Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Early College High Schools

STATUTORY REFERENCES The Texas Education Code, Section 29.908 The Texas Education Agency (TEA) defines Early College High Schools (ECHS) as schools that provide the students who are least likely to attend college the learning and support programs that enable them to simultaneously enroll in both high school and college. TEA approved the first ECHS in school year 2003–04. Students in an ECHS enroll in a blended curriculum of high school and college courses. Students have the opportunity to earn an associate’s degree or up to 60 college credit hours during their four years at an ECHS. Students do not pay tuition or fees or for textbooks. Although the target population for ECHSs is students least likely to attend college, all students are eligible to participate. In school year 2013–14, 65 ECHSs served 23,390 students in 52 Texas school districts and charter schools, in partnership with 25 colleges, college districts or systems, and universities, located in 13 Regional Education Service Center (ESC) regions. In school year 2014–15, 106 ECHSs operated with a total enrollment of 35,375 students in 82 school districts and charter schools, in partnership with 35 colleges, college districts or systems, and universities, located in 16 ESC regions.
Experiences of teenage mothers subsequent to having their first child : a case of females attending school in Jozini, KwaZulu-Natal.

The study seeks to describe the experiences of teenage mothers subsequent to having their first child among females attending school in Jozini, a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal. The study adopted a qualitative research approach using in-depth interviews with teen mothers between the ages of 16-18 years, head masters of the two secondary schools, life orientation teachers two from each school and health workers of the two local clinics. A semi-structured interview schedule was developed and sixty-six (66) participants were interviewed individually and in focus groups. The major findings of this study are that the reproductive health knowledge of teenagers is very low as well as their knowledge on health resources available to them. Through the study, the experience that teenage mothers face while they are trying to complete their schooling having had a baby is revealed. Some have dropped-out of school and returned immediately after the baby’s birth and some are deprived of the chance to continue with their schooling. They associate pregnancy with negative consequences, as they have nothing tangible to do for the reason that they are not confident about the future, because of low education together with low economic status. The financial burden place on them is massive as the babies’ fathers do not stick around after the pregnancy hence no support is received from the baby daddies. Furthermore their parents’ or guardians’ educational and economic status was also discovered to be low. In light of these findings, it is important to allow them to return to school after the baby is born so that the educational attainment of teenagers may be increased. They also need support from the community, parents, teachers and health workers so that they can curb the high rates of school drop-outs and escalating teenage pregnancy rates.
On-Road and In-Vehicle Delivery of Service Signs: Effects of Information Source and Age

In-vehicle technologies for communicating information to drivers have realized increasing use in recent years. While most attention has been paid to in-vehicle displays for presenting safety-related information, such as warnings, few studies have explored communication of non-safety-related information with in-vehicle displays. This simulated driving study examined driver performance in vehicle control and sign identification, when processing service logo information from on-road signs or an in-vehicle display. Findings suggest that in-vehicle displays, on-road signage, or both allowed drivers to identify service logos with a high accuracy and a relatively low level of workload. The use of in-vehicle displays either alone or simultaneously with on-road signage produced lower speed deviations therefore better vehicle control. Age differences were observed in vehicle control as well, suggesting the need for personalization of sign messages according to individual characteristics. This study is an initial step to examine the use of in-vehicle displays for messaging service logos as an example of non-safety-related information. The study is ongoing, and findings could provide a basis for in-vehicle display and on-road sign design for non-safety-related information.
Intrinsic properties of bone as predictors of differential survivorship

Investigating intrinsic properties as determinants of bone survival has major implications in forensic anthropology. It is useful in the incomplete recovery of a skeleton to know if certain bones that are missing are those that are expected to be missing. Assuming complete recovery, individual skeletal parts should have different recovery probabilities. This research examines the differential survivorship of human skeletal remains based on intrinsic properties (density, size, and shape) of bone. Fifty skeletons from the William M. Bass Forensic Skeletal Collection at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville were measured to determine bone length (cm) and shape (sphere, disc, rod, or blade) for twenty skeletal elements. Density measures (HUs) of skeletal parts were recorded for 11 skeletons from the Texas State University Donated Skeletal Collection. These intrinsic variables were then compared to recovery frequencies from a forensic sample of Arizona-Sonoran desert border crossers (n=380). This study found a correlation between bone length and frequency (rS= 0.46) and significant differences in the mean recovery frequencies for shapes (p < 0.05). Though no correlation was found for skeletal part density and frequency (rS= -0.21), structurally dense midshafts of long bones are recovered with a greater frequency than their corresponding epiphyseal ends (p < 0.001). Furthermore, structurally dense crania have the highest survivorship potential (89%). This study substantiates differences in mean recovery frequencies for skeletal elements according to anatomical location (p < 0.05). Anatomical regions and recovery frequencies were used to produce a simple taphonomic model. Educating law enforcement on the value and appearance of high survivorship bones in the taphonomic model is a recommendation to improve policy and practice. 1 CHAPTER
Current Concepts Review - Wear in Total Hip and Knee Replacements*

