Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Characteristics of myocardial perfusion in patients after coronary stent implantation

1. Kósa 1, Varga A, Csernay L, Csanády M: The long-term prognostic value of pharmacological stress perfusion scintigraphy. Cardiol Hung 2000;Supplementum:75 2. Neumann FJ, Kósa I, Oberacher I, Gawaz M, Schwaiger M, Schömig A: Recovery of coronary perfusion after direct balloon angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction. Circulation 1995;92 Suppl. l. :I-531 (IF: 10.893) 3. Kósa 1, Neumann FJ, Ziegler S, Blasini R, Schneider-Eicke J, Dickfeld T, Schwaiger M: Regional changes of myocardial blood flow after coronary angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction. Circulation 1996;94:1-543 (IF: 10.893) 4. Kósa I, Nemes A, Forster T, Csanády M: Coronary flow reserve and its relation to abnormalities on myocardial perfusion scans. Circulation 2000; 102:II-579(7F: 10.893) 5. Gruber N, Varga A, Forster T, Kósa I, Piros Gy, Őri Zs, Csernay L, Csanády M: Comparative evaluation of different exercise tests in ischemic heart disease. Eur Heart J 1990; 11:291 (IF: 3.84) 6. Kósa I, Neumann FJ, Ziegler S, Blasini R, Schneider-Eicke J, Dickfeld T, Matsunari I, Schömig A, Schwaiger M: Improved coronary flow reserve after stent implantation as assessed by positron emission tomography. Eur Heart J 1996;17:25 (IF: 3.84) 7. Kósa I, Neumann FJ, Ziegler S, Dickfeld T, Blasini R, Schneider-Eicke J, Matsunari I, Schömig A, Schwaiger M: Changes of myocardial blood flow after coronary angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction. Eur Heart J 1996; 17:155 (IF: 3.84) 8. Mester J, Kósa 1, Gaál T, Gruber N, Láng J, Kovács G: Cardiolite SPECT studies with dipyridamole stress before and after by-pass surgery. Eur J Nucl Med 1989; 15:251 (IF: 3.772) 9. Mester J, Kósa I, Gruber N, Kovács G, Csernay L: 201-T1 reinjection in patients before coronary by-pass surgery, improved detection of postoperative perfusion. Eur J Nucl Med 1991; 18:652 (IF: 3.772) 10. Mester J, Kósa I, Gruber N, Lupkovics G, Kovács G, Csernay L: Double injection of 201-T1 for prediction of the results of coronary by-pass surgery. Eur J Nucl Med 1992; 19:659 (IF: 3.772) 11. Mester J, Gruber N, Kósa I, Csanády M, Csernay L: Dobutamine stress myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) in patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD). Eur J Nucl Med 1992; 19:574 (IF: 3.772) 12. Kósa I, Blasini R, Schneider-Eicke J, Dickfeld T, Neumann FJ, Ziegler S, Schömig A, Schwaiger M: Assessment of coronary flow reserve after stent implantation using positron emission tomography. J Am Coll Cardiol 1996;27:48A (IF: 7.082) 13. Kósa I, Nemes A, Forster T, Csernay L, Csanády M: The coronary flow reserve of myocardial areas with perfusion abnormality at rest as assessed by transoesophageal flow measurement. J Nucl Cardiol 2001;8:S106 (IF: 1.854)
PENERAPAN ALGORITMA CLUSTERING DALAM MENGELOMPOKKAN BANYAKNYA DESA/KELURAHAN MENURUT UPAYA ANTISIPASI/ MITIGASI BENCANA ALAM MENURUT PROVINSI DENGAN K-MEANS

