Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Acute Opisthorchiasis in a Kazakh Man.

Kazakhstan, opisthorchiasis, Opisthorchis felineus, praziquantel IMAJ 2018; 20: 395–396 (Opisthorchis-IgM-EIA-BEST kit, VectorBest, Novosibirsk, Russia) was positive and Opisthorchidae eggs were found in the feces [Figure 1]. The patient was diagnosed with acute opisthorchiasis and treated with praziquantel 60 mg/kg single dose and prednisolone 5 mg daily. He had complete remission of symptoms, and four days later WBC were 12.3 × 109/L (eosinophils 0.6%) and ESR, ALT, and AST levels were normal. Opisthorchis felineus is a trematode transmissible to human beings who consume raw freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae family. The number of cases of human infection was estimated to be around 1.2 million worldwide in 1995 [1]. The prevalence is high in Russia (especially western Siberia), Byelorussia, and Ukraine. Kazakhstan is also affected [2]. A 33 year old man was admitted to the City Adult Infectious Diseases Hospital in Astana, Kazakhstan, with abdominal pain (prevalent in the upper abdomen and in the right quadrants), asthenia, decreased appetite, and diarrhea (5 to 6 discharges of loose or watery stools a day). A rash had been noticed on the back and in the lumbar region 17 days earlier while the other symptoms had started 10 days before. Fever (38°C for 4 days) had also been present. Five days earlier, the patient had been admitted to another hospital for possible appendicitis and was found to have leukocytosis (white blood cells [WBC] 36.5 × 109/L). A liver ultrasound had shown multiple hypoechoic areas, and a computed tomography scan had led to a suspicion of fascioliasis. The patient had received treatment with ofloxacin and ceftriaxone. On arrival to the City Adult Infectious Diseases Hospital, medical history revealed that the patient often fished in local rivers and lakes and consumed both cooked and raw fish marinated with vinegar. Physical examination showed pain at palpation in the right hypochondrial area and no rash. WBC count was 28.1 × 109/L (76% eosinophils), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) 21 mm/hr, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) 51.7 IU/L (normal < 40), and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) 40.6 IU/L (normal < 37). Viral hepatitis A, B, and C markers were negative. Serum immunoglobulin M (IgM) anti-opisthorchiasis Symptoms are mild or absent when the number of parasites ingested is low and infected persons do not eat raw freshwater fish regularly. However, in endemic regions of eastern Europe and central Asia, where some people eat marinated fish infected with Opisthorchis felineus quite regularly, more severe symptoms occur [3]. Praziquantel is a very effective therapy. If untreated, infection can become chronic, and adult flukes [Figure 2] can settle in the small intrahepatic bile ducts and live there for decades, causing chronic inflammation of the bile ducts with ensuing epithelial hyperplasia, periductal fibrosis, and bile duct dilatation. Possible complications are gallstone formation, recurrent pyogenic cholangitis, liver abscesses, and pancreatitis. Opisthorchis viverrini and Clonorchis sinensis can cause
A study on prevalence of diabetes and associated risk factors among diagnosed tuberculosis patients registered under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme in Bhopal District

Context: Tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes mellitus (DM) remains a worldwide global public health problem. About 95% of patients with TB live in the low and middle-income countries and more than 70% of patients with DM also live in the same countries, especially in South East Asia. Screening for diabetes in patients with TB will not only ensure early case detection but also better management of diabetes and will lead to better TB treatment outcome. Aims: This study aims to determine the prevalence and its associated factors of diabetes and prediabetes among diagnosed cases of TB patients registered under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in Bhopal city. Settings and Design: The current study was a longitudinal follow-up study conducted among registered TB patients under RNTCP in all 5 TB units of Bhopal District. Subjects and Methods: Participants were contacted and interview was conducted after obtaining consent using predesigned and pretested Performa during October 2013–September 2014. Statistical Analysis Used: Continuous variable were summarized as frequency, mean, and standard deviation. All variables were analyzed using Chi-square test of significance; P < 0.05 was taken as statically significant. Results: Out of the total 662 TB patients, 352 were male and 310 were female. Out of the total, 82 (12.39%) patients were diagnosed as diabetic and 108 (16.3%) were prediabetic. significant association found with six variables which are age, sex, body mass index, type of TB, Category of TB, and smoking. Conclusion: This study shows feasibility and importance of screening of TB patients.
Achieving Scalable Access Control Over Encrypted Data for Edge Computing Networks

