Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
University of Groningen Change in saturated fat intake is associated with progression of carotid and femoral intima- media thickness, and with levels of soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 Bemelmans,

Background: A high saturated fat (SFA) intake may stimulate progression of atherosclerosis, and may be positively associated with expression of adhesion molecules. Methods: In moderately hypercholesterolaemic participants of a dietary intervention study (n=103; 55 10 years), we examined associations between reported changes in SFA intake and changes in carotid and femoral intima-media thickness (IMT) and soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (sICAM-1) levels after 2 years. The carotid and femoral IMT was assessed by high-resolution B-mode ultrasound images. Results: After 2 years, dietary intake of SFA decreased with 1.8 2.6% of energy (P 0.01). In the lowest quintile of change in SFA intake (−5.9 1.4% of energy), changes in carotid and femoral IMT were +0.03 mm (SEM 0.03) and −0.09 mm (SEM 0.07), respectively, versus +0.10 mm (SEM 0.03), +0.17 mm (SEM 0.07) in the top quintile (+1.6 0.7% of energy) (P linear trend 0.07 (carotis), 0.02 (femoralis)). Changes in sICAM-1 were −19.0 ng/nl (SEM 5.6) in the lowest quintile, versus +8.6 ng/ml (SEM 5.3) in the top quintile (P linear trend 0.001), adjusted for baseline level, SFA intake, body mass index, age, changes in intake of fruit, polyunsaturated fat, and dietary cholesterol. Adjustments for changes in established risk factors did not alter these results. Conclusions: Decreased SFA intake may reduce progression of atherosclerosis, as assessed by IMT, and is associated with reduced levels of sICAM-1 after 2 years. Further research using randomised placebo-controlled trials is necessary to exclude potential confounding variables and to confirm causality. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
Daily Exposure of Roadside Topsoil to Lead at Olaiya Roundabout, Osogbo, Nigeria

The daily concentration of lead in roadside topsoil at Olaiya roundabout in Osogbo, Nigeria was investigated. Lead was found to be most significant on Monday around the old motor park and accounts for 25% of lead for the day. It was found to be most significant along government secretariat on tuesday and wednesday with 28% and 29% contribution to daily lead exposure respectively. Lead was found to be most significant along government house, Okefia, beside the market on thursday and friday with 27% and 22% contribution to lead contamination respectively. Most significant lead concentration on saturday and sunday was obtained beside the market. The highest lead level for the study was obtained on wednesday along government secretariat. However, the level of lead in this study was low compared to other studies elsewhere. Automobile exhausts emissions is likely to be the major source of lead in addition to waste deposition and railway. Statistical analysis showed significant difference in the levels of lead with a positive correlation at p< 0.05. Lead is an important toxicant that can exert adverse effects in humans, given sufficient exposure and accumulations in the body.
Literature Survey on Student’s Performance Prediction in Education using Data Mining Techniques

One of the most challenging tasks in the education sector in India is to predict student's academic performance due to a huge volume of student data. In the Indian context, we don't have any existing system by which analyzing and monitoring can be done to check the progress and performance of the student mostly in Higher education system. Every institution has their own criteria for analyzing the performance of the students. The reason for this happing is due to the lack of study on existing prediction techniques and hence to find the best prediction methodology for predicting the student academics progress and performance. Another important reason is the lack in investigating the suitable factors which affect the academic performance and achievement of the student in particular course. So to deeply understand the problem, a detail literature survey on predicting student’s performance using data mining techniques is proposed. The main objective of this article is to provide a great knowledge and understanding of different data mining techniques which have been used to predict the student progress and performance and hence how these prediction techniques help to find the most important student attribute for prediction. Actually, we want to improve the performance of the student in academic by using best data mining techniques. At last, it could also provide some benefits for faculties, students, educators and management of the institution.
Effect of Umbilical Cord Care Intervention Program on mothers ' Performance and Occurrence of Cord Problems among Their Newborn Infants

