Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Assessment of Denture Hygiene Knowledge, Attitude and Practice among under Graduate Students on Denture Wearers-A Cross Sectional Survey

Background: Maintenance of denture prosthesis is important for the health of patient . Denture hygiene education is given by the Undergraduate students at the time of the denture delivery, thus improving the standard of care for patient . In this study to establish the Undergraduate students view regarding the denture hygiene knowledge. Aim: Aim of the study was to assess the denture hygiene knowledge among the undergraduate students practicing denture prosthesis. Materials and methods: A total of 20 cross sectional survey. Questionnaire was distributed among 100 undergraduate students . Data were statistically analysed. Result:Questionnaire result showed that the age of participated undergraduate students range from 20-24 . This study conclude that 59% of undergraduate students agreed that explaining denture hygiene instruction to old patient is time consuming. Conclusion: This study concluded that the undergraduate students has limited awareness about denture hygiene knowledge
Cascade Programming for 10 kHz Spinal Cord Stimulation: A Single Center Case Series of 114 Patients With Neuropathic Back and Leg Pain

Ten kilohertz spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is usually initiated in a single‐bipolar configuration over the radiological reference point T9/T10 intervertebral disc space for neuropathic back and leg pain. Cascade is a duty‐cycled, multi‐bipolar contact configuration across an entire eight‐contact lead. Potential advantages by using a broader area of SCS coverage include mitigation against minor lead migration and a reduction in the need for reprogramming. We report here the results of a retrospective case series of 114 patients using Cascade.
The Roots of Peacemaking: The Dynamics of Citizenship in Israel, 1948–93

The Declaration of Prsinciples signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in September 1993 marked a dramatic about-face in Israel's traditional policy toward the PLO and the Palestinian issue in general. This turn of events came as a surprise not only to journalists and commentators following day-to-day political events, but also to scholars engaged in the academic study of Israeli society. The prevailing notion among these scholars had been that the Israeli polity was suffering from what Horowitz and Lissak (1989) called “overburden” due to domestic debates over the disposition of the occupied territories. Thus, it was concluded, Israel was unable to launch bold policy initiatives to try to solve its deadlocked conflict with the Arabs.
Wage cuts and health at birth : the adverse effects of in utero exposure to economic shocks

We investigate the effects that a major (25%) and unexpected wage cut austerity measure affecting the public sector employees in Romania in 2010 had on the health outcomes at birth. Our findings suggest that children in utero at the time of the austerity announcement had worse health outcomes at birth relative to their unaffected siblings. The most sensitive periods to in utero shocks are the first and the last trimesters of gestation. The main mechanism behind our results seems to be prenatal maternal stress. The negative outcomes at birth appear to have lasting scarring effects up to the age of four. JEL classification codes: I19, J13, J38, I38
Effective factors of addiction relapse among self-introducing addicts to drug addiction-quitting centers in Khuzestan Province , Iran ; 2015

It was aimed to determine the effective factors of addiction relapse in Khuzestan province. It was a cross-sectional descriptive and analytic study which has performed on 4,400 addicts from March, 2014 to March, 2015. All subjects have divided in two groups: with history of addiction relapse (Group I) and without history of addiction relapse (Group II). The structure questionnaire was completed in a self-filled manner after obtaining the consent form. Data has analyzed by SPSS v20. Mean and standard deviation were calculated for continuous variables and the frequency and percentage frequency were calculated for nominal and classified variables, and also t-test, chi-square and ANOWA were used to examine the relationships between the variables. The level of significance was set at 0.05. In the first group (addiction relapse), 2844 people (97.6%) of 4,400 participants in this study were male and 70 people (2.4%) were women and in the second group (going for addiction treatment for the first time), 1383 people (97.3%) were men and 39 people (2.7%) were women. The average age in the first group was significantly higher than it in the second group. In terms of marital status, in both groups, the most frequency, that was higher in the addiction relapse group, was for married people. In both groups, the majority of subject were workers and the frequency of unemployment in the addiction relapse group was higher. In the addiction relapse group, the average age of onset of drug consumption was lower. The highest relative frequency of consumables, in both groups, was opium and the consuming of synthetic drugs in addiction relapse group was higher. In both groups, smoking was the dominant mode of drug consumption and also in the addiction relapse group, the number of injections was reported more than it in the other group. Enjoyment and family problems were reported as the primary and secondary motivation of drug consumption respectively. In the first group, the frequency of family problems was higher. In terms of occupation (P=0.002), marital status (P˂0.001), average age (P˂0.001), and the average age of onset of drug consumption variable (P=0.03), no significant difference was observed between two groups. The results proved that individual, social, economic and psychological factors effect addiction relapse. Recognition of factors associated with addiction relapse can be very helpful to make appropriate decisions in planning and implementation of preventive and treatment programs.
Dialogue System for Restaurant Reservations using Hybrid Code Network

