Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Reported Symptoms of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in a Group of Saudi Children

Objective: To report the most commonly experienced night and daytime behavior and symptoms by a group of Saudi OSA children and compare them with a healthy control. Methods: 27 mothers of OSA children (study group) and 27 mothers of healthy, none OSA children, with comparable age and gender, (control group) answered the study questionnaire, on behalf of their children, about sleep-time and daytime behavior and symptoms. Results: The mean (±SD) yes answers for the night-time questions for the study group was 6.07 (±2.759), and 0.7 (±0.8) for the control. For the daytime, the mean yes answers was 1.6 (±0.9) for the study and 0.19 (±0.3) for the control group. Independent samples t-test showed statistically significant differences between the means P=0.000. A statistically significant difference was found between the two groups in the responses for ten of the evaluated night-time symptoms and only one of the daytime symptoms. Conclusions: 1. OSA children had significantly more night and daytime symptoms than the control. 2. Chronic, heavy snoring, difficult breathing during sleep, mouth breathing (during sleep and daytime), and restless sleep were the most commonly reported symptoms.
What are the health care costs for chronic lymphocytic leukemia

15Background: New drugs for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) have recently been approved, including oral therapies. We examined total health care costs, including drug and patient out-of-pocket (OOP) costs, in patients (pts) initiating CLL treatment. Methods: This retrospective studyused a U.S. health insurance claims database. Adult commercially insured and Medicare Advantage pts from 5/2013 - 6/2015, with ≥2 medical claims for CLL were included. Pts required ≥1 claim for NCCN-recommended systemic cancer therapy. Pts were categorized based on first-line of therapy. Aggregate costs during a fixed 9-month follow-up period (treatment switch or discontinuation were possible) were investigated. Mean and standard deviation (SD) of total healthcare costs, regimen costs, and pt OOP regimen costs are presented. Results: A total of 707 CLL pts met all study criteria during the study period; 40% were commercially insured and 60% had Medicare Advantage. Mean age was 70 years (SD 11). Some of the most common regime.
A Tablet-Based Documentation Tool for In-Hospital Resuscitations

The exact documentation of cardiopulmonary resuscitations—in particular the exact time of intervention delivery—is important for checking and improving quality. However, due to time-critical, stressful treatment and mostly retrospective documentation, data quality is often poor. This paper describes the development of a tablet-based application for documentation of in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitations that enables real-time documentation by a member of the resuscitation team. The application was developed following a comprehensive user-centered design process. Due to an efficient context-related information architecture, the application has the potential to enable real-time documentation of certain interventions and to accelerate time-consuming documentation after the resuscitation ended. Furthermore, the use of the application may contribute to the optimization of resuscitation processes and resuscitation training by providing more accurate and reliable data.
Relationship between Job satisfaction, Organizational commitment and Organizational Justice with Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Physical Educators

Objective of this study was designing of organizational citizenship behavior prediction model for physical educators from job satisfaction, organizational commitment and organizational justice. The survey was conducted by Applied Research. The population included all physical educators who were working in Kerman in the 1392-1393 academic years. The total number (273 teachers) was selected as samples. Standardized questionnaires consist of the organizational justice developed by Niehoff and Moorman (1993), organizational commitment developed by Allen and Meyer (1991), job satisfaction Minnesota (1997) and OCB developed by Padsakoff et al (2000) were used to collect information. The Cronbach Alpha Reliabilities for organizational justice, organizational commitment, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior scale in order were 0.95, 0.86, 0.88 and 0.81. For analysis of research findings Pearson correlation, multiple regression and structural equation modeling techniques used for data analysis by software LISREL8, SPSS19 with a 95% confidence. Results showed significant relationships between job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational justice with organizational citizenship behavior. Internal and external Job satisfaction, affective commitment and interactional justice were the best predictors for organizational citizenship behavior. Furthermore, path analysis indicated that job satisfaction directly related to organizational citizenship behavior, but organizational commitment and organizational justice indirectly by influencing on job satisfaction influenced on organizational citizenship behavior.
Network Simulation Tools Survey

