Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A novel low cost telemedicine system using wireless MESH network

Telemedicine promises an improvement of health care service quality in rural, urban, dense and mobile areas. In order to implement the telemedicine in these areas, a low cost telemedicine system with acceptable quality for medical data transfer is required. This paper discusses simulation and implementation results of a low cost telemedicine system including wireless medical interface and communication infrastructure. A simulation has been done to investigate the network quality of service. The infrastructure has been also implemented using low cost 5.8 GHz transceiver for backhauls and low cost 2.4 GHz transceiver for clients. Test result shows that the low cost telemedicine system is able to do real time communication between patient and medical staff with medical data rate up to 2 Mbps. It shows that the low cost telemedicine system using wireless mesh network can be implemented in remote area with acceptable medical data transfer quality.
Evidence in chronic kidney disease–mineral and bone disorder guidelines: is it time to treat or time to wait?

Abstract Chronic kidney disease–mineral and bone disorder (CKD–MBD) is one of the many important complications associated with CKD and may at least partially explain the extremely high morbidity and mortality among CKD patients. The 2009 Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Clinical Practice Guideline document was based on the best information available at that time and was designed not only to provide information but also to assist in decision-making. In addition to the international KDIGO Work Group, which included worldwide experts, an independent Evidence Review Team was assembled to ensure rigorous review and grading of the existing evidence. Based on the evidence from new clinical trials, an updated Clinical Practice Guideline was published in 2017. In this review, we focus on the conceptual and practical evolution of clinical guidelines (from eMinence-based medicine to eVidence-based medicine and ‘living’ guidelines), highlight some of the current important CKD–MBD-related changes, and underline the poor or extremely poor level of evidence present in those guidelines (as well as in other areas of nephrology). Finally, we emphasize the importance of individualization of treatments and shared decision-making (based on important ethical considerations and the ‘best available evidence’), which may prove useful in the face of the uncertainty over the decision whether ‘to treat’ or ‘to wait’.
Graphene Oxide Induces Ester Bonds Hydrolysis of Poly-l-lactic Acid Scaffold to Accelerate Degradation

Poly-l-lactic acid (PLLA) possesses good biocompatibility and bioabsorbability as scaffold material, while slow degradation rate limits its application in bone tissue engineering. In this study, graphene oxide (GO) was introduced into the PLLA scaffold prepared by selective laser sintering to accelerate degradation. The reason was that GO with a large number of oxygen-containing functional groups attracted water molecules and transported them into scaffold through the interface microchannels formed between lamellar GO and PLLA matrix. More importantly, hydrogen bonding interaction between the functional groups of GO and the ester bonds of PLLA induced the ester bonds to deflect toward the interfaces, making water molecules attack the ester bonds and thereby breaking the molecular chain of PLLA to accelerate degradation. As a result, some micropores appeared on the surface of the PLLA scaffold, and mass loss was increased from 0.81% to 4.22% after immersing for 4 weeks when 0.9% GO was introduced. Besides, the tensile strength and compressive strength of the scaffolds increased by 24.3% and 137.4%, respectively, due to the reinforced effect of GO. In addition, the scaffold also demonstrated good bioactivity and cytocompatibility.
Parameter Estimation Based on Linear Regression for Commercial Quadrotors

: Over the last decade, the rapid evolution in communications technology, mechanics and electronics has propelled access to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Among this class of robots, quadrotors stand out due to maneuverability and Vertical Take Oﬀ and Landing (VTOL) capability. This work proposes a methodology to solve the model parameter estimation problem of a commercial quadrotor. Mathematical models are derived and implementation details are given. Experimental results, obtained in an open source environment associated with a motion capture system, verify that the estimated dynamic model approximates to the real dynamics.
AN EXPLORATION OF SCHOOL NURSE ROLE IN SECONDARY GIRLS SCHOOLS IN BAHRAIN

The main role of the school nurse is to promote the health and wellbeing of students. Good health, in turn, fosters better academic outcomes. However, many schools in the Kingdom of Bahrain do not have school nurses. The few that have lack clear guidelines on their roles and responsibilities. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the roles of school nurses in Bahrain and the barriers they encounter in their work. The study recruited 10 secondary school nurses and gathered their responses using semi-structured interviews. The responses were analysed using Burnard’s four-stage thematic analysis framework. The study found the main roles of school nurses are providing direct health care to students and staff, organising health promotion programs and surveillance of infectious diseases. The main barriers to school nurses are role conflict, the lack of professional autonomy and collaboration, and high student-nurse ratio. The study concluded that professional nursing programs and structured coordination between the Ministries of Health and Education are important to ensure school nurses clearly understand their roles and to improve their service delivery. Article DOI: https://dx.doi. org/10.20319/lijhls.2017. 31.1217 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.
The effectiveness of galvanic electrotherapy and a conservative hand exercise program in a rheumatoid hand: a randomized controlled trial

