Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impact of Breadth and Depth of Lexical Knowledge on Iranian Advanced/Intermediate EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension: The Case of Gender and Proficiency

The current study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between the breadth and the depth of lexical knowledge and reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners. The current study also tries to find the effect of gender and language proficiency level of learners on the breadth and the depth of lexical knowledge and reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners. The participants of the study were fifty-two intermediate and advanced level in males and females majoring in English Translation at Pazhuhesh University of Isfahan. The level of language proficiency of participants had been checked through an OPT by the university in advance. Data collection was carried out in two sessions. In the first session, two vocabulary knowledge tests, that is, the breadth and the depth were administered to the participants. In the second session, the reading comprehension test was administered to the participants. The results of the data analysis revealed that there is a significant relationship between breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge and Iranian advanced/intermediate EFL learner’s reading comprehension performance totally. The results further showed that gender and language proficiency level of learners have an effect on Iranian EFL learners’ reading performance and vocabulary knowledge. The findings can have implications for EFL learners, teachers and material developers.
Mechanistic impact of medicinal plants affecting cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity; an overview

Cisplatin is a powerful chemotherapy drug that is administered to treat a wide range of cancers. However, its clinical use is limited due to kidney damage and the reduction in glomerular filtration rate that occurs in 15% to 30% of patients. Several mechanisms lead to renal dysfunction after cisplatin administration, including direct damage to proximal tubular epithelial cells that causes necrosis and apoptosis. Cisplatin administration is accompanied by the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which causes lipid peroxidation, proteins and nucleic acids oxidation, cell membrane degradation, and finally reduction in glomerular filtration. The most prominent effect of cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity (CIN), which can be progressive, is hypomagnesemia, Fanconi syndrome and anemia. Cisplatin nephrotoxicity is more prominent in individuals who received higher doses of this drug, or in patients who had previous chemotherapy regimen and presence of renal dysfunction. This paper is sought to describe cisplatin nephrotoxicity and the protective role of medicinal plants in preventing the renal toxicity. In this regard, the role of antioxidants will be specifically addressed.
The nutritional management of short bowel syndrome in a very low-birthweight neonate

Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is the most common gastrointestinal disease in preterm neonates. 1 The aetiology of NEC remains poorly understood. Proposed preventive strategies include the provision of breast milk as an enteral feed, monitoring the advancement of feeds and modulating the gut microbiome by providing probiotics. 1,2 Some patients who present with NEC require surgical intervention for the resection of a necrotic bowel which may result in short bowel syndrome (SBS). SBS may also result from congenital defects or disease-associated loss of absorption, and is characterised by the inability to maintain protein, energy, fluid, electrolyte or micronutrient balance when on a conventionally accepted, normal diet. 3 The clinical course and nutritional management of a preterm infant with SBS is described in this case study. New developments in the prevention of NEC are briefly discussed. Relevant evidence with regard to nutritional management is reviewed, and practical aspects of the management discussed.
MEDICINAL PLANTS: AS RESERVOIR OF ANTI- HIV COMPOUNDS FOR HIV/AIDS TREATMENT

According to British medical journal, there are approximately 1.4-1.6 million population with HIV/AIDS. But since last 10 years India has noticed 50% decline in prevalence of HIV/AIDS because of Anti-retroviral therapy. However, resistance of HIV virus to this therapy has also been noticed. In urge to an alternative to this therapy, some medicinal plants were found to have anti-HIV compounds in them. Baicalein and baicalin from Scutellaria baicalensis were compounds to have potential anti-HIV activity same as other potential compounds . In order to have detailed study on these natural compounds molecular modelling methods have also been utilized viz. Computer assisted drug design(CADD) by QSAR methods, docking(indirect & direct design) etc.
A Successive Linear Programming Approach to IMRT Optimization Problem

We propose to solve the IMRT optimization problem through a successive linear programming approach. Taking advantage of the sensitivity information in linear programming and the re-optimization ability of simplex methods, the proposed approach provides an affordable methodology to efficiently solve problems with dose-volume constraints. Preliminary computational results indicate that, compared to the standard weighted least squares approach, the new approach leads to higher tumor dosage escalation and better conformation.
Better Static Memory Management: Improving Region-Based

