Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A primary care physician perspective survey on the limited use of handwriting and pen computing in the electronic medical record

Empirical research has demonstrated that simple design modifications in the electronic medical record (EMR) can improve user acceptance. Changes, such as pagination, the use of wireless pen slate computers and the use of digital ink (the graphic representation of the pen across the computer screen), can make dramatic differences in user performance, reduce uncertainty and increase acceptability. No survey has asked primary care physicians (PCPs) their preference of computer type for use during a consultation. Neither has any investigation determined whether or not physicians believed they could benefit from the use of handwriting (in the entry form of digital ink) as a supplement to the EMR. A survey was prepared to see if a group of PCPs in private practice was receptive to the use of digital ink, and what type of computer - desktop or wireless pen slate - would be preferred for use during a consultation. A wireless pen slate computer was described as having a screen large enough to display the same image seen on a desktop computer. Screen captures were used to demonstrate digital ink for handwriting and drawing. One-hundred-and-fifty-six of the 411 physicians responded (37.95%). Five physicians (3.2%) used a computer during a consultation. Ninety-nine (63.46%) would be willing to use a computer during a consultation. One-hundred-and-twenty-one (77.56%) indicated that digital ink would be useful as a supplement to the EMR. Of those who would use a computer during a consultation, 91/99 (91.09%) preferred a wireless pen slate computer to a desktop computer. Subgroup analysis indicated that those physicians who had been in practice more than 25 years or those who had low volume practices were less likely to desire a computer for use during a consultation. No subgroup showed less than 73% support for the use of handwriting in the EMR. Lack of standards (47.68%) and costs (40.40%) were chosen as the major reasons for not purchasing an EMR. Sixty-one PCPs (36.42%) indicated that a lack of typing skills was an issue and 39 (25.83%) said they had no time to learn. The use of handwriting in the EMR was broadly supported by this group of PCPs in private practice. Likewise, wireless pen computers were the overwhelming choice of computer for use during a consultation. In this group, older and lower volume physicians were less likely to desire a computer for use during a consultation. User acceptance of the EMR may be related to how closely it resembles the processes that are being automated. More surveys are required to determine the needs and expectations of physicians. The data also support other research studies that demonstrate the preference for handwriting and wireless computers, and the need for a limited, standardised and controlled vocabulary.
Coming to Grips with Progress Testing: Some Guidelines for Its Design

The area of progress testing has been neglected and has lagged far behind developments in language teaching and testing in general. In most classrooms today, English is taught through communicative textbooks that provide neither accompanying tests nor any guidance for test construction. Teachers are on their own in constructing tests to measure student progress and performance. The result is they write traditional grammar-based items in a discrete-point format that does not fit the communicative orientation of the textbook or the underlying teaching principles. In many cases, teachers have been reluctant to administer regular tests. Stevenson and Riewe (1986) give the following reasons for this:
Semantic relations among adjectives in Polish WordNet 2.0: a new relation set, discussion and evaluation

Semantic relations among adjectives in Polish WordNet 2.0: a new relation set, discussion and evaluation Adjectives in wordnets are often neglected: there are many fewer of them than nouns, and relations among them are sometimes not as varied as those among nouns or verbs. Polish WordNet 1.0 was no exception. Version 2.0 aims to correct that. We present an overview of a much larger set of lexical-semantic relations which connect adjectives to the other parts of the network. Our choice of relations has been motivated by linguistic considerations, especially the concerns of the Polish lexical semantics, and by pragmatic reasons. The discussion includes detailed substitution tests, meant to ensure consistency among wordnet editors.
Reasons for stopping breastfeeding: what are they, what characteristics relate to them, and are there underlying factors?

[Abstract]: Aim: This study sought to identify the reasons provided for breastfeeding cessation among women who switched to formula feeding during the first six months postpartum. We further aimed to investigate the socio-demographic characteristics of the sample and the ability of these characteristics to uniquely predict the reasons provided. Method: As part of a larger longitudinal study (n = 620), women who ceased breasfeeding before six months postpartum (n = 182) were asked about their reasons for stopping. Reasons provided were subjected to statistical analysis including logistic regression and principal components analysis. Results: Concerns over insufficient milk supply, baby weight gain and the baby not sleeping through the night were the most commonly given reasons for weaning. Additionally, the likelihood of selecting a particualr reason for weaning was influenced by the woman's demographic and psychosocial characteristics. Unique predictors of the reasons provided included the mother's and her partner's usual occupations, maternal age, parity, and obtaining breastfeeding information before pregnancy. Two components, 'Maternal comfort and well being' and 'Infant comfort and well being' were identified. Principal conclusions: Reasons for stopping breastfeeding are frequently associated with the mother's confidence in her breastfeeding ability, and her perception of the impact of breastfeeding on the comfort and well being of both herslef and her infant.
Comparative evaluation of supraglottic airway devices I-Gel versus LMA-supreme in patients undergoing surgery under general Anaesthesia

