Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of Properties, Pathogens, and Mortality-Related Risk Factors of Nosocomial Infections in Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery Intensive Care Unit

Giris: Bu calismanin amaci, pediatrik kardiyovaskuler cerrahi yogun bakim unitesinde gorulen nozokomiyal infeksiyonlari (NI) ozellikleri, patojenler, mortaliteyle ilgili risk faktorleri ve mortalite sikligi acisindan degerlendirmektir. Hastalar ve Yontem: Bu retrospektif calismada, yaslari 1 ay ila16 yil arasinda degisen, Kartal Kosuyolu Egitim ve Arastirma Hastanesinde Ocak 2014-Ocak 2016 tarihleri arasinda kardiyovaskuler cerrahi gecirmis 838 cocugun dosyalari degerlendirilmistir. Hastalik kontrol merkezi kriterlerine gore NI tespit edilmis hastalar calismaya alinmistir. NI prevalansi ve cesitli risk faktorleriyle NI arasindaki iliskiler istatistiksel olarak analiz edilmistir. Bulgular: Toplam 838 hastadan 54 (%6.4)’unde NI [(solunum sistemi (%53.9), idrar yolu (%24.8), bakteremi (%15.7) ve yara yeri infeksiyonlari (%5.6) ] mevcuttu. Izole edilen patojenler: Klebsiella pneumoniae (%20.4), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (%18.6), Candida albicans (%18.6), Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (%13.8), Acinetobacter baumannii (%10.5), koagulaz negatif stafilokok (9.1%), metisilin direncli Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (3.6%), Serratia marcescens (1.8%), Citrobacter freundii (%1.8) ve Providencia rettgeri (1.8%) ve NI nedeniyle mortalite orani %13.7 (11/80) bulunmustur. Cocuklarin yasi ve mekanik ventilasyon suresi ile NI arasinda anlamli bir iliski saptanmis (p 0.05). Sonuc: PKVC sonrasi NI sikligi %6.4 ve en sik NI morbidite ve mortalite etkeni gram-negatif bakteriler olmustur. Yogun bakimda takip edilen hastalarda endotrakeal aspirat, kan, idrar ve yara kulturlerinin gonderilmesi ve NKI ile iliskili risk faktorlerinin zamaninda degerlendirilmesi, gerekli infeksiyon kontrol onlemlerinin alinarak postoperatif morbidite ve mortalitenin azaltilmasini saglayacaktir.
RISK FACTORS FOR PRETERM BIRTHS IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL, LADY READING HOSPITAL, PESHAWAR

Objective: To determine the various maternal and neonatal risk factors of preterm birth. Methodology: A descriptive case series was conducted from 1st January 2010 to 31st December 2010. In thisstudy all cases, a live Pre term birth (PTB) (29 – <37 weeks) by vaginal delivery or caesarean section andtheir mothers were included. Results: A total of 205 (04.04%) neonates were identified as premature neonates. Majority (29.3%) were inthe age range of 2 days with mean age of 1.5073 + 1.2627 days. Out of 205, 51.7% were male and 48.3%were female. Maternal age of 21-35 years was recorded in majority 79.51% with mean age of 28.10 +5.8982 years. Majority of mothers (96.1%) were illiterate, 76.6% belonged to rural areas, 76.1% belongedto poor class, 35.1% were multiparas. A history of Premature rupture of membrane (PROM) was found in61% cases, history of burning micturition 4.9%, physical injuries 0.5%, polyhydramnios 14.14%, previouslow birth weight baby 41.5%, threaten abortion 27.8%, antepartum hemorrhage 36.1%, previous perinatalloss 31.2%, previous premature birth 30.2%, maternal pyrexia 14.1%, previous twins 6.3% and placentaprevia 4.4%. Conclusion: Frequency of prematurity was 04.04%. Among the various risk factors maternal age,illiteracy, rural residence, poverty, joint family setup, history of PROM, previous low birth weight babies,history of antepartum hemorrhage, multiparity, previous perinatal loss, previous premature babies, threatenabortion, were the prominent risk factors found in majority of cases.
Through the Looking Glass: An Up Front and Personal Look at the World of the Assistant Principal.

