Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Lupus Anticoagulant in PIH and Pregnancy Outcome

Background: Hypertensive disorders continue to occur globally, complicating 5-20% of pregnancies. Antiphospholipid antibodies are one of the risk factors in the development of pregnancy induced hypertension. Aim of this study is to determine prevalence of lupus anticoagulant (LAC) in PIH and its effect on foetal outcome. Materials and Method: This prospective study was conducted at Department of General Medicine and Obstetrics of a tertiary care centre over one year. The study comprised of 100 third trimester pregnant women, aged 18-34 years with blood pressure more than 140/90 mm Hg on two occasions at least 6 hours apart. 50 normal pregnant women in third trimester comprised control group. Results: In the present study, the prevalence of LAC in the hypertensive women in their third trimester was found to be 14%. LAC positivity was found in greater percentage among severe hypertensive patients than in moderate hypertensive group (16.6% Vs 4.8%). Conclusion: In the present study, it was found that LAC is associated with severe PIH, thrombocytopenia, IUGR, increased operative interference and increased neonatal mortality. Thus it is concluded that LAC should be screened in all patient who have PIH and bad obstetric history.
Just How Relevant is E-education to Global Educational Needs?

The development of e-education has enabled distance education to overcome the lack of interactivity inherent in earlier forms of distance education based on correspondence and mass media, but it looks as if it is also pushing up the costs of distance education. In the 1960s and 1970s, the cost structure of distance education, and its ability to lower educational costs, was seen as a distinct advantage in the face of the need to expand educational provision. With the world population forecast to grow by over three billions in the next 50 years, the need for cheap ways of educating people must be paramount. This article asks just how relevant it is to global educational needs to develop more expensive forms of distance education that, in the absence of public funding, place increased financial burdens on the students.
The Slippery Slope: A Connection Between Smoking and Drug Attitudes

This research investigated how an individual’s self-reported smoking status between the ages of 15 and 25 relates to an individual’s current attitude on recreational drug use. Participants responded to an online survey asking about their opinions of the wrongness of drug use in six categories. The group of participants who identified as a smoker between the ages of 15 and 25 has a significantly higher score than the group of participants who identified as a non-smoker during the same ages. The mean score for those who identified as a smoker (n=65) was 14.27. The mean score for those who identified as a non-smoker (n=67) was 10.57. There was a significant difference between the smokers and non-smokers, t(130) = 3.46, p < . 05. This difference indicates smokers have a more accepting attitude regarding drug use than non-smokers.
Craftsmen of Art, and Their Craft: The Experience of Authenticity and Its Materialization in the Places Where Craftspeople and Enlightened Clients Meet

This study was conducted at the request of a French city interested in promoting artistic craftspeople in order to attract enlightened clients. Using naturalistic enquiry, we conducted in-depth interviews with craftspeople and enlightened clients and performed two content analyses. The first, structuralist in nature, made it possible to define the “experience of authenticity” that craftspeople share with their customers. The second, phenomenological in nature, made it possible to understand how this experience is (or is not) cultivated in two traditional meeting places: workshops and public exhibitions. The article concludes by putting our definition of the experience of authenticity in context based on both the fundamental propositions put forward by Peirce and the principal propositions that currently define the field of marketing.
Mental Health Worldwide: Culture, Globalization and Development

PART I: CULTURAL HISTORY OF MADNESS, PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH 1. Culture and Globalization in Relation to Mental Health 2. Understanding Madness, Mental Illness and Mental Health 3. Medicalization of Human Problems in the West PART II: WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MAJORITY WORLD 4.Mental Health and Mental Illness in Non-Western Countries 5. Colonial Psychiatry PART III: PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR EXPORTING PSYCHIATRY TO THE GLOBAL SOUTH 6. Medication Revolution and Emerging Discontents 7. Ethnic Problems in the West and Neo-Imperialism Abroad 8. International Politics of Mental Health and Psychiatry PART IV: DEVELOPING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES 9. Modernizing Mental Health Services in the Global North 10. Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Global South 11. After-Thoughts: Power, Diagnosis and the Majority World
Pectoralis major tendon rupture in a professional baseball player