Natural disasters are natural events that have a large impact on the human population. Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire (an area with many tectonic activities), Indonesia must continue to face the risk of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis. Application of Clustering Algorithm in Grouping the Number of Villages / Villages According to Anticipatory / Natural Disaster Mitigation Efforts by Province With K-Means. The source of this research data is collected based on documents that contain the number of villages / kelurahan according to natural disaster mitigation / mitigation efforts produced by the National Statistics Agency. The data used in this study is provincial data consisting of 34 provinces. There are 4 variables used, namely the Natural Disaster Early Warning System, Tsunami Early Warning System, Safety Equipment, Evacuation Line. The data will be processed by clustering in 3 clushter, namely clusther high level of anticipation / mitigation, clusters of moderate anticipation / mitigation levels and low anticipation / mitigation levels. The results obtained from the assessment process are based on the Village / Kelurahan index according to the Natural Disaster Anticipation / Mitigation Efforts with 3 provinces of high anticipation / mitigation levels, namely West Java, Central Java, East Java, 9 provinces of moderate anticipation / mitigation, and 22 other provinces including low anticipation / mitigation. This can be an input to the government, the provinces that are of greater concern to the Village / Village According to the Natural Health Disaster Mitigation / Mitigation Efforts based on the cluster that has been carried out.Keywords: Data Mining, Natural Disaster, Clustering, K-Means
Contraceptive practice among married women in urban areas catered by a medical college in Belagavi, Karnataka

Introduction: Population explosion is one of the most hazards to the development of India. The most effective way to control this is by reducing birth rate using contraception. Objective: To know the prevalence of contraceptive use among married women. Methodology: Community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among married women aged 15-44 years residing in three urban areas of Belagavi using predesigned and pretested questionnaire after obtaining informed consent. Results: The prevalence of contraceptive use in the present study was 353 (58.8%), among them 96 (16.0%) were condom user, 113 (18.9%) were using intrauterine device, 26 (4.3%) were practicing rhythm method, 20 (3.3%) of them were using oral contraceptive pill, and 98 (16.3%) were practicing sterilization method. Conclusion: Prevalence rate of contraceptive use was relatively less. Improving female literacy and proper counseling of couples for family planning would help improve the prevalence rate.
Living with Long-Term Pain after a Stroke.

ObjectivesThe general aim of this thesis was to classify and describe long-term pain two years after a stroke and to describe the experiences of pain, and the consequences it has on the persons’ lives.Material and methodsThe studies comprised 43 persons, 13 women and 30 men, aged 33-82 years, with pain after stroke and no other major pain conditions and able to participate in an interview and independently answer questionnaires.The studies were conducted from a multidimensional perspective on pain, combining quantitative and qualitative methods. Clinical examinations were somatic, neurological and Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST). The Pain-O-Meter, ADL staircase, Self-reported impairment, SF-36 and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale were used. Qualitative interviews were performed and analyzed with content analysis.ResultsThree types of pain were classified: Neuropathic (central post-stroke pain) (n=15), nociceptive/mainly shoulder pain (n=18) and tension-type headache (n=10). Pain onset, within one to six months in most of the cases was after discharge from the hospital. Continuous pain or pain almost every day was reported by nearly two-thirds. The pain was mostly described as troublesome, annoying and tiring in all groups. The rating of pain intensity revealed individual differences among the participants within the pain groups. In addition to long-term pain, the participants suffered several impairments and nearly half of them were dependent on others, and two-thirds on assistive devices. Several coping strategies were described, most often problem-focused. Their health-related quality of life was decreased, mostly related to their long-term pain and physical impairments. Their experiences of caring revealed the need of improvements in knowledge about long-term pain, attention and understanding among the professionals, and continuity in the contacts.ConclusionAll professionals need knowledge about pain conditions after stroke. Pain assessment and classification, regular follow-up and documentation are required in order to prevent unnecessary suffering. Patients need attention, understanding and continuity in contacts with professionals. Further, information and education about pain and treatment/caring interventions are required in the case of both the sufferer and next of kin.
Building Portfolios: A Means for Developing Habits of Reflective Practice in Physical Therapy Education

