Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Encapsulation on some Probiotic Criteria

The present study was conducted to evaluate the ability of twelve non-encapsulated and encapsulated lactic acid and bifidobacteria strains to withstand environmental conditions similar to the human digestion tract. Selection criteria employed included the ability of these strains to survive at low pH and relatively high bile concentrations. Cholesterol assimilation and the effects of exposure to simulated gastric and intestinal juices were also investigated to explore the effect of encapsulation on health beneficial effect of the tested strains. The results obtained clearly declared that encapsulation effectively protected the microorganisms from the hostile environment and gastrointestinal tract, thus potentially preventing cell loss. The survival rate of encapsulated bacteria at pH 2.0 increased and attained a mean value of 58.9 % as compared with the corresponding value for non-encapsulated strains, being 46.9 %. Encapsulated cultures attained the highest tolerance % at different bile concentrations up to 1.0 %. Continuously, the survival percent of the double effects of pH and bile salt showed higher values and ranged from 34.15 % to 57.71 % for encapsulated bacteria, while free cells ranked lower figures varied from 17.15 % to 43.20 %. The assimilative reductions of cholesterol by non-encapsulated and encapsulated strains were clearly differed and varied from 32.6 % to 89.3 % and 27.9 % to 85.1 % respectively. The survival of encapsulated tested cultures in simulated gastric environment (SGJ) was noticeably better than those of non-encapsulated strains. In contrast, either free cells or encapsulated bacteria survival well in simulated intestinal juice (SIJ). [Journal of American Science 2010;6(10):810-819]. (ISSN: 1545-1003).
The Efficiency Level of E-Marketing Strategies and its Impact on the Enhancement of Hotel Establishments Position in Consumer Mind (Comparative study between the hotel establishments in Jordan and Saudi Arabia)

This study aims to identify the impact of strategies efficiency level of electronic marketing mix factors and electronic promotional mix factors on the enhancement of Jordanian and Saudi hotel establishments position in the consumer mind, and to achieve the objectives of the study researchers relied on the descriptive analytical approach and built a questionnaire as a tool to collect data from the study sample, where the researcher distributed (40) questionnaires on the customers of selected hotels at the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and (40) other questionnaires on the customers of selected hotels at Saudi Arabia, which conclude that the amount of distributed questionnaires is (80) in an appropriate and random way, (70) of those questionnaires were recovered and valid for analysis with (35) questionnaires were selected from the Jordan sample and the other (35) were selected from the Saudi Arabia sample. Results showed the existance of a statistically significant impact at (67%) for the role of e-marketing mix elements on the enhancement of hotel establishment's position at the Jordanian and Saudi hotel market, and results also showed that efficiency impact level of e-mix strategies on the enhancement of hotel establishments position in the Jordanian and Saudi hotel market came at high degree with an arithmetic mean of (3.85-4.39) for the responses of sample members from the hotels customers in Jordan and Saudi Arabia respectively. The study also made some recommendations where the most important was the continuous improvement of website which gives the consumer an impression about the quality level of electronic product and build a clear imagination of the real product, which contributes significantly to the consumer selection process. Keywords: consumer mind, e-distribution, e-marketing strategies, e-pricing, e-product, e-promotion, hotel establishments' position DOI : 10.7176/JMCR/62-05 Publication date : November 30th 2019
Cognitive impairment and psychiatric symptoms in normal tension glaucoma (NTG)-A naturalistic study

