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ANALYSIS OF BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS IN DIABETIC AND NON-DIABETIC ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION PATIENTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Background: Diabetes is a metabolic condition that causes more free radicals to be produced, which causes oxidative stress. The purpose of this study was to compare the activity of cardiac and antioxidant enzymes in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients with and without diabetes. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the Department of Biochemistry, Index Institute of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Indore, Madhya Pradesh. There were 300 participants in this study, of whom 100 had normal blood glucose levels and normal ECGs (Normal, N), 100 had normal blood glucose levels and an AMI (Non-diabetic and AMI, N-AMI), and 100 had diabetes and an AMI (Diabetic and AMI, D-AMI). Result: Compared to N-AMI patients, D-AMI persons exhibited higher levels of TC, TG, LDL, and lower levels of HDL. According to a study, myocardial infarction patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) had significantly higher levels of cardiac markers such Troponin I, CPK, CK-MB, AST, LDH, and CRP than myocardial infarction patients without DM. Patients with D-AMI had lower levels of antioxidant SOD and GSH activity than those with N-AMI. MDA and CAT levels, however, were greater in D-AMI than in N-AMI controls. Conclusion: According to a study, D-AMI patients had lower antioxidant levels than N-AMI patients and have increased cardiac markers.
Asymptotic Quantum State Discrimination for both, countable, and uncountable unitarily related mixtures.

: Given a mixed state, finding a POVM that optimally discriminates between the elements of the mixture is a prominent problem in quantum communications theory. In this paper, we will address mixtures of density operators which are unitarily similar in the asymptotic regime, with respect to a dynamics-parameter parameter and their respective quantum state discrimination (QSD) problems. In the past little attention has been given to uncountable mixtures. In the past, countable mixtures have been the primary focus of (QSD). In this work, we shall present an approach to QSD for the case of uncountable mixtures and address the respective asymptotic QSD optimization problems. We will begin with the case for countable mixtures; for a broad family of countable mixtures, we will prove necessary and sufficient conditions for minimal discrimination error to be obtained in the asymptotic regime (we say that in such a case QSD is fully solvable ). Finally, we will pass to eh uncountable QSD case and develop analogous results to those presented for the case of countable mixtures.
SIGNIFICANCE OF ENGAGEMENT, MOTIVATION, AND COMMITMENT ON PERFORMANCE

This study strengthened the understanding of three important variables that affect performance, namely motivation, commitment, and employee engagement. The influence of the three variables varied, namely direct effect or there is a mediating variable. This study also examined employee engagement as a mediating variable for the effect of employee motivation and commitment on employee performance. This study used 408 employees of manufacturing companies who participated by filling out a questionnaire. The results of validity testing using factor analysis and reliability with internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha) proved that the measuring instrument used was valid and reliable. The mediation model was tested using a two-step approach of structural equation modeling. The results of this study strengthened several previous studies which found that employees who were motivated and committed would be involved and engaged to the organization and work, so that their performance was getting better. An in-depth discussion and recommendations were presented at the end of this article.
Pseudo‐Prospective Forecasting of Induced and Natural Seismicity in the Hengill Geothermal Field

The Hengill geothermal field, located in southwest Iceland, is host to the Hellisheiði power plant, with its 40+ production wells and 17 reinjection wells. Located in a tectonically active area, the field experiences both natural and induced seismicity linked to the power plant operations. To better manage the risk posed by this seismicity, the development of robust and informative forecasting models is paramount. In this study, we compare the forecasting performance of a model developed for fluid‐induced seismicity (the Seismogenic Index model) and a class of well‐established statistical models (Epidemic‐Type Aftershock Sequence). The pseudo‐prospective experiment is set up with 14 months of initial calibration and daily forecasts for a year. In the timeframe of this experiment, a dense broadband network was in place in Hengill, allowing us to rely on a high quality relocated seismic catalog. The seismicity in the geothermal field is characterized by four main clusters, associated with the two reinjection areas, one production area, and an area with surface geothermal manifestations but where no operations are taking place. We show that the models are generally well suited to forecast induced seismicity, despite some limitations, and that a hybrid ETAS model accounting for fluid forcing has some potential in complex regions with natural and fluid‐induced seismicity.
The Armenian earthquake of 1988 December 7: faulting and folding, neotectonics and palaeoseismicity

