Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Assessment of incidence rate and prognosis of metabolic syndrome among acute myocardial infarction: a longitudinal study

Background: The Metabolic Syndrome (METS) is a specific clustering of cardiovascular risk factors in the same person (abdominal obesity, atherogenic dyslipidemia, elevated Blood Pressure (BP), Insulin Resistance (IR), and a proinflammatory state. A recent review of insulin resistance syndrome revealed a rapid escalation of this syndrome among Indians and the prevalence of predominant component of METS varies from region to region. Hence the present study was undertaken to assess the incidence of Metabolic Syndrome and prognosis of metabolic syndrome among acute myocardial infarction patients. Methods: A longitudinal study was carried among Acute myocardial infarction patients, who were admitted to ICCU of Shri. B. M. Patil Hospital and Research Centre, Bijapur during November 2009 to March 2011. Sample size was calculated using the formula: n=4pq/L2. Sample size required was 92. Descriptive statistics and Inferential statistics were used to analyse the results. Results: The incidence rate of METS among AMI in our study was 48.7%. The complications were more common in METS group compared to those without METS groups. Recovery was better among those without METS group. There was a statistically significant association between complications and status of METS. The past history of DM was more common in METS. Hyperglycemia among the components of METS has strongest association with the outcome of death in patients of AMI. Conclusions: The metabolic syndrome is a highly prevalent condition among the patients with acute myocardial infarction and has detrimental impact on outcome Metabolic syndrome is also associated with a higher risk of severe heart failure and death.
Sex and Tribal differences in Facial measurements of Nigerians of Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo origin

The face is the best morphological feature which distinguishes an individual. We tested the hypotheses that there are no significant gender and population differences in vertical facial morphological measurements and facial height proportions amongst Nigerians of the three major tribes of Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. 150 males and 150 females from each tribe who were Hausas, Igbos or Yorubas by both parent and grandparents were used in the study. Total or Physiognomical Face Height (trichion gnathion), Forehead Height (trichion nasion), Morphological Face Height (nasion gnathion), Nose Height or Nose Length (nasion subnasale) and Lower Face Height (subnasale gnathion) were measured in millimetres and statistically analyzed using the statistical SPSS 15 Software programme. Pairwise statistical significance of differences between two mean values by sex and tribe was determined using the student’s t-test at p≤0.05. Comparative statistical analyses showed statistically significant differences in more than 50% of computed mean values (p<0.05) of cephalometric parameters between the studied tribes. However, comparisons of Nose Height and Lower Face Height to Morphological Face Height percentage proportions showed non-significant differences between the studied tribes. Our findings are not consistent with evaluated hypotheses, hence we concluded that Hausas, Igbos and Yorubas are not of same vertical facial morphological measurements.
Effects of pH and Salinity on the Hydrothermal Transport of Tungsten: Insights from In Situ Raman Spectroscopic Characterization of K2WO4-NaCl-HCl-CO2 Solutions at Temperatures up to 400°C

State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China CAS Key Laboratory of Experimental Study under Deep-sea Extreme Conditions, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, Hainan 572000, China State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Nuclear Resources and Environment, East China Institute of Technology, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330013, China Civil and Resource Engineering School, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis of branched fructans produced in vitro with C-13-labeled substrates

RATIONALE: Fructans are carbohydrates predominantly based on fructose which are generally considered to be soluble dietary ﬁ bers with health-promoting properties. It is known that the nutritional properties of fructans are affected by their structure. This study focused on structural determination of branched fructans, as the most important dietary fructans are branched graminan-type fructans. METHODS: Branched fructans were synthesized enzymatically by incubation of a heterologously expressed sucrose: fructan 6-fructosyltransferase (6-SFT) from Pachysandra terminalis with native or 13 C-labeled substrates. Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) was used for the structural identi ﬁ cation of branched fructans. The MS 2 fragmentation of these compounds is described for the ﬁ rst time. Analytes were charged by electrospray ionization in negative mode and a quadrupole mass analyzer was used for MS 2 analysis. RESULTS: The MS 2 fragmentation patterns of branched and linear fructans were shown to differ and distinctive ion formation allowed differentiation between all branched fructan isomers formed. P. terminalis 6-SFT preferred extending the existing fructan branch rather than creating a new branch. CONCLUSIONS: The MS 2 fragmentation patterns described in the current paper now allow rapid screening of large sample sets for the presence of branched, graminan-type fructans. Furthermore, the data enables the characterization of fructan-metabolizing enzymes by identi ﬁ cation of the fructan structures produced by in vitro reactions as described here for P.
NON-GENETIC FACTORS AFFECTING INCIDENCE OF ABORTION, STILLBIRTH AND POST–NATAL MORTALITY OF EGYPTIAN BUFFALOES

