Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Determination of Platelets Parameters among People Vaccinated with Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine-COVID Vaccine at Khartoum State -Sudan

Background: The global SARS-CoV-2 vaccination program has been hampered by the rare-and initially inexplicable emergence of vaccine-associated thrombosis, particularly venous territory strokes or other venous obstructions, including portal vein thrombosis, which has been dubbed Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT). So, this study was conducted to determine platelets parameters among people vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine at Khartoum state. Materials & Methods: A total of 50 AstraZeneca vaccinated participants (22 male and 26 female) were utilized as a case and 50 healthy non-vaccinated participants (21 male and 29 female) were used as control. The age of both groups ranged between (20-62) years with a mean of 34.6 ± 11.9. Platelets parameters were assayed for all patients using Sysmex KX-21. Results: The statistical analysis was performed by using SPSS. The results of the study showed that there was no significant difference in platelets count and platelets indices when compared according to vaccine intake and gender. Also, the most frequent symptoms among vaccinated Original Research Article Mohamed et al.; JPRI, 33(59A): 529-535, 2021; Article no.JPRI. 80180 530 people were: muscle pain at the site of puncture (56%), fatigue (54%), fever (34%), headache (22%), nausea (16%), and diarrhea (6%) respectively and developed no symptoms (30%). Conclusions: The study concludes that the side effects of the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine in Khartoum state, Sudan was consistent with the manufacturers’ data. Healthcare providers and recipients of vaccines can be more confident about the safety of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.
Cardiovascular and nitric oxide response after maximal voluntary isometric contraction in adolescents with and without Down Syndrome

Este estudo teve como objetivo comparar as respostas cardiovasculares e de óxido nítrico (NO) à contração isométrica voluntária máxima (CIVM) com diferentes grupos musculares (leg press [LEP] e preensão manual isométrica [IHG]) de adolescentes com e sem síndrome de Down (SD). Alem de comparar a força IHG absoluta e relativa entre os grupos. Onze adolescentes com SD (14,1 ± 1,0 anos) e dez sem SD (13,7 ± 1,25 anos) realizaram duas sessões experimentais de exercícios LEP e IHG: 1) sessão de familiarização e 2) 3 tentativas x 5 segundos de contração na CIVM com 3- intervalo mínimo de descanso. A pressão arterial (PA), a frequência cardíaca (FC) e o NO foram coletados em repouso, imediatamente após a sessão de exercício e 10 minutos após o exercício. A dosagem de NO na saliva foi realizada pelo método colorimétrico de Griess. Não houve diferenças para respostas cardiovasculares e NO entre os grupos para CIVM. No entanto, o SD teve uma resposta cardiovascular menor, mas não significativamente, em repouso e após os testes de CIVM do que aqueles sem SD. O grupo SD apresentou maior concentração de NO em repouso, recuperação e após IHG quando comparado ao grupo não SD (P <0,05). Além disso, adolescentes com SD apresentaram menor nível de força de IHG absoluta e relativa quando comparados àqueles sem SD (P = 0,001). Indivíduos com SD apresentam menor resposta cardiovascular em repouso e após testes de CIVM e maior resposta de NO após o exercício quando comparados ao grupo sem SD.
Primary Sjögren's syndrome as independent risk factor for subclinical atherosclerosis

Abstract Objective: To assess the prevalence of subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) and its possible association with clinical and analytical parameters of the disease. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 38 consecutive patients with pSS were compared with 38 age and sex healthy controls. Demographic variables and classic cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs): Hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, obesity, and smoking habit were assessed in both groups, and also disease-related features were collected in pSS group. The presence of subclinical atherosclerosis was assessed by carotid ultrasound, with carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) measurement and determination of the presence of atheromatous plaques. Results: Subclinical atherosclerosis presence was remarkably greater in patients with pSS than in healthy controls (OR = 4.17, 95%CI [1.27-16.54]), as well as CIMT values (0.79 ± 0.43 mm vs. 0.66 ± 0.27 mm; P = .02). No differences for classic CVRFs were found between both groups. An association of subclinical atherosclerosis with erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and rheumatoid factor (RF) was observed in patients with pSS. Conclusion: This cohort showed a greater prevalence of subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with pSS, indicating this disease as an independent risk factor for presence of early vascular damage.
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices on Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus and Tick-Borne Diseases within Professionally Tick-Exposed Persons, Health Care Workers, and General Population in Serbia: A Questionnaire-Based Study

