Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Hospitalisation Due to Community-Acquired Acute Kidney Injury and the Role of Medications: A Retrospective Audit

The aim of this study is to assess the use of high-risk medications in patients with community-acquired acute kidney injury (CA-AKI) and the differences in the characteristics and outcomes of CA-AKI based on the use of these medications. This is a retrospective audit of adults (≥35 years) with CA-AKI admitted to a large tertiary care hospital over a two-year period. We investigated the prevalence of SADMANS (sulfonylureas; angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors; diuretics; metformin; angiotensin receptor blockers; nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; and sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors) medications use in people with CA-AKI prior to hospitalisation. Outcomes including CA-AKI severity, kidney function recovery and in-hospital mortality were examined and stratified by use of SADMANS medications. The study included 329 patients, with a mean (SD) age of 75 (12) years and a 52% proportion of females, who were hospitalised with CA-AKI. Most patients (77.5%) were taking at least one regular SADMANS medication upon admission. Overall, 40% of patients (n = 132) and 41% of those on SADMANS (n = 104) had hypovolaemia or associated symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhoea during admission. Over two-thirds (68.1%) had mild AKI on admission and patients who were taking SADMANS medications were more likely to have mild AKI. Patients on SADMANS had more comorbidities and a higher medication burden, but there were no differences in AKI severity on admission or outcomes such as length of hospitalisation, ICU admission, need for dialysis, recovery rates and mortality between the two groups. However, the high prevalence of SADMANS medications use among patients with CA-AKI indicates a potential for preventability of CA-AKI-led hospitalisations. Future studies are needed to gain better insights into the role of withholding this group of medications, especially during an acute illness.
Revisiting the design of selection systems in light of new findings regarding the validity of widely used predictors

Abstract Sackett et al. (2022) identified previously unnoticed flaws in the way range restriction corrections have been applied in prior meta-analyses of personnel selection tools. They offered revised estimates of operational validity, which are often quite different from the prior estimates. The present paper attempts to draw out the applied implications of that work. We aim to a) present a conceptual overview of the critique of prior approaches to correction, b) outline the implications of this new perspective for the relative validity of different predictors and for the tradeoff between validity and diversity in selection system design, c) highlight the need to attend to variability in meta-analytic validity estimates, rather than just the mean, d) summarize reactions encountered to date to Sackett et al., and e) offer a series of recommendations regarding how to go about correcting validity estimates for unreliability in the criterion and for range restriction in applied work.
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Shock Wave Propagation in Aluminum Single Crystal

The characteristics of shock wave propagation in aluminum single crystal are simulated by using the molecular dynamics (MD) method based on the embedded atom method (EAM) potential function. The structure of the shock front and the Hugonoit relation are obtained. The simulated results show that a two-wave structure exists in the aluminum single crystal for the particle velocity bellower than 2 km/s and the velocity of the elastic wave increases slightly with the shock loading. While only plastic wave exists in the aluminum single crystal for the particle velocity higher than 2 km/s and the width of the shock front decreases by exponent with the normal stress. The MD simulation results are basically consistent with the experimental results.
Assessment of Aggressive Behavior, Traffic Safety Rules and Regulation of Female Drivers in the Capital City Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A Comprehensive Study

BACKGROUND: Road Traffic Injuries (RTIs) is a vital concern that affect mutually both developed and undeveloped countries. In Saudi Arabia the death rate from traffic accidents is approximately 28.8 per 100,000 people. In the year 2018, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia finally set an end to its legal ban on car driving for women, providing the way for millions of new drivers to steer across the country. Conversely, gender has a statistically momentous impact on driving behavior. AIM: In this study we studied about the principal attitudes and behaviors of female drivers in Capital City Riyadh. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study in which we analyzed female’s behavior which they are living in Riyadh City using the “Dulla index” instrument to identify whether aggressive driving behavior is expected in females in Riyadh. RESULTS: Using DDDI, we found that aggressive and dangerous driving behavior is not common among female drivers in Riyadh City. However, aggressive behavior was found three times more among employees when they drive than students, as well as participants with the educational level of (diploma/bachelor), (Singles/Divorced/widows), and those who (employees) were more likely associated with the behaviors of risky driving than their counterpart. CONCLUSION: This study revealed that the women who reside in Riyadh city are well-educated about the traffic laws, and the rate of aggressive, dangerous driving behavior was uncommon among them. Further studies are required to augment knowledge and condense the hazardous driving behaviors in Saudi Arabia.
Algebraic combinatorics for computational biology

