Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Disfunción eréctil de origen estructural peneano

OBJETIVOS La delicada armonia con la que los diferentes elementos del pene funcionan se puede ver alterada por diferentes patologias que danan su estructura. Los fallos estructurales del pene condicionan un fracaso de este evento hemodinamico, y una disfuncion erectil que suele ser severa, resistente al tratamiento medico y generalmente irreversible. La perdida de complianza en el tejido erectil un drenaje anomalo de este o las alteraciones severas en la geometria del pene son los mecanismos fisiopatologicos mas frecuentes de estas disfunciones. Entre sus posibles causas figuran, entre otras, la enfermedad de La Peyronie, el priapismo, la diabetes, los traumatismos peneanos y la infiltracion de los cuerpos cavernosos por algun proceso inflamatorio o neoplasico.
Embedding e-learning: a new perspective on change and innovation

This paper challenges the position that e-learning, as an educational innovation, is obsolete. Instead, the authors argue that a more mature or sophisticated approach to organisational change is required to enable higher education institutions to accrue the benefits promised by the early e-learning enthusiasts and adopters. The paper presents a concept of embedding innovation as a process which incorporates four key dimensions: widespread adoption, integration, legitimisation and sustainability. A longitudinal perspective on change is proposed, one which addresses the need to manage and exploit the creative and complex issues associated with the more mature e-learning models. Practical examples are included from Griffith University, Australia, to illustrate and support the theoretical position and arguments developed in the paper.
Subkutane Sparganose beim Korallenfingerfrosch (Litoria caerulea)

Reptilien und Amphibien erfreuen sich immer größerer Beliebtheit als Heimtiere. Nach aktuellen Informationen des Industrieverbandes Heimtierbedarf (http://www.ivh-online.de/de/home. html) werden in Deutschland derzeit zirka 400 000 Terrarien in 1,2% der Haushalte gezählt (Stand 2008). Somit werden Amphibien immer öfter als Patienten in der tierärztlichen Praxis vorgestellt. Neben Haltungsund Fütterungsfehlern zählt ein Parasiten befall zu den häufigen Krankheitsursachen. Weltweit können Amphibien als Zwischen-, Stapeloder Endwirte diverser Parasiten fungieren (13, 16). Im Entwicklungszyklus von Zestoden dienen sie häufig als Zwischenwirte, wobei Lavenstadien der Bandwürmer in verschiedene Körpergewebe vordringen (9). So können diese parasitären Erreger im Zuge einer so genannten Sparganose auch Hautveränderungen bei Fröschen verursachen. Der Fallbericht beschreibt die subkutane Sparganose bei einem Korallenfingerfrosch (Litoria caerulea), die diagnostische Aufarbeitung des Falls, die Therapie sowie den Verlauf. Des Weiteren werden Differenzialdiagnosen für häufig auftretende Hautveränderungen bei Amphibien erläutert.
Plasma concentration of neuroleptic and serum prolactin in patients chronically receiving depot fluphenazine: No evidence of tolerance

The authors determined neuroleptic dose, plasma level of drug, and serum prolactin in 76 outpatients receiving depot fluphenazine. The patients had received neuroleptic treatment for periods ranging from 3 to 23 years (median 13 years). Plasma level of drug correlated with dose (rs = 0·73, p>0·0001). Prolactin levels were linearly correlated with dose (rs = 0·42, p = 0·0001) and plasma level of drug (rs = 0·64, p>0·0001). There was a tendency for dose and, concomitantly, plasma level of drug, to decrease with age (rs = −0·29, p = 0·01, for each). However, dose, plasma level of drug adjusted for dose, and serum prolactin adjusted for plasma level of drug did not correlate with duration of treatment. Neither did any of these measures correlate with treatment duration when adjusted for age. The findings suggest that while older patients were given lower doses of medication, changes in the metabolism of fluphenazine or tolerance to its prolactin‐elevating effects did not occur during extended treatment.
Adolescents' understanding of mental health problems: conceptual confusion

