Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PERCEPTUAL LEARNING OF SYSTEMATIC VARIATION IN MALAYSIAN ENGLISH AMONG LIBYAN EFL LEARNERS

With the ever-increasing population of non-native speakers (NNS) of English around the world, encountering foreign-accented speech (FAS) has become frequent and inevitable, even in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching and learning context as more and more non-native English teachers are trained and recruited around the world. This study set out to examine the nature and extent of Libyan EFL learners’ perception of Malaysian-accented English as Malaysia is one of the frequent postgraduate study destinations for Libyans. The study also attempts to examine the effect of exposure to Malaysian accented English in a speech intelligibility task. Libyan EFL learners received training with English sentences produced by fifteen Malaysian English speakers for five consecutive days. Sixteen undergraduate students recruited from a public university in Libya completed two intelligibility tasks; one as the pretest and the other as the post-test. The task involved listening to a list of sentences presented to them only once on the computer. While listening to the sentences, participants had to complete a cloze task with a total of 50 missing keywords. On average, the participants performed better in the post-test, as compared with the pretest. The results indicated a statistically significant difference between the pretest and the post-test, and this indicates that Libyan EFL learners could attain better speaker-independent adaptation to the Malaysian English variety when exposed to multiple speakers of the given accent during training. It is, therefore, concluded that perceptual training had a significant effect on the participants’ achievement in speech perceptual learning.
New intranuclear symbiotic bacteria from macronucleus of Paramecium putrinum — Candidatus Gortzia yakutica

Holospora-like bacteria are obligate intracellular Alphaproteobacteria, inhabiting nuclei of Paramecium ciliates and other protists. Alphaproteobacteria have drawn significant attention, as both closest existing relatives of bacteria that gave rise to mitochondria, as well as a class of intracellular bacteria with numerous important pathogens. HLB clade includes two genera – Holospora (Hafkine 1980) and candidatus Gortzia (Boscaro 2013). These bacteria have a peculiar life cycle with two morphological forms, a strict specificity to the host species and the type of nucleus they inhabit. Here we describe a new species of HLB – candidatus Gortzia yakutica sp. nov., a symbiont from macronucleus of Paramecium putrinum, the first known HLB for this Paramecium species. The new symbiont shows morphological similarities with other HLB. The phylogenetic analysis of SSU rDNA gene places it into candidatus Gortzia clade.
Saudi Women’s Speech as a Gender Identity Marker in Mixed-Gender Informal Interaction: A Case Study

This study aimed at investigating the Saudi women’s style of talk that constructs their gender identity in mixed-gender informal interaction qualitatively. The sample of the study consisted of four Saudi females and two Saudi males. The study included two embedded units, in which each unit involved two female participants and one male participant. Besides, observation of the two units was used to collect data. To analyze data qualitatively, an instrument based on the interactional sociolinguistics and the conversation analysis approaches and the description of women’s language, which was validated by six EFL university professors, was used. It was found that the females’ use of the involvement forms and strategies and the discussion of feminine topics were extremely prominent. However, the females employed the politeness strategies and the general features of women’s talk to a certain extent. Yet, this accommodation the female attempted to reach did not results in a great shift with respect to their feminine identity. Therefore, the feminine identity of the females was presented clearly in both units. Furthermore, implications and recommendations for future research were offered.
Analysis of Factors Related to Length of Stay Time in Patients with Back Pain at Emergency Department

Purpose: Most patients with acute low back pain visit emergency room (ER). They mostly need beds, and if their length of stay is longer, it can become difficult to ac commodate new patients at the ER. We analyzed the treatment process of patients with back pain and tried to find method for shortening of the length of stay at the ER. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of patients with back pain who visited at our ER for one year. Patients were divided into two groups according to their length of stay at ER and were compared the charateristcs of between two groups. Results: A total of 274 patients were included in the study. Eigthy-nine patients (32.5%) were in the group with less than 3 hours and 185 patients (67.5%) were in the other group. In the comparison of the two groups according to the medical departments, the number of patients who were in group with more than 3 hours were 25 (14.0%) in the emergency department, 94 (50.5%) in neurosurgery, 66 (35.5%) in orthopedic surgery. Length of stay was significantly increased in orthopedic surgery and neuro surgery (p=0.014). In addition, the length of stay was longer when computed tomog raphy and magnetic resonance imaging examinations were performed (p=0.000). Regardless of the type of analgesic agent, the median time to the analgesic treatment was shorter in the group with less than 3 hours (p=0.034). Conclusions: In patients with back pain who visit the ER, the emergency medicine doctor will early control the pain and do not unnecessary image examination to re duce a length of stay at the ER.
Plurilinguisme au Liban : étude exploratoire du lexique des enfants avec TSA et méthodologie de l'évaluation

