Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ACSM's resources for the health fitness specialist

Part 1 Overview 1 Understanding Physical Activity and Exercise 2 Physical Activity Preparticipation and Screening Guidelines Part 2 Assessments and Exercise Programming for Apparently Healthy Participants 3 Cardiorespiratory Fitness Assessments and Exercise Programming for Apparently Healthy Participants 4 Muscular Strength and Endurance Assessments and Exercise Programming for Apparently Healthy Participants 5 Flexibility Assessments and Exercise Programming for Apparently Healthy Participants 6 Body Composition and Weight Management Part 3 Exercise Programming for Special Populations 7 Exercise for Individuals With Controlled Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, and Metabolic Diseases 8 Exercise Programming for Individuals With Musculoskeletal Limitations 9 Exercise Programming Across the Lifespan: Children and Adolescents, Pregnant Women, and Older Adults Part 4 Behavior Change 10 Theories of Behavior Change 11 Facilitating Health Behavior Change 12 Healthy Stress Management Part 5 Business 13 Legal Structure and Terminology 14 Leadership and Management 15 General Health Fitness Management 16 Marketing 17 Professional Behaviors and Ethics
Comparison of carotid plaque characteristics, arterial remodelling changes, left ventricular geometry and inflammatory markers in patients with chest pain and unobstructed coronary arteries, chronic stable angina or acute coronary syndromes

Introduction: Atherosclerosis remains asymptomatic until it progresses to cause flow-limiting disease. Identifying patients at high risk in the early stages of the atherosclerotic process may allow modification of cardiovascular risk by effective preventive strategies. Various non-invasive tests have been studied and have shown promising results in predicting future adverse cardiovascular events. The objective of this study was to establish the carotid ultrasonographic markers that best correlate with angiographic coronary artery disease (CAD) and the relationship between left ventricular geometry, carotid atherosclerosis, biomarkers and CAD in patients with unobstructed coronary arteries, chronic stable angina (CSA) and acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Methods: Carotid ultrasound examination, echocardiography and serum biomarker estimation were performed in consecutive patients who underwent coronary angiography for evaluation of stable or acute chest pain. Results: A total of 146 subjects were recruited into the study with a mean age of 56.9 � 10.6 (range 29 to 85) years; 120 were men (82%) and 26 (18%) women. Twenty-one percent of the study population had unobstruced coronaries, 42% had stable CAD and 37% had presented with ACS. There was no significant difference in the carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) measurements between the three groups. CIMT correlated with abnormal left ventricular geometry but not with the presence or severity of CAD. The presence of carotid plaque and plaque score correlated with obstructive CAD, but was not significantly different between stable CAD and ACS patients. There was a trend towards more echogenic plaque in the stable CAD group. The composite score of IMT and plaque was positively correlated with the presence and severity of CAD. The averaged myocardial peak systolic and early diastolic velocities were significantly lower in those with obstructive CAD. CRP and osteopontin levels were higher in the ACS patients.Conclusions: Carotid plaque and not CIMT was associated with angiographic coronary artery disease. Averaged systolic and early diastolic myocardial velocities by tissue doppler imaging correlated with obstructive CAD. Novel serum biomarkers are promising and further studies are needed.
Age and Gender Identification by Indian Multilingual Speech Sample

: The human voice is contained sound made by a person utilizing the vocal cord for talking, singing, snickering, crying and yelling. It is especially a bit of human sound creation in which the vocal string is the fundamental sound source, which assumes a vital job in the discussion. The uses of discourse or voice preparing innovation assume a pivotal job in human PC communication. The framework enhances gender orientation ID, age amass characterization, age and feeling acknowledgment execution. The examination work utilizes new and effective techniques for highlight extraction of discourse or voice and grouping of standard strategy on the different sound datasets. Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients highlight extraction and determination is performed to locate an increasingly reasonable list of capabilities for building speaker models. The proposed framework utilizes Gaussian Mixture Model is a super vector for framework include choice and highlight displaying. Bolster Vector Machine arrangement and highlight coordinating procedure is utilized to order the component for various age bunches like youngster, adolescent, youthful, grown-up and higher ranking than increment the resultant execution and precision. The database is made utilizing the sound records for each age gathering of speaker and for every feeling as an info, performs highlight extraction and distinguishes the gender orientation, arrange age gathering, and perceive age and feeling.
Numerical method to simulate detonative combustion of hydrogen-air mixture in a containment

