Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
419-424 Saichua P.pmd

Toxoplasmosis is caused by the infective stage of Toxoplasma gondii and is often acquired from contaminated food and water. Data on the prevalence of T. gondii in freerange chickens (Gallus domesticus) in Khon Kaen province, Northeast Thailand, are limited. A total of 257 serum samples were collected and antibodies to T. gondii were examined by the latex agglutination test; 26 (10.1%) free-range chickens were positive. By logistic regression, the seroprevalence rate was 3.8 fold higher in the rainy season compared to the dry season (OR=3.81, 95% CI=1.39-10.47, P=0.006). The mean rainfall in the seropositive group (3.48 ± 2.05 mm) was significantly higher (P=0.028) compared to the seronegative group (2.42 ± 2.35 mm). The point biserial correlation coefficients showed a positive association between seropositivity and mean rainfall (r=0.137, P=0.028) but no significant associations for temperature or humidity. In conclusion, the presence of T. gondii infection in free-range chickens in Khon Kaen province suggests environmental contamination. The wet season and mean rainfall are significant associations with seroprevalence. The prevention of faecal contamination from cats to the environment is a good strategy to reduce the risk of infection in soil feeding animal such as chicken.
Thermal Expansion of Graphene Composites

Isolated graphene sheets were achieved by graphite intercalation and charge-induced exfoliation. The resultant graphene oxide sheets were incorporated into polymer composites and thermal expansion was investigated by a thermo-mechanical analyzer. The test results indicated that inclusion of graphene into composites resulted in low coefficients of thermal expansion (CTEs), and increasing graphene fraction reduced CTEs more significantly. The 5 wt % graphene oxide-based composite shows 31.7% reduction below the glass transition temperature. Preliminary measurement of thermal conductivity also indicated that graphene composites significantly improved the thermal conductivity of polymer matrix. Thermal conductivity of 5% graphene composites showed about 4-fold increment in comparison to the polymer matrix. This finding will provide a solid foundation for graphene-enabled thermal management in microelectronics.
Analysis, Prediction and Maintenance of Teaching learning process based on empathize Students' View of attending Online/Regular Class

Learning models have been widely used in predicting diseases, disorders, behaviour aspects in human beings etc. The current research gives an analytical study on predicting University students’ behaviour with various Machine Learning approaches. Research shows that Machine Learning approaches outwit the strategies especially in Student behaviour analysis. An analytical study on various learning approaches and its application in Behaviour Analysis is vividly presented in the paper. The study would give an understanding on how various learning approaches could be applied in Student Behaviour Analysis that includes academic performance, behavioural study with reference to courses, Online teaching modes etc. The paper also encompasses comparison with various Machine Learning approaches in student behavioural prediction.
Effect of Acrylic Polymers on the Physical Parameters and in vitro Release Kinetics of Diclofenac Sodium Sustained Release Pellets

The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of Ammonio Methacrylate Copolymer Type A (Eudragit RL 30 D) and Ammonio Methacrylate Copolymer Type B (Eudragit RS 30 D) on the release kinetics study of diclofenac sodium form coated pellets. Eudragit RS 30 D and Eudragit RL 30 D were added into the formulation at 5:1 ratio. Different percent of this polymeric combination was loaded on to the drug-loaded pellets. Loss on drying value as well as bulk density of coated pellets increase along with the increase in polymer level. It was found that the cumulative percent release of drug decreased with the increase of polymer load in all cases. From all formulations it was observed that the release of diclofenac sodium in 0.1N HCl media was very low (maximum 2.87 %) at first 2 hours. Better sustaining effect was found from Eudragit RS 30 D and Eudragit RL 30 D combinations. Drug was released linearly along with time throughout the whole dissolution process in phosphate buffer (p H 6.8) and it was also revealed that, in all cases the release of diclofenac sodium followed zero order kinetics. Key words: Diclofenac sodium, Eudragit RL 30 D, Eudragit RS 30 D, Aqueous coating, Physical parameters, Kinetics of drug release Bangladesh J. Sci. Ind. Res. 42(3), 239-248, 2007
Identi cation of NTRK3 as a potential prognostic biomarker associated with tumor mutation burden and immune in ltration in bladder cancer

