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Postpartum Depression Is Associated with Maternal Sociodemographic and Anthropometric Characteristics, Perinatal Outcomes, Breastfeeding Practices, and Mediterranean Diet Adherence

Postpartum depression, with a prevalence ranging between 14% and 25% worldwide, has been considered an urgent health concern that negatively affects both mothers’ and their infants’ health. Postpartum depression may negatively affect maternal sociodemographic and anthropometric parameters and lifestyle factors. Nutrition has recently been identified as a crucial factor for the management and co-treatment of postpartum depression. This survey aims to determine the possible association of postpartum depression with mothers’ socio-demographic and anthropometric characteristics, perinatal outcomes, breastfeeding practices, and Mediterranean diet (MD) adherence. Methods: This is a cross-sectional survey, which was performed on 3941 women during the postpartum period. Postpartum depression was assessed by the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). Anthropometric parameters and perinatal outcomes were retrieved from mothers’ medical records. Sociodemographic data and breastfeeding practices were recorded by face-to-face interviews between enrolled mothers and trained personnel. Mediterranean diet adherence was assessed by MedDietScore. Both univariate and multivariate binary logistic regression were applied for analyzing our data. Results. Postpartum depression was significantly associated with lower educational level, Greek nationality, higher prevalence of multiparity and overweight/obesity postpartum, higher incidence of caesarean section and not breastfeeding, and lower levels of MD adherence. In multivariate analysis, postpartum depression was independently associated with mothers’ educational level, postpartum BMI status, type of delivery, breastfeeding practices, and MD adherence after adjusting for multiple confounding factors. Conclusions: This study has provided evidence that elevated MD compliance was related to a decreased risk of postpartum depression. Additionally, postpartum depression was associated with multiple sociodemographic and anthropometric parameters, perinatal outcomes, and breastfeeding practices. Future well-designed, prospective studies with high-quality methodology should be performed to obtain conclusive results.
Melatonin Reverses High-Temperature-Stress-Inhibited Photosynthesis in the Presence of Excess Sulfur by Modulating Ethylene Sensitivity in Mustard

Melatonin is a pleiotropic, nontoxic, regulatory biomolecule with various functions in abiotic stress tolerance. It reverses the adverse effect of heat stress on photosynthesis in plants and helps with sulfur (S) assimilation. Our research objective aimed to find the influence of melatonin, along with excess sulfur (2 mM SO42−), in reversing heat stress’s impacts on the photosynthetic ability of the mustard (Brassica juncea L.) cultivar SS2, a cultivar with low ATP-sulfurylase activity and a low sulfate transport index (STI). Further, we aimed to substantiate that the effect was a result of ethylene modulation. Melatonin in the presence of excess-S (S) increased S-assimilation and the STI by increasing the ATP-sulfurylase (ATP-S) and serine acetyltransferase (SAT) activity of SS2, and it enhanced the content of cysteine (Cys) and methionine (Met). Under heat stress, melatonin increased S-assimilation and diverted Cys towards the synthesis of more reduced glutathione (GSH), utilizing excess-S at the expense of less methionine and ethylene and resulting in plants’ reduced sensitivity to stress ethylene. The treatment with melatonin plus excess-S increased antioxidant enzyme activity, photosynthetic-S use efficiency (p-SUE), Rubisco activity, photosynthesis, and growth under heat stress. Further, plants receiving melatonin and excess-S in the presence of norbornadiene (NBD; an ethylene action inhibitor) under heat stress showed an inhibited STI and lower photosynthesis and growth. This suggested that ethylene was involved in the melatonin-mediated heat stress reversal effects on photosynthesis in plants. The interaction mechanism between melatonin and ethylene is still elusive. This study provides avenues to explore the melatonin–ethylene-S interaction for heat stress tolerance in plants.
Image Inpainting for Fingerprint Reconstruction

