Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Factors Influencing the Accuracy of Triage by Registered Nurses in Trauma Patients

Abstract : An accuracy of triage in patients with trauma at the emergency department can assist them to receive appropriate treatment in time leading to decreased mortality and disability. The objectives of this study were to assess the accuracy of triage performed by registered nurses in the emergency department and examine factors influencing the triage accuracy in patients with trauma. A prospective observational design was performed in five emergency departments of regional hospitals in southern Thailand. The sample comprised 109 registered nurses and 1,090 adult patients with trauma. The accuracy of triage was calculated by using the difference score between the triage coding identified by a triage nurse immediately on patient emergency department arrival and the triage coding identifiedusing the Emergency Severity Index Manual (Version 4). Multiple multinomial logistic regressions were employed to examine the predictors of triage accuracy. Only 52.4% of patients were categorized into an accurate triage group. Years of work by participants in the emergency department increased the likelihood of over-triage. In terms of patient characteristics, patients with blunt injury, multiple injuries and altered consciousness were more likely to be over triaged. These data provide strong evidenceto support the implementation of the Emergency Severity Index version 4 as a standard tool in the emergency department during triage. Such a policy would contribute to improving the accuracy of the triage level designation in patients with trauma receiving service from an emergency department.
Epidemiology of Shigella species isolated from diarrheal children and drawing their antibiotic resistance pattern

Background: Shigellosis accounts for majority of cases of bacterial diarrhea in infants in developing countries. The present study was conducted to determine the distribution and pattern of antimicrobial resistance of Shigella species among children 0-14 years of age with acute diarrhea in Hamadan. Materials and methods: The study included all acute diarrhea patients who admitted in the pediatric department from January 2001 to December 2004. Antibiogram test was performed by gel-diffusion method and ten commonly used antibiotics were applied. Results: Of 1686 stool samples, 166 (9.8%) were positive for Shigella species. Shigella flexneri was the predominant serogroup (40.3%) followed by S. dysentriae (33.7%), S. boydii (15.1%) and S. sonnei (10.8%). Of Shigella isolates, 91% were resistant to one or more antimicrobial agent(s), and 88% were multi-drug resistant. Most strains were resistant to chloramphenicol (90%), ampicillin (89%), co-trimoxazole (84%), tetracycline (83%) and nalidixic acid (51%). Resistance to amoxicillin-clavulanic acid (co-amoxiclav), ceftriaxone, amikacin, nitrofurantoin and ciprofloxacin was observed in 34.9%, 23.4%, 6.6%, 3.6% and 1.8% of the isolates, respectively. Emerging resistance against nalidixic acid (42.3%) was observed. Conclusion: Our experiences suggest that Shigella species could be an important etiological agent of diarrhea in this area, while the drugs of choice for the treatment of Shigella infection should be ciprofloxacin and nitrofurantoin. Amikacin was the third drug of choice.
Comparative Study of Isolated Word Recognition System for Hindi Language

— Speech is a natural way of communication and it provides an easy user interface to machines so that automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is considered as necessary. But the automatic speech recognition (ASR) system doesn’t perform perfectly for any language. So that generation of an accurate and robust acoustic model is necessary. The overall performance of any speech recognition system is highly depends on the feature extraction technique and classifier. In this paper, we have described Comparative study Isolated Word Recognition System for Hindi Language using MFCC as feature extraction and KNN as pattern classification technique. When our system is trained for First 10 words it achieves 89% rate of recognition and when trained for all 100 words it achieves 62.50% rate of recognition. As vocabulary increases performance decreases.
Granulosa thecal cell tumour in a mare causing hypertrophic osteopathy