SUMMARY The Spitak earthquake of 1988 December 7 is the first well-documented event directly associated with surface breaks in the Transcaucasian regions of the USSR. The earthquake was located within the ESE-WNW oriented Pambak-Sevan thrust and fold zone corresponding to the southern front of the Lesser Caucasus. The mechanism of the earthquake is consistent with the nearly NS compressive tectonics due to the active continental collision between the Arabian block and the Russian Platform. The rupture is composed by several branches, two of which reach the surface. The first branch, oriented N140°, begins near the village of Alavar, has a length of 11 km and disappears at about 4 km SE of Spitak. It consists of a right lateral en echelon system of strike-slip faults, with a maximum offset of 50 cm. The second branch is the main one and breaks for about 8 km between Spitak and Gekhasar, with a general orientation N120°, showing reverse faulting dipping to the north with a right lateral component. Surface ruptures between Gekhasar and Spitak show either a narrow band of pressure ridges in alluvial deposits and soil, or a fault scarp in the bed rocks when soil is absent. Maximum displacements, observed between Spitak and Gekhasar, attain 160 cm of vertical motion and 90 cm of horizontal dextral offset. The displacement also varies within this branch, showing finer segmentation. Few secondary deformations are observed: some normal faults near Gekhasar correspond to the collapse of the uplifted block. An anticline fold, oriented parallel to the fault scarp and situated along its northwestern prolongation, emphasizes the regional compressive tectonics. Landslides were activated on its flanks. A 200 m long reverse fault break observed along the hinge of a secondary fold suggests the occurrence of a blind thrust at depth and that the hidden branches, which continue the main central segment towards the NW, are associated to surface folding. Therefore, the total length of the fault and fold zone is about 40 km in agreement with the rupture length and seismic moment obtained on the basis of surface wave modelling. Well-developed uplifted terraces in the northern block and subsiding valleys in the southern block indicate past Quaternary activity in the fault region. Palaeoseismological evidence of ancient earthquakes has been recognized in trenches across the Spitak fault. One old event occurred between 17 000 years BP and the beginning of the formation of present-day soil.
Friendship Relations in the School Class and Adult Economic Attainment Friendship Relations in the School Class and Adult Economic Attainment

Any opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) and not those of the institute. Research disseminated by IZA may include views on policy, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit company supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. ABSTRACT Friendship Relations in the School Class and Adult Economic Attainment * We analyze the impact of adolescents' friendship relations in their final-year class of high school on subsequent labor market success. Based on a typology of network positions we locate each student within the social system of the school class as either: an isolate, a sycophant, a broker or a receiver. These positions identify individuals' social standing within the group of classmates and proxy for their interpersonal behavior and social competencies. We offer empirical evidence that differential social standing in adolescence predicts large and persistent earnings disparities over the entire life course. The estimated wage premia and penalties do not appear to be substantially confounded by measures of family and school resources, and materialize largely independent of differences in cognitive abilities, grade rank in class, personality traits or friends' characteristics. A moderate share of the earnings inequalities is mediated by differential post-secondary human and social capital investment. From a conceptual point of view, we contribute an application of egocentered network methods within conventional labor economic survey research. for valuable comments and suggestions. Gerrit Mueller gratefully acknowledges the hospitality of The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business where part of this research was carried out. Now in these unequal friendships the benefits that one party receives and is entitled to claim from the other are not the same on either side; . the better …
Molecular Mechanisms of Persistence of Mutualistic Bacteria Photorhabdus in the Entomopathogenic Nematode Host

Symbioses between microbes and animals are ubiquitous, yet little is known about the intricate mechanisms maintaining such associations. In an emerging mutualistic model system, insect-pathogenic bacteria Photorhabdus and their insect-parasitic nematode partner Heterorhabditis, we found that the bacteria undergo major transcriptional reshaping in the nematode intestine. Besides general starvation mechanisms, the bacteria induce cellular acidification to slow down growth, switch to pentose phosphate pathway to overcome oxidative stress and nutrition limitation, and shed motility but develop biofilm to persist in the nematode intestine until being released into the insect hemolymph. These findings demonstrate how the symbiotic bacteria reduce their nutritional dependence on the enduring nematode partner to ensure successful transmission of the couple to the next insect host.
Electron irradiation degradation on Silicon Schottky diode interface

