Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Edict of Milan through the Prism of Students at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Macedonia

This paper is an integral whole of three, seemingly different parts, each of which has the Edict of Milan as its main topic. The first part presents the historical data and key elements of the Edict of Milan which serves as an introduction into the research, which also serve as a part of the basic information that are pointed out to students. The second part of this paper points out how the anniversary of issuing the Edict of Milan--a date of utmost importance for Christianity--is being celebrated in the region. The third part contains an account of the sociological research carried out with the students at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology “Saint Clement of Ohrid”, a part of the “Saints Cyril and Methodius” University in Skopje. As the latter is the main focus of the paper, we chose it as the title. Introduction This year is the 17 centennial anniversary since the issuing of the Edict of Milan. Christian religious collectives, via their current activities, a significant part of which is dedicated to and connected with a number of honouring and celebratory events as well as 1 The present text is written for the round table “1700 Years of the Edict of Milan: A Sociological Perspective,” as a part of the project Sustainability of the Identity of Serbs and National Minorities in the Border Municipalities of Eastern and Southeastern Serbia, conducted at the University of Nis, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and supported by the Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.
Who cares in Europe?: A comparison of long-term care for the over-50s in sixteen European countries

As in many other European countries, the sustainability of the long-term care system is a key issue in the Dutch policy debate. In order to shed light on this issue this book compares the way elderly persons are supported in sixteen European countries. Based on the latest SHARE data it provides an assessment of long-term care institutions, individual care needs and their underlying risk factors, the availability of network care, and the paid and nonpaid care people actually receive.
ICPC-2-R: International Classification of Primary Care

The WONCA Classification Committee Foreword 1. Introduction 2. The structure of ICPC 3. Episode of care: a central concept of general/family practice 4. Use of ICPC for recording reason for encounter 5. Use of ICPC for recording health problems and process of care (interventions) 6. Inclusion criteria in ICPC 7. Severity of illness coding 8. Functional status assessment: the COOP/WONCA Charts 9. References 10. International Classification of Primary CAre: tabular list 11. Conversion codes from ICD-10 12. Alphabetic index
RETHINKING PLANNING EDUCATION USING MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES: THE CASE OF RETHINK THE CITY

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are becoming a popular educational tool in different disciplines. Urban planning education is no exception and new MOOCs are being released every year. Despite this, it is still not clear how this new learning experience is being developed, delivered, and impacting upon planning education. This article sheds light on this issue using the case of the Rethink the City MOOC organised by the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of TU Delft. The course received the AESOP Excellence on Teaching award in 2017 and serves as an example of how planning education is facing the change towards online education. The article briefly introduces the course and develops on the challenges and results of it. Based on the course team experience of preparing and delivering the course, the article contributes to the debate about online education and supports fellow academics involved with the creation of new MOOCs.
A Scoring Model to Assess Organizations' Technology Transfer Capabilities: the Case of a Power Utility in the Northwest USA