Summary Hypertrophic osteopathy (HO) is a rare condition in the horse characterised by symmetrical proliferation of connective tissue and subperiosteal bone, along the diaphyses of limb bones. In this case, a 10-year-old Irish Draught cross Thoroughbred mare was presented for investigation of weight loss, lethargy and firm swelling of all 4 distal limbs. Radiographs of the distal limbs revealed palisade-like periosteal new bone formation perpendicular to the cortex of the distal third metacarpal and metatarsal bones, proximal (P1) and mid (P2) phalanges. Rectal examination revealed a mass of approximately 20 x 30 cm in the right caudoventral abdomen. The mare was diagnosed with HO due to a granulosa thecal cell (GTC) tumour. The GTC tumour was removed and the diagnosis confirmed on histological examination. Clinical examination and radiographs of the distal limbs after surgery demonstrated reduction in size of the limb swellings and new bone formation. To the authors' knowledge this is the first report of HO due to a GTC tumour in a mare.
GLYCAEMIA BUT NOT THE METABOLIC SYNDROME IS ASSOCIATED WITH COGNITIVE DECLINE IN AGEING MEN

Study Glycaemia but not the Metabolic Syndrome is Associated with Cognitive Decline: Findings From the European Male Ageing Study. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the Association Geriatric Psychiatry , (6), ABSTRACT 75 Objectives: Previous research has indicated that components of the metabolic syndrome (MetS), such 76 as hyperglycaemia and hypertension, are negatively associated with cognition. However, evidence that 77 MetS itself is related to cognitive performance has been inconsistent. In this longitudinal study, we 78 aimed to investigate whether MetS or its components affect cognitive decline in ageing men and whether 79 any interaction with inflammation existed. 80 Design: Longitudinal study over a mean of 4.4 (SD ± 0.3) years. 81 Setting: Multi-centre European male Ageing Study (EMAS). 82 Participants: Men aged 40-79 years. 83 Measurements: Cognitive functioning was assessed using the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure (ROCF), 84 the Camden Topographical Recognition Memory (CTRM) task, and the Digit Symbol Substitution Test 85 (DSST). High-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) levels were measured using a chemiluminescent 86 immunometric assay. 87 Results: Overall, 1,913 participants contributed data to the ROCF analyses and 1,965 subjects 88 contributed to the CTRM and DSST analyses. In multiple regression models, the presence of baseline 89 MetS was not associated with cognitive decline over time ( p >0.05). However, logistic ordinal 90 regressions indicated that high glucose levels were related to a greater risk of decline on the ROCF Copy 91 ( β =-0.42, p <0.05) and the DSST ( β =-0.39, p <0.001). There was neither a main effect of hs-CRP levels 92 nor an interaction effect of hs-CRP and MetS at baseline on cognitive decline. 93 Conclusions: We found no evidence for a relationship between MetS or inflammation and cognitive 94 decline in this sample of ageing men. However, glycaemia was negatively associated with visuo- 95 constructional abilities and processing speed.
Index compression and redundancy elimination in large textual collections

Large search engines process thousands of queries per second against their collections of billions of web pages. They often build inverted indexes for their collections to speed up query processing. The rapidly growing inverted index size has been one of the most important challenges for search engines in the past decade. Search engines use highly optimized compression schemes to decrease inverted index size and improve query throughput. Many index compression techniques have been studied in the literature. Although millions of new web pages need to be downloaded by search engines every day, a considerable proportion of them share a lot of content. This results in a huge amount of data redundancy in both web pages and inverted indexes. The redundancy of the inverted indexes may significantly slow down query processing. Although many index compression methods have tried to reduce redundancy within page and postings, they could be improved significantly by taking better advantages of similarities between web pages. Also, most previous work has focused on compressing docID and frequency information stored in the index. However, it is also very important to compress position information in the index, since its size is much larger than that of docIDs or frequencies. In this thesis, we focus on inverted index compression and query processing techniques. We study compression techniques for docIDs and frequencies with optimized document reordering techniques, which exploit the similarities between web pages. We also study the compression of position data in inverted indexes. In addition, we study file synchronization techniques that reduce redundant data transfer over networks. Search engines can use such techniques to save a large amount of network bandwidth. Our experimental results show that our techniques can significantly improve the search engine performance.
Fashion statements : on style, appearance, and reality

