Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
No Benefit of Daily Low-Dose Aspirin in Diabetic Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease BelchJ,MacCuishA,CampbellI,etal.Thepreventionofprogressionofarterialdiseaseanddiabetes(POPADAD)trial: factorialrandomisedplacebocontrolledtrialofaspirinandantioxidantsinpatientswithdiabetesandasymptomaticperip

Setting and participants. 1276 adults aged ≥ 40 years with type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus, PAD (detected by ankle brachial index ≤ 0.99), and no symptoms of cardiovascular disease were recruited from 16 hospital centers and 188 primary care groups in Scotland. Patients were excluded if they were already using aspirin or antioxidant therapy or had peptic ulcers, severe dyspepsia, bleeding disorders, serious physical illness expected to shorten life expectancy (eg, cancer), psychiatric conditions, or congenital heart disease. Patients were randomized to receive either (1) daily aspirin (100 mg) and a daily antioxidant, (2) daily aspirin and placebo, (3) placebo and daily antioxidant, or (4) double placebo. After randomization, patients were followed for a median of 6.7 years (range, 4.5−8.6 years).
The Uses and Gratifications of Streaming Live Linear Sports Networks Online

ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . iv DEDICATION . v LIST OF TABLES . viii CHAPTER I – Introduction . 1 CHAPTER II – Literature Review . 4 Broadcast T.V. 4 Cable T.V. 6 Viewer Motivations for Watching Sports . 16 O.T. T. Over-the-top Streaming Services for Sports . 18 Broadcast and Streaming Rights to Sports Content . 25 The Uses and Gratifications Theory . 28 Self-Determination Theory . 36 Hypothesis and Research Questions . 40 CHAPTER III Method. 44 Procedure . 44 Pretest . 44 Survey . 44 Survey Instrument . 44 vii Analysis. 51 CHAPTER IV – Results . 52 Descriptive Statistics of the Sample . 52 Findings. 53 Hypothesis Testing. 53 Other Findings . 56 CHAPTER V – Discussion . 62 Hypothesis. 62 Traditional Cable and Streaming Discussion . 66 Limitations and Future Research . 68 Conclusion . 69 APPENDIX A – Survey . 71 APPENDIX B . 88 APPENDIX C – IRB Approval Letter . 89 REFERENCES . 90
In-Patient Perceptions, Needs, Expectations and Satisfaction within Tertiary Care Settings

Patient-centered care requires health care providers to recognize and act on patients' genuine needs and expectations. Fulfillment of patients' expectations influences health care utilization, patient satisfaction, and indicates overall quality of care. Most of the patients entering a tertiary care facility have set expectations regarding the nature of treatment, tests, referrals, medications and relevant health care facilities. The present clinical research work aimed at prospectively analyzing factors influencing patient satisfaction at four big teaching hospitals of Lahore, Pakistan. The 492 (82%) responded out of 600 inpatients approached . The patients were extensively interviewed regarding the perceived quality of tertiary care. Only 7.90% of the patients perceived the quality of facilities/information prior to admission as excellent. Quality of medicines and treatment was regarded as satisfactory by 26.29% of the patients. The overall follow up care was perceived as good by 45.63%of the randomly selected patients. Quality of medical treatment was graded excellent with reference to doctoral care (7.88%), nursing care (12.00%) or pharmaceutical care (0%) respectively. Enhanced interaction between different health care providers and patients can significantly improve patient related specific health outcomes. Restructuring of pharmacy services is vital for best patient care based built upon the notion of patient satisfaction which has a single goal of meeting expectations and values of the patients. The time , access and behavior are three most important component in patient satisfaction.The implementation of swift growing patient centered pharmaceutical care definitely augment the patient satisfaction.
Antenatal mental health screening in the NHS - assessment of feasibility and acceptability of using a multi-dimensional questionnaire approach

