Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The effect and benefits of pet facilitated therapy (PFT) in the elderly

With the advanced age, the elderly people are facing undergoing decline in their physical, mental and social aspects. Alzheimer, Dementia, and Cognitive function disorders are among the common health problems which has been experiencing by the elderly. Other than the conventional therapy, the complementary and alternative therapies are required to be considered for their long-term care. This study aims to identify the effects and benefits of PFT among the elderly population and their health care. The systematic literature review method is used as the research methodology. 14 articles related with the use of PFT in the elderly are chosen based on the inclusion criteria, and the findings from these studies are examined and discussed in this study. Based on the findings, it is indicated that PFT have the potential benefits on the care of the elderly with cognitive dysfunction. It is recommended to use as part of the complementary therapy in the care of older people after considering and removing the limitations. Since raising awareness about PFT and their potential benefits in the care of elderly is a necessary, it is hoped that this paper will serve as a knowledge sharing for the nurses and health care providers especially those living in areas where the use of PFT is very limited. Yet, further studies still need to be conducted in the related area to have more in-depth understanding about the application of PFT and the related matters. Keywords: Pet Facilitated Therapy (PFT), elderly people, Dementia, Alzheimer, Cognitive dysfunction
Hepatitis C virus infection: Spread and impact in the Netherlands

In Nederland lopen hiv-positieve mannen die seks hebben met mannen de meeste kans op een infectie met het hepatitis C-virus (HCV). Voorheen waren dat injecterende druggebruikers en hemofiliepatienten. Dit constateert Anouk Urbanus in haar onderzoek naar het voorkomen van HCV onder nieuwe en bekende risicogroepen. In haar onderzoek geeft ze aan voor welke groepen een gericht screeningsprogramma nodig is. Niet-westerse migranten van de eerste generatie in Nederland vormen de grootste groep met een bestaande HCV-infectie. Zij zijn veelal geinfecteerd geraakt in hun land van herkomst. Daarnaast doen veel van de nog niet opgespoorde HVC-infecties zich voor onder mensen die in het verleden risico liepen op HCV (ooit een bloedtransfusie ondergaan, ooit drugs gespoten) en zichzelf niet als risicogroep zien. HCV-screeningsprogramma’s moeten zich richten op deze risicogroepen (hiv-positieve mannen die seks hebben met mannen, niet-westerse migranten van de eerste generatie en mensen die in het verleden risico hebben gelopen). Daarnaast concludeert Urbanus dat screenings- en preventieprogramma’s voor traditionele risicogroepen, zoals injecterende druggebruikers, gecontinueerd dienen te worden.
The Emperor's New Augmented Clothes. Digital Objects as Part of the Every Day

The main aim of this work is to solve a problem that Augmented Reality is facing by using phenomenological and phenomenological analyses and projectors. Augmented reality seeks to merge the digital and real world by producing a mixed reality where the digital objects are usually visualised thanks to the head mounted or mobile devices. However, this technology is facing problems because the objects generated by the digital devices are existing merely inside the small group of people while using specific devices. Therefore, these objects look fictitious for the other members of the society who are not using them. In order to analyse the elements which make these objects fictitious for the other member of the society, we will take into account the story of The Emperor’s new clothes because, even in this story, there are fictional entities not perceivable by other members of the community. Thanks to this story, it will be possible to highlight some elements which make the objects part of the everyday world. Moreover, it will show how the intersubjectivity of these objects is directly related to their way of being perceived by the subjects and, in the case of augmented reality, to the devices used to make them perceivable. For this reason, it is possible to solve the problem Augmented Reality is facing by changing the devices used to produce these digital objects. At the end of the work, we will propose a project which can solve the problem by following the elements previously highlighted. We will show how, thanks to wearable projectors, it is possible to produce digital clothes as part of the everyday world of every subject. Thanks to these digital clothes people will be able to wear the digital objects as if they were common, usual objects without being naked.
A case study of missed approach of aircraft due to tailwind associated with thunderstorms

Two aircraft had to conduct missed approaches in the overnight period of 8–9 September 2010 due to intense thunderstorm activity at the Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA). The missed approach event is studied in detail in this paper using the available flight data and other meteorological measurements. It appeared that the missed approaches were attributable to strong tailwind associated with the downdraft of the thunderstorm. Timely wind shear/microburst alerts had been provided to the pilots in this case based on the measurements from a Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) and ground‐based anemometer measurements at HKIA. The nowcasting and forecasting aspects for such an event are also discussed. The Aviation Thunderstorm Nowcasting System (ATNS) developed by the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) is found to provide adequate nowcasting of thunderstorm activity for this particular case and the aviation weather forecasters could be alerted of such intense convective weather at the airport more than half an hour ahead. On the forecasting side, the mesoscale meteorological model used by HKO may provide an indication of the strong tailwind associated with the thunderstorm at 6–7 h ahead, though the exact timing of the tailwind at the airport may be delayed by a couple of hours compared with the actual situation. Using the model the downdraft of the thunderstorm in this event is examined in detail.
SINGLE BOUT MODERATE EXERCISE IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH ACUTE OR RECOVERY RESPONSE OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTOR IN ADULT MEN

