Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Assessment of Cases With Intracranial Hydatid Cyst : A 23-Year Experience

Assessment of Cases With Intracranial Hydatid Cyst: A 23-Year Experience Yahya TURAN, Tevfik YILMAZ, Cüneyt GÖÇMEZ, Kağan KAMAŞAK, Serdar KEMALOĞLU, Recep TEKIN, Salih HATTAPOĞLU, Halil BOZKAYA, Alper ÇALIŞKAN, Adnan CEVIZ Dicle University, School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Diyarbakir, Türkiye Dicle University, School of Medicine, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Diyarbakir, Türkiye Dicle University, School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Diyarbakir, Türkiye Ege University, School of Medicine, Division of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, İzmir, Türkiye Diyarbakir Training and Research Hospital, Surgery, Diyarbakir, Türkiye
Validity of the Driving Anger Expression Inventory ( DAX ) in a Mexican Sample

This study assessed and validated in a Mexican sample (n = 987) the Driving Anger Expression Inventory (DAX), a measure of how people express their anger on the road. As a result, confirmatory factor analysis revealed the DAX original four-factor structure did not fit the Mexican sample. Exploratory factor analyses yielded a valid, six-factor solution. Three factors (personal physical aggression, use of the vehicle to express anger, and adaptive/constructive expression) were similar in their content to the original DAX, but not with the same number of items. Three new factors emerged (nonverbal aggression, verbal aggression aloud, and silent verbal aggression), which are not present in the original study of the DAX. Cronbach’s Alphas ranged between . 76 and . 89.
Association between adiponectin levels and cardiovascular disease risk in dialysis patients : a meta-analysis

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between adiponectin levels and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in dialysis patients. Methods: A systematic search of PubMed, Web of Science and the Cochrane Library was performed for studies dated up to December 2015 on the association between adiponectin concentrations and CVD risk. Random-effect model was selected to pool the hazard ratios (HR) with their 95% confidence interval (CI). The quality of the included papers was evaluated according to the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) score. Meta-analysis was performed using RevMan 5.3 software. Results: A total of 9 studies comprising 2296 dialysis patients were included in this meta-analysis. Combined analysis revealed that adiponectin levels were inversely associated with CVD risk (HR: 0.93, 95% confidence interval: 0.89-0.98, P=0.003), with heterogeneity among the studies (P=0.02, I2=58%). No evidence of publication bias was found in our meta-analysis. Conclusions: This meta-analysis on available clinical evidence demonstrated that lower adiponectin levels were significantly associated with higher risks of CVD in dialysis patients.
Biomass distribution of kingklip ( Genypterus capensis ) species in the Benguela Ecosystem of Namibia

The biomass distribution of kingklip in bottom trawling was investigated in the Namibian waters between Oranjemund and Kunene river area. A systematic transects design; perpendicular to the coast was used for sampling along latitude gradients (29°S-17°S) at different seafloor depths (100-700 m). In total 2323 stations were sampled for a period of ten years. At each trawled station the whole catch were sorted to species level and the total body mass (kg) of each fish was recorded. Environmental factors, consisting of bottom water temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen were recorded automatically by the Conductivity and Temperature Depth instrument. Results indicated a non-significant difference in the kingklip biomass over the years, while a significant result was observed with changes in depths and latitudes. Environmental factors significantly influenced kingklip biomass distribution. It was concluded that biomass distribution of kingklip species is influenced by depths, latitudes and environmental conditions although not significant with years.
The Effect of Low Bone Mineral Density in Stomatognatic System

Osteoporosis is a systemic bone disease that characterized by low bone mineral density. The study was aimed to determine the relationship between bone mineral density status with the severity of periodontal disease and tooth loss. The study was conducted on patients who come to RSUP.DR.Wahidin Sudiro Husodo with the sample size is 33 people. After completing dental records, each oral cavity of the sampleswas examine of by using a panoramic dental x-ray to see the level of alveolar bone resorption. A complete blood laboratory test was performed to value calcium serum. Examination of bone mineral density conducted at the lumbal spine and the femoral head by using DXA. The results show that low levels of BMD to periodontal status showed a significant result (p = 0.005). The level of bone resorption occured greater in mandible than in maxilla. However, calcium serum levels showed no significant results in the low BMD (p> 0.005). In addition, there were no statistically significant results between low bone mineral density with tooth loss (p> 0.005). In general, low bone mineral density had a significant relationship with the severity of periodontal status, while generally low bone mineral density was not significantly associated with tooth loss. Clinical article (J Int Dent Med Res 2019; 12(2): 602-606)
An assessment of awareness and practices towards standard precautions among staff nurses at a tertiary care hospital in South Karnataka: A cross sectional study

