Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evolution of clinical pharmacy teaching practices in Pakistan

I am writing this letter in reference to the concept paper published in Journal of Pharmacy titled “Evidence Based Improvements in Clinical Pharmacy Clerkship Program in Undergraduate Pharmacy Education: The Evidence Based Improvement Initiative” which discussed issues of clinical pharmacy teaching practices of Pakistan, and the steps taken by some institutions in developing the clinical pharmacy teaching infrastructure few years ago. [1] Further to this, in a letter published in Archives of Pharmacy Practice, the author recommended several points on which clinical pharmacy education could be improved in Pakistan. Pakistan’s pharmacy education largely suffers from the gap between the course contents and learning goals in clinical pharmacy curriculum, and despite the revamp of Pharm.D degree program, the regulatory authorities have not provided enough opportunities for students to have hands-on experience of pharmacy practice. [2,3]
SHOPPING LIFESTYLE AS A MEDIATION VARIABLE IN THE EFFECT OF HEDONIC SHOPPING VALUE ON BUYING IMPULSE IN ONLINE SHOP

Development of information technology, especially the internet is rapid a major impact for all aspects, not least the development of business and marketing. Based of data the numbers of internet users at e-commerce, a potential market to enter the business. The purpose of the research was to investigate the intervening effect of shopping lifestyle on the relationship between hedonic shopping value and impulse buying at the online shop of Kerinci consumers. The research of sample was consumers impulse buying on the online shop which accounted for 90 consumers using convinience sampling method. Data was colected through questionnaire with likert’s scale which analysis using deskriptive qualitative and quantitative as test of validity and reliability, coefisien of determination, hypothesis testing and path analysis by processing the data using SPSS 19.0 for windows. The result of analysis found that hedonic shopping value positively and significantly influeced impulse buying and shopping lifestyle. Shopping lifestyle positively and significantly influeced impulse buying, but shopping lifestyle was not found as intervening variable between hedonic shopping value and impulse buying at the online shop of Kerinci consumers.
PENGARUH KEPEMILIKAN MANAJERIAL, KEPEMILIKAN INSTITUSIONAL DAN KEBIJAKAN DIVIDEN TERHADAP KEBIJAKAN HUTANG PERUSAHAAN MANUFAKTURYANG TERDAFTAR DI BEI TAHUN 2013-2015

This study aims to determine how the effect of managerial ownership, institutional ownership, and dividend policy to corporate debt policy. This study uses sample of manufacturing company which listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2013-2015 and selected using purposive sampling method.The sample that included criteria is 24 manufacturing company which listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2013-2015.This study used the dependent variable debt policy, while the independent variables are managerial ownership, institutional ownership, and dividend policy. Data is collected by the method of documentation. Analysis technique used is multiple regression analysis. The result of research shows that managerial ownership has negative influence to debt policy. Institutional ownership has negative influence to debt policy. Dividend policy has no significant influence to debt policy. Keyword : Managerial Ownership, Institutional Ownership, Dividen Policy, Debt Policy, Pecking Order Theory
MUSIC-based bispectrum detector: a novel non-invasive detection method for overlapping fetal and mother ECG signals

This paper describes a novel detection method which utilises some 3-d unique bispectral features peculiar to mother and fetal transabdominally measured ECG signals to detect the number of occurrences of fetal heart beats within the maternal cycle frame before and during labour. The bispectrum detector requires the MUSIC super resolution spectral estimation to pin point different resonant frequencies associated with the QRS waves in each of the mother and fetal signals. Results obtained from 15 preoperative labour cases using both non-invasive "transabdominal" and fetal scalp electrodes show that the MUSIC detection in the second-order spectral domain can recover most of the fetal heart beats particularly those occurring at the same time as the mother's. The MUSIC also enhances fetal and mother ECG resonances and their harmonics. However, at a given false alarm probability due to poor signal-to-noise ratios the bispectrum of the MUSIC estimator has shown a remarkable performance not only in discriminating against impulsive non-Gaussian and transient noise but also against the mother ECG relatively strong harmonics at the fetal QRS frequencies.
Euscorpius (Scorpiones, Euscorpiidae): three cases of stings in northwestern Italy

