Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Web-based telemedicine system is useful for monitoring glucose control in pregnant women with diabetes.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the impact of a Web-based telemedicine system for monitoring glucose control in pregnant women with diabetes on healthcare visits, metabolic control, and pregnancy outcomes. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A prospective, single-center, interventional study with two parallel groups was performed in Puerto Real University Hospital (Cadiz, Spain). Women were assigned to two different glucose monitoring groups: the control group (CG), which was managed only by follow-ups with the Gestational Diabetes Unit (GDU), and the telemedicine group (TMG), which was monitored by both more spaced GDU visits and a Web-based telemedicine system. The number of healthcare visits, degree of metabolic control, and maternal and neonatal outcomes were evaluated. RESULTS One hundred four pregnant women with diabetes (77 with gestational diabetes, 16 with type 1 diabetes, and 11 with type 2 diabetes) were included in the TMG (n=40) or in the CG (n=64). There were no significant differences in mean glycated hemoglobin level during pregnancy or after delivery, despite a significantly lower number of visits to the GDU (3.2±2.3 vs. 5.9±2.3 visits; P<0.001), nurse educator (1.7±1.3 vs. 3.0±1.7 visits; P<0.001), and general practitioner (3.7±2.0 vs. 4.9±2.8 visits; P<0.034) in the TMG. There were no significant differences between groups in maternal or neonatal outcomes. CONCLUSIONS A Web-based telemedicine system can be a useful tool facilitating the management of pregnant diabetes patients, as a complement to conventional outpatient clinic visits.
Fully Automated Medical Image Analysis Facilitating Subsequent User Analysis

In a clinical setting, accuracy is paramount for medical image analysis tasks such as segmentation and registration. Since it is often required that results be manually verified by a human expert, computational techniques designed to aid clinicians in these image analysis tasks are usually interactive, requiring user input. However, these techniques cannot take advantage of the time between when an image is acquired and when a clinician is available to provide input. In this thesis, we will present novel techniques for automatically processing medical images, with the goal of facilitating later analysis by a human expert. These techniques fall into two classes. The first class involves leveraging prior anatomical information to automatically generate results that are robust and independent of initialization. The second class involves precomputing data that is used to greatly increase the speed and responsiveness of subsequent interactive techniques, saving clinicians valuable time. Each of the techniques presented focus on encoding meaningful uncertainty information, which can guide human experts to potential errors or pathologies.
TYPE STUDIES OF THE POLYPORES DE? SCRIBED BY KARSTEN x

name. He sent a few specimens to Fries, more to Romell and Bresadola and others, and a number were distributed in exsiccati, his own and others. Critical notes on Karsten's species are based for the most part on studies by Bresadola and Romell. These are scattered in the litera? ture and sometimes are in disagreement. In this paper the opinions of the principal students are cited, together with my conclusions based on study of the type material at Helsinki. The concepts of the species conform to those of Overholts (30), and for resupinates, of Lowe (26), with references to the current European nomenclature where this differs and is known with certainty by the writer. All of the specimens were studied microscopically. The work was done in the autumn of 1954. Grateful thanks are due the Museum staff at Helsinki, in particular to Dr. R Tuomikoski and N. Malmstrom, who gave every assistance possible. When the material was adequate, permission was given to select a small sample for the National Fungus Collections at Beltsville, Maryland, where it will be more accessible to American students of polypores. Assistance from other individuals is acknowledged under the species concerned.
Evaluation of cardiovascular risk in obese individuals based on lipid profile and autonomic function.

