Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Relationship Between SOFA, qSOFA, SIRS Criteria Scoring Systems and 1-Year Mortality in Patients Followed Up in Level 3 Intensive Care Unit after Orthopedic Surgery

Mortalite skolarmalari; taburcu durumu, hasta mortalitesi, Yogun Bakim Unitesi (YBU) mortalitesini ve hastanede kalis suresini tahmin etmek icin tasarlanmistir. Hastanin genel saglik durumunun degerlendirilmesi acisindan standardize edilmesi ve ortak bir dil olusturmasi amaclanan bu puanlama sistemleri, bircok YBU'de hastalarin degerlendirilmesinde kullanilmaktadir. Bu calismayla, puanlama sistemlerinin spesifik bir hasta grubunda kullanilabilirligi degerlendirilmesi amaclanmistir. Ortopedik cerrahi sonrasi YBU'de nispeten kisa sureli hastaneye yatislar meydana geldiginden, mortalitenin bir gostergesi olarak kullanilabilecek tahmin edici puanlama sistemlerinin tahmin gucu arasinda hicbir fark olmayacagi hipotezimizi olusturduk. Calismamiz tek merkez retrospektif olarak tasarlandi. Ocak 2017 ile Agustos 2018 arasinda 3. seviye yogun bakim takibi yapilan tum hastalar otomasyon sisteminde belirlendi. 146 hasta dosyasi ve otomasyon sistemi verilerinin degerlendirilmesinin ardindan dahil etme ve dislama kriterlerine uyan hastalar belirlendi. Calismaya toplam 40 hasta dahil edildi. Ortalama yas 75.69 (SD = 8.66 yil),% 50 erkek ve% 50 kadindi. On bes hastanin (% 37,5) ilk yil icerisinde vefat ettikleri goruldu. Hastalar ilk yil hayatta kalan ve kalamayanlar olarak degerlendirildiginde, gruplar arasinda kantitatif degiskenler acisindan postoperatif erken GKS ve erken postoperatif oksijen saturasyonu acisindan anlamli farklilik oldugu goruldu. (P 0,005). Yogun bakim unitesinde takibi standartlastirmak icin uygun bir mortalite prediktor skoru secilmelidir. Calismamiz sonucunda SOFA, qSOFA ve SIRS kriterleri arasinda anlamli bir iliski bulunmamasi, bu skorlama sistemlerinin hasta grubumuzda 1 yillik mortaliteyi ongormek icin uygun olmadigini dusundurdu. Daha genis seriler ve daha fazla kriter iceren calismalarla ortopedik yogun bakim hastalarina ozgu spesifik kriterlerin olusturulmasi gerekmektedir.
Crisis communication on social media - lessons from Covid-19

ABSTRACT Social media networks are increasingly important tools for crisis communication and the Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) provides a unique opportunity to explore the role of social media in crisis communication. The goal of this research is to better understand how from political leaders adapt their communication strategy to on-the-ground changes during a crisis and how the communication of crisis-relevant information on social media affects the public’s perception of the response effort. We achieve this through an analysis of pandemic data from The Covid Tracking Project at The Atlantic, survey data from the Covid States Project, and pandemic-relevant Twitter statuses posted by US state governors. Our results show that governors alter their communication patterns and tone after developments in the pandemic and that such changes in communication patterns are accompanied by subsequent changes in public perception of the governor’s response to the pandemic. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
Literacies in Times of Crisis: A Trioethnography on Affective and Transgressive Practices

ABSTRACT Utilizing duoethnography (NORRIS; SAWYER, 2012), the authors explore challenges and opportunities for critical language teaching in times of crisis. Following a brief introduction of research methodology, the authors’ trioethnography dialogically examines three topical areas of particular concern in Brazil and Canada: 1. The potency of affect and its relevance for applied linguistics and language teacher education; 2. The re-emergence of “literacy wars” in education, with attention to their ideological and epistemological interconnections to social power relations; 3. Emerging implications for language and literacy pedagogies in which the authors share classroom experiences and transgressive strategies informed by plurilingual and affective insights. The complexity and variety of settings discussed in this final section help promote the possibilities for critical research and teaching in these difficult and dangerous times.
Study of correlation between age with incidence of endometrial cancer and histopathological type

