Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Health Belief Model Interpretation of Compliance Factors in a Weight Loss and Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme

The aim of the research was to establish the common and/or different factors associated with compliance or noncompliance in either a weight loss or a cardiac rehabilitation programme. A questionnaire was designed from a revised formulation of the original Health Belief Model and a pilot study was run on 22 weight loss and 13 cardiac subjects. The modified questionnaire was then completed by 37 compliers and 19 noncompliers with a weight loss programme and 11 compliers and 19 noncompliers with a cardiac rehabilitation programme. Compliance was associated with exercise enjoyment, self-motivation, and the need to stay on the programme. The major reasons for noncompliance were the complexity of the required behaviour changes, inconvenience, time constraints, and the ability to cope independently of the programmes. Particularly regarding the weight loss programme, noncompliance arising from the required simultaneous changes to eating and exercise patterns could be reduced by teaching alternative coping skills and realistic goal setting. Cardiac patients are faced with the life-threatening nature of their disease, but there is a lack of overt disease symptoms among weight loss subjects. This results in a need to inform obese subjects, preferably using a multi-disciplinary approach, about the health risks resulting from noncompliance.
Small-scale dynamos in simulations of stratified turbulent convection.

Small-scale dynamo action is often held responsible for the generation of quiet-Sun magnetic fields. We aim to determine the excitation conditions and saturation level of small-scale dynamos in non-rotating turbulent convection at low magnetic Prandtl numbers. We use high resolution direct numerical simulations of weakly stratified turbulent convection. We find that the critical magnetic Reynolds number for dynamo excitation increases as the magnetic Prandtl number is decreased, which might suggest that small-scale dynamo action is not automatically evident in bodies with small magnetic Prandtl numbers as the Sun. As a function of the magnetic Reynolds number (${\rm Rm}$), the growth rate of the dynamo is consistent with an ${\rm Rm}^{1/2}$ scaling. No evidence for a logarithmic increase of the growth rate with ${\rm Rm}$ is found.
Asymptotics and Concentration Bounds for Spectral Projectors of Sample Covariance} \runtitle{Asymptotics and concentration of spectral projectors

Let X,X1,. ,Xn be i.i. d. Gaussian random variables with zero mean and covariance operator � = E(X ⊗ X) taking values in a sepa- rable Hilbert space H. Let r(�) := tr(�) kk∞ be the effective rank of �, tr(�) being the trace ofand kk∞ being its operator norm. Let ˆ �n := n −1 n X j=1 (Xj ⊗ Xj)
First Determination of the 8Li Valence Neutron Asymptotic Normalization Coefficient Using the 7Li(8Li,7Li)8Li Reaction

We report here a determination of the asymptotic normalization coeﬃcient of the valence neutron in 8 Li from a measurement of the angular distribution of the 7 Li( 8 Li, 7 Li) 8 Li reaction at 11 MeV. Using isospin symmetry the 8 B ANC has also been calculated and used to infer a value for S 17 (0) of 20.2 ± 4.4 eV b.
Current status of charm mixing at LHCb & inputs to charm-phase determination

[2] Adam Davis. Search for Mixing and Charge Parity Violation in Neutral Charm Mesons through Semileptonic B Meson Decay. PhD thesis, 2016-07-21. [3] R. Aaij et al. Measurement of D–D 0 mixing parameters and search for CP violation using D ! K⇡ decays. Phys. Rev. Lett. , 111:251801, 2013. [4] John F. Donoghue, Eugene Golowich, Barry R. Holstein, and Josip Trampetic. Dispersive E↵ects in D anti-D Mixing. Phys. Rev., D33:179, 1986. [5] Adam F. Falk, Yuval Grossman, Zoltan Ligeti, and Alexey A. Petrov. SU(3) breaking and D–D 0 mixing. Phys. Rev. D, 65:054034, Feb 2002.
Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) problems among the unmarried youths in sub-urban Shanghai: needs for RH education and services.

