Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Water and sanitation assessment of home-based care clients in Malawi.

Malawi remains one of the poorest countries in the world. Currently ranked 165 out of 177 on the Human Development Index Malawi also has an adult HIV prevalence rate of 12%. Estimates of the sero-prevalence rate for adults 15 to 49 years old in the Northern Region disaggregated by city urban and rural sectors are as follows: Mzuzu 23.3% semi-urban areas 21.9% rural areas 9.5%. Meanwhile only 20% of Malawian households have access to piped water (only 9% of rural households). On average rural households are required to travel 19.4 minutes to the nearest water source while urban households travel an average of 4.9 minutes. Malawis poverty combined with its steady HIV prevalence means that regular water and sanitation problems become even more acute. Catholic Relief Services (CRS) with financing from the World Health Organization (WHO) initiated a water and sanitation assessment of home-based care (HBC) clients in Northern Malawi. (excerpt)
Role of Yoga and Mindfulness in Severe Mental Illnesses: A Narrative Review

Background: Yoga has its origin from the ancient times. It is an integration of mind, body, and soul. Besides, mindfulness emphasizes focused awareness and accepting the internal experiences without being judgemental. These techniques offer a trending new dimension of treatment in various psychiatric disorders. Aims: We aimed to review the studies on the efficacy of yoga and mindfulness as a treatment modality in severe mental illnesses (SMIs). SMI includes schizophrenia, major depressive disorder (MDD), and bipolar disorder (BD). Methods: We conducted a literature search using PubMed, Google Scholar, and Cochrane Library with the search terms “yoga,” “meditation,” “breathing exercises,” “mindfulness,” “schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders,” “depressive disorder,” and “bipolar disorder” for the last 10-year period. We also included relevant articles from the cross-references. Results: We found that asanas and pranayama are the most commonly studied forms of yoga for schizophrenia. These studies found a reduction in general psychopathology ratings and an improvement in cognition and functioning. Some studies also found modest benefits in negative and positive symptoms. Mindfulness has not been extensively tried, but the available evidence has shown benefits in improving psychotic symptoms, improving level of functioning, and affect regulation. In MDD, both yoga and mindfulness have demonstrated significant benefit in reducing the severity of depressive symptoms. There is very sparse data with respect to BD. Conclusion: Both yoga and mindfulness interventions appear to be useful as an adjunct in the treatment of SMI. Studies have shown improvement in the psychopathology, anxiety, cognition, and functioning of patients with schizophrenia. Similarly, both the techniques have been established as an effective adjuvant in MDD. However, more rigorously designed and larger trials may be necessary, specifically for BD.
Novel experimental techniques using PMHS and CT scans to assess performance of wearable sensors for mild traumatic brain injury applications for different populations

Increased interest in the short and long‐term health risks of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) has led to the development of wearable sensors designed to monitor real‐time head kinematics. To be effective, sensors should be accurate, unobtrusive, low‐maintenance, user‐friendly, and scalable to a large population. They should also be evaluated with appropriate Post‐Mortem Human Subject (PMHS) studies, as real‐world impact tests are necessary. Therefore, the objectives of the present study were to develop a methodology to instrument the PMHS head with sensors mounted within the cranium and close to the cranium’s center‐of‐gravity (cg) as determined by CT images. The cg kinematics from the CT‐placed internal sensor matched well with the computed cg kinematics of the externally placed sensors standardly used in impact biomechanics tests, though these tests did not include Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). To demonstrate the feasibility of the methodology and data acquired from the internal sensors, controlled tests were conducted on PMHS‐helmet systems. This process can be effectively used to conduct efficacy evaluations with different types of helmets and other head‐mounted wearable sensors, something urgently needed in the sports and military communities. Additionally, this methodology may be useful in the design of experiments used for validating human body models in highly automated vehicle environments.
Effectiveness of emotional competence skills programme for adolescents: Results of a pilot study from India

