Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Local ultrasound-guided thrombin injection for treatment of post-catheterization femoral artery pseudoaneurysm - a short term follow-up Zamykanie jatrogennych têtniaków rzekomych têtnicy udowej metod¹ przezskórnego podania trombiny pod kontrol¹ ultrasonograficzn¹ - wyniki obserwacji krótkoterminowyc

Background: Femoral artery false aneurysms are a relatively common complication after cardiac catheterization. The majority of small pseudoaneurysms undergo spontaneous occlusion but larger ones usually require treatment. Aim: To prospectively evaluate the efficacy and safety of percutaneous ultrasound - guided thrombin injection (UGTI) in the management of femoral artery pseudoaneurysms. Methods: One hundred and eighty six consecutive patients (95 female, age 64.8 ± 11.3 years) with post- catheterization femoral artery pseudoaneurysm were treated with ultrasound-guided local thrombin injection. At the time of diagnosis 39 (21%) patients were receiving anticoagulation therapy, 103 (55.4%) antiplatelet therapy only, and 44 (23.6%) both types of therapy. Results: A single-chamber pseudoaneurysm was diagnosed in 145 (78%) patients and complex pseudoaneurysm in 41 (22%). A total number of 198 thrombin injection was performed: 1.04 injection per patient with single-chamber pseudoaneurysm and 1.12 injections per patient with complex pseudoaneurym. The mean dose of injected bovine thrombin was 620 IU. UGTI was primarily successful in 175 of 186 patients (94%): in 139 (95.9%) patients with single-chamber and in 36 (87.8%) patients with complex pseudoaneurysms (p = 0.07). Including a second attempt the success rate was 143 (98.6%) patients for single-chamber and 40 (97.6%) patients for complex pseudoaneurysm (p = 0.52). In addition, one single-chamber pseudoaneurysm was obliterated after a third injection. Overall, the treated pseudoaneurysms were completely occluded in 184 (98.9%) patients. Final success rate did not differ between patients with single-chamber and complex pseudoaneurysms (99.3 vs. 97.6%, p = 0.39, respectively). Two major complications occurred: a symptomatic peripheral thrombosis and an episode of loss of consciousness. Conclusions: Ultrasound guided occlusion of iatrogenic femoral artery pseudoaneurysms using thrombin injec- tion is an efficacious and safe procedure.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GLOBE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE VALUES AND THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF EMPLOYEES IN SERBIAN ORGANIZATIONS

The main aim of this research is to establish whether emotional intelligence can serve as a predictor of desirable GLOBE organizational culture values and which emotional intelligence abilities are predictors to particular dimensions of desirable GLOBE organizational culture among middle managers from a variety of businesses in Serbia. The sample consisted of 224 middle managers from 131 organizations in Serbia. The results obtained in the paper confirmed the influence of emotional intelligence of middle managers to their organizational culture preferences. The paper belongs to the person-organization fit theory and may be used by the management of Serbian organizations during organizational changes, the selection of new managers, and the retention of high emotionally intelligent managers.
On-Farm Assessment of Legume Fallows and Other Soil Fertility Management Options Used by Smallholder Farmers in Southern Malawi

5 P.O. Box 30677-00100, Nairobi, Kenya Abstract: This study evaluated the performance of tree legumes and other soil fertility management innovations used by farmers. The objectives of the study were to: examine the extent that farm attributes, typology of farmers and field management practices have affected the adaptation and use of agroforestry technologies for soil fertility management and compare the agronomic performance and farmer assessment of agroforestry and other soil fertility management options, across a wide range of farmer types and field conditions, with a view to establishing the contribution of management variables to variations in yield estimation. Maize yield and farmer rating were assessed in Type II (researcher-designed, farmer-managed), Type III (farmer-designed and managed) trials and extension farmers. Results from 152 farmers show that agroforestry increased the yield of maize by 54-76% compared to unfertilized sole maize used as the control. When amended with fertilizer, the yield increase over the control was 73-76% across tree species. This indicates that farmers who had combined agroforestry with inorganic fertilizer experienced increase in maize yield attributable to the synergy between organic and inorganic fertilizer. In gliricidia-maize intercropping, higher maize yield was obtained by farmers who pruned twice. Combination of two prunings and fertilizer use gave the highest yield increase (148%) over the control and the third pruning was superfluous when fertilizer was applied. Without fertilizer, maize yield in agroforestry plots intercropped with pigeon pea was higher than those plots without pigeon pea. Planting date, fertilizer application, use of agroforestry and maize variety explained about 44% of the variation in maize yield on farmers' fields.
Using On-Line Modules for Professional Development in Action Research: Analysis of Beta Testing Results

