Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Stress Antecedents Among Student Teachers

The purpose of this study was to find out the sources of stress among teachers' college students. The study targeted third year students at Mkoba Teachers' College (M.T.C.). Fifty two (52) female and forty eight (48) male students participated in the study. The 52 female students included 39 resident and 13 non-resident students while 39 males were resident and 9 were non-resident. The third year students were in their final residential session after Teaching Practice (T.P.). The four main sources of stress were found to be Theory of Education (T.O.E.) examinations, work load, being a non-resident student and Theory of Education (T.O.E.) assignments.
Ageing activities of daily living disabilities and the need for public health initiatives: some evidence from a household survey in Delhi.

Besides highlighting the need for public health initiatives the present paper may also serve to make a case for evolving a long-term care strategy for the physically challenged aged. This is particularly important owing to the growing disengagement of families in providing care to their ADL dependent elderly. Any such arrangement may however have important financial and subsidy implications. This paper refrains from going into those issues as they fall beyond the scope of this work. The rest of the paper is organized as follows: The next section provides a few conceptual details about the ADL disabilities followed by an application of this concept based on a household survey with elderly co-residents drawn from all the nine administrative districts of the national capital territory of Delhi. This discussion also briefly mentions the relevance of such exercises from different angles ranging from families to care providers and insurance agencies. The following section is devoted to an econometric analysis dealing with the socio-economic risk factors in causing disabilities in later years. The next section as noted earlier deals with the three different pathways of the disabilities with the intrinsic objective of suggesting that a considerable number of disabilities in India are non-senescent. Hence public health agencies should strive to make people aware of the need for healthy ageing and adopt a clinical approach with the distribution of health- augmenting medicines such as vitamins to the needy aged. Certain policy imperatives are discussed at the end of the paper. (excerpt)
Physiological assessment of the load-capacity-drive relationship in chronic respiratory failure and outcomes following domiciliary non-invasive ventilation

24 Statement of originality . 26 Funding . 26 Abbreviations. 26 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION . 30 1.1: Assessment of Patients with Chronic Respiratory Failure . 31 1.1.1: Basic clinical assessment . 31 1.1. 2: Gas exchange . 33 Oxygen . 34 Carbon dioxide . 34 Acid-base balance . 34 1.1. 3: Overnight physiological monitoring . 35 Oximetry . 35 Transcutaneous capnography . 37 Advanced sleep studies . 38 1.1. 4: Respiratory muscle testing . 39 Non-invasive . 40 Invasive . 42
Effect of indoor environmental factors on respiratory symptoms in children and teenagers aged 4-17 years in urban area of Shanghai.

Objective To explore the effects of indoor environmental factors on the respiratory symptoms in children aged 4-17 years. Methods A cross-sectional survey of indoor environmental factors related respiratory symptoms in 6 551 children and teenagers aged 4-17 years was conducted throughout urban area of Shanghai in 2007. The information was obtained on certain aspects of the family socioeconomic status (SES) and other confounding factors,and the associations between indoor environmental factors and respiratory symptoms were analyzed. Results After controlling confounders,parent smoking,the house or the classroom nearby roads ( 50m) were risk factors for persistent cough,wheeze and wheeze symptom; Father smoking were a risk factor of persistent expectoration; Indoor visible fungus,household decoration in 2 years were risk factors for persistent cough,wheeze; Fur pets,new furniture of 1 year,indoor wet were the risk factors for persistent cough and persistent expectoration; Using air-cleaning chemicals often,using fuel gas for cooking for more than 45 min per day may affect persistent expectoration and wheeze respectively. Conclusion Parent smoking is an important cause of respiratory symptoms in the investigated children. Fur pets,indoor visible fungus,new furniture and using fuel gas for cooking for longer time may increase the risk of respiratory symptoms.
PointCNN

We present a simple and general framework for feature learning from point cloud. The key to the success of CNNs is the convolution operator that is capable of leveraging spatially-local correlation in data represented densely in grids (e.g. images). However, point cloud are irregular and unordered, thus a direct convolving of kernels against the features associated with the points will result in deserting the shape information while being variant to the orders. To address these problems, we propose to learn a X-transformation from the input points, which is used for simultaneously weighting the input features associated with the points and permuting them into latent potentially canonical order. Then element-wise product and sum operations of typical convolution operator are applied on the X-transformed features. The proposed method is a generalization of typical CNNs into learning features from point cloud, thus we call it PointCNN. Experiments show that PointCNN achieves on par or better performance than state-of-the-art methods on multiple challenging benchmark datasets and tasks.
Transition from intravenous epoprostenol to oral or subcutaneous therapy in pulmonary arterial hypertension: A retrospective case series and systematic literature review

