Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Retrospective Study Assessing Breast Cancer Occurrence and its Risk Factors among Females at Al Ahsa

Background: Knowing incidence for, breast cancer, co-morbidities, diagnosis and treatment methods given a strategic approach for community awareness and rapid management. Methods: Retrospective cross-sectional descriptive design was utilized. Total of 183 confirmed breast cancer female patients from 2007-2014 were included but the available reviewed cases were 120. Females with any other type of cancer and any breast cancer (BC) case before 2007 were excluded. IRB approvals have been obtained. Results: Overall result showed that age of Breast cancer female patients ranged from 40-60 with mean (51.9 ± 14.4). The overall mean of Body Mass Index was (31.1 ± 07.6). The most common comorbidities associated with Breast Cancer females were diabetes, hypertension and heart disease (49.1%; 48.2% and 18.9%). Most Breast Cancer cases were diagnosed with infiltrating ductal carcinoma (79.3%). 48% of the discovered tumor was dominating in the left side of the breast (48.3%). 54.1% of BC females were diagnosed with a tumor size of 2-5cm (T2). 39.4% of BC cases were diagnosed as grade III. Most of the cases (80%) in 2007 were positive human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) but it decreased to 27.3% positive cases in 2014. The disease manifestations were a mass in the breast -lump (98.2%), pain (98.2%) and lymph node involvement (66.4%). The first line of treatment used for those patients included mastectomy (79.6%), chemotherapy (67.9%), radiation (34.0%) and hormonal (15.0%). Conclusion: Current study support and validate the scientific body of knowledge about BC in Saudi Arabia. Each year, the incidence rates increase specially for age above 50. According to Body Mass Index values, there were indications that the cases were obese. Diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease were the common co-morbidities among females with Breast Cancer. Cases of BC were managed by more than one approach such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and hormonal treatment.
Left Ventricular Assisting Devices in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Access at: www.USCjournal. com The introduction of percutaneous coronary angioplasty in 1977 by Dr Andreas Grüntzig was one of the most remarkable achievements in the cardiology realm, opening the door to numerous advancements in percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs). Due to advances in PCI techniques over the past four decades, catheters along with four generations of coronary stents have dramatically changed the natural history of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) management and brought hope of improved outcomes to more and more patients. Indications for PCI and demographics of such patients are changing to include increasingly critically ill patients. With increasing numbers of high-risk coronary procedures, rapid door-to-balloon times for critical ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients, and expanding PCI indications, cardiogenic shock is becoming a frequent encounter in today’s catheterization laboratory.
A Comparative Study Of Attitudes Toward English Language Held By Grades 7-10 Students At № 1 Mindat High School, Chin State, Myanmar

Abstract : The purpose of the study was two-folded: firstly, to determine the levels of attitudes toward learning English, in terms of four subscales (i.e., English language teacher, English language class, English language textbook and English language work), of Grades 7-10 students at № 1 Mindat High School, Chin State, Myanmar; and secondly, to determine if there was a significant difference among Grades 7-10 students at the target school regarding their attitudes toward learning English language in terms of the aforementioned subscales. This quantitative study used the questionnaire originally developed by Uribe, Gutierrez & Madrid (2013), in order to examine students’ attitudes toward English language. The respondents were 529 Grades 7-10 students from № 1 Mindat High School, Chin State, Myanmar, during the academic year 2017-18. The research findings indicated that, on average, Grade 7, Grade 8 and Grade 9 students showed positive attitudes toward English language, whereas Grade 10 students, on average, showed neither positive nor negative attitudes toward English language. A Games-Howell post hoc multiple comparison test revealed a significant difference in attitudes toward English language between students from Grade 7 and Grade 9, Grade 7 and Grade 10, Grade 8 and Grade 9, and Grade 8 and Grade 10. Contrarily, it was not found a significant difference in attitudes toward English language in students from Grade 7 and Grade 8, or Grade 9 and Grade 10. Finally, recommendations for teachers, students, administrators and future researchers are presented.
Automatic Classification of Hypertension Types Based on Personal Features by Machine Learning Algorithms

Hypertension (high blood pressure) is an important disease seen among the public, and early detection of hypertension is significant for early treatment. Hypertension is depicted as systolic blood pressure higher than 140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure higher than 90 mmHg. In this paper, in order to detect the hypertension types based on the personal information and features, four machine learning (ML) methods including C4.5 decision tree classifier (DTC), random forest, linear discriminant analysis (LDA), and linear support vector machine (LSVM) have been used and then compared with each other. In the literature, we have first carried out the classification of hypertension types using classification algorithms based on personal data. To further explain the variability of the classifier type, four different classifier algorithms were selected for solving this problem. In the hypertension dataset, there are eight features including sex, age, height (cm), weight (kg), systolic blood pressure (mmHg), diastolic blood pressure (mmHg), heart rate (bpm), and BMI (kg/m2) to explain the hypertension status and then there are four classes comprising the normal (healthy), prehypertension, stage-1 hypertension, and stage-2 hypertension. In the classification of the hypertension dataset, the obtained classification accuracies are 99.5%, 99.5%, 96.3%, and 92.7% using the C4.5 decision tree classifier, random forest, LDA, and LSVM. The obtained results have shown that ML methods could be confidently used in the automatic determination of the hypertension types.
Comparative study on early pregnancy diagnosis by three different techniques in cows