Just Looks R.Scapp & B.Seitz New Look You Cannes Come In Here Dressed Like That: A True Story in Two Shoes E.Norris The Head Monkey at Paris: Henry David Thoreau on Fashion D.Krell Tech Savvy: Technology as the New Fashion Statement A.Chin Fashion Statements: Communication and Culture M.Barnard Fleshing It Out: The Tyranny of the ALine Skirt bell hooks Osh Kosh B'Gosh M.O' Donoghue Is Clothing Art? J.Weinstein Fashion Advice from the Anti-Christ L.Hartunian Puro High Life M.Rojas Irony killed by the Ironic T-shirt and the True Religion of the American Jean A.O' Neil Jackie O. , Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Chanel E.Fridland & A.Porter The Hat's the Thing J.Wagner 'Pod Peeps: Why The iPod And Other Gadgets Are Fashion Staples In The 'Hood L.D. Johnson Dressed to Kill, Or: Women's Right to Bare Arms K.Oliver The Naked Truth of Anti-Fashion Philosophy N.Pappas Vivienne Westwood: Keeping Critique Alive S.Murphy Fashion at a Glance E.S. Casey Retro Look Plato's Greater Hippias A.A. Anderson , translator
Bacterial and Viral Infections Among Hospitalized Injection Drug Users in Hamadan, Iran

1Brucellosis Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran 2Department of Social Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran 3Department of Infectious Diseases, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran *Corresponding author: Mojgan Mamani, Department of Infectious Diseases, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran. Tel: +98-8138274191, Fax: +98-8138272154, E-mail: mojganmamani@gmail.com
Oral Roentgenographic Diagnosis

By Edward C. Stafne, D.D.S., F.A. A.O. R. Cloth. Pp. 427, with 1,890 illustrations on 427 pages. Philadelphia, Saunders, 1969. The third edition of this popular textbook has been revised and enlarged and offers an excellent interpretation of the present “state of the art” of Dental Radiography. Most of the material concerned with anatomical landmarks and abnormalities of the teeth and jaws is well illustrated with intraoral dental radiographs. The textual material found in each chapter complements the illustrations in an interesting and factual manner. The illustrations throughout the text are excellent in quality. Extra-oral radiographic technics are used to illustrate specific abnormalities that cannot be properly diagnosed from an intra-oral film alone. The bibliography at the end of each chapter is fairly representative of the literature except that it does not always include the best or most current articles regarding the topic in question. The chapter on Oral Roentgenographic Manifestations of Systemi.
Atraumatic Osteonecrosis of the Humeral Head Associated with Pregnancy

Osteonecrosis is usually associated with trauma, the use of corticosteroids or alchohol abuse. Osteonecrosis associated with pregnancy has been reported previously and usually involves the femoral head. A case of atraumatic osteonecrosis of the humeral head precipitated by pregnancy is described. This is the second reported case of osteonecrosis of the humerus associated with pregnancy. Osteonecrosis and its association with pregnancy is reviewed.
Exacerbated Cardiac Fibrosis in Apelin-deficient Mice post Myocardial Infarction is Associated with Vimentin and MicroRNA-378

The Apelin-APJ system is transiently up-regulated in murine models of cardiac dysfunction. We have previously shown that Apelin-deficient mice subjected to aortic constriction suffer from severe fibrosis. In turn, we hypothesized that Apelin deficiency will also exaggerate the fibrosis phenotype post experimental myocardial infarction, associated with changes in fibroblast cell activity. Apelin-deficient and wildtype mice were randomly subjected to sham operation or left coronary artery ligation. Apelin deficiency worsened cardiac functionality, enhanced fibrosis-related gene expression and morphology, and enhanced vimentin intermediate filament expression, which may be involved in increasing fibroblast proliferation. MicroRNA target prediction softwares predict that apelin and vimentin 3’UTRs are potential targets of microRNA-378 regulation, and were confirmed with Luciferase reporter assays and western blot. Apelin up-regulation may be a useful strategy for attenuating unfavorable fibrosis through down-regulating vimentin-mediated adverse fibroblast activity. MicroRNA-378 regulation may be partly responsible for changes in apelin and vimentin expression. Funding provided by the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)
Foundations of Gameplay

