Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE INFLUENCE OF SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KUALA TERENGGANU , MALAYSIA

The aim of this study is to examine how school environment influence students’ academic performance. The main objective of the study is to analyse how school facilities, teachers and environment significantly affect secondary school students’ academic performance in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. Descriptive Survey Research design was used in which data from 377 respondents was collected using self-administered questionnaire from 4 selected secondary schools within Kuala Terengganu. Stratified random sampling technique was used to sample the respondents. The data was analysed using regression analysis. The result is explained in three forms; Demographic information, descriptive analysis and inferential analysis. The result of the study indicated that students from a school with adequate facilities, good teachers and favourable environment perform well than those from schools with fewer facilities, unqualified teachers and the less enabling environment. Finally, recommendations were given to parents, teachers, policy makers and educational administrators.
ADAPTATION OF THE SENTIMENTS , ATTITUDES , AND CONCERNS ABOUT INCLUSIVE EDUCATION REVISED ( SACIE-R ) SCALE ON A TURKISH POPULATION

The trends in inclusive education in Turkey begining in 2013 brought with it the basic important factor for successful inclusion: teacher beliefs and attitudes toward inclusion. At this point, the sentiments, attitudes, and concerns of teacher candidates need to be assessed with reliable and valid measures. Therefore the aim of this study was to adapt such an assessment tool for the Turkish culture. The Sentiments, Attitudes and Concerns about Inclusive Education Scale Revised (SACIE-R), a widely used assessment tool in various countries was selected for this purpose. A total of 567 undergraduate students studying in faculties of education across 4 Turkish universities participated in the study. The results of confirmatory factor analysis and reliability measures showed that SACIE-R showed good psychometric properties for Turkish teacher candidates.
Evaluation of Antibiotic Resistance in Extended-spectrum Beta-lactamase ( ESBL ) Genes in the E . coli Isolates of Urinary Infections

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) enzymes hydrolyze cephalosporins and penicillins. This study aimed to determine the frequency of Escherichia coli strains producing SHV, TEM and CTX-M β-lactamase genes and their association by inducing antibiotic resistance. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 55 E. coli strains were isolated from urinary samples and cultured on eosin methylene blue (EMB) agar and CHROMagar. After biochemical examinations, antibiotic susceptibility test was performed using the disk-diffusion method according to the guidelines of the Clinical & Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI). In addition, the presence of blaCTX-M, blaTEM and blaSHV genes was evaluated using specific multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers. FINDINGS: In this study, the highest antibiotic resistance was observed against penicillin and erythromycin (96% and 94.5%, respectively), while the highest susceptibility was reported for ciprofloxacin and imipenem (67.2%). Out of 55 samples, 26(47.27%) had the TEM gene, and CTX-M gene was detected in 41 (74.54%) samples. Moreover, TEM and CTX-M genes were simultaneously detected in 32.72% of the samples, while in six samples (10.9%), neither of these genes were present. The SHV gene was not detected in any of the samples. CONCLUSION: According to the results of this study, the production of ESBL was identified in 70% of the investigated E. coli isolates. Therefore, accurate and timely medical care, as well as the use of appropriate antibiotics, is required to prevent the outbreak of ESBL-producing E. coli strains.
Comparison of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies and Health Locus of Control in Children with Asthma and Normal Children

1 MSc, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 2 MSc, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran 3 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, West Azerbaijan, Iran * Corresponding author: Fereshteh Ghanbari, MSc, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: ali4423247@gmail.com
Robotic pyeloplasty: experience with three robotic platforms.

PURPOSE Laparoscopic pyeloplasty is a technically challenging procedure. Currently, several robotic surgical systems exist to overcome laparoscopic technical challenges confronted during pyeloplasty. We present a clinical comparison between three robotic surgical systems (Aesop, Zeus and da Vinci) in assisting laparoscopic pyeloplasty procedures. METHODS From January 2002 to August 2005, 32 dismembered laparoscopic pyeloplasties were performed using three robotic surgical systems. The results of the initial six, five and nine laparoscopic robotic pyeloplasty procedures performed using the Aesop, Zeus and da Vinci platforms were compared. Data relating to the subsequent 12 pyeloplasties using the da Vinci system were also analyzed. RESULTS The da Vinci robot required significantly more time to set up initially than the Aesop platform (12.5 min versus 39 min, p < 0.05) but the time was similar to that for the Zeus robot. Despite the longer setup time, laparoscopic robotic pyeloplasties performed using the da Vinci robot required 168 min and 35 min for operating time and anastomotic time, respectively. This was significantly faster than that for Aesop (262 min and 75 min) and Zeus (225 min and 71 min) robots (p < 0.05). There were no intra-operative complications. There was only one postoperative complication in the Zeus group involving a delayed urine leak. Narcotic requirements were low and duration of hospital stay was short for all patients. CONCLUSIONS We show that not all advanced robotic platforms are equal. In this study, procedures performed using the da Vinci robotic system resulted in decreased anastomotic and operating times. With emerging surgical technologies, the role of the robot in surgery continues to be defined.
An Inductorless Bias-Flip Rectifier for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting

Piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters have drawn much interest for powering self-sustained electronic devices. Furthermore, the continuous push toward miniaturization and higher levels of integration continues to form key drivers for autonomous sensor systems being developed as parts of the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. The synchronized switch harvesting (SSH) on inductor and synchronous electrical charge extraction are two of the most efficient interface circuits for piezoelectric energy harvesters; however, inductors are indispensable components in these interfaces. The required inductor values can be up to 10 mH to achieve high efficiencies, which significantly increase overall system volume, counter to the requirement for miniaturized self-power systems for IoT. An inductorless bias-flip rectifier is proposed in this paper to perform residual charge inversion using capacitors instead of inductors. The voltage flip efficiency goes up to 80% while eight switched capacitors are employed. The proposed SSH on capacitors circuit is designed and fabricated in a 0.35- $\mu \text{m}$ CMOS process. The performance is experimentally measured and it shows a 9.7 $\times $ performance improvement compared with a full-bridge rectifier for the case of a 2.5-V open-circuit zero-peak voltage amplitude generated by the piezoelectric harvester. This performance improvement is higher than most of the reported state-of-the-art inductor-based interface circuits, while the proposed circuit has a significantly smaller overall volume enabling system miniaturization.
Pharmacokinetics of marbofloxacin in dogs after oral and parenteral administration.

Six dogs were treated with a single intravenous (i.v.) dose (2 mg/kg) of marbofloxacin, followed by single oral (p.o.) doses of marbofloxacin at 1, 2 and 4 mg/kg, according to a three-way crossover design. The same experimental design was used for the subcutaneous (s.c.) route. In addition, a long-term trial involving eight dogs given oral doses of marbofloxacin at 2, 4 and 6 mg/kg/day for thirteen weeks was carried out. Plasma and urine samples were collected during the first two trials, plasma and skin samples were collected after the second of these trials. Plasma, urine and skin concentrations of marbofloxacin were determined by a reverse phase liquid chromatographic method. Mean pharmacokinetic parameters after i.v. administration were the following: t1/2 beta = 12.4 h; ClB = 0.10 L/h.kg; Varea = 1.9 L/kg. The oral bioavailability of marbofloxacin was close to 100% for the three doses. At 2 mg/kg, Cmax of 1.4 micrograms/mliter was reached at tmax of 2.5 h. Mean AUC and Cmax values had a statistically significant linear relationship with the doses administered. About 40% of the administered dose was excreted in urine as unchanged parent drug. After s.c. administration, the calculated parameters were close to those obtained after oral administration, except tmax (about 1 h) which was shorter. The mean skin to plasma concentration ratio after the long-term trial was 1.6, suggesting good tissue penetration of marbofloxacin.
Numerical investigation of secondary flows in a turbulent pipe flow with sinusoidal roughness

© 2018 Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society. All rights reserved. Recent research on turbulent flow over heterogeneous rough walls have reported the occurrence of secondary motions which extend to the edge of the boundary layer. In this study, direct numerical simulations (DNSs) of turbulent flow in a rough-wall pipe are conducted where the pipe surface consists of a three-dimensional sinusoidal surface. The roughness semi-amplitude height (h+) is fixed at 60 viscous units while the wavelength of the roughness elements is varied to investigate the effects of solidity or effective slope (ES). The rough-wall cases, which vary from the wavy regime (ES = 0.18 with a viscous roughness wavelength, λ+ of 848) to the closely packed roughness/dense regime (ES = 0.72, λ+ = 212), have a staggered arrangement. Using the triple decomposition, the time-independent dispersive stresses, which arise due to the stationary features of the flow, are found to increase in magnitude with roughness wavelength. These dispersive stresses, which are maximum in the roughness canopy, are due to the occurrence of secondary flows. These secondary flows transport high-speed fluid from the outer region to the near-wall region and pump low-speed fluid from the near-wall region to the outer region. For the range of cases simulated here, the wall-normal and spanwise extent of these secondary motions are found to scale with the roughness spanwise wavelength. This gives an indication of how the roughness sublayer is related to the degree of surface heterogeneity, with spanwise homogeneous flow only observed once the distance from the wall exceeds the spanwise spacing of the roughness. For the case with the largest wavelength (ES = 0.18), the secondary flows occupy a significant portion of the pipe cross-section.
Teaching compassion and respect. Attending physicians' responses to problematic behaviors.