Effectiveness of emotional competence skills programme for adolescents: Results of a pilot study from India, p Introduction: nbsp;Emotional difficulties pose a greater threat to the overall well-being and quality of life of adolescents. Despite the need, a gap exists between research and implementation of school based promotive interventions for the same.
What Factors Influence the Behaviour Intention of the Internet Banking

Internet banking is one prove of the increasing technology development and become the innovation in technology that should follow and adopt by the user. The purpose of this study is to investigate what factors that can influence the behavior intention of the internet banking user in the big city in Indonesia with the technology adoption model that adopted from J.-Cu. The collected from 258 respondents with purposive sampling method. The study found that self-efficacy is a strong determinant that affects perceived ease of use, which directly or indirectly affects behavioral intention using internet banking. Structural assurances are strong determinants that influence trusts, which can increase the behavioral intention of using internet banking. And system quality is a powerful determinant of perceived usefulness, which directly or indirectly can affect the behavioral intention using internet banking. This study shows the effect of behavioral intention from the influence of perceived usefulness factor, perceived ease of use, and trust. Keywords—behavior intention; internet banking; multivariate analysis; Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)
Learning by analogical reasoning in general problem-solving

This dissertation integrates derivational analogy into general problem solving as a method of learning at the strategy level to solve problems more effectively. The derivational analogy method has been fully implemented in the sc PRODIGY architecture and proven empirically to be amenable to scaling up both in terms of domain and problem complexity. Reasoning by analogy involves a set of challenging problems, namely: how to accumulate episodic problem solving experience, how to define and decide when two problem solving situations are similar, how to organize large amounts of knowledge so that it may be efficiently retrieved, and finally the ultimate problem of how to successfully transfer chains of reasoning from past experience to new problem solving situations when only a partial match exists among corresponding problems. More specifically, the dissertation automates the generation, storage, dynamic indexation, retrieval and replay for multiple cases (i.e. derivational traces of past problem solving episodes). Learning occurs by accumulation and flexible reuse of cases. The problem solving search effort is reduced incrementally as more episodic experience is compiled into the case library. Scaling up the system proved to be very demanding. The current system has thus far been demonstrated in multiple domains, including a complex logistics transportation domain where it generated a library of 1000 cases, showed strong improvements in problem-solving performance, and pushed the solvability envelope to increasingly more complex classes of problems.
TITAC-2 : A 32-bit scalable-delay-insensitive microprocessor

Takashi Nanya1);2) Akihiro Takamura2), Masashi Kuwako1), Masashi Imai1) Taro Fujii2), Motokazu Ozawa2), Izumi Fukasaku2), Yoichiro Ueno2) Fuyuki Okamoto3), Hiroki Fujimoto3), Osamu Fujita3) Masakazu Yamashina3), Masao Fukuma3) 1) Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo 2) Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology 3) Microelectronics Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation
Assessment of the accuracy of the Greulich and Pyle hand-wrist atlas for age estimation in a contemporary Australian population

Abstract Age estimation of living individuals is topical, and is particularly important globally, owing to increasing migration of undocumented individuals. Radiographic skeletal analysis of hand-wrist skeletal development is often used to infer chronological age based on direct comparison to standards such as the Greulich and Pyle atlas. However, this atlas has been criticised for being applied to foreign populations without due consideration of accuracy. The aims of the current study are to assess the precision and accuracy of the atlas in a contemporary Western Australian population and to develop population specific standards based on the latter system. The study sample comprised 360 individuals (equal sexes) and aged from birth to 25 years; a hold-out group comprising a further 50 individuals was used for model validation. Age estimation was performed through the visual comparison of the study radiographs against the atlas standards; statistical analyses were performed to assess the relationship between estimated skeletal and actual age. Prediction models were formulated; mean SEE values were ±0.005–0.90 (male) and ±0.25–0.421 years (female). Comparisons with prior research demonstrates the importance of contemporary population standards. The models presented here have forensic utility in a Western Australia jurisdiction, albeit the level of accuracy achieved is not suitable for the specific determination of legal majority.
The curative effect of warm acupuncture and moxibustion on peripheral neurotoxicity caused by oxaliplatin