Numerous digital authentication systems have been developed by the researchers over the decades. Finger print-based identification is still widely used due to its many advantages. This is one of the most extensively used methods for employee identification in many organizations. It is most popular system adopted by corporate and private organizations for their employee monitoring. Digital gadget subscribers are also increasing tremendously over the decades. Most digital gadgets available in market uses fingerprint based user authentication. Under all these circumstances effective user identification is crucial which even include identification with damaged fingerprint impressions. It has been observed that owing to slight finger cuts or various scratches during winter season or burns of the finger screen affect the fingerprint impression. They appear damaged to interfere with the accuracy of user identification. The work presented in this paper investigates the possibilities of reconstructing the user fingerprint image using image in painting techniques. The fingerprint impression which is poor due to the skin conditions has to be reconstructed before used for authentication. The enhanced KNN-SVD method proposed here restores the damaged part of a unique fingerprint impression. The reconstructed fingerprint using.
State tomography for magnetization dynamics and coherence anomaly in Y3Fe5O12

Precessional motion of magnetization around the magnetic field decays to thermal equilibrium due to magnetization damping after cutting of the excitation force. After the decay, the phase coherence of the precession motion of magnetization was thought to be completely lost. Here we developed state tomography technique for time-resolved magnetization dynamics in a thin disk of yttrium iron garnet (YIG). We revealed that the temporal evolution of the coherence after cutting off the driving ac magnetic field exhibits different time constant from the one evaluated by linewidth measurement of ferromagnetic resonance, which is supported by theoretical modeling.
Nurses’ Perception and Performance of End-of-Life Care in a Tertiary Hospital

Purpose This study aimed to identify levels of perception and performance of end-of-life care among nurses and to investigate correlations between perception and performance. Methods This cross-sectional descriptive survey included 321 nurses from a tertiary hospital in Seoul, Korea. The participants had at least 6 months of work experience and had been involved in end-of-life care at least once, in either ward or intensive care unit settings. A structured questionnaire was utilized to assess their perception and performance of end-of-life care. Results The mean score for perception of end-of-life care was 3.23±0.34, while the score for performance of end-of-life care was 3.08±0.34. There was a significant positive correlation between nurses’ perception of end-of-life care and their performance in this area (r=0.78, P<0.001). Conclusion It is necessary to change perceptions regarding end-of-life care and to develop systematic and standardized education programs including content such as assessing the hydration status of dying patients, evaluating mental aspects such as suicidal ideation, and providing spiritual care for nurses working in end-of-life departments.
Determination of Antibody Activity by Platelet Aggregation

Platelets play an important role in hemostasis by forming clots and stopping bleeding. In immune thrombotic conditions, platelets and leukocytes are aberrantly activated by pathogenic antibodies resulting in platelet aggregates and NETosis, leading to thrombosis and thrombocytopenia. A simple assay that assesses platelet function and antibody activity is light transmission aggregometry. This assay can be used to determine antibody activity in patients with disorders such as heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) and vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT). Briefly, for detection of pathogenic antibody, platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is treated with a specific agent (e.g., patient sera or purified patient antibodies) with constant stirring. Upon activation, platelets undergo a shape change and adhere to each other forming aggregates. This causes a reduction in opacity allowing more light to pass through PRP. Light transmission through the cuvette is proportional to the degree of platelet aggregation and is measured by the photocell over time. The advantage of this protocol is that it is a simple, reliable assay that can be applied to assess antibody activity in thrombotic conditions. Light transmission aggregometry does not require the use of radioactive reagents and is technically less demanding compared with 14C-serotonin release assay, another common assay for detecting antibody activity. Key features • This protocol can be used to assess platelet function and to detect platelet activating antibodies in diseases such as HIT and VITT. • Does not require radioactive reagents, requires an aggregometer; based on the light transmission aggregometry protocol, adapted for detection of VITT and other platelet-activating antibodies. • Two positive controls are required for reliable detection of antibodies in diseases such as HIT/VITT, namely a weak HIT/VITT antibody and a physiological agonist. • For detection of HIT/VITT antibodies, it is essential to use donors known to have platelets reactive to these antibodies to avoid false negative results.
Autonomous Identification of Locations for Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) Cover and Concealment With the Use of Video Images

