Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Scales for Assessment of Pressure Ulcer Healing

Accurate documentation on pressure ulcer healing is very significance because it can demonstrate the effectiveness of care. However, some problems of pressure ulcer healing records were found from the literature reviews and in clinical practices at Nopparatrajathanee hospital. These problems included incomplete, discontinuous, and inaccuracy. Utilization of appropriate instruments to monitor wound progress or wound healing is strongly recommended. This article is aimed to review the instruments used for pressure ulcer assessment. It was found that the first three instruments which most frequently used in the clinical practice were Pressure Ulcer Status Tool (PUSH Tool 3.0) , Pressure Sore Status Tool (PSST) and Sessing Scale. The comparison was made among these three instruments in term of validity, reliability and feasibility. The result revealed that the Pressure ulcer Status Tool (PUSH Tool 3.0) is more reliable and feasible to use in clinical practice. It provides more details in determining the characteristics of pressure ulcers in many dimensions including size, depth, sign of infection, and the progression which reflect healing. While the other instrument had less details and is very complex to use by the non-specialist clinicians. In conclusion, PUSH Tool 3.0 was selected as a scale for assessment of pressure ulcer healing and progression at Nopparatrajathanee hospital. A plan to conduct a training program for nurses and other related health care providers as well as a plan to evaluate the effectiveness of this scale is recommended in further study.
Adaptive Jamming Power Control for Untrusted Relay Networks With Imperfect Channel Reciprocity

In an untrusted relay network where a destination transmits a jamming signal to prevent an untrusted relay from recovering the data sent by a source, we consider imperfect channel reciprocity (ICR) between the relay and the destination. This ICR prevents the destination from removing jamming interference perfectly, meaning that transmit power of the jamming signal has a significant impact on the secrecy rate. In this article, we present a system model of an untrusted relay network with ICR, and verify that the secrecy rate is concave with respect to the jamming power. We derive an asymptotic optimal jamming power to maximize the secrecy rate in closed-form and propose an adaptive scheme for jamming power control (JPC). Numerical results show that the proposed JPC scheme achieves a near-optimal secrecy rate, as well as outperforming conventional schemes by controlling the jamming power adaptively. In particular, we note that to improve the secrecy rate, it is advantageous to reduce the jamming power to decrease the residual jamming interference as the reciprocity error increases or the channel between the relay and the destination improves.
Classification of human sounds using support vector machine with psychoacoustic data

This paper presents the classification of human sounds based on support vector machine (SVM) using psychoacoustic data. A scream classification model, with sounds of speech and screams indicating different acoustical characteristics, was investigated. Temporal changes were observed by evaluating the physical characteristics of waveforms and spectrograms with psychoacoustic parameters, including loudness and sharpness. Mel frequency cepstral coefficients were used to identify the spectral energy distribution of screams. Further, a Mel filter bank and frequency band filter were used to extract the high spectral energy, and differentiate between the lower and higher energy spectra. The classification accuracy was improved by combining the SVM with the psychoacoustic parameters of scream sound.
CHARACTERIZATION OF LOW DENSITY INTRACRANIAL LESIONS USING DUAL-ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY

Calcific and hemorrhagic foci of susceptibility are frequently encountered on routine brain MR studies. Both etiologies cause variations in local magnetic field strength, leading to dark regions on the MR images that cannot be classified. Single-energy CT (SECT) can be used to identify lesions with attenuation over 100 HU as calcific, however lesions with lower attenuation cannot be reliably identified. While calcific lesions are unlikely to cause harm, hemorrhagic lesions carry a risk of subsequent intracranial bleeding; as such, identification of hemorrhage is vital in preventing the inappropriate use of anticoagulant medications in patients with hemorrhagic lesions. Given there currently exists no clinically available means of differentiating between these two lesions over their full biological attenuation ranges, there is a clear need for a reliable imaging method to differentiate low intensity calcification and hemorrhage. Recently, several vendors have released new computed tomography (CT) scanner models with dual-energy capabilities, which may be successfully applied to this issue. By acquiring data at two different energies, dual-energy CT (DECT) collects information about the energy-dependent attenuation changes in a material and may help distinguish between two materials with similar linear attenuation measurements which would be impossible to differentiate using SECT. This work applies the unique capabilities of DECT to the characterization of intracranial hemorrhage and calcification using biologically-relevant and spectrally-
Discourse Analysis of Navy Leaders' Attitudes About Mental Health Problems

