Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Interrelationship between agriculture and nutrition for enhancement in nutritional status of pregnant women

In Bihar 45% of women has a BMI below 18.5, indicating a high prevalence of nutritional deficiency and 58.3% pregnant women are anaemic (NFHS-IV, 2015-2016). The aim of the study is to raise Nutrition status of Pregnant women of Patna district by application of direct agriculture intervention method i.e. sack farming, kitchen gardening, livestock production and adopting new technology of farming SRI and SWI etc and by behavior change communication.Cross-sectional study was carried out over a period of 1 year on 200 pregnant women (age 18 to35 year) from 1 st trimester to till birth of babies. Samples were selected by incidental-cum purposive sampling. Anthropometric measurements and bio-chemically measurement were recorded using standardized methodology as recommended by World Health Organization along with BCC. Baseline and end line data were analysed. Data were analyzed using computer software Microsoft Excel for windows and all results were evaluated statistically by applying the SPSSPC package (version 9.0, SPSS, Chicago, Illinois, USA.). Baseline and end line data were analysed. Majority of pregnant women were from low socioeconomic group (59%), joint family (62.5%) and illiterate (34.7%). Majority of women, when bio-chemically examined they were found in anaemic condition at baseline 8.8 ± 0.82 but at end line the level was 11.88 ± 1.18. The mean of Body Mass Index (BMI) of pregnant women were 17.4± 1.67 and 23 ± 2.35 respectively baseline and end line. Seventy one per cent of women have been given the birth of normal body weight babies. There was great impact on the nutritional status of pregnant women who got balanced diet due to improvement in production in agricultural products and consumption of food product by women regularly and improvement in behavioural change due to nutrition education.
Why does institutionalised care not appeal to Indian families? Legislative and social answers from urban India

ABSTRACT In India, although notions of ageing and care are changing, there is a continued preference among families for home-based care of elderly relatives. The legislative policies and cultural practices that shape this preference will be examined in this paper with specific reference to aged-care facilities and the 2007 Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act. Using qualitative data from a study on dementia care in urban India it will be shown how the Act and old-age homes are understood and experienced by Indian families and key service providers. In juxtaposing policy and practice it will be argued that while notions of care are being redefined by processes like migration and urbanisation, the preference for home care remains, indicating that existing services need to be re-oriented and expanded to support families in providing this care.
El vídeo en la ‘prensa’ digital española: 2010-2015

espanolIntroduccion: El uso de videos en los cibermedios ha cobrado una gran importancia durante los ultimos anos. Esas piezas son fundamentales para ganar la atencion de los lectores en los medios digitales. Metodologia: Este trabajo examina, a traves de un analisis de contenido clasico, la produccion audiovisual de cinco medios digitales espanoles de referencia entre los anos 2010 y 2015. Se estudian los generos, los formatos, las estructuras, el tipo de produccion y los contenidos de los videos. Resultados y conclusiones: La produccion audiovisual de los cibermedios, tras una etapa de crecimiento sostenido, se ha estancado en los ultimos anos. Ademas los videos analizados se alejan de la narrativa audiovisual clasica. En primer lugar, por la influencia de la poderosa produccion externa, que aporta piezas totalmente ajenas a los criterios periodisticos clasicos. En segundo lugar, como resultado de una produccion propia que busca originalidad y nuevas formulas narrativas. EnglishIntroduction: The use of video in online news media has become very important in recent years. These audiovisual pieces are fundamental for the new digital news media to attract the attention of readers. Methods: This article uses classic content analysis to examine the video production of five Spanish digital newspapers from 2010 to 2015. The analysis of the video production focuses on genres, formats, structures, origins and contents. Results and conclusions: The video production of the Spanish online news media, after a period of sustained growth, has become stagnated in recent years. The videos published by digital news media are moving away from the classical audiovisual narrative, firstly, because of the influence of the great presence of outsourced productions, which includes pieces that are very distant from the classic journalistic standards, and secondly, as a result of the trends in in-house video productions that seek originality and new narrative formulas.
Large-scale time parallelization for molecular dynamics problems

