Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Activity of Kaffir lime (Citrus hystrix) essential oil against blow flies and house fly

Blow flies and the house fly are not only pests but can be carriers of human pathogens. We aimed to determine the activity of the essential oil (EO) of the peel of Kaffir lime (Citrus hystrix) against 3 species of blow flies (Chrysomya megacephala, Chrysomya rufifacies and Lucilia cuprina) and the house fly (Musca domestica) in order to develop a plant derived method to control these pests. Larvicidal and adulticidal efficacy of C. hystrix's EO were evaluated by dipping method and topical application, respectively. The EO studied gave lethal concentration 50 (LC50) =38.93 g/l against M. domestica, a LC50=61.00 g/l against L. cuprina, a LC50=66.39 g/l against C. rufifacies and a LC50=71.00 g/l against C. megacephala. Among female flies studied EO gave a lethal dose 50 (LD50) =83.50 mu g/fly against M. domestica, a LD50=124.03 mu g/fly against C. megacephala, a LD50=210.46 mu g/fly against L. cuprina and a LD50=408.63 mu g/fly against C. rufifacies. Scanning electron microscopy of the studied flies showed the studied EO resulted in a swollen, corroded integument with bleb formation. Light microscopy revealed a deformed midgut and hindgut and the fat cells having a vacuolated appearance. There was also a decrease in the number of nuclei in the fat cells and there were degeneration of the nuclei. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) evaluation of the studied EO revealed twenty-one compounds obtained by steam distillation. The major constituents were p-pinene (24.62%), sabinene (22.06%), limonene (19.29%), and citronellal (10.58%). Kaffir lime EO appears to be a potential candidate for further development as a plant derived method to control medically important fly species.
HLA Profile and Clinical Presentation of Multiple Sclerosis in IRAN

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, with unknown etiology in which both genetic and environmental factors are thought to be involved. The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system provides a set of genetic markers which lend themselves to systematic study. In Iran, HLA-A24, HLA-DR2, and HLA- DR15 are significantly increased in MS patients. The disease also has 3 main clinical presentations, consisting of relapsingremitting (88%) primary progressive (7%) and secondary progressive with a gender ratio of 2.5:1 (female: male) and a mean age at onset of 27+ 7.4 years in our country. Five percent of our patients had a positive family history for the disease, 14% of patients had benign MS, and 12% with disease duration longer than five years had an Expanded Disability Status Scale <2. The opticospinal form of MS was not a common form of presentation of the disease in Iran.
Availability of cardiac equipment in general practice premises in a cardiac network: a survey

Despite the major role of primary care in the management of people with, or at risk of developing, cardiovascular disease, little is known about the availability and state of readiness of cardiovascular diagnostic and monitoring equipment in general practice premises. We surveyed 170 general practices in one cardiac network. Our findings suggest that both provision of cardiac equipment, and training of staff in its use, is variable.
Cross-sectional study of osteopenia of prematurity and associated risk factors

