Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Physical Therapist and Physical Therapist Assistant Learning Activity to Examine Student Collaboration and Collaboration Readiness: An Intraprofessional Educational Process

BACKGROUND: Workforce responsibilities in the clinical setting between the physical therapist (PT) and physical therapist assistant (PTA) emphasize the necessity to develop intraprofessional skills fostering discipline collaboration. These skills impact the team process and the achievement of interprofessional patient centered outcomes. Collaboration is a skill that is sought after in inter- and intraprofessional teams. Intraprofessionalism is occurring within teamwork and collaborative activities labelled or described in interprofessional terms and tools. Health science professional programs have received recent mandates to address interprofessional collaboration skills within curricula. But disciplines that contain multiple professional roles need to address the within discipline, prerequisite intraprofessional skills prior to the field being represented in the care setting. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to examine PT and PTA student readiness to learn team collaboration skills within an academic setting and reveal the characteristics of intraprofessional education through the completion of a “professionalism” classroom focused project. METHODS: Following an explanatory sequential mixed methods approach, 54 PT and PTA students completed pre/post the Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) and Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale (IEPS). Qualitative data collected included student previous supervisory work experiences, independent student meeting process descriptors, and student performance self/peer evaluations. RESULTS: The results showed that the overall RIPLS score increase pre to post was influenced by the strong values within the subscale “Teamwork and Collaboration” expressing the student perspective. IEPS subscales scores indicated consistently a student value for collaboration. The independent student meeting process was conducted without PT/PTA degree level distinctions and task accomplishment appeared seamless. Peer evaluations revealed the existence of collaboration characteristics within groups and individual student qualities. CONCLUSIONS: The results from the interprofessional tools used in this study support the inclusion of intraprofessional collaboration skills development in the classroom. Intraprofessional skills can be fostered in the academic setting as promoted by interprofessional education (IPE) mandates prerequisite to entering the clinic.
Profile of Zambia's smallholders : where and who are the potential beneficiaries of agricultural commercialization?

Understanding the heterogeneity of Zambia's rural households and their different potential as agricultural producers is critical to designing strategies for commercially viable smallholders. The objective of this paper is to help contribute to efforts to identify who and where are the Zambian smallholders that have the highest potential to benefit from agricultural commercialization, and to identify other groups of rural households that require alternative strategies for poverty reduction. This paper draws on the existing literature (both quantitative and qualitative analyses) to try and classify higher and lower potential households. It seems that many rural households can not be expected to directly benefit from agricultural commercialization and will require safety nets. Other smallholders might be able to achieve food security and more diversified incomes over time. Even smallholders with potential to be more market-oriented will require significant assistance to make the transformation into commercial farmers. This paper should be viewed as the beginning of a process to better identify the potential of different households to help policymakers design differentiated policies and investment strategies that can be targeted based on these differences.
Pull-in time dynamics as a measure of absolute pressure

The squeezed-film damping component of the pull-in time of an electrostatically-actuated micromechanical fixed-fixed beam is shown to be a sensitive, and nearly linear function of ambient air pressure in the measured range of 0.1 mbar to 1013 mbar (1 atm or 760 Torr). Pull-in time simulations, based on a one-dimensional macromodel using a damping constant proportional to pressure, are in good agreement with measured data. The data and simulations show that pull-in type devices will make excellent microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors for broad-range absolute pressure measurements and for in situ leak monitoring of hermetically scaled packages containing other sensors or IC's. The pull-in sensors are compatible with any MEMS fabrication processes that allow out-of-plane electrostatic actuation, including surface micromachining and silicon wafer-bonding, and they do not require a cavity sealed at vacuum or at a reference air pressure.
Rate versus synchrony code for human action recognition

We propose a bio-inspired feedforward spiking network modeling two brain areas dedicated to motion (V1 and MT), and we show how the spiking output can be exploited in a computer vision application: action recognition. In order to analyze spike trains, we consider two characteristics of the neural code: mean firing rate of each neuron and synchrony between neurons. Interestingly, we show that they carry some relevant information for the action recognition application. We compare our results to Jhuang et al. (2007) on the Weizmann database. As a conclusion, we are convinced that spiking networks represent a powerful alternative framework for real vision applications that will benefit from recent advances in computational neuroscience
Dominant plane detection for uncalibrated binocular vision

