Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Verbesserung des metabolischen Stoffwechsels bei Patienten mit Typ-2-Diabetes

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Der Typ-2-Diabetes ist nicht nur eine Erkrankung des Blutzuckers, sondern die Summe der Effekte mehrerer fehlregulierter Stoffwechselwege. Im Zusammenspiel dieser ausgelenkten Stoffwechselwege kommt es zu makrovaskulären Komplikationen, wie Herzinfarkt, Schlaganfall und peripherer arterieller Verschlusskrankheit. Eine erfolgreiche Therapie des Diabetes muss daher alle fehlregulierten Komponenten betreffen. Neue antidiabetische Medikationen, wie GLP-1-Rezeptoragonisten und SGLT-2-Inhibitoren, haben neben ihrer blutzuckersenkenden Wirkung auch positive pleiotrope Effekte, die wiederum dazu beitragen, das kardiovaskuläre Risiko der behandelten Patienten zu reduzieren.
When helping hurts? Toward a nuanced interpretation of adverse effects in gang-focused interventions.

Gang members are involved in more delinquency and serious crimes than non-gang members (Esbensen & Huizinga, 1993; Gatti, Tremblay, Vitaro, & McDuff, 2005; Krohn & Thornberry, 2008; Pyrooz, Turanovic, Decker, & Wu, 2016) and are responsible for a disproportionate number of homicides (Egley & Howell, 2014). Many intervention programs have attempted to reduce or prevent gang involvement and related antisocial behavior, and some of these have been evaluated in controlled outcome studies (Huey, Lewine, & Rubenson, 2016; Wong, Gravel, Bouchard, Morselli, & Descormiers, 2012) providing the best evidence for effectiveness. Occasionally, these evaluations produce adverse effects, that is, outcomes that favor control participants. In the gang and crime prevention literatures, these are often interpreted as harmful or iatrogenic, suggesting the interventions worsened participants’ offending or gang involvement. However, determining whether a program is harmful can be challenging. Adverse evaluation effects, with adverse referring to the contrary, opposing or unfavorable direction (Oxford English Dictionary, 2019a), sometimes indicate that programs harmed participants or made offending worse; in other cases, interventions are beneficial or neutral, and adverse effects arise from flawed or inappropriate evaluation methods. We present a meta-analytic review of controlled evaluations of gang-focused interventions that aimed to reduce gang involvement or antisocial behavior. We explore whether elements of the intervention programs or research methods increase the likelihood that studies find worse outcomes for treated participants, in other words, adverse effects. Studying predictors of adverse effects may improve the Received: 20 March 2019 | Revised: 13 November 2019 | Accepted: 8 December 2019 DOI: 10.1111/cpsp.12321
Management of Phantom Limb Pain: A Review -

Prevalence of phantom limb pain remain high up to this day, 50%-80%. Lack of treatment response makes PLP a challenge condition up to this day, as the mechanism of PLP is not clearly known yet. Therefore, a review of all available literature is warranted. From all treatment modalities, no one gives optimum-long term result, so now we concern to the prevention of PLP such as reducing pre-amputation pain and acute pain following amputation. Further randomized, double-blind, controlled trial study with more adequate samples.
Relation entre taux de couverture du sol et biomasse de résidus de cultures : une simplification prédictive est envisageable

