Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Pet-keeping in early life reduces the risk of allergy in a dose-dependent fashion

Objectives Several studies have indicated that early pet keeping could protect the infant from later allergy development. Here, we investigate if there is a dose-dependent association between cat- and dog-keeping during the first year of life and subsequent allergy development. Methods Two cohorts were investigated: a cross-sectional questionnaire-based study of 7- to 8-year-old children (N = 1029) from Mölndal and Kiruna, and a birth-cohort of children from the Västra Götaland county clinically evaluated for asthma and allergy by paediatricians up to the age of 8–9 years (N = 249). The cross-sectional study asked validated questions on asthma and allergy that had been used in two previous studies of children from the same areas. In the birth-cohort study, a diagnosis of asthma and allergy was based on predefined clinical criteria, and laboratory evaluation included blood eosinophils, skin-prick tests and specific immunoglobulin E analyses. Information on pets during first year of life was collected retrospectively in the Cross-Sectional Cohort and prospectively in the Birth Cohort. Results A dose-response association was seen, with less allergic manifestations (any of asthma, allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, or eczema) with increasing number of household cats and dogs during the first year of life. In the Cross-Sectional Cohort, allergy ever decreased from 49% in those with no pets to zero in those with five or more pets (P-value for trend 0.038), and from 32% to zero for allergy last year (P-value for trend 0.006). The same pattern was seen in Birth Cohort. Sensitization to animals, as well as pollens, also decreased with increasing number of animals in the household. Conclusion The prevalence of allergic disease in children aged 7–9 years is reduced in a dose-dependent fashion with the number of household pets living with the child during their first year of life, suggesting a “mini-farm” effect, whereby cats and dogs protect against allergy development.
Osteoraticular Tuberculosis-Brief Review of Clinical Morphological and Therapeutic Profiles

Osteoarticular tuberculosis (OATB) is a rare form of tuberculosis (TB) whose incidence rose significantly nowadays especially in the underdeveloped countries. The main risk factors predisposing to this new challenge for the medical system are the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic, the migration from TB endemic areas and the development of drug and multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mt). The disease affects both genders and any age group although the distribution depending on gender is controversial and that depending on age has a bimodal pattern. In most cases the initial focus is elsewhere in the organism and the most frequent pathway of dissemination is lympho-haematogenous. The clinical picture includes local symptoms as pain, tenderness and limitation of motion, with some particularities depending on the segment of the osteoarticular system involved, sometimes accompanying systemic symptoms specific for TB and other specific clinical signs as cold abscesses and sinuses. The radiographic features are not specific, CT demonstrates abnormalities earlier than plain radiography and MRI is superior to plain radiographs in showing the extent of extraskeletal involvement. Both CT and MRI can be used in patient follow-up to evaluate responses to therapy. TBhas been reported in all bones of the body, the various sites including the spine (most often involved) and extraspinal sites (arthritis, osteomyelitis and tenosynovitis and bursitis). Two basic types of disease patterns could be present: the granular type (most often in adults) and the caseous exudative type (most often in children) one of which being predominant. The algorithm of diagnosis includes several steps of which detection of Mt is the gold standard. The actual treatment is primarily medical, consisting of antituberculosis chemotherapy (ATT), surgical interventions being warranted only for selected cases. It is essential that clinicians know and refresh their knowledge about manifestations of OATB.
Iodine Deficiency, Still a Global Problem?

Iodine Deficiency Disorders are a major public health problem worldwide affecting all groups of people of which children and lactating women are the most vulnerable categories. At a global scale, aproximately 2 billion people suffer of iodine deficiency (ID) of which aproximately 50 million present with clinical manifestations. Assesing iodine levels through different methods has proven to have a key role when discussing treatment options. Screening programs, and early ID diagnostic is important for pregnant women’s follow-up, especially in known countries with iodine dificiency. Universal salt iodization programs have been proposed over the world, but unfortunately have covered about 71% of the world’s population. The aim of this article is to adress the current standings of iodine status and influence on general population with a general focus on newborns and pregnant women and to review the worldwide perspective on available prevention methods.
Acute subdural hematomas in shunted normal-pressure hydrocephalus patients – Management options and literature review: A case-based series

