Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Engagement with a teaching career – how a group of Finnish university teachers experience teacher identity and professional growth

The aim of this qualitative study was to identify teachers’ ways of experiencing their identity and development challenges as teachers in the social and professional context of university. Identity and development as a teacher were examined based on interviews and drawings of career paths collected from a group of university teachers representing diverse scientific fields at one research-intensive university in Finland. Based on the findings, a typology of teacher identities and classification of development themes were constructed, illustrating the experiences and drawing on the themes found in the data and comparing them to Huberman’s teachers’ career cycle as well as Åkerlind’s views on university teachers’ changes. The findings showed that those who have reached a goal-reflective and stabilised teacher identity recognise development challenges, especially in the areas of self-development and facilitation of student learning, while those who have a constructive-conflicting or unsolved teacher identity struggle with the many pressures of teaching practice and reaching teacher comfort. The learning trajectories of the studied university teachers were varied and lasted considerably longer than suggested by teachers’ career cycle views.
A Quantitative Insight into the Impact of Translation on Readability

In this paper we investigate the impact of translation on readability. We propose a quantitative analysis of several shallow, lexical and morpho-syntactic features that have been traditionally used for assessing readability and have proven relevant for this task. We conduct our experiments on a parallel corpus of transcribed parliamentary sessions and we investigate readability metrics for the original segments of text, written in the language of the speaker, and their translations.
Optimal wireless sensor networks (WSNs) deployment: minimum cost with lifetime constraint

Device deployment is a fundamental issue of WSN provisioning. The types, number, and locations of devices determine many intrinsic properties of a WSN, such as coverage, connectivity, cost and lifetime. In this paper, we explore the problem of the optimal WSN deployment, with an objective of minimizing the network cost with lifetime constraint. We discuss and identify the characteristics of a type of WSN applications. The ultimate objectives of the device deployment for such applications are presented and discussed. We refine a deployment problem in a practical and fundamental scenario. We model this problem with the minimum set covering problem. Based on a recursive algorithm, a deterministic deployment strategy is proposed.
Screening for Color Vision Defects among Male Saudi Secondary School Children in Jizan City , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Aim of Study: To assess the prevalence of color visual defects (CVD) among male Saudi secondary school children in Jizan City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Subjects and Methods: This study included 717 male Saudi secondary school students in Jizan City. Study tools included the Ishihara charts and a data collection questionnaire designed by the researcher. Parents' consanguinity was classified into first degree, second degree or far relatives. Results: Almost one third of parents were first degree relatives (30.4%) the rest of parents were either second degree relatives (2%) or far relatives (19.7%). More than one third of students did not know if they have normal vision or CVD (39.6%). Prevalence of CVD among male Saudi secondary school students amounted to 21.3%. More than one third of students whose parents were 1st degree cousins were CVD (35.8%), compared with about one fifth of students whose parents were second degree cousins or far relatives (21.4% and 21.3%, respectively). The prevalence of CVD was least among students whose parents were not relatives (12.2%). Differences were statistically significant (p<0.001). The highest percentages of students with CVD expressed their wish to study in medical or engineering colleges (28.7% and 32.1%, respectively). Differences were statistically significant (p<0.001). Prevalence of CVD among students with positive family history of CVD was highest (35.5%), compared with those who did not have family history of CVD (20.5%) or those who did not know if they have any family member(s) with CVD (20.8%). Recommendations: Reasons for the high rate of consanguinity in Jizan need to be investigated and the awareness of people should be raised regarding the potential consequences of consanguinity. School students with CVD should be guided as regard the proper choice for their future studies. Premarital examination should cover the common hereditary diseases, including CVD. Pre-university screening of male students for CVD should be applied to help students choose toward their career. Correspondence to: Dr. Ossama A. Mostafa, The Department of Family & Community Medicine, King Khalid College of Medicine
Is a Potent Competitive Antagonist of the Interaction of Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator with Its Receptor ( CD 87 ) fragment

fragment. Cyclo[D-Cys]-uPA19-31 not only blocks binding of uPA to uPAR but is also capable of efficiently displacing uPAR-bound uPA from the cell surface and to inhibit uPA-mediated, tumor cell-associated plasminogen activation and fibrin degradation. Thus, cyclo[D-Cys]-uPA19-31 represents a promising therapeutic agent to significantly affect the tumor-associated uPA/uPAR-system.
RNA:DNA Ratio and Other Nucleic Acid Derived Indices in Marine Ecology

