Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Investigation of the Compliance of Nursing Students with First Clinical Experience with Care Roles İlk Klinik Deneyim Yaşayan Hemşirelik Örencilerinin Bakım Rollerine Uyumlarının İncelenmesi

The study was conducted to determine the compliance of nursing students with first clinical experience with their care roles. The research was conducted on 190 students who gained their first clinical experience in a nursing faculty (in İzmir, Turkey). A demographic questionnaire and Nursing Care Role Orientation Scale were used for data collection. It was found that the mean age of the students was 20.74 ± . 98, 75.3% were female, 62.1% preferred the nursing profession, 84.7% considered caring as the main duty of the nurse, and 72.6% had the experience of caregiving. The mean score of Nursing Care Role Orientation Scale was 80.92 ± 8.13 (66-105), “collaboration”, “research”, “nursepatient interaction” and “autonomy” factor mean scores were 27.78±4.68(16-40), 24.94±2.82(2033), 18.3±3.13(12-25) and 9.88±1.93(5-15) respectively. It is seen that the student nurses with first clinical experience have high compliance with their care roles. The students who stated that caregiving was the duty of the nurse had higher compliance with their general care roles and that the students who had the experience of providing care for someone had higher compliance with their collaboration and interaction care roles.
Soil phosphorus monitoring at the regional level by means of a soil test database

The practice of applying large amounts of P to agricultural land over several previous decades, particularly in regions with intensive livestock production, has resulted in P accumulation in soils with an increased risk of P losses into water bodies and thus of eutrophication. This work is aimed at analyzing the spatiotemporal changes in extractable soil P content at the regional level by means of a soil test database and then comparing results with independent data from agricultural censuses. A total of 228 079 soil P‐test values [Dyer method: 1:5 soil‐citric acid solution (20 g/L) ratio] generated between 1980 and 2003 by certified commercial laboratories in Brittany (northwestern France) were integrated into a database. Changes in P were analysed by considering four 4–6 year periods between 1980 and 2003 using cumulative frequencies and summary statistics performed on raw soil test values. Then data were aggregated into discrete entities (canton: administrative entities) and summary statistics, linear regression and spatial distribution were carried out. P balances were measured for the same entities taken from the agricultural censuses of 1979, 1988 and 2000. Over the entire study period, a marked spatial variability was observed with higher P content in the western part of Brittany, as well as a systematic increase in median P content with lower amplitude over the past decade. The mean cantonal soil P surplus accumulated over 24 years amounted to 763 kg P/ha of usable agricultural land. Similar P balances sometimes gave rise to widely different increases in P. Cumulative balances were positively correlated with an increase in soil P (r2 = 0.34).
The Mediating Role of Life Satisfaction in the Relationship between Time Management and Communication Skills

This study was conducted as a descriptive correlational research with the purpose of examining the mediator role of life satisfaction in the relationship between time management and communication skills of graduate students attending to master’s and PhD programs in higher education. The study sample included 591 students (348 males and 243 females; and age range = 22 to 56). The data were collected using data collection instruments such as The Free Time Management Scale (FTMS), Communication Skills Scale (CSS), and Higher Education Life Satisfaction Scale (HELSS). SPSS and AMOS programs were used for data analysis. The data were analyzed using Pearson’ correlation, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), mediation analysis. The findings of the study showed that life satisfaction was a partial mediator in the relationship between time management and communication skills of master’s and PhD students. As the numbers of studies examining the relationship among graduate students’ time management, communication skills and life satisfaction in master’s and PhD programs are quite rare, this research is aimed to make contributions to literature for such matter.
Multiparty Homomorphic Encryption from Ring-Learning-with-Errors