Abstract : Mental disorders are a significant source of medical and occupational morbidity for sailors. The literature suggests that stigma, fear of negative career impact, and subordinates' concern about leaders' attitudes are significant barriers to the use of mental health services. Semi-structured interviews and military policies were used as data sources to analyze the language, knowledge, and attitudes of Navy surface fleet leaders about mental illness and mental health treatment using Foucault's concept of discourse analysis. A discourse is a system of knowledge that influences language, perceptions, values, and social practices. The data shows that concerns about sailors' mental combat readiness, not mental illness stigma, were the dominant discourse of leaders' attitudes about mental illness and subordinates' mental health services use. In particular, organizational differences between the surface warfare and the mental health communities may influence leaders' attitudes more than stigma. This study provides an elaborated view of mental health knowledge and power within a Navy community. That view can be used to identify practical concrete implications for further research on stigma in the military and for improvements to fleet mental health services.
An adaptable different-levels cascaded h-bridge inverter analysis for PV grid-connected systems

Multi-level inverters (MLIs), have gained popularity in the last few years as a result of their low total harmonic distortions (THD) as well as their output waveform which is of high quality. The converter which considers more appropriate for applications of photovoltaic (PV)beyond the varying MLIs arrangementsis the Cascaded H-Bridge-(CHB) (MLI), meanwhile each PV panel may be served as an independent DC supply for any CHB unit. Through the use of MATLAB/Simulink, the efficiency of symmetrical single phase MLI in terms of the number of switches, harmonic content in addition to the stresses of voltage through theswitches that exist at photovoltaic cell by means of input source is enhanced; varying parameters like output current, voltage and power, and THD at 5-level 7-level and 9-level Cascaded MLI are observed. In this paper, attention is paid to a multi-level topologies which is flexible and based on cascaded MLI intended for PV grids connected system. An observation of the output voltage becomes closer to the sine wave as the levels increase, while the increase in the levels of Cascaded Multilevel Inverter causes the total harmonic distortion to decrease.
Advances in Knowledge Acquisition and Management

Regular Papers. - Visual Knowledge Annotation and Management by Using Qualitative Spatial Information. - Ad-Hoc and Personal Ontologies: A Prototyping Approach to Ontology Engineering. - Relating Business Process Models to Goal-Oriented Requirements Models in KAOS. - Heuristic and Rule-Based Knowledge Acquisition: Classification of Numeral Strings in Text. - RFID Tag Based Library Marketing for Improving Patron Services. - Extracting Discriminative Patterns from Graph Structured Data Using Constrained Search. - Evaluating Learning Algorithms with Meta-learning Schemes for a Rule Evaluation Support Method Based on Objective Indices. - Training Classifiers for Unbalanced Distribution and Cost-Sensitive Domains with ROC Analysis. - Revealing Themes and Trends in the Knowledge Domain's Intellectual Structure. - Evaluation of the FastFIX Prototype 5Cs CARD System. - Intelligent Decision Support for Medication Review. - A Hybrid Browsing Mechanism Using Conceptual Scales. - Knowledge Representation for Video Assisted by Domain-Specific Ontology. - An Ontological Infrastructure for the Semantic Integration of Clinical Archetypes. - Improvement of Air Handling Unit Control Performance Using Reinforcement Learning. - Optimizing Dissimilarity-Based Classifiers Using a Newly Modified Hausdorff Distance. - A New Model for Classifying DNA Code Inspired by Neural Networks and FSA. - Improvements on Common Vector Approach Using k-Clustering Method. - The Method for the Unknown Word Classification. - Regular Papers (6-8 Pages). - An Ontology Supported Approach to Learn Term to Concept Mapping. - Building Corporate Knowledge Through Ontology Integration. - Planning with Domain Rules Based on State-Independent Activation Sets. - Elicitation of Non-functional Requirement Preference for Actors of Usecase from Domain Model. - Enhancing Information Retrieval Using Problem Specific Knowledge. - Acquiring Innovation Knowledge.
A French-English Grammar: A contrastive grammar on translational principles

