Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Women's sexual concerns: data analysis from a help-line.

PURPOSE To report female sexual problems and concerns, as presented by women calling a help-line, and to evaluate women's help-seeking behavior regarding sexual matters. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included all telephone calls from women who called for sexual concerns to a help-line dedicated to sexual problems during a 5-year period. During the call, the counselor addresses demographic characteristics of the caller, the sexual problem reported, their sexual function, any previous doctor contacts, coexisting physical and mental health problems, couple's relationship, and lifestyle factors that may influence sexual function. Data processing employed descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis in order to detect possible associations between categorical variables. RESULTS Of a total of 3,523 calls made by women, 2,287 full forms were analyzed, reflecting a response rate of 64.9%. Most women (46.6%) called for problems encountered by their partners, 45.1% called for their own sexual problems, while 5.9% were calling for their children. Only 34.3% of them had already consulted a doctor. The most frequently reported difficulties were achieving orgasm (25.6%), reduced sexual desire (16.9%), and pain during intercourse (6.1%). Women in the 40-49 age group had the higher odds ratios for the sexual problems reported (reduced sexual desire: odds ratio [OR] 5.0; difficulties achieving orgasm: OR 6.3; pain during intercourse: OR 5.8). Both married and single women had high risk of experiencing low levels of sexual desire (40% and 30%, respectively). CONCLUSIONS Women's sexual concerns are not devoted to their sexual problems, but also their partner's and children's problems. Most frequently reported sexual problems are difficulties in reaching orgasm and reduced sexual desire. However, women are reluctant to seek medical advice on their sexual concerns. There is a need for general practitioners and family doctors to become aware of the possibility of a sexual problem and to be trained on how to manage this at a primary care level.
Impact of oil price changes on Turkey’s exports

ABSTRACT Substantial decline in oil prices observed since the second half of 2014 has brought forward discussions on the impact of oil prices on the external balance. This decline is expected to shift real income from oil exporter countries to oil importer countries. In this context, we study the effect of change in oil prices on Turkey’s exports taking into account the fact that Turkey’s export to oil exporting countries has approximately one-third share in total exports, while export to oil importing countries has a share of two-thirds. At the first step, we analyse the effect of oil prices on economic growth of trade partners of Turkey, where countries are grouped according to their net oil export position. We find that the effect of oil prices on different country groups’ growth is asymmetric. In the second stage, for two groups of countries, we estimate growth-export elasticity through Turkey’s export demand function. Finally, we calculate the net effect of oil prices on exports considering different income effects caused by oil price change on each country groups. Results indicate that the net effect of oil prices on the exports is limited given the current export shares.
The Association of Anticonvulsant Use with Fractures in Spinal Cord Injury

ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to determine whether anticonvulsants, including the benzodiazepine subclass, are associated with an increased risk for lower extremity fractures in male patients with spinal cord injury. DesignAll male patients with a history of a traumatic spinal cord injury of 2 yrs’ duration or longer in the Veterans Affairs Spinal Cord Disease Registry from 2002 to 2007 were included. Incident lower extremity fractures during this period and anticonvulsant use were identified. The association of anticonvulsant use, overall, by type (enzyme inducing, non–enzyme inducing), by number (monotherapy vs. polytherapy), by benzodiazepine subclass, and by individual medication used was determined. ResultsIn this cohort, 892 veterans sustained a fracture, and 6555 did not. Compared with nonusers of anticonvulsants, there was a significant positive relationship with fractures by overall use of anticonvulsants (HR, 1.17 [95% CI, 1.01–1.36]), by users of the benzodiazepine subclass (HR, 1.28 [95% CI, 1.11–1.47]), and by polytherapy compared with monotherapy (HR, 1.20 [95% CI, 1.00–1.42]) but not by anticonvulsant type (HR, 0.92 [95% CI, 0.58–1.47]). Temazepam (HR, 1.28 [95% CI, 1.01–1.62]), alprazolam (HR, 1.54 [95% CI, 1.04–2.29]), and diazepam (HR, 1.23 [95% CI, 1.06–1.41]) were significantly positively associated with fractures. ConclusionsAttention to fracture prevention is important when anticonvulsants are prescribed in spinal cord injury, particularly when more than one anticonvulsant is used.
ISSUES IN TEACHING ENGLISH IN A CULTURAL CONTEXT: A CASE OF INDONESIA

Abstract: The significant role of English in the global era triggers many countries to make policies to include English as compulsory subjects for their citizen. However, the existing culture in every country is not necessarily in tandem with the culture that is embedded in English language. This condition may raise many issues that can hamper the teaching-learning process. Through literary studies, this paper explores how English language teaching-learning takes place in Indonesian cultural context and find the issues hampering students to learn English. Among the hampering issues are studentsâ€™ characteristics, teacher factor, norm and belief, and some language aspects of English. Key words: Culture, norms, belief, English language teaching, language aspects
Novel endothelin receptor antagonist attenuates endotoxin-induced lung injury in sheep

