Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Severidade e prognóstico no acidente vascular encefálico: revisão scoping

Introducao: O Acidente Vascular Encefalico (AVE) tem vindo a apresentar uma taxa de incidencia estavel e um consideravel declinio na taxa de mortalidade, o que corresponde a um aumento na prevalencia de sobreviventes. O conhecimento das alteracoes funcionais que podem surgir apos o AVE, da sua severidade e das estrategias disponiveis para avaliar a disfuncao, facilita a construcao de um plano de reabilitacao, com objetivos para os profissionais de saude, para os individuos e para a familia dentro do potencial de recuperacao. A severidade surge, como um conceito abrangente associado a presenca de defices neurologicos, motores ou funcionais e as alteracoes das atividades da vida diaria. Alteracoes neurologicas, motoras ou funcionais mais severas fazem prever uma recuperacao mais dificil e mais prolongada. A determinacao do prognostico em individuos com AVE engloba nao so o risco de morte a curto prazo como tambem a probabilidade de recuperar a funcao a longo prazo. Objetivo: Avaliar o panorama acerca da informacao existente sobre o nivel de severidade e prognostico em AVE’s. Metodos: A Revisao Scoping baseou-se na metodologia de Arksey & O’Malley (2005), sendo constituida por seis passos: 1) Identificacao da questao; 2) Identificacao da literatura relevante; 3) Selecao da literatura; 4) Mapeamento dos dados; 5) Recolha, sumario e transcricao dos resultados; 6) Consultoria (opcional). Resultados: Foram analisados 47 estudos observacionais. 95% dos autores referem-se a severidade como sendo a quantidade de defices neurologicos apresentados pelos individuos apos o AVE e avaliam-na atraves de instrumentos de medida especificos para a avaliacao de defices neurologicos (76% dos autores utilizaram a NIHSS na sua metodologia). O prognostico no AVE surge associado a funcionalidade alcancada (89%); probabilidade/indice de mortalidade (54%); e encaminhamento apos a alta (15%). O prognostico pode ser influenciado por fatores sociodemograficos, fatores clinicos e por algumas comorbilidades, entre outros. Conclusao: Os estudos de severidade e prognostico em AVE’s poderao nao refletir a condicao real do individuo e induzir em erro a aplicacao destes conceitos na pratica clinica, influenciando o prognostico esperado.
Representações sobre a aplicação de online dating Tinder nos media. Uma análise longitudinal da imprensa escrita Portuguesa entre 2012 - 2017

This article presents the results of a study which the purpose was analyzing and understanding the attention and framing, given by the media, to the topic of online dating through the app Tinder, between 2012 and 2017, in three Portuguese newspapers – Correio da Manha, Diario de Noticias and Observador. The analysis mobilized quantitative techniques, through the collection of bibliographic variables, and qualitative techniques through the content analysis of articles that approached the theme. Concerning agenda setting, the results indicate a limited number of exclusive pieces about the app or their users, most of which arises as a reference or about differences in relationships of different epochs. In terms of framing, is conditioned by the editorial line quite present in the analyzed articles.
The Status of Textile-Based Dry EEG Electrodes

Abstract Electroencephalogram (EEG) is the biopotential recording of electrical signals generated by brain activity. It is useful for monitoring sleep quality and alertness, clinical applications, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with epilepsy, disease of Parkinson and other neurological disorders, as well as continuous monitoring of tiredness/alertness in the field. We provide a review of textile-based EEG. Most of the developed textile-based EEGs remain on shelves only as published research results due to a limitation of flexibility, stickability, and washability, although the respective authors of the works reported that signals were obtained comparable to standard EEG. In addition, nearly all published works were not quantitatively compared and contrasted with conventional wet electrodes to prove feasibility for the actual application. This scenario would probably continue to give a publication credit, but does not add to the growth of the specific field, unless otherwise new integration approaches and new conductive polymer composites are evolved to make the application of textile-based EEG happen for bio-potential monitoring.
Assessment of Gd2O3 nanoparticles as exogenous imaging contrast agent for swept source optical coherence tomography

