Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Open versus arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Background: The purpose of this paper was to determine if significant differences exist between open and arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). We have hypothesized that patients would experience less pain, fewer complications, and fewer reoperations after arthroscopic ACLR. Methods: A systematic review of multiple medical databases was performed. Randomized controlled trials with a minimum of 6 mo follow-up were included. Study quality was analyzed using the Modified Coleman Methodology Score (MCMS) and Jadad Scale. Results: Three studies met the inclusion criteria (212 subjects; 212 knees). The MCMS rating was fair at 60.7±1.5, and the mean Jadad score was fair at 2.7±1.5. One study reported long-term outcomes (mean 12 yr) of 53 patients (25 open, 28 arthroscopic) and noted no differences in pain, strength, functional testing, or prevalence of osteoarthritis between groups. Two studies reported short-term outcomes of a combined 125 patients (58 open, 67 arthroscopic) with an average follow-up of 6 mo. In these studies, there were no differences in operative time, Lysholm scores, knee range of motion, laxity, complications, or reoperations between groups. Immediate postoperative analgesic use was higher in the open group. Average thigh atrophy ranged from 1.5 to 2.8 cm in the open group and 1.4 to 1.5 cm in the arthroscopic group. Conclusions: Based on the examined studies, there are no differences in operative time, knee range of motion, laxity, Lysholm scores, complications, or reoperations between open and arthroscopic ACLR techniques. Immediate postoperative pain appears decreased in patients undergoing arthroscopic ACLR.
Assessment of Nutritional Status of Women in Rural Areas of Bengaluru District.

The study was undertaken on nutritional status of rural women with the sample size of 200 respondents. Nutritional status reflects the health of a person and is influenced by the quality of foods eaten. Mean anthropometric measurement of rural women were 153.8 cm of height, 46.8 kg of weight. On comparison with the mean BMI standards, it was observed that 20 per cent of women were under nourished, 64 per cent of women were normal and 16 per cent women were obese. On comparison with the mean waist/hip ratio with standards, it was observed that 84 per cent were in normal category and 16 per cent were obese. Education, land holding, income and age had significant positive association with anthropometric measurements of rural women. The deficient level of hemoglobin existed in 53 per cent of rural women. The occurrence of morbidity symptoms was higher in rural women.
Development and pilot testing of a novel behavioral intervention for adults with type 2 diabetes using intervention mapping

ABSTRACT Purpose: A healthy diet and consistent physical activity (PA) form the foundation for effective self-management in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Behavioral interventions, which target diet and PA, can facilitate effective diabetes self-management practices. Greater clarity regarding the ‘active ingredients’ incorporated into behavioral interventions is needed to inform the evidence base about effective intervention techniques to advance behavioral theories and to improve clinical practice. The use of intervention mapping (IM) to develop a novel diabetes intervention to increase consumption of low glycemic index (GI) foods and to increase moderate-to-vigorous intensity PA is presented. Methods: Determinants from self-regulation and the Health Action Process Approach theoretical framework formed the foundation of the intervention. The IM taxonomy of behavior change methods and strategies from Hope Therapy (e.g. goal maps) were used to guide techniques for changing selected theoretical determinants of behavior. A pilot study of the intervention among adults with T2DM (n = 12) was conducted using a pre-/post-test design to evaluate intervention components and participant acceptability. Results: Participants attended a mean (±SD) of 8 (±1.4) of the 10 weekly 90-minute, group-based sessions. The magnitude of effect was moderate (d > 0.50) for the change in behavioral intentions, action control, and action and coping planning for engaging in PA and large (d > 0.80) for the change in action self-efficacy and action and coping planning for eating low GI foods post-intervention. Conclusions: Greater emphasis on value-based decision-making, the goal mapping process, and successively progressive exercise goals should be included in future versions of the intervention. Based on pilot testing, a larger randomized controlled trial that incorporates these intervention modifications is warranted and the modified intervention has a greater likelihood for success.
Records of Streblidae (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea) in a tropical dry forest fragment in Colombia

Streblidae es una familia de moscas altamente especializada, la cual se alimenta exclusivamente de murciélagos. Aquí se presenta información sobre las especies de Streblidae presentes en dos fragmentos de bosque seco tropical en Cauca, Colombia. Entre abril y noviembre de 2012 se realizaron 16 jornadas de captura de murciélagos, utilizando redes de niebla, las cuales estuvieron abiertas desde las 18:00 hasta las 06:00. Cada murciélago capturado se revisó y los ectoparásitos encontrados se conservaron en alcohol al 90%. Se recolectaron 85 ectoparásitos y se identificaron 10 especies de estréblidos en siete especies de murciélagos. El análisis mostró que estos parásitos son localmente especializados, lo cual contrasta fuertemente con el alto número de especies hospederas que han sido reportadas para ellos. Se hipotetiza que esta diferencia se debe a restricciones locales que filtran el nicho fundamental de estas moscas. Este trabajo enriquece los inventarios de la entomofauna en remanentes de bosque seco tropical, un ecosistema en estado crítico de conservación.
Developing and integrating a student-researcher pedagogy within the geography curriculum