&NA; The purpose of this article is to consider the use of portfolios as one method to foster reflective practice in teaching and learning. The authors contend that building a portfolio is a learning experience in and of itself as well as a product for use informative and/or summative assessment of student learning, teacher and practitioner development, and program performance. In a review of the use of portfolios by learners, teachers, and programs, they describe how the purpose and goals of a portfolio serve to guide its design, enactment, and outcome analysis. By engaging in a mentored, collaborative, and reflective process of portfolio development, students, practitioners, and teachers are able to make better sense of what they are doing and plan for continuous improvement stimulated by critical self‐assessment of what they have done. The process of building portfolios supports the development of reflective practitioners who continuously assess their own performance and plan for ongoing learning and development.
Incremental knowledge acquisition for search control heuristics

In recent years of development of expert systems, it has become evident that knowledge provided by the expert is always context dependent. This led to new modern incremental knowledge acquisition methodologies which aim to incrementally reconstruct experts knowledge in the context of its use. This thesis presents such a framework to model expert search processes. This by-passes the difficult, costly time-consuming task of developing effective domain specific heuristics. Adopting incremental knowledge acquisition is also justified because experts do not normally have complete introspective access to their search knowledge. They tend to give justifications of their search considerations rather than a complete explanation. We target at the implicit representation of the less clearly definable quality criteria by allowing the expert to limit their expressed knowledge to explanations of the steps in the expert search process. For the basis of our knowledge acquisition (KA) approach, we substantially extend the work done on Ripple Down Rules which allows knowledge acquisition and maintenance, without analysis or a knowledge engineer. Our extension allows the expert to enter his/her own domain terms during the KA process, thus the expert provides a knowledge level model of his/her search process. We call this framework Nested Ripple Down Rules (NRDR). Our NRDR formalism also addresses some shortcomings of RDR which have been a concern of substantial research efforts in the past few years: repetition, lack of explicit modelling and readability. The way our approach deals with these shortcomings is evaluated against recent work. Another significant contribution of this thesis is a formal framework for analysing the knowledge acquisition process RDR in general and NRDR in particular. Using this framework, we show that maintenance of an NRDR knowledge base (KB) requires similar effort to maintaining RDR for most of the KB development cycle. We show that when an NRDR KB shows an increase in maintenance requirement in comparison with RDR KB during its development, this added requirement can be automatically handled using past seen cases without the need for further interactions with the expert. Hence, because the NRDR framework avoids repetition, the number of interactions with the expert required for an NRDR knowledge base to converge is less than that for an RDR knowledge base in the same domain. Finally, we employ our approach to incrementally acquire expert chess knowledge for performing a highly pruned tree search. These experimental results in the chess domain are a clear evidence for the practicality of our approach.
Developing an Affect-Aware Rear-Projected Robotic Agent

Social (or Sociable) robots are designed to interact with people in a natural and interpersonal manner. They are becoming an integrated part of our daily lives and have achieved positive outcomes in several applications such as education, health care, quality of life, entertainment, etc. Despite significant progress towards the development of realistic social robotic agents, a number of problems remain to be solved. First, current social robots either lack enough ability to have deep social interaction with human, or they are very expensive to build and maintain. Second, current social robots have yet to reach the full emotional and social capabilities necessary for rich and robust interaction with human beings. To address these problems, this dissertation presents the development of a low-cost, flexible, affect-aware rear-projected robotic agent (called ExpressionBot), that is designed to support verbal and non-verbal communication between the robot and humans, with the goal of closely modeling the dynamics of natural face-to-face communication. The developed robotic platform uses state-of-the-art character animation technologies to create an animated human face (aka avatar) that is capable of showing facial expressions, realistic eye movement, and accurate visual speech, and then project this avatar onto a face-shaped translucent mask. The mask and the projector are then rigged onto a neck mechanism that can move like a human head. Since an animation is projected onto a mask, the robotic face is highly flexible research tool, mechanically simple, and low-cost to design, build and maintain compared with mechatronic and android faces. The results of our comprehensive Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) studies illustrate the benefits and
A clinicopathological study of immunobullous lesions of the skin