An increasing shift towards developing pregnancy specific psychosocial multi-dimensional screening instruments has been identified through a literature review, and the acceptability of potential screening instruments to both women and healthcare professionals was identified as an important factor. The presented feasibility survey design study aimed to identify whether an alternative instrument, not yet validated in English, namely the Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale- a Modified English version (TPDS-ME), is an acceptable multi-dimensional screening instrument as judged by both pregnant women and healthcare professionals for use within the NHS setting. The study was a cross-sectional survey to explore acceptability of TPDS-ME and generate preliminary data of acceptability and feasibility of using expanded screening instruments. Self-reported questionnaires were administered to a pregnant women (n=150) and healthcare professionals (n=50). Hospital records were reviewed following pregnancy completion to gather demographic, clinical and mental health history data. Data analysis included descriptive and correlational statistics and content analysis of open ended narrative responses. TPDS-ME was found to be highly acceptable to both pregnant women and healthcare professionals. An indication of negative views held regarding the Whooley questions (current UK practice) was an incidental finding. This thesis recommends further research exploring the validity of TPDS-ME with a large representative sample, and further exploration of the validity and acceptability of current practice versus introduction of alternative screening instruments. A practice recommendation is to audit documentation and consistency surrounding maternal mental health assessment.
Novel feature construction technique for detecting anomalous faces and evaluating style transfer methods

In this thesis, we focus on how careful design and evaluation of deep-learned features are still necessary like hand-crafted features for computer vision tasks. We demonstrate this in two different domain problems – Anomaly Detection and Style Transfer. We present feature aggregation techniques and also quantitative evaluation procedure for these tasks. For anomaly detection, we propose a novel facial anomaly detection task, where we demonstrate a feature extraction procedure using a specially trained autoencoder for detecting anomalous faces without seeing any example anomalies during training. We built a new dataset of anomalous faces and typical faces for evaluating the proposed framework that beats many standard baselines. For style transfer, we developed the first quantitative evaluation procedure for evaluating existing style transfer methods using an effectiveness and coherence metric to measure how effectively a style has transferred without distorting object boundaries much. Doing so, helped us to design better features for extracting style using cross-layer gram matrices instead of popularly adopted within later gram matrices. Both works signify understanding features and their careful design are still crucial in building state of the art computer vision algorithms.
2-Methyl-N-(4-methylbenzoyl)benzenesulfonamide

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C15H15NO3S, contains two independent molecules. The conformations of the N—C bonds in the C—SO2—NH—C(O) segments have gauche torsions with respect to the SO bonds. Further, the molecules are twisted at the S atoms with torsion angles of −53.1 (2) and 61.2 (2)° in the two molecules. The dihedral angles between the sulfonyl benzene rings and the —SO2—NH—C—O segments are 86.0 (1) and 87.9 (1)°. Furthermore, the dihedral angles between the sulfonyl and the benzoyl benzene rings are 88.1 (1) and 83.5 (1)° in the two molecules. In the crystal, molecules are linked by N—H⋯O(S) hydrogen bonds.
To Know The Effectiveness Of Experimental Protocol Vs Brandt Daroff Exercises On Dizziness In Benign Paroxysomal Positional Vertigo.

Background and Aim: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is considered the most common peripheral vestibular disorder, affecting 64 of every 100,000 Americans. Women are more often affected and symptoms typically appear in the fourth and fifth decades of life. In 1980, Epley proposed that free-floating densities (canaliths) located in the semicircular canals deflect the cupula creating the sensation of vertigo. This is well documented in his Canalithiasis Theory. Although these canaliths are most commonly located in the posterior semicircular canal, the lateral and superior canal may also be involved Patients with BPPV complain of vertigo with change in head position, rolling over, or getting out of bed, and the vertigo is often side specific. Aim of the study is to know persons with vestibular disorders experience symptoms of dizziness and balance dysfunction, resulting in falls, as well as impairments of daily life. Various interventions provided by physical therapists have been shown to decrease dizziness and improve postural control. In the present review, we will focus on the role of physical therapy in the management of BPPV symptoms of dizziness. Methodology: In the procedure Firstly ,patients will divided into two groups Group A and Group B and all the patient were assessed the pretreatment score and post treatment i.e (0 Weeks and 3 week and 6 weeks) by using the DHI ,The Patients will be randomly allocated Group A Patients was receive exercise protocol, Group B Was given the Brandt daroff exercise . this exercises were given on daily basis . After completion of 6 weeks of the treatment ,Both Group A and Group B were compared Statistical software: statistical software namely SPSS 15.0. Results and Conclusion: The study concluded that designed exercise protocol is effective to reducing dizziness in BPPV patients by measuring the DHI Scale. [Shahanawaz SD NJIRM 2015; 6(6):24-26]
Processing heard versus transcribed English vocabulary in English second language (ESL) learners : a quasi-experimental study at a secondary school in KwaZulu-Natal.

