Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Analysis of an EGFR mutation by PNA clamping method in lung carcinoid tumors

Background: Pulmonary carcinoid tumors consisting of typical carcinoid tumors (TC) and atypical carcinoid tumors (AC) are rare, accounting for 2-5% of all lung tumors. TC is considered a low-grade tumor with a rate of distant metastasis up to 12%. In contrast, ACs are more aggressive tumors, displaying a metastatic rate up to 70%. Surgery is the treatment of choice; however, the current treatment outcomes of metastatic lung carcinoids are discouraging. This study aimed to investigate the EGFR mutation using the PNA-mediated clamping method and to provide basic data for using EGFR-TK1 and its clinical implications. Materials and Methods: A total of 14 cases that underwent surgery were diagnosed as carcinoid tumors and pathologically classified as TC and AC. The paraffin-embedded tissues were analyzed for EGFR mutations using the PNA-mediated PCR clamping technique. The mutant type was noted in the cases with a Ct greater than 2.0. Result: Of 14 cases, eight were AC and six cases were TC. No known EGFR mutation was detected with a Ct less than 2.0. Conclusion: The EGFR genotype determined using the PNA-mediated PCR clamping method was wild-type in all pulmonary carcinoid tumors. Therefore, the application of EGFR-TK1 is limited in pulmonary carcinoid tumors.
Master programme in Economic Demography The Demographic Dividend and Institutions : A Comparison of Asia and Latin America by Angelica Harryson ede 15 aha

This thesis investigates the relationship between the demographic dividend and institutions. The aim is to make an attempt of attaining further knowledge about the requirements for obtaining a demographic dividend. This is done through the comparison of Asian countries and South American countries. The obtained results confirm the positive effects of an increase in the working-age population relative to the total population, increased health, as well as the benefits of a reduced agricultural sector. It also finds support for the conditional convergence hypothesis. However, the results obtained from the institutional variables are, with few exceptions, found lacking statistical significance. The conclusion of this thesis is thus that it does not obtain any further knowledge about the relationship between the demographic dividend and institutions. However, it is successful in confirming previous literature.
A study of reasons for partial immunization and non-immunization among children aged 12-23 months from an urban community of Delhi.

In the present cross-sectional study carried out among 258 children in the age group of 12-23 months from an urban community of Delhi 71.7% were fully immunized 19.8% were partially immunized and 8.5% had not been immunized. Coverage of each individual vaccine was higher than the percentage fully vaccinated. The main reason cited for partial immunization was not being aware of the immunization schedule whereas that for non-immunization was non-availability of routine immunization services. (authors)
Impact of the Perceived Authenticity of Heritage Sites on Subjective Well-Being: A Study of the Mediating Role of Place Attachment and Satisfaction

The aim of this study is to explore how tourists’ perceived authenticity influences their subjective well-being (SWB) in the context of heritage tourism via the mediating role of place attachment and satisfaction. Taking the tourists of the Palace Museum as an example, the results indicate that: (a) authenticity has a significant positive impact on place attachment and satisfaction; (b) place attachment can significantly enhance satisfaction, but different dimensions of place attachment have different effects on SWB; (c) place attachment and satisfaction play mediating roles in the relationship between authenticity and SWB. The conclusion of this study highlights the significance of authenticity in heritage tourism, and further discusses how to promote tourists’ SWB through the perception of authenticity.
Extent and patterns of drug use among persons with disabilities in Kenya

Correction: Due to an error in the online publication of this journal, the publication date of this issue was recorded as 2014. The publication date was corrected to 2015 on 3 rd September 2015. The date on the cover is correct. Background: Although some data existed suggesting that there was high prevalence of drug use among the general population in Kenya with 39-48% of 15-65 year olds having used alcohol and at least one other substance, there was a general absence of comprehensive data on the extent of drug use among Persons With Disability (PWD). The current study therefore sought to fill the gap by establishing the extent and patterns of drug use among PWD. Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study targeting PWD based in learning institutions as well as within the community in three selected regions of Kenya (Nairobi, Coast and Central). A combination of stratified and purposive sampling was used to identify a sample of 486 PWD. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire and quantitatively analysed using descriptive statistics, namely, frequencies and percentages to show the extent and patterns of drug use among PWD. Results: The findings revealed that 35% of the respondents had used some form of drug, with a majority having done so between the ages 15-19 (43.3%). Further, 13.6% had used at least one substance in the past year, 7.4% in the past month and 3.9% had used drugs daily. The type of drug used were alcoholic beverages (28.2%), tobacco products (19.6%), khat (miraa/muguka) (14.8%) and marijuana (9.2%). Conclusion: The findings proved that compared to the general population, the prevalence of drug use among PWD is higher for most of the drugs. The findings point to an urgent need for policies to guide Alcohol and Drug Abuse (ADA) prevention and treatment programmes targeting PWD. International Journal of Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders 2015;1(3-4):5-17
Inpainting large missing regions based on Seam Carving

