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Prevalence of Tuberculosis Infection in General Population of District Dir (Lower) Pakistan

8 Abstract: Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic bacterial disease, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Among infectious diseases on the surface of the globe millions of deaths occur annually due to TB, especially in the low income countries. Aim of the current research was to investigate the rate of infection of TB and aware the peoples about the TB infection in District Dir (Lower) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A retrospective study was carried out during 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013. The sputum smear microscopy was done of all st th suspected cases. Of the total 1378 suspected cases, 612 (44.41%) were positive for TB. Female are more susceptible victims to get TB infection as compared to male population 56.21 and 43.79% respectively. Highest rate of 23.54% of new pulmonary TB cases wasobserved in age 15-24 years, while highest 47.26% of cases were recorded in quarter 4. From our finding it was concluded that TB was significantly increased in general population of District Dir (Lower). Proper management, treatment, diagnosis and awareness are needed to control and eliminate the disease.
An Evaluation of Uncertainty and Anticipatory Anxiety Impacts on Technology Use

ABSTRACT How does uncertainty and anticipatory anxiety impact technology use? Earlier research has consistently suggested that uncertainty and anticipatory anxiety adversely impels one’s logical judgments, decisions, and behaviors. In this paper, we examine the under-examined combined influence of uncertainty and anticipatory anxiety on technology use. This paper aims to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the role uncertainty and anticipatory anxiety play in explaining technology use. Analyses of data from 449 technology users revealed that a person’s uncertainty and anticipatory anxiety due to unforeseen/unpredicted circumstances and outcomes could lend to a better understanding of a user’s behavioral intention and use. We discuss the implications of our research and also point to future research directions.
Antimicrobial activity of some commonly used Indian Spices

Now-a-days majority of world population rely on the plant preparations as medicines to cure diseases, as they are considered safe and as effective as allopathic preparations without any side effects. Spices are plant products having aroma. They are mainly used during cooking to impart flavor and taste to the dish. They also possess medicinal values. The present study was designed to evaluate the antimicrobial activity of eight Indian spices against Gram positive and Gram negative pathogenic bacteria viz., S. aureus, B. subtilis, B. cereus, E.coli, S. typhi, P. aeruginosa using aqueous, ethanolic and methanolic extracts. Among all extracts tested alcoholic extract of Star anise (Ilicium verum), and black pepper (Piper nigrum) showed maximum antimicrobial activity against gram negative bacteria while alcoholic extract of clove (Syzygium arromaticum) and black pepper showed maximum activity against gram positive bacteria. By and large, all spices used during the studies proved as antibacterial compounds with maximum activity index (AI) 1.42 exhibited by alcoholic extract of black pepper against E.coli.
The Obstacles of Success of Jordanian Certified Public Accountant

This paper aims at identifying the obstacles of success of Jordanian Certified Public Accountant (JCPA) examination, and the correlation between those obstacles and each of the demographic factors related to the academic qualifications, experience, gender, and type of universities that the respondents were graduated from. To achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire was designed and distributed to a random sample of (120) of the study population, the number of questionnaires returned and suitable for analysis was (96), with a response rate of 80%. The results of the statistical analysis indicated that each of the three types of obstacles (exam difficulty, exam preparation, and exam environment) is statistically significant at 95% confidence level. The study revealed that the most significant obstacle was the unlimited scope of the exam, followed by non existence of specific references for the material of the exam, and the change of laws continuously. The results of the study, however, indicated no statistical differences for all three types of obstacles related to academic qualification, experience, gender, or type of universities the respondents were graduated from. Meanwhile, the results revealed statistical differences between respondents related to experience for the exam environment only.
An Autoethnographic Approach to a Supervisor-Supported Climate Survey

Abstract Academic libraries typically employ a top-down approach to employee performance evaluations, which often does little to reveal an employee’s needs within the workplace and fails to provide an opportunity for supervisors to assess and reflect on how their actions impact the work environment. Using an autoethnographic approach, a supervisor and a support staff member developed an assessment instrument to evaluate the supervisor-supported work climate in one department of an academic library. This project helped promote both individual and department-wide discussion on what elements make a supportive work climate and provided the supervisor an opportunity to reflect on ways to improve support efforts. This article includes practical information as well as the lived experiences of the collaborators.
Family Medicine in Pre-clinical Years of Medical School: Fruitful or Futile

