Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
School Health Services

MOCHA defines school health services as those that exist due to a formal arrangement between educational institutions and primary health care. School health services are unique in that they are designed exclusively to address the needs of children and adolescents in this age group and setting. We investigated school health services have been provided to schools, and how they contribute to primary health care services for school children. We did this by mapping the national school health systems against the standards of the World Health Organization, and against a framework measuring the strength of primary care, adapting this from an existing, adult-focused framework. We found that all but two countries in the EU and EEA have school health services. There, however, remains a need for much greater investment in the professional workforce to run the services, including training to ensure appropriateness and acceptability to young people. Greater collaboration between school health services and primary care services would lead to better coordination, and the potential for better health (and educational) outcomes. Involving young people and families in the design of school health services and as participants in its outputs would also improve school health.
A Ka-Band Integrated E-Plane Power Divider

This paper describes the design, construction and performance of a millimeter wave power divider which operates over the entire Ka-band. Performance of the power divider enclosed in a metallized composite housing is shown. The integration of E-plane circuits and lightweight composite material makes this an inexpensive millimeter wave component which can be useful in a variety of applications such as phased arrays or measurement equipment.
Employment and health status changes among women with fibromyalgia: a five-year study.

OBJECTIVE To assess changes in health status of women with fibromyalgia (FM) over 5 years and determine whether baseline employment status influences health outcomes adjusting for other baseline factors. METHODS Two hundred eighty-seven women with FM were recruited from a national sample of rheumatologists and interviewed by phone at baseline and annually for 4 years. Data were collected on pain, fatigue, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale and Modified Health Assessment Questionnaire (M-HAQ) scores, demographic characteristics, and employment status. At the end of the study, 211 participants remained. Data were analyzed using multilevel modeling techniques. Bootstrap methods adjusted for the cluster sampling. RESULTS The participants' mean +/- SD age was 47 +/- 11 years, their mean +/- SD education level was 14 +/- 2 years, 90% were white, 50% employed, 64% married, and their median household income was >or=$50,000. Mean +/- SD scores at baseline were 57.2 +/- 24 for pain, 75.4 +/- 22 for fatigue, 22.9 +/- 13 for depression, and 0.73 +/- 0.5 for the M-HAQ. Multilevel modeling indicated that all health status measures declined significantly over time except for pain. Rates of change varied from -1.22 for fatigue to -0.03 for the M-HAQ. Except for pain, patients who were employed at baseline had better health status over time. The employment and time interaction was not significant, indicating that health status changed at the same rate regardless of employment status. Other significant factors were age and income. CONCLUSION Employed women with FM have better health status at baseline and maintain that advantage over time. Employment does not seem to provide a protective health benefit.
Identifying Key selection Factors of Mobile Network Operator and Analysing their Importance Versus Performance from SME Customers Perspective

The primary objective of this empirical study is to identify the key factors that influence the selection of mobile telecommunications service provider/Mobile Network Operator (MNO) and assess the perceived levels of importance and performance using Importance Performance Matrix proposed by Martilla and James, (1977) from the perspective of SME customers. The survey instrument which was designed and developed after an exhaustive literature review coupled with one focus group discussions and fourteen in-depth interviews was administered through field survey and e-mail to collect the primary data from SME subscribers of leading MNOs in the west zone of Tamilnadu. The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) provided eleven critical factors namely: network service, billing system, service encounter, technology, value-added service, convenience, reputation, brand image, tariff plan, word-of-mouth and switching cost. The importance-performance analysis highlights the 'keep up the good work’ factors and ‘concentrate here’ factors that demand a reallocation of resources and guide the MNOs to formulate competitive strategies for customer acquisition and retention.
SPECTROFLOURIMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF NITRIC OXIDE IN MICE PLASMA, URINE AND KIDNEY HOMOGENATE IN DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY

Objective: Nitric oxide (NO) plays a critical role in the pathophysiology of diabetic nephropathy. The reduction in NO levels observed in diabetic nephropathy cannot be accurately measured by Griess reaction. Present study aimed to determine the levels of the stable end products of NO, nitrate and nitrite after eight weeks of streptozotocin induced diabetes by flourimetric method. Methods: The determination of NO concentration by flourimetric method was based on the reaction between 2, 3-diaminonaphthalene and NO to yield the highly flourescent 2, 3-naphthotriazole. Nitrate reductase and NADPH regenerating system was used to quantitate NO in protein precipitated plasma, urine and kidney homogenate after reduction of nitrate. The optimum conditions, such as flourimetric determination conditions (ʎex= 365 nm, ʎem= 415 nm), the influence of pH, and reaction time on the flourescence was examined. Results: The flourimetric intensity was linear with the NO concentration in the range of 10-440 ng/ml with a R2 of 0.998 ( p< 0.0001). The limit of detection was 14.44ng/ml and the limit of quantitation was 43.76ng/ml. The intraday and interday precision and accuracy of the method were within the stipulated limit. The validated method was used to measure NO in the plasma, kidney homogenate and urine. The results showed a sharp decrease in NO levels. Conclusion: The method is reproducible, sensitive and reliable. Owing to great pathological implications of NO in diabetes; the work may help to investigate underlying mechanism of diabetic nephropathy.
Optimaler Fussgaengerschutz durch situationsgerechte Einschaetzung der Fussgaengerbewegung

