Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Attitudes and Practices Among College Students Relative to Personal Listening Device Usage and Hearing Conservation

As technology has advanced, the popularity of personal listening devices (PLD) has become widespread among the millennial generation. It is normal in today’s culture to see members of the millennial generation using their PLDs in most any setting. Due to this growth in popularity and usage of PLDs, there is an increased and relatively undocumented opportunity for noise induced hearing loss (NIHL) among the people in the millennial generation. In order to research the effects of this shift in culture relative to PLD usage, college-aged members of the millennial generation were asked to participate in a study via word of mouth advertising. The participants completed a survey that recorded their personal demographics, PLD usage habits, knowledge about NIHL, and attitudes toward NIHL resulting from PLD usage. After the survey, researchers quantifiably measured the participants’ PLD acoustic intensity using an Audioscan Verifit machine. The survey and PLD intensity data are reported in the text. Analysis of these data revealed that study participants are relatively successful in estimating their own listening intensity. Also, these data recorded a positive relationship between age and intensity; as age increased, the intensity of music increased as well. Results indicate that average measured intensity and reported personal usage habits suggest that users are not at risk for NIHL relative to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards. However, an analysis of peak intensities suggests that approximately 40% of participants may be at risk for NIHL.
The development and assessment of problem solving in 21st-century schools

The skills considered most essential in our modern societies are often called 21stcentury skills. Problem solving is clearly one of them. Students will be expected to work in novel environments, face problems they have never seen and apply domain-general reasoning skills that are not tied to specific contents. Computerised dynamic problem solving can be used to create just such an interactive problem situation in order to assess these skills. It may therefore form the basis for a type of assessment which helps answer the question of how well schools are preparing their students for an unknown future. This chapter shows how education systems may benefit from such an assessment. It reviews educational methods that have aimed at developing students’ higher-order thinking skills and indicates how experiences with these approaches can be used to improve problem solving, from direct teaching, through content-based methods, to innovative classroom processes. It outlines the evolution of large-scale assessment programmes, shows how assessing problem solving adds value and, finally, identifies some directions for further research.
OUTCOME OF RESULTS WITH CONSERVATIVE MANAGEMENT OF ROCKWOOD TYPE III ACROMIOCLAVICULAR DISLOCATION

BACKGROUND The acromioclavicular joint is commonly involved in traumatic injuries that affect the shoulder. Treatment of these injuries has been controversial and continues to evolve. According to literature, type I and II injuries are treated by conservative modalities and stage IV, V and VI injuries are advised to undergo surgery. There is no consensus regarding management of type III acromioclavicular dislocation. In this study, classification of acromioclavicular by TossyRockwood is followed. In type III acromioclavicular dislocation, a severe force is applied to the point of the shoulder, which tears the acromioclavicular and coracoclavicular ligaments resulting in a complete acromioclavicular dislocation. The distal clavicle appears to be displaced superiorly as the scapula and shoulder complex drop inferomedially. Radiographic findings include a 25100% increase in coracoclavicular space in comparison to normal side. The key to the diagnosis of type III injury is that the acromioclavicular joint can be reduced with upward pressure under the elbow or by having the patient actively shrug and reduce the joint. This is known as “shrug test. ” A type III reducible injury is thus differentiated from type 4 or 5 injury, which cannot be reduced if the deltopectoral fascia is interposed.
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Falls in the Elderly Community

Objective: To analyze factors associated with falls among the elderly living in a community dwelling. Methods: Data from personal interview studies using a questionnaire of 553 people aged 65 or older living in a community. Socioeconomic and health releted characteristics were investigated as independent variables and experiences of falling in the previous year as the dependent variable. Results: 118 (21.4 percent) of the elderly subjects experienced a fall in hte previous year. 24 subjects experienced more than two falls, accouting for 20.3% of the elderly fall victims studed. Factors affecting the falls were families living together, level of daily activity, heart disease, and aconuresis. Therefore, an elderly person who lives alone, lives independently, has heart disease, or suffers urinary invontinence had a demonstrated increased risk of falling.
An impression of foreign language teaching approaches in the Netherlands

