Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Qualitative Analysis of Children with Down Syndrome using the Xbox 360Ã‚Â® Console

Down syndrome is characterized by a delay in the development of motor function. Games with interactive technology are shown as a new type of therapy that assists motor learning and postural control. Objective: To evaluate the variables of gross motor coordination, balance and postural reaction of children with Down syndrome during the performance of virtual games through the X-Box 360® console. Methodology: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee in Human Beings (795,905). Nine children with Down syndrome based on inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected. After signing the consent form Clarified, general data were collected from children such as anthropometry, vital data, among others. After this procedure the children were directed to a room and positioned within a rectangle demarcated to execute the games, being disregarded the actions when the child leaves the rectangle. The "leaks" and "rapids" games of X-Box 360® were selected, where children should play at the levels, basic, intermediate and advanced. After this procedure the variables gross motor coordination, balance and postural reaction were qualitatively analysed by the images captured from three cameras arranged in the place. Results: Parametric Student's T test (<0.05) and the Kruskal Walls test was used. When comparing the variables coordination, balance and postural reaction, there was significant difference between coordination and balance (t: 3.11, p: 0.04) and coordination and postural reaction (t3, 17, p: 0.04), identifying greater difficulty in gross motor coordination of children during the Xbox games. Regarding difficulty levels, there was no significant difference. Conclusion: We suggest that children with Down syndrome present difficulties of gross motor coordination when compared to the balance and postural reaction during the execution of virtual games by the independent X-box in the difficulty level of the games.
The value of psychology in health professional education: A health professional’s perspective

N RESPONDING TO Upton’s discourse arguing for reform of undergraduate health profession curricula to maximise the inclusion of health psychology, it is first important to concede the enormity of the task. Suggesting to psychologists that their subject may not be so crucial could be compared to selling Kyoto environmental agreement in Texas! After all, psychologists are inherently biased towards their subject (as indeed we all are), quite simply due to their immersion within it which convinces them of its scope, influence, and relevance to health professionals. Nevertheless, a response will be presented, arguing that health psychology need not be elevated in status within these programmes. Upton constructed his argument around
Comparative Study on Microorganisms Used for the Bioethanol Production

Two different methods, namely simultaneous saccharification and fermentation and two-stage hydrolysis and fermen- tation have been used for the conversion of the cellulose into bioethanol. Both aerobic and anaerobic conditions were employed in order to obtain two types of microorganisms―Trichoderma reesei and Zymomonas mobilis―that are used for the production of cellulases. The aim of the paper is to investigate also the efficiency of a microorganism’s consortium in the fermentation stage of the two processes and the action of this microorganism’s consortium on different concentrations of the cellulosic substrate, in order to determine the optimum parameters of the process. Good yields (45% - 70%) of the cellulose degradation into fermentable sugars have been obtained.
PRODUTTIVITA ’ SUBURBAN HOTELS AND THE ATOMIZA ION OF TOURIST SPACE IN LARGE CITIES : THE CASE OF ROME Filippo Celata Working paper n . 102 Novembre 2012

Drawing on theoretical and empirical studies on hotel location, as well as on enquires into the specificities of contemporary suburbanization, the article investigates the drives, directions and consequences of the dispersal of hotels into the suburban areas of large historic cities, with an illustration of the case of Rome. The attractiveness of suburban tourism for both private investors and planning authorities it is argued is not simply a response to the congestion of city centres, but is constructed upon more general changes in the spatiality of urban tourism. The spread of suburban hotels exemplifies an atomization of the tourist city and it is an excellent indicator of the changing sociofunctional relations between the hospitality system and the city, the different role of accessibility and of agglomeration economies, the transformation of tourists’ experience of cities in an age of global suburbanization. Classification JEL: L83, R12, R33, R58, N94
Tradition and medicinal value of Indian gooseberry : A review