Current techniques for end-to-end learning of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are data-intensive and require thousands of dialogues to learn simple behaviors. However, Williams et. al (2017) introduced Hybrid Code Networks (HCNs) which combine an RNN with domainspecific knowledge encoded as software and action templates. Compared to existing end-to-end approaches, HCNs considerably reduce the amount of training data required, while retaining the key benefit of inferring a latent representation of dialogue state. In this project, we built upon the HCN model proposed by Bordes et al. (2016), and built a dialogue system for taking restaurant reservations.
Reflectance Model for Quantifying Chlorophyll- a in the Presence of Productivity Degradation Products

Marine colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) (also gilvin or yellow substance) absorbs light at an exponentially decreasing rate as a function of wavelength. From 410 nm to about 640 nm, particulate phytoplankton degradation products including pheopigments, detritus, and bacteria have absorption curves that are similar in shape to that of CDOM. In coastal areas and areas downstream from upwelling regions, these constituents of seawater often absorb much more light than do living phytoplankton, leading to errors in satellite-derived chlorophyll estimates as high as 133%. Proposed NASA sensors for the 1990s will have spectral channels as low as 412 nm, permitting the development of algorithms that can separate the absorption effects of CDOM and other phytoplankton degradation products from those due to biologically viable pigments. A reflectance model has been developed to estimate chlorophyll a concentrations in the presence of CDOM, pheopigments, detritus, and bacteria. Nomograms and lookup tables have been generated to describe the effects of different mixtures of chlorophyll a and these degradation products on the R(412) : R(443) and R(443) : R(565) remote-sensing reflectance or irradiance reflectance ratios. These are used to simulate the accuracy of potential ocean color satellite algorithms, assuming that atmospheric effects have been removed. For the California Current upwelling and offshore regions, with chlorophyll a ≤ 1.3 mg m−3, the average error for chlorophyll a retrievals derived from irradiance reflectance data for degradation product-rich areas was reduced from ±61% to ±23% by application of an algorithm using two reflectance ratios (R(412) : R(443) and R(443) : R(565)) rather than the commonly used algorithm applying a single reflectance ratio (R(443) : R(565)).
Towards an Analysis of Compositional Strategies

Citer cet article Delalande, F. (2007). Towards an Analysis of Compositional Strategies . Circuit, 17(1), 11–26. https://doi.org/10.7202/016771ar Résumé de l'article L’auteur s’intéresse à une analyse de l’acte même de composer, ou plus généralement d’inventer une musique, depuis l’étincelle initiale jusqu’à l’objet fini. L’étude est basée sur le projet « Germinal », une expérience de réalisation mettant en jeu les mêmes ressources du studio informatique 123 du GRM (Groupe de recherches musicales) à Paris avec quatorze compositeurs en 1985. Les réalisations ont toutes suivi un plan de travail commun en quatre étapes tout en empruntant, pour chaque étape, des stratégies très personnelles de composition. Décrire ces stratégies revient à rendre compte de l’histoire réelle non seulement des actes, mais aussi des attitudes et des décisions qui mènent d’un projet initial à un objet final. L’auteur étudie ensuite les quatre niveaux de critères qui président à la prise de décision : la qualité technique, la grammaticalité, l’idée musicale, le propos. Les deux premiers expriment la recherche de régularité alors que les deux derniers manifestent un souci de singularité. Ces niveaux déterminent des attitudes de travail face au son et aux machines — les attitudes poïétiques. De cette étude comparative se dégagent plusieurs stratégies, dont trois sont exposées. L’auteur développe enfin le concept de singularité, central dans les préoccupations des compositeurs, et qui constitue une sorte de défi à l’informatique et à l’analyse. 1
The Impact of Electronic Banking on the Profitability of Banks: A Case Study of Banks in Ghana

Electronic banking basically refers to performing banking functions or transactions using a smart technologically inclined device or the internet. Information Technology has recently influenced banking operations, transactions and service delivery. It has provided a channel through which banking is done in convenience, thereby, reducing customer queues in banking halls, administrative expenses and the complexities associated with traditional banking. However, the disadvantages of electronic banking are quite significant. They include unauthorized data access, data loss and fraudulent activities. Using the internet, banks display all relevant information regarding their products on their website which is easily accessible to customers. Through modern technology, branches are networked using terrestrial or satellite links such that customers can visit any branch of their bank to transact business and transfer funds both locally and internationally. This paper discusses e-banking, various definitions, examples, advantages and limitations, electronic banking in Ghana and its impact on the profitability of banks in the Ghanaian banking industry. From the study, e-banking adoption was a business strategy the bank used in response to customer needs and the changing marketing trends in the banking industry. Obviously, tremendous benefits such as revenue generation, improved productivity, efficient service delivery and cost savings accrue from e-banking. The lack of a solid technology infrastructure was identified as a major challenge of e-banking adoption in the country.
Neurotoxins and Autism