Lynne West en Marjolijn Verspoor doen verslag van een onderzoek naar de vraag hoe de moderne talen Engels, Frans en Duits en de klassieke talen worden onderwezen in ons land. Een groot aantal lessen is geobserveerd met behulp van een instrument gebaseerd op opvattingen van experts en onderwijsaanpakken die hun effectiviteit hebben bewezen in onderzoek. Daarnaast is de leerlingen gevraagd hoe zij hun leraar ervoeren en hoe gemotiveerd ze waren voor de lessen. In scholen met tweetalig onderwijs blijken communicatieve onderwijsaanpakken dominant, maar in reguliere scholen overheerst de grammatica-vertaalmethode. Er is een positieve relatie tussen de motivatie van leerlingen en de mate waarin hun docent een communicatieve aanpak hanteert.
Quality of life and severity assessment by provider and patient in oral and skin conditions

A good communication between patient and provider has the aim to understand the patient’s problems, to establish and maintain a caring relation, and to inform about disease. The quality of communication may have an influence on different important aspects, such as satisfaction and adherence to treatment. In this thesis, the overairching aim was to evaluate the effects of the communication between patient and provider, by comparing their evaluation of either the health-related quality of life of patients, or the severity of the disease. It was chosen to focus on oral and dermatological conditions, since skin and teeth are some of the most important components of the appearance of a person, and conditions which affect them can have deep psychosocial implications on patients’ life. Paper I concerns skin conditions. Dermatologists’ opinions on skin health-related quality of life and psychological problems in patients were compared to the patients’ reports. Papers II and III concern oral conditions. The evaluation of oral health-related quality of life problems in patients by the caregivers was compared to the evaluation given by patients. In Paper IV, about oral mucosal conditions, the comparison was made between the evaluation of the severity of the disease by patients and providers. Paper I: as regards quality of life, physicians tended to overestimate impairment in several conditions, particularly in alopecia. In many diagnostic categories, an underestimation of the frequency of depression and anxiety by dermatologists was observed. Paper II and III: the correlation between patients’ and caregivers’ evaluation of oral health-related quality of life was low. In general, caregivers tended to overestimate the quality of life impairment of their patients, particularly for women, for elderly people, and for patients with a low number of teeth. The difference between patient and caregiver evaluation did not depend on the professional status of the caregiver (dentist or hygienist), nor on the clinics. Paper IV: in oral mucosal conditions, the agreement between patients’ and providers’ evaluation of severity was very low. Physicians tended to underestimate severity more in older than in younger patients, and in patients with a higher quality of life impairment compared to the others. The underestimation by the physician was also positively associated to psychological problems and the presence of alexithymia. This thesis showed a low agreement between patient and provider in the evaluation of quality of life and psychological problems of patients, and of the disease severity, both in dental and dermatological conditions. The discrepancies were both in the direction of an underestimation and an overestimation by the caregiver.
Global trend of Methicillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus and emerging challenges for control

Background: Following its first recognition in early 1960s, the increasing incidence of nosocomial and community-acquired methicillin resistant S taphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections has become a global problem. The emergence of multiple-drug resistant MRSA strains and dissemination of epidemic antibiotic clones including presence of wide spectrum of virulence and predisposing risk factors complicate diagnosis, chemotherapy and control causing significant morbidity and mortality. Detection of MRSA strains in domestic animals and protozoan has widened the epidemiologic characters of the organism and may influence infection control policies. Objectives: To review the emergence and epidemiologic spread of resistant strains of MRSA, molecular/genetic basis of resistance in the organism and challenges facing control strategies worldwide. It also aims to suggest intervention strategies so as to checkmate the spread of MRSA infections. Methods: By reviewing local and international literatures on MRSA infections coupled with practical experience in the field of this endeavour. Result/Conclusion: MRSA has shown increasing endemic and epidemic spread in the last four decades causing serious medical and socio-economic difficulties. Routine and regular surveillance (uncommon in poor-resourced developing areas of especially sub-Saharan Africa), good hospital practices and personal hygiene, public enlightenment, development of effective therapeutic agents and rational administration of antibiotics based on reliable test results will limit the spread of MRSA infections. Key words : MRSA, incidence, morbidity, mortality, surveillance, control.
Significance of"Fright Impairing Kidney-qi"During the Development Process of Psychosomatic Disease

