Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Epidemiological Surveillance of Norovirus Diarrhea in Hospitalized Children with Acute Gastroenteritis in South of Iran

Background: Noroviruses are one of the most common causes of acute diarrhea in both developed and developing countries. They are responsible for more than 50% of all gastroenteritis outbreaks around the world. Objectives: This study was conducted to assess the prevalence, seasonality and clinical characteristics of norovirus infection in hospitalized Iranian children. Patients and Methods: Between 2008 and 2010, a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 375 stool samples from children under 7 years of age, who suffered from acute gastroenteritis and who were admitted to the Pediatrics Unit of the 17 Shahrivar Hospital in the city of Borazjan. Acute gastroenteritis was defined as > 3 loose watery stools every 24 hours. All the stool specimens were tested for norovirus antigens with enzyme immunoassays (EIA). Demographic and clinical data were analyzed using SPSS software. Results: Of the total collected samples, noroviruses were detected in 47 out of 375 (12.53%). The highest infection rate was among children under two years of age (76.6%) (P = 0.001). Diarrhea (95.74%), vomiting (87.23%) and fever (82.98%) were the most frequently reported clinical symptoms in children with norovirus gastroenteritis. The highest prevalence of the virus was observed in autumn (63.83%) and the lowest in summer (6.38%) (P = 0.015). Conclusions: Regarding the emergence of noroviruses as a relevant cause of acute diarrhea in Iranian children, there is a great need to introduce a routine norovirus testing of hospitalized patients with gastroenteritis, particularly in children under 2 years old during the cold season.
Estimating Quality Adjusted Life Year Loss of Persons Disabled by Stroke Using EQ-5D in Korea

목적: 뇌졸중으로 인한 장애인이 증가하고 있으나 이들을 대상으로 질보정수명을 구한 연구가 없었다. 이 연구의 목적은 일개 시에서 뇌졸중 장애인을 대상으로 EQ-5D로 그들의 건강 관련 삶의 질 수준을 평가하고, 우리나라 전체 뇌졸중 장애인의 QALYs 감소분을 추정하기 위하여 수행하였다. 방법: 2008년 3월을 기준으로 경주시 장애인 등록현황에서 50세 이상인 장애인 중 뇌졸중이 원인으로 파악된 982명을 대상으로 설문조사자들이 방문하여 대면면접조사를 통해 일반적 특성, 임상적 특성, EQ-5D 등의 자료를 수집하였다. 제4기 국민건강영양조사 에서 일반인구집단과 동반질환이 없는 군을 건강비교군으로 선정하여 성별, 연령별 표준화를 통해 비교함으로써 효용 가중치 차이를 구하였다. 이 효용 가중치 차이를 우리나라 전체 뇌졸중 장애인에 적용하여 전체 QALYs 감소분을 추정하였다. 결과: 대상자 982명 중 조사응답자는 566명으로 응답률은 57.6%였다. 여성, 70대 이상군에서 EQ-5D 지표값이 남성이나 60대 이하군에 비해 더 낮았고, 상대 비교군과의 차이도 크게 나타났다. 건강비교군과 일반인구집단 비교군과의 비교에 따른 전체 QALYs 감소분은 각각 연간 67,011.6 QALYs와 54,167.1 QALYs로 추정되었다. 결론: EQ-5D로 우리나라 전체 뇌졸중장애인의 QALYs 감소분을 추정하였고, 이 연구를 바탕으로 뇌졸중 장애인을 대상으로 한 공중보건정책의 집행이나 평가를 수행하여 보다 근거에 기반한 장애인 정책을 수행할 수 있을 것으로 생각한다.
Immediate mobilisation with complete weight bearing after uncemented total hip replacement in elderly

This prospective study was analyzed in 23 patients who were allowed to do immediate weight bearing after uncemented total hip arthroplasty. Immediate mobilization shortened the hospital stay and facilitated early rehabilitation of hip. Immediate mobilization was started on postoperative Day 3 rather than Day 7 without any adverse consequences to the patients. A series of 23 elderly patients of age more than 60 years, who were diagnosed with conditions such as avascular necrosis of hip, non union of fracture neck of femur, trochanteric non union and rheumatoid arthritis, underwent uncemented total hip replacement and immediate mobilization was started in our hospital. Patients were evaluated by Harris Hip Scoring Scale. All ambulated patients had painless hip and the mean Harris Hip Score was 85. There were no incidence of stem subsidence, acetabular component loosening, and heterotrophic ossification. This data concluded that early intensive rehabilitation yielded faster attainment of short-term functional milestones in fewer days.
Exploiting Discriminative Regions of Brain Slices Based on 2D CNNs for Alzheimer’s Disease Classification