Background and Aim: Supraglottic airway devices are increasingly being used as an excellent alternative to mask ventilation and tracheal intubation with least complications. The present randomized, prospective study was conducted to compare the I-Gel with LMA-Supreme with respect to time taken for insertion, insertion success rate, ease of insertion of gastric tube, hemodynamic changes before and after insertion and post-operative airway morbidity. Materials and Methods: Sixty American Society of Anaesthesiologist (ASA) grade-I and II patients between 18-60 years age, of either sex, were randomly assigned to two groups of 30 patients each. Group A: I-gel was inserted and Group B: LMAsupreme was inserted by grasping firmly along the integral bite block (Digital Technique). Hemodynamic responses were recorded before induction and at the intervals after insertion of LMA Supreme/I-Gel. Time taken for insertion, insertion success rate and ease of insertion of gastric tube was noted. Patients were inspected for any trauma to mouth, lip and tongue in the immediate postoperative period and asked about sore throat, hoarseness and dysphonia 24 hours after the surgery. Statistical analysis was carried out with student’s t-test and chi-square test and value of P0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Insertion time of I-Gel (11.07±1.93 seconds) was faster than the LMA-Supreme (12.50±2.35 seconds) and the results were statistically significant (P=0.01). Ease of insertion of gastric tube was more in LMA Supreme (28/30) as compared to I Gel (26/30) but statistically this difference came out to be non-significant (P=0.157). The two groups were comparable as far as the insertion success rate , hemodynamics and post-operative airway morbidity were concerned. Conclusion: I-Gel is better than LMA-Supreme in terms of faster insertion time. Insertion success rate, ease of insertion of gastric tube, hemodynamics and post-operative airway morbidity is comparable in both the groups.
Concept of Virtual Path Hopping to Improve QoS and Reliability of Connection-oriented Networks

The QoS provided by today's best effort Internet is not good enough for real-time premium traffic. It is believed that the QoS guarantees of the Internet could be better provided by connection-oriented networks. IP/MPLS is one such technology and these connection-oriented networks are inherently more vulnerable to network failures. Network failures can broadly be classified into two types, ie. , link/path and degraded failures. Degraded failures that account for about 50% of total failures are detected by control-plane timers. The control plane and the data plane of IP/MPLS networks are logically separated and therefore a failure in the control plane should not immediately terminate communications on the data plane. The Virtual Path Hopping (VPH) concept proposed in this study distinguishes these degraded failures from link/path failures and avoids the terminations of data communications on the data plane that are due to these degraded failures. It changes the traffic carrying a degraded VP to a new VP in a predetermined VP-pool before the control-plane timer expires due to degraded failure. This paper discusses the concept of VPH and its numerous advantages such as load balancing, traffic distribution, and the ability to support dual-failure situations. Computer simulations were conducted and the results are presented to support the concept of VPH.
Measuring the role of two competing groups of informed agents in opinion formation

For politicians, to promote intended messages to different groups of individuals, they could employ strategic individuals called “informed agents. ” The aim of this article is to explore and measure the impact of two competing groups of informed agents on opinion dynamics within a society exposed to two extreme opinions. Thus, an agent-based model is developed as an extension to the bounded confidence model by assuming the existence of two groups of informed agents. The impact of these agents with respect to their social characteristics, such as, their size in the society, how tolerant they are, their self-weight and attitudes about others’ opinions is explored. Different assumptions about the initial opinion distributions and their effect are also investigated. Due to the difficulty of observing a real society, social simulation experiments are constructed based on artificial societies. The simulations conducted resulted in some interesting findings. With no dominating group of the two informed agents, the society will be ended up concentrated around a moderate position. On the other hand, with significant difference between the two group sizes, the larger group will polarize the population towards its opinion. However, this conclusion will not apply if the population is skewed towards the other opinion. In such case, the larger group will only succeed to turn some of the society to be more moderate. In a society skewed towards extreme opinion, dominant informed agents adopting the other extreme will not be able to shift the society towards their opinion. Finally, in radical societies informed agents could turn most of the society to be extremists.
O atendimento à saúde de homens: estudo qualitativo em quatro estados Brasileiros

