Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Study of Serum Levels of Visfatin Amongst Pre-Diabetic Obese Patients

Background: Insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, and obesity have all been linked to excess adiposity. Proinflammatory adipokine visfatin is thought to play a key role in type 2 diabetes inflammation. Objective: This study aimed to estimate visfatin level among prediabetic obese patients and to observe and detect the interplay between visfatin, insulin resistance and obesity. Patients and methods: 96 adult subjects were studied in case-control research at Internal Medicine Department and Clinical Pathology Department, Zagazig University Hospital. The study was carried out from January 2021 to November 2021. Subjects were divided into 3 groups: Group (1) included 24 healthy individuals as a control group, group (2) included 48 prediabetic individuals and group (3) that included 24 patients type 2 diabetes who never been treated in any of these. Serum visfatin was assessed in all participants. Results: Diabetes mellitus (DM) patients had higher visfatin levels than those with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) or impaired fasting glucose (IFG). Visfatin had a significant positive correlation with BMI, WC, FBS, PPS, HA1c, LDL, fasting insulin, and HOMA IR, while HDL had a significant negative correlation. Conclusion: Visfatin levels were significantly linked to type 2 diabetes. HOMA-IR, fasting insulin, and BMI all showed a strong positive correlation with visfatin levels, suggesting that it may be a useful biomarker for detecting type 2 diabetes.
Influence of Irradiated Moringa oleifera Leaf Meal as Dietary Supplement on some Serum Biochemical Parameters of Growing Rabbits

Article history: Received: 30th July 2021 Accepted: 8th Dec. 2021 The present study evaluates the influence of gamma () irradiation on anti-nutritional factors, total phenolic compounds of Moringa leaf meal (MLM) at different doses of 0, 10, 15, and 20 kGy, the effect of feeding rabbits on irradiated MLM, and their impacts on rabbit’s performance, apparent digestibility, carcass traits, and certain blood constituents. 60 male rabbits (New Zealand White weaned, 35 days age) were assigned randomly to 4 groups (15 rabbits/group). The1 group was kept on a basal diet supplemented with 10% MLM (non-irradiated) (control), the 2, 3, and 4 groups were kept on the control diet (10% MLM ) subjected to γ irradiation at 10, 15, and 20 kGy, respectively. The results showed diminishing in the anti-nutritional factors (phytic acid, tannins, trypsin inhibitors, and saponins. On the other hand, the total phenolic compound was increased. The gradual increases were correlated by linear regression with the escalating irradiation dose. The supplemented 10% MLM irradiated for up to 20 kGy in the diet of rabbits resulted in a significant enhancement of rabbits performance(body weight, gain weight, feed conversion, the digestibility of dry matter, crude fiber, crude protein, carcass body traits (carcass weight, dressing (%) and prime cuts (%)), and the enhancement was proportional to the escalating radiation dose. On the other hand, no significant change in feed consumed, water consumed, rectum temperature, respiration rate, ether extracts digestibility, biochemical parameters such as ; GPT, GOT, total lipids, total cholesterol, total protein, albumin, globulin, and blood urea, and hematological aspects (RBCs, WBCs and HB %) among the treatments. In general, irradiation sounds to be a useful procedure to enhance nutrition quality of MLM without any negative effect on rabbits' biochemical constituents.
EXTENDED BRAND TO INCREASE BRAND PREFERENCE: THE KEY TO COOPERATIVE SURVIVAL DURING PANDEMIC

