Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Ct Evaluation of Anatomical Variations In Osteomeatal Complex in Patients with Deviated Nasal Septum

Background:The presence of septal deviation has been positively associated with sinus disease, especially osteomeatal complex disease and anterior and posterior ethmoid disease.Computerized tomographic imaging (CT) of the paranasal sinuses has become a widely accepted tool for assessing the paranasal sinuses (PNS) and providing a detailed anatomy of the lateral nasal wall. Objective:The objective of the study was to identify the anatomical variations of lateral nasal wall and paranasal sinuses in patients with Deviated nasal septum. Methods:Computerized tomographic (CT) examination was carried out using the bone algorithm in the coronal plane in 40 patients who met the inclusion criteriain the Postgraduate Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, SMHS Hospital an associated Hospital of Government Medical College, Srinagar from March 2011 to May 2012. Results:In our study, CT Nose and PNS revealed Deviated nasal septum in 40 (100%) patients, Hypertrophied Inferior turbinate in 11 (27.50%) patients, Concha bullosa in 5 (12.50%) patients, Paradoxical Middle turbinate in 8 (20%) patients, Everted Hypertrophied Uncinate in 2 (5%) patients, Aggernasi cells in 4 (10%) patients, Haller cells in 3 (7.50%) patients and Onodi cells in 2 (5%) patients. Conclusion:The most common anatomical variation associated with deviated nasal septum was Hypertrophied Inferior turbinate and the least encountered variation was Everted Hypertrophied Uncinate and Onodi cells. The CT scan provides supplementary clinical data to the history and endoscopic examination and assists in directing surgical treatment to the affected areas. Bangladesh J Otorhinolaryngol; October 2015; 21 (2): 90-93
User participation and community formation in peer production systems

This thesis explores the phenomenon of user participation in peer production communities. In large-scale collaboration communities such as wikis, open source software development teams, and file-sharing groups, members are, in general, not remunerated for contributing to the digital common, so the incentives to participate in these projects are usually construed in terms of extrinsic benefits such as building reputations, reciprocity, gratification, and providing a sense of membership to a socially cohesive group. In fact, like any social group, a community of commons-based peer production is endowed with its own norms, beliefs, and cultural features. In these systems such features, however, are themselves the result of a bottom-up process of cultural formation and opinion aggregation, mostly related to various aspects of the social production of digital content. Unfortunately it is still poorly understood how this process happens – considering that most interactions between members are mediated by the digital artifacts (encyclopedic articles, source code, etc.) that the project is producing. To this end, we studied the process of community formation in a large peer production community by means of statistical analysis and agent-based modeling and simulation. In the first part of this thesis we analyzed the activity of registered editors from the communities of five of the largest versions of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. We found that the distribution of the user activity lifespan is distributed according to a mixture of log-normal distributions. In order to understand these empirical patterns we developed, in the second part of the thesis, an agent-based model of a peer production community. Social influence is modeled in terms of dyadic user-page interactions, under the form of the bounded confidence rule. Thus a measurable aspect of user participation – activity lifespan – is linked to microscopic features of the dynamics of social influence. In order to study the behavior of our model, we perform a factor screening via global sensitivity analysis. We then calibrate our agentbased model using the empirical data from Wikipedia. To this end, an indirect
Health and Safety for Canadian Youth in Trades

This article examines occupational health and safety (OHS), with a particular focus on youth apprentices. It uses quantitative and qualitative data to examine the incidence of injuries among youth apprentices, and their experiences related to health and safety at work in Canada. Analysis of largescale national surveys suggests a high incidence of work-related injuries among youth and low participation rates of younger workers in formal OHS training. A survey of 173 former Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP) and Registered Apprenticeship Program in Alberta (RAP) participants finds that one-fifth suffered serious occupational injuries, which required time off work. The results from this study have important implications for youth apprenticeship programs, particularly the OHS- and trade-specific knowledge required for youth to work safely during and following their apprenticeship training.
How does Counseling Help People with Amputation?

