Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
LiB: an undergraduate thesis digital library based on full-text search

The growing number of undergraduated thesis produced at the end of undergraduated courses in Brazil are sometimes available only in physical libraries or have limited digital access, making it difficult for researchers and the general population to access this information. This paper presents the development of a system that uses data analysis and information retrieval techniques capable of providing full-text search, as well as the recommendation of works based on their similarity using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) technique. The goal of this solution is to offer higher education institutions in Brazil a platform capable of providing digital access to the documents they produced, enabling the dissemination of scientific production. The tool was validated using data from a real educational institution, and the search and recommendation mechanisms proved to be efficient for their purpose.
Systolic blood pressure and all-cause mortality in normoglycemia, prediabetes, and diabetes

Background The optimal blood pressure (BP) level for diabetic patients remains controversial, and population-based evidence on BP management for individuals with normoglycemia and prediabetes is insufficient. We aimed to investigate the associations between systolic blood pressure (SBP) and all-cause mortality among US adults with different glucose metabolism.Methods We used data from the 1999–2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, n = 40,046) with comprehensive baseline examination and follow-up assessment. Restricted cubic spline was performed to examine dose-response relationship between continuous SBP and all-cause mortality. Cox regression models were used to estimate hazard ratios of all-cause mortality for SBP categories.Results Over 32,5450 person-years of follow-up (median 8.1 years), 4745 all-cause death (11.8%) were recorded, corresponding to an event rate of 14.58 per 1000 patient years. U-shaped associations between SBP and all-cause mortality were observed regardless of glucose status. The lowest mortality risk of optimal SBP (mmHg) by group was 115–120 (normoglycemia), 120–130 (prediabetes), and 125–135 (diabetes). Compared with the reference group, SBP < 100 mmHg was significantly associated with 49% (HR = 1.49, 95%CI: 1.13–1.96), 57% (1.57, 1.07–2.3), and 59% (1.59, 1.12–2.25) higher mortality risk in normoglycemia, prediabetes, and diabetes, respectively. The multivariable-adjusted HRs of all-cause mortality for SBP of 150–159 mmHg and ≥ 160 mmHg were 1.35 (1.08–1.70) and 1.61 (1.31–1.98), 1.44 (1.13–1.83) and 1.66 (1.33–2.08), and 1.29 (1.02–1.65) and 1.37 (1.09–1.72), respectively.Conclusions U-shaped relationships between SBP and all-cause mortality existed regardless of diabetes status. The optimal SBP range for the lowest mortality was gradually higher with worsening glucose status.
Technology and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Emerging Trends in the Nigerian Manufacturing Industry

Technology diffusion and adoption causalities Adoption of environmentally benign technologies: a conceptual viewpoint Adoption of environmentally benign technologies in Nigerian manufacturing Research methodology Trends in technology responses for water pollution control in Nigerian manufacturing Technology responses for water pollution control: an analysis of adoption causalities Case study illustrations of firms' technology responses for water pollution control Summary and conclusions.
Developing Health Care Organizations That Pursue Learning and Exploration of Diagnostic Excellence: An Action Plan

Reducing errors in diagnosis is the next big challenge for patient safety. Diagnostic safety improvement efforts should become a priority for health care organizations, payers, and accrediting bodies; however, external incentives, policies, and practical guidance to develop these efforts are largely absent. In this Perspective, the authors highlight ways in which health care organizations can pursue learning and exploration of diagnostic excellence (LEDE). Building on current evidence and their recent experiences in developing such a learning organization at Geisinger, the authors propose a 5-point action plan and corresponding policy levers to support development of LEDE organizations. These recommendations, which are applicable to many health care organizations, include (1) implementing a virtual hub to coordinate organizational activities for improving diagnosis, such as identifying risks and prioritizing interventions that cross intra-institutional silos while promoting a culture of learning and safety; (2) participating in novel scientific initiatives to generate and translate evidence, given the rapidly evolving “basic science” of diagnostic excellence; (3) avoiding the “tyranny of metrics” by focusing on measurement for improvement rather than using measures to reward or punish; (4) engaging clinicians in activities for improving diagnosis and framing missed opportunities positively as learning opportunities rather than negatively as errors; and (5) developing an accountable culture of engaging and learning from patients, who are often underexplored sources of information. The authors also outline specific policy actions to support organizations in implementing these recommendations. They suggest this action plan can stimulate scientific, practice, and policy progress needed for achieving diagnostic excellence and reducing preventable patient harm.
Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration: Applications for Public Transit

Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration (VII) is a federally sponsored initiative to enhance safety and mobility through the use of wireless vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. Although VII research has been focused on light vehicles, the VII concept also holds the potential for significant benefits for transit agencies. This paper presents an overview of the ways in which VII technology could be used to support public transit and paratransit services. It concludes with a summary of the outcomes from a conference call discussion among technology experts from ten U.S. transit agencies regarding their priorities and perspectives on VII. In the near term, transit agencies are primarily interested in applications of VII that yield operational improvements, cost savings, and improvements to the customer experience: namely, enhanced traveler information, traffic signal control, and incident management. Over the longer term, there is strong interest in pursuing VII’s capabilities for fleet management and electronic payment. There was also a general consensus that transit interests should work toward getting a “seat at the table,” wherever possible, as the technical specifications for VII are developed. This will ensure that the VII system architecture does not preclude transit applications and that transit agencies and their customers will be able to reap the benefits of VII. This paper can serve as a point of departure for those discussions with the VII community.
Routing assessment of dynamic route guidance systems

This report describes work done in a project to develop a Routing Assessment Guide for Dynamic Route Guidance systems for vehicles. The resulting guide is included in the appendices. An initial state-of-the-art review emphasised the range of devices available to drivers and analysed the industry to identify the range of stakeholders who should be consulted to ensure that the guide was acceptable and helpful to the industry; a fundamental requirement of the project. The vehicle and route guidance industry was consulted on an initial draft, which was designed to present guidelines for system development and to be used by the developer to self-assess the resulting product. The industry approved of the principle of self-assessment, but asked for additional performance criteria and less emphasis on assessment of process rather than performance. The guide was modified and developed in light of those comments. The revised document was piloted with representatives of two companies before the final guidelines document was produced. It was concluded from the pilot that the guide is compatible with the development and testing programmes of responsible DRG product developers and is sufficiently comprehensive to represent best practice in the DRG industry, supporting the development of safe and effective routing strategies. (A)
CyberKnife Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Small Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients with Decompensated Cirrhosis: protocol of study

Background: There is a lack of data on the safety and the efficacy of stereotactic body radiotherapy in small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients with decompensated cirrhosis, and this study was conducted to explore on this field.Methods: This study is designed as a mono-center study. The participants who were diagnosed with HCC and decompensated cirrhosis received Cyberknife stereotactic body radiation therapy (CK-SBRT). The primary outcome measures are to calculate overall survival rates (OS), progression-free survival rates (PFS) and local control rates (LC). The secondary outcome measures are to observe radiation-induced liver injury (RILD) rates after CK-SBRT. Moreover, adverse reactions are also observed.Discussion: HCC patients’ options of treatments were limited by poor liver function. CK-SBRT may offer an option for these patients. We propose to conduct a study to explore the efficacy and adverse reactions of CK-SBRT in treating HCC patients with decompensated cirrhosis (≤5 cm). The trial protocol has been approved by the Institutional Review Board of 302 Hospital of PLA (People’s Liberation Army). The Ethics number is 2020062D.Trail registration: Clinical trails number: NCT04512833. Date of registration: August, 2020. https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT04512833
Comparison of alternative methods for updating disaggregate logit mode choice models

An empirical assessment of alternative methods of updating disaggregate travel choice models so that their transferability from the estimation context within which they were originally developed to an application context (which differs from the original estimation context geographically or temporally, or both) is presented. The case study for the empirical tests performed is a long-term temporal transfer of work trip logit mode choice models estimated using 1964 data for the greater Toronto area (GTA) to represent 1986 work trip mode choice in the GTA. Three updating procedures that have been previously presented in the literature are examined (Bayesian updating, transfer scaling, and combined transfer estimation), plus a fourth new procedure, joint context estimation. All four procedures assume that a "small" data set of observed travel choices is available for the application context, which can be used in the updating procedure. The case study results indicate that the latter three procedures all possess merit as potential updating methods, with the choice among the three depending on such items as model specification and application context sample size. The results also indicate that if the application context sample size exceeds 400 to 500 observations, then updating may provide little or no improvement over simple estimation of an application context model, especially if "full" model specification is supported by the available data.
The generation of compound nominals to represent the essence of text : the COMMIX system

