Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
AN INVESTIGATION OF LEARNER AUTONOMY IN LANGUAGE LEARNING IN TERTIARY EDUCATION: FROM THE PERCEPTIONS OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

The aim of this study is to investigate how the students and instructors perceive learner autonomy as well as examine whether there are any differences between their perceptions regarding autonomous learning in an English language preparatory program in Istanbul, Turkey. The study also attempts to find out how autonomy is perceived by the participants regarding student responsibilities and to identify the differences between their perceptions of the aforesaid variable. Besides, this research attempts to reveal the challenges faced by the students and instructors w hile promoting autonomous learning in language classrooms. The data were obtained from questionnaires and semi-structured interviews administered to the two groups of participants. The findings revealed that learner autonomy should be closely addressed at tertiary level classes to promote more autonomous behaviors. Finally, the exam-oriented educational context was perceived as the only challenge to both instructors and students in their efforts to promote autonomous learning. Based on the findings, implications and suggestions about promoting learner autonomy in language preparatory programs were provided further in this study.
Initial Validity and Reliability of the Portuguese Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion 6-20 Scale

ABSTRACT The aims of this study were to perform the cross-cultural adaptation of the Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) 6–20 Scale to Brazilian Portuguese language and to start testing its validity and reliability. After performing the cross-cultural adaptation of the Scale, concurrent and discriminative validity, and reliability were determined on a treadmill in young (18–30 years) and older adult women (60–75 years). Considering young and older adult women, RPE presented high and moderate positive correlation with heart rate and high and low positive correlation with oxygen consumption, respectively. Older adult women presented RPE (11 ± 2) significantly higher than young ones (8 ± 1) exercising at the same absolute intensity. Intraclass coefficient correlation was excellent for RPE to young and older adult women. The Scale presented concurrent validity only to young adult women, whereas it presented discriminative validity between such groups of women. Moreover, the scale is reliable to young and older adult women.
Atmospheric Moisture Effects on Deep Convection in the Western Mediterranean

Improving the understanding and representation of heavy precipitation is crucial to prevent its hazards. A powerful means to reduce errors is to assimilate high-resolution humidity GPS observations. Here, novel experiments employing sub-hourly atmospheric GPS, in-situ observations and nudging are used to study the impact of moisture corrections on convection. This work adds new explanations on the sensitivity of extreme precipitation to moisture changes and on the added value of nudging GPS.
TEACHERS' TOPICS Human Simulators and Standardized Patients to Teach Difficult Conversations to Interprofessional Health Care Teams

Objective. To design and implement a demonstration project to teach interprofessional teams how to recognize and engage in difficult conversations with patients. Design. Interdisciplinary teams consisting of pharmacy students and residents, student nurses, and medical residents responded to preliminary questions regarding difficult conversations, listened to a brief discussion on difficult conversations; formed ad hoc teams and interacted with a standardized patient (mother) and a human simulator (child), discussing the infant’s health issues, intimate partner violence, and suicidal thinking; and underwent debriefing. Assessment. Participants evaluated the learning methods positively and a majority demonstrated knowledge gains. The project team also learned lessons that will help better design future programs, including an emphasis on simulations over lecture and the importance of debriefing on student learning. Drawbacks included the major time commitment for design and implementation, sustainability, and the lack of resources to replicate the program for all students. Conclusion. Simulation is an effective technique to teach interprofessional teams how to engage in difficult conversations with patients.
Comparison of Results from a Phase 1/2 Study of Lumiliximab (Anti-CD23) in Combination with FCR for Patients with Relapsed CLL with Published FCR Results.