Background: Ventriculoperitoneal shunting (VPS) is considered a risk factor for developing subdural hematomas (SDH). Treating cases of acute SDH (aSDH) in shunted normal-pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) patients can be challenging, and data in this field are scarce. We report our experience treating shunted NPH patients presenting with aSDH. Methods: Eight patients, aged 73 ± 6 years, with a history of VPS for NPH, hospitalized because of aSDH were included in this study. We retrospectively analyzed data regarding patients’ clinical and radiological presentation, hospitalization course, the use of antithrombotics, and response to different treatment regimens. Results: Four patients had pure aSDH, three had acute on chronic SDH, and one had subacute SDH. Patients presented with GCS 13–15 and various neurological signs, mainly confusion and unsteady gate. Two cases improved following resetting of their programmable shunt valve to its maximal pressure setting. Six cases improved after evacuation of the hematomas, five of them were operated a few days after initially resetting of the valve pressure. Three patients were discharged home, whereas five were referred to rehabilitation. Extended Glasgow Outcome Scale scores at discharge and during long-term follow-up were 5 and 7, respectively. Conclusions: Treatment of patients with VPS for NPH, presenting with aSDH, may differ according to the neurological status, imaging, and clinical course. Treatment options include restricting shunt function, hematoma evacuation, or both.
Prevalence of disordered eating attitudes among adolescent girls in Arar City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Eating disorders (ED) are one of the most common psychiatric problems faced by todays adolescent girls where the attitude towards weight and shape as well as their perception of body shape are disturbed. The aim of the paper is to assess the prevalence and associated factors of disordered eating attitudes among adolescent girls of Arar city, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This is a cross-sectional survey design in which 314 adolescents females (age: 15-19 years) were selected from four schools of Arar city, KSA. Subjects were asked to fill pre-tested questionnaire about socioeconomic status, eating habits and Eating attitude test 26 (EAT 26), there height and weight were measured and BMI was calculated. Disturbed eating behaviors (EAT-26>20) was found in 25.47% participants. The prevalence of disordered eating was more in overweight and obese than normal weight. Vegetarian girls had higher EAT 26 score than non - vegetarian and significant difference was found in total EAT 26 score and subgroup namely oral control and dieting score (P<0.01) but non-significant difference was found between Saudi and non-Saudi adolescent girls in different BMI ranges. Eating disorders prevalent in adolescent girls and were strongly associated with weight status and eating habits. Future prospective and experimental studies are warranted to advance our understanding of the risk factors to enable better preventive program planning.
Eyes and Ears Together: New Task for Multimodal Spoken Content Analysis

Human speech processing is often a multimodal process combining audio and visual processing. Eyes and Ears Together proposes two benchmark multimodal speech processing tasks: (1) multimodal automatic speech recognition (ASR) and (2) multimodal co-reference resolution on the spoken multimedia. These tasks are motivated by our desire to address the difficulties of ASR for multimedia spoken content. We review prior work on the integration of multimodal signals into speech processing for multimedia data, introduce a multimedia dataset for our proposed tasks, and outline these tasks.
Transfer Learning for Video Memorability Prediction

This paper summarizes Technicolor’s computational models to predict memorability of videos within the MediaEval 2018 Predicting Media Memorability Task. Our systems are based on deep learning features and architectures, and exploit the use of both semantic and multimodal features. Based on the obtained results, we discuss our findings and some scientific perspectives for the task.
Frame-based Evaluation with Deep Features to Predict Emotional Impact of Movies

In this paper, we describe our approach for the Emotional Impact of Movies Task at the MediaEval 2018 Challenge. Specifically, we employ features extracted from ResNet-50 from image frames. Then, a fully connected neural network is used for learning the prediction models. Later, we applied the Window Sliding Technique for post-processing the results. The experimental results show the effectiveness of our approach.
The contribution of intermediary factors to marital status differences in self-reported health

The aim of this study is to estimate the relative contributions of psychosocial conditions, material circumstances, and health behaviors to differences in physical and mental health by marital status. Data on 3,510 Dutch persons who were part of the GLOBE study, aged 25-74 years, are used. Multiple logistic regression models show that never-married, divorced, and widowed men have higher morbidity rates than married men. For women, the health differences are almost solely due to excess morbidity among divorced women. We found that psychosocial conditions contributed most to the explanation of morbidity differences among men (25%-50%), but material circumstances contributed most among women (50%-100%)
Teaching Mathematics 3 5 Developing Learning In The Foundation Stage

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Analyzing Crime Displacement with a Simulation Approach

Crime tends to cluster in small areas. Police have taken advantage of this by identifying these ‘hotspots' of crime and concentrating their resources in these locations. This practice has shown evidence of reducing crime in the hotspot area. While it is possible that the benefits of such reduction might be diffused to the surrounding areas, one criticism of this practice is that the crime in the hotspot may also be displaced to the surrounding areas. A number of empirical studies have investigated the spatial pattern of crime displacement. However, few have attempted to uncover the mechanisms that lead to the displacement of crime. In this paper we present a theory-driven approach that applies agent-based modeling to simulate the mechanism of crime and policing. The processes that drive possible displacement of crime are investigated through experiments in a computational laboratory—SPACES. Our results reveal that crime cannot be displaced easily because opportunities for crime are limited in low-crime areas and offenders are often attached to the area where they perform their routine activities.
Rethinking particle transport in the many-core era towards GEANT 5