This paper reports on research into adolescents' mental health literacy, focusing on their ability to recognise two diagnosable mental illnesses and three mental health problems associated with loss. A vignette‐based questionnaire was developed and completed by a school‐based sample of adolescents. Different levels of understanding were identified for each vignette. Participants responded well, demonstrating the different levels of understanding. Grading of the responses provided an opportunity to explore and discuss differences between professional and lay understanding of mental health and illness. It was also useful when considering implications for practice. These were considered in relation to mental health promotion for young people and training the workforce across the child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) tiers.
Predictors of the end of life in chronic kidney disease: A pilot study.

The aim of this pilot study was to describe indicators present at the end of life in persons with chronic kidney disease. Retrospective chart reviews of 10 randomly selected patients were conducted to describe demographic, physiological, and functional variables. Using a repeated measures ANOVA, The Palliative Performance Scale and the Braden Scale both showed significant differences during the death admission from previous admissions. These functional measures may provide useful insight in identifying the end of life in persons with chronic kidney disease.
A novel robotic catheter system with force and visual feedback for vascular interventional surgery

This paper proposes a novel master-slave robotic catheter operating system with force feedback and visual feedback for vascular interventional surgery (VIS). The robotic catheter system has good manoeuvrability, it can transmit the surgeon’s skill to insert and rotate the catheter and avoids danger during VIS using force and visual feedback. In addition, it can be used to train unskilled surgeons to perform VIS. We performed a simulation experiment to validate our system using an endovascular evaluator (EVE). The experimental results demonstrated that the stability and response of the system were good. The robotic catheter system is suitable for performing VIS.
3D two-fingered caging for two types of objects: sufficient conditions and planning

Caging is a method to capture an object geometrically by robots. Position-controlled robots can make the object inescapable from the robot formation. Moreover less number of mobile robots or a robot hand with low degrees of freedom can constrain the object with considering concavity of the object. In this paper, we propose two types of caging: ring-type and waist-type, which both can be accomplished by a two-fingered hand. We derive sufficient conditions for caging of the two types and construct RRT-based motion planner for caging by a robotic arm/hand system. In motion planning, we find one of final configurations that satisfy the sufficient conditions and produce a path of robot configuration to the goal. With object recognition using AR picture markers, we can acquire geometrical information of objects and plan robot motion for caging. We show some experimental results of planning and execution of planned caging motion for four objects.
Evaluation Of Rocker Sole Shapes For Rigid Ankle Foot Orthoses

Rocker soles (RS) are frequently used to improve the biomechanical function of walking when the ankle has been immobilised. Varying pathologies can require ankle fixation including short-term conditions such as traumatic injuries as well as long-term chronic conditions including ankle arthrodesis. The aim of a RS is to allow smooth progression of the leg in the absence of the normal rocker action of the ankle (Perry, 1992). There is little consensus as to which rocker sole design would optimize walking function. Various RS designs are available commercially and clinicians can also fabricate subjective designs. Theoretical models have also been developed in an attempt to optimise design for each individual. Investigation in this area is important, as rocker soles are prescribed frequently to treat a number of pathologies. However, research in this area is limited. RS designs were fabricated using a theoretical model proposed by Gard and Childress (2001) that defines a radius of curvature proportional to the individual’s leg length. This design was compared to RS with greater and lesser curvatures, a prefabricated RS (Donjoy Nextep Contour Walker TM) and a no orthosis condition. The control and experimental sides were also compared. Variables selected for comparison of function were smoothness of progression, knee stability and trunk work. It was hypothesised that the RS using the theoretical model would provide optimal biomechanical results and that there would be no difference between the two sides.
Prognostic evaluation of electrocochleography in idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss

Abstract Conclusion: Abnormal action potential (AP) recovery from adaptation was manifested as increased recovery (iR) or decreased recovery (dR) relative to the normal recovery range. dR was not analyzed statistically due to the very small number of cases. iR is considered an unfavorable prognostic indicator, whereas a normal AP recovery (nR), enhanced SP/AP ratio (≥0.35), and lower AP threshold are favorable prognostic indicators for idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (iSSNHL). Objectives: This study aimed to determine the prognostic efficacy of AP recovery examinations associated with other electrocochleography (ECochG) findings in iSSNHL. Methods: ECochG was performed transtympanically in 58 iSSNHL ears. AP recovery was measured by a paired-click stimulation paradigm, and hearing outcome was classified into three groups. Additionally, the relationships of other confounding prognostic factors to hearing outcomes were assessed. Results: iR was significantly more common in the no-recovery group, while nR and an enhanced SP/AP ratio were significantly more common in the cure and improvement groups. The AP threshold was significantly lower in the cure group than in the other two groups. The other confounding prognostic factors generally showed similar trends to those reported previously.
Mobile communications in China

China now has the world's largest mobile communications market. In the past several years, a series of major reforms have been carried out in China's telecom industry, aiming at separating administrative and enterprise functions, breaking monopoly and promoting effective competition. Upon WTO accession, China has committed to a phased timetable of mobile market opening. China has announced plans to have four full-range telecom operators. Moreover, there is a big opportunity for 3G mobile services in China. In the next five or ten years, China is expected become a major player in the development and innovation of mobile communication. We believe that with the entry to the WTO, the reformed and reorganised mobile market of China will have a very bright and promising future.
Gait Adaptations by Patients Who Have a Deficient Anterior Cruciate Ligament

Sixteen patients who had unilateral deficiency of the anterior cruciate ligament and ten healthy control subjects were analyzed during level walking, jogging, and ascending and descending stairs. Kinematic and kinetic findings for the right and left hips, knees, and ankles of all of the patients and control subjects were recorded during each activity. Substantial differences from normal function were observed for both limbs of the patients during level walking and during jogging. The magnitude of the maximum moment that tended to flex the knee was reduced the most (140 per cent) during level walking. It was reduced less (30 per cent) during jogging, it was not changed while the patient descended stairs, and it was slightly increased while he or she ascended stairs. The reduction in the magnitude of the flexion moment about the knee was interpreted as the patient's effort to reduce or avoid contraction of the quadriceps. Reduction of the flexion moment reduces any contraction of the quadriceps because there must be a mechanical balance between the external moment (due to body weight and the weight and inertia of the segment of the limb) that tends to flex the knee and an internal moment (generated by contraction of the quadriceps) that tends to extend the knee. This so-called quadriceps-avoidance gait was related to the angle of flexion of the knee when the maximum flexion moment occurred during each activity. This angle of flexion was 20 degrees during walking, 40 degrees during jogging, and approximately 60 degrees during stair-climbing. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Mobile multimedia medical system: design and implementation

This study designs a Mobile Multimedia Medical (M³) system based on the foundation of the internet technology and a real hospital infrastructure. The M³ system provides patients with diversified means for receiving medical treatment using the internet, wireless communication and multimedia technology. The aim of the system is to improve the traditional medical care system and to manage the best treatment timing, achieving resource sharing and promoting the overall medical service quality. This study describes in detail the system design principles and implementation considerations for mobile telemedicine systems. The system effectiveness and limitations for practical system deployment and usage are described based on the technical and managerial analysis.
Diagnóstico de criptococose canina pela citologia aspirativa por agulha fina

This paper aimed to described a 1.5 year-old Labrador male, diagnosed with cryptococcosis using fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). The dog was showing signs of depression and hyporexia. Peripheral lymph nodes and a mass situated between the submandibular lymph nodes were aspirated. The cytology showed yeast-like structures resembling Cryptococcus sp. in all samples examined. These findings were confirmed by culture (C. neoformans, serotype D). The FNAC technique allowed a quick, safe and easy diagnosis in this case.
Explaining Laminitis and its Prevention

