Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Clinical profile and complications of acute malaria caused by different species of Plasmodium

Introduction: Malaria is more severe in children than in adults and 78% of all deaths due to malaria occur in children under 5years. Plasmodium vivax has long been considered to have benign course. However during past few years several studies reported severe complicated cases of vivax malaria. Methodology: Children in the age group of 6 months to 15 years admitted in the Department of Pediatrics with clinical malaria were tested for malaria using peripheral smear, QBC and rapid diagnostic test. Children with positivity of any of these tests were enrolled in the study. Complete clinical profile is noted. Investigations like complete blood counts, LFT, RFT etc., were done. Results: Out of 150 children enrolled in the study 80 had Plasmodium vivax monoinfection. 61 had Plasmodium falciparum monoinfection and 9 had mixed infection. 41% of them were under 5years of age. The incidence of complications like severe anemia (10% vs. 18%), jaundice (10% vs. 44%), transaminitis (6% vs.13%), azotemia (6% vs. 36%) and thrombocytopenia (12.5% vs. 26%) were more common in P falciparum than in P vivax malaria with statistical significance (p < 0.05). There was no statistically significant difference in the incidence of hypoglycemia and cerebral malaria in P vivax and P falciparum malaria. Conclusion: The incidence of severe malaria in P. vivax infection is comparable to that in P. falciparum infection and it is no more benign. Hence robust efforts are required for reduction and elimination of P vivax transmission.
Free VQA Models from Knowledge Inertia by Pairwise Inconformity Learning

In this paper, we uncover the issue of knowledge inertia in visual question answering (VQA), which commonly exists in most VQA models and forces the models to mainly rely on the question content to “guess” answer, without regard to the visual information. Such an issue not only impairs the performance of VQA models, but also greatly reduces the credibility of the answer prediction. To this end, simply highlighting the visual features in the model is undoable, since the prediction is built upon the joint modeling of two modalities and largely influenced by the data distribution. In this paper, we propose a Pairwise Inconformity Learning (PIL) to tackle the issue of knowledge inertia. In particular, PIL takes full advantage of the similar image pairs with diverse answers to an identical question provided in VQA2.0 dataset. It builds a multi-modal embedding space to project pos. /neg. feature pairs, upon which word vectors of answers are modeled as anchors. By doing so, PIL strengthens the importance of visual features in prediction with a novel dynamic-margin based triplet loss that efficiently increases the semantic discrepancies between pos. /neg. image pairs. To verify the proposed PIL, we plug it on a baseline VQA model as well as a set of recent VQA models, and conduct extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets, i.e., VQA1.0 and VQA2.0. Experimental results show that PIL can boost the accuracy of the existing VQA models (1.56%-2.93% gain) with a negligible increase in parameters (0.85%-5.4% parameters). Qualitative results also reveal the elimination of knowledge inertia in the existing VQA models after implementing our PIL.
Appraisal of project scheduling in Nigeria construction industry: A case study of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Project scheduling plays a vital role in successful completion of a construction project, despite the crucial role of this tool, there still exist many challenges in using it efficiently. Some projects schedules are established at the conception of the project and never evaluated for feasibility until problems arise. Besides, some constructors lack the expertise required for preparing effective project schedule. This study therefore, examines the factors affecting project scheduling and also establishes the severity of these factors. Review of extant literatures revealed the factors affecting project scheduling and these were structured into a questionnaire to get empirical data from the professionals. Statistical tools were used to analyze the empirical data collected. It was revealed that the type, complexity and the materials requirement for the work are the most important factors that determines project scheduling; Poor managerial decision on critical activity, lack of expertise in scheduling and inaccurate estimate of human resources required are the top factors hindering the performance of project scheduling. This study recommends the use of qualified and certified professional in managing project schedule and the use of scientific approach rather than rule of thumb in estimating for labor and materials requirement, as this will enhance the performance of project scheduling in Nigeria construction industry and contribute to the optimal utilization of resources in project delivery.
Movement affect estimation in motion capture data