Lumiliximab is a PRIMATIZED® anti-CD23 monoclonal antibody with human IgG1 constant regions and macaque variable regions. Preclinical data demonstrated that lumiliximab enhanced both fludarabine- and rituximab- mediated apoptosis in CLL cells. Thus, a Phase 1/2, open-label, dose-escalation, multicenter study (Study 152–30) evaluating lumiliximab + fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab (L + FCR) for relapsed CD23 + B-cell CLL was initiated. Treatment has been completed and follow-up is ongoing. Thirty-one patients (pts) received either 375 mg/m 2 (n=3) or 500 mg/m 2 (n=28) of lumiliximab in combination with a 28-day cycle of FCR for up to 6 cycles. Median age at study entry was 58 yrs. The majority of pts (74%) were Rai Stage I/II. The most common adverse events included nausea (77%), pyrexia (61%), chills (55%), neutropenia (55%), and fatigue (48%). Twenty pts (65%) experienced a Grade 3 or 4 event. An overall response rate of 71% was demonstrated: 48% complete response (CR), 10% partial response (PR), and 13% unconfirmed PR. Currently, baseline cytogenetic data is available for 21 pts who received 500 mg/m 2 of lumiliximab. Although preliminary, 1 of the 4 pts with del(17p13.1) responded; of the 6 pts with del(11q22.3), 5 responded with 4 attaining a CR. A comparison with published data from a study of FCR alone in 177 pts with relapsed or refractory CLL conducted at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) (Wierda W, O’Brien S, Wen S, et al. J Clin Oncol.2005;23:4070–4078) demonstrated that L + FCR has an acceptable safety profile, does not appear to increase the toxicity (including myelosuppression) of the FCR regimen, and compares favorably with the CR rate of the FCR regimen alone, as displayed in Table 1. Most pt characteristics (age, gender, median number of prior therapies, and WHO performance status) were similar between the 2 studies; however, more pts in the MDACC study were Rai Stage III-IV (50% vs 22%) and were rituximab-naive (88% vs 40%). Furthermore, there were no obvious differences in hematologic toxicity between the 2 studies and the tolerability of L + FCR was similar to that of FCR, with approximately 50% percent of pts completing 6 cycles of treatment in both studies. These data suggest that L + FCR may produce a higher complete response rate than FCR without additional toxicity. Based upon this data, a multicenter, global, randomized study of L + FCR vs. FCR alone is being initiated.
How different cost behaviour is in emerging economies? Evidence from Argentina

Cost behaviour literature is expanding its reach beyond developed economies; however, there is limited knowledge about its causes in emerging economies. This is an exploratory study of sticky costs behaviour determinants in Argentina, a country with periodic political and economic turbulence. The purpose of this paper is to test the effect of GDP, asset intensity, industry and cost type in an inflationary context. ,Anderson et al. (2003) empirical regression (ABJ model) is replicated in Argentina with 667 observations from 96 firms between the years 2004 and 2012. It uses panel data and variables are defined as change rates between two periods. The sample excludes financial and insurance firms. It tests if sticky cost behaviour changes in periods of macroeconomic deceleration, or in firms belonging to industries with different asset intensity levels, or among different cost types. ,The analysis shows that costs are sticky in Argentina, where a superb economic outlook is required to delay cutting resources or increasing costs. Cost behaviour is affected by social and cultural factors, such as labour inflexibility driven by powerful unions and not by protective employment laws, asset intensity (industry) and macroeconomic environment. Results suggest that costs are sticky for aggregate samples, but not for all subsamples. ,Administrative costs are sticky when GDP grows; but when growth declines, managers or firms do not delay cost cutting actions. Some subsamples are extreme cases of stickiness while others are anti-sticky, casting some doubt on the usefulness of sticky costs empirical tests applied to country-wide samples. Careful selection of observations for sticky costs studies in emerging economies is critical. ,Evidence from previous studies show that on average costs are remarkably sticky in Argentina; this study shows that cost reduction activities occur faster but are not persistent enough to change the aggregated long-term results of cost stickiness in the presence of moderate to high inflation. The study contributes to the literature by suggesting that observations used in sticky costs studies from emerging economies might be mainly from positive macroeconomic environments, might have skewed results due to extreme cases of stickiness or might be distorted by inflation.
Design and optimization of HTS flux-switching permanent magnet machine

Flux-switching permanent magnet (FSPM) machine with high temperature superconductors (HTS) bulks located between the rotor poles to eliminate the flux leakage in the rotor, termed as (HTS-FSPM) machine has been proposed in this paper. Using genetic algorithm, the HTS and the conventional FSPM machines having the same size constraints and load conditions have been globally optimized for max. aveage torque. To highlight the advantages of the HTS-FSPM machine, a performance comparison between the conventional and HTS-FSPM machines has been presented. It is found that the HTS-FSPM machine can increase the torque by 27%, however, this comes with the expense of higher torque ripple and power losses.
The embeddedness of the business-to-business platform market through online framing A quantitative research examining the relationship between the network position and the homogeneousness of webpage content of companies in the business-to-business platform market.

