Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Teacher Perceptions of the Integration of Laptop Computers in Their High School Biology Classrooms

Studies indicate that teachers, and in particular science teachers in the senior high school grades, do not integrate laptop computers into their instruction to the extent anticipated by researchers. This technology has not spread easily to other teachers even with improved access to hardware and software, increased support, and a paradigm shift from teacher-centred to student-centred education. Although a number of studies have focused on the issues and problems related to the integration of laptops in classroom instruction, these studies, largely quantitative in nature, have tended to bypass the role teachers play in integrating laptop computers into their instruction. This thesis documents and describes the role of Ontario high school science teachers in the integration of laptop computers in the classroom. Ten teachers who have successfully integrated laptop computers into their biology courses participated in this descriptive study. Their perceptions of implementing laptops into their biology courses, key factors about the implementation process, and how the implementation was accomplished are examined. The study also identifies the conditions which they feel would allow this innovation to be implemented by other teachers. Key findings of the study indicate that teachers must initiate, implement and sustain an emergent and still evolving innovation; teacher perceptions change and continue to change with increased experience using laptops in the science classroom; changes in teaching approaches are significant as a result of the introduction of laptop technology; and, the teachers considered the acquisition
Oral health practices and awareness among patients attending the department of periodontics at J.K.K.N dental college and hospital, Komarapalayam.

Aims & objectives: Oral health is considered to be less important than general health in India. The awareness and knowledge about oral hygiene practices is poor among the public and it is neglected by them. This lack in knowledge about the oral hygiene may lead to oral diseases mainly periodontitis. Smoking and alcohol has an ill-effect on both oral and general health and the patients are not aware of the ill-effects smoking. So our aim was to create an awareness about the oral hygiene practices among the patients attending the department of periodontics at J.K. K.N dental college and hospital, Komarapalayam. Materials and methods: 450 patients were selected using a simple random sampling technique. A self ‑ constructed 17 ‑ item close ‑ ended questionnaire was distributed to all subjects above 18 years. The results were analysed using percentage. Results: The result showed a fair knowledge about the oral hygiene practices and awareness about the ill-effects of smoking and alcohol among the people in Komarapalayam. Conclusion: We conclude that there is a need for motivating and educating the patients about the oral hygiene practices to prevent the oral diseases especially periodontitis.
The Poetic Home: Designing the 19th-Century Domestic Interior

confinement, and they refused to intervene in cases of domestic abuse of wives certified insane. In the final two chapters, Ward takes up Shirley and Villette, respectively. Shirley, he argues, is imbued with a Burkean sense of the proper governance of a familial national polity through paternalistic charity, and an indictment of failed magistracies—those of the local landed elite and the Church of England. When the novel’s heroine, Shirley, refers to herself as “esquire” and inherits the duties of the magistrate to alleviate suffering, the novel subversively plants in the reader’s mind the concept of female paternalism. Ward concludes, “The strategy is feminist, even if the author was not” (118). If Shirley is Charlotte’s most public novel, Villette is her most personal literary testament. With an untrustworthy narrator like Lucy Snowe, the testamentary novel is particularly valuable to the law student for its hermeneutic insights: truth is contingent, texts are assailable, and law is susceptible to interpretive dilemmas. In other words, while Villette remains silent on the subjects of law and politics, it is structured in a way that destabilizes legal formalism (the position that law is inherently rational and unadulterated by interpretation), for it empowers the reader—and, importantly, the law student—to question the integrity of the text. Law and the Brontës provides a focused and engrossing socio-legal contextualization of the Brontë sisters’ novels, assigning them a new relevance within the field of law and literature. Ward’s analysis of these well-known novels demonstrates the now-familiar maxim of that field: that literature contains ethical and pedagogical promise—an insight that might not be new to the Brontë lovers among us, but that always bears repeating.
Grandma and Grandpa Taking Care of the Kids: Patterns of Involvement. Child Trends Research Brief.