Der vorausschauende Fussgaengerschutz (vFGS) ist ein zentrales Thema der zukunftsorientierten Entwicklung im Bereich Fahrzeugsicherheit. Bei diesen Systemen werden mittels geeigneter Sensorsysteme Fussgaenger im umgebenden Verkehrsgeschehen erfasst, das Kollisionsrisiko anhand geeigneter Voraussagealgorithmen ermittelt und im gegebenen Fall Warnungen ausgegeben bis hin zu (teil-)autonomen Bremseingriffen. Mit Hilfe dieser Systeme sind wesentliche Reduzierungen von Fussgaengerunfaellen oder -unfallfolgen moeglich. Speziell das gravierende Problem des Sekundaeraufpralls auf die Strasse nach einer Kollision mit dem Fussgaenger kann durch diese Systeme zumindest gemildert, wenn nicht sogar verhindert werden. Kritischer Punkt fuer die Akzeptanz eines vorausschauenden Fussgaengerschutzsystems ist die fast gaenzliche Vermeidung von Fehlausloesungen speziell in Verbindung mit dem autonomen Bremseingriff. Um diese minimale Fehlausloesungsrate zu erreichen ist eine sehr praezise Kollisionssituationseinschaetzung der betroffenen Verkehrspartner notwendig. In diesem Vortrag werden neue, innovative Methoden zur Einschaetzung des Bewegungsspielraums der betroffenen Verkehrsteilnehmer vorgestellt und die zugehoerigen Methoden um eine praezise Risikomasszahl fuer die vorliegende Verkehrssituation zu ermitteln. (A) Beitrag zum Themenbereich "Integrierte Sicherheit und Pre-Crash-Systeme" der 24. VDI/VW-Gemeinschaftstagung "Integrierte Sicherheit und Fahrerassistenzsysteme, Wolfsburg, 29. und 30. Oktober 2008. Siehe auch Gesamtaufnahme der Tagung, ITRD-Nummer D364581.
Samuel Gee, Aretaeus, and the coeliac affection.

Last year the Royal Hospital of Saint Bartholomew in London celebrated the 850th anniversary of its founding by Rahere in 1123. Over the centuries many distinguished physicians and surgeons have been members of its sitaff bu-t to paediatricians and gastroenterologists today it is Samuel Jones Gee whose name is most likely to be familiar (see photograph) because of his contribution to paediatrics.1 Gee was born in London in 1839 and died at Keswick in 1911. He was a man with a deep love of the past and a passion for the accurate use of words, which, he had learnt, led ito accurate (thinking and caused fewer mistakes than fall to the lot of most mortal men. In 1888 he wrote in St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports2 a notable account of What he chose to call the coeliac affection, which remain.s one of the most vivid and accurate descriptions of the clinical state which we still call coeliac disease. It seems very likely that the title he selected reflected his admiration for (the work of a colleague recorded in Greek nearly two thousand years earlier. Gee, it is said, was often amused to find that some contemporary observation had been long since anticipated by a writer of former times. In this instance, we believe, he chose -to be anticipated by the physician Aretaeus the Cappadocian, who with others, had described tthe coeliac statte. Reference is still sometimes made to the writings of Aretaeus, usually in the English translation by Francis Adams (1796-1861). Adams produced a Greek text with an introduction and a translation for the Sydenham Society in 1856.3 This work brought him into cormmunication with a number of British and European scholars and won for him an honorary degree at the University of Aberdeen. T-he chapter heading on page 350 of Adams's English version is identical with the title adopted by Gee 32 years later for his own report-"On the Coeliac Affection. " This may be mere coincidence for Gee was quite capable of reading the original Greek and he refers to the use by Aretaeus of the term "coeliac diathesis. " Gee and Adams may each have chanced on the same fairly conventional nineteenth-centuy phrase to render the text that Aretaeus probably wrote. But ift is also possible that Gee chose his title specifically as a referenoe, an acknowledgement, and a compliment to Aretaeus and the older writers. It was certainly in character for him to do so and there is other evidence in Gee's account to show Samuel Jones Gee, 1839-1911. (Reproduced by permission of the Royal College of Physicians of London.)
Conversion of the Synthetic Catalase Mimic Precursor TAA‐1 into the Active Catalase Mimic in Isolated Hepatocytes

