Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Sensory normative values of lower lip and tongue for evaluation of inferior alveolar or lingual nerve damage

In the head and neck area, there are so many sensory nerves, which are sometimes injuried iatrogenically or inadvertently so that involved patients complained of the loss of sensations. In such cases, it is important to judge the degree of injuries and regeneration of nerve for better diagnosis and treatment. Seddon and Sunderland's classification, which is commonly used, is focused on histological change and nerve conduction. As times goes by, it is difficult to access patient's sensory disturbance by this method. Until now, so many methods such as contact threshold, direction, two-point discrimination, pin prick, thermal discrimination and current perception threshold have been introduced for sensory evaluation. However, there hasn't been enough information regarding each methodology nor integrated standard methodology for the measurement. The purpose of this study is to get the Korean adult normative sensory values of lower lip, chin and tongue using modified methods of contact threshold, direction, two point discrimination, pin prick, thermal discrimination and current perception threshold. The data obtained by our study can be used to Abstract
Confirmatory factor analysis of critical thinking disposition test in university biology

The purpose of this study was to look at the construct validity of the Critical Thinking Disposition (CTD) Test in Biology. Referring to Facione theory, there are seven indicators of CTD: truth-seeking, open mind, analyticity, systematicity, self-confidence, inquisitiveness, and maturity. The instrument used is ten groups of questions consisting of 7 questions that lead to the CTD. The test is presented in the form of cases relating to biological content and have been validated by experts. The study involved 526 respondents who are biology education students from two universities in Bengkulu with study level (year1, 2, 3 and 4). After confirming with CFA, the results show that the CTD test has suitable construct validity. This result is supported by the value received from Convergent Validity which includes the factor loading value of more than 0.5, while the Composite Reliability (CR) and Average Variance Extract (AVE) values for seven indicators of CTD are truth-seeking (CR=0.96, AVE=0.72), open mind (CR=0.94, AVE=0.61), analyticity (CR=0.97, AVE=0.76), systematicity (CR=0.96, AVE=0.69), self confidence (CR=0.98, AVE=0.83), inquisitiveness (CR=0.93, AVE=0.56) and maturity (CR=0.97, AVE=0.75). From the results can be concluded that the test has construct validity and high composite reliability to measure the CTD in biology.
Conjugation of Virulence Plasmid in Clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains through Formation of a Fusion Plasmid

The rapid dissemination of non‐conjugative virulence plasmids among non‐K1/K2 types of Klebsiella pneumoniae poses an unprecedented threat to human health, yet the underlying mechanisms governing dissemination of such plasmids is unclear. In this study, a novel 68 581 bp IncFIA plasmid is discovered that can be fused to a hypervirulence‐encoding plasmid to form a hybrid conjugative virulence plasmid in conjugation experiments; such fusion events involve homologous recombination between a 241 bp homologous region located in each of the two plasmids. The fusion hypervirulence‐encoding plasmid can be conjugated to both classic and blaKPC‐2‐bearing carbapenem‐resistant K. pneumoniae strains through conjugation, enabling such strains to acquire the ability to express the hypervirulence phenotype. Dissemination of this fusion virulence plasmid will impose an enormous burden on current efforts to control and treat infections caused by multidrug resistant and hypervirulent K. pneumoniae.
Proposal of a Hybrid Approach for Natural Language Generation and its Application to Human Language Technologies

Actualmente, con el aumento y avance de las nuevas tecnologias, se esta creando y promoviendo una simbiosis entre humanos y maquinas a traves de la inteligencia colectiva y la fuerza de trabajo colaborativa. Esto esta dando lugar a la nueva era de los ecosistemas digitales, donde la comunicacion y la interaccion hombre-maquina tiene que ser tan precisa y natural como sea posible. Dada la necesidad existente para facilitar este tipo de interacciones, queda patente que las tecnologias de lenguaje humano, encargadas de procesar el lenguaje humano de forma automatica, tienen un papel clave. De entre las diversas subdisciplinas de las tecnologias de lenguaje humano, el area de la generacion del lenguaje natural es capaz de producir lenguaje natural a partir de una entrada no linguistica y gracias a las caracteristicas que ofrece, puede emplearse en diversos ambitos como la meteorologia, medicina etc. La tarea de la generacion del lenguaje natural se divide en varias etapas, entre ellas las fases de macro planificacion, micro planificacion y realizacion. En la fase de macro planificacion el objetivo es determinar que queremos decir, para luego decidir como queremos decirlo en la fase de realizacion. Tradicionalmente una de las limitaciones de los sistemas de generacion del lenguaje natural es que se han disenado para dominios muy concretos y para un fin determinado, siendo el desarrollo de enfoques de dominio abierto y flexibles todavia un reto para la comunidad investigadora. En base a esto, esta tesis doctoral plantea una aproximacion hibrida para la generacion del lenguaje natural, la cual permitira mejorar la calidad del texto producido, favoreciendo la independencia del dominio, del genero textual y de la aplicacion final donde se utilice. Con el fin de lograr este objetivo, se ha implementado HanaNLG, un enfoque flexible de generacion centrado en la fase de realizacion, el cual, apoyandose en conocimientos estadisticos e informacion semantica, permite generar textos para diferentes dominios, generos e idiomas guiados por la entrada.
Attitudes of 4-H club leaders toward volunteer training in West Virginia

