Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Seroprevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Antibodies Amongst Blood Donors in Ibadan, Southwestern, Nigeria

This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of antibodies to HCV among blood donors in Ibadan and to generate data which may be useful to appropriate health authorities. The subjects included in this study were 200 (184 males and 16 females; aged 20 to 60 years) blood donors in the blood bank of UCH, Ibadan who consented voluntarily after thorough explanation of the purpose of the study. The samples were tested for the presence of antibodies to HCV using rapid ELISA technique developed by RIGHTCHOICE Diagnostics, Israel. Analysis of the result showed that 16 (8.0%) of the donors had antibodies to HCV. The result also showed highest HCV antibody prevalence of 11.5% amongst blood donors in the age range 30-39 years. Statistical analysis, however, showed no significant difference (p>0.05) between the prevalence rates of the male and female individuals. There was, however, no statistical association (p > 0.05) between age of the patients and prevalence of HCV antibodies. Our findings further confirm the presence of hepatitis C virus infection among blood donors in Nigeria. Routine HCV screening of blood donors is therefore recommended in order to reduce the risk of post transfusion hepatitis C.
Task complexity, language anxiety, and the development of the simple past

A main prediction of the Cognition Hypothesis is that individual differences will influence learners’ perceptions of task difficulty and, as a result, affect performance and learning as task complexity is increased. To date, little research has investigated this claim, leaving open the question whether an interaction exists between task complexity and learner factors. Thus, the current study employed a pre-post-delayed posttest design to investigate the role of task complexity and anxiety in university Korean EFL learners’ (N = 88) development of past tense morphology during task-based learner-learner interaction. Participants were assigned to one of three groups that carried out four communicative tasks varying in terms of task complexity: simple, +complex, and ++complex, based on [± reasoning demands]. Past tense development was investigated within individual and pair tasks, and assessed following the Aspect Hypothesis (Andersen & Shirai, 1994, 1996). Learners’ anxiety was measured via a questionnaire targeting speaking anxiety only. Results indicated that (1) complex tasks were more facilitative of past tense development compared to simple tasks overall, (2) low-anxiety learners showed more past tense development than high-anxiety learners, and (3) there was no interaction between task complexity and learners’ anxiety level. Drawing on these findings, implications for research on the Cognition Hypothesis and task-based language teaching are discussed.
Oral Creatine Hydrochloride Supplementation: Acute Effects on Submaximal, Intermittent Bouts of Bench Press and Vertical Jump Exercises

vi LIST OF TABLES . x LIST OF FIGURES . xi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS . xii CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION . 1 Physical Fitness and Physical Activity . 1 Energy Transfer During PA . 1 Creatine . 3 Creatine as a Supplement . 4 CrH2O Supplementation . 4 Body Mass and Lean Mass Effects of CrH2O Supplementation . 6 Issues and Non-Severe Adverse Effects with CrH2O Supplementation . 6 Creatine Hydrochloride . 8 Enhanced Solubility and Intestinal-Uptake of CrHCl . 9 Need for the study . 10 Hypotheses . 10 Delimitations . 10
Exosomatic (light) organ: Creating and using an ‘expressive instrument’ for theatre lighting control

ABSTRACT For more than 30 years the operation of stage lighting for theatre has almost always involved the replay of pre-recorded lighting states, so that the operator makes no creative contribution to the performance ‘in the moment’. Meanwhile, digital performance practices have examined the relationship between the performer and a variety of technologies, often problematizing this relationship in diverse ways. However, theatre lighting and its operation have rarely been given such attention. In this article I describe a custom-built lighting control system, ‘Theolux’, designed to enable the operator — who I term the Lighting Artist — to respond and make an expressive contribution in the moment of performance. In particular, Theolux has a variety of interface controls that the lighting artist can choose to use, each of which offers a different expressive potential and which collectively constitute a ‘playable’ instrument. I go on to describe a performance work, Passages, made specifically to investigate my proposal that some creative decisions about the lighting should be deferred until the moment of performance, enabling the lighting artist to respond to the other performers and to the audience. I give an account of some of the affective performance qualities produced by using Theolux to control the lighting during Passages, and describe my own experience as the lighting artist using the various interface idioms during different sections of the performance. I also recount audience members' experiences, which both confirm some of my own observations and begin to suggest the performance-making potential of my revised approach to theatre lighting.
Sublethal Dose of Diazinon Induces Pulmonary Toxicity in Rat: Histopathological Evidence

