Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Prevalence of Lower Limb Traction Apophysitis among Children with Low Vitamin D and Secondary Hyperparathyroidism - Ultra Sonographic Study

Introduction: Traction apophysitis is a traction phenomenon resulting from repetitive load through the tendon or ligament at its insertion upon the skeletally immature bony insertion . Secondary hyperparathyroidism along with vitamin D deficiency have a major deleterious effect on the musculoskeletal system and may affect the traction points on the children age group. Aim of the work: Is to investigate the prevalence of lower limb traction apophysitis among children with secondary hyperparathyroidism and low vitamin D. Patients and Methods: Group I: 68 patients with Secondary hyperparathyroidism due to hypovitaminosis D; Group II: 50 normal children as a control group. All patients were subjected to clinical history taking, examination for the traction apophysitis sites in the lower limb, body mass index measurement, ultrasound assessment of Quadriceps tendon insertion, Infrapatellar ligament, Achilles tendon, and Plantar fascia. Results: The ultrasound detected prevalence of traction apophysitis in the lower limb in the study group was 66.2 %, were 45 patients defined affected, among the affected patients 32 (71.1%) were male and 13(28.9%) were female. Ultrasound assessment of the control group shows that 10 (20%) patients affected by traction apophysitis; among the affected patients 8 (80%) were male and 2 (20%) were female. Conclusion: Traction apophysitis appears to be frequent problem in children with secondary hyperparathyroidism and low vitamin D. The factors significantly associated with presence of traction apophysitis were increased parathyroid hormone and low vitamin D.
Genetic polymorphism of candidate genes for fecundity traits in Egyptian sheep breeds

In reproductive planning, intervals between lambings, season, age of ewe, heat stress, nutrition state or breed are some of the factors which have a great effect on sheep fertility. Different mutations in the growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) and the bone morphogenetic protein 15 (BMP15) genes cause an increase in the ovulation rate in sheep. The aim of the current study was to determine the mutations in GDF9 and BMP15 genes and the probability of their effect on fertility in the major Egyptian sheep breeds. Blood samples were collected using EDTA from the Barki, Ossimi and Rahmani sheep breeds at different locations in Egypt, and DNA was then isolated using the salting out method. The PCR products of the genes were digested with MseI and DdeI restriction enzymes for the GDF9 gene, and with HinfI and DdeI for the BMP15 gene. The results showed that the PCR products digested with restriction enzymes exhibited a substitution in the G7 locus of the GDF9 gene in the Ossimi and Rahmani sheep breeds, and a substitution in the FecGH locus of the GDF9 gene in all sheep breeds. On the other hand, while the BMP15 gene loci digested only with HinfI showed mutations, this did not occur in all samples of the three Egyptian breeds. In conclusion, the BMP15 gene loci showed no polymorphism, while only the GDF9 gene loci were polymorphic in Barki, Ossimi and Rahmani sheep breeds.
Personal Qualities of Effective Sport Psychologists: A Sports Physician Perspective

Abstract Previous literature within applied sport psychology offers little detailed discussion regarding the personal qualities of sport psychology practitioners and the impact of these qualities on practice. This paper presents an exploration of the views of sport physicians regarding the personal characteristics and qualities of applied sport psychologists deemed necessary for effective practice. Five UK-based physicians and one Head of Medical Services, working in a range of elite and professional sports, were interviewed about their experience and perceptions of working with sport psychologists. The interview transcripts were content analysed and trustworthiness criteria applied. Four key themes emerged from the data, labelled ‘Personal qualities’, ‘Relationship Building’, ‘Professionalism in Practice’, and ‘Similarities between Psychologist and Physician’. The findings within each theme offered interesting insights into the impact of personal qualities on effective sport psychology practice. This study extends the existing literature on sport psychologists’ characteristics and effectiveness and offers new insights into their personal qualities and how these interact with the practice environment. The findings supported the growing emphasis within the field on the importance of the person behind the practitioner. Suggestions are offered with reference to the need to consider how literature from counselling psychology and medical training could assist the development of practice and education and training in sport psychology.
ClDiff: Generating Concise Linked Code Differences

