Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Preventive Mechanisms and Treatment of Cervical Cancer in Ethiopia

Background: Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women globally and a leading cause of death in developing countries especially Sub-Saharan Africa. Ethiopia has also been shown to share this high incidence rate of cervical cancer. Since preventive mechanisms are considered as one of the key elements in tackling the issue, this study mainly sought to uncover the status of primary preventive mechanisms and tertiary care in Ethiopia. Methodology: To get an in-depth look at the preventive mechanisms, the study mainly employed a qualitative design. A total of 13 key informant interviews were conducted with staff and officials of relevant institutions. In addition, 10 interviews were held with cervical cancer patients that were attending care in Tikur Anbesa Hospital. A quantitative design has also been implemented in which 198 patients were surveyed. Results: The study found that due to the inefficient attention paid to cervical cancer, prevention mechanisms and treatment were found to be largely inadequate and underdeveloped. The lack of proper data and other competing health care needs have been stated as the main reason behind the lack of attention paid to cervical cancer. Though steps are currently being taken to expand screening, pre-cancer treatment and invasive cancer treatment sites, the study found all the steps being taken to be in preliminary stages. Conclusion: The current focus of Ethiopia on secondary prevention mechanism is not adequate to fully address the challenge cervical cancer poses. As an emerging health care issue, cervical cancer has to be prioritized so that the proper resources, policies and strategies can be put in place to address the issue in a comprehensive manner.
Monocanalicular and bicanalicular silicone tube intubation results in patients with congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction

Methods: A total of 47 eyes of 42 patients – 25 females; 17 males – on whom silicone tube intubation was performed due to congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (CLDO) were involved in the study. As part of the study, a monocanalicular tube was placed in 23 of the 47 eyes (1st group), while a bicanalicular tube was placed in 24 of the eyes (2nd group). The average age in the first group was 6.13 years (1–15 years) and 4.51 years (1–15 years) in the second group. Extubation was performed in the postoperative 4.2 month (2–7 months) in the first group and in the postoperative 4.4 month (2–7 months) in the second group. Average length of follow-up of cases was determined to be 10.1 months (6–72 months).
THE ROLE OF DYSFUNCTIONAL BELIEFS IN INDIVIDUALS WHO EXPERIENCE PSYCHOSIS AND USE SUBSTANCES: IMPLICATIONS FOR COGNITIVE THERAPY AND MEDICATION ADHERENCE

It can be argued that an individual’s subjective experience and beliefs about a substance are important. Motives and expectancies regarding the use of alcohol and drugs are often that they are going to modify a cognitive state or help them cope with a particular situation. However, there are growing concerns in the U.S.A. and in the U.K. regarding individuals who experience psychosis and concurrently use substances. Correctly diagnosing individuals with dual presentation is said to be difficult, engagement in treatment is problematic, and medication adherence and prognosis poor. In this paper a cognitive-developmental model is proposed. I suggest that for individuals who experience psychosis and also use drugs or alcohol, the ability to identify the relationship between the substance use and the psychotic illness in terms of a case formulation/conceptualization would provide a good starting point for developing strategies and interventions that are most likely to succeed in treatment. Such an approach would explicitly address key cognitions. Unless the dysfunctional substance-related beliefs are addressed, adherence to medication and engagement with treatment services will be hindered and the possibility of relapsing to problematic substance use and acute psychosis remains. A cognitive treatment component, to target these beliefs, based on the cognitive model of substance misuse and the motivational interviewing approach will also be briefly outlined.
Studies on “Effect of Organic Nitrogen Source on Production of Antifungal Substance from Clostridium Species”