This thesis concerns the COMMIX system, which automatically extracts information on what a text is about, and generates that information in the highly compacted form of compound nominal expressions. The expressions generated are complex and may include novel terms which do not appear themselves in the input text. From the practical point of view, the work is driven by the need for better representations of content: for representations which are shorter and more concise than would appear in an abstract, yet more informative and representative of the actual aboutness than commonly occurs in indexing expressions and key terms. This additional layer of representation is referred to in this work as pertaining to the essence of a particular text. From a theoretical standpoint, the thesis shows how the compound nominal as a construct can be successfully employed in these highly informative representations. It involves an exploration of the claim that there is sufficient semantic information contained within the standard dictionary glosses for individual words to enable the construction of useful and highly representative novel compound nominal expressions, without recourse to standard syntactic and statistical methods. It shows how a shallow semantic approach to content identification which is based on lexical overlap can produce some very encouraging results. The methodology employed, and described herein, is domainindependent, and does not require the specification of templates with which the input text must comply. In these two respects, the methodology developed in this work avoids two of the most common problems associated with information extraction. As regards the evaluation of this type of work, the thesis introduces and utilises the notion of percentage attainment value, which is used in conjunction with subjects' opinions about the degree to which the aboutness terms succeed in indicating the subject matter of the texts for which they were generated.
An Efficient Three-Phase Resonant Pole Inverter With Low Conduction Loss of Switching Devices

A novel three-phase resonant pole inverter is put forward in the interest of high-efficiency. When the auxiliary circuit is in the working condition, soft-switching can be realized to reduce switching loss, bringing about the efficiency improvement. In particular, the current flowing through switches of the novel inverter is no more than the load current, which is a distinct advantage over other three-phase resonant pole inverters. In addition, the distinct advantage is in favor of low conduction loss of switches, enhancing the efficiency of the inverter. Modes of operation in a switching cycle are discussed in the brief. The experimental results imply that switches realize soft-switching. Besides, the efficiency of the novel inverter reaches 98.5% at rated output power of 3kW. Hence, the novel soft-switching inverter has efficiency advantage in comparison with other similar inverters.
Valuation of Country Food in Nunavut Based on Energy and Protein Replacement

Communicating value across the pluralities of Indigenous Peoples’ food systems requires attention to economy and environment, food and wildlife, and the health of the people and that of the land. Valuation of distinct entities is always difficult but often essential to describe collective wealth and well-being, to quantify trade-offs, and to consider compensation when one is compromised for another. Here we estimate the replacement value of Nunavut country food by combining information on the amount and nutritional composition of harvested country food with the nutritional content and local price of store-bought food. Comparing the five-year average of energy and protein available in reported harvest to recommended dietary allowances indicates that 17 of 21 Nunavut communities harvest enough country food to satisfy the protein requirements of all community members. Nunavut’s country food system annually harvests five million kg of protein-rich food from across the territory, which would cost $198 million to purchase as store-bought protein, with a replacement value between $13.19 and $39.67 per kg depending on energy versus protein replacement and the inclusion versus exclusion of store-bought food subsidies. These valuations are higher than most previous estimates of local food value because they are more reflective of the energy and nutrient richness of country food and the high price of store-bought food in northern communities. The country food system is priceless in many, profound ways; better awareness of its energy and protein cost of replacement, together with the breadth of its nutritional and cultural value, may help to ensure local food systems are prioritized in northern food security and economic development initiatives.
Gateway to the Future

St. Louis Metrolink is celebrating its 13th year with the opening of a new link, the Cross County extension, which will travel from downtown St. Louis through the Clayton, Missouri business center and ending in Shrewsbury, Missouri. It is expected to add 18,000 daily boardings. Metrolink has been among the most cost-effective lines of its type in part because it uses pre-existing rail rights of way for much of its track. Depending on the season, daily ridership can be as high as 58,000. Setbacks on the new extension included major miscalculations in original designs and resistance from neighborhoods that wanted new lines to be placed below ground. The budget went up to $682 million, forcing the authority to seek additional funding from local sources. Additional federal money is intended to build another extension that would add eight stations on an 8.5 mile alignment. Future challenges include the need for more local participation in operating costs in order to continue to provide the level of service that riders have come to expect. A map is included showing the current and future lines.
Assessment of Chlorhexidine use for cord care at Kangundo level 4 Hospital

