Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE EFFECT OF GROUP MUSIC THERAPY ON PATIENT SATISFACTION IN A BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SETTING

OF THESIS THE EFFECT OF GROUP MUSIC THERAPY ON PATIENT SATISFACTION IN A BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SETTING Patient satisfaction has become increasingly important to medical facilities as a result of reimbursement rates being tied to patient satisfaction scores. Music therapy’s potential to enhance patient satisfaction scores has been explored and several studies exist examining its impact in the medical setting. No studies exist, however, examining how music therapy contributes to patient satisfaction scores in the behavioral health setting. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare overall patient satisfaction scores of inpatient psychiatric patients who received group music therapy services with those at the same facility who did not receive group music therapy services. Participants who attended music therapy group (n=14) received an anonymous, voluntary survey with 10 questions based on the facility’s satisfaction survey and the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey. Participants who did not attend music therapy group (n=15) received the same survey. Results showed that patients who attended music therapy group reported overall satisfaction scores that were on average 3.02 points higher than participants who did not attend music therapy group. Age correlation and gender differences which may affect patient satisfaction scores are described. The implications for future research and current clinical practice are also discussed.
Nutritional management of sea-caged southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii)

‘SARDI-Pig and Poultry Production Institute, Nutrition Research Laboratory, The University of Adelaide, Roseworthy Campus, Roseworthy, SA 5371 *SARDI-Tuna Research, Lincoln Marine Science Centre, PO Box 2023 Port Lincoln, SA 5606 3University of Tasmania, Department of Aquaculture, Launceston Campus, PO Box 1214 Launceston, TAS 7250 4Department of Animal Science, University of Adelaide, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, Glen Osmond, SA 5061 %ARDI Aquatic Sciences Centre, PO Box 120 Henley Beach, SA 5022 %o-operative Research Centre for Aquaculture, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007
Comparison of Feature Extraction MFCC and LPC in Automatic Speech Recognition for Indonesian

Speech recognition can be defined as the process of converting voice signals into the ranks of the word, by applying a specific algorithm that is implemented in a computer program. The research of speech recognition in Indonesia is relatively limited. This paper has studied methods of feature extraction which is the best among the Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) and Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) for speech recognition in Indonesian language. This is important because the method can produce a high accuracy for a particular language does not necessarily produce the same accuracy for other languages, considering every language has different characteristics. Thus this research hopefully can help further accelerate the use of automatic speech recognition for Indonesian language. There are two main processes in speech recognition, feature extraction and recognition. The method used for comparison feature extraction in this study is the LPC and MFCC, while the method of recognition using Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The test results showed that the MFCC method is better than LPC in Indonesian language speech recognition.
The Effect of Quadriceps Kinesio Tape on Functional Disability, Pain, and Knee Joint Position Sense in Knee Osteoarthritis Patients

Introduction : Osteoarthritis is one of the most common joint and musculoskeletal problems, particularly within the knee joint, which causes functional disability and impaired proprioception. The aim of the present study was to study the effect of quadriceps kinesio tape on functional disability, pain, and knee joint position sense in females suffering from osteoarthritis of the knee. Methods and Materials : A total of 38 females suffering from knee osteoarthritis were randomly assigned to either the control group (n=19) or kinesio tape group (n=19). The extent of pain was measured using a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), the extent of functional disability was measured using Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC), and the absolute error of reconstructing the active angle in 30 and 60 degrees of knee flexion was measured using an inclinometer. The results were analyzed using independent sample t-test to compare the treatment groups before the treatment and paired sample t-test to compare the groups before and immediately after the treatment. Results : In the kinesio tape group, a statistically significant improvement was observed in the reconstruction of the joint sense position at 30 and 60 angles of knee flexion before and after treatment ( P <0.0001). However, there no statistically significant difference was observed in the control group at 30° and at 60 ° . Moreover, the results from the VAS and WOMAC tests revealed no statistically significant difference between the control and kinesio tape groups. Conclusion : The quadriceps kinesio tape improves knee joint position sense in patients with knee osteoarthritis, but it does not cause significant changes in their pain and functional ability. Key Words : Functional disability; Joint position sense; Kinesio tape; Knee osteoarthriti
Significance of Garlic and Its Constituents in Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease Aged Garlic Extract Inhibits Angiogenesis and Proliferation of Colorectal Carcinoma Cells 1 – 3