Evaluer le lexique des enfants bilingues avec TSA constitue un defi majeur compte tenu de l’heterogeneite clinique et de la variabilite des contextes et des pratiques linguistiques. Au Liban, les enfants sont exposes precocement a plusieurs langues dans leurs environnements scolaire et social. Neanmoins, les etudes sur le lexique des enfants bilingues avec TSA en termes d’exploration et d’evaluation sont rares. En ce qui concerne les enfants libanais avec TSA, ce domaine du developpement du langage n’a encore jamais ete explore. Cette etude examine tout d’abord les performances d’enfants libanais bilingues avec TSA a des tests lexicaux en comprehension et en production issus d’une batterie standardisee, l’ELO-L, et des epreuves experimentales du LITMUS-CLT-LB. Dans un second temps, sont abordees les questions de la faisabilite et de la transposition de ces subtests lexicaux aupres de cette population. L’etude a ete menee aupres d’un echantillon de 33 enfants libanais bilingues avec TSA, âges de 5 ans a 11 ans 8 mois (M=7 ;3 ans, ET= 1 ;8 ans) et d’un echantillon de 19 orthophonistes, ayant repondu a un questionnaire sur l’applicabilite des epreuves aupres de la population d’enfants avec TSA. Les resultats montrent une concordance entre les subtests lexicaux de l’ELO-L et les epreuves LITMUS-CLT-LB. Aucune amelioration des performances liee au groupe d’âge n’a ete observee. Toutefois, notre population a obtenu de meilleures performances dans la denomination des noms que dans la denomination des verbes, et de meilleures performances en comprehension qu’en production. Les outils proposes sont applicables aupres des enfants avec TSA, avec, cependant, une necessite d’adaptations au niveau de la methodologie de leur utilisation. Les resultats aux differentes epreuves devraient neanmoins etre interpretes en fonction de facteurs internes lies a l’enfant (niveau cognitif, severite de l’autisme), et au regard des donnees concernant l’exposition de l’enfant aux langues qui l’entourent.
Reported Interventions for Reducing Anxiety and Distress in Adult Oncology Patients

Background: The purpose of this paper is to identify present methods at relieving anxiety and distress in adult oncology patients. According to the American Cancer Association (2016), 1.7 million American will be diagnosed with cancer in 2016, and therefore, it is important for nurses to be competent caregivers to this growing patient population. Literature Review: A comprehensive review of current literature showed that consistent, competent caregivers, honest communication from the medical team, back massage, and music therapy were effective at cutting mean anxiety and distress scores by as much as 50 percent. Sixteen peer-reviewed articles from around the world and published in the last three years, plus one seminal article from 2004 were included in the literature review. Research: A phenomenological interview process with nine volunteers from a convenience snowball sample, who were diagnosed and treated over the age of 18 in California. Findings: Oncology patients benefit from personal coping methods such as: having a strong support system, having either personal or religious faith, and staying busy throughout their treatment. Medical personnel can supplement patient coping by providing clear expectations, by being compassionate and forthright, by prefacing negatives with positives, and by ensuring clinical competency in the skills performed. INTERVENTIONS FOR REDUCING ANXIETY & DISTRESS IN ONC PATIENTS 6
Patofisiologi dan Tatalaksana Osteochondral Lesion of the Talus

ABSTRAK Penyakit Osteochondral Lesion of the Talus (OLT) adalah kelainan pada tulang talus di lapisan subchondral yang berupa lesi osteochondral pada talar dome dengan konsekuensi abnormalitas pada tulang rawan sendi talar. Pasien biasanya datang berobat ke tenaga kesehatan dengan keluhan yang tidak spesifik dan dengan gejala seperti nyeri pada pergelangan kaki, bengkak serta berkurangnya berkurangnya ruang gerak. Penegakan diagnosis bisa dilakukan dengan anamnesis, pemeriksaan fisik dan pemeriksaan penunjang sederhana seperti foto X-ray maupun pemeriksaan penunjang canggih seperti CT-Scan dan MRI. Tatalaksana OLT bervariasi. Tatalaksana pada OLT tergantung dari tahapan lesi, kronisitasnya, dan keluhan simtomatis yang menyertainya. Pasien dengan keluhan simtomatis yang akut dan non-displaced sering diberikan terapi nonoperatif biasanya berupa terapi konservatif dengan imobilisasi. Lesi yang tidak berhasil atau tidak menunjukkan perbaikan dalam keluhan simtomatisnya setelah 3 sampai 6 bulan, serta lesi dengan displacement dapat direncanakan untuk terapi operatif. Ada beberapa macam tehnik operatif yang dapat dilakukan untuk menyembuhkan OLT. Tehnik operatif ini dapat dikategorikan menjadi cartilage repair , cartilage regeneration dan cartilage replacement techniques. Kata kunci: osteochondral lesion of the talus , patofisiologi, tatalaksana ABSTRACT Osteochondral Lesion of the Talus (OLT) is an abnormality in the talus bone in the subchondral layer in the form of osteochondral lesions in the talar dome with consequent abnormalities in the talar joint cartilage. Patients usually come to a health care provider with nonspecific complaints and with symptoms such as pain in the ankles, swelling and reduced space for movement. The diagnosis can be made with a history, physical examination and simple investigations such as X-rays and sophisticated investigations such as CT-Scan and MRI. The management of OLT varies. The management of OLT depends on the stage of the lesion, its chronicity, and the accompanying symptomatic complaints. Patients with acute and non-displaced symptomatic complaints are often given nonoperative therapy usually in the form of conservative therapy with immobilization. Lesions that are unsuccessful or show no improvement in symptomatic complaints after 3 to 6 months, and lesions with displacement can be planned for operative therapy. There are several types of operative techniques that can be done to cure OLT. These operative techniques can be categorized into cartilage repair, cartilage regeneration and cartilage replacement techniques . Keywords: osteochondral lesion of the talus , patophysiology, treatment
Evolution of global distress amongst patients with advanced cancer from referral to palliative care services to death

