Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of guidelines for injured children at high risk for venous thromboembolism: A prospective observational study.

BACKGROUND Pharmacologic prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a widely accepted practice in adult trauma patients to prevent associated morbidity and mortality. However, VTE prophylaxis has not been standardized in injured pediatric patients. Our institution identified factors potentially associated with a high risk of VTE in critically injured children that led to prospective implementation of VTE prophylaxis guidelines. We hypothesize that the guidelines are accurate in predicting children at risk for VTE. METHODS Data were prospectively collected on injured children from August 2010 to August 2015. Pharmacologic prophylaxis was indicated for patients identified by the guidelines as high risk for VTE. Prophylaxis was deferred and a screening ultrasound was performed if the high-risk VTE patients were also at high risk for bleeding. To assess the accuracy of predicting confirmed cases of VTE, stepwise logistic regression analysis was used to measure the association of individual risk factors with VTE controlling for age (≥13 years). A receiver operating characteristic curve measured the accuracy of the final model to predict a VTE. RESULTS Of 4,061 trauma patients, 588 were admitted to the ICU, with the guidelines identifying 199 as high risk for VTE. VTE occurred in 3.9% (23/588) of the ICU population and 10% (20/199) of the high risk group. The median age of VTE patients in the ICU was 9.7 years. Statistically significant predictors (p < 0.05) of VTE in the multivariate model included presence of a central venous catheter (OR = 5.2), inotropes (OR = 7.7), immobilization (OR = 5.5), and a Glasgow Coma Scale of <9 (OR = 1.3). The area under receiver operating characteristic curve of this model was 0.92, demonstrating its excellent predictive ability. CONCLUSION Specific clinical factors in critically injured children are associated with a high risk for VTE. Incorporating these risk factors in VTE prophylaxis guidelines facilitates more accurate risk stratification and may allow for improved VTE prevention in pediatric trauma. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Prognostic study, level II.
The Success of Embryo Transfer in Dairy Cattle Recipient Using Beef Cattle Embryos

A field research on “The Success of Embryo Trans fer in Dairy Cattle Recipient using Beef Cattle Embryos” has been conducted. Prior to the research, selection of dairy cow recipients has been done. It has been selected, from three different farm locations i.e. Bendul Merisi Farm: 9 head; Teaching Farm 5 head and Wonocolo 6 had. The 20 recipients have been estrous synchronized prior to embryos transferred. Blood samples were collected three times i.e.: at onset of estrous, at receiving embryo (day 7) and day 21 after estrous, to measure the concentration of progesterone as the parameters. Further parameters were non return rate and pregnancy rate. Pregnancy detection was done by rectal explorati on on day 90 after transferred of embryos. Result shows 11 head (55%) dairy cow recipients get pregnant. They are 3 heads from Teaching Farm (60%), 4 heads (44.44%) from Bendul Merisi Farm and 4 heads (66.66%) from Wonocolo Farm In conclusion, dairy cow recipients can accept embryos derived from beef cattle. Key words : Embryo Transfer, Beef Cattle Embryo, Dairy Cattle Recipient
HALAL GOVERNANCE IN INDONESIA: THEORY, CURRENT PRACTICES, AND RELATED ISSUES

Considering Indonesia’s target to lead halal industry worldwide, the discussionupon the current practices of halal governance in the country is critical to get into acomprehensive insight. Several major drawbacks within the previous studies on thistopic is found along the followings. There has never been a study that has specificallydiscussed the term of halal governance substantively or comprehensively investigatedthe subject matters in Indonesia. Driven by this gap, we set out to review halalgovernance practices in Indonesia by employing a qualitative method of documentary.In doing so, the present paper firstly discusses the substantive materials upon linesof defense in halal governance that covers the four themes, which the present paperparticularly reviews as the current practices in Indonesia. From the present discussion,this paper offers the novelty on the explanation of lines of defense in halal governance,and that of the current practices in Indonesia along with the related issues presentlyassociated with it. In addition, this paper further delivers the applicable advises forthe improvement of the practices. This study is relevant for the stakeholders of halalindustry including the domestic government agencies, practitioners and academics.
Improving Efficiency of CBIR by using Color, Texture and Fusion Features with Bit Pattern

