Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The intergenerational transmission of criminal offending behaviours (Report to the Criminology Research Council - Grant: CRG 19/14-15)

Background : Parental offending is associated with a wide-range of adverse outcomes in offspring, but the emphasis has been on examining the role of fathers on offspring offending in adolescence and adulthood. Little intergenerational research has been conducted in Australia on the relationship between maternal and paternal offending and diverse offspring developmental vulnerabilities in childhood. Aim : To determine the associations between parental offending histories and offspring developmental outcomes in a large population-based study of Australian children. This study focused on child outcomes in early and middle childhood, which are key developmental periods for intervention and prevention of antisocial behaviour and aggression. Method : Data were drawn from the New South Wales Child Development Study (NSW-CDS) cohort of 87,026 New South Wales children. The NSW-CDS is an intergenerational data linkage study combining information from cross-sectional surveys at age five and 11 years with administrative records. Analyses were conducted on the first two waves of record linkage conducted to date. Firstly, data were analysed from Record Linkage 1, to determine relationships between parental offending and a range of early childhood (age 5 years) offspring outcomes (i.e., social competence; emotional maturity; language and cognitive development; communication and general knowledge; physical health and wellbeing; and, aggressive behaviour). Secondly, using data from Record Linkage 2, the associations between parental offending and offspring conduct problems in middle childhood (age 11 years) were examined. Findings : Mothers with a history of offending experienced greater risk factors (e.g., socioeconomic disadvantage, mental illness, and offending partners) compared to non-offending mothers. Analyses revealed associations between parental offending and offspring vulnerabilities across a range of developmental domains in early childhood and conduct problems in middle childhood. In early childhood, associations were greatest for cognitive outcomes. Violent and frequent offending had a greater magnitude of association compared to nonviolent and infrequent offending. Both maternal and paternal offending histories were associated with adverse offspring outcomes at both developmental periods. Maternal offending initially seemed to have greater associations compared to paternal offending; however, once both parents’ offending was included in the models, the associations were similar. High levels of assortative mating were observed; the majority of mothers with a history of offending had a partner with a history of offending. Conclusions and Implications : Prevention and intervention efforts should start early in development, include mothers and fathers, and target both behavioural and cognitive problems in children. Future research should examine assortative mating among offending parents and how this influences the development of antisocial behaviour among offspring.
The reliability of fine needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of thyroid swelling

Objectives of this study aims at correlating the cytological diagnosis and histopathological diagnosis to evaluate sensitivity and specificity of there by its role in diagnosis of ABSTRACT Background: For a thyroid swelling, FNAC is the primary investigation. In most of the lesions, after excision, the Histopathology remains the same, but at times a few surprises do occur when FNAC reported benign lesions are found to be malignant on histopathology. The study aims to find reliability of FNAC in diagnosing Thyroid Lesions. Methods: This prospective study was conducted on 111 patients with thyroid swelling attending IIMSR, Medical College, Jalna during a period of two years. These patients with thyroid lesions were subjected to FNAC and then following the surgery correlated with the histopathology report. Results: Majority of the patients were in the age group of 30-50 years with female predominance. Out of 111 patients studied with FNAC, 1 sample was inadequate. Among remaining 110 cases 99 were benign thyroid lesions, 6 were malignant and 5 were highly suspicious of malignancy. HPE of thyroid specimen confirmed 101 cases as benign and 9 cases as malignant. Case in which inadequate material was obtained on FNAC was not included in study. Conclusions: FNAC is about 98.18 % reliable in diagnosing thyroid lesions. FNAC is easy, reliable and accurate investigation for all thyroid swellings.
HLA Antigen Distribution in Gujarathi Speaking Hindu Population from Mumbai, Maharastra, India

Abstract Four hundred and fourteen unrelated Gujarathi speaking Hindu people residing in Mumbai, Maharastra (Western India) were studied for HLA A, B, C and DR locus antigen profiles. The phenotypic frequenci es of HLA A1, A2, A9, A11, A24, B5, B35, B40, Cw4, DR2, DR3, DR4, DR5 and DR7 were increased while frequencies of HLA A10, A19, A26, A28, A29, B14, B16, B18, B21, B22, B27, B37, Cwl, DR1, DR6 and DR9 were decreased in the Gujarathi speaking Hindus. The genotype frequencies of HLA A3, A9, B18, B21, B22, B40, DR3 and DR5 were increased while that of A19 A2 8 B7 B13, B15, Cw1, Cw2, Cw8, DR1, DR6 and DR9 were decreased when compared with gene frequ encies of other Indian Hindu popu lations reported. Two Locu s h aplotype an aly sis revealed that A1-B17, A10-B8 and A19-B12 were common Indian Hindu haplotypes where as A3-B18, A9-B5 A24-B5 and A11-B62 were unique for the Gujarathi Hindus. Haplotype A2-B40 observed in Gujarathi Hindus were also observed among South Indian Hindus, while A11-B35 have been observed among immigrant Indian Hindus. Another haplotype A3-B7 reported from both south Indian and north Indian Hindus was not observed in Gujarathi Hindus. Significant negative linkage disequilibrium was observed for haplotype A1-B35 in Gujarathi H indus. Thus the observed antigen frequencies and linkage disequilibrium in Gujarathi Hindus suggest the Influence of genetic drift cau sed by selection, geography and culture. Further the study reveals that the Hindu population of India cannot be considered as single panmictic population with reference to genetic characteristics.
Commercialization of the gene-edited crop and morality: challenges from the liberal patent law and the strict GMO law in the EU