In previous studies we reported on the catalase‐like activity and antioxidative properties of a non‐heme Fe(III)‐tetraaza[14]annulene complex, 5,4‐didehydro‐5,9,14,18‐tetraaza‐di(2,2‐dimethyl‐[5,6]benzo[1,3]dioxolo)[a,h]cyclotetradecene–Fe(III) chloride (TAA‐1/Fe). We proposed that intracellular application of the parent, iron‐free tetraaza[14]annulene ligand, TAA‐1, as precursor would allow antioxidative defense along two lines, i.e. by chelation of potentially toxic cellular iron ions and, subsequently, by catalase‐mimic activity. We here set out to establish whether the active catalase mimic is indeed formed intracellularly when cells are loaded with the ligand. When isolated rat hepatocytes were preloaded with TAA‐1, they were protected against iron‐induced cell injury and oxidative stress elicited by exposure to the membrane‐permeable iron complex Fe(III)/8‐hydroxyquinoline. After lysis of the cells, followed by ultrafiltration to remove endogenous catalase, the lysate exhibited catalase‐like activity, while lysates of control cells not treated with TAA‐1 showed no catalase‐like activity. By comparison with authentic TAA‐1/Fe, an intracellular formation of 2.0 ± 0.3 μm of the active catalase mimic in native hepatocytes exposed to TAA‐1 and of 6.5 ± 1.0 μm in hepatocytes exposed to both TAA‐1 and iron ions was estimated. The intracellular formation of the active catalase mimic thus renders TAA‐1 an attractive compound for protection against iron‐ and/or hydrogen peroxide‐dependent cell injuries.
Real Exchange Rate Dynamics and Monetary Integration in Crisis-Affected Regions

This paper examines Generalised Purchasing Power Parity (G-PPP) across three regions whose constituent countries are closely linked economically and have been affected by a financial crisis. G-PPP is particularly appropriate when interdependence is high and this is examined using the Johansen multivariate cointegration procedure. The extent of convergence towards G-PPP is assessed in the pre- and post-crisis period across the EMS crisis in Europe in 1992, the Latin American crisis in 1994, and the South East Asian crisis in 1997. This includes assessment of whether a long-run equilibrium relationship between the real exchange rates exists within the three groups and quantifying the speed of adjustment to this equilibrium. The econometric results help to indicate how regional exchange rate policy may have evolved following a major financial shock. In addition, economic implications are set out from a monetary integration perspective.
Seeker: Topic-Aware Viewing Pattern Prediction in Crowdsourced Interactive Live Streaming

Recently, Crowdsourced Interactive Live Streaming (CILS), such as Twitch.tv and Periscope, has emerged as one of the most popular streaming applications over the Internet. In such applications, a large number of geo-distributed users publish live sources to broadcast their game sessions, personal activities, and other events, while fellow viewers not only watch these live streams, but also contribute interactive messages to influence streaming content. Such explosively increasing popularity has posed significant challenges to predict viewing patterns using traditional time-series approaches, which lack the start/end knowledge of live streams and cannot capture the viewing burst very well. In this paper, we closely examine the characteristics of interactive messages in the real-world datasets, we find that the strong topic relevances exist in the viewers' discussions. Motivated by this observation, we design a crowdsourced framework Seeker to overcome aforementioned challenges. It explores the correlation between three viewing patterns (i.e., start/burst/end of live streams) and viewers' interactive messages (even before a live broadcast) through capturing the key topics. Our trace-driven evaluation and case study show the effectiveness of our solution, which can predict aforementioned patterns in advance and achieve much higher performance than the time-series approaches.
Practices That Support Leadership Succession and Principal Retention.

Principals are instrumental to successful school improvement efforts and positive student outcomes. However, recent workforce trends, increased accountability, demands of the job, and turnover rates for school principals are worrisome. Succession planning is a systematic approach that involves all aspects of identifying and retaining leaders (Rothwell, 2010) including preparation, recruitment, selection, onboarding, induction, development, and retention. Although succession planning is underutilized in public school settings, it is one avenue to address leadership issues and help school district leaders meet their long-term leadership needs. This qualitative study examined the succession practices of five large school districts in Colorado by gathering the perspectives of principals and school district leaders. The findings indicate several actions that educational leaders can take to address the challenges of well-qualified candidates and the do-ability of the principal position. Findings further indicate that leaders may influence principal retention by differentiating support and purposefully fostering relationships. These findings might be used by other educational leaders to strengthen their succession practices and policies and affect the retention of school leaders.
Investigation on Board-Level CDM ESD Issue in IC Products