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive and non-contact imaging technique that uses the reflection of light waves for tissue imaging. Compared to all other OCT variants, the swept-source OCT (SS-OCT) configuration offers higher imaging speed, better signal-to-noise ratio, and more resolution. Despite its numerous advantages, SS-OCT greatly suffers from limited contrast and reduced penetration ability. Over the years, several nanoparticles (NPs) like AgNP, TiO2, ZnO, etc have been exploited extensively as exogenous contrast agents to enhance the image contrast. Subsequently, herein, we have presented gadolinium oxide (Gd2O3) as a potential exogenous contrast agent for 3D non-invasive depth-resolved imaging of animal (chicken breast) tissue using an in-house developed SS-OCT system with centre wavelength of 1060 nm. In this work, OCT imaging of agar filled capillary tubes (phantoms) and chicken breast tissue (in vitro) was performed both with and without the application of Gd2O3 NPs. Scattering coefficient and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) calculations were done to study the effect of Gd2O3 NPs on the tissue sample at different time exposures. Post analysing the OCT images, a significant increase, in contrast, observed with time, where both the scattering coefficient (0.4879 mm−1 to 1.3782 mm−1) and the CNR of OCT B-scans (12.42 dB to 42.21 dB) increased substantially.
PEG‐IFN‐α‐2a therapy in patients with myelofibrosis

and a ratio of 0Æ0177% at quantitative RT-PCR. As regard to B-CLL, the peripheral blood flow-cytometric analysis revealed that the percentage of clonal lymphocytes had dropped from 80% to 8% (absolute count: from 8Æ33 to 0Æ33 · 10/l), while FISH analysis showed trisomy 12 in 7% of the 300 nuclei examined. No peripheral lymphadenopathies were detected by physical examination. Abdominal ultrasound showed the reduction of splenomegaly (13 cm diameter) and the complete disappearance of the retroperitoneal lymphadenopathies. Our clinical observation, carried out on a rare case of B-CLL associated with CML, follows the few previously reported experiences on the successful use of dasatinib in B-CLL (Pitini et al, 2009). Although in vitro dasatinib appeared to be effective mainly in cases of unmutated B-CLL (Veldurthy et al, 2008) at concentrations difficult to attain in vivo (Amrein et al, 2008), our experience suggests that it can be active also in a IGHVmutated ZAP-70 negative case, at the usual dose. Obviously, the effectiveness of dasatinib in the treatment of patients affected by B-CLL needs to be exploited in prospective studies.
Consumo de alimento balanceado en reemplazos de lechería desde el nacimiento hasta las 8 semanas de edad.

Las terneras nacen con un rumen sin desarrollarse física y metabólicamente, lo que las clasifica como pre-rumiantes que dependen de la leche para obtener los nutrientes necesarios para crecer. Estimular el consumo de materia seca se convierte por lo tanto en una parte vital en la alimentación de terneras con el fin de llenar sus requerimientos de crecimiento y a la vez estimular el desarrollo del rumen desde temprano y así convertirse en un rumiante funcional. El consumo adecuado de materia seca es el principal objetivo de cualquier programa de alimentación ya que de este depende que los animales adquieran los nutrientes necesarios para desarrollar su potencial productivo, por lo que es importante conocer la concentración de energía de la dieta, la digestibilidad de la ración, palatabilidad, procesamiento, ambiente y consumo de agua, con el fin de estimular el consumo en los animales. Debido a que en Costa Rica existen pocas referencias de los niveles de consumo o ganancia de peso diarios para los animales en la etapa pre-destete, este trabajo pretende analizar algunas de las investigaciones realizadas en los últimos años con el fin de determinar el consumo de alimento en la etapa de predeste. Después de analizar cinco estudios en condiciones similares se encontraron variaciones en el consumo de alimento balanceado a la semana ocho, donde osciló entre 527 y 1017 g, con ganancias de peso que variaron desde los 513 hasta los 714 g/d. Las variaciones en los consumos se pueden deber a algunas diferencias en el desarrollo de las investigaciones, factores raza o la variabilidad entre individuos por lo que es necesario desarrollar más investigaciones para lograr establecer datos de referencia bajo las condiciones del país.
Effects of Butter and Cheese on Memory and Learning in Rats