The platform economy is a growing market that consists of four branches. One of these branches is the business-to-businesses platform market. This market delivers and hosts services to business customers or clients via their own platform, often to increase efficiency in handling different tasks or helps analyzing data. The network and the digital profile of 65 companies that are active in the B2B platform market were studied to find out how the framing or similarity of the digital profiles of organizations is connected to the embeddedness of these organizations in their network. Isomorphic pressures predict that organizations within a population are more similar as organizations strive to gain legitimacy and trust. The digital profiles, consisting of two pages of an organizations’ website, were coded with quantitative content analysis. To test the embeddedness of the companies, how integrated organizations are within a population, the network was constructed by scraping the organizations’ websites manually to find their customers, integrations and investors. It was found that within this market the digital profiles are significantly similar, what suggests that the B2B platform market is isomorphic. It also appeared that the homogeneousness’ of the digital profile is related to the embeddedness of an organizations in the network. If the similarity is related to the position of the network, this should also be reflected for the outliers of the market; the organizations that belong to a niche. Although the profiles were found to be significantly different of niche organizations than from non-niche organizations, the embeddedness of these niches did not appear to be. Lastly, the network of the B2B platform market turns out to be a small world network, so that indicates that this market is embedded in more ways than one. As a result, the embeddedness of an organization can be found in the framing of the digital profiles. Organizations that use similar statements on their websites are likely to have a closer relationship and appear to be more embedded in the market. As the embeddedness of an organization can predict better economic performance, this outcome calls for more research into the relationship between embeddedness and the digital profile and or in this market.
Movement, party and electoral dynamics. Syriza’s electoral success as a movement effect (2010-2015)

In this article we approach SYRIZA's electoral success between 2012 and 2015 as a movement effect. We focus on SYRIZA's features, strategy and message that have been developed on the grounds of its movement activity, as well as on the external political conditions which SYRIZA seems to take advantage of. We argue that the anti-austerity campaign created the necessary preconditions for the electoral and political rise of SYRIZA, namely the emergence of a new political boundary between pro- and anti-Memorandum forces and a subsequent majoritarian socio-political category that could be transformed into a privileged electoral pool for SYRIZA.
The Impact of Establishing a Full Scope of Practice for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses in the State of Indiana

Legislators in Indiana are considering the expansion of scope-of-practice (SOP) to include full prescriptive authority for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs). This report examines the literature related to the relationship between state APRN SOP regulations and health care delivery, and it estimates the effect on the state of Indiana if the legislature were to define a full SOP for APRNs.
An Efficient and Robust Data Aggregation Scheme Without a Trusted Authority for Smart Grid

Secure data aggregation has been widely studied in the area of the smart grid. Many existing schemes have studied protecting user’s privacy in data aggregation by using advanced cryptographic tools. However, they usually introduce a large computation burden to smart meters in limited computing power or require a trusted authority. How to ensure the efficiency on the user side while preserving user’s privacy still has not been well addressed. In this article, we consider the scenario where there does not exist a trusted authority and users in the smart grid may dynamically change, and propose an efficient and robust data aggregation scheme without a trusted authority for the smart grid. Our proposed scheme not only ensures user’s privacy and efficiency but also supports flexible dynamic user management with no need of involving a trusted authority. Analysis of security and performance shows that our scheme can guarantee stronger security features, while ensuring efficiency in terms of computation, communication, and storage overhead.
A Novel Buoyancy Control Device Using Reversible PEM Fuel Cells

Buoyancy control devices are essential to maneuver ROV effectively underwater. Many approaches have been used to tackle this problem such as compressed air ballast which can take in water and eject it using compressed air and the use of high-density foam plates that can be added or removed to increase or decrease the buoyancy. Presented in this paper is a novel approach for buoyancy control, which utilizes the electrolysis and reverse electrolysis capabilities of a reversible polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell to adjust the volume of a small vehicle, and change its depth. Making use of the two processes helps restore some of the energy consumed by the system through the process of reverse electrolysis and also for building a fully-closed system, that is, one that does not require any water or gas flow to the surrounding. Modeling of the device is explained and a proportional-derivative (PD) controller is designed to control it at a certain depth using a single sensor measurement. Experiments validate the controller performance.
Oral Disease in Diabetic Patients – A Pilot Study