In this article,symptoms of anxiety/somatization factor in HAMD and interrelated symptoms that recorded in Miraculous Pivot·Channels and Miraculous Pivot·Muscles Along Channels are analysed in comparison.The characteristic of psychosomatic diseases which are diagnosed according to channels and collaterals of Inner Canon of Huangdi has been discussed.The results prompt that it is the Kidney Channel of Foot-shaoyin,that has the highest aggregate score of symptom factor and the most comprehensive category,which accords with the characteristic of psychosomatic diseases. "Fright impairing kidney-qi"is one of the pathogenesis of psychosomatic diseases.Tonifying the kidney and Strengthening the brain has significant importance for the psychosomatic diseases.
The difference of Being in the early modern world: a relational-material approach to life in Scotland in the period of the witch trials

This thesis investigates how ways of being in different ontologies emerge from material and embodied practice. This general concern is explored through the particular case study of Scotland in the period of the witch trials (the 16th and 17th centuries C.E.). The field of early modern Scottish witchcraft studies has been active and dynamic over the past 15 years but its prioritisation of what people said over what they did leaves a clear gap for a situated and relational approach focusing upon materiality. Such an approach requires a move away from the Cartesian dichotomies of modern ontology to recognise past beliefs as real to those who experienced them, coconstitutive of embodiment and of the material worlds people inhabited. In theory, method and practice, this demands a different way of exploring past worlds to avoid flattening strange data. To this end, the study incorporates narratives and ‘disruptions’ – unique engagements with Contemporary Art which facilitate understanding by enabling the temporary suspension of disbelief. The methodology is iterative, tacking between material and written sources in order to better understand the heterogeneous assemblages of early modern (counter-) witchcraft. Previously separate areas of discourse are (re-)constituted into alternative ontic categories of newly-parallel materials. New interpretations of things, places, bodies and personhoods emerge, raising questions about early modern experiences of the world. Three thematic chapters explore different sets of collaborative agencies as they entwine into new things, co-fabricating a very different world. Moving between witch trial accounts, healing wells, infant burial grounds, animals, discipline artefacts and charms, the boundaries of all prove highly permeable. People, cloth and place bleed into one another through contact; trees and water emerge as powerful agents of magical-place-making; and people and animals meet to become single, hybrid-persons spread over two bodies. Life and death consistently emerge as protracted processes with the capacity to overlap and occur simultaneously in problematic ways. The research presented in this thesis establishes a new way of looking at the nature of Being as experienced by early modern Scots. This provides a foundation for further studies, which can draw in other materials not explored here such as communion wares and metal charms. Comparison with other early modern Western societies may also prove fruitful. Furthermore, the methodology may be suitable for application to other interdisciplinary projects incorporating historical and material evidence.
“Stumbling on the Heels of My Blog”: Career, Forms of Capital, and Strategies in the (Sub)Field of Fashion Blogging

Abstract In this study I examine fashion blogging as a subfield of the field of fashion media by using a Bourdieusian theoretical framework. After identifying the steps of the “career” of bloggers, my aim is to highlight the cultural, economic, and social resources (forms of capital) that bloggers use to access the field, and the strategies they mobilize to shape their relations with other agents within it. The empirical terrain which is investigated to answer these questions is the Italian fashion blogosphere; thirty-four in-depth interviews with (mainly female) fashion bloggers and six with key informants (fashion journalists and website editors) were collected between 2011 and 2014. Moreover, a more general aim is to question common-sense interpretations (blogs as a revolutionary tool in fashion communication and as a new fashion marketing frontier) to give a normalized picture of fashion blogging as a progressively autonomous social field, governed by its own laws. Through an in-depth analysis of the Italian case this article seeks to stimulate an international discussion over other national fields of blog production.
How Thailand has modified the section on mental disorders in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD‐10) *