Background The global distress experience is derived from physical, psychological, social and spiritual interactions. Objectives To explore the evolution of distress amongst patients with advanced cancer at the end of life, from the time of referral to palliative care services to death. The primary outcome measure was global distress. Secondary measures were physical, psychological, social and spiritual distress. Methods A mixed methods longitudinal study: One hundred advanced cancer patients, newly referred to the community services of a central Scotland hospice, were recruited consecutively. A 20 patient sub-sample was purposively selected for qualitative study. Assessments were monthly for 6 months maximum, each comprising the NCCN Distress Thermometer (DT), Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS), Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS), FACIT-Sp-12 (FACIT); qualitative data were derived from in-depth interviews. Statistical analysis was largely descriptive; grounded theory was used in the qualitative analysis. Results Perception of receiving inadequate information and social dysfunction were independent predictors of global distress according to multivariate analysis. Increased opioid doses, out-of-hours home visits and unscheduled admissions were significantly associated with global distress. Over time, physical, psychological and spiritual distress levels initially fluctuated, prior to stabilising at a lower level, with occasional exacerbations of distress. Global Distress (DT) fluctuated constantly, yet correlated significantly (p<0.001) with MSAS, EDS and FACIT. Patients' perspectives evolved with time, indicating reconciliation with death, despite unpredictable exacerbations of distress, reflecting transient loss of control. Conclusions Independent predictors of distress at the end of life have been identified. Global distress was associated with an increased healthcare burden through greater service input requirements. Patient perspectives qualified the quantitative data, together indicating that from the time of referral to palliative care services, patients with advanced cancer, receiving community palliative care input, appear to become reconciled to death. However, at the end of life, transient loss of control mediated episodic, unpredictable exacerbations of distress, which were detected by the NCCN Distress Thermometer.
Reply to Anonymous Referee #2

The study of Jiménez-Rodríguez et al. examines different ways of sampling and storing atmospheric water vapor for water stable isotope analysis in the lab. Their technical note is very well written and the photos and technical drawings provided inthe Supplementary are very helpful and support the description of the experimentsin a very concise way. In addition to questions raised by referee 1, I have a few more questions and suggestions on improving the manuscript that you can find in the uploaded pdf file.
Varietal Differences in High Temperature-induced Flowering Retardation and Repression of Florigen Gene FTL3 in Summer-to-autumn-flowering Small-flowered Spray-type Chrysanthemums

High temperatures delay flowering in chrysanthemums. This heat delay disturbs stable planning production by light culture in summer. There was a marked difference in the degree of flowering delay caused by high temperature treatment among summerto-autumn-flowering small-flowered spray-type chrysanthemum cultivars, which are suitable for open-field light culture. In the cultivars showing less delayed flowering caused by high temperature treatments, delay in flowering time also tended to be shorter in the hotter summer during three consecutive years of cultivation by light culture. In open-field light culture of summerto-autumn-flowering small-flowered spray-type chrysanthemums, stable planning production with little annual fluctuation can be established using cultivars showing less heat delay. In addition, the expression level of the florigen gene (FTL3) promoting flowering was measured under high temperature conditions. In the cultivar showing a marked heat delay, the rise in the FTL3 expression level was strongly suppressed by high temperatures. On the other hand, the FTL3 expression level increased even under high temperatures in the cultivar showing less heat delay. The results suggest that suppression of the florigen gene by high temperatures is involved in the heat delay of flowering in summer-to-autumn-flowering small-flowered spray-type chrysanthemums, as is the case with autumn-flowering chrysanthemums and the wild chrysanthemum Chrysanthemum seticuspe.
Detecting Domain Generation Algorithms with Bi-LSTM

