Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is Alain de Botton's lucid exploration of a subject key to most of our lives. Why do so many of us love or hate our work? How has it come to dominate our lives? And what should we do about it? Work makes us. Without it we are at a loss; in work we hope to have a measure of control over our lives. Yet for many of us, work is a straitjacket from which we cannot free ourselves. Criss-crossing the world to visit workplaces and workers both ordinary and extraordinary, and drawing on the wit and wisdom of great artists, writers and thinkers, Alain de Botton here explores our love-hate relationship with our jobs. He poses and answers little and big questions: from what should I do with my life? to what will I have achieved when I retire? The Pleasure and Sorrows of Work will not only explain why it is we do what we do all day, but its sympathy, humour and insight seeks to help us make the most of it. "De Botton's wit and powers of ironic observation are on display throughout what is a stylish and original book. The workplace brings out the best in his writing. " (Sunday Times). "Timely, wonderfully readable. De Botton has pretty much got to the bottom of the subject. " (Spectator). "Terribly funny, touches us all. " (Daily Mail). "Brilliant, enormously engaging. " (Guardian).
Teaching the Vocabulary of Academic English via Concordances.

A project using a computerized concordancing program in combination with a computerized corpus of academic texts to teach academic English is described. It is intended for native speakers and learners of English, and focuses on frequently-used words common to all academic fields. The vocabulary was selected from an academic word list, and consisted of about 250 items used for various functions of academic writing: stating topic; referring to the literature; expressing opinions tentatively; explaining processes used; reporting research of others; linking ideas correctly; and drawing conclusions. The concordancing program was then used to determine frequency of the terms' use. Resulting lists present students with multiple examples of academic vocabulary items in context. Questions concerning word use accompany the lists. Initial student response to the materials indicates that because the mode of presentation is new, some guidelines for use are needed; students should be instructed to: (1) look at the words surrounding the key term, thinking of meaning; (2) familiarize themselves with patterns of language surrounding the term to answer the questions; (3) practice key terms without referring to the concordance; and (4) create their own writing using the terms to fulfill a particular writing function. Contains 11 references. (MSE) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ***********************************************************************
The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture

Robert Warshow: Life And Works, By David Denby Editor's Foreword Introduction By Lionel Trilling Author's Preface PART 1: AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE 1. The Legacy of the 30's 2. Woofed With Dreams 3. Clifford Odets: Poet of the Jewish Middle Class 4. The "Idealism" of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg 5. Paul, the Honor Comics, and Dr. Wertham 6. E. B, White and the New Yorker 7. An Old Man Gone PART 2: AMERICAN MOVIES 8. The Gangster as Tragic Hero 9. Movie Chronicle: The Westerner
Diagnosis of mathematical skills among bioscience entrants

A paper-based diagnostic test of mathematical skills, presented to Stage 1 undergraduates, revealed that entrants encounter difficulties with some of the basic mathematical concepts that are essential if students are to successfully complete a programme of study within the biosciences. Students reacted favourably towards a number of computer-based learning materials aimed at supporting development of their basic mathematical skills through self-directed learning. However, the availability of such resources made no significant difference to the students’ overall performance in a subsequent test. Some issues and applications are discussed. Abstract
Design Trade-offs in Configurable FPGA Architectures for K-Means Clustering

K-Means clustering is a popular technique for data partitioning, frequently used in data mining. The simple control flow, and high degree of parallelism, makes it a good candidate for FPGA acceleration. We propose a highly configurable architecture, based on Euclidean distance computation. It can be tuned by the following parameters: number of dimensions, dimension width, dimension based parallelism degree, number of centroids and centroid based parallelism degree. We study their impact on different K-Means components, such as the distance computation, distance comparison, accumulation, division, or the memory modules within the accelerator. Furthermore, for the aforementioned parameters we investigate the performance/cost trade-offs of the proposed K-Means accelerator implementation.
Prevalence, Risk Factors and Diagnostic Methods of Bacterial Vaginosis: A Survey of Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Clinic at Taraba State Specialist Hospital, North-East, Nigeria