Although research identifies a plethora of evidence-based instructional practices, classroom teachers find research difficult to access, often not implemented due to perceived lack of relevance to classroom practice. Bridging this gap between research and practice requires continued and mediated support as teachers translate and contextualize research findings through the lenses of prior knowledge, understandings, and impact on student results within their classrooms. This developmental process is both time consuming and individual. To address the need for responsive, individual, and contextualized support during the implementation process of evidenced-based instructional practices by teachers to determine impact of instruction, an on-line module in action research has been developed, implemented, and researched using a beta testing process. This manuscript describes the content of the online module and mediated support, outlines the specific research framework of beta testing procedures and instrumentation, analyzes the results from the pilot group of teachers who participated in this on-line module, and describes the limitations and considerations for continued research.
SR/SSD 93-4 2-1-93 Technical Attachment THE PRODUCTION OF SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS MISSISSIPPI ASSOCIATED WITH DISSIPATING TROPICAL CYCLONE ANDREW

After landfall along the central Louisiana coast early on 26 August 1992, dissipating Hurricane Andrew turned northeast and cut a diagonal path across Mississippi. During a 24-hour period, Andrew was responsible for 29 reported incidents of wind damage, many of which may have been caused by tornadoes. A 100-mile-mile wide band of rainfall between four and eight inches fell along the storm's track, with isolated totals of over nine inches recorded.
Volatile inpatient costs: implications to CCG financial stability

The introduction of GP commissioning almost assumes that there is a weak link between financial risk and size and that risk is independent of location-specific environmental factors, i.e. costs are entirely predicted by a capitation formula based on population demographic and socio-economic variables. This is the first of three articles seeking to investigate the volatility associated with different aspects of health care costs, namely, occupied beds as a proxy for inpatient costs, cancer care as an example of initial diagnosis triggering a cascade of costs and death as a proxy for end of life care costs. The observed volatility across these three domains can be compared to give an estimate of the real world volatility in the total costs of a commissioning budget. This study extends the previous analysis of year-to-year volatility at national level down to local level using English PCT populations mainly aligned to local authority boundaries. The difficulty of formulating equitable risk sharing instruments in the presence of significant environment- or location-specific volatility is discussed along with the implications to population- or person-based funding formula.
Effect of plant base digestive enzyme ‘Papain’ on growth, survival and behavioural response of Cyprinus carpio

The present investigation was carried out to assess the acceptability of papain and to standardize its dose for optimum growth and survival in fingerlings of Cyprinus carpio. The experimental fishes were fed with conventional diet mixed with three different sources of papain (i.e. latex powder, unripe fruit and green leaves of papaya) with different doses for a period of 60 days. The better results regarding growth and survival were obtained at doses i.e. feed + papain powder @ 1.0%, feed + unripe papaya fruit @ 1.25% and feed + papaya leaves @ 2.5%. During the experimentation period impact of different forms of papain on water quality as well as on behavior of fish were regularly monitored. Papain yielded no adverse effect on the water quality parameters and behavioral response of fish showing greater acceptability of papain as growth promoter.
Remote estimates of ice algae biomass and their response to environmental conditions during spring melt