Research in medicinal plants has gained a renewed focus recently. The prime reason is that other system of medicine although effective come with a number of side effects that often lead to serious complications. Plant based system of medicine being natural does not pose any serious problems. Aonla is one of the oldest oriental medicines mentioned in Ayurveda as potential remedy for various ailments. The fruit is rich in quercetin, phyllaemblic compounds, gallic acid, tannins, flavonoids, pectin, and vitamin C and also contains various polyphenolic compounds. A wide range of phytochemical components including terpenoids, alkaloids, flavonoids, and tannins have been shown to possess useful biological activities. In this review, we have focused our interest on phytochemistry, traditional uses, cancer chemo-preventive, anti-microbial and antimutagenicity activities activity of aonla. It is having a strong memory enhancing property, in lowering cholesterol level applicable in ophthalmic disorder, antimicrobial action and in neutralizing snake venom.
Morphology and stability of infantile gastroenteritis virus: comparison with reovirus and bluetongue virus

Summary Three forms of infantile gastroenteritis virus (IGV), each representing the exposure of a different surface layer, were studied by negative-contrast electron microscopy and compared with analogous forms of a reovirus and an orbivirus. Although major structural similarities were found in each of the three main layers of these viruses, differences were sufficient to clearly distinguish the member genera of the Reoviridae family. IGV particle morphology was stable to most physical and chemical agents commonly used to evaluate virus lability. Virions were stable under all test conditions except when treated with versene-trypsin or held at pH < 3.
The Effect of Internal Audit Quality on Financial Accountability Quality at Local Government

The need for local government audit is actually based on the demands of public accountability to the government by the public entity in order to realize the creation of good governance (good government governance). The role of government internal audit is an important management function in governance both at central and local government. Government internal audit quality is very important, because the internal audit quality will improve the financial accountability that will be produced reliable financial reports as a basis for decision making by the stakeholder's. There are many factors influencing financial accountability quality, including internal audit quality. Based on this background, this research has been aimed to study: (1) the effect of internal audit quality on financial accountability quality. This research uses survey method with description verification approach and type of causal research, conducted on 36 Inspectorate Local Government in West Java and Banten as the unit of analysis, while the unit of observation is a Team Audit such as, Inspector, Inspector of area, audit team leader and members of audit team. The type of data is primary data collected by a questionnaire research instruments containing ordinal scale for measurement. Validity and reliability tests have also been done on the entire collected questionnaire. Furthermore, data are converted into interval scale, then hypothesis test are done using Regression.
How Daphnia (Cladocera) Assays may be used as Bioindicators of Health Effects

Cladoceran daphnids are among the most widely chosen aquatic invertebrates for ecotoxicology, since early 1900s. The use Daphnia bioassays in monitoring water quality is due a number of reasons, such as daphnid sensitivity to chemicals and their easy culturing, and because they are important members of aquatic food chains. The genome sequence accessibility of Daphnia pulex (first crustacean to have a sequenced genome) has expanded to explore broad-ranging biological disciplines, including host-parasite interactions, and evolution, physiology, microbiology, molecular biology, pathology, and genetics. Genetic screening allows identify genes underlying that function within a biological process and/or pathway of interest for humans. This review attempts to relate the use of Daphnia model in the prospect of human health effects. To date this research is still in its infancy but there are good approaches that could be satisfactory to find this relationship.
Dynamic Co-opetitive Network Organization Supported by Multi Agent Architecture

The emergence of institutional or informal networks, formed by cluster groups appears to be a major new feature of the contemporary industrial economy. The focus of this chapter is the development of a Multi Agent Architecture to support a network of enterprises that collaborate in a co-opetition relationships environment. The research concerns the investigation of a life cycle of the network in which the partners change dynamically. In particular, the enterprises that participate in the network can exit or continue to participate, while the enterprises that operate outside the network can evaluate to participate in the network. A simulation environment is developed to implement and test the proposed Multi Agent Architecture. The simulation tool allows to evaluate the proposed approach in a co-opetitive network during the operational activities. The simulation results show that the proposed approach is a very promising tool to support the plant’s participation decision.
Moving object detection under complex dynamic background

In order to realize fast and accurate detection of moving targets under complex dynamic background, a moving object detection method based on BRISK (binary robust invariant scalable keypoints) algorithm is proposed. Firstly, the image is divided into blocks, and the image blocks are filtered by using image entropy. Then, aiming at the problem of large number of mismatch in the process of feature matching, the k-nearest neighbor algorithm and Euclidean distance are used to perform feature matching. Finally, the improved sequential sampling consistency algorithm is used to refine the feature points and further completes the background motion compensation, and morphological processing is used to segment the moving target. Through the verification of multiple video images, the proposed algorithm removes 32.7% of the feature points based on the original BRISK algorithm and improves the matching efficiency by 75%. The proposed algorithm has faster processing speed than previous algorithms and strong anti-noise performance.
Apertif-the focal-plane array system for the WSRT

