Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Investigation of Ovine Theileriosis in Animal Production Research Stations (APRS) in the Sudan

A cross sectional study was conducted in May (summer) and December (winter) 2016 to investigate the prevalence of ovine theileriosis and its association with the presence of the vector (ticks) in Elhuda and Elnuhud research stations in the Sudan. A total of 400 blood samples were collected, 200 samples from each station and age, sex, ecotype and body condition score of these animals were recorded. In Elhuda station, the positive results of microscopic examination for Theieria spp were 15.3% (31 out of 202) while in Elnuhud were 11.6% (23 out of 198) with an overall prevalence 13.4%. Fluorescent antibody test (IFAT) showed that, 27.7% of samples (56 out of 202) and 16.2% of samples (32 out of 198) were positive for Theileria lestoquardi antibodies in Elhuda and Elnuhud respectively, with an overall prevalence 22.0%. The main prevalent Ticks in Elhuda were Rhipicephalus evertsi evertsi and Hyalomma anatolicum while in Elnuhud in addition to these two species H. dromedarii and H. impeltatum. Were present the results showed significant association between T. lestoquardi infection and following factors under significant level of P-value ≤ 0.005; including ecotype (p-value = 0.005), Body Condition Score (p-value =0.003), Month (p-value =0.000) and location (P-value = 0.005).
Soil fertility and litterfall assessment in a peri-urban forest of São Paulo, SP: understanding for urban green areas manegement

The Atlantic Forest is an important biome formed by different phytophysionomy and is considered a hot spot of biodiversity. Some parts of the biome has received more attention in recent studies but few articles has stood out in the physiognomy of nebular forest, especially in peri-urban forests. The objective of this study was to evaluate soil fertility and litterfall production and decomposition in a peri-urban forest of Sao Paulo city, Brazil. The studied area is located at the Curucutu nucleus, at the State Park of Serra do Mar, southern of Sao Paulo city. The phytofisignomy is characterized by dense broadleaf vegetation in a nebular forest. Five different points were selected in 1 ha plot to collect soil samples at 0-10, 10-20, 20-30 cm depths to analyze physicochemical properties and fertility. For analysing litterfall production 20 litter traps were randomly distributed in the plot. After collected, the material was dried and weighted. For decomposition, sixty litter bags were randomly placed on the soil and 12 of them were monthly collected to assess the biomass loss. The results indicated low nutrient availability and high values of aluminum in the soil due to extremely acidic conditions. The soil C:N, C:P and P:N ratios showed an inefficiency in nutrient cycling probably due to the slow decomposition rate, which probably contributed to low availability of nutrients. Litterfall production reached the amount of 6.4 Mg ha -1 year -1 with the highest production during the spring and summer. The litter bags methodology confirmed the lower decomposition rates and the time to decompose 50% and 95% of the material was higher than the expected for fragments of the Atlantic forests. The low values of macro and micronutrients verified, associated with the acidity and the presence of toxic element, affect the fertility of the soil at the Curucutu, resulting in nutritional deficiencies to the existing vegetation.
Hope, self-efficacy, and perceived stress among Iranian women with breast cancer: Examining the mediating role of resilience

The current study seeks to investigate the impact of hope and self-efficacy on perceived stress through the mediating role of resilience among Iranian female patients diagnosed with breast cancer. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was employed to investigate a mediation model of perceived stress among 227 Iranian female patients undergoing cancer treatment at Omid Hospital in Esfahan, Iran. The results indicated that; (a) Hope and self-efficacy negatively impact perceived stress, (b) Resilience partially mediates the association between hope and perceived stress as well as self-efficacy and perceived stress. In sum, patients with high levels of hope and self-efficacy were more likely to report a greater level of resilience and subsequently report lower perceived stress. These findings indicate that the promotion of resilience, along with hope and self-efficacy enhancements may contribute to decreased levels of perceived stress in breast cancer patients. We discuss how these findings can inform future psychological practice in healthcare.
Interrelated Factors with Hospital Financial Performance from Hospital Managers’ Perspective