Cite this article as: Dülgeroğlu D, Bal A, Karaahmet Ö, Umay E, Noyan S, Çakcı A. The effectiveness of galvanic electrotherapy and a conservative hand exercise program in a rheumatoid hand: a randomized controlled trial. Turk J Phys Med Rehab 2016;62:132-42. ABSTRACT Objectives: This study aims to evaluate whether the galvanic electrotherapy can relieve rheumatic hand pain and whether conservative hand exercises increase the hand strength. Patients and methods: Between March 2012 and November 2012, 30 female patients with rheumatoid arthritis (mean age 54.0±11.2 years; range 50 to 75 years) who were followed in our outpatient clinic were randomized into two groups. The study group (n=16) was administered the galvanic electrotherapy combined with a conservative exercise program. The patients in the control group (n=14) were administered the conservative exercise program alone. The pain level of the hand was evaluated using the Visual Analog Scale (VAS). Hand grip and pinch strength were measured by dynamometry. The level of disability was examined using the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ). The functional disability of the hand was assessed using the Duruöz Hand Index (DHI). All measurements were performed on both hands before and immediately and at five weeks after therapy. Results: The VAS scores did not significantly differ between the groups. In the study group, a significant increase was noted in the grip strength of the right and left hand between the first and second measurement (p=0.011 and p=0.025). In the control group, there was no significant difference between the measurements in terms of the grip strength of the right hand. In the study group, significant differences in the HAQ scores were recorded between first and subsequent measurements (p=0.001 and p=0.007). Conclusion: Our study results show that the galvanic electrotherapy and conservative hand exercises are effective in the treatment of rheumatic hands.
Increasing ibuprofen degradation in constructed wetlands by bioaugmentation with gravel containing biofilms of an ibuprofen‐degrading Sphingobium yanoikuyae

The aim of this study was to investigate the removal of ibuprofen in laboratory scale constructed wetlands. Four (planted and unplanted) laboratory‐scale horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetlands were supplemented with ibuprofen in order to elucidate (i) the role of plants on ibuprofen removal and (ii) to evaluate the removal performance of a bioaugmented lab scale wetland. The planted systems showed higher ibuprofen removal efficiency than an unplanted one. The system planted with Juncus effusus was found to have a higher removal rate than the system planted with Phalaris arundinacea. The highest removal rate of ibuprofen was found after inoculation of gravel previously loaded with a newly isolated ibuprofen‐degrading bacterium identified as Sphingobium yanoikuyae. This experiment showed that more than 80 days of CW community adaptation for ibuprofen treatment could be superseded by bioaugmentation with this bacterial isolate.
Na2.3Cu1.1Mn2O7−δ nanoflakes as enhanced cathode materials for high-energy sodium-ion batteries achieved by a rapid pyrosynthesis approach

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are among the plethora of energy storage devices (ESDs) developed by researchers in the lithium-ion battery (LIB) era of the modern electronic world. Regardless of whether SIBs can replace LIBs or not in the electric vehicle (EV) market, SIBs have undoubtedly brought about a much-needed balance to the world, where large-scale ESDs can be utilized to store electricity. Though exploitation of layered oxide cathode materials for SIBs has had a major impact, upon repeated sodium (de)intercalation, phase transition and volume expansion of these materials have been the major limitations to the realization of SIBs as mainstream ESDs. Notably, the recent development of phase transition-free, layered copper-doped sodium manganese oxide Na2.3Cu1. 1Mn2O7−δ (NCuMnO) as a cathode material has helped to overcome the major limitation of sodium layered oxide materials. In the present study, we prepared NCuMnO nanoflakes by an ultrafast pyrosynthesis process and utilized them for the fabrication of SIBs. The ex situ XANES, in situ X-ray diffraction and galvanostatic intermittent titration technique results revealed the occurrence of a highly reversible electrochemical process at the NCuMnO cathode. With the novel material, superior average discharge capacities of 127 mA h g−1 and 79.24 mA h g−1 at rates of 0.2C and 20C, respectively were achieved, which were attributed to fast sodium-ion diffusion, and an exceptionally high specific energy of 457.2 W h kg−1 at a specific power of 72 W h kg−1 were achieved.
Response of Garlic and Associated Weeds to Bio-Stimulants and Weed Control