In the period between June 2008 and August 2009, three cases of stings of Euscorpius scorpions indigenous to Italy were treated at two different emergency departments (ED) in hospitals of the Piedmont region, northwest Italy: Santa Croce e Carle General Hospital in Cuneo, and Santissima Annunziata Hospital in Savigliano. Scorpion stings in Italy are rare and not well documented in the literature; this situation may raise doubts among medical personnel as to how such lesions are best treated. Analysis of the incidents confirms that the venom of Euscorpius do not provokes systemic poisoning in humans and in these cases even dermatological reactions were not significant.
The poverty of neoliberalized feminism: gender equality in a ‘best practice’ large-scale land investment in Ghana

ABSTRACT Feminist ideas have entered the neoliberal agricultural development agenda, including increasingly ubiquitous public-private partnerships and businesses. Rhetorically committed to gender equality, these new development actors have reduced equality to a matter of numbers, seeking to include women in their projects while disregarding intersectionally gendered power relations that suffuse any development context. This article seeks to illustrate how such power relations inhabit business-led development projects. Based on ethnographic research of a ‘best practice’ large-scale land investment in Ghana's Volta Region, we argue that a narrow focus on including women and superficial Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) promises fail to address intersectional inequalities because they pay inadequate attention to local institutions for resource management and the power relations they embed. Focusing on gender equality without regard to local institutions at best serves to empower a few well-connected women and at worst acts as a cover-up of highly exploitative practices.
Social value related response latencies: Unobtrusive evidence for individual differences in information processing

While much research concerning decision-making in interdependency situations concentrates on the influence of social values or different preferences for certain distributions of outcomes for self and other (McClintock, 1978), little attention has been paid to the cognitive processes underlying the expression of these different social values. The present research focuses on the cognitive processes by examining the influence of the dominant social values on decision-makers' response latencies (RLs) in interdependency situations. Using the Ring Measure of social Values (Liebrand 1984), three experiments were conducted to assess these RLs. Experiment 1 examines the reliability of the social value construct and the RL effect. Experiments 2 and 3 investigate the generality of the RL effect across presentation of combinations of own and other's outcomes (all positive versus all negative). As predicted, RLs were shorter for individualists than for cooperators and competitors. Further, regardless of values, shorter RLs occurred across experiments when own outcomes are positive rather than negative. More important, the predicted interaction between social value and outcome distribution was observed, reflecting increasing RLs for cooperators as their joint outcomes decreased, longer RLs for individualists when own outcomes were negative rather than positive, and longer RLs for competitors when they were outcome disadvantaged rather than advantaged relative to other. These findings are consistent with the expectation that (1) the transformations associated with different social values require different cognitive processes, and (2) subsequent to the value transformations of outcomes, RLs increase when the utility of the transformed outcome distributions decreases.
The Impact of Attending Social Support Groups on Levels of Resilience in Older Adults

Resilience is defined as a trait or process that facilitates positive adaptation in the face of adverse events. Studies investigating resilience in older adults are sparse, but the existing literature suggests that psychological resilience might increase with age, and that resilience is positively associated with mental and physical health. Social support has been identified as one predictor of resilience, but to date research in this area has focused on social contact with family and friends. The main aim of the current study was to determine if after controlling for social support from family and friends using the Lubben Social Network Scale (LSNS-6), would frequency of attendance to social support groups be a predictor of resilience scores in older adults, in Ireland. A quantitative cross-sectional design was used. A convenience sample of 59 older adults (age range 65-90 years; M = 75 years, SD = 7.2; 52.5% female) were recruited from four social support groups across Kildare and Cork and through social media pages. Participants completed the Lubben Social Network Scale (LSNS-6), the Resilience Appraisal Scale (RAS) and a self-report questionnaire which measured demographics and frequency of participation in social support groups. Results found that only social support from family and friends was a significant predictor of resilience. The findings have important potential implications for the design and evaluation of interventions to promote both resilience and social support in the ageing population
Determinants and Policy Implications of Drug Utilization in the Philippines

