Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Pain Disability Questionnaire (PDQ): evaluation of its utility for presurgical and 1-year postsurgical physical and psychosocial outcomes for patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty

Background:The Pain Disability Questionnaire (PDQ) assesses perception of disability in relation to pain. Past research confirmed the utility of the PDQ to assess treatment outcomes for patients with chronic disabling occupational musculoskeletal disorders. This study evaluates the utility of the PDQ in a sample of patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Methods:One hundred and thirty patients with TKA completed the PDQ, along with physical and psychosocial measures before surgery and at 12-months postsurgically. Patients were classified into three groups based on their total baseline PDQ scores: mild/moderate (0-70), severe (71-100), and extreme (101-150). Analyses determined if the PDQ groups were significantly associated with baseline and 12-month postsurgical physical and psychosocial outcomes. Results:Patients with severe and/or extreme levels of perceived pain disability were more likely to be younger (P=0.010), Hispanic (P=0.013), and to have no college education (P=0.005). Patients in the extreme group were more likely to have major depressive disorder (P<001), anxiety disorder (P=0.007) and/or somatization disorder (P=0.038). Patients in the severe/extreme groups had higher levels of pain, stiffness, and poor function (all P<0.001) before surgery and greater pain and poorer function 12-months after surgery (all P<0.001). Patients in the extreme group had worse physical and mental quality of life scores at baseline and 12-months after surgery (all P<0.003). Baseline PDQ was significantly associated with both the 12-month postsurgical Western Ontario and McMasters Universities Arthritis index (WOMAC) (P<0.001) and the 12-month postsurgical Short Form-36 (SF-36) mental composite (P<0.001). Conclusions:The PDQ is a useful presurgical measure for assessing both baseline and postsurgical physical and psychosocial outcomes for patients undergoing TKA. Level of Evidence:Level II, Prospective Cohort Study.
Strategy or Legitimacy? Analysis of the Role of Institutional Development Plans in Brazilian Universities

The aim of this study is to analyze whether Institutional Development Plans (IDP) are strategic documents or simply a response to seeking legitimacy in the face of regulatory pressures. This is a qualitative study based on information from 20 IDPs of Brazilian universities, categorized as private, public, community, or confessional. To analyze the IDPs, the content analysis methodology was used. As a result, it was found that most IDPs are much more descriptive documents, with operational goals and plans, than documents with strategic characteristics. On the other hand, in most of the documents analyzed, there was evidence of the importance and relevance of constructing an IDP as a benefit for the management and the university organization as a whole. It was concluded that IDPs tend to be documents that seek to provide universities with legitimacy in relation to the actors involved. In other words, they converge towards institutional isomorphism. Thus, they are not prepared, and used only due to institutional demands, but mainly due to legal impositions.
Effect of BDNF Val66Met on disease markers in dominantly inherited AD

Objective. Previous studies suggest that the brain-derived neurotrophic factor ( BDNF ) Val66Met (rs6265) polymorphism may influence symptom onset in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Our recent cross-sectional findings suggest that Met66 may influence clinical expression in dominantly inherited AD (DIAD) through its effects on tau. However, it remains unclear whether carriage of Met66 in DIAD results in faster increases in CSF tau and ptau 181 , and whether these increases are associated with accelerated brain volume loss and memory decline. Methods. A total of 211 subjects (101 mutation non-carriers, 110 mutation carriers), who were cognitively normal, as defined by a Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) global score of 0, completed assessments of cognitive function, neuroimaging and CSF sampling over 3.5 years as part of the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Network (DIAN). Results.
The Threshold Voltage Adjustment of Molybdenum Stack Gate by Nitrogen-Controlled Sputtering

Stack MoN/Mo (110) crystallographic texture was used as metal gate for adjusting the Mo work function. We used a new approach by sputtering the MoNx/Mo films directly to form stack gate electrode by reactive with Ar and N2 gas mixture. The annealing process of the MoNx/Mo stack gate material post the sputtering changes the flatband voltage and electrical characterization. Key-Words : Metal Gate, Stacked Gate, Sputtering.
A Variable Importance Measure for a Cost Sensitive Random forest Predition on a Budget.