Abstract We propose and evaluate a secure-multiparty-computation (MPC) solution in the semi-honest model with dishonest majority that is based on multiparty homomorphic encryption (MHE). To support our solution, we introduce a multiparty version of the Brakerski-Fan-Vercauteren homomorphic cryptosystem and implement it in an open-source library. MHE-based MPC solutions have several advantages: Their transcript is public, their o~ine phase is compact, and their circuit-evaluation procedure is noninteractive. By exploiting these properties, the communication complexity of MPC tasks is reduced from quadratic to linear in the number of parties, thus enabling secure computation among potentially thousands of parties and in a broad variety of computing paradigms, from the traditional peer-to-peer setting to cloud-outsourcing and smart-contract technologies. MHE-based approaches can also outperform the state-of-the-art solutions, even for a small number of parties. We demonstrate this for three circuits: private input selection with application to private-information retrieval, component-wise vector multiplication with application to private-set intersection, and Beaver multiplication triples generation. For the first circuit, privately selecting one input among eight thousand parties’ (of 32 KB each) requires only 1.31 MB of communication per party and completes in 61.7 seconds. For the second circuit with eight parties, our approach is 8.6 times faster and requires 39.3 times less communication than the current methods. For the third circuit and ten parties, our approach generates 20 times more triples per second while requiring 136 times less communication per-triple than an approach based on oblivious transfer. We implemented our scheme in the Lattigo library and open-sourced the code at github.com/ldsec/lattigo.
Katarzyna PIASECKA-JÓŹWIAK, Beata CHABŁOWSKA, Mariola OLCZAK, Monika KLISZCZ,

Among proposed alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs), most effective in improving of efficiency of farming and having positive impact on animal welfare are probiotic preparations containing selected strains of lactic acid bacteria (LAB). It is known that essential oils exert ability to inhibit pathogenic bacteria. The aim of this study was to assess the possibility of enrichment of probiotic preparations for animals in selected substances of vegetable origin, in order to increase the effectiveness of antimicrobial activity LAB directed against pathogenic microorganisms. The impact of three selected essential oils (thyme, sage and peppermint) on the capacity to growth, viability and antibacterial activity of probiotic or potentially probiotic strains of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) was evaluated. The assessment of the antibacterial activity of the LAB was conducted in relation to the bacteria strains pathogenic for animals (indicatory strains). The results show that the reaction of lactic acid bacteria strains for the presence of vegetable oils is very individual, depending on both the strain and the type of oil. All the tested plant’s oils inhibited the growth of strains of lactic acid bacteria. The minimum inhibitory concentration of essential oils varied. In the case of peppermint oil and thyme oil LAB growth inhibition was observed at a concentration of 0.1% (v/v) and in relation to the sage oil this effect was found with 0.2 %. (v/v) average in medium. The viability of the tested LAB was observed in media containing higher concentrations up to several per cent of essential oils. In the presence of oils in concentrations affecting growth of LAB strains antimicrobial activity against pathogenic bacterial species was not observed. The addition of essential oils did not increase the antimicrobial activity of lactic acid bacteria. It was observed that some of indicatory pathogenic bacteria strains were resistant to higher dilution of oils than LAB. There was no synergistic interaction found between LAB and essential oils what suggest the possibility of using essential oils with LAB only to increase the flavor qualities of preparation which will contribute to a better feed intake by the farm animals.
Model on New Customer Purchase Decision Toward of Product Quality, Location and Promotion in Electric Cigarette

This research is to find out the Model on New Customer Purchase Decision toward of Product Quality, Location and Promotion in Electric Cigarette. The subjects in this study were new consumers of electric cigarettes who made purchasing decisions at 54 Vape Store. The sample used in this study was 170 respondents. The sampling technique uses purposive sampling. By using a quantitative descriptive approach. Analysis of the data used is statistical analysis in the form of SEMPLS. The results of this study indicate that Product Quality has a significant positive effect on Purchasing Decisions. Location has a significant positive effect on Purchasing Decisions and Promotion has a positive and not significant effect on Purchasing Decisions
Analyzing and comparing the impacts and outcomes of two different types of surgeries - Minimally Invasive Surgeries (MIS) and Conventional Surgeries (CVS) on patients suffering from Degenerative Mitral Valve Diseases