Prenatal mortality is one of the most important causes of production losses in the livestock industry. This study shed lights on the prevalence of abortion and stillbirth, and postnatal mortality up to six months in five buffalo herds (6169 pregnancy cases) to determine the effect of some non-genetic factors on the incidence of the three disorders in five buffalo herds in Egypt. These factors included the effect of farm, year, season and parity on abortion as well as dam's weight at calving, and sex, weight and age (at death) of calves on stillbirth and mortality rate. Results showed that percentage of preand post-natal losses was 16%,, representing 1.33% abortion, 3.65% stillbirth and 11.05% for postnatal mortality up to six months of age. The incidence of abortion was affected (P<0.001) by season, year, dam's parity, and the farm. The same factors in addition to calf's weight exerted significant (P<0.001) effects on the rate of stillbirth but dam's weight at calving did not show any significant effect (P≥0.05). Incidence of mortality was significantly (P<0.001) affected by season, year, parity, dam's weight at calving, calf's age and weight at death, and farm. This study put more emphasis on the importance of non-genetic effects as the main contributors impacting productive and reproductive performance of buffaloes. Farm conditions, herd management and policy have pronounced effects on the incidence of abortion, stillbirths, and postnatal mortality. The results of this study could be useful to enhancing productive and reproductive performance in large or small sized buffalo herds.
The Effectiveness of Android Application as a Student Aid Tool in Understanding Physics Project Assignments

Indonesian students are addicted to using gadgets, which unfortunately brings negative impacts. Using the gadget for a long duration will undoubtedly affect the quality of students if it is not directed to appropriate and beneficial use. After school, students are preoccupied with their gadgets so that they waste a lot of their time to play games and leave their homework undone. As a result, their interest in doing science assignments are meager. Gadget addiction and the low level of learning interest in carrying out tasks are the new problems in education. Therefore, efforts need to be made to overcome them. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of android application as student aid tools in understanding the task of Physics. The subjects of this research were all VIII graders of SMP Islam Terpadu Arrozaq Rantauprapat. The type of this research is quantitative with a pre-experimental design (one-shot case study). This study directed the students to utilize their gadgets in completing the task of physics. The instruments used in this research were the video-checking rubric and the effectiveness questionnaire. This research has been carried out for three months, and video-checking was carried out at the end of each month after the project assignments were collected. The results of data analysis in this study indicated that the utilization of an android application as a tool of students is considered sufficient. The students become more enthusiastic about working on assignments and accessing the internet through gadgets on positive uses.
Fecal microbiota transplantation ameliorates active ulcerative colitis

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a complex chronic pathological condition of the gut in which microbiota targeted treatment, such as fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), has shown an encouraging effect. The aim of the present study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of FMT in patients with mild or moderate UC. A single-center, open-label study was designed, including 47 patients with mild or moderate active UC who received three treatments of fresh FMT via colonic transendoscopic enteral tubing within 1 week. The inflammatory bowel disease questionnaire, partial Mayo scores, colonoscopy, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein level and procalcitoin values were used to assess the efficacy of FMT and alteration in gut microbiota was detected by 16S ribosomal RNA-sequencing. Before FMT, microbiota Faecalibacterium prausnitzii (F. prausnitzii) levels were significantly decreased in patients with UC compared with healthy donors (P<0.01). At 4 weeks post-FMT, F. prausnitzii levels were significantly increased (P<0.05), and the Mayo score was significantly decreased (1.91±1.07 at baseline vs. 4.02±1.47 at week 4; P<0.001) in patients with UC compared with healthy donors. Steroid-free clinical responses were reported in 37 patients (84.1%), and steroid-free clinical remission was achieved in 31 patients (70.5%) at week 4 post-FMT, however, steroid-free remission was not achieved in any patient. No adverse events were reported in 41 (93.2%) patients after FMT or during the 12-week follow-up. Shannon's diversity index and Chao1 estimator were also improved in patients with UC receiving FMT. In conclusion, the results of the present study suggested that FMT resulted in clinical remission in patients with mild to moderate UC, and that the remission may be associated with significant alterations to the intestinal microbiota of patients with UC. Furthermore, F. prausnitzii may serve as a diagnostic and therapeutic biomarker for the use of FMT in UC.
Factors Influencing Indigenous Knowledge of Rangeland Management Practices in Borana Pastoral Areas, Southern Ethiopia

