Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A DVD on orthognathic surgery : a randomised controlled trial assessing patients' knowledge and satisfaction

Title: BOS Orthognathic DVD: RCT assessing patients’ knowledge and satisfaction Objectives: To compare patients’ knowledge of orthognathic treatment and satisfaction with their multi-disciplinary clinic consultation, after receiving information in a standard format versus standard format plus BOS Orthognathic DVD. Design: Multi-centred, randomised controlled trial. Setting: Multi-disciplinary orthognathic clinics at four hospitals in Merseyside, UK. Participants and Methods: 106 participants, age >16 years, attending their first multi-disciplinary orthognathic clinic, were given information on orthognathic treatment in either the standard format – verbal and written or the standard format plus the BOS Orthognathic DVD. Primary outcome measures were participants’ knowledge of orthognathic treatment and satisfaction with their multi-disciplinary clinic consultation and information provided. Validated knowledge questionnaires were given prior to the multi-disciplinary clinic consultation and 4-6 weeks later. Satisfaction was assessed from participants’ response to 16 questions using visual analogue scale. Results of knowledge scores were analysed using ANCOVA at p<0.05, and satisfaction using non-parametric Mann Whitney Wilcoxon test. Results: Knowledge scores improved from baseline in both groups. Baseline knowledge had a statistically significant effect on participants’ follow-up score. No significant difference in knowledge score was found between groups at follow-up once the baseline score had been accounted for. No difference in general satisfaction was found between groups. However, satisfaction with the DVD was significantly less than general satisfaction (p=0.015). Conclusions: There was no difference in participants’ knowledge of orthognathic treatment or satisfaction when given information in the standard format or standard format plus the BOS Orthognathic DVD. Keywords: Consent, Orthognathic treatment; Patient information, knowledge; patient satisfaction.
‘Endometrial Cancer: Access Denied’-A Review of the Forgotten Voice of Intellectual and Physical Disability in Gynaecology Oncology in Australia

Introduction: The voice of an intellectually and physically disabled woman is often forgotten when discussing, investigating and managing endometrial cancer in women with disabilities. This case report explores the need to start strategies for collaborative application of resources to optimize a woman’s experience who is living with disabilities and endometrial cancer. Case Description: A 41-year old premenopausal woman with a severe intellectual disability and physically debilitating osteogenesis imperfecta presented with a 2-year history of abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) and unsuccessful hormonal treatment. After two failed hysteroscopies due to her severe bony-pelvic abnormality, limiting access vaginally; the decision for a hysterectomy was made without a histological diagnosis. An Australian Guardianship Tribunal granted permission for both diagnostic and treatment of her AUB and suspicion of endometrial cancer. The ESMO-ESGO-ESTRO-2014 Consensus current recommendations and levels of evidence in management of endometrial cancer are evaluated in context of the case. Method: Mandatory workup and pathological assessment for diagnosis of endometrial cancer could not be carried out and imaging including: CT scan, transabdominal ultrasound and MRI were relied upon to primarily assess her suspected disease. An abdominal hysterectomy, bilateral salpingectomy and ovarian conservation were performed. The histopathology post-operatively confirmed stage 1A grade 1 endometrioid adenocarcinoma. The time from initial Gynaecology Oncology referral to final histopathology was 9 months. Discussion: This is the first report to explore the limitations and challenges of the literature and application of various current diagnostic modalities, surgical approach and outcomes of endometrial cancer in an intellectually and physically disabled woman in Australia.
Characteristic of risk factor of thyroid cancer related metastatic bone disease at Sanglah General Hospital Denpasar between January 2013 to March 2019

