Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Retirement and Cognitive Ability in Korea

This study examines the effect of retirement on the cognitive ability of aging Koreans. Using six (2006–2016) waves of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLoSA), we find the significant negative effect of retirement on cognitive ability. After retirement, individuals experience a decline in their cognitive ability scores by approximately 1% when compared with the average score. We also investigate the heterogeneity across age, gender, education, and job characteristics. The negative influence of retirement is pronounced and significant for those who are aged 68–80, are females, have lowers levels of education, are non-wage-and-salary workers, and are blue-collar workers.
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF ACUTE WATERY DIARRHEA OUTBREAK DURING JULY-AUGUST 2017 IN AMARPURA, RAWALPINDI - PAKISTAN

Background: On July 24, 2017, two cases suspected of acute watery diarrhea (AWD) were reported from tertiary care hospital, Rawalpindi. District health authorities directed to conduct outbreak investigation, identified risk factors and recommend control measures. Methods: A descriptive followed by age-sex matched case control study (1:3) was done from Jul 27 to Aug 02, 2017. Case definition was "sudden onset of loose watery stools (? 3 in past 24hrs) with any of symptoms i.e. vomiting, nausea, abdominal cramps or fever in residents of Amar Pura from July 19 to August 02, 2017". Active and passive case finding technique were done in addtion to hosptial record review. Total 02 stool and 03 water samples were collected for microbiological testing. Odd ratios computed on 95% confidence interval and P value <0.05. Results: Total 18 cases were identified (mean age: 16 year; range: 02 m-55yrs), predominate were male 2.6:1. Overall attack rate (AR) was 7.2/1000 and preponderate affected age group was 15-24 years (AR: 10/1000). Significantly associated risk factors were; use of untreated municipal water (OR:15, CI: 4.00-73.96) and use of untreated well water (OR:14.52, CI: 3.98-59.99). Use of water from filtration plant was found protective association (OR: 0.12, CI: 0.005-0.750). Laboratory found Vibrio Cholera Serotype Inaba in stool samples and coliforms in water samples. Conclusion: Consumption of contaminated water was most probable cause of outbreak. Use of filtered water was found to be a protective measure. Chlorination of water sources and health awareness sessions on water sanitation and hygiene were done in community.
Functional outcomes of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the most common sports injuries with a reported yearly incidence rate of over two million injuries worldwide. The main aim of this thesis is to investigate various aspects related to the functional outcomes of ACLR through a series of clinical studies. Ethical approval was sought and granted by the North of Scotland Research Ethics Service. A systematic review was conducted to investigate the outcome measures used in Level I and II clinical ACLR studies. The review showed wide variability in the outcome measures utilised with no consensus on the ideal outcome instrument or combination of instruments to report the outcome of ACLR. Five-year results from the UK National Ligament Registry (NLR) were analysed with review for limitations of registry data and future recommendations. The data analysed provided a comprehensive review for the demographics, surgical techniques and functional outcomes of ACLR surgery across the UK. NLR data is limited by multiple factors including high rate of incomplete data, duplication of data, poor patient compliance and lack of validation of the data. A study was conducted to examine the hypothesis that patients with ACLR do not return to their pre-injury functional status at two years postoperatively. The study showed significant improvement in patient symptoms postoperatively compare to their post-injury scores, but the majority of patients failed to achieve their pre-injury functional outcome scores at 2 years postoperatively. In a comparative study, the anteromedial portal (AM) technique in femoral tunnel drilling was compared with the trans-tibial (TT) technique with respect to radiological and functional outcomes. The hypothesis was that AM portal produces better functional outcomes compared with TT technique. We found that the AM portal achieved a more anatomical position of the graft but there was no difference between the two techniques in functional outcome at 2 years postoperatively. However, ACLR with the AM portal technique had higher graft failure rate compared with the TT technique. The medium- term outcome of all-inside meniscal repairs was investigated in a longitudinal study. Meniscal repairs with concomitant ACLR had a lower failure rate compared with isolated meniscal repairs. This indicates that surgeons should have a low threshold for repairing meniscal tear during ACLR surgery. The healing response technique was studied in a selected group of patients with complete proximal ACL tears. This technique yielded good functional outcome for most of the patients at 2 years postoperative follow up. The studies included in this thesis provides substantial information for surgeons treating patients with ACL injuries. It provides a platform for further research studies investigating the outcomes of ACLR surgery.
A Social Media Services Analysis