En système d’agriculture de conservation, les résidus de cultures ne sont plus brassés dans un volume de sol labouré mais maintenus à la surface des sols ou partiellement enfouis. Leur présence contribue à la durabilité de ces systèmes par le maintien des équilibres agronomiques et environnementaux qu’ils induisent. Dans ce contexte, la connaissance de l’évolution de leur quantité à la surface d’un sol, de la récolte au semis de la culture suivante, devient un enjeu important de gestion des sols. Plusieurs auteurs ont établi une relation entre le taux de couverture du sol (TC) et la biomasse, propre à chaque espèce végétale, à partir d’un formalisme développé par Grégory (1982). Les objectifs de ce travail sont de tester sa validité dans le contexte pédoclimatique de la région Grand-Est (France), après récolte et au cours du processus de décomposition des résidus. Ce travail a été réalisé sur des exploitations pratiquant l’agriculture de conservation depuis plusieurs années. Les résidus ont été broyés lors de la récolte ou d’une opération spécifique. Les données de biomasse ont été collectées à l’aide de cadres de 0,5 m × 0,5 m, tandis que la couverture du sol a été étudiée à l’aide de photographies numériques. Le taux de couverture du sol a été calculé à l’aide d’un logiciel d’analyse d’images. Ce travail compare également deux périodes de mesure : en sortie d’hiver, plusieurs mois après la récolte, et juste après la récolte estivale. Les résultats montrent une très bonne correspondance entre le TC et la biomasse mesurée au sol, toutes espèces et période de mesures confondues, moyennant l’ajout d’un paramètre au formalisme de Grégory (1982). L’intégration de la variabilité spatiale au sol permet de proposer l’emploi d’un ajustement linéaire unique qui simplifie la prédiction du TC du sol ou « la prédiction » de la quantité de biomasse.
High‐definition transcranial direct current stimulation dissociates fronto‐visual theta lateralization during visual selective attention

Visual attention involves discrete multispectral oscillatory responses in visual and ‘higher‐order’ prefrontal cortices. Prefrontal cortex laterality effects during visual selective attention are poorly characterized. High‐definition transcranial direct current stimulation dynamically modulated right‐lateralized fronto‐visual theta oscillations compared to those observed in left fronto‐visual pathways. Increased connectivity in right fronto‐visual networks after stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex resulted in faster task performance in the context of distractors. Our findings show clear laterality effects in theta oscillatory activity along prefrontal–visual cortical pathways during visual selective attention.
Sensory Evaluation of Wheat Bran Biscuits Mixed with Flaxseed

Biscuit consumption is considered one of the top ten daily consumed foods [1]. The objective of this study was acceptability of biscuit containing three different combinations of powders of wheat bran, flaxseed and wheat viz., 25:75:0, 0:50:50, 20:80:0 were used to prepare 100gms flour mix. Acceptance was assessed using a hedonic scale of nine points. It was noticed that incorporation of flaxseed flour at 80% was unacceptable in biscuit. At this level of incorporation of flaxseed flour, the sensory properties of the product were affected i.e., flavour and taste wise, body and texture, colour and appearance and overall quality whereas 75% addition of flaxseed flour produced good results [2]. The antioxidant activity, phenolic concentration was linearly increased as the fortification was increased [1]. Data revealed that the overall acceptability of biscuit ranged from 9 to 7. This indicated that the recipes were found to fall under the category of ‘like extremely to like moderately’. It can finally be discerned from the sensory scores for biscuit prepared with 75% incorporation of flaxseed flour with 25% of wheat bran flour, that the biscuit was equally acceptable as that of control [2]. The acceptability of sensory characteristics was improved by this fortification immediately after preparation and during storage [3].
College Attainment, Income Inequality, and Economic Security: A Simulation Exercise

We conduct an empirical simulation exercise that gauges the plausible impact of increased rates of college attainment on a variety of measures of income inequality and economic insecurity. Using two different methodological approaches--a distributional approach and a causal parameter approach--we find that increased rates of BA and AA attainment would meaningfully increase economic security for lower income individuals and shrink gaps between the 90th percentile and lower percentiles. Increases in college attainment would not significantly reduce inequality at the very top of the distribution, as measured by the 99/90 earnings ratio.
How to Provide Adequate UV Dosimetry to Avoid Vitamin D Deficiency and Related Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Vitamin D belongs to the group of fat-soluble vitamins. It is naturally present only in a very limited amount of food, and its synthesis in the human body is possible only under certain conditions, when ultraviolet rays of sunlight enter the skin. Also known as calciferol, vitamin D appears in two major forms. Vitamin D2 (or ergocalciferol) is synthesized in plants, and Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) is synthesized in mammal skin. The terminology ‘vitamin D’ is employed here in a general sense. It is important to note that the photoinduced synthesis of these two types of steroids occurs by ideal analogy.
GLUT-1 IS A PROMISING TARGET FOR ATP DEPLETION ON DIABETIC ENERGY DEFICIENCY SYNDROME