We describe a focal plane array (FPA) system, called Apertif, that is being developed for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT). The aim of Apertif is to increase the instantaneous field of view of the WSRT by a factor of 37 and its observing bandwidth to 300 MHz with high spectral resolution. This system will turn the WSRT into an effective survey telescope with scientific applications such as deep imaging surveys of the northern sky of HI and OH emission, of the polarised continuum and efficient searches for pulsars and transients. Such surveys will detect the HI in more than 100,000 galaxies out to z = 0.4, will allow to determine the detailed structure of the magnetic field of the Galaxy, and will discover more than 1,000 pulsars. We present experimental results obtained with a prototype FPA installed in one of the WSRT dishes. These results demonstrate that FPAs do have the performance that is required to make all these surveys possible.
Research Priorities for Conservation of Metallophyte Biodiversity and their Potential for Restoration and Site Remediation

Plants that have evolved to survive on metal‐rich soils—metallophytes—have key values that must drive research of their unique properties and ultimately their conservation. The ability of metallophytes to tolerate extreme metal concentrations commends them for revegetation of mines and metal‐contaminated sites. Metallophytes can also be exploited in environmental technologies, for example, phytostabilization, phytoremediation, and phytomining. Actions towards conserving metallophyte species are imperative, as metallophytes are increasingly under threat of extinction from mining activity. Although many hundreds of papers describe both the biology and applications of metallophytes, few have investigated the urgent need to conserve these unique species. This paper identifies the current state of metallophyte research, and advocates future research needs for the conservation of metallophyte biodiversity and the sustainable uses of metallophyte species in restoration, rehabilitation, contaminated site remediation, and other nascent phytotechnologies. Six fundamental questions are addressed: (1) Is enough known about the global status of metallophytes to ensure their conservation? (2) Are metallophytes threatened by the activities of the minerals industry, and can their potential for the restoration or rehabilitation of mined and disturbed land be realized? (3) What problems exist in gaining prior informed consent to access metallophyte genetic resources and how can the benefits arising from their uses be equitably shared? (4) What potential do metallophytes offer as a resource base for phytotechnologies? (5) Can genetic modification be used to “design” metallophytes to use in the remediation of contaminated land? (6) Does the prospect of using metallophytes in site remediation and restoration raise ethical issues?
Paravertebral block as a sole technique for the anaesthetic management of a patient with myalgic encephalomyelitis undergoing breast cancer surgery

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is a multifaceted organic disease which, owing to its non-specific multiple symptoms that include incapacitating fatigue, deeply affects the quality of life of diseased patients. It carries a perceived risk of an adverse reaction to drugs, including anaesthetics. However, there is very little information in the medical literature on the anaesthetic management and outcomes of patients with this condition. According to current scientific literature, there is no causal relationship between ME relapse and anaesthesia, surgery or both. We present the anaesthetic management of a ME patient who underwent breast cancer surgery.
ANALYZING THE FACTORS INFLUENCING EMPLOYEE RETENTION AT PT. BANK NEGARA INDONESIA (BNI) PERSERO

Employee retention issues are emerging as the most critical workforce management challenges. The dynamics of the work environment have to reflect a diverse population comprised of individuals whose motivations, beliefs and value structures differ vastly from the past and from one another. Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) would want to adopt particular strategies that contribute to the retention of their most valued employees in one while avoiding control methods that would appeal the employees in the other. Research objectives are to analyze the factors influencing Employee Retention for employees in PT. BNI 46 Persero. Theories supporting this research are human resource management and employee retention. The population observed are employees of BNI with sample as many as 100 respondents. Result and conclusions are from all variables of the factors influencing employee retention (career development, remuneration/compensation, positive recognition staff engagement and management), remuneration/compensation, staff engagement and management are the most influencing variables. Keywords: organizational factor, employee retention
Private Returns to Education in Ghana: Implications for Investments in Schooling and Migration