X-ray technique As it is not possible to tell whether a laminitis case is going to deteriorate and founder. It is sensible to treat them all as if they might. The aim of foot treatments is to try and optimise the horse’s comfort whilst counteracting, as far as practicable, the downward movement of the pedal bone. Nothing should be placed under the horny sole because a) the sole of the foot is not designed to bear weight, in fact it will bruise and abscess if forced to do so, and b) there is nowhere on the sole that support could be applied to achieve a mechanical advantage. By referring to Figure 15 it can be seen that the only place where a supporting influence can be provided to the pedal bone is between the two open arrows under the frog. Pushing further forward than the front arrow would not support the pedal bone but rather extend the coffin joint and risk fracturing the tip off the pedal bone. Supporting further back than the back arrow tends to flex the coffin joint, worsening the phalangeal alignment. Any form of frog support must only be applied within the margins of the trimmed frog; pressure elsewhere risks damage to the arteries under the horn (Fig. 11). Only by X-raying the foot can we get an appreciation of the relative positions of the structures in the foot. At this point it would be as well to describe how X-rays should be taken.
Deconstructing mobile commerce service with continuance intention

This study develops a theory of personal values and trust in mobile commerce (m-commerce) service systems. Research hypotheses involve the satisfaction formation processes and usage continuance intentions in m-commerce service context, and the participator is selected from three private wireless telecommunication service providers in Taiwan. Results showed: consumers might not use the m-commerce service in the future without being totally satisfied with the system and their customer values; mobile technology trusting expectations were very important in the continued m-commerce service usage behaviour; and the providers might not fulfil the m-commerce service need for consumers, but satisfied with the m-commerce service delivered.
PREPUBIC AND TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY OF THE CANINE PROSTATE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

A comparative study was conducted in ten dogs with signs of prostatic disease in order to evaluate the usefulness of the prepubic and transrectal ultrasonography for the examination of the prostate gland and for prostate biopsy guidance. Both techniques were adequate to identify the prostate gland and prostatic urethra. Transrectal ultrasound found 5 occurrencies of parenchymal echogenicity changes whereas the prepubic technique found only 2. Lesions in the cranial prostatic margin (two dogs) were detected only by prepubic ultrasound. Lesions of the caudal prostatic margin (six dogs), prostatic urethra disruption (two dogs) and prostatic capsule abnormalities (five dogs) were only recognized by the transrectal approach. Prepubic ultrasonography was useful for biopsy guidance of cranial prostatic lesions and transrectal ultrasonography was a good means for biopsy guidance of caudal lesions.
Generating Personalised Cardiovascular Risk Management Educational Interventions Linking SCORE and Behaviour Change

Quality and timely patient education can reduce cardiovascular disease risk. The PULSE (Personalisation Using Linkages of SCORE and behaviour change readiness to Web-based Education) project objective is to design a Web-based personalised educational intervention for the management of cardiovascular risk. The intervention is based on a patient profile generated by combining: (i) an electronic data capture template (DCT); (ii) the Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE) algorithm for ten-year risk assessment for fatal cardiovascular disease; and (iii) a Stage determination model for behavioural change readiness. The DCT inherently contains a set of evidence-based parameters for disease evaluation and management. The SCORE estimation directs the selection of clinical guideline target values for risk factors. The patient’s Stage of Change determines messages consistent with the individual’s behaviour change processes, decisional balance, and self-efficacy. The interventions are designed to address both medical and psychosocial aspects of risk management and, as such, staged lifestyle modification materials and non-staged messages based on Canadian clinical guidelines are combined to motivate personal risk management. The personalisation decision logic is represented in Medical Logic Modules and implemented in Java. The system design is a Web-based system so that it can generate and deliver personally relevant educational materials to the patient. The PULSE educational process is initiated by a healthcare professional in a primary care setting. A system prototype has been developed and evaluated including system testing specific to the accurate functioning of the personalisation decision logic – i.e. accurate selection of personalised messages for a given patient profile.
Risk of schizophrenia in adults born after obstetric complications and their association with early onset of illness: a controlled study.

