Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Factors Related to Faculty Members' Attitude and Adoption of a Learning Management System.

Learning Management Systems (LMS) play a crucial role in organizing the course contents. However, some instructors use LMS in their classes while some do not. This study aimed to discover the factors in relation to the instructors’ attitude toward LMS and adoption of LMS in their course. A survey was administered to 62 instructors to follow up the use of LMS after they attended the training. The respondents were assessed for their attitude towards LMS, perceived ease of LMS use, perceived usefulness and their actual use of LMS in their course. The results reveal that the respondents of the study had a high overall attitude towards LMS. Perceived ease of LMS use and perceived usefulness were found to have a significant positive correlation with their attitude. In addition, the more the instructors perceived ease of LMS use, the more intensively their beliefs about the usefulness of it increased. However, it was found that attitude toward LMS, perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness were not correlated to actual use of LMS. Furthermore, there was not any significant difference in the respondents’ attitude toward LMS in terms of gender and subject domain. The responses to open-ended questions were revealed in terms of difficulties they had when using LMS.
Futuristic perception and carrier aspects of nursing profession among nursing students at Kalaburagi city, Karnataka

Background: The nursing profession is one of the important and integral parts of health care delivery system. Hence nursing profession is rated as one of the most trusted profession in the health care industry and also considered as one of the exiting and in demand profession. Our study aims to know the futuristic perception of young and dynamic students of nursing colleges across the Kalaburagi city. As nursing profession is a supporting pillar for the health care sector. It is very important to understand the significant social professional values and the urge and intense of our nursing students at this region and time.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study design was used to identify the nursing students’ attitudes toward nursing profession. The study was carried out in 240 nursing students in different nursing colleges at Kalaburagi city.Results: Only 27.9% students had family members or relatives in the nursing profession. The reasons for joining nursing revealed 80.42% students were self motivated to perceive nursing as a carrier. Regarding perception 97.08% perceived nursing as an opportunity to serve humanity and 92.52% perceive nursing as a caring profession.Conclusions: Though nursing is regarded as a caring, dignify and respectful profession still many don’t want to work locally. More than half of the students were interested to work in abroad.
Tzanck Smears and Its Diagnostic Utility - An Institutional Experience

Aim: Tzanck smear is a simple test that gives reliable information in many varieties of skin lesions and can be used for quick, preliminary diagnosis of a number of cutaneous dermatoses. The aim of this study was to analyse the usefulness of tzanck smears in the diagnosis of cutaneous dermatoses and correlate the findings, clinically as well as histopathologically. Materials and Methods: Retrospective analysis of all tzanck smears received during the time period of 2 years (January 2016- January 2018), was carried out. The smears were assessed with regard to its correlation to the clinical diagnosis. Corroboration of the tzanck smear findings were also evaluated with respect to the histopathological diagnosis, in cases were skin biopsy was done. Results: A total of 70 tzanck smears were performed during our study period. Out of 29 cases of pemphigus, the tzanck smears corroborated with 22 cases. Non-specific findings were obtained in clinically suspected cases of pemphigoid. Out of 25 suspected herpetic infections, the characteristic tzanck smear findings were observed in 11 of them. Tzanck smear findings correlated with 13 out of the 19 cases of histopathologically confirmed pemphigus lesions. Conclusion: Tzanck smear test is a rapid, inexpensive and useful tool to aid in the diagnosis of clinically suspected vesico bullous, pustular and erosive skin lesions. It also serves as a useful adjunct to histopathological evaluation of skin biopsies, especially immuno-bullous skin disorders.
Lipid profile, atherogenic indices, and their relationship with epicardial fat thickness and carotid intima–media thickness in celiac disease

