Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ROLE OF LODHRA AND NYAGRODHA IN SHVETA PRADARA-COMPARING TWO DIFFERENT MODALITIES OF TREATMENT

In the present world, a woman has to play an active role in home as well as social and professional arena. While trying to strike a balance, she tends to neglect her health, which leads to various problems. Shveta pradara (excessive white discharge p/v) is one such problem faced by women of all age groups. This problem is a cause of major concern these days due to its recurrent nature as well as immense discomfort that it causes. Not only this, it causes other associated problems like lower back ache, dyspareunia etc. If left untreated, it causes complications such as pelvic inflammatory disease and even infertility. In the present study, 40 diagnosed patients of Shveta pradara (excess white discharge per vaginum) between age group 18 - 45 years were selected and divided into two groups: Group A and Group B, where each group had 20 patients. Group A- Yoni prakshalana (vaginal wash) with Kashaya (decoction) prepared from bark ( Twak ) of Lodhra as well as Nyagrodha was done for 7 consecutive days along with Pathya ahara vihara (congenial diet and lifestyle advice). Group B- were given Lodhra Twak (bark) Churna (fine powder) of 4g with Nyagrodha twak kashaya of 16ml. orallywith luke warm water as Anupana (adjuvant) for 10 consecutive days along with Pathya ahara vihara . On comparing the two groups, it was found that the efficacy of treatment in Group A was better than efficacy of treatment in Group B which means that Yoni prakshalana had a better effect on Shveta pradara . Â
Clinical Neutron Therapy System Therapist's Guide

This is the therapist’s guide for the control of the isocentric treatment unit at the Clinical Neutron Therapy System (CNTS) at the University of Washington Medical Center. This guide provides instructions for performing typical treatment procedures. A separate reference manual provides detailed descriptions of each key, display, message, etc. This guide only describes the features of CNTS that are needed to perform treatments and which are the therapist’s responsibility. Other manuals describe the features that support troubleshooting and recovering from problems, calibration, physics, and engineering.
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This study aimed at investigating effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of hearing aid fitting. Especially, two types, i.e. linear one-channel AGC (simple) and nonlinear multichannel AGC (advanced), were compared. Randomised cross-over design was used, blinded through similar shells of the devices without any identifications of type. Outcome measures were “speech in noise”, problem solving ability (IPPA, PIRS) and health related quality of life (EQ-5D, HUI3). In addition, the users’ preferences with regard to final choice of hearing aid with and without information on costs were studied.The study was a collaboration with hearing aid centres in the county councils of Ostergotland, Kalmar and Jonkoping in the southeast of Sweden. During 2002 and 2003, 161 users were recruited to the study, mean age was 70 years, 60 % were men and 40 % women. The intervention was fitting of hearing aids to first time applicants, bilaterally “behind the ear” model, if no contra-indication for bilateral fitting was present.Free choice of equipment without any information on costs resulted in prescription of about 60 % of simple and and 40 % of advanced hearing aids. With information on costs the corresponding figures were 50%/50 %. The costeffectiveness, measured as cost per quality adjusted life years gained (cost/QALY) was 80 000 SEK based on EQ-5D and 17 300 SEK based on HUI3 Assumptions were an improvement of quality of life which was sustainable over five years. The costs included visit to physician, audiogram, assessment and construction of two earmolds and investment costs for the devices. Without information about costs 88% choose bilateral fitting and 12% unilateral. With information of costs these figures changed marginally to 87% and 13%, respectively.The advanced device performed significantly better in the “speech in noise” test (p=0.004) and problem solving ability measured through IPPA (p=0.044). Quality of life showed significantly lower results (p=0.009) of the use of the advanced device.Only a small fraction, 12 persons, changed their decision on device after cost information, 11 of these changed from advanced to simple device and one from bilateral to unilateral fitting (still advanced). The additional costs between bilateral and unilateral fitting amounted to about 8000 SEK, which seems to be an amount which the main group of users were willing to pay. No adjustment to household incomes was made.It has been shown that hearing aid fitting for first time applicants has a high (favorable) cost-effectiveness. The advanced device yields an improved speech recognition in noise in comparison with the simple device. The measurements of quality of life indicate difficulties to discriminate between types of devices. It could be that subgroups’ value the two types differently. An hypothesis, which has not been tested, is whether people with better cognitive ability prefer the advanced device to a higher extent than do users with lower cognitive ablity.
Exercise, Calorie Restriction and Insulin Sensitivity in Aging

