Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Factors Related to the Quality of Life among Elderly with Dementia: A Scoping Review

Dementia is a degenerative neurological condition in the elderly with a syndrome of decreased brain function that affects cognitive, memory and function. One of the significant impacts of dementia is that it causes changes in the quality of life influenced by various factors. This study aims to examine the factors that affect the quality of life of the elderly with dementia based on a scoping review. The design of this research is a literature review. Journal searches were performed on the NCBI, SpringerLink, BioMed Central and EBSCOhost websites using the keywords ( “ Factors ” ) OR ( “ Risk Factors ” ) OR ( “ Predictors ” ) AND ( “ Influence ” ) OR (Affect) OR (Impact) OR ( “ Associated ” ) AND ( “ Quality of Life) ” OR (Health Related Quality of Life ” ) AND ( “ Elderly ” ) OR ( “ Aged ” OR ( “ Older Adults ” ) AND ( “ Dementia ” ) according to inclusion criteria. The journals were then assessed for quality using JBI (Joanna Briggs Institute) and analyzed using thematic analysis method. A total of 11 relevant journals were used in this study with the results of the analysis showing that physical factors are the biggest factors affecting the quality of life of elderly dementia by 46%, followed by psychological factors 34%, other factors 8%, demographic characteristics factors 8% and social factors 4 %. Based on the findings of this study, various treatment strategies or interventions should be developed and implemented to improve the quality of life of the elderly with dementia by further identifying the factors that affect the quality of life.
SELF MEDICATION PRACTICES IN AN URBAN POPULATION OF KERALA: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY

Background: To determine the extent and pattern of self-medication among an urban population Kalamassery, Ernakulam, Kerala and to determine the factors responsible for self-medication practices. Materials and Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted among patients attending selected pharmacies in Kalamassery Municipality of Ernakulam district of Kerala. A pre tested questionnaire prepared in English was used to collect relevant information from those practicing self-medication. Questionnaire collected socio-demographic profile of the participants and the reported self-medication practices. Data was appropriately coded and entered in MS excel. Analysis was done using SPSS software. Results were presented as frequency charts and tables. Result: Out of 623 people who came to the pharmacies, 79% came with a prescription of a registered medical practitioner while the remaining (21%) did not have a prescription. Males practiced self-medication more (66%) compared to females (34%). High prevalence of self-medication was among married respondents (52%). Among the study population, 43% were unemployed, 25% were daily wage workers and 32% were salaried. 16% were illiterate. Most common reason cited for self-medication was prior experience of taking the medication for similar symptoms. 55% of samples had taken self-medication once in the last 3 months and remaining had taken it twice or more. Majority of people had no side effects from self-medication while few reported rashes, sedation, allergy, and stomach discomfort. Most commonly used over the counter self-medication among the study participants was NSAIDS (64%), followed by Topical preparation (16%) and GI medication (13.3%). Most common condition self-treated by the study population was headache and myalgia (76%) followed by diarrhea (27%) and fever (26%). Conclusion: Self-medication practices among the urban population of Kerala are a cause of serious public health concern which need to be curtailed through awareness generation among the public and stricter regulations.
Dependence of trapped-flux-induced surface resistance of a large-grain Nb superconducting radio-frequency cavity on spatial temperature gradient during cooldown through T c

Recent studies by Romanenko et al. revealed that cooling down a superconducting cavity under a large spatial temperature gradient decreases the amount of trapped flux and leads to reduction of the residual surface resistance. In the present paper, the flux expulsion ratio and the trapped-flux-induced surface resistance of a large-grain cavity cooled down under a spatial temperature gradient up to $80\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{K}/\mathrm{m}$ are studied under various applied magnetic fields from 5 to $20\text{ }\text{ }\ensuremath{\mu}\mathrm{T}$. We show the flux expulsion ratio improves as the spatial temperature gradient increases, independent of the applied magnetic field: our results support and enforce the previous studies. We then analyze all rf measurement results obtained under different applied magnetic fields together by plotting the trapped-flux-induced surface resistance normalized by the applied magnetic field as a function of the spatial temperature gradient. All the data can be fitted by a single curve, which defines an empirical formula for the trapped-flux-induced surface resistance as a function of the spatial temperature gradient and applied magnetic field. The formula can fit not only the present results but also those obtained by Romanenko et al. previously. The sensitivity ${r}_{\mathrm{fl}}$ of surface resistance from trapped magnetic flux of fine-grain and large-grain niobium cavities and the origin of $dT/ds$ dependence of ${R}_{\mathrm{fl}}/{B}_{a}$ are also discussed.
The relevance of multi-country input-output tables in measuring emissions trade balance of countries :