As modern supercomputers draw their power from the sheer number of cores, an efficient parallelization of programs is crucial for achieving good performance. When one tries to solve differential equations in parallel this is usually done by parallelizing the computation of one single time step. As the speedup of such parallelization schemes is usually limited, e.g. by the spatial size of the problem, additional parallelization in time may be useful to achieve better scalability.This thesis will introduce two well-known schemes for time-parallelization, namely the waveform relaxation method and the parareal algorithm. These methods are then applied to a molecular dynamics problem which is a useful test example as the number of required time steps is high while the number of unknowns is relatively low. Afterwards it is investigated how these methods can be adapted to large-scale computations.
Time optimal trajectories for cooperative multi-robot systems

A methodology to determine the time-optimal trajectories for cooperative multi-manipulator systems (CMMSs) is described. The dynamics of CMMSs, the joint torque constraints, the constraints on the internal forces, and the distribution of the payload are incorporated into the algorithm. Linear programming techniques are utilized to find the admissible phase plane boundary. Once the admissible phase plane region is found, the actual CMMS time-optimal trajectory can be constructed by employing a similar approach used in single robot minimum time trajectory planning techniques. The minimum-time trajectories which are obtained from the algorithm for a fixed path result in trajectories which do not apply excessive forces on the manipulator object. <<ETX>>
PENGEMBANGAN BAHAN AJAR MATEMATIKA SMA BERBENTUK TABLOID BERBANTUAN SOFTWARE WOLFRAM MATHEMATICA DENGAN PENDEKATAN KONTEKSTUAL PADA MATERI INTEGRAL

Penelitian dilatar belakangi hasil observasi yaitu kesulitan siswa dalam mengaitkan materi dengan dunia nyata. Peneliti berinisiatif melakukan inovasi pembelajaran yaitu mengembangkan bahan ajar matematika SMA berbentuk tabloid berbantuan Wolfram Mathematica dengan pendekatan kontekstual materi integral. Penelitian bertujuan memperoleh tabloid layak digunakan dan mengetahui keefektifan penggunaan tabloid di SMA N 1 Gubug. Jenis penelitian Research and Development dengan 4-D. Penelitian didapat: tabloid telah divalidasi dan hasil uji-t, yakni t hitung = 2,728825, taraf signifikan 5%, t tabel = 1,67, karena t hitung > t tabel , maka H o ditolak, disimpulkan penggunaan tabloid lebih efektif untuk meningkatkan hasil belajar dalam proses pembelajaran. Hal ini ditunjukkan dengan proses dan hasil belajar siswa, yaitu keaktifan dan antusias siswa selama proses pembelajaran dan hasil belajar kelas eksperimen dengan ranah kognitif nilai rata-rata sebesar 83,128, data ranah afektif 78,92%, data ranah psikomotorik sebesar 80,50%, serta hasil belajar kelas kontrol ranah kognitif nilai rata-rata sebesar 77,128, data ranah afektif 77,48%, data ranah psikomotorik sebesar 75,54%.
ELIMINATION OF HIGH‐ AND LOW‐MOLECULAR DEXTRAN FRACTIONS FROM THE ANTERIOR CHAMBER AND IRIDIC STROMA OF RABBIT EYES *

When the anterior chamber of human eyes has been washed intravitally with solutions of dextran, the dextran is demonstrable throughout the tissue spaces of the iridic stroma (Gregersen 1958). A few simultaneous experiments on rabbits revealed that this also applies to the rabbit iris, although it is of a more massive architecture with a more pronounced endothelial lining on the anterior surface than the human iris.
Measuring mobility in persons with a lower-limb amputation

Na een beenamputatie is de revalidatie o.a. gericht op het herwinnen van de mobiliteit, gebruik makend van een prothese. Alhoewel er veel mobiliteitsschalen voor beengeamputeerden zijn beschreven, is er geen gouden standaard. Voor het meten van transfers (opstaan en gaan zitten) en voor het traplopen bij beengeamputeerden zijn helemaal geen schalen beschreven. Door Roorda e.a. is de vragenlijst loopvaardigheid ontwikkeld, bestaande uit 1) de vragenlijst opstaan en gaan zitten, 2) de vragenlijst lopen, en 3) de vragenlijst traplopen. Hierbij wordt gevraagd naar ervaren beperkingen op de betreffende items. Het doel van dit promotie onderzoek is om de construct validiteit en de test-hertest betrouwbaarheid van de 3 vragenlijsten te beoordelen bij beengeamputeerden, en om de ervaren beperkingen in transfers en traplopen bij beengeamputeerden in kaart te brengen.
Distress Tolerance and Craving for Cigarettes Among Heavy Drinking Smokers.

