Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Measuring Occupational Performance: Supporting Best Practice in Occupational Therapy

Measurement in occupational therapy / Mary Law and Carolyn Baum -- Measurement issues and practices / Winnie Dunn -- Guiding therapist decisions about measuring outcomes in occupational therapy / Mary Law, Gillian King, and Dianne Russell -- Establishing the integrity of measurement data : identifying impairments that can limit occupational performance and threaten the validity of assessments / Carolyn Baum, Monica Perlmutter, and Winnie Dunn -- Using qualitative measurement methods to understand occupational performance / Mary Corcoran -- Measuring occupational performance using a client-centered perspective / Mary Ann McColl and Nancy Pollock -- Occupational performance : measuring the perspectives of others / Dorothy Edwards and Carolyn Baum -- Measuring participation / Mary Law, Winnie Dunn, and Carolyn Baum -- Measuring play performance / Anita C. Bundy -- Measuring work performance / Sue Baptiste and Susan Strong --
Word Processors and Children's Writing in a High-Computer-Access Setting.

AbstractStudent writing products and processes were studied during a three-year period, beginning in Grade 3, at a school where students had routine daily access to word processors, and at a nearby comparison school that had only a few, infrequently used computers in its classrooms. A repeated measures MANOVA revealed that writing quality improved significantly (p < .00005) at the high-computer-access school, as determined by holistic measures of writing message (meaning and content quality) and medium (quality of the form and surface features). In-class observations support the contention that the use of word processors strongly contributed to the observed differences between sites. The attributes of the word processor that appeared to explain the observed differences were a combination of the unique ways text is edited, displayed, and manipulated with the computer.
Correlation between Branched Chain Amino Acids to Tyrosine Ratio and Child Pugh Score in Liver Cirrhosis Patients

Background : The determination of branched chain amino acids (BCAA) to tyrosine ratio (BTR) was available in making differentiation of chronic hepatitis from liver cirrhosis, because there was a strong association between BTR and staging (fibrosis) scores. Branched chain amino acids to tyrosine ratio have a correlation with Fischer ratio and the examination is easier because it can be done by enzymatic assay. Materials and Methods: To evaluate the correlation between BTR and Child-Pugh score, we examined the amino gram of 52 liver cirrhosis patients consisted of 26 Child-Pugh A, 19 Child-Pugh B, and 7 Child-Pugh C. The examination of amino gram was done by High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC) analyzer. Branched chain amino acids to tyrosine ratio were compared to Child-Pugh score, albumin, ammonia level, number connection test to Fischer ratio. Results : Significant differences in BTR among Child-Pugh A, B, C were observed (Child-Pugh A 7.75 + 1.2; Child Pugh B 6.0 + 1.23 and Child Pugh C 4.38 + 3.14 (p = 0.000)). Branched chain amino acids to tyrosine ratio had a weak correlation with albumin (r = 0.292; p = 0.036), ammonia level (r = 0.376; p = 0.006) and strong correlation with Fischer ratio (r = 0.818; p = 0.000). There was no significant correlation between BTR and number connection test. Conclusion : These results showed that the determination of the molar ratio of branched chain amino acids to tyrosine well reflected the severity of liver cirrhosis and it can be used as a substitute of Fischer ratio. Keywords : Branched chain amino acids, tyrosine, liver cirrhosis
The effect of drugs and nutraceuticals on the prevention and treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease using rats as a model for humans

Background/Objective. The incidence of obesity and the metabolic syndrome is increasing in the United States, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is gaining recognition for its relationship with these disorders. With this association, identifying potential preventatives for NAFLD is crucial. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of the pharmaceuticals gemfibrozil, metformin, and rosiglitazone, and the nutraceuticals taurine and vitamin E, on the prevention of NAFLD induced by a cholinedeficient diet using rats as a model for humans. Design. Sixty-one, 11-week-old, male Sprague Dawley rats were fed a 10 kcal% from fat standard or choline-deficient diet for 56 days. Within each diet group, rats were assigned to either no additional treatment (control) or oral administration of gemfibrozil (34 mg/kg), metformin (500 mg/kg), rosiglitazone (3 mg/kg), taurine (520 mg/kg), or vitamin E (200
Developing visualization support system for teaching/learning database normalization

