Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Risk Factorsthat Contributed to Infection in a Surgical Siteamong Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patients

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a universal surgery that is known for its reliability and is mainly operated on cardiac patients. Often, Infection in a Surgical Site ismainly reported cases of postoperative infections arises within a month of the surgical process. This could be the main reason for the patients’ distress, morbidity, mortality, extended hospitalization and augment of total treatment coast as it affects the patients’ daily activity living. Aim: Assess the risk factors that contributed to Infection in a Surgical Site among coronary artery bypass graft patients. Design: A quantitative retrospectivedesign was used. Setting:The study was done in the unitofmedical record atUniversity of King Abdulaziz Hospital; data was gathered from the patient's electronic files.Sample:All males andfemale’s patient who have undergone coronary artery bypass graft was registered during the period from January 2011 to December 2013. Tool: The researchers were used one tool for data collection, consists of two parts. Part I. Patient assessment sheet: the researchers designed it, to assess patients’ demographic characteristics andmedical data. Part II: Bundle of Infection in a Surgical Site for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft:This bundle used at King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital. The researchers used the data gathered by the bundle to assess the risk factors that contributed to Infection in a Surgical Site among coronary artery bypass graft. It consists of 14 items, 12 items of perioperative factors increased risk for wound infection and 2 items related to types of wound infection. Results:The current study revealed that 9.1% had an infection in a surgical site, 5.8% had a superficial infection, whereas 3.3% deep infection. Moreover, it was noted that 100% the patients with Infection in a Surgical Site have diabetes mellitus, 81.85% hypertension, 36.4% chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and 36.4% peripheral vein disease, while 27.3% smoking and 72.7% of patients have elective surgery. The mean number of days where patients Infection in a Surgical Sitestayed in the intensive care unit was 4.5 day, and the mean number day’s length of hospital stay was 15.9. Conclusions:According to the findings of the current study, the researchers conclude that, bundle has to be effective by reducing the occurrence of wound infections but thereby more other risk factors have occurred related to patient condition increase Infection in a Surgical Site among Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patients like diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity, re-operation for bleeding, rewiring, and ventilation ≥ 24hr. However, the length of ICU stays around 5 days and the length of hospital stay around 16 days regarding infected wound cases.Recommendations:Future studied of Infection in a Surgical Site should aimprompt preoperative intervention and vigilantly monitored of patients with diabetes, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and peripheral vascular disease.
Optimal Dietary Diversity and its Associated Factors among Children Aged 6–23 Months in Bale Zone, Southeast Ethiopia: aCommunity Based Cross-Sectional Study

Background: Almost all nutritional related problems are preventable by implementing infant and child feeding strategies. The first two years of life are particularly important to reverse the nutritional problems by achieving dietary diversity feeding.This study assessed optimum dietary diversity and its associated factors among 6–23 months old children in Robe town, southeast Ethiopia. Methods: Community based cross sectional study design with simple random sampling was employed to include 517 children 6-23 months of age paired with their mothers in Robe town. Data were collected using pre-tested and structured questionnaire. Data were entered into EpiData version 3.1 and analysis was performed using SPSS version 20. Descriptive analysis was done for appropriate variables. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to identify factors associated with optimal dietary diversity practices among children aged 6-23 months. Results: Five hundred eight samples were included in the analysis making response rate of 98%. The optimal dietary diversity practice in the study area was 23%. The dominant food groups consumed by children aged 6-23 months in the study area were Grain, roots and tubers and Dairy products. Exposure to media (AOR=3.99, 95 % CI, 1.97:7.77), secondary and above maternal education (AOR=3.21, 95% CI, 1.05:9.85), and maternal knowledge about diet diversification (AOR=8.5, 95% CI, 4.95:14.58) were found positive significant predictors of optimal dietary diversity practice in the study area. Conclusion: This study concluded that optimum dietary diversity among children aged 6–23 months in the study area is low. Exposure to media and maternal education, maternal knowledge on dietary diversification were found as positive predictors of optimal dietary diversity practice for the children aged 6-23 months. So, inclusion of child nutrition programs different mass medias in the country and encouraging women education would contribute for better dietary diversity of these children.
May 24 Highlight and Commentary: Timing is of the essence

Mielke et al. examined the association between cholesterol level and dementia in a population-based 70-year-old birth cohort followed for 18 years. Low, not high, cholesterol in late life was associated with an increased risk of dementia. see page 1689 Commentary by Mary Ganguli, MD, MPH The relationship between lipid metabolism and dementia remains intriguing and unresolved. Mielke et al. have added another twist to the plot. Their findings are at …
Demand-aware route planning for shared mobility services

