Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Renal Impairment in Sickle Cell Disease

Introduction and objectives: Sickle cell disease is the most common structural haemoglobin disorder in the world. Despite its apparently simple molecular aetiology, sickle cell disease has long been known to have remarkably variable clinical course, with complications involving many organs including the kidneys. This study was performed to find out the various renal impairment in SCD, to record their frequency and severity with observation of any decline in GFR with progress of time and to identify factors if any that accelerates its progression. Material and methods: 50 patients of SCD who satisfied the inclusion and exclusion criteria were included in the study and were assessed for presence of renal impairment with complete clinical examination, laboratory investigations which includes CBC,blood urea, serum creatinine,seum electrolytes,urine examination,24 hours urine protein, urine microalbumin, imaging study of kidney and followed up with serial blood urea, serum creatinine and eGFR values. Results: Out of 50 patients 72% were male and 28% female. The mean age was 36.18 years with 64% in the age group of 26-45 years. The most common symptom was painful episodes (70%) and pallor was the most important clinical finding in 92% of patients. Splenomegaly was the most common finding on systemic examination. The mean serum fetal haemoglobin was 17.76%. Hematuria was detected in 10% and pyuria in 24% of patients. Most of the patients (62%) had proteinuria within 150-500 mg/day while 6% cases having nephrotic range proteinuria. Microalbuminuria was found in 74% of patients with 16% showing macroalbuminuria. Their was a progressive decline in the eGFR value with a rise in blood urea and serum creatinine level with the progress of study till end. The decline in mean eGFR was nearly 10ml/min/1.73m 2 . The USG of kidney showed a normal size in 80% of patients. Conclusion: Sickle cell nephropathy is one of the important cause of deterioration in renal function in patients attending our institute with an early age of involvement. The eGFR had a significant decline as the time progress in patients of SCD with renal impairment. Fetal haemoglobin may have a protective role in sickle cell nephropathy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 20-12-2019 Date of Acceptance: 03-01-2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The investigating of information literacy librarian of Public universities in Kerman

The purpose of this study was to investigating the information literacy librarian of public universities in Kerman. Information literacy "is a set of skills necessary for search, retrieve and effective use of various information sources. The study was descriptive-survey. The population consists of 93 librarians of payamenoor university, Shahidbahonar University and university of medical sciences. A data collection instrument is included researcher-made questionnaires. Data analysis included Test t, chi-square test and ANOVA analyses and SPSS software (package of Spss / pc + + ver21). The results of this study show the most familiarity the study population belonging to the periodicals. According the results, librarians of Shahidbahonar University and university of medical sciences were more dominant in the software library. The results of this study show there is not a significant relationship between information literacy and gender. But there is a significant relationship between information literacy with age, degree and field of study. According to the findings holding training courses for information literacy skills, equipping the libraries with suitable hardware and software, personal motivation of librarians to keep their information literacy skills updated, and official attention of libraries and universities to their staff information literacy level is the factors that involved in information literacy level of study population librarians.
A study of clinical profile of Influenza A (H1N1) pdm09 patients at a tertiary care hospital

Background: WHO announced influenza A H1N1 as pandemic (commonly known as swine flu) in 2009; but every year there is increase in influenza A H1N1 positive cases causing epidemics of febrile respiratory illness due to genetic re-assortment in influenza virus. This study aimed for clinical profile of patient with influenza A H1N1 and its outcome admitted at civil hospital Ahmedabad. Materials and methods: Present study was included 50 patients with influenza A H1N1; admitted in B.J. Medical College and Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad. This study was carried out for one year from June 2018 to June 2019. Patients were studied and managed as per standard Government of India protocol. Results: Total 50[19 (38%) males and 31 (62%) females] patients were studied for clinical spectrum, complications and outcome. All patients had fever (100%), dry cough in 92% of patients, throat pain in 88% of patients, breathlessness in 54% of patients, headache in 48% of patients, sputum production in 40% of patients and hemoptysis in 6% of patients. 35 (70%) patients had comorbidity. Total13 (26%) patients were complicated; out of which 4 (8%) patients required ventilatory support. Conclusion: Early case detection, categorizations according to symptoms prevention of treatment has better outcome and decreases disease related morbidity and mortality and burden of disease in community and voluntary early reporting should be encouraged through various health campaigns. Nilima K. Shah, Kamlesh J. Upadhyay, Bhavik Prajapati, Vipshyana Manwar, Dileep Gamit, Khyati Rathwa. A study of clinical profile of Influenza A (H1N1) pdm09 patients at a tertiary care hospital. IAIM, 2019; 6(11): 14-18.
Effect of Profitability, Leverage, Activity ratios, Market Ratios and Environmental Performance to Share Prices

