Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
DRUG INDUCED HYPOGLYCEMIC COMA IN A NONDIABETIC WITH CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE: A CASE REPORT OF DRUG DISPENSING ERROR

Hypoglycemia is a common, potentially fatal, yet preventable problem. Drug-induced hypoglycemia remains the commonest cause of hypoglycemia. A 63 year old non-diabetic male, a known case of chronic liver disease, on regular medications, presented with unconsciousness, unresponsiveness since two hours. Immediate random blood sugar was 11 mg/dl. On proper history and clinical examination, diagnosis of oral hypoglycemic agent induced hypoglycemic coma was made and immediately intravenous dextrose resuscitation was started. Patient regained consciousness after four hours and became fully oriented after 24 hours. Throughout his hospital course, strict and frequent glucose monitoring was done and dextrose infused accordingly. Patient remained hemodynamically stable throughout the hospital course. He was discharged from the hospital after 72 hours in an otherwise healthy condition. Drug induced hypoglycemia is now so relatively common that virtually every unconscious patient should be considered hypoglycemic until immediate estimation of the blood sugar level rules the condition in or out.
Ensemble-based methods for intrusion detection

Abstract The master thesis focuses on ensemble approaches applied to intrusion detection systems (IDSs). The ensemble approach is a relatively new trend in artificial intelligence in which several machine learning algorithms are combined. The main idea is to exploit the strengths of each algorithm of the ensemble to obtain a robust classifier. Moreover, ensembles are particularly useful when a problem can be segmented into subproblems. In this case, each module of the ensemble, which can include one or more algorithms, is assigned to one particular subproblem. Network attacks can be divided into four classes: denial of service, user to root, remote to local and probe. One module of the ensemble designed in this work is itself an ensemble of decision trees and is specialized on the detection of one class of attacks. The inner structure of each module uses bagging techniques to increase the accuracy of the IDS. Experiments showed that IDSs obtain better results when each class of attacks is treated as a separate problem and handled by specialized algorithms. This work have also concluded that these algorithms need to be trained with specific subsets of fea- tures selected according to their relevance to the class of attack being detected. The efficiency of ensemble approaches is also highlighted. In all experiments, the ensemble was able to bring down the number of false positives and false negatives. However, we also observed the limitations of the KDD99 dataset. In particular, the distribution of examples of remote to local attacks between the training set and test set made difficult the evaluation of the ensemble for this class of attack.
Turning evidence into practice: Barriers to research use among occupational therapists

Introduction Research has demonstrated that occupational therapists generally have a positive attitude regarding the use of evidence in their daily practice and decision-making. In addition, occupational therapists are expected to implement evidence-based practice, which is often understood as equivalent to research. However, evidence-based practice might be difficult to reconcile with occupational therapy from a client-centred focus. This study examines what occupational therapists perceive as barriers to research use and discusses the challenge of clinical implementation. Method This study uses a descriptive cross-sectional design. The Barriers to Research Utilization Scale questionnaire was mailed to 807 randomly selected Swedish occupational therapists. The response rate was 59%. Findings The occupational therapists identified three main barriers to the use of research: insufficient facilities (82%); lack of time to read research (77%); difficulty understanding statistical analyses (75%). Degree of education was shown to affect results; occupational therapists with higher education levels indicated a higher use of research. Conclusion Implementing research in clinical practice is a challenge. Occupational therapists are interested but they lack the optimal prerequisites and time.
Nutritional value, phytochemicals and antioxidant property of six wild edible plants consumed by the Bodos of North-East India