As part of national accounts, input-output tables are becoming crucial statistical tools to study theeconomic, social and environmental impacts of globalization and international trade. In particular,global input-output tables extend the national dimension to the international dimension by relatingindividual countries’ input-output tables among each other, thus providing an opportunity to bal-ance the global economy as a whole. Concerning emissions of greenhouse gases, the relativeposition that countries hold among their main trade partners at the global level is a key issue interms of international climate negotiations.With this purpose, we show that (official) Multi-countryinput-output tables are crucial to analyse the greenhouse gas emission trade balance of individualcountries. Spain has a negative trade emissions balance for all three gases analysed, being themost negative balances those associated to the bilateral trade with China, Russia, United Statesand the rest of the European Union as a whole.
Oral Medicine and Dental

Introduction Diabetes mellitus (type II) is a metabolic disorder that affects the physiological functions of the body in a pernicious way. It has been shown that long term damage to vital organs including the oral cavity was brought on due to the elevation of blood glucose, which means that the structural components of the dental pulp may be directly affected as well as the influence on the sensory nerves too.
Expressive Motion for Low Degree-of-Freedom Robots

Expressive Motion for Low Degree-of-Freedom Robots by Heather Knight As social and collaborative robots move into everyday life, the need for algorithms enabling their acceptance becomes critical. People parse non-verbal communications intuitively, even from machines that do not look like people, thus, expressive motion is a natural and efficient way to communicate with people. This work presents a computational Expressive Motion framework allowing simple robots to modify task motions to communicate varying internal states, such as task status, social relationships, mood (e.g., emotive) and/or attitude (e.g., rushed, confident). By training robot motion features with humans in the loop, future robot designers can use this approach to parametrize how a robot generates its task motions. The hypothesis of this Thesis is that robots can modify the motion features of their task behaviors such to legibly communicate a variety of states. Typically, researchers build instances of expressive motion into individual robot behaviors (which is not scalable), or use an independent channel such as lights or facial expressions that do not interfere with the robot’s task. What is unique about this work is that we use the same modality to do both task and expression: the robot’s joint and whole-body motions. While this is not the only way for a robot
A stochastic B cell affinity maturation model to characterize mechanisms of protection for tetravalent dengue vaccine constructs

Dengue annually infects millions of people from a regionally and seasonally varying dengue virus population circulating as four distinct serotypes. Effective protection against dengue infection and disease requires tetravalent vaccine formulations to stimulate a balanced protective immune response to all four serotypes. However, this has been a challenge to achieve, and several clinical trials with different leading vaccine candidates have demonstrated unbalanced replication and interference of interindividual serotype components, leading to low efficacy and enhanced disease severity for dengue-naïve populations. Production of serotype-specific neutralizing antibodies is largely viewed as a correlate of protection against severe dengue disease. However, the underlying mechanisms that lead to these protective immune responses are not clearly elucidated. In this work, using a stochastic model of B cell affinity maturation, we tested different live-attenuated vaccine constructs with varied viral replication rates and contrasted the initiation and progress of adaptive immune responses during tetravalent vaccination and after dengue virus challenge. Comparison of our model simulations across different disease-severity levels suggested that individual production of high levels of serotype-specific antibodies together with a lower cross-reactive antibody are better correlates for protection. Furthermore, evolution of these serotype-specific antibodies was dependent on the percent of viral attenuation in the vaccine, and production of initial B cell and T cell populations pre- and post-secondary dengue infection was crucial in providing protective immunity for dengue-naïve populations. Furthermore, contrasting disease severity with respect to different dengue serotypes, our model simulations showed that tetravalent vaccines fare better against DENV-4 serotype when compared to other serotypes.
Measurement of Azimuthal Asymmetries in Inclusive Charged Dipion Production in e + e − Annihilations at √ s = 3.65 GeV

We present a measurement of the azimuthal asymmetries of two charged pions in the inclusive process e + e − → ππX , based on a data set of 62 pb − 1 at the center-of-mass energy of 3 . 65 GeV collected with the BESIII detector. These asymmetries can be attributed to the Collins fragmentation function. We observe a nonzero asymmetry, which increases with increasing pion momentum. As our energy scale is close to that of the existing semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering experimental data, the measured asymmetries are important inputs for the global analysis of extracting the quark transversity distribution inside the nucleon and are valuable to explore the energy evolution of the
Spectral Masking and Filtering