Background Survival of very low birth weight preterm neonates born at less than 32 weeks gestational age (GA) have continued to improve. In response to this increased survival, osteopenia of prematurity or metabolic bone disease of prematurity (MBDP) became a significant comorbidity. This latter is defined as decreased bone mineral content relative to the expected level of mineralization for a fetus or infant of comparable size or GA seen in conjunction with biochemical and/or radiological changes. Aim The aim of this work was to determine the prevalence of MBDP among neonates aged 6 weeks or more, born before the 32nd week GA and weighing less than 1500 g at birth. The predisposing and contributing factors for the development of the disease were also investigated. Patients and methods This cross-sectional descriptive study comprised 32 neonates aged 6 weeks or more, delivered before the 32nd week and weighing less than 1500 g at birth, among those admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit of Alexandria University Children’s Hospital. The study had been extended over a 6-month period. According to the radiological and biochemical screening tests for MBDP, namely serum Ca, P, and alkaline phosphatase, the babies were categorized as group 1: with biochemical evidence [serum phosphorous (P) <4.5 mg/dl and alkaline phosphatase >500 IU/l], group 2: with radiological evidence using Koo’s score, and group 3: with no radiological or biochemical evidence. In addition, the contributing and precipitating factors of this bone disease were revised. Results The prevalence of MBDP, based on the biochemical workup and radiological evidence, were 12.5 and 9.4%, respectively. Important risk factors included prematurity, prolonged duration of parental nutrition, delayed full enteral feeding, increased maternal parity, and extended use of theophylline and furosemide. Use of theophylline, low-serum P and high urinary calcium/creatinine (Ca/Cr) ratio were significant predictors of radiological evidence of the disease. Conclusion Routine screening of MBDP by biochemical and radiological means for all preterm infants less than 32 weeks GA is crucial to minimize the risk factors and bony complications and optimize mineral supplementation and enteral feeding.
Synchronization of the neural response to noisy periodic synaptic input in a balanced leaky integrate-and-fire neuron with reversal potentials

Neurons in which the level of excitation and inhibition are roughly balanced are shown to be very sensitive to the coherence of their synaptic input. The behavior of such balanced neurons with reversal potentials is analyzed both analytically and numerically using the leaky integrate-and-fire neural model. The investigation uses the Gaussian approximation with synaptic inputs modeled as inhomogeneous Poisson processes. The results indicate that for balanced neurons with N synaptic inputs, it is only necessary for O(/spl radic/N) of the synaptic inputs to have a periodicity in order that their spike outputs become phase-docked to this periodic signal.
Improving Technological Competency in Nursing Students: The Passport Project

Integration of informatics competency into a nursing curriculum is important to ensure success throughout the education and career of contemporary nursing students. As enrollment in nursing programs increases, the diverse population of students from many different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds presents a challenge for faculty in addressing unique learning needs. Competency in informatics will allow the beginning nursing student to navigate the on-line teaching software used by colleges. With rigorous expectations in nursing programs, students may feel overwhelmed with assignments, organization, and time management. Frustration may build when students struggle with basic informatics competency, often leaving them unable to navigate instructional websites or work with necessary on-line learning content. The purpose of this project, Passport Project for Nursing Success, was to assess the skills, knowledge, and informatics comfort level of students, while providing computer training and teaching for beginning nursing students in an undergraduate nursing program in Central Illinois. The community college encompassed students from a ten county area, with 20 percent of the student population enrolled in the Applied Science curriculum. Initial implementation occurred prior to the students' first nursing course and emphasized basic skills necessary to navigate on-line learning software, library search engines, and electronic communication. The greatest barrier to successful implementation was faculty resistance and academic support during completion of the initial implementation of the Passport Project. Post- project surveys indicated overwhelming student support for the education received and improved retention rates of first semester nursing students.
A lower middle-class taste-community in the 1930s: Admissions figures at the Regent cinema, Portsmouth, UK