Introduction: Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) are defined as infections occurring in patients admitted in hospital or any other health care facility in whom the infection was neither present nor incubating at the time of admission. They also include infections acquired in the hospital but appearing after discharge and also infections occurring among health care staff of the facility. In all health care settings nurses being significant contributors of care, their knowledge and practices play an important role in the control /prevention of HAIs. Objective: To estimate the level of awareness and practices towards standard precautions among staff nurses in the study setting. Materials and Methods: The present study was a hospital based descriptive study conducted at Chamarajanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, Chamarajanagar, from Jan 2017 to March 2017. A total of 40 staff nurses were selected by simple random sampling and pretested and semi structured questionnaire was used to collect data. Statistical analysis was done using Microsoft Office Excel 2007. Results: Majority i.e 35 (87.5%) were aware of Infection control committee (ICC) and Central supply and sterilisation department (CSSD) and > 90% knew segregation and disposal as per BMW rules. Majority i.e. 38 (95%) of staff nurses washed their hands before and after handling patients and used personal protective measures. More than half i.e. 23 (57.5%) of study participants had a history of needle stick injury, while only 19 (82.60%) among them reported and took treatment. Hepatitis B vaccination was taken by 24 (60%) of staff nurses. Conclusion: The present study demonstrates satisfactory level of knowledge and practices towards standard precaution in the study setting and also finds many areas where educational interventions are necessary. Keywords: Awareness, Nurses, Practices, Standard precautions.
OCCURRENCE , COMPARATIVE GROWTH AND COMPOSITION OF TRIBULUS TERRESTRIS L . UNDER VARIABLE IN-SITU WATER STRESS

Medicinal plants are widely used in the present-day economy, and therefore, their study is of considerable interest both to botanists and to pharmacologists. Till date, few studies have been carried out on the economic valuation of medicinal plants growing under drought-stressed and unstressed natural in-situ conditions. In the present study, T. terrestris L. plants, which have not been investigated with respect to the above objective, were collected from different geographical and climatic conditions during 2015—2016, and their occurrence, comparative growth, and chemical compositions were determined. The results of the study indicated heterogeneous distribution of T. terrestris L. across the study area. The plant growth parameters including the number of stems plant, average length of stems, number of leaves plant, number of flowers plant, fresh biomass plant and dry biomass plant were found to decrease because of drought stress. However, the chemical composition, including total phenolic content, antioxidant activity, ferric-reducing ability of plasma assay (μM FeSO4 g), and free radical scavenging activity (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl inhibition (%), and saponin content increased with drought stress. Mineral composition of plants was found to decrease with drought stress. Thus, the findings of this study are expected to be beneficial to researchers and medicinal plant businesses.
N ov 2 01 7 THE IMPACT OF THE HIGGS ON EINSTEIN ’ S GRAVITY October

The existence of the Higgs provides a considerable support to the Standard Model of particles and fields(SM), and also opens the perspective of a renewed physics in four-dimensional space-times. It is shown why and how the Higgs mechanism implies the inclusion of Einstein’s gravitational field within the SM, together with a novel massive spin-2 field of geometric nature, acting as a short range carrier of the gravitational field. keywords: Higgs particle, Einstein’s gravity, Poincaré Symmetry, Massive spin-2 field. 1 The Higgs Symmetries The experimental evidence of the Higgs particle has confirmed that the Higgs mechanism is a natural phenomenon, through which, the Higgs itself, fermions and some observed particles of the SM, acquire their masses. maia@unb.br valdir@fisica.ufpb. br
Measuring the Performance of Islamic Banks in Saudi Arabia

The study examines the comparative efficiency of Saudi Islamic banking industry which is growing at phenomenal rate, therefor the industry is important to study. We use deposits, assets and capital as inputs to measure investments, advances and income by applying Data Envelop Analysis (DEA) for this measurement. Significance of study lies in the largest set of data ranging from 2008-20016. The study is limited to the full-fledged Islamic banks only and economic indicators such as GDP, inflation and interest rate are not included in this study since all the banks are operating in the same economic system. Key findings reveal that in terms of technical and pure technical efficiency, Al-Rajhi is the most efficient bank followed by bank Al-Jazira, while, Al-Inma and Al-Bilad are on third and fourth positions respectively. A further analysis in this particular aspect reveals that the technical and scale efficiency of bank Al-Rajhi starts declining after the year 2012. This low performance in both of these respective terms suggests the room for improvement in management as well as administration bank Al-Rajhi. On the other hand, the bank Al-Bilad, relatively a small bank as compared to Al-Rajhi, showed excellent results in term of scale efficiency. JEL Classification: C67, D61, D84, E44, G21
Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the Weinstein Noise Sensitivity Scale