OBJECTIVE Heavy drinking smokers experience significant difficulties with smoking cessation. Craving is closely tied to relapses during cessation attempts, and alcohol consumption increases cigarette craving among heavy drinking smokers. To date, however, few moderators of the relationship between craving and relapse have been identified. Individuals' capacity for distress tolerance predicts smoking cessation outcomes and may be connected to craving. Relatedly, pharmacotherapies like varenicline and naltrexone reduce cigarette and alcohol cravings, respectively. No studies have examined the interrelationships among distress tolerance, craving, and pharmacotherapy effects. This study therefore examines distress tolerance as a moderator of the relationship between overnight abstinence-induced cigarette craving and subsequent alcohol- and cigarette-induced changes in craving among heavy drinking smokers. This study also examines the impact of varenicline and naltrexone on these relationships. METHOD A total of 120 non-treatment-seeking heavy drinking smokers were randomized and titrated to one of the following conditions: (a) placebo, (b) varenicline, (c) naltrexone, or (d) varenicline + naltrexone. Participants then completed a laboratory paradigm after overnight abstinence that included consumption of alcohol (target .06 g/dl breath alcohol concentration) and one cigarette. Craving was assessed as abstinence-induced (Time 1), alcohol-induced (Time 2), and cigarette-induced (Time 3). RESULTS Within varenicline + naltrexone, low distress tolerance individuals exhibited higher increases from abstinence- to alcohol-induced cigarette craving relative to high distress tolerance individuals. Across medications, low distress tolerance individuals reported flatter decreases from abstinence- to cigarette-induced cigarette craving relative to high distress tolerance individuals. CONCLUSIONS Distress tolerance may differentially predict alcohol-induced cigarette craving when titrated to pharmacotherapy, as well as moderate decreases in craving after cigarette consumption. Future exploration of the identified interactive effects could elucidate specific conditions in which cravings are more proximally related to abstinence-induced smoking.
Reconstruction of the bulbar urethra using dorsal onlay buccal mucosal grafts: New concepts and surgical tricks

Buccal mucosa onlay graft urethroplasty represents one of the most widespread methods for the repair of strictures in the bulbar urethra, because of its thick and highly vascular spongiosum tissue. Recently the location of the patch has become a contentious issue, since we described our original techniques of dorsal onlay graft urethroplasty. The design rationale for this approach was based on the concept that the corporeal body remains a healthy host for receiving a free transplanted tissues. Moreover, graft fixation onto a defined surface may decrease graft shrinkage and sacculation. The success rate using buccal mucosa grafts for the repair of bulbar urethral strictures has generally been high with dorsal or ventral onlay grafts or using an augmented roof-strip anastomotic urethroplasty. We describe here the fundamental concepts of the bulbar urethra reconstruction using buccal mucosal grafts, presenting a new surgical technique of dorsal onlay buccal mucosa graft urethroplasty using fibrin glue.
Neuronal alterations in the prefrontal cortex of rats with carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) induced hepatic damage