There is little evidence about admissions figures in the 1930s. Allen Eyles published the figures for the Empire, Leicester Square, from 1938 to 1961, and these are an invaluable resource. These records refer to first features and to second features where shown, and they do make some distinction between matinee and evening performances, thus helping us to make distinctions between male and female taste [1]. In 1987 Julian Poole published an article in this journal which presented the attendance ledgers from the Majestic, Macclesfield from 1939 to 1946. This ledger does not contain records of second features [2]. There is, of course, the vital work of John Sedgwick and Annette Kuhn on British film taste in the 1930s. Sedgwick uses distribution patterns as an index of taste, whereas Kuhn deploys oral interviews and questionnaires [3]. Crucial though these are, their analyses of taste-patterns are not based on actual attendance figures, and this makes them a different kind of historical evidence. Another source of evidence has come to light, the ledger of the Regent Cinema, Portsmouth. Formerly located in the City Records Office, it was spotted by the author as it nestled in a ‘Seaside Holidays’ display case in the Museum of Portsmouth, half hidden beneath a child’s bucket and spade and covered with sand. It contains attendance figures for the Regent Cinema, Portsmouth, for every week from 1 January 1931 to October 2, 1948. The ledger lists all second features, but does not record takings. To my knowledge, there is not another source of audience figures which is as extensive or as detailed as this one, and which deals with the whole of the 1930s. The Empire and the Majestic figures only begin with 1938 and 1939, respectively. The Regent ledger provides information on a specific taste-community, and enables us to map its patterns of cultural consumption. The material is too extensive to be presented in one article, and will be published as a pair: the first article deals with the period from 1931 to the outbreak of war in September 1939 (when the Regent closed for a week), and the second article, which will be published in a later issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, will deal with the period from September 16 1939 to the end of the ledger. Portsmouth had a population of approximately 258,000 by 1939, of whom women slightly outnumbered men. Its age profile was predominantly youngish, with 45% of the male population being between 25 and 55 [4]. It is a geographically cramped area, and is confined to Portsea Island, an area some 4.2 miles long and 3.2 miles wide. According to Ordnance Survey maps of the period, about a fifth of the available land was taken up with Naval installations and with the Royal Naval Dockyard, and so
Optimizing the safety margins governing a deterministic design process while considering the effect of a future test and redesign on epistemic model uncertainty

At the initial design stage, engineers often rely on low-fidelity models that have high uncertainty. In a deterministic safety-margin-based design approach, uncertainty is implicitly compensated for by using fixed conservative values in place of aleatory variables and ensuring the design satisfies a safety-margin with respect to design constraints. After an initial design is selected, high-fidelity modeling is performed to reduce epistemic uncertainty and ensure the design achieves the targeted levels of safety. High-fidelity modeling is used to calibrate low-fidelity models and prescribe redesign when tests are not passed. After calibration, reduced epistemic model uncertainty can be leveraged through redesign to restore safety or improve design performance; however, redesign may be associated with substantial costs or delays. In this work, the possible effects of a future test and redesign are considered while the initial design is optimized using only a low-fidelity model. The context of the work and a literature review make Chapters 1 and 2 of this manuscript. Chapter 3 analyzes the dilemma of whether to start with a more conservative initial design and possibly redesign for performance or to start with a less conservative initial design and risk redesigning to restore safety. Chapter 4 develops a generalized method for simulating a future test and possible redesign that accounts for spatial correlations in the epistemic model error. Chapter 5 discusses the application of the method to the design of a sounding rocket under mixed epistemic model uncertainty and aleatory parameter uncertainty. Chapter 6 concludes the work.
The Health Condition of Migrant Farm Workers.

This report examines information about the health status of migrant farmworkers, including specific issues related to migrant health services in Michigan. Despite the high rate of families with two wage earners, one-half of migrant farmworker families have incomes below the poverty level. Poverty is associated with poor nutrition and sanitation, which contribute to abnormally high rates of chronic illnesses and acute problems among migrant children. Evidence also suggests that due to misconceptions and lack of information, Hispanic migrants are spreading HIV in the United States and their native countries. Major health issues for adolescent migrant farmworkers include substance abuse, sexuality, mental health, physical health, and occupational health and safety. Another area of concern is tuberculosis, which occurs about 20 times more frequently among farmworkers than the general population. Other health care issues related to migrant farmworkers include confusion about medical needs, domestic violence, cigarette smoking, environmental pollution, drug abuse, poor nutrition, infectious diseases and vaccinations, childhood immunizations, dental health, disabled migrant students, expectations of Latino health professionals, and medical insurance. Recommendations to state education agencies for improving the health delivery system to migrant families by schools and local education agencies are included (pages 10-11), and the characteristics of an ideal health care delivery system for farmworkers are described. Contains 23 references and child immunization schedules in English and Spanish. (LP) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** THE HEALTH CONDITION OF MIGRANT FARM WORKERS
Surgical correction of cerebral blood flow steal syndrome by aortic branches stenosis

