Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Bats as materia medica: an ethnomedical review and implications for conservation

Animal-derived remedies constitute an important branch of traditional medicine (TM) in many parts of the world, particularly for people with limited or no access to Western biomedical services. The use of bats as medicine is reviewed from antiquity to the modern times in different parts of the world, attesting that it is still widespread especially in India and China. The oldest occurrence of bat in medicine is in the Papyrus Ebers (1500 BC). A new medical use of bats could arise from a substance (desmo- teplase) present in the saliva of the common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus and now in clinical trials. Traditionally, exploitation of wild animals in TM has no consideration for its sustainability with regard to populations of the animals in the wild, but recently a new awareness aims to initiate new partnerships between the TM communities and the conservationists about public health, conservation and management of faunistic resources and ecosystem protection. Some comments about the popular use of bat dung in TM are reported in order to investigate the effectiveness of this kind of singular therapy. Chiroptera, ethnomedicine, traditional medicine, vampire bat, desmoteplase, chitin
Challenges & Perspectives of Immunotherapy Biomarkers & The HistoOncoImmune™ Methodology

ABSTRACT The confluence of the immunology and oncology tributaries has precipitated a biomarker turbulence that is novel to the cancer community. On the heels of reversing the dismal outcomes for numerous patients suffering from terminal disease, it has also left behind deep pools of biomarker questions – which ones, when to use them, how to use them and what cells express them – to name just a few. The tumor microenvironment, an arena potentially housing a complex mix of immune infiltrators in the midst of tumor cells, is a wildly heterogeneous terrain, one that severely challenges our single biomarker model. This article examines the recently FDA-approved biomarker assays for PD-1 therapeutics, considers the technical shortcomings of the single biomarker model, scans alternate biomarker technologies and proposes a model that may allow investigators a method to systematically address these complexities.
Avaliação do perfil e qualidade de vida do acadêmico de enfermagem

Introduction: Researches involving the evaluation of the quality of life of nursing scholars admit to concludingthat the quality of life of this population is negative in relation to physical, psychological, andmental health. Objective: To evaluate the socioeconomic profile and quality of life of nursing scholars of ahigher education institution in the city of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil. Methods: A questionnaire for socioeconomicevaluation with 30 closed questions and the World Health Organization’s questionnaire for assessingquality of life (WHOQOL-bref) were used. Socioeconomic data were analyzed using descriptive statistics.Data from the assessment of quality of life were submitted to the mean and standard deviation calculation ofthe answers’ areas using a software developed in Excel that calculates the “total” score of the interviewee andperforms the simple arithmetic average of the scores of the instrument’s 26 questions. Results: The sampleof this study was composed of 156 nursing scholars, 78 of each shift (morning and evening). The predominantage group in the morning shift was 18-20 years (38.46%; n=30), same age group that prevailed on thenight shift (47.44%, n=37). Females accounted for most scholars in both shifts, respectively 88.46% (n=69)and 79.49% (n=62). Regarding the evaluation of quality of life, the domain with the lowest average wasthe Environment (13.03%). On the facets that made up the domains, pain and discomfort, dependence onmedication or treatments, and negative feelings obtained the lowest averages. Conclusion: The preparationof support strategies for nursing scholars in facing adversities imposed by the academic routine is suggested.
Clinical implications of food contaminated by aflatoxins.

Aflatoxins have been incriminated, mainly on circumstantial evidence, in hepatocellular carcinoma, acute hepatic failure and Reye's syndrome, but other possible effects of continuous or intermittent dietary exposure to aflatoxins, which occurs widely in the tropics, have received little study. Over the past 10 years evidence has steadily accumulated that incriminates aflatoxins in the aetiology of kwashiorkor, a widespread and serious disorder of children in the tropics, previously believed to be caused by protein deficiency. Investigation of human breast milk, undertaken initially to elucidate the pathogenesis of kwashiorkor in breastfed infants, has revealed widespread and serious exposure to aflatoxins from this source. Extension of these studies to pregnant women, in turn, revealed widespread and serious prenatal aflatoxin exposure. In laboratory and farm animals, such exposure has serious implications for immune and hepatic functions, and is detrimental to growth and development. Recent analysis of heroin samples show that heroin addicts may also be exposed to these toxins. These findings show that human exposure to aflatoxins may begin prenatally, persist during breastfeeding, and continue into adult life. It is postulated that aflatoxins (i) play a role in the aetiology of kwashiorkor, (ii) increase neonatal susceptibility to infection and jaundice, (iii) increase childhood susceptibility to infections and malignant disease, (iv) compromise immune responses to prophylactic immunisations and (v) may play a role in the pathogenesis of diseases in heroin addicts. There are indications also that acute, fatal aflatoxin poisoning which masquerades as 'hepatitis' may occur more frequently than is currently appreciated. Language: en
Assessment of knowledge, attitude, and practice of nursing management of birth asphyxia in federal medical centre Asaba, Delta State-Nigeria