Before the advent of total joint replacement, patients who had end-stage arthritis of the lower extremities had unremitting pain and a greatly decreased functional capacity. In addition, they often were confined to a wheelchair and were dependent on the care of others. Today, the outcomes of primary total hip and knee replacement are predictable and usually excellent35,45,57,64,212,221. Prosthetic joint replacement has dramatically improved the lives of millions of people worldwide. As the fixation of total joint implants has become more reliable and durable and as the technology of total joint replacement has been applied to younger and more active patients, the current limitations of total joint arthroplasty are related to the wear of the components248. Wear is the removal of material, with the generation of wear particles, that occurs as a result of the relative motion between two opposing surfaces under load. In complex mechanical-biological systems such as total hip and knee replacements, there can be many types of wear. Although the mechanical consequences of wear, such as progressive thinning of polyethylene components, can limit the functional life of a joint replacement, the clinical problems from wear more frequently are due to the release of an excessive number of wear particles into a biological environment. When particles within a certain size-range are phagocytized in sufficient amounts, the macrophages enter into an activated state of metabolism, releasing substances that can result in periprosthetic bone resorption. Progressive loss of periprosthetic bone can necessitate a reoperation, which is the definitive measure of clinical failure of a joint arthroplasty. It is important to distinguish among the fundamental mechanisms of wear (adhesion, abrasion, and fatigue); the changes in the appearance (the morphological characteristics) of the bearing surfaces, which are referred to …
Sharing Stress With a Robot: What Would a Robot Say?

With the prevalence of mental health problems today, designing human-robot interaction for mental health intervention is not only possible, but critical. The current experiment examined how three types of robot disclosure (emotional, technical, and by-proxy) affect robot perception and human disclosure behavior during a stress-sharing activity. Emotional robot disclosure resulted in the lowest robot perceived safety. Post-hoc analysis revealed that increased perceived stress predicted reduced human disclosure, user satisfaction, robot likability, and future robot use. Negative attitudes toward robots also predicted reduced intention for future robot use. This work informs on the possible design of robot disclosure, as well as how individual attributes, such as perceived stress, can impact human robot interaction in a mental health context.
Morbidity in Schistosomiasis mansoni I

In their article on the contrcl of morbidity due to schistosomiasis mansoni in subsaharan Africa I, Gryseels and Polderman make several interesting and valid points. However, some of their arguments and statements, although emphatically presented, are more controversial. From the perspective of schistosomiasis mansoni as it presents as a public health problem in Kenya, we would like to draw attention to several issues on which we would strongly disagree. Gryseels and Polderman ,-levelop the implicit argument that 'decompensated portal hypertension' (DPH) ~s not merely the most but rather the
Experience as cognition: musical sense-making and the ‘in-time/ outside-of-time’ dichotomy

Musical sense-making relies on two distinctive strategies: tracking the moment-to-moment history of the actual unfolding and recollecting actual and previous sounding events in a kind of synoptic overview. Both positions are not opposed but complement each other. The aim of this contribution, therefore, is to provide a comprehensive framework that provides both conceptual and operational tools for coping with the sounds. Five major possibilities are proposed in this regard: (i) the concepts of perspective and resolution, which refer to the distance the listener takes with respect to the sounding music and the fine-grainedness of his/her discriminative abilities; (ii) the continuous/discrete dichotomy which conceives of the music as one continuous flow as against a division in separate and distinct elements; (iii) the in time/outside-of-time distinction, with the former proceeding in real time and the latter proceeding outside of the time of unfolding; (iv) the deictic approach to musical sense-making, which conceives of an act of mental pointing to the music, and (v) the levels of processing, which span a continuum between primitive sensory reactivity to actual sounding stimuli and high-level symbolic processing.
A REVIEW ARTICLE-GESTATIONAL DIABETES MELLITUS

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic illness that requires continuing medical care and ongoing patient self-management education and support to prevent acute complications and to reduce the long-term complications. Moderate to severe maternal hyperglycemia in pregnancy has unique diabetes-related risks to mother and her unborn baby. So Gestational Diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a carbohydrate intolerance that is not diabetes that has developed or been discovered for the first time during pregnancy. Approximately 7% of pregnancies are affected by GDM. Patient with GDM are at higher risk for excessive weight gain, preeclampsia, and cesarean sections. Infants born to mothers with GDM are at higher risk for macrosomia, birth trauma, and shoulder dystocia. After delivery, these infants have a higher risk of developing hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, hyperbilirubinemia, respiratory distress syndrome, polycythemia and subsequent obesity and type 2 diabetes. So the management of GDM is very important, and its management remains a challenge for the obstetricians and endocrinologists. MNT is the most common therapy which suffices for GDM, but when required. The pharmacological treatment becomes necessary, and the treatment of choice is human insulin. OHAs have also reached the high tables in the management of GDM. Glyburide and metformin have been found to be safe, effective and economical for the treatment of gestational diabetes. Let us join hands to manage the GDM effectively, not only for the present generation but also for the generations to come.
Auditors' Response to Different Reporting Environments: Experimental Evidence from the Quantity and Quality of Auditors' Evidence Demands in China