This paper focuses on a single assistant principal, her world and work. It examines the actions and feelings of the person in the assistant principal position, the way that person saw and managed the job, and how that person affects, and is affected by, the job. Operating as a "participant as observer," the assistant principal kept a comprehensive diary of her activities during her first year on the job. She teamed with an outside observer, and the two met weekly to discuss diary entries and to probe her interpretations of events. The essay discusses the background of the assistant principal, who is an African-American, and the context of her hiring. It also offers a detailed picture of the assistant principal's professional and private lives, offering examples of how she handles herself in the public and private spheres. Following an overview of the themes that dominate the work of the assistant principal, the results of the study are presented. The findings suggest that although the principal sets the assistant principal's agenda, the implication that the assistant principal has little opportunity to exercise control over the position may be inaccurate. (Contains 33 references.) (RJM) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Through the Looking Glass: An Up Front and Personal Look at the World of the Assistant Principal Norma T. Mertz The University Of Tennessee Sonja R. McNeely Knox County Schools, Knoxville, TN U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) 'This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. 1 PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada, April, 1999
Multi-channel Adaptive SVC Video Streaming with ROI

This paper proposes the mechanism which improves the qualify of video on a limited network bandwidth by applying the ROI technique to an H.264 Scalable Extension technique. The network environment assumed in this parer is the next generation network convergence environment in which the mobile device has one or more network interfaces. Therefore, we allocate the priority to video packets as the hierarchy structure of H.264 SVC-encoded video stream and ROI information, and transmit those packets over appropriate network channel for using those multiple network interfaces. This paper shows two experiments first one is extracting and allocating the video stream on an appropriate network channel, second one is unequal packet transmission by allocated priorities (e.g. ROI). Performance evaluations show that this approach delivers an improved decoded video quality when compared with conventional transmission schemes, especially on device which has multiple network interfaces.
A Practical Scalable Shared-Memory Parallel Algorithm for Computing Minimum Spanning Trees

The present thesis briefly reviews the history of the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) Problem and a number of known algorithms to solve it. Furthermore, a new simple, elegant and practical algorithm based on Borůvka’s algorithm for parallel MST computation on shared-memory machines is developed. The algorithm utilizes a parallel primitive called priority write that is easily and efficiently implementable with atomic compare-and-swap (CAS) instructions. The parallelism in the algorithm is coarse-grained and no explicit locks other than in the implementations of usual parallel primitives are needed. Experiments show that the algorithm is efficient on both synthetic and real-world graphs and is invulnerable to adversarial inputs. In our tests, it performs faster than or as fast as state-of-the-art implementations, which often perform poorly or even sequentially on particular classes of graphs. The new algorithm offers good performance even with few processors and therefore can be used as a sole universal implementation.
Proposal of an approach to data driven in fault diagnosis using fuzzy clustering techniques

In this work an approach to design data driven based fault diagnosis systems using fuzzy clustering techniques is presented. In the proposal, the data was first preprocessed using the Noise Clustering algorithm. This permits to eliminate outliers and reduce the confusion as a first part of the classification process. Secondly, the Kernel Fuzzy C-means algorithm was used to achieve greater separability among the classes, and reduce the classification errors. The proposed approach was validated using the nonlinear continuous stirred-tank reactor benchmark problem. The results obtained indicate the feasibility of the proposal.
Web-based monitoring of real-time ECG data

A system, which enables the live broadcast of ECG signals over the Internet, was developed. This system consists of 3 parts: a portable Holter device to capture the ECG data, a browser-based Java applet, which displays the data, and a server application, that coordinates the information broadcast. A prototype of the Holter, about the size of a cellular phone, was developed as a separate part of the project. It is capable of transmitting real-time ECG data via a wireless link to a computer. A Java applet on the computer receives the transmitted data, and sends an encrypted version of it to the server. The server then multicasts the ECG data to all registered client applets on the Internet. The patient identifier included with the source data is used to retrieve pertinent patient information from a database. This information is sent to the clients as well. The system was successfully implemented, and was capable of displaying the ECG signals on a variety of computing platforms and browsers.
Partitioned Memory Parallel Programming Framework