Purpose: To examine the cognitive and neuropsychiatric characteristics of patients with Normal Tension Glaucoma (NTG). Methods: A cross-sectional observational study of 99 patients with glaucoma and untreated intraocular pressure consistently <22 mmHg on phasing. All subjects underwent cognitive assessment and psychiatric symptom screening using the mini mental state examination (MMSE), adult verbal learning test (AVLT) and general health questionnaire (GHQ). All subjects had comprehensive ophthalmic examination and documentation of past medical and psychiatric history. Results: Subjects had a mean age of 70.5 years and 59 (59%) were female. 57 (57%) had an advanced visual field defect in the worse eye, 19 (19%) a moderate defect and 23 (23%) a mild defect. There were a high proportion of patients with impaired MMSE, AVLT or GHQ scores. 28 (28%) had significant short-term memory impairment on AVLT, and 28 (28%) scored 5 or more on the GHQ suggesting psychiatric caseness. 12 (12%) scored 24 or less on the MMSE. 43 subjects underwent CT or MRI neuroimaging, with 13 (30%) showing age excessive generalised cerebral atrophy and 9 (20%) showing excessive small vessel disease. 41 patients had systemic hypertension, 28 is chaemic heart disease, 21 diabetes, 18 migraine, 13 transient ischaemic attack and 3 Raynaud’s disease. Conclusion: Patients with NTG had a high prevalence of cognitive impairment and psychiatric symptoms identified using common screening tools, suggesting a possible shared intraocular pressure independent mechanism of disease. Ophthalmologists should be aware of the possibility of undiagnosed cognitive impairment and psychiatric morbidity in some patients with NTG.
Control of grasshopper Hetiracris littoralis (Orthoptera: Acrididae) by using nano-imidaclorprid in Corn fields

The effect of nanoimidaclorprid (IMI) against grasshoppers under laboratory conditions, which show that the newly hatched nymphs recorded 151 mg/l, Last nymphal stage recorded 176, the adult females and males recorded 166 and 176 mg/l after treated with IMI under laboratory condition , respectively. Under semi-field conditions, the half life time of grasshopper treated with nano-IMI recorded, 103, 108, 119 and 129 mg/l, for Newly hatched nymphs, Last nymphal stage, adult males and females respectively. Under field conditions inside corn plantations, the number of infestations of grasshoppers were significantly decreased after nanoIMI application. During field experiments, the results during season 2014, obtained, 3800± 81.6kg/ feddan in plots treated with nano-IMI as compared to 2590± 10.2 kg/ feddan in the control. The yield loss recorded during 2014 was 31.1%. During season 2015, the weight of corn determined kg/ feddan in plots treated with nano-IMI as compared to 2200 ± 70.2 kg/ feddan in the untreated plots. The percentages of yield loss recorded during 2015 was 44.8 among control plots. Key wards: Nano, imidaclorprid, Hetiracris littoralis.
A Genetic Approach to Detect Bridging Faults, Transitional Delay Faults and Stuck at Faults in LSI Circuits

: A novel algorithm based on Genetic approach for diagnosing Bridging faults, Transitional Delay faults and stuck at faults in LSI circuits is presented. The method of devising a universal set for detecting Bridging faults in testable circuits is investigated. We outline a method that utilizes the information from the stuck-at fault model to accurately diagnose the bridging faults that affect two lines. The proposed method uses the observation that the bridging fault response matches the stuck at fault responses on the shorted lines for the failing test vectors. By using the information from the pass test vectors a further reduction in size of test set is possible. The algorithmic approach allows us to have a random search of test vectors without being caught in a local minima or maxima. The fitness scheme allows us to have a selection of test vectors with high fault coverage and with large fault detection scores.
STORE DECISION CRITERIA AND PATRONAGE BEHAVIOUR OF RETAIL CONSUMERS

The purpose of this study is to investigate desired store attributes related to store decision for shopping and patronising behaviour of retail consumers. A structured questionnaire was successfully distributed to 600 respondents, who had made purchases from sixty retail formats operated in Delhi and Gurugram belonging to the domain of Shopping Malls, Hypermarket, Supermarket, Department Stores, Discount stores and Category Killers through systematic stratified sampling for the collection of data. Factor analysis was employed to identify the factors related to store decision criteria of consumers in patronizing a retail store. Correlation analysis was conducted to examine the association between factors related to store decision and store patronage of consumers. The result showed that when consumers go for shopping, they place highest importance on the variety of products offers by store, availability of famous brands, extensive variety and quality of products in the store which meet consumers‟ expectations. However results of the study also concludes that convenient geographical location, waiting time at shopping, at billing counters, reasonable prices of products, exchange/refund policy of store, promptness and helpfulness of sales personnel are another important attributes regarding the patronizing decision of shoppers. These findings of the study provide fundamentals guidelines to store managers who attempt to improve their store environment in order to attract and increase consumers in their store.
GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA LOAD AND MULTIPLE ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE (MAR) PATTERN OF PATHOGENIC BACTERIA ISOLATED FROM COCKROACHES AT HABOUBI HOSPITAL IN THE PROVINCE OF DHI –QAR