Algebraic statistics is the study of the algebraic varieties that correspond to discrete statistical models. Such statistical models are used throughout computational biology, for example to describe the evolution of DNA sequences. This perspective on statistics allows us to bring mathematical techniques to bear and also provides a source of new problems in mathematics. The central focus of this thesis is the use of the language of algebraic statistics to translate between biological and statistical problems and algebraic and combinatorial mathematics. The wide range of biological and statistical problems addressed in this work come from phylogenetics, comparative genomics, virology, and the analysis of ranked data. While these problems are varied, the mathematical techniques used in this work share common roots in the field of combinatorial commutative algebra. The main mathematical theme is the use of ideals which correspond to combinatorial objects such as magic squares, trees, or posets. Biological problems suggest new families of ideals, and the study of these ideals can in some cases be useful for biology.
Viral Coinfection of Children Hospitalized with Severe Acute Respiratory Infections during COVID-19 Pandemic

The main pathogens of severe respiratory infection in children are respiratory viruses, and the current molecular technology allows for a rapid and simultaneous detection of a wide spectrum of these viral pathogens, facilitating the diagnosis and evaluation of viral coinfection. Methods: This study was conducted between March 2020 and December 2021. All children admitted to the ICU with a diagnosis of SARI and who were tested by polymerase chain reaction on nasopharyngeal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 and other common respiratory viral pathogens were included in the study. Results: The result of the viral panel identified 446 children, with one infected with a single virus and 160 co-infected with two or more viruses. This study employed descriptive analyses, where a total of twenty-two coinfections among SARI-causing viruses were identified. Thus, the five most frequent coinfections that were selected for the study are: hRV/SARS-CoV-2 (17.91%), hRV/RSV (14.18%), RSV/SARS-CoV-2 (12.69%), hRV/BoV (10.45%), and hRV/AdV (8.21%). The most significant age group was 38.1%, representing patients aged between 24 and 59 months (61 individuals). Patients older than 59 months represented a total of 27.5%, comprising forty-four patients. The use of oxygen therapy was statistically significant in coinfections with Bocavirus, other CoVs, Metapneumovirus, and RSV. Coinfections with SARS-CoV-2 and the other different coinfections presented a similar time of use of oxygen therapy with a value of (p > 0.05). In the year 2020, hRV/BoV was more frequent in relation to other types of coinfections, representing a total of 35.1%. The year 2021 presented a divergent profile, with hRV/SARS-CoV-2 coinfection being the most frequent (30.8%), followed by hRV/RSV (28.2%). Additionally, 25.6% and 15.4% represented coinfections between RSV/SARS-CoV-2 and hRV/AdV, respectively. We saw that two of the patients coinfected with hRV/SARS-CoV-2 died, representing 9.52% of all deaths in the study. In addition, both hRV/hBoV and hRV/RSV had death records for each case, representing 8.33% and 6.67% of all deaths, respectively. Conclusion: Coinfections with respiratory viruses, such as RSV and hBoV, can increase the severity of the disease in children with SARI who are admitted to the ICU, and children infected with SARS-CoV-2 have their clinical condition worsened when they have comorbidities.
PRODUCTIVITY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL POTENTIALITY OF SOME SILAGE MAIZE GENOTYPES

: An experiment was conducted in the summer season of 2019 at the Agricultural Experiment Station, Faculty of Agriculture (El-Shatby), Alexandria University, Egypt. The main objectives of this study were: (i) to trace the physiological development of maize hybrids with reference to growth parameters, and (ii) to assess yield, quality and responses of silage maize genotypes to plant densities. Eight corn hybrids were used in this study, seven were single cross hybrids three of them were white-grain: SC10, SC128, SC131 and four yellow-grain SC166, SC167, SC168, SC176 and one white-grain three-way cross namely TWC321. Hybrids were developed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Maize Research Program, and Agriculture Research Center, Egypt. The fieldwork included two plant densities 20,000 and 35,000 plants faddan -1 i.e . ; 47,619 and 83,333 plant hectare -1 , traits were measured at three development stages i.e. (35, 70 and 105 days after emergence). Spilt -plot design in a randomized complete block design, with three replications was employed. Sub-plot was 18 m 2 of six ridges each of 0.75 m width and four-meter long. Corn hybrids were distributed in the main–plots, whereas, the sub-plots contained the two plant densities. The results indicated that, as plant density increased from 47,619 to 83.333 plant hectare -1 , stalk diameter decreased from 24.53 to 20.91 mm, upper leaf chlorophyll content decreased from 46.45 to 42.01 SPAD, lower leaf chlorophyll content decreased from 36.74 to 31.31 SPAD, the no. of ears per plant decreased from 1.38 to 1.10 and plant dry weight decreased from 293 to 195 g plant -1 , respectively. Plant densities significantly gave similar plant dry weight after 35 days from emergence, while, low plant density (47.619 plant ha -1 ) gave the heaviest plant dry weight after 70 and 105 DAE (279 and 584 g plant -1 , respectively). The results indicated that relative growth rate of maize hybrids during the first developmental stage (35-70 DAE) was significantly superior to measured figures in the late season stage (70-105 DAE). Also, hybrids with significantly higher RGR during the early season’s stage were SC10, SC128, SC131 SC168 and SC176. While SC167 and TWC321 significantly exhibited lower values. By the late season stage (70-105 DAE) all hybrids had similar values of RGR. Effect of plant density on total dry forage yield over maize-hybrids and developmental stage, the highest significant total dry forage yield was recorded at a plant density of 83.333 plant hectare -1 (15.70 t. ha -1 ), while, the plant density of 47,619 plant hectare -1 significantly recorded lower value (13.92 t. ha -1 ). Maize hybrids were significantly divided into two groups regarding protein yield. A superior group with values 2.19, 1.96, 1.96, 1.61 and 1.84 t. ha -1 for SC10, SC131, SC168, SC128 and SC176. The second lower group included SC167, TWC321 and SC166 with values of (1.59, 1.45 and 1.20 t. ha -1 respectively).
Thermal Buckling of Piezolaminated Plates Subjected to Different Loading Conditions