According to Undang-Undang (UU) No. 25 of 1992, a cooperative is a business entity composed of individuals or cooperative legal entities. Its activities are based on the principle of cooperatives, and the peoples economic movement is based on the principle of kinship. In Indonesia, cooperatives have successfully become an organization occupying a special position in the structure of the national economy. The principle of kinship owned by cooperatives is a value adopted by the Indonesian people. In addition, as the formal sector in Indonesia, cooperatives are positively affected by their links with the informal sector this link helps the formal sector to solve financial, management and technical skills issues (Majundar and Borbora, 2014). The purpose of the study is to determine which variable is affecting brand preference of cooperative application. This could help cooperative application to improve and achieve more in the competitive market. The research method used in this study is non probability sampling on Surabaya and Jombang. The data processing analysis is using simple and multiple regression with SPSS 22.0 software. The results of this data processing will be conducted wih an in-depth discussion on the characteristic respondents such as gender both men and women, aged 18-60 years old, member of cooperative, have been shopping through mobile application for the last one year, and usually using internet in daily activities. The results of this study shows that there are four hypotheses which all of the hypotheses were accepted. The accepted hypotheses are brand familiarity has a positive effect on brand preference of extension brand with the coefficient regression is 0.233, brand evaluation has a positive effect on brand preference of extension brand with the coefficient regression is 0.702, brand offering has a positive effect on brand familiarity of extension brand with the coefficient regression is 0.881, and brand offering has a positive effect on brand evaluation of extension brand with the coefficient regression is 0.873.
Assessment of Antidermatophytic Activity and chemical composition of Nigerian Citrus senensis (L.) Osbeck Essential Oil against Multidrug-Resistant Pathogenic dermatophytes Isolated from Tinea capitis Samples

Essential oil (EO) may confer a possible panacea to fight against multidrug-resistant dermatophytes. This study aims at determining the antidermatophytic activity of EO from the fruit peel of Nigerian Citrus senensis (L.) Osbeck against multidrug-resistant (MDR) tinea capitis dermatophytes and their possible chemical composition. The EO was reaped by hydro-distillation and the chemical composition was investigated using gas chromatography/ mass spectroscopy (GC-MS). The antidermatophytic activity was evaluated using the agar diffusion method against four dermatophyte strains (Two MDR dermatophytes, one reference strain, and one susceptible). The minimum inhibitory and fungicidal concentrations (MIC/MFC) were determined by agar dilution methods. The test results revealed EO to be active against all strains. The EO subjected to boiling temperature (100 0 C) had an increased amount of α-terpineol, β-Linalool, Carveol, Carvone, and other imaginative compounds such as 1-Octanol (Heptyl carbinols) with increased antidermatophytic activity. Our study suggests that this EO could be used clinically to treat or prevent dermatophytic infections associated with multidrug-resistant strains.
Impact of Foliar Spray with some Nutrients on Growth, Nutritional Status and Productivity of ‘Golock’ Mango Trees Cultivar

This investigation was carried out at privet farm, Governorate, during 2019 and 2020 seasons. Ten – year-old mango trees of ‘Golock’ cultivar were the plant materials used in this experiment, planted at 6 × 6 meters separated in clay soil. Forty-five fruitful mango trees were selected and devoted for this search. Those trees were similar as well as they received the same culture managements adopted in ministry of agriculture. The impact of foliar spray with some nutrients was investigated through studying their effect on some vegetative growth, leaf mineral content, yield and fruit qualities of Golock mango trees cultivar. Results indicated that, all foliar nutrients treatments resulted in a significant effect on growth, leaf mineral content, yield and fruit qualities of mango, however the spray with elemental Sulpher at 0.3% + Zinc sulphate at 0.4% + Borax at 0.1% + Magnesium sulphate at 0.4% were the most effective treatments for increasing growth, leaf mineral content, yield and fruit qualities of Golock mango trees cultivar. On the other hand, the least values were obtained from mango trees foliar spray with tap water or elemental Sulpher at 0.3% + Zinc sulphate at 0.2% during two seasons of study.
University Students’ Approaches to Making the Most of Their Study Time

ABSTRACT This article explores university students’ approaches to and positions with regard to making the most of their study time. The article discusses how various normative societal expectations around students’ use and management of time feature in their talk about how they organise their everyday lives. The research is based on thematic interviews (n = 28) that focused in detail on students’ day-to-day activities that were generated with students from two sets of generalist study fields in three regional Finnish universities. The results of a discursive analysis of students’ positionings reveal three discursive positions that represent of a variety in students’ approaches to make sense of the temporal organisation of their everyday lives as students. The identified discursive positions draw on broader societal discourses and ideals about fast completion of studies, significance of academic immersion in becoming an expert, and optimising one’s time use to enhance employability.
Single Image Reﬂection Removal via Deep Feature Contrast