This study investigates the bacterial load and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of pathogenic bacteria isolated from the guts and body surfaces of cockroaches in Haboubi Hospital, the province of Dhi Qar. Periplaneta americana collected from hospital were screened for microbial load and antibiotic susceptibility pattern using standard protocols. The identified bacteria isolates and their percentage distribution, It is 152 bacterial isolates the external surfaces of 98 (65%) and guts of 54 (35 %) belonged to the group of Gram-negative bacilli, The distribution of the isolated bacteria includes the highest value to Salmonella . Spp (20) and Proteus mirabilis (19),While the lowest value of Aeromonas . hydrophila /coviae / sobria1 and Raoultella.ornithinolyticae (1). The microbial load were higher in the outer surface (94%) as compared with guts (6%). (p<0.05) Percentage Gram Negative bacterial loads isolated from Cockroaches reached the highest loads to the Serraciae marcescens (11.6%) Followed by Pro.mirabilis (11.2%) while less loads A.hydrophila/coviae/Sobria (0.7%) and Rao.ornithinolyticae (1.1%) . The isolates demonstrated high level resistance to PY (79 %), AMC (73.6%) and CRO(73%) while VA(93.4%) was the most effective of all the antibiotics used. The bacteria isolates have high percentage multiple antibiotic resistance (MAR) ranging from(33.3 % 100%), Citrobacter brakii have the least value of 33.3 %, while the some isolates demonstrated 100 % multiple antibiotic resistance patterns, efforts geared towards controlling the cockroaches will be indispensable in curbing the wide spread World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research SJIF Impact Factor 5.990 Volume 4, Issue 11, 193-204. Research Article ISSN 2277– 7105 Article Received on 25 Aug 2015, Revised on 18 Sep 2015, Accepted on 12 Oct 2015
Rehabilitation Program and Functional Outcomes for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Objective: To investigate the effectiveness of pre and post-operative vs. only post-operative accelerated rehabilitation physical therapy program for athletes with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury referred for physiotherapy pre and post-reconstruction surgery in terms of pain, instability and knee dysfunction. Methods: Thirty six male Zagazig University top performance athletes with a mean age of 21.8 ±4.3 years old BMI 23.8±3.2 with acute anterior cruciate ligament rupture of 28.9 ±16.2 days participated in this study. Participants were randomly divided into two groups. Group (1): 18 subjects received intensive physical therapy settings pre-operative plus post-operative 2 months accelerated rehabilitation program. Group (2): received only 2 months of accelerated rehabilitation program. Both groups were subjected for a singleincision arthroscopic ACL reconstruction using bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft (BPTB) technique and followed up for 12, 16, 24 weeks. Outcome measures: Knee range of motion (ROM), heel height difference (HHD), Patient's subjective satisfaction, patients was then evaluated performing a series of hop tests. RESULTS: Both study groups showed a significant improvement in all variables measured in the 24 week functional performance assessments. There was dramatic early significant improvement in mostly all variables during follow-up assessments. Athletes in the group 1 showed a significant difference in the subjective satisfaction which was maintained through out the study. Mostly all improvements were maintained at the 6 month follow up assessments. Conclusions: Accelerated rehabilitation physical therapy program, either as a pre-and post-operative treatment or only postoperative is an effective intervention for patients with ACLR. Although all patients had improvement, pre-and post-operative physical therapy group was superior to post-operative program group alone for the functional performance at 16 week evaluation. These results indicate that patients who choose to attend a pre-operative physiotherapy program before ACLR can achieve satisfactory, if not better, outcomes than patients who attend only post-operative physiotherapy. Key wards: Anterior cruciate ligament injury, rehabilitation program, Bone-Patellar Tendon-Bone autograft, functional assessment.
Elemental Analysis of Soil Samples by Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) Technique

