Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Developing Epistemological Values in Students using Microsoft Excel(R) as a Software-Based Support Tool

This thesis project addresses student epistemological values through technology and independent laboratories. The literature provides evidence that students show greater learning when they are prompted to reflect and develop these epistemological values (Davis, 2003 Demetriadis et al., 2011; Edelson & Kyza, 2005; Reiser & Sandoval, 2004). Furthermore, in conjunctions with research that supports prompting, other research advocates for the development and use of more modern technologies (Edelson & Kyza, 2005; Keengwe et al., 2008; Kuhn, 2001; Maddux, 1998). As such, my culmination project consists of two virtual “lab notebooks. ” These notebooks are made using Microsoft Excel® and consist of several quasiintelligent macros that not only provide instant feedback, but also help guide students through the experimental process in a way akin to inquiry. While a completed series of these notebooks would show more scaffolding as the year progressed, the two I have created represent a student’s first and last experience with these notebooks.
Validity and reliability of the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) in family caregivers of children with chronic diseases

Background Information on the psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) in family caregivers of children with chronic diseases is currently unavailable, indicating a significant gap in the literature. Therefore, we investigated 1) which of the five evaluated measurement models had the best fit, 2) the scale’s reliability, and 3) the scale’s convergent validity. MethodS In 2018, a cross-sectional ex post facto study with non-probability convenience sampling was conducted in 446 family caregivers of children with chronic diseases at the National Institute of Health in Mexico City; the family caregivers responded to the BDI-II and a battery of instruments measuring anxiety, caregiver burden, parental stress, well-being, and quality of life. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to determine the fit of the five models. Cronbach’s alpha and composite reliability were calculated to assess the scale’s reliability, and Spearman´s rank correlation was used to investigate the scale’s convergent validity. Results This study provided evidence that the two-factor somatic-affective and cognitive model had the best fit. The BDI-II demonstrated adequate reliability and evidence of convergent validity, as the BDI-II factors were positively correlated with anxiety, caregiver burden, and parental stress and negatively correlated with well-being and quality of life. Conclusions The findings reveal that the BDI-II is a valid, reliable, and culturally relevant instrument to measure depression in family caregivers of children with chronic diseases.
Hospice: Practice, Pitfalls and Promise

In the context of the author's claims that in the past twenty-five years the hospice movement has undergone major changes and has grown enormously - what was once a small rebellion against the the way dying people were cared for has become a small health care industry - in spite of this a majority of people are not aware of the work hospices do. Even professionals view the hospice as a small effort that is too limited to have a large impact on how the majority of people die. Written as an introduction for professionals, this book gives the reader an overall grasp of how hospice care is practiced, the challenges hospices currently face, and the direction the movement is taking.
Retention in clinic versus retention in care during the first year of HIV care in Nairobi, Kenya: a prospective cohort study

When measuring the success of HIV programmes to retain patients in care, few studies distinguish between retention in clinic (individual returns to the same clinic) and retention in care (individual is active in care at initial site or elsewhere). The objectives of this study were to quantify retention in clinic versus retention in care and determine risk factors associated with attrition from care in low‐income settings in Nairobi, Kenya.
Adjusting to duty hour reforms: residents’ perception of the safety climate in interdisciplinary night-float rotations

Background New scheduling models were needed to adjust to residents’ duty hour reforms while maintaining safe patient care. In interdisciplinary night-float rotations, four to six residents from most residency programs collaborated for after-hours cross-coverage of most adult hospitalised patients as part of a Faculty-led rotation. Residents worked sixteen 12-hour night shifts over a month. Methods We measured residents’ perception of the patient safety climate during implementation of night-float rotations in five tertiary hospitals. We surveyed 267 residents who had completed the rotation in 2015-2016 with an online version of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire. First year residents came from most residency programs, second- and third-year residents came from internal medicine. Results One-hundred-and-thirty residents completed the questionnaire. Scores did not differ across hospitals and residents’ years of training for all six safety-related climate factors: teamwork climate, job satisfaction, perceptions of management, safety climate, working conditions, and stress recognition. Conclusion Simultaneous implementation in five hospitals of a Faculty-led interdisciplinary night-float rotation for most junior residents proved to be logistically feasible and showed similar and reassuring patient safety climate scores.
Implicit Structure and the Dynamics of Blogspace

Weblogs link together in a complex structure through which new ideas and discourse can flow. Such a structure is ideal for the study of the propagation of information. In this paper we describe general categories of information epidemics and create a tool to infer and visualize the paths specific infections take through the network. This inference is based in part on a novel utilization of data describing historical, repeating patterns of infection. We conclude with a description of a new ranking algorithm, iRank, for blogs. In contrast to traditional ranking strategies, iRank acts on the implicit link structure to find those blogs that initiate these epidemics. General Terms Measurement, Experimentation, Algorithm
Ten Year Trends in Faculty Members' Evaluation Results in Jondi Shapour University of Medical Sciences