The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) has raised in the cloud computing paradigm as it adds latency when migrating all pieces of data from the network edge to the data center for them to be approached. Edge computing has been introduced to extend the cloud computing architecture to the edge of the network, which analyzes most of the IoT data near the devices that produce and act on that data. Though edge computing solves the latency problem of data processing, it also brings issues to the data security and privacy preservation. One technique which is potential to provide scalable access control to support data security and privacy in edge computing is attribute-based encryption (ABE). In this paper, we propose a primitive named proxy-aided ciphertext-policy ABE (PA-CPABE), which outsources the majority of the decryption computations to edge devices. Compared to the existing ABE with outsourced decryption schemes, PA-CPABE has an advantage in which the key distribution does not require any secure channels. We present a generic construction of PA-CPABE and then formally prove its security. In addition, we implement an instantiation of the proposed PA-CPABE framework to evaluate its performance.
Recent findings within the microbiota–gut–brain–endocrine metabolic interactome

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Prospectively Recording Errors Is Valuable in Reducing Complications

Errors have traditionally been a less commonly discussed topic but are becoming increasingly examined due to a trend towards expanded awareness about the high human and financial cost of errors in medicine. Recording and reporting of errors has been a difficult issue in the health sector due to fear of litigation from patients, complaint to governing bodies, and embarrassment from colleagues. In this article we examine the advantages of prospective error recording. The studies on this subject report that the culture of prospective error recording is of high value in improving most parameters of errors and may indeed reduce complications.
Pumpless extracorporeal lung assist – experience with the ﬁrst 20 cases q

Objective : Long-term extracorporeal lung assist is limited by a signiﬁcant mechanical blood trauma resulting in bleeding and hemolysis. To reduce the drawbacks of extracorporeal lung assist a new technique has been developed, by which the driving force for the extracorporeal circuit derives from the patients arterio-venous pressure gradient (pumpless extracorporeal lung assist). The aim of this clinical study was to test the feasibilty and effectiveness of pumpless extracorporeal lung assist in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. Methods : Twenty patients (41 ^ 16 years) with acute respiratory distress syndrome of various causes and failing respirator therapy were enrolled. The minimum hemodynamic requirements included a cardiac output (CO) . 6 l/min and mean arterial pressure (MAP) . 70 mmHg. Pumpless extracorporeal lung assist was established using a short circuit arterio-venous shunt including a special designed low-resistance membrane oxygenator which was placed between the patients legs. Results : At the time of inclusion FiO 2 in all patients was 1.0 (paO 2 45 : 9 ^ 7 mmHg, paCO 2 58 : 9 ^ 17 mmHg). After 24 h of pumpless extracorporeal lung assist FiO 2 was reduced to 0 : 8 ^ 0 : 1. A signiﬁcant improvement in oxygenation (paO 2 84 : 1 ^ 21 mmHg, P , 0 : 05) and CO 2 removal (paCO 2 32 : 7 ^ 5 mmHg, P , 0 : 05) was notable. The mean extracorporeal ﬂow was 2 : 6 ^ 0 : 6 l/min, which represented approximately 25% of the patients mean CO (10 : 8 ^ 2 l/min). The median assist time was 12 ^ 8 (1–32) days. Fifteen out of twenty patients were weaned off pumpless extracorporeal lung assist. Five out of twenty patients died while on the system (four sepsis, one ventricular ﬁbrillation). Three out of twenty patients died after successful weaning on day 8, 30, and 50, respectively. Twelve out of twenty patients were discharged in a healthy state (overall survival 60%). Technical problems included thrombosis of the venous cannula ( n (cid:136) 5), thrombus formation within the membrane oxygenator ( n (cid:136) 2), membrane oxygenator plasma leakage ( n (cid:136) 2), and membrane oxygenator contamination with Candida albicans . No bleeding complication was observed. Conclusion : Pumpless extracorporeal lung assist is feasible and effective in a selected group of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome but preserved hemodynamic function. By eliminating the pump and reducing the tubing length blood trauma can be minimized. Being very simple the system entails fewer risks of technical complications and also facilitates nursing care. q 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
A Closed-Form Approximation of Correlated Multiuser MIMO Ergodic Capacity With Antenna Selection and Imperfect Channel Estimation

Antenna selection (AS) is a promising technology to substantially reduce the complexity of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, spatial correlation and imperfect estimation of channel state information (CSI) are well known to have a direct impact on the capacity of feasible MIMO schemes. In this paper, a tight closed-form approximation of the ergodic capacity for correlated Rayleigh fading multiuser MIMO channels with receive AS and imperfect CSI is presented. The derived expression takes into account the spatial correlation at both link sides and channel estimation error at the receiver. It can be used for arbitrary numbers of users, antennas, and receive RF chains. Furthermore, a concise analytical capacity formula is derived in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region. Numerical results validate the accuracy of our closed-form expressions over different channel conditions and SNRs. The new capacity approximation extends the state-of-the-art and enables efficient performance evaluation of varied multiantenna applications including massive MIMO for 5G systems.
One-Shot Unsupervised Cross Domain Translation

