Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Drug Utilization Evaluation Study and Dose Adjustment in Patients with Kidney Disease in Tertiary Care Hospital

INTRODUCTION: Kidney disease is becoming a worldwide public health problem with an increase in incidence and prevalence, poor outcomes and high cost. Rational prescription is necessary in kidney disease patients. These patients are at higher risk of developing drug related problems since they need complex therapeutic regimens that include comorbid conditions like diabetes mellitus, hypertension, coronary artery disease and infection that require frequent monitoring and dosage adjustment. Inappropriate use of medications can increase adverse drug effects, which can be reflected by excessive length of hospital stays, excessive health care utilization and cost. OBJECTIVES: The objective of the study was to assess, evaluate and analyze the prescribing pattern of drugs in kidney disease and their dose adjustments in medicine and emergency department of tertiary care teaching hospital. METHODOLOGY: The study was conducted for a period of 6 months. Ethical clearance was obtained from Institutional Ethical Committee of S C S College of Pharmacy, Harapanahalli. Collected data was analyzed to identify the current prescribing trend and dosage regimen in the management of renal failure patients and to know whether the prescribing rationality was obtained in Medicine and Emergency unit in hospital by using KDIGO guidelines. RESULTS: A total of 140 patients were enrolled in the study according to the inclusion criteria in which 104 were males and 36 were females. 134 CKD cases and 6 AKI cases were found. In the study, 105 (75%) patients were hypertensive, 62 (44.28%) patients were anemic, 54 (38.57%) patients were diabetic and dyslipidemia was associated with 21 (15%) patients. 87 patients were on hemodialysis. On the basis of ATC classification of drugs, cardiovascular system (35.7%) class of drugs was the commonly prescribed followed by drugs for alimentary tract and metabolism (25.97%), anti-infective (10.11%) and blood and blood forming agents (7.97%). Out of 1028 studied drugs, only 105 (10.21%) required dose adjustment where 76 (72.38%) were adjusted and 29 (27.61%) were not adjusted. CONCLUSION: This study illustrates the need for proper dose adjustment and drug utilization pattern in patients with renal failure. Appropriate dosing of antibiotics as well as other drugs, including narrow therapeutic drugs play a vital role in preventing dose related adverse reactions and toxicities. This study will provide an outline for management strategies and will influence the decision making process in clinical practice.
Comfort Dimensions of Actual and Ideal Insulative Clothing for Older Women

Three dimensions of human comfort with respect to clothing are proposed: physical, psychological, and social comfort. A pilot study of 60 women, aged 60 to 80, was conducted to develop and test a semantic differential measure of these three human comfort dimensions with respect to actual and ideal insulative clothing for indoor wear. An evaluative factor, a measure of overall garment evaluation, also emerged from analysis of the semantic differential. Validity and reliability of the measure were strong for physical and psychological comfort and the evaluative factor but not for social comfort. Thirty-one of the 60 women chose to wear one of three types of insulative clothing for indoor wear on a one day trial basis under reduced household temperatures. Under these environmental conditions physical comfort was correlated substantially higher with overall evaluation than was psychological comfort. Data indicate that (1) garment types presented and worn in this study did not approximate participants' concept of ideal insulative clothing; (2) one's concept of ideal insulative clothing may affect selection of garment type ; (3) perception of comfort and overall evaluation of the garment changed from before to after wearing the garment ; and (4)garment types differentially approached the expectation for ideal insulative clothing on the separate comfort dimensions. Implications for theory and research are discussed.
DEGRADATION OF JUNCTION PARAMETERS OF AN ELECTRICALLY STRESSED NPN BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR

The effect of an electrical ageing on npn bipolar transistor has been studied. The current gain decreases substantially and the electrical properties are discussed. The emitter-base junction parameters are degraded during the electrical stress experiments. Both the amplitude and the rate of this degradation depend on the stress duration. The evaluation of these parameters allows to discuss hot carrier degradation process, to estimate the stress magnitude and to control the device.
Scrutinising the Exceptionalism of Young Rural NEETs: A Bibliometric Review

