Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Trace elements in livers of great egrets (Ardea Alba) from São Paulo metropolitan region

To evaluate possible variations over time (2006-2013) in trace element levels in livers from adult specimens of great egret from the São Paulo Metropolitan Region (SPMR), recent data and published data have been used. The elements Br, Cl, Co, Cs, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Na, Rb, Se and Zn were determined by Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) and the toxic elements Cd and Hg by Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS). The large inter annual variations observed for several elements showed the importance of expanding the time period for this analysis as the series is considered short (<10
Perceptions of leadership behaviors and innovation by Saudi Arabian police directors in the Mecca Region

Saudi Arabia faces many challenges, including the political instability of the Middle East as well as currently decreased oil prices. However, Saudi is ranked 83 in the global creativity index. Thus, Saudi has developed Vision 2013 to promote innovation that includes increasing tourism. The Mecca Region is a center of tourism and the police directors will need to demonstrate creative ways to maintain safety of an increasing influx of international tourists. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the perceptions of leadership behaviors by directors of police force in Mecca as measured by Leaders Behavior Descriptive Questionnaire (LBDQ) and their perceptions on innovative behaviors as measured by Magley and Birdi’s instrument. These two instruments in Arabic were personally distributed to 120 directors; 103 (86%) completed survey sets were returned. Of these, 95 were sufficiently complete for data analysis. Demographic findings indicated that the median age of these directors was 30.5 years, median years of experience was 11, and median educational experience was Bachelors’ degree. Correlational and multiple regression analyses revealed that these leaders had moderate leadership scores and similar perceptions of innovation. The three largest correlations were between the total leadership on LBDQ and total innovation score, creativity self-efficacy, and team support for innovation. The fourth largest correction was between team support and innovation. Thus, the alternative hypotheses were accepted that these leaders’ perceptions of their leadership skills would predict their perception of innovations. From the study, we concluded that the participating leaders believe they possess good leadership skills and have creative ideas, which are supported by their supervisors. Out of the 4 subscales of LBDQ, consideration has the strongest correlations with innovation. Thus, these
Factors Affecting the Delay of Antidepressant Responders to Nortriptyline and Phenelzine

Seventy-six elderly depressed patients who had responded to either nortriptyline or phenelzine after a trial of up to 3 months were examined. The mean week of response was nearly 6 weeks. Patients who were more severely depressed took longer to respond. Patients with endogenous depression responded sooner on nortriptyline than did patients with nonendogenous depression. For patients on nortriptyline, lower plasma levels in the early weeks of treatment may delay response while differences in platelet monoamine oxidase inhibition in the early weeks of treatment do not appear to affect week of response for patients on phenelzine.
Lésions du sein de découverte fortuite lors de mammoplasties de réduction: un échantillon histopathologique de 534 patientes

Le but de ce travail etait de determiner la prevalence de lesions pathologiques dans les specimens de mammoplastie, puis d'identifier d'eventuels facteurs de risque pour un cancer du sein de decouverte fortuite. Un total de 534 patientes ayant beneficie d'une evaluation preoperatoire constituaient la cohorte d'etude. Des lesions histopathologiques benignes furent decelees chez 76% et un carcinome in situ chez 0.9% des patientes. Aucun cancer invasif ne fut detecte. Âge et anamnese positive pour le cancer du sein etaient des facteurs de risques pour la decouverte d'un carcinome in situ. Le nombre de carcinomes in situ dans notre cohorte etait plus eleve que le nombre de cas attendus dans la population genevoise (ratios standardises d'incidence 6.2, p=0.002). En conclusion, plus de trois-quarts des specimens de mammoplastie contenaient des lesions histopathologiques. Âge et anamnese positive pour un cancer du sein constituaient des facteurs de risques pour un cancer de decouverte fortuite.
HUBUNGAN TINGKAT KEPATUHAN MENGKONSUMSI TABLET Fe DENGAN KEJADIAN ANEMIA PADA IBU HAMIL DAN FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHINYA DI WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS SIKIJANG KABUPATEN PELALAWAN TAHUN 2015