Proton Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE), an ion beam based analytical technique has been used to analyze the essential and toxic elements in soil at ppm levels. These samples were collected from different residential locations of Rajshahi Bangladesh. The interest, very specifically, was used to investigate whether the toxic elements etc., were present in the samples; and if it were so, to see whether the concentration of these show any significant variation with season and the sampling time. 15 soil samples were prepared and analyzed by PIXE technique. Iron content in the samples studied was found remarkably high, among all of the chemical elements in the soil samples while the mean concentration of Chlorine and Chromium were very low. Significantly increased amount of the elements K, Ca, Mn, Zn, Cu, Co, V, and Rb were observed in the samples as well. Concentrations of K ranged from 5926 to 13167 ppm with a mean of 9706 ppm. The mean concentrations of Ca, V, Mn, Co, Zn, Rb and Ti were 68270, 2760, 12236, 31533 and 11640, 14134 and 28000 ppm, respectively. The concentrations of K, Ca, Zn, Cl were in the same order as in IAEA standard soil-7 sample. But the concentrations of Cr, Fe, Co, Rb and Ti were higher than the standard concentration. Quality control and quality assurance in the measurements were ensured by analyzing the standard samples Coal Fly Ash and IAEA soil A-7 during the experiments and also through participation in the inter comparison study with another laboratory. The level of concentrations and sensitivities of all the element presents in the soil samples were measured; and found in toxic level in some samples and Cl, K and V are found to be in a deficient level in some, whereas is found to be present in optimum level. The presence of the elevated amount of the hazardous heavy metals was primarily due to extremely high concentration of these elements in industry effluent discharging to the ground without proper treatment.
Phytochemistry, Pharmacology and Novel Delivery Applications of Syzygium cumini (L.)

Syzygium cumini (L.) is a widely used medicinal plant for the treatment of various ailments. The plant contains anthocyanins, glucoside, ellagic acid, isoquercetin, kaempferol,,and myricetin as its chief active constituents. These active cons isoquercetin, kaempferol tituents impart multiple pharmacological activities to the plant which includes antidiabetic, anticancer, antioxidant, antibacterial, antifungal and antidiarrhoeal activity. The present review presents specific information on botany, phytochemical constituents, traditional uses and pharmacological actions of S. cumini (L.). Further applications of Syzygium cumini (L.) in the field of novel drug delivery has been also elaborated in the review. Apart from its application in the treatment of various diseases there is need to explore chemical and toxicity concern of S. cumini (L.). Madhulika Pradhan 1 1 Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, Kohka, Kurud Road, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh
Iris and Palmprint Decision Fusion to Enhance Human Recognition

Multimodal biometric systems are more promised and accurate than unimodal ones. Beside increase the performance, the multimodal system minimize the universality problem. The current research introduces a new iris and palm fusion system. The feature of palm print is extracted using connectivity points and lifelines orientations, while features of iris is extracted using wavelet transform. The classification method was the distance classifier. The score level fusion is applied using modified version of majority voter. The system accuracy was 97.29 % for palm, 71.97 % and 98.54 % for fusion.
Therapeutic efficacy of licorice and/or cisplatin against diethylnitrosamine and carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatocellular carcinoma in rats