Purpose – In tertiary institution, some students find it hard to learn database design theory, in particular, database normalization. The purpose of this paper is to develop a visualization tool to give students an interactive hands‐on experience in database normalization process.Design/methodology/approach – The model‐view‐controller architecture is used to alleviate the black box syndrome associated with the study of algorithm behavior for database normalization process. The authors propose a visualization “exploratory” tool that assists the learners in understanding the actual behavior of the database normalization algorithms of choice and also in evaluating the validity/quality of the algorithm. This paper describes the visualization tool and its effectiveness in teaching and learning normalization forms and their functional dependencies.Findings – The effectiveness of the tool has been evaluated in surveys. It shows that students generally viewed the tool more positively than the textbook technique.
Argumentation in Science Education: Perspectives from Classroom-Based Research

Editors' Foreword Preface. A. Tiberghien Section I Argumentation Foundations Chapter 1. Argumentation in Science Education: An Overview. M Jimenez Aleixandre & S Erduran Chapter 2. Cognitive Foundations of Learning Argumentation. M. Garcia-Mila & C. Andersen Chapter 3. Methodological Foundations in the Study of Science Classroom Argumentation. S. Erduran Chapter 4. What can Argumentation tell us about Epistemology? W. Sandoval & K. Millwood. Section II Research on Teaching and Learning Argumentation Chapter 5. Designing Argumentation Learning Environments. M. Jimenez Aleixandre Chapter 6. Social Aspects of Argumentation. S. Kolst' & M. Ratcliffe Chapter 7. Analysis of Lines of Reasoning in Written Argumentation. G. Kelly, J. Regev & W. Prothero. Chapter 8. Quality of Argumentation and Epistemic Criteria. R Duschl Section III Argumentation in Context Chapter 9. Argumentation in Socio-scientific Contexts. L. Simonneaux Chapter 10. The Role of Moral Reasoning in Argumentation: Conscience, Characterand Care. D. Zeidler & T. Sadler Chapter 11. Role of Information Technology in Supporting Argumentation in theClassroom. D. Clark, M. Baker, A. Weinberger and M. Menekse Chapter 12. Science Teacher Education and Professional Development inArgumentation. A. Zohar
Operative Vaginal Deliveries in Contemporary Obstetric Practice

The expectation of every pregnant woman is to undergo a spontaneous vaginal delivery with minimal or no resort to operative procedures at the end of pregnancy. For the majority of women this expectation becomes a reality. For some however, assistance is required either in the form of caesarean sections or operative vaginal procedures in order to avert adverse maternal and fetal outcomes. Assisting laboring women to deliver vaginally using specialized instruments is a practice that dates back several centuries. Forceps and ventouse are the most popular of the operative vaginal procedures with comprehensive documentation of their development and use in the lay and medical media. Procedures like symphysiotomy and destructive operations to remove a dead fetus are probably now materials for the waste bins of medical history. However some still argue for a place for them in modern obstetric practices especially in low income countries where the indications for their use may still be found (Maharaj and Moodley, 2002).
Injeção epidural de morfina ou cetamina em cães: avaliação do efeito analgésico pelo emprego de filamentos de von Frey

Pre-emptive analgesic effects of epidural ketamine or morphine were compared using the von Frey filaments (VF). Fourteen mixed breed male or female dogs, weighing 12.5kg, divided into G1 (morphine, 0.1mg/kg; n=7) and G2 (ketamine, 0.2mg/kg; n=7) groups were used. Under sevoflurane anesthesia epidural injections were made by spinal needle inserted at lombo-sacral space. Subsequently, a 1.5cm cushion incision was made and immediately closed with a simple interrupted nylon suture and the inhalatory anesthesia was closed. Thirty minutes after the suture, the postincisional pain was measured by VF filaments at 0.3cm around the incision. These procedures were repeated every 30 min until 120 min and at 3, 4, 5, 6 and 24 hours after suturing. The VF filaments force expressed in grams were analyzed by non-parametric tests (Kruskal-Wallis or Mann-Whitney, P£0.05). No response to VF filaments was observed in G1 dogs. The VF force was reduced progressively in the G2 dogs, from 90 min to 24 hours. It was concluded that VF filaments evaluation showed that pre-emptive epidural morphine produced more effective and lasting postincisional analgesia than ketamine.
A phase II trial of erlotinib plus bevacizumab in patients with recurrent thymoma or thymic carcinoma