In most pastoral areas of Ethiopia, rangelands have traditionally been managed by customary institutions, especially in Borana but with the start of various pressures, this management system is increasingly undermined and the interventions ended up with little success story but more of in favor of environmental degradations. Looking into indigenous rangeland management practices of pastoral community is a useful way to develop sustainable rangeland productivity. Rangeland plays an essential role in the livelihood activities of Ethiopian pastoralists as well as Ethiopian economy. Numerous researches have been done on rangeland management practices, but little study has been done with respect to the determinants of indigenous rangeland management in specific social, economic and ecological context. In this case, the aim of the study was to assess the determinants of the indigenous rangeland management practices of pastoral communities and assess perception of pastoral households towards the attributing causes of rangeland degradation in Borana. The study employed descriptive and inferential statistical methods to analyze the data. The findings indicate that the indigenous practice accurately reflects the productivity of the rangeland since the Borana area is unpredictable environment and victim for severe drought every year. The results of binary logit regression showed that a unit increase in age of the household head, the odds ratio in favor of practicing in traditional rangelands management increase by 1.096. Holding other variables constant, a unit increase in cultivated farm size would decrease the odds ratio in favor of practicing traditional management by a factor of 0.618. In Borana area, grazing land and water resources are jointly handled. Hence, privately owned grazing land and water points disturb patterns of mobility in a way grazing land use becomes inefficient as grazing concentrates close to the water points, leading to degradation of the rangelands. Access to communal water point was also found to be significant influence on respondents’ traditional rangeland management practice at 10% significance level (p < 0.1). On the other hand, the result of odd-ratio indicates that, access to communal water point will increase the probability of rangeland management practice by 0.22 percent. The study recommends bases for ecologically sound and culturally appropriate indigenous rangeland management practices.
BIOCIDAL POTENTIALS OF STEM BARK EXTRACTS OF PSIDIUM GUAJAVA (LINN.) ON PANEL OF BACTERIAL STRAINS ASSOCIATED WITH DIARRHEA AND DYSENTERY

Objective: Investigations were carried out on cidal effects of crude extract and fractions obtained from stem bark of Psidium guajava against a panel of 74 strains of Escherichia coli and Shigella dysenteriae implicated in diarrhea and dysentery infections. Methods: Powdered sample of the stem bark was extracted in methanol/distilled water (3:2) and then partitioned into different organic solvents. The fractions obtained were subjected to antibacterial tests against a panel of bacterial strains. The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) and minimum bactericidal concentrations (MBC) were determined using agar dilution method while the mode of action of the active fractions was investigated through time-kill dynamics and leakages of proteins and potassium ions from the cells. Results: All partitioned fractions except the aqueous fraction exhibited antibacterial activities against the panel of bacterial strains at a final concentration of 10 mg/mL. The MIC exhibited by the crude extract against susceptible bacterial strains ranged between 1.56 mg/mL and 12.5 mg/mL, while the MIC for the four fractions ranged between 0.31 mg/mL and 5.0 mg/mL. The MBC ranged between 3.13–12.5 mg/mL and 0.63–5.0 mg/mL for the crude extract and fractions, respectively. The time-kill assay revealed that the percentage of the cells killed increase with an increase in the concentrations of the fractions as well as contact time intervals. Proteins and potassium ions leakages from the bacterial cells followed the same trend with that of time-kill assay. Conclusion: The stem bark extracts of P. guajava exhibited appreciable bactericidal effects on bacterial strains associated with diarrhea and dysentery in humans.
A phase I study of veliparib (ABT-888) in combination with weekly carboplatin and paclitaxel in advanced solid malignancies and enriched for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).

1015 Background: Veliparib (ABT-888) is an oral, potent small molecule inhibitor of poly-ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP). The combination of veliparib (V) with carboplatin (C) and paclitaxel (P) dosed.
Development of iron oxide nanoparticles using alginate hydrogel template for chromium (VI) ions removal

Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) were developed by alginate hydrogel template for chromium (VI) ions separation. The IONPs were characterized using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and magnetic properties analysis. The separation efficiency of the IONPs for Cr(VI) ions investigated under initial Cr(VI) ions concentration, pH, adsorbent dosage, contact time and temperature. Furthermore, the adsorption process data were tested using different kinetic models. The isotherm nature was examined using Freundlich, Langmuir and Temkin models. Besides, the adsorption controlling step was determined using inter-particles and D-W diffusion models. The thermodynamic nature of the process was extracted using Van’t Hoff plot.
Impact of hormonal and non-hormonal treatments on milk production and reproductive performance of lactating New Zeland White rabbits