Background: Metastatic bone disease (MBD) causes a massive morbidity, pain, and disability for the sufferers. Thyroid carcinoma, which is the most common endocrine cancer worldwide, also contributes to the increased rate of MBD, as 60% of patients with thyroid carcinoma experience bone metastasis. An urgency to further analyze the risk factors of bone metastasis in thyroid cancer is necessary in order to prevent and treat this unwanted occurrence earlier and better. Methods: A descriptive retrospective study was conducted using patients’s medical record data obtained from Sanglah General Hospital between January 2013 until March 2019. The variables obtained were sex, age, diagnosis, management, and fracture site. Results: There were 15 patients involved in this study, presenting with pathological fracture due to MBD from thyroid cancer. Ten patients were female (66.7%) and 5 were male (33.3%). According to the age group, 2 patients (13.3%) were <40 years old, 5 patients (33.3%) were >60 years old, while the majority of 8 patients (53.4%) were 4060 years old. From the pathological result, 9 patients had follicular neoplasm (60%) and 5 patients had papillary neoplasm (33%). The most common site of metastasis was humerus in 7 patients (47%), while the other sites were femur, pelvic, and tibia. Conclusions: According to this series, there are several risk factors related to MBD from thyroid carcinoma, including female gender, the age of 40-60 years old, and follicular type neoplasm. A further study with bigger amount of sample is needed to improve the result.
Analysing the impact of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in improvising business operations of Cooperatives

The purpose of this paper reviews qualitative research on the analyze of impact on such a contingency factor such as the definition of what the ERP (Enterprise Resource planning) originates, analyze the impact on the operations department within corporate, the result of the impact and factors of failure published over 15years. This paper presents literature for cooperatives to benefit from the ERP system research and recommendations be made on the bases why research is necessary particularly around South Africa.
Connecting statics deconvolution and seismic interferometry

In earlier work, we described a method for removing near-surface effects from seismic data which relaxes some of the inherent approximations of the traditional statics correction model. The complete method is known as ‘raypath dependent statics’ and has been demonstrated on two sets of real seismic data. An important part of the technique is what is known as ‘statics deconvolution’, in which ‘statics distribution functions’ are estimated for each seismic trace in a data set. The removal of its unique statics distribution function from each input seismic trace via deconvolution is the essence of this method. The deconvolution can be implemented using either a match filter or an inverse filter derived from the statics distribution function. Recent work in the relatively new field of seismic interferometry has showed how to remove near-surface effects from seismic data by applying match filters or inverse filters to input traces, and constructing ‘virtual source’ gathers whose traces show no nearsurface effects. In this report, we show the mathematical relationship of this work to the statics deconvolution concept, and we illustrate both approaches on an arctic data set for comparison. The insight gained from making this connection should assist us in further development of methods to correct seismic data for near-surface effects. INTRODUCTION Statics Deconvolution Correcting seismic reflection data for the effects of the earth’s near-surface remains one of the more important issues in seismic data processing. Many techniques have been developed for dealing with this problem, some based on the static shift model, where the near-surface effects are approximated by travel time delays; some based on the convolution model, where near-surface effects are approximated by amplitude and phase variations. Our ‘statics deconvolution’ approach (Henley 2004, 2005, 2006) is an attempt to combine the two concepts into a single method, unified by a more realistic statics model. The usual statics model makes the simplifying assumption that the transit of a reflection wavefront through the near-surface layers can be described by a simple time delay of that wavefront. Correcting for near-surface effects, in this instance, reduces to simply time-shifting each seismic trace by an amount determined by the sum of delays at the source and receiver locations. This approximation works well for a large proportion of land seismic data. Difficulties in determining the exact arrival time of wavefronts, coupled with the possibility of multiple arrivals for each wavefront (due to multi-pathing or near-surface scattering) led to the introduction of the concept of a “statics distribution function” describing the near-surface effects for each surface location on a seismic line (Rothman 1984, 1986), (Henley 2004). There are two ways to think of this function, not
2,4-D herbicide induced cytotoxicity on HEp-2 Cells and Vitamin C reverse effect

