Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Insulin-Injection-related Needle-stick Injuries Among Clinical Nurses at a Tertiary-Care Hospital in China

Needle-stick injuries (NSIs) are the main type of occupational injury experienced by health-care workers worldwide. They are widely reported in the literatures, but there have been few studies of insulin-injection-related NSIs. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of and risk factors for insulin-injection-related NSIs among clinical nurses working at a Chinese tertiary-care hospital. Methods: We used a questionnaire to investigate the incidence of and risk factors for insulin injection-related NSIs in a tertiary-care hospital in Guangzhou, China. The study involved 576 nurses from various departments, including endocrinology, internal medicine other than endocrinology, surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology. Results: Approximately half (54%) of the participants reported having >5-years of experience in clinical nursing, and 66.3% reported that they had received training on injection safety at work. While 16.0% of the nurses had experienced an insulin-injection-related NSI before, 58.7% of them did not report it to the relevant hospital department. When NSIs occurred, 69.6% of nurses were not wearing gloves, and 75% of the needles had been contaminated by patients. The largest proportion (34.8%) of the NSIs occurred when the needle cap was being re-attached after an injection. Multivariate logistic analysis showed that participation in training (odds ratio [OR]=0.605) and being a diabetes specialist nurse (OR=1.814) were independent factors related to the incidence of insulin-injection-related NSI. Conclusion: Insulin-injection-related NSIs are common among clinical nurses. Hospital management departments need to improve their training of nurses in preventing and handling NSIs, provide appropriate safety equipment, and implement simpler procedures for reporting NSIs.
The Effect of Carcass Traits on Economic Values in Hanwoo

The objective of this study was to investigate factors related to carcass traits of Hanwoo. In the statistical model developed in this study, slaughterhouse, carcass year, carcass month and sex effects were used as fixed effects and carcass traits (carcass weight, marbling score, loineye muscle area, backfat thickness and meat yield index) as covariations. The grading service data for 285,515 Hanwoo, which were evaluated by Animal Products Grading Service from 2005 to 2007, were used in this study. The partial R-square values of the fixed effects and the marbling score (MS), loineye muscle area, back-fat thickness, meat yield index and carcass weight (CW) on auction prices (AP) of the carcass and carcass price (CP) of the animals were estimated. The most important estimated trait in AP was MS. However, CW is the most important estimated trait on the CP and the MS also has secondly significant effect on the CP. In conclusion, MS as well as CW should maximize the farmer profits and establish a breeding scheme for Hanwoo.
School Based Restorative Practices as Alternative to Punitive Practices in Influencing Positive Behaviour in Deviant Pupils in Zambia

This paper explores school based restorative practices as alternative to punitive practices in influencing the behaviour of deviant pupils in selected secondary schools in Kabwe District. A qualitative case study with Unstructured Interviews and Focus Group Discussions were conducted among thirty-six (36) participants consisting of two (2) school administrators, ten (10) teachers and twenty-four (24) pupils. The findings revealed that the main restorative practices used in schools include manual work, detention, dialogue with parents, counseling, and suspension. The study further revealed that the restorative practices were not helping in influencing positive behaviour in pupils but rather making them more stubborn and repeating offensive behaviors. This is contrary to the general perspective that restorative practices in schools create a positive school culture and climate that helps pupils to reintegrate into the learning environment. It is therefore imperative for education leaders to invest in sensitizations of pupils and training of teachers in restorative practices in order for them to understand and appreciate the logic behind adopting these approaches for ease of implementation and achievement of the desired result.
The effects of social capital and human resources on financing and SMEs performance

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) still exhibit dominant contribution to the economy. SMEs manage to absorb greater labor force and to survive the economic crisis. Various efforts to empower SMEs have been less successful. Financing constraint, low quality of human resources, and limited marketing competence have been the typical problems of SMEs that harm SMEs’ performance. Despite these problems, SMEs still manage to survive. METHODS: Using the sampling method of stratified random sampling with area strata, this study generates 203 small business units as the sample. The research was conducted by using accidental sampling. The quantitative and qualitative data are from primary and secondary sources. The data was collected by using observation, interview, and in-depth interview. The variables in this research was analyzed by using path analysis. FINDINGS: Social capital positively affect SMEs’ financing as indicated by the significance value of 0.000 (< α= 5%). The stronger social capital of SMEs implied greater access of external financing sources. Social capital, and SMEs’ financing positively affect SMEs’ performance with 1% confidence level, and human resources positively affect SMEs’ performance with 6% confidence level. The finding shown the stronger social capital and human resources increases SMEs performance. CONCLUSION: The results show that social capital and SMEs’ financing positively affect SMEs’ performance, and human resources positively affect SMEs’ performance. The results imply that stronger social capital and human resources increases SMEs performance. Social capital facilitates access to finance, marketing, production, and information. The results shows that human resources affect SMEs’ performance. Social capital and human resources positively affect SMEs’ financing. Similarly, social capital, human resources, and financing positively affect SMEs’ performance.
CONSUMER ACCEPTABILITY AND QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF COOKIES PRODUCED FROM COMPOSITE FLOURS OF WHEAT AND BANANA/AVOCADO PEELS