Introduction: In 2000, the Thai Ministry of Public Health appointed a taskforce to revise the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Relate Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD‐10) to make it more suitable for use in Thailand: the ICD‐10 Thai Modification (ICD‐10 TM).
PENGEMBANGAN PERANGKAT PEMBELAJARAN MENGGUNAKAN MODEL INKUIRI TERBIMBING TOPIK KLASIFIKASI MAKHLUK HIDUP DI SMP

Abstrak Berdasarkan hasil supervisi klinis perangkat pembelajaran di sekolah belum mengarah pada keterampilan berpikir siswa. Model pembelajaran yang digunakan belum sepenuhnya berpusat pada siswa. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkan perangkat pembelajaran hasil pengembangan topik klasifikasi makhluk hidup menggunakan model pembelajaran inkuiri terbimbing di SMPyang layak, praktis dan efektif. Jenis penelitian ini merupakan penelitian&pengembangan, menggunakan model ASSURE, namun hanya sampai evaluasi formatif saja. Subyek penelitian pada berbagai uji coba siswa kelas VII SMP Negeri Sungai Tabuk. Data diperoleh menggunakan berbagai instrumen melalui tes dan pengamatan. Analisis data dilakukan secara deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan perangkat pembelajaran tergolong layak berdasarkan 1) rata-rata penilaian pakar sebesar 79,11% dengan kategori cukup valid dan 2) uji keterbacaan bahan ajar sebesar 75% dengan kategori baik dan LKS 100% dengan kategori sangat baik. Praktis berdasarkan 1) keterlaksanaan RPP mencapai 3,72 tergolong kategori sangat baik. 2) respon positif siswa terhadap proses pembelajaran mencapai 93%. Efektif berdasarkan 1) hasil belajar kognitif produk dan kognitif prosestuntas melebihi batas ketuntasan 75% yaitu 78,26%. 2)Hasil kinerja proses rata-rata 93,67% tergolong kategori sangat baik, 3) Kinerja psikomotor mencapai 96,4% tergolong kategori sangat baik, 4) Sikap spiritual (rasa syukur), 5) Perilaku berkarakter (disiplin, dan tanggung jawab), dan 6) Keterampilan sosial mencapai 100% tergolong kategori sangat baik, 7) Keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa mencapai 88,93% tergolong kategori sangat baik dan hasil belajar LKS sebesar 91,4% tergolong kategori sangat baik, 8) Aktivitas siswa ≥ 10% tergolong kategori baik, siswa aktif dalam proses pembelajaran dan 9) Aktivitas guru ≤ 10% tergolong kategori baik, keterlibatan guru dalam pembelajaran mulai mengalami peningkatan. Kata kunci :perangkat pembelajaran,klasifikasi makhluk hidup,inkuiri terbimbing
Diabetes self-care management practices among insulin-taking patients

Background Diabetes self-care management (DSCM) is complex because various factors and relationships influence its processes. Aims This study aimed to identify the level of DSCM, compare the levels of self care between patients with type 1 and patients with type 2 diabetes, and identify significant predictors of self-care among Jordanian patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes who were taking insulin. Methods A descriptive cross-sectional design was employed using a convenience sample of 310 Jordanian patients. The Arabic translated version of the 40-item Diabetes Self-Management Scale was used to collect data. Results The type of diabetes (t(310) = 4.81; p < . 001) and the type of medications (insulin, or insulin and tablets) (t(310) = 4.75; p < . 001) significantly affected the level of self-care. Age (t(296) = − 3.41; p = 0.001), gender (t(296) = −4.78; p < 0.001) training in self-care (t(296) = 4.30; p < . 001), educational level (t(296) = 2.81, P = . 005) and using traditional treatment (herbal therapy) (t(296) = −4.64, p < . 001) significantly predicted self-care and explained around 58% of the variance in self-care. Conclusions Various factors were found to influence self-care. Further research is needed to explore the complex nature of DSCM.
Inequalities in knowledge of HIV / AIDS prevention. An overview of socio-economic and gender differentials in developing countries. Initial discussion draft.