A thermal buckling analysis is presented for simply supported rectangular laminated composite plates that are covered with top and bottom piezoelectric actuators, and subjected to the combined action of thermal load and constant applied actuator voltage. The thermomechanical properties of composite and piezoelectric materials are assumed to be linear functions of the temperature. The formulations of the equations are based on the higher-order laminated plate theory of Reddy and using the Sanders nonlinear kinematic relations. The closed-form solutions for the buckling temperature are obtained through the Galerkin procedure and solving the resultant eigenvalue problem, which are convenient to be used in engineering design applications. Numerical examples are presented to verify the proposed method. The effects of the plate geometry, fiber orientation in composite layers, lay-up configuration, different utilized piezoelectric materials, temperature dependency of material properties, thermal conductivity, and energy generation on the buckling load are investigated.
Believing and Sharing False News on Social Media: The Role of News Presentation, Epistemic Motives, and Deliberative Thinking

ABSTRACT How vulnerable are we to misinformation on social media? To address this question, this study examines not only how well (or poorly) individuals discern true and false news on social media, but also how contextual factors in news presentation and individual’s cognitive and motivational tendencies might shape the patterns of their beliefs in and likelihood to engage online news. We conducted an online survey experiment on a sample of Chinese social media users recruited from a national panel (N = 481). The results show that, first, people generally perceived social media news as accurate and were better at correctly identifying truthful news than false news, revealing both a truth bias and a veracity effect. Second, social endorsement cue and news content slant could affect how individuals judge the veracity of a news post and engage it online. Third, evidence was mixed on how individuals’ deliberative thinking propensity and epistemic motive operated. While our primary goal is to present evidence from a non-Western society to shed lights on the psychology of false news on social media, we also strive toward teasing out some implications specific to the China context.
Re-Evaluating the Role of PTHrP in Breast Cancer

Simple Summary Parathyroid-hormone-related protein (PTHrP) is produced in normal breast and breast cancer cells and causes bone destruction when expressed by cancer cells that have spread to the bone. When PTHrP is released, it binds to its receptor on neighboring bone cells; however, we now understand that PTHrP does not behave this way in breast cancer. Instead of binding to a receptor, PTHrP moves around inside the cells, which results in pro- or anti-tumor effects. This has caused confusion in the field since studies sometimes report conflicting results after deleting or increasing the expression of PTHrP. This review will improve our understanding of PTHrP and breast cancer by discussing the unique role PTHrP plays in breast cancer and how PTHrP signaling inside the cell and the different regions of PTHrP may play a role in the observed discrepancies. Abstract Parathyroid-hormone-related protein (PTHrP) is a protein with a long history of association with bone metastatic cancers. The paracrine signaling of PTHrP through the parathyroid hormone receptor (PTHR1) facilitates tumor-induced bone destruction, and PTHrP is known as the primary driver of humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy. In addition to paracrine signaling, PTHrP is capable of intracrine signaling independent of PTHR1 binding, which is essential for cytokine-like functions in normal physiological conditions in a variety of tissue types. Pre-clinical and clinical studies evaluating the role of PTHrP in breast cancer have yielded contradictory conclusions, in some cases indicating the protein is tumor suppressive, and in other studies, pro-growth. This review discusses the possible molecular basis for the disharmonious prognostic indications of these studies and highlights the implications of the paracrine, intracrine, and nuclear functions of the protein. This review also examines the current understanding of the functional domains of PTHrP and re-evaluates their role in the unique context of the breast cancer environment. This review will expand on the current understanding of PTHrP by attempting to reconcile the functional domains of the protein with its intracrine signaling in cancer.
The Backward Theory of Feynman- and Rossi-Alpha Methods with Multiple Emission Sources

