Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Colorectal Cancer Screening and COVID-19

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread throughout the United States, the San Francisco Health Network, an urban integrated safety-net health system, rapidly altered how it delivered care. Routine outpatient visits were converted to telehealth appointments, and nonurgent endoscopic procedures were cancelled, resulting in dramatic declines in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. With ongoing surges of COVID-19, prolonged social distancing and limitations on procedures will likely be necessary. Without prompt action, the impact of missed diagnoses and resultant excess mortality could be substantial. San Francisco Health Network serves ;90,000 individuals through multisite clinics and a specialty referral center, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Between February and May 2020, total adult primary care in-person visits decreased by 70% (from 6,800 to 2,000 visits/wk). Telehealth visits increased from 1.2% of adult primary care visits in the first week of March to 60% by April (from 40 to 3,000 visits/wk) (Figure 1). Coinciding with the decrease of inperson visits was a drastic reduction in CRC screening tests. Fecal immunochemical test (FIT) volume decreased by ;85% (from 370 tests ordered per week in February to 60 tests per week by April) and colonoscopy volume declined by ;90% (from 150 to 200 cases per month to less than 15). Reduced screening and delays in colonoscopies, especially for those with positive FIT, will lead to increased incident and later-stage CRC diagnoses (1). Estimates suggest that if decreased screening persisted through early June, there could be nearly 19,000 fewer CRC diagnoses and over 4,000 excess deaths from CRC nationally because of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic (2,3). A concerted effort is needed tomitigate the decline in CRC screening by shifting to organized outreach programs. Most cancer screening in the United States operates on an opportunistic visit-based model; however, there is a growing need for organized cancer screening independent of in-person clinic visits. Organized outreach is more effective than provider-initiated screening with CRC screening rates improving from ;40% to over 80% after
Accuracy of EOS Imagining Technology in Comparison to Computed Tomography in the Assessment of Vertebral Rotational Orientation in Instrumented Spines in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective radiographic reliability study. OBJECTIVE To assess the validity of EOS 3D imaging technology in the determination of vertebral rotations in the spine of patients with prior instrumentation. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA There is a lack of evidence on the accuracy of vertebral rotational measurement using EOS 3D morphological analysis in the instrumented spine. METHODS A retrospective review of 31 patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) who underwent instrumented fusion and postoperative CT scans of the spine was performed. Vertebral rotations of the apex vertebra, the uppermost (UIV) and lowermost (LIV) instrumented vertebra, the non-instrumented vertebra one level cranial to the UIV (UIV+1) and one level caudal to LIV (LIV+1) were determined using EOS 3D reconstruction. The vertebral rotation was also measured using reformatted CT axial images. Relative vertebral rotational difference (VRD) were calculated for UIV to apex, UIV+1 to apex, LIV to apex, LIV+1 to apex, UIV to LIV and UIV+1 to LIV+1. Paired t-tests were used to compare the VRD measured using the two different imagining modalities. For values where p > 0.05, the Bland-Altman plot was used to assess the agreement between the measures. Interclass correlation (ICC) was used to determine interobserver and intraobserver reliabilities of EOS and CT measurements. RESULTS EOS analysis of relative VRD were found to be significantly different from that of CT for UIV to apex (p 0.006) and UIV+1 to apex (p 0.003). No significant differences were found for LIV to Apex (p 0.06), LIV+1 to apex (p 0.06), UIV to LIV (p 0.59) and UIV+1 to LIV +1 (p 0.64). However, Bland-Altman plots showed that agreement was poor, and variance was beyond acceptable. ICC showed good interobserver and good to very good intraobserver reliability for EOS. CONCLUSION EOS 3D morphological analysis of VRD in the instrumented levels of the spine demonstrated significant difference and unacceptable variance in comparison to CT measurement. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE 4.
Cheetah: Optimizing and Accelerating Homomorphic Encryption for Private Inference