BACKGROUND: Intravenous epoprostenol, a prostaglandin analogue, has been a mainstay of therapy for patients with advanced pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) since the early 1990s. This medication has multiple side effects, and sudden discontinuation is potentially associated with severe sequelae. Several recent case series have described the transition from intravenous to newer oral or subcutaneous therapies. A case series detailing the authors’ experience with such transitions, and a systematic lierature review is presented.
Lipid Profile Abnormalities in Nephrotic Syndrome

Nephrotic syndrome is a set of indications that include protein in the urine, low blood protein levels, high cholesterol levels, high triglyceride levels, and swelling. Nephrotic syndrome is affected by changed disorders that damage the kidneys. This impairment leads to the release of too much protein in the urine. Hyperlipidemia is a common finding in nephrotic syndrome. There is increased total Cholesterol, LDL, VLDL and low or normal HDL. It has been noted that certain factors like diet, malnutrition, genetic traits etc., are known to alter the frequency and severity of lipid pattern. The Indian patient has a different dietary, constitutional and genetic background. An attempt was also made to correlate the degree of proteinuria and hypoproteinemia, with the rise in serum lipid values in cases of nephrotic syndrome. This is a Cross sectional study in which 30 Normal patients and 30 patients with nephrotic syndrome aged 25-65 years old. The Serum Protein & Serum lipid profiles of the admitted patients were evaluated. There was a significant increase in Total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, VLDC & TG. There was significant decrease in Serum Total Protein, Serum Albumin & Serum globulin in Nephrotic patients when compared to Controls. The study finding conclude that the serum lipid profile shoed noticeable increase in the nephrotic syndrome in Indian patients. It also observed that nephrotic patients are having hyperlipidaemia. This hyperlipidaemia may progress in to the cardiovascular diseases. Hence the lipid profile in the nephrotic syndrome must be monitored for better management of the diseases.
Physical Environmental Barriers to Community Mobility in Older and Younger Wheelchair Users

For those who rely on wheeled mobility devices for many or all of their mobility needs, barriers in the physical environment can pose significant obstacles in everyday life. Current Americans With Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines standards do not address barriers at the level of specificity necessary to ensure accessibility for wheelchair use. This project developed a Web-based survey to capture differences in the level of difficulty of 50 barriers that persons who use wheelchairs routinely encounter in their communities. Results showed that among the 385 people who completed the survey, the most significant differences were between older and younger manual wheelchair users and suggest that Americans With Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines specifications should be revised to be more sensitive to the needs of older wheelchair users.
Behavior of some biosocial factors related to breastfeeding in babies aged less than 1 year

INTRODUCCIÓN: El abandono progresivo de la lactancia materna se ha considerado "una nueva enfermedad propia de los siglos XX y XXI", en la cual han influido una serie de factores de muy diversa índole. OBJETIVO: Caracterizar el comportamiento de los factores biosociales en la lactancia materna en los menores de un año. MÉTODOS: Se realizó un estudio descriptivo de corte transversal, en un universo de 158 nacimientos ocurridos en el 2008 del área de salud "Aleida Fernández Chardiet". Se empleó el estudio bibliográfico, documental y la contrastación de criterios de diferentes autores como procedimiento teórico, además de procedimientos empíricos. RESULTADOS: Solo en el 55,7 % de los lactantes estudiados, se logró una lactancia materna exitosa, cifras por debajo de las recomendaciones internacionales. El destete precoz ocurrió en el 44,3 % y el motivo más frecuente fue la hipogalactia materna. CONCLUSIONES: El motivo más frecuente del destete precoz, fue sustentado por el criterio de las madres de que era insuficiente la producción y obtención de leche.
SEMI-QUANTITATIVE MOLD EXPOSURE INDEX PREDICTS BUILDING-RELATED RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) investigated 13 college buildings to examine whether a semi-quantitative mold exposure index (EI) could efficiently predict work-related respiratory symptoms. We collected work-related symptom data and room locations/time fractions through questionnaires. Industrial hygienists classified rooms for factors including extent of water stain, visible mold, mold odor, and dampness. We estimated 323 individual EIs based on each factor or a combination of the factors weighted by time fraction in particular rooms. In logistic regression models adjusting for age, gender, job position, hire years, smoking, allergies, and use of latex gloves, we found a significant exposure-response relationship for wheeze (Odds Ratio(OR)=2.3) with stain-based EI. EI based on the combined factors showed significant exposure-response relationships for chest tightness (OR=2.2) and shortness of breath (OR=2.7). Our findings suggest that an observational semi-quantitative exposure index can support public health action to prevent risk of building-related respiratory disease.
Association between suicide attempts and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors: systematic review of randomised controlled trials