OBJECTIVE To describe how and why attending physicians respond to learner behaviors that indicate negative attitudes toward patients. SETTING Inpatient general internal medicine service of a university-affiliated public hospital. PARTICIPANTS Four ward teams, each including an attending physician, a senior medicine resident, two interns, and up to three medical students. DESIGN Teams were studied using participant observation of rounds (160 hours); in-depth semistructured interviews (n = 23); a structured task involving thinking aloud (n = 4, attending physicians); and patient chart review. Codes, themes, and hypotheses were identified from transcripts and field notes, and iteratively tested by blinded within-case and cross-case comparisons. MAIN RESULTS Attending physicians identified three categories of potentially problematic behaviors: showing disrespect for patients, cutting corners, and outright hostility or rudeness. Attending physicians were rarely observed to respond to these problematic behaviors. When they did, they favored passive nonverbal gestures such as rigid posture, failing to smile, or remaining silent. Verbal responses included three techniques that avoided blaming learners: humor, referring to learners' self-interest, and medicalizing interpersonal issues. Attending physicians did not explicitly discuss attitudes, refer to moral or professional norms, "lay down the law," or call attention to their modeling, and rarely gave behavior-specific feedback. Reasons for not responding included lack of opportunity to observe interactions, sympathy for learner stress, and the unpleasantness, perceived ineffectiveness, and lack of professional reward for giving negative feedback. CONCLUSIONS Because of uncertainty about appropriateness and effectiveness, attending physicians were reluctant to respond to perceived disrespect, uncaring, or hostility toward patients by members of their medical team. They tended to avoid, rationalize, or medicalize these behaviors, and to respond in ways that avoided moral language, did not address underlying attitudes, and left room for face-saving reinterpretations. Although these oblique techniques are sympathetically motivated, learners in stressful clinical environments may misinterpret, undervalue, or entirely fail to notice such subtle feedback.
Chemoconvulsant‐induced Seizure Susceptibility: Toward a Common Genetic Basis?

Summary: Despite the efforts employed, understanding the genetic architecture underlying epilepsy remains difficult. To reach this aim, convulsive epilepsies are classically modeled in mice, where genetic studies are less constricting than in humans. Pharmacogenetic approaches are one major source of investigation where kainic acid, pentylenetetrazol, and the ß‐carboline family represent compounds that are used extensively. Several quantitative trait loci (QTLs) influencing the convulsant effects of these drugs have been mapped using either recombinant inbred strains (RIS) or segregating F2 populations (or both). In our laboratory, we have recently mapped two QTLs for methyl 6, 7‐dimethoxy‐4‐ethyl‐ß‐carboline‐3‐carboxylate (DMCM), and seizure response using an F2 method. One is located on the distal part of Chromosome 1, a region implicated in a number of other studies. Here, we address the general importance of this chromosomal fragment for influencing seizure susceptibility.
Convective mixing in geological storage of CO 2

Numerical simulations are an essential tool for assessing the long-term storage of CO2 in saline aquifers, such as the pilot project at the Wandoan site in Queensland’s Surat Basin. However, the robustness of the numerical predictions is dependent on accurately capturing the essential physical processes involved. One of the most significant results obtained through numerical simulations is the partitioning of CO2 into immobile phases, particularly the amount immobilised at residual saturation and the amount that has dissolved into the resident formation water. The quantity and time scale for CO2 immobilised in this manner is critical for understanding the security of the geological storage, as it reduces the possibility of leakage into shallower formations. It is well known that the necessary use of large grid blocks in numerical simulations of fieldsize projects introduces errors in the predictions of the amount of dissolved CO2. Recent work has provided simple solutions to correct this error (Green and Ennis-King, 2012). Another consequence of large grid blocks that has not yet been adequately addressed is the failure to accurately include the effects of convective mixing. This fine-scale process, which acts to increase the dissolution rate of CO2 into the formation water, has been the subject of a large body of scientific literature in recent years. Unfortunately, methods to include this effect in field-scale simulations, such as those that will be required for storage in the Precipice Sandstone in the Surat (e.g. the Wandoan site), are lacking. In this report, a review of the current body of knowledge concerning convective mixing of CO2 in saline aquifers is presented, and plans for future research to address the present shortcomings are detailed.
Role of US in detection of Crohn disease: meta-analysis.

