Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
CURRENT PRACTICES OF COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS IN COUNSELING PATIENTS ON SMOKING CESSATION IN BEIRUT:A QUESTIONNAIRE – BASED STUDY

Abstract Despite various strategies and efforts exerted in the form of awareness campaigns, health conferences, targeted advertisements and laws, the prevalence of smoking is alarmingly increasing for both genders in Lebanon. Because of the ease of accessibility, community pharmacists are ideally positioned to help their patients quit smoking. The current study aims to assess the Lebanese pharmacists’ practices in counseling their patients on smoking cessation. A cross-sectional study targeting community pharmacists in Beirut was conducted during June 2017 to September 2017. The adopted questionnaire was designed based on the WHO approved 5A’s toolkit program for delivering brief tobacco interventions in primary care. Results were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences program (SPSS) version 20 and Mega Stat. Our results showed that, for most of the survey questions, the performance of fresh pharmacy graduates (having less than 5 years of practice experience) and senior pharmacists (having 6-10 years of practice experience) with regards to counseling patients on smoking cessation using was not statistically different compared to that of older pharmacists (having more than 10 years of practice experience). In a similar pattern to that obtained concerning the length of professional experience, the participating pharmacist in our study, irrespective to their graduating universities, displayed inconsistent practices during counselling their patients on smoking cessation. Interestingly, the presence of on-duty assistance to the participating pharmacists during their practice shift was shown to be significant (P< 0.05 for all questions) in helping them provide their smoking patients proper counselling on smoking cessation. In conclusion, our study highlighted the discrepancy in the participating community pharmacists’ practices relevant to their ability to provide their smoking patients with appropriate smoking cessation services. In order to address the current situation, well-planned, structured interventions at both educational and professional levels should be made as a priority.
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Antonio Damato, Mariateresa Ambrosio, Francesco Villa , Anna Ferrario, Anna Maciag , Francesco Fornai, Paola Lenzi , Valentina Valenti, Flavio di Nonno, Giulio Accarino , Michele Madonna, Maurizio Forte, Gaetano Calı̀, Andrea Baragetti , Giuseppe Danilo Norata , Alberico Luigi Catapano, Monica Cattaneo, Raffaele Izzo , Valentina Trimarco, Francesco Montella , Francesco Versaci, Alberto Auricchio, Giacomo Frati , Sebastiano Sciarretta,
Robust Algorithms for Multiagent Bandits with Heavy Tails

We study the heavy-tailed stochastic bandit problem in the cooperative multiagent setting, where a group of agents interact with a common ban-dit problem, while communicating on a network with delays. Existing algorithms for the stochastic bandit in this setting utilize conﬁdence intervals arising from an averaging-based communication protocol known as running consensus , that does not lend itself to robust estimation for heavy-tailed settings. We propose MP-UCB, a decentralized multi-agent algorithm for the cooperative stochastic bandit that incorporates robust estimation with a message-passing protocol. We prove optimal regret bounds for MP-UCB for several problem settings, and also demonstrate its superiority to existing methods. Furthermore, we establish the ﬁrst lower bounds for the cooperative bandit problem, in addition to providing efﬁcient algorithms for robust bandit estimation of location.
STUDIED ON DIVERGENCE ANALYSIS, HERITABILITY AND GENETIC ADVANCE FOR QUANTITATIVE TRAITS IN BLACK GRAM (VIGNA MUNGO L.)