Introduction: A comprehensive and valid evaluation system with continuous performance is required in order to assess faculty members' educational practice correctly, and plan for quality improvement. This study was done to determine the ten year trends in faculty members' evaluation results in Jondi Shapour University of Medical Sciences. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, evaluation scores of 84 non-clinical faculty members of Jondi Shapour University of Medical Sciences, from 1996 till 2005 were investigated. Faculty members' evaluation scores were taken from the archive of Educational Development Center of the University and were analyzed by SPSS software using repeated measure ANOVA, Pearson correlation coeficient, and t-test. Results: The trends in evaluation scores had minimal changes between 3.95 and 4.02. The mean of faculty members' evaluation scores had no significant difference in different years. Also, the mean of the evaluation scores of male and female faculty members in different years showed no significant difference. Pearson correlation coeficient showed a weak to average correlation between faculty members' evaluation scores in some of the years. (0.22 at minimum and 0.65 at maximum). Conclusion: Faculty members' evaluation by students was invariable in 10 years, despite the fact that students population performing the evaluation, had changed during the period. It is necessary to revise the method of educating teaching skills to faculty members in order to improve their evaluation scores.
Impact of Unilateral Orbital Radiotherapy on the Structure and Function of Bilateral Human Meibomian Gland

Background Radiotherapy (RT) has widely been used to treat ocular tumors, yet the impact of orbital radiation to the meibomian gland has rarely been studied. Our study aims at evaluating the bilateral meibomian gland structure and function 12 months after unilateral orbital RT in patients with ocular tumors. Methods An observational case-control study. A total of 10 eyes 12 months after unilateral orbital RT, 10 contralateral eyes, and 10 normal controls were enrolled. Meibomian gland loss (MGL), lipid layer thickness (LLT), tear film breakup time (TBUT), Schirmer I test, and cornea fluorescein staining were measured. Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) of the RT patients was assessed and compared with normal controls. Results The cumulative median radiotherapy dosage for the patients was 45 (range: 30, 70) Gy. The OSDI score of the patients was significantly greater than the normal controls (22.92 (range: 10.42, 37.50) vs 6.25 (range: 2.08, 10.42), p ≤ 0.001). Significant differences of upper MGL, lower MGL, LLT, and TBUT were found between the diseased eyes and normal controls (37.79% (range: 12.87, 92.41) vs 12.63% (range: 6.13, 42.34), p=0.007; 61.31% (range: 44.67, 87.98) vs 15.53% (range: 7.65, 45.13), p ≤ 0.001; 40 ICU (range: 23, 100) vs 81.5 ICU (range: 54, 100), p=0.007; 3.5 s (range: 2, 8) vs 6.5 s (range: 5, 10), p=0.002). The upper MGL and TBUT of the contralateral eyes were also considerably damaged compared with normal controls. Lower eyelid MGL and cornea staining score of the diseased eye were significantly correlated with radiation dosage (r = 0.913 and 0.680; p=0.001 and 0.044, respectively). Conclusion Orbital radiotherapy could cause significant damage to the meibomian gland structure and function, not only the diseased eyes but also the contralateral eyes.
Neonatal Mortality by Gestational Age and Birth Weight in Italy, 1998-2003 : a Record Linkage Study

Neonatal mortality rates by gestational age and birth weight category are important indicators of maternal and child health and care quality. However, due to recent laws on administrative simplification and privacy, these specific rates have not been calculated in Italy since 1999. The main aim of this work is to assess the possibility of retrieving information on neonatal mortality by the linkage between records related to live births and records related to infant deaths within the first month of life, with reference to 2003 and 2004 birth cohorts. From a strict methodological point of view, some critical aspects of the most used record linkage approach are highlighted: specific problems may arise from the choice of records to be linked if there are consistency constraints between pairs (in this context, one death record can be linked to at most one birth record). In the light of considerations on the quality of the starting data, the retrieval of information on neonatal mortality by gestational age and birth weight is restricted to Northern Italy. Specific neonatal mortality rates are provided with reference to 2003 and discussed with particular emphasis on quality issues in the data collection processes.
Histopathological Features Of Granulomatous Skin Diseases : An Analysis Of 22 Skin Biopsies