Background and Objectives: Nutrition affects physical status, brain function, memory and learning. High-fat diets can cause memory impairment. The aim of this study was to investigate effects of cheese and butter on the memory and learning of male rats. Materials and Methods: Totally, 24 Wistar male rats (8-week old) were divided into three equal groups and fed with high-fat chow diets (control group) or two experimental diets of butter and cheese for 12 weeks. Then, spatial memory and passive avoidance learning (PAL) were assessed using Morris water maze test and shuttle-box apparatus, respectively. Results: In PAL test, step-through latencies in retention (STLr) test and time spent in the dark compartment (TDC) were significantly different between the groups. The step-through latencies in retention scores of the butter group were significantly lower than that of the control and cheese groups. However, dark compartment of the butter group was significantly greater than that of the control and cheese groups. In Morris water maze test, no significant differences were seen in escape latency, travelled distance and mean swimming speed of the various groups. During the probe trial, the butter groups spent significantly less time in the target quadrant than that the control and cheese groups did. Conclusions: In general, cheese includes further favourable effects on spatial memory and PAL, compared to that butter
People's Knowledge on Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

Background: The incidence rate of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) in Indonesia has increased year by year, from 0.05/100,000 in 1968 become 35-40/100,000 in 2013. It indicated that Indonesia still being an endemic country for DHF. The efforts to prevent DHF are closely related to people’s knowledge of DHF. Objective: This research aimed to ascertain the knowledge of people in Sleman District, Yogyakarta Special Province regarding Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF). Method: A cross sectional study was conducted to assess the knowledge of people at Mlati, Kalasan, Gamping, and Godean sub districts in Sleman District, Yogyakarta Special Province. Total respondents was 795 people. Knowledge of dengue was assessed by questionnaire. Result: There were no adequate knowledge of community about the DHF infection transmission (could be transmitted through blood 64.91 %;), the mosquito’s life cycle (74.84%) and biting behavior (50.69%), DHF infection symptoms (similar with influenza 44.15%), and DHF infection prevention (about vaccine 54.09%) and treatment (about Paracetamol used 57.86%). Conclusion: The average of knowledge on dengue prevention was 78.90%, may reflect of moderate level of knowledge. The community in Sleman District still need education about DHF prevention, treatment and transmission.
Forced-alignment of the sung acoustic signal using deep neural nets

Sung speech shows significant acoustic differences from normal speech, both careful and spontaneous speech. To analyse and better understand why sung speech presents a unique challenge for tools such as forced aligners and automatic transcribers, we trained a deep neural network to extract phone-level information from a sung acoustic signal. The current best network takes as input raw audio from a singer and outputs time-aligned phoneme labels that predict the phoneme that the singer is producing at ten millisecond increments. We use audio data from the Folkways collection, as maintained by the University of Alberta Sound Studies Institute. The data consists of several folk songs, mostly sung acapella by a few individual singers. Before being used as training or testing data, each song was aligned by hand, sectioning off each individual phoneme that appears and setting the start and endpoint. The data is also cut into twenty-five millisecond frames spaced ten milliseconds apart. Each will receive a label from the network, which will be compared with the label given by the transcription in order to evaluate the network’s performance. To further increase the amount of training data, all of the data was duplicated and noise was added to them. The performance of the network is evaluated automatically during training by comparing the output label that the network chose for a given frame to the label assigned to that frame by the human transcriber. After all of the frames have been evaluated, the network is assigned an accuracy score that reflects how many labels it assigned correctly. By this method, we found that the acoustic differences between speech and sung speech are significantly different enough that the tasks require separate acoustic models. However, using training data from both genres increased the accuracy of the overall model.
Fixed-Time Active Disturbance Rejection Control and Its Application to Wheeled Mobile Robots

