Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Neuroimaging, electroencephalography, response to treatment and outcomein children with status epilepticus in a tertiary care hospital

Background and Objectives: Status epilepticus (SE) is a pediatric neurological emergency which if not managed promptly, may result in significant neuro-morbidity and mortality. Our aim was to study the Neuro-imaging, Electroencephalography (EEG), response to treatment and outcome in children with SE. Methods: It was an observational study conducted in post graduate Department of Pediatrics, Government Medical College, Srinagar. All patients between one month and 18 years who were admitted in PICU with SE constituted the study population. Treatment was given according to the standardized protocol followed in the hospital. Lorazepam, Phenytoin, valproate, Phenobarbitone, levetiracetam and midazolam infusion were given intravenous in that sequential order to control SE. Neuro-imaging and Electroencephalography were done after controlling SE. Outcome was assessed in terms of neuro-deficit and mortality. Statistical analysis was carried out with Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 20.0 version. Results were presented as frequencies and percentages. Results: MRI was done in fifty patients with 13 patients (26%) showing variable abnormality. The EEG was also done in 50 patients with electrographic seizures in 35 patients (70%). 12 patients (23.5%), 14 patients (27.4%), 12 patients (23.5%), 7 patients (13.7%) and 5 patients (9.8%) responded respectively to the sequential treatments. one patient (1.9%) needed midazolam infusion. There was no neuro-deficit in 36 patients (70.6%), neuro-deficit in 14 patients (26.5%) and mortality in 1 patient (2%). Conclusions: Neuro-imaging and EEG abnormalities are common in children with SE. Prompt treatment is necessary to prevent morbidity and mortality associated with SE.
Dosage and settling time course optimization of Moringa oleifera in municipal wastewater treatment using response surface methodology

The efficacy of the Moringa oleifera (MO) in wastewater treatment has been well studied and documented. However, there exists a significant gap in exploring the operating conditions to optimize the wastewater treatment process. This study investigated and optimized the removal efficiency of turbidity, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), and chemical oxygen demand (COD) from municipal wastewater under the operating conditions of pH (5–7), MO dosage (50–200 mg/L), and settling time courses (60–240 min) using face-centered central composite design (FCCCD) of response surface methodology. The experimental results of FCCCD were fitted to the second-order quadratic model to approximate the effects of each variable factor and their interactions on the responses of interest in a mathematical relationship and consequently, predict the process responses. The obtained results revealed that under the optimum operating conditions of pH, MO dosage, and settling time of 6.01, 182.74 mg/L, and 228.08 min, respectively, the predicted values of turbidity, BOD, and COD removal efficiencies were 98.20%, 92.96%, and 78.82%, respectively, with the desirability of 1.000. This study demonstrated the effectiveness of FCCCD with a desirability function to optimize the process conditions (pH, MO dosage, and settling time) of coagulation for the turbidity, BOD, and COD removal efficiencies.
The Relationship Between DMFT with Dietary Habits and Body Mass Index in 
4–6 YearOld Kindergarten Children in Ahvaz

Background and Objectives: Considering importance of food habits and possible roles of obesity in tooth decay, the present study was carried out to investigate relationships between dietary habits and body mass index (BMI) withtooth decay in 4–6 years old kindergartenchildrenin Ahwaz, Iran. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive-analytical study, 359 children were selected randomly from 4–6 year-old children of both sexes from variousregions of Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, Iran. The project questionnaire includedgeneral and individual information such as gender, age, education and occupation of the parents, economic condition,informationon children andfrequency of feeds of 59 food itemsThe BMIcalculatedandDMFT(decayed, missing, filled surfaces teeth)and erosion were measured. The SPSS Software was used o analyze data. Results: Frequency and percentage of BMI were differentiated by lean children (37, 10%), normal weight children (269 children, 75%) and children with overweight and obesity (53 children, 15%). Dental caries werefound in 87.3 and erosions in 23.7%of the children.A significantlypositive correlation was seen between the dental caries index and the BMI (r=0.512, P<0.001) and dental erosion (r = 0.141, P = 0.007). Another significantlypositive correlation was observed between the erosion index and the dental caries index r = 0.367, P<0.001). However, a significantly negative correlation was reported between the erosion index and the serving sizes of meat and egg per month (r=-0.112, P = 0.034). A significantly positive correlation was seen between the erosionandconsumption of chips and puffs (r=0.151, P =0.004). Conclusions: Findings of this study have shown that the BMI increases dental caries and erosions.Dental erosion also relationship with increasing consumption of meat and eggs, and increased with the consumption of chips and puff. Dental erosion decreased with increasing mother’s age index. According to regression test, BMI had the highest correlation with DMFT index and according to the regression test; the variable DMFT had the highest correlation with the erosion index. With increasing BMI, the amount of dental erosion and dental caries index would increase. There was a significant relationship between the increase in consumption of Chocolatemilk, flavored milk and fats with increased risk of dental caries.
Ideologies, Attitudes, and Curriculum Change: Teachers’ Perception