Abstract : Autonomously identifying appropriate locations that provide cover and concealment for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) is a difficult task. This report expands an earlier algorithm for accomplishing this task, based on video images to address the difficulty of handling thin or narrow objects in the UGV environment. The vertical line approach used in the earlier algorithm is expanded to include an analysis of local regions to assess color homogeneity and size criteria. Careful selection of seed pixels attempts to ensure that they represent a potential thin or narrow object and not the background. The expanded algorithm provided very good results, based on the video sequences analyzed.
Neural Reconstruction through Scattering Media with Forward and Backward Losses

Reconstructing an object behind a scattering medium needs to tackle different light scatterings inside the medium and in the free space. Major approaches, e.g., diffuse optical tomography and non-line-of-sight imaging, address either of the light scatterings. Confocal diffuse tomography (CDT) considers the media acting as a diffuse kernel on the free-space scattering and recovers the object by deconvolving the inside-medium scattering. Inspired by CDT, we present a Neural De-Scatterer to solve this challenging problem. We exploit neural implicit fields to represent the the free-space scattering and use a multilayer perceptron (MLP) to learn the density and albedo of the hidden object. Furthermore, we tailor a bi-directional training strategy to optimize the MLP with forward and backward losses and employ hash encoding for memory and computation efficiency. The Neural De-Scatterer enables us to reconstruct objects at arbitrary resolution. Comprehensive experiments with synthetic and real measurements demonstrate that our Neural De-Scatterer outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Our data and code are publicly available.
Advances in the Use of N-Acetylcysteine in Chronic Respiratory Diseases

N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is widely used because of its mucolytic effects, taking part in the therapeutic protocols of cystic fibrosis. NAC is also administered as an antidote in acetaminophen (paracetamol) overdosing. Thanks to its wide antioxidative and anti-inflammatory effects, NAC may also be of benefit in other chronic inflammatory and fibrotizing respiratory diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchial asthma, idiopathic lung fibrosis, or lung silicosis. In addition, NAC exerts low toxicity and rare adverse effects even in combination with other treatments, and it is cheap and easily accessible. This article brings a review of information on the mechanisms of inflammation and oxidative stress in selected chronic respiratory diseases and discusses the use of NAC in these disorders.
Antibacterial Effect of Ethanolic Extracts of Dodonaea viscosa L. Jacq. and Mammea americana L. against Staphylococci Isolated from Skin Lesions

Background The resistance to antibiotics shown by some dermatological pathogenic microorganisms has increased the interest of pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries in developing natural products that possess different biological activities, including antimicrobial effects. Methods In the present investigation, the antibacterial activity of ethanolic extracts of Dodonaea viscosa aerial part and Mammea americana leaves and seed was evaluated against resistant strains of Staphylococcus isolated from skin lesions and against S. aureus ATCC 25923 (reference strain). Column chromatography (CC) and preparative thin-layer chromatography (PTLC) were used to obtain separate fractions of the seed extract of M. americana. We also determined the antimicrobial resistance of the strains against antibiotics using the agar disc diffusion assay. In addition, phytochemical screening was performed by colorimetric standard techniques. Results M. americana seed extract showed the highest antibacterial activity with MBC from 2.3 μg/mL to 19.5 μg/mL without differences with gentamicin (p = 0.998). The isolated strain S. epidermidis I showed the highest antimicrobial resistance against the tested antibiotics. PTLC-fractions of M. americana seed extract showed MBC from 3.2 μg/mL to 40.7 μg/mL against S. epidermidis I and S. aureus 25923 (reference), respectively, which suggests a synergistic effect of the secondary metabolites present in the crude ethanolic extract compared to its active PTLC-fractions, where only coumarins and compounds with lactone groups were detected in the phytochemical screening. Conclusion M. americana seed extract has promising effects that should be considered in further studies as an alternative or adjuvant in treating skin infections caused by staphylococci.
Effects of Intermittent Hypoxic Training on Aerobic Capacity and Second Ventilatory Threshold in Untrained Men

