Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Seroprevalance of Toxoplasma gondii, rubella and cytomegalovirus among pregnant women

Amac: Biz bu calismada Kahramanmaras ili icerisinde toksoplazma gondii, rubella ve CMV'nin uc farkli yas grubundaki seropozitivitesini incelemeyi, bu degerlerin literaturde yer alan ve ulkemizde yapilan diger calismalar ile karsilastirmayi amacladik. Yontemler: Ocak 2012- Aralik 2013 tarihleri arasinda normal gebelik takibi amaciyla hastanemize basvuran 16-49 yas arasindaki tum gebelerde Toxoplasma gondii, rubella ve sitomegalovirus seroprevalansi retrospektif olarak arastirildi. Yas gruplarina gore degerlendirme yapildi. Bulgular: Calismamizda seropozitivite oranlari yuzde olarak hesaplandiginda Toxoplasma IgG: 47,1; IgM: 2,26; Rubella IgG: 93,2; IgM: 0,2; CMV IgG: 99,3; IgM: 3,2 olarak tespit edilmistir. Toksoplazma IgG seropozitifliginin yas artisi birlikte arttigi saptanirken, toksoplazma IgM seropozitifliginin ise yas artisi ile birlikte azaldigi saptanmistir. Rubella IgM ve IgG taramasinda yas artisi ile birlikte seropozitifligin azaldigi tespit edilmistir. Sitomegalovirus seropozitivite orani 36-49 yas grubunda en dusuk olarak bulundu. Sonuc: Her uc ajan icin de tarama yapip yapmama karari verilirken, tarama yapilacak bolgedeki guncel seropozitivite oranlarinin yaslara gore bilinmesinin gerektigini, bolgedeki sosyoekonomik kosullarin ve yeme aliskanliklarinin da gozonunde bulundurulmasi gerektigini dusunmekteyiz. Bolgemizde toxoplasma ve sitomegalovirus infeksiyonlari ulkemizin diger bolgelerine gore daha sik goruldugunden tarama yapilmasini oneriyoruz.
Association Between Serum Adipsin Levels and Insulin Resistance in Subjects With Various Degrees of Glucose Intolerance

Abstract Context The association between adipsin and glucose metabolism in human subjects remains unclear. Objective We investigated the associations between adipsin and insulin resistance/β-cell function in subjects with various degrees of glucose intolerance. Design Fasting blood samples were collected for measurements of fasting plasma glucose (FPG), insulin, and adipsin. An oral glucose tolerance test was conducted in subjects with no history of diabetes. Setting This study was conducted at a medical center. Patients We enrolled 240 subjects with no history of diabetes and 80 patients with known type 2 diabetes (T2D) on diet control or metformin monotherapy. Main Outcome Measure β-cell function and insulin resistance were assessed using the homeostasis model assessment (HOMA-β and HOMA-IR, respectively). Results Levels of serum adipsin were higher in subjects with normal glucose tolerance (4.0 ± 1.1 µg/mL) or prediabetes (4.0 ± 1.5 µg/mL) compared with subjects with newly diagnosed diabetes (3.8 ± 1.1 µg/mL) or with known T2D on diet control (3.4 ± 1.0 µg/mL) or metformin monotherapy (3.0 ± 1.0 µg/mL, P < 0.001). There was no significant association between adipsin and HOMA-β. In contrast, there was an independent negative association between adipsin and HOMA-IR (β coefficient −0.414, 95% CI −0.720 to −0.109, P = 0.008). The association was more prominent in subjects with a body mass index (BMI) ≥25 kg/m2 or an FPG ≥100 mg/dL (P interaction < 0.001 and 0.014, respectively). Conclusions Serum adipsin levels were negatively associated with insulin resistance, especially in subjects with a BMI ≥25 kg/m2 or an FPG ≥100 mg/dL.
Parasitology And Vector Biology

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Ocular Axial Length and Keratometry Readings of Normal Eyes in Southern Nigeria