People in all known cultures play games and today digital gaming is an important leisure activity for hundreds of millions of people. At the same time game design has developed into a profession of its own. There are several practical game design guidelines and text books but they rarely manage to connect their findings into relevant areas of research such as psychology and design research. Understanding game design, both as an activity and as an end result of that activity, in a more profound way could alleviate this problem. The main goals of this thesis are to understand in a more profound way how to design games and based on that understanding develop frameworks and methods for aiding game design. By extending knowledge about game design can not only improve the quality of the end-products but also expand the potential design space even in unpredictable ways. Game design contains many sub-areas. Character, story, and environment design are integral parts of the current game development projects. The aim of this thesis, however, is to have a critical and exploratory look at structures of gameplay as design material. Gameplay is the interaction between the game rules, challenges, elements, and players.In one sense gameplay defines the game. The focus of the thesis is mainly analytical, although parts of the results are based on practical research through design activities. The thesis contributes to game research in three interralated ways: (1) An analytical contribution to understanding gameplay was done in the gameplay design patterns work. The patterns are described as an approach to both analyse existing games and aid in designing new games. The patterns describe recurrent gameplay and also analyse these structures from the design material point of view. (2) A theoretical study of basis for gameplay experiences was conducted through review of relevant models and theories in neuroaesthetics, cognitive and social psychology and game research. The framework offered in the thesis explains why certain gameplay structures are more recurrent based on defining gameplay as caricatures of intentional behaviour. (3) The game design patterns approach and research through design projects have contributed to the analysis of game design as an activity and practical guidelines for concrete design work in more specific areas of game design. The goals of this thesis are ambitious and many questions are left unanswered. Using the patterns approach in conjunction with game design and ideation methods is still in its infancy. The concept of gameplay as caricatures of intentional behaviour should be explored further, especially in conjunction with other theories and frameworks relevant for understanding gameplay experience such as user engagement, immersion, and presence. Empirical experiments validating or falsifying this view on gameplay would be valuable as further contributions to game research.
Stealthy Information Leakage from Android Smartphone through Screenshot and OCR

A large number of malicious apps focus on stealing personal and financial information. It is very important to detect such apps as early as possible in order to prevent subsequent crimes. DroidBox incorporating TaintDroid detects leakage of private information, IMEI (International Mobile Station Equipment Identity) and IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity). DroidBox covers many possible information leakage paths, but it is also known that there are several paths to leak the information without detection. We utilized one attack path, screen bitmap memory, in order to propose a collection system that retrieves IMEI and IMSI information through screenshot image and extracts the information from the image by OCR (Optical Character Recognition) automatically. Furthermore, we found out that sans font showed very low recognition rate while serif and mono showed relatively high recognition rate. We also hid a screenshot activity from users. Therefore, the proposed method can be used to leak any information without worry of detection by DroidBox, users, text-based packet inspections tools. Keywords-DroidBox; TaintDroid; Taint; Android Application analysis; Anti-taint;
Reliability and Validity of a Checklist to Evaluate Student Performance in a Problem-Based Learning Group

