Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Clinical Features, and Outcome of Adult Patients With Severe Pandemic A/H1N1/2009 Influenza in Qatar: A Retrospective Study

ObjectiveThe aim of this research was to study the epidemiology, risk factors, clinical manifestations, and outcome of adults with severe pandemic A/H1N1/2009 influenza in Qatar.The records of all polymerase chain reaction-proven cases of adults with severe pandemic A/H1N1/2009 who were admitted to the intensive care units at the Hamad General Hospital in Qatar between July 2009 and January 2011 were reviewed. ResultsDuring the 19-month study period, 40 adult patients with polymerase chain reaction-proven severe pandemic A/H1N1/2009 influenza were admitted to the intensive care unit at the Hamad General Hospital in Qatar. Qataris and those from the Indian subcontinent accounted for most patients, accounting for 52.5% and 32.5%, respectively. In addition, 82.5% of the patients had one or more risk factors, with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and obesity being the most common. Fever, cough, and shortness of breath were the most common presenting symptoms, with a mean duration of symptoms of 4.3 days. Respiratory failure and septic shock were the most common reasons for intensive care unit admission. Laboratory abnormalities such as anemia, leukopenia, theombocytopenia, and elevated serum creatinine level and transaminases were common at presentation. Chest radiograph abnormalities were seen in most patients (95%), with bilateral involvement in most of them. Treatment with oseltamivir was given to all except one. Sixty percent of the patients needed ventilatory support. Complications developed in 37.5%, with renal failure being the most common. Seventy-five percent of the patients survived. Factors associated with increased risk of death included smoking, high Acute Physiology and Chronic Heath Evaluation II at presentation, and delay in initiation of oseltamivir therapy. ConclusionsMost adult patients admitted with severe pandemic A/H1N1/2009 have one or more risk factors that increase their potential for a severe disease. Clinical features and laboratory finding are nonspecific and are similar to those reported by others, as well as hospital mortality. Being a smoker or having a high Acute Physiology and Chronic Heath Evaluation II score at admission increases the risk of death due to disease. Starting antiviral therapy as early as possible also increases the chance of survival.
OPTIMIZATION OF MAGNETIC COUPLED RESONATOR STRUCTURE USED IN WIRELES ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY TRANSFER

This paper presents a procedure for wireless power transfer system (WPTS) to optimize the structure of the two magnetic coupled coils (inductance) used in the wireless electromagnetic energy transfer (WEET). The optimization of the two magnetic coupled coils is performed in function of their parameter values, for different structures of the two coils. Using the ANSYS Extractor Q3D Program we have been computed the C, L, R, and G matrices, for different configurations, structures and frequencies of the two coils. For each structure, we keep the same relative position between the two coils, the same turn number, the same geometrical dimension of the conductors and the same conductor materials. Finally, comparing the obtained results we can select the optimal solution.
Biological Repair of Knee Injuries in Soccer Players

Biology and tissue engineering jointly help in the diagnosis and treatment of several pathologies. Understanding tissue repair which occurs through a complex cascade of biological processes in which cytokines and growth factors are involved locally. The use of biology is of vital importance to decrease repair-recovery time. Within biological therapies are growth factors. There are recombinant factors or autologous growth factors. There are investigations in several medical specialities such as maxillofacial, plastic surgery, orthopedics, and sports medicine; the research is at basic level, animal studies and human clinical application. The therapeutic potential of platelets in promoting and accelerating wound healing and tissue repair is being discovered and explored. There are several growth factors such as platelet-derived growth factor, transforming growth factor-β, vascular endothelial growth factor, fibroblast growth factor, epidermal growth factor, endothelial cell growth factor, and insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I and IGF-II). The relation between growth factors and IGF-I will be explained. The study shows different growth factor clinical application options. The application could be in tendons, cruciate ligaments, medial collateral ligaments, cartilage injuries, muscle injuries, and fractures. It seems that the use of growth factors in surgical procedures give rapid wound healing, facilitating healing and repairing.
The Relation between Motivation, Job Satisfaction and Task Performance: Kovach s Ten Factor Model