2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and its derivatives are herbicides widely used to control the growth of broadleaf and woody plants. Although 2,4-D is well known to be moderately toxic, little information is available on its cytotoxicity and mechanism of its toxicity. The aim of the present study was to investigate the cytotoxic effects of different forms of 2,4-D on a laryngeal carcinoma cell line: HEp-2 cells. Cells were treated with 2, 4, 8 and 16 mM of 2,4-D; 2,4-D Na and “Désormone lourd”; cell viability and induction of apoptosis were determined. Apoptosis was analyzed by cell nuclear staining with Hoechst 33342 dye and DNA fragmentation. The second purpose of our study was to compare the cytotoxicity of 2,4-D alone or modulated by the cytoprotective effects of additional antioxidants such as vitamin-C. Our results indicated that (i) 2,4-D can be responsible for oxidative damage to HEp-2 cells (ii) 2,4-D is cytotoxic for HEp-2 cells in a concentration and time-dependant manner (iii) 2,4-D exerts its cytotoxic effects by the induction of apoptosis (iiii) antioxidant compounds should be associated to herbicide formulations to decrease their deleterious effects on cells.
Passive Absorber to Reduce the Upper-Limbs Involuntary Tremor

Signal processing of the acceleration measured at the index finger of a Parkinson’s disease (PD) affected patient, as well as of the signals of the Extensor Carpi Radialis longus (ECR) and Flexor Carpi Radialis (FCR) active muscles generating the tremor are processed in this study. The power spectral density (PSD) of these signals are used to obtain information about amplitudes and frequencies of the tremor. ECR and FCR signals measurements show critical peaks at 6.6 Hz and 13.2 Hz in their PSD, the same frequencies are present in the PSD of the acceleration signals. The muscles signals are scaled and used as input moment of a dynamical upper-limb model in the vertical plane, where flexion/extension angular motions are considered at the joints. The parameters optimization for the passive tuned-mass-dampers (TMD) is done using this dynamical model. A Comparison of different TMD configurations and some parametric studies are presented and discussed. 24 Congrès Français de Mécanique Brest, 26 au 30 Août 2019
RF-EMF exposure assessment in the new incoming 5G indoor exposure scenarios

In the next years the development of the incoming 5G networks will drastically change the level of exposure of the population to RF-EMF. For this reason, there is a need to promptly conduct an adequate exposure assessment. In the present work a specific case of a user exposure scenario is evaluated, where the user is placed in a room where a 5G access point is located. More in details, the exposure of two 8x8 multielement antenna planar arrays are examined in an indoor environment and correctly modelled at 3.7 GHz and 27 GHz. The user exposure assessment will be conducted using the FDTD solver implemented in Sim4Life platform. In specific, the user will be described by the head of Ella model from the Virtual Family, who will be placed at a distance of 50 cm from the antenna array, simulating two different worst cases of exposure scenario. The quantities that will be analyzed for determining the exposure levels are the specific absorption rate (SAR) and the transmitted power density (S"#), as indicated in the basic restrictions of the ICNIRP guidelines.
Case Report 3F

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) is a myeloproliferative neoplasm in which the major proliferative component is comprised of granulocytes and is characterized by translocation of BCR-ABL and formation of Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome. Extreme thrombocytosis in chronic myeloid leukemia is rare and mimic essential thrombocythemia. Thus, chronic myeloid leukemia should be ruled out in patients who present with extreme thromobocytosis. A 28 years old female presented to us with abdominal discomfort, bleeding gums and hematuria. Her past medical history was unremarkable and there wasn’t any family history of bleeding disorder. On examination she had pallor and splenomegaly. Laboratory studies showed thrombocytosis with platelet count of 6420 x 10^9/L , moderate leucocytosis of 22.8 x 10^9/L along with low hemoglobin of 7.9 g/dL. Workup for acquired von willebrand disease was done which showed vWF: Ag 94%, vWF: Ricof 30%, FVIII 75%. Her cyto reduction with hydroxycarbamide 3g/day was started and patient was proceeded for platelet pheresis. On follow up after two sessions of platelet pheresis her platelet count was still high 3104 x 10^9/L. JAK2V617F, MPL, CALR and BCR-ABL mutations were checked and she turned out to be BCR-ABL positive, rest of the mutations were not detected. Bone marrow biopsy findings were consistent with chronic myeloid leukemia in accelerated phase along with marked proliferation of megakaryocytes present in sheets. Anagrelide was administered to control thrombocytosis and nilotinib 800mg/day was started. Although chronic myeloid leukemia can present with thrombocytosis but platelet count exceeding 1000 x 10^9/L is rare. Our patient demonstrated very high count of platelets (6420 x 10^9/L) and relatively unremarkable white cell count. Most of the symptoms she had were due to thrombocytosis rather than leucocytosis as typically seen in chronic myeloid leukemia.
A Bilateral Comparison of Force Standards Between NIMT and NMIJ