— In the network research area, establishing of network in a real time scenario is very difficult. A single test bed takes a large amount of time and cost. So implementation of a whole network in real world is not easily possible and very costly to. The simulator helps the network developer to check whether the network is able to work in the real time. Thus both the time and cost of testing the functionality of network have been reduced and implementations are made easy. In this paper, we introduce the main features of different simulator and consider their advantages and disadvantages. We hope this survey prove to be a good reference source for those people who feel difficult to select the appropriate network simulators for their research.
Predictors of the Risk for Aberrant Drug-Related Behavior in Chronic Pain Patients: A Mixed Methods Design

The use of opioids for the treatment of chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) remains controversial (Manchikanti, 2008; McQuay, 1999). Controversy surrounds the type of conditions that should be treated with opioids, whether the treatment can be generally safe and effective, and what the clinical goals should be. If providers can predict those patients who will be most at risk for aberrant drug-related behavior, efficacious changes in chronic pain management could be initiated and fewer patients potentially at risk for addiction. The current study explored the role of self-efficacy of pain, severity of depressive symptoms, perceived social support, and ethnic identity as predictors for the risk of aberrant drug-related behavior in CNCP patients. 102 CNCP patients being treated at a large, metropolitan health care clinic were invited to participate in this study. Qualitative data were conducted with the use of grounded theory methodology and data were collected from 10 participants out of the total sample. A two-way ANOVA found non-significant effects of sex, ethnicity and the interaction between sex and ethnicity for both groups of participants, CNCP patients prescribed opioids and those who were not. This suggests that all other statistical findings are generalizable across gender and across white and Hispanic populations. A hierarchical logistic regression analysis predicted group membership in participants prescribed opioids and those who were not. Participants’ level of pain self-efficacy was
Early Childhood Educator Perspectives: Transitioning Infants and Families into the Child Care Environment

2 Acknowledgements.3 Chapter 1.6 Introduction.6 Personal Reflection.8 Chapter 2.10 Review of Literature.10 Parent child relationships during the first year of life.10 Infant brain development.11 Quality child care.13 Primary Caregiving and Continuity of Care as indicators of quality.14 Caregiving Styles.15 Current Study.22 Chapter 3.23 Method.23 Participants.23 Procedure.24 Ethical Considerations.25 Research Design.26 Semi-structured Interview.27 Analysis.27 Chapter 4.30 Results.30 Global Theme: Successful Transition.31 Organizing Theme: Infant Reactions.32 Organizing Theme: Family Reactions.36 Organizing Theme: ECE Reactions.40 Organizing Theme: Program Requirements.44 Ramos, Cathryn ECEs and Relationship Building 5 Global Requirement: Challenging Transition.47 Organizing Theme: Infant Needs.48 Organizing Theme: Family Needs.50 Organizing Theme: ECE Needs.54 Chapter 5.61 Discussion.61 Limitations.73 Implications.75 Future Research.75 References.80 Appendix A: Letter of Invitation & Informed Consent.82 Appendix B: Confidentiality Agreement.84 Appendix C: Semi-Structured Interview Questions.85 Ramos, Cathryn ECEs and Relationship Building
Alcohol marketing and young people’s drinking behaviour in Ireland.

This report presents self-reported data on exposure to alcohol marketing and alcohol-related behaviours. The aim of the study was to assess the degree and nature of exposure to alcohol marketing among Irish adolescents, and to investigate the relationship between exposure to alcohol marketing and alcohol drinking behaviour in adolescents. Three different measures of exposure were used: 1) Exposure to alcohol marketing, referring to different types of marketing via multiple channels. It is a general measure of how often children were exposed to alcohol advertisements; 2) Engagement with alcohol marketing, referring to active involvement in alcohol marketing that is beyond passive exposure to advertisements; 3) Intensity of exposure to alcohol marketing, referring to the extent to which one is exposed to types of alcohol marketing – the more frequent the exposure the more intense it is.
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Early Pregnancy Loss: A Review Article

