Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SERUM URIC ACID LEVELS IN METABOLIC SYNDROME ASSOCIATED WITH DIABETES, HYPERTENSION, CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE AND APPARENT HEALTH

Aim: Serum uric acid (SUA), though not one of the factors for the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome (MS), has been reported to be consistently elevated in MS. The later predisposes to cardiovascular events and type 2 diabetes. This work evaluated the levels of SUA in MS associated with diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease and apparent health. Method: Data from previous study were analyzed and sensitivity and specificity of SUA and its correlation with factors of MS were determined. Results: The mean (±SD) of SUA (μl/l) recorded in the study groups were 357.8 (94.75), 429 (118.7), 389 (123.2) and 356 (88.07) (p<0.01) for DM, HTN, CKD and AHS respectively. Two hundred and eighty nine subjects (53.5%) had ≥3 risk factors and were diagnosed with MS. SUA correlated significantly only with waist circumference in all the test groups. The per cent incidence of MS in the respective groups is 77.2, 49.2, 37.3 and 38.5 for DM, HTN, CKD and AHS respectively. Hyperuricaemia (>400μmol/l) was recorded in 111 of all the MS subjects, (38.4%). This gave per cent incidence of hyperuricaemia in the groups as 30.9, 58.2, 38.7 and 32.7 respectively. The sensitivity and specificity of SUA as a biomarker of MS in the study population were 37.7% and 51.6% and in the groups they were 28.7% and 66.7%; 60.9% and 52.7%; 38.7% and 65.4%; 32.6% and 34.9% respectively, (Table 3). Conclusion: SUA may not serve as a good marker for the MS in the study population. The increase in SUA reported by other workers has not been a consistent finding in this study and it may be due to dietary differences between the reported society and the present study population. The question of whether raised SUA is a cause or consequence of MS still remains unresolved.
An Assessment of Cardiac Risk Factors on Subclinical Hypothyroidism in Coronary Heart Disease Patients

Purpose: Subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH) is defined as a condition which shows an elevated serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) in the presence of normal free triiodothyronine (FT3) and tetraiodothyronine (FT4) levels. The effect of conventional factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) on the severity of SCH remains uncertain. Our aim was to evaluate the cardiac risk factors on various degrees of SCH in a cohort of CHD patients. Methods: CHD patients were retrospectively divided into euthyroid, mild and severe SCH groups according to their thyroid functional status. Heath data from patients, including present and past history, results of blood biochemistry and ultrasound echocardiography were analyzed using univariate and multivariate logistic regression. Results: Among the CHD patients with euthyroidism (N =118), mild SCH (N=70) and severe SCH (N=29), 5 of 13 related factors, including gender, smoking history, LVEF, E/A and antithyroid peroxidase autoantibody (anti-TPO) positive were significantly different among the three groups (p<0.05). Interestingly, according to the results of univariate logistic regression, patients without smoking history were more likely to have mild SCH (OR=0.125, p<0.001) and severe SCH (OR=0.187, p=0.009). Likewise, patients with low HDL-C level were more likely to have severe SCH (OR=0.401, p=0.030). However, according to the results of multivariate logistic regression, females were more inclined to have mild SCH than males (OR=6.380, p<0.001). And patients with anti-TPO positive were more likely to have severe SCH (OR=6.427, p=0.002). Conclusion: Female CHD patients and an anti-TPO positive result were 2 independent factors related to SCH.
Evaluation of Antioxidant Potential and Phytochemical investigations on Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr

Herbal medicine constitutes major component in earlier and traditional medical systems evolved in India especially in Ayurveda. Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr. commonly known as Bael is an important medicinal plant of India and it is considered as “Mahaphala” (Fruit with all qualities) in Ayurvedic System of medicine. A. marmelos is utilized as an effective ethenomedicine as astringent, antidiarrheal, antidysentric, demulcent, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory treatment. Plant also contains compounds useful for treatment of several diseases including cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. Current investigation was aimed to evaluate potential of this plant as an effective antioxidant source. A. marmelos fruit and leaf extracts prepared using various solvents exhibited a significant variability regarding their antioxidant activity. The different extracts from leaf and fruit tissues were determined for their antioxidant potential through DPPH assay, FRAP analysis, reducing power, total antioxidant capacity method and metal chelation ability. The methanol extract of leaf and hexane extract of fruits exhibited relatively higher antioxidant activity as compared to other solvents. Flavanoids and total phenolic content was also determined in different extracts. Presence of bound flavanoid like chalcones (Butein-4’glucoside) and aurones was also recorded in the extracts by UV Spectrum. Higher flavanoid content was not paralleled with high antioxidants activity in various extracts. The hexane extract of fruit exhibited most effective antioxidant properties whereas extracts prepared using water and phosphate buffer exhibited only a marginal antioxidant activity.
TOTAL PHENOLIC CONTENTS AND FERRIC-REDUCING ANTIOXIDANT POWER FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF MULTIPURPOSE TREE (Moringa oleifera Lam)