It is widely accepted that Obesity is a major health problem and is associated with cardiovascular risk factor and metabolic disorders. This study aimed to determine acute and recovery response of lipid profile markers as cardiovascular risk factors in obese and normal weight men. Subjects was healthy adult obese men (n=15, BMI ≥ 30) and normal weight adult men (n=15, 25 < BMI < 30) matched for age that participated in study by voluntary. Blood samples were collected before and 0, 1 and 24 hours after one bout exercise included 40 min running with moderate intensity of two groups. Data analyzed by (ANOVA) for repeated measures, for continuous variables. Data of independent T test showed that serum triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC) and Low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) was higher in obese group than normal weight subject at baseline, although there was not significant difference in high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) between two groups. No differences were observed in all variables between pre values and acute or recovery response to exercise test in two groups. These data showed that one moderated running test can not affect cardiovascular risk factors immediately and one day’s recovery in either obese or normal weight subjects.
A Guide to Gentamicin Therapy

side antibiotic structurally related to kanamycin, streptomycin and neomycin. Its unique stability to extremes of temperature and pH range suggest that it may be compatible with common IV solutions not containing additives, although this property has only been studied in dextrose 5 percent in water and dextrose 5 percent in normal saline. It can be autoclaved for 20 minutes. Gentamicin forms a co-precipitate with heparin and is inactivated in solutions of hypertonic sodium chloride (3 percent) 2 · : | or carbenicillin (Geopen, Pyopen).
Niskoenergetyczna przezprzełykowa kardiowersja migotania przedsionków Część I: Założenia teoretyczne

In the paper, the mechanisms have been discussed which lead to suppression of microreentry waves during fibrillation of atria. In this respect, the largest effectiveness of electric heart cardioversion was underlined. Arguments have been collected for more frequent than till-now application of cardioversion. Side effects of conventional cardioversion performed by means of chest electrodes have been stressed. Basing on data from literature, it was indicated that the heart damage grows larger along with increase of cardioverting energy. Assumptions have been presented on heart sparing low-energy intracardiac and transesophageal cardioversion of atrial fibrillation. There have been discussed the precautions that are to be observed for the safety of patient's esophagus and heart during transesophageal electric cardioversion of his atria.
The sequential organisation of teacher-initiated and teacher-induced code-switching in a Turkish university EFL setting

The study depicts the relationship between pedagogical focus and language choice in the language teaching/learning environment of English-as-a-foreignlanguage (EFL) at a Turkish university in Izmir. I present the organisation of codeswitching (the use of more than one linguistic variety in the same conversation) (CS) which is ‘teacher-initiated’ and ‘teacher-induced’. ‘Teacher-initiated CS’ is defined as a type of CS in which the teacher code-switches to Turkish or English according to the pedagogical focus, and the learner follows the code-switched turn in Turkish or English. On the other hand, ‘teacher-induced CS’ is defined in this study as a type of CS in which the teacher encourages learners to take a turn in Turkish, while s/he uses English in his/her turn (e.g., asking in English for the Turkish equivalent of an English word). Teacher-initiated and teacher-induced CS is an interesting area to investigate, in that I was able to conduct this study from three different perspectives: sociolinguistics, second language acquisition (SLA), and language teaching. A major research gap in the area of CS is a lack of adherence between English-Turkish CS and
Trace-Length Independent Runtime Monitoring of Quantitative Policies

Metric linear-time logic (MTL) has been widely used to specify runtime policies. Traditionally this use of MTL is to capture the qualitative aspects of the monitored systems, but recent developments in its extensions with aggregate operators allow some quantitative policies to be specified. Our interest in MTL-based policy languages is driven by applications in runtime malware or intrusion detection in platforms like Android and autonomous vehicles, which requires the monitoring algorithm to be independent of the length of the system event traces so that its performance does not degrade as the traces grow. We propose a policy language based on a past-time variant of MTL, extended with an aggregate operator called the metric temporal counting quantifier to specify a policy based on the number of times some sub-policies are satisfied in the specified past time interval. We show that a broad class of policies, but not all policies, specified with our language can be monitored in a trace-length independent way, and provide a concrete algorithm to do so. We implement and test our algorithm in both an existing Android monitoring framework and an autonomous vehicle simulation platform, and show that our approach can effectively specify and monitor quantitative policies drawn from real-world studies.
Rapidly involuting congenital hemangioma with complete resolution In Utero