Family medicine is the one field that gives you full satisfaction and a sense of being the complete physician because of taking care of the whole person and others around. However it is not fully accepted by the medical students as an admiring medical specialty and different efforts have been made to accept it at different stages of medical schools. The family medicine introduced currently in different models and different shapes in different parts of the world but mainly existing three models ‐ resident trainings, on job trainings and undergraduate teaching. Family medicine usually started in clinical period of undergraduate medical education in many part of the world and found effective. Ataturk University is one of those universities, which took a lead and established a family medicine department in 2009. Nevertheless this department entered into curriculum and was able to apply a new model of family medicine in first and second year of teaching. Although the family medicine department is just two years old we are hopeful that it will continue to grow and even will be very fruitful. In this article, we emphasize the importance of family medicine in undergraduate medical education by presenting the Ataturk University’s model as an example.
working title: Expertise and Flexibility in Medicine and Law ∞ (What Happens when HIV Guidelines are Hardened by Law)

Clinical guidelines are procedural standards. They tell caregivers (and others, such as researchers) what steps to follow under particular circumstances. The objective in writing such guidelines is to create a higher level performance by giving a skilled practitioner a tool that encapsulates a large volume of information in compact, usable form. Yet, like many tools or recipes, clinical guidelines are most useful when employed by skilled users who have experience with the tools and understand their elements. The difference between skilled workers and others is not that skilled workers don’t use recipes or routines, but rather that routines are for them a foundation for flexible adaptation. A good cook can quickly suggest a half dozen ways of adjusting for a missing ingredient. Likewise, the surgeons in Bosk’s (2003 [1979]) study had rigid routines for their underlings to follow ‐ the recipes all novices are taught, the rules and standards that allow people to coordinate complex activities whether in the clinic or the operating room. But the surgeons also could adjust and correct as circumstances required, which was why residents’ technical errors worried them less than normative errors. This paper compares two kinds of medical guidelines used in HIV clinics, purely medical guidelines and medical guidelines that have an interface with the legal system. I argue that the special discomfort that clinic staff show when they encounter the second kind of rule arises from their lack of expertise in legal matters. Taught to be flexible users of guidelines, medical staff expect to use their judgment about whether guidelines actually apply. Procedural guidelines are in that sense always also, at the limit, outcome guidelines. Staff are to follow the procedure except when the outcome would be bad, and their medical training equips them to make the judgment calls about when and how guidelines should be put aside.
Faster Fixed-Time Control of Flexible Spacecraft Attitude Stabilization

The rapid attitude stabilization problem of flexible spacecraft with uncertain inertia and disturbances is investigated. In this article, a sliding mode-based fixed-time control approach is presented with a new fixed-time surface ensuring a faster convergence rate incorporated. This surface has no singularity and can guarantee the settling time to be independent of initial states. An adaptive fixed-time attitude control law is then synthesized, which is continuous and chattering free. It is rigorously proved that the states of the spacecraft attitude system can converge into a small neighborhood after fixed time. A numerical example is presented to validate that the designed scheme is efficient to perform attitude stabilization maneuvers rapidly, whereas high control accuracy is still provided.
A CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL REVIEW OF ELECTIVE ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY

A CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL REVIEW OF ELECTIVE ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY SHAKIRA PERVEEN, SUBHANA TAYYAB Objective To review correlation between indications and histopathology of elective abdominal hysterectomy. Study design Descriptive study. Place & Duration of study Patients and Methods
Distributed Network Slicing in Large Scale IoT Based on Coalitional Multi-Game Theory

The massive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) poses important challenges on network operators to support billions of IoT devices connected through the cloud with each having constrained battery life and computational capacity. To support these requirements over long distances, Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN), is now widely being deployed with the promise to support an all-connected world with numerous IoT applications. In large scale access networks, supporting urgent and reliable communications with their QoS demands becomes more challenging. Hence, network slicing within an SDN-based architecture brings numerous advantages to solve this problem by easily managing network resources and reserving part of the latter for urgent traffic and avoiding its performance degradation due to congestion. In this paper, we tackle the raised questions regarding scalability limitations by proposing a distributed slicing strategy based on coalitional game and matching theory over an SDN-based LoRaWAN architecture. In this context, resource reservation for LoRa slices and configuration optimization are performed closer to the edge at the gateway level. Simulation results performed over NS3 highlight the utility of the distributed slicing strategy in respecting quality of service (QoS) thresholds in terms of delay, throughput, energy consumption and improving reliability while providing complete isolation between LoRa slices.
NLP AND MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES TO DETECT ONLINE HARASSMENT ON SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORMS

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Multidimensional Analysis and Prediction of the OfficeObjects® WorkFlow Process Performance

We present a methodology and the associated business process design tools supporting performance-oriented design of workflow processes controlling the administrative procedures executed in the eGovernment environment. First of all we position our work in the context of the process mining technology concentrating on the process conformance checking and the model enhancement aspects. Further we discuss the OfficeObjects® WorkFlow run-time meta model and the associated business process performance model. Subsequently we present the principal steps of the performanceoriented design methodology discussing a real life performance case. The principal steps of the methodology entail specification of the OLAP view of the process event logs based on the Mondrane engine executing MDX analytical queries and the business process performance prediction with the use of the MVA queueing network model.
THE IMPACT OF HYPERTENSION AND ASSOCIATED COMORBIDITIES ON QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE SF-36 V2

