Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A study of breastfeeding practices among working women in urban area of Davangere, Karnataka, India

Background: Amongst the many determinants that influence the exclusivity of breastfeeding, the working status of the mother is the probably the most important. Objective of the study was to determine breastfeeding practices among working women in urban area and the factors affecting exclusive breastfeeding (EBF). Methods: This prospective study included 50 working mother and their babies attending routine immunization at MCH clinic in Davangere. Information on their breastfeeding practices was obtained using a pretested, structured questionnaire during every follow up visit. Data was entered in excel sheet and analyzed using SPSS software. Results were expressed in terms of percentages and proportions. Results: The mean age of the study subjects was 29.7years. Majority of them were teachers, had availed leave up to 135 days. Around 60% had initiated breastfeeding within an hour, 51.06% mothers had given Exclusive Breast Feeding (EBF) to their infants up to 18 weeks. Majority of them opined that short duration of leave (90%) and non-availability of creche (94%) were the main barriers for exclusive breastfeeding. Conclusions: Majority of the working mothers had initiated breastfeeding within an hour and had exclusively breastfed their children up to 18weeks and none of practiced bottle feeding. The duration of exclusive breastfeeding was related to the duration of leave availed.
Development and validation of immunoinformatics tools for swine vaccine development

Immunoinformatics tools have multiple applications in human immunology research. One of their most prominent applications is the prediction of T cell epitopes to accelerate vaccine development. T cell epitopes are short peptides derived from pathogens that are recognized by the cells of the immune system (T cells) when presented on the surface of cells bound to a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecule, which results in a specific immune response. For their role as key drivers of the immune response, numerous algorithms have been developed to predict binding of peptides to MHC molecules; however, comparable tools are limited for other species. The goal of this thesis is to develop immunoinformatics tools for swine to aid in the design of vaccines for pathogens affecting the pork industry. One of the main reasons for the limited development of T cell epitope mapping tools for swine is the lack of data required to train and test the predictive algorithms. Through this research, we have developed PigMatrix, a tool for prediction of peptide binding to swine MHC molecules. In an initial analysis, PigMatrix predictive performance was favorable, in particular because its development did not require training data. Using PigMatrix, we have identified immunogenic peptides conserved in seven different strains of influenza A virus (IAV), a highly diverse virus that has a significant impact not only on swine, but also for humans. Protective potential of IAV vaccines is commonly predicted using genetic data and antibody cross-reactivity properties of the hemagglutinin (HA) surface protein, the most variable antigen and primary target of the antibody immune response. However, protection has been reported in the absence of cross-reactive antibodies to HA. To explore the role of T cell epitopes in vaccine protection, we have developed a method (EpiCC) to compare T cell epitope content between proteins. We found that the relationship of predicted T cell epitopes between HA sequences of a swine IAV inactivated vaccine and challenge strains was associated with protection, providing evidence that T cells contribute to vaccine efficacy. This approach may complement current methods for selection of influenza vaccines against novel viruses and influenza strains for vaccine development. Taken together, these findings demonstrate the potential of immunoinformatics tools for the development and evaluation of swine vaccines and will allow for further research to improve the tools and apply them to design novel vaccine candidates.
Community‐Dwelling Spouses of Nursing Home Residents: Activities That Sustain Identities in Times of Transition

The purpose of this article is to explore the role of activities in the transitions of community-dwelling married persons that are related to placing their spouse in a nursing home. Data came from a study of lifestyle and financial issues that included qualitative, semistructured interviews of 52 community-dwelling spouses in 3 Canadian provinces. Results show that community-dwelling spouses engage in marriage-sustaining activities with their spouses, and identity-sustaining activities on their own. These activities function to provide community-dwelling spouses with a sense of continuity of their marriage and identity in the face of transition-related changes. Implications for rehabilitation professionals are discussed.
STUDY OF EMISSARY SPHENOIDAL FORAMEN AND ITS CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS

BACKGROUND: The emissary sphenoidal foramen is a small foramen located anteromedial to foramen ovale and lateral to foramen rotundum and opens below lateral to scaphoid fossa. It transmits an emissary vein through which the cavernous venous sinus and pterygoid venous plexus communicate. According to Soames emissary sphenoidal foramen exists in 40% of skulls. AIMS: The aim of the present study was to identify the percentage of emissary sphenoidal foramen and to analyze its clinical importance. MATERIAL AND METHODS: 180 dry adult human skulls were studied which were available from the Department of Anatomy at Mysore Medical College (Mysore), J. S. S. Medical College(Mysore), Farooqia Dental College (Mysore) and J. J. M. Medical College (Davangere). RESULTS: The emissary sphenoidal foramen was present in 90 skulls out of 180 skulls studied. Out of the 90(50%) skulls, emissary sphenoidal foramen was present bilaterally in 42(23.3%) skulls and in the remaining 48(26.67%) skulls it was unilateral, 18 (10%) skulls showing on right side and 30(16.67%) skulls showing on left side. CONCLUSION: Anatomic variations of the emissary sphenoidal foramen could be explained due developmental reasons. The detailed anatomical knowledge is required in clinical situations necessitating the surgery at the skull base where various nerves and vessels pass through various foramina.
PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF BCL2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN (BAX) EXPRESSION IN ADULT EGYPTIAN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA

Searching for new molecular markers in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that allow prediction of clinical outcome has recently directed towards genes involved in the regulation of apoptosis. Aim: To assess whether BAX gene expression per se is an independent prognostic parameters for outcome in Egyptian patients with AML. Our case control study was conducted on fifty four subjects, thirty four adult de novo AML patients and twenty volunteers as a control group. All participants were subjected to medical history, thorough clinical examination and laboratory measuring of routine CBC and comprehensive metabolic profile. Quantitative real-time PCR for BAX was done for all subjects. BAX gene expression was detected in AML patients and there was a significant correlation between the patients and control group (p value< 0.001). The complete remission rate after first induction chemotherapy was seen in 15 patients (71.4%) with high BAX expression and in 6 patients with low BAX expression, while only 4 out of 13 (30.7%) with poor clinical outcome expressed high BAX gene levels. This should deduce that BAX, The mean total leukocyte count (TLC) of the patients was 81.169 ± 60,000, the count was less than 50,000/cc in 21 patients (61.8%) and total count was above 50,000/cc in 13 patients (38.2%). When correlating these levels with BAX expression, there was a significant positive correlation of increased TLC and blast percent (Blast %) to BAX expression. On the other hand no significant correlation of BAX was found in relation to age, gender, hemoglobin (Hb) level or platelets count (table
Susceptibility to fluoroquinolones of Vibrio cholerae O1 isolated from diarrheal patients in Zimbabwe.

Financial Disclosures: Dr Lyketsos reported having received grant support from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging, the Associated Jewish Federation of Baltimore, the Weinberg Foundation, Forest, GlaxoSmithKline, Eisai, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Lilly, Ortho-McNeil, Bristol-Myers, and Novartis; having served as a consultant or advisor for AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Eisai, Novartis, Forest, Supernus, Adlyfe, Takeda, Wyeth, Lundbeck, Merz, and Lilly; and having received honoraria or travel support from Pfizer, Forest, GlaxoSmithKline, and Health Monitor. No other disclosures were reported.
Pressões respiratórias estáticas máximas