Because colorectal cancer is likely to develop in many people at some point during their lives, prevention has become a high priority. Diet and nutrition play an important role during the multistep colon carcinogenic process. Garlic has been traditionally used as a spice and is well known for its medicinal properties; several studies have indicated its pharmacologic functions, including its anticarcinogenic properties. However, the mechanisms by which garlic can prevent colorectal cancer remain to be elucidated. This study investigated the effect of aged garlic extract (AGE) on the growth of colorectal cancer cells and their angiogenesis, which are important microenvironmental factors in carcinogenesis. AGE suppressed the proliferation of 3 different colorectal cancer cell lines—HT29, SW480, and SW620—in the same way, but its effects on the invasive activities of these 3 cell lines were different. the invasive activities of SW480 and SW620 cells were inhibited by AGE, whereas AGE had no effect on the invasive activity of Ht29 cells. The action of AGE appears to be dependent on the type of cancer cell. On the other hand, AGE enhanced the adhesion of endothelial cells to collagen and fibronectin and suppressed cell motility and invasion. AGE also inhibited the proliferation and tube formation of endothelial cells potently. These results suggest that AGE could prevent tumor formation by inhibiting angiogenesis through the suppression of endothelial cell motility, proliferation, and tube formation. AGE would be a good chemopreventive agent for colorectal cancer because of its antiproliferative action on colorectal carcinoma cells and inhibitory activity on angiogenesis. J. Nutr. 136: 842S–846S, 2006.
Updating finite element model using frequency domain decomposition method and bees algorithm

The following study deals with the updating the finite element model of structures using the operational modal analysis. The updating process uses an evolutionary optimization algorithm, namely bees algorithm which applies instinctive behavior of honeybees for finding food sources. To determine the uncertain updated parameters such as geometry and material properties of the structure, local and global sensitivity analyses have been performed. The sum of the squared errors between the natural frequencies obtained from operational modal analysis and the finite element method is used to define the objective function. The experimental natural frequencies are determined by frequency domain decomposition technique which is considered as an efficient operational modal analysis method. To verify the accuracy of the proposed algorithm, it is implemented on a three-story structure to update its finite element model. Moreover, to study the efficiency of bees algorithm, its results are compared with those particle swarm optimization and Nelder and Mead methods. The results show that this algorithm leads more accurate results with faster convergence. In addition, modal assurance criterion is calculated for updated finite element model and frequency domain decomposition technique. Moreover, finding the best locations of acceleration and shaker mounting in order to accurate experiments are explained.
Distance Judgments for Joint Action: The Perceptual Consequences of Anticipated Coordination

iv Introduction 1 Cognition as Embodied 2 Cognition as Situated 6 The Ecological Approach to Perception 9 The Economy of Action 12 The Detection of Social Affordances 16 The Effortful Implications of Joint Action on Distance Perception 19 Experiment 1 20 Method 20 Results 23 Discussion 29 Experiment 2 35 Method 35 Results 36 Discussion 39 General Discussion 49 References 56 Tables 71 Figures 75 Appendix 78
Title Encoding CNFs to empower component analysis Permalink

Recent algorithms for model counting and compilation work by decomposing a CNF into syntactically independent components through variable splitting, and then solving the components recursively and independently. In this paper, we observe that syntactic component analysis can miss decomposition opportunities because the syntax may hide existing semantic independence, leading to unnecessary variable splitting. Moreover, we show that by applying a limited resolution strategy to the CNF prior to inference, one can transform the CNF to syntactically reveal such semantic independence. We describe a general resolution strategy for this purpose, and a more specific one that utilizes problem– specific structure. We apply our proposed techniques to CNF encodings of Bayesian networks, which can be used to answer probabilistic queries through weighted model counting and/or knowledge compilation. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed techniques can have a large effect on the efficiency of inference, reducing time and space requirements significantly, and allowing inference to be performed on many CNFs that exhausted resources previously.
Analysis of Regulatory Genomics and Gene Expression Pattern of Medicinal Importance Genes of Helicobacter Pylori

Helicobacter pylori has is recognized as the main causal agent of chronic gastritis and duodenal ulcers, and it is associated with the subsequent development of gastric carcinoma. It adapted to life in a unique nice, the gastric epithelium of primates, its promoter may there for show different types of regulatory motif from those of other bacteria and it is well known fact that motif are the sequence portion which are responsible for gene regulation, by studying them we can control the expression of such genes of interest. Here, the objective of this work is to analyze the regulatory sequence pattern of virulence genes that have medicinal importance for providing a basis for drug development process and further analysis of transcriptional regulatory networks. For this purpose using available microarray gene expression data from Stanford Microarray Database, and computation tools, As a result we found that helicobacter pylori shows different type of regulatory motif of Oligo and Dyad pattern in studied genes. The most common length of single block, Oligo motif is 8 – 14, and the most common pattern for Dyad is 4 (4/8)3, we also observe that the GC content of these regulatory is just 15-20%, which is comparatively very less.
Low-mass companions to Hyades stars