Endometrial cancer is the one of the commonest Gynecologic malignancy. In Bahrain, the rates are 5.9 per 100,000 (IARC, WHO Globocan 2020 Bahrain) with mortality 1.2 per 100,000 and Incidence of 2.6 % 5-year prevalence of 107 cases (IARC, WHO Globocan 2020 Bahrain) while in India, the rates are as low as 4.3 per 100,000. Ninety-seven percent of all cancers of the uterus arise from the endometrium. Grossly three quarters of cases are diagnosed at an early stage with a tumor confined to the uterine corpus. It comes fourth in line in aspect to prevalence after carcinomas of breast, colorectal, and lung in woman. In the United States, endometrial cancer has accounted for average 6000 deaths per year.
A role for disciplinary societies in supporting community college adjunct faculty

Disciplinary societies have a role to play in supporting the needs of community college adjunct faculty. The potential exists to improve the professional lives of these faculty members, an underappreciated segment of the higher education workforce, and to positively inﬂuence outcomes for students enrolled in community colleges. Efforts to improve engagement opportunities for community college faculty must account for the needs and experiences of part-time, contingent (i.e., adjunct) instructors. In community colleges, more than two-thirds of instructional faculty are employed part-time (Hurlburt & McGarrah, 2016) and more than half of course sections are taught by part-time faculty (Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2014). In this chapter, we draw on ﬁndings from a study we conducted in partnership with Achieving the Dream (ATD), a nonproﬁt organization focused on evidence-based, institutional improvement of community colleges to promote student success. ATD provided leadership, guidance, and resources to six community colleges to develop and implement strategies to support adjunct faculty with the ultimate goal of improving student outcomes. The authors of this chapter and other researchers at the Community College Research Center collected qualitative and quantitative data from these six colleges to understand the needs and experiences of adjunct faculty and strategies for faculty engagement that may lead to improved student outcomes. For a detailed description of the data sources and methods for this study, please see Bickerstaff & Ran, 2020. In this chapter, we ﬁrst establish the importance of adjunct faculty in supporting student success. We then draw on transcripts from 90 interviews and focus groups with faculty and administrators as well as a survey of 482 faculty members at six community colleges to describe the experiences of adjunct faculty. Finally, we offer four suggestions for disciplinary societies who seek to meet the needs of adjunct faculty.
Religion in Creating Populist Appeal: Islamist Populism and Civilizationism in the Friday Sermons of Turkey’s Diyanet

Drawing on the extant literature on populism, we aim to flesh out how populists in power utilize religion and related state resources in setting up aggressive, multidimensional religious populist “us” versus “them” binaries. We focus on Turkey as our case and argue that by instrumentalizing the Diyanet (Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs), the authoritarian Islamists in power have been able to consolidate manufactured populist dichotomies via the Diyanet’s weekly Friday sermons. Populists’ control and use of a state institution to propagate populist civilizationist narratives and construct antagonistic binaries are underexamined in the literature. Therefore, by examining Turkish populists’ use of the Diyanet, this paper will make a general contribution to the extant literature on religion and populism. Furthermore, by analyzing the Diyanet’s weekly Friday sermons from the last ten years we demonstrate how different aspects of populism—its horizontal, vertical, and civilizational dimensions—have become embedded in the Diyanet’s Friday sermons. Equally, this paper shows how these sermons have been tailored to facilitate the populist appeal of Erdoğan’s Islamist regime. Through the Friday sermons, the majority—Sunni Muslim Turks are presented with statements that evoke negative emotions and play on their specific fears, their sense of victimhood and through which their anxieties—real and imagined—are revived and used to construct populist binaries to construct and mobilize the people in support of an authoritarian Islamist regime purported to be fighting a “civilizational enemy” on behalf of “the people”. Finally, drawing on insights from the Turkish case, we illustrate how the “hosting” function of the civilizational aspect plays a vital role in tailoring internal (vertical and horizontal) religious populist binaries.
Pricing power exchange options with default risk, stochastic volatility and stochastic interest rate