i DEDICATION . iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . iv LIST OF TABLES . ix LIST OF FIGURES . xi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS . xiii CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION . 1 PROBLEM STATEMENT . 4 CHAPTER 2 – LITERATURE REVIEW . 6 TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (TT) . 6 Technology Transfer Definitions . 6 TT General Characteristics . 9 TT Types . 14 TT Mechanisms . 20 TT Methods . 23 TT Application Areas . 25 TT Complexities, Challenges, and Gaps . 26 TT Relationship with Other Fields and Concepts . 27 TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER/COMMERCIALIZATION IN THE ENERGY SECTOR . 35 R&D AND BUSINESS STRATEGY . 46 General Aspects of R&D Alignment with Business Strategy . 47 Methods and Tools for Aligning R&D with Business Strategy . 48 Gaps on the R&D Alignment with Business Strategy . 50 STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY CONTROL – A PROCESS . 52 RESEARCH GAPS . 58 CHAPTER 3 – RESEARCH APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY . 61 RESEARCH GAPS, GOALS, AND QUESTIONS . 61 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY . 62 Action Research . 62 Similar Methods . 73 vii Why Action Research? 86 Hierarchical Decision Modeling (HDM) . 91 Other Approaches and Why Choose HDM . 104 RESEARCH FRAMEWORK . 110 1st Step – AR and Literature Review . 111 2nd Step – Initial Model . 112 3rd Step – Experts Panel Formation . 112 4th Step – Model Validation . 115 5th Step – Model Quantification . 116 6th Step – Desirability Curves . 117 7th step – Model Application and Analysis . 117 RESEARCH VALIDITY . 129 CHAPTER 4 – RESEARCH MODEL DEVELOPMENT . 131 INITIAL MODEL . 131 EXPERT PANELS FORMATION . 139 MODEL VALIDATION . 150 Perspectives Validation . 150 Factors Validation . 151 Validated Model . 154 MODEL QUANTIFICATION . 157 Perspectives Quantification . 157 Factors Quantification . 159 Summary of Model Quantification . 167 DESIRABILITY CURVES . 170 CHAPTER 5 – RESEARCH MODEL APPLICATION . 192 BPA’S TT PROCESS . 192 BPA’s TT Process in Light of Literature . 193 THE ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT . 197 APPLICATION RESULTS . 200 SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS . 211 CHAPTER 6 – DISCUSSION . 218
A Type Synthesis Approach to Compliant Shell Mechanisms

Compliant shell mechanisms are a relatively young research field where thin walled structures are used as compliant mechanisms to achieve motion and force generation. Shell mechanisms, because of their thin walled nature and spatial geometry, are excellent building blocks for spatial mechanism design. In spatial mechanism design, with large deformation involved, relative degrees of freedom are an actual representation of the kinematics involved. Using these shell mechanisms in concept design, however, can prove difficult without a uniform characterization method. In this paper we make use of the so-called compliance ellipsoids to achieve characterization of the relative degrees of freedom for shell mechanisms. Ten promising shells are introduced with the kinematic characteristics, combined with a uniform method of finding these kinematic characteristics for other unknown shells. Lastly, since the interest lies in large deformation mechanisms, we show the effects of non-linearity on the compliance ellipsoids and show how shells are indeed a valid alternative in spatial mechanism design, compared to the more conventional flexure mechanisms.
Documentation & the nursing process

UNIT 1: NURSING PROCESS. Chapter 1: NURSING PROCESS. Chapter 2: ASSESSMENT. Chapter 3: DIAGNOSIS. Chapter 4: PLANNING AND OUTCOME IDENTIFICATION. Chapter 5: IMPLEMENTATION. Chapter 6: EVALUATION. UNIT 2: DOCUMENTATION Chapter 7 DOCUMENTATION AS COMMUNICATION. Chapter 8: PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE DOCUMENTATION. Chapter 9: METHODS OF DOCUMENTATION. Chapter 10: FORMS FOR RECORDING DATA. Chapter 11: TRENDS IN DOCUMENTATION. Chapter 12: REPORTING. Appendix A: NANDA Nursing Diagnoses. Appendix B: Glossary. Appendix C: Abbreviations and Acronyms. Appendix D: Answers to Review Questions
Use of the mode-B ultrasound on the evaluation of the sows reproductive system.

The introduction of real time ultrasound on swine industry has had a strong impact in the development of the reproductive performance evaluation of swine herds. With this technology, it is possible to diagnose gestation precociously, to determine the embryonic and fetal viability, to establish better programs of artificial insemination for each farm; to decrease the time of replacement females without impairing the reproductive performance and to diagnose pathologies of the urogenital tract, like ovarian cysts or urinary infections. Therefore, the mode-B ultrasound represents an excellent tool to improve the reproductive parameters of the farm.
Pre-TAI protocol strategies to increase reproductive efficiency in beef and dairy cows