P ectoralis major tendon injuries are relatively uncommon. To date, more than 200 cases have been described. Injury typically occurs during lifting activities with the arm in a position of extension and external rotation. Most commonly occurring in weightlifters, pectoralis major tendon ruptures have been reported in other sports such as boxing, jiu-jitsu, and wind-surfing. Rupture often is associated with an audible pop, a tearing sensation, immediate pain, or weakness. Anatomically, the pectoralis major muscle is triangular in shape, originating at the medial clavicle, anterior sternum, costal cartilage, and aponeurosis of the external oblique abdominal muscle. The pectoralis major muscle is divided into two portions: the clavicular head and the sternal head. The clavicular segment serves primarily to forward flex and adduct the arm, while the sternal portion acts primarily to internally rotate and adduct the arm. Surgically treated patients experience improved results when compared to those treated nonsurgically. Overall surgical outcomes were excellent 90% of the time compared with 17% of patients treated nonsurgically who had excellent outcomes. Patients who are younger in age and whose ruptures are surgically repaired prior to 8 wk have a slight advantage. Return to sport after pectoralis tendon injury is higher after surgical repair. We report the surgical treatment, rehabilitation, and return to sport in an elite level baseball player. Because of the overhead nature of his sport, we thought it important to outline the rehabilitation protocol utilized to return him to his previous level of play and function. Informed consent was obtained from the patient. CASE REPORT
Overuse injuries of the knee

There has been a steady increase in youth sports participation over the past several years. While there are many health and psychosocial benefits to this trend, it has also been associated with higher rates of injury. Weight bearing joints in the lower extremity, especially the knee, are most vulnerable to both acute and chronic overuse type injuries. This review will focus on the latter as overuse injuries are more prevalent and will almost be encountered by any type of clinician who treats pediatric patients.
Cervical cancer screening using visualization techniques

There is a resurgence of interest in the use of visual techniques to identify cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). These visual techniques can be divided into two general categories. One is the simple visual screening method, such as direct visual inspection (DVI), during which the cervix is visualized with either the naked eye or a low-power magnification device after the application of a solution of 3% to 5% acetic acid that is used as a chemical contrast agent to highlight regions of CIN. DVI has been evaluated in a number of large clinical trials and is considered by some to be a possible alternative to cervical cytology for primary cervical cancer screening in low-resource settings. The advantages of DVI compared with cervical cytology for these settings are that it is inexpensive, it does not require a laboratory infrastructure, and it provides an immediate result, allowing the use of "screen and treat" protocols. The major disadvantage of DVI is that it is relatively nonspecific and that its sensitivity is low compared with testing for human papillomavirus. The other category of visual techniques includes devices that use electro-optical sensors and light of specific wavelengths produced by lasers or specialized light sources to identify and localize regions of CIN on the cervix. Although these "high-technology" devices are not yet in routine clinical use, several groups and companies have such devices in clinical trials.
Sequelae in primary teeth after traumatic injury

Purpose: Determine the prevalence of injuries due to dislocation in the primary dentition and the associated sequelae in children treated at Pediatric Dentistry Clinic of the School of Pharmacy, Dentistry and Nursing, Federal University of Ceara. Material and Methods: The research protocol was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Research Ethics Committee Medical School of the Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. It was conducted through a transversal retrospective observational investigation. Data were collected from the medical records from 2000 to 2014. We use the statistical analysis software SPSS (Statistical Packacge for the Social Sciences) 17.0 for Windows. Results: The sample consisted of 52 patients, totaling 75 traumatized primary teeth. The average age at injury was 37.6 months and the most affected gender was male (65.4 %). Most injuries occurred at home (57.7 %) and consequently to fall from height (73%). The most common type of dislocation for injury was intrusion (53.3 %) and color change (42.7%), pulp necrosis (37.3 %) and obliteration of the root canal (13.3%) the most frequent sequelae. Conclusions: The high prevalence of sequelae (74.7 %) shows that proper treatment should happen at right time in order to reduce the occurrence of sequelae. KEYWORDS Deciduous teeth; Sequelae; Tooth injuries.
Health care consumer’s perception of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system within a referral hospital in Kigali, Rwanda