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Spectral masking and filtering Timo Gerkmann, Emmanuel Vincent
Charismatic Leadership and Job Performance: Mediation of Interpersonal Communication and Moderation of Leader Vision

The study investigates the association between charismatic leadership and job performance using interpersonal communication as a mediator and leader vision as moderator variables. The social cognitive theory uses as a theoretical lens to understand this conceptual framework. The sample of the study is those organizations that have undergone a central level of change. The study used a cross-sectional research design and data was collected from 350 participants through paper–and–pencil questionnaires to 30 different organizations. This exploratory study uses structural equation modeling (SEM) with common method bias (CMB), discriminant, and convergent validity tests to analyze the data. The results of this study explain how charismatic leadership impacted job performance with moderated (leader vision) mediation (interpersonal communication) analysis. These significant insights delineated practical as well as theoretical implications for both researchers and policymakers. This study significantly contributes to the body of knowledge on human resource literature. According to researchers’ knowledge, this study is one of the pioneer studies to investigate leader vision as a moderator variable between stated associations in the Pakistani context.
Suboptimal macronutrient ratios promote cannibalism in a generalist herbivore (Trichoplusia ni)

Discretional cannibalism is a widespread phenomenon among lepidopteran herbivores. Herbivores encounter variation in dietary nutrient quality when foraging, which alters feeding behaviour, as well as population‐ and trophic‐level dynamics. For example, plant resistance traits directly influence feeding patterns in insect herbivores through reduced consumption of plant tissue and increased rates of cannibalism. However, the effects of dietary composition, in particular unbalanced macronutrient ratios, on driving cannibalism remain unknown. We examined the effects of unbalanced macronutrient ratios on cannibalism in the generalist caterpillar Trichoplusia ni using an artificial diet experiment with varied ratios of two important macronutrients: protein and carbohydrates. We quantified cannibalistic behaviour from the second instar to pupation and measured survival among cannibals and non‐cannibals to understand the long‐term and short‐term costs and benefits of cannibalism. Caterpillars in high carbohydrate, low protein treatments cannibalised 20% more than the optimum control diet treatment, whereas herbivores in high protein, low carbohydrate treatments cannibalised 33% more than herbivores reared on the optimum macronutrient diet treatment. Survival of cannibals in macronutrient‐deficient diet treatments was 10.4%, compared with 76.9% for cannibals in the optimal macronutrient diet treatment. While previous work demonstrates the importance of induced chemical defence in promoting shifts to cannibalism, our results indicate that unbalanced macronutrient ratios can also promote cannibalism in insect herbivores. We propose that understanding how unbalanced macronutrient ratios drive cannibalism yields insight into how dietary quality, including both plant resistance traits and plant nutrients, influences behavioural plasticity and mediates plant–herbivore interactions.
Completeness on the stability criterion of fractional order LTI systems

Abstract The importance of the concept of stability in fractional order system and control has been recognized for some time now. Recently, it has become evident that many conclusions were drawn, but little consensus was reached. Consequently, there is an urgent need for a much deeper understanding of such a concept. With the definition of fractional order positive definite matrix, a set of equivalent and elegant stability criteria are developed via revisiting a stability criterion we proposed before. All the results are formed in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Afterwards, a series of interesting properties of these criteria are revealed profoundly, including completeness, singularity, conservatism, etc. Eventually, a simulation study is provided to validate the effectiveness of the obtained results.
Chewing Ability and the Quality of Life: A Cross-Sectional Study to Assess the Relationship Between Tooth Wear and Oral Health