Complementary and alternative use of traditional herbs has raised hopes for finding curative options for liver diseases. In the present study, the curative effect of licorice extract against diethyl nitrosamine (DENA) and carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in male rats in the presence or absence of the antineoplastic agent cisplatin was investigated. The results showed that treatment with DENA/CCl4 caused oxidative stress as indicated by obtained increase in malondialdehyde (MDA) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in the liver. Meanwhile, reduction in the antioxidants including glutathione (GSH), superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione-s-transferase (GST)] was observed. Also, the results showed induction of apoptosis as reflected by increase both p53 and caspases-3 along with decreased Bcl-2 in the liver. This was accompanied with changes in the hepatic function biomarkers which characterized by increased levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and total bilirubin; and decrease in total proteins and albumin content in the serum. Treatment of DENA/CCl4 rats with cisplatin significantly reduced the changes in most parameters of oxidative stress, apoptosis and liver function, when compared to the untreated group of DENA/CCl4.Administration of licorice significantly alleviated the adverse effects induced by DENA/CCl4 in the presence or absence of cisplatin in all investigated parameters, compared to the untreated HCC group. In intact rats, administration of licorice alone had no side effects on mentioned parameters, while cisplatin caused adverse changes. Treatment with licorice in rats treated with cisplatin ameliorated induced hepatotoxicity by cisplatin. In conclusion, obtained results showed that treatment with licorice alone seemed to be more effective in attenuation of the hepatocarcinogenic action of DENA/CCl4 than treatment of licorice pluscisplatin or cisplatin alone. Since licorice, unlike cisplatin, has no side effects, further studies on experimental animals are required in order to assess the strategy of cancer treatment using licorice extract and its active ingredients. [Faried A. E. Hemieda, Hanaa M. Serag, El-Sayed El-Baz and Sally M. E. Ramadan. Therapeutic efficacy of licorice and/or cisplatin against diethylnitrosamine and carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatocellular carcinoma in rats. J Am Sci 2016;12(1):10-19]. (ISSN: 1545-1003). http://www.jofamericanscience. org. 2. doi:10.7537/marsjas120116.02.
Assessment of Oral Medicine Educational Objectives Achievement

Introduction: Evaluation of teaching effectiveness can improve dentistry education in dental schools. The purpose of this study was to evaluate educational objectives achievement in oral medicine department of Hamadan dental school. Methods: In this cross-sectional study an evaluation chart and a questionnaire were used. The evaluation charts were fulfilled by one of the assistant professor of oral medicine department. The evaluation was based on student skills; and completed questionnaires including individual information at first and fulfilled multiple-choice questions secondly. Educational objectives achievement of the curriculum was determined in general and for each topic according to the evaluation chart and the questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Chi-square and ANOVA with SPSS software. Results: Educational objectives achievement was favorable in 3.4%, relatively favorable in 70.7%, and unfavorable in 25.9% of the dental students (n=58). The goals achievements of various educational topics were favorable and relatively favorable in approximately two thirds, and unfavorable and unacceptable in one third of the students. Age, gender and marriage have not any significant correlation with the educational goals (p>0.05). Conclusion: This study showed that the educational objectives achievement in oral medicine was in a favorable and relatively favorable level for a majority of senior students.
Optical Spectroscopy and Prevention of Deleterious Brain- damaging Cerebral Vascular Effects of Co- caine by Magnesium Ions: Effects on Brain Mitochondrial Oxidase, Deoxyhemoglobin, Ceramide and Sphingomyelin Levels and Their Potential Application to Human Substance Abuse

1 Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, The State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA. 2 Department of Medicine, The State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA. 3 The Center for Cardiovascular and Muscle Research, The State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA. 4 The School for Graduate Molecular and Cellular Science, The State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA. 5 Bio-Defense Systems, Inc, Rockville Centre, New York, USA. 6 Orient Biomedica, Estero, Florida, USA. 7 Magnesium for Health Foundation, Patterson, California, USA. 8 Department of Pathology, State University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Monitoring of antibiotic susceptibility pattern of blood isolates of Salmonella enterica var Typhi from a tertiary care hospital in North India

Enteric fever carries a significant morbidity and mortality. Antibiotic therapy constitutes the mainstay of its management. However, failure to treat it properly leads to prolonged illness, development of a carrier state and increased dissemination [1]. Considering the changing trends in the susceptibility patterns as re-emergence of susceptibility to conventional first-line antibiotics, reduced susceptibility towards ciprofloxacin, emergence of Salmonella enterica var Typhi (S. Typhi) resistant to thirdgeneration cephalosporins, continual monitoring of drug resistance patterns is vital [1-3].