Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Do the Proximal Ulnar Angulations Have Correlations with Each Other? Anatomical Study and Review of the Literature

Objective: The proximal ulna has a complex and unique architectural anatomy, therefore, its fractures are difficult to manage. This paper aimed to evaluate proximal ulnar angu-lations that contribute to the fixation and restoration of proximal ulna fractures in the Turkish population. Materials and Methods: This study was performed on 107 Turkish adult ulnae (55 right, 52 left) whose age and sex were unknown. The ulnar length (UL), proximal distance of varus angulation (PDVA), and widths at the point of varus angulation were measured with a digital caliper. The proximal ulna torsion angle (PUTA), varus angulation (VA), proximal ulna dorsal angulation (PUDA), articular angle (AA), and olecranon–diaphysis angle (ODA) were measured with a goniometer. The statistical analysis was carried out at the SPSS 21.0 program (IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY, USA). Results: The median UL was 251.97 mm (minimum: 196.84 – maximum: 497.76 mm), median PDVA was 82.7 mm (minimum: 16.21 – maximum: 108.62 mm), mean total width was 15.04±1.84 mm, mean posterior-interosseous width was 13.72±2.37 mm and mean posterior-anterior width was 15.15±1.93 mm. The mean PUTA was 27.10°±9.04°, the median VA was 14° (minimum: 5° – maximum: 23°), the median PUDA was 8° (minimum: -3° – maximum: 20°), the median AA was 25° (minimum: 19° – maximum: 39°), and the mean ODA was 17.39°±5.33°. A moderate negative correlation was detected between the PUDA and ODA (rs= -0.50, p<0.001). Conclusion: The mean proximal ulnar angulations in this study can be beneficial during surgery for the fixation of proximal ulna fractures. This study revealed the correlation be-tween proximal ulnar angulations in the Turkish population.
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This article explores the role of cognitive transformations in the process of desistance from crime. Based on our own and others’ subsequent research, clearly, some aspects of our initial theorizing warrant revisiting and adjustment. The discussion describes changes to ideas about the sequencing of various types of cognitive shifts, suggests the importance of emotional processes in tandem with changes in perspective, and highlights the need to move out of the comfort zone of crime itself when thinking about redefinitions that support desistance. Yet, a consistent notion remains that social and broader structural factors are deeply implicated— directly and indirectly—in all aspects of the change process. This includes the important area of “derailments” from a pattern of forward progress, where additional processual research is needed. The discussion concludes with the argument that individualistic policies and programs centered on cognitive deficits requiring correction are likely to be limited in their effectiveness.
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: Barth syndrome (BTHS) is an X-linked recessive multisystem disorder caused by mutations in the TAZ gene (TAZ, G 4.5, OMIM 300394) that encodes for the acyltransferase tafazzin. This protein is highly expressed in the heart and plays a signiﬁcant role in cardiolipin biosynthesis. Heart disease is the major clinical manifestation of BTHS with a high incidence in early life. Although the genetic basis of BTHS and tetralinoleoyl cardiolipin deﬁciency in BTHS-a ﬀ ected individuals are well-established, downstream metabolic changes in cardiac metabolism are still uncovered. Our study aimed to characterize TAZ-induced metabolic perturbations in the heart. Control (PGP1-TAZ WT ) and TAZ mutant (PGP1-TAZ 517delG ) iPS-CM were incubated with 13 C 6 -glucose and 13 C 5-glutamine and incorporation of 13 C into downstream Krebs cycle intermediates was traced. Our data reveal that TAZ 517delG induces accumulation of cellular long chain acylcarnitines and overexpression of fatty acid binding protein (FABP4). We also demonstrate that TAZ 517delG induces metabolic alterations in pathways related to energy production as reﬂected by high glucose uptake, an increase in glycolytic lactate production and a decrease in palmitate uptake. Moreover, despite mitochondrial dysfunction, in the absence of glucose and fatty acids, TAZ 517delG -iPS-CM can use glutamine as a carbon source to replenish the Krebs cycle.
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Background: Pain management for term newborns undergoing clustered painful procedures has not been tested. Kangaroo Care (chest-to-chest, skin-to-skin position of infant on mother) effectively reduces pain of single procedures, but its effect on pain from clustered procedures is not known. Aim: The aim was to test Kangaroo Care’s effect on pain in one term infant who received clustered painful procedures while determining feasibility of the Kangaroo Care intervention. Design, Setting, and Participant: A case study design was used with one healthy term newborn who received two heel sticks and one injection in one session in the mother’s postpartum room. Method: Heart rate and oxygen saturation (recorded from Massimo Pulse Oximeter every 30 seconds), crying time (total seconds of crying on videotape) and behavioral state (using Anderson Behavioral State Scoring system every 30 seconds) were measured before (5 minutes), during (10.5 minutes) and after (30 minutes) the three clustered painful procedures in a newborn who was in Kangaroo Care during all observations. One staff nurse administered the clustered procedures. Results: Heart rate increased sequentially with each heelstick, oxygen saturation remained unchanged, sleep predominated, and crying was minimal throughout the procedures. Conclusion: Kangaroo Care appeared to reduce pain from clustered painful procedures and can be further tested.
Recursos multimedia en los cibermedios españoles. Análisis del uso del vídeo en El País.com, El Mundo.es,