This study investigates the effects of educational ideologies on teachers’ perceptions and their attitudes towards curriculum reform. For this purpose, in order to explore teachers’ beliefs related with the recent curriculum change, identifying educational beliefs became especially important since they are the principal implementers of the curriculum. Participants of this study were teachers from primary and secondary schools. Data were gathered from the participants via two inventories, Educational Ideologies Inventory and Teachers’ Receptivity to Change Inventory. The results of the study indicated some key contribution from teachers’ standpoint that their educational ideologies were considerably compatible with the approach of the new curriculum. Although most of the teachers confirmed tendency in the direction of liberal educational ideologies and in consequence there were no significant difference between teachers’ educational ideologies and their receptivity of curriculum change, it would be an important contribution to the literature to investigate the belief of teachers if they mainly had conservative educational ideologies toward curriculum change.
ERP-Related Issues and Challenges in Turkey: An Overview from ERP Experts

Abstract The Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP) is an integrated information system for competitive enterprises in the era of globalization, especially for managing their activities effectively. These systems are enormously complex systems that require tremendous investment on especially consulting, training, hardware, and software within corporate time and resources. Moreover, their implementation processes often entail significant challenges, difficulties, and risks. In this paper, it is aimed to introduce the most important issues and challenges of implementing an ERP system, in both large enterprises and SMEs in Turkey. Exploratory research was conducted by using a small-scale survey among 31 ERP experts of 31 Turkish companies from different industries. The findings show that user resistance is the most compelling factor influencing ERP implementation success in Turkish companies. Additionally, lack of well- planned project duration and implementation steps, as well as inadaptability with ERP product are the other notable factors affecting native ERP implementation success. Editor: H. Kemal Ilter, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey Received: August 19, 2018, Accepted: October 18, 2018, Published: November 10, 2018 Copyright: © 2018 IMISC Ekren et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Penetrating abdominal injuries in an emerging semiurban teaching hospital

Objective: There has been a worldwide rise in the prevalence of penetrating abdominal injury (PAI), and there are both inter-country and intra-country variations in frequencies. This study evaluates the mechanisms and pattern of penetrating abdominal injuries and the treatment outcome in our center. Methods: This descriptive study of adult patients managed for PAI was conducted at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), Ado-Ekiti from January 2015 to December 2018. Data were prospectively collected and analyzed by using descriptive statistics from Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0. Results: There were 96 patients managed for abdominal injuries during the study period. Forty-six (47.9%) of them had PAI, while 50 (52.1%) others sustained blunt trauma. Patients ages ranged from 17-72 years (mean = 34.2±10.8 years; median = 34 years). Majority, 42 (91.3%), were males, while 4 (8.7%) were females (M: F=11:1). The most afflicted age group was in the 4th decade. Majority of the injuries were due to gunshot (60.9%) followed by stab (26.1%), unsafe abortion (6.5%), road traffic injury (4.3%) and fall (2.2%). Gastrointestinal injuries were the most common with small bowel perforations predominating. Solid organ injuries were only seen in 3 (7.9%) patients. Eight (17.4%) had associated extra-abdominal injuries. Thirty-eight (82.6%) patients required exploratory laparotomy, while 8 (17.4%) were managed non-operatively. The negative laparotomy rate was 2.6%. Seven (15.2%) patients developed complications which were mostly wound infection (10.8%). The duration of hospital stay was 1-58 days (mean 12.7±10.5). Three patients (6.5%) with gunshot injuries died. Conclusion: Gunshot wounds were the major variant of PAI, and the highest cause of mortality from it. Gut injuries were most common, and exploratory laparotomy remains the main-stay of treatment, while non-operative management is practicable in carefully selected cases.
Framing collaborative processes of digital transformation in cultural organisations: from literary archives to augmented reality