This article is concerned with the fixed-time active disturbance rejection control approach for nonlinear systems subject to uncertainties and disturbances. First, a new type of extended state observer (ESO) which can attain fixed-time convergence is established to estimate the states and the total disturbance. Then a fixed-time controller based on the above ESO is developed to achieve high precision control performance. Finally, the proposed method is utilized for the wheeled mobile robot where the experiment validates the effectiveness of the theoretical results.
Development a New Technique Based on Least Square Method to Synthesize the Pattern of Equally Space Linear Arrays

Using the sampled data of a desired pattern is a common technique in pattern synthesizing of array factor (AF) of antenna arrays. Based on the obtained data matrix, Least Square Method (LSM) is used to calculate the exciting coefficient of array elements. The most important parameter, which involves the accuracy and complexity of calculation, is the sampling rate of the desired pattern. Classical Least Square Method (CLSM) uses a linear combination of the samples, which provides low accuracy. In this paper, a new method is proposed by introducing a correction factor (CF) to increase the accuracy of the pattern estimation, while the design complexity is not increased basically. A normalized error between the desired and estimated pattern is considered and its variation versus CF is investigated. It is shown that for an optimum value of correction factor, CFopt, the defined error is minimum. The proposed method is examined for a few well-known arrays and the obtained results are reported and compared with those of classical LSM. It is shown that the introduced method accurately estimates the required pattern of array factors of equally spaced linear arrays (EALAs).
A trends of Salmonella and antibiotic resistance

Salmonellosis has become a major problem in developed and developing countries. It also represents an important public health concern worldwide. As such, due to intense interest Salmonella research has gained great concern from scientific communities as well as the general public. The purpose of this review is to discuss the historical perspective, classification and nomenclature, antibiotic and antimicrobial definition, mechanism of antibiotic resistance, integrons and antibiotic resistance Salmonella.
Making Every Study Count: Learning From Replication Failure to Improve Intervention Research

Why, when so many educational interventions demonstrate positive impact in tightly controlled efficacy trials, are null results common in follow-up effectiveness trials? Using case studies from literacy, this article suggests that replication failure can surface hidden moderators—contextual differences between an efficacy and an effectiveness trial—and generate new hypotheses and questions to guide future research. First, replication failure can reveal systemic barriers to program implementation. Second, it can highlight for whom and in what contexts a program theory of change works best. Third, it suggests that a fidelity first and adaptation second model of program implementation can enhance the effectiveness of evidence-based interventions and improve student outcomes. Ultimately, researchers can make every study count by learning from both replication success and failure to improve the rigor, relevance, and reproducibility of intervention research.
Chronische, nicht dialysepflichtige Niereninsuffizienz

Zusammenfassung Patienten mit chronischer Niereninsuffizienz (CNI) haben ein hohes kardiovaskuläres Risiko. Gleichzeitig weist der arterielle Hypertonus eine hohe Prävalenz in diesem Kollektiv auf. Entsprechend der vorhandenen Evidenz profitieren die Patienten mit CNI von einer Blutdruckeinstellung. Insbesondere bei albuminurischen Patienten sollten RAAS-Blocker die Medikamente der ersten Wahl sein. Aufgrund des meist höheren Alters und vorhandener Komorbiditäten sind diese Patienten unter der antihypertensiven Therapie strenger hinsichtlich der Nebenwirkungen wie akutes Nierenversagen, Elektrolytstörungen, Orthostase und Synkopen zu überwachen.
Bank stress tests: implications on accounting discretion,transparency and market discipline