In this study, we support previous work showing that a normalized difference index (NDI) using two spectral bands of transmitted irradiance (478 and 490 nm) can be used as a non-invasive method to estimate sea ice chlorophyll a (chl a ) following a simple calibration to the local region. Application of this method during the spring bloom period (9 May to 26 June) provided the first non-invasive time series dataset used to monitor changes in bottom ice chl a concentration, an index of algal biomass, at a single point location. The transmitted irradiance dataset was collected on landfast first-year sea ice of Allen Bay, Nunavut, in 2011, along with the physical variables thought to affect chl a accumulation and loss at the ice bottom. Time series biomass calculated using the NDI technique adhered well to core based biomass estimates although, chl a values remained low throughout the bloom, reaching a maximum of 27.6 mg m-2 at the end of May. It is likely that warming of the bottom ice contributed to loss of chl a through its positive influence on brine drainage and ice melt. Chl a content in the bottom ice was also significantly affected by a storm event on 10 June, which caused extensive surface melt and a rapid increase in the magnitude of transmitted irradiance. Furthermore, the velocity of current, measured below the ice at the end of a spring neap-tidal cycle, was negatively associated with ice algae chl a biomass (the stronger the current, the less biomass). The NDI method to remotely estimate ice algal biomass proved useful for application in our time series process study, providing a way to assess the effects of changes to the sea ice environment on the biomass of a single population of ice algae.
Tomography of core–mantle boundary and lowermost mantle coupled by geodynamics

SUMMARY We propose an innovative approach to mapping CMB topography from seismic P-wave traveltime inversions: instead of treating mantle velocity and CMB topography as independent parameters, as has been done so far, we account for their coupling by mantle flow, as formulated by Forte & Peltier. This approach rests on the assumption that P data are sufficiently sensitive to thermal heterogeneity, and that compositional heterogeneity, albeit important in localized regions of the mantle (e.g. within the D″ region), is not sufficiently strong to govern the pattern of mantle-wide convection and hence the CMB topography. The resulting tomographic maps of CMB topography are physically sound, and they resolve the known discrepancy between images obtained from classic tomography on the basis of core-reflected and core-refracted seismic phases. Since the coefficients of mantle velocity structure are the only free parameters of the inversion, this joint tomography–geodynamics approach reduces the number of parameters; nevertheless the corresponding mantle models fit the seismic data as well as the purely seismic ones.
Ferroelectricity in corundum derivatives

The search for new ferroelectric (FE) materials holds promise for broadening our understanding of FE mechanisms and extending the range of application of FE materials. Here we investigate a class of ABO3 and A2BB'O6 materials that can be derived from the X2O3 corundum structure by mixing two or three ordered cations on the X site. Most such corundum derivatives have a polar structure, but it is unclear whether the polarization is reversible, which is a requirement for a FE material. In this paper, we propose a method to study the FE reversal path of materials in the corundum derivative family. We first categorize the corundum derivatives into four classes and show that only two of these allow for the possibility of FE reversal. We then calculate the energy profile and energy barrier of the FE reversal path using first-principles density functional methods with a structural constraint. Furthermore, we identify several empirical measures that can provide a rule of thumb for estimating the energy barriers. Finally, the conditions under which the magnetic ordering is compatible with ferroelectricity are determined. These results lead us to predict several potentially new FE materials.
High performance of space vector modulation direct torque control SVM-DTC based on amplitude voltage and stator flux angle