This study assessed the level of knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) regarding tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) and tick-borne diseases (TBDs) among different groups of people in Serbia. Professionally tick-exposed persons (PTEPs), health care workers (HCWs), and the general population (GP) were subjected to an anonymous, voluntary, online questionnaire using Microsoft Forms. A total of 663 questionnaire responses were collected (February–March 2021), while 642 were included in the analysis. The significant difference in knowledge in TBDs existed between GP and PTEPs, and HCWs (p < 0.001). The perception of risk-to-tick exposure and TBDs was generally high (42.4 (95% CI: 33.6–51.2) within GP, 44.9 (95% CI: 35.8–53.9) within PTEPs and 46.2 (95% CI: 38.0–54.5) within HCWs), while fear was low (13.7 (95% CI: 7.9–19.5) within GP, 12.6 (95% CI: 7.3–19.9) within PTEPs, and 13.5 (95% CI: 7.4–19.5) within HCWs). Protective practices differed across groups (F (2639) = 12.920, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.039), with both PTEPs (t = 3.621, Cohen d = 0.332, p < 0.001) and HCWs (t = 4.644, Cohen d = 0.468, p < 0.001) adhering to more protective practices than the GP, without differences between PTEPs and HCWs (t = 1.256, Cohen d = 0.137, p = 0.421). Further education about TBDs in Serbia is required and critical points were identified in this study.
General Anxiety Is Associated with Problematic Initial Recovery After Carpal Tunnel Release

Abstract Background Carpal tunnel release can stop the progression of idiopathic median neuropathy at the wrist (carpal tunnel syndrome). Intermittent symptoms tend to resolve after surgery, but loss of sensibility can be permanent. Both pathophysiology (severe neuropathy) and mental health (symptoms of despair or worry) contribute to problematic recovery after carpal tunnel release, but their relative associations are unclear. Question/purpose Is problematic initial recovery after carpal tunnel release associated with psychologic distress rather than with disease severity? Methods We retrospectively studied 156 patients who underwent in-office carpal tunnel release between November 2017 and February 2020, and we recorded their symptoms of anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 [GAD]) and depression (Patient Health Questionnaire), signs of severe median neuropathy (loss of sensibility, thenar muscle atrophy, and palmar abduction weakness), and problematic recovery. The initial recovery (first 2 weeks) was categorized as problematic if the patient was upset about persistent numbness, experienced unsettling postoperative pain, developed hand stiffness, or experienced wound issues—all of which are routinely recorded in the medical record by the treating surgeon along with signs of severe median neuropathy. Twenty-four percent (38 of 156) of patients had a problematic initial recovery characterized by distress regarding persistent numbness (16% [25 of 156]), unsettling pain (8% [12 of 156]), hand stiffness (5% [8 of 156]), or wound issues (1% [2 of 156]); 6% (9 of 156) of patients had more than one issue. Associations between problematic initial recovery and age, gender, symptoms of anxiety and depression, disease severity, specific exam findings, and insurance were evaluated using t-tests, Mann-Whitney tests, and chi-square tests, with the plan to perform logistic regression if at least two variables had an association with p < 0.10. Results The only factor associated with problematic initial recovery was greater symptoms of anxiety (median GAD score 1.5 [interquartile range 0 to 7.8] for problematic initial recovery compared with a median score of 0 [IQR 0 to 2] for nonproblematic recovery; p = 0.04), so we did not perform a logistic regression. Physical examination findings consistent with severe median neuropathy were not associated with problematic initial recovery. Conclusion The finding that problematic initial recovery after carpal tunnel release was related to symptoms of anxiety and not to the severity of median neuropathy highlights the need to study the ability of efforts to ameliorate anxiety symptoms before carpal tunnel release as an effective intervention to reduce unplanned visits and additional tests, therapy, and repeat surgery, while improving patient-reported outcomes and experience. Level of Evidence Level III, therapeutic study.
Head Pose Recognition and Application Based on PCA and SVM

In order to improve the low rate of head pose recognition under complex background and changeable illumination,in this paper,presented is a method which can efficiently recognize the head pose in image sequence.In this approach,faces with different poses are detected using Adaboost algorithm that ensures extremely rapid face detection,and the face features are extracted using principal component analysis(PCA)which remains the global grayscale features of a frame of image.The support vector machine(SVM),which can achieve a high classification accuracy with a few of labeled training samples,is used to classify the head poses.Lastly,five head poses are adopted to interact with an intelligent wheelchair for disabled people.A set of experiments,having an average recognition rate of 92.2%,demonstrate the proposed method's real-time and robustness against the variations of illumination.
Top Management Team Size: An Exploration of Characteristics and Determinants