[Objective] To observe the therapeutic effect of warm acupuncture and moxibustion on peripheral neurotoxicity caused by oxaliplatin and look for the effective treatment method for it. [Methods] Using randomized controlled trial 76 patients with gastrointestinal tumor,which met with the inclusion criteria and appeared peripheral neurotoxicity after chemotherapy were randomly divided into warm acupuncture and moxibustion group(38 cases) and the control group(38 cases). The patients in warm in normal group were treated with acupuncture plus moxibustion.The patients in control group were treated with Neurotropin,4 mg,intramuscular injection every day for a treatment course of 21 days together. [Results] The difference of neurotoxic classification and the quality of life between the two groups after the treatment were significant(P0.05). [Conclusion] The treatment effect of warm acupuncture and moxibustion on peripheral neurotoxicity caused by oxaliplatin is satisfactory.
Multi‐tasking optimal control of networked control systems: A delta operator approach

In this paper, the multi‐tasking optimal control problem is addressed in the delta‐domain for a class of networked control systems (NCSs) with external disturbances. A delta‐domain model is proposed to describe the NCSs with random packet dropouts and long‐time delay, and the so‐called ε‐Nash equilibrium is employed to quantify the impacts from the disturbances on the underlying NCSs. The multi‐tasking optimal control strategies are developed and the upper bound for the ε‐Nash equilibrium is provided explicitly. Some simulation results on the two‐area load frequency control system are given to show the validity and applicability of the proposed method. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Essais cliniques de thérapie génique de la mucoviscidose : état des lieux et perspectives.

La caracterisation du gene CFTR et la demonstration in vitro que le transfert du gene CFTR normal dans des cellules issues de patients atteints de mucoviscidose corrige les anomalies de transport ionique ont encourage de nombreuses equipes a envisager la therapie genique comme une voie therapeutique permettant de s'attaquer a la cause de la maladie. Vingt-six protocoles cliniques ont ete a ce jour mis en oeuvre dans le monde. Ces protocoles visent a evaluer, soit un mode d'administration particulier du vecteur de transfert de gene, soit un vecteur bien defini. Aujourd'hui, une nouvelle generation de vecteurs moins toxiques et permettant une bonne persistance in vivo de l'expression du transgene est disponible. De la meme maniere, de nouvelles molecules polycationiques ont ete recemment developpees et sont actuellement en evaluation preclinique. L'avenir de la therapie genique de la mucoviscidose dependra du succes de ces developpements techniques, mais egalement de la meilleure maitrise des methodologies d'analyse des parametres electrophysiologiques pulmonaires.
A study of parenting style in relation to emotional intelligence, upon primary school students with disabilities

Disabilities are determined due to deficiencies (physical, sensory or intellectual) and health conditions (mental illness). The article provides a number of recommendations for a good emotional development of the child with disabilities. It is recommended that parents encourage children to identify their own solutions to various problems without offering them “own variants”, thus children are starting to develop and improve their sense of responsibility. Regardless of their age, children with disabilities should not be taught to deny their feelings and emotions. They should be taught how to recognize and control their own emotions and also understand that they are normal and that there is nothing wrong with exteriorizing emotions. distinction between feelings and actions); self-control of emotional feelings (appropriately mastering and expressing emotions, tolerance to frustration and anxiety, self-esteem, positive thinking); personal motivation (productive use of emotions, perseverance, responsibility, flexibility, openness to creativity); empathy (observation and careful listening of the other, the ability to be in the position of the other, sensitivity and understanding to the problems of others); social skills (pro-social attitudes and behaviors, positive relationships with others, conflict resolution, interpersonal communication skills).
Investigaciones arqueologicas en el norte de la Española. Entre viejos esquemas y nuevos datos