Abstract Ovulation synchronization protocols are well established in beef and dairy cows. However, the protocol response rate is around 70-90%. In beef cows, factors such as inadequate nutrition and calf presence negatively impact the response of progesterone (P4)/estradiol-based ovulation synchronization protocols by interfering with GnRH release and consequently reducing LH pulsatility and final follicular development. In dairy cows, protocols based on GnRH and prostaglandin (Ovsynch) are the most widely used in the world. However, the efficiency of Ovsynch is dependent on the presence of a large follicle at the time of administration of the first GnRH. In these ovulation synchronization protocols, pre-synchronization protocols (Prostaglandins, Double Ovsynch and P4synch) are usually attempted in an effort to increase responses. Thus, the objective of this review was to discuss pre-ovulation synchronization strategies (administration of injectable P4 or energetic/protein supplementation or pre-synchronization with intra-vaginal progesterone devices) aiming to increase the LH pulsatility in beef cows or induce the formation of a GnRH-responsive follicle at the beginning of the Ovsynch protocol in dairy cows.
Clinical pediatric physical therapy : a guide for the physical therapy team

PART I THE CONTEXT OF PEDIATRIC PHYSICAL THERAPY Chapter 1 Legal, Social, and Practice Issues Related to Pediatric Physical Therapy Chapter 2 The Emerging Role of the PTA in Pediatric Physical Therapy Chapter 3 The Typically Developing Child PART II ORTHOPEDIC DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD Chapter 4 Disorders of the Developing Hip Chapter 5 Developmental Orthopedic Disorders Chapter 6 Other Orthopedic Disorders PART III NEUROLOGIC AND MUSCULAR DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD Chapter 7 Cerebral Palsy Chapter 8 Genetic Disorders of Childhood Chapter 9 Traumatic Disorders of Childhood Chapter 10 Sensory, Processing, and Cognitive Disorders of Childhood PART IV MEDICAL DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD Chapter 11 Neonatal Disorders Chapter 12 Medical Disorders of Childhood
SU‐E‐J‐249: Characterization of Gynecological Tumor Heterogeneity Using Texture Analysis in the Context of An 18F‐FDG PET Adaptive Protocol

Purpose: We propose a method to examine gynecological tumor heterogeneity using texture analysis in the context of an adaptive PET protocol in order to establish if texture metrics from baseline PET-CT predict tumor response better than SUV metrics alone as well as determine texture features correlating with tumor response during radiation therapy. Methods: This IRB approved protocol included 29 women with node positive gynecological cancers visible on FDG-PET treated with EBRT to the PET positive nodes. A baseline and intra-treatment PET-CT was obtained. Tumor outcome was determined based on RECIST on posttreatment PET-CT. Primary GTVs were segmented using 40% threshold and a semi-automatic gradient-based contouring tool, PET Edge (MIM Software Inc., Cleveland, OH). SUV histogram features, Metabolic Volume (MV), and Total Lesion Glycolysis (TLG) were calculated. Four 3D texture matrices describing local and regional relationships between voxel intensities in the GTV were generated: co-occurrence, run length, size zone, and neighborhood difference. From these, 39 texture features were calculated. Prognostic power of baseline features derived from gradientbased and threshold GTVs were determined using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. Receiver Operating Characteristics and logistic regression was performed using JMP (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC) to find probabilities of predicting response. Changes in featuresmore » during treatment were determined using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Results: Of the 29 patients, there were 16 complete responders, 7 partial responders, and 6 non-responders. Comparing CR/PR vs. NR for gradient-based GTVs, 7 texture values, TLG, and SUV kurtosis had a p < 0.05. Threshold GTVs yielded 4 texture features and TLG with p < 0.05. From baseline to intra-treatment, 14 texture features, SUVmean, SUVmax, MV, and TLG changed with p < 0.05. Conclusion: Texture analysis of PET imaged gynecological tumors is an effective method for early prognosis and should be used complimentary to SUV metrics, especially when using gradient based segmentation. « less
Examining the Sensory Characteristics of Preschool Children With Retentive Fecal Incontinence