Weeds are one of the main threats to crop yield. Field experiments were carried out to investigate the efficiency of bio-stimulants (amino acid, humic acid, gibbrillic acid) and weed control methods (Clethodium, Fluzifop- butyl, Clodinafop-propargyl, diclofop and two hand hoeing) as well as their interactive effects on garlic plant and weeds in Nubaria, Egypt. Application of amino acids at the concentration (100 ppm) caused markedly increases in dry weight weeds species under investigation compared with control. Clodinafop-propargyl treatment coefficient has exceeded the rest of the treatments in reducing the narrow weeds accompanying the garlic plants. Application of clethodium treatment produced the maximum values of growth, blub yield and yield attributes. Moreover, two hand hoeing produced the maximum values of photosynthetic pigments and biochemical constituents. The interaction between bio-stimulants and weed control had significant effect on total dry weight of narrow-leaved weeds, average bulb weight and bulb garlic yield. Clethodium herbicide integrated with amino acid at the concentration 100 ppm application produced the maximum values of garlic blub yield. It can be suggested that the use of clethodium or diclofop herbicide combined with amino acid has better the growth and yield of garlic plants under newly reclaimed soil conditions.
Characterizing the winter meteorological drivers of the European electricity system using targeted circulation types

Renewable electricity is a key enabling step in the decarbonization of energy. Europe is at the forefront of renewable deployment and this has dramatically increased the weather sensitivity of the continent's power systems. Despite the importance of weather to energy systems, and widespread interest from both academia and industry, the meteorological drivers of European power systems remain difficult to identify and are poorly understood. The present study presents a new and generally applicable approach, targeted circulation types (TCTs). In contrast to standard meteorological weather‐regime or circulation‐typing schemes, TCTs convolve the weather sensitivity of an impacted system of interest (in this case, the electricity system) with the intrinsic structures of the atmospheric circulation to identify its meteorological drivers. A new 38 year reconstruction of daily electricity demand and renewable supply across Europe is used to identify the winter large‐scale circulation patterns of most interest to the European electricity grid. TCTs provide greater explanatory power for power system variability and extremes compared with standard meteorological typing. Two new pairs of atmospheric patterns are highlighted, both of which have marked and extensive impacts on the European power system. The first pair resembles the meridional surface pressure dipole of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), but shifted eastward into Europe and noticeably strengthened, while the second pair is weaker and corresponds to surface pressure anomalies over Central Southern and Eastern Europe. While these gross qualitative patterns are robust features of the present European power systems, the detailed circulation structures are strongly affected by the amount and location of renewables installed.
The relationship between gene co-expression network connectivity and phenotypic prediction sheds light at the core of the omnigenic theory

Recent literature on the differential role of genes within networks, including the omnigenic model, distinguishes core from peripheral genes in the layout underlying phenotypes. Cores are typically few, each of them highly contributes to phenotypic variation, but because they are so few, they altogether only explain a small part of trait heritability. In contrast, peripherals, each of small influence, are so numerous that they finally lead phenotypic variation. We collected and sequenced RNA from 459 European black poplars and built co-expression networks to define core and peripheral genes as the most and least connected ones. We computed the role of each of these gene sets in the prediction of phenotypes and showed that cores contribute additively to phenotypes, consistent with a downstream position in a biological cascade, while peripherals interact to influence phenotypes, consistent with an upstream position. Quantitative and population genetics analyses further revealed that cores are more expressed than peripherals but they tend to vary less and to be more differentiated between populations suggesting that they are more constrained by natural selection. Our work is the first attempt to integrate core and peripheral terminologies from co-expression networks and omnigenic theory. In the end, we showed, that there seems to be a strong overlap between them, with core genes from co-expression networks likely being a mixture of integrative hubs with a direct effect on phenotype in agreement with the omnigenic theory, and master regulators which control the overall metabolic flow towards the phenotype.
Tetrahedron template

Halovinyl carbohydrate derivatives are compounds of great interest on account of their usefulness as synthetic intermediates. The presence of the haloalkenyl moiety makes halovinyl sugars ideal precursors for palladium catalyzed cross-coupling reactions, which could be exploited for the introduction of new substituents, the elongation of the sugar chain and the formation of Cglycosides. Accordingly, these derivatives have been used as intermediates in the preparation of natural products, Cglycosides, polyols and nucleosides.
δ‐CsPbI3 Intermediate Phase Growth Assisted Sequential Deposition Boosts Stable and High‐Efficiency Triple Cation Perovskite Solar Cells