During an accident accompanied by core damage in a water-cooled nuclear reactor, a large amount of hydrogen is generated by fuel clad oxidation and released into the reactor containment. Hydrogen mitigation in the containment during a severe accident is important because the integrity of the structures important to safety could be threatened by an explosive combustion of the hydrogen. Even when equipped with a hydrogen mitigation system, if a highly concentrated hydrogen mixture cloud is developed in a compartment of the containment, the compartment integrity with a pressure load from a local detonation must be evaluated. In this study, a reliable numerical method to simulate the detonation of a hydrogen-air mixture was developed for the evaluation of a pressure load from a detonation. The numerical method has the capability to capture shocks robustly as well as resolve combustion phenomena stably. The Euler equations of mass, momentum, energy and gas species are employed as the governing equations of detonation. A central-upwind scheme was adopted as a shock capturing scheme and a reduced chemical kinetic model was applied for combustion. The numerical method was validated by solving experimental cases and applied for understanding detonation shock behaviour in a generic containment.
High-Gain Leaky-Wave Endfire Antenna Based on Hansen–Woodyard Condition

In this letter, a novel high-gain leaky-wave endfire antenna is proposed. By utilizing an air substrate parallel strip line, which is periodically disturbed by the radiating elements, such as the feedline, the phase constant of the antenna approaches the phase requirement of the Hansen–Woodyard (H–W) condition. By optimizing the size of the radiating element, which is dipole element, an approximately constant aperture distribution is obtained by the antenna. Thereby, with the characters similar to the H–W endfire antenna around the center frequency and moderate phase constant over the operating bandwidth, the antenna achieves a high gain, narrow beamwidth, and stable endfire radiation pattern. With the radiating aperture length of two wavelengths, the antenna generates the measured gain of 12.5 dBi at the center frequency of 5 GHz, operating bandwidth of 20.8%, and measured 1 dB gain bandwidth of 16.2%. Fabricated by metal, the antenna may be an attractive substitute for the long-distance communication applications, especially for the systems where cost and power capacity are important.
Effects of Health Education on the Knowledge and Self-care of Hypertension for Visiting Nursing Clients

Purpose: To test the effects of health education on the blood pressure, knowledge, and self-care of visiting nursing clients. Methods: The study subjects were 96 participants who had been diagnosed with hypertension or had high risk factors for hypertension among those registered at a public health center in Seoul. The education program was individualized and delivered to enhance the management of hypertension including life-style modification, medication, and complication managements. Data were collected using questionnaires from May to December 2006 and analyzed using descriptive analysis, t-test, paired t-test, and ANOVA. Results: The blood pressure of the participants after the education was significantly decreased compared to before the education. Education also significantly affected the increases of knowledge of the disease and self-care capability. However, the blood pressure and self care were not significantly improved for the age group over 85 years. Conclusions: This study proves that the individualized health education for visiting nursing clients was effective in improving blood pressure, knowledge, and self-care of hypertension. However, it is necessary to develop strategies that are specifically targeted at particular age groups in order to improve the capability of self-care of hypertension.
Torticollis: Differential Diagnosis, Assessment and Treatment, Surgical Management and Bracing

Contents Preface * The Differential Diagnosis of Torticollis in Children * Conservative Management of Congenital Muscular Torticollis: A Literature Review * Assessment and Treatment of Children with Congenital Muscular Torticollis * The Surgical Management of Congenital Muscular Torticollis * The Use of Splinting in Conservative and Post-Operative Treatment of Congenital Muscular Torticollis * Infants with Torticollis: The Relationship Between Asymmetric Head and Neck Positioning and Postural Development * Epilogue * Index * Reference Notes Included
Extracting free energy of clusters in concentrated binary alloys from atomistic Monte Carlo simulations

