Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
FREQUENCY OF VARIOUS TYPES OF LEUKAEMIAS DIAGNOSED AT PAF HOSPITAL MIANWALI

Objective: To determine the frequencies of various types of leukaemias in a secondary care hospital. Study Material and Methods: Record of all the cases of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) and chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) diagnosed during the period of study was retrieved from the laboratory and total number of leukaemia cases were counted. The ages and the genders of the patients were noted. Median age at diagnosis for each type of leukaemia was worked out. Frequency of each leukaemia type was noted and relative frequency was calculated as percentage. Results: Out of a total of 67 patients, AML was diagnosed in 22 (32.8%), CML in 16 (23.8%), ALL in 15 (22.4%) and CLL in 14 (20.9%) cases. Median age at diagnosis for ALL, AML, CLL and CML was 5, 41, 70 and 40 years respectively while male to female ratio was 2.7, 1.4, 1.3 and 1.5 respectively. Conclusion: AML was the commonest leukaemia type, followed by CML, ALL and CLL. In children, ALL was found to be four times more common than AML. lymphocytic leukaemia, Chronic myeloid leukaemia.
Comparative studies of starch susceptibilities to α-amylase degradation of different cereal and root crops of Nigeria

The objective of this work was to determine the susceptibilities of starches from Nigeria’s high yielding local varieties of cassava and maize crops to α-amylase. Amylose/amylpectin content of each starch samples was determined. Susceptibilities to α-amylase were studied. The amylose/amylopectin content of the four starch samples varied; amylose content of starch from maize varieties was higher than those of cassava. Large differences in enzymes susceptibilities were observed when studied within 4 h with white maize having the highest value of dextrose equivalent of 42%, followed by yellow maize 37.5%, and cassava varieties, okoyawo 27.3% and odongbo 24.75%. Keywords : Odongbo, Okoyawo , α-amylase, amylase, amylopectin. African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 12(29), pp. 4663-4669
Antisocial Personality Disorder among Prison Inmates: TheMediating Role of Schema-Focused Therapy

This study investigated the mediating role of schema-focused therapy in the treatment of antisocial personality disorder among prison inmates. The participants of the study were three hundred (300) prison inmates of Agodi Prison in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. The instruments used for the study were Antisocial Personality Disorder Self- Test (APDSF), deployed for screening the participants, and Antisocial Personality Disorder Symptoms Questionnaire (APDSQ) developed by the researcher. Pre-test Post-Test, control group experimental design was adopted for this study. The data were analysed using ANCOVA. There was significant main effect of treatment on antisocial personality disorder of the prison inmates. There was significant interaction effect of treatment of participants based on gender. There was also significant interaction effect of treatment on prison inmates based on time of incarceration.
Knowledge Management: The agile way

The logic behind the acceptance of agile practice is that along with software development, project management practices, Knowledge management practices are woven into the practices of agile methodologies which have made these methodologies very popular in software development community. There are many practices in agile (e.g. Pair programming, scrum meetings, onsite customer etc) which encourages creation, retention and dissemination of knowledge. So there is an urgent need to analyse agile software development practices from agile perspectives. Different covert and overt factors are identified in applying agile practices in software development organisations. Different knowledge management and creation theories are analysed from agile perspectives and established relationship among these theories and agile.
Moderated analyses of longitudinal personality stability

Private self-consciousness, personal agency, self-monitoring, and openness to experience were examined as possible moderators of differential stability of personality. Self-reports and observer ratings on the NEO Personality Inventory from 2 longitudinal studies were reanalyzed using moderated multiple regression; no consistent moderator effects were found. Furthermore, analyses of raw change and individual stability scores across observers failed to find significant agreement. In adults, changes in personality scores across occasions are apparently due chiefly to error of measurement, and subsets of individuals showing true changes cannot be reliably identified. It is concluded that stable individual differences in basic dimensions are a universal feature of adult personality
Why Do Emerging Economies Borrow in Foreign Currency

This Paper explores the hypothesis that the dollarization of liabilities in emerging market economies is the result of a lack of monetary credibility. I present a model in which firms choose the currency composition of their debts so as to minimize their probability of default. Decreasing monetary credibility can induce firms to dollarize their liabilities, even though this makes them vulnerable to a depreciation of the domestic currency. The channel is different from the channel studied in the earlier literature on sovereign debt, and it applies to both private and public debt. The Paper presents some empirical evidence and discusses policy implications.
Self-Citations in IASLIC Bulletin