This article uses an exploratory approach to examine the various characteristics of top management teams (TMTs) of different sizes and what drives TMT size. Although TMTs have been expanding over the past 30 years, we still know relatively little about the drivers. Determining the size of a TMT is a key organizational decision as TMT size influences TMT processes and organizational outcomes. Based on a sample of S&P 500 firms from 2011 to 2014, the results show that TMT size ranges from two to 21 executives and that TMTs of different sizes differ little with regard to TMT composition but strongly in terms of TMT structure. Furthermore, we find that TMT size is influenced by firm size, firm growth, and TMT horizontal interdependence. It is not influenced by the environmental conditions and CEO characteristics that were tested. We contribute to the TMT literature by highlighting the characteristics of different TMT sizes and providing new insights into the determinants of TMT size. Our study exposes the power of information-processing theory to explain these determinants.
Nexus between carbon emissions and manufacturing growth in Bangladesh By

The main objective of this study is to examine the empirical cointegration, long and short run dynamics and causal relationships between carbon emissions and industrial growth in Bangladesh over the period 1972 to 2015. For such, we applied the ARDL/Bounds Testing methodology developed by Pesaran and Shin (1999) and Pesaran et al. (2001)and the Toda-Yamamoto Procedure of Granger Causality in an augmented VAR framework. Using three variables growth of carbon emissions, energy consumption and per capita industrial production, the ARDL bounds tests as well as additional cross-checking test convincingly confirmed long run cointegration between growth of carbon emissions and growth of per capita industrial production (i.e. economic development in other sense) in Bangladesh. The estimated long and short-run results indicate that, growth in per capita industrial production has significant positive impact, both in the short and long-run, on growth of carbon emissions. The coefficient of the error correction term is statistically significant, has the expected negative sign, and signified a very strong and faster speed of adjustment to equilibrium (100%). Likewise, Granger causality analysis indicated a unidirectional causation both from growth in per capita industrial production and energy consumption to growth in carbon emissions i.e., the industrial development or economic development in Bangladesh is taking place at the cost of carbon emissions.
DOES BULLYING AFFECT THE SCHOOL PERFORMANCE OF BRAZILIAN STUDENTS? AN ANALYSIS THROUGH OF PISA 2015

This work aims to analyze the impact of the different dimensions of bullying (physical, psychological and indirect) on the school performance of Brazilian students. For this analysis data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) from the year of 2015 were used. The methodology applied was the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and the Quantile Treatment Effects (QTE). Results show that physical bullying (being spanked and having belongings destroyed) is harmful for the school performance of students. The destruction of belongings of students negatively impacted only the Reading score, not being statistically significant for the other grades. The psychological bullying (having rumors spread, being made fun of and being threatened), paradoxically, did not affect negatively the grade of students. Being excluded by the group, considered as indirect bullying, also did not have significance in the studied subjects. Bullying carries several consequences for the student, besides the decrease of school, performance because it can result in school evasion and sometimes difficulties in the labor market. Thus, studying this phenomenon, by means of school behavior, is an important subject for the society.
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UTILIZING HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE FOR AUDIO-BASED MUSIC SIMILARITY

In this work, I introduce a methodology for measuring the similarity between musical pieces by computing a hierarchical representation of their structure from their audio and comparing audio sections that have a similar structural function. Between a pair of musical pieces, the methodology aims to maximize how much of their audio is used to compute their similarity, under the constraint of only comparing structural segments that are deemed related. This introduces musical structure as a relevant characteristic for music similarity metrics, while minimizing the loss of information about the temporal evolution of music features within pieces. Experiments in music similarity measurements within musical genres as well as between studio and live performances are presented.
Working Paper : Educational Technology in Developing Countries : A Systematic Review

Available at http://curry.virginia.edu/edpolicyworks/wp Curry School of Education | Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy | University of Virginia Working Paper © 2019 Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. For more information please visit www.curry.virginia.edu/edpolicyworks or contact EdPolicyWorks@virginia.edu Working Paper: Educational Technology in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review
A Quasi-Universal Neural Network to Model Structure Formation in the Universe

The large-scale structure of the Universe is the direct consequence of its evolution over billions of years. The observations of this large-scale structure in terms of galaxy redshift surveys contain valuable cosmological information and in order to extract that information, we need to compare these observations to corresponding theory predictions from cosmological simulations, whose generation in itself is a very computationally intensive feat. This work uses deep convolutional neural networks to simulate the large-scale structure of the Universe and generate a typical cosmological simulation orders of magnitude faster than the standard N-body simulations within an accuracy of ∼ 1% on the most common cosmological summary statistics. The most important feature of our model is that it extrapolates extremely well on universes with entirely different cosmologies than the one it has been trained on. The use of such an approach will be particularly useful in the near future to compare theory with predictions, to generate mock galaxy catalogs, to compute covariance matrices, and to optimize observational strategies.
Ameliorative effects of nitric oxide on growth, physiology and biochemistry of chickpeaplants under salinity stress