We present a framework for parallel programming. It consists of a distributed shared memory based simplified programming model, which leaves the application developer to focus mainly on task decomposition. This is a unified model for many-core processors (e.g., CPUs and GPUs), multiple processors on a system, as well as multiple systems. We also present a library implementation as a proof of concept of the model. It efficiently maps tasks to multiple compute engines, performs the required communication and schedules tasks to completion. In addition to convenience, the framework provides a race free programming environment by letting tasks own a partition of the memory. This simplifies programming significantly. We report a number of experiments.
Evaluating the relation between maximum heart rate and resting heart rate in three groups of people (non-athletes, athletes, and people with type II diabetes)

Researches in the last decade have shown that heart rate in recovery period after exercise test is highly associated with mortality after cardiac events so that the amount of rest and exercise heart rate can indicate the severity of the risk of diabetes. But what is the connection between resting heart rate and activity in diabetics, athletes and healthy people has been neglected, so the aim of this study was to compare the resting heart rate and activity in three groups of athletes, diabetics and non-athletes. Dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, especially the heart is that this disorder has a poor prognosis and is associated with increased risk of sudden death. For this purpose, 120 subjects were selected and resting heart rate and activity during and after exercise test were compared. All statistical analysis was performed using statistical software SPSS version 16 and charts were drawn using EXCEL, 2010 edition. Statistical significant level was considered less than α ≤ 0/5.Results of the research showed that in exercise test people with diabetes reach their maximum heart rate sooner and resting heart rate is also higher than the other two groups. This shows the positive effect of physical activity on vagal tone and heart rate autonomic nervous system of heart rate.
Was Bayes Overconfident? An Experiment on Belief Updating

Behavioral economics has now been used to explain almost any observed deviation from rationality. One prominent example is systematic agent overconfidence, which has been used to explain general market phenomena, such as excess entry into markets and volatility in asset markets. This study takes a step back from the burgeoning literature on overconfidence to explore the economic underpinnings of systemic agent overconfidence. Using a simple lab experiment that is tightly linked to theory, we find that the extant empirical evidence commonly interpreted as irrational overconfidence is consonant with the rational Bayesian model. Mirror experimental treatments exploring underconfidence reveal similar insights. Our results suggest that had the literature started with a different set of experiments—a mirror of those typically utilized—then the rational model would be attacked because people would argue that agents are systematically underconfident. We suspect that economic phenomena such as underinvestment in education and general labor market immobility would then be prime targets for this behavioral explanation.
De l’enthousiasme à l’horizontalité : Sudbury, ville créative

Depuis pres de 20 ans, plusieurs chercheurs et intervenants du monde municipal suggerent que la culture est un moteur du developpement economique local. Recemment, la strategie de ville creative a fait couler beaucoup d’encre, mais elle a aussi suscite l’interet aupres des acteurs du monde municipal. Cet article a pour objectif de mettre en relief les consequences de la mise en oeuvre de cette strategie de developpement. Le cas de Sudbury (Ontario) sert d’illustration a notre analyse des modes de dissemination, de legitimation et de popularisation de cette strategie au-dela des grands centres urbains.
Adaptive rate error control through the use of diversity combining and majority logic decoding in a hybrid-ARQ protocol

The author demonstrates an adaptive rate coding system based on the majority logic decoding of convolutional codes. The proposed system retains the high-data-rate capability of FEC (forward error correction) majority logic decoders while providing an adaptive code rate and a significant improvement in error protection through the incorporation of diversity combining and hybrid-ARQ (automatic repeat request) techniques. It is shown through analysis and simulation that this error control system provides a high level of data reliability at the expense of a minimal reduction in throughput. <<ETX>>
Constructing of Classifier for Face Recognition on the Basis of the Conjugation Indexes

— In this work the opportunity of construction of the qualifiers for face-recognition systems based on conjugation criteria is investigated. The linkage between the bipartite conjugation, the conjugation with a subspace and the conjugation with the null-space is shown. The unified solving rule is investigated. It makes the decision on the rating of face to a class considering the linkage between conjugation values. The described recognition method can be successfully applied to the distributed systems of video control and video observation.
Fragile knowledge and neglected strategies in novice programmers