ABSTRACT Background : Immune mediated vesiculobullous diseases can be diagnosed by close attention to the clinical details, histological confirmation and the clinical setting of the blistering. Confirmatory studies such as immunofluorescence will help in diagnosis of cases where histopathological features alone are not diagnostic. Objectives: To evaluate clinical findings in association with histopathological findings, to study the histopathological findings in various vesiculobullous lesions of skin, and to confirm with immunofluorescence wherever possible. Methods: In the present study 40 cases of vesiculobullous lesions were evaluated histopathologically and correlated clinically. Results: 40 cases of immune mediated vesiculobullous lesions were included in the present study. Of these 40 cases, 18(45%) were Pemphigus vulgaris, 16(40%) were Bullous pemphigoid and 2(5%) were pemphigus vegetans. Less common cases were Pemphigus erythematosus (2.5%), IgA pemphigus (2.5%), Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita (2.5%) and Dermatitis herpetiformis (2.5%). After clinical correlation, histopathological diagnosis was offered in these cases. Immunofluorescence was done in a few cases to confirm the diagnosis. Interpretation and conclusion: Histopathological features were conclusive in most of the cases of primary vesiculobullous lesions of the skin. The study also revealed additional histopathological findings not encountered normally. Analysis of subtle light microscopic features apart from the classical diagnostic features assisted in the diagnosis of difficult cases. Immunofluorescence study done in a few cases helped in confirming the diagnosis where histopathology and clinical features alone were inconclusive.
Dermatologic manifestations in patients of renal disease on hemodialysis

Chronic renal failure (CRF) is recognized as a significant medical problem in our part of the world. It refers to an irreversible deterioration in renal function which classically develops over a period of years. The disorder has five stages and the stage 5, also called end stage renal failure (ESRF), is a severe illness and requires some form of renal replacement therapy (dialysis or renal transplant). Cutaneous and mucosal changes are a common finding in patients of ESRF and on long-term hemodialysis and can vary from each patient population to another. The commonly seen dermatologic manifestations associated with ESRF are xerosis, pruritus, pallor, fungal, bacterial and viral infections, xerostomia, scalp hair loss, nail changes like half-and-half nails and splinter hemorrhages. The cutaneous manifestations related to hemodialysis are skin infections, arteriovenous shunt dermatitis, gynecomastia, bullous disease of dialysis etc. The present review does not highlight cutaneous changes of diseases associated with the development of ESRF but it familiarizes clinicians about the dermatologic changes in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) undergoing hemodialysis.
Failures and Inabilities of High School Students about Quadratic Equations and Functions

In this research study, it was aimed to examine failures and inabilities of eleventh grade students about quadratic equations and functions. For this purpose, these students were asked ten open-ended questions. The analysis of the answers given by the students to these questions indicated that a significant part of these students had failures and inabilities about quadratic equations and functions. The students were often unable to decide what to do in relation to the mathematical operations and made some arithmetical mistakes.
Contemporary developments in teaching and learning introductory programming: Towards a research proposal

The teaching and learning of introductory programming in tertiary institutions is problematic. Failure rates are high and the inability of students to complete small programming tasks at the completion of introductory units is not unusual. The literature on teaching programming contains many examples of changes in teaching strategies and curricula that have been implemented in an effort to reduce failure rates. This paper analyses contemporary research into the area, and summarises developments in the teaching of introductory programming. It also focuses on areas for future research which will potentially lead to improvements in both the teaching and learning of introductory programming. A graphical representation of the issues from the literature that are covered in the document is provided in the introduction.
The exposure of the foetus and the breast-fed newborn of women smokers to carcinogenic element of nickel