Employees do not have much motivation to work in the hospitality industry. Understanding hotel employees’ motivations has become a useful area of research in the industry. The first aim of the study is to define what the motivational factor that is most important to hotel employees. The second aim is to find out the relation between motivational factors, job satisfaction and task performance. The result based on the data from 161 respondents. Using Kovach’s model, this study found that the most important ranked motivational factor is “good wages”. “interesting work” and “feeling of being in on things” are related with job satisfaction. “Tactful discipline”, “job security”, “feeling of being in on things”, “opportunities for advancement and development”, “personal loyalty to employees” and “appreciation for accomplishments” are related with task performance.
Teacher Training in Austria with special consideration of Mentoring in the induction phase

teacher training courses are currently being restructured not only in austria but throughout Europe. This involves a qualitative and a quantitative expansion of practical school studies. in austria, in addition to practical school experience during training, an induction phase is to take place after completion of studies, in which young teachers are accompanied by a mentor. mentoring in the induction phase as support for career entry offers many opportunities, but also requires careful implementation. This article points out possible challenges and theoretical approaches.
PREVENTIVE METHODS OF METABOLIC IMBALANCES IN BOVINE - HYPOCALCEMIA AND KETOSIS: LITERATURE REVIEW

RESUMO: Com a intensificação da produção, os distúrbios metabólicos estão cada vez mais frequentes, e a presença destes distúrbios agrega custos á produção, além de comprometer a lactação atual destes animais. A ocorrência de tais distúrbios pode ser evitada, se durante o pré-parto forem adotados manejos nutricionais visando à prevenção destas enfermidades. A hipocalcemia e a cetose estão entre os distúrbios metabólicos de maior ocorrência em rebanhos de alta produção, devido ao intenso requerimento nutricional, oscilações hormonais e severo balanço energético negativo, portanto, é importante conhecer como estas enfermidades ocorrem, para que sejam adotados no pré-parto medidas adequadas, como manejo alimentar, adequação da condição corporal e utilização de dietas aniônicas, objetivando à prevenção das mesmas.
How does interpreting experience enhance working memory and short-term memory: A meta-analysis

ABSTRACT The language task of interpreting is demanding in memory, and interpreters are assumed to be better in short-term memory (STM) and working memory (WM) than matched bilingual controls. However, apart from consistent evidence supporting such an interpreter advantage in updating, there is no consensus in the literature regarding the existence of an interpreter advantage in memory spans. To solve the issue, the present meta-analysis synthesised 45 effect sizes from 10 primary studies, and found evidence supporting an interpreter advantage in both WM and STM spans. Such an advantage was more expressed in verbal memory tasks than in numerical/letter and spatial tasks, although the moderating effect was not statistically significant. Moreover, the level of interpreter expertise significantly moderated the presence of such an advantage, with no advantage for beginner interpreters and no difference in the advantage between intermediate and expert interpreters. Implications for interpreting training and bilingual advantages are discussed.
Engaging customers through credible and useful reviews: the role of online trust

Purpose Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is growing rapidly and the e-retailers are finding it pertinent to enhance customers’ online shopping experiences and engage them with e-commerce portals. Against this backdrop, the purpose of this study is to develop a conceptual model of customer engagement, where credibility and usefulness of online reviews are found to trigger the adoption of reviews and customer trust that augments customer engagement. Design/methodology/approach A survey method design has been used to capture responses from 219 young customers (university students) of a reputed university in India. The hypothesized relationships have been examined through multiple regression analysis. Findings The findings of this study corroborate that the credibility and information usefulness of online reviews induce the adoption of reviews and propensity to trust e-commerce websites. The propensity to trust the reviews has been found to lead the adoption of reviews. The adoption of reviews is found to have a significant impact on the customer’ engagement with these portals. Research limitations/implications The present study contributes to the theories of online marketing in the space of e-shopping, online reviews, customer trust, customer engagement and online shopping behavior. Further, this study provides a framework for managers to engage customers by triggering customers’ online trust through the facilitation of credible and useful reviews. Originality/value The study aims at understanding the role of different attributes associated with the online reviews’ credibility and information usefulness in driving customer engagement with specific focus on online shopping through the utility of online devices. The study is one of the pioneering empirical studies that explore the role of online reviews in driving customer engagement.
Short Review Soy isoflavones and their bone protective effects