This study evaluated consumer acceptability and quality characteristics of cookies produced from composite flours of wheat and banana/avocado peels. Banana peel flour (BPF) and avocado peel flour (APF) were substituted in wheat flour at 5 and 10 % and used to produce cookies. Analysis of the composite flours showed that the highest ash content (%) was recorded in the flour sample containing 10% AF (flour-E), having a value of 1.40 while wheat flour (flour-A) had the lowest. Crude fibre (%) ranged from 1.71 and 3.28, with flour-A and flour-E having the lowest and highest values respectively. Result of proximate composition of the cookies indicated that the cookies containing APF and BPF had higher ash and crude fibre contents than their counterparts containing only wheat flour. From the result of mineral analysis (mg/100g), it was observed that potassium, calcium, sodium, magnesium and iron ranged between 412.47460. 82, 20.48-65.26, 1.89-8.56, 31.21-42.65, and 2.10-3.19 respectively. Cookies with supplementation with flours of avocado/banana peel had higher contents than those produced from wheat flour alone. Assessment of the consumer acceptability of the cookies indicated that those produced from composite flours of wheat and avocado/banana peels favourably compared with those of wheat flours in the sensory attributes tested; hedonic mean scores of 6.0 and above were recorded for all the samples. It was concluded that the use of flours from avocado and banana peels as composites of wheat had good potential for production of nutritionally superior cookies compared to the use of wheat alone. This study may be an economically viable approach towards promoting utilization of food wastes for production of value added products in developing countries such as Nigeria, where food security has been a major challenge.
Cultural consequences of cost control in public hospitals: An organisational level perspective

This paper explores the operationalisation of Activity-based funding (ABF) and its influence on organisational controls and the prevailing culture in public hospitals. Qualitative analysis of semistructured interviews with fourteen senior managers reveals that ABF represents a decreed set of contractual obligations emphasising cost and efficiency, which are superimposed onto a pre-existing deeply entrenched culture that emphasises patient care. Organisational control systems which rely on high levels of bureaucratic and structural controls contribute to ongoing conflict between managers and clinicians resulting in a culture that is fragmented and adversarial. However control systems that emphasise commonalities in goals and vision are likely to result in a more integrated, collaborative culture where trust and mutual respect operate as the dominant control mechanism.
ECONOMIC FORCES ON GOLD PRICE IN MALAYSIA

During the occurrence of a financial crisis, investors will take gold as an alternative to investment as gold is used as an instrument to hedge against inflation. To add, during an uncertain economic condition, investors will flock to the gold market as a protection against uncertainty. The factors specifically influencing the gold price are unknown before, during and after the financial crisis. The main objective of this research is to examine the relationship between macroeconomic factors with gold price before, during and after the financial crisis period in Malaysia. The period of the study encompasses a nine (9) year period starting from years2004 to 2006 as the period before the financial crisis, years 2007 to 2009 as the financial crisis period, and years 2010 to 2012 as the period after the financial crisis. This study is conducted on a monthly data basis. To measure the relationship between the macroeconomic factors and gold price, interest rates, exchange rates, inflation rates and crude oil prices have been selected as the independent variables. From this study, exchange rates are found to have a significant relationship with gold price in the three examined periods and the relationship is defined as an inverse relationship. As for after the financial crisis, inflation rates are found to have a positive significant relationship with gold price, while crude oil prices are found to have a significantly negative relationship with gold price.
A Negative Effect of Post-Traumatic Growth on Self-perceived Burden of Patients with Lung Cancer During Chemotherapy in China: A Cross-sectional Survey