This study examines the determinants of school attendance and attainment in Ghana with a view to deriving implications for policy direction. Using micro-level data from the Ghana living standards surveys, our gender disaggregated probit models on current schoolattendance and attainment show that parental education and household resources are significant determinants of schooling. The effect of household resources on current schoolattendance is higher for daughters than it is for sons. It appears that for male and female children the impact of household resources on school attendance has reduced, statistically speaking. Father’s schooling effects on the education of female children decreased between 1992 and 1999. Mother’s schooling effects on school attendance of daughtersin 1992 were not significantly different from those realized in 1999. However, the effects of mother’s schooling levels on school attendance of male children appear to have reduced. Other significant determinants of children’s schooling are the age of children, school infrastructure, religion and urban residency. The paper concludes that education matters and has an intergenerational impact. Arguably, sustainable poverty reduction approaches cannot ignore the role of education and implications for employment, earnings and social development. Hence, gender sensitive policies to ensure educational equity are vital.
Intra-Firm Diffusion of Innovation: Evidence from Tunisian SME's in Matters of Information and Communication Technologies

The aim of this paper is twofold: first, we want to explore the intra-firm diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) within the Tunisian firms and to characterize its general trends of adoption and usage. Second, we want to emphasize the rank and epidemic effects stressed by the disequilibrium models of intra-firm diffusion of innovation following the traditional view of (Mansfield, 1963, Antonelli 1985). Based on face-to-face questionnaires of a random sample of 175 firms our paper shows that: (i) three technological waves of ICT adoption are well characterized in the Tunisian manufacturing sector. This dynamic of adoption is linked to the age of the technologies. Time is the main explanatory variable for intra-firm diffusion of these technologies. (ii) A positive correlation between the size of the firm, seniority and the depth of adoption is found. These econometric estimates show that the rank effect is well characterized within the Tunisian firms. (iii) A positive correlation between technological absorptive capacity building and intensity of ICT usage is found. This correlation confirms the epidemic effect. (iv) Our results show that disequilibrium models' explanations of intra-firm diffusion of innovation are valid within the Tunisian manufacturing sector and seem more appropriate than the equilibrium theory for developing countries.
A Web Search Engine-Based Approach to Measure Semantic Similarity between Words

3 Abstract:A web search engine is software code that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are generally presented in a line of results often referred to as search engine results pages (SERP's). The information may be a specialist in web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in data basesor open directories. Semantic similarity or semantic relatedness is a concept whereby a set of documents or terms within term lists are assigned a metric based on the likeness of their meaning / semantic content. The existing technique implemented for the sematic similarity of the words is based on novel pattern extraction algorithm and a pattern clustering algorithm. Here we are implementing an efficient algorithm for the searching of the similarity of the words using Machine Learning based rule approach.
Comparing In Vitro and In Vivo Genomic Profiles Specific to Liver Toxicity Induced by Thioacetamide

Department of Toxicological Researches, National Institute of Toxicological Research, Korea Food and Drug Administration, 194 Tongil-ro, Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul 122-704, Korea (Received September 12, 2007/Accepted December 13, 2007)Abstract − As it is needed to assay possible feasibility of extrapolation between in vivo and in vitro systems and todevelop a new in vitro method for toxicity testing, we investigated global gene expression from both animal andcell line treated with thioacetamide (TAA) and compared between in vivo and in vitro genomic profiles. For invivo study, mice were orally treated with TAA and sacrificed at 6 and 24 h. For in vitro study, TAA was admin-istered to a mouse hepatic cell line, BNL CL.2 and sampling was carried out at 6 and 24 h. Hepatotoxicity wasassessed by analyzing hepatic enzymes and histopathological examination (in vivo) or lactate dehydrogenase(LDH) assay and morphological examination ( in vitro ). Global gene expression was assessed using microarray. Inhigh dose TAA-treated group, there was centrilobular necrosis (in vivo) and cellular toxicity with an elevation ofLDH (in vitro) at 24 h. Statistical analysis of global gene expression identified that there were similar numbers ofaltered genes found between in vivo and in vitro at each time points. Pathway analysis identified several commonpathways existed between in vivo and in vitro system such as glutathione metabolism, bile acid biosynthesis,nitrogen metabolism, butanoate metabolism for hepatotoxicty caused by TAA. Our results suggest it may be fea-sible to develop toxicogenomics biomarkers by comparing in vivo and in vitro genomic profiles specific to TAAfor application to prediction of liver toxicity.Keywords □ thioacetamide, in vivo, in vitro, toxicogenomics, hepatotoxicity, microarray