Background: Sepsis continues to be an important cause of morbidity and mortality in neonates. One of the most important portals of entry for infections is the umbilical cord. Proper care of the cord can prevent many of these cases of sepsis and hence reduce neonatal mortality rates. In Kenya, the use of chlorhexidine digluconate (CHX) gel was introduced to scale in 2016 and received with mixed reactions in some hospitals with reports of medication errors and ineffectiveness being received. This study sought to find out the knowledge, practices and attitude on its use in Kangundo Level 4 hospital. Methodology: The study was carried out at Kangundo level 4 hospital between June and August 2019. It was a descriptive cross-sectional study with both quantitative and qualitative components. A questionnaire was used for the quantitative data collection while focus group discussions were held for the qualitative data collection. Ethical approval was sought prior to commencement of data collection. Results: A total of 19 clients and 24 healthcare workers were interviewed and two focus group discussions held. All the 19 clients had delivered in the hospital and only three were first-time mothers. Education on how to use chlorhexidine (CHX) was given to 16/19 (84%) of the clients interviewed. Duration of application varied among clients; 4 days 5/19(26%), 7 days, 12/19 (64%) and until the stump falls off, 2/19 (10%). Twenty of the 24 HCWs (83%) interviewed advised the patients on cleaning the cord prior to application of CHX, frequency of application varied from OD 15/24 ( 62%), BD 3/24 (13%) and TID 6/24( 25%). Two FGDs were held for HCW; lack of training and clear instructions on how to use the gel as major contributors to ineffectiveness of CHX. Conclusion and recommendation: There was poor understanding on the use of CHX among both clients and HCWs at Kangundo level 4 hospital. Cleaning of the stump prior to gel application is important to prevent accumulation of the dry gel and allow contact with the wound. There is need for training and development of a standard operating procedure on use of CHX.
Pinnacle is Rising Again

This article chronicles Pinnacle Airline’s difficulties after Northwest Airlines (NWA), its codeshare partner, declared bankruptcy in 2005. Even though Pinnacle’s earnings fell, the article points out that new opportunities that have since presented themselves. The bankruptcy allowed Pinnacle to sell its services to other carriers and operate larger aircraft. It also received a large settlement in claims against NWA. Early in 2007 it acquired Colgan Air, a turboprop carrier, which it will use in the congested Northeast Corridor. It has also signed a 10-year capacity purchase agreement to acquire 16 CRJ900s for Delta Air Lines. The company’s CEO describes 2007 as a transitional year, but shareholders should begin reaping the benefits from it in 2008.
Drivers’ Lane-Changing Behavior at Bus Stops on Three-Lane Roadways

Drivers’ lane changing violations at a curbside bus stop on an undivided three-lane roadway were investigated. Logit models were developed to determine contributing factors to the violations. Bicycle lane presence, low opposing traffic volume and longer bus dwell time at a bus stop were associated with a higher probability of a lane changing violation by drivers waiting behind the stopped bus. More violations were observed on one-way left-turn lanes than two-way left-turn lanes during the study period. By combining various opposing traffic volumes and bus dwell times, a guidance chart of a lane-changing violation probability was developed, which can be applied when determining types of bus stops, their placement, and when developing safety programs for safer and better mobility on three-lane roadways. This study can be a valuable resource in improving safety and mobility program at bus stops on three-lane roadways because three-lane roadways are being used more often as part of sustainable surface transportation programs such as road diets.
Referring Physician

Medical Imaging was an early large scale Object Oriented product. Originally intended to become a re-useable set of toolboxes, it evolved in a family of medical workstations and servers. This article describes the evolution from different viewpoints, to serve as background material for a number of case studies of the Gaudí project. Distribution This article or presentation is written as part of the Gaudí project. The Gaudí project philosophy is to improve by obtaining frequent feedback. Frequent feedback is pursued by an open creation process. This document is published as intermediate or nearly mature version to get feedback. Further distribution is allowed as long as the document remains complete and unchanged. All Gaudí documents are available at: http://www.gaudisite. nl/ version: 0.4 status: preliminary draft January 22, 2010
Dugong Based Tourism Development at the Red Sea: Case of Marsa Abu Dabab

Nature-based tourism signifies an imperative revenue stream in many countries and is a vital tool for preserving their environmental resources. This paper aims at evaluating the possibilities of Dugong based tourism development in Marsa Abu Dabab besides offering the strategies for its sustainable development. To this end, a questionnaire was designed to achieve the study objectives and was distributed to the stakeholders. Quantitative data were analysed using the statistical package SPSS, while qualitative data were analysed by using the strategic analytical tool (SWOT analysis). Results revealed that the area is rich in important tourism potentials and a great significance is associated with developing Dugong based tourism in Marsa Abu Dabab. A Dugong based tourism development strategy matrix has been proposed to help the officials and decision-makers in developing policies, strategies and decisions that ensure optimum utilisation of the resources.