Background: Worldwide Electronic Medical Records (EMR) when compared to a paper-based system has been proven to improve service delivering numerous health care facilities. However, no research has been described in the literature regarding the user’s perception of the clinical electronic medical record (EMR) system in Rwanda. The objective of this study is to evaluate the health care consumer’s perception of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) OpenClinic regarding improving the quality of health care delivery within the hospital setting. How does the OpenClinic system affect the patients’ waiting time? How complete is the information obtained from OpenClinic as compared to paper medical records, and the level of satisfaction of the users of OpenClinic. Method: A structured questionnaire was developed, validated and utilized in this quantitative research project. Quantitative data were collected from 170 participants while an interview guide was used to collect qualitative data from 6 key informants at a referral hospital in Kigali. The SPSS version 20.0 was used to analyze the quantitative data. The interviews transcribed verbatim; the data were thematically analyzed and categorized by pre-determined themes. Permission to conduct the study was approved from the ethics committee of the University of Rwanda, College of Health Sciences and the hospital. Results: The majority of the participants were satisfied with OpenClinic, (90%), while only a few (10%) did not perceive any advantage of a computer-based EMR and preferred paper based records. Conclusion: Openclinc EMR was seen to be an improvement in the data collection involving health care delivery in Kigali, Rwanda. Keywords: Electronic Medical Records, OpenClinic and Perceptions
The modification of perception of emotions by transcranial magnetic stimulation

L'objectif de ce travail de these est d'etudier le potentiel de la stimulation magnetique transcrânienne (TMS) et de ses effets a court terme sur la perception des emotions. La modulation au niveau comportemental de la perception des emotions est etudiee a travers deux travaux independants portant sur la perception des emotions dans les expressions faciales ou la detection des emotions dans les mots. Dans les deux cas, les cibles et le moment pour l'application de la TMS ont ete guides par des resultats d'electrophysiologie. La perturbation de la pre-SMA conduit a la diminution de la reconnaissance de l'expression faciale de joie alors que la perturbation de la jonction temporoparietale gauche ou droite entraine le ralentissement de la detection des mots emotionnels en particulier dans le champ visuel gauche. Ces resultats confirment une bonne correspondance entre les observations faites en electrophysiologie et les effets dus a la perturbation par TMS.
Back Pain during Pregnancy and Quality of Life of Pregnant Women

Background: This study aimed to compare the quality of life (QOL) of women with low back pain and women without low back pain during pregnancy. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study on pregnant women recruited in a hospital maternity or in primary care settings. Data collection was carried out through a self-administered questionnaire including the QOL Short Form Health Survey SF12-V2 scale. Independent sample t-tests were calculated to compare differences in QOL between women with and without low back pain. Multivariate regression models then examined the effect of low back pain on QOL, adjusting for covariate factors. Results: Among the 218 pregnant women included in the study, 137 were suffering from low back pain (LBP). The mean intensity of pain (numerical scale) in the LBP group was 5.04 ± 1.73 (range 0 to 10 for maximum pain). Among women with low back pain, 21% of them (n=29) reported having received the following treatments for their pain. There was a significant difference in the quality of life between the group of women with low back pain (LBP) and the one without low back pain (NLBP) in the areas of mental health, physical health as well as social relations. The mental health and social relationships dimensions seemed more affected than the physical scores. Conclusion: Low back pain decreased physical and psychosocial health during pregnancy. A greater support should be promoted in the medical follow-up of pregnant women with low back pain.
Assessing the resolution‐dependent utility of tomograms for geostatistics

