Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Group C and Group G Streptococcal Infections: Epidemiologic and Clinical Aspects

Streptococci possessing Lancefield group C and G cell wall carbohydrates are heterogeneous in regard to biochemical reactions, hemolytic characteristics, predilection for host species, and clinical illnesses produced in humans and animals. These organisms are found as commensals in the throat, skin, and occasionally the female genitourinary tract, and their epidemiologic patterns and clinical manifestations reflect this distribution. This chapter focuses on the more common infections caused by Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis, as well as on the few reported human cases caused by S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus, S. equi subsp. equi, S. dysgalactiae subsp. dysgalactiae, and S. canis. Strains of these streptococci have been associated with infections of many body sites. Treatment with penicillin is adequate under most circumstances.
Standardized Test Procedure for External Human-Machine Interfaces of Automated Vehicles

Research on external human–machine interfaces (eHMIs) has recently become a major area of interest in the field of human factors research on automated driving. The broad variety of methodological approaches renders the current state of research inconclusive and comparisons between interface designs impossible. To date, there are no standardized test procedures to evaluate and compare different design variants of eHMIs with each other and with interactions without eHMIs. This article presents a standardized test procedure that enables the effective usability evaluation of eHMI design solutions. First, the test procedure provides a methodological approach to deduce relevant use cases for the evaluation of an eHMI. In addition, we define specific usability requirements that must be fulfilled by an eHMI to be effective, efficient, and satisfying. To prove whether an eHMI meets the defined requirements, we have developed a test protocol for the empirical evaluation of an eHMI with a participant study. The article elucidates underlying considerations and details of the test protocol that serves as framework to measure the behavior and subjective evaluations of non-automated road users when interacting with automated vehicles in an experimental setting. The standardized test procedure provides a useful framework for researchers and practitioners.
Sediment and nutrient balance of Bukit Merah Reservoir, Perak (Malaysia)

The pollutant load to Bukit Merah Reservoir (BMR) from its catchment area were evaluated in this study. BMR is a 40-km2 man-made lake located in the district of Kerian, Perak. BMR is divided into the north lake and the south lake by a 4.7-km railway line. The reservoir water is fed by four rivers: Kurau (323.0 km2), Merah (4.25 km2), Jelutong (7.1 km2) and Selarong (3.1 km2), which flow through Pondok Tanjung Forest Reserve (6718 ha). The total quantity of suspended sediment inputs from all four rivers to the BMR was 55 164 t, with almost 93% of the sediment input coming from the Kurau River. The nutrient inputs to BMR in 2008 were about 77 t of phosphate, 24 t of ammonia-N, 3 t of nitrite and 47 t of nitrate. The sediment, nitrate and nitrite inputs were retained in the reservoir. In contrast, the ammonia and phosphate inputs were released from the reservoir. The percentage retention was 78%, 63% and 34% for sediment nitrate and nitrite, respectively. The percentage of release phosphate was about 178, and 25 for ammonia. This study indicates that most of the nutrients entering BMR are from non-point sources and that they are responsible for the impacts of sediment and nutrients on the receiving waterbody.
Attheya (Bacillariophyta) from the northwestern Sea of Japan: a description of two subgenera based on molecular and morphological data

ABSTRACT Strains of the diatoms Attheya ussurensis, A. decora and A. longicornis, isolated from the northwestern Sea of Japan, were studied to infer their phylogeny and determine their systematic position. Morphological studies were conducted using light and transmission electron microscopy, and molecular analyses were based on nuclear-encoded small-subunit (18S) ribosomal DNA (rDNA) and ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase large subunit (rbcL) of the plastid gene. The strains studied, as well as sequences of A. longicornis and A. septentrionalis accessed from GenBank, belong to the class Mediophyceae. Molecular data confirmed that Attheya holds a basal position relative to the genera Biddulphia and Chaetoceros (Chaetocerotales). Thus, Attheya is a member of this lineage and not sister to Bacillariophyceae. Strains of Attheya belong to two clearly distinct lineages, differing in morphology and ecology. One lineage included strains of the type species of the genus, A. decora and the species A. ussurensis (psammophytes); the second lineage included the strains A. longicornis and A. septentrionalis (epiphytes or sea-ice diatoms). Morphologically, the two lineages differed in ratio of horn length to valve diameter, shape and number of plastids, presence/absence of girdle band perforation and presence/absence of rimoportula on the valve. Based on morphological and molecular data, we propose Attheya subgenus Attheya, to include A. decora, A. ussurensis, A.arenicola; and Attheya subgenus Dolichoceratia, to include A. longicornis, A. septentrionalis, A. flexuosa, A. gaussii and A. armata.
How Oceanic Melt Controls Tidewater Glacier Evolution