The dramatic development of shared mobility in food delivery, ridesharing, and crowdsourced parcel delivery has drawn great concerns. Specifically, shared mobility refers to transferring or delivering more than one passenger/package together when their traveling routes have common sub-routes or can be shared. A core problem for shared mobility is to plan a route for each driver to fulfill the requests arriving dynamically with given objectives. Previous studies greedily and incrementally insert each newly coming request to the most suitable worker with a minimum travel cost increase, which only considers the current situation and thus not optimal. In this paper, we propose a demand-aware route planning (DARP) for shared mobility services. Based on prediction, DARP tends to make optimal route planning with more information about requests in the future. We prove that the DARP problem is NP-hard, and further show that there is no polynomial-time deterministic algorithm with a constant competitive ratio for the DARP problem unless P=NP. Hence, we devise an approximation algorithm to realize the insertion operation for our goal. With the insertion algorithm, we devise a prediction based solution for the DARP problem. Extensive experiment results on real datasets validate the effectiveness and efficiency of our technique.
INFLUENCE OF MANAGEMENT SUPPORT ON BUDGETING SYSTEM EFFICIENCY IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS NAKURU COUNTY, KENYA

Management skills are considered key factor in the management of finances. Failure to manage finances well can lead to long term consequences not only at a personal level but also for an enterprise or society. Management of finances in public secondary schools in Kenya remains the core duty of the Bursars and Accounts clerks but it is the responsibility of the principal to ensure that resources are managed well. However, while several studies have been done on the budget processes, the budgeting environment and specifically the management support on the budgeting system has seldom received research attention in the context of public secondary schools in the country. The present study, therefore, sought to establish the influence of management support on budgeting system efficiency in public secondary schools in Nakuru County, Kenya.The study was conducted using descriptive survey design and targeted 240 public secondary schools from which 84 participated in the actual study. The accessible population were the 240 school bursars from which a sample size of 95respondents was and selcted using purposive sampling. Questionnaires were used to collect data after pilot testing them in two public secondary schools in the neighboring Kericho County. The data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistical methods. The findings revealed that management support does significantly influence budgeting system efficiency in public secondary schools in Nakuru County. The study recommends that the top managements both at the local education office and at the school level to provide more support for the budgeting process so as to ensure that all aspects of the budget are well catered for and allow for different techniques of budgeting to be implemented so as to maximize the gains from these techniques.
Verbal IQ as a Predictor of Deaf Children’s Reading Comprehension Ability

DOI: 10.21276/sjahss.2018. 6.5. 13 Abstract: Deaf children are believed to have low reading comprehension. This is due to several factors. The results of verbal IQ tests are believed to be a strong predictor for exploring reading comprehension skills of children with hearing impairment. This study is a case study using quantitative and qualitative analysis to find out how verbal IQ can be a predictor of deaf children’s’ reading comprehension skills. This research was conducted at middle School special education of SMPLB-B YRTRW of Surakarta, Indonesia involving 4 subjects of hearing impaired children range between 17-18 years old. The data of the research were comprehension and IQ test score. IQ tests were administered using the WISC-R scale and conducted by Bureau of Psychology Consultation and Services (BKPP) team from Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta. The results show that IQ verbal has significant correlation with reading comprehension achievement in deaf children. This is due to the ability of test to give comprehensive description of deaf children’s language acquisition.
Properties of Edam Cheese Fortified by Dietary Zinc Salts

Edam cheese is a type of semi hard cheese having a wide distribution among consumers in Egypt. Zinc has a very important and effective role in human nutrition and body metabolism. The objective of this study was to elucidate the effect of fortification of cheese curd with zinc on the properties of the Edam cheese. Edam cheese was fortified by different sources of dietary zinc such as zinc acetate, zinc chloride and zinc sulphate at a level of 150 mg zinc / kg cheese curd. The resultant cheese was analyzed fresh and during storage at 5°±1 at refrigerator each 2 weeks until 12 weeks. Results showed that Edam cheese fortified with zinc was higher in acidity, acid value and protein fractions during storage period than control. On the other hand, Edam cheese fortified with zinc acetate recorded the highest organoleptical scores, which more pronounced and preferable compared to control and other treatments. Fortified Edam cheese with zinc could be recommended as a good source to promote human dietary zinc intake. [Journal of American Science 2010;6(10):441-446]. (ISSN: 1545-1003).
Effects of Climate Change on Human Security in Zvishavane District of Zimbabwe

