Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ASSESSMENT OF CATALOGUING AND CLASSIFICATION PRACTICES OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF NIGERIA IN THE DIGITAL AGE: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL PERSPECTIVE

The study assessed cataloguing and classification practices of the National Library of Nigeria in the digital age from bibliographic control perspective. The study was guided by two objectives. The design of the study was descriptive survey design, while sampling technique adopted was purposive sampling of four professional departments. Method of data analysis for research questions involved using a combination of descriptive and inferential statistics, mean and standard deviation. The findings revealed that though cataloguing and classification of information resources are highly practiced with the use of standard tools, the digital age has not impacted on her cataloguing practices, as the practices are not ICT-driven in this digital age. Cataloguing and classification practices are not automated, e-tools are not effectively used in cataloguing and classification, and even resource description and access (RDA) has not been implemented in the apex library of the nation. Recommendations were made, and the study concluded that it is imperative for the National Library of Nigeria to be ICT-driven in her cataloguing and classification practices in this digital age, so as to engender effective bibliographic control and effectively contribute to the world knowledge through universal bibliographic control and universal availability of publications.
Using piecewise sinusoidal basis functions to blanket multiple wire segments

This paper discusses application of the piecewise sinusoidal (PWS) basis function (BF) over a chain of several wire segments, i.e. as a multiple domain basis functions. The usage of PWS BF is compared to results based on the piecewise linear (PWL) basis functions. An example of meander monopole demonstrates the advantages associated with the PWS BF.
Loss of Endogenous HMGB 2 Promotes Cardiac Dysfunction and Pressure Overload-Induced Heart Failure in Mice

nisms underlying its onset and progression. HMGB proteins are members of the High Mobility Group (HMG) superfamily and possess a unique DNAbinding domain, the HMG-box, that bends DNA to facilitate looping or unwinding. HMGBs, consisting of HMGB1-HMGB4 in mammals, are abundant and ubiquitously expressed, serving as non-histone DNA chaperone proteins regulating chromatin structure in transcription, DNA replication, recombination, and DNA repair.13,14 Interestingly, HMGB1 protein is cardioprotective against pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy and T he number of heart failure (HF) patients has rapidly increased to an estimated 26 million people worldwide, a phenomenon that has been called a HF pandemic.1–4 In particular, HF is prevalent among older people whose numbers are increasing worldwide, making aging a dominant risk factor for HF development.5,6 Moreover, cardiac dysfunction is a conspicuous phenotype of cardiac aging.7,8 Notably, HF increases mortality9–11 and decreases quality of life,12 creating medical and social problems. Therefore, development of approaches effective to prevent or treat HF requires defining molecular mecha-
On the lookout for men.

Despite improved pay and specialist career opportunities, 90 per cent of UK nurses are female. In some countries, such as the United States and Australia, and in mainland Europe, the ratio is even higher. My colleagues Milika Matiti and Natasha Recchia and I have tried to find out why so few men apply for nurse training. For our study, we interviewed 28 male students in all four fields of nursing in our university about their experiences in classes, practice and extracurricular activities. We asked them how more men could be encouraged to join the profession and what influenced them to enter nursing. The students reported positive educational experiences. Gender was not seen as a barrier to learning and sometimes appeared to enhance learning. Comments included: ‘I think it is easy to fit in. the lecturers do not seem any different. there is no divide, just groups of people. ’ The men enjoyed working in a female-dominated profession and liked being in the minority; many disliked male-dominated work environments. One said: ‘I like working with women. I don’t like blokey blokes. ’ Another said: ‘I know I am in a minority but actually I quite like it. ‘ Being chaperoned when providing some aspects of nursing care was seen as important, but some males reported feeling personally affronted. Comments included: ‘I think being chaperoned influences the patients’ perspectives’, and ‘It can make you feel a lesser being, having someone with you to act as a witness’. Allocations to gynaecology and midwifery were problematic. Male students felt that the constant ‘polling’ of patients about them gave a negative image. ‘Do you mind having a student? ’ was seen as acceptable, whereas ‘Do you mind having a male student? ’ was not.
HER2 in high-risk rectal cancer patients treated in EXPERT-C, a randomized phase II trial of neoadjuvant capecitabine and oxaliplatin (CAPOX) and chemoradiotherapy (CRT) with or without cetuximab.

