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Comparison of icodextrin with thymoquinone: A new hope for postoperative adhesions

Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of thymoquinone and icodextrin in rats within the framework of an experimental adhesion model. Materials and Methods: Rats were separated into three groups: (1) a control group consisting of rats that had 2 ml of isotonic solution administered intraperitoneally, (2) an ICO group administered with 2 ml of 4% icodextrin, and (3) a TQ group administered thymoquinone (10 mg/kg), all following cecal abrasion. The three groups underwent a reoperation on the 7th postoperative day. Hydroxyproline levels were analyzed in the resected adhesive tissues, and histopathological investigations were conducted. Blood samples were collected for biochemical analyses. Results: Fewer postoperative adhesions were observed in the ICO and TQ groups compared with the control group. A comparison of the TQ and ICO groups revealed lowers levels of postoperative adhesions in the TQ group. Compared with the control group, malondialdehyde, 8-OH-deoxyguanosine/deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG/10dG), Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), and CoenzymeQ10/reduced CoenzymeQ10 (CoQ10/CoQ10H) values were found to be lower in the TQ and ICO groups. When the TQ and ICO groups were compared with respect to their biochemical parameters, the results for all of the four parameters were found to be statistically significantly lower in the TQ group (P < 0.000). The levels of hydroxyproline in the control, ICO, and TQ groups were found to be (mean ± standard deviation) 502.25 ± 90.39 μg/g, 342.13 ± 66.61 μg/g, and 287.88 ± 49.59 μg/g, respectively. Conclusions: A comparison of the antiadhesive effects of thymoquinone and icodextrin revealed thymoquinone to be more effective. These results indicate that thymoquinone is an efficient and strong antiadhesive molecule.
GPS Trajectory Data Enrichment based on a Latent Statistical Model

This paper proposes a latent statistical model for analyzing global positioning system (GPS) trajectory data. Because of the rapid spread of GPS-equipped devices, numerous GPS trajectories have become available, and they are useful for various location-aware systems. To better utilize GPS data, a number of sensor data mining techniques have been developed. This paper discusses the application of a latent statistical model to two closely related problems, namely, moving mode estimation and interpolation of the GPS observation. The proposed model estimates a latent mode of moving objects and represents moving patterns according to the mode by exploiting a large GPS trajectory dataset. We evaluate the effectiveness of the model through experiments using the GeoLife GPS Trajectories dataset and show that more than three-quarters of covered locations were correctly reproduced by interpolation at a fine granularity.
The world's religions : our great wisdom traditions

The Great Importance of a Religious Life, and the Continual Pleasure Theerof Consider'd The Third Edition with Additions. [By William Melmoth. Together with “Forms of Prayer, Proper to be Used Before, At, and After the Holy Sacrament The Sixth Edition. ”]Mason on self-knowledge. Melmoth's Great importance of a religious life considered. Dodsley's Economy of human lifeThe Great Importance of a Religious Life Considered The Nineteenth Edition, Corrected. [By William Melmoth. ]The Colonial Empire of Great Britain, Especially in Its Religious Aspect. A Lecture. Dec. 3, 1849The Great Importance of a Religious Life considered The twenty fifth edition, corrected. By William Melmoth, the elderEleven Great Religions of the World TodayThe Great Salvation; and Our Sin in Neglecting It. A Religious Essay: in Three PartsComparative Religion the Charles Strong Trust Lecutures 1961-1970The World's ReligionsReligion and the Good LifeThe Great Importance of a Religious Life Consider'dHuman Development and Faith (Second Edition)Travels in the Religious World; by the author of “the Great Physician” [signed, F. 4]. The Crisis; Or, the Great Religious Revolution and the Fall of the National Churches, Etc. Etc. According to the Revelation of St. JohnThe Illustrated World's ReligionsWorld ReligionsGreat Religions of the Modern WorldJournal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great BritainThe World's ReligionsAlternative ReligionsUnity and the UniversityExploring the Religions of Our WorldA Few Observations on the Great Truths of the Christian Religion. [Signed: J. F. , i.e. Josiah Forster. ]The great Importance of a Religious Life considered, etcThe Great Importance of a Religious Education Third EditionTowards a Global Congress of World ReligionsChristian TheologyEleven Great Religions of the World TodayWorld's Great ReligionsBeliefs that Changed the WorldThe Great Revivalists in American Religion, 1740Ð1944The Great Importance of a Religious Life Considered10 Great Books of Religion and Philosophy. IllustratedReligion and Liberty rescued from supersition and slavery, great subjects of thanksgiving: a sermon [on Psalm cvii. 2] preached Oct. 9. 1746The great importance of a religious life considered: to which are added,
Customer-focused and service-focused orientation in organizational structures