Nowdays, having a good health-care using less money become a challenge, as technologies became more and more expensive and budgets are limited.On the other hand, in the medical diagnosis, a false negative prediction ( a sick person declared as healthy one ) may have more serious consequences than a false positive prediction, and assigning them equal costs is probably inappropriate. This Master thesis makes contribute to both the fields of budgeted-learning, and cost sensitive learning in that it develops a model that can make a compromise between misclassification costs and test costs at the same time. The proposed model is based on the idea of using the variables importance measures of random forest as test costs and choosing the optimal tree from the grown forest as test strategy. Our model has been tested on nine UCI Machine Learning datasets and on a real-world database: multiple myeloma; collected from the anti cancer center of Tlemcen.
Tax and brain drain: Justification, policy options and prospect for large developing economies

International migration has continued to escalate over the last three decades, creating a risk of brain drain in developing countries. This paper reviews the extent to which the use of tax instruments to address brain drain can be justified in developing economies with large populations. Furthermore, it explores and assesses tax policy options that may be undertaken to prevent the emigration of high-skilled individual, namely the Bhagwati tax proposal, exit tax, revenue sharing and tax incentives. Five things can be concluded from the assessment of several policy choices. First, there is no stand-alone tax policy that can optimally address brain drain, in the sense of reducing the number of high-skilled individuals who emigrate. Second, most policies put more focus on the element of fairness to compensate for the “loss” caused by the home country. Third, almost every available policy requires better coordination at the international level. Fourth, all policy options require closer collaboration with immigration agencies. Finally, each policy has the potential to produce unintended consequences.
Goodpasture syndrome as a rare cause of massive respiratory tract hemorrhage

Abstract In this study, the cases of a patient with Goodpasture syndrome (also referred to as anti-glomerular basement membrane disease) and a patient with the morphological features of Goodpasture syndrome or Goodpasture-like syndrome found in a histopathological examination are described. In both cases the course of the disease was atypical, with a massive respiratory tract hemorrhage being the most significant symptom. Accordingly, the presented patients were treated surgically. Furthermore, the paper described diagnostic difficulties in identifying the cause of the hemorrhage. Finally, the importance of histopathological examination in the diagnosis of Goodpasture syndrome and the Goodpasture-like syndrome with atypical course is emphasized.
DNA Damage and Neutrophil Elastase in Children with Prader-Willi Syndrome

1Biological Anthropology Department, Medical Research Division, Giza, Egypt. 2Medical Biochemistry Department, Medical Research Division, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt. 3Clinical Genetics Department, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt. 4Cytogenetic Department, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt. 5Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Benha, Egypt. *Corresponding Author E-mail: moushiraz@yahoo.com
The Impact of the Morphological Characteristics of Leaves on Particulate Matter Removal Efficiency of Plants

This study was conducted to find out differences in the removal efficiency of particulate matter (PM) depending on the type of plants and the morphological characteristics of leaves. A total of 12 plants were used, with three plants selected for each type of leaves (big leaf, small leaf, compound leaf, needle leaf). We measured the removed amount of PM10 and PM2.5, the structure of the abaxial leaf surface, and the weight of the wax layer of each plant. Plants with the high removal efficiency of PM included Pachira aquatica Aubl. , Ardisia crenata, and Dieffenbachia 'Marianne', and plants with the low removal efficiency included Nandina domestica Thunb, Schefflera arboricola, and Quercus dentata. The abaxial leaf surface having a high removal efficiency of PM had many large wrinkles, and the abaxial leaf surface having a medium removal efficiency was flat and smooth. On the other hand, there were many fine hairs on the abaxial leaf surface with a low removal efficiency. According to the plant leaf type, the PM10 removal efficiency of plants with needle leaves was about three times higher than that of other plants. In particular, the wax layer of conifers weighed 6-24 times higher than those of other plants. The stomata of conifers were evenly distributed on the adaxial and abaxial leaf surfaces; however, the stomata of Sciadopitys verticillata appeared in the form of papillae unlike general stomata. Therefore, the removal efficiency of PM varied depending on the macro-, and micro-morphological characteristics of plant leaves such as the structure of the abaxial leaf surface, and the weight of the wax layer. Based on this research, selecting plants that are effective in reducing PM in consideration of the plant type and leaf characteristics will improve indoor air quality and decrease exposure of PM to human body.
Weakly Supervised Clustering by Exploiting Unique Class Count