ABSTRACT At a time when it is particularly urgent to identify models of intersection across the digital and cultural sector to respond to an emergent funding and policy environment, this article contributes to a body of scholarly work around designing digital interventions for museums by identifying the role of cultural content in shaping design spaces for collaboration. The context of the article is a research project that brought together magical realist literature and the development of an Augmented Reality smartphone application realised through a public programme held at a museum of children’s literature. This process created an open-ended design space within the organisation embedded into the development of public engagement workshops around magical realism and place making. It investigates how the cultural content (from archival material) occupied a key role in shaping technological development and suggests strategies that could grant autonomy and sustainability to cultural organisations in engaging in digital transformation.
STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OF THE LEAVES OF THE DOMINANT PLANTS IN THE TIDAL ZONE OF THE WHITE SEA

The research was performed on the dominant halophyte species (Plantago maritima L., Triglochin maritima L., Glaux maritima L., Tripolium vulgare Ness) in 2012–2015 at the western coast of the White Sea, in the estuaries of the rivers (Kolezhma, Vyg, Kieretti). At the experimental plots over the transect from the coast to the line of mean low water neaps, the leaf area decreases, while the leaf thickness and number of stomata per unit area increase, as the tidal level and the flooding period increase. The studied species possess special adaptive structures: P. maritima has water storage tissue and large number of stomata, T. vulgare – aerenchyma, water storage tissue and smaller number of stomata; in T. maritima aerenchyma constitutes a large proportion of the inner structure, thus decreasing the proportion of photosynthetic tissue in the leaves, whereas in G. maritima specialized tissues are almost absent and this species is marked by the lowest biometric plant size in the tidal zone. A hypothesis about the correlation between structural and functional features of the dominant species and their survival strategy and the patterns of distribution under various eco-coenotic conditions of the coastal habitats of the White Sea coast was proposed.
Change in Duration of Sun Exposure 2 Years after Solid Organ Transplantation

Background: Solid-organ transplant recipients (OTRs) have an increased risk of developing nonmelanoma skin cancer. Objective: This study explored the longitudinal history of sun exposure in OTRs from a few months after transplantation to two-three years later. Methods: OTRs, who previously completed a telephone survey in 2007 to 2009 were re-surveyed in summer 2011 about their skin cancer history and habits of sun exposure. The two sets of data were compared to assess change in sun exposure. Results: OTRs were enrolled (baseline) a mean of 8 months (range of 6 to 17.0 months) after transplantation. The interval between enrollment and the follow-up survey was a mean of 14 months (range of 2 to 21.8 months). Duration of self-reported weekday and weekend exposure increased from a mean of 2.05 hrs at baseline to a mean of 2.52 hours at follow-up. The mean difference in weekday exposure was 0.31 hrs (range -5.25 to 5.05 hrs) (t-test, p= 0.02, rank sum test, p =0.017) and in weekend exposure was 0.47 hrs (range-5.25 to 0.05) (t-test, p = 0.0007, rank sum test, = =0.004). Kidney transplant recipients increased the duration of weekday and weekend exposure significantly more than liver transplant recipients. (p=0.05) The number of sunburns experienced at baseline and follow-up remained consistent (p=0.58) with about 13% experiencing 1-5 sunburns each year. Conclusion: OTRs did not limit outdoor sun exposure or experience fewer sunburns in the 14 months after their transplant. Research is needed to ascertain the impact of educational programs on skin protection behaviors.
The Analysis of New Market Potentials and Determinants of Indonesian Export Commodities in the South Asian Region

Indonesia's trade performance with traditional countries in the last five years experienced a deficit. This condition has an impact on the emergence of the national trade balance deficit. Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia in anticipating this implies a Market Diversification strategy. Through this strategy, Indonesia is expected to be able to develop its export performance in several developing countries that have significant market potential to explore. South Asia is one of the regions that have the potential to become Indonesia's new market destination. This study aimed to analyze new export markets, potential export commodities, and Indonesian export determinants in the South Asian region. The analytical methods used in this study included Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Export Product Dynamic (EPD), Intra Industry Trade (IIT), Trade Complamantarity Index (TCI), and Gravity Model. The results show that five countries in the South Asian region have the potential to become Indonesia's new export market, namely India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Maldives. Indonesia's potential export commodities in each country are in the position of a rising star, falling star, and lost opportunity markets that are potential to be developed. Exports determinants that affect Indonesia's potential commodity exports in South Asia are importers GDP, differences in GDP per capita, geographic distance, commodity prices, real exchange rates, tariff barriers, and non tariff barriers. This results can be used as an insight for the government to create a relevant trade policy in the South Asian region.
University of Birmingham Part-based representations of the body in early childhood