Overview Over the last decade, considerable media attention and public discussion have focused on the varied roles that grandparents play in family life. Much of this public attention has centered on grandparents who assume parental responsibilities for their grandchildren.1 Similarly, grandparents are recognized for the active but temporary roles they assume during times of crisis or special need, such as in cases of a parental divorce or military deployment.2 Yet child care provided in such contexts constitutes only a small proportion of all child care assistance provided by grandparents. The more typical pattern is for grandparents to baby-sit over the weekend or during the evening, look after grandchildren when parents are at work, or take care of grandkids under other, more routine, circumstances.
Evaluation of the Knowledge of General Dental Practitioners in Tabriz about the Implant Treatment Planning

Introduction: Based on available evidence, demand for dental implants is on the rise in Iran similar to that in other countries. Therefore, it seems it is necessary to promote the knowledge and performance of dentists in this respect. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the knowledge of general dental practitioners in Iran about the implant treatment planning. Materials and methods: In the present cross-sectional survey, 272 general dental practitioners in Tabriz were evaluated. Data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity and reliability had been confirmed. Data were analyzed with descriptive and analytical statistical methods using SPSS 21. Results: The results showed a mean knowledge score of 19.4 in relation to dental implant treatment planning among general dental practitioners in Tabriz; 1.1% of dentists had low knowledge level, 79% had moderate knowledge level and 19.9% had good knowledge level. Analysis of data showed a significant relationship between the dentists’ knowledge level and job experience, gender and a history of participation in continuous education programs. Conclusion: On the whole, the general dental practitioners in Tabriz had a moderate level of knowledge about dental implant treatment planning. Keywords: Implant; Knowledge; Dentists; Tabriz
Changing the Traditional High School Photography Curriculum: Integrating Traditional and Digital Technologies

This thesis presents a photography curriculum for a beginning high school level photography class. It is designed as a teaching guide to structure a photography class that incorporates both film photography and digital photographic technology. One of the biggest challenges for teachers of photography is how to structure a curriculum with a limited number of enlargers and space in the darkroom, while incorporating digital technology with limited computer access for students. The curriculum presented here includes three major parts: a traditional photographic film component, a digital photography component, and a concepts component where students will experiment with different photographic techniques of manipulation as well as tackle photographic history, criticism, and visual
Cross-check of Analysis Modules and Reasoner Interactions

This deliverable presents an extended set of Analysis Modules, including both the improvements done to those presented in deliverable D4.1 as well as the new analysis algorithms designed and developed to address use-cases. The deliverable also describes a complete workflow descrip on for the different use-cases, including both stream processing for realme monitoring applica ons as well as batch processing for “off-line” analysis. This workflow descrip on specifies the itera ve interac on loop between WP2, WP3, T4.1, and T4.2, thereby allowing for a cross-checking of the analysis modules and the reasoner interac ons.
Computer aided diagnosis of lung ground glass opacity nodules and large lung cancers in CT