A good knowledge of clusters (thermal fluctuations or precipitates) free energy as a function of their size and temperature is essential to accurately describe nucleation and growth, even in binary alloys. Thanks to a Monte Carlo (MC) method, this quantity can be accurately calculated, but results are directly applicable only to dilute alloys. For concentrated alloys, results must be reinterpreted to account for the probability of coagulation between close clusters. To investigate this kind of situation with atomistic MC (AMC) simulations, ordered and coherent Al3Li clusters embedded in concentrated Al–Li alloys are considered. A classical pair potential limited to first and second nearest neighbours is proposed for this purpose. To enhance the MC calculation of cluster free energy, a new acceptance criterion related to the probability of coagulation is added to the classical energy one. It is shown that the properties of clusters can be directly extracted from AMC simulations. A few simple tests are provided to prove the consistency of this approach.
Metodologi Penelitian Keuangan : Prosedur, Ide dan Kontrol

Buku ini ditujukan untuk menginspirasikan menulis karya akhir, terdiri dari 3 bagian besaryakni, Proedur, Ide dan Kontrol yang ditulis secara ringkas. Karena itu buku ini bukanlah buku Manjemen Keuangan namun bukan pula buku Metode Penelitian, lebih tepat dinyatakan sebagai Metode Penelitian untuk Manajemen Keuangan. Penulis berusaha mensarikan beberapa hal penting yang bersinggungan di antara keduanya, itulah yang membuat buku ini berbeda. Banyak hal yang dapatdipetik pembaca.
Brain Activity during Disfluent Speech with Delayed Auditory Feedback: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study

Delayed auditory feedback (DAF) devices allow users to hear their own voice after a delay of several tenths to several hundredths of a second via speakers or earphones. In normal individuals, DAF produces disfluent speech, which is known as the DAF effect. In the present study, we used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to evaluate the neural correlates of disfluent speech attributable to the DAF effect. Participants performed a reading-aloud task using long sentences during fNIRS under two conditions: Normal auditory feedback (NAF) and DAF. Oxygenated-hemoglobin was significantly increased in the bilateral superior temporal gyrus region during the DAF condition in comparison to the NAF condition. A larger effect was observed in the right superior temporal gyrus region. Furthermore, a positive correlation was found between the frequency of disfluent speech and activity in the right superior temporal gyrus region. Using NIRS may allow one to evaluate the non-fluency utterance of individuals, even in natural environments and conditions. Examining the cerebral blood flow changes may be employed as an indicator to identify speech disorders such as stuttering.
On Orthogonal AMP in Coded Linear Vector Systems

Linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) estimation based turbo detection has been extensively studied for coded linear systems since the seminal work of Wang and Poor (WP). The WP algorithm operates iteratively between a linear detector (LD) and a nonlinear detector (NLD): the LD suppresses the interference based on LMMSE filtering, and the NLD decodes the data by treating the output of the LD as an observation from an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. In WP, the messages exchanged between LD and NLD are required to be extrinsic. For the NLD, the extrinsic message comes from the constraint imposed on feedforward error correction (FEC) codes. Therefore, WP does not work in an un-coded linear system. Recently, we proposed an orthogonal approximate message passing (OAMP) algorithm, which only requires the input/output error terms of LD and NLD to be orthogonal. We conjectured that for un-coded linear systems that involve certain large random matrices, the dynamics of OAMP can be accurately characterized by state evolution (SE). In this paper, we consider a coded linear system and develop an extrinsic message aided OAMP (EMA-OAMP) algorithm. Similar to the un-coded case, EMA-OAMP relaxes the requirements on output messages to be orthogonal instead of extrinsic. We derive an SE procedure to characterize the performance of OAMP in coded systems. We conjecture that this SE procedure is accurate, which is verified by simulation results. Under this conjecture, we show that EMA-OAMP can outperform WP under certain standard assumptions for iterative decoding. Extensive simulations results are provided to verify the advantages of OAMP in coded MIMO systems.
The Operational Evidence Base for Delivering Direct Nutrition Interventions in India: A Desk Review