This study aimed at assessing the knowledge, attitude and practice of nursing management of birth asphyxia in Federal Medical Centre Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria. It was a descriptive survey study of 50 nurses selected by purposive sampling technique from the Maternity and Neonatal Units of the centre. Self-structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the nurses on the key aspects of the management of birth asphyxia. The instrument was used in a pilot study in Female medical ward and test retest correlation coefficient was 0.76. Permission was obtained from the ethical committee of the centre, and unit Heads of Maternity and Neonatal wards. The result revealed that years of experience has no significant effect ( p > .05) on the nurses level of knowledge of nursing management of birth asphyxia and that only 10% of nurses adopted appropriate practice level. The results also show that There is no significant difference ( p > .05) in attitude of nurses to the practice of management of birth asphyxia. Refresher courses were recommended for nurses to improve the level of good practice in care of birth asphyxia.
Children and the internet: An exploration of Year 5 pupils’ online experiences and perceptions of risk

The internet is becoming increasingly integral to children’s lives. Consequently, it is vital that children are educated in how to protect themselves online and how to become responsible online users. This action research study addresses significant gaps in existing research by exploring children’s online experiences, alongside their understandings of risk, from their own perspective, in order to inform a personalised and relevant internet safety curriculum within the research setting. The study utilises a mixed-methods approach, combining a comprehensive quantitative survey with a subsequent qualitative group interview with a sample of 14 participants. Findings suggest that, despite being proficient online users with an awareness of what constitutes online risk, many children largely fail to apply this knowledge to their own online practices. The study demonstrates the importance of educators and schools understanding children’s online activities in order to respond to their needs and concerns effectively. Based on the research findings, it is recommended that similar research is actioned across primary schools, and that schools appoint pupils as internet safety ambassadors to provide educators with insights into children’s current online activities, alongside providing peer guidance and support from a pupil perspective. These recommendations could be significant for the online safety education of children and young people in the wider context.
Sero prevalence of Hepatitis B virus among infertile women recruited for Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART)

Aim: Sexually transmissible diseases such as Hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes or induces incurable often fatal infections have been transmitted through Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This study is to determine the seroprevalence of HBV among infertile women recruited for intrauterine insemination (I.U.I). Methodology and Results: A 5mL of blood was collected and serum aspirated. The detection of HBV was carried out using global one-step rapid test kit relative sensitivity of 99% and specific of 97%. Age range of infertile women was 20 – 49 years. Approximately 30 (5.9%) out of the 512 recruited women were seropositive for HBV with increase in prevalence rate among age group of (25 – 29 years) and (30 – 34 years). The rate of infection of HBV was found to be insignificant in this study using chi-square statistical analysis (p > 0.0001). Conclusion, Significance and Impact of Study: Though the rate of the virus infection were statistically insignificant but the screening should be a continuous exercise and be carried out by all fertility center.
Prediction Error After Lens Implantation in Children With Axial Length Less than 22 mm Below 2 Yrs

Purpose: To compare the accuracy of IOL power calculation in children less than 2 years of age with axial length less than 22 mm using the SRK-T, SRK-II, and Hoffer-Q formulae. Design: Retrospective comparative study. Methods: We retrospectively analysed 68 eyes of 39 children below 2 years of age with axial length less than 22 mm who underwent cataract surgery with primary IOL implantation. We assessed the accuracy of predicted refraction using SRK-T, SRK-II and Hoffer-Q formulae in each of the eyes by calculating and comparing mean prediction error and mean absolute prediction error with each formula. Children with a minimum follow up of 6 weeks were enrolled to study the absolute prediction error. Results: Mean absolute prediction error was significantly different among the three formulae used for IOL power calculation in each eye (Friedman test, p-value=0.0009). There also existed statistically significant difference between SRK-T and SRK-II, SRK-T and Hoffer-Q, SRK-II and Hoffer-Q (Signed rank test, p-value= 0.0001). Absolute prediction error was minimum with SRK-II (1.85± 1.85) while it was maximum with Hoffer-Q (3.70± 4.01). Mean absolute prediction error with SRK-T was 2.09± 2.73. The clinical accuracy of absolute prediction error within ± 0.5D and ± 1 D was seen in 22 % and 40% of the eyes respectively with SRK-T while it was seen in 19 % and 38% of the eyes with SRK-II. Pearson correlation coefficient showed strong negative correlation between mean absolute prediction error with each of the three formulae and age at the time of surgery and also axial length. Lesser the age at surgery, more is the absolute prediction error. The shorter the axial length, more is the prediction error. There was no correlation of any of the formulae with mean keratometry reading. There existed positive correlation of SRK-II, Hoffer-Q and IOL power implanted. Higher the IOL power, more is the prediction error. Conclusion: The accuracy of SRK-T and SRK-II was comparable in calculating IOL power in children with axial length less than 22 mm and below
Prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility of urinary tract infections in febrile children below ten years attending mulago hospital, Uganda