At a technically biased secondary school in KwaZulu-Natal, teachers of Grade 12 English Second Language (ESL) learners, including myself, found it problematic to assess students' writing which is often fraught with spelling and grammar errors. This meant that these learners were disadvantaged because they were assessed with a lower score in comparison to students who edited their work and ensured that their writing was free from spelling and grammar errors. The aim of this study is to improve English vocabulary spelling of ESL learners by investigating the effectiveness of processing Heard English Vocabulary, in comparison to the Transcribed Vocabulary Training Programme (TVTP). This study is theoretically framed by the Cognitive Load Theory (2003), and employs a quasi-experimental approach as a methodology (Goodwin, 2005). It is ~ quasi-experiment because the sample was not randomly selected, as in a classic experiment. The sample consisted of 60 Grade 12 English Second Language (ESL) volunteers from a technically~ biased high school in Ethekwini, KwaZulu-Natal. Significant findings revealed first, that the comparative analysis of the Nonequivalent Control Group (NECG) in comparison to the Experimental Group (EG) was that the Transcribed Vocabulary Training Programme (TVTP) increased the 06-010 average scores for the EG by 36.3%, yet reduced the average time by 40 seconds; second, the visual and kinetic nature of transcription facilitates distinct pattern markings on the graphemic output lexicon; third, transcription also facilitates semantic processing, because meaning can be derived from context, and finally, there is a strong positive correlation between transcription and sustained attention, which implies that correct transcription depends on sustained attention. The findings in this research are compatible with the principles underpinning Sweller and Cooper's (1998) Cognitive Load Theory and Instructional Design. It is argued that if
Multilingual word embeddings and their utility in cross-lingual learning

Word embeddings dense vector representations of a word’s distributional semantics are an indespensable component of contemporary natural language processing (NLP). Bilingual embeddings, in particular, have attracted much attention in recent years, given their inherent applicability to cross-lingual NLP tasks, such as Part-of-speech tagging and dependency parsing. However, despite recent advancements in bilingual embedding mapping, very little research has been dedicated to aligning embeddings multilingually, where word embeddings for a variable amount of languages are oriented to a single vector space. Given a proper alignment, one potential use case for multilingual embeddings is cross-lingual transfer learning, where a machine learning model trained on resource-rich languages (e.g. Finnish and Estonian) can “transfer” its salient features to a related language for which annotated resources are scarce (e.g. North Sami). The effect of the quality of this alignment on downstream cross-lingual NLP tasks has also been left largely unexplored, however. With this in mind, our work is motivated by two goals. First, we aim to leverage existing supervised and unsupervised methods in bilingual embedding mapping towards inducing highquality multilingual embeddings. To this end, we propose three algorithms (one supervised, two unsupervised) and evaluate them against a completely supervised bilingual system and a commonly employed baseline approach. Second, we investigate the utility of multilingual embeddings in two common cross-lingual transfer learning scenarios: POS-tagging and dependency parsing. To do so, we train a joint POS-tagger/dependency parser on Universal Dependencies treebanks for a variety of Indo-European languages and evaluate it on other, closely related languages. Although we ultimately observe that, in most settings, multilingual word embeddings themselves do not induce a cross-lingual signal, our experimental framework and results offer many insights for future cross-lingual learning experiments.
Triggering of Acute Myocardial Infarction by Heavy Physical Exertion: Protection Against Triggering by Regular Exercise