In the report a review of 22 program models shows that a majority focused on improving breastfeeding and timely initiation of complementary feeding. However, only a few addressed the full spectrum of complementary feeding, vitamin A deficiency, pediatric anemia, and severe acute malnutrition. None addressed how to reduce intestinal parasitic burdens or prevent malaria.
Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

This chapter commences by depicting the rise of Africa as a force on the world map as a contextual background for a survey of the education expansion and reform project on the continent in the past 65 years - arguably the biggest education expansion drive in human history. The main lines of the education expansion and education reform in Africa are reconstructed. Education in Africa is then assessed in terms of three dimensions: quantitative, qualitative, and equalization. While being nothing short of spectacular, the education project in Africa faces severe challenges, on all three fronts of the quantitative expansion, quality, and equality dimensions. At the same time, as the African continent is embracing the world of the twenty-first century, this changed world is also adding its share of imperatives to education. Finally, the role of comparative international scholarship in negotiating these imperatives and challenges is noted.
Segregation, Buffer Zones and Transport Routes

The apartheid city lzas generated a number of themes for urban research. Segregation, forced removals, housing and transport feature prominently in the published literature. A comprehensive review of research in transport geography was provided by Pirie and Khosa (1992) . The journey to work, transport struggles and the rise of the black taxi industnj have featured prominently. However, tlze way in which roads were planned, and especially how specific routes advantaged and disadvantaged some communities has not been systematically studied. This paper focuses on the economic, environmental, social and political impacts of transport routes in South Africa during the apartheid era. More specifically, the controversy surrounding the second access road to Chatsworth in Durban will be analysed to illustrate how certain roads served as barriers to separate different race groups. The different routes that were proposed and the conflicts that ensued between the various communities will be analysed. Attempts to resolve the issue of a second access route to Chatsworth in the postapartheid era will be assessed.
Evaluation of physical, mechanical and biological properties of bioglass/titania scaffold coated with poly (3-hydroxybutyrate)-chitosan for bone tissue engineering applications

ABSTRACT In this work the scaffolds were made by foam replication method. The results from SEM showed that scaffolds with and without coating have high porosity and well-interconnected pore structure, and the polymer coating caused a significant increase in the mechanical properties from 0.01 Mpa to 0.19 Mpa. This coating also had a significant effect on the reduction of the contact angle, which due to the presence of Cs. The bioactivity in simulated body fluid (SBF) have shown that polymer coating did not have any negative effect on the bioactivity of the scaffolds. The results of Antibacterial test on both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria on the scaffolds with PHB/Cs coating were observed. The results of cell compatibility showed that the growth and adhesion of MG63 cells on the scaffolds with PHB/Cs coating were higher. The results of this study represented that 45S5 bioglass/titania based scaffold with PHB/Cs coating is a promising candidate for bone tissue engineering applications.
A laboratory study of the wave-induced mean ﬂow and set-down in unidirectional surface gravity wavepackets on ﬁnite water depth

The net movement of Lagrangian particles under water waves comprises a Stokes drift in the direction of wave propagation and an Eulerian return ﬂow in the opposing direction. Accurate prediction of the Eulerian return ﬂow in the ocean is of importance in modelling the transport of plastic pollution, oil, wreckage, and sediment. Herein, we derive a multiple-scales solution for the Eulerian mean ﬂow under wavepackets that is valid for all water depths, both relative to the length of the wave and the length of the wavepacket. To validate this solution, we carry out Particle Tracking Velocimetry experiments in a long ﬂume to extract the mean motion from Lagrangian seeding particles under wavepackets, ﬁnding good agreement. The extraction technique is able to deal with small background motion and sub-harmonic error waves associated with wave generation by the paddle, the latter being relatively large in ﬁnite-depth ﬂume experiments. In ﬁnite depth, the return ﬂow is forced by both the divergence of the Stokes transport on the wavepacket scale and the formation of a non-negligible mean set-down underneath the packet, which acts like a bounding streamtube in the form of a convergent-divergent duct. The magnitude of the horizontal return ﬂow is thus enhanced, with particular relevance to transport in the ﬁnite-depth coastal environment.
An efficient multi-language Video Search Engine to facilitate the HADJ and the UMRA