Introduction The theoretical context for this chapter is founded on the idea that actively engaging in research should be an entitlement for all higher education geography students (Walkington and Jenkins, 2008). Undergraduate research is one of eleven ‘high impact’ practices (HIPs), educational approaches which result in positive outcomes such as student engagement and retention (Kuh, 2008). However, several other HIPs intersect with a research-based learning pedagogy. ‘Capstone projects’ are often research based (such as a final year dissertation), ‘collaborative assignments’ are frequently project based, involving teams in research, and in geography ‘common intellectual experiences’ are often experienced during fieldwork where research skills are practised. Perhaps less obvious are ‘writing intensive courses’ and ‘First year seminars’ which have great potential to be research-based and support the scaffolding of a ‘student-researcher’ pedagogy.
3D ConvNet improves macromolecule localization in 3D cellular cryo-electron tomograms

Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) allows one to capture 3D images of cells in a close to native state, at sub-nanometer resolution. However, noise and artifact levels are such that heavy computational processing is needed to access the image content. In this paper, we propose a deep learning framework to accurately and jointly localize multiple types and states of macromolecules in cellular cryo-electron tomograms. We compare this framework to the commonly-used template matching method on both synthetic and experimental data. On synthetic image data, we show that our framework is very fast and produces superior detection results. On experimental data, the detection results obtained by our method correspond to an overlap rate of 86% with the expert annotations, and comparable resolution is achieved when applying subtomogram averaging. In addition, we show that our method can be combined to template matching procedures to reliably increase the number of expected detections. In our experiments, this strategy was able to find additional 20.5% membrane-bound ribosomes that were missed or discarded during manual annotation.
Analysis and Control of Offshore Wind Farms Connected With Diode Rectifier-Based HVDC System

This paper analyzes the control and operation of offshore wind farms connected with diode rectifier based HVDC (DR-HVDC) system. A small-signal state-space model of the offshore wind turbines (WTs) connected with DR-HVDC system is developed to design the WT Q–f droop control. The use of WT P–V and Q–f control during individual WT active power variation is clearly clarified. In order to reduce the interaction between WT active power and reactive power, an angle feedforward control is proposed where an additional phase shift is directly added to the WT output voltage based on the WT's active power output. The effectiveness of the proposed control on improving dynamic response and reducing active and reactive power interaction is verified by frequency-domain analysis and time-domain simulations in PSCAD/EMTDC.
Awareness and Perception Of HIV/AID Preventive Strategies amongst Undergraduate Students of Adeleke University, Ede Osun State. Nigeria

Nigeria the most populous country in Africa with a population of about 180 million people is not ruled out of countries facing and suffering under the dangerous claws of HIVAIDS. Owing to this, there came the need to get the masses more sensitised on how to curb the spread of the disease and if possible obliterate the disease from the among students in tertiary institutions. A descriptive survey research design was used for this study. The study population consisted of ninety (90) undergraduates’ students within six (6) Faculties of Adeleke University, Ede, Osun State Nigeria and simple random technique was used to select for the study. Instrument of data collection was a questionnaire. Prior to the administration of the instrument, draft copies were administered to select undergraduates of Redeemers University, Ede and all observations and revision of the instrument were effected. Data collected from the study were analysed using SPSS. The study concluded that the media and the university has contributed significantly to students’ knowledge about causes, mode of transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS through its various health programmes such as provision of HIV/AIDS policy. Besides it was also found out that parents before they their admission to the university. The study recommends that universities should continue to provide adequate HIV/AIDS information to students with a view to helping the reduction or elimination of the transmission of the deadly disease amongst undergraduate students.
The use of actually in a non-native English parliamentary context: a corpus study

This paper explores the syntactic and pragmatic uses of actually as a discourse marker in Ghanaian parliamentary debates. Employing a corpus methodological approach, the paper uses a 1.9 million-word corpus of Ghanaian parliamentary data in order to examine the patterns of the use of actually by Ghanaian parliamentarians in their parliamentary debates. In terms of the syntactic position, actually occurs more frequently at the medial position than the initial position and rarely at the final position. Pragmatically, actually mainly functions as an emphasizer. Other functions include correction, contradiction, epistemic retreat, apology, appeal, contemplation, pragmatic softener, certainty, shifting focus and suggestion. These functions reflect the nature of parliamentary debates as a contest of opinions and stance taking, where parliamentarians take positions and argue strongly to convince their fellow MPs to support a certain line of policy action.
The Role of Networking in the Internationalization of Indonesian SMEs

