Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Systematic Review of Highly Generalizable Risk Factors for Unplanned 30-Day All-Cause Hospital Readmissions

Background: Hospital readmissions are common and expensive. Numerous global efforts have been devoted to predicting readmissions. However, for many reasons including the variations in the studied populations and inconsistent definitions of readmissions, the outcomes of some studies can hardly be generalized to other studies inside or outside the same country or region. Objective: The objective was to identify highly generalizable risk factors for unplanned 30-day all-cause hospital readmissions to guide the selection of baseline predictor variables in different readmission studies. Methods: In July 2017, PubMed was searched to identify articles pertaining to the risk factors for unplanned 30-day all-cause hospital readmissions. To identify potentially eligible risk factors, characteristics of the selected studies were manually extracted. The generalizability of the risk factors was assessed with predefined criteria. Results: 13 articles were eligible for the review. A total of 42 risk factors were identified and 34 of them were found to be highly generalizable. Conclusions: The 34 risk factors are not specific to any populations or places, and the corresponding predictor variables can serve as baseline variables in readmission prediction studies. No major difference has been observed between the risk factors identified inside and outside the United States except that US studies appeared to prefer composite comorbidity measures. All the reviewed studies have used traditional statistical regression-based methods to identify risk factors and more applications of data mining techniques are expected in this field.
VELOCITY-DEPENDENT TUNING OF MOTOR STRATEGY DURING 3D ARM MOVEMENT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO COMPOSITE COST FUNCTIONS

The purpose of this study was to investigate the link between composite cost functions, within the framework of optimal control, and the velocity-dependent tuning of motor strategy observed during the control of unconstrained 3D arm movements. We considered an arm pointing task at three different speeds. Experimental results indicated a change of rotation axis for most subjects from the geometrical shoulder-elbow (SE) axis toward the minimum principal inertia (e3) axis as velocity increased. These findings were interpreted based on a numerical inverse optimal control approach, assuming a total cost composed of kinematic, energetic and dynamic elements. While the kinematic cost predominated at low speed, the contribution of energetic/dynamic costs was reinforced for speeded movements, likely to exploit the inertial properties of the arm.
A Study of the Relationship between Multiple Intelligences & Grammatical Errors

The purposes of the study were : 1) to make surveys on grammatical errors and multiple intelligences of Chinese EFL learners; 2) to explore the possible relationship between grammatical errors and multiple intelligences; 3) to make a comparison between two groups of the learners about the number of errors after receiving two different kinds of instruction – the control group following undifferentiated instruction ignoring the subjects’ conditions of multiple intelligences, and the experiment group receiving instruction catering to each subject’s composition of multiple intelligences. The subjects were 74 first year students of English major at Guangzhou Automobile College, China, all enrolled in 2009, belonging to two classes, which was randomly designated as one control group and one experimental group. The method used in the study was quantitative. The study was conducted through data collection by administering of questionnaire, writing task, and error correction test to all the subjects. Then it was followed with data analysis by examination of frequency distributions of multiple intelligences and grammatical errors, bivariate correlation between the multiple intelligences and grammatical errors, and independent-samples t test on the two groups of subjects. The study found that among the Chinese EFL learners: 1) the most frequently made grammatical errors was the incorrect usage of lexical verbs; 2) the obvious intelligence displayed in strength was intrapersonal intelligence; 3) the most obvious correlation was a negative one found between visual intelligence and article errors; 4) the experimental group obtaining multiple intelligences based instruction performed better in error correction than the control group which followed undifferentiated instruction.
Contagion and Fire Sales in Banking Networks

The paper develops a theoretical framework to analyze the connection between the structure of banking networks and their resilience to systemic shocks. We base our analysis on the model of interbank contagion proposed by Cifuentes, Ferrucci and Shin (2005), which accounts for the impact of illiquid assets' fire sales. We develop this model along three main lines: (i) analytically proving, in a general setting, the existence of an equilibrium and the convergence of the algorithm that can be used to compute it; (ii) extending the scope of the simulations (e.g., including an assessment of the resilience of different stylized network topologies and a sensitivity analysis); (iii) generalizing the model to deal with the case where more than one illiquid asset is available on the market.
The effect of grain polyphenols and the addition of vitamin E to diets enriched with α-linolenic acid on the antioxidant status of pigs.