BACKGROUND: Plants are known to contain minerals and many bioactive compounds which provide several health benefits on consumption. OBJECTIVE: The aim of present study was to assess the nutritional composition, phytochemical constituents and antioxidant activities of six wild edible plants consumed by the Bodos of North-East India and the plants are Sphenoclea zeylanica, Cardamine hirsuta, Natsiatum herpeticum, Sphaerantus peguensis, Melothria perpusilla, and Persicaria chinensis. METHODS: Proximate composition of the plant was determined following AOAC method. Mineral contents were analyzed using Atomic Absorption Spectrometer. Phytochemical screening of methanol extracts were performed following standard procedures and several assays were used to evaluate the antioxidant activity of the plants. RESULTS: The investigation showed that all the six plants have variable quantities of proximate and mineral compositions. The phytochemical screening of methanol extracts revealed the presence of a number of medicinally active secondary metabolites. Among the six wild edible plants, M. perpusilla displayed a better antioxidant property showing the strongest DPPH radical scavenging activity, maximum FRAP value, highest phenolic and flavonoid contents. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this investigation indicate that these wild edible plants are good sources of minerals and natural antioxidants to be incorporated as functional ingredients of food.
Older Audiences’ Responses to Mental Health Promotion Messages

This study focused on the role of motivation and ability in older audiences’ interpretations of mental health promotion messages. The aim was to generate insights into the ways in which older people respond to such messages, to inform the development of mental health promotion communications. Twenty individual interviews and 12 focus groups were conducted with a total of 111 Western Australians aged 40 years and older. Interviewees were exposed to a series of mental health messages and asked to share their thoughts and feelings about the message content and style. Data analysis focused on the barriers and facilitators that influenced interviewees’ acceptance of the mental health recommendations contained in the messages. The major themes evident in the data were a desire to exhibit compliance, the importance of perceived personal relevance, sensitivity to the tone of the message, literal interpretations of message content and impediments to adoption. Implications for mental health promotion are discussed.
Diversity for the direct-sequence spread spectrum system using multiple transmit antennas

Diversity is employed to improve the performance of a communication system in a fading environment. A novel form of diversity which is useful especially in situations where frequency diversity is not available is proposed. This technique uses multiple transmit antennas and the antennas are weighted by suitably determined time-varying phase offsets. It is shown that with this technique, M transmit antennas and an L-branch RAKE receiver gives rise to diversity of order LM. <<ETX>>
Audience interpretations of the representation of women in music videos by women artists

ii Chapter One: Introduction 1 Chapter Two: Background 4 3 Chapter Three: Literature Review 9 Chapter Four: Theoretical Framework 15 Chapter Five: Methodology 24 Chapter Six: Results 29 Chapter Seven: Analysis 39 Chapter Eight: Conclusion 55 References 60 Appendices Appendix A: Focus Group Communication Facilitators 63 Appendix B: Music Video Lyrics 66 Appendix C: Transcripts 73
Treatment of canine transmissible venereal tumor using L-asparaginase, prednisone, and surgery in a clinical chemotherapy-resistant case

A 4-year-old intact female dog was presented with a vaginal transmissible venereal tumor (TVT) that had clinically developed multidrug resistance to vincristine, vinblastine, and doxorubicin. Complete remission was obtained with combined-modality therapy with surgery, L-asparaginase, and prednisone.
Trading panics and information acquisition : theory and experiments

This dissertation studies the incentives of economic agents to acquire information about financial assets when it must be acquired through timeconsuming research. When information can not be obtained instantaneously, agents face a tradeoff between acting immediately and performing more thorough research. Better information allows for more informed trading decisions, but research is costly because other agents’ trades move prices adversely as time passes. The first chapter develops a theoretical model in which agents sequentially trade a single financial asset. Each agent receives weak, private information when they arrive to the market and may trade immediately, or instead wait for additional information. Should they wait, other agents have an opportunity to trade before the first agent receives their additional information, which creates an endogenous cost to waiting. The analysis determines the conditions under which equilibrium behavior involves immediate trades (“panics”), and then studies the quantitative impacts of weakly informed trades on the ability of prices to aggregate information. The second chapter experimentally tests the theoretical model in a laboratory setting, in order to determine whether or not subjects understand the tradeoff between better quality information and potential adverse price movements. Comparative static results establish that the theory broadly explains when panics, and the corresponding informational losses, occur. However, additional, “heuristic” panics are also frequently observed. Specifically, subjects exhibit a strong tendency to wait for more information when highly uncertain about asset values, but switch to trading as soon as possible once values become more certain. Motivated by the findings of the second chapter, the third chapter ex-
Arbeid en gezondheid in de pluimveehouderij