Current methods for planar segmentation of binocular images require either calibrating the cameras or having correct stereo correspondence a priori. Here are introduced robust and extendable frameworks, that bypass these requirements. Feature vectors represent image structure, and ideas from scale space theory are applied. Two basic frameworks are introduced, one requiring (possibly partially incorrect) stereo correspondence a priori. The other method requires no a priori correspondence at all, instead finds the dominant plane while simultaneously matching features. The methods result in sparse segmentations, and a denser segmentation can be found by warping using the estimated dominant projectivity. Experiments are performed on real images, and different choices of feature vectors, methods and parameters are investigated. Proc. International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems (ISIRS’98), pp. xx-xx, January 10-12, 1998, Bangalore, India
Conservative Management of Unset Mineral Trioxide Aggregate Root-End Filling: A Case Report

This case report presents conservative management of unset mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) after being placed as a root-end filling material following periapical surgery. Periapical surgery was indicated for a maxillary lateral incisor of a 15-year-old male due to persistent exudate and a large periapical lesion. During surgery Angelus MTA was placed as root-end filling. The next session it was noticed that MTA had failed to completely set. In an orthograde approach, calcium-enriched mixture (CEM) cement was used to obturate the root canal space. The patient was followed up for 27 months and did not exhibit any clinical signs and symptoms. Radiographic images showed complete healing of the lesion.
Safe Transient Use of Local Storage for VM-based Mobility

This paper investigates the transient use of free local storage for improving performance in VM-based mobile computing systems. Many such systems boot from a portable storage device to create a “zero-install” environment on a computer that is borrowed for temporary use. Unfortunately, consumergrade portable storage devices are optimized for capacity and cost rather than performance, which has been shown to be a critical factor in user experience on VM-based systems. We propose a zero-install solution called TransPart that uses the higher-performing local storage of borrowed hardware for performance-critical operations, yet preserves the integrity and privacy of data on that local storage. Our solution constructs a virtual storage device on demand by safely borrowing free disk blocks from the host’s storage. We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a TransPart prototype that requires no modifications to the software or hardware of a borrowed computer. Experimental results confirm that TransPart offers low overheads and startup cost, while improving user experience. We also suggest potential uses of the ideas underlying TransPart in other VM-based
My Pocket Technology: Introducing a Mobile Assisted Inquiry Learning Environment (MAILE) to Promote Inquiries among Secondary Students.

This paper introduces the Mobile Assisted Inquiry Learning Environment (MAILE), an Experimental Instructional Strategy (EIS) which employs an inquiry-based learning approach to guide secondary school students to learn environmental science in an engaging way supported by mobile phones. The students are situated in both the real world and the virtual world to extend their learning experiences. The effectiveness of this innovative approach is determined by comparing the learning effectiveness of an Experimental Group (EG) exposed to the experimental strategy and a Control Group (CG) taught the same content using the pedagogy prescribed by the state curriculum. The results show significant positive results in favor of the EG in multiple dimensions of cognitive learning prescribed by Bloom’s Taxonomy: Knowledge, Comprehension and Application.
Aortic pathophysiology by cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients with clinical suspicion of coronary artery disease.

PURPOSE To correlate cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR)-based measurement of aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) with serum markers for atherosclerosis and plaque burden in the thoracic aorta. METHOD Individuals with risk factors for coronary atherosclerosis underwent CMR pulse wave velocity examination of the descending thoracic aorta and computed tomography for coronary calcium scoring. Inversion recovery images allowed quantification of aortic plaque. Serum lipids and c-reactive protein levels were measured. RESULTS Mean PWV did not correlate with presence of aortic plaque (p = 0.55). Subgroup analysis showed no significant correlation with PWV and total plaque. PWV and pulse pressure correlated (PP) (R2 0.38, p = 0.0003), but PWV and other predictor variables did not. Total plaque area correlated with aortic diameter (p = 0.0066). CONCLUSIONS In patients with suspected coronary artery disease, aortic pulse wave velocity reflects increased aortic stiffness demonstrated by elevated pulse pressure, but does not directly correlate with aortic plaque or serum markers for arterial disease.
The joint distribution of occupation times of skip-free Markov processes and a class of multivariate exponential distributions

For a skip-free Markov process on non-negative integers with generator matrix Q, we evaluate the joint Laplace transform of the occupation times before hitting the state n (starting at 0). This Laplace transform has a very straightforward and familiar expression. We investigate the properties of this Laplace transform, especially the conditions under which the occupation times form a Markov chain.
The Balancing Act: Student classroom placement routines and the uses of data in elementary schools