Diagnosis of lung nodules and cancers is a critical and urgent problem in clinical diagnosis. This thesis is to design and build a computer aided lung ground glass opacity (GGO) nodules and large lung cancers diagnosis system which aims to quantify the volumetric change of the lung GGO nodules and large lung cancers between the pre-treatment and post-treatment. In order to quantify the volumetric change of the lung nodules and cancers over time, we need segmentation and registration methods to determine the same lung nodule or cancer between the pre-treatment and posttreatment, as well as lung nodules and cancers detection and segmentation methods. For the registration method, segmented pulmonary tubular objects will act as landmarks. We extract the centerlines of 3D tubular objects using improved ridge-based methods for tubular objects segmentation with fully automatic detection of bifurcation points. The detection of bifurcation points ensures the continuity of the centerlines of the tubular objects. Since medical images contain anatomical structures of various shapes, we first perform a pre-selection method to identify the region containing the tubular objects and extract the centerlines of tubular objects by applying intensity ridge tracing method. These steps are based on the eigenanalysis of the Hessian matrix, which provides an estimation of the elongated direction of tubular objects as well as cross-sectional planes orthogonal to tubular objects. While tracing tubular objects, bifurcation points are automatically detected from the cross-sectional planes by applying scan-conversion method or Adaboost algorithm with specially designed steerable filters. For the registration method, we develop a 3D-3D model based rigid registration method based on bifurcation points. We first perform the 3D tubular objects segmentation method to extract the centerlines of tubular organs and radius estimation in both planning and respiration-correlated CT (RCCT) images. This segmentation method automatically detects the bifurcation points by applying Adaboost algorithm with specially designed filters. We then apply a rigid registration method which minimizes the least square error of the corresponding bifurcation points between the planning CT images and the respiration-correlated CT images. For the lung GGO nodules and large lung cancers detection and segmentation, we propose a novel method to automatically detect and segment lung GGO nodules and large lung cancers from chest CT images. For lung GGO nodules detection, we develop a classifier by boosting k-Nearest Neighbor, whose distance measure is the Euclidean distance between the nonparametric density estimates of two regions. We then apply a clustering method to detect the regions of the lung GGO nodules. The detected regions of lung GGO nodules are then automatically segmented by analyzing the 3D texture likelihood map of the region. We also present the statistical validation of the proposed classifier for automatic lung GGO nodules (10 datasets contains 10 GGO nodules)…
Graph based image segmentation

Image segmentation refers to a process of dividing the image into disjoint regions that were meaningful. This process is fundamental in computer vision in that many applications, such as image retrieval, visual summary, image based modeling, and so on, can essentially benefit from it. This process is also challenging because the segmentation is usually subjective and the computation is highly costly. This book develops in turn the prior model for the pairwise graph approaches which is defined from multiple cues, a hyper graph based method which models multiple wise relations among the data points, and a tree structured graph based method which leads to an efficient and effective solution to the normalized cuts criterion. These approaches are demonstrated in multiple view, interactive and automatic image segmentation problems. This book is suitable for students and researchers in image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning.
WHAT WORKS FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF OBESITY AMONG CHILDREN: Lessons from Experimental Evaluations of Programs and Interventions

Childhood obesity has become a major health problem. 1 Approximately 17 percent of U.S. children six to 17 years of age are obese—that is, their sex-and-age-specific Body Mass Index (BMI) is at or above the 95 th percentile. 2 This proportion is two-and-a-half times higher than it was 25 years ago. Obesity during childhood often carries into adulthood, 3, 4 when it is associated with a wide range of health problems, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, several types of cancer, osteoarthritis, and premature death. 5
Prophylactic Effect of Ondansetron for Intrathecal Fentanyl-Induced Pruritus