The present experiment entitled “Studied on divergence analysis, heritability and genetic advance for quantitative traits in black gram (Vigna mungo L.) was conducted at Field Experimentation Centre, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, Allahabad during kharif2017 in Randomized Block Design with three replications. The present investigation was prevailed to examine the 41Blackgram genotypes along with one check (T-9) to study the variability, heritability, genetic advance and divergence. Analysis of variance showed highly significant differences among 41 Blackgram genotypes all the 13 quantitative characters studied. Maximum GCV and PCV were recorded for harvest index,seed yield/plant, clusters per plant. High heritability was recorded for days to maturity, pods/plant, days to 50% flowering, seeds yield/plant,biological yield /plant. High heritability coupled with high genetic advance as percentage of mean was recorded for harvest index. Genetic diversity estimated in 41Blackgram genotypes using Mahalanobis’s D statistic. Forty-one genotypes were grouped into seven clusters by tocher method (Mahalanobis Euclidean Distance) cluster analysis. The maximum inter-cluster distance was observed between cluster VI and cluster VII. The maximum intra-cluster distance was observed in cluster VI. Cluster VI showed maximum cluster mean value for seed yield per plant among all characters cluster per plant, seeds per pod, harvest index contributes maximum.
Improving Developmental Screening Documentation and Referral Completion abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Screening, early identification, and referral improves outcomes for young children at risk for developmental delays. Effective developmental screening processes should include efforts to ensure referral completion and documentation of evaluation results and service eligibility in the child’s medical record. Our objectives were to improve provider documentation of actions taken after an abnormal developmental screening result and increase Early Intervention (State Part C) referrals. METHODS: Various strategies including an electronic medical record template, monthly clinical informatics reporting, and a phone follow-up after an abnormal screening result were implemented to enhance provider documentation of screening results and improve referral actions and outcomes. RESULTS: Of the children eligible for screening (n = 3023), 2610 (86%) were screened, with 382 (15%) scoring in the abnormal range. With phone follow-up, 50% of the abnormal screenings were referred to community resources, including 43% to Early Intervention (EI), in contrast to 20% community referrals and 13% EI referrals with the screening template only (P , .0001). Provider documentation of EI outcomes increased when screening templates and follow-up calls were implemented together (31%) as compared with using the screening template alone (15%). CONCLUSIONS: Enhanced documentation of developmental screening efforts using screening templates and clinical informatics reporting in combination with phone follow-up after an abnormal screening result improved developmental screening outcomes, including referral rates, completed evaluations, and provider documentation of EI services. Such strategies can be effectively used in pediatric primary care settings to improve screening processes and ensure that young children access appropriate services. Pediatrics 2014;134:e1–e8 AUTHORS: Ayelet Talmi, PhD,abc Maya Bunik, MD, MSPH,bc Ryan Asherin, MA,a Michael Rannie, RN, MS,d Tyler Watlington, MD,b Brenda Beaty, MSPH,e and Stephen Berman, MDb aDepartments of Psychiatry, and bPediatrics, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado; cChildren’s Outcomes Research, and dClinical Informatics, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado; and ePreventative Medicine and Biometrics, Colorado Health Outcomes Program, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado
Text-based crude oil price forecasting

Crude oil price forecasting has attracted substantial attention in the field of forecasting. Recently, the research on text-based crude oil price forecasting has advanced. To improve accuracy, some studies have added as many covariates as possible, such as textual and nontextual factors, to their models, leading to unnecessary human intervention and computational costs. Moreover, some methods are only designed for crude oil forecasting and cannot be well transferred to the forecasting of other similar futures commodities. In contrast, this article proposes a text-based forecasting framework for futures commodities that uses only future news headlines obtained from Investing.com to forecast crude oil prices. Two marketing indexes, the sentiment index and the topic intensity index, are extracted from these news headlines. Considering that the public's sentiment changes over time, the time factor is innovatively applied to the construction of the sentiment index. Taking the nature of the short news headlines into consideration, a short text topic model called SeaNMF is used to calculate the topic intensity of the futures market more accurately. Two methods, VAR and RFE, are used for lag order judgment and feature selection, respectively, at the model construction stage. The experimental results show that the Ada-text model outperforms the Adaboost.RT baseline model and the other benchmarks.
Th e Role of the Central Bank in Promoting Sustainable Growth: Perspectives on the Implementation of Flexible ITF in Indonesia1