Many students have great difficulty mastering the basics of programming. Inadequate knowledge, neglect of general problem-solving strategies, or both might explain their troubles. We report a series of clinical interviews of students taking first year BASIC in which an experimenter interacted with students as they worked, systematically providing help as needed in a progression from general strategic prompts to particular advice. The results indicate a substantial problem of "fragile knowledge" in novices knowledge that is partial, hard to access, and often misused. The results also show that general strategic prompts often resolve these difficulties. Recommendations for teaching more robust knowledge and general strategies are made. Implications for the impact of programming on general cognitive skills are considered.
Pamukkale Üniversitesi öğrencilerinde alkol ve sigara bağımlılığı taraması

GIRIŞ ve AMAC: AMAC: Yapilan calismalar universite ogrencileri arasinda yuksek oranda alkol ve tutun kullanimi oldugunu gostermistir. Ancak problemli alkol ve tutun kullanicilarinin orani cogu arastirmada yeterince ele alinmamistir. Klinik arastirmalar; gecerligi ve guvenirligi yapilmis tarama testlerinin kullanilmasinin problemli kullaniciligini saptamada daha iyi oldugunu ortaya koymustur. Bu calismanin amaci, universite ogrencilerinde alkol ve tutun kullanim oranini ve ne kadarinin problemli kullanici oldugunu saptamaktir. YONTEM ve GERECLER: YONTEMLER: Calisma grubu Pamukkale Universitesinde ogrenim goren 371 universite ogrencisinden olusmaktadir. (181 erkek ve 190 kiz). Problemli alkol ve tutun kullanicilarini tespit etmek icin CAGE ve Fagerstrom testleri kullanilmistir. Istatistiksel analizler Windows icin SPSS 17.0 testi ile yapilmistir. BULGULAR: Ogrencilerin 132’si (%35.6) tutun, 131 (%35.3) ise alkol kullanmaktadir. Sigara icenlerin 48’i (%36.4) Fagerstrom testinden 5 ve ustunde puan, alkol kullananlarin 34’u (%26.2) CAGE testinden 2 ve daha yuksek puan almistir. Ayrica ogrencilerin 12’si Fagerstrom testinden 5 ve uzeri ve CAGE testinden 2 ve uzeri puan almistir. TARTIŞMA ve SONUC: SONUC: Alkol ve tutun kullanimi; kullanimi azaltici tum cabalara karsin universite ogrencileri arasinda hala onemli bir sorundur. Sigara icenlerin 1/3’u, alkol kullananlarin ise 1/4 ’u problemli alkol ve tutun kullanimi acisindan risk altindadir. Universite ogrencilerine yonelik onleyici ve tedavi edici faaliyetlerin arttirilmasi bu kisilerde bagimlik gelismesini azaltmada yardimci olabilir.
El par cerámica-cerámica en la prótesis total de cadera. Resultados clínicos a 12 años Ceramic-on-ceramic bearings in total hip arthroplasty. Twelve years clinical results

Se analizan retrospectivamente 150 protesis totales de cadera con par de friccion de ceramica aluminica, con seguimiento clinico y radiografico a 12 anos. se utilizo una protesis de titanio con recubrimiento de porro mas hidroxiapatita, con superficies articulares de oxido de aluminia en cotilo y cabeza femoral. La edad de los pacientes fue entre 30 y 65 anos, con una media de 56. En las revisiones realizadas anualmente se puso de manifiesto una rapida osteintegracion de la protesis y un buen resultado clinico y radiuografico.
Rheological characteristics and fatty acid compositions of Afzelia africana and Detarium microcarpum seed oils