Various aspects related to controlling induction motor are investigated. Direct torque control is an original high performance control strategy in the field of AC drive. In this proposed method, the control system is based on Space Vector Modulation (SVM), amplitude of voltage in direct- quadrature reference frame (d-q reference) and angle of stator flux. Amplitude of stator voltage is controlled by PI torque and PI flux controller. The stator flux angle is adjusted by rotor angular frequency and slip angular frequency. Then, the reference torque and the estimated torque is applied to the input of PI torque controller and the control quadrature axis voltage is determined. The control d-axis voltage is determined from the flux calculator. These q and d axis voltage are converted into amplitude voltage. By applying polar to Cartesian on amplitude voltage and stator flux angle, direct voltage and quadratures voltage are generated. The reference stator voltages in d-q are calculated based on forcing the stator voltage error to zero at next sampling period. By applying inverse park transformation on d-q voltages, the stator voltages in α and β frame are generated and apply to SVM. From the output of SVM, the motor control signal is generated and the speed of the induction motor regulated toward the rated speed. The simulation Results have demonstrated exceptional performance in steady and transient states and shows that decrease of torque and flux ripples is achieved in a complete speed range.
USING A RIBOSOMAL PROBE FOR THE DETECTION OF THE PHYTOPLASMA ASSOCIATED WITH ´BUNCHY TOP SYMPTOM OF PAPAYA´ (BTS) IN PLANT AND INSECT HOST

Recently, a phytoplasma of the 16SrII, Candidatus Phytoplasma aurantifolia group was associated with Bunchy Top disease (BTD) in eastern Cuba. Total DNA from more than 200 plant and insect leaf samples surveyed during 2005 and infected by the 16SrII phytoplasma was indexed by a non-radioactive nucleic acid hybridization assay (nrNAH). Phytoplasma 16S rDNA PCR products of selected samples were purified, labeled with alakaline phosphatase and used as a probe for the detection of such phytoplasma by the system of direct alkaline phosphatase labelling and chemiluminiscent detection (AlkPhos, Amersham LIFE SCIENCE, UK). The nrNAH assay detected the BTD phytoplasma in both papaya plants and Empoasca papayae Oman. The probe yielded hybridization signals reacting with reference controls and samples infected with the BTD phytoplasma. The nrNAH is considered a valuable diagnostic tool for the national phytosanitary surveillance, seed certification and breeding programs and a pathway to develop further specific assays.
THE IMPLICATION OF PURCHASE INTENTION: ANALYSIS OF PERCEIVED USEFULNESS, PERCEIVED ENJOYMENT, TECHNICALITY AND PERCEIVED PRICE TOWARDS PERCEIVED VALUE

The purpose of this study is to obtain result of analysis of the effect of Perceived Usefulness towards Perceived Value, Perceived Enjoyment towards Perceived Value, Technicality towards Perceived Value, Perceived Price towards Perceived Value, and Perceived Value towards Purchase Intention. This study is a descriptive and exploratory research. The descriptive study is a kind of research which purpose is to describe or figure out the characteristics and nature of market and consumer behavior. On the other hand, the exploratory study is a kind of research which purpose is to explore or collect any deeper thoughts about a problem. The research design used is survey in which sampling unit is observed using a questionnaire. The unit samplings used in this study are men and women who once access iTunes Store, know Kotak Band, and never once purchase Kotak’s songs (“Never Dies” album). The result of the analysis using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) shows that the data of this study have goodness of fit with the proposed research model and the measurement model of overall indicators has valid criteria and reliability or consistency of good measurement. Regarding to the result of the structural model, it can be concluded that Perceived Usefulness gives positive effect towards Perceived Value, and Perceived Enjoyment gives positive effect towards Perceived Value. On the other hand, other variables give negative effect.
The Effect of Local Element Density on Processing of Visual Hierarchical Patterns: An Infant ERP Study

Previous research with infants, children, and adults has shown that global, or configural, information is processed before local, or featural, information in high density visual hierarchical patterns (Freeseman, Colombo, & Coldren, 1993; Ghim & Eimas, 1988; Kimchi, 1988; Navon, 1981; Navon, 1977). The current study used event-related potential to determine if a well documented bias toward global processing in infancy can be disrupted when the number and density of local elements is reduced through increasing the distance between elements. Infant responses were compared between high and low density conditions to global and local novel patterns and to familiar patterns. A significant interaction was found between stimulus type and stimulus density in the Late Slow Wave component. The findings are consistent with previous research which shows that infants process high density visual patterns at the global level, and also indicate that infants fail to effectively process either global or local information in low density hierarchical patterns.
ZIMBABWE JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL BESEABCH