Objective: Diazinon (DZ) is a widely used contact organophosphorous pesticide with broad spectrum insecticide activity. The extensive use of DZ has caused great concern due to the hazardous side effects on human beings as well as wild and domestic animals. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of sublethal dose of DZ on rat lung. Material and methods: Seven groups of male Wistar rats were used comprising control and test groups. The control group received corn oil (0.3 ml/day) for 60 days by oral gavages. The test groups received DZ at a dose of 60 mg/kg body weight orally for 2, 10, 24, 30, 54 and 60 days, respectively. Results: The histopathological analysis of the lungs in DZ-treated groups revealed congestion on day 2, pulmonary edema and emphysema on day 10, congestion and atelectasia on day 24, infiltration of mononuclear cells on day 30 and pulmonary hemorrhage along with bronchial glands hyperplasia on days 54 and 60. DZ administration also caused a significant decrease in serum cholinesterase activity in a time-dependent manner. Conclusion: These findings indicate that sublethal dose of DZ can induce severe lesions in the lung of rat.
Investigating Students’ Ways to Learn English Outside of Class: A Researchers’ Narrative

This paper provides a summary of a multi-stage research project described through the narratives of the two authors. The research project investigated what students thought were effective (i.e., Good) and less effective (i.e., Bad) ways to learn English. The paper presents some of the main findings of the various components of the studies. One important finding relevant to educators working in self-access centres is that students responding to the open-ended portions of the study did not mention electronic, online or multimedia resources, or self-access learning centres (SALCs). Follow-up closed-response questionnaire findings indicated that students evaluated electronic resources and SALCs positively as good ways to learn outside of class. The authors suggest that a questionnaire-based list of ways to learn English out of class is an effective way to raise students’ awareness of alternatives for learners. Subsequent diary studies showed how participants used ideas that were introduced mainly via the questionnaire for their outside class study.
Perspectives on exercise participation among Canadian university students

Objective: University has been identified as an important time to develop exercise habits. The aim of this study was to examine factors that enhanced exercise participation among a diverse set of undergraduate students and their perceived facilitators as well as barriers to exercising regularly. Setting: A large public university in one of the largest and most ethno-culturally diverse regions of Canada. Method: A mixed-methods design was employed to examine factors associated with regular exercise participation among diverse Canadian undergraduate students (N = 477). Survey data were analysed using logistic regression analyses to predict regular exercise participation. In addition, six focus group sessions explored barriers and facilitators to regular engagement in exercise (n = 41). Results: Survey findings indicated that being male, having a parent that attended college, and religious affiliation were predictive of exercising regularly. Thematic analysis of qualitative findings highlighted the complex roles that religion, intimidation, peer support and priority-setting played in college students’ exercise participation. Conclusion: Findings can inform ongoing strategies to promote exercise participation in early adulthood, particularly among diverse college students.
Zasady postępowania w nadciśnieniu tętniczym — 2019 rok

WYTYCZNE POLSKIEGO TOWARZYSTWA NADCIŚNIENIA TĘTNICZEGO ZESPOŁ REDAGUJĄCY: Andrzej Tykarski, Krzysztof J. Filipiak, Andrzej Januszewicz, Mieczyslaw Litwin, Krzysztof Narkiewicz, Aleksander Prejbisz, Danuta Ostalska-Nowicka, Krystyna Widecka, Katarzyna Kostka-Jeziorny ZESPOŁ EKSPERTOW: Marcin Adamczak, Marta Buraczewska, Ludwina Szczepaniak-Chichel, Marzena Chrostowska, Danuta Czarnecka, Piotr Dobrowolski, Grzegorz Dzida, Zbigniew Gaciong, Jerzy Gąsowski, Tomasz Grodzicki, Dagmara Hering, Beata Wozakowska-Kaplon, Przemyslaw Kosinski, Beata Begier-Krasinska, Jan Krekora, Jacek Manitius, Malgorzata Myśliwiec, Anna Niemirska, Arkadiusz Niklas, Łukasz Obrycki, Agnieszka Olszanecka, Sylwester Prokurat, Grazyna Brzezinska-Rajszys, Marek Rajzer, Katarzyna Stolarz-Skrzypek, Agnieszka Szadkowska, Filip M. Szymanski, Anna Szyndler, Andrzej Wiecek, Barbara Wizner, Jacek Wolf, Tomasz Zdrojewski
Bandwidth and delay guaranteed polling with adaptive cycle time (BDGPACT): a scheme for providing bandwidth and delay guarantees in passive optical networks