This study aimed to understand the level of knowledge that young people have on sex and reproductive health (SRH) the situation of premarital sexual activities and contraceptive use to assess the magnitude of SRH problems. A self-administered anonymous questionnaire survey was conducted among 1304 youths aged between 17-24 in 2 towns of the suburban area of Shanghai. Results revealed that a total of 18.4% of subjects have been sexually experienced 4% of females had experienced one or more induced abortions and only 21.3% of subjects who have sexual experience used contraceptives regularly. Multivariate logistic regression analysis for factors associated with premarital sex and contraceptive use revealed that youths with 1) comparatively higher age 2) higher annual income 3) lower educational level 4) working in joint venture/foreign capital or private enterprise or self-employed 5) did not stay at home every day and 5) whose mother initially provided him/her information on sex-related issues were more likely to engage in sexual intercourse. Also youth with higher educational level and a contraceptive knowledge score were more likely to use contraceptives. Overall it is necessary to provide unmarried young people with contraceptive services and counseling during implementation of sex education program. (authors modified)
Galaxy properties from the ultraviolet to the far-infrared: Λ cold dark matter models confront observations: Galaxy properties from the UV to the FIR

We combine a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation with simple analytic recipes describing the absorption and re-emission of starlight by dust in the interstellar medium of galaxies. We use the resulting models to predict galaxy counts and luminosity functions from the farultraviolet (FUV) to the submillimetre, from redshift five to the present, and compare with an extensive compilation of observations. We find that in order to reproduce the rest-UV and optical luminosity functions at high redshift, we must assume an evolving normalization in the dust-to-metal ratio, implying that galaxies of a given bolometric luminosity (or metal column density) must be less extinguished than their local counterparts. In our best-fitting model, we find remarkably good agreement with observations from rest ∼1500 Å to ∼250 μm. At longer wavelengths, most dramatically in the submillimetre, our models underpredict the number of bright galaxies by a large factor. The models reproduce the observed total IR luminosity function fairly well. We show the results of varying several ingredients of the models, including various aspects of the dust attenuation recipe, the dust emission templates and the cosmology. We use our models to predict the integrated extragalactic background light, and compare with an observationally motivated extragalactic background light EBL model and with other available observational constraints.
Superconductivity at 5.4 K in β-Bi2Pd

We investigate bulk superconductivity in a high-quality single crystal of Bi 2 Pd (β-Bi 2 Pd; space group: I 4/ m m m ) with a superconducting transition temperature of 5.4 K, by exploring its electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, and specific heat. The temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity shows convex-upward behavior at temperatures greater than 40–50 K, which can be explained using a parallel-resistor model. In addition, the temperature dependences of the upper critical magnetic field and the specific heat suggest that β-Bi 2 Pd is a multiple-band/multiple-gap superconductor.
The formation of the brightest cluster galaxies in cosmological simulations: the case for active galactic nucleus feedback: Formation of the brightest cluster galaxies

We use 500 pc resolution cosmological simulations of a Virgo-like galaxy cluster to study the properties of the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) that forms at the centre of the halo. We compared two simulations; one incorporating only supernova feedback and a second that also includes prescriptions for black hole growth and the resulting active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback from gas accretion. As previous work has shown, with supernova feedback alone we are unable to reproduce any of the observed properties of massive cluster ellipticals. The resulting BCG rotates quickly, has a high S´ersic index, a strong mass excess in the centre and a total central density proﬁle falling more steeply than isothermal. Furthermore, it is far too efﬁcient at converting most of the available baryons into stars which is strongly constrained by abundance matching. With a treatment of black hole dynamics and AGN feedback the BCG properties are in good agreement with data: they rotate slowly, have a cored surface density proﬁle, a ﬂat or rising velocity dispersion proﬁle and a low stellar mass fraction. The AGN provides a new mechanism to create cores in luminous elliptical galaxies; the core expands due to the combined effects of heating from dynamical friction of sinking massive black holes and AGN feedback that ejects gaseous material from the central regions.
The 4/3 additive spanner exponent is tight