Date Presented 4/18/2015 Retentive fecal incontinence (RFI) is a common disorder in children that can affect participation. Children with treatment-resistant RFI show a greater degree of sensory overresponsivity (SOR) than typically developing children. The Toilet Habit Profile Questionnaire (THPQ) effectively discriminates between children with RFI and typically developing children.
Veriflow system analysis and optimization

Computer Networks are complex and prone to bugs. Most existing tools designed to fix these problems run offline and can only fix the problems after they occur. Those tools often run at the timescale of seconds to hours. With the advent of Veriflow [7], network administrators are able to do real-time checking of network-wide invariants. VeriFlow is an efficient tool designated to detect SDN network invariants at run time. It serves as an intermediate layer between software defined networking controller and the actual network devices. When each forwarding rule is to be inserted, modified or deleted into the network, the Veriflow will check for network-wide invariants violation dynamically before an actual action would take place. The Veriflow system can perform checking within hundreds of microseconds per rule. The invariant checking process contains three major phases: 1. Packet lookup phase—giving a new rule change, find all rules that will be affected given the insertion, deletion or modification of this new rule change. 2. Forwarding Graph Construction phase—Construct forwarding graph of those rules affected. 3. Graph Traversal phase—traversing those forwarding graphs to detect problems. In this work, we aim to boost the performance of the Veriflow system because the original system might fail to meet the performance requirements in some aspects. To achieve that, we first performed an experimental study of the system performance to figure out the where the bottleneck is in each of the following three phases. In phase 1, we surveyed a couple alternative lookup data structures and decided to adopt a multilevel red-black tree based solution. We also proposed a new way to find equivalent class based on our new lookup data structure and a new IP prefix format. In phase 2 and 3, we embedded the graph construction into rule insertion and store the graph in the lookup data structure directly to reduce the overhead. In addition, we did quite a few software engineering related optimizations to further reduce the running time and revamped the code base. We feed the same dataset to both implementations and our implementation will always have a consistently high speedup. This speedup grows linearly with the increases in network complexity. The new code base that comes along with our implementation is also better structured and more readable.
An intervention to assist older persons adjust to hearing aids

Hearing loss affects millions of Americans each year, especially targeting older Americans. As many as 38% of elders aged 65-75 years are affected and these numbers rise rapidly with more than 42% affected by 80 years of age. The rise in the numbers of older persons in the United States makes hearing loss the third most common chronic illness in the US today. Of these persons, approximately 30% choose to purchase hearing aids, but an astounding 47.2% of these individuals are unable to adjust to the hearing aids in order to wear them daily. Ambient sounds and physical discomfort from the presence of the device in the ear cause individuals to never wear the devices or stop wearing them after a short time. This dissertation focused on an intervention to assist those older persons who have purchased hearing aids, but are not wearing them, adjust to those aids with the goal of improving hearing aid satisfaction and hours of hearing aid use. A one group pre/posttest design was implemented on 15 individuals between the ages of 75-85 years of age who had previously failed to adjust to hearing aids. The Glasgow Hearing Aid Benefit Profile (GHABP) and hours of hearing aid use time were the primary outcome variables. This intervention study occurred over a four week period of time, with weekly face-to-face meetings with participants. Findings demonstrated that the intervention was feasible to administer in a group of community dwelling older persons (aged 75-85 years). All 15 participants completed the entire intervention, meeting each of 4 times with the researcher over a four week period. Forty percent of volunteers later declined to participate and 48% were turned away due to the small size of this pilot study. An overall increase of hearing aid use time was between 1-9 hours per day. A Wilcoxin signed rank test was performed (p=<0.0001).
Alterations in the mouse striatum following acute and repeated ethanol exposure

