Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Knowledge and attitude towards cardiopulmonary resuscitation among Saudi population

Background: Cardiac and respiratory arrest is a life-threatening condition that requires immediate response as it can lead to death or serious damage to brain cells, if emergency help is not provided. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is the most important action can be performed by bystanders to improve the survival. Aim: To assess the knowledge of laypersons trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and their willingness to resuscitate people who arrest outside healthcare facilities. Method: This is a cross sectional study conducted at 3 regions in Saudi Arabia on laypersons. The study was conducted using self-administrated questionnaire. Results: The study included 55 layperson who attended CPR training, 72.7% of them received it during the period from 2011 to 2017. Around half of the participants (52.4%) thought that they don’t need to apply what they learned in the CPR training courses. More than half of them (58.2%) would call the ambulance if they encounter Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest, while only 18.2% would start CPR. Obliging students and employees to receive the CPR training was the preferred methods by participants to increase the awareness about managing OHCA cases (56.4% and 21.8%, respectively). Conclusion: The attitude of laypersons was low toward performing CPR, which might be due to insufficient training, lack of practical training or other factors that should be investigated in further studies.
Electron Microscopic Reconstruction of Neural Circuitry in the Cochlea

Recent studies have revealed great diversity in the structure, function and efferent innervation of afferent synaptic connections between the cochlear inner hair cells (IHCs) and spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs), which likely enables audition to process a wide range of sound pressures. By performing an extensive electron microscopic reconstruction of the neural circuitry in the mature mouse organ of Corti, we demonstrate that afferent SGN-dendrites differ in strength and composition of efferent innervation in a manner dependent on their afferent synaptic connectivity with IHCs. SGNs that sample glutamate release from several presynaptic ribbons receive more efferent innervation from lateral olivocochlear projections than those driven by a single ribbon. Next to the prevailing unbranched SGN-dendrites, we found branched SGN-dendrites that can contact several ribbons of 1-2 IHCs. Unexpectedly, medial olivocochlear neurons provide efferent innervation of SGN-dendrites, preferring those contacting single-ribbon, pillar-side synapses. We propose a fine-tuning of afferent and efferent SGN-innervation.
Improving Passive Radar Target Recognition Using a Convolution Composite WiFi Preamble

This paper studies indoor passive radar target recognition and presents a convolution composite scheme involving a WiFi long preamble and radar chirp signal to improve target recognition resolution. In addition, we present trials of different-sized ball recognition and human standing/lying recognition by using the convolution preamble based on finite-difference-time-domain (FDTD) calculations. The results show that the channel estimation anti-fading of the convolution composite preamble is much better than that of the time-domain composite based on receiver cancellation. Hence, more radar chirp constituents can be convolved, the recognition resolution is notably improved, and the convolved signal has the same or even a slightly better resolution than the chirp signal which is in the conventional multiplexing mode. The given method may be applied to device-free people counting to distinguish adults and children and to detect elderly people falling in bathrooms, among other health monitoring applications.
An observational study analysing antibiotic prescribing quality for children in primary-care

Background: Overuse and inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics is driving antibiotic resistance. GPs often prescribe antibiotics for RTIs in young children despite their marginal beneficial effects. Aim: To assess the quality of antibiotic prescribing for common infections in young children attending primary care and describe influencing factors. Design and setting: An observational, descriptive analysis, including children attending primary care sites in England and Wales. Method: The DUTY study collected data on 7163 children under five, presenting to UK primary care with an acute illness (<28 days). Data were compared to the ESAC disease specific QIs to assess prescribing for acute URTIs, tonsillitis and otitis media, against ESAC proposed standards. NP trend tests and Chi-square tests assessed trends/differences in prescribing by level of deprivation, site type and demographics. Results: Prescribing rates fell within the recommendations for URTIs but exceeded the recommended limits for tonsillitis and otitis media. The proportion of children receiving the recommended antibiotic was below standards for URTIs and tonsillitis, but within the recommended limits for otitis media. Prescribing rates increased as the level of deprivation decreased for all infections (Ps<0.05), prescribing rates increased as the age of the child increased for URTIs and tonsillitis (Ps<0.05). There were no other significant trends or differences. Conclusion: The quality of antibiotic prescribing in this study was mixed and highlights the scope for future improvements. There is a need to further assess the quality of disease specific antibiotic prescribing within UK primary care setting using data representative of routine clinical practice. The quality of antimicrobial prescribing, within NHS primary care, is currently assessed by using item based weighted prescribing unit rate comparisons. European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC) developed and validated disease-specific antibiotic prescribing quality indicators (QI) for primary care. The performance of UK primary care against these indicators is unknown. This study provides an overview of the quality of antibiotic prescribing using ESAC QIs for young children presenting to primary care and recruited into the DUTY observational study.
Social Justice Leadership: Principals’ Perspectives in Trinidad and Tobago