The drug question has emerged recently, which is the crux of the Philippine health concerns today. While studies on the supply side of pharmaceuticals have been profuse, the demand side seems to be neglected. Hence, this paper investigates the determinants of the private/household drug utilization in the country and determines the aspects of the prescriber behavior that influence drug utilization patterns. Aside from the sample survey of households and prescribers, this paper also devotes some space for the analysis of drug supply and distribution from the broader picture of the pharmaceutical market.
Folksonomies, Social Tagging and Scholarly Articles / Les folksonomies, l'étiquetage social et les articles scientifiques

This article will discuss the potential role of folksonomies and social tagging in the information control of scholarly articles. The article reviews claims that folksonomies may replace traditional indexing, criticisms of folksonomies and suggestions for their improvement. The primary conclusion is that, although folksonomies may not replace traditional thesaurus-based indexing, social tagging, as a means of both organizing scholarly articles and by drawing together groups of scholars interested in the same, and especially emergent, fields, can provide a useful method of information control by means of scholarly communication The conclusions draw upon the 1968 book by Patrick Wilson Two Kinds of Power: An Essay in Bibliographic Control.Cet article explore le rôle potentiel des folksonomies et de l'étiquetage social comme outils de gestion de l'information des articles scientifiques. L'article passe en revue les assertions selon lesquelles les folksonomies pourraient remplacer l'indexation traditionnelle, les critiques des folksonomies et les suggestions pour l'amélioration des folksonomies. La conclusion principale est que, même si les folksonomies ne vont pas remplacer l'indexation traditionnelle basée sur le thésaurus, l'étiquetage social, comme moyen d'organisation des articles scientifiques et d'assemblage des groupes de chercheurs intéressés par les mêmes et surtout les nouveaux terrains de recherche, peuvent représenter une méthode utile de gestion de l'information au moyen de la communication savante. Les conclusions s'inspirent du livre rédigé par Patrick Wilson en 1968 portant le titre Two kinds of power : an essay in bibliographic control.
Deep brain stimulation for trauma: Patient selection and evaluation

The selection of patients with movement disorders for deep brain stimulation is becoming a common neurological and neurosurgical task. Deep brain stimulation is suitable for different forms of tremor, which can often not be treated with medication. This suitability applies for essential tremor, monosymptomatic tremor at rest, cerebellar or multiple sclerosis tremor, Holmes' tremor, primary writing tremor or tremor in neuropathies. The appropriate selection of patients is critical for the outcome of surgical relief of tremors. Considering the risks of any stereotactic intervention, the following must apply: (1) motor symptoms lead to a relevant disability in activities of daily living, despite optimal medical treatment; (2) biological age of the patient; (3) neurosurgical contraindications; (4) the patient is neither demented nor severely depressed. If these conditions are fulfilled, the individual chances of improvement of the target symptoms need to be checked, based on the following guidelines: (1) the kind of tremor, (2) the natural course of the tremor, (3) the chances for medical treatment in a particular patient, (4) the outcome of surgery in a specific condition, (5) the individual risks for a patient to suffer from complications. The outcome of surgery for tremor depends on the clinical type and distribution. Distal limb tremors are easier to treat than proximal limb tremors. Intention tremor is more difficult to treat than rest or postural tremor. The indication for surgical treatment depends on the analysis of the individual risk–benefit ratio, which also has to take into account the patients' social, professional, and familial background. The patient needs to be well informed about his individual risk–benefit ratio and of alternative treatments, before undergoing stereotactic surgery. © 2002 Movement Disorder Society
An Efficient Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme for Consumer USB MSDs Resilient to Unauthorized File Decryption