This study aims to investigate the interrelated factors regarding hospital financial performance by considering cost and quality indicators from hospital managers’ point of view. Data collected from face-to-face interviews from ninety senior managers working in twenty different public and private hospitals in the Ankara metropolitan area. A path analysis was used to quantify both the direct effect of cost performance on quality performance and the indirect effect of cost performance on financial performance as mediated by a hospital’s quality performance. A final path model highlights that constructs related to both cost and quality affect financial performance. Study results support the evidence that cost, quality, and financial performance indicators are causally related and quality indicators mediate these associations. The goodness-of-fit indices were acceptable (X 2 /df = 34.22/15 = 2.28; RMSEA = 0.12; GFI = 0.90; AGFI = 0.81). Moreover, the results support the relationships among the constructs in which labor productivity and capacity utilization mediate the effect of clinical quality on patient satisfaction, and patient satisfaction mediates the effect of market share on operating profits. The present results are helpful to identify the associated factors of hospital financial performance and to extract the effect of sensible cost and quality factors on financial performance. Study results suggest some maintenance and operational actions to better manage financial performance by considering the mediating role of patient satisfaction.
Absence of RET/PTC1 rearrangement in a sample of Colombian individuals with papillary thyroid carcinoma

Introduction: Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common endocrine neoplasm; therefore, markers with possible prognostic utility have been evaluated.Objective: To analyze the presence of RET/PTC1 rearrangement, lymphocytic thyroiditis and associated clinical features in patients with papillary thyroid cancer treated at the Hospital de San José in Bogotá, Colombia.Materials and methods: Clinical records of patients with complete thyroidectomy and diagnosis of papillary cancer were retrospectively identified. RNA was extracted from tumor tissue, and cDNA was obtained using inverse transcriptase to detect the rearrangement of the RET/PTC1 gene by means of qPCR.Results: 55 patients with papillary thyroid cancer were selected; 93% were females, and the mean age was 45.8 years. The most frequent histological variant was classic (49%). A relationship was found between lymphocytic thyroiditis and the number of positive nodes in segments other than central draining, as well as thyroiditis and antithyroid antibody value. No RET/PTC1 rearrangement expression was found.Conclusions: A relationship between lymphocytic thyroiditis and the number of positive nodes in segments other than central draining was found. Other molecular markers should be searched to differentiate the prognosis of these patients.
Food Shopping Behavior: A Long Way to Prevent Food Waste

Food sustainability is becoming big concern these last couple years, due to the food scarcity issues in many countries. However in contrary previous studies reported the food waste behavior is getting bigger at this moment because of over food preparation, food stocking, undesired food, and food packaging. Over all, most of these issues come from the food shopping behavior. People tend to buy more food products than what they need. Therefore, the determinant of food shopping behavior is urgently found in order to find the solution to drive people to have planned food buying behavior. This research elaborates how motivation to prevent food waste would affect food shopping behavior. The data collection through survey has been done in the young adult community. The finding indicates that having motivation to prevent food waste will contribute to well-planned food shopping behavior. Furthermore, the research also indicates that female shows higher motivation in preventing food waste as also reported in some previous studies that report similar result.
Prognostic Factors after Hepatic Resection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Univariate and Multivariate Analysis