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs)-based classifiers improve the accuracy of diagnosis and prediction for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, exploiting specific brain regions with the AD is essential to understand pathological alteration in the AD and monitor its progression. This paper aims to construct novel AD classification models which have a good performance and interpretation on AD diagnosis. We propose the three classifiers including a simple broaden plain CNNs (SBPCNNs), a major slice-assemble CNNs (SACNNs) and a multi-slice CNNs (MSCNNs), which record the slice positions but have fewer parameters. Specifically, we integrate the ranking and the random forest methods to find the discriminative region that is consistent with domain knowledge about the AD. The results of the visualization explanation of pixel and slice level deliver a clearer understanding of the AD to specialists. The experimental results indicate that the proposed models are meaningful for AD classification.
Formulaic language: fixed and varied

Abstract Formulaic language has been shown to be an important component of language usage. This paper summarizes evidence of this importance and then goes on to focus upon two key characteristics of formulaic language: fixedness and variability. Formulaic language is usually conceptualized as being basically fixed, but examples are given to illustrate that in many cases formulaic language contains a considerable amount of variation. The degree and type of variation depends on which kind of formulaic language is being addressed: idiom, variable expression, or lexical bundle. Idioms, which are supposedly fixed, show the greatest amount of variation, while variable expressions and lexical bundles seem to contain much more stable fixed cores. It is suggested that variable expressions (and perhaps lexical bundles) may be stored in the mind as individual units, because there are relatively few instances to store. Conversely, idioms may involve so many variants that only the canonical form may be stored as a template, from which truncated and novel forms can be recognized. Teaching implications of these different forms of storage are considered.
Role of yoga and naturopathy in a patient with left ovarian malignancy and nonalcoholic fatty liver with ascites

A 70-year-old married woman diagnosed with left ovarian malignancy and nonalcoholic fatty liver with ascites in November 2016 underwent conventional management. In February 2017, the patient developed abdominal discomfort, bloatedness, nausea, and vomiting and underwent conventional management first in a government hospital, followed by in a private hospital, South India. Since no improvements were noted in any of the symptoms except vomiting, in March 2017, the patient was admitted to our hospital. The patient was advised to undergo yoga and naturopathy treatments for 30 days. Results showed a better improvement in weight, body mass index (BMI), abdominal girth, blood pressure (BP), plasma glucose, liver function test (LFT), and renal function test (RFT) along with very mild reduction in the size of left ovarian cancer. It suggests that yoga and naturopathic treatments may be effective in improving weight, BMI, BP, plasma glucose level, LFT, and RFT in patients with left ovarian malignancy and nonalcoholic fatty liver with ascites. Further studies are required to warrant the results.
Nurses’ Attitudes and Beliefs towards Discussing Sexuality with Patients

Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu Tampere University of Applied Sciences Degree Programme in Nursing Option of Medical Surgical Nursing EGHOLM, AUREL: Nurses’ Attitudes and Beliefs towards Discussing Sexuality with Patients Bachelor's thesis 36 pages, appendices 9 pages April 2015 Sexuality is a fundamental part of being human. A person’s sexuality or sexual health can be temporarily or permanently altered by illness or treatment. Nurses are well suited to deal with patients’ needs regarding sexuality, because nurses are in constant contact with patients and because of the intimate nature of care that nurses provide. Research suggests that nurses acknowledge their responsibility and understand the importance of counselling their patients in sexuality but find it difficult to make it part of their daily work. The purpose of this Bachelor’s thesis was to research and compile knowledge on nurses’ attitudes and beliefs towards discussing sexuality with patients and identify factors affecting those attitudes and beliefs. The objective is to help nurses and nursing students in gaining understanding of their own attitudes and beliefs towards discussing sexuality with patients. Nine articles on the topic were collected, analysed and reviewed using the literature review method. The results show that nurses are neither comfortable nor confident in their ability to discuss sexuality with patients. Nurses assume to know what patients want and need in terms of sexuality. Additionally, despite thinking that discussions of sexuality are relevant to patient care, nurses do not actually take time to discuss sexuality with patients. Among other factors, age, training and experience contribute to the ease and confidence in bringing up the topic of sexuality with patients. Contemporary nurse education does not prepare nurses to deal with patients’ sexuality. It does not challenge the beliefs and values about sexuality that nurses have gained from life experiences, which are not grounded in objective evidence and reflect common prejudices and generalisations. Sexual history taking and sexual counselling should be included in nurse education programmes so that nurses learn to acknowledge sexuality as a clinical issue and help them feel confident in their ability to do so. Further research needs to be made into the factors affecting the inclusion of sexuality in nurse education.
Optimization of back-propagation learning algorithm on MLP networks

