Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Prevalence of Peri-implant Diseases-Part 1

Aim: Determine the prevalence of peri-implant diseases; mucositis and periodontitis, of patients from the Center of Studies of Continuing Education in Implant Dentistry of the Federal University of Santa Catarina. In addition to the extension of the disease, the proportion of affected implants was studied. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in 200 patients presenting 760 external-hexed cylindrical dental implant supported prosthesis with at least 1 year of loading time (range: 1–9 years). Probing depth, bleeding on probing and suppuration data was collected. Radiographs were required to evaluate supporting bone levels around implants. Results: One hundred and thirty-nine (69%) patients presented all healthy implants, 46 (23%) patients presented peri-implant mucositis and 15 (8%) presented peri-implantitis. The overall outcome was 547 (72%) healthy implants, 161(21%) with peri-implant mucostitis and 62 (7%) with peri-implantitis. Conclusion: According to the results, it is concluded that the prevalence of peri-implant mucositis was 23% and peri-implantitis to 8%.
Zooplankton of the St. Lucia Estuary during the current drought cycle: a comparison between open- and closed-mouth conditions

The St. Lucia Estuary is currently experiencing a drought-induced crisis, resulting in the system having been closed off from the sea for approximately 8 yr. This closure was interrupted by a brief open-mouth phase, induced by a unique combination of extreme climatic events. The primary aim of the present study was to compare zooplankton dynamics during open- and closed-mouth con- ditions. Sampling was undertaken during quarterly surveys from February 2006 to November 2008. During the closed-mouth phase, up to 70% of the lake bed was dry and salinities in the northern lakes often exceeded 90, making these areas largely uninhabitable for zooplankton. However, in the lower regions where drought effects were less harsh, zooplankton were characterized by high densi- ties and biomass of typical estuarine taxa such as the copepods Pseudodiaptomus stuhlmanni, Acar- tia natalensis and the mysid Mesopodopsis africana. Of the 69 taxa recorded during the study period, only 27 were present during the closed-mouth phase. Under open-mouth conditions, previously excluded marine taxa (e.g. the prawn Penaeus indicus and fish larvae), once again re-entered the system, increasing its diversity significantly. A unique occurrence after mouth re-closure was the colonisation of the mouth area by swarms of the tunicate Oikopleura dioica (>10 3 ind. m -3 ), while pre- viously dominant zooplankton grazers virtually disappeared. These findings emphasize the complex- ity of the system and stress the need for further research into the potential impacts of environmental and climate changes on this key African estuarine lake.
2090-0570 ( On line ) Effect of organic selenium and ginger supplementation of a diet enriched with linseed oil on performance , carcass , blood lipid profile , with its traits in the meat and antioxidant property of growing rabbits

The study aimed to investigate the performance development, muscle n-3 and n-6 fatty acids, antioxidative status and immunological effects resulting from supplementing the linseed oil (LIN) diets of growing V-line rabbits with dried ginger and / or organic selenium during Egyptian summer season. Sixty growing V-line rabbits of both sexes, 6 weeks old, with initial weights of 785.8± 10.86 g were used for the study. The rabbits were allocated to five treatments groups of 12 rabbits each. Each treatment was further sub-divided into 4 replicates of 3 rabbits. Group I – fed a pelleted basal diet with standard components (control group), group II – fed a diet contained 2% LIN, group III – fed a diet of 2% LIN supplemented with 0.25 mg/kg diet organic selenium (Sel-plex)® , group IV – fed a diet of 2% LIN and 1000 mg dried ginger/ kg diet inclusion , group VI – fed a diet of 2% LIN plus 0.25 mg/kg diet organic selenium (Sel-plex)®and 1000 mg dried ginger / kg diet supplementation. Results show that different treatments had insignificant effects on the final body weight, daily weight gain and carcass traits. The different treatments recorded the lowest values of feed intake and better feed conversion in comparison as the control treatment. Concentration of ω3 % in the hind leg muscle was significantly (P ≤ 0.05) increased due to LIN or LIN with different feed additives used in the study. However, ω6 % in the hind leg muscle was significantly (P ≤ 0.05) decreased in the rabbits received 2 % LIN plus organic selenium with or without 1000 mg ginger /kg diet in comparison with control. All feed additives used in the study numerically increased antibody titters against SRBCs compared with control group at 14, 21 and 28 d after vaccination. Serum total lipids, triglycerides, total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein and MDA were significantly (P ≤ 0.01) decreased, while high density lipoprotein concentration, HDL/LDL ratio and TAC were significantly (P ≤ 0.05) increased as feeding different experimental diets in comparison with those received the control diet group. Rectal temperature and respiration rate were numerically increased in rabbits fed experimental diets as compared with the control group. It is concluded that dietary supplementation of LIN plus either organic selenium or ginger in growing rabbit’s diets had a beneficial effect on the composition of the meat lipid fraction by increasing the concentration of n-3 fatty acids. Feed conversion, blood serum lipid profile and antioxidant status were also improved.
Evaluation of effects of smoking on gingival thickness-A clinical study