Background: Bacterial vaginosis is considered to be the most prevalent gynecological disorder of reproductive-age women. It is characterized by an alteration in the normal vaginal flora resulting in a reduction or absence of H202 producing lactobacilli and a corresponding over growth of anaerobic bacteria. Objective: The study was design to determine prevalence, evaluate risk factors and compare diagnostic methods of bacterial vaginosis. Material and methods: 90 Consenting pregnant women within the ages of 18-39 years attending Taraba State Specialist Hospital antenatal clinic were evaluated for bacteria diagnosis using Amsel and Hay/ison criteria. Information on socio-demographics and clinical features were obtained using a structured interviewerâ€™s questionnaire. Results: Prevalence rate of 56.6% using amsel and 45.6% using Hay/ison were recorded. Married to a polygamist (multiple sexual partners) and history of STI had statistical association with bacterial vaginosis (p-values of 0.05 and 0.001 respectively) while formal setting workers and tertiary institution degree holders had high BV prevalence rate without statistical significance. Comparing prevalence between both methods gave a correlation percentage of 73.2% and a p- value of 0.003. Conclusion: The prevalence for bacterial vaginosis recorded in this study was high. Thus, medical, social and educational interventions aimed at reducing bacterial vaginosis prevalence rate are recommended.
Building a Regional HIV/AIDS Database: Challenges Faced by West African Specialist Physicians and Health Librarians

The article investigates access and the use of the Internet among specialty doctors in five West African countries. It also looks at what information and communication technologies (ICT) are needed by health librarians to build a human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) database to carry out the West African regional project on HIV/AIDS information management. Two sets of questionnaires were designed: one for specialty doctors to assess their skills and the functionality of their institutional Internet access, the other to determine health librarians' ICT skills. The findings reveal factors such as power outages, irregular and slow Internet connection, nonexistent institutional Internet subscription, or half-day Internet access that resulted in minimal use of Internet by the specialty doctors. The health librarians, though skilled with information management, needed additional ICT training in Web design, electronic classification of resources, and most importantly, database building to function optimally on their project assignment. The findings led to recommendations such as improving Internet access in the West African tertiary institutions/hospitals and continuous ICT training for the health librarians.
Comparisons of More Applied Information Technology and Computer Science Undergraduates

This paper presents a comparison study between undergraduates in the areas of applied information technology and those in computer science. A large, nationwide survey involving undergraduates from 42 institutions of higher education was conducted in Fall 2004. Basic demographical data and responses to survey questions dealing with behaviors, beliefs, and perceptions were collected. Underpinning the investigation was the question of the influence of gender, ethnicity, and university type (Historically Black Colleges and Universities or Predominantly White Institutions). Responses to survey items were statistically analyzed and results are presented in this paper. A great deal of similarity was found between the two groups of undergraduates.
Psycho-educational intervention on mood in patients suffering from colorectal and anal cancer: A randomized controlled trial

Psycho-educational interventions can moderate the negative impact of cancer on patients’ mental wellbeing, although studies of the effect on colorectal cancer (CRC) patients are scarce. Hence, the primary aim of this study was to test whether a nurse-led psycho-educational programme (PEP) could affect the emotional wellbeing of persons being treated for CRC and anal cancer. A secondary aim was to test whether there were any differences in emotional wellbeing in the patients before undergoing a PEP compared to a subset of the Swedish population. A randomized controlled trial was used. In total, 86 patients were randomized either to a PEP comprising seven lectures followed by discussions and reflections with peers or to standard treatment. Mental wellbeing was measured with the Mood Adjective Check List. The PEP significantly (p < 0.04) increased the patients’ overall mood one month after the end of the intervention. The PEP seemed to have a short-term effect on patients’ overall mood. Other outcomes such as self-efficacy could be useful measures when evaluating PEP.
Design and Evaluation of a Block-based Environment with a Data Science Context

