as in human primary melanoma and primary breast cancer tissue. In summary, we are the first to demonstrate novel crosstalk between oncogenic and metastasis suppressor signaling pathways, and provide evidence that pharmacological inhibition of Abl family kinases in melanoma and breast cancer patients may prevent metastatic progression by stabilizing a metastasis suppressor.
Understanding health through the eyes of rural adolescents

Approved: ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date UNDERSTANDING HEALTH THROUGH THE EYES OF RURAL ADOLESCENTS by Joanna Lynn Morrissey A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Health and Sport Studies in the Graduate College of The University of Iowa
The Process of College Adjustment: Weekly Changes and Racial Differences

This paper provides new insights into the process of college adjustment by examining week-by-week trends in college belonging and well-being within a sample of 12,529 responses from 882 students at a private, selective university. These adjustment outcomes generally improve throughout the first semester, but the patterns are certainly not linear, and they coincide with specific notable challenges and events that students face. Overall differences and trends over time also vary by race/ethnicity.
The Prevalence of Perinatal Depression in KAMC and Associated Factors

Perinatal depression is the most common childbirth complication which could adversely affect the whole family. Mothers with perinatal depression are more likely to deliver a baby with low birth weight, decrease head circumference, and low cognitive and physical growth. This study estimates the prevalence of perinatal depression and identifies the associated factors. This was a cross sectional study conducted at the King Fahd Hospital, King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh. Four hundred women participated in the study: 200 prenatal women who exceeded 20 weeks of pregnancy, and 200 postpartum women in their first year after delivery that exceeded 3 weeks from delivery. The participants completed the Edinburgh postnatal depression scale, and a questionnaire about obstetric and sociodemographic data. The prevalence of perinatal depression was 22%; the prevalence in prenatal women was 23.5%, and in postnatal women it was found to be 20.5%. The associated factors were marital relationship problems, exposure to difficult events, having low socioeconomic status, lack of support from the family, and being a victim of domestic violence. One-fourth of the samples were affected by perinatal depression. Routine screening of perinatal depression is highly recommended; to decrease the complications and the feeling of stigma.
Déterminants de la prise en charge et du pronostic des cancers broncho-pulmonaires hospitalisés

Chez les patients porteurs d'un cancer bronchique avance non eligible a un traitement curatif, l'objectif du traitement n'est pas la guerison mais le soulagement des symptomes et l'amelioration de la survie. Le pronostic est lie aux caracteristiques du patient et de la tumeur, a la reponse tumorale apres chimiotherapie et a la prise en charge globale decidee conjointement avec l'equipe medicale, le patient et son entourage. Il convient donc d'evaluer precocement ces facteurs pronostiques pour optimiser le rapport benefice-risque des traitements entrepris, dans le cadre des therapeutiques anti-cancereuses ou de facon plus globale.Dans le cadre de ce travail, des determinants ethiques, cliniques et paracliniques de la prise en charge et du pronostic des patients porteurs d'un cancer bronchique localement avance ou metastatique ont ete recherches. Dans une 1ere partie, les determinants du pronostic de patients traites par chimiotherapie (etude « Pharmacogenoscan-poumon ») ont ete etudies : association entre le niveau d'expression de biomarqueurs tumoraux proteiques et la reponse a la chimiotherapie et interet de l'evaluation de la reponse tumorale selon les criteres RECIST. Nous avons, dans une seconde partie, analyse les elements influencant la prise en charge et le pronostic de patients porteurs d'un cancer bronchique developpant une defaillance d'organe. Trois situations ont ete decrites : celle de patients des l'apparition de cette defaillance d'organe, celle de l'ensemble des patients porteurs d'un cancer bronchique admis en reanimation, et uniquement de ceux porteurs d'une mutation tumorale oncogenique.
A talk framework for problem-solving