The aim of this study was to determine the best method, most appropriate and high precision method between rectal palpation, ultrasonography and measuring level of progesterone for diagnosis of early pregnancy in cows. 20 cows were examined in Teaching Hospital / College of Veterinary Medicine / Mosul University, at the period between 1/11/2013 - 1/3/2014, cows undergone early pregnancy diagnosis using three different methods at 45, 60 and 90 days of pregnancy. Results of rectal palpation showed that the percentage of pregnancy was 0% 60% 85% at days 45, 60 and 90 of pregnancy, respectively, while results of ultrasonography showed that diagnosis early pregnancy was 30, 80 and 100 at days 45, 60 and 90 of pregnancy, respectively. Results of estimation of progesterone concentration by ELISA technique showed that pregnancy diagnosis was 60% 85% 100% at days 45, 60 and 90 of pregnancy, respectively. In conclusion, the best and fastest way to diagnose early pregnancy in cows was measure concentration of progesterone in blood serum of cows then followed by ultrasonography, while method of rectal palpation was inefficient in detecting early pregnancy in cows.
Annual cropland mapping using data mining and OLI Landsat-8

ABSTRACT In the state of Paraná, Brazil, there are no major changes in areas cultivated with annual crops, mainly due to environmental laws that do not allow expansions to new areas. There is a great contribution of the annual crops to the domestic demand of food and economic demand in the exports. Thus, the area and distribution of annual crops are information of great importance. New methodologies, such as data mining, are being tested with the objective of analyzing and improving their potential use for classification of land use and land cover. This study used the classifiers decision tree and random forest with Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) temporal metrics on images from Operational Land Imager (OLI)/Landsat-8. The results were compared with traditional methods spectral images and Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC). At first, seven classes were mapped (water bodies, sugarcane, urban area, annual crops, forest, pasture and reforestation areas); then, only two classes were considered (annual crops and other targets). When classifying the seven targets, both methods had corresponding results, showing global accuracy near 84%. NDVI temporal metrics showed producer’s and user’s accuracy for the annual crop class of 86 and 100%, respectively. However, if considering only two classes, the NDVI temporal metrics reached global accuracy of near 98% and producer’s and user’s accuracy above 94%.
Australia’s discretionary police-imposed banning powers: oversight, scrutiny and accountability

ABSTRACT Summary powers to exclude individuals from public areas form a key part of the policing of space and the control of undesirable behaviors. The rationale for police-imposed banning is framed around a presumed need to manage the risk of disorder, and assumes a combination of operational, deterrent and community safety effects. In Australia, the reach of banning has expanded steadily but oversight is limited. Some jurisdictions mandate the publication of annual reports relating to the imposition of police bans, while others preclude any information sharing. This paper analyses the data that is available to assess what it reveals about the use and effects of banning, and examines the extent to which jurisdictions monitor their banning provisions. Overall, the findings do not support a reasonable expectation of scrutiny and accountability of summary police powers to ban. Limited patterns of use can be discerned, but the effects of banning cannot be isolated. Despite the enthusiasm with which police banning powers have been implemented, there is little evidence of proactive monitoring of their use or effects. This study highlights a clear need for police banning across Australia to be subject to meaningful oversight and rigorous scrutiny.
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) as a marker of recurrence risk in stage II colon cancer (CC).

11015 Background: Markers that better define recurrence risk for patients (pts) with stage II CC are urgently required, potentially defining a subset that would most benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy (CTX) and intensive surveillance. An alternative strategy to standard analyses of the resected surgical specimen is to directly examine plasma for evidence of residual disease. Recently, ctDNA has shown promise as a blood biomarker in advanced colorectal cancer; here we explore the potential of this marker in stage II CC. Methods: In this prospective study, plasma samples are being collected at 4-10 weeks post-op in 250 stage II CC pts, with serial 3 monthly samples on a subset of 175 pts. Adjuvant CTX is at clinician discretion, blinded to ctDNA analysis. Surveillance includes 3 monthly CEA and 6 monthly CT imaging for 2 years. All samples were sent to Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, where tumor tissue was analyzed for hotspot mutations in TP53, APC, KRAS, NRAS, BRAF, PIK3CA, CTNNB1, SMAD4, and FBXW7 us.
Mapping the perceptual topology of auditory space permits the creation of hyperstable virtual acoustic environments