19087 Background: Few prospective trials have been conducted in patients (pts) with thymic malignancies. Angiogenesis and EGFR overexpression seems to play an important role in the pathogenesis of invasive thymoma (THY) and thymic (TC) carcinoma. This phase II trial studied the efficacy and safety of the novel combination of erlotinib (E) and bevacizumab (BEV) on pretreated pts with progressive malignant thymic tumors. Methods: From September, 2006 to August, 2007,18 previously treated pts with advanced THY or TC were treated with E 150 mg by mouth every day and BEV 15 mg/kg IV, cycle repeated every 21 days. DNA was extracted from whole blood to study associations between outcome and variability in single nucleotide polymorphisms from angiogenesis genes. Patients who achieved a complete (CR), partial response (PR), stable disease (SD) after 2 treatment cycles, were continued on BEV and E, until progression or unacceptable toxicity. Pts receiving at least one cycle were evaluated for response. Results: Pro.
Optimal solution to matrix parenthesization problem employing parallel processing approach

Optimal matrix parenthesization problem is an optimization problem that can be solved using dynamic programming. The paper discussed the problem in detail. The results and their analysis reveal that there is considerable amount of time reduction compared with simple left to right multiplication, on applying the matrix parenthesization algorithm. Time reduction varies from 0% to 96%, proportional to the number of matrices and the sequence of dimensions. It is also learnt that on applying parallel matrix parenthesization algorithm, time is reduced proportional to the number of processors at the start, however, after some increase, adding more processors does not yield any more throughput but only increases the overhead and cost. Major advantage of the parallel algorithm used is that it does not depend on the number of matrices. Moreover, work has been evenly distributed between the processors.
A Cross-Category Analysis of the Network Effects on Website Usage

This article addresses the issue of network effects derived from network externalities for website usage. A sample of 72,057 browsing behaviors was collected and examined by using Poisson models. Results show that total hourly pageviews of a website are positively related to an individualâ€™s hourly pageviews. Gender, age, income, and education are significant factors (e.g., males view more pages on the news, auction, searching and blog websites, and females view more pages on social networking, shopping, and video-sharing websites). ( article published online: September 10, 2015 ) To cite this document: Yi-hsuan Chiang and Wen-jhan Jane, "A cross-category analysis of the network effects on website usage",Â International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies, Vol.6, No.2, pp.331-342, 2015. Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi. org/10.7903/ijecs.1338
Essentials of research design and methodology

Series Preface. Acknowledgments. One Introduction and Overview. Two Planning and Designing a Research Study. Three General Approaches for Controlling Artifact and Bias. Four Data Collection, Assessment Methods, and Measurement Strategies. Five General Types of Research Designs and Approaches. Six Validity. Seven Data Preparation, Analyses, and Interpretation. Eight Ethical Considerations in Research. Nine Disseminating Research Results and Distilling Principles of Research Design and Methodology. References. Index.
The Docimium Marble Sculptures of the Grotto of Tiberius at Sperlonga

Seventeen marble samples drawn from the Scylla, Polyphemos, and Pasquino Groups, the Theft of the Palladium statue group, and the Ganymede statue discovered at Sperlonga in 1957 were investigated scientifically and proved to be all Docimium marble from the quarries of İscehisar near Afyon. New quarry data now available for the lithos lartios of Rhodes and for the white marble of the island of Kos and the quarries of Göktepe near Aphrodisias allow us to rule out old hypotheses as well as newly discovered sources of marble. These results as well as technical details about the manufacture of the sculptures seem to fully cohere with Andreae’s hypothesis that the Sperlonga groups were made on-site during the Tiberian age. They also tend to exclude alternative chronologies. The same arguments, however, make it difficult to believe that the Sperlonga sculptures and the Laocoön, thought to be made by the same Rhodian sculptors (Plin., HN 36.37) joining together several blocks of Parian Lychnites, are coeval. This apparent incongruity is briefly discussed, and the possibility of reconciling prosopographical and art historical considerations with technical marble data is examined. A free, downloadable appendix can be found under this article’s abstract on AJA Online.
The Effects of Ramadan Fasting on the Levels of Gonadotrophins

DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.5915/24-1-15469 FSH and LH levels were measured al 9:00 a.m., 4:00 p.m. , 9:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m. in eleven healthy subjects observing the dawn to sunset fast of the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan. Similar measurements were undertaken in an ordinary non-fasting day for comparison. Significant diurnal fluctuations of these hormones were noted. In a non-fasting day FSH levels peaked at 9:00 a.m., while the lowest level was at 9:00 p.m. During Ramadan, levels of FSH were highest at 4:00 a.m. (3.29 ± 2.72 IU/L) and lowest at 9:00 a.m. (1.28 ± 0.27 IU/L). The LH levels in an ordinary non-fasting day were highest at 9:00 a.m., while during Ramadan peak levels were noted at 4:00 a.m. The significantly high gonadotrophin levels at 4:00 a.m. suggest that hypothalamic pituitary axis for gonadotrophin release exhibits peak activation in the early morning hours, more so in a Ramadan day than in a non-fasting day.
PREVALENCE OF RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY IN PRETERM INFANT HOSPITALIZED IN TABRIZ ALZAHRA HOSPITAL'S NICU

Introduction: Retinopathy of pre maturity is a disease that involves premature neonates that their retinal vascularization was not completed. Regarding developments in care of premature neonates it is expected that the prevalence of retinopathy of prematurity increases. The aim of this study was to screen retinopathy of prematurity in 2 years survey of preterm inants in Tabriz Alzahra hospital. Method and material: This is a descriptive study between 2005-2006. All of the preterm infants with gestational age under 32 week or birth weight less than 1500gr and all neonates with birth weight of 1500_2500gr who had unstable condition during admition in hospital were included in this study and examined with an ophthalmologist for screening of retinopathy of prematurity. Results: We screened 399 preterm infants from 2023 neonate who admitted in NICU. We found 29 neonates(7/27%) had retinopathy of pre maturity that 15 neonate healed with no intervention and 14 neonates received laser ablation therapy and one vitrectomy, and except one that who blind , all of these neonate has optimal level of vision. The plenty existed identified risk factors was oxygen therapy, mechanical ventilation with ventilator, blood transfusion and surfactant therapy receive and mother's preeclampsia. Conclusion:The prevalence of retinopathy of prematurity is low in NICU of ALZAHRA hospital. Since the danger of this disease in pre mature neonates, routine screening is recommend in all NICUs. Control of risk factors and screening program can prevent long term complication.
iWant does not equal iWill: Correlates of mobile learning with iPads, e-textbooks, BlackBoard Mobile Learn and a blended learning experience

This research tested the efficacy of a blended learning iteration with iPad tablet computers, an etextbook and Blackboard's Mobile Learn application connected with a learning management system (LMS). Mobile learning was embedded into the pedagogical design of an undergraduate subject run in two semesters with 135 students. Using design-based research (DBR), an empirical investigation examined four variables including: iPad use; mobile technology use; attitude, including the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) scale; and academic performance. Quantitative analysis with PASW Statistics included descriptive, scaling, correlations, partial correlations and ANCOVAs. Results suggested that students were positive about mobile learning, but were unconvinced that it made a difference to their learning. Performance variables demonstrated that age and self-managed learning attitudes were important covariates with academic success, and mobile learning per se was important but not independent from curriculum design and student engagement IMS, Learning Tools Interoperability, LTI, learning application, innovation, community of enquiry. © 2011 Jeffrey E. Brand, Shelley Kinash, Trishita Mathew & Ron Kordyban.
What does current generative theory have to say about the explicit-implicit debate?