There are three types of congenital hemangioma - rapidly involuting congenital hemangioma (RICH), partially involuting congenital hemangioma, and noninvoluting congenital hemangioma. We report a case of RICH on the back of a 4-month-old Caucasian male infant, based on ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging findings in the antenatal period, skin changes at birth, and a normal ultrasound after birth. He was born with an atrophic plaque at the site of the vascular swelling depicted on the scans, suggesting the complete involution of the lesion in the antenatal period.
Influence Maximization: A Time-Space Efficient Algorithm

Influence maximization is the problem of finding a small subset of nodes (seed nodes) in a social network that could maximize the spread the influence. The algorithm problem of computing influence estimation and influence maximization have been extensively studied for decades. In this paper, we studied the reverse influence sampling method proposed by Byogs et al. in 2014, and some other improved algorithms. We proposed a new algorithm TESA (Time-Space Efficient Algorithm). On large social networks, TESA saves more space than existing algorithms and runs faster. We used data sets tested in the literature to evaluate TESA experimentally and showed that it was superior to the most advanced solutions in terms of running time and memory footprint.
Sparse Signal Recovery With Minimization of 1-Norm Minus 2-Norm

The key aim of compressed sensing is to stably recover a <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$K$</tex-math></inline-formula>-sparse signals <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\boldsymbol{x}}$</tex-math></inline-formula> from a linear model <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\boldsymbol{y}}=\boldsymbol{A}{\boldsymbol{x}}+\boldsymbol{v}$</tex-math></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\boldsymbol{v}$</tex-math></inline-formula> is a noise vector. Minimization of <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\Vert {\boldsymbol{x}}\Vert _1-\Vert {\boldsymbol{x}}\Vert _2$</tex-math></inline-formula> is a recently proposed effective recovery method. In this paper, we show that if the mutual coherence <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu$</tex-math></inline-formula> of <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\boldsymbol{A}$</tex-math></inline-formula> satisfies <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu < \frac{1}{3K}$</tex-math></inline-formula>, then this method can stably recover any <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$K$</tex-math></inline-formula>-sparse signal <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\boldsymbol{x}}$</tex-math></inline-formula> based on <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\boldsymbol{y}}$</tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\boldsymbol{A}$</tex-math></inline-formula>. As far as we know, this is the first sufficient condition based on mutual coherence for such method.
Streaming video database features: What do faculty and students really want?

Abstract The adoption of streaming video by academic libraries is widespread, yet little is known about the experiences of faculty and students who use streaming video. This article describes a usability study of three popular streaming video databases. Faculty and student participants completed a series of tasks in each database and answered questions about their use of streaming video. Faculty liked complete and accurate metadata and text descriptions, the use of thumbnail images, accessibility, ease of use, the availability of film segments, the ability to easily share content, and the availability of time-stamped, hyperlinked transcripts. Students liked easy-to-use, intuitive interfaces.
Neural Generation of Textual Summaries from Knowledge Base Triples

Most people need textual or visual interfaces in order to make sense of Semantic Web data. In this thesis, we investigate the problem of generating natural language summaries for structured data encoded as triples using neural networks. We propose an end-to-end trainable architecture that encodes the information from a set of triples into a vector of fixed dimensionality and generates a textual summary by conditioning the output on this encoded vector. In order to both train and evaluate the performance of our approach, we explore different methodologies for building the required data-to-text corpora. We initially focus our attention on the generation of biographies. Using methods for both automatic and human evaluation, we demonstrated that our technique is capable of scaling to domains with challenging vocabulary sizes of over 400k words. Given the promising results of our approach in biographies, we explore its applicability in the generation of open-domain Wikipedia summaries in two under-resourced languages, Arabic and Esperanto. We propose an adaptation of our original encoder-decoder architecture that outperforms a set of strong baselines of different nature. Furthermore, we conducted a set of community studies in order to measure the usability of the generated content by Wikipedia readers and editors. The targeted communities ranked our generated text close to the expected standards of Wikipedia. In addition, we found that the editors are likely to reuse a large portion of the generated summaries, thus, emphasizing the usefulness of our approach to the involved communities. Finally, we extend the original model with a pointer mechanism that enables it to jointly learn to verbalise in a different number of ways the content from the triples while retaining the ability to generate regular words from a fixed target vocabulary. We evaluate performance with a dataset encompassing the entirety of English Wikipedia. Results from both automatic and human evaluation highlight the superiority of the latter approach compared to our original encoder-decoder architecture and a set of competitive baselines.
The importance of long-term follow-up visits for kidney donors.