As computing becomes pervasive across fields, introductory computing curricula needs new tools to motivate and educate the influx of learners with little prior background and divergent goals. We seek to improve curricula by enriching it with authentic, real-world contexts and powerful scaffolds that can guide learners to success using automated tools, thereby reducing the strain on limited human instructional resources. To address these issues, we have created the BlockPy programming environment, a web-based, open-access, open-source platform for introductory computing students (https://www.blockpy.com). BlockPy has an embedded data science context that allows learners to connect the educational content with real-world scenarios through meaningful problems. The environment is block-based and gives guiding feedback to learners as they complete problems, but also mediates transfer to more sophisticated programming environments by supporting bidirectional, seamless transitions between block and text programming. Although it can be used as a stand-alone application, the environment has first-class support for the latest Learning Tools Interoperability standards, so that instructors can embed the environment directly within their Learning Management System. In this paper, we describe interesting design issues that we encountered during the development of BlockPy, an evaluation of the environment from fine-grained logs, and our future plans for the environment.
Cooperative Planning Control and Formation Control of Multi-Agent Systems

Cooperative planning control is an active topic of research, with many practical applications including multi-robot systems, transportation, multi-point surveillance and biological systems. The contributions of this thesis lie in the scope of three topics: formation control, time-constrained cooperative planning control and probabilistic control synthesis, all of the them in the framework of multi-agent systems.In the first part of the thesis, given a team of rigid-bodies, we propose decentral-ized control protocols such that desired position and orientation-based formationbetween neighboring agents is achieved. Inter-agent collisions and collisions betweenagents and static obstacles of the workspace are guaranteed to be avoided by theproposed control scheme. Furthermore, the connectivity between the agents thatare initially connected is preserved. In the second part of the thesis, we considera team of agents, modeled by coupled single-integrator dynamics. Each agent isassigned with individual high-level tasks, given in Metric Interval Temporal Logic(MITL). By abstracting the motion of each agent into Transition Systems (TS), wepropose decentralized control methodologies that guarantee the satisfaction of thedesired tasks of each agent. In the final part, a coupled multi-agent system underthe presence of uncertainties and model errors is considered. Each agent is modeledby a Markov Decision Process (MDP) and is assigned with a high-level task givenin Probabilistic Computational Tree Logic (PCTL). The goal is to design controlpolicies such that each agent is performing a desired task. By clustering the agentsinto dependency clusters, we propose control algorithms that guarantee that thedesired specifications are fulfilled. Numerical simulations conducted in MATLABverify the claimed results.
KARAKTERISASI EDIBLE FILM DARI PEKTIN ALBEDO JERUK BALI DAN PATI GARUT [IN PRESS SEPTEMBER 2015]

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh konsentrasi pektin albedo jeruk bali dan gliserol terhadap karakteristik dan perlakuan terbaik edible film yang dihasilkan. Metode penelitian menggunakan Rancangan Acak Kelompok (RAK) dengan dua faktor. Faktor I adalah konsentrasi pektin (10%, 20%, dan 30% b/bpati) dan faktor II adalah konsentrasi gliserol (0.50%, 0.75%, dan 1% v/v). Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa peningkatan konsentrasi pektin dan gliserol berpengaruh nyata (α=0.05) terhadap semua parameter yang diuji (kadar air, ketebalan, kecerahan (L*), kelarutan, transmisi uap air, kuat tarik dan perpanjangan) edible film . Edible film terbaik diperoleh dari pati garut 2% (b/v), pektin 30% (b/bpati), CaCl₂ 1.6% (b/bpektin) dan gliserol 0.50% (v/v). Karakteristik edible film terbaik yaitu kadar air 10.89%, tebal 0.19 mm, kecerahan (L*) 81.67, kelarutan 51.92%, transmisi uap air 1.38 g/m². jam, kuat tarik 4.46 N/cm² dan perpanjangan film 36.89%. Kata Kunci: Albedo, Edible Film , Gliserol, Pektin
Slow Food : The Case for Taste