This paper addresses the problem of providing bandwidth and delay guarantees in passive optical networks. To resolve this problem we propose an algorithm that provides absolute bandwidth and delay bound guarantees. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm does not breach bandwidth and delay bounds for guaranteed service traffic even under the highest loads. Additionally, we analyze the lower bound for providing delay guarantees.
Rigid Image Registration based on Normalized Cross Correlation and Chaotic Firefly Algorithm

Image registration is a hotspot in the field of image processing and automatic target recognition, and it can be simplified as an optimization problem, including three input variables (two translational parameters and one rotational parameter) and one output variable as the normalized cross correlation (NCC). To solve the optimization problem, we introduced in the latest nature-inspired technique, chaotic firefly algorithm (CFA), which is based on the behavior of fireflies. The simulation experiments on 18 standard benchmarks demonstrate that, for the mean absolute error of spatial translational parameter (tx and ty) and rotational parameter (θ), the CFA achieves the lowest error as 0.0253, 0.0246, and 0.0020, respectively. Therefore, CFA is effective for the rigid image registration problem.
Expectations of liver transplantation candidates’ and their relatives and difficulties they experience

Amac: Bu arastirma, karaciger transplantasyonu icin bekleyen hastalarin ve yakinlarinin beklentilerini ve yasadiklari guclukleri belirlemek amaciyla yapilmistir. Gerec ve Yontem: Tanimlayici ve tek merkezli bu calisma, Ankara'daki bir kamu hastanesinin Transplantasyon Polikliniginde yapilmistir. Ornekleme 170 karaciger transplantasyonu adayi ve 170 hasta yakinini dahil edilmistir. Veriler katilimcilar ile yuzyuze gorusulerek toplanmistir. Verilerin degerlendirilmesi icin yuzde, ortalama, ki-kare ve Fisher'in kesin ki-kare testleri kullanilmistir. Bulgular: Arastirmada, karaciger transplantasyonu bekleyen hastalarin bekleme sureci sirasinda en buyuk beklentisinin “basarili bir nakil ameliyati olma” (%70.0), hasta yakinlarinin en onemli beklentisinin ise “hastalarinin eski sagligina kavusmasi” (%80.0) oldugu belirlenmistir. Hastalarin tamamina yakini (%97.1) fiziksel sorunlar, buyuk cogunlugu da gunluk yasam aktiviteleri (%87.1) ile ilgili, psikolojik (%85.3) ve sosyo-ekonomik (%81.8) guclukler yasamaktadir. Hasta yakinlari da gunluk yasam aktiviteleri ile ilgili (%80.6), psikolojik (%81.8) ve sosyo-ekonomik (% 73.5) guclukler yasamaktadir. Sonuc: Bu arastirmanin sonuclari karaciger transplantasyonu bekleyen hastalarin ve yakinlarinin gunluk yasam aktivitelerini etkileyen bircok guclugun yani sira, psikolojik ve sosyo-ekonomik gucluklerle karsilastiklarini desteklemektedir. Yasanan bu gucluklerin azaltilabilmesi icin karaciger transplantasyonu bekleyen hasta ve hasta yakinlarina egitim ve danismanlik verilmesi onerilmektedir.
Six‐item Cognitive Impairment Test: suitable for the visually impaired?