Th e global fi nancial crisis of 2008-09 (GFC) and the deep accompanying recession created an overarching structural condition of a global and domestic demand shortage. Since then, from a broader policy perspective, there has been a growing call for a revival of the subdued role of the central bank in promoting sustainable economic growth. Th is paper shows that, in the midst of global uncertainty, the policy confi guration to maintain sustainable economic growth should be aimed to simultaneously strike the internal and external balance. Th is implies that domestic policy cannot abandon export promotion strategies, while building up the domestic demand side of 1 A paper presented in Th e Singapore Economic Review (SER) Conference, Special Session on “Monetary Policy and Policies of Central Bank”, 5 August 2015. Th e author would like to acknowledge with sincere thanks Dr.Perry Warjiyo, Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia, for his valuable thoughts on policy mix that became a source of inspiration in the exploration of this paper. Th e author also gratefully acknowledges excellent research assistance from Idham and Tarsidin of Bank Indonesia’s Economic Research Group. Th e views expressed in this paper are solely of the author’s and do not necessarily represent views of Bank Indonesia. 2 Th e author is a Senior Economist and Director at Economic and Monetary Policy Department of Bank Indonesia; Lecturer at the Graduate Program of Economics, University of Indonesia. Th e author would like to acknowledge with sincere thanks Dr.Perry Warjiyo, Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia, for his valuable thoughts on policy mix that became a source of considerable inspiration in the exploration of this paper. Th e author also gratefully acknowledges excellent research assistance from Idham of Bank Indonesia’s Economic Research Group. Th e views expressed in this paper are solely of the author’s and do not necessarily represent views of Bank Indonesia. Afro Eurasian Studies Journal Volume 4, Issue 1 and Spring 2015, pp. 23-61
Data Recovery from "Scrubbed" NAND Flash Storage: Need for Analog Sanitization

Digital sanitization of flash based non-volatile memory system is a well-researched topic. Since flash memory cell holds information in the analog threshold voltage, flash cell may hold the imprints of previously written data even after digital sanitization. In this paper, we show that data is partially or completely recoverable from the flash media sanitized with “scrubbing” based technique, which is a popular technique for page deletion in NAND flash. We find that adversary may utilize the data retention property of the memory cells for recovering the deleted data using standard digital interfaces with the memory. We demonstrate data recovery from commercial flash memory chip, sanitized with scrubbing, by using partial erase operation on the chip. Our results show that analog scrubbing is needed to securely delete information in flash system. We propose and implement analog scrubbing using partial program operation based on the file creation time information.
Systemic Inflammatory Response in Unilateral Sinonasal Polyps

Received/Geliş Tarihi: 18.11. 2019 Accepted/Kabul Tarihi: 10.12. 2019 Address for Correspondence/Yazışma Adresi: Tolga Kırgezen MD, İstanbul Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, İstanbul, Turkey Phone: +90 212 459 64 40 E-mail: tolgakirgezen@gmail.com ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1965-6408 Cite this article as/Atıf: Kırgezen T, Sünter AV, Övünç O, Yiğit Ö. Systemic Inflammatory Response in Unilateral Sinonasal Polyps. İstanbul Med J 2020; 21(1): 58-63. Introduction
Is AIDS related to social determinants of health in Iran? A systematic review

Introduction: AIDS is a global challenge. By looking deeper into the nature of AIDS and its transmission, it can be concluded that AIDS is a social phenomenon rather than a completely biological disease and the results of studies show a significant relationship between the risk of HIV infection and some underlying factors such as demographic, social, economic and cultural factors. Today, these structural and social factors are known as social determinants of health (SDH). The current systematic study aimed to identify SDH related to AIDS in Iran, in order to adopt appropriate strategies to prevent AIDS in Iran. Methods: All studies in Persian or English focusing on the relationship between societal health and AIDS conducted in Iran were systematically reviewed from PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Web of Science and internal databases (IranMedex, SID and Magiran) by December 2018. In order to evaluate the quality of the articles, the STORBE checklist was used and, after reviewing the articles, finally, out of a total of 964 articles, 18 papers were selected to enter into the study. Results: In this systematic review, 12 articles were performed on people at risk for AIDS, while 6 articles were conducted on patients with positive HIV/AIDS. Based on the WHO model, the determinants of social well-being in this study were structural determinants of heath; (gender, educational level, occupational status, income and housing) and intermediate determinants of heath (marital status, high-risk behaviors, awareness, attitude about AIDS, social support status, access to the Internet and satellite, and history of child sexual abuse). Conclusion: The main risk factors for HIV infection in Iran (intravenous opium and unsafe sexual intercourse) were related to social, economic and behavioral factors. Therefore, it is essential to consider SDH as the key factors in the emergence and control of AIDS by health policy-makers and relevant authorities for the prevention of AIDS
Past and present status of kob (Kobus (Adenota) kob (Erxleben) in Nigeria

