Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Electrocardiographic Abnormalities in Hospitalized acute Cerebrovascular Events

Background: - Physicians are confronted on having ECG in patients with acute stroke as it can mimic that of myocardial infarction or ischaemia. Repolarization and ischemic-like electrocardiographic (ECG) changes observed during acute phase of stroke may cause diagnostic and management dilemmas for the physicians. Aim:- The aim and objective of this study to identify the prevalence of ECG changes in acute stroke patients admitted to medicine units of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Materials and Method: - This 6-month period observational study was carried out among 100 of acute stroke patients admitted in different medicine wards of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). ECG was done in all patients after their admission to hospital within 48 hours of developing their symptoms. Association of various types of ECG changes were identified and observed. Results: - Among 100 patients,55% had ischaemic stroke and 45% had haemorrhagic stroke. 43.63% aged between 61-70 years had ischaemic stroke and 28.28% aged between 61-80 years had haemorrhagic stroke. Female had higher frequency of ischaemic stroke 52.72% and male had higher frequency of haemorrhagic stroke 75.56%. Abnormal ECG found 84.44% in haemorrhagic stroke and 54.54% in ischaemic stroke. Of all abnormal ECG, ST depression is most frequent and 42.22% in haemorrhagic stroke, T inversion is next 20% in ischaemic stroke, AF is present in 18.18% in ischaemic stroke and QT prolongation is found in 17.77% in hemorrhagic stroke. There considerable variation of ECG changes according to CT scan evidence of particular area of brain involvement like ST depression (28.88%) found in gangliothalamic bleed in haemorrhagic stroke, AF is found (16.36%) in insular area involvement in ischaemic stroke, T inversion is more (12.72%) in large MCA territory infarctive stroke and QT prolongation (11.11%) is found in intracerebral haemorrhage including SAH. Predictable early in hospital mortality is associated with AF 37.5% and with QT prolongation 31.25%. Conclusion:- In haemorrhagic stroke the ECG abnormalities were more frequent then in ischaemic stroke. The most common abnormalities were ST depression, T wave inversion, AF and QT prolongation. AF and QT prolongation has association of early in hospital mortality. J Bangladesh Coll Phys Surg 2020; 38(4): 166-171
Cyprosulfamide Safens Isoxaflutole in Sweet Corn (Zea mays L.)

There is little published information on the sensitivity of sweet corn to the PRE and POST application of isoxaflutole + cyprosulfamide. Four field trials were conducted during 2010 and 2011 in Ontario, Canada, to determine the sensitivity of 'Merit', 'GH 4927', 'BSS 5362', and 'GG 741' sweet corn hybrids to the PRE and POST application of isoxaflutole alone or in combination with cyprosulfamide. Isoxaflutole applied PRE or POST at 105 and 210 g a.i./ha caused as much as 12% visual injury, 18% reduction in height. and 24% reduction in marketable yield of some sweet corn hybrids evaluated. Isoxaflutole + cyprosulfamide applied PRE or POST at 105 and 210 g·ha L1 caused up to 7%initialinjuryinsomesweetcornhybridsbuttheinjurywastransientwithnoeffecton sweet corn height, cob size, and yield. Isoxaflutole applied POST was more injurious to sweet corn than when applied PRE; however, there was no differences in sweet corn injury between the PRE and POST applications of isoxaflutole + cyprosulfamide. Based onthese results, thereis potential foruse of isoxaflutole+cyprosulfamide appliedat 105g a.i./ha in 'Merit', 'GH 4927', 'BSS 5362', and 'GG 741' sweet corn hybrids. Herrm. ), green foxtail (Setaria viridis (L.) Beauv. ), yellow foxtail (Setaria glauca (L.) Beauv. ), barnyard grass (Echinochloa crus- galli (L.) Beauv. ), fall panicum (Panicum dichotomiflorum Michx.), common lambs- quarters (Chenopodium album L.), redroot pigweed (Amaranthus retroflexus L.), com-
Incidence analysis of human leptospirosis in Brazil

Leptospirosis is a neglected infectious disease that affects humans and animals with a higher incidence in the tropics and subtropics. In that context, the aim of this study was to describe the temporal distribution of the epidemiology and sociodemographic factors of human leptospirosis in Brazil. The analysis conducted in this study was based to age, gender, area, schooling, region and skin colour reported by Ministry of Health from National Disease Notification System (SINAN) and National Survey of Household Samples (PNAD) database of Brazil, during the period 2007 to 2014. A total of 22,889 cases were reported, the majority of which were registered in male and urban area, more than 70% and 80%, respectively. The greatest number of cases occur in patients with age group between 20-39 years. However, there was a significant increase in children between 0 and 9 (p = 2.8×10-7), 10 e 14 (p = 0.015) e 70 e 79 (p = 0.021) years old. The North region highlighted in relation to the other regions of the country, with a significant increase (p = 2.4×10-11) in the number of cases. An epidemiological surveillance of leptospirosis is important in Brazil once the incidence of disease is increasing in children and the elderly. We also show are essential efforts between medical and governmental institutions to improve the quality of data. Understand the disease trends can be providing insights into the prevention and control of leptospirosis in Brazil and others development countries.
Molecular identification of animal species using Polymerase Chain Reaction based techniques

