Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Weg vrij voor duurzame brandstoffen? Onderzoek naar bereidheid consument om over te schakelen op duurzame brandstoffen

In Nederland zijn op dit moment praktisch geen tankstations waar, naast reguliere brandstoffen, verschillende soorten duurzame brandstoffen worden aangeboden. Dit ligt niet aan een gebrek aan duurzame brandstoffen, aangezien in andere landen veelvuldig op een aantal duurzame brandstoffen zijn gereden. Green Planet wil een tankstation beginnen bij de afslag Pesse langs de A28 waar, naast de reguliere brandstoffen, duurzame brandstoffen worden aangeboden. Doordat deze brandstoffen in Nederland bijna nog niet worden aangeboden is het onbekend of automobilisten op deze brandstoffen willen gaan rijden. Green Planet wil daarom onderzocht hebben wat de intentie is van de consument om op duurzame brandstoffen te gaan rijden. Daarnaast wil zij graag weten op welke wijze deze brandstoffen aan de geinteresseerde consument geintroduceerd moeten worden, zodat deze intentie ook daadwerkelijk wordt omgezet tot koopgedrag. Via een enquete onder meer dan 300 autorijders in Groningen en Drenthe is de intentie van de brandstoffen B10/E10, E85 en CNG onderzocht. Voor het opstellen van de enquetevragen is de ‘Theory of Planned Behaviour’ gebruikt. De enquetes zijn afgenomen bij benzinestations, deur-aan-deur en via Internet. Voor B10/E10 bleek dat meer dan viervijfde van de respondenten bereid is om over te stappen, indien de prijs gelijk is aan die van reguliere brandstoffen. Slechts 14% van de respondenten geeft aan B10/E10 te willen kopen als er een hogere prijs voor wordt gerekend. Een lagere prijs leidt tot een iets grotere intentie onder automobilisten dan bij een gelijke prijs, maar een hogere prijs laat de intentie sterk afnemen. Naast de prijs is de afstand van het tankstation tot huis/werk erg belangrijk. Van de ondervraagden geeft meer dan de helft aan niet meer dan twee kilometer om te willen rijden om deze brandstoffen te tanken. Van de respondenten zou iets meer dan driekwart bereid zijn om een auto die rijdt op E85 te overwegen en meer dan de helft een auto die rijdt op CNG. Het politieke beleid ten aanzien van duurzame brandstoffen is op dit moment ongunstig (behalve ten opzichte van CNG) en het geringe aanbod van duurzame brandstoffen maakt de rentabiliteit voor de markt van duurzame brandstoffen erg laag. Echter de media-aandacht voor de milieuproblematiek en de politieke wil van de EU om klimaatverandering tegen te gaan kunnen de bedrijfstak in de toekomst aantrekkelijker maken. Bovenstaande informatie leidt er toe dat een marketingstrategie is opgesteld waarbij aanbevolen wordt om duurzame brandstoffen te gaan aanbieden, met nadruk op B10/E10 en CNG. Hierbij moet de consument vooral ingelicht worden over de samenstelling van duurzame brandstoffen en over eventuele consequenties van het rijden op duurzame brandstoffen voor auto en milieu.
Diagnostic Immunohistochemistry of Epithelial Lesions of the Breast: A Review and an Update

Histomorphologic evaluation is adequate for the appropriate assessment and classification of most breast lesions. In some cases, however, interpretation based on morphologic criteria alone may be difficult and subject to significant interobsever variability. In such circumstances, the use of immunohistochemistry aids in the proper evaluation of ambiguous and difficult lesions and helps avoid misclassification and mismanagement. This review describes the common uses and limitations of immunohistochemistry in the assessment of invasion, classification of intraductal proliferative lesions, distinction of lobular and ductal carcinoma, and evaluation of Paget disease of the nipple. The use of immunohistochemistry in the differentiation of spindle cell lesions of the breast, evaluation of metastasis from a possible breast origin, and the evaluation of papillary lesions are discussed in other reviews in this issue.
Ability, motivation, opportunity and sociodemographic determinants of Internet usage in Malaysia