It is now well established that a large fraction of the low-mass stars are binaries or higher order multiples. Similarly a sizable fraction have giant planets. In contrast to these, the situation for brown dwarf companions is complicated: While close systems seem to be extremely rare, wide systems are possibly more common. In this paper, we present new results on a survey for low-mass companions in the Hyades. After measuring precisely the radial velocity of 98 Hyades dwarf stars for 5 years, we have selected all stars that show low-amplitude long-period trends. With AO-observations of these 14 stars we found companion candidates around nine of them, where one star has two companions. The two companions of HIP 16548 have masses between 0.07 to 0.08 M� , and are thus either brown dwarfs or very low mass stars. In the case of HAN 172 we found a companion with a mass between 0.08 to 0.10 M� , which is again between a star and a brown dwarf. The other seven stars all have stellar companions. In two additional cases, the RV-variations are presumably caused by stellar activity, and in another case the companion could be a short-period binary. The images of the remaining two stars are slightly elongated, which might imply that even these are binaries. Because at least 12 of the 14 stars showing low-amplitude RV trends turn out to have companions with a mass ≥ 70 MJupiter ,o r are just active, we finally estimate the number of companions with masses between 10 MJupiter and 70 MJupiter within 8 AU of the host stars in the Hyades as ≤2%.
Comparative Study of Antioxidant Activity from some Egyptian Plants and Phytochemical Composition

This study evaluated antioxidant potential of methanol extract of three Egyptian plants, Bauhinia alba (MEBA), Solanum rantonnetii (MESR) and Derris rubosta (MEDR) and also investigated their main phytoconstituents. The extracts leaves of the of the three plants were subjected to antioxidant assays, namely total antioxidant activity, reducing power, metal chelating, hydrogen peroxide, radical scavenging activities were studied according to in vitro methods at the different concentrations (25-100 μg mLG1) and each extract was subjected to phytochemical analysis. The results proved that MEBA had strong inhibition (%) of peroxide levels 84.88±0.83 when compared with the standards, such as BHA, TRO and RUT which have 82.03±1.04, 80.56±0.60, 78.50±0.41, respectively. The MEBA demonstrated effective reducing power, hydrogen peroxide scavenging activity and metal chelating activities. On the other hand, no correlation was found between antioxidant activity and total phenol and flavonoid contents. Chromatographic separation of MEBA proved the identification of betulin, betulinic acid, ursolic acid, kaempferol, isorhamnetin, kaempferol 3-O-α-rhamnoside, isorhamnetin 7-O-α-rhamnoside and rutin. Hence, it was concluded that Bauhinia alba has antioxidant activity and can be further employed for medicinal applications.
Edinburgh Research Explorer Hybrid, multi-megawatt, medium frequency HVDC transformer for offshore wind turbines

As the offshore wind industry moves further offshore HVDC transmission is becoming increasingly popular. HVDC transformer substations are not optimised for offshore industry however, increasing costs and reducing redundancy. A modular HVDC transformer located within each wind turbine nacelle could mitigate these problems however, careful design is required to minimise losses. For example the converter topology will influence the semi-conductor and magnetic transformer losses. In this paper several transformer configurations comprising combinations of the H-Bridge and Modular Multilevel Converter topologies are modelled in the Matlab/Simulink environment. The configurations are evaluated for use in a medium frequency HVDC transformer based on their contribution to total losses, their stability and range of real and reactive power control.
Geographic reasoning on multi-modal fire spread data

This paper presents the general architecture of a multi-sensor GIS platform, i.e., fireGIS, which serves as a guideline for effective use of sensor data and geographic information in systems for fire incident management. The proposed platform allows the generation of real-time heatmaps that show the space-time distribution of fire risk levels across an area of concern based on multi-modal sensing. Such levels are to assist the decision makers in taking actions and aims at facilitating quick fire emergency response. Results of real fire experiments in a large-scale road tunnel show the feasibility of our approach.
Investigating the Evolution of the Dual AGN System ESO 509-IG066

We analyze the evolution of the dual active galactic nucleus (AGN) in ESO 509-IG066, a galaxy pair located at z = 0.034 whose nuclei are separated by 11 kpc. Previous observations with XMM-Newton on this dual AGN found evidence for two moderately obscured ( ∼ 1022 cm−2) X-ray luminous ( ∼ 1043 erg s−1) nuclear sources. We present an analysis of subsequent Chandra, NuSTAR, and Swift/XRT observations that show one source has dropped in flux by a factor of 10 between 2004 and 2011, which could be explained by either an increase in the absorbing column or an intrinsic fading of the central engine, possibly due to a decrease in mass accretion. Both of these scenarios are predicted by galaxy merger simulations. The source that has dropped in flux is not detected by NuSTAR, which argues against absorption, unless it is extreme. However, new Keck/LRIS optical spectroscopy reveals a previously unreported broad Hα line that is highly unlikely to be visible under the extreme absorption scenario. We therefore conclude that the black hole in this nucleus has undergone a dramatic drop in its accretion rate. From AO-assisted near-infrared integral-field spectroscopy of the other nucleus, we find evidence that the galaxy merger is having a direct effect on the kinematics of the gas close to the nucleus of the galaxy, providing a direct observational link between the galaxy merger and the mass accretion rate onto the black hole.
Ultimate Leadership Winning Execution Strategies for Your Situation

