Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Journal of Family and Community Medicine: A scientometric analysis 1994–2020

The Journal of Family and Community Medicine (JFCM) is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Saudi Society of Family and Community Medicine. This review is aimed to analyze the scientometric attributes of manuscripts published over 27 years from 1994 to 2020 using scientometric technique. The bibliographic records of manuscripts published from 1994 to 2020 were retrieved from the Web of Science and Medline-PubMed databases. The data were analyzed by using VOSviewer, CiteSpace, and Biblioshiny software. A total of 648 manuscripts were included; these were written by 1442 authors, with an average of 2.22 authors per manuscript and 24 manuscripts per year. All manuscripts gained 2,693 citations with a mean ratio of 4.15 citations per manuscript. All the top-20 contributing authors belonged to Saudi Arabia, and 48% of the manuscripts were in the single-author pattern; the multiauthored manuscripts received a higher ratio of citations. The review highlighted the most contributing institutions and countries.Bibliographic coupling of countries, institutions, keywords co-occurrence, and co-citation of journals were also presented. The JFCM is an important journal of Saudi Arabia that has provided a platform to family medicine researchers to share their scholarly and scientific communication for the past 27 years. Over the years, the frequency and number of publications in the journal have improved. Although the journal has received manuscripts from all over the world, most contributions were from Saudi Arabia.
Assessing knowledge of Saudi mothers with regard to parenting and child developmental milestones

BACKGROUND: Knowledge about childrearing and development of children greatly impacts on how parents can adequately and safely raise and interact with a child. This study aimed to assess Saudi mothers' level of knowledge of parenting and developmental milestones and describe the associated factors that affect their knowledge. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia from January to February 2020. Four hundred Saudi mothers with children up to 6 years of age were included in the study from 20 randomly selected primary healthcare centers. The Knowledge of Infant Developmental Inventory Tool (KIDI-P) was used. Relevant demographic data were collected. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software version 21 (SPSS). One-way ANOVA and t-test were used to detect any significant differences in mother's knowledge about developmental milestones related to the research variables. RESULTS: The majority of mothers (42.2%) were between 28 and 35 years of age. Knowledge about parentaging scored on the average 53.3%, health and safety scored 63.4%, general principles 55.9%, and developmental milestones 51.8%. Data showed a statistically significant relation between mothers' age and parenting subscale (mean = 0.54, standard deviation [SD] = 0.18, P = 0.001), and mothers' education and parenting (mean = 0.52, SD = 0.18, P = 0.015). Significant differences were found between planned pregnancy and parenting (mean = 0.53, SD = 0.178, P = 0.044) and between planned pregnancy and child developmental milestones (mean = 0.51, SD = 0.12, P = 0.042). CONCLUSION: Saudi mothers have limited overall knowledge of childrearing and developmental milestones of their children. Mothers' age, parental education, parity, and planned pregnancies had a positive effect on mother's knowledge of parenting and milestones parameters.
Somatostatin-receptor avidity of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor thrombus in porto-caval venous systems on 99mTc-Octreotide and posttherapeutic 177Lu-DOTA-TATE scans

A 62-year-old woman with a history of abdominal pain presented with multiple hepatic lesions and dilatation of portal, splenic and superior mesenteric veins on the magnetic resonance imaging referred for a 99mTc-octreotide scan. Accordingly, similar octreotide-avid lesions were found as well as an uptake in the epigastric region conforming to the anatomy of the portocaval venous system, compatible with a tumor thrombosis. Then, the patient underwent two cycles of therapy with 177Lu-DOTA-TATE, on that the same appearance was observed. The uptake in the tumor thrombus remained somewhat unchanged, but clinically, a significant improvement of the intractable ascites was achieved.
Antibiotic Resistance Pattern of Acinetobacter baumannii Strains: A Retrospective Study from Oman