En la historiografia y la arqueologia dominicana la trascendencia de la region norte ha estado tradicionalmente ligada a su condicion de escenario de importantes acontecimientos vinculados con los inicios de la colonizacion europea (Arranz Marquez 1991; Cassa 1992; Deagan y Cruxent 2002; Guerrero y Veloz Maggiolo 1988; Ortega 1988; Wilson 1992). Al margen de los aportes que esa vision ha generado, la misma ha contribuido a trazar esquemas importantes en los estudios arqueologicos, sobre todo, al incidir en la prioridad de ciertos temas; la forma en que estos han sido abordados, asi como los escenarios propicios para su investigacion. En este articulo revisamos algunas de estas nociones y proporcionamos evidencias para entender la conquista del norte, principalmente desde la perspectiva indigena.
Drug Prescribing to the Elderly Patients

Age-related physiologic and anatomic changes in various body systems are accompanied by significant pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic alterations that make it mandatory for treating physicians to adjust types and dosages of medications for their older patients. Moreover, physicians should be always alert for adverse drug events, and consider any new symptoms as drug-related until proven otherwise. Other issues addressed include prescribing cascades, polypharmacy, drug-drug interactions, and the need to review all medications used by the elderly patients, with special attention to non-prescription and herbetic drugs. This review aims at maximizing safe medicine prescribing, and minimizing adverse drug event in caring for older subjects. International Journal of Human and Health Sciences Vol. 01 No. 02 July’17. Page : 65-69
Time-to-digital converter

It provides a time-to-digital converter having an improved characteristic dead zone. Time-to-digital converter is the first to reduce the quantization error of the first signal and the time difference between the second signal (time difference) the low-resolution (low resolution) low-resolution time-to-digital converting of measuring a circuit and the low-resolution time-to-digital converting circuit the time difference signal and the second signal includes a high-resolution time-to-digital converting circuit for measuring at high resolution. Output clock which is generated by a digital phase-locked loop is adopted such a time-to-digital converter, the jitter is hardly observed. Time-to-Digital Converter, TDC, resolution, ADPLL
Ternary phase shift keying and its performance

An important class of digital modulation is phase shift keying (PSK). Ternary phase shift keying (TPSK) has not been focused upon until now because it is not suitable for transmitting binary information signals. However, it has theoretically excellent features for mobile communication systems, that is, it has splendid error rate characteristics and minimum amplitude fluctuation among all of the PSK schemes. The latter feature is very appealing for usage in mobile terminals in which nonlinear amplifiers have to be used. A new class of convolutional codes is proposed in order to use the TPSK scheme in practical systems. The TPSK scheme with the new convolutional code is suitable for transmitting binary signals and it improves the error rate characteristics without bandwidth expansion.
HMM Based Fuzzy Model for Short-Term Traffic Forecasting

This paper presents a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based fuzzy model of short-term traffic forecasting. The model uses three sequential phases. Firstly, the HMM is used to partition the traffic flow data according to the ordering of the calculated log-likelihood values. Then, a recursive top-down algorithm is used to generate the minimum number of rules for accurate forecasting. Finally, a gradient descent method is applied to fine-tune the model parameters. To verify the method in real situation, an experimental model is constructed to produce traffic flow forecasting of freeway in CA, USA based on actual data.
Data warehousing technologies for large-scale and right-time data