The recent rapid retreat of many Arctic outlet glaciers has been attributed to increased oceanic melt, but the relationship between oceanic melt and iceberg calving remains poorly understood. Here, we employ a transient finite element model that simulates oceanic melt and ice break‐off at the terminus. The response of an idealized tidewater glacier to various submarine melt rates and seasonal variations is investigated. Our modeling shows that for zero to low oceanic melt, the rate of volume loss at the front is similar or higher than that for intermediate oceanic melt rates. Only very high melt rates lead to increasing volume losses. These results highlight the complex interplay between oceanic melt and calving and question the general assumption that increased submarine melt leads to higher calving fluxes and enhanced retreat. Models for tidewater glacier evolution should therefore consider calving and oceanic melt as tightly coupled processes rather than as simple, additive parameterizations.
Pattern of agro-morphological trait relationship and genetic divergence in greengram [Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek].

Thirty six greengram genotypes were evaluated during kharif 2012 in three environments for analysis of quantitative traits. Association analysis showed significant positive relationship between seed yield and some of the agro-morphological traits viz., days to 50% flowering, primary branches per plant, secondary branches per plant, clusters per plant, pods per cluster, pod length, seeds per pod, pod mass, pod wall mass, seed mass, selling percentage, seed index and harvest index. Hence these traits may be used as selection criteria for yield improvement. Based on principle component analysis, pod length, seeds per pod, pod mass, seed mass, pod wall mass, selling percentage, seed index and harvest index were found important and can be added in breeding program. Sona selection had moderate to more diversity with all the genotypes due to their solitary nature, and can be used in breeding program for greengram improvement. Besides this, representative genotypes from each cluster may be selected for future hybridization to get good segregants in segregating generations.
Electrical Monitoring as a Novel Route to Understanding the Aging Mechanisms of Carbon Nanotube-Doped Adhesive Film Joints

Carbon fiber-reinforced plastic bonded joints with novel carbon nanotube (CNT) adhesive films were manufactured and tested under different aging conditions by varying the surfactant content added to enhance CNT dispersion. Single lap shear (SLS) tests were conducted in their initial state and after 1 and 2 months immersed in distilled water at 60 °C. In addition, their electrical response was measured in terms of the electrical resistance change through thickness. The lap shear strength showed an initial decrease due to plasticization of weak hydrogen bonds, and then a partial recovery due to secondary crosslinking. This plasticization effect was confirmed by differential scanning calorimetry analysis with a decrease in the glass transition temperature. The electrical response varied with aging conditions, showing a higher plasticity region in the 1-month SLS joints, and a sharper increase in the case of the non-aged and 2-month-aged samples; these changes were more prevalent with increasing surfactant content. By adjusting the measured electrical data to simple theoretical calculations, it was possible to establish the first estimation of damage accumulation, which was higher in the case of non-aged and 2-month-aged samples, due to the presence of more prevalent brittle mechanisms for the CNT-doped joints.
Enfoque terapéutico para la fractura atípica de Le Fort I

Objective: Describe the clinical management of an atypical Le Fort I fracture case. Case presentation: A 33-year-old patient was brought to the Surgical and Maxillofacial Traumatology Service of Humberto Lucena Senatorial Emergency and Trauma Hospital in Joao Pessoa (PB), Brazil, after undergoing physical aggression. The patient was conscious and lucid. Clinical examination revealed sinking of the middle third of the face with edema and bilateral periorbital ecchymosis. Visual acuity and ocular motricity were preserved in both eyes. A cut-contusion injury on the upper lip, maxillary mobility when handled and discrete occlusal dystopia were also observed. Imaging examination identified a high bilateral Le Fort I fracture. The therapeutic approach chosen was fracture reduction and fixation with plates and screws. After a period of two months, the patient is healing well without any apparent functional or aesthetic alteration. Conclusions: Atypical Le Fort I fractures are not frequent; however, a number of etiologies besides the impact force may bring about them. Treatment should be based on the one for classical Le Fort I fractures with adjustments to the surgical access approach.
Kora: A Lost Language of the Early Cape and the Gariep

While believed to be long extinct, the discovery of less than a handful of elderly rememberers of Kora led a team around the author, Menán du Plessis, to perform an “emergency documentation” (xix) of this language in late 2011 and early 2012. The data and analysis presented in the book are based on a synoptic compilation of this original fieldwork and older publications (Wuras 1920; Engelbrecht 1928; Meinhof 1930, among others) on Kora. The target audience of the book is not exclusively linguistic scholars: “we hoped to produce a book that would be accessible to all South Africans who care deeply about their history, and take a keen interest in the diverse and fascinating languages of their own country, but which at the same time would be accessible to the descendants of South Africa’s original inhabitants” (xvi).
Binary chemical reaction with activation energy in rotating flow subject to nonlinear heat flux and heat source/sink