Background: Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii is of serious health concern and associated with high mortality. Data regarding the antibiotic resistance pattern of A. baumannii strains in Oman is limited. Objectives: To determine the antibiotic resistance pattern of A. baumannii from various clinical samples in a tertiary care hospital in the North-Batinah region of Oman. Methods: A. baumannii isolates recovered from various clinical samples in the Microbiology laboratory of Sohar Hospital, Oman, during 2015–2019 were retrospectively analyzed. Organism identification and their antibiotic resistance patterns were performed as recommended by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute. Results: A total of 1890 A. baumannii nonduplicate isolates were found from clinical samples of 1326 patients. The isolates were more frequently isolated from elderly patients (40%) and in-patient department patients (67%). Infection/colonization was more common among patients treated in the medicine, intensive-care unit, and surgery departments. A. baumannii strains were highly resistant (50-83%) to most of the tested antibiotics, with the highest against ceftriaxone (83%) and ceftazidime (75%), and lowest against colistin (1%) and tigecycline (8%). Among the isolates, 67% (1265) were MDR strains. Of these, 22%, 32% and 16% were resistant to all six, five and four classes of the tested antibiotics. Conclusion: The study found that the frequency of isolation of MDR A. baumannii isolates in the northern region of Oman is high.
Utility of positron emission tomography–computed tomography in the evaluation of fever of unknown origin in a resource-limited tropical nation

Positron emission tomography–computed tomography (PET-CT) has been used as an imaging modality in workup of fever of unknown origin (FUO). The aim of our study is to evaluate the diagnostic utility of PET-CT in FUO workup in a resource-limited setting. We also looked at laboratory parameters as predictors of contributory PET-CT scans and propose an algorithm for evaluation of FUO in resource-limited tropical regions. This retrospective observational study included patients admitted for FUO workup under general medicine in a teaching hospital in South India from June 2013 to May 2016. PET-CT was done when the patient remained undiagnosed after a detailed clinical assessment and first- and second-tier investigations. Among 43 patients included in our study, a definite diagnosis was established in 74% (32). Noninfectious inflammatory diseases, infections, malignancies, and miscellaneous diseases were diagnosed in 37.2% (16/43), 23.3% (10/43), 9.3% (4/43), and 4.7% (2/43), respectively. Tuberculosis was the single most common disease seen in 20.9% (9/43). PET-CT scans were contributory toward establishment of final diagnosis in 90.7% (39/43). High C-reactive protein (CRP) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) levels were associated with contributory PET-CT scans (P = 0.006 and 0.011, respectively). PET-CT delineating organ/tissue for diagnostic biopsy was associated with final diagnosis of infectious disease (P = 0.001). Sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive value of PET-CT scans were 76.9% (20/26), 33.3% (2/6), 83% (20/24), and 25% (2/8), respectively. High CRP and AST were predictors of contributory PET-CT scans. PET-CT scans have high sensitivity and positive predictive value when used in evaluation of FUO. Although it is a useful tool in FUO workup, especially in the diagnosis of tropical infections, PET-CT should be done after a comprehensive clinical assessment and basic investigations.
Cradle-to-Cradle in Project Management: A Case Study

One of the most-recognized circular economy frameworks is the Cradle-to-Cradle design philosophy. However, integrating circularity in business practices impacts all organizational activities and not just the design of products and services. One of the business processes that needs to integrate sustainability is project management. The study reported in this article explores the integration of the Cradle-to-Cradle philosophy into project management practices. Based on a single in-depth case study, the integration of Cradle-to-Cradle into the knowledge areas of project management within a company that is widely recognized and praised for its commitment to sustainability and its compliance with Cradle-to-Cradle, was explored. The study revealed as most impacted knowledge areas: resource, integration, quality, communications, and stakeholder management. By identifying these areas, the study contributes to the emerging body of knowledge on sustainable project management and provides a better understanding of practical implications for companies striving to become sustainable.
Second Workshop on Paradigmatic Word Formation Modelling