Geophysical tomograms are used increasingly as auxiliary data for geostatistical modeling of aquifer and reservoir properties. The correlation between tomographic estimates and hydrogeologic properties is commonly based on laboratory measurements, co‐located measurements at boreholes, or petrophysical models. The inferred correlation is assumed uniform throughout the interwell region; however, tomographic resolution varies spatially due to acquisition geometry, regularization, data error, and the physics underlying the geophysical measurements. Blurring and inversion artifacts are expected in regions traversed by few or only low‐angle raypaths. In the context of radar traveltime tomography, we derive analytical models for (1) the variance of tomographic estimates, (2) the spatially variable correlation with a hydrologic parameter of interest, and (3) the spatial covariance of tomographic estimates. Synthetic examples demonstrate that tomograms of qualitative value may have limited utility for geostatistics; moreover, the imprint of regularization may preclude inference of meaningful spatial statistics from tomograms.
Natural History of Sinoatrial Disorders

Disorders of the sinus node have spawned a growth industry both in the realm of medical articles and for pacemaker manufacturers. Indeed, about 50% of pacemakers are implanted for these conditions in the USA' ^ and 30% of patients paced in Europe are thought to have some form of sinus node disease. Controversy eontinues as to whether all these pacemakers are necessary. ' Some of the details of these arguments are paroehial/ bul essentially the current management must depend upon assessment of the natural history. Unfortunately sinus node dysfunction is not a single entity but consists of a mosaic of different patterns of arrhythmia with different etiology and time courses. The natural history, therefore, can be assessed only in relation to the various forms of the disease. Sinus node dysfunction may be acute and very transient or chronic, lasting for many years. It may manifest itself in a number of forms. The immediate results are: sinus bradycardia at rest, inadequate increase in heart rate with exercise, and sinus pauses as a result of sinus arrest or sinoatrial block. The bradyeardia predisposes to escape rhythms, usually junctionai, and to ectopic activity sometimes leading to supraventricular and ventricular tachycardia (atrial fibrillation being the most common). Often dysfunction of the specialized cardiac tissue other than ihe sinus node occurs so that there is reduced automaticity of the escape centers and depression of atrioventricular conduction.
An Examination of Theories of Health Behaviors for Guiding Research on Mammogram Screening Practices for Korean Immigrant Women

연구 목적: 1980년대 이후 미국 여성들의 유방암 조기 진단을 위한 방사선 검진율은 급속히 증가하였음에도 불구하고 유색 인종의 여성들은 여전히 조기 검진의 혜택을 받지 못하고 있다. 유색인종 여성들의 낮은 검진율을 설명하기 위해 여러 건강행위이론을 이용한 관련 요인들이 연구되어 왔다. 이 논문은 미국 보건 의료관련 연구에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 다섯 건강행위 이론을 유색 인종 여성, 특히 한국 이민 여성들의 유방암 조기검진 이행에 적용하기 위해 사회문화적 적합성을 평가하기 위해 고안되었다. 연구 방법: 네 종류의 데이터 베이스(CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts)를 이용한 심층적 문헌 고찰을 통해 각각의 이론으로 유방암 조기 검진을 설명한 연구들을 모두 분석하였다. 연구 결과: 각 이론들의 배경, 주요 요인, 그리고 유색인종의 유방암 조기 검진에서의 적용 연구 등을 분석하였다. 결론: 서양 문화권 속에서 개발된 각 이론들이 한국적 정서와 행동을 설명하는데 명확한 한계가 있으며 이러한 한계를 극복하기 위해서는 기존의 이론들을 면밀하게 재분석하여 한국적 특성을 담아낼 수 있는 새로운 이론의 도출이 요구된다.
Imaging innovations for cancer therapy response monitoring