WHO recommends essential newborn care practices including promotion and support for early initiation of exclusive breastfeeding, thermal protection including promoting skin-to-skin contact, hygienic and umbilical cord care to reduce neonatal mortality and morbidity. The aim of this quasi-experimental study was to evaluate the effect of umbilical cord care intervention program on mothers' performance and occurrence of cord problems among their newborn infants. A total of 400 mothers with their newborn infants who attended the postnatal units at Ismalia University Hospital and General Hospital, Ismalia, Egypt, were recruited for this study. Data was collected through a structured interview questionnaire; newborn follow-up sheet and an observation checklist. Results indicated that before implementation of intervention program lake of satisfactory knowledge and practice was found among mothers in both groups related to cord care and the total mean scores for immediate post and follow up tests of intervention group were statistically significantly higher(p<0. 001), compared to their pre-intervention and control group scores. Regarding newborn follow-up, the results revealed that the minority of newborns in intervention mothers' group (0.5%) developed umbilical cord infection signs and 99.5% their cord sloughed off before the end of the two weeks. It could be concluded that, mothers who received umbilical cord care intervention program had higher total mean score of knowledge and practice than pre-intervention and control group with highly statistical significant differences. The results also concluded that nearly all of newborn infants of intervention mothers group not exposed to the occurrence of cord infection signs and their cord slough off within normal expected time. The study recommended that educational intervention regarding neonatal care is required during the period of antenatal visit. Researches, study the effect of newborn cord care practices on the incidence of newborn morbidity.
CARDIAC SYMPATHETIC MODULATION INCREASE AFTER WEIGHT LOSS IN COMBAT SPORTS ATHLETES

ABSTRACT Introduction: Although the rapid weight loss process is undertaken by combat sports athletes very often, the impact of this practice on cardiovascular health is not fully understood. Objective: To verify the effects of the rapid weight loss process undertaken by combat sports athletes on hemodynamic parameters, cardiovascular autonomic modulation and mood state. Methods: Eight male fighters (21.62±1.49 years, 71.25±3.54 kg, 1.74±0.03 cm) were assessed in the city of São Paulo. The subjects had 5.37±0.77 years of practice and were training 5.75±0.45 days per week, for 3.05±0.69 hours per day. The athletes were assessed on 2 occasions: 14 days before and 1 day before official weigh-in. Weight, height and bioimpedance were used for body composition analysis. Mood state was assessed using the Brums Mood Scale. Blood pressure was measured at rest with a digital meter. Cardiovascular autonomic modulation was obtained through an analysis of heart rate variability recorded for 25 minutes at rest. The Student's t-test for dependent samples was used for comparison between time points. Values of p<0.05 were considered significant. Results: No differences in body composition were observed between the time points evaluated. After the weight loss strategy, increases in mood state parameters related to anger, vigor and fatigue categories were observed. Blood pressure did not change between the time points evaluated. However, an increase in heart rate associated with greater sympathetic modulation was observed after the weight loss strategy. There were no differences in autonomic modulation parameters representing parasympathetic activity. Conclusions: The study provided evidence of a higher cardiovascular risk in athletes as a result of this rapid weight loss practice, which is very concerning since combat sports athletes repeat this process several times during their lives. Level of Evidence IV; Study type: Case series.
Exposure to Grocery Prices and Inflation Expectations

Consumers rely on the price changes of goods in their grocery bundles when forming expectations about aggregate inflation. We use micro data that uniquely match individual expectations, detailed information about consumption bundles, and item-level prices. The weights consumers assign to price changes depend on the frequency of purchase, rather than expenditure share, and positive price changes loom larger than negative price changes. Prices of goods offered in the same store but not purchased do not affect inflation expectations, nor do other dimensions. Our results provide empirical guidance for models of expectations formation with heterogeneous consumers.
Non-Spore-Forming Anaerobic Bacteria causing Endodontic Infections: Fusobacterium nucleatum