-Removing undesired reﬂection from a single image is in demand for computational photography. Reﬂection removal methods are gradually eﬀective because of the fast development of deep neural networks. However, current results of reﬂection removal methods usually leave salient reﬂection residues due to the challenge of recognizing diverse reﬂection patterns. In this paper, we present a one-stage reﬂection removal framework with an end-to-end manner that considers both low-level information correlation and eﬃcient feature separation. Our approach employs the criss-cross attention mechanism to extract low-level features and to eﬃ-ciently enhance contextual correlation. To thoroughly remove reﬂection residues in the background image, we punish the similar texture feature by contrasting the parallel feature separation networks, and thus unrelated textures in the background image could be progressively separated during model training. Experiments on both real-world and synthetic datasets manifest our approach can reach the state-of-the-art eﬀect quantitatively and qualitatively.
Interlaboratory test for the determination of repeatability and reprocucibility of buildings airtightness measurements

The issue of the uncertainty of building airtightness measurements has built up a greater importance since this topic was introduced in many regulations regarding the energy performance of buildings. Different studies have contributed to the evaluation of the uncertainty but the question is still incompletely solved in practice. To contribute to the determination of the repeatability and reproducibility of these measurements in practice, the Belgian Building Research Institute organized interlaboratory tests with 10 other laboratories. This paper presents the details of the study together with the repeatability and reproducibility standard deviation calculated at different pressure differences. The issue of unweighted vs. weighted least square regression is also discussed. The reproducibility standard deviation calculated at 50 Pa was 2.4%. It was below 3% between 30 and 100 Pa but was noticeably higher at 4 and 10 Pa. However the application of a weighted least square regression showed a possibility to reduce the standard deviation of the results calculated at low pressure difference.
LESSONS AND NEW PERSPECTIVES: IS CONVALESCENT PLASMA THERAPY EFFECTIVE ON COVID-19 PATIENTS?

Objective: Recently, convalescent plasma (CP) therapy has shown promising evidence in the treatment of several serious contagious diseases, including SARS-CoV, Influenza and Ebola. We conducted a systematic review to extract data about using CP treatment for COVID-19 patients and it’s effectively. Methods: The retrieval of studies was conducted according to Cochrane Collaboration and from electronic databases including PubMed, Medline, and others (medRxiv and BioRxiv). Searching of the available evidence concerning CP treatment of COVID-19 patients was conducted in journal articles published between December 2019 and October 2020. The articles were further screened based on inclusion and exclusion criteria to identify the high-quality studies for analysis. Results: A total of 18 CP studies were included in this review. We found variance regarding the effectiveness of CP in the reduction of mortality rate, length of stay, and increased discharging rate. Several findings show CP therapy is effective in increasing viral negativity, neutralizing antibodies to recipients, does not cause harmful adverse reactions and in some cases can improve clinical symptoms. This therapy is presently considered effective for generating good clinical outcomes when given early in the course of the disease. Conclusion: The effectiveness of CP in terms of mortality, length of stay, and increased discharging patients is still debatable. However, CP therapy is effective in increasing the negativity of SARS-CoV-2 test, neutralizing antibody titer and is safe so it can be considered for COVID-19 patients. CP should not be given in the initial disease course but is recommended for the early disease course.
Kompleks traumatisering hos barn: En utviklingspsykologisk forståelse (Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening)

De senere arene har kunnskap fra traumepsykologi og utviklingspsykologi blitt integrert. Det har gitt oss nye begreper for a forsta de sammensatte vanskene man ser hos barn utsatt for komplekse traumer.
Evaluation of Neonatal Sepsis Based on Measurement of Red Cell Distribution Width