In this setting, because the doc and the nurse know the patient inside out, they can bring me up to speed really quickly, I can then go in and get to the meat of what matters to the patient very early. We can also work out a whole series of things they might try, and so often what I try and end up doing is laying out some options for a variety of things over the next six months. So the patients often feel as if they get a lot out of it and the primary care team feels as if they’ve been supported. They’ve got several things they can try and they’re still in control. —specialist in health maintenance organisation
Characterization of candidate genes in English cocker spaniel hereditary nephritis

Characterization of Candidate Genes in English Cocker Spaniel Hereditary Nephritis. (December 2003) Zenaido Tres Camacho, B.S., The University of Texas at Austin Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Joe W. Templeton Six different isoforms of Type IV collagen (colIVα1-6) have been identified. The individual isoforms of colIV are termed alpha chains and are translated from six different COLIV genes (COLIVA1-A6). Collagen Type IV gene products compose the structural framework of basement membranes. The glomerular basement membrane (GBM) is a specialized basement membrane involved in the ultrafiltration processes of the kidney. The colIVα1-α5 chains are expressed in the human GBM while the colIV α1-α6 chains are expressed in the canine GBM. Many inherited diseases of the kidney have been reported and mutations in genes regulating kidney function have been identified. Alport syndrome (AS) is the most common form of human hereditary nephritis (HN). AS is defined as an inherited progressive kidney disorder associated with sensoneural deafness and is characterized by extensive thickening and multilamminar splitting of the GBM when examined by electron microscopy. AS has both X-linked (XLAS) and autosomal (ARAS) modes of inheritance. Mutations in the COLIVA5 gene are responsible for XLAS. A form of HN with characteristic splitting of the GBM with X-linked inheritance has been described in Samoyed dogs. A specific mutation in the
Prevalence of Hepatitis B Virus Infection among Egyptian Pregnant Women - A Single Center Study

Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection still has a relatively high incidence and prevalence worldwide. In the post-vaccination era in developing countries, perinatal vertical transmission remains the most common mode of transmission. Prevention of mother-to-child transmission requires screening for HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) in pregnant women to identify which newborns that must be immunized. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of HBV infection among pregnant mothers who were attending outpatient clinic of the Obstetric Department, and Social and Preventive Medicine Center at Cairo University Hospital Campus, for routine antenatal care. Methods: A cross sectional study included 2,000 pregnant women. A rapid screening test Research Article International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health, 3(2): 157-168, 2013 158 for HBV “One Step HBsAg Rapid Test” was done for all women and all HBsAg-positive cases were confirmed by ELISA for HBsAg. A structured questionnaire for risk factors for HBV acquisition was filled for every pregnant mother positive for HBsAg and a control group of HBsAg negative mothers. Results: Out of 2,000 pregnant women, 35 (1.75%) were positive by the rapid test, out of whom 32/35 cases (91.43) were confirmed to be positive by the confirmatory test representing 1.6% of the study population. Family history of HBV, previous intravenous (IV) injections, medical clinic attendance, hospital admission, and surgeries were the risk factors for acquiring HBV infection (P-value=0.001, 0.003, 0.002, 0.000, and 0.011, respectively). Conclusion: HBV infection is prevalent among pregnant mothers attending our outpatient services. Therefore we recommend screening for HBV in all Egyptian pregnant mothers to prevent neonatal infection by immunoprophylaxis.
Antenna design for passive sensors in non-conventional materials

The advancement of the design and fabrication of antennas using textiles or paper as substrates has rapidly grown motivated by the boom of RFID systems and the developing concept of the Internet of Things. These advancements have allowed, not only the development of products for manmachine interaction, but also to make these products smaller and lighter. The search for new techniques and methods to produce printed electronics and antennas in alternative materials is therefore an open door for new technologies to emerge. Especially in the sensors market, where weight, size, power consumption and the adaptability to the target application, are of great importance. This thesis focuses on the development of antenna design approaches with alternative materials, such as the already tested paper and textiles, but also others relatively unknown, such as cork and biodegradable polymers used in 3D printing. These materials are applied to act as substrates, or support structures for the antennas. Therefore, their electromagnetic properties need to be determined. Due to that, a review of electromagnetic characterization methods, as well as the proposal of a custom method based on printed transmission lines, is presented in this document. Besides, several antenna designs, for different application scenarios, using the previously mentioned materials, are proposed. With this thesis it was proved that it is possible to develop passive sensors in different alternative materials for RFID applications and others, which shows great promise in the use of these materials to achieve higher integration in sensing and identification applications.
Enhancing Partnerships with Relatives in Care Settings for Older People

Background Involvement of service users is a priority on the political agenda if we are to move towards meeting the needs of older people for the provision of high quality services. However, the significant contribution that relatives make to care processes is often overlooked when considering involvement in decision-making (Hertzberg and Ekman 2000). This problem is compounded by the fact that it is difficult to discern from policy documents exactly what ‘involvement’ means and therefore how it should be realised by health care professionals.
Using ED Observation Units to Decrease Length of Stay in Chest Pain Patients