Time-dependent rotating flow in presence of heat source/sink, applied magnetic field, Joule heating, thermal radiation, and viscous dissipation is considered. Chemical reaction with Arrhenius activation energy is implemented. The governing partial differential equations have been reduced to ordinary differential systems. Shooting scheme is implemented for the computations of governing systems. Graphical results are arranged for velocity, temperature, and concentration, skin friction coefficients, and heat and mass transfer rates. Main results are mentioned in conclusion portion. It is analyzed that velocity decays in the presence of magnetic variable while temperature and concentration fields are enhanced via Eckert number and fitted rate constant. Moreover drag force and mass and heat transfer rates decrease through higher estimations of rotation rate variable, magnetic parameter, and Eckert number.
Perception of Sawmill Workers towards Occupational Health and Safety at Linden/Soesdyke Highway, Guyana

Aims: Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) is very important for sawmills just like any other occupation. Therefore, this study aims to assess the measures taken by sawmills to ensure safety is maintained at the workplace and to assess the level of knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) exhibited by woodworkers. Methodology: Using observation checklists and questionnaires, a cross-sectional survey design was used for the study. A total of 8 sawmills located on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway and 84 woodworkers were included in the study. Descriptive statistics were used to present the results. Analysis was done is SPSS software. Results and Discussion: A total of 37.5% of sawmill workers scored above average. Workers showed inadequate knowledge, negative attitude and poor practice towards OSH as the overall mean scores for these were found to be 71%, 71.5% and 61.4% respectively. These were below the cut-off level (75%). There was a significant linear correlation between knowledge, attitude and practice. Original Research Article . Article Boston et al.; AJARR, 9(1): 14-22, 2020; Article no.AJARR. 55323 15 Conclusion: It was concluded that employers need to put extra effort in providing workers with safety education and personal protective equipment’s (PPE). Education programs and training sessions need to be put in place as adequate knowledge results in positive attitude which results in good practice.
Universal Implementation of Newborn Screening in India

Newborn screening is a successful program in many developed countries. In India, the benefits of dried blood spot screening have been recognized and that screening is slowly gaining traction. There are significant issues standing in the way of universal implementation of a newborn screening program in India: awareness, cost, advocacy, public policy, and politics. Three regional screening programs, Chandigarh, Goa, and Kerala could serve as models for other programs in India. The data for this commentary were based on personal experiences from managing public newborn screening programs, searches on PubMed and Google, and personal interactions with experts in the field. The overwhelming recommendation is to universally screen for congenital hypothyroidism in India, because it is easy and inexpensive to treat, with excellent outcomes. It would also be beneficial to consider screening universally for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency due to its high incidence and ease of treatment. Finally, sickle cell disease should be screened in those areas in India where it is prevalent due to the costs associated with universal screening. Achieving universal screening is a challenge, and it is very difficult to predict when every baby born in India will be screened for at least congenital hypothyroidism.
Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Index-Based Livestock Insurance in the North West of South Africa

Rural livelihoods in most developing countries are threatened by climate-related risks such as drought, flood, heat waves, storms, and so on. Although farmers have adopted several adaptation strategies, they have proven less effective than hoped. Hence, index-based livestock insurance, an innovation that significantly assists farmers to acclimatise to climate-related risks, has been proposed; and its adaptability has attracted a notable increase in other African countries. However, the success of its adoption is dependent on the inclination of the farmers to pay for the service. Accordingly, this study investigates their willingness to pay for index-based livestock insurance and its determinants, and the factors influencing the total livestock units to be insured in the North West province of South Africa. Cross-sectional data were obtained from 277 cattle farmers, drawn randomly from the study area. The contingent valuation method was applied to determine the farmers’ willingness to pay; and only 10.8% were willing to pay. Simultaneously, the Heckit sample selection model was used to analyse the data to identify the factors responsible for farmers’ willingness to pay and total livestock units to insure. The findings revealed that farmer’s experience, age, education, marital status, awareness of insurance and household dependents were statistically significant, and influenced the maximum price R600 ($42, max willingness to pay, WTP) of those who accepted index-based livestock insurance. However, by implication, the study concluded that to adopt index-based livestock insurance in the study area among the livestock farmers, there should be policies to cater for the aforementioned factors.
Near Capacity RCQD Constellations for PAPR Reduction of OFDM Systems

We investigate an optimized blind SeLected Mapping (SLM) algorithm to reduce the Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems with Signal Space Diversity (SSD). Several phase sequences based on two Rotated and Cyclically Q-Delayed (RCQD) constellations are used at the transmitter to considerably reduce the PAPR. The pair of RCQD constellations is selected so as to achieve the highest average mutual information for both the Coded Modulation (CM) and the Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation (BICM) schemes. These constellations also allow, along with Hadamarad sequences, good blind detection performances with no spectral spoilage. Simulations totally confirm our theoretical results.
Exploring Students’ Expectations of the University Course