HUBUNGAN TINGKAT KEPATUHAN MENGKONSUMSI TABLET BESI DENGAN KEJADIAN ANEMIA PADA IBU HAMIL DAN FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHINYA DI WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS SIKIJANG KABUPATEN PELALAWAN TAHUN 2015 ABSTRAK Anemia saat kehamilan berdampak buruk pada ibu dan janin. Dalam keadaan hamil, suplai zat besi dari makanan masih belum mencukupi sehingga dibutuhkan suplemen berupa tablet tambah darah/Fe. Program pemerintah untuk mencegah anemia pada ibu hamil adalah dengan memberikan tablet Fe 90 tablet selama kehamilan. Di Wilayah kerja Puskesmas Sikijang cakupan pemberian Tablet Fe hampir mencapai target nasional, namun tidak di ketahui apakah tablet tersebut diminum atau tidak, karena masih banyak ibu hamil yang menderita anemia yaitu sebanyak 67%. Tujuan penelitian untuk mengetahui hubungan tingkat kepatuhan mengkonsumsi tablet Fe dengan kejadian anemia pada ibu hamil dan faktor yang mempengaruhinya. Penelitian menggunakan metode kombinasi model concurrent embedded dengan metode kuantitatif sebagai metode primer dan metode kualitatif sebagai metode sekunder. Subyek dalam penelitian ini adalah berjumlah 70 orang ibu hamil. Teknik pengambilan sampel untuk data kuntitatif dilakukan secara proportional random sampling sedangkan untuk data kualitatif teknik pemilihan informan dilakukan secara purposive sampling. Data di analisis secara univariat, bivariat dan analisa multivariat dengan regresi logistic berganda dan analisa triangulasi pada data kualitatif. Hasil analisis terdapat hubungan yang bermakna antara kepatuhan mengkonsumsi tablet Fe dengan kejadian anemia pada ibu hamil dengan p value 0,000 (p <0,05), terdapat hubungan yang bermakna antara pengetahuan, sikap, konseling, dukungan keluarga/suami dengan kepatuhan dengan p value 0,000, p value 0,007, p value 0,034, p value 0,029 (p <0,05). Hasil analisis multivariat variabel yang paling dominan yang berhubungan dengan kepatuhan adalah variabel pengetahuan dibandingkan dengan faktor yang lain. Kesimpulan, penyebab kejadian anemia pada ibu hamil adalah karena ketidakpatuhan mengkonsumsi tablet Fe. Ketidakpatuhan di pengaruhi oleh kurangnya pengetahuan ibu hamil tentang anemia dan manfaat tablet tambah darah. Diharapkan kepada petugas kesehatan agar meningkatkan Konseling (KIE) kepada ibu hamil tentang anemia dan manfaat tablet Fe. Meningkatkan peran keluarga/suami untuk pengawasan minum tablet Fe pada ibu hamil. Memotivasi ibu hamil untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan dengan memanfaatkan buku KIA. Kata Kunci : Anemia, Kepatuhan, Mengkonsumsi Tablet Fe, Ibu Hamil
Nutritional intervention in animals: benchmarking of strategies, monitoring biomarkers and immune competence

Het huidige rapport omvat een literatuurstudie naar diverse aspecten die gerelateerd zijn aan de immuun competentie van landbouwhuisdieren. Deze aspecten, die in hoofdstuk 1 geintroduceerd worden, zijn: 1) Het aantonen van verbanden tussen functionele componenten in diervoedergrondstoffen en de expressie van genen/biologische processen, die van invloed zijn op de darmgezondheid van landbouwhuisdieren; 2) Het beschrijven van modellen die gebruikt kunnen worden bij onderzoek naar effecten van voedingsinterventies op immuun gerelateerde kenmerken in landbouwhuisdieren; 3) Het samenvatten van effecten van nutritionele interventies in de maternale, neonatale en postneonatale fase op de ontwikkeling van het aangeboren en verworven immuunsysteem; 4) Een literatuurstudie naar de relatie tussen het immuunsysteem in de darm en in de bovenste luchtwegen, waarbij ingegaan wordt op de vraag hoe voedingsinterventies het immuunsysteem in de bovenste luchtwegen kunnen ondersteunen.The current study covers a review of literature regarding a number of topics related to immune competence in farm animals, which are introduced in chapter 1. These topics are: 1) A demonstration of the relationship between functional feed components and the expression of genes/biological processes that are involved in gut health of farm animals; 2) A description of available models, that can be used to investigate the effects of nutritional interventions on immune related parameters in animals; 3) A review of the effects of nutritional interventions in the maternal, neonatal and post-neonatal phase on the development of the innate and acquired immune system; 4) A review of the relationship between the immune system in the gut and in the upper airways, whereas the question will be addressed how the immune system in the upper airways can be affected by nutritional interventions.
EMPIR: Ensembles of Mixed Precision Deep Networks for Increased Robustness against Adversarial Attacks