Diabetes is a metabolic syndrome which characterized with insulin insensitivity, lack of GLUT-4 membrane presentation and ATP deficiency. ATP is needed for substrate phosphorylation, signalling pathways, protein translation and cellular survival. Since GLUT-1 was discovered as alternative glucose transporter on muscle membrane, some studies started to investigate it more. This study aimed to investigate GLUT-1 presentation on diabetes muscle membrane of rat model in time. Diabetes was obtained from a 50 mg/kg B.W of streptozotocin intra peritoneal injection on rat. We found that GLUT-1 presentation increased significantly in time of diabetic stages. It correlated negatively with GLUT-4 presentation and mortality. Eccentric downhill running on diabetic rat model improved GLUT-1 presentation and blood glucose level. It was promising for diabetes management therapy at the future.
MFF: Performance Interference-Aware VM Placement Algorithm for Reducing Energy Consumption in Data Centers

Virtualization is the main technology that powers cloud computing and has enabled the execution of multiple applications in same physical hardware using virtual machines (VM) for efficient utilization of resources and energy savings. Although virtualization successfully isolates co-resident VMs from a security perspective, it does not offer a guarantee from a performance interference perspective. This means that sharing of resources results in competition, which is the cause of performance interference. Performance interference is more pronounced in homogenous workloads, where applications workloads contend to the same shared resource. In this case, application workloads run for longer times due to reduced performance and thus consume more energy. To address this problem, a VM allocation policy should ensure that VM running homogeneous workloads is not co-located. In this paper, we propose a VM allocation algorithm called Minimum Interference First Fit (MFF), which co-locates dissimilar workloads. The algorithm clusters VMs using K-means based on resources usage. Before a VM is placed into a physical machine (PM), similarity index (SI) of all the active PMs is computed, the VM is then placed in a PM with least SI. MFF has been evaluated on a simulated data center using CloudSim Plus cloud simulator on application workloads logs obtained from a production data center. Results show that MFF outperforms well-known VM allocations algorithms such as first fit (FF), worst fit (WF) and best fit (BF) from an energy consumption perspective.
Study of spectrum of cardiac disease complicating pregnancy and the maternal and foetal outcome

Background: Heart diseases are the most important non obstetrical causes of maternal deaths during pregnancy, accounting for almost 10% of maternal deaths. They complicate 1-3% of all pregnancies.Methods: The study was conducted at Cheluvamba Hospital from January 2015 till July 2016. All pregnant women with cardiac disease were included in the study. Pregnant women with cardiac disease were followed up during antenatal period, evaluated and maternal and foetal outcome was studied.Results: Total number of deliveries in the one and half year study period was 18,803 cases and the total number of women with cardiac disease was 90. Most of the subjects belonged to NYHA grade I and II (95.5%), whereas NYHA grade III and IV constituted only 4.4% of cases. Rheumatic heart disease was the principal cardiac lesion (62.22%) among the pregnancies, while congenital heart disease (33.33%) was the second most common cause. 16.7% had cardiac complications and there were 2(2.22%) maternal mortality. 91.86% were live births with 5.88% IUDs and 2.35% neonatal deaths. 15.29% of the babies were Preterm, 8.14% were IUGR babies and 2.35% had congenital anomalies. It was noted NYHA grade III/IV cases had more preterm babies compared to NYHA grade I/II. NICU admissions were also more with NYHA grade III/IV.Conclusions: The results suggest the need for pre-pregnancy counselling, early diagnosis, correction of cardiac lesions where indicated, close surveillance during pregnancy and a team approach comprising of obstetricians, cardiologists, neonatologists and nursing personnel for a successful pregnancy outcome.
The Experience of Electronic Monitoring and the Implications for Effective Use

Understanding how electronic monitoring (EM) is experienced may helpfully inform implementation to support effective compliance, crime prevention and rehabilitation. This study thematically synthesised the findings of six publications (based on five empirical studies) on EM experience. Eleven themes describing EM experience were developed, and from these, six implications for the effective implementation identified. EM has rehabilitative potential for many (but not all), such as by offering the chance to develop social capital and employment prospects, autonomy and self&#8208;sufficiency. It appears unlikely that EM on its own is enough to bring about compliance beyond the period of monitoring, or achieve rehabilitation and desistance goals.
The consumers' proclivity for hotel review posting: How do we differ?