Zhao Zhang A liated Hospital of Qingdao University Yongbo Yu A liated Hospital of Qingdao University Pengfei Zhang A liated Hospital of Qingdao University Guofeng Ma A liated Hospital of Qingdao University Mingxin Zhang A liated Hospital of Qingdao University Ye Liang A liated Hospital of Qingdao University Wei Jiao A liated Hospital of Qingdao University Haitao Niu (  niuht0532qdu@163.com ) A liated Hospital of Qingdao University
295-304 Houri H.pmd

Clinical mastitis caused by Enterobacteriaceae accounts for significant economic loss in dairy herds. One of the important pathogens that causes mastitis is Shiga toxinproducing Escherichia coli (STEC). Moreover, mastitis caused by STEC can be considered as a source of transmission of STEC strains to humans through unpasteurized milk. The aim of the current study was to determine of the prevalence, the identification of serogroups, the molecular characterization of virulence factors, and the antibiotic resistance properties of STEC isolates from bovine mastitic milk in dairy cattle in Tehran. A total of 325 milk samples from dairy cattle with clinical signs of mastitis were collected. All E. coli isolates (n: 87, 26.7%) were subjected to multiplex PCR for the detection of stx1, stx2, eaeA, and ehly genes and serogroups. Antibiotic susceptibility testing was carried out by the disc diffusion method for all the STEC isolates. Eighty-seven (26.8%) E. coli and 9 (2.8%) STEC strains were isolated from the bovine mastitic milk samples. Shiga-like toxin genes (stx1 and stx2 or one of them), eaeA and ehly were detected in 100%, 66.6%, and 33.3% of STEC isolates, respectively. O26 (22.2%) and O111 (22.2%) were the most commonly detected STEC serogroups. Other serogroups included O145, O121, O128, O157 and O113. High resistance rate to ampicillin and tetracycline (100%) was observed, followed by trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (66.6%) and chloramphenicol (55.5%). STEC isolates were found in bovine mastitic milk in Tehran and most of the STEC isolates in our study were non-O157 strains.
Online Shopping: Antecedents of Attitude, Intention and Use

Consumer behavior in electronic commerce has been the theme of hundreds of studies conducted by researchers of many nationalities in the past twenty years. The purpose of this study was to review and classify the concepts used in papers published between 2003 and 2014 to explain the consumer behavior in electronic commerce. A systematic search of the literature in nine databases was performed and 136 papers published in double-blind peer reviewed journals were selected. Reference models were prepared based on a classification of the concepts found. This article reports only the concepts that displayed statistical significance in the studies analyzed. Finally, we suggest new studies that can be conducted
Theory of Consumer Behavior: An Islamic Perspective

The paper supplements the theory of consumer behavior with insights from the primary sources of Islam. A consumer who maximizes utility operates within four dimensions: moderation, extravagance, waste, and niggardliness. These dimensions take different meanings in each social stratum. A complicating factor is the context of consumption which could be individual, social, or public. For each social stratum and for each context, these dimensions have different meanings. The paper suggests using the methodology of behavioral economics for defining the dimensions of consumption. It elaborates the concept of marginal propensity to consume into four propensities: marginal propensity to moderation, extravagance, waste, and niggardliness. That necessitates re-defining the law of demand, leading to four curves instead of the one usually found in the economics textbooks. The last part of the paper relates consumer behavior with material well-being and happiness and concludes that moderation leads to the highest levels of happiness as compared to other dimensions of the consumer behavior. JEL Classification: D11, D40, D64, E21, Z12
The Rare Disease InfoHub Portal: Actionable Knowledge Appropriately Delivered