The EU aspires to utilize the economic advantages of gene-editing technology on one hand and ensure human health and environmental safety on the other. Surrounding the fierce debates over emerging gene-edited plant, the current debate focused on the issue of whether the gene-edited crop should be within or outside the GMO law and its implication for innovation. It should not be forgotten that it is also involved in the complex patentability issues pertaining to the legal interpretation of the patent law. The gene-edited crop is governed by GMO regulations due to its potential risk to human health and environmental safety. But it is heavily patented, as patent regulations ignore its potential risk. This article examines the discrepancy of the gene-edited crop between the existing GMO law and the patent law and reveals the challenges to current EU jurisdiction, including the international trade impediment challenge, the patent monopoly challenge, the market confusion challenge, and the agricultural economy suspension challenge. In the end, this article argues that EU GMO regulations should be bridged with a patent system in facing the regulatory challenges from the gene-edited crop.
What happens when emergent readers use talk and reader response journals to comprehend text

v Chapter 1: Introduction . 1 Purpose Statement . 2 Statement of Research Problem and Question . 2 Story of the Problem . 3 Organization of Thesis . 5 Chapter 2: Review of the Literature . 6 Introduction . 6 Reader Response Theory . 7 The Benefits of a Read-Aloud for Emergent/ Beginner Readers . 10 The Benefits of Incorporating Talk into Classroom Instruction . 15 The Role of the Teacher During Productive Text-Based Discussions . 20 Conclusion . 24 Chapter 3: Research Design and Methodology . 27 Context of the Study . 27 Community . 27 School . 27 Classroom . 28 Procedure of the Study . 30 Data Sources . 32 Data Analysis . 33 Chapter 4: Data Analysis and Findings . 35 vii Table of
Clinical profile of children with Fanconi anemia from a tertiary center in Southern India

Objectives : The aim of this study is to observe the clinical spectrum of presentation of Fanconi anemia (FA) in children presenting to the Hematology Department of Victoria Hospital, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute. Materials and Methods : This observational study was carried out from February 2010 to December 2016 on all the 16 consecutive children <18 years of age, with FA. Those with high frequency of chromosomal breakage in G-banded metaphases from mitomycin-treated cultures were considered as positive cases. Results: The mean age at presentation was 6.79±1.34 years, but for those with dysmorphic features on examination, it was 4.77±0.98 years. Symptoms of anemia were seen in 14 (87.5%) and of bleeding in 8 (50%) cases. There was a history of prolonged fever at presentation in 5 (31.2%) cases. Dysmorphic features on examination were seen in 10 (62.5%) cases. Short stature and microcephaly and microphthalmia were the most common features. Pancytopenia was seen in 68.7% of the subjects at presentation and anemia in 87.5% of cases while thrombocytopenia was universal (100%). The mean hemoglobin was 5.33±0.36 g/dL, mean white blood cell count was 3429.37±477.65/mm3, and mean platelet count was 28156.25±4199.44/mm3. The bone marrow was hypoplastic in 14 (87.5%). Pelvic kidney seen in 5 (31%) was the most common ultrasound finding. Parental consanguinity was seen in 50% of cases. Conclusion: Parental consanguinity was common, and there was a male preponderance in our study. The most common presenting manifestations were anemia followed by bleeding. Two-third of the patients had pancytopenia at diagnosis while thrombocytopenia was universal (100%). In the presence of a family history and/or dysmorphic features, even mono- or bi-cytopenias should be evaluated for inherited bone marrow failure syndromes.
Segmenting a Water Use Market