The Mass Storage Class (MSC) of universal serial bus (USB) interface is a collection of communication protocols that enables USB Mass Storage Device(s) [MSD(s)] to be connected with the host system for data transfer in full duplex fashion. USB_MSDs are common in use due to their affordable price, high storage capacity, and excellent transmission speed. But because of security vulnerabilities, its use is strictly prohibited in many classified and commercial environments. Authenticated key agreement between client terminal and authentication server is an essential security feature to securely store data on USB_MSD. Recently, Giri et al. proposed an authenticated key agreement scheme for USB_MSD, having session spanning file decryption characteristics. In this paper, we have reviewed and pointed out several security vulnerabilities, including unauthorized file decryption attack of the aforesaid scheme. This paper introduces the notion of unauthorized file decryption attack and defines its adversarial model. Next, an improved security protocol for USB_MSD(s) has been proposed. The formal and informal security along with Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Application (AVISPA) tool verification of proposed scheme shows that it is safe against eminent attacks. The performance comparison in terms of computational complexity, communication overhead, storage space and security features showed that proposed scheme is computationally efficient and has improved security characteristics also.
Career Counseling Of College Students An Empirical Guide To Strategies That Work

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Performance of Feedback and Switch Space Diversity 900 MHz FM Mobile Radio Systems with Rayleigh Fading

A theoretical and experimental comparison of performance has been made between two types of predetection switching space diversity mobile radio systems. This comparison was made at a frequency of 840 MHz using simulated Rayleigh fading for a vehicle speed of about 80 mi/h. The switch diversity system was a conventional receiver antenna switching technique with two simulated physically separated receiving antennas and a single transmitting antenna. The feedback diversity system used a single receiving antenna with two simulated physically separated transmitting antennas. The transmitting antennas were switched remotely from the receiver. The difference in the performance of the two systems was shown to be primarily due to time delay inherent in the remote antenna switching technique.
SOCIO CULTURAL FACTORS AFFECTING BREAST FEEDING PRACTICES ANDDECISIONS IN RURAL WOMEN

Objective of study: 1. To study the Sociocultural factors affecting Breast feeding practices and decisions among rural women. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 240 mothers having children <2 years age attending Rural field practice area of Shri B M Patil Medical College, Bijapur during September 2009 to March 2010.Results: The mean age of the respondents was 24.66 years. Out of 240 mothers 51.66% were having children 12-24 mths of age,52.91%children were of birth order one & 18.33% were of third order of birth or more,91.6% of mothers gave prelacteal feeds to their children, Almost all the mothers breast fed their child,23.3% of mothers had initiated breast feeding within 4 hours of delivery. 25% of mothers who had studied up to college level & more had not practiced exclusive breast feeding, only 35% mothers gave colostrums, 61.29% of the mothers started weaning after 6 mths of birth & 9.67% started weaning after one year of birth. Elderly females in the famiy were the major influencers of decision about exclusive breast feeding. Conclusion: It was found that 56.6% of mothers initiated breast feeding within first 24 hours of delivery. Shorter duration of breast feeding was observed among mothers with higher socio economic status. Literacy status had little effect on continuation of breast feeding for more than six months. 81.19% mothers had no knowledge regarding exclusive breast feeding and only 13.36% of mothers practiced almost exclusive breast feeding up to 4 months.
Comparing palonosetron and lignocaine pretreatment with venous occlusion on reducing rocuronium associated withdrawal movements. A double blinded randomized control trial