Evaluation of counseling services is a recent innovation but is necessary to prevent perpetuation of ineffective practices. Two studies are reported. The first study explores the nature of problems presented spontaneously to the counselor, and the second study evaluates the effect of counseling offered in the first weeks after amputation. In the first study records were kept of the problems raised and 100 consecutive patients were selected who were concerned about emotional issues. In the second study 58 patients’ responses to a questionnaire about difficulties with a number of aspects of daily living were recorded at the first interview and again 4 to 6 months later. Eighteen (31%) of these patients elected to have counseling and their follow up responses are compared with those who declined counseling. The majority of respondents saw counseling as useful or potentially useful. Depression and body image disruption were most frequently raised; these were not universally experienced but were expressed by a significant minority of the patients. The problems reported in study 2 were concerned with practical issues such as performing tasks as well as housing and emotional issues such as depression, anger, and body image. At follow-up, 4 to 6 months after amputation, the group who elected to have counseling showed an improvement in the practical problems relative to those who were not counseled. Emotional problems showed an increase in both groups. Both studies indicated that emotional problems became apparent about 6-24 months after amputation. Counseling offered in the early weeks after amputation was seen as beneficial and showed a positive effect on the experience of practical problems. However, emotional problems become more apparent at a later stage.
The analgesic effects of interferential therapy on cold-induced pain in healthy subjects: a preliminary report

Interferential (IF) therapy is an electrotherapeutic modality used by physiotherapists for the management of a variety of painful conditions. However, the analgesic efficacy of IF remains in doubt and its mechanism of analgesic action is far from understood. This preliminary study examined the effect of IF on cold-induced pain threshold and tolerance in healthy student volunteers. Interferential therapy, when applied to the anterior aspect of the forearm of healthy subjects, significantly elevated ice pain threshold when compared with a control (no treatment) group. These preliminary findings provide objective evidence for the analgesic effects of IF currents.
TROMBOSE VENOSA PROFUNDA

A trombose venosa profunda (TVP) e definida como a obstrucao ao fluxo sanguineo pela formacao de um trombo nas veias do sistema profundo. A TVP afeta com maior frequencia os membros inferiores, porem tambem pode ocorrer na veia cava, nas veias jugulares internas, no seio cavernoso e nos membros superiores. Tres fatores principais estao diretamente ligados a genese dos trombos: estase sanguinea, lesoes do endotelio e estados de hipercoagulabilidade. A trombose venosa profunda e uma das principais causas de morte em pacientes hospitalizados devido a sua principal complicacao o tromboembolismo pulmonar (TEP), mesmo assim esta enfermidade pode era facilmente evitada quando e instituida a profilaxia adequada enquanto que o tromboembolismo pulmonar tambem pode ser prevenido quando e feito o diagnostico precoce da TVP e estabelecido o tratamento efetivo. Este trabalho teve como objetivo discutir a fisiopatologia, o quadro clinico, o diagnostico e o tratamento da TVP, assim como demonstrar a importância das medidas profilaticas para evitar a formacao do trombo venoso nos pacientes que apresentem fatores de risco para a doenca.
Pattern of Childhood Malignancies in Jos, North Central Nigeria

Background: Malignancies constitute an important cause of childhood morbidity and mortality in Nigeria. This study describes the current trend in the spectrum of childhood malignancies in Jos , North Central Nigeria. Methodology: A four-year prospective study of childhood malignancies seen at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), Jos was conducted between November 2006 and October 2010. Data collected included patients biodata, type of malignancy, treatment modality and outcome. Results: Ninety two (92) cases of childhood malignancies were seen during the 4year period, accounting for 2.7% of all admissions into the paediatric wards, giving an average of 23 cases per year. Out of this, 54 were males; 38 were females. The most common childhood malignancy was Burkitt's Lymphoma accounting for 48.9%, followed by acute leukemias (13.8%), non-Hodgkin lymphoma (12.8%) and Rhabdomyosarcoma (10.6%). The peak age group of children with cancers was 5-9 years (range 2-17 years). The cancer cure rate was as low as 34% while losses to follow up was 30%, and 26% of the patients died in the course of therapy from advanced disease or complications of therapy. Conclusion: Childhood cancers are not uncommon in our environment. Burkitt's lymphoma was the single most common childhood cancer. Cancer cure rate in our centre is still very low. Mobilization of human and material resources towards childhood cancer management and control is advocated. Key Words Pattern, Childhood malignancies, Chemotherapy, Nigeria.
Prevalence of Alcohol and Tobacco Use among Men and Women in Namibia