Attitudes of 4-H Club Leaders Toward Volunteer Training in West Virginia Jennifer Post Volunteers are essential to the 4-H program. This study was conducted to determine why individuals volunteer for 4-H, how volunteers feel towards the training they are offered, what the training needs of 4-H volunteers were, and the methods 4-H volunteers prefer to receive training. A questionnaire was sent to 260 volunteer club leaders in 27 counties in the state of West Virginia. 4-H volunteers have multiple reasons for being a volunteer club leader including helping people and working with youth. 4-H volunteer club leaders feel that training is important in becoming a leader and that training is for everyone regardless of 4-H background. Volunteers have received training on various topics in the past. Volunteers would like to have additional training in club mechanics, leadership roles, public relations, volunteer leader training, subject matter, leisure education, and skills 4-H youth learn. Volunteers concluded they could learn more from additional training activities to become better volunteers for 4-H.
Treatment of attempted suicide and suicidal patients in primary care

Although suicidal behaviour is a rare event in society in general, it is very common among psychiatric patients who contact their general practioner (GP) before the suicide event. The most common current psychiatric diagnosis among suicide victims and attempters is major depressive episode (56–87 per cent). The current prevalence of major depressive episodes in GP practice is around 10 per cent but at least half of these cases are not recognized and treated adequately by GPs. Successful acute and long-term treatment of depression signifi cantly reduce the risk of suicidal behaviour. Given that more than half of all suicide victims contact their GPs within four weeks before their death, GPs play an important role in suicide prevention. Several large-scale community studies demonstrate that education of GPs on the diagnosis and appropriate pharmacotherapy of depression, particularly in combination with psychological interventions and public education, improve the identifi cation and treatment of depression and reduces the frequency of suicidal behaviour in the areas served by trained GPs.
Hepatic tumor diagnosis by analysing dense transport fields in contrast-enhanced ultrasound

Dynamic contrast agent enhanced ultrasound (DCEUS) is considered as a safe, noninvasive, accurate, and economic tool for analysing blood perfusion of various organs [1]. Gas-filled mi-crobubble contrast agents are used as intravascular flow tracers. In this study, a new methodology is proposed to quantify the divergence (i.e sources, sinks), curl (i.e sheering) and amplitude in the apparent microbubble transports during the bolus arrival. The efficiency of proposed methodology is evaluated in-vivo, for the classification of focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) and inflammatory hepatic adenomas (I-HCA).
The Nonelastic Work of Breathing by Normal Humans Using Different Size Endotracheal Tubes

Address correspondence to Dr Campbell, Pulmonary Section (111A), Veterans Administration Medical Center, 3601 South 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85723. Measurement of the nonelastic work of breathing (WOB) is useful in the assessment of ventilator dependence [1-3] and ventilatory fatigue [4]. Values of WOB/min above the range of 1.3 to 1.8 kg-m or WOB/L above 0.140 kg-m may indicate continued ventilator dependence [1-4]. Because endotracheal
Meal Regularity is Associated with Nutrient Adequacy and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Korean Adults

Background: This study tests a hypothesis that the conventional meal pattern of eating all of breakfast, lunch, and dinner is associated with nutrients adequacy and cardiovascular risk factors in Korean adults. Methods: This study uses the 24-hour dietary recall and the eating habit questionnaires from the nutrition survey of the 2005 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. A total of 6,439 adults consisting of 2,886 men and 3,553 women were included in the analysis. The question, “Did you eat all of breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the last two days? ” was given. A “yes” classified the participant as a 'regular eater’ (RE), a “no”, an ‘irregular eater’ (IRE). Results: Among the study participants, 71% (n=2,061) of men and 65.1% (n=2,314) of women were REs. Proportions of REs increased with age. Meal regularity was significantly related to marital status, regular exercise (men), and smoking status (women). The RE group had a greater tendency for eating with family members and less tendency for eating out (women). The meal regularity was related with macronutrients intake and the adequacy of micronutrients intake. The IRE group had a significantly higher fasting glucose (men) and LDL cholesterol level than the RE group. Conclusions: A regular eating habit of three meals per day is not only associated with nutrients intake, but related with cardiovascular risk profiles. Korean J Health Promot 2010;10(2):53-60
Automating Software Changes via Recommendation Systems