BACKGROUND HER2 is an established therapeutic target in breast and gastric cancers. The role of HER2 in rectal cancer is unclear, as conflicting data on the prevalence of HER2 expression in this disease have been reported. We evaluated the prevalence of HER2 and its impact on the outcome of high-risk rectal cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant CAPOX and CRT±cetuximab in the EXPERT-C trial. PATIENTS AND METHODS Eligible patients with available tumour tissue for HER2 analysis were included. HER2 expression was determined by immunohistochemistry (IHC) in pre-treatment biopsies and/or surgical specimens (score 0-3+). Immunostaining was scored according to the consensus panel recommendations on HER2 scoring for gastric cancer. Tumours with equivocal IHC result (2+) were tested for HER2 amplification by D-ISH. Tumours with IHC 3+ or D-ISH ratio ≥2.0 were classified as HER2+. The impact of HER2 on primary and secondary end points of the study was analysed. RESULTS Of 164 eligible study patients, 104 (63%) biopsy and 114 (69%) surgical specimens were available for analysis. Only 3 of 104 (2.9%) and 3 of 114 (2.6%) were HER2+, respectively. In 77 patients with paired specimens, concordance for HER2 status was found in 74 (96%). Overall, 141 patients were assessable for HER2 and 6 out of 141 (4.3%) had HER2 overexpression and/or amplification. The median follow-up was 58.6 months. HER2 was not associated with a difference in the outcome for any of the study end points, including in the subset of 90 KRAS/BRAF wild-type patients treated±cetuximab. CONCLUSIONS Based on the low prevalence of expression as recorded in the EXPERT-C trial, HER2 does not appear to represent a useful therapeutic target in high-risk rectal cancer. However, the role of HER2 as a potential predictive biomarker of resistance to anti-EGFR-based treatments and a therapeutic target in anti-EGFR refractory metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) warrants further investigation. TRIAL REGISTRATION ISRCTN Register: 99828560.
Enhancement of Mechanical Properties and Wear Resistance of Epoxy : Glass Fiber , Basalt Fiber , Polytetrafluoroethylene and Graphite

Enhancements of mechanical properties and wear resistance of epoxy using bi-directional fibers (E-glass and basalt) and fillers namely polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and graphite has been systematically investigated in this study. Fiber reinforced epoxy (G-B/E) filled with PTFE and graphite (2%, 4%, and 6%) were fabricated using hand layup technique followed by compression molding. Interlaminar shear strength, tensile, and flexural properties were determined to evaluate the effectiveness of PTFE and graphite fillers on the mechanical properties. The dry sliding wear behavior was assessed by using a pin on disc apparatus under different loads and different sliding distances. Results show that both fillers improved the mechanical properties, and the improvement is more pronounced with the incorporation of graphite filler. The enhanced performance of filler filled G-B/E composites is due to better adhesion and good dispersion of particulates in the epoxy matrix providing increased surface area for strong interfacial interaction and better load transfer. The wear test results indicate that addition of PTFE and graphite in G-B/E hybrid composites have a significant influence on wear behavior under varied sliding distance/ loads. Further, it was found that PTFE filled G-B/E composites exhibited lower specific wear rate as compared to unfilled and graphite filled G-B/E hybrid composites. In addition, scanning electron microscopy images of the mechanical test failed specimens of selected specimens have also been reported. The most important concept of this paper is to strength the importance of integrating fibers and functional fillers in the design of wear resistant polymer matrix composites.
How do Predators Locate Nests of Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata)? A Field Experiment