A 100 kN dead-weight type force standard machine (DWM) has been newly installed at the National Institute of Metrology, Thailand (NIMT). In order to verify the performance of this new machine, a bilateral comparison was carried out between the new machine and the 20 kN, 54 kN and 540 kN DWMs of the National Metrology Institute of Japan using four force measuring devices of 10 kN, 20 kN, 50 kN and 100 kN rated capacities as traveling standards. In spite of some limitation due to the traveling standards' performance, deviations of the measurement results between the two Institutes turned to be well within the comparison uncertainty at all of the force steps, proving the equivalence of the force standards of the two Institutes in this force range.
Inhaled Corticosteroids in Young Asthmatic Children: Association with Hypercalciuria

Introduction: The use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) via infant aerochamber in young, asthmatic children is increasing. However, concern has been raised about its long-term impact. Hypercalciuria is a known adverse effect of systemic corticosteroids. Objective: To determine whether ICS-induced hypercalciuria occurs in young, asthmatic children. Setting: Two outpatient clinics. Methods: Urinary calcium/creatinine ratio (UCa/Cr) was determined in 32 asthmatic children (age 6–36 mo) who were receiving inhaled budesonide or beclomethasone 200–600 μg/d for two to three months. A control group of asthmatic children within the same age range (n = 23) who did not receive ICS was included. None of the children were receiving oral corticosteroids, diuretics, antibiotics, or theophylline. Statistics: Student's t-test and χ2 analysis. Results: The treated and control groups were similar with regard to age and male/female ratio. Mean ± SD UCa/Cr was significantly higher in the asthmatic children receiving ICS (0.23 ± 0.19 vs. 0.09 ± 0.07, respectively; p = 0.002). Fourteen (43.75%) of the treated patients had hypercalciuria (UCa/Cr >0.2) compared with only one (4.35%) in the control group (p = 0.002). Renal ultrasonography failed to demonstrate nephrocalcinosis in eight of the treated hypercalciuric patients. Conclusions: Treatment of young, asthmatic children with ICS may be associated with hypercalciuria. More studies are needed to evaluate the clinical significance of this finding.
Assessing the Effects of Sustainability Practices on Product Life Cycle- Clustering Approach

Enterprises are under surveillance for their product’s environmental footprints, quality dimensions and production system environment. In addition, there is a growing concern of liability for entire product life cycle where firm is responsible for consequences caused by product till its useful life. Enterprises are urged to adopt a Triple Bottom Line approach of sustainability to respond effectively to the dynamics of Profit, People and Planet. We use LISREL based Structural Equation modeling to identify the mediating role of product life cycle in the relationship of sustainable practices and firm performance. Based on the findings, Exploratory Factor Analysis is performed to identify cluster of sustainable practices for each product life cycle. The recommended framework can be used by practitioners as a decision support tool in exercising sustainable practices in each product life cycle stage.
A STUDY ON EMPLOYEE’S PERCEPTION TOWARDS ORGANISATIONAL COMITTMENT AND JOB SATISFACTION IN TAMILNADU NEWSPRINT AND PAPERS LIMITED KAGITHAPURAM – KARUR (TAMILNADU)