As the application of deep learning continues to grow, so does the amount of data used to make predictions. While traditionally big-data deep learning was constrained by computing performance and off-chip memory bandwidth, a new constraint has emerged: privacy. One solution is homomorphic encryption (HE). Applying HE to the client-cloud model allows cloud services to perform inferences directly on clients’ encrypted data. While HE can meet privacy constraints it introduces enormous computational challenges and remains impractically slow on current systems.This paper introduces Cheetah, a set of algorithmic and hardware optimizations for server-side HE DNN inference. Cheetah proposes HE-parameter tuning and operator scheduling optimizations, which together deliver up to $79 \times$ speedup over the state-of-the-art. However, HE inference still falls short of real-time inference speeds by nearly four orders of magnitude. Cheetah further proposes an accelerator architecture to understand the degree of speedup hardware can provide and whether it can bridge HE’s real-time performance gap. We evaluate several DNNs and find that privacy-preserving HE inference for ResNet50 can approach real-time speeds with a 587mm2 accelerator dissipating 30W in 5nm.
Multi-view Story Characterization from Movie Plot Synopses and Reviews

This paper considers the problem of characterizing stories by inferring properties such as theme and style using written synopses and reviews of movies. We experiment with a multi-label dataset of movie synopses and a tagset representing various attributes of stories (e.g., genre, type of events). Our proposed multi-view model encodes the synopses and reviews using hierarchical attention and shows improvement over methods that only use synopses. Finally, we demonstrate how can we take advantage of such a model to extract a complementary set of story-attributes from reviews without direct supervision. We have made our dataset and source code publicly available at https://ritual.uh. edu/ multiview-tag-2020.
Emotional mood states and retrieval in episodic memory.

The effect of an experimentally induced depressed mood state on recall of target words embedded in sentences was examined. The objective was to determine if the induction of a depressed mood can affect output or retrieval from episodic memory. The experimental sequence was as follows: All subjects studied a list of either elaborated or base sentences, rating them for complexity, in an incidental retention paradigm; this was followed by the induction of a depressed or neutral (control) mood, using a standard and a short form of the Velten mood induction procedure; finally, subjects were given an unanticipated cued recall test of the target adjectives. In all tests, subjects showed a reduction in recall owing to the depressed mood, which provided evidence for retrieval effects of the mood state. Elaboration led to superior recall of target items, and there was no effect of delayed recall. The results are briefly discussed within the framework of a resource allocation theory. Language: en
Rapid changes in surface antigen expression by blood monocytes cultured in suspension or adherent to plastic

Cell surface antigens used as markers of in vivo differentiation may not be stable on monocytes maintained under different conditions of in vitro culture. Monocytes were isolated from blood by centrifugation over Percoll or by adherence to plastic dishes, and the cells cultured in suspension or as adherent monolayers. Initially, monocytes obtained by both methods were similar in size, morphology, and surface antigen expression detected with the antimonocyte monoclonal antibodies OKM1, FMC17, PHM2, and PHM3. After culture, cells maintained in suspension were predominantly small, whereas those adherent to plastic rapidly increased in size; however, cytochemical staining for nonspecific esterase and acid phosphatase showed increased enzymic activity by monocytes in both systems, possibly reflecting increased cell maturation. The most striking difference was a substantial loss of FMC17 antigen by most monocytes within four hours in suspension culture, as compared with a qualitative and quantitative increase in expression by plastic adherent cells within two hours. These changes occurred even if the cells were first reacted with lipopolysaccharide. Monocytes taken from suspension culture and allowed to adhere to plastic rapidly synthesized the antigen, a process inhibited by cycloheximide, and conversely, cells removed from plastic progressively displayed decreased FMC17 antigen expression when transferred to suspension culture. No functional role in adherence or phagocytosis has been found for the FMC17 antigen. The results suggest that antigen expression may depend as much on the physical state of the cells as on apparent activation or maturation events.
Measurement of Attitude to Mathematics.