Background/Aims: We assessed prognostic factors affecting cumulative survival rate and recurrence-free survival rate after hepatic resection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Methods: Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed in 108 consecutive patients with HCC who underwent curative hepatic resection between November 1994 and March 1998. Results: The cumulative survival rates were 89.8%, 75.5%, and 56.6% at 1, 3, 5 years, respectively. The cumulative recurrence-free survival rates were 78.9%, 62.1%, and 53.0% at 1, 3, 5 years, respectively. The patients who had preoperative serum -FP 20 ng/mL showed high cumulative recurrence-free survival rates in univariate (p=0.020) and multivariate (p=0.061) analysis. Single tumor was associated with increased cumulative survival rates (p=0.034) and cumulative recurrecne-free survival rates (p=0.029) in multivariate analysis. The presence of tumor capsule was associated with increased cumulative recurrence-free survival rates in univariate (p=0.031) and multivariate (p=0.030) analysis. Conclusions: By these results, resection alone is unlikely to cure HCC patients with multiple tumors or no tumor capsule. Preoperative serum -FP level may be of prognostic significance in patients with HCC.
PD-L1 Testing in Gastric Cancer by the Combined Positive Score of the 22C3 PharmDx and SP263 Assay with Clinically Relevant Cut-offs

Purpose We provide a comparison between 22C3 pharmDx and SP263 assay, for evaluating programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression in advanced gastric cancer (GC) patients. Materials and Methods The PD-L1 immunohistochemistry by 22C3 pharmDx and SP263 assays was performed in the center of the tumor (CT) and invasive margin (IM) in 379 GC tissues using tissue microarrays and interpreted as combined positive score (CPS) and tumor proportion score (TPS). Of the total samples, 55 samples were independently reviewed by five pathologists. Results The two assays showed a high correlation in both the CPS and TPS. At a CPS ≥ 1 cut-off, 219 (57.8%) and 231 (60.9%) GCs were positive for PD-L1 with the 22C3 and SP263 assays, and at ≥ 10 cut-off, 37 (9.8%) and 36 (9.5%) GCs were positive, respectively. The overall percent agreement (OPA) was greater than 90% with CPS ≥ 1 and ≥ 10 cut-offs, and TPS ≥ 1% and ≥ 10% cut-offs. There was higher OPA between the two assays with a CPS cut-off ≥ 10 (99.2%) than ≥ 1 (94.7%). The percent agreement between the CT and IM was higher with a CPS cut-off ≥ 10 (92.9%) than ≥ 1 (77.6%). Patient with positive expression at CPS ≥ 5 cut-off had a significantly better outcomes in both assays. Interobserver variability among five pathologists was higher than the assay variability. Conclusion Two assays for PD-L1 expression in GC showed high agreement. These results provide guidance for selecting eligible patients with GC for pembrolizumab treatment.
University of Birmingham Non-coding mutations in urothelial bladder cancer

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: Whole genome sequencing has identiﬁed recurrent non-coding mutations that may be important in carcinogenesis. We investigate the frequency of 5 such non-coding mutation hotspots in urothelial bladder cancers (UBCs) and assess their potential for UBC detection and prognostication. METHODS: DNA extracted from 302 UBCs was subjected to targeted next generation sequencing of non-coding mutation hotspots in GPR126 , PLEKHS1 , TBC1D12 , LEPROTL1 and WDR74 . The frequency of mutations, and associations with stage, grade, age, gender, smoking status, clinical outcomes, mutation signatures and gene expression were analysed using χ 2 tests, logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards models. RESULTS: Non-coding mutations were common across all stages and grades of UBC. The frequencies were: GPR126 53.0%, PLEKHS1 38.7%, TBC1D12 25.5%, LEPROTL1 23.8% and WDR74 17.2%. There was an average of 1.6 mutations per UBC, and 74% of UBCs harboured at least one mutation. They frequently co-occur, and commonly accompany an APOBEC mutational signature. The mutations are not strongly associated with clinical parameters and are, most likely, early events in the development of UBC. CONCLUSIONS: Mutations at these 5 non-coding hotspots are common in UBC. Due to their high frequency across stages and grades of disease, they should be included in UBC diagnostic biomarker panels.
Record Linkage Using A Domain Knowledge Ruleset