Further to the binary notion of accessibility and lack of accessibility to digital technology, this study examines Internet usage as the outcome of choice made by an individual to use the Internet. In identifying the determinants of choice, this study integrates the social cognitive theory notion of the human agency with the ability-motivation-opportunity (AMO) framework. The results of path modeling analysis of the data collected from 270 respondents in Malaysia showed that digital skill was the most significant predictor of Internet usage. Opportunity and extrinsic motivation were also significant predictors, whereas intrinsic motivation had no significant effect on Internet usage. Besides, the findings revealed that the traditional sociodemographic determinants of the digital divide are still prevalent in Malaysia.
The Nature of Occupational Therapy Practice in Acute Physical Care Settings

Acute care practice in New Zealand is delivered in environments where there are many challenges to occupational therapy practice. In order to identify ways in which therapists make sense of this area of practice we developed and distributed a questionnaire containing closed and open questions. The findings suggest that occupational therapists have positive views of their work and are able to clearly articulate their practice. Relating views of practice to theoretical models lacks clarity with therapists using broad professional frameworks and/or the notion of holism to provide a conceptual lens.
Gadofosveset-enhanced MRI as simple surrogate parameter for real-time evaluation of the initial tumour vessel infarction by retargeted tissue factor tTF-NGR

Truncated tissue factor (tTF)-NGR consists of the extracellular domain of the human TF and the binding motif NGR. tTF-NGR activates blood coagulation within the tumour vasculature following binding to CD13, and is overexpressed in the endothelial cells of tumour vessels, resulting in tumour vessel infarction and subsequent retardation/regression of tumour growth. The aim of the present study was to investigate gadofosveset-based real-time dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) in evaluating the initial therapeutic effects of the anti-vascular tTF-NGR approach. DCE-MRI (3.0 T) was performed in human U87-glioblastoma tumour-bearing nude mice. During a dynamic T1w GE-sequence, a gadolinium-based blood pool contrast agent (gadofosveset) was injected via a tail vein catheter. Following the maximum contrast intensity inside the tumour being obtained, tTF-NGR was injected (controls received NaCl) and the contrast behaviour of the tumour was monitored by ROI analysis. The slope difference of signal intensities between controls and the tTF-NGR group was investigated, as well as the differences between the average area under the curve (AUC) of the two groups. The association between intensity, group (control vs. tTF-NGR group) and time was analysed by fitting a linear mixed model. Following the injection of tTF-NGR, the signal intensity inside the tumours exhibited a statistically significantly stronger average slope decrease compared with the signal intensity of the tumours in the NaCl group. Furthermore, the initial average AUC values of mice treated with tTF-NGR were 5.7% lower than the average AUC of the control animals (P<0.05). Gadofosveset-enhanced MRI enables the visualization of the initial tumour response to anti-vascular treatment in real-time. Considering the clinical application of tTF-NGR, this method may provide a simple alternative parameter for monitoring the tumour response to vascular disrupting agents and certain vascular targeting agents in humans.
Shelley the Pursuit

A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes' epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greatest biographical achievements of recent years. Shelley, the most neglected of all the great Romantic poets, was born in Sussex in 1792 and died in Tuscany in 1822, a brief life packed with love affairs, alarums and excursions. Holmes's book offers a serious and critical reappraisal of Shelley as a man and a writer; all his prose and poetry is carefully re-examined, his sense of spiritual and geographical isolation brilliantly described and a detailed portrait of his macabre imaginative life slowly assembled. Shelley's intense friendships with some of the most remarkable figures of his age fill Holmes's pages with a vivid parorama of revolutionary idealism and recklessness. To this is added the private story of Shelley's tortuous romantic liaisons, complications which affected both the peculiar tenor of his daily life and the remotest conceptions of his poetry. This is a stunning, entrancing biography of a fascinating subject, and a timely reissue of an absolutely seminal work.
Person identification based on parametric processing of the EEG