Water scarcity due to climate change, low rainfall, and the damaging effects of human activity is a global concern. In the United Arab Emirates, water consumption rates are among the highest in the world. Recently, researchers have suggested social marketing might assist to change individual water consumption. Guided by the theory of interpersonal behavior (TIB), this study sought to identify segments in one water use market, drawing on demographic, geographic, psychographic, and behavioral segmentation bases. A cross-sectional theoretically based online survey was designed based on the TIB constructs to collect data about one residential population’s water knowledge/awareness attitudes, emotions, religiosity, habits, surrounding social norms, and facilitating factors. E-mail invitations to complete the survey were sent to the target population. Two-step cluster analysis was used to analyze the data (N = 1350), and three major water user segments were identified (regular, conscious, and careless users), who could be characterized based on psychographic and water use (behavioral) determinants. Audience segmentation is often absent or done on the fly, and this article proposes that effectiveness could be improved by applying a rigorous and theoretically based approach. Opportunities for social marketers to develop interventions targeting specific user groups are subsequently identified, along with a future research agenda.
A Review of the Quality of Extant Clinical Practice Guidelines in Cancer Therapy-Induced Mucositis

Context: Oral mucositis is a common complication in patients with cancer therapy. Oral and dental care should be considered as a vital component of caring before, during and after chemotherapy. This study aimed to assess the methodological quality of existing CPGs about cancer therapy-induced mucositis. Evidence Acquisition: We conducted a review of extant CPGs for the management of mucositis. After screening the guidelines based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, three CPGs were selected and assessed by 5 appraisers by using AGREE II instrument. Results: Assessed CPGs gained the highest scores in the clarity of the presentation domain. Scope, purpose (median score, 63.3%), and stakeholder involvement (median score, 54.4%) were found respectively and the lowest scores were in editorial independence domain. The scores in applicability (median score, 30%), rigor of development (median score, 28.8%), and editorial independence (median score, 26.7%) domains were unfavorable. Also, every appraiser scored the overall quality of CPGs. Conclusions: Quality of mucositis CPGs needs to be improved. In other words, designing high-quality CPGs in this area is necessary.
Draw-and-write technique elicits children’s perceptions of health in the USA and Guatemala

Objective: Using the draw-and-write methodology, this study examined cross-cultural similarities and differences in children’s perceptions of health. Design: Cross-sectional design. Setting: One public elementary school in the USA and in Guatemala. Method: The total sample included 161 children 9–10 years of age, 80 in the USA and 81 in Guatemala. Children in each setting were asked to draw-and-write responses to two prompts regarding things that make someone healthy/unhealthy. Responses were coded for the presence of themes for each topic, and statistical tests were performed to test for significant differences by gender and country. Results: Food is central to children’s perceptions of healthy and unhealthy in both locations, as over 90% of children overall depicted food items for both topics. Fruit, in particular, constitutes the majority of depictions for healthy items in both countries, followed by vegetables. In terms of differences, children in the USA were more likely to depict drinking water and exercise as things that make someone healthy and fast food as being unhealthy. Guatemalan children, in contrast, were more likely to depict hygiene and the environment as both healthy and unhealthy. Conclusion: There are more cross-cultural similarities than differences in children’s perceptions of health. While similarities derive from the centrality of food in perceptions of health, differences in perceptions of health emerge from unique national health conditions and initiatives, local socio-ecological contexts and school curricula.
Training Data Sets Construction from Large Data Set for PCB Character Recognition

Deep learning has become increasingly popular in both academic and industrial areas nowadays. Various domains including pattern recognition, Computer vision have witnessed the great power of deep neural networks. However, current studies on deep learning mainly focus on quality data sets with balanced class labels, while training on bad and imbalanced data set have been providing great challenges for classification tasks. We propose in this paper a method of data analysis-based data reduction techniques for selecting good and diversity data samples from a large dataset for a deep learning model. Furthermore, data sampling techniques could be applied to decrease the large size of raw data by retrieving its useful knowledge as representatives. Therefore, instead of dealing with large size of raw data, we can use some data reduction techniques to sample data without losing important information. We group PCB characters in classes and train deep learning on the ResNet56 v2 and SENet model in order to improve the classification performance of optical character recognition (OCR) character classifier.
Can workplace psychosocial risk factors predict an employee’s decision to seek workplace counselling?

There has been extensive research effort attempting to identify the factors that contribute to a person’s decision to seek psychological help. Specific factors have been distinguished as influential. Nevertheless these factors have not been consistently verified when it comes to seeking workplace counselling. Workplace counselling has known a significant development and business organizations are interested in appraising the usage of such a service by their employees and the return of their investment. The present research examined whether the employees’ decision to seek workplace counselling can be predicted by the workplace conditions and more specifically by the workplace psychosocial risk factors. The study was carried out in one of the largest companies of the Greek public sector. 402 employees of various specialties participated voluntarily by responding to two separate questionnaires; one measuring the attitudes towards seeking workplace counselling and one measuring the workplace psychosocial risk factors. The scores in seven categories of psychosocial risk factors and the score in attitudes towards seeking counselling were analyzed using multiple regression. Stepwise method was applied in order to form a model that included the most statistically significant psychosocial risk factors. The results demonstrated a weak positive correlation which did not support the predicting value of the workplace psychosocial risk factors. Two of the seven psychosocial risk factors were included in the model which explained only a 4% of the variance. The conclusion that an employee’s decision to seek workplace counselling is not strongly related to the external factors of the working environment is discussed along with other complementary assumptions.
Role of The First Trimester Maternal Serum High Sensitivity C–Reactive Protein and Second Trimester Placental Volume Measurement by 3d Doppler Ultrasound in Early Detection of Pre-Eclampsia