In different cultural contexts, it has been demonstrated that student proficiency in language may he related to academic achievement and to mastery of concepts and technical vocabulary in school subjects such as science. Where a second language (1.2) is the official medium o f instruction, the achievement and mastery may be affected by linguistic difficulties arising in the medium o f instruction by conceptual difficulty o f the subject taught, and additionally, by the interference o f the meanings and experiences derived from the mother language (LI). Further, misconceptions can arise where the learner is striving to master simultaneously the medium of instruction and the scientific concepts and vocabulary presented. For example, science content in textbooks and in classrooms in Zimbabwe is usually presented in English, vet the majority o f pupils arc non-native speakers of English, and thus interference o f the mother tongue is predicted, especially for younger students. This article is a review and analysis o f the research and theoretical literature on the relationship between language, bilingual communication and education, conceptual understanding and misconceptions in science. Hypotheses are suggested fo r field testing with Shona, Ndchele and English (LI) students in Zimbabwe.
UPGRADING OF SUSPENDED GROWTH PROCESS USING SUBMERGED MEDIA

Combined suspended / attached growth (CSAG) systems have been emerging recently to increase the efficiency of the existing systems. It takes its importance from high biomass concentrations that can be achieved within the system. The present study investigates the enhancement (if any) of convention al activated sludge (AS) process performance using attached media submerged in the aeration tank. The main purpose of this work is to find out the optimum combination of attached growth and suspended growth systems that achieve the best removal ratios (RR) of BOD and COD. Two models have been set up and run treating primary tr eated domestic wastewater. One of these two models has been run as an aeration tank w ithout any submerged media. This model has been utilized as a reference for the othe r model that runs as a combined suspended attached growth process. These two models worked parallel with the same influent wastewater and the same experimental conditions to investigate the effect of the added media volume in the aeration tank, the hy draulic retention time (HRT), and the sludge retention time (SRT), on the removing BOD 5, and COD. Ratios of submerged media volume to reactor volume ranges from 10 % to 60% have been tested. It was found that 30 % was the optimum rati o of media submerged in the reactor. The obtained results indicated that old an d over loaded plants can be improved using attached media to carry the extra hydraulic a nd organic loading rates.
TQM and Modern Marketing in Developing Countries - Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks

This paper aims to identify and review the related literature on quality, quality management, TQM, productivity and modern marketing in developing countries with a focus on Pakistan. It starts by reviewing the different theories of quality, quality management, TQM and productivity to develop a better understanding of their influence and potential for management activities in developing nations. Then it provides a very brief illustration of modern marketing in developing countries. The overall aim is to identify the variables that might influence quality, quality management, TQM and productivity in such nations.
Utilizing the Theory of Planned Behavior to Explain Suicidal Intent

Utilizing the Theory of Planned Behavior to Explain Suicidal Intent By Pamela R. George Suicide has become a national and global problem, with the prevalence of suicide attempts increasing in recent years (Brown, Henriques, Sosdjan, & Beck, 2004; Kessler, Borges, & Walters, 1999). Even though research on suicide has identified risk factors and demographic characteristics to help aid in predicting who is at risk for attempting suicide, predictive models of intent of suicide have been unsuccessful in identifying particular individuals at risk of eventually dying by suicide (Cassells, Paterson, Dowding, & Morrison, 2005; Goldstein, Black, & Nasrallah, 1991; Powell, Geddes, Deeks, Goldacre, & Hawton, 2000). The purpose of this study is to propose an alternative framework to studying suicide by utilizing the theory of planned behavior to explain variables associated with suicidal ideation and intent. Differences in individual attitudes, beliefs, and social norms were also compared to levels of depression and hopelessness to help understand the components that contribute to suicidal ideation. The results revealed that the theory of planned behavior variables explained 49% of the variance in suicidal ideation, with perceived behavioral control accounting for the largest proportion of the variance. The theory of planned behavior variables was also found to explain more variance than depression and hopelessness in suicidal ideation.