Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The role of relative deprivation in majority‐culture support for multiculturalism

In this paper, we investigate majority-culture attitudes to multicultural policy in Australia. Drawing on relative deprivation (RD) theory, we explore whether resistance to multicultural policies and initiatives is related to individual and/or group-based grievance claims of discrimination. To assess RD, we asked 517 Australian-born people who identified as White Australians to rate (a) levels of discrimination toward their own group, toward themselves personally as a consequence of their group membership, and toward immigrants to Australia, and (b) feelings of injustice and anger associated with such discrimination. Our findings show that, while perceptions of discrimination toward majority-culture Australians are commonplace, perceptions of discrimination toward immigrants are more so. We also found that higher ratings of group-based RD of Australians relative to immigrants, but not individual deprivation relative to immigrants, predicted opposition to multicultural policies and initiatives. Moreover, perceived group-based RD mediated the link between national identification and opposition to multicultural policies. The findings highlight, for the first time, the importance of group-based grievance claims by majority-culture members in opposing or supporting multicultural policy.
An Investigation of the Reasons for the Natural Resource Curse: Selected Country Cases

Ever since its growing importance, the natural resource abundance and economic growth relationship have been a hot field of study for researchers. In the existing literature, many studies pointing to the negative impact of natural resource endowment on economic growth performance. While some “blessed” natural resource-abundant countries enjoy their natural resource revenues and have a remarkable economic growth performance, many others are “cursed” despite having great natural resource wealth. Natural resource windfall may induce Dutch Disease with excessive rent-seeking, corruption, poor institutionalism, and democracy in resource-rich developing countries. The aim of this study is to investigate the causes of the natural resource curse in developing natural resource-rich countries. In this research, the sample natural resource-rich countries were analyzed between 1980 and 2018 to validate the existence of the natural resource curse in these countries. In the first part, the conceptual framework and reasons for the natural resource curse were explained in detail. In the second part, successful natural resource-rich country cases, as well as selected resource-rich developing countries, were compared according to their economic growth performances, their natural resource revenues, and degree of dependence of their economies on the natural resource revenues. In the last part, some policy suggestions were put forward to avoid a natural resource curse in developing countries.
Statin Use Significantly Improves Overall Survival in High-Grade Endometrial Cancer

Objective Preclinical data and recent epidemiological studies suggest that statins have antiproliferative and antimetastatic effects in various cancer cells, and reduce cancer mortality and recurrence. We study the effect of statin use on survival outcomes and recurrence rates in patients with endometrial cancer with high-risk histology. Materials and Methods All patients receiving definitive therapy for high-risk endometrial cancer from 1995 to 2014 were retrospectively reviewed. Health characteristics at baseline were collected, and statin use was determined from medical records. Overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) were estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared using the log-rank test. Cox proportional hazards regression models were used for univariate and multivariate analysis to determine independent factors associated with OS and PFS. Results A total of 199 patients were included in the study, of which 76 were hyperlipidemic and 50 used statins. The median follow-up time was 31 months from time of diagnosis. Hyperlipidemic patients who used statins had improved OS compared with hyperlipidemic patients not using statins (hazard ratio, 0.42; 95% confidence interval, 0.20–0.87; P = 0.02). Statin use was also associated with improved PFS (hazard ratio, 0.47; 95% confidence interval, 0.23–0.95; P = 0.04) on multivariate analysis. Hyperlipidemic patients who used statins had borderline improved freedom from local failure compared with hyperlipidemic cases not using statins (P = 0.08, log-rank test). Statin use was not found to be associated with improved cancer-specific mortality. Conclusions Statin use is independently associated with significant improvements in PFS for the overall group and PFS and OS in the hyperlipidemic group.
Relationship Among Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitude Towards Palliative Care and Perception of Death in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among knowledge and attitude toward palliative care and perception of death for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) nurses. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted with 110 nurses who work in NICUs in South Korea. The participants filled out a questionnaire regarding their knowledge, attitude towards palliative care and perception of death. The attitude scale was divided into 3 subscales: comfort level, nurses’ role and nurses’ involvement with family. Results: Comfort level regarding attitude towards palliative care was positively correlated with knowledge (r=.220, p=.016) and the perception of death (r=.194, p=.042). Nurses’ role showed a positive correlation with perception of death (r=.395, p=.001). Conclusion: NICU nurses’ knowledge of palliative care was below standard across the board, implying that there is a definite need for palliative care education for nurses. The education program for palliative care should include a section that focuses on fostering a positive perception of death as well as defining and delineating the role of nurses.
What are the risks of subclinical hypothyroidism in pregnancy?