PURPOSE To evaluate the accuracy of ultrasonography (US) in the detection of Crohn disease in adults by systematically reviewing both cohort studies (those including patients whose clinical characteristics were consistent with those caused by an inflammatory bowel disease) and case-control studies (those in which patients with Crohn disease were compared with patients with other bowel diseases or healthy control subjects). MATERIALS AND METHODS The MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases were used to retrieve all the cross-sectional studies that assessed the diagnostic accuracy of US against that of one of several predefined reference standards (ie, radiologic, endoscopic, or histologic findings). The studies that fulfilled the inclusion criteria were identified, and their methodological quality was evaluated. Of the 2860 primary studies identified, two case-control and five cohort series fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Statistical analysis was performed by using the summary receiver operating characteristic (SROC) model. RESULTS The ranges of US sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of Crohn disease reported for the included series were 75%-94% and 67%-100%, respectively; the heterogeneity of these values prevented the calculation of a cumulative value. The SROC curve revealed a clear cutoff effect that depended on the chosen bowel wall thickness threshold. Sensitivity and specificity of 88% and 93%, respectively, were achieved when a bowel wall thickness threshold greater than 3 mm was used, and sensitivity and specificity of 75% and 97%, respectively, were achieved when a threshold greater than 4 mm was used. CONCLUSION US examination seems appropriate for confirming or excluding Crohn disease as a diagnosis in a clinical context characterized by a pretest probability of Crohn disease that ranges from 12% to about 60%. In particular, for Crohn disease limited to the ileum, US may represent a valid alternative to the small-bowel series, while for colonic involvement US may be useful in ruling out the diagnosis.
Interaction Effects of Natural Resource Dependence , Environmental Degradation , and Economic Inequality on Civil Conflict and Terrorism : A Spatial Econometric Approach

The linkages between natural resource extraction and civil conflict have long been objects of social scientific interest. While past studies have established that countries and regions that are highly dependent on natural resources tend to experience more civil conflict, the drivers of this relationship, and even the direction of causality, remain subjects of intense debate. The paper contributes to the large quantitative literature on natural resource conflict by applying spatial autoregressive regression analysis to a crosscountry panel dataset of civil conflicts and conflict events, including terrorist attacks. The final sample includes conflict, environmental, economic, and political data on 163 countries over fifteen years. Results show a strong and statistically significant spatial effect, supporting the contention that conflict is contagious among neighboring countries. Measures of horizontal economic and environmental inequality, constructed using remote sensing methods, are found to interact with resource dependence to increase the risk and intensity of conflict events and terrorist attacks. The findings support a nuanced relationship between natural resources and civil conflict, whereby conflict is not merely the result of economic opportunism on the part of would-be insurgents, but rather of a complex confluence of geographic, environmental, economic, and political factors.
Ewing's family of tumors in adults: multivariate analysis of survival and long-term results of multimodality therapy in 182 patients.

PURPOSE To assess the outcome and the prognosis of adults with a neoplasm related to the Ewing's sarcoma family of tumors. PATIENTS AND METHODS The outcomes of 182 consecutive patients older than 15 years with Ewing's sarcoma or related neoplasms managed from 1982 to 1992 were reviewed, without any selection according to primary tumor site or disease extension. RESULTS Of 182 patients, 53 had evidence of metastases at presentation (29%). Tumor size was greater than 10 cm in 70 patients (41%). With a median follow-up duration of 66 months, the 5-year overall survival (OS) rate was 41%. In patients with localized disease, 5-year OS rate was 54% and 5-year progression-free survival (PFS) rate, 43%. Late relapses after 5 years accounted for 9% of relapses. Metastasis at presentation (P = .00001), pelvic primary lesion (P = .0025), and tumor size greater than 10 cm (P = .004) were independent prognostic factors for survival. Five-year OS was 67% in patients with nonpelvic tumors < or = 10 cm, 52% in those with pelvic tumors less than 10 cm or extrapelvic tumors > or = 10 cm, 16% in those with pelvic tumors greater than 10 cm, and 9% in those with metastasis (P = .00001). CONCLUSION Based on our experience and a review of the literature, we concluded that the natural history and the prognosis of the Ewing's family of tumors in adults are not different from that found in children. A greater tumor bulk in adults may explain the less favorable prognosis previously reported by others. Outcome could be adequately monitored by a simple prognostic index.