Discussions about the nature of mathematics learning typically include both cognitive and affective variables such as attitude. As part of his comparison of mathematics achievement in a number of different countries Husen [1967] collected data about students9 attitude to mathematics. Books reviewing research in mathematics education [see, e.g., Shumway, 1980] invariably include an overview of findings concerned with students' attitude to mathematics. The comprehensive Cockcroft [1982] report that considered the teaching of mathematics in primary and secondary schools in England and Wales also devoted a number of sections to attitude to mathematics. Models of mathematics learning such as those proposed by Fennema and Peterson [1985] and Tsai and Walberg [1983] provide further evidence of the importance attached to attitude as a factor influencing achievement. The agreement about the need to consider attitude to mathematics as an important factor in mathematics learning is not mirrored in the way it is measured. A host of different instruments have in fact been used. Some [Aiken, 1972; Anttonen, 1969; Fellows, 1973; Scharf, 1971] illustrate an underlying assumption that students have an overall, single dimensional attitude to mathematics which can be measured on a unitary scale. Other, more recent approaches [e.g., Fennema and Sherman, 1976; Haladyna, Shaughnessy and Shaughnessy, 1983; Tsai and Walberg, 1983] recognize explicitly different aspects of students' attitude to mathematics and report the effects of the different components separately. To understand why such a variety of instruments to measure attitude to mathematics has been developed it is essential to cnsider the definition and measurement of attitude in a broader context. In their influential work, Thomas and Znaniecki [1918] argued that social psychology should be defined as the scientific study of attitudes. According to them, an attitude is
An Exploration of Libyan Learners’ Attitudes Towards Pair Work Activity in English Language Learning Development

This research paper aimed to investigate Libyan learners’ attitudes towards pair work activity in their learning process. Furthermore, this research established the reasons for their attitudes, how this activity affects their learning process, and how Libyan learners can be encouraged to participate in this activity. Mixed approaches of quantitative and qualitative methods were used for data collection, by means of a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. The questionnaire was distributed online to 59 Libyan learners, In addition, semi-structured interviews were conducted with four Libyan learners to discuss their attitudes in more detail. The study explores both gender, among participants the majority were male Libyan learners (61%) than female Libyan learners (39%). The Most of them were in the 25-34 years old (72.9%) and (62.7%) have been studying English for more than one year. Based on the findings of the current research, it could be said that 79.3% of students found pair work positive / very positive while less than 7% of learners found pair work very negative / negative. Eventually, The findings showed that most of learners acknowledged that participating in pair work is very useful, the analyzed date illustrates that 74.5% of students found pair work helpful / very helpful; while 79.3% found pair work positive / very positive. In addition, the attitudes of male and female learners are similar. This statement was highlighted by both males and females participants of the study. Also the four interviewees stressed that pair work helped them to improve their speaking skills and facilitated their communication.
Effects of Recycled Crushed Light Expanded Clay Aggregate on High Strength Lightweight Concrete

Many researchers are carrying out environmentally-friendly action in the construction field, such as using recycled aggregate for sustainable development. Disposal of light expanded clay aggregate (LECA) waste into the land causes a severe impact on the environment. LECA is one of the construction materials that are broadly used for various applications. LECA has some excellent properties in its due to technical features, eco-friendly and entirely natural product with a low cost, lightweight, hardness and highly resistant to biological, chemical, and physical degradation forces. Recently, lightweight structural concrete by incorporating lightweight aggregate (LWA) is used to compensate heavy loads by reducing the overall self-weight of structure and minimize the size of the foundation simultaneously. In this study, partially replacement of high content light expanded clay aggregate (LECA) (50, 60, 70, 80, and 90%) have been used to achieve the mechanical properties of high strength LWA concrete. In this study, crushed LECA has been used to achieve compressive strength between 20 to 40 MPa with a density ranged between 1700 to 2000 kg/m3. It is found that the inclusion of crushed LECA at 70% of replacement had shown the most optimal results in terms of density, workability, compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, and flexural strength. Hence, the findings of this research proved that it could be used as an alternative solution for advanced and sustainable infrastructure applications.
Characterization of Complaints, Type of Hearing Loss and Therapy for Elderly People Seen at a Private Clinic in Belém-PA-Brazil