Taking a generative perspective, we divide aspects of language into three broad categories: those that cannot be learned (are inherent in Universal Grammar), those that are derived from Universal Grammar, and those that must be learned from the input. Using this framework of language to clarify the “what” of learning, we take the acquisition of null (and overt) subjects in languages like Spanish as an example of how to apply the framework. We demonstrate what properties of a null-subject grammar cannot be learned explicitly, which properties can, but also argue that it is an open empirical question as to whether these latter properties are learned using explicit processes, showing how linguistic and psychological approaches may intersect to better understand acquisition.
Boolean Query Reformulation with the Query Tree Classifier

One of the difficulties in using the current Boolean-based information retrieval systems is that it is hard for a user, especially a novice, to formulate an effective Boolean query. Query reformulation can be even more difficult and complex than formulation since the user can have difficulty in incorporating the new information gained from the previous search into his/her next query. In this research, query reformulation is viewed as a classification problem (i.e., classifying documents as either relevant or nonrelevant), and a new reformulation algorithm is proposed which builds a treestructured classifier (named the query tree) at each reformulation from a set of feedback documents retrieved from the previous search. The query tree can be easily transformed into a Boolean query. The query tree and two of the most important current query reformulation algorithms were compared on benchmark test sets (CACM. CISI, and MedJars). The query tree showed significant improvements over the current algorithms in most experiments. We attribute this improved performance to the ability of the query tree algorithm to select good search terms and to represent the relationships among search terms into a tree structure.
Inductors allow low-voltage performance for IC mixers

In this paper it is established how planar inductors on silicon and bond-wire inductors can be used to scale down the supply voltage to 1.5 V for Gilbert type RF mixers. A demonstration mixer which downconverts a signal from 900 MHz to an intermediate frequency of 50 MHz is implemented in a 0.8 /spl mu/m BiCMOS process offered by Austria Mikro Systeme International GmbH. The measurement results for the mixer as well the lumped element models for the used planar inductor and for the bondwire are presented. The measurements suggest that a pleasing return loss of about 9 dB is obtained for both the input and output ports of the mixer without using any external components for impedance matching.
Epistemic logic for AI and computer science

From the Publisher: Epistemic logic has grown from its philosophical beginnings to find diverse applications in computer science as a means of reasoning about the knowledge and belief of agents. This book, based on courses taught at universities and summer schools, provides a broad introduction to the subject; many exercises are included as well as their solutions. After presenting the necessary apparatus from mathematics and logic, the authors consider applications in the areas of common knowledge, distributed knowledge, explicit and implicit belief.
Piel, envoltura, tocar y ser tocado: el lugar del tacto en psicomotricidad

espanolEl objetivo de esta ponencia es delimitar el lugar del tacto en Psicomotricidad. A partir de la conceptualizacion sobre la piel y el tacto y su importancia en las primeras etapas de desarrollo del nino, se abordan algunas de las funciones de la piel y el tacto en la constitucion del psiquismo: como continente y sosten, como envoltura o barrera de contencion, y como individuacion. A continuacion, se plantea la importancia de la piel y el tacto en Psicomotricidad, el encuadre en relacion al tocar, y la funcion del terapeuta psicomotor para la construccion de una piel psiquica, a traves del juego, la relacion y la evolucion hacia la individuacion, las tecnicas de relajacion y el masaje. Por ultimo, se hace referencia al trabajo sobre la piel y el tacto en la formacion corporal y personal del psicomotricista, a partir de dos propuestas extraidas de sesiones de formacion corporal. EnglishThe aim of this paper is to define the role of touch in psychomotricity. Beginning with the conceptualisation of the skin and of touch, and its importance in the early stages of child development, the paper addresses some of the functions of the skin and of touch in constituting the psyche: as a container and a support, as a covering or a barrier, and as individuation. This is followed by a consideration of the importance of skin and of touch in psychomotricity, the framework in relation to touch, and the role of the psychomotor therapist in constructing a psychic skin, by playing, relating and evolving towards individuation, relaxation techniques and massage. Lastly, reference is made to the work the psychomotor therapist carries out on the skin and on touch in body and personal training, based on the two proposals extracted from body training sessions.
Preferred argument structure in spoken French and Spanish

ABSTRACT This article uses the quantitative methodology of goldvarb to examine the variable distribution of lexical noun phrases representing core arguments of the verb in a corpus of spoken French and a corpus of spoken Spanish. It is shown that this distribution is not random, but instead conforms to a grammatically and pragmatically motivated pattern known as Preferred Argument Structure.