Background: self-perceived burden (SPB) is widespread in cancer patients, which is related to some physical symptoms, but more to psychological ones. Patients with lung cancer have a severe sense of self-burden and post-traumatic growth at different levels. As a protective factor of mental health, post-traumatic growth (PTG) how to influence SPB in cancer patients is rarely reported in the relevant literature. Purpose: To explore the effect of PTG on SPB and its influencing pathway of patients with lung cancer during chemotherapy, and to understand the potential mechanism, the indirect effect of PTG on SPB through illness perception and resilience was also studied. Methods: A total of 345 hospitalized chemotherapy patients with pathological diagnosis of lung cancer were enrolled as subjects. The level of illness perception, resilience, PTG and SPB were measured by the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (BIPQ), 10 item Connor Davidson Resilience Scale (CD RISC 10), Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) and Self-Perceived Burden Scale for Cancer Patients (SPBS-CP), respectively. And they were analyzed that the effect of PTG on patients' SPB and its influence path. Results: Structural equation modeling results supported the hypothesis mediation model in predicting SPB (χ2=65.456, df=34, χ2/df=1.925, RMSEA=0.052, TLI=0.980, CFI=0.987) with fit indices. It showed that PTG had both direct effect (β=-0.437) and indirect effect via illness perception and resilience (95% confidence interval was - 1.183 to - 0.616, excluding 0, total indirect effect was - 0.212) on SPB of lung cancer patients during chemotherapy. Conclusions: PTG plays an obviously negative role in the SPB of patients with lung cancer during chemotherapy, and also has indirect effects on SPB through illness perception and resilience. It is necessary to strengthen multi-disciplinary cooperation and formulate relevant interventions to alleviate SPB by reducing patients' negative illness perception and improving their PTG and resilience.
Modelling and Optimization of Channel Allocation for Power Line Communications Access Networks in the Presence of In-Line and In-Space Interference

Background and Objectives: Broadband power line communications (PLC) is a promising candidate for implementing access network of different telecommunication Technologies. Planning process of the PLC access network is subdivided into two main optimization problems of the generalized base station placement and PLC channel allocation. Methods: This paper studies the latter one for an actual PLC network by taking both in-line and in-space neighboring schemes into account for the first time and modeling the PLC channel allocation according to them. In this regards, different aspects of this problem are first introduced in details and then our suggested models for them are presented and numerically evaluated. Results: Specifically, for each pair of the broadband-PLC cells, in-line neighboring is modeled either by one or zero indicating the cells are neighbor or not; in-space neighboring is suggested to be a number from the interval [0 1] according to physical vicinity of cell’s wirings; and consequently aggregate neighboring intensity will be a number from [0 2]. Subsequently, the network interference is defined as a function of neighboring intensity and assigned frequency sets to the neighbor cells; so that the more neighboring intensity is increased and the more distance between the sets is decreased, the more interference is imposed on the PLC network. Eventually, the meta-heuristic methods of Genetic and shuffled frog-leaping algorithms are exploited to solve resulting PLC channel allocation problem via minimizing the interference. Conclusion: In general, the results confirmed the success of the suggested method in modeling PLC channel allocation problem in actual scenarios, tracking the network interference in these situations, providing an optimal solution for them, and including all previous research as a comprehensive method. ======================================================================================================Copyrights©2021 The author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, as long as the original authors and source are cited. No permission is required from the authors or the publishers. ======================================================================================================
Water quality of small fish ponds associated with swine culture

The water quality of fish ponds with tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) culture, associated with swine culture activities in a farm in Frutal, Brazil, was evaluated. Water samples were retrieved monthly, during 9 months, in three fish ponds with inflows and outflows (6 sites) to quantify limnological and microbiological variables, such as dissolved oxygen, pH, electrical conductivity, total dissolved solids, temperature, ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, total phosphorus, orthophosphates and thermotolerant coliforms. Results from different sample sites were statistically analyzed, according to data distribution for each variable. Three variables (dissolved oxygen, total phosphorus and thermotolerant coliforms) failed to comply with standards recommended by the Brazilian legislation. Since adjacent swine farms near the two ponds impacted water quality with regard to the above parameters, a treatment system in Pond 2 or a reduction of swine activity in the ponds is recommended to maintain adequate water quality for fish farming.
Unsupervised clustering of groups with different selective attentional instructions using physiological synchrony

Concurrent changes in physiological signals between people (Physiological Syn-chrony) can provide insight into attentional processes in groups, and individuals in relation to the group, for instance in educational settings. Earlier work showed that individuals can be correctly classified into attentional groups (attending or not attending to a story) based on the degree of synchrony with members of known groups (either instructed to attend or not attend to a story). Here we examine whether it is possible to find attentional groups from synchrony data using unsupervised learning, which may enable the identification of attentional groups without knowing anything about possible attentional foci beforehand as may be the case in real-world situations. This study is based on data from [1] (publicly available on https://github.com/ivostuldreher/physiological-synchrony-selective-attention), where half of the participants were asked to focus on the story told by an audiobook, while the others were asked to focus on separate sound stimuli, occurring during the story. All participants heard the exact same audio file - only the instruction differed for the two attentional groups - and physiological signals were recorded during the experiment from three modalities (EEG - electroencephalography, EDA - electrodermal activity or skin conductance, and heart rate). From these signals, physiological synchrony was computed for each modality to assess the level of correlation between participants. Each synchrony coefficient represents the extent of synchronous change of physiological signals between two participants [1] .
INFLUENCE OF MOISTURE CONTENT ON ELASTIC CONSTANTS OF SCOTS PINE WOOD SUBJECTED TO COMPRESSION