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of Profitability, Leverage, Activity ratios, Market Ratios and Environmental Performance on Stock Price. Secondary data were collected in samples from Manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period 2014 - 2017. Sampling in this study uses a purposive sampling method with criteria as (1) listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2014 - 2017. (2) Publish audited financial statements for the 2014-2017 period in Rupiah. (3) always has an advantage. Statistical test is done by t test and multiple linear regression analysis, before this test is done first classic assumption test. The results of the study show that: Return on Equity (ROE), Price Earning Ratio (PER), Environmental performance has a positive and significant effect on stock Prices, Debt to Equity Ratio (DER) owned by the company has not a significant negative effect on Stock Prices and Turn Aset Turn Over (TATO) owned by the company has a significant negative effect on Stock Prices.
Influence of Gender and Worker Roles on Mental Health among Urban Women in Kenya: A Case of Kawangware Slums, Nairobi

DOI: 10.21276/sjahss.2017. 5.10. 22 Abstract: Historically, men and women have been socialized to behave in a particular way and perform roles perceived as feminine or masculine. In this work arrangement, men's family roles entailed economic support whilst women’s family roles involved emotional support and nurturance. However, with modernization and profound social change, some women have combined both economic and culturally defined feminine roles. But it is not clear how the ―double life‖ impacts on the mental health of such women. Therefore, this paper explores the influence of gender and worker roles on the mental health among urban women in Kenya with focus of Kawangware slums. The authors argue that contemporary woman participate in formal employment role because of different reasons and that gender and employment/worker roles contribute to women mental illness. The paper concludes by giving recommendations to the government, employers, and other relevant stakeholders in gender issues for policy making to promote wellbeing of women at work and home.
Is Democracy Good for Growth? — Institutional Quality Matters∗

The level of economic development during democratization exerts long-lasting effects on growth, possibly by giving permanent birthmarks to newly minted institutions. This paper finds that democracies born in weak development tend to have weak institutions and slow growth, while in contrast, those with adequate development at the political transition time establish strong institutions and achieve faster growth. Salient differences between them also exist in other dimensions such as population growth rates and populism tendencies. These results are based on data in 1960-2010 and robust to various specifications and endogeneity issues. The paper shows that without appropriate development, democratization does not facilitate growth.
University of Birmingham Transfer Learning in Non-Stationary Environments

The ﬁelds of transfer learning and learning in non-stationary environments are closely related. Both look into the problem of training and test data that come from diﬀerent probability distributions. However, these two ﬁelds have evolved separately. Transfer learning enables knowledge to be transferred between diﬀerent domains or tasks in order to improve predictive performance in a target domain and task. It has no notion of continuing time. Learning in non-stationary environments concerns with updating learning models over time in such a way to deal with changes that the underlying probability distribution of the problem may suﬀer. It assumes that training examples arrive in the form of data streams. Very little work has investigated the connections between these two ﬁelds. This chapter provides a discussion of such connections and explains two existing approaches that perform online transfer learning in non-stationary environments. A brief summary of the re-sults achieved by these approaches in the literature is presented, highlighting the beneﬁts of integrating these two ﬁelds. As the ﬁrst work to provide a detailed discussion of the relationship between transfer learning and learning in non-stationary environments, this chapter opens up the path for future research in the emerging area of transfer learning in non-stationary environments.
Numerical simulation of turbulent spatial flow of steam layers in exhaust of solar vapor producer using les (Convective Mach number of 0.64)

Received: 24 August 2017 Accepted: 29 September 2017 In this article, the results from three-dimensional numerical simulation of compressible turbulent spatial mixing layers for the vapor flow in a solar producer at Convective Mach number of 0.64, using the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) are presented. The governing equations and LES simulation method are combined to form of a three dimensional computer program on the base of finite volume. The purpose of this research is realizing of LES technique in the compressible turbulent spatial mixing layer in supersonic flows. The dynamic eddy viscosity model is applied for modeling of sub-grid scales. Compressible LES not only require the modeling of the sub-grid terms in the momentum equation, but also the modeling of the sub-grid terms in the energy equation which play the main role at supersonic flows. The present numerical simulation results are compared with experimental and DNS and other LES results in the same convective Mach number. In addition, the rate of total kinetic energy dissipation into heat in sub-grid scales is investigated. The present simulation results are predicted that by increasing convective Mach number, the mixing layers growth rate decreases. Finally, the vorticity during the mixing and shocks occur in the flow field is investigated and discussed in the more details.
Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention

Across two studies with more than 1,700 U.S. adults recruited online, we present evidence that people share false claims about COVID-19 partly because they simply fail to think sufficiently about whether or not the content is accurate when deciding what to share. In Study 1, participants were far worse at discerning between true and false content when deciding what they would share on social media relative to when they were asked directly about accuracy. Furthermore, greater cognitive reflection and science knowledge were associated with stronger discernment. In Study 2, we found that a simple accuracy reminder at the beginning of the study (i.e., judging the accuracy of a non-COVID-19-related headline) nearly tripled the level of truth discernment in participants’ subsequent sharing intentions. Our results, which mirror those found previously for political fake news, suggest that nudging people to think about accuracy is a simple way to improve choices about what to share on social media.
Determinants of Capital Adequacy Ratio: An Empirical Study on the Conventional Banks in Indonesia

The capital adequacy ratio shows the bankability to provide funds used to eliminate the risk of loss, which is caused by a lack of capital. The purpose of this study is to test the determinants of the capital adequacy ratio. This study was conducted at conventional banks that have been listed on the IDX in 2014-2017. The purposing sampling technique was used in this study to determine the sample. The data panel is analyzed using EViews 8 software. The results show that bank performance, efficient ratio and non-performance loan have no effect on capital adequacy ratio. In contrast, the bank size and loan to deposit ratio have a negative effect and significant on capital adequacy ratio. Furthermore, the equity has a positive effect and significant on capital adequacy ratio.
Does Renewable Energy Increase Farmers’ Well-being? Evidence from Solar Irrigation Interventions in Bangladesh

As an alternative clean and climate-friendly energy source, renewable energy has gained increased importance in government policies, in particular regarding the use of sun power to operate irrigation projects. Researchers have found solar-power-based irrigation projects to be reliable, sustainable, and cost-effective, with higher rates of return, and recent studies have mostly focused on these outcomes. In the effort to ensure maximum electricity coverage in off-grid regions by 2041 and to achieve the global agenda of SDG 7, the Government of Bangladesh has recently prepared a draft policy to purchase unconsumed or surplus electricity from solar-run irrigation pumps (SIPs) across the country with the aim of promoting renewable energy, which further laid down the motivation for understanding the impacts of such interventions from the point of view of beneficiaries’ well-being. Therefore, this paper particularly looks at the beneficial impacts of solar-powered irrigation using a recent survey of 1,000 solar-powered irrigation user and non-user farming households in selected regions of Bangladesh. Our regression results suggest that solar irrigation facilitates an adequate water supply and reduces the cost of production. However, the IV regression results suggest that SIPs do not significantly increase the agricultural return across all the seasons or plots. Overall, SIP adoption ensures reliability of the water supply (i.e., water adequacy) in addition to accessibility and affordability, implying longer-term implications for farmers’ well-being.
Impact of Need for Achievement on Entrepreneurial Intentions; Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy

Entrepreneurship is becoming very significant for the growth of economies since last decade. Therefore this study aimed to analyze the factors affecting the intentions of individuals towards entrepreneurial start-up so that economic growth can be increased. Entrepreneurial intentions are the vital component of actual business setups that need several personality traits to place ideas into actual actions. Hence the study constructed two personality traits that affect these intentions. The need for achievement and self-efficacy are significant variables to be analyzed in entrepreneurship while discussing the generating of new entrepreneurial businesses. A quantitative analysis was performed using Smart PLS on the collected data from 123 questionnaire responses provided by small and medium-size new entrepreneur startups. The findings reveal that the need for achievement and self-efficacy significantly affects the intentions of entrepreneurs (direct effects). Moreover, the study also explained that the need for achievement has a positive and significant impact on entrepreneurial intentions when mediated by self-efficacy behavior (indirect effect). The study provides theoretical concepts of the selected variables along with significant practical implications for entrepreneurial businesses.
Foreign bodies in adult upper digestive tract: a series of 30 cases