Abstract Background and Aims. Diabetes mellitus is one of the most frequent systemic diseases found in the human adult population. However, the impact of diabetes mellitus, particularly type 2, on oral health is a controversial subject that is far from being clarified. The aim of this study was to prospectively assess the oral health of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in order to detect the main oral pathological changes occurring in these patients. Material and method. For this study, 328 patients who presented for dental treatments in the period May 2015 – May 2016 were available. Of these, 33 patients with T2DM, who made up the diabetes group, and 79 patients who formed the control group were selected. Diabetes group was selected from patients that presented no other systemic disorders that could determine the appearance of oral lesions except for T2DM. The control group was selected in order to have general characteristics similar to the diabetes group. Results. Patients in the diabetes group had a mean tooth loss value of 12.69±7.47 compared to patients in the non-diabetic group, who had a mean value of 6.29±4.62. Non-odontogenic oral pathology such as chronic candidiasis, salivary disorders and lichen planus was present in 51.52% of all patients with T2DM, while in the control group this was absent. Conclusions. The presence of diabetes mellitus favors tooth loss and the development of non-diabetic oral lesions.
Improving Medication Adherence in an ACO Primary Care Office With a PharmacistLed Clinic: A Report From the ACORN SEED

Background: As health care moves into the era of value-based medicine, both ambulatory and acute settings are being held accountable for the quality of care provided to patients. Previous studies have shown improved clinical outcomes through medication therapy management (MTM) due to improved medication adherence. Objective: The purpose of this study is to assess the effects of a pharmacist-led MTM clinic in an accountable care organization (ACO) affiliated primary care office on adherence to renin-angiotensin system (RAS) antagonists, diabetic medications, and/or statin medications reported through Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) Medicare Star Ratings. Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, data were collected via chart review of pharmacist-led MTM patient interviews and follow-ups between October 2015 and April 2017. Eligible patients were Humana HMO Medicare beneficiaries, with at least one chronic disease state, for which they were treated with a RAS antagonist, statin, or diabetic medication. The primary outcome of this investigation was a change in Star Rating scores for medication adherence to RAS antagonists, diabetic medications, and statins from pre- and postpharmacist MTM intervention. Results: A total of 102 patients were referred to the MTM clinic. Out of these, 32 had a follow-up visit, resulting in a total of 25 interventions. One year prior to MTM clinic implementation, most Star Ratings were consistently 3 (out of 5) for RAS antagonists, diabetic medications, and statins. Postintervention, ratings increased to 4 or 5 across these categories. Conclusion: Implementing a pharmacist-led MTM clinic in the ACO primary care setting improves Medicare Star Ratings in patients with chronic conditions.
Evaluation Of Analgesic Activity Of Clerodendrum Viscosum Linn. (Verbenaceae) Leaves On Experimental Animal Model

The main objective of the present investigation is to evaluate the analgesic activity of ethanolic extract of leaves of Clerodendrum viscosum (EELCV) on rats. Analgesic activity of EELCV at a dose of 100, 300 and 1000mg/kg and 500mg/kg & 2.5 mg/kg of pethidine was evaluated against the standard drug pethidine at a dose of 5mg/kg. Adult Swiss albino rats of either sex of six numbers in each group was undertaken for study and evaluated by tail flick method (for central action). The analgesic activity profile of ethanolic extract at different doses of 100, 300, 1000mg/kg and combination of 500mg/kg extract and 2.5 mg/kg of pethidine showed significant (p<0.05 & p<0.01) analgesic activity when compared with control and pethidine treated animals. Thus, ethanolic extract of leaves of Clerodendrum viscosum exhibited marked central analgesic effect in dose dependent manner
Perception of Use of Herbal and Orthodox Medicines in Parts of Abuja: A Pilot Study -

This study assessed respondents’ perception on packaging, affordability, availability, efficacy, and safety of use of herbal and orthodox medicine in the treatment of common diseases in Abuja. Structured questionnaires were administered to elicit information from 200 residents selected from five locations through a purposive sampling method and data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Orthodox medicines were rated higher than herbal medicine in term of preference, packaging, first-aid and uses. While in terms of affordability, adverse effect, natural and efficacious to the body, the respondents preferred herbal medicine. About Seventy percentage chose orthodox medicine as their first drug of choice while 28% preferred herbal medicine as their first drug of choice. 72.96% of the respondents have used herbal medicines without any side effect while 10.77% had experienced adverse effects from its use and 16.33% claimed they have never used herbal medicines for treatment before. The differences in the means of attributes of herbal and orthodox medicines were not statistically significant at P>0.05. The information obtained is in agreement with WHO statement that over 80% of the world’s population depends on traditional medicine for its primary health care.