infant pairs were randomized to receive maternal only tenofovir-based ART or infant-only ART. Maternal ART was composed of tenofovir 300 mg daily, emtricitabine 200 mg daily, and lopinavir–ritonavir 400/100 mg BID. Infant ART consisted of age-based dosing of nevirapine (all infants received nevirapine for the first six weeks of life). Therapy was continued for up to 18 months postpartum, or 42 days after last breast milk exposure, whichever occurred first. Primary safety outcomes included the incidence of adverse signs and symptoms, measured via the validated Division of AIDS (DAIDS) Table for Grading the Severity of Adults and Pediatric Adverse Events. A score of three indicates severe adverse events, four indicates potentially lifethreatening events, and five indicates death. Infants in both groups experienced a DAIDS score of three or higher at equivalent rates (35% vs 35%; P5.99). The incidence rate of infant death did not significantly differ between the groups (maternal ART: 1.2 per 100 person-years, 95% CI, 1.0–1.5; no maternal ART: 1.1 per 100 person-years, 95% CI, 0.9–1.3; P5.72). Less than two percent of the infants who were only receiving nevirapine and no maternal ART stopped the regimen due to drug toxicity. Secondary analysis showed that no infant deaths were attributable to the study regimens. The previous prenatal ART trial used one of three different maternal ART regimens, only one of which utilized a tenofovir-based ART. The trial did not evaluate the potential additive effects of prenatal and postpartum exposure to maternal ART, and the rate of adverse outcomes may be lower with placebo than with either maternal or infant ART. A 2016 prospective open-label observational study of HIV-uninfected women and their healthy term infants (N550 pairs) evaluated infant tolerability of maternal preexposure prophylaxis therapy. Lactating mothers, between 1 and 24 days postpartum, received daily directly observed therapy with tenofovir-based ART (emtracitabine 200 mg daily plus tenofovir 300 mg daily) for 10 consecutive days. All infants were exclusively breastfed. Mothers completed a daily questionnaire using the DAIDS Table to record infant adverse events. Only 4% of the infants experienced diarrhea that was self-limited to two to three days. Limitations included the short duration of the study and lack of a comparison group. Fareedat Oluyadi, MD Anna Sliwowska, MD Jennifer Amico, MD, MPH Rutgers-RWJMS Family Medicine Residency Program New Brunswick, NJ
Triplet pregnancies in a southeastern Nigerian Hospital: Before the artefacts set in

Background: Triplet pregnancies, though uncommon, occur with much higher maternal discomfort, morbidities, mortalities and perinatal morbidity and mortality when compared to singleton pregnancies. It is a well-known fact that the incidence of triplet pregnancies differ in different regions of the world and even in different parts of the same country and that they are increasing around the world due to assisted reproductive technologies. The incidence and outcome of naturally occurring triplet pregnancies has never been evaluated in our center for us to know and have a baseline to compare any increase brought about by assisted reproduction along with other factors, and hence, we conducted this study. Materials and Methods: This is a retrospective study of all the cases of triplet pregnancies delivered in Mile Four Maternity Hospital, Abakaliki, Ebonyi state in southeast Nigeria from January 1995 to December 2005. The cases were from the antenatal, labour ward and theater registers, and relevant information were retrieved and analysed. Results: There were 22 triplet pregnancies over the 10-year period under review and 23126 deliveries, giving an incidence of triplet pregnancy of 0.1% or 1 triplet pregnancy in 1051 deliveries. Many of the women 10 (45.5%) were in the 31-35 years age group, and half (11) were grand multiparas. Half of the gestational ages at delivery 11 (50%) were 35-37 weeks. The major antenatal complication was preterm labour in 5 or 22.7% of the women or half (50%) of the complications that occurred in the women. Two or 9.1% of the women had preeclampsia, 1 each or 4.5% had prolonged rupture of membrane, polyhydramnious and anaemia. Majority of the women, 18 (81.8%) were delivered vaginally and 4 (18.2%) by caesarean section. The babies had a weight range of 0.6-3.4 kg, with an average weight of 1.73 kg. Sixty babies (90.9%) were born alive and 6 (9.1%) were dead, giving a perinatal mortality rate of 91 babies per 1000. Of the alive babies, 42 (63.6%) had good Apgar score of 8-10 in 1 minute and 7 (19.6%) Apgar score of 1-4. Conclusion: Triplet pregnancies are rare and high risk pregnancies that are associated with many fetal and maternal complications that are of great importance to the parents, care giver, and the health system. Obstetricians must find ways to optimize the outcome of these pregnancies, especially now that the incidence is bound to increase due to assisted reproductive technologies.
Habitual Joint Dislocations and Recurrent Multiple Hernias: An UnusualConnective Tissue Disease?

