Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Adults with learning disabilities experiences of using community dental services: Service user and carer perspectives

Accessible summary: The government and other organisations say that improving health care is important for people with learning disabilities. We asked people with learning disabilities and the people who look after them what it was like for them when they went to the dentist. Those we asked said that when they went to the dentist, they knew that those they saw knew about looking after their teeth. Some of those we talked to though said that certain things needed to be better. Background: The government alongside other health and social care organisation have identified the need to improve the care provided for people with learning disabilities. Materials and Methods: This service evaluation aimed to explore the experiences of people with learning disabilities and their carers who accessed community dental services using a qualitative research design. Adults with learning disabilities (n = 4) and their carers (n = 6) took part in one to one, face to face semi structured interviews. Results and Discussion: Generally, participants were satisfied with community dental services and in particular valued the skills and the competence of practitioners. However, when dissatisfaction was expressed this was generally as a result of poor communication and the transition from child to adult dental services. Conclusions: A number of recommendations are identified and discussed in relation to engagement with adults with learning disabilities and their carers in the development and delivery of community dental services. © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
A Text Mining Investigation of the Presence and Emotional Impact of Religious Language in Service Organizations’ Websites

Abstract Christian religious language in marketing communications is becoming more common, and many Christian-based service firms communicate religiosity via company websites. The impact of religious language in company websites has not been directly addressed, however. Consequently, using a novel text mining methodology, this research examines the presence and impact of religious language on organizations’ websites over a 10-year period, including the emotional sentiments of the language and their intensity. The most frequently used religious words are identified and discussed, as is how the religious language contributes to the emotional tone of the message.
PURSUING HIGHER EDUCATION CAREERS AND THE PROCESS OF MIGRATION AMONG INDONESIAN FEMALE MIGRANT WORKERS IN TAIWAN

Remittance, labor migration and the significance of the female role in the process of labor migration have recently become entrenched in many developing countries, such as Indonesia. The influential role these female migrant workers play in supporting their own families and in their self-fulfillment is of significance and worthy of being fully expounded and discussed. As breadwinners, these female migrant workers strive to pursue higher education by working their way through college. Qualitative in-depth interviews and focus group discussions were used to obtain five Indonesian female migrant workers' opinion and experiences about their experience of being a worker and a student in Taiwan. The data in this study were analyzed and evaluated with thematic analysis. This study describes the factors which cause the Indonesian female workers to become migrant workers in Taiwan. This includes getting high-paid jobs, shouldering the responsibility for supporting their own families, and pursuing self-fulfillment overseas. Besides, this study has investigated the difficulties and challenges that female Indonesian migrant workers had encountered while working and studying at the same time. On the whole, as caregivers, most of them often fail to have a flexible schedule to study due to the temporary jobs assigned by their employers. Also, some employers are unwilling to allow them to pursue higher education for feat that they would not concentrate on their own work. Above all, it is these female migrant workers that can define what their lives truly mean as migrant workers on their own, and that can align their talents and ambitions with their pursuits of higher education. This study provides a new exploration of how the female migrant workers’ gained a sense of self-fulfillment by pursuing higher education with working and studying at the same time. Facing a variety of challenges and hindrances, their persistence and perseverance can be further examined for those who are interested in studying this field deeper. Keywords: Female migrant workers, higher education, Indonesian migrant workers, labor migration, remittance Cite as: Bali, S. , Liu, M. C. , & Lin, H. H. (2019). Pursuing higher education careers and the process of migration among Indonesian female migrant workers in Taiwan. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 4(2), 302-317. http://dx.doi. org/10.24200/jonus.vol4iss2pp302-317
Mental health issues in survivors of sex trafficking

Abstract There are more than three million trafficked women, many of who are children. This population has been largely forgotten because the victims are geographically transitory and exist within an illegal framework. Research, often conducted using invalid techniques, suggests that most survivors of sex trafficking (i.e. those evaluated in shelters), have mental illness. The majority of survivors have depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder or a more severe diagnosis: Disorders of Extreme Stress (DESNOS). In addition to these diagnoses, many victims of sex trafficking also have secondary psychological issues such as alcohol and drug abuse plus concurrent medical illnesses, which add to the psychological burden that sex trafficked victims endure. Mental health interventions often focus on identifying potential victims in healthcare centers and public places such as shopping malls or at truck stops. The problem, however, is that once a sex trafficked person is rescued there are no prospective clinical trials to guide therapy; oftentimes by default, trauma-based cognitive behavioral therapy is used; such approaches may not be effective for those with DESNOS. Considering the number of women and children who have been victimized by sex trafficking, it is astonishing that so little is known about the natural history of mental health issues and almost nothing is known about how best to treat these victims.
The Work of Front Line Community Aged Care Staff and the Impact of a Changing Policy Landscape and Consumer-Directed Care