Application areas such as healthcare and insurance see many patients or clients with their lifetime record spread across the databases of different providers. Record linkage is the task where algorithms are used to identify the same individual contained in different datasets. In cases where unique identifiers are found, linking those records is a trivial task. However, there are very high numbers of individuals who cannot be matched as common identifiers do not exist across datasets and their identifying information is not exact or often, quite different (e.g. a change of address). In this research, we provide a new approach to record linkage which also includes the ability to detect relationships between customers (e.g. family). A validation is presented which highlights the best parameter and configuration settings for the types of relationship links that are required. Please cite this version: Dongyun Nie, Mark Roantree. Detecting Multi-Relationship Links in Sparse Datasets. 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2019), May 2019, Heraklion, Greece. Volume 1:137-145. ISBN: 978-989-758-372-82. SCITEPRESS. Record Linkage Using A Domain Knowledge Ruleset∗ Dongyun Nie and Mark Roantree Insight Centre for Data Analytics School of Computing, Dublin City University, Ireland dongyun.nie@insight-centre.org, mark.roantree@dcu.ie
The Problem of Debt Overhang: Canadian Evidence

This study empirically examines the anticipation of growth opportunities as an unexplored channel by which financial leverage may impact firm investment. We show that the negative impact of leverage on investment is exacerbated when growth opportunities are unanticipated. The results are robust to alternative empirical models and for different measures of financial leverage. The instrumental variable analyses show that the debt overhang problem is overstated absent controls for reverse causality. This study provides further empirical evidence supporting the debt overhang theory and highlights the importance of the anticipation of growth opportunities on the extent of the debt overhang problem. JEL classification: G32, G01.
The Effects of Occupational Health and Safety on Employee Performance Through Work Satisfaction

Many companies which are less concerned about the health and safety of employees can cause workplace accidents and health problems to employees. Accidents are undesirable and unpredictable when they occur, but they can be anticipated. The creation of safe conditions from the possibility of accidents will facilitate the performance of the company. This study aims to determine the effect of occupational health and safety on employee performance and test the role of job satisfaction as a mediator between occupational health and safety, and employee performance. This is an explanatory research in which data were collected by questionnaire and analyzed by using path analysis. The sample consisted of 50 respondents. The study found that occupational health and safety had no effect on employee performance, and job satisfaction could mediate the relationships between occupational health and safety on employee performance
Prevalence of Intestinal Parasites among Patients attending a Tertiary Care Centre in Central Nepal

Background: Intestinal parasitic infections are important public health problem and are globally endemic. These parasites are responsible for the major share of morbidity and mortality in those communities where there is overcrowding, poor environmental sanitation and personal hygienic practices. Intestinal parasitic infection is highly prevalent among the general population in Nepal. This study was aimed to evaluate the burden of the intestinal parasitic infections and the pattern of distributions among patients attending in a tertiary care setting in Bharatpur, Nepal, over a period of one year (August 2017 to July 2018). Methods: Stool samples of patients received in the Microbiology laboratory, COMS that were subjected for routine stool investigations were included in this study. Naked eye physical examination, microscopic examination was carried out and parasites were identified in the received stool samples. The results were recorded, and data were entered into excel spreadsheet 2007. The percentages of the parasites present were calculated to find out the frequency and distribution. Results: A total of 1,558 fresh stool samples were screened, of which 20.60% (n=321) were positive for various intestinal parasites. Overall, helminthic infections (81.30%) were higher than protozoal infections (18.70%). On the whole, Ascaris lumbricoides showed higher prevalence (39.56%) followed by Ancylostoma duodenale (19.31%) and Giardia lamblia (9.97%). 17(1.09%) of the samples showed more than one parasite. Highest prevalence was seen in age group 15 to 25 years of age (27.40%). Conclusions: Parasitic infection is endemic. Apart from the early diagnosis and effective treatment, health education is a requisite to control infections in this area and awareness of sanitation to reduce and control parasitic infection.
Autumn Leaf Litter and Its Biochar Amendment on Soil Nitrous Oxide Emission, Plant Growth, and Nutrient Uptake of Komatsuna and Spinach Grown in Potted Soils