Purpose – The paper aims to provide a better understanding of the interrelatedness of customer and service orientations in the organizational structures of capital goods manufacturing companies.Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative, multi‐case research design was employed using 36 European capital goods manufacturing companies.Findings – This article explored four different patterns of how companies move from being product‐focused to service‐focused, and from having an organizational structure that is geographically focused to one that is customer‐focused. The four patterns are termed as follows: emphasizing service orientation, service‐focused organizational structure, emphasizing customer orientation, and customer‐focused organizational structure.Research limitations/implications – Although the study is based on 36 case studies, the external validity (generalizability) of the findings could not be assessed accurately.Practical implications – The description of the four organizational approaches of.
Human-robot impact model: For safety assessment of collaborative robot design

In this research, a novel impact simulation model based on compliant contact force (CCF) modelling approach is presented. This model can simulate the physical impact between non-homogeneous and layered elastic bodies representing the robot and human body parts. The proposed CCF model is intended to be used by the robot designers to execute safety evaluation tasks during the design and development of collaborative robot systems. The main theoretical contribution from this CCF impact model is related to the formulations, which can account for the contact behavior due to the non-homogeneous nature of the impacting bodies. The relevance of the proposed impact simulation is evaluated based on a comparative analysis with other available relevant models from the literature as well as with Finite element based simulation model. Finally, the influence of various robot design parameters on the impact severity is analyzed for different impact scenarios by adopting the proposed CCF model.
Assessment of vulnerabilities of the biometric template protection mechanism

In the ever-changing world of global data transmission, the security of data and individual privacy are the growing fears in today’s human life worldwide. The major concerns are the protection of the biometric templates in the biometric identification and authentication process. Storage of the biometric template in the database raises the chance of compromising it, hence lead to serious threats and abuse of the person’s identity. When an individual’s registered biometric data is disclosed, their security and privacy can be compromised. Therefore, public acceptance of biometrics will depend on the system designer’s ability to demonstrate that the systems are robust, with low error rates, and tamper proof. If someone’s biometric template inside the database is compromised, that consequently might imply identification robbery of that individual. In the recent past, a considerable number of methods for biometric template protection have been published. This article explains, a thorough valuation on numerous attacks and threats associated with the biometric system alongside the biometric template protection, elucidating the measures anticipated to address the threats, to the performance gap and establish the status quo of the current biometric template protection for public acceptance.
An energy efficiency and delay guarantee service selection protocol in MANET

The real-time applications deployed in MANETs are affected by the mobile node's power constraints and the real-time database service provider's system stability. In this paper, we aim to handle the time-constrained requests within their deadline despite of the mobile nodes limited energy. We propose a cross layer service selection protocol which ensures both timelines and energy efficiency. The proposed solution discards low-power route, overhead route and overloaded service provider. We evaluate the performance of our proposed protocol using the NS2. Simulation results show that the protocol decreases the deadline packet's miss ratio and reduces the energy consumption.
Chipless RFID tags for passive wireless sensor grids