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common endocrinopathies, affecting 5 10% of women of reproductive age. Whether PCOS is implicated in the aetiology of early pregnancy loss (EPL) or not, has long been debated and results so far have been conflicting. In this article we will review the current evidence regarding the prevalence of EPL in women with PCOS as well as the possible pathophysiologic mechanisms involved. Finally, we will review the current evidence regarding the potential link between PCOS and recurrent EPL.
Short-term outcome in acute and transient psychotic disorder and its correlate to various sociobiological factors

Background: There is a higher incidence of acute and transient psychotic disorder, however there are not much data on the course of disease and its association with sociobiological factors. We assessed the outcome in patients who met the ICD 10 DCR criteria for acute and transient psychotic disorder, at a follow up period of 6 months. Methods: We conducted a prospective observational study conducted at out-patient department of the Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour, Bambolim, Goa. Fifty-seven patients were enrolled and were followed up for a period of 6 months from the day of enrollment. The outcome was ‘review of diagnosis and ‘no review of diagnosis at the end of 6 months. Results: The mean age of the study sample was 32.25 years. In three-fourth of the patients, there was no change in the diagnosis. Nearly 65% of the patients were women and 35% of them were men. No review in diagnosis was made in significant proportion of the population. Average duration of education was 7.35 years. Most of them were unskilled laborers and homemakers. A significant number of the study population was migrants. Two-third of the population did not have any family history of psychiatric disorder. The onset was acute in majority of the patients. Suicidal thoughts were present at the time of diagnosis in certain patients. The treatment adherence was lower in those whose diagnoses did not change at the end of 6 months. Sleep disturbances, ideas of persecution, and concentration difficulties were the frequently reported symptoms.No repeat episodes were noted in our study. Conclusions: No review in diagnosis was made in significant proportion of the population. The treatment adherence was lower in those whose diagnoses did not change at the end of 6 months.
EVALUATION OF THE EFFECT OF TOPICAL ATORVASTATIN SOLUTION FOR THE TREATMENT OF PAPULOPUSTULAR ACNE

Acne is a very common human skin disease that affects individuals around the world. It clinically characterized by seborrhea, comedones, papules, pustules, nodules and, in some cases, scarring. It may be caused by increased sebum production, follicular hyperkeratinization, colonization of the pilosebaceous unit with Propionibacterium acnes and the production of inflammation. Atorvastatin is a hydroxymethyl glutaryl CoA reducatase inhibitor that decreases cholesterol and triglyceride synthesis and possesses anti inflammatory activity. This study aimed to evaluate the benefit of using atorvastatin solution in treating patients with papulopustular (inflammatory) acne. Atorvastatin solution was prepared by addition of atorvastatin powder to 1:1 solution of propylene glycol and ethanol. 15 patients with papulopustular acne were enrolled in a double blinded clinical trial and were clinically evaluated and followed up by dermatologist for 1 month. After 1 month, 71.4% of patients in atorvastatin group were showed a good improvement and 75% of patients in placebo group showed a good improvement, however, there was no any statistical difference between the effect of atorvastatin and placebo on acne improvement, and thus atorvastatin solution was no more effective than placebo for treating acne.
FUNGUS-MEDIATED SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SILVER NANOPARTICLES AND ITS ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY AGAINST CLINICALLY ISOLATED PATHOGENS