The problem that we are addressing is that of emph{movement affect estimation}: estimating the emotional states of motion capture data as input. Motion capture data contains just a skeleton and no information about body type and facial expressions. The motion capture data consists of professional actors and dancers performing movements such as walking, sitting, and improv. Machine learning models are then built using these motion capture to learn the affective states behind these movement. Overall, we conducted a series of three experiments. First, using the labels that were given to the actors as the ground truth, our Hidden Markov Models (HMM) models were able to reach over 70% accuracy in prediciting the affective state, out of a total possible 9 affective states. Second, we attempted recognition through establishing a ground truth using ratings. We used a continuous approach by asking university students to rate each movement in valence and arousal simultaneously. The ratings are then used as ground truth labels for supervised machine learning with stepwise linear regression. This achieved a high coefficient of determination, the performance metric we used in this experiment. In our third experiment and in light of more literature review after the first two experiments, we gathered more data using a crowdsourcing platform and modified our machine learning techniques by switching to rank-based methods. In this case, rather than assigning an absolute numerical rating value to quantify the affective state of the movement, each movement is now ranked relative to other movement along the dimensions of affect. Results are then analyzed using the Goodman-Kruskal Gamma. The performance of models in this approach show that it is highly dependent on the movement type in that consistent movement pattern lead to a more consistent ranking. It also appears to be more effective for recognizing affect in postures.
UPAYA DINAS PENDIDIKAN KOTA PEKANBARU DALAM MENINGKATKAN NILAI AKREDITASI SEKOLAH DASAR DI KOTA PEKANBARU TAHUN 2012

Pekanbaru city government that has the responsibility and authority to improve the quality of education is Pekanbaru City Department of Education which is part of the local government under Law No. 32 Year 2004 on Regional Government. One way to improve the quality of education is through school accreditation. With the expected quality of education accreditation Pekanbaru City can continue to increase and become a benchmark for the success of educational programs that can be an example for other areas in Riau province and outside the province of Riau. The purpose of this study is to see how the efforts of Pekanbaru City Department of Education in improving the quality of education through accreditation and any factors that hamper the government's efforts in improving accreditation. This research was conducted in the city of Pekanbaru, which is the key informants in this study are, the head Pekanbaru City Department of Education, the head of Primary School Development. In collecting the data obtained from the documentation and documentation - depth interviews with informants. Once the data is collected and then analyzed using qualitative descriptive analysis. After doing research, efforts to increase the value of accreditation is not yet fully optimized. It was also found that there are factors that hamper efforts Pekanbaru City Department of Education in improving primary school accreditation. The limiting factor is the lack of funds for education, lack of teachers and education personnel, lack of infrastructure facilities, and management education has not been effective and efficient. Suggestions for official efforts to improve elementary school accreditation is a further need to be maximized, socialization should periodically be given to schools to better prepare future components of accreditation in order to 8 components in the accreditation assessment can be prepared as much as possible. Key word : elementary school accreditation, the quality of education.
Diagnostic Value of Prolactin and B-Hcg Levels of Vaginal Fluid in Diagnosis of Premature Rupture of Membranes

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Implantation Rural Antique sur le Bas-Guadalquivir . By M. Ponsich. Publications de la Casa de Velàzquez, Série ‘Archéologie’, fasc. ii. Madrid/Paris (Editions E. de Boccard), 1974. Pp. 404, 88 pls. Price not stated.

wide-ranging aspects of this material the fine wares (mostly of Nene Valley or Swanpool (Lincoln) origin), the calcite-gritted and relatively local grey culinary wares of varying coarseness, and the distinctive regional types, such as Dales and allied lid-seated jars. She rightly points out that no production-centre has yet been located for the strongly-represented (over 20 per cent of the total wares) late calcite-gritted vessels, whose distribution concentrates mainly in Lincoln and the area immediately to the south; however, a kiln making calcite-gritted jars and dishes in the early third century is known at Bourne (south Lines.), and it is to this area that any programme of fieldwork should be directed to see if production in that tradition continued later. The poor showing of mortaria in the deposit, and their apparent functional interchangeability with imitation Dr. 38 bowls, attracts attention; the general trend throughout Britain for mortaria to be by this period comparatively small is presumably related, and one wonders whether some change in culinary habits is not reflected. Various useful appendices discuss the problems of siting, history of research, and the current state of knowledge relating to the late kilns in the immediate vicinity of Lincoln, particularly the St. Helen's Cemetery/Boultham/Rookery Lane/Swanpool complex, of which our knowledge is still relatively limited. Such an assessment as this of local production-centres is an essential background to a pottery report and will, one hopes, set the pattern for others processing Romano-British pottery from excavations. The same could be said of many other features of this report. Criticisms are few: the vessel-spacing on the figures is unnecessarily lavish; sectional subtitles are occasionally absent, for example 'fine wares' on p. 5; 'suspected' not 'suspeeted' on p. 25. In view of the very substantial quantity of grey vessels, the author would have been wiser to use a Munsell Color Chart for fabric-descriptions rather than the Roman Pottery Study Group Chart, which is very deficient in grey tones. These are minor criticisms, however, and we look forward eagerly to Miss Darling's analysis of Roman pottery from earlier deposits in Lincoln.
Learning motion through the learning cycle model