Some of most used indicators in marine ecology are nucleic acid-derived indices. They can be divided by target levels in three groups: 1) at the organism level as ecophysiologic indicators, indicators such as RNA:DNA ratios, DNA:dry weight and RNA:protein, 2) at the population level, indicators such as growth rate, starvation incidence or fisheries impact indicators, and 3) at the community level, indicators such as trophic interactions, exergy indices and prey identification. The nucleic acids derived indices, especially RNA:DNA ratio, have been applied with success as indicators of nutritional condition, well been and growth in marine organisms. They are also useful as indicators of natural or anthropogenic impacts in marine population and communities, such as upwelling or dredge fisheries, respectively. They can help in understanding important issues of marine ecology such as trophic interactions in marine environment, fish and invertebrate recruitment failure and biodiversity changes, without laborious work of counting, measuring and identification of small marine organisms. Besides the objective of integrate nucleic acid derived indices across levels of organization, the paper will also include a general characterization of most used nucleic acid derived indices in marine ecology and also advantages and limitations of them. We can conclude that using indicators, such RNA:DNA ratios and other nucleic acids derived indices concomitantly with organism and ecosystems measures of responses to climate change (distribution, abundance, activity, metabolic rate, survival) will allow for the development of more rigorous and realistic predictions of the effects of anthropogenic climate change on marine systems.
Use of multiple orientation cues by juvenile loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta

SUMMARY Although the orientation cues used by hatchling sea turtles have been studied extensively, little is known about the mechanisms of orientation and navigation that guide older turtles. To investigate the orientation cues used by juvenile loggerheads Caretta caretta L. , captured turtles were tethered in a water-filled arena located outdoors. Turtles tested under these conditions established and maintained headings in specific directions in the absence of wave cues, familiar landmarks and chemical gradients. Distorting the magnetic field around the anterior part of a turtle's body did not disrupt orientation if vision remained unimpaired. Similarly, eliminating visual cues by attaching frosted goggles did not disrupt orientation if the magnetic environment was undisturbed. However, when turtles experienced a simultaneous disruption of magnetic and visual cues, their orientation was altered. These results imply that sea turtles, like migratory birds and homing pigeons, are able to maintain headings using multiple sources of directional information.
Domestic fire risk: a narrative review of social science literature and implications for further research

In this paper, we make the case for more social science research into fire incidents and fire-related risk behaviour. Unlike other vulnerabilities, such as crime, illness or risk-associated activities such as smoking, or accident avoidance, remarkably little research has focused on this area. This is perhaps surprising given the propensity for fire, its emotional, social and economic impacts, and evidence that fires and fire victims are not equally distributed across socio-demographic or geographical domains. In making our case, we outline: recent numbers and trends in incidents in the UK, focusing on domestic incidents and recent policy developments affecting fire and rescue services. Next, we review the social-science based literature on fire incidents, suggesting that while this offers useful insight, much more needs to be done to develop a rigorous evidence base. While we would not want to dismiss or downplay existing social science contributions, our contention is that a considerable number of opportunities exist for further work in this area. Consequently, we propose a number of ways in which popular ideas about risk theory can be applied to a domestic fire context and raise a number of questions that social scientists are well positioned to contribute to an interdisciplinary understanding of domestic fire incidents and associated risks.
A Longitudinal Study of Hypertension Risk Factors and Their Relation to Cardiovascular Disease: The Strong Heart Study

This study estimated hypertension incidence and explored hypertension risk factors and their association with cardiovascular disease. Data collected from 4549 American Indian participants in the 3 exams of the Strong Heart Study were used. Hypertension was defined as systolic blood pressure ≥140 mm Hg, diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mm Hg, or current use of antihypertensive medication. Generalized linear models were used to identify the risk factors for hypertension and the correlates of blood pressures. Cox proportional models with time-dependent covariates and the mixed models were used to explore the association of hypertension with cardiovascular disease. There was no sex difference in hypertension. After adjustment for other risk factors, the risks of developing hypertension among subgroups in each characterized group were as follows: prehypertensive versus normotensive, 3.21 times; macroalbuminuria and microalbuminuria versus normal, 3.47 and 1.72; diabetic versus nondiabetic, 1.56; overweight and obese versus normal weight, 1.30 and 1.51; and current alcohol drinking versus not, 1.22. Moreover, systolic blood pressure was significantly and positively associated with age, obesity, and albuminuria and negatively with smoking. After adjusting all other risk factors, those pretreated, untreated, controlled, and uncontrolled hypertensive participants had ≈1.74, 1.81, 2.19, and 2.77 times higher risks of developing cardiovascular disease compared with normotensive participants, respectively. In 45- to 74-year-old American Indians, the risk of developing hypertension was rising. Prehypertensive participants had 3.2/1.74 times higher risk of developing hypertension/cardiovascular disease than normotensive participants. Age, diabetes, and macro/microalbuminuria were independently significant risk factors of both hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
An Evaluative Look at the Model Used in the Assessment of Teaching Quality at the University of Natal, South Africa: Reflections, Rewards and Reconsiderations.