Today, nano metal particles have drawn the attention of scientists because of their extensive application to new technologies in chemistry, electronics, medicine, and biotechnology. Beside many physical and chemical methods which have been developed for preparing metal nanoparticles, nanobiotechnology also serves as an important method in the development of clean, nontoxic, and environmentally friendly procedures for the synthesis and assembly of metal nanoparticles. To be utilized in different scientific fields, biological synthesis still requires the optimization of reaction conditions, and an understanding of the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of the reaction for obtaining better chemical composition, shape, size, and monodispersity. By noticing the potential of the natural world to produce bio-nanomaterials under normal conditions, we are trying to explain simple practical methods that can be used for bacterial synthesis of metal or metalloid nanoparticles. In conclusion, the filamentous fungus has shown potential for extracellular synthesis of fairly monodispersed, silver nanoparticles in the range of 5–20 nm. The kinetics of silver nanoparticles synthesis using the cell filtrate indicates that the synthesis of nanoparticles would be suitable for developing a biological process. Furthermore, the extracellular synthesis would make the process simpler and easier for downstream processing. In future, it would be important to understand the biochemical and molecular mechanism of the synthesis of the nanoparticles by the cell filtrate in order to achieve better control over size and polydispersity of the nanoparticles.
JAK2 V617F Mutation in Essential Thrombocythemia.

Background: Essential thrombocythemia (ET) is thought to reflect transformation of a multipotent hematopoietic stem cell, but its molecular pathogenesis has remained obscure. But tyrosine kinase, especially Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) has been implicated in myeloproliferative disorders other than chronic myeloid leukemia. We investigated the incidence and its correlation with other clinicopathologic variables of JAK2 mutation in patients with ET and reactive thrombocytosis (RT). Method: JAK2 mutation analysis, using allele-specific polymerase chain reaction, was undertaken on genomic DNA from bone marrow aspirates of 24 patients with ET and peripheral blood in 36 patients with RT. Results: JAK2 mutation was detected in 11 patients (46%) among the 24 patients with ET and was not found in 36 patients with RT. In patients with ET, older age and leukocytosis were related with JAK2 mutation without statistical significance (p=0.172 and 0.094, respectively). But this mutation was not correlated with sex, hemoglobin, platelet count, splenomegaly, increased cellularity of bone marrow, bone marrow fibrosis and vascular complications. Conclusions: The current observation strengthens the specific association between JAK2 mutation and ET. At the diagnosis of ET, identification of JAK2 mutation should be incorporated in foundation for new approaches.
Incidence and Risk Factors of Pre-eclampsia Among Iraqi Pregnant women

Pre-eclampsia is one of the most important gestational disorders that lead to both maternal and fetal bad outcomes. There are many risk factors that areassociated and augment the disease process of pre-eclampsia. Many hypotheses have been introduced to explain why such condition is obviously seen after 20 weeks¢ gestation. The most accepted of these relies on both immunological and vascular involvement. This clinical study was designed to evaluate and report the incidence of the most common risk factors that were associated with preeclampsia. One hundred pre-eclamptic patients and (60) normal pregnant women as controls were collected where all pregnant women received a detailed inquiry about their pregnancies, medical histories and antenatal cares. The study showed that there were certain risk factors significantly associated with pre-eclampsia incidence P<0.05 and these were gestational age (P-0.002), family history (P<0.001), multifetal pregnancy (P-0.009), previous abortion (P<0.001), medical history including UTI and DM (P<0.001) and social status (P-0.002),where as maternal age (P-0.81) and Rh factor (P-0.985) were insignificant risk factors for pre-eclampsia incidence.These findings suggest that gestational age, family history, multifetal pregnancy , previous abortion , medical history including UTI and DM and social status should be considered as important determent risk factors in the evaluation and diagnosis of pre-eclampsia by obstetricians
Hello Flood Attack and its Countermeasures in Wireless Sensor Networks

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems, due to recent technological advances, are being deployed in large scale for different applications. However, this requires a dense deployment of readers to cover the working area. Without optimizing reader's distribution and number, many of the readers will be redundant, reducing the efficiency of the whole RFID system. The problem of eliminating redundant readers has motivated researchers to propose different algorithms and optimization techniques. In this paper, the authors presented a new and efficient redundant reader elimination technique based on weights associated with reader's neighbor and coverage. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm eliminates more redundant readers than those of other wellknown techniques like Redundant Reader Elimination (RRE), Layered Elimination Optimization (LEO) and LEO+RRE algorithms while preserving the coverage ratio quite close to those obtained by RRE, LEO and LEO+RRE.
Assessment of Image Quality Parameters for Computed Tomography in Sudan