Recently, a great concern has risen about the increasing prevalence of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder. Environmental factors as significant contributors to children’s health through a wide range of routes are linked to remarkable increases in this disorder. It is well known and accepted that young children are more vulnerable to environmental toxins, compared to adults. Modern day lifestyles with more mercury and lead exposures, fast food, cell phones, and microwaves place children at higher risk of neurotoxicity. Moreover, a huge number of synthetic chemicals termed as high-productionvolume (HPV) chemicals are found in many products such as medications, cosmetics, building materials, plastic, and car fuels. These HPVs highly contribute to brain damage in developing infants. Other environmental toxins include thalidomide, valproic acid, misoprostol, and many infectious agents among which are pathogenic bacteria or their metabolites are found to be neurotoxic and/or linked to incidences of autism. This chapter summarizes the most important routes of exposure to environmental neurotoxins and explains how these toxins are related to the remarkable increase in the prevalence of autism through different etiological mechanisms such as oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, impaired neurochemistry and glutamate excitotoxicity.
GrainPlan; The Virtual Grain Store Manager

GrainPlan is an electronic grain store manager which is designed to help farmers manage storage data relating to grain quality and to improve their ability to respond to problems. This paper describes the process of the GrainPlan Project, the arrival at the final product and the reasons for its success, providing information about the technical and business processes involved with the implementation of this project. The paper will take an honest look at the problems as well as the successes, and how lessons learned can help shape the process for similar projects.
Boundedness in a parabolic‐elliptic chemotaxis system with nonlinear diffusion and sensitivity and logistic source

In this paper, we study the zero‐flux chemotaxis‐system ut=∇·((u+1)m−1∇u−u(u+1)α−1χ(v)∇v)+ku−μu2x∈Ω,t>0,0=Δv−v+ux∈Ω,t>0, where Ω is a bounded and smooth domain of Rn , n≥1, and where m∈R , k,μ>0 and α≤1. For any v≥0, the chemotactic sensitivity function is assumed to behave as the prototype χ(v)=χ0/(1+av)2, with a≥0 and χ0>0. We prove that for any nonnegative and sufficiently regular initial data u(x,0), the corresponding initial‐boundary value problem admits a unique global bounded classical solution if α<1; indeed, for α=1, the same conclusion is obtained provided μ is large enough. Finally, we illustrate the range of dynamics present within the chemotaxis system in 1, 2, and 3 dimensions by means of numerical simulations.
The impact of street network connectivity on pedestrian volume

This paper investigates the impact of street network connectivity on pedestrian volume. Street network connectivity measured in most current studies captures only the metric characteristics of streets or physical connectivity. A whole different type of connectivity, visual connectivity, is largely ignored. Described in basic terms, higher physical connectivity means shorter travel time to reach the same number of destinations while higher visual connectivity means fewer turns to see the same number of destinations. Despite the correlation of these two connectivity constructs, studying both physical and visual connectivity is essential to better understand the role of street network on pedestrian activity. Using pedestrian counts of 302 street segments in Buffalo, New York, structural equation modelling highlights the multiple relationships between street network connectivity, built environment characteristics, and pedestrian volumes. Our findings suggest that both the conventional metric-based measure of physical connectivity and geometric-based measure of visual connectivity have significant positive impacts on pedestrian volumes, together with job density and land use mix. This outcome can encourage practitioners to pay attention to both the geometry of street network and its metric characteristics in order to create a pedestrian-friendly environment.
Factors Affecting on Productivity of Oil and Gas Construction Projects: An AHP Analysis

The oil and gas construction sector is one of the main industries all over the world which plays a powerful role in economic growth of all countries inasmuch as accounts 5 to 10 percent of Gross national product (GNP) of countries. Over the last decade, by considering the huge amount of money spent in constructing these kinds of mega projects, the issue of identifying affecting factors and their roles on productivity has become main challenge for engaging teams in the process of execution. In spite of its importance, no extensive and comprehensive researches have been yet conducted to assess the effective factors in productivity of these projects. This paper presents several factors affecting the productivity in the oil and gas construction projects. The paper also provides a priority list of important factors affecting the productivity based on a survey conducted in a large oil zone. Respondents involved in employer organizations, construction managers and consultants, contractor teams and university lecturers. Finally, through Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) and paired comparison between the effective factors and categorized groups, the importance and the effect of these factors on productivity of oil and gas construction projects were obtained. The result of the analysis shows that management factors are most effective factors while project’s factors do not have significant effect on productivity.
IDENTIFICATION OF KEY DETERMINANTS TO JOB SATISFACTION THROUGH FACTOR ANALYSIS