The growing adoption of social media services such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have created opportunities for information dissemination practise that has not existed before. This practice improves situational awareness and eases dissemination of information. However, the major challenge is to efficiently extract relevant information from the large volumes of noises. It makes the social data analysis task is extremely labour intensive and time-consuming. To overcome these challenges, we propose a service-based approach to illustrate and analyse social media services. First, we assign social media as a service, called social media service. We also identify its functional and non-functional features. Secondly, we plan experiments on real-world datasets for a variety of topics. We analytically evaluate the functional and non-functional features of social media services. The analysis has depicted that classifying functional features and identifying non-functional features such as relatedness, preferences, and engagement of social media services is important regarding analysing social sensors data. This work demonstrates the competence of social media services regarding the Social Media Service-Based Analysis Model. The identified functional and non-functional features in this work help data analyst to understand and comprehend the nature of social media services particularly in the subject of Syria war, dengue outbreak and natural disaster. Furthermore, we have provided future research issues from where our work has ended.
Content marketing in e-commerce platforms in the internet celebrity economy

Purpose With the popularity of social media and, recently, live streaming, internet celebrity endorsements have become a prevalent approach to content marketing for e-commerce sellers. Despite the widespread use of social media and online communities, empirical studies investigating the economic value of user-generated content (UGC) and marketer-generated content (MGC) still lag behind. The purpose of this paper is to contribute both theoretically and practically to capture both first-order effects and second-order effects of internet celebrity endorsements on marketing outcomes in an e-commerce context. Design/methodology/approach This study conducts a cross-sectional regression to evaluate the economic value of internet celebrity endorsement, and a panel vector autoregressive model is adopted to examine the relationship between celebrities’ and consumers’ content marketing behaviors and e-commerce sales performance. The authors also adopt look-ahead propensity-score matching technique to correct for selection bias. Findings The empirical results show that the content generation efforts of marketers and the interaction behaviors between marketers and consumers will significantly influence the e-commerce sales, which refers to the first-order effects of internet celebrity endorsement. Moreover, interactions within the fan community exert second-order effects of content marketing on sales performance. Originality/value This paper provides new insights for e-commerce retailers to evaluate the economic values of internet celebrity endorsement, a new content marketing practice in e-commerce platform.
Estimation of TNF- α and LDH in Chronic Periodontitis Patients in Mosul

The objective of the study is to estimate salivary concentration of TNF-α and LDH level in chronic periodontitis and control group, and correlate them with periodontal parameters. The study group consisted of 44 patients suffering from chronic periodontitis, aging between ≤16-45 years old and 40 control samples collected from healthy individuals ranged between 16-40 years old . Chronic periodontitis was assessed on the basis of several periodontal parameters, including probing pocket depth (PPD), clinical attachment loss (CAL), bleeding on probing (BOP) and plaque index (PI). 5ml of unstimulated saliva was collected from patients and control groups to measure salivary biomarkers by ELISA technique. the mean concentrations of TNF-α in the study and control groups were (6.9pg/ml) and (5.6 pg/ml) respectively, data analysis showed no significant difference between the two groups (P< 0.05), and the mean LDH level in chronic periodontitis was (7.7855) and in control group the mean was (0.5555) and the difference was highly significant )p≤ 0.000). Salivary TNF-α and LDH showed positive correlation with clinical periodontal parameters.
Intricate relationship of diabetes and periodontitis

Periodontitis and diabetes mellitus, both are common, chronic diseases having two way relationships with each other. Diabetes mellitus is adversely affecting onset, progression and severity of periodontitis and severe periodontitis leads to compromised glycaemic control of diabetic patients. An attempt is made to know how diabetes mellitus and periodontitis affect each other.
Self-similarity in azimuthal Walsh filters and corresponding far-field diffraction characteristics: a unique study to control tightly focused fields and coupling of light into metamaterials, plasmonic structure and waveguides

In this paper, we propose illumination beam shaping using azimuthal Walsh filters derived from azimuthal Walsh functions, in and around the focal plane of a rotationally symmetric imaging system and studied for finding out self-similar groups and sub-groups for different orders to examine self-similarity existing between them and their corresponding transverse intensity distributions at the far-field plane. The unique rotational self-similarities observed in 2D intensity distributions at the transverse far-field plane for adjacent orders of azimuthal Walsh filters are also presented. Practical implementations of these filters are achievable by the availability of high speed spatial light modulators (SLMs) which can be successfully used to code and control illumination in and around the tightly focused field and coupling of light into metamaterials, plasmonic structures and waveguides. Further scope of research is intended to develop a new photonics platform based on dielectric surface wave harvesting model controlled by the dynamically variable illumination using azimuthal Walsh filters. Surface waves such as Bloch Surface Waves (BSW) and Surface Plasmons (SP) can be considered as the future enabling tools using this concept for probable applications in Photonics Research as well as in Industrial sectors, namely, quantum optics, telecom, sensing, computing, security, imaging and medical applications.
Responding to gender issues to improve outcomes in nutrition assessment counseling and support services.