Since 2009, regulators worldwide have conducted large-scale stress tests to reveal systemically important banks’ soundness to financial markets. Regulators aim to enforce market discipline that penalises excessive risk-taking and requires banks to operate more responsibly leading to financial stability. In this thesis, I contribute to this current debate by empirically analysing the implications of bank stress tests on three important aspects, namely accounting discretion, transparency and market discipline. First, based on a unique accounting dataset of stress-tested and untested European banks, I reveal that the accounting information of stress-tested banks is affected by stress tests. In particular, stress tests incentivise bank managers to exercise accounting discretion over loan loss provisions to manage both capital and earnings. The results suggest that stress tests exacerbate discretionary behaviour with the purpose of passing stress tests and conveying a sound picture of the bank’s financial condition to regulators and market participants. Second, examining a unique textual dataset of stress-tested European banks, I find that stress tests incentivise banks to enrich their textual narratives utilising certain stress test terms that I call ‘stress test sentiment’. This effect may specifically apply to newly than regularly stress-tested banks. Importantly, banks seem to compensate an increased stress test sentiment using a more positive disclosure tone; this may obfuscate market players, as market measures indicate lower information asymmetry and more analyst coverage. Third, based on a dataset of European and U.S. stress-tested banks, I show that stress tests do promote market discipline in both positive and negative directions as well as in short- and long-term event windows. In Europe, bank fundamentals are improved in terms of reduced bank risk-taking and funding structure, whilst the U.S. results are inconclusive. However, stress tests also tend to exacerbate negative performance of weaker institutions, due to market discipline, which could unintentionally compromise financial stability. In summary, this thesis provides novel results on stress tests that might be of interest to policymakers and regulators. I conclude that stress tests are an important addition that increases regulatory awareness and can enhance financial stability. However, I also show that stress tests may lead to unintended drawbacks on bank accounting practice and market discipline. Therefore, stress tests must be paired with a carefully executed disclosure policy to be a more effective regulatory tool.
Attitudes Towards Care of Dying Patients Among Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Pre-Licensure Nursing Students at a Christian University While Controlling for Religiosity

3 List of Tables . 8 List of Figures . 9 List of Abbreviations . 10 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION . 11 Overview . 11 Background . 11 Religious Attitudes towards Death and Christianity . 14 Nurses’ Attitudes towards Care of Dying . 15 Background Summary . 18 Problem Statement . 18 Purpose Statement . 19 Significance of the Study . 19 Research Question . 20 Null Hypothesis . 20 Definitions. 21 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW . 23 Overview . 23 Theoretical Framework . 25 Nursing Role Effectiveness Model . 25 Dreyfus Skills Acquisition Model . 27 Empirical Evidence . 28
GreenMaps: a Tool for Addressing the Wallacean Shortfall in the Global Distribution of Plants

The exponential growth of species occurrence data can facilitate dynamic biodiversity analyses. However, raw biodiversity data alone should not be used indiscriminately due to inherent sampling biases, impediments that contribute to Wallacean shortfall (i.e. the paucity of species’ geographic information). It has been suggested that Wallacean shortfall is a common phenomenon across taxa, however, there is no global assessment geared toward overcoming this impediment for plants, despite the fundamental role of plants in ecosystem stability, food security and biodiversity conservation. Here, I present GreenMaps, a new tool that will permit a rapid initial assessment of the Wallacean shortfall for plants by building base maps of species’ predicted distributions upon which citizen science participation could contribute to spatial validation of the actual range occupied by species. The initial stages of GreenMaps have now been accomplished, providing a massive dataset of modeled range maps for over 194,000 vascular plant species. This will make it the largest and only global assessment of geographic distributions for plant species at scales relevant to research and conservation. Ultimately, GreenMaps will interface with a mobile application to enable volunteers from any region of the world to validate predicted species distributions to be used for the generation of new and improved global map of plant distributions.
A NACIONALIZAÇÃO DOS PARTIDOS E DO SISTEMA PARTIDÁRIO BRASILEIRO

Qual o nível de nacionalização dos partidos políticos e do sistema partidário brasileiro? Neste trabalho utilizamos a medida de Jones e Mainwaring (2003) para avaliar o grau em que o apoio eleitoral dos partidos políticos é homogêneo entre as unidades federativas estaduais. Para isso utilizados dados das disputas eleitorais para a Câmara dos Deputados entre 1998 e 2014 disponibilizados pelo Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE). Metodologicamente, calculamos o índice de nacionalização baseado na distribuição dos votos dos partidos por UF e descrevemos os dados com base em técnicas de estatística descritiva e ferramentas gráficas. Os resultados deste trabalho indicam que o sistema partidário brasileiro parece estruturar-se entre os três maiores partidos com representação na Câmara dos Deputados Federal: PMDB, PT e PSDB. Contudo, isso não significa que esses partidos sejam grandes em todas as unidades da federação.