O objetivo deste estudo e analisar os sentidos atribuidos por usuarios homens ao atendimento que lhes e prestado no âmbito da atencao basica a saude, buscando subsidiar a construcao de indicadores qualitativos de satisfacao em relacao ao uso desses servicos por usuarios masculinos. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, envolvendo entrevistas semiestruturadas com 201 usuarios de quatro estados brasileiros. A analise se baseia no metodo de interpretacao de sentidos, ancorando-se em principios hermeneutico-dialeticos. Em termos de resultados, os usuarios apontam criterios para avaliar positivamente os servicos, tomando como referencias um atendimento comunicativo e atencioso, que lhes faca algo e que revele prontidao. Conclui-se que os homens usuarios idealizam e reivindicam uma dada forma de atendimento considerada boa e que, a principio, poderia servir para se discutir o atendimento de mulheres tambem. Entretanto, em razao da socializacao que homens e mulheres experimentam, sao reforcadas as diferencas entre o ser usuario homem e ser usuario mulher. Por outro lado, tanto no que tange aos profissionais quanto aos usuarios, essa mesma segmentacao por genero pode contribuir para que se acirrem as impossibilidades de se lidar com as especificidades de homens e mulheres, em termos de demandas da saude.
Factors associated with physical activity levels among older adults in selected institutions in Rwanda

Background:The size of the elderly population both in numbers and proportions of the whole world is increasing rapidly. The increase in the number of elderly people in the world will exert a big impact on health and social services. It is established that physical activity is one way of limiting age related disabilities.Objectives:This study aims to asses the levels of physical activity and the factors associated with it among older adults in selected institutions for the elderly in the Southern Province of Rwanda.Method:A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted at 2 institutions for older adults in Rwanda. An interview questionnaire with closed-ended questions was used to collect data.Results:More than one-third of the study sample was categorized as sedentary. Physical activity levels decrease with age.Females reported higher prevalence of physical activity than males.Conclusion:Older adults should be encouraged to engage in physical activity to gain the physical and mental health benefits associated with it.
Dynamic model of activity-type choice and scheduling

This paper presents a model for the choice of activity-type and timing, incorporating the dynamics of scheduling, estimated on a six-week travel diary. The main focus of the study is the inclusion of past history of activity involvement and its influence on current activity choice. The econometric formulation adopted, explicitly accounts both for correlation across alternatives and for state dependency. The results indicate that behavioral variables are superior to socio-economic variables and that consideration of the correlation pattern over alternatives clearly improves the fit of the model. This is a first but significant contribution to changing the current static demand models into dynamic activity based ones. The availability of other multi-week travel surveys and the progress made recently on advanced econometric techniques should encourage the transferability of this study to different regions or model scale.
Inhibitor incidence in haemophilia A under exclusive use of a third‐generation recombinant factor VIII concentrate: results of the HEMFIL Cohort Study

batchevsky, I. & Singer, J.W. (2012) Pixantrone dimaleate versus other chemotherapeutic agents as a single-agent salvage treatment in patients with relapsed or refractory aggressive nonHodgkin lymphoma: a phase 3, multicentre, open-label, randomised trial. The Lancet. Oncology, 13, 696–706. Tarantelli, C. , Gaudio, E. , Arribas, A.J., Kwee, I. , Hillmann, P., Rinaldi, A. , Cascione, L. , Spriano, F. , Bernasconi, E. , Guidetti, F. , Carrassa, L. , Pittau, R.B. , Beaufils, F. , Ritschard, R. , Rageot, D. , Sele, A. , Dossena, B. , Rossi, F.M. , Zucchetto, A. , Taborelli, M. , Gattei, V. , Rossi, D. , Stathis, A. , Stussi, G. , Broggini, M. , Wymann, M.P., Wicki, A. , Zucca, E. , Cmiljanovic, V. , Fabbro, D. & Bertoni, F. (2018) PQR309 is a novel dual PI3K/mTOR inhibitor with preclinical antitumor activity in lymphomas as a single agent and in combination therapy. Clinical Cancer Research, 24, 120–129. Willenbacher, E. , Willenbacher, W. & Kircher, B. (2014) In vitro antimyeloma activity of pixantrone (PIX). Journal of Clinical Oncology, 32, e19569.
Developing a sensor network for real time temperature monitoring in Enschede

To gain better insight in the urban heat island effect and for policy reasons a temperature network has been developed around the city of Enschede that should remain operational for at least one year. This network consists out of six temperature probes placed strategically around the city. To develop these probes an iterative design cycle has been used in conjunction with rapid prototyping. Generations were built in in quick succession and put to the test in conditions representing real operation circumstances. A number of requirements and challenges were set up and tests were created so operation of a single sensor node could be confirmed. A waterproof housing was designed to house the electronics and a heat shield to protect the sensor. The sensor nodes are built around the Sodaq ONE development board which incorporates both LoRa, a long range communication protocol and GPS whilst allowing multiple different sensor types to be connected to it. TTN was used as LoRa platform since it allowed multiple connections to be made and it provided good coverage of Enschede. To measure the temperature a digital temperature sensor has been used; the DS18B20 which has been calibrated to get temperature readings that are as accurate as possible. The sensor nodes are able to stay operational for at least one year by having a solar panel incorporated in the design which is able to produce charge at medium light conditions. With the use of the iterative design method all needed challenges could be tested for and the long term operation of the sensor node is better known than would otherwise be possible due to the numerous tests conducted. The housing went through 2 major iterations which were enough to guarantee the waterproofness of the design. The design of the whole project was with future development in mind, allowing the project to go a number of different routes in the future.
The relationship between ACTN3 R577X gene polymorphism and physical performance in amateur soccer players and sedentary individuals