The aim of this study was to determine the antioxidant status and blood lipid profile of pigs fed diets enriched with α -linolenic acid (ALA) and containing two sets of antioxidants: phenolic compounds of diet components (barley, triticale, naked oat and buckwheat by-products) only, or phenolic compounds and vitamin E supplementation. A three-factorial experiment was performed on growing-finishing barrows (6-7 pigs per group) fed individually diets supplemented with 3% linseed oil, formulated as isoenergetic, isofibre and isofat. The influence of the type of diet (barley-triticale-based control diets vs 40%-oat-based diets), the share of buckwheat by-products (0 vs 10/12% of grower/finisher diets), and vitamin E supplementation (0 vs 100 IU ⋅ kg -1 ) was evaluated. The analysed feed materials could be classified according to their total phenolic compound (TPC) content and in vitro antioxidant capacity (TAC) in the following decreasing order: buckwheat hulls and bran >> barley >> naked oat ≈ triticale. Diets with higher levels of TPC
Health-Related Data from a Community Risk Reduction Program: Healthy U™ of DelMarva

The primary aim of this study was to examine baseline data from participants in a community coalition aiming to reduce disease risk and enhance lifestyle modification. Adults (N = 5,876) residing in the Eastern Shore of Maryland enrolled in the program, and were encouraged to re-enroll the following year. Incentives were offered to enhance participation and program adherence. Cooking demonstrations, exercise classes, and lectures were held, and community-wide messages espousing healthy behavior were spread to increase knowledge of healthy behavior. Participants filled out a survey, and body mass index (BMI) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) were measured. Frequency statistics were used to analyze data. BMI (29.73 ± 7.38 kg/m 2 ), waist circumference (37.15 ± 6.85 in.), and WHR (0.84 ± 0.09) surpassed healthy values. Intake of fruits and vegetables was low, inactivity was high (50% of members exercised less than two days/week), and diets moderate or high in fat were prevalent (70% of participants). Data confirm the rather unhealthy lifestyle of our local population. Future interventions to enhance wellness and reduce disease in this population are warranted.
Comparison of Motivation and Learning Outcome Achievement in Shortened, Online Summer Courses versus Their Full-Term Counterparts

This study examined student motivation and learning outcome achievement in shortened summer online courses when compared to their full-term online counterparts. Two courses were examinedâ€”a science course and a humanities courseâ€”each of which was taught as a full semester (15- week), fall term asynchronous online course and a shortened (5-week) summer term asynchronous online course. Both courses were designed with the assistance of an instructional designer and met design standards through an informal Quality Matters review. Further, both versions of each course were taught by the same professors who had both participated in online teacher training. The two versions of each course was identical in terms of content, assignments, layout, and rigor. In sum, this study held constant the variables of instructional design, instructor, and course content, and only course length was isolated as an independent variable. Student achievement of learning outcomes was measured by final course grades, single grades on a major project, and a post-course knowledge test. Motivation was measured using standard questions selected from the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire. Results from 133 students in the full semester fall offerings and 66 students in the shortened summer offerings reveal that learning outcome achievement and motivation have no statistically significant difference when comparing course length or course term.
Saving Ligamentum Flavum in One Day Care Microscopic Lumbar Disc Surgery