DOI: 10.21276/sjahss.2018. 6.3. 31 Abstract: The mixed methods research study examined the effects climate change, human security and coping mechanisms in rural communities in Zvishavane District. Zvishavane rural district communities are experiencing effects of climate change in the form of droughts and high temperatures and low annual rainfall that has culminated in low agricultural productivity. Climate change is threatening livelihoods, food security and water security in the district. Climate change is also altering significantly the relationship between people and their environments and undermines their source base upon which rural people have built their societies leading to human insecurity. The consequences of climatic change in the district are being exacerbated by the reliance of rural communities on rain fed agriculture as their main livelihood in Zvishavane District. The research objectives of the study were to explore the effects of climate change on human security in the Zvishavane district. The study used a descriptive research design with a sample of 71 respondents (n=71) chosen using simple random sampling method. Primary data was collected using questionnaire with a five point Likert scale, focus group discussion and interviews. The research results indicated that to a very great extent climate causes floods, droughts, storms and cyclones, fires, heat waves, and epidemics that cause loss of life and properties and it was also indicated that climate change causes poverty, inequality, market failures, and policy failures, the study showed that to a very great extent people in Zvishavane District adopted changes in planting dates, changes in harvesting dates, multiple cropping, intensive manure application, intercropping, and expansion of cultivated land area as coping mechanisms currently employed to mitigate the effects of climate change. The researcher recommended that people in the district should stop engaging in deforestation and sand-filling of natural water bodies such as rivers as a result of stream bank cultivation, as all of which singly and/or complementarily leads to climate change, the rural communities should do afforestation in their areas, farmers in the district should select and cultivate new well-bred animal and crop varieties with high yield potential and quality, superior, integrative stress resistance and wide adaptability and also select and cultivate stress resistant varieties with specific abilities of resistance to drought, high temperature and diseases and pest invasion and communities should stop agricultural activities such as bush burning, fertilizer application, fermentation among others, as anthropological influencers they, contributes to climate change, instead they can practise zero-tillage and organic farming using organic manure.
Potential of three indigenous plants extracts for the control of Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) and Rhyzopertha dominica (Fab.).

Punjab Bioenergy Institute, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan Department of Entomology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan Entomological Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Sahiwal, Pakistan Department of Pest Warning and Quality Control of Pesticides, Punjab, Pakistan Department of Plant Protection, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Multifocal Tuberculosis in Immunocompetent Patients

Original Research Article Multifocal tuberculosis is defined as the involvement of two non-contiguous extra-pulmonary sites with or without pulmonary involvement. It is a rare but serious form that occurs mainly in immunocompromised patients. The aim of our work was to analyze the epidemiological, clinical and evolutionary features of multifocal tuberculosis in immunocompetent patients. For this we conducted a retrospective study of 67 cases of multifocal tuberculosis in immunocompetent patients, collected at the service of respiratory diseases of Ibn Rochd University Hospital of Casablanca over a period of 17 years. There are 45 women and 22 men. The average age was 32 years old. The average consultation time was 72 days. Recent tuberculosis was found in 33% of cases. The field assessment performed on all patients for possible immunosuppression was negative. Our patients had at least three associated disorders. Pulmonary tuberculosis was found in all cases. It was associated mainly with pleural involvement in 38.8% of cases, mediastinal lymph node in 23.8% of cases, peritoneal in 19.4% of cases and peripheral lymph node in 16.4% of cases. Patients were treated according to the recommendations of the national program against tuberculosis in Morocco. The evolution was favorable in 68.6% of the cases. We insist on the possibility of the occurrence of multifocal tuberculosis even in immunocompetent subjects. TB treatment should be started as soon as possible to avoid sometimes disastrous complications.
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Background.Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common mood disorder, with a heritability of around 34%. Molecular genetic studies made significant progress and identified genetic markers associated with the risk of MDD; however, progress is slowed down by substantial heterogeneity as MDD is assessed differently across international cohorts. Here, we used a standardized online approach to measure MDD in multiple cohorts in the Netherlands and evaluated whether this approach can be used in epidemiological and genetic association studies of depression. Methods. Within the Biobank Netherlands Internet Collaboration (BIONIC) project, we collected MDD data in eight cohorts involving 31 936 participants, using the online Lifetime Depression Assessment Self-report (LIDAS), and estimated the prevalence of current and lifetime MDD in 22 623 unrelated individuals. In a large Netherlands Twin Register (NTR) twinfamily dataset (n≈ 18 000), we estimated the heritability of MDD, and the prediction of MDD in a subset (n = 4782) through Polygenic Risk Score (PRS). Results. Estimates of current and lifetime MDD prevalence were 6.7% and 18.1%, respectively, in line with population estimates based on validated psychiatric interviews. In the NTR heritability estimates were 0.34/0.30 (S.E. = 0.02/0.02) for current/lifetime MDD, respectively, showing that the LIDAS gives similar heritability rates for MDD as reported in the literature. The PRS predicted risk of MDD (OR 1.23, 95% CI 1.15–1.32, R = 1.47%). Conclusions. By assessing MDD status in the Netherlands using the LIDAS instrument, we were able to confirm previously reported MDD prevalence and heritability estimates, which suggests that this instrument can be used in epidemiological and genetic association studies of depression.
An Analysis of Banks’ Credit and Agricultural Output in Nigeria: 1980-2014

