Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
COMPARISON OF HEMODYNAMIC RESPONSE TO TRACHEAL INTUBATION WITH MACINTOSH AND MCCOY LARYNGOSCOPES

BACKGROUND: McCoy laryngoscope incorporates a modification of the Macintosh laryngoscope. It was designed to facilitate difficult intubation. Use of this blade reduces the lifting force required during laryngoscopy. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The present prospective randomized study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of McCoy laryngoscope in attenuating the pressor response secondary to tracheal intubation as compared to Macintosh laryngoscope in terms of magnitude and duration in 80 patients of ASA Grade I and II. The changes in heart rate, systolic, diastolic, mean arterial pressure and rate pressure product were observed for 10 minutes post intubation. Time taken for laryngoscopy and intubation was also noted. RESULTS: Following laryngoscopy and intubation, it was observed that there was statistically significant rise in heart rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, mean arterial pressure and rate pressure product in both the groups. The increase in hemodynamic variables was statistically significant with Macintosh laryngoscope as compared to McCoy laryngoscope and lasted for lesser duration in McCoy group. CONCLUSION: McCoy laryngoscope produces significantly less marked hemodynamic response as compared to Macintosh laryngoscope.
Sperm kinematics and morphometric subpopulations analysis with CASA systems: a review

Sperm kinematics and morphometric subpopulations analysis with CASA systems: a review. The subjective evaluation of seminal quality has given way to the use of objective assessment techniques by CASA technology (computer-assisted semen analysis). The application of principal components (PC) and clustering methods to reveal subpopulations of spermatozoa is a powerful tool to evaluate raw semen and processed cell suspensions, but not many researchers are aware of the technique. PC analysis is a multivariate statistical method that reduces the number of variables used in subsequent calculations used to describe the data. By integrating the original variables according to their coherence in a database into a new complex mathematical variable, clearly defined homogenous subpopulations of spermatozoa can be defined. Kinematic, morphometric, morphological or DNA integrity tests may apply to characterize it and understand the reproductive biology of the spermatozoon. In recent years there has been a substantive change in the conceptual paradigm regarding what an ejaculate is. It should be said that until recently it was considered that the representative population (billions) of sperm was made up of "equivalent" cells with a common goal: to be the one that could finally fertilize the oocyte. The verification that the set of spermatozoa is grouped in distinct subpopulations, according to their kinematic and morphometric characteristics, opens the way towards a more cooperative vision. Besides, we have seen that the subpopulation distribution is different among males, which seems to indicate different strategies that can be understood within another paradigm, that of sperm competition between different ejaculates. The existence of heterogeneous subpopulations of spermatozoa in the ejaculate that show kinematics and morphometric patterns is widely known but the biological meaning of these different sperm subpopulations is still not clear. Although the role of the different subpopulations remains unknown, the work should continue in that direction.
Guidelines for Forensic Report Writing: Helping Trainees Understand Common Pitfalls to Improve Reports

A forensic report is the primary work product of a forensic psychologist. The aim of a forensic report is to inform and influence the court. Unlike a clinical report, a forensic report influences the outcome of a legal conflict. This means that greater care must be taken in writing the report. The following errors (Grisso, 2010) were used to discuss best practices in forensic report writing: failure to answer the referral question, organization problems, language problems, mixed data and interpretation, inclusion of irrelevant data, over-reliance on a single source of data, improper psychological test use, failure to consider alternative hypotheses, and opinions without sufficient explanation. The purpose of this paper is to provide in one place all the information needed to improve forensic report writing, and to help the reader apply the literature using specific examples. Redacted report samples were collected from psychologists, graduate psychology trainees, teaching assistant experience, and clinical work. Identified errors in these samples were then corrected using the recommendations in the literature. Geared toward graduate psychology trainees, each section should serve both as a tutorial and as a brief checklist to help the reader avoid common pitfalls and assist in promoting better forensic report writing. GUIDELINES FOR FORENSIC REPORT WRITING 4
Quantitative Comparison Of Reconstruction Methods For Compressive Sensing Mri

Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging is a non-invasive imaging system utilized generally for clinical diagnosis. MR imaging scanner gathers information in the form of Fourier coefficients and are stored in k-space. There are numerous algorithms to under sample k-space data using compressive sensing (CS) and to reconstruct the image. The under sampling pattern plays a critical role in optimizing compressed sensing MR imaging. In CS the signals are sampled at a rate much lower than traditional sampling rate and violate Nyquist’s criteria. CS MR imaging will reduce acquisition time by capturing only few samples. In this paper k-space information is under sampled with random sampling and reconstructed using different algorithms which are compared qualitatively and quantitatively. In reconstruction of brain MR image, Peak Signalto-Noise Ratio (PSNR), Structured Similarity Index Measure (SSIM) and MeanSquare-Error (MSE) values are the fault prediction parameters. Based on quality of the visual image and its statistical analysis of the MR images, the Total Variation (TV) norm performed well over the other algorithms. Index Terms : Compressive Sensing, MRI, MSE, PSNR, SSIM, TV ——————————  ——————————
An Ecologically OrientedOperation Strategy for aMulti-Reservoir System: A Case Study of the Middle and Lower Han River Basin, China

Constructing and operating a multi-reservoir system changes the natural flow regime of rivers, and thus imposes adverse impacts on riverine ecosystems. To balance human needs with ecosystem needs, this study proposes an ecologically oriented operation strategy for a multi-reservoir system that integrates environmental flow requirements into the joint operation of a multi-reservoir system in order to maintain different ecological functions throughout the river. This strategy is a combination of a regular optimal operation scheme and a series of real-time ecological operation schemes. During time periods when the incompatibilities between human water needs and ecosystem needs for environmental flows are relatively small, the regular optimal operation scheme is implemented in order to maximize multiple human water-use benefits under the constraints of a minimum water-release policy. During time periods when reservoir-induced hydrological alteration imposes significant negative impacts on the river’s key ecological functions, real-time ecological operation schemes are implemented in order to modify the outflow from reservoirs to meet the environmental flow requirements of these functions. The practical use of this strategy is demonstrated for the simulation operation of a large-scale multi-reservoir system which located in the middle and lower Han River Basin in China. The results indicate that the real-time ecological operation schemes ensure the environmental flow requirements of the river’s key ecological functions, and that adverse impacts on human water-use benefits can be compensated for by the regular optimal operation scheme. The ecologically oriented operation strategy for a multi-reservoir system that is proposed in this study enriches the theoretical application of the multi-reservoir system joint operation which considers environmental flow requirements. 2018 THE AUTHORS. Published by Elsevier LTD on behalf of Chinese Academy of Engineering and Higher Education Press Limited Company. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Measures of Pediatric Health Care Quality Based on Hospital Administrative Data: The Pediatric Quality Indicators

This report documents the work undertaken in Phase I of a two-phase process to develop the Pediatric Quality Indicators as part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) contract, ―Support for Quality Indicators II‖ under subcontract with Davis. This work was initiated in response to a charge to develop indicators of children's health care utilizing inpatient administrative data. These indicators examine both the quality of inpatient care, as well as the quality of outpatient care that can be inferred from inpatient data, such as potentially preventable hospitalizations. The report contains three main sections: 1. The introduction section launches the actual technical report and provides background regarding pediatric indicator development and the current effort to develop an indicator set based on administrative data. 2. The methods section outlines the approach used to gather evidence to identify and evaluate potential patient safety indicators, including the literature review, empirical analyses, and clinician panel review, as well as the operationalization of indicators and evaluation of risk adjustment approaches. 3. The results section is divided into two parts. The first part highlights general themes and summarizes the overall results. The second part provides detailed results for each AHRQ QI examined. Several appendixes provide additional detail regarding methods and results.
Stabilized RPA Flight in Building Proximity Operations

The thesis seeks a solution to the requirement for a highly reliable and capable Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) to support a wide array of missions and applications that require close proximity flight to structures. The scope of the project includes the drafting of a concept of operations (CONOPs) describing how the mission requirements might be met using the sensor, operators, and air vehicle described here in. The demonstration of the wall-following section of that CONOPs is performed by cart testing a custom algorithm and evaluating its ability to react to its environment. Finally, a flight test was performed to characterize the capabilities of an RTK-GPS system to stably hold a UAV in a single position, and minimize vehicle yaw, as a potential means of minimizing environmental sensing requirements in GPS permissive environments. The results for RTK-GPS were, position hold standard of deviation 8.0 x 10.1cm at a 5m flight altitude, and 17cm x 12.7cm at 8m flight altitude. Yaw variation results were a standard of deviation of 1.7° at 5m and 3.7° at 8m. The LIDAR wall-following tests proved the feasibility of using a decision tree style coding approach to proximity flight near a structure, but still has some changes that should be considered before being used operationally.
Sequential recognition and scoring of archery shots.