ObjectiveTo evaluate the cardiopulmonary effects of the novel endothelin receptor antagonist tezosentan in endotoxin-induced lung injury in sheep and to assess the dose response to tezosentan and endothelin-1 in healthy sheep. DesignProspective, randomized, controlled experimental study. SettingUniversity animal laboratory. SubjectsTwenty-one yearling sheep. InterventionsSeventeen awake, chronically instrumented sheep were subjected to intravenous infusion of Ringer’s lactate for 24 hrs. The animals were randomly assigned to a sham-operated group (n = 3), a lipopolysaccharide group (n = 7) receiving an intravenous infusion of Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide 15 ng·kg−1·min−1, and a tezosentan group (n = 7) subjected to lipopolysaccharide and, from 4 hrs, an intravenous injection of tezosentan 3 mg/kg followed by infusion of 1 mg·kg−1·hr−1. In addition, four healthy sheep, exposed to an intravenous infusion of endothelin-1 at 20 ng·kg−1·min−1, after 1 hr received tezosentan in stepwise increasing doses of 0.5, 1, and 2 mg·kg−1·hr−1 that were maintained for 1 hr each. After a 4-hr recovery, the sheep received infusions of tezosentan at the same dose rates as a pretreatment to endothelin-1. Measurements and Main ResultsIn the sham-operated sheep, all cardiopulmonary variables remained unchanged. Lipopolysaccharide caused pulmonary hypertension, increased extravascular lung water index, and induced arterial hypoxemia. Tezosentan decreased the increments in pulmonary vascular resistance and extravascular lung water index by as much as 60% and 70%, respectively. In parallel, tezosentan ameliorated arterial hypoxemia, increased cardiac index, attenuated the decrease in stroke volume index, and reduced systemic vascular resistance. Compared with the lipopolysaccharide group, tezosentan further increased plasma concentrations of endothelin-1. In healthy animals, the administration of endothelin-1 induced systemic and pulmonary hypertension, increased extravascular lung water index, and evoked bradycardia and a decrease in cardiac index. These changes were attenuated by tezosentan infused at 1 and 2 mg·kg−1·hr−1. ConclusionsIn an ovine model of endotoxin-induced lung injury, tezosentan ameliorates pulmonary hypertension, lung edema, cardiac dysfunction, and arterial hypoxemia. Tezosentan counteracts the hemodynamic effects of endothelin-1 in a dose-dependent manner.
Spin-Off and Value Creation: The Case of Malaysia

This paper investigates the short- and long-run share return performance of Malaysian spin-off firms. Using daily and monthly data, it examines the performance of spin-off firms against the benchmarks of Malaysian indices and matched-firm portfolios. The results show that parent firms significantly outperformed the market during the few days surrounding the announcement date even after adjustment for size. In the long-run analysis over three years, however, we do not find abnormal performance for parents, spun-offs and combined entities. We also find some evidence that the notable positive share returns for parent firms over the short-run period are related to political linkage rather than corporate focus or the size effect. Overall, this research allows us to plausibly argue that the market anticipates both increased value for parent shareholders and exploitable stock market inefficiency in the short-run period but not in the long-run period.
Reimagining and radicalizing community development practice in south-east Queensland through popular education action research

This article analyses the ways community development in Australia has succumbed to neoliberal forces resulting in conservative or reformist practice. Ledwith (Community Development in Action: Putting Freire into Practice, 2015, Policy Press, UK.) argues that popular education theory is a useful vehicle through which community development can recover its emancipatory intentions and take on a more critical role in strategising and acting for structural changes. This article reports on a participatory action research project undertaken in Australia in 2017, to explore what the Popular Education tradition could bring to the field of community development within south-east Queensland. The research aim was to theory-test the possibilities of popular education for influencing contemporary community development in an era of hegemonic service-delivery and welfare work within Australia. Practitioners were exposed to a series of popular education workshops, grounding a clear experiential model for taking theory into action that can advance social justice agendas and further their work. Findings from the project reveal that it is possible to stimulate thinking about radical practice with popular education theory. Moreover, exploration of the theory needs forums and communities of practice for collective critical reflection. Such processes provide both theoretical knowledge and collegial support for practitioners to experiment with actions in line with the radical tradition, and thus develop a radical praxis to resist the worst elements of neoliberalism.
Triage of LSIL/ASC‐US with p16/Ki‐67 dual staining and human papillomavirus testing: a 2‐year prospective study