This paper discusses the potential of some chipless RFID tags in term of sensing. Two configurations of chipless sensor tags are studied and experimented. The first configuration is based on a chipless RFID tag coded in frequency domain and transformed into a sensor thanks to a deposit of a nanomaterial that exhibits high sensitivity to humidity. One of the advantages of such a transformation is to combine both identification and sensing in the same and unique device. Very interesting sensitivity is observed in practice. The second configuration is based on the use of frequency coded tag where sensing capability consists in measuring a flight time. Then several sensors located on an object in preselected positions are used in order to monitor the deformation of the object. Interesting accuracy better than 500 μm is observed in practice. It is demonstrated that anti-collision schemes can be implemented leading to read concurrently several chipless sensor tags.
Biometric Scanning Technologies: Finger, Facial and Retinal Scanning

This paper discusses several Biometric scan technologies: finger-scan, facialscan and retinal-scan. We discuss the recent history of Biometrics and how it has been influenced by such pseudo-sciences as Phrenology, the study of human skull characteristics and Anthropometry, the study of human body measurement. We discuss how finger-scan technology was influenced by French and British police advancements in the nineteenth century and still remain the most widely used Biometric technology today. Facial-scan technology is .
Detection of human gastric cancer in resected specimens using a novel infrared fluorescent anti-human carcinoembryonic antigen antibody with an infrared fluorescence endoscope in vitro.

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS An indocyanine green derivative (ICG-sulfo-OSu) that can be used as an infrared fluorescent labeling substance suitable for detecting microlesions with an infrared fluorescence endoscope has been developed. The aims of the present study were to develop an infrared fluorescence endoscope and to demonstrate its usefulness in detecting cancerous tissue using an antibody coupled with ICG-sulfo-OSu. MATERIALS AND METHODS ICG-sulfo-OSu-labeled mouse anti-human carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) antibody and an infrared fluorescence endoscope were used in this study. Biopsy specimens of gastric cancer were stained with anti-CEA antibody using the avidin-biotinylated peroxidase complex method. The positive specimens used for the infrared imaging analysis were freshly resected stomachs from three patients. RESULTS Treatment of freshly resected stomach specimens with ICG-sulfo-OSu-labeled-anti-CEA antibody complex resulted in positive staining of the tumor sites on infrared fluorescence endoscopy, and the infrared fluorescent images correlated well with the tumor sites. CONCLUSIONS An anti-CEA antibody with affinity for cancerous lesions and labeled with ICG-sulfo-OSu can therefore be imaged using this infrared fluorescence endoscope. Specific antibodies tagged with ICG-sulfo-OSu can label cancer cells and can generate a strong enough fluorescent signal to detect small cancers when examined with an infrared fluorescence endoscope.
Word Embeddings as Features for Supervised Coreference Resolution

A common reason for errors in coreference resolution is the lack of semantic information to help determine the compatibility between mentions referring to the same entity. Distributed representations, which have been shown successful in encoding relatedness between words, could potentially be a good source of such knowledge. Moreover, being obtained in an unsupervised manner, they could help address data sparsity issues in labeled training data at a small cost. In this work we investigate whether and to what extend features derived from word embeddings can be successfully used for supervised coreference resolution. We experiment with several word embedding models, and several different types of embeddingbased features, including embedding cluster and cosine similarity-based features. Our evaluations show improvements in the performance of a supervised state-of-theart coreference system.
Identification and Functional Characterization of FMN 2 , a Regulator of the Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p 21

Kayo Yamada,1,3 Motoharu Ono,1,3 Neil D. Perkins,2 Sonia Rocha,1,* and Angus I. Lamond1,* 1Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dow Street, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK 2Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Medical School, Newcastle University, Framlington Place, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK 3These authors contributed equally to this work *Correspondence: s.rocha@dundee.ac. uk (S.R.), a.i.lamond@dundee.ac. uk (A.I.L.) http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.molcel. 2012.12. 023
The Barrier and Strategy of Higher Education in Developing Human Resources