Objective: In this study, antifungal substances were isolated from different soil bacteria like Clostridium species in the presence of different nitrogen sources. The isolated antifungal substances were then tested against Aspergillus and Trichoderma species to analyse their potential activity. Methodology and Results: Antifungal substances were isolated from different soil bacterial species and it was observed that only Clostridium species was suitable to isolate active antifungal substances against Aspergillus and Trichoderma species in the presence of different nitrogen sources. Peptone and yeast extract were good nitrogen sources to isolate most active antifungal substances from Clostridium species. Agar well diffusion method was used to measure the zone of inhibitions and the maximum zone of inhibition was found up to 22 mm. Conclusion: Yeast extract and Peptone were found to be good nitrogen sources for the growth of Clostridium sp. YLC and antibiotic production.
On the irreversibility of fluctuations

Interrelationship of classical and quantum fluctuations is discussed. With energy dissipation being taken into account, fluctuations are shown to be irreversible even in the case of classical systems. An analogy to Kubo relation for classical fluctuations is derived. Fluctuations in both equilibrium and nonequilibrium (though stationary) states of the system are considered.
VISUALIZING INFORMATION DURING EARLY DESIGN

A polymer having a repeating unit comprising a copolymer of butadiene sulfone and maleic anhydride, and a chemically amplified resist composition comprising the polymer. The resist composition includes a photosensitive polymer having a first repeating unit comprising a copolymer of butadiene sulfone and maleic anhydride, the first repeating unit represented by a formula:and a second repeating unit copolymerized with the first repeating unit.
Delayed Posttraumatic Hydrocephalus Secondary To An Aqueductal Web Treated With Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy: A Case Report.

BackgroundDelayed posttraumatic hydrocephalus is typically communicating secondary to arachnoid villi insufficiency, due to a reactive inflammatory response to blood products. Acute obstructive hydrocephalus secondary to an aqueductal clot or midbrain contusion has been published; however, no previous publications of delayed obstructive posttraumatic hydrocephalus have been found. Case descriptionWe present a case report of delayed obstructive hydrocephalus secondary to an aqueductal web. The patient was successfully treated by an endoscopic third ventriculostomy. ConclusionTo our knowledge, this is the first description of delayed obstructive posttraumatic hydrocephalus secondary to an aqueductal web, and we discuss the pathophysiological cause, and relevant treatment options.
Quaternion Convolutional Neural Networks for Detection and Localization of 3D Sound Events

Learning from data in the quaternion domain enables us to exploit internal dependencies of 4D signals and treating them as a single entity. One of the models that perfectly suits with quaternion-valued data processing is represented by 3D acoustic signals in their spherical harmonics decomposition. In this paper, we address the problem of localizing and detecting sound events in the spatial sound field by using quaternion-valued data processing. In particular, we consider the spherical harmonic components of the signals captured by a first-order ambisonic microphone and process them by using a quaternion convolutional neural network. Experimental results show that the proposed approach exploits the correlated nature of the ambisonic signals, thus improving accuracy results in 3D sound event detection and localization.
Does Better Labour Standard Compliance Pay? Linking Labour Standard Compliance and Supplier Competitiveness

Faced with growing demands for responsibility in global supply chains, multinational companies are increasingly regulating labour and other conditions of their suppliers through codes of conduct and monitoring. While research in this area has been expanding rapidly, the link between labour standard compliance and competitiveness of supplier firms remains unexplored. This paper seeks to fill the gap by examining whether the supplier’s level of labour compliance affects its likelihood of attracting and retaining buyers. Based on original survey and panel data from Cambodia’s garment sector, the paper shows that better labour standard compliance is a necessary condition for producing for reputationconscious buyers but not a sufficient condition for attracting them. Other criteria such as price, quality, and delivery time are driving buyers’ sourcing decisions. Nevertheless, producing for a certain buyer type and respecting certain labour standards increases the supplier’s likelihood of retaining buyers, which is critical to the supplier’s competitiveness. __________________________________________________________________________ The author would like to thank an anonymous reviewer, Rafael Gomez, Jee Young Kim, and Raymond Robertson for helpful comments on previous drafts of this paper.
“May You Live in Interesting Times”: Moral Philosophy and Empirical Psychology [Review of The Moral Psychology Handbook ]

