Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Serving Those Who Served

for many veterans, life after military service means adjusting to a new life and livelihood. And when veterans choose to pursue a degree in higher education, they often have an additional set of challenges to navigate. When Coleman Fung '87, a former US Army Supply Sergeant, attended Berke-ley, there were no veteran services at the university. And rather than being recognized for their leadership and public service achievements, Fung felt that veterans were sometimes discounted within the Berkeley community. Fung credits Berkeley with many things, including an outstanding education and nurturing the perseverance and courage that a sometimes overwhelming — or even inhospitable — institution can inspire. Perseverance and courage are things Fung knows well, having emigrated from Hong Kong to New York City at 16 years of age. After earning his bachelor's degree in industrial en-gineering/operations research at Berkeley, he earned his master's degree in industrial engineering from Stanford in 1989. By 1992, Fung had founded Open-Link Financial, a successful technology platform that transformed risk management for financial, energy, and commodity markets. After retiring from executive leadership at OpenLink, Fung co-founded Blue Goji, a startup actively developing a new field — gamified, behavioral wellness, and health — and became a leading social entrepreneur. Fung created and endowed two research centers at Berkeley, funded a number of university and grade school chairs, supported an integrated program to restore A veteran and Berkeley alum gives voice to the challenges faced by student-veterans and funds ways for vets to increase success at Berkeley.
Including students with visual impairment in a colombian state university: a descriptive case study

Many organizations around the world, as well as the Colombian Government, have the commitment of providing all students with education of quality, which implies to guarantee a real inclusive education. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive case study was to explore what could be observed in terms of inclusive education, in an English language teaching program in a Colombian state university, for a student with visual impairment, and analyze the perceptions of this student and seven of his professors towards this inclusive education process. These perceptions were gathered through interviews and video stimulated recalls for its further analysis. The findings reveal that the state university where this research study was conducted does not have the required architecture and infrastructure for facilitating the mobility of people with visual impairment. Besides, the professors interviewed do not have professional training about inclusive education, and they do not receive any support from such university for teaching a visually impaired student in a proper way. Moreover, the lack of awareness by professors and fellow students about the needs of blind people, makes the inclusion process of this student even more challenging. As conclusions, it is important to include in all the teaching programs of this university a mandatory subject about inclusive education, so future professors can be prepared for the challenges that come when having students with special needs in their classrooms. Furthermore, it is essential to raise awareness on the university community about the needs of these students.
Survey on the Research Challenges of Radio Resource Management in LTE-A and the Current Proposed Solutions for these Challenges

Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-Advanced) has been recently submitted by the 3 rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as one of the candidates 4G technologies. LTE-Advanced is expected to outperform its predecessor (i.e. LTE) by providing data rate up to 1Gbps and 500 Mbps in the downlink and uplink directions, respectively, also by supporting higher speed mobility (i.e. 500 km/h). In order to allow such advances in the performance, Radio Resource Management (RRM) must be effectively utilized. This paper studies the technical challenges associated with some of the RRM tasks (including Packet scheduling, interference management and handover control), in addition it presents from the open literature some of the proposed solutions to these technical challenges.
Caregiver-Infant Interaction Quality: A Review of Observational Assessment Tools

ABSTRACT The relationship between caregiver and infant interaction quality and infant developmental outcomes has long been established. As children mature, problems stemming from troubled caregiver-infant relations may result in referral to mental health, early intervention, or child protection services. The accurate and appropriate assessment of caregiver-infant interaction is critical for early recognition of problematic relations and for informing suitable treatment modalities. Evaluating the quality of the caregiver-infant relationship poses a challenge for researchers and clinicians seeking to explore the association between infant development and the quality of early caregiving experiences. This paper describes and compares commonly used measures of caregiver-infant interaction, including the Parent-Child Interaction Scales, Mutual Regulation Scales, Parent-Child Early Relationship Assessment, Mother-Infant Communication Screening, Ainsworth Maternal Sensitivity Scales, Maternal Behavior Q-sort, and the Emotional Availability Scales.
Effect of Remote Ischemic Conditioning on Lipopolysaccharide-induced Pulmonary Inflammation

Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC), an intervention whereby an extremity undergoes brief repeated cycles of ischemia/reperfusion (I/R), has been shown to exert protective effects on distant organ I/R injury. Its potential benefit in organ injury induced by other inflammatory stimuli has not been determined. To test whether RIPC would exert protective effects on LPSinduced pulmonary inflammation, mice were subjected to hindlimb RIPC using a tourniquet prior to intratracheal LPS. RIPC significantly reduced leukocyte recruitment and protein leakage in the lungs at 4 hours after LPS. Lung ICAM-1 mRNA expression was also reduced, whereas TNF-α and IL-1β were upregulated, although these changes were statistically insignificant. However, the protective effect of RIPC was lost by 24 hours after LPS. Moreover, delayed conditioning and dual conditioning before and after LPS administration did not prevent lung inflammation. In conclusion, RIPC provides early protection against LPS-induced pulmonary inflammation in mice, but the effect is not sustained.
Backbone Can Not be Trained at Once: Rolling Back to Pre-trained Network for Person Re-Identification