Digital graphic offers many advantages for processing and distributing image and other types of understanding. A single color image have more information of the different situations and object scenario and each color and texture have own characteristics. Geometrical and color information extraction are the key issue. CBIR finds and show images alike to one given as query image and another are similar images. In the earlier work, most of the researchers used low level features but there are some challenges like distortion of image, color imbalance, semantic gap between low level features etc. The challenges, be that as it may, is in planning a system with the capacity to retrieve best possible matches when there is an occurrence of all kind of images as query without using some other relevant information, for example, metadata, keywords and labels etc, and using only content of the images. The system proposed in this approach aim to retrieve the most relevant images using color, edge histogram descriptor with bitmap by using fusion based feature. Applications of the proposed system are climate forecast, crime prevention, military imaginary etc.
Manufacturing Sector and Import Penetration in Nigeria

The degree to which domestic demand of a country is being satisfied by imports is known as import penetration. This has proven detrimental to the activities of the manufacturing sector in Nigeria, after examining the relationship between the manufacturing sector and import penetration in Nigeria for the period 1981 to 2017. The classical linear regression model (CLRM) within ordinary least square (OLS) estimation technique was used to estimate the stated objective of this study. The study recommends among other things that to further enhance the activities of the manufacturing sector, the government should adopt a near perfect mix between the import substitution strategy and the export promotion strategy of industrialization. This will place Nigeria at the forefront in Africa and to the world at large. Keywords: manufacturing sector, import penetration, trade openness
Does Introducing the Letters Faster Boost the Development of Children’s Letter Knowledge, Word Reading and Spelling in the First Year of School?

ABSTRACT Learning the relationships between letters and sounds is a key component of early literacy development and a central aim during the first year of school. Introducing one new letter a week is the most common approach in many countries, but little is known about how the pace of letter instruction contributes to the development of early literacy skills. This study used a natural experiment to investigate how a faster pace of letter instruction influences the development of letter knowledge, word reading, and spelling during the first year of school. Regression analysis showed that a faster pace yielded significantly better results for all outcome measures, and logistic-regression models showed that the lowest-performing children benefited more than the highest-performing one from a faster pace. The study concludes with a discussion of those novel findings and suggestions about their implications for teaching practice.
Isolation, characterization and symbiotic performance evaluation of soybean (Glycine max) nodulating rhizobia from different districts of Bangladesh

Rhizobia can meet up nitrogen requirement of legumes by biological nitrogen fixation through symbiosis. The main objective of this study was to find out the morpho-physiological diversity of indigenous soybean nodulating rhizobia and to find effective rhizobial strains for enhancing better soybean production at different environmental conditions. Fourteen rhizobial strains were isolated and studied their morph-physiological characteristics; evaluated their nodulation and symbiotic efficiency at potted soil. Among the strains, seven were slow growing, four were intermediate to slow growing and three were fast growing. The strains exposed creamy, milky-white and transparent single colonies between 1.17 and 3.67 mm in diameter after 3 to 7 days on growth medium. Twelve strains were alkali producers and only two strains were acid producers. Most of them tolerated both acidic pH (4.0 and 5.0) and alkaline pH (9.0 and 10.0) conditions. All strains tolerated to 1.0% NaCl but none of them survived at 5.0% salt stress. They retained their normal growth up to 37oC but most of them showed growth susceptibility at 45oC and growth was inhibited at 50oC. The strains were inoculated as treatments on soybean plants to compare their performance on growth of soybean along with urea and control treatment. Overall, rhizobial treatments significantly increased nodulation and growth of soybean plants over recommended dose of urea and negative control. Diverse rhizobial strains were associated with soybean root nodules in Bangladesh. The strains SB-27, SB-28 and SB-212 were very effective and produced almost double plant dry matter weight over some other strains, dose of urea and negative control. The physical stress tolerant and highly symbiotic strains deserve to be effective as bio-fertilizer for soybean crop production.
Incorporating Short-Term Stored Energy Resource Into Midwest ISO Energy and Ancillary Service Market