The paper “Thinking of, Knowing, and Doing Social Justice Leadership: Principals’ perspectives” explores the understanding and practice of principals regarding social justice leadership. The study adopts phenomenography as its methodology and presents findings gleaned from the semi-structured interviews of 11 principals in Trinidad and Tobago. Findings indicate that principals were generally unaware of a social justice leadership orientation, but values of fairness and equity, for instance, were common in their understandings. Social justice leadership roles were conceptualized as multi-faceted, difficult and requiring strategy and caution, but emphasized a need for self-investment and collaboration. It was found that principals’ unclear conceptualizations translated into guesswork when practicing social justice leadership from which emerged unique ways of ‘doing’ social justice. Findings point to the need to place social justice atop Trinidad and Tobago’s school improvement agenda.
Pejoratives Factors of African Young People Ischemic Stroke : Experience of Senegal

Introduction: Strokes are frequent and severe, because of the involvement of vital and functional prognosis of patients, especially in young patients living in developing countries. Objective: The main objective of the current study is to identify epidemiological, clinical, paraclinical and etiological predictors of adverse evolution in young adult ischemic stroke. Methodology: Authors conducted a retrospective study at the neurological department of University hospital Fann, Dakar, Senegal, on the records of hospitalized patients from 01 January 2010 to 31 December 2011. Patients aged from 15-55 years in whom the diagnosis of ischemic stroke was selected on the basis of clinical findings and confirmed by a brain scan were included in our study. Results: Authors gathered 116 cases. Mean patient age was 43.5 years with extremes of 19 to 55 years. The main risk factors found in the medical history of patients were hypertension (57.7%), diabetes (19%), and history of stroke (10.3%). Clinical signs were dominated by hemiplegia (95.7%) and language disorders (61.2%). The average length of stay in hospital was 16 days. A death rate of 28.4% was observed. The main predictors of adverse evolution identified were the length of stay in the hospital, age, Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), blood glucose level. Patients with a GCS lower than 10 had a risk of death multiplied by 5. Patients with blood glucose level ≥ 2 had 4 times greater risk of death than others. Conclusions: Glucose acute phase and state of consciousness seem to be predictors of cerebral ischemia. A quick and appropriate management will improve the vital prognosis and better recovery. To cite this article [Dadah, S. M. L. , Cisse, O. , Boubacar, S. , Ba, E. M. , Bagher, M. L. M. , . Ndiaye, M. M. (2017). Pejoratives Factors of African Young People Ischemic Stroke: Experience of Senegal. The Journal of Middle East and North Africa Sciences, 3(3), 1-5]. (P-ISSN 24129763) (e-ISSN 2412-8937). www.jomenas. org. 1
Analysing the influence of raster angle, layer thickness and infill rate on the compressive behaviour of EVA through CNC-assisted fused layer modelling process

The current study analyses the compressive behaviour of ethylene vinyl acetate specimens processed through extrusion-based additive manufacturing. The compression specimens have been fabricated using an in-house developed fused layer modelling process. Response surface methodology technique has been adopted to generate the experimental runs by selecting raster angle, layer thickness and infill percentage as input process parameters. Further, analysis of variance has been used to analyze the obtained compression data. The infill percentage is found to be the most significant parameter for compressive strength; however, raster angle has shown an insignificant effect. The empirical relation has been established between the selected input process parameters and compressive strength. The predicated and experimental results have also been compared to validate the derived empirical model. Results showed good conformity.
Effect of Natural Phytogenic Extract Herbs on Physiological Status and Carcass Traits of Broiler Chickens

This paper was conducted to monitor the effect of mixed essential oils (AROMIX@) as phytogenic extract herbs administration in drinking water on growth performance, hematological, biochemical, immunological statuses and carcass traits of broiler chickens. A total number of 240 unsexed broiler chicks (Cobb-500) strain, were randomly divided to four equal groups, 60 chicks each at seven days of age. The first group drank tap water (control), the second, third and fourth group were drank the same water, adding 1 ml AROMIX@ per 5, 10 and 15 liter tap water, respectively for 5 week of age. It was cleared from the results that there was a significant improve in feed conversion ratio, red and white blood cell counts, total protein, albumin, globulin, calcium, inorganic phosphorus and a relative reduction in the liver enzymes but in the normal range. However, it was observed that mix essential oils have no significant impact on carcass organs. High levels of the vital parameters, low levels of hepatic enzymes showed that birds health was good and relative improvement in immune system. The relative improvement of the absorption of minerals such as calcium and inorganic phosphorus to the positive role of essential oils. Administration in drank water was occasion, a regular activity of hepatic enzymes which can evidence safety and hepato-protective nature of these oils. Therefore, it is cleared from the results that the addition of these extract herbs in drinking water enhances the health meat, performance and physiological status of broiler chicks, which helps to obtain healthy meat and suitable for human consumption.
A Value for j-Cooperative Games: Some Theoretical Aspects and Applications