The aim of study was to evaluate the effects of interval training performed in hypoxia on aerobic capacity and second ventilatory threshold in young, untrained men. Participants (n = 48) were randomly divided into a control group and two groups performing the same interval training (three times a week for 4 weeks) in normoxia (200 m asl) (NT) and in hypoxia (IHT) (3000 m asl, FIO2 = 14.4%). In the incremental test, maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) was measured and the first (VT1) and second (VT2) ventilatory thresholds and the maximal power output (Pmax) were determined for each participant. The training workloads of the efforts corresponded to the workload at VT2 (effort) and VT1 (active recovery). Training in both normoxia and hypoxia significantly increased absolute VO2max (p = 0.02, ES = 0.51 and p = 0.002, ES = 0.47, respectively). In comparison to NT, only IHT significantly (p < 0.001; ES = 0.80) improved Pmax, as well as power at VT2 (p = 0.02; ES = 0.78). The applied IHT was effective in improving Pmax and power at VT2, which was not observed after training in normoxia.
Impact of Congruence Between Self-disclosed Personal Information and Review on Source Credibility in Online Travel Reviews

This experimental study examined the source-message congruence effect on source credibility by manipulating the congruence of the reviewer’s profile information (travel interest, geographical location) with no changes in the review content. the congruence effect was found to influence perceptions of the reviewer’s expertise in a travel interest. This finding suggests that revealing the reviewer’s travel interest can assist the credibility assessment of travel reviewers-particularly in terms of expertise-within the category of a travel interest. the refined classification of travel reviewers based on their travel interests can improve their usefulness as information sources for prospective travelers’ information searches. These attributes can further be employed as search cues if embedded in the reviewer’s profile.
Cognitive rehabilitation: A method for improving sustained and selective attention in adolescents with attentional deficits

Cognitive Rehabilitation: A Method for Improving Sustained and Selective Attention in Adolescents With Attentional Deficits By Glinda Rae Bullock Dr. Beatrice Babbitt, Examination Committee Chair Professor of Education University of Nevada, Las Vegas Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is an inherited neuropsychological disorder affecting 3% to 5% of the school-aged population of the United States and having no identified single cause. The primary treatment recommended for those suffering fi-om attentional deficits is multimodal, which includes psychostimulant medication in the form of methylphenidate (Ritalin) and behavioral/educational interventions. However, there is a subset o f sufferers who, though taking psychostimulant medications and undergoing behavioral and educational interventions, continue to suffer the symptoms of attentional deficits: distractibility, impulsiveness and aggressive behavior. Those affected by acquired brain injuries as the result of some external trauma or neurological disorder suffer the same symptoms of attentional deficits as those diagnosed with ADD. As a treatment, a process called cognitive rehabilitation is implemented to iii Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. remediate or improve these deficits, allowing the subjects to regain preinjury level information processing. The primary approach to cognitive rehabilitation is attention process training using computers. The purpose o f this study was to determine the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation as a method of inçroving the sustained and selective attention of four (4) male raiddle-school students with diagnosed childhood attention deficit disorder and who were being treated with psychostimulant medications. Using a correlated sample, pretestposttest design, the subjects were pretested to determine current levels of attentional fimctioning and posttested after exposure to a hierarchical attention training program, which included three weeks of sustained attention training and three-weeks of selective attention training. The results were mixed. All four subjects experienced some improvement in sustained and selective attentional functioning fi-om pretest to posttest on at least two of the three measures of attention. However, only the selective attention results were significant. This indicates that cognitive rehabilitation could be an effective intervention strategy in the treatment o f ADD and further study and replication are warranted with a change to a two-group comparison pr multiple baseline design.
The Chemical Composition of Soyhulls and Their Effect on Amino Acid and Nutrient Digestibility in Laying Hens during the Peak of Production