The use of multimedia has traditionally been consideredone of the basic characteristics of on-line communica-tion; however, the incorporation of a multimedia journa-listic discourse in the Spanish cyber-media has not yetreally taken place. In recent years, there has been a noti-ceably greater development of video on the Internet and achange in the habits of media consumption which hasnot passed unnoticed by the cyber-media. The latterappear to have deposited a large part of their hopes for thefuture in multimedia contents, accompanied by thesearch for complicity on the part of Internet users. Theobjective of this article is to analyze the degree of incor-poration of video in the news contents of the Spanish digi -tal media and to evaluate the importance of this type ofcontent. To do so, an analysis has been carried out of theuse of these resources in four different media portals: ElPais.com, El Mundo.es, La Vanguardia.es and LibertadDigital.
Cloud condensation nuclei in polluted air and biomass burning smoke near the mega-city Guangzhou, China – Part 2: Size-resolved aerosol chemical composition, diurnal cycles, and externally mixed weakly CCN-active soot particles

Abstract. Size-resolved chemical composition, mixing state, and cloud condensation nucleus (CCN) activity of aerosol particles in polluted mega-city air and biomass burning smoke were measured during the PRIDE-PRD2006 campaign near Guangzhou, China, using an aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS), a volatility tandem differential mobility analyzer (VTDMA), and a continuous-flow CCN counter (DMT-CCNC). The size-dependence and temporal variations of the effective average hygroscopicity parameter for CCN-active particles (κa) could be parameterized as a function of organic and inorganic mass fractions (forg, finorg) determined by the AMS: κa,p=κorg·forg + κinorg·finorg. The characteristic κ values of organic and inorganic components were similar to those observed in other continental regions of the world: κorg≈0.1 and κinorg≈0.6. The campaign average κa values increased with particle size from ~0.25 at ~50 nm to ~0.4 at ~200 nm, while forg decreased with particle size. At ~50 nm, forg was on average 60% and increased to almost 100% during a biomass burning event. The VTDMA results and complementary aerosol optical data suggest that the large fractions of CCN-inactive particles observed at low supersaturations (up to 60% at S≤0.27%) were externally mixed weakly CCN-active soot particles with low volatility (diameter reduction Based on κ values derived from AMS and VTDMA data, the observed CCN number concentrations (NCCN,S≈102–104 cm−3 at S = 0.068–0.47%) could be efficiently predicted from the measured particle number size distribution. The mean relative deviations between observed and predicted CCN concentrations were ~10% when using κt,p, and they increased to ~20% when using only κa,p. The mean relative deviations were not higher (~20%) when using an approximate continental average value of κ≈0.3, although the constant κ value cannot account for the observed temporal variations in particle composition and mixing state (diurnal cycles and biomass burning events). Overall, the results confirm that on a global and climate modeling scale an average value of κ≈0.3 can be used for approximate predictions of CCN number concentrations in continental boundary layer air when aerosol size distribution data are available without information about chemical composition. Bulk or size-resolved data on aerosol chemical composition enable improved CCN predictions resolving regional and temporal variations, but the composition data need to be highly accurate and complemented by information about particle mixing state to achieve high precision (relative deviations
Performance and Operation of Partial Infiltration Permeable Pavement Systems in the Ontario Climate