Static memory management replaces runtime garbage collection with compile-time annotations making all memory allocations and deallocations explicit in a program. We improve upon the Tofte/Talpin region-based scheme for compile time memory management. In the Tofte/Talpin approach, all values, including closures, are stored in regions. Region lifetimes coincide with lexical scope, thus forming a runtime stack of regions and eliminating the need for garbage collection. We relax the requirement that region lifetimes be lexical. Rather, regions are allocated late and deallocated as early as possible by explicit memory operations. The determination of where allocate and deallocate annotations are placed is made by solving a system of constraints that expresses all possible annotations. Experiments show that our approach reduces memory requirements significantly, in some cases asymptotically.
Leches de crecimiento en la alimentación infantil

Title: Unweaned milk formula in a childhood diet After an initial period of exclusive milk feeding, in the infants’ diet we start introducing other food. Scientific associations recommend not introducing whole cow’s milk before the age of 12 months. In infants younger than 6 months of age who cannot receive breast milk should ingest infant formula and those older than 6 months a follow-up formula. Although differences between both have been reduced along time, follow-up formulas contain a higher amount of protein as well as iron than follow-up formula. The European Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatolgy, and Nutrition (ESPGHAN), points out that there are no problems in receiving whole milk after one year. However during the last years different modified milks for children of under a year have appeared. Differently from the other formulas there is no specific legislation on their composition, what has given rise to big differences in the composition of the “un weaned milk formula”. Most of them resemble follow-on formula while in others there are modifications in their fat composition. Some of them decrease the total amount; some of them replace saturated fat with monounsaturated fatty acids or add long chain poly-unsaturated fatty acids.
Mutation Frequencies in Endometrial Cancer Patients of Different Ethnicities and Tumor Grades: An Analytical Study

Background: Endometrial carcinoma is a predominant health problem for women worldwide. However, there is a lack of data on genetic mutation frequencies in endometrial cancer patients of different ethnicities and tumor grades. Objective: The objective of this study is to provide data regarding mutation frequencies in endometrial cancer patients of different ethnic groups and tumor grades by analyzing large-scale cancer genomic datasets of a database. Materials and Methods: The following databases of cBioPortal were explored for possible mutation frequency variations in endometrial cancer patients: the Uterine Corpus Endometrial Carcinoma (TCGA, PanCancer Atlas) database for ethnicity-based studies; the Uterine Corpus Endometrial Carcinoma (TCGA, Nature 2013) database for tumor grade-based study; and GDC Data Portal database for calculating survival rates using the Kaplan–Meier method. Results: PTEN mutation frequency was almost identical in all ethnic groups studied (White, Black/African American, Asian, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, and American Indian or Asian Native). PIK3CA and ARID1A mutation frequencies were higher in White and Asian patients compared with other ethnicities; TP53 and FAT1 mutation frequencies were higher in Black/African Americans; and CTNNB1 and RYR2 mutation frequencies were higher Native Hawaiians or Asian Natives. TTN mutation frequency was lower in Asian patients. With regards to mutation frequencies at different tumor stages, in all genes, >50% of the mutations occurred during the first stage, except in TP53 and POLQ. In terms of prognosis in endometrial cancer considering the 10 most frequently mutated genes, PIK3CA and ARID1A mutations were correlated with good prognosis, whereas TP53 and PIK3R1 mutations were correlated with poor prognosis; mutations in all other genes did not show significant differences. Conclusion: This study revealed a new mutation frequency profile for different ethnicities and tumor grades in endometrial cancer patients. However, because this is a retrospective study, future prospective studies should be conducted including large sample sizes and more controlled measurements.
Pediatric nursing: An introductory text

Child health evolution growing children and their families health care adaptations for children and their families the newborn the high risk neonate disorders of the newborn the infant disorders of the infant the toddler disorders of the toddler the preschool child disorders of the preschool child the school age child disorders of the school age child the adolescent disorders of the adolescent.
Available Bandwidth Inference Based On Node- Centric Clusters

AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH INFERENCE BASED ON NODE-CENTRIC CLUSTERS by Seetharam Samptur End-to-End Available Bandwidth (AB) is a real-time network metric that is useful for a wide range of applications including content distribution networks, multimedia streaming applications and overlay networks. In a large network with several thousand nodes, it is infeasible to perform all-pair bandwidth measurements as AB measurements could induce traffic overhead along the path. Also because of its dynamic nature, the measurements have to be performed frequently thus imposing significant probe traffic overhead on the network. In this paper, we discuss a clustering based distributed algorithm to infer the AB between any pair of nodes in a large network based on measurements performed on a subset of end-to-end paths. The algorithm was validated on Planet-Lab and for some nodes, 80% of the inferences were within 50% of the actual value.
Cervicitis and Infertility