Free to read on publisher website Community aged care in Australia is facing both challenges and opportunities with the introduction of consumer-directed care and its goal to provide clients with greater choice and control over their care services. Such policy changes impact not only aged care organisations, but front line staff who manage and deliver care. This study investigated the work of front line staff and their perceptions of the impact of a changing policy landscape. Focus groups were conducted with thirteen care workers and six case managers from one Australian aged care organisation. The data revealed valuable information about the: daily activities of front line staff; information exchange mechanisms facilitating front line work; management of clients and client relationships; and implications of policy and organisational changes on front line work and clients. Front line staff highlighted the importance of care coordination, communication and continuity of care delivery, all of which impact on client relationships and quality of care. For aged care organisations and policy makers, the findings identify important areas for consideration when making decisions about changes to community care, including the key role of front line staff in fostering client relationships, providing consistency and continuity, balancing the needs and expectations of clients, and providing support and advocacy of care options.
A 42 mV startup ring oscillator using gain-enhanced self-bias inverters for extremely low voltage energy harvesting

This paper presents a ring oscillator (ROSC) capable of operating at an extremely low supply voltage. The proposed ROSC consists of gain-enhanced self-bias inverters. The voltage gain of the proposed inverter is improved by controlling the body bias voltages. Measurements of a prototype chip demonstrated that our proposed ROSC can operate at an extremely low supply voltage of 42 mV.
High Resolution Impedance Inversion

ABSTRACTThe identification of clay-rich layers is crucial for development of pre-salt reservoirs. They represent flow barriers and compromise the return of investment of the project if the thickness is misvalued. This issue becomes more relevant for thin clay-rich layers. The solution for the characterization of thin beds is classic: increase of the frequency bandwidth in seismic data. Here, we present a new methodology to derive high-frequency impedance volume. The approach starts with the recovery of low and high-frequency components in seismic data by the application of interactive deconvolution (iterdec). The extended bandwidth data is employed as an input amplitude data to the sparse-spike inversion. The outcome is a high-frequency acoustic impedance volume, which improves the interpretation of thin clay-rich layers. We present a study case of a presalt reservoir to demonstrate that this technique mitigated the location risk of an injection well and helped to maximize the oil swept of its vicinity. Furthermore, we discuss the required adaptations in the sparse-spike inversion workflow, and present the advantages of this approach when compared with conventional inversion results.Keywords: Inversion, resolution, broadband, pre-salt. RESUMOA identificação de camadas argilosas é crucial para o desenvolvimento de reservatórios do pre-sal. Elas atuam como barreira para o fluxo dos fluidos, comprometendo o retorno do investimento no projeto, caso sua espessura seja subavaliada. Esta questão se torna mais relevante no caso the camadas argilosas de pequena espessura. A solução para a caracterização de camadas finas é clássica: torna-se necessário aumentar a banda espectral do dado sísmico. O presente trabalho apresenta a metodologia e os primeiros resultados da incorporação de uma nova metodologia para geração de volumes de impedância de alta resolução. Nesta abordagem, os componentes de baixa e alta frequência do dado sísmico são recuperados através da aplicação de um processo de deconvolução iterativa (iterdec). Em seguida, este dado com banda espectral expandida é utilizado como entrada para uma inversão esparsa, resultando num volume de impedância acústica, que reduz as incertezas na interpretação de camadas argilosas de pouca espessura. Apresenta-se o estudo de caso de um reservatório do pre-sal para demonstrar a efetividade desta técnica na mitigação de risco associado ao posicionamento de um poço injetor, resultando na maximização da varredura de óleo em torno do poço. São apresentadas e discutidas as adaptações necessárias ao fluxo tradicional de inversão e condicionamento de dados sísmicos, bem como as vantagens da aplicação dessa metodologia sobre os resultados da inversão. Palavras-chave: Inversão, resolução, banda-larga, pre-sal.
Evaluation of Three Accelerometer Devices for Physical Activity Measurement Amongst South Asians and Europeans

We recruited 62 South Asians and 40 Europeans aged 25 to 75 years, to assess the potential validity of three physical activity accelerometers for use amongst South Asians. Participants completed an exercise treadmill test (following Bruce protocol) while wearing the 3 accelerometers: Actigraph GT3X+ [GT3X+] and Geneactiv [GA] on ankle, waist and wrist; and Actiheart [AH] on chest. We compared relationships between energy expenditure (EE) measured by accelerometers (Measured) and actual EE on the treadmill (Actual) in the two ethnicities and tested for potential confounding effects. All accelerometers under-reported EE. Difference between Measured and Actual EE was smallest for GT3X+ankle (Measured – Actual at peak exercise [Mets]: GT3X+ankle –6.52 (1.77); GT3X+waist –8.46 (1.29); GT3X+wrist –11.17 (1.03); GAankle –8.17 (1.19); GAwaist –10.24 (0.64); GAwrist –11.21 (1.10); AHchest –9.09 (1.43), P 0.05). Relationship between Measured and Actual EE was not influenced by age, gender, height, waist, weight or waist-hip ratio (all P > 0.05). Amongst the devices and positions tested, GT3X+ankle is the most accurate device for measuring EE during an exercise treadmill test. Accelerometer performance is similar in South Asians and Europeans and is not influenced by anthropometric differences between the two populations.
Changes in Antarctic Bottom Water Formation During Interglacial Periods