Name : Nagappa Karabasanavar Id. No. : 29840 Semester & Year of admission : I sem, 2005 Degree : Ph.D Major : Veterinary Public Health Department : Veterinary Public Health Minor : 1. Biochemistry Advisor : Dr. S.P. Singh 2. Animal Biotechnology Thesis title : “Molecular identification of animal species using Polymerase Chain Reaction based techniques” Species-specific PCR assays were developed for the authentic identification of cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig and chicken. The mitochondrial D-loop was targeted in cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, and pig; while nuclear 5-aminolevulinate synthase gene was used as target for amplification in chicken. The developed species-specific PCR assays yielded products specific to the species studied. In order to exclude the possibility of cross amplification, 25 animal species including different breeds were considered that consisted of mammals, birds, rodent and fish species covering most of the domestic, pet and wild animals. The suitability of the species-specific PCR assays was confirmed in raw (n=20), cooked (60, 80 and 100C for 30 min), autoclaved (121C for 30 min) and the micro-oven processed meat and meat products such as kabab, mutton curry, chevon curry, pork sausage, chicken patties, chicken products (samosa, nuggets and loaves). The sensitivity of the PCR was established to be at 0.1% in all species studied for the detection of adulteration and the limit of detection was 0.1 pg in cattle and goat, 1 pg in sheep and 10 pg in buffalo, pig and chicken. Based on the present investigation it was concluded that, the species specific PCR assays developed in this study could be used for the authentication of raw, cooked (up to 121C) and adulterated (up to 0.1%) animal tissues and their products for the specific identification of cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig and chicken. For the simultaneous detection of cattle and buffalo a multiplex PCR was developed using species-specific forward and common reverse primers. Further, for the identification of an unknown species an alternative approach was used, that involvedisolation of total DNA from the cells, PCR amplification of a region of mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene, sequencing of the PCR amplicon and analysis of the sequence. Using this approach, nine species of animals (leopard, Bengal and Siberian tigers, goral, muntjak, sika deer, camel, parakeet and a black kite) were unambiguously identified. This research work presents novel diagnostic primers for 6 animal species and validates the sequence analysis as a tool for identification animal species. (S.P. Singh) (Nagappa Karabasanavar) Advisor Author
Fecal Shedding and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Selected Bacterial Pathogens and a Survey of Intestinal Parasites in Free-Living Waterfowl

SUMMARY. Free-living waterfowl residing in metropolitan parks in central Ohio were surveyed for the fecal shedding and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Campylobacter jejuni, Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp. , and Pasteurella multocida. In addition, a survey for intestinal parasites was also conducted in these same waterfowl to determine parasite burdens in free-living waterfowl. Prevalences of 67%, 50%, and 0.2% of E. coli, C. jejuni, and Salmonella spp. , respectively, were observed for all waterfowl species. Pasteurella multocida was not isolated from the sampled population. Salmonella java was isolated from one mallard duck. Statistically, there was a significantly higher E. coli isolation rate for mallard ducks than for Canada geese, but no difference was observed for C. jejuni isolation rates between waterfowl species. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was conducted via the disk diffusion method and multidrug resistance was exhibited for penicillin G, lincomycin, vancomycin, erythromycin, and bacitracin. In addition, the prevalence of endoparasites in these sampled waterfowl ranged from 5% to 66%. Protozoan oocysts were most prevalent followed by nematode ova. No trematode or cestode ovum was recovered from this sampled population.
Analysis of Factors Influencing Customer Satisfaction and Purchase Intention at Pharmacy in Batam City

Healthcare business in Indonesia continues to grow rapidly and remains attractive for local and global investors. Numerous healthcare providers offer a wide range of service and give their best service to customers to gain profit, win the market competition and also to be sustainable, including pharmacy as the largest number of healthcare provider in Indonesia. However, there were some pharmacies in Batam City that ended their business and unable to win the highly competitive marketing inspite of their good brand name. This research was conducted to analyse factors influencing customer satisfaction at pharmacy in Batam City. Samples were collected by distributing 300 questionnaires at Vitka Farma Pharmacy and Kimia Farma Pharmacy. The data was analysed by using Smart PLS 3.0 program. Based on hypothesis testing, it was found out that customer satisfaction was significantly influenced by brand image, purchase intention was significantly influenced by price and brand image. The pharmacies should address the findings to improve the service level so they can offer the best customer service to obtain business success in the long run. Keywords—pharmacy, customer satisfaction, sustainable business
A distributed cellulosic biorefinery system in the US Midwest based on corn stover