Mammalian evolution occurred in the context of vigorous exercise, and humans are genetically adapted for a physically active lifestyle. Regularly performed exercise prevents obesity and, thus, protects against insulin resistance, while acute exercise induces short term increases in insulin sensitivity and responsiveness. Regular exercise is normal, and people who exercise regularly age normally, meaning that exercise has no effect on primary aging. Like exercise, calorie restriction (CR) to prevent weight gain can prevent development of insulin resistance, and CR to induce loss of abdominal fat can cure type 2 diabetes and lower the risk for diseases that cause secondary aging. In contrast very severe, long term CR with optimal nutrition sufficient to stunt growth in young animals, or cause emaciation in adults, slows aging and increases maximal longevity in rodents. It is not known whether severe longterm CR increases maximal longevity in humans. However, members of the CR Society who have been practicing severe CR for years, show the same adaptations as CR rodents. Although the CR Society members have low fasting glucose and insulin levels, a subgroup of them have impaired glucose tolerance that appears to be due to down regulation of the insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway.
Evaluation of Simple and Rapid Specific IgM/IgG Flow Assay and SomeMethods Used in Diagnosis of Brucellosis in Gezira and Blue Nile States, Sudan

Brucellosis is a multisystem disease which may present with broad spectrum clinical manifestations which often nonspecific. In Sudan it is one of the febrile illnesses affecting human welfare. In this study, blood samples were collected from 120 individuals who had clinical symptoms of Brucellosis from Gezira and Blue Nile states in Sudan, and 60 apparently healthy individuals as a control. For diagnosis we evaluated the blood culture and three serological tests, Rose Bengal Test (RBT), Serum Agglutination Test (SAT) and the spcific IgM and IgG immuno flow assay test. The results obtained revealed that, 12/120 (10%), 7/120 (6.8%) and 6/120(5.0%) were positive for Brucellosis by RBT, SAT and IgM and IgG flow assay test respectively and no correlation between the three tests, while the blood culture was done for 81/120(67.5%) of the cases, none yielded positive for brucella. This study concluded that the serological methods were superior to bacteriological method for diagnosing Brucellosis, especially IgM and IgG flow assay test and SAT.
Behind the performance of Equally Weighted Indices

Bruno Monnier Quantitative analyst bruno.monnier@ossiam.com Ksenya Rulik, PhD, CFA Head of Quantitative research ksenya.rulik@ossiam.com Equally weighted portfolios that allocate the same weight to every portfolio constituent emerged recently as an attractive alternative to the traditional market-capitalization weighted scheme. The equally-weighted versions of traditional equity indices tend to outperform their market-cap counterparts over the long run. The article examines the sources of this outperformance. We show that Equally Weighted portfolio on European stocks outperforms the traditional index because the portfolio is more exposed to mid and small capitalizations, and also due to homogeneous repartition of the weights inside the large cap sector. The rebalancing effect, however did not contribute positively to the portfolio performance. Behind the performance of Equally Weighted Indices
3-D Seismic Velocity and Attenuation in the Central Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand: Imaging the Roots of Geothermal Systems