O instrumento clássico para medir ao nível da boca as pressões respiratórias estáticas máximas – pressão inspiratória máxima (PImáx) e pressão expiratória máxima (PEmáx) – é um tubo cilíndrico rígido, cuja extremidade distal é fechada, exceto por apresentar um orifício com 1 a 2mm de diâmetro. A extremidade proximal é aberta e nela se encaixa uma peça bucal; através desta, o indivíduo em teste realiza esforços expiratórios ou inspiratórios máximos. Uma saída lateral e uma tubulação de plástico rígido ligam o interior do tubo a um manovacuômetro (manômetro aneróide capaz de medir pressões negativas e positivas)(1,2) ou a uma pequena torneira de três vias que permite estabelecer, alternadamente, conexão com um de dois manômetros aneróides (um para medida de pressões negativas, outro para medida de pressões positivas; Figura 1)(3). Pressões respiratórias estáticas máximas
Clinical usefulness of serum neopterin in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Abstract The aim of this study was to analyze the usefulness of the serum concentration of neopterin (NPT) as a marker of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). The study included 67 children with JIA (36 girls and 31 boys), aged between 3.8 and 17.9 years (mean 13.7±3.4 years), and 105 healthy controls (47 girls and 58 boys) of similar age, with no evidence of acute or chronic inflammation. Serum NPT was determined immunoenzymatically. The median serum concentration of NPT and prevalence of elevated serum NPT (>11 nmol/L) were significantly higher in children with JIA than in the controls: 6.044 vs. 4.734 nmol/L (p<0.001) and 30% vs. 5% (p<0.001), respectively. The serum concentration of NPT did not correlate with body temperature (R=0.00, p=0.97), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (R=0.09, p=0.47), leukocyte count (R=−0.05, p=0.70), C-reactive protein (R=−0.14, p=0.25), and procalcitonin levels (R=0.07, p=0.56). Furthermore, serum NPT was not associated with the type of JIA. However, children with exacerbation of JIA presented with significantly higher median serum level of NPT (10.912 vs. 4.471 nmol/L, p<0.001) and higher prevalence of serum NPT >11 nmol/L (50% vs. 0%, p<0.001) than did patients with remission. These data suggest that elevated serum concentration of NPT is an accurate marker of JIA exacerbation.
Impact of Work–Life Balance and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour on Intention to Leave

This research aims to examine the effect of work–life balance on organisational citizenship behaviour, the effect of work–life balance on intention to leave and the effect of organisational citizenship behaviour on intention to leave. The data were collected using questionnaires from 209 employees of four and five-star hotels in the city of Malang, East Java, Indonesia. The data were then analysed using GeSCA. The findings indicate that work–life balance has a significant effect on organisational citizenship behaviour, but no significant effect on intention to leave; however, organisational citizenship behaviour has a significant effect on intention to leave. The findings provide insights to managers that employees’ work–life balance in an environment is the key to creating a comfortable environment for employees so that they remain loyal to the company. A manager develops programs aimed at improving balance between employees’ personal interests and their work. This study investigates the direct and indirect effects of work–life balance on intention to leave through organisational citizenship behaviour so the important role of organisational citizenship behaviour is highlighted.
A Structured Educational Intervention for Enhancing Self- Management and Readiness of Diabetic Adolescent for the Health-Care Transition

The transition to adult medical care is essential for the development of adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes. This shift refers to the discrete point in time, when the adolescent is in the adult health care system. Transition may be a multiyear process, ideally starting early in adolescence, it designed to develop and improve effective knowledge, self-management and promotion to enhance readiness to meet the health care needs of adults. The aimof this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a structured educational intervention on enhancing self-management, and readiness of diabetic adolescent for the health-care transition. Methods: A quasiexperimental design was utilized on a convenient sample of 60 diabetic adolescents in Pediatric and Diabetes and Endocrinology unit inpatient and outpatient clinic at Mansoura University Children's Hospital. Three tools were used to collect data regarding;Diabetic Adolescent's Structure Interview Questionnaire, Observational Checklists and University of North Carolina (UNC) TR(x)ANSITION Scale version 3. Results:There were statistically significant improvements in all aspects of transmission readiness of the adolescents of the study group throughout the program, compared to before the program implementation. Conclusion:program results in increased knowledge, practices and improved transition readiness of diabetic adolescents. Keywards:educational program, self-management, readiness,diabetic adolescent, health-care transition. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 23-01-2019 Date of acceptance: 07-02-2019 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pasteurellaceae members with similar morphological patterns associated with respiratory manifestations in ducks