Corn stover supply chains in a distributed biorefinery system are explored. The distributed cellulosic biorefinery uses pre‐processed and densified cellulosic feedstock from a geographically separated facility (a depot) as raw material. A network of small‐scale depot facilities supplies pre‐processed feedstock to a distributed biorefinery. Depot facilities are assumed to be located at existing grain elevators, while distributed biorefineries are located adjacent to coal‐fired power plants in areas with high gasoline consumption (urban areas) in the Midwest. The county level corn stover projections in 2022 by the US Billion‐Ton Update report (2011) are used to estimate ethanol selling price and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the ethanol fuel. The supply chain for each distributed biorefinery is determined by minimizing the ethanol selling price. Approximately ten distributed biorefineries based on corn stover could be established in the Midwest. Over 700 individual depot facilities participate in supplying the distributed biorefinery systems which collectively can produce greater than 12 hm3 of ethanol (3.3 billion gallons) per year. Ethanol selling price in the distributed system ranges from US$0.66 to US$1.03 per liter. Some distributed biorefineries are economically competitive with a centralized biorefinery. However, not every region can support a distributed biorefinery system due to inadequate corn stover availability. Cradle‐to‐gate GHG emissions of ethanol in the distributed systems are 22.1–46.6 g CO2 per MJ. The external energy consumption in the depot facilities is the major GHG source. Optimizing process energy use in the depot facility is required to reduce both operation costs and GHG emissions. © 2016 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
The potential for using enzymatic assays to assess the health of turkeys

Enzymatic activity assays, used mainly to show biochemical transformations in humans and mammals, have recently found increasing application in birds. Enzyme activity in birds is affected by numerous factors, including age, sex, species, breed, nutrition, physiological state, and farming techniques. In large-scale poultry breeding, in a flock that may number over ten thousand birds, individual birds may be in different stages of development of a disease process, and may respond differently to stress factors present during rearing. There is also high individual variation among birds, so that results of enzyme activity analyses fall within fairly broad ranges. The aim of this paper is to review experiments on the activity of selected antioxidant, liver and cardiac enzyme profiles in turkey tissues. The results of many years of measurements of the activity of selected enzymes, presented in this study, may be considered physiologically normal for this group of birds. Analyses of the activity of these enzymes are important in determining whether oxidative stress reactions are induced in cells and which cells or organs have been damaged. During oxidative stress, which leads to cell damage or organ dysfunction (of the liver or heart), there is generally an increase in the activity of AST, ALT, ALP, LDH, GGT, SORD, MDH, AC, G6PC, G6PD, Cp, CK and HBDH, and a decrease in that of SOD, GPx, CAT, ACHE, BCHE, SDH, Ca2+ATPase. On the basis of the literature reviewed it can be concluded that the use of feed components and supplements with antioxidant or immunostimulatory properties can mitigate oxidative stress, which is manifested as beneficial changes in the activity of these enzymes.
The Sub-lethal and Transgenerational Effects of Fluoxetine and Sertraline on Daphnia magna

THE SUB-LETHAL AND TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF FLUOXETINE AND SERTRALINE ON DAPHNIA MAGNA Kelsey Halliwushka Advisor: University of Guelph, 2016 Dr. Andreas Heyland With pharmaceutical use on the rise, there is a growing concern over the release of pharmaceuticals into the aquatic environment. The purpose of the present study was to determine the lethal and sub-lethal effects of two pharmaceuticals fluoxetine and sertraline on the life history traits of Daphnia magna. While environmentally relevant concentrations did not increase mortality in D. magna, acute exposures did alter heart rate, swimming ability, and reproductive output. Acute exposures had lasting transgenerational effects on swimming and reproductive output. However, no transgenerational effects on heart rate were found. These findings indicate that the current levels of fluoxetine and sertraline found in the environment are causing lasting effects on D. magna. Because of the short reproductive period of daphnia and their integral role in the food web, these lasting effects may have population-level implications in a rapid period of time.
Strong convergence of modified implicit hybrid S-iteration scheme for finite family of nonexpansive and asymptotically generalized $\Phi$-hemicontractive mappings