The purpose of this paper is to analyze various approaches to incorporate short-term stored energy resources into the Midwest ISO co-optimized energy and ancillary service market. Based on the analysis, the best approach is to utilize short-term stored energy resources for regulating reserve with the real-time energy dispatch to be set in such a way that the maximum regulating reserve can be cleared. Results on a five-bus system are used to illustrate the clearing and pricing on short-term stored energy resources with the proposed approach. Monte Carlo simulation on the five-bus system is used to illustrate the AGC regulation deployment.
Design and analysis of transmit-beamforming based on limited-rate feedback

We deal with the design and performance analysis of transmit-beamformers for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems, based on bandwidth-limited information that is fed back from the receiver to the transmitter. By casting the design of transmit-beamforming based on limited-rate feedback as an equivalent sphere vector quantization (SVQ) problem, we first consider multi-antenna beamformed transmissions through independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) Rayleigh fading channels. We upper-bound the rate distortion function of the vector source, and also lower-bound the operational rate distortion performance achieved by the generalized Lloyd's algorithm. A simple and valuable relationship emerges between the theoretical distortion limit and the achievable performance, and the average signal to noise ratio (SNR) performance is accurately quantified. Finally, we study beamformer codebook designs for correlated Rayleigh fading channels. and derive a low-complexity codebook design that achieves near optimal performance.
Assessing Resilience to Flooding and Human Wildlife Conflict in Developing Countries : A Case Study of Flood Related Trauma and Human Wildlife Conflict in Nepal

Developing countries have a large population that is dependent on farming and agriculture, making them more heavily reliant on natural resources like forest and water. Nepal is one of such countries, with a unique geography where much of the population lives in close proximity to conservation areas and water bodies. Due to these natural features and increased environmental pressures such as extreme storms and deforestation, many of these communities have experienced loss, ranging from property damage to human injury or death because of the related extreme flooding and increased humanwildlife conflict. These challenges are amplified in Nepal due to the nation’s dependency on agriculture for their livelihood; the resources required to ensure resilience to such events are scarce. The second chapter of this research focuses on human-wildlife conflict (HWC) issues. While a government-issued HWC compensation policy exists, it has proven ineffective for victims that have low accessibility to even report their loss; this study aims to explore possible factors influencing the propensity to report loss. All 197 survey participants reported suffering from crop raid by wild animals, and about 60% reported livestock death. Results revealed that socio-demographic factors such as age, gender and
Wilms' tumor with an apparently balanced translocation t(X;18) resulting in deletion of the WTX gene

The recent description of a new X chromosome tumor suppressor gene, WTX, that is commonly inactivated in Wilms' tumor prompted us to examine the possible involvement of WTX in a case of Wilms' tumor containing an apparently balanced reciprocal translocation between chromosomes X and 18 (t(X;18)(q11;p11)). Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis of paraffin tumor sections indeed revealed a deletion of the WTX locus at Xq11. High‐resolution array comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) analysis of tumor DNA revealed a 1.5 Mb chromosome deletion encompassing the WTX gene at Xq11. No loss of genetic material was detected on chromosome 18. Interestingly, unlike most tumors with acquired chromosomal translocations, where a new fusion oncogene or promoter‐oncogene fusion is created and drives tumor growth, the t(X;18) in this tumor appears to drive tumorigenesis via deletion of a tumor suppressor. This case demonstrates the importance of array CGH and FISH as adjuncts in tumor cytogenetics and in identifying pathogenic microdeletions in “balanced” translocations that are not truly balanced. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
TID sensitivity of NAND Flash memory building blocks