This note presents a summary overview of information about socio-economic and gender inequalities in knowledge of HIV/AIDS prevention produced by a series of country studies undertaken by the World Bank’s thematic group on health nutrition population and poverty. The studies provide information based on analysis of household data collected by the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) program concerning poor-rich coverage and gender differences for twenty-three countries primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Latin America and the Caribbean. (authors)
Object- and location-based forms of representation in inhibition of return

Orienting processing resources towards a peripheral region of a display, by means of an exogenous cue, produces a biphasic effect on subsequent target detection. Intially response latency is facilitated, but increasing the SOA to 300 ms or greater results in slower detection, and this is known as the inhibition of return (IOR) effect. Initially this inhibitory effect was thought to bias attention against returning to a previously attended location but subsequent work demonstrated that it can also be associated with an object when motion is utilised to dissociate the two effects. This thesis reexamined the generality and utility of the object-based IOR effect. Chapter 3 demonstrated that presenting an (apparent) object at the cuetarget location is sufficient to trigger the object-based IOR effect. The observation that inhibition can spread across the surface of an object (Chapter 4) confirmed that pure object-based IOR is observed in static displays. Together these chapters provided a complete dissociation of the two independent IOR effects and suggests that they operate additively in the typical IOR procedure. Chapter 5 demonstrated that the separate inhibitory mechanisms have characteristic boundary conditions. Orienting attention within-objects abolishes the location-based IOR effect, but does not effect the object-based effect. In sharp contrast, increasing object salience modulates the object-based effect, but has no effect on location-based inhibition. Finally, there was no evidence of a retinotectal pathway involvement in the location-based IOR effect under monocular conditions. Rather, both effects appear to be generated by cortical regions, with an exclusively left visual field bias for the object-based IOR effect. It was concluded that object-based IOR effects generalise to static procedures, which seriously questions the interpretation that IOR effects observed in static displays are mediated purely by a spatial frame of reference. This conclusion may generalise to all static precueing procedures. The boundary conditions of the object-based IOR effect are consistent with a mechanism that serves to guide efficient visual processing.
Left Ventricular Remodeling is Less While Left Atrial Remodeling is Greater in Inferior Compared to Anterior Myocardial Infarction : Importance of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

Background. Left ventricular (LV) remodeling is greater in patients with anterior myocardial infarction (MI) compared to those with inferior MI. Left atrial (LA) remodeling is expected to have influences from both LV remodeling and mitral valve dysfunction or mitral regurgitation (MR), which is more frequent in inferior MI. Therefore, LA remodeling may not necessarily be less in inferior MI compared to anterior MI. The purpose of the study is comparison of LV and LA remodeling in patients with anteroseptal and inferior MI with or without MR.Methods. In 61 consecutive patients with prior anterior MI, 33 with prior inferior MI, and 22 normal control subjects, LV and LA volumes were measured using biplane Simpson's method, and MR fraction was quantified by Doppler echocardiography.Results. Although patients with inferior MI had significantly less LV dilatation (LV end-diastolic volume: 91±11 vs. 125±45 vs. 106±19 ml, control vs. anterior vs. inferior, p 20%) was significantly higher in patients with inferior MI compared to anterior MI (7/61 vs. 12/33, p<0.01). In selected patients without significant ischemic MR, LA dilatation was comparable between inferior and anterior MI (60±28 vs. 61±16 ml, n.s.). Conclusions. Compared to patients with anterior MI, LV remodeling is significantly less but LA remodeling is significantly greater in inferior MI, suggesting the important role of ischemic MR to induce LA remodeling.