Moringa oleifera played an important role in controlling oxidation caused by free radicals. Thus served as remedy to oxidative damages. This study was aimed to assess antioxidant activity and estimate total phenolic contents from different part of Moringa oleifera crude extract. Ferric-reducing antioxidant power assay was applied to evaluate antioxidant activity. Total phenolic compounds of the samples were measured using the Folin–Ciocalteu method. The reducing power of bark extract, revealed almost four times than any other part used, with (1499.67 ± 49.98 μM Fe (II)/g), followed by leaf with (432 ± 6.38 μM Fe (II)/g) and the lowest was seed extract having (126.67 ± 4.19 μM Fe (II)/g). The highest phenolic content was observed from methanolic bark (55.84 ± 2.92 mg GAE/g), followed by stem with bark extract having (48.81 ± 2.45 mg GAE/g), and the least was observed from stem extract with (42.25 ± 0.64 mg GAE/g). The result of this research showed that all the extract used are good source of natural antioxidant compounds. Therefore, Moringa oleifera can be utilized to cure oxidative related problems. KEYWORD: Moringa oleifera Lam. , antioxidant, phenolic, Ferric-reducing antioxidant power. World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research SJIF Impact Factor 8.074 Volume 8, Issue 3, 166-175. Research Article ISSN 2277– 7105 Article Received on 05 Jan. 2019, Revised on 26 Jan. 2019, Accepted on 17 Feb. 2019 DOI: 10.20959/wjpr20193-14291 *Corresponding Author
Analysis of SQL Injection Attacks and Prevention Methods in Web Applications

— Database hacking is a major problem for organizations financially as well professionally. The recent invention of SQL injection attacks became known to online world, which is a big problem for the companies, where data is crucial. SQL injection can provide an attacker with unauthorized access to sensitive data including, customer data, personally identifiable information (PII), trade secrets, intellectual property and other sensitive information. An attacker can use SQL injection to bypass authentication or even impersonate specific users. The latest encryption algorithms like Advanced Encryption Standard, Secure Hashing techniques, etc should be applied for validating the user with examining its pre-recorded nature and behaviour. So, the intensions of malicious users may be pre-measured. In this paper, we proposed a model that will help to understand the scenario of such attacks and the phase where more research is required.
Marsupialization for simple fistula in ano

Fistula in ano is a common surgical problem. Conventional surgical options for a simple fistula in ano include a fistulotomy and fistulectomy. Lay open of the fistula tract is a commonly used procedure in the management of fistulain-ano. It can cure the fistula but this may involve prolong wound healing, and compromise of anal continence. The wound edges may be marsupialized to the laid open fistula tract leaving less raw unepithelialized tissue to heal over. There are inadequate data comparing fistulotomy with or without marsupialization.To compare marsupialization (MS) versus lay open (LO) technique in management of simple fistula in ano (FIA) in terms of healing time as a primary outcome and postoperative complications as a secondary outcomes ) postoperative bleeding, postoperative pain, wound infection, anal incontinence and recurrence). A prospective interventional study was conducted in Omdurman teaching hospital, department of general surgery, in the period from 2014 July to 2015 July. All patients who presented with simple anal fistula were included. Patients with associated co-morbid conditions and patients refused consent for the procedure were excluded. A predesigned, pretested questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. A computer program, Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 20 was used . A Total number of 80 patients with simple FIA were studied. Forty patients were involved in each group. The mean operative time in LO group was 7.5 ± 1.2 minutes, whereas in MS group was 10.3 ± 1.2 minutes. The difference between the two groups with respect to the mean operating time was statistically significant (P value 0.000). Post-operative pain had no statistically significant difference in first 24 hour (P value 0.330) and second post-operative day (P value 0.120). The mean healing time was longer in LO group than in MS group (8.4 ± 1.3 versus 5.9 ± 1.1weeks). This difference in healing time reached statistical significance with a P value of <0.001. There was no significant difference in post-operative complications including pain, bleeding and infection. There was no recurrence of the fistula and none of the patients developed anal incontinence after the surgery in short term follow up of three months.Anal fistula marsupialization had significant faster post-operative healing time in comparison with lay open Fistulotomy. Apart from a longer operative time required for marsupialization, there was no significant difference in post-operative complications including pain, bleeding, and infection. Neither incontinence nor recurrence were encountered in either group.
Design and Evaluation of Digital Content for Education

Searching for and retrieval of Learning Objects in e-learning environments is a complex assignment for instructors and students. Generally, the search results include several Learning Objects and the ranking criteria are not always clear (keyword frequency, date updating, user profile similarity, etc.). This means that selection of the best Learning Object for a specific use requires a lot of effort and time. This paper proposes a hybrid recommendation method to assist users in the search and selection processes in Learning Objects Repositories. The intended method uses a combination of different filtering techniques, such as content comparison, and
Routing in Opportunistic Network based on Erasure codes with buffer management