In the present study, skin biopsies were analysed for histopathological (HP) changes in 22 patients with various granulomatous dermatoses. In 6 specimens, HP features were diagnostic of BT leprosy, in 1 each of BB, BL and historid LL. The HP features were was lupus valugaris (LV) in 6 biopsies, tuberculosis verrucosa cutis (TBVC) in 2, sarcoidosis in 3 and sporotrichosis in remaining 2. The study reiterated the usefulness of HP examination of all suspected cases of granulomatous skin diseases.
Affordances of students' using the World Wide Web as a publishing medium in project-based learning environments

What information content is available here? Summarize content in enough detail that someone doing research on a specific topic could decide whether this site would help them. • What audience would this site be helpful for? Is it too technical for some people, or not technical enough for others? [blank input field] Source • Who is publishing this page? • Are there any potential biases or conflicts of interest due to who is publishing this page? Are there political or commercial statements mixed in with content information? • If there are new claims presented (rather than common knowledge), what evidence or academic citation is presented to back up these claims? [blank input field] Organization of resource • How well-organized is the information in this page? Would you be able to find a particular piece of information if you were looking for it? • Is there a good central page where everything is accessible? Is there a map of the site? How would you describe the organization? [blank input field] Appearance • Is this an attractively designed resource? • Are there graphics? What kind? (photos, illustrations, flow charts, graphs of data? ) Do the graphics help you understand or organize the content? • Do the layout, graphics, and text work together to effectively communicate? [blank input field]
Cyto-Histopathological Correlation of Skin Adnexal Tumors: A Short Series

Background: Skin adnexal neoplasms are relatively rare and thus uncommonly encountered in routine pathology practice. Aims: The present study was conducted with the aim to diagnose various skin adnexal tumors on fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) followed by confirmation on histopathology and immunohistochemistry of the excised tumor. Materials and Methods: A total of 11 cases of superficial nodular swellings of the skin were studied over a period of 2 years from 2015 to 2016. FNAC of the swelling was performed and slides were stained with Giemsa stain. Following FNAC, the swelling was excised and subjected to histopathological examination. Immunohistochemistry was performed in some cases for confirmation. Results: It was observed that overall incidence of adnexal tumors (ATs) encountered on FNAC was very low. Typing of ATs on cytology was possible in 82% cases (9/11 cases) with diagnostic accuracy of 88% (8/9 cases). Most common tumor encountered in the study was nodular hidradenoma followed by pilomatrixoma, trichoepithelioma, cylindroma, chondroid syringoma, and trichilemmal cyst. Majority of the cases were benign except one case, which subsequently turned malignant. Conclusion: FNAC is a simple, safe, and cost-effective tool in diagnosing skin ATs. Cytological diagnosis of these lesions is depends on clinical correlation and cytomorphological features. FNAC in lesions suspected to be malignant can guide the surgeon regarding extent of excision.
Better Web Searches and Prediction with Instantaneously Trained Neural Networks

methods—such as the backpropa-gation algorithm or self-organizing maps, the standard techniques for generaliza-tion—are notoriously slow, fast pattern-learning techniques are becoming increasingly necessary. Standard artificial neural networks can serve as models of biological memory embodied as strongly connected and lay-ered networks of processing units. These feedback (Hopfield with delta learning) and feedforward (backpropagation) networks learn patterns slowly: the network must adjust weights connecting links between input and output layers (see Figure 1) until it obtains the correct response to the training patterns. But biological learning is not a single process: some forms are very quick and others relatively slow. Short-term biological memory, in particular, works very quickly, so slow neural network models are not plausible candidates in this case. Over the past few years, my colleagues and I have developed new neural network designs that model working memory in their ability to learn and generalize instantaneously. 1–3 These networks are almost as good as backpropagation in the quality of their generalization. 4 With their speed advantage, they will work in many real-time signal-processing, data-compression, forecasting, and pattern-recognition applications. In this report, I describe the networks and their applications to two problems: time-series prediction and an intelligent Web metasearch engine design. My descriptions should indicate how these designs could work in other situations. To provide a context for examining instantaneous learning, let's first consider different types of biological memory. Although described separately, different memory types appear to be fundamentally interrelated. The classification of memory types can take a variety of forms. 5 First, many kinds of sensory memory systems help us perceive the world. For example, visual memory includes components that let a memory trace persist for about one-tenth of a second. This persistence lets us see continuous motion in the discrete frames of a television broadcast. Another component to this memory, more sensitive to shape than brightness, integrates information arriving from the two retinas. Like visual persistence, a memory related to auditory persistence creates an echo that lingers after the item has been spoken. That's why we remember the later words in a series better if we hear them rather than read them. There are memories about facts, events, skills, and habits as well. Some are based on language, others aren't. Fact and event memory is distinct from other kinds of memory, such as the memory forming the basis of skills and habits. Declarative (explicit) memory refers to facts and events. …
RIS/PACS implementation calls for changes in work processes and organizational structure

