Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Teaching Mathematical Problem Solving to Middle School Students in Math, Technology Education, and Special Education Classrooms

Abstract This study compared two approaches for teaching sixth-grade middle school students to solve math problems in math, technology education, and special education classrooms. A total of 17 students with disabilities and 76 students without disabilities were taught using either enhanced anchored instruction (EAI) or text-based instruction coupled with applied problems (TBI). Results showed that both EAI and TBI students benefited from instruction in their math class, but EAI students were able to maintain and transfer what they learned in the technology education classroom several weeks later. The performance level of students with disabilities was low in both groups, but additional small-group instruction in special education settings helped several students with disabilities achieve at levels commensurate with their peers without disabilities.
Effects of Patient Safety Culture on Patient Satisfaction With Radiological Services in Nigerian Radiodiagnostic Practice

Introduction: Patient safety culture is believed to be the first step toward improvement in quality of health-care delivery which will impact patient satisfaction. Objective: To assess the effect of patient safety culture on patient satisfaction in radiodiagnostic practice. Method: Two validated questionnaires via Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture by Agency of Health Research and Quality and patient satisfaction questionnaire by Hays were administered to radiodiagnostic staff and patients who came for diagnostic care, respectively. These questionnaires were based on 5-point Likert scale. Questionnaires on patient safety culture and patient satisfaction were administered to 80 radiology health workers and 376 patients of radiology, respectively. Simple random sampling was used to enlist the participants for patient satisfaction while a population study was carried out to enlist patient safety culture participants. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 17. Results: Response rate for patient safety culture questionnaires was 94.6%, while that of patient satisfaction was 62.8%. Among the survey items of patient safety, teamwork has the highest positive response of 76.5%, while staffing has the least, 30%. Overall patient safety culture was 53.7%. The survey item with highest positive response in patient satisfaction survey was patient-provider relationship (80%), while service cost-effectiveness has the least of 59%. Overall patient satisfaction with radiological services was 72.6%. There is no correlation between patient safety culture and patient satisfaction. Conclusion: Even though there is an excellent level of patient satisfaction in this study, it is not related to the practice of patient safety culture in radiodiagnostic unit.
Los Sarcophagidae (Insecta, Diptera) de un ecosistema cadavérico en el sureste de la Península Ibérica

The Sarcophagidae (Insecta, Diptera) in a cadaveric ecosystem in the southeastern Iberian Peninsula. The results of the study of the Sarcophagidae collected in a sarcosaprophagous community, in the southeastern Iberian Peninsula are presented. This contribution is framed in a study on the sarcosaprophagous entomological fauna in the western Mediterranean area in order to know its faunistic composition and its seasonal dynamic. The study has been carried out all along a complete year, allowing to evaluate the faunal succession, as well as the relationship among species and the different states of the cadaveric decomposition. In this study 13 species have been found. Data about their seasonal distribution and association degree with the different decomposition periods are also offered. These data are important for the establishment of the postmortem interval (PMI) in this area.
Changing Salisbury: an argument for a return to poetic ordering of urban space following three hundred years of objectification

This article is concerned with the process of heritage and tradition in relation to urban modification and highlights the current tendency to objectify the past. It looks at significant alterations to the urban conditions of Salisbury since its foundation in the thirteenth century, many of which have concealed and undermined the original relationships structured within, and beyond, the city walls. It suggests that this evolving situation has been governed by differing philosophical ideas rooted in the time when the various additions and demolitions have been undertaken with little regard for the relationships already established within the city, or the needs of the citizens. In order to evaluate the consequences of these changing urban situations, the paper outlines the original intentions behind the foundation and planning of the medieval city and then charts various plans overlaid onto the original layout. This leads to a discussion on the diverse ideas behind the different plans—including issues related to ornament—and thence, a section on the possibilities of reconciliation presented when a more participatory understanding of heritage is utilized: where change and preservation can be facilitated at the same time as accommodating the traditions which underpin much urban space.
Safety assessment and feeding value for pigs, poultry and ruminant animals of pest protected (Bt) plants and herbicide tolerant (glyphosate, glufosinate)plants: interpretation of experimental results observed worldwide on GM plants