ABSTRACT The assessment of teaching quality has been high on the agenda of higher education institutions in South Africa since the beginning of the momentous transformation of that society and the attendant relatively sudden changes in the student constituencies served by those institutions. The University of Natal has accepted the need to recognise and reward quality in teaching, and since 1994 has implemented a new route to academic promotion through teaching, based on committee evaluation of a candidate's teaching portfolio. In this paper, the process of development and the actual model of the assessment of quality in teaching, including the evaluation criteria used in assessing teaching portfolios, is explored, described and evaluated. The successes and the problems inherent in the system are highlighted, and suggestions are made with respect to possible reconsiderations. Finally, the possibilities for generalising the model for use in other institutions are explored.
Pharmacological treatment of unipolar depression during pregnancy and breast-feeding—A clinical overview

Background: This overview is aimed at clinicians working with patients in the fertile age who suffer from depressive disorders. The study of adverse effects of antidepressants on the foetus is hampered by difficulty in distinguishing between the behavioural changes that are related to the disorder itself and changes that accompany its treatment with antidepressants. The current lack of solid scientific knowledge and the implications, mainly emotional, of treating pregnant or breast-feeding women often raise anxiety and cause concern among patients and clinicians. Methods: Currently available data are evaluated and clinical recommendations given. Results and Conclusions: Citalopram and sertraline can be used during pregnancy, while some controversy remains over in utero exposure to paroxetine and fluoxetine, which might be associated with an increased risk of foetal cardiovascular malformation. Less data is available concerning fluvoxamine and escitalopram use but current data does not indicate a specific risk. Citalopram, paroxetine and sertraline can be used during breast-feeding, while fluoxetine probably should be avoided. Nortriptyline, amitriptyline and clomipramine can be used during pregnancy and lactation, although data are more abundant for SSRI treatment. Venlafaxine can be used during pregnancy, while caution is advised during breast-feeding. Other antidepressants should be avoided because of lack of data on their effect. A strongly indicated lithium therapy should be continued. Close monitoring of lithium levels throughout pregnancy is mandatory, as is detailed foetal echocardiography in weeks 18–22 of gestation. Lithium should not be used during breast-feeding. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a valid option if indicated, both during pregnancy and breast-feeding.
Inferring Stabilizing Mutations from Protein Phylogenies: Application to Influenza Hemagglutinin

One selection pressure shaping sequence evolution is the requirement that a protein fold with sufficient stability to perform its biological functions. We present a conceptual framework that explains how this requirement causes the probability that a particular amino acid mutation is fixed during evolution to depend on its effect on protein stability. We mathematically formalize this framework to develop a Bayesian approach for inferring the stability effects of individual mutations from homologous protein sequences of known phylogeny. This approach is able to predict published experimentally measured mutational stability effects (ΔΔG values) with an accuracy that exceeds both a state-of-the-art physicochemical modeling program and the sequence-based consensus approach. As a further test, we use our phylogenetic inference approach to predict stabilizing mutations to influenza hemagglutinin. We introduce these mutations into a temperature-sensitive influenza virus with a defect in its hemagglutinin gene and experimentally demonstrate that some of the mutations allow the virus to grow at higher temperatures. Our work therefore describes a powerful new approach for predicting stabilizing mutations that can be successfully applied even to large, complex proteins such as hemagglutinin. This approach also makes a mathematical link between phylogenetics and experimentally measurable protein properties, potentially paving the way for more accurate analyses of molecular evolution.
Information Status and Word Order: An Analysis of English Inversion.