Nutrition assessment counseling and support (NACS) is an approach to integrate evidence-based nutrition interventions into health services including the prevention categorization and treatment of malnutrition and sustained improved nutritional status. This technical brief describes gender issues in NACS services as well as suggestions for how to address them. Gender issues discussed include: Harmful social cultural and economic norms and practices related to nutrition and food security; Unequal access to and utilization of nutrition assessment services; Inappropriate or discriminatory nutrition counseling; Issues impacting adherence to and retention in nutrition support services; Unequal knowledge and skills to participate in food security or income-generating activities.
Book Review: The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification

program requirements—something that might inform conversations around mentorship and advising. In order to preserve confidentiality, Small was not able to disclose the race and ethnicity of his respondents. Scholars looking for a better understanding of how these dynamics might be shaped by race or educators looking to hear more about the experiences of graduate students of color will not find their answers in this volume. The material in this book might pair well with Beverly Tatum’s (2003) Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria and Other Conversations about Race, which considers self-segregation and the experience of students of color in majority-white and multiracial educational contexts. Students might be encouraged to reflect upon how their own experience of race in school might confirm or complicate Small’s findings about the graduate school experience. More generally, Small’s book restricts its discussion to confidants—this is just one type of relationship that might interest scholars and educators, and future work will have to consider the others. The traditional literature on core discussion networks cited throughout the book, including McPherson and Smith-Lovin (2006) and other literature on social capital, could be used to compare and contrast types of ties (for an overview, see Portes 1998). In terms of less studied interactions, what might be the role of individuals with whom we frequently engage but do not necessarily confide in? Scholars such as Ray Oldenburg (1989) have noted the importance of “third spaces”— places that are neither home nor work that allow people to interact with one another. The barista or bus driver that we see each day may not be a confidant but could well play an important role in our overall sense of well-being. A course activity might involve gathering qualitative data in order to address this question. This book provides an excellent opportunity for scholars of all subfields to enhance their understanding of social network theory and research methods using a context that will be immediately familiar to anyone who has attended graduate school or works at one. It would pair well with existing TRAILS resources that guide students through some of the traditional methods of network analysis that Small problematizes in this book. For example, Marin (2013) provides guidelines for a series of assignments wherein students learn to collect and analyze their own social network data. The assignments, which are pitched at the advanced undergraduate level, can be used cumulatively in one large project, but each individual assignment can also stand on its own. Students might also be asked to add additional questions in light of Small’s findings or to consider a mixed-method approach that is supplemented by an interview-based data collection assignment that draws from the interview questions posed by Small in Someone to Talk To.
Something Phish-y is Going On Here: A Teaching Case on Business Email Compromise

This case utilizes a real-world example of a U.S. public company that fell victim to a Business Email Compromise (BEC) scheme in which an employee inadvertently wired millions of dollars to fraudulent accounts based upon email instructions purportedly sent by a company executive and external legal counsel. This is a timely issue to examine given its rising prevalence and magnitude in the corporate world. The case allows students to examine a topic (phishing techniques and email scams) that they are likely to be familiar with on a conceptual level, through the lens of internal controls and external auditing. Examining the case information, SEC filings, and auditing guidance, students will gain an understanding of internal control issues related to BEC and critically think of ways to remediate or implement controls to reduce cybersecurity risk, as well as consider the external auditor's growing responsibilities related to technology and its associated risks.
Study Regarding the Relationship between Nutritional Status and Oral Health in the Elderly Patients

The aim of study was to investigate the relationship between oral health and nutritional status in a population of elderly patients with systemic chronic or acute pathology. Materials and method: Prospective cross-sectional clinical investigation of 115 aged patients (] 60 yo; mean age 66.2) from the Clinical Foundation, Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi. In the first stage of the study, the patients (able to understand and communicate) were submitted to a mini-test for the assessment of the mental status (MMSE) . In the second stage of the study, a questionnaire was used to record demographic and socioeconomic data of the subjects as well as information regarding systemic status and nutritional facts. In the third stage of the study, the nutritional status was evaluated by using Mini-Nutritional Assessment questionnaire (MNA). Finally, the oral status was evaluated by using clinical and radiographical exams as well as geriatric oral health assessment index (GOHAI). Results: Of the 60 old adults, 6% were severely malnourished, and 37.4% presented malnourished risk. 49.6% of the old people had difficulties eating firm foods, 25% of them being unable to prepare meals. Regarding oral status, only 5.2% had at least 20 natural teeth, 55.6% required dental care for decayed or broken teeth, 69.6% were affected by xerostomia, 21% of the completely or partial edentulous people were untreated by removable dentures, 25% of the edentulous patients complained by ill-fitted removable dentures. Conclusion: Lack of education, treatment with over 3 drugs daily, physical inability to buy foods or to prepare meals, as well as the difficulties eating firm foods are strongly associated with poor nutritional status. Also, the need for dental care was associated to nutritional deficiency.
Designing and making in a school context : a process model and practical insights