The Slow Food ManifestoPart 1: Appetite and Thought The OriginsFrom "New Epicures" to Ecological GastronomesAn International Movement of Good TastePleasure Denied, Pleasure RediscoveredMcDonald's Versus Slow FoodPart 2: In the Beginning, the Territory Cultivating DiversityAt the Center, the ProducerThe Rebirth of the OsteriaThe Difficult VoyageThe Salone del GustoPart 3. Educating and Learning The Praise of the Senses and the Paradox of TasteIn the SchoolsFrom the Workshops to the Master of FoodThe UniversityPart 4: The Noah Principle Scenes from a FloodThe Ark and the PresidiaQuality, the Law, and BiotechThe Slow Food Award for the Defense of BiodiversityWithout Nostalgia: AcknowledgmentsPart 5: Appendices The Slow Food Italian PresidiaThe Slow Food International PresidiaSlow Food Award WinnersA Chronology of Arcigola Slow Food
Information-seeking behavior of business and economics faculty: A case study

ABSTRACT There have been a few studies focusing on the online information-seeking behavior of business faculty, the most recent one having been done by Hoppenfeld and Smith and another by Proquest. This current case study adds to the literature by focusing on two activities: finding scholarly articles and finding scholarly books. The purpose was to learn how business and economics faculty at this institution discover and retrieve material for their scholarly research and to evaluate whether they use the University Libraries' subscription databases. Furthermore, participants who taught graduate- and undergraduate-level courses were asked whether their students needed to do research to complete their assignments.
Assessing and managing risk and uncertainty: Women living with breast implants

This qualitative study explores how people assess and manage being identified as potentially 'at risk' when levels of risk are currently unknown or contested. It uses breast implants as a case study. Their safety has been the subject of much recent controversy. Using a qualitative approach, 23 women were interviewed about their experience of having breast implants. In this article we present three themes pertaining to personal risk assessments and management. Findings highlight powerful contextual issues, which influenced how these women thought about risk. Participants used various strategies to manage uncertainty in their lives and derived their interpretations of new information from their own experience and beliefs. A process is proposed for the way people formulate and reformulate risk perceptions over time, as new and sometimes conflicting information becomes available.
Economic aspect of tissue glue in thyroid surgeries

Background: Tissue glue or adhesives are the recent advances in closure of the skin wound. They have been used as an alternative to the sutures, staples and plasters. They have been found to be cosmetically better compared to other modes of wound closure. Whether the tissue glues are economically feasible for routine use has to be found out. The aims and objectives of this study is to find out the cost-effectiveness of tissue glue in comparison with traditional suture technique in thyroid surgeries. Methods: This is a prospective study to find out the economic aspect of tissue glue in comparison with silk suture in fifty three patients who underwent thyroidectomy at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. Results: The overall cost for tissue glue procedure was significantly less when compared to silk suture technique. Conclusions: Iso amyl-2-cyanoacrylate is excellent tissue glue. Though the initial cost of tissue glue is higher compared to silk sutures, the overall cost including the anaesthetic cost, hospital stay and reviews is considerably less. Thus we conclude that the tissue glue is economically cheaper compared to suture methods.
Reconstruction of the Stage IIA Adult-acquired Flatfoot Deformity

Stage IIA adult-acquired flatfoot deformity is defined by a characteristic collapse of the medial arch with passively correctible hindfoot valgus, limited forefoot abduction, and forefoot varus deformities. Operative treatment for symptomatic patients who fail conservative therapy is determined by the deformities present, but can include a medializing calcaneal osteotomy, flexor digitorum tendon transfer to the navicular, gastrocnemius recession, repair of the posterior tibial tendon, and spring ligament as well as medial column procedures including a Cotton osteotomy or first tarsometatarsal fusion. These procedures have been shown to restore alignment radiographically and to improve both pain and quality of life. In this article, we describe our technique for reconstruction of the stage IIA flatfoot and address common concerns that occur both intraoperatively and postoperatively.
Prevalence of oral health care and problems among Rift Valley university health sciences students in Adama, South East, Ethiopia