Innovative imaging approaches for monitoring various types of cancer treatment response are discussed in this paper. Radionuclide imaging has demonstrated favorable capabilities for imaging tumor response based on the binding of radionuclides to the cells responding to the treatment. MRI has recently been utilized for detecting the cellular changes associated with apoptosis. Dynamic contrast-enhanced ultrasound has been proposed for monitoring therapeutics that target blood vessels affecting perfusion. Quantitative ultrasound has been demonstrated to be capable of differentiating between viable cell clusters and clusters responding to treatment. Diffuse optical imaging and photoacoustic imaging have been applied for evaluating functional changes transpiring in soft tissue, such as oxygenation status, during cancer treatment. Considerable developments introduced to improve the precision of treatment response monitoring are expected in the near future to provide clinical approaches to personalized therapy in which therapies can be adapted based on the detection of functional physiology-based responses.
Frequency Variation of Ventricular Fibrillation May Help Predict Successful Defibrillation in a Rat Model of Cardiac Arrest.

Background To evaluate whether the frequency variation of ventricular fibrillation (VF) helps to predict successful defibrillation in a rat model of cardiac arrest. Methods VF was induced in rats followed by cardiopulmonary resuscitation and then defibrillation. The electrocardiographic signals of 30 rats with first-shock success were obtained from our previous animal experiments, and 300 rats without first-shock success were selected as control. The VF waveform immediately before the first defibrillation was analyzed. Results Eighty-eight percentages of the frequency variations of an electrocardiogram (ECG) record falling in the range -9.5-9.5 Hz was selected with sensitivity of 0.8, specificity of 0.583, and area under curve (AUC) of 0.708. Compared with amplitude spectrum area (AMSA) (sensitivity = 0.767, specificity= 0.547, and AUC = 0.678), combining frequency variation and AMSA significantly increases the predictability with sensitivity of 0.933, specificity of 0.493, and AUC of 0.732 (p = 0.005). Conclusions The frequency variation of VF may serve a useful parameter to predict defibrillation success.
The pharmacological research advance of Icariin.

Epimedium is a traditional Chinese pharmic plant, in which icariin is the main active ingredients. Pharmacological studies have shown that icariin has lots of activities, such as improving cardiovascular function, enhancing gonadal function, improving the immune function, inhibiting osteoclasts, promoting osteoblasts, anti-aging,anti-tumor, anti-virus, and so on. The paper summarizes the research advances about the pharmaceutical activities of Icarlin.
Study on the Commercial Photography of the Post Photography Era

The beginnings of digital photography were humble, but now are overwhelming the silver halide photography in 2015. The term Post-Digital Photographic Era mentioned by Fred Ritchin refers to a characteristic image of digital photography with the appearance of digital photography and the beginning that the surrounding infrastructure changes. It means the era that the value framework that the existing photography had changes and a new paradigm begins to appear. Such a new paradigm is giving direct changes, i.e. technology generalization, to photographers and predicting drastic changes to society, culture, politics, and economy. This study looks at the present of photography through literature review of analog photos and digital photos from 1839 to 2015 and based on this literature, investigates the currently-emerging trends of photography and the post-photographic era. It also looks at various cases of technological advancement and presents the future directions for photography. Roland Barthes thought that photography is what was passed away, what was in the past, and what was dead. Through consideration on digital photography, virtual reality, and 3D image – products of various efforts for reviving such dead photos, it looks at the world of visual illusion, ultimate purpose of something virtual and studies the images of photography beyond being ubiquitous, the end of desire for a graphic virtual world.
The process of the PhD: a study of the first year of doctoral study

Abstract There has been a rapidly growing interest in the nature of learning at the postgraduate level. This interest has outpaced our knowledge and understanding of the process of postgraduate research. Recently, the Winfield Report (ESRC, 1987) drew attention to the lack of available data and published research on doctoral study. In this paper we report some of the results of a longitudinal study of research students at Reading University, begun in 1985. It is based on the findings of a questionnaire survey of second year research students carried out in October 1987, although reference is also made to other staff and student surveys we have carried out. The factors affecting progress during the first year are examined. Each stage of the work has been considered in detail and an attempt to measure the overall outcome of the first year's work has also been made. Learning takes place in response to the social environment. The problem of social isolation for research students is widely acknowledged. In thi.