Abstract This paper investigates the pricing issue of power exchange options with default risk, in which the dynamics of the underlying assets and the counterparty asset follow three correlated stochastic volatility models with stochastic interest rate. We assume that the volatility risk is decomposed into short-term and long-term volatility. The stochastic interest rate is driven by the CIR (Cox-Ingersoll-Ross) process. Based on the proposed model, we derive a closed-form solution for the price of power exchange option with default risk by means of Fourier transform. Besides, the price of power exchange option with default risk can be quickly computed by employing the fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm. The results of Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate that the FFT is fast and accurate. More importantly, the pricing model also shows that: (i) a higher long-run mean of the underlying asset price's instantaneous variance induces a higher value of power exchange option with default risk; (ii) the long-run mean of instantaneous variance in counterparty's asset value has a negative impact on the price of power exchange option with default risk; and (iii) the higher the long-run mean of stochastic interest rate, the higher the power exchange option price.
Digitalisation and Innovation in the Steel Industry in Poland—Selected Tools of ICT in an Analysis of Statistical Data and a Case Study

Digital technologies enable companies to build cyber-physical systems (CPS) in Industry 4.0. In the increasingly popular concept of Industry 4.0, an important research topic is the application of digital technology in industry, and in particular in specific industry sectors. The aim of this paper is to present the tools used in the steel industry in Poland on its way to the full digitalisation that is needed for the development of Industry 4.0. The paper consists of two parts: a literature review and a practical analysis. The paper provides the background information about digitalisation using digital tools in the steel industry in Poland. The paper was prepared based on secondary information and statistical data. The object of the research is the Polish steel sector. This study assumes that digitalisation is the main area of innovation in the steel industry. The digitalisation determines the creation of new or modified products, processes, techniques and expansion of the company’s infrastructure; therefore, the data on digital technology were supplemented with data on the innovativeness of the Polish steel sector. The results of this study provide managers with valuable information to understand the importance of full digitalisation and the need to focus on digital strategies. Such insights can be used to improve companies’ processing capabilities and produce better products, which is key to innovation.
An Improved Noniterative Parameter-Free Fault Location Method on Untransposed Transmission Lines Using Multi-Section Models

This paper proposes an improved noniterative fault location method on untransposed transmission lines without utilizing line parameters. Two-end three phase voltage and current phasor measurements before and during the fault are typically required. First, the parameter-free fault location problem is formulated through multi-section transmission line models, and the necessary condition of noniterative solutions is carefully investigated to determine the maximum possible section number of the multi-section line model. Afterwards, with the determined section number, the analytical solution of the fault location is derived with full utilization of the inherent characteristics of the line parameter matrices. Instead of solving all the parameters, two key variables inside the parameter matrices are extracted and the fault location is obtained by analytically solving a polynomial equation. The method provides a closed-form analytical solution, and therefore avoids convergence issues of iterative algorithms. In addition, line asymmetry of untransposed transmission lines are fully considered to minimize fault location errors. Extensive numerical experiments show that the proposed method has improved fault location accuracy compared to the existing method, with different fault types, locations and impedances.
Online travel review posting intentions: a social exchange theory perspective

ABSTRACT The present study investigates various costs and benefits associated with individuals’ intentions to post online travel reviews and to understand this, the study applies social exchange theory as the base model. The results revealed that altruism, reputation, economic rewards and venting negative feelings positively influence review posting intentions while cognitive and executional costs negatively influence review posting intentions. Further, Innovativeness moderates the relationship between altruism and behavioural intentions and venting negative feelings and behavioural intentions. The findings indicate that cognitive and executional costs reduce the intentions of travelers to post reviews online. Therefore, service providers must focus on user-friendly technology to reduce these costs.
Meta-QTL Analysis for Stripe Rust Resistance in Wheat