Namibia is known to have a high prevalence of tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption. Individuals who smoke are more likely to drink, and vice versa. It was reported that the individual rewarding effect of drinking and smoking were reported to be higher than when they are used at the same time. In this study our objective was to examine the individual and combined prevalence of drinking and smoking and investigate their sociodemographic correlates among adolescent and adult men and women in Namibia. This study was based on data from Namibia Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS 2013). Sample population were 14,185 men and women aged between 15 and 64 years. Self-reported tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption patterns were the outcome variables. Data were analysed using complex sampling techniques to account for survey design. Bivariate and multivariate techniques were used to measure the association between drinking and smoking with the sociodemographic factors. The prevalence of alcohol and tobacco use was, respectively, 53.1% (51.5–54.6) and 8.8% (8.1–9.5), and that of both drinking and smoking was 6.9% (6.3–7.6). In the regression analysis, several sociodemographic factors were found to be significantly associated with alcohol and tobacco use including age, area of residence, religion and educational status. Overall, women had higher rates of drinking alcohol; however, men had higher rates of engaging in high risk drinking. Men and women who reported drinking alcohol had, respectively, 2.57 and 4.60 times higher odds of smoking. Findings suggest that the prevalence of drinking was higher than that of smoking, with men having higher prevalence of high risk drinking. Men and women who drink alcohol were more likely to be smokers. The prevalence of both alcohol and tobacco use showed important sociodemographic patterns which need to be taken into consideration in designing prevention and intervention programs. Strategic tobacco control and smoking cessation approaches should pay particular attention to alcohol users.
Linking Personal Qualifications to Education Standards

This paper examines how the personal qualifications required to practice art therapy can be integrated into the American Art Therapy Association Education Standards. A review of current and historical documents demonstrates the importance of personal qualifications of art therapists. The author proposes a link between education standards and personal qualifications by identifying the latter as specific competencies. The article concludes with recommendations for how to proceed with linking personal qualifications to education standards. This article is intended to provoke thought and discussion about what personal qualifications are necessary to practice art therapy, and how these qualifications can be developed during graduate preparation.
Closure Duration and VOT of Word-initial Voiceless Plosives in English in Spontaneous Connected Speech

This is a corpus study on closure duration and VOT in English voiceless stops in word-initial position. 19 speakers’ (10 female, 9 male) data from the Buckeye Speech corpus are used in the study. The first half of the paper introduces a novel approach of automatically finding the point of stop release in large speech database, using Mel spectral templates and similarity scores. The performance and robustness of the algorithm is discussed in detail. To our knowledge, this is also the first automatic measure of closure duration and VOT that is reported in detail in the literature. The second half of the paper studies the closure duration and VOT as calculated by the procedure described in the first half, and investigate the correlation between these durations and a number of linguistic and extra-linguistic factors.
Obesity-related Dietary Behaviours among Racially and Ethnically DiversePregnant and Postpartum Women

Introduction: Obesity is common among reproductive age women, and disproportionately im-pacts racial/ethnic minorities. Our objective was to assess racial/ethnic differences in obesity-related dietary behaviors among pregnant and postpartum women, to inform peripartum weight management interventions that target diverse populations. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 212 Black (44%), Hispanic (31%) and White (25%) women, age ≥18, pregnant or within one year postpartum, in hospital-based clinics in Bal-timore Maryland in 2013. Outcomes were fast food or sugar-sweetened beverage intake once or more weekly. We used logistic regression to evaluate the association between race/ethnicity and obesity-related dietary behaviors, adjusting for sociodemographic factors. Results: In adjusted analyses, Black women had 2.4 increased odds of fast food intake once or more weekly compared to White women (CI=1.08, 5.23). There were no racial/ethnic differences in the odds of sugar-sweetened beverage intake. Discussion: Compared with White or Hispanic women, Black women had 2-fold higher odds of fast food intake once or more weekly. Black women might benefit from targeted counseling and intervention to reduce fast food intake during and after pregnancy.
Towards Intelligent Text Mining Under Limited Linguistic Resources