A Readiness for Change survey was conducted in a radiology department at large Danish University Hospital’s in connection with the implementation of RIS/PACS in 2005. The survey was part of a research project concerning organizational factors in the implementation of RIS/PACS and aimed to evaluate the preparedness for the new system and obtain staff members’ assessments of co-operation in and among professional groups. A follow-up survey conducted in May 2014 shows that nine years after the RIS/PACS implementation, users continue to call for changes in system functionality and work processes, and point out organizational shortcomings. Co-operation in and among professional groups was assessed at the same level as in 2005. The new survey corroborates the 2005 respondents’ expectations for change in work processes and organizational structure in as far as their retrospective assessment of the significance of work processes and organizational structure when implementing RIS/PACS remain unchanged. It is concluded that the implementation of RIS/PACS involves not only technological issues but also affects tasks, actors and structure in the department, as predicted by Leavitt.
THE EFFECT OF 4 WEEKS RESISTANCE TRAINING ON SERUM VASPIN, IL-6, CRP AND TNF-Α CONCENTRATIONS IN DIABETIC RATS

Introduction: Vaspin is a novel adipokine that potentially improves insulin sensitivity. However, there is limited information available regarding the effect of exercise training on serum vaspin concentrations. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of resistance training on serum vaspin levels and some inflammatory markers in diabetic status. Materials and Methods: Thirty six male Wister rats (288±22 g) were randomly divided into four groups: Non-diabetic control, non-diabetic trained, diabetic control and diabetic trained. The exercise groups were subjected to a resistance training program with the use of a ladder (3 days/wk, for 4 wk). Body weight, serum vaspin, C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukin (IL)-6, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and fasting glucose were measured. Results: Four weeks resistance exercise training in non-diabetic rats decreased serum vaspin levels significantly, while in the trained diabetic group, serum vaspin levels increased significantly when compared with the diabetic sedentary group. The resistance training programme did not however change TNF-α, IL-6 and glucose concentrations. A decrease in CRP was observed in both the resistance trained groups when compared with their control groups. Conclusion: We found that resistance training exercise programmes affected the serum vaspin response of diabetic and non-diabetic groups of rats differently. However further research is warranted in order to unravel the molecular mechanism for the range of responses and the role of serum vaspin. Decreased levels of CRP may also be indicative of the possible effect of resistance training to modulate pro-inflammatory parameters linked to diabetes.
Endothelial colony‐forming cell therapy for heart morphological changes after neonatal high oxygen exposure in rats, a model of complications of prematurity

Very preterm birth is associated with increased cardiovascular diseases and changes in myocardial structure. The current study aimed to investigate the impact of endothelial colony‐forming cell (ECFC) treatment on heart morphological changes in the experimental model of neonatal high oxygen (O2)‐induced cardiomyopathy, mimicking prematurity‐related conditions. Sprague–Dawley rat pups exposed to 95% O2 or room air (RA) from day 4 (P4) to day 14 (P14) were randomized to receive (jugular vein) exogenous human cord blood ECFC or vehicle at P14 (n = 5 RA‐vehicle, n = 8 RA‐ECFC, n = 8 O2‐vehicle and n = 7 O2‐ECFC) and the hearts collected at P28. Body and heart weights and heart to body weight ratio did not differ between groups. ECFC treatment prevented the increase in cardiomyocyte surface area in both the left (LV) and right (RV) ventricles of the O2 group (O2‐ECFC vs. O2‐vehicle LV: 121 ± 13 vs. 179 ± 21 μm2, RV: 118 ± 12 vs. 169 ± 21 μm2). In O2 rats, ECFC treatment was also associated with a significant reduction in interstitial fibrosis in both ventricles (O2‐ECFC vs. O2‐vehicle LV: 1.07 ± 0.47 vs. 1.68 ± 0.41% of surface area, RV: 1.01 ± 0.74 vs. 1.77 ± 0.67%) and in perivascular fibrosis in the LV (2.29 ± 0.47 vs. 3.85 ± 1.23%) but in not the RV (1.95 ± 0.95 vs. 2.74 ± 1.14), and with increased expression of angiogenesis marker CD31. ECFC treatment had no effect on cardiomyocyte surface area or on tissue fibrosis of RA rats. Human cord blood ECFC treatment prevented cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and myocardial and perivascular fibrosis observed after neonatal high O2 exposure. ECFC could constitute a new regenerative therapy against cardiac sequelae caused by deleterious conditions of prematurity.