Videos clips became the most important and prominent multimedia document to illustrate the rituals process of Hajj and Umrah. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a system to facilitate access to information related to the duties, the pillars, the stages and the prayers. In this paper present a new project accomplishing a search engine in a large video database enabling any pilgrims to get the information that he care about as fast, accurate. This project is based on two techniques: (a) the weighting method to determine the degree of affiliation of a video clip to a particular topic (b) organizing data using several layers.
Morphologische und funktionelle Bildgebung mittels hochauflösender 3.0 Tesla Multi-Sequenz Magnetresonanztomographie und 18F-Fluorodesoxyglukose PET Computertomographie bei Patienten mit spontanen Dissektionen der Halsgefäße

Between 2007 and 2010 more than 50 patients with spontaneous dissections of cervical arteries have been examined and scanned with a modified cervical MRI and fluorodeoxyglucose (18F) PET CT protocol at the Institute of Clinical Radiology, LMU Munich. Within this prospective, mono-centric study all imaging data was obtained by using a 3.0 tesla scanner (Magnetom Verio; Siemens Healthcare) and two PET CT scanners (Philips Gemini; Philips Healthcare and Siemens Biograph 64; Siemens Healthcare). This study was based on and conducted by a strong cooperation between the Department of Neurology and the Department of Nuclear Medicine. Detailed data sets regarding patient history and clinical parameters were recorded for every patient. The MRI protocol included a time-of-flight angiography, fat-saturated T1- and T2- weighted black-blood sequences before and after the administration of contrast medium (Gadovist®, Bayer-Schering). The scans covered the supra-aortic vessels from the aortic arch to the base of the skull with a best in plane resolution of 0.5 x 0.5 mm2. Every patient received an additional diffusion-weighted brain-MRI for evaluation of ischemia. The supra-aortic vessels of the same patients were also scanned by a low dose FDG/PET-CT. Measurements of standardized uptake values for every vessel segment were obtained after the administration of the tracer (activity: 5 MBq/kg bodyweight). The calculated effective dose was 8 mSv per patient. Along with quantitative PET-CT analysis, experienced radiologists performed qualitative evaluation of vessel wall inflammation for PET-CT and the MR images. Local inflammatory changes at the site of dissection were distinguished from generalized inflammation of the vascular system.
An Analytical Methodology to Air Pollution Modelling in Atmosphere

This work presents an analytical solution for the transient three-dimensional advection-diffusion equation to simulate the dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere. The solution of the advection-diffusion equation is obtained analytically using a combination of the methods of separation of variables and GILTT. The main advantage is that the presented solution avoids a numerical inversion carried out in previous works of the literature, being by this way a totally analytical solution, less than a summation truncation. Initial numerical simulations and statistical comparisons using data from the Copenhagen experiment are presented and prove the good performance of the model.
VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS OF MOLECULAR POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACE (PES) AND ITS MINIMA

The study of the potential energy surface (PES) of a molecule is of fundamental importance in structural chemistry. PES, being a function of torsion angles describing the internal rotation of different fragments in the molecule, is usually calculated by means of standard programs for quantum-chemical calculations (for instance, by GAUSSIAN). The supplementing program (GAUSSVIEW) suggests the visualization of PES with not more than two torsional coordinates (3D PES). The visualization of four-dimensional and more complex hypersurfaces is still a challenge for structural chemists. Another problem is finding all local minima of hypersurfaces corresponding to the conformational landscape of the molecule. This paper describes how a specially designed multidimensional postprocessor can be used to solve these problems. It also demonstrates the postprocessor capabilities by presenting a few examples.