Introduction: Smoking is a known risk factor of periodontitis. Cotinine, a metabolic by product of nicotine is involved in the pathogenesis of periodontitis. Changes in gingival microvasculature, gingival epithelium take place which manifest clinically as decreased bleeding on probing and reduced inflammatory response, increased gingival thickness etc. Knowing the importance of gingival thickness in various root coverage procedures and restorative treatments in periodontics and the increased incidence and prevalence of smoking, assessing the relation between these two entities is becoming important. This clinical study is sought to compare the thickness of gingiva in systemically healthy smokers and non-smokers Materials and methods: 40 age matched smokers and non-smokers were considered for the present study. Gingival thickness was measured in the maxillary and mandibular anterior teeth by transgingival probing using UNC-15 probe midbuccally in the attached gingiva and at the base of the interdental papilla. Plaque index and gingival bleeding index were recorded. Student’s independent ttest was employed for comparing various periodontal parameters between smokers and non-smokers. A P-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. All P-values were two tailed. Results: Both groups had similar gingival bleeding index and plaque index. Smokers had a higher thickness of gingiva both mid bucally and interdentally as compared to non-smokers. Conclusion: Both midbuccal and interdental areas are thicker among smokers when compared to nonsmokers at similar plaque and gingival bleeding levels.
JIT Feedback - What Experienced Developers Like about Static Analysis

Although software developers are usually reluctant to use static analysis to detect issues in their source code, our automatic just-in-time static analysis assistant was integrated into an Integrated Development Environment, and was evaluated positively by its users. We conducted interviews to understand the impact of the tool on experienced developers, and how it performs in comparison with other static analyzers. We learned that the availability of our tool as a default IDE feature and its automatic execution are the main reasons for its adoption. Moreover, the fact that immediate feedback is provided directly in the related development context is essential to keeping developers satisfied, although in certain cases feedback delivered later was deemed more useful. We also discovered that static analyzers can play an educational role, especially in combination with domain-specific rules.
Modelling pedestrian safety with respect to road traffic crashes by estimating the safety of paths

We propose a novel linear model of pedestrian safety in urban areas that considers a single independent variable of pedestrian path safety. This variable is estimated by sampling pedestrian paths from an accurate model of such paths and in turn estimating the mean safety of these paths. In an analysis of 15 UK cities, the proposed model is demonstrated to accurately predict the number of pedestrian casualties per million population.
Unimodular lattice triangulations as small-world and scale-free random graphs

Real-world networks, e.g., the social relations or world-wide-web graphs, exhibit both small-world and scale-free behaviour. We interpret lattice triangulations as planar graphs by identifying triangulation vertices with graph nodes and one-dimensional simplices with edges. Since these triangulations are ergodic with respect to a certain Pachner flip, applying different Monte Carlo simulations enables us to calculate average properties of random triangulations, as well as canonical ensemble averages, using an energy functional that is approximately the variance of the degree distribution. All considered triangulations have clustering coefficients comparable with real-world graphs; for the canonical ensemble there are inverse temperatures with small shortest path length independent of system size. Tuning the inverse temperature to a quasi-critical value leads to an indication of scale-free behaviour for degrees k ≥ 5 ? > . Using triangulations as a random graph model can improve the understanding of real-world networks, especially if the actual distance of the embedded nodes becomes important.
Do assemblages of Coregonus (Teleostei: Salmoniformes) in the Central Alpine region of Europe represent species flocks?