Most of the third-grader in MI Darussalam, Caringin, Bandung have not reached the standard score of learning IPA (Science). This occurred due to the teacher-centered method used in this school. The aim of the study is to describe the students’ activity during Science subject and to analyze the result of the study after the students were treated using the Learning Cycle model. The subject of this research were 25 third-grader Class A students at MI Darussalam, Caringin, Bandung. Through the observation sheet, the activity and the test result on Science subject are obtained. The result showed that 96% of the students (24 out of 25) have passed the standard score while the other 4% of the students (1 out of 25) have not passed the standard score. The achievement of 96% of the students passing the standard score is categorized as a high-achieving category while the mean of the students’ score is 83.08, categorized as excellent. These results mean that the Learning Cycle model can improve students’ understanding on the ‘motion’ chapter.
A prospective interventional study of the efficacy of a protocol for prevention and treatment of hypotension following spinal anaesthesia for Caesarean section at Pelonomi Hospital

Background Hypotension after spinal anaesthesia for Caesarean section is common with an incidence of up to 71%. To prevent this hypotension, a number of approaches have been investigated, notably fluid loading, vasopressors, or both. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of hypotension after spinal anaesthesia for Caesarean section at Pelonomi Hospital and assess the effect of a protocol aimed to lower this incidence. Methods This was a Prospective interventional Study with 91 patients in the Baseline Group and 99 in the Intervention Group. The data was recorded for the incidence of hypotension and bradycardia for 3 months. A newly developed algorithm to prevent and treat bradycardia and hypotension was introduced and data was recorded again. The intervention group received a background phenylephrine infusion with a flow control device starting at 50 mcg/min and was titrated to maintain a blood pressure above 110 mmHg with an increase or decrease in phenylephrine and boluses of phenylephrine, atropine, ephedrine and adrenaline. The primary outcome was to determine the efficacy of a protocol for prevention and treatment of hypotension following spinal anaesthesia for Caesarean section.
Usable authentication and click-based graphical passwords

Security experts often refer to humans as the "weakest link" (Sasse, Brostoff, and Weirich, 2001) in the security chain, asserting that the problem lies not with the security systems themselves, but with users who are unable or unwilling to comply with security protocols. The shift towards usable security and including human factors in system design is an important one that has a direct impact on system security. In this thesis, we focus on knowledge-based authentication. We examine the password problem, where passwords are either weak-and-memorable or secure-but-difficult-to-remember, despite the need for secure and memorable passwords. We concentrate on graphical passwords due to the human ability to accurately recognize and recall images. We began by cataloguing existing graphical passwords, focusing equally on usability and security characteristics, and identified PassPoints, a click-based graphical password scheme, as the scheme that appeared most promising and that we believed warranted closer evaluation. Our overall research question, therefore, asks: "Can click-based graphical passwords simultaneously support both memorability and security, while maintaining usability? " We conducted lab and field studies of PassPoints, and identified areas for usability and security improvements. We designed Cued Click-Points and Persuasive Cued Click-Points, schemes with several novel design features: one-to-one cueing to help with the memorability, implicit feedback meaningful only to legitimate users, and a safe-path-of-least-resistance influencing users to select stronger memorable passwords. Empirical studies of both schemes provide evidence of increased usability, memorability, and security. Additionally, we propose a new discretization method for such systems that improves usability by making the system more predictable from the user's perspective and improves security by allowing for smaller tolerance regions without sacrificing usability. From this empirical work, we identified the underlying design characteristics of our systems that led to success and generalized our findings as design strategies that may be applicable to other knowledge-based authentication schemes.
Independent component analysis by convex divergence minimization: applications to brain fMRI analysis

A class of independent component analysis (ICA) algorithms using a minimization of the convex divergence, called the f-ICA, is presented. This algorithm is a super class of the minimum mutual information ICA and our own /spl alpha/-ICA. The following properties are obtained: 1) the f-ICA can be implemented by both momentum and turbo methods, and their combination is also possible; 2) the formerly presented /spl alpha/-ICA can claim an equivalent form to the f-ICA if the design parameter /spl alpha/ is chosen appropriately; 3) the f-ICA is much faster than the minimum mutual information ICA; and 4) additional complexity required to the divergence ICA is light, and thus this algorithm is applicable to a large amount of data via conventional personal computers. Detection of human brain areas that strongly respond to moving objects is reported in this paper.
CRE 10904 [2-(p-fluorophenoxy), 1-(o-hydroxyphenyl)-ethane]: a new diuretic and antihypertensive drug acting by in vivo sulfation.