The Rare Disease InfoHub ( ​ https://rarediseases.oscar.ncsu.edu/ ​ ) is a web-based platform that provides a one-stop knowledge resource, delivering the latest available information appropriate for patients, clinicians, and researchers alike while providing structural organization and curation to the Rare Disease knowledge continuum. The InfoHub is designed so that as knowledge and computational algorithms advance and new data science tools become available, they can be easily integrated into the platform to take advantage of sources such as:
Apathy in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Recommendations on the Design of Clinical Trials

Apathy is a common feature of neurodegenerative disorders but is difficult to study in a clinical trial setting due to practical and conceptual barriers. Principal challenges include a paucity of data regarding apathy in these disorders, an absence of established diagnostic criteria, the presence of confounding factors (eg, coexisting depression), use of concomitant medications, and an absence of a gold-standard apathy assessment scale. Based on a literature search and ongoing collaboration among the authors, we present recommendations for the design of future clinical trials of apathy, suggesting Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease as models with relevance across a wider array of neuropsychiatric disorders. Recommendations address clarification of the targeted study population (apathy diagnosis and severity at baseline), confounding factors (mood/cognition, behavior, and treatment), outcome measures, study duration, use of comparators and considerations around environment, and the role of the caregiver and patient assent. This review contributes to the search for an optimal approach to study treatment of apathy in neuropsychiatric disorders.
ESTIMATION OF PILE CAPACITIES USING CASE-BASED REASONING METHOD

In current practice of offshore foundation design, the axial capacity of an offshore pile may be assessed using CPT-based methods, e.g. NGI-05, Fugro-05, ICP-05, and UWA-05. As expected, these methods perform well in the domain they have been calibrated, but their predictions exhibit more scatter when they are applied to other pile load tests. In fact, recent reliability analyses performed for pile foundation of actual platforms show that the model uncertainty associated with different prediction methods is the most important contributor to the uncertainty in foundation performance. The idea of this work is to propose a 'method-free' CPT-based approach for estimating pile capacities directly from a database of pile load tests using Case-Based Reasoning (CBR). The method is applied on high quality database of pile tests in sand and clay sites. Case-Based Reasoning is an Artificial Intelligence method that captures previous experiences and provides them to solve new problems. A CBR system carries out a similarity-based retrieval in order to best match a new problem to the collection of past cases. Once a CBR system is implemented as learning system, new and adapted cases can be added to the case base, therewith increasing the competence of the system [1]. The method is superior to ANN (Artificial Neural Networks) since it allows the user (i.e. expert engineer) to follow the reasoning step on every level. The method gives possibility of expanding the case base without updating the established control parameters. CBR has been used in other disciplines, but its potential application to geotechnical problems has not been explored. The paper presents the application of the method to estimating pile capacities in layered soils, and compares its predictions with those of the established CPT-based methods in use today.
Teenage swearing in the U.K.

This article describes the swearing practices of a group of young people aged 14-16 in the UK. The young people are in a specific context – a Pupil Referral Unit catering for pupils who have been excluded from mainstream school. The study's narrow focus builds on existing knowledge by providing a level of precision in terms of speaker and context not usually found in swearing research. 13 key words are examined in terms of meaning, structure, frequency, and use between genders. Shit and fuck , as the most common terms are explored in more detail, with use of the latter compared to existing accounts from the British National Corpus . Examining the swearing practices of this group of people adds detail to our knowledge of a particular style of English, paves the way for future research into the socio-pragmatic functions of teenage swearing, and helps us to better understand the linguistic behaviour of an often-marginalised section of society.
2 1 N ov 2 01 8 Inequivalent Multipartite Coherence Classes and New Coherence Monotones