Studies show that touch in adults is referenced to a representation of the body that is structured topologically according to body parts; the perceived distance between two stimuli crossing over a body part boundary is elongated relative to the perceived distance between two stimuli presented within one body part category. Here we investigate this influence of body parts on tactile space perception in children of five, six and seven years of age. We presented children with pairs of tactile stimuli on the left hand/arm, either within the hand, within the forearm, or over the wrist. With their eyes closed children were asked to adjust the distance between the thumb and forefinger of their right hand to represent the felt distance between the two tactile stimuli. Like adults, the children perceived the distance between two stimuli that cross the body part boundary to be further apart than those that were presented within the hand or arm. They also perceive tactile distance to be greater on the hand than the arm which is the first observation of Weber’s illusion in young children. We propose that a topological mode of body representation is particularly advantageous during early life given that body part categories remain constant while the metric proportions of the body change substantially as the child grows.
A review on pharmacological activities of Cinnamomum cassia Blume

The plant Cinnamon cassia Blume is commonly known as Chinese cinnamon. Mostly its bark and leaves are used in medicine. C. cassia is safe when used in small amounts as in foods and medicinal doses. The whole plant is medicinally important in Indian traditional system of medicine, particularly in Ayurveda. In this review, the reported pharmacological activities of C. cassia Blume to cure or prevent several diseases are summarised. Different pharmacological activities like anti‑inflammatory, antioxidant, hepatoprotective activities of C. cassia Blume are discussed in this review. Key words: Antibacterial, anti‑diabetic, Cinnamomum cassia Blume, pharmacological activities
Carcass traits of broilers as affected by different stocking density and sex

Kryeziu, A. J., Kamberi, M. , Muji, S. , Mestani, N. , & Berisha, S. (2018). Carcass traits of broilers as affected by different stocking density and sex. Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Science, 24(6), 1097–1103 The aim of this study was to evaluate the carcass traits of male and female broiler chickens reared at three different densities. Evaluations were done using 216 one-day-old Ross 308 chicks kept in a battery system. Birds were randomly divided into three treatments: high stocking density (HSD) = 22, medium stocking density (MSD) = 18 and low stocking density (LSD) = 14 birds/m2, with four replications for both sexes. The experiment lasted for 42 days. At the end of the experiment, fi ve broilers per replicate were slaughtered to measure the following carcass characteristics: dressing weight, neck and front back, wings, whole breast, whole legs, heart, gizzard and liver. Dressing percentage was calculated as the ratio of hot carcass to live body weight. The effect of stocking density and sex on live weight was signifi cant (p < 0.05). Heavier carcasses at slaughter were recorded for the MSD treatment (2149.70 g) and for the male broilers (2142.55 g) compared to the female ones (2022.82 g). The interaction of stocking density and sex did not signifi cantly affect the live weight (p > 0.05). Breast weight was higher for the low density treatment (p < 0.05). The breast and whole legs weights of male broilers were signifi cantly higher (p < 0.05) compared to those of the female broilers. Whole leg weights were signifi cantly higher (p < 0.05) for the MSD treatment. No signifi cant difference (p > 0.05) of stocking density and sex interaction was found in breast and whole legs weights. The carcass weights of MSD and LSD broilers were signifi cantly higher (p < 0.01) compared to the HSD broilers. From the results obtained from this experiment, it can be concluded that 14 to 18 birds per square meter is acceptable and may ensure profi table broiler production up to six weeks of age.
Does regional context matter? A comparative study of two Russian regions implementing budget reforms

This article presents a comparative study of two regions of Russia. The focus is on regional budgets and budget reforms for the period 2004–2014 with the aim to show the contextual specificity of the High North regions. Recent research on public sector reforms shows the imposition of power and the search for legitimacy as well as the resilience of traditional accounting instruments and their contradiction with New Public Management ideas as the main sources of changes. This study attempts to describe and understand other drivers that seem to shape and force changes in such public sector institutions as budget reforms, along with the previously revealed drivers. Thus, the actions of transnational companies and federal players such as military and financial authorities as well as the initiatives of regional politicians and executives may also be important elements in budget developments, while their role may vary from context to context. I will describe and analyse these incentives through studying changes in normative frameworks regulating budgets and budget reforms in the rather new context of Russia’s regions. A very cautious generalization from this study suggests that the governance of the High North regions in Russia is more dependent on the federal level, implying less local autonomy than in non-High North regions with similar economic profile.