PERFORMANCE AND OPERATION OF PARTIAL-INFILTRATION PERMEABLE PAVEMENT SYSTEMS IN THE ONTARIO CLIMATE Jennifer A. P. Drake Advisor: University of Guelph, 2013 Dr. Andrea Bradford Partial-infiltration permeable pavement (PP) systems provide environmental benefits by increasing infiltration, attenuating storm flows and improving stormwater quality. This thesis focuses on the performance and operation of partial-infiltration PP systems over low permeability soil in Ontario. Three PP, AquaPave®, Eco-Optiloc® and Hydromedia® Pervious Concrete were monitored over two years and their performance was evaluated relative to an impermeable Asphalt control. Field data was collected from the Kortright PP pilot parking lot in Vaughan, Ontario. Through the use of restrictor valves on underdrains the PP systems were shown to provide substantial hydrologic benefits by eliminating stormwater outflow for rain events less than 7mm, reducing peak flows by 91% and reducing total stormwater volume by 43%. Stormwater quality was analyzed for winter and non-winter seasons. The PP were shown to greatly reduce the concentration and total loading of suspended solids, nutrients, hydrocarbons and most heavy metals. Some water quality data, such as pH, K, or Sr levels, indicate that the quality of PP effluent will change as the system ages. Study of PP sample boxes at the University of Guelph highlighted the role that construction materials have on effluent quality and showed that pollutants introduced by the pavement and aggregate are almost entirely in a dissolved form and decline very rapidly after a season of exposure to rainfall. Benefits to water quality were sustained during winter months. The partial-infiltration PP systems were shown to provide buffering of Na and Cl concentrations. Small and large-scale maintenance practices for PP systems were investigated. Small-sized equipment testing found that vacuum cleaning and pressure-washing have good potential to improve infiltration capacity. Testing of full-sized streetsweeping trucks demonstrated that permeability can be partially restored on PICP by suction-based sweeping. Vacuumsweeping was beneficial on a PC pavement which had experienced large permeability losses. Results of this study indicate that partial-infiltration PP systems can be effective measures for maintaining or restoring infiltration functions on parking lots and other low volume traffic areas, even in areas with low permeability soils.
Complexity Analysis of a Propagation Territory-based Routing in MANET with Obstacles

This study considers constructing an efficient routing protocol in MANET with obstacles. It is assumed that the wireless nodes are equipped with a Global Position System (GPS) chip. We take advantage of the location information by GPS to propose a novel greedy propagation territory-based routing mechanism to establish the routing path between a source and destination. It defines a propagation territory to make a locally optimal decision for each forwarding node. The forwarding nodes, including a source and relay nodes, select one node in their propagation territories closest to destination as a next hop relay node to forward the packets until the destination is reached. Moreover, the signal interferences of nodes by obstacles are considered, while a source and relay nodes move close to obstacles. If the radio signal of a node is disturbed by an obstacle, the neighboring node with the lowest signal interference in its propagation territory is substituted as a next hop relay node. In addition, it is shown that the proposed routing mechanism demonstrates a tradeoff improvement than those of the other ondemand routing schemes in terms of the computational complexity and communication overheads.
Adiponectin Promotes Glucose-Sensitive Insulin Secretion and Prevents  -Cell Damage by Obesity

Obesity and associated Type 2 diabetes involve decreased β-cell function and mass, lowering glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS). Previous studies by our group showed that serum from lean calorically-restricted (CR) rats alters  -cell mitochondrial dynamics and morphology, protecting them against glucolipotoxicity. Here, we show that similar results are observed with plasma from lean human donors, and sought to identify the serum component promoting these beneficial effects. We found that CR serum has larger amounts of adiponectin than the serum of obese animals fed ad libitum (AL). Lean human donors also have higher adiponectin levels when compared to obese donors. Adiponectin, alone, strongly induced mitochondrial oxygen consumption and GSIS in cultured  -cells and rat islets, surprisingly even in the absence of serum. In addition, adiponectin was able to prevent the reduction in GSIS and cell damage caused by incubation with plasma from obese human donors. Overall, our results suggest that circulating adiponectin, present in lean individuals, has strong protective effects, maintaining glucose-stimulated insulin secretion and  -cell integrity by promoting mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. cells for all experiments. After 24 h, media was substituted for RPMI-1640 containing 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS), 10% serum from AL or CR animals; or 10% inactivated plasma from human volunteers. All experiments were performed 24 h after this medium change. In adiponectin supplementation experiments, cells were incubated with medium containing 10 µg/mL recombinant human adiponectin (SRP4901, Sigma-Aldrich), in the absence or presence of other serum or plasma, as indicated.
AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction

: IT support in the learning process constitutes a key factor for the success of innovative teaching/learning scenarios. To ensure learning success in innovative teaching/learning scenarios, learners need to faithfully apply learning management systems (LMS). However, we lack theoretical insights into which factors affect whether they do so. To help solve this issue, we first used adaptive structuration theory to identify antecedents and consequences regarding faithful LMS appropriation and embed them into a theoretical model. Second, we conducted a survey study with 173 participants to evaluate the model. The results show that the perceived IT support, interactivity, and the task-technology fit significantly affect the degree to which learners faithfully apply a LMS. Moreover, the results indicate that faithful appropriation is a significant indicator of the learning process satisfaction as well as perceived learning success. The present paper thus theoretically contributes to the scientific discussion concerning technology-mediated learning processes while also making a practical contribution by deriving implications for LMS application.
AKU eCommons