CRE 10904 [2-(p-fluorophenoxy), 1-(o-hydroxyphenyl)-ethane, the leading compound of a new family of loop diuretic and antihypertensive agents: 1-aryl, 2-aryloxy-ethanes] induced high-ceiling natriuretic action in dogs and rats, but was completely inactive in pigs. High-performance liquid chromatography determinations revealed that all CRE 10904 (p.o. or i.v. administered) was rapidly sulfo-conjugated in dogs and rats, and glucurono-conjugated in pigs. The (O-sulfonyl)-CRE10904 metabolite (or simply CRE 11296) rapidly appeared in plasma, reached a concentration peak at about 40 min and disappeared with a half-life time of about 3 hr. The urinary excretion of CRE 11296 was correlated with the natriuretic activity of CRE 10904. Moreover, CRE 11296 was a powerful natriuretic compound in rats and dogs and, even in pigs, i.v. CRE 11296 induced transient natriuresis (just before its rapid hydrolysis and glucurono-conjugation). Studies in human red blood cells revealed that: 1) CRE 11296 was a potent inhibitor of the [Na+,K+,Cl-]-cotransport system (IC50 of 1.5 +/- 0.3 x 10(-5) M; mean +/- S.E. M. of 5 experiments), slightly more powerful than furosemide (IC50 of 2 x 10(-5) M), 2) it was the only diuretic drug potently inhibiting the [K+,Cl-]-cotransport system (IC50 of 2.1 +/- 0.6 x 10(-5) M; N = 3) and the [Cl/HCO3-] exchanger (IC50 of 4.5 +/- 1.0 x 10(-5) M; N = 3) and 3) CRE 10904 and its glucuronide were much less potent Cl- transport inhibitors. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Pengurusan bandar warisan UNESCO dan penglibatan komunititempatan: kajian kes di George Town, Pulau Pinang

Meskipun kajian tentang tapak warisan dunia di peringkat antarabangsa telah bermula sejak tahun 1945, namun kajian tentang pemuliharaan bandar tapak warisan dunia di Malaysia masih lagi kurang. Kajian ini mengenal pasti program tapak warisan UNESCO di bandar George Town, Pulau Pinang yang melibatkan komuniti tempatan; meneliti bentuk, jenis dan tahap penglibatan komuniti tersebut; dan mencadangkan langkah-langkah meningkatkan penglibatan komuniti dalam aktiviti pemuliharaan bandar kajian. Kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan kaedah temu bual mendalam dan pemerhatian. Dapatan kajian daripada 27 orang responden menunjukkan bahawa hanya 20.6% responden sahaja yang pernah terlibat dengan aktiviti pemuliharaan. Oleh itu, boleh dirumuskan tahap penglibatan komuniti secara keseluruhannya masih lagi rendah. Dapatan kajian temu bual mendalam dengan pegawai mendapati banyak program atau projek pemuliharaan yang dijalankan. Namun, kebanyakan program ini hanya tertumpu kepada kumpulan tertentu seperti pemilik rumah atau bangunan, kontraktor, ahli akademik dan pihak pengurusan. Kajian ini turut mendapati majoriti komuniti berminat terhadap proses pemuliharaan tetapi tidak dilibatkan. Secara keseluruhan, bentuk penglibatan komuniti terhadap pemuliharaan adalah bersifat tidak ketara (intangible). Komitmen pihak berkepentingan dari sudut pengurusan, pemantauan dan pendanaan adalah penting dalam memastikan kelestarian warisan berterusan. Dapatan ini penting kepada pembuat dasar seperti Jabatan Warisan Negara untuk meneliti semula tahap, jenis dan bentuk penglibatan komuniti agar menepati aspirasi komuniti dan bandar lestari.
Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn.

Larry D. Rosen argues for the need to more fully embrace technology and to incorporate digital media when educating young technologically advanced student cohorts. Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn is a good introduction to recent research on the use of technology by young people, and the pedagogical potential of utilising the rapid and unique changes in behaviour of this demographic. However, the book lacks consideration of the ethics of such a pedagogical approach in terms of the implications for students' health, labour and other environmental factors. View PDF for the full review
The Open Source Movement: A Revolution in Software Development

The open source movement is based on a radical retake on copyright law to create high quality software whose use and development are guaranteed to the public. In this article we trace the history of the movement, highlighting its interaction with intellectual property law. The movement has spawned open source software (OSS) communities where developers and users meet to create software that meets their needs. We discuss the demographic profile of OSS participants, their ideology, their motivations, and the process of OSS development. Then we examine the impacts of OSS on society as a whole from the perspective of the information society, discussing the effects on OSS developers, users of OSS, and society at large, particularly in developing countries.