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to compare the hospital length of stay in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with unspecified chest pain who were admitted through the ED to an inpatient bed prior to the initiation of the emergency department observation unit (EDOBS) and compare those patients admitted after the implementation of the EDOBS. MethodA retrospective, randomized descriptive study using chart review was performed at a large hospital system in the metropolitan Detroit region. Charts with an admission [International Classification of Diseases–9 Code 786.5, unspecified chest pain (n = 92)] were randomly selected. ResultsFor the inpatient group, ED registration time to unit was 6.4 hr and time from the unit to discharge was 80 hr (i.e., 3.3 days). For the EDOBS group, ED registration time to unit was 3.5 hr and time from EDOBS to discharge was 16 hr (i.e., 0.67 days). Length of stay decreased by 2.7 days overall. ConclusionsUsing EDOBS for patients with unspecified chest pain provides for prompt and complete cardiac evaluation. Furthermore, the utilization of the emergency nurse practitioner helped alleviate the increased workload placed on the ED physicians in this type of unit. For example, the emergency nurse practitioner facilitated consults, reviewed diagnostic and laboratory findings (e.g., serial cardiac enzymes), and expedited hospital admission or discharge from the EDOBS. Study LimitationsStudy limitations included a small random selection sample from one institution. Data collection was limited to review of the medical record and the accuracy of documentation.
IMPACT OF MECONIUM STAINED AMNIOTIC FLUID ON EARLY NEONATAL OUTCOME

OBJECTIVE: To find out the incidence, neonatal outcome and associated maternal antepartum & intrapartum risk factors of meconium stained amniotic fluid (MSAF). DESIGN: Prospective Study. SETTINGS: Neonatal Unit of Hospital and PNC Ward. SUBJECTS & METHODS: Prospective Study was conducted including 100 babies born with meconium stained amniotic fluid who are admitted in NICU and with mother in PNC ward in a period of six months (April 2012October 2012) excluding those who born with congenital abnormalities. Detail history of babies and mother with MSAF noted with emphasis on antepartum and intrapartum risk factors and outcome in terms of morbidity and mortality. RESULTS: Incidence of MSAF in the study was 8. 98%. Out of 100, 24 babies were admitted to NICU with most common indications being birth asphyxia (16%) and Meconium Aspiration Syndrome (MAS) (6%). Majority babies were delivered through thin Meconium Stained Liquor (MSL) (44%) followed by thick (35%) and moderate (21%). Total number of deaths were 9 and all these babies had thick meconium with severe birth asphyxia. Ninety one babies were born at >37 weeks of gestation and 57 had birth weight over 2. 5 Kg. Nineteen percent were non vigorous requiring tracheal suctioning and positive pressure ventilation at birth. Common mode of delivery was emergency Cesarean in 83% patients. Common maternal and fetal risk factors were fetal distress (30%) followed by Oligohydramnios (30%), Pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH) (24%), anemia (14%), severe anemia (5%), Antepartum hemorrhage (4%) and Antepartum eclampsia (4%). CONCLUSIONS: Oligohydramnios, PIH, anemia and fetal distress were common antenatal and intranatal factors associated with MSAF. Major morbidity and indication for NICU admission was Birth asphyxia and non vigorous babies. Mortality rate was 9% which is commonly associated with thick meconium and severe birth asphyxia.
Evaluating an Academic Bridge Program Using a Mixed Methods Approach

As the demand for college degrees has increased, college enrollment has grown significantly, and economic forces have applied greater pressure on the higher education environment to produce more degrees and better post-graduation outcomes. Many public colleges and universities have felt these pressures distinctly because of their state funding environments and the specific expectations that exist within them. While college aspirations and attendance have broadly improved, achievement gaps persist along cultural, generational, and socioeconomic lines. In an effort to navigate and negotiate institutional goals, public expectations, economic needs, and educational ideals, institutions engage in diverse approaches to recruitment and retention. Academic bridge programs are one type of intervention used to help incoming college students relatively at risk of attrition to transition to college. This mixedmethods, multiphase study evaluates one year of a new comprehensive bridge program serving first-generation and low-income freshmen from the Arkansas Delta region at the state’s flagship university. Retention and academic performance of participants and eligible nonparticipants were quantitatively analyzed and compared to assess the program’s effectiveness. The participant experience was explored using quantitative and qualitative methods to capture their assessment of the program’s helpfulness and their personal reflections about it. Findings indicate that the bridge program served students who were relatively disadvantaged as incoming college students even compared to similar students more at-risk than the general student, and that the program was associated with a very small positive effect on oneyear retention. More and deeper investigation is needed to fully assess the influence of the program and whether it constitutes a cost-effective strategy for improving diverse enrollment and retention.