Uit onderzoek van het Praktijkonderzoek Veehouderij blijkt dat in de pluimveehouderij vrij veel klachten aan het bewegingsapparaat voorkomen. Klachten aan de lage rug komen het meeste voor. Vooral bij ondernemers met vleeskuikenouderdieren (25,9 enkelvoudige klachten). Er lijkt geen directe relatie te zijn met fysiek belastende factoren. Psychosociale factoren, als het op veel dingen tegelijk moeten letten en vaak alleen werken, lijken wel een duidelijke bijdrage te leveren in het voorkomen van klachten. Deze conclusies komen uit een enqulte die is gehouden onder pluimveehouders in Nederland.
Melatonina y apoptosis en leucocitos humanos

espanolEn la presente Tesis Doctoral, nos propusimos estudiar los mecanismos implicados en las propiedades anti-apoptoticas de la melatonina en celulas inmunocompetentes no tumorales, como son los leucocitos humanos, valorando la participacion de los receptores de membrana de la melatonina en dichos mecanismos, asi como la accion directa de la indolamina a traves de su capacidad antioxidante. Los resultados indican que la melatonina es capaz de revertir la activacion de la caspasa-3 y -9 inducida por sobrecargas de calcio intracelular, lo cual se debe aparentemente a la modulacion de la apertura del poro de permeabilidad transitoria de la mitocondria y la activacion de Bax por accion de la indolamina. Ademas, los efectos protectores resultantes de la administracion de melatonina sobre la apoptosis mitocondrial de leucocitos humanos inducida por aumentos sostenidos en la concentracion intracelular de calcio parecen ser dependientes de las propiedades antioxidantes de la indolamina. Por otro lado, hemos demostrado que la melatonina reduce la apoptosis inducida por TNF-? mediante la interaccion con los receptores de membrana MT1/MT2 y la activacion fosforilativa de la proteina de supervivencia ERK, al mismo tiempo que inhibe el estallido oxidativo inducido por el tratamiento con TNF-? posiblemente debido a sus acciones como secuestrador de radicales libres. Finalmente, la melatonina puede limitar o revertir algunos de los cambios que ocurren durante la inmunosenescencia, ya que es capaz de retrasar la apoptosis y previene el estres oxidativo inducidos por sobrecargas de calcio en leucocitos procedentes de individuos mayores de 65 anos. EnglishIn the present PhD thesis, we intended to study the mechanisms involved in the anti-apoptotic properties of melatonin in immunocompetent non-tumor cells, evaluating the involvement of melatonin membrane receptors in these mechanisms and the direct action of the indoleamine through its antioxidant capacity. Our results suggest that melatonin is able to reverse caspase-3 and -9 activation triggered by intracellular calcium overload, which is likely due to modulation of mitochondrial permeability transition pore opening and Bax activation. Additionally, the protective effects resulting from melatonin administration on mitochondrial apoptosis of human leukocytes seem to be dependent on melatonin´s antioxidant properties. Furthermore, we have demonstrated that melatonin requires membrane receptor MT1/MT2 interaction and ERK phosphorylative activation in order to forestall TNF-? -induced leukocyte apoptosis, on the one hand, and counteracts TNF-? -evoked oxidative burst possibly owing to its free radical scavenging actions, on the other hand. Finally, melatonin may limit or reverse some of the changes that occur during immunosenescence, since it is able to delay apoptosis and prevent oxidative burst induced by intracellular calcium overload in leukocytes from elderly individuals.
The process of knowledge retrieval: A case study of an American high‐technology research, engineering and consulting company