The growing importance of a paradigmatic approach to word formation has been evident at scientific meetings on morphology in recent years, such as the 12th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting 2019, ParadigMo 2017, two workshops at SLE 2015, and in volumes such as Lingue e Linguaggio XVII(2), 2018, and Morphology 29(2), 2019. Our work focuses on modelling word-formation paradigms. We propose that networks (Newman 2010) provide the means to model and visually represent word-formation paradigms. Networks enable us to represent paradigms at both the large scale and the small scale, bringing visual and conceptual evidence to the multidimensional relationships that shape paradigms (Štekauer (2014) and to the dynamics of the mental lexicon (Libben 2015, Elman 2011). The relationships between the items of a paradigm can be founded on different features (Pounder 2000, van Marle 1985, Štekauer 2014), such as word class, semantic rules or formal features (Pounder labelled these features lexical paradigms). Štekauer (2014: 359) refers to semantic structures (AGENT, INSTRUMENT, ACTION) and to the formal realisation of these categories (suffixation in -ation, -ment, etc.). The feature that is responsible for cohesion among items of the paradigm is called the axis of the paradigm by Rodrigues & Rodrigues (2018). Bonami & Strnadová (2019: 170) use the term paradigmatic system to refer to relationships between pairs based on content (which includes syntactic and semantic categories). The term series is reserved for the relationships between pairs based on the share of a derivational affix (Hathout 2009). Bearing these aspects in mind, we consider that a network model serves as the basis to describe and visualise the multiple and complex relationships built within and by derivational paradigms. Our study is based on the analysis of a corpus comprising 8414 Portuguese deverbal nouns and their relationships with derivative verbs (Rodrigues 2008). Of those 8414 deverbal nouns, 4917 are deverbal event and state nouns (ACTION, PROCESS, STATE, etc.), and 3497 are individual deverbal nouns (AGENT, INSTRUMENT, PLACE, etc.). The analysis of the relationships between deverbal nouns and verbs yields the following aspects, which may be conceived as organised into networks: a) the constraints between the morphological structures of the verbs and the morphological structures of the nouns (which nominaliser suffixes (do not) correlate with which morphological structures of the verbs). E.g., there is no paradigmatic series constituted by deverbal nouns with the suffix -ção in a relationship with verbs constructed with the suffix -ec(esclarecer *: *esclareceção), whereas the series constituted by deverbal nouns with the suffix -mento in a relationship with those verbs is a dense one (esclarecer : esclarecimento); b) the constraints between the syntactic-semantic structures of the verbs and the morphological structures of the nouns (which nominaliser suffixes (do not) correlate with
The relationship between Matrix Metalloproteinase-1 gene promoter (-1607) polymorphism and aggressive periodontitis

DOI: 10.4328/ACAM.20277 Received: 2020-07-09 Accepted: 2020-08-09 Published Online: 2020-11-04 Printed: 2021-03-01 Ann Clin Anal Med 2021;12(3):297-301 Corresponding Author: Ayla Ozturk, Ondokuz Mayıs University School of Dentistry Department of Periodontology, Samsun, 55139, Turkey. E-mail: aylao@omu.edu. tr P: +90 3623121919 Corresponding Author ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4260-5978 Abstract Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of Matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1) -1607 1G/2G promoter polymorphism in aggressive periodontitis (AgP). Material and Methods: One hundred sixty-five systemically healthy volunteers comprising of 65 AgP and 100 periodontally healthy subjects were enrolled in this study. Full mouth radiological and clinical assessments of the periodontal tissues were performed. Genomic DNA was isolated from peripheral blood samples and amplified by PCR and analyzed by a restriction endonuclease. Results: There was statistically no significant difference in genotype (p=0.79) and allele frequencies (p=0.99) of MMP-1 -1607 polymorphism between AgP patients and periodontally healthy control group. Additionally, multiple logistic regression analysis was performed to adjust for possible confounding factors, such as age gender and smoking. Yet, the association still remained non-significant (p=0.57). The odds ratio (OR) 1G/1G vs. 1G/2G+2G/2G was 0.75(0.28-2,0; p=0.57) Discussion: Early identification of individuals at high-risk of developing periodontal diseases might be helpful for prevention and may contribute to the treatment of disease. MMP-1 is biologically a promising candidate gene that is involved in pathogenesis of AgP. However, our results showed that the MMP-1 (-1607) promoter polymorphism did not have a role in the susceptibility to AgP disease risk in Turkish population.
EFFICACY OF THE ESTABLISHED METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF PROTEIN IN FISH VISCERAL EXTRACT