In this contrastive French-English grammar, the comparisons between French structures and their English equivalents are formulated as rules which associate a French schema (of a particular grammatical structure) with its translation into an equivalent English schema. The grammar contains all the rules giving the English equivalents under translation of the principal grammatical structures of French: the verb phrase, the noun phrase and the adjuncts (modifiers). In addition to its intrinsic linguistic interest, this comparative grammar has two important applications. The translation equivalences it contains can provide a firm foundation for the teaching of the techniques of translation. Furthermore, such a comparative grammar is a necessary preliminary to any program of machine translation, which needs a set of formal rules, like those given here for the French-to-English case, for translating into a target language the syntactic structures encountered in the source language.
The KornShell command and programming language

From the Publisher: This is a Second Edition of the bestselling guide to the KornShell command and programming language by the original inventors of the language. It provides a specification for the KornShell language, tutorial material for those new to ksh (the program that implements the KornShell language), and a comprehensive reference for all ksh users. Covers major new additions to the KornShell language ksh93 (including command completion and a key binding mechanism); provides tutorials for both of the functions of ksh (as an interactive command language, and as a programming language); contains numerous examples illustrating the features of ksh; and features a Quick Reference summary of the KornShell language with page references to the book. For both new users with little shell experience, and for experienced computer users who are familiar with ksh and/or other shells. ISBN of 1st Edition: 01351697202.
혈액투석환자의 자가간호를 위한 자기효능증진 프로그램 개발 및 효과

The purpose of this study is to develop self-efficacy promotion program and to test its effects on self-efficacy, self-care, physiologic index of hemodialysis patients after applying this program to them. Preliminary study was carried out to identify the levels and types of self-care, self-efficacy .
Qualidade de vida e percepção da doença entre portadores de hipertensão arterial

This study aimed to investigate quality of life in individuals with arterial hypertension and to associate the results with the patients' perceived severity of illness. The sample included 113 patients with arterial hypertension followed up in a clinic in Fortaleza, Ceara State, Brazil, from May to August 2002, using an international scale for assessing quality of life, the SF-36. Of the entire sample of patients, 77% were women, a large proportion were over 50 years of age, living with family, and with some kind of occupation. Assessment with the SF-36 showed compromised quality of life in different domains, although patients viewed their illness as not serious, and curable. These circumstances can interfere in follow-up of their illness over time, which can in turn jeopardize their quality of life. In conclusion, use of the SF-36 to assess individuals with arterial hypertension produced significant results, indicating generally compromised quality of life. According to these results, hypertension jeopardizes the patients' social and physical dimensions, but this situation can be changed by the provision of qualified services.
Effects of Streptozotocin-Diabetes and Insulin Replacement on Androgen and Estrogen Receptor Concentrations in the Epididymis of Wistar Rats

The present study was aimed at evaluating the effects of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes and insulin replacement on the androgen (AR) and estrogen receptor (ER) concentrations in the caput, corpus and cauda epididymides of prepubertal and adult Wistar rats. Prepubertal (40 days old) and adult (120 days old) male Wistar rats were made diabetic by single intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of STZ (120 mg/kg and 60 mg/kg body weight, respectively). To one set of diabetic rats, insulin was administered daily at a dose of 3 U/100 g body weight, subcutaneously, in two equally divided doses at 8.00 AM and 6.00 PM. All the rats were killed on the 21st day of commencement of experimentation. The epididymis was dissected out and caput, corpus and cauda segments were separated, freed from spermatozoa and processed for AR and ER quantification. STZ-induced diabetes caused a marked decrease in both nuclear and cytosolic AR and ER concentrations in the caput, corpus and cauda epididymides. Insulin replacement circumvented the adverse effects of diabetes in a segment-specific manner. These findmgs emphasize the detrimental effects of diabetes and the importance of insulin in the maintenance of epididymal AR and ER concentrations in immature as well as adult rats.
Advanced development of chromatography in screening and identification of effective compounds in Chinese materia medica