Given a single image x from domain A and a set of images from domain B, our task is to generate the analogous of x in B. We argue that this task could be a key AI capability that underlines the ability of cognitive agents to act in the world and present empirical evidence that the existing unsupervised domain translation methods fail on this task. Our method follows a two step process. First, a variational autoencoder for domain B is trained. Then, given the new sample x, we create a variational autoencoder for domain A by adapting the layers that are close to the image in order to directly fit x, and only indirectly adapt the other layers. Our experiments indicate that the new method does as well, when trained on one sample x, as the existing domain transfer methods, when these enjoy a multitude of training samples from domain A. Our code is made publicly available at this https URL
The Uniqueness of Bats

The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the distinctive features of bats, many of which are unique among mammals, and in particular to highlight features of their biology that may have some bearing on the high prevalence of viruses in this group (Luis et al., 2013). Bats are the only mammals with the capacity for powered flight. The associated skeletal adaptations of elongated forelimb bones were fully developed in the first fossil bat Icaronycteris index 50 million years ago, discovered in the Green River formation in Wyoming, USA (Jepsen, 1966, 1970). Also evident were auditory bullae at the base of the cranium, indicating the presence of large cochlea, associated with echolocation, which enabled bats to fly in darkness. Flight and echolocation allowed bats to occupy and eventually dominate the nocturnal aerial feeding niche where they are relatively free of competitors and predators. Among the exceptions are caprimulgid birds (nightjars and goatsuckers), an Old World bat hawk and a New World bat falcon. Owls cannot match the flight agility of bats, although they are opportunist predators at roosts (Fenton & Fleming, 1976). THE UNIQUENESS OF BATS
Detection and Molecular Characterization of Babesia canis vogeli From Naturally Infected Brazilian Dogs

In order to detect and characterize the species and subspecies of Babesia spp. infecting dogs in Rio de Janeiro Area, Brazil, the polymerase chain reaction assay (PCR) with genus-specific primers for a portion of the babesial 18S rRNA gene sequence and a restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis (RFLP) were performed. Forty-five samples obtained from dogs naturally infected with Babesia spp. were used for this purpose. The protozoan was diagnosed through peripheral blood Intern J Appl Res Vet Med • Vol. 4, No. 2, 2006. Vol4Iss2.qxp 6/21/2006 7:08 AM Page 163
On Potential-Based and Direct Movements in Information Spaces

Learning can be portrayed as a movement in a state space. Potential-based explanations of such movements hold that learners use a gradient-descent process to minimize a potential function. Direct explanations hold that learning is specific to information for learning. This study contrasts specific hypotheses derived from these general approaches. Participants estimated the length of arrow shafts of Müller-Lyer displays. Experiment 1 shows that learning in this paradigm can indeed be portrayed as a movement in a state space. In Experiment 2 nonveridical feedback was used in such a way that the contrasted hypotheses predicted learning in opposite directions. No learning was observed. In Experiment 3, movements in the state space were observed with practice conditions in which one of the hypotheses specified a movement in the state space whereas the other did not specify any movement. A tentative explanation for these findings is that both hypotheses are partly correct. However, more than to the empirical findings for this particular task, the authors wish to draw attention to the distinction between potential-based and direct processes—a distinction that they consider of general importance for the understanding of learning.
Sexual Dimorphism in Monoamine Metabolism in BrdU-Treated Rats Showing Behavioral Dopamine Hypersensitivity: An Animal Model of Schizophrenia

© 2013 Muneoka and Kuwagata , licensee InTech. This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Sexual Dimorphism in Monoamine Metabolism in BrdU-Treated Rats Showing Behavioral Dopamine Hypersensitivity: An Animal Model of Schizophrenia
Digital dental radiology in Belgium: a nationwide survey.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to analyse the use of digital dental radiology in Belgium, by focussing on the use of extraoral and intraoral radiographic techniques, digitalisation and image communication. METHODS A nationwide survey has been performed amongst Belgian general dentists and dental specialists. Questionnaires were distributed digitally via mailings lists and manually on multiple refresher courses and congresses throughout the country. The overall response rate was 30%. RESULTS Overall, 94% of the respondents had access to an intraoral radiographic unit, 76% had access to a panoramic unit, 21% has an attached cephalometric arm. One in five Belgian dentists also seem to have direct access to a cone beam CT. 90% of all intraoral radiography unit worked with digital detectors, while this was 91% for panoramic units (with or without cephalometrics). In 70% of the cases, general dental practitioners with a digital intraoral unit used a storage phosphor plate while in 30% of the cases they used sensor technology (charge-coupled device or complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor). The most common method for professional image transfer appeared to be email. Finally, 16% of all respondents used a calibrated monitor for image analysis. CONCLUSIONS The survey indicates that 90% of the respondents, Belgian dentists, make use of digital image techniques. For sharing images, general dental practitioners mainly use methods such as printout and e-mail. The usage of calibrated monitors, however, is not well established yet.
The Effect of Parental Involvement and Socioeconomic Status on Junior School Students’ Academic Achievement and School Behavior in China