Several observational studies have suggested that populations with a high dietary soy intake have a lower in- cidence of osteoporosis-related fractures when compared to Western populations. However, there has not been consist- ent data to show that soy isoflavones protect against or lessen bone loss. Studies in our laboratory showed that genistein, the major soy isoflavone, could stimulate osteoblastic functions as well as human breast cancer cell growth. These studies raised the concern of whether it would be safe for women who have a prior history of breast cancer to consume soy isoflavone for management of postmenopausal osteoporosis. As increasing the purity of genistein is known to increase its ability to in- duce human breast cancer cell growth, current effort in our laboratory is to determine if the in vivo bone protective effects will be affected by the complexity of the soy isoflavones ex - tract in ovariectomized mice.
Étude des réactions comportementales des chiens en médiation animale auprès de personnes âgées en maison de repos

Étude des réactions comportementales des chiens en médiation animale auprès de personnes âgées en maison de repos Guignard Audrey Master 2 Biologie des Organismes et Écologie à finalité approfondie Promotrices : Claire Diederich et Fany Brotcorne Les Interventions Assistées par l’Animal (AAI) en maison de repos sont des activités qui fleurissent depuis maintenant de nombreuses années en Europe. De nombreuses études ont démontré l’impact positif de ces médiations animales sur la santé physique et morale des patients qui y participaient. A l’inverse, très peu de recherches ont été menées pour déterminer l’impact de ces interventions régulières sur le bien-être des animaux médiateurs. L’objectif de cette étude était de mesurer le niveau de stress (via des indicateurs comportementaux) des chiens médiateurs dans les maisons de repos. L’approche consistait à comparer les comportements des chiens lors de ces animations avec une situation contrôle, et de tester l’influence d’autres facteurs tels que les caractéristiques individuelles du chien et le type d’animation. Nous avons filmé 18 chiens entre février et juillet 2019 durant deux animations (condition test, deux réplicas) et une situation contrôle. Les enregistrements vidéo ont été dépouillés par le même observateur à l’aide du logiciel Boris afin de quantifier les taux des comportements indicateurs de stress, d’affiliation, d’apaisement et le niveau d’activité des chiens. Un questionnaire de personnalité (C-BARQ), a été rempli par les propriétaires (n= 17) afin de déterminer les profils de personnalité des chiens. Les résultats des GLMMs ont montré que les animations de médiation avaient un impact négatif sur le bien-être des chiens (β = 0,31 ; p < 0,05) : les comportements de stress étaient plus fréquents qu’en situation contrôle. D’autres facteurs jouaient également un rôle dans cette population : les jeunes chiens (β = -1,08 ; p < 0,01), femelles (β = -0,752 ; p < 0,05), et de petite taille (β = -1,29 ; p-value < 0,05) manifestaient moins de comportements de stress en situation test, résultats en contradiction avec d’autres études. Malgré cette hausse des comportements de stress, leur fréquence reste cependant faible et l’impact sur le bien-être peut probablement être considéré comme négligeable. Ces résultats sont préliminaires et à interpréter avec précaution à cause du faible effectif de chiens étudiés et de l’approche comportementale du protocole. Ces résultats devraient être comparés avec d’autres indicateurs de stress tels que des données physiologiques (taux de cortisol, fréquence cardiaque, état de santé du chien). Mots-clés : Canis lupus familiaris ; Intervention-Assistée par l’Animal ; Interaction hommeanimal ; Comportement ; C-BARQ
Modalité gestuelle et enseignement/ apprentissage du français à l'école primaire