Abstract: Salinity is one of the major environmental constraints affecting agriculture in major regions of the world. This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of exogenous nitric oxide (NO) treatments on two chickpea cultivars (Cagatay and Inci) under salt stress conditions. Different NO doses (0. 75 and 100 µM sodium nitroprusside (SNP)) as an NO source were applied to chickpea plants grown under saline (presence of 50 and 100 mM of NaCl) and nonsaline conditions. In this study, plant shoot fresh and dry weight, root fresh and dry weight, chlorophyll a, b, total chlorophyll, chlorophyll reading value (CRV), relative water content (RWC), electrical conductivity (EC), malondialdehyde (MDA), hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) , antioxidant enzyme activity [superoxide dismutase (SOD), peroxidase (POD), ascorbate peroxidase (APX)], K/Na and Ca/Na ratio were examined. Plant growth, RWC, and chlorophyll content were negatively affected by salinity conditions but exogenous NO treatment improved the parameters. EC, H 2 O 2, and MDA content were increased with salinity conditions while exogenous NO treatment decreased the searched parameters. K/Na and Ca/Na ratios were decreased with 50 and 100 mM of NaCl treatments. Although the cultivars response to salt stress is similar in general, Inci cultivars were found to be more sensitive to salt stress than Cağatay cultivar. The present study revealed that the exogenous NO treatment supported chickpea seedlings against salinity stress by regulating uptaking mineral elements, the antioxidant enzyme activity, and RWC.
Structural and diversity changes in coastal dunes from the Mexican Caribbean: the case of the invasive Australian pine (Casuarina equisetifolia)

The coastal dune at the natural protected area of Cozumel Island has been impacted by the invasive Australian pine (Casuarina equisetifolia), which is highly competitive with the native species and only few native plant species can grow under its canopy. Our goal was to demonstrate that the Australian pine’s presence reduces the cover and vegetation diversity of the coastal dune’s native species. We used ten sampling plots (100 m each), five of which included Australian pine (invaded), and five that did not (non-invaded). We recorded the number of different plant species and their cover, height, and diameter in each plot. We found 43 plant species belonging to 40 genera, from which 37 species were found in the non-invaded plots, while only 26 plant species were present in the invaded ones. The vegetation density (3547 ± 709 individuals ha) and the cover (65%) in the plots that lacked Australian pine were higher compared to the density (2785 ± 802 individuals ha) and cover (35%) of the plots that included it. According to our analyses, Australian pine presence negatively influenced the species composition and abundance of the native species. Moreover, we found significant differences in the native plant diversity between the invaded and non-invaded plots. Our results demonstrated that invasive species, such as the Australian pine, negatively affected the native plant community in the coastal dune because it constrained its community structure.
Towards the future production of animal-sourced food meeting food security, environmental and biodiversity objectives concomitantly

Production of animal-sourced food is important for human wellbeing by its contribution to food security and livelihood support. However, it is also associated with impacts on the environment and on biodiversity. The present research paper provides background information about the various objectives of animal-sourced food production. Various approaches to achieve sustainable livestock development are presented such as innovations with the present systems as an entry point vs systemic changes with a new basis for animal-sourced food production. Case studies from four continents (the beef and sheep sector in New Zealand, the dairy sector in the Netherlands, silvopastoral systems with beef production in Colombia, and dairy production in Kenya) are presented to illustrate the diversity in contexts, in interventions and in outcomes. Most interventions are technological and manegerial interventions that take the present situation as an entry point. All contribute to sustainable debvelopment, but some in some contexts outcomes are not meeting targets and more systemic changes are required. Adoption and implementation of interventions is essential for sustainable livestock development, and therefore the creation of an enabling environment in which farmers, value chain actors and policy makers collaborate, should be the key element of policies and projects towards a future production of animal-sourced food meeting food security, environmental and biodiversity objectives concomitantly.
Mouthings in Swedish SignLanguage: An exploratory study

This paper deals with the non-manual mouth actions of Swedish Sign Language, Svenskt teckenspråk (STS). Based on data from the Swedish Sign Language Corpus and the Swedish Sign Language as L2 Corpus, we compare the use of mouthings in deaf L1 as well as hearing L2 signers. The use, distribution and frequency of mouthings are explored and described quantitatively and qualitatively. The results reveal some similarities as well as differences in the use of mouthings between the groups. Furthermore, the analysis reveals qualitative differences related to the properties of mouthings i.e. full and reduced mouthings among L1 as well as L2 learners of STS. Challenges of the analysis of mouthings will be discussed.