A weakly supervised learning based clustering framework is proposed in this paper. As the core of this framework, we introduce a novel multiple instance learning task based on a bag level label called unique class count (ucc), which is the number of unique classes among all instances inside the bag. In this task, no annotations on individual instances inside the bag are needed during training of the models. We mathematically prove that with a perfect ucc classifier, perfect clustering of individual instances inside the bags is possible even when no annotations on individual instances are given during training. We have constructed a neural network based ucc classifier and experimentally shown that the clustering performance of our framework with our weakly supervised ucc classifier is comparable to that of fully supervised learning models where labels for all instances are known. Furthermore, we have tested the applicability of our framework to a real world task of semantic segmentation of breast cancer metastases in histological lymph node sections and shown that the performance of our weakly supervised framework is comparable to the performance of a fully supervised Unet model.
Effets de l'adoption des techniques culturales sans labour (TCSL) sur l'état physique des sols : conséquences sur la protection contre l'érosion hydrique en milieu tempéré

Effects of no-ploughing methods on soil physical properties: Consequences on soil erosion in a temperate climate In this paper, we present a review of the literature on the effects of no-ploughing on soil structure, porosity and stability. In the second part, we discuss the consequences on soil erosion in a temperate environment. The effect of reduced tillage on soil physical properties has firstly to be evaluated on soil structure. If carbon accumulation on the soil surface improves aggregate stability, no-ploughing also greatly affects soil porosity. Not only does it decrease during the period following adoption of no-ploughing, but it also changes in nature and connectivity due to weathering, roots and biological activity. However, the efficiency of these factors is site-dependent and varies with the duration of no-ploughing and the crop sequence. Under tropical climates, reduced tillage systems have been proposed to prevent soil erosion while in temperate areas the present increase of no-till is motivated firstly by the decrease of production and mechanization costs. However, the efficiency of the numerous no-plough tillage systems on erosion control is not systematic. The soil must be sufficiently covered by crop residues and the infiltration Jean Roger-Estrade J erôme Labreuche Guy Richard 1 AgroParisTech D epartement SIAFEE 78850 Thiverval-Grignon France 2 Inra UMR 211 INRA AgroParisTech Agronomie Grignon 78850 Thiverval-Grignon France 3 Arvalis-Institut du v eg etal Station exp erimentale 91720 Boigneville France 4 Inra UR 0272 Science du sol Centre de recherches d'Orl eans 45075 Orl eans cedex 2 Pour citer cet article : Roger-Estrade J, Labreuche J, Richard G, 2011. Effets de l'adoption des techniques culturales sans labour (TCSL) sur l'état physique des sols : conséquences sur la protection contre l'érosion hydrique en milieu tempéré. Cah Agric 20 : 186-93. doi : 10.1684/ agr.2011. 0490 Tirés à part : J. Roger-Estrade d o i: 10.84/ag r.21. 0490 186 Cah Agric, vol. 20, n8 3, mai-juin 2011 Synthèse
Toxicogenic fungi and the occurrence of mycotoxins in traditional meat products

Article history: Received: March 19, 2019 Accepted: June 9, 2019 During ripening, the surface of dry traditional meat products (TMPs) becomes overgrown by fungi of the Penicillium spp. , Aspergillus spp. and Eurotium spp. whose spores mostly come from the environment in which the ripening chambers are placed. Certain fungi species is often responsible for the occurrence of toxic compounds termed the mycotoxins, among which of the outermost importance in connection with meat products are aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) and ochratoxin A (OTA). Besides, some other mycotoxins such as citrinin (CIT), cyclopiazonic acid (CPA) and sterigmatocystin (STC) can also be present, but their impact on the quality and safety of meat products, and therefore also on human health, has still not been fully clarified. As control and prevention of toxicogenic fungi growth are key factors to the prevention of mycotoxin presence in dry-cured TMPs, levels of mycotoxin contamination, mycotoxin-producing mould species and factors of relevance for mycotoxin production, such as climate, should be determined.
Internet – alapú, alacsonyköltségvetésű mobilrobot építése oktatási célokra