In cirrhosis, some toxic substances accumulate in the brain and modify its functional integrity. In this study, we investigate the impacts of liver damage on the neuronal profile of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in a rat model of hepatic damage induced with carbon tetrachloride (CCl4). This study also evaluated the possible role of liver dysfunction in the etiology of neurodegenerative characteristics associated with the PFC. Ten male Wistar rats weighing 120 to 190 g body weight were used for this study. The rats were divided into 2 groups (A and B) of 5 rats each. The rats in group A (control group) were treated with phosphate buffered saline (PBS) solution only while the rats in group B (treatment group) were treated with carbon tetrachloride (CCl4). The prefrontal cortices of the rats were excised from skulls of the rats, fixed in formol calcium, while the livers were excised from the abdomen of the rats and were fixed in formol saline for cytoarchitectural study using Cresyl fast violet and hematoxylin and eosin stains respectively. The main neuropathological findings observed in this study include cortical necrosis, uneven neuronal loss with varying range of vacuolations in the prefrontal cortices of the CCl4 treated rats when compared with the PBS treated rats. It was observed that the administration of CCl4 induces changes in hepatocellular morphology of the treated rats and these include moderate vascular congestion and extensive cytoplasmic damage in the hepatocytes. These results could be due to loss of hepatic functions. Key words: Liver damage, neuropathology, neurons, prefrontal cortex, rat.
TWO‐DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN THE NORMAL CAT

Two-dimensional echocardiography (2DE) and M-mode echocardiography were used to image the heart of 13 clinically healthy cats. Seven awake cats and six cats tranquilized with a combination of acetylpromazine and ketamine were studied. Six cats were studied by 2DE on 3 consecutive days to assess repeatability of the study. Long-axis and short-axis echocardiographic tomograms were obtained from the right parasternal location, and these images were used to determine internal cardiac dimensions, ventricular and septal wall thicknesses, repeatability of the study, and interobserver variability. Some but not all parameters were significantly (P< 0.05) related to body weight. Significant correlations (P <0.05) were found between measurements obtained by long-axis and by short-axis image planes. Comparison of parameters measured by 2DE and M-mode echocardiography demonstrated minimal differences between mean values. Repeatability of the 2DE study was good with 14 of 16 parameters having a mean percent error less than 10%. Interobserver variability was acceptable for some but not all parameters. The study indicates that repeatable 2DE tomograms can be obtained in the cat and that quantitation of cardiac anatomy is possible with this imaging technique.
Oral bisphosphonates for the risk and survival of colorectal cancer: a quantitative synthesis of observational studies

Several preclinical studies have suggested that bisphosphonates (BPs) may have anti-neoplastic effects against colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the magnitude of this association has not been fully determined. The aim of this study was to synthesize the existing evidence on the association between BP intake and risk or mortality of CRC. Three relevant databases including Pubmed, Embase and Cochrane Library were searched from initial to August 2017. Combined relative risks (RRs)or hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence interval (95% CI) were pooled using a random-effects model. Thirteen studies enrolling 3,464,335 individuals were eligible for inclusion, with 11 studies investigating associations between BP use and CRC risk and 3 studies examining BP use and CRC mortality. Comparing with non-BP users, the summary RRs for CRC risk in BP users were 0.87 (95% CI, 0.79 to 0.97). Subgroup analyses revealed that this association was robust for nested case-control studies and especially evident for rectal cancer. We did not find survival benefits of BP use for CRC patients in terms of overall survival (HR 0.74, 95% CI 0.43 to 1.27) or cancer-specific survival (HR 0.71, 95% CI 0.44 to 1.15). Our findings suggest that oral BP use may be associated with reduced risk of CRC, while further larger cohort studies should be advocated to determine the true relationship between BP use and CRC mortality in specific patients.
Desenvolvimento e caracterização do queijo Santo Giorno, típico do sudoeste do Paraná, produzido com leite cru e fermento endógeno