Inpainting techniques are developed to recover missing image information. Existing inpainting approaches are: Partial Differential Equations Based Inpainting (PDE-BI) and Exemplar-Based Inpainting (EBI). PDE-BI methods used to fill in the missing information via information propagation from neighbouring areas. However, it can only reconstruct successfully small missing regions that are surrounded by limited texture. However, EBI methods are used to recover large regions with richly-textured/structured areas around them, moreover, artefacts are likely to occur. This paper proposes a technique to reduce the missing region size based on seam carving approach, which enables EBI and PDE-BI to recover the missing part. In our proposal, seam carving is used to reduce only the size of the missing region, to be subsequently recovered using EBI method. The added extra paths resulting from the added seams is repaired using PDE-BI. This method outperformed the state-of-art EBI methods.
Multi-sensor Data Fusion for Wearable Devices

The real time information comes from multiple sources such as wearable sensors, audio signals, GPS, etc. The idea of multi-sensor data fusion is to combine the data coming from different sensors to provide more accurate information than that a single sensor alone. To contribute to ongoing research in this area, the goal of my research is to build a shared representation between data coming from different domains, such as images, signal audio, heart rate, acceleration, etc., in order to predict daily activities. In the state of the art, these arguments are treated individually. Many papers, such as (Lan et al., 2014; Ma et al., 2016) et al., predict daily activity from video or static image. Others, such as (Ngiam et al., 2011; Srivastava and Salakhutdinov, 2014) et al., build a shared representation then rebuild the inputs or rebuild a missing modality, or (Nakamura et al., 2017) classifies from multimodal data.
Short-term but not long-term exposure to an enriched environment reduces unconditioned fear responses but not conditioned fear responses

Environmental enrichment (EE) has been shown to produce beneficial effects in animal models of a wide variety of neurological and psychiatric disorders. EE exhibits antidepressant function; reduces anxiety, improves spatial learning and memory impairment. EE can reduce sensitivity to loss of reward by reducing frustration-like emotional states and facilitates the extinction of conditioned fear. However, some studies related to the emotional effects of EE present controversial results such as reduction or increase in anxiety. The time of exposure to an enriched environment seems to be an important factor in the behavioral responses presented by animals subjected to aversive stimuli. The present study compared the effects of two and four week exposure to EE with young adult Wistar rats under the same conditions and protocol on fear behavioral parameters in the face of footshock (unconditioned fear) and on re-exposure to an environment after electrical shock pairing (conditioned fear). We showed that the EE with a duration of two weeks reduced the freezing response of the animals in an unconditioned fear situation, that is, with the aversive stimulus present in the environment, however, did not influence the same behavior in a conditioned fear situation. In addition, the short-term EE developed the locomotor and exploratory activity, identified by the high rearing behavior, which may also suggest a low level of anxiety in these animals. We can conclude that EE changes the unconditioned fear responses of young adult rats. In addition, the duration of EE interferes differently, being two weeks of treatment with EE sufficient to cause improvement in coping with unconditioned aversive situations. We suggest that the emotional benefits resulting from the welfare provided by EE can be abolished by the longer duration of this treatment, due to the already known effect of tolerance to lasting or abundant rewards.
EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT CROTON (Codiaeum variegatum L.) GENOTYPES AND GROWTH REGULATORS ON CALLUS INDUCTION, MICRO PROPAGATION AND ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITIES

The Main aim of this study was determine the effect of different croton(Codiaeum variegatum) genotypes (Gold Dust and Petra) and growth hormones on callus induction, micro propagation and antibacterial activities. Murashige and skoog (MS) medium with four compositions of growth hormones for callus induction, murshM1 (2 mg/l 2, 4 Dichlorophenoxy acetic acid (2, 4-D), M2 (3 mg/l 2, 4-D), M3 (2mg/l 1-Naphthalen acetic acid (NAA), M4 (1mg/l 2, 4-D + 1 mg/l NAA) were used. For micro propagation, four different hormone balance were used, i.e., M1 (1 mg/l Benzyl adenine (BA) + 25 mg/l peptone), M2 (1mg/l BA + 50mg/l peptone), M3 (3mg/l BA + 25mg/l peptone), M4 (3mg/l BA + 50mg/l peptone). For rooting induction the combinations of growth regulators were used as follows, Mr1 (1mg/lIndolbuteric acid(IBA), Mr2 (2mg/l IBA), and Mr3 (1mg/l IBA+ 1mg/l NAA). Results showed that the highest genetic response for callus induction frequencies were seen for Petra genotype (91.25%) followed by Gold Dust. Medium M3 showed the highest response for callus induction frequencies (82.4%) followed by M1.Interaction between genotypes and media each alone were highly significant in callus fresh weight character. Regarding the micro propagation, Petra genotype gave highly genetic response followed by Gold Dust, also medium (M1) gave highly response for micro propagation followed by M2. In vitro roots were successfully induced by (1 or 2) mg/l of IBA which gave longest and few roots, while 1mg/l NAA gave shorter and more root number. Plants with roots were moved to the green house for acclimatize in pots contain sand /farmyard manure (8:2VN). Alkaloids extracted from callus for both genotypes were detected for antibacterial activities against Gram positive and negative bacteria. Alkaloids extracted from calli for media M1 and M2 were gave a highest antibacterial activity. Finally the present results gives scientific evidence on the ideal composition of the media to product the alkaloid extracts from C. variegatum (Gold Dust and Petra) as medicinal plants to be used as antibacterial agents against different pathogens.
Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries, 1986-2006