The carcinogenic element nickel, which is present in nickel carbonyl compounds found in tobacco smoke, is almost totally absorbed through the respiratory tract during cigarette consumption. Our research study was aimed at determining to what extent cigarette smoking in reproductive women affects the exposure of the fetus and the breast-fed newborn to nickel. The method: the research was based on the analysis of 255 samples of biological material. Nickel content was determined by the electrothermal atomization technique, on a Perkin Elmer AAS M-1100. The results obtained indicate that nickel content in the blood of reproductive women smokers (0.05-0.33 μg/l) is higher than the content of this metal in the blood of non-smoking women (0.01-0.27 μg/l). Nickel content in the placentas of women who consume cigarettes is also higher (<0.01-1.23 μg/l) than the content of this metal in the placentas of non-smoking women (<0.01-1.01 μg/l). The concentration of nickel in the umbilical cord blood of smoking women (<0.01-0.11 μg/l) only slightly differs from the nickel content in the umbilical cord blood of women who do not smoke (<0.01-0.06 μg/l). There was a positive correlation regarding nickel content in the placenta and umbilical cord blood (r-0.817). The presence of nickel in the maternal milk was also determined, confirming that women smokers had a higher content of nickel (<0.01-1.34 μg/l) than non-smoking women (<0.01-0.93 μg/l). It is highly important that would-be mothers discontinue the smoking habit long before the act of conception, and especially during pregnancy and breast-feeding.
Pursuing Scientific Literacy in the Middle Grades Through Collaborative Problem Solving

This article describes an instructional program designed to promote scientific literacy among middle grade students. The instruction focuses on problems that provide a context in which students working in small collaborative groups can bring to bear their knowledge regarding kinetic molecular theory. In keeping with contemporary notions of scientific literacy, engagement in a problem-solving activity is supported through instruction and guidance in the use of scientific explanation and social norms conducive to constructive interaction. After describing several activities used to introduce students to the curriculum, we examine the processes and outcomes of problem solving in the context of planning "dissolving races" (a problem in which students were asked to determine the quickest as well as slowest way in which to dissolve sugar). Differences in the way that this problem was configured over 2 years are traced in terms of the role that explanation played in students' discourse, the interplay of scientific and everyday concepts, and opportunities to experience the activity of science.
A Comparative Study of Lipid Profile in Chronic Alcoholics and Non Alcoholics in a Tertiary Care Hospital Bangalore, South India

Background and Objectives: Alcoholism is a major threat to public health in both developed and developing countries. Over last 30-40 years alcohol consumption has increased in quantity and frequency. Alcohol use predisposes subjects to changes in lipid profile which are associated with coronary risk. Method: 30 alcoholic males were compared with 30 non alcoholic males. Alcohol drinking history was assessed by interview and questionnaire and lipid profile was done measuring total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL, VLDL & LDL. Results: There were significant rise in TC, TGL ,HDL , LDL and VLDL of chronic alcoholics compared with non alcoholics with p value 0.001, <0.001, 0.004, 0.290, <0.001, respectively. Lipid profile was compared among moderate and heavy drinkers and found increased levels of TC, TGL, LDL & VLDL with p value <0.001, 0.001, 0.002 & 0.001 respectively in heavy drinkers. There is decrease in HDL cholesterol among heavy drinkers compared with moderate drinkers, p value 0.011 which is significant. But remains elevated compared to non alcoholics. Conclusion: This study shows that alcohol intake increases the level of lipid parameters. Moderate alcohol intake increases HDL cholesterol whereas heavy alcohol consumption increases TC,TGL,LDL & VLDL and decreases HDL.
Performance-oriented decomposition of sequential circuits

A synthesis procedure which partitions a given finite state machine (FSM) into an interconnection of submachines in order to improve the timing performance of the circuit is presented. A decomposition via factorization which decomposes a given machine of any size by extracting and merging groups of states having similar I/O transition edges and representing them in separate submachines is discussed. These submachines are interconnected in a parallel, but interactive, fashion to realize the original terminal behavior. Timing improvements are achieved by optimally identifying and sharing common logic blocks in the eventual realization of a given FSM. The complete procedure operates solely at the state transition graph level, thus constituting a high-level, or global timing optimization step in the synthesis of FSMs. Results which illustrate the efficacy of this procedure are presented. Based on a set of benchmark examples, the factorization procedure, on the average, decreases the critical-path delays of the original FSMs by 26% while keeping the area increase in the decomposed FSMs within 33% under both two-level and multilevel logic implementations. <<ETX>>