Quantum coherence has received significant attention in recent years, but its study is mostly conducted in single party settings. In this paper, we generalize important results in multipartite entanglement theory to their counterparts in quantum coherence theory. First, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for when two pure multipartite states are equivalent under local quantum incoherent operations and classical communication (LICC), i.e., two states can be deterministically transformed to each other under LICC operations. Next, we investigate and give the conditions in which such a transformation succeeds only stochastically. Different from entanglement case for two-qubit states, we find that the SLICC equivalence classes are infinite. Moreover, it’s possible that there are some classes of states in multipartite entanglement can convert into each other, while, they cannot convert into each other in multipartite coherence. In order to show the difference among SLICC classes, we introduce two coherence monotones: accessible coherence and source coherence, following the logistics given in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 150502 (2015)]. These coherence monotones have a straightforward operational interpretation, namely, the accessible coherence characterizes the proficiency of a state to generate other states via quantum incoherent operations, while the source coherence characterizes the set of states that can be reached via quantum incoherent operations acting on the given state of interest.
AN EXPERT PANEL REVIEW OF CLINICAL CHALLENGES IN PSYCHIATRY

Introduction The neuroscience of social interaction is an emerging body of knowledge that deals with how the brain appreciates the mental life of another and distinguishes it from one's own. The social brain allows people to function as a society rather than just as individuals. This perspective also sheds light on the etiology and development of generalized social anxiety disorder (GSAD) and exploration into the mechanisms of action of GSAD treatments.
A Reproduction of Ensemble Distribution Distillation

The authors claim that their proposed method is able to, given an ensemble of deep neural networks, capture the 3 uncertainty estimation and decomposition capabilities of the ensemble into a single model. The authors also claim that 4 this only results in a small reduction in classification performance compared to the ensemble. Most of the authors’ 5 experiments on the CIFAR-10 dataset were reproduced. 6
Attempts to Improve the Behavior of Li Electrodes in Rechargeable Lithium Batteries

In this work we studied properties of modified lithium electrodes in an attempt to improve the high rate performance of rechargeable Li (metal) batteries containing liquid electrolyte solutions. Li (metal)-Li 0.3 MnO 2 AA batteries with solutions containing 1,3-dioxolane (DN), LiAsF 6 , and a basic stabilizer became commercial several years ago but failed to compete with Li-ion battery technology because of a very limited cycle life at high charging rates. The problem relates to intensive reactions between Li deposited at high rates and the electrolyte solutions, which dry the batteries. The lithium-solution reactivity was modified through several approaches. Li anodes doped by Li 3 N, Al, and Mg were tested, as well as solutions containing derivatives of DN that are expected to be less reactive toward lithium than DN. It was concluded that reduction of the Li anode-solution reactivity by these approaches cannot solve the problem, because it is impossible to modify the rough morphology, high surface of lithium electrodes when charging (Li deposition) rates are high (>1 mA/cm 2 ). Since there is no hermetic passivation of any Li surface in liquid electrolyte solutions, the high-surface-area Li deposits react with solution components. Therefore, upon charge-discharge cycling of practical Li (metal) batteries, the electrolyte solution is consumed in these reactions. Hence, the future of Li (metal) rechargeable batteries lies either in the use of solid electrolyte matrices instead of the liquid solutions, or in applications where low charging rates are tolerable.
High-resolution observations of the North Pacific transition layer from a 9 Lagrangian float 10