In person re-identification (ReID) task, because of its shortage of trainable dataset, it is common to utilize fine-tuning method using a classification network pre-trained on a large dataset. However, it is relatively difficult to sufficiently finetune the low-level layers of the network due to the gradient vanishing problem. In this work, we propose a novel fine-tuning strategy that allows low-level layers to be sufficiently trained by rolling back the weights of high-level layers to their initial pre-trained weights. Our strategy alleviates the problem of gradient vanishing in low-level layers and robustly trains the low-level layers to fit the ReID dataset, thereby increasing the performance of ReID tasks. The improved performance of the proposed strategy is validated via several experiments. Furthermore, without any addons such as pose estimation or segmentation, our strategy exhibits state-of-the-art performance using only vanilla deep convolutional neural network architecture.
Telling Tales of Death in Childbirth: The Interface between Fiction and Medical Treatises in Early Modern France

Verisimilitude was rarely Rabelais’s main concern, but as a doctor he would have known that death in childbirth was sufficiently commonplace to cause little surprise to his readers. It is only towards the very end of the chapter that we are informed of the precise monstrous and gigantic nature of the birth; initially, we may simply assume that a rather large baby caused his mother’s demise. 1 All translations from the French, unless otherwise stated, are by the author. W w V A L E R I E W O R T H S T Y L I A N O U .
Status of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) Services Utilization and Factors Affecting PMTCT Service Uptake by Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care Clinic in Selected Health Facilities of Afar Regional State, Ethiopia

Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is the predominant way for children to acquire human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection worldwide including Ethiopia. Thus, objective of this study was to determine the status of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services utilization and factors affecting PMTCT utilization in health facilities of Afar region, Ethiopia. A cross-sectional study was conducted from December 2014 to April 2015 taking 347 pregnant women and 22 health care providers. Data were collected using a questioner prepared separately for pregnant women and health care providers involved in PMTCT service delivery. Data were analyzed using SPSS considering P value <0.05 statistical significant. The study indicated that the PMTCT service utilization was 67.7%. The study also showed that there is statistically significant association in using PMTCT service with women education level, monthly income, and residence around PMTCT site. Though not statistically significant, excess waiting time, limited physical access to PMTCT sites, and transportation problem were identified as barriers for PMTCT service utilization by pregnant women. Though knowledge of mothers on MTCT of HIV and PMTCT service utilization in agropostural community of Afar region was promising, there were also different barriers identified hindering PMTCT utilization. Thus, we recommend “Wored” and zonal health office to create awareness on significance of PMTCT service in the community, enhance accessibility of PMTCT sites, provide up-to-date trainings for health care providers, and ensure constant supply for PMTCT service.
Pediatric Pulmonology

Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Department of Neonatal Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Division of Biostatistics, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Department of Pediatrics, Sachs' Children and Youth Hospital, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden Karolinska Institute, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
The Whole Is More Than Its Parts? From Explicit to Implicit Pose Normalization

Fine-grained classification describes the automated recognition of visually similar object categories like birds species. Previous works were usually based on explicit pose normalization, i.e., the detection and description of object parts. However, recent models based on a final global average or bilinear pooling have achieved a comparable accuracy without this concept. In this paper, we analyze the advantages of these approaches over generic CNNs and explicit pose normalization approaches. We also show how they can achieve an implicit normalization of the object pose. A novel visualization technique called <italic>activation flow</italic> is introduced to investigate limitations in pose handling in traditional CNNs like AlexNet and VGG. Afterward, we present and compare the explicit pose normalization approach <italic>neural activation constellations</italic> and a generalized framework for the final global average and bilinear pooling called <italic><inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\alpha$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi>α</mml:mi></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="simon-ieq1-2885764.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>-pooling</italic>. We observe that the latter often achieves a higher accuracy improving common CNN models by up to 22.9 percent, but lacks the interpretability of the explicit approaches. We present a visualization approach for understanding and analyzing predictions of the model to address this issue. Furthermore, we show that our approaches for fine-grained recognition are beneficial for other fields like action recognition.
Is Communicative Language Teaching Being Tested Communicatively? An Analysis of English Tests in Oman

This paper investigates the degree of communicativeness of English final tests in Oman. It is a descriptive, content-based analysis of Five Final tests from 2011 to 2016. A framework and a checklist were developed for purposes of analysis. The framework was based on Bachman and Palmer's model of language ability (2010) and grade 10 English test specifications. Research findings reveal: (i) A discrepancy between test specifications of English final tests and the actual content of the tests (ii) That communicative competence was not fully addressed in the English final tests (iii) That the input used in English final tests lacks authenticity (iv) The majority of the test components used suitable language in a limited context with limited instructions given for some components. There was also lack of constructed responses (v) There was no integration between two skills or elements on the test, except for a random integration between vocabulary and reading.
Clinical utility of quasimonomorphic variation range (QMVR) on the determination of microsatellite instability (MSI) status in Japanese patients (pts) with colorectal cancer (CRC): GI-SCREEN-CRC-MSI sub-study 01.