The situation of rural NEETs aged 15 to 24 remains understudied. However, transitions from adolescence to emerging adulthood are very demanding for those in the countryside. Our paper discusses this gap by characterising the scholarship focusing on rural NEETs. We undertook a bibliometric review based on 325 entries on Web of Science (WoS) using the Bibliometrix analysis package. Our approach included descriptive bibliometric analysis, co-citation networks assessment, and thematic analysis. Our findings show that the investigation efforts depicting younger rural NEET are recent and marginal in the larger context of international NEETs scholarship. The field is dominated by economy- and sociology-led networks. Concerns regarding health and employment issues are central in international publishing trends, showing a dominant youth-at-risk approach to this group. Still, themes associated with adolescent NEETs and relevant programs’ assessment are gaining traction. Our findings show a need for funding research initiatives to reduce the invisibility of young rural NEETs.
The Impact of Negotiation as a Social Practice on EFL Writing Peer Assessment Sessions

This qualitative study aims to investigate the negotiation technique that EFL students employ in EFL writing peer assessment sessions. As a data collection instrument, a close-observation has been used for (n=20) participants randomly selected from an intermediate school in Saudi Arabia. The purpose of using observation is to shed light on the students' negotiation of peer assessment practices in writing class and how they work collaboratively in order to discuss their writing prompts more effectively. The findings of the study showed that students’ negotiations skills impacted improvements of the writing skill positively. Moreover, negotiations and discussions have actively engaged students into effective collaborative learning and considerably increased their participation and language practice in their peer assessment sessions.
Assessing the Potential for an Improved Solid Waste Collection in Kalmunai, Sri Lanka: An Analysis of Willingness to Pay

Rapid population growth and increase of economic activities combined with a lack of training in modern solid waste management practices complicate the efforts to improve the solid waste services. Poor waste management has led to indiscrimin ate dumping of solid waste into open spaces and drainages, blocking drains and causing flooding, environment pollution and public health issues. Collecting fees from the public can support finance for improving waste management service. This study intended to evaluate willingness to pay (WTP) of households for improved solid waste collection service in two selected zones of Kalmunai municipal council area. The survey covered 140 households using a stratified simple random sampling method from two selected zones. This study used a contingent valuation method to elicit households’ WTP and multiple linear regression models to determine factors influencing WTP. The household willingness to pay was significantly affected by gender, education, average income, householder’s concern about environment and cost of collecting 1 kg of waste. Gender and education were statistically significant at p<0.05, average income and cost of collecting 1kg of waste were statistically significant at p<0.1 and householder’s concern about environment was statistically significant at p<0.01. The results of this study show that the mean willingness to pay of households to organic/kitchen waste and plastic/paper waste was LKR 2.8/kg and LKR 2.63/kg, respectively.
Structural Damage Identification from Dynamic‐Test Data

The paper deals with a methodology for the use of dynamic response as an inspection and surveillance tool for concrete structures (mainly bridges). The method is based upon a finite‐element analysis for identification of stiffness characteristics (related to cracking) starting from modal dynamic parameters (natural frequencies and mode shapes) derived from dynamic tests. The use of dynamic data is convenient because acceleration transducers can be easily mounted in the structure instead of displacement transducers, mainly when the bridge to be tested overpasses a river, high valley, or traffic road. Several damage‐identification examples are performed with groups of reinforced concrete beams with different and well‐defined cracking patterns. Dynamic response is measured by acceleration transducers. This experimental verification clearly shows the effectiveness of the proposed method in the identification of location, extension, and amount of cracking when some important requirements concerning the dynamic.
Energy-Constrained Online Scheduling for Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Networks

In satellite-terrestrial integrated networks, it is a common practice to schedule real-time tasks from low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to ground stations (GSs) for data processing. However, the joint task scheduling and resource allocation under unknown environment dynamics (e.g., transmission latency) remains to be a challenging problem. First, the tradeoff between task latencies and energy consumption should be carefully considered when making decisions to minimize task latencies under time-averaged energy consumption constraints. Second, to learn the environment uncertainties and minimize the system performance loss (i.e., regret) in terms of task latencies, both online feedback and offline history should be leveraged efficiently, and the accompanying exploration-exploitation tradeoff should be dealt with in a proper way. In this article, we formulate the joint task scheduling and resource allocation problem as a constrained combinatorial multi-armed bandit (CMAB) problem. To solve the problem, by integrating online learning, online control, and offline historical information, we propose a Task scheduling and Resource allocation scheme with Data-driven Bandit Learning called TRDBL. Our theoretical and numerical results show that TRDBL achieves a sublinear time-averaged regret while satisfying the time-averaged energy consumption constraints.
Construction industry & economic development: The Malaysian scene

This book describes the development of Malaysian construction industry within the context of the country´s economic development. It focuses on the essence and consequences of Malaysia´s economic development, the impact of the country´s economic development on the growth and changes in construction output, the development of the contracting sector and issues relating to the industry‘s resources in response to the growth and changes in contruction output, and the probable impact of future economic development on the construction industry. This book will be of interest to students from the field of construction and those who interested in the economics and development of the construction industry.
Concise, SCANNABLE, and Objective: How to Write for the Web