This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in Handbook of the Shapley value on December 6, 2019, available online: https://www.crcpress. com/Handbook-of-the-Shapley-Value/Algaba-Fragnelli-Sanchez-Soriano/p/book/9780815374688
The Impact of Neoliberal Policies During the Great Recession on Youth Transition Regimes in Spain and the UK

This article analyses the impact of the 2008 recession and subsequent austerity policies on the youth transition regimes of Spain and the UK. These two countries have different employment and social support models. However, both applied similar economic and policy responses to the 2008 recession, which had a marked neoliberal character. The article identifies whether or not the impact of these policies blurred the defining characteristics of their transition regimes. To do so, an analysis of employment and welfare policies is undertaken, and two key dimensions of youth transition regimes are critically analysed: the characteristics of employment and the forms of independent living. Our findings show that market dependence and the importance of class-related factors have been reinforced. Nevertheless, these similar patterns of change go together with the persistence of differences among regimes, which suggests that the effect of neoliberal policies is far from being uniform and systematic.
Translating evidence-based practice into an autism specific special school : model, evaluation and outcomes

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Ownership Structure and Business Firm Value: A Study of Non-financial Sector of Pakistan

: The basic purpose of this study is to examine the association of ownership structure (OS) with value of business ﬁrms (VBF). By using panel date techniques, the relationship between OS and VBF has been statistically tested. OS is used as an explanatory variable, whereas, for mea-suring VBF, accounting base performance measures (short term performance) includes return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE) and market base performance (long term performance) has been measured through Tobin’s Q. The study also emphasizes the ﬁrm age as an interactive variable. Ownership role is examined from the perspective of agency theory (AT) and by using resource dependence theory (RDT). The sample consists of 135 companies and having 1890 obser-vations of non-ﬁnancial sector listed on Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) for the time period 2004 to 2017. Researchers has applied descriptive and inferential statistics techniques to analyze the gathered data. Findings reveal that some dimensions of OS signiﬁcantly inﬂuence the short term and long run ﬁrm performance (FP) under interactive role of age. The study aims at contributing useful knowledge generally for the ﬁnancial community, and speciﬁcally for investors, researchers, and regulators.
An empirical overview of newcomer engineer socialization in the U.S. aerospace and defense industry

Newly-hired engineers often counter feelings of uncertainty, confusion, shock and surprise in their first full-time employment after university graduation by engaging in socialization actions and processes. Generally, newcomers undergo socialization through two sets of socialization processes when they are hired into an organization: (1) initiating proactive behaviors and (2) participating in company-initiated actions, called organizational tactics. This thesis aims to provide a first look at the socialization environment among newcomer engineers in the U.S. aerospace and defense (A&D) industry. A comprehensive understanding is achieved by examining how newly-hired engineers at A&D organizations initiate proactive behaviors and participate in organizational tactics to adjust to their new jobs and organizations. Multiple regression analysis is used to examine the relationships that various processes have with socialization outcomes. Latent Profile Analyses (LPA) is employed to identify holistic profiles that best characterize newly hired engineers’ socialization processes and whether engineers with different types of profiles present varying socialization outcomes. The findings show that newcomer engineers heavily rely on socially-oriented socialization processes, and that newcomer engineers more frequently achieve socialization through organizational tactics rather than proactive behaviors. It is also revealed that newcomer engineers in the A&D industry generally require 8 months to achieve high levels of adjustment. Implications and recommendations for newcomers, organizations, and educational programs are discussed. The content of this thesis has been accepted with modifications by the International Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE).
Frequency of etiologies of acute kidney injury in Faisalabad and surrounding districts