RÉSUMÉ. Se préoccuper de l'agir enseignant nécessite forcément l'analyse de son discours, de ses manières de faire, de ses postures. Cet article se penche sur l'aspect non-verbal de cet agir, à savoir la gestuelle enseignante en ce qu'elle contribue à l'accès au sens en langue étrangère. Notre recherche se veut compréhensive et s’inscrit dans une démarche de type ethnographique, recourant principalement à la méthode qualitative et faisant incidemment appel aux données quantitatives afin de mettre en évidence la fréquence et la variation intra-individuelle de la gestualité co-verbale utilisée par l'enseignant à l'école primaire. Les données ont été collectées grâce à l’observation non participante et l’enregistrement filmé de séances de cours d’une même enseignante dans deux classes de niveau institutionnel différent, et les gestes répertoriés ont été classés selon le modèle de Mc Neill pour le type et celui de M. Tellier pour la fonction. Les résultats révèlent que la gestualité de l’enseignante est une construction personnelle, une utilisation variée des différents types de gestes et que ce qui fait la différence entre les deux niveaux c’est à la fois la forme et la récurrence des gestes adoptés. Vu la rareté des travaux en contexte algérien, cette étude est une contribution à l'analyse du geste pédagogique de l'enseignant en classe de FLE en interaction avec ses apprenants afin de rentabiliser cette modalité et d'en tenir compte dans la formation des formateurs.Mots-clés : Agir professoral, geste coverbal, niveau institutionnel, taux gestuel ABSTRACT. To be interested about the teacher's action necessarily requires the analysis of his speech, his ways of doing things, his postures. This article examines the non-verbal aspect of this action, namely the teaching gesture in that it contributes to access to meaning in a foreign language. Our approach is comprehensive and ethnographic, using mainly the qualitative method, but also relying, incidentally, on quantitative data in order to highlight the frequency and intra-individual variation of the co-verbal gestuality used by the teacher in primary school. The data was collected by non-participant observation and filmed recording of the sessions of the same teacher in two classes of different institutional levels, and the gestures were classified according to the model of Mc Neill (1992) regarding their type and that of M. Tellier (2006, 2008) for their function. The results reveal that the teacher’s gestuality is a personal construction, a varied use of the different types of gestures and that what make the difference between the two levels are both the form and the recurrence of the gestures adopted. Given the scarcity of work in the Algerian context, this study is a contribution to analysis of the teacher’s pedagogical gesture in the French classroom in interaction with his learners in order to make this modality profitable and to take it into account in the formation of trainers.Keywords: Co-verbal gesture, gestural rate, institutional level, teachers’ action
Haptic Recognition in Two Infants with Low Vision Assessed by a Familiarization Procedure

The study on which this article was based was supported by a Meritorious Projects Grant from Queensland University of Technology and would not have been possible without the cooperation of the parents and infants involved in the project and the assistance of the advisory teachers (particularly Angela O'Connell) from the Queensland Department of Education Vision Impairment Services. still many unanswered questions regarding the emergence of such capacities. A central issue in this respect is the nature and extent of children's memory of haptic features. Although there is evidence that blind preschoolers (Ungar, Blades, Spencer, & Morsley, 1994) and older children (Pathak & Pring, 1989) are able to retain information from tactile maps and two-dimensional displays, there has been little research on the age at which such memory abilities begin in children who are blind or have low vision and few studies of memory for threedimensional objects. There is evidence that blind infants show a poor spontaneous response to such objects in the naturalistic environment (Fraiberg, 1977), but this does not necessarily mean that the haptic features of objects could not be retained if infants were to engage in exploratory behavior. A promising tool for addressing these issues is habituation or familiarization, a procedure that has been successfully used to investigate haptic memory in sighted infants (Catherwood, 1993a, 1993b; Gottfried & Rose, 1980; Streri & Pecheux, 1986). Variants of this procedure have been used to confirm that infants as young as 4 months are able to recognize objects on the basis of features, such as shape or texture, that have been experienced only through haptic means. In such procedures, infants are either repeatedly presented with or allowed to explore one item and then presented with "test" trials involving the representation of this familiar item, as well as "novel" items that differ in one or more features from the familiar item. The essential premise is that if the infants display more exploratory interest in the novel items than in the familiar item (in terms of longer
Canadian Diabetes Association Clinical Practice Guidelines Expert Committee The initial draft of this chapter was prepared by Ronald J. Sigal MD, MPH, FRCPC,