TPS808Background: The current analysis for the determination of Microsatellite Instability (MSI) status in tumor requires matched normal DNA as a reference. The Promega MSI panel included five monomorphic markers (NR-21, BAT-26, BAT-25, NR-24, and MONO-27) which were known to have few variant alleles in Caucasian as well as Japanese. Therefore, these markers might be able to determine the MSI status without matched normal DNA, although it is conceivable that Quasi-Monomorphic Variation Range (QMVR) in each ethnic group could be different. In our pilot study, the QMVR in 149 Japanese healthy individuals were 98.4-104.4 base pair (bp) in NR-21, 111.4-117.4 bp in BAT-26, 121.0-127.0 bp in BAT-25, 129.5-135.5 bp in NR-24, and 149.9-155.9 bp in MONO-27, respectively. Methods: This clinical evaluation study is to establish the QMVR in Japanese colorectal cancer (CRC) patients (pts) and to evaluate the clinical utility of the QMVR on the determination of MSI status without matched normal DNA. The primary endpoin.
MOBILE PHONES AS USEFUL LANGUAGE LEARNING TOOLS

Most youth are passionate about having the most recent mobile phones just to boast among their peers. They use them to make phone calls, take photos, listen to songs, watch videos, or gain access to the internet for entertainment. This paper presents how to change the mobile phone device from a communication device to an educational tool. It demonstrates that a mobile phone could be a useful tool in learning and teaching the English Language. In this paper, the researcher emphasize the potential of mobile phones as a learning tool for students and have incorporated them into the learning environment. The paper discusses the challenges and expected difficulties. Many theories(e.g. Behaviourist learning, Constructivist learning, Situated learning, Sociocultural theory of learning, Informal and lifelong learning) relevant to the use of mobile phones in education are presented and the different tasks and activities relevant to them are explored. The salient features of mobile phones which make them useful for language learning are discussed too. The possible methods that should be used for gaining the best of learning through mobile phones are proposed. Activities are classified in terms of the main theories and areas of learning relevant to learning with mobile technologies. This article concludes with a discussion of how moderate use of mobile phones may bring interest among the learners and transform the learning process as it helps learners to raise their self – esteem and self- confidence. The researcher tries to foresee the future of mobile learning in general and mobile phones in particular in learning English since the English language has become the most requested and widespread means of communication all over the world.
Prevalence and Factors Contributing to Late Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Among Women Attending Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Oncology Unit, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2017

A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCE SCHOOL OF ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER IN ONCOLOGY NURSING
Dihydrogen bonds: a study

Un pont de dihidrogen (dihydrogen bond,DHB) es un tipus de pont d'hidrogen atipic que s'estableix entre un hidrur metal·lic i un donador de protons com un grup OH o NH. Els ponts de dihidrogen son claus en les caracteristiques geometriques i altres propietats de compostos que en presenten tan de molecules petites com el dimer de NH3BH3, com d'estructures superiors mes complicades com complexes metal·lics o solids. Poden ser utils aplicats a certes molecules o sintesis moleculars per a obtenir nous materials amb propietats o caracteristiques fetes a mida. El treball d'aquesta tesi esta orientat a millorar la comprensio dels ponts de dihidrogen, aprofundint en certs aspectes de la seva naturalesa atomica/molecular utilitzant metodes teorics basats en la quimica fisica quantica.
Relationship between the dietary intake, serum, and breast milk concentrations of vitamin A and vitamin E in a cohort of women over the course of lactation.