Introduction: Use of rocuronium has been associated with withdrawal movements of injected arm during its administration. Our study is to compare the effectiveness of palonosetron vs. lignocaine pretreatment with venous occlusion on reducing withdrawal movements associated with rocuronium injection. Materials and Methods: This prospective randomized double blind trial includes 150 patients aged between 18 and 65 years undergoing elective day-care surgeries. Patients were randomly divided into 3 groups of 50 patients each with assistance from computer generated random number table. Group P received palonosetron 075mg, Group L received Lignocaine 30 mg and Group S received Normal saline as pretreatment. The degree of withdrawal of limb was graded on four-point scale. Haemodynamic changes namely HR and MAP following administration of study drugs and complications following administration of the study drugs like urticaria, wheal and rash were also monitored. Results: Overall incidence of rocuronium induced withdrawal movements was significantly more in-group S (84%) than other study groups (p Conclusion: Study demonstrated that palonosetron pretreatment and venous occlusion has reduced rocuronium induced withdrawal movements more effectively than lignocaine. Keywords: Palanosetron, Rocuronium, Withdrawal movements, Lignocaine.
Lifestyle intervention in obese infertile women

Vrouwen met ernstig overgewicht worden minder gemakkelijk zwanger, hebben vaker problemen met de eisprong en hebben vaker complicaties tijdens de zwangerschap. In het proefschrift Lifestyle intervention in obese infertile women wordt onderzocht of afvallen voorafgaand aan vruchtbaarheidsbehandelingen deze groep vrouwen kan helpen. In het proefschrift worden de gegevens van 577 vrouwen met overgewicht en een kinderwens onderzocht. Deze groep vrouwen nam deel aan de LIFEstyle studie. In de LIFEstyle studie werden de effecten van een zes maanden durende leefstijlinterventie voorafgaande aan vruchtbaarheidsbehandelingen vergeleken (de interventie groep) met direct starten met vruchtbaarheidsbehandelingen (de controle groep). De leefstijlinterventie was gericht op 5 tot 10% gewichtsverlies. Vrouwen die de leefstijlinterventie hadden gevolgd hadden meer gewichtsverlies, een hogere kwaliteit van leven en een gezondere hormoonhuishouding. Dit leidde echter niet tot een toename van de kans op een gezonde baby binnen twee jaar na het starten van de studie. Vrouwen die de leefstijlinterventie hadden gevolgd werden wel vaker op een natuurlijke manier zwanger, dit gebeurde vooral bij vrouwen die ook problemen met de eisprong hadden (bijvoorbeeld door de aandoening polycysteus ovarium syndroom. Verder bleek dat de kosten van de behandelingen om zwanger te worden voor vrouwen die de leefstijl interventie hadden gevolgd lager waren dan vrouwen die direct waren gestart met vruchtbaarheidsbehandelingen. Uit dit proefschrift blijkt dat er een aantal goede redenen zijn om vrouwen met ernstig overgewicht een leefstijlinterventie voorafgaande aan vruchtbaarheidsbehandeling aan te bieden.
A utilização do tubo de ácido poliglicólico e FK506 na regeneração de nervos periféricos

Extensive losses of neural tissue preclude the repair performed by means of primary anastomosis. In those cases, nerve autograft is considered as the treatment of choice. The synthetic tube constituted by polyglycoic acid is an option for nerve graft. The FK506 is an immunosuppressive agent, which increases the neural regeneration rates in vivo and in vitro. The purpose of this study was to compare, in rats, the degree of neural regeneration, by using histological analysis, a count of the number of regenerated myelinated axons, and a functional analysis, obtained by interposing the autogenous graft (group A), polyglycoic acid tube (group B) and a combination of polyglycoic acid tube with FK506 (group C) in 5-cm defects of the sciatic nerve. Neuroma formation was observed only in group A. Groups B and C presented similar histological patterns. The quantitative analysis of the number of regenerated myelinated axons has determined that: 1) group B presented, in average, a lower number when compared to the other groups; 2) there was no significant difference between control group A and group C. For functional recovery, there was no statistically significant change between the three groups, despite the qualitative and quantitative histological differences seen.