Article history: Received: 2 July 2012 Accepted: 16 Sep 2012 Available online: 6 Apr 2013 ZJRMS 2014; 16(1): 8-12 Background: Using opioids along with local analgesic increase anesthesia duration and provide appropriate postoperative analgesia. However, intrathecal injection of opioids is associated with upsetting side effects including pruritus. Ondansetron (5-HT3 receptor agonist) has anti-pruritus effects. Therefore, we conducted a double blind randomized case-control study to evaluate prophylactic effects of ondansetron for preventing intrathecal fentanyl-induced pruritus. Materials and Methods: Two hundred seven patients with ASA status I, II or III, who were candidate for pelvic or lower extremity surgery with spinal anesthesia (SA) using bupivacaine hyperbaric (10-15 mg) and fentanyl (25 μg) were included in the study. Patients were randomly assigned to two groups of case (ondansetron 8 mg IV) and control (4 ml normal saline IV). Patients’ hemodynamic indexes and side effects were evaluated at 5, 10, 30, 60 minutes and then hourly up to 6 hours after SA. Pruritus presence, degree, and site were evaluated after two and six hours. Data were analyzed using KolmogorovSmirnov test, student t-test, Mann–Whitney U, χPP, Fisher exact test, and Spearman linear correlation coefficient. Results: The pruritus incidence was 60% in control and 34% in case group. Severe pruritus was observed in 18% of control group and 6% of case group. Ninety four percent of patients with pruritus in control group expressed it in above TR6R dermatomes and 74% of patients with pruritus in case group had pruritus in TR6R-LR1R dermatomes. The incidence of pruritus in LR1R-lower dermatomes was similar in two groups. Headache and nausea after anesthesia were more common in control group (p=0.035). Conclusion: Ondansetron decrease incidence and degree of intrathecal fentanyl-induced pruritus. This reduction was more significant around injection area TR6R-LR1R dermatomes. Ondansetron injection does not influence systolic blood pressure, duration of anesthesia and analgesia, and does not induced urinary retention and back pain. Copyright © 2014 Zahedan University of Medical Sciences. All rights reserved.
Health Care Among Low-income, White, Working-age Males in a Safety Net Health Care Network: Access and Utilization Patterns

This study seeks to provide information relevant to public policy that will lead to increased access and utilization among this vulnerable population and to reinforce the validity of the behavioral model for vulnerable populations. This study is a secondary analysis of data collected in a study that examined adult, working-aged patients within the John Peter Smith Health Network, which is a large, urban, tax supported county health care system in Fort Worth, Texas. From a sampling frame of 10,000 patients, the study analyzed data for 243 low-income, white, working-age males, collected from computer assisted telephone interviews in 2000. Cross-tabulations and bivariate logistic regressions were used to analyze the effect of 8 independent variables (age, marital status, insurance, employment status, a usual source of care, competing needs, experiences with paperwork, and perceived health status upon 5 dependent variables pertaining to unmet health care, unmet prescription medicine needs, unmet dental needs, utilization of doctors in emergency departments, and overnight hospital stays. The results show the safety net system is failing to meet the needs of this vulnerable population. The findings indicate white men who found it necessary to forgo health care due to other needs were almost five (4.973) times as likely as those who did not find it necessary to forgo care due to other needs, to report having a problem getting the health care that they need (p = ≤ .001). The odds of having a problem getting needed dental care are about 66% lower for white men who have private insurance through work compared to those who do not have private insurance through work (p ≤ .05).
PHARMACOKINETIC PARAMETERS DETERMINATION OF GENDARUSIN A IN MEN SUBJECT URINE AFTER ADMINISTRATION OF ETHANOL EXTRACT OF Justicia gendarussa Burm. f. LEAF (ETHNO MEDICINE RESEARCH)

Justicia gendarussa Burm. f (Famili: Acanthaceae) has flavonoid that inhibits hyaluronidase enzyme of spermatozoa in the fertilization process. Previous research reported that the major component of J.gendarussa was 6,8-di-L-arabinopyranosil- 4’,5,7-trihydroxy flavones or 6,8-diarabinosylapigenin (gendarusin A). Objective: This experimental study has been carried out to determine the pharmacokinetic parameters of gendarusin A in human urine after single oral administration of J.gendarussa extract. Methods: Six healthy men were enlisted in this study. Urine samples were collected at intervals for 24 hours before and after six healthy volunteers administrated orally 100 ml ethanol extract suspension of J. gendarussa leaves, containing 1 g of extract equal to 16,4 mg gendarusin A, for the measurement of gendarusin A by HPLC. Result: The calibration curve of gendarusin A peak areas (y) against the concentrations (x, μg/ml) in urine was linear and the regression equations was y = 34.3496x + 63.6315 (r = 0.9992). The lowest absolute recovery was 106.10 %, while the lowest assay recovery was 81.92 %, which revealed that the accuracy of the method was satisfied. All values of the R.S. D. of intra-day precision were less than 8,12 %. The LOD and LOQ of assaying gendarusin A in urine was 0.0817 μg/ml and 0.2724 μg/ml, respectively. Conclusion: Following oral administration of J.gendarussa extract suspension, the result show that the elimination half-lives (t ½) for gendarusin A in the urinary excretion were 2,44 – 8,53 hours (mean 4,44 ± 2,14 hours) and the rates constant of elimination (K el ) were 0,08 – 0,28 hour -1 (mean 0,18 ± 0,07 hour -1 ).
A Rhetorical Approach to the Literary Essay: Pedagogical Implications