A spanner is a sparse subgraph that approximately preserves the pairwise distances of the original graph. It is well known that there is a smooth tradeoff between the sparsity of a spanner and the quality of its approximation, so long as distance error is measured multiplicatively. A central open question in the field is to prove or disprove whether such a tradeoff exists also in the regime of additive error. That is, is it true that for all ε>0, there is a constant kε such that every graph has a spanner on O(n1+ε) edges that preserves its pairwise distances up to +kε? Previous lower bounds are consistent with a positive resolution to this question, while previous upper bounds exhibit the beginning of a tradeoff curve: all graphs have +2 spanners on O(n3/2) edges, +4 spanners on Õ(n7/5) edges, and +6 spanners on O(n4/3) edges. However, progress has mysteriously halted at the n4/3 bound, and despite significant effort from the community, the question has remained open for all 0 < ε < 1/3. Our main result is a surprising negative resolution of the open question, even in a highly generalized setting. We show a new information theoretic incompressibility bound: there is no function that compresses graphs into O(n4/3 − ε) bits so that distance information can be recovered within +no(1) error. As a special case of our theorem, we get a tight lower bound on the sparsity of additive spanners: the +6 spanner on O(n4/3) edges cannot be improved in the exponent, even if any subpolynomial amount of additive error is allowed. Our theorem implies new lower bounds for related objects as well; for example, the twenty-year-old +4 emulator on O(n4/3) edges also cannot be improved in the exponent unless the error allowance is polynomial. Central to our construction is a new type of graph product, which we call the Obstacle Product. Intuitively, it takes two graphs G,H and produces a new graph G H whose shortest paths structure looks locally like H but globally like G.
Community pharmacists’ understanding, attitudes, practice and perceived barriers related to providing pharmaceutical care: a questionnaire-based survey in Macao

Purpose : To explore the knowledge, attitudes, practice and perceived barriers of community pharmacists regarding provision of pharmaceutical care as well as provide recommendations on how to advance the service during the early stage of development in Macao. Methods : A questionnaire comprising 10 items was used to collect respondents’ demographic information and to evaluate their understanding of pharmaceutical care, attitude towards service provision, current practice and perceived barriers. Descriptive and comparative analysis of the results was conducted. Results : While 95 % of the participating pharmacists agreed that patients’ health was their primary responsibility, only 57 % believed that they can provide better pharmaceutical care in the future. The majority spent most of their work time counselling patients (90 %) and checking prescription (70 %). Only a small portion monitored adverse drug reaction and drug compliance (44 %), engaged in health screening or drug safety promotion (20 %) or maintained patient medication records (4 %). Insufficient communication with physicians (90 %), lack of time (79 %) and lack of physical space at the pharmacy (76 %) were considered the most significant barriers. Conclusion : A suboptimal level of pharmaceutical care is provided by pharmacists in Macao. Considering the barriers identified and integrating other country experiences, establishing an enabling atmosphere using policy and regulatory measures is the fundamental element for advancing pharmaceutical care by community pharmacists. Keywords : Community pharmacist, Community Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical care, Macao
The IceTop experiment in 2010

We present the current status of the IceTop air shower array on top of the IceCube neutrino detector that IceTop can use as a huge detector of TeV muons. We laos give a brief discussion of different types of air shower events that contain information on the spectrum and composition of the cosmic rays in a wide energy range.
High-Purity CaWO 4 Single Crystals for Direct Dark Matter Search with the CRESST Experiment

CRESST is an experiment searching directly for dark matter particles via their elastic scattering off nuclei contained in scintillating CaWO 4 single crystals. An optimized optical quality and a high radiopurity are key requirements for these crystals. This work concerns the production of CaWO 4 crystals with a high quality. This includes, in particular, the development of methods to improve the intrinsic radiopurity.
Clinical Benefits of Stance Control Orthosis Systems: An Analysis of the Scientific Literature