Results of surgical treatment of 119 patients with cerebral/coronary blood flow steal syndrome were analyzed. Vertebro-subclavian steal syndrome was registered in 91.5%. 80 patients were treated with the use of endovascular methods, open procedure was performed in 62 cases. Physiological blood flow was successfully reconstructed in 95.8%. Postoperative lethality was 5,1% after open operations, there were no deaths among patients, treated endoscopically. Bypass thrombosis was registered in 3.4% of patients treated by traditional method; restenosis or occlusion occurred after 34.3% of endovascular operations. Endovascular operations should be a method of choice in treatment of patients with severe occlusion of branches of aorta and cerebro-vascular insufficiency. By impossibility of subclavian artery or brachiocephal trunk recanalization with the use of endovascular techniques, open procedure should be performed.
Performance verification of Roche Cobas s201 nucleic acid test system in Dongguan Blood Center

In order to verify the performance of the nucleic acid test (NAT) system, the precision and accuracy of the Hamilton STAR pipetting instrument in both single and pool modes were evaluated using pure water simulated for pipetting. The sensitivity, repeatability, anti-interference and anti-contamination ability of the NAT system (Roche Cobas s201) were evaluated using standard serum diluted to different concentrations. The results showed the precisions of the STAR instrument in single and pool modes were 0.07% and 0.09%, respectively, at the accuracies of 3.33% and 5.66%. The sensitivity coincidence rate of Roche Cobas s201 was 100% at the concentration of 3×LoD (Limit of Detection). The amplification was inhibited at the concentration of 2×LoD for the HBV DNA and HCV RNA when the concentration of hemolysis was greater than 7.5%. Lipemia had no effect, and the anticontamination ability was good. The detection rate in the single mode was higher than the pool mode (t=214.3156, P<0.01). This report suggests that the performance of the NAT system is adequate for laboratory purposes.
Teste de envelhecimento acelerado em sementes de Peltophorum dubium Sprengel Taubert

Um metodo eficiente para avaliar a qualidade fisiologica das sementes e o teste de envelhecimento acelerado, frequentemente utilizado em laboratorios para esse fim. Contudo poucas sao as informacoes para sementes de especies florestais nativas. O objetivo deste trabalho foi verificar o comportamento fisiologico de sementes de Peltophorum dubium submetidas ao envelhecimento acelerado. O teste de envelhecimento acelerado foi conduzido utilizando as temperaturas de 40, 41, 42 e 45 °C durante os periodos de 24, 48, 72 e 96 horas. Ao termino de cada periodo realizou-se o teste de germinacao em temperatura constante de 25 °C e substrato vermiculita. As variaveis analisadas foram: germinacao, indice de velocidade de germinacao (IVG) e tempo medio de germinacao (TMG). Os tempos e temperaturas utilizados favoreceram a superacao da dormencia das sementes.
Knowledge, Attitudes and Barriers towards Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination in Developing Economies Countries of South-East Asia Region: A Systematic Review