Duas formulacoes de queijo de leite cru e fermento endogeno foram produzidas e avaliadas apos 30, 60 e 180 dias de armazenamento em câmaras de maturacao de dois laticinios do Sudoeste do Parana foram estudadas para avaliar as caracteristicas, como uma das etapas de desenvolvimento de um queijo tipico regional. A producao foi acompanhada desde a elaboracao do fluxograma de processamento, coleta das amostras de queijo para realizacao de analises de proteina, lipideos, umidade, cinzas, carboidratos, extrato seco total, gordura no extrato seco, calorias; atividade de agua, textura instrumental (dureza, adesividade, elasticidade, coesividade, mastigabilidade e resiliencia), cor (CIE Lab), analises microbiologicas (contagem de coliformes totais, contagem de coliformes termotolerantes e contagem de Staphylococcus coagulase positiva e pesquisa de Salmonella spp.); teste de aceitacao relacionada as caracteristicas sensoriais (cor, aparencia, odor, textura, sabor) e intencao de compra. Essa pesquisa contribuiu com informacoes relevantes ao processo produtivo, tais como, a constatacao da viabilidade do fermento latico liofilizado elaborado a partir das bacterias acido laticas isoladas do leite da mesorregiao do Sudoeste do Parana e cujos resultados das analises dos queijos indicaram similaridade entre as formulacoes, no que se refere a caracterizacao fisica e fisico-quimica, alem de boa qualidade microbiologica, onde as discrepâncias entre as amostras dos laticinios nao foram percebidas sensorialmente pelos provadores. Ajustes na padronizacao relacionados ao controle de qualidade tecnologica serao um fator de extrema importância para o sucesso das empresas e pequenos produtores envolvidos no projeto e que se dispoem a produzir o Santo Giorno, um queijo fino, com o grande diferencial de agregar caracteristicas da regiao, com elevado padrao de qualidade higienico-sanitaria e com indicativos de grande aceitacao pelo consumidor.
Hand Gesture Recognition using Optical Flow Field Segmentation and Boundary Complexity Comparison based on Hidden Markov Models

In this paper, we will present a method to detect human hand and recognize hand gesture. For detecting the hand region, we use the feature of human skin color and hand feature (with boundary complexity) to detect the hand region from the input image; and use algorithm of optical flow to track the hand movement. Hand gesture recognition is composed of two parts: 1. Posture recognition and 2. Motion recognition, for describing the hand posture feature, we employ the Fourier descriptor method because it's rotation in variant. And we employ PCA method to extract the feature among gesture frames sequences. The HMM method will finally be used to recognize these feature to make a final decision of a hand gesture. Through the experiment, we can see that our proposed method can achieve 99% recognition rate at environment with simple background and no face region together, and reduce to 89.5% at the environment with complex background and with face region. These results can illustrate that the proposed algorithm can be applied as a production.
Comparison of Online Game Addiction in High School Students with Habitual Computer Use and Online Gaming.

The aim of this study is to compare the online game addiction in high school students with the habitual computer use and online gaming. The sample selected through the criterion sampling method, consists of 61.8 % (n=81) female, 38.2 % (n=50) male, 131 high school students. The “Online Game Addiction Scale” developed by Kaya and Başol (2013) and the biographic-demographic information form developed by the researcher were utilized as data collection instruments. The percentage documentation average, independent sample T-test, one-way ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis were used for data analysis in this study. The result of this study showed that there was a statistically significant difference between the online game addiction and the habitual computer use. It was found out that there was a statistical significant difference between the amount of experience in the use of computer and online game addiction. The difference between the online game addiction and the amount of time spent per day on online gaming was found to be significantly different in terms of statistics according to data in the Troubles, Success and Economic Profit subscale of the online game addiction.
Chiropractic for the prevention and/or treatment of sports injuries: a systematic review of controlled clinical trials

To assess the effectiveness of chiropractic interventions for the treatment and/or prevention of sports injuries. Five electronic databases were searched through to March 2011. All controlled clinical trials investigating the effectiveness of chiropractic manipulation for the treatment and/or prevention of sports injuries in human subjects were considered. Study selection, data extraction, and validation were performed independently by two reviewers. Four RCTs and two CCTs met the inclusion criteria. The methodological quality of the included RCTs was poor, with Jadad scores ranging between zero and three. One RCT and two CCTs suggested that chiropractic was an effective treatment for sports injuries. Two RCTs indicated that there was no difference between chiropractic and control groups in the treatment of sports injuries. One RCT suggested that chiropractic was not effective for the prevention of sports injuries. Few rigorous trials have tested the effectiveness of chiropractic manipulation for the treatment and/or prevention of sports injuries. Thus, the therapeutic value of this approach for athletes remains uncertain.