The Feynman- and Rossi-alpha formulas are calculated for subcritical systems driven by a multiple emission source, i.e., one that emits several neutrons on each source emission event. The prime example of such sources is a spallation source, which will be used in future accelerator-driven subcritical systems (ADS), such as the energy amplifier. The Feynman- and Rossi-alpha formulas are calculated with backward master equations for such systems. The essence of the theory is a formula that connects the probability distribution of a cascade, induced by one single particle, with that induced by a continuous source of particles. Compact and consistent expressions arefoundfor both the Feynman- and Rossi-alpha formulas, in agreement with earlier forward-theory-based or heuristic calculations, it is shown that the presence of the spallation source does not alter the time-dependence of the formulas, but enhances its amplitude. Hence, both methods appear to be promising to be used in future stationary ADS systems with relatively large subcriticalities.
Event‐triggered control of Takagi‐Sugeno fuzzy systems under deception attacks

This article handles the problem of periodic event‐triggered control co‐design for the stabilization of Takagi‐Sugeno fuzzy models subject to stochastic deception attacks whose occurrence follows a given Bernoulli distribution. A novel delay‐dependent condition is presented to simultaneously design the event‐triggering mechanism and the state‐feedback controller to ensure the local mean‐square asymptotic stability of the closed‐loop system. The co‐design condition is derived as linear matrix inequalities by considering Lyapunov–Krasovskii stability arguments. In addition, an optimization procedure is provided to estimate an enlarged set of admissible initial conditions and the corresponding ultimate bound within the validity domain of the fuzzy model. Finally, numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Contextualized Display Behavior during Natural Interactions by Common Side-Blotched Lizards (Uta stansburiana, Squamata, Phrynosomatidae)

Abstract. Many previous studies on competition focused on outcomes of competition and less on behavioral changes during or immediately following intra- or interspecific interactions. I performed 300 h of observation of three lizard species (Side-blotched Lizards, Uta stansburiana; Sagebrush Lizards, Sceloporus graciosus; Western Fence Lizards, Sceloporus occidentalis) and recorded 1,045 natural encounters, 403 of which were unconfounded by presence of another individual lizard. Despite potential competition amongst these species, I found little evidence that Uta modify perch characteristics or engage in aggressive interactions toward either of the heterospecific lizards. However, Uta do alter interspecific display behavior depending on whether interactions are intrasexual or intersexual. Moreover, Uta move shorter distances following interactions with S. graciosus but greater distances after interactions with S. occidentalis. Uta appear to reserve aggressive or more-intense interactions for intersexual intraspecific encounters, most of which are initiated by males. Together these findings suggest that these three lizard species are not broadly engaged in competitive interactions and that habitat characteristics or microhabitat preferences enable co-occurrence.
The value of hyperdense lumen sign at non-contrast Computed Tomography in the diagnostic work up of Pulmonary Embolism

The value of hyperdense lumen sign at non-contrast Computed Tomography in the diagnostic work up of Pulmonary Embolism Samuel Magdy Shafik, Ahmed Hesham Mohamed Said, Faten Mohamed Ali Radiology department, Faculty of Medicine, Beni Suef University, Egypt ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Article Info ــــ ــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــ Article history: Received 22 January 2023 Accepted 26 March 2023 Corresponding Author: Samuel Magdy Shafik smagdy91@gmail.com ـــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
A note on utility maximization with transaction costs and random endoment: num\'eraire-based model and convex duality

In this note, we study the utility maximization problem on the terminal wealth under proportional transaction costs and bounded random endowment. In particular, we restrict ourselves to the num\'eraire-based model and work with utility functions only supporting R+. Under the assumption of existence of consistent price systems and natural regularity conditions, standard convex duality results are established. Precisely, we first enlarge the dual domain from the collection of martingale densities associated with consistent price systems to a set of finitely additive measures; then the dual formulation of the utility maximization problem can be regarded as an extension of the paper of Cvitani\'c-Schachermayer-Wang (2001) to the context under proportional transaction costs.
THE MEDIATION ROLE OF INTERNAL CONTROL IMPLEMENTATION IN VILLAGE FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY PERFORMANCE

This study aims to examine the role of internal control implementation as a mediating variable in the relationship between financial knowledge and public participation in the village's financial accountability performance. This research used a questionnaire. Then, the hypotheses were tested utilizing Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) based on Partial Least Squares (PLS). The results showcased that the internal control implementation mediated the relationship between financial knowledge and public participation in the village's financial accountability performance. Further, this study provides practical implications for the government to increase the actualization of the internal control implementation in village financial management.