In this paper, we consider a modified implicit hybrid S-iteration scheme for finite family of nonexpansive and asymptotically generalized Φ-hemicontractive mappings in the frame work of real Banach spaces. We remark that the iteration process of Kang et al. [17] can be obtained as a special case of our iteration process. Our result mainly improves and extends the result of Kang et al. [17] and several other results in the literation from the class of strongly psudocontractive mapping to the more general class asymptotically generalized Φ-hemicontractive mappings. A different approach is used to obtain our result and the necessity of applying condition (C3) for the two mappings is weaken to only one mapping.
MORPHOTAXOMETRIC AND MOLECULAR VALIDATION OF ENTOMOPATHOGENIC NEMATODE, STEINERNEMA ABBASI (RHABDITIDA: STEINERNEMATIDAE) WITH MUCRONATE PROCESSES IN ADULTS OF SECOND GENERATIONS OFF SUBHUMID REGION, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA

The investigations were conducted on soil samples collected from the sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) agriculture fields of sub-humid region, Uttar Pradesh. The worms were diagnosed as member of bicornutum group due to the presence of two horns like cephalic structures in third stage infective juveniles. The newly isolated worms were not identical to pre-existing individuals of same group and can be differentiated from the Steinernema abbasi (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae) by the presence of mucronate processes in adults of second generations and relative proportion of oesophagus with body length in juveniles. In the present investigations the recovered populations of entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN) were identified, characterized and validated as an isolate of S. abbasi with the application of advanced molecular tools. The phylogenetic analyses were based on the efficacy of conserved genes (ITS, D2-D3 and coxI) sequences in taxa validations so that they could later be used as biocontrol agents.
Aqueous root extract of Dicoma anomala Sond ameliorates isoproterenol–induced myocardial infarction in Wistar rats

Purpose: To evaluate the protective potentials of the aqueous root extract of Dicoma anomala (AQRED) against isoproterenol (ISP)-induced myocardial damage in Wistar rats. Methods: Myocardial damage was induced in Wistar rats by isoproterenol (60 mg/kg body weight, b.w.) Various concentrations (125, 250, and 500 mg/kg b.w.) of AQRED and their effects on the rats’ feed and water intake, body weight changes, serum enzymes, including aspartate transaminase (AST), alanine transaminase (ALT) creatinine phosphokinase (CPK), as well as tissue antioxidant enzymes, including catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GP) and lipid peroxidation, during a 30-day experimental period were examined. Results: ISP-treated rats showed no significant (p > 0.05) effect on the feed, water and body weight but increased significantly (p < 0.05) AST, ALT, CPK and lipid peroxidation while significantly reducing CAT and GP levels (p < 0.05). Treatment with different doses of AQRED significantly (p < 0.05) reversed the activity of these enzymes and cardiac lipid peroxidation towards control levels. Histopathological examination of ISP-induced myocardial rats treated with D. anomala revealed evidence of oedema and myocardial necrosis at 125 and 250 mg/kg b.w. doses, but these alterations were ameliorated or cleared at 500 mg/kg dose, suggesting attainment of maximum efficacy. Conclusion: The findings indicate the ameliorative potential of AQRED in myocardiac disease, and therefore, could be of therapeutic significance in the management or treatment of cardiac-related diseases. Keywords: Antioxidant enzymes, Dicoma anomala, Lipid peroxidation, Serum enzymes
Deux nouvelles Filaires chez un singe, Saimiri sciureus, au Guyana

Description de deux nouvelles Filaires parasites de Saimiri sciureus L. (type Georgetown, caryotype 14/7) du Guyana. Dipetalonema robini n. sp. , quatrieme espece du genre, est frequente et associee a D. gracile (Rudolphi, 1809), avec laquelle elle est morphologiquement proche, mais distincte par plusieurs caracteres (languettes caudales de la femelle, vagin, micro-filaire, area rugosa ). La deuxieme espece, egalement frequente, appartient au sous-genre Tetrapetalonema , connu par une douzaine d’especes ; Mansonella (T.) mariae n. sp. est proche de M. (T.) marmosetae Faust, 1935 et M. (T.) tamarinae Dunn et Lambrecht, 1963, mais distincte par la disposition des papilles de la tete, l’ornementation cuticulaire du corps et la microfdaire.
GENE-ENZYME VARIATION IN THREE SYMPATRIC SPECIES OF LITTORINA. II. THE ROSCOFF POPULATION, WITH A NOTE ON THE ORIGIN OF NORTH AMERICAN L. LITTOREA

Gene-enzyme variation was examined at ten to fifteen loci in three sympatric species of Littorina collected from Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Roscoff, Brittany. The North American and French populations of L. saxatilis and L. obtusata were, in general, quite similar in allele content and frequency. In contrast, the North American and French populations of L. littorea were genetically differentiated at a majority of their loci. This pattern of heterogeneity in the three species, along with calculated values of average heterozygosity, suggests that North American specimens of L. littorea are not recent colonists from Europe and have passed through a severe population bottleneck on the North American continent. Survey studies carried out over a four year period revealed a general pattern of temporal constancy in allele frequency in all three species.
Trends of nonstructural carbohydrates in the stem bases of switchgrass.

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