NAND Flash memories are the leader among high capacity non-volatile memory technologies and are becoming attractive also for radiation harsh environments, such as space. For these applications, a careful assessment of their sensitivity to radiation is needed. In this contribution we analyze TID effects on the many different building blocks of NAND Flash memories, including the charge pumps, row-decoder, and floating gate array. Since each of these elements have dedicated circuital and technological characteristics, we identify and study the peculiar failure mode for each part.
Antifungal and Immunomodulatory Activity of Bryophyllum pinnatum Leaf Extracts

This study was carried out to investigate the antifungal and immunomodulatory activities of Bryophylum pinnatum. Both aqueous and ethanol solvents were used for extraction. Five fungal species including Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus, Cladosporium herbarium, Candida albicans and Penicillium italicum were obtained from the University of Benin Teaching Hospital and they were preliminarily identified using standard microbiological methods. Wistar rat models for the study were purchased and acclimatized for a period of two weeks. The rats were divided into five groups and orally administered with the ethanol extract of the plant while one group served as control. Antimicrobial and hematological parameters including packed cell volume (PCV), hemoglobin, white blood cell counts, platelets and CD4 count were assayed using standard methods. The only fungus sensitive to aqueous extract was Aspergillus niger, with zone of inhibition ranging from 6.00±0.58-11.33±0.33 mm at concentration range of 50-100 mg/ml. Mean zones of inhibition of ethanolic extract ranged from 11.67±0.67-20.33±0.33 mm against Original Research Article Okpoho et al.; AJI, 1(1): 1-8, 2018; Article no.AJI. 46581 2 Cladosporium herbarium at concentration range of 6.25-100 mg/ml. Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) of ethanol extract ranged from 6.2550 mg/ml against fungal isolates. While MIC of aqueous extract was 50 mg/ml against susceptible fungal isolate. Minimum fungicidal concentrations of ethanol and aqueous were 25100 mg/ml and 100 mg/ml respectively. Significant difference was observed between the treatment and control groups in platelet counts (range: 95.40±1.86-126.20±5.40% and control: 108.60±4.19%), PCV (range: 39.00±0.71-44.20±0.58%; control: 39.00±0.71%) and hemoglobin (range:12.94±0.21-14.62±0.24 g/dl; control: 12.94±0.21 g/dl). There was no significant difference between the treatment and control groups in CD4 counts (75.40±19.32-99.00±6.33cells/ml and control 75.4±19.32 cells/ml). Bryophylum pinnatum has been shown in this work to possess both antimicrobial and hematological properties.
UJI TOKSISITAS EKSTRAK METANOL RUMPUT LAUT HIJAU (CAULERPA RACEMOSA) PADA LARVA UDANG WINDU (PENAEUS MONODON)

Kegiatan usaha budidaya udang windu secara intensif mulai dilakukan dan peminatnya cukup tinggi.Meningkatnya usaha budidaya intensif diikuti dengan meningkatnya wabah penyakit yang ditimbulkan oleh golongan bakteri patogen Vibrio harveyi . Penelitian ini dilakukan bertujuan untuk menguji sitotoksisitas menggunkan Artemia salina untuk menghindari sifat toksik dari ekstrak C.racemosa terhadap kelangsungan larva udang windu (Penaeus monodon). Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini meliputi:dengan metode brine shrimp lethality test (BSLT) Hasil uji sitotoksisitas memperlihatkan bahwa ekstrak metanol tidak bersifat toksik terhadap nauplius Artemia salina (LC 50 >1000 ppm. Selanjtnya metode agar padat terhadap strain bakteri patogen V. harveyi BPPBAP dengan menggunakan kisaran konsentrasi ekstrak berkelipatan 0,5 dimulai dari 2000 ppm sampai 15,625 ppm yang dibuat secara triplo. Hasilnya menunjukankan bahawa Pada konsentrasi 2000 ppm memiliki diameter zona hambat tertinggi (19.33 ppm) sementara terendah adalah konsentrasi 125 ppm (diameter zona hambat sebesar 7,33 mm), di bawah konsentrasi 125 ppm tidak tampak aktivitas antibakteri.
Religious Unbelief in Three Western European Countries: Identifying and Characterizing Unbeliever Types Using Latent Class Analysis