This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native-born and foreign-born by skill level. Specifically, after introducing migration in an augmented Solow-Swan model, we estimate a dynamic panel model using a system of generalized method of moments (SYS-GMM) to deal with the risk of an endogeneity bias of the migration variables. Two important findings emerge from our analysis. First, there exists a positive impact of migrants' human capital on economic growth. And second, the contribution of immigrants to human capital accumulation tends to dominate the mechanical dilution effect while the net effect is fairly small. This conclusion holds even in countries with highly selective migration policies.
Dry matter partitioning of sesame and nutrient dynamics with organic and inorganic fertilizers

The dry matter partitioning of sesame with organic and inorganic fertilizers was assessed in a pot experiment. Treatments consisted of sole and combined applications of poultry manure and NPK 16-16-16. Complementary application enhanced dry matter yield. Shoot yield ranged from 1.2 to 2.8kg while root dry matter yield ranged from 0.5 to 0.9 kg. Total dry matter yield ranged from 1.7 to 3.5kg. Highest K content of 0.36% occurred in plants treated with sole 100 kg NPK ha-1 and the lowest of 0.03% from the control plants. Calcium content increased from 0.09% in control plants to 0.37% in plants treated with 5 tons ha-1 PM. Magnesium content ranged from 0.01% in the control plants to 0.04 % in plants treated with application of 100kg NPK ha-1. Sodium ranged from 0.07% to 0.13%. Phosphorous increased from 0.33 % to 0.83 % in plants treated with 50kg NPK ha-1.
INFLUENCE OF INORGANIC NITROGEN, PHOSPHORUS AND BIO-FERTILIZERS ON GROWTH, YIELD AND YIELD COMPONENTS AND NUTRIENT UPTAKE OF CUCUMBER (Cucumis sativus L.)

Two field experiments were conducted during 2010 and 2011 seasons at Sids Horticultural Researh Station, Beni Swif Governorate, Egypt to investigate the effect of inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers and bio-fertilizers, namely, Biogen and phosphorine on cucumber growth characters (vine length, shoot fresh and dry weights and number of leaves/plant), yield components (fruit length, fruit girth, number of fruit/plant and fruit weight/plant), early yield as the sum of the first three picking of fruits (number of early fruits/plant, early yield, kg/plant and early yield, t/fed), yield (number of total fruit, total yield/plant and total yield t/fed) and N, P and K uptake of cucumber shoots. Results could be summerized as follows: Nitrogen fertilizer at 90 kg/fed yielded the highest values of growth parameters, yield and its components, early yield and nutrient content These parameters, also responded to bio-fertilizers and inorganic phosphorus fertilizer at 9.8 kg P/fed, except fruit girth which did not affected by bio-fertilizer or phosphorus. The combined of 70 kg N/fed + 6.8 kg P/fed + Biogen + Phosphorine treatment seemed to be the best treatment for all studied parameters, which means the posibality of saving about 20 kg N/fed and 3 kg P/ fed by combined nitrogen and phosphorus bio-fertilizers with inorganic sources.
All Keynesians now? Public support for countercyclical government borrowing

Abstract In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, macroeconomic policy returned to the political agenda, and the influence of Keynesian ideas about fiscal stimulus rose (and then fell) in expert circles. Much less is known, however, about whether and when Keynesian prescriptions for countercyclical spending have any support among the general public. We use a survey experiment, fielded twice, to recover the extent to which UK respondents hold such countercyclical attitudes. Our results indicate that public opinion was countercyclical—Keynesian—in 2016. We then use Eurobarometer data to estimate the same basic parameter for the population for the period 2010–2017. The observational results validate our experimental findings for the later period, but also provide evidence that the UK population held procyclical views at the start of the period. Thus, there appear to be important dynamics in public opinion on a key macroeconomic policy issue.
LOSSY INTERACTIVE SUM MODULO TWO COMPUTATION OF BINARY SOURCES