Screening and identification of effective compounds in Chinese materia medica is the key for its quality control,which is critical for ensuring the safety and efficacy in clinic.Herein,the advanced development of chromatography in screening and identification of effective compounds in Chinese materia medica since 2000 was reviewed based on the strategies of chemical characteristics,drug targets and integrating chemical analysis and pharmacological assay.The prospect of chromatography in this field was also discussed.
A comparison of leuprolide acetate versus bilateral orchiectomy for patients with metastatic prostate cancer

ABSTRACT Objective: Prostate cancer is the most common visceral malignancy and leading cause of cancer‑related death in men. Androgen deprivation therapy is the established treatment of metastatic prostate cancer and has different approaches in the reduction of androgen activity including surgical castration (bilateral orchiectomy) and medical castration (luteinizing hormone‑releasing hormone agonists/antagonists). Our purpose was to study the clinical profile, effectiveness, and outcome of South Indian patients with metastatic prostate cancer undergoing treatment with surgical and medical castration. Methods: A total of 30 surgical and 30 medical castration patients diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer between (2008 and 2009) were followed up to 5 years. Serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels at the time of the first diagnosis, post‑treatment nadir PSA levels, time to nadir PSA, time to hormonal resistance between the study groups were assessed, retrospectively. The Kaplan–Meier method was used with log‑rank test for survival rate calculations. Gleason score, PSA levels, skeletal‑related events, and sites of metastasis of the study groups were studied. Result: The average survival time after medical castration was 60 months and 42 months for surgical castration. No significant difference could be established between the groups. Bone was the most common site of metastasis and radiation was the major skeletal‑related events in medical groups. Conclusion: There were no statistical differences between the groups in terms of treatment modalities in metastatic prostate cancer. Keywords: ?
Mr Imaging of Evolving Ischaemic Stroke

These MR images are from days 1 (12.5 h after symptom onset), 5 and 30 following presentation of a 79-year-old man with recurrent episodes of left hemiplegia, and who on examination had the findings of a right total anterior circulation infarct. Each column consists of images obtained using different MR techniques. From left to right: standard T2-weighted images (T2WI); three columns of images from diffusion imaging – the diffusion weighted images (DWI) themselves, the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps, and the calculated fractional anisotropy (FA); two columns of images related to perfusion – the relative regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) and the relative mean transit time (rMTT). On T2WI (column 1), fluid is high (bright) signal. While T2WI can be sensitive to early ischaemic stroke, as long as early injury results in increased fluid (oedema) the injury is better appreciated on T2 later (day 5). By day 30, however
Men, Masculinities and Male Cancer Awareness: a preliminary study

The aim of this small-scale project is to explore Scottish men‟s awareness of „male cancer‟ specifically and to examine the relationship between the lived experience of masculinities and the meanings that men attribute to health, well being, health care providers and services and male cancer. The data presented here are analysed and discussed with a view to informing future, larger-scale investigations into barriers to cancer screening service use and the consumption of public health messages related to male cancers amongst men, as well as the development of user-driven sources of information on male cancers and cancer screening awareness campaigns that recognise the diversity of Scottish men‟s identities and experiences. Data were be generated from four focus group meetings with a diversity of men from across Scotland, focussing on areas of particularly high incidences of male cancers specifically, and poor health records generally (Glasgow, Edinburgh and West Dunbartonshire).
The Influence of Individual Determinants on Adherence to Feeding Guidelines for Infants Born to HIV Positive Mothers in Rakai District