Abstract New varieties of plants resistant to pests and/or tolerant to specific herbicides such as maize, soybean, cotton, sugar beets, canola, have been recently developed by using genetic transformation (GT). These plants contain detectable specific active recombinant DNA (rDNA) and their derived protein. Since they have not been selected for a modification of their chemical composition, they can be considered as substantially equivalent to their parents or to commercial varieties for their content in nutrients and anti-nutritional factors. However, insect protected maize is less contaminated by mycotoxins than its parental counterpart conferring a higher degree of safety to animal feeds. The new feeds, grain and derivatives, and whole plants have been intensively tested in vivo up to 216 days for their safety and their nutritional equivalence for monogastric farm animals (pig, poultry) and ruminants (dairy cows, steers, lambs). The present article is based on the interpretation and the summary of the scientific results published in original reviewed journals either as full papers (33) or as abstracts (33) available through September 2003. For the duration of the experiments adapted to the species, feed intake, weight gain, milk yield and nutritional equivalence expressed as feed conversion and/or digestibility of nutrients have never been affected by feeding animals diets containing GT plants. In addition, in all the experimental animals, the body and carcass composition, the composition of milk and animal tissues, as well as the sensory properties of meat are not modified by the use of feeds derived from GT plants. Furthermore, the health of animals, their physiological characteristics and the survival rate are also not affected. The presence of rDNA and derived proteins can be recognized and quantified in feeds in the case of glyphosate resistant soybean and canola and in the case of insect protected maize. However, rDNA has never been recovered either in milk, or in liver, spleen and muscles tissues of animals, or in rumen bacteria. On the basis of these data, it can be suggested that in vivo tests on high producing animals are necessary and sufficient to evaluate the safety and the nutritional value of new GT plants. Recentemente sono state sviluppate, mediante modificazione genetica, nuove varietà di piante (mais, soia, cotone, barbabietole da zucchero, canola) resistenti agli insetti e/o tolleranti a specifici erbicidi. Queste piante contengono specifici
Strain improvement for the production of antioxidant activity from Bacillus sp. by induced stress

In the present study, water samples were collected from different beaches in Chennai such as Marina beach, Elliott beach, VGP Golden beach and Kovalam beach to evaluate the best source for antioxidants. The bacteria were isolated on Starch Casein Agar media and screened for the antimicrobial activity. Among 11 isolates, 5 isolates showed antimicrobial potential which were further evaluated for the DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) scavenging activity. Among 5 isolates, one sample showed significant DPPH scavenging activity with half minimal inhibitory concentration of (IC50)344. 754µg/mL. The maximum antioxidant production was observed at pH 7 and at temperature of 37ºC with an IC50 of 188. 66µg/mL and 293. 76µg/mL respectively. The potent antioxidant producing strain was subjected for mutagenesis. In physical mutagenesis, the organism exposed for UV light for 25 minutes showed maximum antioxidant production with an IC50 of 133. 55µg/mL. This mutant strain was then subjected for chemical mutagenesis with the addition of different concentrations of Ethidium bromide such as 10µL, 20µL, 30µL, 40µL and 50µL. The mutant strain obtained with the addition of 20µL Ethidium bromide (EtBr) showed significant antioxidant activity with an IC50 of 325. 4µg/mL. The sample was purified by solvent extraction method and was evaluated for antioxidant production. The analyte was subjected to HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography) analysis to avince the presence of antioxidants. The ethyl acetate extract showed the total phenolic content of 0.892 mg GAE/g of dry extract. It also showed the total flavonoid content of 0.522mg RE/g of dry extract.
Hydrogen-bonding chain and dimer motifs in pyridinium and morpholinium hydrogen oxalate salts

Three compounds consisting of pyridinium or morpholinium hydrogen oxalates each display different hydrogen oxalate hydrogen-bonding motifs, resulting in chains for 4-(dimethylamino)pyridinium hydrogen oxalate 0.22-hydrate, dimers for 4-tert-butylpyridinium hydrogen oxalate and chains for morpholinium hydrogen oxalate.
Electronic structure of two isostructural ‘paddle-wheel’ complexes: a comparative study

The experimental electron-density distribution in two isostructural complexes, tetrakis(μ2-acetato)diaquadicopper(II) [H2OCu(ac)2Cu(ac)2H2O] and tetrakis(μ2-acetato)diaquadichromium(II) [H2OCr(ac)2Cr(ac)2H2O], has been studied and compared.
Thismiasumatrana (Thismiaceae), a new species from West Sumatra, Indonesia, with discussions on the taxonomic identity of Thismiaclavigera

Abstract A new species of the mycoheterotrophic genus Thismia Griff. (Thismiaceae), Thismiasumatrana Suetsugu & Tsukaya, from West Sumatra, Indonesia, is described, based on a rehydrated herbarium specimen from National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan. Thismiasumatrana is closely related to T.clavigera (Becc.) F.Muell. but is distinguished by a much larger flower.
Sexual dimorphism in developmental and diet‐dependent circulating retinol binding protein 4