The rheological characteristics of oils isolated from the seeds of Afzelia africana and Detarium microcarpum were studied and compared with rapeseed oil. The effects of shear rate and temperature on the flow characteristics were evaluated. The shear stress- shear rate rheological models: Herschel-Bulkley, Power law, Binghan, Newtonian and Casson were used to determine the flow characteristics. All the oils exhibited non-Newtonian behaviour at shear rates rapeseed oil > Detarium oil. The activation energy of viscous flow followed the same order as viscosity of the oils. The most abundant fatty acids in A. africana oil were cis-11-eicosenoic acid (39 .06%), linolelaidic acid (18.38%) and nervonic acid (10.20%) and in D. microcarpum oil cis-13,16-dicosadienoic acid (20.51%) and linoleic acid (20.37%) and undecanoic acid (14.24%). A. africana contained higher amount of unsaturated fatty acids (92.26%) and long chain fatty acids (C ≥15; 96.00%) than D. microcarpum (unsaturated fatty acids, 66.27%; C ≥ 15; 79.41%). A. africana oil with the greater amount of long chain fatty acids had higher viscosity and activation energy of viscous flow. Key words: Afzelia africana, oil, rheological properties, fatty acid composition, Detarium microcarpum
ETEROGENEITÀ DELLE PREFERENZE E RILEVANZA DEGLI INDICATORI PSICOMETRICI NELLE DECISIONI DI SCELTA MODALE: LE PROSPETTIVE PER IL TRASPORTO INTERMODALE. UN CASO DI STUDIO.

Questa ricerca ha un duplice obiettivo. Da un lato ottenere elementi conoscitivi utili alla pianificazione in ambito regionale di iniziative a supporto del trasporto intermodale, con particolare riferimento al trasporto strada-mare (Ro/Ro) e alla realizzazione di autoporti (piattaforme logistiche attraverso le quali ottenere un maggior consolidamento delle spedizioni e la promozione di servizi ad elevato valore aggiunto come controllo di qualita della merce, servizi di info-mobilita, etc.); dall’altro sviluppare strumenti analitici di supporto alla politica regionale. Il contesto geografico di riferimento e la regione Sicilia dove, nonostante la posizione geografica favorevole, l’intermodalita terra-mare stenta a decollare. A tal fine, e stata condotta una analisi di tipo stated preference su un campione di autotrasportatori, diretta a studiarne le principali caratteristiche e le preferenze, ed e stato proposto un modello di analisi dei dati basato sul concetto di utilita aleatoria del tipo mixed logit. Per garantire una maggiore aderenza del modello alla realta si e proceduto sia ipotizzando che gli operatori di trasporto percepiscano in modo eterogeneo l’importanza del tempo di viaggio, sia includendo, nella stima, variabili latenti relative alla percezione dell’importanza di alcuni rilevanti attributi di scelta.
An all-digital phase-locked loop with 50-cycle lock time suitable for high-performance microprocessors

A frequency-synthesizing, all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) is fully integrated with a 0.5 /spl mu/m CMOS microprocessor. The ADPLL has a 50-cycle phase lock, has a gain mechanism independent of process, voltage, and temperature, and is immune to input jitter. A digitally-controlled oscillator (DCO) forms the core of the ADPLL and operates from 50 to 550 MHz, running at 4/spl times/ the reference clock frequency. The DCO has 16 b of binarily weighted control and achieves LSB resolution under 500 fs. >
Addiction to social networking sites in healthcare students of a selected institution in Mangalore, Karnataka, India: A questionnaire study

Background: Online social networks are rapidly changing the way human beings interact. Of the more than 2.5 billion active internet users worldwide, some 1.8 billion were estimated to use social networking sites in 2014, representing approximately 25% of the world’s total population. Excessive use or an addiction to internet activities, including social network sites (SNSs) and online games has been negatively associated with conscientiousness, honesty/humility and agreeableness and positively associated with neuroticism, narcissism, and aggression. Materials & Methods: A questionnaire which was developed by the author which consists of 41 questions which can document the demographic details as well as other information regarding the use of social networking sites such as Facebook was given to 750 health care students to fill in irrespective of age and gender. Results: The results of the current study revealed that health care students majorly use social network sites for relief and they do not neglect their studies or their day to day chores due to these sites. Conclusion: To conclude, there are some groups of individuals (Like health care students in our study) who do not get addicted to social network sites such as Facebook, rather they give importance to their personal and professional life.