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide with South-East Asian countries jointly contributes to nearly one-third of the global cervical cancer burden. The objective of this study is to review and determine the knowledge, attitude, also barriers among people in developing countries of South East Asia region towards human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination against cervical cancer. We performed a literature search for published articles in English that reported about knowledge, attitudes and barriers towards HPV vaccination in developing countries of South-East Asia on UN World Economic Situation and Prospects 2018 classification, prior to recent years (2008-2018). Terms and keywords relevant to knowledge attitudes towards HPV vaccination were used in a search of the electronic database. A total of 120 studies were initially identified and 10 studies were finally selected that met all eligibility criteria. The percentage of knowledge on availability of HPV vaccine to protect women against cervical cancer was varied from 7.897.5%. Meanwhile the positive attitude percentage ranged from 36.192.1%. Some barriers of taking HPV vaccination were because of afraid by the side effects, needle and/or any other safety issues, believed that the vaccine needed only when symptom appears, embarrassment and unaffordable price. Our study find even while levels of knowledge are generally low, individuals are still willing to receive vaccination against HPV. The barriers reflect the importance of immediate implementation of educational campaigns before vaccination is made available through a national HPV vaccination program. It may improve uptake of vaccination and its effectiveness to people in each country.
A Qos Backbone Based Minimum Delay Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract This article presents a new quality of service (QoS) routing protocol for delay sensitive traffic in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). It takes advantage of the different communication capability to design more efficient QoS routing protocol. In this protocol, a combined weight value is estimated based on the data rate, queuing delay, link quality, residual energy and MAC overhead for each node. Among all the nodes in the network, there are some strong nodes with least combined weight value. These nodes serve as the backbone for the routing in mobile ad hoc networks, and other nodes are general nodes with lesser capabilities. Simulation results prove that by reducing the packet drop, energy and delay the proposed routing protocol achieves high throughput and packet delivery ratio.
Anthropometric Profile of Male Amateur vs Professional Formula Windsurfs Competing at the 2007 European Championship

Anthropometric Profile of Male Amateur vs Professional Formula Windsurfs Competing at the 2007 European Championship This study aimed to describe the current anthropometric profile of Formula Windsurf competitors during the 2007 European Championships and establish a set of reference values useful for future investigations on player selection, talent identification, and training programme development. Fourty-five male participants (mean age 30±9.77 years; body height 182.04±6.3 cm; body mass 81.67±7.35 kg) were selected for the anthropometric profile, including 15 which the International Windsurf Association had defined as professionals. The anthropometric profiles included measurements of skinfolds, segment lengths, breadths, and girths. Somatotype measurements were also calculated into the equation. The male professional windsurfers had larger length, breadth, and girth measurements than their amateur counterparts. The three somatotype components showed that both groups were predominantly mesomorphic, but the professionals were more ectomorphic than endomorphic, whereas the amateurs were slightly more endomorphic than ectomorphic. The descriptive analysis of the anthropometric data provide relevant information concerning the morphological indicators of competitive success in this sporting discipline.
Pengembangan Buku Saku Pada Materi Reaksi Reduksi Oksidasi (Redoks) di MAN Model Banda Aceh

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan buku saku pada materi Reaksi Reduksi Oksidasi yang dapat digunakan di MAN Model Banda Aceh. Pengembangan buku saku ini dirancang sebaik mungkin agar dapat menarik minat siswa untuk membaca dan mempelajarinya. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian Research and Development (RD). Buku saku ini diujicoba dalam 2 tahap, tahap pertama diujicoba pada kelompok kecil dan tahap kedua diujicoba pada kelompok besar, sebelum diujicoba buku saku divalidasi oleh 3 orang tim ahli. Subjek pada penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas X MIA-3 (Matematika IPA-3). Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan berupa lembar validasi dari tim ahli dan wawancara, selanjutnya data dianalisis menggunakan analisis statistik deskriptif yaitu persentase (%). Berdasarkan analisis data diperoleh, hasil validasi tim ahli pada buku saku pertama diperoleh nilai rata-rata persentase dari ketiga tim ahli sebesar 71% dengan kategori Baik, kemudian buku di perbaiki dan divalidasi kembali dengan nilai rata-rata persentase sebesar 94% dengan kategori Sangat Baik. Hasil ujicoba pertama pada kelompok kecil dengan jumlah 3 orang siswa memperoleh nilai rata-rata persentase sebesar 74% dengan kategori Baik, dan hasil ujicoba kedua pada kelompok besar dengan jumlah 30 orang siswa memperoleh nilai rata-rata persentase sebesar 98% dengan kategori Sangat Baik. Dengan hasil analisis data tersebut maka buku saku pada materi reaksi reduksi oksidasi dapat digunakan di MAN Model Banda Aceh.