ABSTRACT: The cervical factor was evaluated in 52 infertile women with clinical signs of cervicitis. An abnormal postcoital test (PCT) was observed in 62% of the patients. Bacterial cultures from the cervix in these patients did not reveal any abnormal flora that could be held responsible for the abnormal PCT. The occurrence of Chlamydia trachomatis in four patients was comparable with the isolation rate in a general gynecologic out‐patient clientele. Increased levels of antichlamydial antibodies did not correlate with the result of PCT.
Evaluation of Health in Pregnancy grants in Scotland: a natural experiment using routine data

Declared competing interests of authors: The Social and Public Health Sciences Unit is core funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office (CSO). Neither funder had any input into the design, analysis, interpretation of results or conclusions drawn. Ruth Dundas declares grants from the MRC, CSO and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) during the conduct of the study. Alastair Leyland declares grants from MRC, CSO and NIHR during the conduct of the study.
A statistical walk through the IAU MDC database

The IAU MDC database is an important tool for the study of meteor showers. Trough the history, the amount of data in the database for particular showers, and also their extent, varied significantly. Thus, a systematic check of the current database (as of 1 of June, 2014) was performed, and the results are reported and discussed in this paper. The most obvious one is that the database contains showers for which only basic radiant data are available, showers for which a full set of radiant and orbital data is provided, and showers with data span anywhere in between. As a lot of current work on meteor showers involves D-criteria for orbital similarity, this automatically excludes showers without the orbital data from such work. A test run to compare showers only by their radiant data is performed, and was found to be inadequate in testing for shower similarities. A few inconsistencies and typographic errors were found and are shortly described here.
Association of Glutathione–S-Transferase (GSTP1) Genetic Polymorphism in Iraqi Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Type2

Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are enzymes that included, in a more range of detoxifying reactions by conjugation of glutathione, to electrophilic material. Polymorphisms n the genes that responsible of GSTs affect, the function of the GSTs. GSTs play an active role in protection of cell against oxidative stress mechanism. Polymorphisms of GSTP1 at codon 105 amino acids forms GSTP1 important site for bind of hydrophobic electrophiles and the substitution of Ile/Val affect substrate specially catalytic activity of the enzyme and may correlate with reach to different diseases in human like diabetes mellitus type2 disease. Correlation between these polymorphisms and changes in the parameters file of diabetic patients has also been found, therefore, the results variation considerably among the studies; therefore, these control study was designed to leading to detecting know, as there are no studies on this performed in the people of Iraq. The polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism was used to study GSTP1genetic polymorphism in 60 T2DM patients and 50 healthy individuals. Our results showed that presence of the GSTP1 heterozygous mutant allele Ile/Val was more common in subjects with T2DM than in the control group (40.00% and 32.00%, respectively; p = 0.01), as well as the found of the homozygous mutant of GSTP1 allele Val/Val was common in T2DM patient and not found in the control group (3.33% and 0.00%, respectively; p = 0.001). GSTP1 genotypes do not have an effect on blood lipids after infection with diabetes mellitus. Agarose gels used to determined genotypes according to the bands were that appeared in electrophoresis of gel.
A Dissipation-Based Algorithm With Energy Control For Geometrically Nonlinear Elastodynamics Using Eight-Node Finite Elements And One-Point Quadrature

A formulation for the geometrically nonlinear dynamic analysis of elastic structures is presented in this paper. It is well known that the Newmark`s method, which is considered the most popular time-stepping scheme for structural dynamics, exhibits unconditional stability in the case of linear dynamical systems. However, this characteristic is lost in the nonlinear regime owing to the lack of an energy balance within each time step of the integration process. In order to obtain a numerical scheme with energy-conserving and controllable numerical dissipation properties a new algorithm is proposed in this work. The formulation is based on the Generalized-α method, adjusting optimized time integration parameters and the addition of an algorithmic control of the energy balance restriction, which is introduced in the Newton-Raphson iterative process within each time step of the time marching. The Finite Element Method (FEM) is employed in the present model for spatial discretizations using an eight-node hexahedral isoparametric element with one-point quadrature. In order to avoid the excitation of spurious modes an efficient hourglass control technique is used and therefore volumetric locking as well as shear locking are not observed. Some examples are analyzed in order to validate the present algorithm.
Keeping Students in School