Ensuring robustness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is crucial to their adoption in safety-critical applications such as self-driving cars, drones, and healthcare. Notably, DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks in which small input perturbations can produce catastrophic misclassifications. In this work, we propose EMPIR, ensembles of quantized DNN models with different numerical precisions, as a new approach to increase robustness against adversarial attacks. EMPIR is based on the observation that quantized neural networks often demonstrate much higher robustness to adversarial attacks than full precision networks, but at the cost of a substantial loss in accuracy on the original (unperturbed) inputs. EMPIR overcomes this limitation to achieve the “best of both worlds”, i.e., the higher unperturbed accuracies of the full precision models combined with the higher robustness of the low precision models, by composing them in an ensemble. Further, as low precision DNN models have significantly lower computational and storage requirements than full precision models, EMPIR models only incur modest compute and memory overheads compared to a single full-precision model (<25% in our evaluations). We evaluate EMPIR across a suite of 3 different DNN tasks (MNIST, CIFAR-10 and ImageNet) and under 4 different adversarial attacks. Our results indicate that EMPIR boosts the average adversarial accuracies by 43.6%, 15.3% and 11.9% for the DNN models trained on the MNIST, CIFAR-10 and ImageNet datasets respectively, when compared to single full-precision models, without sacrificing accuracy on the unperturbed inputs.
How common is pain in Indian school going children? A phase 1 pilot study

Background: There is a lack of information about the prevalence of pain among school going Indian children, and therefore, this study was conducted. A cross-sectional population survey was conducted in school children from Grades III to VI. The objective was to determine the prevalence of pain, including chronic pain. The secondary objectives were to find a correlation between chronic pain with age, gender, parental history of chronic pain and past surgical history along with the various characteristics of chronic pain. Method: Seven hundred questionnaires were distributed in schools from Grades III to VI. They were answered at home by the children along with their parents. The data thus obtained were analyzed with appropriate statistical tests. The level of significance was set at P ≤ 0.05. Results: The overall prevalence of non-chronic pain was found to be 37.6% (95% confidence interval being 34.0-41.2%). The prevalence of chronic pain was 3.90% (95% confidence interval being 2.86-4.94%). There was no statistically relevant correlation between gender, age, family history of chronic pain, or past surgical history with chronic pain. Conclusion: Our study suggests that prevalence of pain in Indian school going children is common, although the prevalence of chronic pain is far less than that estimated world-wide.
Noise in an FM-Converted Self-Mixing Interferometer

We measure the noise of the converted frequency-modulated (cFM) signal in a self-mixing interferometer (SMI) and confirm the theoretical prediction of a dependence of rms noise from (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1+ C)^{-1}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$C$ </tex-math></inline-formula> is the Acket feedback factor, up to a high value (i.e., <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$C=30$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) in region III of Tkach and Chraplyvy feedback diagram. We also verify the minor dependence of noise from the phase factor 2<italic>ks</italic> + atan <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\alpha $ </tex-math></inline-formula>. Finally, we show that the cFM SMI easily attains an unprecedented limit of small-signal detection, with amplitudes down to 0.25 pm/<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\surd $ </tex-math></inline-formula>Hz.
Seroprevalence of Herpes Simplex Virus Type –2 IgG among Pregnant Women attending Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, Jharkhand