—Turtles are subject to high rates of nest destruction from mesopredators. Scents associated with nest contents, proximity to woody edge, and marker flags are suggested cues influencing nest predation. With few exceptions, most turtle nest predation studies involve aquatic turtles. During studies of terrestrial Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata), we documented high rates of nest predation. We designed an experiment to simultaneously compare combinations of factors which may influence predation using artificial nests on two sand prairies used for nesting. Artificial nests contained treatments arranged in 1 1 m2 plots: disturbed soil with a buried Chicken (Gallus gallus) egg marked with a flag; disturbed soil without an egg, but marked with a flag; disturbed soil with a buried egg and no flag; and undisturbed soil marked with a flag. We established replicate transects of arrays perpendicular to the woody edge of the prairie and observed excavation for 24 d each in June, July, and August. Disturbed soil was the only significant predictor of excavation. With the exception of the undisturbed soil with flag, effectively untouched by predators for 22–24 d, average nest survival was low (range: 2–3 d). There were no significant differences in destruction of artificial nests between distances from the woody edge and artificial nests. Because undisturbed soil did not elicit digging, we suggest that nesting in soft sandy soil is not only adaptive because of ease of excavation, but rain and wind also hide surface evidence and/or odor of digging quickly and, therefore, obscure the nest.
Prevalence of Glucose-6-phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency Among Children Aged 0-5 Years Infected with Plasmodium falciparum in Katsina State, Nigeria

About 96 million people having Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency worldwide are known to reside in malaria endemic countries and this G6PD-deficiency has been shown to protect against malaria infection, a disease which affect mostly children less than 5 years of age. This study was prompted by the paucity of scientific information on G6PD deficiency for malaria-infected children in Nigeria and so it was designed to determine the prevalence of G6PD deficiency among children (aged 0-5 years) infected with Plasmodium falciparum in Katsina State, a North-western region of Nigeria. A total of 200 blood samples were collected from children with Plasmodium falciparum malaria attending the six selected hospitals located across the three senatorial zones of the state from March 2015 to May 2015. Children’s inform consent was obtained, their socio-demographic information and clinical presentations were also taken with the aid of structured questionnaire. G6PD deficiency was detected qualitatively using G6PD screening test. Thirty two (16%) samples were G6PD deficient and were significantly associated (p<0.05) with malaria. Higher prevalence was observed among male children (62.5%) compared with their female counterpart (37.5%). Prevalence rates of 31.25%, 25.00%, 18.75% and 12.50% were seen in children of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years old respectively. These conditions reach life-threatening scenarios for all G6PD deficiency patients with different genetic variants. Hence, individuals that are required to use antimalaria drugs should be screened very carefully for their tendency to have G6PD deficiency. For effective control and treatment, either a reliable test for detecting G6PD deficiency or an anti-malaria drug that can be safely given to G6PD deficiency patients is required. The need for training paediatricians on routine screening of children for G6PD deficiency in developing countries in order to avoid cases of drug-induced anaemia associated with malaria treatment need to be taken into consideration.
Education as a Practice of Freedom: Reflections on bell hooks

This paper critically analyses the conceptions of bell hooks on education. It focuses on the relevance of hook’s ideas to the classroom. It is a theoretical paper based on secondary data that seeks to contribute to the growing body of knowledge in education. The paper is a reflection of hook’s reaction to education as a practice of freedom, the feminist theory, progressive holistic education and pedagogy of hope. Hook’s ideologies also revolve around her philosophy of the classroom based on race, capitalism, gender, oppression, class domination, liberation, collaboration and praxis in teaching and learning. Freedom in education gives teaching a performative act that offers space for change, invention, spontaneous shifts and can serve as a catalyst drawing out the unique element in each classroom. The transformed and transformative classrooms are a testament to hook’s vision of changing the way we think of pedagogy as liberatory for all involved in education, from the teacher to the student and institutions we teach and learn in everyday. Key words : Freedom, education, liberation, gender, race, literacy, culture.
Jacobson pairs and Bott-Duffin decompositions
 in rings