Analyzing and understanding source code changes is important in a variety of software maintenance tasks. To this end, many code differencing and code change summarization methods have been proposed. For some tasks (e.g. code review and software merging), however, those differencing methods generate too fine-grained a representation of code changes, and those summarization methods generate too coarse-grained a representation of code changes. Moreover, they do not consider the relationships among code changes. Therefore, the generated differences or summaries make it not easy to analyze and understand code changes in some software maintenance tasks. In this paper, we propose a code differencing approach, named ClDiff, to generate concise linked code differences whose granularity is in between the existing code differencing and code change summarization methods. The goal of ClDiff is to generate more easily understandable code differences. ClDiff takes source code files before and after changes as inputs, and consists of three steps. First, it pre-processes the source code files by pruning unchanged declarations from the parsed abstract syntax trees. Second, it generates concise code differences by grouping fine-grained code differences at or above the statement level and describing high-level changes in each group. Third, it links the related concise code differences according to five pre-defined links. Experiments with 12 Java projects (74,387 commits) and a human study with 10 participants have indicated the accuracy, conciseness, performance and usefulness of ClDiff.
Institutional Factors as Predictors of Students' Academic Achievement in Colleges of Education in South Western Nigeria.

The enhancement of the academic achievement of the Nigerian students has continued to engage the attention of educational practitioners and policy makers. This paper investigated institutional factors as predictors of students’ academic performance in Colleges of Education in South-Western Nigeria. The study employed the ex post facto design using a survey design and a multiple regression model. The samples used for the study consisted of 1,100 (200 and 300 levels) National Certificate of Education (NCE) students in Federal, State and Private NCE-awarding institutions in South Western Nigeria, using stratified sampling techniques. The validated research instruments used for the study had the following psychometric properties: Cronbach alpha (α) [0.79 (students) and 0.73 (lecturers); Guttman split-half 0.78 (students) and 0.71 (lecturers; and Spearman-Brown equal length results were 0.69 (students) and 0.70 lecturers)]. The study found that a number of institutional factors: student-teacher-ratio, lecturers’ interest and commitment, school calendar stability and to a lesser extent, teaching method, were significant predictors of students’ academic achievement in the colleges of education sampled. On the other hand, school leadership, school plant and library facilities were not found to be significant predictors of academic achievement. The study proffered a number of recommendations to improve the quality of educational policy outcomes geared towards improving students' educational performance and hence enhance the achievement of national economics goals. Key words: Institutional factors, academic achievement, Nigeria, ex post facto design, stratified random sampling, multiple regression.
A Target-Site Point Mutation in Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) Confers High-Level Resistance to ALS-Inhibitors

Abstract Henbit is a facultative broadleaf winter annual in the Lamiaceae family. Acetolactate synthase (ALS) inhibitors are primarily used to control a broad spectrum of weeds, including henbit. During 2012 to 2013, field applications of ALS-inhibiting herbicides were ineffective in controlling a henbit population from Marion County, KS (MCK). To confirm field-evolved resistance to ALS inhibitors, response of MCK henbit and a known susceptible henbit population from Kansas (DPS) to varying doses of three different ALS inhibitors were examined: chlorsulfuron, imazamox, and propoxycarbazone. Results of the dose–response experiments suggest that the MCK population is highly resistant to chlorsulfuron (resistance index [R/S] > 1,000) and propoxycarbazone (R/S = 331) but is susceptible to imazamox. A full-length ALS gene sequence obtained using the 5′- and 3′- rapid amplification of complementary DNA ends approach revealed a Pro197 to Arg point mutation (a common mutation that confers resistance to sulfonylurea herbicides, e.g., chlorsulfuron) in the MCK henbit. No other known resistance-conferring mutations were found in the study. Evolved resistance to major classes of ALS inhibitors in the MCK henbit will reduce herbicide options for its control. To our knowledge, this is the first case of evolution of herbicide resistance in henbit. Nomenclature: Chlorsulfuron; imazamox; propoxycarbazone; henbit, Lamium amplexicaule L.
An Analytical Method for Dynamic Evolution of Attack Process based on Markov Game