The basic purpose of this study is to investigate the self-citations appearing in IASLIC Bulletin during 2005-2017. It was found that more than 30% of the articles carry self-citations. The rate of selfcitations is 5.81% only. The per-cent of author self-citations, author/journal self-citations and journal self-citations was 53.89%, 2.59% and 43.52% respectively. There were 36 authors who had self-cited only once. The highest self-citing author was P Mukhopadhyay with 10 self-citations followed by A K Bandhopadhyay and B Roy with 8 self-citations each, all from University of Burdwan, West Bengal. Journals (62.7%) were the most self-cited documents. Most of the self-citations (40.93%) were from the period 1998-2007. It is suggested that self-citation indicators should be used as supplementary indicators for evaluative bibliometrics.
Cosmology with the Square Kilometre Array by SKA-Japan

In the past several decades, the standard cosmological model has been established and its parameters have been measured to a high precision, while there are still many fundamental questions in cosmology; such as the physics in the very early universe, the origin of the cosmic acceleration, and the nature of dark matter. The forthcoming radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will be the world's largest, will be able to open a new frontier in cosmology and will be one of the most powerful tools for cosmology in the coming decade. The cosmological surveys conducted by the SKA would have the potential not only to answer these fundamental questions but also deliver precision cosmology. In this article we briefly review the role of the SKA from the viewpoint of modern cosmology. The cosmological science led by the SKA-Japan Consortium (SKA-JP) Cosmology Science Working Group is also discussed.
A cross-sectional analytical study on the influence of age in the precision and accuracy of non-invasive blood pressure recording compared to invasive intra-arterial pressure recording

Background: Even after 115 years after the invention of Riva-Rocci Sphygmomanometer, the technique which shows the maximal accuracy of blood pressure (BP) measurement remains elusive. Currently, non-invasive BP (NIBP) recording is commonly done worldwide. Yet, intra-arterial pressure (IAP) recording gives a beat to beat accurate recording of oneâ€™s BP. Aims and Objectives: The aims of this study are as follows: (1) To compare NIBP with IAP in various age groups and (2) to study the influence of age in the accuracy of NIBP recording. Materials and Methods: A total of 98 patients aged 30â€“75 years posted for a coronary angiogram (CAG) were recruited for the study and divided into 3 groups based on age (Group I 30â€“45, Group II 46â€“60, and Group III 61â€“75). Two sets of NIBP and corresponding IAP (radial and aortic arterial pressures) were recorded during CAG. Paired t-test to compare the NIBP with corresponding IAP and ANOVA with post-hoc Bonferroni to check the influence of age with the accuracy of recording were done. Results: NIBP differed significantly with the corresponding IAP when analyzed by paired t-test (P < 0.0001). Multiple comparisons between three age groups and the pressure difference by ANOVA were done. Age Groups I and III (30â€“45 years and 61â€“75 years) both systolic NIBPI versus radial artery pressure (P = 0.013) as well as diastolic NIBP II versus arterial blood pressure (ABP) (P = 0.053) pressure comparison were widely different. Age Groups II (46â€“60 years) and III (61â€“70 years) varied in the diastolic NIBPII versus ABP comparison with P = 0.050. The results thus indicate that there is discrepancy of manual BP versus IAP with an increasing trend with the advancement of age. Conclusion: Thus, the results indicate that there is a discrepancy of NIBP versus IAP with NIBP showing higher values which widens with advancing age.
COVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Theoretically, European integration leads to convergence as well as divergence between the countries included in the integration process. For example, increased technological spillovers lead to convergence of the production processes used in the EU-countries, whereas specialisation leads to divergence of the commodities produced in each country (the sectoral distribution). The patterns of convergence and divergence found empirically, however, differ from the patterns that are expected theoretically. This paper uses intercountry input-output tables of six European countries (Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark) of the years 1970, 1975, 1980 and 1985 to analyse the empirical patterns of convergence and divergence. The analyses include, among others, technological convergence, convergence of the sectoral distributions, and changing patterns of specialisation and intra-industry trade. By comparing the empirical patterns with the theoretical expectations, the outcomes shed new light on the theories of international trade.
Measuring Students’ Chemistry Literacy Ability of Acid and Base Concepts

The goal of this study was to investigate Students’ levels of chemistry literacy ability on acid and base concepts. A quantitative descriptive method was used for this study. The subject of this study consisted of 251 second-year high school students in Yogyakarta. The data were collected by a test to measure chemistry contexts, chemistry knowledge, and chemistry competency aspects, and a questionnaire to measure attitude aspect that was developed in previous study. The students’ level of chemistry literacy for the aspects were in moderate level. Therefore, some sub aspects had a low and very low category, it might be caused by the lack of teachers’ ability to applied learning strategy for developing students’ chemistry literacy ability.
Teachers’ Readiness in Implementing 21st Century Learning