Purpose: Joint laxity and hernia defects are two well-defined conditions that are rarely described in association in literature. The purpose of this study is to describe a peculiar case of connective tissue disorder, not yet defined, whose features are habitual joint dislocations associated with recurrent and multiple hernias. Methods: This is an unusual case regarding a 22 years old male adult, who presented shoulder, patellar, mandibular habitual joint dislocations associated with groin, femoral, epigastric, umbilical, spigelian and lumbar hernias. His phenotype, consisting of tall stature and joint laxity, recalls a similar-marfanoid habitus. Results: Marfan Syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, MEN-2B were excluded by specific assessments. The aspecific clinical features of the patient do not consent the identification of an exact diagnosis. Conclusion: This medical case, characterized by joint hypermobility and multiple recurrent hernias, probably consists in an unacknowledged peculiar case of connective tissue disorder. Further investigations and identification of subjects with similar features could be surely useful to diagnostic research and definitive characterization of patient’s disease.
Exploring the Fragmentation of the Representation of Data-Driven Journalism in the Twittersphere: A Network Analytics Approach

As an interdisciplinary field, data-driven journalism integrates the intellectual origins of investigative journalism, computer-assisted reporting, and the emerging paradigm of computational social science. Studies of news production have revealed, however, that news professionals are reinforcing existing power structures via an interpretive community, where homophily-evoked social interactions—even in the social media context—create echo chambers and discussion fragmentation. Is the representation of data-driven journalism in the electronic public sphere breaking boundaries among people from different domains or does it resemble the existing power structure? This study adopts a network analytics approach and constructs a representational network among actors who joined the public discussion of data-driven journalism in the Twittersphere—the co-retweeted network—such that two accounts are connected if their tweets are retweeted by the same user. Public tweets containing search queries related to data-driven journalism published from February 2017 to February 2018 were collected with Twitter real-time streaming application programming interface (API). A co-retweeted network with 1,148 accounts was derived from verified accounts’ retweeting posts. Results found that several communities emerged, and news organizations, nongovernmental and nonprofit professional organizations, and academic institutions were in the crucial positions of the network. The exponential random graph models (ERGMs) based on this network revealed the extent to which gender, geographical location, and institutional type of the users were associated with the tie-formation. This study documents the major actors who are discussing the subject of data-driven journalism and raises critical reflections toward the interdisciplinary collaboration in the production of public knowledge.
Does negative-self-schema link the relationship between childhood trauma and psychotic symptoms in a community sample of Indonesians?

Childhood trauma is a risk factor that influences the development of psychotic symptoms. Negative-self-schema is a psychological response to trauma, which is known to have impact on psychotic symptoms’ level, thus postulated as the underlying mechanism linking childhood trauma and psychotic symptoms together. This research used descriptive and correlational type of research. This study examined whether negative-self-schema mediates childhood trauma and psychotic symptoms, while controlling depressive symptoms as covariates. The study recruited 397 participants from community sample of Indonesians (25.4% male; Mage = 22.28, SD = 4.93) and was conducted through online survey. Through mediation analyses, results showed that negativeself-schema significantly mediated the relationship between childhood trauma and both positive (ab = 0.08; SE = 0.04; 95% CI [0.01, 0.17]), and negative (ab = 0.08; SE = 0.03; 95% CI [0.03, 0.14]) symptoms of psychosis. This explains the importance of considering schemas’ role in translating the effect of childhood trauma to psychotic symptoms.
A Low-Profile Wideband PIFA Based on Radiation of Multiresonant Modes

In this letter, a low-profile and wideband planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) based on multiresonant modes is proposed for wireless local area networks and the Internet of Vehicles applications. Through cutting a rectangular slot at the zero-current position of the TM<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_{\text{3}/\text{2}, 0}$</tex-math></inline-formula> mode, a resonant slot mode (TM<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_{\text{RS}}$</tex-math></inline-formula>) is excited. Meanwhile, to enhance the impedance bandwidth (IBW), the frequency of TM<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_{\text{RS}}$</tex-math></inline-formula> (<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$f_{\text{RS}}$</tex-math></inline-formula>) is decreased to close to the frequency of TM<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_{\text{3}/\text{2}, 0}$</tex-math></inline-formula> (<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$f_{\text{3}/\text{2}, 0}$</tex-math></inline-formula>) by enlarging the length of the rectangular slot. To further enhance the IBW, the frequency of TM<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_{\text{1}/\text{2}, \text{2}}$</tex-math></inline-formula> (<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$f_{1/\text{2},\text{2}}$</tex-math></inline-formula>) is increased with little change on that of TM<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_{\text{3}/\text{2}, 0}$</tex-math></inline-formula> and TM<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_{\text{RS}}$</tex-math></inline-formula> modes by reducing the length of the rectangular patch. Moreover, capacitive coupled feed is used by loading a small rectangular strip (SRS) on the top of the feeding probe connected with the bottom of the substrate and the ground plane, and the impedance can be matched through adjusting the size of the SRS. To verify the predicted results, the proposed low-profile wideband PIFA is fabricated and measured. The measured results show that the IBW of the proposed PIFA is enhanced to about 33.33% (from 5 to 7 GHz) at the profile of 0.036<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\lambda _{0}$</tex-math></inline-formula> by combining three resonant modes, and it is 7.41 times of 4.5% of the traditional PIFA.
Intentional poisoning among preadolescents at one poison center in Saudi Arabia