Objective. To validate a problem-based learning (PBL) evaluation checklist to assess individual Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) students’ performance in a group. Methods. In 2013, a performance checklist was developed and standardized. To evaluate the reliability and discriminant validity of the checklist, pharmacy students’ evaluation scores from 2015-2016 were assessed along with overall program grade point averages (GPA), and scores on knowledge and problem-solving examinations. Predictive analysis software was used to analyze the data. Results. Seventy facilitators generated 1506 evaluation reports for 191 (90 third-year and 101 second-year) students over eight PBL cases. The mean (SD) total score was 40.6 (2.5) for P3s and 39.1 (2.7) for P2s out of a possible 44.2 points. Students’ scores improved each semester. Interrater reliability based on intraclass correlation coefficient for all cases was 0.67. Internal reliability as determined by Cronbach alpha was >0.7 for all binary checklist items across all cases. Discriminant validity assessed using Pearson correlation coefficient showed that the total score from the checklist did not correlate with knowledge or problem-solving examination scores. Conclusion. This unique PBL checklist proved to be a reliable and valid tool to assess student performance in small group sessions in a PharmD curriculum.
Métodos mixtos en la investigación de las ciencias de la actividad física y el deporte

La investigacion en las ciencias de la actividad fisica y el deporte ha estado influenciada prioritariamente por procedimientos cuantitativos adaptados de otras areas del conocimiento. La aparicion de nuevos paradigmas, metodos y procedimientos de investigacion nos ofrecen mayor numero de posibilidades de combinacion de instrumentos para el analisis de la actividad fisica y el deporte que puede enriquecer todo el proceso investigador. En este articulo presentamos, mediante ejemplos de investigaciones, los metodos mixtos (Mixed Method Approach) que proponen conjugar datos de naturaleza cuantitativa y cualitativa en el mismo estudio. Esta nueva perspectiva metodologica se esta afianzando con fuerza en la ultima decada acorde con la necesidad actual de planteamientos mas integrados en la investigacion de la motricidad humana
Music complexity: a multi-faceted description of audio content

Esta tesis propone un juego de algoritmos que puede emplearse para computar estimaciones de las distintas facetas de complejidad que ofrecen senales musicales auditivas. Estan enfocados en los aspectos de acustica, ritmo, timbre y tonalidad. Asi pues, la complejidad musical se entiende aqui en el nivel mas basto del comun acuerdo entre oyentes humanos. El objetivo es obtener juicios de complejidad mediante computacion automatica que resulten similares al punto de vista de un oyente ingenuo. La motivacion de la presente investigacion es la de mejorar la interaccion humana con colecciones de musica digital. Segun se discute en la tesis,hay toda una serie de tareas a considerar, como la visualizacion de una coleccion, la generacion de listas de reproduccion o la recomendacion automatica de musica. A traves de las estimaciones de complejidad musical provistas por los algoritmos descritos, podemos obtener acceso a un nivel de descripcion semantica de la musica que ofrecera novedosas e interesantes soluciones para estas tareas.
An exploratory analysis of leisure caravanning in the Kruger National Park in South Africa

This paper explores the camping tourism experience of respondents interviewed at twelve rest camps in the Kruger National Park (KNP) in South Africa. It is postulated that three major factors influencing the “customer experience” at a caravanning and camping tourism destination are: the quality of the physical facilities; the proximity or access to a natural, built or cultural environment; and emotional and intrinsic values. Respondents completed a questionnaire that measured their view of the ideal rest camp and the ideal campsite in KNP. The respondents indicated that the ideal caravan park in KNP should be very close to wildlife; have facilities such as a shop or a kiosk or a take-away; and have a view over a dam or a river. The ideal caravan site (stand) in KNP should be close to an electrical point, a water point, the rest camp’s perimeter fence. It should be shaded, have a grass surface and a portable braai.
Personalized Recommendation on Discount Coupons

We present several recommendation approaches how discount coupon service could be personalized in order to cut down customer’s usage time. The Velo system is already implemented coupon service system in China with millions of users. The proposed approach makes use of customer and dispenser meta data together with previous user coupon prints in order to predict upcoming prints for a customer. The implementation of the service, data collection, and how the implementation affects the customers’ behavior all have an effect on the accuracy of the printed coupons. The analysis of customer characteristics help the service to present relevant coupons to a customer in order both to raise customer’s satisfaction and to aid customers on finding relevant coupons faster. The results show that item recommendation systems provide valuable benefits for coupon service. Keywords-Personalization; Discount Coupon; Recommendation Systems; User Modeling;