The teaching of the literary essay is usually ignored in many universities due to its probing and inconclusive form which has not favoured the existence of models of analysis. However, the argumentative nature of this discourse can be examined through a reading that allows the recognition of some rhetorical operations like the invention of arguments (inuentio), their arrangement (dispositio) and expressive manifestation (elocutio). This article proposes a model of analysis following this rhetorical approach. In particular, I apply this analysis to a short essay by Virginia Woolf, ‘Royalty’. Woolf has been considered a major writer of the twentieth century. Although the style of her novels has been extensively researched from diverse perspectives, the style of her essays has not received much critical attention. Throughout my study, I indicate how the recognition and interpretation of arguments and rhetorical figures can help to define the style of this essay. Furthermore, I provide some guidelines for the identification and further interpretation of these rhetorical elements. Both the analysis and the guidelines can be useful in the literature and composition classes.
The Gender and Access to Health Services Study: Final Report

Men and women frequently think and behave differently. To observe this is not to suggest anything so absurdly simple as that there are only male and female ways of being; behaviours and thought processes vary according to numerous other factors besides gender. That this is very generally the case however, does mean that there are broad - and often broadly predictable - differences in the way men and women engage with the world. Most commercial organisations understand this very well and plan accordingly. Many public authorities recognise it too and take these differences into account when developing and providing services. For historical reasons however the NHS has rarely done so. It is widely known that there are differences between men and women in the incidence and prevalence of most health conditions. Sometimes there are clear biological reasons for these differences but often there are not. Where biology offers little or no enlightenment, other questions need to be asked: · Do men and women behave in ways that predispose them to particular health conditions to different degrees? · Do men and women use health services with different degrees of effectiveness? · Do men and women receive differerent kinds of service from the NHS? The answer is – yes, these things happen frequently. This is sometimes to the disadvantage of one sex and sometimes to the disadvantage of the other. Sometimes it is to the disadvantage of both. And when these things happen, health outcomes are often affected. This report looks at the reasons why gender is such an important and fundamental determinant of health status and considers the ways in which gender inequalities can be tackled within the present legislative and policy framework. It also brings together the knowledge and evidence in relation to six specific areas of health concerns.
Blended learning and curriculum renewal across three medical schools: The rheumatology module at the University of Otago

In response to the challenges created by the implementation of a new medical school curriculum at the University of Otago in 2008, we aimed to develop a blended learning course for teaching rheumatology within the existing musculoskeletal course. We developed a multimedia online learning resource structured to support class based problem-based learning (PBL) sessions, and enhance student engagement and promote clinical reasoning. We also aimed to align teaching over three geographically separate campuses, promote more student-centred approaches to learning and meet the challenge of the limited teaching time available for undergraduate learning in the field of rheumatology. Our redesigned course was evaluated longitudinally over eighteen months through student focus groups, Blackboard and Moodle electronic access data, and course evaluation questionnaires. The data collected indicated an overwhelmingly positive response to the changes in teaching methods. Online materials integrated into the new curriculum and combined with in-class PBL and clinical sessions, proved popular with students. Students accessed the newly developed online materials far more frequently than the previously available unstructured content, which they felt to be of limited value or relevance to their studies. Furthermore the blended learning approach allowed delivery of common content across three separate campuses.