: The perception of acoustic motion is not uniform as a function of azimuth; listeners need roughly twice as much motion at the side than at the front to judge the two motions as equivalent. Self-generated acoustic motion perception has also been shown to be distorted. Sounds moved slightly with the listener’s head are more consistently judged to be world-stable than those that are truly static. These distortions can be captured by a model that incorporates a head-centric warping of perceived sound location, characterized by a displacement in apparent sound location away from the acoustic midline. Such a distortion has been demonstrated; listeners tend to overestimate azimuth when they are asked to point at a sound source while keeping their head and eyes ﬁxated ahead of them. Here we show that this mathematical framework may be inverted and we demonstrate the beneﬁts of re-mapping sound source locations toward the auditory midline. We show that listeners prefer diﬀerent amounts of spatial remapping, but none preferred no remapping. Modelling shows minimal impact on spatial release from masking for small amounts of remapping, demonstrating that it is possible to achieve a more stable perceptual environment without sacriﬁcing speech intelligibility in spatially complex environments.
A neural network enhanced volatility component model

Volatility prediction, a central issue in financial econometrics, attracts increasing attention in the data science literature as advances in computational methods enable us to develop models with great forecasting precision. In this paper, we draw upon both strands of the literature and develop a novel two-component volatility model. The realized volatility is decomposed by a nonparametric filter into long- and short-run components, which are modeled by an artificial neural network and an ARMA process, respectively. We use intraday data on four major exchange rates and a Chinese stock index to construct daily realized volatility and perform out-of-sample evaluation of volatility forecasts generated by our model and well-established alternatives. Empirical results show that our model outperforms alternative models across all statistical metrics and over different forecasting horizons. Furthermore, volatility forecasts from our model offer economic gain to a mean-variance utility investor with higher portfolio returns and Sharpe ratio.
A survey of family planning methods in general practice in Melbourne.

This survey examines the contraceptive methods used by 1340 upper and middle income patients in general practice. The subjects were patients of 85 doctors who were members of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. There were 16 patients/doctor/day. The results were compared with an earlier survey of low income patients from the Queen Victoria Hospital (QVH). The 2 surveys are not fully comparable in terms of marital status of the subjects and interviewing technics employed. Nevertheless the differences in incidence of contraceptive methods are interesting. The QVH group has a higher incidence of oral pill use (73%) than the general practice group (58%) but the difference is partly due to the loading of single women many of whom were nulliparous. The higher incidence of IUD use in the QVH group (20%) is partly due to some patients being in the lactational phase and by the wider availability of several types of devices as well as the greater experience of hospital doctors in insertion (IUD use in general practice 13%). Sterilization figures for both groups are roughly comparable (general practice 7%; QVH 4%). QVH group has lower incidence of condom and withdrawal contraception (4 and 1% respectively vs. 7 and 5% for general practice) probably due to the fact that being male methods they were lost in that group of women who failed to attend the postnatal contraception clinic. The incidence of ovulation/temperature method was lower for the lower socioeconomic group the QVH group (1%) compared to the general practice group (5%). The general practice group has a higher incidence of use of 5 methods (cap condom withdrawal ovulation/temperature spermicides) than the hospital group. These 5 methods however had higher failure rates compared with the pill IUD and sterilization. Thus the combined groups represent a large group (22%) in the community at relative risk of contraceptive failure.
Ethnomedicinal study of some plants used as spices by the inhabitants of Kano Metropolis, northern Nigeria

A research was conducted to study the ethnomedicinal importance of some plants used as spices by the indigenous people of selected markets in the area. A self collection. The result obtained revealed the presence of fourteen different plant species representing nine families used as spices. These spices were found to be very effective against several clinical symptoms such as rheumatism, pneumonia, stomachache, fever, pile and ulcerative colitis among others. They also served as hypolipidemic, antithrombotic, anti hypertensive, anti-hyperglycemic, antihypercholesterolemic and immuno as anticancer agents. Garlic, clove, ginger, nutmeg and chilli pepper are the most predominant spices used in the area with relative frequent use of 25%, 24%, 21%, 15% and 9% respectively. The research also discovered their methods of preparation to vary from one location to another within the area. However, despite the roles they play in adding taste and flavor and nutritional composition to the diets, their usage is declinin changing pattern of food choice and urbanization coupled with economic melt therefore the need to call the attention of the health care sector to review the medicinal value of the spices and involve their applications into
Visual storytelling and vulnerable health care consumers: normalising practices and social support through Instagram