Hypertension is a common cardiovascular disease insufficiently treated and monitored due to nonspecific symptomatology. Untreated hypertension causes cardiovascular complications: coronary artery disease, heart failure or stroke which, alongside other comorbidities affect the patients’ family, social and professional life [15]. Using SF-36 v2 quality of life assessment questionnaire, the present study aimed to analyze the influence the pathologies associated with hypertensive disease have on areas that make up its physical and psychosocial functions and its impact on patients' daily activities. This could help to improve the quality of health services in optimizing the adherence of the patients to the treatment. The study compared the quality of life indicators between the group of patients and a control group comprising healthy individuals. Comparing the scores obtained by the two groups, lower values in all subdomains were found for the study group compared with control group. The regression analysis showed that strong negative impact pathologies in all areas were heart failure, coronary heart disease, diabetes and anemia. The other pathologies differently influenced the physical and psychosocial functions. Rezumat Hipertensiunea arterială reprezintă patologia cardiovasculară cu incidenţa cea mai mare in populaţie datorită faptului că este insuficient tratată si monitorizată. Netratată
Cytokines and Defensins in Tissue Biopsies Obtained by Bronchoscopy from Patients with Post-Intubation Tracheal Stenosis

Aims: The objective of our study was to perform the routine analysis of bronchoscopically obtained tracheal samples to determine the appearance and relative distribution of cytokines and antimicrobial proteins in patients with post-intubation tracheal stenosis (PITS). Study Design: Retrospective. Place and Duration of Study: Rīga Stradiņo University, Institute of Anatomy and Anthropology, Pauls Stradiņo Clinical University Hospital, between May 2014 and May 2015. Methodology: Five patients with PITS were involved in this study. Tissue samples were obtained by bronchoscopy from the upper part of trachea, then proceeded for routine histological staining with hematoxylin and eosin. Interleukine-1 (IL-1), interleukine-10 (IL-10) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF α), as well as beta defensin-2 ( β def-2) were detected by use of immunohistochemistry (IMH) method. The number of immunoreactive (positive) structures was graded semi-quantitatively.
Prevalence and risk factors for epilepsy in children with spastic cerebral palsy

Background Epilepsy in cerebral palsy (CP) is usually difficult to treat and can lead to poor prognosis due to increased risk for motor and cognitive disorders. The prevalence and risk factors of epilepsy in children with CP vary among studies. Objective To determine the prevalence and risk factors for epilepsy in spastic CP. Methods We performed a retrospective study using medical records of patients with spastic CP at the Departement of Child Health, Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital from January 2003 until December 2008. Prevalence ratio was calculated by comparing the prevalence of epilepsy in subjects with and without risk factors. We excluded patients with metabolic disorder, genetic syndrome, and onset of CP after 3 years of age. Results Two hundred thirty six out of 238 spastic CP patients were analyzed. The mean age at diagnosis of spastic CP was 28.8 months. Male to female ratio was 1.4:1. The prevalence of epilepsy in spastic CP was 39%. The risk factors for epilepsy in spastic CP were central nervous system infection, the ocurrence of seizure in the first year of life, and abnormality of EE G. Conclusions The prevalence of epilepsy in spastic CP is 39%. The risk factors for epilepsy in spastic CP are post central nervous system infection, and ocurrence of seizure in the first year of life. [Paediatr Indones. 2010;50:11-7].
Synchronization preserving model reduction of multi-agent network systems by eigenvalue assignments

In this paper, structure preserving model reduction problem for multi-agent network systems consisting of diffusively coupled agents is investigated. A new model reduction method based on eigenvalue assignment is derived. Particularly, the spectrum of the reduced Laplacian matrix is selected as a subset of the spectrum of the original Laplacian matrix. The resulting reduced-order model retains the network protocol of diffusive couplings, and thus the synchronization property is preserved. Moreover, a concise expression for the upper-bound of the 2 approximation error is presented in the setting of a leader-follower network, and it provides a guideline to select the eigenvalues of the reduced Laplacian matrix. The effectiveness of the proposed method is finally illustrated via the application to a spacecraft network, with a comparison of performances with the graph clustering method in [1] and balanced truncation approach in [2].
Frequency and Clinical Presentation of Dengue Fever at TertiaryCare Hospital of Hyderabad/Jamshoro -