This study aims to identify teachers’ readiness in implementing 21st century learning. Teachers play the main role in determining the outcomes of 21st century learning. Teachers’ perception and understanding towards an innovation in education influence their action, decision and practice in classroom. Teachers are the main factor that contributes to pupils’ performance in mastering 21st century skills which consist of 4C’s: i) creativity, ii) communication, iii) collaboration and v) critical thinking skills. This survey was conducted by using questionnaire as research instrument. A total of 107 teachers involved in this survey. The sample was chosen randomly. The data were analysed by using descriptive analysis consist od mean and standard deviation, Pearson Correlation test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The findings show that teachers’ readiness in implementing 21st century learning is high, there is significant correlation between academic level and the level of understanding 21st century learning skills and there is significant difference between certificate holder and master’s degree holder in understanding 21st century learning skills. The implication of the study is that teachers are ready to implement 21st century learning in classroom and an action has to be taken to promote teachers to further their study at the higher level and improve their understanding, knowledge and skills in teaching.
Perceptions on Stakeholder Involvement in the Implementation of System Development Methodologies

This paper presents the findings of an empirical study that examines the prescribed versus actual involvement of major stakeholders during the implementation of systems development methodologies. The contribution of this study is twofold. First, involvement practices deemed important for successful SDM implementation are identified. This is accomplished through in-depth personal interviews with 12 experts and analysis of survey responses from 192 SDM implementation participants within 61 companies. Second, analysis was performed to evaluate whether a gap existed between what recommended practices are perceived to contribute and what the practices should contribute during SDM implementation. In conclusion, possible reasons for the gap that was found are discussed, along with suggestions for future research.
Rotational Moulding and Mechanical Characterisation of Micron-Sized and Nano-Sized Reinforced High Density Polyethylene

Rotational moulding (RM) of plastics is predominantly used to produce hollow, singlepiece products. Polyethylene (PE) in its various forms, is the most commonly used material for this process. Researchers have been conducting numerous experiments trying to incorporate reinforcements attempting to improve the mechanical performance of RM products and overcome the material limitations posed by design parameters. One of the most common problems with reinforcement in RM is the migration of the filler towards the inside of the mould and agglomerations. In order to find a competitive material which is desirable by industry, RM experiments were conducted with various composite reinforcements; high density polyethylene (HDPE), numerous types of glass fibres (GF), carbon fibres (CF) and carbon nanotubes (CNT). In particular, the influence of low weight fractions of reinforcement on the mechanical performance, tensile, flexural and impact properties of HDPE were investigated.
Scalable Design Methodology and Online Algorithm for TSV-Cluster Defects Recovery in Highly Reliable 3D-NoC Systems

3D-Network-on-Chips exploit the benefits of Network-on-Chips and 3D-Integrated Circuits allowing them to be considered as one of the most advanced and auspicious communication methodologies. On the other hand, the reliability of 3D-NoCs, due to the vulnerability of Through Silicon Vias, remains a major problem. Most of the existing techniques rely on correcting the TSV defects by using redundancies or employing routing algorithms. Nevertheless, they are not suitable for TSV-cluster defects as they can either lead to costly area and power consumption overheads, or they may result in non-minimal routing paths; thus, posing serious threats to the system reliability and overall performance. In this work, we present a scalable and low-overhead TSV usage and design method for 3D-NoC systems where the TSVs of a router can be utilized by its neighbors to deal with the cluster open defects. An adaptive online algorithm is also introduced to assist the proposed system to immediately work around the newly detected defects without using redundancies. The experimental results show the proposal ensure less than 2 percent of the routers being disabled, even with 50 percent of the TSV clusters defects. The performance evaluations also demonstrate unchanged performances for real applications under 5 percent of cluster defects.
‘Inevitable distinctions’

Professionals working in residential care for children everyday perform the institutional relevant activity of constructing their cases. This article analyzes the ways in which they construct the case of ‘unaccompanied minors’ (UAM) and how, in doing so, they talk into being their everyday practices of work. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with Italian residential care professionals, this study adopts a Discourse Analysis approach. Findings illustrate how the discursive assemblage of UAM relies on participants’ multiple distinctions and on a contrastive rhetoric that is widely used in social work. Differences in the case-construction of UAM mirror participants’ institutional settings and overall socio-cultural debate, paving the way for future investigation.
Integrated Nitrogen Management Studies in Forage Maize

A research trial was conducted to examine the comparative efficacy of organic and inorganic sources of nitrogen fertilizers alone and in different combinations on the yield and quality contributing parameters of forage maize (Zea mays L.) during 2012. The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. The maximum green forage yield (47.51 t ha ), dry matter yield 1 (10.36 t ha ) and crude protein (8.63 %) were recorded in case of T (100 % recommended dose of nitrogen 1 1 from urea) which were statistically at par with T (75 % nitrogen from urea + 25 % nitrogen from poultry manure). 5 This indicated that inorganic source of nitrogen also responded well for maximum growth and quality parameters. Results indicated that application of inorganic fertilizer alone and in combination with organic manure (75 % nitrogen from urea + 25 % nitrogen from poultry manure) have a significantly greater influence than other treatments.
LANGUAGE BORROWING: THEORY AND REALITY