Background: Infection with herpes simplex is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections. It is common in women of reproductive age as it can be contracted and transmitted to the fetus during pregnancy resulting in miscarriage, premature labor, inhibited fetal growth or transmission of the infection to the infant leading to death or long-term disabilities. Objective : This study aimed to detect seroprevalence of HSV-2 IgG antibodies among pregnant women. Methods : Serum samples from 218 pregnant women attending Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, Jharkhand were takenfrom (October 2012 to September 2015) and further analysed with commercial HSV type-2 specific IgG Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISACalbiotech) kits. Results: Of the 218 pregnant women, 76(34.86%) were seropositive and 142(65.13%) were seronegative for HSV 2 IgG antibody. Seroprevalence of HSV IgG group was 51 (57.12%), 14 (22.58%), and 11 (25.0%) for first, second and third trimester, respectively with seropositivity being highest for first trimester followed by second and third trimester. Astatistical association existed between the prevalence of HSV-2 IgG antibodies and history of abortion and gravidarum studied (p 0.05). Conclusion: Our data shows that HSV-2 IgG seropositivity among pregnant women in Ranchi, Jharkhand is high; thus serological screening for HSV might be advisable for antenatal attendees for the possibility of HSV infection so that infectivity could be minimized by proper medication and vaccine should be introduced for HSV.
Teachers' Experiences of Teaching as Inquiry and Biculturally Responsive Pedagogy for Māori Students in Schools with a Low Percentage of Māori Students

ii List of Tables . vi List of Figures . vi Attestation of authorship . vii Acknowledgements . viii Chapter One Introduction . 1 Contextual overview . 2 Research rationale . 4 Teaching as Inquiry . 6 Research aims and questions . 7 Overview of Research design . 8 Thesis organisation . 8 Chapter two Literature review . 9 Why is the concept important? 9 Inhibitors: Deficit theory and marginalisation . 10 Biculturally and culturally responsive pedagogy . 13 Culturally responsive pedagogy . 13 Biculturally responsive pedagogy in New Zealand . 14 Review of New Zealand programmes and guidelines . 16 Ka Hikitia . 19 A culture of care . 22 Biculturally responsive pedagogy in teaching practice . 23 The concept of teaching as inquiry . 25 Summary . 32 Chapter 3 Methodology . 33 Methodological approach . 33 Paradigms, ontologies and epistemologies . 33 Research design . 35 Sampling . 35
Temporal Transcriptome and Promoter Architecture of the African Swine Fever Virus

The African Swine Fever Virus causes haemorrhagic fever in domestic pigs and presents the biggest global threat to animal farming in recorded history. Despite its importance, very little is known the mechanisms and temporal regulation of transcription in ASFV. Here we report the first detailed viral transcriptome analysis of ASFV during early and late infection of Vero cells. In addition to total RNA sequencing, we have characterised the transcription start sites and transcription termination sites at nucleotide-resolution, revealing the distinct DNA consensus motifs of early and late promoters, as well as the sequence determinants for transcription termination. ASFV can utilise alternative promoters to generate distinct proteins from the same transcription unit that differ with respect to the polypeptide N-terminus. Finally, our results reveal that the ASFV-RNAP undergoes transcript slippage at the 5’ end of transcription units that in a promoter sequence-specific manner results in the addition of 5’-AT and 5’-ATAT tails to mRNAs.
Effects of Lean Six Sigma in program management

As program managers seek to improve the quality, speed and financial benefits of the programs they manage, many are turning to process improvement methodologies, such as Lean Six Sigma (LSS). However, although existing literature includes multiple studies that apply the methodology to non-manufacturing environments, there is no specific framework for applying LSS within program management (PM). Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between LSS tools, project scope, program phase and functional area and project outputs, in PM organizations. ,The study uses archival data from 511 LSS projects completed from 2006 to 2015 by a large government agency in the USA composed of 13 PM organizations. The study focuses on four types of input factors: LSS tools, project scope, program phase and functional area; and two output variables: LSS project average financial benefits and percentage of improvement. Multiple regressions are applied to determine what relationships exist between the input and output variables, as well as the nature of such relationships. ,The results of this study show LSS is beneficial to PM and also indicate which tools and organizational contexts have positive and negative associations with project outcomes, serving as guide for future applications. In addition, this study can provide clarity and confidence to program managers who are currently skeptical of LSS, by showing that it can provide cost, schedule and performance improvements beneficial to their programs. ,Limitations of this research include the use of a single government agency in the USA, the non-experimental design of the study and limitations associated with the nature and data collection process of the archival data. Future studies should include additional PM organizations, input variables and research designs. ,There is no specific framework formalizing the concept of LSS application within PM. The literature includes several studies that apply the methodology to non-manufacturing environments, but not to PM specifically. Furthermore, the existing literature on PM does not explicitly cite any continuous improvement methodology as a critical success factor or provide any detailed guidelines for the application of LSS in PM. This paper contributes by studying the relationships between LSS tools, project scope, program phase and functional area, and project outputs, in a PM environment.
Registration of Real-Time and Prior Images for MRI-Guided Cardiac Interventions