Detector simulation is one of the most CPU intensive tasks in modern High Energy Physics. While its importance for the design of the detector and the estimation of the efficiency is ever increasing, the amount of events that can be simulated is often constrained by the available computing resources. Various kind of “fast simulations” have been developed to alleviate this problem, however, while successful, these are mostly “ad hoc” solutions which do not replace completely the need for detailed simulations. One of the common features of both detailed and fast simulation is the inability of the codes to exploit fully the parallelism which is increasingly offered by the new generations of CPUs. In the next years it is reasonable to expect an increase on one side of the needs for detector simulation, and on the other in the parallelism of the hardware, widening the gap between the needs and the available means. In the past years, and indeed since the beginning of simulation programs, several unsuccessful efforts have been made to exploit the “embarrassing parallelism” of simulation programmes. After a careful study of the problem, and based on a long experience in simulation codes, the authors have concluded that an entirely new approach has to be adopted to exploit parallelism. The paper will review the current prototyping work, encompassing both detailed and fast simulation use cases. Performance studies will be presented, together with a roadmap to develop a new full-fledged transport program efficiently exploiting parallelism for the physics and geometry computations, while adapting the steering mechanisms to accommodate detailed and fast simulation in a single framework.
A synopsis of current malaria diagnosis trends

Malaria has remained a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the under developed and developing countries of the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Globally 3.3 billion people live in areas where malaria exists, affecting 300-500 million people annually and it is estimated to be killing approximately 1-3 million people each year and 90% of these mortalities occur in African children especially in sub Saharan Africa. Currently, although several control methods are beginning to result in downward trends in incidence in some countries, the gross number of malaria cases is still on the increase due to several factors including poor and ineffective diagnosis. Prompt and effective diagnosis is essential for the management and control of malaria. Over the years evidence has shown that traditional methods for diagnosing malaria remain problematic with a number of limitations. In this synoptic review an update of malaria diagnosis is presented and discussed highlighting the limitations and difficulties of both clinical (symptoms/ clinical signs-based) and laboratory (parasite-based) diagnosis of malaria. Enhancement of accurate malaria diagnosis is now
The Role of Error Correction in the Process-Oriented ESL Composition Classroom.

A list of guidelines for error correction in the writing process is presented, as well as a specific classroom applivation of a correction code and error analysis chart. Although developed for Southeast Asian English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students, the code could be modified and applied to any target population. The procedure for using the code provides students with practice gaining control over the language, within the context of their own writing, as the final stage of the writing process. The practice engages students in a problem-solving approach to error, and makes them responsible for their own learning. A brief review of the literature on composition theory is included. Contains 39 references.
Extracting Key Phrases as Predictors of Corporate Bankruptcy: Empirical Analysis of Annual Reports by Text Mining

ABSTRACT: Bankruptcy predictions have been one of the most interesting topics for accounting researchers. Most bankruptcy prediction models are developed by using financial ratios. However, signs of the changing financial position of a company may appear in the nonfinancial information earlier than we can identify the changes in the financial numbers. In recent years, analysis of qualitative information has become remarkably important, because frequent changes in accounting standards have made it difficult to compare financial numbers between years. In this study, we analyzed the sentences in financial reports in Japan and extracted key phrases/descriptions to predict bankruptcy. Our research revealed that if some particular expressions appear together with the word “dividend” or “retained earnings” in the same section of an annual report, they were effective in distinguishing between bankrupt companies and non-bankrupt companies.
EXPERIENCES WITH PROPHYLACTIC TYPHOID VACCINATION: ITS EFFECT ON MENSTRUATION

Prophylactic typhoid vaccination has won for itself a well-deserved place among the great preventive measures in medicine. This advance has been accompanied by a considerable literature on the history of the procedure, the various methods employed and the results obtained. It is not the object of this article to review the literature. The facts are easily accessible, 1 and, in general, well known. During the past two years the vaccine has been used prophylactically at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York, and it is the purpose of the present communication in reporting the results of this experience, to emphasize the facts which have seemed most important and to point out in some detail the especial effect of the vaccine on menstruation. PREVIOUS CONDITIONS Stimulated by the excellent results obtained by this procedure in the United States Army and by Richardson and Spooner in the training schools of Massachusetts, the medical board
EFFECT OF BLENDED E-LEARNING ON PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS: A CASE FOR SUSTAINABLE TEACHER EDUCATION