Background: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common infections in the pediatrics population. This study was performed to determine the prevalence of urinary tract infections amongst febrile children below 10 years attending Mulago National Referral Hospital, and the susceptibility patterns of the isolated uropathogens to common antibiotics. Methods: A cross-sectional study of febrile pediatric patients below 10 years from various ward of Mulago National Referral Hospital was conducted between January and May 2019. Biodata and midstream urine samples were collected from 160 children . The urine samples were cultured onto Blood Agar and Cystine Lactose Electrolyte Deficient (CLED) simultaneously. Growth was considered significant when a pure isolate had ≥ 10 5 CFU/mL. Susceptibility to 8 antibiotics was set using the modified Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion technique. Results: Out of the 160 urine samples analyzed, 29(18.1%) had significant bacterial growth. The frequency of UTIs was significantly higher in girls 20(69.0%) than boys 9(31.0%). Escherichia coli was the most predominant microorganism (41.4%), followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae (20.7%) and Staphylococcus aureus at (13.8%). Overall susceptibility tests exhibited a very high Antibiotic resistance of uropathogens to ampicillin (96.6%), cotrimoxazole (82.8%) and nalidixic-acid. Nitrofurantoin and imipenem showed the lowest resistances of 34.5% and 31.0% respectively. A total of 24(82.8%) isolates were multidrug resistant. Conclusion: Bacteriuria is a highly prevalent condition amongst febrile children attending Mulago hospital, with Enterobacteriaceae being the most predominant uropathogens. Uropathogens were highly sensitive to nitrofurantoin and imipenem but with significant resistance to ampicillin and cotrimoxazole. This information can be useful in decision making during management of UTIs among children.
Living with Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita: A Survey

Aims To explore the views and opinions of adults with Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC) about their lives. Background There is sparse literature about life as an adult with a congenital condition. Adults with AMC were keen to discover if problems and experiences were common amongst others with AMC. Parents of children with AMC were also interested to know what the future may hold for their child as an adult. Design A postal questionnaire, including open and closed questions, was sent to 295 adults with AMC who were members of The Arthrogryposis Group (TAG). The questionnaire included domains on demographics, education, family life, employment, physical abilities, general health, surgery, therapies, pain, disability and life. Results A wide variation of opinions and experiences were recorded amongst the group of 96 adults with AMC who responded, both from their childhood years and an overview of their achievements and challenges as adults. Conclusions There was a wide range of experiences amongst this group of adults with AMC whose ages ranged from 18 to 83 years. Attitudes towards life with AMC were broadly positive with many reporting acceptance and resilience to cope with personal, social and environmental challenges. Lack of knowledge and expertise about AMC amongst health care professionals and others in adult services was a common observation, as were difficulties securing funding to support living with a disability, access, and opportunities. ________________________________________________________________________________ S. Griffiths et al. / APCP Journal Volume 4 Number 1 (2013) 7-18 Histogram with bell shaped curve, demonstrating distribution of data for right multifidus muscle during the 15% BW loaded backpack condition. A histogram and bell shaped curve, to demonstrate the distribution of data for the left multifidus muscle during the unloaded backpack condition. A histogram and bell shaped curve, to demonstrate the distribution of data for the left multifidus muscle during the 10% BW loaded backpack condition. A histogram and bell shaped curve, to demonstrate the distribution of data for the left multifidus muscle during the 15% BW loaded backpack condition.
Reasons for Committing Suicide in South Korean University Students

A study of 249 South Korean university students found that estimates of the likelihood that they might commit suicide in response to stressful life events was predicted by age, sex and attitudes toward life and death. Attitudes toward the body, attachment to their traditional culture and attachment style played a limited or non-significant role. Copyrights belong to the Author(s). Suicidology Online (SOL) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal publishing under the Creative Commons Licence 3.0.
Opportunistic Scheduling in Network-Coded Cooperative Systems

In this paper, we study the performance of opportunistic source selection (OSS) in multisource multirelay network-coded cooperative (NCC) systems. For this system, we derive the exact outage probability and asymptotic measures such as the diversity and coding gains. The derived analytical results provide an efficient means to evaluate the impact of different system parameters on the system performance. Our results reveal that the proposed NCC system greatly exploits the diversity gains in multisource multirelay NCC systems and thus provides a considerable performance improvement. From the derived closed-form diversity gains, we also evaluate the optimal number of selected relays that maximizes the achievable diversity gain. Numerical results are also presented to validate the theoretical analysis.
The de Haas-van Alphen Effect in a Silicon Nanosandwich at the Room Temperature. Numerical Simulation of the Oscillations with Integer Filling Factors