Because of the randomness of attacker and defender’s strategy selection, the state variation during the network attack process must be a random process. So, the network attack and defense process can be abstracted a confrontation of multi-state based on different gains matrix. This paper describes the random of attack and defense strategy selection with Markov decision, and extends the Markov game model from single-state to multi-state and multi-agent. After that, it proves the existence of equilibrium strategy and gives the solving method of nonlinear programming. Finally, deduction and simulation analysis of the practical example indicate that this model's method is correspond to the actual application and the evaluation result is accurate, so it can be used to have a more detailed simulation to network attack and defense process in reality.
The Link between Cognitive Ability and Scholastic Cheating: A Meta-Analysis

Do less able students cheat more? Although relevant research has been published over the past eight decades, no consensus has been reached. We reviewed all studies using objective measures of both ability and cheating. A comprehensive search yielded 20 such articles, including 22 samples, that estimated the ability-cheating association. A meta-analysis yielded a clear conclusion: all associations between ability and cheating were negative with a median value of −. 26. The pattern was also robust across contrived versus noncontrived cheating situations, collaborative versus noncollaborative cheating, choice of ability measures, and educational levels. The associations were somewhat lower when cheating detection methods were “high-tech” rather than traditional. Broader implications are discussed.
Clonal and bud bank traits: patterns across temperate plant communities

Questions We examine patterns of clonal traits and below-ground bud bank traits in plant communities over a large set of temperate vegetation types. We asked (i) how clonal traits are distributed in different community types and (ii) what are within-community patterns of these traits as an indication of their role in species coexistence and community assembly. Location Czech Republic. Methods We use a stratified set of more than 20,000 vegetation records from the Czech National Phytosociological Database as a source of species co-occurrence and habitat type data, and combined it with data on clonal and bud bank traits from the CLO-PLA database. We calculated both community trait means and dispersions for all records in the database and used a series of randomization tests to assess effects of environmental filtering and within-community assembly. Results Habitat filtering was stronger in bud bank traits than in clonal traits. The key factors driving structure of clonal traits in Central Europe seem to be differences in productivity and in wetness. These gradients are responsible for a major change in clonal growth parameters, from clonal plants with short and persistent connections in dry and unproductive habitats to plants with long- and short-lived connections in wet and productive sites. Size of the bud bank is rather uncorrelated with this gradient: species with small below-ground bud bank size prevail in highly disturbed and in water habitats. None of the traits showed significant overdispersion, either at the level of the whole data set, or at the level of individual habitat types. Conclusions Capacity for clonal growth occurs under many different environmental regimes and can give rise to very different growth forms. Therefore, using capacity for clonal growth as a proxy for clonal reproduction, capture of horizontal space or resprouting capacity may hinder understanding of its role. Absence of overdispersion after accounting for habitat filtering means that we found no evidence that clonal traits play a role in niche-based coexistence processes.
The Impact of SST Specification on ECMWF Surface Wind Stress Fields in the Eastern Tropical Pacific

Abstract The impact of SST specification on low-level winds in the operational ECMWF numerical weather prediction model is investigated in the eastern tropical Pacific from comparisons of ECMWF wind stress fields with QuikSCAT satellite scatterometer observations of wind stress during the August–December cold seasons of 2000 and 2001. These two time periods bracket the 9 May 2001 change from the Reynolds SST analyses to the Real-Time Global SST (RTG_SST) analyses as the ocean boundary condition in the ECMWF model. The ocean–atmosphere interaction in the eastern tropical Pacific that is clearly evident in QuikSCAT wind stress divergence and curl fields is also evident in the ECMWF winds, but is more than twice as strong in the 2001 cold season as in the 2000 cold season, due primarily to the improved spatial and temporal resolution of the RTG_SST analyses compared with the Reynolds SST analyses. While a significant improvement compared with 2000, the response of the 2001 ECMWF wind stress field to SST is o.
An exploration of the effects of self-guide matching and self-discrepancy matching on the processing of persuasive messages : does matching increase or decrease thoughtful processing? /