Background Data Decompression discectomy is a common procedure for treatment of sciatica caused by lumbar disc herniation. Conventional discectomy may damage many important motion segment structures. Microscopic lumbar disc surgery can offer better visualization, magnification and illumination that lead to less invasive disc surgery. Shorter hospital stay, rapid recovery, and decrease the surgical cost is a trend to broaden the types of procedures that can be safely performed as one day care procedure.Purpose: To assess the safety and efficacy of microscopic lumbar discectomy with partial ligamentum flavum preservation in treating L5-S1 lumbar disc herniation as outpatient procedure in one day care hospital.Study design: Prospective clinical case study.Patients and Methods: Between the period of 2012 and 2015 seventy cases were treated for prolapsed L5-S1 disc after failure of conservative treatment. All patients were operated by microscopic lumbar discectomy with partial preservation of the ligamentum flavum as outpatient one day surgery. Visual analogue scale (VAS), Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), and patient satisfaction questionnaire were used to assess the safety and efficacy of our procedure. Preoperative and postoperative MRI was done to confirm ligamentum flavum preservation.Results: At the last follow up, VAS improved from 7.29±0.89 to 1.8±0.93 with P value P<0.002. ODI was improved from 42.01±6.77 to 13.4±4.72 with P value<0.002. One cases had pseudomeningeocele treated conservatively; three patients suffered paresthesia improved with medical conservative treatment. Two patients had limited postoperative superficial infections. Recurrence of lumbar disc herniation was reported in one case 1.5 years after surgery.Conclusion: According to the result, one day microscopic L5-S1 lumbar discectomy with partial ligamentum flavum preservation is possible with favorable clinical outcomes. (2017ESJ132)
Influence of discharge planning on anxiety levels in patients with myocardial infarction.

كچ ي هد فده و هقباس : هزورما مود ي ن تلع گرم و م ي ر سپ زا وح ثدا و ناطرس اه ب ي رام ي اه ي بلق ي و قورع ي تسا . ءلاتبا هب ب ي رام ي اه ي قورع رنورك ارب ي ب ي رام بارطضا روآ تسا . اذل قحت ي ق رضاح اب فده نييعت ثات ي ر ارجا ي حرط خرـت ي ص رـب نازيم بارطضا ناراميب لاتبم هب سوتكرافنا بلق ي حارط ي هدش تسا . شور و داوم اه : ا ي ن شهوژپ ي ك هعلاطم ن ي هم برجت ي تسا هك رد نآ 60 ب ي رام ) رد هورگ نومزآ و دهاش رـه ـ ي ك 30 رفن ( لاتبم هب هتكس بلق ي رتسب ي رد شخب CCU ساسارب تاصخشم ،هنومن باختنا و سررب ي دندش . ارب ي هورگ نومزآ هولاع رب تامادقا تور ي ن ،شخب همانرب خرت ي ص رب ساسا وگلا ي آرف ي دن راتسرپ ي ب ه تدم 5 هسلج رد ب ي ناتسرام ارـجا و هب تدم 4 هتفه رد لزنم يريگيپ دش و ارب ي هورگ دهاش همانرب تور ي ن شخب ارـجا درگ ـ ي د . سپـس م ـ ي ناز بارطـضا هنومن اه ي ره ود هورگ لبق زا ارجا ي هلخادم و مه نچ ي ن ي ك هام سپ زا خرت ي ص اب هدافتسا زا شسرپ همان پـسا ي ل رـگرب هزادنا گ ي ر ي دش . هتفاي اه : اتن ي ج نومزآ داد ناشن ك ه لبق زا ارجا ي حرط خرـت ي ،ص تواـفت ـ نعم ي راد ي رد شهاـك م ـ ي گنا ي ن هرـمن بارطضا عقوم ي ت ي و بارطضا لك هورگ نومزآ رد اقم ي هس اب هورگ دهاش دوجو تشادن ) 05 / 0 P> . ( ل ي نك دـعب زا ارـجا ي حرط خرت ي ،ص توافت نعم ي راد ي رد شهاك م ي گنا ي ن هرمن بارطضا عقوم ي ت ي و بارطضا لك هورگ نومزآ رد اقم ـ ي هس اـب هورگ دهاش دوجو تشاد ) 05 / 0 P< . ( هجيتن يريگ : ارجا ي حرط خرت ي ص ببس شهاك بارطضا ب ي نارام لاتبم هب سوتكرافنا داح م ي و دراك هدش تـسا . اذـل پ ي داهنش م ي دوش همانرب خرت ي ص رد بلاق ي ك حرط عماج و هب ناونع ي ك شور رثوم ريغ يئوراد و مك هنيزه رد شهاك بارطضا ا ي ن ب ي نارام كرد روش هب راك هتفرگ دوش . هژاو يديلك ياه : ،بارطضا حرط خرت ي ،ص سوتكرافنا بلق ي
SKA weak lensing - III. Added value of multiwavelength synergies for the mitigation of systematics