We present a study of the high-temperature de Haas - van Alphen effect in a silicon nanostructure with integer filling factors up to ν = 11, inclusively. It is shown that the observed oscillations can be described by the model of the Gaussian broadening of the Landau levels of the twodimensional density of states and an energy-independent basis. The estimation of the magnitude of the carriers effective mass appears to be 10-4 free electron mass.
SOS Boosting for Image Deblurring Algorithms

The work reported by Romano and Elad presents the SOS boosting – a generic recursive method for improving image denoising algorithms. Appealing properties of the SOS scheme are its flexibility to work with any denoising method, its simplicity, and its robustness. In this article we aim to generalize this to the image deblurring task. The proposed SOS procedure for deblurring is given by the following iterative steps: [S]trengthen the signal by blurring the output of the previous iteration and adding it to the blurred input image, [O]perate the deblurring algorithm on the strengthened image, and [S]ubtract the previous output from the current one. We demonstrate this procedure for several state-of-the-art methods (BM3D, EPLL and NCSR), showing the potential gain in output quality for each. As in the original SOS, we manipulate the iterative algorithm by two parameters, better controlling its steady state and rate of convergence.
Remote Monitoring of IoT Sensors and Communication Link Quality in Multisite mMTC Testbed

Massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC) technologies are key to addressing communication requirements of various emerging IoT applications. In this work, a multisite mMTC test network is designed and implemented in order to investigate the long-term communication quality and sensor data of LoRa and NB-IoT. This is essential for remote network maintenance operations, because it allows distinguishing communication quality defects from software/hardware failures. Moreover, it provides additional information about the communication link quality for network management. The test network is geographically scattered over a large area in Finland and experimented both in private and public networks. Measurements on LoRaWAN test networks revealed that higher SNRs and RSSIs are generally achieved for devices with lower spreading factors. Comparison of NB-IoT and LoRaWAN shows that NB-IoT has better communication quality performance. Overall, this paper provides first long-term multi-site and multi-technology mMTC measurements and corresponding performance analysis that are not available in the existing literature.
EmoChat: Bringing Multimodal Emotion Detection to Mobile Conversation

Online chatting is very popular nowadays. However, most of the chatting softwares are based on pure text messages, which cannot completely convey users' emotions, causing information asymmetry. In this paper, we propose a new online chatting system, named EmoChat, which automatically identifies the emotions of the users and attaches the identification result to the messages sent by the user, allowing users to know the emotions of each other during online chatting. EmoChat analyzes the real-time emotions of users based on a joint consideration of facial expressions and text messages. Specifically, we propose an information entropy based method to fuse the multimodal information of these two pieces of complementary information. Furthermore, by realizing the context-sensitive property of the emotion information, a Hidden Markov Model based method is proposed to improve the emotion recognition accuracy with the context information. We implement EmoChat and evaluate its performance through a series of experiments. The experimental results show that EmoChat achieves an accuracy of 76.25% for emotion polarity recognition and an accuracy of 51.64% for emotion category recognition. Moreover, the delay when sending a message with emotions attached is within 50ms on the mobile devices.
Cumulative Scores Based for Real-Time Music Beat Detection System

Beat detection is a standard stage that is used to overcome other problems in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). The algorithm for beat detection has become increasingly complicated in recent years. The method used in this research is an algorithm that has been simplified from previous work. By using the spectral flux method to get the Onset Detection Function (ODF) signal, then estimate the tempo. ODF signal and estimated tempo are used as input for cumulative score to get the right beat location. This system results in an average of 80% simulation on music that has a constant or almost constant tempo, this is an excellent result where only using a simple algorithm. To check the effectiveness and reliability, the system will be tested with actuator movements.
Towards an Efficient Hardware Architecture for Odd-Even Based Merge Sorter

Sorting is widely used in several practical applications such as searching and database. This paper proposes two improved FPGA-based architectures for merge sorter that use less hardware resources compared to the state-of-the-art. For instance, with 64 sorted records are output per cycle, implementation results of our first proposal show an improvement in the required number of Flip Flops (FFs) and Look-Up Tables (LUTs) by 84.4% and 77.7%, respectively over the state-of-the-art. In addition, the throughput of our merge sorter is 1.065x higher than that of state-of-the-art. As for the second proposal, a significant improvement is achieved by 66.3% and 84.6% for the needed FFs and LUTs, respectively. Moreover, while our second proposed merge sorter uses significant less resources, it achieves about 95.9% of the performance of state-of-the-art merge sorter.