Background: Infant morbidity as well as mortality are frequently caused by neonatal sepsis. Neonatal sepsis can be predicted using the red cell distribution width (RDW), according to several researches. Objective: To determine if RDW can be employed as a marker for the evaluation of newborn sepsis and the assessment of its severity. Patients and Methods: 40 newborns, 20 of whom were infected and the other 20 of whom were non infected, participated in this case-control research. Patients and controls were collected from neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), Zagazig University Hospitals. Full history was taken from all participants parent, with clinical and laboratory examination were done; complete blood picture, and creatinine, blood culture, and serum level of C-reactive protein (CRP). Results: We revealed significant link between RDW and all of total leukocyte count (TLC), immature to total neutrophil ratio (I/T ratio), absolute neutrophil count (ANC), CRP, procalcitonin, severity of sepsis, and mortality. RDW and platelet count, on the other hand, have a strong negative association. With a sensitivity of 83.3 percent, specificity of 50 percent, a positive predictive value (PPV) of 71.4 percent, and a negative predictive value (NPV) of 66.7 percent, accuracy of 70 percent (p>0.05), the best RDW cutoff for diagnosing newborn sepsis severity was ≥17.9. Conclusion: Predictors of illness severity and death in newborn sepsis may be accurately predicted using baseline RDW measurements, which is critical for treatment of neonates who are at great risk of sepsis.
Aquaculture and aquafeed in Rwanda: current status and perspectives

ABSTRACT A survey was conducted to obtain up-to-date information and create a knowledge base on pond fish farming, local feed ingredients, and their nutritive properties in Rwanda. Sixty-seven pond-farms were randomly sampled from a population of 112 countrywide. Semi-intensive was the dominant (81%) farming-system and three fish species were cultured: Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), common carp (Cyprinus carpio), and North African catfish (Clarias gariepinus). Tilapia was the most commonly farmed species, and >50% of pond-farms were located in Northern and Southern provinces. There were 1–3 hatcheries per province, all producing tilapia. In total, 31 feed ingredients were identified, with rice, wheat, and maize bran being most commonly used. Feed analysis revealed high protein content (>350 g kg−1 CP) in local fishmeal, chicken viscera, and spent brewer’s yeast. Local ingredients and potential novel-feeds need further investigation prior to their confident use in fish diets to improve aquaculture at a low-cost in Rwanda.
The Effect of Structured Training Program on Health Needs and Practices of Women Undergoing Modified Radical Mastectomy

Background: Breast cancer is now regarded as the main health concern worldwide and among Egyptian women. Addressing the unfulfilled needs of the women with mastectomy is essential as neglecting their needs during different stages of the treatment have a negative impact on the women’s health system. Aim: evaluate the effect of structured training program on health needs and practices of women undergoing modified radical mastectomy. Design: A quasi experimental research design (pre and post-test) was utilized. Setting: the general surgery Departments and outpatient breast clinic at Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Center affiliated to Ain Shams University Hospitals. Subjects: A purposive sample of 120 women. Tools for data collection: 1) A structured interview questionnaire; it included three parts: (a) Socio-demographic characteristics; (b) Medical history; (c) Women’s Health Needs. 2) An observational checklist to evaluate practices of the studied women. Results: The study revealed a statistical significant difference between total needs pre / post and follow up the structured training program implementation with p <0.001. As well there were a statistical significant differences between pre / post and follow up structured training program implementation among the studied women’s satisfactory practices level with p <0.001. Conclusion: It concluded that, structured training program had a positive effect on meeting health needs and improving practices level. Recommendation: Conduct complete health assessment & regular follow – up for all women after mastectomy to identify unmet needs and early detection of the complications.
The role of cortisol and thyroid stimulating hormone in prognosis of acute anticholinesterase pesticides poisoned patients admitted to Tanta Poison Control Center

Introduction: Anticholinesterase poisoning is a major global health problem with thousands of deaths each year. Determination of prognosis is a major concern for clinical toxicologists. Previous studies reported that cortisol and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) may have prognostic role in patients poisoned by organophosphates. Aim of the work: Evaluation of prognostic role of cortisol and TSH in acute anticholinesterase pesticides poisoned patients admitted to Tanta Poison Control Center. Methodology: This prospective study included 29 patients of moderate to severe acute anticholinesterase poisoning according to poisoning severity score (PSS) between August 2019 and July 2020. TSH and serial cortisol were assessed by ELISA techniques. Results: TSH has no prognostic role, but cortisol has predictive role in mortality, need for ICU admission and intubation. Conclusion: Measuring cortisol at admission, after six and twelve hours from admission could predict need for ICU admission, intubation and mechanical ventilator, while measuring it at admission can be predictor for mortality.
Single and Multi-Carrier CDMA: Multi-User Detection, Space-Time Spreading, Synchronisation and Standards