Moisture content is the environmental factor that has the greatest influence on the physical and mechanical properties of wood materials. This research aimed to quantify the effect of moisture content on the elastic constants of Scots pine wood grown in Turkey under different humidity regimes. The elastic properties investigated include EL, ER, ET, GLR, GLT, GRT, ʋLR, ʋLT, ʋRL, ʋRT, ʋTL and ʋTR under compression. The compression strength in all principal directions was also studied. Specimens were cut from sapwood of pine logs and sorted into four matched MC groups. Clear wood samples were conditioned at 21°C and 45%, 65%, 85%, 95% RH, and subjected to compression tests. A biaxial extensometer was used to measure active and passive strain during loading. Young’s modulus, shear modulus, Poisson’s ratios and compression strength were calculated and compared for all orthotropic directions. The results indicate that the elastic and strength properties are significantly different in the principal directions. The Young’s modulus, shear modulus and compression strength of the tested samples were strongly affected by moisture content. These properties exhibit a linear decrease with increasing moisture content. Poisson’s ratios are not sensitive to MC changes.
Irrigation and debridement for periprosthetic hip infections: A systematic review

We performed a systematic review of the literature regarding outcomes of early infection after total hip arthroplasty (THA). We searched multiple databases (PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE, and Cochrane library) for articles in the area published from 1950 to 2016. A total of 212 patients from 8 published studies were identified. The minimum follow-up was 4 months (range, 4–132 months). The most frequently isolated organisms were Staphylococcus aureus and coagulasenegative staphylococci. 153 of 212 (72%) patients were successfully treated, with no signs of infection or continued antibiotic treatment at the latest followup. In 48 of the 59 patients for whom treatment failed, infection was successfully treated with 1-stage or 2-stage reimplantation or resection arthroplasty. Overall mortality attributable to the infection of the hip was 2 % (four patients). Our study has helped to further elucidate the clinical and functional outcome of early periprosthetic hip infections treated with debridement, antibiotics and implant retention. We believe DAIR is a reasonable treatment option in early infection after primary THA in selected patients.
Refinement of the Nacrite Structure

Nacrite crystals from a vug within a matrix of dickite at Red Mountain near Sil verton, Colorado, have a = 8.906(2), b = 5.146(1), c = 15.664(3) Å, β = 113.58(3)°, V = 657.9(3) Å3, and space group Cc. The structure was solved by direct methods to determine phase angles, followed by electron density maps to locate all atoms. Refinement by least-squares ceased at R = 4.5%. Each 7 Å layer has structural detail very similar to those of dickite and kaolinite, although nacrite stacking is based on — a/3 interlayer shifts along the 8.9 Å axis (with octahedral cations alternating between the I and II sites in successive layers), whereas dickite and kaolinite are based on shifts of — a/3 along the 5.1 Å axis (with octahedral cations in the same set of sites in each layer). The angle of tetrahedral rotation is 7.8°, and the octahedral counterrotations are 7.6° and 8.1°. The H+ protons were located on DED maps. The inner 0.H1 vector points exactly toward the vacant octahedron and is depressed — 18.6° away from the level of the octahedral cations. All three surface OH groups have 0.H vectors at 50° to 66° to (001), although OH2 may not participate in interlayer hydrogen bonding. All three interlayer OH-H-O contacts are bent to angles between 132° and 141° and form contacts between 2.94 and 3.12 Å. The interlayer separation of 2.915 Å is slightly larger than in dickite, interpreted as due to a less favorable meshing of the oxygen and hydroxyl surfaces in nacrite—a direct consequence of layer shifts along the 8.9 Å axis.
Country Report Belgium

http://grease.eui. eu This Country Report offers a detailed assessment of religious diversity and violent religious radicalisation in the above-named state. It is part of a series covering 23 countries (listed below) on four continents. More basic information about religious affiliation and state-religion relations in these states is available in our Country Profiles series. This report was produced by GREASE, an EU-funded research project investigating religious diversity, secularism and religiously inspired radicalisation.