The rationale of the paper is to study the effect that job based determinants have on job satisfaction among star category hotel employees. Data was collected from 500 hotel employees by questionnaire designed to elicit their attitudes to satisfaction and perceptions with respect to job based determinants. Exploratory factor analysis identified key factors to job based determinants (skill requirements, job etiquette and growth opportunities) The regression analysis revealed that growth opportunities have a greater impact on job satisfaction.
A time-of-flight system on a chip suitable for space instrumentation

A time-of-flight (TOF) system-on-a-chip (SoC) for precise time interval measurement at low power and high rate has been developed. A micro-channel plate (MCP) electron multiplier typically produces the start and stop of a radiation event to be processed. The TOF chip includes two Constant Fraction Discriminators (CFDs) and a Time to Digital Converter (TDC). The CFDs interface to start and stop anodes through two simple preamplifiers and perform the signal conditioning for time walk compensation. The TDC portion digitizes the time difference with reference to an external precise oscillator. A first version of the TOF chip developed in a 0.8 u CMOS process achieved /spl sim/350 ps total time resolution, including time walk and time jitter, with /spl sim/20 mW power consumption at a rate of /spl sim/100 K events/sec and /spl sim/30 mW @ 1Mevents/sec. This chip is part of the HENA instrument of the NASA/IMAGE mission launched in March 2000 and is baselined for many other missions including the Energetic Particle Sensor (EPS) of Messenger etc.
Modernism, an Ethical Challenge for Informatics Education

Informatics as subject taught in school underwent a number of changes. Trends in the computer market and technological changes often served as change drivers. Such external stimuli are rather unique among school subjects. Consequently, change processes follow different lines of argument than in classical schoolsubjects. The paper addresses these differences, considering them from the perspective of the subject and its variations, the subjects contribution to general educational aims, as well as from a meta-cognitive perspective concerning economic and social aspects.
Transport Properties of Polycrystalline Mixed Copper-Zinc Ferrites

Polycrystalline mixed Cu-Zn spinel ferrites with general formula Cu1-xZnxFe2O4 (x = 0.0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.5 and 0.7) have been prepared by solid-state reaction method. The effect of Zn2+ ions on transport properties such as DC and AC resistivity, dielectric constant and dielectric loss tangent has been presented in this paper. The resistivity increases with Zn content and decreases with frequency which have been explained by Verway's hopping mechanism. Decrease of DC electrical resistivity with increasing temperature has been observed and activation energy has been found to increase with increasing Zn content. The dielectric constant is found to decrease with increasing Zn content as well as increasing of frequency has been explained on the basis of space charge polarization. In this communication, an attempt has been made to explain the conduction mechanism of Cu-Zn ferrites on the basis of electronic hopping frequency between Fe2+ and Fe3+ ions.
Course of Violence in Patients With Schizophrenia : Relationship to Clinical Symptoms

To understand the heterogeneity of violent behaviors in patients with schizophrenia, one must consider underlying clinical symptoms of the illness and their change over time. The purpose of this study was to examine persistence and resolution of violence in relation to psychotic symptoms, ward behaviors, and neurological impairment. Psychiatric symptoms and ward behaviors were assessed in violent inpatients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and in nonviolent controls on entry into the study. Patients were followed for 4 weeks; those who showed resolution of assaults over this time were classified as transiently violent, and those who remained assaultive were categorized as persistently violent. At the end of the 4 weeks, psychiatric symptoms, ward behaviors, and neurological impairment were assessed. Overall, the two violent groups presented with more severe psychiatric symptoms and were judged to be more irritable than the nonviolent control subjects, but the transiently violent patients showed improvement in symptoms over time. At the end of 4 weeks, the persistently violent patients had evidence of more severe neurological impairment, hostility, suspiciousness, and irritability than the other two groups. Canonical discriminant analyses identified two significant dimensions differentiated the groups. The first, characterized by positive psychotic symptoms, differentiated the violent patients from the controLsubjects;_the second,xharacterized by neurological impairment and high endpoint score for negative symptoms, differentiated the transiently from the persistently violent patients. Identification of certain symptoms associated with different forms of violence has important implications for the prediction and differential treatment of violent behavior in patients with schizophrenia.
Money, Lending and Spending: A Study of the UK Non-Financial Corporate Sector and Households

Many empirical studies over the past three decades or so have reported estimates of the determinants of consumption, investment and the demand for money. This article summarizes recent Bank work that seeks to understand more fully the demand for bank and building society loans, and the interactions between these borrowings and the demand for money and decisions to consume and invest. This work aims to enhance our understanding of the links between the monetary sector and real spending decisions.