Background: Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease (DMVD) is the most common cause of Mitral Regurgitation (MR) and the main reason for surgical intervention in patients with heart diseases. Traditionally, open-heart surgery or else sternotomy was the main surgical approach used until a few decades ago when Minimally Invasive Surgical (MIS) approaches came into existence. MIS approach is thought to have superior clinical outcomes while minimizing hospital and ICU stay; blood loss translating to fewer blood transfusions, and lower incidence of complications. Despite many promising institutional and regional results of benefits of MIS over the conventional surgery, the adoption of MIS worldwide in Mitral Valve Repair (MVR) has been so poor. There are still arguments on the surgical and clinical benefits of MIS and more importantly the cost and the expertise involved in conducting MIS. Objective: This study aimed at comparing the costs, clinical and surgical outcomes of MIS with conventional sternotomy MVR surgeries in patients with DMVD. Methods: Electronic databases such as MEDLINE, PubMed, Science Direct, and Google Scholar were searched for relevant peer-reviewed articles comparing costs and clinical outcomes of MIS with the conventional surgery/sternotomy in DMVD from January 2013 to November 2020. A total of 7 articles were identified as most relevant and therefore included in the meta-analysis. Results: Findings from the meta-analysis pointed out that repair of the mitral valve using MIS patients with DMVD has benefits such as short ICU, intubation and hospital duration; less loss of blood and therefore less need of blood transfusion; low postoperative infection rates; smaller incisions; early ambulation and return to activities of daily living over conventional surgery while maintaining similar costs of care and clinical outcomes as a sternotomy. Conclusions: Given the added advantages of MIS in mitral valve surgeries, cardiac surgeons should consider it over the conventional open surgeries in patients with DMVD. In this regard, more surgeons and nurses need to gain competency in conducting MIS through training and fellowships; hospitals need to acquire the needed infrastructure to enable the adoption of MIS.
Evaluation of Cyclic Fatigue Resistance of Different Rotary Endodontic File Systems

Aim of the present study was to compare the cyclic rotations needed to fracture four different rotary nickel titanium endodontic instruments. Four different endodontic Nickel Titanium rotary systems were selected for this study: OneShape, OneCurve, ProTaper Next and HyFlex EDM of ISO size 25, 25 mm instrument length and 0.06 instrument taper. All were exposed to cyclic fatigue tests in a custom-made simulated canal having 60° curvature. Cyclic fatigue was calculated for each rotary system by calculating the time needed to fracture the instrument in seconds while being rotated in a steel block curved canal. Data was statistically analyzed by calculating the mean time to fracture the instrument in seconds, standard deviation, one way ANOVA and t-test at 5% level of significance. HyFlex EDM instruments had the highest cyclic fatigue resistance among all the other instruments being tested. One-way ANOVA test revealed that there was a statistically significant difference between all the four groups being tested (P ≤ 0.05). Further analysis of the data was done using t-test, also indicated that there was statistically significant differences (P ≤ 0.05) between all the pairs of groups being tested individually. Cyclic flexural fatigue resistance was observed highest for Group IV (HyFlex EDM) and lowest for Group I (One Shape). HyFlex CM files had the exceptional lengthiest survival time while files from One Shape showed limited survival. We obtained the clinical significance from this invitro study: showing their exceptionalism in resistance and prolonged survival time. Proving their superiority in resistance and longer survival time, HyFlex CM rotary NiTi files can be used in curved root canals and eventually will be helpful in eradicating one of the factors for file fracture clinically during root canal treatment i.e., cyclic fatiguewhere root canal exhibits a sharp bend or curve. Experimental article (J Int Dent Med Res 2020; 13(3): 849-853)
Influence of template/functional monomer/cross‐linking monomer ratio on particle size and binding properties of molecularly imprinted nanoparticles