The Moral Psychology Handbook is a contribution to a relatively new genre of philosophical writing, the “handbook. ” In the first section, I comment on an expectation about handbooks, namely that handbooks contain works representative of a field, and raise concerns about The Moral Psychology Handbook in this regard. In the rest of the article I comment in detail on two Handbook articles, “Moral Motivation” by Timothy Schroeder, Adina Roskies, and Shaun Nichols, and “Character” by Maria W. Merritt, John M. Doris, and Gilbert Harman. Both articles illustrate the perils as well as the promise of reliance on empirical studies for philosophers who work in moral psychology.
THE CULT[URE] OF THE CUSTOMER

Much organizational restructuring, at least in the UK and USA, seeks to replace organizational regulation by that of the market. These developments centre around an emphasis on relations with customers ‐ the ‘sovereign consumer’‐ as a paradigm for effective forms of organizational relations; they are apparent in, and underpin, a wide variety of organizational developments: just‐in‐time, total quality management, culture change programmes. Understanding these developments requires consideration of the discourse of enterprise of which the culture of the (internal) customer constitutes a key element. Defining internal organizational relations ‘as if’they were customer/supplier relations means replacing bureaucratic regulation and stability with the constant uncertainties of the market, and thus requiring enterprise from employees. This discourse has fundamental implications for management attempts to define working practices and relations and, ultimately, has impact on the conduct and identities of employees. Understanding these developments is not possible if analysis remains at the level of the organization. It requires that organizational restructurings, and the discourse which supports them, be located within the social and political rationality of enterprise. The certainties of management, the conviction that environmental challenge and competitive threat must be met by the cult[ure] of the customer, are due to managements’largely unquestioned acceptance of the normality and perceived good sense of the discourse of enterprise.
A Novel Hybrid Approach to Automatically Determine Kernel Interface Data Volumes

Scheduling algorithms for heterogeneous platforms make scheduling decisions based on several metrics. One of these metrics is the amount of data to be transferred from and to the accelerator. However, the automated determination of this metric is not a simple task. A few schedulers and runtime systems solve this problem by using regression models, which are imprecise though. Our novel approach for the determination of data volumes removes this limitation and thus provides a solution to obtain exact information.
Micro Manipulation and Assembly

The paper describes the research activity jointly carried out by the Universities of Brescia, Bergamo, Ancona and the Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation of the Italian National Research Council, focusing on the main issues concerning the manipulation and assembly of extremely small components. Beside analyzing theoretical and practical aspects, the project, funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, Universities and Research, aims at the realization of an automated test bed for the assembly of micro pieces whose typical dimension belongs to the submillimeter scale range. The perspective is to contribute to the realization of general automatic production systems at the moment absent for objects of these dimensions.
Looking for Genres : The effect of film figure movement on genre recognition

KIJKEN NAAR GENRES het effect van bewegingen van filmkarakters op genre herkenning In dit proefschrift worden drie empirische experimenten gepresenteerd die onderzoeken hoe filmkijkers in hun genre categorisatie van een fragment beinvloed worden door waargenomen bewegingen. De theoretische context van dit proefschrift is tweeledig: genre theorie aan de ene, en cognitieve categorisatietheorie aan de andere kant. Samengevat heeft dit proefschrift aangetoond dat gemiddelde kijkers sterk beinvloed worden in hun genre categorisatie door waargenomen bewegingscues. Daarbij is aangetoond dat de validiteit van beeldcues, i.e. filmische realisatie cues, zeker zo sterk is als die van verhaalcues, i.e. event cues. Bovendien blijken kijkers over zeer gedetailleerde, impliciete, genre kennis te beschikken die zij gebruiken in categorisatie taken en om onderscheid te maken tussen de vier basis genres: non-fictie, komedie, actie, en drama. De resultaten suggereren tenslotte dat de kennis van fictie genres bij de kijker georganiseerd is als een specifieke afwijking van de kennis van non-fictie genres.
Treatment challenges for alcohol service users in Kampala, Uganda