OBJECTIVE--To determine whether obstetric complications occur to excess in the early histories of individuals who go on to develop schizophrenia when compared with controls, and to seek clinical correlates of any such excess. DESIGN--Contemporaneous maternity hospital records were identified and extracted verbatim, and these extracts evaluated for obstetric complications by two independent assessors who were blind to subjects' status. SUBJECTS--65 patients having an ICD-9 diagnosis of schizophrenia, the records of the previous same sex live birth being deemed to be those of a control subject. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE--Presence of one or more obstetric complications recorded in maternity notes of patients and controls. RESULTS--When two recognised scales for specifying obstetric complications were used the patients with schizophrenia were significantly more likely than controls to have experienced at least one obstetric complication (odds ratio 2.44, 95% confidence interval 1.08 to 6.03). Patients also showed a greater number and severity of and total score for obstetric complications, fetal distress being the only complication to occur to significant individual excess (present in five (8%) patients, absent in controls). There was a marked sex effect, male patients being more vulnerable (odds ratio 4.24, 1.39 to 12.90) to such complications. Obstetric complications in patients were unrelated to family history or season of birth but were associated with a significantly younger age at onset of illness (mean difference--4.5 years,--1.2 to--7.8 years). CONCLUSIONS--Patients with schizophrenia, particularly males, have an excess of obstetric complications in their early developmental histories, and such complications are associated with a younger age at onset of their disease. Though the data are not conclusive, they also suggest that obstetric complications may be secondary to yet earlier events.
Potential consumers' intentions to use LBS in Taiwan

The purpose of this study is to propose an integrated model based on the theory of planned behaviour TPB, and to combine an advertising evaluation model, mobile interaction and trust to explore potential consumer behavioural intentions to use location-based services LBS. This study collected 331 effective questionnaires and applied structural equation modelling SEM to verify the various path relationships of the proposed model. The results showed that antecedents of potential customer attitude were positively affected by several attributes, including credibility, entertainment and interactivity. Potential customer attitudes towards LBS were negatively affected by irritation, which included inappropriate information loading and timing. This study found that potential customer behavioural intentions to use LBS were strongly influenced by their trust of LBS service providers. The results revealed a weak level of institutional trust, which decreases customer behavioural intentions to use LBS. The conclusions provide a reference for the mobile communication industry and prepared LBS promotional strategies.
Surgical reverse remodelling of the left ventricle: 111 months of follow-up.

OBJECTIVE To present the Instituto de Cirurgia Cardiovascular do Oeste do Paraná' (ICCOP) surgical experience, on the treatment of left ventricle aneurysms, by endoventriculoplasty, with septal exclusion (EVSE), and a 111 months follow-up. METHODS Between April 1999 and April 2006, 28 patients were submitted to EVSE, by the author. Pre, trans and late post clinical and echocardiographic variables were analyzed retrospectively. Mean age was 59.0 +/- 9.5 years, being 23 male patients. Seventeen patients were in NYHA functional class IV and the mean EuroScore was 8.2 +/- 2.3. The mean pre-operative values for ejection fraction, end systolic and diastolic left ventricular volumes were 32.3 +/- 9.2%, 113.9 +/- 36.0 ml e 179.2 +/- 48.4 ml, respectively. The BraziliAnVErsion of the SF36 quality of life questionnaire was applied in the late follow up period. RESULTS Four patients died in the immediate post-operative period, being the major cause of morbidity low cardiac output syndrome and arrhythmias. The mean follow-up period was 5.6 +/- 3.2 years. Left ventricle's ejection fraction and aortic cross clamping time were the significant factors for hospital and late mortality with P = 0.0222 and P = 0.0123, respectively. Actuarial survival curve showed a survival of 82.1 +/- 7.2%, and 54.7 +/- 22.9%, pre and post 107 months, of follow-up. CONCLUSION EVSE' surgery is an effective option to treat this group of patients, with improvement of left ventricular function (from 32.3 to 46.4%) and patients' quality of life.