A series of molecularly imprinted polymer nanoparticles have been synthesized employing various template/functional monomer/crosslinking monomer ratio and characterized in detail to elucidate the correlation between the synthetic conditions used and the properties (e.g., particle size and template binding properties) of the obtained nanoparticles. In brief, the presence of propranolol (template) in the polymerization mixture turned out to be a critical factor on determination of the size as well as the binding properties of the imprinted nanoparticles. The functional monomer/crosslinking monomer ratio significantly affects the binding capability of the imprinted nanoparticles, but its influence on the size of the nanoparticles was found to be rather limited. The results obtained provide valuable clues for designing molecularly imprinted nanoparticle preparation in future studies, where fine tuning of particle size and binding properties are required to fit practical applications. (C) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2012 (Less)
Atomic short range order in CuFe alloys

The clustering of iron atoms in a copper matrix, as determined by earlier Mossbauer effect studies on alloys containing up to 3.1 at. % Fe, has been analysed in terms of the atomic short range order parameter alpha 1. Good agreement is found between the experimental and calculated values of the clustering in groups of two and three nearest neighbour iron atoms and the results are consistent with previous magnetization studies of impurity interaction effects in dilute CuFe alloys. The variation of alpha 1 with concentration can be considered to reflect the mobility of the iron atoms in copper at different compositions and indicates that the diffusion rate of iron atoms is greater in dilute alloys than in more concentrated alloys.
University of Birmingham Effectiveness of polypill for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases (PolyIran)

Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) continues to be the leading cause of death worldwide. A fixed-dose combination therapy (“polypill” strategy) was proposed as a costsaving method for CVD prevention, especially in lower resource settings. We conducted the PolyIran Study to assess the effectiveness and safety of a four-component polypill including aspirin, atorvastatin, hydrochlorothiazide and either enalapril or valsartan, for primary and secondary prevention of CVD. Methods: The PolyIran study is a two-arm pragmatic cluster randomized trial nested within the Golestan Cohort Study (GCS). The sampling frame for the PolyIran study was rural GCS participants aged 50 years or older. Considering villages as clusters, and using a cluster randomization, the study participants were allocated to a package of non-pharmacological preventive interventions either alone (minimal care arm) or together with a once daily polypill (polypill arm). All participants were followed for 60 months and the primary outcome was occurrence of major cardiovascular events (MCVE). The risk of MCVE between the two arms was compared using Cox regression models, with shared frailty models. Findings: Overall, 6841 individuals were enrolled in the study, including 3,417 (in 116 clusters) in the minimal care arm and 3,421 (in 120 clusters) in the polypill arm. Median (interquartile range) adherence to polypill tablets was 80.5% (48.5-92.2). During the follow up, 202 and 301 participants in the polypill arm and minimal care arm respectively had one or more MCVE, representing a 34% reduction (adjusted hazard ratio [HR]=0.66; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.55-0.80) in risk of MCVE in the polypill arm. The risk of MCVE in participants with high adherence was significantly lower when compared with the minimal care arm (adjusted HR=0.43; 95%CI: 0.33-0.55). The effect of polypill was stronger in participants without pre-existing CVD (primary prevention group) (HR=0.61, 95% CI: 0.490.75) than those with history of CVD (secondary prevention group) (HR=0.80, 95% CI: 0.571.12) (p-value for interaction=0.19). Overall, the frequency of adverse events was comparable between the two arms. Interpretation: The PolyIran study is the first large scale pragmatic trial with long term follow up demonstrating the effectiveness of a fixed-dose combination therapy in primary and secondary prevention of CVDs. Our results showed high medication adherence and the risk of adverse events was similar between the two arms. The polypill strategy may be considered as an additional effective component in controlling CVDs, especially in low resources settings.
The Correlation Between Eosinophil And Eosinophilic Amorphous Structure In Tuberculous Lymphadenitis Patients