Protein can be quantified by various biochemical assays but all methods are subjected to artifacts. Also, the nature of the sample governs the selection of appropriate method. Fish visceral extract is a complex mixture of bioactive peptides, polypeptides, lipoproteins, hexopeptides etc. Samples containing higher protein concentration vary the results of Bradford assay. On the other hand, Lowry assay and Biuret assay suffer artifacts by the presence of non-proteinaceous components. In this study, protein content in liver and intestinal extracts of Catla catla and Labeo rohita was determined by the methods of Lowry et al. (1951), Gornall (1949) and Bradford (1976). Highest protein content was found in Catla liver by all the methods (1740 mg ml, 580 mg ml and 1450 mg ml resp.). Lowest concentration was found in Catla intestine by all the methods (1290 mg -1 ml, 200 mg ml and 1030 mg ml, resp.). A good association (98.6%) was found among the three methods indicates that these are comparable and can be used for protein quantification in fish visceral extract. Index Terms Lowry, Biuret, Bradford, fish visceral waste, chi square test.
Financial Awareness and Approaches towards Credit Card Practices among Users’ of Udhampur District

The objective of this study proposes to recognize the subjective financial awareness and approaches towards credit card practices among customers of Udhampur district. This study also categorizes respondents' gender, education level and monthly income towards credit card practices. There were 100 users’ being selected to be the respondent of this study by the convenience sampling method. The results which were being proved by using t-test revealed that there were no significant differences in credit card practices between male and female users’(t = 1.014, p ≤ 0.314). In addition, the analysis which were being tested by using one-way ANOVA showed that there were significant differences in credit card practices between monthly income levels (F = 1.212, p ≤ 0.225), while there were no significant differences in credit card practices between education (F =2.415, p ≤ 0.042). In addition, the findings which were being tested using Pearson correlation showed that there was no significant relationship between financial awareness and credit card practices (r = 0.134 p ≤ 0.146) . Therefore, this study determines that gender, monthly income and financial awarenessinfluencing the credit card practices among users’ of Udhampur district of Jammu region. Meanwhile, only monthly income influencing the credit card practices. To get accurate results, future research should increase sample size to a bigger geographic areas and larger sample and it is suggested to determine other factors which might affect credit card practices among card users’. Future research should focus on emerging a reliable measure of financial awareness and attitude and also examine the association between financial awareness and a variety of attitudes other than credit card usage.
Comparison of Direct Pressure versus Electrocauterization of Liver Bed for Bleeding Control in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Background: Gallstones are very common worldwide with a prevalence of 6% in men and 29% in women of all ages. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the gold standard treatment for gallbladder diseases associated with frequent complication of haemorrhage. Applying direct pressure or electrocauterization can be used for securing hemostasis and pain control. Objective: To compare hemostatic control by direct pressure versus electrocauterization while dissecting the gall bladder from liver bed during laparoscopic cholecystectomy in terms of intra-operative bleeding, Post-operative bleeding and pain. Methods: This randomized controlled trial was conducted at Surgical Unit of Mayo Hospital Lahore. Total 200 patients were enrolled, in 100 patients haemorrhage from liver bed was controlled by applying direct pressure with the help of gauze for 5 minutes (Group A) and remaining 100 patients (Group B) it was controlled by electrocauterization. Intra-operative bleeding. post-operative bleeding, and post-operative pain scores were recorded and all patients were discharged after 24 hours of close monitoring. Results: The mean age of cases in A Group and B group was 40.38 ± 12.30 and 42.15 ± 10.40 years res-pectively. Intraoperative bleeding was secured in 85 (85%) patients in Group-A and in 96(96%) patients in Group-B. Group-B treatment was more effective than Group-A treatment for bleeding (p-value= 0.008). Mean pain score of patients at 12th hour was 4.76 in group A and 5.55 in Group B. It was 3.09 in group A and 3.60 in group B at 24th hour postoperatively with p-value of 0.0001. Conclusion: Electrocauterization is a better technique for hemostasis of liver bed in comparison with direct pressure during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Visual Speech for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) affects almost one billion people worldwide and limits peoples’ quality of life substantially. Furthermore, it is responsible for signiﬁcant morbidity and mortality associated with hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, work and trafﬁc accidents. Thus, the early detection of OSA can save lives. In our previous work we used speech as biomarker for automatic OSA detection. More recently, we leveraged the fact that OSA patients have anatomical and functional abnormalities of the upper airway and an altered cranio-facial morphology, and therefore explore information from facial images for OSA detection. In this work, we propose to combine speech and facial image information to detect OSA from YouTube vlogs. This in-the-wild data poses an inexpensive alternative to standard data collected for medical applications, which is often scarce, imbalanced and costly to acquire. Besides speech and facial images, we propose to include visual speech as a third modality, inspired by the emerging ﬁeld of silent computational paralinguistics. We hypothesize that embeddings trained from lip reading integrate information on the craniofacial structure, on speech articulation and breathing patterns, thus containing relevant cues for OSA detection. Fusion of the three modalities achieves an accuracy of 82.5% at the speaker level.
THE ASSESSMENT OF HISTOMOPHOLOGICAL IN-UTERO EXPOSURE TO VARIED DOSES OF CARBAMAZEPINE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF VENTRICULAR SYSTEM IN THE ALBINO RAT FETUSES (RATTUS NORVEGICUS)