To examine models of evolution for Coregonus from the Central Alpine region of Europe, 20 populations from nine lakes were assessed for variation at six microsatellite DNA loci. Patterns of variation were tested against three evolutionary models: phenotypic plasticity, multiple invasions of lakes by divergent forms, and within‐lake radiation of species flocks. All sympatric and all but one allopatric pairs of populations were significantly divergent in allele frequencies. Pairwise F‐statistics indicated reduced gene flow among phenotypically divergent sympatric populations. These results reject the hypothesis that within‐lake morphological and ecological diversity reflects phenotypic plasticity within a single gene pool. Genetic similarity was higher among forms within lakes than between populations of the same form in different lakes. Among‐lake divergence was primarily a product of allele size differences. Mantel tests contrasting patterns of genetic divergence against patterns predicted from the multiple invasions and species flocks models indicated that the latter is the best explanation of the observed genetic variation. Thus, reproductively isolated species diverged within lakes, with similar patterns repeatedly emerging among lakes. While this study argues for a particular mode of evolution in Central Alpine Coregonus, the taxonomy of these forms remains unresolved.
Bacterial Agent of Respiratory Manifestation in Cattle and The Associated Biochemical Alterations in Menoufiea Governorate

This study was carried out on a feedlot cattle farm at Menoufiea governorate suffering from respiratory distress, fever, with mild to continuous coughing, loss of appetite, nasal discharge, depression and reduction in fertility. The morbidity rate was 25 % and the mortality rate reached 4%. Mycoplasma was suspected to be incriminated as causative agent. Nasopharyngeal swabs and blood samples were taken from the diseased animals. Bacteriological examination of recovered isolates revealed that Mycoplasma bovis (20%) and this was confirmed by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). The studied biochemical parameters revealed a significant decreased in serum total protein, albumin, total globulin and consequently in A/G ratio. Liver enzyme alanine aminotrasferase (ALT) was significantly decreased while aspartate aminotransferase (AST) did not change. (Nature and Science 2009;7(9):26-30). (ISSN: 1545-0740).
Estimating penalized spline regressions: theory and application to economics

This article gives a brief survey of penalized spline smoothing. Penalized spline smoothing is a general nonparametric estimation technique which allows to fit smooth but else unspecified functions to empirical data. We depict the theory behind this estimation technique and we present an example demonstrating how this nonparametric estimation technique can help to gain insight into economics.
Mid-domain models as predictors of species diversity patterns: bathymetric diversity gradients in the deep sea

Geometric constraints represent a class of null models that describe how species diversity may vary between hard boundaries that limit geographic distributions. Recent studies have suggested that a number of large scale biogeographic patterns of diversity (e.g. latitude, altitude, depth) may reflect boundary constraints. However, few studies have rigorously tested the degree to which mid-domain null predictions match empirical patterns or how sensitive the null models are to various assumptions. We explore how variation in the assumptions of these models alter null depth ranges and consequently bathymetric variation in diversity, and test the extent to which bathymetric patterns of species diversity in deep sea gastropods, bivalves, and polychaetes match null predictions based on geometric constraints. Range–size distributions and geographic patterns of diversity produced by these null models are sensitive to the relative position of the hard boundaries, the specific algorithms used to generate range sizes, and whether species are continuously or patchily distributed between range end points. How well empirical patterns support null expectations is highly dependent on these assumptions. Bathymetric patterns of species diversity for gastropods, bivalves and polychaetes differ substantially from null expectations suggesting that geometric constraints do not account for diversity–depth patterns in the deep sea benthos.
The ghost of hybrids past: fixation of arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) mitochondrial DNA in an introgressed population of lake trout (S. namaycush)

Complete fixation of arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was observed in a southern Québec population of lake trout (S. namaycush). This introgressed population otherwise appeared to be normal with regard to lake trout morphology and three species‐diagnostic microsatellite loci. Arctic charr do not occur in the area, suggesting that the hybridization event was prehistoric. Of several possible hypotheses, the most plausible explanation for this aberrant population is that hybridization occurred in situ soon after deglaciation, with repeated backcrossing of hybrids with lake trout. Fixation of S. alpinus mtDNA in the population may have occurred either by chance (drift) or selection, although indirect evidence and data from similarly introgressed brook trout (S. fontinalis) populations in the region suggest that selection favouring the S. alpinus mitochondrial type and/or associated nuclear genes may have been involved.
Vocal Biomarkers for Dementia Patient Monitoring

Patient monitoring systems are becoming important in patient care and can provide useful feedback for clinicians and caregivers on health-related issues. These systems can also be beneficial for the patients themselves and improve their quality of life and care. In an ongoing European project, called Dem@Care, we are dealing with assessment of dementia signs in monitored subjects using multiple sensing devices including wearable microphones, static and wearable cameras and some physiological sensors. In one use case, the patient is monitored at home in natural settings. In another use case, the system is used in a lab during clinical assessment while the patient is asked to perform certain cognitive and physical exercises. Working on the audio analysis component, we are looking for vocal biomarkers of Dementia, focusing on early detection and monitoring of the patients’ conditions. We base our work on recordings that took place recently in the Alzheimer Medical Center at Thessaloniki in Greece. 27 early-stage Alzheimer patients, 43 Mild-Cognitive-Impairment patients and 19 normal control subjects were recorded, while performing several tasks. The tasks included free speech, repeating spoken sentences and Diadochokinetic test. We demonstrate vocal biomarker extraction and automatic classification from the recorded data. The vocal biomarkers are based on prosodic, content similarity and speech quality features. They are used with SVM (Support Vector Machine) classifier to demonstrate classification between the different groups. The classification error is shown to be below 20%.
A low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet combined with six weeks of crossfit training improves body composition and performance

Background: The purpose of this research was to examine the effects of a 6-week LCKD and CrossFit program on body composition and performance. Methods: Twenty-seven non-elite CrossFit subjects (mean ± SD age = 34.58 ± 9.26 years) were randomly assigned to a LCKD (males, n = 3; females, n = 9) or control (CON) (males, n = 2; females, n = 13) group. LCKD was instructed to consume an ad libitum diet and restrict carbohydrate intake to less than 50 grams per day and CON maintained usual dietary intake. All subjects participated in four CrossFit training sessions per week during the 6 weeks. Results: Compared to CON group, the LCKD group significantly decreased weight (0.18 ± 1.30, -3.45 ± 2.18 kg), BMI (0.07 ± 0.43, -1.13 ± 0.70 kg/m2), percent body fat (% BF) (0.01 ± 1.21, -2.60 ± 2.14 %), and fat mass (FM) (0.06 ± 1.12, -2.83 ± 1.77 kg), respectively. There was no significant difference in lean body mass (LBM) change between or within groups. We found no significant difference in total performance time change between groups; however, both groups significantly decreased total performance time (CON: -41.20 ± 43.17 sec.; LCKD: -55.08 ± 44.29 sec). Carbohydrate intake was significantly lower (11.4 ± 5.6%, 40.06 ± 6.81%) and fat intake was significantly higher (62.88 ± 4.19%, 38.38 ± 4.18%) in LCKD compared to CON, respectively. Conclusions: Our data show that a LCKD combined with 6 weeks of CrossFit training can lead to significant decreases in %BF, FM, weight, and BMI while maintaining LBM and improving performance.
Additional report about the validity of the Jung Psychological Types Scale