Case-crossover study の最大の特徴は、同一人内で比較するため confounder を排除 できる点にあります。 ですから socio-economical class や healthy behavior (普段か ら健康に気を使う人は運動したりビタミンを多く摂取したり多くの健康によいと言わ れていることを同時に行なっていることが多い)などを confounder として考える必要 がない点は大きな利点です。 しかし、リスクが短時間に変化したように confounder も 短時間で変化する場合は confounder を排除することができません。 例えば喘息発作の 場合、気圧変化だけでなく、その日の運動量が関係するかもしれません。 そして気圧の 変化は天候と関係し、天候は運動量と連動するかもしれません(雨の日には子供は外で 遊べないので運動量が減るなど)。 しかし effect modifier を評価することは可能です。 Case-crossover study では通常の case-control study と同様 outcome や exposure を 評価する際 bias を生じ得ます。 患者さん本人の記憶が曖昧であったり、interviewer の 思い入れがあったり、カルテにおける missing data などは同じ様に発生し得るからで す。 他Case-crossover study の利点は case が control を兼ねるので case 発生が少な い場合には最適です。 さらに小人数でも十分なパワーを発揮するので低予算で行なうこ とができます。
“Act on Climate Change”: An Application of Protection Motivation Theory

Our planet's climate is changing (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2010), and current scientific evidence proves that global climate change is induced by humans (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007). Many scientists agree that climate change is one of the greatest threats faced by our planet. The climate change literature demonstrates that fear appeals can be used to encourage behavioral changes that will mitigate climate change (Nisbet, 2009; Patchen, 2006; Pike, Doppelt, & Herr, 2010). This article proposes Protection Motivation Theory (PMT; Rogers, 1983) as a suitable model to guide communication campaigns in the area of climate change. It also analyzes the extent to which a series of communication campaigns that are designed to persuade individuals to adopt behaviors that prevent climate change conform to PMT. Recommendations to improve the campaigns are presented.
Tracking and Visual Quality Inspection in Harsh Environments

This Thesis describes novel image template based methods for robust and real-time capable tracking and visual quality inspection tasks in harsh environments. The presented tracking methods include three different constitutive approaches. First, a spline-regularized template tracking method applied for weld seam tracking in industrial robotic welding environments is presented. Second, a template tracking method that relies on incremental template blending updates is presented for more dynamic scenes, allowing for template tracking in harsh outdoor environments. Finally, a novel generic tracking fusion framework that allows for combining an arbitrary number of trackers that report diverse typically not directly combinable outputs is presented. In this way, advantages of different tracking cues can be combined in order to solve highly complex tracking problems. The methodological focus of all presented tracking methods lies on robustness and successful handling of diverse disturbing effects, environmental influences, and image noise, while remaining real-time capable. Considering the task of image based quality assessment we present a visual quality inspection framework for industrial robotic welding tasks, consisting of a semisupervised method that incrementally generates panorama images of entire welding processes, and of an unsupervised classification approach that automatically detects welding defects in an on-line fashion. Both methods rely on weld seam image templates provided by an underlying tracking approach. The focus here lies on high panorama image quality including a consequent suppression of industrial image noise as well as prevention of typical blending artifacts, and on highly accurate classification results at a
Study of depression in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients

Background: The World Health Organization estimates the population with diabetes to increase to 366 million by 2030 worldwide, with a maximum of 79.4 million Indians. Depression is an undiagnosed comorbidity leading to significant disability, noncompliance, and postulated to cause poorer glycemic control. Objective: To detect depression and its associated cofactors among type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients. Materials and Methods: In an observational study, 312 randomly selected T2DM patients were evaluated at a tertiary care center in Northern India. Sociodemographic, clinical, and laboratory data were collected. Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale was used to detect depression. Groups with and without major depression were compared for various diabetes variables. Statistical analysis was carried out using the SPSS version 14.0. Result: One-third patients with T2DM (32.05%) suffered from major depression. Female sex, lower education level, lower monthly household income, unmarried or divorced/widowed individuals, and unemployment were the significant risk factors for major depression in patients with T2DM. Conclusion: Depression is a common under-recognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated comorbidity associated with diabetes. Identification and management of depression and its associated risk factors form an essential integral part of holistic management of diabetes.
The role of an extended self-regulatory model in predicting adherence to Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) among adults with HIV-infection