AttributedFigure.setAttribute() attributes 19330724 early version jHotDraw following the CIA process. A developer starts to change the code based on a change request (i.e, an item that can be either a bug or a request for enhancement [25]). This change request starts with a short description: More options on adjusting the width and height properties of the arc of round rectangle figure. The developer first changes the class RoundRectangleFigure as it seems an obvious choice. However, the developer does not know whether the change is limited to this class or also propagated to other dependent classes that require changes as well. Since this is an early version generated at the early lifecycle of the software development, the developer doesn’t have the access to sufficient historical data either. Table 3.2 shows the execution traces of three classes (RoundRectangleFigure, RoundRectangleRadiusHandle and AbstractAttributedFigure) in jHotDraw captured by our system runtime profiling tool. If we merely consider call dependencies and PDG, the system would predict that class RoundRectangleRadiusHandle would be the only affected class because in Figure 3.3 and Table 3,2 it is obvious that the constructor method (i.e., init()) in class RoundRectangleRadiusHandle is called in
Impact of Rumen-Protected Niacin on Milk Production Performance and Blood Biochemical Indexes of Dairy Cows Under Mild Heat Stress

To study the influence of rumen-protected niacin on mild heat-stressed dairy cow, 30 healthy high-yielding dairy cows with similar parity were selected and randomly divided into three groups and were fed the rations with 0g/d, 6g/d and 12g/d rumen-protected niacin respectively. The results showed that the dairy cows were in mild heat stress during the experiment and the time of test day significantly affected the milk yield, FCM and respiration rate of cows. Rumen-protected niacin supplement neither altered the dairy cow’s body temperature, skin temperature and respiration rate, nor affected their milk yield and milk quality; however, it reduced the level of triglyceride and urea in serum.
Estimating High Dimensional Multivariate Stochastic Volatility Models

This paper proposes tree main results that enable the estimation of high dimensional multivariate stochastic volatility models. The first result is the closed-form steady-state Kalman filter for the multivariate AR(1) plus noise model. The second result is an accelerated EM algorithm for parameters estimation. The third result is an estimator of the correlation of two elliptical random variables with time-varying variances that is consistent and asymptotically normal regardless of the variances evolution. Speed and precision of our methodology are evaluated in a simulation experiment. Finally, we implement our method and compare its performance with other approaches in a minimum variance portfolio composed by the constituents of the CAC40 and S&P100 indexes.
Life Expectancy and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Southern African Development Community

The objective of this paper is to examine the association between life expectancy and economic growth in a sample of 10 Southern African Development Community members for the period 1985-2017. To account for unobserved country-level heterogeneity we employ the fixed effect estimator. We also use fixed effects two-stage least squares (FE-2SLS) estimator to account for a possible endogeneity bias due to reverse causation between life expectancy and economic growth. Using the fixed effect we find that life expectancy, democracy, and population have the expected positive impact on economic growth. The results are robust to addressing the potential reverse causality between life expectancy and economic growth, controlling for additional variables (such as inflation, trade openness, and government expenditure), and altering the sample of countries (i.e. excluding South Africa from the sample) in the estimation. The estimates from this paper suggest that improving health conditions in the Southern African Development Community can be effective and should continue to be a major focus of policy makers in this region and other developing regions. Aspettativa di vita e crescita economica: evidenze dalla Comunita per lo Sviluppo dell’Africa del Sud La finalita di questo studio e quella di esaminare la relazione tra aspettativa di vita e crescita economica su un campione di 10 paesi della Comunita per lo sviluppo dell’Africa del Sud nel periodo 1985-2017. Si applica la stima a effetto fisso per tenere conto dell’eterogeneita tra i paesi. Si utilizza anche la stima a effetto fisso quadratica minima su due livelli (FE-2SLS) per tenere conto di una possibile tendenza endogena causata dalla relazione inversa tra aspettativa di vita e crescita economica. Utilizzando questo tipo di stima si riscontra che aspettativa di vita, democrazia e popolazione esercitano sulla crescita l’atteso impatto positivo. I risultati sono robusti rispetto ad una possibile relazione inversa di causalita tra aspettativa di vita e crescita economica, tenendo sotto controllo altre variabili (per es. inflazione, apertura commerciale, debito pubblico) e variando i paesi del campione (per es. escludendo il Sud Africa) nelle stime. I risultati evidenziati in questo studio suggeriscono che il miglioramento delle condizioni sanitarie nella Comunita per lo sviluppo dell’Africa del Sud puo essere efficace e dovrebbe continuare ad essere l’obiettivo dei governi di questa regione e di altre in via di sviluppo.
Effectiveness of the Travelers Summer Research Fellowship Program in Preparing Premedical Students for a Career in Medicine