Background: Pre-eclampsia (PE) is a disorder of pregnancy characterized by the onset of high blood pressure and a significant amount of protein in the urine. It affects 2–8% of pregnancies worldwide. Complications include impaired liver function, kidney dysfunction, visual disturbances and red blood cell Breakdown. PE continues to be a major cause of maternal and fetal mortality. Thus, efforts at discovering reliable prediction models to identify those at risk at an early stage are critical. And since Placental maldevelopment plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of PE, therefore, evaluation of the placental volume and vascular flow indices using different techniques can contribute in the prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes. Aim of the Work: to assess the ability of high sensitivity c reactive protein (Hs CRP) and 3D power Doppler of placental volume and vascular flow indices to predict Preeclampsia. Patients and methods: This is a prospective cohort study by multi operators conducted on 200 women with singleton pregnancy who underwent screening for eligibility and eventually included with respect to the inclusion criteria. The study has been done during the period from October 2015 till December 2016. 1st trimesteric serum level of HsCRP detection tests, 1st trimesteric abdominal ultrasonographic examination and 2nd trimesteric color-Doppler techniques were done and placental volume was measured and Follow up at delivery to confirm Pre-eclampsia has followed. Study Outcomes included the development of hypertention, limb edema or other of pre-eclampsia complication. Data were statistically analyzed using IBM© SPSS© Statistics version 23. Results: HsCRP was significantly (P≤ 0.05 and 0.01) high in Pre-eclampsia group compared to the normal pregnancy group. Moreover, Placental volume (PV), Vascularization index (VI), Flow index (FI) and Vascularization flow index (VFI) were significantly (P≤ 0.05 and 0.01) lower in Pre-eclampsia group than the normal pregnancy group.Conclusion: there was a statistically significant correlation between first-trimester HsCRP and the 2nd trimester placental volume and its vascular indices in the prediction of complications of uteroplacental insufficiency. Further studies with large number of patients have to be carried out to reach conclusive evidence of the significance Doppler in prediction of pre-eclampsi, . and HsCRP.
Phenological metrics of the grassland vegetation of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

ABSTRACT Considering that plant phenology studies allow establishing relationships between phenological patterns of vegetation and changes caused by climate variability, the aim of this study was to obtain phenological metrics for the predominant grassland typologies in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil (latitudes 27º 05’ and 33º 45’ S and longitudes 49° 43’ and 57º 39’ W) and to evaluate the spatial-temporal distribution pattern of these metrics under the influence of the subtropical climate variability. The phenological metrics were obtained based on the time series of the EVI (Enhanced Vegetation Index), of the sensor MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer), for the period from 2001 to 2014, through the Timesat program. Eleven phenological metrics were extracted, identifying the presence of two spatial distribution patterns of grass-dominated typologies in the Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, one located in the south-central region and the other located in the northeast, along the coast and in the western portion of the state. In addition, it was also observed that the phenological pattern of the grassland vegetation of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, is controlled by the seasonality of vegetation, mainly associated with the variations in air temperature.
Context-based content representation, curriculum understanding, and self-efficacy: a correlation study on pre-service chemistry teacher

CoRe is one of the Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) representation that it important for pre-service chemistry teacher. This study aimed to analyze the correlation among pre-service teachers’ understanding of curriculum (UC), understanding of context-based learning (UCB), self-efficacy (SE) and the ability for designing Content Representation context-based chemistry (CoRe-CBC). A correlational study was conducted on 41 pre-service chemistry teacher of postgraduate program. Pre-service teachers’ understanding of curriculum was assessed using a 30-item of multiple choices. The 6-open ended questions were used to measure the understanding of context-based chemistry learning. Students’ self-efficacy was assessed by a questionnaire with 18 items. A group of experts confirmed the construct and face validity of all the instruments. Data analysis used Pearson correlation and regression. The result showed a high correlation between UCB and ability for designing the CoRe-CBC also with UC. A low correlation occurred between UC and the ability for designing CoRe-CBC. The variable of UCB had the biggest effect on the pre-service teacher ability for designing CoRe-CBC. However, the pre-service chemistry teacher still had less understanding in context-based chemistry learning. This study suggests that pre-service teachers’ understanding of curriculum and context-based chemistry learning should be improved. It will useful to support the implementing context-based chemistry learning.