Indonesian SMEs are less able to take advantage of foreign market opportunities than their large counterparts. This study analyses the internationalization of Indonesian SMEs, particularly the differences between exporting and non-exporting SMEs in terms of their network relationships. Primary data was obtained from survey questionnaires in Jawa, Madura and Bali regions, yielding usable responses from 271 exporting SMEs and 226 non-exporting SMEs. Our results suggest that exporters on average have twice as many frequencies of interaction with various external actors than those of their non-exporting counterparts. Exporting and non-exporting SMEs also differ in the way they interact and maintain relationships with external actors. The exporting SMEs utilize various types of interactions including regular and irregular, as well as formal and informal ones, with various external actors in the network. In contrast, non-exporting SMEs are more dependent on personal relations with key persons in various governmental and private institutions. The policy and managerial implications of the findings are discussed.
Rinkite-(Ce) in the nepheline syenite pegmatite from the Saima alkaline complex, northeastern China: Its occurrence, alteration, and implications for REE mineralization

The nepheline syenite pegmatite in the Saima alkaline complex in northeastern China is characterized by REE mineralization, mainly rinkite-(Ce) and associated alteration minerals. As the most abundant REE-bearing mineral in the pegmatite, rinkite-(Ce) closely coexists with microcline, nepheline, natrolite, and calcite. Some rinkite-(Ce) grains show compositional sector-zonation, in which the inner core displays relatively high Ti, Ca, and Sr concentrations, but low Zr, REE, and Na contents. Primary rinkite-(Ce) has undergone multiple episodes of fluid interactions, and accordingly, from weak to strong, three different mineral assemblages of hydrothermal alteration can be summarized: (1) rinkite-(Ce) + secondary natrolite ± K-feldspar ± minor fluorbritholite-(Ce); (2) rinkite-(Ce) relics + secondary natrolite + K-feldspar + fluorbritholite-(Ce) + unidentified Ca-Ti silicate mineral + fluorite and calcite; and (3) pseudomorphs after rinkite-(Ce). The pseudomorphs can be divided into two groups characterized by distinct mineral associations: (1) Ca-bearing strontianite + fluorbritholite-(Ce) + natrolite + fluorite + calcite coexisting with silicate minerals; and (2) calcite + fluorite + fluorbritholite-(Ce) + rinkite-(Ce) relics ± Ca-bearing strontianite ± ancylite-(Ce) associated with a calcite matrix. These alteration mineral assemblages are evidence of magmatic-derived alkali metasomatism due to an alkali-CO2-F-rich fluid and Ca-metasomatism due to a different, externally derived Sr- and Ca-rich fluid. The metasomatic events acted as the potential driving force for the rinkite-(Ce) dissolution and pseudomorph-forming process. The high concentration of rinkite-(Ce) in the nepheline syenite pegmatite results from the fractional crystallization of the Saima CO2-rich alkaline silicate magma, and the successive alterations of rinkite-(Ce) attest to the important role played by hydrothermal fluids in controlling the remobilization of REE and the crystallization of secondary rare earth minerals.
Seasonal succession of phytoplankton functional groups in Lake Fuxian and its driving factors

The concept of phytoplankton functional groups was proposed based on data from numerous European lakes and has been widely used in lakes, reservoirs, rivers worldwide. However, the application of this concept to subtropical plateau lakes has rarely been reported. In this study, 16 sampling sites were selected across the entirety of Lake Fuxian, Yunnan, China. Eighteen phytoplankton functional groups (F, G, J, X2, X1,T, P, MP, D, C, H1, LO, S1, M, Y, E, W1 and W2) were classified according to the investigation of surface water and gradient depth samples. Nine of these groups, namely LO, H1, C, MP, P, T, X1, J and F, were identified as dominant species (>5% total biomass). Furthermore, LO, H1 and T were considered predominant (accounting for the maximum percentage of biomass in each month). The sampling showed that the seasonal succession of predominant assemblages in surface water was T (October) to H1 (January) to H1 (April) to Lo (July) and T+Lo (October) to T (January) to H1 (April) to Lo (July) in the gradient depth water. Redundancy analysis (RDA) combined with the indicator function of the phytoplankton groups suggested that WT and TN/TP were important factors in driving the succession of predominant assemblages all year around.
An investigation of differentiation between Cornwall and Devon based on history, surnames, and Y-chromosomes