Background: Rigid endoscopy under general anaesthesia has traditionally been used by otolaryngologist for diagnosis and management of variety of disorders affecting the upper digestive tract including the removal of foreign body. Smooth foreign bodies does not pose much threat but may cause airway obstruction. Sharp foreign bodies, if not removed the earliest may penetrate oesophageal wall and cause complications. Methods: A Retrospective analysis was done for patients who underwent rigid oesophaghoscopy under general anaesthesia for 30 patients of foreign body ingestion at Upgraded Institute of Otorhinolaryngology, Madras Medical College, Chennai, between November 2016 – November 2017. The records of age, sex, co-morbidities, X-ray finding, complications were recorded. Results: Majority of adults in this group belonged to 40-50 years age. The most common foreign body impacted was chicken bone totalling 16. 2 patients of denture ingestion were referred for flexible endoscopy after failed attempt, 1 developed oesophageal perforation. Conclusions: Rigid endoscopy is the gold standard for removal of sharp foreign body as the sharp ends can be clasped and brought in to the endoscope there by preventing damage to the mucosa. Foreign body with multiple sharp ends which cannot be negotiated into rigid endoscope, should be pushed into the stomach and attempted removal by cutting sharp ends of foreign body or by gastrostomy, as pulling such foreign body will lead to full length tear of oesophagus leading to morbidity and mortality.
Psychological Factors affect Tax Compliance- A Review paper

Tax noncompliance is a serious challenge facing tax administration and hindering tax revenue performance. A number of factors may be responsible for low compliance in income tax administration in any revenue institutions in any countries. The development of tax decision-making approach/s has focused on economic and behavioral/ attitudinal factors affecting compliance. A possible explanatory factor that has been identified in these decision making mode/s is tax Morale. This study examines the influence of psychological factors on tax compliance decisions.To recognize ‘variables of tax compliances’ analysed by various Researchers, which includes factors of psychological to be of value for decisions to make on tax compliance is emphasised in this volume. And also introduces the main contributions that have attempted to explain the agreement and obvious disagreement between the evidence on the reaction of taxpayers’ attitude towards tax compliance through psychological factors. However, taxpayers’ attitude has been identified as crucial one factor that play important role in influencing tax compliance behavior.Many Economic researches/studies have revealed that Tax compliance is based on individual decisions on paying and evading Tax compliance. The researches have further substantiated that the ‘impact’ of large number of potential determinants of voluntary compliance on their individual income/profit, i.e. social norms, equity and fairness, perception of political/ government, and accountability towards tax compliance attitude.
A novel approach of treating gingival recession by Vestibular Incision Subperiosteal Tunnel Access along with palatal connective tissue graft

Gingival recession, defined as the apical migration of gingival margin possesses great degree of functional and aesthetic problems. Recently new techniques for root coverage have been proposed for treating multiple teeth recession. Keeping in mind the limitations of the conventional techniques, a minimally invasive approach for the recipient site in the aesthetic zone, Vestibular Incision Subperiosteal Tunnel Access (VISTA) technique had been introduced. Since the connective tissue graft is the proven gold standard, it is combined with the minimally invasive technique to achieve the best possible result. Here, a series of such cases are discussed and the 6 months post operative follow up is hence analysed to assess the root coverage. Keywords: Gingival recession, Minimally invasive, Root coverage, VISTA, Connective tissue graft.
Dietary propolis supplementation on growth and body composition of the African catfish Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822)

A preliminary study was conducted to evaluate the effect of dietary propolis extract supplementation on African catfish, Clarias gariepinus growth performance, survival rate and body composition. The African catfish (mean body weight 0.45±0.05 g) were fed with experimental diets prepared by using propolis extract supplementation (0, 5 and 10 g kg) for 90 days. The weight gain (12.93±0.48 g), FCR (1.39±0.05) and PER (1.44±0.05) were observed higher in catfish fed with 5 g kg propolis extract than fed with 10 g kg propolis extract significantly (P<0.05) but no statistical difference was found with the control group fish (P>0.05). Whole-body crude protein was significantly higher in catfish fed with 5 g kg propolis extract, than in those fed with control and 10 g kg propolis extract (P<0.05). Based on the results of the present study, it is suggested that feeding fish with 5 g kg of propolis extracts for 90 days has no adverse effect on survival and enhanced the better weight gain and protein in the composition of the African catfish.