Background: To find out the causes of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in population.Methods: A total of 150 patients were enrolled from medical, surgical, gynecology and obstetrics units of Allied Hospital and Madinah Teaching Hospital, Faisalabad, Pakistan. History, physical examination and investigations were recorded on specially designed proforma. Patients were evaluated to find out the etiologies of AKI. All patients were subjected to urine analysis, complete blood count, blood biochemistry (urea, creatinine, electrolytes, uric acid, calcium and phosphorus) and ultrasound scan of the abdomen and pelvis. Renal biopsy, immunological assays, such as hepatitis B surface antigen, anti-hepatitis C virus antibody, complements level, antinuclear antibody, anti-double-stranded DNA, anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody and anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody were performed in selected cases.Results: Male (36%) and female (64%). Pre-renal AKI was most common and was reported in 80 patients (53.33%). Intrinsic Renal azotemia in 56 patients (37.33%). Post renal azotemia in 14 patients (9.33%). Among 80 patients of prerenal AKI, hemorrhage in 45(56.25%), gastroenteritis in 16(20%), sepsis in 8(10%), cardiac diseases in 4(5%), hepatorenal syndrome in 3 (3.75%), peritonitis in 2 (2.50%) and burns in 2(2.50%) were the main causes of Pre-renal AKI. Among 56 patients of intrinsic renal AKI, 40(71.4%) had acute tubular necrosis (ATN), 12(21.4%) with multifactorial causes and 4(7.14%) were found to have glomerulonephritis. Among 14 patients of post renal AKI, 6(42.9%) were having calculi, 6(42.9%) were to have enlarged prostate and 2(4.3%) were having stricture urethra. In this study, contribution of obstetrical, medical and surgical etiologies were recorded as 40%, 36% and 20% respectively.Conclusions: In contrast to study reported from neighbouring country, this study shows rather increase in pregnancy related AKI.
The Impact of Perceived Privacy, Accuracy and Security on the Adoption of Mobile Self-Checkout Systems

Traditional brick-and-mortar retailers face increasing competitive pressure from online alternatives. One promising technology to help retailers cope with the ongoing retail crisis is mobile self-checkout systems (MSCOS). However, there have been issues with MSCOS implementation. This study aims at gaining a better understanding of consumer needs related to MSCOS. Using diffusion of innovation as its theoretical lens, we explore the impact of relative advantage, trialability, compatibility, and ease of use on MSCOS adoption. Since MSCOS involves financial transactions, we also consider the impact of perceived privacy, accuracy, and security. A crowdsourcing data collection resulted in 302 responses from US respondents. Findings support that relative advantage, trialability, and perceived security positively affect usage intention. Moreover, compatibility and ease of use positively affect relative advantage, and perceived privacy and accuracy positively affect perceived security. This study provides significant insights and implications for both innovation adoption research and retail practice. JEL Codes: O300, O330, M150
How Does CEO Regulatory Focus Matter? The Impacts of CEO Promotion and Prevention Focus on Firm Strategic Change

Based on upper echelons theory, this study focuses on chief executive officers’ (CEOs) regulatory focus and delineates how CEO promotion and prevention focus differentially affect the magnitude of strategic change undertaken by a firm. Applying the person–situation interaction perspective, this study also theorizes how these relationships are moderated by the firm’s prior performance and environmental dynamism. These hypothesized relationships are then empirically tested using a sample of 1,318 observations covering a 10-year period. The analytical results support the hypotheses. This study concludes with a discussion of its theoretical and practical implications.
Enhancement of Critical Care Response Teams Through the Use of Electronic Nursing-mediated Vital Signs Surveillance

Failure to recognize changes in a patient’s clinical condition is a barrier to the effectiveness of CCRT outreach programs. The development of a vital signs capture and decision system could alert care providers and CCRTs when a patient’s clinical condition deteriorates. However, point-of-care vital signs capture and documentation is often problematic in clinical practice. Ethnographic research was conducted to understand the difficulties of replacing pen and paper charts and barriers to electronic nursing documentation systems. Analysis of workflows directed the design of two solutions; 1) Apple iPhone facilitated manual vital signs entry, 2) Motorola MC55 enabled automatic data capturing from physiological monitors. Nurses participated in high-fidelity usability testing, comparing the traditional method of paper documentation with the two electronic solutions. As a result of user-centered design process, both solutions were comparable to the efficiency of paper methods, were found acceptable to nurses, and could be successfully incorporated into current workflows.
Dance as treatment therapy in breast cancer patients – a systematic review

This systematic review aimed to identify and analyse articles which investigated the influence of dance as adjuvant therapy in breast cancer. The selected databases were PsycInfo, PubMed, The Cochrane Library, ScienceDirect and the Virtual Health Library (VHL). The following descriptors were considered for the selection of articles: [dance therapy] OR [movement therapy] OR [complementary therapies] AND [breast cancer] OR [cancer neoplasms] OR [breast tumor] OR [breast carcinoma] present in the titles or abstracts of the articles. The quality of the data was evaluated by means of the methodological criteria proposed by Downs and Black. Eleven articles were found. The approach followed in methodologies were dance therapy movement, Greek dance, Sacred dance, ballroom dance, classical ballet and jazz. Favorable results were found for self-image, femininity, mood, self-esteem, physical well-being, perceived stress, pain, consciousness, depression, couples trust, anxiety and fear. It was observed better range of motion and strength in upper limp, and also improvement in functional capacity. The authors pointed dance as an effective alternative adjuvant treatment in breast cancer. Dance promotes psychological benefits in women in breast cancer, as well as improvements in upper limbs. Future studies are recommended with best scientific evidence, in order to investigate interventions with dance during other treatment and disease stage and with other forms of dance.