A pot experiment was conducted to assess the effect of fallen leaf litter and its biochar amendment on vegetable growth and N2O emissions from two successive vegetable crops. Four treatments; 1) control (no amendment), 2) leaf litter, 3) leaf litter biochar, and 4) combination of leaf litter and biochar were established before planting the first crop (komatsuna) but no additional amendment was done for the second crop (spinach) to assess the residual effects of the treatments. The results showed that application of leaf litter either alone or combined with biochar significantly decreased vegetable yields and nutrient uptake while increasing N2O emissions from both crops. Conversion of leaf litter to biochar and its amendment showed no significant differences in vegetable yield, but nutrient uptake was improved when compared with the control. Biochar amendment significantly reduced soil N2O emission in the first crop but no significant effect was observed in the successive spinach crop although the amount emitted was less compared with the control. Therefore, conversion of municipal leaf litter to biochar and its amendment to vegetable soils will be one of the best solutions for reducing soil N2O emission while maintaining vegetable yield.
Inves ti gate the Rela ti onship Between Health Literacy and Health Promo ti ng Behavior in Students

Background and Objective: Health literacy and health promoting behaviors are among the most important characters of health and their utilization can increase health behaviors, improve access to health care and they are essential for preserve and control the health. Hence, this study was done to determine the relationship between health literacy and health promoting behaviors among students of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: This study was done by descriptive-analytic method, on 382 students of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences using multi-stage stratified random sampling. Data were collected by use of iraniana dult Health literacy questionnaire (HELIA) and Health Promoting Behaviors (HPLP-ll). Results: The total mean score of students’ health literacy was 126.13 (19.28). 67% (n = 260) of them, had excellent and desirable health literacy and total score of health promoting behaviors and the total score of health promoting behaviors was evaluated undesirable, with 51.1% of achievable score. Also according to the findings, there was a positive and significant correlation between health promoting behaviors and dimensions of health literacy included: accessibility (r = 0.404), reading (r = 0.324), perception and understanding (r = 0.354), evaluation (r = 0.410), decision making and use of health information (r = 0.552) (P <0.01). Also, there was a positive and significant correlation between health promoting behaviors and all dimensions of health literacy (P <0.01). Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, students’ health literacy behaviors increased with increasing health literacy. Therefore, the use of design and performance of educational interventions is suggested to empower students in the field of health literacy. Paper Type: Research Article
Head phenotypes based on cephalic index among Ukwuani people, in south-south Nigeria

Background : Head shape based on cephalic index has been used by anthropologists as a measure of classifying humans. Cephalic index is derived from head length and head width. Objective : To find out the dominant head phenotypes based on cephalic index in relation to age. Design : A cross-sectional study. Setting : The Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria, between February and September, 2011. Subjects : Six hundred and five people (grouped into 6-12 years, 13-19 years and 20 years and above) were recruited to participate the study. Results : The mean cephalic index at 6-12 years is 74.37 ± 3.09 (male=73.95 ± 2.93; female = 74.78 ± 3.20). At 13-19 years, the mean cephalic index is 74.71 ± 3.52 (male = 74.04 ± 3.35; females = 75.28 ± 3.57). The mean cephalic index at 20 years and above is 76.19 ± 3.26 (male=75.90 ± 3.32; females = 76.52 ± 3.23). The dominant head phenotype at 6-12 years is dolicocephalic including males and females. At 13-19 years head type is dolicocephalic; males and females are dolicocephalic and mesocephalic head type respectively. At 20 years and above, mesocephalic head type is dominant; males and females are dolicocephalic and mesocephalic head type respectively. Poor positive linear correlation exists between cephalic index and age. There is no significant difference between cephalic indices at 6-12 years and 13-19 years. There exist statistically significant differences between cephalic index at 20 years and above, and at 6-12 years and 13-19 years. Conclusion : This is relevant in anthropology and forensic science.