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the individual employee's role in the process of knowledge retrieval in a US high‐technology research, engineering and consulting company, using a constructivist perspective.Design/methodology/approach – A case study design was used and employed three methods of data collection: interviewing, observation, and document analysis. Using these data gathering methods provided data triangulation and supported the validity of the study. The unit of analysis is individual action. This is an embedded strategy because it involves more than one subunit of analysis. Data are collected across five practices (sections) of one division of this company.Findings – This study found that people generally followed five steps to retrieve knowledge and that the type of work to accomplish and structure of the team were critical to what knowledge was retrieved and shared. Explicit and tacit knowledge retention structures were identified and revealed that three or fewer individual.
Group Work with Older Adults

This book is designed as a practical guide for experienced practitioners who wish to improve their skills in working with groups of older adults, and as a primer for students who want to learn how to do groupwork. The first book of its kind, "Group Work with Older Adults" offers a comprehensive introduction to this form of clinical intervention with the elderly population. It examines the particular issues which arise in treating older adults and offers many rich case examples of the varieties of experience a clinician can expect to face. The book is divided into two distinct parts. The first focuses on how general groupwork skills are modified with working with the elderly. In this section, Dr Toseland discusses issues regarding effectiveness and efficiency, what works with older adults and what does not, and explores the skills necessary to facilitate therapeutic group dynamics, to successfully lead a group, and to carry a group through all of its stages. The second part explores the more specific skills required with the different kinds of groups used with older adults, including support groups, therapy groups, social, recreational, and educational groups, and advocacy groups.
Estudio de "Cainotherium" (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) del Mioceno Medio de Alameda de Osuna (provincia de Madrid)

Se estudian y describen 130 restos dentales aislados, un fragmento de maxilar y cuatro fragmentos hemimandibulares de Cainotherium de un nuevo yacimiento, Alameda de Osuna, del Aragoniense medio de la Cuenca de Madrid. El estudio realizado ha permitido determinar la presencia de una especie de Cainotherium de talla pequena que se cita por primera vez en el registro espanol, Cainotherium cf. huerzeleri HEIZMANN, 1983 y correlacionar este nivel con los yacimientos del area urbana de Madrid pertenecientes a la MN5 (zona local D). [ABSTRACT] 130 isolated dental remains, one maxilar and four mandibular portions of Cainotherium have been described and studied from Alameda de Osuna, Middle Aragonian of the Madrid Basin. This study has allowed to confirm the presence of one small size Cainotherium specie cited for the first time in the Spanish record, Cainotherium cf. huerzeleri. Alameda de Osuna has been correlated to other Madrid sites belonging to the MN5 (local zone D).
The transition from school to employment for young people with acquired brain injury: Parent and student perceptions

Perceptions of young people with acquired brain injury (ABI) and their parents regarding transition from school to employment was explored using five focus groups comprising young people and parents. The focus groups addressed participants' perceptions of school integration, development of future goals, strategies needed to reach these goals, and hindrances experienced. Most of these young people appeared to have had a general lack of support from allied health and educational professionals throughout the continuum of hospital to school, and school to work transitions. All parents reported high levels of stress related to their child's schooling and future employment, and many young people also reported vast unmet needs related to both the present and the future.
Postmortem Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction in Sudden Death

Serum cardiac troponin (cTnI) and creatinine kinase-MB (CK-MB) levels are now widely used in the diagnosis of myocardial infarct (MI) and injury in living patients, but their utility in postmortem diagnosis has not been established. Determination the specificity of the cTnI and CK-MB assay by using peripheral and pericardial blood samples compared with microscopic cardiac pathology for diagnosis of myocardial infarction in sudden deaths, and to find out whether it is practical and significant enough to estimate post-mortem interval by analyzing quantitatively the pericardial enzyme activity changes.
Trigeminal Neuralgia Associated With Multiple Sclerosis: Report of 35 Cases