This paper presents a discourse-functional account of English inversion, based on an examination of a large corpus of nalturally-occurring tokens. It is argued that inversion serves an intormation-palckaiging tfunction, and that felicitous inversion depends on the relative discourse-familiarity of the information represented by the preposed and postposed constituents. The data moreover indicate that evoked elements and inferrable elements are treated alike with respect to inversion; both are treated as discourse-old information. Finally, it is suggested that discourse-familiarity correlates not with subjecthood, but rather with relative sentence position. * 1. INTROI)UCTION. It is well known that a speaker may exploit the interaction between discourse context and propositional meaning to give rise to conversational implicatures. That these implicatures are not tied to the form of the utterance is evidenced by the fact that the same proposition expressed in a different lexical or syntactic form will convey the same implicature (the property of 'nondetachability'; Grice 1975). A speaker may also, however, exploit the interaction between discourse context and syntactic form for the purpose of structuring the information represented by the utterance, either internally or with respect to other intformation believed to be (or desired to be, or soon to be) in the hearer's discourse model. That is, while natural languages provide their speakers with a variety of syntactic forms for conveying a single semantic proposition, the speaker's selection from among these options may serve an information-packaging function (Chafe 1976; cf. Vallduvi 1992, inter alia). A speaker's use of a syntactic construction with a particular function, then, will license the hearer to infer that the relationship between the information represented by the utterance and other information in the discourse is appropriate
Model(ling) citizens? Integration Policies and Value Integration of Turkish Immigrants and Their Descendants in Germany, France, and the Netherlands

This article investigates to what extent integration policy models affect immigrants’ adoption of residence country attitudes. Data come from an original survey among Turkish immigrants and their descendants in three countries with distinctive policy models: Germany, France, and the Netherlands. Two types of attitudes are investigated: room for Islam in the public sphere and moral liberalism. The opinions of the immigrants are compared both in absolute terms and in terms of the value gap with the average opinion in the residence society populations. The results suggest that the effect of integration policies is modest at best.
A Weighted Evidence Combination Method Based on Improved Conflict Measure Factor

D-S evidence theory is usually used for the fusion of multi-source information. But the fusion result is always against with general knowledge for the heavy conflict of evidence. Research on combination of conflict evidence at home and abroad is summarized and analyzed in detail. On the base of this, the conclusion that modified evidence combination method of conflict evidence is more useful can be dawn. Effective evidence conflict measure is the first step of conflict evidence combination. The existing conflict measure methods are summarized and the main problem of those methods is analyzed in detail. Based on previous research of conflict evidence combination, a modified measure factor of evidence conflict which is called Mconf is put forward. Mconf is mainly built up with modified distance of evidence named md BPA and traditional evidence conflict factor named k. The examples in this paper show that Mconf can measure the evidence conflict correctly, both for general evidence and conflict evidence. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.11591/telkomnika.v14i3. 7850 Full Text: PDF
Stroke Complicating Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: Incidence, Predictors, and Prognostic Implications

Background—Stroke associated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is an infrequent although devastating complication. We investigated the incidence, predictors, and prognostic impact of periprocedural stroke in unselected patients undergoing PCI. Methods and Results—A total of 9662 patients who underwent 12 407 PCIs between January 1990 and July 1999 were retrospectively studied. Stroke was diagnosed in 43 patients (0.38% of procedures). Patients with stroke were older (72±11 versus 64±11 years, P <0.001), had lower left ventricular ejection fraction (42±12 versus 46±13%, P =0.04) and more diabetes (39.5% versus 27.2%, P =0.07), and experienced a higher rate of intraprocedural complications necessitating emergency use of intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) (23.3% versus 3.3%, P <0.001). In-hospital mortality (37.2% versus 1.1%, P <0.001) and 1-year mortality (56.1% versus 6.5%, P <0.001) were higher in patients with stroke. Compared with hemorrhagic stroke, patients with ischemic stroke had higher rate of in-hospital major adverse cardiac events (57.1% versus 25%, P =0.037). Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified emergency use of IABP as the strongest predictors for stroke (OR=9.6, CI 3.9 to 23.9, P <0.001), followed by prophylactic use of IABP (OR=5.1), age >80 years (OR=3.2, compared with age <50 years), and vein graft intervention (OR=2.7). Conclusions—Stroke associated with contemporary PCI is associated with substantial increased mortality. Elderly patients who experience intraprocedural complications necessitating the use of IABP are at particularly high risk.
Discovering Enrollment Knowledge in University Databases

We describe a data mining application in large databases of student records. Our goal has been to discover knowledge useful in understanding the university enrollment and to find ways to increase it. We demonstrate a combination of automated discovery with human involvement in the discovery process. Human operators formulate open questions and interpret the knowledge discovered by the automated discovery system. Some surprising discoveries we have made have led to the repeated cycle of asking questions, running the automated search, and interpreting new results. In this paper we focus on several findings. We show that good high school students are the best source of large numbers of credit hours, but that some of these students drop out, causing significant enrollment losses. We examine the effect of financial aid on retention. We demonstrate that remedial instruction does not seem to help retain the academically under-prepared students. Our results have been surprisingly stable when we used the Fall '87 cohort to verify the findings obtained from the cohort of Fall '86. We have presented our findings to university administrators in a number of meetings. The discovered knowledge can affect decision making and policy formation.