Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Social Work Student Views on Palliative Care Learning Resources

Abstract Many social workers are expected to work with individuals and families who are dealing with life-limiting illnesses, yet during their university education they may not have been exposed to materials that address issues related to death and dying. The Social Work Department of University of New England in Armidale, Australia designed and delivered a palliative care teaching and learning session using publicly funded online materials. Themes emerging from questionnaire and focus group data analysis included appreciation for the importance and emotional demands of the materials, sensitivity and flexibility among educators who ideally have work experience in the field, expanding presence of social work philosophy in curriculum materials and exploring spirituality, and examining culture-informed practice in greater depth. Among the implications is the need for concerted efforts to teach about death and dying using high quality accessible materials, while ensuring social work values and approaches are reflected in the content.
A Theoretical Model to Handle Ontology Debugging & Change Through Argumentation

A miniature optical source which includes at least one thin film of active laser materials having, in addition, non-linear properties. A pump laser for emitting a beam of a wavelength allowing for the pumping of the thin film of active laser material perpendicularly to the plane of the thin film. Also, an optical cavity constituted by two mirrors whose coefficients of reflection are maximum at the laser wavelength of the active laser material is further provided. The miniature optical source may find particular application in a physically compact laser emitting in the visible spectrum.
Paradigm Shift in Therapeutic Modalities for Devastating Ocular Surface Disorders

This review summarizes four different kinds of therapeutic modalities for the treatment of devastating ocular surface disorders: the biologic approach, the immunologic approach, the microbiologic approach, and the combined and integrated approach. In the biologic approach, cultivated corneal epithelial stem cell transplantation, an advanced form of conventional limbal transplantation, is now considered the surgical modality of choice for limbal deficiency; autologous cultivated oral mucosal epithelial transplantation is also widely recognized. For the immunologic approach, immunosuppressive treatment and/or keratoepithelioplasty are very effective for treating peripheral corneal ulcers, including Mooren's ulcer. For the microbiologic approach, the management of commensal bacteria such as Propionibacterium acnes, and especially its elimination from the meibomian gland, is essential for the treatment of meibomitis-related keratoconjunctivitis. Finally, the combined approach is the only known means successfully to treat Stevens-Johnson syndrome because of the associated disordered innate immunity with corneal epithelial stem cell deficiency.
HIV and Lactation

It is well established that more than 90% of children with HIV acquired it through mother-to-child transmission (MTCT). It is estimated that 750,000 children worldwide become infected with HIV every year, and most of these are in sub-Saharan Africa. Routes of MTCT include: transplacental during pregnancy, during birth, through breast milk and bleeding nipples. The percent risk of MTCT varies with each of the aforementioned routes. In the absence of specific interventions, the rate of MTCT is approximately 15–20% and, with prolonged breastfeeding (>6 months), the rates double to 35–40%. Although the use of breast milk substitutes (BMS) may appear to be the obvious choice to reduce the risk of MTCT via breast milk and bleeding nipples, this option may prove to be deleterious for infants born to mothers in limited resource settings. In such settings, the high risk of infant mortality is due to severe diarrhea and malnutrition, related to unsafe BMS feeding and suboptimal breastfeeding (that is, failure to exclusively breastfeed for the first 6 months of life). According to a recent WHO report (2006), it is estimated that globally as many as 1.45 million lives (children under 2 years of age) are lost per annum due to suboptimal breastfeeding in developing countries, versus the estimated 242,000 infant deaths related to maternal MTCT. The WHO guidelines for infant feeding in HIV are an important framework of principles that governments, policymakers and health workers need to consider when compiling prevention of MTCT policies and protocols. Both developed and developing countries have communities which do and do not have access to safe water and electricity; hence the policies need to address the needs of different communities. The WHO guidelines advise, ‘when replacement feeding is acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable and safe, avoidance of all breastfeeding by HIV-infected mothers is acceptable’. Vertically acquired HIV infection has been virtually eliminated in developed countries through the appropriate use of antiretroviral therapy, the use and timing of elective cesarean section, and support for the avoidance of breastfeeding, resulting in a MTCT rate reduction to less than 1–2%.
A Method for Prediction of Gas/Gas Ejector Performance

E xperience during the execution of engineering design and consultancy services has shown that the commonly available process simulation software is not applicable for many gas/gas ejector applications encountered. Gas ejector design can however be determined by rigorous calculation using the applicable equations [1, 2]. A study was performed to establish a simpler methodology for ejector design and for the prediction of performance, based on the following: • published results by manufacturers; • literature survey; • published empirical results; • experience from design projects. A thermodynamic spreadsheet model was prepared based on equations [1, 2]. Results were analyzed and compared with published results and with the simulation results obtained by using cfd codes (as UNISIM and HYSIS). Findings are presented herein, together with a recommended simplified method for the prediction of ejector performance.
The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria: A Study in the Narrative of the 'Letter of Aristeas'

The Letter of Aristeas tells the story of how Ptolemy Philadelphus of Egypt commissioned seventy scholars to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek. Long accepted as a straightforward historical account of a cultural enterprise in Ptolemaic Alexandria, the Letter nevertheless poses serious interpretative problems. Sylvie Honigman argues that the Letter should not be regarded as history, but as a charter myth for diaspora Judaism. She expounds its generic affinities with other works on Jewish history from Ptolemaic Alexandria, and argues that the process of translation was simultaneously a process of establishing an authoritative text, comparable to the work on the text of Homer being carried out by contemporary Greek scholars. The Letter of Aristeas is among the most intriguing literary productions of Ptolemaic Alexandria, and this is the first book-length study to be devoted to it.
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop

If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop's revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC's wordplay to move a club-full of eager listeners. Examining rap history's most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that we must understand rap as poetry or miss the vanguard of poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America's least understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves.
Improved Clinical Outcomes of High Risk β Thalassemia Major Patients Under Going a HLA Matched Related Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant with the Use of a Treosulphan Based Conditioning Regimen and Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Grafts

Abstract 1017 Allogeneic stem cell transplant (SCT) remains the only curative option for patients with β thalassemia major (TM). However, the clinical outcome following SCT in patients with TM who belong to the Class III and the Class III high risk (HR) group remains poor. (Class III HR = age≥7 years and liver size≥5 cms: defined by us previously; BBMT 2007;13:889). From October, 1991 to June, 2011, 332 HLA matched related transplants for TM were done at our center. In an attempt to improve the clinical outcomes we used a Fludarabine (Flu) with intensity reduced Bu/Cy conditioning regimen, for a short period in 2006 and from August, 2009 a treosulphan based conditioning regimen (thiotepa: 8 mg/kg on day-6, treosulphan: 14gm/m2 for 3 days from day −5 to −3 and fludarabine 40mg/m2 for 4 days from day -5 to -2). We undertook a retrospective analysis to compare the impact of these alterations on the clinical outcome, especially in the high risk groups. A total of 178 (53.6%) Class III underwent SCT and 76 (42% of Class III) of these were Class III HR. Of the Class III patients, 135 received a conventional oral busulphan based conditioning regimen, 13 the Flu/Bu/Cy regimen and 30 the treosulphan based regimen (baseline characteristics of three groups summarized in Table 1). The treosulphan based regimen was associated with a significant reduction on the incidence of sinusoidal obstruction syndrome (SOS), TRM and rejections (table 1). The 2 year Kaplan-Meier estimate of EFS for these three groups was 59.6 ± 4.3, 23.1 ± 11.7 and 89.1 ± 6.0) respectively (P=0.000). Among those conditioned with a treosulphan based regimen DAH occurred in 4 and two of them (who also had features of SOS) succumbed to subsequent complications. With the treosulphan based regimen, initially bone marrow was the stem cell source (n=12) and this was associated with a delay in engraftment (median time to ANC>1000/mm3 was 19 days: range: 15–21), greater morbidity and a higher incidence of mixed chimerism on day 28 post transplant (50%) compared to PBSC (n=18, median time to ANC>1000/mm3= 15 days; range: 12–28, day 28 mixed chimerism in 12%). Use of PBSC was not associated with a significant increased risk of acute or chronic GVHD. It was noted that these favorable observations were retained in the Class III HR subset and the 2 year Kaplan-Meier estimate of EFS in this subset, with a treosulphan based conditioning regimen (n=19), was 89.5 ± 7.0% (Figure 1). In conclusion a treosulphan based conditioning regimen with a peripheral blood stem cell graft is well tolerated in high risk patients with TM and significantly improves the clinical outcome. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

In this bold and visionary book, two leading Christian thinkers explore the "alien" status of Christians in today's world and offer a compelling new vision of how the Christian church can regain its vitality, battle its malaise, reclaim its capacity to nourish souls, and stand firmly against the illusions, pretensions, and eroding values of today's world. Hauerwas and Willimon call for a radical new understanding of the church. By renouncing the emphasis on personal psychological categories, they offer a vision of the church as a colony, a holy nation, a people, a family standing for sharply focused values in a devalued world.
Examination of Patient Centered Medical Home Components and Disparities in Mental Health Services Use Among Non-Latino White, Non-Latino Black, and Latino Adults in the U.S.

Author(s): Jones, Audrey Lynn | Advisor(s): Mays, Vickie M | Abstract: Mental health disorders are common but often remain untreated, resulting in a considerable burden of illness in the population. This burden falls most heavily on racial/ethnic minority populations who, compared to Non-Latino Whites, experience significant disparities in mental health services (MHS). Under the Affordable Care Act adults with a mental health disorder will experience new access to the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH). However, it is not yet known if core features of the PCMH will be effective towards improving all patients' access to MHS. This dissertation consists of three studies that examine core features of the PCMH and disparities in MHS use among Non-Latino White, Non-Latino Black, and Latino adults. Components of the PCMH were approximated using patient reports of their healthcare experiences in the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (2004 to 2010). Multivariate logistic regression models were employed to estimate the effect of PCMH components on MHS use for Non-Latino White, Non-Latino Black, and Latino populations.This research found significant disparities in primary care- and specialist-based MHS. Having a designated provider was associated with increased use of primary care-based MHS among Non-Latino White and Black populations. When Black patients had a designated provider who delivered services consistent with the PCMH, these patients appeared more likely than those without a designated provider to receive mental health counseling. Even when Black and Latino patients reported having a designated healthcare provider, they continued to experience significant disparities in MHS.Spreading the adoption of core features of the PCMH may help to reduce the burden of untreated mental illness among Non-Latino White and Black populations. However, the current healthcare reforms appear insufficient to meaningfully reduce racial/ethnic disparities in MHS. Results indicate a need for culturally targeted programs and interventions to improve MHS delivery for Black and Latino adults with a mental health disorder. In particular, findings suggest a need to develop additional policies that will strengthen the patient-provider partnership. As new patients enter the primary care system it will be critical that providers are given the training and resources needed to diagnose and treat mental health disorders in racially and ethnically diverse populations.
Estudo de flebotomíneos (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) na zona urbana da cidade de Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil, 1999-2000

De fevereiro de 1999 a fevereiro de 2000, realizaram-se capturas semanais com armadilhas luminosas do tipo CDC em cinco regioes da zona urbana da Cidade de Campo Grande, Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. As armadilhas foram colocadas em 11 ecotopos (copa, solo e margem nas matas) e nos peridomicilios (galinheiro e bananeiras). Foram capturados 1.245 flebotomineos de 28 especies, sendo 4 do genero Brumptomyia Franca & Parrot, 1921 e 24 do genero Lutzomyia Franca, 1924. Sao elas: B. avellari, B. brumpti, B. galindoi, B. pintoi, L. aragaoi, L. bourrouli, L. campograndensis, L. cerradincola, L. christenseni, L. claustrei, L. cortelezzii, L. corumbaensis, L. cruzi, L. damascenoi, L. flaviscutellata, L. hermanlenti, L. lenti, L. longipalpis, L. longipennis, L. migonei, L. punctigeniculata, L. quinquefer, L. renei, L. shannoni, L. sordellii, L. teratodes, L. termitophila e L. whitmani. Destaca-se a presenca em area urbana de vetores da leishmaniose visceral (L. longipalpis e L. cruzi) e da leishmaniose tegumentar (L. whitmani, L. flaviscutellata e L. migonei). As cinco especies mais frequentes foram: L. termitophila, L. aragaoi, L. lenti, L. longipennis e L. longipalpis.
Capturing Intangible Cultural Heritage - Oral Arabic Storytelling in Hammarkullen, Sweden

Den livfulla fororten Hammarkullen i Goteborg, Sverige, utgor forskningsfaltet for denna magisteruppsats om muntlig arabisk berattartradition i ett exilsamhalle. I syfte att uppfanga och dokumentera exempel pa sagor som utgor ett immateriellt kulturarv vars overlevnad hotas, har ett urval av olika berattelser insamlats genom intervjuer och inspelningar av lokala arabisktalande sagoberattare. Sveriges nuvarande satsning, Kulturarvslyftet, diskuteras samtidigt som UNESCO:s Generalkonferens ar 2003 “Bevarandet av det immateriella kulturarvet” lyfts fram. Det ar genom denna lins som uppsatsen sedan utgar ifran nar den ser narmare pa vilka muntliga arabiska berattelser som berattas i Hammarkullen for att upptacka vad som roar, forskracker och fascinerar dess lyssnare som fortfarande manar om det arabiska spraket med dess implicita last av kulturarv och identitet. Vidare ger uppsatsen icke-arabisktalande en mojlighet att lyssna pa det kulturella sagoberattandet fran en kultur som lever mitt i var egen. De samlade berattelserna uppdagar spar av muntlig arabisk berattartradition som lankar dem med andra varianter av arabiska och nationalitet i exilsamhallet, samt med tidigare forskning om forfluten och nutida arabisk folklor.
Investigation of an  ${X}$ -Band Long Pulse High-Power High-Gain Coaxial Multibeam Relativistic Klystron Amplifier

Increasing the output power of the microwave is one of the most important development directions for high-power microwave (HPM) technology. However, when the output power is increased, the radio frequency breakdown would occur owing to superhigh electric field strength. This problem limits the power handling capability of a single-HPM generator, and this problem becomes more serious for high-frequency bands and long pulse. One solution to overcome this problem is coherent power combining, and coherent power combining can achieve an equivalent power of the order of mymargin TW. The relativistic klystron amplifier (RKA) is a promising candidate for coherent power combing owing to its character of controllable frequency and steady phase. However, the radiation power of RKA quickly decreases when the source is scaled up to higher frequencies such as <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${X}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-band, and moreover, the multigigawatts long pulse radiation from RKA at the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${X}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-band has not yet been obtained experimentally. In this paper, we present investigations into an <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${X}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-band coaxial multibeam RKA, The power handling capability was increased by introducing 20 electron drift tubes and a four gaps extended interaction output cavity. The amplitude uniformity of the multiple electron beams was improved by optimized the anode and cathode configuration. Then, a radiation power of 2.2 GW with pulsewidth of 120 ns is generated experimentally; the working frequency and amplifier gain are 9.4GHz and 50 dB, respectively.
Record Efficiency for Thin-Film Polycrystalline Solar Cells Up to 22.9% Achieved by Cs-Treated Cu(In,Ga)(Se,S)2

An efficiency of 22.9% for 1-cm2-sized Cu(In,Ga)(Se,S)2 solar cells has been independently verified, establishing a record device efficiency for thin-film polycrystalline solar cells. The main improvement in the solar cell device is due to a reduction in the deficit of the open-circuit voltage (Voc), which is notably suppressed by modifying the absorber formation. This is presumably due to reduced defect density, as suggested by the enhanced photoluminescence performance. Such improvement in the absorber quality allowed for an opportunity to benefit from the effects of a wider absorber bandgap. The reverse saturation current density and Voc were significantly improved. Meanwhile, heavier alkali treatment on the absorber surface using cesium was adopted to further boost the device performance. As a result, the significant enhancements in Voc and fill factor led to the achievement of this record-breaking efficiency. These findings have been systematically reproduced and will be leveraged to improve the module performance of Solar Frontier's production in the near future.
An Open-Loop Stackelberg Strategy for the Linear Quadratic Mean-Field Stochastic Differential Game

This paper is concerned with the open-loop linear–quadratic (LQ) Stackelberg game of the mean-field stochastic systems in finite horizon. By means of two generalized differential Riccati equations, the follower first solves a mean-field stochastic LQ optimal control problem. Then, the leader turns to solve an optimization problem for a linear mean-field forward–backward stochastic differential equation. By introducing new state and costate variables, we present a sufficient condition for the existence and uniqueness of the Stackelberg strategy in terms of the solvability of some Riccati equations and a convexity condition. Furthermore, it is shown that the open-loop Stackelberg equilibrium admits a feedback representation involving the new state and its mean. Finally, two examples are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed results.
Community Detection in Networks Based on Modified PageRank and Stochastic Block Model

Community detection plays a vital role in network analysis, simplification, and compression, which reveals the network structure by dividing a network into several internally dense modules. Among plenty of methods, those based on statistical inference are widely used because they are theoretically sound and consistent. However, in many of them, the number of communities needs to be provided in advance or computed in a time-consuming way and parameters are usually initialized randomly, resulting in unstable accuracy and low convergence rate. In this paper, we present a community detection method based on modified PageRank and stochastic block model, which is able to compute the number of communities by finding community centers and initialize community assignments according to the centers and distance. Experiments on both synthetic and real-world networks prove that our method can intuitively give the number of communities, steadily get results of high NMI and modularity and efficiently speed up the convergence of optimizing likelihood probability.
Contactless Monitoring of Pulse Rate and Eye Movement for Uveal Melanoma Patients Undergoing Radiation Therapy

Ensuring eye immobilization and monitoring vital signs are crucial for uveal melanoma patients undergoing radiation therapy (RT). However, current clinical use of an artificial way to observe eye movement and to assess vital signals relies on the use of contact sensors such as finger probe, which is toilsome and inefficient. In this paper, we integrated the contactless measurement methodology to simultaneously monitor the eye movement and pulse rate of patients. The proposed method was also applied to three recruited patients with uveal melanoma to measure the immobilization of eyeball and verify the accuracy of pulse rate detection. Based on the experimental results, the average error of eyeball measurement was 0.96 ± 0.66 mm (mean ± SD) and the average accuracy of pulse rate detection was 96.67%. The environmental illuminance of 2223.92 lx and 1454.59 lx was required to accurately measure eyeball movement and pulse rate, respectively. The use of camera-based contactless measurement under high-energy RT is feasible and has the potential to improve the current clinically used method.