In this master thesis, computer vision is applied to archery in order to recognize and score archery shots in realtime or videos. This research is initiated by the NHB, which is the Dutch archery federation, for the reason that currently scores of arrows are filled in manually. This creates distraction from the primary training process. Also the order of the arrows which are shot, is not taken into account, which could be useful to analyze. For this purpose, various methods and techniques using OpenCV with Java are discussed and applied to detect and score the arrows. The target is detected by a color-based approach. The perspective of the target is corrected by a homography transformation matrix and arrows are detected and scored using the Hough Lines Transform in combination with a point in contour test. The scoring system is tested on videos, which are taken from the archery training at the NHB.
Devices and techniques for the next generation of optical networks

The work described in this thesis deals with studying new concepts and developing tools for improving the capacity and efficiency of optical networks, whether they are the existing networks that already span the globe or those that will be deployed in the future. A new method for optimizing two key launch parameters in legacy dispersion managed (DM) networks is presented. An algorithm was developed to calculate optimum pre-dispersion and launch power values. The results of this methodology were compared to those of a commercial software. For this case-study, in a submarine link scenario, the new method is found to be faster while preserving accuracy. Long period gratings (LPGs) are proposed in this thesis as the foundation for producing passive devices that will operate in future networks that use the concept of space division multiplexing (SDM), which uses new types of fibers such as multicore fibers (MCFs), reducing components and upgrading the capacity per fiber. A study comparing three LPG inscription techniques in both standard single mode fibers (SSMFs) and (MCFs) was performed. An improved technique to inscribe LPGs in SSMFs was proposed. With this technique, LPGs can be produced with a maximum difference between resonant wavelength values of less than 1 nm. Furthermore, it is possible to inscribe LPGs, with attenuation dips of -25 dB while at the same time obtaining polarization-dependent losses as low as 2 dB. The use of a LPG to promote selective coupling between two cores of a 4-core fiber was experimentally demonstrated. The device was successfully tested for a 200 Gb/s DP-16QAM signal transmission.
Partnership and reciprocity with women sustain Lead Maternity Carer midwives in practice

New Zealand has a unique maternity service model, whereby women at low risk of complications receive their maternity care from a community based Lead Maternity Carer (LMC) who is usually a midwife, but could be a general practitioner or an obstetrician. Over 80% of women in New Zealand choose to have a midwife as their LMC (Grigg & Tracy, 2013; Guilliland & Pairman, 2010). LMC midwives practise under contract to the Ministry of Health, taking a caseload and providing continuity of care (which requires being on call) for the women booked with them. This qualitative descriptive research set out to understand what sustains on call caseloading LMC midwives who have practised as LMCs for at least eight years. Eleven midwives with 8 to 20 years in practise were recruited and interviewed. Thematic and content analysis was carried out on the data. This article presents an overview of the findings from this study and extracts of selected data. Themes emerged from the findings which described how midwives were sustained in on call, caseloading practice. Themes identified include: the joy of midwifery practice; working in partnership; supportive family relationships; supportive midwifery relationships; generosity of spirit; like-minded midwifery partners, practice arrangements; managing the unpredictability of being on-call; realising one is not indispensable; learning to say “no”; negotiating and keeping boundaries; and passing on the passion for midwifery. This paper is the first in a series. It explores the themes of partnership, and how working in partnership sustains the joy of practice and provides context to the study. Future papers from the study will report on other themes from the study. The significance of this research is that it informs present and future maternity service provision and education.
Bootstrapping

This paper reﬁnes the analysis of co-training, deﬁnes and evaluates a new co-training algorithm that has theoretical justiﬁcation, gives a theoretical justiﬁcation for the Yarowsky algo-rithm, and shows that co-training and the Yarowsky algorithm are based on diﬀerent independence assumptions.
Evaluation of the Whitlarkian method of consumer decision map creation

ion in subject answers, along with how to deal better with situational specificity. In the same year, Reynolds joined up with two additional authors to provide a capstone to the foundational 1988 paper. In Advancements in Laddering (Reynolds, Dethloff, & Westberg, 2001), the authors begin by clarifying four key questions that must be answered to set up a proper
The prognostic predictors for disease free survival and overall survival in stage I-III breast cancer patients treated with adjuvant cyclophosphamide- adriamycin-5-fluorouracil (CAF) chemotherapy