Aim: A total of 112 freshly dead ducks aged from 2 to 20 weeks old with a history of respiratory manifestations were investigated for the implication of Pasteurellaceae family members. Materials and Methods: Isolation and identification to the family level were conducted by conventional bacteriological methods, including microscopic examination and biochemical characterization. Identification to the species level was conducted by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and analytical profile index (API) 20E kits. Results: Conventional bacteriological isolation and biochemical characterization revealed the infection of 16/112 examined birds with a prevalence rate of 14.3%. PCR confirmed the detection of Pasteurellaceae family conserved genes RpoB and Bootz in 16/16 (100%) isolates. PCR was also used for genus and species identification of the isolated Pasteurellaceae members; the results revealed that 5/16 (31.3%) of isolates were Gallibacterium anatis and 2/16 of isolates (12.5%) were Pasteurella multocida. Riemerella anatipestifer, Mannheimia haemolytica, and Avibacterium paragallinarum were not detected by PCR. Biotyping by API 20E successfully identified 5/16 (31.3%) isolates that could not be typed by PCR and confirmed their belonging to Pasteurella pneumotropica. Neither the available PCR primer sets nor API 20E succeeded for species identification of 4/16 (25%) isolates. Antibiotic susceptibility profiling of isolates revealed that 16/16 (100%) of isolates demonstrated multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotypes. Moreover, 16/16 (100%) of isolates demonstrated a phenotypic resistance pattern to neomycin. Conclusion: Combined genotypic, phenotypic, biotyping, and virulence characterizations are required for laboratory identification of pathogenic Pasteurellaceae. Moreover, P. multocida was not the prevailed member implicated in respiratory problems in ducks as P. pneumotropica, G. anatis, and unidentified strains were involved with higher prevalence. Chloramphenicol and ampicillin demonstrated the highest in vitro effects on the studied Pasteurellaceae. Furthermore, the prevalence of multidrug-resistant isolates signified the demand to implement targeted surveillance in the ducks’ production sector, and MDR survey in poultry sectors in Egypt to apply effective control measures.
How Important are OCB as Mediation in Relationship Between Job Satisfaction, Motivation, Organizational Comittments, and Organizational Performance

Schermerhorn, Hunt and Osborn said that company performance determined by the human resources/human capital. Human capital runs the company, creates innovation and improvement in order to achieve the company's goals such as operational excellence, incremental profitability and cost effectiveness. Konopaske, Ivancevic and Matteson, Schermerhorn, Hunt and Osborn, Robbin and Coulter said that company performance can be influenced by employee job satisfaction, organizational commitment and Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). This research use primary data and to gather the data we use census method to ask 173 state owned firm employees, using questionnaire with Likert scale. Data processed using Structural Equations Method (SEM) with Smart PLS data analysis. This study indicate that job satisfaction has no effect on organizational performance either directly or mediated by OCB, but motivation influences organizational performance by being fully mediated by OCB. In other hands, organizational commitment affects organizational performance both directly and through OCB, so its mean OCB partially mediated the relationship between organizational commitment and organizational performance.
Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

The vowel spaces of Southern Californian English and Mexican Spanish were investigated using three groups of speakers: 11 English monolinguals (9 female), 10 Spanish monolinguals (7 female), and 11 Spanish-English bilinguals (8 female). Speakers produced six repetitions of the ten American English vowels [i, ɪ, ɛ, æ, ɑ, ɔ, ʊ, u, Λ, and ɜr] and six repetitions of the five Spanish vowels [i, e, a, u, and o]. Monolinguals produced vowels in one language; bilinguals produced vowels in both languages. Preliminary analysis shows for females Southern Californian English back vowels were less fronted compared to the results of Hagiwara (1997) from Southern Californian English, but more fronted than those of Hillenbrand et al. (1995) on General American English. Mexican Spanish back vowels [u] and [o] were substantially backed compared to Castilian Spanish vowels (Bradlow, 1995), while [i] was lower and more fronted. In general, Mexican Spanish vowels were produced more backed than Southern Californian English vowels in monolingual productions. Bilinguals produced their two vowel spaces with Spanish more backed and lower as compared to English.
The Implication of Patchwork and Compactness in Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Reasoning