In order to generate more efficient neural networks, the configuration of the ANN itself has to be optimized, specially refering to its parameters and architecture. To do so, this problem will be approached from the learning and training process point of view, realizing different tests. These evaluations will lead us to determine which are the most optimum parameters for this processes. At the same time, the importance of the input pattern and the data used will be studied, observing how these influences on the learning process, not only from a runtime point of view, but also measuring the obtained error in the trained network. On the other side, the implementation itself will be optimized, doing this by executing the learning algorithm in parallel, using different nodes, meassuring the time needed for completing the trainning, and comparing it with the time needed in a sequential execution.
Hospice Access for Asian Indian Immigrants

There has been recognition that diverse ethnic groups have not been served by hospice. Three reasons given by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization are absence of information about hospice, lack of financial resources, and cultural differences. The purpose of this study was to determine whether these reasons would explain the lack of hospice service to the Asian Indian immigrant population, one of the fastest growing groups of elderly in the United States. A descriptive correlational design was used with a sample of 43 Asian Indian, first-generation immigrants. Most of the Asian Indian immigrants had limited or no knowledge of hospice. Cultural differences related to death and dying rituals were misunderstood by hospice staff. Financial resources were not a barrier to hospice use. These findings suggest a need for increased knowledge of hospice services among the Asian Indian immigrant population. Providers should also become informed about the death and dying beliefs and practices of patients from ethnically diverse populations.
Multifocal necrotising steatites associated with pancreatic carcinoma in three dogs

Multiple subcutaneous swellings and discharging sinuses were a result of steatitis in three dogs. The steatitis in each case was thought to be associated with a pancreatic carcinoma. The association with pancreatic neoplasia had been suspected in life in only one dog but was confirmed at necropsy in each case. Circulating levels of pancreatic enzymes were increased in the one dog in which they were measured.
FMKe: A realistic benchmark for key-value stores

Standard benchmarks are essential tools to evaluate and compare database management systems in terms of relevant semantic properties and performance. They provide the means to evaluate a system with workloads that mimic real applications. Although a number of realistic benchmarks already exist for relational database systems, the same cannot be said for NoSQL databases. This latter class of data storage systems has become increasingly relevant for geo-distributed systems, and this has led developers and researchers to either rely on benchmarks that do not model realistic workloads or to adapt the aforementioned benchmarks for relational databases to work for NoSQL databases, in a somewhat ad-hoc fashion. Since these benchmarks assume an isolation and transactional model in the database, they are inherently inadequate to evaluate NoSQL databases. In this thesis, we propose a new benchmark that addresses the lack of realistic evaluation tools for distributed key-value stores. We consider a workload that is based on information we have acquired about a real world deployment of a large-scale application that operates over a distributed key-value store, that is responsible for managing patient prescriptions at a nation-wide level in Denmark. We design our benchmark to be extensible to a wide range of distributed key-value storage systems and some relational database systems with minimal effort for programmers, which only need to design and implement specific data storage drivers to benchmark different alternatives. We further present a study on the performance of multiple database management systems in different deployment scenarios.
Dengue en México: análisis de dos décadas