Past research has suggested that matches between aspects of an individual’s selfconcept and aspects of a persuasive message can lead to enhanced processing of the message. Self-discrepancy theory describes several aspects of the self-concept that could potentially affect the processing of persuasive messages. This dissertation presents two studies that explore the effects of matches between message framing and individuals’ stronger self-guides or stronger self-discrepancies on the thoughtful processing of persuasive messages. In addition, a new type of message framing, self-guide framing, is introduced. Experiment 1 examined the effects of matching the self-guide framing and the outcome framing of persuasive messages to individuals’ active self-guides. Matches between self-guide framing and active self-guides led to more thoughtful processing of the persuasive message than mismatches. Matches between outcome framing and active self-guides led to more positive attitudes toward the persuasive message than mismatches. Experiment 2 examined the effects of matching the self-guide framing of persuasive messages to individuals’ stronger self-guides and to individuals’ stronger self­ discrepancies. Self-guide matches (matches between the framing of a message and an
A Socio-linguistic Model for Cyberbullying Detection

Cyberbullying is a serious threat to both the short and long-term well-being of social media users. Addressing this problem in online environments demands the ability to automatically detect cyberbullying and to identify the roles that participants assume in social interactions. As cyberbullying occurs within online communities, it is also vital to understand the group dynamics that support bullying behavior. To this end, we propose a socio-linguistic model which jointly detects cyberbullying content in messages, discovers latent text categories, identifies participant roles and exploits social interactions. While our method makes use of content that is labeled as bullying, it does not require category, role or relationship labels. Furthermore, as bullying labels are often subjective, noisy and inconsistent, an important contribution of our paper is effective methods for leveraging inconsistent labels. Rather than discard inconsistent labels, we evaluate different methods for learning from them, demonstrating that incorporating uncertainty allows for better generalization. Our proposed socio-linguistic model achieves an 18% improvement over state-of-the-art methods.
Wegenwerken: a design journey down the slow roads

'WegenWerken' (RoadWorks) is an ongoing collaboration between multiple stakeholders, focused on the role of soft connections in the city of Genk (Belgium) and guided by the approach of participatory design (PD). Through this project, we engaged with different research and design activities on macro-(city- and region-wide and reflective) and micro- (site-specific and intervention-based) level while working together with the citizens of Genk to explore and map the future of the slow road network. This situated action proposal envisions an exhibition of the research material and design tools produced within these activities, as well an interactive installation which will engage the visitors with the material presented.
Genetic Characterization of Some Neoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Populations Within the foetida Species Complex

Abstract The foetida species complex comprises 13 Neotropical species in the ant genus Neoponera. Neoponera villosa Fabricius (1804) , Neoponera inversa Smith (1858), Neoponera bactronica Fernandes, Oliveira & Delabie (2013), and Neoponera curvinodis (Forel, 1899) have had an ambiguous taxonomic status for more than two decades. In southern Bahia, Brazil, these four species are frequently found in sympatry. Here we used Bayesian Inference and maximum likelihood analyses of COI and 16S mtDNA sequence data and conventional cytogenetic data together with observations on morphology to characterize sympatric populations of N. villosa, N. inversa, N. bactronica, and N. curvinodis. Our results showed marked differences in the karyotype of these ants. Both N. curvinodis and N. inversa have chromosome number of 2n = 30. Their chromosome composition, however, is distinct, which indicates that N. curvinodis is more closely related to N. bactronica. These four species clustered into three distinct groups. The close relationship between N. bactronica and N. curvinodis deserves further investigation since it has not been fully resolved here. Our results confirm that N. inversa, N. villosa, N. bactronica + N. curvinodis indeed represent four distinct taxa within the foetida species complex.
Salivary Gland Extract of Kissing Bug, Triatoma lecticularia, Reduces the Severity of Intestinal Inflammation through the Modulation of the Local IL-6/IL-10 Axis