* Resident Doctor of ENT of Hospital Paulista de ORL (ENT Hospital). ** Speech Doctor – Expert in Audiology and Voice by Conselho Federal de Fonoaudiologia (Phonoaudology Federal Department). *** Speech Doctor – PhD in Communication Disorders by UNIFESP/EPM; Expert in Audiology by Conselho Federal de Fonoaudiologia – Professor of the Post-graduation Program in Phonoaudiology and of the Clinical Phonoaudiology Department at PUC-SP; Adjunt Teacher of Phonoaudiology /course at FCMSCSP; Head of the Hearing Disorder Study Office (CEDIAU). **** ENT Doctor. Head of the Associated ENT Doctor Clinic – Pará – Brazil.
Effect of Zinc application on soil properties and uptake of nutrients by wheat grown on calcareous soil

The present field experiment was conducted at PGI, Research Farm. Department of Soil Science and Agril. Chemistry, M.P.K.V. , Rahuri, during the Rabi 2016-17. The experiment was laid out in a randomized block design with three replication and nine treatments. The treatment comprised of T1: Absolute control, T2: General recommended dose of fertilizer 120:60:40 kg ha N: P2O5:K2O + 10 t FYM ha, T3: GRDF with soil application of ZnSO4 @ 20kgha, T4: GRDF with 120 kg N through zinc coated urea + 60:40 P2O5:K2O kg ha + 10 t ha FYM, T5: GRDF with soil application of cow dung slurry with ZnSO4, T6: GRDF with soil application of 100 kg FYM + ZnSO4 @20kgha, T7: GRDF with seed coating treatment of ZnSO4 @ 20kgha, T8: GRDF with seed coating treatment of chelated Zn EDTA and T9: GRDF with seed treatment of zinc solubilizing bacteria + soil application of zinc sulphate @ 20kgha. The results of investigation revealed that the application of different methods of zinc in soil was influenced the soil properties. The available nutrients N,P and K at harvest were found to be significantly increased due to treatment of GRDF +soil application of ZnSO4 @ 20kgha with 100 kg FYM incubated for one week and treatment of GRDF+soil application of cow dung slurry with ZnSO4 @ 20 kgha. Total uptake of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium by wheat crop were found to be significantly higher (138, 36 and 88 kgha respectively) in treatment of application of ZnSO4 @ 20kgha incubated with FYM for one week along with GRDF however, it was at par with treatment of application of ZnSO4 @ 20kgha with cow dung slurry @500 Lha at 30 DAS through irrigation along with GRDF. Total uptake of iron, zinc, manganese and copper were found to be significantly higher (5177, 570, 1889 and 192 gha respectively) in treatment of GRDF+application of ZnSO4@ 20kgha incubated with FYM for one week. Therefore, based on above findings, soil application of 100 kg FYM + ZnSO4 @20 kgha incubated for one week or soil application of cow dung slurry with ZnSO4@20 kgha (1:4) @500Lha at 30 DAS through irrigation along with the general recommended dose of fertilizer (120:60:40 N:P2O5:K2O kg ha + 10 t ha FYM) to wheat was found beneficial for increase in total uptake of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, iron, zinc, manganese and copper in wheat grown on medium deep black calcareous soil.
L2 English Pronunciation errors by Kenyan University Students: A Case of L1 Ekegusii and L1 Kimeru Speakers

Pronunciation is a factor of two processes: the production and perception of human individual sounds (segments), referred to as phonetics and the combination of these segments in a speech, and referred to as phonology. Ekegusii and Kimeru are Bantu languages spoken in western and central parts of Kenya respectively. University students from the two language groups studying English and Literature in their year one to year four in the university setting formed the population for the study because the intonation and phonetic inventory for both languages are similar to the extent that a non-native speaker of the two languages may not draw a distinction between them. Some prosodic features of these languages such as vowel insertion to break consonant clusters are different from English and when speakers of these languages insert vowels in some English words with consonant clusters, this results in error, sometimes impeding their intelligibility. A study was needed to examine pronunciation errors among the Ekegusii L1 and Kimeru L1 university students so as to document the gravity of the problem. The study was a qualitative description of students’ pronunciation errors in English language committed while the students were participating in university activities. The objectives of the study were to examine the most common mispronounced English phonemes produced by the students and to explore the possible sources of the errors. The study adopted a descriptive study design guided by Corder’s (1974) error analysis model. A purposive sample of 50 students selected on the basis of first encountered first recorded was used for data generation. The data was in the form of notes from listening to the students’ natural talk and audio recordings of their conversations. The study involved describing, analyzing, and interpreting common pronunciation errors. Based on the results of data analysis it was revealed that students made a multiple of pronunciation errors attributable to mainly interlingual and intralingual sources. From the findings, the researchers recommend that the best way to learn the pronunciation of a second language is by listening to good role model speakers of English language and by practising it regularly.
Certain serum trace minerals in Pandharpuri buffaloes