-Opportunistic Network is one type of challenged network where node contacts are occasional and routes are found dynamically while the message travels through the network. In such a network, there does not occur a complete path from source to destination for maximum time. In order to solve this routing issue many routing protocols such as epidemic routing and quota based routing protocols were employed. Such protocols manage relatively low network overhead but suffer from low delivery ratio. This paper confers erasure coding based routing in Opportunistic network. First our approach exploits buffer management to regulate buffer efficiently because of the lower node capacity. Second we calculate maximum communicable message size to avoid retransmission. This apprehension is exploited to make better forwarding decision. Third we apply erasure coding by adding redundancy to encode the original message and decode in the destination. Simulations demonstrate the benefit of our protocol and exhibit that our strategy provides prominent delivery ratio and inferior network overhead in comparison with a number of well known algorithms.
A Novel Snubberless DC-DC Converter Based Inverter

The project deals with a snubberless dc/dc converter-based inverter. Most of the dc-dc converters, which require snubber circuits for reduce voltage spikes. In the case of conventional dc-dc converters, during device turn-off, voltage overshoot occurs across the various semiconductor devices. So, an additional snubber circuit or voltage clamping is required to limit the overshoot voltage. It increases the components count and losses making the converter less efficient. The above problem is eliminated by operating the converter with soft-switching features achieved by using secondary modulation technique. Hence, it avoids the need of additional snubber. In this topology having Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) and Zero Current Switching (ZCS) features. The switches in the converter turn ON at ZVS and turn OFF at ZCS . The proposed converter is a converter with high-step-up voltage conversion ratio. Then the output from the dc-dc converter is connected to full bridge inverter. Inverter produces ac which is connected to grid/load. These types of snubberless dc/dc converter based inverters are mainly used for residential photovoltaic (PV) applications, fuel cell vehicles and energy storage systems. The designed system has been simulated using Simulink Model (Matlab-Software) tools.
Molecular Analysis of Signal Peptidase I Gene in Streptococcus pneumoniae 1

A central event in protein secretion is the type I signal peptidase-mediated cleavage of the N-terminal signal peptide that targets a protein for its destination. In this study, the gene of the signal peptidase I of gram-positive Streptococcus pneumoniae (Spi) was cloned, expressed and its protein was purified. Switching trial for the proteolytic processing of the outer membrane (OmpA) protein by Spi peptidase has drawn attention for the existence of a substrate specificity difference between gram-negative and gram-positive signal peptidases. Analysis of a constructed hybrid protein (preOmpA-Skc-His6) along with site-directed mutagenesis in the same construct confirmed the critical role of the -1 and -3 amino acid residues for cleavage by signal peptidase I in streptococcus pneumoniae, consistent with the idea that this peptidase contains a serine-lysine catalytic dyad. [Muharram, M M; Alqasoumi, S I; Abulelhamd, A T. Molecular Analysis of Signal Peptidase I Gene in Streptococcus pneumonia. J Am Sci 2012;8(9):276-281]. (ISSN: 1545-1003). http://www.jofamericanscience. org. 40
Impact of Collaborative Attacks on Performance of Reactive Routing Protocols in MANET

: Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a self configuring network of mobile nodes connected by wireless links and considered as network without infrastructure. The security in MANET has become a significant and active topic within the research community. Some attacks involving multiple nodes still receive little attention. Furthermore, it may also have to do with the fact that no survey or taxonomy has been done to clarify the characteristics of different multiple node attacks. In this paper we discuss collaborative attacks against MANET from the various multiple node attacks found. Simulation using NS2 was used to investigate the performance impact of a collaborative blackhole, wormhole and grayhole attacks on AODV and DSR routing protocol in mobile ad hoc network. We implemented four performance metrics are used in our result analysis. Finally we have shown the performance of AODV and DSR with collaborative attacks in MANET.
Performance Analysis of Seven Level Multilevel Inverter Using Renewable Energy Systems

With the increasing concerns on energy issues, the development of renewable energy sources is becoming more and more attractive. A new kind of wind-PV hybrid generated system that comprises of wind and photovoltaic generation subsystems as input to a cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter is developed in this paper. In conventional methods the inverter with solar and wind energy sources are used. In this method a seven level multilevel inverter with wind–PV hybrid generation system as input are proposed for application to remote and isolated areas. The wind and the solar light are captured in greatest degree, as well as the multilevel inverter using pulse width modulation technique is adopted. The objectives of this hybrid system are, to satisfy the load power demand and, presence of high number of output levels in inverter to maintain the dc output voltage level of the inverter to produce a nearly sinusoidal output. This reduces harmonics in inverter output voltage. This paper discusses about the control of seven-level H-bridge cascaded multilevel inverter with Fast Fourier Transform analysis in inverter output voltage through simulation. The simulated wind-PV system consists of an AC-to-DC boost converter, aDC-to-AC nverter, a photovoltaic module, and wind module. Its shown by the simulations that a multilevel inverter utilizing renewable resource has lower Total Harmonics Distortion in output voltage. In this paper comparison of conventional inverter and proposed seven level cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter using solar and wind energy sources are presented.
Step Counting Using Smartphone-Based Accelerometer