Auditory environmental pollution, generally referred to as noise, is probably the most widespread stressor. Noise sensitivity has strong implications on individual responses to noise. Weinstein Noise Sensitivity Scale (WNSS) is the only available tool to assess the total noise sensitivity, yet not validated in the Iranian population. A Persian version of WNSS was developed during the standard approach. This study investigated the reliability (internal consistency, split-half and test-retest) and construct validity of WNSS in 287 non-industrial employees (clerks and sales people) aged 17 to 76 years old in Tehran, using several validated psychological scales including Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Zung Scale for Anxiety (SAS), Eysenck’s Personal Inventory (EPI), Buss and Perry’s aggression (AQ), job satisfaction and general noise annoyance questionnaires. Cronbach’s alpha was found to be 0.62 for part І, 0.68 for the part ІІ and 0.78 for the total WNSS scores. Test-retest reliability was 0.66. Two factors emerged from Velicer’s MAP test, i. e. , the need for privacy and the adjustment to noises. The main factor in principal components analysis explained 17.277% of the total variance. Construct validity was assessed through correlation of WNSS scores with other questionnaire measures. A meaningful relationship was found between total test score and job satisfaction (p<0.01), neuroticism (p<0.01), self-reported noise annoyance at work place (p<0.01) and at home (p<0.01). The relationship, however, was not
Experimental model for predicting cutting forces in machining carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites

Supervisory Committee Dr. Keivan Ahmadi, (Department of Mechanical Engineering) Supervisor Dr. Afzal Suleman, (Department of Mechanical Engineering) Departmental Member The demand for materials with high mechanical performances such as Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics (CFRP) is increasing. However, there are major challenges in machining CFRP as it involves delamination, fiber pullouts, and extreme cutting tool wear. Analysis of chip formation mechanisms and prediction of associated cutting forces in CFRP machining enables one to address these challenges. This study proposes a mechanistic cutting force model for milling operations of the CFRP workpiece, considering its non-homogeneity and anisotropy, by taking into account variations of fiber cutting angle during machining. A mechanistic model of cutting force constants is obtained from a number of experimentally measured unidirectional CFRP milling forces. The obtained mechanistic force model predictions are verified against experimentally measured milling forces with arbitrary tool path indicating the accuracy of the proposed mechanistic model in predicting cutting forces. The proposed mechanistic cutting force model is capable of being integrated into the manufacturing process to allow optimized machining of quality certified CFRP work-pieces.
Consumers ’ Demographic Factors Influencing Perceived Service Quality in e-Shopping : Some Evidence from Nigerian Online

The literature has consistently demonstrated that consumers’ perception of online stores’ service quality is influenced by several factors such as technology use skills, knowledge, income, gender, age, and marital status. This study seeks to determine the differences of perceived service quality (PSQ) in online shopping based on consumers’ six demographic factors: age, gender, monthly income (MI), occupation, educational qualification (EQ) and marital status (MS) within four dimensions: access, reliability, ease of use and attentiveness (EoU&A), and Security and Credibility (S&C) adopted from SERVIQUAL scale with modifications. Using snowball method and an online questionnaire, 400 participants comprising students, public servants and private organisations’ employees drawn from three Nigerian cities: Abuja, Kano, and Lagos were surveyed. The hypotheses were tested using the scale. Factor analysis yielded the above-mentioned dimensions. Kruskal-Wallis (H test), Mann-Whitney test and Post Hoc test were used to determine the difference of PSQ in online shopping based on the six demographic factors involving each of those dimensions. The results indicate a significant difference of PSQ in age, educational qualification and occupation consistently exists within S&C dimension and variously within the rest of the dimensions. However, no significant difference of PSQ in MI was found in all the four dimensions. Furthermore, gender and MS indicate a significant difference Adamkolo, M. I. , Hassan, M. S. and Pate, A. U. 1336 Pertanika J. Soc. Sci. & Hum. 26 (3): 1335 1369 (2018) of PSQ within access and EoU&A; only difference based on gender is significant within reliability; while both differences based on gender and MS are not significant within S&C dimension.
A Framework to Assess Debt Sustainability and Fiscal Risks Under the Belt and Road Initiative

This paper provides a framework to assess the impact of infrastructure investment expected under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on the debt vulnerabilities of countries that are located on BRI transport and connectivity corridors in the absence of comprehensive and consistent information on investments and financing terms. Key assumptions relate to the amount of public and publicly guaranteed (PPG) debt financing and its terms, the size and sectoral type of identified BRI investment, and the expected impact of growth in the medium and long term of that investment. BRI debt financing is expected significantly increase PPG debt in a number of countries. The paper provides estimates for both the medium and the long term. In the medium term, defined as the period 2019-2023, debt financing of BRI investment is expected to be fully disbursed while the full growth impact of BRI related infrastructure is not entirely realized. In this initial phase, around one-third of assessed BRI-recipient countries are estimated to face elevated debt vulnerabilities post- BRI, several of which have already high debt vulnerabilities. The impact of BRI on public debt would improve over the longer term under the assumption of a sustained negative interest rate-growth differential and in the absence of the materialization of BRI related fiscal risks. Still, debt to GDP ratio is expected to remain higher in one-third of countries (11 out of 30 with available data).
Enhance Network Intrusion Detection System by Exploiting BR Algorithm as an Optimal Feature Selection