Stripe rust caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici Eriks. & E. Henn (Pst) is one of the most prevalent wheat diseases causing upto 70% yield losses worldwide. The present study was conducted in wheat for the first time to identify important meta-QTL (MQTL) regions for their use in developing stripe rust resistant wheat cultivars and to understand the genetic architecture of stripe rust resistance in wheat. For this purpose, a dense consensus map consisting of 76,753 markers was constructed and 353 QTLs from earlier studies were projected on this consensus map. As many as 61 MQTLs were identified using 184 (out of 353) original QTLs. Ten important genomic regions including six breeders’ MQTLs (PVE >20%) and four MQTL hotspots were selected to be used by wheat breeders. As many as 409 important candidate genes (CGs) were also identified, which either encoded known R proteins (265) or showed differential expression (144) due to stripe rust infection. These included genes encoding the following proteins: NBS-LRR, WRKY domains, ankyrin repeat domains, sugar transporters, etc. Overall, the present study provided robust MQTLs and underlying CGs which may be potential targets for molecular breeding for development of stripe rust resistant wheat cultivars or may be the target for future molecular studies to understand the mechanism of stripe rust resistance.
Integrative Taxonomy Reveals That the Marine Brachyuran Crab Pyromaia tuberculata (Lockington, 1877) Reached Eastern Atlantic

Pyromaia tuberculata is native to the north-eastern Pacific Ocean and currently established in distant regions in the Pacific Ocean and southwest Atlantic. Outside its native range, this species has become established in organically polluted enclosed waters, such as bays. The Tagus estuary, with a broad shallow bay, is one of the largest estuaries in the west coast of Europe, located in western mainland Portugal, bordering the city of Lisbon. In this study, sediment samples were collected in the estuary between 2016 and 2017. Several adult specimens of P. tuberculata, including one ovigerous female, were morphologically and genetically identified, resulting in accurate identification of the species. The constant presence of adults over a 16-month sampling period suggests that the species has become established in the Tagus estuary. Moreover, their short life cycle, which allows for the production of at least two generations per year, with females reaching maturity within six months after settlement, favours population establishment. Despite being referred to as invasive, there are no records of adverse effects of P. tuberculata to the environment and socio-economy in regions outside its native range. However, due to its expanding ability, its inclusion in European monitoring programmes would indeed be desirable.
The impact of the precautionary measures taken in the kingdom of Bahrain to contain the outbreak of COVID-19

Abstract As a worldwide pandemic is unavoidable, its spread must be observed to reduce and contain it. The Kingdom of Bahrain sought to implement the World Health Organization (WHO) directives to take precautionary measures and appropriate preventive steps to limit the spread of the coronavirus among people and developed an integrated plan to contain it. This study purposes to investigate the effect of precautionary and preventive measures in limiting the spread of coronavirus in Bahrain. Statistics and the details of precautionary measures described in this study are obtained from websites maintained by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Bahrain. The calculated number of infected and death cases is determined by using polynomial functions that fit the data. The outcomes obtained showed that the number of cumulative infected and death cases were less than the expected numbers except for certain periods. Reopening stores and businesses that provide direct services to people after their two-week closing resulted in a 36% increased in infected cases than expected in the closing period. When the lockdown continued, the number of infected people dropped to 64% of the total number of detected infections. In accordance with our results, it is expected that the number of infected cases will gradually decrease till late March 2021. With continuing lockdown and their compliance in implementing the precautionary measures with consciousness, it is anticipated that Bahrain will soon be in the final state of the epidemic.
Maternal anemia and preterm birth among women living with HIV in the United States.