The aim of this study was to determine the distribution of ACTN3 R577X gene polymorphism in soccer players and sedentary individuals, and to investigate the relationship of this distribution with performance tests. A total of 100 soccer players and 101 sedentary individuals were enrolled in the study. Standing long jump and countermovement jump (with arm swing, without arm swing and repeated) scores were recorded, using a jump meter. Maximum VO2 levels were measured using a treadmill-connected cardiopulmonary exercise device, Masterscreen CPX. ACTN3 R577X polymorphism was evaluated by real-time PCR. ACTN3 R577X genotype distribution was found to be similar in soccer players and controls (p>0.05). The only statistically significant finding was a shorter countermovement jump with arm swing scores in the RR-genotyped soccer players, compared with their RX genotyped counterparts (p<0.05). In the soccer player group, RX-genotyped subjects were observed to have lower respiratory threshold values compared with RR-genotyped subjects (p<0.05). No significant correlation was detected between this distribution and performance test results. ACTN3 R577X genotype distribution was found to have no effect on sprint and endurance characteristics in amateur soccer players. The ACTN3 R577X polymorphism may not be a specific enough genetic marker to determine athletic performance in soccer.
Hydrotherapy as a Nursing Intervention for Labour Pain

This literature review provides a brief history of hydrotherapy during labour, a summary of the existing literature, and implications for practice. The objective of the literature review is to explore the evidence regarding the safety and efficacy of hydrotherapy as a method to alleviate labour pain during the first stage of labour. A comprehensive review of the literature was conducted in August 2016 using CINAHL, ProQuest, and MedLine databases. Keywords used were: hydrotherapy, water immersion, intrapartum, labour and/or nurse with truncation and Boolean methods. The inclusion criteria for the search were: articles available in English, accessible electronically, peer-reviewed, and with year restrictions of 2005-2016. The search yielded one practice guideline, four recommendations from regulatory colleges, three systematic reviews, and five single studies. The author concludes that hydrotherapy for low risk parturients is a safe and effective method of pain control that empowers nurses and promotes positive patient outcomes.
Excavations at Karataş-Semayük in Lycia, 1966

The fields around the mound and the cemetery are fairly level and do not show traces of mound formation. A scatter of potsherds, pithos fragments, and broken stone tools is noticeable. Most of the fields are sown with wheat in alternate years. To the west, vineyards have been planted and tend to spread in the direction of the mound. Since the wheatfields were not being cultivated in the fall of 1966, the season was propitious for the making of a number of trial cuts to which the owners of
Comment revisiter la doctrine terminologique aujourd'hui ?

Introduire l'etude de la discursivite dans le programme de la lexicographie specialisee revient a poser une exigence nouvelle. Les terminologues continuent d'aborder les textes scientifiques de facon atomistique, comme une combinaison de termes, ignorant les caracteristiques semionarratives de la prose scientifique. Or les textes scientifiques presentent une organisation textuelle fortement previsible qui ne mobiblise qu'un nombre restreint de figures rhetoriques. cette specificite devrait faciliter la prise en charge de leur fonctionnement narratif et de leur dimension discursive en general. La reconnaissance effective de cette composante signera la fin d'un dogme.
Improving Teaching Quality and Problem Solving Ability through Contextual Teaching and Learning in Differential Equations: A Lesson Study Approach.

Differential equations is a branch of mathematics which is closely related to mathematical modeling that arises in real-world problems. Problem solving ability is an essential component to solve contextual problem of differential equations properly. The purposes of this study are to describe contextual teaching and learning (CTL) model in differential equations course, to improve lecturers’ abilities in implementing CTL, and to improve students’ problem solving ability in differential equations. The study was conducted in the fifth semester of 2015/2016 academic year with 34 students of mathematics education Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta as participants. The CTL model was applied by lesson study approach which involved three stages namely plan, do, and see in each cycle. This research was conducted in four cycles. The study results found that discovery-based CTL could be applied in differential equations course. The lecturer abilities to design discovery-based contextual learning plan, to present real-world problem in learning process, to design learning strategy and assessment instruments of problem solving improved significantly. Problem solving ability of students also improved during teaching and learning process.