A survey was conducted on 19,487 Chinese junior school students to elucidate the moderating role of socioeconomic status (SES) in the relationship between parental involvement (i.e., home-based involvement and academic socialization) and junior school students’ performance in school (i.e., academic achievement and school behavior). The data includes 10,042 males and 9,445 females (mean age = 14.52, SD = 1.24). It was taken from the 2013–2014 Chinese Educational Panel Survey (CEPS), that was administrated by the National Survey Research Center at Renmin University of China. The results demonstrate that SES negatively moderates both the relationship between academic socialization and academic achievement, and the relationship between home-based involvement and school behavior. Findings imply that parental involvement activities are highly beneficial for junior school students in families with low SES. Academic socialization is generally associated with academic success, whereas home-based involvement closely relates to school behavior. Future home-based interventions can be developed to promote parental involvement activities in low-SES families. The results also showed important implications for the development of family education in China.
Porcelain color alteration after orthodontic bonding using three different surface preparation methods

Background: By increasing the number of adults seeking orthodontic treatment bonding orthodontic brackets to the surfaces other than intact enamel has become necessary. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of three different surface preparation methods associated with orthodontic bonding on porcelain color alteration. Materials and Methods: In this in vitro study forty-five porcelain discs (6- mm diameter, 2- mm thickness) were fabricated. The color of the specimens was evaluated by means of a Vita Easyshade. Commision Internationale de I'Eclairage (CIE) L* a* b* system was used for color measurement. Then, the specimens were randomly divided into three groups (n = 15) with respect to the surface preparation methods including a 9.6% hydrofluoric acid (HF) + silane, sandblasting, and sandblasting + 9.6% HF + silane. Metal orthodontic brackets were bonded. Samples were stored in 37° c water for 24 hours. Afterward, the brackets were debonded with a debonding plier and porcelain surfaces were polished with a tungsten-carbide bur. The color assessment was done, and ΔE values were measured. ΔE = 3.7 units were considered as an acceptability threshold. Data were analyzed with Paired t-test and one-way ANOVA. Level of significance was set at P < 0.05. Results: Orthodontic bonding changed the color parameters significantly. Mean L*, a* and b* difference were 1.35 ± 2.41, 0.19 ± 0.80, 0.89 ± 1.27 units, respectively (P = 0.003 for L*, P < 0.001 for a* and b*). There was not any significant difference in ΔE units between the groups (P = 0.456). In all the groups the mean ΔE values were below 3.7 units and within the clinically acceptable limit. Conclusion: Orthodontic treatment changed the CIE color parameters of porcelain surface. However, the color alteration is below the clinically acceptable threshold. With regard to color alteration, there is no difference between different surface conditioning methods.
Efficacy of D,L-methadone in the treatment of glioblastoma in vitro

Aim: Recently, D,L-methadone has been put forward as adjuvant treatment in glioblastoma (GBM). Methods: We analyzed the μ-opioid receptor expression in a set of GBM cell lines and investigated the efficacy of D,L-methadone alone and in combination with temozolomide (TMZ). Results & conclusion: Expression of the μ-opioid receptor was similar in the tested cell lines. High concentrations of D,L-methadone induced apoptosis in all cell lines and showed treatment interaction with TMZ. However, in lower dosages, reflecting clinically attainable concentrations, D,L-methadone alone showed no efficacy, and induced even higher proliferation in one specific cell line. Also, no interaction with TMZ was observed. These results suggest caution to the premature use of D,L-methadone in the treatment of GBM patients.
Ownership Concentration, Managerial Ownership and Firm Performance: Evidence from Turkey

Ownership Concentration, Managerial Ownership and Firm Performance: Evidence from Turkey This study examines the effects of ownership concentration and managerial ownership on the profitability and the value of non-financial firms listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) in the context of an emerging market. We measure the firm's performance by Return on Assets (ROA) and Tobin's Q ratios, where the former measures profitability and the latter the value of the firm. In addition, we give detailed information on the main characteristics of the ownership structures of the firms in our sample and find that ownership of Turkish firms is highly concentrated. In addition, the unlisted holding companies have the highest average percentage of shares, which supports the belief that individuals or families establish the holding companies in order to control their listed firms. After controlling for investment intensity, leverage, growth and size, we find that ownership concentration has a significantly positive effect on both firm value and profitability, while managerial ownership has a significantly negative effect on firm value.