Triatomines are known for their role as vectors of the causative agent of Chagas disease. The occurrence of an arsenal of molecules in their saliva is able to suppress vertebrate immune responses. Thus, it is reasonable to assume that the presence of molecules with therapeutic potential in their saliva is able to constrain inflammation in immune-mediated diseases. Thus, mice were exposed to dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) in drinking water uninterruptedly during 6 consecutive days and treated with T. lecticularia salivary gland extract (SGE) (3, 10, or 30 μg) or vehicle (saline) (n = 6/group). At the highest dose (30 μg), an improvement in clinical outcome and macroscopic aspects of the intestine were observed. This observation was followed by amelioration in histopathological aspects in the colon especially when the doses of 10 and 30 μg were used. Regardless of the concentration used, treatment with T. lecticularia SGE significantly reduced the levels of the inflammatory cytokine IL-6 in the intestine. The production of the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 was positively impacted by the concentrations of 3 and 30 μg. Our results suggest that the presence of molecules in the T. lecticularia SGE is able to attenuate clinical outcome and colon shortening and improve intestinal architecture besides reducing the production of IL-6 and inducing a local production of IL-10 in the intestine.
An Autonomous Hybrid Data Partition for NewSQL DBs

Several applications like online games and financial market seek support for features such huge data volumes management, data streaming and handle thousands of OLTP transactions per second. Traditional Relational Databases (RDBs) in general are not suitable for these requirements. NewSQL is a new generation of DBs that combines the high scalability and availability with the ACID support. NewSQL is a promising solution to handle these application requirements. Although data partition is an important feature for tunning relational DBs, it stills an open problem field for NewSQL systems. This Thesis proposes an automated approach for hybrid data partitioning that automatically reorganizes data based on the current workload of the NewSQL DBs. Resumo. Várias aplicações, como jogos on-line e mercado financeiro, buscam suporte para recursos como gerenciamento de grandes volumes de dados, data streaming e suporte a milhares de transações OLTP por segundo. Bancos de dados relacionais tradicionais (RDBs), em geral, não são adequados para esses requisitos. BDs NewSQL são uma nova geração de bancos de dados que combina alta escalabilidade e disponibilidade com o suporte as propriedades ACID. Os NewSQL mostram-se uma solução promissora para lidar com esses requisitos de aplicações. Embora a partição de dados seja um recurso importante para melhoria no dempenho de sistemas NewSQL é ainda um problema aberto na literatura. Esta Tese propõe um controle da evolução do particionamento dos dados de um BD NewSQL com suporte a streaming de dados, de maneira autônoma, a fim de melhorar o desempenho de transações OLTP e de consultas de streaming. Palavras Chave: data partitioning, NewSQL, OLTP Systems, Automate partitioning, Big Data 2018 SBC 33rd Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD) August 25-26, 2018 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Intralobar pulmonary sequestration associated with Bochdalek hernia: first reported case in an adult male and literature review

Abstract Pulmonary sequestrations (PS) are rare congenital malformations that can be difficult to diagnose. PS have no connection with the bronchial tree and are vascularized through an aberrant artery mostly arising from descending thoracic or abdominal aorta. The standard diagnostic method is the computed tomography angiography and delayed diagnosis can lead to recurrent pneumonia and hemoptysis. Herein, we have a case of a patient with an intralobar sequestration associated with a Bochdalek hernia. The diagnosis was delayed in this case as with many other similar case reports because details of the patient’s history were overlooked.