This chapter aims to build a proposed Wire/Wireless Network Intrusion Detection System (WWNIDS) to detect intrusions and consider many of modern attacks which are not taken in account previously. The proposal WWNIDS treat intrusion detection with just intrinsic features but not all of them. The dataset of WWNIDS will consist of two parts; first part will be wire network dataset which has been constructed from KDD’99 that has 41 features with some modifications to produce the proposed dataset that called modern KDD and to be reliable in detecting intrusion by suggesting three additional features. The second part will be building wireless network dataset by collecting thousands of sessions (normal and intrusion); this proposed dataset is called Constructed Wireless Data Set (CWDS). The preprocessing process will be done on the two datasets (KDD & CWDS) to eliminate some problems that affect the detection of intrusion such as noise, missing values and duplication.
FREQUENCY COMPRESSION AND FREQUENCY SHIFTING FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED

FREQUENCY COMPRESSION AND FREQUENCY SHIFTING FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED Francisco J. Fraga, Alan M. Marotta National Institute of Telecommunications, Santa Rita do Sapucaí MG, Brazil Many of the lowering schemes have altered perceptually important characteristics of speech, such as temporal and rhythmic patterns, pitch and durations of segmental elements. A considerable percentage of listeners with severe hearing loss have audiograms where the losses are high for high frequencies and low for low frequencies. For these patients, lowering the speech spectrum to the frequencies where there is some residual hearing could be a good solution to be implemented for digital hearing aids. In this paper we have presented two different frequency– lowering algorithms: frequency compression and frequency shifting. Results of subjective intelligibility tests have shown a slight better performance of the frequency shifting method relatively to the frequency compression method, although their performance remarkably depends on which are the specific phonemes that are being processed by these two algorithms. Hicks et al. [1] have done one of the most remarkable investigations about frequency lowering. Their technique involve pitch–synchronous, monotonic compression of the short–term spectral envelope, while at the same time avoiding some of the above-described problems observed in the other methods. Reed et al. [2] have conducted consonant discrimination experiments on normal hearing listeners. They have observed that Hick’s frequency lowering scheme presented better performance for fricative and affricate sounds if compared with low pass filtering to an equivalent bandwidth. On the other hand, the performance of the low pass filtering was better for vowels, semivowels and nasal sounds. For plosive sounds, both methods have shown similar results. In general, the performance on the best frequency–lowering conditions was almost the same to that obtained on low pass filtering to an equivalent bandwidth. Further, Reed et al. [3] have extended the results of Hick’s et al. system to listeners with high– frequency impairment. In general, the performance of the impaired subjects was inferior to that obtained by normal subjects.
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ORGANIC AND INORGANIC FERTILIZERS USED AMONG CROP FARMERS IN IKENNE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OGUN STATE

Arable lands are fixed and demand for food is increasing; land holdings are small because of land fragmentation due to an increasing population pressure. Unless land is intensively and more productively used, it’s unlikely to provide enough food for consumption and sale. Land productivity can only improve if soil fertility were improved. To overcome the soil the soil fertility problem, farmers in Ikenne Local government area need fertilization for crop production. Rapid population growth has made Africa to be no longer viewed as a land-abundant region where food crop supply could be increased by expansion of land used in agriculture. This study was conducted with the use purposive sampling techniques, ninety-one (91) crop farmers were selected and data was collected from them using structured questionnaire. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis. Majority of farmers, 75.8% of respondents had above primary education, 59.3% participated in cooperative societies, 64.8% had no contact with extension agents and 48.4% had at least 15 years of farming experience. It was also revealed that the adoption of only organic fertilizer use increased with credit access and extension contact but declines with increase in farm size and cooperative membership. Also, adoption of the combination of organic and inorganic fertilizers increased farm size, extension access and credits access. The results from this study show that farmers’ adoption of fertilizer is influenced by farm size and extension services among other factors. Special attention need to be paid to these variables when formulating fertilizer use policy.
An Investigation of Memory in Recurrent Neural Networks

We investigate the learned dynamical landscape of a recurrent neural network solving a simple task requiring the interaction of two memory mechanisms: longand short-term. Our results show that while long-term memory is implemented by asymptotic attractors, sequential recall is now additionally implemented by oscillatory dynamics in a transverse subspace to the basins of attraction of these stable steady states. Based on our observations, we propose how different types of memory mechanisms can coexist and work together in a single neural network, and discuss possible applications to the fields of artificial intelligence and neuroscience.