From the Publisher: This volume is dedicated to a range of CDMA and MC-CDMA transmission aspects of systems designed for communicating over fading wireless channels. Currently, a technical in-depth book on this subject, which has a similar detailed exposure of the recent advances in CDMA, M-ary CDMA and MC-CDMA, is unavailable. A further attraction of the joint treatment of these topics is that it allows the reader to view their design trade-offs in a comparative context. Divided into five main parts: Part I  provides a detailed introduction to the subject of CDMA systems designed for employment in various application Part II  deals with the currently hot topic of genetic algorithm assisted multiuser detection Part III  gives a detailed account of new, reduced-complexity M-ary CDMA schemes Part IV  considers a range of novel MC-CDMA schemes which have the potential of supporting numerous design objectives Part V  provides an overview of the 3G wireless system proposals and characterises the expected network capacity gains attained with the aid of adaptive CDMA systems By providing an all-encompassing self-contained treatment this groundbreaking volume will have appeal to researchers, postgraduate students, academics practising research and development engineers working for wireless communications and computer networking companies, as well as senior undergraduate students and technical managers in the field.
Role of the water main in lead service line replacement: A utility case study

To understand the role of water mains in lead and iron release following lead service line (LSL) replacement, samples were collected from the tap water of 28 homes in Halifax, N.S. , after a minimum 6‐h stagnation. In full replacements, average lead concentrations in service lines connected to cast‐iron mains with three different maintenance conditions—pigged, pigged and lined, and not pigged or lined—were 31.5±11.0, 3.3±2.3, and 3.7±2.7 μg/L, respectively, compared with 0.58±0.2 μg/L for ductile‐iron mains. In partial replacements, average lead concentrations were 63.09±30.9, 14.60±2.9, and 6.82±3.3 μg/L, respectively, for the three cast‐iron main conditions, compared with 8.5±3.1 μg/L for ductile‐iron mains. Adsorption of lead on iron corrosion scales dissolved or dislodged from tuberculated mains could account for the higher lead release observed. In this study, full replacement LSLs connected to ductile‐iron mains had the lowest lead concentrations.
eIF3 and Its mRNA-Entry-Channel Arm Contribute to the Recruitment of mRNAs With Long 5′-Untranslated Regions

Translation initiation in eukaryotes is a multi-step pathway and the most regulated phase of translation. Eukaryotic initiation factor 3 (eIF3) is the largest and most complex of the translation initiation factors, and it contributes to events throughout the initiation pathway. In particular, eIF3 appears to play critical roles in mRNA recruitment. More recently, eIF3 has been implicated in driving the selective translation of specific classes of mRNAs. However, unraveling the mechanism of these diverse contributions—and disentangling the roles of the individual subunits of the eIF3 complex—remains challenging. We employed ribosome profiling of budding yeast cells expressing two distinct mutations targeting the eIF3 complex. These mutations either disrupt the entire complex or subunits positioned near the mRNA-entry channel of the ribosome and which appear to relocate during or in response to mRNA binding and start-codon recognition. Disruption of either the entire eIF3 complex or specific targeting of these subunits affects mRNAs with long 5′-untranslated regions and whose translation is more dependent on eIF4A, eIF4B, and Ded1 but less dependent on eIF4G, eIF4E, and PABP. Disruption of the entire eIF3 complex further affects mRNAs involved in mitochondrial processes and with structured 5′-untranslated regions. Comparison of the suite of mRNAs most sensitive to both mutations with those uniquely sensitive to disruption of the entire complex sheds new light on the specific roles of individual subunits of the eIF3 complex.