A crucial region of the ocean surface boundary layer (OSBL) is the strongly-sheared and stratified transition layer (TL) separating the mixed layer from the upper pycnocline, where a diverse range of waves and instabilities are possible. Previous work suggests that these different waves and instabilities will lead to different OSBL behaviours. Therefore, understanding which physical processes occur is key for modelling the TL. Here we present observations of the TL from a Lagrangian float deployed for 73 days near Ocean Weather Station Papa (50◦N, 145◦W) during Fall 2018. The float followed the vertical motion of the TL, continuously measuring profiles across it using an ADCP, temperature chain and salinity sensors. The temperature chain made depth/time images of TL structures with a resolution of 6cm and 3 seconds. These showed the frequent occurrence of very sharp interfaces, dominated by temperature jumps of O(1)◦C over 6cm or less. Temperature inversions were typically small (. 10cm), frequent, and strongly-stratified; very few large overturns were observed. The corresponding velocity profiles varied over larger length scales than the temperature profiles. These structures are consistent with Holmboe-like scouring behaviour rather than Kelvin-Helmholtz-type overturning. Their net effect, estimated via a Thorpe-scale analysis, suggests that these frequent small temperature inversions can account for the observed mixed layer deepening and entrainment flux. Corresponding estimates of dissipation, diffusivity, and heat fluxes also agree with previous TL studies, suggesting that the TL dynamics is dominated by these nearly continuous 10cm-scale mixing structures, rather than by less frequent larger overturns. 16
Clinical situations requiring radial or brachial access during carotid artery stenting

Introduction Radial or brachial access may be preferred in the case of severe peripheral artery disease (PAD) or difficult aortic arch anatomy during carotid artery stenting (CAS). Aim To evaluate the clinical conditions indicating potential benefit from non-femoral access as well as feasibility and safety of transradial/transbrachial access (TRA/TBA) as an alternative approach for CAS. Material and methods Since 2013, 67 patients (mean age: 70 years old, 44 men, 42% symptomatic) were selected for CAS with the TRA/TBA approach. The composite endpoint was stroke/death/myocardial infarction within 30 days of the procedure and compared to the propensity score matched transfemoral approach (TFA) group. Clinical (including neurological) examination and Doppler ultrasonography were performed before the procedure, at discharge and at 30 days. Results CAS with TRA/TBA was successful in 63/67 patients. Transfemoral access was not feasible due to PAD in 35 (52.2%) patients, bovine arch in 10 (14.9%), obesity (BMI > 35 kg/m2) in 9 (13.4%), severe degenerative disease of the spine in 7 (10.5%), arch type III in 5 (7.5%) and excessive subclavian stent protrusion in 1 (1.5%) patient. Mean NASCET carotid artery stenosis was reduced from 81% to 9% (p < 0.001). The composite endpoint occurred in 3 (4.8%) cases and it was not statistically significantly different from the matched TFA group (6.3%; p = 0.697). No access site complications requiring surgical intervention or blood transfusion developed. Conclusions Transradial and transbrachial CAS may be an effective and safe procedure, and it may constitute a viable alternative to the femoral approach in patients with severe PAD, difficult aortic arch anatomy or obesity.
An assessment of surface water pollution status around Gboko abattoir

An assessment of surface water around Gboko abattoir was conducted to ascertain the pollution status of water around the area. The results showed mean values as: total dissolved solids (TDS), 1026.78 mg/L; TSS, 565.22 mg/L; dissolved oxygen (DO), 5.0 mg/L; phosphate, 8.89 mg/L and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), 484.64 mg/L. These values were above regulatory standards. The values of; pH (6.6), sulphate (86.91 mg/L), nitrate (41.45 mg/L) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) (903.30 mg/L) fell within WHO maximum permissible limits for drinking water. The mean concentrations of: Pb, 0.2892 ppm; Cr, 0.0598 ppm; Ni, 0.1031 ppm and Cd, 0.0110 ppm were above the control and standard safe limits for: Pb, 0.01 mg/L; Cr, 0.05 mg/L; Ni, 0.02 and 0.07 mg/L and Cd, 0.003 mg/L in water. Zn had mean concentration value of 0.7635 ppm which was below standards but higher than the control water sample. Correlation coefficients revealed positive and significant correlations between the pairs of metals in water. The results of this study showed that the activities at the abattoir were contributing to the pollution load of water in the area. It is therefore recommended that the activities of the abattoir should be monitored closely by relevant agencies in order to prevent full-blown environmental problems and attendance health hazards in the near future. Key words: