Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Clinical implication of ST segment depression in II, III, aVF in patient with Anterior Wall myocardial infarction

: Anterior wall myocardial infarction (MI) is a varieties of MI which involves the anterior most part of the heart and part of the ventricular septum. The diagnosis is aided by 12 lead ECG showing ST-elevation in leads V1-V6, I and aVL; major vessels involved is left anterior descending artery. Aim: The aim of this study is to determine ECG parameters, assess the role of ST-segment depression in the leads II, III, aVF to locate the culprit artery accurately as compared to Coronary Angiography (CAG) in anterior wall MI. Methods: A retrospective study was done from January 2018 to December 2018 by taking the clinical records of the 151 patients having Anterior wall MI, admitted and underwent CAG in the Department of Cardiology, First Hospital of Jilin University. Results: There were 112 male and 39 female patients. Among the included patients, 106 were smokers. Proximal stenosis was found in 11 male patients and 10 in female patients. Middle & distal stenosis was found in 101 male patients and 29 female patients. Among the assessed patients, the result suggested that gender was the influencing factor. It was observed that the male patient had anterior wall MI than that of the female patients. Conclusion: Coronary Angiogram is the gold standard investigation for diagnosing area of stenosis in spite of having normal ECG’s. Hence, patients who are clinically presenting with symptoms of MI and having normal ECG findings have to be further evaluated to rule out AWMI and to decrease morbidity and mortality.
Quality of Psychological life for Patients with Prostate Cancer

: Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men. It affects middle-aged and older men and usually has an indolent but progressive clinical course. Purpose of the study: This study purpose is to: Assess quality of psychological life of patients with prostate cancer. Design: descriptive exploratory design was used for the present study Sample: quota sample). Setting: The study was conducted in Oncology Department Unite at two setting: Menoufia University Hospital and Shebien –Elkoom Teaching Hospital in Menoufia Gogernorate. Instruments: Prostatic cancer interviewing questionnaire contained consisted of 3 parts. Part I: Socio-demographic interviewing questionnaire Part II: Prostate cancer interviewing questionnaire (medical history). Part III Quality of psychological life interviewing questionnaire including psychological, and behavioral parts. Results: nearly half of studied sample (48% ) had low quality of psychological status and more than one-third of the studied sample (33.0%) had moderate quality of psychological status, while more than one-fifth (19.0%) of the them had high quality of psychological status. Conclusion: more than half of the study participants experienced poor quality of psychological life. Recommendations In light of the study findings, the following recommendations are proposed: The need for a hospital based support group as psychologists and consultants for the men with prostate cancer to improve their psychological indexes such as quality of life.
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) TCPS: A Task and Cache-aware Partitioned Scheduler for Hard Real-time Multi-core Systems

Shared caches in multi-core processors seriously complicate the timing verification of real-time software tasks due to the task interference occurring in the shared caches. Ex-plicitly calculating the amount of cache interference among tasks and cache partitioning are two major approaches to enhance the schedulability performance in the context of multi-core processors with shared caches. The former approach suffers from pessimistic cache interference estimations that subsequently result in suboptimal schedulability performance, whereas the latter approach may increase the execution time of tasks due to a lower cache usage, also degrading the schedulability performance. In this paper, we propose a heuristic partitioned scheduler, called TCPS, for real-time non-preemptive multi-core systems with partitioned caches. To achieve a high degree of schedulability, TCPS combines the benefits of partitioned scheduling, relieving the computing resources from contention, and cache partitioning, mitigating cache interference, in conjunction with exploiting task characteristics. A series of comprehensive experiments were performed to evaluate the schedulability performance of TCPS and compare it against a variety of global and partitioned scheduling approaches. Our results show that TCPS outperforms all of these scheduling techniques in terms of schedulability, and yields a more effective cache usage and more stable load balancing. CCS Concepts
An Analysis on Code Mixing Used by Teachers and Students in ELT Classrooms

Sociolinguistics is a discipline of linguistics that examines how language and society interact. When communicating with others, each person in the world has their own distinctive language style. People who speak a variety of languages can combine different languages into a single speech; this is known as code-mixing in sociolinguistics. This study, which is qualitative in nature, looks at the many kinds of code mixing that teacher employ when teaching English as a second language (ELT) in the classroom. Data collection for this study used the documentation technique. Speeches made by English teachers and students in the school's ELT classes were recorded and then qualitatively examined to form the study's quantitative data. The research revealed that extrasentential code-mixing was primarily used by the teachers. The purpose of the usage of code-mixing was to make explanations and inquiries about the study materials clearer.
The Use of Reflection in a Service-Learning Project in a Post-Graduate Programme Venessa Damons University of Johannesburg

The traditional training of educational psychologists includes field-based components colloquially known as practicum placements (during their studies) and internships (after the completion of their coursework). These types of professional experiences call for students to be placed in recognised training locations, where they undertake particular professional tasks under the guidance of qualified educational psychologists. Throughout these practicum experiences, students have to meet curriculum programme prerequisites by fulfilling a particular number of hours of supervised services; this is often a pre-requisite to obtaining their qualification in a professional field like Educational Psychology. The value of internships is welldocumented in the literature, with advantages that include enhanced understanding of how organisations operate, the acquisition of experience in an increasingly competitive job market (Severance, & Starr, 2011, p. 200) and, sometimes, possibilities for exposure to new professional roles. Nonetheless, the downside of internship experiences is that they often reflect fixed, rather than innovative practices (Kenny, & Gallagher, 2000, p. 190). For instance, in the field of mental health services, students would often find internship placements in locations with a sound reputation for the provision of psychological services, training in individual counselling and assessment skills. However, this type of training is limiting and could contain the idea and skills of forthcoming professionals who would need to function in contexts other than individual therapy sessions. Consequently, such professionals would be ill-equipped to operate within schools, work with families, communities, and young adults in ways that expand traditional professional borders (Kenny, & Gallagher, 2000, p. 190). This limitation in traditional training methods In a context like South Africa’s, the prevailing numerous social inequalities and problems place additional demands on psychologists and educational psychologists. Western-based, individualised medical approaches are increasingly regarded as inadequate. We thus contend that the inclusion of servicelearning is an alternative approach to the training of Educational Psychology master’s students. Little has been written about the role of service-learning components in the curriculum of an Educational Psychology master’s programme and in general in post-graduate programmes. Thus, we argue for the integration of service-learning in the curriculum of a psychology-oriented programme that could serve as a vehicle for the achievement of the professional development of the students. The main research question is: What do Educational master’s student’ reflections and artefacts reveal about the contribution of a service-learning project to their knowledge of the young adult?
Effect of Implemented Risk Management and Safety Measures Educational Interventions on Knowledge and Practice of Nursing Students in Clinical Setting

: The safety of undergraduates nursing students today is a key for competent nurses to safe patients tomorrow. Aim of the study: The present study aimed to implement risk management and safety measures’ educational intervention to safe students during their clinical training in the practice settings through improving knowledge and practice related all biomedical risks. Design: A quasi experimental design was applied. Settings: The study was conducted at the Faculty of Nursing and (Medical, General & Emergency Surgery and Oncology Departments) at Tanta University hospitals, Egypt. Sample: (144) students were exposed to the study, with response rate of 65.75% from the tool number of students (219) enrolled in 2 nd year of Nursing Faculty. Tools: Three tools were used for data collection; Tool(I):“Risk Questionnaire Sheet” that consisted of “Socio-demographic Data”, and “Risk Assessment Knowledge”, to asses entitled Medical concepts, Types, Sources, and Levels of risks; Tool (II): “Safety Measures Questionnaire sheet” It was a structured questionnaire aimed to assess students’ knowledge of safety measures. Tool (III): “Observed Clinical Performance Checklist” to observe students' clinical performance related to risk management and safety measures. Results: Students' total knowledge level was good (98.6%) and performance post training, the results proven that (10.4%) of students needed practice, (31.9%) satisfied practice and (57.7%) good practice with statistical significance differences (p=0.00). Conclusion: The risk management and safety measures educational intervention achieved its expected outcome as demonstrated by 98.6 % of good level of total knowledge and good practice for around two third of the undergraduate nursing students on risk management and performance of safety measures post educational intervention. Recommendation: For the current research it was recommended to convert the intervention into a risk management systematic plan used for the safety of all undergraduates nursing students in their clinical practice settings. Moreover for further research, it was recommended that this designed educational intervention and /or future plan to be extend to others nursing faculties.
Leukocyte-and endothelial-derived microparticles : a circulating source for fibrinolysis by

Publisher's Disclaimer. E-publishing ahead of print is increasingly important for the rapid dissemination of science. Haematologica is, therefore, E-publishing PDF files of an early version of manuscripts that have completed a regular peer review and have been accepted for publication. E-publishing of this PDF file has been approved by the authors. After having E-published Ahead of Print, manuscripts will then undergo technical and English editing, typesetting, proof correction and be presented for the authors' final approval; the final version of the manuscript will then appear in print on a regular issue of the journal. All legal disclaimers that apply to the journal also pertain to this production process.
The ring vaccination trial: a novel cluster randomised controlled trial design to evaluate vaccine efficacy and effectiveness during outbreaks, with special reference to Ebola

A World Health Organization expert meeting on Ebola vaccines proposed urgent safety and efficacy studies in response to the outbreak in West Africa. One approach to communicable disease control is ring vaccination of individuals at high risk of infection due to their social or geographical connection to a known case. This paper describes the protocol for a novel cluster randomised controlled trial design which uses ring vaccination. In the Ebola ça suffit ring vaccination trial, rings are randomised 1:1 to (a) immediate vaccination of eligible adults with single dose vaccination or (b) vaccination delayed by 21 days. Vaccine efficacy against disease is assessed in participants over equivalent periods from the day of randomisation. Secondary objectives include vaccine effectiveness at the level of the ring, and incidence of serious adverse events. Ring vaccination trials are adaptive, can be run until disease elimination, allow interim analysis, and can go dormant during inter-epidemic periods.
Quality Enhancement of Hybrid Bayesian Regularization Neural Network for Image Restoration

Neural networks have shown very promising results for various image restoration (IR) tasks. However, the design of network architectures remains a major challenging for achieving further improvements. While most existing DNN-based methods solve the IR problems by directly mapping low quality images to desirable high-quality images, the observation models characterizing the image degradation processes have been largely ignored. In this paper, we first propose a denoising-based Hybrid Bayesian Regularization IR algorithm, whose iterative steps can be computed efficiently. Then, the iterative process is unfolded into a Hybrid Bayesian Regularization neural network(HBRNN), which is composed of multiple denoisers modules interleaved with back-projection (BP) modules that ensure the observation consistencies. As such, the proposed network not only exploits the powerful denoising ability over DNNs, but also leverages the prior of the observation model. Experimental results prove that our model greatly outperforms numerous state-of-the-art restoration methods in terms of both peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and structure similarity
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMANCE EXPECTANCY AND STUDENT’S UTILIZATION OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR ACADEMIC WORK IN PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN KENYA

: Today, an increasing number of institutions and individuals share open digital resources via the Internet without use of passwords and keys. This has opened up the way learners in higher education access information for academic work. The high demand for university education in Kenya has put more pressure on the existing learning resources such as print resources, whose cost partly makes education more expensive. As such, open educational resources may be part of a solution to this problem. However, the utilization of open educational resources (OERs) has not been taken up fully by institutions of higher learning. There are many factors which may have an effect on students’ utilization of OERs. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between performance expectancy and students utilization of open educational resources for academic work in private universities in Kenya. The study was guided by one objective; to determine the effect of performance expectancy, on students’ utilization of open educational resources for academic work. The study used cross sectional research design. It targeted 17 chartered private universities in Kenya. In the private universities there are 14,250 3 rd and 4 th year undergraduate students. Five (5) private universities were sampled through simple random sampling. They constituted 30.0% of the 17 private chartered universities. Proportionate sampling was used to determine the respondents from each university. Simple random sampling was used to select respondents from the 3 rd and 4 th year undergraduate students. Data were collected using students’ questionnaire (SQUOER) and interview guide for key informants. Content and face validity for SQUOER was checked by two research experts. Reliability was estimated through the use of Cronbach alpha coefficient. The student questionnaire yielded an overall reliability coefficient of 0.92 which was found acceptable for this study. Quantitative data were analyzed using percentages, frequencies, means and regression analysis. Qualitative data were reported in terms of narrations based on the themes under study and they were used to corroborate the quantitative results. The study revealed that performance expectancy had a relationship with utilization of OERs and was significant (β= .369; p < 0.05). This implied that performance expectancy positively affect students utilization of OERs for academic work at p <. 05. The study recommends that private universities have to maintain proper facilities, infrastructure and working environment for potential users of OERs to utilize them for academic work.
Ethical Issues in Chemical Education Evaluating Daily Life Products

The Italian school curriculum includes topics related to chemical safety, human or animal health, environment respect, emerging technologies and also ethical issues. However teaching practice does not focus enough on the interplay of science, technology and society with regard to local issues, public policy-making and global problems. A modified version of the “socio-critical and problem-oriented approach” can help to overcome the unpopularity of chemistry among students and promote the achievement of high-order cognitive skills, when discussing and evaluating controversial issues taken from their everyday lives and society. The perception of the relevance of chemistry in everyday applications raises awareness of the value of science and enables students to go beyond the surface features of phenomena, understanding key chemistry ideas. In Italian technical schools, chemistry teaching is usually provided just during the first couple of years. The proposed approach can be of use in contrasting the typical lack of attention of this age and the parental background - usually more of help in case of students attending non-technical schools. The experience-based work described is related to the study of a well-known product: the cat litter. This material offers different starting points for a critical examination, highlighting ethical issues involved: is the quality/price ratio justified? Is the composition clearly described? Is it environmental friendly? Is it injurious for the health? First year secondary school students answered these questions by problem solving based laboratory experiments, analysis of various documents and cooperative learning activities planned by the teacher during all the school year. The learning assessment of the considered core chemistry concepts has been compared with the assessment related to the students not involved in the project. Different learning outcomes show that educating future scientists and citizens is more effective if the students are helped by their teachers in relating correctly what they learn in school to their daily lives and global issues.
Equity in Five Mediterranean Countries Education Systems

Public education systems ought to be equitable, ensuring equal opportunities to all students, irrespective of the socioeconomic status of their families. This political desideratum is based upon, not only on ethical considerations, but also – and mainly – by the need of fostering economic development and progress. To develop, at maximum, the potential of each and every individual in a community, it is imperative to reduce human resource lost and, consequently, to improve wealth creation. However, there exists the belief that the more equitable an education system is, the poorer it behaves in terms of learning standards. In fact, relevant empirical evidence points on the opposite direction: according to PISA – Programme for International Student Assessment, countries like Korea, Finland, Canada and Japan, “combine high average performance with equity and have a large proportion of top-performing students, which demonstrates that excellence and equity can go together” [1]. According to OECD, “Equity in education has two dimensions. The first is fairness, which implies ensuring that personal and social circumstances – for example gender, socioeconomic status or ethnic origin – should not be an obstacle to achieving educational potential. The second is inclusion, which implies ensuring a basic minimum standard of education for all – for example that everyone should be able to read, write and do simple arithmetic. ” [2]. The present research lies on the utilization of a set of indicators to encompass different factors and sources of inequity. To understand these factors, four groups of students were identified, considering the economic, social and cultural status of their families (low or high) and the performance (low or high) they exhibit in the PISA mathematics tests (in 2003 and 2012), Taking into consideration the percentage of each one of these groups it is possible to perform a risk analysis (calculating relative risks, attributable risks, and odds ratio). This research aims at improving the understanding of the factors which affect the performance of education systems, in particular, those related with (i) unequal distribution of school resources, (ii) differences between public and private schools, and (iii) dissimilar conditions between rural and urban schools. In this research a set of variables were selected and analysed in order to study three different levels of analysis: individual (gender, grade repetition, and immigrant status), family (economic, social and cultural status), and school (public/private, location, class size
Effect of Superficial Hot Versus Cold Application on Low Back Pain among Patients with Disc Prolapse

: Low back pain is a common disorder involving the muscles and bones of the back. It affects about 80% of people at some point in their lives. Aim of the study was to determine effect of hot versus cold application on low back pain among patients with disc prolapse. Design a qausi experimental research design was utilized Setting: The study was carried out in neurosurgery out patient's clinic of University and Teaching hospitals of Menoufia governorate, Egypt. Subjects: A random sample of 150 adult patients of both sexes with disc prolapse was selected and assigned alternatively and randomly into three equal groups, 50 patients each. Tools: two tools were used for data collection: Interviewing questionnaire and Visual Analogue pain Scale. Results: There was an improvement in mean total knowledge score about disease process in group I and II from 3.44 and 3.26 before application to 4.8 and 5.8 5 days post application to 6.88 and 7.52 respectively post 2 weeks of application. There was an improvement in mean total knowledge score about compresses application in group I and II from 1.48 and 2.90 before application to 8.58 and 9.10 5 days post application to 9.40 and 9.48 respectively post 2 weeks of application. Also there was a decrease in pain score in group I from 7.24 before application to 5.20 5 days post hot application to 4.36 2 weeks post application . Conclusions: Total knowledge increased, level of Pain decreased among disc prolapse patients who use hot compresses than those who exposed to cold compresses and routine medical treatment. Recommendations: Supervised health teaching program should be carried out for patients with disc prolapse in the neurosurgery outpatient clinics about effect of hot application to improve their pain.