—This paper presents a method for counting the number of steps taken by a user, while walking at any variable speed, using smartphone-based accelerometer. For this purpose, the steps are detected based on a relation between frequency of step, which varies inversely with speed of motion, and the magnitude of accelerometer signal. The pattern of the forward acceleration was observed to arrive at the final relation.
Agents-based Methodology for Wireless Sensor Networks

- Nowadays, agents-based systems are widely used to solve many engineering problems. The characteristics of the agents-based approach enable them to be used for the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) successfully. The proposed system introduces a novel algorithm that uses the agents-based approach for the WSNs to improve their performances. The suggested system has been applied for three WSNs having different applications. Its achieved results have proved its goodness and acceptance for the practical WSNs applications.
Archives of Nursing Practice and Care

Objectives: Our study aimed to investigate patient safety attitudes and perceptions amongst health care providers in Tunisian tertiary care hospitals. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted during April May and June 2015 in Sahloul University hospital in Sousse: a 630-beds tertiary hospital in Eastern Tunisia. This survey included 344 cares providers. The French version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture questionnaire was used to identify dimensions of patient safety culture. Results: Areas with potential for improvement were overall perception of security, Teamwork within units, organizational learning/continuous improvement, open communication and underreporting of events. Teamwork across hospital units had the lowest score. No signifi cant differences between physicians and nurses were found for all composites in our study. Conclusion: Patient safety culture remains underdeveloped in our hospital. Leaders must implement a development strategy by creating the culture and commitment needed to identify and solve underlying systemic causes related to patient safety. Research Article Patient Safety Culture in a Tunisian Teaching Tertiary Care Hospital Mohamed Ben Rejeb1,2*, Dhekra Chebil1, Latifa Merzougui1,2, Balsem Kacem3, Selwa Khefacha-Aissa1, Lamine Dhidah1,2 and Houyem SaidLaatiri1,2 1Department of Prevention and Care Safety, Sahloul Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia 2Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, University of Sousse, Tunisia 3Department of Pharmacy, Sahloul Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia Dates: Received: 27 July, 2017; Accepted: 30 August, 2017; Published: 31 August, 2017 *Corresponding author: Mohamed Ben Rejeb, Department of Prevention and Care Safety, Sahloul Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia, Tel: +216 54 098 709; Fax: +216 73 367 451; E-mail:
SURVEY ON EFFICIENCY OF ENCRYPTION ALGORITHMS FOR CLOUD DATA SECURITY

Cloud computing is technology where the clients‟ can use high end services in form of software that reside on different servers and access data from all over the world. With a promising technology like this, it certainly abandons clients‟ privacy, management of data and services, putting new security threats towards the assurance of data in cloud. However, there are some security concerns when clients handle and share data in the cloud-computing environment. The security threats such as maintenance of data integrity, data hiding and data safety dominate clients concerns when the issues of cloud security come up. The big data and time-consuming encryption calculations related to applying any encryption method have proved as a hindrance in this field. Cryptography is knowledge of protecting the information for providing encryption techniques. In this paper we survey different security issues to cloud and different cryptographic algorithms adoptable to provide better security for the cloud.
ANOMALOUS NOTE CHANGE DETECTION OF NKNOWN MONOPHONIC MELODIES

: Anomalous note changes in music melodies are a major concern in several automatic music content analysis tasks. When ‘the musically scale un-related notes’ occur in the note sequence, it will provide less pleasant melodies. These ‘uncommon’ notes are the situations which refer as the ‘anomalous notes’ in a particular melody. Identifying and eliminating the effects of these note changes will helpful to enhance the results in automatic melody evaluation, as well as in automatic melody transcription. In order to address the above issue, this paper proposes an approach to detect anomalous notes changes of unknown monophonic melodies. The proposed model is designed with two main phases with the applicable machine learning and signal processing techniques. Within the first phase, melodies are processed to have their pitch estimations. After the pitch estimation, a note event model has employed with the application of Long Short -Term Memory (LSTM) Neural Network for the detection of anomalous note changes. A set of recorded sample melodies are used as the dataset to evaluate the model. The dataset was collected only for the main seven major scales in music. The model was able to detect anomalous note changes with an overall accuracy of 68.2% for the used dataset.