Obesity is a major public health problem in developing countries. Obesity a state of excess adipose tissue mass is associated with number of cardiovascular disease and metabolic disturbances. Irrespective of etiology, Obesity is associated with autonomic dysfunction and contributes to obesity related comorbidities such ad insulin resistance, hypertension, dyslipidemia and cardiovascular dysfunction The study demonstrates HRV indices indicating sympathetic activity were increased where those indicating parasympathetic activity were decreased. E/I ratio and valsalva ratio indicating the parasympathetic function were also reduced. The results suggestive of reduced parasympathetic activity associated with elevated sympathetic activity in obese males at rest.This sympathovagal imbalance makes them susceptible for development of cardiovascular disorders.
COGNITIVELY GUIDED INSTRUCTION IN ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS: UNDERSTANDING FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE CLASSROOM IMPLEMENTATION

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Effects of tramadol with tiletamine/zolazepam-xylazine as anaesthesia in cats

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of the combination of tiletamine/zolazepamxylazine-tramadol (TZXT) in cats and to compare its efficacy as an anaesthetic technique with tiletamine/zolazepam-xylazine (TZX). Fourteen healthy thirteen-month-old cats of both sexes were immobilized by TZXT or TZX on two different occasions. The cats’ scores for immobilization, analgesia and baseline physiological indicators, heart rate, respiratory rate and rectal temperature, were recorded before and 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, 100 and 120 min after administration of TZXT or TZX. Animals in both groups became laterally recumbent within 3 min and physiological indicators changed after administration. These changes were within biologically acceptable limits; these measurements did not differ between the treatments. Induction and recovery quality in animals was better with TZXT than with TZX. Sedation, analgesia, muscle relaxation and posture scores was higher in TZXT group. During recovery, cats in TZXT group were more conscious than cats in TZX group. This study showed that in cats, addition of tramadol (T) to TZX improved the quality of anaesthetic induction and increased the analgesic effect without adversely affecting the physiological indicators. Thus tiletamine/ zolazepam-xylazine-tramadol shows to be more suitable for cat anaesthesia. Felines, anaesthesia combination, physiological variables
Fluoretação da água em capitais brasileiras no início do século XXI: a efetividade em questão Water fluoridation in Brazilians capitals in the beginning of the XXI century: the effectiveness in question

The evolution of dental caries prevalence in Brazilian capitals was analyzed by me- asuring average percent difference in each city from 2003 to 2010. Between 2003 and 2010, we observed an average decline in the DMFT values in the fluoridated capitals (-8.6%) and an ave- rage increase of approximately 12.8% in non-fluoridated capitals. We concluded that fluoridation of public water supplies remains as a strategic measure for preventing dental caries in Brazilian capitals, despite concomitant exposure to multiple sources of fluoride. It should not only continue but be expanded as part of health equity-based public policies.
The Technical Communicator's Role in Bridging the Gap between Arab and American Business Environments

Communication between the West and the Middle East has at times been tenuous, disjointed, and ineffective. Due to the ever-increasing global market, it has become essential that American technical communicators cross these geographic, cultural, and language barriers to bridge this historical communication gap. Business with Saudi Arabia particularly has prompted American technical communicators to delve into all cultural and language dynamics of an Arab audience. In essence, the technical communicator must comprehend the impact of Islamic doctrine on the Arab business person; identify the philosophical, religious, historical, and social dynamics of the English/Arab communication process; recognize the fundamental differences between the English language and the Arabic language; and, after assessing the Arab audience and language level, implement the most effective communication strategies for effective communication with a high-context society such as Saudi Arabia.
Bronchoscopy versus Empirical Therapy in HIV-infeded Patients with Presumptive Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia

The outcomes of alternative strategies for the management of pulmonarycomplications in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and with suspected Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia were compared using a decision analysis model. A decision tree was constructed using baseline probabilities derived from published data and expert opinion. The case scenario analyzed was that of a patient not cur­ rently receiving anti-Pneumocystis prophylaxis who presents with moderate pulmonary symptoms and ful­ fills the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) criteria for presumptive P. carinii pneumonia. Two strategies were compared: (1)early bronchoscopy with appropriate therapy based on the results, and (2)empiric treat­ ment for P. carinii (trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole or pentamidine, and steroids) with delayed bronchos­ copy in those not responding to 5 days of empiric therapy. The expected 1-month survival rate (with and without quality of life adjustment) was found to be essentially the same for the two strategies using the baseline probabilities, and the decision remained a toss-up within the clinically relevant range of published probabilities for P. carinii pneumonia in patients fulfilling the CDC criteria. Because early bronchoscopy does not offer any additional survival benefits and is associated with greater costs and disutility, empiric therapy would appear to be the superior management strategy in this scenario. Tu JV, Biem HJ, Detsky AS. Bronchoscopy versus empirical therapy in HIV-infected patients with presumptive Pneumocys· tis carin;; pneumonia: a decision analysis. Am Rev Respir Dis 1993; 148:370-7. The optimal management strategy in the patient infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and with respiratory symp­ toms, an abnormal chest radiograph, and suspected Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) is controversial. Some experts have ad­ vocated histologic confirmation of the diagnosis in all cases, whereas others have stated that empirical therapy can safely be used for classic presentations of P. carinii (1-3). The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has revised its surveillance case defini­ tion criteria for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) to allow a presumptive diagnosis of P. carinii pneumonia if a pa­ tient presents with a history of dyspnea on exertion or nonproduc­ tive cough of recent onset, chest radiographic evidence of diffuse bilateral interstitial lung disease, arterial hypoxemia, and no evi­ dence of a bacterial pneumonia (4). In these patients, the neces­ sity of microscopically confirming a diagnosis has been ques
Epidemiology of brucellosis at different livestock farms in the Punjab, Pakistan.

Received: Revised: Accepted: December 31, 2014 March 29, 2015 May 01, 2015 Aim of the present study was to know the current prevalence of brucellosis at different Government and private Livestock Farms in Punjab, Pakistan. For this purpose, 2275 serum samples were collected and subjected to various diagnostic tests including Rose Bengal Plate Test (RBPT), Serum Agglutination Test (SAT), iELISA and c-ELISA. Data thus collected was interpreted and subjected to Binary Logistic regression analysis to know the difference among different sources. Sensitivity and specificity values of these different tests were also determined. Seroprevalence of bovine brucellosis was significantly (P<0.05) higher in private livestock farms as compared to government farms through all the diagnostic tests applied. Sensitivity of SAT was higher in cattle (73.46%) as compared to the other species. c-ELISA was slightly more sensitive than i-ELISA. However, the specificity of all the tests in all species was 100%. ©2015 PVJ. All rights reserved
Composition chimique du bois de chêne de tonnellerie

Cet article est une synthese bibliographique relative a la composition chimique du bois de chene utilise en tonnellerie. Ce bois est constitue de macromolecules et d'extractibles. Les macromolecules presentes sont la cellulose, les hemicelluloses et la lignine, dans des proportions respectives de 40, 25 et 25 p. 100 du bois sec. La part des extractibles peut etre estimee a 10 p. 100 de la masse du bois. Ils sont representes par des composes phenoliques: lignanes, coumarines, phenols simples et ellagitanins; des composes aliphatiques: hydrocarbures et acides gras; des composes terpeniques, aromatiques et furaniques ainsi que des lactones, norisoprenoides, steroides et carotenoides. Cette revue bibliographique souligne egalement les differences de composition chimique entre les deux especes europeennes, le chene pedoncule (Quercus robur), le chene rouvre (Quercus petraea) et donne des elements de comparaison avec le chene blanc americain (Quercus alba).
A Survey of Probabilistic Models for Relational Data