Retinol binding protein 4 (RBP4) transports vitamin A (Retinol) in the blood and contributes mechanistically to the linkage between obesity, insulin resistance and associated comorbidities including type 2 diabetes mellitus, coronary artery and neoplastic diseases. Circulating RBP4 levels have variably been associated with body mass and gender differences. Many of these differences have been demonstrated after limited dietary interventions, and/or at single unique time points. This study investigated the impact of sex and age as biologic variables as well as high versus low fat diets on development of obesity, RBP4 levels and insulin resistance in C57BL/6J mice.
Apalutamide in the treatment of castrate-resistant prostate cancer: evidence from clinical trials

Apalutamide (ARN-509) is a second-generation androgen receptor (AR) antagonist that was developed to inhibit AR-mediated prostate cancer cell proliferation. Following the initial promising clinical efficacy results in phase I and II clinical trials of patients with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), apalutamide has been investigated in several phase III trials. Particular interest has focused on the development of effective therapy for the prevention of disease progression in patients with nonmetastatic (nm or M0) CRPC, especially patients who have a rapid prostate-specific antigen (PSA) doubling time that is indicative of shorter bone metastasis-free survival and associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The results from the phase III SPARTAN trial were recently published and reported a significant benefit of apalutamide relative to placebo in patients with nmCRPC and a high risk of metastatic progression. The study noted marked improvement in the primary endpoint of metastasis-free survival as well as several relevant secondary clinical endpoints, including time to symptomatic progression. These results led to the United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) approval of apalutamide in the nmCRPC setting in February 2018. This review summarizes the clinical development of apalutamide, culminating with the pivotal SPARTAN trial as well as other phase III trials which may further expand potential indications for this agent in the near future.
Work, Age, and Flow 1 Work, Age, and Flow: An exploration of the relationship between different work aspects, health- and age-related aspects, and flow Abstract Since work flow can contribute to optimalizing employability and productivity of employees, this

Since work flow can contribute to optimalizing employability and productivity of employees, this present article aims at investigating which personal and work-related aspects contribute to flow at work (i.e. absorption, work enjoyment, and intrinsic work motivation). On the basis of the literature it was hypothesized that the relationship between job demands, job control, or job resources and flow was mediated by physical workload, physical work capacity, or perception of ageing. The hypotheses were tested on a sample of 103 employees. Results of the hierarchical regression analyses only supported the hypotheses regarding job resources. Flow is positively affected by job resources and this relationship is mediated by physical work capacity and by perception of ageing. This finding indicates the importance of job resources in reaching a state of flow and therefore it is recommended to managers to pay attention to this specific work-related aspect.
Using Various Nonlinear Response Surfaces for Mathematical Description of the Type of Combined Toxicity

The article considers the problem of characterizing the type of combined action produced by a mixture of toxic substances with the help of nonlinear response functions. Most attention is given to second-order models: the linear model with a cross-term and the quadratic model. General propositions are formulated based on the data on combined toxicity patterns previously obtained by the Ekaterinburg nanotoxicology team in animal experiments and analyzed with the help of the linear model with a cross-term. It is shown now that the quadratic model features these general characteristics in full measure, but interpretation of combined toxicity types based on isobolograms obtained by the quadratic model is more difficult. This suggests that where both models ensure a comparable quality of combined toxicity type identification, it would be enough to use the linear model with a cross-term.
The Description of Mixing in Stratified Layers without Shear in Large-Scale Ocean Models

Abstract Large-scale geophysical flows often exhibit layers with negligible vertical shear and infinite gradient Richardson number Ri. It is well known that these layers may be regions of active mixing, even in the absence of local shear production of turbulence because, among other processes, turbulence may be supplied by vertical turbulent transport from neighboring regions. This observation is contrasted by the behavior of most turbulence parameterizations used in ocean climate modeling, predicting the collapse of mixing of mass and matter if the Richardson number exceeds a critical threshold. Here, the performance of a simple model without critical Richardson number is evaluated, taking into account the diffusion of turbulence into layers without shear production and therefore avoiding the suppression of mixing at large values of Ri. The model is based on the framework of second-moment turbulence closures, focusing on the consistent modeling of the turbulent length scale for strongly stratified turbul.
NOTAS SOBRE O PASSADO COMPOSTO EM PORTUGUÊS