In this third paper of a series on radio weak lensing for cosmology with the Square Kilometre Array, we scrutinise synergies between cosmic shear measurements in the radio and optical/near-IR bands for mitigating systematic effects. We focus on three main classes of systematics: (i) experimental systematic errors in the observed shear; (ii) signal contamination by intrinsic alignments; and (iii) systematic effects due to an incorrect modelling of non-linear scales. First, we show that a comprehensive, multi-wavelength analysis provides a self-calibration method for experimental systematic effects, only implying <50% increment on the errors on cosmological parameters. We also illustrate how the cross-correlation between radio and optical/near-IR surveys alone is able to remove residual systematics with variance as large as 0.00001, i.e. the same order of magnitude of the cosmological signal. This also opens the possibility of using such a cross-correlation as a means to detect unknown experimental systematics. Secondly, we demonstrate that, thanks to polarisation information, radio weak lensing surveys will be able to mitigate contamination by intrinsic alignments, in a way similar but fully complementary to available self-calibration methods based on position-shear correlations. Lastly, we illustrate how radio weak lensing experiments, reaching higher redshifts than those accessible to optical surveys, will probe dark energy and the growth of cosmic structures in regimes less contaminated by non-linearities in the matter perturbations. For instance, the higher-redshift bins of radio catalogues peak at z~0.8-1, whereas their optical/near-IR counterparts are limited to z<0.5-0.7. This translates into having a cosmological signal 2 to 5 times less contaminated by non-linear perturbations.
Resource Management and Decision Support System for Border Patrol

In order to achieve the two goals in the 2012-2016 border patrol national strategy, which are secure America’s borders and strengthen the border patrol, many types of information and data from different resources should be integrated and considered. The data includes historical data, real time data from sensors, and data from supporting system, such as GIS. However, there is few research on an integrated decision making support system can provide the complete information to the users and assist users to make a systematically thinking decision. This paper focuses on providing a structured approach in developing an interactive decision making support system for both border security resource allocation and patrol routing plan. It will result in the development of new system and a new analysis tool for the border security resource management.
History and Development of Interprofessional Education

While Interprofessional education (IPE) has existed as a powerful construct for many years, the advent of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010) in the United States (U.S.) has placed a new urgency on integration of an IPE model into the education of students in speech-language pathology and audiology.
Assessing the Influence of Prior on Subsequent Street Robbery Location Choices: A Case Study in ZG City, China

The literature shows that offenders’ subsequent crime location choices are affected by their prior crime location choices. However, the published studies have focused on the influence of time and place of a previous crime, without testing the impact of whether the offender was arrested during the act of the prior crime. On the basis of the literature, this study further examines the influence of the prior robbery experiences on the subsequent street robbery location choices, by testing explicit hypotheses on how the time, place, and being arrested in the act of previous robberies affect a robber’s subsequent decisions of where to commit robberies. The data set used in this study includes 1262 detected robberies committed by 527 street robbers from the ZG City Public Security Bureau in China. Results of a mixed logit model demonstrate that prior street robbery experiences have a strong effect on subsequent street robbery location choices. A shorter time interval and less possibility of being arrested in the act of a prior street robbery significantly increase the likelihood of a robber returning to the previous location. However, the impact of distance of journey to prior crime location is not statistically significant.
Metaheuristic Algorithm for Photovoltaic Parameters: Comparative Study and Prediction with a Firefly Algorithm