Past and present distribution of Kob (Kobus kob) within the Nigeria protected landscapes was studied. Reconnaissance survey of all the parks and some of the existing game reserves were conducted to ascertain whether the animals have existed in those areas before or they still exist. Questionnaires were administered to both the officials and residents of the surrounding villages and enclaves of those parks where Kob (Kobus kob) still exists. Coordinates of the park or reserves where the animals have existed before or are still present were taken and was used to draw their previous and current national distribution map within the country. The data from the questionnaires were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results showed that Kob existed in eleven protected areas but they are now restricted to ranges within three national parks. Responses concerning sighting of Kob in almost all the parks currently inhabited were more coherent and consistent from 2000 to date. Approximately 50% of the respondents in Kainji, 89% for Gashaka, 100% for Old Oyo National Parks confirmed that they can recognize and have seen the animal before. It was also confirmed that Kobs in Kainji are more stable in status than those in Gashaka and Old Oyo respectively. Thus, it was concluded that the national range landscape of Kob has shrunk tremendously in Nigeria.
STEIM: A Spatiotemporal Event Interaction Model in V2X Systems Based on a Time Period and a Raster Map

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is an important artificial intelligence research field for intelligent transportation applications. Complex event interactions are important methods for data flow processing in a Vehicle to Everything (V2X) environment. Unlike the classic Internet of Things (IoT) systems, data streams in V2X include both temporal information and spatial information. Thus, effectively expressing and addressing spatiotemporal data interactions in the IoV is an urgent problem. To solve this problem, we propose a spatiotemporal event interaction model (STEIM). STEIM uses a time period and a raster map for its temporal model and spatial model, respectively. In this paper, first, we provide a spatiotemporal operator and a complete STEIM grammar that effectively expresses the spatiotemporal information of the spatiotemporal event flow in the V2X environment. Second, we describe the design of the operational semantics of the STEIM from the formal semantics. In addition, we provide a spatiotemporal event-stream processing algorithm that is based on the Petri net model. The STEIM establishes a mechanism for V2X event-stream temporal and spatial processing. Finally, the effectiveness of the STEIM-based system is demonstrated experimentally.
Alloy Design for the Development and Production of Titanium Based Bulk Metallic Glasses

In order to investigate effect of possible candidate alloying elements on bulk glass forming ability of Ti based bulk metallic glasses, two different multicomponent alloy systems were selected as Ti48Cu30Ni10Al7V5 and Ti47Cu30Ni10Al7V5Si1. Samples of these multicomponent alloy systems were produced by using arc melting water cooled copper mold suction casting under argon atmosphere. The effect of addition of potential alloying elements on the bulk glass forming ability and the phase formation/transformation behavior of Ti based BMG will be presented by structural characterization techniques.
Removal of Hydrogen Sulfide from Biogas Using a Bubbling Tank Fed with Aerated Wastewater