ALTERATIONS IN THE MOUSE STRIATUM FOLLOWING ACUTE AND REPEATED ETHANOL EXPOSURE by BROOKE DANIELLE NEWMAN August 2014 Advisor: Dr. Tiffany Mathews Major: Chemistry Degree: Doctor of Philosophy Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is an important neuromodulator that has implicated in regard to several neurological disorders, including alcohol addiction. BDNF is also an important modulator of dopamine (DA), a neurotransmitter that is heavily implicated in addiction with one of the DA rich brain regions being referred to as the reward center of the brain. One of the focuses in alcohol dependence research includes determining risk factors that make an individual more susceptible to becoming dependent. BDNF has been of interest as a risk factor due to its involvement in ethanol consumption and addiction evidenced in a vast number of studies using both human and animal models. The goal of this study was primarily to understand how low endogenous BDNF levels could lead a person to be more susceptible to alcohol dependence/ addiction. This was coupled with the goal of understanding ethanol’s alterations on the striatal DA system. Using two different mouse models and both voluntary ethanol consumption along with acute exposure to ethanol via systemic injection several striatal alterations were observed. Seven days of voluntary binge-like ethanol consumption produce a tolerance to ethanol stimulation of DA release, which could be mediated by alterations in adenylyl cyclase (AC) isoforms. BDNF and its receptor (tyrosine kinase B, TrkB) are reduced in WT mice, but not in BDNF-deficient mice following DID. The alterations observed with BDNF and
Durchlässigkeit von Ultrafiltern

In frühern Arbeiten) habe ich gezeigt, dass es mittels nasser Gallertfilter (Ultrafilter) gelingt, gelöste Kolloide von ihrem Lösungsmittel zu trennen und unter Umständen Gemische gelöster Kolloide von verschiedener Teilchengrösse durch verschieden dichte Filter nach der Grösse ihrer Teilchen zu scheiden. Nicht nur Lösungen anorganischer Kolloide, wie Silber, Arsensulfid usw. , konnten auf diese Weise von ihrem Lösungsmittel, meist Wasser, getrennt werden; auch Flüssigkeiten, die man schon geneigt war, zu den echten Lösungen zu zählen, wie Eiweissund Albumoselösungen usw. , erwiesen sich als heterogen und verhielten sich wie irgend eine Suspension, die im Filter zurückbleibt, während das Wasser abtropft. Die Durchlässigkeit dieser Ultrafilter hängt in erster Linie von der Konzentration der gewählten Gallertlösung ab und ist somit beliebig variierbar. — Schon in den erwähnten frühern Arbeiten habe ich versucht, die Porengrösse verschieden dichter Filter zu messen, und es bot sich mir als nächster Weg der Vergleich mit Kolloidlösungen, deren Teilchen ultramikroskopisch bestimmt waren. Hatte ich z. B. zwei Ultrafilter, von denen das eine aus Kollargollösung (kolloidales Silber) das Silber gerade teilweise durchliess, das andere es gerade vollkommen zurückhielt, und wusste ich ferner durch ultramikroskopische Bestimmung, dass in jener Kollargollösung die Silberteilchen einen mittlem Durchmesser von 20 fifi hatten, so ergab sich daraus, dass die Poren des einen Filters etwas grösser als 20 /jfi, die des andern etwas kleiner als 20 fifi sein mussten. — Benutzte ich die so ausgemessenen Filtersorten für
Evaluation of a nurse-led intervention (SNA↔P) to improve patients' experiences of chemotherapy-related nausea and fatigue

I ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . III CONTENTS . V LIST OF TABLES.X LIST OF FIGURES.XII PREFACE – THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SNA↔P STUDY . 1 THE AIMS AND DESIGN OF WISECARE+. 1 THOSE INVOLVED IN THE WISECARE+ STUDY.3 THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE WISECARE+ STUDY AND MY PHD . 5 1 CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION . 8 1.1 PLAN OF THESIS . 9 2 CHAPTER 2 – EXPERIENCES OF CHEMOTHERAPY RELATED SYMPTOMS . 11 2.