Introduction: In Uganda, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was first reported at Kasensero landing site in Rakai district, in the South Western region in 1982. The district has continued to experience high HIV rates at 12% compared to the national average of 7.3% with relatively higher vertical transmission rates. Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the individual determinants of adherence to feeding guidelines for infants born to HIV positive mothers in Rakai District, Uganda. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study design was used with a sample size of 138 respondents and employing quantitative method of enquiry. A non-probability sampling strategy called consecutive sampling was used to sample the mothers with HIV. Data were analyzed using SPSS to generate descriptive and bivariate analysis data. Results: Individual determinants found to have a statistically significant influence to feeding guidelines for infants born to mothers living with HIV were: Age (X2 = 45.967, P-value = 0.000), Number of children (X2 = 93.069, P-value = 0.000), Number of children given birth to since diagnosis (X2 = 18.604, P-value = 0.000), income per month (X2 = 50.477, P-value = 0.000), ever had breast complication (X2 = 15.039, P-value = 0.000), disclosure of HIV status (X2 = 10.740, P-value = 0.001), quantity of breast milk produced (X2 = 10.637, P-value = 0.0005) and whether mothers attended antenatal care services (X2 = 38.613, P-value = 0.000). Conclusion: Age, Number of Children, Number of Children given birth to since diagnosis, breast complications, disclosure of HIV status, quantity of breast milk produced and utilization of antenatal care services were found to have an association with the adherence to feeding guidelines among HIV positive mother and this was statistically significant. Recommendation: General improvement of socio-economic status of the mothers should be done and be given priority so that in turn it will enable the women to adequately focus on maintaining optimum and the health of their children.
Effect of airtime incentives on response and cooperation rates in non-communicable disease interactive voice response surveys: randomised controlled trials in Bangladesh and Uganda

Background The global proliferation of mobile phones offers opportunity for improved non-communicable disease (NCD) data collection by interviewing participants using interactive voice response (IVR) surveys. We assessed whether airtime incentives can improve cooperation and response rates for an NCD IVR survey in Bangladesh and Uganda. Methods Participants were randomised to three arms: a) no incentive, b) 1X incentive or c) 2X incentive, where X was set to airtime of 50 Bangladesh Taka (US$0.60) and 5000 Ugandan Shillings (UGX; US$1.35). Adults aged 18 years and older who had a working mobile phone were sampled using random digit dialling. The primary outcomes, cooperation and response rates as defined by the American Association of Public Opinion Research, were analysed using log-binomial regression model. Results Between 14 June and 14 July 2017, 440 262 phone calls were made in Bangladesh. The cooperation and response rates were, respectively, 28.8% (353/1227) and 19.2% (580/3016) in control, 39.2% (370/945) and 23.9% (507/2120) in 50 Taka and 40.0% (362/906) and 24.8% (532/2148) in 100 Taka incentive groups. Cooperation and response rates, respectively, were significantly higher in both the 50 Taka (risk ratio (RR) 1.36, 95% CI 1.21 to 1.53) and (RR 1.24, 95% CI 1.12 to 1.38), and 100 Taka groups (RR 1.39, 95% CI 1.23 to 1.56) and (RR 1.29, 95% CI 1.16 to 1.43), as compared with the controls. In Uganda, 174 157 phone calls were made from 26 March to 22 April 2017. The cooperation and response rates were, respectively, 44.7% (377/844) and 35.2% (552/1570) in control, 57.6% (404/701) and 39.3% (508/1293) in 5000 UGX and 58.8% (421/716) and 40.3% (535/1328) in 10 000 UGX groups. Cooperation and response rates were significantly higher, respectively in the 5000 UGX (RR 1.29, 95% CI 1.17 to 1.42) and (RR 1.12, 95% CI 1.02 to 1.23), and 10 000 UGX groups (RR 1.32, 95% CI 1.19 to 1.45) and (RR 1.15, 95% CI 1.04 to 1.26), as compared with the control group. Conclusion In two diverse settings, the provision of an airtime incentive significantly improved both the cooperation and response rates of an IVR survey, with no significant difference between the two incentive amounts. Trial registration number NCT03768323.