X-ray-computed tomography (CT) has become one of the most important investigation procedures worldwide. The study aimed to assess image quality parameters, mainly noise, and radiation doses during abdominal examination. This study examined the diagnostic parameters (kilo voltage, tube current time product, slice thickness, and pitch) and their effects on image quality as well as the radiation doses received from computed tomography scanners using phantom. The study carried out in four CT centers in Sudan. The study applied prospective and experimental methods. The study demonstrated there was a linear correlation between diagnostic parameters and image noise. The reduction in milli-ampere second and peak kilo voltage increased the image noise. Moreover increasing the pitch led to an increase in the image noise, whereas increasing the slice thickness, reduced the image noise. There was also a linear relationship between kilo voltage and radiation dose at Elnileen diagnostic center characterized by an increase kilo voltages values which led to an increase in the radiation dose by 92% and a reduction in the image noise by 83%. However, at Antalya medical center, increasing in kilo voltage values led to an increase in the radiation dose by 35% and a reduction in the image noise by 26%. Also increasing in milli-ampere second values led to an increase in the radiation dose by 49% and a reduction in the image noise by 46% in a phantom compared with an increase in radiation dose by 82% and a reduction in the image noise by 51% in patients . The study found that an optimal protocol for adult abdominal scan at Antalya medical center was 4.22HU for image noise and 10.45 mGy for radiation dose when using 120 kVp, 300 mAs, 5 mm slice thickness and pitch of 0.8. At Elnileen diagnostic center, however, the optimal protocol was 5.4 HU for image noise and 5.4 mGy for radiation dose using 130 kVp, 50 mAs, 10 mm slice thickness and pitch of 2. In addition, the quality control tests for image quality parameters carried out at the two centers were performed by using the Chat Phan phantom and all the tests were within the acceptable limits, according to Sudan Atomic Energy Commission (SAEC) Standardizations. The study concludes with a number of recommendations, such as; the necessity for an extensive collaboration among manufacturers, radiologists, technologists and physicists to find a plan to decrease patient radiation dose (ALARA Principle) from computed tomography scanner.
Management strategies for severe aortic stenosis and coronary artery disease in the transcatheter aortic valve implantation era

Coronary artery disease (CAD) and aortic stenosis (AS) frequently coexist. The advent of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and its increased use over the last decade has brought a paradigm shift in the management of patients with severe AS who are considered inoperable or high risk for sAVR. The most appropriate management of coexistent CAD in patients undergoing TAVI is yet to be defined. In this article, we present a review of the issues arising in the management of CAD in patients with severe AS—with particular reference to those who are undergoing TAVI.
Oral health knowledge, attitude, practices and oral hygiene status of factory workers

Aim: To assess the knowledge, attitude, practices and oral hygiene status of match-box factoryworkers in Gudiyatham taluk of Vellore District, Tamil Nadu. Materials and Methods: The survey was conducted among the match-box factory workers inGudiyatham taluk of Vellore district. Following the pilot study, the sample size of 948 match-box factoryworkers was needed for this study. The cluster sampling methodology was used to select the samples. Theclusters (match-box factories) were randomly selected one after the other to get the required sample size.The sources of data were primary, which consisted of a clinical examination to assess the level of oralhygiene (Oral Hygiene Index-Simplified) and a questionnaire on oral health knowledge, attitude andpractices. Results: 42.9% perceived the appearance of their teeth to be good. 48.3% visited a dentist only whenthere is pain / discomfort. 82% stated that they brush their teeth once daily and around 16% have thehabit of consuming tobacco in some form. Among the study subjects 74.7% had fair oral hygiene, 24.9%had good oral hygiene and 0.4% had poor oral hygiene. Conclusion: There is a need for improvement in the oral health knowledge, attitude, practices amongthe match-box factory workers which could be brought about with the help of health education by dentistand primary health care workers. It has also been observed that the level of oral hygiene was fair amongmajority of the match-box factory workers.