The study investigated the impact of blended e-learning on pre-service teachers’ achievement in Mathematics. The sample consists of 280 level I pre-service teachers in school of sciences of Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education Owerri. The quasi-experimental research design adopting the pre-test, post-test non-equivalent type was used in carrying out the study. A researcher made objective test questions titled “Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT)” was used for data collection. It had reliability coefficient of 0.83 determined using Kuder-Richardson (KR 20 ) formula. The control group was taught mathematics using the traditional method while the experimental group was taught using blended e-learning method (traditional and e-learning). The data generated were analysed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while ANCOVA was used to test hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the study revealed that blended e-learning is an effective method of teaching mathematics among pre-service teachers. Based on the result it was recommended that blended e-learning method should be applied in teaching Mathematics education of pre-service teachers. Article visualizations:
Frequency of different Causes of Cirrhosis Liver in local population

Background: Cirrhosis liver is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. The objective of this study was to find out the frequency of different causes of cirrhosis liver in patients admitted to medical unit. Material & Methods: A prospective study of 95 patients already diagnosed with cirrhosis liver or diagnosed as such during current admission was performed in the Medical B Unit of the Department of Medicine Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar from January, 2009 to December, 2009. Both male and female patients above 15 years of age were included in this study. Results: Of the 95 patients meeting the inclusive criteria 49(51.6%) were male and 46(48.4%) female patients. The commonest affected age group was 40-60 years. The most common cause of cirrhosis liver in our study was hepatitis C virus infection responsible for 74(61.66%) patients followed by hepatitis B virus infection, hepatitis B and C viruses co-infection and hepatitis B and D virus super infection in 18(18.94%), 5(5.3%) and 4(4.2%) patients respectively. Other causes found were alcoholic liver disease in 3(3.2%) patients, primary biliary cirrhosis in 2(2.1%) and 1(1.05%) patient each had Wilson’s disease and haemachromatosis while in 3(3.15%) no cause for cirrhosis liver was found. Conclusion: The most common cause of cirrhosis liver in admitted patients is hepatitis C virus infection followed by hepatitis B virus infection in our local population.
PERAN POLITIK PEREMPUAN DALAM PEMIKIRAN SITI MUSDAH MULIA

Pada dasarnya agama islam diturunkan untuk kemasalahatan umat manusia melalui kaidah-kaidah hukum yang dibawanya. Namun demikian, mayoritas umat islam memiliki cara pandang yang kurang fair terhadap perempuan atas laki-laki, khususnya dalam bidang politik. Hal ini salah satunya didasarkan pada penafsiran secara tekstual surat An-Nisa ayat 34. Pernyataan tersebut mengundang banyak kritik dari berbagai feminis, salah satunya yaitu Siti Musdah Mulia. Dalam gagasannya, Musdah Mulia mengharuskan perempuan untuk berperan aktif dalam duania politik. Berdasarkan uraian tersebut penelitian ini maksud untuk mengetahui bagaimana paradigma pemikiran Siti Musdah Mulia tentang peran potitik perempuan dan bagaimana pandangan fikih siyasah terhadap peran politik perempuan yang digagas Siti Musdah Mulia. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitin perpustakaan (library research). Analisis data dilakukan dengan mengkaji pemikiran Siti Musdah Mulia berdasarkan teori peran dan kajian fikih siyasah. Kajian fikih siyasah merupakan kajian politik dalam islam yang didasarkan pada dalil dalam Al-Qur’an dan hadits. Hasil analisis, pemikiran Siti Musdah Mulia mengungkapkan bahwa peran perempuan dalam dunia politik dapat menempati berbagai kedudukan, antara lain sebagai pemimpin negara, anggota dan pemimpin partai politik, serta dalam bidang legislative, eksekutif dan yudikatif. Peran perempuan dalam politik mutlak dibutuhkan demi terwujudnya negara yang demokratis. Jika dilihat dari kacamata fikih siyasah, dicatat dalam sejarah islam terdapat beberapa nama perempuan yang berperan dalam politik misalnya Ratu Bilqis, dan sejumlah sahabat wanita pada masa Khalifah Rasyidin. Dengan demikian dapat disimpulkan bahwa peran politik dalam pemikiran Siti Musdah Mulia berupa keterlibatannya dalam pemilihan umum, partai politik dan pemegang kekuasaan Negara. Pemikiran ini didukung oleh fikih siyasah yang menyatakan bahwa perempuan harus berperan aktif demi tercapainya kemaslahatan masyarakat.
The Cost of Adaptivity and Virtual Lanes in a Wormhole Router

We examine the cost in router complexity of adaptivity and virtual lanes in wormhole routers, using f-flat adaptive routers (based on a generalization of planar-adaptive routing) which include routers with a range of routing freedom. Our studies show that adaptivity is expensive because it requires additional virtual channels and much larger crossbar switches for both adaptivity and deadlock prevention. Increases of 50 to 100% in channel utilization are required to justify additional degrees of routing freedom.