Organization depends on 4 M (men, material, money and machine) for their survival, without these organization cannot move ahead for the growth and development. In any organization man power plays pivotal role without their involvement organization cannot attain their objectives. In this respect researcher has taken TNPL Company to analyze the impact of employees on the job perception is based on their organizational climate and commitment which gives ultimate outcome of employee’s satisfaction. Researcher has taken 120 sample to analyze the factors influencing the organizational commitment and its impact on job satisfaction using structured questionnaire and statistical tools of factor analysis,chi-square test and correlation. findings states that Perception of employees on the job based on motivation , monetary benefits, advancements and working environment as an attributes influences lot rather than peer groups. And other factors such as administrative practices, welfare facilities and social security benefits communication and superior subordinate relationship. Factors in organizational commitment or climate depends on size of the efficient business with a co-operative environment to gain individual and organizational growth and development
An Analysis of Organizational Structure and Strategic Management of Film Companies in Harare, Zimbabwe

Film companies need to manage and strengthen their operations to produce quality films and create a sustainable film industry. In order to achieve higher benefits from filmmaking, it is important to develop a good organizational structure and strategic management, and identify roles of film personnel and processes as well. This article examines the organizational structure of film industry and strategic management of film production. The findings are based on the literature and responses of survey questionnaires distributed to filmmakers of Harare, Zimbabwe. The study offers a better understanding of the connection between organizational structure and strategic management.
Analyzing Contemporary Control Hazard Resolution Techniques

: A basic RISC style pipelined processor can be divided in to five different stages, namely Instruction fetch (IF), Instruction Decode (ID), Execution (Ex), Memory (Mem) and Write back (WB). These stages are arranged to work in a synchronized way. With each clock pulse each stage forwards its instruction to the next consecutive stage. Initially each instruction will enter into the Instruction fetch stage. Further it will be escalated to the final Write back stage in same fashion. In the WB stage the outcome of the instruction will be stored in the general purpose register (GPR). Problem arises when there is a control instruction. Conceptually, the control instructions are evaluated in ID stage. However, by the time it gets evaluated the next instruction enters the IF stage. This can cause a control hazard. The current study consists analysis of various dynamic branch prediction techniques that are used to resolve the control hazard.
Construction and Compression of the Social Inverted Index for Multiple Social Tagging Systems

: The use of inverted index and compression techniques is partially accountable for the current performance achievement of web search engines. In this paper, we discuss how to crawl tagging information from multiple social tagging systems and to store it according to classes of properties of UTO. Also, we introduce an indexing technique for tagging information of social tagging systems and compression technique to reduce its size. We evaluate the performance against three factors – time required to build index, space required to store index, time required to process the query
Empirical evidence of the compensation principle in the Brazilian economy: 1994 to 2011 ∗

The compensation principle extends the concepts of endogenous money and exogenous interest rate to the open economy analysis. Yet, even within post-Keynesians, it is rarely acknowledged as an essential feature for debating short-term interest rate setting in open economies. As a result, the search for empirical validity of the principle is still not extensive and only limited to a few economies. Monetary policy in developing countries is especially implicated with the compensation principle considering that these countries have accumulated substantially more foreign reserves than developed economies during the past decade (and seem more compelled to try to control the exchange rate). Most commonly, the compensation principle has been presented in opposition to the Mundell-Fleming framework and the trilemma view. We add to our theoretical assessment a more recent contestant approach, the "dilemma" view and argue that the compensation principle is also an alternative view to this approach. In order to subsidize the debate, we tested the empirical validity of the compensation principle for Brazil’s case. Autoregressive distributed lags (ARDL) models were estimated and results suggest that the compensation principle was valid in Brazil from 2004 to 2011. As a robustness check, the validity of the principle is also tested for the period between 1994 to 1998.