Background: The epidemiology of intentional poisoning among preadolescents in conservative communities needs further exploration. Preadolescence (9-14 years) is a remarkable human developmental stage with a heightened risk for such incidents, often less discussed than adolescence. Objective: To present a report on intentional poisoning incidents among preadolescents visiting a single poison center in Saudi Arabia. Materials and Methods: A chart review of 315 poisoning reports was conducted between 2009 and 2011. It was follow ed by a phone interview of parents of poisoned children to investigate the demographic, incident and outcome characteristics. Cases of accidental and chronic poisoning were excluded. Results: Nine eligible cases were identified (2.9%); four were classified as suicidal attempts, two nonsuicidal self-injurious, and three were unknown. Of the five males and four females, three had chronic medical conditions (G6PD deficiency, epilepsy, or asthma) while six were previously healthy. Seven cases ingested medications (acetaminophen, desmopressin, augmentin and benylin, amitriptyline, and chlordiazepoxide) while two ingested clorox, all in large doses. Conclusions: Few intentional poisoning incidents were observed among Saudi preadolescents, which could be an underreported figure in a culturally and religiously conservative community.
The Effect of the Rapid Antigen Test for Influenza on Clinical Practice in the Emergency Department: A Comparison of Periods before and After the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic

Introduction. The rapid antigen test (RAT) plays an important role in the Emergency Room (ER). In this study, we investigated the effect of the RAT for influenza on clinical practice in an emergency department.Methods. A retrospective chart review was conducted considering two periods, namely before and after the 2009 influenza pandemic. The rate of antibiotic administration, the use of blood sample tests, the use of simple chest X-rays, the rate of antibiotic administration according to the result of the RAT, and the duration of ER stay in the case of influenza-like illnesses were investigated for the two study periods considered.Results. The use of the RAT increased from 23.9% to 39.8% in influenza-like pediatric patients (p<0.05) and from 4.9% to 67.6% in adult patients (p<0.001). After the 2009 influenza pandemic, the number of cases of antibiotic administration, blood sample test and simple chest X-ray decreased by 19.0%, 46.2%, and 27.4%, respectively, in pediatric patients with the use of RAT. Among RAT-positive patients, after the 2009 influenza pandemic, none of the pediatric patients and only 3 of the adult patients (17.6%) were administered antibiotics. The duration of ER stay was longer in patients who underwent RAT than in those who did not.Conclusion. The increased use of RAT for influenza has led to a decrease in antibiotic administration and a reduction in additional diagnostic tests in influenza-like illnesses. However, the use of RAT has not contributed to a decrease in the duration of ER stay.
Characterization of Heart Wall Changes in Diabetes Mellitus Patients type II Using Echocardiography

Diabetes mellitus is a group of diseases characterized by elevated blood glucose concentration. It may be a consequence of either the body does not produce enough insulin or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced. Diabetes is major cause to cardiovascular disease which lead to morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to Characterization of Heart wall changes in patients with type II Diabetes Mellitus using Echocardiography, in this study a total of 243 individual divided into two groups (130 control group we named Non-diabetes and 113 diabetes patients. Age ranged from 30 to 85 years with mean 55.8 years ±SD 13.6. The study corned only in echocardiography department in El Rebat educational Hospital in Khartoum state, in Sudan. The biographic data collected include (age, gender, job
Effectiveness of HOTS-Based Multiple Representation Learning Model in Circular Motion Material

Students’ Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) can be honed by gradually developing new concepts from their multiple representation abilities through HOTS-based multiple representation learning models. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the implementation of HOTS -based multiple representation learning models on circular motion material. The method used is in the form of quantitative research — the study design used pre-experimental design. The sampling technique is purposive sampling of physics education students. It was found that HOTS-based multiple representation learning models on circular motion material effectiveness were achieved as expected in this study, the effectiveness of 1.06. The statistical hypothesis test used in the form of U Mann Whitney with the results of Asymp. Sig. 0.04 < 0.05, the hypothesis is accepted, meaning that there is the influence of the application of HOTS based multiple representation learning model on student learning outcomes in circular motion material. Improved learning outcomes were shown from the results of the average pretest score of 50.0 and the post-test of 85.9 with N-Gain of 0.7 in the high category. The positive response of students to the application of this learning model shows a percentage value of 96.7% with very strong.