This paper examines strategies for the development of programs to prevent students from dropping out of school before graduation. The first set of strategies involves increasing the opportunities for students to succeed in school. This may be accomplished by setting standards that are challenging but within reach of students, by providing students with appropriate support to meet those standards, and by making the school curriculum relevant to the current and future lives of students. The second set of strategies involves increasing the opportunties for students to develop positive relationships in school. Such relationshps may be with adult staff members, with other students, or with the school as an institution.
What it Means to be a Loser: Non-optimal Candidates in Optimality Theory

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A LOSER: NON-OPTIMAL CANDIDATES IN OPTIMALITY THEORY SEPTEMBER 2004 ANDRIES W. COETZEE, B.A., POTCHEFSTROOM UNIVERSITY M.A., POTCHEFSTROOM UNIVERSITY M.A., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor John J. McCarthy In this dissertation I propose a rank-ordering model of EVAL. This model differs from classic OT as follows: In classic OT, EVAL distinguishes the best candidate from the losers, but does not distinguish between different losers. I argue that EVAL imposes a harmonic rank-ordering on the complete candidate set, so that also the losers are ordered relative to each other. I show how this model of EVAL can account for non-categorical phenomena such as variation and phonological processing. Variation. In variation there is more than one pronunciation for a single input. Grammar determines the possible variants and the relative frequency of the variants. I argue that EVAL imposes a harmonic rank-ordering on the entire candidate set, and that language users can access more than the best candidate from this rank-ordering. However, the accessibility of a candidate depends on its position in the rank-ordering. The higher a candidate appears, the more often it will be selected as output. The best candidate is then the most frequent variant, the second best candidate the second most
Prevalence and risk factors of intestinal parasites among Delgi school children, North Gondar, Ethiopia

Giardia lamblia 295 (41.9%), Entamoeba histolytica/dispar 192 (27.3%), Schistosoma mansoni 112 (15.9%), Hookworm 81(11.5%). Of the total positive stool samples 96 (13.6%) were single infection and 466 (66.2%) were mixed infection, from this mixed infections majority of the children had double infection 309 (43.9%). Intestinal parasite prevalence was higher in children with less educated mother, in children who have habit of eating raw/ unwashed vegetables, drinking unprotected well/spring water and who do not have hand washing practice before meal (P< 0.05). In conclusion, Intestinal parasite infection is a health problem among Delgi school children. Therefore, interventions including improvement of sanitation, provision of safe water, and health education on personal hygiene to the students and to their parents should be given.
Correlation of Retinal Nerve Fibre Layer Thinning and Central Subfield Thickness with Type 2 Diabetic Retinopathy on Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography

Purpose: To study the correlation of retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) thinning and central subfield thickness (CST) with severity of type 2 diabetic retinopathy (DR) on spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). Methods: Sixty consecutive cases of type 2 diabetes mellitus were divided into three groups: diabetes without retinopathy (NO DR; n=20), non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR; n=20), and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR; n=20). Twenty healthy controls were included. Visual acuity (VA) was assessed on logMAR scale. Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) was assessed using standard protocol. Average RNFL thickness and CST were measured using SD-OCT. Data was analyzed statistically. Results: Significant decrease in RNFL thickness was observed with increase in severity of DR (F=21.92, p Conclusion: RNFL thinning is associated with progression of diabetic retinopathy, poor glycemic control and increase in CST. RNFL thinning does not contribute significantly to visual impairment in type 2 diabetic retinopathy.
Construction and Application of Conceptual Framework as Research Tool: A Researcher’s Reflections

The importance of any study is demonstrated through the linkages made between research questions and larger theoretical concepts or policy, demonstrating how the particulars of the study serve to illuminate larger issues and, therefore, portraying the significance of the study. This theoretical concept or conceptual framework has the functions of building a foundation of the research; demonstrating how study advances knowledge; conceptualising the study; assessing the research design and instrumentation; and providing reference point for interpretation the findings. This paper outlines the author’s reflections on the building and application of a conceptual framework as a research tool. Author’s aim is to share his experience with researchers, especially students, who may be required to apply the tool but may find difficulty developing one. Using author’s own (PhD) research topic, the paper firstly discusses the various stages that input to construct the framework and, secondly, considers how the choice of research methodology, data collection and analysis techniques are informed by the framework. Key lesson is that a well-constructed conceptual framework has the potential of informing the choice of appropriate research methodology that in turn influences the data collection and analysis techniques, and even the research findings. This paper is expected to be of value to anyone seeking to better understand conceptual framework as a research tool, especially ‘young’ researchers who may be required to develop and apply one but may find it difficult doing so. Key Words: Conceptual framework; literature review; methodology; data collection method; data analysis method