Aim: To provide average axial length and keratometry readings in healthy eyes of people in Rivers and surrounding states in southern Nigeria. This may guide the purchase of intraocular lens in the study area. Materials and methods: Four hundred consecutive patients with 800 non-cataractous eyes attending the eye clinic of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital eye clinic over a period of 2 years (January 2006 to December 2007), had amplitude scan ultrasonography. The instrument used was the Auto Axial length Biometer, model AL-010 by Tomey. Keratometry readings were carried out within the same period using the Acutus auto-refractor model 5015-3212 by Carl Zeiss Meditec AG. All results were fed into and analysed using the Tomey biometer. Results: The average A-Scan was 23.86 mm (SD±1.2) for male subjects and 23.27mm (SD±1.18) for females. The overall range for axial length among the cohort was 21.14mm to 28.91mm. Average axial length for both sexes is 23.57mm (SD±1.19). The mean for male subjects was 42.95D (SD±1.30) while for females it was 41.90D (SD±1.55). The keratometry readings ranged between 41D and 45D. The overall mean keratometry reading was 42.43D. Conclusion: The average calculated IOL power was 22.61D for female and 20.11D for male subjects, using the SRKII formula. The overall average of 21.34D makes it easier for supplies to be purchased in bulk for use in remote places. Keywords: A-scan, keratometry, IOL power, noncataractous eyes, Nigeria
A Study to Show the Effect of Pituitary Stalk-Section upon Urinary, Hypothalamic and Pituitary Hypocalcaemic Activities

The effect of pituitary stalk-section on the hypocalcaemic activity in urine, hypothalamus and pituitary gland was investigated in rats. Intact rats and rats with pituitary stalk-section were made hypercalcaemic and their urines were injected to bio-assay rats. A hypocalcaemic factor was present in the urine of intact hypercalcaemic rats and on the contrary, this factor was absent from the urine of hypercalcaemic rats with pituitary stalk-section. Hypothalamic and pituitary gland extracts obtained twenty-four hours after stalk-section, from guinea pigs, were injected to bio-assay rats. Pituitary extract had no hypocalcaemic activity, whereas hypothalamic extracts produced hypocalcaemia. Neither the injection of pituitary or hypothalamic extracts to TPTX rats produced hypocalcaemic effect.
INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE WORD READING, VOCABULARY AND LISTENING COMPREHENSION OF ESL READERS: A PSYCHO-LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE UTILISING MULTIPLE LANGUAGES

Research has shown that reading difficulties lead to poor academic performance and weak selfesteem and, negatively affect learners’ motivation to read. Reviewing the academic and literacy achievements within the South African education context, several concerns have been raised about the poor state of literacy in our country, especially among English language learners (L2 learners). In addition South Africa’s national assessment policy only allows a learner to fail once in a phase; consequently, many South African learners are pushed through the education system without the basic literacy skills to cope in higher grades. Emanating from the above, it is evident that innovative instructional methods are needed to support the literacy and reading development of South African learners. Moreover, researchers have argued that fundamental to ESL reading success, is learners’ ability to recognise words (i.e. effective and fluent word reading), whilst they have also stressed the importance of vocabulary knowledge and linguistic comprehension. Embedded in a whole-language approach for reading development this experimental research utilised a pre-test/post-test research design to investigate the possible value of implementing alternative strategies and multiple languages to enhance the word reading, vocabulary knowledge and linguistic comprehension of Grade 3 ESL readers (n = 48). The core focus of this intervention programme inter alia involved strategies to enhance word learning and linguistic comprehension, utilising participants’ L1 (i.e. Sesotho), the L2 to be learned (i.e. English) and additionally they were taught the basic signs and fingerspelling of South African sign language to compliment and strengthen the visual recognition and knowledge of words. Following the experimental intervention of six months learners were re-tested in November 2016; posttest results were very promising and have shown that experimental learners significantly improved in word reading, phonological awareness, vocabulary and linguistic comprehension. From a psycholinguistic perspective on reading, much emphasis has been placed on the role of language and linguistic skills and how they interact and influence reading development. Consequently, the findings of this study are very promising and have highlighted that innovative ways and multiple languages can be used to enhance word reading, vocabulary and linguistic comprehension in English, which in turn can contribute to better reading performance in general.
Training School Counselors in Program Evaluation.