We define the Bott-Duffin decompositions of elements in a ring, which generalize the strongly clean decompositions, and prove that the BottDuffin decompositions of 1− ab are in a natural bijection with those of 1− ba. This bijection respects a number of well known additive decompositions of elements in a ring. For instance, the result implies that 1−ab is strongly clean (respectively, strongly nil-clean, Drazin invertible, quasipolar, or pseudopolar) if and only if so is 1− ba. Examples and further applications are given.
More Rights, Less Income?: An Economic Analysis of the New Copyright Law in Germany

The German copyright law was reformed in the end of 2016 with the purpose of ensuring reasonable pecuniary compensation to authors. It proposes an option which entitles authors to negotiate copyright transfers with an additional publisher after a vesting period of ten years. The results of a two-stage bargaining model show that the proposed copyright system may actually harm authors, as publishers may internalize a potential impairment on profits from increased competition within contract negotiations. This paper also demonstrates that the publisher's willingness to invest into an author's career is strictly decreasing as the level of expected rivalry increases.
Feeding areas and local movement patterns of post-breeding Greylag Geese Anser anser in South Sweden

Greylag Geese Anser anser mostly selected one field type, neglecting all other available types. After the breeding season they started to feed on grasslands, turned to peas during the end of July or the middle of August, and then shifted to wheat stubble in the first half of September. Only two other field types, barley stubble and newly-sown cereals, were occasionally selected. Most of the time they never showed any interest in oat stubble, newly-sown cereals and newly-sown rape. Rape stubble and ploughed fields were never used. Fields with high-energy food accounted for about 95% of all goosedays each autumn. The exploitation rate of large fields (>17 ha) with peas or wheat stubble was much higher than that of smaller fields with the same crop. Distances between roosts and feeding areas were normally less than 5 km. In October the activity pattern, characterized by two daily feeding periods, began to weaken, with some geese staying on the feeding grounds all day. In November all geese spent the whole day on the feeding grounds. The length of time spent on the feeding grounds per day increased from about 200 min. in mid-August to more than 400 min. in early October. The marked families not only stayed in the study area the whole autumn but moreover, they rarely moved between different gathering areas. There were no significant differences between families and pairs without young with respect to the time they were present and the number of times they moved between different gathering areas. Subadults moved between gathering areas significantly more often than did mature birds.
GEOTECHNICAL LARGE DEFORMATION NUMERICAL ANALYSIS USING IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT INTEGRATION

1. The dynamic analysis of a non-linear large deformation Geotechnical problems using the standard Lagrange finite element method (FEM) can experience numerical difficulties. These difficulties as contact problems, convergence and large mesh deformations can stop the simulation process. Moreover, the extremely non-linear behavior of the soil material consequently involves non-convergence issues. This paper addresses the application of different FEM formulations (implicit Lagrange, explicit Lagrange, and Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL)) methods, to non-linear dynamic large deformation. The explicit dynamic FEM solves equations without iterations in contrast to implicit methods which involves iterations to satisfy a convergence at each increment, that leads to a time/CPU consuming solution. Implicit and explicit FEM generally implement different procedures to update the stress and state variables of a material in the computational model. In this contribution a user subroutine for granular soil material behavior is developed based on hypoplasticity which implemented in the ABAQUS/explicit package. Accordingly, the explicit user subroutine version is verified by comparing the results with implicit version utilizing basic element tests (Oedometer and Triaxial tests). This paper also investigates the CEL analysis method which is developed to overcome the limitation of implicit and Lagrange explicit methods. However, CEL formulation overcomes the problem of large deformations of the mesh and the contact problems and thereby facilitates the convergence in dealing with a highly non-linear material behavior. Two example applications of the hypoplastic material in conjunction with the implicit Lagrange, explicit Lagrange and CEL methods are presented. The first example is a strip footing problem which uses Tresca model to investigate and compare between the previous numerical analysis methods. The second example simulates a single pile penetration into a subsoil, this test shows that the user subroutine hypoplastic model is acceptable for modelling granular material. By comparing the results, it is concluded that the CEL method using hypoplastic soil material is suitable for large deformation Geotechnical problems.
A Pre Experimental Study To Assess The Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme Through Booklet On Knowledge Regarding Defibrillation Among The Staff Nurses Working At Selected Hospital Bhopal ( M . P . )