This study measured the effectiveness of the Travelers Summer Research Fellowship (T-SRF) Program for Premedical Students. No in-depth study has been conducted on the impact of its activities. A programoriented qualitative summative evaluation approach and a logic model design were used to analyze survey responses for participants from four program years randomly chosen from 2000 to 2015, medical school enrollment records for participants from 1969 to 2015, physician practice locations for participants from 1969 to 2009, and interviews with a purposeful random sample of 10 physicians who were program participants from 2004 to 2008. Narrative inquiry consisted of audio recording, transcription, and analysis of individual accounts and participant experiences. The study revealed that participants valued interactions with physicians from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine. Talks on careers in medicine increased participants’ knowledge, and research projects helped develop skills. Cardiovascular physiology lectures introduced participants to the medical school learning experience and increased their confidence to apply to medical school successfully. T-SRF enhanced participants’ medical school applications and sharpened interviewing skills; 83% matriculated into medical school, 90% graduated, and 45% practice in HPSAs, MUAs/Ps, and rural areas. Recommendations included improving program orientation, making the cardiovascular physiology lectures and examinations more valuable experiences, re-evaluating the study skills curriculum, providing more clinical experiences, increasing the weekly stipend, improving maintenance of the alumni database, formally partnering admissions with the T-SRF program, helping alumni return to Weill Cornell as residents or fellows, and considering other ways to measure social concern. Further studies of T-SRF should be undertaken. Document Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Education (EdD) Department Executive Leadership First Supervisor W. Jeff Wallis Subject Categories Education This dissertation is available at Fisher Digital Publications: https://fisherpub.sjfc. edu/education_etd/282 Effectiveness of the Travelers Summer Research Fellowship Program in Preparing Premedical Students for a Career in Medicine By Elizabeth A. Wilson-Anstey Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Ed.D. in Executive Leadership Supervised by Dr. W. Jeff Wallis
Developing a student mental health policy for a South African university: Consultation, contestation and compromise

Given high rates of student mental health difficulties globally, the need for universities to have a student mental health policy has been increasingly recognised. In the South African context, such policies must not only balance the mental health needs of students with the realistic constraints of university resources in a time of austerity, but also engage with complexities posed by the Global North foundations of the fields of psychology and psychiatry and the systemic determinants of mental health. This article describes the development of a student mental health policy at a South African university, with a focus on points of contestation that emerged out of a broad-based institutional consultation process. Areas of contestation included the scope of university support for student mental health, defining mental health difficulties, the use of a disability framework for mental health, and processes of verification. All of these were embedded within a broader tension between health and social justice discourses. The compromises that were designed to balance these complexities within the student mental health policy are discussed, and reflections are offered that may inform the development of student mental health policies at other South African universities.
PI Tuning of a Multivariable Activated Sludge Process with Nitrification and Denitrification with Multi-Objective Optimization

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are responsible for attenuating the environmental impact that waste in effluent discharged to receiving waters has. As a consequence of this, new techniques for an effective control are valuable, not just for minimising this impact, but also for minimising operational costs by using energy efficiently. Such kinds of problems, with several objectives to fulfil (and usually in conflict), are termed as multi-objective problems. Within this context, multi-objective optimisation techniques have been shown to be a valuable tool in the control engineering field to tune different kinds of controller for complex systems. To accomplish this, a simultaneous optimisation approach is carried out, in order to approximate a set of Pareto-optimal solutions. Such solutions differ in the level of trade-off exhibited in two (or more) conflicting objectives. The multi-objective approach for controller tuning in one-input/one-output processes is well documented in the literature. Nevertheless, that is not the case of multivariable control. This fact is mainly due to the quantity of design objectives required to evaluate the multi-objective performance of several outputs. In this work, we elaborate a proposal to handle multi-objective problems for multivariable processes. Performance evaluation is performed (via simulation) in a multivariable benchmark for the PI control of an activated sludge process with nitrification and denitrification.
OCCURRENCE AND AWARENESS OF HEAD LICE AMONG ELDERLY RESIDENTS IN LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES IN UBERLANDIA, MG, BRAZIL

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the occurrence of head lice in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) in Uberlandia, MG, Brazil, analyze associations with sex, ethnicity, age and hair characteristics, and verify awareness among elderly adults. Head inspections were performed and infestation was characterized on individual forms. A questionnaire on the biology, epidemiology and control of head lice was applied. Overall occurrence was 1.4%, being highest in elderly women with medium-length curly hair. Questionnaire responses indicated that the majority had no general knowledge on head lice. More than 40% reported infestation at some point in their lives and most knew how to control it. Overall occurrence was considered low and is related to measures adopted by the LTCFs, which controlled infestation by minimizing the influence of factors normally associated with its occurrence. The study was pioneer in analyzing associations between head lice and the degree of autonomy of elderly adults.KEY WORDS: Head lice; infestation; elderly adults; Uberlandia, MG.