We image the crustal seismic properties beneath a 30 x 50 km area of the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ), New Zealand, encompassing the Wairakei, Mokai, Rotokawa, Ngatamariki, and Ohaaki geothermal fields, as part of a multi-disciplinary research program to investigate the untapped deep geothermal resource in this region. The focus of the study is to resolve seismic properties in the 2-8 km depth range. Our study of seismic properties is complementary to a magnetotelluric study investigating electrical conductivity in the same region (Bertrand et al., 2012a; 2012b; 2013). Seismic data used for the imaging was recorded using a 38site broadband seismic array deployed across the region between September 2009 and April 2011 with an average station spacing of ~4-7 km. We supplement this new broadband data with legacy short-period and broadband data recorded by previous research seismic arrays, including the 1995 “TVZ95” array, the 2001 “CNIPSE” array, the “RF2004” array, data recorded by the national GeoNet seismometer network, and with active source data collected in the “NIGHT” experiment in 2001. The combined dataset is comprised of 1347 well-recorded earthquakes and 9 explosions, recorded at 925 recording stations, providing more than 120,200 differential travel time measurements, calculated using the absolute times from pairs of neighbouring earthquakes. We invert these data to derive the spatial and depth variation of seismic properties Vp, Vs, Vp/Vs, and Q (1/attenuation), beneath the area encompassing the geothermal field. The final 3-D Vp, Vp/Vs, Qp and Qs volumes show a high level of heterogeneity at a range of length scales, especially for Q, illustrating that older simplified 2-D models are inappropriate for the region.
Methylation of Retinoic Acid Receptor, Beta (RARB) Gene Increases Risk for Prostate Cancer in African-American Men

DNA methylation is an indicator of the initiation of prostate carcinogenesis and as such has utility as a marker of risk in pathologically negative prostate tissue samples. We conducted a matched case-control study nested in a historical cohort of over 6,000 men with pathologically benign prostate specimens identified between January 1991 and November 2002 with no previous history of prostate cancer. Eligible cases were diagnosed with prostate cancer at least one year after cohort entry. Controls were selected through incidence density sampling and matched to cases on date and age at cohort entry, race, and type of specimen. In 310 matched prostate cancer case-control pairs (65% white; 35% African American), we assayed the DNA of the benign prostate specimen for presence of methylation in a five-gene panel (APC, RARB, CCND2, RASSF1, MGMT) and then estimated the risk of developing prostate cancer associated with methylation at each gene for the whole sample and stratified by race. Overall, methylation of RARB had the strongest association with prostate cancer risk (HR = 1.94; 95% CI = 1.30 – 2.91). In race-stratified analyses, the majority of the increased risk associated with RARB was found in the African-American sample (HR = 3.40; 95% CI = 1.68–6.88). In addition, APC was also associated with increased risk for prostate cancer in the African-American sample (HR = 2.17; 95% CI = 1.09–4.29). In a model that included both genes, only RARB remained statistically significantly associated with prostate cancer (HR = 3.14; 95% CI = 1.54–6.44). In whites, methylation was not associated with prostate cancer for any of the five genes assayed. In summary, positive methylation status at RARB and APC in pathologically benign prostate is associated with significant increased risk for subsequent prostate cancer, but primarily in African-American men. Whether this race-specific risk is due to racial differences in environmental stimuli and/or biology is unclear, but further study of DNA methylation in the earliest stages of prostate carcinogenesis may help explain the disproportionate burden of this disease among African-American men.
Exploiting Russian WoRd

Distributed representations of words are currently used in a variety of linguistic tasks. A specific branch of their possible applications includes automatic extraction of word-level grammatical information by formulating it as a problem of word embedding classification. In this paper, we investigate applicability of this approach to prediction of several particular classifying grammemes. We focus on animacy of Russian nouns and transitivity of Russian verbs. These categories can serve as good examples of classifying grammatical categories in the Russian language since their concrete values can hardly be predicted judging by appearance of words and morphemes that constitute them. We conduct experiments on a corpus of Russian texts from the Web with several widely used word-embedding algorithms and different parameter settings. Experimental evaluation includes the comparison of performance of several classifiers, with distributed representations being source of features for classification task. Our findings show feasibility of the approach and its potential to be implemented for solving related tasks.
Stubbornly Germany First. Options for Reducing the World’s Largest Current Account Surplus