Group discussion in primary school mathematical problem-solving provides potentially significant benefits to children’s learning, especially when discussion becomes dialogue, in which students achieve common understanding through cumulative questioning. Arising out of a need to develop talk whilst problem-solving on a primary teacher training programme in the UK, this research employs a think-aloud protocol alongside digital audio technology to promote and capture dialogue in two distinct group problem-solving situations. It explores how thinking-aloud, and the resulting recordings, can be used to support student teachers’ verbalisation of mathematical problem-solving strategies, including via ‘follow-up’ recall opportunities, exploiting connections between thinking-aloud and stimulated recall that are distinct to this work. In addition to using the recall situation to encourage reflection on performance, a Talk Framework, reflecting mathematical problem-solving stages, has been employed to analyse the participants’ discourse. The Framework has been used to highlight potentially valuable contributions in the initial group situation whilst also identifying aspects to be revisited in the replay situation. The findings of this work demonstrate that the provision of a think-aloud protocol alone does not guarantee the productive engagement of student teachers. Attitudes to mathematics and the group situation itself may impact on individuals’ expectations of success. The Talk Framework coding, informed by Mercer’s notions of cumulative, exploratory and disputational dialogue, highlights the degree to which exploratory dialogue is perhaps lacking, with a newly proposed category, “supercumulative”, identifying contributions intended to provoke further explanation. This work highlights techniques that may be of benefit to student teachers and teacher educators when developing mathematical talk. It proposes networking of think-aloud and recall techniques to encourage reflection. It demonstrates that the provision of digitally recorded animated annotations provokes more discussion of the underlying mathematics than audio alone. Ultimately, it proposes a Talk Framework that can be used to identify valuable dialogue in the original problem-solving situation that can then be productively built upon to aid collective understanding of mathematical strategies in the subsequent recall.
"Sustainable Development": Critical Concepts in Geography

This paper reviews significant geographic contributions to academic literature in the arenas of conservation, environmental thought, and "sustainable development", in order to understand why geographers have not been more central contributors to the sustainable development movement. A review of geographic literature reveals no lack of understanding on the "sustainable development" concept. However, the disciplines' contributions are lacking in numbers relative to published articles and in developing research and practical methods for directly benefiting the "sustainable development" movement. In fact, only a handful of geographers have made multiple literary contributions on the topic of"sustainable development. " The discipline of geography is well positioned to make positive contributions towards the "sustainable development" movement. Geographers possess strong roots in human-environment studies, the physical sciences, cross-disciplinary studies, and in geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing technologies. Geographers also contribute to scholarship concerning conservation, resource management, and environmental thought. Current literature is reflective of geographers understanding of the "sustainable development" concept as it relates to politics, economics, technology, and within the context of boundaries and scale. This paper begins with a discussion on the definition of the "sustainable development" and its oxymoronic nature. Articles written prior to the 1960s provide a historical perspective on environmental thought and conservation prior to the quantitative and environmental revolutions of the 1960s and 70s, respectively. Reviews of the current geographic perspective on culture, boundaries, and scale within the framework of "sustainable development" provide geography's potential for insight concerning the many challenges facing the discipline and society in understanding and achieving sustainability.
Factor that impacts entrepreneurial intention among engineering students: evidence from Indonesia

Entrepreneurial Intention was intensively examined within the research on entrepreneurship, but the results were diverse. The research was mostly focused on a non-engineering student. The inspiration for this paper was provided by (Law & Breznik, 2017) and (Karabulut, 2016) and its main goal is to determine the factor that pushes undergraduate students towards success in business and allows them to develop their entrepreneurial intention. This research is intended to ascertain the impact of innovativeness (Innov) and need for achievement (Nach) on entrepreneurial intention based on attitude towards entrepreneurship show among vocational high-school students having an extended curriculum in engineering. The examined sample was composed of 338 students of vocational high school (SMK) in an Indonesian District offering some extended courses in engineering. The adopted research methodology was of descriptive and correlational nature, with a quantitative method and a path analysis utilizing Lisrel 9.30. It was found that the need for achievement (Nach) and innovativeness (Innov) exert some significant indirect influence on entrepreneurial intention based on the attitude towards entrepreneurship, while the need for achievement (Nach) has lower direct influence on entrepreneurial Intention.
Cellular Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease Part 1 - Preclinical Insights

Coronary artery disease (CAD) and congestive heart failure (CHF) are leading causes of morbidity and mortality in Western communities and represent a growing economic burden to most health systems. Cell-based therapy represents a novel treatment strategy to treat CAD and CHF. The first part of this two-part review will address the biological properties and functional potential of different cell types that have been trialled in preclinical cardiovascular research. Part two will focus on the clinical application of these cells and will discuss the lessons learnt from clinical trial experience so far.