A dolgozat címében is megjelenő témát járjuk körül. A projekt, ahogy a cím is említi, egy költséghatékony, internet – alapú mobilrobot tervezése és elkészítése, mellyel könnyen valósíthatók meg a különböző mobil robotikai feladatok. Ezt tettük elsősorban oktatási célokra és későbbi továbbfejlesztés esetén akár etorobotikai kutatások elősegítésére. A tervezés során fontos volt a lehető legnagyobb mértékű univerzalitás, egyszerűség és az alacsony anyagi keret. Jelen dolgozat ezen projekt koncepciójának vázlata.
OAEM_A_201079 167..170

Dipartimento Della Donna, Del Bambino, Della Chirurgia Generale e Specialistica, Università Degli Studi Della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, IT 80138, Italy Abstract: Since its introduction in 1985 with Ciaglia, percutaneous tracheostomy (PT) was contraindicated in emergency settings and obesity. However, several case series in the last 20 years have documented the use of PT in life-threatening airway emergencies. We present a case of severe acute airway obstruction in a 66-year-old woman successfully treated with a placement of an awake PT. The woman’s glottic obstruction was caused by a recurrent laryngeal neoplasia and revealed by nasoendoscopy. This acute condition required a serious effort from the patient to oxygenate and therefore prevented orotracheal intubation as well as the use of any supraglottic device and/or sedation. Blood aspiration after a first attempt to make a quick access to the tracheal lumen with an emergency cricothyroidotomy, and difficulties in the exact identification of tumor infiltration, led us to perform an awake tracheostomy. Due to elevated risk of airway bleeding, we started with a surgical approach to better identify anatomical structures. After the correct inter-tracheal ring space identification, sudden worsening of clinical symptoms required that we complete the procedure quickly with the aid of a Ciaglia Blue RhinoTM-Cook (CBR) tracheostomy kit. At the tracheostomy tube placement, the patient quickly resolved her dyspnea and physiological breathing was restored.
New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences

Recently, morality and tolerance are among the most important concepts of education. The upbringing of morally mature children as tolerant individuals is a vital factor for individuals to develop a relationship. Moral maturity refers to the state of being competent in terms of moral emotion, thought, judgement, attitude and behaviour. A total of 43 boys and 151 girls from Altindag district of Ankara formed a sample group of 194 children. Personal Information Form, Moral Maturity Scale and Tolerance Tendency Scale were used in this study. The results revealed that according to the gender of the students, it is seen that there is a difference in tolerance acceptance, tolerance value and tolerance empathy levels. It is seen that girls’ acceptance and tolerance empathy levels are higher than boys. It is seen that there is a difference in tolerance empathy levels according to the educational level of parents. It is seen that there is a difference in tolerance empathy and tolerance acceptance levels according to the working status of parents of students. According to the monthly income level of students’ families, there was no significant difference between moral maturity, tolerance empathy, tolerance value and tolerance acceptance levels. This is thought to be due to the fact that most of the parents have a similar income level. According to the number of siblings of students, there was a significant difference in tolerance empathy and tolerance value levels. It was found that there was a relationship between students’ level of moral maturity and tolerance acceptance level. It was found that there is a relationship between tolerance empathy, tolerance acceptance level and tolerance value of students.
Agrotechnology for Snapshots Soil Health with Bacteria

Taxonomic structure of bacterial microbiome of sod-podzolic soil (Gatchina district of Leningrad region, Russia) with varying degrees of moisture were studied using pyrosequencing of 16sRNA gene. Proteobacteria were revealed mostly in drought conditions and may be used as indicator microorganisms. The fractal analysis of the data showed that the index of the biosystem determinism of the frequencies of soil microbial communities decreased with drought (from 0.73 to 0.65), since decreases the number of variations of taxonomic units, due to which a smaller number of biosystem groups were formed.
Methyl Red Indicator on Smart Packaging as a Freshness Sensor for Tilapia Fillets