In the lossy interactive function computation considered in this paper, two encoders observe discrete sources, and the receiver who has a correlated side information wishes to compute a function of all the random variables, subject to a distortion constraint. We assume that the sources are independent given the side information. To this aim, the sources take turn and broadcast their messages which are heard perfectly by other sources and also the Central Estimation Officer (CEO), but the CEO doesn’t participate in the communication. We determine the rate distortion region for this problem. Another model when the side information is not available to the decoder is also presented. An example of this model, is a lossy interactive variant model of Körner-Marton problem, for which an explicit expression for the rate distortion region as well as the optimal forward test channel for this problem are obtained. We also make a connection between the interaction in a lossless regime, and one shot KörnerMarton problem.
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Midwest Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Davenport, IA, USA Abstract: Angiography remains a widely utilized imaging modality during vascular procedures. Angiography, however, has its limitations by underestimating the true vessel size, plaque morphology, presence of calcium and thrombus, plaque vulnerability, true lesion length, stent expansion and apposition, residual narrowing post intervention and the presence or absence of dissections. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) has emerged as an important adjunctive modality to angiography. IVUS offers precise imaging of the vessel size, plaque morphology and the presence of dissections and guides interventional procedures including stent sizing, assessing residual narrowing and stent apposition and expansion. IVUS-guided treatment has shown to yield superior outcomes when compared to angiography-only guided therapy. The cost-effectiveness of the routine use of IVUS during vascular procedures needs to be further studied.
Analysis of the reports sent to an institutional patient safety program

Introduction: pharmacovigilance and patient safety programs have in common the monitoring of drugs, but despite sharing epidemiological method, language and legislation, there does not seem to be a clear relationship between them. Objectives: characterize and analyze the reports sent to the institutional patient safety program. Materials and methods: observational descriptive cross-sectional study of the reports database from an institutional patient safety program during 2016. Medication errors were classified according to the document WHO 2009. Adverse Drugs Reactions (ADR) were classified according to Uppsala Monitoring Center. Results: from the patient safety program it was detected that the omission of drugs or doses was the most frequent error (42.8%) followed by ADRs (20.9%). Harmful incidents were the most frequent (61.2%) followed by no harm incidents (38.8%). From the pharmacovigilance program 41 ADR and 15 therapeutic failures were identified, in which Phlebitis was the most frequently reported (23, 7%) followed by hypersensitivity reactions (18.4%) and excessive neuromuscular blockade (13.1%). Conclusions: a very important amount of incidents is not considered by any of the two programs, losing a valuable risk management opportunity. The program did not identify a clear distinction between harmful incident and ADR.
Seroprevalence of Cytomegalovirus ( CMV ) in Women with Pregnancy Associated P roblem

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in pr egnant women can be responsible for fetal loss or congenital malformation. In the present study CMV specific IgM and IgG antibody was detected by ELISA in pregnant women and its association with complicatio n was assess. CMV specific IgG and IgM antibody wa s detected in 151(70.5%) of the 214 abortion case, these divided in two age groups they are ≤ 25 ( 56 case s (37%)), > 25 95(63% ) cases, which are more vulnerable to infection) , t hese comprised of 142(66.36 %) recurr ent & inevitable abortion ,2(0.93 %) with intra uterine death, and 7(3.27 %)with abnormal child. The study also showed patients with negative CMV antibody titer in absence of other cau ses. Suggesting the need for screening of women of child bearing age for CMV infection .
The Incidence Rate of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Behbahan County of Khuzestan Province, Southwest of Iran

had only one ulcer (n = 84, 48.8%), 34 (19.8%), 26 (15.1%), 28 (16.3%) cases exhibited two ulcers, three and more than three ulcers on their body, respectively. Highest disease prevalence (n = 39) was observed in February. The highest disease prevalence was in winter, so that 88 of the disease cases had occurred in this season. The most frequent cases of CL were observed significantly in the age group of 20-29 years old (27.3%) and the least prevalence was observed in the age group of 40-49 years old. The year of 2006 had the most prevalent cases of CL (with 43 cases) in the county. The incidence of the disease in Behbahan county, during 2004-2008 were 0.12, 0.17, 0.22, 0.7 and 0.20, respectively. In this study, there was a relationship between gender and the incidence of disease and disease were seen more in men in comparison to women. The reason was that more men work or sleep in open areas and also due to men’s less covering than women and more exposure to the infected sand flies. The most anatomical sites for