The purpose of this study is to find out the characteristics of human resources, the barriers and strategies of college in developing human resource. This is a library research. The results of this study are a). Characteristics of human resources are: (1) kafa’ah, (2) himmatul-’amal, (3) amanah; b). The obstacles faced by college, both Islamic and public universities as producers of sharia-based human resources are the limitations of Islamic finance economists who comprehensively master financial economics and sharia sciences, the limitations of sharia based teaching curriculum, the lack of textbooks on sharia economics, no linkage with sharia financial institutions and limited funds so research on sharia economy is still very limited; (c). The strategies that can be done by universities are: looking for qualified human resources, having good intangible asset and quality system and organizational support. From these strategies, it is expected that college can contribute by providing qualified practitioners and academicians of sharia economic. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui karakteristik Sumber Daya Insani (SDI), Hambatan perguruan tinggi dalam mengembangkan SDI, dan strategi perguruan tinggi dalam mengembangkan SDI. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan library research. Hasil penelitian ini adalah a). Karakteristik dari SDI adalah Sumber Daya Manusia (SDM) yang bercirikan tiga hal, yaitu: (1) kafa’ah, (2) himmatul-‘amal, (3) amanah; b). Hambatan yang dihadapi perguruan tinggi baik PTAI (perguruan Tinggi Agama Islam) maupun umum sebagai penyedia SDI berbasis ekonomi syariah adalah keterbatasan ahli ekonomi keuangan Islam yang menguasai secara komprehensif ekonomi keuangan dan ilmu syariah, keterbatasan segi kurikulum pengajaran yang berbasis syariah, kurangnya buku teks tentang ekonomi syariah, belum adanya linkage dengan lembaga keuangan syariah dan keterbatasan dana sehingga riset tentang ekonomi syariah masih sangat terbatas; (c). Strategi yang dapat ditempuh oleh perguruan tinggi antara lain: mencari bibit unggul, memiliki intangible asset yang baik dan memiliki kualitas sistem dan dukungan organisasi yang baik. Dari kedua strategi tersebut, diharapkan perguruan tinggi dapat memberikan kontribusi dengan melahirkan para praktisi dan akademisi ekonomi syariah yang berkualitas
Sustainability of the ELV processing system in the Slovak Republic and forecasting of waste streams from the operation of passenger motor vehicles

Passenger cars have a significant impact on the environment throughout their lifecycle. In the paper, we focus on the forecasting of waste streams generated during the processing of end-of-life vehicles (ELV) in the Slovak Republic. Given the short historical time series, we build a forecasting framework which combines the time-series forecasting techniques with expert judgement methods. We present the forecasts of waste streams and the outlook trends until 2020. Our findings confirm that if the trends from the past years continue the existing system of ELV processing in the Slovak Republic will be able to meet the EU sustainability targets in terms of re-use, recycling and recovery rates. In addition, where possible, we provide the ex-post verification of the ex-ante forecasts and show the accuracy of the forecasting framework. At the same time, based on the expert judgement we present the forecasts of the waste streams generated annually during the maintenance of passenger cars in Slovak Republic.
Effect of Strategic Human Resources Management (HRM) Practices on Perceived Financial Performance of Non-Governmental Organizations: Empirical Evidence from RDRS Bangladesh

The objective of this study is to identify the certain strategic human resource management (HRM) practices (strategic recruitment and selection, strategic training and development, strategic reward and compensation and strategic performance appraisal) and to determine the relationship between strategic HRM practices and perceived financial performance (measured in fundraising efficiency, financial transparency, programs/ projects financial efficiency ) of Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) using RDRS Bangladesh as a case. The study administered 70 questionnaires to all staffs employed at central office of RDRS Bangladesh. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used in the study. The findings revealed that as an NGO RDRS Bangladesh embraced strategic HRM practices and it had positive effect on the perceived financial performance. The results of the study recommended that appropriate strategic HRM practices could be useful for enhancing financial performance of NGO sector in Bangladesh. Keywords: Strategic, HRM, Financial Performance, NGOs
Movement patterns in inland cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki utah): management and conservation implications