THE OCCURRENCE of trigeminal neuralgia and multiple sclerosis in the same individual is so uncommon that the problem might be considered inconsequential were it not for the fact that it raises several interesting questions. This combination of diseases occurs more frequently than can be accounted for by mere chance. It is commonly stated that in patients with both diseases trigeminal neuralgia appears at an earlier age and is more often bilateral than in those patients having trigeminal neuralgia alone. Often, these statements are made without supporting evidence, or the evidence adduced is insubstantial. This combination of diseases has been cited as evidence for the contention that the pain of trigeminal neuralgia is of "central" origin. Postmortem studies of subjects who had been afflicted with both diseases have yielded interesting but inconclusive results. 1-6 The incidence of multiple sclerosis in patients with trigeminal neuralgia has varied greatly in different
Impact of ground motion characterization on conservatism and variability in seismic risk estimates

This study evaluates the impact, on estimates of seismic risk and its uncertainty, of alternative methods in treatment and characterization of earthquake ground motions. The objective of this study is to delineate specific procedures and characterizations that may lead to less biased and more precise seismic risk results. This report focuses on sources of conservatism and variability in risk that may be introduced through the analytical processes and ground-motion descriptions which are commonly implemented at the interface of seismic hazard and fragility assessments. In particular, implication of the common practice of using a single, composite spectral shape to characterize motions of different magnitudes is investigated. Also, the impact of parameterization of ground motion on fragility and hazard assessments is shown. Examination of these results demonstrates the following. (1) There exists significant conservatism in the review spectra (usually, spectra characteristic of western U.S. earthquakes) that have been used in conducting past seismic risk assessments and seismic margin assessments for eastern U.S. nuclear power plants. (2) There is a strong dependence of seismic fragility on earthquake magnitude when PGA is used as the ground-motion characterization. When, however, magnitude-dependent spectra are anchored to a common measure of elastic spectral acceleration averaged over themore » appropriate frequency range, seismic fragility shows no important nor consistent dependence on either magnitude or strong-motion duration. Use of inelastic spectral acceleration (at the proper frequency) as the ground spectrum anchor demonstrates a very similar result. This study concludes that a single, composite-magnitude spectrum can generally be used to characterize ground motion for fragility assessment without introducing significant bias or uncertainty in seismic risk estimates. « less
Pup Growth of the Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi.

Pups of the Guadalupe fur seal were captured, marked with hair bleach, measured and weighed between two and four times during their first year of life, during three consecutive years (1991, 1992 and 1993) conforming a sample of 132 pups of both sexes. The following param­eters were measured: standard length, body mass, and axilar girth, these were measured in the first hours to days of birth when the pup still had attached a soft umbilical cord, and at 40, 145 and 220 days after birth. Mean birth body mass was 4.9 ± 0.5 kg, n = 17 (males: 4.9 ± 0.4 kg, n = 7; females: 4.9 ± 0.5 kg, n = 10), mean length was 64.4 ± 4.3 cm, n = 17 (males: 67.2 ± 3.5 cm, n = 7; females: 62.5 ± 3.7 cm, n = 10). Growth was exponential to 145 days and stabilized to 220 days at weaning age (wean­ing takes place between February and March at 9-10 months of age), mean weaner’s body mass was 14 ± 2.8 kg, n = 13 (males: 13.7 ± 3.6 kg, n = 5; females: 14.3 ± 2.0 kg, n = 8) with a mean length of 89.4 ± 8 cm, n = 13 (males: 91.3 ± 8.5 cm, n = 5; females: 86.4 ± 6 cm, n = 8). Body mass was not significantly different between the sexes for the fur seal pups, although lengths were significantly different at birth and at several other stages. The curves of body mass-length relationship showed high variability, but nevertheless showed a high correlation, the body mass and length regression was significant (r 2 = 0.7024, P < 0.001). Much of this variability is caused by the long foraging trips of the females. This leads to drastic changes in pup body mass due to rapid milk intake during a mean of 5.03 days of female attendance and major body mass loss during female absence of a mean of 11.5 days. Key words: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi , Isla Guadalupe, pup growth.