The study was conducted to observe the impact of lactation on serum trace minerals in Pandharpuri buffaloes maintained at college farm of KNP College of Veterinary Science, Shirwal. The animals were categorized in Group 1(Lactating) and Group 2 (Non-lactating) comprising 8 (eight) animals in each group. Trace minerals (Fe, Cu and Zn) were analyzed by using AAS. The present data reveals that there was significant effect of lactation on the levels of serum zinc with lower value in lactating than nonlactating Pandharpuri buffaloes. However, there was no significant effect of lactation on the levels of serum iron and copper values in these groups. The value of iron was non significantly higher and the value of copper was non significantly lower in nonlactating than lactating Pandharpuri buffaloes. All trace minerals studied in blood serum of lactating and non-lactating Pandharpuri buffaloes were within physiological limits.
Heterosis in Sunflower( Helianthus annus L.)

Heterosis for yield and its components was studied in 28 hybrids derived from crossing eleven varieties (four varieties used as females and seven viirieties used as males). An appreciable amount of heterosis was observed for almost all the chiirdcters studied. The hybrid, 270A x Modern recorded the highest heterosis over better parent (59.25%) for yield Jier plant which was follqwed by 290 A x RHA-265 (55.15%). The latter cross also shewed good amount heterobeltiosis for the characters like total number of seeds per head and diameter of head. The increased heterosis for yield per plant was parallel with the increase in heterosis for diameter of the head iind total number of seeds per head.
EVALUATION OF INDOOR AIR FOR BACTERIA

Aim: To evaluate environmental bacteria isolates from government health institutions and their antimicrobial profile. Place and Duration of Study: The sampled location was the mini mile3 model primary health centre, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. for three months (January-March). Methodology: Indoor air quality was investigated using the sedimentation technique which allows Petri plates containing growth media to be exposed to the atmosphere of the study sites. Plates were exposed for 15 minutes at each given site. The children, post-natal, outpatient and the injection wards were the studied sites. Nutrient agar and mannitol salt agar were the media used to enumerate the total bacteria and Staphylococci respectively. Commercially prepared antibiotics disc with known concentrations were used to test for susceptibility of these microbes using the disc diffusion technique and test isolates were standardized using the McFarland standard. Results: Four bacterial groups isolated were Bacillus sp (20.41%), Micrococcus sp (28.57%), Serratia sp (10.21%) and Staphylococcus sp (40.82%). The mean count for the total heterotrophic bacteria and Staphylococci counts in log10Cfu/m 3 for morning sections ranged from (3.41±021-3.84±0.09) and (3.15±0.14 3.25±0.13) respectively. While counts for the evening section ranged from (3.50±0.113.91±0.05) (3.24±0.42 – 3.48±0.04) respectively. There was a significant difference between the morning and evening hours of the total Staphylococci at P=0.05. There was a 100% susceptibility rate by all the bacterial isolates to ciprofloxacin. Serratia species were 100% susceptible to ofloxacin. Staphylococci and Micrococcus species were 100% resistant to ampicillin which was 100% effective against Bacillus. Conclusion: The microbial load in this study was very high. Microbes isolated in this study are pathogenic and are known to be associated with nosocomial infections. Ciprofloxacin, gentamycin, pefloxacin and ofloxacin are best recommended for infections arising from this site.