Traditional data mining methodologies have focused on ''flat'' data i.e. a collection of identically structured entities, assumed to be independent and identically distributed. However, many real-world datasets are innately relational in that they consist of multi-modal entities and multi-relational links (where each entity- or link-type is characterized by a different set of attributes). Link structure is an important characteristic of a dataset and should not be ignored in modeling efforts, especially when statistical dependencies exist between related entities. These dependencies can in fact significantly improve the accuracy of inference and prediction results, if the relational structure is appropriately leveraged (Figure 1). The need for models that can incorporate relational structure has been accentuated by new technological developments which allow us to easily track, store, and make accessible large amounts of data. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in statistical models for dealing with richly interconnected, heterogeneous data, fueled largely by information mining of web/hypertext data, social networks, bibliographic citation data, epidemiological data and communication networks. Graphical models have a natural formalism for representing complex relational data and for predicting the underlying evolving system in a dynamic framework. The present survey provides an overview of probabilistic methods and techniques that have been developed over the last few years for dealing with relational data. Particular emphasis is paid to approaches pertinent to the research areas of pattern recognition, group discovery, entity/node classification, and anomaly detection. We start with supervised learning tasks, where two basic modeling approaches are discussed--i.e. discriminative and generative. Several discriminative techniques are reviewed and performance results are presented. Generative methods are discussed in a separate survey. A special section is devoted to latent variable models due to their unique characteristics and usefulness in static and dynamic frameworks and in both supervised and unsupervised learning processes. Section 4 contains a brief discussion of unsupervised learning techniques with an emphasis on computational efficiency and large networks. Finally, section 5 discusses performance metrics with an emphasis on classification problems.
Effect of Thalidomide on Neuropathic Pain Induced by Lumbar 5 Ventral Rhizotomy in Rats

Selective injury to motor fiber but keeping primary sensory neuron intact also induced behavioral signs of neuropathic pain. The underlying mechanism, however, is still unclear. Accumulating evidence showed that TNF- a plays an important role in the process of injured nerve degeneration and the production of abnormal pain behaviours after nerve injury. The present study was to examine the role of TNF-a in the development of neuropathic pain in- duced by lumbar 5 ventral rhiwtomy (L5 VR), a model of selective injury to motor fibre in sciatic nerve, with in- traperitoneal injection of thalidomide, an inhibitor of TNF-a synthesis, started before and after the surgery. The re- sults showed that L5 VR induced robust and long-lasting abnormal pain behaviours in bilateral hind paws of rats. Compared with sham operated group and the pre-operated baseline, the significantly decrease of paw withdrawal threshold and paw withdrawal latency started 1 day after the surgery and persisted more than 4 weeks. Intraperi- toneal injection of thalidomide, started 2 hours before surgery and once per day thereafter, significantly reduced the mechanical allodynia and thermal hyperalgesia in bilateral hind paws induced by L5 VR. Whereas, post-treatment with thalidomide as above started at the 7th day after operation, the established neuropathic pain induced by L5 VR was not affected. Taken together, the above data suggested that TNF-a might be playing an important role in the initiation, rather than maintenance, of the neuropathic pain induced by L5 VT. (Life Science Journal. 2006 ;3( 4) : 12-16J (ISSN: 1097-8135). I I J ,1 ~
Audit of abdominal hysterectomies at University of Benin Teaching Hospital.

In the study period abdominal hysterectomies represented 3.4 per cent of all gynaecological operations. The majority of patients (66 per cent) were grandmultiparae; 77 per cent were aged 40 or more years. Uterine fibroids were the commonest indication for hysterectomy with a quarter of cases carried out for malignancy. Ureteral injury occurred in 2.6 per cent of cases. There were three deaths one directly attributable to hysterectomy. The higher morbidity and mortality compared with series from the Western world is discussed. Patient education and counselling adequate pre-operative investigations and improved surgical skill are recommended to improve outcome in this group of women. (excerpt)
PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN THYROID-STIMULATING HORMONE