The impacts caused by board-level charged-device-model (CDM) electrostatic-discharge (ESD) events on integrated-circuit products are investigated in this paper. The mechanism of board-level CDM ESD event is introduced first. Based on this mechanism, an experiment is performed to investigate the board-level CDM ESD current waveforms under different sizes of printed circuit boards (PCBs), charged voltages, and series resistances in the discharging path. Experimental results show that the discharging current strongly depends on the PCB size, charged voltage, and series resistance. Moreover, the chip- and board-level CDM ESD levels of several test devices and test circuits fabricated in CMOS processes are characterized and compared. The test results show that the board-level CDM ESD level of the test circuit is lower than the chip-level CDM ESD level of the test circuit, which demonstrates that the board-level CDM ESD event is more critical than the chip-level CDM ESD event. In addition, failure analysis reveals that the failure in the test circuit under board-level CDM ESD test is much severer than that under chip-level CDM ESD test.
Light field image editing by 4D patch synthesis

This paper presents a patch-based synthesis framework for lightfield image editing. The core of the proposed method builds upon a patch-based optimization approach. The main contribution of the paper is to extend the versatile patch-based image editing framework to 4D lightfield images and enable many editing applications for them. Specifically, the paper introduces a novel 4D lightfield patch consistency measure for avoiding synthesis of inconsistent patches into the edited lightfield images. Combining with a joint 4D patch search, our method is able to maintain the correlation among views and render a consistent interpretation of the scene. The proposed method offers patch-based solutions to a wide variety of lightfield image editing problems, including inpainting, retargeting and reshuffling.
The Between-Population Genetic Architecture of Growth, Maturation, and Plasticity in Atlantic Salmon

The between-population genetic architecture for growth and maturation has not been examined in detail for many animal species despite its central importance in understanding hybrid fitness. We studied the genetic architecture of population divergence in: (i) maturation probabilities at the same age; (ii) size at age and growth, while accounting for maturity status and sex; and (iii) growth plasticity in response to environmental factors, using divergent wild and domesticated Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Our work examined two populations and their multigenerational hybrids in a common experimental arrangement in which salinity and quantity of suspended sediments were manipulated to mimic naturally occurring environmental variation. Average specific growth rates across environments differed among crosses, maturity groups, and cross-by-maturity groups, but a growth-rate reduction in the presence of suspended sediments was equal for all groups. Our results revealed both additive and nonadditive outbreeding effects for size at age and for growth rates that differed with life stage, as well as the presence of different sex- and size-specific maturation probabilities between populations. The major implication of our work is that estimates of the genetic architecture of growth and maturation can be biased if one does not simultaneously account for temporal changes in growth and for different maturation probabilities between populations. Namely, these correlated traits interact differently within each population and between sexes and among generations, due to nonadditive effects and a level of independence in the genetic control for traits. Our results emphasize the challenges to investigating and predicting phenotypic changes resulting from between-population outbreeding.
Clinical application of mild therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest*

Objective:Postresuscitative mild hypothermia lowers mortality, reduces neurologic impairment after cardiac arrest, and is recommended by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation. The European Resuscitation Council Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest Registry was founded to monitor implementation of therapeutic hypothermia, to observe feasibility of adherence to the guidelines, and to document the effects of hypothermic treatment in terms of complications and outcome. Design:Cardiac arrest protocols, according to Utstein style, with additional protocols on cooling and rewarming procedures and possible adverse events are documented. Setting:Between March 2003 and June 2005, data on 650 patients from 19 sites within Europe were entered. Patients:Patients who had cardiac arrest with successful restoration of spontaneous circulation were studied. Measurements and Main Results:Of all patients, 462 (79%) received therapeutic hypothermia, 347 (59%) were cooled with an endovascular device, and 114 (19%) received other cooling methods such as ice packs, cooling blankets, and cold fluids. The median cooling rate was 1.1°C per hour. Of all hypothermia patients, 15 (3%) had an episode of hemorrhage and 28 patients (6%) had at least one episode of arrhythmia within 7 days after cooling. There were no fatalities as a result of cooling. Conclusions:Therapeutic hypothermia is feasible and can be used safely and effectively outside a randomized clinical trial. The rate of adverse events was lower and the cooling rate was faster than in clinical trials published.
Localization and tracking of moving targets with WiFi-based passive radar

This paper investigates the possibility of obtaining localization and tracking of moving targets by exploiting a passive radar system based on WiFi transmissions. Specifically, the exploitation of multiple passive sensors is considered which allows to collect a set of range/Doppler/DoA measures for a given target when observed at different bistatic geometries. Different target localization strategies are investigated based on proper subsets of the available measures. Experimental results are shown which have been obtained by means of a passive radar prototype developed and fielded at the DIET Dept. - Sapienza University of Rome. This will contribute to demonstrate the fruitful application of the passive radar concept for short range surveillance.