Neste texto, trato do preterito (ou passado) composto do portugues, e procuro dar conta de alguns valores que o distinguem, no paradigma de conjugacao. A diferenca do infinitivo pessoal e do subjuntivo futuro, o PASSADO COMPOSTO existe em todas as linguas românicas que conheco; sua singularidade em relacao a essas outras linguas, nao diz respeito a forma, mas ao sentido; por conseguinte, este texto tera um enfoque semântico e tentara expor alguns dos problemas que encontrei, ao tentar propor para esse tempo composto uma definicao semântica mais rigorosa. Abstract This paper deals with the PASSADO COMPOSTO in Brazilian Portuguese, aiming at characterizing the semantic values that distinguish it from other verbal tenses. Different from the personal infinitive and subjunctive future, the PASSADO COMPOSTO exists in all romance languages; its singularity in BP with respect to other romance languages does not concern its form, but rather its meaning. Thus, this paper will focus on its semantic idiosyncrasy and will expose some of the problems found in the search for a more rigorous semantic treatment of such a composed tense.
PILOT STUDY ON THE RETRIEVAL OF DBH AND DIAMETER DISTRIBUTION OF DECIDUOUS FOREST STANDS USING CAST SHADOWS IN UAV-BASED ORTHOMOSAICS

Abstract. One fundamental metric to characterize trees and forest stands is the diameter at breast height (DBH). However, the vertical geometry of tree stems hampers a direct measurement by means of orthographic aerial imagery. Nevertheless, the DBH in deciduous forest stands could be measured from UAV-based imagery using the width of a stem´s cast shadow projected on the ground. Here, we compare in-situ measured DBH of 100 trees with the DBH visually interpreted from cast-shadows derived in UAV-based aerial imagery. Then, based on simulated datasets, we determine suitable DBH sampling sizes for a robust and efficient retrieval of stand diameter distributions. The UAV-based DBH estimation resulted in an r2 of 0.74, RMSE of 7.61 cm, NRMSE of 12.8 % and approximately unbiased results. According to our simulations it can be assumed that a sample size of 25–50 individual DBH measurements per forest stand allows estimating reliable diameter distributions. The presented pilot study gives a first insight on the potential of such an approach for operational assessments of diameter distribution in deciduous forest stands and might be particularly interesting for stands in difficult terrain situations. The presented approach can be extended to estimate the basal area, timber stock or biomass.
STABILIZED FINITE ELEMENT SOLUTION TO HANDLE COMPLEX HEAT AND TURBULENT FLOWS IN INDUSTRIAL FURNACES

The development of efficient methods to understand and simulate conjugate heat transfer for multicomponents systems is one of the most engineering challenges and still a need for industrials, especially in the case of the heat treatment of hig h-alloy steel by a continuously heating process ins ide industrial furnaces (see figure 1). The thermal his tory of the load and the temperature distribution i n the furnace are critical for the final microstructu re and the mechanical properties of the treated workpieces and can directly determined their final quality in terms of hardness, toughness and resistance. In this paper, a heat treatment furnace simulated using Computational Fluid Dynamics is presented. CFD simulation provides a useful tool to predict the temperature evolution in the furnace and within the walls and the support grid. The mode l consists of turbulent flow, thermal radiation and conjugate heat transfer. A 3D stabilized finite ele ment methods is developed and used to solve the conjugate heat problem. An immersed volume method (IVM) is applied to heat and treat the fluidsolid interactions. Temperature measurements were carried in different location and are compared to the experimental results .
The Opportunities and Challenges Associated With M-Government as an E-Government Platform in KSA: A Literature Review

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the opportunities and challenges that are associated with the mobile government as a platform of an e-government within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This aim is achieved through content analysis of the various scholarly studies that were previously conducted in the area. A wide review of the literature has indicated that there are a good number of studies that have attempted to tackle the issue of m-government with its opportunities and challenges. However, it has been established that most of these studies have treated m-government as staged process that only builds on the available e-government infrastructure. This view has led to the narrow approach to m-government and lack of a comprehensive framework that could guide its implementation. Many opportunities that are posed by m-government have been suggested and assessed as it is the case for challenges that face the platform. Despite these opportunities, the uptake of m-government has been derailed by the poor readiness of the stakeholders and the low level of accessibility. Among the challenges identified encompass security and privacy matters, usability related issues, and speed of download and bandwidth.
Orchestrated Synergism: The Nurse-Leader as Facilitator in Collaborative Caring

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------x CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY------------------------------------------------------------------------1 Rationale for the Study ------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 Background of Collaboration in Nursing ----------------------------------------------------------3 J>roblem Statement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6 Research Question --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6 Significance of the Study -----------------------------------------------------------------------------7 Definitions of Terms ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------8 Summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8 CHAPTER TWO RE~W OF THE RELATED LITERATURE------------------------------------------------------------10 Introduction ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10 Caring-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------11 Collaboration --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------15 Leadership --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------20 Coil1Illuni cation -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------21 Knowing the J>atient ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------28