: Botnets often use domain generation algorithms (DGA) to connect to a command and control (C2) server, which enables the compromised hosts connect to the C2 server for accessing many domains. The detection of DGA domains is critical for blocking the C2 server, and for identifying the compromised hosts as well. However, the detection is difficult, because some DGA domain names look normal. Much of the previous work based on statistical analysis of machine learning relies on manual features and contextual information, which causes long response time and cannot be used for real-time detection. In addition, when a new family of DGA appears, the classifier has to be re-trained from the very beginning. This paper presents a deep learning approach based on bidirectional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) model for DGA domain detection. The classifier can extract features without the need for manual feature extraction, and the trainable model can effectively deal with new unknown DGA family members. In addition, the proposed model only needs the domain name without any additional context information. All domain names are preprocessed by bigram and the length of each processed domain name is set as a value longer than the most samples. Bidirectional LSTM model receives the encoded data and returns labels to check whether domain names are normal or not. Experiments show that our model outperforms state-of-the-art approaches and is able to detect new DGA families reliably.
The holistic leadership model and the nurse unit manager: assessing requisite leadership competencies in the Rwandan context

Effective leadership is arguably one of the most relevant indicators of a profession’s advancement or lack thereof. The purpose of this article is to share the authors’ personal views on the leadership competencies necessary for the nurse unit manager transitioning into the role for the first time. To identify these leadership requisites, the literature was searched to identify key competencies and characteristics of effective nurse leaders across disciplines and specialties, both globally and unique to the African and Rwandan contexts. In the ever-changing healthcare scenario in Rwanda, the efforts and accomplishments of the Human Resources for Health (HRH) Program are described as just one catalyst for the increased numbers of new nurse unit managers. Through analysis of the literature in conjunction with personal experience, the authors recommend the Holistic Leadership Model rooted in an ethic of caring as a tool for new nurse unit managers to become effective leaders and agents of meaningful change. Keywords: Nurse; nursing practice; leadership; management; caring; competencies; holistic nursing
Qualitative research into the requirements of a coaching technology for diabetes type 2 patients to motivate them into exercise and nutritional (lifestyle) changes.

Exercise and nutrition are important factors in diabetes type 2. A proper lifestyle can improve blood glucose levels and decrease the chance of complications related to diabetes. Self-management is important in diabetes type 2 patients, as the patients can positively influence their illness by healthy lifestyle choices. Coaching can create awareness among patients, hereby motivating them on the subject of their diabetes and lifestyle choices. Technology is assumed to play an important part in coaching diabetes type 2 patients, though technologies developed in previous research did not lead to long-term success. This research aims to determine the awareness, self-management and motivation of diabetes type 2 patients to change their lifestyle, in order to explore the requirements for a technology to support patients into healthy lifestyle choices. A qualitative research was conducted using questionnaires and interviews with 19 diabetes type 2 patients of the outpatient clinic of Internal Medicine / Nephrology in ZGT Almelo.
Nonlinear Impact of Air Quality on Tourist Arrivals: New Proposal and Evidence

This study makes a novel contribution to the tourism literature by proposing an inverted U–shaped impact of air quality on tourist arrivals and examining this relationship using 58 major tourist cities in China from 2004 to 2015. The estimation of linear and nonlinear dynamic panel regression tests is based on the system generalized method of moments. The linear test results show that air quality measured by the concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has a significantly negative impact on both inbound and domestic tourist arrivals. The nonlinear test results validate an inverted U–shaped link between air quality and both inbound and domestic tourist arrivals.
Identification of viruses from fungal transcriptomes

Viruses infecting fungi are referred to as mycoviruses. Here, we carried out in silico mycovirome studies using public fungal transcriptomes. We identified 468 virus-associated contigs assigned to five orders, 21 families, 26 genera, and 88 species. We assembled 120 viral genomes with diverse RNA and DNA genomes. The phylogenetic tree and genome organization unveiled the possible host origin of mycovirus species and diversity of their genome structures. Most identified mycoviruses were originated from fungi; however, some mycoviruses had strong phylogenetic relationships with those from insects and plants. The viral abundance and mutation frequency of mycoviruses were very low; however, the compositions and populations of mycoviruses were very complex. Although coinfection of diverse mycoviruses in the fungi was common in our study, most mycoviromes had a dominant virus species. The compositions and populations of mycoviruses were more complex than we expected. Monilinia viromes revealed that there were strong deviations in the composition of viruses and viral abundance among samples. Gigaspora viromes showed that the chemical strigolactone might promote virus replication and mutations, while symbiosis with endobacteria might suppress virus replication and mutations. This study revealed the diversity and host distribution of mycoviruses.