Person identification based on parametric spectral analysis of the EEG signal is addressed in this work-a problem that has not yet been seen in a signal-processing framework, to the best of our knowledge. AR parameters are estimated from a signal containing only the alpha, rhythm activity of the EEG. These parameters are used as features in the classification step, which employs a learning vector quantizer network. The proposed method was applied on a set of real EEG recordings made on healthy individuals, in an attempt to experimentally investigate the connection between a person's EEG and genetically-specific information. Correct classification scores at the range of 72% to 84% show the potential of our approach for person classification/identification and are in agreement with previous research showing evidence that the EEG carries genetic information.
Children prefer the accusative-dative order to the dative-accusative order in Japanese (思考と言語)

In recent years, there is a heated discussion about the relative ordering of indirect and direct objects in Japanese. This study investigates Japanese-speaking children’s comprehension of the ditransitive construction that involves an indirect object marked with the dative case-marker ni and a direct object with the accusative case-marker o. Preliminary results show that the children prefer the accusative-dative order to the dative-accusative order, contrary to the adults’ preference for the opposite order. I discuss some factors that account for the results, including the Iconicity Hypothesis (Cho et al., 2002; Suzuki et al., 1999).
Epidemiology and Clinical Outcomes of Community Acquired Pneumococcal Infection in North-West Nigeria

Introduction: Pneumococcal infection is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. There is a paucity of data on pneumococcal infection in Nigeria. We aimed to determine the epidemiology and clinical outcome of pneumococcal infection in a Tertiary Referral Center in Northwestern Nigeria. Materials and Methods: We conducted a prospective, hospital-based study on patients with community acquired pneumococcal infections. All studied subjects had clinical evaluation and relevant laboratory investigations. The outcome was defined as mortality. Analysis was carried out using descriptive statistics with differences and relationships determined using Student′s t-test, Chi-squared and Fisher′s exact tests as appropriate, with P < 0.05 regarded as significant. Result: Three hundred and two cases of bacteriologically proven community acquired pneumonia (241/302), bacteremia (38/302) and meningitis (23/302) were screened, out of which 125/241 (51.7%), 7/23 (30.4%) and 8/38 (21.1%) were pneumococcal pneumonia, pneumococcal meningitis and pneumococcal bacteremia, respectively. Most of the patients, 87/140 (69.3%) had comorbidity conditions. The overall mortality rate was 12.9%. Chronic heart disease (odds ratio [OR] = 1.143; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.032-0.638), human immunodeficiency virus infection (OR = 2.309; 95% CI = 1.258-4.241), age ≥65 years (OR = 6.397; 95% CI = 2.181-18.746), and infection with multi-drug resistant Pneumococcus (OR = 4.089; 95% CI = 1.274-13.125) were identified as independent risk factors for mortality. Conclusion: The Pneumococcus is a common cause of community acquired infections among adults in northwestern Nigeria, with associated high mortality.
Synchronization and prediction of chaotic dynamics on networks of optoelectronic oscillators

Title of dissertation: SYNCHRONIZATION AND PREDICTION OF CHAOTIC DYNAMICS ON NETWORKS OF OPTOELECTRONIC OSCILLATORS Adam Brent Cohen, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Dissertation directed by: Professor Rajarshi Roy Department of Physics The subject of this thesis is the exploration of chaotic synchronization for novel applications including time-series prediction and sensing. We begin by characterizing the nonlinear dynamics of an optoelectronic time-delayed feedback loop. We show that synchronization of an accurate numerical model to experimental measurements provides a way to assimilate data and forecast the future of deterministic chaotic behavior. Next, we implement an adaptive control method that maintains isochronal synchrony for a network of coupled feedback loops when the interaction strengths are unknown and time-varying. Control signals are used as real-time estimates of the variations present within the coupling paths. We analyze the stability of synchronous solutions for arbitrary coupling topologies via a modified master stability function that incorporates the adaptation response dynamics. Finally, we show that the master stability function, which is derived from a set of linearized equations, can also be experimentally measured using a two-node network, and it can be applied to predict the convergence behavior of large networks. SYNCHRONIZATION AND PREDICTION OF CHAOTIC DYNAMICS ON NETWORKS OF OPTOELECTRONIC OSCILLATORS
Prospective analysis of two modes of unaided smoking cessation

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Knowledge, attitude and practice of tobacco use among secondary school students in Nairobi: the case of students in Kangemi high school

xii CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION . 1 1.1 Background Information.1 1.2 Problem Statement . 2 1.3 Objectives of Study . 4 1.3. 1 Specific Objectives . 4 1.4 Research Questions . 4 1.5 Justification of the Study . 5 1.6 Scope and Limitation of Study . 6 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW . 7 2.
The Relationship Between New Nurses Who Volunteer and the Caring Behavior New Nurses Exhibit in the Practice Setting, One Year Post Graduation

The Relationship Between New Nurses Who Volunteer and the Caring Behavior New Nurses Exhibit in the Practice Setting, One Year Post Graduation by Nicolette Fiore-Lopez, PhD(c), RN, CNEP Volunteering is engaged in by millions world-wide and nurses comprise a significant portion of those who provide their professional talents, unpaid, to the underserved in local, national and international efforts. Nurses who have engaged in volunteer activities anecdotally describe personally transforming experiences gained through their efforts and for many nurses volunteeringbecomes part of their professional mandate. Although many social disciplines have studied volunteering, to date there has been a paucity of research on nurses who volunteer. The purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics of novice nurses who volunteer and determine the influence of volunteering and associated characteristics on their self-reported caring behaviors and their satisfaction with career choice. This was a quantitative survey study with several open-ended questions. A descriptive, correlational design was used to determine the effect of spirituality, altruism and prosocialness on nurse volunteerism and how volunteerism mediates caring behavior and satisfaction with career choice in the new nurse. Those in the final data set were mainly young,White non-Hispanic female novice nurses who attained baccalaureate degrees as their basic nursing education (n= 1023). Nearlytwo thirds of respondents reported as having volunteered and mostly at the local level. Significant findings include that volunteering is positively influenced by participation in non-school related, voluntary volunteer activity and negatively influenced by required volunteer activity. Caring behavior was positively influenced by local volunteer activity that was non-school related,
A REVIEW OF CINNAMON AS A POTENT ANTICANCER DRUG

ABSTRACT Cinnamon is one of the most popular and oldest spices. Several recent studies have found that cinnamon also has anticancer activity. The present work has reported the antineoplastic potential of the spice cinnamon in cancer. Collectively, these data suggest that cinnamon could be proposed as a potent anticancer drug. The bibliographic investigation was carried out during January 2004-December 2014 by analyzing journals and peer-reviewed papers from the last decades. Peer-reviewed articles were indexed by Scopus, PubMed, and Google scholar. Only relevant studies published in English were considered. There were 24 articles that reported the cytotoxic activity of cinnamon on all culture cell lines. About 8 species of Cinnamomum have been isolated with their active compounds for cancer cell lines. Based on the reviews of those articles, we conclude that cinnamon has the potential to be further developed as an anticancer agent. In further development, however, not only the research for investigating the anticancer activities, but also research for investigating the safety of cinnamon to the normal cell need to be performed. Keywords: Review, Cinnamon, Anticancer, Cinnamomum species, Cell lines.
Reading Programs for Students in the Lower Elementary Grades: What Does the Research Say?.

This report aims to disseminate research findings about reading programs for early elementary grades in a summary format useful for educators. The report features programs with clear descriptions and useful research, programs for non-English speaking children and research on basal reader series were not included. The four sections of the report address: (1) comprehensive classroom approaches to reading instruction (Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition; Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction; Open Court; The Slingerland Approach; SRA Reading Mastery; and Success for All); (2) classroom supplements to reading instruction (Accelerated Reader; Junior Great Books; and IBM's Writing to Read 2000); (3) small group approaches to reading instruction (Alphabetic Phonics and Project Read); and (4) tutoring approaches to reading instruction (Auditory Discrimination in Depth, Helping One Student to Succeed; Programmed Tutorial Reading; Reading One-One, Reading Recovery, and Recipe for Reading). In each section, three aspects of each program are described: (1) instructional strategies and curricular contents incorporated by the program; (2) resources needed to implement the program; and (3) evidence of the program's effects. A list of elements of research-based reading programs concludes the report. Contains 73 references. (RS) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ******************************************************************************** READING PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS IN THE LOWER ELEMENTARY GRADES: What Does the Research Say?
Diversion colitis: a trigger for ulcerative colitis in the instream colon

ABC of Colorectal Diseases. 2nd edn. Edited by Jones DJ. (Pp 109; illustrated; £18.95.) London: BMJ Books, 1999. ISBN 0-7279-1105-8. The series of ABC articles in the BMJ is always enjoyable. This book brings together articles that were published several years ago and were well received in the first edition of 1993. These articles have been updated and eight additional chapters have been added on constipation, diarrhoea, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, anal cancer, colorectal trauma, tropical colonic diseases, and paediatric problems. The editor (DJ Jones) has turned vision into …
Tetanus in Nigeria: Is the end in sight?

DOI: 10.15580/GJMS.2015. 3.052615076 Background: Tetanus especially neonatal has remained a public health problem and major contributor to morbidity and mortality in developing countries such as Nigeria despite the availability of effective vaccines for over 40years. The institution of preventive and control interventions for tetanus like immunization, essential obstetric care and good cord care as well as education are still very poor in most developing countries and are major contributing factors to the continued existence of tetanus. This study aims at reviewing the status of tetanus cases in UPTH with a view of determining if the end is in sight.
The emerging role of private health care provision in China : a critical analysis of the current health system

China continues to face great challenges in meeting the health needs of its large population. The challenges are not just lack of resources, but also how to use existing resources more efficiently, more effectively, and more equitably. Now a major unaddressed challenge facing China is how to reform an inefficient, poorly organized health care delivery system. The objective of this study is to analyze the role of private health care provision in China and discuss the implications of increasing private-sector development for improving health system performance.This study is based on an extensive literature review, the purpose of which was to identify, summarize, and evaluate ideas and information on private health care provision in China. In addition, the study uses secondary data analysis and the results of previous study by the authors to highlight the current situation of private health care provision in one province of China.This study found that government-owned hospitals form the backbone of the health care system and also account for most health care service provision. However, even though the public health care system is constantly trying to adapt to population needs and improve its performance, there are many problems in the system, such as limited access, low efficiency, poor quality, cost inflation, and low patient satisfaction. Currently, private hospitals are relatively rare, and private health care as an important component of the health care system in China has received little policy attention. It is argued that policymakers in China should recognize the role of private health care provision for health system performance, and then define and achieve an appropriate role for private health care provision in helping to respond to the many challenges facing the health system in present-day China.
Efeito do Treinamento Muscular Periférico na Capacidade funcional e Qualidade de Vida nos Pacientes em Hemodiálise

Effect of Peripheral Muscle Training on Functional Capacity and Quality of Life in Patients on Hemodialysis Resumo: Introducao: O treinamento muscular periferico (TMP) pode promover a reducao dos sintomas relacionados a patologia de base e ao tratamento, alem da melhoria funcional. Este estudo avalia os efeitos do TMP na capacidade funcional e na qualidade de vida (QV) de pacientes em hemodialise. Metodo: Ensaio clinico. Estudaram-se sete individuos com idade entre 29 e 84 anos, portadores de DRC. Os pacientes [. ]