Objective: Oral hygiene's is the practice of keeping the mouth healthy and clean by brushing and flossing to prevent teeth decay and gum disease. Oral diseases are directly associated with poor practices of oral hygiene and bad breath. In Ethiopia there is no documented studies conducted on the knowledge and practices of oral health among health sciences students. Methods: A quantitative facility -based cross sectional study was employed among 422 health science students that were selected by systematic random sampling from registry. Data entry, cleaning was made using Epi Data version 3.1 and analysis was performed by using SPSS 16. Results: The study showed that 93.1% reported experience of the participants clean their teeth. Of which only 49.5% brushed with tooth pastes. About 80.3% of the participants experienced oral problems in their life. 43.8% had gum bleeding, 31.5% had dental plaques. Among 40.8% who had tooth ache, 31.5% of them had tooth decay, 68% had lost one of their tooth due to illness. This study indicated that risk of dental caries was higher for male 38% (95% CI=31, 45.7) than female 26 %( 95% CI=20.8, 32.4). Predictors of dental caries were eating chocolate, being male and presence of dental plaques. Conclusion: This study indicated that oral health problems were common among study participants. This need appropriate health information dissemination in all schools that provide academic services in Ethiopia. Keywords: dental caries, oral care practices, rift valley university, ethiopia
Levantamento epidemiológico das fraturas de face no hospital São Vicente de Paulo

Estudos epidemiologicos na area de traumatologia bucomaxilofacial relacionados ao proprio exercicio profissional hospitalar nesta area orientaram a realizacao de um estudo comparativo com a finalidade de mostrar o quadro epidemiologico da traumatologia facial na regiao de Passo Fundo-RS. Assim, o presente trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar o numero de atendimentos de traumas dos ossos faciais nos pacientes encaminhados ao Hospital Sao Vicente de Paula (HSVP), considerado centro referencial de saude no interior do Rio Grande do Sul, especialmente para a regiao Nordeste do estado. O estudo procurou registrar todos os pacientes atendidos pelo Servico de Cirurgia e Traumatologia Bucomaxilofacial do hospital no periodo de 1o de dezembro de 1998 a 30 de novembro de 2000, sendo as informacoes classificadas de acordo com idade, genero, procedencia, etiologia do traumatismo e local da lesao traumatica. Dentre os 265 pacientes atendidos, foram registradas 407 fraturas na regiao bucomaxilofacial, sendo o principal fator etiologico o acidente automobilistico e a regiao mais afetada, a do osso zigomatico. Pacientes do genero masculino e na faixa etaria entre a terceira e quarta decadas foram os mais acometidos. Os dados obtidos com este estudo permitiram, alem de reforcar a importância da especialidade, alertar para os principais fatores etiologicos das fraturas dos ossos faciais a fim de orientar trabalhos preventivos que poderao ser utilizados em campanhas municipais, especialmente em educacao para o trânsito.
A Comparative Study of Headedness in Ruhaya Compounds

This paper presents endocentric and exocentric compounds in Ruhaya, with specific focus on their lexical properties, position of headwords, semantic relation between headwords and modifiers, and the semantic classification of noun-noun compounds. It offers a comparison between Ruhaya and other Bantu languages on these aspects, and extends the comparison to Indo-European languages (English, Dutch and French). It was found that Ruhaya has left-headed compounds, and words from the same and different lexical categories can combine to make up compound words. In the case of headed compounds, there is a kind of semantic relations through which modifiers slightly change the meaning of headwords. With an exception of Northern Sotho, in which a prefix of the left-most word becomes the head, the left-most word in Ruhaya, Bemba and Kiswahili is the head. In comparison with Indo-European languages, French is leftheaded in this regard, while Dutch and English are right-headed.