OBJECTIVE: In this study, we aimed to investigate the presence of subclinical atherosclerosis by measuring epicardial fat thickness (EFT) and carotid intima–media thickness (cIMT), evaluate low-level inflammation with high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), and evaluate whether there is a relationship among lipid profile, atherogenic indices, and hsCRP with these subclinical atherosclerosis markers in patients with celiac disease (CD). METHODS: After exclusion and inclusion criteria were applied, 31 patients with CD (24 female, mean age: 39.4±12.3 years) and 32 healthy controls (21 female, mean age: 39.5±4.4 years), totally 63 cases, were recruited. Subclinical atherosclerosis was evaluated with EFT by transthoracic echocardiography and cIMT by ultrasonography. Inflammatory markers including erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), hsCRP, and lipid profile were recorded. Also, atherogenic indices were calculated: Castelli risk index I and II (TG/HDL-c and LDL-c/HDL-c, respectively), atherogenic index of plasma (AIP; logarithm TG/HDL-c), non-HDL-c (TG-HDL-c), and atherogenic coefficient (AC; non-HDL-c/HDL-c). RESULTS: EFT was significantly higher in the CD group (0.49±0.10 vs. 0.49±0.09; p-value: 0.02). Although cIMT was higher in the patient group, it did not reach statistical significance (0.51±0.08, 0.47±0.08; p-value: 0.10). HDL cholesterol level was found to be significantly lower (42.0±8.8 vs. 50.0±13.7; p-value: 0.01), and the plasma atherogenic index was found to be significantly higher in the patient group (0.98±0.50 vs. 0.62±0.64; p-value: 0.02). hsCRP (3.51±3.18 vs. 1.92±1.40; p-value: 0.02) and ESR (17.2±12.8 with 9.7±3.1; p-value: 0.01) were found to be significantly higher in the CD group. Although there was a significant positive correlation between EFT and hsCRP (r: 0.453; p-value: 0.01), there was a significant negative correlation between cIMT and HDL-cholesterol (−0.339; p-value: 0.05), and a significant positive correlation with the other components of the atherogenic index was found. CONCLUSION: The risk of atherosclerosis has been increased in patients with CD. Chronic inflammation may be responsible for this increase along with atherogenic indices.
Effects of Tai Chi, Fitness Boxing, and Video Activities on the Balance and Endurance of a Participant with Multiple Sclerosis: A Case Study

ABSTRACT Various recreational activities have been identified as effective interventions to improve balance in individuals with compromised gait, balance, and a history of falls. This investigation explored the effectiveness of Tai chi, fitness boxing, and the Xbox Kinect on the balance of one participant with multiple sclerosis (MS). An 11-week program was implemented with each intervention scheduled for a 3-week duration. The participant’s balance was assessed prior to and at the conclusion of each intervention using the Multidirectional Reach test, Vestibular subtest of the Fullerton, and the Sensory Interaction in Balance test. The participant began each session with a warm up involving stretching and ended with a cool down of lap walking. The 2-min step test was used to measure progress toward improving endurance. Results suggest that the greatest improvement in balance occurred following the implementation of the both Tai chi and Xbox Kinect. Some improvement with endurance was additionally noted in the results of the 2-min step test. As a case study, this investigation cannot provide conclusive results that one intervention is preferred over another. However, our findings provide emerging evidence that balance can potentially be improved through the use of Tai chi, the Xbox Kinect, and fitness boxing.
Foundations and Futures of Strategic Management

Research in strategic management has burgeoned in the last few decades. This growth and specialization not only reflects impressive progress but also raises questions about the boundaries and future direction of the field. In an effort to promote the accumulation and integration of insights regarding strategic management we trace research in the field through a series of four generations of scholarship. In so doing, we highlight some of the most important challenges and contributions of each of these generations and note the tensions and opportunities presented by the field's focus on fundamental issues and frontier research topics. We also note the various integration mechanisms that have been called for and discuss their merits and demerits. We conclude by discussing the role of the Strategic Management Review as a complement to existing strategy journals.
Quality assessment of wikipedia articles: a deep learning approach by Quang Vinh Dang and Claudia-Lavinia Ignat with Martin Vesely as coordinator

Wikipedia is indeed a very important knowledge sharing platform. However, since its start in 2001, the quality of Wikipedia is questioned because its content is created potentially by everyone who can access the Internet. Currently, the quality of Wikipedia articles is assessed by human judgement. The method is not scalable up to huge size and fast changing speed of Wikipedia today. An automatic quality classifier for Wikipedia articles is required to support user to choose high quality articles for reading and to notify authors for improving their products. While other existing approaches are based on manually predefined specific feature set, we present our approach of using deep learning to automatically represent Wikipedia articles for quality classification.
Prevalence and Susceptibility Pattern of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Rural Kerala: A Tertiary Care Hospital Study

Hospital-associated infections and community-acquired infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus continue to be a dangerous threat for the outcome of the patient. Methicillin resistant was reported to S. aureus soon after its introduction in October 1960 (Jevons, 1961). Between regions and between hospitals in the same region the prevalence of MRSA varies (Gadepalli et al., 2009) and it is endemic worldwide in hospitals (Goetghebeur et al., 2006). One of the leading causes of healthcare associated infection is MRSA (Dantes et al., 2011; Kaye et al., 2009). MRSA has been estimated to cause over 80,000 ―invasive‖ infections and over 11,000 deaths in the United States according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2011 (Dantes et al., 2011). The health care cost attributable to MRSA infection is enormous. In order to prevent the enormous economic burden and health care cost to the International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 7 Number 08 (2018) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
Sociodemographic and behavioral characteristics of obese students with sleep problems in Southern Brazil