ABSTRACT As the benefit of stance control in comparison with locked knee-ankle-foot orthoses is controversial, a literature analysis was conducted. Despite limited methodological quality, the majority of the studies gave clear indications of a benefit for stance control orthosis systems with respect to greater knee flexion and ground clearance in the swing phase, relief of the joints on the sound limb, a reduction of compensatory movements and energy consumption, and improved patient satisfaction.
Proposta da Metodologia RAQS para avaliação visual da qualidade do solo (Proposal of RAQS methodology for evaluation of soil quality)

O monitoramento da qualidade do solo por meio de indicadores visuais e recomendado por diversos autores e pode ser utilizado em estudos relacionados a sustentabilidade de ambientes. No entanto, ha diferentes metodologias que podem ser empregadas para esse monitoramento e uma analise comparativa das mesmas nao tem sido relatada, dificultando sua padronizacao e emprego. O objetivo desse trabalho foi propor uma nova metodologia de avaliacao visual da qualidade do solo. Dessa forma, foram aplicadas, neste estudo, cinco metodologias de avaliacao visual em pastagens sob diferentes condicoes, que possibilitaram a elaboracao e aplicacao da nova metodologia denominada RAQS (Referencia para Avaliacao da Qualidade do Solo). Todas as metodologias possibilitaram a avaliacao da qualidade do solo de forma facil, rapida e sem custos, apesar da variacao da sensibilidade. A metodologia RAQS mostrou-se util, facilmente replicavel e de grande sensibilidade na avaliacao da qualidade do solo, englobando maior numero de indicadores de solo, plantas e fauna, em relacao as demais metodologias. 800x600 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabela normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:. 0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;} A B S T R A C T The soil quality monitoring through visual indicators is recommended by several authors and can be used in studies related to sustainability of environments. However, there are different methods that can be employed for this monitoring and a comparative analysis has not been reported, making it difficult to standardize and employment. The aim of this work was propose a new method of visual evaluation of soil quality. Thereby, in this study were applied five visual evaluation methods in pasture under different conditions, which contributed to the elaboration and application of the new method called RAQS (Reference for evaluation of soil quality). All the methods allowed the evaluation of the soil quality easily, quickly and free of charge, despite the variation of sensibility. The RAQS method proves useful, easily replicable and great sensitivity in the evaluation of soil quality, encompassing more indicators of soil, plants and fauna, in relation to the others. Keywords: Environments, Indicators, Soil management, Pasture.
Do different warm-up protocols affect isometric explosive muscular contraction?

BACKGROUND: There is a general agreement in the physical education and coaching communities on the importance of warm-up (WU) prior to any physical performance. Nevertheless, the value of WU remains controversial among researchers. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study was to assess the effect of direct, indirect, and combined direct and indirect WU protocols (DWU, IDWU, and CWU, respectively) on knee extension rate of torque development (RTD). METHODS: Twenty-nine physical education students were tested for maximal isometric knee extension tests on an isokinetic machine following each of the WU protocols, as well as following a control condition of no WU. RTD index was calculated for 50, 100, 150, and 200 ms from the initiation of knee extension for each trial. RTD values following the four protocols were compared by repeated measures ANOVA for each of the temporal indices. RESULTS: None of the differences between the protocols’ means was statistically significant at any of the temporal indices. Nevertheless, individual responses demonstrated that certain participants exhibited a non-uniform response profile, thus suggesting differential responses to alternate protocols. CONCLUSIONS: Within the limitations of the current protocol and outcome measures, it is recommended that practitioners experiment with different WU routines and adjust them on an individual basis.
Bacteriological Profile of Urinary Tract Infection in Paediatric Age Group in a Tertiary Care Hospital.