Background: Female sex workers are extremely vulnerable and highly susceptible to being infected with human immunodeficiency virus. As a result, community-based targeted interventions have been recommended as one of the models of care to improve access to HIV services and continued engagement in care. We conducted a systematic review to (1) assess the effect of FSW-targeted community interventions on the improvement of HIV services access along the treatment cascade and (2) describe community-based interventions that positively affect continuation in HIV care across the HIV treatment cascade for FSWs in sub-Saharan Africa. Methods: We defined the 5 steps that make up the HIV care cascade and categorized them as outcomes, namely, HIV testing and diagnosis, linkage to care, receipt of ART, and achievement of viral suppression. We conducted a systematic search of randomized controlled trials, cohort, and cross-sectional studies done in sub-Saharan African countries and published from 2004 to 2020. The period was selected based on the time span within which ART was scaled up through widespread roll-out of comprehensive HIV programs in sub-Saharan Africa. We reviewed studies with data on the implementation of community interventions for any of the HIV care cascade stage. The data were analyzed using random effects meta-analysis where possible, and for the rest of the studies, data were synthesized using summary statistics. Results: The significant impact of the community interventions was observed on HIV testing, HIV diagnosis, and ART use. However, for HIV testing and ART use, the improvement was not sustained for the entire period of implementation. There were minimal interventions that had impact on HIV diagnosis, with only one community service delivery model showing significance. Generally, the interventions that had reasonable impact are those that implemented targeted and comprehensive package of HIV services provided at one location, and with unique strategies specific to each cascade stage.
IMPACT OF NITROGEN FERTILIZER ON THE PRODUCTIVITY AND QUALITATIVE PARAMETERS OF ANISE (Pimpinella anisum L.)

The present study investigated the effects of nitrogen fertilization on the yield and quality characteristics of Anise (Pimpinella anisum L.). The study was conducted in the ecological conditions of Kahramanmaras from 2019 to 2021. Two different anise populations Izmir (P1) and Konya (P2) and six different nitrogen fertilizer doses (0, 30, 60, 90, 120, 150 kg ha-1) were used in the study. The experiment was set up in triplicate using a split-plot design, with the populations on the main plots and the fertilizer doses on the subplots. Considering the herbal properties of anise grown in different nitrogen dose applications; plant height was 41.71- 42.75 cm, the total number of branches (10.62-12.50 plants-1), fruit branches (4.78-5.29 plants-1) and umbrellas (8.12-9.64 plants-1) were recorded. Considering the yield and quality characteristics; seed yield the range was 350.10- 400.02 kg ha-1, 1000-seed weight 2.78-3.49 g, protein rate 15.3-17.77%, fixed oil rate 15.15-16.34% fixed oil yield 50.51-60.48 kg ha-1, essential oil rate 1.66-2.26%, and essential oil yield 5.80-8.90 L ha-1. The Konya population had higher values in terms of seed yield and quality characteristics. With the exception of plant height, which revealed the total number of branches, fruit branches, umbels, seed yield, thousand seed weight, protein ratio, fixed oil ratio, fixed oil yield, essential oil ratio, and essential oil yield, all of the studied characteristics generally showed improvement with an increase in nitrogen doses. However, a nitrogen treatment of 120 kg ha-1 produced the maximum seed production.
Do local characteristics matter? Secondary school track choice in Poland

This paper examines to which extent the school track choice in Poland between vocational and general education can be attributed to variation of personal characteristics and to which extent to variation of the local conditions. We assume that not only a family background, but also local characteristics are important determinants of school track decisions. As we make distinction between three different types of secondary schools: basic vocational, secondary vocational, and general secondary, and we want to examine the county specific characteristics we apply a multilevel method for multinomial logistics regression to address the issue. Our results indicate that both child’s characteristics such as sex and school performance and characteristics of household are related to school track decisions. We also found that there is statistically significant variation in school track choice on the county level. Local unemployment rate is statistically significant determinant of school track decision and it also explains a great variation between counties. This finding is important in the light of EU regional cohesion policy aiming at diminishing regional disparities.
Measuring the Impacts of Self Efficacy and Perceived Health Benefits toward Smoking Cessation of e-Cigarettes

Smoking is one of the most preventable causes of disease and death, including cancer. This study aimed to investigate whether perceived health benefits and self-efficacy affects e-smoking cessation. The method used in this research is quantitative using an online survey started in November 2020. From 50 distributed questionnaires using Google Form link, only 34 responses are valid. The results reveal that self-efficacy, not perceived health benefits, had a significant influence on intention to quit smoking. This study extends our understanding of this relationship by highlighting the non-significant result in the health benefits–smoking cessation linkage.