In the modern Southern Ocean and during the last interglacial period, Marine Isotope Stage 5e, there are observations that point to reduced Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation. These reductions are believed to be driven by an increase in the strength of the Southern Ocean density stratification due to Antarctic ice melt‐induced surface water freshening. Any reduction in AABW formation has important implications for global climate as AABW plays a vital role in the cycling of carbon in the world's ocean. The primary question this study seeks to answer is do these AABW reductions occur during any of the other interglacials of the past 470,000 years? To study AABW changes in the paleoceanographic record, we look at changes in the redox record. Newly formed AABW is oxygen‐rich, so any reduction should lead to a decrease in oxygen concentrations in the deep Southern Ocean. The trace element uranium is useful for studying these redox changes as it is enriched in marine sediments under low‐oxygen conditions. When accounting for other factors, such as paleoproductivity, that can also decrease the oxygen concentrations in sedimentary porewater, it is possible to identify changes in AABW using authigenic uranium. The survey conducted by this study found a possible AABW reduction during late Marine Isotope Stage 11 (~397 ka). The cause of this event is less clear than others studied, and we explore the possibilities of ice melt‐induced freshening or a change in the position or strength of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds.
An Ensemble Prognostic Model for Metastatic, Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer

Author(s): Vang, Yeeleng Scott | Advisor(s): Xie, Xiaohui | Abstract: Metastatic, castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) is one of the most prevalent cancers and is the third leading cause of cancer death among men. Several treatment options have been developed to combat mCRPC, however none have produced any tangible benefits to patients' overall survivability. As part of a crowd-sourced algorithm development competition, participants were asked to develop new prognostic models for mCRPC patients treated with docetaxel. Such results could potentially assist in clinical decision making for future mCRPC patients.In this thesis, we present a new ensemble prognostic model to perform risk prediction for mCRPC patients treated with docetaxel. We rely on traditional survival analysis model like the Cox Proportional Hazard model, as well as more recently developed boosting model that incorporates smooth approximation of the concordance index for direct optimization. Our model performs better than the the current state-of-the-art mCRPC prognostic models for the concordance index performance measure and is competitive with these models on the integrated time-dependent area under the receiver operating characteristic curve.
Modeling and electromechanical performance analysis of frequency-variable piezoelectric stack transducers

An exact analytical model of frequency-variable piezoelectric stack transducers is proposed, and their dynamic characteristics are studied in this article. Based on the linear piezoelasticity theory, the dynamic analytical solution is first derived, and then its correctness is validated by comparing it with the results of a special example in the previous literature and the ones of the experimental study. The effects of the tuning resistance and the layer number of the active element on the dynamic characteristics are discussed. Numerical results show that tuning the resistance and the layer number of the active element can enable the multi-frequency characteristics of the piezoelectric stack transducers. A proper layer number of the active element can minimize the short-circuited resonance frequency and the open-circuited anti-resonance frequency. These findings provide guidelines to design and optimize the piezoelectric stack transducers, which have promising potential in developing the multi-frequency Langevin transducers for some underwater sound and ultrasonic applications, such as ultrasonic cleaning, ultrasonic chemistry, and sonar radiators.
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Automatic Evaluation Strategies for Paraphrase Generation Systems

Paraphrase is an expression of a text with alternative words and orders to achieve a better clarity. Paraphrases have been found vital for augmenting training dataset, which aid to enhance performance of machine learning models that intended for various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Thus, recently, automatic paraphrase generation has received increasing attention. However, evaluating quality of generated paraphrases is technically challenging. In the literature, the importance of generated paraphrases is tended to be determined by their impact on the performance of other NLP tasks. This kind of evaluation is referred as extrinsic evaluation, which requires high computational resources to train and test the models. So far, very little attention has been paid to the role of intrinsic evaluation in which quality of generated paraphrase is judged against predefined ground truth (reference paraphrases). In fact, it is also very challenging to find ideal and complete reference paraphrases. Therefore, in this study, we propose semantic or meaning oriented automatic evaluation metric that helps to evaluate quality of generated paraphrases against the original text, which is an intrinsic evaluation approach. Further, we evaluate quality of the paraphrases by assessing their impact on other NLP tasks, which is an extrinsic evaluation method. The goal is to explore the relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation methods. To ensure the effectiveness of proposed evaluation methods, extensive experiments are done on different publicly available datasets. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation strategies are promising. The results further reveal that there is a significant correlation between intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation approaches.
The complete chloroplast genome of Actinidia macrosperma