1 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Desportos, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Física. Campus Universitário, s. /n. , Trindade, 88040-900, Florianópolis, SC, Brasil. Correspondência para/Correspondence to: TR LIMA. E-mail: . 2 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva. Florianópolis, SC, Brasil. 3 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Nutrição. Florianópolis, SC, Brasil. Support: The authors are grateful for the fi nancial support provided by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científi co e Tecnológico. (protocol no 483955/2011-6).
Inter-Vehicle Distance Estimation Method Based on Monocular Vision Using 3D Detection

Most autonomous vehicles build their perception systems on expensive sensors, such as LIDAR, RADAR, and high-precision Global Positioning System (GPS). However, cameras can provide richer sensing at a considerably lower cost, this makes them a more appealing alternative. A driving assistance system (DAS) based on monocular vision has gradually become a research hotspot, and inter-vehicle distance estimation based on monocular vision is an important technology in DAS. There are still constrains in the existing methods for estimating the inter-vehicle distance based on monocular vision, such as low accuracy when distance is larger, unstable accuracy for different types vehicles, and significantly poor performance on distance estimation for severely occluded vehicles. To improve the accuracy and robustness of ranging results, this study proposes a monocular vision end-to-end inter-vehicle distance estimation method based on 3D detection. The actual area of the rare view of the vehicle and the corresponding projection area in the image are obtained by 3D detection method. An area-distance geometric model is then established on the basis of the camera projection principle to recover distance. Our method shows its potential in complex traffic scenarios by testing the test set data provided on the real-world computer vision benchmark, KITTI. The experimental results have superior performance than the existing published methods. Moreover, the accuracy of occluded vehicle ranging results can reach approximately $98\%$, while the accuracy deviation between vehicles with different visual angles is less than $2\%$.
Effects of Mineral Nitrogen on Host Control in Legume-Rhizobium Symbiosis

Legume-rhizobium symbiosis has become a model system for studying beneficial symbiosis between eukaryotic hosts and bacterial symbionts. Hosts are predicted to exert control over beneficial bacterial symbionts to prevent the evolution and spread of exploitative genotypes. Since nitrogen is exchanged in legume-rhizobium symbiosis and legumes can acquire nitrogen from soils, there can context dependent effects from nitrogen-enriched soils that can dramatically alter legume-rhizobium symbiosis. Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition has been enriching terrestrial ecosystems for more than a century and is accelerating in some regions. One prediction is that nitrogen enrichment can relax selection to maintain host control traits, leading to evolution and spread of exploitative rhizobia and/or an breakdown in symbiosis if legumes cease to gain benefit from rhizobial infection. Lotus strigosus is an annual legume that experiences variable nitrogen deposition and mineral nitrogen contexts across California. To examine the potential for adaptation to mineral nitrogen enrichment in L. strigosus, inbred lines of L. strigosus from populations that have experienced either little nitrogen deposition or more than seven decades of intense nitrogen deposition were exposed to a simulated nitrogen deposition gradient and Bradyrhizobium that vary in growth benefit provided to L. strigosus. To examine the effects of mineral nitrogen saturation on a host control in a legume that has historically experienced nitrogen-poor soils, L. strigosus from a pristine site were exposed to growth saturation mineral nitrogen and infected with either combinations of Bradyrhizobium strains that vary in benefit to L. strigosus and individual strains that vary in benefit. Lotus exhibited little evidence of adaptation to use mineral nitrogen more efficiently in response to simulated nitrogen deposition. Symbisois with Bradyrhizobium was reduced at very high fertilizer levels, but this was most likely because of nitrogen toxicity rather than a loss of benefit from symbiosis.Host control traits in L. strigosus from a pristine site over pairs of Bradyrhizobium strains were resilient to growth saturating nitrogen, contrary to expectations if such traits are costly. When inoculated with single strains of Bradyrhizobium in different mineral nitrogen contexts, L. strigosus exhibited fine tuned investment in Bradyrhizobium to prevent exploitation.
The Design of a Multimedia-Forensic Analysis Tool (M-FAT)

Digital forensics has become a fundamental requirement for law enforcement due to the growing volume of cyber and computer-assisted crime. Whilst existing commercial tools have traditionally focused upon string-based analyses (e.g., regular expressions, keywords), less effort has been placed towards the development of multimedia-based analyses. Within the research community, more focus has been attributed to the analysis of multimedia content; they tend to focus upon highly specialised specific scenarios such as tattoo identification, number plate recognition, suspect face recognition and manual annotation of images. Given the ever-increasing volume of multimedia content, it is essential that a holistic Multimedia-Forensic Analysis Tool (M-FAT) is developed to extract, index, analyse the recovered images and provide an investigator with an environment with which to ask more abstract and cognitively challenging questions of the data. This paper proposes such a system, focusing upon a combination of object and facial recognition to provide a robust system. This system will enable investigators to perform a variety of forensic analyses that aid in reducing the time, effort and cognitive load being placed on the investigator to identify relevant evidence.
New Pygocephalomorph crustaceans from the Permian of China and their phylogenetic relationships