There has been a significant worldwide movement to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), which are more principles&#8208;based compared to many of the more rules&#8208;based national accounting standards that they replaced. The majority of previous studies focus on how this financial reporting environment change influences earnings quality, while there has been limited research on how auditors respond to IFRS. We perform an experiment using Chinese professional auditors to test the joint effects of the type of accounting standards and the strength of the financial regulatory regime on both the quantity and quality of auditors' evidence demands. We find that auditors are likely to have more evidence demands and, particularly, more diagnostic evidence demands under principles&#8208;based accounting standards. This influence is more pronounced under the stronger financial regulatory regime. The effect of the institutional environment on IFRS standards is an important international reporting topic particularly for emerging markets like China where there is strong economic growth with an increased focus on reporting standards and regulation. China is an ideal environment to examine this topic because it is the largest country in the world to adopt IFRS, and many Chinese auditors have experienced both rules&#8208; and principles&#8208;based accounting standards.
Estimates of genetic and crossbreeding parameters for 305-day milk yield of Girolando cows

Abstract The objective of this work was to evaluate the effects of breed and heterosis on the estimates of genetic parameters of 305-day milk yield (305MY), by fitting milk yield data to the Wood, Mixed Log, Morgan, and Wilmink non-linear models. A total of 258,891 test-day milk yield records of 37,965 Holstein (H), Gyr (G), and Girolando (1/2 H, 1/4 H, 3/4 H, 3/8 H, 5/8 H and 7/8 H genetic groups) cows from 1840 herds were collected in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the period of 1998 to 2014. The pedigree file included 36,640 animals, 3677 bulls and 24,472 cows. The genetic parameters were obtained by one-character analysis using the AIREMLF90 software. The heritability estimates of 305MY, and of 305MY fitted to the different nonlinear models ranged from 0.14 to 0.20. Most genetic groups had heterosis effect, with the greatest effects for 305MY on 1/2 H (1/2 Holstein × 1/2 Gyr) cows, presenting a milk yield of 1112.73 kg higher than the average of their parents. The results indicate that most genetic groups of Girolando present heterosis effect for 305MY estimated through nonlinear models, and the possibility of obtaining moderate genetic gains when these animals are subjected to selection procedures. HIGHLIGHTS The use Girolando cows in production systems in Brazil has shown positive results of production. This greater productive efficiency may be because of heterosis on the production and adaptation of these animals. The effect of breed and heterosis can be included in traditional models for the improvement of selection.
Evaluation of histopathology of cervix in women with unhealthy cervix

Background: Carcinoma of cervix is the third most common cancer in women worldwide and most common female cancer in India. Most cervical cancers can be detected at pre-invasive state with an adequate screening and treated, preventing overt progression to invasive cancer and hence decreasing morbidity and mortality. This study was conducted to evaluate the histopathological diagnosis of cervix biopsy in unhealthy cervix and to determine the incidence of the various precancerous and cancerous lesions. Methods: It was a prospective study in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in a tertiary care hospital over a period of two years. 802 women with unhealthy cervix were included in the study. Punch biopsy was taken from the cervix and sent for histopathological examination. Results: Total of 802 women were included in the study. They were in the age group of 26-75years. 53.4% were in the age group of 40-49 years followed by 20% in the age group of 30-39 years. The most common finding was chronic cervicitis in 89.4% followed by CIN I in 4.1%, CIN II in 0.9% of patients, squamous cell carcinoma in 2.1% and endocervical carcinoma in 0.4%. Conclusions: Cancer cervix is an ideal malignancy for screening, can be detected early and the premalignant lesion can be treated to prevent the progress to invasive disease. Hence all women with unhealthy cervix should be subjected to punch biopsy to detect early cases of cancer & carcinoma in situ.
Improvement of Defection in Voluntary Trail by Synbiotics Supplement