Germany continues to be a major exporter of both goods and capital. In 2018, the current account surplus – at about $340 billion – will continue to be the world’s largest. Whilst German policy-makers and society celebrate the surpluses as the result of the competitiveness of German companies, they persistently ignore the other side of the balance of payments. Germany finances consumption and investment – abroad. The repeated explanations of the German government – arguing that the surpluses reflect private decisions that cannot be influenced by government policy – are not convincing. The German government has many options to reduce or raise taxes and can shape incentives to save or invest, but prefers to ignore these opportunities. Whilst many German observers eagerly point to the self-interested economic policies of the United States, Germany itself continues to place its own interests above the legitimate concerns of both its European and Atlantic partners. A continuation of the “Germany First” economic policies of the past two decades would constitute both a burden for European integration and the global trading system.
Smallpox in Staffordshire, 1947

Much has been accomplished, and the start is a promising one. * At other universities plans are being developed which will contribute to the same end. Differing in detail and shaped by local conditions, they will provide a welcome stimulus through rivalry. There is still a long way to go before the aim of the University of London is realized and before the peculiar opportunities present here in London are developed fully. When that time comes the postgraduate institutes will send out the future leaders of medical thought and practice, and will be able to welcome those who seek to advance knowledge by research and to improve their skill for the relief of suffering.
Double MS Tool BF Installation, Setup and Userguide

Double-M/S is a recording technique for two-channel as well as multichannel stereo. It has considerable practical advantages which justify its growing popularity. What is really behind Double M/S? Closer examination shows that it can provide high-quality pickup not only of ambient sound but also of music, provided that certain criteria are considered in the dematrixing/decoding of the three microphone signals. Recordings made simultaneously with the "IRT Cross" and "OCT Surround" reference systems reveal that Double M/S can achieve comparable overall quality, given optimal decoding. The decisive parameters for the quality of decoding are crosstalk level, localization, and the degree of correlation among the loudspeaker signals. These characteristics can be optimized only if the L/R and LS/RS channel pairs are both obtained from all three of the microphone signals. In other words, the optimal decoding needs a variable M pattern generated through a mix of frontand rear-facing cardioids. This capability also makes Double M/S an interesting option for two-channel recording, similar to Ambisonics. Experiments have revealed the maximum allowable crosstalk level above which the sound color and sound image begin to be adversely affected. The Double M/S system turns out to be a system that is suitable for more than just the usual applications in documentary sound and radio drama.
KU-ISPL TRECVID 2017 VTT System

KU-ISPL system for TRECVID 2017 Video to Text (VTT) is presented in this paper. The main method of the system is a stacked LSTM model for sentence generation. Input descriptors of the system consist of various deep learning-based features and multi-object detection results to obtain diversity of characteristics and key information from videos. We choose mid-level features of VGGnet and SoundNet as major features to capture multimodality about image and acoustic. Additionally, the visual attribution about objects and places is used for high-level feature. Finally, visual syntax detection is fine-tuned by sigmoid loss function for finding key words. We make 4 runs for the stacked LSTM model by combining various types of features to see how the information impacts the performance of sentence generation. Word2Vec is adopted for effective encoding of sentences. The embedded words by Word2Vec are used at state value and target of the LSTM. On the other side, the sentence matching method is based on the fusion score of Meteor, Bleu and the detection. The output of detection represents the probability that a word exists. Because the TRECVID VTT task is open domain, the sentence generation and sentence matching system is trained by various database such as MSVD, MPII-MD, MVAD, MSR-VTT, and TRECVID-VTT 2016.
An Adaptive Search Framework for Supporting Cooperative Work in Organizations