We study the qualitative spatiotemporal logic that results by combining the propositional temporal logic (PTL) with a qualitative spatial constraint language, namely, theL1 logic, and investigate the implication of the constraint properties of compactness and patchwork in qualitative spatiotemporal reasoning. We use these properties to strengthen results regarding the complexity of the satisfiability problem in L1, by replacing the stricter global consistency property used in literature and, consequently, generalizing to more qualitative spatial constraint languages. Further, we identify fragments of the L1 logic that capture significant aspects of spatiotemporal change. In particular, we address the issue of periodical, and smoothness and continuity constraints between spatial configurations, and obtain results on their computational properties. Regarding periodicity, we use again the properties of compactness and patchwork to strengthen results that exist in literature, by reestablishing conditions that allow for tractability and, again, generalizing to a larger class of qualitative spatial constraint languages.
Forgotten partners and function regulators of inducible metallothioneins

Abstract Metallothioneins are peculiar cysteine rich, heat resistant, small cellular plasma proteins expressed through almost all life forms. The currently established biological functions of metallothioneins are the homeostasis of essential metals and protection against toxic transitional metals (TM) alongside defence from oxidative stress by direct scavenging of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS and RNS). In mammals, among the four main evolutionary conserved forms, only the ubiquitously expressed metallothionein 1 and 2 (here abbreviated as MT) are inducible by TM, oxidative stress, glucocorticoids and starvation among various other stimuli. However, more than sixty years after being discovered, metallothioneins still bear unresolved issues about their possible physiological function and regulation. The biological function of MTs has still not been associated with the in vitro-demonstrated capacity of MT interaction with cellular molecules glutathione (GSH) or adenosine triphosphate (ATP), or with the possibility of direct iron-MT binding in the reducing intracellular environment of some organelles, e.g. lysosomes. Iron as the most abundant cellular TM is also one of the main physiological sources of ROS. Moreover, iron exhibits strain, sex and age differences that reflected ROS generation and MT induction in (patho)physiology and toxicology studies. A recent study showed that iron sex differences follows expression of both ferritin and MT leading to wide implications from essential TM interconnectivity to aging. This review places emphasis on biochemically proven but physiologically ignored interactions of MT with iron to stimulate advanced research for establishing a wide frame of the biological roles of MTs important for health and longevity.
Sustainable Competitive Advantage of Logistics Service Providers in Malaysia: A Systematic Review

The repercussion of globalization and liberalization have led to numerous competitors entering the market which caused to worldwide of Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) increased. This trend also created an excessive pressure on logistics systems, which makes inevitable adjustments for local LSPs in Malaysia. Currently, there are limited capabilities of LSPs since majority of local LSPs offer only basic services, such as inbound and outbound transportation, warehouse storage and freight forwarding. The current study attempts to explore sustainable competitive advantage and strategies for logistics service providers which contribute the most to sustain in market. This paper used the method called PRISMA statement (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and MetaAnalyses). The resources are obtained from Scopus and the Web of Science database. The articles were collected from the years 2010 to 2019. This method was used to run the systematic review, eligibility and exclusion criteria, steps of the review process (identification, screening, eligibility) and data abstraction and analysis. The contribution of study can be seen as to provide a way forward for local LSPs to implement particular strategies that identified act as potential effective tools to sustain and remain competitive in market. These suggestions are hoped to provide basis for concerned parties to employ competitive advantage strategies that are coherent with local LSPs.