The Jung Psychological Types Scale (JPTS) is the most recently developed instrument for the measurement of Jung’s psychological types. The JPTS conforms closely to Jung’s orthogonal, three-dimensional model of psychological types: extraversion-introversion, thinking-feeling, and sensation-intuition. The JPTS uses 7-point Likert-scale items in a bipolar format. The appropriateness of item content was based on the judgments of two Jungian analysts. This study provides an additional assessment of the validity of the JPTS using data from Japanese university students. To investigate the concurrent validity of the JPTS, scores were compared with scores on the Gray-Wheelwrights Test/Jungian Type Survey (GW/JTS) and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), using a categorical approach. Some data were obtained by using MBTI Form M scores from previous studies (Sato, 2003, 2005). Evidence for the concurrent validity of JPTS scores is presented based on the agreement of psychological types with the MBTI Form M. These findings suggest that the categorical approach provides additional support for the validity of the JPTS.
Penetration of solar UVB radiation in shallow tropical waters and its potential biological effects on coral reefs; results from the central Indian Ocean and Andaman Sea

This paper presents the first complete data of global downwelling irradiance (Ed) and the diffuse attenuation coefficient (K,,) for solar ultraviolet-B (UVB; 280 to 320 nm) in tropical waters. The penetration of solar UVB into shallow (0 to 5 m) seawater a t 3 sites in the central Indian Ocean and Andaman Sea, adjacent to areas of coral reefs. 1 t . d ~ studied using a semi-submersible scanning spectroradiometer. Downwelling global spectral irradiance (E,) w ~ i s measured at 2 nm intervals over the wavebands 280-320 nm (UVB), 320-400 nm (U\-:\) and 400-700 n m (PAR) above the sea surface (O* m) and at each of 5 depths (1, 2, 3. 4, and 5 m). The 3 sltes consisted of an ocean atoll in the Maldives (central Indian Ocean), a small (8 km') high island 11 km off the continental coastline at Phuket, Thailand (Andaman Sea), and an inshore reef at Phuket. E, at each of the depths was integrated over the wavebands as a percentage of the above-watcr irradiance. E,(UVB) at 5 m depth was found to decrease to 12"& of incident ~rradiancye at the mid-occan atoll, to 2 % for the high island site, and to 0.4 %) in the turbid waters of the inshore reef. A 1 'X , Ed(UVB) depth was computed for each site and found to be 11, 6, and 3 m respectively. The diffuse attenuation for downwelling irradiance (Kd) for the depth range 0m (just below the surface) to 5 m showed a very rapid attenuation with decreasing ~vavelength in the UVB at all sites. Biological damage potential, as weighted by the DNA-damage action spectrum, showed a more rapid attenuation with depth than Ed(UVB), w ~ t h a 1 % EDN, depth of 9 m for the ocean atoll, 4.7 m for the coastal island, and 2.6 m for the inshore reef.
DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTIGATION OF SYNTHETIC SKIN

Development and Investigation of Synthetic Skin Simulant Platform (3SP) in Friction Blister Applications. (December 2010) Carlos Andrew Guerra, B.S., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Christian J. Schwartz Skin is the largest organ of the human body. It is the first line of defense between the vulnerable organs and tissues of the body and the environment. Healthy skin is paramount to avoiding infection and disease. Therefore, any breach in the skin represents a significant risk to the health and comfort of its owner. Friction blisters are one of the most common modes of damage to human skin. In some extreme cases, such as those who suffer from Epidermal Bullosa, friction blisters are a very common and painful occurrence. Prior research on blister formation has been performed at mostly an observational level. In some cases, blisters have been deliberately created on human volunteers or animal test subjects. However, these studies are very difficult to recreate due to the legal issues of human and animal testing and the fact that no two people will have the same response to external stimulus. Other studies have followed athletes or soldiers who use different textile fabrics for socks or clothing to determine which have significant effects. Concurrent studies have focused on mimicking human skin for haptics research in product development. These have made great strides in introducing engineering