Inadequate Capital is considered as one of the major factors affecting Agricultural productivity in Nigeria and both previous and current governments in Nigeria do not seem to have harnessed properly availability of this capital to farmers and the institutions involved in its administration mostly the banking sector. It is on this premise that this research work is based; studied and investigated the relationship between Banks‟ Credit and Agricultural Sector Performance in Nigeria from 1980 to 2014. From the empirical analysis made using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS), Error Correction Modeling (ECM) and other properties substantiated to know the impact (significance) of Banks‟ Credit as well as Interest Rate, Foreign Exchange Rate, Government Expenditure on Agriculture & Money Supply on Agricultural output in Nigeria: all the variables were stationary at first difference, there also exists both long run and short run equilibra relationship between the dependent and the independent variables. The study found out that apart from Interest rate that has a negative but significant relationship, Banks‟ Credit to Agriculture (BCRA), Foreign Exchange Rate (FREX), Government Expenditure on Agriculture (GEXA) and Money Supply (MSPL) have a positive and significant relationship with Agricultural Gross Domestic Product (AGDP). We recommend that government should enact viable policies to enhance its capacity in making more loans and advances available to genuine farmers from commercial banks with less hurdles and unbearable red tapes, encourage the export of agricultural produce to the rest of the world through excise duty waiver and also a staunch and consistent agricultural extension services to both the commercial and rural farmers.
The Effects of Local Government Size, Income per Capita, Local Government Wealth and Audit Opinion on the Quality of Internet Financial Reporting Disclosure: Studies in Indonesia

This study was conducted with the aim to determine the effects of local government size, income per capita, local government wealth and audit opinion on the quality of internet financial reporting disclosures in local governments in accordance with Minister of Home Affairs Instruction No. 188.52/1797/SJ. The population in this study was all the official websites of the provincial governments in Indonesia, which covered 34 provinces. The samples in this study were all the official websites of the provincial governments in Indonesia with the observation years of 2015-2017, so the total amount of data in this study was 102 data (34 x 3 years). The samples in this study were selected using the survey data method on the official websites of the Provincial Governments in Indonesia. The results showed that the size of the local government had a significant effect on the quality of internet financial reporting disclosures in local governments, while income per capita, local wealth and audit opinion did not affect the quality of internet financial reporting disclosures in local governments.
Effect of Supplementation of Yucca schidigera Extract on Ammonia Gas Emission and Performance of Broiler Chickens.

The current study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of Yucca extract (YE) on ammonia gas emission from litter, evaluate the production performance, carcass characteristics and economic utility in broiler rearing. A trial of 240 day-old commercial broiler chicks was carried out on littered floor for a period of 28 days. The birds were allocated randomly to 3 treatments and a control group with three replications (20 birds/ replication). Feeding management and rearing condition were same for all the groups, as per standard. YE was mixed with drinking water as treatment as follows: 1ml YE per 16 liters of drinking water (T1), 1ml YE per 20 liters of drinking water (T2), 1ml YE per 24 liters of drinking water (T3) and no YE in drinking water i.e control group (T0). Ammonia level of Yucca treated groups were significantly (P<0.05) lower at the 4 week of rearing period than control group. A significant difference (P<0.05) was noted on body weight, feed consumption, body weight gain and feed conversion ratio value of the birds treated with YE. Carcass percentage and edible portion were significantly (P<0.05) greater in all treatment groups than control group. Profit per bird and Benefit cost ratio were also higher (P<0.05) in treatment groups than control group. Among the treatments, the performance of T2 group was better than other groups. This study concluded that application of YE (1ml/ 20 liters of drinking water) has an important role to reduce ammonia gas emission from broiler litter and increase the birds performance.
The Effect of Feeding Chrysoperla carnea Steph Adults with Some Nutritional Diets on Some of its Life and Reproduction Characteristics

Green lacewing predator (Chrysoperla carnea) is polyphagous predator. It is currently mass-reared and used in biological control of insect pests. The experiment was carried out under laboratory conditions at 25±2°C and 65±5% RH at Hama Biological Control Center, during 2017, to find out a better and high efficiency nutritional diet for mass-rearing of adult of C. carnea. Four adult diets were tested under the laboratory conditions. Fertility, larval period, pupal period and adult longevity were studied. The results showed that the 1 diet that contained of water, honey, yeast and pollen in a ratio of (9:3:1:1) respectively was better than all other diets, that contain a ratio of (1:1:1/ 6:2:1/ 9:3:1) of water, honey and yeast respectively. When the adults fed on 1 diet the fertility of females was 409.33 eggs, larval period was 9.92 days, pupal period was 7.92 days and longevity of female and male were 51.5, 38.5 days.