This research aims to analyze the response of methyl red indicator film sensor label color changes on smart packaging in detecting the freshness of tilapia fillets over a shelf life of 10 hours at room temperature (± 25oC). This research uses a comparative descriptive method. The parameters observed were pH values, total plate count (TPC) and total volatile base nitrogen (TVBN). The results of this research indicate that the response of the film label consists of several concentrations of methyl red namely control (0%); 0.05%; 0.5% and 1%. The best results from film sensor label response is 0.05% Methyl red concentration in detecting the freshness of tilapia fillets and showed the most rapid response to changing the color of the label at the observation of the 7th hours during storage of 10 hours with 8 times the observation time. The freshness of tilapia fillets has decreased quality with changes in pH that tend to fluctuate ie the pH has decreased and then rose again as the color changes are indicated by the film label from yellow to reddish-orange. Total volatile base nitrogen (TVBN) and total plate count (TPC) during the observation showed a trend towards the same graph results, namely, the longer shelf life will increase the decrease in freshness quality of tilapia fillets with marked decay. Therefore, the freshness level of tilapia fillets can be determined by the smart packaging sensor methyl red indicator label at room temperature storage (± 25oC). Original Research Article Sariningsih et al.; AFSJ, 13(4): 1-9, 2019; Article no.AFSJ. 53371 2
The Influence of Debt Financing on Firms' Performance: A Study of Consumer Product Industryin Malaysia

This research investigates the influences of debt financing on firms’ performance in the consumer product industry in Malaysia. The firms’ performance is measured based on return on assets (ROA), while the independent variables examined were accounts payable (AP), short-term debt (STD), long-term debt (LTD), and firm size. The data for this research were collected from consumer product firms in Malaysia and listed by Bank Negara Malaysia. Fifteen years of data, from 2001 until 2015, were analyzed. The findings revealed a significant relationship between short term debt and long-term debt towards the performance of consumer product firms in Malaysia. However, an insignificant relationship was found between account payable and firm’s size towards the performance of consumer product firms in Malaysia. Nevertheless, other factors can be considered when measuring the performance of consumer product firms in Malaysia.
PROTECTIVE EFFECT OF EXTRACT OF VANDA TESSELLATA AGAINST CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA IN RATS

Ischemic hypoxic brain injury often causes irreversible brain damage. Lack of efficient and widely applicable pharmacological treatments for ischemic stroke has necessitated attention towards novel traditional medicines. Traditionally, the leaves of Vanda tessellata is used for various diseases, including blood and neuronal disorders. To evaluate the cerebroprotective effect of Petroleum ether extract of leaves of Vanda tessellata (PEVT) against the global model of ischemia in rats. In the present study, the animals were pre-treated with PEVT for a period of 1week (250 and 500 mg/kg) p.o. The animals were anaesthetized with thiopentone sodium (45mg/kg) and stroke was induced by Bilateral Carotid Artery Occlusion (BCAO) for defined period with aneurism clamps placed on both arteries and later (10 minutes) clamps were removed to allow reperfusion and animals were then returned to their cages. After 24 hours of reperfusion, the animal behaviors were evaluated by various methods such as behaviour pattern, Juvenile recognition, Motor activity, rotar rod test, Morris water maze test in stroke induced animals. The treatment was continued for another week after surgery with PEVT. The present studies suggest that, there was a decrease in the escape latency in water maze in stroke induced (negative control) group. The group treated with 250mg/kg and 500 mg/kg PEVT showed significant (P<0.01) improvement in the behaviour pattern, and spatial learning, which was confirmed in trial sessions in water maze test when compared with the negative control group. In conclusion, Petroleum ether extract of leaves of Vanda tessellata produced cerebroprotective effects in global cerebral ischemia as evident from reduction in behavioral score, hyper locomotion and neuronal damage.