Background: Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) is a member of the vertebrate glycoprotein hormone family [1]. It’s secreted from pituitary cells as heterodimers composed of an alpha and a beta- subunit. The thyrotrophic cells that secrete TSH are preferentially located in the anteromedial and anterolateral portions of the pituitary. Objective: We performed a phylogenetic analysis of the TSH, and phylogram of the maximum likelihood relations between TSH coding sequences of five representative species. Methods: We extracted the available DNA and protein sequences for TSH from the NCBI databank. Searched for regions presenting sequence similarities to the constituent domains of TSH – alpha and beta-subunits - with the Blastall command ftp://ftp.ncbi. nlm.nih. gov/blast/db/ website, pairs of sequences were compared on the basis of their global alignment with the Myers & Millers algorithm manpages.ubuntu. com/manpages/karmic/man1, and the phylogenetic reconstructions were performed online by using a maximum likelihood method with PhyMyL 3.0 software on the website file (http://www.phylogeny.fr/). Results: The comparison of the phylogenetic trees that we obtained compared with those studies previously published revealed similar subclusters with high protein homology. Conclusion: This study demonstrates that human TSH is structurally related to TSH of the species analysed, Bos taurus, Mus musculus, Canis lupus familiaris, and Cyprinus carpio, respectively.
Preview control for a class of time-varying discrete systems with input time-delay

The optimal preview control for a class of time-varying discrete systems with input time-delay is studied.The property of difference operator is used to differentiate the input time-delay and the desired previewable tracking.Then an augmented error system is constructed,which contains the desired previewable tracking,but not the input time-delay. Based on the related results from optimal control theory and preview control theory,a controller with preview feed-forward compensation is designed for the augmented error system.The high-order Riccati equation is transformed into a lower-order one with some manipulation of matrix partitioning.And the preview controller for the original system is obtained.Finally, simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Shortboard Performance Surfing: A Qualitative Assessment of Maneuvers and a Sample Periodized Strength and Conditioning Program In and Out of the Water

summary Surfing can be defined as a risk sport due to several variables including but not limited to currents, wave force, water aspiration, and collisions with equipment, rocks, coral reefs, and other surfers. It is essential for surfers, both novice and elite, to have a significant base of paddling strength, balance, and general physical fitness in order to meet the demands of an unpredictable oceanic environment and to prevent repetitive motion injuries. The purpose of this paper is to describe the physiological demands of surfing and to introduce a periodized strength and general fitness model.
Reaction object constructions in English and Spanish

espanolLas Construcciones de Objeto de Reaccion son alternancias que implican el uso transitivo de verbos de manera de hablar y verbos de signos y gestos (She mumbled her adoration) parafraseables como “expresar una reaccion V-ndo” (Levin 1993). La investigacion sobre estas construcciones se ha limitado al ingles, con frecuencia sin un tratamiento detallado de sus distintos elementos. Un analisis mas detallado de ejemplos extraidos del Corpus of Contemporary American English muestra una amplia variedad de verbos y objetos usados en estas construcciones para denotar diferentes tipos de actos expresivos de estilo indirecto. Por otro lado, extensas busquedas en el Corpus de Referencia del Espanol Actual revelan la existencia de estas construcciones fundidas en espanol (Ella murmura su incredulidad) en las que el evento verbal denota la manera en la que se produce el segundo evento -el acto expresivo nominalizado. Los datos que se aportan en este articulo respaldan estudios recientes que afirman que las lenguas romances pueden usar algunas de estas construcciones de “informacion compacta” que usan las lenguas germanicas. EnglishReaction Object Constructions are alternations involving the transitive use of manner of speaking verbs and verbs of signs and gestures (She mumbled her adoration) paraphrased as “express a reaction by V-ing” (Levin 1993). Research on these constructions has been limited to English, often without a thorough discussion of their different elements. A closer look at examples extracted from the Corpus of Contemporary American English shows a wide variety of verbs and objects used in these constructions to denote different types of reported expressive acts. On the other hand, extensive searches of the Corpus de Referenda del Espanol Actual have revealed the existence of these conflated constructions in Spanish (Ella murmura su incredulidad), where the verbal event denotes the manner by which the second event - the nominalized expressive act -is produced. The data provided in this paper supports recent claims that Romance languages may use some of these “information-packed” constructions the way Germanic languages do.