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how vulnerable healthcare consumers foster social support through visual storytelling in social media in navigating healthcare consumption experiences. Design/methodology/approach This study employs a dual qualitative approach of visual and textual analysis of 180 Instagram posts from female breast cancer patients and survivors who use the platform to narrate their healthcare consumption experiences. Findings This study demonstrates how visual storytelling on social media normalises hidden aspects of healthcare consumption experiences through healthcare disclosures (procedural, corporeal, recovery), normalising practices (providing learning resources, cohering the illness experience, problematising mainstream recovery narratives) and enabling digital affordances, which in turn facilitates social support among vulnerable healthcare consumers. Practical implications This study highlights the potential for visual storytelling on social media to address shortcomings in the healthcare service system and contribute to societal well-being through co-creative efforts that offer real-time and customised support for vulnerable healthcare consumers. Social implications This research highlights that visual storytelling on image-based social media offers transformative possibilities for vulnerable healthcare consumers seeking social support in negotiating the challenges of their healthcare consumption experiences. Originality/value This study presents a framework of visual storytelling for vulnerable healthcare consumers on image-based social media. Our paper offers three key contributions: that visual storytelling fosters informational and companionship social support for vulnerable healthcare consumers; recognising this occurs through normalising hidden healthcare consumption experiences; and identifying healthcare disclosures, normalising practices and enabling digital affordances as fundamental to this process.
Effects of Biochar Application in a Sorghum Crop under Greenhouse Conditions: Growth Parameters and Physicochemical Fertility

Application of biochar from vine shoots (Vitis vinifera L.) as an organic amendment in the soil is an alternative agricultural management of interest. The behavior of this type of amendment in the soil requires more information to adjust the pyrolysis conditions in order to obtain a high-quality biochar. The aim of this work is determining the influence of the application of this type of biochar on the soil-plant system. For this purpose, an agronomic test was performed in greenhouse pots. A randomized tri-factorial block design was adopted with the following factors: final pyrolysis temperature (400 and 600 °C), application rate (0 wt. % as a control, 1.5 and 3 wt. %) and texture of the growing media (sandy-loam and clay-loam origin). The selected crop was sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench), the development and production of which was evaluated during two complete growing cycles under greenhouse conditions. Application of biochar produced at 400 °C significantly increased plants roots dry weight in the sandy-loam growing substrate (52% compared to the control). Grain production was also significantly affected by biochar application, showing better results after addition of biochar produced at 400 °C. Water holding capacity and K, Ca, and Mg contents were enhanced by biochar addition, with evident effects of the application ratios for some of these variables. The effect on the pH of substrates in the sandy-loam texture was weak; however, a significant decrease was observed after the addition of biochar produced at 600 °C.
Facteurs de risque de mortalité des enfants à l’initiation de la thérapie de remplacement rénal aux soins intensifs

IV LISTE DES TABLEAUX . VII LISTE DES FIGURES . VIII LISTE DES SIGLES ET ABRÉVIATIONS EN FRANÇAIS (MÉMOIRE) . IX LISTE DES SIGLES ET ABRÉVIATIONS EN ANGLAIS (ARTICLE) . X REMERCIEMENTS . XI CHAPITRE 1 : INTRODUCTION . 1 1.1 L’INSUFFISANCE RÉNALE AIGUË AUX SOINS INTENSIFS PÉDIATRIQUES, DÉFINITION . 1 1.2 INCIDENCE . 6 1.3 PHYSIOPATHOLOGIE DE L’AKI . 6 1.3.1 La surcharge liquidienne . 8 1.4 TRAITEMENTS . 9 1.4. 1 La thérapie de remplacement rénal . 10 1.4. 1.1 Indications . 11 1.4. 1.2 Méthodes d’épuration rénale utilisées en pédiatrie . 12 1.5 LES FACTEURS DE RISQUE DE MORTALITÉ . 15 1.5. 1 La surcharge liquidienne . 16 1.5. 2 Le syndrome de défaillance multiviscérale . 17 1.5. 3 La sévérité de la maladie et le diagnostic de base . 18 1.5. 4 L’instabilité hémodynamique et l’utilisation de vasopresseurs . 19 1.5. 5 Le poids et l’âge . 20 1.5. 6 Autres facteurs de risque . 20 CHAPITRE 2 : PROBLÉMATIQUE ET OBJECTIFS DE L'ÉTUDE . 22 2.1 PROBLÉMATIQUE . 22 2.2 OBJECTIFS . 22 2.3 HYPOTHÈSE . 22 CHAPITRE 3 : ARTICLE . 23 3.1. ABSTRACT . 24 3.1.1. Background . 24 3.1.2. Methods . 24 3.1.3. Results . 24 3.1.4. Conclusion . 25 3.2 ARTICLE . 26 3.2.
Numerical Study of Spacer Grid Geometry in a 5 X 5 Nuclear Fuel Rod Bundle

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