The present study aimed to determine the influence of equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG), L-Carnitine (LC) and Royal jelly (RJ) treatments on milk production and subsequent reproductive performance of lactating NZW rabbits. A total 28 primiparous lactating New Zeland white (NZW) rabbits divided randomly into four groups (7 animals/ group): Group 1 (eCG group) on day 9 postpartum the females were treated with 50 IU eCG IM/ animal at 48hrs before mating. Group 2 (LC group): the rabbits were given 50 mg LC /kg. BW/ day for 21 days orally starting at 24hrs of parturition. Group 3 (RJ group) before mating the rabbits were given 100 mg RJ/ kg. BW/ day for 21 days orally starting at 24hrs of parturition. Group 4 was Control group (without any treatment). The reproductive parameters including receptivity, conception and kindling rate as well as litter size and weight at weaning (LSW & LWW) and pre-weaning mortality (PWM) were recorded. The results revealed that there were no significant differences in the number of services per conception, conception and kindling rate among eCG, LC, RJ and control groups, receptivity. Milk production, LSW and PWM were significantly improved after LC or RJ compared to eCG and control. In conclusion, the non-hormonal treatment (LC or RJ) supplementation can improve milk production and this positively reflected on LSW, LWW and PWM.
6G10-RECOGNIZED EXPRESSION ON BONE MARROW STROMAL CELLS

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Correlation Between Quality of Life and Severity of Valve Abnormalities in Children with Rheumatic Heart Disease

Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is one of the chronic diseases that affects the heart valve and requires long-term treatment that can affect the quality of life. We aimed to determine the correlation between quality of life and severity of valve abnormalities in children with rheumatic heart disease. This was a cross-sectional study was performed to 28 children with RHD aged 2 to 18 years old who treated at Integrated Cardiovascular Outpatient Clinic of Sanglah General Hospital from March to April 2018. Patients suffering from other chronic diseases or neurodevelopmental disorders were excluded. Assessment of the quality of life using PedsQL version 4.0 Generic Core Scales questionnaire. Assessment of severity of valve abnormalities using echocardiographic score. Analysis was performed using Spearman correlation test, confident interval (CI) 95%, significant if p<0.05. We found the patients mean age was 12.75 years old and mostly men (18 subjects). Most isolated abnormality was mitral valve (17 subjects), with most involved more than one valve (22 subjects). Almost patients treated with Benzathine penicillin G (25 subjects) as secondary prophylaxis. The mean score of quality of life from the children’s report was 78.05 ± 14.66 and from the parent’ report was 79.69 ± 14.36. The lowest mean score of quality of life is from school function. Between quality of life and severity of valve abnormalities found a weak negative correlation (r = -0.377; p = 0.048). There was a weak negative correlation between quality of life and severity of valve abnormalities in children with rheumatic heart disease.
Promising 2.0: global optimizations in relaxed memory concurrency

For more than fifteen years, researchers have tried to support global optimizations in a usable semantics for a concurrent programming language, yet this task has been proven to be very difficult because of (1) the infamous “out of thin air” problem, and (2) the subtle interaction between global and thread-local optimizations. In this paper, we present a solution to this problem by redesigning a key component of the promising semantics (PS) of Kang et al. Our updated PS 2.0 model supports all the results known about the original PS model (i.e., thread-local optimizations, hardware mappings, DRF theorems), but additionally enables transformations based on global value-range analysis as well as register promotion (i.e., making accesses to a shared location local if the location is accessed by only one thread). PS 2.0 also resolves a problem with the compilation of relaxed RMWs to ARMv8, which required an unintended extra fence.
A mixed methods study of effects and antecedents of solution-focused questions in coaching

The coaching interaction regarding questioning is still under-researched. This study investigates clients’ behavioural responses to coaches’ solution-focused questions (SFQ), their effects on coaching outcomes, and coaches’ career-related attributes promoting SFQ. Using a mixed methods design, we applied longitudinal self-report and behavioural data for 23 coachclient dyads. Lag sequential analyses and regressions revealed coaches’ SFQ to elicit clients’ solution and self-efficient statements and the importance of coaches’ career adaptability for SFQ. Our findings contribute to the improvement of coaching and training programmes by providing practitioners with knowledge of micro level coaching processes. The possibility of coaches’ role modelling is discussed.
Bacteriological Pattern And Antibiotic Sensitivity In Neonatology Ward Ulin General Hospital, Banjarmasin, Indonesia

Neonatal septicemia remains one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity. Early treatment and appropriate use of antibiotics would minimize the risk of its severity. This study was conducted to determine the profile and antibiotic s ensitivity pattern of bacterial isolates from blood cultures of neonates with septicemia admitted in ou r neonatal unit. About 256 datas were taken from medical record of neonates from 1 January 31 Dese mber 2013. The bacterial were isolated using VITEK 2. Inclusion criteria were neonates with feat ures of sepsis and had positive blood culture. Exclusion criteria, if the data was not complete. T he result shows that the most common pathogens were Staphylococcus haemolyticus (22, 3 %), followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae (19,1%) and Staphylococcus epidermidis (10,6%). Vancomycin, imipenem and gentamicin have h igh susceptibility to gram-positive bacteria. Amikacin, meropenem and ertapenem have highly sensitivitas to gramnegative bacteria. As the conclusion Staphylococcus haemolyticus is the most frequent gram-positive bacteria causing neonatal sepsis.