Cs/FA/MA triple cation perovskite films have been well developed in the antisolvent dripping method, attributable to its outstanding photovoltaic and stability performances. However, a facile and effective strategy is still lacking for fabricating high‐quality large‐grain triple cation perovskite films via sequential deposition method a, which is one of the key technologies for high efficiency perovskite solar cells. To address this issue, a δ‐CsPbI3 intermediate phase growth (CsPbI3‐IPG) assisted sequential deposition method is demonstrated for the first time. The approach not only achieves incorporation of controllable cesium into (FAPbI3)1–x(MAPbBr3)x perovskite, but also enlarges the perovskite grains, manipulates the crystallization, modulates the bandgap, and improves the stability of final perovskite films. The photovoltaic performances of the devices based on these Cs/FA/MA perovskite films with various amounts of the δ‐CsPbI3 intermediate phase are investigated systematically. Benefiting from moderate cesium incorporation and intermediate phase‐assisted grain growth, the optimized Cs/FA/MA perovskite solar cells exhibit a significantly improved power conversion efficiency and operational stability of unencapsulated devices. This facile strategy provides new insights into the compositional engineering of triple or quadruple cation perovskite materials with enlarged grains and superior stability via a sequential deposition method.
Usefulness of the anterior transpetrosal approach for pontine cavernous malformations

Surgical resection of pontine cavernous malformation remains a particularly formidable challenge. We report the surgical outcome of eight cases with pontine cavernous malformations operated using the anterior transpetrosal approach. All cases presented with neurological deficits caused by hemorrhage before surgery. Gross-total removal was achieved in all cases without any postoperative complication such as worsening of facial nerve palsy, ocular movement disorder, or hemiplegia. A small incision of the pons with multidirectional dissection is the most important factor for minimizing postoperative neurological deficits, so resection of a pontine cavernous malformation via this approach can be an alternative better option. The video can be found here: https://youtu.be/2Q2CUhBbo28.
The Role of Executive Functioning in Treatment Outcome for Child Anxiety

ABSTRACT One possible predictor of treatment outcome in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is executive functioning (EF; i.e., planning, initiating, and maintaining goal-directed behavior), but the role of EF in treatment outcome has not been studied in pediatric anxiety disorders. The current study examines the predictive role of pre-treatment EF and change in EF over treatment (EF change) in the Resilience Builder Program® (RBP), a manualized, 12-week CBT group intervention implemented in a private practice. The RBP targets social competence and resilience skills. The current study examines 73 children ages 7–13 years (mean age = 9.95 ± 1.53 years, 69.86% male, 79.45% White) diagnosed with an anxiety disorder who completed the RBP. The studied outcome variables included anxiety symptomatology, social competence, and resilience. Hierarchical linear modeling and hierarchical linear regressions were used to examine if pre-treatment EF and EF change predicted post-treatment symptomatology, controlling for pre-treatment functioning and ADHD diagnosis. Pre-treatment EF was not significantly related to any of the outcome variables. EF change was significantly related to improved anxiety and resilience, but not social competence. Adding EF change to the model significantly improved model fit when predicting resilience. Change in EF predicted parent-reported reductions in anxiety symptomatology and increases in resilience over and above pre-treatment EF levels. EF change was particularly important for predicting resilience outcomes. Results indicate that, for children with anxiety, pre-treatment EF is not an important predictor of outcome, but improvement in EF during treatment may improve treatment response as measured by anxiety symptomatology and resilience.
The Adaptation of Behavior and Instructional Management Scale into Turkish Language Context: Validity and Reliability Analysis

Teachers' adopted behaviors and their instructional management strategies are likely to have some differences on the basis of personal differences. This idea may be due to different beliefs about how effective education and teaching should be. The aim of this study is to adapt the Behavior and Teaching Management Scale, which aims to measure teachers' beliefs about the management of their behavior and teaching, into Turkish language context and to conduct validity and reliability analysis. The population of the study consists of teachers working in state primary and secondary schools. The sample of the study consisted of 280 teachers who were working at 15 state primary schools and 20 state secondary schools. The sample was determined randomly by the cluster sampling. According to the results of the exploratory factor analysis, the short form of the Behavior and Instructional Management Scale has been found to be appropriate to the expected two-factor theoretical structure. The confirmatory factor analysis model-data fit values are p = 0.065, χ2 / sd = 1.311, RMSEA = 0.046, NFI = 0.94, NNFI = 0.97, CFI = 0.99, GFI = 0.93, AGFI = 0.89.
Soft Robotics: A Review of Recent Developments of Pneumatic Soft Actuators

This paper focuses on the recent development of soft pneumatic actuators for soft robotics over the past few years, concentrating on the following four categories: control systems, material and construction, modeling, and sensors. This review work seeks to provide an accelerated entrance to new researchers in the field to encourage research and innovation. Advances in methods to accurately model soft robotic actuators have been researched, optimizing and making numerous soft robotic designs applicable to medical, manufacturing, and electronics applications. Multi-material 3D printed and fiber optic soft pneumatic actuators have been developed, which will allow for more accurate positioning and tactile feedback for soft robotic systems. Also, a variety of research teams have made improvements to soft robot control systems to utilize soft pneumatic actuators to allow for operations to move more effectively. This review work provides an accessible repository of recent information and comparisons between similar works. Future issues facing soft robotic actuators include portable and flexible power supplies, circuit boards, and drive components.