Knowledge of movement patterns is critical to the management and conservation of inland salmonids. We studied the movements of Bonneville cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki utah) in a drainage in western Wyoming, USA. Our objectives were to (i) characterize the postspawning movement patterns of adult Bonneville cutthroat trout, (ii) contrast postspawning and summer movement patterns, and (iii) identify factors that disrupt the movements of Bonneville cutthroat trout. Our data showed that postspawning movements of Bonneville cutthroat trout formed a continuum, with fish moving from 0.5 to 82.0 km. Postspawning distance was positively related to fish length. Despite the wide range of movement observed during the spring, fish did not move more than 0.5 km during the summer. A road culvert and an irrigation diversion dam did not seem to pose barriers to the upstream movement of Bonneville cutthroat trout to headwater spawning areas in the spring. However, 23% of radio-tagged fish in 2000 moved into the irri.
BIG DATA IN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

The overwhelming amount of computerized information that organizations and businesses generate and the process is growing so large that the term “big data” is commonly used to describe the situation. Big data is being used by chemical companies to enhance manufacturing, fine-tune pricing, improve marketing, and support innovation. It is creating great market opportunities in the chemical industry. This paper presents a short essay on how big data is currently being used in the chemical industry. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dude, is my code constant time?

This paper introduces dudect: a tool to assess whether a piece of code runs in constant time or not on a given platform. We base our approach on leakage detection techniques, resulting in a very compact, easy to use and easy to maintain tool. Our methodology fits in around 300 lines of C and runs on the target platform. The approach is substantially different from previous solutions. Contrary to others, our solution requires no modeling of hardware behavior. Our solution can be used in black-box testing, yet benefits from implementation details if available. We show the effectiveness of our approach by detecting several variable-time cryptographic implementations. We place a prototype implementation of dudect in the public domain.
Environmental risk factors associated with Helicobacter pylori seroprevalence in the United States: a cross-sectional analysis of NHANES data

SUMMARY Helicobacter pylori imparts a considerable burden to public health. Infections are mainly acquired in childhood and can lead to chronic diseases, including gastric ulcers and cancer. The bacterium subsists in water, but the environment's role in transmission remains poorly understood. The nationally representative National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) was examined for environmental risk factors associated with H. pylori seroprevalence. Data from 1999–2000 were examined and weighted to represent the US population. Multivariable logistic regression estimated adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for associations with seropositivity. Self-reported general health condition was inversely associated with seropositivity. Of participants aged <20 years, seropositivity was significantly associated with having a well as the source of home tap water (aOR 1·7, 95% CI 1·1–2·6) and living in a more crowded home (aOR 2·3, 95% CI 1·5–3·7). Of adults aged ⩾20 years, seropositivity was not associated with well water or crowded living conditions, but adults in soil-related occupations had significantly higher odds of seropositivity compared to those in non-soil-related occupations (aOR 1·9, 95% CI 1·2–2·9). Exposures to both well water and occupationally related soil increased the effect size of adults' odds of seropositivity compared to non-exposed adults (aOR 2·7, 95% CI 1·3-5·6). Environmental exposures (well-water usage and occupational contact with soil) play a role in H. pylori transmission. A disproportionate burden of infection is associated with poor health and crowded living conditions, but risks vary by age and race/ethnicity. These findings could help inform interventions to reduce the burden of infections in the United States.
Labelled and unlabelled enumeration of $k$-gonal 2-trees

In this paper, we generalize 2-trees by replacing triangles by quadrilaterals, pentagons or $k$-sided polygons ($k$-gons), where $k\geq 3$ is fixed. This generalization, to $k$-gonal 2-trees, is natural and is closely related, in the planar case, to some specializations of the cell-growth problem. Our goal is the labelled and unlabelled enumeration of $k$-gonal 2-trees according to the number $n$ of $k$-gons. We give explicit formulas in the labelled case, and, in the unlabelled case, recursive and asymptotic formulas.