Kalema, D. , Vanderplasschen, W. , Vindevogel, S. , Baguma, P., & Derluyn, I. (2017). Treatment challenges for alcohol service users in Kampala, Uganda. The International Journal Of Alcohol And Drug Research, 6 (1), 27-35. doi: http://dx.doi. org/10.7895/ijadr.v6i1. 240 Background and Aims: Enhancing treatment participation of persons with substance use disorders is a challenge worldwide. Obstacles keeping people from entering or continuing treatment are well documented in Western countries, but such knowledge is scarce in majority countries that face particular challenges when implementing alcohol policies. This study aimed at identifying factors challenging treatment participation in Uganda, a Sub-Saharan country with a considerable alcohol problem. Methods: Data were collected during 30 in-depth, qualitative interviews on treatment challenges with 20 service providers and 10 male service users, who were recruited at one public and one private alcohol treatment center in the Ugandan capital city, Kampala. Men comprise about 90% of the total number of service users in these centers. Interview data were analyzed thematically, using Nvivo software, and were categorized around three levels of treatment challenges: societal, institutional, and personal challenges. Findings: Interview findings showed several treatment challenges relating to institutional aspects like inadequate human resources, overall insufficiency of services, and the treatment philosophy of available services. Respondents identified stigma and cultural interference as important challenges at the societal level, while limited awareness about addiction and denial of problems can be situated at the individual level. Conclusions: Institutional, societal, and personal challenges keep persons with AUD from participating in alcohol treatment in public and private services in Uganda. Alcohol regulation, sensitization, and prevention are needed to raise awareness at the societal and individual level, while appropriate training and additional financial resources may help to overcome institutional challenges.
( d ) THE VERTIGO OF SECULARIZATION

Globalization has challenged us to find new political definitions that can help us cope with the complexities and paradoxes of this new era. In the following paper, I wish to address some of these issues by focusing on the interrelationship between religion and politics and the renewed interest in defining political authority. I would like to show that our historical concepts of authority and their relationship to religion and politics were not simple processes of secularization. The loss of one world –the fully religious one– does not lead directly to the creation of another. There is, in between, a difficult task of historical understanding, of coping with the moral and political dilemmas, of rethinking the past, and of envisioning the need for new conceptual tools.
An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between the Managerial Ownership and Corporate Performance in China

This study conducts an empirical analysis on the relationship between managerial ownership and corporate performance in China. The objects are 2024 company-year observations from the listed companies traded on Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges from 2014 to 2016 after suffering the economic recession in 2008. Initially, there is a linear relationship with positive coefficient between managerial ownership and corporate performance at low level of ownership in China. Moreover, when controlling the time dummies, an inverted U-Shaped relationship is found, which is consistent with Defense Theory (Chen, 2001). It suggests there is an increase of firm value as the increase of managerial ownership at the low level of ownership but a decrease of firm value as the increase of managerial ownership at the high level of ownership. Furthermore, the firm-fixed effects are added in the model, but most variables turn to be insignificant. Keywords—managerial ownership; corporate performance; inverted U-shape; linear relationship
Influences of Groove Depth on the Coupling of Small Tip Clearance and Circumferential Grooves

Coupling of small tip clearance and circumferential grooves of axial-flow compressors significantly improves the stability margin, as well as pressure ratio and efficiency. Different groove depth under coupling of small tip clearance and circumferential grooves has been designed for the isolate subsonic NPU-rotor based. Moreover, influences and mechanism of groove depth on the coupling of small tip clearance and circumferential grooves have been further studied by utilizing a numerical simulation calculation method. The results showed that the role of casing treatment reduced driving force of generating leakage action, postponed negative effects intersecting incoming flow with tip clearance flow and improved flow field of tip passages by sucking leakage flow into the groove.
Non‐Contact Electrical Doping Profiling