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to observe the clinical presentation and frequency of dengue as a cause of fever in our setup. METHODS: This retrospective study comprising of clinically suspected dengue infection, admitted to Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad, during an epidemic from August 2006 to August 2007. Only adults with acute febrile illness were evaluated for clinical features of dengue fever, dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome. RESULTS: Patients with acute febrile illness were evaluated during this study. Fifty (5%) patients presented with typical features of dengue fever. Age of the patients ranged between 13 and 70 years. All patients were males with mean age of 35 years. Only 20/50 (40%) were dengue proven while 30/50 (60%) were dengue suspected. Out of dengue proven, 18 patients had dengue fever and 2 had dengue hemorrhagic fever. Typical clinical features included chills and rigors in 16 (80%), myalgia in 14 (70%), vomiting in 12 (60%), headache in 10 (50%), rash in 5 (25%). Unusual clinical features were pharygitis in 7 (35%) and bleeding manifestations in 5% of patients. Laboratory investigations showed leucopenia (
The Impact of Sodium and Ultrafiltration Profiling on Hemodialysis - Related Complications

Background and objective : Low blood pressure and Muscle cramps are common complications of Hemodialysis. One approach that has recently been proposed to prevent this complication is the combination of sodium and ultrafiltration. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of of sodium and ultrafiltration profile on some of the common complications during Hemodialysis. Material and Methods: In this crossover clinical trial study, 22 Hemodialysis patients referred to Panje-Azar Hospital in 2012 were divided randomly into two groups. For each group, two treatment protocols were conducted, six hemodialysis sessions. The intervention protocol was a linear sodium dialysate and linear ultra ﬁ ltration. In routine Protocol, both sodium dialysate and ultra ﬁ ltration were considered constant. Using chi-square test and relative risk, the data was analyzed (P<0.05). Results: The mean age is 54.73 ± 11.21 year and 59.1% of them are females. The incidence of hypotension and muscle cramps in the experimental protocol procedure is significantly decreased compared with that of control group (P<0.05), but the incidence of headache and vomiting is not significant (P<0.05). Conclusion: Because sodium and ultrafiltration profile is simple and cost-free and reduces the incidence of complications during dialysis, we recommend using sodium and UF profile instead of routine one.
Relationship between blood malondialdehyde and catalase concentrations and the time of occurrence of non-fixed long bone fractures in dogs.

Summary Paskalev, M. , 2011. Relationship between blood malondialdehyde and catalase concentra� tions and the time of occurrence of nonfixed long bone fractures in dogs. Bulg. J. Vet. Med. , 14, No 4, 231 −237. The purpose of the present study was to follow out the blood concentrations of malondialdehyde (MDA), an end product of lipid peroxidation and the activity of one of antioxidant defense enzymes - catalase (CAT), in dogs with long bone fractures. Forty eight dogs with single fractures of the humerus, radius and ulna, femur and tibia were included. Depending on the time elapsed from the trauma to the referral in the clinic and blood sample collection, 7 time periods were formed: less than 12 h; 12-24 h; 24-72 h; 3-6 days; 1-2 weeks; 2-4 weeks; 4-8 weeks. Blood samples were obtained during the initial examination and before the surgery. Another 36 clinically healthy adult dogs aged 2 to 6 years served as controls. Statistically significantly higher MDA concentrations were observed in fractures with < 12 h elapsed from the accident. They remained elevated in dogs with bones fractured up to 2 weeks ago (p<0.001). In dogs with 2 to 4 weeks old fractures, they were lower and increased again in fractures occurring 4-8 weeks ago (P<0.05). The activity of catalase was significantly higher at time from fracture periods 12-24 h (p<0.001), 3-6 days (p<0.001) and 1-2 weeks (p<0.001). The results demonstrated high extent of blood lipid peroxidation together with increased catalase activity in dogs with accidental nonfixed fractures of long bones in dogs which occurred up to 2 weeks ago. It could be therefore affirmed that all methods and treatment options that would reduce blood MDA concentrations in the early post fracture period and at the same time, maintain an adequate level of the antioxidant defense, would be beneficial for the timely and proper bone healing.
An Implementation and Impact Evaluation of From Coverage to Care

From Coverage to Care launched in 2014 with the dual goals of helping consumers understand their health insurance coverage and connect to care and supporting organizations in the community as they assist consumers at various points in this process. In this report, the authors present the results of their analysis of From Coverage to Care's effectiveness in meeting these goals.
Understanding Continuance Intention of Augmented Reality for Mobile Learning

In this paper, we examine the continued intention of learners in augmented reality (AR) for mobile learning. Though various studies have investigated topics related to mobile learning in recent years, studies on users’ intention to continue using AR for mobile learning are scant. In the emerging area, the acceptance–discontinuance anomaly phenomenon occurs frequently, in which users discontinue the use of AR for mobile learning after initially accepting them. In order to explore the determinants of the anomaly phenomenon, we combined the expectation–confirmation model and technology acceptance model to establish a theoretical model for explaining and predicting learners’ intention to continue using augmented reality for mobile learning. The results indicate that user satisfaction and attitude are the primary determinants of users’ intention to continue using the augmented reality for mobile learning. In addition, the implications of the findings for research and managerial practice are presented in this paper