Background: Eosinophils have bactericidal properties through phagocytosis, respiratory burst, and cytotoxic protein mobilization if bacterial infection occurs. Even though neutrophils have been reported as predominant phagocytic cells in tuberculosis patients, eosinophils also play important role in it. To date, there have been some researches studied about eosinophil and lung tuberculosis. But, data about the association between eosinophil and eosinophilic amorphous structure in tuberculous lymphadenitis patients hasn't been studied so far. Objective: To analyze the correlation between eosinophil and eosinophilic amorphous structure in tuberculous lymphadenitis patients. Material and Method: This analytic study with a cross-sectional study from 69 tuberculous lymphadenitis patients who had their aspiration biopsy done and confirmed by PCR. Data about age, gender, and location were obtained from the medical record. Patients' aspiration samples were stained with May Grunewald Giemsa. After that, the researchers determined whether there was eosinophilic amorphous structure and eosinophil. Results of analysis data were presented in tables. The statistical test used in this study is the Mann-Whitney U test. Result: This study showed that there was no enough evidence to state that there is a correlation between eosinophil and eosinophilic amorphous structure or could be stated that there was no correlation between eosinophil and eosinophilic amorphous structure (p value= 0.0729). Therefore, further studies were needed to confirm this research.
Study of strain and wetting phenomena in porous silicon by Raman scattering

In this paper, porous silicon (PS) layers of different porosity and thickness have been investigated by Raman spectroscopy. The estimation of built-in strain in PS is reported. Moreover, wetting phenomena in PS layers have been also investigated. The results prove a reversible blue shift of Raman spectra of wetted PS layers with respect to unperturbed layers. We ascribe the shift to a compressive stress due to the increased lattice mismatch between the PS layer and the bulk silicon substrate in wetting conditions. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Perceived Roles of Ethics and Social Responsibility, Internal Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Engagement of Academicians

The echo of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is often heard in the contemporary business management since the last four decades. CSR continuously getting attention due to the ever changing business landscape. As CSR marks its notion of importance in the business context, its roles, and values among academicians who are entrusted to educate the future generation remains ambiguous. Current research aims to look into the impact of perceived roles of ethics and social responsibility (PRESOR) and Internal CSR on the Employee Engagement among academicians in the education setting. Judgemental sampling method is used to locate the targeted respondents and data collected is analysed using Partial Least Squares Equation Modeling. The results reveal that PRESOR has a positive impact on Internal CSR. Internal CSR has no significant impact on Employee Engagement among academicians and its’ indirect effect between PRESOR and Employee Engagement is also found to be insignificant. The findings contribute by providing some insights on the role of ethics and social responsibility among academicians in the education sector. Education institutions may wish to look into other means to increase academicians’ employee engagement instead of ethics and social responsibility.
The effect of parent anxiety and emotion regulation on parenting behaviors

Parenting behaviors play an important role in healthy youth development and poor parenting behaviors place youth at risk of developing problem behaviors, mental health problems, and difficulties in emotional self-regulation. Parenting behaviors are influenced by parents’ psychological well-being and their ability to regulate their own emotions. This study seeks to identify the role of anxiety, emotion regulation abilities via self-report and high frequency heart rate variance (HF-HRV), and the interaction between anxiety and emotion regulation in predicting parenting behaviors. The main goal of this study was to determine if emotion regulation strengthens and/or buffers the relationship between parent psychopathology and poor parenting behaviors. Eighty caregivers completed self-report measures of parenting behaviors, anxiety, and emotion regulation, while HF-HRV was additionally measured in 74 of the caregivers during a resting state and stress task. Three significant moderating effects of HF-HRV stress reactivity emerged. Trait anxiety by low HF-HRV reactivity predicted both negative parenting practices and poor monitoring, and somatization by low HF-HRV reactivity predicted poor monitoring. No significant findings emerged for self-reported emotion regulation. Findings suggested that poor emotion regulation, as indexed by physiological reactivity to stress, may strengthen the relationship between parent psychopathology and poor parenting behaviors. This study did not find a buffering effect of optimal emotion regulation abilities on the relationship between anxiety and parenting.