Au/n-Si/Au-Sb Schottky diode was fabricated, and electron irradiation was applied to the diode at 25 gray and 50 gray doses. The effects of irradiation on the electrical characteristics of the 450 o C annealed diode were analyzed by means of current-voltage (I-V), capacitance-voltage (C-V), conductance-voltage (G-V) and capacitance-frequency (C-f) measurements before and after irradiation. With increasing irradiation, changes were observed in the ideality factor, barrier height, series resistance, dielectric constant and diffusion potential values depending on the dose used. The n value was found to be 1.231, 1.306, and 1.350 before irradiation, after 25-gray, and after 50-gray irradiation, respectively. The Φ b before irradiation was 0.742 eV. Depending on 25 and 50 gray irradiations, it was calculated as 0.768 eV and 0.761 eV, respectively. In addition, there was a decrease in leakage current by irradiation. Depending on the increasing dose, while the capacitance and donor concentration of the diode decreased, there was an increase in the diffusion potential and Fermi energy level. It has been observed that the diode deviates from ideality due to defects in the diode interface depending on irradiation. It has been observed that electron irradiation causes changes in the electrical properties of the Au/n-Si/Au-Sb Schottky diode.
ReBERT-An Enhanced BERT

- BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) is a transformer-based language model that comprehends the context of words by considering surrounding words in both directions. It revolutionized natural language processing by capturing rich contextual information, enhancing performance in various language understanding tasks like sentiment analysis, text classification. In this article, focusing on User Generated Content (UGC) in a resource-scarce scenario, we study the ability of BERT (Devlinet al., 2018) to perform lexical normalization. by enhancing its architecture and by carefully finetuning it, we show that BERT can be a competitive lexical normalization model without the need of any UGC resources aside from 3,000 training sentences. The enhanced BERT model features a hierarchical contextualization module for improved long-range dependency understanding, a domain-specific adaptation layer for specialized language contexts, and efficiency optimization through dynamic attention head pruning and weight sharing. Fine-tuned pre-training broadens language comprehension, while task-specific heads enable fine-tuning. Rigorous evaluation and iterative refinement ensure performance enhancement across tasks, addressing limitations and advancing language understanding. It will be our first work done in adapting and analyzing the ability of this model to handle noisy UGC data.
REVISTA IBEROAMERICANA DE PSICOLOGÍA Y SALUD

For young women working in some industries their judged physical attractiveness is directly related to their employment. This study investigated the role of objective physical status, societal influences on body image, and self-appraisals of personal appearance in determining the psychological well-being of young women employed in the promotional industry. Participants were 132 women (mean age = 22 years) with a Body Mass Index in healthy or underweight categories. Both depression and global self-esteem scores were in the normal range. The group reported high levels of stress and self-liking but low levels of anxiety and self-competence. The body image factors significantly predicted variance in anxiety, stress, self-competence, and self-liking. Appearance Evaluation and Appearance Orientation scores were the strongest predictors of psychological well-being. These results suggest that while social comparison can result in self-enhancement effects for those who have achieved the thin-ideal, maintaining such a physique results in ongoing stress and pressure.
HETEROGENEOUS LORAWAN DEPLOYMENT FOR APPLICATION DEPENDENT IOT NETWORKS

In this study, we present an application-dependent heterogeneous LoRa network. Previous studies on LoRaWAN and particularly studies that rely on the use of adaptive data rate to optimize the performance of the network are based purely on the path loss of the nodes in the network with the assumption that all nodes in the network have similar requirements in terms of data rate and latency. In a real-life full-scale deployment, this is unlikely to be the case as the current LoRaWAN deployment trend shows that practical implementations are service-based. This approach means that critical applications will suffer reliability issues since they will have to compete with non-critical services for the same resources. To address this problem, we propose a heterogeneous LoRaWAN that is capable of providing support for applications ranging from delay-tolerant to delay intolerant with improved reliability through preferential transmission parameter allocation. Our study shows that this approach can increase the probability of successful uplink transmission of the critical applications by up to 44 percent and for transmitting nodes within a 3 km radius of the gateway, heterogeneous LoRaWAN possesses a 20 percent higher uplink packet delivery rate in comparison with the homogeneous network at the cost of slightly higher energy consumption.
Climate Change Impacts on the Organic Carbon Cycle at the Land-Ocean Interface

Estuaries are among the most altered and vulnerable marine ecosystems. These ecosystems will likely continue to deteriorate owing to increased population growth in coastal regions, expected temperature and precipitation changes associated with climate change, and their interaction with each other, leading to serious consequences for the ecological and societal services they provide. A key function of estuaries is the transfer, transformation, and burial of carbon and other biogenic elements exchanged between the land and ocean systems. Climate change has the potential to influence the carbon cycle through anticipated changes to organic matter production in estuaries and through the alteration of carbon transformation and export processes. This review discusses the effects of climate change on processes influencing the cycling of organic carbon in estuaries, including examples from three temperate estuaries in North America. Our goal is to evaluate the impact of climate change on the connectivity of terres.
Endometriozis Tanısı Alan Kadınlarda Yeni Adipositokinlerin (Omentin, Vaspin, İrisin ve Visfatin) Serum Seviyelerindeki ve Gen Ekspresyon Profillerindeki Değişimlerinin Analizi ve Bu Adipositokinlerin Serum C-reaktif Protein Düzeyleri ile Korelasyonu