This study evaluated the nutritional status of lactating women with regard to vitamins A and E and the relationship between dietary intake and concentrations in serum and milk. A longitudinal study was conducted with 43 women at a hospital in northeastern Brazil. Blood and milk samples and food intake recalls were obtained at three moments during the breastfeeding period. Retinol and alpha-tocopherol were analysed by high-performance liquid chromatography. Dietary inadequacy was analysed according to the estimated average requirement, with intrapersonal variation adjusted by the multiple source method. Food intake was classified by quartiles of consumption. Serum retinol was 1.65 μmol/L, with 5% of low concentrations (<0.7 μmol/L) at the first collection. Serum alpha-tocopherol decreased from 30.18 to 25.49 μmol/L at the third collection (P = 0.008), with an increase in the percentage frequency of deficiency (<12 μmol/L). Both vitamins maintained stable concentrations in milk at the different collection times, and the overall dietary inadequacy of vitamins A and E was 58% and 100%, respectively. There was a correlation only between vitamin A intake and serum retinol (r = 0.403, P = 0.007), and higher retinol concentrations were found in women classified in the highest consumption quartile (P = 0.031). Over the course of lactation, there was a high degree of inadequacy in vitamin intake and a reduction in serum alpha-tocopherol, whereas its concentrations in milk remained unchanged. Dietary intake of vitamin A has been shown to influence serum retinol, which underscores the importance of adequate nutrition and monitoring of vitamin deficiency during lactation.
Electronic and structural properties of graphene/metal interfaces

Onderzoek naar de interactie tussen grafeen en een ondersteunende metaallaag Grafeen is een koolstofverbinding met een tweedimensionale structuur; een vlak rooster waarin koolstofatomen in de vorm van een honingraat zijn gerangschikt. De verwachtingen voor toekomst zijn hooggespannen. Elektronica raakt meer en meer op koolstof gebaseerd en grafeen wordt gezien als een fundamenteel ingredient voor dergelijke toepassingen. Een beter begrip van de interacties tussen grafeen en de ondersteunende laag is dan nodig. Daarbij gaat het over de vraag hoe de eigenschappen van grafeen door deze interactie worden beinvloed. Vooral de studie van raakvlakken tussen grafeen en metaal krijgt veel aandacht. De reden is de belangrijke rol van metalen in het groeiproces van grafeen (vooral chemische dampdepositie, CVD). Om bijvoorbeeld veldeffect transistoren (FET`s) gebaseerd op grafeen te realiseren, moeten de elektronische eigenschappen van het grafeenmembraan in contact met het metaal volledig gekarakteriseerd worden. In zijn proefschrift geeft Luca Bignardi een overzicht van de veranderingen van elektronische en structurele eigenschappen grafeen dat via de CVD-methode gegroeid is op technologisch relevante metalen zoals nikkel en koper. Bignardi bestudeerde bezette en onbezette elektronische toestanden en onderzocht de structurele eigenschappen van de raakvlakken. Hij gebruikte daarbij verschillende technieken zoals foto-elektronspectroscopie en scanning tunneling microscopy. In het onderzoek is ook veel aandacht besteed aan de optimalisering van groeiprocedures die de eigenschappen van grafeen kunnen beinvloeden.
Family Help By Greek Grandparents

The aim of this research is to investigate the role of grandparents in providing help in the care of their grandchildren in Greece. Many Greek grandparents provide regular child care and other kinds of family help, but very limited research has been carried out on this important topic. Quantitative data has been collected by administered questionnaire from 190 grandparents around Greece regarding the types of help given in the care of grandchildren, how often help was given, and grandparents' reasons for helping. The authors find that over a third (38%) of grandparents provide daily child care. Around 50% also babysit, provide household help, and pickup/drop off a grandchild at least once a week. Furthermore, 50% provide emotional support or advice on a daily basis, and 26% give financial support at least once a week. The vast majority (93%) report “I enjoy it” as one of the most important reasons for providing assistance. Over a third (38%) say they provide assistance to help the parental generation financially. Grandmothers are significantly more involved in child care and household help than are grandfathers. No significant differences have been found for involvement in the various forms of family help according to area of residence, educational level, or income level (with the exception of emotional support). The findings are discussed in the context of previous research on grandparents and of recent social change in Greece.
YOUNG ADULTS' CREDIBILITY ASSESSMENT OF WIKIPEDIA

Wikipedia, a publicly edited online encyclopedia, is accessed by millions of users for answers to questions from trivial to high-stakes topics like health information. This new type of information resource may pose novel challenges for readers when it comes to evaluating the quality of content, yet very little is known about how Wikipedia readers understand and interpret the material they find on the site. Do people know that anyone can edit the site? And if so, what does this fact lead them to believe about the reliability of Wikipedia or particular articles therein? This study analyzes the information-seeking behavior of a diverse group of 210 college students from two Midwestern US universities as a first step towards addressing these questions. This paper found that a few students demonstrated in-depth knowledge of the Wikipedia editing process, while most had some understanding of how the site functions and a few lacked even such basic knowledge as the fact that anyone can edit the site. Although many study participants had been advised by their instructors not to cite Wikipedia articles in their schoolwork, students nonetheless often use it in their everyday lives. This paper lays the groundwork for further research to determine the extent of Wikipedia knowledge in the broader population and in additional diverse contexts.