Abstract Actinidia macrosperma (A. macrosperma) is a medicinal plant in China, which has been well known for its activities against leprosy and cancers. In this study, we assembled and characterized the complete chloroplast (cp) genome sequence of A. macrosperma in an effort to provide genomic resources for promoting its conservation. The cp genome is 156,231 bp in length, containing a pair of 23,720 bp inverted repeat (IR) regions, which is separated by a large single copy region (LSC) of 88,214 bp and a small single copy region (SSC) of 20,577 bp. A total of 132 genes were annotated in this cp genome, including 85 protein-coding genes, 39 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis highly supported that A. macrosperma was evolutionarily close to another Actinidia species Actinidia deliciosa.
Floating Elbow In Children: Review Of Its Incidence And Outcome Of Operative Management.

: Supracondylar fractures are a common elbow injury in children, accounting for 16% of all paediatric fractures, but combined Supracondylar fracture with ipsilateral forearm bone fracture, known as floating elbow, is not a common injury. This is a retrospective 2 year study conducted between March 2014 to April 2016. A total of 128 patients with Supracondylar humerus fracture were reviewed in the study and 4 patients were identified as floating elbow. Their mode of injury, fracture type and management are reviewed in this study.
Implementing a whole-school relationships and sex education intervention to prevent dating and relationship violence: evidence from a pilot trial in English secondary schools

ABSTRACT Adolescent dating and relationship violence is associated with health harms and is an important topic for sex education. School-based interventions addressing this have been effective in the USA, but schools in England confront pressures that might hinder implementation. We assessed the feasibility of, and contextual enablers/barriers to implementing Project Respect, a whole-school intervention. We conducted a pilot trial with process evaluation in six English secondary schools. Intervention comprised: training; policy-review; mapping and patrolling ‘hotspots’; parent information; help-seeking app; and a curriculum (including student-led campaigns) targeting dating violence. Process evaluation included assessments of fidelity and interviews with the trainer and school staff. Schools delivered training and lessons partially or completely and made parent and app information available. Two schools conducted policy reviews; none patrolled hotspots or implemented campaigns. Implementation was strengthened where staff saw dating violence as a priority. Delivery was undermined where staff were insufficiently involved, lacked time for planning or struggled to timetable lessons, and where new school challenges undermined engagement. School-based health interventions must work to build staff buy-in and ensure they do not overburden schools. Dating and relationship violence might best be addressed in this context as a broader aspect of sex education.
Validating Model of Travellersâ€™ Intention to Revisit of an Islamic Destination via Consistency Partial Least Square (PLSc)

The purpose of this study is to validate the links among factor influencing tourists to revisit of an Islamic destination towards Muslim amenities and lifestyle, cognitive destination image and quality of service on a travellerâ€™s intention to revisit Islamic tourism destination. All the data was being collected using a self-administered approach questionnaire. The influencing factors of tourists to revisit are being validated by using the Consistency Partial Least Square (PLSc) via Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) technique. The findings indicated that, the purposed model were valid to modelling the travellersâ€™ intention since the SRMR and NFI indices were meet the minimum requirement of the analysis. Besides that, Muslim-Friendly Amenities and Lifestyle, Cognitive Image, and Service Quality having a simultaneously positive significant effect toward Intention to Revisit. It is indicated that, Islamic tourism should be acknowledge of the importance of Muslim amenities and lifestyles, cognitive destination image and quality of services in keep tourists to revisit
Mismatch repair deficiency: a step forward personalized medicine in endometrial cancer

Endometrial cancer (EC) is the most common female malignancy in the world, it has traditionally been classified into two subgroups based on histopathological features, however this dualistic classification does not take into consideration subtypes such as high-grade endometrioid EC. Recently, work performed as part of The Cancer Genome Atlas study has focused on molecular genomic classification of EC, with four distinct molecular subtypes described: 1. POLE ultramutated, associated with a good prognosis; 2. Microsatellite instability (MSI) hypermutated; 3. Copy number low and microsatellite stable; 4. Copy number high, serous like, associated with a poor prognosis. The subgroup of patients with MSI is of particular interest for a number of reasons, including the use of tumour screening to identify patients with Lynch syndrome, the prognostic significance of MSI, and the potential therapeutic implications. This review will focus on the current knowledge in these areas and potential future directions.