Today's school counselors are faced with demands to demonstrate the impact and effectiveness of their counseling programs. Twenty-eight school counselors from a large Southwestern school district participated in a program evaluation training workshop designed to help them develop evaluation skills necessary for demonstrating program accountability. The majority of participants expressed high levels of interest in evaluating their programs but believed they needed more training in evaluation procedures. The authors discuss implications and make suggestions for future training and research on program evaluation in school counseling.
Logistic Regression: A Self-Learning Text

This is the update (2E) of a book which  rst appeared in 1990 (1E) and certainly has become the standard reference for the analysis of categorical data. The author was even able to do a light version (Agresti 1996) as a spinoff. Including the more specialized book (Agresti 1984), the author certainly has effectively established the basis of an entire methodology. With the many recent developments in data analysis for generalized linear models, mixed models, and exact analysis, it was certainly exciting to discover that this classic book had been updated. The reviewer for the 1E, Hapeman (1991), commented that “no collection of texts on categorical analysis would be complete without this text. ” He lavished compliments, such as “the book’s analysis and explanation were the best I’ve seen,” and “The book includes material I have not seen in other books. ” He also criticized the “breathless pace” of the introductory chapters and the inclusion of two chapters on theoretical background at the end. The author seems to have responded to the criticism about the introduction to the methodology. It has been expanded from 7 to 35 pages. It provides a review of the statistical inference for categorical data. Chapters 2 and 3, which cover contingency tables, are much the same in the 2E. The rest of the book, with the exception of the aforementioned last two chapters in the 1E (the ones that presented the supplementary theoretical material), has been completely rewritten. Chapters 4–6 are new chapters on generalized linear models, logistic regression, and building regression models. These account for much of the 150 additional pages in the 2E. The material from the 1E that followed Chapter 3, several chapters on modeling for contingency tables, has generally been condensed into Chapters 7–9 in the 2E. The material on repeated-measures data has been augmented with analyses by generalized estimating equations. A new chapter on mixed models analysis follows next. Immediately preceding the two theoretical chapters is a topics chapter for some of the mixed models that use nonnormal distributions. The book ends with a chapter on the history of categorical data analysis. At the back of the book is a 22-page Appendix that gives a chapter-bychapter account of how SAS was used to do all of the analyses in the book. Snippets of SAS code are provided. There is also a section on other types of software. The author has a website that includes more detail on using these other software packages for categorical data analysis. (It should be noted that Stokes, Davis, and Koch 2000, reported as Ziegel 2001, provides a much more comprehensive presentation on the use of SAS for categorical data analysis.) If you own the 1E, you absolutely need to upgrade to the 2E. If you do any analysis of categorical data, this is an essential desktop reference. In addition to the SAS book mentioned above, two other recent books on categorical data are the book by Lloyd (1999), reviewed by Hapeman (2000), and Leonard (2000). Neither of these books is as comprehensive as Agresti’s book.
Reading the Ballerina's Body: Susan Bordo Sheds Light on Anastasia Volochkova and Heidi Guenther

In September of 2003, Bolshoi Ballet dancer and media star Anastasia Volochkova, 27, was fired from her job. The main reason given was that at 5′7″ and 110 lbs. , she was too tall and too heavy for her partners to lift. Yekaterina Norikova, spokeswoman for the Bolshoi, said: “The problem is that male dancers complained of her height and weight and refused to dance with her” (quoted in Isachenkov 2003). Yevgeny Ivanchenko, her former partner, publicly declared her too heavy to lift, saying that he risked injury in working with her. The Russian newspaper Vremya Novostei used the headline “Not even bears could hold [her]” (Kishkovsky, 2003, A1). In her interviews with the press, she said that she is in excellent shape and follows a strict diet. “I don't eat ice cream now,” said Ms. Volochkova, who once told a Russian interviewer that she adores it. “I eat spinach leaves and vegetables. ” She also declared that “Height and weight are not the test of a great ballerina” (2003, A1).
Interlending Services: Trends, Languages, and use for Collection Development at North-West University

ABSTRACT This paper uses the bibliometrics methods to analyse the interlending service trends, language and collection development at the North-West University. The results show that despite some challenges, ILS services at the NWU decreased. More than 98.5% of all documents requested are in English language followed by Setswana and Afrikaans. Out of the 535 books requested by the Mafikeng Campus, 138 were added to the collection of the library. These results point to a need for academic libraries in Africa to adopt strategies for the development of African languages. The results support the continued use of ILS data for collection development purposes.
Augmented Reality Interaction Paradigms for Daily Productive Tasks