Non-spore-forming anaerobic cocci and rods are a heterogeneous group of bacteria that form the predominant bacterial population on the skin and mucous membranes in humans. The most important anaerobic gram-negative non-spore-forming bacteria are in the genera Bacteroides, Fusobacterium, Porphyromonas, Prevotella and Parabacteroides. These microorganisms are primarily opportunistic pathogens, usually responsible for endogenous infections in humans, and are more often isolated in polymicrobial associations with other anaerobic and aerobic bacteria. Almost half of the chronic sinus and ear infections and almost all periodontal infections are polymicrobial associations of gram-negative anaerobes, the most frequently isolated being Prevotella, Porphyromonas, Fusobacterium nucleatum and Bacteroides non-fragilis. These microbes have stringent nutritional requirements and grow slowly in nutrient environments in laboratory conditions for 3 or more days. A major component of their cell wall is the lipopolysaccharides (LPS), which, in the genus Bacteroides, have little or no endotoxin activity, unlike the LPS molecules in aerobic gram-negative rods such as bacteria of the genus Fusobacterium. By applying a suitable therapeutic approach and treatment, life-threatening conditions are
MNIST Fashion-MNIST 3 D body shapes

In this paper we propose Structuring AutoEncoders (SAE). SAEs are neural networks which learn a low dimensional representation of data and are additionally enriched with a desired structure in this low dimensional space. While traditional Autoencoders have proven to structure data naturally they fail to discover semantic structure that is hard to recognize in the raw data. The SAE solves the problem by enhancing a traditional Autoencoder using weak supervision to form a structured latent space. In the experiments we demonstrate, that the structured latent space allows for a much more efficient data representation for further tasks such as classification for sparsely labeled data, an efficient choice of data to label, and morphing between classes. To demonstrate the general applicability of our method, we show experiments on the benchmark image datasets MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, DeepFashion2 and on a dataset of 3D human shapes.
Exogenous ABA Induces Osmotic Adjustment, Improves Leaf Water Relations and Water Use Efficiency, But Not Yield in Soybean under Water Stress

Abscisic acid (ABA) plays a central role in the plant response to water deficit by inducing stomatal closure to conserve water when the soil dries. Exogenous ABA was applied at 45 days after sowing (DAS) as a soil drench, the physiological and seed yield response of soybean to exogenous ABA were examined as the soil was drying. Three experiments were conducted using the drought-tolerant soybean cultivar Jindou 19, grown in pots at the Yuzhong Experimental Station of Lanzhou University, China. In experiment 1, plants were exposed to progressive soil drying and leaf ABA concentration, leaf photosynthesis rate, leaf relative water content (RWC) and osmotic adjustment (OA) were measured. In experiment 2, plants were under progressive soil drying and lethal leaf water potential was measured. In experiment 3, flower production and abortion, and grain yield were measured in plants under well-watered (WW), moderate (MWD) and severe water deficits (SWD). Exogenous ABA application increased ABA accumulation in leaves and reduced the rate of soil drying. It also increased leaf photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance and transpiration rate at 7–10 days after withholding water. The intrinsic and instantaneous water use efficiency (WUE) was consistently higher with exogenous ABA than without ABA as the soil dried. Exogenous ABA increased OA when the leaf relative water content (RWC) decreased at eight days after withholding water, lowering the lethal leaf water potential by 0.4 MPa. Exogenous ABA reduced water use, increased WUE for grain yield under WW and MWD, and had no effect on flower number, flower abortion or grain yield in any water treatment. We concluded that (1) exogenous ABA induced OA, improved leaf photosynthetic rate, leaf water relations and desiccant tolerance, but did not benefit grain yield in soybean under water deficits; (2) exogenous ABA improved the WUE at the leaf level as soil drying and WUE for grain yield under moderate water deficit.
Associations between Child Gender , Severity of Illness , Social Support , and Self-management of Vietnamese School-age Children with Asthma