Unsurprisingly, visually impaired individuals perform worse than controls on MMSE items requiring vision. The issue of meaningful cognitive assessment in visually impaired individuals may become of increasing importance due to an association between cognitive decline and visual loss. Dr Larner reports on the effectiveness of using the Six‐item Cognitive Impairment Test (6CIT) in visually impaired patients and examines its potential use in settings such as primary care and old age psychiatry memory clinics.
Reliability of the Visually Identified Ventilatory Threshold and V-Slope in Children

The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability of the ventilatory threshold using visual analysis (TVent) and a computerised v-slope method (TV - slope) with children. Twenty-two children completed 2 ramp incremental cycling tests to voluntary exhaustion. Oxygen uptake (VO2) at TVent was derived independently by two observers using plots of VE/VCO2, VE/VO2, PETO2 and PETCO2, VE and RER as a function of time. VO2 at TV - slope was determined by both observers using linear regression analysis of the plot of VCO2 against VO2. A TV – slope was determined for each test, although a TVent could not be found by one of the observers in 7 of the 44 tests. Inter-observer reliability was slightly better for TV - slope, and both methods had similar test-retest coefficients of repeatability (0.19 and 0.22 L • min−1, TVent and TV - slope, respectively). Although TV slope may be the method of choice, investigators should consider the 95% limits of agreement when interpreting their data.
Natural Language Processing Meets Business - Algorithms for Mining Meaning from Corporate Texts

Geschat wordt dat 80% van alle bedrijfsinformatie bestaat uit documenten waar informatie is beschreven in de vorm van vrije tekst, terwijl maar 20% bestaat uit gestructureerde informatie. Verborgen in deze documenten is kostbare informatie die van strategisch belang kan zijn voor ondernemingen, zoals klachten van klanten en beschrijvingen van reparaties die door onderhoudspersoneel zijn uitgevoerd. Bestaande 'Business Intelligence' software is vooral gericht op gestructureerde data, zoals databases, en is niet in staat om informatie te ontdekken in tekstdocumenten. Als gevolg hiervan kunnen ondernemingen onvoldoende profiteren van belangrijke inzichten die aanwezig zijn in de documenten die het bedrijf produceert. Dit leidt tot gemiste kansen, risico's, en onvermogen om bijvoorbeeld op onvrede en niet vervulde verwachtingen van klanten te reageren. Binnen de Natuurlijke-taalverwerking (Natural Language Processing, NLP) zijn verschillende technieken ontwikkeld om informatie te ontdekken in teksten. Dit zijn onder andere technieken voor informatie-extractie (IE) en tekst-clustering (TC). Deze technieken zijn succesvol toegepast op grote collecties van goed geschreven tekst, zoals verzamelingen krantenartikelen en (medisch-) wetenschappelijke artikelen. Zulke documenten bevatten betrouwbare taalkundige en statistische patronen, die het ontdekken van informatie mogelijk maken. Documenten binnen ondernemingen, zoals die bijvoorbeeld gebruikt worden tijdens productontwikkeling en klantcontacten, vormen een uitdaging voor bestaande NLP-technieken. Zulke documenten zijn vaak zeer informeel, en bevatten regelmatig ongrammaticale zinsconstructies. Ze zijn meestal ook veel beknopter dan documenten waarop NLP-technieken getest zijn, en bevatten daarom ook minder betrouwbare taalkundige en statistische signalen. Bestaande NLP-technieken zijn daarom vaak niet in staat om accuraat informatie aan zulke teksten te onttrekken. Deze tekortkoming in bestaande NLP-technieken was de motivatie voor ons onderzoek. De onderzoeksvraag die centraal staat in dit werk is: “Hoe kan automatisch informatie gevonden worden in beknopte, domein-specifieke, en informele teksten? ” Meer in het bijzonder onderzochten we de volgende drie deelvragen: RQ1: Hoe kunnen termen en concepten accuraat worden geidentificeerd in domeinspecifieke, beknopte, en informele teksten binnen ondernemingen? RQ2: Hoe kunnen semantische relaties binnen domein-specifieke, beknopte, en informale teksten automatisch gevonden worden? RQ3: Hoe kunnen coherente en homogene clusters van vergelijkbare documenten worden gevonden.
Look at her: Analysing the depiction of women on the covers of women's magazines from 1975-2015