Dengue is one of the main vector-borne diseases and has become a severe Public Health problem during the last decade, both in Mexico and worldwide. This report analyses two decades (1990-2011) of dengue in Mexico, based on reports published by the Ministry of Health. The data show that although the incidence rate of dengue in Mexico has remained constant throughout the last two decades, the incidence rate for dengue hemorrhagic fever has increased importantly since 2002 (20% of cases). Additionally, during the last decade, the increase in the incidence rate of dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever has shifted towards a younger population and the disease outbreaks showed a longer duration throughout the year. We conclude that dengue is showing a changing pattern and the factors involved remain to be analyzed.
IMPACTS OF WATER SHORTAGE IN GITHURAI WARD, KIAMBU COUNTY, KENYA

Water is indispensable for life since it is a major basic need and is also important for economic activities. Information on the challenges of water supply and its socioeconomic impacts is important as it forms a vital baseline for the detection of the positive impacts, the main challenges related to it and how to cope and deal with them. This study investigated the challenges of water supply and its socio-economic impacts in Githurai ward. The study was carried out between December 2012 and May 2013. To achieve the objectives of the research, guiding research questions were employed which investigated: the sources of water, causes of the erratic water supply, socio-economic impacts of water supply, adaptation strategies by the stakeholders to ensure water availability and environmental factors attributing to intermittent water supply in Githurai ward. Simple random sampling was used to select the households and water vendors while purposive sampling was used to select the water officers and the chiefs. Samples population was 384. Questionnaires (for households and vendors), interview schedules (for water officers and chiefs) and observation schedules were used as instruments for data collection. Validity of instruments and reliability were tested by subjecting the instruments to a pilot study. Data was analyzed statistically and presented in tables, charts and graphs. Chi square was used to test the hypothesis stated. Regression analysis was used to ascertain the predictive effect of causes of erratic water supply (R = 0.56, n= 384) and environmental factors (R = 0.62, n= 384) to water supply. Chi– square statistical test of analysis showed that there was a significant association between the source of water and the income in the area (χ = 21.362, n= 384, p= 0.002, df= 6). Thus accepting the hypothesis there is an association between the sources of water and the income of the households. There was a significant association between the distance travelled to water source and the gender (χ = 15.978, n= 384, p= 0.003, df= 1). There was a high significant association between the occupation and some of the water related problems (χ =22.136, n= 384, p= <0.001, df= 2). Thus accepting the hypothesis there is an association between the occupation and some of the water related problems. The study concluded that the water shortage is an evident issue in Githurai Ward. The study recommends that strategies be made to deal with illegal water connections and households embrace use of roof water harvesting to increase water collection during the rainy season. Water officers should involve the community to aid in water maintenance programmes.
Viewing Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence Through a Developmental, Social-Ecological, and Survivor Lens: The Current State of the Field, Challenges, and Future Directions

Although some children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) demonstrate resilience, the population-level health consequences of exposure across the lifespan and the related social and economic costs of such exposure are enormous. Using a developmental and social-ecological perspective, this article summarizes the literature examining the effects of IPV exposure on children, reviews key underlying mechanisms, and suggests the use of a public health prevention approach. It presents a discussion of next steps and identification of key challenges. One of the authors, a survivor of child exposure to IPV, presents a vignette that augments key sections and highlights children’s resilience.
El uso de bebidas energizantes en estudiantes de educación física

OBJETIVO: caracterizar el patron de uso de energizantes en muestra por conveniencia de estudiantes de educacion fisica. Estudio descriptivo transversal. Instrumento: cuestionario auto aplicable para datos sociodemograficos y caracterizar el consumo. RESULTADOS: patron de consumo (n = 137), 2,2 % una vez en la vida; 9,5 % por lo menos una vez en ultimos 12 meses; 38 % por lo menos una vez en ultimo mes; 39,4 % seis veces o mas en ultimo mes; 10,9 % veinte veces o mas en ultimo mes. Ocasiones de consumo: discotecas (75,2%), fiestas (48,9%); bares (38,7%); antes practica deportes (14,6%), despues practica deportes (5,8%); al estudiar (4,4%). Razones del uso: 54% mejorar sabor alcohol; 27,7% divertirse toda la noche; 13,9% mejorar desempeno deportivo; 9,5% estimularse; 8,8% gustar bebida; 6,6% curiosidad, 4,4% estudiar. Quienes ya consumieron: 87,6 % combino con alcohol, con vodka (88,3%); 25,9 % consume mas alcohol combinandolo. CONCLUSIONES: el consumo de energizantes no solo se encuentra asociado al deporte sino al alcohol.
Student Affairs Preparation Programs: Reported Learning Outcomes by Recent Graduates