ล ีงอก เบา เอยีน, นุจร ีไชยมงคล* และ ยนุ ีพงศจ์ตรุวทิย์ 2 Le Ngoc Bao Yen 1 , Nujjaree Chaimongkol * and Yunee Pongjaturawit 1 นิสติหลักสูตรพยาบาลศาสตรมหาบัณฑติ (หลักสูตรนานาชาต)ิ คณะพยาบาลศาสตร ์มหาวทิยาลัย บูรพา จ. ชลบรุี 20131 2 สาขาวชิาการพยาบาลเด็ก คณะพยาบาลศาสตร ์มหาวทิยาลัยบูรพา จ. ชลบุรี 20131 1 Student in Master of Nursing Science (International Program), Faculty of Nursing, Burapha University, Chon Buri 20131, Thailand 2 Pediatrics Nursing Division, Faculty of Nursing, Burapha University, Chon Buri 20131, Thailand
POLICE RESPONSE TO DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY ALISHA C. SALERNO A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS GRADUATE PROGRAM IN PSYCHOLOGY

Individuals with developmental disabilities (DD) are at considerable risk for encounters with the criminal justice system. This study examined the experiences and perceptions of people with DD, and caregivers of people with DD, in relation to their interactions with the police. Ninetyone participants (n=25 people with DD & n=66 caregivers of persons with DD) completed a survey that probed their experiences with police. Findings paint a detailed picture of police encounters amongst individuals with DD. Three-quarters of the sample reported at least one police interaction in their lifetime. Individuals with police involvement were more likely to be older, not living with their parents, have mental health issues, and were more likely to have a mild (compared to a severe) impairment. Participants with DD described different types of encounters compared to the caregivers, and perceived these interactions much differently. Findings suggest that those with a less apparent DD may be at greater risk of an adverse encounter with the police.
ASSOCIATED FACTORS OF MORTALITY IN FIRST-EVER STROKE PATIENTS

The aim of this study was to determine the associated factors of mortality in first-ever stroke patients receiving care in a suburban hospital setting in Malaysia. A retrospective record review study was conducted among 432 first-ever stroke patients in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia. Information on demographic characteristics, past medical history, clinical characteristics, medications prior to stroke and symptoms and signs of first-ever stroke patients were retrieved from medical records. Multiple logistic regression was used for data analysis. At the study endpoint, 101 (23.4%) death was identified and 331 patients (76.6%) were still alive till data collection was completed. The significant prognostic factors included male, patients with seizure/ fit, marital status, Glasgow coma scale score, fasting blood sugar, smoking status, patients with rheumatic heart disease, level of urea and patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage. The findings of this study highlighted the key clinical parameters of associated factors of mortality in first-ever stroke patients in a predominantly suburban setting in Malaysia.
Internalized Stigma , Quality of Life and Self Esteem in Chronic Schizophrenic Patients

Background: Chronic schizophrenia has major impact on patient‟s daily life activities, emotionality, interpersonal relationships and functioning. Further, it also impacts on patient own evaluation, self-concept, selfesteem, self-efficacy and abilities. Objective: The objective was to investigate the internalized stigma as negative predictor of quality of life and self-esteem in chronic schizophrenic patients. Study settings and duration: This study was conducted at various hospitals and clinics of Rawalpindi and Islamabad in year 2017. Patients and Methods: Total of 50 chronic schizophrenic patients suffering from schizophrenia for more than 5 years were enrolled with 27 females and 23 males between age ranges from 18-50 years (Mean =33.56, SD =10.912). The data was gathered from various hospitals and clinics of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness Scale (Ritsher et al., 2003), Quality of Life Brief (WHOQOL) and Rosenberg SelfEsteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965) were administered on patients. The scoring was done, and data was analyzed on SPSS-18. Linear regression analysis were applied to assess the variables of study. Results: Results revealed that internalized stigma is a significant negative predictor of quality of life [R = . 453, R2 = . 205, F (1, 49) = 12.371, p <. 001] and self-esteem [R = . 326, R2 = . 106, F (1, 49) = 5.705, p <. 021] in chronic schizophrenic patients. Conclusion: It is concluded that internalized stigma is a significant negative predictor of quality of life and selfesteem in chronic schizophrenic patients.
Title: Cardiac Function Modeling in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Based on Type D Personality Considering the Mediating Role of Health Promoting Life Style