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the role of new adipocytokines (omentin, vaspin, irisin and visfatin) in the development of endometriosis and the relationship of these adipocytokines with the inflammatory marker, C-reactive protein (CRP) levels in serum. Materials and Methods: In this study, endometriosis (n=16) and control groups (n=14) were determined via ultrasound. Serum omentin, vaspin and irisin levels were measured by ELISA method. CRP levels in serum and the gene expression of visfatin and vaspin in whole blood samples were determined by clinical analyzer and the real-time polymerase chain reaction, respectively. Results: Serum irisin and CRP levels in the endometriosis group were significantly higher than in the control group. Irisin protein levels demonstrated a positive correlation with body mass index and CRP in women diagnosed with endometriosis. No statistically significant difference was found in serum omentin and vaspin levels between groups. The visfatin and vaspin gene expression in whole blood samples from the endometriosis group was found to be significantly lower than the control group. Conclusion: Increased levels of serum irisin and decreased visfatin and vaspin gene expressions in blood may be considered as a potential biomarker in endometriosis. The identification of new adipocytokines, which demonstrate an alteration in the presence of endometriosis and the relationship between these adipocytokines and inflammation will facilitate the detection of mechanisms involved in endometriosis and will lead to the development of targeted therapy.
PGxCorpus: a Manually Annotated Corpus for Pharmacogenomics

Pharmacogenomics (PGx) studies how individual gene variations impact drug response phenotypes, which makes knowledge related to PGx a key component towards precision medicine. A significant part of the state-of-the-art knowledge in PGx is accumulated in scientific publications, where it is hardly reusable to humans or software. Natural language processing techniques have been developed and employed for guiding experts curating this amount of knowledge. But existing works are limited by the absence of a high quality annotated corpus focusing on PGx domain. This absence restricts in particular the use of supervised machine learning. This article introduces PGxCorpus, a manually annotated corpus, designed to fill this gap and to enable the automatic extraction of PGx relationships from text. It comprises 945 sentences from 911 PubMed abstracts, annotated with PGx entities of interest (mainly gene variations, genes, drugs and phenotypes), and relationships between those. We present in this article the corpus itself, its construction and a baseline experiment that illustrates how it may be leveraged to synthesize and summarize PGx knowledge.
Integrated biophysical and socio-economic evaluation of water and soil conservation techniques : a case study from Niger

As a result of growing population pressure and limited fertile land availability, Nigerien farmers increasingly rely on marginal lands (Plinthosols) for crop production. These degraded lands, however, generally provide poor millet yields (<100 kg ha-1 yr-1) due to their low soil nutrient content and imbalanced partitioning of water over the root-zone. This dissertation aims to provide scientific verification of the potential of small-scale water and soil conservation (WSC) techniques to tackle these two major crop growth limitations. The overall objective is to evaluate the biophysicail and socio-economic viability of WSC techniques in the Tillaberi region of Niger. In order to monitor WSC techniques, a field experiment was laid on a Plinthosol nearby Sadore. The treatments include: zai + manure (Z), demi-lunes + manure (DL), scarification + manure (SCAR), control + manure (CF) and control (C). Grain yields for the conventional practices (C and CF) were extremely low and soil-water storage in the rootzone remained below the critical value for drought stress, even if there was sufficient rainfall. WSC techniques, on the other hand, successfully mitigated drought stress. WSC increased grain yields to 700 kg ha-1 yr-1 for Z and to 250 kg ha-1 yr-1 for DL and SCAR. By applying WSC, soil-water storage increased above the critical value for drought stress. This was mainly a result of significant run-off reduction under WSC (i.e. from approximately 25% for C to 5-10%). WSC techniques were, on the other hand, found to have only little impact on soil evaporation. A design optimization study with a three-dimensional coupled surface-subsurface soil hydrological model showed that rainwater use efficiency of DL could be improved by increasing the density of DL bunds per surface area while decreasing the number of millet plants per DL bund. Soil quality analysis showed that, SOC content increased significantly for the treatments with manure application (CF,SCAR, DL and Z), from ± 2.5 to ± 5 g kg-1. WSC techniques did not improve physical soil quality, but did significantly improve biological soil quality. A socio-economic survey indicated that the adoption of WSC techniques in the region is limited by manure shortage and a lack of specific erosion knowledge.