The huge growth in digital libraries, WWW (world wide web) and other text resources has created the demand of techniques which can work intelligently on limited linguistic resources and fulfills the growing demand of text analysis, pattern discovery and information management related operations. The graph based automated text analysis and text mining methods have received a great deal of attention in solving these issues. Actually, an important aspect of graph-based method is that it does not require deep linguistic knowledge, nor domain or language specific annotated corpora, which makes it highly portable to other domains, genres, or languages. The development of advanced graph theoretical techniques for social media mining has also enriched this area. However, the development of effective core techniques to mine the information, from text document(s) by using limited linguistic resources is a challenging task of significant interest. Still sincere attentions for improvements in a lot of explored core areas are required. Additionally, the exploring of unexplored/less explored areas can be very useful and key ingredient of several text mining applications. Based on the above discussed facts, we have identified some core issues (and techniques for them) like: (i) meaningful phrase identification (ii) differentiating role and sense of words, preferably via a single measure, (iii) handling information gap at the phrase level by using unsupervised scheme, (iv) integrating the importance of words as a core feature and (v) identifying group semantics and/or logically related features, (vi) sentence abstraction and so on. These techniques are very useful for multiple text mining applications like: (a) Document summarization, (b) Summarization Evaluation, (c) Document Clustering, (d) Key phrase Extraction and (e) Automatic Question Answering. The effective improvement in the results of our devised applications, over state-of-the-arts supervised, unsupervised applications, which use linguistic support and domain knowledge etc., prove the effectiveness of the proposed techniques. Our contributions related to the development in the core techniques for domain independent traditional text mining include: (i) Phrase Identification: Identifying useful phrases are still an open and challenging task, as, available linguistic and statistical state-of the art techniques, still suffer a lot of problems. The performance of several text mining tasks depends upon the quality of the identified phrases. We introduce the centrality measures based technique for phrase identification having accuracy more than 90%. We effectively apply this technique to key-phrase extraction (which is itself treated as core task for several applications like: document categorization, indexing, skimming etc.) and document clustering.
A comparison of single-port laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy using transumbilical SILS port access and three-port laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy

목적 SILS포트를 이용한 단일공법 복강경하 질식자궁절제술을 수술 결과들과 환자 만족도 측면에서 삼공법과 비교하기 위함이다. 연구방법 2010년 4월부터 2011년 5월까지 원광대학교병원에서 자궁경부와 자궁체부의 양성질환으로 복강경하 질식자궁절제술을 시행받은 총 138명의 환자를 대상으로 하였다. 각각의 수술법은 환자 동의 아래 직접 선택하였고, SILS을 이용한 단일공법 복강경하 질식자궁절제술이 시행된 환자 65명과, 삼공법으로 시행된 환자 73명이 대상이 되었다. 결과 수술시간(93.4±20.2분 vs. 95.1±28.7분, P=0.696), 혈색소변화(1.91±0.68 g/dL vs. 1.85±0.87 g/dL, P=0.667), 절제된 자궁 무게(288.2± 241.1 g vs. 311.8±268.3 g, P=0.225), 재원기간(5.9±0.9일 vs. 6.4±1.6일, P=0.063), 추가적인 포트삽입(1.5% vs. 0%, P=0.471), 개복술로의 전환(0% vs. 4.1%, P=0.098), 수술 후 통증(시각통증등급)은 두 군 간에 유의한 차이를 보이지 않았다. 하지만 수술 6주 후 조사된 환자 만족도는 단일공법군이 만족(52.3% vs. 34.2%, P=0.032)과 매우 만족(33.8% vs. 17.8%, P=0.031)에서 통계학적으로 유의하게 높았다. 결론 SILS포트를 이용한 단일공법 복강경하 질식자궁절제술은 복강경하 질식자궁절제술을 시행받는 환자에서 삼공법 복강경하 질식자궁절제술에 견줄만한 방법이며, 환자 만족도 측면에서는 삼공법 복강경하 질식자궁절제술에 비해 우수하다.
Analisis Dampak Pengembangan Wisata Pulau Bokori Terhadap Kondisi Sosial Ekonomi Masyarakat Bajo (Studi Kasus di Desa Mekar Kecamatan Soropia)