Despite the major advances in computing, such as wearables and mobile devices, the majority of people and professional entities remain relying on desktops and laptops for productivity related tasks. The mentioned trend led to destructive ramifications towards us, mainly in terms of withdrawal from the real world, health deterioration and interaction inefficiency. In response to the mentioned implications, we propose an approach that bears characteristics that is human-centric. Our approach essentially emphasizes concepts of computer invisibility, natural interaction, mobility and task efficiency. To further investigate our approach, we have applied our core characteristics on a daily usability problem; which is parallel web browsing. Parallel browsing is the behaviour of concurrently visiting multiple web pages. Our approach attempts to support parallel browsing with an Augmented Reality web browsing environment that mainly relies on Tangible Interaction. To verify our approach, we developed a prototype and carried out a short user-study. In a web-content comparison scenario, 70% of participants achieved a 21.4% decrease in the time required to complete a comparison task with our prototype. Further analysis additionally indicated statistically significant difference in favour of performance on our prototype. Moreover, we have found further advantages that were traced back to our approach’s core characteristics, resembled in flexibility of movement, reduced memory load and learning time. The results collectively steered the vision of interaction through our approach. Therefore, we investigated various themes surrounding userdefined multimodal cross device interaction, encompassing sub concepts of abstraction and cohesiveness of the whole interaction experience. Finally, we concluded that our approach had provided good evidence of its’ potential to contribute to shaping the future of human computer interaction.
1-V power supply CMOS cascode amplifier

We design a folded cascode operational transconductance amplifier in a standard CMOS process, which has a measured 69-dB DC gain, a 2-MHz bandwidth, and compatible input- and output voltage levels at a 1-V power supply. This is done by a novel, current driven bulk (CDB) technique, which reduces the MOST threshold voltage by forcing a constant current though the transistor bulk terminal. We also look at limitations and improvements of this CDB technique.
A konzultációtól az együttdöntésig. Az Európai Parlamentmegnövekedett szerepe a Közös Agrárpolitika jogalkotásában

Az Europai Parlamentnek az europai unios donteshozatalban, jogalkotasban betoltott szerepe regota a politikatudomanyi elemzesek targyat kepezi. Ezek egy resze az EP es az EU jogalkotasaban reszt vevő masik ket intezmeny – a bizottsag es a tanacs – egymashoz viszonyitott erejet elemzi, masik reszuk az EP erejet meri a kulonboző – konzultacios, egyuttműkodesi, egyuttdontesi – jogalkotasi eljarasok eseten. A Maastrichti Szerződes altal bevezetett egyuttdontesi eljaras – a szeles korben osztott velekedes szerint – novelte az EP unios jogalkotasban meglevő erejet. Az ezt kovető tovabbi unios szerződesek – amszterdami, nizzai, lisszaboni – az EP szerepet főkent azaltal noveltek, hogy tovabbi teruletekre terjesztettek ki az egyuttdontesi eljaras hatalyat. Jelen cikk a Lisszaboni Szerződes altal a Kozos Agrarpolitikara kiterjesztett egyuttdontesi eljaras – ekkor mar rendes jogalkotasi eljaras – hatasat vizsgalja az EP-nek a jogalkotasban meglevő befolyasara, azon belul is a Mezőgazdasagi es Halaszati Miniszterek Tanacsaval szembeni erdekervenyesitő kepessegere. A vizsgalat kozponti kerdese, hogy az EP altal elfogadott modosito javaslatok a tanaccsal folytatott targyalasokat kovetően milyen esellyel epulnek be a vegső jogszabalyba. A vizsgalat alapjat egy ujonnan, a szerző altal elkeszitett adatbazis szolgaltatta, melynek segitsegevel lehetőseg nyilik nem csak a tanacs altal is elfogadott modosito javaslatok sikeressegi ratainak kiszamitasara, de az europai parlamenti modositok elfogadasat befolyasolo valtozok elemzesere is. Ilyen tipusu elemzesre, a konzultacios es az egyuttdontesi eljaras osszehasonlitasra a Lisszaboni Szerződes elfogadasa ota mindezidaig meg nem kerult sor. Az elvegzett elemzes eredmenyei megerősitik, hogy az egyuttdontesi eljaras novelte az Europai Parlament jogalkotasi erejet a Kozos Agrarpolitika teren: a tanacs altal elfogadott EP modosito javaslatok szama megduplazodott. Emellett a Lisszaboni Szerződest kovetően novekedett az EP-kepviselők jogalkotas teren meglevő aktivitasa is. Az elemzes ramutat, hogy az egyuttdontesi eljaras soran novekszik a netto befizető tagallamok EP-kepviselői altal jegyzett modosito javaslatok elfogadasanak valoszinűsege is.
Depression Identification in the Long-Term Care Setting