This thesis is about data warehousing technologies for large-scale and right-time data. Today, due to the exponential growth of data, it has become a common practice for many enterprises to process hundreds of gigabytes of data per day. Traditionally, data warehousing populates data from heterogeneous sources into a central data warehouse (DW) by Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) at regular time intervals, e.g., monthly, weekly, or daily. But now, it becomes challenging for large-scale data, and hard to meet the near real-time/right-time business decisions. This thesis considers some of these challenges and makes the following contributions: First, this thesis presents a new and efficient way to store triples from an OWL Lite ontology known from the Semantic Web field. In contrast to classic triple-stores where the data with the triple format of (subject, predicate, object) is stored in few, but big, tables with few columns, the presented triple-store spreads the data over more tables that may have many columns. The triple-store is optimized by an extensive use of bulk techniques, which makes it very efficient to insert and extract data. The DBMS-based solution makes it very flexible to integrate with other non-triple data. Second, this thesis presents a middle-ware system for live DW data. Processing live DW data is one of the most tricky problems in data warehousing. An innovative method is proposed for processing live DW data, which accumulates the data in an intermediate data store, and does data modifications on-the-fly when the data is materialized or queried. The data is made available in the DW exactly when needed and users can get bulk-load speeds, but INSERT-like data availability. Third, this thesis presents the first dimensional ETL programming framework using MapReduce. Parallel ETL is needed for large-scale data, but it is not easy to implement. This presented framework makes this very easy by offering high-level ETL-specific constructs, including those for star schema, snowflake schema, slowly changing dimensions (SCDs) and very large dimensions. The framework can achieve high programming efficiency, i.e., only a few statements needed for implementing a parallel ETL program, and good scalability for processing different DW schemas. Finally, this thesis presents scalable dimensional ETL for cloud warehouse. Today, organizations gain growing interest in moving data warehousing systems towards
Willard and Spackman's Occupational Therapy

"Willard and Spackman's Occupational Therapy, Twelfth Edition", continues in the tradition of excellent coverage of critical concepts and practices that have long made this text the leading resource for Occupational Therapy students. Students using this text will learn how to apply client-centered, occupational, evidence based approach across the full spectrum of practice settings. Peppered with first-person narratives, which offer a unique perspective on the lives of those living with disease, this new edition has been fully updated with a visually enticing full color design, and even more photos and illustrations. Vital pedagogical features, including case studies, Practice Dilemmas, and Provocative questions, help position students in the real world of occupational therapy practice to help prepare them to react appropriately. This market leading text provides the most comprehensive and current presentation of occupational therapy concepts and practice. The 12th edition of this classic text invites students with a fresh, four-color design and new photos and illustrations, as well as the fully updated text.
A new user cohort study comparing the risk of pneumonia in inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) vs. long-acting bronchodilator (LABD) regimens in COPD

Aims: To estimate the association between ICS use and outcomes of overall pneumonia and pneumonia hospitalization in new users of ICS relative to new users of inhaled LABD monotherapy. Methods: Pneumonia and pneumonia hospitalization events in COPD patients ≥45 years old were compared in new users of ICS medications (n=11,555; ICS, ICS/LABA combination) and inhaled LABD monotherapies (n=6,492; LABA, LAMA) using Cox models (hazard ratios [HR] and 95% confidence intervals [CI]), with propensity scores to control for confounding. Setting: United Kingdom electronic medical records with linked hospitalization and mortality data (2002-2010). New users were censored at earliest of: pneumonia event, death, switching/stopping treatment, or end of study period. Outcomes: time to first pneumonia (any), pneumonia hospitalization (primary cause). Results: New use of ICS-containing mediations was associated with an increased risk of pneumonia (n=18,047 at risk, n=702 events; HR=1.49, 95% CI: 1.22, 1.83) and pneumonia hospitalization (n=18,047, n=409 events; HR=1.52 95% CI: 1.16, 1.98). Excess ICS risk was reduced when requiring ≥30 days of new use (n=17,287, n=614 events; HR=1.39, 95% CI: 1.12, 1.72) or persistent use (≥6 months; n= 9,396; n=507 events, HR=1.19, 95% CI: 0.93, 1.52). Conclusions: The results of this new-user study design are consistent with published findings that ICS increase risk of pneumonia and hospitalized pneumonia in COPD. This risk must be weighed against the benefits when prescribing ICS to patients with COPD. (GSK-funded, WEUSKOP6416).