Studies of how users read on the Web found that they do not actually read: instead, they scan the text. A study of five different writing styles found that a sample Web site scored 58% higher in measured usability when it was written concisely, 47% higher when the text was scannable, and 27% higher when it was written in an objective style instead of the promotional style used in the control condition and many current Web pages. Combining these three changes into a single site that was concise, scannable, and objective at the same time resulted in 124% higher measured usability.
Spectrum of non-diabetic renal disease in patients with diabetes mellitus in a tertiary care hospital

Aim and Objectives: To analyse frequency and spectrum of non diabetic renal disease (NDRD) in type 2 diabetes patients and also determine the clinical markers associated with NDRD. Methodology: Single centre based prospective observational study carried out during the period from M a y 2016 to September 2019. Type 2 DM patients with atypical clinical renal disease who underwent renal biopsy to rule out NDRD at King George Hospital, Visakhapatnam were included in the study. Results: In the present study, the overall prevalence of NDRD with or without underlying DN in our study was 71.7%. The prevalence rates of isolated NDRD, NDRD with DN and isolated DN were 51.2%, 20.5%, and 28.2% respectively. Shorter duration of diabetes, absence of retinopathy, presence of active urine sediment are markers associated with NDRD in type 2 diabetics and are strong indicators for biopsy. Isolated DN group patients suffer significantly with hypertension compared to NDRD group. Isolated NDRD group patients had low HbA1c (<7%) values compared to isolated DN group. The most common clinical presentations are RPRF, AKI and acute deterioration in renal function. The common lesion found in NDRD patients with or without underlying DN was acute tubulointerstitial nephritis. In Isolated NDRD group, primary glomerular diseases were most common. IgA Nephropathy was the most common glomerular disease in our study. Conclusion: To conclude, it is difficult to differentiate NDRD from DN merely on the basis of clinical and laboratory criteria and kidney biopsy is an important diagnostic tool to define underlying disease and to identify the treatable causes.
The Effect of Quantitative Feed Restriction Duration on Growth Performance and Carcass Characteristics of Broiler Chickens

The growth productivity of broilers is influenced by improving growth performance through improving body weight, average daily gain, and feed conversion rate. The objective of the study was to determine the effect of quantitative feed restriction duration on growth performance and carcass characteristics of broilers. A total of 144 day-old broiler chicks were reared in a deep litter system until slaughter at 42 days. Chicks were randomly allocated to three treatments which were replicated three times with 16 birds per replicate. The three treatments were the control (T1), one week of feed restriction (T2), and two weeks of feed restriction (T3). Birds were fed with starter, grower and finisher diets. The average daily gain (ADG), average daily feed intake (ADFI), and the feed conversion ratio (FCR) were computed for each week. Carcass weight and internal organs weights were measured. The body weight gained by the birds in T1 was similar to the birds that were restricted for a week. The treatments had a significant effect on the average daily gain in weeks 4, 5, and 6. The ADG for T2 was higher (P ad libitum at week 4 at the start of the treatment. There was no significant effect on the relative weights of heart weights, liver, gizzard, feet, and heads among the treatment groups except for intestine weight which was lower (P
Evaluation of the Strength of Carburized Spur Gear Teeth Based on Fracture Mechanics

A method is developed to simulate fatigue crack growth in a carburized gear tooth based on two-dimensional linear fracture mechanics. In the simulation, the stress intensity factor is calculated by means of a finite-element method (FEM) which takes into account the effect of residual stress. The fatigue crack growth rates in the case layer are estimated experimentally, and they are expressed by an experimental formula. A strength evaluation procedure for carburized gears is then proposed on the basis of the developed method of simulation. In the procedure, the critical length of the initial crack which is obtained from the fatigue strength is assumed to be equal to the crack length evaluated from the threshold stress intensity factor, and the basic load capacity is estimated. The critical lengths are evaluated for variously treated gears and illustrated as a function of surface condition.
A circulating and shut-in well-temperature-profile simulator

This paper describes a comprehensive circulation and shut-in well-temperature-profile simulator capable of accounting for free fall during cementing operations. The program can predict temperatures during circulation of drilling mud in a well or during cementing. The system can also simulate periods of shut-in at any point during a given run. The simulator was verified by use of exact analytical solutions to certain problems. Comparison of simulator runs with oil field-measured well-temperature data indicated that the program does a good job of simulating well temperatures during circulation and shut-in.
The Phenomenon of Memory from a Sociological Standpoint: An Ontological Approach in the Light of Maurice Halbwachs’ Work