Background: The cardiac function of patients with acute myocardial infarction plays an important role in disease prognosis. The risk of ischemic heart disease and its death in people with type D personality is four times higher than those with lower levels of negative affect and social inhibition and life style is the objective and quantifiable dimension of human personality. Objectives: The purpose of this research was to model the cardiac function based on type D personality with the mediating role of health promoting life style in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Materials and Methods: The present research has employed a correlation method based on the structural equation modeling especially regression equations. The statistical population of this research was all patients with acute myocardial infarction (ST-segment Elevation MI) under Primary PCI referred to Mazandaran Cardiac Center in Sari in 2017-18. 220 patients were selected through Muller Regression Equation Modeling Formula (1996) considering the ratio of the sample size to the free parameter by purposive sampling method. They responded to the D-personality questionnaire(DS14), (Denolt, 2005) and the Health Promoting Life style Questionnaire (HPLP II). Results: type D personality variable can directly predicts of the cardiac function of patients with acute myocardial infarction. This variable also predicts the cardiac function of these patients through the mediation of Health Promoting life style. Conclusion: type D personality has a direct and indirect effect on heart disease and prognosis of patients with myocardial infarction (due to the mediating role of health promoting lifes tyle) and screening for this personality type is necessary.
Volatility Risk Decomposition and the Covariation Risk Premium

How does the covariation risk (the risk of simultaneous unfavorable shocks to cash flows and discount rate) impact hedging demands of long-term investors and expected stock returns? To address this question, we develop an intertemporal asset pricing model with the time-varying covariance matrix of cash-flow news and discount rate news, in which covariation risk carries separate risk premium. Our model helps account for approximately 71% of the return variation across size, book-to-market and momentum sorted portfolios for the modern U.S. sample period. Collectively, our findings suggest that covariation risk is both economically and statistically important for understanding equity risk premia. JEL classification: G12, G14
5-9-2012 Energy Balance Climate Models , Damage Reservoirs and the Time Profile of Climate Change Policy

A simplified energy balance climate model is considered with the global mean temperature as the state variable, and an endogenous ice line. The movements of the ice line towards the Poles are associated with damage reservoirs where initial damages are high and then eventually vanish as the ice caps vanish and the damage reservoir is exhausted. We couple this climate model with a simple economic growth model and we show that the endogenous ice line induces a nonlinearity. This nonlinearity when combined with two sources of damages the conventional damages due to temperature increase and the reservoir damages generates multiple steady states and Skiba points. It is shown that the policy ramp implied by this model calls for high mitigation now. Simulation results suggest that the policy ramp could be U-shaped instead of the monotonically increasing with low starting mitigation gradualist policy ramp.
Treatment with DHA Improves Epidermal Eeratinocyte Differentiation and Ameliorates Inflammation in Human Keratinocytes and Reconstructed Human Epidermis Models

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease, which can cause skin barrier function damaged. Although co-incubation with docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) exerts a positive effect in deficient skin model, there is no study to investigate the effects of topical treatment with DHA in inflammatory reconstructed human epidermis (RHE) model. The effects of DHA on monolayer normal human epidermal keratinocyte (NHEK) cells were evaluated via CCK-8, qPCR and ELISA. The skin related barrier function was assessed by hematoxylin-eosin (HE) staining, western blot (WB), Immunohistofluorescence (IF) and ELISA in normal and inflammatory RHE models. DHA upregulated filaggrin and loricrin expression at mRNA levels in addition to suppress overexpression of TNF-α，IL-1α and IL-6 stimulated by poly I:C plus LPS (stimulation cocktail) in cultured NHEK cells. After topical treatment with DHA, cocktail induced inflammatory characteristics of skin diseases including barrier morphological, differentiation proteins and TSLP secretion, which were alleviated in RHE models. Supplementation with DHA can improved related barrier function and have anti-inflammation effects in monolayer keratinocytes and RHE models, which indicated that DHA may have a potential value for the treatment of inflammation-associate skin diseases.