In this paper, a Firefly algorithm is proposed for identification and comparative study of five, seven and eight parameters of a single and double diode solar cell and photovoltaic module under different solar irradiation and temperature. Further, a metaheuristic algorithm is proposed in order to predict the electrical parameters of three different solar cell technologies. The first is a commercial RTC mono-crystalline silicon solar cell with single and double diodes at 33 °C and 1000 W/m2. The second, is a flexible hydrogenated amorphous silicon a-Si:H solar cell single diode. The third is a commercial photovoltaic module (Photowatt-PWP 201) in which 36 polycrystalline silicon cells are connected in series, single diode, at 25 °C and 1000 W/m2 from experimental current-voltage. The proposed constrained objective function is adapted to minimize the absolute errors between experimental and predicted values of voltage and current in two zones. Finally, for performance validation, the parameters obtained through the Firefly algorithm are compared with recent research papers reporting metaheuristic optimization algorithms and analytical methods. The presented results confirm the validity and reliability of the Firefly algorithm in extracting the optimal parameters of the photovoltaic solar cell.
Constructing the News: The Role of Local Newspapers in Environmental Risk Communication

Abstract Effective risk communication is central to good environmental risk management. While studies have shown that newspapers are the primary source of information to the public regarding environmental issues, little is known about how environmental news is used as a risk-communication tool. This article explores the role of local information systems in risk communication, using newspaper content analysis as well as in-depth interviews with journalists and community residents to develop a case study of an environmental assessment process for a nonhazardous industrial-waste landfill. Results indicate that risk messages were chosen and shaped by journalists on the basis of their own exigencies. In addition, while newspapers were a major source of risk information, their impact was mitigated by resident distrust and access to other information sources, most notably their own personal information networks. These results have implications for environmental policy, as decision makers often use—either passively or actively—print media as a risk-communication tool. *This project was supported by a grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
A Comparison of Online Social Networks and Real-Life Social Networks: A Study of Sina Microblogging

Online social networks appear to enrich our social life, which raises the question whether they remove cognitive constraints on human communication and improve human social capabilities. In this paper, we analyze the users' following and followed relationships based on the data of Sina Microblogging and reveal several structural properties of Sina Microblogging. Compared with real-life social networks, our results confirm some similar features. However, Sina Microblogging also shows its own specialties, such as hierarchical structure and degree disassortativity, which all mark a deviation from real-life social networks. The low cost of the online network forms a broader perspective, and the one-way link relationships make it easy to spread information, but the online social network does not make too much difference in the creation of strong interpersonal relationships. Finally, we describe the mechanisms for the formation of these characteristics and discuss the implications of these structural properties for the real-life social networks.
The metallic state of the organic conductor TMTSF-DMTCNQ at low temperature under pressure

We present experimental evidences for a high conductivity state (σ > 105 (Ω.cm)-1) stabilized by high pressure (P > 10 kbar) at low temperature in the quasi one-dimensional organic conductor TMTSF-DMTCNQ. The magnetoresistance investigations suggest among several possible interpretations of the metallic state, the existence of a quasi 1-D BCS-like superconductivity remaining up to ~ 30 K.
Flood resilience technology in Europe: identifying barriers and co‐producing best practice

Flood resistance (FRe) and resilience technologies hold considerable potential to limit the damage caused by flooding. Resistance technologies generally aim to keep water out of buildings, while resilient measures may allow ingress but create the conditions for a quicker recovery of individuals, communities and buildings. However, despite their potential contribution to flood risk management (FRM), their use remains uncommon. This paper draws on pan‐European research of local communities at risk and their representatives, and professional stakeholders working at a more strategic scale, to explore the barriers to use and describe the co‐production of new best practice. It interrogates the issues in terms of level of awareness, degree of acceptance and the integration into decision making. We found that even where awareness was high, there was a reluctance to use these measures. This is due to issues related to comparability, costs, installation, performance and maintenance. The research also revealed that FRM policy and practice has struggled to incorporate this emergent approach and that many individuals at risk are reluctant to take responsibility and protect their properties in this way. In response, this paper details how good practice guidance – the ‘Six Steps approach’ – was co‐produced with key stakeholders to facilitate the wider contribution of FRe to FRM.