Recently people have come to rely on the use of web search engines to learn how to accomplish tasks, solve problems and gain information. However, search results are sometimes too varied and lack relevance to topics related with the organization when using the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo or Bing in an organization. To help with this, in this research we propose a framework called the Adaptive Search Framework. It can learn from the information provided by the users and adapt itself to choose more relevant and important web pages that are related to important topics in the organization. We also propose a re-ranking algorithm for search results. The algorithm gives a score based on the importance and popularity inside the organizations. Our preliminary results show that the Adaptive Search Framework can learn and return results more relevant to topics of interest to the organization at the top ranks. This helps users save time in searching for desired information on the web. Author
Isolation of Staphylococcal Enterotoxins Causing Gastroenteritis

Staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) A and B are two of the most important gastroenteritis causing agents. In some areas, more than 50% of food poisoning cases are caused by staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA). In USA and England, Staphylococcal enterotoxins A and B (SEA and SEB) are the most food poisoning causing agents (> 60%). Staphylococcal nasal carriage is constantly established in 20-40 of healthy human population and intermittently in 60% and only 10-20% of people are non-carries. If food providers don't obey the rules of hygiene, they can transfer the contamination to food. A concentration of 10 bacteria per gram of food is sufficient for toxin production and induction of disease Staphylococcal enterotoxins are low molecular weight proteins (MW 26.900–29,600). They are encoded by genes embedded in mobile genetic elements such as phags and pathogenicity islands. There are several methods for detection of enterotoxigeneic bacteria. The phenotypical methods are not reliable in specificity, because staphylococcal enterotoxins serotypes are antigenically similar. On the other hand, commercial serological kits can not detect all the serotypes and are limited in serotypes (A-B). Therefore, molecular techniques such as multiplex PCR and real-time PCR are recommended for detection of Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins genes.
Protocol for the Effectiveness of an Anesthesiology Control Tower System in Improving Perioperative Quality Metrics and Clinical Outcomes: the TECTONICS randomized, pragmatic trial

Introduction: Perioperative morbidity is a public health priority, and surgical volume is increasing rapidly. With advances in technology, there is an opportunity to research the utility of a telemedicine-based control center for anesthesia clinicians that assess risk, diagnoses negative patient trajectories, and implements evidence-based practices. Objectives: The primary objective of this trial is to determine whether an anesthesiology control tower (ACT) prevents clinically relevant adverse postoperative outcomes including 30-day mortality, delirium, respiratory failure, and acute kidney injury. Secondary objectives are to determine whether the ACT improves perioperative quality of care metrics including management of temperature, mean arterial pressure, mean airway pressure with mechanical ventilation, blood glucose, anesthetic concentration, antibiotic redosing, and efficient fresh gas flow. Methods and analysis: We are conducting a single center, randomized, controlled, phase 3 pragmatic clinical trial. A total of 58 operating rooms are randomized daily to receive support from the ACT or not. All adults (eighteen years and older) undergoing surgical procedures in these operating rooms are included and followed until 30 days after their surgery. Clinicians in operating rooms randomized to ACT support receive decision support from clinicians in the ACT. In operating rooms randomized to no intervention, the current standard of anesthesia care is delivered. The intention-to-treat principle will be followed for all analyses. Differences between groups will be presented with 99% confidence intervals; p-values <0.005 will be reported as providing compelling evidence, and p-values between 0.05 and 0.005 will be reported as providing suggestive evidence. Registration: TECTONICS is registered on ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03923699; registered on 23 April 2019.
Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the parotid gland - A case report and review of literature

Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ADCC than 1% of all malignancies of head and neck. It can arise in any salivary gland site, but approximately 50–60% develops within the minor salivary glands. (FNAC), hyaline globules surrounded by neoplastic cells forming a cell ball are the diagnostic. Adenoid cystic carcinoma, being rare, was not suspected at the first instance. The final diagnosis was made from the cytological, radiological