ABSTRACT The different forms of religious unbelief are still much of an open question. Using data (N = 4,404) from three European countries—Finland, Denmark, and the Netherlands—we sought to identify underlying unbeliever groups among those with the strongest disbelief in God (N = 2,258). Latent class analyses were conducted on the nontheistic supernatural beliefs of this subsection of participants, resulting in the same three unbeliever groups in each country: analytic atheists, spiritual but not religious (SBNR), and uncertain nonbelievers. Next, we explored these groups on a variety of dimensions, especially on the group members’ attitudes to religion, certainty of beliefs, cognitive dispositions, and worldview. One-way analyses of variance (ANOVAs) revealed similarities as well as distinct characters for each of the latent groups. The groups differed most in intuitive thinking style, overmentalizing bias, and other ontological confusions. To compare the latent groups to all other individuals who took part in the study, two discriminant analyses were run with all participants. This resulted in four meaningful dimensions that supported and extended the ANOVAs findings and allowed for the consideration of other (non)believers. Overall, this study supports earlier findings on analytic atheists and SBNR while providing new information about their dispositions. Of interest, the uncertain nonbeliever group has been largely unexplored previously, and it should gain more attention in future studies.
Epidemiology and maternal and fetal outcome of heart disease during pregnancy: A tertiary care center experience

Background: Cardiac disease is one of the important causes of maternal mortality and morbidity both in antepartum and postpartum period. The overall incidence of heart disease in pregnancy is <1%. In developing countries rheumatic heart disease is the commonest type of heart disease, whereas cardiomyopathies and congenital heart disease are more common in developed countries. Method: A retrospective study was conducted in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, Bihar. An analysis of the records of all the patients of heart disease with pregnancy who came to the hospital from July 2015 to July 2018 was done. Objective: To find out type of heart disease in pregnancy, its etiology, and types of valvular lesions as well as to assess maternal and fetal outcomes in heart disease patients. Result: A total of 41 pregnant women with heart disease were admitted at the hospital over three years duration. The mean age of women having heart disease with pregnancy was 25.39 years. Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) was present in 85.3%, congenital heart disease (CHD) in 12.1% and pripartum cardiomyopathy in2.4%. Mitral stenosis (MS) was the commonest valvular lesion present in 75.6% of cases. 81% of the female were having NYHA grading I/II. LSCS was done in 78% cases. There was only 2 cases of maternal mortality. Perinatal outcome was good with 97.4% live birth rate. Conclusion: Heart disease complicating pregnancy is a high risk condition and requires a multidisciplinary approach to improve maternal and perinatal mortality.
Analysis of the torque production mechanism for flux-switching permanent magnet machines

This paper investigates the principles underlying torque production in a flux-switching permanent magnet (FSPM) machine. Because the phase windings and permanent magnets in FSPM machines are both located on the stator, the torque production mechanism is not the same as for a conventional PM synchronous machine. Spatial harmonic analysis is applied to examine the frequency components present in the electric loading and magnetic loading of the machine. Since torque is proportional to the product of the electric and magnetic loading, understanding the source of the principal harmonics in these waveforms yields powerful insights into the components that result in torque production. The analysis is first presented for a specific FSPM machine (12-slot, 10-pole) and then extended to a general FSPM machine. The primary torque-producing harmonics in the airgap flux density waveform are found to be the heterodyned harmonics of the MMF produced by the stator magnets and the airgap permeance seen by the stator looking into the rotor. Analytical results are compared to results from finite element (FE) analysis and exhibit good agreement.