A pre experimental study to assess the effectiveness planned teaching program through booklet on knowledge regarding defibrillation among the staff nurses at selected hospital Bhopal (M.P). The sample consisted of 40 staff nurses.The sample was selected using purposive sampling technique.Tool and planned teaching program through booklet were validated by experts. Planned teaching program through booklet was administered on the same day after the pretest and posttest was conducted on 7th day using the same tool. The study indicates that, the mean pretest knowledge score 5.23. The analysis of binding of the showed educating of staff nurses help them to improve their knowledge regarding defibrillation.The ‘t’ test calculated value for knowledge (14.69) is very high.So their is significance difference between pretest and posttest knowledge score of staff nurses regarding defibrillation . Keywords; Planned teaching programme ;effectiveness ; knowledge level. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 16-11-2017 Date of acceptance: 09-12-2017 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A web-based pedometer program in women with recent histories of gestational diabetes

Aims—Women with remote histories of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) can reduce their diabetes risk through lifestyle changes, but the effectiveness of interventions in women with more recent histories of GDM has not been reported. Therefore, we conducted a pilot study of a lowintensity web-based pedometer program targeting glucose intolerance among women with recent GDM. Methods—Women with a GDM delivery within the past 3 years were randomized to a 13-week intervention consisting of a structured web-based pedometer program which gave personalized steps-per-week goals, pedometers, and education regarding lifestyle modification vs. a letter about diabetes risk reduction and screening after delivery for GDM (control condition). The main outcome measures were change in fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and 2-hour glucose levels on a 75-gram oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) between baseline and 13-week follow-up. Weight was a secondary outcome and behavioural constructs (self-efficacy, social support, risk perception) were also assessed. Results—Forty-nine women were enrolled. At 13 week follow-up, women randomized to the intervention did not have significant changesin behavioural constructs, physical activity, or anthropometrics compared to women in the control group. Changes in FPG(−0.046 mmol/lvs. 0.038 mmol/l, p=0.65), 2-hour glucose values (−0.48 mmol/l vs. −0.42 mmol/l, p=0.91)and weight (−0.14 kg vs. −1.5 kg, p=0.13)were similar between the control and intervention groups, respectively. Conclusions—Structured web-based education utilizing pedometersis feasible although uptake may be low. Such programs may need to be supplemented with additional measures in order to be effective for reduction of diabetes risk. Address for Correspondence: Catherine Kim, M.D. M.P.H,. 300 NIB, Room 7C13, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, Telephone: (734) 647-9688, Fax: (734) 936-8944, cathkim@umich.edu. Declaration of Competing Interests: Nothing to declare, for each and every author NIH Public Access Author Manuscript Diabet Med. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 August 20. Published in final edited form as: Diabet Med. 2012 February ; 29(2): 278–283. doi:10.1111/j.1464-5491.2011. 03415.x. N IH -P A A uhor M anscript N IH -P A A uhor M anscript N IH -P A A uhor M anscript
Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations

Evolution equations associated with irreversible physical processes like diffusion and heat conduction lead to parabolic partial differential equations. When the equation is a model for a reversible physical process like propagation of acoustic or electromagnetic waves, then the evolution equation is generally hyperbolic. The mathematical models usually begin with a conservation statement that is some version of Newton’s second law d dt mV⃗ = F⃗