Background: This paper examined the importance and influence of post-transplantation follow-up visits on the quality-of-life (QoL) of living kidney donors in Malaysia. Methods: Based on data collected from 80 living kidney donors, the relationship between QoL and the frequency of follow-up visits was examined. QoL was measured using standard SF-8 questions to capture its different dimensions. Results: Donors in the 1991–1998 donation cohort have low QoL, especially in the domains of physical and vitality, compared with the other two cohorts (1999–2005 and 2006–2012). The mean scores showed that donors who never went for any follow-up activities visits experience low QoL in most of the categories, particularly those related to physical activities, implying the importance of follow-up activities visits in influencing the donors’ QoL. Lower QoL was recorded for respondents that never received post-transplant treatment. Conclusion: Although this study found no serious post-transplant QoL issues in Malaysia, it is still important to set up a donor registry and provide free and mandatory follow-up visits for all donors in order to adequately monitor their health.
Laparoscopic Tube Cystotomy as a New Trend for Treatment of Obstructive Urolithiasis in Small Ruminants

The current study was planned to clarify the benefit from using laparoscopic tube cystotomy in treatment of obstructive urolithiasis especially in the cases that do not respond to urethral process amputation. For this purpose, 14 small ruminant cases were selected from 20 animals with obstructive urolithiasis. Another six cases that responded to urethral process amputation were also included. The disease was diagnosed based on clinical and ultrasonographic examinations. Laparoscopic tube cystotomy was performed by creating a diversion of urine from the urethra and voiding the urine temporarily from a foley catheter inserted inside the urinary bladder. In conclusion, this technique proved to be feasible in rams and bucks and can be used as an alternative to the open conventional tube cystotomy in cases of urine retention syndrome providing a minimal invasive tissue trauma and regaining the normal urination pathway in all treated cases.
Developing a Finite Element Model to Investigate Second Metatarsal Stress During Running

Second metatarsal (2MT) stress fracture is a common and burdensome injury amongst runners, however understanding of the risk factors leading to injury is limited. Finite Element (FE) modelling represents a viable biorealistic alternative to invasive studies and simple beam theory models. This study shows the design and validation of a simple subject-specific FE model of the 2MT incorporating geometrically accurate soft tissue and loading. Results show a good comparison with both recent models and bone staple strain gauge data.
Effects of telerehabilitation in occupational therapy practice: A systematic review

Objective/background This study aimed to review the current evidence on the application of telerehabilitation in occupational therapy practice and its clinical outcomes over the last 10 years. Methods A systematic review was performed on studies published in English in the decade 2008 to 2017, retrieved from seven electronic databases (MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, Web of Science, SAGE, Science Direct and EMBASE). Only articles evaluating the use of telerehabilitation to provide occupational therapy services from a distance were included, with no restrictions on pathology, impairment, age, or the nature of occupational therapy intervention. Results Fifteen articles (three randomised controlled trials, eight quasi-experimental studies, one trial with single-group post-intervention and three case studies) were reviewed. Despite various study designs and outcome measures, most studies indicated positive therapeutic effects of using telerehabilitation in occupational therapy practice. There is insufficient evidence, however, to confirm that telerehabilitation is more effective than the face-to-face model. Little evidence was shown on the long-term effect and cost efficacy. Only two studies used smartphones in their applications. Conclusion Telerehabilitation offers an alternative service delivery model for occupational therapy, not only bridging distance but also offering user-friendly treatment for patients at home. Further research, particularly on the use of the most cutting-edge mobile technology, is needed to determine effectiveness in occupational therapy practice treating various diseases, conditions and impairments and the characteristics of patients, interventions and therapists that lead to the best fit with this alternative and emerging form of service delivery.
An Ability of Mathematical Representation And Independence of Student Learning in Reciprocal Teaching With Resitation and Self Assesement

This study aims to: (1) find out the quality of reciprocal teaching with recitation and self assessment on the achievement of mathematical representation abilities, (2) describe the ability of mathematical representation in terms of student learning independence, and (3) determine the effect of learning independence on students' mathematical representation abilities in reciprocal teaching with recitation and self assessment. This research is a mixed method type of concurrent embedded design type. The subject of this study was determined based on the learning independence score using a learning independence questionnaire in the eighth grade students of MTs Urwatil Wutsqo Jepara. Data collection techniques are using tests, questionnaires, and interviews. The quality of learning is analyzed based on three quality categories, namely planning, implementation and assessment. The effect of learning independence on mathematical representation ability was analyzed based on simple linear regression test. The results showed that (1) the three domain qualities of learning were categorized as good, so it was concluded that the quality of reciprocal teaching with recitation and self-assessment of mathematical representation abilities was good. (2) students with high learning independence are able to master all mathematical representation indicators well compared to students with moderate and low learning independence; (3) learning independence has a positive effect on the ability of mathematical representation on reciprocal teaching with recitation and self assessment.