Registration of Real-Time and Prior Images for MRI-Guided Cardiac Interventions Robert Sheng Xu Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Medical Biophysics University of Toronto 2016 Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a promising modality for guiding interventions within the heart. Compared to the gold standard of x-ray fluoroscopy, MRI provides superior soft tissue contrast for visualizing the cardiac anatomy without the use of ionizing radiation. One particular application of interest is the use of MRI to guide an interventional catheter into the left ventricle (LV), and applying radio-frequency (RF) energy to eliminate the anatomical substrates responsible for ventricular tachycardia. However, interventional guidance with MRI is not without its own unique set of challenges. Different MRI acquisition schemes have tradeoffs in terms of image quality and acquisition time. High quality 3D roadmap volumes can be acquired prior to the procedure, but accurate guidance with this dataset can be limited during the procedure due to dynamic motions of the heart. Alternatively, fast 2D real-time acquisition schemes can be used to rapidly acquire images that reflect the dynamic motions of the heart at the expense of imaging quality and spatial coverage. Unfortunately, neither approach is ideal for guiding an interventional catheter to an appropriate target location. Therefore, this thesis presents and tests novel ideas for combining the advantages of motion characterization from the real-time images and accurate visualization of anatomical structures from the pre-operative images. To this end, an image-based registration algorithm for aligning the prior roadmap image with the real-time images was developed first. This proposed algorithm synchronized the cardiac phase from both datasets,
The Significant Role of Culture to Value Differences: Socio-Emotional Challenge in Digital Era

People in each region have different values in the social and emotional aspects of life. Culture has an important role in value differences. Children’s attitudes and behaviors during his growth and development also differ in accordance with the culture in which they are growing. This particular culture can be seen in Javanese (andhap asor), Bugis-Makassarese (siri), and Papuan (more tendencies in emotional expressive). The purpose of this study is to seek the differences between Javanese, Bugis-Makassarese, and Papuan tribes in determining children's socio-emotional competence. The subjects of this study were 100 children aged 10-13 years. This study used the Social-Emotional Competence Questionnaire (SECQ), which in 5 aspects of social awareness, self-management, relationship management, and responsible decision-making. Data analysis using one-way ANOVA. The results showed that there were differences in socio-emotional competence among Javanese, Bugis-Makassarese, and Papuans (F = 3.26).
Assemblages of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities Downstream of a Dam on River Alaknanda in Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India

The assemblages of benthic macroinvertebrate communities along with the physicochemical variables in River Alaknanda (Garhwal Himalayan region of Uttarakhand) downstream of a dam of 330 MW power project, were recorded from three sampling sites during January 2019 to March 2019. The water temperature and pH remained low throughout the study, while the nutrient concentration, turbidity and conductivity were high at the downstream site. Among the benthic macroinvertebrates, a total of 37 genera, belonging to 22 families of 7 orders including molluscs were recorded. The maximum density of benthic fauna was recorded from the site nearest to the dam. Dipterans (Chironomidae) were the predominant order at all the three sampling sites, whereas Molluscs had the least density during the study. The canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) reveals that high nutrient, dissolved oxygen and moderate water velocity governs the occurrence of benthic fauna downstream of the dam. The present study reveals that the chironomidae being the most pollution tolerant taxa and occurring in high density suggest the organic pollution at sites downstream of the dam.