(CAF) chemotherapy in breast cancer patients. Between 1987 and 2000, 248 breast cancer patients were treated with CAF chemotherapy. The mean age of the patients were 44.6 years (range: 21-75). The majority of the patients were premenopausal (71%). Estrogen receptor positivity was 48% in 151 patients. Progesterone receptor positivity was 47% in 130 patients. According to TNM classification 3.6%, 59.3% and 34.7% of the patients were at stage I, II and III, respectively. During the median follow-up time of 24.1 months (range: 4.8-156.2), the median disease free survival (DFS) was 63.1 months. In univariate analyses statistically significant predictors for DFS were age, nodal status, multicentricity and receptor status; and for overall survival (OS) were nodal status and receptor status. In multivariate analyses, the number of metastatic lymph nodes was the most significant independent prognostic factor for DFS and OS. While the age was another independent factor for DFS, the receptor status was an independent prognostic factor for OS. The most frequent side effects were fatigue (92%), grade 3 alopecia (84.7%) and grade 3 nausea/vomitting (65.3%). The number of the metastatic lymph nodes, especially when more than 3, revealed to be the most significant prognostic factor in patients treated with CAF. CAF is a well-tolerated combination with few side effects. (Turk J Cancer 2002;32(3):92-104)
A Survey of Impact Analysis Tools for Effective Code Evolution

Title: A Survey of Impact Analysis Tools for Effective Code Evolution Author: Stephanie Perez Day Galbo Major Advisor: Keith B. Gallagher, Ph.D. Background: Software maintenance and evolution are becoming noticeably more important activities in the software development process, with the growing popularity of Agile/SCRUM and continuous integration. Impact analysis, the activity of identifying the consequences of a change before the change is made, can help the developer understand the consequences of their potential changes and therefore make informed decisions about incremental changes, with the ultimate goal of minimizing negative impacts on the current baseline. To aid developers with impact analysis, there are a number of tools with a variety of capabilities to facilitate this process. Aim: In order to help developers take advantage of the cost-saving benefits of these tools, we would like to identify the impact analysis tools and plugins that currently exist in academia and the industry. There may be missed opportunities for tools developed for research purposes to be transferred to the industry. Method: In this paper, we will perform a systematic literature review of the impact analysis tools that exist today, and identify the various analysis types and capabilities offered by the various tools. We have also selected two tools, JRipples and ImpactMiner for an informal usability inspection, to gauge the industry readiness for these tools. Results and Conclusion: In this review, 20 impact analysis tools were selected for this literature review, and our results showed a variety of tools with different techniques and capabilities. We also discovered that there is an opportunity for the transferal of impact analysis tools from academia to industry to aid developers in maintenance and evolution.
Analysis of Dose and Dose Distribution for Patients Undergoing Selected X-Ray Diagnostic Procedures in Ghana

The levels of dose and dose distributions for adult patients undergoing five selected common types of X ray examination in Ghana were determined using thermoluminescence dosemeters (TLD) attached to the skin where the beam enters the patient. To assess the performance of each X ray room surveyed, the mean of the entrance surface dose for patients whose statistics were close to a standard patient (70 kg weight and 20 cm AP trunk thickness) were compared to the Commission of the European Communities guideline values for chest PA, lumbar spine AP, pelvis/abdomen AP and skull AP examinations. The third quartiles dose values were 1.3 mGy, 14.5 mGy, 12.0 mGy and 7.9 mGy for chest PA, lumbar spine AP, pelvis/abdomen AP and skull AP respectively. Analysis of the data show that 86%, 58%, 37.5% and 50% of radiographic rooms delivered a mean dose greater than the CEC guideline values for chest PA, lumbar spine AP, pelvis/abdomen and skull AP respectively. This suggests that radiographic departments should undertake a review of their radiographic practice in order to bring their doses to optimum levels.
The design and execution of social surveys

According to Nachmias and Nachmias (1996) the survey is one of the most important data collection methods used in the social sciences, and as such is utilised extensively to collect information on numerous topics of research. Surveys are designed to generate information from given populations in order to establish prevalence, distribution and interrelationships of variables within the particular population that is the subject of investigation (Polit and Hungler 1995). May (1997) suggests that surveys through the use questionnaires measure characteristics or opinions of respondents and that, where necessary conditions can be met, generalisations can take place from the sample of people interviewed to the population as a whole. Bowling (1997) refers to the survey as a method of collecting information, from a sample of the population of interest, usually by personal interviews (face to face or telephone), postal or other self-completed questionnaires methods or diaries. Parahoo (1997) claims that surveys are associated with the collection of a wide range of data from large samples and are well suited to descriptive and correlation studies. Population refers the total group of individuals or units involved in a particular study. A census refers to the collection of data from every single member of the population whereas a sample relates a subset of cases drawn from the total population. A sample that reflects accurately its population is said to be a representative sample and the results of a study, which are based on that sample might then be generalised to the wider population. However if the sample is not representative the results of research will be relevant only to the sample.