The success of Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) requires a high rate of adherence to a complex regimen. Even small variations in adherence compromise treatment efficacy and can lead to viral resistance. Low levels of adherence to HAART continue to pose a major barrier to the success of these treatments. Studies investigating adherence to HAART have focused on practical barriers, yet studies in other illness groups suggest that patients' perceptions of their illness and treatment have a strong influence. This thesis is concerned with furthering our understanding of non-adherence to HAART. It begins with a review of HIV and its treatment. A critical review of the literature was conducted using systematic techniques. This identifies outstanding questions relating to the antecedents of adherence to HAART. The aim of this investigation was primarily to test the Self-Regulatory Model (SRM) and extensions to it to incorporate treatment perceptions (perceptions of personal necessity for HAART and concerns about adverse effects) in predicting adherence to HAART.
A Measure of Nephrology Nurse Perceptions toward Advance Care Planning: Validation of the NephRN Perceptions toward Advance Care Planning Instrument

• Factors impacting ACP discussions include unclear role expectations, lack of knowledge about advance directives, lack of skills or confidence to carry out the process, lack of administrative support, inadequate staffing, and fear of upsetting the patient (Ceccarelli, Castner, & Haras, 2008; Yee et al., 2011). NephRN ACP Perceptions Scale • Researcher-developed scale, measures perceptions of nephrology nurses toward ACP • Contains 53 items • Based on Donabedian‘s (1980) revised structure-process-outcome framework • Assesses four dimensions of comfort, attitudes, knowledge, and support for ACP
Brain Venous Thrombosis

Introduction The First Cerebral vein thrombosis was reported in 1825. Early diagnosis is very important, because early treatment can prevent mortality in most eases. Also, cerebral vein thrombosis is preventable by finding the underlying etiology. True incidence of cerebral vein thrombosis is not predicative. Materials and Methods This descriptive study was performed from 2005 through 2006 on patients referred to Qaem Hospital neurological emergency ward. All of the patients with clinical feature of ICP rising were evaluated and underwent CT scan and MRI of brain. In cases suspicious to cerebral vein thrombosis, the disease was actually diagnosed with MR venography of brain, after discharge Patients were followed up every week for 3 weeks in neurological clinic of Qaem Hospital. Results From 20 evaluated patients, 70 were female and 30 were male, in which the ratio of F/M was 3/2. Patients mean age was 30 year. The most clinical feature was headache. Underlying etiologies in above patients were: OCP consumption, post partum period, media otitis, nephrotic syndrome and Crystal abuse. In MRI and MRV assays of studied patients, 20 had superior sagital sinus, 10 lateral sinus, 5 sigmoid sinus and 65 had superior sagital and lateral sinus involvement simultaneously. Conclusion In patients who refer having headache and papilla edema, cerebral vein thrombosis should be considered. Early diagnosis is achieved by precise diagnostic methods like MRI and MRV, and the prevention of severe irreversible and fatal side effects of disease with the early treatment.
Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency, as Assessed by Fecal Elastase-1 Levels, in Diabetic Patients: An Estimate of Prevalence in Prospective Studies

Objective: To assess the prevalence of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI) inpatients with diabetes mellitus (DM). Design: Meta-analysis of prospective, observational studies that used fecal elastase-1 estimation to determine PEI in patients with DM. Data extraction: A total of 11 studies out of 1156 retrieved references, published between 2000 and 2013, fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The primary outcome measure was proportions of patients with DM and PEI. Results: Of the 2891 patients enrolled, 921 (31.8%) showed abnormal (i.e, 100 but <200 μg/g) in elastase-1 excretion. In 921 patients with type-1 DM, the weighted rate of PEI was 37.7% (CI 27.2-49.5), and 26.2% (CI 19.4-34.3) in 1970 type-2 diabetic patients, a difference of 11.5% (p=0.09). Of patients with abnormal (<200 μg/g) fecal elastase-1 concentrations, severe PEI was present in 53.4% (CI 45.2-61.4) of type-1, and in 50.3% (CI 40.7-59.9) of type-2 diabetic patients. Limitation: Some variables, which may influence fecal elastase-1 excretion, could not be controlled due to missing data. Conclusions: When explored by fecal elastase-1 testing, one in three patients with DM showed signs of impaired exocrine function. The results suggest that testing for PEI should be part of the diagnostic work-up of patients with DM.