ABSTRACT The work develops a simple bubbling tank scrubber that is fed with aerating wastewater for the removal of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in biogas. A 2,000 L plastic tank, in which fixed liquid levels 0.80 and 1.0 m and volumes of 1.1 and 1.4 m3 was kept, was used for the scrubbing tests. A polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe with holes of 1 mm diameter was used to sparge the biogas into the tank liquid. Results indicate that with an influent liquid of pH 7.5–7.7, a flow rate of 23–25 L min–1, influent biogas flow rates of 0.050–0.200 m3 min–1, and a H2S concentration of 907 ± 212 ppm, the pH of the effluent liquid stabilized at 6.6–6.9. With gas/liquid rate ratio of 2–8 m3 m–3 liquid and volumetric gassing intensities of 0.04–0.20 m3 m–3 liquid min–1, average H2S removals of 86–71% were obtained. Absorption of CO2 in the tested digester gas into the scrubbing liquid caused a decrease in the pH, thus decreasing the H2S removal efficiency. Increasing pH of the scrubbing liquid to 8.0 improved the H2S removal efficiency to as high as 99%.
A Review on Mobile Cloud Computing

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) provided the way to overcome the limitations of the Mobile devices. Mobile cloud computing is one of the promising technology. The application of Mobile device technology has more complex and resource famished. The wireless network connectivity is inconsistency and it always affected by the connectivity of device and cloud. Mobile cloud computing is a combination of cloud computing, simultaneously the capability of the mobile system is enhanced by cloud computing. Bandwidth, storage capacity, and battery life are always the use of mobile cloud computing. As well as the environment related issues are the example of scalability, availability, e. t. c. The use of these MCC issues is always overcomes the performance related obstacles. The security threat has become an obstacle to the rapid adaptability and large use of the MCC paradigm. It is the more important factor in wireless communication technology is always being considered. This paper proposed the minimization response time is achieved and always reviews the concept of MCC gives information about MCC application as well as security issues. Keywords-Mobile Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing, Bandwidth, Inconsistency.
Soft computing for qualitative and quantitative seismic object and reservoir property prediction Part

oft computing has been used in many areas of petroleum exploration and development. With the recent publication of three books on the subject, it appears that soft computing is gaining popularity among geoscien-tists. In this paper we focus on one aspect of soft computing: neural networks, in qualitative and quantitative seismic object detection. In subsequent papers we will review other aspects of soft computing in exploration. Highlighted here will be the role neural networks play in combining different seismic attributes and effectively bringing together data with the interpreter’s knowledge to decrease exploration risk in four categories (geometry, reservoir, charge and seal).
Investigating Growth Performance and Intestinal Barrier Integrity in Heat-stressed Modern Broilers and Their Ancestor Jungle Fowl

Heat stress (HS) has a negative effect on poultry production sustainability due to its adverse consequence on bird welfare, health, growth, and mortality. Although modern broilers have greater gut mass and higher energy use efficiency than unselected birds, they are more vulnerable to HS that induces “leaky gut syndrome,” or increased intestinal permeability. The aim of the current study was to determine the effect of HS on growth performance and gut barrier integrity in three modern broiler lines and their ancestor the Jungle Fowl. Four chicken populations including Giant Jungle Fowl (JF), Athens Canadian Random Bred (ACRB), 1995 Arkansas Random Bred (95RAN), and Modern Random Bred (MRB) were studied. Day-old male broiler chicks from each population were raised under thermoneutral (TN) conditions with feed intake, water intake, and temperature measured daily. On day 28 the birds were subjected to one of two environment conditions: TN (24°C) or acute HS (2 hrs at 36°C). After two hours, samples from each section of the small intestine were harvested from two birds per line per treatment and flash frozen in liquid nitrogen. Following 28, the remaining birds were grown out to 56, during which birds were subjected to chronic cyclic HS (8 hrs a day at 36oC). Growth performance, metabolite and blood hormone concentrations, and molecular data were analyzed by two-way ANOVA. These data show the significant effect HS had on growth performance and intestinal barrier integrity of the studied modern broilers. Acute HS was shown to decrease performance in the modern broilers and had significant effect on mRNA and protein expression of heat shock, tight junction, gap junction, and other intestinal barrier associated proteins. These data provide evidence for a mechanistic understanding of gut barrier physiology and how it can be influenced by growth-rate and heat stress. ©2019 by Travis Tabler All Rights Reserved