Women’s magazines have a role in constructing and defining what it means to be a woman. Deciphering messages in mediums specifically designed for women is therefore key to understanding what women may be learning about femininity. This thesis examines the depiction of women in women’s magazines, focussing on sexualisation and the portrayal of traditional gender roles. Traditional gender stereotypes and the sexual objectification of women are key mechanisms contributing to the subordinate position of women in society. This thesis argues that alongside their contributions to gender inequality, such depictions can also reinforce ideas that sustain rape culture with the latter referring to a climate where sexual violence is normalised and trivialised. By conducting a longitudinal content analysis (1975 –2015) of cover pages from New Zealand women’s magazines, this thesis investigates whether there are any changes in the level of sexualisation and depiction of traditional gender roles across prominent women’s magazines. The findings of this thesis indicate that overall there is a low level of sexualisation present in cover page images from women’s magazines, and significant differences exist both between publications as well as across the four decades of analysis. The depiction of traditional gender roles is consistent across the time period studied, and when such gender stereotypes are present they remove agency from women reducing them to ‘decorative’ objects within images. Messages suggesting women should be sexualised and decorative may reinforce ideas central to gender inequality, rape culture, and sexual violence against women. The implications of this thesis suggest that women’s magazines may not be a safe space for readers to celebrate their gender – rather, such publications may influence ideas that facilitate gender inequality.
PENGEMBANGAN SOAL-SOAL OPEN-ENDED PADA POKOK BAHASAN SEGITIGA DAN SEGIEMPAT DI SMP

The research is proposed to: (1) get open-ended problems which are valid and practice Â on the math topic Triangle and Rectangle in junior high school. (2) find potential effects of open ended problems to the students on the topic about triangle and rectangle in junior high school. The methodology that use in this study is a developmental research. Subject of this research is 35 students of seventh grade (VII.10) at SMP Negeri 2 Banyuasin III. The way of collecting data is by using interview, document analysis, and test of open ended problems. All data have been collected was analysed by using qualitative descriptive. The result of data analysis come to conclusion, that: (1) This research produces open ended problems on the topic of triangle and rectangle for students of VII grade Â are valid and practice. The validity was described by the result of validator scores, where the all validators state that the instrument have been valid based on content, construction and language. The validity was also described by the validation the problems in small group. The practical was described by testing the problem to a small group where most of the students were able to solve the open-ended problems given. (2) The prototype of open-ended problems which was developed have positive potential effect to the result of student learning process, and it is shown by the variety of the studentsâ€™ answers and the average of complete students of 3 time tests of open-ended problems which resulted 77,2%. Â Keywords : Development Research, Open-Ended Problem, Triangle and Rectangle ES;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>: Penerapan, MPG, Pelajaran Matematika.
Digital posters - talking cycles for academic literacy

This chapter explores an inter-disciplinary collaboration which set the written word to one side to explore the student voice in a space between speech and writing. It presents an emerging Digital Posters pedagogy in which student experimentation with the spoken word is designed to support their critical engagement with their subject and by extension their ability to produce the structures of academic writing. The method has been developed collaboratively over three years by the authors: an academic, a writing tutor and an educational developer. The approach has proved liberating for both staff and students and has provided a means of exploring conceptions of academic literacies as being about critical and constructive growth through the students’ exploration of language and their representation of knowledge.
Image schemas and mimetic schemas in cognitive llinguistics and gesture studies

Image schemas have been a fundamental construct in cognitive linguistics, providing grounds for psychological, philosophical, as well as linguistic research. Given the focus in cognitive linguistics on embodied experience as a fundamental basis for language structure and meaning, the employment of image schemas in the analysis of gesture with speech is a logical extension. However, given their level of abstraction, to what degree do image schemas provide a useful explanatory tool for researching the concrete, physically embodied details of gestures? This article considers the answer to this question and then turns to a more recent theoretical development that complements the picture by encompassing a different realm of cognitive and linguistic phenomena. This research, on ‘mimetic schemas’, is shown to have great potential for thinking about some known phenomena of gesture in a new way. Schema research on these different levels thus provides a useful means to analyze behavior in another modality involved in spoken language use, namely the visual.