Background: Urinary tract infection is of grave concern in children and is an important cause of morbidity. Urinary tract infection at young age commonly can lead to renal injury and scarring and ultimately to end stage renal disease in childhood. Objectives: The purpose of the study was to identify different species of microorganisms, along with their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern, causing urinary tract infection in paediatric patients up to 13yrs at Jorhat Medical College and Hospital, Jorhat, Assam. Methods: This was a cross sectional study of 806 culture positive cases of UTI who attended paediatric outpatient department or indoor over a period of 11months from August 2014 to June 2015. Urine samples were collected before antimicrobial therapy. Periurethral cleaning was done. About (5-10ml) urine was collected in sterile wide mouthed leak proof container and transported to the laboratory within 2hrs.Semiquantitative method of culture was done in CLED media. A urine sample was included in our dataset if it demonstrated pure growth of a single organism and accompanying antimicrobial susceptibility and subject demographic data were available. Results: UTI was more common in females (52.65%) than in males (47.34%). Bacterial isolates were (51.61%) and Candida species(48.38%). Among the uropathogens isolated Escherichia coli(34.43%) was found to be the predominant organism followed by Klebsiella species(21.77%), Pseudomonas species(3.29%), Citrobacter(2.532%), Proteus(1.772%), Providentia (1.013%). Amongst them gram positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus(21.013%) was commonest followed by Enterococcus (19.49%). Sensitivity pattern of Escherichia coli species showed maximum sensitivity to Nitrofurantoin (26.83%), followed by Gentamicin (18.98%), Norfloxacin(13.41%), Nalidixic Acid(10.88%), Cefazolin(10.63%), Cefpodoxime (9.37%) and most resistant to Nalidixic Acid(24.557%) followed by Cotrimoxazole (18.22%), Norfloxacin (16.96%), Cefpodoxime(16.45%). Conclusion: Though various microorganisms are responsible for UTI in paediatric age group Escherichia coli species is the most common organism. Antimicrobial resistance has already emerged against many antibiotics, making empiric treatment of these infections challenging.
Health Status and Quality of Health Care Services of Congolese Refugees in Nakivale, Uganda

Physical and emotional wellness, as well as access to healthcare, are foundations for successful resettlement. Without feeling healthy, it is difficult to work, to go school, or take care of a family. Many factors can affect refugee health, including geographic origin and refugee camp conditions. Refugees may face a wide variety of acute or chronic health issues (Office of Refugee Resettlement, ORR Annual Report to Congress 2014; http://www.acf.hhs.gov). Resettlement of refugees in Uganda is usually supported by concerted efforts of UNHCR, Governments through the Office of the Prime Minister, OPM with support from host communities, local and international Non-Governmental Organizations. Due to resource constraints and local factors, immigrants are often subjected to poor living conditions which coupled with inadequacy inessential medical supplies might significantly affects quality of care and health service delivery and hence, rendering refugees to poor health status. This study was conducted from 2013-2014 to assess the determinants of health status of Congolese refugees living in Nakivale refugee settlement, in Isingiro district- South Western Uganda. A cross-sectional study design was used involving mixed techniques of both qualitative and quantitative KAP survey. The study focussed on Congolese refugee population in Nakivale Refugee settlement. 2401 key informants’ interviews and 8 focus group discussions respectively were conducted targeting service providers and beneficiaries/Congolese refugees in this case. The data was analysed using SPSS ver.20, 2011. Although majority (97%) of respondents sought medical services from established health facilities, findings confirm a high level of ill health prevalence among Congolese refugees in Nakivale camp, however, the difference in health services and perceived health status in camp versus the one in DRcongo is insignificant ( p=0.000) with respondents perceiving their health status as worse than when they were their own Country before the resettlement. Identified key challenges affecting access & uptake of available health services includes: language barrier; inadequate drugs; and the long distances to access health facilities. The health status of refugees could be improved by addressing the challenges related to language, drug supplies in addition to humanising conditions of shelter, providing appropriate waste disposal facilities while proving adequate food rations and clean & safe drinking water.