The in-utero exposure to carbamazepine, an anticonvulsant medicine has been shown to perturb the normal morphogenesis of the fetal brain when used in management of maternal conditions. However, the anatomical histomomphological teratogenic effect on the ventricular system when exposed at different gestation periods and at different doses is not well elucidated. The broad objective of this study was therefore to evaluate the histomomphological teratogenic effects of exposure to various doses of carbamazepine on the ventricular system when exposed at different gestation periods. In conducting the study, a static group experimental study design was adopted. The animal experimentation wascarried out at Small Animal Facility for Research and Innovation (SAFARI) animal housewhiletissue processing for histology and stereological analysis was done in the department of human anatomy. A Sample size of 30 albino rat dams (Rattus norvegicus) weighing between 200-250grams were used in the study as determined by use of the resource equation method. These 30 Albino rats were divided into two broad study groups of 3 rats control and 27 rats experimental. To evaluate the teratogenic histological effects of carbamazepine on differing doses, the 27 rats in the experimental group were further subdivided into three study groups of 9 rats as follows; (i) Low carbamazepine group[LCG-20.7mg/kg/bw] (ii) medium carbamazepine [MCG72.3mg/kg/bw], (iii) High carbamazepine group[HCG-124mg/kg/bw]. To further evaluate the teratogenic effects of carbamazepine on differing gestation periods, the 9 rats in each of the three dose categories were further subdivided into three groups of 3 rats according to trimesters as follows; (i) Trimester I-(3rats); (ii) trimester II-(3rats) and (iii) trimester III-(3rats) respectively. The findings of the study showed that there was dilatation of ventricular system as well as disaggregation of choroid plexus in the lateral ventricle of the fetal brain. In conclusion, carbamazepine is teratogenic to the developing fetal brains and its teratogenicity is time and dose dependent. The study recommends that carbamazepine should not be used during pregnancy and particularly during 1st and 2nd trimesters.
Design and evaluation of Raman reporters for the Raman-silent region

Rationale: Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is proving to be a useful tool for biomedical imaging. However, this imaging technique can suffer from poor signal-to-noise ratio, as the complexity of biological tissues can lead to overlapping of Raman bands from tissues and the Raman reporter molecule utilized. Methods: Herein we describe the synthesis of triple bond containing Raman reporters that scatter light in the biological silent window, between 1750 cm-1 and 2750 cm-1. Results: Our SERS nanoprobes are comprised of uniquely designed Raman reporters containing either alkyne- or cyano-functional groups, enabling them to be readily distinguished from background biological tissue. Conclusion: We identify promising candidates that eventually can be moved forward as Raman reporters in SERS nanoparticles for highly specific contrast-enhanced Raman-based disease or analyte detection in biological applications.