Monitoring of dopant concentration in the near surface region is very important in semiconductor manufacturing, especially for epi‐technology and ion implantation. Two relevant techniques which have been used are Mercury probe and Elastic probe. Both of them allow profiling of dopant concentration by measuring the capacitance of the depletion layer, CD, versus the applied bias. These techniques are contact in nature. In addition Mercury probe uses Hg, which may be considered undesirable in cleanroom environment. The method being presented is non‐contact and non‐destructive. A deep depletion layer is created by corona charging of the wafer surface. This depletion layer decays to an equilibrium value due to thermal generation of minority carriers. Two transients are simultaneously monitored during this process: 1) the small signal ac surface photovoltage that measures the depletion layer capacitance, and 2) the contact potential difference that measures the voltage drop across the depletion layer. The set o.
Inland dispersal of adult aquatic insects

1. Adult caddisflies (Trichoptera) and mayflies (Ephemeroptera) were light-trapped on summer evenings along the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair, near Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Light traps were located at the shore and at increasing distances inland up to 5 km, and were operated simultaneously for 2 h following sunset. Catches of five species of caddisflies of the family Hydropsychidae (Cheumatopsychecampyla, Cheumatopsychespeciosa, Hydropsychehageni, Hydropsychephalerata, Macrostemumzebratum) and the mayfly Hexagenia (Ephemeridae) were used to examine inland distribution. 2. Inland dispersal was limited: catches of caddisflies declined at a greater than exponential rate with increasing distance from shore. Mean dispersal distance from the shoreline ranged from 650 to 1845 m. Smaller caddisfly species dispersed shorter distances than larger caddisflies and Hexagenia. 3. Inland distribution of adult caddisflies exhibited considerable interspecific variation: distribution was inconsistent among trials for Hexagenia, possibly owing to timing of collections in relation to periods of peak emergence. 4. Sex ratios of caddisflies were female biased at most sites. No consistent bias was observed for Hexagenia. Different inland distribution patterns were observed for males and females. The differences appeared to reflect species-specific reproductive strategies.
Expression Of The Bcl2 Gene In Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia Patients

Abstract Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) manifests as clonal expansion of mature B lymphocytes, whose accumulation is primarily attributed to the dysregulation of apoptosis. Aberrant expression, as well as genetic alterations within various Bcl2 family members and central regulators of the intrinsic, mitochondria-mediated apoptotic pathway all hasve been observed in CLL. Here, we report the expression analysis of the anti-apoptotic Bcl2 gene in a cohort of 58 CLL patients. Quantitative reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) analysis revealed a significant overexpression of Bcl2 mRNA in CLL samples compared to control samples (p=<0.001). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis showed that the level of Bcl2 expression exerts a high discriminatory power between patients and healthy subjects (A=0.98, 95% CI=0.95-1.009, p<0.0001).
Study of radiative heat transfer in titan atmospheric entry

The heating of the hypersonic flow forming in front of a capsule during a Titan entry is dominated by radiation due to the carbon content in the atmosphere (CH4). This leads to higher levels of radiation at relatively low entry speeds when compared to earth re-entry because C species radiate so strongly. Predicting and measuring the aero heat loads is a critical aspect of the thermal protection system design of an atmospheric entry vehicle. Preliminary experiments in the X2 expansion tunnel used a simulated Titan atmosphere consisting of nitrogen and methane with shock speed of 6.5km/s representative of a Titan aerocapture peak heating condition. Measurements were conducted using emission spectroscopy and specially developed radiation gauges. Emission spectroscopy results successfully detected the main spectral contributors to the radiation in Titan entry, and the radiation gauges detected the radiative heat flux on the surface of the cylinder. Hence the ability of the radiation gauges to detect and measure the radiative heat flux in these conditions was demonstrated. A calibration procedure was developed, aiming to determine the amount of radiation detected per gauge in the UV band. The experiments provide benchmark data to help understand and analyse these flows.