This study aims to determine international differences in hotel guests' proclivity for posting online hotel reviews. By using TripAdvisor reviews of Vienna, Belgrade and Zagreb hotels, the proclivity coefficient is constructed. By employing the panel regression model, a direct correlation between the proclivity coefficient and the internet penetration is determined. The values of the Spearman correlation coefficient support the statistically significant direct correlation between the proclivity coefficients and the Hofstede's indexes for the individualism/collectivism dimension. The results show that the proclivity coefficient values are higher for the consumers from countries with higher values of internet penetration and individualism/ collectivism index values. Results of this research offer practitioners an insight into the factors moderating hotel guests' proclivity for posting online hotel reviews and thus enables them to adapt e-WOM strategies to different groups of consumers.
Simulation of the Hot Deformation and Fracture Behavior of Reduced Activation Ferritic/Martensitic 13CrMoNbV Steel

This study describes deformation behavior and fracture during compression and tension at high temperatures of ferritic/martensitic 13CrMoNbV steel. Hot compression and tensile tests were carried out in the temperature range of 1100–1275 °C with a thermomechanical simulator Gleeble 3800. The true stress and ultimate tensile strength decrease with an increase in the deformation temperature. The modified Arrhenius-type constitutive model was built for 13CrMoNbV ferritic/martensitic steel using the experimental stress–strain compression data. The modified Rice and Tracy ductile fracture criteria were calculated using finite element simulation of the tensile test at different temperatures. The comparison between experimental and computed force vs. displacement curves shows high predictability of the deformation and fracture models for ferritic/martensitic 13CrMoNbV steel.
Aplicación de simulación dental mediante realidad aumentada para el aprendizaje de las técnicas de anestesia en estudiantes de Quinto Semestre de la carrera de odontología de la Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo.

In the present research, the application of dental simulation through augmented reality for the learning of infiltrative anesthesia techniques is analyzed in the fifth semester students of the Dentistry Career of the National University of Chimborazo, thus allowing to know the software Used in the realization of this project, and the different types of anxiety that the student faces at the moment of the actual practice with the patient, also helping us of the respective Hamilton test. For the study of this research project we divided the fifth semester with parallels A and B. With the parallel A we worked with the software "Dental Simulator", so that this group was guided in a practical way in the use and management of the program as well In a theoretical way about the technique of infiltrative anesthesia, anatomy and nerves to be anesthetized through lectures, videos and illustrative images, after explaining all those points we proceeded to practice students in the software. Parallel B was the talk of the technique of anesthesia and the practice of this technique among his colleagues. Proving that group A obtained a better understanding of 65.83% of usability and interest as well as success in performing the technique of infiltrative anesthesia, on the other hand Group B found it very difficult to perform the actual practice in The moment of its execution.
Inertial Effects During the Process of Supercritical CO2 Displacing Brine in a Sandstone: Lattice Boltzmann Simulations Based on the Continuum‐Surface‐Force and Geometrical Wetting Models

Inertial effects during the process of supercritical CO2 displacing brine in porous media may not be negligible according to recent studies. Capturing the inertial effects of the physical CO2‐brine system imposes a requirement on the grid resolution and viscosity to surface tension ratio for pore‐scale simulations, which some commonly used simulators may not be able to meet. To fulfill the parameter requirement, we combine the continuum‐surface‐force based color‐gradient lattice Boltzmann (LB) multiphase model and the geometrical wetting model and extend the model to 3D under the multiple‐relaxation‐time framework. We validate the model via simple benchmarks which show significant improvement over the traditional models. We then perform 3D drainage simulations in a heterogeneous micromodel where the simulation result agrees well with experimental data, while our previous work fails to reproduce certain displacement patterns in the experiment due to the use of a traditional LB model that cannot fulfill the parameter requirement. Finally, we perform high‐fidelity 3D drainage simulations to study the inertial effects in a Bentheimer sandstone sample. Our results show that stronger inertial effects generally help develop more CO2 flow pathways for the same capillary number which results in higher CO2 saturation, consistent with the micromodel results. The phenomena can be found in both low and high capillary number cases, indicating that the inertial effects are not dependent on the mean velocity. In addition, the change of the invasion patterns is not proportional to the change of inertial effects, thus exhibiting threshold behavior.
CAPER: Context-Aware Personalized Emoji Recommendation