The purpose of this paper is to examine how data are used in classroom placement routines. The authors explore educators’ assumptions about the purposes of the classroom placement routine, detailing the ostensive (i.e. structure and template) and performative aspects of the routine itself, and the implications of data use for equity and leadership practices. ,Using a multi-site case study involving in-depth interviews of teacher and school leaders and observations of meetings, the authors examined the role that data played in classroom placement routines in three elementary schools in the USA. ,Findings show that educators across schools collected similar types of multi-dimensional data; however, analysis and decision-making processes varied based on their assumptions and goals. Assessing student needs holistically and balancing students across classes based on academic diversity, behavioral or socio-emotional needs, gender and teacher workload were consistent patterns. There was a distinct difference between collecting data and actually using it as a basis of decision making. ,These findings highlight the importance of using in-depth observations to understand data use in schools. Educators’ assumptions and philosophies about classroom placement contributed to the pattern of discussion and decisions made throughout the routines. Delving deeper into how data are used in specific routines and organizational contexts can illuminate how data use is socially constructed and enacted for equity. ,Educators who guide school routines have the power to maintain taken-for-granted assumptions about students, or to create counter-narratives. ,This study provides insights into classroom and student placement processes by emphasizing the social and interactional dimensions of data use as they unfold in practice. It also extends empirical knowledge about the purposes, dimensions, and uses of data-driven decision making models.
Integrating Social Development and Financial Sustainability: The Challenges of Rural Computer Kiosks in Kerala

This paper examines the social and political challenges related to the implementation of information and communication technology (ICT) kiosk projects for rural development in India. Specifically, the paper focuses on the Akshaya project, a franchise of rural computer-service kiosks, which was implemented in Kerala as a public-private sector collaboration. The Akshaya project has the twin goals of social development through increased access to computers for rural people and financial viability through market-driven entrepreneurship. Using interview and participant observation methods, we examine the challenges that state actors and entrepreneurs face in simultaneously addressing social and financial sustainability. The preliminary evidence suggests that there is a tension between these goals at a macro level (within the state) and a micro level (for entrepreneurs and potential consumers) that makes it difficult to run a financially self-sustaining ICT kiosk project that also meets social development goals. The paper demonstrates that the implementation of ICTs for development is not simply a technical process of delivering services to the poor, but is a highly political process that involves tradeoffs and prioritization of particular goals to attain sustainability. Branding this project is a challenge for the state and entrepreneurs due to consumer perceptions of what development is, with particular expectations of state provided services, versus what business is
Embedding Evolution in Epidemic-Style Forwarding

In this work, we introduce a framework to let forwarding schemes evolve in order to adapt to changing and a priori unknown environments. The framework is inspired by genetic algorithms: at each node a genotype describes the forwarding scheme used, a selection process fosters the diffusion of the fittest genotypes in the system and new genotypes are created by combining existing ones or applying random changes. A case study implementation is presented and its performance evaluated via numerical simulations.
A role for endoplasmic reticulum exit sites in foot-and-mouth disease virus infection

Picornaviruses replicate their genomes in association with cellular membranes. While enteroviruses are believed to utilize membranes of the early secretory pathway, the origin of the membranes used by foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) for replication are unknown. Secretory-vesicle traffic through the early secretory pathway is mediated by the sequential acquisition of two distinct membrane coat complexes, COPII and COPI, and requires the coordinated actions of Sar1, Arf1 and Rab proteins. Sar1 is essential for generating COPII vesicles at endoplasmic reticulum (ER) exit sites (ERESs), while Arf1 and Rab1 are required for subsequent vesicle transport by COPI vesicles. In the present study, we have provided evidence that FMDV requires pre-Golgi membranes of the early secretory pathway for infection. Small interfering RNA depletion of Sar1 or expression of a dominant-negative (DN) mutant of Sar1a inhibited FMDV infection. In contrast, a dominant-active mutant of Sar1a, which allowed COPII vesicle formation but inhibited the secretory pathway by stabilizing COPII coats, caused major disruption to the ER-Golgi intermediate compartment (ERGIC) but did not inhibit infection. Treatment of cells with brefeldin A, or expression of DN mutants of Arf1 and Rab1a, disrupted the Golgi and enhanced FMDV infection. These results show that reagents that block the early secretory pathway at ERESs have an inhibitory effect on FMDV infection, while reagents that block the early secretory pathway immediately after ER exit but before the ERGIC and Golgi make infection more favourable. Together, these observations argue for a role for Sar1 in FMDV infection and that initial virus replication takes place on membranes that are formed at ERESs.
Partition as a Solution to Ethnic War: An Empirical Critique of the Theoretical Literature