Pulau Bokori merupakan salah satu destinasi wisata bahari yang menjadi tempat tujuan pariwisata di Sulawesi Tenggara. Pengembangan Pulau Bokori yang dilakukan pemerintah daerah secara langsung akan memberikan pengaruh bagi masyarakat sekitar. Masyarakat Bajo di Desa Mekar adalah masyarakat yang mendiami daerah sekitar pulau bokori dengan mata pencaharian sebagai nelayan dengan tingkat kemiskinan yang sangat tinggi yakni seluruh masyarakatnya tergolong masyarakat miskin. Keberadaan wisata pulau bokori ini akan memberikan perubahan pada kondisi sosial seperti perubahan gaya hidup dan ekonomi seperti perubahan mata pencaharian, peningkatan pendapatan, perubahan pemilikan asset dan kondisi rumah masyarakat Bajo. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengetahui dampak pengembangan wisata pulau Bokori terhadap kondisi sosial dan ekonomi masyarakat Bajo di Desa Mekar. Analisis data yang digunakan di penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kuantitatif dan kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pengaruh sosial berupa gaya hidup melalui cara berpakaian masyarakat Bajo akibat adanya wisata Pulau Bokori sangat kecil, yaitu sebesar 10,34 % saja. Sedangkan gaya hidup melalui cara berkomunikasi dengan menggunakan handphone, terjadi perubahan yaitu sebesar 65,52%. Dampak ekonomi terhadap penambahan mata pencaharian akibat adanya wisata pulau bokori bagi masyarakat Bajo terlibat dalam usaha di sektor wisata, seperti jasa penyeberangan, pedagang kaki lima, penyewaan tikar, penjual makanan sate pokea dan tenaga kerja banana boat. Sehingga terjadi perubahan pendapatan masyarakat dari sector wisata.
Vocal-type classification as a tool to identify stress in piglets under on-farm conditions

Previous studies have shown that the analysis of high frequency stress calls in pigs can serve as a reliable tool in welfare research. Our study focuses on the classification of three different classes of piglet vocalisation: grunting, squealing and screaming. In a castration experiment (Experiment 1), 3,285 vocalisations from 42 piglets were analysed for 21 different vocal characteristics. A first discriminant function for the three vocal types was derived from recordings made under laboratory-like conditions. A second discriminant function was derived from non-calibrated measurements of the relative sound energy content. These two classifications revealed 86.7% identical assignments of vocalisations to the three vocal types. The second classification allowed for vocalisation analyses of animals under on-farm recording conditions. This technique was validated during an open-field test (Experiment 2) with piglets housed in two different farrowing systems (11,089 vocalisations, 22 piglets). The proportion of screaming sounds was lower for piglets from a group-farrowing (GF) system than for those from a single-farrowing (SF) system. Sound properties showed differences between as well as within the two experiments for all three vocal types. Vocalisations from SF and GF piglets differed significantly in the duration, energy, and relative maximum levels. We conclude that vocal-type analysis can not only help to identify vocalisation indicative of pain during castration, but also vocal behaviour changes indicating separation stress during the open-field test. Therefore, classification of vocal types can add valuable information to studies that use pig vocalisation for the assessment of welfare.
The biology of the autistic syndromes

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Clinical diagnosis of autism 3. Diagnosis in infancy 4. Clinical course in childhood and adolescence 5. Adults with autism 6. Asperger syndrome 7. Behavior complexes seen in individuals with autism 8. Epidemiology of autism 9. Neuropsychological studies 10. The disease entities of autism 11. The double syndromes 12. Seizures and electrophysiological studies 13. Biochemistry, endocrinology and immunology 14. Brain imaging and neuropathological studies 15. The genetics of autism 16. The medical work-up 17. Medical therapies 18. Other interventions - psychoeducational and behavioral modification procedures 19. The neurology of autism Glossary Appendices Index.