Abstract This study compared depression identification rates and validity of the currently mandated Minimum Data Set (MDS) and the Geriatric Depression Scale Short Form-15 item (GDS) in a sample of nursing home residents. Results indicate the GDS is a better tool for identifying depression than the MDS. The GDS, MDS Section E1, QI, and OSCAR screened 35%, 23%, 3%, and 4% positive for depression, respectively. Mean sensitivity and specificity for SADS-RDC (gold standard) vs. GDS, MDS Section E1, OSCAR, and QI were . 91, . 79, . 83, and . 88, respectively. Chi-square analyses indicated the GDS was the only test, in relation to the SADS-RDC to identify depressed residents p = . 001.
A metropolização de Belo Horizonte e sua relação com as áreas verdes e o turismo: Parque das Mangabeiras x Praça Sete

No presente artigo, objetiva-se compreender as mudancas esteticas urbanas ocorridas em Belo Horizonte, gracas a diminuicao das areas verdes durante o processo de metropolizacao da cidade, tendo a Praca Sete de Setembro como referencia da impermeabilizacao e o Parque das Mangabeiras como representante das areas verdes preservadas. Para isso, realizaram-se pesquisas bibliograficas, observacoes in loco e em fotos dos objetos de estudo, alem de entrevistas com moradores locais. Por meio do estudo, identificou-se a existencia de varias vantagens em manter e conservar as areas verdes, pois beneficiam tanto a comunidade autoctone, quanto o turismo. Vale lembrar que, na Praca Sete e no Parque das Mangabeiras, ha objetos e formas completamente diferentes e que o ambiente que o Parque das Mangabeiras proporciona pode amenizar a sensacao de urbanizacao da cidade, ja que ocorreram varias mudancas na paisagem de Belo Horizonte, como o aumento de areas construidas e a diminuicao de areas verdes. DOI: 10.12660/oit.v7n3. 7874 http://dx.doi. org/10.12660/oit.v7n3. 7874
Association between nutrient intakes and prevalence of depressive disorder in Korean adults: 2014 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Objective: Dietary nutrients may play a significant role in depressive disorders. However, sufficient evidences in epidemiological studies are limited. We investigated the cross-sectional association between dietary nutrients and the prevalence of depressive disorder in Korean adults using representative Korean data. Methods: Participants were 2,938 adults aged 19~64 years from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) conducted in 2014. Dietary intakes were assessed using 24-h recall method. Depressive disorder was assessed using Patients Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9, self-depression test) as applied in 2014 KNHANES only. We defined depressive disorder as having a PHQ-9 score of ≥ 10, which was characterized as moderate depression and more. A multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to estimate the adjusted odd ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence interval (CIs) of depressive disorder. Results: Among the 2,938 subjects, 170 were identified as having depressive disorder. The multivariate-adjusted regression analysis demonstrated that the risk of depression was significantly associated with riboflavin (OR=0.44, 95% CI: 0.24-0.85, p for trend =0.018), thiamin (OR=0.48, 95% CI: 0.23-0.99, p for trend=0.045), and vitamin C (OR=0.57, 95% CI: 0.34-0.95, p for trend =0.025) in the highest versus lowest tertiles of intake. Conclusion: The high consumption of riboflavin, thiamin, and vitamin C was associated with the low prevalence of depressive disorder in Korean adults.
MODEL PEMBELAJARAN INTERAKTIF BANGUN RUANG 3D BERBASIS AUGMENTED REALITY

Media pembelajaran bangun ruang 3d saat ini masih konvensional, pihak sekolah maupun tenaga pengajar merasa kesulitan dalam pengadaan alat peraga sebagai sarana media pembelajaran bangun ruang 3d. Di pandang dari aspek kognitif, siswa juga merasa kesulitan dalam memahami objek bangun ruang 3d, karena tanpa alat peraga mereka hanya mampu membayangkan saja atau mengimajinasikan sendiri objek bangun ruang 3d tersebut. Dalam penelitian ini kami merancang dan membangun suatu aplikasi model pembelajaran interaktif pada objek geometri kubus, balok, prisma, tabung, kerucut, dan bola sebagai sarana pembelajaran matematika tingkat sekolah dasar. Diharapkan aplikasi ini dapat menjadi alat bantu bagi para guru matematika dalam menyampaikan materi bangun ruang 3d. Keywordsâ€” Model pembelajran interaktif, bangun ruang 3d, Augmented Reality.