The paper discusses the concept of language borrowing from different viewpoints and considers approaches to that linguistic phenomenon, from traditional to modern ones concerning borrowings at different levels in a language system, including phonetic, lexical and syntactic levels. These offer practical implications to research on the issue of borrowing in the Vietnamese language at present.
The Role of Location on the Inventor Gender Gap: Women are Geographically Constrained

This paper examines the inventor gender gap in the United States. While prior work has explored the role of location on innovation, little is known about the role of location on female inventor activity. The low presence of women who patent (i.e., ? female inventors? ) has been documented across countries. However, prior studies abstract from variation across sub-national regions and their industry clusters. To explain the inventor gender gap, we need to better understand the potential differences in the regional context where female inventors (FI) and male inventors (MI) operate. The goal of this paper is to examine: Where are female inventors located? How do female versus male inventors source knowledge inside their organizations and in the external environment? We test the hypothesis that women are geographically constrained, and so, female inventors will be more likely to source knowledge that is closer by. To examine these questions we use novel data that maps the participation of women and men in patenting across regions, economic fields, type of organization, and time. We find that female inventors are more co-located with their team of co-inventors, suggesting that they exploit more intrafirm nearby knowledge.
Parents’ perceptions of e-learning in school education: implications for the partnership between schools and parents

Abstract This study aimed to investigate parents’ understanding of, support for and concerns about e-learning and proposed a school–parent partnership distributing responsibilities to parents and schools based on the results of the study. A total of 61 parents from 21 schools in an e-learning pilot scheme in Hong Kong responded to a questionnaire survey and focus group interviews. Results indicated that there was a high correlation between parental understanding and support for e-learning although parents demonstrated only a basic level of understanding. Four types of parental support and six major areas of parental concern were identified. These results shed light on the school–parent partnership whereby parents should implement a proactive e-learning policy at home to monitor, support and inspire e-learning. Schools should formulate a holistic policy to address parents’ concerns responsively and proactively to gain support. Schools can enhance parents’ pedagogical understanding of e-learning and address parental concerns through school–parent communication and peer support among parents.
Human-Human Guidance Study

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Human-Human Guidance Study Kathleen Belhassein, Aurélie Clodic, Hélène Cochet, Marketta Niemelä, Päivi Heikkilä, Hanna Lammi, Antti Tammela
OPTIMIZATION OF EXTRACTION PARAMETERS FOR FAT SOLUBLE VITAMINS AND MAJOR ELEMENT ANALYSIS IN POLYGONUM COGNATUM MEISSN PLANT (MADIMAK)

The concentrations of fat soluble vitamins (A and E) and various metal ions (Ca, Cd, Cr, Co, Cu, Fe, Mg, Mn, Pb, Zn) have been determined in Polygonum cognatum Meissn plant samples collected from Sivas, Turkey. Analysis of vitamins were carried out by HPLC after Soxhlet extraction and metal ions were determined by FAAS after microwave digestion, respectively. The reliability of results were confirmed by recovery experiments in spiked samples. Recovery values were calculated in the range of 96 % and 105% while relative standard deviations (RSD) were in the range of 1.7 % and 8.5 %. The contents of vitamin E in plant samples were determined as 63.008±4.548 mg kg -1 and 59.178±5.142 mg kg -1 . The amount of essential metals such as Mn, Zn, Fe were higher than most of common edible plants and the concentrations of toxic metals were lower than critical limits.
Deep feature extraction and combination for synthetic aperture radar target classification

Abstract. Feature extraction has always been a difficult problem in the classification performance of synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR-ATR). It is very important to select discriminative features to train a classifier, which is a prerequisite. Inspired by the great success of convolutional neural network (CNN), we address the problem of SAR target classification by proposing a feature extraction method, which takes advantage of exploiting the extracted deep features from CNNs on SAR images to introduce more powerful discriminative features and robust representation ability for them. First, the pretrained VGG-S net is fine-tuned on moving and stationary target acquisition and recognition (MSTAR) public release database. Second, after a simple preprocessing is performed, the fine-tuned network is used as a fixed feature extractor to extract deep features from the processed SAR images. Third, the extracted deep features are fused by using a traditional concatenation and a discriminant correlation analysis algorithm. Finally, for target classification, K-nearest neighbors algorithm based on LogDet divergence-based metric learning triplet constraints is adopted as a baseline classifier. Experiments on MSTAR are conducted, and the classification accuracy results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.