To investigate human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing and p16/Ki‐67 staining for detecting cervical intraepithelial grade 2 or worse (CIN2+) and CIN3 in women referred to colposcopy with minor abnormal cervical cytology low‐grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSIL) and atypical squamous cells of undermined significance (ASC‐US). The clinical performance of both tests was evaluated as stand‐alone tests and combined, for detection CIN2+ and CIN3 over 2 years.
A Wide-Frequency Model of Metal Foam for Shielding Applications

The use of metal foam continues to grow in terms of research and application. Recently, new developments in the electromagnetic (EM) environment, such as shielding applications, have been proposed. A model of metal foam shielding is developed and discussed in this paper to characterize and simulate the EM shielding behavior. More specifically, the EM characterization has been considered, and experimental shielding effectiveness measurements have been performed. These new double wire-mesh screens, obtained as a development of previously planar shields, allow the design of metal foam EM shields, showing good agreement results among this model, some prototype of this model, and metal foams. The good agreements among data pave the way to improve the model for the low-frequency metal foams behavior.
PENGARUH PENDIDIKAN KEWIRAUSAHAAN, SELF EFFICACY DAN LOCUS OF CONTROL PADA NIAT BERWIRAUSAHA

Unemployment and poverty remain a major problems faced by Indonesia today and in the next few years. Ironically, the highest unemployment rate was actually created by a well-educated group. One of the alternative to solve the unemployment problem is to empower the society and well-educated group through entrepreneurship programs. The purpose of this research is to analyze the influence of entrepreneurship education, self-efficacy and locus of control on entrepreneurship intentions of the undergraduate students. The location of this research at Economics and Business faculty of Udayana University. The samples used were 100 people. Research using purposive sampling techniques and data was collected by questionnaire. The analysis technique used in this research is multiple linear regression. Based on the results of the analysis, it found that entrepreneurship education, self-efficacy and locus of control, have positive and significant impact on student entrepreneurship intentions. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Unemployment and poverty remain a major problems faced by Indonesia today and in the next few years. Ironically, the highest unemployment rate was actually created by a well-educated group. One of the alternative to solve the unemployment problem is to empower the society and well-educated group through entrepreneurship programs. The purpose of this research is to analyze the influence of entrepreneurship education, self-efficacy and locus of control on entrepreneurship intentions of the undergraduate students. The location of this research at Economics and Business faculty of Udayana University. The samples used were 100 people. Research using purposive sampling techniques and data was collected by questionnaire. The analysis technique used in this research is multiple linear regression. Based on the results of the analysis, it found that entrepreneurship education, self-efficacy and locus of control, have positive and significant impact on student entrepreneurship intentions.
Heterogeneity of Physical Function Responses to Exercise in Older Adults

Behavioral exercise interventions, aimed at improving either aerobic endurance or muscular strength, are currently the only therapy found, on average, to consistently retard loss of physical function in aging adults. However, not all individuals experience the same magnitude of benefit from a given exercise treatment, and certain persons may respond more favorably to a particular mode of exercise than another. Research now shows that genetic predisposition is one of the factors accounting for interindividual differences in responses to exercise as well as differences in the propensity to engage in exercise. This article discusses how a common variant in a single gene (the angiotensin-1 converting enzyme gene) could emerge as a prospective tool to identify older individuals more likely to benefit from and adhere to a specific type of exercise activity over another type.
Price Effects of Preferential Market Access

Preferential trade arrangements should be evaluated by their effect on prices rather than by their effect on the total value of trade. This point is emphasized in the theoretical literature but rarely implemented empirically. This article analyzes the U.S. Caribbean Basin Initiative’s (CBI’s) impact on the prices received by eligible apparel exporters. The CBI’s apparel preferences are the most important and heavily used unilateral preferences because of high trade barriers imposed on exports from the rest of the world. A fixedeffects generalized least squares (GLS) estimation is used to isolate the effects of other factors (such as quality, exchange rates, and transaction costs) and to identify the effects of tariff preferences. CBI exporters capture only about two-thirds of their preference margin despite the high degree of competition among importers. This translates into a 9 percent increase in the relative prices they receive, with some variance across countries and years. Countries specializing in h.
Saccadic abnormalities in psychotic patients. II. The role of neuroleptic treatment