Undoubtedly one’s training and experiences including education are critical platforms that create biases that later fashion your judgment, decision-making skills, competences, critical thinking and the interpretation of your social world, including the interpretation of reading materials. I was trained in the objectivistic epistemology (Crotty, 2005) – economics and statistics – and so the issue of proof, measurement, objective facts and testing of theories are very much how I interpret my world (Balashov and Rosenberg, 2002). Such an objectivistic epistemology means I am always looking out of issues, other studies, measurement, and little attention is any is place on personal tales or traditions. Hence, when I read the book ‘Ultimate Leadership’ by Russell Palmer it was totally contrary to my scholastic training or initial expectations. As an objectivist, I was socialized that academic or critical works must extend beyond 1) authority, 2) traditions, 3) personal opinions 4) common sense and 5) personal observations (Babbie, 2007; Balashov and Rosenberg, 2002; Berg, 2001; Crotty, 2005; Neuman, 2006); but Ultimate Leadership was a biographic account of Palmer’s perspective on leadership from the vantage points of experience as well as the practice of other leaders drawn from privateand-public sector organizations. Initially, the book did not fulfill by objectivistic-scholastic bias as it was subjective accounts of authorities in leadership, with any context of empirical support.
Development and shelf life studies of buffalo meat sausages incorporated with foxtail millet (Setaria italica)

The aim of this work is to develop and investigate the shelf life of buffalo meat sausages fortified with foxtail millet (Setaria italica) at refrigerated storage temperature (0 °C). Studies on quality of sausage were done by analyzing different physico-chemical characteristics namely moisture content, ash content, pH, fat content, TBA number and microbial characteristic (total plate count and yeast & mould count) of the most appropriate combination of foxtail millet and meat, found with the help of Response Surface Methodology (RSM) software. The best combination as suggested by RSM was found to be 94.99 grams of meat mixed with 6.48 grams of foxtail millet. This was calculated so as to obtain the optimum range of moisture, ash, fat content and pH value. In total the four samples i.e. sausages prepared from whole meat, meat with foxtail millet, meat with foxtail millet plus sodium ascorbate and meat with foxtail millet plus tocopherol were taken for shelf life study. Sodium ascorbate (500ppm) and tocopherol (500ppm) were used as natural preservatives and hence the effect of such preservative on fortified sausages was also studied and was found that these assisted in improving the shelf life of the product. The product was acceptable for consumption even after 21 days of storage but total plate count, yeast and mould count and TBA number indicated the spoilage condition of sausage samples after 28 days. Therefore shelf life of the samples was found to be 21 days under refrigerated condition (0 °C). The study also provided evidences of increased dietary fibers and reduced fat content with high nutritional value in foxtail millet incorporated buffalo meat sausage, which can be considered as a functional food for healthy individuals and for patients of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, obesity etc.
Improving Search Strategy of Search Engine Using Probabilistic Latent Semantic

Users on the internet uses search engine to find information of their interest. However current search engines on web return answer to a query of user independent of user’s requirement for the information. In this paper our aim is to use a new technique called probabilistic latent s accurate than previously used techniques by various search engines. Our main focus in this paper is on the requirement for more accurate search results by meta search engine. In comparison w for searching like LSA, which perform singular value decomposition of co this paper, relies on mixture decomposition derived from latent class model. Results obtained by PLSA in searc for query shows that this technique gives more accurate results in searching most relevant document from a given corpus for a query of user.
The effect of FDI on local suppliers: Evidence from Audi in Hungary

In 1993 Audi opened a new plant in Hungary. This paper examines the long-term effects of this large foreign direct investment on local firms operating in supplier industries. I use firm-level panel data with long time series. Using the method of triple difference-in-differences I compare outcomes of firms in supplier and control industries, close and far from the Audi plant, before and after the entry. My main findings are: (1) after the Audi entry the average annual growth rate of local firms increased by 3 percentage points for sales and 2 percentage points for employment. The effect is visible only five years after the entry of Audi. I find no positive effect on productivity. (2) Firms with foreign owners account for all the positive effect on sales and employment, suggesting a foreign-to-foreign complementarity in investments. Firms with higher productivity gained more. Consequently, the low initial productivity of domestic firms may explain the lack of an effect in this group. (3) New entrants in the supplier industry locating close to Audi are larger and grow faster, suggesting that Audi also had an effect on the extensive margin.