Introduction: It is important to understand how a very common prevalent condition of tooth wear (TW) impacts a person’s day-to-day oral health. An emerging concept of measuring the parameter of oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL), which evidently impacts the daily living of a person, makes it practical to examine the correlation between TW and OHRQoL. For measuring the OHRQoL, we can apply various methods, and the most effective is the use of the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP) questionnaire. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to assess the correlation between TW and the OHRQoL among adult patients attending a dental college and hospital. Methods: A cross-sectional research was performed on patients who visited the outpatient department of Teerthanker Mahaveer Dental College and Research Centre, Moradabad, India. Initially, the sociodemographic details of patients, including their oral hygiene and dietary habits, were recorded. This step was followed by the assessment of TW using the Smith and Knight TW index. Then, the translated and validated version of the OHIP questionnaire was filled up, in which the patients were asked to rate each question on a Likert scale, with five points ranging from 0 to 4, where 0 = never, 1 = hardly ever, 2 = occasionally, 3 = fairly often, and 4 = very often. Results: Based on a clinical examination on 630 subjects and the OHIP questionnaire responses from the participants, a significantly remarkable association (p ≤ 0.05) was found using a chi-square test between TW and the OHRQoL. In particular, TW was linked to other sociodemographic data and various lifestyle, dietary, and drinking habits. Along with the OHRQoL, TW also showed a positive correlation with gender. Using the chi-square test, a statistically significant association between age and TW was observed, with p-value = 0.004. Meanwhile, the place of residence did not show any association with TW. Educational qualifications of patients, visits to dental clinics, and reasons for dental visits showed very significant association with TW. Oral hygiene aids, materials used, frequency of brushing, and brushing technique did not have any association with TW as per the results obtained. A highly significant association was found between consumption of fruit drinks, citric drinks, and beverages and TW in the adult patients. Among all the domains of the OHIP questionnaire, the physical pain domain was the most affected, followed by the physical disability domain. Conclusion: We conclude that TW has a direct association and positive correlation with the OHRQoL. As TW was increasing, so were the OHIP values, which indicated a lesser OHRQoL. The study also presents information on how to maintain a regular and healthy dietary lifestyle and oral hygiene to combat the impacts of TW.
Waiting Time : Problems From The Past, Present and Future

DOI: 10.30604/jika.v8i3. 2045 Copyright 2023 @author(s) A B S T R A K Waktu tunggu yang lama merupakan permasalahan yang terjadi hampir diseluruh fasilitas pelayanan kesehatan. Waktu tunggu yang lama merupakan permasalahan yang sudah ada sejak dahulu namun hingga saat ini masih belum terselesaikan. Salah satu faktor penyebab permasalahan ini terjadi dikarenakan fasilitas pelayanan kesehatan selalu berupaya meningkatkan angka kunjungan pasien namun tidak diikuti dengan peningkatan kemampuan pelayanan baik dari segi sumber daya manusia maupun sarana dan prasarana. Waktu tunggu yang lama nantinya akan berdampak pada tingkat kepuasan pasien. Kepuasan pasien merupakan faktor kunci dalam menjalankan bisnis dibidang jasa pelayanan kesehatan. Jenis penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif dengan metode observasional analitik yang menggunakan kuesioner sebagai instrumen pengambilan data. Kuesioner penelitian tentang kepuasan menggunakan skala likert 1-5. Peneliti juga melakukan pengambilan data secara aktual terkait waktu tunggu terhadap 139 responden klinik penyakit dalam dengan cara mengikuti responden mulai dari loket antrian hingga responden meninggalkan fasilitas pelayanan kesehatan. Besaran sampel penelitian dihitung menggunakan software epi-info dengan metode pengambilan sampel consecutive sampling. Analisis data menggunakan metode chi-square pada software SPSS 21 menemukan bahwa dengan rerata waktu tunggu selama 315 menit tidak berpengaruh terhadap kepuasan pasien, hal ini dikarenakan terdapat faktor-faktor lain yang dapat mempengaruhi kepuasan pasien selain waktu tunggu.
Possibility of Core-envelope Separation in the Self-similar Dynamic Collapse of a Polytropic Filamentary Cloud

The core-envelope separation during the gravitational collapse is one of the important mechanisms in the binary formation that may occur in a rotating filamentary cloud. In this study, we consider the self-similar dynamic collapse of a rotating filament, including the effect of magnetic braking and ambipolar diffusion in the intermediate and surrounding mediums (or envelope) of the cloud. The self-similar dynamic formalism is used in the nonideal magnetohydrodynamic regime to study the gravitational collapse. We divide our study into two parts, i.e., isothermal configuration and polytropic configuration. The problem in the isothermal configuration is solvable as a function of the independent self-similar variable. This analytical result can give us a new perspective on the isothermal collapse. The results in the polytropic configuration can be obtained by numerical methods. The presence of ambipolar diffusion results in a toroidal component of magnetic field during the self-similar collapse in these mediums, which markedly affects the magnetic braking. In fact, this braking effect in the toroidal direction causes a rotation opposite to the initial rotation, which may lead to the core-envelope separation. We also found that the ratio of magnetic pressure to gas pressure, which is a resistive criterion versus the gravity force, decreases by increasing the ambipolar diffusion coefficient. Finally, the results point to regions of interest in which the core-envelope separation may be seen.