Professional preparation is important for individuals in any profession, as well as the profession itself. It is one of the hallmarks of any profession. Many sets of standards for the curriculum of student affairs preparation programs have been promoted throughout the years. Most recently the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) published a set of standards that outline areas of competency for student affairs professionals. The purpose of this study was to measure the degree to which recent graduates of student affairs preparation programs reported learning about the important foundational elements of the profession. I examined learning based on standards for student affairs preparation programs defined by CAS and compared amounts of reported learning from alumni based on the programs’ adherence to the CAS standards (compliant v. noncompliant). To that end, I administered a 67 item questionnaire to recent graduates from student affairs preparation programs. The findings of the present study reveal that a majority of alumni from student affairs preparation programs report having a clear understanding of 57 of 60 identified foundational learning outcomes. Additionally, there was no statistically significant difference between reported learning of alumni from CAS compliant and non-compliant programs based on these foundational learning outcomes on 58 of the 60 items. Data suggest that alumni from CAS compliant programs are more likely to feel confidence in their preparation in 48 of the 60 outcomes presented in the survey. Additionally, the results indicated that alumni from non-compliant programs were more likely to report higher levels of learning based on involvement theory and understanding the level of data a variable in quantitative analysis. Table of
Mission 2 Solution: Requirements Engineering Education as a Central Theme in the BIT Programme

Design of integrated business-IT solutions is the main theme in the Business Information Technology programme (BIT) at the University of Twente. Our mission is to teach students to design solutions that are needed instead of solutions that are asked for. This makes requirements engineering an essential part of our education in business-IT alignment. Integration of requirements engineering (RE) in several courses is combined with challenging the students by authentic cases, taken from business practice, in which they have to apply theory and train their competences. This combination results in reflection as well as in RE experience and insight in the importance of requirements analysis. In this position paper we outline how RE is integrated in the BIT programme and we discuss the project course BIT Ltd in more detail.
Reading and Writing Acquisition

Part 1 Theoretical foundations: defining the developmental neuropsychological perspective biological constraints on reading and writing acquisition educational constraints on reading and writing acquisition. Part 2 Research on reading and writing acquisition from the developmental neuropsychological perspective: multiple connections and multiple procedures for reading and spelling single words levels of language and intra-individual differences in levels of language in reading comprehension and composition multiple constraints and shared subsystems in writing acquisition implications of the developmental neuropsychological perspective for assessing, preventing and remediating reading and writing disabilities.
İşletme Sermayesi Yönetimi ve Karlılık ilişkisi: Doğrusal Olmayan İlişkinin BIST Kimya, Petrol, Kauçuk ve Plastik Ürünler Sektöründe Sınanması

Isletme sermayesi yonetimi ve karlilik iliskisi literaturde genis capta arastirilmis olan bir konu olmasina ragmen, soz konusu iliski cogunlukla dogrusal modellerle test edilmistir. Oysa ki isletme sermayesi unsurlarindan alacaklar, stoklar, ticari borclar ve karlilik arasindaki iliski dogrusal olmayabilir. Ozellikle dusuk seviyelerdeki alacak, stok ve ticari borclarin arttirilmasi karliligi arttirirken, belirli bir duzeyin uzerindeki unsurlarin arttirilmasi karliliga zarar verebilir. Bu calismanin amaci, 2005-2016 yillari arasinda Borsa Istanbul Kimya, Petrol, Kaucuk ve Plastik Urunler Sektorunde faaliyet gosteren isletmeler icin isletme sermayesi yonetimi ve karlilik iliskisini dogrusal olmayan modelle tespit etmektir. Uygulanan Genellestirilmis Momentler Yontemi (GMM) yonteminin sonuclari ozellikle alacaklar, ticari borclar ve karlilik arasinda dogrusal olmayan, konkav bir iliskinin varligina kanit sunmaktadir. Stoklar icin elde edilen sonuclar ise teorik beklenti ile uyumlu degildir.