Simple Summary Soyhulls, a by-product of soybean seed processing after oil extraction, have gained attention as a potential feed ingredient for poultry. This study evaluated the effects of 25% soyhull inclusion on nutrient and amino acid digestibility in laying hens at peak egg production. The hens were provided with either a corn–soybean meal diet or a soyhull diet. The soyhull diet had lower energy and digestibility of most nutrients and amino acids, except for nitrogen-free extract and methionine. However, the soyhull diet reduced uric acid excretion. This study suggests that soyhulls can partially replace soybean meal in laying hen diets. Abstract This study investigates the chemical composition of soyhulls (SHs) as an alternative feed ingredient and their effect on nutrient and amino acid (AA) digestibility in laying hens during peak production. A total of 200 golden brown hens (28 weeks old) were subjected to random allocation across 5 dietary treatments: a corn–soybean meal (SBM) reference diet and 4 test diets with 25% SHs from different mills (SH1, SH2, SH3, and SH4). Each treatment was replicated four times with ten birds per replicate. Digesta samples were collected during three phases (28–32, 32–36, and 36–40 weeks of age) to measure apparent metabolizable energy (AME), the apparent ileal digestibility (AID) of nutrients, and the standard ileal digestibility (SID) of AAs. The SBM diet had 30.0% crude protein (CP) and 3.78% crude fiber (CF), while the SH diets had 21.0 to 21.5% CP and 11.6% CF. The findings revealed that the AME was lower (p < 0.05) with SH diets (2404 kcal/kg) compared to the SBM diet (2627 kcal/kg) in all three phases. The SH diets had a lower AID of dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), ash, ether extract (EE), and crude fiber (CF) than the SBM diet by an average of 2.88, 2.25, 4.93, 4.99, and 3.36%, respectively. The AID of nitrogen-free extract (NFE) was higher in the SH diets than the SBM diet by 3.42% in all three phases (p < 0.05). The SH diets had lower uric acid excretion (about 66.93 mg/100 mL) than the SBM diet (about 76.43 mg/100 mL) on average in all three phases. The SH diets had a lower SID of arginine, histidine, isoleucine, lysine, cysteine, valine, and tyrosine than the SBM diet by 2 to 10%, while the SID of methionine was higher in the SH diets than the SBM diet by 2.2% on average in all three phases (p < 0.05). The SH from Sadiq Brother Feed (SH1) had the highest AME and AID of DM, ash, CP, EE, CF, and the SID of AA among the SH diets. These results indicate that SH can partially replace SBM in laying hen diets, but the source and quality of SH should be considered.
Senderos, caminos y encrucijadas de las matemáticas y la educación matemática en Venezuela

This paper contains synthetically the historical evolution of mathematics and mathematics education in Venezuela. We begin with the mathematical knowledge possessed by aboriginal communities and then we continue the course of the development by both school mathematics and academic mathematics. This last item is only referred to Caracas. Finally, we follow the route of the historical evolution of the Mathematics Education.
An Exploration of Real-Time Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems for Next Generation Networks

Network security is facing new difficulties as a result of the development of 5G and other networks as well as software-defined networking (SDN). As the volume and complexity of network traffic increase, so does the risk of cyber threats and attacks. Designing and implementing a real-time Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDPS) for 5G and beyond SDNs requires addressing several challenges. These challenges include the high data rate and volume of traffic, the distributed and dynamic nature of 5G and beyond networks, and the complexity of the SDN architecture. A global IDPS architecture should be created to address these issues, using methods based on machine learning to quickly identify and categorize intrusions. To allow actual time monitoring and avoidance, the IDPS should also work across all the SDN design layers and interact with the SDN router. The implementation of a real-time IDPS for 5G and beyond SDNs would enhance network security by enabling real-time detection and prevention of intrusions. This would reduce the risk of data breaches, network downtime, and other Cyber Security threats. Moreover, a real-time IDPS would allow network administrators to respond to intrusions quickly and effectively, minimizing the impact of cyber threats on network operations. The actual time detection and avoidance of intrusions system for 5G technology along with SDN is thoroughly reviewed in this paper.