Members of the malacostracan order Pygocephalomorpha are among the most characteristic elements in nearshore marine and freshwater communities in the Carboniferous and Permian of Europe and North America. A new family of pygocephalomorph Eumalacostraca, Tylocarididae, with two new monospecific genera, is described from China, where it occurs in the Early Permian Tungtzeyen Formation of Fujian, and in the Late Permian Lungtan Formation of Hunan. The descriptions of Fujianocaris bifurcatus gen. et sp. nov. and Tylocaris asiaticus gen. et sp. nov. are based on dorsally preserved isolated carapaces, some showing incomplete abdominal details, but with no complete tail fans. Opinions on the affinities of Pygocephalomorpha to other malacostracans have varied but they are generally regarded as a separate order of 'mysidacean' peracarids. Hitherto the phylogeny of the group has not been considered, and the current family level taxonomy remains rather artificial. A cladistic analysis of fossil and Recent 'mysidacean' and pygocephalomorph crustaceans is presented here which outlines the affinities within the group and holds promise for an eventual natural taxonomy of the Pygocephalomorpha.
Effect of Galohgor Cookies and Powder Drinks on Visceral Adipose Tissue and Lipid Profile in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

This study aimed to assess the intervention effect of cookies and galohgor powder drinks on visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and lipid profile in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The study design was quasi experimental. Subjects of this study were 26 adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Bogor District, West Java. Subjects were divided into two intervention groups; cookies and galohgor powder drinks (GCPD) group and cookies and powder drinks without galohgor (CPD) group. Both interventions were given for 38 days period. Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was applied to assess the effect of interventions. The average changes in VAT controlled by covariates in GCPD group was significantly higher than in CPD group (-33.3% vs +6.7%; p 0.05). The average changes of triglycerides level in GCPD and with CPD group were -30.9% and +1.6% (p>0.05). The average changes in HDL level for GCPD group and CPD group were -9.0% and -12.0% (p>0.05). The average changes in LDL level for GCPD group and CPD group were -3.9% and -1.6% (p>0.05). Hence, it can be concluded that the administration of cookies and galohgor powder drinks significantly reduced the Visceral Adipose Tissue (VAT) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
A cross sectional clinical study on correlation between myopia and intraocular pressure and ocular biometric values among adults in tertiary eye care in Palakkad, Kerala, India

Background: To find out whether there is a correlation between intra ocular pressure and ocular biometric values like corneal curvature, anterior chamber depth, lens thickness and vitreous chamber depth in myopic eyes. Methods: A cross sectional clinical study was conducted in karuna medical college hospital Palakkad Kerala, India from September 2015 to August 2017. 1000 eyes of 500 myopic patients attending the ophthalmology OPD were included in this study. Goldman applanation tonometry was used to measure intra ocular pressure. Bausch and Lomb keratometer was used to measure corneal curvature and Biometer A scan machine was used to measure anterior chamber depth, lens thickness, vitreous chamber depth and axial length. Results: In this study majority of the patients age group was 16-20 years. The overall mean intra ocular pressure was 15mmhg and mean radius of corneal curvature was 44.12D. In this study average anterior chamber depth was 3.55mm and mean lens thickness was 3.56mm. Mean vitreous chamber depth was 18.40. In this study mean axial length was 24.60mm. Conclusions: Amount of myopia and variation in corneal curvature was not statistically significant. There was no correlation between intra ocular pressure and degree of myopia. But anterior chamber depth, lens thickness, vitreous chamber depth and axial length were statistically very significant with amount of myopia.
An innovative approach to measuring youth concussion recovery: Occupational performance

Introduction Concussion is a common injury in youth. Studies report that active rehabilitation interventions reduce symptoms in these youth. There is no literature that addresses its impact on occupational performance. The purpose of this study was to identify: (a) occupational performance issues experienced by these youth; (b) changes in occupational performance and satisfaction following participation in a 6-week active rehabilitation intervention; and (c) the relationship between changes in occupational performance and symptoms. Method As part of a larger prospective repeated measures study, measures of occupational performance (Canadian Occupational Performance Measure) and self-reported symptoms (Post-Concussion Symptom Inventory) were collected pre and post intervention. Paired t-test, Spearman correlation, and descriptive analyses were conducted. Results Youth (9–18 years; n = 52) reported a range of occupational performance issues in self-care, productivity, and leisure domains. The most frequently reported occupational performance issues were sport (32.70%) and school (31.75%) activities. Positive changes were found in both performance and satisfaction of occupational performance issues post intervention (p<.001). Correlation analysis revealed that as symptoms decreased, occupational performance improved (rs = –.359, p = .020). Conclusion Using a measure of occupational performance may provide meaningful insight into the functional recovery of concussion, and can help identify targeted functional approaches to paediatric concussion management.