Internalization of higher education leads to greater choice of universities for prospective university students. Higher education institutions in Ukraine are developing ways and designing tools for evaluating expectations of their students in order to keep enrollment rates high and assist students’ retention. This paper focuses on the analysis of the first-year students’ expectations of a course “History of Great Britain” with the aim of incorporating these expectations into the course syllabus, introducing possible changes in teaching and learning on the course, enhancing study programs and quality of service for pre-service English teachers. A comparative case study utilizes mixed methods approach, combining a critical analysis of the literature and data collection through student essays, which were triangulated with data from a focus group discussion to explore student perceptions of the course on its completion and offer suggestions to the university and the lecturer. The results show that undergraduate students’ expectations of the course are similar to the teachers’ assumptions and the aims and learning outcomes of the course as expressed in the syllabus. However, exploring students’ expectations and tailoring the course syllabus and content to these expectations is a crucial step in ensuring their satisfaction. A conclusion is made that identifying and meeting realistic students’ expectations of each course in the study program will allow the faculty to improve the quality of education.
Evaluation of a visible implant fluorescent elastomer internal tag in juvenile freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man)

The suitability of an internal tag -visible implant fluorescent elastomer tag (VIE) as a method to identify juveniles of Macrobrachium rosenbergii (initial mean weightpSE 1.25p0.05 g) was evaluated in the present study. Four fluorescent colours (red, orange, yellow and green) were tested for tag retention and readability during 100 days of rearing in an out-door rearing facility. Effect of tagging on growth and survival of the prawns was also evaluated. Tag retention (%) ranged from 98 to 100%. All the tags were visible to the naked eye till the completion of the experiment. Red tags were most visible followed by orange, green and yellow in that order. Final survival ranged between 74.9 and 90.4% in different groups. Survival in control prawns was lower than some of the tagged prawns (green, orange), indicating that tagging with VIE tag had no effect on survival of these prawns. No significant differences (P&lt0.05) in growth could be observed between the tagged prawns and untagged controls. These results indicate that M. rosenbergii can be effectively tagged with VIE tags, and it can be used as batch tag to identify families in a selective breeding programme.
Clinical, pathological and treatment factors associated with the survival of patients with pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinoma

Pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinoma (PSC) is a group of five rare non-small cell lung cancer subtypes. In the present study, the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with PSC registered in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database were investigated. For this purpose, data for patients with PSC (n=1,723) who received their initial diagnosis between 1988 and 2016 were collected from the SEER database. Survival analysis was performed using the Kaplan-Meier curves and the log-rank test. Subsequently, multivariate analyses with the Cox proportional hazards model were used to identify significant independent predictors. A nomogram model was established to predict survival performance using the concordance index (C-index). From the total cohort, patients with pulmonary blastoma demonstrated improved 1-year overall survival (OS) rate compared with other pathological types (P<0.001). The 2-year overall survival rates of the ‘only radiotherapy’ cohort and the ‘no specific treatment’ cohort were 9.1 and 5.4% (P<0.001), respectively. Radiotherapy significantly improved the OS rate in stage I–III patients with PSC (P<0.001) when stratified by stage. After matching the propensity scores, the ‘surgery combined with radiotherapy’ group comprised 156 patients and the ‘surgery-only’ group had 247 patients (1:1.6). However, no significant differences in prognosis were found between the 2 subgroups (P=0.052). The multivariate Cox analysis demonstrated that older age (≥76 years old), male, unmarried, pathological type, larger tumor size (≥56 mm), later tumor node metastasis stages and treatment modalities were independent prognostic factors. A nomogram model was established to predict the survival of patients with PSC. This model incorporated the seven aforementioned independent prognostic factors (C-index for survival, 0.75; 95% confidence interval, 0.74–0.76). Radiotherapy needs to considered for stage I–III patients with PSC who undergo radiation therapy without surgical resection.
Impact of Gender-Based, Age-Based, and Race-Based Discrimination on Satisfaction and Performance of Employees

The functions of Human Resource are greatly affected by the prevalent phenomena of discrimination at workplaces. There are different types of discrimination and an in-depth analysis of gender-based, age-based, and race-based discrimination has been conducted to analyze their presence in the pharmaceutical industry of Thailand and their impact on the employees’ job satisfaction and performance. The study has used quantitative data analysis method and 300 questionnaires were distributed among the employees of pharmaceutical companies. The results have shown that all three types of discrimination negatively impact the job satisfaction and performance of employees. However, in the case of the pharmaceutical industry of Thailand, only race-based discrimination has been found.