Understanding genetic diversity among human populations can help uncover their histories. In 2015 the ‘People of the British Isles’ (PoBI) study of autosome-wide diversity revealed subtle but significantly different genetic clusters, including a clear distinction between the neighbouring counties of Cornwall and Devon; it proposed that Bodmin Moor and the River Tamar had formed a barrier between the two. This thesis uses a combination of historical, onomastic, and genetic approaches to investigate differentiation in this region in more detail.A survey of the historical literature examines whether Cornwall has been isolated from the rest of England and the Continent. Evidence from archaeology, historical documents, and place-names shows that both Roman and Anglo-Saxon influence on Cornwall was less than that on Devon, supporting the idea of Cornish distinctiveness at least over the last two millennia. However, the historical record also shows abundant evidence for Cornwall’s connectedness with the nearby nations of Ireland, Wales, and Brittany.Based on census and parish records, research was undertaken to analyse the specificity and persistence over time of surnames of the people of the Bodmin Moor region between 1702 and 1881. This showed a lack of regionally-specific names, and clear evidence of input from Devon and the rest of England.Analysis of the male-specific Y chromosome examined whether the autosomal Cornwall-Devon distinction seen in the PoBI study was also reflected in paternal lineages. Surname-ascertained samples were recruited from Bodmin Moor and supplemented with PoBI samples. DNAs were analysed with short tandem repeats and single nucleotide polymorphisms. Population genetic analysis supported Cornish distinctiveness, with Bodmin Moor more closely related to Devon. Differences are compatible with lower Anglo-Saxon influence on west Cornwall. Co-analysis with other datasets clusters Cornwall most closely with Wales and Ireland and supports affiliation with Brittany, while Bodmin Moor and Devon more closely resemble other English populations.
Short Term Rehospitalisation or Death and Determinants after Acute Heart Failure Admission in a Cohort of African Patients in Port Harcourt, Southern Nigeria

procedures, statistical ABSTRACT Background: Heart failure [HF] is a major health burden globally and contributes significantly to morbidity and mortality related to cardiovascular disease. The aim was to determine the outcome and factors that determine these outcomes of patients admitted for acute HF and followed up for six months. Methodology: A hospital-based prospective study. Subjects consisted of consecutive patients with confirmed diagnosis of acute HF admitted into the medical wards of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital [UPTH] in Nigeria over 1 year. All had full physical examination and relevant investigations including echocardiography. Subjects were followed up for six months and reassessed for outcome/endpoint which were rehospitalisation or death. Factors that predicted these outcomes were also determined. Results: There were 160 subjects, 84 females and 76 males, age range 20 to 87 years, mean 52.49±13.89 years. Sixteen (16) subjects (10.0%) were lost to follow up, 66(41.3%) showed improvement clinically, 57(35.6%) were rehospitalised while 21(13.1%) died. Determinants of rehospitalisation were New York Heart Association (NYHA) class, heart failure type, haemoglobin level at presentation and the estimated glomerular filtration rate (e GFR). Determinants of mortality were NYHA class and left ventricular ejection fraction at presentation. Conclusion: Heart failure rehospitalisation and mortality rates of 35.6% and 13.1% respectively is high compared to developed countries.
Cleaner strategies on the effective elimination of toxic chromium from wastewater using coupled electrochemical/biological systems

Hexavalent chromium is a toxic pollutant and carcinogen, which affects the organs internally as well as externally in our body. In this research, a combination of three‐dimensional (3D)‐electrochemical treatment followed by biological treatment was done for chromium removal in simulated wastewater. Surface‐modified Strychnos potatorum (SMSp) seeds and surface‐modified tamarind pod (SMTp) shell were used as particle electrodes, and the experiments were conducted for different pH, voltage, and particle electrode followed by biological treatment. In biological treatment, Enterobacter cloacae strain was isolated from a common effluent treatment plant (CETP) and it was utilized. The molecular characterization of E. cloacae (live biomass) was done using 16s rRNA sequencing. In 3D‐electrochemical treatment with SMSp, efficiency was found to be the best when compared with SMTp under optimum condition (6 V, 3 pH, 15 g of SMSp) at a working period of 60 min, and the removal of hexavalent chromium from aqueous solution using SMSp was successfully applied to semi‐empirical kinetic model, which is based on Fermi's equation. This semi‐empirical kinetic model effectively depicts the hexavalent chromium concentration evolution in 3D‐electrochemical treatment. The combined treatment reduced the amount of chemical oxygen demand as well as the hexavalent chromium‐ion concentration in aqueous solution.
Development of a comprehensive 3D structural database of human pan-proteomic interaction with the most valuable sold drugs

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