� Moderate to high levels of physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness are associated with substantiallylower morbidityand mortality in men and women with and without diabetes. � For most people, being sedentary has far greater adverse health consequences than exercise would. However, before beginning a program of physical activity more vigorous than walking, people with diabetes should be assessed for conditions that might place the individual at increased risk for an adverse event associated with certain types of exercise. � For people with type 2 diabetes, supervised exercise programs have been particularly effective in improving glycemic control, reducing the need for antihyperglycemic agents and insulin, and producing modest but sustained weight loss. � Both aerobic and resistance exercise are beneficial for patients with diabetes, and it is optimal to do both types of exercise. At least 150 minutes per week of aerobic exercise, plus at least two sessions per week of resistance exercise, is recommended.
Energy, space, and movement: toward a framework for theorizing energy justice

ABSTRACT This paper attempts to assemble a conceptual framework for understanding to what extent an energy technology is simply a way of putting nature to work, and to what extent it is a way of putting other segments of global society to work. The turn to fossil energy reversed the relation between energy and space, as fossil fuels henceforth propelled new transport technologies that provided access to increasingly wider spans of space. Velocity is a measure of the amount of time required to traverse a given space, and given a certain mass and amount of friction, it can be physically expressed as the dissipation of a given quantity of energy. Technological progress has cognate implications for labour productivity and velocity: both entail an increase in exosomatic energy dissipation that is contingent on the appropriation of embodied labour time and natural space. In concealing the dependency of industrial technology on asymmetric resource transfers, general-purpose money continues to distort the conventional understanding of technology even in Marxist theory. Given that technology is a manifestation of capital, a fundamental paradox of Marxism is its aspiration to combine a critique of capital accumulation with a vision of technological progress.
Positive Emotion-Based Impulsivity as a Transdiagnostic Endophenotype

Positive emotion-based impulsivity (i.e., positive urgency) is an important impulsivity-related trait associated with a wide range of problematic behaviors and clinical disorders, including substance use, alcohol dependence, pathological gambling, risky sexual behaviors, and non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors, among others. Since its identification in 2007, research has begun to better appreciate how positive emotions bias decision-making and can lead to many of the same negative outcomes that for years were primarily believed to be connected with negative emotional states. However, much still remains to be uncovered about positive urgency, including (a) how best to assess such tendencies without the limitations of self-report biases, (b) how positive urgency imparts risk in specific clinical samples, (c) which mechanisms underlie how positive urgency imparts risk, and (d) how best to intervene on or prevent positive emotion–based risky behaviors. This chapter reviews the accumulating empirical evidence for positive urgency, presents potential mechanisms for how it might affect risk-taking and clinical problems, and discusses many limitations in the current understanding that have thus far made it difficult to identify, prevent, and intervene on this tendency. There are, of course, adaptive and maladaptive features to positive emotions. The extent to which these positive emotions increase risk-taking, however, is an endophenotypic marker of mental health risk across a range of clinical disorders. Better understanding of mechanisms underlying this tendency will lead to identification of novel treatment and prevention targets with broad clinical applicability.