The article explores the main concepts and ontological status of memory within Social Sciences. Firstly, we highlight the main insights and contributions of Maurice Halbwachs’ theory of collective memory and, secondly, we draw the further developments by the Memory Studies. We point out some conceptual issues within these works regarding memory’s ontological status. Finally, we suggest a new avenue of interpretation for the phenomenon of memory from a sociological standpoint by (i) considering Cognitive Sciences contributions on the definition of “memory” and (ii) devising a proper social ontology for this kind of definition.
The Development of Disaster Mitigation Curriculum to Improve Disaster Response Capabilities At The Elementary School In Indonesia

Abstract: Disasters threaten the safety of vulnerable groups such the eldery, children and women. Based on the case of natural disasters that occurred in Indonesia, the need for a pragmatic strategy in forming the Indonesian people are aware of the dangers of natural disasters. One strategic step that taken is through the education sector. This research aims to create a disaster mitigation curriculum that has been formulated to produce disaster responsive learners. This research uses R&D (research and development method) by Borg and Gall (2003), in the stages of research and information, planning and initial product development. While for curriculum development used the Tyler model with the infusion method and block method. Data collection techniques used namely interviews, observation, and documentation. The findings of this research are based curriculum products to the stages of disaster mitigation include, 1) the concept of disaster mitigation curriculum, 2) The concept of the learning process (Intrakurikuler), 3) The concept of training process (Extracurricular, and 4) The concept of the assessment process (Evaluation). These results indicate curriculum products are made to increase disaster response capabilities of students through intracurricular and extracurricular activities as well as minimizing the impact of the disaster victims and improve disaster response capabilities for students in Indonesia. Keywords: Curriculum, Disaster Mitigation, Tyler's Model.
Harmonic Classification with Enhancing Music Using Deep Learning Techniques

Automatic extraction of features from harmonic information of music audio is considered in this paper. Automatically obtaining of relevant information is necessary not just for analysis but also for the commercial issue such as music program of tutoring and generating of lead sheet. Two aspects of harmony are considered, chord and global key, facing the issue of the extraction problem by the algorithm of machine learning. Contribution here is to recognize chords in the music by the feature extraction method (voiced models) that performd better than manually one. The modelling carried out chord sequence, getting from frame-by-frame basis, which is known in recognition of the chord system. Technique of machine learning such the convolutional neural network (CNN) will systematically extract the chord sequence to achieve the superiority context model. Then, traditional classification is used to create the key classifier which is better than others or manually one. Datasets used to evaluate the proposed model show good achievement results compared with existing one.
Cell Capacitor Voltage Switching-Cycle Balancing Control for Modular Multilevel Converters

Modular multilevel converters (MMC) with the conventional control are subjected to large capacitor voltage ripples, especially at low-line frequencies. The existing attenuation approaches, such as the second-order or high-frequency harmonic injections, are designed based on average models limiting the achievable performance. This letter aims to greatly increase the control time resolution, investigating the possibility to form the control in the timescale of a switching cycle. The circulating current is allowed to have multiple changes in one switching period. This critical alternation equips the MMC with the capability to achieve voltage balancing in a single switching cycle, shifting the MMC from a long-deemed “line-cycle balancing” converter to a “switching-cycle balancing” converter. The proposed approach is experimentally verified under dc–dc operation, which is the most challenging scenario for conventional controls. Test results under 6 kV dc-link voltage are provided performed with the custom-built 10-kV SiC mosfet-based MMC prototype.
Kinematics, Kinetics, and Muscle Activation during Explosive Upper Body Movements

The aim of this study was to investigate the kinematics, kinetics, and neural activation of the traditional bench press movement performed explosively and the explosive bench throw in which the barbell was projected from the hands. Seventeen male subjects completed three trials with a bar weight of 45% of the subject's previously determined 1RM. Performance was significantly higher during the throw movement compared to the press for average velocity, peak velocity, average force, average power, and peak power. Average muscle activity during the concentric phase for pectoralis major, anterior deltoid, triceps brachii, and biceps brachii was higher for the throw condition. It was concluded that performing traditional press movements rapidly with light loads does not create ideal loading conditions for the neuromuscular system with regard to explosive strength production, especially in the final stages of the movement, because ballistic weight loading conditions where the resistance was accelerated throughou.