Theorists of ethnic conflict have argued that the physical separation of warring ethnic groups may be the only possible solution to civil war. They argue that without territorial partition and, if necessary, forced population movements the war cannot end and genocide is likely. Other scholars have counterargued that partition only replaces internal war with international war, that it creates undemocratic successor states, and that it generates tremendous human suffering. This debate has so far been informed by very few important case studies. This article uses a new data set on civil wars to identify the main determinants of war-related partitions and estimate their impact on democratization, on the probability that war will recur, and on low-level ethnic violence. This is the first large-N quantitative analysis of this topic, testing the propositions of partition theory and weighing heavily on the side of its critics. Most assertions of partition theorists fail to pass rigorous empirical tests. The article also identifies some determinants of democratization after civil war, as well as the determinants of recurring ethnic violence. These empirical findings are used to formulate an alternative proposal for ending ethnic violence.
Designing Glanceable Peripheral Displays

In this paper, we present a multi-faceted exploration of glanceable design. We seek answers to the question how do we design peripheral, visual displays that are highly glanceable? By glanceable, we mean enabling users to understand information quickly and easily. Glanceability is critical to peripheral display design because users need to quickly glance at and read displayed information with minimal interruption to their primary task. Our contributions are a taxonomy of visual variables and a set of design principles for using the visual variables to accomplish glanceable design. Our design principles are derived from interviews of experienced designers, a case study designing many variations of an email peripheral display using our visual variables, and a literature survey.
Efficient Discriminate Component Analysis using Support Vector Machine Classifier on Invariant Pose and Illumination Face Images

Face recognition is the process of categorizing a person in an image by evaluating with a known face image library. The pose and illumination variations are two main practical confronts for an automatic face recognition system. This study proposes a novel face recognition algorithm known as Efficient Discriminant Component Analysis (EDCA) for face recognition under varying poses and illumination conditions. This EDCA algorithm overcomes the high dimensionality problem in the feature space by extracting features from the low dimensional frequency band of the image. It combines the features of both LDA and PCA algorithms and these features are used in the training set and is classified using Support Vector Machine classifier. The experiments were performed on the CMU-PIE datasets. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm produces a higher recognition rate than the existing LDA and PCA based face recognition techniques.
Tobacco: Deadly in Any Form or Disguise Who Library Cataloguing-in-publication Data

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HST mid-ultraviolet spectroscopy of comet 46P/Wirtanen during its approach to perihelion in 1996-1997

We have used the Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Spectrograph to observe the mid-UV spectrum of the ROSETTA mission target comet, 46P/Wirtanen, on three dates during the comet's apparition in 1996 and early 1997. Dur- ing this time the comet moved inward from a heliocentric dis- tance near 2.7 AU to 1.3 AU. The first measurement (22.7 July 1996) detected only reflected solar continuum; based on these measurements, we set an upper limit on the nuclear radius of 1.45 km. A second measurement (25.9 Aug 1996) detected this reflected continuum, as well as weak OH (0-0) emission; the third measurement (15.2 Jan 1997) detected three OH bands at high signal-to-noise (the 0-0, the 1-0, and the 1-1), along with emission features from the CS radical and the CO + ion; up- per limits on their emission brightness and production rate of C2 was set. Our key findings are as follows: The data indicate that Q(H2O) varies like R 4:90:25 inside 2.5 AU, and that the CS2/H2O production ratio at 1.3 AU is close to310 4 . We also found that the 2600-3200 ˚ A mid-UV coma color slope is more neutral (25%/1000 ˚ A) than typical comets (40-70%/1000 ˚ A, but is steeper than Wirtanen's own visible-wavelength color slope. Wirtanen's CS 2/H2O production ratio is near the low end of the range observed to date. Af was estimated from the data as a measure of dust production; we found Af (2950 ˚ A) values of 15, 18, and 15 cm, respectively, for the three FOS datasets, after correction for the estimated flux contribution of the nu- cleus. Interestingly, we found that production of dust, to which the UV is sensitive, did not appear to vary by more than a factor of about two with heliocentric distance over the 2.7 to 1.3 AU range, despite a factor of 50 variation in the production of H2O.