SYNOPSIS The effects of dopamine-antagonistic neuroleptic (NL) medication on saccadic eye movements were compared in matched groups of 40 NL-treated and 18 NL-free schizophrenic patients and in 18 NL-treated and 14 NL-free bipolar affective patients. Manipulation of the saccadic paradigm yielded data on four types of saccade: those reflexively elicited by novel stimuli (REFLEX saccades), those directed towards the remembered location of a target now extinguished (REM) or towards the location where a predictably alternating target is expected to appear (PRED), or ANTI saccades, directed away from the stimulus to the mirror image location. Extensive psychiatric, neurological and neuropsychological assessments were also carried out on all subjects. The saccades of NL-treated patients, regardless of diagnosis, were less spatially accurate than those of NL-free patients, with a greater tendency to fall short of the target when generated towards the locus of a mentally represented target. This effect was greatest with a predictably alternating target, especially during periods when target visibility was withdrawn, only a temporal cue remaining. This pattern of impairment which is also found in early stages of Parkinson's disease is likely to be due to deficiency of striatal dopamine. Its best clinical predictors were disease duration, and Webster–Parkinsonism scores. Failure to suppress reflexive saccades to the stimulus in the REM and ANTI paradigms were more closely associated with schizophrenia than with NL treatment and were best predicted by negative symptoms and Wisconsin perseverative errors, both of which are widely regarded as indicators of frontal lobe dysfunction.
Emotional work and diversity in clinical placements of nursing students.

PURPOSE To learn how students experience clinical placements in a setting of diversity and how they cope with the emotional challenges involved. DESIGN This study is based on inductive, qualitative research undertaken with Israeli nursing students. METHOD In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 students: 10 Arabs (5 men and 5 women), 9 Jews (2 men and 7 women), and 1 Circassian. The interviews were analyzed through coding and categorization. FINDINGS The students' experiences are characterized by emotional strains of various sorts-stress, ambivalence, disgust, frustration, and conflict-that arise in three types of relationships: relationships with patients, with the clinical instructors, and with other students who are on their teams. The data show that diversity has an impact on all these relationships. The data further show that the students cope with the emotional strains by using several strategies of emotional work: distancing, self-strengthening, self-motivation work, and minimizing significance. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS (a) Nursing students' experiences during their clinical placements should be understood in terms of emotional challenges, and their emotional work and coping strategies call for appropriate forms of support. (b) The diversity of the clinical placement environment should be considered as an important factor, both in understanding students' experiences and learning processes and in designing the support that they need. CLINICAL RELEVANCE Culturally diverse settings entail distinct challenges that impact students' emotional reaction to clinical work. Understanding the types of emotional work students do in the process of their clinical experience is critical for educators seeking to promote genuinely caring and effective nursing in culturally diverse settings.
Effect of phage and host concentration on the inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 on cooked and raw beef

A previously described phage infecting Escherichia coli O157:H7 was added to raw and cooked beef pieces at concentrations ranging from 101–108 plaque forming units/cm2 to either low (<100 CFU/cm2) or high (104 CFU/cm2) concentrations of host bacterial cells. Incubation for up to 24 h was performed at 5℃ and 24℃ to simulate refrigerated and room temperature storage/temperature abuse. Surviving bacteria were enumerated during the incubation period, with phages being counted at the first and last sampling times. Significant reductions of E. coli O157:H7 of the order of >4 log10 CFU/cm2 at both temperatures could be achieved compared to phage-free controls. There was a trend for greater inactivation to occur with increasing phage concentration. While re-growth of surviving cells occurred in nearly all samples incubated for 24 h at 24℃, these conditions are not typical of those experienced by perishable foods. It was concluded that phages can be used to reduce the concentration of a bacterial pathogen on meat, but the concentration of phages needs to be high (>4–5 log10 plaque forming units/cm2) for reductions to occur. A concentration of the order 8 log10 plaque forming units/cm2 was needed to achieve a 4 log10 CFU/cm2 reduction.
Reliability Analysis of Symmetric Vertical-Channel Nickel-Salicided Poly-Si Thin-Film Transistors

In this paper, a reliability analysis of symmetric Vertical-channel Ni-SAlicided poly-Si thin-film transistors (VSA-TFTs) is performed for the first time. First, we compare the drain-induced barrier-lowering effect (DIBL) of VSA-TFTs. The VSA-TFTs with thinner gate oxide thickness, an offset structure, and a longer floating n+ region have better immunity to DIBL. Second, VSA-TFTs with a longer floating n+ region also have better immunity under hot-carrier (HC) stress and self-heating (SH) stress. However, VSA-TFTs with a shorter floating n+ region also have better immunity to positive gate bias (PGB) stress. Consequently, in order to optimize reliability characteristics, including SH stress, HC stress, and PGB stress, it is necessary to modulate the length of the floating n+ region. Third, the PGB stress, rather than SH stress or HC stress, becomes a major issue for VSA-TFTs under the stress bias below 4 V. In other words, PGB stress will dominate the degradation behaviors when the stress bias is not high enough to achieve SH stress and HC stress. Finally, the worst degradation condition of VSA-TFTs under HC stress, similar to that of most TFT devices, occurs when the stress of VG is less than half of VD.