With the popularity of social platforms, emoji appears and becomes extremely popular with a large number of users. It expresses more beyond plaintexts and makes the content more vivid. Using appropriate emojis in messages and microblog posts makes you lovely and friendly. Recently, emoji recommendation becomes a significant task since it is hard to choose the appropriate one from thousands of emoji candidates. In this paper, we propose a Context-Aware Personalized Emoji Recommendation (CAPER) model fusing the contextual information and the personal information. It is to learn latent factors of contextual and personal information through a score-ranking matrix factorization framework. The personal factors such as user preference, user gender, and the current time can make the recommended emojis meet users’ individual needs. Moreover, we consider the co-occurrence factors of the emojis which could improve the recommendation accuracy. We conduct a series of experiments on the real-world datasets, and experiment results show better performance of our model than existing methods, demonstrating the effectiveness of the considering contextual and personal factors.
From marine deserts to algal beds: Treptacantha elegans revegetation to reverse stable degraded ecosystems inside and outside a No‐Take marine reserve

Canopy‐forming algae play a key role in temperate coastal ecosystems sustaining complex habitats that provide food and refuge for rich associated biotic communities. These macroalgae are in decline in many coastal areas, where overgrazing by herbivores can lead to the loss of these highly structured and diverse habitats toward less complex sea urchin barren grounds. Once established, low productive barren grounds are considered stable states maintained by several positive feedback mechanisms that prevent the recovery of marine forests. To revert this global decline, restoration efforts and measures are being encouraged by EU regulations and local actions. Here, we tested the success of active revegetation techniques as a tool to promote functional and productive Treptacantha elegans forests in sea urchin barren grounds under different restoration strategies (active, and combined active with passive strategies). Active revegetation was performed in 6 barren grounds, 3 located inside a Mediterranean No‐Take marine reserve (active and passive strategy) and 3 outside (active strategy alone), following a three‐step protocol: (1) sea urchin population eradication, (2) seeding with Treptacantha elegans, and (3) enhancement of T. elegans recruitment. Revegetation success was assessed 1 year later in the six barren grounds, but was only achieved after combining active with passive restoration strategies. Our results encourage revegetation of barren grounds to shift from less productive habitats to complex T. elegans forests, highlight the potential of the combined passive and active restoration strategies, as well as the important role of marine reserves not only in conservation but also in ecological restoration.
Diabetes Mellitus Prevalence and Burden among Community Acquired Pneumonia Patients

This work aimed at measuring the prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus among community acquired pneumonia (CAP) patients and declaring its effect on CAP patient's outcome. Both community acquired pneumonia and diabetes mellitus are common in Egypt, and patients with associated CAP and DM need special care and supervision. This prospective study was carried out on 108 CAP patients admitted to Abassia Chest Hospital during the period from January 2016 to December 2016. Clinical and radiological diagnosis of pneumonia and DM diagnosis were performed. DM recorded a prevalence of 39.8% among community acquired pneumonia patients. Disturbed level of consciousness is more frequent among diabetic patients than non diabetics. Diabetic patients recorded higher rate of hospital admission, longer duration of hospital stay, higher rate of ICU admission and more sever pneumonia than among non diabetic patients. CURB-65 score showed significant positive correlation with HbA1c of the patients. Associated community-acquired pneumonia and diabetes mellitus is frequent in our locality and labor a double burden on the affected patients leading to poorer prognosis, higher rate of hospitalization with longer duration of hospital stay and ICU admission. So CAP patients with DM need intimate care.