BACKGROUND Women living with HIV (WLHIV) have a higher prevalence of anemia than women without HIV, possibly related to the effects of HIV and antiretroviral medications. OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of anemia in the third trimester of pregnancy and the effect of anemia on preterm births in WLHIV in the longitudinal, US-based Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS). METHODS During the third trimester, we obtained up to three 24-hour dietary recalls to estimate daily intakes of nutrients and measured serum concentrations of iron, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, zinc, folate, ferritin, total iron-binding capacity (TIBC), and high sensitivity C-reactive protein. Third trimester anemia was defined as hemoglobin < 11 g/d and iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) was defined as low ferritin, high TIBC, and low transferrin saturation. A preterm birth was defined as birth at < 37 completed weeks of gestation, regardless of etiology. We fit separate modified Poisson regression models for each outcome (anemia, preterm birth) and each main exposure, adjusted for confounders, and report adjusted prevalence ratios (aPR) and 95% CIs. RESULTS Of the 267 WLHIV, 50% were anemic in the third trimester, of whom 43.5% (n = 57/131) had IDA. On average, women with anemia were younger, were more likely to be black, started antiretroviral medications in the second trimester, had a low CD4 count (<200 cells/mm3) early in pregnancy, and were less likely to meet recommended intakes for iron, B6, and folate. The prevalence of anemia was greater in WLHIV with a low CD4 count (aPR = 1.65; 95% CI: 1.20-2.27) and high HIV viral load (>10,000 copies/mL; aPR = 1.38; 95% CI: 1.02-1.87). In total, 16% of women delivered preterm. Anemia was associated with a 2-fold (aPR = 2.04; 95% CI: 1.12-3.71) higher prevalence of preterm births. CONCLUSIONS Anemia is common in pregnant WLHIV, highlighting the need to address the underlying factors and clinical outcomes of anemia in this population.
Facile Method by Bentonite Treated with Heat and Acid to Enhance Pesticide Adsorption

In this work, simple conditions were applied to modify bentonite for the removal of pesticides from aqueous solution. Bentonite was modified in a single step as BA0.5 (with HCl 0.5 M) and BC500 (calcined at 500 °C) and combined steps with different sequences (BA0.5C500 and BC500A0.5). These adsorbents were characterised by XRD, XRF, FT-IR, 27Al MAS NMR, BET, NH3-TPD, TGA, HPLC, particle size analysis and zeta potential. Single-component adsorption with atrazine, diuron, 2,4-D and paraquat was used in aqueous solution at various pesticide concentrations, contact times and pH levels. It was found that the sequence of the treatment significantly affected atrazine adsorption. BC500A0.5 exhibited the highest efficiency for atrazine adsorption in a broad pH range of 3.0–9.0. Its adsorption at pH 6.0 was about 12 times greater than that of other adsorbents with an initial atrazine concentration of 50 mg L−1, which indicates BC500A0.5 specifically for the adsorption of atrazine. In addition, for the simultaneous adsorption of all four pesticides, BC500A0.5 was found to remove the maximum total amount of the pesticides, indicating that it could be used as a good multifunctional adsorbent. All modified bentonites showed similar diuron adsorption better than that of unmodified bentonite. The greatest adsorption of 2,4-D prefers BA0.5C500, occurring at pH 2–4. In the case of paraquat adsorption, all adsorbents are good at absorbing paraquat, but bentonite had the highest rate of paraquat removal, whereas BA0.5C500 was found to have the lowest, and the adsorption increased with increasing pH. Furthermore, the adsorption process on the adsorbents fits well with the Langmuir isotherm and pseudo-second-order kinetics models, as the thermodynamic parameters showed a spontaneous and endothermic process.
Exploring Psychological Capital as Predictor of Mental Health among Graduate-Level Students

Developments in positive psychology paved the way for shifting the focus from the weaknesses and deficits to the individuals’ strengths and resources. These developments gave impetus to the research exploring the predictors of the mental well-being of students. The role of psychological capital in students’ mental well-being is an expansion of Luthans and associates’ research in an organisational setting. The present study focused on PsyCap as a resource that can impact the mental well-being of students. The current investigation’s primary aim was to examine the predictive relationship of Psychological Capital with undergraduate students’ mental health. For this purpose, 400 participants (200 males and 200 females) were randomly selected from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. Out of 400 participants, 321 completed the questionnaires, and 79 participants who did not meet the questionnaires were not included in the study. A cross-sectional, exploratory study survey method was used to collect and analyse results; descriptive statistics, correlation, and multiple regression analyses were done. The study results indicated that the dimensions of PsyCap such as hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism (HERO) were correlated with the mental health of the graduate students, and there was a positive predictive relationship between PsyCap and mental health.