Probiotics are live microorganisms beneficially affect the host by improving the properties of the indigenous microbial balance when ingested in certain numbers. Synbiotics are the combination of probiotics and prebiotics. They are able to alter the composition of human gut flora towards a predomination of probiotics benefitting human physical and mental health. Defecation situation is able to authentically reflect gut health. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of daily ingestion of synbiotics for 20 days on the defecation of female and male volunteers in different ages. Results revealed that, after 20 days-supplementation of synbiotics, 61.67% volunteers’ defecation discipline was improved. 56.67% volunteers found gut significantly relaxed. Volunteers’ stool smell, color, frequency and diarrhea symptoms were modified to various extents. Synbiotics tended to have greater impact on the defecation of elderly and female volunteers.
A Programmable On-Chip Reference Oscillator With Slow-Wave Coplanar Waveguide in 14-nm FinFET CMOS

This brief presents a programmable on-chip reference oscillator based on a slow-wave coplanar waveguide (S-CPW). The frequency is determined mainly by its geometric structure with floating stripes, thereby enjoying an advantage of being less sensitive to PVT variations, especially due to self-heating of FinFET devices. The S-CPW is carefully designed with 3-D EM simulations. In addition, the proposed reference oscillator is widely programmable for multi-standard System on-a-Chip (SoC) applications utilizing a programmable divider using 7-bit multi-modulus divider. The oscillator fabricated in 14-nm FinFET CMOS technology consumes 2.8 mW at the frequency of 200 MHz and occupies an active area of 0.53 mm2. Phase noise is −147.5 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset at the frequency of 25 MHz. The proposed oscillator exhibits frequency variation of only 37 ppm/°C and 0.52 %/V with 25-MHz clock generation.
Push the Limit of Multipath Profiling Using Commodity WiFi Devices With Limited Bandwidth

Multipath profiling is to characterize multipath components of wireless channels, which can be done using Channel State Information (CSI) from WiFi devices. To do so with satisfactory accuracy, recent studies rely on either a large number of receiving antenna or large bandwidth. However, it is difficult for commodity WiFi devices to meet these requirements. In this paper, we propose a scheme, WiZoom, that can perform accurate multipath profiling using single-band CSI from commodity WiFi devices. In order to achieve accurate multipath profiling with limited bandwidth, WiZoom first incorporates the MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm with CSI to estimate ToAs of multipath components, and then combines multiple antenna to improve the resolution of ToA estimation. WiZoom further estimates attenuations and phase shifts for multipath components using the ToAs. So far, multipath components are fully characterized, and all these estimated parameters form the multipath profile. We evaluate the performance of WiZoom using commodity WiFi devices in real environment, and results show that WiZoom achieves high accuracy in multipath profiling.
Influence of light intensity and some chemical compounds on physiological responses in olive transplants (Olea europaea L.)

Leaf physiological responses, chlorophyll content and stomata density of two cultivars Xestawi and Suranni (Olea europaea L.) transplants grown under two levels of light intensity (100% and 50%) of full light and different concentrations of calcium and boric acid (0.25% and 0.50%) and (50 and 100 mg.L) respectively were studied in addition to control. These studies aimed to discuss the effect of light intensity and some chemical compounds on some physiological responses of olive transplants [net photosynthesis, stomata transpiration, stomata conductance rates and water use efficiency (WUE), in addition chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, stomata density and guard cell thickness]. The result showed that all above parameters significantly increased in 100% light intensity except in the case of water use efficiency, it decreased in 100% light intensity. While the effect of mineral compounds on all of the parameters were varied. The transplants treated with 100 mg.L boric acid showed higher net photosynthesis, transpiration and stomatal conductance. Hence, higher rates of water use efficiency, stomata density, guard cell thickness and chlorophyll b were found in transplants treated with both concentrations of calcium (0.25% and 0.50%).
Morphological feature of brachial artery and its clinical significance

Introduction: The present study is to provide comprehensive data concerning the morphology of brachial artery which has a clinical significance for clinicians, orthopedics, vascular surgeons and anatomists. Materials and Methods: Routine dissections of the right and left upper limb of 34 adult cadavers (20 male and 14 female: mean age 78.9 year) were undertaken. It investigates the characteristics of the brachial artery such as the internal diameter, external diameter, wall thickness and distance of bifurcation of brachial artery. Results: The mean of the external and internal diameters of the brachial artery from proximal to distal ranged from 6.87-5.35 mm respectively. The bifurcation of the brachial artery from the head of radius into its terminal branch radial and ulnar artery ranged from 13.49-13.79 mm, while the distance of bifurcation of common interosseous from origin of the ulnar artery ranged from 33.11-33.45 mm. The angle of bifurcation of the radial and ulnar arteries from the brachial artery ranged from 5.79-7.33° and 18.640-19.36° respectively. Due to variability of the brachial artery in the upper limb, the surgical and invasive procedures are performed in the region such as artificial arterial-venous fistula become more difficult and may result in iatrogenic injury. Conclusion: Therefore, it is a clinical significant for surgeons to known the variable morphology and course of brachial artery to minimize surgical complication prior to operation.