Teaching 21st century skills, STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) subjects and programming for children is the future in education. This thesis was inspired by the project ordered by INTERACT research unit from the University of Oulu, and the goal was to familiarize school children with programming and digital fabrication while collecting research material for INTERACT research unit. Research unit wanted a research material on a project that combines design and making in school context and utilizes University of Oulu Fab Lab. The idea was to conduct a making (digital fabrication) project with children and research it. This thesis is based on the experiences of the project and aims to answer a research question: “What kind of process model supports design and making in school context? ”. This research was done using qualitative research methods. This thesis views the social aspects of people in the school system, their relationships, goals, and actions. A lot of data was collected about human beings, their experiences, and reflections. Sessions with children were video and audio recorded but also reflected by project members and children themselves. Gathered data was analyzed using content analysis. The main result of this thesis is a reflective design process model that supports design and making in the school environment. In addition to that, this thesis explain what kind of actors are involved in the process, such as children, teachers, schools, researchers, parents, university and so forth. It describes the goals that needs to be taken into account; most importantly from curriculum and teaching point of view, but also from the IT (Information Technology) point of view. This process could generate more skillful programmers, designers, makers, if this kind of design and making projects could be introduced to school environment. Thesis also enlightens the working in the school context and the pros and cons relating to it. School context is best for projects that focus more on learning goals than end results and outcomes. Results are finally analyzed in light of having digital fabrication and making part of everyday school work.
Bioadhesive hydrogel composite cell carrier for the repair of the degenerated intervertebral disc

v List of Figures . xii List of Tables . xviii Chapter 1: Introduction . 1 1.1 Motivation . 1 1.2 Project Summary . 1 1.3 Dissertation Summary . 3 Chapter: 2 Background . 6 2.1 Spinal Anatomy . 6 2.2 Intervertebral Disc Anatomy and Biochemistry . 7 2.3 Intervertebral Disc Biomechanics . 12 2.4 Lower Back Pain and Disc Degeneration . 15 2.5 Strategies for Treating Lower Back Pain . 21 2.5. 1 Conservative Treatments . 21 2.5. 2 Discectomy . 27 2.5. 3 Spinal Fusions . 29 2.5. 4 Total Disc Replacements . 33 2.5. 5 Nucleus Pulposus Replacements.38 2.6 Tissue Engineering Strategies . 44
Bilan des connaissances sur les facteurs de risque de l’arthrose du genou et sur les outils d’évaluation et les interventions en matière de soins et services

Nathaly Gaudreault, Université de Sherbrooke et Centre de recherche – Hôpital Charles-Le Moyne (CR-HCLM) Marie-José Durand, Université de Sherbrooke et CR-HCLM Hélène Moffet, Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en réadaptation et intégration sociale et Université Laval Luc Hébert, Forces canadiennes et Université Laval Nicola Hagemeister, École de technologie supérieure et Laboratoire de recherche en imagerie et orthopédie Debbie Feldman, Université de Montréal et Direction de la santé publique de Montréal Michael Bernier, CR-HCLM Karine Genest, CR-HCLM Sylvain Laprise, CR-HCLM Anne-Catherine Maynard-Paquette, CR-HCLM
A triple‐band dual‐polarized CRLH antenna for wireless applications

This paper presents an asymmetric coplanar waveguide fed triple‐band (1.99, 4.06, and 5.23 GHz) dual polarized antenna based on composite right‐ and left‐handed transmission line (CRLH‐TL) approach. The two lower bands of the antenna are linearly polarized whereas the rest is circularly polarized (CP). 20.49% 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth is achieved for the CP band which is higher than the recently reported triple band CRLH‐TL antennas. It has a compact size of 0.085 × 0.097 × 0. 01λ0, where λ0 is the free space wavelength at ZOR frequency (1.99 GHz). The antenna is suitable for UMTS/WCDMA/PCS, WiMAX, and WLAN/Wi‐Fi applications.
"Regsym" - dataflow analysis of linear x86 code

Software analysis of binary code is an important and challenging area of ongoing research. Due to the signiﬁcant complexity, tasks such as accurate function identiﬁcation and control ﬂow graph recovery remain open problems in both industry and academia. The ability to reliably analyze binary code is quite valuable to several industries, ranging from cybersecurity to software veriﬁcation. While several tools exist to disassemble and model control ﬂow in binary programs, none have a reliable and robust way of modeling dataﬂow. To address this gap, this thesis will present a new technique to trace register dataﬂow across program slices on the x86 architecture with a tool called ”RegSym”.